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Fostering a mentoring relationship can have positive career benefits for both mentors and mentees
What is mentoring?
Mentoring involves a partnership between a less-experienced individual (the mentee) and a more-experienced individual (the mentor) where the purpose is the personal and/or professional growth of the mentee. Although the goals of the mentoring relationship may differ across both settings and relationships, nearly all partnerships involve the acquisition of knowledge (Allen and Eby, 2007).
Mentoring has been of interest to the business community since the 1970s after claims that it contributed to the success of very senior executives (Gibb, 2008). These early mentoring relationships developed informally through mutual interest. Since then, mentoring has undergone considerable research as organisations and industry groups have created structured mentoring systems to leverage off these advantages.
Mentoring is sometimes confused with other types of developmental activities. In particular, the distinction between coaching and mentoring is often ambiguous. Coaching is a short-term, task-focused intervention designed to teach skills and improve performance in order to take on new responsibility (Harvard Business School, 2004). In contrast, mentoring relationships are generally longer term, are focused on strategic career progression and incorporate a holistic approach to the mentee's professional and personal development.
On a professional level, mentors provide career advice and guidance. If a mentor and mentee both work for the same organisation, the mentor may actively support their mentee by recommending them for particular assignments or introducing them to more senior members of the organisation, commonly known as 'sponsoring' (Ghosh and Reio, 2013). Where a mentor and mentee work for different organisations, mentors provide external objective advice by sharing the benefits of their own experiences and industry knowledge and suggesting specific career strategies to assist the mentee in developing relevant skills and knowledge (Ghosh
and Reio, 2013).
On a personal level, a mentor can provide a source of psychosocial support that contributes to the mentee's sense of professional effectiveness, identity and competence (Ghosh and Reio, 2013). Mentors provide a source of support through success and failure, are a sounding board for ideas and can act as a role model for the mentee to emulate (Ghosh and Reio, 2013). Given the right motivation, mentors can benefit greatly from sharing advice and guidance with a less-experienced person.
Types of mentoring
Mentoring in business or industry can involve different formats, including self-directed (informal) or participating in a structured program (formal). However, in both formats, the focus is on the mentee, their career and support for individual growth and maturity.
Self-directed (informal) mentoring relationships generally develop between a mentor and mentee due to mutual interest, respect and friendship (Inzer and Crawford, 2005). The quality of the mentoring relationship is related to mentee benefits, so it is not surprising that informal relationships, sustained by mutual interest from both parties, are more often associated with optimal outcomes (Gilmore, Coetzee and Schreuder, 2005).
Structured (formal) mentoring relationships involve participating in an industry-led or organisational mentoring program (Inzer and Crawford, 2005) typically designed to meet organisational or industry-wide objectives (Parise and Forett, 2008). Structured programs may include training and specific goal setting and may mandate meeting frequency and program duration. Structured mentoring programs clarify the roles of mentors and mentees and can include a training component (Allen, Eby and Lentz, 2006; Eby and Lockwood, 2005). Structured mentoring programs also control the matching process, so while it may take longer to establish a new and trusting relationship initially, structured mentoring can have very positive outcomes if it is managed in a professional manner.
How can having a mentor be beneficial throughout my career?
In a business context, a mentor is an experienced individual that offers information, advice and guidance for the mentee's personal and professional development (Harvard Business School, 2004). The role of a mentor is likely to vary over an individual's career in line with common developmental tasks in each career stage (Isabella, 1988). For example, the benefits of having a mentor in the following career stages can be defined as follows.
The most important tasks for students are to discover their particular interests, skills and aptitudes and choose a career direction (Hess and Jepsen, 2009). Mentors may be able to assist with questions such as:
- What is a mining cycle?
- What are the advantages/disadvantages of working on-site?
- What is it really like to work as a (insert role here)?
- Are you able to provide feedback on my résumé?
By sharing their own journey and work experiences, mentors give students a realistic preview of a profession and industry and can suggest strategies to enter a particular career pathway. Mentors may also be able to alert students to vacation/apprentice opportunities or recommend them for casual work or junior roles in an organisation.
Early career stage (1-5 years into career)
In the early career stage, individuals are creating their professional identity, developing technical competence in their role and building the political skills to successfully negotiate the world of work (Isabella, 1988). At this career stage, mentors may be able to assist with questions such as:
- What are the advantages/disadvantages of working on-site and when should I transition?
- What industry groups will provide the best networking opportunities for me?
- What does my 'future self' look like?
- When is a good time to pursue further study?
Mentors can provide advice to young professionals on how to manage challenging situations and provide insight into the 'unwritten rules' of an organisation, profession or industry.
Young professional (5-10 years into career)
Once technical skills are established, individuals frequently want their expertise recognised and strive for career progression, which often has to be balanced with family and personal commitments (Isabella, 1988). Working remotely, doing long hours and being on a 'fly-in, fly-out' roster are common in the mining sector but may impose additional challenges on individuals and relationships (Pirotta, 2009). At this career stage, mentors may be able to assist with questions such as:
- How can I develop the best relationship with my superintendent?
- How do I work effectively with different personalities in my team?
- How do I find stability in an unsettled climate?
- When do I know if I am on the right track – am I doing what I like doing now?
A mentor can provide empathy and practical strategies to address career issues and enhance an individual's ability to adapt and cope with the unique challenges posed by the mining industry.
Mid-point (10-20 years into career)
For individuals at the mid-point of their career, there may be a choice of becoming a technical specialist in their field or moving into more senior management or corporate roles, such as project management or business improvement. While being mentored themselves, individuals at the mid-point of their career may also be mentoring less-experienced mentees. In this career stage, mentors may be able to assist with questions such as:
- When is a good time to pursue further study, for example an MBA?
- When should I review my short- and long-term goals?
- What type of satisfaction could I receive from volunteering in my community?
- Am I making a difference?
Mentors may assist mentees in developing the strategic thinking, commercial awareness and financial knowledge necessary for senior managerial or executive board roles.
Mature (20+ years into career)
Individuals that are well-established in their profession and looking towards the end of their career may reflect on their career journey, examine their priorities and have an increased focus on developing others and giving back to the industry (Isabella, 1988). At this career stage, very senior mentors may be able to assist with questions such as:
- How has my career strategy played out? What has and what hasn't worked?
- How have I achieved my goals and what can I pass on to young professionals?
- Am I interested in seeking new Board positions or enhancing community engagement?
- Do I have a strong social and professional network?
- What are the advantages of being a mentee?
As the purpose of mentoring is to develop personal and/or professional growth in a mentee, there are numerous advantages to sourcing a mentor. Some opportunities that are made available by seeking a mentor include:
- develop strategic career planning techniques and the facilitation of career goal achievement (Gilmore, Coetzee and Schreuder, 2005)
- learn from a mentor's industry experiences, particularly how to work through mining cycles and become adaptable in a role
- learn from a more experienced person about success, sustainability and adaptability
- learn about self-promotion and capitalise on a mentor's networks (to enhance the mentee's own networks)
- work through organisational topics such as conflict resolution, workplace politics and a changing workforce.As a result of these opportunities for growth, research has confirmed that mentees receive numerous personal and professional benefits, including:
- greater job satisfaction (Allen et al, 2004)
- lower levels of work stress (Allen et al, 2004)
- higher self-esteem (Allen et al, 2004)
- increased technical and behavioural competence (Gilmore, Coetzee and Schreuder, 2005)
- increased confidence (Gilmore, Coetzee and Schreuder, 2005).
The greatest benefits of mentoring result from a high-quality relationship between mentor and mentee (Ragins, Cotton and Miller, 2000). When approaching a mentoring partnership, mentees should be prepared to listen, reflect, discuss and learn from an experienced professional. Importantly, mentees must respect and appreciate their mentor's time and efforts (Harvard Business School 2004; Wallace and Gravells, 2007).
What are the advantages of being a mentor?
Mentors play a crucial role in the lives of their mentees, organisation, profession and industry through their development of the next generation of high-performing professionals. Becoming a mentor offers many opportunities for personal and professional growth, including:
- learn more about personal strengths and areas for development
- engage with the next generation and keep abreast of changing workplace values, culture and technology
- share experiences, tell stories and provide guidance to a less-experienced person
- create pathways for a less-experienced person that contain clarity, transparency and are sustainable
- share networks and provide new prospects.
- As a result of these opportunities for growth, research has confirmed that mentors receive numerous personal and professional benefits, including:
- enhanced job satisfaction (Ghosh and Reio, 2013)
- enhanced organisational commitment (Ghosh and Reio, 2013)
- an intrinsically rewarding experience in watching others develop with the knowledge that they have contributed to a mentee's success (Allen, 2003; Parise and Forret, 2008)
- enhanced leadership skills (Allen and Eby, 2007)
- higher work performance (Ghosh and Reio, 2013).
Mentors can be of any age, but are recommended to be experienced and influential and have a history of success in their field (Conway, 1998; Delahaye, 2011; Otto, 1994). When approaching a mentoring partnership, mentors will need to develop rapport, trust and confidence in their mentee to ensure positive outcomes for both parties.
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The article in the NY Daily News about the release of Grand Theft Auto V, a video game expected to make $1 billion in the first month, began with these words: "The game of crime pays—even in the wake of another gun massacre."
The article continues, "The latest installment of the ultraviolent video game franchise Grand Theft Auto will generate $1 billion in sales in one month, analysts predict—despite Monday's massacre at the Washington Navy Yard that killed 12 people."
These are staggering numbers. How many products of any kind—let alone a $60 video game—make that kind of money? And what, exactly, are people getting for their bucks?
Writing with concern from England, James Delingpole reports, "Yesterday, in the process of robbing a bank, I beat up an elderly security guard before shooting dead perhaps 15 policemen, exulting in their murders with the flip dismissal: 'Shouldn't have been a cop.'
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"After that, I stole a succession of fast cars, evading my pursuers by driving on the wrong side of the road, mowing down passers-by and killing more police by ramming straight into them.
"Then I went home for a change of clothes, a nap, a beer and a joint before getting into my stolen vehicle to wreak more mayhem, pausing briefly to enjoy the services of a prostitute."
But this is only the beginning (and note that there's no mention of the flood of profanity that fills the dialogues):
"Had I kept going with this spree of orgiastic destruction and drug-fueled violence, I would have got the chance to use much heavier weaponry, take stronger drugs, and not only murder people but torture them by pulling out their teeth with pliers, waterboarding them with flammable liquid, kneecapping them with a monkey wrench and making them scream with electric shocks."
And remember that many kids will play this "game" by the hour, totally giving themselves to it as they enter into its depraved world, one in which "the worse you behave, the greater your rewards," one which "even a gushing five-star review in The Guardian had to admit, is 'troubling,' and makes the experience of playing something so 'misanthropic' and 'unremittingly violent' a guilty pleasure," one which "normalizes extreme violence and cruelty, so the longer you play, the more you not only become inured to it, but start to find yourself gripped—and even sickly amused—by the action unfolding before your eyes."
Delingpole says, "As a middle-aged parent, I like to think I'm mature enough to be able to appreciate the game's cartoonish, ugly, misogynistic, ultraviolent, pornographic worldview with a certain wry detachment.
"But whether the game's teenage target market is so readily capable of making such distinctions, I'm not nearly so sure."
His skepticism is justified, regardless of whether researchers have come to definitive conclusions about the effect of these games on those who play them. Common sense would tell you that games like Grand Theft Auto V cannot possibly contribute positively to our society—to morality, to compassion, to civility, to honor, to discipline, to respect for authority, to respect for women and to respect for one's neighbor.
At best, these uber-violent games will desensitize those who play them and produce hardness of heart; at worst, they will contribute to acts of cruelty, sadism, violence and perhaps drug and alcohol abuse as well.
But why should that matter? Gratuitous violence and pornographic images and misogyny sell, and as the Daily News reports, "In gaming circles, GTA V is being hailed as a masterpiece. Its over-the-top violence didn't bother gaming website IGN, which gave it a perfect 10, calling it 'preposterously enjoyable, breathtaking in scope and bitingly funny.'"
Words fail after reading a description like that.
As for the Navy Yard shooter, a report in the U.K. Mirror states, "Crazed Aaron Alexis was treated for mental illness after playing violent video games for up to 18 hours day and night." And even though he "told psychiatrists he heard voices in his head long before he went on the rampage at a U.S. naval base and slaughtered 12 people before being shot dead himself," his friends claimed that "the length of time he spent glued to the 'shoot 'em up' games on his computer, including the popular Call of Duty, triggered his dark side that had previously landed him in trouble with the police on gun crimes."
Unfortunately, at this point, we don't know what Alexis was suffering from when he went on his deadly rampage, and we may never know the connection between his violent behavior and his reported obsession with violent video games.
But this much is clear: Something is fundamentally wrong with a society that finds demented, sick video games like Grand Theft Auto V to be "preposterously enjoyable, breathtaking in scope and bitingly funny," spending billions of dollars to buy them and wasting countless thousands of hours to play them.
If you or your kids find them fun, I suggest you go cold turkey, spending your time instead reading wholesome, edifying literature; watching morally uplifting programming; learning a craft or a language or an instrument or a sport; having some wholesome family fun; or helping someone in need. (For the spiritually minded, there's nothing better than reading the Scriptures and prayer.)
Anything but wasting your time and money on this "torture and murder with the addictive glamor of Hollywood."
With good reason, Delingpole writes, "The fact that this is the most popular computer game on the market should make us all shudder, and pray that the violence on the screen doesn't bleed into Britain's streets."
Here in America, our streets are already bleeding. It's high time we stop being entertained by this flood of blood and gore on our video game screens.
Michael Brown is author of The Real Kosher Jesus and host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show The Line of Fire on the Salem Radio Network. He is also president of FIRE School of Ministry and director of the Coalition of Conscience. Follow him at AskDrBrown on Facebook or at @drmichaellbrown on Twitter.
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I'm counting down to my Thursday night (3/17/2011) show in Sunnyvale. Robert Edgar and I will each perform a set at the Art Institute of California/Sunnyvale.
I met Robert earlier this year at the 2010 Electro-Music Festival where I learned of his fascinating "Simultaneous Opposites Engine" work. Rather than try and explain it, I thought I'd share some excerpts from Robert's blog as well as embed a sample video.
Simultaneous Opposites Engine
I create and employ software engines to examine mediated artifacts forged at my zone of proximal development. My Simultaneous Opposites engine (2008-present) is a performance/navigation system for real-time traversal of existing video files, sorting through the audio and video a single frame at a time, in a arrhythmic spiraling motion. The center frame between the two ends of the spiral becomes a temporal focal plane, with the length of the jump a temporal depth of field. The navigational path is the result of a preprogrammed algorithm interrupted during traversal by triggering and modulation by computer keyboard, mouse, and MIDI guitar…
Robert has over 50 examples output of the developing Simultaneous Opposites engine on his Vimeo Channel http://www.vimeo.com/robertedgar/videos– "Each sequential video file exemplifies a stage in the ongoing experiment I've undertaken." Here is an video #52 "Tone Rose":
Simultaneous Opposites #52: Tone Rose from Robert Edgar on Vimeo
Added a 12-step process to the Simultaneous Opposites engine. It lets me divide the area between two non-adjacent video frames into 12 sections. I can then scramble them, playing them forward, in reverse, as a still, or as a simultaneous opposite traversal. I've added a simple octave 12-tone row, which is useful in sensing the structure. MIDI guitar played over some of these. Primarily a laid-back feel to these, as if Satie was a serialist cinematician…
Learn More
To read a full introduction "to the ideas behind the Simultaneous Opposites engine: what they are, and where they came from" – I recommend you read the full blog post "Simultaneous Opposites and 21st Century Cinematicians". You should also visit www.robertedgar.com. And if you are in the Bay Area, you can stop by and see his work live on the 17th. Show is 5-7PM. Show details here.
Mark Mosher
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University and Apprenticeship Fair
Picking the right options post 6th form is extremely important, everyone will have different needs and desires, which is why we have organised a trip for 6th form students to visit the UK University and Apprenticeship Fair in London.
This is an excellent opportunity to find out more about universities across the UK, the courses they can offer and get a feel for whether they are right option for them.
For the full details and the reply form to be handed in, please click the download link below. The official website for the fair is www.ukuniversitysearch.com


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Andrew Joyce Leaves for the Philippines
July 31, 2012
Andrew Joyce — this year's first Young Adult Service Corps missionary to depart — is in flight.
Andrew is a member of Christ Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He studied English and Political Science at the University of Kentucky. For the last five years, Andrew has worked at Westbrook Farms in Bowling Green. He will be putting this experience to use at the Organic Farm Demonstration and Learning Center in Tadian in the Episcopal Diocese of the Northern Philippines.
Keep up with Andrew at http://andrewwjoyce.wordpress.com/.


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Boys Junior Varsity Golf, Boys Varsity Golf · Boys Golf beats Jackson
The Boys Golf Team concluded their league and regular season with an impressive win against Jackson 144-152. The win secured a 2nd place finish in the Federal League. Brandon Jatich shot a 2 under par 33 followed by Alec Adcock, Brock Barbato and Danny Klotz with 37's. Also playing well was Andrew Franz with a 39


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Carbo Vegetabilis Remedy Par Excellence for Digestive Troubles
Carbo veg is a commonly used remedy for digestive problems. The remedy is most often appropriate where the digestion is weak and the general constitution is unhealthy.
Homoeopathic remedies are made from all types of resources, mineral, animal and plants. One such resource is charcoal that is a dark or black porous carbon prepared from animal or vegetable substances (as from wood by charring in a kiln from which air is excluded). Carbo vegetabilis is the remedy made from this black charcoal. Hahnemann used birch wood for making this remedy but now beech wood charcoal is used for the preparation. In the crude form, charcoal is relatively an inert substance but the process of dynamisation exhibits the true healing properties of this remedy. To make the remedy, charcoal is ground very finely to convert it into a medicinal agent.
Carbo veg suits people with a sluggish constitution who are lazy and have a weak digestion. They have sluggish digestion, sluggish liver and a sluggish circulation.
Carbo veg is a commonly used remedy for digestive problems and especially suits today's generation which lives on junk food and does not eat many nutritious and healthy food. The remedy is most often appropriate where the digestion is weak and the general constitution is unhealthy. There is excessive accumulation of wind with frequent belching that gives a temporary relief. Since this remedy has digestive system as its main sphere of action, so let us take up the study of the symptoms of digestion that it cures.
The stomach feels bloated as if it is pressing on the diaphragm. Hiccups and even fainting may occur. The symptoms come after overindulgence in rich food. All food taken seems to turn into gases which compels the patient to belch all the while. There are cramps in the abdomen with burning pain and distension. All the symptoms are relieved temporarily by belching. The Carbo veg patient is averse to most digestible things and the best of foods. The patient craves salt, sweets and coffee and may desire alcohol even though it disagrees with them. Fatty foods and in particular, milk causes flatulence.
Carbo veg is often suited to elderly people, where the constitution is sluggish, broken down and weak.
Another sphere where Carbo veg has a special affinity is the respiratory system. The Carbo veg patient is always suffering from coryza, which travels down the throat and settles in the lungs. It is a great remedy for respiratory conditions such as asthma where the patient suffers very much from the difficulties of breathing. There is a great feeling of weakness in the chest with a sense of suffocation. There is violent and paroxysmal coughing with great retching and vomiting. Cough is worse in the morning and on endeavouring to expectorate, he coughs and gags or vomits. There is greatly reduced vitality and the patient is prostrated and weak due to coughing.
Guiding Symptoms
- General Sluggishness
- Cold breath
- Cold extremities
- Cold sweat
- Desire to be fanned
- Bloating and belching
- Violent cough with gagging and vomiting
- Indifference
- Lazy and listless
- Broken down, weak and sluggish constitutions
- Desire to gulp air
- Craves coffee
The extremities of a Carbo veg patient are cold and are covered with cold sweat. Carbo veg is an excellent remedy for indolent varicose ulcers and gangrene. The circulation in the limbs is so feeble that the patient suffers from numbness of the extremities very often. In fact the circulation is generally sluggish, patients are chilly, limbs are cold and blue and the sweat and even the breath feels cold.
Carbo veg suits people with low vitality, sluggish circulation and weak digestion. Even mental processes are sluggish with a short-term memory. The person is tired of life, despondent, listless, listless, and disinterested in everything, indifference and has swift mood swings to excitability and irritation.
Remedy Source
Carbo vegetabilis is made from black charcoal prepared from beech wood.
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Mike Rubendall, artist/tattoo artist Kings Avenue Tattoo in New York and a contestant on Spike TV's
reality TV competition, "Ink Master," doesn't want you to end up with a bad tattoo. As he says wisely, "There is so much information out there…there is no reason in this day and age that someone should
get a bad tattoo." So if you're thinking about getting fresh ink in 2013, please start here. Your bicep can thank us later.
What should someone look for in a tattoo artist and tattoo shop?
When selecting a tattoo artist some things to look for are clean lines, solid color or shading and design strategy where their tattoos have just the right amount of detail that the tattoo is readable and will stand the test of time. The artist should specialize in the specific style of tattoo your looking to have done. There are many different tattoo artists and many different tattoo styles, be certain to look carefully at portfolios and choose the artist that suits you or inspires you enough to wear a piece of art from them for the rest of your life. As far as selecting a tattoo shop, first and foremost, it needs to be a clean and sterile environment. All equipment needs to be single service use only and unpackaged by the artist in front of the client in preparation for the tattoo. Be certain that the studio you select has the proper permits or licenses and board of health certificates in order to operate. Lastly, make sure it's a place you're comfortable in, it's a place in which you can see yourself getting something so permanent. Overall, it should be an outstanding experience and something that will always bring you positive memories.
What tips do you give to someone who wants their first tattoo?
Do your research, don't rush into it and choose wisely. There is so much information out there via the Internet, books, magazines,
videos, etc. that there is no reason in this day and age that someone should
get a bad tattoo.
Is there a tattoo design you won't do?
I will never do the same design twice unless its a logo or a special circumstance. I will not duplicate someone else's tattoo. I will not tattoo something that is too small or too detailed. It's important that you always take into consideration the life of the tattoo. Typically, tattoo ink tends to migrate slowly under the skin to an extent. So you would want to make proper adjustments to the design so there is enough breathing room to allow the tattoo to maintain integrity. I'm also careful who I do hand and neck tattoos on. The truth of the matter is — and I hate to say it — but people do still judge tattoos and associate them to a negative stigma. So I don't feel right doing those tattoos on just anyone, I have to also feel comfortable with their choice.
Is there a tattoo you love to design?
It's so hard to answer that question because I really love what I do and love many different styles of designs. However, I've always been attracted to any type of Asian-influenced art, Japanese specifically. I really enjoy designing tattoos based around that culture.
How do you make sure someone is getting a tat they want forever?
That is only up to the person wearing the tattoo to know for sure. In my particular position I have an extensive waiting list to get a tattoo therefore the client really has no other choice than to really think about what they want to get and sit on their ideas for sometime. It's so important to be smart about it before starting the tattoo process
Any other advice you have?
The "there's always laser removal" excuse is a horrible state of mind going into a tattoo. I would suggest that if you really want a tattoo and believe in it, then never settle. It's for life. Every time you look at your tattoo, you will have a certain emotion that will last forever and it needs to be a positive one. Cost, waiting lists, destination of your artist should never be a factor in getting the tattoo you want. Be patient, think it through and you will be happier with the end result.


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- Researchers have been studying behavioral components of nicotine addiction by looking at how drugs have a reinforcing effect, connecting the stimulation provided by the drug (nicotine) to the behavior that produces it (smoking). Based on previous studies, researchers are interested in learning more about how nicotine affects current smokers' responses to psychological tests and smoking-related cues, and in studying whether certain kinds of genetic background may affect smokers' responses to these kinds of studies.
- To compare the effect of nicotine versus denicotinized cigarettes during specific psychological tests.
- To compare the effects of smoking cues versus neutral cues on craving, mood, and autonomic response.
- To study the effect of genes on nicotine reinforcement and smoking-cue reactivity.
- Individuals between 18 and 64 years of age who are current smokers (at least 10 cigarettes per day for at least 1 year) and are not currently interested in reducing their smoking or seeking treatment for tobacco dependence.
- Pilot session:
- Participants will practice smoking using the measuring equipment that will be used in the study.
- After successful practice, participants will read or listen to music for 1 hour, during which they are not allowed to smoke.
- After the 1-hour period, participants will sample study cigarettes that have different levels of nicotine, and will be asked to guess whether the cigarettes are normal study cigarettes or denicotinized cigarettes.
- Baseline session:
- Blood, urine, and breath samples will be taken at the start of the session.
- Participants will smoke part of an initial cigarette, and then will read or listen to music for 1 hour, during which they are not allowed to smoke.
- After the 1-hour period, participants will give another breath sample and will complete questionnaires about mood and concentration levels.
- Trial sessions:
- Participants will smoke study cigarettes, and will be asked to either respond to questions about perceived nicotine levels in the cigarettes or press a lever for the chance to be rewarded with additional puffs of the cigarette. After the session, participants will give another breath sample and will complete questionnaires about mood and concentration levels.
- Participants will also participate in cue-reactivity sessions to test the body's physiological response to smoking cues (a pack of cigarettes) and neutral cues (a pack of unsharpened pencils). After the session, participants will complete questionnaires on mood and concentration 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes after the session.
- At the conclusion of the last experimental session, participants will discuss the study with researchers, and may receive a referral list of smoking treatment programs.
|Condition or disease
|Nicotine Dependence
Objectives: 1) to compare the reinforcing efficacy of nicotine versus denicotinized cigarettes using a forced choice and an operant response procedure, 2) to compare the effects of smoking cues versus neutral cues on craving, mood, and autonomic responsivity, and 3) to explore potential associations between several genetic polymorphisms and the phenotypic measures of nicotine reinforcement and smoking-cue reactivity.
Study population: 175 adult smokers (35 for pilot study I, 60 for pilot stufy II and 80 for main study).
Design: Placebo-controlled, within-subjects design. Pilot studies will entail 1-2 sessions. Main study will entail one baseline/adaptation session and 5-10 experimental sessions.
Outcome Measures:
Behavioral Measures
During forced-choice sessions, primary measure is the percentage of nicotine cigarette puffs chosen and taken during choice trials. During operant response sessions, primary measures include breakpoint (final ratio completed), total number of responses, and number of cigarette puffs earned and taken. During cue-reactivity sessions, primary measures include craving, mood, and autonomic responsivity (heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance, and skin temperature).
Genetic Measures
The following genetic polymorphisms will be assayed: 1) C/T rs2023239 variant of the CB1R gene, 2) the Ser/Gly rs6280 variant of DRD3 gene, and 3) variants of the CYP2A6 gene.
Secondary Measures
Secondary study measures include baseline smoking history, FTND, TCQ-SF, mood form, CO, and urinary cotinine and 3-hydroxycotinine. The ratio of 3-hydroxycotinine/cotinine is a phenotypic biomarker of the rate of nicotine metabolism, which has been shown to be associated with CYP2A6 genotype, level of nicotine dependence, various smoking behaviors, and treatment outcome.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|92 participants
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Nicotine Reinforcement and Smoking-Cue Reactivity: Association With Genetic Polymorphisms
|Study Start Date :
|March 16, 2010
|Study Completion Date :
|November 29, 2013
- Choice of nicotine cigarettes; cue-elicited craving
- smoking history measures; variants of several genes related to nicotine additions
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 64 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- 18-64 year old males and females
- smoking at least 10 cigarettes per day for at least 1 year
- urinary cotinine level greater than or equal to 100 ng/ml (NicAlert reading greater than or equal to 3)
- medically and psychologically healthy as determined by screening criteria
- definite plan to reduce or quit tobacco use in the next 30 days
- treatment for tobacco dependence in the past 3 months
- use of nicotine replacement products, bupropion, or varenicline in the past 3 months
- consumption of more than 15 alcoholic drinks per week during the past month
- use of any illicit drug more than twice per week during the past month
- current use of any medication that would interfere with the protocol in the opinion of MAI
- under the influence of a drug or alcohol at experimental sessions
- pregnant, nursing, or become pregnant during the study
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01505725
|United States, Maryland
|National Institute on Drug Abuse, Biomedical Research Center (BRC)
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21224
|Principal Investigator:
|Stephen J Heishman, Ph.D.
|National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|January 6, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 5, 2018
|Last Verified:
|November 29, 2013
Nicotine Reinforcement
Tobacco Craving
Behavior Genetics
Tobacco Use Disorder
Substance-Related Disorders
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders


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Plow stop / Chatter
As mentioned, you get some more grip with this plate. Chatter might be a thing of the past, unless you go to a harder wheel. Chatter is essentially the wheel losing grip. More grip with this plate = less likelihood of chatter.
As far as actually stopping, man, I can't remember a universally useful recommendation for that. You sound like an experienced skater, so, do what works. Wider is better for some, I tend to do that, or just play with it until you find what works for you. Just remember, chatter is less likely and not a good indicator of proper form with this plate.
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Court records say a David City man has been accused of mistreating his ailing wife and selling her painkillers.
Fifty-year-old Robert Smith is charged with felony abuse of a vulnerable adult. Smith's attorney, Bryan Meismer, said Monday that it was too early in the legal process to make any statement.
The records say Smith's wife has cerebral palsy and other ailments. She told a sheriff's deputy last month that her husband had dumped her out of her wheelchair and had pushed it while her feet dragged on the floor, injuring her. She also says he's withheld food and water so she wouldn't have to use a bathroom.
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Jared Kushner's position as President Donald Trump's son-in-law seems secure for the time being, so far as we can tell, but otherwise it's hard to see how he continues doing the additional jobs of bringing about Middle East peace and reinventing the federal government and solving America's opioid crisis and being the country's go-to guy with China and getting Mexico to pay for a border wall.
A pesky bureaucracy has denied him top-level security clearance, what with all the meetings with foreign powers that he forgot to disclose on his forms and the recent reports by the even peskier news media that China and Mexico and a couple of other countries have tried to exploit the billion-dollar debts owed by the company he last ran and is still fully invested in. The White House press secretary assures us that Kushner can continue dealing with the Middle East and China without access to the most top-secret stuff, and has the full support of former the four-star Marine general and current White House chief of staff who doesn't seem to like Kushner much and recently announced the street policy limiting access to the top-secret stuff to those with top-secret security clearances, but that seems suspicious.
We suppose that Kushner can reinvent America's federal government and solve its opioid crisis and somehow convince Mexico to pay for a border wall with the same meager information available to the internet-browsing public at large, but our reading of the news suggests these are all tough tasks. All the tougher when you can't get a security clearance and reports are swirling that foreign government have been trying to exploit the billion-dollar debt you incurred in your last job and still owe, and the father-in-law who handed you these tough jobs has his own problems dealing with eerily similar swirling reports about possible indebtedness to foreign powers.
There's also the lingering question of why any 37-year-old without any previous public service or foreign relations experience, whose only credentials were taking over the family real estate business when his dad went to prison and driving it a billion dollars into debt and marrying a future president's daughter, wound up in such demanding jobs. When Trump ran for president he promised that he would hire only the best people, and but it turns out he meant the best people he knew. His limited circle of acquaintances includes his son's wedding planner who wound up in a sweet position at the Department of Urban Development, a former bit player from his "Apprentice" reality show who wound up as the only black woman in the white House but got fired and wound up on another reality and got fired again, as well too-many-to-link-to others who wound up in high-ranking jobs after serving low-level duty in Trump's businesses or campaign.
Trump is reportedly going to appoint his former personal jet pilot to head the Federal Aviation Administration, and we marvel at how all the best people happened to be people he knew before he ran for office. Still, we hope he starts considering other job applications from outside his family and circle of friends, if any are forthcoming,
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THIS ONE will be compact compared to the usual - a mezzanine piece between the longer reads.*
It starts tightly factual and date-stamped, in the style of a police procedural, as if precise timings will have a bearing.
Hitchcock opens Psycho with an aerial shot of the Phoenix skyline. Onscreen titles slide into view, stating the day, date and time, as the camera closes in on a building in the city, to a room in that building. Like it matters precisely what time Janet Leigh meets her lover, given what Anthony Perkins will do later that day. The time-lining is just smoke in the viewer's eyes. The provision of 'facts' a plot of obfuscation, to enhance the shocking narrative twists to come.
So, on Monday February the Twentieth, 11.12pm, I took two Clonazepam and six Circadin and went to bed. The eight pills are the nightly intake for sleep. (There are also heart pills on top.) I dutifully count them out each evening before sleep - it's boring. ('Those are the problems life shrinks to,' writes cheerful Thomas Bernhard, 'Take pills, don't take them, when to take them, what to take them for.') The sleep pills are to zonk me till morning, to prevent bad dream behaviours such as chucking myself out the bed.
At four am, however. Just after four am. Ok, at four oh two, the pills failed and I jumped up in the middle of a nightmare and screamed.
I woke up positioned on all fours, pointed diagonally across the bed, like an angry hound ready for a fight with the window. I was screaming - Why? It was a full-throat, both-lungs screaming. Just the single word, 'Why?' Or 'WHY!!!!!?'
Perhaps there was more to come, additional complaints from the sub-conscious. But the screaming was so loud that I opened my eyes instantly to swiftly claw back the silence. Then began the usual process of getting past the shock - to make the world intelligible again. Straight after a sleep disturbance, you don't know where you are, or who you are. You are multiple entities: the entity that just screamed isn't the same entity stuck on all fours semi-awake and confused. You've just been chucked out of your dream: you're sleep drunk with everything askew. Even the sensible you working to clear the fog differs from the regular you that you know so well from the rest of your conscious life.
|at the sound of the bell
The befuddled subject straight after the latest REM sleep disturbance is me, but not quite me, my own piece of uncanny valley. I get back under the duvet and wait for sleep to come again. Mary Shelley was nineteen and about to nod off one night when she first had the idea for Frankenstein. Suddenly she saw the creature being brought to life, the images arising in her mind 'with a vividness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie.' Horace Walpole conceived of The Castle of Oltranto after he dreamed himself 'in an ancient castle . . . and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.'
You'd think you'd be afraid of sleeping - but it doesn't follow. I close my eyes and picture me on all fours. It reminds me of An American Werewolf in London - the famous transformation scene where the infected hero turns from college backpacker to ravenous werewolf. The transmogrification on Jenny Agutter's carpet is painful to watch, both the physical distress, but also the melancholy of loss.
Night terrors are a kind of transformation. Next day, I tell Silba about the latest - she says it sounds like a horror film. Exactly.
The details of the dream surface in pieces during the morning. I was fifteen again and my dad was shouting at me to turn the music down. I was listening to These New Puritans. (The band probably weren't even born then - but in dream logic time gets screwed and chopped.) It was a track from the band's second LP, Hidden. The really loud LP with the big Japanese percussion. Dad was shouting at me and I screamed back at him, WHY?!!!!**
|shut the door!
The Why! wasn't a grievance from the past, some unfinished business of the teenager years. No, it wasn't like that. I understand the cause of the night terror, but can't elaborate. There are so many things you don't write about, so much Kompromat, even if using a fake name. My son's life belongs to him. This also puts a block on the parent's point of view. You also can't write about your relationship, unfair; or your sex life, tacky.
|world renowned phallic symbol masquerading as popular tourist attraction
I arrived off the train late Friday afternoon feeling unloved - and given the ridiculous twist in my penis back then, unlikely to be loving again any time soon. The guy renting out the Airbnb met me at the cramped apartment with keys, some complimentary wine and eyebrows that were peaked and bushy. He glanced either side of me: it seemed he was looking for my missing co-traveller, now an empty space. I felt like a let-down. I lied and said something urgent had come up at her work, and he shrugged.
The apartment building was on a busy side street on the left bank; part of a bunched network of roads between St Germain and St Supice. The building was tall and narrow. The apartment was open plan with low ceilings, exposed beams and stuffed with tranklements which exuded job lot - a cracked rocking chair, hanging pots, a long shepherd's crook in dark wood.
The carved double bed was an extra large and took up acres of space. Might as well be a single, I muttered, and tested it out. I thought about the wine. I had plans to visit a museum for an architectural show I'd read about. The museum was a short walk and open for another hour and a half.
I idled on the bed, listening to the noises rising from street level - the food shops, restaurants and bars, the loud scooters passing through. I started the wine and watched the sky turn deep blue. This trip, I told myself, is just one of life's incongruous moments, a curious fragment in the overall mosaic.
Darkness began to accumulate in the apartment. The museum could wait till the morning. I should go to the shops though. For more wine at least, as the free stuff was nearly out. The Monoprix on rue de Rennes isn't far. I took out my reading book and squinted at the text. I know the Monoprix well. It used to be my local grocery shop. What was the weirdest thing right now: that I was here alone, that a young version of me once lived in this quarter, or that so many years had passed away?***
I downed the last of the wine. The sky was dark like night. The book slipped from my hands, and I was on a period tourist boat under a huge waterfall and wearing a yellow rain jacket. The bright yellow jacket was heavily waxed and very, very yellow, and I didn't know how to take a picture of the rainbow through the waterfall without the lens getting flooded.
Then abruptly the badly-timed nap was interrupted by the sound of screaming. Real life screaming coming from a woman close-by. I sat up and looked at the ceiling. A woman is screaming up there. What the fuck? Danger. Panic! What should I do?
She screamed again, but differently. I realised she was having an orgasm. She was screaming in ecstasy in the room directly on top of me. I also detected some manly panting in the vale of her shrieks.
I got off the bed and went out for a walk.**
|you didn't really expect a pretty spring flower
When I returned to London on the Monday, the weather had shifted dramatically from endless late winter to a warm early spring. It can change like that in days. The new flat was sunny and within a month or so we had a mini heatwave. And mid morning on a Saturday, I was taking a break from helping the Annoying Son do his homework, with a coffee and a cigarette on the go on the balcony - because then I smoked, and now I don't smoke - when across the way in the building facing, a balcony door swings open and a man steps outside with a cigarette in his hand.
The man was young, mid 20s. He wasn't wearing a top, just dark boxers. He had a big heap of hair on his head that was all sticking up from sleep. Shortly a woman of similar age joined him. She stepped through the door and into his arms. She also didn't have a top on, just knickers, and her hair was similarly like bedtime. She embraced her lover and then stepped back and swayed on the spot. She danced for him. I think she was South American, but I didn't have my glasses with me. She took a lug of his cigarette and then returned it between his lips.
She was happy and in love. But you could tell the young man was only semi enjoying her lavish attention. Something about how he shaped his body, and the tilt of his head, signalled that his mind was off elsewhere as she showered him with her youth and a desire that was so ardent she didn't care if the world saw her boobs.
How could half his head be elsewhere? How do men get to be so young and dumb? I ought to know, I was once young and dumb for sure. But I didn't take notes during my dumb period. I was too busy dreaming of writing the great American novel (to be set in Tooting). Maybe the indifferent lover had some 'serious feelings' on his mind, as Alice Munro describes them. Some serious feelings he couldn't simply switch off. We don't tend to allow young men to have heavy thoughts, especially when it's sunny.
The couple went back inside the flat and I did the same, for more Maths with the Annoying Son.
|Teenager on a coffee break
I once worked as a commissioning editor for a publisher and turned down writers all the time. You grow a thick skin. There was one author whose fiction showed real promise but didn't fit with the list. I didn't use my standard rejection letter, but wrote personally, offering heaps of praise, while still making it clear we wouldn't be offering to publish her short stories. She took it badly. She sent her manuscript back, but cut up in the shape of a cross. 'Your rejection was my crucifixion,' she wrote in the attached cover letter. 'I can't go on like this.'
This violent gesture could be interpreted in many ways. It simply made me gasp. I felt worried and called her up. (This is actually true.) We talked for an hour, perhaps longer. She was young and bright and quirky and I told her the truth, that her writing was good, but not suited to our line-up and short fiction usually doesn't sell anyway. The young writer didn't seem suicidal but she was low. I suggested other places to send her stories. She interrupted me, said, what are you doing?
Trying to help.
No, the noise you're making - the breathing?
I'm smoking, I said. You should try it. Fags are the best thing I know for low moods. (Because for years I was also a cigarette evangelist.)
A few weeks on, she called again and said now she was furious because she'd started smoking. And we spoke at length again.
It was several months later that she sent me a white card in an envelope saying, Thanks. Just that. And I never heard from her again.
For years I have waited for this woman to get published and become a success. To see her reviewed in the paper. (I wasn't certain it would happen, but I believed in her, that she had a special ability.) It's probably too late by now. But an overdue success - that would be a good story.
|by Finisterre
Maybe it's the fag end of winter that makes us want stories, adventures, narratives of change. We've been wrapped in blankets and dark evenings for months and spring can't come quick enough. So I think of drama and fantasy. I keep dreaming of an outing. An adventure would be best. I plan trips. I check the flights for cities, and scroll the Airbnbs, and leave open the tabs with the best deals. They sit there in my browser for days. And then I close the tabs - the idea's gone stale.
'I spent all morning putting in a comma,' wrote Oscar Wilde, 'and all afternoon taking it out.' His complaint was the torment of writing. But that's me and online shopping. I fill digital baskets with trainers, trousers, socks, only to change my mind. Upscale coffee beans, handmade tumblers with coloured swirls, reversible jackets, pillow cases and bath sheets, books, gadgets, films, whole box sets of DVDs covering the careers of second-tier film-makers - French or Iranian or Indian or Japanese film-makers. And then I take the items out again the day after; or simply kill the tab.
It's nugatory anxiety perhaps - if you must be negative. Advertising provokes fake wants creating an angst best soothed through spending. 'Anxiety is fear without an object,' wrote Søren Kierkegaard. It's a sealed box of frogs - that springs open when individuals feel free to decide who they want to be. Such autonomy can be exhilarating. But Kierkegaard also refers ambiguously - as a caution perhaps - to the 'dizziness of freedom'.
|we are all very anxious
However, as I didn't finish the payment transaction, none of this will actually happen. Having reached the last button, the one to press for purchase, I backed out. This happens a lot, I fold at the last. It means I can still look my bank balance in the eye.
Still, you almost had that blue jumper for a few hours. That's how I explain the process - not as consolation, but as an improved way of thinking. Arguably you even had the blue jumper for three whole days - the 72 hours it lay in your basket on the browser. That's how it felt, a cyber ownership, my virtual blue jumper. Maybe this is all I need. The garment itself could be considered largely superfluous. After all, as Silba says, new clothes are like small children, who has time to look after them?
But an adventure would be something. Has such an allure that I cracked finally and booked a flight to Madrid. I want to see Goya's black paintings in reality (see Goya Hands Solo). It's the kind of act a pretentious character in a certain style of self-conscious novel would go for. Writers like Geoff Dyer or Teju Cole live off this type of city hopping. Do they have kids though? I don't think so.
So, I press Pay and shortly the email arrives confirming I'm going to Spain. It's exciting but also I feel guilty. I get up and stretch by the window. Outside there's a burst of hail from the platinum sky. I tell myself (the ceaseless interior monologue) that making a travel plan is positively investing in the future. Which is actually equivalent to voting for life. And who would baulk at voting for life? Under these terms, it would be spoilsport to feel bad about the nasty ding to the bank account. And anyway, it'll soon be bonus time at work.
|Hitler conclusively disproves theory of the wisdom of crowds
I return to the idea every six months. Time's running out. It might have passed already. A year ago, I posted a question on Quora and Reddit: Grand-Dad Saved Hitler's Life. Or Did He?
It was a speculative first step. I'm not sure where to. The Quora comebacks were surface and vague, but Reddit coughed up a load of stuff. On a serious and straight-laced History subreddit, the replies were many and detailed.
'I found this video of Hitler flying to Frankfurt in a Junker JU-60 passenger plane,' writes an early contributor to the chain. He says he lectures on twentieth century European history. His long, judicious response is pitted with ifs, buts and qualifications. The film he links to is from 1932, featuring broken footage taken from inside the plane, with Hitler looking bored staring out the window at the grey fields and rooftops below. He's headed for a Nazi rally in the Waldstadion (stadium in the woods). It's an interesting piece of archive, but only proves that Hitler often flew in an airplane, which we knew already. The poster is game, but his information is general and loose. 'I was able to find some other pictures… of another 'election rally' in Frankfurt that is indoors, also in 1932… it is not out of the realm of possibility he would have flown to Frankfurt for another rally later in the year… But…' But the facts dry up on him: 'I am having trouble actually placing Hitler in Frankfurt (or Nuremberg) in November.'
It's not clear why he cites Frankfurt, because the city doesn't feature in the family legend. About which the early flow on Reddit is largely vague and mostly dubious. Was grand-dad's terrible (but unwitting) intervention in the dark, stinking heart of the 20th-century simply a myth?
The first time I heard the story, my mum was reminiscing about some other family event from her German childhood. Hitler was only mentioned in passing. I asked her to back up and say that again, please. Her father worked at Nuremberg airport through the 1920s and 1930s. He was the chief meteorologist. One day in 1931, or probably 1932, Hitler had just spoken (ranted) at a rally in the city and was set to fly out that evening. Only for grand-dad to pipe-up and report that this would be dangerous as a violent electrical storm was stirring on their flight path.
Hitler changed his plans and travelled by car. The plane was sent on ahead and crashed in an electrical storm and the pilot perished. So, grand-dad saved Hitler's life.
Often I've wondered is the story too neat? That it could use some corroboration from outside the family. Or better still, be flatly refuted as fabrication. Saving Hitler isn't something you would choose as a prized family object, surely. Certainly not to boast about. But I pretty much have boasted about it, each time I tell the tale. Like now.
Asking for help on Reddit was intended as a test and not the last word. However, the early signs weren't encouraging for the family heirloom as contributors politely suggested the facts didn't stack up. 'Something I have been considering,' suggests a long poster, who didn't miss a word itemising every fact and counter fact, 'is whether there is only half-truth to this… that the story got embellished along the way - ie the Grandpa did get Hitler to drive due to weather, but no crash occurred; or perhaps a plane did crash that night but it had no connection to Hitler, and so on.'
'I think the story was embellished a bit by the grandad,' suggests a short poster fresh to the conversation. 'But its possible that Hitler should have been on the plane. Either way, wouldn't have mattered much, as the plane landed safely with no injured or killed…'
Built up over decades, dismantled in hours. I should be glad. But it didn't feel gratifying to be restoring the family from infamy, or much needed - after all, the backstory was that grand-dad was just being professional sharing the storm warning. It seemed instead I was helping to push a long dead ancestor deeper inside their coffin by being made less significant.
(My mum told me before that as a toddler in her push chair Hitler patted her on the head a few times. I think that makes it two degrees of separation between me and him. Should I also doubt the veracity of this too?)
|another Nazi rally
Problem is the crash was in the wrong part of Germany. 'Well, I think that the most plausible scenario is either that a) No crash happened, and it was simply that a weatherman persuaded Hitler not to fly, or b) Hitler canceled his flight, and a plane did crash that day, but not Hitler's plane (the Nov. 2nd, 2932 crash being the best candidate).'
Straight after this, another poster pitches in with a different plane and a better match: 'I'm beginning to think that flight D-724 fits. It was entour from Nürnberg to Frankfurt. It crashed 02.11.1932, about 12.50 p.m. An article from "Flugsport" says the pilot flew in clouds during heavy wind. He thought he would have passed the mountains (the Spessart) and dived under the clouds. He hadn't passed the mountains, in fact. He presumably saw trees suddenly, pulled back urgently. The left wing broke. He goes down. So, this fits. But 12.50 p.m. is not night, as in the original family story, which has the crash happening in the dark. And this event was a (wind)storm not a thunderstorm.'
Shortly another poster lays out a detailed time line they've diligently stitched together: 'After some editing: here's a reconstruction of his timetable. Hitler spoke in Pirmasens and Karlsruhe and flew to Berlin in the evening. Then, in the night of 1.11 to 2.11 he hears that Eva Braun tried to kill herself in Munich. He drove to Munich somewhere before 4 am, visiting Eva Braun in the hospital before noon. Goebbels wrote about it in his diary. He was back in Berlin that evening, 2/11, as Goebbels' diary praises a speech by Hitler in the Kaiserhof Hotel.
'So, maybe he flew or drove from Munich to Nürnberg (maybe drove because of the bad weather). Didn't take that flight, because he was advised not to, and drove to Berlin. So, the story could be possible, after all.'
Reading this, for a moment I felt vindicated. But as more posts arrived carrying their own doubts, tweaks, twists and hypotheses, any hope of certainty receded. It was interesting and exciting to see a long gone tale get kicked around, but also a bit boring. It brought back to me why I loved history but stopped studying it. The subject is an uneasy, fluctuating combination of facts, omission and interpretation. And this can be too much. 'Finding any truth to this is most likely going to be a matter of detective work,' sez a Redditor, 'not just opening up a book on Hitler and saying 'Here it is!'
Yeah, I know. But 'Here it is' is precisely what I'm looking for - a neat answer that will be satisfying. Years ago I read Part One of Ian Kershaw's two volume biography of Hitler, and straight after I wondered, wait a second, what happened to grand-dad saving Hitler? It's not there. Did Kershaw miss it? (This kind of slip up can happen - Nabokov's biographer Brian Boyd owned up to making a crux error in his monumental story of the author's life) It can't be easy admitting to an oversight. But I've seen Kershaw on TV and he appears affable enough. Should I just write and ask? He must know. He's an established expert. Maybe there's a reason he left the anecdote out.
As the Reddit Hitler groupthink petered out, I thanked everyone and said all this effort and enthusiasm left me feeling newly galvanised, ready to go again, to somehow finally flush out the truth.
But what was I also thinking, truly? No ways this is actually happening. Let's just put it like this - perhaps some things are better viewed as the stories we tell and left at that. I mean, what am I going to do, go live in a library, bury myself in archives, learn German, go microfiching for the next five years, write to all the leading historians across the world like a nut, and keep writing until they write me back, all the while carving out my own little niche as a world-leading expert on plane crashes in southern Germany circa 1931-32?
All of this to perhaps have it finally confirmed - that grand-dad saved Hitler's life, and there's nothing I can do about it, folks. Or so much labour and learning to discover the story's a crock? That it never happened. Or, version three, the worst of the bad-case scenarios, I expend all this time and effort to find out that still no one can say one way or the other. To find myself left hanging. That's the past, that's how it rolls: there are things that happen that no one can prove happened.
'Thing is,' writes a wise Redditor, 'if one really sits down and searches through archives you might be lucky to find something - or unlucky and the history of this specific accident was lost in the war.'
Grand-dad eventually ended up in a Russian prisoner of war camp, somewhere south of the Urals. And he probably died there. But no one can say for sure. I've known of this uncertainty all along. And yet I continued to think it possible to figure out everything - that all mysteries have their solution. And they don't.
|German POWs
No. It wasn't like that.
I had the family legend wrong. The account I'd been given and owned and tended for so long had been inaccurate. Wrong, for all these years.
What happened was this: Hitler's in Nuremberg. The rally finishes. Hitler has leased a plane (a Juncker 52) for the duration of his autumn election tour - Oct-Nov, 1932. He recruits commercial pilot Hans Baur as his personal flyer for the whole election. The former World War One fighter ace had already flown two elections with Hitler. The two men got along and Hitler was Baur's best man at his wedding.
After the war, Baur spent ten years in a Russian jail. Later he was also detained in France for a spell. He lived to as old as ninety five - a career flyer and veteran of two world wars. He wrote an auto-biography, I Was Hitler's Pilot (or, if you prefer the original repugnant title, I Flew with The Mighty). The book is not a deep or edifying work of literature. But there's one thing that sticks out, for me that is, and this is how Baur was a pilot with a keen eye for air safety. That's how you survive to ninety five. When my grand-father mentioned a storm, mum says Baur took note and cancelled the flight. It was Baur's understudy pilot, a young reckless mug, who refused to be grounded by rumours of a storm. He insisted on flying off ahead by himself. And he crashed and died.
And that's the actual 'guaranteed' story. Maybe grand-dad did save Hitler's life. Except, Baur doesn't mention anything remotely like this in his memoirs; and you'd think he would. I should take this newsflash back to Reddit. But I'm too embarrassed to confess to previously feeding the serious historians sloppy facts. Plus they're terribly busy right now figuring out if Trump is actually Hitler. *****
|random artist picture: Joseph Beuys, action hero
In the end, what's all the yearning about? I don't actually want to go on a long journey through history to finally settle a wartime family detail. What I would prefer is a convenient escape hatch, a nice little back door to slip out and leave the game for a while. Go missing from reality which, I'm sure we'd agree, is quite disagreeable currently. Go, duck out, poof... Come back in a while to find everything worked out okay. I needn't have worried.
Don't check in, check out - it's the new time travel, the ultimate break. A much better adventure.
|Goya's not messing around
* The mezzanine is the space between, a locus for otherness, or productive irrelevance says Foucault - who described such places as heterotopias. These heterotopias are not ideal spaces, or utopia, or places where it's all gone wrong either, dystopia, but other spaces to slip away to and be different. Foucault argued the more heterotopias the better, spaces where we can know things differently, haunts for multiple meanings where synthesis isn't required.
**These New Puritans. In an interview from 2013, when asked about leasing one of their songs for A Victoria's Secret commercial, the band's leader Jack Barnett says he's not bothered. He doesn't see a dilemma: he needs the money and will take the money: 'Arms trade, people traffickers -- if anyone wants to give me money for music, I will accept it! I'm never averse to that kind of thing, it's the world we live in.' In another interview he confesses to supporting Arsenal.
*** I've used the Monoprix several times down the years. Once on a mini break I bought a red coat for the Annoying Son. Another time a school bag with a footballer on the side. He loved the bag. He said he didn't mind how old and scrappy it got, he'd keep it for ever. Of course the bag got ditched eventually. The young Annoying Son also said he'd always play with his Lego forever, even when he was thirty, shortly before he stopped playing with his Lego.
**** In Paris, the woman upstairs, her orgasm lasted a long time and then ended and then started up again as I gathered my things to get out for a walk. I should've complained about the screaming, taken the fake shepherd's crook and used it to bang on the ceiling. Aren't there by laws restricting loud sex? But no, the non-sexed don't complain. Not unless they've crossed into mad land. They don't want to moan about other people's love lives as they fear it will only reflect badly on their own - people will assume sex starved. Or we will assume they're think as much.
***** When my mum left Germany and moved to Britain in the 1950s, she first found work as a nanny for a Jewish family in Golders Green. (The irony of her nationality and her employers' religion was not discussed apparently.)
The husband and wife had escaped Germany in the late 1930s and quickly became settled in London and were enthusiastically Anglophile. When war broke out between Britain and Germany, the husband volunteered to fight for his adopted country. It felt both strange but also the correct thing for him to do.
Many Germans resident in Britain did the same. It's one of those many forgotten stories from the war that should be made into a TV documentary. The German volunteers were gathered together into their own battalion and kept separate from the rest of the regiment. They were also sequestered from the general population as there was a risk that people might be confused by a bunch of Germans marching around dressed as British soldiers. They might think the enemy had invaded and taken over and panic. It's an episode of Dad's Army really.