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When you've been setting out, for many months, a clear and comprehensible case for a rational energy policy, a policy based on achieving reliable supplies of affordable electricity, it comes almost as a surprise to find that some people out there still seem to be in blissful ignorance of the basics. Yet they are.
In Sunday's papers I saw reports of the battle by Bill Cash MP (sound fellow) to oppose two massive turbines next to his historic and listed home, Upton Cressett. I Tweeted: "Good Luck to Bill Cash MP in his battle against wind turbines at Upton Cressett. It's time to slay the monsters". But the PeterM, a.k.a. @pooky2483, replied: "Why are you against them? What alternative would you choose?".
Basic false assumption. He simply assumes that wind turbines make a positive contribution to our electricity supplies, so that if we shut down wind farms, we'd have to replace them with something else.
But they don't make any significant net contribution to energy supplies. Recent work by Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University, and others shows that intermittent wind requires conventional back-up; that the back-up also has to be run intermittently to complement the wind; that it is therefore run very inefficiently (and for the accountants out there, it represents a very inefficient use of capital); so it uses more fossil fuel, and creates more emissions, than if it were run properly. Indeed the system of wind plus back-up uses about as much gas, and creates about as much CO2, as if you'd forgotten about the wind and just built the gas.
So there's your short answer, Pooky2483.
But as you can see, it won't really go into 140 characters for a Tweet. So I replied "See UKIP energy policy at www.ukip.org/media/policies/energy.pdf." Thanks, Pooky2483, for an excuse to Tweet, yet again, the link to my UKIP energy policy booklet.


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ESPN will carry 14 soccer matches across platforms through Monday, April 8, beginning tonight at 9 p.m. with the Copa MX semifinals on ESPN Deportes. Mexico's elite soccer cup competition includes the top first and second division clubs. The Copa features 14 first division clubs – that are not part of the CONCACAF Champions League – and 14 from the Ascenso MX, México's second division.
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Tottenham Hotspur vs. FC Basel
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Longtime readers will remember a series of posts I wrote earlier this year, following a trip to Slovenia and Austria, about my grandpa Geoff Skinner's experiences as a prisoner of war in Austria. While he was adapting to his new reality, the war dragged on around him. While in captivity, he sent off for textbooks and put in the study that allowed him to train as a doctor, after the war was over. And without that, I would not be sitting here today, because he was introduced to my grandmother by a teacher, while, aged 26, he was back at his old school, cramming for the exams he'd never have been able to take without being a prisoner.
In researching his story, I was often struck by contrasts: between my own preconceptions of the war and Geoff's truth; between Geoff's experiences and those of his Slovenian friend Ida (and her daughter Breda); between Geoff's experiences and those of Breda's father, the Australian soldier Gilbert Conyard; and between the experiences of British POWs and the Soviet POWs that were housed in nearby camps. It's easy to imagine that his life would have been pretty hard, but I can remember a certain nostalgia in his eyes when he remembered some of his experiences 'in the bag' in Klagenfurt. The preceding post in this series explains why.
After writing all of these, I decided in July I went to see Geoff's last living sibling, his youngest brother Leslie, who's now 88. Leslie has always been a character in my family, but I realised how little I really knew him. I'd also heard from his daughter Sera that he had more photos and letters. So on the day after my birthday in July, nursing a hangover, I took the train out to Berkshire, and cycled from the station to Leslie and Daphne, for lunch and a chat.
Connection number 1: little did I know that they were always keen cyclists. So before we got to talking about Geoff, they admired my bike and we had a chat about riding in London. He also told me the old family story of his and Geoff's brother Raymond, and their sister Winifred, cycling from Kingston-upon-Thames to Devon on a tandem, in 1937. My mum and dad have a photo taken on that day; they look nonchalant and (to modern eyes) spectacularly poorly dressed for a 183-mile bike ride: Ray has on a sports jacket, plus fours, a jaunty beret and a tie; Winnie appears to be wearing a sensible tweed jacket and skirt and a headscarf. Times change: towards the end of the afternoon, Leslie and I settled down in front of the TV to watch a lycra-clad Chris Froome climbing Mont Ventoux in the Tour de France.
Before this, though, Leslie had gone off to find his box full of family documents. He has things going back as far as a distant great-great-[…]-grandfather's school book, from 1860, full of algebra problems, written out and worked in stunning copperplate on hand-ruled red lines. There were photos of his parents (my great-grandparents), Abraham and Clara, from their wedding day, and many other family things besides – Abraham's army ID tag from his service days in the 1914-18 war – another reminder of mortality, because these tags were given to soldiers so they could be identified in case of their deaths. I wondered what Raymond's may have looked like. One of Leslie's photos was of Raymond's original grave, marked by a wooden cross, near where he died on Monte Cassino in 1943, before his body was disinterred and re-buried in the British cemetery nearby.
In amongst all of this, there was one letter from Geoff, written to Abraham and Clara from Naples in 1945, just before he came home. His wry tone and humour were familiar to me, and his tart comments about Naples seemed apt for someone who had been away from home for six years, whose return was imminent, and who just wanted to come back:
"By the way, I should think that the slum problem in Naples [a town devastated by war, remember] must be something terrific. I thought that Egypt used to hold some fair average stinkers in the way of towns, but Naples has 'em licked right from the starting gate."
But Leslie's photos had something different; they reminded me of the darkness enveloping this whole story. They are photos of POWs, in a camp looking much like Geoff's. Unlike the cheerful, relatively healthy prisoners in the photos I had already seen, these men looked freezing cold, desperately tired, and emaciated. In one photo, taken from a distance behind a wire fence, some of the men are naked, and some kind of ordered activity is taking place – washing? Or de-lousing? In other photos, there are what appear to be dead men, on the ground, covered with rushes and greenery. In another, coffins are being unloaded from a cart.
I scanned these photos and sent them to my historian friend in Austria, Paul Angerer, who wrote back to say that he had seen them before; indeed, some of them had featured in an exhibition held at Wolfsberg earlier this year. These were not British or Commonwealth, but Soviet prisoners. Captured in Russia after the defeats suffered by the Red Army in the summer of 1941, at the time the photos were taken they had just arrived in Wolfsberg – after marching 1,400 km from Kiev, where they had been captured. The conditions of this march don't bear thinking of, but the evidence is there to see: many of them are in a very poor state. Paul tells me that the British POWs watching the arrival of the Russians were totally shocked, and apparently took these pictures to document their conditions, despite this being strictly forbidden. Many of the Red Army soldiers died shortly after arriving in Wolfsberg – presumably the reason for the coffins.
It's well documented that the Nazis, who regarded the British as their racial equals, but the Russians as untermenschen or subhuman, stuck to the Geneva conventions in their treatment of British prisoners, and treated the Russians appallingly, using them as slave labour until they starved or died of diseases. This means it was a mere accident of nationality that Geoff survived. I don't know the fate of these nameless Red Army men. Huddled under their near-identical rags, they are hard to individuate. As for the British, they were (for the most part) fed and able to organise and entertain themselves (as I've previously written), so that one SS report into morale on the home front in 1943 could write of British prisoners (some in Klagenfurt – Geoff was among them) that:
"Although a large proportion of British prisoners in Germany come from ordinary working classes, a large number of them speak impeccable and fluent German. Their attitude is self-possessed and, indeed, often borders on arrogance. Their bearing and their whole behaviours are doubtless intended as effective propaganda."
From Klagenfurt, too, we hear: "Of all the prisoners of war in this district, the British are the most respected and discussed by the local population. The reason for this lies in the smart appearance of individuals, as well as the smartness of organised units of British prisoners. The British are always decently dressed, their uniforms are always in faultless condition, they are shaved, clean and well fed. Their attitude is extraordinarily self-possessed, one could almost say arrogant and overbearing. This, combined with the good impression they give of their nation, influences the German people in a way that should not be under-estimated… When they march in formation, they frequently look better than our own German replacement units. You can see that the uniform they wear is of much better material than the German uniform."
The general attitude of British prisoners to the Reich is absolutely hostile. They make fun of Germany, German institutions and leaders on all possible occasions. In Bayreuth, for instance, two British prisoners called themselves "Churchill" and "Roosevelt". As a foil they picked on a German worker who stuttered and called him "Hitler" as a joke. Some other British prisoners were singing a rude song to the tune of Deutschland uber Alles as they passed two high German officials in uniform. When one of these officials said "That's going a little too far, my friends", one of the prisoners who understood German called back "We're not your friends, we're British."
The contrast between this apparent bonhomie and the obvious misery of the Russians chills me.
Last week, Paul sent me one more photo, which drove home the contrast even harder. He had been doing some research at the National History Museum in Vienna, which holds the archives of the POW camps in Carinthia. And he had found a photo of Geoff, taken at Wolfsberg in 1941 when he first arrived – immediately after his capture in Greece and the long journey up from the Balkans, locked into cattle trucks. In contrast to the later photos, where he is relaxed, looks well-fed, and seems in good health, this one really hit me. It's recognisably him, but he looks miserable, more so than I ever saw him. He also looks extremely thin. This was taken when he first arrived. And had it not been for the randomness of Nazi racial views, he could have ended up like the Red Army prisoners, in which case nothing that I know – family, school, career, history, my name, my identity, friends, love, London, this blog, my contact with Breda, my travel, nothing – would ever have existed. Geoff would have been extinguished, not to live on, not to meet my granny (whose hundredth birthday it would have been on the day I write this). And that is probably what happened to all of these Soviet soldiers.
By such thin threads are we held together. So a theme I've written about before returns to me, with double the force: make the most of things. The existence we have is precious, contingent, and a fragile gift.
If you are interested in viewing all the photos that relate to these posts, you can find them on my Flickr page. Click here for the full set. For earlier posts in this series, click here.


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Burton Frank "Jim" Reabe of Beaver Dam, formerly of St. Germain, passed away peacefully on May 31, 2018 at Charleston House in Beaver Dam.
Jim was born June 9, 1923 in Horicon to William and Esther (Johnson) Reabe. He attended Horicon High School where he played football, baseball, basketball, and ran track. During this time, Jim unselfishly rescued two children that had fallen off a bridge in Horicon into the Rock River and they could not swim.
Jim joined the Army in 1943 during World War II and served three years in the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, part of the 3rd Army under General George Patton in Europe. He was proud of his service as the tank's gunner, responsible for operating the main cannon. He served 195 days on the front line, participating in the invasion of France, the liberation of Antwerp, the Battle of the Bulge and liberation of Bastogne, the invasion of Germany itself, and after Germany's surrender searched the Alps for remaining SS holdouts. He received the Bronze Star with three battle stars for his service. Jim was recently interviewed by John Moser as part of his Veteran's Day radio program in 2017 – he had a wealth of interesting stories about his service.
One night in November 1945, he met Anita Lauth while she was dancing on Beaver Street in Beaver Dam. They were married four months later on February 23, 1946, and would remain happily together for the next 69 years until her passing in 2015.
Jim worked for Triple F Seed as the sales manager for the state of Wisconsin and traveled the state frequently. He also ran a butcher shop in Beaver Dam and served 20 years as a volunteer in the Beaver Dam Fire Department.
Jim's hobbies included walleye fishing, hunting ducks and geese, and golfing. He and Anita traveled to Las Vegas countless times, Europe three times, North Africa, Mexico and to Puerto Rico. For years they traveled to Lac des Mille Lacs in Canada fishing with friends and family.
After Anita's retirement in 1987, Jim and Anita moved from Beaver Dam to their lake home in St. Germain, Wisconsin. They spent winters in Hawaii for the first ten years; thereafter wintered in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.
Jim was a member of the Beaver Dam American Legion Post 146 for 50 years, the 40 et 8, the VFW, and St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Beaver Dam.
Jim was preceded in death by his wife Anita, his parents, two sisters, two brothers, sister-in-law Leona Reabe and two nephews. He is survived by his sister Talitha (Gerald) Hoffman of Horicon, brother and sister in-laws, nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be at the Koepsell-Murray Funeral Home, N7199 N. Crystal Lake Road, Beaver Dam on Thursday, June 7th 2018 from 10:00 am to the time of the funeral service at 11:00 am. Rev. Seth Dorn will officiate. Beaver Dam American Legion Post 146 to meet at 10:30 a.m. to pay their respects. Burial will be at the Oakwood Cemetery in Beaver Dam with a luncheon to follow at Bayside Supper Club.
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University of Michigan Builds Fake City For Driverless Car Testing
It's nice to see Detroit getting busy again.
Engineers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have started construction on a simulated city center that will be used to test partially automated and fully driverless cars.
The patent-pending Mobility Transformation Facility will take up 32 acres on U-M's north campus, and be administered by a partnership of auto industry leaders and university researchers.
SEE ALSO: Google Shows Off Cuter Self-Driving Car
The idea is to provide a real-world simulation of dense city traffic for the next generation of partially and fully automated vehicles. In addition to a section of a four-lane highway, the test center will have merge lanes, road signs, stoplights, intersections, construction barrels, roundabouts, a railroad crossing, building facades and even — eventually — mechanical cyclists and pedestrians.
"We will actually be writing code for the test facility," said U-M researcher Edwin Olson, on the Michigan Engineering project page. "We'll be able to trigger tricky traffic signal timings, or a pedestrian stepping into the intersection at just the wrong time, for example."
It's not just hypothetical far-future tinkering, either. The public/private Mobility Transformation Center hopes to enable a automated mobility system in downtown Ann Arbor by 2021. The concept is to create an environment where all moving vehicles, with drivers or without, are networked and communicating with each other.
No word on whether the research team will try to simulate a national basketball championship, when 20,000 drunken undergrads spill onto the streets. But I'm sure there's an app for that.
This article originally published at Discovery News here


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M.Bison was the final boss in Street Fighter 2, and initially, he was not a playable character. He was initially supposed to be Balrog, but somehow the names got switched and he got the boxer's name (M.Bison - Mike Tyson).
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Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life (2016)
"Lane tells the story of Peale's rise and fall crisply and without malice, even when Peale is at his more-huckster-than-minister gauchest."—Ray Olson, Booklist
"Lane traces Peale's connections to corporate and conservative elites, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, to show how the minister brought a mood of conservative piety to the nation … enthralling reading … Lane's writing is graceful and well-paced … [His] book will surely be requisite reading for historians who strive to give us a fuller perspective on the career and impact of this unusual American religionist."—Mitch Horowitz, Washington Post
"Surge of Piety contains some impressive archival research on Peale's relationship with Blanton, and on Blanton's relationship with Sigmund Freud."—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal
"Lane studies how Peale developed a popular theology that fused American business-speak with Christianity, psychoanalysis, and political conservatism, with considerable long-term success…. Thanks to … Surge of Piety, we have a little perspective on what Peale's philosophy meant for America, and, by extension, for Trump."—Sam Buntz, Washington Monthly
"In Surge of Piety, Lane develops a close portrait of Norman Vincent Peale's effort to propel his particular brand of religio-psychiatry into the heart of the U.S. imagination."—Kathryn Lofton, American Literary History
"Lane focuses on Peale's interest in melding positive Christianity with psychiatry—what Peale called 'religio-psychiatry.' In 1937 Peale, with the help of the Freud-trained and appropriately named psychiatrist Smiley Blanton, founded a clinic in New York City under the banner of the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry. They treated tens of thousands of patients over the next three decades while developing their new system of thought…. Now that one of Peale's disciples sits in the Oval Office, there couldn't be a better time for the publication of Christopher Lane's Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life."—Paul Matzko, The Gospel Coalition
"Well-timed and well-written … Lane argues that domestic and global politics infused Peale's work. Peale sought to Christianize the individual and, thereby, Christianize culture. Peale sought to position a Christian America as united against the dangers of Communism, embracing pro-business, capitalist religious nationalism."—Benjamin E. Zeller, History: Reviews of New Books
"A fascinating and accessible reassessment of a pivotal political moment, and the enduring fusion of popular religion and psychology in American life."—Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame
"Lane has done impressive archival research on Peale…. [T]he book is thoughtful and makes for interesting reading."—M. A. Granquist, CHOICE
"In Surge of Piety, Christopher Lane ably shows the ways in which Norman Vincent Peale's potent combination of Protestant Christianity, popular psychiatry and nationalist politics helped remake America."—Kevin M. Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
"Carefully examining everything from Freudian psychology to traditional revivalism, Lane masterfully shows why we cannot make sense of the tremendous mid-century upsurge in American religiosity without understanding the inimitable Peale."—Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (2011)
"Lane has hit upon something interesting. While many people believe that human history is the story of 2,000 years of blanket Christianity followed by a recent emergence of atheism, the book stresses the very important fact that theological and philosophical squabbles over these subjects are nothing new (and indeed, far more fierce than some of our debates today)… The Age of Doubt is a call for others to examine this material."—Christopher Holden, PopMatters
"As Christopher Lane argue[s] in The Age of Doubt, the explosion of questioning among Christian thinkers in the Victorian era transformed the idea of doubt from a sin or lapse to necessary exploration."—Julia Baird, New York Times
"The charm of The Age of Doubt is that it returns us to Victorian England, when the absence of God was a new idea—a new idea, at any rate, to a number of intelligent people raised in the Anglican Church who would happily have continued subscribing to their realm's official faith if science hadn't lately posed so many inconvenient contradictions."—Michael Miner, The Chicago Reader
"The story of Victorian doubt is both fascinating and important for understanding why we continue to be mired in fierce cultural battles over the status of evolution and the value of religious faith. This provocative book is well worth the read."—Bernard Lightman, York University
"A welcome and timely entry into the discussion … The Age of Doubt is important reading for all who want to better understand the way our culture has unfolded while uncovering the roots of our religious skepticism. Lane creates a very readable volume in which these struggles of faith and doubt come to life … compelling reading."—Bryan Berghoef, Englewood Review of Books
"Lane asks the right questions of the doubting pundits, past and present. Easy to read and render[ing] complicated ideas accessible, [his book] is an altogether admirable study—and ends with an amusing tour of the intellectual trivialities at American Creationist 'museums.'"—Edward Norman, Literary Review
"Elegantly written … an erudite and highly readable contribution to the complex world of nineteenth-century belief."—Mark Knight, Victorian Studies
"A well-written work, stylistically speaking: very clear and honest. The argument is well structured and … never loses its thread for a moment. The hardcover is beautifully published,… providing a feast for the eye and the mind. Highly recommended, without hesitation."—Karel D'huyvetters, Kroniek
"Lane's stimulating analysis asks whether acknowledging how science, religion, and society have produced a growing chasm between faith and doubt, and even destroyed belief, can offer a way forward."—Keith Thomson, author of Before Darwin and The Young Charles Darwin
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (2007)
- 2007 Top Seller in Psychology as compiled by YBP Library Services
- A 2007 Top Seller in Medicine as compiled by YBP Library Services
- Best Book of the Year Selection, Association of American University Presses, 2008
- Highly commended for the 2008 Medical Book Award in the category of Mental Health, sponsored by the British Medical Association
- Winner of the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing, 2010
- Currently in six translations
"[A] fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of the bible of modern psychiatry [that] explains how a once-ordinary affliction became a profitable disease."—Michael Agger, Mother Jones
"This is not only an important account of the creation of a modern disease and its treatment, it is an explosive indictment of a system that is too simply materialist in both philosophy and behavior."—Harold J. Cook, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
"A marvelous book: disturbing and perturbing, a book that will be widely talked about and debated. It is extraordinarily well written, balanced, witty, and engrossing. Bravo!"—Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Professor of Medical Anthropology, and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University
"In Shyness, Christopher Lane outlines an apparatus that is one of the most powerful cultural forces in the world today. In pulling back the drapes and revealing the bumbling and hamfistedness of the new engineers of human souls, Chris Lane might help restore sanity to Oz."—David Healy, M.D., author of Let Them Eat Prozac and The Antidepressant Era
"Written with Chris Lane's brand of verve and scholarship, Shyness is a riveting book about how certain so-called illnesses are complex cultural artifacts and certain so-called doctors are casting spells called diagnoses. A smart and bracing book about shyness—not to mention a shrewd and subtle book about psychiatric classification—is long overdue; after reading Shyness it is clear that only Lane could have written it."—Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst, author of Side-Effects
"Lane finds a trove of troubling (and previously unpublished) material in the APA archive and in drug company memorandums, laying bare the APA's internal politics and showing the growing influence of drug companies on psychiatry practice. Similarly alarming are Lane's dissections of big pharma's marketing of anti-depressants and description of how information about side-effects and withdrawal symptoms associated with popular prescription drugs such as Prozac and Paxil were withheld from the public. This controversial and well-documented book will spark its share of debates."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[An] excellent new book…. Shyness is a welcome contribution to psychiatric discourse."—Juliet Lapidos, New York Observer
"Having gained access to archival materials from the APA, Lane provides a behind-the-scenes look at the haphazard, unscientific process used to revise The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders…. [A] superb, iconoclastic cultural study…. Highly recommended for university and large public libraries."—Library Journal
"[A] stunning and revelatory book…. For a book that's about the invention of a medical condition, Shyness is as riveting as a detective story. Lane writes elegantly and passionately about the need to maintain our consciousness about the maddeningly rich complexity of human emotion and thought."—Yasmin Nair, Windy City Times
"This well-written book is a thoughtful examination of shyness and its relation to psychopathology…. I very much enjoyed reading Lane's thought-provoking book, and I would highly recommend it for psychiatry residents, graduate students in clinical psychology, and other mental health professionals in training who are interested in the field of anxiety disorders, and more broadly in psychopathology and general mental health."—Brian J. Cox, New England Journal of Medicine
"In his brilliant Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness, Christopher Lane painstakingly shows how the category of 'mental disorder' has been expanded in recent decades, so that what were once considered normal emotions or everyday foibles—shyness, rebelliousness, aloofness, and so on—have been relabelled as phobias, disorders and syndromes."—Brendan O'Neill, New Statesman and Society
"An important new book…. The achievement of Shyness is to chart for the first time the events preceding the rise and fall of the SSRIs. Lane has marshalled a cache of unpublished data to explain the academic framework that allowed the rise to happen. [He] tells the complex story with impressive clarity…. Lane has done a valuable job in tracing the roots of the current crisis and he certainly isn't calling for a reinstatement of Freudianism; what is needed now is another map to indicate a way out."—Jerome Burne,Times Literary Supplement
"Fascinating … persuasive …, [Shyness] should be read by anyone interested in stopping the rot in the discussion of human emotion and thought."—Helene Guldberg, Spiked Review of Books
"Overall, Lane's scholarly account of this saga ensures that if you're not already concerned about the over-medicalization of our mental lives, you will be."—Christian Jarrett, BBC Focus
"Christopher Lane's polemical Shyness features the manipulations that promoted social anxiety disorder to a national emergency."—Frederick Crews, New York Review of Books
"As Lane's research reveals, the cost of blaming anxieties on brain chemistry imbalance goes beyond dollars, to drug dependency, debilitating side effects and consumers convinced they're hamstrung by their physiology."—Robin Tierney, San Francisco Examiner
"Lane charges that the task force, dominated by neuropsychiatrists, often used bad science or no science at all, that it turned ordinary human emotions into diseases and that it created a climate in which pharmaceutical companies could get rich creating cures for often nonexistent complexes."—Richard Halicks, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (op-ed)
"Would Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson be given drugs today? In the 1980s a small group of leading psychiatrists revised the profession's diagnostic manual called the DSM for short, adding social anxiety disorder—aka shyness—and dozens of other new conditions. Christopher Lane … uses previously secret documents, many from the American Psychiatric Association archives, to support his argument that these decisions were marked by carelessness, pervasive influence from the pharmaceutical industry, academic politics, and personal ambition."—Scientific American
"Lane … notes that when psychiatrists diagnose the shy as suffering from social phobia, they mistake a variation in human temperament for a mental disorder; if anything, the diagnosis only adds to the sense of unease felt by shy people. He is also right in observing that the psychiatrists' Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the profession's standard 900-page reference work, errs by designating other kinds of normal human variation as mental disorders and so exaggerates the incidence of mental illness…. [Shyness] provides vivid portraits of how DSM-III was constructed, over the course of six years."—Paul McHugh, Wall Street Journal
"A provocative look at an important chapter in the history of modern psychiatry."—Judith Graham, Chicago Tribune
"Lane's authority in these matters is considerable since he had access to previously confidential documents for the American Psychiatric Association archives…. Highly recommended. All readers, but especially the general public and healthcare professionals and practitioners."—Choice
"Lane argues in this well-researched … controversial book that shyness [has been] pathologized, to the detriment, especially, of children and teenagers"—Elsa Dixler, New York Times Book Review (Paperback Row)
"Lane's thorough trawling of the archives of the American Psychiatric Association, his discovery of unpublished internal memos from drug companies, and most especially his accounts of the deliberately obstructive activities of the companies' marketing teams, make for compelling reading."—Martin Guha, Journal of Mental Health
"Lane's book is worth reading because … he does such an admirable job of exposing how the psychiatric profession and the pharmaceutical industry together manage to develop and popularize new 'mental diseases' and the accompanying treatments apparently designed to increase profits… It is a solid book and one that is likely to remain current for several years, if not decades, to come."—Tana Dineen, Journal of Scientific Exploration
"[A] splendid book… Lane gives a compelling description of how shyness—once seen as a normal variation of character or personality—became incorporated into the DSM as social phobia or avoidant personality disorder."—Simon Wessely, The Lancet
"A detailed and searing account of the cavalier fashion in which the diagnostic and statistical manual (DSM) of mental disorder classification systems was thrown together."—Nursing Standard
"Where this book stands out … is in the data that Lane uses to make his case—evidence confirming once and for all that the emperor really has no clothes. Lane not only manages to gain access to the DSM archives and to previously classified drug company memos—two coups by any measure—but he also interviews key players in the DSM saga, including long-time DSM Task Force Chair Robert Spitzer himself … That Spitzer even agreed to be interviewed by Lane—and with such remarkable openness—left this reader, as a fellow researcher with similar interests, green with envy."—Canadian Journal of Sociology
Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (2004)
"Lane achieves a remarkable recasting of the Victorian age, revealing a pervasive Victorian 'willingness to let hatred and civility collide in Jekyll-and-Hyde fashion.'… A major contribution to Victorian studies."—Modern Language Review
"Highly recommended."—Choice
"A valuable and engaging book."—Times Literary Supplement
"[This book] contains all of my heroes, and I devoured it with the utmost pleasure."—Florence King, The Misanthrope's Corner
"Wonderfully cunning and lucid, Hatred and Civility puts us more closely in touch with the wilder energies of a culture."—Adam Phillips, author of Promises, Promises
"Most arresting… Lane's study succeeds in prompting readers to confront a deep, simple, and problematic truth: that it is no small feat to live successfully among people."—Nineteenth-Century Literature
"Mark[s] him out … as the most renowned psychoanalytic critic in his generation of Victorianists."—Victorian Studies
"Like its predecessors [by Lane], Hatred and Civility is thoughtful and well written: erudite on matters of nineteenth-century ethics and psychology and deft in its critical assessments of several familiar Victorian texts. The prose is lucid, occasionally chatty, and always brisk…. Christopher Lane is an enormously thoughtful and effective critic. He is at his very best in Hatred and Civility."—Conradiana


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I am pleased to offer you this Aquarius Overview so you may better understand your zodiac.
Aquarius Overview: General
Born January 21st through February 19th
Aquarians like to nurture their beliefs and are quite the humanitarians. They are original people who have a much different outlook on life than their peers. Aquarians are mainly involved in social programs that help others. It is quite common that they make new friends along the way to fulfilling their own inner needs. They are unique in their thinking, able to come up with ideas that are outside the box. Ultimately, Water Bearers are at their best when putting their mind to a task that helps others.
Aquarius Overview: Love
When it comes to relationships, Aquarians prefer to dig deep into their partner's minds, rather than focusing on their appearance or superficial qualities. They can be very independent in their relationships. Often, Aquarians need to have their own lives going in order to share parts of themselves with others. They are not the type to bombard with messages and calls, because they prefer to connect when together. If Aquarians find that their significant other objects to their constant independence, and this creates friction, they will only move further away from the relationship.


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You stand in the computer store staring at the bottom of the box. Your computer at home meets the minimum system requirements printed on the game package, but your experience as a gamer tells you that your computer is going to need some tweaks to make this new first-person shooter playable.
You dig the money out of your pocket promising youll work a few extra hours this week to make up the difference besides, that phone bill can wait.
You get home and have already ripped open the box and taken out the jewel case just as your desktop comes into view.
Installing is a breeze and you are tempted to double-click that new little icon on your hard drive and start playing, but you remember that your RAM is dangerously close to the minimum requirements for the game. No sense disappointing yourself with a sluggish game right off the bat, lets see what you can do to ensure your machine runs the game at optimum efficiency.
You double-click on the Read Me file.
Thank you for purchasing
yada, yada, yada. You scroll down. Ah, here it is: Performance Tips.
Hmm, lower resolution? No, not if I dont have to, you say to yourself.Lower texture detail? God no, I want to see everything!
Ahh, here we go. Turn off music. No problem, you say, and without a second thought youre diving into the .ini file to get rid of that in-game music.
Sound familiar?
Weve all been there. Faced with games that overwhelm our systems, we are forced to experience them at less than optimum situations. And often it is the music that is the first to go.
Detractors will say that it doesnt matter anyway because in-game music is often annoying and repetitive. If thats true, then whos to blame? The ease in which we allow ourselves to turn in-game music off, and the ease in which game designers allow us to turn it off, creates an interesting situation for game developers and gamers alike, who must ask themselves: what priority have I put on having high-quality game music?
Theres no doubt that audio has a large role to play in a multimedia experience like a computer game. We want to hear those footsteps echoing down the hall, and have that explosions boom fill the room when we send a grenade into that chemical factory.
But music is a different matter. And often it is taken for granted. One big reason may be that music integration technology isnt where it should be.
Unlike in film where the music changes according to the action on the screen, game music is often just looped tracks and who wants to hear the same 45 seconds of music over and over and over and over?
But again, where does the onus lie when it comes to ensuring that we continue to progress in the technology that will allow music to interact more effectively with games?
Who should lead the charge? Game developers? Gamers themselves who could demand much more? How about game music composers?
Who knows?
Not me surely, so I tracked down a couple of game music composers to get their views on the state of the video game music industry. And these arent just two-Casios-and-a-microphone hacks, these guys are heavyweights.
Mike Beckett is the one-man show behind Nuclear Kangaroo Music, which is responsible for some of the best game music ever to grace a game, the Bugdom soundtrack. Beckett also wrote the music for Pangea Softwares Nanosaur, and has his infectiously-hummable tunes in the companys newest creation Cro-Mag Rally.


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After spending a decade in the fashion industry, it was perfumier Marie Aoun's passion for gardening that led her to discover a love of botanicals and natural perfume. Marie trained with Dominique Dubrana of La Via del Profumo, a natural perfumery she admires in Italy, learning the intricate and precise craft of creating scents naturally.
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Stephen Craffen appointed NAPFA Eastern Region President
Stonegate Wealth Management, LLC is pleased to announce that Firm Founder and Partner, Stephen Craffen has been appointed by the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), to act as the President of the North East/Mid-Atlantic Region for the 2012/2013 fiscal year. In accepting this honor, Mr. Craffen will be leading the region of the United States with the largest NAPFA membership.
Mr. Craffen has been a member of NAPFA since 1998. He has served as a volunteer for NAPFA in many capacities over the years. Mr. Craffen has served as a member of NAPFA's new Leadership and Development Committee for the National Board, helping to establish the procedures that will be used to select future National Board members and he has served on the Eastern Region Conference Committee for several years. He has also organized and helped to run a series of educational symposiums on the East Coast for the past three years. Additionally, Mr. Craffen was a study group director for NAPFA's Eastern Region.
NAPFA is the nation's premier organization of fee-only financial advisors. As a member of NAPFA, Mr. Craffen adheres to a strict code of ethics and has signed an oath stating that he will not accept commissions of any kind.
Mr. Craffen is looking forward to leading the North East/ Mid-Atlantic Division of NAPFA stating,
"I look forward to continuing my service to NAPFA and helping it maintain its role as leaders in the financial planning field."
Craffen founded Stonegate Wealth Management in 1993. The firm became a fee-only firm in 1998 to provide its clients with the highest levels of financial planning and investment advisory services on a cost-effective basis and without product bias. The firm has $210 million in assets under management. Steve is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder, recognized as a hallmark of excellence in securities analysis. A graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology (1977 BE), he also earned a Master of Business Administration from Rutgers University in 1983, and a Masters in Financial Planning in 1998 from the College for Financial Planning in Denver Colorado.
Partners in the firm include Craffen, Thomas J. Geraghty, CPA, CFP, and Craig R. Marson, CPA, J.D.
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Media Pitch: Apex Decisions Crunches Big Data to Identify the Best Ways to Monetize Readers
Publishers have embraced data as invaluable decision-making tool that guides content strategy and audience development. Still, many publishers are slow to act on their data, often testing a certain strategy for months, analyzing results, and eventually changing tactics if those results are not promising. What if publishers could use the data they already have about their audience to predict their future actions, make decisions faster, and drive more revenue as a result?
That is the promise of startup Apex Decisions, a "science-as-a-software" decision solutions company that helps publishers measure the financial impact of their subscription offers, content bundles, and advertising. Co-founded by Dr. Subhash Gupta, an expert in building statistical frameworks that drive real-time decision-making, Apex Decisions helps publishers predict the most effective way to monetize its readers. In the following interview, Anish Nanavaty, a member of the Apex Decision advisory board, explains how Apex Decisions was founded and how the startup is driving revenue growth for publishers.
1. Explain your existence: What problem are you solving or opportunity are you enabling? How are you unique and innovative?
The problem we are solving is understanding an individual at a very granular level so that a business can predict what content or ad will they consume, when will they consume and what will they be willing to pay for it. We are unique as we guarantee our impact and base most of our compensation on the impact that we create.
2. Inspiration: How did you come up with this idea? How does your new tech solution reflect changes and trends underway in the media world?
After leaving particle physics, the problem that always intrigued our co-founder Dr. Gupta was the ability of the human brain to make real time decisions in spite of its need to process an almost infinite amount of information (i.e., the inputs through all our senses at enormous granularity). The ability for us to make these decisions in real time requires a framework of statistical thought that did not exist. The creation of a statistical framework for building predictive models that support real time decisions has been the driving force behind Dr. Gupta's life's work.
The ability to collect enormous amounts of data in real time and over long periods has made personalization of pricing, content, and ads the key to the survival of a media company. Google and Facebook's advantage in the advertising and marketing space is their ability to collect enormous amounts of data about almost all individual's use of internet. They have been able to use this vast amount of information to develop ad targeting technology, thus cornering the value of the audience created by the media industry. In actuality, the media industry has a deeper knowledge about an individual and they should be able to target ads and content at a much more granular and precise level using the science and technology Apex is creating. The ability to create content bundles, ads, and pricing at an individual level will become critical for any media company to survive and thrive.
3. Results: How have you or do you plan to help media companies increase revenue or cut costs? Can you quantify this?
We guarantee a revenue impact of at least 8% in our renewal subscription pricing solution. We think that the impact of individual level personalized content and ad targeting is significantly larger. Combining the personalized content and ad bundles with individual level pricing could double a company's revenue provided they have sufficient data.
4. Share some wisdom: What do you think are the most important trends affecting the media business today? What do you see that no one else sees?
The explosion of data is a given fact. What no one has mastered (including Google and Facebook) is the ability to use this enormous data (including all past history) for making optimal real time business decisions.
5. What's Next? How do you plan on expanding or improving on your offering? Where do you see opportunities for growth?
Based on our initial success, we are increasing the number of pilots and tests in a number of domains. Currently we are working with a few clients and are excited with the impact we have been able to make with individualized renewal subscriber pricing. We are in the process of expanding our solution set.
Pitch Us: If you've launched a publishing technology startup, the Media Pitch blog is an opportunity to tell your story to the media industry. Check out the contributor guidelines here.
Anish Nanavaty is an advisory board member at Apex Decisions. Apex has developed a break through science that powers real-time decisions in marketing (content and offer personalization) and risk (consumer credit and fraud).


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MFSL LIMITED GOLD EDITION. This 24-Karat Gold Limited Edition is an audiophile collectors item that simply gives the feeling of being directly in the studio with the artist.
This recording is mastered from the Original Session Tapes and the disc is custom pressed using 24-Karat Gold (known for its superior qualities and resistance to oxidation). This Out of Print Gold bonafide collectible disc has all Liner Notes, Photos, and Artwork from the Original LP faithfully recreated.
A SONIC WORK OF ART. These Out of Print gems are the Ferrari of the audiophile CD market. Many over the last year have doubled or tripled in value. The future of these collectibles is so exciting because each piece is a sonic work of art that will never be reproduced using this expensive 24-Karat Gold mastering process. You will be one of only a few thousand in the world owning this audiophile classic.
Artist: Neil Diamond
Title: Hot August Night
Format: CD ALBUM
Record Label: Mobile Fidelity
Catalogue No: UDCD 2-584-2
Country of Origin: USA
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Release: 1993
Original Release: December 1972 (recorded live at the Greek Theater, Los Angeles in 1972)
Chart Peak: #5
Weeks Charted: 78
Certified Gold: 12/23/72
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01. Play Me 4:45
02. Canta Libre 5:27
03. Morningside 5:36
04. Song Sung Blue 4:51
05. Cracklin' Rosie 2:51
06. Holly Holy 6:17
07. I Am…I Said 6:11
8a. Closing Theme (instrumental Bridge) 1:06
8b. Soolaimon 4:11
8c. Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show 3:01
8d. Closing Theme (instrumental) Reprise 1:16
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He sho is hip, ain't he? Neil Diamond's metamorphosis from a simple short-haired rock pop hitmaker into one of the heaviest dudes on the planet, a force of international magnitude, has been accomplished with all the grace to which true superstars are heir. Come what may, Neil did it his way. Just look at this album: A zero cool deluxe two-record set with pages inside and everything, the true document of Neil's historic concert last summer under the stars of the best city in America, Los Angeles, which is a real stronghold of Diamond fandom. They're hooked, they can't help it, and no wonder when you look at the way the man carries himself and the trappings he swaddles his soul and product in.
Attending the release of this sluice of ultimorgasmic sounds from Meister D. is some of the grooviest garnish this side of a Melanie presskit. Here on the very front cover is Neil in full flight, working it on out, and what is he doing? Pretending to jerk off, that's what. He's pantomiming whanging his clanger, and from the look on his face I'd say he's about to shoot off, and the only bogus part is that he'd like everybody to think it's 13 inches long. It's truly a pic to post in your den or rec room for years to come, no matter what some o' them psychedelic shmucks with their Hawkwind nightshade garlands might think; you don't even need a black light, and it's great to spill beer on or throw your girlfriend up against in the party's latter leagues.
The music on Hot August Night is a fine presentation of the entire spectrum of the Diamond oeuvre, from "Solitary Man" to "Song Sung Blue." It's great, pretentious, goofy pop. Neil has always had a marvelously evocative, hymn-like quality, but it's pure Hollywood reverence, and he really should get a gig writing soundtracks. Which is no putdown. There's always been a place for good corn and good pomp too. This set opens with a mighty orchestral flourish fit to put both Elvis and David Bowie to shame. And when it comes to hamming it up, Neil's one of the few who can actually outdo Elvis, as in the introduction to "Morningside": "This is a dream… a dream about an old man who dies alone… and leaves a gift behind…"
The hymn-like feeling reaches a peak on sides three and four, what with such celebrations of the common man's innate nobility as "Canta Libre" and "I Am… I Said," and by the time you reach "Brother Love"'s grand finale, you're a goner: He sounds just like Eric Burdon playing Elmer Gantry, the melodrama is irresistible, and the only thing he could do to top this would be to collaborate with James Michener and Frank Capra on a Cinerama rock opera about the second coming of Thomas Jefferson as a wandering Jesus Freak minstrel who sews this wicked land up at the seams and brings the children home and their parents into the street to dance. Starring none other.
- Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, 3/15/73.
Diamond set the concert stage afire across the country and throughout Europe this past summer and fall, and the dynamic performances and excitement he generated is captured in this exceptional two record set. Highlights are of course his now classic hits, with a few surprises thrown in. The package demonstrates why Diamond is one of the hottest sellers and draws in the business today, and it will undoubtedly prove his biggest chart album to date.
- Billboard, 1973.
This double-record set is the album that established Diamond's reputation as a live performer. Containing passionately performed versions of his biggest hits up to this time, it sold the best of any album he'd had so far, going gold the month of its release. * * * *
- William Ruhlmann, The All-Music Guide to Rock, 1995.
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Dixon Injury Firm's Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Attorneys in St. Louis, MO, help employees through difficult claims.
FMLA, or the Family and Medical Leave Act, covers employees that have to take extended leaves of absence from work. This usually includes adoption, birth, caring for a family member, or having a serious health condition that requires lengthy treatments. Dixon Injury Firm, a St. Louis, MO, workers compensation firm specializes in these sorts of cases. Our goal is to help employees navigate the dense legal field of workers comp to reclaim losses and make up for time off, medical expenses, and other costs. On this page we'll discuss how our FMLA leave lawyers can help employees and their families in these situations.
The majority of employees in St. Louis are covered (to some extent) by workers compensation. Typically this includes the time it takes to rehabilitate, expenses, and lost wages. In regards to Family and Medical leave, it's crucial for employees to seek out legal counsel to help them through the process to both protect themselves from financial harm and recover.
What is an FMLA Leave Case in St. Louis, MO?
Family and Medical Leave cases are often as complex as any other workers comp situation. A federal act, FMLA applies to just about every company in the country. Dixon Injury Firm's professional FMLA leave attorneys are here to help employees get on FMLA leave in the case of hospital care, pregnancy, and medical reasons. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you during a trying time such as fighting a disease. You can view more of the specifics on FindLaw right here.
Common FMLA Claims for St. Louis Employees
What qualifies for FMLA? This depends on a lot of factors. The law takes into consideration such things as proving serious health conditions, the size of the company, if you're on U.S. soil, etc. Common FMLA leaves situations include:
- Birthing and caring for a child
- Placement or care of an adopted child
- Active military duty
- A parent requires medical care
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The FMLA leave lawyers at Dixon Injury Firm make a difference for employees in St. Louis. The Family and Medical Leave Act is a serious matter to consider if or when you are in a medical situation and require compensation or time off work. Our lawyers will help you through the case for free and only take compensation in the case of a victory. You can contact us for more information. Below we answer a couple of questions many of our clients ask before starting one of these claims.
FMLA leave cases depend on several factors. For example, if your parents are in need of medical attention, you may be eligible for FMLA leave pay. If, however, your in-laws are in the same boat, FMLA doesn't apply.
FMLA "time off" isn't set. It's better to think of FMLA being capped, or having maximum time/compensation for missed work.
Not everyone applies. One caveat of FMLA leave lawyers often encounter is the amount of time an employee has been with a particular company. This number is twelve months with 1,250 hours of work. There's other factors too, which is why you should contact Dixon Injury Firm's FMLA lawyers for more info.
More About FMLA Leave Lawyers in St. Louis, MO
The first step you should take is to find a firm that handles workers compensation and FMLA leave in St. Louis ready and willing to help you through the claim process. It's never a good idea to procrastinate, either, since workers compensation cases usually involve a time-sensitive element.
Christopher R. Dixon and the Dixon Injury Firm specialize in St. Louis-area FMLA leave cases and other workplace injury claims. Recognized by the National Trial Lawyers Association as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer, Chris knows how difficult workers compensation cases are. Dixon Trial Lawyers offer a contingency payment system. This means our legal services are free. In exchange, the firm takes a percentage of the reimbursement only if you win a trial.
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