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Stanford's Robert Sapolsky, one of the most interesting anthropologists I've heard lecture, gives us 90 minutes on the evolutionary basis for literal religious belief, "metamagical thinking," schizotypal personality and so on, explaining how evolutionarily, the mild schizophrenic expression we called "schizotypal personality" have enjoyed increased reproductive opportunities.
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73 Responses to "Evolution, religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality"
Anonymous says:
he said penis.
arkizzle / Moderator says:
"..Sapolsky leaves out that the heart of all religions are to lead a moral life together and to do onto others how I want to be done to me and I believe to create a better future together."
All? No.
"In many cases, all the rules he is talking about come about long after that initial, moral and creative spark is lit by the founding revolutionary leader(s)."
[citation needed]
Or: doubtful.
I doubt any religion (except Scientology, which isn't) has a specific starting point, least of all with a single individual. They all grow out of the ones that come before, and they all grew out of superstition and the need to explain the world.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I highly doubt the first religions were super moral, or even contained any particular amount of compassion for fellow humans. I'd guess it was about worshipping the sun (or keeping it in the sky, at least) and food, and all the rules came as a result of pleasing, or keeping, the sun.
Either way, it's moot. We can never know the details, beyond what we have learnt from the later (classical) religions.. and lots of those just don't fit your description.
Anonymous says:
Irony: People who believe that homosexuality is a choice and not biological may themselves believe that not out of choice but out of biological disorder.
Anonymous says:
More Irony: #33 Schizophrenics rarely have children. I should know because I am the child of one.
Men with mustaches rarely have children. I should know because I am the child of one.
Daemon says:
Somebody needs to turn his lectures into audio podcasts.
Anonymous says:
sapolsky is my hero
Anonymous says:
"…schizophrenia usually sets in around 18 years old."
If genetic, then no way to select against. Our ancestors bred much earlier than that. I wonder if data would point to a decline in schizophrenia in modern late-breeding cultures…
#19: "Nor is schizophrenia completely genetic–it does not occur equally in identical twins, for example."
A ready source?— or should I begin a search? (Oh, for a touch of OCD.)
I was trained as a cultural determinist and am reflexively suspicious of psychologists poking around historical anthropology; but all of the ologies are welcome to the shindigs, especially the neurobiologist Sapolsky—he's great.
Anonymous says:
Anyone watch
Altered States (1980)
Anonymous says:
#56 LOL — I think 3rd graders may be swayed by this. BTW. I agree with most of the commentary (which is pattern fitting). I am open minded to ideas on understanding nature, and Sapolsky does an amazing job articulating his ideas.
I may not be giving these ideas as much credit as they deserve. However, given our recent enlightenment and the our still overall narrow understanding I don't see why these ideas can't be continually debated. Unlike "global warming" where it is debate over. If you consider all cause-effect coming "ex nihilo" we would really be miraculous in being. My apologies if my comments offend the Professor or Stanford (Thank you providing this lecture).
Anonymous says:
So basically hes saying that threw schizophrenia or like symptoms a few with a particular characteristic found or find it beneficial to have in human culture and their genes were passed on.
Anonymous says:
Have you read decline of the west by Oswald Spengler? In this book he speaks of three world views (welantschuuangs)the Magian the Apollonian and the Faustian. The first of these(Magian)is the most primitive,it is a kind of collective schizophrenia and this is what Judaism and Xtianity are born out of especially the "fundie" varieties. This is what the powerful and wealthy want us to become, fearful violent believing schizophrenic little children. Have any of you heard of the "Piso theory" of christianity? Have any of you ever heard of the "Schizophregenic mother" theory of schizophrenia? Mention this to anybody and you will be more despised than a holocaust denier. If youve read Fritz Springmeier's books you will notice that what he terms the "mother of darkness" dovetails quite prettily indeed with the schizophregenic mother. . .St Aries signing out.
TEKNA2007 says:
s/Joel Sap/Robert Sap/ ?
Anonymous says:
Or is it schizotpal characteristics are a common in humans and these characteristics shape culture?
Anonymous says:
the origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind?
Anonymous says:
Given that one of the hallmark features of schizotypal disorder is "lack of social contact outside of first-degree relatives" this sounds either unlikely or incestuous.
Anonymous says:
Considering that the prevailing views towards schizophrenia in the modern era are less accepting than in the past (the general public tends to shun schizophrenics and view them as mentally unbalanced, rather than believing that they have divine or magical insight), sufferers insular habits are much more likely to be a modern symptom. Therefore the current symptomology of the disorder is not really germane to the discussion.
Exploto says:
For anyone who's been diagnosed with schizophrenia (like me), or has been through the mental health system at all for that matter, http://www.mindfreedom.org – MindFreedom International: Win Mental Health Human Rights
Heteromeles says:
One thing that's apparently missing from Sapolsky's discussion is that shamans can be useful to a society. After all, the primary functions of shamans were as healers and problem solvers. This is a great role for an outsider, especially one who understands himself well enough to overcome his own shortcomings and function in society. Supposedly, in some groups, the most valued shamans were those who had overcome the greatest health problems to become high functioning members of society.
Even in our modern society, there are a lot of people in the health industry who got their start in this way.
Still I think that this only explains how such outsiders remain part of society. After all, outsiders are always a minority. How about the majority, many of whom are very religious?
As for religious behavior, that's may be a different thing. I'm not strongly religious, and I don't have kids. However, I've noticed that other people who are more strongly Christian (Catholic or not) often have large families, and I assume that's true for other large religions. Given the believers' differential reproductive success over people like me, I don't think one needs to invoke any special genetics to explain the success of religion. All that's needed is for scientists to realize that "be fruitful and multiply" is good evolutionary advice if you're willing to believe in and practice it.
Bob Rossney says:
Joel Spolsky. Robert Sapolsky. Also, he's a neurobiologist, not an anthropologist. But you've got the part about him being amazingly interesting right.
Anonymous says:
Actually, Dr. Sapolsky's BA degree is in biological anthropology (of course, his later, more advanced degrees are not in the same subject but he uses this often as a foundation for his inquiries), and he wears many hats: anthropologist, sociobiologist, neurobiologist, and lastly, primatologist. :) *Awesome lecture!*
wolfiesma says:
A very close friend in college began to hear auditory hallucinations and lose the ability to know what was real and what wasn't. Interestingly, she researched shamanism in great detail as part of her efforts to rebuild her mental health and integrate her experiences. Not an easy task.
The metaphor for shamanism that stuck with me, from my own limited perusal of the literature was that of the fisherman who could dip into the underwater (subconscious/universal mind) and come back above water. They could sort of go between two worlds.
Loved the lecture. How cool is it that we can sit here and watch a professor at Stanford give a talk from the comfort of our geographically disparate regions. Yay technology.
Takuan says:
here's a concept
Anonymous says:
Assuming that Sapolsky is on to something, the one huge question left unanswered is why Shaman's gain a position of importance in any society. Why is society organized around their activities? Why do people listen to what they have to say? Perhaps it is that the Shaman gives a fuller, more compelling and more colorful expression to an only slightly more latent tendency toward magical or meta-magical thinking that most of us share.
So yeah, we can see the Shaman's place in society, but why does magical thinking have such a purchase in human modes of thinking in the first place?
That seems to me to be the riches vein of all. Why are we not evolved to be far more rational than we are? What advantages, if any, are there in magical modes of thinking?
Anonymous says:
Thanks for the video! Enjoyed it a lot. However, Sapolsky's link from shamanism to western christianism vÃa schizotypals is a little bit far fetched … mainly because shamanism operates very differently from the organized religions of bigger sedimentary civilizations than the smaller scale human organizations where shamans have operated (typically successfully through centuries). He's missing a lot here, don't know what a Foucault would say about it.
Also, assuming that a committee better designs myths is haphazard at best…we've also had schizotypals and schizophrenics all around…think John Nash, Princeton! And pretty influential a nut he was…so it's been ok but there are some gaps on Sapolsky's narrative that unsettles me.
FoetusNail says:
Very interesting, will we hear the next lecture?
Additionally, what are the links between not just religiosity, but spirituality and mental disability or personality disorders?
I attend a UU congregation, but do not consider myself religious, though I do experience spiritual moments. How do these evolutionary traits apply to relatively spiritual people, who do not believe in the supernatural or hold common superstitious beliefs?
I tend to separate religion and, for lack of a better word, spiritual, while many are religious and/or superstitious, in my opinion, few are spiritual.
Exploto says:
I'm a junior and a genetics major at UW Madison who was diagnosed with schizophrenia several years ago. I just wanted to say that the best two things I can think of that you can do for someone diagnosed with schizophrenia is to not give up on them, and to give them power over their own lives.
Anonymous says:
The Rice Krispy Treat thing provides an explanation on why my mother used to continue to trim my bangs until they were too short and quite ridiculous looking.
Anonymous says:
What was that about a code?
Pickled Whispers says:
Thanks for posting this – I enjoyed it a great deal.
Coming from a background in paleolithic archaeology, I'm particularly suspicious of biological explanations for human behaviour; Rigidly deterministic models tend to be too simplistic and their predictions are almost impossible to test for genetically, let alone using historical or archaeological data.
It's fascinating to look at some of the issues I deal with from the perspective of a neurobiologist. Food for thought indeed.
Incidentally, I'm glad he mentioned Xenocide; It was on my mind as I was watching. That book did a pretty good job of exploring the potential relationship between OCD and ritual behaviour (religious or otherwise).
Also, I love the superstitious pigeon experiment – made me chuckle.
Anonymous says:
One irony of this lecture: He speaks about the study showing that family members of schizophrenics make "looser associations" than average people. This whole lecture is a loose association. He takes many unrelated ideas and tries to weave them together.
Ghede says:
I am absolutely speechless. This is definitely food for though. I'm going to need to re-watch this and process this for days before I get through all the implications. I wonder if it would be any easier if I were actually enrolled in the course? Would I be eased into this topic, or would the lectures pile on, one after the other, until the queue is full and I go vegetative for a few years?
arkizzle / Moderator says:
"How cool is it that we can sit here and watch a professor at Stanford give a talk from the comfort of our geographically disparate regions. Yay technology."
Exactly! I made great use of MIT's online lecture series when studying for my computer science class. Yay technology! :)
Matt says:
Good talk. You have to be very careful though when you assume that 50% belief in something like UFO's is evidence of widespread irrationality. If someone sees strange things moving in strange ways in the skies (which many have in person, and many more in video) and the official explanations, if they exist at all, are highly implausible, then the *rational* response to that is to be at least UFO agnostic, if not a believer. Taken even further, given an official governmental (especially military) explanation for some controversial event, the rational person would be highly skeptical, the irrational would trust (or have faith) that it's true.
Takuan says:
trust your instinct for kindness over your cerebral need for pattern.
Raian says:
I think one of the fallacies of this argument is that not all genetic traits have a hidden benefit, or have a purpose for being… and also the cause for schizophrenia is not fully known.
For the sake of this argument– let's say that schizophrenia is genetic… schizophrenia usually sets in around 18 years old– which leaves lots of time for the genes to be passed on to someone else. Another possibility is that schizophrenia is carried by people, but doesn't appear unless combined with another carrier's dna.
Also to say that the shamans of the past were a bunch of schizophrenics is fairly ridiculous, but totally impossible to prove or disprove.
One thing he totally misses is that schizophrenics do not follow social norms/mores– and that would push them to the periphery, especially in a traditional society. How, for example, would hunters and gatherers deal with catatonic schizophrenia… They would probably have to abandon the person in order to survive.
Most likely, schizophrenia is caused by toxoplasmosis.
He also fails to take into account that people lie sometimes… that doesn't mean they are schizotypal.
johnphantom says:
As someone who is diagnosed as bi-polar with schizo-affective disorder, Joel is absolutely correct that it is genetic.
A couple of my cousins on my mother's side (out of 26) have schizophrenia, along with at least one of my uncles. My grandfather definitely displays the mild form of schizophrenia, believing he speaks to God and displays isolationism along the lines of "movie projector operator." He taught himself engineering and ran equipment at a major power plant in MA during the night, until he retired. He is a very fervent Christian.
I do have some mild OCD tendencies – it is mostly displayed in things like programming and writing. I do see writing as similar to programming computers. I see writing as an attempt to program peoples minds.
I had my first major break in May of 2001. I had the full range of schizophrenic halucinations, but because I now religiously take my medications, I usually only suffer from auditory hallucinations. The doctors, at the county, told my mother that I was the "worst case we have ever seen" and that I would probably not make it back.
I do not believe in any religion. I do believe in God, since my first break in 2001. I was an atheist, and very unhappy with life. Now, with one medication (Zyprexa) I am at the happiest, yet most lonely, time of my life.
As far as OCD and programming, I once programmed 4200+ lines of code in C++ that was a device driver for a Truevision Targa+ 64, mainly working in binary (some hex and deci) in one twenty hour sitting, many years before I became schizo.
Anonymous says:
Some people commenting here are trying to say that there is no relationship at all between western religion and shamans because they are different religions etc.
These people are failing to realize that the relationship is the way these people THINK and ACT. Not what the subject matter is necessarily.
Simply put. If you believe in little green men, God, hear voices, believe in things that are abnormal. You are schizotypal. Harsh.. But true.
pinteresque says:
It's worth noting that Sapolsky is a frequent contributor to WNYC's RadioLab, one of the most entertaining and innovatively produced shows on the radio these days.
ICEverfrost says:
#27 makes a very good point. Why have we not evolved into more rational creatures? What advantages to we gain in being facinated by and accepting what is not rational?
Anonymous says:
RAIAN, he says Shamans were likely of the schizotipal personality (partial expression) not that they were shizophrenic (full expression)
failix says:
"I do believe in God, since my first break in 2001. I was an atheist, and very unhappy with life. Now, with one medication (Zyprexa) I am at the happiest, yet most lonely, time of my life."
Thanks for the insight. Just out of interest, do you think your belief in God is motivated by the fact that you feel happier by believing, or do you think your theism is only a side-effect of your Schizophrenia, and that your happiness is entirely due to your medication (or both)?
"One thing that's apparently missing from Sapolsky's discussion is that shamans can be useful to a society."
No, not anymore.
"How about the majority, many of whom are very religious?"
Watch the entire video, he talks about all this.
Given the believers' differential reproductive success over people like me, I don't think one needs to invoke any special genetics to explain the success of religion
He's not talking specifically about religions, but about metamagical thinking, which is a neurological pattern observed within certain individuals, regardless of traditions, beliefs or culture. What then flows out of it are religions, spirituality, which evolve differently in different cultures. It's irrelevant to the point whether believers have a higher birth rate or not since the question isn't why religions spread, but why they exist in the first place, and why some people are more likely to believe or not.
Axx says:
@ #28
um…did you watch the vid?
arkizzle / Moderator says:
"Also to say that the shamans of the past were a bunch of schizophrenics is fairly ridiculous, but totally impossible to prove or disprove."
He didn't say that, at all. He posed the similarity between the rituals and schizotypal behaviour, and wondered if the rituals themselves were based on, or influenced by, orginal schizotypal behaviours.
"One thing he totally misses is that schizophrenics do not follow social norms/mores– and that would push them to the periphery, especially in a traditional society."
That was central to his description of both schizotypal and people with ocd. He discussed people becoming reclusive and people forced, by their condition, to miss important events. Seems to be exactly what you are now saying.
Did we watch the same lecture?
thegiantsnail says:
Not an argument against, but perhaps there could certainly be a bad gene without bad gene environments.
Anonymous says:
Sapolsky is most intelligent person alive, he is just amazing, I could listen to him for 12 hours straight no breaks :) is the creepy? Where can i find more lectures/dvds with him?
Anonymous says:
An Evolutionary Biologist speaking of God as rooted in the anthropomorphic evolutionary process? From Stanford?? WOW!
Anonymous says:
I think people with temporal lobe epilepsy have played bigger role in the history of religion than Schizotypal people. A lot of prophets in bible and Koran had symptoms of epilepsy.
People suffering from temporal lope epilepsy often suffer from hyperkinesia (they write a lot), hallucinations (burning bush) and sometimes feel the presence of God during a seizure (seizures can affect the god part of brain).
bazzargh says:
Um, wasn't the connection between Tay-Sachs and tuberculosis rejected as a hypothesis, 25 years ago?
(I know, this is incidental to the main thrust of his argument)
It was an interesting talk, but I went in expecting evidence to be presented rather than anecdote. Not a criticism – it seems that the intent of this course is to introduce students to the idea that there may biological explanations for social issues, so he emphasised drawing connections rather than testing these theories.
Anonymous says:
@ 27
For the same reason scientists are given a position of importance in our current society.
@ 23
It's great that you're thinking about this and sharing your opinion. However, if you watched the full lecture, or have done any reading about Shamans, then you know that anthropologists first noted that Shamas were healed healers. In other words, it's well documented that Shamans were traditionally individuals with mental health issues that they have been able to "conquer."
So, despite the fact that you "disagree" that people with mental health issues could become revered Shamans, history tells us otherwise.
Anonymous says:
He is an anthropologist who never heard of the Winnebago Indians?
He has some interesting, though not original, points. But you can't broad brush whole groups–even "religious" or "schizophrenic." Or even people who see UFOs–trained airline pilots, jet fighter pilots, astronauts? Please.
Also, genes don't just turn off and on. Nor is schizophrenia completely genetic–it does not occur equally in identical twins, for example.
So the environment plays an enormous role–therefore, it's no wonder that there may be a genuine schizophrenic in a family plus "milder" versions, depending on the personality and how each reacted to the environment.
I know it's a college lecture, but it seems rather simplistic and uncritical.
Anonymous says:
#33, Your thought re: the rarity of schizophrenics having children makes zero sense.
I am the second child of a schizophrenic. I personally know 5 people who are the children of schizophrenics. I am sure I know more who have just not disclosed this information. I'm thinking it's not so rare for schizophrenics to have children?
Anonymous says:
thank you for posting this. this talk was powerful and meaningful to me. Thanks!
FoetusNail says:
Ark, "Did we watch the same lecture?"
Yes, but did everyone hear the same thing?
This is where the "half-crazy" thing comes into the picture.
Sister Chromatid says:
Religions seem to be quite good at encouraging it's members to "go forth and multiply"– making new vectors to indoctrinate with religious memes from birth. I think one only need to look at harem societies and polygamous clans to see how this type of mental "aberration" enhances the "reproductive fitness" of those carrying the genes coding for it.
Some genes survive because they are good at creating organisms that care for others that contain said genes, reproduce those genes, and kill off competitors who lack such genes. The same goes for memes.
I think Sapolsky covered this pretty well. Something that's maladaptive in large concentration can be just what a population needs to thrive in smaller concentrations and/or specific environments.
I understand why religions, myths, legends, and other superstitious thinking evolves. I also understand why there is unlikely to be any real truths there.
Anonymous says:
Thanks for posting! What thought-provoking fun on a lazy Saturday morning. I'll spend the rest of the weekend ruminating over this.
Anonymous says:
I do enjoy Sapolsky's writings and ideas. But it should be noted that he is a neurobiologist, not an anthropologist. (Cory could you please correct?) Also, psychology and schizophrenia are outside his area of expertise. I do not have time to watch the lecture at the moment, but based on the comments here, he seems to be falling into many of the mistaken ideas about schizophrenia that many people do. Our society has a tendency to romanticize this illness, because we understand it so little. Because schizophrenic delusions are often supernatural or religion-based, we assume that they have something to d with supernatural or religious ideation in general. Because the illness is so common and so baffling, we assume there must be a reason it is here. And because the psychosis symptoms are so dramatic, we assume that hallucinations and psychosis are the only symptoms of the disorder. Schizotypal personality disorder is not really like a "mild" case of schizophrenia. STPD is schizophrenia that is complicated by mood symptoms. It is no less disabling than schizophrenia.
The truth is that the delusions of a schizophrenic bear almost no resemblance to religious beliefs of a normal person. If you talk to someone with these delusions, you will find that they are extremely arbitrary and illogical. Sapolsky is an atheist, and many atheists assume that all religious beliefs are illogical. It's too bad that this prejudice has not permitted him to look closer. Second, the most disabling symptoms of schizophrenia are not the psychosis, but the negative symptoms–the lethargy, apathy, antisocial behavior, lack of affect, lack of empathy, inability to have real relationships. Even the mildest case of schizophrenia is going to absolutely destroy this individual's opportunity for mating, never, ever enhance it. Schizophrenics rarely have children. I should know because I am the child of one.
Lastly, a negative trait needs no evolutionary benefit to justify its existence. Population genetics predicts the persistence of many traits that are unamibiguously disadvantageous.
It would be very surprising if even 1/1000 individuals with schizophrenia were able to survive and function unmedicated in a premodern society. It's possible that some of them fulfilled a role of shaman. Much more likely most of them were killed or died alone because of their fear of being around other humans.
FoetusNail says:
Belief has been bred into our genes. Many societies/religions have expelled or killed non-believers, heretics, and apostates. At the very least the non-believers have been careful to keep their lack of belief to themselves. For members of the three Semitic religions, freedom of religion ends at the front door.
johnphantom says:
johnphantom: "I do believe in God, since my first break in 2001. I was an atheist, and very unhappy with life. Now, with one medication (Zyprexa) I am at the happiest, yet most lonely, time of my life."
failix: "Thanks for the insight. Just out of interest, do you think your belief in God is motivated by the fact that you feel happier by believing, or do you think your theism is only a side-effect of your Schizophrenia, and that your happiness is entirely due to your medication (or both)?"
It is complicated to explain. I had very severe hallucinations that directed me to believe in a higher power and a higher destiny. I read the Bible for the first time. It changed me. Do not get me wrong, I now do not believe the Bible is God's word. It was just a very bizarre experience.
I now want to be honest and make a difference for humanity. My medication helps greatly as it keeps me from becoming depressed or manic, and suppresses hallucinations.
I will say that my greatest work was at the height of my severe break. The episode did open my mind and allow me to concentrate in a way I have never been able to do before, or since. This experience did break my mind – it took years for me to recover, and I still am not capable of what I was.
arkizzle / Moderator says:
I wonder how many watched until the very end, where he make clear his intent.
Anonymous says:
What about reality, who says that schizotypals aren't right?! Maybe not everything is explainable.
Deal with it. Things are sometimes just not logically explainable thatdoesnt mean it's non logical or irrational. It is just not yet discovered.
Take the áura' phenomenon.. maybe there is a smaller electricity and people who are sensitive snense that it makes them wanna wash their hand to get rid of the (dirt) electricity/aura/
KimmyBZ says:
Fascinating lecture, but Sapolsky leaves out that the heart of all religions are to lead a moral life together and to do onto others how I want to be done to me and I believe to create a better future together. In many cases, all the rules he is talking about come about long after that initial, moral and creative spark is lit by the founding revolutionary leader(s).
Rules are actually the easy way out and has nothing to do with living an extraordinary and revolutionary life here and now.
Takuan says:
"the heart of all religions are to lead a moral life together and to do onto others how I want to be done to me "
Really? How about some Meso-American human sacrifice then?
Raian says:
"Also to say that the shamans of the past were a bunch of schizophrenics is fairly ridiculous, but totally impossible to prove or disprove."
He didn't say that, at all. He posed the similarity between the rituals and schizotypal behaviour, and wondered if the rituals themselves were based on, or influenced by, orginal schizotypal behaviours.
I understand his point, and he may very well be right. But you have to make a lot of assumptions… there are examples of shamans in many societies across the world, many of these societies did not have contact with the outside world or each other– so you'd have to assume there were many people with schizoid personalities that gravitated towards the profession of shamanism and set the standard for their specific tribe or community, and that they were accepted in that profession…
"One thing he totally misses is that schizophrenics do not follow social norms/mores– and that would push them to the periphery, especially in a traditional society."
That was central to his description of both schizotypal and people with ocd. He discussed people becoming reclusive and people forced, by their condition, to miss important events. Seems to be exactly what you are now saying.
If I have it correctly, the lecturer makes a point that a schizotypal person would be exalted, as having some connection to deeper knowledge… and perhaps that is true… but I believe it would be more likely the schizotypal person would be ostracized, or left for dead.
I flat out think that the correlation he is trying to make is invalid– and what he is witnessing instead are "themes" or undercurrents present in the human psyche– which is amplified, or brought to the surface in a schizophrenia/schizotypal person.
Anonymous says:
Oh come on people! Watch the whole lecture before commenting. All the people only partially watching or not watching the lecture are doing everyone a disservice when they provide opinions and "insights." Most of the comments posted critiquing his ideas can be explained by watching the lecture.
Anonymous says:
Awesome lecture by Dr. Sapolsky, thank you!
I've known people in the situations he describes and it really rings true. I learned a lot.
evilgalblues says:
count me as a child of a schizo! Actually quite a line of them. My mom, both her mom and dad(according to the loony bin records "of psychotic proportions"), my mom's grandmother, my mom's father's mother…
I guess I should thank my lucky stars my mom married a "normal" so I don't have it full blown.
bshock says:
Dammit, as a mild obsessive-compulsive, now I want to hear "next Wednesday's" lecture also.
FoetusNail says:
Spirituality and religion in epilepsy.
Devinsky O, Lai G.
Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, New York University, NYU Epilepsy Center, 403 E 34 St., New York, NY 10016 USA. firstname.lastname@example.com
Revered in some cultures but persecuted by most others, epilepsy patients have, throughout history, been linked with the divine, demonic, and supernatural. Clinical observations during the past 150 years support an association between religious experiences during (ictal), after (postictal), and in between (interictal) seizures. In addition, epileptic seizures may increase, alter, or decrease religious experience especially in a small group of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Literature surveys have revealed that between .4% and 3.1% of partial epilepsy patients had ictal religious experiences; higher frequencies are found in systematic questionnaires versus spontaneous patient reports. Religious premonitory symptoms or auras were reported by 3.9% of epilepsy patients. Among patients with ictal religious experiences, there is a predominance of patients with right TLE. Postictal and interictal religious experiences occur most often in TLE patients with bilateral seizure foci. Postictal religious experiences occurred in 1.3% of all epilepsy patients and 2.2% of TLE patients. Many of the epilepsy-related religious conversion experiences occurred postictally. Interictal religiosity is more controversial with less consensus among studies. Patients with postictal psychosis may also experience interictal hyper-religiosity, supporting a "pathological" increase in interictal religiosity in some patients. Although psychologic and social factors such as stigma may contribute to religious experiences with epilepsy, a neurologic mechanism most likely plays a large role. The limbic system is also often suggested as the critical site of religious experience due to the association with temporal lobe epilepsy and the emotional nature of the experiences. Neocortical areas also may be involved, suggested by the presence of visual and auditory hallucinations, complex ideation during many religious experiences, and the large expanse of temporal neocortex. In contrast to the role of the temporal lobe in evoking religious experiences, alterations in frontal functions may contribute to increased religious interests as a personality trait. The two main forms of religious experience, the ongoing belief pattern and set of convictions (the religion of the everyday man) versus the ecstatic religious experience, may be predominantly localized to the frontal and temporal regions, respectively, of the right hemisphere.
Anonymous says:
It's so easy a caveman can do it.
millions says:
If this video is half as interesting as his lectures on human and primate sexuality, I'm sure to be thinking about it for months.
FoetusNail says:
Which came first, panic or religion?
Anonymous says:
By Ken Bonnell: I had a "stepson" whose dignosis was "schizophrenic sffective disorder." He was subject to delusions and mild hallucinations, and was under medications. To cope with him his mother and I found help with a mental health group, the name of which I cannot remember right now. Right now he is living with an aunt in Oregon. I have no information about his present condition.
Anonymous says:
I do think schizophrenia an other severe personality disorders have just to do with evolution of speech.You'll ask why,then lemme tell the reason of it.Thanks to language(speech),there exist words.Thanks to words,there exist thoughts.Since thought disorder could exist only thanks to the existence of thought self,and madness is the thought disorder,we should blame evolution of speech(words==thoughts==language ..).For my part, madness is just a devolution of this evolution.If you agree or do not agree with me,plz write it.


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Valerie A. Pastore (nee White), 52, of Riverview, FL, passed away on February 15, 2013.
Valerie was the beloved daughter of Mary Jane (nee Schiavitti) and the late John F. (Jack) White; she was the beloved wife of Joseph (J.P.); the devoted mother of Jessie Jane and Mary Elizabeth Bergman; the beloved grandmother of Aliyah Randall; and the cherished sister of Jacqueline A. (nee White) O'Neil (Mark). Valerie was a loving niece to Patricia A. Schiavitti (nee Mesler) and the late Vincent F. Schiavitti. She was the cousin of Anthony J. Schiavitti (Trina), Vincent W. Schiavitti (Heidi), William R. Schiavitti (Tina), Lynne Anne Schiavitti, Stacy A. (nee Schiavitti) Gardner (David).
Private services for the family will be held near their home in Florida.
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Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook, published by Packt this month, is the first book available on Drupal Webforms. The book is designed in cookbook style and contains over 70 recipes to help readers get an in-depth understanding of webforms. Readers can learn how to install, use, customize and extend webforms in easy ways.
Webform is a module for making surveys in Drupal. After a submission, users maybe sent a receipt as well as sending a notificiation to administrators. Examples include contests, personalized contact forms, or petitions. Each of these could have a customized form for end-users to fill out. Source: http://drupal.org/project/webform
Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook provides comprehensive coverage on topics such as setting up webform, building and testing webform components, working with submissions, form customization, theming webform and creating custom modules among other things. For chapter by chapter coverage, visit the book page: http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-7-webform-popular-contributed-modules-cookbook/book
With this book a user can quickly create robust, professional forms, make personalized re-usable select options list and tweak webform behaviour to suit almost any context. It is easy constructing forms with dynamic content as per user input.
Practical demonstrations facilitate readers to get clear understanding of how things work with Webforms, right from designing coherent forms to sending effective HTML emails and managing data. The book also explains how to extend and tune Webform with custom components and functionality.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- President Barack Obama will make a statement on the situation in Egypt at 10:15 a.m. Eastern, the White House announced Thursday. The death toll in that country climbed above 500 after Wednesday's clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. On Wednesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest criticized the violence and called for the interim Egyptian government to respect the rights of demonstrators. The U.S. is reviewing the $1.5 billion in aid it gives Egypt, he said.
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Seat of the government of The Netherlands, located in the western Netherlands, near the North Sea.
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Science at FMNH : Ep. 27 - Museum Collections and the Mammals of Tanzania
For the past two decades, Bill has been studying the natural history, biogeography, taxonomy and evolution of mammals of eastern Africa. He has focused on the rodent and shrew populations in the mountainous regions within Tanzania and has discovered several new species. This work is vital to understand how mammal populations in Tanzania change over time.
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Kazim here. I know I've mentioned before that I sing in the Austin Community Chorus, and that we do a lot of religious music. I did a whole show about justified acknowledgment of religion in art and education a while back. The fact is that historically, MOST classical music (along with other forms of art) …
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Jan 31 2008
Religious choral music
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Mid-week schadenfreude
And another lying fundagelical scumbag goes down! Daniel Thompson ran a video store and online video club called Clean Flix, where people could rent "family friendly" versions of R-rated movies that Thompson had personally edited the sex and profanity out of. Thompson had already raised the ire of Hollywood for possible copyright violations in doing …
Jan 24 2008
Nothing but liars
Those of you who were, like me, children of the 80′s might remember that song by Thompson Twins: "Lies lies lies yeah…" Here it is in all its 80′s cheesy retro glory. With a chorus like that, they might as well have been writing about creationists. There are three certainties in this life: death, taxes, …
Jan 24 2008
Shalini just e-mailed
It's bad like a very bad thing. No details are allowable right now, other than I can assure anyone worried she may have come to physical harm that this is not so. Until such time as she is ready to make her own announcement, we'll let it lie.
Jan 24 2008
What a Nuckolhead!
There's this homeschooled scientific illiterate named Dan Nuckols who's got a blog where he offers dippy anti-science cartoons like this one, amongst other twaddle. Pharyngula readers have been having good fun today knocking the poor dope around, and I, being the mischievous little scamp I am, decided to fuck with him via email. Here's the …
Jan 24 2008
Johnny B. Goode Stoopid: the Discovery Institute keeps the laffs coming!
They can't offer any peer-reviewed research, but they can publish indignant tirades against "Darwinism" in various forms, the latest of which is a sure-to-be-laff-a-minute diatribe entitled Darwin Day in America, written by John G. West. West's main schtick is to attack evolution by Godwinizing it; i.e., blaming it for eugenics and, in turn, the Nazis. …
Jan 23 2008
American Idol beats up defenseless Christian virgin!
Over at Christian website CNSNews.com, they're all in a kerfuffle over how mean the judges and host of American Idol were to poor Bruce Dickson, a 19-year-old from Bastrop (about half an hour from here) who, when asked to tell something about himself, admitted that he had never even kissed a girl. "What?" Randy Jackson …
Jan 23 2008
Shalini in some kind of trouble?
Shalini Sehkar, whose blog Scientia Natura is full of hilariously foul-mouthed rants against "theistards" (she certainly embraces the "bad cop" role in atheist blogging with gusto), has been locked out — see for yourself — and some commenters over at Larry Moran's Sandwalk are indicating that some theists have allegedly gone off the deep end …
Jan 22 2008
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Toddling along on the intarweebs tonight, trying to find some equilibrium between this week's dose of sad (poor old Heath) and glad (looks like the HD format war is over!), I came upon this enlightening press release about a new website at Nicthus.com, which offers apparel for young Christians "with a message that it is …
Jan 22 2008
Irrefutable proof there is no God
The immensely talented actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment today of what appears to be a drug overdose. In related news, Britney Spears is reportedly still alive.


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The Oneonta Tennis Club will begin its winter junior clinics Sunday.
Group A will be for beginners to intermediates and starts at 1 p.m.
Group B will be for advanced players who are good enough to play high school tennis and starts at 2:30 p.m.
The clinics will run for 12 weeks and end March 24.
For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Archery league begins Monday
The West End Archery is accepting sign-ups for its 13-week Winter Techno Hunt League, which starts Monday.
To sign up, visit West End Archery at 435 Chestnut Street in Oneonta or call 607-432-4947.
Basketball leagues start soon
The Oneonta Family YMCA is accepting sign-ups for its 30-and-over and 50-and-over basketball leagues.
Instructional meetings will run Wednesday at 6 p.m. (50-and-over) and 7 p.m. (30-and-over).
Sign-up sheets are available at the YMCA. For more information, call 607-432-0010.
O-State Kids Day is Jan. 19
Oneonta State will host its third annual Kids in Sports Day at 10 a.m. Jan. 19 at Alumni Field House.
The day will be split into two sessions with a break for lunch and conclude at 1:45 p.m. with a question-and-answer featuring Red Dragons student-athletes. Soccer, tennis, volleyball, lacrosse and field hockey are the featured sports this year.
The event is free for children ages 4-13. Pre-registration is strongly recommended. Children should wear appropriate athletic clothing, including sneakers, and bring a lunch and a drink.
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Youth soccer forms due March 1
Registration forms for the Oneonta Youth Soccer Association's spring recreational program will be distributed through Oneonta elementary schools and are due March 1. Forms also are available at Latte Lounge on Main Street in Oneonta.
The program is open to youths in grades K-3 who attend school or live in the Oneonta City School District. For more information, email Geoff Davis at email@example.com.
Rat Snake registration open
Registration is open for the 2013 Rat Snake, a triathlon held in honor of the late Dr. Ken Stalter.
The event, which is scheduled for May 18, will feature professional timing. The triathlon/team triathlon will begin at 7 a.m., followed by the trail run at 10 a.m. and the 3-kilometer jog/stroll at noon.
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By Steven Fletcher
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The U.S. Senator who's filed legislation to reform federal fishing policy and hold federal regulators accountable got a firsthand look Saturday at the impact those regulations are having on Gloucester and other communities.
Sen. Scott Brown spoke to some 30 Gloucester-based fishermen and waterfront business operators about his proposed Fishery Impact Statement Honesty (FISH) Act during a Saturday visit to the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction.
The legislation aims to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Act and places federal fishing policy under independent annual analysis from the Government Accountability Office.
Brown said he wants someone independent of federal fishing regulators serving as a watchdog over policy-making organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Marine Fisheries Service.
"They (fisheries policy groups) have to justify it (their actions)," said Brown.
Brown's visit to the auction — a flashpoint in an Inspector General's report that has outlined widespread excessive policing tactics the part of NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement — came as part of a day-long tour of Massachusetts' primary fishing ports, which began at 8 a.m. in New Bedford.
In Gloucester, he visited Cape Pond Ice before boarding the fishing vessel Padre Pio, captained by Joe Orlando, and crossing the Inner Harbor to the auction on Harbor Loop.
Brown, joined by state Sen. Bruce Tarr, state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante and Mayor Carolyn Kirk, talked of the struggles facing the fishing industry and fielded questions from the audience of boat captains and fishing advocates.
"You don't need to be preyed upon by the federal government," Tarr also told the fishing business operators.
Brown noted that there is now a bicameral, bipartisan group of government officials that are fighting the government on behalf of the fishing industry.
"It's not just fishing jobs, it's ice, it's people — the auction, welders, they're all related," he said.
Brown's federal FISH bill aims to creating jobs in an area where many feel that the government is trying to eliminate them. And without fixing fishing, he noted, officials don't fix the other waterfront industries that form a big part of the economies in cities like Gloucester and New Bedford.
He described his FISH act as a job-building bill, and said that he came by the auction to remind the Gloucester fishing community that continues to work for them.
His audience asked questions about the congressional oversight of the fishery, and one resident asked if fishing could move back into the Department of Agriculture.
Others, like Angela Sanfilippo, president of the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association, asked the senator to consider what she described as the threat of off-shore development to the fishing industry as well, through ocean zoning and other proposals that aim to set aside wide swaths of fertile fishing grounds for the advancement of wind farms and other projects.
"Regulations are good," said Larry Ciulla, owner of the Seafood Auction, "but they need to be fair regulations.
"We are the environmentalists in the ocean," he added. "We don't want to see overfishing, and we don't overfish."
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Welcome Transfer Students!
Are you looking for something new? Each year, approximately 15-20 percent of New College's enrollment is comprised of students who transferred here from other colleges and universities around the country.
Some come to New College because they are seeking a more challenging academic program than was offered at their old school. Others appreciate the fact that New College's 10:1 student-to-faculty allows for a more intimate academic environment and a chance to interact closely with our expert faculty.
But the one thing that binds all transfer students to New College together is the fact that they want more intellectual freedom and a greater opportunity to be personally involved in designing their own education. Of course, our waterfront location and year-round warm temperatures are not bad enticements either!
Transfer Student FAQs
If you are currently a dual enrollment student, please apply as a freshman candidate (unless you plan to take college courses in the period between high school graduation and the semester you're applying to enroll at New College - if so, please call us to discuss your options). We will still consider your college course work for transfer credit, so please have your college transcript sent and request a transfer credit evaluation.
Does New College offer transfer scholarships?
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The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid can arrange an unofficial projection of transfer credit. For official award of transfer credit to an enrolling student, New College of Florida needs a final official transcript from each previous institution. (Grade reports and unofficial transcripts are not acceptable for this purpose.) All previous institutions should send final official transcripts directly to the New College of Florida Office of Admissions and Financial Aid.
Transfer credit for an enrolling student will be awarded in time toward the New College degree. The maximum credit possible for a student who enters New College of Florida with a Florida College System Associate in Arts (AA) degree is 3 semester contracts, 1 Independent Study Project, and 15 units (60 semester credit hour equivalents). The maximum credit possible for other transfer students is 3 semester contracts, 1 Independent Study Project, and 13 units (52 semester credit hour equivalents).
Transfer credit is not assigned for exam results, except when the exam credit has been applied toward an earned Florida College System AA. However, exam results (e.g., AP, IB, AICE, and CLEP) may sometimes be used toward fulfillment of the Liberal Arts Curriculum general education requirements.
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Transfer students who have been awarded maximum transfer credit may need to be enrolled longer than the minimum remaining four semesters to complete requirements for a major and a senior thesis, and may not be eligible to do study abroad except with special permission from the Student Academic Status Committee.
Generally, 16 credits correspond to one New College academic contract; 4 credits correspond to one Independent Study Project (ISP).
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"We went from zero to 100 (miles per hour) in seconds," Johnson says. His group contributed about $200,000 to the campaign against Proposition 2 — called Neighbors Protecting Idaho — and devoted four staffers to it. The Nature Conservancy — concerned about the proposition's impacts on its many Idaho properties and the rural communities it seeks to protect — kicked in $300,000, with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition adding $150,000 and other donors eventually bringing the anti-Proposition 2 war chest up to about $800,000.
Although environmentalists largely funded it, others presented the message to voters. The ad campaign featured a dairy farmer from Melba, a rancher from Sandpoint, a Boise Chamber of Commerce representative, outgoing Republican Gov. Jim Risch and highly respected Democratic ex-Gov. Cecil Andrus. Newspaper op-eds came from a Mormon state senator and others, across the political spectrum.
Out-of-state libertarian groups pumped significant money into their campaign for Proposition 2, but they lost in a landslide, getting just 24 percent of the Idaho vote. The margin against Proposition 2 held in metro Boise and in thoroughly rural counties.
"It completely transcended the partisan goofiness," Johnson says. "And everybody (involved) liked it."
The conservation league earned respect, Johnson says, by demonstrating that it represents mainstream values and knows how to win. And the victory may encourage other broad coalitions of "enemies" to tackle issues with voter appeal, including, perhaps, state tax incentives for conservation easements and sales taxes to fund mass transit, Johnson says.
Thanks to similar coalitions that set aside disagreements among interest groups, nine of the 12 libertarian ballot measures in the West failed.
6) Sometimes you need to lose before you can win.
The moderate Democrat in Wyoming's House race, Gary Trauner, came within 1,012 votes of unseating Barbara Cubin, out of 193,000 total votes cast. Cubin stands squarely in the Republican right wing: She has suggested selling off public lands; she wants to fence the Mexican border; she's pushed bills against late-term abortion; and she favors "crack(ing) down on media behemoths who peddle smut on America's airwaves."
Previously a political unknown, Trauner far outperformed initial expectations, and the voting pattern indicates that a moderate Democrat with more experience could take the seat in 2008, should Trauner decide not to run again. Trauner drew 25 percent of the votes cast by registered Republicans, according to CNN exit polls, and 71 percent of the independents.
"I think Cubin is finished," says one Wyoming lobbyist, a Democrat who asked not to be named, to avoid ruffling his targets in the Wyoming Legislature. Regardless of what the Democrats do, the lobbyist says, moderates in Cubin's own party will bump her off in the next primary. "Her negatives are huge. She's rude, nasty, she's alienated a lot of Republicans, she's even out of step with the Republican leadership in the Legislature. We actually have a moderate Legislature; the Republicans have a veto-proof majority, and every year a few in the fringe bring up abortion and gay marriage. But the leadership won't pass any of that crap."
The "50-state strategy" of Howard Dean, head of the Democratic National Committee, beefed up campaign funding in Wyoming and other states where the party's candidates looked like long shots. The Wyoming Democratic Party had one full-time staffer until, 13 months before the election, Dean's group sent money to hire two more. The new staffers organized far more volunteers than had been available in recent campaigns and "really built up our ground game, the infrastructure," says Mike Gierau, state party chairman. The close results in Trauner's race and the party's net gain of three seats in the Legislature will encourage more viable Democratic candidates to run in 2008. Dean's strategy "was an immense help in Wyoming," Gierau says.
7) Utah remains Utah.
Even in a November of dramatic shifts in favor of Western Democrats and moderates, Utah re-elected its two conservative Republican representatives and 30-year Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch (along with Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson, who represents the pocket of liberals holed up in Salt Lake City). The partisan balance in Utah's Legislature, which Republicans have controlled for 30 years, also stayed the same (75 percent Republican). Utah's governor and other U.S. senator, who were not up for re-election, are also Republicans.
Utah wasn't always locked down by Republicans. In the early 1970s, it had a Democratic governor, a Democratic senator, and two Democratic representatives who held the two House seats allotted to the state back then.
What happened?
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, the Mormon Church has long dominated Utah politics, both through sheer numbers (67 percent of the state's population in the 2000 census) and by the relationships its leaders have had to major figures in business and government circles. And when church president Spencer W. Kimball, a moderate who issued the revelation allowing black men to be Mormons, fell ill and died in 1985, the church shifted hard to the right. The church avoids overt endorsement of political candidates, and a handful of today's Democratic leaders are Mormon, including Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, New Mexico Rep. Tom Udall and Matheson. But the church's conservative Republican tie is clear to members. "There was a point in the 1980s when the church hierarchy said, 'Enough is enough; we need to go back to our religious values and bring our politics into alignment,' " says Jeffery Sells, an associate priest at the Episcopal cathedral in Salt Lake City for 15 years, who pulled together writings from experts on the Mormon factor in the 2005 anthology God and Country: Politics in Utah.
According to Sells and other experts, the church began shunning Democratic candidates because the Democratic Party conflicted with Mormon doctrine on social issues — abortion and gay and women's rights, among other things. "The Mormon hierarchy makes social policy via theological perspectives. And there's much more allegiance to the chain of authority than with the pope and Catholics," says Sells, now rector of an Episcopal church in Shelton, Wash. Political leanings spread from the Mormons' First Presidency (the church's three top leaders, including the president) down to the next tiers (the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the Quorums of the Seventy) and then to ward bishops everywhere in Mormon country who are, Sells says, "linked by satellite TVs in virtually every ward house. They're tightly organized, and there's a tremendous communication link from top to bottom."
While agreeing with Sells, John C. Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, D.C., adds, "Some of (the Mormon shift to the right) had to do with things that happened in Utah. Salt Lake City began to be a metropolitan place in the 1980s; a certain amount of cultural diversity began to appear."
Mormons closed ranks against the diversity — and the Democratic Party that supports it on a national basis. "That isn't to say, every election in Utah is about moral issues," Green notes. "But it does give Utah that kind of stability you're talking about."
It's a stability that translates into this reality: Utah's governor, both senators and all three congressmen are Mormon. Green's surveys of voting patterns nationwide show that "in most recent elections, Mormons have been the most strongly Republican of all the religious communities in the United States." Mormons now out-Republican even white fundamentalist Protestants. In 2004, for example, various polls show they gave Bush as much as 89 percent of their vote.


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McALESTER —
Early in-person absentee ballot voting is set to continue Monday in advance of Tuesday municipal elections in Krebs, Harthsorne, Haileyville and Kiowa, along with a special school runoff in the Clayton school district.
Prior to the polls opening, early in-person absentee ballots can be cast by qualified voters from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Monday at the Pittsburg County Election Board Office, 109 E. Carl Albert Parkway, Room 101.
Following the early voting, polls are set to be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Tuesday in precincts where the elections are being held.
Candidates or propositions on the ballot are:
• Haileyville — Lynette Boren-Price and Regina Peoples are in a race for seat No. 4A on the Haileyville City Council.
• Hartshorne — William RogerBill Windham and Nathan Sparks are facing each other for an unexpired term for the Ward 3 city council seat.
• Kiowa — Floyd Ray Goss and Ned. E. Naugle are vying for an unexpired term for office No. 4. on the Kiowa Board of Trustees.
• Krebs — Voters will decided whether to pay a 1 percent sales tax "to replace and supersede the one percent excise tax currently being levied pursuant to Ordinance No. 1.
Calling the tax a "replacement tax," the ballot states proceeds "shall be used for completing and maintaining streets, drainage and other capital improvements on behalf of the city heretofore or hereafter approved by the voters of the city..."
The proposition states the termination date for the collection of the sales tax is April 1, 2023.
In the Clayton School Board race, Brian Schumann and Crystal Fuller Bray are in run-off election for the seat in Office No. 3.
Regarding the early in-person absentee ballot voting running through Monday, Pittsburg County Election Board Secretary Cathy Thornton said voters are not required to give a reason for voting absentee.
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Commonwealth Journal
February 12, 2013
Bill on taxing districts hits home
By CHRIS HARRIS, CJ Staff Writer
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Library boards have been a hot topic in Pulaski County in recent months. Now they're becoming a talking point for Frankfort too.
Senate Bill 20, which was introduced to the Kentucky State Senate by Sen. John Shickel of Boone County last month, stands to have a significant effect on the way library boards are built if it's passed.
This bill would allow a county judge-executive — with the approval of a fiscal court — to appoint members to such a board when any prospective appointees presented to the judge, "in the judge's opinion, are not suitable," as the bill reads.
Previously, the judge-executive had been given the opportunity to approve the names brought to him, such as Pulaski County Public Library Director has done with Pulaski Judge-Executive Barty Bullock here locally. If Bullock wouldn't approve them, the director would then go back and bring him new names. The county government itself, however, did not select people to hold seats on the board.
How much influence the county government should have over the library board became an issue locally last fall, when a petition drive began to dissolve the Pulaski county Public Library taxing district. Barbara Sanders, who spearheaded the petition, sought to give the fiscal court more oversight of the library board, which she felt was increasing taxes without proper accountability. Sanders eventually said she would stop accumulating signatures if the current board members would step aside and allow new ones to be appointed.
"The library supporters think the library board is selected by elected county officials. It is not," Sanders said at the time. "(Bullock) has no input. They bring him two names that they have selected themselves and say 'here, you must appoint them.' As a formality, they run it by the state librarian first. ... This is not participation; it is autocratic."
Sanders eventually withdrew the petition, noting that the Kentucky General Assembly was set to address special taxing districts like this one this year, which she felt would likely address the problem as she saw it.
When asked for comment about Senate Bill (SB) 20 on Tuesday, Sanders noted that she wasn't familiar with the legislation itself yet.
However, "I'd be for that," she said when given a summary of the bill. "I think (the board members) need more oversight. As it is, they select whomever they want and nobody has to approve it. The judge-executive signs off on it, but that's just a formality.
"That (bill) sounds like what I'd be in favor of," she added. "They'd still select two names (for appointees), but the court and judge would have to approve. As it stands now, the court doesn't have any say."
Those who opposed Sanders' petition drive — which threatened to inadvertently shutter the library's doors because of the library being in debt — again see things differently.
The blog site for the group Friends of the Pulaski County Library (friendsofthepcl.wordpress.com) features a post urging individuals to contact their legislators and tell them to say no to SB 20. The legislation "will allow local political influence to change how library board members are appointed," reads the blog. "This bill will only harm our library system."
The blog also mentions that February 20 is "Library Legislative Day" in which library supporters and personnel are encouraged to go to Frankfort and let their "voice be heard" by legislators about these issues.
Keeney herself said that should the bill pass, she doesn't think there would be any problems working with Bullock and the court.
"He stated to me that he's a huge library supporter," she said of Bullock. "I think we could work together."
However, Keeney is not so keen on the bill itself and what it represents — as she sees it, the proverbial "if it's not broke, don't fix it" scenario.
"The way they are currently appointed, board appointments allow non-partisan political influence on library boards. The system we currently have in place has worked for over 60 years," said Keeney. "To my knowledge, there have been very little issues as far as board members being removed."
Keeney said that the process for appointing board members looks for "local citizens who will provide oversight for the library," which are limited to two four-year terms, for uncompensated positions. She also said that she looks for "friends that are library supporters and library users" to be potential board members.
"I don't know why there would be a problem," said Keeney. "It just works the way it is."
Keeney also said that she would support House Bill 1 (as did the blog, which urged library supporters to show their approval to legislators) which was passed by the House last week before moving on to the Senate. This bill would set up a system for auditing the entities and would create an online database where taxpayers could review financial reports for each taxing district.
This "would be wonderful, as far as I'm concerned," said Keeney, who said she felt support by State Auditor Adam Edelen's statements that library boards had shown some of the greatest compliance with the rules and accountability among all the special taxing district in the state. A survey on these districts by Edelen ultimately prompted the state legislature to consider what ultimately became HB 1.
"When (Edelen) makes statements like that, it makes me believe our boards are doing it right," said Keeney.


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Librarian Sarah Livingston will be offering a series of genealogy programs next month and you may sign up for as many as you like.
Fees for materials, if any, are noted and can be paid at the time of the workshop.
Registration is required and may be done in person or be calling us at 432-1980.
Internet Resources for the Genealogist
This workshop will be an introduction to available resources such as Mormon records, USGenWeb, Ellis Island, Castle Garden, and email lists. There is a $5 materials fee. The session will be held 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8.
Irish Genealogy
Learn about the available resources for researching your Irish ancestors using Ancestry.com and other online websites. There is a $5 materials fee. Choose one of these two times: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Monday, May 7, or 10 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 11.
Familysearch.org & Microfilm Lending Program
Learn about the resources available through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The lending program recently changed its methods of ordering film, and you will want to learn about the revised process. You'll also learn about the resources available through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. New and experienced users will want to attend one of these two sessions: 1 to 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, or 11 to 11:45 a.m. Thursday, May 10. There is no fee for this workshop.
Military Records
During this workshop, you will learn how to locate and request records for your military ancestors. Online resources will also be included. It is scheduled for 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 9, and there is no fee.
One-on-One Sessions
Sign up for individual genealogy workshop sessions May 7 to 11 at the library. Using book and Internet resources, Sarah Livingston will work with you individually to help you with your genealogical research.
There is no charge for individual sessions, but registration is required. Registration deadline is Friday, May 4.
Each participant will be able to use a computer compliments of the Four County Library System Traveling Classroom during our workshops. Hours for the New York State Room are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. Other times by appointment.
Children's Short Story Contest
We're celebrating Children's Book Week, May 7-13, with a short story contest open to children in kindergarten through sixth grade. What do an eagle, a zebra, a cupcake, a rocket ship, and a kid named Riley have in common?
Type or handwrite a one-page story including all five subjects. Write your first name and age on the front, and add your full name and phone number on the back. Essays need to be delivered to the front desk at Huntington Memorial Library by 5 p.m., May 15. Write a creative story and be a winner in our contest.
Library Hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday; closed Sunday.
Marie Bruni is director of Huntington Memorial Library in Oneonta. Her column appears in the community section of The Daily Star every Thursday. Her columns can be found online at www.thedailystar.com/librarycorner.


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'Game Of Thrones' Khaleesi Emilia Clarke Sizzles In GQ Outtakes
March 6th, 2013 9:07pm EST
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke may play a blonde on the series, but we think she's much better looking in her natural state as a brunette.
The actress is featured in the March issue of GQ, and the magazine recently released some sexy outtakes from her photoshoot.
Clarke plays Daenerys Targaryen, the 'mother of dragons' on the hit HBO series (does that make her a MILF?), and she talks about how once she removes the platinum-blonde wig she wears for her role it becomes difficult for people to recognize her in her natural state.
"...I'm so immediately unrecognizable. It takes a die-hard fan to actually spot me," she says. "These HBO events, where I'll be talking to someone for a fair amount of time, and then suddenly they're like, Oh sh*t! That's what you do!—they think I'm some crazy Brit who snuck her way into a Hollywood party."
Last summer Emilia spent six weeks filming the third season of the show in Morocco,where she had hoped to keep her hairpiece on after filming, but the production team wouldn't let her.
"I keep asking to go out with the wig at night, but they insist there's no way," she explains. "They won't let me go partying with it on! I would be killed on the spot.
"It's silly to say, but when I take the wig off at the end of the day, I'm rather disappointed when I look in the mirror."
Not us.
While the world awaits the debut of season three of "Game of Thrones" on March 31, Emilia has two other shows she'd recommend: AMC's "Breaking Bad" and HBO's "Girls."
"I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on Girls, just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything. Or, like, a meth head on Breaking Bad. It'd be like Where's Wally?!"
The March issue of GQ, featuring "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke, is still available on newsstands for a limited time before April's issue is released. Check out her full photoshoot at GQ.com.
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Educational Activities is developing the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program in IEEE. EPICS in IEEE, which was conceived and championed by IEEE 2007 President Leah Jamieson, is a program that organizes university and high-school students to work on engineering-related projects for local humanitarian organizations.
The purpose of the EPICS in IEEE program is to further incorporate EPICS into IEEE worldwide, by empowering student branches and IEEE GOLD groups to work with high school students on EPICS community service-related engineering projects, and by institutionalizing the program within IEEE. Through this worldwide expansion, Educational Activities will build a mechanism for sustaining and disseminating the EPICS model to other sections.
The desired outcomes of EPICS in IEEE include:
Working with the EPICS program at Purdue, Educational Activities will create a program that will impact communities around the world with the objective to:
There are over 50 projects occurring within EPICS in IEEE. You can read brief descriptions on the projects and view photos within the EPICS in IEEE Project Photos presentation (PPT, 893 KB).


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London Streetwear: Just Brilliant
A new generation of London designers has a ball reinventing streetwear. Last June, to kick off London Fashion Week's first-ever weekend dedicated exclusively to menswear, Prince Charles paid the honor of swinging by St. James … read more »
Stream Menswear Designer William Richard Green's i-D Mix
Aside from designing luxe sweatpants and loving polka dots more than pretty much anyone else on the planet, London designer William Richard Green dabbles in electro music production and DJing under the moniker Aggborough. Green … read more »
William Richard Green's Grey and Black Polka Dots
Maybe it's just Yayoi Kusama-mania sweeping the city because of her Whitney Museum retrospective, but lately, we've been fiending for dots almost as much as the High Priestess of Polka Dots herself. British streetwear designer … read more »
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William Richard Green's Thuggish, Ruggish Fall Collection
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So Cadbury has succeeded in convincing the UK's Takeover Panel -- the City of London body which polices M&A -- to slap a "put up or shut up" order on Kraft.
Kraft now has until Nov. 9 to decide whether to make a formal offer for the British confectionery group. If it decides to walk away, it is not allowed back for six months.
Cadbury shares are still trading above the price of Kraft's informal stock and cash offer. At just over 8 pounds per share, the current price is some 10 percent above the indicative offer, which is now worth just 7.20 pounds. But shareholders in Cadbury -- which is a household favourite in the UK -- aren't being that ambitious in their expectations for an improved offer. The shares are trading at nowhere near the multiples which were initially bandied about after Kraft's approach became public.
And despite noises about Kraft finding it difficult to raise the money it needs for the 11 billion pound bid -- of which some 4.1 billion pounds would be in cash -- bankers seem to think there won't be any problem getting lenders to make the necessary loans.
The real question is how far Kraft shareholders are willing to let CEO Irene Rosenfeld stretch to get her hands on Cadbury's famous chocolate and chewing gum brands. Kraft stock fell another 1 percent following the Takeover Panel ruling, having dropped around $2 from above $19 to $17.6 since it went public with its approach to Cadbury.


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Simulink Code Inspector examines the following general categories during code inspection:
The specific analyses performed range from high-level interface assessment, such as checking whether the initialize and step functions were generated, to a detailed analysis of block execution order to determine if the data dependency between two block components is preserved in the generated code.
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