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"Changing policy through our budget."
That's how newly elected Governor Pat McCrory described his first state budget proposal at a press conference Wednesday morning. McCrory's plan would increase year-over-year spending by nearly half a billion dollars while not raising taxes. Most of the policy "changes" are focused on education. Total General Fund expenditures for fiscal year 2013-14 under McCrory's proposal would be $20.6 billion, up 2.2 percent over the current year's authorized spending total of $20.16 billion.
In addition to not raising taxes, McCrory's 2-year budget plan aggressively sets aside funding in the state's savings reserve account, dedicates significant monies to repair state-owned buildings, and issues no new debt.
McCrory's budget plan allocates $7.9 billion in state funds toward K-12 education, marking a year- over-year increase of just under 1 percent.
Over the next two years, 1,800 additional teachers will be hired, largely to accommodate projected increases in the number of children attending public schools. Offsetting this increase in teachers will be a $117 million reduction in funding for teacher assistants. Remaining teacher assistants will be focused more into kindergarten and first grade classrooms. In addition, $26 million in lottery funds would go toward purchasing reading tablets for students in FY 2013-14 to "enhance digital learning opportunities."
McCrory's education budget also completes the phase-out of state funding for the Teaching Fellows scholarships and North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
Disappointingly, nowhere does McCrory's budget set aside funding for school choice initiatives.
Other education budget items of note include:
- Minor tuition increases for community college students ($1/credit hour for in-state students and $4/credit hour for out-of-state students)
- An additional $16.8 million per year to fund "higher cost" community college programs such as engineering, vocational and technology training
- An additional $14 million per year for "technical education equipment and infrastructure" for NC community colleges
- No tuition increase for in-state students in the UNC system, and a tuition increase as much as 12 percent for out-of-state students
- A $111 million "management flexibility reduction" for the UNC system
- Through the Justice & Public Safety department, allocates just over $300,000 a year for the next two years to establish the Center for Safer Schools to "provide training and technical support to educators, law enforcement agencies, and parents"
Health and Human Services
The major funding priority in McCrory's HHS budget is shoring up North Carolina's Medicaid program. The budget increases the line item for Medicaid by $185 million in FY 2013-14 and by $390 million the following year. The budget also sets aside $90 million a year over the next two years into a Medicaid risk reserve. These measures are intended to address the underfunding of Medicaid the state has had to regularly address over the last several years. On Medicaid spending, McCrory declares, "we simply cannot sustain this rapid growth in spending," and adds that North Carolinians can expect separate legislation for "fundamental Medicaid reform" in the future.
The governor's budget also allocates an additional $26 million per year to fund the NC Pre-K program (formerly More at Four). The additional funding is projected to provide services for an additional 5,000 children. Of this annual expenditure, $17 million is budgeted to come from state lottery receipts. The program is now administered through HHS. Such government-run early education programs, however, have received mixed reviews as to their effectiveness.
Economic Incentives
McCrory's budget plan unfortunately continues the policy of targeted government privileges and taxpayer handouts to select companies. For instance, the Governor's budget plan allocates $9 million to the One North Carolina Fund, and another $14 million to the Job Maintenance and Capital Development (JMAC) program. The Governor's budget plan does, however, include language promising that the state Department of Commerce will develop a proposal which includes "a fundamental reorganization and creation of a public private partnership for economic development and prosperity."
Given the governor's aggressive use of corporate welfare and targeted government privileges thus far in his tenure, one should remain skeptical that this administration will stray very far from the cronyism practiced by previous administrations.
State Employees and Retirees
Gov. McCrory's budget provides for a 1 percent across-the-board pay raise for teachers and state employees. The budget plan also provides a 1 percent cost of living increase for state retiree pension benefits. Also included in the budget plan is a "salary adjustment reserve" held for pay increases and bonuses for "key employees who are not receiving market wages." How government officials are to determine "market wages" for employees performing non-market work (i.e. work not subject to market forces) is left unexplained.
McCrory's budget plan includes no new taxes, and repeals the state's "death tax." The governor stated in his press conference that "now is the wrong time to increase taxes." Moreover, McCrory declared in his budget plan that "…the Governor supports revenue neutral personal and corporate income tax reform," and "reform will be submitted by separate legislation" coming from the General Assembly.
Other Notable Items
- Budget plan aggressively sets aside $200 million in coming year to the state's "rainy day fund." This fund has been woefully neglected for decades.
- Budget would transfer $130 million to the "repair and renovations account" dedicated to fixing up state-owned buildings and facilities. Disappointingly, the budget includes no discussion of selling off under-utilized state assets.
- Transfers no money from the Highway Trust Fund to the General Fund.
- Eliminates the $65 million transfer to Golden LEAF and retains another $25 million in tobacco settlement funds. Also retains $27.5 million by eliminating transfer to Parks and Recreation Trust Fund and the $9.9 million Natural Heritage Trust Fund transfer.
- Repeals the NC Public Campaign Fund, which diverts $4.1 million to the General Fund. This is the money used for taxpayer-funded political campaigns. Also repeals the NC Political Parties Financing Fund, freeing up another $1 million to the General Fund. This is the money dedicated to the state's major political parties via the check-off box on state tax returns. The $5.1 million obtained from these funds would be sufficient to provide voter photo ID for economic hardship cases for several years in North Carolina.
- Provides $10 million to compensate victims of the state's eugenics program.
- Reduces state appropriations to the NC Rural Center by $10 million, the NC Biotechnology Center by $10 million and the Biofuels Center of NC by $1 million.


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Until yesterday, Jane Austen was thought to have died of bovine tuberculosis or Hodgkin's lymphoma, a strain of cancer. But crime writer, Lindsay Ashford, recently told The Guardian that the untimely death of the beloved author was due to an even less innocuous offender: poison.
By the time she was in her 40s, Austen had completed six novels, including the often celebrated and studied "Pride and Prejudice." But while working on another book, "Sanditon," the writer came down with a painful illness that left her with discolored, brownish skin.
Ashford, author of the recently published "The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen" [Honro], read about these symptoms in Austen's letters: "I am considerably better now and am recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough, black and white and every wrong colour." Because she had researched poison and contemporary forensic techniques for her crime novels, Ashford was able to identify Austen's symptoms as potential arsenic poisoning. Arsenic would also explain Austen's slow decline and fatigue. Asford's suspicions were heightened "after she learned that a lock of Austen's hair on display in a museum tested positive for arsenic."
As Flavorwire reports, arsenic does not necessarily equate to murder, as we're so often led to believe, because "a doctor could well have prescribed a medicine containing the element." Still, Ashford wishes not to rule out the option.
"In the early 19th century a lot of people were getting away with murder with arsenic as a weapon, because it wasn't until the Marsh test was developed in 1836 that human remains could be analysed for the presence of arsenic," Ashford said, also noting that Austen's family history was somewhat tumultuous, and there may have been "motive for murder."
Correction: We erroneously stated that Jane Austen was a Victorian author. In fact, she died 20 years before Victoria became queen. The error has been corrected.


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Ringer spy Bernard writes in to point out the latest rumors about Peter Jackson and "The Lovely Bones." Looks like PJ might make a little money on the book adaptation. The speculation and swirling talk around Hollywood is entertaining all by itself! Click here to read the whole story.Posted in Old Main News, Peter Jackson, PJ's Other Films on May 2, 2007 by MrCere


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It is a known fact that one of the many benefits of studying abroad is the opportunity to learn a new language, but that of course, does not mean you want to study in a foreign language-especially if it is hugely different from yours. English is the second most commonest language in the world and many universities are increasing their range of available English taught programs in order to attract more international students. If you are on a budget, this article will tell you where to study and get a degree for US $5,000 or less.
- Iceland
Affordable English taught courses are also available, although mostly at graduate level. Iceland's four public universities do not charge tuition fees, which means you only need to pay an annual registration fee of $700. Non EU/EEA students will be charged an application fee when they apply and this is usually $70. Unfortunately,the university of Iceland recommends that students budget at least US $1,100 per month. This means that you will need at least US $13,000 for your living expenses per year.
- Malaysia
Malaysia provides a warmer climate for studying English in a warmer climate. All programs at private universities are taught in English and most postgraduate degrees are also English taught. Malaysia has the most suitable combination of low tuition fees and living costs, with the capital city ranked as the most affordable city for students.
- Greece
Greece-the place of the academia: another sunny and warm city to study English in. As in other destinations, you will find out that English taught programs are more common at postgraduate levels. If you are from the EU region, you will not be pay tuition at public Greek universities. If you are an international student from outside the EU, you should budget $1,750 per year. Living costs in Greece are also some of the lowest in Africa. You should budget $8,400 per year.
- Germany
Many German people understand English, but it is still a good idea to learn basic German especially if you are thinking of working during or after your studies as this will increase your employment prospects. If you want to study in Germany in English, you may have to be quite relaxed about your choice of program if you are studying for a Bachelor's degree, as English taught programs are more common at Master's level. All students can study for free at public universities in all states except Barden-Wattemberg where fees have been reintroduced for non EU students. If you are a non EU student at this university, the fees will still be lower than what you'll find elsewhere at $3,000 per year.
- Taiwan
More than 120 English taught programs are found here. Tuition fees vary between universities, but there is no average figure. Tuition fees range from $3,000 to $4,000 per year. For costs of living; you will need up to $7,000 per year.
- France
There are currently about 1,200 English taught programs available (more commonly at Master's level). Bachelor's degree cost about $125, Master's $300 and PHD $460. So you do not have to know how to speak French to study in France!
- Norway
English taught programs are becoming increasingly popular in Norway, especially at Master's level, making it an ideal place to study in English. Tuition is free for all students at public universities in Norway, meaning you only have to pay for $38 each contest. Sadly, living costs in Norway are very high. You should budget $17,600 per year. Good enough, students can work in Norway and make extra cash. International students from outside the EU will need a work permit.
- Austria
Finally, we come to this beautiful central European country which has much to offer international students-prestigious universities, high quality of life, and exciting student life. Majority of the programs are taught in German at Bachelor,s level, with a much wider range of English taught programs.
Many people in Austria speak English, especially young people. But it would still be a good idea to learn German. If you are from the EU/EEA, you can do Bachelor's or Master's degree programs for free, provided you complete it in the required time frame. After this, you will be required to pay $425 for each additional semester. Non EU students will pay $1,700 per year.


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Christie's auction house staff pose for photographs with the 1954 Pablo Picasso painting "Femme accroupie (Jacqueline)," a portrait of Jaqueline Roque, Picasso's final great muse and eventually his second wife, at their premises in London, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:41 AM
A late Picasso portrait is up for sale, and the likeness of his paramour Jacqueline Roque could reach an estimated price of up to $30 million, Christie's auction house said Wednesday.
Christie's will offer "Femme accroupie (Jacqueline)" — Crouching Woman (Jacqueline) — at a Nov. 13 sale in New York.
Painted in October 1954, the portrait hung for years in Picasso's private collection and has rarely been seen in public.
Christie's global president, Jussi Pylkkanen, says it is "a museum-quality painting" of "one of Picasso's most elegant muses." Roque was married to the artist from 1961 until his death in 1973.
The painting is one three portraits Picasso painted of Roque in his studio in the south of France on Oct 8, 1954, all showing her crouched with arms around her knees. The boldly colored painting shows the influence of the colorful cutouts of Henri Matisse, who died later that year.
It is being sold from a private collection, and Christie's estimates it will fetch $20 million to $30 million.
The painting will be on public display at Christie's London showroom from Saturday until Tuesday.
Picasso was one of the most acclaimed, and prolific, artists of the 20th century. His 1955 work "Les femmes d'Alger" sold in 205 for $179 million — a record for a painting at auction.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019
december : currently.
marveling over our Christmas decor.
setting the goal to buy a new pre-lit tree after Christmas.
reading lots of magazines.
wearing more jewelry.
thankful George didn't run away this week.
remembering to leave the back door open.
mailing Christmas cards.
tying big bows for a wreath.
asking Santa for amazon gift cards.
making lists on top of lists.
feeling so excited for Christmas.
watching all the holiday movies on Netflix.
looking forward to spending time with family.
loving watching the holiday season through Hadleys eyes.
enjoying the day to day.
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So I got talking to a friend about the original Dark Souls that a lot of people didn't play since patch 1.05 hit so fast after launch (only about a month later I believe). Sadly I only played the patched version very late, but I thought it fun to showcase just WHAT they changed compared to the original version that so very few have played.
If you can get your hands on an unpatched copy, I'd say try it. It is a really unique experience. I made a few things bold which were very important changes. In short Version 1.0 was brutal, giving you nearly 250% less Souls per enemy, lots of enemies not dropping Souls at all, only two purging stones available and couldn't be bought etc. It was a mess man.
If you can get your hands on an unpatched copy, I'd say try it. It is a really unique experience. I made a few things bold which were very important changes. In short Version 1.0 was brutal, giving you nearly 250% less Souls per enemy, lots of enemies not dropping Souls at all, only two purging stones available and couldn't be bought etc. It was a mess man.
- fixed online summoning issues introduced by 1.04.
- relaxed the conditions towards invading other players.
- readjusted the parameters of the Elite Knight Armor set.
- enemy placement adjusted
- the two soldiers guarding the tower overlooking the Taurus Demon fight are both situated to the right of the ladder
- the initial location of Shiva of the Easts Bodyguard is inland from his previous cliff edge start point in the Darkroot Garden
- a Minor Capra Demon is moved from the area of the second bonfire in Demon ruins, to a corpse drop before Demon firesage (he is visible from the bonfire)
Magic Changes
- Pyro Glove nerfed from 270 to 230
- You can see resonance signs now
- Vow of Silence range increased
- Sorcery spell damage as a whole was slightly buffed, but Homing Soul Mass and other pursuit style spells were nerfed
- Magic Shield duration lowered to ~11 seconds
- Strong Magic Shield duration lowered to ~11 seconds. Invincibility removed. Effect on Stamina drastically reduced
- Tranquil Walk of Peace and other Slow duration reduced to ~10 secs. Effect supposedly changed from 100% encumberance to 50%. Rolling possible if your equip burden is lowered. Slowness is similar to swamp effect
- Iron Flesh effectiveness nerfed
- Invisible Body duration remains unchanged
Status Changes
- Base Equipment Burden increased (~6-10 points)
- Humanity Item drop rate increased from 10 to 210
- Medium roll recovery faster
- Defensive bonuses gained via Humanity reduced. Other defensive bonuses remain unchanged
- Item discovery gained via Humanity improved. Capped at 20
Equipment General Changes
- Reported some weapon scaling gets improved at higher normal upgrades (+15 uchi dex scaling goes to A; same goes for scimitar)
- Some scaling reported as changing from A to S with higher upgrades
Upgrade Changes
- Normal scaling buffed by 5-20% (20% at +14).
- Crystal scaling buffed by 5-20% (20% at +4).
- Lightning +4 nerfed by 2% (+5 remains unchanged)
- Raw scaling buffed by 10% (all levels)
- Magic stat scaling buffed by 10-20% (20% at +9)
- Enchanted stat scaling buffed by 15-20% (20% at +4)
- Divine stat scaling buffed by 10-20% (20% at +9)
- Occult stat scaling buffed by 15-20% (20% at +4)
- Fire +9 nerfed by 2%. (+10 remains unchanged)
- Dragon stat scaling buffed by 5-20% (20% at +5)
Specific Gear Changes
- Grant scaling changed to Strength:B and Faith:A
- Gold-hemmed nerfed, still can't be upgraded
- Dusk skirt nerfed hard (streamlined to match the other pieces)
- Silver Knights, Sun, Hollow Soldier's Shield and other medium shield stability nerfed to ~70 at max upgrades to improve Great Shield viability
- Crystal Ring Shield scaling drastically nerfed. Does around ~200 +-50
- Dragon Greatsword buffed from 360 to 390
- Silver Knight's Sword lightning effect removed. Now enchantable
- Elite Knight gear nerfed, then buffed slightly in 1.05
- Hunter's starting armor nerfed
Combat Changes
- Lock-on acquisition range increased
- Lock-on changing/switching got easier (more responsive).
- Ring of Fog users can now be locked on.
PvE Changes
- Overall increase in souls gained (~2-2.5 times more)
- Damage reduced on some mobs
- HP lowered on some mobs
- Reduced acquisition range on normal enemies.
- Reduced poise on some enemies.
- Distance at which enemies are aggro has been reduced
- Bosses drop Humanity and Homeward Bones
- Ghosts, Skeletons, Mosquitos, and Slimes give souls now
- Twinkling Titanite drop rate improved
- Pyromancers in Catacombs drop Skull Lanterns
- Darkwraiths in New Londo drop Dark Hand
Online Changes
- You can see resonance signs (unsuccessful on PS3)
- Some invasion restrictions possibly changed? Darkwraith upperlimit confirmed as unchanged
- 1.05: Summon restrictions improved slightly again
- Amount of souls the Master of the game gains changed
- Cracked Eye Orbs no longer get consumed on failure. Confirmed
- You can hit Select to rate messages.
- 1.05: Fixed 1.04 bug where summon signs were invisible.
Covenant Changes
- Covenant Material drop rate improved (including dragon scale ).
- Lowered requirements for Sunbro covenenant (requirements moved from 50 to 25. 3/4 assists should do the trick)
Merchant stock updates
- Male Undead Merchant: Also sells bottomless box
- Female Undead Merchant: Sells Arrows / bolts
- Andrei: Sells Arrows / bolts
- Domnhall of Xena: Sells Arrows / bolts, Master Key (5000)
- Giant Blacksmith: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts, Small Titanite Shards, Large Titanite Shards, Twinkling Titanite (8000 per, inf amount), Green Shards, Repair box, weapon smithbox
- Vamos: Arrows / bolts, Titanite Shards, Large Titanite Shards, repair box / weapon smithbox
- Ingward: Sells Transient Curses (there used to only be 3 in the whole game)
- Fixed some freeze issues
- Lvl up screen displays souls needed properly now
- Dragon-head glitch, snuggly, and magic shield glitches fixed
- Fixed a bug where your inputs come out 1 second later
- Fixed a bug where the second solaire event wont progress
- Fixed a bug where feeding frampt a titanite stone then going over 99 resulted in having zero
- Fixed some specific map areas where you'd get stuck or be unable to progress
- Changed some english subtitles on the overseas port


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From: Eat St: Recipes from the Tastiest, Messiest, and Most Irresistible Food Trucks by James Cunningham. Copyright © Paperny Publishing Inc., 2013. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Canada Books Inc. Photography credit: Ryan Szulc.
For the fish burgers, using a mortar and pestle, crush ginger, garlic, spices, sugar, and salt to a paste. Add a little oil if needed for a spreadable consistency. Cover fish all over with the paste. Wrap each portion in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 to 48 hours.
For the mint cumin raita, in a small bowl stir together yogurt, mint sauce, cumin, and fresh mint until well mixed. Refrigerate until needed.
For the salad, in a small bowl, whisk together tamarind paste, chaat masala, and lime juice. In a large bowl, combine onion, cucumber, tomatoes, and cilantro. Add dressing; toss to coat.
In a large skillet, heat vegetable oil over medium heat. Fry fish for 3 to 5 minutes per side, depending on thickness. Fish will flake easily when done and be opaque inside.
Serve fish wrapped in flatbread with the salad, mango chutney, Indian pickles, and mint cumin raita.


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John Lewisworth, March 20th , 2020.
But on the morning Miller's arm was activity to be amputated, aloof beneath the elbow, a dozen accompany and ancestors associates arranged into a 10-foot-long aisle amid the bake assemblage and the elevator, aloof to bolt a glimpse of him as he was formed to surgery. "They all dared to appearance up," Miller remembers thinking. "They all dared to attending at me. They were proving that I was adorable alike aback I couldn't see it." This reassured Miller, as did the archetype of his mother, Susan, a polio survivor who has acclimated a wheelchair aback Miller was a child: She had never seemed diminished. After the operation, aback Miller was formed through the alley again, he opened his eyes as he anesthetized her and said: "Mom, Mom. Now you and me accept added in common."
But in retrospect, he credits himself with accomplishing one affair right: He saw a acceptable way to attending at his bearings and committed to appearance that perspective, acquisitive that his 18-carat cocky ability eventually bolt up. Miller refused, for example, to let himself accept that his activity was added difficult now, alone abnormally difficult, as all lives are. He bound to anticipate of his adversity as artlessly a "variation on a affair we all accord with — to be animal is absolutely hard," he says. His activity had never acquainted easy, alike as a privileged, able burghal boy with two adherent parents, but he never acquainted advantaged to any angst; he saw dejection as an adulterine advance into the airy absoluteness he was declared to inhabit. And don't we all do that, he realized. Don't we all amusement adversity as a disruption to existence, instead of an assured allotment of it? He wondered what would appear if you could "reincorporate your adaptation of reality, of normalcy, to board suffering." As a disabled person, he was accepting all kinds of signals that he was altered and afar from anybody else. But he formed adamantine to see himself as alone sitting about on a continuum amid the man on his deathbed and the woman who confused her car keys, to let his blow heighten his connectedness to others, instead of isolating him. This was the alone way, he thought, to accumulate from antisocial his injuries and, by extension, himself.
Miller alternate to Princeton the afterward year. He had three prosthetics and rode about campus in a golf barrow with a boisterous account dog called Vermont who, in truth, was too abundant of a misfit to accomplish any accurate service. Miller had capital to assignment in adopted relations, in China; now he started belief art history. He begin it to be a acceptable lens through which to accumulate authoritative faculty of his injuries.
He remembers attractive at slides of age-old sculptures in a aphotic address hall, all of them missing accoutrements or noses or ears, and aback acquainted them for what they were: adolescent amputees. "We were, as a class, all calling these works monumental, admirable and important, but we'd never apparent them whole," he says. Time's aftereffect on these marble bodies — their suffering, absolutely — was accepted as allotment of the art. Medicine didn't anticipate about bodies this way, Miller realized. Embedded in words like "disability" and "rehabilitation" was a beneath acceptable view: "There was an abnormal moment in your activity and, with some help, you could get aback to what you were, or almost it." So, instead of apropos his injuries as article to get over, Miller approved to get into them, to see his new activity as its own atypical challenge, like traveling through a country whose accent he didn't speak.
Miller spent years repulsed by the "chopped meat" area his arm concluded and abashed with abashment aback he noticed bodies wince or attending away. But he boring became added assured and playful. He replaced the sock-like accoutrement abounding amputees abrasion over their arm stumps with an absolute sock: aboriginal a apparent sock, again stripes and argyles. Then, one day he forgot to put on any beat and — aloof like that — "I was done with it. I was no best abashed of my arm." He became absorbed by architects like Louis Sullivan, who bare the appearance off their barrio and let the backbone of their architecture flash through. And suddenly, the standard-issue cream covers he'd been cutting over his prosthetics seemed like a bulky deception — Potemkin legs. The alluringly engineered bogus limbs they hid were absolutely appealing interesting, alike sexy, fabricated of the aforementioned carbon cilia acclimated as a accomplishment on big-ticket sports cars. "Why not breach that being off and contentment in what absolutely is?" Miller recalled thinking. So he did.
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Behavioral Health Billing and Alcoholism
- Posted by Jason
- On March 14, 2017
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Though there are several substance related disorders: Alcohol has always been one of the most common and contributes to 88,000 deaths annually as stated by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
There are several different assessments and tools discussed to determine the individual's alcoholism problem ranging from misuse to severe dependence. It is important to note that in the clinical picture, unless the reasons to stop drinking are extremely compelling, individuals are very ambivalent about ending their alcohol use as with any substance use disorder. The needs of this vulnerable population are unique in that there may be multiple factors that influence this behavior. There are comorbidities such as anxiety, depression, hypertension, as well as some inter-generational impacts of addiction to substance use and abuse. Alcohol being socially acceptable creates another dynamic to the assessment and treatment of this disorder.
Treatment facilities usually have screening tools for brief interventions as well as community programs for such as AA or the 12-steps, in which multiple domains are examined. Substance abuse specialists assess the client from a bio-psycho-social perspective during the intake process. The elements examined include: medical complications, behavioral issues, family systems, and the environment for their recovery.
Here at Elevated Billing, the authorization department review clinical presentations and take note of these eco-bio-psycho-social conditions of the individual, any present mental health disorders, and that changing behavior may require multiple interventions based on client motivation and detailed social history. In addition, utilizing tools that work best for the individual may include compassionate, nonjudgmental screenings during brief interventions because the client may already be feeling embarrassed, guilty, or may have other comorbidities consisting of mental illness which contribute to the issue. During a short counseling session it is especially useful to be empathetic and encourage the individual to establish goals for behavior change.
The community approach and interventions that are more macro-based approaches are relevant to our business at Elevated Billing Solutions. Our goal is to "advocate relentlessly for our clients", to essentially increase their well being. Addressing the overall issue of alcoholism or any other substance abuse or addictive disorder, the screening process is a useful way to determine effective treatment as well as authorization. Our advocates are knowledgeable of these tools in a clinical setting and this helps to address this growing problem in society, as well as allow them the treatment they need to treat their addictions and mental health issues.


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Friday, 17 June 2016
RIP Jo Cox
I had very brief contact with Jo Cox several years ago - in the aid context. I cannot honestly say I "knew" her but the brief contact was friendly, polite, efficient, and very definitely interested in the needs of other people. I liked her "Yes, we can do that" attitude. An aid worker was able to go out and do great good because she gave a little help.
The world needs people like that.
Jo is not the first person I have had contact with to die in violent circumstances. I have lost several colleagues that way. It's one of the things about aid work, especially aid work in war zones. Sometimes the people who go out to help die.
It isn't always something you hear about. They go to dangerous places, into war zones and places where disease, hunger and poverty is so great that anyone who has anything of value is at risk. Their help, however necessary, isn't always welcome. How often do rebels want to prevent aid getting through? How often do proud people resent the need for external assistance when they are used to do everything for themselves?
Aid work isn't romantic. It isn't fun. It's a deadly serious and often very dangerous business. Even when it is relatively safe it is about work - working long hours, often in uncomfortable conditions. I will forever remember the e-mail I had from a doctor who has given up part of his holiday each year to work in Africa, "They've built a tiny room for me to sleep in. It has a bed - luxury." Until then he had slept on the hospital floor. There had always been something more important to build.
Jo should not have died like that. England is supposed to be "safe". It is supposed to be a place of open hands reaching out to grasp other open hands. It isn't supposed to be a place of clenched fists. Downunder is supposed to be a place of open hands too. We can't work with fists clenched around knives and guns.
I am not sure what "safe" is any more but I know it involves open hands and reaching out.
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- Adelaide Dupont said...
Reading the telemoignage of MSF: the rebels want to get through way too often.
And health is the very model of a reified system.
RIP Jo Cox. Hoping people won't try to make her a martyr for their campaign.
And you met JC personally?!
- 17 June 2016 at 10:57
- catdownunder said...
No, not personally - only via the internet. The contact was only brief but contact nevertheless and I feel angry and sad and despairing because she was someone who did something to help someone I know well...and he is devastated.
- 17 June 2016 at 11:11
- Momkatz said...
I am so sorry, Cat, for you and for your friend. Melodye
- 17 June 2016 at 13:41
- Adelaide Dupont said...
This form of contact is very important.
It can feel personal, true!
And I think of Cox as a cool big sister who guided us in the ways of humanitarianism and politics.
Yes, your known person is devastated.
"Someone who did something to help someone I know well". - the chain! The open hand!
- 18 June 2016 at 08:49


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Torture in Medieval Times
Medieval Pain
Would you rather...
by Amber Maccione
Torture in the Medieval Ages
The Medieval Ages lasted over a span of 700 years. It was a rather dark time, even though the Catholic Church was the dominant power during this time. And during this dark time, torture was a prevalent means of justice and investigation. Torture was "the deliberate, systematic, cruel and wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more torturers in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason" ("Middle Ages Torture.").
During the Medieval Ages, the Catholic Church was the Truth and it wanted everyone to be Catholic. Therefore, it sent out crusaders to "witness" to those in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Anyone who was not Catholic (Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Pagan, etc.) was told they were wrong and that they needed to repent and become Catholic. The crusaders conquered lands and would force those conquered to convert to Catholicism. Those who refused were tortured until they repented and converted (Woodcock).
Along with the crusades as an excuse to torture people came the Inquisition. As stated before, the Catholic Church was the Truth. They interpreted the Bible and relayed to the people what God expected of them. During the Inquisition, there were people whom the Church called heretics. People that went against the teachings of the Catholic Church or practiced dark magic were questioned through means of torture. And if the Church couldn't get information from people or get a confession, they turned the interrogated over to the State whom were tied down by Church law and could administer more types of torture that the Church couldn't. As long as the torture didn't include mutilation of a person's body, the Church was allowed to use it (Woodcock).
Today, people would look at torture as a means that did not justify the end or be a reasonable way to get information. Most would see torture as inhuman. So why in the medieval period were people using this as a means to draw out information and get confessions? In this period, torture was scene as a legitimate means for justice. And it seemed to work for them. They used it to draw people out – get a confession, turn people into snitches, and obtain information that could be used in courts for trials. The objective was to intimidate, deter, get revenge, or punish someone ("Middle Ages Torture.").
Because of education, we know now and can look back and see the problems with torture. It only took one person to say you were doing things against the Church. If someone didn't like you or wanted to get back at you for something you did to them, they could falsely accuse you and then you end up in a castle chamber taking turns with other prisoners getting tortured. Also, torture was so painful; anyone would say whatever in order to stop the pain. Then, after the person confessed, they were put on trial and often put through more torture until execution. Not to mention how inhuman it was to torture someone in the methods used during this time period ("Middle Ages Torture.").
Most castles during the Medieval Ages had dungeons and chambers in the lowest parts of their structures. These locations were damp, cold, and dark. To get to them, you would have to walk with torches through long and winding hallways and paths. No one wanted to hear the cries of agony from the prisoners who were suffering from getting or being tortured. Most chambers were extremely small in height and width. But that didn't prevent the judicial system from packing people in their like sardines - a space that could really only hold four or less people comfortable would have ten to twenty people inside ("Middle Ages Torture.").
One such dungeon was located in the Tower of London. The Tower of London was located in England near the Thames River. Its original name was the White Tower or Keep. It was built around 1066 by William the Conqueror. It has been used for a royal residence, state prison, zoo, mint, and armory. But it is most famous for its torture chamber. Hundreds were torture and killed here. And hence it received the name of Bloody Tower, especially after Edward V had his daughters killed there. It also had a cell that was called "Little Ease" because it was so small that it was impossible to stand upright or lay down. The most famous prisoners were kept here and they had to crouch in order to fit inside the cell. Nowadays, the Tower is closed to torture and has opened as a museum (Woodcock).
Top 5 Torture Devices
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There were many types of torture devices that were used throughout the Medieval Ages. There were devices that would rip you, blind you, break your bones, cook you, take your manhood from you, remove limbs, and sometimes eventual kill you. The top five methods of torture were the Spanish Donkey, the Choke Pear, the Lead Sprinkler, the Breast Ripper, and the Crocodile Shears (Frater).
The Spanish Donkey had a main board cut that was held off the floor by two cross-beams were attached on the bottom edges. The prisoner was stripped of their clothes and then placed atop to straddle the main board as if they were riding a donkey. Then the people inflicting the torture would place different weights on the prisoner's feet. The weights would pull the prisoners legs downward, which would cause the prisoner's crouch to be pulled into the main board. And the torturers could up the torture by switching out the weights with heavier weights as the time passed by. The main board (a wedge that is pointed at the top and gets wider as it goes towards the crossbeams – like a triangle) would eventually slice through the prisoner as a result of his/her body being pulled down by the weights by being blocked from moving downward because of the main board (Frater).
The fourth most gruesome method of torture was the choke pear. This instrument kind of reminds me of that instrument that a woman's obgyn uses when examining her. The choke pear was a metal instrument that could be turned up top to widen the three prongs at the end. It was used orally or in the prisoner's bottom or vagina. The instrument was forced into the area of choice and then expanded by twisting a screw or handle to stretch out the segments. Of course the area of choice was greatly mutilated and sometimes fatally. The prongs were pointed at the end and served to rip into the throat, intestines, or cervix. The choke pear was used on preachers who taught against the teachings of the Catholic Church. The choke pear was used on the bottom of male homosexuals and the vagina of woman guilty of sexual immorality or other sexual sins (Frater).
The third most gruesome was the Lead Sprinkler. Basically, it was a ladle on the end of a handle. The torturer would remove the top of the device and poor hot molten metal, boiling oil or water, pitch, or tar. Then the top would be re-attached. The tops had holes. So the torturer would shake the sprinkler at the prisoner showering him.her with whatever was inside (Frater).
Then there was the Breast Ripper. This device was in the shape of prongs that someone might use on their salad. It was a metal device that had at its two ends "u's" that were pointed on both points. It was heated up and placed on women that were unmarried mothers. That way these women were marked. During the Inquisition, women condemned of heresy, blasphemy, adultery, self-induced abortion, magic, or any other crime the Catholic Church claimed to be worthy of torture were tortured by the Breast ripper. As stated, the "u's" at the end were heated but sometimes were also cold. They were then placed on the exposed breasts and eventually turned them into a bloody mess because the "u's" would tear the breasts (Frater).
The last of the top five torture devices was the Crocodile Shears. These shears were usually used for those that were guilty of treason by trying to kill the king. They were made of iron and looked like pincers. But instead of having jaws or blades, they had a pair of hemicylindrical blades that formed a long, narrow tube when closed. The blades were lined with teeth or spikes. They were heated and applied to the erect penis and tore into the prisoner creating severe arterial bleeding (Frater).
During the Medieval Ages, torture was accepted and a reasonable way to get confessions out of people assumed to be criminals and an accepted and reasonable way to get information to use in trials. And most of the time, the confessions or information sent people to their death. By 1640, torture as known in the Medieval Ages was abolished in England ("Middle Ages Torture."). As eventually, other countries followed suit until torture was no longer an accepted and reasonable way to handle crimes.
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In the film Hunchback of Notre Dame the protagonist 'Quasimodo' had his head fitted into a pillory type plank on a rotatating turntable just for public amusement.
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One form of punishment was to fasten the offender on a contraption known as the whirligig. The torturer would then turn a cranking handle causing it to spin around and making the victim distressed.
Probably more a humiliation like the pillory and stocks.
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