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My apologies to all Young Urban Professionals anywhere and everywhere. I (above) meant to say YUPPIE. I guess I was thinking of my young lovable puppy, when I mentioned my new young lovable "yuppy" neighbors. I like the word yuppy better anyway.
RE Our neighborhood (GreenPoint/Williamsburg)
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I believe that due to redistricting, US Representative Carolyn Maloney - and correct me if I'm wrong - is going to represent BOTH GreenPoint/Williamsburg AND the Upper East Side, where she has been a vocal CRITIC of the waste transfer station planned THERE (to the detriment of GreenPointers seeking to spread the "wealth" of garbage transfer stations AWAY from GreenPoint).
If that's the case,
what SIDE will she be on NOW:
that of WEALTHIER East Siders (doners)?...or..... us poor folks, who have had to put up with disease and dirt producing garbage stations for far far too long. And who are waiting , and waiting, for the East Side Transfer Station to open, in order to reduce our long-time burdens.
Just asking.
In GreenPoint/Williamsburg we fought long and hard to shut down the belching incinerator several years ago at the foot of GreenPoint Ave. And we were successful. NOW under the guise of CALLING it a "state of the art waste-to-energy conversion facility", the city wants to dump ANOTHER INCINERATOR in GreenPoint (as your article briefly mentions).
WAKE up people:
They STILL want to make our neighborhood a dumping ground. Hey, its your lungs.
And dear new yuppy neighbors, its also the value of your new condos that they will be dumping on.
Unless we stop them.
Ugh you keep running these stories. CB1 opposes every single new licence and renewal and SLA disregards them every time. So who cares what they think? No one elected them, they have no power, they've lost what little credibility they have by being ridiculous, why even dignify it with coverage that suggests it matters somehow?
Looks really cool !:)
Where is the place (or what's the contact info?) I'll recommend it to people. (I used to rent out two rooms in my former loft for short periods, so I, still, get emails from people that are looking)
Wow... I'm sorry. I stumbled on this posting through a link from another site. So this "magazine" is really called "L"? As in "the L Train"? Seriously? I'm another life-long NYer who has been annoyed/ irritated by this throng of non-creative transplants who've been filing into Brooklyn unabated since "Friends" anchored NBC's Thursday night lineup, but I never thought that this collection of slovenly mid-westerners (yea, I'm being generic about where you come from) would ever recognize themselves enough to actually read an unabashed "hipster" periodical. Good for you, Caleb!
"the answer wouldn't be heavier firepower—it'd be better gun control. "
Gun control is the key phrase here. There is no need for a well-trained shooter to fire more than 5 shots at an armed assailant.
If he can't neutralize the threat in five shots, he's either a poor shot, or the subject is too far away to pose an immediate danger. Either way, the LEO needs to learn how to control his gun.
Also, why is the NYPD responding to "shots fired" calls with pistols? If they know there is a firearm threat, why not bring the shotgun? A shotgun requires far fewer rounds to neutralize a threat, and is much less likely to overpenetrate and kill or injure innocent neighbors.
If you aren't disciplined enough to pull the trigger without emptying the gun, it's time to go back to 5-shot .357 revolvers and shotguns. This idea that any regular street cop needs 15 rounds in his magazine is a joke, and it leads to laziness and sloppy trigger discipline.
NYPD, control your damn guns.
If my calculations are correct, all of these gentrified neighborhoods will soon turn back into ghettos as soon as we all have a massive crime spree, mug, rape and pillage all the White people outta here. Until then, let's be nicer to each other.
Also, Johnny, it's really unbecoming for someone who works at L Mag to comment and insult the readers. It's like when a school girl starts going bat shit crazy at her class after someone in her class says her face is ugly during a presentation.
Full circle. In the 60's it was "never trust a hippie or someone over 30". Now it's reversed the under 40 crowd have got to be the lamest, talentless, useless bunch ever. I was born & raised in NYC in the 70's & 80's. That was the real NYC. It's all a joke now. Parts of Brooklyn might as well be kansas or Ohio. 20 & 30 something bloggers telling me where I should go hang out in Brooklyn?? It's so laughable. The most ironic thing about hipsters is there is NOTHING hip about them. And why do the women want to dress like Edith Bunker.
Now they are all prostesting wall street for the reasons they created & caused. Who made you go into debt? You did it to yourselves morons. Like yah, buying the latest gadgets, AA shirt & $10 artis - anal coffee like yah. Morons. I bought myself a house in my 20's. Now I can sell it for 4x as much to some dumb ass whipe that didn't want to live here 15 years ago.
Power huh? This may be a good subject for multiple rankings. Such as highest rent, best sea food, most greenspaces or easiest parking. Could be an ongoing project and a feature every week.
Cops make a salary with benefits. Artists struggle. No salary or benefits. So wtf? they make more than me. And when i was growing up in Brooklyn they were never there when a puerto rican was robbing me. But, they're there giving tickets in the subway at 4am for leaning your feet on the seat. They're also there beating the shit out these artsy transplants on wall street. Most of their time is being spent being tools trying to fill a quota making money for the city. Also they have a tendency to be power hungry and bully the average citizen.
But, yeah I look down on the average blue collar type. They often have conservative values and hold back society from progress. They are mindless sheep who usually eat crappy food and drink crappy beer and buy big entertainment systems to watch crappy TV. And yes, they often make more than your artsy hipster. They're not poor they just max out the credit card on TV's and cars and spend their life paying it back.
Got bad news for ya, Stella.
You is a dinosaur.
there was a line in an earlier draft in which I stated flat out that I am, in fact, a journalist, but it got cut in a round of edits.
Haha, right on, Jonny.
Thanks for your pleasant comment, Stella. You seem happy and smart!
Good point, Stella. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Well, at least you don't call yourself a journalist. Right? I mean, no one else would...
Oh brother. You're occupying because you're spoiled. Breastfed on the taxpayer's dime for the first twelve years of your education, you just don't want to pay. For anything. No one believes you're going to give up your materialism; you just want it for free. Admit it. I'll admit this: it's for thugs like you that I keep my shotgun clean and ready. Romantic rebels, eh? Keep telling yourself that, you're idiots and stooges and don't even know it.
Fuck you. Cops make more than I do and have better benefits. I'm raising a family in Brooklyn. I value things like being "artsy and intelligent."
I have a problem with these transplants looking down on all the working class people. "we are so artsy and intelligent" meanwhile the cop who barely gets by on his salary raising a family has to hear insults from this garbage. And to top it off has to protect them from all scary "minorities" these stupid clueless transplant f**ks are so afraid of.


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Consumer confidence in the U.S. has continued to deteriorate in the month of June, according to a report released by the Conference Board on Tuesday, with the consumer confidence index falling for the fourth consecutive month.
The report showed that the consumer confidence index dropped to 62.0 in June from a downwardly revised 64.4 in May. Economists had expected the index to slip to 63.5 from the 64.9 originally reported for the previous month.
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Tega Cay resident Clarie Frase finished fourth at the U.S. Division I Show Ski Nationals in the swivel competition Aug. 10-12 in Janesville, Wis.
Jaclyn Whitt of Clover, also a member of Carolina Show Ski team who competed at the event, finished 11th.
Catfish Club sets tourney slate
The Catawba Catfish Club announces nine events in its 1012-13 tournaments schedule, including two regular season and one championship event on Lake Wylie. Dates and location are as follows:
• Sept. 15, Lake Wateree, Lake Wateree State Park
• Oct. 6, Fishing Creek Reservoir, Hwy. 21 Access
• Nov. 3, Lake Wylie, Buster Boyd Access Area
• Dec. 8, Lake Wateree, Lake Wateree State Park
• Jan. 5, Lake Wylie, Buster Boyd Access Area
• Feb. 2, Lake Wateree, Lake Wateree State Park
• March 2, Fishing Creek Reservoir, Hwy. 21 Access
• April 13, Lake Monticello, Hwy. 99 Access
• Championship Event for Catawba Catfish Club, May 4-5, 2013, Lake Wylie, Ebenezer Park
For more information, visit catawbacatfishclub.com.
Boating course scheduled Sept. 29
Catawba Power Squadron will offer America's Boating Course from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 29 at Driving 911, 2000 S.C. 160, near Towne Tavern.
The course covers safe boating techniques, knots, what is required and rules, useful hints, navigation aids and trailering. The one-day class includes an exam to earn a certificate for a discount from most boat insurance companies. It also meets North Carolina's boating law requirements for boaters younger than age 26 and qualifies ages younger than 16 to operate a personal watercraft.
The manual costs $30, which can be shared. Lunch is provided for an additional $5. To sign up for the class or for more information, call 803-831-8252, 803-547-6523 or 803-548-5362.
E15 warning stickers available
The National Marine Manufacturers Association is distributing 100,000 E15 warning labels to NMMA member boat manufacturers across the country to place on their boats in hopes of alerting boaters to the potential dangers of fuel with a high volume of ethanol. The labels will help educate boaters that E15 should not be used in their boat.
Contrary to studies showing ethanol is hazardous to marine engines, the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved a plan submitted by the ethanol industry that allows E15 to enter the marketplace.
There are serious and documented human safety, environmental and technological concerns associated with ethanol blends more than over 10 percent in recreational boat fuel tanks and engines. That means that anything above E10 can pose serious problems, including performance issues such as stalling, corrosion leading to oil or fuel leaks, increased emissions and damaged valves, rubber fuel lines and gaskets.
Three years ago, the ethanol industry filed a waiver with the EPA to expand the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent. Since then, the EPA has approved two partial waivers that allow the fuel to be sold in cars from model years 2001 and newer. NMMA along with the oil industry, food groups and others stakeholders oppose the introduction of E15.
It is important for consumers to stay aware at their local gas pumps, checking for high ethanol fuels and to use only E10 or lower in their vessels.
In Lake Wylie, Kangaroo Express at 4044 Charlotte Hwy. and BP at 5075 Charlotte Hwy. sell ethanol-free fuel.
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Duggars: 18 Kids and One Grandchild?
By: Mike Celizic, TODAYShow.com contributor
Updated: April 13, 2009
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There's a new Duggar on the way, but this time it's not Michelle Duggar adding another to her brood of 18 children.
Instead, it's a grandchild expected by the oldest son and his wife of seven months.
The happy news was broken exclusively on TODAY Monday. Anna Keller Duggar learned she was pregnant on Feb. 2 and is due Oct. 12.
"I am three months right now and feeling great," Anna told TODAY's Meredith Vieira Monday. "Morning sickness is pretty much all gone. I'm looking forward to having my baby."


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It might be because they're young and at risk, or an older person who needs help at hand. Or they may have a physical, sensory or learning disability. They could be homeless, at risk of domestic violence or have a drug or alcohol dependency.
What type of housing support?
Housing support comes in a variety of packages: from very basic help and guidance, to more regular hands-on support.- If you're looking to live independently in your own home, check out the city council's housing support service.
- Or find out about all the other support packages by provided by different organisations across Manchester. The city council co-ordinates support by private companies, voluntary organisations, the NHS, home improvement agencies, not-for-profit landlords and charities. It's called the 'Supporting People' programme.
- Or if you're over 60, see if there are any retirement housing options for you (or 'sheltered' housing as it used to be called).


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Director : Timur Bekmambetov
Screenplay : Michael Brandt & Derek Haas and Chris Morgan (story by Michael Brandt & Derek Haas; based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones)
MPAA Rating : R
Year of Release : 2008
Stars : James McAvoy (Wesley Gibson), Morgan Freeman (Sloan), Angelina Jolie (Fox), Terence Stamp (Pekwarsky), Thomas Kretschmann (Cross), Common (Gunsmith), Kristen Hager (Cathy), Marc Warren (The Repairman), David O'Hara (Mr. X), Konstantin Khabensky (The Exterminator), Dato Bakhtadze (The Butcher), Chris Pratt (Barry), Lorna Scott (Janice), Sophiya Haque (Puja), Brad Calcaterra (Assassin Max Petridge)
There is an infectious absurdity to Wanted that you can't help but admire. Based on a comic book series by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, it posits the idea of an ultra-secret group of assassins called The Fraternity that has existed for 1,000 years to maintain order in society by killing those who threaten too much disorder. How do they know who to kill? No kidding: The names are given by Fate itself, which communicates through the weave patterns in cloth spun by a giant loom in The Fraternity's headquarters (the original assassins were weavers, natch). Even more importantly, only certain people can be members of The Fraternity because you must possess extraordinary, superhuman, Matrix-like abilities, which consist of pulling off feats that defy all the laws of physics like leaping hundreds of feet between buildings and being able to bend the trajectory of bullets when you fire a gun, sometimes 90 degrees around corners.
Obviously, not everyone can do this, which means that it's passed down genetically. However, you have to have someone point out your potential, which is why the next-generation assassin Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a pathetically nebbish office drone at the beginning of the movie. Screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma) and Chris Morgan (Cellular) clearly had a great deal of fun penning the film's opening passages, which establish a cheeky, anything-goes tone and sense of humor in depicting just how lousy Wesley's life is. Driven down by panic attacks, repetitive stress injuries, his aggressively boorish boss (Lorna Scott), his obnoxious live-in girlfriend (Kristen Hager), and his supposed best friend (Chris Bratt) who is having an affair with his obnoxious live-in girlfriend, Wesley makes the miserable sad-sacks in Office Space (1999) look like portraits of absolute contentment. Wesley is so pathetic he even imagines the ATM mocking his lack of funds.
One day at the grocery story (he's picking up yet another bottle of his prescription anxiety medication), Wesley is approached by Fox (Angelina Jolie), who informs him that the father he never knew, a member of The Fraternity, has been killed and that he is next. As if to prove the point, Wesley is quickly enmeshed in a shootout between Fox and Cross (Thomas Kretschmann), a member of The Fraternity who has gone rogue and is apparently dead-set on killing his former associates. Wesley is then inducted into The Fraternity, with all necessary information being intoned with grave seriousness by the leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), while his training comes courtesy of the other members of the group (which include Common as a gunsmith and Dato Bakhtadze as a knife expert). How exactly is one trained to be a superhuman assassin who can bend bullets? Apparently, by enduring as much pain as possible. In what can only be described as a brutal parody of movie training montages, Wesley is put through the paces of being beaten, gouged, beaten some more, slapped around, beaten some more, et cetera. Luckily, The Fraternity has access to special baths that immediately heal all wounds, otherwise he would be spending all his time in the hospital.
The rest of the film traces Wesley's vengeance-fueled pursuit of Cross, the father-killer, which eventually leads to some narrative-twisting discoveries that turn the last 20 minutes into a virtual free-for-all. The film itself is something of an aesthetic and narrative free-for-all, hinging entirely on the audience's willingness to jump on the ride and never question anything. Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) is making his Hollywood debut, and he shows a deft balance between violence and comedy, while cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen (Transformers) pours on the inky sepia and darkness. Bekmambetov also demonstrates a real affinity for taking bullet-time digital effects to ridiculously grisly new highs in treating us to the sight of bullets entering and existing bodies in extreme slow motion, which affords the rare opportunity to admire the spiraling paths of blood and viscera exiting the body. (Did I mention this film might not be for everyone?)
With all the physics-defying, mind-bending, car-crashing visuals on-screen, it's quite amazing that the actors aren't completely lost. James McAvoy (Adaptation) manages a workable American accent, although his biggest accomplishment is to be convincing as both a complete loser and a fully functional badass. Having long since mastered the art of being a live-action cartoon, Angelina Jolie struts and smirks and glares from the corners of the frame, and Morgan Freeman gives Sloan his trademark gravitas, which is just the right counterbalance to the film's general lunacy. The utterly derivative nature of Wanted, both visually and narratively, certainly drags it down a few notches, but it can't quite erase the giddy pleasure it imparts.
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Haha sorry about that they didn't pop up in the game so i didn't see your response until i quit, ill be on steam all day so just give me a shout when you're free before
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Bully Culprits (Goblin, me) vs Blighty's Stuntys (Ogre, Tom O'Bedlam)
It was a brutal game. In the first half I pretty much destroyed Tom's team with a slow cage advance. My bomber threw gold, causing loads of hurt. My looney injured a snot on his first turn and then spent three consecutive turns fouling an ogre with 4-5 assists, but amazingly he was still taken off the pitch before the big guy was.
I scored in turn 8 of the first half, when Tom only had an ogre and two snots left on the pitch. With a goal down and the slow dripfeed of players returning from KO, he was on the backfoot for the rest of the game.
He went for a quick TTM-TD to even the score, but after his snotling landed poorly (and very nearly off the pitch) I took possession of the ball and scored again. That was that.
Final Score: 2 - 0 to the Bully Culprits
It was (in Tom's words) a massacre. I think the crucial moment was very early in the game, when Tom's ogres were taken out of action. One ogre alone was not enough to beat out the goblin cage, even ignoring the trolls acting as bookends. Still Tom was a good sport about it all and I've had much tougher matches against him in the past. Cheers man.
After the game I validated all the matches that had been done. As I'm away next weekend, I've put back the deadline to Sunday night. If you're still on Day 5, you have seven days to get your game on!
1-0 victory over Indefatigible Snoozer maintains my lead in Div 4, but it looks like it's the only division where the winner is not yet decided.
Don't think Div A's decided yet, if President Weasel beats LowKey and then me he'd get through as our previous game was a draw. Not that I keep checking to see whether they've played each other yet or anything.
Hoy drawlien, you can ping me on Steam when you're ready. I'll probably need a bit of time then.
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Currently playing: Gothic 2; Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition; Waking Mars; Anno Online
In a STUNNING (literally) display of skill, the Shortstuff Stumblers faced off in a highly anticipated rematch against the Fat Fred Flings, who both outplayed AND outeat the Stumblers during their first meeting.
Incredible techniques were shown on both sides of the pitch (causing many self-inflicted injuries), and the crowd showed appropriate approval by throwing valuable rocks at the halflings.
A few highlights of the first Half!
The Stumblers start with their bombardier on the field as the Flings decide to receive first, in a (fairly misguided) attempt to cause havoc on the LoS later in the game. The ever present halfling cook annoyingly steals half of the Stumbler's rerolls, and brings Zara on board to deal with the super powerful army of my (one) strength 3 goblins!
The Bombardier burns through the remaining rerolls within two turns, first stunning one corner of the half-hazard cage the halflings throw up, then engaging with an exciting Hot Potatoe match against the ball-carrier. Thankfully, after two passes back and forth, the halfling takes the "Hot Potatoe" a bit too literal and attempts to take a bite of it, blowing himself and the ball up.
Zara and the trees are taking their toll though, and in turn 6, an unchallenged halfling manages to score 0 - 1.
The goblins bring out their main offensive weapons - with Steelball, the fastest Fanatic this side of a termite mound proving his worth by knocking the chopped tree around, mentally scarring it forever. However, that one turn of stunning skill display was all they got, as a troll makes a perfect throw of a goblin who makes the one GFI necessary to score the 1 - 1.
With one turn left, the Halflings attempt to do the same. A tree grabs the ball-carrier, aims, and throws perfectly. The halfling would have only needed two GFIs to take the lead again... if it hadn't been for the lone goblin standing on EXACTLY the right spot the halfling attempted to land on, and the half ends with no change to the score.
The second half sees both teams slightly exhausted but willing to show some SKILL. Especially after a rock-solid advice from the halfling fans encourages them.
And skill it was, with both Goblins and Halflings showing amazing wrestling skills - just without the wrestling skill. Every second block ends with both participants on the ground, and here the weakened armor of the Halflings FINALLY starts to show, injuring them left and right and then left again.
By turn 15, there are two (rooted) trees left and a handful of goblins marching in a turn 16 2-1 touchdown for the Stumblers.
The Flings' final turn sees Zara flanked by their two trees at the LoS. Try as they might, Zara proves to heavy to throw, and so the bloody game ends 2-1 for the Stumblers, who suffered one Goblindeath and caused countless of injuries. Unlike the trolls.
Cheers drawlien for the match - this makes the final game of the season quite interesting!
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Yes thanks for the write-up VV. I'd only add that Zara was largely useless apart from scaring off a few gobbo's in the first half. The 1st turn of the second she went for a blitz and rolled AD-AD which got lonered on the re-roll and caused a KO.
If I draw against Groovy and VV wins against ntw then it will be a draw for the lead in our division....
Vex - you and me for what will be the last game in the Friendly Little Fellas disastrous campaign for Stunty glory. Usual story - available most evenings after 8:30pm UK, not tonight and probably not Tuesday though.
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Work-life is a bit beyond crazy at the moment, dearest ntw. Why don't you have some tea while we wait for an opportunity to arise? I made you something nice.
I think we can start realistically looking at something next week's Sunday. Or maybe even this Sunday if the league rolls on fast enough.
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Alrighty, I validated what games were done.
The only match outstanding is Lowkey vs President Weasel. Do you guys need more time for it?
Hmm if I am honest I forgot we hadn't played, I buzzed Pres earlier but no response, I can play this evening but if not perhaps a default would be necessary
I'd rather not default on it to be honest, since a draw would make NieA7's lead in your group unreachable. :(
If you two can organise a match to take place within the next couple of days, I'll wait. If that's not possible then I'll have to default.
Last edited by Screwie; 30-01-2012 at 08:54 AM.
Okay dokey ill be on from 8 tonight president if you're about
PW posted in another thread suggesting that he is currently without BB...
When asked, he merely responded with a wry bleat followed by a swift kick to the testicles.- Rakysh
Yeah, I just saw that. Bum :(
Anyone know if it's possible to use Dropbox to pass over a BB installation?
So he has, well the decision is yours screwie
For what it's worth I don't mind waiting, though it's up to moondogjazz as well of course. I would like to know why my lead being unreachable is such a sad thing for you though Screwie :p
Because then the Day 6 game would have less meaning :P
I would rather get PW's input on this before defaulting, as he is the player currently still in reach of first place.
I will pester him before making a decision.
Last edited by Screwie; 31-01-2012 at 09:57 AM.
default it, sorry to hold things up. Lowkey made more of an effort to play the game than I did - although I tend to only see the Steam messages hours after they're sent when I finally log out of Star Wars or Battle Man Shooty Fields.
(and now I am temporarily without BB)


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Originally this post was a request for information as to whether I could iframe the Ning music player into its own page, and remove the module from the home page. For the past few weeks I have been reworking my customization offline, most of what I have planned has yet to be added to my site. One thing I will require is more home page space for other things.
If you want to keep your music, but don't want it on the home page, this tip is for you. To get started, create a page and switch to HTML mode in your text editor. Next, click on the popup icon in your music player. When the window opens, copy the link from the navigation bar. Insert your player link into the iframe code. I've posted the code below, make sure you replace "yourmusicplayerurl" with your actual music player url (I've chosen to use the full width of the page, but it's not necessary).

Once you have saved your page, head to your Features Layout and drag the music player off of your home page. Your music player now has its own page, and you have room on your home page for other things.
By the way, since I'm not finished customizing my network, my music player is still on the home page, and the page I created for it is visible only to me. You can have a look at it in the screen shot below.
There was a problem with this tip, but with the help of Fire-Tech, I worked it out. The problem with the initial tip was that (as Soaring Eagle pointed out) it removed the player from member's profiles as well. Not good, especially for a community of musicians. The trick was to find a way to hide the music player module on the home page instead of removing it via Features Layout. Fire-Tech devised a code to do just that, but then I noticed two other problems:
1) The upload link does not show on the iframed page.
2) When I made the music player visible on the temporarily so that I could access the upload link, anything I uploaded was not added to the player.
Here's my solution:
I embedded the player into the page instead of iframing it. I bookmarked the uploader page, and the Edit Playlist page (so that I can remove or edit tracks). Now I can upload the music from the bookmarked uploader, and the tracks will appear in the embedded player. You can set your own width for the page to whatever you like.
Here is Fire-Tech's code to hide the player on the home page:
/* Hide music module on main page for P */
.xg_widget_main .music {
display: none !important;
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Seems I've answered my own question! It works, just in case anyone else is interested.
Yeah, it worked! Next, I'm going to use Jen's tip to theme the page with a nice image.
well ..it does not work as u would hope! if you remove it as a feature iy=ts no longer on members pages they cant add music uyea it still shows i=up in the page but this is not a good solution
i would have =loved it if it did not remove it from members pages as a feature
unchecking show playlist tho speeds up load times and takes up less space
Crap! I was wondering why one of my members tracks disappeared the other day! Is there a way to somehow hide the module on the home page, and still keep the dedicated page for the music player?
Thanks for both your responses.
I can think of a couple of ways we might be able to do it. Play with it tomorrow..
Thanks brother!
Just to let you all know, I've updated the discussion. With the assistance of Fire-Tech, the obstacle to my goal has been removed!
I love the idea of having the music player on its own page, but I was hoping that we could see more songs in the player itself. For example, if I choose the "Playlist" option for the player (Play: Playlist), then I can add up to 100 MP3s to the player, and they will all appear in the player... all 100 of them. But if I choose "Highest Rated" instead, then it's limited to just 20 songs. Is there any way to increase the number of tracks that appear for "Highest Rated" or "Latest"?
I wish there were a way, or that I knew of a way, bro. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you.
My playlist looks empty only because I haven't uploaded enough tracks, I need to request tracks from some of the artists I have now, then wait until I get more signing up.
How about using the musing player URL for "recently added" then switching the player on the home page to "featured".. might work if you DONT have any featured songs.
Worked great on my site MyCreationz
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Given the often irreversible deconstruction of a life that psychosis can bring to individuals and their families, strategies for early detection and intervention have become a focus of increasing interest. These strategies aim to prevent disorder by identifying, tracking, and treating the clinical antecedents to psychosis. In this article, we review the underlying rationale for this direction, the evidence that prevention of psychosis is possible, what psychosis-risk states look like clinically, what treatment studies show to date, and the risks and benefits of early intervention. We also outline what psychiatrists can do clinically, given what we currently know.
Early stages of psychosis
Figure 1 illustrates the typical emergence of the early stages of psychosis as it unfolds during adolescence/early adulthood. As clinicians, we usually encounter and treat patients well after the first episode, when chronic deficits in functioning are already in place and positive symptoms wax and wane with the vicissitudes of treatment adherence. However, the emphasis needs to shift to the earliest stages of this process and on how antecedent genetic vulnerability and developmental liability are initially expressed as psychopathology during the final major stage of neurodevelopment in adolescence/young adulthood.
As schematized, premorbid normality gives way to declines in school, work, and social functioning. Soon thereafter, psychological symptoms emerge that are precursors to the positive symptoms that later become the basis of a DSM diagnosis of psychosis. At this earliest stage, however, these symptoms are not as prominent or disabling as they are in full-blown psychosis, and typically they are labeled "prodromal" or "psychosis-risk" symptoms and functional deficits.
At some point, these symptoms and deficits become prominent enough to meet standard diagnostic criteria, but medical recognition and treatment usually do not occur until weeks, months, or even years later. This interval is known as the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP), which has become a major target of early intervention strategies.1
The neurobiological processes underlying this emerging clinical picture are more hypothetical. One model is illustrated in Figure 2.2 This model postulates that psychosis is the product of inadequate cortical synaptic connectivity that typically emerges or is "expressed" in the final adolescent/young adult stage of neurodevelopment, when cortical synapses are normally pruned.
Two paths to this connection deficit are schematized in Figure 2. In the first path, synaptic density is already attenuated in childhood from genetic liabilities or perinatal insults such that the normal pruning of adolescence drives connectivity below the psychosis threshold density. The second path starts with normal childhood cortical volume, but then pathologically aggressive synaptic pruning in adolescence leads to psychosis. The details and the mechanisms of this process are not the focus of this article. However, Figure 2 is presented to illustrate the hypothesis that psychosis is a product of aberrant neurodevelopment and that for any intervention to be truly preventive, it must somehow slow down, halt, or reverse this trajectory—a daunting task indeed!
Reducing DUP
Initial efforts toward secondary prevention have focused on the first psychotic episode and reducing the DUP—the period between onset and first treatment. Dozens of studies have demonstrated a robust correlation between delayed first treatment (longer DUP) and poorer outcomes.3,4 However, it was not until the Early Treatment and Intervention in First-Episode Psychosis (TIPS) series of studies over the past 12 years that any effort had been made to actually change the DUP and measure its effect on outcome. The hypothesis is that a shorter DUP in first-episode psychosis would be associated with better outcomes.4
The TIPS study is complex and ongoing, but the core findings are that the DUP can be significantly reduced through educational campaigns about psychosis aimed at practitioners, schools, and the general public.5 In the study, such an effort was engineered in a single Scandinavian health care sector. The outcomes for a 4-year sample of first-episode psychotic patients from this sector were compared with the outcomes for 4-year first-episode samples from 2 control health care sectors that made no effort to reduce the DUP.
The target sector achieved a significantly shorter DUP than the control sectors. Baseline and 1-, 2-, and 5-year outcomes have been significantly better in the experimental sector sample, especially with regard to negative symptoms and functional deficits (the core chronic symptoms of schizophrenia).6-9 All of the study sites in the TIPS series used a standard treatment battery of antipsychotic medication, individual therapy, and family therapy. Therefore, sector outcome differences were most likely related to the different timing of the same treatments, ie, earlier treatment resulted in a genuinely healthier cohort of patients.
We regard this as preliminary but compelling evidence that earlier diagnosis and earlier administration of standard treatments in the course of first-episode psychosis may actually truncate the neurobiological process(es) that generates chronicity (eg, excessive pruning). The result requires replication, but we and our Scandinavian colleagues are excited that the data strongly endorse the validity and preventive potential of early detection and treatment of psychosis.
Moving backward
If treatment earlier in a first episode can improve prognosis, could treatment before onset in the prodromal phase of the disorder actually delay or prevent onset? That question, raised by TIPS, has attracted increasing attention in early-psychosis treatment centers for more than a decade. More recently, the prevention field has been moving further backward, or earlier, in the temporal course of disorder development to the psychosis-risk or the prodromal phase of psychosis.
The study of the preventive potential of pre-onset or psychosis-risk intervention requires a common and reliable diagnosis of a risk syndrome with which to construct samples that we can track and treat and that can be replicated by independent clinical investigators. Yung and McGorry10 created the Comprehensive Assessment of At-Risk Mental States (CAARMS), a structured interview for diagnosing the psychosis-risk syndrome. Our team at Yale developed the Structured Interview for Psychosis-Risk Syndromes (SIPS); this tool is used to rate the severity/frequency of key prodromal symptoms and can be used to determine the presence or absence of several psychosis-risk syndromes. It can also be used to estimate the severity of these symptoms and syndromes, including the boundary of transition from the prodrome to psychosis, called "conversion."11
The interrater reliability of the SIPS is satisfactory.12 Moreover, the SIPS has proved to be a valid predictor of psychosis insofar as psychosis developed over the next 2.5 years in approximately 33% of a large sample of treatment-seeking persons meeting SIPS criteria.12,13 In essence, approximately 1 of 3 persons who met an SIPS prodromal diagnosis became psychotic, which amounts to a risk for psychosis that is more than 400 times the risk for the average individual. Some of the remaining two-thirds of the sample who met an SIPS prodromal diagnosis and in whom psychosis did not develop remained prodromally symptomatic and eventually met criteria for schizotypal personality disorder; in others, Axis I disorders, such as depression, developed; and in many, prodromal symptoms remitted with time without sequelae (J. Addington et al, unpublished data, 2010).
Despite this heterogeneity of outcomes, some of which are benign, it is important to note that persons who come to our psychosis-risk research centers are almost always treatment-seeking adults and young adults. Most are referred to us by practitioners in the area who are familiar with our clinic and with what kinds of patients we are looking for. The patients we evaluate and serve are definitely not from the ranks of the "worried well." By and large they are disturbed, dysfunctional, and struggling with new, strange, and puzzling symptoms, and their families are baffled and very worried.
Treatment research in psychosis risk has just begun, and initial findings show promise. Combined antipsychotic (risperidone) and individual psychotherapy, antipsychotic therapy alone (olanzapine), and psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral therapy) alone all show that onset of psychosis in prodromal samples can be delayed, but often with substantial adverse effects (eg, weight gain with olanzapine(Drug information on olanzapine)).14-16 Most recently, a randomized trial of v-3 fatty acids delayed onset of psychosis with virtually no adverse effects.17 In this study, the risk to benefit ratio is remarkably good, and if the results can be replicated, they should essentially eliminate concerns about untoward adverse effects in false-positive cases. Overall, however, many more treatment studies are needed before integrated guidelines can be formulated.
In the absence of more data, treatment recommendations must be conservative. The American Psychiatric Association's 1994 Psychiatric Disorders Practice Guidelines covered the psychosis-risk syndrome in 1 sentence: "Furthermore, in persons who meet criteria for being prodromally symptomatic and at risk for psychosis in the near future, careful assessment and frequent monitoring are recommended until symptoms remit spontaneously, evolve into schizophrenia, or evolve into another diagnosable and treatable mental disorder."18
This, we believe, remains the core of treatment. As formulated by the leaders of the team at our psychosis-risk syndrome clinic at the Connecticut Mental Health Center—which includes Scott Woods, MD, and Barbara Walsh, PhD, and included the late Tandy Miller, PhD—the strategies summarized in the Table constitute the backbone of our approach. The key elements are regular meetings with patients and their families, monitoring symptoms over time, and knowing when to use psychotropics.
Antipsychotic pharmacotherapy: yes or no?
Our guidelines concerning antipsychotic medications during the prodromal phase are conservative—we wait to use them until conversion has happened or appears to be inevitable. However, this strategy is dictated in part by our research protocol, which aims to track the risk syndrome to 1 or more of its possible outcomes. We are confident that our clinical oversight is sufficiently robust and comprehensive that monitoring to conversion does not place the patient in any danger.
We realize, however, that this strategy is not what most psychiatrists can follow, or count on, especially those in solo practices. Such practitioners face a real dilemma that is confounded by a lack of clinical research data to guide the way. Using antipsychotic medication without a diagnosis of psychosis is understandable but risky, both clinically and medicolegally. Many deal with it by broadening the psychosis not otherwise specified (NOS) definition and writing a prescription, which may be a reasonable ad hoc or stopgap measure, but it begs 2 questions that we as professionals must deal with: Is the risk syndrome as a psychiatric disorder a legitimate diagnosis? What is known about the risk to benefit ratio of treating this clinical entity?
DSM-5 and psychosis risk
Should the psychosis-risk syndrome be a new diagnosis in DSM-5 as part of Psychotic Disorders? This question has generated intense controversy over the past year in psychiatric circles and meetings. Much as we are tempted to jump into the fray of hyperbole and invective, let me say simply that it has been obvious to me for a long time that we need the Risk Syndrome in DSM-5. It is a legitimate, and important, clinical entity and needs to be recognized as such. Official recognition is required to obtain grants to support longitudinal research into its natural history and clinical trials of the treatment of persons with the syndrome. However, it is primarily needed so that these symptomatic and endangered persons can be treated as bona fide patients and physicians can be compensated for what is often a long and labor-intensive process. What risk-positive patients need most is time and contact. The lack of an official status for their condition is, in itself, responsible for much of the inadequate care and attention they are given.
The risk to benefit ratio of psychosis risk
Much resistance to disorder status for the psychosis-risk syndrome stems from the fact that only a minority of those given the diagnosis really have the disorder. In the majority of persons, the diagnosis is a false positive; nevertheless, they get labeled as sick or "crazy." They are also subject to unnecessary treatments, which can have long-lasting adverse effects. All of this cannot be denied, although even false positives may obtain short-term benefits for their current symptoms, but what about true-positive patients? What happens to them if they are not acknowledged, followed up and, if necessary, medicated? If the long-term results of the TIPS study has validity, withholding attention and treatment will rob this group of truly preventive options.
For me, the answer to this dilemma lies in what we see as the long-term risks for each group. For the false-positive person, time usually reveals that the threat of psychosis is unlikely. Any ongoing treatment specific for psychosis will stop and any associated stigma is likely to disappear. For the true-positive patient, however, ignoring risk and preventive treatment leaves him or her vulnerable to a first psychiatric break that is, in the short term, unexpected, ineffable, terrifying, and possibly lethal. In the long term, this approach can potentially lead to dementia, even if the patient is eventually treated. For the patient with a true-positive diagnosis who is in the prodromal phase, a major life-long risk is actual loss of brain hardware. These are the patients who have the most to lose in the long run, and their risk to benefit ratio should give them top priority in mental health care delivery systems. The bottom line for me is that the psychosis-risk syndrome should be taken seriously and be treated as a bona fide psychiatric disorder for 3 reasons: it is there, it is real, and it can be very dangerous if ignored.


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A continuation of questionnaires for the city of Besancon
The third part of the project "ma cité" for the city of Besançon has been relaunched. The aims are to define the satisfaction of the citizens within Besançon.
By using Epragma, investigators are based in the labs of THEMA-IT and call citizens (individuals called in the first part of the project). All answers are stored in the database of Epragma and exported to analysis.


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The Sonogram Holds the Secret
Here are the facts:
-- Drew is engaged to Will Kopelman, a 34-year-old art consultant ... who popped the question just a few months ago.
That's pretty much it for the facts.
We reached out to Drew's rep -- who politely gave us a "no comment" ... but it ain't exactly a denial.
So ... congrats?