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Ressentiment (French pronunciation: [rəsɑ̃timɑ̃]), in philosophy and psychology, is one of the forms of resentment or hostility. It is the French word for "resentment" (fr. Latin intensive prefix 're', and 'sentir' "to feel"). Ressentiment is a sense of hostility directed at that which one identifies as the cause of one's frustration, that is, an assignment of blame for one's frustration. The sense of weakness or inferiority and perhaps jealousy in the face of the "cause" generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one's frustration. The ego creates an enemy in order to insulate itself from culpability.
Ressentiment was first introduced as a philosophical/psychological term by the 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.[1][2][3] Friedrich Nietzsche later independently expanded the concept; Walter Kaufmann ascribes Nietzsche's use of the term in part to the absence of a proper equivalent term in the German language, contending that said absence alone "would be sufficient excuse for Nietzsche," if not for a translator.[4] The term came to form a key part of his ideas concerning the psychology of the 'master–slave' question (articulated in Beyond Good and Evil), and the resultant birth of morality. Nietzsche's first use and chief development of ressentiment came in his book On The Genealogy of Morals; see esp §§ 10–11).[1][2]. Ressentiment was translated as envy in Hong's translation of Kierkegaard's Two Ages: A Literary Review.[5]
The term was also put to good use by Max Scheler in his book Ressentiment, published in 1912, and later suppressed by the Nazis.
Currently of great import as a term widely used in psychology and existentialism, ressentiment is viewed as an effective force for the creation of identities, moral frameworks and value systems.
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche[edit]
It is a fundamental truth of human nature that man is incapable of remaining permanently on the heights, of continuing to admire anything. Human nature needs variety. Even in the most enthusiastic ages people have always liked to joke enviously about their superiors. That is perfectly in order and is entirely justifiable so long as after having laughed at the great they can once more look upon them with admiration; otherwise the game is not worth the candle. In that way ressentiment finds an outlet even in an enthusiastic age. And as long as an age, even though less enthusiastic, has the strength to give ressentiment its proper character and has made up its mind what its expression signifies, ressentiment has its own, though dangerous importance. …. the more reflection gets the upper hand and thus makes people indolent, the more dangerous ressentiment becomes, because it no longer has sufficient character to make it conscious of its significance. Bereft of that character reflection is a cowardly and vacillating, and according to circumstances interprets the same thing in a variety of way. It tries to treat it as a joke, and if that fails, to regard it as an insult, and when that fails, to dismiss it as nothing at all; or else it will treat the thing as a witticism, and if that fails then say that it was meant as a moral satire deserving attention, and if that does not succeed, add that it was not worth bothering about. …. ressentiment becomes the constituent principle of want of character, which from utter wretchedness tries to sneak itself a position, all the time safeguarding itself by conceding that it is less than nothing. The ressentiment which results from want of character can never understand that eminent distinction really is distinction. Neither does it understand itself by recognizing distinction negatively (as in the case of ostracism) but wants to drag it down, wants to belittle it so that it really ceases to be distinguished. And ressentiment not only defends itself against all existing forms of distinction but against that which is still to come. …. The ressentiment which is establishing itself is the process of leveling, and while a passionate age storms ahead setting up new things and tearing down old, raising and demolishing as it goes, a reflective and passionless age does exactly the contrary; it hinders and stifles all action; it levels. Leveling is a silent, mathematical, and abstract occupation which shuns upheavals. In a burst of momentary enthusiasm people might, in their despondency, even long for a misfortune in order to feel the powers of life, but the apathy which follows is no more helped by a disturbance than an engineer leveling a piece of land. At its most violent a rebellion is like a volcanic eruption and drowns every other sound. At its maximum the leveling process is a deathly silence in which one can hear one's own heart beat, a silence which nothing can pierce, in which everything is engulfed, powerless to resist. One man can be head a rebellion, but no one can be at the head of the leveling process alone, for in that case he would be leader and would thus escape being leveled. Each individual within his own little circle can co-operate in the leveling, but it is an abstract power, and the leveling process is the victory of abstraction over the individual. The leveling process in modern times, corresponds, in reflection, to fate in antiquity. ... It must be obvious to everyone that the profound significance of the leveling process lies in the fact that it means the predominance of the category 'generation' over the category 'individuality'. The Present Age, Dru 1962 p. 49-52
(T)he problem with the other origin of the "good," of the good man, as the person of ressentiment has thought it out for himself, demands some conclusion. It is not surprising that the lambs should bear a grudge against the great birds of prey, but that is no reason for blaming the great birds of prey for taking the little lambs. And when the lambs say among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and he who least resembles a bird of prey, who is rather its opposite, a lamb,—should he not be good?" then there is nothing to carp with in this ideal's establishment, though the birds of prey may regard it a little mockingly, and maybe say to themselves, "We bear no grudge against them, these good lambs, we even love them: nothing is tastier than a tender lamb."
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality
Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be "blamed" for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external "evil."
According to Kierkegaard, ressentiment occurs in a "reflective, passionless age", in which the populace stifles creativity and passion in passionate individuals. Kierkegaard argues that individuals who do not conform to the masses are made scapegoats and objects of ridicule by the masses, in order to maintain status quo and to instill into the masses their own sense of superiority.
Ressentiment comes from reactiveness: the weaker someone is, the less their capability to suppress reaction.[6] According to Nietzsche, the more a person is active, strong-willed, and dynamic, the less place and time is left for contemplating all that is done to them, and their reactions (like imagining they are actually better) become less compulsive. The reaction of a strong-willed person (a "wild beast"[7]), when it happens, is ideally a short action: it is not a prolonged filling of their intellect.[8]
Max Scheler attempted to reconcile Nietzsche's ideas of master–slave morality and ressentiment with the Christian ideals of love and humility. Nietzsche saw Christian morality as a kind of slave morality, while Greek and Roman culture was characterized as a master morality. Scheler disagrees. He begins with a comparison of Greek love and Christian love. Greek love is described as a movement from lower value to higher value. The weaker love the stronger, the less perfect love the more perfect. The perfect do not love the imperfect because that would diminish their value or corrupt their existence. Greek love is rooted in need and want. This is clearly indicated by the Aristotelian concept of God as the "Unmoved Mover". The unmoved mover is self-sufficient being completely immersed in its own existence. The highest object of contemplation, and who moves others through the force of attraction because efficient causality would degrade its nature.
In Christian love, there is a reversal in the movement of love. The strong bend to the weak, the healthy help the sick, the noble help the vulgar. This movement is a consequence of the Christian understanding of the nature of God as fullness of being. God's love is an expression of His superabundance. The motive for love is not charity nor the neediness of the lover, but it is rooted in a deeply felt confidence that through loving I become more personalized and most real to myself. The motive for the world is not need or lack (à la Schopenhauer), but a creative urge to express the infinite fullness of being. Poverty and sickness are not values to be celebrated in order to spite those who are rich and healthy, but they simply provide the opportunity for a person to express his love. Rich people are harder to love because they are less in need of your generosity. Fear of death is a sign of a declining, sick, and broken life (Ressent 60). St. Francis' love and care for the lepers would have mortified the Greek mind, but for St. Francis, the threats to well-being are inconsequential because at the core of his being there is the awareness that his existence is firmly rooted in and sustained by the ground of ultimate being. In genuine, Christian love, the lower values that are relative to life are renounced not because they are bad, but simply because they are obstacles to those absolute values which allow a person to enter into a relationship with God. It is through loving like God that we are deified. This is why Scheler sees the Christian saint as a manifestation of strength and nobility and not manifesting ressentiment.
Max Weber in The Sociology of Religion relates ressentiment to Judaism, an ethical salvation religion of a "pariah people." Weber defines ressentiment as "a concomitant of that particular religious ethic of the disprivileged which, in the sense expounded by Nietzsche and in direct inversion of the ancient belief, teaches that the unequal distribution of mundane goods is caused by the sinfulness and the illegality of the privileged, and that sooner or later God's wrath will overtake them." (Max Weber, The Sociology of Religion, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), 110.
Jean-Paul Sartre used the term bad faith to describe a highly similar phenomenon of blaming one's own failure on external factors and therefore denying responsibility for oneself.
See also[edit]
- Bad faith (existentialism)
- Existentialism
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Master–slave morality
- Max Scheler
- Psychology
- Resentment
- Søren Kierkegaard
- ^ Poole, Roger. Kierkegaard, University of Virginia Press, 1993, p. 226-228.
- ^ Stivers, Richard. Shades of loneliness, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, p.14-16.
- ^ Davenport, John, et al. Kierkegaard after MacIntyre, Open Court , 2001, p. 165.
- ^ Kaufmann, Walter. "Editor's Introduction, Section 3" On the Genealogy of Morals in Nietzsche: Basic Writings; Walter Kaufmann, tr. New York: The Modern Library, 1967.
- ^ see pages 81-87
- ^ See e.g. The Will to Power, 78.
- ^ On the Genealogy of Morality, 11
- ^ On the Genealogy of Morality, 10, last paragraph
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This way, you'll get all kinds of varied links, and they look "natural". If you have links on every page to your home page, a standard site nav menu, then some of that incoming PR will be passed on to the home page, and some to other pages that will in turn pass some PR on to the homepage, so your PR is simply being distributed accross a wider semantic topology, provided you use appropiate link text to map to those deep pages that are also optimized for similar terms. The way I do it is on the home page I will have major keyword links to optimized pages, not on the menu, to pages that have lots of links to other optimized pages on the site. I'll then write 2 or 3 variations of the anchor text and the description. Let's say I did 3. Then for each of these 3, I will link 2 of them to the deep page and 1 to the home page. Now I have 9 available links for that one inner page, but 3 of those nine I direct to the home page, where there is also a link to that inner page using the exact same anchor text (if not a wee bit more). If I have 8 main inner pages I want to deliver these to, I create a set of nine links to each and I have 72 possible link options, of which 48 will point at 8 different inner page, and 24 will point to the home page, a ratio of 1/3 to the home page. I can change this ratio by creating more or less pages for the inner pages. Later, the ratio or even presence of these terms can be modified to meet the needs of the site. If a page maxes out, and you need to concentrate on other terms then you can lean your database in that direction, or you can add more if you see weaknesses in areas. By only posting 2 or 3 samples at a time it makes it easier to steer the site when leaned. It is possible that deep-linking creates a cross-lateral bracing effect, a reinforcement on the topological hill, an affirmation of your semantic presence. A tree, skinny and tall, stands like a spike on the side of a hill. Our tree is a single keyterm, but it is not recognized as being part of the hill because it only has a single topological point of presence. That point is so disjoint from those around it that it must be a tree, for hilltops are somewhat rounded, and though sometimes spikey, they always have points on at least some sides of them that have topologically related coordinates. Every keyterm has topologically related others, its neighbors on the semantic landscape. By emulating that topology, by registering coodinate hits, with links, across the breadth of the hilltop, you contribute components to the hilltop, becoming part of the hilltop. So, a tree would be a site with links of only a single variety pointing only at their home page, and a site becomes part of the hill that incorporates a broad set of semantically varying coordinate links deep into the topological landscape. So, not only is it important to get deep links, but you can get more bang for your buck if you use a variety of keyterms.
When requesting links, include a link to a page in which you have explained different ways to link to you. Include in this page many text links linking to different pages (different anchor text also), a couple of banners, etc. Make sure to include the HTML code in a form field, so they can simply copy it and paste it on their site.
Exactly, but instead of putting up a page with dozens of links they can select from, create a dynamic page that displays a set of 2 or 3 pre-coded links that they can cut and paste. The 2 or 3 displayed are drawn from a text file or a database of potentially hundreds of pre-coded HTML snippets. Each can be pointed to a different page or in some variation 50% to your home page and 50% to other pages.


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Shanghai's Expo Is Chance For World To Court China
The World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904 gave the world X-rays and ice cream cones. In 1939, the New York World's fair unveiled television broadcasts, the tape recorder and nylon stockings.
On May 1, the modern-day equivalent, the World Expo, will open in Shanghai, China. Given China's rising international profile, the Shanghai Expo seems to be less about inventions and more about geopolitics.
Countries are thinking up ever more inventive ways to tout the national brand to the expo's expected 70 million visitors, most of whom will be Chinese.
As the official World Expo song is unveiled to mark the one-month countdown, frenzied preparations are under way. Denmark is bringing its Little Mermaid statue; a real chairlift tops the Swiss exhibit, and Belgium is even giving away free diamonds to a chosen few.
It's a sign of China's political importance that the millions being spent are seen as a small price to pay.
The World's Most Expensive Vanity Project?
Shanghai is in a multibillion-dollar frenzy of self-transformation as the clock ticks down to opening day. Roads are being widened, boulevards built and temporary pavilions erected at warp speed on a huge tract of riverside land set aside for the expo.
The half-year-long exposition will end up costing more than the Beijing Olympics. Critics say it is a chance for countries to cozy up to China and kowtow visibly by building costly national pavilions, which will be torn down in six months' time after the expo is over.
But those responsible for the pavilions disagree about their political role.
Peter Sams, director of the Australian pavilion, says that ties with China are important to Australia. "We [very much see] the expo and a substantial presence — us helping China have a successful expo — as a very important part of our bilateral relationship," he says.
The country's pavilion is one of the most expensive per capita, at $76 million. Its rust-red steel exterior hints at the massive business of exporting natural resources from Canberra to Beijing. This trade indirectly led to one of the lowest points in the bilateral relationship, the sentencing earlier this week of Australian citizen Stern Hu to 10 years in prison for bribery and stealing commercial secrets about China's steel needs.
Earlier this year, Chinese President Hu Jintao toured Australia's pavilion, which is almost finished. Expo officials admit that about 10 percent of the 91 national pavilions are not expected to be ready in time for the opening, but the Australian staffers were cocky with delight as they showed off Aboriginal art in the form of painted poles and the auditorium where a nine-minute show will be performed.
Not A Political Event?
Others disagree about the expo's political function, including Rajesh Kumar, director of the India pavilion's organizing team. Dressed in a bejeweled Indian shirt, he beams with pride as he gestures at the gigantic bamboo dome housing India's offerings.
India is spending a total of $50 million, he says, but its motivation isn't political.
"This is the World Expo, not a political forum," Kumar says. "This is not at all to do with any kind of politics or any kind of diplomacy. Nothing."
That, however, may be disingenuous, given that India is actually bringing 2,000 artists to tour 40 cities across China. That includes 50 Bollywood stars, who will strut their stuff in a one-time special show in Shanghai. Funded by the Ministry of Commerce, this Festival of India certainly sounds like an act of dance diplomacy.
U.S.: 'Rising To The Challenge'
When it comes to the U.S., Consul General Beatrice Camp says the expo is "a bright spot" in bilateral relations.
But the $61 million pavilion very nearly didn't get built after funding difficulties. It is still under construction, and on a visit to the expo site, journalists weren't taken to the building.
It's the only privately funded national pavilion, and with just a month to go, it's still short of millions of dollars. Jose Villarreal, the U.S. commissioner general to the Shanghai Expo, has pledged that it will be ready for opening day.
Fittingly, the U.S. pavilion's theme is "Rising to the Challenge." Private sponsors may be footing the bill, but Mark Germyn, chief operating officer of the pavilion, says it won't simply be a corporate advertisement.
"We are not a trade show format by any means. Our sponsor partners are ... participating because they believe ... that this is a very worthwhile opportunity to support America and America's presence in expressing, in a very positive way, American culture and society to Chinese here," Germyn says.
Japan: Mending Ties
For its part, Japan is spending big time: $140 million, almost as much as the biggest spender of all, Saudi Arabia, which is shelling out $146 million. For that price tag, Japan has built a lilac cocoon from high-tech breathable material, populated by violin-playing robots.
Noriyoshi Ehara, Japan's pavilion director, is so protective of it that he asked foreign journalists to remove their shoes before entry. Relations between Tokyo and Beijing have been haunted by Japan's wartime atrocities. But Ehara is confident that the pavilion will remake ties anew.
"We have historical issues, but now we are going to create new relations. This is it," he says, gesturing around the pavilion. "Japan's pavilion expresses the new relation with China. This is the main motif."
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****, man, who knows? Will any of them do any good? What does this really affect? I mean, the pope is only president of the catholics.
I think the real question here is one posed in Zeit Geist: is this truly the end times, or are we advancing into a new age?
The Papacy should go back to killing each other mob style for better positions. And the rest of us should go back to a mob financed renaissance. Complete with naked men statues.
"As good..." my ass...the Catholic Church has about 1500 more years of covering **** up than the US does...so I think they are probably MUCH better than the US in this area. Hell...look at the job they have done convincing the world that Jesus was a white guy with blue eyes...
Herself took a group of seniors to the shrine of St Gobinet yesterday and bought me back a bottle of holy water from the pagen well, which heals all ills, and a ribbon that has touched the sacred relic of the saint, which also heals all ills. The ribbon can even be hung in the car to prevent breakdowns, which is super cool!
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Questions remain after Wells Fargo ATM outage
The cause of one of the largest ATM outages in U.S. history became the topic of widespread speculation Tuesday, as cyber experts scrambled to figure out why most of Wells Fargo & Co.'s 12,000 ATMs went dark for several hours.By: Chris Serres, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The cause of one of the largest ATM outages in U.S. history became the topic of widespread speculation Tuesday, as cyber experts scrambled to figure out why most of Wells Fargo & Co.'s 12,000 ATMs went dark for several hours.
The San Francisco-based bank stayed largely mum on the nationwide outage, which was unusually long in both its duration and scope. Thousands of Wells Fargo customers were unable to get their cash until the automated teller machines were fixed late Monday evening.
It's unclear exactly what happened. The bank would say only that the outage was caused by "an internal systems issue" and was not related to an external cyber attack or a security breach.
However, Wells Fargo's silence did not keep many in the bank technology world from speculating on the possible causes. One popular theory is that the ATM network crashed as Wells Fargo was trying to upgrade its system to protect against a cyber attack. The bank regularly updates the encryption codes in its ATMs to prevent hackers from stealing the personal identification numbers that people enter into the machines, say people who work closely with the bank.
An internal e-mail from Wells Fargo, obtained by the Star Tribune, said the outage affected 9,500 ATMs nationwide and occurred at 2:54 p.m. Central time Monday.
"The irony here is that, in their zeal to protect consumers and their network, Wells Fargo may actually have taken its system down," said Richard Crone, a bank technology consultant from San Carlos, Calif.
Wells Fargo came under some criticism Tuesday for its handling of the incident. In Minnesota, many customers who tried to withdraw their cash on Monday afternoon were greeted with "Out of Service" messages, and branch tellers with no information. Angry customers made their opinions known via Twitter, barraging Wells Fargo's Twitter account (@Ask—WellsFargo) with questions and complaints.
To many customers, the bank tweeted, "Hi, ATMs are now operational. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Some technology consultants said they were surprised that Wells Fargo did not have a clear plan in place for communicating to its customers when the ATMs collapsed.
Early Tuesday, Wells Fargo issued a statement saying it would automatically reimburse customers for any fees incurred for using a non-Wells Fargo ATM. However, this statement was issued to the media nearly 18 hours after the outage. The message could not be found on the company's website and was not posted in branches.
"It's precisely when there are failures and mistakes that you really need a bank," said Bob Landry, vice president of the banking group at Mercator Advisory Group in Maynard, Mass. "The consumer doesn't need to know exactly what happened, but they do need to know what their alternatives are. Otherwise, people feel abandoned."
Julie McNelley , senior risk and fraud analyst at Aite Group in Boston, said she was surprised that Wells Fargo didn't do more to reach out to customers through more than just its branches. When the system crashed, the bank could have sent alerts to its customers through mobile phones, or posted information on where to go on Facebook.
The bank's ATMs also could be configured to provide more information than a simple error message, said McNelley, adding that such instant messages and social media postings might have prevented customers from wasting time before finding a working ATM.
"If they're not going to come clear with the cause, they could be proactive about messaging their customers," McNelley said. "In this age of mobile alerts, it's very easy to push out a message to your customers saying, 'This is what is going on and this is what you should do.'"
There has been a rash of bank outages recently. In September, millions of people who bank online with J.P. Morgan Chase lost online access to their accounts for more than a day after the bank's website crashed due to a technical glitch. A similar outage occurred last month at Bank of America.
However, the nationwide ATM outage at Wells Fargo is more serious, Landry said , because so many people rely on them to dispense cash at all hours of the day.
"It's a brand promise," Landry said. "If it's 4 a.m. in the morning, and you're on your way to the airport, you expect that cash will be there. ... I'm sure some heads will roll."
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It appears that Logan Morris' future with the Florida Marlins maybe in the outfield. This was not unexpected.
First base prospect Logan Morrison, last season's Florida State League MVP, continues lighting up the Arizona Fall League. Morrison hit for the cycle Thursday and entered the week batting .453 with four doubles, two triples, three homers and 16 RBI in 13 games.
It would appear Gaby Sanchez is blocking him at first, but the Marlins are giving serious thought to trying Morrison, 21, in left field. The Marlins already have a pair of near major league ready outfielders in John Raynor and Scott Cousins, who along with Morrison will be invited to big-league camp this spring.
Factor in how quickly Mike Stanton is climbing the organizational ranks and the Marlins could determine arbitration-eligible outfielders Josh Willingham and/or Jeremy Hermida are expendable.
Depending on how things go, it wouldn't surprise me to see Willingham and Hermida traded, if not this year, then possibly the next.
Morrison possess defensive skills, but first base may not be his calling.
The scouting report according to Jason Grey.
Morrison has been showing big raw power, both in batting practice and in games here, including to the opposite field with an inside-out stroke. Not only does he have the power potential, but also the ability to make consistent contact to go with it. He does have a small hitch in his trigger and a tiny wrap in his swing, but the 6-foot-2, 215-pounder doesn't overswing and is handling balls on the inner half much better this year. Athletic for his size, Morrison has a good arm and his defense at first base should not be an issue, despite limited range.
Normally limited range at first has to with quickness, and not speed. Assuming Mr. Grey is correct in his analysis, Logan may soon discover that the outfield is in his future. At some point, hopefully, improving the infield, and outfield for that matter, defense is going to more than just lip service and Morrison has the skills to roam left field. All it will take is a little training.
Like I said, it may not happen in 2009 but it could happen in the future. That, or the Marlins will start trading young prospects. But really, if the trading were to happen, it wouldn't take place in any quantity until around 2010.
You know, cashing in stores of value. (If you don't know, I will explain it sometime.)


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With the ridiculous and rising cost of education these days, scholarships can easily be a necessity for kids hoping to go to college. Take a look at some ways that you can increase your chances of winning a scholarship as taken from Mark Kantrowitz's best-selling book, Secrets to Winning a Scholarship:
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It is the policy of Missouri State University that when speakers are invited to campus to speak and they wish to have their books sold at the event, that the Missouri State University Bookstore shall be the resource for obtaining and selling those books. If the author would like to bring in his/her own books, a consignment agreement can be entered into with the Missouri State Bookstore. Exceptions to this policy will be granted by the Director of the Missouri State Bookstore.
Agreements as to the sale of merchandise for events at Hammons Student Center, JQH Arena and Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts will be handled by the Executive Director of these facilities. For further guidance on this policy see:
This policy is intended to better formalize the process when books are requested to be sold at University speaking engagements.
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Weather linked to three deaths in Delaware County
Authorities are investigating the deaths of three senior citizens in Delaware County that could be linked to the snow and bitter cold weather of the last few days.
Ridley Township police reported the deaths of a 92-year-old Secane woman and an 87-year-old Wallingford man, according to 6ABC Action News. A 67-year-old Swathmore man's death is also being attributed to the weather.
All three deaths were discovered on Wednesday. While the deaths are considered weather-related, autopsies are pending by the Delaware County Medical Examiner's Office.


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it's funny I was recently suspended for similar reports.. granted I did tell someone they had downs in one game.. but still.. the other games were completely unjustified. I wonder if RIOT realizes that the trolls can also go into the system and vote.. hey lets all just vote +punish for a month and see what happens? Maybe they will do something like take out chat and put in auto chat commands like pressing a button calls MIA, RE, GG WP, etc.. and make it have a spam filter just like the pinging. Most of the time I don't type when I play ranked anyway, so why not just take chat out of the game and implement commands + pings.. that's all you need. Then you won't even need this report system !!! you will just have the intentional feeder report !
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I would have pardoned.
When are we going to riot HQ with forks and torches?
But dont worry, if u get 5-6 of these type of bans riot may or may not perm ban you. Why is it they only check the "last" ban and not the previous X amounts. It makes no sense at all. What if u actually deserved ur last ban. that basically means u were permma banned for 1 bad run.
ttt worst ban EUW
Ya, completely undeserved ban.. Tribunal failed here..
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A six-week stay at a Hindu temple in India has produced thesame healing in patients with severe psychiatric disordersas a month-long course of standard drugs. A team led byRamanathan Raguram of the National Institute of MentalHealth and Neurosciences in Bangalore studied 31 people whostayed at the Muthuswamy temple between June and August 2000.
Six of the patients had been diagnosed with delusionaldisorders, 23 with paranoid schizophrenia and two withbipolar disorder. They had been suffering symptoms for anaverage of 71 weeks, and only one had received professionalpsychiatric care. At the end of their stays in the temple,their scores on psychiatric tests showed a 20% improvement,on average. This rate of improvement is what doctors expectfrom patients after four weeks of drugs like chlorpromazineand risperidone.
No specific healing rituals or ceremonies were performed forthem. They attended a 15 minute morning prayer session, thenspent the rest of the day helping out with the routine workof the temple.
So what healed them? "What they were given is tender lovingcare, in a non-threatening environment, in tune with theirown cultural beliefs, with the hope of recovery," saysRaguram. "And in the history of psychiatry, these were theprinciples on which asylums were originally built."
Assen Jablensky, of the University of Western Australia,says this type of healing doesn?t only occur in Hindutemples. "For example, a 'treatment protocol' in many wayssimilar to the healing temple of Muthuswamy has beenpracticed at the traditional therapeutic village of Aro inNigeria," he says.
Raguram says the only problem with the study is that therewere no controls. "To prove the efficacy we needdouble-blind control studies, which is very difficult toconduct in such settings," he says.
In India, many mentally ill people go to religious sitesthat are known for their healing. The Muthuswamy temple isbuilt over the tomb of a man who lived a century ago andwho, according to legend, could cure mental illness bytouching people with his hand. His descendants now run thetemple and invite patients to come there for free.
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