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Missy Douglas: Visualizing bipolar disorder through art
By David Keller, BBC News
Fed up with keeping her mental health a secret, bipolar disorder sufferer Missy Douglas spent a year creating a painting each day to express her feelings. Controversially, she decided not to take her medication during this time, in the hope that paintings demonstrating her highs and lows would raise awareness of her condition.
Waking up each morning, Missy Douglas has no idea how the day will go. She may feel invincible, or she may be hit by a bout of depression.
Battling the emotional extremes in life has become second nature to the 37-year-old artist, who has lived with bipolar disorder for most of her adult life.
Last year she chose to do what she does best. Every day, for a year, she picked up her paintbrushes and painted exactly how she felt.
She decided to give up her medication while she carried out the project.
"I wanted it to be as pure a view of the disorder as possible," she said.
"Painting every day didn't make me feel more stable or increase my sense of wellbeing," she said Douglas. "In fact, trying to look inside and express raw emotion or psychological distress everyday was very difficult.
"It sometimes exacerbated the depression or mania I was experiencing at the time. However, when I look back I can recognize the patterns and rhythms of my own 'brand' of the disorder."
Bipolar disorder brings about strong mood swings that can last for several weeks.
It can leave people unable to form relationships or cope with the day-to-day routine of work and - in extreme circumstances - lead to a feeling of worthlessness.
Douglas, who is originally from Northampton but now lives in New York, said living with the condition could be "extremely exhausting".
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Web therapy could be an option for bipolar disorder
By Liat Clark, Wired
An online platform that helps people with bipolar disorder self-administer therapy has proven to be successful in a small trial, with 92 percent of participants saying they found the content positive.
Nicholas Todd, a psychologist in clinical training at the NHS Trust, has developed the site as part of a project he's running called Living with Bipolar.
In it, he asked 122 people to use a sort of e-learning environment that uses audiovisual models and worksheets, incorporating parts of cognitive behavioral therapy and psycho-education known to be effective in bipolar patients. There's also a peer support forum, which is moderated by a member of Todd's research team, and motivational emails were periodically sent to those on the trial.
"Service users were encouraged to access the intervention flexibly and use it as and when they felt appropriate," Todd told Wired.co.uk. That's because, as he presents in a paper on the platform, for patients "recovery is defined as people living a fulfilling life alongside their condition". As such, it needs to fit in around them, their lifestyle and their changing needs.
One participant comments: "….for me recovery is certainly not about being symptom free… it is about coping and having a reasonable quality of life, being able to work productively and enjoy things outside of work."
Thus, Todd explains, "service users did not focus on a 'cure' as their desired outcome but instead personally defined recovery goals and improved quality of life."
By the trial end, Todd found that on average, users who stayed till the end completed 60 percent of the program. Of the people that completed the whole thing — 15 modules — 74 percent took under three months to do so.
The platform took a year to develop, spent looking at the most effective components of psychological therapy for bipolar disorder. As this was narrowed down, the group carried out five focus groups and tested it online via a consultancy group.
The system gets users to identify their own mood using an established scale, the idea being they — and the system — can track their own ups and downs. "Service users would then receive information about the most appropriate modules, given their mood symptoms," says Todd.
The forum, he says, played a key role in the project's success. One participant commented, "…part of it [bipolar disorder] is feeling very alone… you don't get that and I do think that the forum works extremely well with the intervention…" Todd explains how participants used it to support each other not only through the new intervention process, but through life events.
"A balance was struck between allowing participants to offload, and posts which encourage or talk about acts of suicide, self-harm, harm to others and are unhelpful to participants' recovery." A total of 70 percent of the users signed up to the forum, and 1,927 posts on 130 topics were accumulated. "The participants who used the forum tended to complete more modules, and all participants who completed the entire program used the forum, albeit in different ways."
The idea behind the platform is to help bridge those periods between appointments, or those appointments that a patient misses. As with depression, health services can be known to administer solely medication to help alleviate symptoms. More and more, the NHS is striving to ensure psychological therapy is integrated alongside a prescription for mood stabilizers, such as lithium. "However, severe inequalities in access to psychological interventions for bipolar disorder currently exist in the NHS," Todd says. "This intervention aims to increase access to psychological intervention."
Todd tells us the NHS is actively training more staff to deliver psychological therapy, to plug the gap. For now, that initiative is being piloted for severe mental health conditions. "This intervention may fit as part of this initiative in giving service users with bipolar disorder greater access to psychological therapy.
"Computerized interventions are not about replacing face-to-face interventions, but giving someone another option to receive psychological support. In fact, some people prefer accessing psychological support in this way as it fits better with their lives."
For one woman in particular the experience has been, in her words, "life changing".
She said: "I have encountered insights in the modules that have significantly helped me to survive the blackest moments. I cannot measure the value of this, as it has contributed to their difference between life and death. My husband and I are sincerely grateful for the immeasurable impact this has had on our family."
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6 ways to keep the voices in your head from making your life miserable: How to keep the know-it-all, bullying, mean-spirited committee in your head from continuing to tear you down
By Melanie Greenberg, ALTERNET
Loser! You messed this up again! You should have known better!
Sound familiar?
It's that know-it-all, bullying, mean-spirited committee in your head. Don't you wish they would just shut up already?
We all have voices inside our heads commenting on our moment-to-moment experiences, the quality of our past decisions, mistakes we could have avoided, and what we should have done differently. For some people, these voices are really mean and make a bad situation infinitely worse. Rather than empathize with our suffering, they criticize, disparage and beat us down even more. The voices are often very salient, have a familiar ring to them and convey an emotional urgency that demands our attention. These voices are automatic, fear-based "rules for living" that act like inner bullies, keeping us stuck in the same old cycles and hampering our spontaneous enjoyment of life and our ability to live and love freely.
Some psychologists believe these are residues of childhood experiences—automatic patterns of neural firing stored in our brains that are dissociated from the memory of the events they are trying to protect us from. While having fear-based self-protective and self-disciplining rules probably made sense and helped us to survive when we were helpless kids at the mercy of our parents' moods, whims and psychological conflicts, they may no longer be appropriate to our lives as adults. As adults, we have more ability to walk away from unhealthy situations and make conscious choices about our lives and relationships based on our own feelings, needs and interests. Yet, in many cases, we're so used to living by these rules we don't even notice or question them. We unconsciously distort our view of things so they seem to be necessary and true. Like prisoners with Stockholm Syndrome, we have bonded with our captors.
If left unchecked, the committees in our heads will take charge of our lives and keep us stuck in mental and behavioral prisons of our own making. Like typical abusers, they scare us into believing that the outside world is dangerous and that we need to obey their rules for living in order to survive and avoid pain. By following (or rigidly disobeying) these rules, we don't allow ourselves to adapt our responses to experiences as they unfold. Our behavior and emotional responses become more a reflection of yesterday's reality than what is happening today. And we never seem to escape our dysfunctional childhoods.
The Schema Therapy Approach
Psychologist Jeffrey Young and his colleagues call these rigid rules of living and views of the world made by the committee in our heads "schemas." Based on our earliest experiences with caregivers, schemas contain information about our own abilities to survive independently, how others will treat us, what outcomes we deserve in life, and how safe or dangerous the world is. They are also responsible for derailing intimate relationships.
Young suggests that schemas limit our lives and relationships in several ways:
A woman we will call Diana has a schema of "Abandonment." When she was five years old, her father ran off with his secretary and disappeared from her life, not returning until she was a teenager. The pain of being abandoned was so devastating for young Diana that some part of her brain determined she would live her life in such a way as to never again feel this amount of pain. Also, as many children do, she felt deep down that she was to blame: she wasn't lovable enough, or else her father would have stuck around; a type of "Defectiveness" schema.
Once Diana developed this schema, she became very sensitive to rejection, seeing the normal ups and downs of children's friendships and teenage dating as further proof that she was unlovable and her destiny was to be abandoned. She also tried desperately to cover up for her perceived inadequacies by focusing on pleasing her romantic partners and making them need her so much that they would never leave her. She felt a special chemistry for distant, commitment-phobic men. When she attracted a partner who was open and authentic, she became so controlling, insecure and needy that, tired of not being believed or trusted, he eventually gave up on the relationship.
Diana's unspoken rule was that it was not safe to trust intimate partners and let relationships naturally unfold; she believed that if she relaxed her vigilance for a moment, her partner would leave. In an effort to rebel against her schema, she also acted in ways that were opposite to how she felt; encouraging her partner to stay after work to hang out with his friends, in an attempt to convince herself (and him) that she was ultra-independent. This led to chronic anger and dissatisfaction with her partner.
Diana did not understand her own role in this cycle. Diana (and her partner) needed to understand how her schemas resulted in ways of relating to herself and others that are repetitive, automatic, rigid, and dysfunctional. By acknowledging and connecting with her unresolved fears and unmet needs, Diana could become more flexible and allow her partner more freedom without feeling so threatened.
The schema concept helps us understand how early childhood events continue to influence adult relationships and mental health issues, that we need to recognize their influence and (with professional help, if necessary), begin to free ourselves.
Six Things You Can Do Right Now
The tools and tips below will help you begin to identify your core schemas and take some corrective actions.
2. In close relationships, think about your partner's background, beliefs and behaviors to see whether they fit into one of the schema patterns identified here. Think about the times when your communication gets derailed and you both get angry or defensive. What schemas may each of you be bringing to the table and how may they be setting each other off. For example, a partner who has an Entitlement schema may act in needy and demanding ways that trigger the partner with an Emotional Deprivation schema to feel uncared for.
3. Pay attention to when you or your partner are getting triggered. You may notice feelings of anger or helplessness, thoughts that contain the words "always" or "never," and feelings of tension or discomfort in your body. You may feel reactive and tempted to withdraw or say something impulsively.
4. Practice the STOP technique when you are triggered during a conversation with your partner. This is a practice from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course developed by John Kabat-Zinn. STOP what you are doing, TAKE a breath, OBSERVE what you are doing, thinking, feeling and what your partner is doing, thinking, feeling. Think about whether your schema is calling the shots and if you would like to change tracks. Then PROCEED with a more mindful response.
5. At a time when you are both calm, sit down with your partner and try to figure out the cycle that happens when both you and your partner get reactive to your schemas. Decide how to communicate that this is happening in the moment and call a break.
6. Train yourself in the skill of cognitive flexibility. Deliberately think about other ways to interpret your partner's behavior that are not consistent with your schema? Perhaps he is withdrawn because he had a hard day at work. Are you personalizing things too much?
Schemas are more likely to be triggered when your emotional needs are not being met. Take some time alone to reflect on what these needs might be. Then practice some healthy ways of taking care of your own needs for love, security, comfort and so on. Harness your inner "Healthy Adult" to proactively take care of yourself so you're less likely to feel deprived and reactive.
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Suicide Prevention for All: Making the World a Safer Place to Be Human
By Leah Harris, Mad in America
Is it melancholy to think that a world that Robin Williams can't live in must be broken? To tie this sad event to the overarching misery of our times?
– Russell Brand, comedian/actor
Like millions, I am sitting with the fact that one of the funniest people to grace the planet has died by his own hand. Robin Williams' death has hit people of my generation, Generation X, especially hard. After all, his face flashed often across our childhood screens. Mork and Mindy episodes were a source of solace for me as a little girl, as I bounced around between foster homes and family members' homes, while my single mother cycled in and out of the state mental hospital, fighting to survive. I could laugh and say "nanu, nanu – shazbot" and "KO" and do the silly hand sign and forget for just a little while about living a life I didn't ask for.
"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it," may become one of Robin Williams' most famous quotes. I was always struck by how he moved so seamlessly between wacky comedy and the most intense dramas. He was so magnificently able to capture the human experience in all its extremes. He threw all that intensity right into our faces, undeniable, raw, frenetic. He showed us our own naked vulnerability and sparks of madness and gave us permission to laugh in the face of all that is wrong in this world.
In the wake of his death, many people are understandably jumping to identify causes. Depending on who you talk to, Robin Williams' suicide was caused by depression, it was caused by bipolar disorder, it was caused by the drugs, prescription or otherwise. We just don't know.
As a suicide attempt survivor myself, I can attest that it's not that easy to find any single cause for the urge to die. It's true that along with street drugs, SSRI antidepressants and other psych drugs can certainly increase suicide risk in some people. A decade ago, I was one of many who fought and won to get to the FDA to put a black box warning on SSRIs to warn the public of these very real risks. While a drug, legal or illegal, may give us the impetus we wouldn't otherwise have had to act on suicidal thoughts, for some of us it's more complex than that.
Our reasons for wanting to die are as varied as our reasons for wanting to live. That, I believe, is the great mystery of suicide.
But I invite us all not to fear the mystery; not to be struck hopeless by it. We can save each other's lives; better yet, we can find and share reasons to keep on living. If we have 20 seconds, we can share information about a hotline or a warmline. But if we want to really see this horrific epidemic end, we all have to get more involved.
As someone who has looked into the void and longed for it more than once, I can attest that anyone who reaches out in those darkest of times is truly remarkable. It is, tragically, when I am most distressed and most in need of love and acceptance, that I have the hardest time reaching out. This is not an absolution of personal responsibility, because we all must accept some measure of that; rather a recognition that we shouldn't put the full onus on a suicidal person to "reach out" and "ask for help." We need to reach out and help. I have written about the problems with the master narrative of suicide prevention, and how punitive and dehumanizing much of the "help" out there currently is. This blog isn't about that. I'm talking about help that heals.
My point is that we must change the way we relate to ourselves and one another. In revolutionary ways. We must wake up to the fact that we have been socialized since birth to hide the fullness of who we really are. Robin Williams got to act it all out and the world loved him for it. He expressed the madness, the wildness, that we have been conditioned to hide. We are generally chastised for laughing too hard or crying too loud or being too sensitive. We have been trained to put on a proper face and act like all is well. If for some reason we can't naturally do that (and most of us can't), we devise ways to cope with the awful unbearableness of it all. They may be fairly innocuous, like binge watching Orange is the New Black in bed all weekend long. Or we may seek to stop the pain in innumerable ways that we know will kill us in the end — from binge eating to chain smoking to staring down a bottle of whiskey or pills.
If we only realized just how many people walked around carrying heavy burdens that are invisible to the world, and were doing every fucking thing possible to keep from cracking under the weight, we would stop feeling so alone and isolated carrying our own. We could put down our burdens and rest, in the all-encompassing field of our human vulnerability and strength.
"Be kind, for everyone you know is fighting a hard battle," said theologian Ian MacLaren. I am struck by the imperative need for us all to take up the challenge to be kinder to ourselves and others. There is so much suffering in the world. How often do we ask ourselves, in the midst of responding to Facebook posts, Tweets, and emails: how can I relieve suffering? At the very least, how do I not add to it?
No one person can fix this mess we have gotten ourselves into as a species, but we can each be a part of bringing more compassion and acceptance into the world. First, we have to learn to practice it with ourselves. We can be the antidote to the fear and sorrow that exists within us, in other people, and in the world "out there." Kindness is dismissed as bullshit in a world that values power over others. But as mindfulness teacher Sharon Salzberg reminds us, kindness is a "force." If unleashed in vast quantities, it could literally reverse the cycle of misery on this planet.
When will we stop walking around in these miraculous, vulnerable human bodies seeing ourselves as separate? What will it take for us to realize our interconnectedness; to act from a deep understanding that suicidal people are not to be feared and judged, but to be embraced and held in the light of understanding and true empathy? Empathy sees that we are all connected, and thus demands well-being for all.
I think of the people who report walking to the bridge and said to themselves, "if one person smiles at me or talks to me, I won't jump." Lately I try to go out of my way to smile at people, to talk to people, even if they look at me funny because they aren't used to random strangers smiling at them or talking to them. Come to think of it, I think talking to strangers is definitely a symptom of some severe mental disorder in the DSM-V.
But seriously, folks. It strikes me that breaking down our collective walls of isolation, of chiseling away our carefully constructed masks, of taking care of ourselves and each other, of judging less and loving more, may be among the most important things we can do with our lives. We can simply value people, not for what they do or what they achieve in the world, but because they are alive on this planet with us, right now, sharing these troubled, turbulent and painfully beautiful times.
In the end, we are stunningly diverse, yet there are basic human needs that we all have in common. The ancient practice of lovingkindness exhorts us to wish for ourselves and all beings to be safe, to be healthy, to be free, to live with ease. How can we create a world where these universal human needs are met? I think this is one of the primary questions we should all be asking ourselves right now, and figuring out the answers together.
I don't claim that smiling at the person who makes your coffee or talking to a stranger on the metro will save the planet. What I do believe is that if we all made human connection, safety, and a sense of shared belonging among our top priorities, if we all tried in ways large and small to end our collective isolation and suffering, this world would be a safer place to be human. And a lot of people might not be eager to leave so soon.
Nanu, nanu, Robin Williams. Rest in peace.
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Being bipolar is hard but I know I can survive, says Derby woman
By W. Roberts , Derby Telegraph
For seven years, mental illness has been a major part of Elizabeth's life – but she bravely battles on. She shares her story.
Manic moods controlled Elizabeth's life until she picked up the phone and asked for help.
She had suicidal thoughts and tried to kill herself. She went to see her doctor.
"I knew I was ill," said the 50-year-old from Derby. "How I was feeling was not right.
"There's nothing normal about staying awake all night chatting on the phone to a friend and at the same time, manically cleaning your house from top to bottom.
"There is nothing normal about feeling so low and depressed that you can't even find the energy to change out of your nightwear and keep it on all day."
For years, Elizabeth coped the best way she could. She endured several stays in hospital and took a concoction of drugs to try to stabilise her moods.
Then she was diagnosed as being bipolar – a serious medical condition that causes shifts in moods, energy and ability to function. Since then, life has been a whole lot better.
"I suppose once I was told that I had bipolar, I began to realise why I had been feeling the way I had. In 2011, I was in hospital for 11 weeks and that was a long time but, in that period, the doctors worked hard to work out what was wrong and now I know what I've got, I can deal with it.
''I am learning to live with it. I am finding room in my life for this condition."
Elizabeth does not want to be identified. She says the stigma attached to mental health is too big and she is afraid to be labelled.
While she battles to lead a normal life, she says she does not want to be discriminated against. And in her community, like many others, it is simply never discussed.
But at the same time, she wants to speak out about mental illness and highlight how hard it.
"People don't talk about mental illness," she said.
"It is something people hide away and keep close to them. I don't feel ready to tell everyone that I am bipolar.
"Life is hard enough for me. But day by day, I get more strength and I know, with the right medication, I can survive this."
Elizabeth was only diagnosed with bipolar two years ago. Her mental illness first started to show itself in 2007.
But, before then, life was normal for the mum-of-one.
"I had a job, a house and a husband," said Elizabeth.
"I worked in the caring industry and everything was fine. My daughter was all grown up and had her own place and I thought I had been a good mum.
"Looking back, I think things started to spiral out of control when my marriage failed. It was 2005. I literally lost the house and was made bankrupt.
"I started feeling paranoid and my mood dropped. I struggled to sleep because of the paranoia. I was worried about my future and what was going to happen. I think this was the start of it.
"I stopped sleeping and eating. I was worried about my life and that's when the depression kicked in."
Elizabeth went to see her GP and was put in touch with the team at Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. She was assigned a lead nurse. It was life-saving, says Elizabeth.
"To be honest, my nurse has been fantastic," said Elizabeth.
"When I've felt like I'm losing it, I have picked up the phone and called her.
"I have always been able to recognise the signs of my illness and I think that has actually saved my life.
"Instead of suffering in silence, I have asked for help.
"Instead of getting more and more unwell, I have moved quickly to get the right kind of support."
Elizabeth is not proud to have spent time in Derby's Radbourne Unit – a service dealing with mental health, learning disability or substance misuse.
She has been detained under the Mental Health Act. "People don't know what it is like to have a mental health problem," said Elizabeth.
"It can be tough.
"Most of the time, my moods are low. But I have experienced severe highs and that can be dangerous too.
"Once I went out shopping and spent far too much money. I severely overspent and got into debt."
Despite feeling stable at the moment, Elizabeth still describes herself as 'vulnerable'.
She takes medication and the tablets are keeping her well, but she does worry about her future. "People do take advantage of me," she said.
"I was in a relationship and we got engaged. Then he started asking me for money and I gave it to him. Before I knew it, I had given him quite a lot. He said the money was for our future. In the end, that wasn't the case at all. The relationship ended.
"I am vulnerable. I know I am. And when things like this happen, my moods can dip."
Elizabeth lives on her own. She admits she struggles to get motivated but says she would like to get back into employment.
She says she needs a purpose in life. Getting up and getting out, she says, could help her. Volunteering is something Elizabeth is interested in.
"My daughter is a good support to me," said Elizabeth. "And my mum, who is elderly now, talks to me on the phone. We ring each other every day.
"But I suppose it's my daughter who keeps her eye on me. She comes over for a meal and that makes me get up and cook something nice.
"She's the one who says 'tidy up the house, mum'. I don't like to think that she worries about me, but I guess she does. I worry about myself sometimes."
BIPOLAR disorder is a condition in which a person has periods of depression and periods of being extremely happy, cross or irritable.
It is also known as manic depressive illness. It is a serious medical condition and can leave sufferers unable to function.
Bipolar disorder is relatively common. It affects about one person in every 100.
It can occur at any age, although it typically develops between the ages of 18 and 24. Men and women from all backgrounds are equally likely to develop bipolar disorder.
The pattern of mood swings in bipolar disorder varies widely between people. Some people will only have a couple of bipolar episodes in their lifetime and will be stable in between, while others may experience many episodes.
The exact causes of bipolar disorder are not known. However, it is thought that several things can trigger an episode.
Extreme stress, overwhelming problems and life-changing events are often thought to contribute, as well as genetic and chemical factors.
The high and low phases of bipolar disorder are often so extreme that they interfere with everyday life.
Elizabeth's lead nurse at Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, said: "Bipolar disorder can be a severely disabling medical condition. However, many individuals can live full and satisfying lives within their own homes with the use of regular doses of medication to stabilise their mood. Although bipolar disorder is usually a long-term condition, effective treatment combined with self-help techniques can limit its impact on everyday life. Staying active and maintaining a healthy diet are important. Exercise and taking up a new hobby can also help to reduce the symptoms, particularly depressive symptoms.
"To date there is no cure, but proper treatment helps most people with bipolar disorder gain better control of their mood swings and symptoms, because this is a lifelong and recurrent illness.
"People with the disorder need long-term treatment to maintain and control symptoms. An effective maintenance treatment plan includes medication and psychotherapy for preventing relapse and reducing symptoms.
"Not everyone responds to medication in the same way, therefore several different medications may need to be trialed before the preferred course of treatment is identified.
"Understanding the illness is key for the person with bipolar disorder, allowing them to gain insight into their condition and recognise relapse symptoms unique to them.
''Should anyone feel they suffer with the above symptoms then your first port of contact should be your GP who will assess you and make a referral to mental health services if they feel this is necessary."
For more information, visit www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Bipolar-disorder/Pages/Introduction.aspx
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"Source Code" is an ingenious thriller that comes billed as science fiction, although its science is preposterous. Does that matter, as long as everyone treats it with the greatest urgency? After all, space travel beyond the solar system is preposterous, and yet we couldn't do without "Star Trek." The "science" in this case is used to prop up an appealing story of a man who tries to change the past.
His name is Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal). That he is sure of. That's why it's strange when he finds himself on a Chicago commuter train talking to Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan), a woman he's never met. It's even stranger when he goes into the toilet and sees a face in the mirror that doesn't belong to him.
How can this be? We are far from sure in the early scenes, which embed us in his confusion. Because some of the pleasure comes from unwinding the mystery, I'd advise you to stop reading now — unless the helpful TV ads have already hinted at the secret.
Spoilers ahead. Colter gains consciousness to find himself (as himself) in a secret Army lab, talking to a scientist named Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga). He gradually understands that the commuter train was destroyed by a terrorist bomb, and that the brain of one of the victims was harvested for memories of the last eight minutes before the explosion. That's a first cousin to the old theory that a killer's image remains imprinted on the victim's retinas.
But listen. Goodwin and her Army intelligence team believe that by rerunning those eight minutes, they can discover the identity of the terrorist and prevent a larger explosion that could destroy Chicago. This is because the terrorist unwisely detonated the small bomb as a warning, or something, I dunno. In the movies, evildoers love to pass out alarms and clues so they can be prevented from carrying out their schemes. This is a more sophisticated variation of the Talking Killer Syndrome.
Now comes the human touch. As he returns again and again to those fateful eight minutes, Colter finds that he can remember his previous visits, even though for Christina and others on the train, they are of course happening for the first time. This is the "Groundhog Day" paradox: You remember your previous passages through the same span of time. Colter begins to care for Christina, as well he might, as anyone who loved Michelle Monaghan in "Trucker" (2008) will understand. As the conscious occupant of this borrowed body, he apparently possesses free will and need not duplicate exactly what the original memory donor did.
This involves the possibility that he could relive the memories of a man's final eight minutes and act in such a way as to affect the outcome. If the man were to survive — whose memories would he have, his own or his visitor's? Don't go there. The Army's no doubt brilliant Dr. Rutledge (Jeffrey Wright) starts out to account for the experiment, but abandons his explanation, which is our loss. If you had a speech in this movie actually saying in so many words how this was possible, it would rival the findings of such great thinkers as Dr. Moreau, Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Frankenstein.
No matter. The director and writer, Duncan Jones and Ben Ripley, hurtle ahead with the speed of their commuter train, which like the man on the Grecian urn always speeds forward and never gets anywhere. Colter's challenge increases in complexity. The city grows ever closer to destruction. Christina becomes more poignant. The scientists grow more desperate.
What we have here, setting aside the fancy editing involving the time travel, is something that looks like hard science fiction. That's a threatened genre. Movies with plots are threatened in general; much modern "science fiction" involves blowing stuff up. The good classic sci-fi involved starting with an idea and exploring its implications.
Duncan Jones previously made "Moon" (2009), with Sam Rockwell as a character apparently nearing the end of a contract to man a station on the far side of the moon. Characters in Duncan Jones movies should learn not to be so sure of things. But Jones has the right spirit, Gyllenhaal and Monaghan are adept at playing their variations on the eight minutes, and here's a movie where you forgive the preposterous because it takes you to the perplexing.
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Smiley Adventure is a platformer game. You control a smiley face, and travel through 5 worlds and defeating enemies along the way. Start on the Ground world, then advance through water, air (flying through the sky using a jetpack), and underground (you are in the desert, where you have to dig wells, mines, etc. in the sand) worlds. Clear these to enter the white paradise world.
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This app can make you anticipating the coming of your important day by counting every day down.
■Log-in schedule
You can press "Re-log" button to log in, then input the name and date of schedule and press "Save".
If you select "Anniversary", "Birthday" or "To-do Note" button before saving, the schedule will be saved under the category accordingly.
In addition, you can also take down related things in Note to remind you of details.
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You can have a clear view of how many days until the anniversary, knowing how many anniversaries you have been through by tapping on it.
You can get the days left until next birthday with a glance, and tap the detail you can know how old you will be in the next birthday.
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This is one of the great literary anthologies. Cowley as an editor mastefully put together pieces of the Faulkner world, and in doing so made the world literary community understand that they were not dealing with a teller of one single story but rather with the builder of a whole literary world of his own .Faulkner's South Faulkner's world of the human heart in conflict with itself is presented here in all its unforgettable complexity pain and beauty . I think that anyone who wishes to know the Faulkner world as a whole should certainly begin with this work, if not necessarily end with it.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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If you were a mother animal, what would you say to your baby? In this "Sharing Nature With Children Book" from Dawn Publications, author Fran Hodgkins combines a gentle love song with factual information to describe what animal parents do with their little ones. Squirrels nest. Otters play in the sea. Bears emerge in spring from winter's hibernation. Possum babies ride on their mother's back. Deer walk through the grass. Ducks paddle in the pond. Bison explore the prairie. Wolves howl. Foxes run. Beavers build dams. Skunks have to learn patience to give others fair warning. Mountain goats climb cliffs. Bats fly through the night. But what do human mamas do?Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
What a wonderful bedtime story for parents to read to their children! Not only does it help to stimulate a young child's interest in nature, but it also uses the care that exists between the parents and offspring of many species to illustrate and extol the love of mothers and fathers for their children. If You Were My Baby has won several awards, including the Mom's Choice Award Honoring Excellence. And any book that celebrates the love of family in such a cute and cuddly way is a winner with me too.


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High Tech in Hawaii: The Real-World Relevance of Technology
"He was running like an angry dog chasing the mailman. He could hear the booming getting louder and closer. Horses came into view and Tommy almost fainted. Clumpy clumpy went the rampaging horses." --Tamlyn
"Finally it was here the wave in all his dream. It was swirling and twirling! The tsunami came crashing over Tom's head. BOOM went the wave. Tom couldn't even breathe. Tom went down into the deep cold sea." --Quinn
Writing Through Visualization
There's no shortage of vivid description in stories from Linda Mitchell's third-grade language arts students at Nuuanu Elementary School in Honolulu. And Mitchell thinks that happy circumstance may have something to do with giving her students a number of ways to come to the writing, including through technology.
Before Tamlyn and Quinn did their descriptive writing, they created storyboards about the action they wanted to represent in an assignment on "expanding the moment" -- making the story more intense by describing a fleeting instant in great detail. From their storyboards, they each created a computer animation of the action. Frame by frame, the animation in turn sparked their imaginations and helped them create word pictures. "It gives you ideas about what you see," says Quinn. HyperStudio and Kid Pix were among the computer programs they used.
"What the animation does is it assists the children in visualizing the action," explains Mitchell, who teaches language arts enrichment classes. "The animation is a way of them developing the picture so they relate that to the writing, to what they hear, what they see, what they feel." Technology, she adds, "gives you one more way of teaching something."
Kelvin Chun, Nuuanu's technology director, offers guidance to two students editing a video.
Thinking Ahead
At Nuuanu, a 400-student K-6 school situated in a misty green mountain valley above downtown Honolulu, technology is prevalent, thanks in large measure to the school's former principal, Eleanor Fujioka, and technology resource teacher Kelvin Chun. Fujioka pushed for and got funding -- from parents, grants, the district, and others -- for an impressive array of technology, including a closed-circuit television studio. Chun, who has received numerous honors, including being named one of USA Today's 24 Outstanding Teachers in the Nation in 2000, has made it his mission to help teachers incorporate technology into their instruction in a way that makes the final product more interesting and memorable, both for the student and for the audience.
The current principal, Clayton Kaninau, is as dedicated to technology as his predecessor, whether it's having students run their own daily closed-circuit and often interactive school news program or having them use technology to work on real-world problems.
"Looking for real-world relevance has to do with students being interested in what they do, knowing that it's useful outside of school," says Kaninau. "The experiences are not contrived or in isolation, but they're a part of a larger learning activity. Without those connections, it won't be meaningful, and it'll be forgotten tomorrow."
Students interviewed relatives about their lives before and after settling in Hawaii. Answers to questions such as, "What foods did you eat?" and "What did you do for fun?" were used to create a multimedia presentation.
Family Heritage
Nine-year-old Matthew couldn't agree more. He is interviewing his grandfather for an assignment on biographies. "What kind of job did you have when you were in Japan?" "How much did you get paid?" "What was it like going to work?" he asks. Matthew will write an essay about his grandfather and use HyperStudio to illustrate the essay with drawings and photographs on a Web site. Matthew says he realized he was accomplishing a number of goals: learning about a different country, learning about a different era, learning more about using the computer, and, most important, "knowing my family history."
The technology, according to Principal Kaninau, is an essential part of real-world learning. If students "are not using the technology when they get into the outside world, they're going to be that much behind," he says.
From the look of things at the school, Nuuanu graduates won't have any trouble understanding major issues of the day or fitting into the twenty-first century.
In the library, first graders are following the progress of Miss Junie 2, an endangered sea turtle they adopted (for 85 cents each) from the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC). Miss Junie 2 started her trip in Tortuguero, Costa Rica, and students regularly click onto the CCC site to check her movements as tracked by satellite and then write about her travels and ocean life in journals. Teacher Erin Okata integrated social studies, language arts, science, math, fine arts, and technology into the project as a way to help students develop an awareness of ocean life and to meet specific Hawaii state curriculum standards.
Students share their school experience on Nuuanu's Web site. Video from field trips, pictures of events, and student work are all displayed for peers and community to see.
Student Work on Web Site
The rich technology of Nuuanu is well illustrated on the school's chock-full Web site. Besides the typical announcements, daily menus, and special-occasion pictures, there is an archive of student work from as far back as 1997. Included is documentation of a pioneering 1999 videoconference with a mainland TV station as well as a 2003 student-produced video of a third-grade project, a native Hawaiian plant garden.
Through narrative and video, students take viewers on a detailed survey of the garden project -- determining its purpose of beautifying the campus and preserving native species, consulting local plant experts, seeking plant donations from the local government, enlisting digging help from a parent. "The best part of this project was getting our hands dirty!" says the student narrator. The project crossed a number of disciplines -- English, science, math, technology. Students wrote letters to local officials as well as the script for the video. They learned about different soil types and the oxygen and other needs of plants, created schedules for optimum watering and learned why one schedule was better than another, and developed multimedia projects to share what they learned. The students also created a form indicating how their project should be judged relating to state communication, writing, and technology standards. Their classmates filled out the forms during a presentation of the HyperStudio projects and then the students collected the forms, tallied them, and turned them over to their teacher for a final grade.
A sixth-grade field trip to three water sites -- the ocean, a river, and a small stream near the school -- puts the students in true scientific mode. Clipboards in hand, the team members (leader, materials keeper, recorder, timer, and checker) consulted each other while doing their individual tasks. "I like this," says Marrissa, waiting for a boot-clad peer to report readings of a water sample. "You get to work together." Students took readings for acidity, carbon dioxide, nitrates, and phosphates at all three sites as part of a comparison of the quality of water as it left the pristine mountains and headed toward civilization, with its pollution, trash, and sewage. Overheard conversations at the field sites, which included wading into a bay within site of Waikiki, went like this: "It's a crab." "Get it, get it, get it!" "Eight millimeters of dissolved oxygen in water." "There's not much phosphate." "Good." "No, that's bad." "Boy we're good!"
"Our field trip allows the sixth graders to consider the limited resources and fragile environmental conditions in Hawaii," says the student narrator of "Malama I Ka Wai A Me Ke Kai" ("Care for the Water and the Sea"). "It allows firsthand experiences in the exploration and observation of the common plants and animals that live in our tropical waters. Students are introduced to scientific classification such as phylum, genus, and species." They wrote descriptions of the location and made a sketch. At the ocean, they created a specimen pond to hold some of the creatures they caught. After they took notes on the creatures, they gently returned the plants and animals to their saltwater home. "This is better than class -- way better," pipes up Lauren.
Hands-on work, like this neighborhood water sampling project, gets students excited about academics.
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"They love it," says sixth-grade teacher Geraldine Kajitani. "If you start with ... hands-on activities and things that are fun, their attention is focused." And once that happens, she says, it's a snap to get them to study some of the drier material because they'll relate to it and remember it.
The students also get a boost because they work alongside real professionals, who refer to the student documentation in their own work because they don't regularly monitor the Nuuanu Stream. "We find [their data] very important because we don't basically have that baseline information," says Watson Okubo, an environmental health specialist with the Hawaii Department of Health. He lets the students know they're doing just the kind of work he does. "They have about a fifteen-year record," says Okubo, "and by looking at the organisms and different species -- the diversity -- they can figure, 'Gee, things are getting better for the fish or not.'" In fact, he says, while water quality has improved "quite a bit" over the past fifteen years, fish life has been declining because of overfishing. By the time the project is complete, "they have a feeling that this is not just lessons; this is real life."
Nuuanu Television News also mirrors what the kids see adults doing, and at Nuuanu everyone gets a chance to participate. Kindergartners are the weatherpeople. First graders do book reviews. Student-filmed and -edited videos are offered. Students in the other grades may do public service announcements or anchor a session with "Tutu Nanny" on a character trait such as responsibility or respect. Or they may do the production -- one at the camera, another in charge of audio, three others at the controls trying to make sure "b-roll" -- pre-taped video -- goes on the air when the anchor introduces it and that the on-air "talent" are following the cues.
The regular daily news also has an interactive element, with students asked to answer questions such as "What day is Easter?" The two students from the lower and upper grades who punch in the first correct answers win balloon art made by technology teacher Chun, who is also a magician.
Teacher Marjorie Tupper says the addition of technology has given all students a chance to excel. Students who might "falter with pen and paper," she says, suddenly have a new outlet that lets them express their knowledge through art, through audio, through ways limited only by the students' imaginations.
"Our students are living in the twenty-first century. They grew up with the technology," adds Chun. "We need to teach them to be problem solvers, how to be lifelong learners, how to go out in the world and utilize this technology."
Diane Curtis is a veteran education writer and former editor for The George Lucas Educational Foundation.
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I found this story very interesting. I am a teacher in a district that uses a lot of technology in their day to day teaching. This article made me realize that there is till so much more out there. I am currently utitilizing the Smart Board in my classroom and am always looking for new, creative ways to use it with my kindergarten class. I would love to hear if anyone has any ideas. I thought that the television news was a great way to integrate technology. I would like to read more about other classes and/or school that have used the television news.
Wow! So impressive. What I enjoyed best about all the projects was their inter-relatedness. It was also very rewarding to see these students so family and community minded. I enjoyed the instructor's approach to letting students fix problems rather than him jumping in. Even as an adult, I find in frustrating when an instructor jumps in to correct to save time; I therefore learn nothing. Thank you for sharing.
As a media specialist, I am always looking for ways to integrate technology into instruction and learning in meaningful, authentic ways. I am interested in a concept called "Digital Storytelling" and wondered if anyone has experience with it. As I understand the concept, the technology can be applied to any subject area at any grade level. I do not know what types of equipment and software are required for this application and would appreciate any advice.
I have been surfing edutopia for the past day and found a website that might work for you. http://scratch.mit.edu
This website allows children from ages 8-16 to create, design and share gaming programs as well as storytelling and animation. Good Luck!
I was really impressed by what I learned in this article. The school discussed found ways to integrate technology into its everyday activities. I really liked the creative writing the students did using HyperStudio and KidPix. This article really opened my eyes to all of the creative ways that technoogy can be used in the classroom.
I really agree with this article's perspective on student learning. The students were able to use technology to create real world connections to what they were working on in class. I find that sometimes students are assessed on skills that they will never use outside of the classroom. This article provided wonderful examples of how learners can solidify crucial knowledge that they will utilize in their future. Various content areas were integrated while students were learning. I also loved the students' ability to learn through exploration of subjects that were meaningful to them. Learners reinforced important literacy skills through learning about their family history in biography format. Students used technology as they modeled a newscast and "got their hands dirty" during a science lesson. What an awesome way to motivate and ensure learning!
I also was intrigued with the technology integrated writing exercises. Writing can be very diffifult and frustrating for students. Technology allowed the students to create and visualize their thoughts, which made formulating writing ideas a bit easier.
I thought this article was really interesting. The students were able to incorporate technology in all subjects and aspects of learning. Computer animation combined with writing projects is a fantastic idea. It gives children the ability to visualize what they are imagining and in turn their writing will be more descriptive and vivid. The use of technology in gaining more information about family heritage was also really great. Now, the students will be able to share their family history with others - using the technology gives them a purpose...a goal. Also, having students follow up about the sea turtle teaches students so many different things - technology, conservation, animal life...there are so many projects that can be done with this assignment. This gives the teachers lots of options. I also think the TV studio is wonderful. I think all schools should have mini-TV studios. This incorporates technology with getting information out to the school. And it is ALL STUDENT-OPERATED! They even included the Kindergartners, which is fantastic! What a forward-thinking school! I'm so impressed!
A very interesting concept in regards to writing. Students would create a story board and then a computer animation of the action. Seeing what they created helps in the writing process, especially with description. This is a wonderful way to help students visualize their writing. This article makes me realize that I am not using enough technology in the classroom.
One problem I see in my school district, is the inaccuracy in student's writing. If our school district would take this approach to writing, it may excite students more into writing. This technique may interest the visual learners who have difficulties in writing.
After reading this article and watching the attached video, I find this school to be doing positive technology integration. Often, technology removes the personal aspect of communicating, but this school has students of all ages working together to complete a task (Television News). The programs and webpages are also allowing theses students to follow up on studies and activities in different and unique ways. These students appear motivated to learn and that is what is important.
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As judges at the Crossroads Geological Conference announced the winner of the outstanding undergraduate poster category, Brendan Paddack didn't expect to hear his name.
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Paddack, an earth science major from Waveland, is a sophomore at Indiana State University. Despite the fact that he gave his first undergraduate presentation at the conference, Paddack walked away with the honor of first place and a $100 cash prize.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists hosted the conference at Indiana University in Bloomington, offering undergraduate and graduate students a chance to network with professionals and present their research. Representatives from various companies met with the students and acted as judges for the presentations.
"Without competition and qualified judges, undergraduate students rarely get the chance for helpful feedback from an array of interested professionals," said Indiana State University Professor of Geology Tony Rathburn, emphasizing the importance of such experiences for students. He noted that company representatives are good contacts for potential internships or job opportunities.
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