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We're often concerned only with images, and ignore sounds. Apart from 'gazing', there must be an equally important physical and spiritual act of 'listening' A world that puts too much emphasis on 'seeing' has led, over a long period of time, to the repression of our inner senses, including 'listening' . To make up an extreme case, the way a blind man experiences this world may not be more monotonous than seeing people, but richer and more pure.
This is how I console myself——有些变态地对声音敏感,或许是我在感知世界、认识自己方面更进了一步,至少它是我耳朵生病的可靠回报之一。
In the winter of 2006, as I was walking along the Southern road of the school in the wind, I suddenly felt that the wind was not uniform, even as it passed along both sides of my body. I vaguely felt that the sound of the wind in my right ear was softer, as that of a person covering their mouth when speaking, as a noise on the other side of a wall. After a few minutes of confusion, 我让所有的神经去感受究竟发生了什么,and I finally understood, the problem was not with the wind, it was something wrong with my ear. I finally identified that my right ear seemed filled by a mass of solidified air, and all sounds came to me through my right ear as if through something invisible.
I ran to the university hospital for a check-up, and the doctor said: you've got medium otitis media, and we will need to pierce your eardrum. At the time, I didn't know what that meant, but the word 'piercing' made my heart tighten a bit, and I couldn't help thinking: Oh my God, I might be about to become deaf in one ear. The doctor said she'd just started working, and could not do that kind of operation – it was a simple operation, and so she simply gave me a transfer sheet 于是给我开了转院单. 我带着那张单子和没有被强行留在校医院摧残的庆幸,清晨四点多到北医三院的耳鼻喉科去排队、I registered, and I started queuing, then I waited until an old doctor inserted a very long needle inside my ear-hole, and pierced my eardrum, pierced wha separated me from the world's atmosphere.
I didn't even feel the pain of the operation in my imagination, and when I came out of the hospital building, I found that I had discovered a whole new world: it was so clear, and from clarity so sharp, and from this sharpness so very different. I could clearly feel that, after it was pierce, my right ear completely opened to the world outside my body, and it greedily absorbed all the sounds from it: car sounds, conversation sounds, step sounds, shouting sounds… together with all their impurities. 对我来说,声音从另外一个意义上活了过来,被重新定义,这是耳朵的一次苏醒,在苏醒的耳朵里面,the sounds began their dance.
I went to a little snack stand opposite the hospital, I picked a window seat, and slowly ate a bowl of wonton soup, not only with my mouth, but also with my ears: I could hear the sound of my own chewing which I'd never noticed before, the grinding of my teeth on the food, and the slight ringing of my throat when I swallowed. 那时一场宿雪未化,on the bus back, I could hear the friction of the tires on the ice-covered road, the driver's seat creaking and screeching, the conductor sniffling, and a conversation among young people which they did not consider private; I could hear the window pane sending off minor bumps and vibrations, a person rhythmically pounding their finger on their knee, the heavy breathing of an old woman back from grocery shopping; I heard the music of all things interweaving.
If someone had noticed me then, what they would have seen is a strange passenger on the bus with their body tilted to the right.
As all of us do, before this: although we naturally and instinctively receive the sounds of the world, we feel that we hear them, but we don't actually hear, 就像我们成千上万次地看,但很多时候从未看见一样。这令人想起《阿凡达》里那句著名的:I See You。我看见你,我—看见—你。又或者韩国导演李沧东的电影《诗》里类似的情节:in the poetry lesson, the teacher, holding an apple, asks the students: how many times have you actually seen an apple? One thousand times? Ten thousand times? A million times? Wrong: you have never seen an apple. 它们的指向同一个重点,in the act of seeing and hearing, our eyes and ears are no longer just physical organs, but they finally communicate with the soul, mind, and sensing self. Ancestral wisdom has long pointed to that road to the self, as in the Bible, when God said, let there be light, and there was light; 就像王阳明说:"你未看此花时,此花与汝同归于寂;你来看此花时,则此花颜色一时明白起来。"It is not through God creating light, but God become aware that there is light, and naming the light, that light can exist in our consciousness. We mortals are like this, only the things that we become aware of by seeing and listening can become light and flowers.
After this event, I became more and more sensitive to sounds, not just that I paid more attention than before to the precise details of sounds, but I also paid more attention to what hid behind them, such as the emotions that the sounds brought up, whether I had experienced them before, whether I could easily replicate them, etc. More specifically, late at night, when a small truck full of building materials passed in front of my window, I gradually stopped feeling disturbed by it, but I carefully listened to the engine, and the sequence of sounds made by the tires's friction on the road, from the sound of brief conversations, I speculated on the mental and emotional state of the drivers, and tried to figure out his mood on this night he wasn't sleeping. I was pleasantly surprised to discover, at this moment, that all the sounds in the chaos had reached a sort of narrative order, that the sounds themselves had become the contents of the story, and therefore constructed the most true-to-nature scenes of life.
I also started to often rely on my ears to interpret others and myself. This of course is full of risk, but the risk is also interesting. 电话使我这种辨识的安全得以实现,I've alwasy liked to listen intently to each word pronounced on the phone, and make efforts to get all the information contained in the tone of voice, 并推而广之来测知他身处何地,大概正在做什么。These judgements and speculations based on sounds were sometimes true, but sometimes imaginary. The danger of it is, 我也比以往更容易陷入烦躁、愤怒、不屑、冷笑和无所谓等种种冷漠心境,语言上虽一如往常,可情绪依然跑到了十万八千里。
One year, my mobile phone got a problem, and on my new phone, the voices I was familiar with had changed. The first call I made after changing phones was to my father. The voice of my father as I heard it in the phone was abnormally foreign, and after being stunned for a short time, I quickly said a few words and hung up. The change in my father's voice made me lose the sense of reality, and brought up a kind of entirely new panic: someone was pretending to be my father, and I had to pretend that nothing happened; or my father was trying to pass as someone else, and I should not expose him. It was as if a huge black hole had suddenly appeared in the world, and swallowed everything related to me in its big wide mouth. I quickly hung up the phone and went out, panting, then called back home from a public phone, 正当我以为万物归宗,everything would be back to normal, 父亲将重新变成那个熟悉的人的时候,but another accident happened – what I heard on the public phone receiver was a woman's voice, which after a second of silence I recognised as my mother's. 我清楚地知道刚才是父亲,但那个电话的后遗症却始终难以彻底消除:打电话时父亲去哪里了?刚才是不是他的声音?
After hanging up the phone again, I sat down on a bench for a long time. 心想自己和父亲的这次谈话可能是最游离的一次,同时,也可能是最昭示当时父子关系本质的一次,竟然是通过声音的意外改变来抵达的。Changes in life have made it so that my father and I on many many topics can no longer exchange as we used to, but neither of us will admit it. 我必须从现在迅速回撤,尽最大能力回到他们适应的那种交流方式中,以保证关系的稳固。这和父子间的感情是两回事。推衍到极端便是,当你在最广和最深的程度上理解了一个人的时候,便很难在与他有深入的交谈了,因为他的所有疑问在你那里都不成为疑问,而你的任何一个问题他都会答非所问。This may also explain a similar problem: 最激动人心的爱情永远是发生在双方不甚了解的阶段的,因为那时候的交流是最有效、涵义最丰富、可能性最多的时候。Or to put it otherwise, in the realm of human emotions, only those exchanges full of imagination can be the most charming.
Sounds can be described in a variety of ways, and even when recorded with the latest technology, they remain elusive. Sound is not simple vibrations of the air, 它凝固着发声那一刻的所有信息,录下一段声音,哪怕你用最先进的方式保存它,after a few decades have passed, if you listen to it again, you can still hear the traces of the time that passed. What's more, 这些先进的技术并不能保证它传播或录下了你以为的自己。读硕士时,导师在一次课上说,he didn't like to use a microphone for his lectures, he was even a bit afraid that, because the microphone amplified and exaggerated his voice, this voice would not be his original voice. 前几天,老婆学校里做公开课,并且录了光盘,之后老婆一边看光盘一边把讲课的内容整理成文字。她觉得自己的录像中的声音很奇怪,听起来很别扭。"I didn't know my voice sounded like this." Of course she knew (had heard) her own voice, but only from that internal form of listening to oneself, she had never heard her voice as it was when recorded and broadcast again through a separate medium. Within our own consciousness, we hear our own voice from the inside, and form a strong sense of it this way; this is also a part of ourselves, and therefore, when the facts tell us that our own voice is not as we thought it was, inevitably, this causes some fissure in our sense of self.
I still remember the first time I ate an apple. I was about ten or twelve at the time, and a distant uncle had brought back two boxes of fruit from a wholesale place far away, and he divided them among his nephews and nieces, giving them one apple per person. We looked at it, it was so tempting, but at the same time so precious, we didn't know if we should bite into it, and destroy such perfect food. But it's perfection would only be achieved with a bite, and so we bit. That first crisp biting sound has always remained; I've eaten many apples since, but I've never heard a sound like that first one. Now, 现在,我能知道声音穿过了它的物理性质,the reason this first biting sound was so particular is that is when the real contact with the apple occurred: with that experience of eating an apple, it was the first time that apples came to existence for me, and some gap in me had been filled.
细细想起来,对这声音的记忆和执着,不过来自了解自己和世界的欲望。只有说出的,在才能通过耳朵,而在心里成为现实。That is why people are so concerned about hearing a baby's first cry, the first word it utters clearly, the first time it says 'mum' and 'dad'… all of these first times are like God naming things for the first time, 悠然一下存在了我们的意识里。只可惜更多的时候我们对自己不但无知,而且毫不在意。在拥有或试图拥有世俗的一切时,我们假装这就够了,不再需要其他东西,比如深深地知道自己是何等的卑微,比如从心里生出作为人的感情。我们把自己全部交付给身外之物,吃喝玩乐,浅薄的喜怒和悲哀,生活当然要靠它们支撑,可在灵魂深处总得保有小小的一片领地,给那个你未曾听见、也未曾看见的自己。自己,我们说得最多的言辞,我们遍寻而不得的那个人,我把这看做唯一可抵达灵魂安宁的路,作为平凡人,总有要有这么小小的一块地方,以免在将来老去,濒临死亡的那一刻,我们会发现无处立足。
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The Resolutions Top Doctors Make
Your doctor acts a lot like you do as the ball drops: She drinks, eats, then wakes up the next day resolving to do better, health-wise, in the coming year. But she also knows what works (sane body and life changes) and what doesn't (crash dieting, pulling six muscles). That's why REDBOOK got the country's best docs to reveal their tips for a healthier, happier 2013. Read them and say, "Me too."
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"Walking more will keep the weight off."
"Even though I'm a doctor, managing my weight has always been a really sensitive area. So, although it sounds very girlie, I recently went to Weight Watchers and lost 20 pounds. I was amazed by how much I learned about portions and healthy eating choices. My schedule is as hectic as it gets, and it's easy to rationalize that I don't have time to work out. But I resolve to continue making exercise a priority. I live in Oregon, a beautiful place, and my wife and I will take a brisk walk after dinner as many nights a week as possible, and use that time to reconnect. I've found that an evening walk is also a great way to avoid what I call 'arsenic hour'--that time when you come home exhausted and put junky foods in your mouth." --JOHN R. TONGUE, M.D., PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS


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eugeniedefranval submitted: Peaceful female protesters pepper sprayed for asking police officers why.
Protest organizers estimated that about 85 people had been arrested and that about five were struck with pepper spray. Among those was Chelsea Elliott, 25, who said that she was sprayed after shouting "Why are you doing that?" as an officer arrested a protester at East 12th Street.
"I was on the ground sobbing and couldn't breathe," she said. The ongoing protests, against a financial system that participants say favors the rich and powerful over ordinary citizens, started last Saturday, and were coordinated by a New York group called the General Assembly.
Wow, that is some terrifying stuff. Someone is going to have to explain for what has gone down out there. Today we're all left with the same question when faced with this disgusting perversion of justice "Why?"
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Credit Suisse's CFO to take on IT function
Its CIO will step down on 30 April, the bank said
By Anh Nguyen | Computerworld UK | Published 12:30, 27 April 12
Credit Suisse's chief financial officer is to take over responsibility for the IT function as its chief information officer steps down, the bank said on Friday
David Mathers, chief financial officer (CFO) of Credit Suisse, will take full responsibility for IT in addition to his finance role. Outgoing CIO Karl Landert will work closely with Mathers to ensure a smooth transition, the bank said.
In February Mathers defended the bank's decision to take charges of almost 1 billion Swiss francs to slash costs and risky assets to meet stiffer capital rules.
Landert joined the investment bank in 2001 and has served as CIO since 2008. He will step down from company's executive board on 30 April.
"I wish to thank Karl very much for the major role he played in the deployment and implementation of Credit Suisse's integrated banking model within the IT division," chairman Urs Rohner said.
"The integration of our finance, operations and IT functions will support the evolution of the bank's strategy, while reinforcing the importance of sustaining overall cost efficiency and organisational flexibility and of developing a single operating platform for the bank," Brady Dougan, CEO of Credit Suisse, added.
CFO Mathers is responsible for corporate real estate, supply management, group insurance and expense management. Before his appointment as CFO in October 2010, Mathers was head of finance and then chief operating officer (COO) for the Credit Suisse's investment bank.
Landert joined Credit Suisse 11 years ago as head of application development, and was appointed head of IT at the bank in 2004. He was then CIO of private banking before becoming overall CIO.
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'China not facing US-style housing crunch danger'
Housing market slowdown may weigh on China's growth but China's is not in danger of a US- style housing crunch if sales and demand continue to fall, a US expert said Monday.
"Certainly there are signs of cooling down. Sales are down, investment is still going fairly strongly, but it will follow off if sales continue to be relatively weak," said Nicholas Lardy, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Lardy said continued drop in property investment and demand of housing could pose big risks to China's growth because much of Chinese economy is housing-related.
However, he noted, the leverage associated with investment in China's housing market is fairly modest, and the household debt as a share of GDP, though has gone up quite a bit, is still relatively low.
"If prices soften for a while, you are not going to find a large number of borrowers under water immediately, and trying to liquidate their ownership of property," said Lardy.
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Of all the off season questions marks that have faced the Cubs, their pitching (mainly the order of the rotation) was the biggest.
Today, Dale Sveum addressed the media and covered a range of topics in the process. Most notably of all his quotes was that Scott Feldman would be the probable starter in the number 4 slot for the Cubs this season:
Feldman is going to be one of the starters. There's an above average chance Baker is going to probably start just a little bit late, just because you don't want to really rush him or anything. There's no need for anything like that. You have Garza, obviously Samardzija, Jackson and Feldman in those other spots.
It was previously assumed that Scott Baker would be finishing out the Cubs rotation with Feldman, Wood, and Christian Villanueva competing for the 5th and final spot, however Baker's recovery is going a little slower than the Cubs had previously anticipated.
Nothing to be concerned about as it's just a logistical problem.
Presumably, Feldman is a lock in the rotation, but this is the 2013 Chicago Cubs and inherently, nothing is for certain. Sveum continues to say:
There's no guarantee of any spots other than those top three but we'll just let it all pan out and see what happens
Huh… well Dale. Thanks for that nice little tidbit of confusion.
Either way, Christian Villanueva will likely be the the 5th man in the rotation, but only a fool would make a concrete prediction.
It's just a hunch at this point really. A well educated hunch, but a hunch none the less.
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Today's Insight - September 13, 2012
A Realistic Appraisal of Serving Others
by Charles R. Swindoll
1 Peter 2:20-24 ; 1 Peter 3:17-18
We Americans like things to be logical and fair. We not only like that, we operate our lives on that basis. Logic and fairness are big guns in our society.
Meaning this: if I do what is right, good will come to me, and if I do what is wrong, bad things will happen to me. Right brings rewards, and wrong brings consequences. That's a very logical and fair axiom of life, but there's only one problem with it. It isn't always true. Life doesn't work out quite that well.
There isn't a person reading these words who hasn't had the tables turned. All of us have had the unhappy and unfortunate experience of doing what is right, yet we suffered for it. And we have also done what is wrong on a few occasions without being punished. The latter, we can handle rather easily . . . but the former is a tough pill to swallow.
I don't find it a nagging problem, for example, to drive 75 miles an hour on the highway and get away with it. Normally, I don't lie awake through the night feeling bad because an officer failed to give me a ticket—even though, in all fairness, I deserved one. But you let one of those guys ticket me when I have done nothing wrong, and I'm fit to be tied! And so are you. We hate being ripped off. Consequences belong to wrong actions. When they attach themselves to right actions, we struggle with resentment and anger.
I wish I could say that the only place such things happen is in our driving, but I cannot. They also happen in our serving in ministry.
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Secret Santa Fri. November, 07 at 01:30 amAndy's Twelve Days of Christmas-themed Secret Santa gifts to Erin do more harm than good. Dwight and Jim hope to infuse the staff with holiday spirit, but Jim's decision to let Phyllis play Santa at the Dunder Mifflin Christmas party ires Michael. A new warehouse worker catches Oscar's eye.
Banker, The Fri. November, 14 at 01:30 amWhen the prospective buyer of Dunder Mifflin sends a banker to the Scranton branch to do due diligence, it sets off a wave of reminiscing about the various events the employees have been involved in.
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Manager and Salesman Fri. November, 21 at 01:30 amSabre's CEO visits and tells Michael and Jim that one of them must take a step down and go back to sales. Andy's Valentine's Day cards leave Kelly thinking she's the one he's interested in.
Delivery Part 1, The Thu. November, 27 at 01:30 amPam goes into labor and Jim is ready to take her to the hospital, but she refuses to go. Meanwhile, inspired by Pam and Jim's baby, Dwight and Angela try to reach a "business agreement" to have a baby of their own.
Delivery Part 2, The Fri. November, 28 at 01:30 amAfter the baby is born, Pam has trouble getting the baby to breastfeed. At the office, Michael takes credit for hooking Jim and Pam up, and tries to do the same thing for Kevin and Erin, making Andy jealous.
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School officials say the highly contagious norovirus is the suspected illness that sickened hundreds of students and staffers at a suburban Dallas high school.
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In classical music, one common format is to take a theme and then write a series of variations. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff, for example, all wrote pieces entailing variations on themes written by someone else. That format makes it possible to look at an idea from a variety of alternative perspectives. I will try to do something analogous using as theme the article in this issue by Turner et al. (1), which will be viewed from three perspectives or "variations": 1) the patients and problems being treated, 2) the treatment approaches, and 3) the need to consider them together.
The article, titled "Psychological Interventions for Psychosis," presents a meta-analysis of a group of treatments for psychotic patients. The core idea, of course, is to determine the best way to treat a person afflicted by psychosis, focusing in this study on psychological methods. Forty-eight outcome studies comparing psychological treatments were included and then grouped into six categories for treatment comparison. Results showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was significantly more effective for reducing positive symptoms, and social skills training for reducing negative symptoms. In direct comparisons between two treatment methods, CBT was more effective than befriending for overall symptoms and more effective than supportive counseling for positive symptoms.
Several years ago, I was reviewing treatment programs in the psychiatric hospital of a neighboring state. While visiting various parts of the hospital, I went onto one of the wards. When I looked out at the ward from the nursing station window, only one patient was visible. She was sitting on a bench, a somewhat heavy middle-aged woman in a Mother Hubbard dress. I couldn't tell if she seemed lonely or if her thoughts were just off somewhere else. I asked the nurse if that was the only patient on the unit. The nurse said, "No, but she's a schizophrenic and is too difficult, so we don't let her off the ward. The other patients are all outside in the yard." I went up to the woman and told her that I was a doctor reviewing the treatment program at the hospital and asked if it was all right if I talked with her. "Yes," she said, so I began asking her things like how long she'd been in the hospital. "A long time." "How is it for you here?" "OK." And we continued on: "Are there a lot of other patients here?" "How's the food?" things like that. After a bit, I asked her if I could sit down on the bench and we could talk further. She said that was fine, so I did, and we continued. After a while, I asked her why she was here on the ward while everyone else was outside. She said, "They don't trust me." I asked her why, and she said she didn't know. I then asked her what she would like to do if she had the chance. She said, "Be a secretary." "Have you ever done that?" "I took a course in high school." "What kind of subjects were in it?" "Oh, typing and things like that." Do you like to type? "Yah, but I'm not sure I could do it anymore." And we continued on for another 15 minutes or so, after which I said I had to go but hoped she would be able to do some typing. I thanked her for talking with me and returned to the nursing station.
Now what has this exchange to do with the Turner et al. article? At first when I recalled the experience I asked myself the same question. Then I thought, it's the wide range of characteristics that are important in real people with psychosis, people with schizophrenia, even those "too difficult," the sickest of the sick. By comparing treatment types, one of the issues the Turner et al. article raises is the implicit question of whether different patients have different needs requiring different treatments. In the experience I described, my conversation with even this very sick patient was totally "normal." This "schizophrenic" who was so sick she couldn't even be allowed to partake in the activities of other very sick patients, had a totally normal conversation with me. What about all her thought disorder, her abnormal affect, her psychotic symptoms? I don't mean to imply that she didn't have any of these or even that she wasn't difficult. What struck me as being so weird was that at least some of the time, this perhaps very disturbed woman did not seem disturbed at all. How is that possible? What does that tell us about "schizophrenia" or perhaps mental illness more generally, and about treatment needs?
How does that experience connect with the Turner et al. article? Well, for one thing, it recalls to us that patient needs are not as simple as they are often depicted. That statement may seem naive, but it is often neglected in considering treatment, especially in research and in our theories. Psychosis, even "schizophrenia," is not like a severe pneumonia or a broken leg. With those problems, you can't just go off and play a game of football or whatever. There, when you're really sick, you're really sick. But this woman, as sick as she might have been, was also capable of acting in a totally normal way. And having seen hundreds of "very sick" people with severe mental illnesses, I am impressed by how much this variability is more often the rule than otherwise. How is that possible, if you have defective genes, brain problems, abnormal neurotransmitters, or even a very troubled childhood? That woman emphasizes that the reality of mental health/illness is actually very complex (2, 3). Let's say this woman was fine as long as we were only talking about certain things, or when there weren't a lot of people around. Then we are instantly into issues of context and meaning; all these things and more are also relevant not only to understanding the problem of the disorder but also to considering treatment and the diversity of treatments that may be required.
The Turner et al. article highlights the fact that there are many possible psychological treatments for psychosis. That in turn raises the question of what would happen if we considered more than just these. Most often, treatment proposals and studies identify one treatment in question and focus primarily on it. By looking at many treatments, this meta-analysis begins to highlight the very diversity of the treatment possibilities that exist. But in focusing on the plethora of treatments available, the Turner et al. article opens up the possibility of also thinking about the treatments not discussed. Medications of course are mentioned, but what about other possibilities? The woman described above stated that she would like to work as a secretary. That could be a wild fantasy, of course, or not. Recent advances in what used to be limited to rehabilitation approaches involve far more "radical" programs, such as Housing First (4), in which the person with the problem does not have to agree to any of the traditional treatments before being helped with housing. Helping a person find a work placement, or perhaps helping the woman on the bench with advancing her secretarial skills, would also be relevant, whether or not she is "too difficult." Peer support programs are another approach to focusing on the person's health as well as on the deficits. These programs connect the patient with a person who has had similar experiences and can therefore provide a specific kind of human contact as someone who really "knows what it's like" and hopes for improvement and for a better life (5).
The Turner et al. report is a meta-analysis of psychological interventions for psychosis; the variations on its theme of patient and treatment diversity imply also the need to go further and suggest how we might bring some order into these complex linked worlds. The article represents an important piece in such an effort by attending to the consideration of diverse treatment forms. Its imperfections are not primarily a fault of the authors, who have made a herculean effort to engage the problems of diversity and the complexity of the topic. Such an effort is essential for our field, necessary shortcomings notwithstanding. Studies of pure forms of patients and pure forms of treatments have their utility as well, but to accept that such studies are sufficient to deal with the real world underestimates the major complexities of that world (6, 7).
It is worth noting that many experienced clinicians spend their professional lives trying to deal the best they can with diverse treatments and even more diverse patients. And of course patients themselves are almost always confronted with the complexity of their problems and optimal ways of dealing with them. Rather than ignoring these problems, anything we can do to provide even a little more order to this complex world is crucial, even with the limitations that our methods and concepts involve.
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Democrats GLORY in the killing of black babies. Did you miss that part? The founder of Planned Parenthood, which the Democratic Party supports wholeheartedly, EXPLICITLY stated that a goal of abortion is to control the population of "undesireables," like blacks. Do you agree with this position? Or do you have so much contempt for "whitey" that you don't have the slightest ability to reason?
who is setting up an attack against Israel..why do you think he came up with the Arab Spring. He hates you as much as the rest of Americans of whatever color. No Christian can vote for someone who delights in the Torture and execution of preborn babies up to their birth and killing those abortion surviving babies... I understand your reluctance to vote for Romney, I had the same concerns however he was the hand we were dealt..Obama had to GO! He and his family are easy to pray for, Obama is a struggle even though God commands our prayers. He was never my first choice, Herman Cain was and Allan West has my total support and I believe he'd be
I am not writing this letter to accuse but rather to advance understanding. And even though I am white, I am not writing as an outsider but as a fellow evangelical, part of the same spiritual family. May I pose some candid questions?
Are you guilty, on any level, of blind allegiance to the Democratic party? And, on Election Day, did any of you compromise your convictions out of racial solidarity?
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Genoa, Italy. It was a sunny day around the city of Genoa. The bad weather had preferred to remain beyond the borders. I decided to go to the Monument of Quarto dei Mille for taking some photo, from that place I could enjoy the sunset in its majestic beauty. It was about 5:00 pm when the sun began to set towards the west, the sunrays were very direct and there was an intense sunlight, it was not the right time to photograph. But the sky darkened suddenly, clouds coming from the south-east headed toward the coast, the weather changed.
From an immense bank of clouds was born a thin waterspout, until it became something powerful. Everything was changing in two minutes, crazy. The waterspout became increasingly large and the power of the wind was starting to feel even on the beach. I positioned the tripod on the rocks, something unique and unrepeatable was happening before my eyes. After a while the darkness would have fallen on the coast of Genoa. The clouds had brought with him a special power supply, a lightning storm on the horizon became like the cherry on the cake. I would just point and shoot. Everything was so perfect, just so perfect.
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The Joshua Roth New Talent Bonsai Competition is an annual competition to recognize and promote new bonsai talent in North America. First prize is no more than $1,000 toward an exclusive course of instruction with an approved bonsai teacher. The first stage of the competition is a judging of photographs of previously designed trees by the entrant. The second stage will be the actual production of a bonsai during the GSBF/ABS Convention, Oct. 30, 2014 at the Double Tree Hotel Sacramento CA.. Joshua Roth and the American Bonsai Society are sponsoring this contest.
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Any person who lives in North America, including Puerto Rico, is eligible. He or she must have been involved with the art of bonsai for fewer than ten (10) years. Any past winner is ineligible to enter. Participation in the second stage is limited to two (2) competitions for any individual.
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Each contestant shall submit photographs of at least three bonsai that he or she has personally styled. More than one picture of each bonsai is preferred. The photographs do not have to be of publication quality; however, they should show the talent of the artist to the best advantage.
All of the photographs submitted can be emailed to the contest coordinator. A brief description and history of each bonsai should also be enclosed. Be sure to sign the declaration form (see below) and send a snail mail or scanned copy to the coordinator as well. Mail all entries to:
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An updated Louisville football roster was published at GoCards.com earlier this afternoon. There aren't a whole lot of surprises on the updated roster, but here are a few takeaways. I reported last month that running back Jeremy Wright was not expected to be back for his senior season. There still hasn't' been an official release about Wright, but he is no longer on the Louisville roster. From what I've been told, he will attempt to enter the NFL draft. Zeke Pike was no longer with the team towards the end of the season and was removed from the roster, but has since been reinstated. One notable name among the list of walk-ons is linebacker Leroy Kelson. He was at one time a highly regarded prospect in Palm Beach Gardens, FL., in 2011, but never signed with a school. Kelson is the half-brother of 2013 Louisville signee Donel Elam. It could be a mistake, but tight end Chris White and defense back Jordan Paschal are no longer listed on the roster. Florida transfer Willie Baile...
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PLAYERS: Jeremy Wright, Zeke Pike, Jordan Paschal, Willie Bailey, Kai Dominguez
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Its been very encuraging to read sitanshu's article particularly when i am abt to leave for aberdeen(Scotland) to do masters in clinical pharmacology. i am told 2 urs work visa is straight away given after the course and 97% do get employed. is it true? secondly with a masters from aberdeen in pharma subject what are my chances of getting into good pharma companies in other countries incl. India? what will be the starting pay scale that i should be looking for? anu
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It is not as rosy as it seems with rules changing thick and fast. The UK has a glut of professionals in the medical and pharmaceutical field and are looking to stem the flow sooner than later. Besides with India becoming a participant to the Washington Accord pharmaceutical degree courses in India would be recognized in the UK and other countries for direct employment. Concentrate on your studies and seek work openings. You can then gather some work experience and think about moving elsewhere.Answered by Saj Sierra, 20 Aug '07 01:33 am
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today, while i was telling my little brother about some of the cruel things aunt H said and did while i lived with her in china, i had a realization: abuse creates monsters.
i contemplated my aunt's life.
i thought about other Cruel Women I Have Known, how they must either make someone else feel their pain or they will turn it against themselves.
i wondered, who created these monsters?
it is not fair that the lives of those who have caused their pain go on while those made monstrous must live with what happened forever.
memory is material: it coalesces in the body.
they can never get rid of it. (and by they i also mean i)
of course it is not fair that they should carry their pain alone, but some will. they will hide their monstrousness because unleashing it would make them ugly and repulsive. because their suffering is trivial.
but shouldn't those who have caused their pain be forced to look at the monsters they have created?
(how unbearable, the image of the older daughter in Dogtooth, blood dripping down her face)
in The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Bhanu Kapil wrote: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUFFERING OF YOUR MOTHER?
that she would ask such a question makes her a genius—she sees what no one else sees, what has been made invisible.


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All AndroidPIT Articles from R July Tang This feed includes the latest articles and forum posts from R July Tang at www.androidpit.com. urn:androidpit:user:337a2542f736b5347fa65a14d62a0bbd 2012-04-26T04:41:59Z R July Tang via AndroidPIT 2012-04-26T04:41:59Z en Do you have the next big hit for our Android mobile platform? R July Tang urn:androidpit:forum:post:ed214dde75b761a628786cd6e1cdc472 2012-04-26T04:41:59Z 2012-04-26T04:41:59Z Hi developers,

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Tina Joyner and Jennifer McMinn became best friends at Ole Miss.
Five and a half years ago the nurse practitioners also became business partners, opening Health 1st Family Medical Clinic in Byhalia. And the friendship and the partnership keep on growing.
They opened a clinic in Hernando three years ago. They recently bought property at the intersection of School Street and Highway 309 in Byhalia for the construction of a new, much larger facility. And within the next month they will open Potts Camp Family Medical Clinic downtown across from Potts Camp Pharmacy.
"We were working the front desk, the nurses - we did it all when we started," Joyner said. "We started from scratch.
"We've been blessed. It's exceeded what we could have dreamed of."
They've grown from two employees (themselves) to nine in the Byhalia office and nine in Hernando. At the Byhalia clinic, the staff sees anywhere from 40 to 60 patients a day.
"We currently have over 10,000 patients, and we've totally outgrown our space (a 1,200 square foot building on Church Street)," Joyner said.
The new facility will be about 5,700 square feet and include x-ray and in-house labs.
"We hope to start construction within the next 60 days and be finished by the spring," McMinn said.
The Hernando clinic opened in July 2007, and has more more than 9,600 patients.
At Potts Camp, a 2,000-square-foot building on Reids Avenue is being remodeled to house the clinic.
"It will be a very nice, state-of-the-art facility," McMinn said. "We're very excited."
Joyner grew up in Potts Camp and still resides there. McMinn also lives at Potts Camp.
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BERLIN -- The swollen Elbe River breached another levee early Monday on its relentless march toward the North Sea, forcing German authorities to evacuate 10 villages and shut down one of the country's main railway routes.
As the surge from the Elbe pushed into rural eastern Germany, there was some relief further upstream as the river slipped back from record levels in Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt state.
To the south, the Danube hit a record high Sunday evening in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, then began to ease back Monday. Officials said the city escaped significant damage, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban said soldiers and rescue workers would shift their focus further south.
Weeks of heavy rain this spring have sent the Elbe, the Danube and other rivers such as the Vltava and the Saale overflowing their banks, causing extensive damage in central and southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. At least 21 flood-related deaths have been reported.
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Inhabitants and firefighters as well as army soldiers remove waste from houses damaged by the floods of the Danube River in Deggendorf, southern Germany, on Monday, June 10, 2013.
But further downstream, a levee at Fischbeck, west of Berlin, was breached overnight, prompting officials to evacuate 10 villages in the area.
Germany's national railway said it had to close a bridge near Fischbeck that is used by trains linking Berlin to Cologne, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. It said some trains were being diverted via other bridges to the north and south, causing significant delays, and others were canceled.
Soldiers and volunteers have worked frantically over the past week to fill sandbags and reinforce flood defenses across central Europe.
Even with all those efforts, "we should accept that we humans should be humble, that even in the 21st century we don't completely control nature - that is one lesson from this situation," Saxony-Anhalt's interior minister, Holger Stahlknecht, told ZDF television.
He said it was too early to analyze what, if anything, might have been done to prepare better for flooding.
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In Budapest, the Danube peaked late Sunday about a foot (31 centimeters) above the previous record, set in 2006.
"The capital city has pulled through the crest of the flood," Orban said while inspecting areas close to the Danube in northern Budapest.
The Danube widens noticeably below Budapest, reducing the threat of flooding, although Orban said flood walls and other defenses were being strengthened in several locations downriver.
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I had a TT and hip/flanks lipo seven days ago. I have to wear the binder garment for another three weeks, but it's quite painful on my incision. The velcro seems to pull on the tape and it gets bunched up. Is there something I can put on my skin between the binder? cotton pads or something?
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Meal TypeCake
Makes 1 medium-sized loaf
This loaf has so many uses. Serve it warm from the oven with a cuppa, or toast leftover slices and serve with ice-cream and hot maple-seared bananas. Add nuts to the batter and bake them into mini loaves for gifts. For a quick dessert, warm slices in the microwave and serve with whipped cream or plain yoghurt, drizzled with honey, or with poached fruit. The maple butter works a treat with this fragrant ginger loaf!
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- 1 cup milk
- 150g butter
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2¼ cups flour
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp allspice
- Preheat oven to 175ºC and line a 12cm x 22cm loaf pan.
- In a medium saucepan, melt together the brown sugar, milk, butter, golden syrup and baking soda, then remove from the heat and cool for 30 minutes.
- Stir flour and spices into cooled mixture until smooth. Pour into loaf pan and bake for 45-50 minutes until puffed and deep golden. Serve in slices with whipped maple butter.
- Beat 100g softened butter with ¼ cup maple syrup and cup icing sugar until pale and fluffy.
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James McDonald and the Case of the Missing Strike Zone
In today's game against the Phillies, James McDonald went from worthy opponent of Roy Halladay's to experiencing an extreme case of Steve Blass disease. In his 4+ innings, McDonald gave up 3 hits, 5 walks, struck out 3, and was charged with three runs. Updated: Oh yeah, and he was charged with two wild pitches (though some of that is on Dusty Brown's shoulders) and he did Raul Ibanez's sub-.300 OBP a favor by hitting him with a pitch. (thanks to Seminary Dan for the catch.)
Still, look at this little breakdown:
Innings 1-2: 27 pitches, 20 strikes.
Innings 3-5: 52 pitches, 21 strikes.
Was he getting squeezed? Absolutely not. From Brooks Baseball:
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The 14-year-old confessed he has never been taught to write in "cursive." Printing was all he knew.
He's one of the casualties of the global trend away from cursive writing in today's digitally focused curriculum.
"When I picked myself up off the floor, I told him to print the letters close together so at least they look like writing," huffed the Sunderland dairy farmer. "But I was absolutely shocked they don't teach cursive writing any more. He's going into high school and he can't write his name."
Many U.S. states have dropped cursive writing to make room for keyboarding lessons, and Ontario has downgraded it from an "expectation" to just one way students can "publish" their work.
"My friend had the same problem with his passport," countered Lukas — both boys need passports to volunteer abroad with their local church.
When Molenaar called his local school trustee to complain, the trustee told him it was the same with his own 14-year-old grandson.
"He does a lot of umpiring and has to sign game sheets, and we noticed he was printing his name because he didn't know cursive writing," said retired teacher Joe Allin, trustee for the Durham District School Board.
Argued Molenaar: "Your signature is your mark. Are we having a whole generation who can't write their name? How are you supposed to sign cheques — put your fingerprint on a legal document?"
The first mention of cursive writing in the Ontario curriculum comes in the Grade 3 language section — and only as one example of how a student can "demonstrate their learning, along with PowerPoint, drawing or printing," said Anne Marie Laginski, superintendent of education for the Uxbridge and Brock area.
"Under the language curriculum, it's mentioned briefly about six times between Grade 3 and 8, so it's a choice for students," she said — not a must. "The real focus is to be digitally literate and to think creatively."
In an increasingly diverse school system, the English Language Learners curriculum warns that cursive writing may be difficult to recognize for students not familiar with the Latin alphabet used in English, she noted.
Yet even if cursive writing is no longer compulsory, "writing your signature is a real-life skill" most teachers could cover without taking time from other subjects, Laginski suggested.
"They could have students sign their art work in cursive, as well as letters and cards and other writing, and provide booklets for them to practice at home."
Molenaar could use such a book; he and his wife already have started to teach Lukas to write his name, and plan to tackle whole sentences over the summer.
"I do a lot of stuff on the computer," said Lukas, "but I guess it's weird (not to learn any cursive), because it turns out I have to sign my name on some things."
Coincidentally, Trustee Joe Allin did his PhD thesis on how the creative writing process is different when people write with a pen and when they write on a computer.
"I think we write better when we get everything down first and then polish the style and work on the ideas, and that's easier to do with technology because it's so easy to edit, said Allin. "When you're writing longhand" — something he admits he rarely does any more — "you tend to organize everything in your head first because it's so onerous to edit."
Beyond the banal need to sign things like bills and mortgage applications, a more aesthetic realm is being hit by today's lack of cursive savvy.
Cake decorating.
So shaky are today's pastry students at trying to write graceful messages in continuous icing, pastry instructor Christophe Measson makes his George Brown College students practice on pen and paper before picking up the piping bag.
"It's a skill that's lacking big-time; they're not confident, and that's why they're shaky, so I give them very long words like 'Congratulations' to practice so it looks fluid," said the chef. Thursday afternoon he had each student write "Opera" on small slices of an opera cake — in cursive.
"They don't write any more; it's all texting, but when you pipe words in chocolate, it has to be continuous," explained Measson. "In the old days, handwriting was so much nicer."
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