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Poor Glenn Beck. Doesn't he realize that he'll be in prison long before Obama ever will?
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If only this were true. Two questions answered will tell us everything we need to know: Who told the SEALS to stand down and why?Noteworthy Comment +20
Dream on Beckster – you'll be executed and dumped in an unmarked mass grave by Obama-goons while The One hones his golf game in Hawaii and Mooch grazes fancy buffets in Vegas.Noteworthy Comment +20
And then he woke up.
We will all be in the joint before he is. And everyone in the joint now will be let out.
That is the rules for any commie.Noteworthy Comment +10
Oh yeah, sure!
17 days after hell freezes over!+8
Mommy what does Rule Of Law mean?
Hush chile you'll get us sent to the camps.
Things that would most likely happen BEFORE 0bama would go to jail:
1. All conservative talk radio hosts thrown in jail under NDAA
2. destruction of 2nd ammednment by 0bamanites,( "for the chirren !!1!1!1 eleventy !!!1!" )
3. Secession of Texas (I hope to move there along with my cousin and some other family members *says prayer*)
4. House Speaker Boner grows a pair, stops boozing and stands up to Commies.
5. ANY republican contests the results of the last election in light of voter fraud.
6. 0bama aint going to jail unless we have a military coup and junta installed
Any other suggestions ??Noteworthy Comment +22
^Ice skating rink in Hades.+5
I didn't even bother watching that video, the premise is RIDICULOUS.Noteworthy Comment +12
I used to like Glen Beck…While I agree with some of the things he stands for, he's now as loony as a shithouse rat.Noteworthy Comment +11
I wonder how many times Glenn Beck has cried in his Oval Office?
Building an Oval Office to do your radio program from…isn't that like Caesar building a statue unto himself?+2
"4. House Speaker Boner grows a pair, stops boozing and stands up to Commies."
Bwahahaha!!Noteworthy Comment +13
Obama jail comment is 1% of the video. The remaining 99% of the video shows strong damning evidence that we the people are being lied to on Benghazi.
Now you instant experts don't have to watch the video to know what's in it. Bashing on Beck for his crimes doesn't absolve Obama of arming the wrong side. Why should anyone focus on Obama. We've bigger fish to fry: Beck is a fruitcake. Let's all criticize Beck.Noteworthy Comment +22
Somebody stop the disinformation ride, the whole world is twirling too fast for me to stay attached. I am going back to the shire, to be a good little Hobbit.
I may not like his delivery but the guy is right. I bet if you checked every fact he delivered they would be verifiable. There are some that use lines like "shihouse rat" to undermine conservatives.Noteworthy Comment +18
Make all the fun of Beck you want, but he is the ONLY network that has NEVER had ONE liberal with an opinon. It is one of the reasons I have remote in hand when I turn on Fox. First sign of Juan Williams, Alan Colmes or Bob Beckel and click, click, click.
And, his Blaze is the only network being built by the viewers. I watch it until he starts getting all maudlin, click away then back again after an ad or two. Works for me.Noteworthy Comment +27
Now if Glenn had said "If this had been a Republican President, he'd already be in prison" then I might take him seriously+5
thta's a good video; I agree with BFH, but this is still an excellent video. Very worth listening to, if you have not followed the Benghazi fiasco closely. Beck is right on the details.Noteworthy Comment +14
Beck said this about the prison in order to emphasize the fact that this Benghazi-gate is akin to a MURDERGATE, at least. I'd bet he'd agree with BFH as well; it was rhetorical, not litteral.+5
Put in prison? By whom? A Democrat-controlled Senate? An electorate who think high unemployment is a good thing? A press more interested in Romney's horse than Obama's lethal incompetence? Beck, have Robby guide you back the rocketship and come back to Earth, K?+4
I think it would be terribly ungrateful to slam Beck o on something like this. He was the only network personality to give real air time to the tea party and educate people about America's founding, though some would probably deny it because he isn't seen as hip. Beck is a showman and its what makes him interesting. I sat next to his sister on a cross-county flight once and it was like talking to Glenn for six hours. it was Glenn beck in a dress only she wasn't as up to speed on politics and history. she even tears up easily like her brother. She said its a family trait. I found it endearing.
Glenn Beck is one of the good guys in a world of bad guys so I don't care if he sounds like a crazy man sometimes. In fact, I like that he's willing to "go there" because he's frequently been an early warning to us.Noteworthy Comment +33
I love The Blaze blog and I even subscribe to Becks' The Blaze TV ( formerly GBTV). I'm in the middle of hooking up a generator at my aunts' house because of a power outage so my reaction was perhaps too dismissive. Becks people are doing the work that absolutely no one else will do in our corrupt Marx-media. I just have low confidence that 0bama will be impeached or arrested considering the GOP "leadership" in congress. If Newt or someone with his resolve was Speaker of the House I might be more optimistic. I hope I'm very wrong the odds of Zero, Billary and other democrats paying for their actions. Only time will tell.+9
I desparately want Beck's network to thrive and to pave the way for others to do the same. Fox, CNN, and all the rest are spoonfeeding us what they want us to know and the opinion they want us to reflect. Totally independent journalism is the only hope for this country, and Beck has spent his entire fortune on laying the groundwork for news to be available outside the troll network. I pray that one day soon the Blaze will be one of many avenues where The Truth Lives online. Thanks, Glenn, for showing that independent broadcasting is possible.Noteworthy Comment +18
Beck's just a bit too much for me, but I liked the work he did on Fox connecting the dots, especially the Spooky Dude series. Granny thinks he's a prophet though so we subscribe to Blaze TV.
I don't really dislike him but the drama is a turn off. OTOH everything he's predicted has come true.+3
Beck we know you live an a fantasy world! Just STFU and leave the world to the DO'ERS not the fukin' talk abouters!0
For those of you that proclaim him a loon, do you subscribe to his network? Are you a regular listener? Hate him if you choose, but I find it rather incongruous that we conservatives are so quick to marginalize and malign powerful conservative voices while accepting the ever leftward leaning drivel Fox news passes off as "fair and balanced news" each day. Most of us "righties" are doing the job of Media Matters and Think Progress all too well. Do you guys not think that the dereliction of duty in Libya, under a more moral and intellectually curious legislative branch, would not rise to the level of an impeachable offense? Are you so willing to give up and allow the media and your representatives to move on?Noteworthy Comment +14
Aaron Klein has been on this story from the beginning. Beck is right behind him. Wake up before it is too late. Also Hill Buzz has some interesting news about the so called Ambasador and good friend of Hillary+5
Anyone who wants to move to Texas, seriously let me know and I will help you all find homes here. I'm not a realtor, but I have a couple of friends who are and I can help you find decent areas to live in.
BFH has my email address.
Beck is naïve, otherwise he is correct. He is hoping the US will come back to the sanity we once had. Unfortunately we are moving to the end days and are losing control. We won't have it again until everything is over.
Years before Glenn Beck ever spoke of George Soros a friend of mine who escaped from Romania warned me of his influence and begged me to not give my money to "Progressive" insurance.
Beck then shared the influence of Soros. He hit on the facts I already knew and then expanded on it. His rambling on a Caliphate are correct. That is the ultimate goal of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. Syria will fall and then expect movement against Israel.
Keep in mind, Beck may be sensationalizing things and over-simplifying things, but he is desperately trying to educate people who have no idea. We already know this stuff, so we make fun of him.
He is not our enemy, regardless of his methods he is on our side.+5
I am surprised that hillary hasn't been "vincefostered" yet……….+4
Unslung Hero – maybe she has. Have we heard from her lately?+1
Glenn Beck will be our President some day.+1
Late to the party but like most of you think, Beck has been an early warning to us. He's a smart guy and I trust him. (although he's a bit whacky at times).+1
Love him or hate him, Beck has a nasty habit of being either factually correct or eventually proven correct.
Caliphate in the Middle East anyone?0


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A surprising number of people have sent me requests to make my blog public again.
It is humbling that people are still reading my stuff, and this blog is my oldest blog. I was a really crappy writer when I first started back in 2006. I have removed some old posts on all my blogs, I just don't like anymore.
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Several times a week I notice that google has directed someone to my blog who has inputted the term(s) Baker Act in X where X equals the state of your choice. The most recent, 'Baker Act in Ohio' and 'Baker Act in Maryland'. I will explain what the Baker Act is, and why it only exists in Florida.
The Baker Act, also known more formally as the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, is only in effect in Florida. That means there is no Baker Acting someone in Tennessee, Illinois, Minnesota or Vermont or anywhere else, except Florida. It's a state law, not a federal decree.
The Baker Act was named for Florida state representative Maxine Baker, who (apparently) thought it would be great if people with mental illness, or even just the appearance of being mentally ill, could be expeditiously seized and arrested without due process, and their person dragged into biopsychiatric limbo for days, for the crime of (or suspicion of) being mentally ill.
You don't actually get arrested-arrested (booked), because it's not technically unlawful (yet) to be mentally ill. Although practically speaking, from those who have been through it, it does seem as though it is unlawful to be an apparently symptomatic and untreated mentally ill person in Florida.
Now I know what you are thinking. You are imagining that being Baker Acted couldn't really be as severe as I described, right? Wrong. Did you think when you Baker Act someone, or you are Baker Acted, you get a phone call by somebody with a British accent, a cordial invitation to the nearest psychiatric hospital and the notice that there will be a chaffered limousine to drive you there when you are ready and all packed and you've called up work and your friends to tell them you'd be indisposed for awhile? No way, Jose.
If you are Baker Acted, you can be detained, searched and your name run through the court and legal system electronically. The police will come to wherever you are, and insist that you immediately stop doing whatever you are doing at that moment, in order to be handcuffed, stuffed into the back of a police cruiser and delivered like an escaped felon into institutionalization. Once you are under psych lock down, the cops job with you is done.
If you refuse to come willingly, you can and will be threatened with violence. And depending on your reaction to that, they may, if you are lucky, only taze you. If you are unlucky, they may taze and beat and or choke/arm lock/wrist lock you and pepper spray you into submission.
With your mood now set properly for an accurate mental health assessment, completely outraged and trembling with indignation and possibly, even probably, crying, you now get your ride to the psych hospital—a 'Baker Act Receiving Facility'. Your tears will probably stop by the time you get there, to be replaced with rage and anxiety of what is to come. Upon your arrival and intake the psych nurses are going to take one quick look at you and take in your agitation and irritation and they will make notes about you and you will be considered to be manic or having a manic episode.
The standard treatment for a person experiencing mania is brain-damaging neuroleptics, although you probably know of the drugs as being called 'antipsychotics'. Since you are not looking very cooperative right now, they probably won't waste time dilly dallying, trying to be disarming with you. A psych nurse will summon several psych techs who will stand next to you like guards or bouncers and if you do not willingly accept their poison amicably right then and there, she will make a nod or other gesture and the psych techs will try to manually restrain you. Should you turn out to be a handful, many psych techs and nurses will be called and you will get padded leather restraints, a seclusion cell and the brain poison injected into you anyway, despite your wishes and protestations. That is the Baker Act explained.
Now I don't live in and never have lived in Florida, so you would be rightfully curious about how I got involved with learning and talking about it. A couple years ago I made a video about what it means to be involuntarily committed, which is something that happened to me as a teen. What happened is, a couple weeks and then months after I made this video, I started getting private messages from people asking me for information about or if I personally knew about, the Baker Act in Florida. And of course, I hadn't, so I was curious, and I responded with interest and a listening ear.
Well I got an earful alright. Wow, did I. The first person to contact me was a young girl, almost eighteen, whose mother and her mom's psychiatrist, conspired to have her Baker Acted on a regular basis. For just about any reason the mother could come up with.
The Pdoc was on the mom's team, not the daughter's, for it was he who gave the order for the cops to come to the house, time and time again. The story I got was that the mom was mentally ill herself. According to the girl I was communicating with, the mother suffered from depression and mania and was Dxd with bipolar disorder II.
A person's teenage years can be fraught with depressions, angst and other emotional turmoil, without the specter of real mental illness, But here we have a mother who is already sensitized because of her own diagnosis, to see and interpret her daughters hormonal or teenage depression as being mental illness in action. So if the daughter acted gloomy or even argued with her mother, the mom just jumped to the assumption that the daughter had to be suffering from bipolar depression or mania, and from what I gather, rather hysterically called up the psychiatrist in a panic, insisting the doctor Baker Act her girl immediately.
Of course when the daughter claimed she was fine and didn't want or need help, the mom interpreted it as desperate denial and all the more reason to go spend yet another weekend on a psych ward. The daughter told me that for years she had been bounced in and out of Baker Act receiving facilities on account of her mother's whims and ongoing mother-daughter friction. "My mom's doctor—my doctor, always sides with her and never listens to me," the girl complained to me.
So you ask, how? How can you abuse someone like that so easily and legally? The answer is in the wording of the Baker Act. It provides a means to get someone into psychiatric lockdown with a minimal amount of checks and balances. Under most circumstances and in most states, having someone forcibly put away takes a bit of work, and for good reason. Forced treatment involves stripping someone of many of their civil rights for a short or prolonged period.
Generally speaking, to get a commitment order on someone, a psychiatrist needs to see and assess the potential patient in person. From there, a second opinion from a psychologist or physician may be warranted and obtained. At that point, if they are in agreement, a process order goes through court to get a seal from the judge, authorizing you to be picked up and delivered to a psych hospital, whenever the cops get around to it. This usually take so long that unless you are severely and uncontrollably mentally ill, your mental and emotional states could be changed or out of danger by the time the order gets to court. You would need to be reassessed.
The Baker Act was enacted in order to cut certain corners, streamline the process of getting someone 'help', even against the person's will. The result is this: A family member, relative, and even on occasion, close family acquaintances, can simply call up 911 or other emergency services, and if they can speak both convincingly and concernedly about their fears for your safety and imminent danger, then the 911 operator will call the closest psych facility, explain the situation to a psych nurse, who will page a psychiatrist, who will almost certainly listen for a moment, nod to him or herself, and give the order to have you brought in, pronto.
Perhaps you are thinking, good! A person who is suicidal should get help right away, not after they finally kill themselves. And perhaps there is some truth to that, depending on what one means by 'help'. Certainly, some impulsively suicidal people are glad to be saved from themselves and the (usually) temporary insanity of suicidal depression. No doubt the Baker Act is used in this way frequently. The person will receive needed assistance to get through a trouble spot and if the patient is grateful for the intervention and everything turns out alright, then that's a good thing. In those kinds of cases, the Baker Act is working as intended. Although sometimes, the person may not be grateful at all.
Another example to illustrate my point. I read a story online submitted anonymously by a young woman from Florida who had had a nasty breakup with a clingy ex-boyfriend. The prideful young man, ego terminally insulted at being dumped, had his revenge. Angered that she would be crazy enough to want to end their relationship, he called 911 and made up statements that the woman had allegedly claimed she had taken an overdose and said things which indicated major depression and suicidal ideation. Well, it worked. The cops came to her house and 'detained' (a euphemism for being temporarily arrested without charge) her, and brought her to a Baker Act receiving facility for intake and processing, then summary treatment.
Of course she came onto the ward mad as hell and in tears, in total confusion. She was like, "What the hell is going on here? Why is everyone acting so concerned? Why isn't anyone listening to me?" She was surrounded by people who were utterly convinced without previous assessment or interview that this woman was psychotic or suicidal, prior to her arrival. After all, a person doesn't get Baker Acted for no good reason, right?
The truth is, psychiatric staff believe people who are suicidal or psychotic to be suffering from a brain disease. That means your thoughts and judgments are not taken as seriously as someone who is not mentally ill, because your brain is 'imbalanced' and ergo, you must therefore have zero insight into your condition and hence, be frankly unable to speak for yourself or have informed consent.
Once the staff saw her like that, she was a mental patient, and no longer entitled to the same respect as someone who is not. And so the staff forcibly treated her, without just cause or patient input on the matter, thus adding further insult to existing injury. This was all a process, a bureaucratic machine whose unstoppable wheels, once engaged by the 911 call from the ex boyfriend, turned and turned, with various agencies and their employees acting out their scripts—with no apparent oversight whatsoever.
Perhaps you are thinking that the Baker Act is also used to get drunken, homeless people who are wild-eyed and muttering to themselves off the streets into good mental health care? Well the homeless people sure do appreciate the seventy-two hours spent housed, enjoying the showers and the (not) free food. But I've heard from some psych nurses that this tactic is used and abused by homeless people for those reasons. That they will act out in the hopes of getting picked up by the cops or outreach workers and end up spending some time hanging out in the community area watching TV at the nearest psych ward. They usually get kicked out after the seventy-two hours is up. That is, until the next time they are picked up.
Veterans also get shafted by the Baker Act. If you get angry at home and your wife or neighbors calls up the cops, and someone happens to mention that you are a vet, the police can Baker Act you themselves, based on suspicion of acting out due to PTSD or related issues. If you are lucky, they might take you to a Vet's hospital, Probably, you will get sent to the same ward as various soccer moms, college kids and homeless people, all of whom had been Baker Acted earlier that evening as well, to spend the next seventy-two hours together.
So who in the medical and legal system is empowered to Baker Act you? A Baker Act can be initiated by physicians and mental health professionals as well as judges or other law enforcement officials. Your family doctor, psychologist or psychiatrist, as well as uniformed police officers, can initiate a Baker Act to have you brought in for examination and subject to diagnosis and treatment.
Let's take a closer look at what 'treatment' means. It sounds like such a safe and hopeful word, doesn't it? Treatment. You think, if there are treatments for mental health conditions, it makes sense to use them, right? Not necessarily.
For people of means, treatment can and often does mean judicious use of psychiatric meds, as well as plenty of therapy. Psychotherapy has a long history of proven ability to help people get their issues dealt with (Elyn Saks swears by it), and improve daily functioning. But therapist shopping until you can find a professional who is on the same wavelength and in whom you can confide and let down your barriers to, is largely a middle and upper class privilege. It's a luxury. So if you are poor, forget it. For your treatment, you are, most likely, only going to get the drugs.
Drugs cost less than therapy and drugs are the cheapest treatment the state and local government or private psych facilities can afford to impose on you. People who work for the mental health system, whether public or private, think nothing of making sure you get 'treatment' because, aside from electrical brain damage, they have nothing else to quickly shut you up and get you back out on your feet, on the street, and on with your life.
Now you would think that the people who work in the psychiatric system are people who should, by their very profession, be some of the most informed people about the state of and nature of efficacious treatments. But often the situation is quite the opposite. Psych nurses and staff praise psychiatric meds for their effects and it's really of no concern if you are suffering on their drugs. "It's just the meds doing their magic," they will tell you optimistically, "You're in treatment! You are going to get better now! You just need a little help with your disease! Everything is going to be okay!" They will be so, so eerily and frighteningly happy and relieved that you are doped out on psych meds, that you will wonder if you have not suddenly slipped into an alternate reality, like The Matrix.
Chances are, the psych staff have not read Joanna's Moncrieff's 'The Myth of the Chemical Cure' or Peter Breggin's 'Your Drug May Be Your Problem'. They just read the lit and data sheets offered by Big Pharma that said 'For the treatment of the symptoms of insert X mental disorder' and that's that. That's what treatment is.
It turns out, that today's psychotropic drug treatments, most of them anyway, have very little lasting positive effects. Study after study has been done showing one psychotropic drug after another after another to be no better than a placebo, and often much worse. Because a placebo won't force your brain to grow new serotonin and dopamine receptors. A placebo probably isn't going to give you blood poisoning like lithium, CNS damage and obesity like antipsychotics, or impotence and suicidal ideation like 'antidepressants' do. A placebo won't make you homicidal or psychotic when you start or stop it.
You may be wondering, how do I Baker Act someone to get them some of this wonderful treatment? Well, you don't, unless you live in Florida. If you live in Florida, it's really easy, so easy, you can just make up any story you like. You won't even have to tip over the furniture to convince the cops. If the cops get a Baker Act call, it's just a routine standard operating procedure for them, all part of the service.
The only other states which I know for sure to have a similar statute on the books, is Ohio and California. I don't know what the statute in Ohio is called, but it's probably like "Ohio Mental Health Act", or something similar. In California, it's called a 5150—an involuntary, seventy-two hour hold.
The essence of a seventy-two hour hold is assessment and observation. Homeless people and vets held for alcohol-related disturbances, are, generally speaking, discharged once the Pdoc arrives on shift and interviews them. But if you happen to have good insurance, you may expect the doctor to come to the conclusion that a seventy-two hour hold is just not going to be enough time for a proper assessment and he or she may decide to keep you for a week, two weeks, even a month. At least until they've had a good feeding from your insurance teat. You see it costs anywhere from 600-1000$ or more, daily, to live in a mental hospital. To them, you are a now resource to be exploited.
By the time your insurance coverage lapses and you finally get discharged, you won't even be the same person as you were when you arrived. Your brain and body will operate and feel differently in subtle and gross ways, due to the continuous effects of psychotropic drugs that really don't do anything in any healing way inside you, but just sort of gum up the works of your thoughts, feelings, and even bodily sensations, until you don't even know who you really are anymore.
If you happen to be one of the sensitive ones, your brain may now be hooked on psych meds. For most people it does take a little while for that to happen. But not everyone. If that is your case, and you try to stop the drugs they coerced or forced you to take now that you are out of the psych ward, you may suddenly be possessed by suicidal or psychotic thoughts and feelings. These feelings will be coming from you, from inside you, but they won't be you.
You may or may not recognize that. Why? Because in all likelihood, the mental health workers told you the drugs are supposed to remedy your imbalances, not exacerbate them. They probably gave you some line about making sure you take them in the morning and at night so you don't have a relapse. They probably did not even discuss discontinuation and tapering with you before discharge. The assumption being that a responsible patient is not going to stop treatment. Therefore, they don't bother to tell you what might happen if you do. Namely, psychotropic drug withdrawal-induced symptoms, aka dopamine or serotonin rebound psychosis.
If you don't recognize or know about neurotransmitter rebound psychosis, and the symptoms catch you by surprise, you may freak out and scare someone, a friend, a family member, and get Baker Acted again! Now you are fully in the mental health system. Upside down, turned around, unsure whether your depression, mania, or anxiety is really you or the effects of drug-induced damage, you sink deeper into dependency on the psychiatric 'experts' to get you sorted out. But you're most likely unaware that you are now just a trial and error chemistry experiment.
Rather than put you on a safe tapering regimen to get you medwashed so they can get a baseline of how you are normally, they will probably put you on steeper doses of the drugs you were on before—under the assumption that your current symptoms are the result of not enough of a medically effective dose of the drugs in the first place! Thus restarting and hastening the process of psych med addiction in your brain, plus adding more drugs to deal with the now (hugely) increased side effects of the primary ones. You see, to those folks, getting sorted out these days means: 'finding the right balance of meds for your needs'.
This is what happens to some people when they are Baker Acted, 5150'ed or otherwise forced into treatment against their will. If it's you who is on the receiving end, then you are caught in a loop. And the Cheshire Cat over in the corner is not grinning. This is real. It's really happening. To you.
After awhile of this recurring cycle it becomes harder and harder to even know what normal is anymore. It's been forever since you've felt like your 'old self'. You are a creature of psycho-pharmaceutical interaction effects beyond your control. Worse, you are probably still paying at the counter for the drugs that are doing this to you. Thanks to the effects of state-of-the-art medicine and modern chemistry, in a few more years, you may finally be dysfunctional and unhealthy enough to be eligible for permanent disability. Welcome to the system, Patient.
Posted in activism, advocacy, American Psychiatric Association, Baker Act, brain damage, cognitive dissonance, depression, manic, mental illness, mixed episode, psychiatric hospital, psychiatry, psychology, ptsd | Tags: Baker Act, hospitalization, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, treatment
Today I stumbled on a blog called "Borderline Families" and read of one woman's heartfelt confession of her deconversion story from her former faith in the biopsychiatric model of mental illness and their chemical treatments for it.
Parts of it moved me to tears. I frequently identified with Kristin's daughter, who is the focus of much of her posts. I missed this eloquent and beautifully written blog when it started up in April and I apparently just missed its last post at the end of November. I highly recommend reading Kristin's story while it is still up which she sums up as a saga covering these posts.
Part One A Charade
The Final Post
I have to say, there is a part of me that is a little jealous at how much unconditional love Kris has for her daughter. As a teenager I went through some of the same things as Kris's daughter but I faced the institutions and residential facilities, as well as the doctors, without that kind of support.
Let's imagine a scenario. You are the head nurse in an ER or a psych ward. A man comes onto the unit escorted by police in handcuffs. He had been arrested for brandishing a samurai sword at a bus stop and threatening passersby. The police disarmed him, put him in shackles and brought him to your psych ward for evaluation.
Momentarily, the cops are going to transfer custody of this still clearly agitated man to the psych nurses who work under you. The man shows every sign of becoming physically aggressive the moment the cuffs come off. His narrowed eyes are casting furtively to the left and right and he is muttering incessantly to himself about people who have it coming to them and how he is going to finally give them what they deserve.
He is not responding directly to questions but just acting out in a paranoid yet threatening manner. You have no idea how long it's going to take for this guy to come down from this psychotic state on his own. He needs to be dealt with, handled, right now. He poses an immediate danger to everyone's safety, including yours. You can't allow other people to be harmed by this guy no matter what his problem is. You have to ensure the safety of staff and patients alike.
But you've read about how people who have been restrained and injected with antipsychotics against their will deeply resent that treatment and were left with psychological scars from having that happen to them. In addition, a mandate has recently come down from the government banning coercive treatments like forced drugging and electroschock.
Oh and don't forget, he is the not the only person on the ward. Other patients need to be tended to, and there is always the potential of another person coming to the ward right after this guy. You simply can't allow this man to carry on his show and dominate limited staff resources all shift long. So what do you do in thirty seconds when the cuffs come off that guy?
Posted in mental illness, psychology, psychosis | Tags: delusional thinking, mental illness, psychosis
The New York Times is reporting about a book called "Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Psychopharmacology Handbook for Primary Care" that was apparently co-written by Dr. Charles Nemeroff and Dr. Alan F. Schatzberg.
The issue seems to be, how much of this book did they write? Apparently much of it was ghostwritten by a company called Scientific Therapeutics Information, Inc. Here is the link to their site.
There has been some brouhaha stirred up about ghostwriting in psychopharmacology and it is something Philip Dawdy from Furious Seasons has written about in the past.
Charles Nemeroff I've heard of before. This is the infamous psychiatrist who never found a psychotropic drug he couldn't be paid to like. But really creepy is this Springfield, New Jersey company Scientific Therapeutics Information, Inc that apparently wrote a significant portion of the book.
This is just a few things I found on their site that raised my eyebrows
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Our highly educated staff can take you through the lifespan of a drug, from the pre-launch publication of clinical trials through comprehensive speaker training programs. We'll stick with you even when your needs shift from cutting-edge research to brand revitalization.
Comment: these are the kinds of people who helped Big Pharma launch atypical antipsychotics. Probably helped them spin the false image of atyps being an improvement over earlier generation formulas. These are the spin doctors to Big Pharma. This particular company was made by a pharmacist for the purpose of propagating pharmaceuticals. When you need scientific papers drummed up for your product and co-written by experts, this company hooks you up with their writers and contacts and makes it all happen. Then when your latest blockbuster drug starts killing people these are the folks you go to get your drug rebranded or reimaged.
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We also know the people who work in therapeutics. In twenty years, we have developed close working relationships with expert physicians and industry leaders in a vast number of medical fields. We can put a voice to your product and keep that partnership going in the long term. Our history has taught us the science of pharmaceuticals, and the science of communication.
Comment: I take this to mean, companies like this, act as middlemen or a dating service, setting up people like Nemeroff or Joe Biederman with drug companies who need them for their seal of authority on various papers, to the profits of all three parties.
There is some nice juicy nuggets to be found at The Project on Government Oversight regarding this pharma-funded book and Sally Laden, a writer for STI, Inc who apparently wrote portions of it. Very insightful to me was reading about how GlaxoSithKline writes the consensus statements about treating mental disorders for the DBSA, another apparent advocacy group which like NAMI is primarily funded through grants by pharmaceutical companies and consequently, all the literature about mental illnesses, their causes and drug treatments that is espoused by DBSA (as with NAMI) consist primarily of pharmaganda.
Scary company. Read more about the book and ghostwriting here and Dr. John Grohol's post and plea about it here.
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Posted in American Psychiatric Association, medication, mental illness, psychiatry | Tags: medication, mental illness, pharmaganda, psychiatry
All our thoughts and prayers go out to Susan Schecter from "If You Are Going Through Hell Keep Going" who is currently recovering from complete kidney failure due to lithium poisoning. I first read about it at Beyond Meds and was immediately concerned and saddened.
When I was fourteen my psychiatrist told me I was supposed to take lithium forever. Lithium slowly destroys your kidneys and causes serious thyroid problems the longer you take it. And for good reason. Our bodies are not meant to have elevated and toxic levels of lithium flowing through it day after day, year after year. It's an artificial lithium imbalance. When I was on it, my jaw vibrated, my eyeballs swam around unable to focus, and I couldn't pee without my toes curling in agony. It was horrible.
I can understand, for some folks for short duration crises taking this stuff. But I never understood the whole maintenance thing. Why take lithium every single day, even when you are not symptomatic or cycling? Part of me shudders to think that if I had stayed on lithium like my pdoc advised me, I would now have been under its damaging influence for twenty-one years. There is no doubt that would have shortened my lifespan. Can someone explain the appeal to me?
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Really brilliant science books for kids
Posted on | November 29, 2010 | 25 Comments
Today I'm happy to once again be hosting the Nonfiction Monday roundup. Every Monday bloggers across the kidlitosphere celebrate the best of nonfiction books for kids by writing about this sometimes overlooked category of books. If you've a recent post about a nonfiction book for children please leave a link to it in the comments and as the day progresses I'll update this post to include all your reviews, comments and insights
My own contribution to NF Monday is all about a series of fantastic science project books I've recently discovered.
Heinemann Library's Science Projects series consists of 10 books jam packed with stimulating, engaging science projects on topics ranging from Astronomy and Space to Ecosystems, Cells and Systems to Matter and Energy.
Each book includes an introduction with clear, thoughtful information on how to carry out scientific research appropriately pitched at 10-12 year olds. Both my husband and I have taught research methods and were very impressed by the discussions in these books including the importance of background research, what an experiment is, how to formulate a hypothesis and how to keep records.
If you were a homeschooler without a science background I think these books would be a fantastic starting point. That said, the experiments described are so engaging and fun (the sort of thing that might be repackaged with less thorough discussion in books like The Dangerous Book for Boys) that I think any family would enjoy these projects.
Although aimed at kids older than M and J we've ordered the entire series through our library, so impressed have we been by the imaginative experiments. With a bit of adapting, we got lots of projects lined up to do as a family including investigating the absorbancy of nappies, discovering why the Statue of Liberty is green, working out what makes the difference in a good biscuit recipe, what effects the twinkling of stars, and how good mud is as a suncreen! If you've got a science fair coming up or simply a curious mind treat yourselves to these books – they really are the best science books I've yet come across for kids.
Tags: Moon / stars > Mud > Night-time > Nonfiction Monday > Science > Senses
25 Responses to "Really brilliant science books for kids"
Sarah Campbell
November 29th, 2010 @ 1:57 am
For Nonfiction Monday, I am featuring Rosa's Bus by Jo S. Kittinger. I have a short video of Jo reading from the book and talking about her approach to the familiar story of Rosa Parks.
Sarah Campbell
November 29th, 2010 @ 1:58 am
Here's the link:
November 29th, 2010 @ 3:23 am
Thank you for hosting. Mine will go up at 00:15 11/29 (according to my time stamp)
Mary Ann Scheuer
November 29th, 2010 @ 4:21 am
Thanks for hosting – what a great find for science projects!
I'm sharing Face to Face with Butterflies, paired with a butterfly net for young naturalists, as part of my "Ways to Give a Book" series.
Yes, I'm inspired by the amazing MotherReader and have started my own series of ways to give children's books this holiday season.
November 29th, 2010 @ 11:15 am
Thank you for hosting this week! I have posted a review of The Firehouse Light:
November 29th, 2010 @ 11:56 am
Today I'm featuring a booktalk for I Feel Better with a Frog in my Throat, the great new book about crazy (and not so crazy!) cures. Feel free to use this or any of my archived booktalks for use in your library.http://shelf-employed.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-feel-better-with-frog-in-my-throat.html
Thanks for hosting!
November 29th, 2010 @ 12:36 pm
Thanks for hosting this week!
At Abby the Librarian, I have a review of Claude Monet: The Painter Who Stopped the Trains by P.I. Matlbie
November 29th, 2010 @ 1:38 pm
The Wild About Nature blog has a review of Elephants: Life in the Wild by Monica Kulling. We've also included an interview with Monica Kulling and the first of our holiday book giveaways.
Thanks for hosting this week!
Anastasia Suen
November 29th, 2010 @ 1:38 pm
Thanks for hosting this week! I'm in with O Christmas Tree: Its History and Holiday Traditions by Jacqueline Farmer (Author) and Joanne Friar (Illustrator)http://picturebookday.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/o-christmas-tree-its-history-and-holiday-traditions/
November 29th, 2010 @ 2:42 pm
Bookmarking this post. Thanks Zoe. You're the best!
November 29th, 2010 @ 3:24 pm
Thanks for hosting! Today I have National Geographic's Wild Animal Atlas at SimplyScience.
November 29th, 2010 @ 3:26 pm
Thank you for the information about the science project books. I will definitely be looking for those.
Today I added my kudos to the long list for Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors at http://blog.wrappedinfoil.com/2010/11/ubiquitous-applause/
Alex Baugh
November 29th, 2010 @ 3:36 pm
Thanks for hosting Non-Fiction Monday this week. I have a post on a book called Welcome to Molly's World 1944 at
Thanks again!
Three Turtles and Their Pet Librarian
November 29th, 2010 @ 4:36 pm
Thanks for hosting! We have two books on a very tricky subject by Jim Burns http://3tnar.blogspot.com/2010/11/nonfiction-monday-god-made-your-body.html and a special announcement!
November 29th, 2010 @ 4:53 pm
Wendie Old discusses — Animals and Me, We're more alike than you might think!
at Wendie's Wanderings.
Tammy Flanders
November 29th, 2010 @ 5:02 pm
I've posted about a Canadian folk painter, Maud Lewis, as featured in Capturing Joy.
Thanks for taking care of today's event.
Lynn Rutan
November 29th, 2010 @ 5:45 pm
Sorry to be coming in late! Bookends http://bookends.booklistonline.com/ has our post about The Good, the Bad and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact On Us by Tanya Lee Stone.
Thanks for hosting!
November 29th, 2010 @ 8:24 pm
Thanks for hosting! I'm with a book about the Stone Age
November 29th, 2010 @ 10:33 pm
Better late than never! I have a review up of "The Nightmare Plagues" series.
A Patchwork of Books
November 29th, 2010 @ 10:37 pm
Thanks for the round-up –I have Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science.
Janet Squires
November 29th, 2010 @ 10:54 pm
I've selected Celebrations! written by Anabel Kindersley and photographed by Barnabas Kindersley.
Sarah Campbell
November 29th, 2010 @ 11:37 pm
Thank you for hosting. What a great group of books featured this week on Nonfiction Monday!
November 30th, 2010 @ 2:00 am
The series you mentioned Zoe sounds like something we have been looking for! My kids are always wanting to do science experiments but I'd have to say science is not a strength of mine and tends to go low on the priority level! I will have to see if I can find these at my library. Thanks!
Audrey Geddes
November 30th, 2010 @ 5:22 am
Thanks for the blog recommends and the great science book resources! It's my goal this holiday season to encourage learning instead of putting our brains on holiday. Right now my daughter and I are learning Spanish through a wonderful story by Matthew Gollub called, Jazz Fly 2. The story includes a rain forest adventure featuring a host of unique fauna including a sloth, spider monkey, anteater and jaguar. There is an audio cd with Latin jazz that is performed by the author which accompanies jazz and Spanish phrases throughout the book. It's both fun and educational.
December 3rd, 2010 @ 3:29 pm
This is a great list of science books for kids. Too many kids today are just not interested in this subject and we need to find ways to encourage their interest.
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My rating? Well, I give it 3 out of 5 stars for presentation {which I'll explain} but 4 out of 5 overall.
The one word that best describes the set up of this video is contrived. Dr. Menton, the professor-type teaching the "class," is teaching two students. I suppose this could have been pulled off well, but it just isn't very believable. I think it would have been best had the good doctor simply taught to the camera, but a second-best would have been to use a larger crowd. The two students were awkward and stilted.
With that said, one of the things I always appreciate about Timberdoodle is that they are very honest in their curriculum descriptions. I wasn't surprised at all to see that their description on their website was very open about this, my one complaint:
A little bit campy in its approach, Body of Evidence is comprised of two high school students receiving instruction from former medical university professor Dr. David Menton. Though the setup may seem a bit stilted at first, a few moments into the series Dr Menton's sincere passion for the wonder of the human body will easily have you overlooking the contrived settingOverall
What can I say? Sweet old men are very likable!
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I like the curriculum. Part of me felt like it wasn't "enough;" I am so accustomed to my children learning from books rather than a screen. {Could you, would you have children narrate a DVD?} I am very tempted, though, to let my oldest watch the sessions where they fit with his anatomy chapters in his science reader next year, even though he will only be 10. My bigger temptation, though, is going to be to buy the curriculum and use it for junior high science. High schoolers would probably get more out of it, but I think a thirteen-year-old would do just fine and really enjoy the change of pace that a DVD curriculum would bring.
I also noticed that there is a self-test workbook available if I thought we needed it.
In all, if you're looking to add a little something to your science, this might be a pleasant, relaxing, informative addition.
Oh! And one more thought: the lecture style was much like what I experienced in college. It might be good training for any of our children who are planning on university education to practice taking notes along the way. The format definitely lends itself to this.
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WKPT, the ABC affiliate in the Tri-Cities area of northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virgina, is resurrecting its news department. WKPT last produced its own newscasts in 2008.
"Over the past few months we've built a homegrown news team," Jim Bailey, WKPT director of news and public affairs, told TVNewsCheck. "Our assistant news director, all of our reporters, my co-anchor and our meteorologist are all from the Tri-Cities area."
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with mitigation ratios, 108–110
monitoring duration of, 112–113
monitoring of, 110–112
in processing Department of the Army permit applications, 270
in project implementation, 101–103
recommendations, 122
record of, 113–121
with requirements for permittee-responsible compensation, 8, 167
Compliance with permit conditions, 103–108
design standards and detailed performance standards, 104–108
Compliance workload terms, 282–284
Conditioning permits, in processing Department of the Army permit applications, 264–265
Conduit for groundwater, soil in wetlands as, 32
Connectivity, 300
Conservation. See Wetland conservation
Constructed salt marshes
at a mitigation site in North Carolina, 42
in natural sites in Paradise Creek, Southern California, 115
in San Diego Bay, long-term data for, 43
Constructed wetlands, 300
defined, 13
Contaminants, from soil in wetlands, 32
Continuous parametric scale, creating, 136
Corps of Engineers. See U.S. Army Corps
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Corridors. See Animal dispersal corridors
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Cowardin system. See Wetland classification system
Coyote Creek mitigation site, 201–208
duration of monitoring, 205–207
long-term success criterion, 205
monitoring and site development, 205– 207
monitoring parameters, 204
short-term success criterion, 204–205
site installation and postinstallation site review, 205
Craven County, N.C., comparison between observed and DRAINMOD simulated water-table depths for a wetland restoration site in, 55
Creation of wetlands, 22–27.
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wetland types that are difficult to create, 24–27
wetland types that have been created, 22–24
Creation of wetlands that are ecologically self-sustaining, 123–128
adopting a dynamic landscape perspective, 124–125
attending to subsurface conditions, 127
avoiding overengineered structures in the wetland's design, 126
choosing wetland restoration over creation, 125–126
conducting early monitoring, 128
considering complications in degraded or disturbed sites, 128
considering the hydrogeomorphic and ecological landscape and climate 123–124
incorporating appropriate planting elevation, depth, soil type, and seasonal timing, 126–127
providing appropriately heterogeneous topography, 127
restoring or developing naturally variable hydrological conditions 125
Credits, wetland, 67
Cropped wetlands (CW), 300
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CWA Section 404 program. See Section 404 permits
CZMA. See Coastal Zone Management Act
DA. See Department of the Army
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Windows 7 provides a new command sleep which can be used in batch files or command prompt to pause the execution and wait for some time. In previous Windows editions(XP and Server 2003), this command is not available. Users of these Windows editions can download Windows resource kit tools for obtaining sleep command.
Syntax of sleep command:
sleep no_of_seconds_to_wait
sleep -m no_of_milli_seconds_to_wait
If you want to pause the execution of a batch file for 50 seconds, then you should insert below statement in your batch file.
sleep 50
If you want to wait for 100 milli seconds, then you can run the below command.
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Hands-on with Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta
the HTC Touch Diamond) was released on the market. Later on, a few others came out (HTC Advantage X7510, Samsung OMNIA) but until today, the majority of WM devices were not able to use it officially. Now, that has changed and Opera offers the first Beta for download from its site, allowing everyone to test their product. Well, not exactly everyone since the current version is for Windows Mobile smartphones with touchscreens only. However, a variant for Symbian UIQ phones is also expected in the future.
Talking about YouTube, we must note one of Opera's biggest drawbacks – it cannot visualize flash videos. In the new version of Safari, available in the iPhone 3G, at least YouTube videos are recognized and are opened in a separate application. We hope that Opera will fix this mistake and add the option to preview any flash object in the browser. However, even after this remark, Opera Mobile 9.5 is an excellent browser and it is definitely worth downloading (link to Opera site) if you have a WM Professional device and care for using mobile Internet.
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Can it be used with non WinMo phones like the Instinct or Dare
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unfortunately no
2. OscarTheGrouch (unregistered)
I installed it on my Windows Mobile HTC Kaiser II. It works pretty well!
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Installed in on my Touch Cruisse and works well. Noticed that he doesn't remember settings like landscape, zoom level (when zoomed in) etc.
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slow..but then i have an iphone.
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slow if u you use slow phone... no problem with diamond imo
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yes and it depends if you use 2g or 3g or wifi (and what wifi)
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Installed on my VZW XV6900. This browser is way better than p.i.e. Keep in mind also that this is the first beta release so they will come out with updates and newer versions up until the final product comes out.
9. omegaman888 (Posts: 6; Member since: 25 Jun 2008)
this browser works really well, even without the flash support... it works really well on my htc 8525 with wm6
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i installed it on the samsung i760 with the new windows mobile 6.1 upgrade and Im loving both of them but with the opera u cant use it but for a couple of minutes and a couple of sites and its showing too low on memory!!!!
11. gylman (unregistered)
Pretty slick interface. Ran well on my HX4700 with true VGA hack installed (ozVGA). Did not render some pages well. Certainly an improvement over IE or previous Opera versions.
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on xv6900 it works extremely well. much happier than experience with pie. just needs some flash support for youtube. it would be nice if it would link in to my htc stream player for youtube but no luck....yet
13. VZW (unregistered)
This browser is absolutely ridiculous. I have not seen a better browser on a WinMo device ever! However please be aware that if you install this on a Verizon Wireless XV6900 (Touch) and you run it, it WILL turn your text, picture and email alert sounds OFF! You can go back and turn them on but once you load Opera Mobile 9.5 it will set them back to OFF. I tried it on 3 different XV6900's and it is the same with all of them. I am most upset about that and have uninstalled the application and am putting my XV6900 on craigslist.
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this is with all phones right now. keep in mind it is a beta. they are working on it. the browser itself is sick. way better than pie.


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Countries of the Americas reported a total of 146,006 cases of dengue, out of which 2,706 were severe dengue. A total of 79 deaths have been reported, with a Regional fatality rate of 2.9%.
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William McNamara breathes art. He inhales it. And he exhales it. Whether it is his daily life, the popular culture that surrounds him, or the work of other artists, McNamara absorbs it all, and when he paints, he blasts it out again, like a fresh breeze coming down the Delaware.
Bill McNamara's day job is moving furniture across the country for Moody Movers. Sometimes he moves furniture made in New Hope's George Nakashima's studio. He also climbs trees in his father's tree surgeon business during the summer. McNamara paints every night after work. "My paintings are inspired by the things I do and the people I deal with. I incorporate the daily routines at work in my art, the people I work with, the people I work for. The good and the bad. Everything from difficult situations and obnoxious people to little children who draw our moving trucks. I throw them into my paintings and unload my creative imagination." That is how McNamara finds a balance between his work and his art.
Grace Croteau, Artsbridge Founding Member and owner of Riverrun Gallery, represents William McNamara. She is a real fan. "Bill's paintings are very fresh. Everything that goes through Bill's sensibilities comes out in paint. He is very modest, but he is giving us his life histories. And he loves art very much, every part of it."
Bill became a painter feeding off the life around him. He did not go to art school. "I was reading beat poetry, comic books. I was listening to music of the 1970s. I looked at the word abstractions of John Baldessari and the art of Ken Grimes, Mike Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, and Larry Clarke." He still develops his technique by examining the work of other artists. "I read about painters and painting all the time. I read about everything from Southern Folk artists to German Expressionism. You can learn something from anybody who is painting. The good and the bad. And then I just paint, paint, paint, paint..."
McNamara's knowledge of art is profound. He has a huge pool of names sitting on the tip of his tongue. When I told him that I had just been to Australia and visited an art gallery there, he generated a long list of Australian artists whose work he admires and who have influenced him.
McNamara's art is primitive and contemporary. Both elements can be seen in the evolution of his series of horse paintings. He started out painting child-like portraits of horses against plain backgrounds. The horses are called Blue Boy, Laughing Boy, Dog Lover, etc.
More recently, McNamara has turned the horses surreal and abstract. In "Horse Anatomy," the beast's eyes are floating and teeth stand in a vertical row. Horses like "Daredevils" and "Early Birds" are surrounded by cartoon characters, speech bubbles, children's drawings, newspaper articles, and other images. In some of McNamara's paintings, the background has pushed the horse so off the board that the background is now the subject. Moody Movers trucks, embroidered fabric, children's drawings, notes, poetry sketches, receipts make up a visual mixed-media diary.
Abstract paintings like these, says McNamara, "take time. There is more color and light involved, more layering. You have to know how you want to manipulate things. There are lots of ugly stages until the paintings come around, but once they have, they are definitely satisfying."
McNamara's newest series features music. He has painted a folk portrait of Hank Williams before, and has now moved to album covers that are important to him, like Jimmy Hendrix's Electric Lady Land, the Beatles' Let It Be, or a record by Blind Faith.
The fresh air Grace Croteau feels breezing through McNamara's work is something McNamara consciously creates. "I like paintings more loose," he says, "not so much thought out. I try to just let the painting come together. Having mistakes in a painting is part of it. You can always come back the next day, week or month, and straighten them out. Sometimes it is better to leave the mistake in. You edit yourself, but you have to be able to let the things outside your control speak for themselves.


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Gundlach Is Scared to Short Tesla, Says Apple's Dead Money (Update 1)
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- DoubleLine Capital's Jeffrey Gundlach said he's "scared to death" to short Tesla Motors (TSLA), citing investors' intense devotion to the stock.
"I'm scared to death to short Tesla," Gundlach said. "It's a cultish stock and who knows where it goes?"
Tesla shares were slightly lower in Thursday trading, off 0.31% to $165.93.
The legendary investor also gave a slew of investment ideas, including Apple (AAPL), mortgage REITS, and where he thinks the 10-year U.S. Treasury is headed.Gundlach said that he thinks Apple moves a little higher, but that it has problems around $530. "Apple is a dead money stock for quite a while to come, once it settles in around $530," the investor said in an interview on CNBC. TheStreet broke the news earlier this year that Gundlach and DoubleLine owned Apple in one of DoubleLine's equity portfolios. Gundlach had previously said that Apple would go to $500 "fairly easily", which it did earlier this month. He now believes the easy money on Apple has been made, and it will struggle around $530 for some time. Gundlach also touched on mortgage REITS, saying that some of them offer plenty of yield right now, and are trading at discounts to net asset values. "There is plenty of yield right now in the bond market, but it's not in Treasuries" Gundlach said. "I'm talking about closed-end funds, I'm talking about mortgage REITs. These are vehicles that are trading at 10% discounts to their net asset values, or for REITs versus their book value." He mentioned Annaly Capital Management (NLY) as being attractive right now. Earlier this year, Gundlach had said that mortgage REITs would have difficulties advancing in price, but he'd buy Annaly if it fell to $12. Touching on the 10-year U.S. Treasury, Gundlach said he now thinks the yield on the bond could hit 3.1% sometime later this year, as the Federal Reserve starts to taper its quantitative easing program.
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