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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a devastating and stigmatizing disorder. Many therapists refuse to treat this population due to the severe pathology involved. BPD patients' extreme emotional and behavioral dysregulation including anger directed at the therapist and impulsive, life threatening behavior can be tremendously taxing on the therapist, not to mention heighten their ethical and legal risk. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a psychosocial treatment that combines cognitive-behavioral theory and methods with eastern meditative principles and practices, has changed this picture significantly. Several randomized clinical trials have demonstrated DBT to be the most hopeful and helpful of any new therapy available for people with BPD. As icing on the cake, it also provides a very stimulating and rewarding experience for the therapist. As such, many therapists are clamoring to learn the treatment. Although there is a wealth of information that describes the treatment itself, very little has been written regarding the necessary steps to provide it well. In this chapter we offer guidelines on how to achieve competency in DBT and further discuss how to move from beginning to expert status. The information presented has been gleaned over the last 15 years; from both formal training in DBT as well as personal experience providing full fidelity DBT "in the trenches".
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- Borderline Personality Disorder
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- Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies
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- pp 877-900
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- 2010
- 10.1007/978-0-387-09757-2_31
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- 978-0-387-09756-5
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- Springer New York
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- 1. School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University
- 2. School of Professional Psychology, HCP/Pacific University
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- 1. Portland DBT Program, PC, Portland, OR, USA
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Gleefully flaunting her own speeding yet sneering sarcastically if
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overtakes her on the motorway. ?
Oops, misread that: it actually said "on the inside on the motorway" which, fair enough, is out of order. My mistake. (It still doesn't make her speeding-tickets-as-a-matter-of-course attitude right, though.)
Totally agree with you fizzycat; any genuine animal lover would surely be horrified by the state of her animals and the keeping-them-alive thing. I do wonder if she thinks this through when she serves up these stories of sick horses and cats week after week. I know there are lots of people who fall for it and say "How can people be mean about her, just look how much she loves animals", but there are far more comments expressing horror and concern. Surely she must realise that these stories attract far more criticism than they deflect?
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A lover of puppies. A future veterinarian. A little girl with a smile always on her face. Nine-year-old Olivia Billings was described as many things, but mostly, she was a fighter.
After undergoing multiple heart transplants, Olivia died Saturday of an apparent heart attack.
�She was a miracle child, we called her our Energizer bunny because she just kept going and going,� said her mother Lena Billings with a small laugh. �She was such a little fighter.�
Olivia was born premature with cardiomyopathy, which left the left side of her heart muscle weakened. When she was 4, doctors told her parents she would soon need a heart transplant.
�That first heart transplant, it was hard. We waited months for a heart,� Billings said. �After the transplant she was much better, but one of her heart valves was injured.�
An open-heart surgery in 2009 replaced the valve and last March saw a second heart transplant after the first one failed.
�We were so lucky, getting two hearts,� Billings said. �And through it all Olivia was such a trooper, we had been through so much, we had all been through so much, and we thought �OK, this is it. We�re going to be OK now.� �
Olivia went to school as usual on Friday; it wasn�t until Saturday morning that she felt sick.
�She was sort of moping around, woke up with a stomach ache,� Billings said. �That afternoon she crashed; we performed CPR on her and then paramedics tried to stabilize her enough to be able to be Lifeflighted to the hospital. In the end we had to take an ambulance to Bothwell (Regional Health Center) and she passed away.�
�It is a shock for us because we just saw her, she was just in school,� said Green Ridge Elementary fourth grade teacher Kara Henslee. �We were of course concerned about the kids, but I think a lot of them knew already, their parents had told them and prepped them the night before. Green Ridge is a small community so everyone knew her and what she�d gone through.�
Henslee said her students took the news, �as well as you can, they got the crying out and then we talked about the good things � and there were a lot of good things.�
�Little things made her light up,� said Olivia�s third grade teacher, Pam Harrison. �A few days ago she made me laugh; I was walking by her during lunch and she waved something at me like she was bragging about her pudding cup or whatever it was, it made me laugh so much.�
Harrison said Olivia was always excited to come to school but noted the alternative meant she was sick in the hospital.
�She was just an amazing little girl,� Harrison said. �Anyone who got a chance to meet her, they were lucky. I don�t think I�ll ever forget her.�
Billings said she�d seen an outpouring of support for the family since Olivia went through her first transplant and expected this time to be no different.
�We�ve been so supported by the Green Ridge and Sedalia communities, everyone has always been thoughtful and caring,� she said. �I know they�ve decided to end school early on Friday and hold the funeral in the gym. It just amazes me how many people know Olivia or knew of her.�
Henslee said students would release special balloons on Friday and the school would likely plant a tree in the playground in her honor.
�Olivia just wanted to be friends with everyone,� she said. �She was always looking to help someone out and look on the positive side of things.�
Billings said she would remember the �good things about Olivia, not when she was sick.�
�She told me she had decided she wanted to be a veterinarian, except she didn�t �want to do any of the gross stuff,� � she said with a laugh. �That was Olivia, �Let�s look at the fun side of things.� �
A visitation for Olivia Billings will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Heckart Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Green Ridge High School gym. In lieu of flowers, the family asks donations be sent to the St. Louis Ronald McDonald House, 4381 W. Pine St., St. Louis, Mo., 63108.


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SEATTLE--Researchers at the University of Washington say state bonuses for nationally board certified teachers are not encouraging the most capable teachers to work in high-poverty schools.
In a research brief released on Wednesday, UW's Center on Reinventing Public Education finds the bonus system has not only failed to move teachers to high-poverty schools, but it has also failed to keep the best teachers in those schools if they do go there.
Washington bonuses for board certified teachers add up to nearly $50 million a year. Teachers who go through the rigorous process to become board certified can earn $5,000 a year, or double the bonus by working in a high-poverty school
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JOPLIN, Mo. — Standing in her high school business classroom, teacher Kristi McGowen unloads a box of supplies. More pens and pencils, staplers and scissors than shell probably ever use.
Everything in this class is new, donated or bought to replace everything the storm took away. Tables and chairs for the students, two inspirational posters on the wall. A smart board doesnt quite work yet, but one of the football coaches is working on that.
As McGowen stuffs one of her three metal drawers full with supplies, she glances down at her watch. Its only 8 a.m. Wednesday. Her first class wont be here for another 30 minutes. Shes anxious. Nervous, even.
Although shes been teaching for 23 years, McGowen admits she has the jitters of a recent college grad. But, she reasons, this year is different. Shes different. So are her students.
What are the kids going to be like? she thinks. What are they going through? How are they coping?
Its been nearly three months since an EF5 tornado destroyed one-third of Joplin, killing 160 people including one school secretary and seven students and injuring more than 900. Nine of the districts 19 buildings were destroyed or severely damaged. The scars are still there; no way they couldnt be.
Many teachers and students lost their homes, their churches and nearly everything they owned. Some lost family members. One senior, Quinton Anderson, lost both his parents and missed their funeral as he recovered in the hospital from his own injuries.
But on this day, its like a fresh start. A slate nearly as clean as the freshly painted walls and never-used white boards.
Weve been through a lot as a community; youve been through a lot, high school principal Kerry Sachetta will tell a cafeteria full of juniors and seniors later at the new high school (built at the towns shopping mall). We need to remember that.
But, hell tell them, dont forget to celebrate how far Joplin has come since the sky went dark May 22. How far theyve all come.
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The HESI Admission Assessment tests math; reading; vocabulary; grammar; biology; chemistry; and anatomy and physiology. All of these subjects are covered in nursing pre-requisite courses. A study guide is available through the NPC Online Bookstore, under the spring course NUR 100. Also see www.hesitest.com or www.amazon.com.
Cost for the test is $44. Payment can be made at any NPC campus or center office. A copy of the receipt must be submitted when registering for the test. Deadline is 48 hours prior to the exam date, if space permits. Cancellations must be received 48 hours prior to the test date to be eligible for a refund.
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YOKOHAMA, Japan—The ThinkPad design started out with the idea of a bento box, according to Tomoyuki Takahashi, design and user experience director under the development notebook business unit of Lenovo Japan. He was one of the original team members who worked on the design essence of the groundbreaking ThinkPad when the iconic computer was created under IBM.
The first ThinkPad was like a traditional lacquered bento box: a simple but elegant "black box" with many good things inside. Back then, it was all "cool logic and ergonomic comfort," Takahashi said at a global briefing at Yamato Labs in Yokohama, Japan.
Twenty years hence, the ThinkPad team, which has transferred from IBM to Lenovo, has reconsidered some of the ThinkPad's features in response to market trends without losing track of the core design identity.
It's all about "protect and attack," said Arimasa Naitoh, the widely acknowledged Father of the ThinkPad.
The brand has very loyal customer base that loves the boxy black design, which is all about business productivity.
Yet the ThinkPad team also refreshes the design now and then. These days, the boxy, black exterior is still the main design, but the creators emphasized the wedge shape to make the computer look thinner. There are also more curved surfaces, and designers have recently come up with smiley shaped keys as opposed to square keys to enlarge the "forgiveness zone" during typing without enlarging the keyboards.
Even the central track point—the cat paw-inspired cursor controller that gives users quick cursor movements without lifting hands from the keyboard—has gone through changes. "Some clients love the ThinkPad because it is not designed as a consumer item but something to help them achieve success. So we keep a balance in mind," he said.
For the fifth and latest generation of ThinkPads, the X1 Carbon demonstrates the latest "refresh" with a little nod to consumer tastes, said Naitoh. It is thin and ultra-lightweight with a strong carbon-fiber casing, but with slightly rounded edges and soft-touch coating that makes it a joy to hold and use.
"Our approach is to always do something new while keeping the core design identity intact," Naitoh said. With more than 2,000 design awards under their belt, the ThinkPad team has indeed helped transform the way people use their PCs.
Lenovo, which bought the ThinkPad brand along with IBM's PC business in 2005, is also thinking "out of the box," so to speak, with the company's so-called PC+ mantra. Tablets and smartphones based on the ThinkPad are being launched in strategic markets, said Keith Liu, business development director for mobile internet digital home of Lenovo APLA.
In the Philippines, Lenovo Mobile also released Android phones to get a slice of the booming smartphone market. Despite the association of Lenovo with the ThinkPad and therefore the PC, Liu said, this can be viewed as an advantage because the ThinkPad is seen as a reliable brand.
Customers can look forward to more "game-changing" offerings from the ThinkPad side to the PC+ side, said Lenovo vice president for marketing (emerging markets) Howie Lau, as the company continues to study consumer behavior and market trends.
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I have to ask you this.. have you ever considered the commitment needed to take 10,000 rolls of 120 film, and expose them all??
I think you are missing a very simple logistical , financial and physical action that this woman took.
I would really like a measured response about how you would go about this simple task?
I have made over 100,000 thousand prints, it took me my career.
I would be interested to know whether you have come any where close to Vivian's production.
please do not include family vacations on your cell phone, but a real concentrated body of work effort.
Production numbers has nothing to do with quality of outcome.
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Medium – finally something for bloggersAt the first look medium is a blogging site. However, as you delve deeper, you will realize that it is much more than the regular blogging site. The founders of this social networking site are Evan Williams and Biz stone, the same people who created Twitter. Therefore, coming from people who have already proved their mettle, this social network cannot be ignored. In fact, the founders say that this is an extension of twitter. A user can log in into the website using a twitter account and then read, write and vote for blogs. The number of vote the blog receives will determine how prominently or frequently the blog will appear on the website. Therefore, once you have written a blog, you promote it and if the reader likes it, he votes for the blog. However, you can only read and vote using a twitter account. If you want to write then you have to be invited from people of Medium.
Whisper – What's in a name
This is actually an application for Iphone and can be used by Iphone users. The different feature about this is that this app promises anonymity. As said famously what's in a name, whisper allows the user to post secrets known as whispers. The sender is kept anonymous and people can respond to the message by sending a whisper or leaving a heart to the post. If you ever wanted to share something to the world without letting them know that it is you, then whisper is the social network app to watch out for. In fact, about a million of people have already started using whisper. Moreover, with the app getting $3 million funding recently, it is certain to create a rage especially among the young crowd.
Chirpify- Make buying and selling fun and interactiveWith the laws of marketing changing and social network being constantly used by marketing companies to market their product, chirpify goes a step further and has given a definite shape to this concept. One can use their twitter, faceboook or instagram accounts to login and buy and sell the product on their social networks. Just reply to the post by saying "Buy" and the product is yours. No hassles of credit card payment, long process of filling forms. It promises to make the process of buying and selling more fun and interactive apart from making it less cumbersome. The money is cut from your twitter account. Moreover, it can also be used for fund-raising, peer-to-peer payment etc.
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By Chris Hedges
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, an activist, an author and a member of a reporting team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize, wrote this article after he was released from custody following his arrest last Thursday. He and about 15 other participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement were detained as they protested outside the global headquarters of Goldman Sachs in lower Manhattan.
Faces appeared to me moments before the New York City police arrested us Thursday in front of Goldman Sachs. They were not the faces of the smug Goldman Sachs employees, who peered at us through the revolving glass doors and lobby windows, a pathetic collection of middle-aged fraternity and sorority members. They were not the faces of the blue-uniformed police with their dangling cords of white and black plastic handcuffs, or the thuggish Goldman Sachs security personnel, whose buzz cuts and dead eyes reminded me of the East German secret police, the Stasi. They were not the faces of the demonstrators around me, the ones with massive student debts and no jobs, the ones whose broken dreams weigh them down like a cross, the ones whose anger and betrayal triggered the street demonstrations and occupations for justice. They were not the faces of the onlookers—the construction workers, who seemed cheered by the march on Goldman Sachs, or the suited businessmen who did not. They were faraway faces. They were the faces of children dying. They were tiny, confused, bewildered faces I had seen in the southern Sudan, Gaza and the slums of Brazzaville, Nairobi, Cairo and Delhi and the wars I covered. They were faces with large, glassy eyes, above bloated bellies. They were the small faces of children convulsed by the ravages of starvation and disease.
I carry these faces. They do not leave me. I look at my own children and cannot forget them, these other children who never had a chance. War brings with it a host of horrors, including famine, but the worst is always the human detritus that war and famine leave behind, the small, frail bodies whose tangled limbs and vacant eyes condemn us all. The wealthy and the powerful, the ones behind the glass at Goldman Sachs, laughed and snapped pictures of us as if we were a brief and odd lunchtime diversion from commodities trading, from hoarding and profit, from this collective sickness of money worship, as if we were creatures in a cage, which in fact we soon were.
A glass tower filled with people carefully selected for the polish and self-assurance that come with having been formed in institutions of privilege, whose primary attributes are a lack of consciousness, a penchant for deception and an incapacity for empathy or remorse. The curious onlookers behind the windows and we, arms locked in a circle on the concrete outside, did not speak the same language. Profit. Globalization. War. National security. These are the words they use to justify the snuffing out of tiny lives, acts of radical evil. Goldman Sachs' commodities index is the most heavily traded in the world. Those who trade it have, by buying up and hoarding commodities futures, doubled and tripled the costs of wheat, rice and corn. Hundreds of millions of poor across the globe are going hungry to feed this mania for profit. The technical jargon, learned in business schools and on trading floors, effectively masks the reality of what is happening—murder. These are words designed to make systems operate, even systems of death, with a cold neutrality. Peace, love and all sane affirmative speech in temples like Goldman Sachs are, as W.H. Auden understood, "soiled, profaned, debased to a horrid mechanical screech."
We seemed to have lost, at least until the advent of the Occupy Wall Street movement, not only all personal responsibility but all capacity for personal judgment. Corporate culture absolves all of responsibility. This is part of its appeal. It relieves all from moral choice. There is an unequivocal acceptance of ruling principles such as unregulated capitalism and globalization as a kind of natural law. The steady march of corporate capitalism requires a passive acceptance of new laws and demolished regulations, of bailouts in the trillions of dollars and the systematic looting of public funds, of lies and deceit. The corporate culture, epitomized by Goldman Sachs, has seeped into our classrooms, our newsrooms, our entertainment systems and our consciousness. This corporate culture has stripped us of the right to express ourselves outside of the narrowly accepted confines of the established political order. It has turned us into compliant consumers. We are forced to surrender our voice. These corporate machines, like fraternities and sororities, also haze new recruits in company rituals, force them to adopt an unrelenting cheerfulness, a childish optimism and obsequiousness to authority. These corporate rituals, bolstered by retreats and training seminars, by grueling days that sometimes end with initiates curled up under their desks to sleep, ensure that only the most morally supine remain. The strong and independent are weeded out early so only the unquestioning advance upward. Corporate culture serves a faceless system. It is, as Hannah Arendt writes, "the rule of nobody and for this very reason perhaps the least human and most cruel form of rulership."
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By Grady Lee Howard, November 8, 2011 at 3:05 pm Link to this comment
Rational People agree: Our economy (whatever you
Because the "owners of the United States" committed
Soon they will come to the non-middle class , non-
By objective observer, November 8, 2011 at 1:40 pm Link to this comment
Ted talks about "burning a kingdom down", other talk of "revolution", etc. big talk with nothing to back it up. when "the powers that be", whomever that is, gets tired of this temper tantrum, they will squash it, hopefully not as China did in the square. then what?
there have been lots of ideas from "occupy", some good, some silly, a lot of heat but no movement. what has been gained? the "powers that be" are simply waiting this out, holding the police, national guard, etc at bay until there is an excuse to end it. then watch out, the excuse will have been manufactured, disbursed by the MSM, action taken with no occupy response, then what?
By doublestandards/glasshouses, November 8, 2011 at 12:40 pm Link to this comment
Danny Glover speaking at Occupy Oakland:
By many truths, November 8, 2011 at 9:20 am Link to this comment
you will not find peace or happiness, lamenting your
By Dances With Fascists, November 8, 2011 at 1:40 am Link to this comment
This could be the theme song for the Occupation
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By Dances With Fascists, November 8, 2011 at 1:20 am Link to this comment
"whose primary attributes are a lack of consciousness, a penchant for deception and an incapacity for empathy or remorse"
Chris you have defined a psychopath (synonymous with sociopath). Unfortunately there are a lot of them among us. They're not all that hard to recognize, they're invariably in favor of torture, war, and tax cuts for the rich.
Every time I read another of your articles Chris I am filled with new hope, please keep up the good work. I am traveling soon to New York to join the Occupation.
By Ted, November 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm Link to this comment
a suggested sign to hold in front of Goldman Sachs (and OzarkMichael):
holy water cannot help you now. see, i've come to burn your kingdom down, and
By Ted, November 7, 2011 at 9:00 pm Link to this comment
"Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling –
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear
By cclauson, November 7, 2011 at 6:53 pm Link to this comment
"It is vital that the occupation movements direct attention away from their encampments and tent cities, beset with the usual problems of hastily formed open societies where no one is turned away. Attention must be directed through street protests, civil disobedience and occupations toward the institutions that are carrying out the assaults against the 99 percent."
Agree 100%. I'm going to go further than this—as an outside observer, I'm getting the impression that in an effort to be open and democratic, while being vigilant against being coopted by major political parties, PACs and corporations, they've left themselves open to being coopted from within by leftist or apolitical groups and individuals joining the movement whose political agendas are not necessarily in line with the original movement goals, but because of the openness of the movement, can set the agenda.
Quick perspective: analogies are often drawn between OWS and open source in tech. I believe it's almost universally true in technology that open source projects tend to be led by a small group of core individuals, while most people donate specific skills on specific subprojects. The reason I bring this up is that it seems that many people in OWS are idealogically opposed to any heirarchy or structure. While I think there are definitely good reasons for as much decentralization as possible and rotating leadership, I think that if taken to far, this could be a detriment.
Two things I think would make sense to do:
2. Set up more organization. Occupy Oakland did a successful general strike a week or so ago and called for other occupy movements to do the same. So far, to my knowledge, no one else has been able to follow suit. My impression is that apparently outside of Oakland, the connections between Occupy and labor unions is too tenuous and/or not enough of the workforce is unionized to do this kind of thing. If there's some way to change that, that would probably be a good place to spend effort. In my opinion, looking for revolutionary precendents in Marx and Bakunin is probably of limited value, because in those times, street-level armed insurrection was actually viable way of toppling a government, but in our world, this seems unlikely. It seems more likely that if the government/financial system were to be toppled, it would be as a result of wave after wave of general strikes. So my thinking is that any effort spent to bring this about would be a good investment.
By wfalco, November 7, 2011 at 6:14 pm Link to this comment
It took me awhile to jump on board. But I have and there is no turning back. Chris just cemented it as he typically does by always putting into his prophetic words what my lower middle class brain can only guess at.
I now get it. Those are the same bastards on the other side of the glass still smirking at me…at us!
By poodfreemon, November 7, 2011 at 5:48 pm Link to this comment
With delight, I note that Chris Hedges is accelerating. His voice is one of many who are writing the Occupy Wall Street manifesto, a work in progress.
I do not trust the top 1% of the Earth's population. Most of the top 1% are high-IQ sociopaths. How is it that we are beholden to these pigs?
Occupy the sidewalks outside the pricey restaurants. Carry signs that read, "Hey, Biff! Hey Muffy! Enjoy your three-hundred-dollar dinner."
By Textynn, November 7, 2011 at 3:43 pm Link to this comment
RAW VIDEO: Chopper footage of 100,000+ Occupy Oakland Takes back Highway.
By Textynn, November 7, 2011 at 2:54 pm Link to this comment
Chris Hedges speaks for those of us that say, "There will be no surrender." We are not going to take this sick greed and abuse any longer. No matter how long it takes we are going to change this.
By tjmax116, November 7, 2011 at 2:28 pm Link to this comment
Unwinnable Wars—- Trillions
What is it the 1% dosen't get?
By objective observer, November 7, 2011 at 2:14 pm Link to this comment
Ozark Michael - don't be surprised when the commenters go immediately to name calling, most can't hold a rational conversation when someone disagrees with them.
as i have posted in the past, i agree with some of OWS, but why do they act surprised when police act like police? these demonstrators and their supporters don't want to accept the fact that a great deal of American society either doesn't care or thinks negatively about the whole OWS situation. until specifics are presented, explained and realistic solutions made, most Americans will tune in "x factor" or "American idol" and tune out what is going on. bread and circuses…
By Bobi6, November 7, 2011 at 2:12 pm Link to this comment
Today AP is being paid to blame the troubles of the young on the excess
They take Chris Hedges words and turn them around so blame the old
By Jerry, November 7, 2011 at 1:51 pm Link to this comment
You are the man Chris! Free at last!
By Lee Oates, November 7, 2011 at 12:50 pm Link to this comment
Chris, I think your one of the few sane men left on this planet.
By jkhall, November 7, 2011 at 11:49 am Link to this comment
With this writing, Hedges provides a superb dissection of America.
By Brian J. Foley, November 7, 2011 at 11:01 am Link to this comment
Another great piece by Chris Hedges - Thank you, Chris. Here are two satirical pieces to help us laugh: http://brianjfoley.net/2011/10/06/lawyers-with-borders-opposes-occupation-of-wall-street/
By Rachel, November 7, 2011 at 10:19 am Link to this comment
This article makes me want to jump up and scream "Hallelujah". I cannot tell you
By Daniel Levin, November 7, 2011 at 9:16 am Link to this comment
Thank you again Chris, for writing and speaking the deepest truth about our shared predicament. Our collective humanity is at stake in this battle, and you remind us all of what we must do to maintain our integrity and dignity under these truly impossible circumstances. It is a very tough fight. It would almost be easier if they would just come at us with guns. At least then we would be able to see clearer our enemy and know their intentions were to kill us quickly, rather than how they are doing it now, a little more slowly. But to fight a relentless, ubiquitous, voracious, invisible enemy, one that has effectively colonized all aspects of our lives and environment, is daunting, and requires enormous fortitude and intelligence. You have those qualities in spades, and deserve our sincerest gratitude.
Daniel Levin, St. Louis
By David, November 7, 2011 at 4:21 am Link to this comment
As someone who has also been arrested, all I can say is…dammit why didn't I wait
He's absolutely right, the focus must be on action, on confronting the powers that


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MESA, Ariz. – The Atlanta Braves created an identity with their pitching, from a Hall of Fame core – Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz – to a new generation that was supposed to include Arodys Vizcaino.
Pre-Biogenesis scandal Melky Cabrera headlined the Javier Vazquez trade with the New York Yankees in December 2009. But the Braves looked to the future by also acquiring Vizcaino, who had gotten a reported $800,000 bonus after signing with the Yankees as a teenager in the Dominican Republic.
"All you heard was he throws 100 mph and he's the next one," Eric Hinske said. "And then he got hurt."
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Hinske, the new Cubs first-base coach, remembered Vizcaino hitting 98, 99 and 100 mph out of the Braves bullpen when they played together in 2011. That season the 20-year-old right-hander rocketed through the system, going from Class-A Lynchburg to Double-A Mississippi to Triple-A Gwinnett to Atlanta.
Heading into the 2012 season, Baseball America ranked Vizcaino as Atlanta's second-best prospect and the game's No. 40 overall prospect. And then Dr. James Andrews did the Tommy John surgery late in spring training, making Vizcaino available in the Paul Maholm/Reed Johnson trade that summer.
After missing the last two seasons – and undergoing another elbow procedure last May – Vizcaino is hovering around triple digits again and showing what all the hype was about.
When was the last time you felt this good?
"I can't remember, man. For real," Vizcaino said.
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The other day Vizcaino cracked up teammates by wearing a big ponytail wig around the room. He likes to dance to the music playing in the clubhouse. He appeared a little withdrawn when he hung around the big-league club last season, so his body language says something.
"I feel comfortable right now," Vizcaino said. "No pain. Nothing in my arm. I feel happy. That's why I'm dancing."
General manager Jed Hoyer set the expectations when pitchers and catchers reported to Cubs Park last month, saying Vizcaino's stuff is as good as anyone in camp – when he's healthy.
That's the biggest question mark for Vizcaino, who's still only 23 years old. The Cubs understand they'll have to manage his innings this season. They don't want to project too far into the future. But if they can keep him healthy, they might have a potential future closer, or maybe even a front-end starter.
"We're going to be bringing him along slowly," pitching coach Chris Bosio said. "There's just so much potential in that arm. He's so excited. This guy wants to win a spot.
"We'll see what happens with him. We just got to be very careful. He's going to get ample rest in between side sessions. We're not going to overdo it. We'll watch his pitch count closely. But he's been a pleasant, pleasant surprise this spring already."
An organization that's not exactly pitching-rich will need some luck and several breakthrough performances. Vizcaino took another small step by throwing a scoreless inning on Monday against the Milwaukee Brewers. But he hasn't pitched in the big leagues since Sept. 27, 2011, back when the Braves could still dream about his potential.
"He's got great presence when he's out on the mound," Hinske said. "You know he's about to throw hard. You know he wants to get you out. He works quick. He gets the ball, gets the sign and goes. (His) prospect status is through the roof, no doubt."


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Missy Elliott hasn't gotten her freak on in the public eye in quite some time—and obviously the music industry and her fans have taken notice.
Talking to Yahoo's The Yo Show, the hip-hop artist explained why her years-in-the-making seventh sudio album continues to be years-in-the-making.
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Elliott's last studio album was 2005's The Cookbook, and she released the compilation album Respect M.E. in 2006.
While teasing the upcoming Block Party, she's released a few singles in more recent years, including "Triple Threat" and "9th Inning," both with Timbaland, in 2012—but the album itself remains unreleased.
Asked if she was experiencing any writer's block, Elliott replied, "I think when you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create...Your brain is like a computer sometimes and you need to refresh...It didn't used to be like that. It used to be where your record, your album was such a classic that it could go on for two years and then you drop another joint.
"But it's now like this. Your brain needs time to refresh because things happen in your life, you know, where you can then write something else instead of the same three topics. Like how many times we gonna talk about the club?"
"I think everybody gets writer's block," she added, laughing, "but I don't think that's the situation. Just being inspired by things is what I'm grabbing for...I'm just trying to make sure that what I give is 100 percent because I know the expecation is high for my fans—and it's high for myself."
And her next album will happen, Elliott promised.
"It's coming! I just ain't telling nobody when!" she said.
Meanwhile, she's been working with her former landlady Faith Evans on her new album. So Elliott has continued to "Work It" all this time, just on her own terms.
"Faith is one of those people who allowed me to stay in her house, eat up her food, when I had no money...She let me stay there, so yeah, we're gonna do something on this album."
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February 27th, 2005 #1
glöggens sketchbook.
Okay, so this would be where I upload stuff from my sketchbook then
I want to evolve as much as possible so please don't hold back on your c&c guys!
The thing is that the stuff that I do from the top of my head always come out real shitty, so I thought I would start to draw stuff from life and from reference photos. Is that an ok way to go?
This is from a photo. Got kinda tired after a while, I think the problem with this one is that I outlined too much stuff from the beginning...
A shot at doing buildings, from a photo. I made a couple of boxes with ruler, rest is free hand.
Here I did a car from reference. The penciled sketch was alot better, but for some reason I thought it was important to destroy it by inking it...
This is the last crumbs of coffee, drew it while it was sitting on my desk. I have bought more now, so don't worry, I'll be posting more caffeine-fuelled drawings
Here I wanted to practice doing rocks since the ones I do from mind suck hard. From a reference photo.
This is a dude that is speared. Made from the top of my head and a desire to murder my new .2 ink pen.
This is an old bag that I keep my drawing stuff in. Kinda old, made it about a year ago. Maybe it's dumb to post old sketches? Sketched from life.
This one also made from a reference pic. I kinda grew tired on the fur.
With all these except for the speared dude I start out trying to get the proportions down on paper and then trying to shade it approximately the way it looks on the photo. After a little while I grow tired of doing exactly after the reference so I start to shade it kinda like I feel. I dunno if that's good or bad.
I thank you in advance for any crits you might have, and I look forward to keeping the sketchbook here and hope to make some progress
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Fina bilder.
Den 1a bilden var den bästa, där har du verkligen fått till perspektivet.
Det som jag tror du ska träna på är skugga, och linjerna, som inte alltid känns helt säkra.
-Den som bugar sig för lågt blir trampad i nacken-
Sketchbook: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...199#post422199
February 27th, 2005 #3
En tacker för svaret
Japp, linjerna har jag problem med, svårt att dra en enda som hamnar där man vill ha den. Kanske borde göra lite såna övningar där man drar en massa raka linjer o sånt?
Är det nåt speciellt du tänker på vad gäller skuggningarna?
February 27th, 2005 #4
Hi Glögg,
Very good start, drawing from reference is a very good way to learn, just try to understand what it is what you are drawing, what the light is doing, perspective and stuff.
Also drawing from life is a great way to train your observational skills.
February 27th, 2005 #5
Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, I will try and think about what it is I am drawing and why stuff looks the way they do. It's easy to forget sometimes :/
February 27th, 2005 #6
U have fine drawing hand!
I never could do something like that formline abstract thingy...
oh i become old with my trembling hand!
ok, try to avoid smearing if you do not use it consequently.
Mhh..just stop it for the moment!
I really like the locomotive, good shading IMO, well just keep it on!
February 27th, 2005 #7
Thanks for the reply, you are absolutely right in what you are saying. The smearing actually happened as an accident with the bear and I have no idea on how to stop it from happening. I try to sketch from left to right but that sucks, I always want to come back and do stuff on the left so then my hand/wrist smears what I did to the right
I can use a paper if it's something big I am doing that I know will take time, but it feels kinda silly to have an extra loose paper between my hand and the sketch if I am just sitting around doodling. How do you guys do? No contact hand-paper at all?
February 27th, 2005 #8
very good start, especially the train, u have done good efforts /
u should concentrate on proportions (in tried, that's frustrating but after ... it's less frustrating)
good luck
keep posting
February 28th, 2005 #9
Okay so this is from today and yesterday night then.
This is where I thought I should practice some shading. Seems like I have to do that more. From pic
Another shading practice, it's from a close up photo I took of a couple of bananas. If I still had had them I would have drawn them from life
Dunno why I added that damn blue stuff. Wont happen again...
Got tired of drawing from photos so I drew my left hand a few times. I think I will keep on doing that. Easy to light it differently and practice shading as well.
I say thank you in advance if there is any c&c
February 28th, 2005 #10
No comment!
proportions are very good, u have the good to draw hands/
good luck
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February 28th, 2005 #11
That last car you posted is badass! I really liked your rock study you did of the ocean front environment, really awesome, and very panoramic!
I think aside from some ellipses looking a little odd on the train sketch, you should fix them and finish that piece because it looks great so far!
You've posted a lot of objects and still life, and they're very good! Have you by any chance studied anatomy or done life/figure drawings?
Very good work, post something new!
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February 28th, 2005 #12
Zou: thanks, I try my best!
IanE: Thanks for the comment, and yes you are absolutely right about the ellipses, I never bothered to frame them and so on, and my freehand ones could use some brushing up
Well, i've gone to figure drawing like five times or something that was arranged by my school. The problem is that I can't take any nude classes on other schools in the area because I kind of know one of the models and it would feel weird. I try and draw stuff that I see around me, but lately it has been alot of photos, unfortunately
March 7th, 2005 #13
hello glogg
waiting for your updates
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March 10th, 2005 #14
Tjena glögg
Jag är svensk men det kanske är mer uppskattat att skriva på engelska.
I saw your profile when checking out Hurris sketchbook, I like your work, Im about to start a own sketchbook soon, azap. Just have to get courage enaough =)
Do you study in a art school today, in that case which one?
P.S Kul med svenskar här med samma intresse.
D.S Representing gothenburg =D
March 10th, 2005 #15
nice work so far. your style is nice
i'd suggest you give more importance to perspective before getting into shading. because your perspective seems to need more work as far as i see.
especially the ellipses as you've already been told
drawing from life is the best way to improve your visual memory and observation skills; which in turn makes your "from mind" drawings more realistic. so keep up
ender coşkun
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March 10th, 2005 #16
Zou and everybody else: Sorry about not posting for so long, but I have been busy at school. I am working with a technical drawing of a toy humvee right now, maybe i'll post it here when its done
Yoonjin: Not really an art school, it's called "Informativ illustration". It's more about technical drawings and the way we see instruction-pictures and stuff. I kinda need to do crap like this just so I don't have to use a ruler
Götebörg, gött mos! Representing Kristinehamn, värmland här då
e n d e r: Thanks for the comments, I love your sketchbook! The thing is that I have the knowledge of how to do the perspective, but I have problems getting it right without a ruler. Maybe I shouldn't rush my sketches so much and try and get the perspective right first?
allright, here's some new stuff, I think they might be in too low resolution though, I think the other ones are too big, but maybe this is a bit low on quality. ah well.
This is the bus station in Örebro where I waited for twenty minutes and made this. First loose pencil then quick inking.
This I made for drah'n time. Kinda silly. I never draw people or animals otherwise, I thought maybe I should start so I got some Bridgman books yesterday. Drifting off the subject now I see.
This is the "folkpark" in Kristinehamn which they will tear down soon. A real shame. Pen.
Here I was sitting in the bus. Pen.
A coffeegrinder that we had in our classroom. Pencil
This is what it looks like at my girlfriend's parents' (maybe I could have squeezed in a few more apostrophes there?) place when you're sitting in the living room. Btw, it's not my leg Pen.
This is actually a stump of a tree burning, but it's really hard to see... Those black things in the middle are rocks. Pen.
Thanks for checking in, I look forward to your comments
March 11th, 2005 #17
good to see your works again,
you reaaly catch proportions exactely !
i like how u make texture on your pen drawing, that's really realistic. Did u read glenn's manual or something else (i wanna the tricks
the coffegrinder is also awesome (with texture) that's luxury man !
good luck
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March 11th, 2005 #18
The last picture is really neat. Im gonna put up my own sketchthread so you can watch my progress aswerll, I have beenworking my ass of to make the worksamples for HDK. On Tisdag Im free"!!!!!!
March 11th, 2005 #19
three words for you: You're real good!
(is that technically four words?)
March 11th, 2005 #20
Zou: Thanks for the nice comments! What is Glenn's manual? No I haven't had any like training or anything when it comes to the texturing, I just try and do my best to make it as much like the thing I see as I can. I would like to stop doing it like I do now though, and do more crosshatching, that's really neat if it's well done I think.
Yoonjin: Ahh, HDK... i was into that for a while as well, I went to a folkhögskola last year, and the spring was like hysterical with all those samples you had to make to schools. I applied for konstfack though, I am more into 2D-stuff so I didnt think HDK would fit me very well. Looking forward to seeing your sketches!
Wes: Thanks as hell man
March 21st, 2005 #21
Ok so here's a new little update. The first pic here isn't really a sketch since it took quite a while to complete, I just wanted to share it anyway
It's a toy humvee i did for an assignment in school where we were supposed to practice cutaways and ghosting. Everything kinda looks like it does in real life with the cogwheels and all, only difference is that I drew those really bad.
Don't ask me what this is, I doodled this while watching (listening to?) Monsters Inc.
This is detail sketches on a steam engine I am supposed to do for school, it's supposed to show how it works. I think it will turn out ok, kinda hard to see where it's going when you're looking at this sketch...
This is a cow made from photo reference. I have discovered that the problem with all the stuff I do from photo is that it's so flat. I will try to work more with contrast and see if it gets better then.
This is a drawing of a table we used when we had hotdogs and coffee like two weeks ago or something. Nice.
Ok, I don't know if people in other parts of the world eat this, but it's called blodpudding (no I didn't forget an o, this is how we spell it in swedish). It's made basically from blood and flour and you fry it. It tastes better than it sounds A quick still life, then ate it, then finished off the inking.
March 24th, 2005 #22
hello glogg
you're making good pen and ink drawing, do u use wash ? if so can u tell me more about it.
for the flat effect on some photo, you souldn't worry about it, just go by step:
visual accuracy is obtained by: correct proportions (contour, form) and depth
you're already obtaining depth by perspective there is other things of course but thir time will come
"Visual accuracy is correctly transferring visual reality to the drawing surface (fig 2-1).
Together, they are a drawing. Visual accuracy deals with only two dimensions: height and width.
Adding depth to an illustration is creating an illusion, which you can master with much desire
and practice. To achieve visual accuracy you must use self-analysis, a systematic approach, and
goto http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14119
this is a head tutorial but it teach you to establish major tones, then establish values relative to those major values.
good luck
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March 24th, 2005 #23
Gj on the Hummer=) my favo car=p
The first car u did had som problems with prespective, the far side of the hood felt wrong, the second on was better=)
Designskola? eller vad gick du?
March 25th, 2005 #24
zou: no, I don't use wash. I have a couple of different felt pens ranging from 0,1 to 0,9 but I almost only use like 0,3 for the linework and then a 0,7 for shading and outlines and stuff. I like wash though, only it's kinda difficult to work with. Thanks for the link, I looked at it quickly and it seemed really interesting. I will check it out in-depth when I have the time =)
Thx for your help and time btw!
berne: yeah, thx you're right about the perspective thing. Jupp, programmet hette form- & design på folkis i hällefors. Nu är det teknisk illustration som gäller. Ha det!
March 28th, 2005 #25
okeydokey here's three new ones from today when it seemed everybody in Sweden were headed my direction, so the buses were full and it was pretty much chaos except for the last 50 kilometers which was when I made the last one. Bear in mind these were done in the bus, so the lines aren't always as steady as you might wish for.
a pretty unoriginal motif. Jack in the box.
at least those bastards were sitting on a bus...
This was the bus I took for the last couple of miles. Not very much people in it. I sat in the middle of the back so if we crashed there would be two pretty exciting last seconds of my life.
thanks for looking, I appreciate any crits and/or comments!
March 28th, 2005 #26
HI ! so you started one of your own
I'll type in English so everyone will understand
I like your stuff alot, its very traditionally art oriented wich i like
critiques would be to work the entire paper when doing pen stuff because white isnt white until it got black beside it...haha, not entirely correct but you should get the point
so hows that school treating you ? i must come and visit again, especially during this summer...
well, i'll drop by again!
cheers !
March 28th, 2005 #27
cool stuff dude. love to se epeople workin hard at their art.
cool beans to you...my friend.
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