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HPS Committee Work Programme
Subject: Health and Public Services Committee Work Programme Report Number: 6 Report to: Health and Public Services Committee Date: 12 November 2009 Report of: Executive Director of Secretariat 1. Recommendation 1.1 That the Committee notes the revised draft work programme in paragraph 3.5, and the progress listed in Annex A. 2. Background 2.1 The work programme agreed by the Committee at its meeting on 16 September 2009 is below. Date of meeting Topic 14 October 2009 tbc Possible extra business meeting, if needed 22 October 2009 Care and support services for older Londoners - informal listening event for older Londoners 25 November 2009 Care and support services for older Londoners – questions to professional stakeholders November/December tba Health Inequalities Strategy, possible extra meeting, if needed 20 January 2010 The impact of the recession on voluntary sector mental health services 3 March 2010 The impact of the first polyclinics in London 2.2 The current meeting has been called to discuss the Mayor's draft Health Inequalities Strategy, item 5 of this agenda. The possible extra business meeting indicated for 14 October was not required and was cancelled 3. Issues for Consideration 3.1 This meeting is the fifth meeting of the Committee in the current municipal year, and the third meeting which was not scheduled in its original timetable. There are currently three more scheduled. Consideration needs to be given to the workload of the Committee and its officers in City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA Enquiries: 020 7983 4100 minicom: 020 7983 4458 www.london.gov.uk setting the programme for the rest of the year to ensure that issues are dealt with in sufficient depth and properly carried through. Voluntary Sector Mental Health Services 3.2 Outline scoping for this review suggests that the Committee could add the most value to existing work in this area by mainstreaming the issue through its work on the Mayor's Health Inequalities Strategy and home care support for older people rather than conduct a separate investigation into this area. The meeting scheduled for 20 January 2010 is therefore currently not allocated to a topic. A possibility would be to cancel the meeting but to use the time thus freed up for an informal discussion of next year's work programme. Polyclinics 3.3 Given the workload pressures mentioned in paragraph 3.1 above and the novelty of the establishment of polyclinics, there may be benefit in holding over that topic till the 2010/11 programme. The March meeting is currently allocated to this topic. March 2010 meeting 3.4 If the Committee agrees to postpone consideration of polyclinics, the March 2010 meeting might be used instead for the Committee's annual discussion on the NHS in London with Ruth Carnall (Chief Executive, NHS London) and Simon Tanner (Regional Director of Public Health for London), as well as an in-depth exploration of London's response to swine 'flu, inviting a range of guests such as a GP and an acute trust representative, as well as Simon Tanner and Ruth Carnall. This discussion could focus on lessons learned from the way the virus has been managed so far, including the success of the vaccination programme, the impact of the pandemic on primary and secondary NHS care, and the use of antiviral drugs. Current projections suggest that the number of swine 'flu cases will rise over the winter, and may start to fall in the spring, so the March meeting could be an excellent time to take stock of the situation. Revised work programme 3.5 In the light of the above points, a draft work programme for the remainder of 2009/10 is outlined below. Progress against the work programme is set out at Annex A. Date of meeting Topic 25 November 2009 Care and support services for older Londoners – questions to professional stakeholders 20 January 2010 Not allocated. 3 March 2010 Annual discussion with Ruth Carnall and Simon Tanner, and discussion on swine 'flu 4. Strategy Implications 4.1 This report may be relevant to the Mayor's Health Inequalities Strategy. 2 5. Legal Implications 5.1 The Committee has the power to do what is recommended in this report. 6. Financial Implications 6.1 There are no direct financial implications to the GLA arising from this report. Background Papers: Agenda and Minutes of the Health and Public Services Committee: 16 September 2009 Diana Kahn 020 7983 4420 email@example.com 3 Annex A Progress Against Agreed Work Programme 2008/2009 Review Topic Date of Review Hearing Launch of [draft] report Final Report to Committee Swine 'flu 6 May 2009,16 September 2009 and 3 May 2009 Key points published n/a March 2010 (tba) on website Violence against women 23 June 2009 Response to consultation Report for information to 16 published 31 July September Committee meeting. NHS London 24 June 2009 and 3 March 2010 (tba) n/a n/a Mayor's Health Inequalities Strategy 12 November 2009 January 2010 n/a Recession and mental health Topic no longer to be considered n/a n/a separately Care and Support services 16 September 2009 and 25 November Spring 2010 – tba Spring/summer 2010 2009. Listening event 22 October Polyclinics Postpone till 2010/11 n/a n/a 5
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I got mine from birthdayexpress. I didn't even think of getting personalized ones, ah man! Well anyway, I am doing little dino 1st birthday and it's super cute.
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I made mine on a digital scrapbooking program I own. I will just print them at the local print shop. We are doing pink owls....here is my creation, without our personal info.
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Choice of 280 if you're still running a 1280x1024 monitor
Some comments from my experience so far with the 280. I have not yet joined the widescreen ultra resolution crowd. Simply put, I have no reason to do so as my 19" monitor does everything I want it to and my gaming experience is great with it (for me). I am not a casual gamer, I'm probably one who plays games more than most. I have always gone with the best video card, whatever model came out I got the top of the line. 7900 came out I got the GTX, 8800 came out I got the GTX, 260/280 came out I got the 280, etc. I always spent a little extra to get the best one.
I got this card for a couple of reasons. One, I read some reviews that had the 1280x1024 comparison (most did not as the reviews seems to assume no one is gaming with this res anymore). Those reviews still showed some very good performance increases from the 8800 GTX at that res. Two, my daughter has my previous 7900 GTX (she's a hard core gamer too, my gaming genes apparently got passed down to her, heh). That card is a little long in the tooth now and games I played at max settings with my previous 8800 GTX, I had to turn them way down on hers. So I figured I would be getting a nice performance increase and so would she (getting my old 8800 GTX to replace her 7900 GTX).
As for the two of us, so far my daughter has got the best deal as far as the differences playing games. For her, playing those same games are like playing them new again because of the differences in eye candy she gets now that she couldn't play at before.
My experience (switching from 8800 GTX to 280) has not been enhanced. So far I have not been able to feel a difference (and no I do not use FPS counters, they are a waste of my time and focus). As a matter of fact, some games the performance is actually decreased. Quake 4 is an example (still one of my favorite game to play, it's just fun). With the 8800 GTX I could play this game at "enhanced FSAA" at 16x and supersampling Transparency FSAA with no performance decrease. With the 280 I can't play it at that to get the same performance. I have to play it at straight 4x FSAA with no supersampling Transparency FSAA for it to play with the same smoothness. I am blaming this on the drivers right now (I hope that's the case) as I just don't think Nvidia has got it down to get all the performance out of this card yet. I've played quite a few games with the 280 and haven't seen one yet where I went "yeah this is what I'm talkin about" like I did going from the 7900 GTX to the 8800 GTX. At this time I haven't felt a difference. Hopefully this will change as the driver matures and newer games come out that can put the potential of this card to use.
Do I regret buying this card? No, mainly because of my daughter's situation. Am I overly impressed? Not at this time. Dunno what other's experiences of this card are playing at the same res I am and going from what I had. This is just my experiences so far. I also had to RMA the first one I got because it was bad so this is my second one (same card).
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For example, virtualization provides a high level of system utilization, which also abstracts the workloads from the underlying hardware. This means the applications in each virtual machine (VM) are decoupled from the servers. Workloads can then run on any suitable virtualized server, and workloads can easily be migrated between virtualized servers with little, if any, discernible disruption in performance. These characteristics are absolutely essential to the cloud.
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President Obama's Afghanistan withdrawal timetable is running up against a hard reality: Afghan forces are nowhere near ready to take responsibility for their country's security.
- By Anthony CordesmanAnthony Cordesman holds the Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is author, most recently, of "Afghan National Security Forces: What It Will Take to Implement the ISAF Strategy," the CSIS report on which this article was based.
Creating Afghan forces that can help win the war and take over responsibility from U.S. and international forces is only one element of President Barack Obama's new strategy in Afghanistan, but it is a critical one. So far, the results are mixed and raise serious questions about both the impact of trying to rush progress to meet political deadlines, and the failure of America's allies to provide enough trainers to create an effective and enduring force. A detailed analysis of Afghan force development, based on interviews, reports by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and in-country visits, indicates that significant problems remain in every aspect of the effort.
There has been significant progress in the development of the Afghan National Army (ANA), which will be ready to begin transition in mid-2011. Major challenges remain, however, in developing its combat elements and transforming it into a fully balanced force with the Ministry of Defense, higher command, training, specialized branches, and logistics and sustainability needed to transition from ISAF support to taking over full responsibility for military operations.
This does not mean that a critical pillar of the new strategy will fail, but this remains possible. It will also become probable if a rush to create larger force numbers is given priority over force quality and if the army's development is not given the time and resources needed to create a force that can survive combat and current rates of attrition.
The NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan (NTM-A) and the U.S. Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) — which are now integrated for all effective purposes — remain seriously understaffed, and large numbers of the "trainers" now in place are U.S. troops with no specialized background or experience assigned to fill slots.
As recent reports from the training mission indicate, this situation will get worse before it gets better for both the ANA and Afghan National Police. Both forces face a massive shortage of specialized trainers. These trainers are vital to creating a force with the new skill levels needed to allow the army and police to operate on their own. Only nine skilled trainers (1.1 percent of the NATO/ISAF requirement) are now in place to meet a near-term requirement for 819, and 442 (54 percent) of the total have not even been pledged. It seems very doubtful that the army can become a force that is fully capable of independent operations and begin serving as the base for transition to Afghan-led operations by mid-2011. A time frame of 2012 to 2015 seems far more realistic.
Moreover, as the Afghan National army grows and matures, data on numbers trained become less and less important relative to reporting and mapping of where Afghan combat formations like the battalion-sized kandaks and "enablers" are actually present, effective, and not corrupt or tied to local power brokers. As critical as training is, the rapid cycle of training — and continuing problems with attrition — ensure that it is now how units mature in the field, how well they are partnered, and how well they retain their strength and combat effectiveness that count far more than the numbers trained or virtually meaningless data like the total number of ANA troops, regardless of quality or attrition rates — a figure that threatens to win the latest "meaningless politicized metrics" award in Afghanistan. The new system for measuring the effectiveness of the Afghan national security forces, if honestly applied, seems to be a step in the right direction, but also holds the potential to become just another piece of meaningless propaganda.
The situation with the Afghan National Police is far more uncertain. It simply is not clear that current plans and resources for the development of the police are adequate. The most capable paramilitary elements (the Afghan National Civil Order Police, or ANCOP) are still part of a small force that suffers from serious levels of attrition, and it is not clear that an effective plan yet exists to create an enduring force of the size that is needed to cover the country.
More seriously, the overall mission effectiveness of the majority of the force (specifically the regular Afghan National Police (ANP) and Afghan Border Police (ABP) is extremely uncertain. The ANP and ABP are being structured in ways that make them unlikely to overcome the critical problems with warlords and corruption that often make them more of a threat than the Taliban and the tools of power brokers or whoever has political influence and money. Ther are no linked credible efforts to support the police with either the other elements of an effective justice system or the quality of civil governance necessary to win popular support for the police. To put it bluntly, the overall effort to develop Afghanistan's national police force seems to be a triumph of hope over experience.
These problems are disguised by an almost absurd ISAF reporting system that does not show basic information such as maps of the areas where the police are estimated to be present, functional, and not corrupt or tied to a power broker. In any case, reporting on police presence alone is meaningless as a measure of the ability to implement the new strategy unless it is tied to assessment of whether courts, the rest of the justice system, and governance are in place to make civil policing possible and tied to assessments of who controls the prompt justice system that most Afghan see — and need — from day to day.
Despite Obama's July 2011 "time frame" for beginning to shift responsibility to the Afghans, there is a significant probability that Afghanistan's national security forces will not be ready for any major transfer until well after 2011. Only an effective police force and a swift, trustworthy justice system will give President Hamid Karzai's government the ability to hold ground and build the support of the Afghan people. Unfortunately, Afghanistan is still far from producing either.
The good news is that the financial resources and the facilities necessary to create an effective Afghan army are now largely in place. The bad news is that critical problems remain in providing the training mission with all of the trainers it needs, both in terms of the number of trainers and their experience and quality. These problems might grow worse over the coming six months: ISAF countries often do not deliver on their pledges and "firm commitments," and specialized trainers may well not be available to give Afghan forces the new skill sets and capabilities they now lack. Equally serious problems exist in the quality of partnering and mentoring in the field, in developing effective systems to give Afghan units time to train and go on leave once they are committed, and in dealing with the problems of corruption and powerbrokers once units are in the field.
These problems can be overcome, but they require resources, patience, and focus — qualities that have been in short supply during the nine long years of the Afghan war.
The most serious danger is that artificial political deadlines will cripple a development program that could otherwise succeed. The effort to create effective Afghan forces, particularly forces that can largely replace the U.S. and allied forces, must overcome nearly a decade of critical failures in force development and training, not to mention failures in the broader course of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan.
The United States and its allies will lose the war if they try to expand Afghan forces too quickly, create forces with inadequate force quality, and decouple Afghan force development from efforts to deal with the broad weakness in Afghan governance and the Afghan justice system. U.S. politicians, policymakers, and military leaders must accept this reality –and persuade the Afghan government and America's allies to act accordingly — or the mission in Afghanista
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So, it'd been awhile since I played Reach. I love the game, but life called and I had other responsibilities that drew my attention for a year or so. I come back and it seems 343 is running the show, now. So I learn all about the new custom challenge feature and think, damn. Maybe I could actually use this? Well, I've done a few and am well aquainted with how it works. Thats not what this is about. What I want to be able to do is save up and afford the Inclement Weather armor permutation. As you all know, thats 2 million friggin credits. I love this game, and for the first person to tell me to just "play the game", don't. I play this game and I love it dearly. Before I went on hiatus, I had achieved the rank of Colonel grade 3. I put a LOT into it. But I was also in between jobs at the time and had considerably more free time. In short, I'm a working man and by the time I have 2 MILLION credits, a good two years is gonna have passed. Halo 4 is right around the corner and this is my last big goal with Reach before I (regretfully) retire it as the population will wither and die like with Halo 3. If you wanna taste, load up number 3 and gasp in shock at the playlist size. Less than 100 players GLOBAL in some. Good lord! Sadness. Anyway, I am not a modder, and I refuse to use that save game editing macro program hack thats been going around. I don't manipulate networks, and I don't believe in anything blatantly cheating. I like to earn what I want. That DOESN'T mean I won't abuse an overlooked nitch here and there. THATS what this is about. A lot has gone on with the new custom challenges, including this well known "25k in 6 minutes" one. It's seriously all over Google, you can't escape it. https://forums.halowaypoint.com//yaf_postst46407_Custom-Chall enges-25K-Every-6-Min.aspx Heres the kicker. I tried it, and it doesn't appear to work. Either one of two things has occured. Theres a detail I'm missing, or Bungie (or 343 now, I suppose) has patched the damn thing to be less abusable. Ive also noticed that where it says my payout for the various enemy classes should be 5,000Cr, I'm only seeing a 2,000Cr threshold. The medals goal is reaching 5,000Cr on the challenge screen just fine. Except that when I go and apply this, theres no progress being charted. I cannot find a definitive answer anywhere on google or in any forum, but I thought I caught a tidbit once somewhere that some patch was applied to a recent exploit. Could it be the Target Locator no longer gives progress toward these challenges? Some people have claimed reaching INHERITOR (20,000,000Cr) by hitting the Cr cap everyday for up to three weeks with this trick. Ultimately, I was hoping someone that HAS used the above trick could please try it again and verify if it still works and I'm just missing something, or if there has indeed been a small patch. I don't care about reaching Inheritor, or any rank for that matter. I'm a hardcore gamer with too many responsibilities, and my final wish with Reach is a way to get that Inclement Weather :) I simply do not have the hours to put into this game to achieve that with casual play. I have bills to pay :/ So if the above method is indeed fixed, could someone help me find another way? Thank you!
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Yeah, let's bring in a real expert like Fraser.Originally Posted by MWM
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LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The American Psychiatric Association on Monday sharply criticized actor Tom Cruise for televised remarks in which he called psychiatry a "pseudo science" and disputed the value of antidepressant drugs.
"It is irresponsible for Mr. Cruise to use his movie publicity tour to promote his own ideological views and deter people with mental illness from getting the care they need," APA President Dr. Steven Sharfstein said in a statement.
During interviews promoting his latest film, "War of the Worlds," Cruise has discussed his deep skepticism of psychiatry to explain his belief in the teachings of the Church of Scientology, founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
In one such interview last Friday on NBC's "Today" show, Cruise was asked about his recent criticism of actress Brooke Shields for revealing that she had taken the antidepressant Paxil to cope with postpartum depression.
"Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry," Cruise said. "And when I started studying the history of psychiatry, I understood more and more why I didn't believe in psychology. ... And I know that psychiatry is a pseudo science."
Disputing the effectiveness of antidepressants generally, Cruise said, "all it does is mask the problem." He added, "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance."
Cruise also singled out drugs, such as Ritalin, that are used to treat children for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, calling Ritalin "a street drug."
As "Today" host Matt Lauer pressed the 42-year-old actor on his views, Cruise said, "Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do."
The rebuke from the APA, which represents nearly 36,000 physicians specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, challenged Cruise's assertion that psychiatry lacks scientific merit.
"Rigorous, published, peer-reviewed research clearly demonstrates that treatment (of mental illness) works," the APA statement said. "It is unfortunate that in the face of this remarkable scientific and clinical progress that a small number of individuals and groups persist in questioning its legitimacy."
Cruise remains one of Hollywood's biggest stars, but since his manic, couch-hopping appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last month, he also has leaped to the forefront of celebrity punch lines.
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He couldn't have studied it much considering the fact that he still doesn't realize that the terms psychiatry and psychology aren't interchangable... But then again, we already knew that he doesn't have the slightest clue what's he talking about."Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry," Cruise said. "And when I started studying the history of psychiatry, I understood more and more why I didn't believe in psychology. ... And I know that psychiatry is a pseudo science."
Their headquarters is in Tampa, Florida. All I can say is BIG BUCKS.Originally Posted by BuckU
Their beliefs come from one L. Ron Hubbard, who wrote Dianetics. It's basically a religion of self, which fits in good with the Hollywood crowd.
"panic" only comes from having real expectations
While Cruise has used a false religion to draw a conclusion, the blind squirrel has found a nut in the process because psychiatry is a dubious profession that relies on patients not getting better and who has turned to chemicals to treat emotions.
And before anyone freaks out, I am not talking about the truly mentally ill here, but every day folks like you and I that are told a therapist and a pill is the way to cope with life by the American Psychiatric Association. Depressed? Well, just take this little blue pill. No, don't worry about your liver or any other side effects, take this pill so you can cope. Get better? No, you need to see me at least once a week just to keep from getting depressed again.
Can't win with 'em
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Whats funny is that Hubbard mingled psychiatry within his system of beliefs.
"panic" only comes from having real expectations
By BROOKE SHIELDS
I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression.
Postpartum depression is caused by the hormonal shifts that occur after childbirth. During pregnancy, a woman's level of estrogen and progesterone greatly increases; then, in the first 24 hours after childbirth, the amount of these hormones rapidly drops to normal, nonpregnant levels. This change in hormone levels can lead to reactions that range from restlessness and irritability to feelings of sadness and hopelessness.
I never thought I would have postpartum depression. After two years of trying to conceive and several attempts at in vitro fertilization, I thought I would be overjoyed when my daughter, Rowan Francis, was born in the spring of 2003. But instead I felt completely overwhelmed. This baby was a stranger to me. I didn't know what to do with her. I didn't feel at all joyful. I attributed feelings of doom to simple fatigue and figured that they would eventually go away. But they didn't; in fact, they got worse.
I couldn't bear the sound of Rowan crying, and I dreaded the moments my husband would bring her to me. I wanted her to disappear. I wanted to disappear. At my lowest points, I thought of swallowing a bottle of pills or jumping out the window of my apartment.
I couldn't believe it when my doctor told me that I was suffering from postpartum depression and gave me a prescription for the antidepressant Paxil. I wasn't thrilled to be taking drugs. In fact, I prematurely stopped taking them and had a relapse that almost led me to drive my car into a wall with Rowan in the backseat. But the drugs, along with weekly therapy sessions, are what saved me - and my family.
Since writing about my experiences with the disease, I have been approached by many women who have told me their stories and thanked me for opening up about a topic that is often not discussed because of fear, shame or lack of support and information. Experts estimate that one in 10 women suffer, usually in silence, with this treatable disease. We are living in an era of so-called family values, yet because almost all of the postnatal focus is on the baby, mothers are overlooked and left behind to endure what can be very dark times.
And comments like those made by Tom Cruise are a disservice to mothers everywhere. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general.
If any good can come of Mr. Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease. Perhaps now is the time to call on doctors, particularly obstetricians and pediatricians, to screen for postpartum depression. After all, during the first three months after childbirth, you see a pediatrician at least three times. While pediatricians are trained to take care of children, it would make sense for them to talk with new mothers, ask questions and inform them of the symptoms and treatment should they show signs of postpartum depression.
In a strange way, it was comforting to me when my obstetrician told me that my feelings of extreme despair and my suicidal thoughts were directly tied to a biochemical shift in my body. Once we admit that postpartum is a serious medical condition, then the treatment becomes more available and socially acceptable. With a doctor's care, I have since tapered off the medication, but without it, I wouldn't have become the loving parent I am today.
So, there you have it. It's not the history of psychiatry, but it is my history, personal and real.
Brooke Shields, the author of "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression," isstarring in the musical "Chicago" in London.
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Lauren Bacall criticizes 'vulgar' Tom Cruise
NEW YORK (AP) Lauren Bacall has a few unkind words to say about Tom Cruise.
Answers: shocking, vulgar, unacceptable. The question: What were the terms Lauren Bacall used to describe Tom Cruise's recent behavior?
By Ann Johansson, AP
In an interview in the Aug. 8 issue of Time magazine, now on newsstands, the 80-year-old actress says, "When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise."
"His whole behavior is so shocking," she says. "It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness."
Bacall was alluding to Cruise's displays of emotion and public courting of Katie Holmes in the weeks leading up to the release of his new film, War of the Worlds. Cruise and Holmes became engaged in June after he proposed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Last fall, Bacall made similar remarks about Cruise's ex-wife Nicole Kidman, her co-star in Birth. While promoting the movie, Bacall became irritated when an interviewer described Kidman as "a legend."
"She's not a legend," Bacall said. "She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. ... You have to be older."
Will trade this space for a #1 starter.
Man - I SO DIG Lauren Bacall for saying her opinion so honestly and simply.
I worked in the mental health field for awhile, as well, and found many of the drugs prescribed allowed people to live semi-normal lives. In fact, that is the primary reason I left the field. I had hoped to pursue a career in counseling, but after a few years in the field, I come to realize people were getting better because of medication not counseling. A patient can have all the insight in the world and still put a gun in their mouth and pull the trigger. The ones who got better did so because they were on the right meds.
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This is my impression as well. Not that I don't think therapy is important, as I believe it is.Originally Posted by alex trevino
Cruise is as nutty as a fruitcake.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
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I disagree with your stance on counseling. Drugs only correct the chemical imbalance that is contributing to a the problem, but not what caused that chemical imbalance in the first place. Drugs aren't intended to be a sole treatment for any type of mental illness. Their direct intent is to be used in conjunction with counseling to provide an all-around psychological and pharmacological approach that will far benefit the patient more than either one will do alone.Originally Posted by alex trevino
Both have their limitations. You are aware of suicide being caused by SSRI use, right? It can happen with either method.
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Barley With Caramelized Vegetables
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Barley With Caramelized Vegetables
This recipe is a delicious and easy way to incorporate vegetables into dinner. Canola oil is used to saute and toast the barley to bring out its great flavor.
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- 2 Tbsp canola oil, divided
- 1 3/4 cup pearl barely
- 4 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 pkg (8oz/200g) sliced mushrooms
- 1 large clove garlic, finely chopped zucchini, halved lengthwise, and cut into thin strips
- 3 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 tsp salt
In a saucepan, heat 1 Tbsp canola oil over medium-high heat. Add barley and toast 3-4 minutes.
Add broth to barley. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until barley is tender, about 40-45 minutes. Drain off excess broth. Cover to keep barley warm.
Meanwhile, in large frying pan, heat remaining 1 Tbsp canola oil. Add onion and sauté about 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add red pepper, mushrooms and garlic and sauté 3-4 minutes.
Add zucchini, balsamic vinegar and brown sugar and continue to cook about 4-5 minutes longer. Season with salt and pepper. Serve over barley.
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30 Responses to Barley With Caramelized Vegetables
Made this for supper exactly the way it says no complaints. I served it with the oven baked sweet and sour chicken that I froze last week by the way defrosted it in frig over night warmed it up in double boiler tasted like I just made it.
The vegetables had great flavor. Nice idea for a side dish. Based on a previous comment, I only used 1 tbs of balsamic vinegar and that was enough for me. I didnt really like the consistency of the barley. I may try the vegetables over rice or couscous next time.
Not sure if this counts as a review of this dish or not, as I changed many details– but the main idea remains the same, so here goes.
We don't do barley, mushrooms, zucchini, or vinegar- but here's what I did do-
1 1/2 cups short grain brown rice, cooked with 3 1/4 cups salted water.
Saute together in 2 tblspns of the oil- 1 onion, 2 garlic cloves, 2 carrots thinly sliced, 1 can of baby corn- drained and sliced the long way, 2 celery stalks sliced thinly on the diagonal.
As the veggies reach your desired tenderness, add 1 Tblsp brown sugar, and 3 Tblsp soy sauce.
Serve the veggies separately, so each person can take as they prefer.
did better with more veggies, barley was nice change though, too much balsamic vinegar
This was great I would never have put Balsamic Vibegar and brown sugar.I did add a little more brown sugar.This is going to be a regular for us.
I made this dish tonight with a few changes because I didn't want to go to the store. First I substituted Israeli couscous for the barley. Then I used a mix colored pepper from the CSA share we got today. Finally, since we didn't have any zucchini on hand, I used fresh kale from the CSA. It wilted down beautifully and added some great color. We ended up just mixing the couscous and vegetables together and it was fantastic. This dish will definitely be put into the rotation of easy, delicious side dishes.
I made this dish now as a side to the tomatoe pesto chicken.
I did it with fresh mushrooms and added a little more
garlic then it said in the recipe. Was delicious!
I never used barley before as a side dish, only in
My Tshulent. My kids liked it, I'll definitely will cook
This again!
Our family liked this dish. I made a recipe and a half more of the veggies and also the seasonings. We used it as a main dish. the barley needed more cooking time and liquid. I added 2/3cup water and cooked it 15 min more on very low heat.
I didn't like the balsamic vinegar on the vegetables. I might have liked it better without it. Otherwise it would be a good side dish.
Made this dish for Shabbat. I agree with the others that the barley needed more water and at least another 20 minutes cooking time. The vegetables came out great, though I diced them instead of cutting in strips. I mixed the vegetables together with the cooked barley as I find my kids are more likely to eat the veggies when they are mixed in rather than on top. The kids commented that they like the sauce on the veggies and would have liked more of it to coat the barley. Next time I will double the marinade! This becomes a great weekday dinner if you add a protein like grilled chicken, vegetarian "chicken" or seitan.
I liked this dish. The barley was chewy, which I thought was a nice contrast to the soft vegetables. For softer barley, increase the broth and cooking time. I used one small zucchini which I julienned, instead of cubing.
I made this for Shabbos instead of our usual rice and it was a big hit. Even my son-in-law who doesnt like balsamic vinegar liked it. Will definitely keep it in my repertoire.
I followed the recipe exactly and my family all liked it. I think I will reduce the balsamic vinegar to 2 tbsp. net time. This was great to eat cold for lunch the net day.
I did it for shabbos night and everybody liked it. As I live where there are no so many kosher things, I didn't have balsamic vinegar, y put a little of apple vinegar, it was OK. I had to put much more water to get to the 40 min.
I loved the barley. Another alternative for next time, I'll try with wheat.
This was really well received.
I halved the barley quantity and liquid but left the veggies.
I didn't serve it immediately, so we needed to add water to the mixture as it was all absorbed.
I sent it to a family that we share with from time to time and the daughter just asked that I prepare it again!
What kind of main can I prepare with this? Preferbly a healthy chicken recipe if anybody has ideas?
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"There is said to exist a legendary thief in the city of Westcrown. Like all legends, this thief does not truly exist, and is used to keep children scared and well-behaved, as well as to entertain common-folk and even frighten a few nobles. That said, the following is a collection of 'facts' gathered about the thief from various versions of his legend.
The thief has no name, nor has he a face. He is referred to by those who claim to have known him as 'The Darkstalker'. The man is short, and his face is always shrouded in a dark hood. Some say that the thief was originally a slave in a certain noble house. A slave who killed his master, robbed the entire place blind, and escaped with his life under the cover of darkness. Of course, there are many problems with that little part of the legend. For one thing, that would make The Darkstalker a halfling, which is preposterous. Secondly, it would require that the listener believe that an escaped halfling slave would actually remain in Westcrown, which is also ridiculous. And third, and most important, who the hell could escape a mansion under the cover of darkness in Westcrown? No one goes out at night in Westcrown. Those foolish enough to do so are killed by the shadow beasts, and never heard from again. So the idea that The Darkstalker is an escaped slave should be stricken from the listener's knowledge. The point of bringing it up was simply to refute it so the listener would never allow himself to believe such nonsense when he heard it on the streets.
A single man claims to have seen The Darkstalker's face unmasked. This man is a devil-blooded bastard of a noble house who claims to have been robbed by the thief himself, and escaped with his life because, according to the victim, "The Darkstalker said that letting me stay alive in this city of bigots would be far worse of a punishment than letting me into Hell where I would finally find acceptance.[/b]" The tiefling victim claims that The Darkstalker's face resembles a middle-aged Dwarven male with a long brown beard and amber eyes. The Darkstalker is reported to have been short, and to move more slowly than a human, so the idea that he is a dwarven merchant is entirely plausible. Certainly more believable than that ridiculous escaped slave story previously mentioned.
The Darkstalker's motives are unclear. It seems almost like he steals and kills simply because he has nothing better to do. The Council of Thieves has denied their involvement with this legendary man, whom they stubbornly insist to be a real person. So who is this thief, and what are his goals? I shall continue to research this..."
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It comes as no surprise, then, that adventurists will have no shortage of summer events to choose from to fill their cravings for a race day.
One of the many events that highlight both the love of outdoors and Whatcom residents' desire to give back to the community is Tour de Whatcom.
"It's just part of Bellingham culture to be active and outdoors," said Tour de Whatcom coordinator Grace McDonough.
The bike ride, named after the famous French race, epitomizes what summer events are about in Whatcom County - taking in the sights, being outside, and donating to charity.
Tour de Whatcom is suitable for almost anyone, as it offers rides of three lengths - 105 miles, 44 miles and 22 miles. The shortest ride offers views of the bay, Nooksack River and Ferndale farmland, while the longest ride exposes bikers everything from valleys to mountains to the bay.
With three lengths, the race appeals to professionals and families alike.
"We really want to reach out to all sorts of groups," McDonough said. "We're all about promoting community."
Tour de Whatcom has raised $30,000 the past two years for nonprofit organizations. This year, race donations will go to Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition, a nonprofit group that coordinates volunteers who preserve and improve trails in Whatcom County.
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In an era when more and more is being expected from Tennessee community mental health providers, two of the state's oldest such facilities have signed a letter of intent to merge.
Fortwood Center Inc. of Chattanooga and Knoxville's Helen Ross McNabb Center Inc. will merge if the state attorney general approves, the centers announced in a Tuesday morning news release.
Fortwood would keep its name and operate as a division of McNabb Center.
Fortwood has operated as a community mental health center since 1946 and provides outpatient mental health and substance abuse services to children and adults, as does McNabb, which opened in 1952 as the Tennessee Mental Health Association. Both have provided services in Hamilton County, and McNabb spokeswoman Emily Scheuneman said no programs, services or jobs are expected to be cut as part of the merger.
If the merger is approved, McNabb Center "has agreed not to make any personnel changes, except for cause, for a six-month period," Scheuneman said. "However … we do not anticipate any personnel changes" anyway.
In fact, Scheuneman said, the "ultimate goal is to continue and strengthen Fortwood's current continuum of care. (McNabb Center) plans to add services in the Chattanooga area in the future."
The proposed merger came about when longtime Fortwood CEO Earl Medley, making plans for his impending retirement, began seeking a "partnership" to grow the services it had long provided in Hamilton County.
Scheuneman said Medley found McNabb Center was "a compatible match." Like McNabb Center, it includes outpatient treatment, residential facilities and a peer support center.
"The centers share similar missions and clinical philosophies," she said.
Fortwood, which employs about 70 people and has an operating budget of around $3.5 million, took a financial hit last year when Chattanooga's city government terminated a long-standing city-county sales tax agreement, drastically cutting funding to it and a number of other social services agencies in Hamilton County.
Meanwhile, the closing of Lakeshore Regional Mental Health Center this past June freed up state money for other community mental health providers in the Knoxville and Tri-Cities area, including McNabb Center, which then expanded some of its programs to increase access to mental health services.
At a state budget hearing earlier this month, Tennessee Commissioner of Mental Health Douglas Varney vowed to continue funding those community providers at the same rate in the next fiscal year.
If budget cuts are necessary, he told Gov. Bill Haslam, the department would reduced the number of beds from the remaining Regional Mental Health Institutes rather than decreasing funds to community providers.
Scheuneman said the proposed merger would increase access to mental health services in Hamilton County.
If the merger is approved, Mona Blanton-Kitts would lead Fortwood's service delivery and future developments, reporting to CEO Andy Black, who is also McNabb Center's vice president of children and youth services.
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"It's a one-stop shop, a fusion center for terrorism in San Diego," said FBI Special Agent Todd Temple, a squad supervisor. "Daily collaboration is the key to 'one mission, one fight.'"
It's also why in San Diego no terrorism cases are investigated outside the task force.
Investigative methods
Task force members mostly use tried-and-true investigative methods — they respond to reports of suspicious activity, tap phones, conduct undercover surveillance, serve search warrants, interview witnesses, track bank account activity, work informants.
But building successful terrorism cases can oftentimes be extremely complex and take several years, which is why many of these cases never make it to court or are charged as lesser crimes.
"We have lots of other tools at our disposal," said Mike Carney, deputy special agent-in-charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations. "We can charge immigration violation, visa fraud or marriage fraud, and we can follow that up with deportation. At the end of the day, it's the mitigation of the threat."
Tactics criticized
Some in the Muslim-American community have criticized tactics they say counterterrorism officers use — spying on mosques, pressuring people to become informants, threats of deportation.
A report released Wednesday by New York University's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice raised concern about how the FBI and New York police targeted Muslims, including paying informants to pose as radical Muslims and push ideas of violence.
"We want to be partners with law enforcement that tackles terrorism, but it seems like they are looking at us as suspects rather than partners," said Edgar Hopida, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in San Diego. "We are the first line of defense with regards to extremism and terrorism."
San Diego defense attorney Mahir Sherif, who has represented defendants in terrorism-related cases, including the imam recently charged with aiding al-Shabaab, said government officers can sometimes be overzealous in their quest to "neutralize the threat."
"They're doing whatever they can do if they perceive that person to be a threat, even if it doesn't rise to the level of reasonable suspicion," Sherif said.
If the task force officers and critics agree on one thing, it's that the majority of people — Muslims, foreigners or U.S. citizens — are not engaged in trying to build bombs or aid terrorists.
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