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As season three of Teen Mom 2 comes to an intense, dramatic close tonight, February 4 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, MTV announced that viewers of the groundbreaking hit series won't have to wait: the series will continue in its Monday evening timeslot as season four debuts on February 18 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, a week following the emotional, two-hour reunion special with Dr. Drew Pinsky on February 11 beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Season four will pick up immediately where season three left off, diving deeper into the lives of Chelsea, Jenelle, Kailyn and Leah as they continue to navigate the ups and downs of motherhood, life and love. From the tragic loss of an unborn child and a heartbreaking love triangle to ongoing custody battles and struggles to pursue an education, these young women will once again pull back the curtain to give viewers a raw look inside the difficulties and joys of young motherhood.
With her life turned upside down after a miscarriage, Leah struggles with her decision about her engagement to Jeremy, and even confesses to him that she still has feelings for her ex-husband, Corey. Their love triangle becomes even more complicated when Leah and Corey decide to give it one last try. Ultimately, she decides to make things work with Jeremy. With her engagement back on, Leah moves forward with a wedding and her life with Jeremy, Ali, and Aleeah.
Kailyn continues to battle with Joe over custody, and takes him to court for a Protection from Abuse order after an argument turns physical. Things get serious with her new boyfriend Javi as they decide to move in together and take their relationship to the next level.
Chelsea focuses on beauty school, but has trouble concentrating when the pressure starts to mount. With has a soft spot for her daughter Aubree's father, Adam, she once again rekindles their relationship. However, history repeats itself when the two cannot make their tumultuous relationship work, and Adam starts dating again and takes Chelsea to court for custody of Aubree. And, even though their reconnection only lasted for a short time - the decision to give him yet another chance could change her life forever.
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The Role of the Vagus Nerve in Cytokine-to-Brain Communication
Article first published online: 7 FEB 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09569.x
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Volume 840, NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION: MOLECULAR ASPECTS, INTEGRATIVE SYSTEMS, AND CLINICAL ADVANCES pages 289–300, May 1998
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MAIER, S. F., GOEHLER, L. E., FLESHNER, M. and WATKINS, L. R. (1998), The Role of the Vagus Nerve in Cytokine-to-Brain Communication. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 840: 289–300. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09569.x
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Abstract: Peripheral interleukin-1β (IL-β) and inflammatory stimuli that induce the synthesis and release of IL-1β produce a variety of central nervous system responses. Most proposals designed to explain how peripheral IL-1β influences the CNS have focused on blood-borne routes of communication. We will review data that indicate that at least some of the CNS response to peripheral IL-1β are instead mediated by a neural route of communication between the periphery and the CNS. IL-1β activates afferent vagal fibers that terminate in the nucleus tractus solitarius, and communication via the vagus is responsible for much of the hyperalgesia, fever, anorexia, taste aversions, increased levels of plasma corticosteroid, and brain norepinephrine changes produced by intraperitoneal injections of IL-1β and LPS. Data extending this analysis to TNF-α and intravenous routes will be described.

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text: A paid supplement to Sacramento News & Review M e N TAl i l l N e s s It affects everyone M ental illness impacts people of every background, color and age. One in four people suffers from mental illness — it could be your brother, sister, mother best friend or you. In any given year, approximately 2 million adults, seniors and children in California are affected by some form of a potentially disabling mental illness. Left untreated, a mental illness can drastically change one's quality of life and cause individuals and families suffering and devastation. Yet, many people affected in California struggle to afford treatment and care due to cost-cutting measures enacted 30 years ago. In 2004, California voters approved Proposition 63, a ballot initiative imposing a 1 percent tax on residents with incomes greater than $1 million. Prop 63 is transforming the state's mental health system by becoming an important source of funding and expanding the care and treatment available. A New Be gi NNi Ng Young man finds acceptance after recovery Kendall Fields Photo by Anne Stokes by P atrick shivered on his driveway, fading in and out of consciousness in the damp, cold Vietnam winter. Blood dripped from the thirteen wounds on his naked and battered body. He was humiliated. "What the hell did I do that he had to abuse me like that?" the 13-year-old thought as tears streamed down his face. When Patrick was 1 month old, his mother abandoned him to move to the United States; he was left with a family member who started drinking. When Patrick was 6 months old, he began to be physically abused. Patrick cringes as he describes the thick, metal dog chains that he was whipped with. "All I wanted was to be a good boy and [to be loved] and [for] my mom to come back — somebody to just save me from all of the torture," Patrick says. "The first step to recovery is talking about it. Then you need a support system and hope to know that everything is going to work out." Patrick As the years went by and the extreme abuse continued, Patrick struggled with thoughts of suicide. At the same time, he started questioning his sexual identity, which caused his friends and family members to ostracize him because of their conservative beliefs. Patrick's greatest source of comfort was his paternal grandmother who cared for him and made him feel loved. After her death, Patrick overdosed on pills, hoping to die and escape his loneliness. A schoolmate's mother found Patrick unconscious, took him to the hospital and helped him recover. He says it was she who helped him realize that his continued physical abuse was not normal. When Patrick was 15, he fought back. From the day Patrick grabbed a baseball bat and swung back at his family member in self defense, he was never abused again. After years of minimal contact, Patrick was 17 when his mother brought him to the U.S. to live with her and her new husband. Patrick worked hard to learn English and live up to his mom's high expectations. For months, despite excelling academically, his mother did not approve of him. Patrick says she simply could not accept the fact that he was attracted to men. He decided to move in with his aunt in Southern California. It was there that he came out and told his aunt he was gay. Patrick was shocked when his aunt told him that she already knew; Patrick's mother, however, was not so accepting. Looking for acceptance, Patrick continued to suffer from emotional abuse. He moved to Sacramento to live with another aunt who had children close to his age. When Patrick was 20 years old, he fell into a deep depression and cut his wrists in another attempt to kill himself. "I just felt like I couldn't breathe." Patrick talked to his mother and she helped him get in touch with a doctor, who diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Both diagnoses, Patrick explains, are common among abuse victims. With medication and therapy, Patrick began to heal. "I asked myself, 'How do you just decide to stop living?'" Patrick credits his recovery to the support of his ESL teacher, who he says is more like a mom to him, and to his aunt in Southern California who encouraged him to go to school and allowed him to be himself. "The first step to recovery is talking about it," Patrick says. "Then you need a support system and hope to know that everything is going to work out." Today, Patrick is positive and eager to see what the future holds for him. Patrick works as a youth counselor at a mental health agency in Sacramento to help other youth through problems like his. He was recently accepted into UC Davis and will be the first in his family to attend college. Beaming, he says, "My aunt is so proud. I finally feel accepted." 2 Out of the Shadows Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission A paid supplement to Sacramento News & Review Be c o ming A Be t t e r P erson Man finds new meaning to life during recovery Kendall Fields Photo by Mike Blount by S eventeen-year-old Christopher sat in the doctor's office, after being hospitalized for three days, shocked at what his doctor was saying about his mind. "Do you know what schizophrenia is?" his doctor asked. Christopher was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and Bipolar II. "But I just remember being confused and thinking that there is no way I could hate a doctor [for giving me bad news]." Later, when his doctor explained the signs, Christopher says it all made sense. "In medical terms [schizoaffective disorder] means I have rapid thoughts, which I do," Christopher explains. "I also have disillusions sometimes." For the next 11 years, Christopher felt lost. He took methamphetamine eight times, tried mushrooms and LSD, and he was drunk "for a while." When Christopher moved to Placerville, he remembers feeling like he didn't fit into the tightknit community. There were times, he says, where he was doing very well financially, but he didn't have structure in his life. "I didn't have healthy relationships," he says, looking down at his folded hands. "I just didn't have the happiness that came with doing well financially." Christopher lost his job and started hearing voices. He shut himself in his Placerville home for two weeks, only sleeping for 24 hours. About two years ago, Christopher's family took him to the emergency room and placed him on another three-day hold. Christopher doesn't remember whether he took LSD or if he was just hallucinating as a symptom of his schizoaffective disorder. His family encouraged him to get help through El Dorado County's services, and Christopher decided it was time to take control of his own life. "I'm just trying to be a better person," Christopher says, smiling. "At first [getting help] was scary because I didn't know if I could prevent myself from doing bad things. I wasn't sure if I had the confidence to overcome it." But, Christopher did. He attributes many of the positive outcomes to the support of the El Dorado County Mental Health Outpatient Facility and his case manager. Christopher says his case manager inspires him to do things that people don't think you are capable of. Today, Christopher has been sober for 18 months. He says he is in the middle point of his recovery and is taking medication that helps control the symptoms of his mental illness. He is not letting his mental illness define him. He says he is staying focused and attends the clubhouse at the outpatient facility for support. "I thought I wasn't ever going to get better," he says, "but I am better off now than I was then." "i'm looking forward to good things now and i'm learning how to be a good person." Christopher In 2011, Christopher graduated high school. Now, he volunteers at the outpatient facility and is a great example to his peers of someone who is on the path to recovery. But Christopher says he most enjoys spending time with his 6-year-old son and is thankful to be able to teach him things like skateboarding and fishing. As he continues on his path to recovery, Christopher is looking forward to spending more quality time with his son and says one day that he would like to go to church. "I'm looking forward to good things now and I'm learning how to be a good person." Christopher adds one piece of advice for others who are struggling, "Don't look at life like love runs out. Don't keep running. Don't let love run out." E l Do ra do C ou n ty Me nta l H ea l th P rogra ms Mental Health Services, Psychiatric Health Facility is a therapy office located in Placerville. At the psychiatric facility, psychologists focus on the evaluation, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues. Psychologists are concerned with the different aspects of behavior and mental processes. A clinical psychologist uses psychotherapy and other counseling skills to improve emotional and mental health. Health and Human Services Mental Health Division of El Dorado County Local: (530) 621-6290 ACCESS—Toll-free: (800) 929-1955 From El Dorado Hills: 916-358-3555 ext. 6290 CRISIS HOTLINE: (530) 622-3345 A paid supplement to Sacramento News & Review Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission Out of the Shadows 3 Giv in G Back af te r re c overy Formerly homeless woman becomes peer counselor to help others deal with mental illness Marion Millin Photo by Anne Stokes by M ichelle grew up in Placer County. At age 21, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. At age 23, Michelle was treated for cancer and told she would never have children. She was in the hospital, baldheaded and holding her newborn niece. Michelle became homeless, was in and out of treatment, and went on and off her medications. "What can I say, I was a frequent flier," Michelle says. She was uncooperative with those trying to help her. "I was out of control. I didn't realize the effect I had on people." "i feel that giving back keeps me humble and grateful for what i have and all that i have been given, including the ability to rise above a very challenging disability." Michelle "I was afraid I wouldn't be able to have a relationship with [my niece]. I thought, if I don't straighten up, I'm gonna lose my family." But, Michelle's real turning point came three years later. She was told she wasn't leaving the mental hospital. "The doctor wouldn't budge. I was exhausted, manic. I couldn't talk my way out of it this time. It brought me to my knees. I agreed to work with everybody that was trying to help me, instead of working against them." Twelve years later, she is determined to maintain her health and help others. Michelle is a peer counselor with Advocates for Mentally Ill Housing. AMIH is a nonprofit corporation that provides housing and life skills programs to adults with mental illness in Placer County. Michelle says her dedication to helping others is pivotal to her recovery. "I feel that giving back keeps me humble and grateful for what I have and all that I have been given, including the ability to rise above a very challenging disability." Following two decades of reductions in public mental health services, and the resulting increase of homelessness, California voters passed Proposition 63 in 2004. Prop 63, the Mental Health Services Act, emphasizes transforming the mental health system and improving the quality of life for Californians living with a mental health illness. Prop 63 saves both lives and money; a recent UCLA report shows that for the type of services that Michelle received, there is a cost savings of $1.27 for every Prop 63 dollar spent. "Working with AMIH really knocked it home for me. They gave me a roof over my head when I was young and bratty. Giving back to others and helping them find a voice makes me feel like I can accomplish something positive." "I'm glad they never gave up on me." One of the people who helped her at AMIH is very special to Michelle. "Every year I hand-deliver a Christmas card to her, with a photo of me and my son." Michelle's "miracle son" is 9 years old. She is devoted to providing a stable life for him. "I don't want him to have the life that I had." "It's worth it. It's worth the hard work. As daunting as mental illness is, it's worth fighting for your sanity." Plac e r Cou n ty Me ntal Hea l th P rogra ms The Placer County Network of Care website provides information about Placer County services and community events, with a searchable Service Directory, a Learning Center for various health topics, a community calendar, message boards and social networking. Documents and videos are available in several languages including Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Tagalog, Soomaali, Polish and Portuguese. Placer County Mental Health Services Local: (916) 787-8860 ACCESS—Toll-free: (888) 886-5401 http://placer.networkofcare.org/mh/ South Lake Tahoe Office Local: (530) 573-7970 CRISIS HOTLINE: (530) 544-221 4 Out of the Shadows Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission A paid supplement to Sacramento News & Review rem ov in G the St iG m a Woman speaks out about mental illness story & photo by Mike Blount hen 21-year-old Amanda moved away in 2009 and started attending college in Chico, her parents were fearful. Her relationship with them had been strained since she was 16. At the time, Amanda remembers feeling isolated and having trouble expressing herself; her doctor told her she was clinically depressed but she says the symptoms never seemed to fit how she felt. She drifted further apart from her parents and felt even more alone. Her parents were not sure what was happening to their daughter and were scared knowing she was moving away to college. While at college, she began to experiment with illegal drugs, which, as she found later, exacerbated the symptoms of her mental illness; combined with feelings of increased paranoia, it caused her to cut off all communication with her family. Amanda retreated further into her illness, losing touch with reality. W "i beat a lot of odds that i was told i wouldn't and side effects that are supposed to be irreversible. … i feel like i've gotten [wiser] and stronger because of my experience." Amanda She had a psychotic break. In one day, Amanda spent $5,000, dropped out of school and believed she was being filmed for a TV show. Her friends, concerned by her actions and state of mind, took her to a nearby psychiatric treatment center for help. There, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic features — her break triggered by intense stress from the culmination of several difficult things happening at once. "At the time I arrived, I was still in a state of mania," Amanda says. "I didn't think I was a patient there. I thought I was a doctor and I still believed I was just playing a part for a TV show. … Everything was a delusion or paranoia." Amanda's parents moved her from Chico to Sutter Hospital in Sacramento, closer to home. Doctors deemed her to be gravely disabled and she began a three-month stay for treatment. "I started to get scared," Amanda says. "That's when I really wanted to get out of there. I started to get really aggressive and it took four or five doctors and nurses to hold me down to keep me from going really crazy." Amanda says the next thing she remembers is waking up much later. She felt as though she'd "never be the same person again" and the medication she was taking made it difficult to remember anything she had learned before. She eventually went home with her parents where she was able to reconnect with them and spend time recuperating. In the following months, things improved for Amanda. She credits her recovery to getting on the right medication and becoming involved with the National Alliance on Mental Illness Peer-to-Peer group, a program funded by Proposition 63. When Amanda describes how her mental illness nearly destroyed her life just a few years earlier, she doesn't hold anything back. To her, it isn't something to be ashamed of but rather a source of strength that has encouraged her and continues to motivate her. Amanda currently serves as the youngest member on the board of NAMI, she's working on finishing her degree at UC Davis and she's a sought-after speaker on the subject of mental health. But like so many others affected by mental illness at a young age, Amanda says she struggled to understand what was happening to her. Amanda is also an outspoken advocate for early diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. She says her experience has given her the perspective and confidence to speak out. "I feel very blessed to have the life that I have now with everything that happened previously," Amanda says. "I beat a lot of odds that I was told I wouldn't and side effects that are supposed to be irreversible. … I feel like I've gotten [wiser] and stronger because of my experience." Yol o C ou n ty M en ta l H ea l th P rogra ms Yolo County Department of Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services provides a range of mental health services to community members of all ages, including adults, older adults and youth. Services are aimed at helping individuals with serious mental illness live as contributing and successful members of their families and communities. Services are provided to clients through outpatient clinics and Regional Resource Centers in Woodland, West Sacramento, and Davis, schoolbased sites, and through a network of community agencies and independent providers. The department also provides a range of alcohol and drug prevention and treatment services. Yolo County Mental Health Local: (530) 666-8630 ACCESS—Toll-free: (888) 965-6647 A paid supplement to Sacramento News & Review Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission Out of the Shadows 5 G et t in G R id of t h e fe aR Woman overcomes mental illness and becomes advocate for peers Bryce Brown Photo Courtesy of Turning Point Community Program Providence Center by F or decades, Rachel lived in constant fear that people were stalking her. Rachel, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, recalls believing that a woman was trying to poison her beloved service dogs Pickles and Mango. She had frequent outbursts, some of them violent. Her hallucinations became so bad that she even made several attempts at taking her own life. Rachel acknowledges that these attempts were cries for help. Two years ago, she made her most serious attempt. She ground up some pills, dissolved them in water and then drank it. She knew that the doctors would pump her stomach and, having studied chemistry at Cal, she knew that dissolving the drugs in water and drinking them would ensure the most efficient delivery of the drugs into her bloodstream. "As I was waiting there to die, I started looking in my dog's eyes and it just broke my heart," she remembers. She called her caseworker from Turning Point, a Proposition 63 supported program she had received services from in the past. After that, she remembers nothing except waking up in the ICU several days later; Rachel says she was thinking clearly for the first time in years. "I was, honest to God, sane," she says. "It was like going from another planet to this planet. I wasn't a raving lunatic anymore." For years, Rachel has been battling her PTSD, which was misdiagnosed as schizophrenia earlier in her life. Because of this misdiagnosis, Rachel was never on the right medications, her symptoms worsened and she eventually tried to take her own life. Through a combination of medication and therapy, Rachel is recovering. As she recovers, she needs less medication. "The reason I'm needing less and less anti-psychotic [medication] is because I'm getting to the bottom of the memories of what happened to me," she says. "I'm getting them out in the open and discussing them instead of keeping them hidden and having a shame-based identity. The more I talk through what happened when I was young, the less anti-psychotic [drugs] I need." Rachel feels fortunate to have the support of her caseworker and the encouragement to recover through the Turning Point Program. Rachel now leads a group at Nevada County Turning Point called "Our Voice Matters," which is dedicated to providing support for clients and fighting the stigma associated with mental health disorders. "There's such a terrible stigma associated with mental illness," says Rachel. "When people find out that you have mental health issues, it's like you lose your citizenship. Suddenly, people look down on you and you are a foreigner." "... even if someone goes around shouting out things and breaking things and things like that, there's still a person inside there. there was a person inside me ... these people really brought me back to the other side and they saw the person inside me and they didn't give up." Rachel Rachel says she wants to be an advocate for others suffering from mental health disorders because they can't stick up for themselves. "I really love the people here. And even if someone goes around shouting out things and breaking things and things like that, there's still a person inside there," she says. "There was a person inside me when everybody initially gave up at the beginning. These people really brought me back to the other side and they saw the person inside me and they didn't give up." Nevad a C ou n ty Me ntal Hea l th P rogra ms Nevada County is very accepting when it comes to diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders. Programs such as Turning Point, which began in 1976, offer a broad range of support for those who are in the greatest need. Many of Turning Point's employees are individuals who are in recovery themselves. This practice helps to inspire those who are in the early phases of their recovery by offering hope. Turning Point offers treatment and assistance as well as housing for individuals and their families. While proper diagnosis of mental health disorders is important, so is the proper treatment of such disorders. Programs like Turning Point ensure that treatment is correctly administered. Nevada County Behavioral Health Local: (530) 265-1437 ACCESS —Toll-free: (888) 801-1437 CRISIS — (530) 265-5811 A paid supplement to Sacramento News & Review 6 Out of the Shadows Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission A S er e n d Ip Ito u S r e u n Ion Woman suffering from mental illness is reunited with her children after years apart story & photo by Mike Blount F or several years, Susan had a hard time trusting anyone she met. She rarely spoke to anyone and even though she had a home in Sacramento, she chose to stay outside overnight, often in the rain and cold. To a passerby, the 54-year-old mother of two appeared homeless — sometimes, camping outside for days at a time — but Susan was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, a mental illness that caused her to believe she was constantly under threat. Susan says she was in contact with her daughters following a divorce from their father, but a life of heavy drug and alcohol abuse exacerbated the symptoms of her mental illness. Her contact became more infrequent and then two years ago, everything fell apart. Her paranoia increased to the point where she was driven to wander for longer stretches of time, unsure of who and what she was running from. In the past, she had always ended up back at her home. But Susan says she stopped taking care of her finances, including paying her rent. She vanished. Thus began a two-year stretch of homelessness that took Susan out of contact with her family and reality. "I've been doing methamphetamine, pot and alcohol since I was 15," Susan says. "I was scared and nervous a lot because of the mental illness and I wasn't taking care of myself like I should. …. I just started wandering and didn't know where I was going to end up." Susan recalls her daughters, not knowing where they could find her, later told her they thought the worst had happened when they heard a report that a homeless woman who matched her description had been found dead in a field. Susan's brother-in-law went to verify the identity of the body, but it turned out not to be Susan. Relieved, they continued to search. A policeman eventually found Susan wandering down the street and acting erratically. She was brought to a local hospital for an evaluation and officially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. She began receiving treatment and was also introduced to a caseworker with Transitional Community Opportunities for Recovery & Engagement (TCORE), who helped her get an ID and a Social Security card, and put her in touch with her family again after several weeks of diligent searching. "I was scared and nervous a lot because of the mental illness and I wasn't taking care of myself like I should. …. I just started wandering and didn't know where I was going to end up." Susan Susan was reunited with her two daughters and her five grandchildren — including a new grandson who was born while she was away — at an Adult Day Care Center. It was an emotional moment for Susan, who says she was finally in a place where she could reconnect with her family and deal with her mental illness. Today, Susan sees her family often. She says she's happy to finally be able to live a "normal life" and encourages others going through similar struggles to find help. "Your life does get better if you reach out for help." Sac ramen to C ou n ty Mental H ea l th P rogra ms Behavioral Health Services is Sacramento County's mental health department that offers mental health services to area residents — alcohol and drug treatment services, specialty mental health services and assistance for persons unable to care for their personal needs or financial resources. Behavioral Health Services are facilitated by a committee of system-wide partners: consumers, consumer liaisons, family members, advisory board members, county staff and community-based organizational providers. The organization's goal is to provide a culturally relevant system that promotes holistic recovery, optimum health and resiliency in order to improve lives of not only the individuals seeking help, but also the community at large. Sacramento County Mental Health Local: (916) 875-1055 ACCESS—Toll-free: (888) 881-4881 Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission A paid supplement to Sacramento News & Review Out of the Shadows 7 R eso u Rces In crisis? 24-Hour Crisis Lines Sacramento County: 24-Hour Toll Free (888) 881-4881 Yolo County: 24-Hour Toll Free (888) 965-6647 El Dorado County: 24-Hour Toll Free (800) 929-1955 Nevada County: 24-Hour Toll Free (888) 801-1437 Placer County: 24-Hour Toll Free (888) 886-5401 Suicide prevention number: (800) 273-TALK (8255) Suicide Prevention www.suicideispreventable.org Pain isn't always obvious. Every day in California friends, family and coworkers struggle with emotional pain. And, for some, it's too difficult to talk about the pain, thoughts of suicide and the need for help. Though the warning signs can be subtle, they are there. By recognizing these signs, knowing how to start a conversation and where to turn for help, you have the power to make a difference — the power to save a life. Wh at I s M e n ta l I llness? By Kendall Fields National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) (916) 567-0163 www.namicalifornia.org NAMI, the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization, is dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. NAMI advocates for access to services, treatment, support and research and is steadfast in its commitment to raise awareness and build a community of hope for all of those in need. S omeone you know is probably living with mental illness. You may not even know about it, because the shame and stigma that surrounds mental illness prevents many people from talking about it or even seeking help to improve their lives. And if that someone is you, you might be reluctant to tell anyone. No one is immune from mental illness. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one in every four adults and one in five children will experience a diagnosable mental disorder during their lifetime. The World Health Organization reported that four of the 10 leading causes of disability in the U.S. and other developed countries are mental disorders. By 2020, major depressive illness will be the leading cause of disability in the world for women and children. according to the national Institute of Mental health, one in every four adults and one in five children will experience a diagnosable mental disorder during their lifetime. Mental illnesses are medical conditions that disrupt a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Just as diabetes is a disorder of the pancreas, mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. Serious mental illnesses include major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder. Mental illnesses can affect persons of any age, race, religion or income. Mental illness usually strikes individuals in the prime of their lives — during adolescence and young adulthood. Harvard Medical School researcher Ronald Kessler conducted a national mental illness study, which indicated that half of all lifetime mental health disorders start by age 14 and three-fourths start by age 24. Although all ages are susceptible, the young and the old are most vulnerable. Mental illnesses are not the result of weakness, lack of character or poor upbringing. Mental illnesses are treatable. With appropriate and individualized treatment, most people can recover from their mental illness and lead productive, independent lives. Early identification and treatment is crucial, accelerating recovery and minimizing further harm. But, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, fewer than one-third of adults and one-half of children with a diagnosable mental disorder receive mental health services in a given year. Without treatment, the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering, leading to things like unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness and suicide. Plus, the economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than $100 billion each year in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A large part of this lack of treatment can be traced to the stigma society has developed about mental illness that perpetuates fear in affected individuals. The stigma erodes confidence that mental disorders are real, treatable health conditions. We have allowed this stigma to develop — but it has to stop now. It's time to embrace those who are struggling — and remember that it could be your friend, your coworker, your spouse, your child — even you. Mental Health America of California (MHAC) (916) 557-1167 www.mhac.org MHAC works to ensure that all Californians in need of mental health services have access to the appropriate level of services at the appropriate time by creating a forum for providers of care, advocates of patients, and family members of people living with a metal illness. MHAC works to educate state and local leaders and lawmakers on the importance and cost-effectiveness of mental health care. United Advocates for Children and Families (UACF) Hope Line (877) ASK-UACF (275-8223) www.uacf4hope.org UACF is a non profit organization with a mission to improve the quality of life for all children and youth with mental, emotional, and behavioral challenges and to eliminate institutional discrimination and social stigma. Network of Care www.networkofcare.org Network of Care is a highly interactive information source where consumers, community-based organizations and municipal government workers all can go to easily access a wide variety of important information.


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Happy New Year, loyal readers! On the first day of 2013, I present to you the final POTDs of 2012. Let us begin with Vince Carter, who turns 36 years old in a couple of weeks. You'd never know it by the looks of this jam… I was never a fan of VC's motorcycle celebration, but over the past few seasons I think I've come to like it. These days, I appreciate a Half Man slam far too much to quibble over such things as post-dunk antics. Rev that bike, Vince! Dunk rating on the Starbury Nastiness Scale: 7/10 For New Year's Eve, Orlando Magic rookie DeQuan Jones gets the nod. Jones went unselected in last summer's draft, but he got the better of perennial All-Star Chris Bosh on this particular play. As if he were a running back, watch DeQuan collect the handoff and toast Udonis Haslem with an abrupt cutback. With the help of a nice block from Nikola Vucevic, he takes it all the way to the house… Honorable mention to Hakim Warrick, who made a big play in an interesting game. I nearly gave Warrick the honors, but a Marco Belinelli reach doesn't exactly constitute the type of defensive effort that makes for a winning poster dunk in my humble opinion. Sorry, Hak. Dunk rating on the Starbury Nastiness Scale: 7/10 2012/13 Daily Poster Stats Throwback Poster of the Day: Cuttino Mobley on Eddie Griffin…
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August 04 2010 05:44PM
When it comes to celebrity weddings, no other nuptuals loom larger on our personal horizon than the Duff-Comrie wedding.
The Profile Of A Top-30 Scorer, Pre- And Post-Lockout
Jonathan Willis
August 04 2010 07:23AM
As a guy who spends a lot of his time watching and writing about hockey, I also read a lot of hockey publications. And suffice to say that if I had a nickel for every time I read how the "New NHL" encourages speed and "opens up the game" for skill players, allowing small players who otherwise would never have had a chance at the big leagues to get a taste of it, then I'd have a lot of nickels to throw at the guys who do the write-ups for THN draft previews.
August 03 2010 04:17PM
Dear Tyler Seguin,
According to the Bruins website it seems you have been signed to a 3 year entry level contract. We thought we would take this opportunity to write you a quick letter of congrats and shed some deep, dark emotional baggage in the process.
Oilers Forwards & Drawing Penalties
Jonathan Willis
August 03 2010 07:20AM
In the comments section to my Zack Stortini article yesterday, reader Jake suggested that Stortini might be a better fit as an agitator than as a fighter. It's a thought I liked, and one that I've had before. Just to see how well Stortini was doing in that department, I decided to look at penalties taken vs. penalties drawn for the forwards the Oilers will be employing next season.
Hell's Gate, Fraser Canyon
August 03 2010 07:19AM
This is Hell's Gate, in the Fraser Canyon of British Columbia. The Canyon walls rise far above the River in this area, and it is one of the most interesting and beautiful areas of western Canada. It is usually a surprise for tourists when they view the physical beauty of the river and mountains, and then find out about the large toll the area has taken on locals dating back one century. Some say there are ghosts and "mysterious voices" in the area. In this way, its history of danger and slow progress mirror the Edmonton Oilers at center ice, 2006 summer through today.


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Some parents are scratching their heads over less restrictive head lice policies that allow children with live bugs in their hair to return to the classroom.
And some school nurses are no longer sending home the dreaded "lice note" to other parents with kids in the classroom, alerting them to the possibility of lice in their own child's precious locks. The policy shift is designed to help keep children from missing class, shield children with lice from embarrassment and protect their privacy.
"Lice is icky, but it's not dangerous," says Deborah Pontius, the school nurse for the Pershing County School District in Lovelock, Nev. "It's not infectious, and it's fairly easy to treat."
Usually by the time an itchy child is sent to the nurse, Pontius says, the child has probably had lice for about three weeks to two months. She says classmates already would have been exposed. There's little additional risk of transmission, she says, if the student returns to class for a few hours until the end of the day, when a parent would pick up the child and treat for lice at home.


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well i've played this game a few times now and enjoying some online play too. i went to load it up last night and kept getting freezing. some levels would load others not. i was getting blotchy black smoke from the fire in game.
i googled a bit and found a few people are having this problem but doesn't look like a lot of people are. i'm stumped. all my other games work.....played and hour of FSX today and a bit of Far Cry2 and no issues.
i reinstalled the game. started a new profile even and now can't get past second level....lol
sigh. i'm patched to the latest also but how does everything work fine all week then go kaboom. i didn't make any changes to my pc all week.
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Jim Hightower - Getting ahead on the backs of others
Having been raised in a small-business family and now running my own small outfit, I always find it heartwarming to see hardworking, enterprising folks get ahead.
So I was really touched when I read that, even in these hard times, one extended family with three generations active in their enterprise is hanging in there and doing well. Christy, Jim, Alice, Robbie, Ann and Nancy are their names — and with good luck and old-fashioned pluck, they have managed to build a fairly sizeable family nest egg. In fact, it totals right at $103 billion for the six of them. Yes, six people, 100-plus billion bucks. That means that these six hold more wealth than the entire bottom 40 percent of American families — a stash of riches greater than the combined wealth of some 127 million Americans.
How touching is that?
The "good luck" that each of them had is that they were either born into or married into the Walton family, which makes them heirs to the Walmart fortune. That's where the "pluck" comes in, for the world's biggest retailer plucks its profits from the threadbare pockets of low-wage American workers and impoverished sweatshop workers around the world.
Four of the Walton heirs rank as the sixth, ninth, 10th and 11th richest people in our country, possessing a combined net worth of $95 billion. But bear in mind that "net worth" has no relationship to worthiness — these people did nothing to earn their wealth; they just inherited it. And, as Walmart plucks more from workers, the heirs grow ever luckier. In recent years, while the wealth of the typical family plummeted by 39 percent, the Waltons saw their wealth grow by 22 percent — without having to lift a finger.
How odd then that the one-percenters (on in this case, the 1/100 of one-percenters) are hailing themselves as our country's "makers," while snidely referring to workaday people as "takers." With the Waltons, it's the exact opposite.
Indeed, you'd think that the Bentonville billionaires would realize that their fortunes are tied directly to these disparage. Apparently, they're unaware that America's economic recovery cannot truly be measured in the performance of the stock market but instead should be gauged by the sock market.
Most economists, pundits and politicos see today's boom in stocks and say: "See, the recovery is going splendidly!" But they should go to such stores as Kohl's, Target and even the Walton's very own Walmart and find out what's selling.
The answer would be socks. Even in the present back-to-school season (usually the second-biggest buying spree of the year), sales are sluggish at best, with customers foregoing any spending on their kids except for socks, underwear and other essentials.
This is not only an economic indicator but also a measure of the widening inequality in America. The highly ballyhooed "recovery" has been restricted to the few at the top who own nearly all of the stocks, get paychecks of more than $100,000 a year and shop at upscale stores. But meanwhile, the many don't have any cash to spare beyond necessities. Walmart's chief financial officer seems puzzled by this reality. There is, as he put it last week, "a general reluctance of customers to spend on discretionary items."
Golly, sir, why are those ingrates reluctant? Could it be because job growth in our supremely wealthy country has been both lackluster and miserly? Yes — jobs today are typically very low paying, part-time and temporary with no benefits. Mr. Walmart-man should know this, since his retail behemoth is the leading culprit in downsizing American jobs to a poverty level in order to further enrich those at the very top, including Christy, Jim, Alice, Robbie, Ann and Nancy. In recent months, corporate honchos at the Arkansas headquarters have directed Walmart managers not to hire at all or to concentrate on hiring temporary and part-time workers, while cutting the hours of many full-time employees
Since the Great Recession "ended" in 2009, Walmart has slashed 100,000 people from its U.S. workforce, even as it added some 350 stores. In addition, while the giant banked more than $4 billion in profit just in the last three months, the chieftains changed the corporate rules to make it harder and costlier for employees to get Walmart's meager health care plan.
Yet, executives wonder why customers aren't buying "discretionary" items. Hello — even your own workers can't afford to buy anything in the store besides socks.
(Jim Hightower has been called American's most popular populist. The radio commentator and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture is author of seven books, including "There's Nothing In the Middle of Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos" and his new work, "Swim Against the Current: Even Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow".)
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Froma Harrop - We all need moderate Republicans
Moderate Republicans are, were, good things. I use the past tense "were" because as they became rarities, the centrists' chief function was preserving majorities in Congress for their radicalized party.
New England used to send lots of moderate Republicans to Washington. No more, and it's not because there aren't attractive Republican candidates. It's because the ones representing liberal-to-moderate regions became scapegoats at which party extremists directed their primal screams.
There arose the stupid "RINO (Republican in name only) Hunters Club," courtesy of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. In 2005, Rush Limbaugh pounded away at Republican "traitors" in the Senate, adding that "they all happen to be from the Northeast, and they all happen to be moderates. They all happen to be liberals."
And now they all happen to be gone, except for a few exceptions. Thus, the Senate has a Democratic majority.
Defenders of the older, more marketable Republican brand are trying to curb the party's more feverish elements. In 2012, the enraged ones purged Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a revered statesman virtually assured of winning the general election. Instead, they chose a nominee expounding bizarrely on rape, and he lost to Democrat Joe Donnelly. And in 2010, similarly flawed Republican candidates saved the hides of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada and Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado.
Wily Democrats have fueled the self-destruction by piping money into the campaigns of the most unelectable Republicans, also known as Tea Party favorites. During the primary, American Bridge and other Democratic groups ran ads noting that Lugar had agreed to raise the debt ceiling, the only responsible stance but one right-wingers reviled.
Playing the hard-liners for fools is not a monopoly of the Democratic Party. In the final weeks of the close 2000 presidential election, Republican groups famously funneled money to third-party candidate Ralph Nader, whom some prominent and very naive left-wingers backed as preferable to the centrist Al Gore. The result was President George W. Bush.
As interest in the 2016 presidential race ignites, Republican reformers are turning uneasily to the electoral season's kickoff in Iowa: the Ames straw poll and the caucuses. Iowa is a swing state with registered voters divided equally among Democrats, Republicans and independents. But participants in the early Republican contests are heavy with hotheads eager to magnify their power.
The Ames straw poll is grossly undemocratic. Its participants last time around judged Rep. Michele Bachmann to be best-qualified to become president. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stayed away from the fringe-dominated poll and became the party's nominee.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is back touring Iowa, as are the right-wing populists Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. Some speculate that more viable Republican contenders, such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, will choose to skip the pointless straw poll.
As Republican strategist Mike Murphy colorfully put it, the heavyweights may stay away and "let Santorum, Cruz and Bozo the Clown all fight it out."
Crashing respect for the straw poll threatens the caucuses that follow, themselves not a model of democratic procedure. Thus, some Iowa Republicans, led by Gov. Terry Branstad, want to get rid of it. This would deprive a small number of radicals the opportunity to commandeer a high-profile contest, which is the idea.
In a recent conversation, a rich benefactor of the Democratic Party stopped his usual attack on Republicans to express worry about the survival of their party. Moderates of all political stripes want a choice. Without responsible Republicans, the Democrats can get sloppy, and America's challenges go unmet.
A return of the Republican moderate would be good all around.
(A member of the Providence Journal editorial board, Froma Harrop writes a nationally syndicated column from that city. She has written for such diverse publications as The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar and Institutional Investor.)
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Michael Barone - Stop & Frisk doesn't target minorities, it protects them
New York City seems on the verge of making the same mistake that Detroit made 40 years ago. The mistake is to abolish the NYPD practice referred to as stop and frisk.
It's more accurately called stop, question and frisk. People were stopped and questioned 4.4 million times between 2004 and 2012. But the large majority were not frisked.
The effectiveness of this police practice, initiated by Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1994 and continued by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is not in doubt. The number of homicides — the most accurately measured crime — in New York fell from a peak of 2,605 in 1990 to 952 in 2001, Giuliani's last year in office, to just 414 in 2012.
Nevertheless, the three leading Democratic mayoral candidates in the city's September primary all have pledged to end stop and frisk. And last week, federal judge Schira Scheindlin, in a lawsuit brought by 19 men who have been stopped and frisked, found that the practice is unconstitutional and racially discriminatory.
Bloomberg has promised to appeal, and several of Scheindlin's decisions in high-profile cases have been reversed. But the leading Democratic candidates for mayor promise, if elected, to drop the appeal.
The two leading Republican candidates support stop and frisk, but their chances of election seem dim in a city that voted 81 percent for Barack Obama in 2012.
What riles opponents of stop and frisk is that a high proportion of those stopped are young black and Hispanic males. Many innocent people undoubtedly and understandably resent being subjected to this practice. No one likes to be frisked, including the thousands of airline passengers who are every day.
But young black and, to a lesser extent, Hispanic males are far, far more likely than others to commit (and be victims of) violent crimes, as Bloomberg points out. I take no pleasure in reporting that fact and wish it weren't so.
This was recognized by, among others, Jesse Jackson, who in 1993 said, "There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start to think about robbery and then look around and see it's somebody white and feel relieved."
You can get an idea about what could happen in New York by comparing it with Chicago, where there were 532 homicides in 2012.
That's more than in New York, even though New York's population is three times as large.
One Chicagoan who supports stop and frisk is the father of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old girl shot down a week after singing at Barack Obama's second inauguration. "If it's already working, why take it away?" he told the New York Post. "If that was possible in Chicago, maybe our daughter would be alive."
Chicago and New York both have tough gun control laws. But bad guys can easily get guns in both cities.
The difference, as the New York Daily News's James Warren has pointed out, is that frequent stops and frisks combined with mandatory three-year sentences for illegal possession of a gun mean that bad guys in New York don't take them out on the street much.
Stop and frisk makes effective the otherwise ineffective gun control that Bloomberg so strongly supports.
An extreme case of what happens when a city ends stop and frisk is Detroit. Coleman Young, the city's first black mayor, did so immediately after winning the first of five elections in 1973.
In short order Detroit became America's murder capital. Its population fell from 1.5 million to 1 million between 1970 and 1990. Crime has abated somewhat since the Young years, but the city's population fell to 713,000 in 2010 — just over half that when Young took office.
People with jobs and families — first whites, then blacks — fled to the suburbs or farther afield. Those left were mostly poor, underemployed, in too many cases criminal — and not taxpayers. As a result, the city government went bankrupt last month.
New York has strengths Detroit always lacked. But it is not impervious to decline. After Mayor John Lindsay ended tough police practices, the city's population fell from 7.9 million in 1970 to 7.1 million in 1980.
Those who decry stop and frisk as racially discriminatory should remember who is hurt most by violent crime — law-abiding residents of high-crime neighborhoods, most of them black and Hispanic, people like Hadiya Pendleton.
(Syndicated columnist Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.)
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Sanborn – Sales are up, but not prices
OK! Finally, there were over a hundred residential homes sales in one month in the towns covered by this report. There were 110 in July, to be exact, at an average sales price of $299,469. This may not be exactly a watershed moment in the Lakes Region real estate world, but it has been a long time since this happened. Last July there were just 70 sales at an average price of $260,113 so that's a healthy 57 percent increase.
Year to date sales of residential homes are up 13 percent with 556 sales through the end of July compared to 491 for the same period in 2012. The average sales price for the first seven months of the year comes in at $283,536 which is a just a bit lower than the $286,898 for the same period last year. Despite all the news reports on TV of the real estate market getting hot and prices increasing, it should be noted that real estate is a very local phenomena. While some areas may be seeing big bumps in selling prices and multiple offers, that just isn't happening in the Lakes Region. If you are thinking of listing your home to sell, don't get all excited thinking you can ask more for your property than you could a year ago. It is still a buyer's market in this neck of the woods and may be for some time. The good news is that the total number of residential sales has increased and that should help whittle down the inventory.
As usual, most of the high end sales last month were waterfront properties. There were, however, some pretty nice homes off the water that found new owners. Some took a while longer to sell than others, though. Take, for example, the property at 141 Riverwood Drive in New Hampton. This custom contemporary cape was built in 2004 and has an amazing, high quality 7,187 square feet of living space with all the bells and whistles. There is a gourmet kitchen featuring gorgeous cabinetry, high end appliances, granite counters, a great room with the requisite stone fireplace, a first floor master suite, four guest bedrooms, and a man cave over the garage that most guys can only dream about. This home was listed way back in June of 2009 for $699,000 and has been on the market every year since. It was relisted this year at $579,000 and had several price reductions down to $399,000. It finally sold at a higher price at $455,000. I expect there might be a long story about why it sold higher than the asking price, but it cannot be anywhere near as long as the 1,179 days it was on the market. The home is assessed at $761,080 so I'd say the buyer got a great deal.
A Victorian with a contemporary flair at 1525 NH Route 140 in Gilmanton, NH also sold last month. This 4,745 square foot beauty was built in 2002 and has three bedrooms, two and a half baths, gourmet kitchen, two fireplaces, master suite, den, bonus room, custom woodwork, and more. It was originally listed at $590,000 in December of 2009 and was on the market 270 days then. It came back on the market in April of 2012 for $485,500 and sold for $404,900 after another 417 days on the market. Time and (less) money fix everything. This home is currently assessed at $495,520.
A spectacular, custom built 4,868 square foot contemporary at 32 Harvest Run in one of Gilford's most desirable neighborhoods also found a buyer after 291 days on the market. This high quality home left little to be desired with its great floor plan, gourmet kitchen, granite countertops, beautiful oak trim and flooring, fireplace, sun room, media room, and a spacious first floor master suite plus four guest rooms upstairs. This home was listed at $660,000, reduced to $599,900, and sold for $550,000 after 291 days on the market plus another 118 days under contract. This property is assessed for $495,500. Obviously, the quality was recognized by the buyer.
Up in Gunstock Acres in Gilford, a mountaintop retreat at 30 Ridgeline Loop also took almost a year to sell. This 4,505 square foot, three bedroom, two and a half bath contemporary home was built in 1985 and is spectacular but the amazing panoramic views undoubtedly sold this home. The home has a gated entrance (no, not on the front door, in the driveway!), a great room with cathedral ceilings, exposed beams and fireplace, an upscale kitchen with granite counters, birch flooring, beautiful natural woodwork, master suite, gym, sunroom, and large deck overlooking the lake. There's also a two car detached carriage house plus an attached five car garage just in case. This is a home to entertain in and the party won't stop if the lights go out because a whole house generator ensures that you can party on. This home was listed for $849,000, was reduced to $799,000, and sold for $640,000 after 330 days on the market. It is currently assessed at $525,700.
So, it's pretty easy to see that all of these homes were on the market for extended periods of time and they all took sizeable price reductions to finally get a buyer. Do you think these sellers would have been ahead of the game and had a little less stress in their lives if they had listed lower to begin with?
Please feel free to visit www.lakesregionhome.com to learn more about the Lakes Region real estate market and comment on this article and others. Data was compiled using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System as of 8/18/13. Roy Sanborn is a REALTOR® at Four Seasons Sotheby's International Realty and can be reached at 603-455-0335.
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Susan Estrich - Evil comes in all colors
The three Oklahoma teenagers were, according to official reports, "bored." So they decided to do something: kill the guy who jogged past them. They got in the car, followed him and did just that.
The district attorney described the youngest, the 15-year-old, as having treated the murder as a "joke." He reportedly danced as he was booked. The 16-year-old, supposedly the one who pulled the trigger, showed no emotion when he was charged with first-degree murder. Only the 17-year-old, who is supposedly cooperating, broke down — and only when the prosecutor referenced the "very, very lengthy prison sentence" he is facing. "I didn't pull the trigger," he said. So what?
Okay, I'll play carefully. Assuming the facts presented without contradiction to the court to be true, these boys are evil and should rot in hell for what they did.
Now, to get even uglier. The (alleged) killers are African-American. The victim was a young Australian baseball player who attended college in Oklahoma and had just visited his girlfriend. He had a bright future.
The three beasts (again, assuming these facts to be true) are not star athletes and college students. Their lives, I'm sure we will be told, are empty and hopeless.
I don't know whether you call this a "hate" crime or not. That would turn on whether epithets were uttered, whether the victim was selected because of his race, all of that. It really doesn't matter. It doesn't get much uglier than the unprovoked, cold-blooded murder of an innocent victim chosen at random.
Anyone who was the least bit outraged by the killing of Trayvon Martin should be screaming bloody murder right now.
What makes me wonder whether they will?
Mr. President, some thoughts, please? Can you identify with the parents of the kid who went for a jog and ended up dead? No, he doesn't look anything like you would have at 15, at least judged from the color of his skin, but that isn't what matters, is it?
The real point is that these hooligans — the 15-, 16- and 17-year-old — also bear no relationship to our president when he was that age.
Evil comes in all shapes and sizes and colors, and when we see it, we need to call it for what it is.
News accounts say the two younger boys have had hard lives. The mother of the 15-year-old is in jail. Last year, the 16-year-old lost both his stepfather and his brother. Illness? Murder? Plainly, loss did not make them better people. Perhaps the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Is that cruel? Sure. But we are talking here of pure evil.
Plenty of kids grow up surrounded by all forms of depravation, and yet they would never kill a person to fill a boring day. They know, deep down, the difference between good and evil. Plenty of kids grow up with bad parents and bad families and bad problems, but they don't go shoot a baseball player out for a jog to make their day. It's not black or white. Evil doesn't have a color. Evil is evil.
Then there's the guns issue. An Australian politician and gun-control advocate is already calling for a boycott of tourism to America to protest the killings. It is important to know how these beasts got the gun or guns they used. (According to authorities, they were on their way to another home to commit another murder when they were apprehended.) No responsible gun owner could possibly agree that these beasts had any right to possess a weapon.
But at the end of the day, they did. And they should pay for it for the rest of their lives.
(Susan Estrich is a professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law Center. A best-selling author, lawyer and politician, as well as a teacher, she first gained national prominence as national campaign manager for Dukakis for President in 1988.)
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Hello ,
I need some help configuring the nvidia driver for fc6.
I have installed successfully the nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run (that included updating the kernel to 2.6.20-1.2933, installation of pkgconfig, xorg-x11-server-sdk, gcc and kernel-devel).
When booting into run level 5, after i see the nvidia logo splash screen, instead of the usual login screen, I get a screen full of white dots. However if I switch to run level 3, I can login and run startx, but when I am trying to go back to shell alt+ctrl+f1 I receive again a white dotted screen (see the attached nvidia-bug-report.log)
I am running a dual core AMD 64bit laptop, with a 6150 Geforce GO adapter, and following the advise published in the forum I set the kernel option idle=poll. Also I have disabled SELinux environment by setting selinux=0.
I have also attached the xorg.conf file , that was set by nvidia-xconfig and the Xorg.log file.
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The Manfrotto 250SC1 Suction Cup/Retractable Spiked Foot is an optional upgrade made to fit their "D25" 25mm diameter aluminum tube, found on the 681B and 681 monopods.
The suction cup increases the monopod's effective footprint by ~20x, yielding a significant increase in stability when needed upon certain surfaces. Retract the rubber cup to reveal a steel tip which provides a firm footing on soft ground.
This monopod foot can be removed and replaced at will, even in the field.
- Fits the "D25" 25mm aluminum tube found upon the 681/681B monopod
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36 comments found.
hi really like your template waiting for the wordpress version too
is a psd file included? cause i only see png layered file in the discription is there a possibility to edit the layered png file
indeed psd is not included, mainly becouse most of the graphics in this theme are handled by the CSS , you can change the colors by simply adjusting their value. I will add some psds to wp version though, those will make editing of slider arrows and few other details easier.
thx a lot
How's the Wordpress version coming?? ; )
There are good and bad news.
Bad news is, that due to work overload I won't be able to deliver the wordpress version this and next week.
The good news is I've already started working on it, and I'll be working all through holidays to deliver it ASAP . Really sorry to make you guys waiting but sometimes there is just too many things happening.
Having a small issue. On the portfolio page, the 'see more' hyper links have a background colour of black. I need this changed to white and no matter what I do I cant seem to get it to change. I'm having trouble identifying what property in the css it making it black. Any ideas?
Hey atweedie
Ok I see what you mean, to force the background of the "see more" links to be of specific color or transparent, you will need to add a class to the
 tag. Let's say
See more.. and then, somewhere at the bottom of the style.css or in rainbow.css add a class .no_bcg{background:none;}
Reason behind such a behavior of the background is that the
 tag is inheriting background settings of the image(the plus sign when on hover)
Amazingly cool template! I'm gonna buy it as soon as it's available as a Wordpress template
Any news on the Wordpress version??
I just downloaded. When I open in IE, I don't get the same fonts. When I open in firefox, it works. Also, if I access live demo site using IE, it works. Just locally it's not working.
hmm IE must be blocking script execution locally, it shouldn't happen once you upload it to the server
hello, i am looking to move the navigation up or down just like the logo, but i cant find where i can do that!!!
Also I would need to move the anythingSlider down a little, please if you can tell me how to do that
you can change the navi position in style.css around line 462, like so: http://prntscr.com/18lw8a
and you can nudge the slider down by adding top margin in anythingslider.css like so: http://prntscr.com/18lwiu
("wiersz" means "line" of code at which you will find the rule)
please help, answer my question above!!!!
Thanks for you help, works great!
Couple more questions though…
1. i now need to move the portfolio down a little, so how do i do that?
2. when i moved the anything slider down 35px i now have a line showing where it was??? how do i get around that?
1) & 2) – instead of modifying anythingslider class then, change #header to have bottom margin like so: http://prntscr.com/196mln
thanks again! You are a GREAT HELP!!!!!!
Hi Sorry, but I have one last question.Im trying to change the color of the navigation from yellow to black, but the only style in styles.css that changes the color is…
a, a:visited{
This changes all the links, and i dont want to do that i just want to change the color of the navigation ONLY. Please Help!!!
adding #nav a,#nav a:visited{color:#fffc05} to the bottom of the style should do the trick for you
quick question, ive added som more fields to the contact form, after doing so i edited the "sendEmail.php" file and i guess im missing something because now all i get in the email is the message box, but nothing else…
please help, i need to know exactly what i need to edit to add another field to the contatc form, such as a "telephone field". thanks!
the contact form is made of 3 files – the sendEmail that you edited, the markup in html file that you edited as well and also – part in script.js – change that too and it should work all fine
I've got a problem on my website, the template calls this a css file located at : http://960ls.atomidata.com
The css file called is : http://960ls.atomidata.com/static/cssserve/8/8/1/0/0/88100.css
but when trying to reach the file, it says "Not Found"
Now my website is misformatted which is quite a serious problem.
My question is : Do you have this file? If Yes thanks you to provide it to me. If no, have another way to get the website good again? Or do you have a contact that can provide me the file ASAP?
URL of my website : http://www.hypershade-photography.com
Thanks in advance for your quick support. Regards.
The file is on www.designsentry.com/88100.zip
I'll push update as soon as I get home
Hey all, I'm sorry that you all have problems with the theme, it came on the worst possible time, as I was away from my home office – on vacations.
What's happenning is: the theme uses grid style css file that is hosted off the site on different server (to speed up loading and reduce bandwidth usage). The problem is, that server went down, and I don't have info when it'll be up again.
I've got a copy of the grid file on my own server here: http://designsentry.com/88100.zip you can download it, unzip then copy its ingredients and paste them at the very top of your css/style.css
That's pretty much all you need to do, but to be precise you should also remove the highlighted line here: http://prntscr.com/1zp978 from all .html files
sorry for all the problems it has caused
ps. update to the theme with exact fix mentioned above is already available for download from themeforest (your download tab)
my site out of no where started loading as if it was being viewed on a phone, but it is being viewed from a pc…chrome ie same situation….please let me know why its doing this?
i see what happened from the above comments
i need to add some fields to the contact form, can you please help!!!!!
i need to add phone and address to the contact form please!!!!!
hey, you can replicate how the the name field works, do it for all 3 files: the contact.html file, the /js/script.js and sendEmail.php, and it will work
perfect, i got it working, thanks!!!


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Unable to find Headerfiles?
Im a newb to linux and this forum, so sorry in advance for stupid/already posted questions!
I just installed Mandrake Linux and want to use the tv-out function on my nvidia geforce2 mx400.
So I spent the last 6 hours finding out how to install the driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run.
I have reached to the point where the installer says something like "Unable to find kernel headerfiles for currently running kernel. etc. etc."
I have no idea what to do, so I would appreciate any help I can get!
thx in advance!
1) check out the README included on the driver download page for a full walkthrough for your driver installation.
2) 1.0-4363 is 3 driver revisions old - the current driver is 1.0-5336.
3) You need to install your kernel sources - it should be kernel-source-*.rpm on your install media.
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The experimental south London producer gives us an exclusive mix, entirely of his own far-out hybrid funk tracks.
Published: 24/08/12
London producer Visionist , aka Louis Carnell is one of the most promising producers around. He started his musical career in grime, MCing under the name KLP (aka King Louis Productions) before discovering a new world of funky house, techno and dubstep. Taking this on board Visionist was created. With previous releases including Rock the Flock on Disktopia and the _Mr 67 10" on 92 Points, here is a producer able to hold the tensions of London pirate music and emotional balance together is hard harmony. Visionist's latest release was his track Come In, on 'Keysound Allstars Vol 1', here we have an exclusive mix from the innovative 22 year old._
Hello, Visionist! How's tricks?
Good thanks.
Can you tell us a bit about the mix?
It's a collection of past tunes and things I've been working on over the last few months.
You're the only artist on the mix. What do these tunes say about you, your personality and your direction?
Yes. I'm quite happy to promote other artists, more so up-and-comers than those already there. That's why I set up 92 Points and Lost Codes, so it's not a self-indulgent thing.
My sets usually relate to this – so instead of dropping the tune you know everyone will go mad to I will hopefully create that new banger by dropping something that might not be heard as much. I get most excited hearing tunes I don't know. At the same time I haven't released much this year though that will change by the end, so thought show the people what I am up to until then. I think this mix shows I can blend different styles in production but still create a sound true to myself so that's the direction. Whether it be future bass, garage, funky, I done it all; and my methods relate in all.
I love your drum patterns. How do you get them just so?
Well I use fruity loops and the great thing about this is when you load a sample it allows it to be pitched along the keyboard straight away, so this is something I play around with a lot. My rhythms need to have groove if I am not moving it's not right.
There's always this intense emotional darkness with your music. What do you put that down to?
I don't feel comfortable talking about it… Not really I don't know just an aesthetic I favour and comes naturally I've actually tried to make happy tunes and failed it feels wrong, again all my favourite artists have the same aesthetic.
Tell me about the Keysound release.
Well just had Come In out which really happy about. Martin has been supporting that from the start which was about year and half ago, just glad it lasted it's time within a scene that is constantly changing. The follow up on that will be a 4 track E.P that I'm currently working on.
What's your favourite thing in music at the moment?
Fusion. Producers who create there own sound rather than copy others. Prime example Sd Laika.
And what's your favourite Carnival memory?
I don't really have favourite moment but its good vibe.
1. Visionist – Insight
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6. Visionist – Survive
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8. Visionist – Come In
+Visionist's track Come In is the third cut on EP 'Keystar Allstars vol 1', which was released on the 6th August via Keysound+ Recordings.
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