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It depends on what other social systems are in place. If there are things like cross server friends lists and cross server guesting (invite your friend to join your group), then I don't think it would have as negative an impact on the game. But, the content should be challenging as well so that you have the opportunity to work together as a team and get to know each other. This is what I think has the biggest impact on the community; the difficulty of the content.
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Originally posted by xeniar
kill stuff in game.
Because it is fun.
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No, they don't ruin the community; they make the game more fun and that in turn brings in more players which overall has a positive effect on the community.
If you miss the days of the LFG tool there is nothing forcing you to use it; find a proper guild of like minded people and play like in the old days.
Personally; when they didn't have a LFG tool I wouldn't even bother with instances. It was nothing but frustrating, it'd take an hour to find a group for whatever instance you wanted to do, and most of the time those groups sucked because instead of running 2-3 instances an hour you were running 1-2 instances a day and it was much harder to get the hang of your class.
Ultimately; I never ran a dungeon where I made friends or interacted much with the party anyway; the LFG tool has not changed that for me at all; it has just made me less frustrated with games and therefore I play them longer.
I don't play MMOs to be social; I play MMOs because it's fun to run dungeons with 4 other humans instead of poorly controlled AI in a single player game. Sometimes I'm social, most of the time I keep to myself because I personally don't give a crap to make friends with some dude on the other side of the country I'll probably never meet when I have dozens of real life friends that don't play MMOs but I love to hang out and be social with.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
where in game? where in game do you go to kill stuff?
Because its fun so killing stuff is fun? so your GRIND hate in the other thread about killing stuff for no reason is now seen as a fun activity?
you guys change your standpoint on things in a heartbeat.
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Does it ruin the community in solo centric games with little to no community anyway, like WoW? No,
In games with public dungeons, where socializing is a huge part of it, oh hell yes.
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Originally posted by DavisFlight
That is a very good statement rings true. But I think communities control how things ruin things not the game itself.
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Originally posted by Madamefate
Communities are formed and shaped by the mechanics the game. The reason older games were more social is because you had to be social to get by, you needed other people.
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Originally posted by Fdisk
Ok, so you say things like that and we wonder why in MMORPG the community gets ruined. Maybe some people are right, it is the players too, old mechanics used to keep people like you out of MMO because they forced you to be kind to other players, they forced you to open your mouth and say hi to another human being.
Socialising is an instictive part of survival, animals and humans socialise for survival, socialising is a necessity. If you actually played a normal MMO, not the watered down MMO lobby zergfests they have since WoW, you would quickly realise that you depend on other humans beings and that includes being courteous to them.
No offense but why in God's name do you people think of yourself as MMORPG players when you reject the whole idea of an MMORPG, you basically all want lobby games like League of Legends and Diablo 3. I have nothing against lobby games, but they are something entirely different from MMORPG.
I don't understand why some people are on an MMORPG site if they are not interested in other players and not interested in roleplaying, the only part that interests you is the multiplayer part, multiplayer is not the same as MMORPG. You almost take the notion of not participating in the MMORPG and picking out easy lobby games as a badge of honor, look at me I don't care about other people.
Originally posted by xeniar
Dungeons, caves, grassland ... does it matter?
Killing stuff for no reason? Killing stuff for loot? For quests? For xp?
Grind is only bad when combat is badly design. People runs the same dungeons again and again all the time. It is not grind if it is fun combat.
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Originally posted by Fdisk
LFG tool does not ruin communities for your type.
It just ruins them for my type. I wish this type of gamer would consider what other people think about things rather than always wanting more for less, or the same for quicker.
Originally posted by CalmOceans
Originally posted by zekeofev
Why should we care about what you want? It is not like
a) we play the same games,
b) we are friends
There are those who like hello kitty games too, do i need to care about what they want to?
We are talking about entertainment products here. Of course i only care about what i want.
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Originally posted by CalmOceans
You're getting closer to the truth here.
It never was LFG that ruined communities. It was the people LFG was made for.
And if you got in late: they forced you to tolerate the condescension and arrogance of the established cliques. At least until you were established enough to form your own clique.
At least in UO you could give some payback once you were established, instead of just passing it down to the next wave of nubcakes. I used to think a PvP-switch was a great idea before I started actually dealing with EQ players, but the more I deal with them (and their progeny) the more I like games where ganking was allowed.
Feh. There are too many solitary hunters and lone-wolfs out there to make a blanket statement like that. Humans themselves are a strange mix of pack and solitary instincts. Especially in America, where the meme of "rugged individualism" grew thicker roots than most other places.
I can tell from this thread that you don't if you're not forced to. I mean seriously, look at your history of posts on this thread. Condescending, arrogant, derisive to anyone who doesn't think like you. Who the hell would even *want* to be social with someone like that in the first place, if they weren't being beaten into it by external forces?
Not that I'm any better on that front. I don't pretend I am, at least not here. Maybe we're different when we're actually in the game, dealing with situations where we can't afford to alienate the guy next to us by telling him what we really think of his attitude. At least not until we're in the position where we can have the attitude outselves, and it's everyone else who has to put up with our attitude for fear of being cut out.
Or, in my preferred (pk-allowed) games: just cut up.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
the more you are saying the more im pointing over yonder where the SP games are.
and also "Why should we care about what you want? It is not like
a) we play the same games,
b) we are friends
There are those who like hello kitty games too, do i need to care about what they want to?
We are talking about entertainment products here. Of course i only care about what i want."
right back at ya
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
Well see thats the thing. I want to understand what you like and want. While neither of us may be interested in hello kitty online I am glad a market has been identified for a type of player and it had a good lifespan. Options are good in a market.
The majority of MMOs are catering to a solo player mindset. Less emphisis on story. Less emphisis on group play, less reasons to meet new people.
Its healthy for many types of games to be in development as then it can maximize players that will be playing by hitting all types of players. Instead, everyone goes after WoW type players.
But I expected no less from your type of player. Further proof that creating a more lobby type of game just ruins communities.
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I think cross-realm lfg's hurt server/shard communities as people become anonymous cogs in a machine. But server based LFG's are fine imo.
I don't know what other games people are playing, but with or without lfg's most MMO communities are terrible - actually most people you interact with on the internet are fairly horrible to each other.
Now, if there isn't a LFG tool built in, people obviously want to find groups and will create a method to do so. I don't mind if there is a dedicated global LFG channel but zone based channels suck, especially for lowbie alts or new players who can't get a group as most people don't play in those zones.
Try getting a group for a lowbie dungeon in GW2 without a 3rd party website. You either stand in a city and shout for a good long time, maybe an hour (best case) or go to the zone and spam for group there. Good luck, you can easily sit there for hours and come up empty. You'll actually level past content faster than you can get a group. So either content needs to take days or weeks (meaning, each individual zone) or you need a tool to find those groups.
In the end, I play games to play the game, not to find people.
Originally posted by zekeofev
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Originally posted by Rusque
Well, yes and no. Downlevelling does keep you from going *too* far past the content-level (I'll grant that it is often still 'far enough' for it to feel somewhat trivial anyway, but that could be resolved by tweaking the downlevelling system.)
The real problem is, most modern gamers don't see a reason to bother going back for it. And even most of the "community centric" oldschoolers bred from the EQ model don't either - if they hadn't already walked away from GW2 beforehand for daring to try to break away from the holy trinity.
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Those grand old communities of yesteryear did not spring up because of game design, they formed to fill a gap in the game design. The fact that in EQ or FF for example you had to wait around and work hard to get a group, the fact that getting anything done took massive amounts of time, that coupled with the fact MMO's were not mainstream is what made those "Communities".
I hate to break it to you, but folk who like my self remember the "good old days" gloss over the details a lot with rose coloured lenses, the reason you had those "ties" was because of the vast amount of time you spent in a city or at a zone entrance just waiting for a group to call your number. The fact is you had less game to play back then, barebones systems that catered to a very hardcore niche have been replaced with alacarte on demand content. Fact is todays gamers are not content to spend 3 hours looking for a WHM to heal their group, they will just log out and go play another game.
Is there demand for that old school game, sure there probably is, but I can promise one thing, if some one made that kind of game, it would not do well it would have to settle for being a niche game with slow developement cycles and time sink grind based content to succeed.
Yes I miss the communities of old, even wow had those back in Vanilla, but as the game got bigger the masses got more faceless, the audience for mmos is huge now compared to what it was, and a whole new generation of gamers have grown up since we stood in Bastok or Freeport looking for a group.
Welcome to the future... maybe there is a place for people who want that old school experience, but right now it isnt in the current generation of big budget content led MMO's.
Which is much the same reason as to why no one has developed a proper successor to the Bioware Neverwinter Nights.....and why the nearest we will get is Cryptics vision, its why SWG died on its feet (sorry but it did) its also why Eve is doing good, although amusingly 500k for eve is considered doing exceptionally well, but apply those numbers to any of the more modern big budget theme parks and people consider it "fail".
On this site there is a demand for old school sandbox gaming, but thats because of the populace of these forums, in general the demand is not anywhere near as significant. Which in turn means its not as profitable, which makes large developers living under the capitalist mantra of "Growth or die" averse to trying it.... now you can pick apart why "growth or die" is a narrow minded and ultimately self defeating aspiration all you want, but the fact is analysts tell us it is the case and business believes them ;)
I got more than a little off topic there, but that is a wider view of why the communities of yesteryear are never coming back, however most will just scream "Generation entitled" or "CoD baby" or "wow kiddie" and then tell us how they were much nicer back in the day ;)
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LFG + easy content+ great rewards is very bad for the community. This type of situation destroys guilds and eliminates the reaon to make friends.
LFG on it's own always a bad thing.


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Do they stick to the recipe? The recipe for Muay Thai is very simple and has been perfected in Thailand over the course of centuries. The Thais are still clearly the most dominant and use the same approach to training across hundreds of camps all over the country. If it isn't broke, don't fix it. Most Thai camps, and even famous fighters, will post their regimen online. If you look them up you will notice that they are sequentially very similar. Here is link to an example from a Thai boxing camp in Bangkok: http://www.eminentgym.com/training
Do they teach the Teep? The teep is also referred to as a push kick and is the jab amongst kicks. A boxer without a jab is unthinkable, likewise a Thai boxer without a teep. Most, if not all, top Muay Thai fighters throw the teep more than any other strike. For some reason, many who teach the art outside of Thailand don't teach it, which mind blowing.
Do they teach all Ranges? A legitimate Muay Thai gym teaches all 8 points of striking – kicks, punches, knees, and elbow and across every range and how to work through these ranges; this is done by using all the tools of the gym in the correct context. In Thailand, most camps have a variety of pad holders that have strength in teaching and training different ranges. In the West, one can't have the expectation that there is going to be highly specialized trainers in specific ranges. One should expect the ranges to be trained in sequence. Close-to-far and far-to-close.
Do they teach how to spar safely? The Thais don't Spar hard! Let me say it again… The Thais do not spar hard. They spar for the balance of the craft. This means that understanding the balance is everything. That doesn't mean that sparring partners have to knock each other's heads off. This is why westerners who teach authentic Muay Thai often refer to this proper type of sparring as "Thai sparring." Western boxers are notorious for gut wrenching sparring sessions. Often times you will see Thais laughing and joking while they spar and having fun with the game. This is really where the nature of "style" comes from. The play of Muay thai is what develops a person's style. It's more like American kids playing baseball and a neighborhood game of football. The reason for this is based in the fight culture of Thailand, which means that not all fights are created equally.
Do they teach the many aspects of the clinch? Specifically ensure the camp teach the closest range, which is the clinch. While elbows and knees are thrown just outside of the clinch range, which is also just inside the clinch range, both types of devastating striking are delivered from grappling within the clinch.
Can they explain the mechanics or the physics of the craft of Muay Thai? Often the "art," as understood by most westerners, is an interpretation of a style. Then, they base explanations on that interpretation. That isn't the craft of Muay thai, but the style. Most Muay thai movements in their physics are no different than any other athletic movements. The problem with many instructors is that that their explanations are based on a "style," not the fundamental principles of the form and physics of the strikes
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5. Twilight
Favorite Video Game:
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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3. Kingdom Hearts
3. Mario Party
Favorite Music Artist:
1. Lady Gaga
2. Taylor Swift
2. Justin Bieber
4. Black Eyed Peas
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March Madness & Spring Break are here!
Join us for open sports gaming on Tuesday March 23. Play NCAA 2010 on the Xbox and Sports Resort on the Wii. Up to four people can play each console at a time, so bring your friends!
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Teen Tech Week Runs from March 7 – March 13 this year.
This past Sunday, we held a workshop on making music videos using free software including audacity, scratch, and animoto.
Here is one of the finished videos. Thanks to Christian and Kunal for sharing their music video with us!
Join us on Saturday, March 13, for a digital photo lab. Create posters, calendars, cubes, and more from your own digital photos or images found on the web.
Teens aged 10-18 are invited to enter our 13th annual poetry contest. Submit up to 6 poems by email, snail mail or in person at the library by April 18.
Gift cards to Barnes & Noble will be awarded for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, and all winning entries will be printed in a booklet to be distributed at the library.
Please include all necessary contact information with each submission, so we know who to credit. Only residents of Illinois are eligible to enter.
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Unanswered Questions? Contact librarian Donna Block at (847) 663-6434 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Voting for our 3rd annual Teen Choice Awards will begin March 1! Starting on the first of the month, stop by the Reference or A/V desks to vote for your favorite movie, music, and more.
Get a small prize for voting, and you'll also be entered in a drawing for larger prizes at the end of the month.
Any guesses for the winners this year? Avatar? Lady Gaga?
The federal holiday we know as Presidents' Day is officially intended to celebrate George Washington's birthday on February 22.
Lincoln's birthday falls on February 12, and so a dozen states have chosen to celebrate the third Monday of each February as Presidents' Day, instead.
A few states, including Illinois, also mark Lincoln's Birthday on February 12. Unfortunately, for most people it doesn't mean a day off from school or work.


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For some reason, Best Buy does NOT sell their AM/FM HD tabletop radio - which was a really decent radio for vision-impaired persons. iBiquity should try to get that radio back on the marketplace. In addition, of the 5 HD-AM signals in my region, all are turned-off but one - the all news station - and what makes less sense is that the one all-music station (that would benefit most from a stereo HD signal) is back to a cruddy mono signal without full bandwidth audio.
HD-capable radios may be readily avaiable for the automotive market, but I'm hard-pressed to find them anywhere else. I tried looking for an HD-capable radio for the home the other day and could not find a single vendor or company selling one.
Appears to me that, unless something drastically changes soon, HD-Radio will go the way of AM Stereo.
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text: Appendix A: Draft Key Informant Interview Protocol Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Environmental Scan Report Topic Guide for Key Informant InterviewsNovember 24, 2009Testing materialsAudio recording equipment.Speaker phone.Email or fax consent form and brief survey (attachment 1) to participant before interview.Interviewer clock.Procedures for obtaining informed consentFOR TELEPHONE: Participant will be sent an informed consent form before the interview. At start of interview, interviewer will ask if participant has any questions about the consent form and if he or she agrees to be interviewed and audiotaped. A waiver of signed informed consent will be obtained from AIR's IRB.Key informant interviews(60 minutes total)Introduction(start at _____ 2 min end at _____)Welcome—Explain purpose of the interviewThank you for agreeing to do this interview. My name is [NAME], and I'll be talking with you today.As you know, this project is being funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which is 1 of 12 agencies within the U.S Department of Health and Human Services. The Agency's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.The purpose of this interview today is to learn more about your experiences with and recommendations related to patient and family engagement in patient safety and quality.The interview will last about 1 hour.Did you read the consent form that was sent to you? Do you have any questions?Ground rulesEverything you tell us will be confidential. To protect your privacy, we won't connect your name with anything that you say.At any time during our conversation, please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or if you would rather not answer any specific question. You can also stop the interview at any time for any reason.Please remember that we want to know what you think and feel and that there are no right or wrong answers.Is it OK if I audiotape this interview today?[Turn on recording equipment.]Background(start at _____ 3 min end at _____)I'd like to begin by asking you some questions about your current job.What is your position at [organization]? What are your major responsibilities in your current position?How long have you been with [organization]?Can you tell me a bit about your work and experience as it relates to patient and family engagement? (Probe particularly for aspects of current job that relate to patient and family engagement.)[FOR PATIENTS] How did you come to be involved in patient safety and quality issues?Conceptualization of Patient and Family Engagement(start at _____ 15 min end at _____)A key goal of our project is to help promote patient and family engagement in patient safety and quality in a hospital setting.I'd like to get your opinions about the concept of "patient and family engagement." What do you think is meant by patient and family engagement? How would you describe it in your own words? What are the most critical components of patient and family engagement? How, if at all, does patient and family engagement relate to patient- and family-centered care? Is it the same? Different?What about shared decision-making? How does that relate to patient and family engagement?In your opinion, what is the ultimate goal of patient and family engagement? From your perspective, what are the expected or hoped for outcomes of patient and family engagement?How would you describe the state of patient and family engagement in hospitals? Where is it now and where does it need to go? What do we need to do to make this happen?How do you think patients and families think about patient safety? What about quality? What does it mean for them? Do you think patients and families view themselves as having a role in patient safety and quality?How can patients and families contribute to patient safety and quality at an individual level (i.e., related to their own health care experience) What can patients do to contribute to improved safety and quality in a hospital?What can family members do? (Probe for specific behaviors and actions)What facilitates or challenges those behaviors?How can patients and families contribute to patient safety and quality at a larger hospital policy level? What can patients and family members do? (Probe for specific behaviors and actions)What facilitates or challenges those behaviors?How can health care professionals contribute to patient and family engagement? Which health care professionals have the most to contribute?Which health care professionals currently contribute the most? Is this the way it should be?What behaviors do health care professionals need to do to support patient and family engagement in safety and quality?What facilitates or challenges those behaviors?What elements of organizational culture facilitate or challenge patient and family engagement in safety and quality? Hospital leadership? Policies or procedures? Team work?How would you define organizational culture?Experience Engaging Patients and Families(start at _____ 10 min end at _____)Now, let's talk about your organization.What is your organization's experience with engaging patients and families in safety and quality? (Get details—with whom, what they know, what have they tried, how they assessed, etc.) What staff, or who, from your organization have been involved in this effort?What prompted your organization to get involved in this issue?What was the goal of your effort? What did you hope to accomplish?What resources does your organization have that are available for this effort (e.g., financial, staff expertise, etc.)?How did you assess or evaluate these efforts?Specifically, what activities have you undertaken, and what did you expect patients and families to do? Which health care professionals were involved? What did you expect them to do?What have your experiences been? What did you do? Tell me about the planning of this effort.What tools or resources did you use? How effective were they?Did you use tools or resources from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality? If so, what did you think of them?Where did you go to look for information?How did you engage patients, families, health care professionals?How did you disseminate information to patients and families? Health care professionals? What types of messages have you created and/or delivered?What medium(s) or mode of delivering information did you use? (e.g., flyers, posters, workshops, trainings, handouts, brochures, videos, and so forth)What was the frequency of communication?At what point in the hospital stay?What was the reaction to your efforts? Did this differ for different types of patients, family members, or providers?If so, what are the different types, and how do their information needs differ?Was there anything you did that you thought worked well? What, if anything, would you do differently next time? Among the topics that you have addressed or considered addressing, what aspects of patient and family engagement seem to resonate most with patients and families?What aspects resonate least?What about with health care professionals?Can you please share any materials that you used?Best Practices and Implementation(start at _____ 10 min end at _____)Now, let's talk about best practices in engaging patients and families in patient safety and quality.What are the best ways to engage patients and families in patient safety and quality? Who is the best person/organization to deliver the information?At what point in the hospital stay?How should it be delivered?How feasible is this?When is the best time to begin to engage patients and families?What are the best ways to educate and change the behaviors of health care professionals? How feasible is this? Which attitudes facilitate involvement in patient and family engagement?Which attitudes hinder patient and family engagement?What are the best ways to build on positive attitude? Address or neutralize negative ones?What are the best ways to bring patients, families, and health care professionals together around a common goal?To your knowledge, what organizations have engaged patients and families in patient safety and quality? Have any been successful in engaging patients and families? What particular strategies have they used (or what factors were present) that were successful?What strategies were not so successful?Can you recommend any particular print documents or Web resources that these organizations have produced that we should review?What do you consider to be the best practices in patient and family engagement in safety and quality in a hospital setting? What facilitates those best practices?What are some challenges to those best practices?Recommendations for the Guide(start at _____ 15 min end at _____)As you know, we are developing a Guide to help hospitals engage patients and families in patient safety and quality. We'd like to get your input on the content and format of the Guide. The Guide will contain tools, materials, and/or training for patients, families, hospital clinicians and staff, hospital leaders, and those who will implement the materials in the Guide.What do you think are the priority topics and content areas for the Guide? With what topics do consumers and health care professionals need the most assistance?Where can the Guide affect the most change?What opportunities for engagement have not traditionally been used?Are there target audiences that have been ignored?Which types of hospitals would be most important to reach? Settings (urban versus rural)SizeReadiness to change (those whom are interested but haven't done this before or those whom are already doing it)What is needed to get different participants to "buy in" to the Guide? Hospital leadership? Health care professionals? Patients? Families? Is there anything that can be done during the development process?What information or guidance should be included in the Guide?What points of communication in a hospital setting are most amenable to intervention, especially in medical–surgery units? (e.g., bedside rounds, change of shift, rapid response)For the next few questions, we are interested in learning about the best ways to ensure that the Guide gets used.How would you foresee using the Guide? What format would be most useful? [If needed, for example, web-based, video, written materials, Power Point presentation.]What are the best ways to disseminate the Guide?What assistance would be needed to implement the tools and resources? What are the best ways to sustain those efforts?Closing(start at _____ 5 min end at _____)What is the most important message that you want us to take away from this interview?Is there anything else that you would like to add about any of the topics that we've discussed or other areas that we didn't discuss but you think are important?If you know of any research, tools, or resources that may be useful to include or adapt for the Guide, please send them to me.Thank you for your time and participation in this interview. The information that you provided to us will be very helpful in this project.Return to ContentsProceed to Next Section Page last reviewed October 2014 Internet Citation: Appendix A: Draft Key Informant Interview Protocol: Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Environmental Scan Report. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptfamilyscan/ptfamilyapa.html


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Feb 21, 2013
When you harm others, you harm yourself
The statement in the title of this post is a common belief in spiritual and religious circles, but it appears there's some hard evidence that when you harm others, you harm yourself as well.
According to a press release from the Association for Psychological Science, researchers looked into why it is that some soldiers (31.6%) who have traumatic combat exposure develop PTSD.
It seems that three factors are important: age, a history of childhood physical abuse, and harming civilians or POWs.
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…childhood experiences of physical abuse or a pre-Vietnam psychiatric disorder other than PTSD were strong contributors to PTSD onset. Age also seemed to play an important role: Men who
Jan 04, 2013
Help, I can't stop thinking!
Many of us feel that our thoughts are out of our control. We think about work long after we have left, we worry about the future and keep going over things that have gone wrong in the past. Meanwhile, life seems to be slipping by.
Modern psychology also recognises that compulsive thinking can lead us into stress, anxiety and depression. Worrying about our problems seems important, but it leaves us feeling worse and believing we have less power to change things.
Mindfulness helps by giving us the mental space to stand back, recognise what's happening and explore alternatives. Here are some helpful approaches associated with mindfulness and meditation.
1. Learning … Read more »
Wildmind Meditation News
Dec 11, 2012
British Army to send 4,000 Buddhist troops to India for meditation to combat post-traumatic stress
Giridhar Jha, Daily Mail, India: The toll of war, over a period of time, can get the better of even the most seasoned army men.
It's a fact well-established by the series of random shootings by veterans, especially in the United States and United Kingdom, who find themselves unable to forget the horrors of the battlefield, long after they return to civilian life.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is no longer a fancy psychological term only found in bulky books and journals on the subject. It's a reality countries involved in wars are grappling with on a day-to-day basis, and which has forced them …
Wildmind Meditation News
Dec 10, 2012
Marines expanding use of meditation training
Patrick Hruby, Washington Times: While preparing for overseas deployment with the U.S. Marines late last year, Staff Sgt. Nathan Hampton participated in a series of training exercises held at Camp Pendleton, Calif., designed to make him a more effective serviceman.
There were weapons qualifications. Grueling physical workouts. High-stress squad counterinsurgency drills, held in an elaborate ersatz village designed to mirror the sights, sounds and smells of a remote mountain settlement in Afghanistan.
There also were weekly meditation classes — including one in which Sgt. Hampton and his squad mates were asked to sit motionless in a chair and focus on the point of …
Wildmind Meditation News
Nov 24, 2012
Through meditation, veterans relearn compassion
Amy Standen, NPR: The epidemic of post-traumatic stress disorder has pushed the US Department of Veterans Affairs to explore new and sometimes unorthodox treatments. In one VA facility in Menlo Park, Calif., veterans of current and past wars gather to meditate and break down the shields that combat forced them to hold.
Marine Esteban Brojas is rocking back and forth in his chair in a rehabilitation center for veterans in Menlo Park, Calif. He rubs his hands together so quickly you can hear them.
"You know, you're going into a building, and you know there's a grenade being popped in there," he says …
Wildmind Meditation News
Aug 16, 2012
Yoga, deep breathing used to address soldiers' post-traumatic stress
Meg Jones, Journal Sentinel: Rich Low dreamed of Iraq long after he returned home from the war.
The memories haunted him when he was awake, too. About six months after his deployment, he was driving at night when a sudden burst of lightning snapped him back to Baghdad and the bomb that exploded near him during a thunderstorm.
Low's pulse raced as adrenaline surged through his body even though he was driving on a road far from any war zone.
He didn't know post-traumatic stress was affecting him. Not until he took part in a University of Wisconsin-Madison study that taught Iraq and …
Wildmind Meditation News
Aug 16, 2012
Spiritual help for violence victims
Sanjeev K Ahuja,, Hindustan Times: The terror-struck managers, supervisors and engineers at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant — who witnessed violence at the factory premises on July 18 — have been attending meditation and spiritual classes at the Brahma Kumari Om Shanti Retreat Centre (ORC) since July 30. ORC members have also delivered discourses for the workers, who were arrested on the first day of the attack, in Gurgaon jail.
"The first batch of 35-40 managers attended a two-day workshop on July 30-31. ORC director BK Ashsa Didi also addressed the staff.
Besides meditation, the workshop also stresses upon how workers should overcome fear and improve inter-personal relations," said BK Sanjay … Read more »
Wildmind Meditation News
May 07, 2012
VA testing whether meditation can help treat PTSD
Steve Vogel: Seeking new ways to treat post-traumatic stress, the Department of Veterans Affairs is studying the use of transcendental meditation to help returning veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Veterans Affairs' $5.9 billion system for mental-health care is under sharp criticism, particularly after the release of an inspector general's report last month that found that the department has greatly overstated how quickly it treats veterans seeking mental-health care.
VA has a "huge investment" in mental-health care but is seeking alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment, said W. Scott Gould, deputy secretary of veterans affairs.
"The reality is, not all individuals we see are treatable by …
Wildmind Meditation News
Mar 20, 2012
For veterans, yoga can offer peace
Audra D.S. Burch: Yoga and meditation may be therapeutic for returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering with PTSD or the stress of returning to civilian life.
One week into his second tour of duty, U.S. Marines Sgt. Hugo Patrocinio was wounded by a suicide bomber who drove a dump truck stocked with 1,000 pounds of explosives into a house in al-Anbar, on the outskirts of Fallujah. He had been attacked before, hurt before, but this time Patrocinio was just 20 feet from the explosion.
He would eventually recover from the wounds — the shrapnel in his foot and leg the severe concussion — but the psychological …
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Wildmind Meditation News
Mar 12, 2012
Transcendental meditation studied for military use
Steve Zind, Vermont Public Radio: The military devotes a lot of money and resources to training for combat and to treating post-combat stress. Now there's research underway at Norwich University in Northfield that uses a tool more associated with peace than warfare to prepare military men and women.
The study is looking at whether Transcendental Meditation will not only make better soldiers, but inoculate them from the psychological trauma of combat.
VPR's Steve Zind has this story on a group of cadets that some are calling 'Om Platoon'.


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Dad Shared Mom With Men... He Just Didn't Know It
Written by Michael Wolf / Mar 4, 2010
A TrueLife Confession by email@example.com
{M/F, Interracial/Racist?, cheating}
I use the 'N' word alot and this will offend some readers I know. I don't really wish to offend anyone. I find the word 'NIGGER' to be an exciting word. It is controversial to be sure... but to me, it excites me to see it in print. I use it intentionally, and I will take the shit if any comes my way for using it. I do have history... reasons for using the word... reasons for being so excited by the word. I will explain it if anyone asks... or just enjoy the little story here if you wish. This is a true story... my best recollected accounts of a situation I grew up involved in with my mother. I don't really wish to totally humiliate her by exposing her in a way that can be recognized too easily by people that might know us in real life. Please understand if I am not forthcoming with more names... places... times... etc... but she was a little fuckslut that cheated a hell of a lot on my dad. I don't mind humiliating her a bit by sharing her tale as I know it... so without further warning, on to the story...
I became an instant fan of the entire cheating wife/slut wife thing when I discovered for the first time that my mom was cheating on my dad throughout their marriage I guess. I was lucky enough to play hooky from school the right day... and I spent the day at home to watch some afternoon baseball on the TV. Mom was working at a drug store as a cashier at the time, and would come home on a lunch break... so I knew I would have to 'keep quiet and sneak that I had cut class' while she was home... and this was when the phone rang for her and I got to listen to her end of the conversation.
What got me interested in the phone call right away... is that Mom was talking dirty. It was so wild to me. If anyone has asked me about my mom, I would almost never have guessed she would ever do dirty talk even with my dad. She just really seemed so squeeky clean to me... even though she was really built fantastic for wetdream whanking fantasies.
I will quickly mention that Mom is white as is the rest of my family... she is five foot two inches and tips the scales at around one hundred pounds most days. She has always kept her weight pretty consistient. The tits aren't very big as you can imagine from her size... but I can vouch with personal knowledge that they respond well during sex and get rock hard stiff nips. The Nipples are very pinkish... lovely. Mom trims the bush I guess... leaving a patch above the cunt lips. I love to see her naked. I loved to see her fucked too, so back to the action of this little telltale.
Like I said, it all started the first time I skipped school to watch some baseball bascially... and Mom came home on her lunchbreak and got into a dirty talking phone call. I guess I probably thought it was with Dad as I stood at the bottom of the stairs and listened. Mom was saying stuff like she was masturbating. It was pretty hot... I wish i could remember everything she was saying but this is a few years ago now. At some point, she was starting to talk about when the guy was going to be in town... and whether or not she was off work that day.
Suddenly I realized this guy Mom was dirty talking on the phone wasn't my Dad... and she was doing more then just voice sex with the fucker too... it was a real meet that was being planned... real life sex going on!
So I had to quickly go pick up the extension. The guy seemed a bit of a loser to me to be honest... and I am sad to say I can't remember exactly what was being said. There was a lot of calling my mother a little slut... little tramp... little whore... etc...etc... and some telling her what a good girl she is. There were some questions about how much she wanted his cock... some begging he wanted her to do. Mom was saying how much she wanted that cock. It was pretty damn nice... and Mom promised to be off the following Monday to get that cock. I nearly had a heart attack as I heard the date get made.
The best thing was, that Mom asked if he was going to have a hotel room... and he said he wanted her in our home instead. I could watch it if she agreed... so I prayed for him to get his way. Mom's very first answer was that she was too worried to take the action here at home... but the guy said a motel would cost too much. He told Mom doing it at home here would be a lot more thrilling... and then she said it would be okay. I just mouthed the words 'thank you God, thank you God, thank you God!'
So I guess I don't need to tell anyone that I had another unexcused absense from school the next Monday. Mom actually acted like she was going to work as normal while Dad left first for his job... my younger brother shane left next for school, and then I faked it myself that I too was leaving the house. I carefully went around back and in through a basement window I had left open... and it was ready for the party.
Mom had time to grab a shower and then not bother dressing after it was done. She was naked as she waited for the guy I would soon find out was named Tyrone. The wait was just under an hour and then his car pulled in the driveway and that was when I found out that in addition to being named Tyrone, this guy coming to fuck my mother was also a freaking dark skinner NIGGER too.
I tell you... that the very first impact of seeing such a dark skinned thug get out of the car, was pretty damn overwhelming on me. I've had time since this day to become quite a fan of little white wives taking NIGGER cock behind their husband's back... but I got the traditional redneck raising from my own father. I sort of thought of black men about the same way I thought of shit at that younger time in my life. Seeing that Mom's fuck was going to be a NIGGER almost was enough for me to freak out and blow the whole damn shabang by running up and telling her that I'd blow the whistle if she went through with her slumming.
I was thirteen though... and had seen a little porn, but never any live sex. I was horny as hell... and the entire idea of seeing my very own mother cheat just had a really super hot perverse thrill about it to me. I just couldn't forgo this opportunity to experience such a wonderfully unique share with my mother. The NIGGER didn't waste anytime waiting for whether I would or wouldn't freak. He didn't even know I was home of course... as he just went right up to the front door cocky-as-you-please and got himself greeted by my naked mother like it was the most natural thing in the world for a naked white wife to be accepting such a visit anyday she wanted.
Our home was a split level... so the first greeting was on a little entry way. I could peep up from the basement as I had left the door mostly shut to shield my presence. Mom was naked and was quickly given the tongue with the very first kiss. Mom then surrendered her own tongue to be sucked on. The kisses were wet... passionate... pure sex. The NIGGERS dark hands were around Mom onto her ass. Mom was going to tiptoes... lifting a leg... kissing with passion. She was clearly all-systems-go for the fucking and was having no second thoughts at all.
I hoped that Mom would drop to her knees and administer a professional style blowjob to that big NIGGER cock so I could get a real good show of it... but unfortunately that wasn't my luck for the day.
After the kisses... it was time for a trip to the bedroom... and then the door got shut on me. For the first time I knew Mom was cheating... all I could do is listen to the sounds of it through a closed door. The bed squeeked... the headboard hit the walls... it was a loud fuck. I heard that there was some slapping going on... which was a real education to me. I never realized some girls liked to be smacked around until this time. I heard Mom call the NIGGER 'Master.' I realize there was a BDSM element going on. I didn't know exactly what BDSM was at the time... but it was exciting as all hell to imagine just what was involved with the slapping and the 'Master' talk. I hadn't heard it on the phone... so it was really captivating all my wonder as Mom took her fucking.
After what I think was two turns... I heard that they were going to take a break. I headed downstairs and heard them hit the shower. They were talking sweet now... and Mom seemed really happy. Mom continued to be naked but the guy dressed... and Mom made him a lunch. As she served it, she finally performed a blowjob too... at the kitchen table. I heard the guy order her to 'swallow it cunt' when he had his third cum. I wondered at that moment if the first two loads had gone into the pussy. The idea of Mom being pregnant with a little NIGLET was so freaky to imagine.
Things were getting to the end of the first date though... the guy was going to be leaving after breakfest. I decided I would head out myself to avoid Mom accidently discovering me at home. I waited to see the goodbye kiss at the door... hot... Mom still naked... then Tyrone was gone... and I was gone...
I had so many thoughts in my head... I went to a little clubhouse us kids had and whacked off 3-4 times through the afternoon before I could get home. I tried my best to get as close to Mom as I could for the rest of the day. I wanted to know if she had NIGGER SEED dripping out of her cheating slut married white pussy. I wanted to smell the stink of sex on her. I had lost A LOT OF RESPECT for my mother for sure. I was picturing her naked every time I looked at her... wishing I could have seen the slut spreading her legs for that BIG BLACK COCK.
Unfortunately, as I snooped... I found two used condoms in the trash. I was very disappointed to realize that Mom hadn't been impregnanted. I did take the seed from the condoms... which is kind of gross to remember now... but I was thirteen.
I desperately did want Mom to get another visit from Tyrone. I skipped a lot of school trying to catch her in the act for round two. The school finally called my parents and I had to go in for some counsling. They all thought some shit was going on at home to make me miss so much class. I actually almost thought I should tell them my slut mother was fucking a NIGGER and I just wanted to see the shit happen. Of course, I bit my tongue though.
I found condoms in the garbage about a month later. There was two of them again. I was really happy that Mom had gotten more action. I was just understandably very disappointed I wasn't home to see it. I had the thought I should blackmail Mom... tell her that I would tell Dad on her unless she let me know when she would be taking that NIGGER COCK and unless she was going to be giving me a front row seat.
I did love her my mother though... as a normal boy loves a normal mother. When she wasn't fucking a NIGGER, she was a very good mom. I didn't quite have the nerve to pull the blackmail trick on her.
Luckily, I didn't need to. I found condoms again the second day in a row... and then I thought maybe the NIGGER was in town for a third day possibly too? It was risky to skip another day of school... but it was a day that my mother was working the afternoon shift. If I was real lucky, I could get into the closet in the bedroom and watch a fuck with my own eyes. Even if I got caught... what the hell could Mom do about it anyhow, I figured? She would be in more shit then me if they found me in the closet.
It all worked out great. I had a camera I borrowed from my friend. I got into the closet when Mom did her shower. It was starting like her first time with Tyrone... her naked and waiting. I didn't see the hello kiss at the front door of course... but soon Mom was bringing that NIGGER into bed and I was getting to see what I really wanted to anyhow.
It started with a good hot blowjob. The door was pushed shut and then the NIGGER grabbed Mom by the hair and told her 'on your knees bitch.' Mom obeyed... and that big cock came out. I would guess Tyrone was about nine inches hard. He was definitely way bigger then my dad anyhow. I wonder if my dad is even my dad though... now that I know Mom was a slut.
Mom could certainly suck a good cock... even a nine incher. There was almost no hint of a gag... and she got down to the balls. She was willing to do the ass. She licked... and sucked... and drooled spit. Her hair was pulled... and speaking of spit, that NIGGER dropped a goober right between Mom's eyes as she worked it.
I am sure I would have blown my load if I was the one with my cock in my mother's mouth... but that NIGGER was able to hold out for a fuck. Sadly the condom went on before that BLACK FUCKER got into my mother's baby hole again. I am also sad to say that the condom didn't have a timely malfunction moment either. It was still damn good sex to watch though. Tyrone was a forceful fuck. I haven't even seen porn that was any more studly then the job he did on my mother with his nine inches of taboo dick.
Mom took it missionary... legs spread wide up around that NIGGER'S Ass. Mom got on top and bounced like a total little fuckslut should. Mom got it doggy style but not in the ass... just pussy. Finally there was some more missionary with Mom really bent in half... legs up around the head... and that accounted for cum number one.
The NIGGER ate Mom out a bit as he recovered... not my favorite part of the show...
Then the NIGGER spanked my mother which was an amazing sight to see... Mom was on the knees and she really got worked. Her ass was reddened... and she teared up. It was so fucking hot to see that NIGGER actually abuse my mother in our own home. I loved it... and I felt Mom did deserve it too.
The Nigger next told Mom he needed to piss... and to get to the toilet. So that was like the absolute topper to it. I guess he went and pissed on Mom in the bathroom. Probably the NIGGER pissed right into my mother's mouth even. I couldn't hear it from the bedroom... and I sure as hell didn't want to get caught at this point with my video.
So... I guess the second fuck took place in the shower too. Mom came back anyhow for the condoms after serving as the NIGGERS piss toilet I guess. It was just so fucking hot, but then the show for me was basically over. I knew I better not take chances on a them returning to the bedroom... just had to get out safely while they were busy in the shower. They didn't have the door shut and I had to sneak past to get outside.
It was the only time I was ever lucky enough to see Mom fuck. I had a chance to find a diary of hers a couple years later. In it was a well documented list of her lovers. There was quite a few little entries about how she felt about things... some regrets she had... the pleasure she got from her sinful betrayal of my dad.
I only found condoms in the garbage a couple more times... I guess Tyrone and her had broken up soon after I saw that NIGGER do Mom. She had a few more BLACK LOVERS over the next couple years according to her diary, but she also had a white guy and an asian even I guess... so she wasn't one hundred percent into just NIGGER COCK.
There was a broken condom mentioned in the diary but it was with the white guy, and I guess it didn't result in a pregnancy or maybe she aborted or miscarried. There was no little baby anyhow.
To this day, I still hope someone knocks my mother up... but shes older now. I think she still cheats, but I've had to move out of the house... to another province... I can't check up on the slut as I used to.
I hope that you all got a bit of a thrill out of my share here. I have meant to do it for awhile. I am a huge fan of slutwife/cheating wife sex. I am married now myself. My wife and I are professional phone sex operators. As a cheap plug, I am going to share my yahoo name with everyone... and if you want to say hello, I am on duty signed in 12 or more hours each day. I might chat for free if I enjoy the chat... I might even do phone for free if I enjoy the person I am talking too... but my wife will only join the call if we are being paid. For her it's a job we do to pay the rent and buy groceries. My yahoo is firstname.lastname@example.com
I really do love to chat... so this is the end of the story for now unless you do decide to say hi and I'm back seeing just who all is online. Be well.
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I love sweet new hardware.
I love it even better when it's cheap! Typically I try to buy all my gear used, but I've been struggling to find just what I wanted on the used market. What I was looking for was a couple of the lightweight single-braced Yamaha straight cymbal stands. Yamaha discontinued them a couple years ago and the used market was the only place. Well, I thought I had scored when I found a pair of single-braced straight Yamaha stands in the used section of the Guitar Center Dallas, TX store. They arrived last week and I was most disappointed to find that they were very heavy, like heavier than even my 700-series boom stands. So, back to the store they went along with a boom arm that I had purchased thinking it was a short one based on the pic and it was simply the top half of a boom stand that someone had removed from the base, and beyond that it was pretty beat up. All of that gave me just over $100 in store credit and as much as it pained me to do so, I ordered two brand new Yamaha CS650A straight lightweight, single-braced cymbal stands...apparently Yamaha re-released these and let me tell you, they are as sweet as can be for gigging hardware. Everything you need, nothing you don't and they collapse nice and short. http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music...0a/?mode=model
The redeeming icing on the cake for GC was that I found a brand new Pearl S-830 snare drum stand on their used site for $4.99. Not sure what they were thinking on that one, but yay for me! This is a really nice snare stand and despite it being double braced, it's still pretty lightweight.
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Good deal. I like those stands.I got a yamaha single braced stand with my kit. the others are Dbl. braced. It has just as wide of stance as the Dbl. I've been wondering if I should try to find someone, who will trade me singles for Dbl. Tripods only. If yours is like mine it's a great stand. I have seen some with a small stance though, I wouldn't want those.
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Love Yamaha hardware. It's all I use.
I've been thinking about picking up a couple of the CS650A's so it's nice to finally hear some real life feedback on them. Thanks for the timely posting.
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For anyone curious, I had them shipped to my work and so I had a chance to weigh them on our postage scale. The CS650A weighs 5.45lb. That's a full 1lb lighter than the 700-series boom stands, which are still pretty light compared to the DW5000's I was using before.
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I've got 700 series boom stands, but I've been thinking about getting a couple of the 600 series straight stands. I usually use them as straight stands anyways.
Always a 'feel-good' time when you run across a great deal.
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relate to potential for domestic violence: chaplain services, alcohol counseling and programs, programs on financial management for junior members, and so this, the domestic violence, is an issue that we take very seriously. Having said that, I'll take your questions.
Q: Can you give us an indication as to how many people could be affected by this interim policy?
A: I think the interim policy and the law apply to qualifying misdemeanor domestic-violence convictions. We suspect that that number -- we don't know what the number is. We anticipate that we will find that it is very, very low. We are setting up, as of 1 November, a working group -- I've said this is an interim policy. The working group will look at the issues that we face that may come up in personnel practices and assignment practices and so on and report back on the first of January, at which time we will consider what changes we may need to make to the policy.
Q: When you say that the policy is effective immediately, you give the impression that immediately people will have guns taken away from them who have been convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence, but that's really not what's happening, is it? Effective immediately, you are going to do what?
A: Effective immediately and direct, the interim policy is conveyed to the services. The interim policy says the services need to take the measures necessary to ensure that the service members do not have a qualifying misdemeanor conviction. And we have included with our letter the implementing directive-type memorandum, a form for the services to use for each member that lays out to the member what the law is, lays out what a qualifying misdemeanor conviction is, and asks them to respond as to whether they do not, they do, or they don't know if they have such a conviction, and then lays out steps to go on from there in the case where a member says, yes, I do, or I don't know if I do.
Q: How long do you anticipate before you will actually know? Is the survey going out today?
A: The form is going out today. The policy is going out today. It will be applied right away by the services as it goes out through their command channels. They know it's coming and have their own measures in place. It won't happen immediately. It won't be in place tomorrow, obviously, but I think it's fair to say in general that the military services know how to do this type of thing, and will do an efficient job of it.
Q: Why do you anticipate that the number will be low? When you check with people who have worked in domestic violence, they say that the overwhelming majority of offenders are young males, which is exactly what the overwhelming majority of the military is. There are literally tens of thousands of cases of spousal abuse in the military.
A: I think that -- and one of the things, as I said, that the Department is concerned with, domestic violence, and we do see domestic violence; but in talking with our Family Advocacy Program folks, here is what they tell me. They say what we see is not severe, it's not chronic, it doesn't involve battering -- not to say that never happens, but that's what they see -- and it's of the push-and-shove type of domestic violence.
Q: Well, push and shove is sufficient, isn't it?
A: Probably push and shove would not be sufficient in most cases to get a civil misdemeanor conviction with counsel and before a jury, which are the main elements under the law for a qualifying misdemeanor conviction.
Q: So when you say "very low," I mean, are you talking a handful, or are you talking -- I mean, we're talking a population of 1.4 million here, so are you talking about a few dozen? Are you talking about several hundred? What are you talking about?
A: I would talk in terms of a very low percentage of the force. I don't know whether it will be a dozen or a hundred. We have no way of knowing. We would expect that it would be low. We would expect that it would be low, one, because when people enter the force, most are young and unmarried and are unlikely to bring such a conviction into the service with them. Our recruiters have told us this is not something that they typically see, but, again, we haven't collected evidence on that; and under the policy we will not waive any such conviction from today forward.
Q: What will actually happen to a soldier once it's found that he or she has a conviction?
A: I'm sorry?
Q: What are the steps involved? What happens once you find that a soldier has a conviction? What happens? They lose their --
A: Once we have a soldier, sailor, Marine, airman with a conviction, we have for those before the 30th of September 1996, if that conviction was before that date, we say to the services, you must ensure that that member does not have access to a weapon that has been issued and that they are advised to turn in any weapon that they personally own, because that is what they must do in order to comply with the law.
Q: And what if the soldier is in a key position of some sort?
A: If he is in a key position, the policy would say for those before 30 September 96, that no adverse action would be taken at that time against a member. If he can't be utilized in that position, then he would be put in a position that he or she could be utilized. Our policy after 30 September 96 would be a more recent qualifying conviction would allow the services some flexibility with respect to adverse action if it were warranted on other grounds other than this particular law. And that's one of the things the working group will be looking at.
Q: So if tomorrow a soldier in Bosnia said to his commanding officer that I was convicted of domestic violence, what would happen to that soldier?
A: If tomorrow he is so certified, he would be no longer issued a weapon, and he would be advised to turn any weapon that he had, which is his or her responsibility, and the commanding officer would take the appropriate action with respect to that individual. Now, again, we don't anticipate that that's going to be many people, whether it's in Bosnia or in California.
Q: Are there any combat exemptions? For instance, a fighter pilot who does not normally carry a sidearm, but when he goes over enemy territory does in the event that he is shot down? What would happen to that fighter pilot?
A: In terms of our policy does not apply to crew-served weapons. It doesn't apply to tanks, and it doesn't apply to fighter aircraft.
Q: No, but what about the sidearm the pilot carries?
A: If the pilot was in a place where he was issued a sidearm, as a routine part of his mission, that sidearm would be withdrawn, the commander would have to make a judgment as to the utilization of that pilot. Once again, I would be surprised if that were a case that we would see or certainly not see very often.
Q: This law was passed a year ago. What took so long? What held up the implementation, the formulation and implementation of this law?
A: We wanted to make sure that we -- first, it applies to almost everyone who wears a uniform. Secondly, we wanted to make sure that, after consulting with Treasury that has responsibility for the implementation of the Act and the Department of Justice, that we could implement it fully and fairly and reasonably within the context of the military services and consistently across the services.
Q: If when the questionnaire arrives in a soldier's mail box, that soldier says either falsely says, I have never been convicted, or says, I refuse to answer this because it's an invasion of my privacy, what happens in those instances?
A: In those cases, they will be dealt with on an individual case if the individual either says I don't know or does not so certify. The responsibility is with the service member.
Q: What incentive do the service members have to turn themselves in? I mean, if --
A: There is a responsibility under the law on the individual to not possess a firearm, so the individual has the potential, if they don't follow the law themselves, if they don't tell us, if they don't turn in their weapons, then they are facing, as I understand it, a felony conviction under the law. So what we will do is notify the individual, and that's part of what's on the form, is explaining what's the law and how it applies to the individual as well.
Q: Can I back you up on that, just to make sure I understand you? If a service member refuses to fill out this form because it's voluntary, but then you subsequently find out somehow that he had been convicted of domestic violence, he would be committing a crime by continuing to have carried that gun, not for having withheld the fact by not filling out the form.
A: I wouldn't expect many service members to refuse to fill out the form. Service members, in my experience, do fill out the forms that they are asked to fill out.
Q: Do you have any means on checking on that, checking?
A: In terms of checking, if someone says, "I don't know," the way to do that, I think, in most cases -- and let me say again that's one of the reasons this is an interim policy; so should any of these things, even though we don't anticipate, come up, then we can have a reasonable way for the services to deal with those issues.
Q: Why are you not granting discharge authority for people convicted before September 30th? Are you seeking exemptions, pending further guidance on discharge?
A: I think that service members are held to a high standard, and the individual who gets into trouble on any line with civilian law or with military law is unlikely to be able to make it through the system and continue to serve to be reenlisted, and so on. So that is basically a look-back provision saying, until the first of January, when we've got your feedback on what's happening, that we will not take adverse action against a service member.
Q: Except to reassign them to a job.
A: Except to reassign them or to utilize them temporarily in a different place and to do what we need to do to comply with the law.
Q: What about an infantryman who uses a weapon basically every day? They would be reassigned to administrative duties or something else?
A: In the same way that they would be treated if they broke their leg.
Q: And you say the policy is effective immediately, and I guess there is some ambiguity in that. If I am a soldier, I know I've been convicted of spousal abuse in some court, and I am carrying a weapon tomorrow or the next day, am I in violation of the law? Have I already committed a felony?
A: I think it's likely. I wouldn't answer that one definitively. That's one of the things I would turn back to counsel, but I think that the member must have received that notice first, would be my guess, and that would simply be a guess.
Q: There is a reference in something in here in the blue-top with a memo about seeking regulatory or legislative changes or consider the need for legislative and regulatory changes. The implication is, or at least to me, is that the reason this is an interim policy is you're going to try and get out from under it.
A: I wouldn't read that implication into the law. We have not tried to get out from under it; we have tried to implement it fully and fairly, but I think it's prudent to, as we implement it, to see what happens and leave options open; but that's not the intent.
Q: When the law, the amendment was first coming around, didn't you try and get the military exempted from it?
A: When the law came around, it did not exempt the military; and we, to my knowledge, made no efforts to try to do that.
Q: In this same paragraph it talks about the line between September 30th, before and after, it says after September 30th. Convictions after that date, you could be discharged or separated if a basis for discharge or separation exists. Can you give us some examples of what are you talking about there, "the basis exists"?
A: If there were another basis perhaps in conjunction with the Lautenberg, that we would indicate to the service, if the individual had done something we were aware of, that act brought the viability of that individual for continued military service into question, we would not preclude the services from taking the type of action that they would take, they would have taken a year ago or two years ago to separate an individual who did commit that act.
Q: When will you know definitively, months or a year, how large a body of people that you're dealing with? When will your questionnaires be back to a sufficient point?
A: We have asked the services' inspector general to report back to us at the first of the year, and we expect that they will be able to do that. So, in terms of the numbers, I guess we will be able to tell you that after the new year.
Q: Are these convictions only in civilian courts, or are there court-martials for this or Article 15's?
A: Here is my understanding. I've used the word "qualifying misdemeanor," and I think that there is some indication of that in the packet that you have explaining what that is. In the military system, among the factors that make it a qualifying is that you have counsel and that you have an opportunity for a jury trial. That is not something that happens in Article 15's, nonjudicial punishment. It is not something that happens in summary court-martials; and, therefore, it is most likely if the individual is still serving, that we will find that it was a civilian court conviction.
Q: What if an individual many years ago, and this happened many years ago, because you didn't have domestic violence cases, per se, but there was a criminal record of an assault case? Does that apply in this case?
A: I think you would have to -- the law is fairly clear on what a qualifying misdemeanor conviction is for domestic violence. There may be cases where there is a gray area. Again, as we implement the policy, we will see if such cases are there.
Q: Do the chairman have to take this questionnaire also?
A: It applies to all military personnel.
Q: You said earlier that under this policy, you will no longer waive conviction from today forward. Do you have, I guess, for entry members?
A: For an entry member, that's right.
Q: Do you have any sense of how many people have been waived for this in the past, a percentage, some idea?
A: That is not data that we keep with respect to waivers for this particular matter. In talking with the recruiters and the recruiting officers, we believe that to be a small number.
Q: Do you know what the rate of domestic violence convictions is in the general population, and do you believe the military would reflect the general population?
A: I think two things. We don't know what that rate is. There is not a good number, to our understanding, of these specific types of convictions nationwide. The military is clearly a reflection of the society at large. We have our problems, as does the society at large. In general, we hold military members to a high standard. It is a high standard to get in. It's a high standard to stay in. My sense is we would probably be better; we wouldn't be worse.
Q: Can I try and clarify once more? If you have a conviction after September 30th, you are not allowed to be issued a weapon or use a weapon, but you are not necessarily facing a forced discharge. Is that correct?
A: You could have that, that situation, that you could not -- and, again, that's one of the reasons --
Q: They could, like the other people, be reassigned to administrative duties.
A: They could be, at least during the interim policy.
Q: But it's more likely you would be discharged -- right? -- or is it completely up to -- in this year interim?
A: During the period of the interim policy, if you have an older conviction, we've asked that the services, yeah.
Q: But for the people who may have done it in the last 12 months, they may or may not be discharged.
A: Depending upon whether they have been discharged prior to the policy, basically.
MODERATOR: Thank you very much.


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June 9, 2014: Synthetic Biology Boston (SB2)
March 29 2014: CoSBi website: soft launch
February 2014
Assistant Professor Douglas Densmore and Dr. Swapnil Bhatia represented CIDAR and Lattice Automation at the NSF I-Corps program, which helps engineers bring their ideas into the marketplace by providing training and grant money.
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Choas podcast interview with Professor Jim Collins where he discusses the Focus Issue on Quantitative
Approaches to Genetic Networks
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January 2014
Prism Up Close feature on "The Silver Bullet"
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December 2013
Serious Science video lecture by Professor Jim Collins on genetic toggle switch in E. coli, bacteriophage, and engineered probiotics
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November 2013
Assistant Professor Ahmad Khalil receives an NSF Career Award
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Publication Highlights
Way JC, Collins JJ, Keasling JD, Silver PA. Integrating biological redesign: where synthetic biology came from and where it needs to go. Cell 157: 151-161 (2014). D. M. Densmore and S. Bhatia, "Bio-design automation: software + biology + robots," Trends in Biotechnology, vol. 32, iss. 3, pp. 111-113, 2014.
Albert R, Collins JJ and Glass L. Introduction to Focus Issue: Quantitative approaches to genetic networks. Chaos 23: 25001 (2013).
Ahmad S. Khalil, Caleb J. Bashor and Timothy K. Lu. Engineering Life. The Scientist, August 1, 2013.
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