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Author: Chowdhury, Uttom; Pancha, Amit
Date published: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Journal code: CPRA
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur following the experiencing or witnessing of a traumatic event. The event is usually life threatening or perceived to be likely to cause serious injury to self or others. Young people may react with a number of symptoms such as intense fear, helplessness and nightmares. Usually the change in affect and behaviour is short lived and may fade over a few days or weeks as the threat is removed. Sometimes the young person may respond positively having survived a difficult experience and learn new coping skills. However some young people continue to have acute symptoms months after the event. The continuing presence of a range of symptoms related to anxiety after a traumatic event is called post-traumatic stress disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). See Table 1 for diagnostic criteria.
Clinical features
There are three main groups of symptoms (Scheeringaetal, 2003):
* Re-experiencing of the trauma
* Avoidance of trauma reminders and emotional numbing
* Symptoms of hyperarousal.
Re-experiencing can involve:
* Post-traumatic play
* Play re-enactment
* Recurrent recollections
* Nightmares
* Flashbacks
* Distress at exposure to reminders of the traumatic event.
Avoidance and emotional numbing
Symptoms ot avoidance or numbing include:
* Constriction of play
* Relative social withdrawal
* Restricted range of affect
* Decreased interest in activities that were previously enjoyed
* Loss of acquired developmental skills
* Inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma.
Hyperarousal can involve:
* Night terrors
* Difficulty going to sleep (not related to fear of having nightmares or of the dark)
* Night waking that is not related to nightmares or night terrors
* Decreased concentration
* Hypervigilance
* Exaggerated startle response
* Angry outbursts.
Some children experience 'dissociation', which is the emotional numbing that may result from repeated trauma in order to block or dull the pain and trauma [Perry and Pollard, 1998). In the dissociative state, the child responds to internal body sensations, such as thoughts, and is less responsive to the external world. The child may present with distraction, avoidance, numbing, daydreaming or wandering off without realising it (fugue), and some may create a fantasy world.
Presentation varies with age. Children may lose interest in things they used to enjoy. They may find it hard to believe that they will live long enough to grow up. They often complain of stomach aches and headaches.
School-aged children (five to 15 years)
Can experience:
* 'Time skew' - mis-sequencing traumarelated events
* Omen formation' - belief that there were warning signs that predicted the trauma
* Post-traumatic play - a literal representation of the trauma, which involves compulsively repeating some aspect of the trauma and does not tend to relieve anxiety, for example an increase in shooting games after exposure to a school shooting
* Re-enactment of the trauma in play, drawings or verbalisations - involves behaviourally recreating aspects of the trauma (eg, carrying a weapon after exposure to violence).
Adolescenrs and teenagers
Adolescents and teenagers are more likely ?? engage in traumatic re-enactment, in which they incorporate aspects of the trauma into their daily lives. In addition, adolescents are more likely than younger children or adults to exhibit impulsive and aggressive behaviours. Unlike adults, children have a reduced ability to express verbally feelings of numbness and withdrawai so behaviour report and observation is important.
Other effects of trauma
Sexually abused children often have problems with fear, anxiety, depression, anger and hostility, aggression, sexually inappropriate and self- destructive behaviour, feelings of isolation and stigma, poor self-esteem, difficulty in trusting others and substance abuse. Children often have problems with relationships with peers and family members, with acting out and with school performance.
Psychiatric disorders
A number of common co-occurring psychiatric disorders have been found to be associated with PTSD. These conditions are as a result of the spécifie trauma and in some cases, a behavioural response to the trauma. Substance abuse and anxiety disorders such as separation anxiety, panic disorder and generalised anxiety disorder and depression have increased prevalence in children with PTSD (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1998).
It is worth noting that traumatic experience may be accompanied by bereavement and other significant losses (Tufnell and Defong, 2009). There are usually three main stages of grief in children: initial crisis response; emotional disorganisation; adjustment.
First there is an initial crisis response. This involves shock, denial and disbelief. There may be emotional numbness, and thoughts and behaviour are directed toward the lost person.
Then comes emotional disorganisation. This includes sadness, crying, anger and resentment. Sometimes there may be feelings of despair and hopelessness or guilt. These may be accompanied by poor sleep, poor appetite and self-blame.
Adjustment takes place eventually with increased participation in life and everyday activities and formation of new attachments.
The child moves from stage to siage and may sometimes temporarily go back to the previous stage. The rate of progress through the stages also varies.
The British National Survey of Menta! Health of over 10,000 children [Meltzer et al, 2000J reported that 0.4% of children aged 11- 15 years were diagnosed with PTSD, with girls showing twice the rate of boys.
Risk factors and protective factors
Risk factors include family dysfunction, peer problems, female gender, sexual victimisation past trauma exposure, greater exposure to the trauma and the presence of a preexisting psychiatric disorder such as anxiety. Protective factors include good coping skills, a good relationship with a parent, supportive family and support from others such as friends, teachers and the community.
For a detailed review, please see the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines (NICE, 2005). Treatment involves assisting children in overcoming avoidance of innocuous trauma reminders, such as people, places, situations that are inherently safe. However, it is essential to protect children from realistic on-going threats or danger wherever possible. The main aspects of management include:
* Helping the child gain a sense of control over the trauma and a feeling of safety and security. Controlling the trauma includes the ability to recall, relate, narrate, and reconsider the trauma without feeling overwhelmed and without dissociating
* De-stigmatise the child's symptoms in the eyes of the child and the parents as they are natural responses to a traumatic event.
Parents should not be critical of the child and should support them. Children should participate in normal social activities as much as possible.
Some children show a natural remission in PTSD symptoms over a period of a few months (Bryant et al, 2004). However, a significant number of children continue to exhibit symptoms sometimes for years if untreated. There is good evidence to show that trauma focussed cognitivebehavioural psychotherapy can be effective for treatment of PTSD in children and young people who have been sexually abused. The research evidence for other interventions, however, is sparse. Currently NICE recommends CBT for PTSD symptoms in children. If other therapies are used then parents and families should be informed that the evidence for efficacy is not established. Current treatment options available via the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) include:
* Play therapy
* Psychological first-aid
* Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)
* Medication
* Specialised interventions
Research studies show that CBT is the most effective approach for treating children and that it is safe. One of the best- researched types is trauma -focused CBT (TF-CBT). This usually involves thechild directly discussing the traumatic event, anxiety management techniques such as relaxation and assertiveness training, and correction of inaccurate or distorted trauma related thoughts. Children can be exposed gradually and taught relaxation so that they can learn to relax while recalling their experiences. Through this procedure, they learn that they do not have to be afraid of their memories. CBT also involves challenging children's false beliefs, such as 'the world is totally unsafe.'
CBT is often accompanied by psychoeducation and parental involvement. Psychoeducation involves educating the child about the symptoms of PTSD and their effects. It is equally important for parents and caregivers to understand the effects of PTSD, as studies show that the better parents cope with the trauma, and the more they support their children, then the better their children will function.
Play therapy
Play therapy can be used to treat young children with PTSD who are not able to deal with the trauma more directJy. The therapist uses games, drawings, and other techniques to help the children process their traumatic memories.
Psychological first-aid
Psychological first-aid has been used for school-age children and adolescents exposed to disasters and community violence, and can be used in schools and traditional settings.
Psychological first-aid involves providing co mfortandsupport.normalisingthe children's reactions, helping caregivers deal with changes in the child's emotions and behaviour, teaching calming and problem-solving skills, and referring the most symptomatic children for additional treatment. Interventions undertaken soon after the event should be low-key and care must be taken to avoid re-traumatising the child through vivid discussions or re-enactments of the events.
EM DR combines cognitive therapy with directed eye movements. While EMDR has been shown to be effective in treating both children and adults with PTSD, studies indicate that it is the cognitive intervention radier than the eye movements that accounts for the change.
Some evidence exists to show that selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRJs) may help young people with anxiety1. Some dopamineblocking agents such as the neuroleptics may help symptoms. Alpha and beta-blockers have also helped, including clonidine and propranolol.
Specialised interventions
Specialised interventions may be necessary for children exhibiting particularly problematic symptoms or behaviours, such as inappropriate sexual behaviours, extreme behavioural problems or substance abuse.
It is worth noting that help in school is important. Group-based therapy has been shown to be effective for school children following specific trauma (Stein et al, 2003).
PTSD symptoms may last from several months to many years. The best approach is trauma prevention. However, once trauma has occurred, early intervention is essential:
* Support from parents, school and peers is important
* Emphasis needs to be placed upon establishing a feeling of safety
* Psychotherapy (individual, group or family) that allows the child to speak, draw, play or write about the event is helpful
* Behaviour modification techniques and cognitive therapy may help reduce fears and worries
* Medication may also be useful to deal with agitation, anxiety or depression.
Children and young people cope with trauma in different ways. Many get brief symptoms of anxiety lasting a few days. In some cases, the anxiety symptoms include nightmares, flashbacks and inability to cope with daily activities such as school work and general social functioning. Some children will develop symptoms of PTSD including hypervigilance, experiencing flashbacks and loss of enjoyment in usual pleasure activities with numbing of affect. It is important that clinicians recognise the symptoms in order to assess whether further intervention is needed. If symptoms persist for more than a month then a referral to the GP may be required. In turn he or she may refer to the local CAMHS if specific intervention is required.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. (1998) Practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with PTSD. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 37 (suppl) 4s-26s.
American Psychiatric Association. (1994) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.) (DSM-IV). Washington DC: APA.
Bryant B, Mayou R, Wiggs L et aL (2004) Psychological consequences of road traffic accidents for children and their mothers. Psycho] Med 34(2): 335-46.
Meltzer H et al. (2000) The mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain: summary report. London: The Stationery Office.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). (2005) Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): The management of PTSD in adults and children in primary and secondary care. London: NICE.
Perry BD, Pollard R. Í1998) Homeostasis, stress, trauma and adaptation. A neurodevebpmentai view of childhood trauma. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 7(1): 33-51, viii.
Scheeringa MS, Zeanah CH, Myers L et al. (2003) New findings on alternative criteria for PTSD in preschool children. ) Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42(5): 561-70.
Stein B, laycox L, Kataoka S et al. (2003). A mental health intervention for schoolchildren exposed to violence. IMlA 290: 603-611.
Tufnell G, Dejong M. (2009) Stress and post-traumatic stress disorder. Paediatr Child Health 19(2): 79-83.
Author affiliation:
Uttom Chowdhury MRCPsych, MBChB
Consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry, Bedfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Amit Pancha
Medical student, Lancaster University
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Lance Berkman had 2 doubles on his 3 hit night while Derek Jeter passed Babe Ruth on the all-time hit list. The Yankees beat the Red Sox 7-2. A.J. Burnett was suffering from back spasms and was scratched for Dustin Moseley at the last minute. Burnett will pitch Tuesday. Josh Beckett struggled from the start. He allowed 7 runs to score in less than 5 innings.
The two pitchers went in different directions from the start of the game. Moseley got a 1-2-3 top of the 1st, and flashed the leather on an athletic play to his right. Meanwhile, Beckett had his typical horizontal movement on his fastball, but the Yankees were hitting it none the less. He allowed 2 hits in the first, and had thrown about 50 pitches by the 2nd inning.
The Yankees got through to Beckett in the 2nd inning. That inning featured 2 runs on 4 consecutive hits, including Lance Berkman's 1st extra-base hit as a Yankee. Fat Elvis had 3 hits on the night and has hopefully turned the page on the slump he brought to the Bronx with him.
Mark Teixeira started the 5th inning with a moonshot to right center. Derek Jeter had a 2-run double later that inning. The Yankees plated 5 in total in the 5th, and knocked the Red Sox starter out of the game.
Moseley was solid for the Yankees in the early innings. His stuff wasn't overpowering, but he had solid control and was efficient. He began to tire, visibly, in the middle innings, but worked out of most trouble. Bill Hall hit a homer off him in the 5th and Joba Chamberlain allowed an inherited run to score in the 7th. No other damage happened en route to the Yankee victory.
Phil Hughes faces off against John Lester today in the final game of the series. The game has an odd, 2pm start time. If the Yankees win the Red Sox will be 8 games out of 1st place, and probably dead to rights on the season. The Blue Jays, meanwhile, took care of the Rays yesterday, helping the Yankees extend their lead to 2.5 games in the division. The Rays have now lost 5 consecutive games.

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Are our children overprotected?
As we walk to the playground, Henry yells to his friend, "Let's race!" And they do. Down sidewalks that are bulging and splitting from the tree roots underneath, two semi-coordinated boys flail their legs downhill, shouting with glee. Behind them, I cringe, and wonder who's going to scrape his knee this time.
But I keep my trap shut. If he's going to fall, I think, he'll fall. Usually he doesn't. And if he does, so what? Carefully stepping through life is not going to get him anywhere. Should I sensibly point out that the sidewalks are bumpy, and that he'd be better off racing on a more forgiving, even surface, like the playground we're about to enter? I don't think so. The occasional scraped knee is not the end of the world, and he needs to know that. I truly believe that one of the best things I can do, as his parent, is show him that he can survive disappointments and mishaps. That suffering some pain at the end of a really fun race is less tragic than never racing at all.
According to Hara Estroff Marano, this belief puts me in the minority of parents. In her book "A Nation of Wimps," Marano, an editor-at-large at Psychology Today, argues that parents today are so afraid of anything negative befalling our children that we raise them in virtual cocoons. And, to put it mildly, we're not doing them any favors: protected from any danger or risk, children grow up timid and dependent. By not letting them fail, we also fail to allow them to succeed. Parents, Marano argues, are bizarrely over-involved in children's play and academic lives, even going so far as to "have their kids declared defective" so that they can get Ritalin prescriptions and special accommodations for testing and school, in order that they might enjoy every available advantage. (I haven't read Marano's book, so I can't say what evidence she provides of this rampant Ritalin use, but that particular example seems outrageous to me. What parents would have their child take medication they knew the child didn't need?)
There's no doubt that children are kept on a shorter leash than they ever have before. The UK's Daily Mail recently published a story examining the relative freedom of four generations of children in one family. The children of each subsequent generation were given less and less leeway to wander and explore their community. The graphic of the story really drives the message home: while the great-grandfather, at age eight, could roam six miles to his favorite fishing hole, the his great-grandson today, at the same age, isn't allowed to leave his yard.
But let's not place the blame for all this overprotectiveness solely on the parents. We are besieged these days with stories of child abduction (even though abduction rates have decreased in the past few years) and molesters on the prowl (even though most of these crimes are committed not by strangers but family and friends). Our 24-hour news networks require a constant stream of warnings and directives to keep our attention, and no one attends to warnings and directives more than parents. In this climate, even if a family wanted to give their child more freedom, it isn't practical. As the mother in the story mentions, other children aren't out and about, so even if her kid could venture beyond his yard, who would join him? And what would the other families say if they saw her boy, unattended?
Take a look at Lenore Skenazy, a journalist for the New York Sun, who wrote in a column about allowing her nine-year-old to take the subway by himself. He had begged for the opportunity to figure out his own way home; she knew he was more than capable of navigating public transportation or asking for directions if he was lost. So she let him. He made it back home, safe and sound, and exhilarated by his accomplishment. The reaction to her column ranged from awe at her bravery to outrage, with many responses calling for her imprisonment or the removal of her child from her care. Apparently choosing to trust in your child rather than give in to irrational fear is an irresponsible decision, these days.
I look forward to finding out what Marano's solution is for parents in this kind of environment. Meanwhile, I won't put Henry on the subway alone just yet, but he can run on all the sidewalks he likes. I may avert my eyes, though. If he's going to fall, I don't want to see it happen.
28 Responses to "Are our children overprotected?"
LGraves65 Jun 27 at 12:08 pm Reply
One summer I took my son, then six or seven, to the doctor. While he was there for an illness, the doctor commented on the fact that his knees and shins had bruises and scraps and scabs. In my mind I was quickly mounting a defense to the charges of abuse that I was sure were coming when he said, "I like to see that. Kids shouldn't have smooth legs."
Great, great post Alice! I deal with this at my house all the time. I am the parent that lets him climb, run, and try new things. My Husband hovers over him with fear that he will hurt himself. On the other hand, I worry about germs, diseases, and learning disabilities, and The Husband reminds me that he is fine. Between the two of us, I think we have a good balance. I do worry that he will not get to do so many of the fun things we did, remember the merry-go round at the park? When is the last time you saw one of those?
SuburbanCorrespondent Jun 27 at 1:10 pm Reply
What cracks me up are all the people who insinuate that, by homeschooling, I am overprotecting my kids; yet my children are the ones who are able to run about free of adult supervision several hours a day.
And, yes, the key to not being too overprotective is not to watch too closely. That goes for chores, also – if I actually saw how my kids do the dishes, I probably wouldn't let them.
So timely Alice! We allow our girls, 7 and almost 9, to walk to their friends' house on the next court during daylight hours. Their friends' parents, who are from a less freaked-out country, allow their girls, 11 and almost 9, to walk around the corner to the video store.
Yes, the video store is on a busier road, but they don't actually get any closer to that road than the sidewalk. Still, I definitely hear about it if my father or brother happens to see them walking there unaccompanied. I talked to my husband about it, thinking maybe we should ask the other parents not to let them do that when our girls are there, but he pointed out that their backyard actually backs up to the video store, and that they're not crossing any streets to get there. So we're letting them do it, bad parents that we are.
We lived in the country when I was a kid, and had the freedom to roam all over the woods and through the creek and the cow pastures, and sometimes even to the "little grey store" three miles away. (The kind with little Coke bottles that you could return for a nickel and get one more bonus piece of candy.)
At Grandma's house in the city (small city, but with LOTS of stores we could walk to) we'd go all over by ourselves: the playground two blocks away, the store four blocks away, or even Dairy Queen about 12 blocks away. I have so many good memories of those times. I really hate to deny my girls those joyous moments of freedom, that clutching of a change purse and savoring the thought of all the wonderful things they might buy ALL ON THEIR OWN.
all things bd Jun 27 at 2:27 pm Reply
My girls are 5 and 8, and I get horrified reactions when I share with friends that they are allowed to walk to the neighbor's house unattended. The neighbor's house is TWO DOORS up. Often, the six kids in our neighborhood play outside without a grownup. What's gonna happen with SIX KIDS running around? Who is gonna try anything that resembles wrangling cats?
Give them more freedom I say. I agree that there's more danger coming from those they know than from strangers.
Like Hey You, we are a split family. People often comment that I'm so relaxed about things with my daughter, she must feel so free and confident, etc. And I say yeah, that's only because my husband would like to wrap her in bubble wrap and sit her next to the Faberge eggs, so I have to pull way back on my particular issues or else she'd never be allowed to leave the house!
lizneust Jun 27 at 3:03 pm Reply
The childrearing book I like – in fact, the only one I like and haven't thrown away in disgust – is "The Blessing of the Skinned Knee." It addresses this very point of giving your child enough latitude to experience life. The author, whose name I'm not remembering, bases a lot of her thoughts and theories on the Talmud. But I'm not Jewish, and I still found the book extraordinarily useful in trying to figure out my role in safely parenting my children without OVER parenting my children. As a bonus, it's quite a slim volume and she is quite funny (God wouldn't have put "honor thy father and mother" in the 10 commandments if he thought it was going to be easy.)
JessicaAPISS Jun 27 at 8:30 pm Reply
Thanks for this great essay.
I am a big fan of Lenore Skenazy and FreeRangeKids.com. I hope I have the bravery when my kids are able to venture out of my nicely-tended nest to experience the world that I let them be free range.
I first walked to my friend's house–a block away, by myself, when I was three.
When I was three, I also walked to the store that was a mile from my house. This was quite an adventure, actually. It wasn't supposed to happen. I had come back from my friend's house and seen my mother driving away. This freaked me out and I thought she might be going to the store. So I walked there. Through an alley, no less.
At four, I would leave the house in the morning (sometimes before my parents woke up) and come home at dusk. I'm pretty sure my mom must have inquired as to my whereabouts at some point during the day. I was at my best friend's house, which is where I always was.
Of course, I went the six or so blocks to school by myself when I was five. My mom walked me there on the first day to make sure I knew how to get there. She taught me to look both ways before crossing the street, and then I was on my own. Until I was seven and started taking my sister with me.
I freaked out last week when I saw my daughter go outside of the play yard at school, on to the sidewalk, over to the firetruck during a school festival. SHE LEFT THE ENCLOSURE. OH MY FREAKING GOD. She's four. I wouldn't let her go anywhere or do anything.
I do let her climb the boulders in Central Park. She's fearless there. It's quite odd–she's a bit of a scaredy cat except when it comes to those boulders and I freak but I let her do it for the very reason you mention.
I'm sure my parents would probably be arrested or something now. But everyone was doing it then. Where we lived, anyway.
I'm a mess, though. I'm not independent or confident or anything like that. So I dunno. My brother came along later, when we lived by a much busier street and the whole tenor of things was different in this neighborhood and he did not go out on his own and I think he is just fine. So maybe this is more scare mongering about our scare mongering? I truly do not know.
Laura Jun 27 at 11:03 pm Reply
I completely agree and do my best to let my children have freedom. My 6 year old walks home from the school bus stop by himself. My 4 year old is allowed to play outside while I stay inside to fix dinner. (How sad that these are "freedoms".) But, I had a scare recently when my 2 year old fell off her older brother's twin bed. I was letting her bounce a bit–bouncing, not even really juming– and she was having a grand time. Then she fell off the bed, knocked herself unconscious and had to be transported to the ER via ambulance on a backboard. Took years off my life (but she's fine). And oh, the guilt. I was kicking myself for being so relaxed. Now I struggle more than ever with this issue. My husband (like others mentioned above) is super protective and would never forgive me if something really bad happened on my (more relaxed) watch. Anyway, this is a tough issue.
I should not admit this, but I judge activities on a scale of Death vs. Injury. So yeah. My kid is allowed to jump on the couch and the bed. Would I be proud if he broke a bone? Or scraped a knee? Um, no. But I think we are a happier household with me not screeching at him every minute. Also, when I do screech at him for truly serious situations? He tends to listen.
Also, Lenore Skenazy has a great blog called Free Range Kids – definitely worth reading.
I watched my then-4-year-old son have his first bike crash several months ago. He was riding down a hill on the sidewalk. I saw him begin weaving, and all I could do was watch! I must say I was so happy to see him leave the sidewalk and land in a pile of leaves. He was scared but unharmed. I rushed to him and complimented him on his quick thinking and how perfect it was to crash onto something soft. He was sort of proud too. Even though we both knew landing in that pile of leaves was a wonderful accident!
I think you are right and I applaud you!
I think I'm a little more likely to try your level of freedom with my kids too. Actually, my son's almost 9 and playing sports has really been a lesson for all of us. We're learning to let go and let him make his mistakes and be disappointed and let him handle it–even when it isn't the best way to deal with it. Then, we talk about it after and what he might have done or might do next time to have better results. It's so hard because you want to rush to him and tell him what to do, based on your own experiences, but really they have to find their way on their own…scraped knees and all.
Yeah, I'm an eye-averter, too. I know my kid won't die a horrible death from a few skinned knees, but darned if I have the cojones to actually watch it happen.
I'm constantly reminding myself to bite my tongue instead of letting loose with the constant stream of "Be carefuls!", etc. I'm glad to read I'm not the only one who finds this challenging.
I really needed to read this post. I KNOW I'm definitely one of those over-protective parents. I don't want to be. I'm trying to change. But sometimes I forgot I have a problem when I compare myself to my mother-in-law, who threw away an entire plate of cheese and rewashed all the apple slices in a bowl when she saw a fly in her kitchen. She didn't want anything she served the grandchildren to have any germs on it.
I think my greatest difficulty is letting them be disappointed. I'm trying to parent differently with my second, so when he lost a balloon at a fair, I didn't get him a replacement (even though they were free, and the balloon man was about a hundred feet away). It about broke my heart (because I'm a total sensitive wimp), but I felt like it was important somehow for him to experience that disappointment. He was only 2-and-a-half, but he talked about that balloon for days. I still believe it was significant experience for him. Something of his own.
gray matters Jun 29 at 7:49 pm Reply
Ok, I know I'm supposed to say "Yeah, absolutely–let 'em ride the subway, send them into public restrooms in bus terminals alone, screw helmets, we never wore them…" but the truth is I can't. Alice, you make a great point about the perception of increased danger vs. the reality of it, but no one can argue that we live in different times–at least those of us in more urban environments.
Wendy Mogel's book "Blessings of a Skinned Knee" is one of my all time favorites. Although I think she's referring more to emotion "bruises" vs. physical ones. It's every parent's instinct to protect their kids against those.
So I'm all for giving my son opportunities to experience a sense of accomplishment and exhilleration or even disappointment and failure, just not in a potentially life-threatening way.
I worked for a year as a special ed teacher in a VERY affluent Chicago suburb. We CONSTANTLY had parents requesting testing for their wonderfully average children because they were not straight-A students. This was the kind of high school where older siblings were attending Ivy League schools and my students drove brand new Mercedes convertibles while I was happy to have my 5 year old Jeep. The class-rank race was cut-throat and it was the helicopter parents who were looking for anything to give their kid the edge. The other part of it was they would much rather their kid be labeled as learning disabled so they wouldn't have to accept that their kid was just a B-student. ("It's not Ashleigh's fault that she's getting B's, she has a learning disability you know.") It was so sad, what's wrong with getting a C or B?! The one class in college that I received a D in is the one I learned the most from, and the one I worked hardest in. It's ok to fall at or below the average, and the kids are learning nothing by having their kids talk with teachers and inflate their grades.
Cassandra Jun 30 at 2:33 pm Reply
Such a hard issue. I read a book a while ago called Child's Play that attributes the problem of obesity to this lack of children getting out and about. How just 20 years ago we were all outside playing all day until the streetlights came on. Now kids are stuck indoors with little or no activity – and we wonder why so many kids are overweight?
Holly@aiminghigh Jun 30 at 4:52 pm Reply
Great topic.
I think a major contributor to this over-protectiveness is due to the fact that most of us don't know our neighbors…let alone someone a mile away.
When I was a child, we were given freedom to roam as long as our chores were complete, and we let our mom know roughly where we were headed. The thing is, we knew many of our neighbors by sight AND by name. Most cars driving by were driven by someone we knew or at least had an idea of who he/she was. (And where he/she lived.)
I remember one time riding my bicycle to the beach (helmet-less and using no hands…the only way to go!) While at the beach, I had a serious fall off a log resulting in a severely smashed big toe and splinters all over my foot. Someone who saw me hurt myself, took care of the immediately needs I had and then drove me home. We picked up my bike later without fear that it had been stolen…the neighborhood knew it was my bike.
Now what? My children don't even play in our front yard unless I am out there too. We have lived in our neighborhood for nearly six years and know only two of our neighbors just a little bit. We have tried to get to know our neighbors. The problem is…no one is ever home! It's not only an over-protective society now, it's an over-commited one as well. I don't believe this is healthy for the next generation. And, I believe, if we were home more, we would make a greater effort to know our neighbors, thereby increasing the chances we would be more likely to let our children have a greater radius to explore.
Dirt, scrapes, bruises, bumps…those are signs of summer around here. I am glad that my girls (6 & 8) as well as their neighborhood pals prefer being outside rather than in front of a tv or computer. They run, jump and sometimes fall. Sure I want to protect them and I dislike seeing them get those minor hurts but they are learning something I can't always teach…confidence, balance, personal limits and courage.
Ellen Jul 02 at 3:43 pm Reply
When my daughter was in 10th or 11th grade, I let her ride the Metro (subway) by herself to an all-day, outdoor rock concert. Other parents either thought I was either incredibly brave, or incredibly stupid.
I read an interesting article months ago that suggested we were a country less likely to go to war because we were once a nation with many sons, and now each family has "just one son". Perhaps this overprotection is a function of us waiting to have children (the years of longing), we worked VERY hard to get them (the years of infertility treatments), and we have far fewer children per family. Losing even one is losing the entire concept of family for many of us. Children are no longer foregone conclusion for every woman, so the children we have are far more cherished. Perhaps, JUST MAYBE, we are raising a society of people who will respect life and their fellow man? Children filled with self-esteem and a respect for friendships and their elders? Just a thought!
Yo Alice. I think Nation of Wimps is very compelling stuff. And the Ritalin bit is quite fascinating and freaky; there are psychologists who posit that over-cautious, hyper-scheduled, hyper-invasive parenting plays a role in the ADHD thing and that instead of pushing Ritalin, there are alternative solutions involving robust outdoor play and rough-housing with Dad! Who knows, but it's certainly thought-provoking. I used to tutor kids and a lot of them got "special dispensation" for various disorders that I don't think they necessarily had…
I'm caught –like so many modern moms, I think–between wanting to chill out with my kid and freaking out over what she's getting up to. I'm sure this book will get a lot of flak and yank many a chain, but I think she's touching a nerve we can all feel.
Crystal Jul 14 at 2:00 pm Reply
Like Meghan, I taught in an affluent suburb, although I taught in a suburb of Boston.
At least 1/4 of my 3rd grader's parents walked their kids TO MY ROOM each day. Because they didn't trust their kids to walk 50 FEET by themselves. In 3rd grade, I walked a half mile to school by myself every morning in a town that was nowhere near as affluent or clean or safe as the one I was teaching in.
I have also seen SO MANY kids on 504 plans (basically an IEP lite) just so their kids could get more time on tests so they could get their little A+'s instead of god forbid an A- or a WORLD ENDING B or C.
I'm a big fan of the Free Range kids blog and while I don't know that I'll be that relaxed, I'd like to think I'll let my third grader walk to class by herself. I might even go insane and let my K student do it after the first day!
Brandy Jul 15 at 5:01 pm Reply
I have fond memories of doing all sorts of stuff on my own when I was well under 10 years old. Hanging out by the creek, playing in construction sites, walking all around my town with a friend or two, playing in stairwells of buildings, heck my mom used to give me a note to bring to the store so they would sell 5 year old me cigarettes. Which was not uncommon thing amongst my friends. The only time I ever gave them a scare was when I accidently went to a church youth group for the day. Would I let my children do these sorts of things now? Some of them maybe…some of them no way jose! I think it depends on the kid and their street smarts and where you live. Bad things can happen anywhere though.
cb Jul 23 at 2:36 pm Reply
Like Brandy, my mom used to send me to the store with a note so that I could buy cigarettes for her. It's nothing short of shocking to think of that going on now.
I had major freedom when I was young. As long as I was home around the time it got dark, I could go anywhere I wanted. We lived in Culver City for a while and I remember taking the bus all the way to Venice Beach with a friend, just to walk around – we were probably 8 or 9 years old. (Which would have made it 1986 or 1987.)
Like many of the parents above, I think that those freedoms helped turn me into the confident woman that I am now. Also, like many of the parents above, I hope I can use that confidence to allow (force!) myself to be similarly lenient with my son when he gets a little older. He's 3 now, and I have recently, purposely started trying to curtail the "Be careful!"s and "Watch out!"s.
sc Jul 24 at 6:46 pm Reply
I'm Canadian and definitely this is a trend that I see happening in some of the more affluent neighbourhoods in the main cities, where parents have the time (and money) to watch and provide for their children all of the time. Their kids become another way of keeping up with the Joneses. But, I'm still surprised by some of the comments above. Maybe it has something to do with the American dependence on the car and the lack of sidewalks in many places. Walking and riding bikes are not an option in many of your cities. At least that's what I hear from many of my American friends and that was my experience in Rochester NY, where I had the misfortune of living for almost a year. I think parents need to advocate for safe urban spaces (like sidewalks!) for their kids to safely play in/on.


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The United States and Indonesia Sign Agreement to Expand Cooperation on Infrastructure Projects
August 09, 2012
Jakarta - The United States and Indonesia achieved another milestone under the Comprehensive Partnership between our two countries with the August 8 signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support greater bilateral cooperation on infrastructure projects. Visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs José Fernandez and Indonesia Ministry of Industry Director General of International Cooperation Agus Tjahajana signed the MOU at the Ministry of Industry. We believe the MOU will create greater opportunities for American and Indonesian businesses to collaborate with the Government of Indonesia on infrastructure projects in priority sectors such as industrial zones, energy and power, transportation, water, and green industry development in key corridors under the Indonesian Masterplan, including Sumatra, East Kalimantan, and East Java.
U.S. Ambassador Scot Marciel, who witnessed the signing along with Indonesian Minister of Industry M.S. Hidayat, said, "This MOU is another example of how the Comprehensive Partnership between our two countries will benefit both Americans and Indonesians. It will facilitate additional opportunities for cooperation to help Indonesia meet its infrastructure needs, while at the same helping to grow our two economies and create jobs."
One example of greater cooperation on infrastructure projects is the recent deal between the American company Celanese Corporation and Pertamina to develop synthetic fuel-ethanol projects in Indonesia, a potential $2 billion investment by Celanese Corporation. Celanese Corporation representatives attended the MOU signing.
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- Ministry of Industry and U.S. Embassy agree on infrastructure development projects, Jaringnews.com, 8/9
- Indonesia's manpower in industrial sector will be trained in the U.S., Merdeka.com, 8/8
- Bilateral cooperation: U.S. wants to boost trade, Seputar-Indonesia.com, 8/10
- U.S. investment in Indonesia targeted at Rp 47.4 billion, Bisnis.com, 8/8
- U.S.-Indonesia agree on infrastructure cooperation, Waspada.co.id, 8/10
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In 1986, the humpback whales George and Gracie were transported from the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California to the Bering Sea off Alaska via a 747. The aircraft was specially modified to carry the two humpback whales that distance. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
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The home Trojan-banker known as Shylock has just yesterday been updated with new functions. When analyzed, during an investigation, we noticed that Shylock is now capable of spreading using the popular Voice over IP service and software application, Skype. This allows the malicious Trojan-banker to infect more hosts and continue to be a prevalent threat. Also, the timing does not seem completely coincidental as Microsoft just recently announced that they are discontinuing their Messenger solution and replacing it with Skype.
Shylock is active in only a few parts of the world. The epicenter of infections is primarily located in the UK. If we look at sinkhole data collected by CSIS (illustrated below) it becomes quite clear that the attackers prefer to focus only on a few countries instead of random infections in different countries.
When using a tool like Skype, or any "chat" based technology, for replication purpose, it only fuels the geographic focus. Past infections, from e.g. worms spreading across MSN Messenger, Yahoo etc. or any other real-time chat program, shows that people have a tendency to stay connected with friends (usually within their own region) allowing outbreaks to be contained locally.
The Skype replication is implemented with a plugin called "msg.gsm". This plugin allows the code to spread through Skype and adds the following functionality:
- Sending messages and transferring files
- Clean messages and transfers from Skype history (using sql-lite access to Skype%smain.db )
- Bypass Skype warning/restriction for connecting to Skype (using "findwindow" and "postmessage")
- Sends request to server: https://a[removed]s.su/tool/skype.php?action=...
Besides from utilizing Skype it will also spread through local shares and removable drives. Basically, the C&C functions allow the attacker to:
- Execute files
- Get cookies
- Inject HTTP into a website
- Setup VNC
- Spread through removable drives
- Uninstall
- Update C&C server list
- Upload files
Shylock is one of the most advanced Trojan-banker currently being used in attacks against home banking systems. The code is constantly being updated and new features are added regularly.
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Today's date: May 2, 2016
November 13, 2012
The 2012 Ecumenical Thanksgiving Services will be held on Tuesday, November 20th at 7:00 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Church in Adrian. Please bring several food items to be used for food baskets.
Our sympathy to the family and many friends of Jim Heronimus whose funeral was Tuesday, October 30th at the Brandon Lutheran Church in Brandon, SD. Jim and his wife Donna (Bruns) were married in Rushmore in 1970. They made their home on Jim's family homestead for 27 years before moving to Brandon. Jim served as Youth Director for 7 years in Brandon Lutheran Church. Jim was in the military and was a proud volunteer of the Patriot Guards. Jim is survived by his wife Donna, two children Amy Kasten and husband Travis and son Jim Heronimus and wife Andrea and five grandsons, one brother Randy and Tammi (Bullerman) Heronimus. Two sisters Shirley and Beverly. Military Honors were provided by the Adrian American Legion Argonne Post #32. Jim's pallbearers were members of the Patriot Guard. Jim will be dearly missed! Blessed be his memory!
Eric and Meredith Vaselaar drove to Notre Dame last weekend to visit their daughter, Rona, who is a Freshman at the University of Notre Dame, and to attend the ND football game against Pittsburgh. The Vaselaars were joined by guests, son Eldon (Milwaukee, WI), and Fr. Timothy Hall (Lewiston, MN). Their daughter Rona also attended the game! Notre Dame won by three points but it took three overtimes!
Big Orv's had his regular Thursday Pinochle fun night last Thursday, November 1st: Winners were: 1st - Clarence Kellen and "Cannon" Mueller, 2nd - John Palaschak and "Dolly" Peters, 2rd - Kenny Schroggs and Joe Scheidt, 4th - Connie Lais and Marilyn Bergman. The 24 players had a great time!
Can't believe that Bill and Carolyn Elias celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary! It was on Saturday night, October 20th. They held their anniversary celebration at the Countryside Inn and had a delicious buffet dinner. Attending were Carolyn's brothers and sisters and their families. Carolyn was a Heitkamp and she and Bill Elias were married November 3, 1962. Those attending were: Jerry and Linda Heitkamp and family; of course Carolyn and Bill Elias and family; Carl and Cheryl Heitkamp and family; Judy and Ron Edmundson; Kathy and Ralph Roetzel and family; Anne and Denny Kruger and family; Mike Heitkamp; and Mr. & Mrs. Lane Liepold of Minneapolis. They had a great evening of karaoke singing, eating, reminiscing and lots of laughs. Congratulations Bill and Carolyn! Bill and Carolyn also had a party in Arizona before they came home this spring! A popular couple.
Bruce Heitkamp told this writer the Clint Kruger, son and Anne and Denny, told him how much he enjoys the Adrian Review and my column! Thanks Clint - I miss seeing you around! And thanks Bruce for the comment!
Speaking of Bruce, our HRA complexes are well taken care of! Willy Nath is "Jonnie on the spot" when I call for my little things, then Bruce checks real often! We are blessed.
Good spaghetti dinner Thursday, November 1st at the High School for the Cross-Country team. All the team and parents worked and there was a great crowd! Congratulations to the Cross County girls on theor 8th place at State. What a great achievement!
My tears ran as I listened to the football game. So close to winning and still so far! It was a heartbreaker for our Adrian Football Team!
St. Adrian held a beautiful Mass on Friday, November 2nd which was All Souls Day. There were 14 candles lit for those who died from the St. Adrian Parish and 7 from the Wilmont Parish. Special music was sung and many many other deceased parishner's names were read by John Faber. Family members came forward to light a candle for those who died this past year.
Etta Schroeder attended a beautiful wedding uniting grandson, Adam Craig Myers to Brittany Kay Adrian on October 20th at 3:00 p.m. The wedding was held at Christ Lutheran Church at Glenco, MN. Pastor Katherine Rood officiated at the ceremony. A lovely reception was also held in Glenco. It was a great day for all the families and friends of the couple. Congratulations Adam and Brittany.
What a great bunch of kids that came "Tricks-or-Treating" on Halloween night. The little ones came early and were so very polite and happy!
Gleaned from Crossroads which is from the United Methodist Churches of Adrian and Magnolia.
As humans, we need to take one day at a time and give God the glory; because God will take care of what we need for today and tomorrow. So as you forge ahead in the months of November and December, remember to stop and give God thanks for what God will be providing for you today and tomorrow. Blessings to each of you during this beautiful and abundant fall season! Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
Thank you Pastor Kristi!
The First Baptist Church in Adrian held their annual ladies Thanksgiving lunch/ brunch on Saturday, November 3rd at 11:30 a.m. The church parlor was filled with women and several younger girls. Their tables were decorated beautifully and the food most delicious! Over cups of hot coffee, Pastor Barr's wife Elayna spoke briefly on the book of Titus in the New Testament. Her words touched all hearts! Thank you Baptist ladies for a wonderful time! P.S. I sat at the table with friend Bonnie Rogers whose grandson is quarterback on the Adrian football team and she said how badly all felt when they lost on Friday. Also at our table was Gladys (Hartog) Siefkes of Worthington who graciously poured coffee!
Dear Hilda Tweet passed away on October 31st and went to be with her Savior. Hilda celebrated her 95th birthday on October 28th with her children and grandchildren. Hilda and her late husband Lewis lived on the family farm near Lismore. Hilda was a loving joyful person, but she also suffered great grief in the deaths of her husband, a daughter Pat, a son-in-law Guy and a daughter-in-law, Donna. Hilda loved the Lord and that love sustained her until death. Hilda is survived by Bonnie and Doug Langland; Rod and Aileen Tweet; Chuck and Barb Tweet; Karen and Jerry O'Nan, and 27 grandchildren who all loved her deeply. Hilda will be dearly missed! God Bless Hilda Tweet!
Lismore Presbyterian Church will have their annual Soup and Dessert Dinner on Sunday, Nov. 11th in the American Legion Hall. It will be from at 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Those ladies make delicious soup and the desserts are great too!
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The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation
Traveler Comments
The facilites were wonderful but the service was slow and the staff was very cold.
The staff was first class and the facilities were beautiful
Location was a little far removed from Atlanta and difficult to get to. We arrived in time for the Thanksgiving 'madness' held at the hotel. Everyone in our party had wished that we had been warned about the horrible crowds and Christmas celebration going on that day because it was no fun to arrive then.
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Fox hands us a lemon. We make lemonade out of beavers! A new type of Super Bowl ad.
Saturday, January 26, 2008It seemed we couldn't get Fox to approve anything. This includes, the edgiest and most hilarious ad we've ever produced: Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick's "Exposure" ad.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Both Danica Patrick's "Exposure" ad and Candice Michelle's "White Light - Director's Cut" will be available -- for your viewing pleasure -- on the GoDaddy.com website no later than 4 pm MST today!
Got Two!
Then we sent in our 11th and 12th submissions. And to our surprise and delight, Fox not only approved one, they approved both. So now we have two approved ads on our hands.
We want viewers to see our real ad.
The purpose of our "Spot On" ad is to direct the attention of Super Bowl viewers to GoDaddy.com's website where they will be able to see our real Super Bowl ad " the ad we wanted to show, but that Fox refused " Danica Patrick's "Exposure" ad.
Just don't say "beaver!"
As I pointed out in my last article, Fox refused "Exposure" because in the ad, we called actual beavers, "beavers!" In refusing the ad, Fox informed us that if we referred to the furry, damn building rodents or beavers by something other than "beavers" the ad would be approved. I felt if I made that change the ad wouldn't be quite the same, besides this is America I should be able to call a beaver, a "beaver." So I withdrew the ad and took the "Spot On" approach. You might say, I decided to make lemonade out of lemons or in this case, out of beavers.
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"Exposure" is in a class by itself!
Those that visit our website to see Danica Patrick's "Exposure" ad certainly won't be disappointed. It's edgy, it's relevant, it's hot and it's hilarious. Of all the ads we've ever done, this one gets the biggest reaction from anyone who watches it.
I'm not the only one who thinks so!
I'm now at a convention in Reno and I've shown "Exposure" to a countless number of people. I really enjoy watching their reactions. Without exception the comments have been "Wow!" or "Awesome!" followed by laughter or a very broad smile. And then they all ask the same question: "Can I see it again?"
What to do with our second approved ad?
Unlike prior year's when we always had two or more Super Bowl ad spots purchased, and only one approved ad to run, this year we have only one spot purchased and two approved ads. The second approved spot called "White Light" features Candice Michelle and is GoDaddyEsque in every sense of the word. If we have occasion between now and the Big Game to purchase a second spot, we'll air "White Light." In either case, a director's cut of that ad will be available for visitors to our website.
Super Bowl Sunday should be an interesting day indeed. Even though the Big Game is here in Arizona, I'll be watching it at the GoDaddy.com offices while enjoying a bucket of popcorn and a few cans of ginger ale.
Got an opinion? Why not share it with all of us? Please take a moment and post a comment on this blog.
Until next time.
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We're playing a FREE aftershow just a 3 minute walk from the Wilbur Theatre on Friday night June 1st from 11 pm to 1:30 AM at the China Pearl restaurant.
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CSS Short Course
Instructor: Jennifer Kyrnin
Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is now the accepted way to indicate how your Web pages, HTML documents, and XML documents should be displayed. In this free class, you will learn how to add CSS styles to your HTML, your Web pages, even your entire site. You will discover that Cascading Style Sheets are not difficult to learn, and in fact, CSS can be a lot of fun.
The CSS class will cover:
- What is CSS
- Using In-Line Styles
- Page-level Style Sheets
- Cascading Style Sheets for a Web site
- What does cascading mean
- Backgrounds, fonts, text, and box properties
Classes start every day and run for five consecutive days. While the lessons will be sent every day, it is a self-paced course, you may take as much time as you need to read and complete each section.
The CSS 101 training class is free. The only cost to you is the time you spend working on the lessons.
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If you buy only one book on CSS, this is the one you should buy. You will not only learn how to use CSS with this book, you'll also have a good reference for what properties work in which browsers, tips for getting the CSS it work how you'd like, and much more.
There are a few things you should be aware of before you sign up for the Quick CSS class:
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Multiple myeloma is cancer that starts in the plasma cells in bone marrow. Plasma cells grow out of control in the bone marrow and form tumors in the areas of solid bone. The growth of these bone tumors weakens the solid bones and also makes it harder for the bone marrow to make healthy blood cells and platelets.
Bone marrow transplant (also known as stem cell transplant) has become a standard of care as it offers disease-free survival for cancers of the blood. Stem cells are collected through a process called apheresis, which is similar to donating blood. The patient then receives very high doses of chemotherapy, and the stem cells are given back to the patient to rebuild the immune system. Avera's program provides both autologous transplant, in which the patient uses his or her stem cells, and allogeneic transplant, in which sibling or unrelated donor stem cells or cord blood cells are used. Avera's bone marrow transplant program is fully accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).
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Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week, the Little River Welcome Center is strategically located on HWY 17 Southbound. This Welcome Center offers many great services including: travel information; brochures on exciting destinations in South Carolina; AT&T International language services; accommodations information for all of South Carolina; current weather and traffic information; travel itinerary planning; information on our beautiful State Parks; lodging and theater reservations; mapping and routing information; discount coupons to some of our most inviting attractions; and golf course tee times.
Whether you stop in to get a free map, directions, ideas of what to do or where to go or simply to take a break, you'll be sure to find out about what's happening everywhere in South Carolina here.
In addition, several of our SC State Parks have 'hot deals' to take advantage of too, such as the Devils Fork specials available right now.
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May 3, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is expected to announce sanctions against Russia on Monday, one day after Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that the Crimea vote "would never be recognized" by the United States.
The two leaders spoke after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly in favor of the split in a referendum that the United States, European Union and others say violates the Ukrainian constitution and international law and took place under the duress of Russian military intervention.
The White House says Obama reminded Putin that the U.S. and its allies in Europe would impose visa bans, potential asset freezes and other sanctions against Russia should it annex Crimea.
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CALVIN KLEIN UNDERWEAR TAPS ZOE SALDANA FOR FALL ADS"Avatar" star Zoe Saldana will star in Calvin Klein Underwear's new fall campaign.
Shot by renowned fashion photographer Mikael Jansson in New York City, the campaign is expected to encompass print, digital, and outdoor advertising timed to coincide with October 2010 magazine issues.
"We are excited to have Zoe Saldana as the face of Calvin Klein Underwear, and Calvin Klein Envy, our new product launch," said Bob Mazzoli, Chief Creative Officer of Calvin Klein Underwear. "Zoe brings the campaign to life, and her universal appeal will enable us to continue to expand our dialogue with our consumers worldwide."
"Calvin Klein has always put forth such beautifully executed campaigns," said the gorgeous actress. "It's very exciting for me to be associated with such an iconic, globally recognized brand like Calvin Klein Underwear."
Calvin Klein Underwear Envy, a new line of lingerie designed to create a more revealing silhouette, completes the Calvin Klein Underwear Coverage Level System. In this revolutionary new shopping system, Calvin Klein Underwear bras are now identified by three distinct levels of coverage. Each is differentiated by cup coverage, as well as strap and band-width. Envy is Coverage Level 1, with the most minimal level of coverage for a sleek, sexy look. Perfectly Fit is Coverage Level 2 and provides mid-level coverage for classic comfort, while Seductive Comfort, positioned at Coverage Level 3, offers the most coverage and support.
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February 2014
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IIE recognizes professional chapter newsletters & editors
Get your entry in now! IIE encourages your student IIE chapter to create a winning YouTube video that will help provide high school seniors with an understanding of what industrial engineering is from a student point of view. See the rules for 2014 entries.
Who wants to be a millionaire: Organized the industrial engineering spin-off of the contest "Who wants to be a millionaire". The auditorium was full in an event like never seen before in the university.
Community project - "NAVIDAD ES JESÚS": During December, members
of the chapter volunteered and supported the project "Navidad es Jesus", which had as goal to share food and give a positive Christmas message to families in need. A team of chapter members asked and received donations, and chapter members went to poor neighborhoods in the city to give food to families in need. Industrial safety photo contest: Launched the industrial safety photo contest, in which students could observe which situations represent a danger in university, take a picture, propose a solution and make a message calling everybody to be safe in the university. Winners received personal safety equipment as prize.
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IIE's continuing education department has instituted a program through which we will come to your campus, usually on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and present either Six Sigma green belt or lean green belt training immediately followed by IIE's certification examination. And we do this for students at a discount of over 60 percent off the regular IIE member prices.
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We look forward to seeing you this year in Montreal for the largest industrial and systems engineering event of the year! The conference program comprises two types of sessions: Applied Solutions, showcasing proven solutions and applications from industry, and the Industrial & Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC), featuring research from academia and industry scholars.
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Internet Relay Chat is the primary medium of communication for the LUG. IRC is a real-time chatting protocol that dates back to 1988 and is still the technology of choice among Open Source developers. Our channel, #ncsulug is hosted on Freenode.net, and usually has a few dozen members in the room at any given time.
If you don't have an IRC client, you can visit us by using the Freenode web client. If you just want to see what we're talking about, you can check out ~ShaBren's LiveLogger.
Please note that the IRC channel is a public forum and not all of the visitors in the channel are LUG members or students at NC State University.
LOUDBOT is among the most popular bots on our IRC channel. Developed by ik, LOUDBOT listens to the channel and stores anything typed in all capital letters in its database. It then responds with a random quote from its database, also in all capital letters. LOUDBOT's database contains a number of quotes some may find offensive.
twitlast: post the last thing LOUDBOT has said to the @LOUDBOT Twitter feed.
whosaid: reveal who said the last thing LOUDBOT has quoted and in which channel.
be <username>: pull a random quote from <username>'s quote history.
\ignore LOUDBOT ALL: prevent LOUDBOT's quotes from appearing in your client.
lessthanthree is a bot developed by CarsonLynn and built using LOUDBOT. When "lessthanthree" or "<3" appear in a chat, lessthanthree uses a Markov Text Generator to produce a random quote that begins with the same two words as the sentence being replied to. As lessthanthree uses LOUDBOT's database, the random sentences may be considered offensive by some.
twitlast: post the last thing lessthanthree has said to the @anglebracket3 Twitter feed.
kitlast: apply the last thing lessthanthree has said to a random picture of a kitten and post the image to the @anglebracket3 Twitter feed.
\ignore lessthanthree ALL: prevent lessthanthree's quotes from appearing in your client.
ZNC Bouncer
If you really want to get the most out of IRC, a bouncer allows you to keep a connection alive in your channels 24/7 so that you never miss a beat when you're offline. We run a ZNC Bouncer for our members on the LUG Server, Short.
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It's Adult Education Week across the country.
The Illinois Community College Board is reminding what's offered in the way of basic skills courses. Whether it be working towards a GED or taking a basic english or math course, Board Executive Director Doctor Karen Hunter Anderson says your local community college or adult learning center can help boost your skills.
"The majority of them (adults) who come to us are concerned about keeping their jobs because they don't have the right credentials. Typically they have to start with an adult education program that's going to get them through their GED."
Anderson said statistics show over 93 million Americans have only basic literacy skills. In Illinois alone, more than 1.7 million people do not have a high school diploma.
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An interview with false-memory expert Elizabeth Loftus.
AG: What is the current focus of your research?
EL: In 2003 I was sued after I published an exposé of a woman's case that hinged on "repressed" memories, even though I had not named her. Once that was over, I started to focus on the repercussions of the types of false memories we all have. Once they take hold, do they have consequences down the road? One way to look at that was to plant a false memory that might change your behavior—for example, that you got sick eating a particular food.
AG: How do you plant these memories?
EL: We use a "false feedback" technique. We gather a whole bunch of data from you, about your personality, thoughts about different foods, all kinds of things. Later, we hand you this computerized profile, which reveals certain things that probably happened when you were a child. In the middle of the list is, say, that you got sick eating strawberry ice cream. We give you false feedback about your data, and then encourage you to elaborate and imagine.
Later we ascertain whether you have a belief that it happened to you. Then we offer you a choice from all these different foods. In that example we found that participants didn't want strawberry ice cream as much.
Later studies have shown that if you plant a false memory about a certain food, when you offer people that food, they don't eat as much of it.
AG: This works with alcohol too?
EL: Yes. We did a similar kind of false-feedback study with vodka. If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.
AG: Could false memories be used for therapeutic purposes—like reducing alcohol consumption?
EL: Absolutely, yes. I've had people say to me, do you think you could cure all kinds of problems with the false-memory technique? I hope other people will give it a try.
AG: Isn't the deliberate planting of false memories entering into ethically dubious territory?
EL: Therapists probably can't ethically do it, and they may have anti-deception provisions in their standards of conduct. But bad governments, bad people, they don't have requirements of conduct. When we recently published a study about planting false memories among U.S. soldiers, I was worried we were putting out a recipe for how you can do horrible things to somebody and then wipe their memory away.
AG: How did you conduct this study of U.S. soldiers?
EL: A psychiatrist named Charles Morgan has been studying soldiers going through survival school, where they learn what it would be like if they were ever captured as prisoners of war. I had a chance to work with him, and we introduced misinformation to see if we could get these trained soldiers to misidentify their interrogator. Even with a traumatic event, highly trained soldiers can be misled too.
AG: Is there any way to distinguish a false memory from a real one?
EL: Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.
AG: Could brain imaging one day be used to do this?
EL: I collaborated on a brain imaging study in 2010, and the overwhelming conclusion we reached is that the neural patterns were very similar for true and false memories. We are a long way away from being able to look at somebody's brain activity and reliably classify an authentic memory versus one that arose through some other process.
AG: Do you think it's important for people to realize how malleable their memory is?
EL: My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.
This article originally appeared in New Scientist.


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TYPE/RIG/CLASS: Cushing Class, 1853
BUILDER: J.M. Hood, Somerset, MA
LAUNCHED: 9 July 1853
DISPOSITION: sold 1875
DISPLACEMENT (tons): 152 (CUSHING), 174 (DOBBIN)
CAMPBELL: 91 x 21 x 86" (8 draft)
CUSHING: 937" deck x 218" x 10 (93" draft)
DOBBIN: 939" x 226" x 10 (99" draft)
RIG: Topsail Schooner
COMPLEMENT: 13 + Officers
ARMAMENT: 1 30-pdr rifle (CAMPBELL, 1861); 1 32-pdr, 1 12-pdr (CUSHING, 1863); 1 32-pdr (DOBBIN, 1861)
DESIGN: These vessels were significantly larger than those built in the same year by Page and Allen. They were also quite different from the JOE LANE and class; about 10 feet shorter on deck and 2 feet deeper in the hold. (The photograph in the book of the CAMPBELL) shows that she had more freeboard than the JOE LANE had. This extra freeboard may have been the result of rebuilding, but she also exhibits considerably less rake in her stem, a characteristic less easily changed in refittings. Note: the Cushing class vessels were named after members of the Franklin Pierce administration: James Campbell, postmaster general; Caleb Cushing, attorney general; Jefferson Davis, secretary of war; James C. Dobbin, secretary of the Navy; William A. Marcy, secretary of state; Robert McClelland, secretary of the interior.
Officially named the JAMES CAMPBELL, she was stationed at New London, CT, and then at New York after the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1863 she returned to New London. She was sold in New York 8 July 1875. Although twenty years old, she became a whaling vessel, the Pedro Varela, out of New Bedford, MA. In 1910 her crew mutinied in a somewhat famous incident, and she was ultimately lost at sea in 1916.
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Washington, DC: USGPO.
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard. Record of Movements: Vessels of the United States Coast Guard: 1790 - December 31, 1933. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934; 1989 (reprint).