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Isn't this adorable? I can't get over how sweet these two little ones are. I think they look so cute in their little Santorini dresses! This pattern is soon to be released by my talented niece Chelsea Andersen of Pink Fig! Hop over there and check out all the great stuff Pink Fig carries.
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These look beautiful Lila, love your fabrics, they arrived yesterday. Cant wait to order the Santorini fabrics. Im just off to look at your patterns now. Have a great weekend.
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SUPER cute.
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These look so cute in Santorini!
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Beautiful. I love love love your new fabric. I can't wait. I also finished a skirt of yours and can't wait to get the sophisticate skirt pattern. When will it be available?
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Totally adorable! I love the combination of fabrics and colors.
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From Wikipedia, I learned that figure of speech is change of general usage of words. When it's a change of the ordinary or expected pattern of words, it is called "scheme", while when it's a change of the general meaning of words, it is called "tropes". I wonder how to understand "change of the ordinary or expected pattern of words" in "scheme"?
I was also wondering what relations and differences are between rhetoric and figure of speech? I think rhetoric holds the same meaning as figure of speech. However, the Wikipedia articles seem to give me an impression that figure of speech is just a kind of rhetoric. If this is true, what are some kinds of rhetoric that is not figure of speech?
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Tropes are plays on meanings of words, while schemes have to do with structure of sentences. An example is the sentence
This is a trope, because it is playing on the word 'slave' through simile.
An example of a scheme is
It uses the scheme types antimetabole, ellipsis, personification. Again, tropes act on meaning. Schemes act on structure of sentences.
Figures are a subset of Rhetoric, albeit a major subset, which is probably why you have equated the two. Nonetheless, they are different. Rhetoric is an over-arching framework for persuasive speech or writing that not only includes figures, but also includes topics like the appeals (ethos, pathos, logos), identifying the type of situation, the canons, and various other areas.
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After a month long review, day to day use with the Archos 80 G9 8Gb tablet running into issue after issue with this clearly defective device I finally had enough when it ended up going from a review to a rant.
Trying to find a silver lining in this device proved challenging as it just seemed to bring frustration
It is possible that some if not most of the issues I came across were in fact results of a defective device
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I never had an issue with an Archos device, but many ppl have. Their products are DEFINATELY not as good as they could be though. And their software causes many an issue (I did encounter glitches, but I always found an easy solution - so I never really needed to post a help thread). Personally, I avoid Archos. But, tbf, the reason is sq and battery run time based. It was NEVER based on their devices performance. I still like what they make, but Archos just isn't for me (lack of customer support is the final nail in the coffin if a real issue DOES arise).
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The only problem with that is that most Android tablets have a terrible time decoding video, unless it's certain formats. That is the only real advantage of the Archos; with its massive codec support, you could put any video you could find on it and it would play without a fault.
But the lackluster performance of every other aspect makes their tablets undesirable. Which is a real shame, because an Android tablet with proper media support would be great.
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As the title says; What is the secret of making a really juicy burger?
When I'm planning on cooking a ton of burgers for large family gatherings (and I have the time to make the patties myself) I've had good luck with the following.
For every lb of ground beef I soak 1/2 piece of bread (without crust) in milk until it's saturated (I think this is called a panade). I then take the bread out of the milk and incorporate it with the ground beef. (I think I got this from an Alton Brown episode for something unrelated). It doesn't really alter the flavor, and can keep even slightly overcooked burgers nice and moist.
I know it's filler, not totally necessary etc. but it does seem to work as a bit of insurance.
The only thing I would add to the above, is that despite what many people say, only flip meat once. If you flip it over a second time, the first side you cooked will be back on the heat. Problem is, that side started to cool as soon as you flipped it. So it will take a bit of time to get to the point that the heat is penetrating far enough to cook more of the meat. It only serves to dry the meat out if it is cooked numerous times over. I personally salt meat right before I put it on the grill, as salt (by its very nature) will tend to draw moisture out of the meat.
Alton Brown puts on a good show and has a great sense of humor, but pointing to his caveats as outright truths is a bit misguided. Most of his experiments on the show usually make assumptions that are often arbitrary or unfounded. First off, there are two main sources of moisture in a burger: the fat that melts as it cooks and the water that is stored in the muscle tissues. You could also point to the possible source of gelatinous connective tissue, but usually the meat used for burgers does not contain much of this.
Worrying about when to salt your meat is probably wasted energy. The fat won't be affected by the salt. If you think about it, some steaks are dry aged to purposely drive the moisture out so the flavors can be intensified. If you have a 20% fat mix, it will be difficult to dry out even if you salt it an hour before hand. Of course, if you know some old school 'pink is poison' people, you know that sometimes you're just gonna be stuck eating a hockey puck regardless.
The number of times you flip the burger is usually a silly rule too. If you take it to the extreme and try flipping a burger ever 10-30 seconds, you'll most likely waste a bunch or time and probably miss out on a nice dark sear outside/med rare inside combo. But if you accidentally have to flip the burger one or two extra times, you'll still be fine. Alton's suggestion that flipping a burger often is better than not sounds meaningless without indicating the thickness of the burger, temperature of and distance from the heat source. Also, it depends on how you like your burger. Some people like an even cook throughout while others like a spice rub that sears to a near crunch around a moist, tender red interior. Alton Brown should stick to his entertaining sock puppets and oversized food props and stop indoctrinating people with fake science.
Squishing the burger down can lead to a good burger too. Have you ever been to Smashburger? It's a relatively new burger chain originating from Colorado (i think). Apparently, they start with a sphere of beef on a hot griddle, and they literally smash the thing into the hot metal with a weighted iron. This cooks the meat quick and ensures efficient heat transfer from the surface to the meat fibers. As long as you cook it at the right temp and get it off the heat right when it is finished cooking, it comes out an amazingly juicy and flavorful burger.
Basically, there are no magic rules for burgers. All that matters is your idea of the ideal meat texture, temp, and thickness and that whatever method you use, you avoid driving out all the water by evaporation and burning away all of the fat while you cook it.
I learn this from my dad, who was a Chinese chef. You have to trap the moisture inside by coating the outer layer with flour. Fry the burger in plenty of oil until a crust on the outside forms. Then turn the heat low and cook slow until the inside is done.
I love the different opinions as to the "best" way to prepare burgers. My contribution to this discussion is to add ketchup to the mix. This will help with moisture and flavor.
Most important thing, I've found -- Shape and form your raw chopped meat with very, very gentle hands. By this, I mean do NOT pack the patty like it's a snowball. By doing this, you'll keep more space between the pieces of chopped meat and during the cooking the juices will nestle into these spaces and get reabsorbed into the meat. If you pack the chopped meat too tightly, the juices will have nowhere to go and will simply drip out of the patty, leaving you with a dry, sad burger.


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Chilaquiles Casserole
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Our version of this enchilada-style chilaquiles casserole is packed with nutritious beans and vegetables. Canned prepared enchilada sauce has great flavor and keeps the prep time quick. It can vary in heat level so find one that suits your taste. If you want to eliminate the heat altogether, try a green enchilada sauce (which is often milder than red) or substitute two 8-ounce cans of plain tomato sauce.
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I was a little skeptical of how this would turn out when I was filling my casserole dish, but I was pleasantly suprised. I did modify by omitting the corn and used a can of fire-roasted tomatoes rather than plain, but otherwise stuck to the recipe. It was great!! I love this because it's easy to keep all the ingredients on hand so this may become a staple for us.
Very delicious and good for you!! I added shredded chicken, and layered it on top of the veggie mix. I also did 2 cans of tomatoes. My husband, brother, mom, and friends LOVED it! It made a full 9x13 pan. It was almost overflowing. I have none left after tonight! I will definitely make this again in the near future.
My honey LOVED this. He said he's looking forward to leftovers tomorrow. He was quite surprised when I told him it had zucchini, and he didn't even notice the corn. I reduced the corn by half (because he doesn't like corn), and used more zucchine. I didn't have black beans, so I used a can of black bean soup (Progresso). I didn't have canned diced tomatoes, so I used a jar of mild chunky salsa (Pace), draining off most of the liquid. I added a tsp of dried cilantro, and chopped up pepper jack cheese slices. I will save this in my favorites recipe folder, I will make this again. I calculated svg to be under 250 calories.
I was looking for a good Mexican casserole recipe and found this. I am not vegetarian and prefer meat in almost all my dishes so I omitted the zucchini and added ground beef. This was so simple to put together and had very short cook time, which I enjoy because my schedule usually leaves me not wanting to spend much time in the kitchen when I get home. Also, I usually have all of these things on hand around the kitchen and if I don't have one or two things, all the ingredients are easy to pick up at a low price. I think this is a great recipe all around!


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The Intersection of Social Failure
Airplanes they say, crash because of multiple systems failures. Columbine, Sandy Hook, Aurora and Virginia Tech all represent significant multiple failures in the ways we regulate weapons and in our approaches to troubled people. The sad thing is that these tragedies are only the tip of a rather large iceberg. These problems have been screaming for resolution for a long time, and as is so often the case in America, it takes a catastrophe to bring them to our attention.
Limiting the availability of assault weapons and high capacity magazines is an essential part of the solution, but it is not the total answer. There are actually five important areas that intersect to create mass shooting tragedies, and each adds an element that ultimately together leads to disaster. These areas are: the way we view and treat troubled people, the sad failure of our mental health system, restrictions in the law, the availability of assault weapons and the nature of the dysfunction that drives mass killers.
There are answers to each of these aspects. Some will be expensive and others will require changes in our way of thinking. But since most of the changes will have to come through the political process, we can expect the special interests to be busy protecting their private agendas. However, one thing is absolutely assured – unless we do something substantial and soon, we'll be having funerals for more a lot more innocent schoolchildren.
This is a complicated matter that touches on personal privacy issues, the right to own firearms, the power of the state vs individual freedom – especially as it relates to the confinement of angry, but not mentally ill people, the limits of police power, unlawful search and seizure and of course, the right of children to go to school or the mall without the threat of being killed.
The underlying fabric to this dilemma is the way we view and treat troubled people. We shun them, we fear them. They are the pariahs of society and we treat them like they used to treat the lepers in the Old Testament. Even with our enlightened modern perspective, we still try to sweep troubled people under the rug – or into alleys and freeway underpasses. A big part of our resolving this issue will have to do with us finding compassion in our hearts for these suffering people.
When it comes to the allocation of social resources, the emotionally troubled are always at the bottom of the barrel and the first to have funding cut when money gets tight. Over the past three years, conservatives in Congress have cut $4.3 billion from the federal mental health budget.
Our present mental health system has failed for two primary reasons – a lack of funding for facilities and resources and the inability of psychology to meaningfully help troubled people.
There was a time when we had large state mental hospitals. They were truly awful places, expensive warehouses for the mentally ill that offered little prospect for patients to ever get better. It was found that smaller, community-based mental health facilities could produce some results, so Congress shut off funding for big state hospitals – and then never bothered to provide money for community based health care. Also, people didn't want mental health clinics in their neighborhoods, so faced with tight budgets and local opposition, the politicians folded.
Troubled people were simply turned out into the street to fend for themselves. In the public brouhaha after the horrible Virginia Tech shootings, gaping holes were exposed in the state of Virginia's mental health system. The conservative Virginia legislature, traditionally opposed to any public funding for health care, allocated $43 million toward the state's mental health system. A year later, when the media had gone away, the same legislature cut the state's mental health budget by $50 million.
Troubled people don't have a political lobby. There is no one to protest when mental health budgets are slashed and resources are eliminated. Plus, as I said, mental health care is always one of the first targets of budget cutting conservatives who are concerned about the expansion of socialized medicine. Political conservatives seem to possess antipathy towards the treatment of troubled people. Psychologists are typically viewed as fuzzy thinking liberals who want to help troubled people by providing socialized medicine.
When you read expert opinions and media accounts of shooters, keep a few things in mind: Mental illness has fairly specific diagnoses. And taken as a group, mentally ill people are no more violent than you are. There are a lot of people walking around who you might call "nuts" in street vernacular, who do not fit into the defined categories of mental illness.
There is a small percentage of mentally ill people, and we are not talking about large numbers here – specifically those with severe and untreated symptoms of schizophrenia with psychosis, major depression or bi-polar disorder, who are about twice as likely to be violent. Psychiatrists have created a category of illness called Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is sort of a catch-all for antisocial behavior.
People who have schizophrenia and substance-use issues do pose an even greater risk. They have a nine times higher risk of being violent. The association is especially marked in regards to homicide. People with schizophrenia are nearly 20 times as likely to kill as people unaffected by the disease. But, these are largely individual killings. Mass shooters are rarely substance abusers. And we should carefully distinguish between typical murderers, (remembering that any murder is a horrible thing!) and the special category of mass killers, because there are important differences.
We make a serious error when we categorically label mass killers as mentally ill. Mental illness is certainly an important consideration, but the mentally ill account for less than half of all multiple victim shootings. Of the 60 most recent mass shooters, acute paranoia, delusions, and depression were rampant among them, but only 38 of them displayed signs of mental health problems (not necessarily mental illness), prior to the killings.
Actually, there are even far fewer mentally ill involved if we only consider the "big" events. The large group of shooters, and we are only talking about 60 men out of a population of 35,000,000 young men, consists of troubled people who are not technically mentally ill, but who pose a serious threat because of their towering rage. Of the three major and many smaller gun tragedies in the nation in 2012, only one of the perpetrators seems to have been mentally ill. The others were just angry, feeling that they were right and everybody else was wrong. They see other people as responsible for their problems. They externalize blame, scapegoating groups or individuals – family, co-workers, neighbors — for whatever is wrong in their lives.
Violence is neither a diagnosis nor is it a disease, and ours remains a violent society. If you read the news, people kill each other every day, by the hundreds – in Afghanistan, New York and East LA, and very few of these people are mentally ill. A military officer who kills masses of people with a Predator drone may be many things, but he is not mentally ill. A drug dealer seeking to avenge a bad drug deal is little different from the mass shooter who seeks revenge for the abuses he feels have been done to him. These killers have been profiled by Paul Mullen, an esteemed Australian forensic psychologist:
They're almost all male, there is one exception. They're young. They tend to be in their 20s. They are typically social isolates. They very rarely have close friends or confidants. They almost never have an intimate relationship, although they sometimes have had brief relationships, which have usually failed.(1)
Interestingly, they're not like many offenders, they don't tend to have problems with alcohol and drugs. They're certainly not impulsive, quite the reverse. These are rather rigid, obsessional individuals who plan everything extremely carefully. And most of these massacres have been planned for days, weeks, sometimes months ahead.
The other thing about them is that they are angry and resentful at the world, they blame the world for not having recognised their qualities, for having mistreated them and misused them. Resentment is central to their personalities.
They spend their time ruminating on all those past slights and offences. And they begin to develop a hatred for the whole world.
Perhaps most important of all, these people are on a project to suicide. They go out there to die, and they go out to die literally in what they see as a blaze of glory. They are seeking a sort of personal vindication through fame or, more precisely, infamy.
To summarize: although direct research is somewhat limited because shooters usually commit suicide, they do operate from an almost stereotypical pattern. The shooter kills in public during the daytime, plans his offense well in advance and comes prepared with a powerful arsenal of weapons. He has no escape plan and expects to be killed during the incident. The killer is driven by strong feelings of anger and resentment, flowing from beliefs of being persecuted or grossly mistreated. He is driven by fantasies of revenge.
These killers are calculating and delusional, but most often not mentally ill. If you met one, you'd think they were odd, but their behavior would not alert you to what they were planning. They can be episodic, so people who spend time with them such as parents, friends and teachers will know that something is wrong, but that can be said for many people, and trying to pick out a potential shooter from the millions troubled, frustrated and disenfranchised people is a daunting task to say the least.
But what is a teacher or parent to do? Several of the recent crop of mass killers could easily have been helped by a residential facility, but even though their problems had been identified, there was simply no program or facility to help them, and no mechanism in place to allow them to be legally referred out for help. So the concerns of teachers, family members and even therapists fell into an abyss in the system with as we now know, tragic consequences!
Most often a teacher or parent's only resource is to call the police, but the police can only respond to a direct, immanent, violent threat. This puts the subject, if he looses his rigid composure (which is uncommon), into a criminal justice system that is neither equipped or prepared to deal with him.
There are almost no resources to help troubled people – no housing, no supervision, no guidance, counseling or vocational training. A callous political calculation has been made that killings such as Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook are a cheaper alternative than to create community based mental health clinics and the billions of dollars and large infrastructure that would require.
Shooters do not see themselves as troubled but rather as victims, so these angry young men vehemently resist taking medications, being confined or receiving treatment. Many of the drugs they are prescribed have truly awful side effects (including violent behavior), further complicating an already difficult situation. These men are smart but their dysfunction is likely to have already brought them up against teachers, the police and psychiatrists, and they will have learned how to play the system to avoid being confined.
The lack of community support makes the well-meaning teacher or parent who seeks help for a subject, a target for the subject's smoldering rage. And as we have sadly seen, these men can lash out with incredibly destructive rage or in a most interesting modern twist, lawsuits! Most parents are also unwilling to see their sons as troubled because that reflects back on them as parenting failures.
A critical element in the discussion of mass shooters obviously involves guns and their accessibility. There is a group of people in our society who fear that the government might try and take away their freedoms. These are usually men who feel personally powerless. And for people who feel powerless, like a victimized shooter or an NRA member, an assault rifle can be the great equalizer.
The need of these men to defend themselves against a fantasied governmental incursion has led them to create an open market for assault style weapons that regrettably, can easily get into the wrong hands (either legally or illegally). The fear of these "Defenders of Freedom" puts the rest of us at grave risk. Eighty percent of the perpetrators of the 62 most recent mass shootings obtained their weapons legally.
Besides, home security can easily be accomplished by less aggressive weapons. And as far as protection from a governmental incursion is concerned, if you consider the premise of armed civilians going up against the might of the Army with its tanks, trained troops and helicopter gunships, the whole concept becomes pretty ridiculous. But, in one sense the NRA is right, guns are only the instruments of mayhem. But, the pivotal factor that the NRA conveniently chooses to ignore is that a rage filled person with a Bushmaster assault rifle is massively more deadly and dangerous than one without. Mass killers don't use knives or baseball bats. Assault weapons have been perfected as instruments of death and they are incredibly effective at doing it! And that is why we must get them and high capacity magazines off the street!
The NRA, controlled and funded by gun manufacturers, purposefully and unconscionably, fuels their member's fears, as it attempts to gain support for its private agenda, which is a society where everyone carries guns – essentially a throwback to the violent Wild West of the 1880′s.
The other aspect of the weapons discussion has to do with their sheer availability. There are over 350,000,000 guns in America and anyone who wants a gun can easily get one. You can go to any city in America and in 48 hours purchase enough guns and ammunition (including heavy weapons), to equip a small army.
America is violent country. Our homicide rates are SEVEN TIMES higher than rates in the other high-income countries. More than half of all murders are committed with guns. Our firearm homicide rates are TWENTY TIMES higher. For youths fifteen to twenty-four years old, firearm homicide rates in America are FORTY THREE TIMES higher than in other countries.(1)
Another issue in this discussion, and what has until now been a sacred cow, is the failure of psychotherapy to heal people. The simple truth is that psychotherapy and drugs just don't work very well. But, since they have been the only game in town and they come from the esteemed medical profession, politicians give them approval because of the way the legal system esteems psychiatry, (which even amongst practicing psychotherapists is a standing joke!) The alternative is to warehouse troubled people like we do criminals – who we also don't seem to know how to help.
Shamanism (and you must accept my bias here) has a remarkable record of helping emotionally troubled people to heal, but it is a foreign concept from "backward" tribal cultures, difficult to teach in university classrooms and is spiritually and not medically or "scientifically" based. Besides, there are relatively few really qualified shaman around. So, even though the psychotherapy car already has several flat tires, we continue to try and drive it down the road.
The law doesn't help much in dealing with troubled people either. The courts are understandably, exceedingly touchy about confining someone against their will without a certification of mental illness. And as I said, most mass killers do not meet the the mental illness requirement. Acts of mass murder are so heinous that it is difficult to attribute them to normal people, but shooters are merely the extreme fringe of a culture that engages in deadly violence every day. In America hundreds of people are killed every single day. I don't personally agree with the psychiatric categorizations of mental illness, but these are the rules that the law and the courts have chosen to adopt.
When a troubled person attracts attention, the police are usually called. But the only resource a police officer has is jail, and that's only going to be for a short time. Sometimes they can pawn the troubled person off to a shelter. If a seriously troubled person comes for therapy, unless he or she represents an imminent and immediate threat to themselves or to others, the system effectively forbids the therapist from doing anything beyond counseling. Even if the subject is a ticking time bomb, unless he or she expresses an active desire to cause harm, therapists, the police, teachers, the clergy and even the courts are denied any real resource for intervention.
And when a person does present an active threat, they can only be hospitalized for 72 hours before being committed as mentally ill, if they actually happen to be so, and if there is a bed available, which these days is rare. A colleague of mine in Virginia had a potentially violent client, checked with the state and found 70 other violent people already waiting in line. By the end of the day, this violent and potentially explosive man was back on the street. The only consolation for mental health professionals is the miracle that more killings aren't happening every day!
I would like to end by making a few suggestions. These are not complete answers, but they would go a very long way toward mitigating the current situation:
Since an assault weapon cannot be used for hunting, and personal defense can be easily accomplished by other means, it is time that society took a stand and joined the rest of the civilized world to establish bans on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. Further, the purposefully designed loopholes in the present reporting system for weapons sales such as unregulated private and gun show sales must be closed. Unfortunately, having the government maintain a list of gun owners feeds right into the paranoia that makes NRA members want assault weapons in the first place!
In a many cases, troubled people can be identified before things go bad. I have mentioned having a referral system based on observations from therapists, law enforcement officers, clergy, teachers and even family members. It would be simple to backstop these referrals with a qualified professional so that errors would be minimized.
There are tests that could help identify people who are likely to need help in the future. It would be possible to test all sixteen to twenty year olds for a host of issues. This could cull out most, but unfortunately not all, of the people likely to be future shooters.
But, there is no sense identifying these people if we are not going to provide the resources to help them. The names of people meeting critical criteria could be denied access to firearms. Civil libertarians will not like it, but under the circumstances, it would seem to be a reasonable limitation of personal freedom. Access to this list could be selectively given to parents, teachers, the clergy, therapists, the courts and law enforcement officers.
There is a desperate need for community based, residential facilities for troubled people. These facilities must be sufficiently funded and staffed so that the needs of patients could be addressed and the reasonable concerns of neighbors mitigated. This would provide a badly needed resource for parents, therapists, law enforcement officers, the clergy, the courts and educators who, with some changes in the law, could refer out troubled people with protection from retribution and lawsuits. This represents a very large expenditure, probably the equivalent cost of an aircraft carrier or a few nuclear missiles.
Psychotherapy has emphasized cognitive behavioral health for years. Cognitions and behaviors are measurable, observable. And to some extent, altering thoughts and behaviors does help MANAGE emotional issues. But in only rare cases does it HEAL them. This leaves open room for relapse when the person is subjected to challenging circumstances.
There are other healing methods like shamanism that have an established history of providing exactly the healing that troubled shooters require. These approaches can reach the cause of the underlying problems and address them. It is time to begin looking into some of these alternate approaches.
Confining someone against their will who is not mentally ill and who already feels victimized by the world is going to pose a nightmare for the courts and legislators. Where do you draw the line? What about errors in diagnosis? And there will be some. This matter is subjective and emotionally loaded, presenting land mines for the legal system.
As I said, this is a complex issue with many moving parts.
Solutions will require changes in the concerns some politicians have about socialized medicine and our present legal prohibitions around personal privacy. Creating community based mental health clinics will be expensive. But most importantly, what needs to change are the views, fear and ostracism we hold towards troubled people.We need to find our compassion for them. Societies do not die in a cataclysm, that is only the final event in a series of unresolved social issues that cause the social fabric to decay. To delay, to not provide care for the many troubled people who live amongst us, is to only invite more school shootings, and the painful thing about that is what it says about a society that is unwilling to respond to the cries of its neediest people. Perhaps the Mayans were right after all.
(1) To clarify Mullen's point: Interviews tell us that mass shooters are not exactly loners. They do not seek isolation, and have "friends," but their social experience is marked by a history of struggling to connect. They experience rejection by their peers or they draw back from potential friendships, assuming they'll be rejected if they try. They believe they are perceived as unimportant and insignificant. Many mass shooters, rather than wanting to be alone, end up that way because they cannot maintain a connection.
(2) (http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-gun-policy-and-research/publications/WhitePaper102512_CGPR.pdf)
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Are you a Stravasshole?
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
Stravasshole : an individual Strava-ing at the expense of common courtesy.
Strava is fun and I like to go "Strava-ing on the weekends". For those unfamilier with this term, Strava is a the ability to track your rides with GPS AND (most importantly) compete not in real-time with other riders of the road or trail for the fastest time. There are other products that provide rich GPS ride tracking like Ride with GPS and MapMyRide is getting into KOM's as well but Strava isn't about it's GPS technical excellence it's all about public display of winning. But like any disruptive technology that hits the market like Facebook, Twitter or camera phones, bad uses arise and with Strava these people are called Stravassholes.
Recently on MTBR Forums a Post about Stravassholes was made
So over the last year or so the rides tracked on Strava here in the FR have blown thru the roof, especially in the Golden area. the lookout road climb had always been a biggie but now there are tons of UH and DH segments on dirt all over Chimney, WR, NTM, STM, etc. Initially I was hooked, I was riding better when I knew I was on the clock. Since however, realized its clearly a double edge sword. Was ascending last week, some ***** comes whipping around, saw me and shouted "STRAVA! coming thru"...didn't bother to yield and blew by. not a huge deal, wide section of the trail, but got me wondering what the FR will be like when the entire FR is full of Stravons killling each other for the KOM. oh well.
- Choosing a Strava Segment due to favorable winds
- Stravaing while in a pack, no, this is a solo thing
- Descending in a bubble and yelling "Strava"
- Posting your Strava account link on your resume
- Add your ways in the comments below
Are we becoming Stravassholes with this new technology?
I posted this question to Facebook recently and got some interesting feedback, as one person said, Assholes are Assholes, Strava just gave them a platform to amplify it.
But I like Strava as it allows us to do something not so easily done before and to use it in innovative ways like create a race without ever having a race or easily see how my climbing or descending compares to my peers or just for myself and how I perform on my weekly personal hard ride day. With tools like Strava one could create a entire race series for a Summer and never have to get a permit, have insurance or get it sanctioned, how cool would that be?! It can also be very disheartening at times like when I blew a personal record on NCAR last week only to find out that put in me 39th place (I'm not even going to try to beat the downhill segment).
If you haven't tried Strava or any of the Strava like products (Ride with GPS, MapMyRide, or MyTracks (Google)) than be cautious, it can be addictive and if you have any bit of asshole in you then it will get amplified and your inner Stravasshole will come out.
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Well if that makes you feel better. Tail winds happen naturally and these courses take place in the natural world, if someone wants to hit a segment with a tail wind they can only do one when everyone else has that same opportunity. There aren't that many people out there drafting scooters, some people are just fast. But hey if you want to only compete against people with a powermeter to keep you motivated that's cool.
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Ways you are a Stravasshole:
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More Ways you are a Stravasshole:
- Mentioning your Strava KOMs in open conversation.
- Using your Strava KOMs as a pick up line.
- Creating segments from your front door to your mail box
- Avoiding technical objects to "better my Strava time"
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Best Way to be a Stravasshole:
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- Using Strava to train for an Ironman
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Strava and Motor Pacing
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Velonews editor Neal Rogers thinks bogus to set KOMs while motor pacing
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It's called
Submitted by Anymouse (not verified) on
It's called stravadoping.
Personally, all my KOMs were done solo (into a headwind).
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What's worse is Fascat
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What's worse is Fascat motorpacing dozens of riders and taking all the KOMs on anything but steep climbs.
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FasCat motorpacing
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Fully agree, their NAME says they are using a motor. If the cyclist they are pacing wants to post a KOM and not disclose they were motorpacing, then they can be a Stravasshole on their own. Blatently posting that you were sitting on a motor bike twisting your right wrist and beating out recreational riders on bicycles who are trying to improve is just a new level of "Stravassholeness" .
They (FasCat) should remove every ride they posted as they are not "Rides" until Strava makes a new app for motorcycles. Then we can all watch as hoards of helmetless college students on Honda CBR5000's go flying off the roads in the canyons.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
FYI - motorpacing still is riding a bike, but drafting off a scooter/cycle
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I have a weird feeling to
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I have a weird feeling to roundhouse anyone who comes up to me on the trail and yells "Strava." Its sad and disappointing. Strava or no strava you have to share the trail/road/path and if you don't then i would like to break your leg/arm/head. Stop being stravassholes and go back to just assholes:)
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I have yet to encounter this,
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I have yet to encounter this, but just to be clear, you're saying that someone coming up behind yelling 'strava!' wants you to get out of the way so they can get a better number?
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TROY, N.Y. (12/7/13) – Sophomore Jonathan Liau scored a goal and an assist as the Princeton men's hockey team fell 5-2 to Rensselaer at Houston Field House on Saturday, Dec. 7.
RPI (8-5-3, 3-3-3 ECAC) jumped out to a 2-0 lead with goals 23 seconds apart. Chris Bradley scored at 3:03 with a shot from the high slot and Brock Higgs scored on a wrap around at 3:26.
Senior defender Alec Rush made it a one-goal game at 14:08 after Princeton (3-12, 2-8 ECAC) got an odd-man rush. Rush and freshman Kyle Rankin passed the puck back-and-forth with Rush getting the final pass and scoring on it. Liau earned an assist on the play as well, his seventh of the year. He is second on the team in assists.
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20 Mar 2012 - 20 Mar 2012The side event will discuss and reiterate the key messages of indigenous peoples for inclusion in the Rio +20 Outcome Document. These messages are the following:
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1. Recognition of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development
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