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Bipolar I disorder is an axis 1 clinical disorder in the DSM-IV and is a serious mental illness that can lead to suicidal ideation or action. The history of bipolar disorder research is a long one, and understanding of the disease has deepened considerably over the last several generations. Diagnosis of bipolar disorder 1 is complicated by its resemblance to other mood disorders, mainly major depression but also psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. Research is revealing new treatment interventions that are targeted to the biological needs of bipolar patients, as antidepressants are often or usually contraindicated. A Christian worldview suggests that individualized treatment plans take into account the family history and patient's lifestyle when recommending a treatment plan.
Bipolar I disorder is a serious mental illness that affects between 1 and 2.5% of the general population in the United States (Ghaznavi & Deckersbach, 2012). The more conservative estimate, 1%, is generally reserved for Bipolar 1 disorder, the most severe on the bipolar spectrum (Hirschfeld, et al., 2000). Bipolar disorder has been written about in psychiatric and medical literature for centuries, and yet there is little progress in terms of finding an absolute cure. According to Angst & Sellaro (2000), two centuries of literature on bipolar disorder has shown mainly that the disease is "highly recurrent and considered to have a poor prognosis," (p. 445). Early historical evidence of bipolar existing in the general population stems back to ancient Greece, when Aretaeus of Cappadocia "first recognized some symptoms of mania and depression, and felt they could be linked to each other," ("A Brief History of Bipolar Disorder," 2012). That was in the first century after Christ, showing how deeply rooted manic-depressive disorder is in the human experience.
The coexistence of mania and depression in the same individual, manifesting collective symptoms exhibited intermittently, was again posited as a specific mental illness in the modern era. In 1854, French scientist Jules Farlet again linked depression and episodes of heightened mood, as well as suicide, referring to the phenomenon as "folie circulaire," or circular insanity ("A Brief History of Bipolar Disorder," 2012). In 1875, Falret and his contemporaries Francois Baillarger and Emil Kraepelin classified folie circulaire as a psychiatric illness and named it officially Manic-Depressive Psychosis ("A Brief History of Bipolar Disorder," 2012; Angst & Sellaro 2000). It was in 1899 that Kraepelin unified "all types of affective disorders," beneath one umbrella term. Kraepelin's concept of "mixed states" of affective disorder was a view that persisted as late as the 1960s (Angst & Marneros, 2001, p. 3). This early research showed that there was great awareness that depression and mania often went hand in hand. Furthermore, Falret and Baillarger were the first researchers to hypothesize a genetic component to Manic-Depressive Psychosis, now called bipolar disorder ("A Brief History of Bipolar Disorder," 2012).
German researchers also contributed to the first psychiatric classifications of manic-depression. In particular, Ewald Hecker (1843-1909) and Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828-1899) "laid the groundwork for modern descriptive psychiatry," (Baethge, Salvatore & Baldessarini, 2003, p 377). In 1882, Hecker and Kahlbaum proposed the existence of a relatively benign form of manic-depressive illness," which the researchers called cyclothymia (Baethge, Salvatore & Baldessarini, 2003). The basic cyclothymia framework included "depressive (dysthymia), hypomanic (hyperthymia), and mixed hypomanic-depressive phases," a classification system that continues to underwrite today's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) on bipolar disorder. In fact, cyclothymia is the term used in the current, fourth edition of the DSM (DSM-IV) to describe "a milder form of the bipolar II subtype" of bipolar disorder (DNS Learning Center, 2012).
The twentieth century saw revitalization in research on manic-depressive illness. Whereas the Falret, Baillarger and Kraepelin research, and even the Hecker and Kahlbaum classification system, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were mainly theoretical and exploratory, empirical research would help psychiatrists and psychologists classify the disease with greater certainty. In the 1960s, Jules Angst, Carlo Perris, and George Winokur conducted independent empirical studies validating the concept of manic-depression (Angst & Marneros, 2001). Research was used to distinguish between unipolar (one state, such as depression) and bipolar (two states, mania and depression) affective disorders, therefore challenging the assumption made by Kraepelin that all affective disorders shared common roots and manifestations in symptoms (Angst & Marneros, 2001).
In fact, Kraepelin laid the groundwork for future research that showed that affective disorders do share certain features in common, but that there are several branches to the main trees of these disorders. Hecker and Kahlbaum's concept of cyclothymia has also made a resurgence in modern psychiatric diagnostic literature. The most important feature of the Hecker and Kahlbaum cyclothymia diagnosis is that it has contributed to an understanding of the continuum of symptoms that now comprises the bipolar spectrum.
Diagnosis: The Bipolar Spectrum of Disorders
Bipolar disorder is an Axis I diagnosis in the DSM-IV in the category of Mood Disorder. The Mood Disorder rubric encompasses not only bipolar disorders but also major depressive disorder, general depression, dysthymic disorder, substance-induced mood disorder, and mood disorders that are otherwise unspecified. Mood disorders are distinct from other Axis I mental disorders such as psychotic disorders. Moreover, mood disorders, like all Axis I clinical diagnoses are distinguished from any Axis II diagnosis related to personality disorders. Comorbidity with other clinical and personality disorders is not uncommon.
Several mental illnesses classified in the DSM-IV are listed as spectrum disorders; that is, there is an array of specific manifestations of the parent problem. For example, autism is a "spectrum" of disorders that includes Asperger's syndrome. With bipolar disorder, there are four sub-species of disease including bipolar disorder I, bipolar disorder II, cycloythymia, and bipolar not otherwise specified (NOS).
The bipolar spectrum is predicted on the Hecker and Kahlbaum cyclothymia concept being the "soft" side of the continuum (Marneros, 2001, p. 39). Now, cyclothymia has its own entry in the DSM-IV as a milder form of bipolar disorder -- meaning that the episodes of mania and depression are not as severe symptomatically as they would be for a person with full-fledged bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder II is ranked next in terms of relative severity of symptoms, and bipolar I disorder is the more serious side of the continuum. Because bipolar 1 is qualitatively and measurably different from the other members of the bipolar family of illnesses, it has been given its own name: Cade's Disease (Ghaemi & Goodwin, 2002).
Whereas bipolar II disorder is classified by hypomania, bipolar I is characterized by full-blown mania. The difference is in degree. Manic episodes are also classified as being mild moderate, severe, and very severe ("Bipolar Disorder (DSM-IV-TR #296.0 -- 296.89," n.d.). In keeping with the original Kraepelin classification, manic states in the DSM-IV include hypomania, acute mania, delusional mania, and delirious mania ("Bipolar Disorder (DSM-IV-TR #296.0 -- 296.89," n.d.). Hypomania is the prerequisite for a bipolar II disorder diagnosis. Hypomania refers to elevated mood, coupled with a sense of high self-esteem. Mania, on the other hand, will be accompanied by hallucinations or delusions of grandeur. "Religious delusions are very common. The patients are prophets, elected by God for a magnificent, yet hidden, purpose. They are enthroned; indeed God has made way for them," ("Bipolar Disorder (DSM-IV-TR #296.0 -- 296.89," n.d.).
The presence of a manic episode that includes or resembles psychosis is a prerequisite in bipolar 1 disorder, whereas it is not a prerequisite for bipolar II or any of the other bipolar spectrum disorders. This suggests a potential link between bipolar 1 disorder and schizophrenia. When Kraepelin developed his classification system, the researcher distinguished between two core types of what he called "insanity," and those types were basically bipolar and schizophrenia (Ivleva, Thaker & Tamminga, 2008). At the same time, the researcher did recognize that these were two different sides of the same coin of mental illness. Similarly, Francois Baillarger "believed there was a major distinction between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia," and this is what "allowed bipolar disorder to receive its own classification from other mental disorders of the time," ("A Brief Historyo f Bipolar Disorder," 2012).
In spite of the advances in diagnostic criteria, bipolar disorder often goes unrecognized or misdiagnosed (Hirschfeld et al., 2000). One of the reasons for lack of diagnosis or misdiagnosis is the fact that bipolar disorder 1 shares some features in common with schizophrenia including the presence of hallucinations, delusions, and psychosis. In fact, recent research reveals a possible biological connection between bipolar 1 disorder and schizophrenia, a connection that might revolutionize the way bipolar disorder is classified, viewed, and treated. For example, the International Schizophrenia Consortium (ISC) conducted genome research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The data set revealed that common genetic variation underlies risk of schizophrenia," and "these alleles of small effect also contribute to risk of bipolar disorder," ("Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder," 2009, p. 748).
Another common reason for misdiagnosis or under diagnosis of bipolar disorder is that it is often mistaken for unipolar major depressive disorder (Ghaemi & Goodwin, 2002). Ghaemi, &…[continue]
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Bipolar II In the United States alone, a staggering number of people suffer from some sort of mental illness and many more are at high risk of developing a mental condition. Worldwide, the number is even greater, especially in countries without the resources to provide the care needed by such people. Some mental conditions are more prevalent and easier to develop than others. Whereas a serious disease that manifests various forms
Bipolar psychiatric disorder (BD) -- which is characterized by "…cycles of depression and mania" -- is a "euphoric, high-energy state" that can produce remarkable bursts of creativity or, on the other hand, can produce erratic behavioral events that are risky and provocative (Gardner, 2011). About 2.4% of the world's population has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder (at one time or another in their lifetime) but the rate in the United
Bipolar Disorder Symptoms Bipolar disorder has been studied for more than a decade after remaining undiagnosed in children and adolescents for many years. Much literature such as that by Pavuluri, Birmaher, and Naylor (2005b), and Kowatch and Debello (2006) is available on diagnostic issues pertaining to paediatric bipolar disorder. In addition, many cases studies have also been published on the topic such as those by DuVaI (2005) and Hamrin and Bailey
Bipolar Disorder generally sets in during adolescence or early adulthood though it may also occur late in one's life or during childhood. It results in terrible mood swings ranging from mania and euphoria to depression and suicidal tendencies. The earlier a person is diagnosed with bipolar disorder the better. Medication is available for bipolar disorder, which helps control the mood swings and even treats the condition. Diagnosis of bipolar disorders
Scientists thus call this tendency a "genetic vulnerability" to inherit depression (Read 2007:1) Biologically, bipolarity is not caused by brain damage although there is mounting evidence that the brains of bipolar patients look different from those without mood disorders. A 2000 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry that the brains of patients with bipolar disorder contain 30% more cells that send signals to other brain cells, suggesting that the
She has also recently experienced a "depressive episode characterized by the presence, while depressed, of two (or more) of the following:" poor appetite, insomnia and hypersomnia, low energy and fatigue, low self-esteem, poor concentration, difficulty making decisions, feelings of hopelessness, and a lack of energy that stood in notable contrast to her agitated, incessant movement and energy during her manic phase. During her manic phase, Katherine showed clear signs of
In other words, the nurse needs to become the patient's mentor and confidant all at the same time. This requires excellent communication skills and listening skills on the part of the nurse. Applicable Psychological Theory: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) The Cognitive Behavioral model is an amalgamation of three major psychology disciplines: behavior therapy, cognitive therapy and social psychology (Cooper & Lesser, 2008). There are a series of steps that need to be


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Can We Go All the Way to 100% Clean Renewable Energy?
I was pleased to see the 10 August 2016 announcement by the Sierra Club that ten U.S. cities have vowed to "lead the way to 100 percent clean energy."
The club announced a new report showcasing the 10 cities making ambitious commitments to replace fossil fuel combustion (which generates greenhouse gases, adding to global warming and its many adverse consequences).
The report claims that
"…public officials and community leaders see the transition from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy not as an obligation but as an opportunity. Cities powered by 100% clean energy save taxpayer dollars, help their residents save money, create good jobs, and foster a better quality of life."
All well and good. However, partial conversion of a few subdivisions, towns, and cities does not a substantial reversal of the accelerating global warming process make. This great beginning needs rapidly to escalate from partial to complete conversion (including homes, offices, factories, government facilities, and even transportation) and from a few towns and cities to the whole country, eventually the world. And "eventually" cannot mean in the next century.
That will be too late. As you'll read in my article, the process is already well under way around the world and in the U.S., driven almost completely by market forces, with a little help from local, state, and national governments. But it still is way too slow for ultimate success to be anything we all would want.
Unfortunately, the Sierra Club announcement didn't indicate if they thought it could be even possible to do a 100% complete conversion from fossil fuels to clean renewable sources. There are many obstacles to a complete conversion, notably in the transportation sector.
The report itself offered this encouraging claim:
"And 100% clean energy is not a not pie-in-the-sky idea. Burlington, Vermont; Aspen, Colorado; Columbia, Maryland; and Greensburg, Kansas, have already achieved 100% clean energy and are powering their cities today with entirely renewable sources."
The magic word deep in the report seems to be "100% electricity." In the Case of Aspen, Colorado, other forms of energy use in the city were not mentioned. Has the city made progress running its cars, trucks, trains, and fossil-fuel-powered residential space heating and industrial heating systems without fossil fuels, with only renewable energy sources? To a minor degree the answer is yes.
The wind and solar variability issue alone poses a serious challenge. Wind and solar radiation are not available 100% of the time. How does Aspen manage that? "Aspen's mix is now approximately 50% wind, 45% hydropower, and the remaining 5% from solar—including solar at the water treatment plant and solar thermal powering an affordable housing neighborhood—and landfill gas."
That's impressive, but that 45% from hydropower likely is what saves the day, since it is probably available whenever needed to fill in at night when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing.
What Aspen is doing now is not necessarily what they'll be able to do in the future. It is encouraging, but we need to know that going all the way is possible, so that the now-famous adage in this wall mural at a street protest long ago can be the major goal:
As a solar energy scientist for over 40 years now, I've been concerned about four big inhibitors to going all-the-way in the conversion from fossil fuel combustion to renewable energy sources. Recently, I did some work to find out how serious these inhibitors are today, after all the years of research and experimentation with renewable energy over the past half century.
I wrote my findings in a relatively brief blog posting titled, "Yes, We Can! A Path to 100% Renewables"at this link. I hope you will go there and read through my article.
Please leave a comment in the space provided below my posting. The more comments on that article, the more the editors at "Climate Desk" and its many partners will pay attention to it, possibly reposting it in their own publications.
Climate Desk partners include: Medium, theAtlantic, Grist, theGuardian, HuffPost, Slate, Wired, New Republic, and MotherJones.
As you can tell from the title of my piece, the conclusion I reached was a positive one. I hope you like it.
Dr. Ross McCluney holds B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics, worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for three years as an optical oceanographer and then as a principal research scientist at the University of Central Florida's Florida Solar Energy Center for over 30 years. He has been an active environmentalist since before the first Earth Day 1970 and helped organize the University of Miami's observance of that event. He has taught classes in algebra, radiometry and photometry, and environmental ethics; written books and chapters in books by others; and made presentations to a variety of audiences on energy and environmental topics.
Establishment Politicians Be Damned. The People Have Had Enough.
The U.S. presidential election has finally demonstrated that the people have had it. They are rising up in large numbers to let establishment politicians know they won't take it anymore. The surge of Donald Trump to the head of the Republican Party has confounded nearly everyone. But his populist appeal has won the day—with however crazy the vessel of that anger might be to thinking adults.
The amazing crowds also drawn to Bernie Sanders rallies in the Democratic Party make the same point, with a similar message: We've had it with traditional politicians who line their pockets with huge financial gifts from wealthy donors determined to bend public policy toward their greed for money and power.
But in the most important area of all, the first of these protest movements misses the mark while the second is right on target. That is the likelihood of massive environmental, political, and violent disruptions at the hands of global warming. These may bring civilization to the brink of collapse in a few decades, if much more serious action to combat it is not taken now, quickly, and with massive changes in the way that civilization powers itself.
In consequence, a massive set of public protests, demonstrations, gatherings, and stunts is kicking off around the globe this month. BREAKFREE has started a massive global series of actions to convince the world to abandon fossil fuels, leaving them safely in the ground, while switching to energy efficiency and renewable energy. These actions are being taken in the hopes of staving off the scourge of global warming now reaching epic proportions. The severe consequences of rampant, uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions are proceeding unabated—even accelerating—with dire consequences for the future of humanity.
Turning Point for Humanity on Global Warming
When the total direct and indirect costs of consuming and releasing Carbon are recognized to exceed the cost of alternatives, economic demand for alternatives will automatically increase both in production (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, etc.) and consumption (electric vehicles, Hydrogen fuel cells, etc.). As with tobacco products and other detriments to society and the planet, Government's role and responsibility is to tax or regulate what is not in the best interest of the population and subsidize what is.
Nations around the world, including the United States, need to fight the influence of the Carbon Energy Industrial Complex that attempts to block or destroy any technology that competes with their product through misinformation and political pressure. There will always be some people who deny facts or research that are counter to their religious beliefs or just resist being changed.
The only solution is continuous education and the knowledge that eventually everyone acts in their own economic self-interest. We need a tax on Carbon energy as soon as possible and continued subsidies on alternatives. If we can increase the popularity of distributed alternative energy technologies without degrading national electric grids around the world, we should move in that direction as well.
— Malcolm Baird, 26 January 2016
Family Planning – A Special and Urgent Concern by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
On this Martin Luther King Day, it is fitting to reprint below Martin Luther King Jr.'s acceptance speech upon receiving one of the four 1966 Margaret Sanger Awards given by Planned Parenthood Federation of America to honor the woman who founded America's family planning movement.
1966 was the first year of the award. The other recipients that year were Dr. Carl G. Hartman, General William H. Draper Jr., and President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers. While we need not give credence to these stories, they allow our imagination to speculate on how visitors from outer space would judge us. I am afraid they would be stupefied at our conduct. They would observe that for death planning we spend billions to create engines and strategies for war. They would also observe that we spend millions to prevent death by disease and other causes. Finally they would observe that we spend paltry sums for population planning, even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet. Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain.
There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess.
What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims.
The Annihilation of Nature
At the end of the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP – 21) in Paris and as a new year arrives, it is fitting to note the publication of an important new work. It is The Annihilation of Nature. The authors are Gerardo Ceballos, a leading ecologist, and the wife and husband duo–Anne H. Ehrlich and Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University research scientists both famous for their lifelong efforts to describe the causes and consequences of human overpopulation on Planet Earth.
Below is a review of the book by its publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press. Here's a link to the publisher's web site and an Amazon.com link to the book.
The Annihilation of Nature — Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals
This book shows us the face of Earth's sixth great mass extinction, revealing that this century is a time of darkness for the world's birds and mammals. In The Annihilation of Nature, three of today's most distinguished conservationists tell the stories of the birds and mammals we have lost and those that are now on the road to extinction. These tragic tales, coupled with eighty-three color photographs from the world's leading nature photographers, display the beauty and biodiversity that humans are squandering.
Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich serve as witnesses in this trial of human neglect, where the charge is the massive and escalating assault on living things. Nature is being annihilated, not only because of the human population explosion, but also as a result of massive commercial endeavors and public apathy. Despite the well-intentioned work of conservation organizations and governments, the authors warn us that not enough is being done and time is short for the most vulnerable of the world's wild birds and mammals. Thousands of populations have already disappeared, other populations are dwindling daily, and soon our descendants may live in a world containing but a minuscule fraction of the birds and mammals we know today.
Our Opportunity In Paris
Updated 18 December 2015
The UN Conference on Global Warming in Paris is now over.
NYT Op-Ed Columnist Thomas Friedman, writing from Paris, wrote this at the end of the conference:
"I had low expectations for the U.N. climate meeting here and it met all of them — beautifully. I say that without cynicism.
"Any global conference that includes so many countries can't be expected to agree on much more than the lowest common denominator. But the fact that the lowest common denominator is now so high — a willingness by 188 countries to offer plans to steadily and verifiably reduce their carbon emissions — means we still have a chance to meet what scientists say is our key challenge: to avoid the worst impacts of global warming that we cannot possibly manage and to manage those impacts that we can no longer avoid. That is a big, big deal.
"Hat's off, because this keeps alive the hope of capping the earth's warming to 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 Fahrenheit, above the level that existed at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution — the rough redline scientists have drawn beyond which 'global weirding' will set in and the weather will most likely get really weird and unstable. We're already almost halfway to passing that redline.
"The only important holdout in the world to this deal is the U.S. Republican Party. I wouldn't care about such cave men — as one sign borne by a Paris demonstrator said, 'Dinosaurs didn't believe in climate change either,' and it didn't end well for them — except that one of these knuckleheads could be our next president and mess this up."
Stopping global warming is the one thing which ordinary persons around the world are able to accomplish. Indeed, our support for the needed political action will be essential for it to be successful, if we can accelerate the plan that came out of the 2015 Paris meeting.
Leaders have already made great advances in many of the countries of the world in drafting their own national plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and bringing them to the Paris meeting. Now it is time for the people not only to support these drafts but to demand they be improved and accelerated in meaningful ways now that the Paris accord has been adopted. For our leaders not to work toward that end (or work against it, as some are doing), I believe, constitutes political incompetence and the leaders dragging their feet should be removed from office. For more on this subject, see my blog posting dated 12 November 2015, "Two Birds — One Stone: A call for action."
For an excellent and readily available background on global warming, I suggest a visiting with your mobile phone and/or computer to the CNN website two° and its three reports on the subject:
· Report: Global temperature hike already halfway to 2-degree limit
· Can we avoid climate apocalypse?
· 100 days to save the world
Of course, there is vociferous opposition to action on climate change amongst some conservative members of the U.S. Congress. This seems ass backwards to me.
Two Questions for Paris
The United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-21) has convened in Paris this week. The Presidents of France and the United States have stated that the consequences of uncontrolled global warming are likely to be so serious in this century as to adversely change all our ways of life far into the future.
The juxtaposition of COP-21 and the Paris terrorism attacks two weeks earlier lead to thoughts of how these two events might be related.
I have two questions I think should be debated in the global media this week, while international leaders are in Paris, simultaneously dealing with the dual threatening disasters of climate change and terrorism.
They are:
- Is it possible that climate change could at some point in the future extinct humanity?
- Is it possible that terrorism could at some point in the future extinct humanity?
Scientific knowledge and experts should be invited to discuss the first question, while political science knowledge and experts in that field should be brought to the second question. Such discussions would likely be very interesting and informative. I think we'd all like to see what the experts conclude.
It is my belief that the answer to both is yes, at least theoretically.
The first "yes" could result from serious and prolonged destruction of the global ecosystem, accompanied by losses of humanity's edible food production, including losses of fresh water needed to produce that food, accompanied also by personal and military conflicts associated with these changes — likely to result from extreme global warming and the multiple weather and other associated disasters. If this results in sufficient damage to the global life-support system (our biosphere), the result could well be the extinction (or near-extinction) of humanity.
The second "yes" could come should the terrorist state reaches the point and power where it obtains nuclear weapons and uses them to initiate a global thermonuclear war, killing large numbers of humans and producing serious destruction of governmental, industrial, and agricultural systems, coupled with the use of biological weapons and/or intentional or unintentional release of virulent strains of killer bacteria and rapidly spreading viruses affecting the human population, thereby extincting humanity.
I think the likelihood of the first of these extinction scenarios is very much greater than the second one.
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The world is rapidly approaching COP-21, the 21st United Nations "Conference of the Parties," the climate change convention taking place early December in Paris.
President Obama and other world leaders are preparing actions and arguments toward a truly meaningful new agreement coming out of that meeting — to take really significant steps toward reversing the introduction of greenhouse gases like CO2 into the atmosphere, which are accelerating global warming.
The industrialized nations of the world are emitting most of these gases and have the most power and ability to reverse the trend. So these are the primary parties to the conference. Many of the developing nations of the world will be there as well. It is hoped they will also subscribe to as many greenhouse gas emission strategies as they are able, since we all suffer from global warming effects.
One of the best ways to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is to replace fossil-fuel-fired power plants with solar-electric- and wind-powered ones, a process that has accelerated in recent years due to falling prices for solar and wind power coupled with rising prices for fossil-fuel sourced grid electricity. There is a growing number of cases in which investment in renewable energy makes much more economic sense than investing in fossil-fuel-sourced power plants.
In the U.S. and a few other countries, however, there are politically conservative opponents to the very essence of COP-21 and its goals. Some use outright anti-science arguments to try and stop the switch away from fossil fuel toward increased energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Others admit that global warming is really happening and a few even accept that much of the increase is human-caused, but they counter with a proposition that making this transition will damage the economy, meaning mainly the profits of the coal, oil, and gas companies.
The truth is that global warming consequences threaten serious damage to the Earth's life-support system if allowed to continue for a few more decades. This problem, therefore, is an existential one, as U.S. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders claims. It is the most serious problem facing the U.S. and all other nations of the world. (Terrorism is unlikely to cause the extinction of humanity, as long as nuclear weapons are kept away from the terrorists, but global warming, if allowed to continue unabated, surely can.)
Extinction, the New Environmentalism, and the Cancer in the Wilderness
Previously published at CounterPunch.org on 30 October 2015 Reproduced with permission.
The word is in from the wildlife biologists.
Say goodbye in North America to the gray wolf, the cougar, the grizzly bear. They are destined for extinction sometime in the next 40 years. Say goodbye to the Red wolf and the Mexican wolf and the Florida panther. Gone the jaguar, the ocelot, the wood bison, the buffalo, the California condor, the North Atlantic right whale, the Stellar sea lion, the hammerhead shark, the leatherback sea turtle. That's just North America.
Worldwide, the largest and most charismatic animals, the last of the megafauna, our most ecologically important predators and big ungulates, the wildest wild things, will be the first to go in the anthropogenic extinction event of the Holocene Era. The tiger and leopard and the elephant and lion in Africa and Asia. The primates, the great apes, our wild cousins. The polar bears in the Arctic Sea. The shark and killer whale in every ocean.
"Extinction is now proceeding thousands of times faster than the production of new species," biologist E.O. Wilson writes. Between 30 and 50 percent of all known species are expected to go extinct by 2050, if current trends hold. There are five other mass extinction events in the geologic record, stretching back 500 million years. But none were the result of a single species' overreach.
I've found conversation with my biologist sources to be terribly dispiriting. The conversation goes like this: Homo sapiens are out of control, a bacteria boiling in the petri dish; the more of us, demanding more resources, means less space for every other life form; the solution is less of us, consuming fewer resources, but that isn't happening. It can't happen. Our economic system, industrial consumer capitalism, requires constant growth, more people buying more things. "I will go so far as to say [that] capitalism itself may be dependent on a growing population," writes billionaire capitalist blogger Bill Gross, Forbes magazine's Bond King. "Our modern era of capitalism over the past several centuries has never known a period of time in which population declined or grew less than 1% a year." Growth for growth's sake, what Edward Abbey called the ideology of the cancer cell. Continue reading
Review: The Great Transition—Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
The Great Transition by Lester R. Brown
W. W. Norton & Company (April 20, 2015)
Review by Ross McCluney 22 OCT 2015
This is a terrific contribution from an experienced writer on environmental issues.
It has been a long struggle to bring the costs of solar energy and other renewable sources down to a point where they can actually compete in the energy marketplace, even without major government incentives.
That's the case for wind and solar, as Brown describes so well in this new book. Other renewable energy sources are also making great strides, as are efficient buildings and efficient transportation — not to mention research accomplishments on energy storage technologies, efficient long-distance electricity grid designs, and massive new investments in green energy.
The only deficiency is the lack of graphics to support the text. But never mind that. Web searches on wave energy, tidal energy, ocean current energy, solar electric, solar thermal, energy storage, geothermal, wind turbines, electric grids, and renewable energy economics can put these images plus relevant charts and graphs at your fingertips.
For example, when I started out as a solar scientist in 1976, the holy grail in the photovoltaic world was getting the price of PV down to an amazingly low price of 50¢ per peak Watt (Wp) of electrical output. At that time the price was over $76/Wp. Take a look at this astounding bar chart of the price from 1976 to 2015.
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decided: March 20, 1972.
GEORGE E. JACKSON ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTSv.TRANS WORLD AIRLINES ET AL., DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES
Feinberg and Timbers, Circuit Judges, and Thomsen, District Judge.*fn*
Appellants, plaintiffs below, senior flight engineers employed by defendant Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA), appeal from a summary judgment in favor of defendants TWA and Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA).*fn1 They challenge two related provisions in a collective bargaining agreement between TWA and ALPA, which appellants contend deprived them of vested rights in a retirement plan.
On June 1, 1950, TWA initiated a retirement plan, financed by voluntary contributions of the flight engineers and supplemental contributions by TWA. The Flight Engineers International Association (FEIA), which represented the flight engineers at that time, had no role in negotiating the original plan or any modifications thereof until 1965.
On March 19, 1968, following a representation election under the Railway Labor Act,*fn2 ALPA succeeded FEIA as the certified representative of the flight engineers. Shortly thereafter ALPA and TWA negotiated and executed a collective bargaining agreement, dated May 13, 1968, which made several changes in the retirement plan for the flight engineers, effective March 1, 1968.
Before the 1968 agreement the retirement plan had contained the following provision:
"5.5. A Member, while still in Service, may request that his Accumulated Contributions be paid to him. Upon such payment, all of his Retirement Income shall be cancelled, he shall cease to be a Member and shall not be eligible to again become a Member."
Other relevant provisions are set out in the margin.*fn3
The TWA-ALPA agreement of May 13, 1968, deleted Article 5.5, quoted above, and added the following clause, to which appellants object.
"Effective on and after March 1, 1968 a Flight Engineer shall not be permitted to withdraw any contributions which he has made to this Plan while such Flight Engineer is in the employ of TWA."
Appellants contend that ALPA and TWA thereby breached their duty to bargain in good faith, without hostile discrimination against any group. See Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R. R., 323 U.S. 192, 65 S. Ct. 226, 89 L. Ed. 173 (1944). We agree with the district court that no such breach occurred. All senior flight engineers in appellants' classification were treated alike, and the same restriction on withdrawals was applied to the pilots represented by ALPA. The new agreement provided for additional benefits for flight engineers and their plan will be more costly to TWA. Something akin to factual malice is necessary to establish a breach of the duty of fair representation. Cunningham v. Erie Railroad Co., 266 F.2d 411, 417 (2 Cir. 1959). Absent a showing of "hostile discrimination", there is no breach of the duty of fair representation merely because the negotiated agreement fails to satisfy all persons represented by the union. Steele, supra ; Ford Motor Co. v. Huffman, 345 U.S. 330, 337-338, 97 L. Ed. 1048, 73 S. Ct. 681 (1953).
The gravamen of appellants' argument on appeal is that their right to withdraw their own contributions from the retirement plan without terminating their employment rights could not lawfully be disturbed by an amendment to the plan, particularly by an amendment applied retroactively.
Since no appellant or anyone similarly situated sought to withdraw his contributions between March 1, 1968 and May 13, 1968, the question of retroactive application is moot. But it was not necessary for an appellant to actually request that his accumulated contributions be paid to him, and thus risk his employment status, before obtaining from the court a determination of the validity of the elimination of Article 5.5 from the plan. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co., 312 U.S. 270, 273, 85 L. Ed. 826, 61 S. Ct. 510 (1941); Golden v. Zwickler, 394 U.S. 103, 108, 22 L. Ed. 2d 113, 89 S. Ct. 956 (1969); International Longshoremen's Association v. Seatrain Lines, Inc., 326 F.2d 916, 918 (2 Cir. 1964).
We do not agree with appellants' contention that the elimination of Article 5.5 constituted a breach of contract by TWA. The provisions of the plan quoted in note 3 in the margin reserved to TWA the right to modify or terminate the plan, so long as the funds are devoted to the benefit of the members. See Finnell v. Cramet, Inc., 289 F.2d 409, 413 (6 Cir. 1961), and Genevese v. Martin-Marietta Corp., 312 F. Supp. 1186, 1190 (E. D. Pa. 1969). Nor did the elimination of the right of withdrawal deprive appellants of any vested property right in violation of the Fifth Amendment. Retirement and pension plans are recognized as mandatory subjects of the collective bargaining process. Elgin Joliet & Eastern Ry. Co. v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 302 F.2d 540 (7 Cir. 1962), cert. den. 371 U.S. 823, 9 L. Ed. 2d 63, 83 S. Ct. 42 (1962). Such a plan can be altered prior to the vesting of the employees' rights under the plan. See Roberts v. Lehigh & New England Ry. Co., 323 F.2d 219 (3 Cir. 1963); Genevese v. Martin-Marietta, supra. In the present case no appellant has yet qualified for retirement benefits. Their right to withdraw contributions was, by the terms of the retirement plan and the TWA-FEIA agreement in effect before May 1968, clearly subject to modification.
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Why: Launched in 1992, the EDGAR database is behind the times. The SEC wants to reimagine the system for the current era of structured, machine-readable data. Though billed as an IT contract, the SEC is really looking to this procurement to begin a process of overhauling the way it writes and implements disclosure rules. As a first step, the agency is looking to the private sector for help in overhauling the business processes for filers, disclosure requirements and program management. This involves coming up with ideas to align SEC rule-making with software development and help coordinate these processes across agency divisions. The SEC plans to award a contract with a two-year base and three option years to a single vendor by the end of September.
The overall goals of the modernization are to reduce staffing, equipment and development costs, and the costs incurred by filers. Additionally, the SEC is looking to make connections between individual filings, to be able to link historical data and filings on companies as they are acquired or merged, and to explore the development of a "single use document" that would eliminate filers creating separate disclosures for the SEC and bound corporate reports for investors. A fully modernized EDGAR could be focused on structured data elements rather than filing documents, to improve analytics for regulators and ordinary users.
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Item Writing for Domain-Based Tests of Prose Learning.
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Differences among test item writers and among different rules for writing multiple choice items were investigated. Items testing comprehension of a prose passage were varied according to five factors: (1) information density of the passage; (2) item writer; (3) deletion of nouns, as opposed to adjectives, from the sentence in order to construct the item; (4) verbatim versus paraphrased use of keywords; and (5) use of an algorithm for choosing foil words (distractors) versus item writer's choice of foil words. Two dependent variables were examined: item difficulty, and variability of item difficulty across item writers for a particular technique. Test forms contained multiple choice items on a 1,000-word prose passage. One form was administered as a pretest, and a different form was administered as a posttest after instruction (reading the passages); subjects were 423 third to sixth grade students. Results indicated that passage density led to increased difficulty, particularly when freedom in foil construction was allowed; and that it produced bias in item writers in spite of other efforts to minimize bias. Variability of item difficulty across different writers was reduced when algorithms for writing linguistic-based items were used. (GDC)
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And yet Calvin does so poorly in school.
Oh Calvin, do use them for a good end!!
You can use things for a good or for a bad end, God gives the decision in our hands!
such ingenuity….
Thats real important to catalogue the rocks,but I wish he would do his missile testing on Moe.
Hobbes gets angry and hard to live with when hes mean to Susie.
a budding sedimentary petrologist. NOT!
I like rocks too, Calvin.
"It's a sedimentary rock", very likely formed by deposits during the worldwide flood of Noah's day.
It will make a nice pet.
They are superb pets. I have one (Ena) who dozes quietly on the bathroom windowsill, guarding the house against burglars.
She is clean, quiet and does not shed, and very economical to keep. She's also remarkably hardy and never ails for anything (I suspect a lot of these fancy rocks are probably prone to erosion, or even fossils, which could lead to big geologist's bills).
Although she is very trustworthy with family and friends, I know in my heart that if anyone broke into the house, she would fall on their head and crack their skull open. We all feel safer for having her about.
Plus, research has shown that polishing up a rock leads to a reduction in blood pressure, and an increase in Alpha wave activity.
It's a win-win situation.
There are many abandoned rocks desperate for loving homes – why not visit your local beach, stream or quarry today and offer shelter to one of the most loyal companions you could ever have.
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I know a teacher who had a meeting with a kid's parents because the kid was failing. He was failing because the kid had never once shown up for class. The parents wanted to know why the teacher "wasn't meeting his needs." Pretty hard when the kid skips every class.
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Look forward to seeing it, supposed to be pretty well done.
I think Wreck-it Ralph would probably be easier for you to follow.
You have seen them both?
Or is this similar to your political contributions?
Lincoln is 1 of the few Republicans I could vote for. Unfortunately in today's climate he'd never get the nomination. I mean free the slaves ? What's next, giving women the right to vote ?
Unfortunately, is seems to be a quality that all extremists on either far side of the political middle revere!!
Sad, truly, truly , sad!!!!
"I think Wreck-it Ralph would probably be easier for you to follow."
I haven't seen "Lincoln" yet, but I plan to. I HAVE seen "Wreck-It Ralph," though.
The Good Guy and the Bad Guy (Fix-It Felix Jr. and Ralph) "reach across the aisle" to solve a crisis that affects not only them but their entire community. The Misfit "glitch" (Vanellope Van Schweet) overcomes oppression to gain not only acceptance but appreciation. A secure place is found for those whom advancing technology has left behind (Qbert and friends).
No, nothing of substance there.
Nothing that would interest you.
Just a fairy tale, move along…
You do know that base reason Lincoln was opposed to slavery was because it gave the southern plantation owners an advantage in the marketplace. The southerners did not have to pay the help, the did in the north. Lincoln was all about leveling the playing field. For some of the rest of us, it was a happy coincidence that the slaves were freed. Too bad it took so long to start actually realizing civil rights, something we are still working on today.
And both are British actors, aren't they?
Whew. Thanks for the Spoiler Alert!
I'm reading about this movie now, sounds fascinating.
I am not aware of the intricacies of American politics of that era. Would it be correct to suggest that it seems that Republican Lincoln would more likely be a Democrat by today's measure?
"Would it be correct to suggest that it seems that Republican Lincoln would more likely be a Democrat by today's measure?"
"Seems" being key. 150 years have changed so much so completely that it's impossible to say. The Republican Party of 1860 was Progressive…when it came to the hot-button issues of 1860. Perhaps Lincoln would be appalled by some of the old battles that are still being fought today, but he'd no doubt be bewildered by some of the changes that have happened (equal rights for women? homosexual marriage?). What might Lincoln have thought of the New Deal? But it's true that the modern "Party of Lincoln" has little in common with the party to which Lincoln actually belonged.
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Totally UNREAL, my wife and I were treated like a King & Queen, first class treatment in all aspects. If you are looking for a RELAXING "time out", then Bucklands is the answer.
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Bucklands Luxury Tent Camp was a great holiday with copious amounts of fresh clean air, excellent meals, things to do and sights to see. We were sorry to leave after our stay and I realized that we had not had time to complete the order of our activities list � none of us minded as we will try and complete the list (which includes quad biking and fishing in the Great Fish River) on our next visit to Bucklands Private Game Reserve in the near future when we hope to stay at Bucklands Rustic Tent Camp and a night or two at Bucklands Boutique Guest House too. With thanks to Iain and Mary-Ann, and the rest of the Bucklands team for a wonderful holiday.
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A huge THANK YOU to Iain and Marry- Ann for a wonderful experience at Bucklands. Bucklands Private Game Reserve is truly a special place in the Stewart family�s hearts and it is wonderful to see how they are all so passionate about the reserve. The 4 luxury tents are situated so that each one has its own privacy and stunning views. There is absolutely everything a 5 star client would need. Special touches like the chocolate on the pillow and hot water bottles in the beds and on the game drives in the mornings make it even more special.
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Superb cuisine, fantastic game sightings, luxury sleeping, loved the hot water bottles, thank you for the great hospitality!
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A piece of paradise. Wonderful host and owners. We will be back.
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