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Rod Rigging
Rod rigging seems to be a selling point on many boats. Can someone tell me if that is a worthwhile component on a 34-36 foot sloop for coastal cruising.
For coastal cruising it does not add anything, nor does it subtract. If a boat has it fine, if not fine. Just judge on quality of rigging, not type.
One huge downside to rod rigging for cruising is that you cannot carry spare rod. Wire will work as a temporary fix.
It is more common on the racing boats.
i've only saw a couple of them,if theres an advantage i'm missing it,i would think the solid rods/wired would be more subject to metal fatigue
Properly maintained, rod is not more subject to fatigue.. it stretches much less than wire, has slightly less windage and cannot develop 'jaggers'.
However unlike wire, which starts to break down in visible ways long before it loses critical strength, rod can appear healthy until it decides to suddenly part. For distant cruising and easier repair, wire would win out.
We've had both, did in fact have a couple of occasions where the rod failed suddenly, a quick tack saved the rig. One failure was traced to improper maintenance the other to bad fabrication (the rod had been welded into the turnbuckle end).
We currently have wire rigging, with a dyneema ('rope') backstay. We did change out the standing rigging just for the peace of mind.
I just finished reading about the disadvantages of rod rigging in a book by Lin and Larry Pardey last night. One of the problems is rod rigging provides no warning prior to failure--it just breaks. In contrast, wire rigging usually shows signs of failure with rust, frayed wires protruding near connections, excessive stretching. Additionally, wire rigging is far more forgiving in an overload situation because of the stretch. Lin and Larry talked about several reported failures on rod-rigged, high-dollar racing boats, which in a couple instances ended up with demasting.
Emergency replacement, as stated above, is not a problem with wire. And while rods could be stowed laterally along life-lines, rigging connections while at sea could pose a problem--even with the proper tools. Installation could be a bit hairy as well.
Good luck on whatever you decide upon,
Gary :cool:
Our 35 C&C is rod rigged. As stated before it is important to do a thorough survey of it every year. I see absolutely no disasvatage to the rod rigging as long as you inspect. Our boat is a racer/ cruiser and it aids in its stiffness. No burrs and no rust spots.
I used to teach on a 35 for a few years and loved it. :) Except for the leaky windows. :(
You are also rught about the leaky fixed windows. We redid ours and no problems now. I think its because they were bedded with 5200 originally and the boat is so stip when it flexes it broke the seals. Used Butul tape and 4200 when we redid and dry as a bone now.
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Stern test ahead at Royal Lytham
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England – Nestled between two bustling seaside resorts on the western coast of England, Royal Lytham & St. Annes will be anything but a pleasure cruise for the players in this week's British Open.
The course, 11 times the site of the British Open, has not always been a gracious host. With an assortment of hazards — some at the course's choosing, others at Mother Nature's — the links are full of menace and peril.
Pick your poison. There are 205 pot bunkers that defending champion Darren Clarke said unleash a nightmare. Tiger Woods said areas of knee-high rough — thanks to the United Kingdom's torrential rains this summer — that feature a variety of grasses and bushes are "almost unplayable." Wicked winds blowing off the Irish Sea a half-mile west cause havoc. And rain is expected every day of the tournament.
Even in the calmest of weather and with unruffled course conditions, Lytham remains a stern test because of its skeleton fairways. Playing to a par of 70 this year, the course has been stretched to 7,086 yards. Most of the 181 yards added since David Duval won here in 2001 can be found on holes 2, 3 and 10, all par-4 brutes, and the par-5 11th.
And there's quirkiness to the setting that adds a unique feel, said Tony Jacklin, who won the Open here in 1969. For starters, there's a 206-yard, par-3 first hole. Add a railway that runs right past the golf course and red brick houses dotting the outskirts. All told, it adds up to a tremendous test of golf, and it more than certainly tests every club in the bag and every part of your game. That's evident in the roster of winners, as the celebrated champions at Lytham Opens are Bobby Jones (1926), Bobby Locke (1952), Peter Thomson (1958), Bob Charles (1963), Jacklin, Gary Player (1974), Seve Ballesteros (1979 and 1988), Tom Lehman and Duval.
"Mentally, there is no layup. It's just a relentless battle with your mental game out there," Jacklin said. "And you have to get off to a good start, because while you can't win the golf tournament on the first day, you can certainly lose it. And you've got to keep the ball in play.
"If you don't drive the ball straight here, you've got no chance."
The course was already a talking point before official practice rounds began Monday. Woods, who has won the Open three times and is trying to win his 15th major and first since the 2008 U.S. Open, caused a firestorm when he innocently remarked Sunday that the rough in some places was almost unplayable. The British press left off the important qualifier "almost" in headlines and implied Woods was condemning the course. In truth, Woods said the rough creates an immense challenge on a course he counts among his favorites.
"Oh my god," Woods said when asked about the rough. "It's just that you can't get out of it. The bottom 6 inches is so lush. The wispy stuff, we've always faced that at every British Open. But that bottom 6 inches, in some places it's almost unplayable.
"It's never been this high," added Woods, who tied for 22nd as the low amateur in the 1996 Open at Lytham and tied for 25th in 2001. "I mean, what are you going to do if you get into that stuff?"
Clarke was thinking the same thing — about the rough and the bunkers.
"The course is going to play really tough this week. It's quite narrow. And the rough is very, very penal, and we're forecasted some rough weather," Clarke said. "But that's the Open Championship. If conditions are tough, that doesn't particularly bother me. That's fine."
As for the bunkers, that's a different story.
"It's just a nightmare, because there are 205 of them," Clarke said. "They're very penal, they're very tough, those bunkers. There's going to be occasions here this week where I think you're going to have to see guys taking penalty drops out of them, because they won't be able to move their ball anywhere.
"They are a huge part of this golf course. It's very heavily bunkered in the landing areas where we really need to hit the ball. Accuracy is going to be the key this week. The (bunkers) are very, very strategically placed, so you've got to be careful with them. And they've had a lot of rain here in recent times, and the bunkers are quite damp. When they get damp it's very tough to spin the ball out of the bunkers, especially the green side ones.
"If you start spraying the ball around this course this week, you might as well go home."
That's got reigning Masters champion Bubba Watson thinking about how to get around the course. While he can hit every type of fade and draw, every type of low and high shot, there's nothing anyone can really do if you wind up in the worst places in the rough or the pot bunkers.
"I've got to play smart off the tees, hit a lot of irons, a lot of things just to get in the fairway, but it's going to come down to the short game with all these bunkers and hazards around the greens," said Watson, who missed the cut in the U.S. Open but tied for second in The Travelers Championship three weeks ago in his last start. "When the weather gets that bad, you've just got to make pars, and sometimes bogeys are good.
"You know, it's whoever can control their mind and not get frustrated about the weather and the situation. No matter where they're from, everybody has got to deal with this weather. It's just about calming your mind and knowing it's going to be difficult."
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Fashion has changed a lot in the roughly eight or so years (read: 13 months, which is approaching infinity for a reality competition show hiatus) that Project Runway has been off the air. Babydoll dresses and skinny-leg pants have dominated, making women look either fat, pregnant, or both. Men wear vests and ties in the hopes of looking like Justin Timberlake (who looks like he's wearing a retro '70s day-trader costume, anyway. Nice choice, men.) Roberto Cavalli is putting leopard print on everything at H&M; for some reason. And shoes have never been uglier. In short, Season 4 of Project Runway couldn't come along at a better time. Why? Well, if we're gonna look at ugly clothes, they might as well be made out of plants, or fashioned from recyclables, or constructed in under 12 hours, or reflect the idea of envy with a giant red tumor on the shoulder, right?
Of course, not everything the contestants have made on Project Runway over the years has been ugly. Some of it, like Jeffrey's stuff last season, was "Ugly-pretty" (read: punk ringmaster wear). Some of it was ugly-weird (see: tumor dress). And of course a lot of it wasn't ugly at all, like Michael's coffee filter dress in Season 3. But when things are ugly on Project Runway, they are often spectacularly ugly--which is why we watch. (Well, that and the general excitement of seeing these people make something creative out of virtually nothing. Oh, and the bitchiness.)
On tonight's episode, there was, thankfully, one dress that could be added to the pantheon of spectacularly hideous Project Runway garments: the blue "fabric poo" dress made by Elisa, the most annoying person in the world. How annoying is Elisa? Let me count the ways: She talks about her "art lifestyle." The first thing she said to her model was, "I'm just going to hand measure you." She does furious yoga in a corner when she first wakes up in the morning. She wants to "imbue her fabric with a natural element," like grass stains (although those really made a huge difference, didn't they?) When her model was tripping over the 18 pounds of fabric sewn onto the back of the dress in those awful aqua suede boots of death, Elisa said, "the sculptural quality of the dress literally tangled about her." Oh, and Elisa used to make costumes for giant marionettes. Basically, if Elisa was a word she would be, "Ughhhhh." Which is, of course, why the judges had to keep her around.
The biggest sin in the eyes of the Project Runway judges isn't hideousness, or annoyingness, or 18 pounds of grass-stained fabric attached to the back of a dress by a person living the "art lifestyle" of their dreams, it's being boring. So, despite the fact that she has the most designer-y name, they kicked off Simone Le Blanc.
It's ironic, though, that the judges hate boring things so much, because this challenge was unbelievably boring, especially for a first challenge. We've seen it before, many times. They do some variation on the "show us who you are as a designer" challenge every season. But it usually comes later on in the game, when, say, the audience would actually care about who these people are as people, let alone as designers. In the first episode, I don't want to see unknown contestants express themselves with $50,000 worth of textiles. That's dull. I want to see if they can make something out of groceries, or if they can rip the upholstery off a chair and make a serviceable skirt. That's got a "wow factor."
Though it was fun to see the fat guy in the Hawaiian shirt (Chris) slowly amble to the tents, panting. He's my favorite so far.
Grade: B
Stray Observations:
--Early hatreds: Jillian, because she manages to weigh down all of her words with both snobbish-ness and complete bitchiness ("I'm....not...going..home."), also she's a proponent of culottes, and Rami Cashew, because he designed something for Jessica Alba.
--Early loves: Chris (see above), and Ricky, but only because I want to see if he has enough zany hats to last the whole competition.
--At what age should you stop calling yourself Sweet and/or Mean P? 47? 48? I hope Kit Pistol drops the "Pistol" before she hits 40.
--It's so great to see Tim Gunn not next to Veronica Webb. Incidentally, if Pixar ever needs anyone to voice a gay slug, they totally know who to call.
--So many changes in product placements: The Macy's Accessory Wall is now the Bluefly.com accessory wall, the Atlas apartments are now the Gotham apartments, but the make-up room will always and forever be located in L'Oreal Paris.
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Billboard reports that officials in London say the last inquest into the death of Amy Winehouse was handled by a coroner who lacked the proper qualifications. The Camden Council has said a new hearing will happen on January 8.
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Assistant deputy coroner Suzanne Greenaway oversaw the inquest and then resigned the following month after her qualifications were called into question. She was appointed by her husband, Andrew Reid, the coroner for inner north London. Reid was suspended and then resigned earlier this month.
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The term "mini-tornado" was once again heard frequently in relation to this event, although no such classification exists.
The Bureau of Meteorology has since confirmed that the damage in and around Hornsby station and shopping centre was due to a fully fledged tornado.
The main reason that many people call tornadoes "mini" is that tornadoes in Australia rarely produce the extensive damage caused by their particularly newsworthy cousins in the US.
Tornadoes typically form within severe thunderstorms, like the one that hit Hornsby, and require an unstable atmosphere and plenty of wind shear.
In this case, instability was produced by warm, moist air flowing off the sea into a low pressure trough extending through eastern New South Wales, leading to the development of squally showers and thunderstorms.
The uplift is not usually enough to produce tornadoes on its own. Rotation in the atmosphere is also very helpful.
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As the thunderstorm formed, the rising air gained rotation and then as the storm reached Hornsby the rotation narrowed and intensified into a tornado, causing serious damage.
Classification of tornadoes is based on the damage inflicted according to the Enhanced Fujita Scale. This scale rates tornadoes from EF0 to EF5, with EF5 being the most intense and damaging.
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GBMC HealthCare Inc. is pleased to announce that, as of Jan. 1, 2014, that the Towson based group, Orthopaedic Specialists of Maryland, P.A., will officially join Greater Baltimore Medical Associates (GBMA). Orthopaedic Specialists of Maryland, P.A., includes orthopedic surgeons Lee M. Schmidt, M.D., Allan Lanzo, M.D., Stewart Koehler, M.D. and Howard Bathon, M.D.
"We have long been proud to have the physicians of Orthopaedic Specialists of Maryland, P.A. as members of the GBMC medical staff," said Bennett (Ben) J. Beres, Chief Operating Officer of GBMA. "We now welcome these physicians as members of the employed physician enterprise group of GBMC Healthcare System, GBMA. This will be an exciting and positive collaboration that will enhance our ability to provide the best possible orthopedic care in our region."
GBMA, which is one of five entities that comprises GBMC HealthCare Inc., now includes 41 owned physician practices with a variety of specialties including Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, OB/GYN, General and Specialty Surgery and Oncology.
Lee M. Schmidt, M.D., who helped establish and remains the medical director of the GBMC Joint and Spine Center, said that joining GBMA will be beneficial to all of the patients his practice serves. "As a part of the GBMC HealthCare System, we will be able to offer our patients a stronger link between the highest quality community-based orthopedic care and the wide array of advanced orthopedic programs and services available at GBMC," says Schmidt. "Integrating our practice into GBMA will streamline the process of referring a patient, optimize the coordination of care between specialists and referring physicians, and reduce needless duplication of services."
Schmidt adds that patients will notice very few differences in the way the practice will conduct business and that the same staff will continue to serve their patient base. "We remain committed in providing our patients the best care possible in the same office we have occupied for so many years. In short, our stationery may change, but our loyalty and dedication to our patients and care will remain the same and will be enhanced by being part of GBMA," says Schmidt.
Related Web-Sites
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Orthopaedic Specialists of Maryland, P.A.
GBMC HealthCare includes Greater Baltimore Medical Center, a 255-inpatient bed acute care not-for-profit hospital which opened in 1965; Greater Baltimore Medical Associates, a group of more than 40 multi-specialty physician practices on the hospital's Towson campus and in?off-campus locations across the region; Greater Baltimore Health Alliance, a network of employed and community-based clinician partners working collaboratively to provide better health and better care at a lower cost, Gilchrist Hospice Care, Maryland's largest hospice organization offering in-home care, a 34-bed inpatient center on the GBMC Towson campus?and a 10-bed inpatient center in Howard County; and the GBMC Foundation, which raises funds to support the organization's mission. For more information, visit www.gbmc.org


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Using the templates I pulled from DungedBeetle's site... Have the Shoulder Bells, Cod Piece, Collar, Belt cut out and placed on cardboard... Will be glassing them this weekend. Hoping for the best and will see how everything comes out once I get some more resin. The lot I had went bad Guess that's what happens when you stop doing projects for 3-4 years.
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Which glove will land the final telling punch?
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Which glove will land the final telling punch?
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'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
The overhand right, when it properly lands within the first four rounds will spark Fury out
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
I can't wait for this. Ticket, train and hotel is booked. It's pretty much sold out.
Haye will win in 7 I think. Right hand.
The build up to this night is gonna be ridiculous.
The poster formally known as Steve_Langford.
i went to the Chisora fight and the atmosphere was crazy. bet this one will be even better, quite jealous!
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
I'm going to this one. Haye said yesterday that he can take fury out whenever wants, I've no doubt he can and will. 3rd or 4th for me! Wonder if he'll tell friends and family when the Ko is coming so they can make a few bob, just like he did with the audley fight. I agree, He'll take him out with an overhand right due to the height difference and how easy Cunningham was landing it. It's the obvious danger for fury! He's crazy for taking this fight, it's a horrible matchup! Gotta give him some respect though, so many fighters now days pad out their record and take the path of least resistance to a title shot!
haha yeah, it's hilarious watchin fury saying all this and that about he's the man, he's giving Haye a shot etc
it's like watching a kid aggressively stamping about on a pond covered with the thinnest layer of ice. everyone watching knows it's a matter of time, but the kid is not aware, has no understanding of the peril that he has placed himself in.
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
He surprised me as he was actually fairly respectful, I think he realises himself that he is up against! I'm not saying haye is the top hw but this is a far tougher fight for him than either klitschko!
I'm counting the days already even though this will probably be an anti climax. I reckon fury will have plenty of support as well, in his home town and coming from the travelling community, gonna be an electric atmosphere. Been advised on another thread that quigg maybe fighting for the title so another big fight for a local lad and I'd imagine hughie fury will be on the card. Very early days but I so like the look if that kid and he's got all the natural physical attributes for a modern hw
hughie fury? dat a brother/cousin?
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As stated in the post from the Cleveland Clinic, there is no single test that can differentiate between neve, muscle, or skeletal pain. However, during exercise and activity, many people experience similar sensations that can help to clue an individual in as to what may be the cause of the chronic pain. Here are general guidelines:
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I am posting a review for Erica Chan, our fabulous daycare provider. We are about to move to the East Bay, and leaving Erica behind is the saddest part of our move! Our son has been with Erica for a little over a year now, and we absolutely love her. She currently has 2 children, but now my son is moving away and she will be down to just one. I would love to help her find more clients. Erica is young and energetic, and has extensive training in child care. She has taken several classes in child nutrition as well. She prepares many wonderful, healthy meals for my son every day, and was also willing to use cloth diapers for us. She takes the kids on outings to the park, and sometimes to places like the zoo, with permission. She enthusiastically tells me about his day, you can tell that she genuinely cares for the kids. Erica is a real find! After visiting some daycares in the east bay I can say that I now realize how good we had it with Erica. Her place is bright and clean and inviting. For more information, you can contact me. Alexis


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Williston City Manager Patrick Miller Suspended
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Less than a year after he took the position of Williston's City Manager, Patrick Miller has been suspended.
It's a position that has seen a lot of traffic in the past year.
Since 2011, Williston has seen 3 different City Managers, and the resignation of their former City Attorney, and now Council-Member, Norm Fugate.
The circumstances surrounding Miller's recent suspension are unclear, but audio from an emergency meeting on May 24th sheds some light on the controversy.
Emergency Meeting Audio-- 5/24
-"Let me ask a question... um, is the charge that we're talking about... What is it?
"Is it sexual harassment or what?"
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Another Emergency City Council Meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday. The top item on the agenda? City Manager Position.
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Spelling dyslexia problems are faced by most parents of dyslexic students
For dyslexics one of the biggest fears is about spelling dyslexia and writing – it is a leading problem in their lives.
During my primary years in school every week there were spelling tests. Every week I would peer at the string of new words and think about how it would be possible for me to remember this new group in addition to what I was supposed to retain in my memory from the previous week.
I managed to store the words in my short-run memory. It resulted in my going to the class and passing the spelling tests with an A. Nevertheless, when the teacher wanted me to spell out the very same words the following day in school, my memory failed me and all I could do was to scribble off a letter jumble.
The problem then is about teaching dyslexics to spell words correctly and remember it. For over eight decades scientists in this field have been trying to find a solution. However, they have been posing the wrong set of questions.
What is spelling dyslexia problem exactly
The basic problem is how we can utilize the exceptionally sharp analytical powers of dyslexics to better their writing abilities. The answer might shock many researching in the field.
The first step is to initially (for some time) turn away the focus of the dyslexic pupil from spelling and concentrate in assisting the student to further develop his or her natural analytical writing skills. It will require working with the student using the alternative strategies making the student copy, visualize, and narrate.
The remedy for spelling dyslexia problem
The student has to write profusely on tasks that are extremely analytical. After some time it will be found that the dyslexic pupil repeatedly makes the same grammar and spelling mistakes.
After a reasonable period of time it will be necessary to teach the dyslexic pupil how to rectify these same mistakes that are being routinely repeated. It will be found that after completion of our basic writing program many of the dyslexic students have greatly rectified their spelling skills. Within a year and a half most of the dyslexic pupils have self corrected the majority of their spelling problems.
Does this mean that the dyslexic student will now become a spelling champion? By no means, what it will mean is that the dyslexic student will no longer require the services of high-trained special education teachers for assistance in basic writing tasks. The dyslexic student cannot rely on the same writing support services that general education college student's rely on, the writing assistance center found in most colleges, staffed by low paid college English majors.
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While it remains to be seen whether James Franco's latest movie The Interview will ever see the light of day, you can check him out soon in True Story, along with one of his frequent costars, Jonah Hill.
Based on a true story (go figure), reporter Michael Finkel (Hill) discovers that Christian Longo (Franco) arrested for murdering his family, used his identity to escape authorities and jump the border to Mexico.
The film is scheduled for limited release next April.


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By Vexen Crabtree 2002
The USA drew worldwide criticism for failing to adopt the greatest international agreement for the reduction of some greenhouse gases, The Kyoto Protocol, which has been accepted by nearly every other country. This is despite the fact that the USA is by a massive margin the world's biggest polluter and very disproportionately so. President Bush has repeatedly stated that he will not adopt such protocols if they harm American economy. Commercialism and greed overcome all common sense and thought for the welfare of future generations. This failure causes hatred not only of the Bush administration, but of American commercialism in general.
The world's largest polluter, the USA, has recently not backed pollution treaties to reduce car emissions or petrol consumption. The US alone accounted for 36.1% of worldwide greenhouse emissions in 19901.
"The US contains 4% of the world's population but produces about 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions. By comparison, Britain emits 3% - about the same as India which has 15 times as many people."
Many environmentalists understand that developing countries do not have the technology or means to use the most modern or environmentally friendly industrial equipment. But when such a rich country as the USA fails to take responsibility for its own pollution it really annoys a lot of people worldwide. I have created this essay just to concentrate on the USA and President Bush's effect on the Kyoto Protocol because I receive so many emails from people expressing a hatred of the USA because of these issues.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions of the three biggest polluters:
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China and the EU, both lesser polluters than the US, have one thing in common: They are both committed to further reducing their rate of emissions. Despite economic growth China has cut emissions by 17% since the mid 1990s. The odd one out is the USA. Immensely richer than China, but with less population than Europe, it emits more harmful chemicals than both of them. In addition, it has so far stubbornly refused to endorse international protocols designed to reduce such emissions. The world looks on flabbergasted as the world's greatest polluter cares not to take care or responsibility in the face of international pressure.
In the 1970s the USA was a world leader on serious long-term environmental issues. The USA joined many groups in protecting endangered species, oceans and fisheries. Its honourable and wise actions continued through the 1980s.
"In the mid 1980s the US led efforts to address the problem of the ozone layer. The 1987 Montreal Protocol imposed a stringent ban on the production and use of many substances widely used around the world: deodorants, refrigerants and propellants for aerosol tins. In 1990 the US brokered amendments to the protocol allowing India and China to join. The Protocol has now been ratified by almost every country in the world, and the hole in the ozone layer is closing. American political clout and creativity played a major part in this success."
General Sir Beach (2005)4
In 1990 the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (of which the USA is the largest funder) reported on the problem of global warming, which is by far the most important and serious environmental issue. It was once considered a long-term problem. Now it is upon us.
"In 1997 a protocol was adopted at Kyoto under which countries formally undertook to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by specific percentages of the 1990 levels. Bill Clinton hailed the Protocol as a historic agreement and signed it in November 1998. [But President Bush from 2001 opposed it and acted to] overturn his predecessor's signature of the Protocol, reverse an election pledge to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant and revert to actions solely driven by domestic economic concerns" [General Sir Hugh Beach].
"The pact requires industrialised countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 8% of the 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012.
...The Japanese cabinet on Tuesday approved documents to ratify the accord after the upper house of parliament voted 229-0 vote in favour of it on Friday."
BBC News (2002)1
The Kyoto Protocol is not perfect but no compromise between countries ever is. Its safety precautions against greenhouse gases are no way near enough but it is at least a first step.
In 2004 September, Russia accepted it5, making the protocol legally binding internationally, amid praise from the UK Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett and the Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Russia accounts for 17% of the 1990 levels of global greenhouse emissions, and now in total over 55% of all greenhouse gases are accounted for internationally, which was the original aim. It is fairly obvious to many people that the commercial, money-orientated USA will care more for dollars than for worldwide health, and will probably continue to oppose and hinder the protocol. We can only hope that it caves in, that somehow the rest of the world can get through to the secluded American public and their government be forced to change its stance.
73 countries have become signatories to this pact1. Nearly all countries have ratified the pact including Japan and all 15 European_Union states. In 2001 the United States provoked widespread international criticism by rejecting the Kyoto protocol2 as soon as President Bush was inaugurated.
The US refused to sign the treaty, arguing that its economic interests would be threatened6. The US also opposed the Bonn refinement of Kyoto because of the cost to US business of Kyoto's prescriptions on the reduction of environmentally harmful emissions which contribute to climate change.
"Under the Protocol, the U.S. is supposed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by seven percent. With four percent of the world's population, the country accounts for about 25 percent of the Earth's greenhouse gas emissions.
European Environment Commissioner Margot Wallström says 'But this ignorant, short sighted and selfish politician, long since firmly jammed into the pockets of the oil lobby, clearly couldn't care less. The talks in Bonn in July must now concentrate on world action independent of the U.S.' "
Lycos News (2001)7
"George W Bush has ... walked away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties like the Kyoto Protocol and ABM treaty, which, however imperfect, have helped bring peace and environmental protection. The least we can say is that he has embarked on a dangerous journey. Why?
The answer is corporate payback. This has been the defining trait of President Bush's administration. His election was a straightforward capitalist venture for the energy corporations. Oil, gas, coal and nuclear companies are the power behind Bush; together, they donated more than $50 million dollars to put him in the White House. As soon as he was elected, it was payback time and Bush declared the Kyoto Protocol on reducing carbon-dioxide emissions dead and buried.
The message was: 'US corporations have the right to pollute the entire planet. The people and the environment don't matter.'"
Bianca Jagger (2001)8
President Bush on the Kyoto Protocol said that "this is the American position because it's right for America" and, just to make the point clear, he added:
"We will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things first are the people who live in America."
"Why Do People Hate America?" by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies (2002)9
The attitude speaks for itself; America is a dangerous and irresponsible country as long it materialistically maintains that its own selfish wellbeing is more important than any long-term world wide problems, even where it is the USA itself that causes those problems! With 36% of the worlds' greenhouse emissions and 25% of the whole world's carbon dioxide's emissions, the USA appears to take responsibility for 0% of the consequences as long their bank balance is not affected.
There are people in the US government who wish take measures to reduce US pollution. In 2003 October an amendment to an inactive US global warming bill was backed by Republican John McCain and Democrat Joe Lieberman, which would have required power stations to reduce their emissions to the same levels that they were in 2000, three years ago, by 2010. This would be woefully inadequate, and "Senator McCain told the Senate that it was "a very minimal proposal" that should be the first step"10. Despite it being way below the minimum required, it was still voted out 55-43. "However, opponents of the bill backed the White House view that it would increase household energy bills and hamper job creation"10.
The USA has the biggest cars and the biggest roads relative to all other countries. This is an incomprehensible phenomenon to the rest of the world, where car mass and petrol consumption are immediately equated with pollution and irresponsibility.
It is understandable that cars are a more relevant form of travel in North America, where public transport struggles to cover the larger distances, and there is frequently little other choice. But the world's richest nation is not setting a good example. In Europe, awareness is raised by most governments of the pollution and side effects of combustion fuels, and heavy taxes are imposed on these in order to fund public transport, anti pollution solutions and alternative fuel methods such as LPG and electric powered cars. Can the USA's government really continue to embrace its version of democracy and capitalism at the expensive of every human on the planet? The American Government under President G. Bush was almost put in power purely by money from large oil companies, but something needs to change.
The world sees our curbing of pollutant emissions essential and necessary that we do this. The USA seems to think that as it is impractical and costly it isn't going to do it! We must curb pollution... it doesn't matter how costly or expensive this is. It must be done. The world sees America's reluctance with disgust and horror.
The USA has some environmental issues sorted, such as household waste disposal. During the 1970s and 1980s the USA made itself indispensable in the campaigns to ban the release of "ozone" gases; thanks to its help the hole in the ozone layer is slowly closing, at last.
An agricultural pesticide, this chemical is agreed to be completely eliminated in accordance with international agreement on account of its dangerous effects on the Ozone layer which protects us from the sun's radiation. But, despite the success that both underdeveloped and the most advanced countries have had in eliminating its use, the USA wants to increase its own usage of it for commercial farming:
"The US team at the Nairobi conference said its farmers needed methyl bromide, but other delegates disagreed.
Developed nations have already cut their use of the chemical by 70%, pledging to phase it out by 2005. [...] But the US asked to be allowed to increase methyl bromide use in 2005 rather than eliminating it. [...] US farmers argue there is no effective alternative.
But David Doniger of the environmental group the Natural Resources Defence Council, who was at the talks, said the US government gave in to the demands of business. "The Bush administration is tilted way over towards the polluters and caters to their wish-list of regulatory weakenings," Mr Doniger said. [...]
US negotiators said they remained committed to the protocol. But the head of their delegation admitted there would now be pressure inside the US simply to ignore its obligations on methyl bromide. Environmental groups are concerned that if the US does not abide by the Montreal Protocol, some poorer countries will also decide to ignore it.
Although the damage to the ozone layer is continuing, scientists say the protocol is having an effect and should eventually return the atmospheric layer to health later this century - but only if nations stay committed to the cause."
BBC News (2003)11
The scientific community and the responsible educated world all agree that short term economic interests are not as important as maintaining the viability of life on Earth. The USA commercialist government, however, disagrees, and appears to think that as long as the US economy is bolstered at all costs, the Ozone layer won't matter. Agriculture in other developed countries get around the use of this chemical by using cleaner ones and better practices, and the USA government should be pressurizing its own agriculture to do the same.
The USA polices the world's military nations, keeping check on their weaponry and intentions. It does not do the same with matters of global health or pollution. The USA is by far the world's biggest polluter and is also the country that is seen as least active in fighting world pollution. Failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is a serious mistake and much of the world is left in shock and horror that the USA ignores these issues.
Many of the large oil companies are related, and together they have conspired (in history) to avoid legal pronouncements of their practices. Since oil and petrol industries have become under fire from environmentalists, moralists and activists the world over, they have fought back with well-funded public relations campaigns. These go as far as to supply their own scientists to argue against scientific truths and who appear on radio and news reports.
"Within months of the UN producing its first report endorsing the idea of man-made climate change, in 1989, Exxon and other big corporations started setting up pseudo-groups. The first and biggest was the Global Climate Coalition which was soon lobbying in the corridors of power [...]. As a single example of its activities, the coalition made a classic appeal to the subconscious feelings of its American audience before the Kyoto conference in December 1997, when it spent $13 million on TV advertising, aimed at reining in the Clinton administration. It pitched the whole issue as a matter of freedom and patriotism. 'America has signed many treaties... but never a treaty of surrender,' was the key line in one advertisement, over a photograph of the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War.
When Kyoto nevertheless produced an agreement to cut emissions, Exxon, in early 1998, helped to set up a new front group, the Global Climate Science Team. [...] Between 1998 and 2005, ExxonMobil alone spent $15.8 million on forty-three different front groups, according to research published in January 2007 by the Union of Concerned Scientists, who described this as 'the most sophisticated and successful disinformation campaign since Big Tobacco misled the public. [...]
A columnist at the Daily Mail [...] Melanie Phillips [wrote] a series of outspoken columns denouncing the whole concept of man-made climate change. 'Global warming is a scam,' she wrote in February 2002. 'The latest evidence is provided in a report published today by the European Science and Environment Forum, in which a group of the most eminent scientists from Britain and America shred the theory.' However, the forum whose work she was quoting was, in truth, yet another pseudo-group, created with the help of two PR agencies (APCO Worldwide and Burson-Marsteller) with the specific intent of campaigning against restrictions on corporate activity; and the report to which Phillips referred in such glowing terms was recycled work which had been funded by Exxon."
"Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies (2008)12
My page which criticizes the mass media explains why such lobby groups find it so easy to insert content into the news:
"Modern journalists work at breakneck speed to process stories as fast as possible. Therefore most news services rely heavily on public relations (PR) material in order to rapidly produce the stream of news. Much of this news comes from trusted wire agencies, but these also rely on PR input. Because of these pressures, public relations firms and commercial companies are having a heyday and find it easy to insert material into news media. In general, over half of all news stories are mostly PR or contain substantial PR-sourced material. Journalists themselves do not check the facts or figures of such inputs, nor admit in the articles themselves that PR material is the true source of the information, so the news often appears unbiased. Powerful commercial lobbies use this weakness to pervert public opinion.
For example in the 1950s the smoking lobby created a waft of innocent-sounding and scientific-sounding groups in order to discredit government information about the dangers of smoking. Oil and petrol lobbies have spent fortunes on the same PR tricks, as have food industry lobbies. They produce scientific reports engineered by their own scientists, which serve to boost their own industries by deceiving the public. In short, don't trust the news media directly even when they are reporting on scientific-sounding research groups. Always check facts with long-standing scientific bodies such as the Royal Society. Rich and activist commercialist lobby groups have a set of well-practised and efficient methods for manipulating the news and public opinion. The scientists and welfare groups who wish to get real scientific worries about certain industries out into the open are not funded or equipped to run public relations campaigns. Only multinational information campaigns, legal agreements and inter-national political bodies such as the EU have the oomph to be able to fight back against such powerful industries."
"The Worst of the Modern Mass Media" by Vexen Crabtree (2009)
This situation of large-scale misinformation can only be rectified by a strong government that is willing to stand up to the commercial-media free for all, but, during the period covered by this article the USA has had its politics dictated by commerce rather than by long-term good sense.
A democratic government's function is to protect people, its citizens, and the citizens of the world. In capitalist countries it is the Government's job to keep commercialism in check and protect people from the inequality, oppression and money-orientated practices of big business.
Some people have been forced to wonder if the American government can still be considered to be working for interests of people anywhere in the world, or if it is indeed simply the world's largest corporation.
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Gaming Headsets item created by nightmancometh, Oct 25, 2011
Pros - Solid build quality, Great bang-for-buck gaming headset
Cons - Muffled & overbearing bass, Rolled off treble
Introduction & Criteria
I bought the Sennheiser PC 151 for gaming after my friends bugged me to join them on Team Speak. After looking at a couple of the available options online, including the possibility of setting up a separate mic, I went with my gut instinct to go with Sennheiser. Not much of a purchase justification but trialling headphones here in Australia is difficult to say the least.
After checking out the "local" Australian internet suppliers offering the 151 for $80+ I purchased my pair for A$43 new from eBay. Just to provide some context, in wearing these for gaming I was switching from my HD650s and HD800s. I'll also be comparing them to the Audio-Technica m50, my portable headphones.
Build, Comfort & Microphone
The 151 is built from average quality plastic, that's the reality of it. I was initially disappointed with the quality when I pried it from its packaging but bear in mind, I've been spoilt. After around a month with the 151, my view has changed slightly. "Average" is exactly that, not $20-rip-off-beats bad, not as solid as the HD650. Personally I'd consider the 151's build quality to be slightly below that of the Audio-Technica m50 which most will agree are very well built for their price. After several ~30cm falls onto my timber desk the 151 is no worse for wear. They are certainly well built for their price.
Regular four hour gaming sessions have come and gone with my head raising no complaint. The earpads are slightly harder than I expected yet still comfortable. The headband is of similar density, slightly harder than my HD650 but notably better than the m50's limited padding. The clamp is almost unnoticeable, helped by their lightness (170g according to my kitchen scales). On-ear is a new experience for me but so far I have no complaints.
The microphone is of good quality, better than your average and more than adequate for gaming or Skype. It can swivel upwards when you're not using it however it does not disconnect unlike other gaming headsets (it's hardly to be expected for the price point).
For me, this purchase was made mostly for the mic, with the audio quality a definitive second priority. In this respect the Sennheiser PC 151 is as solid an offering as can be expected. Please keep in mind that your reviewer is used to significantly more expensive headphones. I'll be covering this mostly from a gaming/video-call perspective as that's the 151's best possible application. The headset was plugged straight into the motherboard audio jack due to the limited separation of the microphone and audio leads.
Different. That was my first thought when I started listening to some Mozart. The 151 certainly lacks the clarity or detail of the HD650 or even the m50. The double bass seemed to overpower the dampened melody of the violins and the entire orchestra seemed to be sitting on top of one another. Those were my initial thoughts and however uncollected, they remain true. The treble has a definite roll-off and the mids are overpowered by the muffled bass. Having said this, the 151 is certainly still listenable.
My first round of BF3 using these was an equally interesting experience. I have never noticed how reliant I have become on being able to hear footsteps, something which were certainly impacted by the rolled-off treble. The 151's soundstage is also significantly narrower than that of the HD650, making the positioning fellow players significantly more difficult. After a few rounds I found myself adapting to the 151's nuances while also adjusting an EQ to reduce the overbearing bass.
Strong & muffled bass
Average mids overpowered by bass
Rolled off treble
Once again, not the sparkling sound review I hoped to be able to give but I must emphasise I've had little experience with headphones in the 151's price bracket. For their price, they are certainly above average in terms of sound quality.
I realise this review has all been quite negative but in truth the 151 is a solid offering for their price. My only experience with headphones around this price mark (sort of) has been my m50, an over ear headphone. Put it this way, I'd be prepared to spend $50 for the 151 without a microphone. With the microphone, the Sennheiser PC 151 has been the best bang-for-buck headphone purchase I have made.


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Depression without Sadness
There are 20 comments on the Psychology Today story from Aug 10, 2013, titled Depression without Sadness. In it, Psychology Today reports that:
Depression is a seriously debilitating disease that increases your chances of early death.
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#1 Aug 12, 2013
How do you know if you have depression?
"Da Imp"
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#2 Aug 13, 2013
United States
#3 Aug 13, 2013
A guide by the most corrupted professions on earth. The Mental health and pharmaceutical Industries.
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#4 Aug 13, 2013
The elderly are one of the most vulnerable age groups that fall prey to the Mental Health and pharmaceutical industry. Those that have aged love ones in a nursing home should make it known that they do not want their parent on mind drugs or anti depressants.
The Mental Health Industry has no science and is comprised of the Corrupted.
#5 Aug 13, 2013
Spoken like a true idiot....& someone with an untreated diagnosis.
United States
#6 Aug 13, 2013
Death rates from psychiatry are rising
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The exact figures are difficult to determine, but clearly death rates from the "American Psychiatric Industry of Enslavement, Torture and Death" are on the rise. As the nation fights hard daily to avoid a catastrophic depression the most professional leeches of society have turned out to be the psychiatrists who as usual claim just about anything, if not everything, that goes wrong in life for other people is due to psychiatric illness.
It is getting pathetic with psychiatrists now claiming over 50% of the nation is mentally ill. Failing businesses and personal finances based on parameters which are often out of control of individuals, particularly in such erratic economic conditions, as are the to be anticipated normal feelings of despair from such difficult conditions, are blamed on mental illness by the psychiatrists.
The same problem exists in dealing with psychiatrists in other walks of life such as school when variables that have nothing at all to do with psychiatric illness or lack of intelligence are nevertheless labeled as being due to mental illness by the psychiatrists when students and teachers together do not perform as well as they are capable of performing. Other real life factors which should be considered in such instances are poor nutrition, lack of adequate sleep and exercise, drug and alcohol abuse, cheating by some students which throws off normal grading curves, poor testing procedures and conditions, and other non-psychiatric factors.
And so today as usual millions of people across the United States are suffering in pain and dying from the horrible side effects of the poisonous arsenal of psychiatric drugs, beatings, and other abuses in the mental hospital concentration camps, unemployment, blacklists, poverty, isolation and homelessness associated with psychiatric stigmatization which is harshly enforced by the psychiatrists themselves. And all along most of the victims of psychiatry have been misdiagnosed with mental illness to begin with and could have lead independent, healthy and productive lives if not for the psychiatrists.
To make matters worse our lawmakers in all 50 states allow the psychiatrists and other non-psychiatric physicians they work alongside to legalize this tyranny daily with swift, fixed civil court proceedings with no juries and no sworn in testimony before crooked county judges the psychiatrists work closely with. The unethical judges who preside at these sham poceedings are getting a free ride in life by helping the psychiatrists implement their tyranny for huge profits.
As for those poor souls who may in fact be afflicted with some type of mental illness, they clearly are generally also not being diagnosed or treated properly and they too could have generally lead independent, healthy and productive lives with no psychiatric stigmatization with the right type of natural mental health care intervention. Sadly all of the abuses associated with psychiatric stigmatization are generally enforced not just by the psychiatrists, but also by the justice departments worldwide.
In many instances even perfectly sane people who admit guilt to crimes, which are often petty in nature, and would like to have been offered the opportunity to simply have settled properly with society and move on in life are nevertheless tormented, tortured and slowly murdered by the psychiatrists. In many other instances people are being crucified by the like-minded diabolically insane psychiatrists for nothing more than their sins in life.
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#7 Aug 13, 2013
Psychiatric Diagnosis: Too Little Science, Too Many Conflicts of Interest [i]
Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D.
Harvard University
The Concerns
There is a lot of pain and suffering in the world, and it is tempting to believe that the mental health community knows how to help. It is widely believed, both by mental health professionals and the general population, that if only a person gets the right psychiatric diagnosis, the therapist will know what kind of measures will be the most helpful. Unfortunately, that is not usually the case, and getting a psychiatric diagnosis can often create more problems than it solves, including a lifetime of being labeled, difficulties with obtaining affordable (or any) health insurance (due to now having a pre-existing condition), loss of employment, loss of child custody, the overlooking of physical illnesses and injuries because of everything being attributed to psychological factors, and the loss of the right to make decisions about ones medical and legal affairs. The creation and use of psychiatric diagnosis, unlike, for instance, psychiatric drugs, is not overseen by any regulatory body, and rarely does anyone raise the question of what role the assignment of a psychiatric label has played in creating problems for individuals.[ii]
The Problematic History
These serious limitations have not prevented the authors of the American Psychiatric Associations (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), sometimes known as the therapists Bible, from making expansive claims about their knowledge and authority and wielding enormous power to decide who will and will not be called mentally ill and what the varieties of alleged mental illness will be. The DSMs current edition is called DSM-IV-TR, and it was preceded by the original DSM (in 1952), then DSM-II (1968), DSM-III (1980), DSM-III-R (Third Edition Revised)(1987), DSM-IV (1994), and DSM-IV-TR (2000). The DSM-V is currently in preparation and slated for 2013 publication. Each time a new edition appears, the media ask whichever psychiatrist is the lead editor why a new edition was necessary, and like clockwork, each editor replies that it was because the previous edition really wasnt scientific (Caplan, 1995). And each time a new edition appears, it contains many more categories than does the previous one. For instance, DSM-III-R contained 297 categories, and DSM-IV contained 374 (Caplan, 1995).
I served as an advisor to two of the DSM-IV committees, before resigning due to serious concerns after witnessing how fast and loose they play with the scientific research related to diagnosis (Caplan, 1995). The DSM is widely used, not only in the mental health system, but also in general medical practice, in schools, and in the courts. I have been involved since 1985 in trying to alert both therapists and the public to the manuals unscientific nature and the dangers that believing in its objectivity poses. Since then, I have watched with interest a national trend toward gradually increasing openness to the idea that psychiatric diagnosis (A)is largely unscientific,(B)is highly subjective and political, and (C)can cause untold harm, ranging from the patients lowered self-confidence to loss of custody of children to loss of health insurance (because any psychiatric label can be considered evidence of a pre-existing condition) to loss of the right to make decisions about their medical and legal affairs.
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#8 Aug 13, 2013
The harm suffered by many people because of a psychiatric diagnoses is a well kept secret
People even many psychotherapists often assume that psychiatric diagnosis is a science. The fact is, however, that very little solid science goes into the creation of categories of psychiatric diagnosis or the application of them to patients.
And when science is absent, every conceivable kind of bias can enter in to decisions about who is diagnosed as mentally ill and which label they are given.
The impetus for this website is the project of issuing a public call for Congressional hearings about psychiatric diagnosis.
Since psychiatric diagnosis is unregulated, since many people are harmed because of getting a diagnosis, and since the extent of harm needs to be documented and ways to minimize such harm need to be found and implemented, Congressional hearings are one of six important steps that can be taken to reduce the harm. Hearings would put psychiatric diagnosis in the public eye and on the national agenda.
The concerns about psychiatric diagnosis apply not only to those diagnostic labels found in any official diagnostic manual but also to other diagnoses, since the latter are constantly being invented and used.
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"Da Imp"
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#10 Aug 13, 2013
hey, someone just asked for how would they know. I did not recommend going to anyone. But when you're depressed, these are common symptoms other than feeling sadness. Jeesh. Must every topic become a drama fest?
United States
#11 Aug 13, 2013
There Are No "Chemical Imbalances"
APA lies to the American Public and puts the society in danger
No test for chemical imbalance. No medical model and no evident based medicine in psychiatry.
The fraud has been going on for more then 30 years since H W Bush was CEO, Eli Lilly and before in his VP under the Reagan Presidency when the essential Amino Acid "Tryptophan" was limited in the food chain and Prozac entered the market place. Lots of people compromised under the fraud of mental health services with made to order mental illnesses with mind altering drugs as the capitalist solution. The Republican ALEC solution.
There Are No "Chemical Imbalances"
"The hypothetical disturbances of neurochemical function that are said to underlie "mental illness" are just that: hypothetical. No experiment has ever shown that anyone has an "imbalance" of any neurotransmitters or any other brain chemicals. Nor could any conceivable experiment demonstrate the existence of a "chemical imbalance," simply because no one, least of all the biopsychiatrists, has the slightest idea what a proper and healthy chemical "balance" would look like."
"...the views and beliefs of biopsychiatry have nothing to do with the answers to scientific questions in any case: the hunt for biological "causes" of "mental illness" is an entirely fallacious enterprise in the first place; the non- existence of data to support its assertions is quite beside the point."
"The latest edition of one pharmacology text has this to say about the status of depression as a disease: "Despite extensive efforts, attempts to document the metabolic changes in human subjects predicted by these [biological] hypotheses have not, on balance, provided consistent or compelling corroboration." This is a long-winded way of admitting that not even a scrap of evidence supports the idea that depression results from a "chemical imbalance." Yet patients are told every day - by their doctors, by the media, and by drug company advertising - that it is a proven scientific fact that depression has a known biochemical origin. It follows directly that millions of Americans are being lied to by their doctors; and people surely can't give informed consent for drug treatment when what they're being "informed" by is a fraud.... To sum up: there is no evidence whatsoever to support the view that "mental illness" is biochemical in origin; in other words, things like "Unipolar Disorder" and "Attention Deficit Disorder" simply do not exist."
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#12 Aug 13, 2013
Here is the agenda of the Mental Health in the take over of the Judiciary Branch of government (by state) on the problem the industry caused in the USA.(Drug America) This is a similar takeover to what happen in the Public School System.
Mental Health Court by State links
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#13 Aug 13, 2013
Depression has roots in the drugging of America like other foreign countries. ADD/ADHD then PTSD / Bi Polar disorder/ Personality disorders based on the mental health and there are 101 other "made to order" diseases for the profession with no science.. Today everyone has Depression and the drugs create the underground water for bathing and drinking to be polluted and creating another victim.
The Mental Health is of no value to the USA and have by their lies bilked the government for disability.
#15 Sep 23, 2013
I have ordered 2 times from this website PILLSMEDSHOP. COM . I called yesterday the customer care and asked for a discount as i was about to order twice the regular amount.
"Da Imp"
Since: Aug 12
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#16 Sep 23, 2013
Vitamins ..... with the way food is processed these days, vitamins are reduced to the point of ill health. Try upping B-Complex to see if it helps with the depression problem.
#17 Sep 24, 2013
This list is depressing me. You need to get a life.
#18 Sep 24, 2013
Exercise and take ALL your vitamins daily!! I had depression at one time but it was mostly because of choices I made and mean spirited people in my life. Once I got "them" out of my life and focus on my recovery I didn't need big pharma and the head-shrinks!! I do sometimes like to play with the sheep(the superior race=normal ones) once in awhile(lol). When your "special(skitzo)" like me, it's to much fun not too(lol).
#19 Sep 24, 2013
I believe JESUS IS IN MY PANTS, I Am a martian I was sent here to rewrite the dsm
#20 Sep 24, 2013
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#22 Jan 30, 2014
I've been on Effexor from http://goo.gl/3FuqC7 only one week but am cautiously very optimistic. Prior to this I was on citalopram but still feeling very low and sleeping poorly, feeling like I needed to be in bed 12-16 hours a day. Now I am waking naturally after only 8 hours sleep and finding it much easier to concentrate at work. I can hardly believe it is working so quickly but I feel so much better. I've had no side effects.
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The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) authorized a significant level of investment--over $52 billion--for federal transit programs. SAFETEA-LU also added new transit programs and made changes to existing programs, including the New Starts and Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) programs. The New Starts program is a discretionary grant program for public transportation capital projects. The JARC program is intended to improve the mobility of low-income individuals seeking work. SAFETEA-LU authorized $8.6 billion for these two programs. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) manages both of these programs. This testimony discusses GAO's preliminary findings on the (1) changes SAFETEA-LU made to the New Starts program, (2) changes SAFETEA-LU made to the JARC program, and (3) issues that may be important as FTA moves forward with implementing the act. To address these objectives, GAO interviewed FTA officials, sponsors of New Starts projects, and representatives from industry associations and reviewed FTA's guidance on the New Starts and JARC programs and federal statutes, among other things.
The changes SAFETEA-LU made to the New Starts program range from establishing the Small Starts program to introducing new evaluation criteria. FTA has taken some initial steps in implementing SAFETEA-LU changes, including issuing an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) for the Small Starts program and guidance for the New Starts program in January 2006. The Small Starts program is intended to offer small projects an expedited and streamlined application and review process; however, the transit community has questioned whether the Small Starts program, as outlined in the ANPRM, would provide such a process. FTA's guidance for the New Starts program identified and sought public input on possible changes to the program that would affect traditional New Starts projects, or large starts, such as revising the evaluation process to incorporate the new criteria identified by SAFETEA-LU. SAFETEA-LU also made a number of changes to the JARC program. One key change was to change JARC from a discretionary to a formula-based program, which provides funds to states and large urbanized areas for JARC projects. Other SAFETEA-LU changes include allowing JARC recipients to use a portion of funds for planning activities and removing a limit on the amount of funds available for reverse commute projects. To implement these changes, FTA solicited comments and input through public listening sessions and program notices. FTA has released interim guidance for fiscal year 2006, is currently developing draft final guidance for the JARC program, and plans to issue final guidance later this year. GAO's past work suggests that transparency, communication, and accountability issues will be important as FTA moves forward in implementing SAFETEA-LU changes to the New Starts and JARC programs. Since 1998, GAO has issued numerous reports on these programs, and many of the reports contained recommendations to FTA on ways to improve the implementation of these programs. For example, GAO has reported that FTA could increase the transparency of the New Starts program by obtaining public input on proposed policy changes before they are implemented. SAFETEA-LU addressed some of these issues, and FTA has also taken steps to resolve some of them. For example, SAFETEA-LU requires FTA to publish for notice and comment any proposals that make significant changes to the New Starts program. Nevertheless, given the number of changes that are being made to both programs, continued focus on efforts to improve transparency, communication, and accountability will be important. FTA officials provided technical comments on a draft of this testimony, which were incorporated where appropriate.
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