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centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, and Jabber protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features. An internal RSS reader and a LiveJournal client are also provided.
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending.
dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. It is intended for error recovery, so by default, it doesn't abort on errors and doesn't truncate the output file. It uses large block sizes to quicken the copying, but falls back to small blocks upon encountering errors. It produces reports that allow you to keep track of bad blocks. dd_rescue features a number of optimizations, such as sparse block detection, preallocation, and Linux zerocopy (splice). It supports data protection by (multi-pass) overwriting of files or partitions with good and fast random numbers.
MatrixSSL is an embedded SSL and TLS implementation designed for small footprint devices and applications requiring low overhead per connection. The library is less than 50Kb on disk with cipher suites. It includes client and server support through TLS 1.2, mutual authentication, session resumption, and implementations of RSA, ECC, AES, 3DES, ARC4, SHA2, SHA1, and MD5. The source is well documented and contains portability layers for additional operating systems, cipher suites, and cryptography providers.
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The audio I/O uses PortAudio, which fully supports OSS, Mac OS X CoreAudio, and Windows WMME, and can be compiled with support for ALSA and Jack.
TEA is a powerful and easy-to-use Qt4-based editor with many useful features for HTML, Docbook, and LaTeX editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates, customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string manipulation functions, Morse-code tools, bookmarks, syntax highlighting, and more.
BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.
Linphone is an audio and video Internet phone with GTK+ and console interfaces. It uses the SIP protocol, and is compatible with most SIP clients and gateways. It can use various audio and video codecs such as Speex, GSM, G711, G722, ilbc, amr, Theora, H263-1998, MPEG4, H264, VP8, and snow.


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She was flirting with me , calling me baby and she hinted i ask he rout on a date, but i was going through a bad time and wasn't ready to date. I asked her out the other day and she now has a boyfriend. Do i have a chance of getting her? maybe wait it out and hope they split up? She must like since she hinted me to ask her out right?
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Nope she is taken, best thing to do is either wait or move on00|00|0
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Hello. I'm trying to run an application through ant. This application starts up a webserver (Tomcat) which should serve JSPs and servlets. Everything works fine when I'm running this application through JBuilder or from the command line but when I start it up from an ant buildfile I have problems. The first time I try to access a JSP page I receive an error that sun.tools.javac.Main class cannot be found. This happens in Tomcat when the JAVA_HOME variable is not set (it can't find the tools.jar file). This variable is set on my computer but when I start the app up from within ant things don't work... the app doesn't seem to find the JAVA_HOME variable. So my question is: Is there any way to either get the JAVA_HOME variable (so I can manually find tools.jar and add it to the classpath before I start the app through the buildfile) or can I somehow start the app in a JVM that has access to the system variables? Kind regards, Stefan Freyr -------------------------------------------- Stefan Freyr Stefansson Software Developer deCODE Genetics, Inc. http://www.decode.com Phone: (+354) 570 2854 GSM: (+354) 861 1718 Fax: (+354) 491 3782 <<Stefan Stefansson.vcf>>
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Microsoft's Big Problem
- Microsoft's Big Problem
- continued
quick: who is microsoft's most threatening challenger?
google? there's no question that microsoft wants to be a much larger player in search and online advertising. but so far, google hasn't hurt any of the areas where microsoft really makes its money.
in the long run, online applications from google and others could pose a significant challenge, but that's not microsoft's problem today.
if you look at the business markets where microsoft competes, its primary competitors are ibm and oracle. enterprise technology has accounted for a lot of microsoft's growth over the past few years. and in gaming, microsoft's xbox faces strong competition from sony's playstation, the market leader.
but those companies aren't microsoft's main challenge. the biggest obstacle to microsoft's future success may be...microsoft.
the installed base of windows and office is its competition, because so many people find the existing versions good enough. the vast majority of microsoft's revenues and profits come from windows and office. if microsoft is going to grow, it needs to have people upgrade to the new versions.
and that's where microsoft's problem lies. take office. office 2003 is the current version, but i know lots of folks who are happy with office xp and office 2000. i really like the new look of outlook that came with office 2003, but it wasn't essential.
office 2007 will be the most substantial upgrade in years. the new user interface will have "ribbon" bars in word, excel, and powerpoint, replacing the standard pull-down menus. microsoft has updated the graphics engine and developed a newand somewhat controversialdefault file format.
microsoft has delayed the release until early next year, and you'll probably need a new machine for it to work fast enough. those may be impediments to upgrading. the improvements are big enough so that they may well push an upgrade, but microsoft's challenge is to prove that the trouble of changing interfaces and formats is worthwhile.
vista will be another challenge. its improved security features may entice business customers, and the new user interface is eye-catching. but two big questions stand out. microsoft has delayed its release until early next year, and i won't be surprised if it slips again.continue reading >


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To the Editor:
The fact of sleeping lawyers at trial is not as shocking as it may seem (Week in Review, Nov. 5). Without a ''dream team'' that can dissemble the evidence, the best ground of appeal for most people accused of crime may be ineffective assistance of counsel.
Court napping may be a good trial tactic. More likely than not, it may result in a reversal of a conviction, and there may be no new trial. Witnesses get disgusted or disappear.
Detroit, Nov. 6, 2000
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Mewthree is a fake Pokémon that commonly appears in fake cheats and fan-fictions.
Rumors of Mewthree's existence within the Pokémon games have circulated since the first generation. Many fake methods were created, that were often impossible to perform or resulted in the player deleting their save file. These stories have led to a number of hack games focusing on this unofficial Pokémon. The most notable of these is Pokémon Chaos Black, in which Mewthree can evolve into another fake Pokémon, Mewthree X.
Mewthree's appearance varies greatly. One version depicts him with enlarged limbs and a tuff of hair. A different version depicts him in his shiny colors with wings. Another version is the Mewtwo in armor from Mewtwo Strikes Back, although this is almost never used. No official or set appearance has been given, although the "shiny" Mewthree seems to be the most common.
Mewthree X has a set appearance, however. He seems to have enlarged limbs and four "ears" protruding to the ground. He also has red arms and a grey and purple color scheme.
It is assumed that Mewthree is stronger than Mewtwo, and similar to Mew, can learn all the abilities in the game. He is a Psychic type Pokémon.


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mound commanding the level fields
of rough grass, and a little knot of fir
of rough grass, and a little knot of fir
trees crowns it.'
M.R. James, A Warning to the Curious (1925)
BEGINNING with a quote from what is undoubtedly one of M.R. James' best-known stories is perhaps rather clichéd, but as the subject of this piece is likewise a barrow arboreally adorned - as in the tale with Scots pines, although in this instance deliberately planted by the 1st Baron Rolle, about the turn of the eighteenth/nineteenth century - and commanding a dominating position not unlike the royal burial chamber which is at the epicentre of A Warning to the Curious, such an analogy is not, perhaps, entirely without merit. Before we turn our full attention to this site, it is first necessary to furnish the reader with a brief introduction to the land over which it has stood sentinel for more than a millennia
The Heaths of East Devon
The pebble-bed of East Devon extends inland from the coast between Littleham and Budleigh Salterton, forming a modest upland - 607ft at its highest point - which runs in a band some 1-2 miles wide between the Exe and Otter river valleys, the most northerly spur of which extending to just below Ottery St. Mary, and which here-and-there is bisected by roads, pathways, habitations, quarries, and parcels of farm land. The geology and flora of this 'bed' are peculiar: at one's feet is a sandy soil strewn with pebbles which are formed from rock some 44o million years old, whilst about one grows furze, heather, bracken, Scots pines, along with a smattering of birch and beech. Blocks of commercially grown pine may be discerned and embanked 'holloways' rich in hedgerow diversity lead down from the ridge, alongside innumerable winding brooks, to the verdant river-valleys on either side. These scattered islands of heathland are divided into a number of common lands, each associated with a nearby parish or settlement to which the denizens are granted historic 'rights of use'. These are, Woodbury, Colaton Raleigh, East Budleigh, Bicton, Hawkerland, Aylesbeare, Venn Ottery, Harpford, Dalditch, Withycombe, and Lympstone. These areas, some converging some isolated, but all sharing the commonalties discussed above, are known in the vernacular as 'The Common'.
The majority of European heathlands were formed by the piecemeal clearance of forest from light soils by a succession of Neolithic, later Bronze and Iron Age farmers for arable and pastoral farming, which use gradually denuded the land of its fertility; eventually admitting only hardier vegetation to take root, and relegating the areas to rough grazing and waste. An Iron Age hill fort (from which the nearby village of Woodbury derives it's name) and circa twenty-six Bronze Age barrows are testament to the antiquity of human occupation on the East Devon heaths, and it is in this direction that our first inquiry shall take us.
The Beacon, Woodbury Common
Our subject for this inaugural foray is a well-known landmark to denizens of the lower Exe valley. Standing proud from the escarpment which in this vicinity abruptly defines the westernmost extent of the pebble-bed and which boasts the highest point of the entire heath (Woodbury Castle, some 547yds to the south) is a well-appointed bowl barrow (SY 03258786) known locally as 'The Beacon'. Its status as a landmark is due in part to its position at a point when the northern-running scarp, from which it protrudes, sweeps around to the north-east, situating the tumulus on something of a promontory, and also to the crown of Scots pines which it bears. Indeed, it can easily be espied, along with the beech-capped Woodbury Castle adjacent, from such diverse locations as Mamhead Obelisk some 7.97 miles SW, or Killerton House (Dolbury hill fort) some 8.38 miles NNW. The prospect from The Beacon itself is magnificent and is eloquently conjured by local historian U.W. Brighouse in Woodbury: A View from The Beacon (1981):
'The eye, sweeping round clockwise from the mouth of the Exe estuary, takes in the red cliffs of Dawlish and Teignmouth, the highest points of Dartmoor sticking up in blue peaks above the straight line of the Haldon Hills, the great green basin of the Exe valley hemmed in by the red hills of mid-Devon; to the north-east, framed by the Honiton Gap in the Blackdown Ridge, is the familiar and favourite silhouette of Dumpdon – a prehistoric hill-fort crowned with beech trees; to the east rises Pinn Beacon with the sea beyond and in the distance Portland Bill, looking like an elongated island, sixty miles away in Dorset.'
Sadly the eastern view is now somewhat obscured by a straggly growth of pines, which lie between The Beacon and the B3180, which passes a mere 70yds away. Indeed, despite the proximity of the road the site itself is not as easily obtained as once it was: there used to be a small car-park adjacent, but during the foot-and-mouth outbreak of 2001, when access to the British countryside was restricted, the various car-parks on The Common were sealed with earthen barriers to deny entrance to walkers. When the all-clear was given in late September of that year, not all these blockaded areas were reopened and that at The Beacon was amongst these; in the intervening years furze and bramble have contrived to erase all trace of the car-park. Of course this seclusion has doubtlessly aided preservation of the site from the erosion caused by the passage of many feet, and it should be pointed out that, although not obvious, the current approach is of no especial hardship for the veteran countryman. Given the dearth of visitors, it cannot be denied that the place exudes a silent and rather forsaken atmosphere, even on a warm April eve.
|As mentioned, the barrow is currently shielded from the road by
a small band of pines, but an overgrown trail passes through this
barrier, revealing the above view.
|Recent storms have considerably thinned the mantle of pines
on the summit, although enough currently remain to ensure
the site continues to be identifiable from afar.
|The flat-top of the barrow.
|Looking south towards the beech-bedecked Woodbury Castle.
The broad ribbon of the Exe Estuary may be seen on the right.
|Looking SW towards the Haldon Hills, which rise up from the
Exe Estuary. The estuary mouth is hidden by the Scots pine on
the left.
|Looking WNW towards Exeter, which lies below the hills in
the centre of the picture.
On the other side of the B3180 some 558yds ENE from the Beacon is sited another bowl barrow (SY 03758799), some 65ft in diameter and standing 7.6ft high. Similar aspersions have been cast about the site's authenticity. However, again due to size and location, it is now accepted as being an original barrow, albeit landscaped at the same time as the others (the surrounding ditch is considered to be an addition of this time). Again, it has never been excavated.
|Looking WSW towards The Beacon from the summit of the barrow
at SY 03758799. The B3180 snakes past to the right.


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BlyDonia Prime
|Galactic sector
H9 - Arm 9
|Solar system
BlyDonia System
|Orbital position
1: BlyDonia Central
Breathable & controlled
|Prominent cities
Prime City
- "Welcome to BlyDonia Prime. Please enjoy your stay."
BlyDonia Prime is in the center of the BlyDonian Sector. A planet nearby the original BlyDonia before it was destroyed, Bly colonized it and founded it, steering away from the old ways of the BlyDonian Civilization.
BlyDonia Prime is a glorious water world, covered mostly in water. Only a few cities are actually above water, on the small amounts of land. It is unusually warm normally, however there have been known to be torrential storms that wreak the paradise.
As the Second Ichiri War raged on throughout the Galaxies, millions flocked to BlyDonia everyday, surging the population greatly. More and more cities needed to be built, both underwater and ontop of the water. The planet prospered, as the Ichiri did not know where to find them. As more and more planets were lost, more and more people fled Ichiri rule, and resettled on BlyDonia. Thus, the population is somewhat diverse, however, a the human population is the most dominating.
Being the Capital of the BlyDonian Civilization, as well as the center of the BlyDonian Sector, it is well protected. It is currently protected most notably by the BDSCOM Satellite Defense Station, a large conical station. Also providing protection is the BDSCOM Spacedock. While possessing no weaponry itself, it houses and contains a portion of the fleet that is not patrolling the space around BlyDonia Prime, or orbiting the planet itself.
Prime CityEdit
Prime City is the capital of the BlyDonian Civilization. It houses all of the important governmental buildings, and controls the entire planet and civilization from here. The City is built on some of the only land on BlyDonia Prime, and every square inch of the land is taken up with some sort of a building or park. Some notable buildings are:
The Capita BuildingEdit
Houses the Capita Council, which is where all the diplomats meet. It's sister building is on Fetrodasta IX.
The PalaceEdit
One of the larger buildings, it's easily spotted as being large. This is where Bly works and sleeps.
The SpaceportEdit
Where most of the trading occurs. It is the busiest spaceport in the BlyDonian Sector, and in nearby sectors as well. However, it is not the largest spaceport, as that is in Tionia.
Police ForceEdit
The Prime City Police Department, or PCPD, is a large force, the largest on the planet, and enforces the laws on the planet. It is currently housed in many different sub-divisions throughout the city, with the main station being in Government Square.
New SalanciaEdit
New Salancia is the trashy unhospitable part of BlyDonia Prime. It houses gangs and ghettos, and the buildings are all in serious state of disrepair due to a Civil War that broke out between the Government and the corrupt gangs. Currently, talks to repair this section of the city are underway, although, it would appear the residents of the city don't want it repaired. Recently, Bly has taken up the call to repair New Salancia by putting a courthouse in the city, and creating a police force.
Virpa CityEdit
Virpa City is known for being the second command in government. If Prime City was ever destroyed, Virpa City would assume as the capital city. It was recently destroyed during the Alien Bombardment back in July, but it has since rebuilt and reopened again.
The main trading city on BlyDonia Prime, the city is used as a trade hub. It contains the largest spaceport on the entire planet, and it also services all of BlyDonia's ocean transports, as well as air transport. It was recently destroyed during the Alien Bombardment back in July, but it has since rebuilt and reopened again.


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BARRINGTON, R.I. — LSU women's golfer Austin Ernst had never won a match in a USGA event before she arrived at the Rhode Island Country Club for the United States Women's Amateur.
She's now on her way to Saturday's semifinals after a 5&4 victory Friday over Stephanie Kono of Honolulu, a member of the 2011 NCAA team champions at UCLA.
Dad Mark Ernst had the right advice again for his daughter Friday. During the final round of the NCAA Division I Championship in May, father helped settle daughter during a phone call after a couple of bad third-round holes. Ernst went on to win the tournament.
Dad, the pro at Cross Creek Plantation, told the LSU sophomore to treat each round as if it was still stroke play and not to worry about what the other player was doing. It has worked well so far.
Ernst's ability to mix pars with an occasional birdie made what was expected to be one of the best matches, a walk in the park Friday.
"It's always been nice to have my dad as my coach growing up and playing against my brother (Drew) has really helped. I've always been confident and not much shakes me," said Ernst.
Ernst used the stroke play strategy to make par on the first seven holes to go 2 up after Kono made bogey on the first and fifth holes.
Then things really turned Ernst's way on the eighth when she chipped in for birdie from off the green to go 3 up after eight holes and 4 up with six holes to play when her approach shot on the par 4-12th led to a conceded tap-in birdie.
On the par 4 13th, it look like Kono would win her first hole of the match, but Kono missed a 3-footer for par and the hole was halved. Ernst finished it off on the next hole with a two-putt par as Kono made a bogey.
"I was hitting the ball well off the tee (Friday)," Ernst said. "On the greens, I was putting the ball in play. I was rolling it well on the greens. I was lagging it solid up to the pin. I came into it with a different mind-set and it has worked out so far.
"Winning nationals gave me a lot of confidence. Before that I was always pretty much an underdog. So it was just giving me confidence to know I can play against the best. Now I really like match play."
Ernst, trying to become the first player to win the NCAA Division I championship and the U.S. Women's Amateur in the same year since 1992, meets Moriya Jutanugam of Thailand in the semis, who won the 16th (birdie) and 17th (par) holes in an all square match to win 2&1 over Casey Danielson of Osceola, Wis., in the other quarterfinal on Ernst's side of the bracket.
The matches don't get easier for the 19-year-old Ernst as the 17-year-old Jutanugam was the low amateur in the U.S. Women's Open earlier this summer. Her 15-year-old sister, Ariya, has already claimed the U.S. Girls Junior and the PGA Junior Championship and will be on her sister's bag as caddy Saturday.
In the upper bracket quarterfinals, Brooke Pancake, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and the University of Alabama, defeated Erynne Lee of Silverdale, Wash., on the 20th hole, 1 up; and, defending champion Danielle Kang, of Westlake Village, Calif., was a 4&3 winner over Demi Frances Runas, of Torrance, Calif.
The semifinals are set for 9 a.m. Saturday with same-day coverage on the Golf Channel beginning at 2 p.m.
The four semifinalists Saturday will be playing their seventh round of the week after qualifying Monday and Tuesday, the round of 64 on Wednesday, two rounds on Thursday and Friday's round … The winners Saturday meet for a 36-hole final Sunday … Former LSU player Meredith Duncan won the U.S. Women's Amateur in 2001.


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BOSTON, Mass. - Junior Anna Aagenes and the 3,200-meter relay team advanced to the finals of their events as Penn completed day one of the 2009 ECAC Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston, Mass., Saturday afternoon.
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Aagenes, who has already posted a provisional NCAA time this season, had the seventh-best time in the preliminaries of the 800 meters. Her time of 2:10.26 was her second-best effort of the year, only bested by her NCAA qualifying time. She will be one of nine running in the finals on Sunday at 2:10 p.m.
The 3,200-meter relay team of Kimberly Shooshan, Kinjal Parikh, Pari Hashemi and Anna Aagenes, were third among 24 teams in the relay with a time of 9:06.16.
Senior sprinter Leah Brown advanced to the semifinals of the 60 meters after finishing the preliminaries at 7.73 - her third-best time of the year. However, in the semifinals later in the afternoon, her time of 7.81 was just off the cut for the finals.
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Published: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 1:59 p.m.
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This Florida team that was predicted to finish a distant third in the SEC's Eastern Division just a few short months ago is now being mentioned as a legitimate national title contender. This team that was given little or no chance of being able to compete against, much less beat, the elite teams in the SEC is coming off a 14-6 physical domination of one of those elite teams, LSU.
What: No. 4 University of Florida at Vanderbilt University.
When: 6 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville.
TV/Radio: ESPNU, AM 850, 103.7 FM.
Information: Visit www.gatorsports.com or www.gatorzone.com/football.
It has all happened so fast, this stunning, meteoric rise from mediocre to No. 4 in the nation.
So, now the question is: How will the Gators handle their sudden success?
Will they embrace it, be motivated by it and build on it? Or will they fall under its sometimes delusionary spell and become overconfident and complacent — and ripe for an upset at Vanderbilt on Saturday night in Nashville?
"I think we'll be fine," sophomore quarterback Jeff Driskel said. "Like we've been saying all along, we have a more mature team this year. We're not going to be satisfied. We know there are definitely corrections to be made and improvements to be made. We're going to handle this week like any other week."
Conventional wisdom says that if No. 3 Florida State can lose at unranked North Carolina State, then there's a chance No. 4 Florida could fall at Vanderbilt. Coming off that big, emotional win against the Tigers, a letdown (conscious or unconscious) could be a real possibility against 2-3 Vanderbilt, a team the Gators hold a 21-game winning streak against.
But UF coach Will Muschamp seems to think his team will be fine, that it will take the same workmanlike approach that it has to every game this season.
"Well, we'll find out Saturday night," he said. "I think our guys have worked hard and I don't see a whole lot of difference in how they approach every day and how they have approached each game so far this year.
"We're not going to put in any more hours as coaches this week than we did a week ago. We're not going to put in any less, either. We'll prepare very similar to what we've done this season as far as what we've got to do to be successful, and that's winning the football game."
Muschamp points to the Gators' experience and maturity.
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The UK Government recently published draft legislation in the 2017 Finance Bill for an allowance that businesses with trading or property business income that does not exceed GBP1,000 (USD1,260) will not be subject to tax on the profits from that business. The ATT said the legislation had provided clarity on what types of businesses would benefit from the allowance.
The ATT noted "the Budget announcement in March 2016 had linked the new allowance to the 'sharing economy,' creating uncertainty as to which types of business would qualify. [The draft legislation makes] it clear that the new allowances will apply to all types of property and trading income of an individual but not to partnership income."
According to the ATT, the new rules, applicable from the 2017/18 tax year, mean that where such annual income does exceed GBP1,000, the individual will have the option in calculating their taxable profits of either deducting all their actual business expenses (in the usual way) or of deducting the fixed allowance of GBP1,000 (regardless of their level of actual business expenditure). A separate GBP1,000 allowance will work in the same way for an individual's property business income, it said.
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I've heard of adding strange herbs and pouring oils over your scalp for healthier hair, but rubbing nails together was something totally new to me. Was rubbing your nails together for long hair equivalent to clicking your heels together if you wanted to get your wish? To me the idea sounded that farfetched. Even so, the very next moment I could get in front of a computer I immediately began to seek out the merits of this claim. Turns out that there's quite a bit of information online about rubbing the nails together to impact, shedding, growth, and even grey hair.
Being the curious individual that I am, I immediately sought to uncover the logic behind this method (if it did indeed work). What I did discover is that most believe the nerve endings in the fingertips are also connected to the scalp. In Chinese acupressure, certain parts of the body are stimulated to directly impact other areas. So as we create friction by rubbing our nails together, the scalp is then also stimulated. In essence, the scalp is said to receive increased blood flow and stimulation as we rub our nails together. Best of all, the technique only has to be practiced for 5-10 minutes daily (twice a day is recommended).
When I scanned online posts for testimonials, most people either laughed it off as complete nonsense or said they did it for a little while but remained inconsistent. Along with the naysayers, there were also the group of people who said they practiced this technique regularly and have seen positive results. I was amazed when I read from some people that they felt their scalp itch, or tingle when using the nail rubbing technique. So what about me, you ask?
Well I did use this technique religiously for a little over a month. I rubbed my nails together for several minutes periodically throughout the day. My friend from India even caught me doing it one day at work and referenced our conversation a month earlier.
So what results did I experience? First off let me just say that my nails were the most beautiful they'd ever been when I "rubbed" regularly. They had a gorgeous natural shine to them. Not only that, they were thick and strong. Retaining nail length was not an issue. So even for this result alone, I think the practice was worth it. Now let's talk about my hair. When my friend first alerted me to this technique, I was well into my relaxer stretch. I was already packing plenty of new growth. When I finally did relax, I was all smiles over the amount of length I'd achieved in the duration of stretch. Unfortunately, that was the same stretch were I was plagued with massive tangles. So that kinda took away some of the glory of the length I'd achieved. Not too long after my touch up, I neglected my nail rubbing practice. When I think back to why I stopped, the only reasons I can think of were because I was doing it so frequently, that I feared it looked like I picked up a nervous habit. I could be sitting in a business meeting and there I was rubbing my nails together.
That was several months ago. I find myself looking back now wondering what could have been if I kept this practice up regularly. I'm looking down at my chewed up nails reminiscing of the days were I had fabulous, thick, healthy nails and a head full of dense new growth. For this reason, I've decided to re-implement this practice into my routine. This time, however, I decided to share with you incase anyone out there wanted to try. If it turns out that nail rubbing does actually encourage hair growth, I'd be wrong for not sharing. Think what this could mean if it's true. You could be giving yourself a "scalp massage" while sitting in a waiting room without actually touching your scalp. Either way, the results, for me, were promising enough for me to reinstitute nail rubbing into my daily life once again.
So basically the technique only involves rubbing the nails together. I would describe is buffing your nails as you would with a nail buffer, only instead of a buffer, you use your other set of nails. That's it! One can do it for 5-10 minutes a day or longer if desired. So who's open minded enough to give it shot?


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I have no problem giving people my money, especially not if I get some nice shoes in return for it. But even if I don't, I'm generally happy - you might even say eager - to divest myself of my cash funds. My bank manager would agree with you, and I have a sheaf of statements demonstrating that I teeter between financial disaster and outright calamity to prove that it's true.
But I hate putting my money into brown envelopes in the office; I hate the work collection. There has been a spate of birthdays in my office recently and it has put my back up. I am going to suggest to Big Boss that we have a ban on hiring Scorpios, because we're all getting so adept at singing Happy Birthday that people have started improvising harmonies.
It's not parting with the cash that I mind, so much as the etiquette that surrounds it. It falls to me, naturally, to organise the collection in the first place, which necessitates the delicate deployment of all my skills of persuasion, extortion and threats of violence to extract cash from my reluctant work colleagues. They seem to have a problem with how much money to put in. They know that if they contribute an amount that I don't consider to be adequate, I will be forced to come round again and glower at them until they cough up a reasonable number of coins. In short, it makes me angry and they don't like me when I'm angry. We're not total Scrooges, it's just that it would kill us to over-contribute unnecessarily.
And all that ridiculous secrecy! The covert passing of the envelope under stacks of files; the oh-so-completely innocent visits to each other's desks - and, really, is there anything that looks more suspicious, apart from maybe walking out of an art gallery with a big picture-shaped lump stuffed up your jumper - and all that sotto voce muttering: haveyouputinforMark's collectionyet? As if - as if - the supposedly unknowing recipient of this enforced generosity really believes that they'll be the first worker in the history of the world not to get an almost-funny-but-really-not-quite card and M&S cake on their birthday.
The worst part, of course, is the present-shopping. Forget the problem of what to buy for the person who has everything; what about what to buy for the person who might have everything but I wouldn't know, because I have only the barest acquaintance with them. Much respect to a girl I used to work with who emailed me to tell me what she wanted me to buy with her "secret" collection. I'm taking tips when it comes round to my birthday - and directing my colleagues to the nearest shoe shop.


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Creamyguilt is a new social network that is launched to allow the users to confess for their darkest and deepest secrets that are not known to their homes.
The fellow users will rate the sins between forgivable and unforgivable in this online forum. This will allow them to continue in their way for the rest of their lives.
This website was developed by the students of Arizona University namely, Ryan Charleston and Lonny Ruben. Both of them are involved in curating the sins and picking up the top 15 sins that they feel will obtain the best response their site.
Ruben says that they chose to keep the secrets of people anonymous so that people will be honest. The site receives around 100,000 visitors a day.


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Got legendary legs on my hunter, I'm now ilvl 852.
Got my first legendary finally, Magnum Opus, meh, but great stats, + lots of mastery, so I won't complain.
All classes 110, time to collect that delicious Aritifact Knowledge on them and not really play anything beside my Mage for a long time. >.>
Third legendary get
Picked up the Pigskin, today, so I now have every obtainable Christmas item from presents, and if I remember to buy a token in a year, I'll not have to do the damned Grinch quest again except for the yearly shot at Ragnaros weapon enchant.
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Why did treyarc tell everybody they reduced camping?
Array: the powerline tower
Cracked: the building with the small balcony
Crisis: the water tower, the landing craft on the beach and the rocks, the platform that looks over the beach.
Firing range: the small tower, the white building with the doors on both sides, the main building next to the tower
Grid, one of the maps without infamous spots
Hanoi: same as grid
Havanna: the two building on both ends of the street, the hotel with white walls and the building on the other side
Jungle: the rock, and the small building at the other end of the map
Launch: the platforms inside the launch pad. steel beams aside the launch platform
Nuketown, behind the fences next to the yellow house and the blue on the same side, inside the houses
Radiation: i havent seen many campers, maybe in the tunnel or inside the room with the controls
Summit: the tower near that has to be accessed by using the catwalk inside the building,
Villa: the houses next to the flags or bombsites, the balcony of the main building, the small trench next to the garage near the pool.
WMD: the catwalk on the opposite side of the silos 1 and 2, the caltwalk on silos 1 and 2, the main building
Perks and equipment:
With ghost pro you are ivisble unless someone uses the blackbird(not seen much) with ninja you can hear enyone coming from miles away, and with warlord you can spray with your famas silenced extended mags.. with out beign noticed and kill with ease and you dont have to be accurate because you have 45 rounds and a silencer(thank god its being nerfed). and you dont need to have a sniper to have a ghillie suit so you can blend in(except for the urban maps)
Motion sensor: you can see anyone coming, and if they use hacker, they dont have ninja wich means you can hear them.
Claymore: its primary use: was made for camping.
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Video Booth blowjob.
I was 19 when I started cruising the adult bookstore video booths. It was quicker and easier than the adult porn theater, the only other place I knew I could cruise, back then.
Each hall in the arcade area offered a different selection of 10 or 12 videos. The first few times I went I would check out the video covers mounted on the wall in the hall by the booths and wait to see if any of the other guys would check me out.
I generally stuck to the smaller booths up front because they were quicker to duck into, as opposed to the longer walk past the desk to the back rooms and the live peep show girls.
Usually I'd pick out a booth, go in, start the video and start stroking. After a few minutes when I was getting close I'd lock the door and finish myself off. I never had anyone knock on my door, although I had a couple of door shakes after I'd already locked it and was finishing.
One night I noticed a guy checking me out, which instantly stiffening my cock. He followed me to each of the cover displays and was checking me out while I was checking them and him out back.
The last hall had a few straight videos, a couple of tranny and a bunch of gay videos. I generally watched straight porn or occasionally a tranny video, but with this guy standing next to me, I ended up in front of the gay videos. I caught myself (and he noticed) staring pretty intently at the guys on the cover sucking huge cocks.
I was a little freaked out, this was the first time anyone had ever followed me from display to display. This being the last hall, I went down it and ducked into the second booth. When I open the door of a booth, I'm always hit by the smell, cigarettes, sweat, cum, piss, disinfectant, latex, leather, lube and aromas. Then there is that fear that somehow you shouldn't be there.
He went on past to the third booth and went in there.
I dropped a couple of quarters in the slot and freed my very hard cock from my pants. It was at that moment the door opened and the guy stuck his head and asked, "Would you like to share the booth?"
When I said, "Yeah," he came in locking the door behind him.
A straight video was on the screen, but he said, "I noticed you checking this one out," as he reached past me and changed the channel. In the process he brushed my partially exposed cock, making it jump and me groan, "ugh."
He chuckled and said, "You have a nice looking cock." And then asked, "Are you going to take it all the way out? And do you mind if I take mine out."
I said, "Yeah go ahead," as I pulled my straining cock on out of my jeans. At the same time he pulled out his semi-hard 6 incher and started stroking it.
On the screen a guy was going to town and deep throating a huge cock and I could only take my eyes off that for a few seconds at a time so that I could look over at the cock being stroked right next to mine.
These were tiny booths, so small that our shoulders were touching and our cocks were only a foot or so apart.
When he caught me looking down at him stroking his cock he asked, "May I," and moved my hand over to his cock. His body jerked as my hand touched his cock. I took hold of his cock and felt him quiver and moan, "Uuuuuuuuuum," as I slowly started stroking it. I'm still enough of a novice at this that the taboo of being able to touch and play with another man's cock was a thrill.
He then reached between my legs, cupping and fondling my nuts. I'd never had much nut play and was enjoying it as he alternated between my cock and my nuts.
He told me, "Rub my nuts," and I obliged, rubbing his nuts with one hand and stroking his cock with the other.
He asked, "Do you suck?"
I had but feigning inexperience as I quickly said, "No but I'd like to try."
"Go ahead,' he told me.
Squatting down and then rocked forward down on to my knees. As I knelt down on the floor, I felt my knees get wet with cum of the previous visitors that was on the floor.
I took him in my hand. Easing the foreskin back I stared and momentarily stared at his blood engorged head and then leaned over and licked the head. I kept licking and worked my tongue into the pee slit. He moaned, "Oh yes," as I slowly sucked the head into my mouth. I continued to suck the head as he jerked and moaned, "Uugggghhhhhhh."
I let more cock slide into my mouth as I went down as far as I could. He was only 6-inches or so and thin. I was used to a much thicker cock so was easily able to take him all the way to the back of my throat, until his balls were firmly against my chin and my nose was buried in his thick coarse pubic hair. As his cock hit the back of my throat, I gagged a little. I withdrew some and settled into a bobbing up and down motion. He seemed to be enjoying it because he moaned, "Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh," and let me suck.
After a few minutes he pulled out and told, "Suck my balls," which I did for a minute or two before going back to his dick again.
After only a second or two of sucking he pulled his cock out of my mouth, saying, "I'm about to cum," and pulled me to my feet.
He then went to his knees to return the favor.
Grabbing them at my hips, he pulled my jeans all the way to my ankles which I found a little scary and exciting as hell, all at the same time.
He sucked my balls for a minute or so and then started giving me the worst blowjob I've ever had, scraping my cock with his teeth, dry mouthed and only getting a few inches in his mouth, hitting the roof of his mouth.
However, he started stroking my now free hanging balls with one hand and my ass, crack and prostate with the other. That felt amazing. I'd never had anyone put pressure on my prostrate or tug on my balls while sucking me like that.
when he put pressure on the prostate a couple of times my knees buckled and I groaned, "Mmmmmmmmm," and when he would run a finger down my crack, across my hole and end up pushing on the prostate i almost cummed.
After a very few minutes I stopped him, mostly because I was about to blow my load from his hands but partly to stop the god awful blowjob.
I then knelt back down and started sucking his balls and running my fingers back by his prostate. He liked it so I started sucking his cock and pushing on that magic spot under his balls. After only a few seconds he took over and began to fuck my mouth. He fucked my mouth so hard and his balls bounced off my chin.
So low I know he didn't want me to hear it, he mumbled, "Suck it faggot."
He only last about 5-minutes, but it was so hot it had me on the brink and I started to stroke myself off.
All too soon for me he was asking if i want his cum. He could tell by the way I was moaning that I did. Laughing, he held my head and fucked hard. As he rewarded me with a dozen hot spurts of cum, I was cumming on the floor of the booth. It was a powerful orgasm for both of us,
Spent, I slumped back against the wall, with his cock still in my mouth, his thick gooey cum oozing down my chin and my cum dripping off my fingers.
He just slumped over into me, trapping his softening cock in my mouth, forcing me to breathe around it and to suck all the cum out of him and down my throat.
Standing there with his flaccid cock still in my mouth, he asked, "Do you fuck?"
"I never have," I said, "But I'd like to."
Somehow he understood, me around my mouthful of his cock and said, "next time we'll meet me in one of the back booths. they have more room for us to maneuver."
As I sat back catching my breath, he pulled up his pants, zipped up and left.
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"The North Koreans are not a reasonable people," Ms. Lee said at the beginning of our trip. It was less a warning than a statement of fact.
The bus tour of the Korean Demilitarized Zone—the four-kilometer-wide ribbon of land that bisects the Korean Peninsula—left from downtown Seoul at eight in the morning but had begun raining long before. The travel agency was clear about the dress code: "No faded or torn jeans, sandals, leather pants, shorts, sleeveless shirts, sweatpants, slippers, or military-style clothing."
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On Monday Radar Online released X-rated Facebook transcripts between New York Representative Anthony Weiner and Las Vegas blackjack dealer Lisa Weiss. Everyone paying attention to the news should be aware of the details of this political sex scandal so I won't go into them. Weiner's confession comes only weeks after another prominent 'ex'-politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger, admitted to having an affair and fathering an illegitimate child with his housekeeper ten years ago. In an unfortunate turn of events Weiner's wife, and aide to Hillary Clinton, has revealed that she is pregnant with their first child.
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Everyone is imprinting their hopes on the revolution in Egypt. China and America have both stressed the need for a peaceful and stable transition of power; and though both hope that this transition will swing conditions in the region in their favor, no one knows what the country or its government will look like after the dust settles.
A Peaceful Rise to Glower
What makes the events surrounding this year's Nobel Peace Prize so disheartening is what it portends for future geopolitics. China didn't surprise the world by denouncing Liu Xiaobo and the Norwegian Nobel Committee; much worse, it confirmed suspicions that the country is as oppressive and obstinate as ever.
Playground Politics
A 10-year-old Arkansas boy named Will Phillips has refused to stand up in class and recite the pledge of allegiance as he feels that gays are not allowed to get married and are not included as part of a nation that provides "liberty and justice for all." My first instinct: well done, young sir! I commend your brave and principled political stand against the forces of evil. More people should be sticking up for the oppressed, especially in the so-called "Land of the Free."
Then I read on.
Obama's Trip to China
President Barack Obama recently completed a three-day tour of China as part of his week-long Asia trip. He held a town hall meeting with students in Shanghai and visited the Great Wall and the Forbidden City between meetings with Chinese leadership in Beijing. What can we glean about the future of these two countries based on his visit?


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Monday, March 02, 2009
Clumsy definitions of disability
The alternative is of course the aptly named 'cut throat' razor and I cannot imagine how our forefathers managed to 'hack it' with such a dangerous appliance. Now as you might have guessed, I am clumsy, there is no way I could use one of those things safely.
Following my train of thought, I considered. What if steel and plastic were so scarce that the government banned disposable razors (as indeed incandescent light bulbs are being increasingly banned) Someone like myself would probably need a medical exemption to continue using one, and these devices would become rarer, more expensive and available at the chemists by prescription only.
I could then see and epidemic of dyspraxia diagnoses, as every post pubescent boy struggling with a cut throat razor, was taken by his parents for the magic "label" that would allow him to be spared the rigours of continual sticking plaster around his gills.
Safety razors would become as hot a property as an illicit shot of Ritalin.
Now that is not to say that my clumsiness is not of an order that is well below the usual two standard deviations from the norm, that tends to be a rule of thumb dividing line between a disorder and natural variance. Someone always has to come at the far end of any bell curve else it would not be a 'natural distribution' if it had vertical sides.
However we can also look at natural variance in eyesight. One can well argue that ones visual acuity is as much a medical issue, as ones physical co-ordination, indeed sometimes the two are linked. However one does not need the services of a Dr or a formal diagnosis for one, in order to go to an optometrist to get the accommodations one needs. True there are fewer options available once one exceeds a particular dioptre strength (as I found when trying to get prescription swimming goggles, they mostly cater for a range of about one standard deviation from the norm) but nonetheless one does not usually go to the hospital to be fitted with high strength lenses. Glasses are considered a social norm, a fashion item even, and nobody thinks about an underlying epidemic in the increasing numbers of people who wear them, or contact lenses. No instead one looks to changing social patterns as an explanation given the higher literacy rates, and greater demands upon vision that a technological society makes.
Where is all this leading. Well Neuro diversity is something that encompasses "dyspraxia" as well as autism and adhd. It also encompasses dyslexia, that other emergent product of the demand for higher literacy.
Now I was not diagnosed as dyspraxic or dyslexic by a GP or a hospital consultant anymore than I was prescribed glasses by one, I was diagnosed by a dyslexic specialist, outside of the health service.
When it comes to anything on the autistic spectrum, be that PDDNos, Aspergers or Autistic "Disorder" (to use the DSM categories) one requires to go through the medical route, but why?
Psychiatrists are often ill experienced and ill trained to diagnose anything other than a particular set of mood disorders, psychoses and personality 'disorders' and in the strong evidence of something secondary presenting more strongly than the autism they won't see it.
On the other hand paediatricians are seeing more autism, but again why?
Is it because Autism confers a perceived social advantage in a highly competitive educational arena that parents and paediatricians are getting hip to the autism jive? More so than the psychiatrists amongst whom there is not this pressure to learn about autism as they do not expect to see it much amongst there adult patients?
Is this an example of the rule that can be derived from my razor example?
To put it simply, autism does exist, as a set of neurological differences, as real as those that underlie dyslexia and dyspraxia (which are equally complex conditions when one unravels them) however it exists as a natural distribution and the way it is diagnosed and the numbers are socially defined and shifting over time. Autism has it's own bell curve and the pressure is now there diagnose those two standard deviations on the far side of the bell curve as well as those on its 'severe'end whilst the majority falls within the middle.
I can hear those parents whose children fall at one end of the bell curve protesting, the epidemic as if all the diagnoses are coming from that end. Well they are not, it is a bell curve and not skewed at the bottom, that diagnostic prevalence toward a low IQ construction of autism is falling away because of those social diagnostic shifts.
I asked a rhetorical question in an earlier blog as to whether I am autistic. Well it seems most people in the know would comfortably diagnose me in there. However that does not make me necessarily less autistic than these straw men arguments put up to justify continuing denial of rights to so called lower functioning autistics. It does mean that so far as my IQ goes I am on the far side of the bell curve (OK I admit it) but that is yet another bell curve, a natural distribution that will cut across practically any 'disability' you care to mention, and the consequences are always going to be more difficult if you have less intellectual capacity to spare, to problem solve for yourself, be that if you have arthritis, or are Deaf. Deafness is the great example again, at one time Deaf people were considered automatically "retarded" because of the importance that psychology put upon language for the formation of concepts and ideas, in those dark days.
Who would deny that an intelligent Deaf person had the right to speak as an advocate for the rights of Deaf People, across the now notorious bell curve? Well you might if you were a hearing parent of a Deaf child, full of the standard societal notions of how important oralism is, and what an imposture sign language is. You see there is nothing unique about Autism so far as it fits within the social constructions and appreciations of Disability at all.
Please note that comments are only open for sensible debate. Fanatics who have no intention of ever changing there position on this, people who denigrate each other in the argument by calling there opponents had better keep fighting your Troll wars somewhere else as I don't want to insult the readership of this blog by exposing them to the scatological level to which debate has descended elsewhere. So keep it polite please.
14 comments:
- Catana said...
Isn't lack of understanding of "natural distribution" one of the primary reasons why it's so easy to stereotype? It's only in the last decade or two that there has been acknowledgement of the simple fact that gifted children can have learning disabilities. I now see the autism spectrum in the same light--autistic individuals "can't" be gifted, or even normally intelligent. This is an area that will eventually give way to reality, but there will be a lot of head-against-wall frustration before it changes.
- 2:35 pm
- Socrates said...
"Is it because Autism confers a perceived social advantage in a highly competitive educational arena that parents and paediatricians are getting hip to the autism jive?"
I postulate that Oliver and Charlotte are going to benefit enormously from the many accommodations that will be available to the children of the assertive and educated middle classes.
Whereas yer lawless brat from a council flat, will probably have to be content with ADD, Borstal and the implicit criticism of Dwayne and 'Shell's parenting.
Is high functioning autism trendy among the middle classes?
It certainly is in Cambridge, but the parents are all half-way there; And around here, a ten year old translating the Satyricon is about as getting an ASBO is in Acton.
That's why His Imperial Majesty requires you to be screaming heebeegeebees before writing out a ticket.
- 4:14 pm
- laurentius rex said...
Translating the Satyricon is one thing, but filling in Petronius' blanks by adding your own scurrilous text may well earn you an ASBO even in Cambridge :)
Oh dear I have lowered the tone of the debate already.
- 4:42 pm
What measure of autism do you use to place autistics in order on a bell curve?
- 5:42 pm
- Fleecy said...
I'm afraid I don't have "sensible debate" to offer. I don't really have debate to offer. I just want to say I thought this post presents an interesting point, that the more demand there is to do an activity, the more people are going to notice how many people, well, aren't so good at that activity (makes good sense to me). Can I do that? :)
- 6:34 pm
Have I been banned? The last couple of times I've tried to comment, my posts haven't been shown. I can't think what was offensive about them.
- 7:11 pm
- laurentius rex said...
Your name is not Harold Doherty or John Best is it?
This is the first post I have seen from you, maybe a problem posting to blogger, I have that sometimes.
- 7:28 pm
- laurentius rex said...
Tinted I think there is a problem with blogger, I have just let the second of your posts through but I can't see it yet.
In reply, to describe autism on a bell curve is of course an over simplification given that autism is a multiaxial phenomenon, but I guess most people would have difficulty creating mental images of n dimensional space so I leave it at that.
- 7:31 pm
- Club 166 said...
I believe that the growth in the number of cases of autism is related to a couple phenomena:
1) Expansion of diagnostic categories,
2) Having a formal diagnosis as a necessary step to obtaining any services. When there weren't any (or very few) services available, it didn't make any difference whether you had a diagnosis or not.
I don't think it's because it's fashionable. It's still looked down upon too much in fashionable society for it to be sought out by parents for their kids. But because dollars (pounds) are tied to having a formal diagnosis, people seek out the diagnosis if they think the services will help their kids.
As to why does a doctor need to do the diagnosis? Because (s)he's as convenient a gatekeeper as anyone. If you could self diagnose, then many more would be self diagnosing in order to try to obtain governmental money.
- 2:57 am
Hi, yes there seems to be some problem, but thanks for your reply - that is what I think too.
- 4:03 am
- laurentius rex said...
Well sometimes self diagnosis is as good as any, when it is validated.
Martijn Dekker I believe came up with the notion of peer validated self diagnosis.
But to keep the gates, I see no reason why any competent psychologist outside of the field of medicine could not diagnose, indeed in my case it was an occupational psychologist who hinted at something more amiss than dyslexia but left me to go through the formalities of the health service to find out what, his testing being used in the eventual diagnosis anyway.
One can sometimes successfully diagnose even medical problems over the internet, I was complaining somewhere about my balance and someone hinted that I go look up benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. I did and then went to my Dr described my symptoms and what I thought the diagnosis might be and had it confirmed :)That diagnosis does not come with any useful trade off in terms of access to designer drugs or other benefits though.
The way I would configure education is to abandon the notion of special education altogether, in effect making all education special and individually tailored to the childs needs. That would not need diagnoses of any kind merely observation and carefull assessment.
Even Lorna Wing has stated, that in the face of Autistic appearing symptoms and no diagnosis, if an autistic specific intervention proves useful, then why not use it.
There is always a problem however being locked into a diagnosis when there is only one form of one size fits all intervention available, that of the impossibility of changing later if doesn't work out.
If someone is diagnosed with an organic disease and dies, an autopsy will reveal whether the diagnosis was correct or not.
That kind of organic confirmation will never happen for Autism and a vast number of interelated conditions because they are neither sufficiently nosologically distinct or organic in origin.
- 8:21 am
- David N. Andrews MEd (Distinction) said...
Joe: "As to why does a doctor need to do the diagnosis? Because (s)he's as convenient a gatekeeper as anyone. If you could self diagnose, then many more would be self diagnosing in order to try to obtain governmental money."
This would cause a problem... what measure of objectivity is there in self-diagnosis? Self-diagnosis has some potential flaws, although I do not see them as insurmountable. As Larry said: "Well sometimes self diagnosis is as good as any, when it is validated."
"Martijn Dekker I believe came up with the notion of peer validated self diagnosis."
Yes, Larry, it was indeed Martijn who came up with that, because of the issues known in self-diagnosis, such as objectivity, validity, reliability and so on.
"But to keep the gates, I see no reason why any competent psychologist outside of the field of medicine could not diagnose, indeed in my case it was an occupational psychologist who hinted at something more amiss than dyslexia but left me to go through the formalities of the health service to find out what, his testing being used in the eventual diagnosis anyway."
I agree. In fact, for autism issues, since we are looking at people's social development in particular (and we're looking at that development in its various contexts), I'm not sure that the bog-standard 'I wanted to be a psychiatrist but I failed what I needed to get into medical school' type of clinical psychologist is at all suited to assessment and diagnosis for autism; to me, the more appropriate people are indeed educational, occupational and forensic psychologists (since these are the ones who are likely to come into contact with the autistic people who were missed by the children's health services in the beginning). There also used to be a type of psychologist recognised by the BPS (and trained/verified by them via the independent Diploma route) who had qualified in 'the Applied Psychology of Teaching and Learning', whose training included assessment and diagnosis; such psychologists were specifically trained to teach psychology (which I feel was too restrictive) and who would be working in institutions where the emphasis was on learning at the Higher Education level. This sort could also specialise in the situation of autistics entering higher education and running into difficulties owning to lack of effective assessment and diagnosis in earlier life.
"I was complaining somewhere about my balance and someone hinted that I go look up benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. I did and then went to my Dr described my symptoms and what I thought the diagnosis might be and had it confirmed :)"
You wouldn't get away with that here in Finland! The medics here tend to see it as THEIR preserved right to be the diagnostician, even though most of them are very poorly trained compared to UK and US medical practitioners.
"The way I would configure education is to abandon the notion of special education altogether, in effect making all education special and individually tailored to the childs needs. That would not need diagnoses of any kind merely observation and careful assessment."
I've been trying to work that into the system for ages. It won't happen easily because there's a lot riding on the 'special education' thing, and people do tend to get very upset if one suggest that their preserve should be subsumed into a larger field. Which is a pity because the idea you have is exactly how education needs to be set up! In that way, there is no such thing as a stigmatised kid, because all special educational needs are recognised and dealt with in school. This wouldn't necessarily put educational psychologists out of work: in fact, if anything, it would link us more closely to the issues we have trained up to work with... instead, we'd be consulted, only needing to formally assess a student if there was some great issue preventing progress. This would ease caseload numbers, and therefore allow us to perform higher-quality assessments than the limited time-frames we have now allow us.
"Even Lorna Wing has stated, that in the face of Autistic appearing symptoms and no diagnosis, if an autistic specific intervention proves useful, then why not use it."
Indeed, and this fits in well with the five-level in-school system of providing support to students currently in use in the UK. I wish we had that system her in Finland. I should really be introducing that idea here. Mainstream and special education are so separate here that it is hard to see where they actually come into contact: the special education class in the vast majority of Finnish schools is just a dustbin. And the special schools have large numbers of Asperger-autistic students in them all having been misdiagnosed as 'dysphasic' - and this misdiagnosis happens on purpose, because at least then the student will get the professional attention in school that s/he needs, because there is not a single local authority here in Finland with an identifiable policy on the educational, social and occupational development of autistic people within the borough. If you exclude the 'we couldn't care less' policy that is very evident up and down the country.
- 10:03 am
- laurentius rex said...
The example of self diagnosis I gave was relatively trivial, at about the same level of having a cough and concluding it is a common cold and not pneumonia :)
My own GP who referred me for an AS assessment (an experienced psychiatrist himself at that time) said that I was his first patient with AS but that on the experience of sending me for a dx he had begun to recognise it in others of his patients.
You only see things when you know what to look for.
- 10:21 am
- Jeff said...
Interesting perspective. I've always been troubled by the distinctions beteen Autism and Aspergers, or HFA and LFA. I've come to believe that most of these differences are the results of various levels of intelligence, communication, teaching techniques, sensory impairment, luck, social circumstance, and personal coping techniques.
From what I can find, Deafness is not considered a learning disorder. It's a sensory difference that - if not accomodated in teaching method - can come to mimic the symptoms of a learning disorder. Deaf people cover the entire bell curve in potential intelligence. We don't have a "High-functioning Deaf" classification for those who manage to learn lip-reading. Nor do we have a separate disorder for deaf people who can speak.
Autism is also a sensory difference that encompasses people of every intellectual ability. Unless it can be proved that Autism directly causes retardation, I think we need to stop classifying it as a learning disability and start looking for efficient ways to educate around the sensory issues.
- 3:40 pm


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