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Here's more reasons to be thankful of modern medicine:
A Powder for ye Dissines of ye Head Falling Sickness & hart Quals That Haue Bin Oft Vsed
Whit amber 3ii Diarrhodian 3ii Seeds of Peony (?)ii miselto 3i [b]the fillings of a Deadmans skull (?)i mak all into a very fine Powder & tak of it as much as will Ly on a shilling 2 or 3 nights together befor the new & befor the full moon take it in Saxony or bettony water.
Here's another wonderful cure:
Goose-Dung. The Excrements of most Birds are accounted hot, nitrous, and penetrating; for this reason they pass for inciders and Detergents, and are particularly recokn'd good in Distempers of the Head; but they are now almost quite laid aside in Practice. Elk's Hoof is also esteem of mighty Efficacy in Distempers of the Head. Naturalists tells us that the Creature itself first gave to Mankind a Hint of its Medicinal Virtues; for they say, whenever it ails anything in the Head, it lies in such a Posture as to keep one of its tips of a Hoof in its Ear; which after some time effects a Cure. But this I leave to be credited by those of more faith than myself." English Dispensatory (Quincy), London, 1742.
"For Share & Dificult Trauel in Women with Child by JC"
"Take a Lock of Vergins haire on any Part of ye head, of half the Age of ye Woman in trauill Cut it very smale to fine Pouder then take 12 Ants Eggs dried in an ouen after ye bread is drawne or other wise make them dry & make them to pouder with the haire, giue this with a quarter of a pint of Red Cows milk or for want of it giue it in strong ale wort.
"Beaver's cods are much used for wind in the stomach and belly, particuarly of pregnant women."New England's Rarities (Josselyn), London, 1672. Must be talking about flatulence. "JC" mentioned above can't be Jesus Christ either.
"For ye Toothe Ache"
Take a Litle Pece of opium as big as a great pinnes head & put it into the hollow place of the Akeing Tooth & it will giue preasant Ease, often tryed by me apon many People & neuer fayled. - Zerbobabel Endecott
I think than anyone would feel better with that litle Pece of opium.
Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
Molon Labe!
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Away on my first StagWedding of the year (following the slightly ludicrous five stags and eight weddings in 2007) to Newcastle this afternoon. This will be my third stag in Newcastle in a year and AGAIN the stag has heard of Buffalo Joes, unfortunately. This time I'm going 'til Monday. I'm going to be in bits!
Anyway I'm going to the Sunderland v Everton match on Sunday, so I'll get to see the genius of Royston Keane (i.e. spending 48 million quid in an effort to be better than Derby, Fulham and Nirmingham) up close. Still I hope they win - I'm a big fan of Fattie Reid after all and Everton fans seem to be really getting well above their station right now!
On the other hand there'll be plenty of Boring Munster-esque schadenfreude should Sunderland lose. So it's a win-win situation for me!
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November 30, 2010 at 9:12PM
Krystal Thomas had a double-double of 14 points and 13 rebounds, leading four Duke players in double figures as the No. 5 Blue Devils smacked host James Madison 75-58. Freshman Chelsea Gray came off the bench for a game-high 15 points for Duke (7-0), which got 14 points from Karima Christmas and 11 from Jasmine Thomas.
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November 29, 2010 at 11:57PM
Fresh off moving up one spot in the Associated Press poll, Duke continues its four-game road swing tonight with yet another tough challenge. The No. 5 Blue Devils will be in Harrisonburg, Va., tonight at 7 to take on James Madison, which boasts one of the nation's top scorers in sharpshooter Dawn Evans.
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November 29, 2010 at 10:24PM
RBC CENTER/ RALEIGH—We expected a learning curve this season for the young Carolina Hurricanes, but what we're getting is a learning zig-zag. For every 7-goal outburst, there has been the outing in which the Canes simply haven't looked competitive.
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November 29, 2010 at 5:37PM
Duke kicker Will Snyderwine has been named to the first team of the American Football Coaches Association All-America squad. With the selection Snyderwine became the first Blue Devil in 21 years and 17th overall to be named a first-team All-American.
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November 29, 2010 at 4:18PM
N.C. State tight end George Bryan was named to the first team of the All-ACC football squad, one of just five repeat members of the first team selected by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. Bryan was one of three Triangle-area players named to the first unit, joined by teammate Nate Irving at linebacker and UNC's Quinton Coples at defensive tackle.
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November 29, 2010 at 4:15PM
UNC senior guard Italee Lucas has been named ACC women's basketball player of the week following her MVP performance as the Tar Heels breezed to the championship of the Rainbow Wahine Showdown. Maryland forward Alyssa Thomas was named rookie of the week.
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November 29, 2010 at 9:47AM
UNC may have begun its women's basketball season with a homestand against four pretty easy opponents, but if there were any questions about the No. 14 Tar Heels being "for real" they should be gone after their trip to Hawaii. Jessica Breland led the way with 19 points, followed by Italee Lucas with 15 and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt 14 as the Tar Heels demolished Hawaii 91-57 for the championship of the Rainbow Wahine Showdown.
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November 28, 2010 at 9:43PM
DEAN SMITH CENTER/CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Well, you have to say this much for North Carolina: The Tar Heels' 2010-11 season won't be exactly like last year. Facing the same Charleston club that demoralized them a year ago, the Heels earned some hard-fought redemption over the Cougars tonight in a 74-69 victory.
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November 28, 2010 at 12:43AM
UNC will be playing for the championship of a holiday tournament tonight, while N.C. State is heading home after finishing last in another one. Italee Lucas' 25 points led four players in double figures for the 14th-ranked Tar Heels as they crushed Illinois 87-58 in the quarterfinals of the Rainbow Wahine Shootout in Honolulu.
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November 27, 2010 at 9:24PM
Duke got away with its worst shooting performance of the season, going just 29.7 percent for the game in a 61-55 victory at UNC Charlotte. Jasmine Thomas led the way with a season-high 19 points for the No. 6 Blue Devils as Coach Joanne P. McCallie had her team get off to a 6-0 start for the first time in her career.
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1One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. 2Some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?"
3Jesus answered them, "Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions." 5Then Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
6On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. 7The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. 8But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Get up and stand in front of everyone." So he got up and stood there.
9Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?"
10He looked around at them all, and then said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did so, and his hand was completely restored. 11But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
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Neuropsychiatric disorders are often characterized by impaired insight into behaviour. Such an insight deficit has been suggested, but never directly tested, in drug addiction. Here we tested for the first time this impaired insight hypothesis in drug addiction, and examined its potential association with drug-seeking behaviour. We also tested potential modulation of these effects by cocaine urine status, an individual difference known to impact underlying cognitive functions and prognosis. Sixteen cocaine addicted individuals testing positive for cocaine in urine, 26 cocaine addicted individuals testing negative for cocaine in urine, and 23 healthy controls completed a probabilistic choice task that assessed objective preference for viewing four types of pictures (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral and cocaine). This choice task concluded by asking subjects to report their most selected picture type; correspondence between subjects' self-reports with their objective choice behaviour provided our index of behavioural insight. Results showed that the urine positive cocaine subjects exhibited impaired insight into their own choice behaviour compared with healthy controls; this same study group also selected the most cocaine pictures (and fewest pleasant pictures) for viewing. Importantly, however, it was the urine negative cocaine subjects whose behaviour was most influenced by insight, such that impaired insight in this subgroup only was associated with higher cocaine-related choice on the task and more severe actual cocaine use. These findings suggest that interventions to enhance insight may decrease drug-seeking behaviour, especially in urine negative cocaine subjects, potentially to improve their longer-term clinical outcomes.
Drug addiction is characterized by a transition from volitional drug use to drug use that becomes increasingly habitual and compulsive. An influential theoretical account has suggested that this transition occurs as control over drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviour shifts from prefrontal cortical to striatal (especially dorsal striatal) regions, such that drug-seeking behaviour becomes a stimulus-response habit that is triggered and maintained by drug-associated stimuli (Everitt et al., 2008). Thus, drug-seeking behaviour may become increasingly controlled by motivational processes of which the addicted individual is largely unaware. Such impaired insight into behaviour, encompassing denial of (or failure to recognize) the severity of illness, compromised control of action, or unawareness of one's social impairments (Damasio, 1994; Bechara, 2004), has been studied in various classical neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g. schizophrenia, mania, other mood disorders) (Orfei et al., 2008). These disorders show deficits in similar brain regions to those identified to underlie core addiction clinical symptomatology (Goldstein and Volkow, 2002), leading us to suggest that impaired insight may also be a hallmark of drug addiction (Goldstein et al., 2009).
This suggestion of an insight impairment in drug addiction has received indirect support from previously identified dissociations between subjective and objective markers of behaviour in cocaine addicted individuals (Goldstein et al., 2007, 2008; Hester et al., 2007; Moeller et al., 2009). For example, one study reported that while healthy control subjects showed incentive-related performance enhancements that were correlated with their self-reports of task engagement, these same correlations did not reach significance in the cocaine subjects (Goldstein et al., 2007). In a follow-up study, which used the same sustained attention task to examine modulation of the event-related potential P300 component by expected monetary reward, healthy control subjects, but not cocaine subjects, showed significant correlations between monetary-driven P300 amplitudes and their respective behavioural performance responses (Goldstein et al., 2008). Other laboratories have reported similar neural-behaviour dissociations in other populations of substance abusers (e.g. smokers; Chiu et al., 2008). In a recent study, we developed a probabilistic learning task in which cocaine subjects and healthy control subjects chose between viewing pleasant, unpleasant, neutral or cocaine images under uncertain task contingencies (Moeller et al., 2009). Our results revealed that the objective choice of the cocaine subjects to view the cocaine images was not fully explained by their self-reported preference (value ratings) for these same images (Moeller et al., 2009). Nevertheless, although these studies are collectively suggestive of an insight deficit, they have not tested this novel hypothesis directly.
Here, to provide more direct evidence of an insight deficit in addiction, we used this same probabilistic choice task to study correspondence between subjects' self-reported choice behaviour (reported here for the first time) with their actual, objective choice behaviour. We also examined the relation of this putative insight deficit to actual cocaine use, thereby examining the potential contribution of insight to drug seeking. We hypothesized that, compared with healthy controls, cocaine subjects will show impaired insight into their behaviour, manifested as incorrect identification of the picture category (cocaine, pleasant, unpleasant or neutral) chosen to be viewed most often. Moreover, drawing on research that has suggested a beneficial effect of insight (awareness of alcohol use severity) on clinical outcome (1-year abstinence) (Kim et al., 2007), we further hypothesized that impaired insight among the cocaine subjects will be associated with heightened cocaine-related choice on the task (especially when compared with the other affectively valenced pictures) and frequency/severity of actual cocaine use. Therefore, throughout our analyses we inspected the potential modulating influence of recent cocaine use on our main dependent variables (insight, cocaine choice behaviour and actual cocaine use). We indexed recent cocaine use on the basis of cocaine urine screening conducted on study day, an assessment that is not subject to self-report errors. These analyses with urine status, also conducted for the first time in the current study, were also undertaken because recent cocaine use may independently (or in conjunction with insight) enhance cocaine-related choice behaviour. This hypothesis is suggested by correlations obtained in our previous study between cocaine choice behaviour and frequency of recent cocaine use (Moeller et al., 2009), and by elevated cocaine choice after administration of priming doses of cocaine (i.e. small doses administered before the opportunity for drug seeking) to cocaine subjects (Donny et al., 2004). Recent cocaine use (and a positive urine status in particular) indeed predicts poor prognosis in treatment outcome studies (Poling et al., 2007; Ahmadi et al., 2009), possibly due to an underlying cognitive deficit (Woicik et al., 2009).
Sixty five subjects (42 cocaine subjects and 23 healthy control subjects) were recruited through advertisements in local newspapers, word-of-mouth and local treatment facilities. Forty of these subjects (20 cocaine and 20 controls) were included in our previous report (Moeller et al., 2009), but all analyses in the current study are unique. All subjects were right-handed native English speakers and free of any medication. Initial telephone screening and on-site medical and neurological evaluations ensured that subjects met the following criteria: (i) absence of head trauma with loss of consciousness; (ii) absence of current neurological or medical disease that required hospitalization or regular monitoring; and (iii) except for cocaine in the cocaine subjects, negative urine screens for all other drugs or their metabolites. All subjects provided written informed consent in accordance with the local Institutional Review Board.
Subjects underwent a comprehensive diagnostic interview conducted by a licensed clinical psychologist (see Supplementary material for a complete listing of interview components). This interview confirmed that all cocaine subjects met criteria for current cocaine dependence (n = 36), cocaine dependence in partial remission (n = 5), or cocaine dependence in fully sustained remission (n = 1) (see Supplementary material for comorbidities, including any additional substance abuse disorders, among these individuals). A triage urine panel for drugs of abuse (Biopsych), a reliable and valid method of detecting cocaine metabolites (Wu et al., 1993), was conducted on study day in all subjects. This test, which confirms drug use (encompassing cocaine, marijuana, opioids, benzodiazepines, phencyclidine, amphetamine/methamphetamine and barbiturates) up to 72 h after administration, divided the cocaine subjects into two subgroups: individuals with cocaine use disorder testing positive for cocaine (CUD+: n = 16, none of whom were seeking treatment; none of whom were intoxicated at study time as confirmed by the diagnostic interview) and individuals with cocaine use disorder testing negative for cocaine (CUD–: n = 26, 12 of whom were currently abstaining and 14 of whom were currently seeking treatment). Table 1 presents complete demographic information for all subjects, split by study group; we accounted for the potentially confounding influence of variables that differed between the groups as described in the 'Statistical analyses' and 'Results' sections.
Our tasks used 90 pictures (30 pleasant, 30 unpleasant, 30 neutral) selected from the International Affective Picture System (Lang et al., 1998), and 30 cocaine pictures that were matched to these International Affective Picture System pictures on size and ratio of human to non-human content. The cocaine pictures depicted images of cocaine and individuals preparing, using or simulating use of cocaine (e.g. snorting or smoking), collected from freely available online sources and adapted as still images from a cocaine video used previously in our laboratory (Volkow et al., 2006).
In the probabilistic choice task, selections were indicated via a single button press for pictures hidden under flipped-over cards, arranged in four decks. Choice of a particular 'deck' enlarged the corresponding image that covered the entire screen for 2000 ms of passive viewing. On each subsequent trial, subjects could select again from the same deck or select from a different deck. Each deck was pseudorandomly sorted, containing 26 pictures (87%) of one picture category (e.g. cocaine), two pictures of another category (e.g. pleasant) and one picture of each of the remaining two categories (e.g. unpleasant or neutral). No picture repetitions occurred between the four decks. Subjects completed four runs, each terminating when they had selected from a particular deck for a total of eight times (the eight selections did not need to be consecutive for completion of a run). We summed the total number of cards selected per picture category across the four runs. Complete information on this task, including a figure depicting example trials, can be found in our previous report (Moeller et al., 2009).
We assessed insight with a novel measure reported exclusively in the current study. The probabilistic task concluded with the following question, 'What kinds of pictures do you think you chose to look at most often?' (i.e. this question was asked immediately after task completion). Subjects responded by pressing a button corresponding to one of the four picture categories: pleasant, unpleasant, neutral or cocaine. To calculate our measure of insight, we inspected correspondence between the most selected picture category (objectively ascertained by choice behaviour throughout the probabilistic task) and the self-reported most chosen picture category (ascertained at the conclusion of the probabilistic task). If these objective and self-report measures corresponded, subjects were characterized as having unimpaired insight; otherwise, subjects were characterized as having impaired insight.
Immediately before completing the probabilistic task, subjects also completed a task of explicit behavioural choice, which examines choice for the same International Affective Picture System and cocaine pictures but under fully transparent task contingencies (Moeller et al., 2009). In this explicit choice task, subjects chose via continued button pressing between two fully-visible side-by-side images (one image from one picture category and one image from a different picture category; on some trials, images were juxtaposed against a blank screen to allow for comparison with a non-stimulus). Choice for a desired image enlarged this chosen image to fully cover the screen, which subjects could view for the trial duration of 5000 ms by continued button pressing; otherwise, the side-by-side images returned after 500 ms of non-response. We summed the total number of button presses for each picture category across the 70 choice trials.
Immediately before completing these two choice tasks, subjects underwent recordings of event-related potentials while passively viewing each of these pictures for 2000 ms (results of these event-related potentials will be reported separately). They then rated each picture on pleasantness ('rate how pleasant or unpleasant you felt about this picture') and arousal ('rate how strong of an emotional response you had to this picture'). They also reported how much they liked and wanted cocaine ['rate how much you like (or do not like) cocaine' and 'rate how much you want (or do not want) cocaine'] in response to each picture. Using a computerized version of the Self-Assessment Manikin (Bradley and Lang, 1994), subjects rated each picture from '1' to '9' ('1' corresponded to happy/high visceral response manikins, and to high liking and wanting; '9' corresponded to unhappy/no response manikins, and to low liking and wanting). Response options were reversed coded to facilitate interpretation, such that higher numbers reflect higher pleasantness, arousal, liking, and wanting. Results of the explicit choice task and picture ratings are reported in the Supplementary material.
To evaluate our first a priori hypothesis (impaired insight in cocaine subjects compared with controls), we conducted chi-square analyses that tested for group differences between cocaine subjects and controls on our insight measure. Based on our prediction that recency of cocaine use may modulate these results, we also conducted this same analysis with the cocaine subjects split into the CUD+ and CUD– subgroups. An additional chi-square analysis was conducted with CUD– split by treatment status, because non-treatment-seeking subjects may be more likely to have impaired insight, especially as it pertains to the more clinically relevant idea of denial of illness. Furthermore, because the measure of insight was partially based on a question obtained after completion of the task, we conducted logistic regression analyses that controlled for learning, memory, and executive and general intellectual functioning to inspect the possibility that our insight measure merely indexed these factors. We accounted for performance on the following tests, which subjects completed as part of a comprehensive neuropsychological battery that has been described in detail elsewhere (Woicik et al., 2009): (i) the Symbol Digits Modality Test (Smith, 1982), a test of incidental memory and executive functioning; (ii) the California Verbal Learning Test II (Delis et al., 2000), a test of verbal learning and memory (we used trials 1–5 learning, short and delayed free and cued recall and recognition hits, which collectively are the most frequently used measures); and (iii) the Matrix Reasoning score from the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (Wechsler, 1999), a measure of non-verbal intelligence. Table 1 presents information on these variables.
Choice behaviour on the probabilistic task was analysed using a 4 (Picture type: pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, cocaine) × 3 (Diagnosis: CUD+, CUD–, control) mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) (note that the picture choice variables were normally distributed). Subsequently, we conducted an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) that controlled for the total picture selections across runs to ensure that significant findings were not merely attributable to individual differences in response frequency. The Greenhouse–Geisser correction was used if the assumption of sphericity was not met. A significant Picture type × Diagnosis interaction was followed by tests of between-group linear contrasts, conducted separately for each picture category, but with the specific prediction for the cocaine pictures of CUD+ > CUD– > control (given the literature that suggests elevated cocaine choice after recent use). A significant interaction was also followed by paired t-tests, separately among the three study groups, to inspect within-group differences in picture choice. Age, depression and cigarette smoking history, which significantly differed between the groups (Table 1), were covaried in subsequent ANCOVAs if these measures were significantly associated with our dependent (choice) variables (Stevens, 1992). Associations with age were examined with Pearson correlations; associations with depression, which was not normally distributed, were examined with nonparametric Spearman correlations; and the dichotomous smoking status was inspected with independent t-tests.
Importantly, to evaluate our second a priori hypothesis (impaired insight is associated with enhanced choice for cocaine pictures), we conducted two planned 3 (Diagnosis: CUD+, CUD–, control) × 2 (Insight: unimpaired insight, impaired insight) univariate ANOVAs. The dependent variables for these ANOVAs were change scores that subtracted pleasant or unpleasant choice from cocaine choice for the probabilistic task. These ANOVAs thereby examined whether Insight and urine status interact to influence choice for viewing cocaine pictures, specifically when compared with choice for viewing the other affective non-drug related pictures [note that we also verified these ANOVAs with only the cocaine subjects, as their drug-seeking behaviour was of greater interest for our purposes; we also report in Supplementary material the results of mixed 4 (Picture choice) × 2 (Diagnosis) × 2 (Insight) ANOVAs, which examine how diagnosis and insight interact to influence choice for each picture category including the non-affective neutral pictures].
To evaluate our third a priori hypothesis (impaired insight is associated with enhanced frequency/severity of actual cocaine use), we conducted between-group analyses that examined the potential effect of Insight on the drug use variables listed in Table 1, separately for the CUD+ and CUD– subgroups. Because the drug use variables were not normally distributed, the non-parametric Mann–Whitney U-test was used. In addition, we examined whether the degree of impaired insight relates to these drug use outcomes (as well as to drug-related choice behaviour), specifically for the individuals already characterized as displaying impaired insight for whom such a dimensionality score was calculable (number of selections for the actually most selected picture category minus the number of selections for the self-reported most selected picture category, with a larger score indicative of more impairment). Considering the multiple indices of drug use frequency/severity available for inspection, analyses with these drug use variables were considered significant at P < 0.01 to protect against Type I error (all other analyses were considered significant at P < 0.05). After satisfying this initial criterion, however, we retained significant associations at P < 0.05 when accounting for relevant covariates.
Consistent with our first a priori hypothesis, chi-square analysis showed that cocaine subjects exhibited impaired insight into Picture choice compared with healthy controls [χ2(1, n = 65) = 5.3, P < 0.05]. Further analyses with the cocaine subjects split into the CUD+ and CUD– subgroups still revealed between-group differences on our Insight measure [χ2(2, n = 65) = 6.4, P < 0.05], driven by impaired insight into Picture choice in CUD+ (all non-treatment-seeking) compared with controls [χ2(1, n = 39) = 6.4, P < 0.05] (Fig. 1); CUD– did not differ from either CUD+ [χ2(1, n = 42) = 1.0, P > 0.3] or controls [χ2(1, n = 49) = 3.1, P > 0.08]. Within the CUD– subgroup, however, there were no differences between treatment-seekers and non-treatment-seekers on Insight [χ2(1, n = 26) = 2.3, P > 0.1], supporting the idea of retaining CUD– as a single subgroup that is not further subdivided by treatment status.
There were no differences between the individuals with unimpaired insight and those with impaired insight on age [t(63) = 1.4, P > 0.1], depression (Mann–Whitney U-test, Z = –1.5, P > 0.1), cigarette smoking history [χ2(1, n = 65) = 3.6, P > 0.05] or non-verbal intelligence [t(20.0) = 1.8, P > 0.09]. Nevertheless, group differences were observed on the Symbol Digits Modality Test [t(61) = 2.3, P < 0.05] and the California Verbal Learning Test [all variables except recognition hits, ts(61) > 2.0, P < 0.05]; we therefore controlled for these variables (individually, due to concerns of multicollinearity especially among the California Verbal Learning Test variables) in logistic regression analyses. Results of these logistic regressions showed that Diagnosis still predicted Insight after controlling for Symbol Digits Modality Test [χ2(1, n = 65) = 4.1, P < 0.05] and recognition hits [χ2(1, n = 65) = 4.1, P < 0.05], with similar trends emerging for the remaining California Verbal Learning Test variables [χ2(1, n = 65) > 2.7, P ≤ 0.09)]. Note that these results did not change when we examined the combined/synergistic effects of the Symbol Digits Modality Test and California Verbal Learning Test variables, as ascertained with follow-up logistic regressions that simultaneously controlled for these variables (the California Verbal Learning Test variables were still entered individually to avoid multicollinearity). It is also important to note that while these latter California Verbal Learning Test variables attenuated the effect of insight below nominal significance, follow-up mediation analyses, statistically corrected for dichotomous outcomes (MacKinnon and Dwyer, 1993), indicated that these variables did not mediate the association between Diagnosis and Insight (all Sobel's Z < 1.68, P > 0.09).
Results of the 4 (Picture type) × 3 (Diagnosis) mixed ANOVA revealed a main effect of Picture type (pleasant > all other picture categories) [F(2.2, 137.7) = 22.8, P < 0.001] but no main effect of Diagnosis [F(2, 62) = 0.3, P > 0.7]. The Picture type × Diagnosis interaction was also significant [F(4.4, 137.7) = 7.7, P < 0.001], driven by between-group differences in selections of cocaine pictures [F(2, 62) = 7.8, P < 0.01] and pleasant pictures [F(2, 62) = 5.1, P < 0.01], but not in selections of unpleasant or neutral pictures [Fs(2, 62) < 2.5, P > 0.09]. Specifically, the between-group linear contrast reached significance for cocaine choice as predicted (CUD + > CUD– > control) [F(1, 62) = 15.3, P < 0.001] (Fig. 2); a reversed linear contrast also emerged for pleasant pictures (CUD + < CUD– < control) [F(1, 62) = 9.9, P < 0.01] (Fig. 2). Within-group comparisons showed that CUD + selected more cocaine pictures than unpleasant pictures [t(15) = 3.4, P < 0.01], whereas CUD– and controls did not [controls selected fewer cocaine pictures than unpleasant pictures; t(22) = 3.1, P < 0.01]. Furthermore, whereas CUD + did not differ in selections of cocaine versus pleasant pictures [t(15) = 0.7, P > 0.4], the other study groups selected fewer cocaine pictures than pleasant pictures [CUD–: t(25) = 2.2, P < 0.05; control: t(22) = 10.4, P < 0.001]. The Picture type × Diagnosis interaction remained significant after accounting for all relevant covariates (P < 0.01).
Results of the two 3 (Diagnosis: CUD +, CUD–, control) × 2 (Insight: unimpaired insight, impaired insight) ANOVAs revealed the expected main effects of Diagnosis on choice behaviour [Fs(2, 59) > 6.1, P < 0.01]. Although the main effects of Insight did not reach significance [Fs(1, 59) < 2.8, P > 0.1], both Diagnosis × Insight interactions were detected [cocaine > pleasant selections: F(2, 59) = 3.5, P < 0.05; and a similar trend for cocaine > unpleasant selections: F(2, 59) = 2.8, P < 0.08] (Fig. 3A and B, respectively). Follow-up comparisons showed that cocaine-related choice in CUD– was higher among the individuals with impaired insight [cocaine > pleasant selections: t(24) = 2.6, P < 0.05; cocaine > unpleasant selections: t(24) = 2.2, P < 0.05]. These same comparisons were not significant in the other study groups [CUD +: ts(14) < 0.7, P > 0.4; controls: ts(21) < 1.7, P > 0.1]. Adjusting for relevant covariates did not attenuate these interactions (cocaine > pleasant: P < 0.05; cocaine > unpleasant: P < 0.09). These same interactions also emerged with 2 (Urine status: CUD +, CUD–) × 2 (Insight: unimpaired insight, impaired insight) ANOVAs [cocaine > pleasant selections: F(1, 38) = 5.3, P < 0.05; and a similar trend for cocaine > unpleasant selections: F(1, 38) = 4.0, P < 0.06], buttressing the validity of Insight as particularly relevant to the CUD– subjects.
Non-parametric comparisons showed that CUD– with impaired insight spent more money on cocaine per use in the previous month than CUD– with unimpaired insight (Z = –2.7, P < 0.01) (Fig. 4); in contrast, Insight did not impact drug spending within the CUD+ group (Z = –0.8, P > 0.4). This effect of Insight on cocaine spending in CUD– remained significant after accounting for all relevant covariates (P < 0.05). Associations with the other drug use variables listed in Table 1 did not reach the nominal significance level (P < 0.01).
Within those individuals with impaired insight, correlational analyses showed that a higher discrepancy between self-report and behaviour (more impairment) was associated with higher cocaine > pleasant choice (r = 0.52, P < 0.05), with a similar trend for the cocaine > unpleasant choice (r = 0.42, P < 0.07), the former remaining significant after accounting for all relevant covariates (P < 0.05). A higher discrepancy between self-report and behaviour was also associated with higher withdrawal symptoms as assessed by the Cocaine Selective Severity Assessment Scale (Kampman et al., 1998) (r = 0.62, P < 0.01), also remaining significant after accounting for the relevant covariates (P < 0.05). Similarly to the categorical Insight variable, these correlations were driven by CUD–, as revealed for both cocaine > pleasant choice (CUD+: r = –0.35, P > 0.3; CUD–: r = 0.78, P < 0.05; Fig. 5A) and the Cocaine Selective Severity Assessment Scale (CUD+: r = 0.00, P > 0.9; CUD–: r = 0.84, P < 0.01; Fig. 5B).
The current study directly tested the novel hypothesis of impaired behavioural insight in cocaine addiction, and explored whether such impaired insight relates to cocaine-seeking behaviour and frequency/severity of actual cocaine use. Insight was indicated by categorical correspondence between self-reported behaviour and objective behaviour on a probabilistic-learning choice task (a dimensional insight variable was also examined in follow-up analyses). Cocaine seeking was approximated with tasks of choice for viewing cocaine-related images compared with choice for standardized pleasant, unpleasant and neutral pictures; because these tasks use pictures in lieu of actual cocaine, they are suitable for use even in the treatment-seeking CUD– for whom actual cocaine administration would be unethical. Recency of use was indexed by cocaine metabolites in urine, and frequency and severity of actual cocaine use were ascertained by self-report.
Consistent with our first a priori hypothesis, our results suggested that cocaine addicted individuals are less likely to exhibit insight into their behavioural choice compared with controls. This impairment, which was most pronounced in the CUD+, was attenuated below nominal significance after controlling for other executive functions, speaking to some shared variance between these measures. Nevertheless, non-significant Sobel tests of mediation suggested that these executive functions are not plausible mediators of our effects, consistent with the idea that insight may represent a novel neuropsychological dimension that could underlie clinical symptomatology in drug addiction. A future functional neuroimaging study could probe the neural basis of this insight deficit in CUD+, in which we would anticipate crucial roles for the anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortices, implicated in interoception and behavioural monitoring, respectively (Craig, 2009). These regions indeed predicted diminished awareness of task-related errors in cannabis users (Hester et al., 2009). Other regions (e.g. orbitofrontal cortex, dorsal striatum; Goldstein et al., 2009) and pathways (e.g. somatosensory; Khalsa et al., 2009) may also be involved.
Results were also consistent with our second and third a priori hypotheses of elevated cocaine-related choice and actual cocaine use among the cocaine subjects with impaired insight. Three lines of evidence supported this conclusion: (i) cocaine-related choice was highest in the CUD+ (as described in the main text as well as in the Supplementary material), who were the least likely to display insight; (ii) CUD– with impaired insight demonstrated cocaine-related choice resembling that of CUD+, while CUD– with unimpaired insight demonstrated cocaine-related choice resembling that of controls; and (iii) CUD– with impaired insight spent more on cocaine per use in the previous month than CUD– with unimpaired insight. These latter two findings received additional support from analyses with the dimensional insight variable among those characterized by impaired insight. Importantly, these latter two findings suggest that despite showing an overall lower drug-related choice than CUD+, it was the CUD– subgroup whose drug-seeking behaviour was most directly impacted by insight. One possibility for this differential effect in CUD– may pertain to this subgroup's increased variability in severity of cocaine use [e.g. current amount spent on cocaine per use was more variable in CUD– (SD = 142.0) than in CUD+ (SD = 55.1)], allowing for more of this variability to be captured by insight. A contributing source of this elevated variability in CUD– could involve treatment-seeking status. If insight were related to the more clinically relevant notion of a 'denial of or failure to recognize the severity of illness,' it would seem that the non-treatment-seekers would be more likely to have impaired insight than the treatment-seekers. Although our results did not show a significant difference between these subgroups within the CUD– group, such analyses need to be repeated in larger sample sizes, and possibly while also including treatment-seeking CUD+. Taken together, our results suggest that enhancing insight in clinical settings may decrease the chance of uncontrolled drug seeking and relapse to improve treatment outcomes (for discussion of potential interventions see Goldstein et al., 2009) Indeed, a recent study reported that better insight into one's severity of alcohol use predicted actual abstinence for up to one year after treatment among male alcoholics (Kim et al., 2007).
Results of the probabilistic task further revealed that in addition to demonstrating the highest cocaine-related choice, CUD+ also demonstrated the lowest pleasant-related choice. In tandem, these findings are consistent with self-administration paradigms whereby acute cocaine administration elevates the choice for cocaine over another pleasant reinforcer (money) (Donny et al., 2004). Although in our study the specific cocaine > pleasant within-group comparison did not reach significance in the CUD+, inspection of the means shows that the results were in this hypothesized direction. Consistent with the theoretical perspective that cocaine addicted individuals pursue cocaine and cocaine-related stimuli at the expense of non-drug related goals (Goldstein and Volkow, 2002), we speculate that this trend may have reached significance with a larger sample size or during a more direct drug-related state [e.g. under the influence of methylphenidate (Volkow et al., 1999), in anticipation of consuming a drug (Wertz and Sayette, 2001; Wilson et al., 2004, 2008), or when recalling a drug-specific context (Goldstein et al., in press)]. Overall, these disproportionate drug-seeking effects in the CUD+ may be contributing to the poorer treatment success rates that have been reported in this subgroup (Poling et al., 2007; Ahmadi et al., 2009).
Limitations of the current study include the following: firstly, we cannot rule out the impact of other factors (e.g. greater familiarity with cocaine stimuli, age, depression, cigarette smoking and other relevant psychological variables) on the current results. However, we note from Table 1 that CUD+ and CUD– did not differ on age of cocaine use onset or duration of cocaine use, and the impacts of age, depression and cigarette smoking were partially addressed through statistical controls. Other cognitive and psychological processes [e.g. coping, more direct measures of sustained attention such as the Continuous Performance Test (Connors, 1995)] also remain to be studied. Secondly, previous viewing of these same drug-related stimuli (i.e. when subjects provided their self-report ratings or during the explicit task, which both occurred prior to the probabilistic task; see 'Materials and methods' section) could have induced craving in the cocaine subjects (Carter and Tiffany, 1999), and perhaps especially in CUD+ who could be expecting an imminent drug self-administration opportunity (Wertz and Sayette, 2001; Wilson et al., 2004, 2008). Implementing a counterbalanced design in future research could address this concern. Thirdly, socially desirable responding and other demand characteristics could have impacted our results. Nevertheless, although we suspect that the treatment-seeking CUD– would be most motivated to deny interest in viewing cocaine-related stimuli, cocaine-related choice in the CUD– group still surpassed similar choice in healthy controls. Finally, insight is a complex psychological and neurobiological concept that is unlikely to be fully captured with a single task [e.g. there may be multiple forms of anosognosia (Prigatano, in press), which may differentially influence the type and magnitude of symptoms that the addicted individual can perceive]. Future studies could benefit from (i) online probing into insight (e.g. assessing knowledge of behaviour throughout the task) in order to investigate impaired insight in drug addiction within a fully dimensional framework, and further reduce the possibility that a general cognitive deficit or other non-tested cognitive/emotional dimensions can explain the current findings; (ii) cross-validation with other measures [e.g. the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (Lane et al., 1990)] and tasks (e.g. not just those with covert stimulus-response contingencies), which could potentially tap into additional insight phenomena; and (iii) use of a drug-seeking task that is completely distinct from the insight task.
In summary, to our knowledge, the current study is the first to target specifically insight in addiction. Using a probabilistic task with non-fully transparent contingencies, our findings revealed that recent cocaine users were less likely to show insight into their behavioural choice compared with controls, and had the highest cocaine-related choice behaviour. Our results further suggested that the abstinent/treatment-seeking CUD– were most directly impacted by insight, such that those with impaired insight exhibited higher cocaine-related choice behaviour and more severe cocaine use than those with unimpaired insight. Thus, our results suggest that drug addicted individuals (and perhaps especially abstinent or treatment-seeking individuals, for whom curtailing drug use is an immediate goal) may derive benefit from interventions to enhance insight, having the potential to pre-empt drug seeking that could derail treatment success.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (grants 1R01DA023579, R21DA02062 to R.Z.G.) and the General Clinical Research Center (5-MO1-RR-10710).
Rita Goldstein received consultation fee from Medical Directions, Inc, and honoraria fee from the Federal Judicial Centre and the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioural Research.
Supplementary material is available at Brain online.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Jonathan Dunning and Greg Hajcak to this research. This manuscript has been authored by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CHI-886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains, and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges, a world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for the United States Government purposes.
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During the re-development of the Rising Sun public House at Sun Corner a number of aspects of the buildings history have once again been revealed which have been hidden for many years.
When the outside rendering was stripped away some of the old painted signs were revealed and the builders have been kind enough to take some picture for us so that there can be a record kept once these are again covered.
The painted sign on the east side of the building reads R. A. Knight. We know from trade directories that Robert Knight was the proprietor around 1922/25.
The Rising Sun Hotel sign is on the front of the building over the door nearest Sun Corner.
The other pictures show a detail from an internal chimney at the back of the building in the lower part along Laindon Road. The date 1939 is clearly visible but the word(s) above the date are harder to make out - can anyone read them? These photos also show some of the structure of the old walls. This part of the building has been demolished.
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Gay marriage: more legalistic and twisted semantics
Love Means Nothing
Love is just a score if you happen to be talking about tennis; otherwise it means a lot.
There are many kinds of love. There is religious love. There is romantic love. There is parental love. Then there is gay love, which I suppose is a subdivision of romantic love. There is brotherly love. There is sisterly love. Then there is marital love. Each type of love is important enough that people have been willing to die for it. But only marital love is recognized by God and the state.
A Biblical translation commands us to "go forth and multiply." The government agrees so completely with this command that if you obey, you will get a tax break for each child. Why is this important? Let's look at Mr. and Mrs. Farmer. If they don't go forth and multiply, there won't be replacement Farmers to grow crops. If Mr. and Mrs. Truck Driver aren't fruitful, produce won't get to market. And if Mr. and Mrs. Baker aren't fruitful, we won't have bread. These unscientific examples, though simplistic, anticipate an economic axiom: demography is destiny. They also provide fodder for the Law of Unanticipated Consequences.
The gay community wishes to have their unions recognized as marriage. Why? There are only two plausible reasons: (1) recognition by God, and, (2) tax breaks. They may be disappointed on at least one count and probably two. Gays cannot go forth and multiply, and gay couples, although loved by God, will not be recognized by God as married.
Regarding the government's recognition (i.e. tax breaks), I doubt if gay couples will be granted the same benefits as heterosexual married couples for two reasons: (1) Their union does nothing to benefit society, and (2) Under the equal protection clause of the Constitution, I believe that If the government were to recognize gay marriage, the Supreme Court would be forced to extend those same benefits to all loving couples living together, be they mother and daughter, brother and sister or sister and sister. This will engender more legalistic and twisted semantics to get around the fact that non-heterosexual unions can bear no more fruit than 'Love' in a tennis match. And, we all know that means nothing
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I must admit that I was excited to try Ubisoft's game Just Dance. It sounded like a good way to mix exercise with fun. I had visions of me learning the latest hippest dance moves to amaze my friends. I put in the game with my eleven year old niece at my side. I was very intimidated to pull out my dance mojo, or lack thereof, while in the presence of family but I bravely forged ahead. I decided my best move would be to choose the Warm Up mode to loosen up these old bones. The neon glowing silhouette of a woman onscreen took us through several slow motion moves intended to prepare us for the upcoming dancing. Suitably relaxed and laughing from some of the goofy warm up moves, we then flipped through the song choices until she found one she could relate to. And then the hilarity did, in fact, ensue.
The game interface is pretty minimal. Center screen is displays your dance coach (the neon glowing silhouette of a person). This coach, each dressed appropriately for the song's style, leads you through the moves and grooves of each dance. There are two score gauges to each side of the coach. Each gauge represents a player's score and fills as you score points. If a player successfully strings together several moves they earn combo points. Score enough combo points and the player will set their gauge on fire earning bonus combo points. At the lower right hand corner of the screen pictogram stick figures scroll by. These figures show a preview of the next dance move.
The Wii-mote is the only form of control over the game. You must hold the controller in your right hand as you dance to score points on a scale starting from a miss (X), to OK, and ultimately Great. There seems to be room for loose interpretation of the dance moves presented. For the lazy gamer you could probably get away with merely shaking, swaying, or swooping the remote with your right hand and earn a good score. The game relies heavily on the gamer's earnest desire to dance.
The game is as simple as the title implies. The objective of this game is to Just Dance. There are three main modes of the game. The first is Warm Up that helps you get ready for dancing, the Quick Play mode is a fast way to get to dancing, and the Challenge mode where you and three more friends can compete for respect. There are three modes under Challenge mode. The first is Classic. Here you compete directly against each other. The person with the most points at the end wins. The next mode is Strike a Pose. This is a dancing version of Red Light/Green Light. Each player dances until a Stop sign appears on their score bar and stay still until they are told to Go again. The final mode is Last One Standing. Here the person with the fewest mistakes wins.
The song selection is a sampler of popular dance music styles from several of the past decades. The thirty-two song list includes songs that rock the sock hop, rolls through the surfing craze, spins through disco beats, pumps out the 80's and 90's tunes, and slides home into a few recent hits. They even slipped in a folksy country song for good measure. Once you choose the game mode you have the choice of playing the short version of the song or the full version. If you can't decide which song they offer a Suggestion option that randomly selects a song for you.
One disappointment in the game is the Tutorial section. I selected it in the menu to find it only displaying still screenshots of how to play the game. I was really hoping to find a way to learn some of the moves they throw at you during the game. I would have loved to have something similar to the Break it down mode described in the upcoming Xbox title of Kinect Dance Central. A slow motion step by step break down of the main moves would have added a huge value to this game. The Kinect game also has the bonus of evaluating the movements of your entire body and not just the movements of your right hand. I wonder if Ubisoft was unhappy with the motion tracking camera they introduced in the Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy game. Strangely there is an ad for the fitness game on the back page of the game's manual. The camera would seem to be a better fit for a dance game control system. Another item that would benefit this game would be the availability of downloadable tracks to add new music to the core game. I would love to add more music to fit my mood of the moment.
As it stands this game is a very fun party game that had my niece energetically proclaiming this game as "AWESOME!" The demographic for this game is absolutely the casual social gamer. It is fun and allows you to get down and get goofy to your heart's content. With a little added effort I think this modest game could become a full fledged craze. It is a game that glorifies the fun of letting go and having fun. Some may not feel they get a full priced game value from this game but I am having a lot of fun making a fool of myself and getting my groove on.
A copy of the game Just Dance was provided to The Married Gamers for the purpose of examination and review.


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Ability Sequence
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I have recently gotten a new interest in kat since the re-work. I liked her before but the re-work increases her early game by alot. I main kat, and use her in ranked whenever possible. I will cover techniques, abilities & tricks, and such.
+Amazing mid-late game potential
+Fun to play
+CC counters her hard (fixed with cleanse and a few tricks)
+Enemy team cries
This mastery setup gives you some AP, aswell as nice cooldown reduction and damage, while also providing some health and MR.
Greater Mark of Ability Power
Greater Seal of Ability Power
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist
Greater Quintessence of Magic Penetration
These runes give some nice early AP and MR, aswell as the late game advantage of more MP.
Summoner Spells
Do use:
The 101 uses spell. Lets you initiate, finish someone off, escape, hop over a wall, etc.
Kat's counter is CC, this pretty much removes that with a few tricks.
If they have near no CC, then take this or exhaust instead.
Ignite or exhaust are personal preference. Whichever you want.
Don't use:
No. You do not need this.
No. You do not need this either.
- This is what makes katarina katarina. Allows her to go 1v5 and get pentakills. Remember your refresh!
- When you go in to towerdive, after you get the kill immediately shunpo out on a minion so you take less tower shots!
bouncing blade:
- Allows you to farm early game and harass at the same time from a distance. Use this with your W to farm minion waves
sinister steelsinister steel
- The ability kat got from the rework. It's an AOE damage ability that synergises perfectly with her Q.
- When you bouncing blade and shunpo into the fight, use this before ulting for extra damage. It has no cast time!
- Escape, initiate, destroy wards, what can't this do?
- Use this to destoy wards by shunpoing on the ward when placed to reveal it for 3 seconds.
death lotus:
- This makes you the ultimate 1v5 champion. This is literally an instant penta when used correctly.
- It has a low CD so use it alot!
- Remember the refresh. 3 kills after using this will get this refreshed, so use it again!
Skill Sequence
Take your Q first for farming and harass from a distance, then take shunpo for easy escaping or skillshot dodging. Next, take another point in your Q to increase the damage, then get a point in you W. From there, this should be your skill priority:
> > sinister steel >
|Item Sequence
Hextech Gunblade
Rabadon's Deathcap
Zhonya's Hourglass
Void Staff
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Starting items
Gives some much needed movement speed aswell as health potions for if you make a mistake.
Early Game Items
The magic pen and extra movement speed helps alot, along with the AP and Spell Vamp from the revolver, so you don't need to go back as often.
Mid Game Items
This is going to supercharge your AP to near 300-500 at this point. The gunblade is also a huge help when bursting down that last bit of an enemies health, or slowing down an enemy to keep up with them when chasing.
Late Game Items
Zhonya's Hourglass gives you some nice armor, AP, aswell as an extremely effective active. If the enemy team has alot of cc, go in with all of your abilities except your ult, then zhonya's. They will blow their CC and allow your team to damage them. Then ult them after it's finished.
The Void Staff gives you a bit more AP and also some extremely nice MP. You can get either one first depending on how much MR they have and how much CC they have.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter is a great end-game item when the enemy has a lot of damage. This gives you that extra health for when if you could have been alive for 1 more second you could have had that kill. This also synergises with all of your abilities. When you use your Bouncing Blades first, it will hit all of them to slow them all, then your sinister steel will slow them again while giving you a speed boost. Then comes the best part. When you ult, the slow will keep them in range the whole time, so they sit in it the full length, allowing you to get more damage in and be a massive utility to your team if you die.
Situational Items
Now i know many people think Mejai's Soulstealer is not the most reliable item, and the truth is, it's not. However, on Katarina this is amazing. When she starts getting kills, she doesn't stop, and this just rewards her massively for that. No other item that you could get would give you more ability power than this.
The Abyssal Mask is a great item to have if your team has a lot of AP, as it reduces their MR. However, a Void Staff is much better to have, since you're not always going to be close enough to enemies where the range reaches them because you will be in the back of the fight at almost all times.
Deathfire Grasp. Now this item is a good item, don't get me wrong, but this item just doesn't work that well anymore since the CDR got nerfed on it. In the Season 3 Patch this item is getting completely reworked, so there isn't a need to have this item right now. It's not worth it over other items you could have.
Laning Phase
Farm with your Q whenever possible aswell as harassing them in the process. Stay far away to avoid damage unless going in to W. You should be fine during this phase.
Try to avoid ganks by shunpoing to minions and such. If the enemy is out of lane, either gank or push the tower ONLY when their jungler is not mia or if there is a wave of your minions coming so you can shunpo to them.
Wither your opponent down to about half health, then go in on him with all your abilities (after you hit 6, of course). Get a gank from your jungler if needed.
Team Fights
Stay in the back of your team all the time. Stay out of the range of sight of enemies so they think you are mia. Your main job is to clean up, not fight the teamfight head on.
When the enemies are about half health to 3 quarters health (depending on how fed you are), wait until they've blown all their CC, then unleash hell on them. Once your ult is finished you should have a kill or two.
Use the refresh on the lowest target (preferably not the tank), and keep QEW'ing. Once you have your ult refreshed (3 kills) use it to finish them off. Behold your pentakill.
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The two squirrels were arrested after a foot chase that lasted several minutes, involving several trees, the gutters above Montgomery Hall, a Blue Line shuttle bus, and a power line. Police announced that a task force determined the two squirrels "fit the description" of several unsolved cases of assault and/or robbery in College Park this year.
Recently, a string of robberies and assaults have left College Park residents angry and demanding answers. Armed robberies have struck houses as recently as a few days ago, students have been beaten in public, and there have been several rapes over the past few years. The descriptions have always managed to fit the squirrels – black males, black hair, six feet tall. The squirrels have been committing their crimes out of trees and fences, boosting their heights.
"These crimes will finally come to an end," said UMPD spokesman Marc Limansky.


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Clacton-on-Sea UK, 25.08.2011 - - Pickering Interfaces has continued in 2011 to regularly release a steady flow of new products in both the LXI and the PXI platforms. According to Nick Hickford, Sales Manager UK and Ireland , "LXI enquiries have been particularly strong in the last 6 months as more and more users are realizing the benefits of this platform. These enquiries are leading to a steadily increasing number of switching solutions being made available by Pickering Interfaces and LXI is becoming an increasingly important part of our business model. But PXI is as usual an important part of our business and we are committed to continuing to expand our range of switching solutions using this platform, we consider PXI and LXI to be complimentary platforms that we will pursue in parallel, selecting the most appropriate platform for each application".
Amongst a variety of products, these latest models deserve attention and will be shown at European Microwave Manchester in October:
First models in a new range of 6GHz switch solutions, these compact switch modules offer an alternative to mechanical microwave switches for applications up to 6GHz. Their excellent isolation and crosstalk performance combined with fast operation and long life makes them ideal for both production and development testing.
Brand new 40-880 Series PXI Solid State RF Switching
- Wide Frequency Range 10 MHz to 6 GHz
- High Performance Solid State Switch
- SPDT, SP4T and SP6T versions
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Also on display at the show:
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These products are available now and pricing can be found on our web site, www.pickeringtest.com
More about Pickering:
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Tomorrow sees the launch of easyJet Holidays' Inspiration Initiative, a competition designed to uncover where travellers' wanderlust comes from. Following their list of 'wh-' questions, I took a look at my own inspirations.
|With my grandparents in Venice
Way before granny chic was cool, I was turning to my grandparents for inspiration. When I was growing up, there were no coach trips to Bognor for my mum's parents; instead they lounged by Lake Garda, toured the Scottish Highlands and even jetted off to Jamaica. It wasn't just their choices of destinations that caught my attention though: it was the frequency of their trips. Now that I work full time, I'm wondering if being inspired by my globetrotting grandparents might be a curse as well as a blessing: apparently six holidays per year isn't 'normal'...
|Inspired by Israel
Given my penchant for multiple annual holidays, I tend to take short haul trips within Europe. Branching out into Israel in 2010, I encountered not just a new continent and a new culture, but a desire to experience the world beyond Europe's borders. From tanning in Tel Aviv to wandering the walled old city in Jerusalem, Israel captivated me and inspired me to try different destinations. Since that trip, I've visited Malaysia, Singapore, Morocco and Turkey – and still managed some European trips too.
|We found the Duomo without Gianni's help
My first parent-free holiday, a week in Albufeira, may have been ideal for post-school fun, but inspiring it was not. One year on, my university friend and I chose Italy as a holiday destination, for the arbitrary reason that the cheapest available flight was to Milan. Ten days of ill-prepared independent travel ensued; selected highlights of which included a heated argument with an Italian pensioner on a train and getting so lost in a random suburb of Bologna by night that we had to appeal to the helpful Gianni of Blockbuster Video for directions. By the end of the trip, we'd mastered the art of ordering three-scoop ice creams in Italian, seen more churches than some bishops ever will and had almost as good a sense of direction as Gianni. My interest in independent travel had definitely been awakened.
|The Alhambra
Spain. It would be a surprise to regular readers if I said anywhere else, and I'd hate to disappoint. Holidaying in the south of Spain as a teenager certainly fuelled my fondness for sunshine, and moving to Seville on my year abroad from university led to my full-blown love affair with the country. It's not just Andalucia that inspires me, though: Spain's diversity encourages me to return time and time again. There's the cosmopolitan-meets-traditional mix that is Madrid, the striking monuments of old Castile, the chic Catalan city of Barcelona and the wild natural landscapes of Galicia. And that's only scratching the surface of Spain.
Inspiration Initiative nominees:
1) Starry-Eyed Travels
2) Becoming Sevillana
3) Rambling Tart
4) Jessica In Search Of
5) Ruthie Rolo
You can find out more about the easyJet Holidays Inspiration Initiative competition and how to enter here.


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Today is Wednesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2007 with 250 to follow.
The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England, in 1599; Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio telegraph, in 1874; U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1906; pioneer broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow in 1908; singer Ella Fitzgerald in 1917; former Harlem Globetrotters basketball player George "Meadowlark" Lemon III in 1932 (age 75); and actors Al Pacino in 1940 (age 67), Talia Shire in 1946 (age 61), Hank Azaria in 1964 (age 43) and Renee Zellweger in 1969 (age 38).
On this date in history:
In 1507, German geographer and mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller published a book in which he named the newly discovered continent of the New World "America" after the man he mistakenly thought had discovered it, Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
In 1859, ground was broken for the Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt.
In 1862, Union forces captured New Orleans during the Civil War.
In 1898, the U.S. Congress formally declared war on Spain in the battle over Cuba.
In 1901, New York became the first state to require license plates on automobiles.
In 1945, delegates of 46 countries gathered in San Francisco to organize a permanent United Nations.
In 1967, the first law legalizing abortion in the United States was signed into law by Colorado Gov. John Arthur Love.
In 1982, Israel turned over the final third of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.
In 1990, space shuttle Discovery astronauts released the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. The telescope was later determined to be flawed, prompting another space mission to repair it.
Also in 1990, Violeta Chamorro assumed the Nicaraguan presidency, ending more than a decade of leftist Sandinista rule.
In 1991, the United States announced its first financial aid to Hanoi since the 1960s: $1 million to make artificial limbs for Vietnamese disabled during the war.
In 1993, an estimated 300,000 people took part in a gay rights march on the National Mall in Washington.
In 1994, the Japanese Diet elected Tsutomu Hata as prime minister.
In 1995, regular season play by major league baseball teams got under way, the first official action since the longest strike in sports history began in August 1994.
In 1997, a federal district court in Greensboro, N.C., ruled the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had the power to regulate the distribution, sale and use of tobacco products.
In 2000, Vermont approved a measure legalizing "civil unions" among same sex couples becoming the first state in the nation to give homosexual couples the same legal status as heterosexual married couples.
In 2001, the Japanese Diet elected Junichiro Koizumi, a former Health and Welfare minister, as the country's prime minister.
In 2002, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia presented U.S. President George W. Bush with an Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal and reportedly warned that the United States must do more to stop Israeli incursions in Palestinian territory.
In 2003, Chinese health officials closed a second hospital and ordered about 4,000 people in Beijing to stay home as the number of cases and deaths from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, continued to surge in the country.
Also in 2003, Farouk Hijazi, the former director of external operations for Iraqi intelligence and a former ambassador to Tunisia and Turkey, was arrested as a suspect in an alleged 1993 Kuwait plot to assassinate former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in Kuwait.
In 2004, hundreds of victims in the North Korea train explosion were reported being treated in an ill-equipped hospital lacking beds and medical equipment. At least 161 people were reported killed and about 1,300 others were wounded.
In 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush and Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met with skyrocketing oil prices topping the agenda.
Also in 2005, the crash of a Japanese commuter train near Osaka killed more than 70 people and injured more than 300 others.
In 2006, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was greeted in Athens by masked rioters throwing gasoline bombs and stones to protest her arrival.
A thought for the day: U.S. President John F. Kennedy said, "History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."


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