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"Its the Economy, Stupid!" There is surely cause for mental health care providers to salute the commitment of series editor, Arthur Jongsma, Jr., and publisher, John Wiley, for their massive roll-out of the Practice Planners series of psychotherapy source books, reference manuals, and treatment planners. The number of titles in the entire series approaches two dozen now, most of which include disks so that therapists can customize forms and paperwork to meet their own practice requirements. Two of the volumes are completely computer-dedicated and offer billing, scheduling, and general office functions, as well as general computerized treatment planning assistance. Providers looking to enhance productivity in their practice will be well-served to consider some or all of the offerings in this series as part of the fiscal difficulties many providers are experiencing in todays managed care environment are a function of antiquated, inefficient, and redundant treatment planning, documentation, and billing infrastructure and procedures.
The corporatization of just about everything in life today, including some mental health care, can illuminate areas of practice that can benefit from efforts to streamline and economize. Economies of scale and efficient practices will differentiate providers who will survive in the new marketplace from those who will not. As psychotherapy looks to become like any other economic product where issues of marketing and efficiency are paramount, issues of accountability will also be necessary to differentiate providers in the marketplace - at the high-end and for value-shoppers in the vast middle.
Its the Accountability! The Practice Planners series will be a useful risk-management strategy to ensure that mental health care is well-documented, consistent, and replicable. Insofar as the series attempts to offer the "best practices" of empirically-based treatment which have influenced other branches of medicine, they also offer a modicum of accountability and consistency. Yet psychotherapy, unlike most other branches of medicine, remains a remarkably unwieldy, unmanageable, and disparate profession, where there is no consensus at all about "best practices" or even what constitutes the evidence to evaluate such questions. Providers remain exceedingly factionalized and must preface every conversation with an introduction about their clinical orientation and thus their ways of seeing. There can be no pre-theoretical conversation in or about psychotherapy.
Many therapists will condemn or ignore the Practice Planners series for the corporatization and the manualization of the always individualized and idiosyncratic process of psychotherapy. But even the Practice Planners series does not go far enough in proffering that the real test of accountability will not be in empirically-validated treatments but rather in empirically validated treaters. While science has revealed over and over that psychotherapy works and that one brand of therapy is just as good as another, it has also revealed is that not all therapists are equally as good.
Some therapists, quite simply, produce better outcomes than others, more consistently and across a wider-range of patients, regardless of therapy model and regardless of homework assignments given in treatment. Some therapists are not only able to provide solid, lasting outcomes, but they are able to do it much more efficiently as well. It is this kind of data which the managed care companies are really interested in tracking, and if providers wish to survive, in either high-volume or boutique practice, they will increasingly be called on to demonstrate their efficacy and outcomes. Certainly medicine is moving this way and psychotherapy in many ways is just as much a part of the mainstream economy as any other service. If the Practice Planners manuals can help therapists pay more attention to their patients, their relationships with their patients, and patient-anchored outcomes, and less to the drudgery of paperwork, then the series will indeed offer therapists a competitive advantage.
In taking a closer look at the specific volumes under review here, we must be mindful of the marketing strategies necessary to differentiate these titles in the marketplace. In reviewing the data about psychotherapy utilization and outcome, it is increasingly well-known that there is no such thing as brief therapy because there is no such thing as long-term therapy. About 90% of all psychotherapy patients come for less than 10 visits with the mean treatment episode being about 4.6 sessions and the modal number of visits being just one (!). Insofar as the three titles under review can help therapists ensure that patients take something useful away from what will be, inevitably, brief therapy, they are well-recommended.
Its the Motivation! One of the ironies of the series of Homework Planners is that "homework" is seldom a major contributor to psychotherapy outcome. So as useful as each of these titles are in providing strategies and interventions for a wide range of cross-referenced and indexed symptoms and presenting problems, we must not assume that the proper homework assignment will magically make the difference in treatment.
One of the largest contributors to psychotherapy outcome (about twice as large as the contribution of therapist factors, theory, or homework combined) is patient motivation and willingness to change. These books will be useful to patients who, though not necessarily as a replacement for professional care but perhaps as an adjunct to, are genuinely motivated to do things differently themselves and are willing to try a wide variety of measures to have things be different. Patients with this type of motivation will find the exercises and assignments in these books to be exceedingly useful, not necessarily because of the exercises and suggestions themselves, but because they focus patient motivation and enhance a sense of self-efficacy.
In general, patients are not just looking for ways to help themselves feel less anxious, or grieve, or help their child stop wetting the bed, or get their teenager to school, but for consistent reminders that they want things to be different, are willing to work at it, and have many ideas of their own to try, as well as those in the books. When therapists encounter singularly motivated patients the best strategy is to "stay out of the way of change" and try to feed the patient interventions that best fit the patients theory of change, not the therapists'. The therapist will also want to observe and help the patient take credit for the "difference that makes a difference" in eliciting and sustaining change. The best homework usually entails prescribing some variation on things patients and families are doing already that is useful, or that best fits their ideas about what might be helpful (whether writing a letter to the problem or establishing a very behavioral chore chart, to cite just two possibilities).
Unfortunately, however, most patients are not such motivated customers for change. Most patients come to treatment because someone else has made them or because the patient thinks that someone other than him or herself needs to change. These patients are motivated to have things be different, to be sure, but not necessarily to do anything differently themselves. Most patients in reality would either like a spouse, child, teacher (etc.) to change, or the patient might be in treatment to satisfy the requirements of a spouse, a job, a court, DSS, a school or the like. For patients where the personal motivation for change is minimal to nil, homework assignments, however well crafted or matched to presenting problems and diagnosis, will be of little use.
In summary, if the patient is motivated, he or she may not need a therapist (at least initially) and can work on the books independently, or continue to do more of what works independent of the books. If the patient is not motivated, the books will be of little use unless and until the patients theory of change can be validated and the patient connected with and coaxed into some willingness to do things differently.
Dont Do Your Homework! Even if patients and therapists are working separately or together on assignments in the Homework Planners, as the Introductions to each of the volumes implies, we must not become obsessional about checking the assignments. Whats important in psychotherapy outcome is not just reducing a specific set of symptoms but in enhancing an overall sense of self-efficacy, a sense that regardless of the next set of problems, one would have the past record of success and capacity to trust oneself to try some things differently.
Though these are all large volumes and there are some exceptions, the homework assignments are generally written in terms of reducing problematic behavior ("Not Goals") rather than in terms of what better would like in terms of specific, concrete, behavioral goals. The first title, Brief Therapy Homework Planner, is the one most oriented toward "Presence Goals," which makes sense given that it appears partially commissioned and endorsed by Bill OHanlon, one of the founders of Solution-Oriented Brief Therapy.
Brief Therapy Homework Planner does indeed stay very close to the formulas of Old-School, Solution-Oriented Therapy which is its greatest strength; however, ones model of therapy, even of brief therapy, doesnt contribute much to outcome, and homework is seldom part of the "heart and soul of change."
In moving beyond formulaic, model-driven psychotherapy to patient-anchored-outcomes-oriented treatment, we realize that it doesnt much matter if a patient does the homework or not. If a patient didnt do it, it wouldnt necessarily be a sign of resistance as much as a sign of low motivation, or at least motivation different than what we had assessed it to be. We know that resistance is not something that simply resides in a patient, but rather emerges in the context of a treatment relationship, and the onus, quite frankly, may be more on the therapist to think about what he or she can do differently to try to stay connected in a collaborative treatment relationship. "Cooperating with the Uncooperative" might sometimes mean helping the patient end treatment for the time being or find another therapist.
What we are interested in as therapists is what the patient had actually done differently and what the patient thinks might be effective in bringing about change. We want to enhance self-efficacy, and cooperate and collaborate with the patients theory of change, rather than imposing our own.
Sometimes patients find motivation for change in being educated about their symptoms, illness, and treatment options; more often they dont. Most patients want to work in a collaborative way with their therapists and we must remain attentive to patients' creative solutions, and help them reinforce them. What would be useful to observe is not the patient's homework, but what in general the patient did or did not do, how that was thought up, and to maintain curiosity about what was done, not to what was not done. What was done, even if it wasnt the homework, will always reveal something about a patients motivation, their goals, and theory of change, and allow us to cooperate better with them rather than to struggle with them over homework.
If someone is really not interested in doing homework or taking any action to change a set of problems, it may also be time to recommend a break from therapy altogether. As Steffanie and Bill OHanlon explain with regard to homework tasks in the May/June 1998 issue of the Family Therapy Networker:
Though not quite as tightly tied to symptoms and problems as the Brief Adolescent Therapy Homework Planner and the Brief Child Therapy Homework Planner, yet still linked to them for easy reference, the Brief Therapy Homework Planner offers chapters on how to "Make a Choice," "Clarify Values," and "Keep on Truckin," which can be generalized into a wide range of situations. The authors try to reinforce the always core concerns of any psychotherapy such as resilience, self-efficacy, and competency-transfer in chapter exercises like, "Finding Value in Your Experience" and "Relapse Prevention" (in the largest sense). Thankfully, there is little direct utilization of the over-hyped, generally misunderstood, and often bombastic "Miracle Question" in Brief Therapy Homework Planner. Unfortunately, too little opportunity is given to elicit, amplify, and deeply reinforce the patients preferred view of himself which would seem to be always under construction in psychotherapy. Overall, this is an exceedingly useful and user-friendly book which pulls together all the basic treatment strategies of Solution-Oriented Brief Therapy without the excess explanatory and theoretical verbiage of most professional books.
Child vs. Adolescent Homework! Brief therapy with children remains an enormously controversial issue. Many therapists believe that the perceived ravages of managed mental health care especially should not be extended to the treatment of children and adolescents who are often our most vulnerable patients. Yet the two volumes under review here, Brief Child Therapy Homework Planner and the Brief Adolescent Therapy Homework Planner, will not offend even the most vociferous brief therapy skeptics. The books propose exceedingly sensible psychotherapeutic strategies for dealing with a wide-range of problems, including physical and sexual abuse, which would be useful in psychotherapy regardless of how long it takes or what it calls itself.
These books are organized by problem and symptoms with section headings like "Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder," "Depression," "School Refusal," and "Sexual Abuse Victim," and so on. There is nary a whiff of the controversies of suggestion, hypnosis, and recovered memory therapy. In contrast to our previous title, these two titles feature more of a combination of cognitive-behavioral and narrative approaches in their task constructions, so therapists with a philosophical aversion to Solution-Oriented Brief Therapy may find some affinity in these titles. Homework assignments include many cognitive-behaviorally-oriented tasks like, for example, keeping a daily food record in "Reality: Food Intake, Weight, Thoughts, and Feelings," in the "Eating Disorder" Sections, the "Panic Attack Rating Form" in the "Phobia-Panic/Agoraphobia" Sections, and the essential "No Self-Harm Contract" in the "Suicidal Ideation" Sections. The books also include more narrative means like the "Letter of Empowerment" in the "Physical Abuse Victim" Sections, "Peteys Journey Through Sadness" in the Grief Section, and several stories/vignettes of other children (like "Dixie Overcomes Her Fears" in the "Low Self-Esteem" Section) to help normalize patients experiences in treatment.
It should be noted that Brief Child Therapy Homework Planner and the Brief Adolescent Therapy Homework Planner are virtual mirror images of each other (replace child with adolescent and vice versa and you have the same book) with essentially exactly the same exercises and sequencing, and at about $50 each, it may not be necessary to buy both, just the one that best matches ones primary patient population.
The End! Certainly, these three titles will prove to be enormously useful to many readers (experienced and beginning therapists, informed consumers, family members, and interested others) for a variety of reasons (economics, efficiency, self-help, treatment orienting strategies) and the entire series reflects many of the realities and anxieties within todays managed mental healthcare marketplace. But without motivation, theyre nothing and so are we. If theres motivation, we may not need the books, and if there isnt motivation, we may not need the books. The sum total of all three Brief Therapy Homework Planners may be simply to do more of what works, and if its not working, do something different.
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I think we may be at a turning point for public education, but what do I know (please don't answer… or send me insulting/truthful emails).
In ten years, the world of education may be overtaken by home schooling, charter schools, and online learning (this interweb thing really seems to be catching on).
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The Viozian language and alphabet were created by Dirk Bakker from Groningen in the Netherlands when he was about ten years old (in 1989). Already fond of secret codes and nice scripts, he fantasized about devising a language of his own that nobody could understand.
For the words he started with making a letter-based code in which the letters of the Dutch alphabet were mixed up in random order: a=u; b=x; c=y etc. He did this in such a way that the vowels remained vowels, in order to avoid unpronouncability. Thus for instance the word 'water' (which is 'water' in Dutch) became 'cumok' (w=c; a=u; t=m; e=o; r=k). Next he created the letters, based somewhat on Latin and Greek. Over the years the words became less and less Dutch-like as he created suffixes, cases, pronunciation rules etc. By now a vast and complex grammar has evolved, and the language is still growing and changing today.
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The alphabet script as described below replaced their older logographic script, and has evolved into a number of different styles. The one which is given here is the most common variety nowadays and had the most similarities with Western script (e.g. in the use of capitals and small letters).
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During the season, ETSU men's soccer head coach Scott Calabrese has agreed to sit down with the media relations staff to answer some questions about the team.
Below are his answers to the first set of questions this season.
What are you thoughts on the team's performance last week? How did the team meet the challenge of winning three games in six days, including the win over UAB?
"I am very proud of our performances last week. Three games in six days is difficult. When two of those teams are of the level of UNC-G and UAB it's an even more difficult task. We like to dominate our opponents through possession and defensive pressure; however, the three games made it impossible to do this in the way we would have liked due to fatigue. We had to grind out results by defending in a disciplined manner. We had to deal with set pieces, defending deeper and playing more often on the counter attack. Our hard work, determination, and desire to win were key to our results."
What does it mean for the program to have all the success its had over ranked opponents?
"The results are important to our players and our program. The top teams will test you, punish your mistakes and expose your weaknesses, which is an important part of the process of improvement. I believe we now have confidence to compete with top teams. If we work hard and in a disciplined manner with each player performing at their best for the team and in a team-efficient way, we can be successful.
How has Geno had so much success filling the void left after the departure of Schoenfeld?
"Geno is playing in the target striker role as opposed to playing off the target. He was our leading goal scorer last season, has scored goals for us in the spring, and he continues to score goals for us now. I think that David is becoming more aware of where he should position himself. He has become more assertive as a player and is more active than last season initiating movements by finding the spaces he can exploit. He is continuing to mature as a player which is gratifying for the coaches."
How is the team progressing through the early parts of the season? What is the focus going into this weekend?
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Although candidate and erstwhile populist Candidate Obama criticized (and rightly so) former President Bush for his dictatorial usurpation of legislative power via the signing statement, President Obama's own personal experience with the mounting congressional resistence to his agenda has given him second thoughts about the utility of these controversial codas.
As was further reported by The New American, President Obama has decided to sidestep congressional impediments to the achievement of his legislative goals by using executive orders and signing statements.
A presidential signing statement is a pronouncement that the president appends to a bill he signs into law. Nowadays, this executive addendum sets forth the President's understanding of the law and gives guidance to the myriad departments under the executive branch umbrella on how to carry out the requirements of the new legislation.
Signing statements change the laws, revoking parts of them or adding provisions to them, at the same time redefining the Constitution and nullifying its checks and balances. Using them, the President assumes all power — executive, legislative, and judicial — unto himself and does so in a manner that is beyond question, beyond debate, beyond vote, and thus beyond the reach of the American people.
Constitutionally speaking, if a President does not like a piece of legislation, the only recourse allowed him is a veto. Modern Presidents, however, have two self-perpetuating habits that obviate the use of veto: engorging themselves with power not delegated to them by the Constitution and disregarding the Constitution altogether.
Given the recent run of success that previous Presidents have enjoyed with "signing statement as law of the land" gambit, it is easy to understand why a President zealous for the codification of his own vision would not want to risk public scrutiny that would accompany a veto. After all, why go to all that bother when a president can accomplish the same end by issuing a signing statement that will never be discussed? Thus, he sits quietly and victoriously in the dark solitude of the Oval Office having his monarchical cake and eating it, too.
As is common to executive mouthpieces, President Obama's shills have tried to veil their boss's unconstitutional sleight of hand behind the cloak of history. A brief sketch of the history of early uses of the presidential signing statement will show that in our Republic's infancy, Presidents used signing statements for rather benign reasons: thanking supporters, nods to constituents, or communicating executive favor or disfavor. When these Presidents did try to impose their will through signing statements, however, Congress appropriately reasserted its exclusive right to legislate, and chastised the offending executives.
Andrew Jackson, a lightning rod to controversy, issued a controversial signing statement. In a bill authorizing construction of new roads and the improvement of existing roads, Congress included a provision dealing with internal improvements, a matter Jackson believed was under the exclusive jurisdiction of the states. In his signing statement, Jackson mandated that the road not extend beyond the territorial boundaries of Michigan. Congress rebuffed Jackson's attack, calling his statement a de facto unconstitutional line item veto. (Despite the House of Representatives' defense, however, Congress eventually caved, and Jackson's direction was followed.)
President John Tyler received a stern rebuke from the House of Representatives after he issued a signing statement questioning the constitutionality of a bill apportioning congressional districts. The House of Representatives reacted quickly and sharply in a response authored by John Quincy Adams demanding that Tyler's signing statement "be regarded in no other light than a defacement of the public records and archives." For the most part, this forceful congressional reproof scared future presidents straight with regard to the issuing of controversial signing statements.
One has to look to more modern presidents, such as Franklin Roosevelt, to find an example of Congress acquiescing to a president seeking to abuse the use of a signing statement.
Franklin Roosevelt, facing perhaps the most milquetoast Congress of the modern era, removed all obstacles that impeded his program to drag the United States into the mire of his socialistic New Deal scheme. In a signing statement attached to the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, which contained a provision he opposed that was intended to protect American farmers, Roosevelt adamantly declared, "There is nothing contained therein which can be construed as a limitation upon the existing powers of governmental agencies, such as the Commodity Credit Corporation, to make sales of agricultural commodities in the normal conduct of their operations."
In addition to this edict, Roosevelt promised Congress that if it did not remove the "offensive" portion of the bill, he would ignore it and treat it as nonexistent and inapplicable to his administration. Congress capitulated, and the protection for American farmers was removed from the bill. Roosevelt was supported by a sympathetic legal adviser who assured him that if he decided "that a certain course of action is essential as a war measure, it supersedes congressional action."
Signing statements gained teeth with the aid of a lackluster, inattentive Supreme Court. In the case of United States v. Lovett (1946), the Court agreed with Roosevelt's signing statement that the Urgency Deficiency Appropriations Act of 1943 contained restrictions on his management of the executive branch and struck down the restrictions citing the signing statement; the Court accepted Roosevelt's signing statements as persuasive and held in dictum that presidential signing statements merited consideration and mention in their decision.
Congressional complacency married with judicial complicity produced an evil offspring that erased the checks and obliterated the balances.
Presidential signing statements are "cherry-picking" the parts of a law that presidents wish to follow or ignore. The uses that signing statements have been put to since they began to flourish in earnest during the Reagan administration show that no matter the "getting things done" tenor used to pronounce them by an ostensibly frustrated President, their clear intent is to subvert the law and slam the weighty wrecking ball of "executive discretion" into the paper barricades that divide the three provinces of power.
The principal promoter of this new, albeit unconstitutional, definition of the separation of powers was Reagan's Attorney General, Edwin Meese, III. He and his cohorts in the "conservative" Reagan administration set their sights on the Constitution in order to "provide an opportunity for the chief executive to participate more actively in the creation of legislation than the mere decision to sign or veto bills transmitted from the Congress." These are Meese's own words!
Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution — called the "Take Care" clause of the Constitution, wherein the president is charged with a duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" — was used as justification for overruling congressional acts. If a part of a law doesn't jibe with the President's notion of his constitutional role, then rather than veto a bill and throw the baby out with the bathwater, the President interlineates his own language into the bill — thus directing the bureaucrats tasked with implementing the provisions of the law to do so according to the President's definition of "constitutional," rather than according to the express will of the people as manifested through the actions of their elected representatives. With every one of these statements or executive orders, then, the President elevates his mind and will above that of the people, Congress, and the courts. And he does so to the detriment of the constitutional health of our republic.
Attorney General Meese was not the only faithful foot soldier of the Reagan Revolution. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., while working as a lawyer in the Reagan Justice Department, provided President Reagan with "constitutional" justification for his boss's official disdain for congressional authority to limit executive dominion. In a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel to the White House, Alito argued that "since the President's approval [of a bill] is just as important as that of the House or Senate, it seems to follow that the President's understanding of the bill should be just as important of that of Congress." He goes on to assert that when interpreting a statute, a court should give equal weight to the letter of the law and the president's understanding of the letter of the law as contained in the presidential signing statement accompanying the bill, ignoring the fact that such a consideration by the courts would disrupt the balance of power and throw the government into chaos.
With all due respect to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's masterful and jester-worthy juggling of historical facts to misdirect the attention of otherwise wary Americans, another more appropriate focus of historical research would be to ponder the words and warnings of our Founding Fathers and their political and philosophical influences regarding the primacy of the separation of powers in a good government.
James Madison, writing as "Publius," wrote in The Federalist, No. 47: "The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. " Madison himself was restating in his inimitable style, one facet of federalism that was universally considered to be an essential pillar of liberty.
As the venerable French philosopher Baron de Montesquieu wrote in his influential treatise l'Esprit des Lois (The Spirit of the Laws), "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
"Centinel," the nom de guerre of an anti-Federalist opposed to ratifying the new Constitution, rephrased for his readers what was already, in the 18th Century, a well-settled aspect of good government, "This mixture of the legislative and executive moreover highly tends to corruption. The chief improvement in government, in modern times, has been the complete separation of the great distinctions of power; placing the legislative in different hands from those which hold the executive."
Another anonymous anti-Federalist commented, "Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate."
If the opinions of these men are a worthy metric of the size of the impending threat of despotism, then President Obama is filling the shoes of a tyrant heel to toe. And his decision to unilaterally demolish the walls of history, law, and constitutional enumerations that separate the executive and legislative powers is an early and reliable bellwether of his intent to persist down the path of despotism by decree so well trod by many of his forerunners.
Combine this insult of presidential hubris and imperious congressional disregard to the injury of his threat to sneak his nominees into the executive branch's backdoor without the inconvenience of congressional advice and consent via the use of recess appointments ("we can't allow politics to stand in the way of a well-functioning government"), and it should be clear that President Obama is establishing himself as a avowed and open enemy of republican government and a fearsome executive determined to amass governmental power into his own (or a successor's) hands.
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Types of Dental Crowns
Dental crowns are cap-shaped restorations designed to resemble a natural tooth. The purpose of a crown is to improve the health, structural integrity, and appearance of a decayed or otherwise damaged tooth. If a tooth has a failing filling or has undergone root canal therapy, placing a crown can protect and strengthen its structure. Crowns can also provide a strictly cosmetic enhancement. In order to replace missing teeth, a crown may be attached to a dental implant or support a dental bridge. There are several different types of dental crowns, made using various techniques and materials. Your dentist will recommend the best option based on your oral health, aesthetic goals, and budget.


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Somewhere between Mountain Grove and Lebanon
Over the last twenty years, I've made around forty trips through the Ozarks of southern Missouri, either going to or coming home from my sister's house. She lives about fifty miles north of Springfield, Missouri, and I live in Kentucky.
On my trip up there last summer, I took a route I'd never traveled before and probably won't travel again. I turned north on Highway 95 at Mountain Grove, Missouri, thinking I'd see Dove Mountain which is just east of 95, according to the road map. But the hills were so big that I couldn't see the mountain. Or maybe one of them was the mountain? I couldn't tell.
Then I learned that a bridge was out on my planned route, so I took a long detour down some county blacktops. These roads followed every curve of the old wagon trails they were built upon, all the way to the top of every ridge and all the way to the bottom of every valley. Some of the scenery was beautiful, but I couldn't take pictures. If I had stopped in the road, someone might have come around a curve and hit me.
|This little Ozark ghost town dates back to a time before
blacktop roads. Farm folks came here to buy things
they couldn't make and to hear the news of the world.
Everything changed after the Depression and WWII.
The main road that runs by this village was blacktopped sometime, but the street in front of these stores never saw that improvement. Maybe the brick building in the center was the last business to close.
I didn't explore. I saw vehicles at a house (the metal roof at far left in the photo), and I didn't want anyone to think I was snooping around. I drove on through the hills and valleys, and finally I came to a somewhat wider and straighter state highway that led to Lebanon, and eventually, I arrived at my sister's house in Hickory County.
The scenic route and the detour made my trip a little longer and slower, but I always enjoy backroads and the curiosities along them.


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I was traveling westbound on a three lane highway known as Arapahoe Road, and had just crossed under the overpass that is the I-25 Super Slab that crossed the Denver Metro Area going North/South.
I saw this silver car exiting the I-25 and turning right to enter Arapahoe Road. I kept an eye on it as there was nothing between it and the extreme left lane where I was traveling. Instead of just driving onto the extreme right lane, she proceeded to cross over all three lanes immediately and as I jammed on the horn and started braking, she went right for me. I swear, I don't think she even looked!
I was trapped by a 4-6 inch high concrete median to my left and could not dodge, still I saw I would not be able to stop in time to allow her in front of me, I started swinging into the concrete median to try and swerve away from here, raised concrete curb be damned.
It was not to be, the right front corner of my sidecar subframe apparently was hit by her left front wheel. I of course lost all forward momentum at that point for a second or two, I heard metal and plastic crunching noises, remember seeing bits flying in the air as I was thrown forward into the windshield of my motorcycle.
I must have been holding the grips pretty good at this point because once I hit the windshield, I think I bounced back into the saddle. The rig was now moving forward once it lost contact with the car and I was able to regain control of her and bring her to a shuddering stop by the concrete median, and clear of traffic.
I say it was a shuddering stop because I could not actuate the clutch lever. Turns out I somehow held onto the control assembly hard enough to twist the thing forward about 180 degrees so the lever wasn't where I was expecting it to be!
I got off the motorcycle, checked for oncoming traffic from behind me and was clear. The idiot cager had been stopped by the damage inflicted on her car by the sidecar's subframe. A couple in another car stopped and asked if I was OK, I told him that I thought so and asked them to call the police, which they did. Whoever you were, good samaritans, my thanks again.
The officer gave me his card with the case # of the accident report he'd be filing, he assured me that he'd be charging the idiot driver with careless driving and told me I was free to go.
I got my helmet back on, checked for traffic and motored towards work as it was closer than home at this point. Yoshie felt a little funny at first, kind of wiggling a bit underneath me but she soon settled down and I didn't notice anything else bad. I noticed my throat had started hurting at this point, but only when I swallowed. "Weird" I thought but figured it would go away.
I kept reliving the impact moment in my mind and counted myself damn lucky at this point. Figured I'd order another bracket and wheel fender and some touch up paint and Yoshie would be good to go! Nope.
As I was walking into work, some guy who works there followed me in and he asked me: "Did you know your rear tire is wiggling back and forth when you're moving?". I stood there and said "No, you mean the tire in the sidecar?". "No", he said, the one to the rear of the motorcycle. Damn.
I headed up to work, to call the insurance companies involved, the doctor to make an appointment to check me out and yeah, there was work to be done. The morning flew by in meetings, my throat continuing to hurt when I swallowed. Not sure how I managed to hurt it, am thinking perhaps as I was impacting the windshield, my helmeted head must have snapped forward, and I pressed my neck into my chinstrap buckle assembly?
I left work shortly after 2:00PM, thinking to go to the doctor on my relatively undamaged rig to get myself checked out. I took a closer look at the rig in the parking garage and I was dismayed to find the rear wheel looked liked it was bent, as if the swingarm had been twisted slightly! I also now saw from the front that the subframe mount hardware on the motorcycle appeared bent towards the right side of the motorcycle!
27FEB11: Update: Rode through the cursed intersection this morning, a bit nervous I'll admit, but no issues.
Here's a googlemaps shot of the intersection in question. The red line denotes what I remember the stupid cow took as a path to the lane I was occupying. The black X is the collision point. That's where I saw bits of plastic from the accident. I estimate I was just in front of that gray car to the east (left) of the X.


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Jennings off to a running start in '14
ST. PETERSBURG -- Desmond Jennings is off and running to a good start this season.
He entered Friday night's game against the Rangers hitting .357 and has shown a lot of aggressiveness on the bases.
"We've talked to him about that a lot," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "The big thing is, he's working at-bats. He's getting out there. I think a good baserunner, a good base-stealer, has to get out there a lot.
"So the more he gets out there, if he gets to that 35 percent [on-base percentage], if he does that, that's an elite hitter and you'll see elite base-running skills out of him from getting on that often."
The Rays go on the road after a run of seven games on Tropicana Field's artificial surface ends Sunday. Nevertheless, Maddon said he didn't think he would be giving Jennings a day off the turf this early.
"Seven-game stand coming off the grass of Spring Training," Maddon said. "We didn't push him real hard. I'm not really seeing any reason yet."


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With heavy snow forecast to fall across Lancashire on Sunday a lot of people may struggle to get into work on Monday morning. But what exactly are your rights if you can't make it into work?
Here are the answers.
Travel disruption and work
Employees should talk to their employer about working from home, taking leave or making time up later if they can't get to work because of travel disruption.
Rights about travel disruption can be outlined in the employment contract - employees should check this first.
Working flexibly
Employers may ask flexible workers to work from home or make up time later. Unless the employment contract says so, employers can't insist on this.
If the workplace is closed
If the workplace is closed because of disruption and the employee doesn't usually work from home, employers can't usually deduct pay.
Employers might be able to ask staff to go to another workplace or work from home.
Time off to look after children
If an employee's child's school is closed or their normal childcare arrangements are disrupted, they could have the right for time off to look after them.
This should be agreed between the employee and the employer.
Winter weather - travel disruption
Employees are not automatically entitled to pay if they're unable to get to work because of bad weather. Guidance is available from the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) about winter weather - travel disruption.


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Lights Out Cole
Last night had the feel of October baseball…..fans lined up early in the afternoon for standing room tickets, the weather was cool, two teams battling for something, a sold- out park, rally towels, more baseball scouts than normal and a full press box.
Only thing, it is still September and while the stakes are high, they aren't has high as next month.
Cole was brilliant, lights out. Now 5-0 in last 5 starts with a 0.49 ERA. That's filthy. Last Phillies pitcher to have a similar 5-game streak was Lefty Steve Carlton in 1972.
Brad was ditto lights out. Cole and Brad looked like vintage 2008.
The offense mustered three runs, two being unearned. Ruiz drove in the first run with a double. A fan held up a sign CHOOCH CHOOCH TRAIN. Fans are certainly creative in expressing their Phillies passion.
Speaking of scouts, the Reds, Rockies, Yankees, Twins and Padres had scouts at the game, looking at both the Phillies and the Braves.
The Phillies have begun scouting potential postseason enemies:
**Reds: Charley Kerfeld and Billy Moore.
**Giants: Jim Fregosi Jr. and Dave Hollins.
**Padres: Jon Mercurio and Gene Schall.
**Rockies: Danny Wright and Del Unser.
**Yankees: Howie Freiling.
**Twins: Gordon Lakey.
**Rangers: Sonny Bowers.
**Rays: Chuck LaMar.
Assignments will change as teams are eliminated and the postseason begins.
Craig Colbert, who is the Phillies advance scout all season, is wrapping up his schedule.
When the time is right, Ruben and Charlie will meet with all the scouts.
Long Time Coming
Doc goes for his 20th win tonight. Last Phillies 20-game winner was Steve Carlton, 1982 (23-11). Last Phillies RHP, Robin Roberts, 1955 (23-14).
90 Wins
Phillies are the first NL team to reach 90 wins. It is the third straight year which matches the club record of 1976-77-78 (101-101-90).


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Rody necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 191 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
McMarvel is a start-up company. We are a Netherlands based company. McMarvel is an ambitious and result driven organisation who delivers custom made solutions for her clients. Our client's needs always come first and is a starting point for our solutions.
We are strong in case management solutions for knowledge and information intensive processes. We offer 3 types of solutions. (Consultancy, IT development and implementation are included):
1. Digital Client File Management
We bring order in the organisations client files. This is the core around which the information and documents are organised in line with the institutions` activities, for reasons of proof, justification or information and to guarantee efficiency in the work.
2. Smart Client File Management
like 1 and we take care that employees work smarter in a more structured way and intuitively look for the most shortest way to success. We capture the organisations expertise and incorporated it in the software.
3. Advanced Client File Management
Like 2 and the employees are able to work as a client case manager with external and internal departments. As a case manager they are able to delegate activities and monitor the follow up.
Examples of knowledge and information intensive environments are the service desks for settling inheritance and request for mortgage.
Division Managers in a knowledge and information intensive work environment.
We focuse on the following industries:
Financial, Health Care, Legal, Government
The benefits for the client are:
- More effective results for the end customer
- Minimal cost reduction of 30%
- Get a grip on complex processes
- Convenience for employees and give them a wide berth to apply creativity
McMarvel solves, among others, following bottlenecks in complex knowledge and information intensive processes:
- Low Client Satisfaction
- Long lead time
- High number of defects
- Low level of accountability
McMarvel offers the shortest way to result and combines cost reductions, satisfying work and customer satisfaction. Improving performance is always a result of what we do.
Our elevator pitch is:
To Division Managers in knowledge and information intensive environments, who want to change, McMarvel is the innovative Case Management company that develops a strategy and implements solutions within 20 weeks from a business perspective that improves the performance by cost reductions and an increase of client satisfaction. The McMarvel solutions enables organisations to control process costs, reduce the workload, efficiently share information, control knowledge intensive processes and get real good operational management information.
• McMarvel must be in logo.
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• The house style Basic colour is green-like (not dark green). The logo does not have to be green.
• A link to Comic books is allowed, but as side-step
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Dogs like car rides, but take care that Fido doesn't go flying
My family was riding down a familiar street one day years ago and our dog, Rex, was hanging his head out an open window like Casey Jones at the throttle of a railroad engine.
Then in a flash, it happened. Rex spotted another dog across the street and leaped from the window – into the side of an oncoming car. In a horrible instant, he fell beneath the wheels and rolled several times before the other car could stop.
He lay there on the street, not moving. We were sure he was dead.
Then, to our amazement. he stood up and shook himself off, wagging his tail. We took him to a veterinarian, who could find nothing seriously wrong. But Rex was never quite right in the head after that. He'd stand on the front porch, barking at the wind for hours.
I was reminded of Rex the other day when when I saw a driver travelling down a busy Denver street with his dog in his lap. The hound was hanging its head out an open window and, I swear, grinning for all he was worth. If the driver only knew the dangers that lurked, I thought.
A recent New York Times blog by by Tara Parker-Pope spelled out just how dangerous it can be having pets in the car.
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Winchendon is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1764 and was previously called (Ipswich Canada Plantation). It can be found in Worcester county and is a part of the Worcester registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 109 Front St., Winchendon 01475. On the attached map, Winchendon is shown as 2 in Worcester county.
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The image above was created by German photographer Michael Najjar, a "certified civilian astronaut" who has a ticket to go to space on board Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo in 2014. He titled the piece "Space Debris I," and created it with the help of the Institute of Aerospace Systems at the Braunschweig University of Technology, the world's leading institute for space debris tracking. "Based on a data archive, each spherule in the picture represents a real existing object orbiting in space," Najjar says. As you can see, space isn't so empty, at least not in Earth's orbit.
All this debris can make environmentalists cry ...
... but of course it's more than that. It could also lead to the kinds of problems depicted in the film "Gravity" (which I loved, by the way). The film is fiction, of course, but the more crap that's in orbit, the more chances that the plot could become reality.
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No Calming the Storm
TAMPA — The corridor leading back to the visitors' locker room at Raymond James Stadium on Monday night was like a lot of things surrounding the Dolphins right now: uncomfortable and under heavy watch.
While thousands of Buccaneers fans lingered in their seats, boogying to "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang, Dolphins players and coaches filed through silently. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill stared blankly straight ahead. Cornerback Brent Grimes didn't look up. Nate Garner, who filled in for Miami's suspended left guard, didn't take off his helmet and kept shaking his head side to side.
They did so in full view of the of the media, of head coach Joe Philbin's wife and their youngest child, and of Curtis Martin and Jason Taylor, the retired NFL greats who have been named to one of the committees that owner Stephen Ross created in response to the alleged locker-room bullying that has cast a pall on his team.
Since their Thursday night win over the Bengals on Oct. 31, the Dolphins had spent 11 days dealing with a messy situation that has already cost them two starting offensive linemen and could take down their coach and/or general manager, Jeff Ireland. Their game against the Buccaneers was a chance, if only for one night, to project harmony and to be in full control. They blew it.
"We wanted to win to kind of calm down what's been going on," said Bryant McKinnie, a veteran tackle who was traded to the Dolphins last month. "We felt like a win could help cure some of that."
Most of McKinnie's teammates refused to make the same admission. It was just like any week, any game, any loss, they said. Really?
The Dolphins' 22-19 loss to the previously winless Buccaneers, on national television no less, probably fits too neatly into the team's overwhelming crisis narrative. But Miami sure looked the part when center Mike Pouncey took a swing at the head of Tampa Bay defensive tackle Akeem Spence on the Dolphins' first possession, drawing a 15-yard foul not long before they fell into a 15-0 hole.
The Dolphins just don't have a good enough offensive line without tackle Jonathan Martin, who left the team amid accusations of workplace harassment, and Pro Bowl left guard Richie Incognito, the alleged harasser who has been suspended pending league and team investigations. Miami netted just two yards rushing; their ineffectiveness even allowed linebacker Lavonte David to tackle running back Daniel Thomas a few yards deep in the end zone for a safety in the second quarter.
Daniel Thomas was brought down for a safety early in the second quarter, an omen of how bad the Dolphins would be on the ground: they netted just two yards on 14 carries against the Bucs on Monday night. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
The starting lineup of LT McKinnie, LG Nate Garner, C Mike Pouncey, RG John Jerry and RT Tyson Clabo was the Dolphins' fourth offensive line combination in the past four games. Garner, the newest piece, mentioned to McKinnie before the game that this would be his 14th start since entering the NFL in 2008, more starts than he'd made in his entire college career at Arkansas. McKinnie, 34, was taken aback. "Why did you just tell me that?" he asked.
The playbook is still new to McKinnie, who has played just three games with the Dolphins, but as the veteran on the line's left side he felt a responsibility to take care of Garner. After Tannehill gave every play call in the huddle, McKinnie would state aloud his and Garner's responsibilities, and any possible adjustments they might have to make, as they walked up to the line of scrimmage.
More than any other unit in football, the offensive line must work in total unison for a play to succeed. It's also the unit that only lands in the spotlight when something goes wrong. In that sense, the Dolphins are losing on two fronts right now.
On the safety, David charged through the 'A' gap between the center and the left guard, unnoticed and untouched by Garner. If it looked like the Buccaneers had a jump off the ball early in the game, well, the Dolphins players felt that, too. "I'm pretty sure they game-planned the snap count," Garner said.
Late in the fourth quarter, with a chance to drive for the win, the line failed yet again. Just after the two-minute warning, Tannehill dropped back at his own 33-yard line, trailing by a field goal. He was swarmed by four Bucs defenders for an eight-yard sack. On second down, there was a breakdown on the right side of the line, yielding a 10-yard sack. All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis intercepted Tannehill's last-chance heave on fourth-and-28.
Some fans clamored for Incognito's return, but team owner Stephen Ross has plans to meet with Martin in person this week. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
The Dolphins are now 4-5, one game behind the Jets in the AFC Wild Card picture, a point that Philbin emphasized to his players after the game. He's trying to keep their focus there—rather than the pending NFL investigation, or Ross' planned face-to-face meeting with Martin on Wednesday, or the owner's public show of support for Philbin but noticeable silence regarding Ireland. But that's easier said than done when fans behind the Dolphins bench hold signs like "Free Richie" and chanted "In-cog-ni-to" when the team took the field.
In the terribly quiet post-game corridor, Philbin's wife, Diane, made sure her youngest child, Colleen, found Joe and gave him a hug. "Say hi to your dad," Diane said, gently steering her in his direction.
"OK, sweetie. Doing alright?" he asked. He then walked over to his press conference, declaring the events of the past week "not at all" a factor in the final score.
A few minutes later, dozens of media members created a logjam at the door to the Dolphins' locker room. Five or six players were stuffed to the side with their luggage, forced to wait until the crowd cleared. In the eye of a storm, there is no such thing as just another week, another game, or another loss. And right now, it's not clear when or how or even if the storm will come to pass.
"We'll see what this week will be like," McKinnie said with a shrug. "It depends on what else they release. It seems like they're releasing something every other day that's in the public eye. Shoot, I don't know."
In Case You Missed It ...
Did the Dolphins Do Anything Wrong?
The Incognito-Martin story has put the spotlight squarely on the infrastructure of the Miami Dolphins organization. Who knew what and when? With the amount of support staff watching the players, everything is noticed :: By Andrew Brandt
Confronting Race, Head On
The ugliness in Miami brought to the forefront the serious and complex issue of what's accepted and what's not in the locker room and beyond, and when a real leader must step up :: By Robert Klemko
Incognito and Martin: An Insider's Story
Former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Lydon Murtha pulls back the curtain on what he saw and what he's heard of the relationship between Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin, from the locker room dynamic to that now-famous O-line trip to Vegas :: By Lydon Murtha


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Mazda used the New York auto show on Wednesday to announce its plan to produce a new Mazda 6 sedan for the 2014 model year.
The new Mazda 6 will benefit from a "full suite of Skyactiv technologies," Mazda said. Skyactiv is Mazda's brand name for gasoline and diesel engines and multispeed transmissions engineered to reduce fuel consumption.
Mazda said the design of the new sedan "will be strongly influenced by the Takeri concept," according to a press release.
The Takeri concept was first shown at the 2011 Tokyo motor show.


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A Pieced, Sheer Cotton Koshimaki
January 29, 2011
Two days ago, New York City was hit with a tremendous snowfall. Although the blizzard threw the city in disarray and created havoc at the local airports, the blanket of snow on the city streets is lovely, the snow-muffled city noises are welcome–and the diffused light reflected off the snow lends a soft, cool glow to interior spaces.
And that's why today I am showing this wonderful, piece constructed sheer cotton indigo dyed koshimaki–a kind of woman's undergarment–against the silvery winter light. The piecing and the translucency of the koshimaki is shown off to good advantage when back lit.I love the cotton of this koshimaki with its wiggly warp yarns which create something of a visual texture: weavers who are reading this will know how this erratic warp effect is achieved.I also like the shadowy look of these photos–and how the back lighting shows off the seams of the koshimaki. Obviously this underskirt was sewn from left over pieces. The center, opaque square is a piece of indigo dyed cotton.
Wonderful looking, isn't it?It measures 20″ x 44″ or 51 cm x 111.5 cm and dates to the mid twentieth century or thereabouts.
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Another tasty cupcake.
I have been baking...a lot. I just can't seem to stop. Both my and Zack's co-workers get to reap the benefits. In fact, after baking 4 types of cupcakes and two types of macarons last weekend I told myself I was not going to bake this weekend. Oops, I just made some cookies that I plan to post later this week and my friend Ellen is coming over tomorrow to bake some more. I suppose there are worse hobbies :)
Anyway, I made these cupcakes quite some time ago for a co-worker's birthday and they were delicious! I am not a huge raspberry fan (due to a weird allergy to artificial raspberry flavoring), but I decided I would give these cupcakes a taste. I ended up loving them. The frosting was definitely my favorite part. The chocolate and raspberry paired so well together. In addition to birthday's I think these would be perfect for Valentine's day. It is the holiday devoted to chocolate and pink after all. They are super easy to make and your sweetie will definitely be grateful.
Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
recipe adapted from allrecipes.com
makes approximately 30 cupcakes
1 package chocolate cake mix
1 package instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup warm water
1 1/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips (dust these in flour to keep them from sinking to the bottom of the cupcake)
1 cup fresh raspberries
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs, and water. Gently stir in the chocolate chips and raspberries and pour batter into lined muffin cups.
Bake for 20 minutes, or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting.
Raspberry Buttercream
recipe from Baked Perfection
2 sticks butter, softened
6 cups powder sugar
pinch of salt
1/2 cup good quality raspberry jam or preserves
1 teaspsoon vanilla extract
1-3 tablespoons milk
Beat the butter and vanilla until creamy. Add the salt and jam. Slowly add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, beating until combined. Add milk 1 tablespoon at a time until you reach desired consistency.


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This was quite a revealing in-depth documentary about Prisoners in HMP Aylesbury. What really caught my attention was the case of a young lad Ryan Buckley.
I didn't catch what offence he had committed but his storyline was pretty harrowing and my first thoughts were how come these scenes were being shown on TV. Ryan clearly had serious psychological issues. We were shown scenes of him self harming and worse his body being taken down after an attempted suicide.
As a prisoner Ryan rightly has many rights taken away but does that include the right to decide if his struggles in prison is allowed to be used for our "edutainment"? He may have willingly agreed to take part in the programme but is he really in a state to give informed consent.
I can imagine if he has people outside that care for him watching his unconscious body being cut down from a noose where he tried to hang himself must be heart breaking.
Prisons are for punishment and where possible rehabilitation. "Edutainment" which I am sure is what it is being sold as, is not within the remit of the Prison Service and programmes like this take us down a road we may not want to travel on.
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- Her Majesty's Prison: Aylesbury; Black Mirror – TV review (guardian.co.uk)
- Her Majesty's Prison – Aylesbury, ITV, review (telegraph.co.uk)