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Optimize your wine cellar and ensure your precious wine is stored at your exact specifications with the Wine-Mate 200 Cu. Ft. Self Contained Wine Cellar Cooling System (WM-2500CD). With four (4) high speed fans and an oversized bottom feeding evaporator for humidity maintenance, this American-made self-contained cooling system is manufactured to the highest of standards and arrives charged and ready to use. The adjustable digital temperature controls and display allow you to set a temperature between 50 - 65°F for an area up to 200 cu. ft. This unit is also great for storing furs, cigars, chocolate, meats, leather goods and more.
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As is usual for my Sunday afternoons, I went to see my Granddad at the residential home, where he has been for the past 20 months. We were all aware that his condition was slowly deteriorating and that eventually, his innings of 91 years would come to a close.
I arrived there with my dad, both there to support the other and we were told that the carers were changing his bedding. So we sat in the hall and waited for a few minutes, passing the time with idle chit-chat. Before going in to see him, we were warned gently by one of the girls there that he had taken a turn for the worse and that he was just staring into space, unresponsive. I had seen him that way last Sunday, so I knew that the end was getting nearer.
We stood by his bedside, my hand on his shoulder, dad's hand in granddad's, as the elder Coop struggled to breathe. Yes, it was upsetting, I make no bones about the emotion shown there and then, but I have come to accept over the past few months that this day would eventually come to pass.
Noting in the visitor book that dad's sister had been in to visit this morning, we made our way home, less talkative than usual - what can you say at a time like that, anyway?
Dad tries to call his sister, with no answer, just to give her an update, while I put the kettle on. As we settle down for a cup of tea at just gone 3pm, the phone goes and dad goes to answer, thinking it will be his sister, returning his call. No, it was the home, saying that granddad had slipped away peacefully.
We were at his bedside not half an hour before the end. He waited for us to come and see him, in a way. At times like this, I am very thankful to have a massive core of friends, who are willing to do nothing less than support me, because I don't want to burden the family any more than necessary. It helps to spread the load and get whatever needs to come off my chest out there.
I'm a lucky man - I've said it before - to have reached 30 and still have 2 grandparents left. Now that I have just one, I don't feel that I'm any less lucky, as I have lived with all four of them at one stage or another of my life and have had good times and bad with all (some more than others, but I'm not here to dwell on that)
He will always be my favourite grandparent. I don't know why, I can't explain it. He always had a soft spot for me and the feeling was more than mutual. I shall miss him dearly and though I shall feel particularly at a loss next Sunday, when I would usually be seeing him, I also feel proud to have been able to call him my grandfather.
If anyone can bring a smile to my face, by mentioning "James & The Giant Peach", it will always be the enduring memory of his reading of chapter 1, when the description of grandma reads "and she had a small puckered up mouth, like a dog's bottom." For the entire afternoon of my 6th birthday, he sat in the armchair and chorlted his way through the celebrations, unable to read any more. It's these little details that make life so interesting, don't you agree?
RIP, granddad. I will miss you. Forever in my heart, you helped me become the man I am.
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I somehow managed to lose the power cord for my desktop, i am wondering if it is ok to use a spare cord that i found lying around? I believe it's from my old PC. Also, How do you check RAM speed? The RAM i bought is 2400Mhz but CPU-Z says it's running at 666Mhz even when i run a torture test in p95, is that normal?
As long as it's the correct fitting then yes and the same rated fuse what you'd typically find in your PC power plug ofcourse, and your RAM you may need manually setting in your BIOS as it will run at 1333Mhz by default in some boards, mine old board would of been a good example.
How would i set it to run at it's normal speed in the bios? (2400Mhz) I have an Asus Formula V motherboard. Is it safe to change it?
yes its safe, it snormal. just goto bios, adv settings, memory -> i will be set as automatic, set it as manual and select the frequency. look around in the bios, its pretty obvious.
Yes it'll be perfectly safe to change it to the factory defaults. Here's a shot of something you may find similar to your BIOS screen? If you select the menu's I have chosen and choose "Profile 1" then that will adjust your timings and clocks as needed.
You mean normal relative to the memory. Normal to the CPU is DDR3-1600 for your IVB chip. Enabling XMP should make it work assuming your IMC can handle it, and IVB i5s usually don't have a problem doing this.
Awesome, thanks, got it to work. It now registers as being 2400Mhz. When i went to run a 3D mark 11 benchmark test, on the combined test i got an error and it stopped. My CPU is OC'd at 4.7Ghz /w 1.300v. I ran a 16 hour Torture test and had no errors. When i changed my OC back to 4.3Ghz at 1.215v, there were no problems and i got no error. I even tried increasing to voltage all the way up to 1.35 but the fifth test still wouldn't load. Does this mean my OC is not stable or is there a compatibility issue with it?
Take that with a pinch of salt really, If you've ran Prime95? for that amount of time then your system is stable it is just unfortunate that you can't run 3Dmark with those clocks, just the same as some games won't run with high overclocks, or at least that's from my personal experience but maybe that is down to fine tuning of the overclock.
I would suggest you to stay at 4.3Ghz because, while ur OC is stable, some applications dont like it sometimes. Happens to me with very tight RAM timing settings and to my friend's PC when he puts his i5 over 4.5Ghz. You wont see any difference in games between 4.3 and 4.7Ghz but since you can be stable at 4.7 maybe you can do some tweaking and manage to make it stable for applications. Have in mind that 3DMark11 in particular is a weird program. For example on my PC when the benchmark run it run in a quarter of the screen and the rest of the screen is green/purple artifacts. And that is since their latest patch. In the tons of hours I have played. I have never encountered any serious issue with my PC though.
How do you mean? I've tried 1.3, 1.305, 1.310 ETC all the way up to 1.35 and none of them would work with the 3D mark 11 combined test. Am i just unlucky? 'Cause i see people with clocks far exceeding 4.7Ghz who are able to run 3D mark 11.
Its kind of a random draw with system components, just ignore 3DMark11 on its own. I'd have to throw my PC from the window since November 2012 if I was concerned by problems it has.
The stress that you're putting on the IMC might be limiting your overclock. Cadaveca recommended dropping my memory speeds and reducing the VTT voltage to get higher core clocks. Considering you're running at 2400Mhz with 4-dimms on IVB, I wouldn't be surprised if your memory is holding your CPU back. It's also completely possible that your CPU might not clock as well as other people's CPUs. Not every CPU is the same, even if its the same model CPU from the same batch. For example, DOM can hit >5Ghz on his i7 3820 and the absolute maximum I've hit is 4.95Ghz pumping 1.52v through it (Don't do that to your IVB chip, you'll surely kill it.) Granted it can be the motherboard as well, since apparently my motherboard (P9X79 Deluxe,) doesn't like to do too much more than 4.6Ghz without a ton of voltage.
Oh Right, so you think i should lower my memory speeds? What to? And i've seen DOM at the top of most benchmark lists on TPU, granted that he's an amazing overclocker, is he just really lucky with his hardware or does he have like liquid nitrogen cooling? Lol.
Yeah, It was.. I figured i'd ask the question on this thread rather than spamming by making a new thread.
Please use multi-quote and edit as often as you can. It cuts down on multiple posts and it's forum rules. You can try, it doesn't hurt reducing memory speeds. The actual benefit you get from higher memory clocks isn't amazing so it might be worth the benefit if there is any benefit to be had. I think DOM hit 5.3 on water with the 3820. It could have been air, but that definitely isn't a 24/7 OC if it was.


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"I discovered Fanfare Interiors by accident looking for another business on the industrial estate, wandered in for a look round the showroom and thay have a huge selection of home decor supplies from wallpapers and blinds and furniture. The owner had a chat with me and I was surprised to find out you can have a bespoke sofa made for the same sort of price as an off the peg one on the high street. Great showroom, nice staff and will be back when i'm ready to buy :)"
Fanfare Interiors have been trading since 1975 and under new ownership since 2000 have enjoyed a steady expansion programme. This has culminated in a move from their long established base in Queen Street to a much larger premises on Olympus Business Park.
The showroom is much more spacious than the previous. The new premises also boasts a much larger workroom and storage facilities, which will enhance the excellent service already provided by Fanfare.
There is also ample FREE parking.
The change of ownership has seen an expansion further into the Hotel, Contract and show home markets, as well as consolidating our respected domestic client base.
The showroom is open from 9.00am until 3.00pm Monday to Friday and 10.00am until 1.00pm on Saturday.
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We cover a large area of the South West peninsula, taking in Cornwall to the West and up to Yeovil in the east...
I was pleasently surprised when finding Fanfare Interiors, the owner was extremely helpful. I was even more surpised to find out their interior design service is free! and their prices are the same if not cheaper than Trago and others! Thanks for a great job done, i will definitely be reccomending and using again if i need anything esle done :)
Fanfare Interiors in Newton Abbot, Devon offer a complete Interior Design service, visit their showroom in Newton Abbot to browse their impresive range of wallcoverings, fabrics, furniture, fixings and accessories. They stock great brands like harlequin and offer impressive contemporary design ideas sucj as digital wall art, designing your own wallpapers and furniture design. You will also be surprised to hear that having your own bespoke furniture and chosen fabrics need not be any more expensive than off the peg from furniture stores.
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We invite you to reflect on the readings and how they may resonate in your journey of a spiritual awakening in the 12 steps of recovery, and in particular the 11th Step - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."
Meditation is not about getting into altered states of consciousness or seeing and experience anything out of the ordinary. It is about entering more fully into the ordinary and discovering thereby the absolute wonder of it, the presence of God: that the ordinary is shot through with the extraordinary.
Jesus said he knew where he came from and where he was going. Prayer is a journey into self-knowledge.
As we gradually unhook from our selfish self-centeredness and egotism, we grow in the knowledge of who we truly are. In every journey there are stages, even though, because it is a spiritual journey, we cannot measure them.
In meditation we stop thinking of the past and future and learn to live fully in the present moment. Unfortunately, God often seems absent to us because we are not in the here and now.
Meditation is experiential. That is it is a way of experience, rather than a theory or of thought at all.
Meditation is an incarnate way of prayer. The body is not a barrier between us and God. It is the sacrament of the gift of being which God has given us by creating us.
There is a sentence in Father John's teaching on the mantra which gives a valuable insight into the journey we are making. It is a very simple sentence. "If you chop and change your mantra you are postponing your progress in meditation."
St. Paul said that we do not know how to pray, but the Spirit prays within us. (Romans 8:26) This is the key to understanding the real meaning of Christian prayer.
It suggests that we learn to pray not by trying to pray, but by giving up, or letting go, of our trying. And instead, learning to be.
This opens access to the deeper prayer of the heart where we can find the 'love of God flooding our inmost heart through the Holy Spirit he has given us" (Romans 6:5) This is pure experience, beyond thought, dogma and imagination.


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VCU Presents Senior Design Expo 2010
On Friday, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering will present Senior Design Expo 2010. A Science Matters report by John Ogle.
Thirty-five teams of engineering students will share their research and design prototypes with the public.
Jamison. Every year the senior class in Engineering has a semester-long project by which teams of students apply the knowledge that they've learned over four years to make something.
Dr. Russ Jamison is the Dean of the VCU School of Engineering.
Jamison: This year we've decided that in partnership with the Science Museum of Virginia, we're going to have a larger venue, more accessible to school children and residents of the city of Richmond, to get an idea of what goes on inside a school of engineering and what these students are capable of doing with their education.
The Expo will be set up in the Rotunda and several nearby rooms at the Science Museum on West Broad Street.
Jamison: As we're speaking here this is a Wednesday morning. I suspect that the teams are very aggressively making their project come into fruition. It's kind of like the Rose Parade: a lot of work gets done in the last two weeks. But I've got a few examples here for you that I think are examples of almost all the projects, which are really kind of fun and make sense to people who see products coming out of companies. One of the projects is gonna be what the team is calling a "next-generation rollercoaster." This is a system by which the seats on the rollercoaster not only are fixed on the track but they have a sideways programmed motion, so that as the rider experiences the up and down of the rollercoaster they also have this lateral movement, which is gonna give, according to the team, a much wilder ride.
There's also a "human tracking" robot.
Jamison: The idea is for surveillance of either of bad guys or dogs or children, where someone wants to watch the motions and sound an alarm as the robot observes the motions inside a room or inside a yard. There's also a project a low-cost sustainable model home. A lot of home-building products are not completely green, so this team is looking at the sort of habitat that would be suitable to replace dwellings in an earthquake-devastated area, using post consumer products, like tin cans and Styrofoam. So they want to create a kit which can be sent to these areas to produce quick shelter in a sustainable, material way.
Another team is working on a nuclear power simulator.
Jamison: And it will be a control panel simulator for students and the public to get a sense of how a nuclear power plant operates and what happens if there is a problem, how is the function of the plant communicated via electronic simulator boards to what's going on inside the plant.
One hundred and fifty middle and high school students have been invited to the Expo.
Jamison: We think it's important for the nation that middle school children in particular get a sense of why one would want to study engineering. Engineering is perceived to be a hard thing and in some regards it is a hard thing, but the rewards of being able to make something are just remarkable. So, our students will be standing by to talk to them, explain it in language that a school child will understand.
The Senior Design Expo opens at 9:30 Friday morning and it runs until 3:00 in the afternoon.
Jamison: We want to push out the work that VCU does into the community, because this thrust is a great example of kind of return on investment. We're a public institution: what are we doing to make life better for people in the country and in the world?
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When normality ceases to exist, then nothing can be labelled as abnormal. There will be nothing to compare it to.
Normality Is an Endangered Species: Psychiatric Fads and Overdiagnosis
Normality Is an Endangered Species: Psychiatric Fads and Overdiagnosis
Fads in psychiatric diagnosis come and go and have been with us as long as there has been psychiatry. The fads meet a deeply felt need to explain, or at least to label, what would otherwise be unexplainable human suffering and deviance. In recent years the pace has picked up and false "epidemics" have come in bunches involving an ever-increasing proportion of the population. We are now in the midst of at least 3 such epidemics—of autism, attention deficit, and childhood bipolar disorder. And unless it comes to its senses, DSM-5 threatens to provoke several more (hypersexuality, binge eating, mixed anxiety depression, minor neurocognitive, and others).
Fads punctuate what has become a basic background of overdiagnosis. Normality is an endangered species. The NIMH estimates that, in any given year, 25 percent of the population (that's almost 60 million people) has a diagnosable mental disorder. A prospective study found that, by age thirty-two, 50 percent of the general population had qualified for an anxiety disorder, 40 percent for depression, and 30 percent for alcohol abuse or dependence. Imagine what the rates will be like by the time these people hit fifty, or sixty-five, or eighty. In this brave new world of psychiatric overdiagnosis, will anyone get through life without a mental disorder?
What accounts for the recent upsurge in diagnosis? I feel quite confident we can't blame it on our brains. Human physiology and human nature change slowly if at all. Could it be that the surge in mental disorders is caused by our stressful society? I think not. There is no particular reason to believe that life is any harder now than it has always been—more likely we are the most pampered and protected generation ever to face its inevitable challenges. It is also tempting to find environmental (eg toxins) or iatrogenic causes (eg vaccinations), but there is no credible evidence supporting either of these. There is really only one viable environmental candidate to explain the growth of mental disorder—the widespread recreational use of psychotropic substances. But this cannot account for the extent of the "epidemics," particularly since most have centered on children.
No. The "epidemics" in psychiatry are caused by changing diagnostic fashions—the people don't change, the labels do. There are no objective tests in psychiatry—no X-ray, laboratory, or exam that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder. What is diagnosed as mental disorder is very sensitive to professional and social contextual forces. Rates of disorder rise easily because mental disorder has such fluid boundaries with normality.
What are the most important contextual forces?
1. DSM-III made psychiatric diagnosis interesting and accessible to the general public. More than a million copies of each edition have been sold—more to ordinary people than to mental health professionals. The widespread appeal of the DSM is in its clear definitions that allow people to diagnose themselves and family members. For the most part, this has been a useful contributor to self-knowledge and to early identification and treatment. But it can also be overdone and inevitably leads to overdiagnosis in the hands of non-clinicians.
2. This interacts with the fact that it is fairly easy to meet criteria for one or another DSM diagnosis. The definitional thresholds may be set too low and the DSM system has included many new diagnoses that are very common in the general population. The experts who establish the DSM criteria always worry more about missing cases than about casting too wide a net and capturing people who do not require a diagnosis or a treatment.
3. The pharmaceutical industry has proven to be fairly unsuccessful in developing new and improved medications. But it is wonderfully effective at marketing existing wares and is an important engine in overdiagnosis and the spread of psychiatric epidemics. The drug companies are skilled at mounting a full-court press that includes "educating" doctors, "supporting" advocacy groups and professional associations, controlling research, and direct-to-consumer advertising.
4. Patient and family advocacy groups have played an important role in calling attention to neglected needs; in lobbying for clinical, school, and research programs; and in reducing stigma and promoting group and community support. There are times, however, when advocating for those with a disorder can spill over and promote the spread of the disorder to others who are mislabeled. The mental disorders all have unclear boundaries among themselves and with normality. Clinical experience and caution are necessary in distinguishing at the boundary who does and who does not meet the criteria for the diagnosis. Well-informed self-diagnosis or family diagnosis can play a screening role and is part of being a wise consumer. But self-diagnosis is usually far too inclusive and needs trimming and validation by a cautious clinician.
5. It is no accident that the recent "epidemics" have all occurred in the childhood disorders. There are two contributing factors. The first is the push by drug companies into this new market. The second is that the provision of special educational services often requires that there be a DSM diagnosis.
6. The internet is a wonderful communication tool that provides a wealth of information and creates a social network of informed consumers. But it can also contribute to the spread of "epidemics". Disorder-focused Web sites (often run by patients and families) provide a powerfully attractive forum and support system that draws people who may inaccurately self–overdiagnose in order to be part of the internet community.
7. The media feeds off and feeds the public interest in mental disorders. This happens in two ways. Periodically, the media becomes obsessed with one or another celebrity whose public meltdown seems related to a real or imagined mental disorder. The mental disorder is then endlessly commented on and dissected by the media. The latest example is the Tiger Woods media frenzy which will likely lead to an "epidemic" of "sexual addiction." Popular movies can also be contagious. Sybil helped cause a fad in multiple-personality disorder.
8. We live in a society that is perfectionistic in its expectations and intolerant of what were previously considered to be normal and expectable distress and individual difference. What was once accepted as the aches and pains of everyday life is now frequently labeled a mental disorder and treated with a pill. Eccentrics who would have been accepted on their own terms are now labeled as sick (with Asperger's) and in need of therapeutic intervention. Mental disorder labels can provide cover for societal problems. Criminal behavior has been medicalized (eg, rape as a psychiatric disorder) because prison sentences are too short and such labeling allows for indefinite psychiatric commitment.
All the above factors interact to produce follow-the-leader diagnostic fads that punctuate a general pattern of overdiagnosis. The definition of fad is "a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct especially one followed enthusiastically by a group." What makes something a psychiatric fad is that a psychiatric label seems to explain some common, nonspecific, problematic symptom or behavior, and that label is suddenly given to everyone. The fact that everyone is doing it reduces the stigma of the diagnosis and leads to more people getting the diagnosis. Then, like the old adage that if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail, the new label gets twisted to fit cases which really don't fit it simply because the label itself is popular and accepted.
There is no objective way to determine what should be the proper rate of mental disorder in the general population. My view is that DSM-IV is almost certainly overinclusive, but I would not recommend tightening the criteria until we have clear evidence this would do more good than harm. The DSM-5 bias to thrust open the diagnostic floodgates is supported only by flimsy evidence that does not come close to warranting its great risks of harmful unintended consequences. It is too bad that there is no advocacy group for normality that could effectively push back against all the forces aligned to expand the reach of mental disorders.
Thanks for a very good article. I have the same skepticism regarding the expansion in psychiatric diagnoses and the faddish pattern in which these new diagnoses are applied.
It is no help that insurance companies, Medicaid, Chip, Medicare, etc require a diagnosis for reimbursement. And not just any diagnosis - it needs to be a major one. Anything "normal" is not reimbursed, nor are Adjustment Disorders, some of the minor Anxiety Disorders (which are hardly minor to the patient), School Avoidance, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and so on - There are only a handful of reimbursed diagnoses. This is especially true for children. And as mentioned, special education requires a diagnosis. Leah Thronson MD Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry
This article seems to be based on opinion rather than science and is, in my opinion, irresponsible because it perpetuates stigma against person with mental illness. Has the author considered that there is convincing evidence of at least two phenomena that would explain the increase in prevalence of mental illess? One is increasing environmental triggers of things like ADHD (which has been linked to pesticides), autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder where genes may be activated by pollutants and toxins present in our environment at ever increasing rates over the past few decades. The other is the genetic potential for increasing prevalence and severity of conditions generationally increasing. This is called "anticipation"as stated in an article in The Medical Post, "Anticipation is a genetic phenomenon defined by increasing severity or earlier age of onset of a disease across successive generations. Several disorders have been shown to clinically demonstrate anticipation, such as myotonic dystrophy, Huntington disease, and fragile X syndrome." Since publication of that article anticipation has also been shown to occur in mental illness. "Clinicians had noticed as early as 1910 that some disorders produce a more severe phenotype or occur at earlier and earlier ages in each successive generation of an affected family. This phenomenon is known as anticipation."
Read more: Genetic factors and mental disorders - children, causes, effects, therapy, adults, examples, person, people, used, medication, brain, personality, effect, women, health, traits, mood http://www.minddisorders.com/Flu-Inv/Genetic-factors-and-mental-disorders.html#ixzz0t6MazliI
An excellent article. I well recall the sudden explosion of bipolar disorder following the aggressive marketing of Depakote. There were many dinner seminars sponsored byt Abbott "sensitizing" docs to BPD and of course touting Depakote, which was 500% more expensive than long-available valproate.
Big Pharma, always on the go!
What a fine article. Good, solid common sense observations that should ring true to anyone who has practised medicine for any length of time. Eccentricity deserves it's place in the domain of human existence. I think of P.G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare and the Greek tragedians, amongst many others. Many thanks for a clearheaded observer of psychiatry and the human condition. Ed Rykken
This is a terrific effort to bring some rationality to the "madness" related diagnostic excesses and the selling of emotional disorder by the drug companies. I will use this piece in teaching new clinicians. Thank you. David B. Saltman, LCSW, Faculty, Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Miami.
Psychiatry has become a growing bureucracy, and the diagnostic categories have spread to include every human behavior. A psychiatric diagnosis can be found or created to excuse any misbehavior. "Sex addiction" ocurs in any male with enough resources and opportunity, yet it now has the dignity of an illness. Let us not forget that there is a great need, if one is to make a living at psychiatry, to ensnare patients, and to create them in increasing numbers, particularly so that the criteria for treatment can be met in insurance claims in the total health care environment.. DSM V sounds like it will permit unchecked growth of this type, but bailouts are increasingly stylish, and this will be ours. W. J. Wilcox, M. D.
Where does the average family doctor, who is now doing much of the treatment for psychiatric disorders, get their "up to date"psychiatric knowledge regarding diagnosis and treatment. During lunch supplied by the pharm representative. "Learning" about the new diagnose solves many problems beside hunger. 1. You get check off sheets to establish the diagnosis 2. Now, the parent has a diagnosis of a sick kid, like strep throat. 3. Since it is a disease, someone else must be responsible for curing it, a doctor or school. Just not me, I am way too busy. As a physiatrist, not a psychiatrist, I was excited to see that another noble speciality has the odd quirky behavior of naming parts of the normal human experience as abnormal and billing for it. Ours is low back pain. Dr. Frances, I tip my hat to you. John Hart, DO Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
It is clear to me that the psychiatric/pharmaceutical organization of knowledge is creating a monster. The self-deception is that the psychiatrists involved in developing the DSM 5 are simply scientists describing the "real" nature of psychiatric disturbance and behavioral dysfunction. I hope that the Senate continues to expose the corruption involved, and that it take the questions raised by Dr. Frances up too. Dr. Frances wishes for a powerful lobby group to be a counter force against the psychiatric/pharmaceutical constitution of knowledge and the pathologization of the normal varieties of human experience. Oddly enough, the health insurance industry might be our best friend in this regard because the DSM 5 is likely to cost it billions. Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
There is one statement with which I profoundly disagree. I hardly think that prison sentences are too short; if anything, they are much too long, particularly for non-violent offenders. U.S. incarceration rates are the highest in the world; there are over 2 million prisoners, nearly 1 in every one hundred people. The zeal to criminalize everything and lengthen sentences has lead to overcrowding, violence, and inadequate programs for rehabilitation and education; we are essentially warehousing prisoners, leading to greater rates of recidivism. To me, this is a huge scandal and a waste of resources.
Dr. Allen Frances has made great contribution to the field of psychiatry but his current fight to bring the American Psychiatric Association (APA) back from "the road to perdition"of a dysfunctional DSM -V could be the role for which he will be remembered 100 years from now. He has the stature and a well-deserved reputation to shield away the intellectual bullies that frequently dismiss viewpoints they disagree with by simply saying "you don't know what you are talking about." For example, talking of a new diagnosis called hypersexuality, to me, is equivalent to diagnosing a Parkinson's disease patient with "uncontrollable tremors." A manic person commonly shows hypersexuality and individuals on amphetamines or cocaine could do the same. In fact, just this week, I evaluated an adolescent with bipolar disorder and "comorbid" ADHD who had been in residential treatment for "inappropriate sexual behaviors" who was kept on the amphetamine while receiving therapy to decrease his hypersexuality. This is why I think Dr. Frances' contribution transcend his philosophical/scientific views. The fact that we are having this debate and the oracles of psychiatry will pay attention to it, because Allen Frances is involved, open a door that have been closed for years. In 1999, long before the word blog became part of our daily, I posted a comment in the APA "internet forum" with the title "APA: we have a problem." Dr. Rodrigo Muñoz (APA President then) wrote a nice response but a few others considered that my statements were incendiary. Not surprisingly, the same happened at the American Association of Community Psychiatry. Ironically a infamous comment from one of the NASA scientist who was observing the Challenger fragmentation in space highlights the possible foundation of my critics. The expert in the fly control room Houston said: "Apparently there has been a major malfunction." Obviously, this type of serene and conservative comment seats well in the atmosphere of political correctness that began in the 80s. Nevertheless, when our new President maintains a similar style in the presence of the Gulf of Mexico disaster he is condemned for "no showing anger." During the oil platform explosion 11 workers died and the environmental damage is still in the making but with the psychiatric misdiagnosis thousands of suicides could have been prevented and much more potentially successful lives would have not ended in prison...but I should keep my cool! In 1921 Kraepelin described mood swings in pre-pubertal children and before him, Jean Etienne Esquirol (1845) reported several cases of "manic-depressive illness in school-age children." These findings were disregarded by the psychoanalytic movement and it took a very long time for great psychiatrists such as Grabielle Carlson, Karen Wagner, Hagop Akiskal, Joseph Biederman and others to defy the establishment and say: "yes, children can have bipolar disorder." I wish Dr. Carlson will participate in this debate because, like Dr. Allen, she has "a voice." When your name is Manuel Mota and English is not your first language you can say that Brazil has a great soccer team and many will tell you how wrong you are. Still, my question to the APA and the American Academy of C & A psychiatrist is this: What is wrong with correcting a misdiagnose if the patients are doing better than with the previous one? From another angle, I disagree with David Saltman's comment about "emotional disorders" and medications because "emotions" are regulated by chemical reactions in the same way that blood sugar is controlled by insulin. The environment and the parental role is crucial but do nothing if the genetic endowment goes out of control, as many adoptive parents can attest. We do need medications to control mania or panic attacks, even though the only "cure" for panic disorder, OCD and social anxiety disorder is CBT. Finally, I take issue with Dr. Frances' claim of the lack of diagnostic tests in psychiatry. My question is simple: "Do we need a test to figure out that two white parents will have a white child?" In closing, the APA is morally obligated to "cut the shade" and to deal with the reality that ADHD is been attributed to children with mental retardation, autism, anxiety disorders, etc. and that keeping its "impartial bystander" position is hurting too many children and adolescents. We have a false epidemic of ADHD and we need to realize that aggressive behavior is not part of ADHD. Besides, lack of attention and hyperactivity can be present in multiple psychiatric conditions, including ADHD, but this illness should be diagnosed when other more logical explanations have been ruled out. Manuel Mota-Castillo, M.D. St. Matthews University and UCF References: 1- Bipolar Disorder and Genetics: Beyond Question, Psychiatric Times, June 2004 2- Eliminate Conduct Disorder & ODD. This is The Right Time!, Psychline, Vol. 4, No 4. 3- The Crisis of Overdiagnosed ADHD in Children, Commentary, Psychiatric Times, July 4- The Journey Out of Madness, Commentary, June; Psychiatric Times.
I will add another likely controversial thought: To save time of a psychiatrist in many public clinics, the initial diagnostic interview is performed by a licences clinitian - usually a social worker. The overly busy and often not so interested psychiatrist later checks only the symptoms. "Do you have mood swings?" A positive reply leads to prescription of Depakote + eventually to an application for disability. Even if a known abuse of stimulants is present. After all, that is "a self medication", isn't it?
normalcy is and always has been an unsustainable, insubstantial concept without some level of prejudice and fallibility, so why try to keep it? i agree with the over-diagnosis comment, but normalcy and all the factors governing its judgments depends on someone, somewhere having no abnormality, not simply to judge behaviour and thinking - just to exist. sets of common values and references have to be determined by someone who we regard as sane. look around the best political, academic and business minds in the world - look at the decisions of health executives for PCTs and the NHS - can they be regarded as entirely sane or rather psychopathic?
if you would like to study what a bi-polar child looks like first hand, you are welcome to come to our house and take a look. For the love of God, you need to LIVE this to understand how real and horrific it is. You may want to call it an epidemic, but I am living it. I don't care what you call it...we have hypo mania, mania, depression, anxiety, rage, violence, and an extremely creative and bright kid.
I notice that the author of this and many similar articles, does not share his email address for comment. I guess his mind is made up already.
Angi G.
Dr. Frances has been concerned with the "unintended consequences" he sees associated with DSM V. His role in forming DSM lll gives him real expertise. Categorizing people by checklists of symptoms has been a double edged sword and, over time, has contributed to mindless diagnosis and medicating with neurotoxic substances. Children who suffer may have symptom reduction with medication but- just as Steven Rose pointed out- this is not a clinical 'proff' of etiology. A patient feel better with morphine after a fracture, but this does not mean he has a morphine-deficiency disorder. The dimensional approach to psychiatric diagnosis may have flaws, but at least it tries to look at the individual's constellation of characteristics. Big Pharma will always try to corrupt medicine. All we can do is keep revising as we learn from experience.
IN SEARCH OF "NORMAL".* Peter Alan Olsson MD *Prepared at the request of The Swedish Psychiatry association for their magazine's "Guest Editor"column. (Tidskriften for Svensk Psykiatri #4 November 2009 pp46-48). Introduction Some classic textbooks in psychiatry and psychology simply avoid discussion of normality. Others discuss the vexing topic of normality from several possible theoretical perspectives (Cameron, 1963): (1)Normality is an idealized internal integration or homeostasis of an individual personality; a kind of search for a psychoanalytic utopia. (2)Normality is a conformity with or successful performance within social, religious, or cultural expectations or norms. (3)Normality is the process of attempting to satisfy the inner needs of the Individual, without disrupting or violating conventions of group living. No easy or final definitions for any of the above have been reached. EXTRAPOLATION from CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS of ABNORMAL GROUPS and LEADERS to ILLUMINATE NORMAL GROUPS and LEADERS. I have studied destructive-exploitive cults and terror cult groups from a psychodynamic perspective for over thirty years. (Olsson 2005, 2007). I conclude that during rapid social and economic change and stress, utopias are often sought and promoted. Most utopian dreams emerge out of the psychological cesspools of malignant individual and group narcissism. When merged with fundamentalist mentality, they are destined for tragedy and destruction. It does not matter if the doomed utopia is formulated in terms of religious metaphor and precepts, or political ideology and propaganda. Jim Jones's "Socialist Heaven" for his People's Temple; Luc Jouret's pollution-free and spiritually liberating suicidal journey for his Solar Temple; Hitler's fascist utopia; Osama bin Laden's terror-paved islamofascist caliphate, and Stalin's communist state, were/ are --all headed for tragic failure. I have concluded that one way to help prevent future apocalyptic events such as a Jonestown or Waco; perhaps even a 9/11 type event , is to carefully compare destructive cults and terror groups to NORMAL religious groups. It is also helpful to examine relatively NORMAL religious and political leaders; again, as compared and contrasted with destructive leaders. These carefully studied comparisons between NORMAL and ABNORMAL lead to some important observations and conclusions. NORMAL RELIGIOUS GROUPS COMPARED TO DESTRUCTIVE CULT GROUPS. Characteristics of NORMAL Religious Groups A NORMAL Religious Group has central shared experiences of worship, wonder, reverence, and meaningful community service. The NORMAL spiritual leader shares leadership with group members. The NORMAL religious group gives positive support for life-long loving connection and support for and from, families of origin. A NORMAL religious group promotes respect and support for the sanctity, fidelity and self-respecting boundaries of couples` freely chosen marital and sexual commitments. NORMAL spiritual groups do not tolerate priests, imams, rabbis or ministers who berate or flagellate their congregations with words of derision or hate toward anyone. The NORMAL religious congregation embraces projects that contribute to the betterment of the community at large and not just their group narcissism or the narcissism of their leader. Such altruism is regarded as evidence of spiritual growth and value. Monies raised over and above parish staff salaries and building expenses, are normally used for projects to help the broader community or society. Normal religious congregations seek sacred music that promotes joy, wonder, reverence and worship. Characteristics of a Destructive Cult Group Exploitive-Destructive Cults concentrate a large percentage of their efforts on recruiting new members and controlling the financial, social, familial, and sexual or aggressive lives of their members---"For their own good". These cults promote isolation from the ferment of ideas abounding in the broader society and culture. They actively seek to alienate all their members from potential moderating influences found in healthy families, communities, and churches of origin. In fact, the cult group itself is often inserted as a member's new and by implication, "Superior family". The destructive cult leader becomes a Father / God / Prophet Himself. Fund raising is a high priority and a source of status for cult leader. First Amendment protection and tax-exempt status in America and democratic countries can obviously aid and abet destructive-exploitive and terror cults. Freedom of religion and speech in America and "Western" democracies can unfortunately allow safe havens for subtly, incrementally constructed 'Trojan Horse' cults & terror cells, masquerading as old or new religious forms of expression. CHARACTERISTICS of A NORMAL POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS LEADER. It is helpful to outline what personality characteristics are often possessed by those who become "good" leaders. They are capable of making "good" decisions even under adverse circumstances. A NORMAL religious group leader has similar traits. Kernberg (1984) writes that first a "good" leader should be rational and have high intelligence. Intelligence is necessary for strategic conceptual thinking and decision-making. I would add that a NORMAL religious leader must also be intelligent and knowledgeable but wise and discerning enough to avoid rigidity and fundamentalist mentality. Second, the leader must have incorruptible honesty. (No mean characteristic to possess!) Third, the leader's personality organization needs to be capable of establishing and maintaining good human relationships in depth. Such an ability is essential for evaluating others realistically. Fourth, the leader requires healthy narcissism, making him or her self-assertive rather than self-effacing. (All the exploitive cult leaders I studied had malignant narcissism) Fifth the leader must have a sense of caution and alertness to the world for the sake of himself and his people. The NORMAL leader does not use speeches to enflame his people toward hate and destructive action. CHARACTERISTICS of DESTRUCTIVE (ABNORMAL) LEADERS Let me describe the core thesis of my observations about exploitive and destructive cult leaders, whom I call Malignant Pied Pipers. They develop a relentless quest to become strong parents or father/mother figures to enhance their self-esteem. This lifelong search, of course, requires a ready supply of child-admirers, who are found in the cult followers. Malignant Pied Pipers give psychological birth to followers through an array of indoctrination and seduction techniques. Apocalyptic-destructive cult leaders have experienced harsh disappointments in their own parents and often their home community via neglect, abandonment, shame, or humiliation during their childhood. As the years go by, their loneliness and their memories of empathy-starved and shame-dominated childhoods become magnified, as if these lonely, humiliating years had become a psychological deformity. These poignant experiences of neglect, shame, psychological abandonment, and fear of being alone lead them toward dramatic action. Actions provide a sense, however spurious, of inner restitution and parallel revenge. The evolving dynamic in the cult family group is a two-way street between the members' passive or masochistic narcissism and the active, aberrant behavior advocated and orchestrated by the leader. This time the leaders feel empowered, rather than powerless as they were in childhood. In essence, the cult leaders gain a sense of power and mastery over their own early childhood feelings of insignificance by becoming overwhelmingly significant and powerful in the lives of their cult followers. The followers feel fused and merged with a power they coauthor with the leader. These followers feel special and as if they have transcended the mediocrity, ordinariness and boredom of their families of origin. But, beneath the outward confidence and swagger is an unconscious sense of shame and a fear of humiliation ready to surface when the group or leader's progressively fragile narcissism is punctured. Thus the cult-family honeymoon is eventually over; and because of the leader's own malignant narcissism, he recapitulates the neglect, abuse, and ultimate loneliness and victimization he once experienced as a child. But, this time, the cult leader is the neglecter, abandoner, and victimizer. The grand finale as the world saw in Jonestown , 9/11, and Waco, is group suicide or homicide. In summary, the leader is crucial to any group; the group to a leader. When a NORMAL group has an ethical, rational, and caring leader, it functions smoothly. A NORMAL and effective spiritual leader helps facilitate rational decision-making within the group; exhibits incorruptible honesty; makes decisions with empathy and realism; shares leadership; and cultivates it in younger members of the group; encourages individual freedom and dignity; respects members' families; and helps the group with positive projects that help the community at large. In times of great stress, healthy leadership matters even more. Think of New York City on 9/11 when leaders and people pulled together to help victims of the terrorist attacks. SUMMARY NORMAL individual and group action and freedom, require genuine responsibility, wisdom, independent judgment, and altruism. I hope the above effort to compare characteristics of Normal leaders and groups with ABNORMAL leaders and groups, will stimulate thought and discussion of this important topic for contemporary psychiatry. References Cameron, N. 1963, Personality Development and Psychopathology: A Dynamic Approach, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston (pp 8-14). Kernberg, O. 1984, "The Couch at Sea: Psychoanalytic Studies of Group and Organizational Leadership". The International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Vol. 34, pp1-17. Olsson, P. 2005, Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time: A Psychological Study of Destructive Cult Leaders from Rev. Jim Jones to Osama bin Laden. Publish America, Baltimore ISBN # 1-4489-0973-2 Olsson, P. 2007, The Cult of Osama: Psychoanalyzing Bin Laden and His Magnetism for Muslim Youths. Praeger Security International, Westport Connecticut. London ISBN #978-0-275-99989-6.
Because Allen Frances, like any psychiatrist, is unaware of nutritional effects on the developing and adult brain, he cannot imagine what might explain the apparent rise in ADHD, autism and "childhood bipolar", which may be, not bipolar, but Temper Dysregulation with Dysphoria (TDD). Take autism: the child may be obviously autistic, yet the affected parent may be only mildly eccentric or obsessional--but able to function and work: in these cases, I have noticed that the mother's diet has been fatty in pregnancy, and such a diet causes anxiety in the offspring, simply by letting maternal cortisol leak across the placenta. I have cured co-morbid anxiety in an autistic child, by giving Inositol, which cures adults likewise. As for ADHD, I did a large case/control study in 1995, showing that almost all cases came from pregnancies in which the mother consumed refined seed oils (which are known to cause Alzheimer's in adults). ADHD incidence has risen recently in the US. As for childhood bipolar, the genes are only for Benign Unipolar Hypomania, not for bipolar itself, so a child with BUH will be calm, creative and quick-witted, but could be turned into TDD by adding ADHD, from refined oils in the mother's diet, with further exposure during childhood itself. Similarly, a fatty maternal diet will add co-morbid anxiety to the picture, and an anxious child with BUH is likely to become moody and irritable--like Winston Churchill at school--but will not develop serious mood swings until adolescence, unless fortuitously exposed to refined seed oils. Finally, more common than aggravated BUH is straight TDD, which may be the result of maternal diet rich in both fats and refined oils, causing a co-morbidly anxious ADHD kid, further aggravated by current exposure to the same fats and refined oils. Prevention is obvious, while ADHD requires a switch to olive oil, plus fish oil for brain repair, and anxiety responds superbly to Inositol, a seed sugar found in grains, nuts, legumes, and citrus. I have no trouble reversing these disorders in my general family practice.
I am normally abnormal, at times abnormally normal...
The reality of epidemic proportion is that labels exist, the extensive DSM diagnostic criteria, Psychiatric fads, overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, misdiagnosis or otherwise, are all tentacles of the field of the wide variations of society today where many are stressed moreso now than ever. Lets not forget about the extreme state of must have technology, tech gadgets, and oh yes, the internet where patients can become educated about their own health, conditions as well as options for treatments with and without the pharmaceutical companies.
The statistics are not a surprise, for times most certainly have changed, and if we as a people are not stressed nor concerned about the world we live in, the health and priority of health, then well we simply exist as gunea pigs for getting labeled, medicated, and thus join in the overall judgements being made by those who can make those judgement calls aka diagnoses. Find me a sane person in this insane world and I would have to comment that they are just as crazy or abnormal as ever other person including theyre therapists. Psychiatry and the DSM are subjective to the clinicians assessment, patient history, patient input, clinicians opinion, and or speciality, as well as, criteria that requires a fine tooth comb when deciphering and or diagnosing. Take a pill....any pill, pick a pill, match the diagnose and then pick a pill....which by the way very well could put you over the top to a new DSM equivalent labeled as abnormality.


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February 15, 2011 Buyers and Sellers Flyers Acquire Versteeg
by Corey Pronman
On Monday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs dealt forward Kris Versteeg to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Philadelphia's first and third round picks in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, a move that on the surface that made sense for the Leafs to do as they build for the future.
How the trade shapes up for the Toronto Maple Leafs
After last week's Mike Fisher trade from Ottawa to Nashville, Rob Vollman explained how important it is to assess contracts in addition to talent when evaluating trades in the salary cap era. Looking at Kris Versteeg's deal of $3.083 million in cap hit for this season and next with him ending as a restricted free agent, he would need to be producing approximately 7.8 GVT each season to be worth his contract. Based on his last two years in Chicago, Versteeg was averaging 11.5 GVT, which is about half a win of value over his contract, but when considering his 82 game pace with Toronto, that average drops downs 9.6 GVT which is still a positive asset. When you then compare Versteeg's value to draft pick valuations as recently calculated by Iain Fyffeshowing the average Peak GVT of a first round pick from a contender to be about 5.0 GVTit appears that the Maple Leafs have received less than half of what Versteeg has produced in his two best seasons. So how in the world could this be good for Toronto?
Aside from looking at the results and dollar figures when looking at trades, we have to evaluate environment and the risk/reward potential of the deal. Yes, Versteeg is a on a decent contract for two more years and will still be a RFA afterwards with a (brief) history of being a two win-above-replacement player, but is the player going to be an asset when you want him to be an asset? Essentially, is he going to be a difference maker when you need difference makers for making a run? Looking at Toronto's organization at the moment, at the top level and throughout their system, this is not a one to two year fix, this is going to take a while and even if they get Versteeg to extend for an additional year, I'm still not convinced it would do anything positive for them other than provide a good player on a team lacking good players. The Maple Leafs need young players for four to five years from nownot for todayand that's what the draft pick will be. Acquisition of talent is always the most important thing to do, but the timing has to be taken into account as well. Whether or not they got good value on Versteeg in return is a whole other debate as a pick around the tail-end of the first round will give about $2 million in value, which is less than the value Versteeg has provided on the term of his contract.
As always with the draft, there are no guarantees. At the tend of the first round you could always find a Corey Perry as Anaheim did in 2003 or you could end up with a journeyman AHLer. It's part of the risk/reward aspect of the NHL Entry Draft. You can always try and get young players a little further along, however as Toronto learned just last week, the price of young, cheap somewhat developed talent is the equivalent of giving up a top four defender and taking on a bad contract. So rolling the dice in the draft is really the only way they are going to have a shot to restock the organization with talent without an array of assets to deal.
Even though Toronto has Nazem Kadri and the newly acquired Jake Gardiner, the system after that point is pretty bleak in prospects with notable ceiling, so they need to do well with this pick, despite the fact it will likely be a late first-rounder. I would advise going for some ceiling, but not too much risk as they can't afford the pick to completely bust out being so early in the rebuild.
How the trade shapes up for the Philadelphia Flyers
From Philadelphia's perspective, they got a player who provided pretty high GVT totals while in Chicago. Despite the lower GVT in Toronto, Versteeg's Corsi Rel QoC put him amongst the best of Toronto's forwards with average competition, teammates and offensive zone starts. A portion of the 24-year-old winger's slumping scoring numbers can be attributed to one of the lowest scoring teams with a below-average power play to boot. Moving onto Philadelphia will be a 180-degree turn for Versteeg in environment and teammate quality and likely will be reflected in his counting numbers.
While I understand why Philly wanted to do this move, in that they wanted some secondary scoring for a championship run, I hated that they gave away yet another quality future asset. In isolation, I usually don't mind when teams try to make that one move to put them over the top even if they lose value in the deal. However this is not an isolated case. Dating back to the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, Philadelphia has essentially dealt their last four first round draft picks! In the Chris Pronger trade, they dealt their 2008 first round draft pick Luca Sbisa and their 2009 and 2010 first round draft picks. That trade essentially ravaged the Flyers' system and is the prime reason why they have the worst farm system in hockey.
While Philadephia has a lot of young talent on the big club like Claude Giroux, James van Reimsdyk, Sergei Bobrovksy and Andreas Nodl, it isn't exactly news that the Flyers have a non-ideal cap situation. Philadelphia has under two million in cap space for next season with 17 players signed and several notable players needing new contracts for 2012-13. In the cap era, you need a steady stream of young players coming up through the ranks continuously, and that simply is not on the way barring a trade. Erik Gustafsson has performed very well in the AHL and surprised for an undrafted college free agent, but overall, the Flyers may make a run now, but I am very skeptical about what this team will be four to five years from now.
Toronto found out the hard way what happens when you deal first round picks like it's going out of style while trying to win. Mind you, Philly is younger than the 2003-04 Leafs and I highly doubt the decline will be that sharp, but it is never a good idea to leave your pipeline dry. Right now, they are barren and won't be improving anytime soon.
Corey Pronman is an author of Hockey Prospectus. You can contact Corey by clicking here or click here to see Corey's other articles.
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Alright the time has come for a friendly little cutting contest between Skubasteve89 and lukef2000! It's time here in Australia when you need to get ripped up for summer so you can walk on the beach with your shirt off and get the chicks!
My plan of attack for this comp is simple. A variation of leangains (have to adjust it slightly as my work schedule changes from days to nights quite frequently), albuterol dosed at 18mg per day until my three bottles are finished and an epi/DMZ finisher to peak for the last 4-6 weeks.
My stats are 5' 10" (177cm)
26 194lb 88.3kg
My three point caliper test is putting me between 15-16% bf
Been lifting three years but have been sidelined for more than a year in those three due to injuries / surgeries.
My goal is to get sub 10% at 175
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Finding Gold
Back in the summer of 1964, and another day with no adult supervision. I don't know where our dad was, but it was better for us kids. Our mother had left us in the fall of 1963, when I was 7 years old. I didn't see her again until I was 13. She came by the house, but never got out of her car. But, back to the summer of 64, like I had said, we were without adult supervision. Us kids were hungry, and it was time for us to go look for food. We had several places to look. The first one was behind a super market. We could usually find some lettuce and carrots there. We didn't find anything at the second place. The third place was all the way across town, but if there was anything there it would be worth it. You see, it was a donut shop! We talked all the way there, dreaming of how great it would be if we could find some jelly donuts. We finally got there, and we jumped into that dumpster so fast. My brothers would always put me in the dumpster because i was the smallest. God surely was watching out for us that day. In the dumpster there was a box, and it looked new. It was probably about 2'x2'x2'. We opened up that box and it was like finding gold. In that box, there was every kind of donut that shop made. Even jelly! Someone had stacked the donuts in that box so neatly, that you couldn't fit another one in it. I looked out of the dumpster at the donut shop and saw a man that looked like he worked there. I was afraid he was going to tell us to get out, but he saw me looking at him, and he just smiled and waved. He must have seen us there many times. That box of donuts was so heavy. My older brothers found a stick and was able to put it through the box to make handles on each side. It made it alot easier to carry. We could not let our dad see these donuts. You see, a few months earlier, my brother Boone had received a large bag of apricots from a lady across the alley from us. Boone was so happy about those apricots because he had something to eat. My dad saw Boone eating those apricots, and was so angry that he slapped him so hard he fell off the chair. He was in so much pain, but our dad made him sit there and eat all of those apricots until they were gone. This is why we couldn't let our dad see the donuts. But, we had a plan. We would hide them in our fort. It worked. Our dad never knew about them. We ate on those donuts for days, even the ones that had gotten hard. The Lord Jesus was always watching over us kids. My brothers, sister and me all grew up to know the Lord Jesus as our personal Savior. Praise God Almighty, he knows it all.
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