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by Brenda Maddox. Cambridge, Mass., Da Capo Press, 2008, 352 pp., $18.95.
I find the apostle Paul appealing and
The apostle Peale appalling.
—Adlai E. Stevenson
Though the latter years of the 20th century saw a decline in the influence and fortunes of psychoanalysis, it enjoys an enduring clinical, ideological, and political presence within our profession. This decline, however, may leave our younger cohort uninformed as to the history and legacy of the psychoanalytic movement in American psychiatry. Ernest Jones, the subject of this superb biography, began promulgating psychoanalysis to our continent in 1908 and arranged Freud's visit to the United States to participate in a conference at Clark University in 1909 (1). By the 1920s, "the psychiatric profession deserted the state hospital in its organizational aims" and set its sights on transforming itself into a community-based (outpatient) specialty (2). Despite the passage of a full century, the history of how the analytic wing achieved its fulminant growth and became so influential in American psychiatry has yet to be fully explicated in print. In this brief, illuminating journey through the life of Ernest Jones (1879–1958), award-winning biographer Brenda Maddox adds a long-overdue chapter to the story of psychoanalysis and an unanticipated perspective on its ascendancy.
Jones, a remarkable man by anyone's appraisal and a rambunctious subject for the most dedicated historian, is well defined in each of the many facets of his long and momentous career. His attractive persona, bristling intelligence, and unflagging industry are unfailingly beguiling. The appalling flaws that characterized his heretofore unacknowledged darker side and stain his work, career, and profession will dismay the faithful. Maddox, who admits to having found him "captivating," nevertheless manages an admirable reportorial narrative tone that is neither laudatory nor reproving.
Neither Jones's lower middle-class Protestant-Welsh coal-country heritage nor his respectable, successful, and very involved (indeed, he seems to have been a mutterkind) parentage could have alone determined the international intellectual stardom he was to achieve. An excellent student at all levels, he moved easily into medicine and through his preclinical work at Cardiff. In the big-city environs of London, his voracious reading and enlightened confreres lured him from his childhood Baptist orthodoxy to "philosophical materialism." During his clinical years in medical school, he became a noted prankster, smuggling friends into autopsies and surgeries. He once dressed himself and a fellow student in medical consultant's garb, called at the home of a pretty young actress whom they had observed in surgery, and proceeded to dress her operative wounds. "It was the first realization of Jones's boyish fantasy…of a doctor's easy access to women."
He used his "sharp intelligence, penetrating gaze, and knowing smile...and the looks of a man…who understands what a woman wants" in becoming a serial seducer. He comforted a variety of young women in his bed, including nursing students and anxious brides-to-be facing arranged marriages. Trouble soon followed. He was asked to resign as a resident medical officer from the North-Eastern Hospital for Children for going AWOL (he attributed the dismissal to "enemies," but Maddox finds that hospital records reveal repeated offenses). The dismissal "brought ruin. He was never to hold a serious hospital appointment again." Jones was left with little choice but to take a series of part-time positions, including one at a school for mentally deficient children where he was accused, tried (with considerable publicity), and finally acquitted of "indecently exposing himself" to two young girls. Maddox finds "that the evidence against Jones looks damning." He subsequently did well enough financially to allow engagement to a hometown girl, but he never fully recovered from his disrepute within the London medical establishment.
Jones's reading led him to a fascination with Freud and psychoanalysis, and he began to practice the new art. His lightening-quick intellect (and growing fluency in German) provided him with immediate access to Freud's arcana, which he began translating (and explicating) in English. Introduced by a colleague to Loe Kann, a possible patient, "who was as beautiful as she was rich," Jones moved in with her (he was never to fully explain what happened to his prior engagement). After several years in this arrangement, he began a prolonged collateral affair with Loe's much younger maid.
Jones became Freud's disciple during visits to Europe, and he was accepted into the master's small circle of analysts, nearly all of whom (except Freud himself) were enjoying the usufructs of transference in sexual affairs with their patients (rumored even of the rectitudinous Jung). Among the initiates, Jones considered the libidinous Otto Gross "his first instructor in psychoanalysis." Freud issued a public reproval of his coterie's licentiousness, claiming that he had personally renounced even marital sex (for purposes of birth control), though later allegations about an affair with his sister-in-law make the claim questionable. Back in England, Jones was discovered in still another sexual impropriety involving young girls at a London hospital, bringing his dismissal and the end of his London medical career. He moved his practice to Toronto but there "foolishly" paid blackmail to a patient who had threatened suit. This scandal alienated the Toronto medical community, and they never again fully accepted him within their inner circles.
Jones's first marriage, to a beautiful, talented Welsh woman 15 years his junior, ended tragically after one year when she died suddenly of a ruptured appendix. After several months of grieving, he became involved with an absent colleague's wife. Freud was well aware of Jones's personal and professional transgressions and never fully trusted him (Jones's attempt to "woo" the 18-year-old Anna Freud clearly alarmed her father) but kept him within the group and part of "the Cause," because he functioned as an essential emissary to the English-speaking world.
Jones excelled in this role. Despite having studied scientific methods with Emil Kraepelin and contravening voices such as Harvard's Morton Prince ("a cult not a science," it is like "Christian Science"), Philadelphia's James Hendrie Lloyd, and what Jones saw as "the boycott of 'official science'" (p. 93), Jones proceeded at full steam in dispensing Freud's occult wisdom to a world he persuaded to be receptive. Maddox unzips a bag full of prodigious research to chronicle Jones's promotion of Freud and "the Cause" in a sedulous schedule, tirelessly lecturing, traveling, personally entreating skeptics, founding national and international journals, promoting analytic societies, organizing meetings, and publishing prodigiously. Some of his clearly written expositions remain psychoanalytic classics. With his second marriage at the age of 40 and the birth of his children, Jones apparently banked his licentious fires. Henceforth he applied his brilliance with apostolic zeal to the proclaiming and establishment of Freud's theories and systems. Maddox's extensive descriptions of Jones's interactions with Freud during this period (including his part in Freud's move from Vienna to London in 1938) and abundant contacts with prominent figures within and outside the early movement will delight and inform even those with extensive prior reading in the history of psychoanalysis.
What should be seen as this remarkable man's legacy? Surprisingly, Maddox, who claims to have benefited from her own analysis, makes no attempt to explore the deepest motivations of her subject and believes "the jury is still out on Ernest Jones." It is Maddox's implicit assertion that without Jones, psychoanalysis would not have reached its dominant position, and she suggests that this is his enduring contribution. Whether Maddox's virtuoso account will assist us in properly evaluating the next enchanting fable told by so charming an apostle remains to be seen.
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December 7, 2012 – Capping of a terrific 2012 racing season, Alpinestars supported driver Devlin DeFrancesco will make a trip to Brazil to compete in his first ever Granja Viana 500. Taking place at the Kartodromo Internacional Granja Viana, DeFrancesco will join fellow pilots Rubens Barrichello and Tony Kanaan in a three-kart team that will look to stand atop the podium. Not only will this be Devlin's first attempt at the Granja Viana 500, he will also make history to be the youngest competitor to ever compete in the historic event.
"I am very excited to head to Brazil and compete in an event that I have followed online for years," expressed an excited DeFrancesco. "Also, to be able to drive with Rubens and Tony is a memory that I will never forget. I look up to these guys and hope one day I can have the success that they have had in motorsports."
Competing throughout the world in 2012, Devlin showed speed in North American and European events. Running in the Vortex TaG Cadet, 60cc Mini and Rotax Mini Max ranks, the multi-time champion officially made the switch to the junior class at last month's Superkarts! USA (SKUSA) SuperNationals. Coming accustomed to the bigger kart and faster powerplant, DeFrancesco improved throughout the weeklong event before contact in the main event ruined chances at a victory.
2012 has not only been about on track action for DeFrancesco, as he has become to excel in off track sponsorship and partner programs. Recently joining forces with Alpinestars, the premiere motorsports apparel company; Alpinestars joins Devlin's other main sponsors, BRM Manufacture, Yogurty's Yogen Fruz, Sunnybrook Hospital and XYZ Corp as he and DeFrancesco Racing look to make karters and the motorsports industry more aware of these supporting companies.
"Devlin has matured and grown over the past twelve months," explained DeFrancesco Racing Team Manager and Driver Coach Nick Mitchell. "This can be seen both on and off the track and it will definitely go a long way in his goal to become a professional in the world of motorsports."
With the official race day being Saturday, December 15, 2012, Devlin DeFrancesco and the DFR crew will head to Brazil early this coming week. With practice slated to take place on Thursday, Devlin will experience his first laps in a full-bodied competition kart before the team attempts to qualify on Friday. With wheel-to-wheel action taking place Saturday, fans can follow the real time action via live timing at www.kartodromogranjaviana.com.br/live_timing.htm
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|76ers look to build off promising second half
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This was the trade-off the organization was willing to take - even if it was a year too late - to get back on track with salary cap flexibility, team-oriented play and high draft picks for a better future.
With Iverson and Webber, the Sixers (35-47) knew only losing this year. Without them, they learned how to win.
``I don't think anyone considers our whole season the actual season,'' forward Kyle Korver said Thursday. ``I think we all kind of feel like once the trade happened, that's the team we have now. We didn't play championship-level basketball, but we played pretty solid basketball.''
Once the Sixers decided to trade franchise player Iverson to Denver in December and cut ties with Webber about a month later, everything changed.
With Andre Miller running the offense, Andre Iguodala's game exploded like one of his flashy dunks, and the rest of the Sixers became more than backup-option, stationary pieces.
``No one's complaining about playing time. No one's pointing figures about bad shots, good shots,'' Korver said. ``We're all in this together. We had to be.''
The Sixers, who had just five wins on Dec. 20, went 30-29 after trading Iverson; 26-21 once Webber left for Detroit. They ripped off a seven-game winning streak - only the second team in NBA history with a streak that long after being 20 games below .500 - won seven straight at home, and went 18-11 after the All-Star break.
``I've never been so excited on this particular day about next year as I am this year,'' Korver said.
And why not? A .500 record would have been enough to get them into the playoffs this season, and the nucleus of Iguodala, Korver, Miller and center Samuel Dalembert will be back. Plus, there are those three-first round picks. The Sixers also have their lottery pick and two more at the back end of the round that could be packaged for more immediate help.
``Our goal is to make the playoffs and give yourself a chance to win, but we're very excited about our young guys and our team in general because our ceiling can be very high,'' coach Maurice Cheeks said.
Cheeks, a Sixers point guard on the 1983 championship team, will return for a third season - a move that's popular with the players. During their final meeting, Cheeks stressed the players couldn't assume they would pick up where they left off in the final 40 games and needed to spend time in the gym.
Dalembert plans to follow that advice and will try out for the Canadian Olympic team.
This will be a pivotal offseason for team president Billy King. The Sixers missed the playoffs for the second straight year - third time in the last four seasons - and this summer will go a long way toward determining if he can turn the Sixers back into Eastern Conference contenders.
King was not available for comment Thursday, and he's been quiet about what areas need to be addressed. Regardless, Philadelphia expects to be back in the playoffs next season, and their competitive second half was a necessary first step.
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June 2007: Volume 33, Number 6
A Challenge to Support the Future of Clinical Chemistry
"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." —Sir Winston Churchill
Gary Myers PhD, FACBAACC President
As we approach the association's 60th anniversary, this is an exciting time to serve as the AACC President. We can take pride in celebrating many years as being the flagship association for clinical laboratory professionals, as well as our leadership in the field of clinical laboratory medicine. Every major AACC accomplishment is due to the outstanding contributions of our members. Without your hard work, volunteerism, and dedication to this field, AACC would not have flourished. This spirit is even more important going forward, so I want to personally encourage each of you to give back to our profession.
One great way to help secure the future of our profession is through the Van Slyke Foundation (VSF), formerly the Van Slyke Society. The Foundation brings to life our philanthropic philosophy of giving back, as so aptly stated by Sir Winston Churchill. Its mission to be "a leading philanthropic organization for clinical laboratory medicine that encourages and supports deserving clinical laboratory scientists and students throughout the world" is one I support fully. I hope that you will find a way to support the Foundation at this year's Annual Meeting in San Diego. VSF has some fun and unusual events planned this year that I hope you will take part in. Not only will you have fun at these events, but you will also be advancing the Foundation's valuable programs on behalf of young, deserving clinical laboratory scientists and students around the world.
First up is the opportunity to join the Annual Meeting Organizing Committee for an early-morning 5K Fun Run with the President on Sunday, July 15th at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina. You can't beat this chance to enjoy a great workout and support the VSF at the same time. The event is open to everyone 18 and older who is attending the meeting. The entry fee is $30, and you'll receive a commemorative T-shirt at the end of the race. If you're not an early bird, I'm not going to let you off the hook that easy. So while I'm out there working up a sweat, you can be sleeping in or having breakfast and still support VSF by choosing the "sleep-in" option. The entry fee for this option is $40 and your commemorative T-shirt and special surprise will be mailed to you after the Annual Meeting. Find out more about the 5K Fun Run in your Annual Meeting registration package or go to the Annual Meeting Web site.
Another opportunity to enjoy yourself while doing good is by attending the Foundation's Cheese and Wine Tasting Reception and Silent Auction on Wednesday, July 18th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the San Diego Wine and Culinary Center, just a quick walk from the San Diego Convention Center. This promises to be a truly wonderful event. You can sample some excellent and interesting fine wines and appetizing cheeses, plus you can bid on lots of exciting prizes, such as an LCD TV, jewelry, artwork, special handicrafts, a 2008 AACC Annual Meeting package that includes registration and 5 nights in a suite, and many other wonderful offerings. Tickets for the Reception and Silent Auction are $125, and you can purchase tickets on the AACC Web site or at the registration booth at the meeting. This will be an exceptional evening, so don't miss out, get your tickets now.
It's important to keep in mind that all proceeds from these two events will support the VSF and its good works. Just this year, for example, the Foundation has fostered scientific investigation by funding two research grants thanks to a contribution from the AACC Critical and Point-of-Care Testing Division. This year, VSF also increased its investment in post-doctoral training by awarding two Past-Presidents' Scholarships. These training awards were made possible for the first time in 2006 thanks to our most generous donor to date, Mr. Gopal Savjani. In support of this important program, the AACC Board of Directors voted to fund an additional scholarship in 2007. Three post-doctoral fellows are now being supported: Ross Molinaro, a second year fellow, and Kara Lynch and Leann Mikesh, both first year fellows. Other Foundation-sponsored activities that we hope will encourage science students include awards that we will confer at the Annual Meeting to recognize excellence in students' research and oral presentations. We are grateful to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.) for its support of these awards, which allowed us to increase the amount of the prizes for these talented young investigators. In addition, the Foundation will provide funds for student travel grants, thanks to donations from Beckman Coulter (Brea, Calif.). The need for highly skilled clinical scientists has never been greater, and through the far reaching support of our donors and volunteers, the VSF advances scientific knowledge and discovery in many important ways.
Also in San Diego, thanks to support from the VSF, we will welcome 21 International Travel Grantees and three Society for Young Clinical Laboratorians Travel Grantees. Special thanks are due to Jerry and Sandy Gallwas for their generous support of the international travel grantees and our "Gallwas members." Indeed, the Gallwases and many others have given generously to support these kinds of young scientists with whom it is so important to share the very best of clinical laboratory science and technology, not to mention the superb networking opportunities that are available each year at AACC's Annual Meeting. I know you understand how important these opportunities can be, and I hope you will also give as generously as possible to support future grantees.
Please plan to attend one or all of these events—and support your field and your profession today!
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The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless.
This is the eighth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy at Florida State University and the author of the forthcoming book "Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know."
Gary Gutting: What do you think of the claim that scientific accounts provide all the explanations needed to understand the existence and nature of the world, so that there's no need to posit God as the ultimate explanation?
I don't think science can explain everything. As far as I am concerned, if you want God to have a crack at the job, go right ahead!
Michael Ruse: Let me start at a more general level by saying that I don't think science as such can explain everything. Therefore, assuming that the existence and nature of the world can be fully understood (I'm not sure it can!), this is going to require something more than science. As far as I am concerned, if you want God to have a crack at the job, go right ahead!
G.G.: Could you say a bit more about why you think that science can't fully explain everything?
M.R.: In my view, none of our knowledge, including science, just "tells it like it is." Knowledge, even the best scientific knowledge, interprets experience through human cultural understanding and experience, and above all (just as it is for poets and preachers) metaphor is the key to the whole enterprise. As I developed my own career path, as a historian and philosopher of evolutionary biology, this insight grew and grew. Everything was metaphorical — struggle for existence, natural selection, division of labor, genetic code, arms races and more. Read more…


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The director of the Center for Spectator Sports Security Management outlines strategies for overall security planning and implementing management systems
Evacuation Plan
It is recommended that the CP develop clearly-defined emergency and evacuation procedures and plans to outline specific procedures, shelter-in-place evacuation and partial or full evacuations. Once this takes place, regular exercises with facility employees can test these response plans. This will ensure that adequate resources are available to implement the plans and verify that all operating units can implement their responsibilities according to the plans. The administration should consider at least one emergency drill prior to or early in the season and conduct regular reviews to ensure that they remain accurate, workable and current.
After-Action Reviews
It is important to critique all the safety and security activities/incidents. Prepare written reports and incorporate the reviews into the existing plans. An effective sport event security management system will require the involvement and commitment of many agencies and individuals, including volunteers, public agencies and outsourced contractors. It is imperative that the security staff, law enforcement, emergency management and response professionals work together. This teamwork will result in a cohesive, mature and efficient problem-solving environment.
Management Systems
The other aspect of the strategy to secure stadiums and arenas is the implementation of management systems and processes which will protect assets — human and otherwise — to the highest possible degree. The ultimate result and capability will be to detect potential threats, delay attacks on assets and mitigate consequences of an incident, therefore minimizing casualties.
The SESA Seal
The Center for Spectator Sports Security Management at The University of Southern Mississippi encourages the Sport Event Security Aware (SESA) Seal of Approval (as seen on the cover of this issue). This seal can be achieved at every stadium and arena that has a security management system in place. The requirement for the seal includes four processes:
• Assessment: The external vulnerability assessment or self-assessment should include a review of the department's policies and procedures, physical protection systems, game-day operational plan, emergency response plan, evacuation plan and recovery plan.
• Training: The training should include multi-agency training for all key managers, orientation and training of game-day personnel, team training and role orientation of members of the emergency response team.
• Exercises: The exercises and practice should include annual game-day operations simulations, an emergency response disaster drill, an evacuation plan drill and a leadership response team drill.
• Review: An annual external event security review should include countermeasures, recommendations and improvement plans.
Taking the lead and securing your sport venues with an effective security management system helps sport venues fulfill moral and legal responsibility to protect spectators, competitors, employees, the community and the environment; reduces exposure to civil or criminal liability in the event of an incident; enhances a venue's image and credibility with spectators, competitors, employees, suppliers and the community; and reduces venue insurance premiums. ?
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JAMBOX is simply the smallest, best sounding wireless speaker and speakerphone on the planet. It delivers stunning hi-fi audio in a portable wireless speaker so compact you won't believe it when you hear it. It's loud. With an output capacity of 85 decibels, JAMBOX fills even the largest rooms. Unlike other portable speakers, JAMBOX is powered by a pair of unique, highly sophisticated acoustic drivers, unmatched in their ability to produce extreme high (tweeter) and low (woofer) frequencies from a single, ultra-small dome speaker. They work in concert with an innovative moving-wall passive bass radiator and airtight enclosure to deliver shimmering highs and thumping lows that you can literally feel - the richest sound all in the palm of your hand.
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This review is from: Jawbone JAMBOX BLACKDIAMOND Bluetooth Speaker / Speakerphone
Pros: Easy to pair with mobile and tablet. Awesome sound for both audio and speakerphone. Compact and portable. Excellent range for Bluetooth. Long battery life. And, the Simultaneous Multipoint is a very useful feature which gives this device added versatility and value.
Cons: Live-Audio reduces the volume with no apparent means of boosting the audio output.
Other Thoughts: I have no regrets about purchasing this product. I am very satisfied with its versatility and performance. I highly recommend it over audio docks. And, I will look at the 10" with some interest in getting another.
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This review is from: Jawbone JAMBOX BLACKDIAMOND Bluetooth Speaker / Speakerphone
Pros: It works correctly.
Cons: This product is shockingly bad. I bought it to replace my $40 HMDX Jam thinking it would be a substantial upgrade. It wasn't. The sound quality and volume are just too poor to justify the price tag
Other Thoughts: I'd pay about $60 for this, not $130.
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Pros: Easy Bluetooth pairing, good Bluetooth range, can pair with two devices. Extremely good sound quality and bass response for its size, good volume. Remarkably good battery life, auto-sleeps when not playing audio. Good looks, rubberised top and bottom keep it from sliding in most situations, nice accessories (faux leather and magnetic case folds away when not in use). Uses standard Micro-USB charging port, and charges in a few hours. One-touch spoken battery level. Speaker-phone is a nice gimmie.
Cons: Speaker-phone is muddy sounding on the other end, I am told by several people, so I don't bother with it any more.
Other Thoughts: There aren't a lot of controls on the unit itself, so I usually have to keep my phone on me to use as a remote control. I'm using it with an older Android phone (Running Cyanogenmod 7.2 aka Gingerbread 2.3.7) and I've had no problems with Bluetooth connecting or dropping out.
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Better than expected - Worth the cost?
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Pros: This is a slick little unit:
Cons: -1 for cost
Other Thoughts: I've read reviews that the mini-usb port breaks / pushes through the case after a few months of casual use. I have yet had this problem, just something to consider.
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Oregon Gemstones and Gemstone Mining
Oregon is a leading state for gemstone production with sunstone, thundereggs, opal and more.
A Diversity of Gems
Oregon is one of the nation's leading states for the production of
. These gemstones are mostly a result of the state's long volcanic history. Oregon's famous
is produced from
flows, thundereggs are formed in
and the silica that produced much of Oregon's
and jasper was dissolved from
volcanic rocks
by hot ground water.
In the sections below we feature Oregon sunstone, thundereggs, opal and the chalcedony gems, agate and jasper. Oregon has many other gems which include:
, seatite, wonderstone and many varieties of
petrified wood
Oregon Sunstone
Oregon produces some of the best gem-quality feldspar in the world. The name "
Oregon Sunstone
" is used for gem-quality feldspars from Oregon, with and without aventurescence. They can be found in colors that range from clear through yellow, orange, pink, red, green and blue. Multiple colors are often found in the same crystal, making bicolor and tricolor stones possible.
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Some specimens of Oregon Sunstone contain microscopic
platelets suspended throughout the material. These platelets are often in alignment within the stone and light entering the stone at the proper angle will simultaneously reflect from them. When these stones are played in the light a bright copper-colored flashes are produced as the stone passes through the angle of reflection. Flashes can also be observed by moving the light source or changing the angle of observation. This interaction with light produces the phenomenon known as aventurescence.
Sunstone is cut into faceted stones and
. Material with platelets is usually cut to produce flashes of light when the stone is viewed in the face-up orientation. To do this the copper platelets should be parallel to the top and bottom of the stone. Quality material cut by a skilled artisan is so attractive that the State Legislature named Oregon Sunstone the State's official
The sunstones are found as phenocrysts in a small number of
flows. This makes production a labor-intensive job. They can be screened by hand from soils which have developed above the basalts. Hard-rock mining of the basalt is sometimes done but it is less successful because the feldspar cleaves easily and breaks during extraction.
Places where you can find rocks & gems in Oregon
The most popular rock in Oregon is said to be the "thunderegg". Thundereggs are "nodules" or "geodes" that form when
, chalcedony or
precipitate within the cavities of
, welded
or perlite. Thundereggs can be ugly on the outside; however, when they are cut or broken open a treasure of colorful gem material and crystals is often revealed. Thundereggs range in size from less than one inch to over three feet in diameter.
The mystery of breaking or sawing thundereggs to see what is inside is a large part of what makes them so popular. They frequently contain layered or fortification patterns of colorful agate, sometimes with a drusy quartz-lined inner cavity. Other specimens contain clear to milky or mossy chalcedony.
Opal: Precious, Fire and Common
A number of different types of
are found in Oregon. An area known as Opal Butte in Morrow County has produced hyalite, hydrophane, crystal,
contra luz
, dendritic and other varieties of opal. Although some of the opal found there is unstable during cutting a number of great gemstones are still produced.
A small fraction of Oregon thundereggs are filled with opal and a smaller fraction of those contain gem-quality material with play of color. Some contain a blue opal known as Owyhee Blue that ranges from a blue gray to a brilliant sky blue. Some contain common opal with beautiful scenes and patters like the cabochon below. The hope of finding opal or colorful chalcedony is what drives much of the thunderegg popularity.
Picture Opal
This is a spectacular cab cut from the opal center of a thunderegg. If you look closely you can see the sun rising over a landscape that is underlain by normal faults.This nice cab was cut by Aaron Buell of
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Agates, Jasper and Wood
The volcanic history of Oregon has produced a wide variety of agates and jaspers. Widely-known Oregon agates include: Graveyard Point, Priday Ranch, Eagle Rock, Holley Blue, Richardson Ranch and Polka Dot. Widely-known Oregon jaspers include: Biggs, Bat Cave, Blue Mountain, Morrisonite, Chicken Track, Deschutes, Spiderman and Sucker Creek.
A popular activity along Pacific coast beaches is hunting agates and jaspers that have been tumbled in the surf. Some of the beaches have names such as "Agate Beach" that reveals what you might find there. Before you start hunting agates be sure that collecting is allowed. Many beaches are private or government property where removing anything is forbidden.
Oregon Beach Agate and Jasper
A beautiful mandala composed of colorful beach agate and jasper pebbles found along Oregon beaches and brought to a bright polish in a rock tumbler. This mandala was created and photographed by Amanda Nachman who has an Etsy Shop named
Oregon Coast Agates
Rivers draining the volcanic landscape of the western side of the Cascade Mountain Range carry large numbers of agate nodules of various sizes and dump them into the ocean. Then waves pick them up and roll them around in the surf. This action rounds the agates and gives many of them a natural matte finish.
A great time to look for agates is after a large storm when streams have dumped more agates into the ocean and waves have disturbed the sand to exposed agates that have not been found by people. Agates found on Oregon beaches are often nicely rounded and can easily be brought to a nice polish in a
rock tumbler
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Two specimens of Oregon Sunstone: The specimen on the left is a round cabochon weighing 2.29 carats and about 7mm in diameter. It is a stone that is heavily included with visible platelets of copper. Those platelets are what reflect light to produce sunstone's aventurescent effect. The specimen on the right is a clean faceted stone weighing 1.01 carat and 7mm x 5mm in size. It is an oval shaped stone with a strong orange color.
Examples of thundereggs sawn to display their interior. The top two are halfs of a single egg about three inches in diameter. It is filled with gray chalcedony with gray agate and druzy quartz in the center. The bottom is a half egg about six inches in diameter with gray banded agate around the outside, white agate towards the center and a druzy quartz cavity in the center.
Fire Opal
A faceted orange fire opal from Oregon. This stone weighs 1.17 carats and is 9mm x 7mm in size. Fire opal in a range of colors from yellow through orange and red is produced from several mines on the eastern side of the Oregon Cascades.
Owyhee Blue Opal
A cabochon cut from blue Owyhee opal mined in the Owyhee Mountains in eastern Oregon near the Oregon-Idaho border. Some of the opal from this area looks like chalcedony and occurs in a range of pale blue to medium blue colors. This stone is 20 x 11 millimeters in size, weighs 8.05 carats and has a fantastic powder blue color.
Wild Horse Jasper
Two cabochons of Wild Horse Jasper cut from material found in Oregon. The cabochon on the left is 33 x 36 millimeters in size and the cabochon on the right is 27 x 34 millimeters. Wild Horse often produces cabochons with interesting landscape scenes.
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'see me' is changing the way that the public thinks about mental ill-health. Our target audience is the Scottish general public and we have to find ways of reaching them, whilst also making sure that what we say is true to the real-life experiences of those of us who have experienced mental ill health and/or stigma.
However, changing the way that the public thinks is not enough. We also have to change the way that members of the wider public behave towards people with mental health problems. "
People with experience of mental ill-health tell us that all too often, when they most need support, their friends, family members, neighbours, colleagues and bosses just don't seem to be able to respond in a way which helps. The general public tells 'see me' that they want to do 'the right thing' but are often scared of getting it wrong, of making things worse, or worried that they just don't know enough to make a difference.
"We develop and run adverts for the TV and radio and produce materials such as posters, leaflets and postcards for free public distribution.
We speak at meetings and conferences both at home and abroad
We run two websites – this one and our young people's website which aim to educate people about mental health and stigma, and inspire them to get involved in our campaign. We produce fact sheets and have a collection of testimony which people can access to tell them what stigma is really like.
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So my friend was moving out today, and he wouldn't let me carry anything because I'm "a small Asian girl". So I just emptied out his cabinets and put things in boxes for him and his friend to carry. He had called his friend with a truck to come over to pick up all the heavy furniture and stuff.
When they were making a trip to the new apartment and I was alone, I heard one of his neighbors come home, but it was a little kid so he was knocking on the door calling out for his mom. He was knocking for like five minutes, and because I don't live here, I didn't really want to see what was going on.
After a while, I hear that the kid is starting to cry and there's legit panic in his voice, so I go outside and ask him if everything is okay. He says his mom isn't answering the door, so I call my friend to ask what I should do. We keep knocking, because the mom was probably home taking a nap. I end up keeping the kid company on the steps.
Then the parents come home; turns out they were out. Fucking dad looked at me and was like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I was like "fuck, dude, keeping your son company because you forgot about him". Rude ass.
At least the kid was okay.
I couldn't sleep last night. I was so awake, but he was so tired. He went to bed around midnight, and I stayed up because it was like 10PM my time. I ended up doing dishes in the middle of the night and he woke up.
He just walked in, and we had awkward eye contact.
Me: Uhhh.. I'm doing your dishes.
Him: … Yeah I can see that.
I went to bed around 3, then woke up at 6 because I thought he was awake. But it was just his upstairs neighbor walking around. I drifted in and out of sleep for the rest of the morning, then decided to get up at 10:30 or so.
Even though we're not doing anything, I'm having quite a bit of fun.
So today was quite eventful. I woke up at 5:30 this morning so that I could hopefully avoid traffic on my way to the airport. We hit traffic anyway. My flight wasn't to depart until 9:05, and boarding wasn't until 8:30, and since I arrived at 7:15 or so, my dad stuck around and chilled with me until the time came.
It's been quite some time since I've last been in an airport. They don't even use those metal detectors anymore. It's literally a three second scan, which is pretty convenient.
The flight was only three and a half hours, but I sat next to a rather large woman who was overflowing from her seat into mine. I didn't mind so much, as I don't take up the whole seat, but I was a little troubled when it came to sleeping. I couldn't sleep comfortably without my neck drooping, and I really, really wished I was travelling with someone I knew so I could borrow a shoulder. So I probably slept for a total of 30 minutes on that flight.
The cab from the airport to his house cost me 80 bucks.
It was about 3:15 when I arrived, but he hadn't eaten yet. He ordered Jimmy John's for us (which was really good). We then hung out at his house for a bit,then went to check out his new apartment, and upon returning to his place, watched him pack things for a couple of hours. I felt like I was in the way, but it was rather entertaining to watch. He's got a really cool giant heavy organ, and we (and by we I mean he) took out the leslie. He played the organ with the leslie out (but plugged in) and it was really cool.
I felt like I was being completely useless, so I offered to take things off of his walls, which proved to be quite difficult because he uses flat thumbtacks. BUT I DID IT.
Then, following his daily routine, we went to Starbucks where I saw Cute Barista Girl (who is, for the record, very cute). Then we went to Walmart to buy some fruits and things to make smoothies. Back to his house, Skyped with my siblings, and ate my bread thing for dinner.
We watched an episode of Cake Boss, which we both regretted. Cake Boss is the worst.
He's asleep now, which is good, but I'm from the past and it's only 10:00 where I'm from so… Awake I will stay.
It's been a while since I've last posted something of value. I remember starting this blog simply because people enjoyed reading about my everyday life, and then continuing because I was naive enough to believe I could do it every single day for a whole year. Sometimes I remember I have this blog and come back to it and read through my past thoughts. It's quite nice to be able to do that, but I'm always left wondering what happened on days I didn't post.
I think it's time to get back to journaling.
Student: I agree with what you said about confronting your coworker, but some places have rules set in place by management. My current place of work forbids us from confronting our coworkers if we have issues with them. We have to go straight to management.
Professor: Yeah.. Some places have those policies in place… Those places are horrible backward organizations that want to control everything.
Student: I work on campus.
My professor: [[Hypothetical situation in which your coworker accuses you of being paranoid/having mental issues because you take notes about everything/are constantly in a state of observance and is constantly harassing you about it]]. What do you do?
Dude in my class: I would confront him. Approach him and say, "I see where you're coming from, but I would appreciate it if you would leave me alone. I take notes because I have confidence in my observational skills… And…"
Professor: That's good, but if there is anything I want you guys to walk away with, it's this. You do not need to explain yourself to anyone. Your coworker has offended you, and you do not need to defend yourself with an explanation. You don't need to explain your situation. You don't need to explain your problem. He is in the wrong, not you.
In a lecture hall of 65 students with London, my old, white professor, and my friend Jess.
London: (Lecturing) So if someone's hot and wet…
Jess: OoooOOOOH
London: Not a good kind of hot and wet.
Jess: (whispers) but there's no bad kind of hot and wet
So I noticed the freckles on the side of my face have increased in quantity. My mom thinks they're liver spots. Whut. I'm so young.. Liver spots? Really? But at the same time, I'm predisposed to having a shit liver, so it could actually be the case. Slightly worried now.
On another note, sleep paralysis has returned and is in full swing. Yaaaaay. I didn't want to sleep anyway.


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I see a filmmaker in full control of his frame, who can play with his audience in a manner that is in no way cheap or exploitative, but who can still use the full force of his camera to unsettle his audience…I see a film that actually builds its tension quite effectively—from a basic sense of dread to something far more gruesome and horrific.
To read Bilge's full review in Vulture please click here.
The film often tries to trigger these context-less scares that do not build on anything beyond the filmmakers' guileless attempts to lull you into complacency long enough that they can jolt you out of it. I can't get into a film that's this over-determined when it comes to scaring you with falling picture frames that sound like cannon-fire when they cascade down the stairs, or violin strains that are as shrill as a fire alarm.
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Bilge Ebiri
Here am I. Please imagine me pointing aggressively and silently in Simon's direction.
Simon Abrams
How is this different from any other night?
Bilge Ebiri
Yes. Though we've studiously avoided discussing The Conjuring, precisely because we hoped this opportunity would come up.
Simon Abrams
We did?! I mean, yes! One of the rooms I've studiously avoided having this argument with you, Bilge, is I take some issue with the way you qualify the film as being "old-school." I'm not sure I know what you mean, and having seen all but two of Wan's feature films, I feel we're going to disagree vehemently on this point. I've rewatched some of Wan's films and while I want to buy into them because of their chutzpah, just often feel they are bone-dumb, unimaginative, poorly assembled, and not especially atmospheric. I think we can agree that Wan, as a filmmaker, is only improving with each film he makes. But beyond that, I don't know if we see the same films when we watch The Conjuring or Insidious or Saw. The technique, effect, and emphasis we respectively put on the same films…I don't know, man. The Conjuring specifically did not do much for me because its creators kept getting in their own way, and inexpertly trying to achieve an effect that I simply don't think they achieve well. I get the temptation to make a film that approximates a kind of haunted house attraction feel. But like Insidious, The Conjuring is so under-done on basic details and so over-done in other regards that I can never feel comfortable enough to want to be scared. That's my basic problem: it's not just thin, and amateurish, it's distractingly thin, and amateurish, and persistently so.
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There are a bunch of things there. First of all, re: "Old school." That's a fairly broad descriptor that I use for The Conjuring, specifically. (And for the purposes of this conversation, I'd like to talk about The Conjuring, as opposed to "Wan's films," because I'm not actually that big a fan of his other films, until we get to Insidious. And while I do like Insidious 1 &2, The Conjuring is on an entirely different level for me.) Anyway, back to "old school." First of all, it's a way to distinguish between films like these and the other, more recent strands, like found footage, torture-porn, etc. So, old school, in the Amityville Horror, The Haunting tradition. That's not necessarily a value judgment. But a lot of the descriptors you're using here I simply don't agree with. I mean, if you don't personally find it effective, then sorry. But I find it enormously effective—that is to say, it's a film that scares the bejesus out of me, every time I see it. And clearly does so for much of the rest of its audience as well. (I don't usually like to trot out the argument-from-popular-appeal, but sometimes, when I see a film that has clearly had an effect on millions be described as "ineffective," I can't help myself.) I find it absurd—ABSURD—that you would describe a film like The Conjuring as not being atmospheric. I mean, from the orchestral swoons that open the damned thing, to the way it uses the dark, to the fluidity of its camerawork—the way that Wan follows his characters (I used the word "stalks" in my review) in a way that is somehow both very discomfiting and also very elegant and controlled—I find this film to be incredibly atmospheric, incredibly tense, and, yes, incredibly well-made. There are a lot of things I can say, but I don't want to just soapbox, so maybe I should say this. When you say, "Its creators kept getting in their own way, and inexpertly trying to achieve an effect that I simply don't think they achieve well"…what exactly do you mean?
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But you have used "old-school" in the past without qualifying it. This was true in both your The Conjuring and Insidious 2 reviews, in which you describe the film as having "old-school scares." You didn't qualify it, so it confused, and aggravated me, like some kind of old person that watches horror films just to yell at the screen when they aren't to his liking. But I don't think The Conjuring is particularly "old-school" because its aesthetic is just as much a shortcut-reliant attempt at minimalistic (ie: not gory/torture porn-y) shocks as the "Paranormal" movies. In fact, they share the same producers. But let's keep this discussion focused on why we felt the way we felt and not drag the film's audience into (are the people that disliked this film somehow /not/ the film's audience? Because you have, in the past, implied that I expect too much from these films.). When I said that the creators get in their own way, I mean in terms of establishing the characters, and their dilemma. This is partly a matter of grating expository dialogue, which is used throughout the film, like when one character says that a ghost knocks three times to mock the Holy Trinity: "You know, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost?" Gee, really, you think we thought it was the Hamburglar, Ronald, and Grimace? There's also a matter of the film's repetitive use of jump-scares, and the way Wan draws out certain non-jump-scare-related images to achieve an effect that ultimately just does not work because it's so inexpertly paced. For example, the scene with a ghost in a lace dress darting behind a door. I don't care that chasing a ghost in a house you know is haunted is just a generically stupid idea. I care that the way that scene was shot is not only laughable—it's like being stuck in a haunted house with actors that put you in a headlock and orient your vision by way of shaking you while they pull you around, and then scream in your face—but it's just monotonous. How many times should I expect the filmmaker to use the same tricks over and over again? Loud noises, and things jumping out of corners that the camera slowly, but inexorably pushes into only works so many times. After one or two times, it's a gimmick, and it becomes nerve-shreddingly annoying…


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ROME (AP) -- If opinion polls are right, he's the man headed to win Italy's elections this month.
No, not Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant media mogul chased out of office by Europe's debt crisis and attempting a comeback. Nor Mario Monti, the star economist-turned premier credited by financial circles with saving Italy from ruin.
Grabbing fewer headlines but a greater share of support: Pier Luigi Bersani -- a cigar-chomping, former Communist with a resume thick with unglamorous posts and almost zero name recognition outside Italy.
His high forehead burrowed in a frown, Bersani came across as looking so stern in early campaign posters that aides had to scramble to replace them with one showing him smiling. Still, he handily beat the easy-going, rakishly handsome young mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, in a primary last fall of their Democratic Party to become the center-left candidate for premier.
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"His strongest point is he's the opposite of Berlusconi," said Jonathan Hopkin, a political scientist at the London School of Economics. "Berlusconi is a showman. He (Bersani) is not entertaining."
The ascent of Bersani -- whose camp in late January enjoyed roughly 33 percent support against some 27 percent for the Berlusconi side -- also has much to do with his ability to draw on the former Communist Party's entrenched network of activists, funding and economic connections, such as business cooperatives. The publication of poll results is banned in the last two weeks before elections in Italy.
But Bersani also has risked alienating that base through his pragmatic approach to Italy's crisis.
Bersani has been Monti's most loyal backer in Parliament, which was dissolved because Berlusconi yanked his support for the government. Bersani staunchly endorsed tough-minded reforms needed to win back confidence in Italy, even though they went against the grain of the left. In particular, his support for raising the retirement age and making it easier to fire workers broke longstanding taboos in the progressive camp.
Monti looks set to play kingmaker rather than king, as he and his centrist allies have been notching only about 15 percent support. He has repaid Bersani's loyalty by taunting him throughout the campaign about the left's traditional ties to militant unions.
But in the counterintuitive world of Italian politics, Bersani has long embraced the economic liberalization role in several stints in government.
As industry minister under ex-premier Romano Prodi, Bersani waged an uphill battle to free up such areas of the economy as energy, insurance and banking services.
Even the smallest reform efforts brought resistance. Operators of Italy's gasoline retail network called a strike in 2007 when the government decided to allow supermarkets to sell gasoline. Similar protests frustrated plans to auction off cab licenses and to allow supermarkets to sell nonprescription drugs, like aspirin. Years later, even Monti had no luck trying to persuade the powerful lobby of pharmacists to surrender their hold on nonprescription drugs.
Bersani, as transport minister, branded transport unions "irresponsible" when an airport ground workers strike combined with an air traffic controllers' strike on the same weekend train workers walked off the job.
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It all means that despite some of the harsh election rhetoric, Bersani has a surprising amount in common with Monti -- raising the possibility of a reformist government with Bersani as premier and Monti in a top economic post.
Born in 1951 -- 15 years to the day after Berlusconi -- Bersani grew up in Emilia Romagna, the affluent north-central region at the heart of Italy's so-called "red belt." There, citizens in cities like Bologna voted for decades for Italy's Communists, and later, for the Communists' post-Soviet heirs.
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Rolf von Andrian has been putting the final touches on his Myra Canyon Adventure Park for weeks.
He has been anticipating his official opening this coming Saturday until a chainsaw wielding vandal, or vandals, made sure that opening would not happen.
They cut about halfway through three of the trees in the Adventure Park - not enough to topple them, but enough to render them unsafe.
He says one of his sons noticed the damage Monday. He figures the damage was done within the last week.
"The bad part of it is all three are core trees in our course and a damaged tree means we will have to rebuild the complete course because we will have to take all the wires down, replace the tree with a pole if it is possible in the same place and then reconnect it again," says von Andrian.
"This is the worst thing you want to have happen a week before you open for the season, which is a short one. It hurts, definitely very, very much."
He figures the vandalism has cost him between $60,000 and $100,000 in revenues with another $20,000 or more to repair the damage.
He does hope to finally have his park open sometime in early August.
RCMP have been notified and a police file has been opened.
von Andrian says he doesn't know who would take a chainsaw to his burgeoning business.
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The Historic Marbold Farmstead is a treasured jewel in Menard County, Illinois. This was the central hub of the Marbold family farmland holdings, which consisted of over 4,000 acres. It was virtually self-sufficient, with several barns, dairy, chicken house, smoke house, ice house, boiler house and pump house. The original house, called Elmwood, was build in 1850 by John Marbold, a German immigrant and prominent Greenview farmer and businessman. Restoration efforts are underway. Located at 21722 State Hwy. 29 near Greenview.
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