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COVINGTON, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities say two motorists were injured and six horses killed in a series of crashes after the horses got loose from a western Ohio farm.
WHIO-TV reports (HTTP://BIT.LY/1IFH2MP ) that Miami County authorities say as many as 20 horses were still at large by dawn Friday. Three had been captured and one injured.
Miami County sheriff's deputies say there were at least five separate crashes, the first one at about 3:30 a.m. Two drivers were taken to a hospital and are expected to recover.
Deputies are warning motorists in the area around Covington, north of Dayton, to be alert for roaming horses.
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On Friday, Abilene Cooper got the sweep over the Borger Bulldog and Lady Bulldog soccer teams in the first round of play at the West Texas Invitational in Abilene.
(Boys) Abilene Cooper 3 Borger 1
The Bulldogs and the Cougars squared off in a good contest that was tied 1-1, until Cougars score two late goals to pull away for the win.
Cooper took a 0-1 lead at halftime on a penalty kick. But the Bulldogs were able to tie the game early in the second half off a goal by Paco Ibarra with an assist by Miguel Estrada.
The West Texas Lady Comanches hosted the Sunray Lady Bobcats last night, still looking for their first District win. The Lady Cats had a different idea, and easily took care of the Lady Tribe 49-26. West Texas was in game for the first quarter, but after that, it wasn't pretty. Sunray got out to a 10-0 lead before the Lady Comanches got on the board with 1:40 showing in the opening period.
On Friday evening the Sanford-Fritch Eagles opened District 1-2A play with a loss on the road to the Spearman Lynx.
A slow, scoreless start for the Eagles left them trailing without a score in the first quarter.
The Eagles didn't score until the clock read 7:05 in second quarter.
Senior Chris Bryan, point leader with 13, was the first one to give the Eagles a bucket.
Shots were hard to fall for both Spearman and Sanford-Fritch. Halftime Spearman led 21-6.
The rest of the game was a physical matchup and Sanford-Fritch tried their best to get back in the game.
Now that the college football season is over, die-hard fans will start checking out newspapers and various websites to see the list of new recruits their favorite college teams are planning on bringing in this spring or upcoming fall.
Thanks to movies and television, a lot of people picture college coaches calling players over and over again to tell them how great they are and how it would be in the best interest of the player for them to agree to come to their school.
Borger 45 Bushland 18
120-Uriel Orona, Borger pinned Colton Hetrick, 2.22
132-Brady Mayfield, Bushland pinned Anthony Bates, 1.27
138-Zach Robinson, Borger pinned Zach Allen, 2.05
145-John Hernancez, Bushland pinned Jacob Cosper, 2.41
152-AJ Torres, Borger pinned Zack Baker, 3.29
160-Dylan Huffine, Borger forfeit
170-Isaiah Martinez, Borger forfeit 1.03
182-Alvin Bustillos, Borger forfeit 1.01
195-Kirk Chisholm, Borger pinned John Johnson, 0.36
220-Dustin Tucker, Borger decicion Gus Mast, 1-0
285-Brandon Grant, Bushland forfeit
Pampa 48 Borger 30
(Boys) Booker 57 West Texas High 44
On Tuesday evening, the start of District 1-1A play didn't get off to the start the West Texas High Comanches wanted as the Booker Kiowas pulled away in the second half for the 57-44 win in Booker.
The Comanches were only down two points, 25-23, at halftime and were in striking distance to get the comeback win in the fourth period.
However, the Kiowas became a hot team in the final period and were able to pull away for the 13 point win.
Kiowa freshman Hunter Lile had the hot hand leading all scorers with 20 points.
On Tuesday evening, the Sanford-Fritch Lady Eagles came out slow, but finished victorious in a big win.
Sanford-Fritch continues to make impressive showings.
The Lady Eagles started on a slow note, requiring Coach Hale to call a timeout after River Road 4-0 run.
With 5:27 on the clock, that small talk must have been good. as Lady Eagles never looked back and moved ahead to a halftime score 22-17.
Sanford-Fritch came out from halftime and took total control. Big rebounding by senior Summer Tubbs and sophomore Mikala Setliff helped control both ends of the court.
On Tuesday evening, the Frank Phillips College Plainsmen concluded their non-conference schedule with a 79-76 win over Lamar Community College at the BCAC.
Ronald Scott led the Plainsmen by scoring 14, followed by Taquan McDew and Greg Nelson each having 10 points.
The win improves the Plainsmen record to 8-8 overall and the team will start WJCAC play next Monday, January 16th hosting Odessa College at 7:30 p.m.
PAMPA-There are times in sports when one miscue seems to start an avalanche that can be nearly impossible to overcome for a team.
Unfortunately, that is the scenario the Borger Lady Bulldogs found themselves in their District 1-3A opener loss to the Pampa Lady Harvester, 73-25.
Good three point shooting and 11 first period turnovers by the Lady Bulldogs opened the door for Pampa to use a 12-0 run to build a 7-27 lead after the first eight minutes of play.
The Sanford-Fritch Eagles played Wheeler, Tuesday night and lost a close thriller in OT.
It took the first two quarters to get the Eagles rolling, as too many turnovers and missed shots plagued the Eagles. This kept them on the short end trailing after the first quarter, 9-15.
Fast paced Wheeler were a tough matchup to manage and Wheeler continued in the lead 13-27.
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Why is the risk of a second cancer even lower than we had believed? It may be, in part, because many of the drugs used to treat the first cancer—hormonal therapies and even chemotherapy—can reduce the risk of cancer occurring in the other breast. There also could be other factors that weren't properly accounted for previously. What is clear is that we need to look more closely at the increasingly widespread use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy—especially since the risk of complications from this surgery can be as high as 20 percent.
Why do women choose to have a double mastectomy? The second study, which was presented at the Quality Care Symposium in November by Sarah T. Hawley, an associate professor of general medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, explored this exact question. She found that 90 percent of women with early stage breast cancer underwent the surgery because they were "very worried" about recurrence.
Some of these women may have been very worried because their risk of recurrence was not explained clearly. A woman's prognosis is determined by the original cancer—its molecular type and its likelihood to spread to another organs—and how it is treated. Getting a second cancer in the other breast is unlikely to change this outcome. It's also likely that after their first experience some of these women didn't want to continue to have mammograms and MRI's and preferred to have their healthy breast removed. In addition, plastic surgeons prefer doing a bilateral mastectomy because it makes it easier to do reconstruction, so that could have played into their decision.
I would never argue with any women about her personal choice. However, I do think it is important for us to realize that it is not what occurs in the breast that causes women to die of breast cancer but rather what happens when the cancer cells spread to other parts of the body. And from that perspective, it's the systemic therapy, such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and Herceptin, that has been found to improve survival—much more than having the other breast removed.View Thread
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Is The Other Breast at Risk?By Dr. Susan Love On Monday, December 3, 2012 · 10 Comments Lots of medical meetings are held at this time of year, which means lots of media coverage of new breast cancer research. Whenever you hear about a new study, keep in mind that any results that are presented but not published have not passed the critical peer review process and are considered preliminary.
This will undoubtedly be the case with many of the stories coming out of the 2012 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium , which begins tomorrow. I won't be attending this year, as I am still recovering from my transplant. But I will be using my blog to keep you abreast (pun intended) of what emerges from the meeting and help you separate the important news from the hype.
Right now, I want to address two recent studies that illustrate women's concerns about their other, healthy breast after a cancer diagnosis. One study looked at the risk of getting breast cancer in the other breast; the other explored women's understanding of the benefits of a contralateral mastectomy.
The first study, about breast cancer risk, was presented in September at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium by Courtney Vito, a surgical oncologist at City of Hope in Duarte, Calif. Vito and her research team used a Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database to look at second cancers that occurred in 109,411 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer in one breast between 1998 and 2006. All of the patients had a mastectomy, with 10 percent also choosing to have a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (preventative removal of the healthy breast).
The standard teaching has been that the risk of a second breast cancer is 1 percent per year. But Vito's study found that the risk of a second breast cancer is actually lower: less than 1 percent over 51 months (four years). Specifically, a second cancer was diagnosed in only 867 women, the majority of whom (66.2%) had their cancer detected at an early stage. The women with the highest risk of developing a cancer in the opposite breast were those who were known to have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation .
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Hope that insurance covers most or all. That's whole other issue. But I do know that anything that helps our members look and feel better is a definite plus!
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People with 'mild' forms of autism are more likely to be atheists, according to a controversial new study – and more likely to shun organised religion in general.
The study, which looked at posts on autism forums, focused on people with high-functioning autism such as Asperger's.
The study, from University of Boston, speculates that common autistic spectrum behaviours such as 'a preference for logical beliefs' and a distrust of metaphor and figures of speech, could be responsible.
The study authors, Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Patrick MacNamara studied discussions by 192 different posters on an autism website. They also looked at a survey of 61 people with high-functioning autism, and graphed against results from the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) test. The results appeared to show that those with high AQ scores were 'more likely' to be atheists.
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It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon in autumn. Inside, the early game is broadcasting on the large flat-screen television with a handful of spectators sitting comfortably on the two leather couches, watching and casually talking. The front door is open, allowing the fresh autumn air inside. Friends meander in and out, saying hello, striking up conversations before heading on their way.
It may sound like a normal Sunday afternoon at home for most people, but for Southern Cigar, this is a retail experience. And for everyone involved, it's not simply retail — it's business as usual.
Steve Singletary and Danny Boyd are co-owners of Southern Cigar who purchased the Coweta County store off Highway 34 East from Bill Clowers when he decided to retire from the business in March 2012. Both Singletary and Boyd carry other jobs — Singletary is a former owner of Habersham Casework turned salesman, while Boyd is a full-time firefighter.
Following their acquisition in 2012, Southern Cigar underwent some extensive renovations. Singletary removed the odorous carpeted floor and switched to tile flooring, in addition to building the new humidor and counters by hand.
"It took us about a year to get it how we wanted it," said Boyd. "People would keep on shopping with us but were always asking, 'Are y'all gonna make it?'"
The answer to that question is clear. Walking into Southern Cigar now feels like an upscale, modern-day man cave with only a counter display unit to remind you that it's still a business, while the fresh, distinct smell of Spanish Cedar envelops the customer once setting foot inside the new humidor.
Watching the football game Sunday on the couch was one of Southern Cigar's regulars, Rex Wilson — owner of Southern Limousine Services, who drives 40 minutes from his home to come and visit the store on a weekly basis. He acknowledges that there are plenty of other cigar stores in the Atlanta area to choose from, but he enjoys coming here the most.
"There's a big difference in just one year here. A real big difference," said Wilson. "They've done a good job and these guys understand that, as a small business, taking care of your customers is the key to success. You can't just have product, you have to have personality."
Personality comes standard with a visit to Southern Cigar. Boyd is on a first-name basis with the majority of Southern's customers. Even to the patrons he doesn't know, he doesn't deviate from his outgoing style, engaging strangers as if they are old acquaintances.
"Some shops don't even bother to really talk to you," said Boyd. "You've got to talk to people or else someone else will. Nowadays, people can go online and find their cigars almost anywhere. That sort of thing reminds you why you're doing this to begin with."
Although Boyd acknowledges that while running the store with Singletary is a lot of fun, it's also a lot of work. Stock is taken diligently and new orders are placed on an almost daily basis. "Half of my work is watching the prices on each cigar we order," said Boyd. "They're like gas prices, always fluctuating. You have to be vigilant."
Southern Cigar has its own house cigar, which is also their number one seller. The "Southern Blend" cigar is a hand-selected Dominican that comes in a Maduro wrap and without a ring. "It would be a buck extra for a band," said Boyd. "Didn't seem like a great deal to us. Folks just throw them away anyhow. This allows us to keep the price on the cigar so low."
The hard work just doesn't extend to the regular duties of owning and running a retail business. A strong emphasis is also placed on working just as hard on the human element and always finding new ways to improve the overall experience for the customer.
One unique idea implemented following Boyd and Singleton's acquisition of the store was to hire Google to create a "virtual tour" of the store. The tour includes the brand new humidor, allowing anyone online the ability to tour the store and see the selection of cigars.
"It was a $400 dollar investment but it's for the lifetime of the store," said Boyd. "It's remarkable. It gives potential customers an accurate view of what we have and what changes we've made to the store."
"When we first started out, we had about 10 boxes in the new humidor," said Boyd. "Now look around. We have sealed boxes ready to rip open as soon as they're needed. I don't think we could fit hardly any more stock in here. I mean, it is filled up."
"The best part is, we don't owe a dime," said Boyd proudly. "All we owe is our monthly rent and that's a really great feeling."
The newly-renovated and hand-built humidor is a sight to behold in itself, but Boyd still believed something was missing. "It looked right but it still didn't feel right," said Boyd.
Ultimately, the idea to have some music playing inside the humidor at a comfortable level changed the atmosphere dramatically.
"Before we piped in the music, it just seemed kind of impersonal, like it was missing something," said Boyd. "We put in the music and now it seems to flow with the rest of the store."
The cozy vibe of the store runs both inside and out, with Southern Cigar hosting monthly contests and events such as cook-offs, cornhole tournaments and even having actual Cuban immigrants hand roll cigars for their customers.
Southern Cigar also hosts fundraisers for charities at the store — helping out organizations like Wounded Warrior, in which they raised more than $2,000, and other local families who find themselves in need.
While Southern Cigar is known to give discounts to all military, law enforcement and firefighters, it also goes the extra mile for every customer, regardless of profession — from sending cigars to deployed soldiers in the Middle East to the Newnan Yamaha representatives that reside back in Japan.
If someone can't make it to the store during normal business hours, Boyd and Singletary have been known to accommodate by allowing customers to pick up orders after hours.
"We've been blessed with good business. So whatever you send out, you ultimately get back," said Boyd.
The loyal customer base is a testimony to the emphasis both Boyd and Singletary place on customer service.
"You should see it whenever they have an event here," said Wilson. "You'll have all these folks pitching in, helping set up and doing whatever needs to be done. It's a real family atmosphere."
"People just love to come and simply hang out, buy their favorite brand, maybe sit in the rocking chairs outside. One thing I've noticed over the years is that you never know who you'll talk to in a cigar shop like this. Every walk of life comes through these doors, but everyone is treated the same way — millionaires, young men, military veterans, you name it. We all enjoy each other's company in a relaxed atmosphere."
One only has to look around on this Sunday afternoon to see that Wilson's description is an accurate one. Men and women, cigar smokers and non-cigar smokers, all casually enjoying the day. Boyd is manning the counter, visiting with each and every person who comes in and out of the store — smiling, upbeat and courteous. Customers leave the store with a smile as Boyd wishes them well. Singletary visits with guests as he walks through the busy parking lot with his clipboard, keeping tabs on the ongoing cornhole tournament.
"Small business owners — we're the last of the American dream," said Singletary.


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Researchers created the computer model based on the dynamics of brain cells and the many connections those cells make with their neighbors and with cells in other brain regions. They hope the model will help them understand why certain portions of the brain work together when a person daydreams or is mentally idle. This, in turn, may one day help doctors better diagnose and treat brain injuries.
"We can give our model lesions like those we see in stroke or brain cancer, disabling groups of virtual cells to see how brain function is affected," said senior author Maurizio Corbetta, MD, the Norman J. Stupp Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "We can also test ways to push the patterns of activity back to normal."
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There are many types of baseball pitches. The fastball, the curveball, the slider, the change-up, the forkball, the spitter, the riser, the drop, the sinking fastball, the cutter, etc, etc. Do you need to know all of the pitches? Absolutely not. What you should is how to pitch with a heater first and learn how to locate.
Before you peruse the links below for learning the different pitches, you need to understand a few things. Baseball pitches are the direct result of pitching, not throwing, but pitching. Pitching is an art form. You must learn to master the art of pitching before trying to learn the different pitches.
It all starts with good fundamentals,i,e, balance, fluid motion, good arm angle, etc. Learning how to throw a simple fastball and throw it for strikes. You can't be consistent until you learn the strike zone and until you have a consistent delivery that allows you to hit your spots.
So my recommendation about baseball pitches? Learn how to pitch using the fastball first. Learn how to change speeds on the fastball, and learn how to locate pitches. This is the foundation for everything else.
You can learn to throw the fastball many different ways. A four seam fastball that rises. A two seam fastball that sinks. A cutter that darts away from a right hander or runs into a left hander. A change up that fools a hitter. Learn how to work the corners, inside, outside. Learn how to work the strike zone up and down. Do you see what I mean?
I don't mean to sound so basic and simple about this, but believe me, these basic things are what keeps people in the big leagues. You don't have to know all of the other pitches. Just learn to pitch using a fastball and variations of it. Than add the rest.
Here are some drills and other articles to help you that include video illustrating the various pitches:
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The Federation of American Hospitals is a trade association for investor-owned hospitals in the United States. It is based in Washington D.C. It is currently headed by "Chip" Kahn.
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Summaryoverview of the committee's finances
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Bill No. Title H.R.1424 Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 S.1693 Wired for Health Care Quality Act S.558 Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 H.R.5613 Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008 H.R.6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 H.R.1023 (Unknown) H.R.800 Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 H.R.3162 Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007 S.1041 Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 H.R.562 Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2007
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President Obama says the United States will not intervene in Syria unless there is clear evidence that chemical weapons have been used by the Assad regime. But with already 70,000 people dead in this conflict, are we splitting hairs over the techniques used to kill people? Does it really matter how people are being killed?
As Syria's neighbor to the South, Israelis have their sights trained on the border. Yesterday, President Obama confirmed that chemical weapons are being used in Syria, but even with this evidence, it's unclear whether American intervention would ultimately benefit Israel. Michael Oren, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, discusses the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the prospect of American intervention.
This week a large team of "medical reinforcements" including Navy nurses, corpsmen, and specialists, were deployed to Guantanamo Bay as a response to the ongoing inmate hunger strike. With about 100 inmates refusing food in protest, the use of force-feeding tubes is now widespread, due to a military directive that aims to keep patients alive, regardless of if they want to be fed or not, or live or not. Carlos Warner is a federal public defender who represents 11 Guantanamo detainees.
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History is being made in the nation of Bangladesh this week. In response to the garment factory collapse last week, representatives from major retailers convened in Frankfurt, Germany to discuss what can be done to improve factory safety. Novelist M. T. Anderson recently wrote about the cyclical, unregulated, nature of the industry in an op-ed piece for our partner The New York Times.
The location of an infamous massacre in 1890, and a violent standoff in 1973, has again become the subject of introspection and dispute, as the land of Wounded Knee, South Dakota - which fell into non-Indian hands years ago - goes up for sale. Stew Magnuson has reported extensively on Wounded Knee and the land dispute there. He's the author of "The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder" and "The Battle of Whiteclay."


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I haven't had time to bake much, and I'm not really eating grains so pastries really aren't my thing right now. But I loving giving gifts and creating, so I set up a secret santa cookie exchange with the ladies. I wanted to come up with a paleo treat for myself along with a great cookie that would allow me to create a bunch of flavor combinations with simple ingredients and not a lot of time. I barely have time to sleep these days, so the last thing I wanted to do was slave over a really fussy recipe and create a disaster in my kitchen.
One of my favorite cakes is german chocolate, not because of the cake, but because of the FROSTING. Seriously, I would just eat that stuff plain if it was acceptable and I didn't feel disgusting doing it. Enter these "cookies" which are really no-bake treats that are gluten and dairy free with only maple syrup to sweeten them. I actually had no idea that they would taste like pecan coconut frosting, though it seems silly now to think that. I just happened to have all ingredients on hand, so that's why I made them. They are crazy good, and I have to remember to EAT THEM IN MODERATION.
Well, then I had to figure out what to do for my secret santa. The answer? Shortbread. I've never made this, but it is probably the most versatile cookie dough you can imagine. You can flavor this simple dough with anything and everything. I'm planning to make some frosting for a few of them, and embellishing some with candy canes and other holiday cuteness. The best part is that I also made a savory version. It's like a homemade cracker. Doesn't everyone get sick of all the sweet treats out there during the Holiday Season? It's nice to have a savory option, and unfortunately for my diet (and my recipient), I've been snacking on them all day.
Most any recipe will do. It's a mix of flour, butter and sugar (for sweet dough) OR flour, butter and salt (for savory). I mixed in what I had on hand (coffee, lemon, vanilla, almond, pecans, CHEESE) and they were done in no time. I put them in the fridge overnight and baked them today. I can't wait to try other flavors! And how cute are the "coffee beans"?


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Grijpstra and de Gier have left the police and are in business as private detectives,having acquired a load of loot by somewhat dubious methods. They are forced to investigate the hijacking of a cargo of oil from a supertanker in the Caribbean.
Beyond that I began to be totally lost in the rather clever,clever sort of story. At least the author thought it was clever but I found it rather sad that a perfectly good series with some excellent characters had dropped to this low level. Shame !
Crime fiction from Holland. Apparently the latest in a long series featuring three retired cops using a private investigation agency as a front to launder some illegally obtained money. The story itself is very clever, but I want to mention the writing, which is very hardboiled, clipped and cynical and dark, but because it sounds as if it was writted by a non-native English speaker, the slang sounds vaguely odd at many points. This does not distract from the narative at all, and gives a faint sense of exoticism to the enviroment. I'll be tracking down some of the author's other works.
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Behavior Rounds - Drs. Ted Huey - 6 sessions - In this seminar, held jointly with the Department of Neurology and the Clinical Neuropsychology Service, a patient with an interesting and instructive neuropsychiatric presentation is interviewed, findings are demonstrated, and the patient's imaging and neuropsychological testing results are discussed. The goal of this seminar is to expose Psychiatry and Neurology residents to patients with neuropsychiatric disorders that they may not have much exposure to during residency.
Chemical Dependency - Dr. Frances Levin - 5 sessions - The common features of chemical dependency are described including the development of chemical dependency, its diagnosis and treatment. Specific issues for the treatment of alcohol, cocaine, opiate and other drug abuse and dependence are discussed, as well as the neurological underpinnings of addiction in brain reward mechanisms.
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Clinical Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Workshop - Dr. Patrick McGrath - 6 sessions - This is an interactive course that offers residents skills for critical reading of scientific articles and reviewing the potential application to their own clinical work.
College Mental Health Practice - Dr. Richard Eichler - 1 session - This course focuses on college mental health services with an emphasis on the developmental and contextual issues unique to treating adolescents and young adults in a short term outpatient setting. The course includes coverage of such topics as the complexities of residence life, separation from parents, and the usual late adolescent ambivalence about treatment.
Geriatrics - Dr. Brett Rutherford - 6 sessions - This course covers the pathophysiology, phenomenology, and treatment of late life neuropsychiatric disorders. The course focuses on common issues such as the diagnosis and management of memory disorders and late life depression.
Legal Issues & Ethics in Psychiatry - Drs. Paul Appelbaum, David Strauss and David Lowenthal - 7 sessions - This course deals with the critical legal issues that affect the treatment of psychiatric patients, including the insanity defense, involuntary hospitalization, informed consent, confidentiality, malpractice and the dangerous patient.
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Models for Integrating Systems of Care - Drs. Stephanie LeMelle and Jean-Marie Bradford - 4 sessions - These are second in the series of lectures that reviews care of people with severe mental illness in the community. This series will focus on systems of care and integrated services. Topics will include: co-occurring disorders treatment (both substance related and medical), treatment and mental health issues in the criminal justice system, and patient and family advocacy.
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Sexuality - Dr. Walter Bockting - 8 sessions - This course presents selected topics in human sexuality -- sexuality during the life cycle, the development of gender identity and sexual orientation, sex and the family including incest, pornography and paraphilias, and sexuality in older years and in the presence of physical illness. The course also covers common female and male sexual dysfunctions and up-to-date treatment modalities for these disorders. It takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes guest lecturers with different perspectives on therapy, i.e., behavioral, psychodynamic, and group therapy. Topics include current areas of particular interest, such as rape, AIDS, and bisexuality.
Traumatic Stress - Drs. Paula Panzer, Yuval Neria& Greg Sullivan - 5 sessions -The assessment and treatment of patients who have sustained physical/ sexual abuse, the witnessing of violence, and other traumatic events is discussed. The course covers epidemiology, neurobiology, differential diagnosis, treatment techniques, and clinical case examples.
Women's Mental Health - Dr. Elizabeth Fitelson - 3 sessions - This course provides an introduction to mental health in the context of the female reproductive life cycle, and covers core concepts in the management of antenatal and postpartum depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders, as well as perimenopausal depression, PMDD, and issues related to infertility and pregnancy loss.
Implementation Science and Global Mental Health - Dr. Milton Wainberg - 4 sessions - As a newly emerging field, implementation science is the study of methods to adapt, test and promote the integration of research findings and evidence into healthcare policy and practice. This course will examine the current global mental health implementation research that brings evidence to new contexts and cultures for scale up, adoption and dissemination in low- and middle-income countries.
Models of the Mind and Assessment for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Dr. Deborah Cabaniss - 4 sessions -This course introduces three basic psychodynamic models – ego psychology, object relations theory and self psychology and reviews indications for psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Technique of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Drs. Deborah Cabaniss and Sabrina Cherry - 11 sessions - This course teaches residents an integrated approach to psychodynamic psychotherapy that incorporates both uncovering and supporting techniques. Topics include working with affect, resistance, transference, countertransference, working through and termination.
Case Formulation - Drs. Deborah Cabaniss& Catherine Monk - 9 sessions - This course teaches residents how to formulate a case, with attention to temperament, trauma, development of the self, pre-oedipal and oedipal development, as well as issues related to latency and young adulthood. At the end of the course, residents write a psychodynamic formulation.
Character Diagnosis and Treatment Summary - Dr. Deborah Cabaniss& Ruth Graver - 8 sessions -This course focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of the major character diagnoses. At the end of the course, residents write and present treatment summaries of their long term cases.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - Drs. Mike Devlin & Deborah Glasofer– 6 sessions-This course provides a foundation in theoretical principles and clinical skills of cognitive behavioral therapy. The course is supplemented with individual supervision in CBT.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Drs. Beth Brodsky & Barbara Stanley -6 sessions -This seminar provides clinical therapeutic and management techniques for treating the difficult-to-manage patient and reducing self injurious behavior.
Family Therapy - Dr. Henry Spitz -4 sessions - This course focuses on theoretical aspects of outpatient treatment of families. Indications for family therapy, initial interview techniques and commonly encountered clinical management problems in family work form the specific aspects of this course.
Combined Therapy and Psychopharmacology - Drs. Steven Roose& Brett Rutherford - 4 sessions - This course presents a clinical approach to the various ways of combining psychopharmacology and psychotherapy. Clinical material from the experience of the lecturers and residents are used to illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of different models for treatments that combine medications and therapy. The course also addresses issues related to psychopharmacology management with patients who are being treated in therapy with other mental health providers.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy - Drs. Myra Weissman, John Markowitz and Sidney Hankerson -6 sessions - This course reviews time-limited psychotherapy and focuses on Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), a treatment for major depression and other psychiatric disorders. Classes include didactics on basic principles and technique, as well as review of clinical material. The course is supplemented with group supervision in IPT.
Motivational Interviewing - Dr. Ken Carpenter – 4 sessions - This interactive course covers techniques of motivational interviewing.
Psychopharmacology Prescribing Workshop - Dr. Eileen Kavanagh - 12 sessions - This monthly workshop will provide a very practical opportunity for residents to hone their skills in discussing indications, risks and benefits of particular classes of medications with patients.
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about human trafficking
"You can't take the evil of slavery out of the world and abolish it without making the world more just. You will never prevent people living in bonded labor or from getting caught up in sex trafficking while they are so desperate that they have no other choice but to sell themselves. As long as we in the West crave ever more excess, we conspire in their desperation, exploiting it and make ourselves sick in the process" (Clare Short, member of British Parliament and former Secretary of State for International Development).
Facts about human trafficking
As many as 27 million people are caught in the trap of modern-day slavery (human trafficking)—80 percent of them female and up to 50 percent children (2006 Trafficking in Persons Report).
The majority of trafficking victims are used for sexual exploitation and others for bonded labor, domestic work, military conscription, marriage, illicit adoption, sport, begging or organ harvesting (Combating Child Trafficking, UNICEF 2005).
Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing transnational crimes, generating an estimated $10 billion per year (Combating Child Trafficking, UNICEF 2005).
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 makes trafficking illegal in the United States. It defines "severe forms of trafficking in persons" as:
- "sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age"; or
- "the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery."
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children is the primary international law against trafficking.
How human trafficking happens
A young village girl, probably from a poor family, is lured, tricked or cajoled by a "trafficker" who promises a good job, a marriage or a better life in the city. The "trafficker" could be a woman who has previously been prostituted herself, a young man promising marriage or jobs, or a family member. The young girl is illiterate (or close to it), unsuspecting and has hopes for a better life for herself and/or her family, but she soon finds herself in a horrible nightmare of slavery from which she will likely never be able to escape.
Who is vulnerable to being trafficked and prostituted?
Both personal circumstances and socio-structural forces are at work in the lives of those who are most vulnerable to sex trafficking. Some of the main risk factors are:
- Economic depravation (a high percentage of trafficked persons belong to low-income groups)
- Low literacy
- Physical disability
- Family breakdown
- Divorce or widowhood at an early age
- Low self-esteem
- Lack of awareness (i.e. family member may trick or traffic a trusting girl)
- Lack of government infrastructure
- Poor labor market
Human trafficking in Kolkata
Kolkata's red-light districts are home to approximately 20,000 female commercial sex workers plus their families. It is estimated that these women see an average of three to four clients daily, (so) then between 60,000 to 80,000 men are visiting commercial sex workers every day." (Guilty Without Trial)
Another source cites the number of women in the sex trade in Kolkata as much higher. "Although exact numbers are not known it is estimated that there are more than 60,000 brothel-based women and girls in prostitution in Kolkata" (Jose Vetticattil and Sunitha Krishnan, The Shattered Innocence: A Field Study on Interstate Trafficking for Commercial Sexual Exploitation from Andhra Pradesh; Hyderabad, India: Prajwala Anti-Trafficking Cell, 2002).
"The majority of sex workers who come to Kolkata via trafficking are not kidnapped but lured, coaxed and cajoled with false promises or some offer of help out of a dead-end or crisis situation. Force is used later after the women (girls) have already been sold. Mashis (brothel owners/older sex workers) use friendship, sympathy, also veiled threats to convince the women that it is now in their best interest to conform and begin working." (Guilty Without Trial).
"India is mainly a receiving country, a reception center for women from Bangladesh and Nepal. It also acts as a transit country and, being so large, has its own internal sending, transit and receiving areas. Kolkata is an important receiver. It also functions as a transit place from where Indian, Nepalese and Bangladeshi women who come to the city, either independently or through agents, are taken to red-light areas in other cities such as Bombay, or even to other countries in the Middle East." (Guilty Without Trial).
"It is estimated that roughly 100,000 to 160,000 Nepalese girls and women are working as sex workers in India. Roughly 20 percent of them are estimated to be under age (under 18), with 35 percent abducted under the pretense of marriage or jobs." (Guilty Without Trial).
Some estimates say that as many as 100,000 Nepalese girls are trafficked every year from Nepal to India.
Some girls are sold directly into prostitution, but, in terms of sheer numbers, the most common path to sexual slavery is that walked by girls who are searching for an escape from poverty (Sex Slaves).
By transporting people from their homes, often out of their original countries, traffickers make these vulnerable people even more vulnerable. They remove them from their social support networks and place them in an environment in which the language, customs and work patterns may be unfamiliar. Trafficked people are easy to manipulate and exploit because they are made to be dependent on others. This is why the sex industry likes trafficked girls. A trafficked woman who is prostituted, however, will almost invariably find herself in the very worst of exploitative situations (Sex Slaves).
What can I do?
Be informed. Learn as much as you can about trafficking—how it happens and who is vulnerable—by reading books and news, watching documentaries and doing internet searches.
Be aware of how you may be benefiting from injustice and take action. For example, you can choose to purchase fairly traded products and a support companies who have fair labor practices and policies both in the United States and around the world.
Take a stand against all industries that demoralize women and exploit any human being. In this way you help break the cycle of supply and demand that must exist in order for an industry such as human trafficking to be a lucrative activity.
Raise awareness. Share what you learn with friends and family; sponsor an event to raise awareness in your community, religious organization or school. Share this page on Facebook.
Advocate. Contact your elected officials and encourage them to sponsor and support legislation that deals with trafficking and related crimes.
Support organizations that are on the frontlines of today's abolition movement.
Purchase products made by survivors.


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GOUVERNEUR Self-proclaimed criminals packed VFW Post 6338, 100 W. Main St., Saturday afternoon to take aim against the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act gun control law.
Members of the crowd stood in unison to make clear they are not complying with the un-SAFE Act.
Im a criminal, said Melody Burns, the main speaker at the rally. Stand up with us if the un-SAFE Act makes you a criminal, too.
Ms. Burns, who hosts the conservative radio talk show The Melody Burns Show in Albany, collected $10 from every speaker at the rally for every time he or she said SAFE Act instead of un-SAFE Act, and the money was donated to veterans.
The two-hour rally, which began at noon, commenced with cannon fire to commemorate the anniversary of the Shot Heard Around the World at the Battle of Lexington and Concord during the Revolutionary War.
April 19, 1775, is recorded as the day of that wars first gunfire.
Saturdays rally was organized by the Shooters Committee on Political Education, an organization that opposes the NY SAFE Act, which became state law in 2013.
Stephen J. Aldstadt, president of SCOPE, said a similar event was held in Gouverneur last year. It started out as a demonstration for legal gun owners who are being targeted by the SAFE Act, he said. It was a way for people to get out and make a statement. And now, he said, its also a commemoration of that event when our nation was founded and our patriots stood up and fought for liberty.
At Saturdays gathering, hats came off for the Pledge of Allegiance and heads bowed for a prayer before people made their way inside for the rally. Shirts, hats and signs promoted the National Rifle Association, Northern New York Freedom Fighters and the anti-SAFE Act movement.
Voting was a major theme of the rally. Each person in the standing-room-only crowd was given a paper with a voters pledge on it to register to vote and to vote for candidates who oppose the SAFE Act. Voter registration forms were available.
For too long, people from upstate, gun owners in particular, have been told that their vote doesnt count and that New York City has the power to do whatever they want regardless of what the people of Upstate New York do, Mr. Aldstadt said. And thats not really true.
Mr. Aldstadt said there are more than 6 million gun owners in the state, and SCOPEs mission is to educate them about the SAFE Act and persuade them to vote for political candidates who want to repeal it.
We are not a minority, he said. Sadly, in the past, too few of us have actually registered and got out to vote and thats why were not only asking the candidates who are running for office to make a pledge to support the Second Amendment and to repeal the SAFE Act, but were also asking voters to take responsibility, register to voteand vote for candidates who support the Constitution of the United States.
Assemblyman Kenneth D. Blankenbush, R-Black River, spoke to the crowd about gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino, Westchester County executive, and encouraged people to vote for him.
When he tells you he will repeal the un-SAFE Act, he will do that if we get him into office, Mr. Blankenbush said.
Ms. Burns said that regardless of party affiliations, voting for candidates against the SAFE Act is essential for all gun owners.
The only thing these people understand is November, she said. Party lines dont matter in this fight.
Lewis County Sheriff Michael P. Carpinelli spoke about his disappointment in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and other politicians who established the SAFE Act.
When are all of our damn politicians in Washington going to wake up and realize enough? he said. The governor has made a serious issue, not just in this state, but in the country, to take away our rights to defend ourselves, to defend my little daughter, to defend my wife, to defend your family. Shame on him.
Other speakers called Gov. Cuomo names such as tyrant and czar, and some members of the crowd chanted Cuomos got to go.
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Taylor Armstrong Opens Up to Dr. Phil About Russell's Suicide
As the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills continues to document the crumbling marriage of Taylor Armstrong and her late husband Russell, Taylor is speaking out about her estranged spouse's death.
In an interview with Dr. Phil airing Thursday (check local listings), Taylor, 40, reveals that the presence of reality cameras may have kept her alive during her abusive marriage to Russell.
VIDEO: How Taylor and Russell struggled during their marriage
"I can't say what he was thinking at the time [of his death], but what I can say is that I believe that if it weren't for the cameras, there's a chance i wouldn't be sitting here with you today," Taylor told Dr. Phil.
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According to a coroner's report, Russell, a venture capitalist, was depressed about his relationship and mounting financial issues at the time of his Aug. 15 suicide. Russell's mother, John Ann Hotchkiss, firmly believes that her son's money woes became unbearable once they were exposed on national TV.
"I began to notice things starting to fray when the television thing came into being, and I was very concerned," Hotchkiss said in a statement to HLN's Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell earlier this month. "What bothered me the most was…he would be bashed by some of the other cast members…The program itself really brought him down."
VIDEO: Taylor opens up to Us about her Housewives costars
At one point, Hotchkiss says, her son broke down. "'Mom, they're just going to crucify me this season,'" he told his mother. "And he said, 'I don't know what to do. I'll never survive it.'"


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Kiss and Hell
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
Kiss and Hell is an romance novel written by Dakota Cassidy. It is the first book in the Hell series. The other book in the series is My Way To Hell. In this series, various demonic beings appear that can be described as being sex demons or Succubi or Incubi in nature.
- Title: Kiss and Hell
- Author: Dakota Cassidy
- Published By: Berkley Trade
- Length: 352
- Format: Paperback
- Publishing Date: June 2, 2009
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Plot Summary
Delaney Markham doesn't just see dead people, she hears them too. And FYI-communicating with tortured souls all day can really wreak havoc on your love life. Sans boyfriend, Delaney makes the best of her gift by holding séances to make ends meet-that is until one incredibly annoying ghost just won't go away.
Besides being sinfully hot-in a college professor sort of way-all signs point to Clyde Atwell being much more than the ordinary spirit. In fact, he's a newbie demon whose first assignment is to take Delaney back down to hell with him. Yeah, like that's going to happen on the first date.
Book Review
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- 5 out of 5 stars
- Reviewed On: July 31, 2009
- Reviewed By: Tina
Delaney Markham sees and talks to dead people. She's channeled this gift into crossing over spirits and holding séances to barely eke out a living. One night while trying to reunite a couple with their deceased loved one, a man comes into Delaney's life having the audacity to wear her pink bath robe! Clyde Atwell is clearly not in his element as he proceeds to throw a money wrench into Delaney's séance, demanding she get rid of her clients and listen to him. What will be Delaney's reaction be when Clyde informs her he's her Demonic ticket to hell?
Strap on your demon-kicking boots and get ready for a bumpy hilarious ride in Dakota Cassidy's Kiss and Hell! Delaney is one heck of a heroine, mommy to a pack of motley canines, just trying to balance the voices in her head. When Clyde literally drops into her life, she has serious misgivings about him. Given her best friend, Marcella, is also a Demon, Delaney has a hard time believing Clyde at first. As she works to figure out the mystery which is Clyde Atwell, she's ecstatic to finally find a man who "gets" her. Who else besides her brother, Kellen, and Marcella have readily accepted her unconditionally? Clyde not only understands her but gets under her skin in oh, so delightful ways, showing he's much more than a geek at heart.
If you love quirky characters like me, then Ms. Cassidy's Kiss and Hell needs to be added to your buy list today. Go on a wild, fun-filled ride as Delaney and Clyde team up forces to kick demon-kind to the curb, swapping trivia and red-hot lovin' well into the night!


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In a range of media, arts take spotlight at Thousand Oaks festival
A mixture of arts, from paintings to jewelry, photography, mosaic work and even television, was represented Saturday during the 10th annual Thousand Oaks Arts Festival.
Chris Harrison, host of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" reality TV shows, was an attraction as the honorary chair. Richard Williams, co-chair of the festival, said he'd never seen a line form so long and so quickly for the honorary chair.
Women and kids eagerly got Harrison's autograph and the signature rose during the festival, which was at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and The Lakes shopping center nearby.
Abigail Kimberlin, 3, of Newbury Park, was holding the rose. She was excited to meet Harrison because she watched "The Bachelorette" and "loved Desiree," according to her mom, Corey.
"He gave me the final rose," Abigail said of her meeting with Harrison.
For Harrison, participating was a chance to give back.
"I live in Westlake Village now, and between Westlake and Agoura, I have been here over a decade," Harrison said. "The arts have obviously shaped my life and given me the life I have. The chance to give back to the arts and do it in my own backyard is a no-brainer."
Weina Huang, of Thousand Oaks, said she really appreciated the variety at the festival.
"It has a lot of choice for the adults and the children," she said. "The performances are great. The Thousand Oaks High School had wonderful singing performances. The jewelry I was just looking at was very artistic. The artists seem to be of very high standard, the painters and photographers. I think this is a very joyful event."
Huang had been checking out jewelry made from sea glass, which Dan Hullum collects on beaches.
"It's old bottles that people have dumped into the ocean that the ocean has tumbled for 20-50 years and basically turned into gems," Hullum said.
Dolby Dubrow, of Thousand Oaks, commissioned Carla Corinth of Broken Pieces Mosaics to create a piece to honor three friends she recently lost.
"She is custom-making a heart that will be a stepping stone for my garden" Dubrow said.
Corinth, who has a studio in Simi Valley, makes her mosaic and stained-glass pieces from recyclables. She sells welcome signs, mirrors, flower pots, picture frames, tables, dog photograph reproductions, bottles and other items.
"I am happiest when I am creative," Corinth said. "In the future, I plan to do mosaic classes."
Bradley Leese, of Thousand Oaks, was enjoying his day. His daughter sang with the Thousand Oaks High School choir, and he bought two prints from an oil/acrylic painter from Agoura Hills who signs his name Paz, but whose full name is Paz Winshtein.
"They remind me a little of Salvador Dali," Leese said.
Laura Northrop comes up from Orange County to visit her mother from Thousand Oaks and to go to the festival every year. She bought six ice photographs from Oxnard-based Ira Meyer and two photographs of colorful birds taken by Thousand Oaks-based Paul Abravaya.
"The colors are so stunning," Northrop said. "I have no wall space, but I'm going to find some."
Abravaya said the painted buntings are "a tropical bird, and they come into Texas and Florida. I think it's the most colorful bird that arrives in the U.S."
The festival continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Visitors can meet Harrison from noon to 2 p.m. Winners will be announced at noon.
"I think the quality of art gets better every year," said Elaine Williams, co-chair of the festival. "All the artists and exhibitors are top-notch, which makes it hard for the judges, but that's OK."
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For a long time now, I have had troubles with the use of the word "Darwinism". Not just by creationists and antiscience advocates like IDevotees, but by scientists themselves. You routinely see press releases and book titles that declare the death or some fatal illness of Darwinism, which, in every case, their own theoretical or experimental contributions points up. It is time, I think, to lose the word entirely.
The term has a history that is itself confusing and contradictory. Let's consider some of the things it has been used to denote:
1. Transmutation of species
1.1 Gradually (gradualism)
1.2 Rapidly (punctuated equilibrium theory)
1.3 Partially (i.e., a population)
1.4 All at once (the entire species morphing into a new species)
2. Natural selection
2.1 As a cause of adaptation
2.2 As a cause of speciation
2.3 As a cause of species stability
3. Competition and struggle
3.1 Between members of the same species
3.2 Between different species
3.3 For existence
3.4 By an act of sheer will
4. Common descent (phylogeny)
4.1 Common descent of related species
4.2 Common descent of all life
5. Neo-Darwinism
5.1 Genetic selection
5.2 Individual selection
5.3 Selfish genes
5.4 Hamiltonian inclusive fitness
5.5 Weismannian Barrier
5.6 Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
6. Opposition to religion
6.1 Atheism
6.2 Chance and accident
6.3 Rejection of Creationism
7. Social and moral nihilism
7.1 Social Darwinism
7.2 Utilitarianism
7.3 Individualism
7.4 Amoralism
7.5 Conservatism
7.6 Socialism
7.7 Racism
7.8 Unwarranted egalitarianism
7.9 Progressivism
8. Philosophical Darwinism
8.1 Population thinking
8.2 Universal Darwinism
9. Anything Darwin believed in contrast to the current writer/speaker
9.1 Inheritance of used, and disinheritance of unused, traits
9.2 Speciation by natural selection
9.3 Pangenesis
9.4 Sexual Selection
Basically, when a term has no definition, or has too many definitions, it cannot be a term capable of being defined. But there is another way the term might have some reference – as a name. That is, as the name of a historical sequence of events. And this sense has a lot more going for it, despite Gould's and others' denial. If something has a definition, then it has an essence, but we can see that from actual usage, "Darwinism" has no essence, but instead has a cluster of sometimes contradictory meanings, depending on the speaker and context (for example, "Darwinian" meant historical phylogenies in the context of the transformed cladism debates). But if something is a name, then it can grow, change or even lose meanings and descriptive properties over time.
As a name, "Darwinism" means basically any idea that can be said to have derived by descent, as it were, or transmission as the modern style has it, from Darwin. This enables us to include Huxley (opposed gradualism and selection as the cause of speciation), Wallace (opposed sexual selection), Weismann (opposed inheritance of characters based on parental life history), but at the same time exclude Spencer's social theories (as they were in place largely before Darwin published) and the notion that all is basically random (since that is a view falsely ascribed to Epicurus by the theists, and is in any case not true of Darwin).
But this sense of the term means that the only meaningful way to talk about Darwinism is as a historical sequence or object, and hence it can not be defined exclusively and uniquely. For example, Haeckel's Darwinismus was a mystical philosophy of deism, Goethe, Lamarck and Darwin all rolled into one, and the sense in which a good many critics of "Darwinism" today mean it is Haeckel's anticlericalism against Catholicism. The claim that "Darwinism" is a historical entity is due to David Hull, and I fully agree with him, with some caveats.
Historical entities like any other evolutionary entity retain some aspects of their past. Physics uses the term "mass" today because Newton and others used it in the 17th century. We talk about "selection" because Darwin terms his process "Natural selection" 150 years ago. These are primitive notions embedded in the modern descendants, but they are not definitive sine qua nons. One can be a "Darwinian" in some sense without accepting very much of what Darwin uniquely believed, in virtue of being at the tail end of a long sequence of historical development. As a corollary, anyone who came up with the same idea, in, say, Imperial China, without knowledge of Darwin nor contributing to his ideas, is not Darwinian no matter how exactly his ideas match Darwin's or ours.
Many scientists like to assert that they are "non-Darwinian" or "post-Darwinian" or "trans-Darwinian" in order to establish the novelty of their own views. Sometimes this occurs by asserting the truth of some view that is opposed to Darwin's, notably Lamarck. The neo-Lamarckians of the 1880s through to the 1910s saw themselves as completing Darwin by adding into the mix a novel mechanism he rejected. But in fact the view that adult experience affected inheritance was not Lamarck's alone, and was partially shared by Darwin, and in most other respects they were Darwinians. More recently, the work of people like Eva Jablonka on the existence and evolutionary importance of epigenetic (non-nucleotidal or nuclear) inheritance has been unfortunately termed "The Lamarckian Dimension". Similar claims are made against neo-Darwinian ideas by developmentalists and ecologists, by cytologists and so on.
If we want a simple notion that can be given the term "Darwinian" uniquely and unambiguously, it can only mean the process of selection (natural, sexual, social, individual, group, genetic, epigenetic, whatever): the three conditions proposed by Lewontin and since elaborated for any process of selection, whether it causes stability, direction change, disruptive change or whatever. They are:
1. Phenotypic variation (that is, the traits of the entity vary from individual to individual)
2. Fitness variation for different phenotypes
3. Hereditability of fitness
As Lewontin himself said, "These three principles embody the principle of evolution by natural selection. While they hold, a population will undergo evolutionary change." But this is not quite right, either, because selection can be, and often is, a process that causes no change, so "Darwinian" evolution has to include stasis.
When people say that, as they sometimes do, selection equals evolution, they are equivocating on both terms. R. A. Fisher knew this very well, and so he began his classic book in 1930, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, with the sentence "Evolution is not Natural Selection". And as the subsequent debates between Fisher and Wright indicated, some evolution is not caused by natural selection, and some selection does not cause evolution.
So given these caveats, "Darwinian" can only mean "natural selection", which is historically problematic because Darwin's real originality lay not in that notion, but in the recognition that life diversified in a historical tree, which we call Common Descent" or "Phylogeny". Others had proposed selection-like mechanisms (usually of stability, but a couple had said it caused change), but only Darwin recognised that the Linnaean system of classifying "groups within groups" was more than a convenience or logical structure, but a historical outcome.
So let's retire the term altogether. Replacement terms are easy to come by – phylogeny, selection, drift, mutation, germline inheritance, social biology (sociobiology) and so on. And hence when a critic has trouble with one notion, this will impede the rapid slide to rejection of it all.


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