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TRW was three weeks ago and we had a very exciting program developed for our students. Instead of the science fiction/fantasy theme "Read Beyond Reality @ Your Library" we had students competing in events based on Reality TV shows.
Monday was "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" using an iPhone app I purchased for our program. Unfortunately, I had an emergency that took me away from the library prior to the program, but my mentor teacher, Mrs. M., and Amy, my library intern, took over. We used a document camera and LCD projector to project the iPhone app on a screen. There were two teams of students who took turns choosing and answering questions. The team that answered the most questions by the end of lunch won goodie bags.
Tuesday was the "Amazing Race" where students competed in a race consisting of four party type games. The team that completed all four segments first, won the goodie bags. The challenge was they had to finish one round before they could move onto the next event. They all got stuck at building a two tier house of cards! Again, real life interfered with our program in that I forgot I had a class schedule for 5th period. Our school runs on a 7 period a day schedule with two lunches and an overlapping 5th period class – lunch 1 goes to lunch and then 5th and lunch 2 goes to 5th then lunch – there is a 20 minute time where both 5ths are in session. So, Mrs. M to the rescue again! We moved the event into the Family & Consumer Science classroom.
Wednesday was "Survivor" and students had to complete a "Survivor Challenge" involving a puzzle and clue – they had to put the puzzle together to get to the clue, then solve the riddle. The riddle/clue required the students to use our card catalog to find a specific book on the shelves. The first team to bring me the trophy cutout from inside the book won the challenge. I have to give special kudos to Amy, my intern for coming up with such clever clues – each team had a different clue/book so they couldn't cheat off each other! First lunch went very well and they solved the clue quickly – however, yes, there was a glitch. The book was a career book and just that morning the Freshman Academy teachers took all of the books out of the career section and back to the academy wing for a collaborative unit! Yikes, would this week ever run smoothly?! Then during second lunch, apparently I didn't explain the challenge clearly. After they solved the puzzle, they all thought that was it, I had to re-state the second part of the challenge, solve the clue! Another problem came in that all teams first part of the clue was the same: "The centre of info will help you in your search for victory" – which directed students to use the card catalog "InfoCentre Search." However, the second part was different for each team. A couple of the teams didn't realize this and were trying to solve another teams clue!
Thursday was "Wagener-Salley Idol" karaoke contest. This is an activity we've done before for TRW. The teens really seem to like this one, so it's kinda become a tradition I can't leave out.
We didn't have school on Friday. Overall, I would have to say the week was a roaring success. Each day we had more students sign up at the last minute to participate. I think it wasn't all the due to the programs, but to the goodie bags! Each bag had a mix of candy, chips, school supplies, and a small token (stress ball, party toy, etc.) I've even had students (the winners of course!) ask when we're going to have another event like this one. Again, I have to give a special thanks to Amy for coming up with most of the ideas for the events – I can only take credit for wanting to base the event around the Reality TV theme and the karaoke contest.


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July 9, 2013 (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) – Sullivan Higdon & Sink (SHS) recently announced the promotion of Ali Mahaffy to senior vice president, director of brand management. In her role, she oversees the brand management and public relations functions of the Kansas City office, as well as continues to participate in the agency's overall leadership and new business efforts. The promotion reflects her increased role in setting the cultural and business direction for SHS.
Mahaffy has been with SHS for 12 years. She was selected for the Kansas City Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business Class of 2010. Mahaffy recently served on the board of directors for the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA). Additionally, Mahaffy has served on the board of directors for the Kansas City chapter of the American Advertising Federation."Ali works tirelessly to make SHS a strategic partner for our clients, but also is a constant advocate in making SHS a great place to work," said Rand Mikulecky, managing partner. "She has been instrumental in the success of many new business efforts and her ability to forge strong client relationships is legendary."About Sullivan Higdon & SinkSHS creates borderless brand experiences for clients who refuse to follow the flock. With offices in Kansas City, Wichita and Washington, D.C., the agency's client roster includes American Century Investments, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, Blue Rhino, Borden, CareFusion, Cargill, Dairy Farmers of America, INTRUST Bank, The Kansas City Chiefs, Merial – a Sanofi company, hilmor – a division of Newell-Rubbermaid, North Kansas City Hospital, Pratt & Whitney, Shatto Milk Company and SONIC among others. Learn more about SHS, and view our recent work at wehatesheep.com. Connect with us at facebook.com/wehatesheep or on Twitter @wehatesheep.
Release Date7/9/2013
Primary ContactMelissa RacerSullivan Higdon & email@example.com
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Reality TV Listings: July 1, 2011
July 01, 2011 06:28 AM by Christine McDow
Can you believe it is July? Not much happening in reality land on a Friday night but ABC does have Shark Tank. There are a few things on cable throughout the day too so keep reading and see what you will be watching!
Network Television
8:00 pm: Shark Tank
Cable Television
9:30 – 11:00 am: 16 and Pregnant
4:00 pm: Made
7:00 – 9:00 pm: True Life
12:00 pm: What Not To Wear
8:00 – 9:30 pm: Say Yes To The Dress
11:00 pm: Say Yes To The Dress
8:00 – 9:30 am: Khloe & Lamar
10:00 – 10:30 am: Keeping Up With The Kardashians
2:00 – 3:00 pm: Keeping Up With The Kardashians
11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Mob Wives
1:30 – 5:30 pm: Basketball Wives
7:30 pm: Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
11:30 pm: Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
Want more? Follow our tweets on Twitter and "like" us on Facebook! For other great Reality TV News, please feel free to check out SirLinksALot and then come and discuss the show on our reality TV message boards.
For more breaking news about celebrities and entertainment visit our sister site SheKnows.com!
Photo credit: FOX
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Let's lighten the tone a bit …
Out and about last week in a very small but by no means impoverished village, I came across this church with a rather unusual offset tower. Or at least I thought so, perhaps one or other of you might know of others.
I didn't check for mouse damage amongst the cassocks, or even wander around the gravestones, but would anyone like to hazard a guess as to where it was?
Clues … It's in Beaufort Hunt country, and there has been a church on this site since 1211, although much of the present church was rebuilt in1864. It's not a million miles from Highgrove and is midway between Tetbury and Malmesbury.
It also has a pub called the Cat and Custard.
No prizes, just a diversion and an excuse to post my picture. And for those who enjoy a bit of poetry, John Betjeman does the honours.
Diary Of A Church Mouse
Here among long-discarded cassocks,
Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks,
Here where the vicar never looks
I nibble through old service books.
Lean and alone I spend my days
Behind this Church of England baize.
I share my dark forgotten room
With two oil-lamps and half a broom.
The cleaner never bothers me,
So here I eat my frugal tea.
My bread is sawdust mixed with straw;
My jam is polish for the floor.
Christmas and Easter may be feasts
For congregations and for priests,
And so may Whitsun. All the same,
They do not fill my meagre frame.
For me the only feast at all
Is Autumn's Harvest Festival,
When I can satisfy my want
With ears of corn around the font.
I climb the eagle's brazen head
To burrow through a loaf of bread.
I scramble up the pulpit stair
And gnaw the marrows hanging there.
It is enjoyable to taste
These items ere they go to waste,
But how annoying when one finds
That other mice with pagan minds
Come into church my food to share
Who have no proper business there.
Two field mice who have no desire
To be baptized, invade the choir.
A large and most unfriendly rat
Comes in to see what we are at.
He says he thinks there is no God
And yet he comes… it's rather odd.
This year he stole a sheaf of wheat
(It screened our special preacher's seat),
And prosperous mice from fields away
Come in to hear our organ play,
And under cover of its notes
Ate through the altar's sheaf of oats.
A Low Church mouse, who thinks that I
Am too papistical, and High,
Yet somehow doesn't think it wrong
To munch through Harvest Evensong,
While I, who starve the whole year through,
Must share my food with rodents who
Except at this time of the year
Not once inside the church appear.
Within the human world I know
Such goings-on could not be so,
For human beings only do
What their religion tells them to.
They read the Bible every day
And always, night and morning, pray,
And just like me, the good church mouse,
Worship each week in God's own house,
But all the same it's strange to me
How very full the church can be
With people I don't see at all
Except at Harvest Festival.


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Ectopic eruption of maxillary molar tooth (wisdom tooth)
26 year old male with suffering recurrent headeache. CT scans for face sinus and brain was requested. Normal brain CT. CT images show the third molar (wisdom tooth) tooth projecting into the right maxillary sinus.
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Axial CT shows the third molar tooth in the projecting into the right maxillary sinus.
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Ectopic eruption of teeth into regions other than the oral cavity is rare although there have been reports of teeth in the nasal septum, mandibular condyle, coronoid process and the palate.
Occasionally, a tooth may erupt into the maxillary antrum and present
with local sinonasal symptoms attributed to recurrent or chronic sinusitis.
The diagnosis of this condition can easily be made radiologically with plain sinus X-rays.
- Ramanojam S, Halli R, Hebbale M et-al. Ectopic tooth in maxillary sinus: Case series. Ann Maxillofac Surg. 2013;3 (1): 89-92. Ann Maxillofac Surg (full text) - doi:10.4103/2231-0746.110075 - Free text at pubmed - Pubmed citation


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I think what Lewis is saying is that his move to Mercedes was the right one especially given how bad the McLaren looks so far. I'm not a Lewis fan or any driver's fan for that matter but I think he is right on this occasion.
Now he just needs to work hard with the team to see what they can achieve this year. It would be good to have them fighting at the front with Ferrari, RBR and Lotus - especially if it is unlikely that McLaren will be up there.


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Ireland's Cian Healy will miss the Six Nations matches against Scotland and France after receiving a three-week ban for stamping on England's Dan Cole during last weekend's defeat in Dublin.
After Sunday's 12-6 loss at Lansdowne Road, prop forward Healy was cited and his case was heard by a disciplinary committee in London on Wednesday who suspended him until March 10.
Tempers flared in the 14th minute of England's victory when Healy used his boot on rival front row Cole's ankle at a ruck formed following a collapsed maul, sparking a mass brawl.
Match referee Jerome Garces of France took no action at the time, but Healy was cited by Italian citing commissioner Alberto Recadini.
Healy will now miss the matches away to Scotland (February 24) and at home to France (March 9) but will be available for Ireland's tournament finale against Italy in Rome on March 16.


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I really love using dye on wood, and I forget until I see a project that uses it how much I like it. Given that Tangerine Tango is the color of the year, that I love stripes, and how much I like orange, I think I need to make one of these immediately. The secret ingredient (Mod Podge) is used to seal the bracelet and keep the color bright. So fun, and a great gift. It's easier to make than you think – just visit below to find out how to do it.
Dye up some sweet stripes on a wood bangle at The Rit Blog


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Ever wondered what "Jersey Shore" would have been like without Snooki? Would the show have been so successful? Would Anderson Cooper have ever gotten the opportunity to drink breast milk? Even hypothesizing puts a pouf-sized lump in our throats, especially because the iconic guidette came thisclose to being a blurred-out face at Karma, sipping Long Island Ice Teas in the background as Sitch, Pauly D and the rest of the cool kids lived it up on camera. And…she would have never met her Seaside hookup-turned-fiancée, Jionni!
Long before Nicole Polizzi was cast for MTV's hit series, she considered auditioning for a more established show: "Real World." "I made a 'Real World' tape, and it was kinda lame…I actually watched it two months ago and it was so boring," she says in the sneak peek below of our "RetroMTV" marathon, which will feature full seasons of New York, San Fran and Las Vegas all weekend long. Take a look:
Sure, our darling dumpling would have made a splash in whichever city she was placed, but with likely no other guidettes in the mix, and no boardwalk on which to cartwheel under the influence, dear Snooks may have been unfairly judged by the different walks of life sharing the house. Plus, the idea of a lone meatball being stuck in a place like Denver is truly depressing.
Interesting enough, it was one "Real World" cast member in particular who inspired Snooki to be on TV: Johanna from "Real World: Austin." "She was my idol, and I looked up to her, actually," she says in the clip below. "Johanna is the one that made me wanna be on reality, so she caused all this mess." Check it out:
A little insider gossip: Nicole also shared that after she'd become a bonafide star, she finally got to meet the object of her obsession in person; however, when she tried texting Johanna later on to get together, the eager beaver never heard back. "She must've given me a wrong number," she said with a defeated frown.
This story didn't sit well with us — who wouldn't want to brunch with Snooki??? — and our personal idol happens to be Angela Landsbury, so we reached out to Johanna earlier in the week to get to the bottom of this curious blow-off. As we suspected, the whole thing was a miscommunication, and Johanna passed along this message to clear things up:
Hello, again. Word from our MTV parents is that you had an interview where you revealed I "inspired" you to audition for the "Real World" (totally flattered) and when we met, I blew you off =( So sad you think that, def not my intention.
I wanted to set the record straight — I never got any texts from you or gave you a fake number! That would be silly. Let's hang out soon.
xx Johanna
Mystery solved! We're rather proud of ourselves for cracking the case. How's about you send us a cookie, then tune in for the "RetroMTV" marathon this weekend to hear more from Snooki and other celebs about their favorite "Real World" memories.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Paddy O'Reilly discusses Peripheral Vision
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Labels: Paddy O'Reilly, Peripheral Vision, UQP
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Mistakes Were Made by Liam Pieper, review
Mistakes Were Made is a short collection of essays by Liam Pieper. It is a small paperback, a gorgeously designed Penguin Special, teal and cream, featuring the death card of the tarot on the cover. It is a collection of essays on diverse subjects –the perfect paperback to roll into your pocket.
Liam Pieper, whose first book was a memoir Feel-Good Hit of the Year. This was deeply personal, raw, and mildly scandalous recount of his young life, which included the overdose of his brother and his own, extensive experiences with many aspects of his life with drugs.
Mistakes Were Made and the essays included are life after the Feel-Good Hit, they make both light and dark of some of the ensuing 'adventures' of the author experiencing himself as "…famous, for a week and a half, in the middle of my thirtieth winter," as he describes himself in one of the essays.
He interrogates his own racism in a strangely cohesive yet rambling essay called 'The Unbearable Whiteness of Being.' A self proclaimed "white, lefty Australian, who's fit to burst with his own sense of egalitarianism," he recounts the experience though describing a promotional tour he is on for his book, in the United States. In the concise dissection of racism, this essay takes you, the reader, from the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, to a school camp at Uluru, to the rough, ready racism in Australia and the visible and entrenched one Pieper observes in the States.
In David Niven's 1974 autobiography The Moon's A Balloon there is a scene, where Niven and his army mate, Trubshawe, are drunk and dressed as a goat at a regiment party, where the others are mainly Bo Peep or Mini Mouses. It is WW2. The formal dance is moving in a circle, Trubshawe and Niven wheel off into the centre of the large circle and drop some small olives behind them and move off. Re-reading this scene makes me laugh and laugh. The out loud laughter that can arise from silent reading is a true pleasure to experience – and Pieper made me do it. In the essay and there is a scene in the essay 'Fame! (I'm gonna live forever)' where he describes a ludicrous and true moment in his local bookshop, which he visits on the advice of "another friend, this one a media personality turned bestselling author" who urged him visit bookshops and sign copies of his own book. "They love it, the shiny, popular celebrity assured me."
What follows at his local bookshop, while possibly mortifying for him at the time, makes for an extremely funny – and perfectly retold vignette which made me laugh. I laughed and laughed, then I read it out loud to friends and laughed more.
What follows at his local bookshop, while possibly mortifying for him at the time, makes for an extremely funny – and perfectly retold vignette which made me laugh. I laughed and laughed, then I read it out loud to friends and laughed more.
Do yourselves a favour – essays are a wonderful invitation to consider our world in a different manner, with a different voice. They can bring short, sharp insight into our world, generally less than 5000 words (a bus trip into town) Pieper has a sharp wit, perspicacious mind and he brings clarity to varied subjects.
I interviewed Liam for The Book Show on Edge Radio. You can listen to the interview here.
A version of this review was first published in Warp.
Mistakes Were Made
by Liam Pieper
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
Van Diemen's Land, an Aboriginal History by Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane
The book would make a wonderful text book, covering history as well as the current situation for aboriginal groups in the state, offering some new research on historically contentious opinions such as the consumption of fish, the making of fire and the use of fish traps for example.
While discussion and criticism are crucial for healthy debate, it is unfortunate that, some of the criticisms of the authors' peers are strident and a bit petty,
I interviewed Ian McFarlane when the book was released, for The Book Show on Edge Radio. You can hear the full interview here.
Van Diemen's Land, an Aboriginal Historyby Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane9781742234212 .
UNSW Press
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The Black War, fear, sex and resistance in Tasmania by Nicholas Clements
Each chapter. covering subjects such as The Black Line, the sea-frontier and the north-west frontier, contains separate accounts of the experiences of both black and white.
I interviewed Nick for The Book Show on Edge Radio, when the book was released - and I had a terrible cold, so I sounds a little strange.
Please be aware that the interview, like the book, discusses some subjects such as murder and genocide, subjects which are as troubling to discuss and to listen to, as they should be.
You can hear the full interview here.
The Black War, fear, sex and resistance in Tasmania<
by Nicholas Clements,
978 0 7022 5006 4
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Labels: Nicholas Clements, Tasmanian Aborigines, The Black War, UQP
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Review of A Short History of Richard Kline by Amanda Lohrey
Richard Kline is a seemingly mundane, rational, white man who pursues what one would expect a mundane, white man to enjoy; a career, a wife, a family, material comforts, some vague intellectual challenges. Through the short period of his life that Lohrey reveals to us with subtlety, warmth and an incisive eye for the human condition, we know that what he appears to yearn for will never be enough for the eponymous Richard.
The reader is briefly taken back to the childhood of Rick, as he is referred to. A suburban Sydney childhood, late 20th century, middle class, educated. This highlights how he differs from his siblings, how his parents experience him and of his alienation, which is almost a disdain for the world. It is often through the juxtaposition of characters that Richard is further revealed. This is a technique that Lohrey uses in a lot of her work, it is the minor or supporting characters who bring the main protagonists into sharper relief.
The adult life of Rick, also traverses a terrain of normalcy; study, love, job, ambition, travel yet, it is all suffused with a yearning, an emptiness that he is at first not aware of, and then he does not know how to have an emotional or spiritual vocabulary to describe, let alone shift.
A significant change occurs when he is on a team building exercise in the Blue Mountains, abseiling in a place that 'should' imbue him with fear, that, 'should' allow him to increase his trust in his colleagues and 'should' allow them to return to the office as a tighter, more productive, more profitable unit. Instead, as he hangs off a cliff, on a skinny rope, his life in the hands of those he works in an office with, he is overwhelmed by boredom.
"But no, here I was, a young man, reasonably fit, with a mild hangover and a shocking indifference."
This is a pivotal moment and Richard's life, subtly at first, begins a profound change. He then warily enrols in a corporate meditation practice, very much designed and pitched to improve productivity, concentration and reduce stress, this is done with a great deal of rationalising; his inner scepticism provides the perfect foil to the reader's bewilderment about the spiritual progression he then begins to experience. This is enhanced by Lohrey's decision to have a chaper in his voice, then a chapter from an unknown narrator throughout the book.
The second pivotal point in the novel, is when he follows a colleague into the Chatswood Community Centre and, following a gentle fracas with the person on the door about whether he has to leave his pair of "almost new Italian leather slip-ons in a place where they could easily be stolen," he is confronted with a crowd of devotees of a diminutive, dark skinned woman "draped in the gentle folds of a white cotton sari".
He is overcome by something he does not recognise and with darshan, a beautiful Sanskrit word that denotes a spiritual recognition, a homecoming to an unknown home.
And, Richard, the heretofore rational, achieving, prosaic white male, is metaphorically touched by god in this suburban hall, he weeps and weeps and weeps. He cries for the first time he can remember and he doesn't know why.
One of the central premises of this finely crafted novel is the question of how a man who has had no time for spriritual 'claptrap' his entire life resolves to live with a deeply touching experience - and what happens to the relationships around him as this resolution sets in.
Amanda Lohrey is an author of exquisite sublety and wry humour. Her ability to draw out the quieter nuances of the human condition is evidenced again in A Short History of Richard Kline. Again, she has crafted a male character of great depth, bought into high relief by the characters around him.
Lohrey was awarded the Patrick White prize in , 2012. This prize, a legacy of one of Australia's greatest writers is given to authors who the judges consider to deserve more attention. While Lohrey felt that she was receiving enough attention to her work, it is a deserving accolade and one that should serve to highlight her solid, yet singing and pulsating oeuvre.
A Short History of Richard Kline is a story split in two, of a man almost split in two – but who manages to reconcile this division ultimately for his greater fulfilment.
Variations of this review first appeared in Warp and The Mercury.
Amanda Lohrey will be in conversation with James Boyce about this book at Fullers Bookshop in June.
Amanda Lohrey will be in conversation with James Boyce about this book at Fullers Bookshop in June.
A Short History of Richard Kline
Amanda Lohrey
Black Inc Books 9781863957182
Black Inc Books 9781863957182
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Talking Smack, honest conversations about drugs by Andrew McMillen
I interviewed Andrew about this excellent series of converations he had with prominent Australian musicians for Edge Radio. You can listen to the interview here.
Talking Smack, honest conversations about drugs is a collection of interviews with prominent Australian musicians about drugs and drug taking. Covering a wide range of experiences and a diverse selection of drugs, this is a non-judgemental, informative and entertaining book.
Steve Kilbey of The Church is first up, with his eleven year heroin habit and his lifelong use of hallucinogens and marijuana. He is brash and seemingly invincible. His stories include being arrested in New York and missing a show. Kilbey contrasts sharply with Wally de Backer, better known as Gotye, who has barely touched drugs in his life, he feels little interest or desire – and nor is he judgemental of those who dabble or consume drugs more regularly.
Tina Arena is a bizarre inclusion, her interview features an unrelated rant, with bemused comments from the author throughout. She has little apparent experience with drugs – and some contradictory opinions on them and their use.
While Macmillan the journalist puts himself into the text, he is careful to provide honest and true portraits of drug use. The use of heroin, ectasty, DMT, LSD, marijuana, ice and cocaine is described in many aspects of use of these wildly varying drugs. The call for decriminalisation comes through as a theme from many of these high profile drug users.
Another interesting consideration from many of these musicians is their different responses to different drugs and how they affect the creative process. It seems agreed that a small amount of marijuana is conducive to listening to music, while heroin provides a sensation of invincibility, ice with its heady, empty power surge of a rush makes an interesting cameo as Grinspoon singer Ian Haug recounts his difficult rehab in the public eye.
Haug also says of drugs "(b)ut creatively, when it comes to music, you can enhance things, and hear things differently, when you wath a movie, you see it differently."
Paul Kelly's honest and unromanticised take on heroin, a drug he danced with for a long time, Is lucid and fascinating. Kelly was one of very few of his peers to have avoided a full blown habit.
The book ends with an excellent graphic essay drawn and written by the author's brother, that recounts the history of the war on drugs in the twentieth century in the United States, which has more or less informed Australian drug policy. This is a well researched book that provides a fascinating and balanced report of drug use in the music industry.
(this review was first published in the December issue of Warp.
Talking Smack, honest conversations about drugs
by Andrew McMillen
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Labels: Andrew Mcmillen, Australian music, drugs, heroin, Paul Kelly, Talking Smack, Tina Arena, UQP
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
A Very Special Place
here, and find out more about the book here.
Jessica has a solo exhibition coming up at the fabulous Stable gallery at the back of Cooleys in Moonah in the new year.
Jessica has a solo exhibition coming up at the fabulous Stable gallery at the back of Cooleys in Moonah in the new year.
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Labels: A Very Special Place, Jessica Burdon, Tania Morgan
Sunday, November 16, 2014
A presentation on reading groups
When I worked at Fullers, I hosted five discussion groups on a single book, every month for four years. This is a presentation about reading groups and community a I did at a conference looking at creativity and health a while ago.
Reading Groups
Reading Groups
It is a great pleasure to be involved with a conference that revolves around such a crucial and inspiring issue – that of creativity and health. All of us, by very dint of us being in this room probably know about the magic that art and being creative can make to our lives – and I just love living in a time where this is discussed – and people like Jacquie Maginnis seek to get the message out there further. We may say 'der, of course arts and creativity are good for us' – but because this can't be quantified, bottom lined, explained in a functioning spreadsheet, as a whole, it is not recognised widely in our society – even though we know it in our bones. I just wish that we could all attend every session of today's program.
Reading groups are a gentle way to access the creative in our communities, an easy and fairly conservative way to get people into a creative space that also has the potential to offer a sense of inclusion, worth, participation as well as getting our hearts and minds functioning in a wider, more generous manner. They may not provide the breathy exhileration of singing in a choir, or the gentle satisfaction of finishing a water colour, nor the pumped magic of having a good dance in your living room – but what they can offer is a small key to healing our communities (dare I assume that our communities need healing? – yes, they do, because in so many instances, there is no community in our communities).
I have worked as a professional facilitator of reading groups for four years – hosting between 4-5 groups each month, discussing one book. Groups averaging in size 6-7 people – often 10 or 11 and in two cases, 2 people.
These groups were set up 15 years ago, and had been run for ten years by one erudite woman. The hosts for the year before me were two young men, one of whom has just had a book about philosophy published, the other is just compelting hist Phd about travel writing and the author Robert Dessaix. Me? I just like reading – and I like people, connection, community and debate.
Reading groups provide this space – for connection, community building and discussion –and simply because it is an artificially created situation it therefore has the added bonus of being a safer space for these connections to be established, for sharing and for the airing of diverse opinions.
In so far as a reading group will generally discuss one book, it is also the most wonderful space to practice the sharing of diverse and often conflicting opinions in a mature and generous manner.
Now, I think that the general sense of a reading group is best done as a cliché –
Let's just say – ladies of a certain age, perhaps with a tipple in their hands, perhaps taking time 'of their own' to socialise in a sanctioned space of the intellect – and I imagine that is dominant demographic of reading groups around the Western world.
So, what is a reading group or a book club?
Is it the 200 funky Sydney kids who meet at a cool night spot to dance to the music of a cult classic novel? A Kurt Vonnegut, Bukowski or even the soundtrack to the new movie of On the Road by Kerouac? Is it a group of dear friends who meet every three months to pick over a chapter of Nietsche? Is it a mothers group that meets hurredly over coffee discussing the latest romance? Is it a structured study group? A group of mates tittering over scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey or two women yarning over TV week – or twenty strangers in a room metaphorically ripping a graphic novel to shreds? All of the above and more. We live in an age where the book as we know it is being fundamentally reinvented and our reading habits are changing as well. Of course it presumes a literate society – and we know that taking the time to be with art or story can sometimes be seen as a luxury – but we also know the power of story in our worlds – written or not. I have a friend who argues strongly that Australia has more of an oral culture- and that books are a mere artefact of this.
Broadly speaking – our reading habits are changing – we no longer rely on the book in the traditional style of cover and pages, generally read from cover to cover – we, generally, are reading as much as we 'ever' has but from more disparate sources. The internet affords us this – access to our own libraries, personally curated daily. Articles or short stories sourced from people we from twitter, the latest entertainment news, ABC just in Hobart through to blogs we either check into regularly or stumble across in a seeming random manner. It is all reading – reading wider and not necessarily deeper.
In that context, what is considered the 'traditional' (and still most practised form of a book group) seems staid. This model is, of course, the stereotype I described above.
*What are some other forms of discussions about books that you would like to see/participate in?
I can speak most to this style of reading group – it is these that I have worked with closely – in fact intimately over the last four years. These groups, despite the fact that they existed for a very small demographic, exhibit all of the lovely symptoms that a book discussion can cause to erupt.
But how to establish a group? I'm sure that you all participate in little guerrilla book clubs all through your waking lives – small discussions about text – What is it most that you enjoying discussing here – I like literature, I like powerful, stylish, moving literature. Not necessarily story driven, but it has to be what I consider 'well written': queue: question number one:
What do you mean by well written?
And why would you even consider starting your own book club? Generally, this is because you have desire to discuss books –and accordingly you have probably attracted some friends of the same ilk. Ask them – find a place and a time and a date about a month away, choose the book and read like crazy.
It's a good idea if you've chosen the book to read around it – inevitably the lead in some of the discussion will fall to you – what is it that drew you to this book. Talk about personal connection and resonance but go easy on the personal stories – the group will be carthartic without you seeking a talking cure.
Send around some links to articles or reviews that you find relevant to the book. Some people will read them, some not, and often on the grounds that to read around spoils the text. Sometimes I agree.
At the meeting I often think wine would be lovely –the groups at Fullers have always been dry.
Some feedback I've received, is that the time for personal catch up at the beginning of the group is really important – a number of the Saturday group now meet up an hour or so earlier and have lunch before the discussion starts. "It's always nice to have a bit of a social side for a few minutes to get to know the people as well as the facilitator as more than simply attendees at a book group, It is good tohavea bit of social time and then get the book"
Some feedback I've received, is that the time for personal catch up at the beginning of the group is really important – a number of the Saturday group now meet up an hour or so earlier and have lunch before the discussion starts. "It's always nice to have a bit of a social side for a few minutes to get to know the people as well as the facilitator as more than simply attendees at a book group, It is good tohavea bit of social time and then get the book"
There are also wise suggestions for a changing facilitator, which often happens with groups of friends – who ever is hosting, often has chosen the book, most often the person looked to if the conversation is flagging.
In terms of maintaining the group – there are one million trillion book discussion groups in the world – that is an official figure – and each of these groups ebbs and flows, has nuances of course. It will of course generate similar amounts of energy to that which is put in.
Rachel Cusk, author of a number of novels and memoir wrote a depressing article that was published in the Guardian some months ago – headlined "Novelist Rachel Cusk joined a book group to discuss beauty and truth. Instead she found herself defending Chekhov, and perplexed as to why the English resist stories of everyday life" of course tells of a very small coterie of book club attendees – of course there are places for dense literary discussions (to which I am quite partial) but generally the discussion of books ranging from Grapes of Wrath, The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels, Don Quixote – yes, it is true – I picked the 914 page translation as the Summer read – no discussion in December or January – a good two plus months,
Cusk arrived in a small town in England and joined the local, long established book group. It was her turn to choose and she chose Chekhov, a Russian master of short stories – seriously! Do yourselves a favour, a quick yet slow dip into beautifully sculpted stories, moments of the characters' lives.
"The ladies filed in despondently, holding their grim copies of Chekhov as people hold unsavoury things when they can't find anywhere to dispose of them. There were nuts and crisps and chilly little glasses of red wine, which people sampled erratically, undecidedly, as though, now the solace of reading had been contaminated, their generalised need for consolation had itself become strange and unfamiliar. So, someone said. So. There was a great sighing, a great wearied exhalation. " and I had to read that in all its cutting intensity. I know that feeling actually – I met with it severely a couple of times – the choices? Everything from Lolita through to Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris – the story I chose as it had a translator as a protagonist and i was reading a lot about translation. It also had a sado masochistic relationship between a teenager and a geriatric.
But let's forget all of that and consider some other and varied styles of reading groups/book discussion groups that can exist – and then look, in a bit more detail at why this space can be creative, freeing, beautiful and, in a broader, community sense, therapeutic.
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Vancouver Public Schools will host a technology site visit of the National School Boards Association May 1-3. The school district is one of four nationwide recognized for outstanding technology initiatives.
The technology site visits will give education professionals the opportunity to see firsthand the best ways to use technology in schools. The other districts are in Miami, Fla.; Arlington Heights, Ill., and Emmaus, Pa. Vancouver is the only district in the U.S. chosen three times.
The district offers nearly two dozen programs of choice including Vancouver iTech Preparatory, its new early college, STEM magnet school that provides a technology-rich environment for middle and high school students.


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LCW International Programs
International Headquarters (Barnesville, Georgia)
LCP Health/Housing Program
The LCP Health Program strategically plans and implements essential programs in order to meet their objective, mission, and vision. The ministry objective is to promote optimal physical health of all LCP members including children, youth, and parents. Regular physical assessment for children and youth receiving sponsorship/scholarship is one among many of the health preventive services offered by the clinic. The assessments are scheduled by the LCP paramedics according to the child's birth date. The LCP friendly care clinic staffs, after consultation with clients are given free medications (when available from USA shipments) through the aide of our LCP nurse. Dental services are also provided on limited basis. Training and workshops are provided to staff and paramedics on health preventives services. Loans are made to LCP members needing immediate medical assistances with a plan for repayment. Malnourished children are provided food and multivitamin supplements. They are re-evaluated every three months. Two soup kitchens in the most depressed communities provide daily lunches to 112 malnourished children along with multivitamins shipped from the USA.
The Handclasp Program helps children with different kinds of developmental disabilities, either inborn or acquired. This is accomplished through partnership with the Liliane Foundation, Rotary Clubs, Shriners, and other non government agencies (NGO's) and LCW donors. LCP strives to help these children have equal opportunities – a gateway toward sustainability. When needed and finances are available operations are performed by specialist either in Manila or Cebu.
Housing started with response to a proposal sent to Habitat for Humanity in 2003, 100 homes were built in Dumaguete Balugo Community, for the poorest of the poor. Now, over 800 homes have been built. In partnership with Consuelo Foundation, 32 homes were built on the Bloomington Farm in 1997. Through the Good Samaritan Project Volunteers often do house repairs. LCW also has three residential dorms for children who are homeless or at risk.
LCP Education Program
In a country without compulsory education, LCW believes that all children should have access to education. LCW matches sponsors from around the world with children from poverty stricken families. Children growing up in a poverty sub-culture know that education can give them an opportunity to become a teacher, nurse, accountant, or any other selected career.
The School on Wheels provides an education to children not enrolled in public school. These children first through sixth grade come from off the streets, often dirty and hungry. They are taught the principles of reading, writing, and arithmetic. A focus has been on providing a well equipped library so children can borrow books for enjoyment and enhance their reading skills. Textbooks are sent regularly for the high school and college students. This resource is needed to prevent failure among LCP students. This has only been possible because of caring sponsors and donors.
LCP Livelihood Program
From the beginning of LCW it became important to focus on helping the people by teaching them skills that would enable them to lift their standard of living and often just a means to survive. A farm was donated to LCW for livelihood projects such as pig raising, meat processing, growing agricultural and fruit products. LCP members also have been taught sewing classes and now they make uniforms and book bags for their students, card making for sales, purse making as well as many trade skills such as carpentry, masonry, etc as needed in their community.
LCP Peace and Faith Program
The Peace and Faith Program provides opportunities, activities, and a loving atmosphere to participating children, youth and parents to learn Christian values, the core of LCW/LCP Mission and Vision.
The Peace and Faith program seeks to instill Christian values and commitment through Sunday School classes for all ages, worship services and Weekly Bible classes in fourteen communities, Saturday Youth Bible Study for high school and college students, Youth Choir, Youth Fellowship every first Saturday, and Evangelism in the afternoon of first Sunday of the month. Devotions are held in all 3 dormitories and staff devotions Monday-Friday.
A Sunday School of this magnitude requires a large budget to cover Sunday school materials, salaries for a small staff, transportation for non-sponsored children, Vacation Bible School, Teen Missions, Youth activities, training for 75 teachers and many other needs. Funds are always needed to maintain this program.
The LCW office in Barnesville ships needed items to LCP at least three times a year. Selected items are reserved for Birthday and Christmas gifts. A total of approximately 5,000 gifts are needed for Christmas so each person will receive a small gift. All items shipped are donated as well as the shipping cost.
LCP Sponsorship
The goal of this program is to meet the basic needs of poverty stricken children. The LCP community leaders and LCP staff identify children recommended for sponsorship who meet the criteria. There is always a long waiting list of children praying for a sponsor. Sponsors have the choice of doing a full sponsorship ($35 a month) and a half sponsorship ($17.50 a month). There are still over 300 children waiting for a sponsor to love them and care for them.


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Chiefs trade Baldwin to 49ers in WR swap
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers are hoping a change of scenery will give two disappointing first-round picks an opportunity to realize their potential.
The Chiefs traded wide receiver Jon Baldwin to the 49ers on Monday for fellow wideout A.J. Jenkins. It's the second significant trade between the teams this year after the Chiefs sent two draft picks to San Francisco in the offseason to acquire quarterback Alex Smith.
"We are pleased to add Jonathan to our team and look forward to incorporating him into our offense," 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. "Both players have been presented a great opportunity for a new beginning with their respective teams."
Baldwin was the 26th overall choice of the Chiefs in 2011, but he's had a tumultuous career right from the start. Baldwin broke his thumb his rookie season when he got into a fight with a teammate, and then struggled to adapt to three head coaches in his first three seasons.
He's also had trouble with dropped passes throughout training camp under new coach Andy Reid, including one when he was wide open in last Friday night's preseason loss to San Francisco.
That drop alone apparently was not enough to dissuade the 49ers from making the deal.
"There's no reason that both of these guys can't end up having a great career," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. "Both of these young men have that opportunity, and they definitely have the ability and license to get it done."
Jenkins was the 30th overall pick of the 49ers last year, but may have had a more perplexing rookie season than Baldwin. He appeared in three games but did not make a catch, even though he was healthy throughout his team's NFC championship season.
"We felt like this trade was beneficial for all parties involved," said Chiefs general manager John Dorsey, who was hired in January to replace the fired Scott Pioli - the GM who drafted Baldwin.
Dorsey and Reid clearly weren't enamored of the big wide receiver after breaking down video of him upon their arrival. One of their major acquisitions in free agency was Donnie Avery, a veteran wide receiver who was expected to compete with Baldwin for the job opposite Dwayne Bowe.
Baldwin didn't do much to change the Chiefs' opinion of him this offseason, either.
Even though they're desperate to give Smith some downfield options, Baldwin never seized upon the opportunity. He routinely dropped balls in practice, struggled to get open in preseason games and never showed signs of being the kind of playmaker the Chiefs need on the outside.
"You don't know what you will get out of him," Chiefs offensive coordinator Doug Pederson said before Sunday's practice. "If he's down from drops or mental errors or whatever it is, you just work yourself out of it. You continue to press on. We always talk about short-term memory. You have to have it in this business and move on."
Otherwise, your team eventually will move on, as Kansas City did Monday.
The 49ers are hopeful that Baldwin can flourish without having to deal with the pressure that came with being a primary target in Kansas City. Even though Michael Crabtree is out with a torn Achilles tendon, San Francisco still has veteran Anquan Boldin, Kyle Williams, Mario Manningham when healthy, and tight end Vernon Davis to carry most of the load in its passing game.
Still, all that help wasn't enough to help Jenkins break out. The speedy wide receiver had another rough preseason showing against the Chiefs last Friday night, and many were beginning to question whether the former Illinois star would even make the team.


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Experts offer 8 tips for evaluating a contractor before you start a home-improvement project.
With the economy on shaky ground, it's more important than ever for homeowners to carefully screen the contractors they hire for home-improvement projects.
Consumer protection experts say that when work slows down, some contractors may bid on jobs outside their area of expertise; let their licenses and insurance lapse; or fall behind on payments to their suppliers. Contractors operating on narrow profit margins might find themselves in danger of shutting down.
To protect yourself, ask about the company's financial stability, said Shari Purves-Reiter, outreach manager for the Washington State Department of Labor and Industry. The last thing a homeowner wants is to hire a contractor on the brink of bankruptcy.
Just ask Steve Ludlum. The contractor he hired to build a pool at his Tucson, Ariz., home went bankrupt midway through the job.
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"He talked a good game," Ludlum recalled. "We had a lot of personal references. We thought we did our homework."
When the company went under in October 2007, Ludlum was left with an unfinished pool and a yard full of trenches. Fortunately for him, he and the contractor had agreed on a payment schedule in which Ludlum paid after tasks were completed, so he had money available to finish the job. Still, the pool cost more than his original budget of about $45,000 and he did much of the work himself.
While it's impossible to gauge a company's financial situation with certainty, there are red flags, the experts said.
"Do some fact-checking on the front end," said Angie Hicks, founder of Indianapolis-based Angie's List, which offers online consumer reviews of contractors and other services.
And once you've selected a company to do the work, request a written contract with lots of specifics, added Kip Morse, a regional governor for Better Business Bureaus. If the scope of the project changes, be sure to add new information to the contract, said Morse, who also is president of Central Ohio Better Business Bureau.
Morse, Hicks and Purves-Reiter offered these suggestions for choosing and hiring contractors:
• Ask for a list of their suppliers. Call those companies and check whether the contractor has been paying bills. Contractors who are behind on their accounts or no longer have a line of credit with the company might be in financial trouble.
• Consult with any subcontractors who will be working on the project. Ask them whether the contractor pays them promptly. Unpaid subcontractors are another sign of money problems.
• Check the company's rating. The Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org) or a consumer rating service such as Angie's List (www.angieslist.com). may offer the opportunity to run a credit report on the company or may use other financial considerations when evaluating the company. They also may review court filings, including any lawsuits or liens against the company.
• Interview previous clients. Ask whether the company performed work on time and to their satisfaction. Find out whether supplies were being delivered as promised, or subcontractors were changed. Ask whether the contractor tried to add charges to the final bill.
• Verify whether the company is licensed and insured. Call the contractor's insurance company and check whether coverage is up to date. Check with whatever local agency regulates contractors and see whether the company has a valid license, and that it is for the type of work they've offered to do. For example, a general contractor may not be licensed to do plumbing or electrical work.
Check with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (www.lni.wa.gov/TradesLicensing/Contractors) to make sure a contractor is registered with a bond and insured.
• Get it in writing. Once you've selected a contractor, draft a document that details the job and its price. Insist that the contractor include a start and end date.
• Make sure you understand the entire contract. Do not sign it if you don't, as contracts can be written to favor one party over another.
• Set a payment schedule. Negotiate a down payment; down payments are typically 10 percent to 15 percent of the total job. Tie future payments to completed work, not time on the job. Withhold at least 10 percent of the total until you are satisfied with the job.
• Pay suppliers directly for materials. This prevents contractors from using your money to pay for other jobs. If you're unable to do that, ask for detailed receipts and verify them with the companies before reimbursing the contractor.
Seattle Times staff contributed to this report


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Why? It's part ego ("look everybody, look what a grand building I'm capable of creating!"), part autodidactism (learning new things feels as good to me as sex), and part perfectionism (I'm happy to spend 90 minutes formatting and copyediting a document, when 10 minutes is all that's called for).
Regardless of motivation, the fact is: MY EMPLOYER ONLY WANTS TO PAY FOR A THREE-STORY BUILDING. When I build a 20-story building, and I do it on the clock, I'm forcing my employer to foot the bill for something they never asked for.
Nonetheless, I constantly go off on little side excursions, working hard on things that are related to my current task, but are nonetheless not at all required to complete my current task.
I must stop conflating tangential-work with real work in my mind. Confusing the two is procrastinating, there's no two ways about it.
Once in a while, it may be judicious to automate a particular task. However, when I am in the throes of this compulsion, it is difficult/impossible for me to make the right decision most of the time. In this case, it is much safer to assume that NO task should be automated.
After I've proven, over several weeks or more, that I'm capable of controlling this compulsion, then I can probably reevaluate. In this middle of the compulsion though, I have to have strict rules.
The catch-phrase for this is "technological asceticism" — while it might be more comfortable to do your task if you had a bunch of automated tools, those tools are by no means necessary. You're perfectly capable of doing it the "old fashioned" way, even if that means some repetitive manual work.


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May 28, 2016
Funeral services for Nelda Jean Nix, 75, of Pennington will be held Tuesday, August 20, 2013 at 11 A.M. at the Butler First Assembly of God with Rev. Scottie Fulcher officiating. Burial will follow in the Barrytown Cemetery. Visitation will be at the church one hour prior to the service.
Mrs. Nix passed away Saturday, August 17, 2013 at her residence in Pennington. She was a retired seamstress from Vanity Fair and a retired cashier from Piggly Wiggly.
Survivors include children Allen Nix (Elizabeth) of Big Creek, MS; Wanda Gail Tyson of Lavaca, AL; Galinda Joy Harry (Gene) of Pennington; Jan Combs (Frankie) of Lavaca, AL; Tammy Gibson (Scott) of Mt. Sterling, AL; Jonathan Nix (Cassondra) of Butler, AL; sister Virginia Singley (Haskell) of Mt. Sterling, AL; brother Wilburn "Shine" Cooper (Pat) of Arkansas; sister-in-laws Louise Cooper of Vera Beach, FL and Jessie Cooper of Mt. Sterling, AL; 11 Grandchildren and 14 Great Grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents Jack and Addie Cooper; husband John William Nix; brothers Charlie Cooper, J.C. Cooper, and James Cooper; sisters Clara Crews and Hazel Rogers; great granddaughter Pacey Renea Tyson.
Pallbearers are Scott Tyson, Jimmy Tyson, Daniel Tyson, Adam Harry, Brent Harry, Timmy Glosson, Micheal Gibson, and John Nix. Miniature pallbearers are Cole Nix and Adain Tyson. Honorary pallbearer is G.W. Ward.
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Bumpers Funeral Home of Butler will be in charge of arrangements.
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Sipping for Student Scholarships
Nothing's better than a warm summer day, an ocean breeze, a view overlooking the Pacific and 75 of the best wines from California and Baja — unless you count spending it with 700 alumni and friends to raise $55,000 for scholarships.
Established in 2009 by the Alumni Association Board, USD's fifth annual Wine Classic was held on Sunday, July 14, at the Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice's scenic Garden of the Sea. The event showcased 30 wineries owned or operated by USD alumni, parents or friends. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $220,000 for the USD Alumni Endowed Scholarship Fund.
The first cork popped the night before at the inaugural Vintners Dinner. The intimate evening featured a delectable, one-of-a-kind, four-course meal with wine pairings. While sipping and savoring, guests heard from vintners about their winery's philosophy and the art of wine making.
The following day, the Garden of the Sea was filled with the sound of live music. Guests enjoyed gourmet food stations and bid on wine-related silent auction items to raise money for future scholarship recipients who have financial need, strong academic merit and give back to USD and the local community. Save the date for next year's event on July 13, 2014.


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Côte d'Ivoire: Violence and human rights abuse continues
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ABIDJAN, 30 June 2008 (IRIN) - Ex-rebels in northern Cote d'Ivoire have launched three violent riots in the north of the country in the last month, and human rights experts say the incidence of violent crime is also high.
The most recent riots by ex-rebels were in the towns Vavoua and Seguela in the north west on 28 and 29 June. UN Mission in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) spokesperson Hamadoun Toure said on 30 June that calm had been restored through mediation.
The riots, the third in less than a month in northern Cote d'Ivoire, were by ex-rebels supposed to be participating in a disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme, who claim they have not received all the money promised to them.
Earlier in June, emergency payments had to be sent to Bouake, the former rebel stronghold in the north, after ex-rebels broke out of a cantonment area and clashed with civilians.
On 27 June, before the latest clashes started, the UN's head of human rights in Cote d'Ivoire, Simon Munzu, had warned in a press conference that the DDR process must be completed urgently. "Civilians are being beaten, women and small children raped," he said. "These armed bandits are even attacking funeral processions."
Munzu said the worst human rights abuses are being committed in the north east of the country where human rights abuses are happening with impunity. "We have received recent reports of rape, female genital mutilation, and early and forced marriages," he said.


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What's the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:
To quote a Jay-Z lyric: Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning isn't a businessman — he's a business! Man!
Yes, the guy you've seen in those commercials for MasterCard, Sprint, Gatorade, Reebok and even DirecTV has now added pizza to his portfolio. On Friday, Manning — we hear he can also throw the football a little, too — announced that he signed a deal to own 21 Denver-area Papa John's Pizza stores.
It's moves like this that helps explain why Manning is one of the highest-paid athletes in sports. According to the Sports Illustrated list released last summer, Manning ranked as the top NFL player, raking in $31 million this year ($13 million in endorsements alone).
When NBA commissioner David Stern steps down from his post on Feb. 1, 2014, he will leave behind a legacy of turning professional basketball into one of the most popular games across the world. Stern will also leave a trail of conspiracy theorists.
Real or perceived, some still believe that Stern rigged certain draft lotteries as well as specific playoff series in favor of big-market teams. Case in point: Blazer fans who point at the free throw discrepancy in Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference Finals. The Lakers shot 37 free throws. The Blazers took only 16. Los Angeles won the game and went on to the first of a three peat of championships.
NHL Death Watch 2012.
Now that the lockout has forced the cancellation games through November, we send our condolences to those heartbroken hockey fans for the loss of their season. Cheer up. There's always "D2: The Mighty Ducks" at your local video store.
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With threats of Jihad against the Winter Olympics and a logistical nightmare having been on his plate for years, Russian president Vladimir Putin has only added to his problems: he has thoroughly upset the journalists.
The Olympics are underway at last. However, that does not mean it has gone off without a hitch. As if foreshadowing the troubles to come, there was a glitch in the opening ceremony, resulting in only four of the five Olympic Rings lighting up.
Many of Sochi's problems became apparent when journalists arrived at their hotels on January 19th. It was not a matter of finding the rooms left unclean from previous occupants-some of the rooms were not even fully built yet! Others suffered from lack of amenities. One reporter found his furniture unassembled and still wrapped in plastic. A second, ironically, tried to call front desk about poor conditions in his room, only to find the phone did not work. Sounds like nitpicking, but how would you like it if you found that your room's tap water was the color of stale urine?Stacy St. Clair, another reporter, said on her Twitter feed, "My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, 'do not use on your face, because it contains something very dangerous.'"
There are more pressing concerns than beer water, broken down elevators, phones that don't work, and finding stray dogs in your allegedly five-star hotel room, but it goes to show how unprepared Russia really is in undertaking such a monumental event. Is it whining? Perhaps, though one would think that an Olympics with a staggering price tag of $50 billion would try its best to keep the press happy.
"It's a lesson well learned", says Howard Kurtz of Fox News, "if journalists aren't well fed and well housed, if you lose their luggage or don't give them places to file, they get cranky - and that affects the coverage."
The media's complaints aside, the Olympic organizers worst fears nearly became manifest mere hours before the Games began. There was a hijack attempt onboard a Pegasus Airlines flight from Kharkov, Ukraine to Istanbul, Turkey. A man attempted to divert the flight to Sochi, claiming he possessed a bomb. Being unsuccessful in reaching the cockpit, the crew managed to land in Istanbul, where security forces raided the plane. Authorities determined there was, in fact, no bomb present, and the detonator in his hand was a fake. The man was apparently "severely intoxicated," according to the Telegraph. While it is not known he had any connections to known terrorist cells, this incident is a grim reminder of the real concern at Sochi.
While bloated security forces occupy the city and protests over Russia's new discriminatory law against homosexuals ignite, Putin is scrambling to save face. Bad press over shoddily prepared hotels is just another headache.


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Can you clarify exactly what your concern is, and why the doctor prescribed it for you?
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the side effects i don't have schizo or bi polar or pychosis
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attack a month ago which resulted in depersonalization and derealization and he thinks i have hypo-mania. will hypo-mania go away with taking antidepressants and zanex. i have heard so much bad about geodon.
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Thanks for the clarification. No, hypomania will not go away with antidepressants and xanax. The antidepressants work for
and the xanax for acute anxiety. I must say I am puzzled by the choice of geodon. There are side effects, but you can immediately stop the medication if you believe you are developing side effects.
You might try asking the doc if you can just take the antidepressant with the xanax as needed to see if your symptoms resolve. If not, then you know you need a mood stabilizer, also, which is what geodon does. If the geodon worries you please ask for another medication. You can take Abilify, Trileptol, or Lamictal, all of which are generally tolerated very well.
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should the depersonaliozation and derealization go away with antiddepressants. i really thought i was going crazy and im not sure that im not. will the hypomania be ok untreated. i do not feel like spending money or leaving the house. i lay on my couch all day.
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Yes, the depersonalization and derealization are symptoms of anxiety, and as such are generally treated with antidepressants. You are not going crazy. That is just a symptom of a severe panic attack.
I can't say if the hypomania will be OK untreated. It depends on how debilitating it is. If you are laying on your coach all day, you are most likely depressed and that needs to be treated also.
I know you don't want to spend money, but you really should get another opinion about what is going on with you, and give the doctor a chance to put you on a medication that doesn't scare you.
Please either see your doctor or another one for a second opinion. You should not ignore these symptoms.
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i know he said it sent me into depersonalization derealization and hypo mania but i don't feel manic i was just afraid i went crazy i am now on lexapro and xanax
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OK, just stick with that for a while and see if you feel better. If you have another episode of hypomania, then see the doctor and ask for a mood stabilizer.
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i have sort of lost the idea of going crazy i dont know if thats good or bad but i still have some symptoms like depersonalization that comes and goes and when i'm outside it kind of freaks me out but i don't understand the whole mania thing i don't have any of the symptoms i do not want to take risk i do not feel like spending money and i can sleep as long as i take my xanax
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Again, without spending time with you and doing an evaluation myself, I can only suggest that you take a "wait and see" attitude. If the depersonalization continues you may need to ask for a higher dose of Lexapro, which should help with the anxiety.
If your symptoms get worse, you will need to try a mood stabilizer. All we can do right now is wait to see if things get better, worse, or stay the same. There is no way to tell which will happen at this point.
I wish you well and I hope this has been helpful.
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it scares me to take the geodon because of the side effects but at the same time i am afraid if i do not take it i will go crazy is that possible'
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