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An Impossible DisorderWhere to start?
I'm a 27 year old guy from New England, living in Hollywood. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a young teenager and then proceeded to meet with various therapists, at least until I got tired of seeing them. I was on Lexapro, Depakote, and Topamax and possibly some other meds whose names escape me at the moment, but would take them off and on to the point where I never felt any change from being on them or off. I graduated college in my home of Connecticut in 2008 and moved out to Los Angeles the next year to live on my own and try being a professional actor. I stopped taking any pills the summer of 2010 and have lived free of them ever since. During this time, I came to the realization that I wasn't bipolar, but most likely borderline. My mood shifts on a hourly basis most of the time with some shifts coming as frequently as minute to minute. These rapid cycles are far faster than what rapid cycling bipolar is suppose to be. Hell, I'd love to bipolar now, at least to experience weeks/months of manic-ness before having to be depressed again. Instead I'll rapid constantly day to day, hour to hour.
I find it very hard to set goals since within a day or two (that long if I'm lucky) my whole outlook on things will change and I'll have no idea why I felt the goal was a good idea in the first place. I have a history of quitting things dating back to 1st grade where I purposely flunked a reading test in order to stop having to take them. There were 3 of us who made it to the highest level, I purposely failed, another student failed legitimately and the 3rd passed and skipped to 2nd grade a year early. I quit playing the trumpet the day high school band practice was to start my freshman year, solely because I was going to have to miss the first few days since I was at summer camp. I later became friendly with a lot of those band kids through the choir and theatre program at school, but was always an outsider.
I've consistently suffered from binge eating and sometimes anorexia/bulimia. I'm 5'8" and walked around in college at 230. My peak weight was 260 and now after a year of going back and forth between starvation, binge eating, throwing up, and excessive exercising, I'm down to 185.
I sometimes see myself as the only real person in the world, like a solipsist. I'll see my life as a story where everything I do has a purpose and meaning. Other times my worldview borders on nihilism and I don't see the point in anything. I feel ashamed that I have a hard time experiencing real emotions, at least towards other people. I am constantly aware of how I come off to other people, mostly in a negative way. Sometimes I can't stand the sound of my own voice, but that doesn't stop me from talking and talking.
For as long as I can remember, I've tried not to have to make decisions and just tried to go with the flow. For instance, in art class in school, I used to just do a similar drawing to whatever the teacher used as an example for the various projects. I still do this as an adult, acting like I'm apathetic towards whatever happens, only to get annoyed when decisions others make don't go the way I want them. Now I don't know what I want and I feel like at 27 I'm running out of time.
I dropped out of my first college after a semester and eventually went back a year later and got a BA in Performing Arts. I was told by pretty much everyone to have a backup plan/subject, but since I see myself as the main character in this world of ours, I just assumed everything would work out the way I wanted. Well, after four years of living out in LA, I'm pretty much totally out of the acting game completely with very little desire to audition or meet new connections. I've burned so many bridges both in the acting world as well as past jobs, school connections, and other people due to my lack of care about the future.
The biggest psychological problem I have started when I was 12, at least that's the farthest back I can remember having it. I'll try to "start over" and declare that from this moment on, I'm going to live my life for real. This started out as a quest to be perfect and would last for a day or two before I'd have to start over again. Sometimes these "new lives" would last for an hour or two before I made a mistake and would have to start again. Every birthday, new year's, and other meaningful days since around 1998 have been days where I try and "start over". It's almost impossible to explain this to people and I usually don't. The longest I've gone without starting over is around 45 days and that's over a period of 15 years now.
I feel stuck and trapped now. I don't have the money or insurance to regularly see someone to talk and get treated if there even is one. I'm writing this just to vent and I hope I didn't ramble on too much. I feel better at the moment, but of course within an hour or so I'll feel completely different.
Gadling 26-30, M 2 Responses 0 Jan 22, 2013
I really identify with your story.
I know exactly what you mean by starting over. I will often take a short sleep, saying I'll be a different person when I wake. I suffer minute by minute mood swings, switching from love to hate and back again in a short time. You are right, unless you have this, how can anybody understand and how do you explain it?
Im shocked by some things I read on here. Its like someone has been watching me & reading my mind.
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Focus on torture, not snooping issue
I applaud Sen. Dianne Feinstein for taking the Senate floor earlier this week to discuss CIA efforts to interfere with the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into CIA torture. In her words, the summary and conclusions of the Intelligence Committee's report should be made public so that "we will be able to ensure that an un-American, brutal program of detention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted." Torture is always morally wrong. And the extent to which our government engaged in it needs to be investigated and made public.
By diverting the conversation to a demeaning and oversimplified editorial attacking Feinstein ("Dianne Feinstein apparently didn't care about government snooping until it happened to her," Editorial, March 13), the Mercury News misses the point and weakens the effort to ensure that un-American brutality toward prisoners be exposed and taken off the table as an option in the fight against terrorism.
Fran Cole
San Jose
Bill would help ensure privacy taken seriously
Growing awareness of the scope and pervasiveness of mass surveillance has fundamentally changed the way we think about the systems our government uses to protect us. But the policies have not changed enough. We need the Obama administration and Congress to take the right to privacy seriously.
That's why Amnesty International USA recently joined "The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance," a campaign that has been endorsed by a wide range of human rights and civil liberties organizations, politicians and technology companies including Google and Twitter. Tens of thousands of phone calls and hundreds of thousands of email messages were delivered to Congress in support of the USA Freedom Act, a bipartisan bill that will end bulk data collection of our phone calls and require greater transparency from the Obama administration regarding surveillance.
The bill is not perfect and fails to fully uphold the rights of people outside the United States, but it is a vast improvement from Sen. Dianne Feinstein's FISA Improvements Act.
Ann Burroughs
Board Chair Amnesty International USA
We must not tolerate zero-tolerance rules
I absolutely agree with Leonard Pitts Jr. (Opinion, March 13) about zero-tolerance rules. When I was a kid, we played with cap guns that looked like western six shooters. Nowadays, if a kid points a finger at some other kid and says bang, he gets suspended. Legislators who vote for such a law and school administrators who make such a policy show beyond a reasonable doubt that they are unfit to govern or educate. We have to get these legislators and educators out of office.
Rick Nowack
San Jose
In the end, Russians always clamp down
Hungary, 1956. Ukraine, 2014. The Soviet Union/Russian foreign policy is back in style and can be summed up as, "We'll do what we damn well please, and you can't do a thing about it." Déjà vu all over again. In both cases, the West, notably the United States, encouraged activist behavior that overthrew the standing pro-Soviet/pro-Russian government and then left the activists twisting in the wind when the Soviets/Russians predictably brought force to bear.
Lesson learned, again.
Hal Beers
San Jose
Columnists know little about critical issues
Columnists Charles Krauthammer (Opinion, Feb. 21) and Victor Davis Hanson (Opinion, March 6) have claimed that a recent mammogram study has caused "settled science" to be "turned upside down." This was intended to support their contention that climate science, in particular, isn't reliable. However, the February mammogram study was just the latest report on the CNBSS investigation that was planned in the 1970s, on patients screened for breast cancer between 1980 and 1985 (with technology of that era), and this year's paper basically confirmed what was reported in 1992 and again in the early 2000s. Despite the columnists' contention, nothing new or earthshaking was reported in this year's follow-up, and no major medical organizations appear to have changed their mammography recommendations as a result. Conclusion: Political columnists aren't reliable guides for science and medicine.
Randall Brynsvold
San Jose
Finally, some justice in tragic Zimmer murder
Recent arrests in the 1989 case of Cathy Zimmer bring light and hope to those victims who have lost loved ones in such an horrific murder.
Cathy Zimmer was an unassuming young, beautiful mother dedicated to her children. A school volunteer and co-leader, with her friend and neighbor of a Camp Fire Club for her daughter. How proud she would have been today to see her daughter Debi and her beautiful children.
I can find no words to adequately thank District Attorney Jeff Rosen for resurrecting the Cold Case Unit in 2011 and the tenacity of Prosecutor Ted Kajani for bringing justice to the children and family of Cathy Zimmer.
Gloria Jabaut
Retired Executive Director Camp Fire Boys and Girls

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Linn Flammier
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Linn Flammier is a very talented fashion photographer from Oslo, currently living in Hamburg.
She has studied photography and film Napier University UK and digital film making at New York Film Academy. I really like the subtle moods she creates with her photography although the pictures got punch. Linn is currently looking for exiting people and projects to work with so don't hesitate to contact her.


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Thank you, MFWalkoff and tears.and.rain for your answers to my questions. :)
Although someone could fly under the radar and just hit it lucky at the final, it does seem unlikely that would happen. First of all, they're all really good chefs or they wouldn't be there but we're looking for the best of the best.
I have always felt that the judging in each episode has been very fair. I rarely disagree with their final choice so I guess the cream will rise to the top :winkgrin in most instances.
I hadn't really given the final decision that much thought because I just enjoy each of the episodes so much. I love learning the personalities of each chef, the inventive ideas (especially if you like to cook, like I do) and the interaction between all the "artists."
I think the middle of the road player who came closet to winning is Lisa in TC4. She snuck in there n(edging out Antonia) with Blaise and Stephanie and if I remember correctly cooked her best meal of the entire competition. Had Blaise and Stephanie both screwed up Lisa would have run away with the TC title even though the other two were the standouts that season.
Is this season done yet?
Two more episodes I believe.....


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Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
Review by ShannRD
"If only they would just BE QUIET!"
It's funny, I'm sitting here trying to think about the good aspects of this game to comment upon, and I can't think of any. Yet I still gave this game a 6, slightly better than mediocre. It is kind of best explained this way: I enjoyed playing the game, but I don't really know why! Maybe its just easier and more obvious to nitpick the bad things about it.
Graphics-wise, I have no complaints. Chaos Island is gorgeous, and the characters are really detailed. The sound is okay but there was nothing memorable about it. The only thing I can think of right now is that once I started concentrating on the fact that I could hear the footsteps it started driving me nuts!
Orphen is pretty easy to control, but for some reason I kept forgetting which button did what so I ended up plunging off cliffs because I hit the wrong button. That may just be me though. The battle mode was interesting but a lot of times the other characters were totally useless, like when Zeus would use the Mace over and over with airborne creatures (which has no effect on them). And I never used any other magic spells than the Bite of Lightning!!!! and the Hand of Pyro!!!!! (you have to say those very enthusiastically). Items were totally useless. I stopped picking up treasure chests halfway through the game.
One of the worst aspects, according to myself and every other reviewer, is the awful cut scenes that you couldn't skip! It would be one thing if they all had valid story points to make, but so many of them consist of ''what is that?'' or ''you stay here, I'll be back''. The anime FMVs are cool but kind of disembodied, if that makes sense. It seemed like they were thrown in there at random points just so the game could say it had them. And if you could skip these, how much trouble would it have been to make it possible to skip the others? And I want to echo my fellow reviewer's hatred for the voice acting, especially Cleo. There was never a point when she opened her mouth that I wasn't annoyed.
As far as the game itself, I enjoyed playing it. Sure, it only lasted me 10 hours, and I may never play it again, but it was kinda fun while it lasted. The story is, well, interesting. In the end, it all makes sense, sort of? I was kind of left thinking, huh? One thing that I didn't really think about at first but after it was over is that the main characters really didn't get any development. Why is Orphen such a jerk? Why did he shun the sorcerers of whatever? Magnus was sort of reduced to a ''my teacher is so mean'' role, and his potential as a sorcerer is never discussed. And Cleo, not only is she totally useless, but who the heck is she? Does she just follow Orphen around for kicks? Does she love him? Why is she TOTALLY useless in battle?
A few other quick things:
-The best part of the game was in the Mar segment in the Frozen Wasteland. In the cut scene you can watch as the cat skates around in circles over and over while everyone else is talking. Cracked me up.
-What exactly was the point of the Monster Picture Book? Who cares?
-The re-equip and return to battle sort of made things even easier, but thank goodness it allowed you to avoid seeing the cutscenes again.
-I really liked the Tower of Sound. I thought it was interesting even if it was a little cliche.
-As I said, I will probably never play this game again. I liked it once though, so I suggest you rent it. You can easily beat it in the time given.
All in all, this was a good game to play once. It annoyed me, sure, but I ended up laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of the millionth time Orphen shouts, the Hand of PYRO!!! or says, ''I'll go on ahead. You two can catch up later.'' Its so stupid its funny.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.0 - Fair
Originally Posted: 12/31/01, Updated 12/31/01
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City moving toward culture of fitness
Updated 9:31 am, Friday, August 17, 2012
San Antonio — for years known as one of the fattest cities in the nation — has been working hard to transform into a fitter place to live.
In 2010, Mayor Julián Castro formed the Mayor's Fitness Council, comprising community leaders who work together to increase access to nutritious foods and places to exercise and promote a culture of fitness.
They're facing tough challenges: The diabetes rate here is one of the highest in the country, and two-thirds of Bexar County residents are overweight or obese.
Grants have helped to fund the city's efforts, one a $15.6 million federal stimulus grant to deal with obesity and another from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities program.
Among the initiatives:
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More than 100 public schools have added salad bars.
The ¡Por Vida! program identifies healthful menu choices at participating restaurants, hospitals, retirement homes and colleges.
Some corner stores are stocking fresh produce as part of the ¡Tiendita Por Vida! program, aimed at increasing access to healthful food. More farmers markets also have opened.
The Fitness in the Park program offers free classes and activities from Zumba to yoga to kickboxing at city parks.
Exercise equipment has been installed in many city parks and at several public libraries.
Síclovía, a family-friendly event in which two miles of Broadway are closed to vehicular traffic so people can walk, jog, cycle and otherwise be active, took place in the fall and spring. Another is planned for Oct. 7.
In 2011, the council introduced Fit Fiesta to promote awareness of healthful food choices and fitness activities during Fiesta, the annual citywide party.


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VMCs for Large Workpiece Manufacturing
Makino's F-series of vertical machining centers includes the F8 and F9 models for large production parts.
Makino's F-series of vertical machining centers includes the F8 and F9 models for large production parts. The machines are designed for precision and versatility in large parts and die and mold component production. The F8's X-, Y- and Z-axis travels measure 51.2" × 31.5" × 25.6", respectively. The VMC features a 61" × 31.5" worktable and accommodates a maximum workpiece size of 61" × 31.5" × 21.7". The X-, Y- and Z-axis travels on the F9 measure 63" × 31.5" × 25.6", respectively. The machine features a 72.8" × 31.5" worktable and accommodates a maximum workpiece size of 72.8" × 31.5" × 21.7".
Both machines offer a load capacity of 5,510 lbs and feature a 30-tool automatic toolchanger. A49.6-hp, 10,000-rpm CAT 50 spindle is standard with an HSK-A100 spindle interface available as an option. The combination provides 315 foot-pounds of torque for lower-speed roughing operations. A 40.2-hp, 20,000-rpm HSK-A63 spindle is also available.
A dual sliding door, chip- and splash-guard construction simplifies loading and unloading large workpieces. The open-corner, open-ceiling design offers access for setups and change-overs, improving work-in-progress and overall lead times. The standard coolant system provides a combination of nozzle flood coolant, flush coolant, through-spindle air and an external air-blow nozzle. Dual internal spiral-chip conveyors move chips and coolant to the rear of the machine and discharge them into a scraper-drum lift-up chip conveyor.
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These images are from my friend Katie & Jariahs engagement session. I'm honored to be photographing their wedding in July, and we had to find the perfect location for their engagement shoot. And what better for a rustic-chic wedding than my field. These two are such a gorgeous couple & so sweet! They even perform together at local venues in the Tampa area with Jariah's band Higgins & Co, -check them out! I just photographed Jariah's cousin and Katie's best friend's wedding last weekend (soon to come!), orchestrated by Katie the queen of wedding planning. Seriously though, you should see this girls pinterest boards lol! Makes me even more excited for their wedding!
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Katie & Jariah -Engagement session
Friday, March 6, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
(Turtle neck croptop- Nasty Gal/ Rose skirt & stockings- Forever 21/ Blazer & Bucket Bag- H&M/ Boots- Urban Og)
This was a windy day in downtown Tampa, getting coffee and sitting on the steps of the park overlooking UT, so cozy and abnormal for FL haha. May I add the shittiest coffee of the shittiest. Boo. ANYWAYS! This skirt is from a while back but I haven't gotten around to wearing it much even though its so cute! I dig a boyfriend blazer over a crop top and a cute bottom, the lengths of the layering are always perfectly level (a yay for my OCD moments!). On this chillier day the turtle neck-crop top was perfect, thank Nasty Gal for this perfect match. I just realized my blue/turquoise accessory choice, hmm... I like it.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Orange Haze
(Taylor Kimono Vest & Fedora- Nasty Gal)
And she went, with not but a glance back, into the orange haze which held the warmth she wanted.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Bre & Mason -Maternity Session-
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Up on the Roof, Out on the Street
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Marlins double Braves
Josh Johnson belted a three-run homer to help the Florida Marlins defeat the Atlanta Braves 6-3 Wednesday at LandShark Stadium.
Florida won the game as -160 favorites, and the nine runs made it OVER the posted over/under (8).
Hanley Ramirez homered and drove in a pair of runs, while Dan Uggla launched a solo home run for the Marlins. Johnson improved to 9-2 with the win, allowing just three runs over six innings.
Garret Anderson went deep for a two-run shot for the Braves. Kenshin Kawakami gave up seven hits and six runs over 4 2-3 innings in the loss.


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Old LiLO vs. recent kernel
One of my machines is a "build box", where I build lots of packages for a complete Slackware desktop. It's a quadruple boot, 2x13.37 (one for each architecture), and now I'm installing 2x14.0RC2 for developing my future "Enterprise Desktop".
LiLO is handled by the Slackware 13.37 install. And I now just discover that it's too old to handle recent kernels. Tried to add a stanza for Slackware 14.0, failed, googled, started to think hard.
Right now I think upgrading LiLO on my Slackware 13.37 install might be the thing to do. Is this straighforward? I mean: can I simply grab the SlackBuild from current and run it on 13.37? Since I need this machine for work, I'd rather ask first before ruining a sunny afternoon.
Cheers from tropical France.
OK, I finally gave it a spin, and it was really simple in fact. Grab the LILO sources and SlackBuild from current, rebuild them on 13.37, upgradepkg lilo, and then running 'lilo' again. That's all.
You don't even have to rebuild it. In moving to 3.2.x kernels some months ago I found the "current" lilo package itself installs and runs fine in otherwise vanilla 13.37.
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Attaining and Maintaining Wellness in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
New York State Psychiatric Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
New York State Psychiatric Institute
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 12, 2012
Last updated: August 21, 2017
Last verified: August 2017
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Detailed Description:
The goal of this study is to understand whether patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) on serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) who receive a type of Cognitive-behavioral therapy called Exposure and Ritual Prevention (EX/RP) can discontinue their medication if they first do well with EX/RP.
|Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
|Behavioral: Monthly Booster Sessions of EX/RP Procedure: Visits with MD and independent evaluators
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Attaining and Maintaining Wellness in OCD
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by New York State Psychiatric Institute:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Obsessive Compulsive Symptom Severity (Y-BOCS) [ Time Frame: 6 months ]In study phase, to determine whether those who have achieved wellness with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy who are on medication can maintain wellness when medication is stopped
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Depressive severity [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Quality of Life [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2017
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Continuation of SRI
Patients who achieve minimal to mild OCD symptoms and are not currently depressed at end of preparatory phase will be randomized to stay on SRI. They will receive 45 minute EX/RP booster sessions once per month.
Behavioral: Monthly Booster Sessions of EX/RP
45 minute EXRP booster sessions each monthProcedure: Visits with MD and independent evaluators
All patients will be followed carefully and evaluated by their study doctor and an independent evaluator to assess their symptoms.
Placebo Comparator: Replace SRI w/placebo
Patients who achieve minimal to mild OCD symptoms and are not currently depressed at end of preparatory phase will be randomized to gradual replacement with pill placebo. They will receive 45 minute EX/RP booster sessions once per month.
Behavioral: Monthly Booster Sessions of EX/RP
45 minute EXRP booster sessions each monthProcedure: Visits with MD and independent evaluators
All patients will be followed carefully and evaluated by their study doctor and an independent evaluator to assess their symptoms.
Detailed Description:
This study begins with a Preparatory Phase, wherein all eligible participants receive up to 25 sessions of Exposure and Ritual Prevention (EX/RP) therapy. At the end of the Preparatory Phase, those who have achieved wellness (mild to minimal symptoms) enter the Study Phase. Those who do not achieve wellness will not continue in the study and are referred for treatment elsewhere. Those who enter the Study Phase are then assigned by chance to one of two groups. One group will continue on the SRI medication and the other group will discontinue the SRI gradually over 4-6 weeks as it is replaced with a placebo (sugar pill). Neither patients nor study staff will know which group a participant is in. Both groups will continue to receive monthly sessions of EX/RP. The study will examine who has the best response to treatment in this study, including taking blood samples for genetic testing to see whether there are genes that can predict who will or will not benefit from EX/RP.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Preparatory Phase
Inclusion Criteria:
- Primary diagnosis of OCD
- Currently on a stable and adequate dose of a serotonin reuptake inhibitor (i.e., clomipramine, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, sertraline, paroxetine, citalopram, escitalopram) but still have clinically significant OCD symptoms
Exclusion Criteria:
- Comorbid Psychiatric conditions that significantly elevate the risks of study participation (e.g. psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, evidence of dementia or other cognitive disorder, suicidality)
- Unstable medical conditions that need attention and would make participation in the study unsafe (e.g., very high blood pressure)
- Patients who have already had prior adjunctive EX/RP (more than 8 sessions within 2 months) while receiving an adequate SRI trial
- Patients taking other medications besides an SRI (e.g. antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, other antidepressants besides SRIs)
- Patients who are pregnant, sexually active and not using contraception, or nursing
Study Phase
Inclusion Criteria:
- Those who achieve mild to minimum OCD symptoms from Preparatory Phase will enter the Study Phase
Exclusion Criteria:
- All exclusions listed above for Preparatory Phase are exclusions for Study Phase as well
- Patients who are depressed at the end of the Preparatory phase are excluded from Study Phase
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01686087
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01686087
|United States, New York
|New York State Psychiatric Institute
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pennsylvania Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
Sponsors and Collaborators
New York State Psychiatric Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
|Principal Investigator:
|Helen B Simpson, MD PhD
|NY State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University
|Principal Investigator:
|Edna Foa, PhD
|University of Pennsylvania
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Additional Information:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|New York State Psychiatric Institute
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01686087 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2R01MH045436-18 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|September 12, 2012
|Last Updated:
|August 21, 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Compulsive Personality Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Personality Disorders
Mental Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
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In a desperate attempt to talk about anything other than Winston Raymond Peters or Labour's continuing poor poll results and after having run out of his Mum's favourite recipes using lamb chops Russell Brown has decided to have a flick at me about my coverage of She Who Must Not Be Named.
Of course all the luminaries and erudite readers of his "blog" have weighed in but they all neglect to observe the salient point that Russell Brown reads my blog.
They also missed the point that Russell refuses to link to my blog despite that being blog courtesy but brazenly links to Stinky Pit's blog about how she hates men, Christians, Barnsley Bill and me and would like to see right to life campaigners killed.
When I pointed this out to Russell, he blithely says that it is ok because he doesn't think the other blog is real…..oh good oh, link to bile and filth because you think it isn't real, good god almighty these leftist lickspittles and apologists are good with the weasel words aren't they?
So it is official, Russell Brown the great media doyen and official (in the eyes of the lefties) blogosphere king really does believe IT IS OK to support violence and murder and death threats, if YOU don't think it is real. Nice one Russell, I wonder if the anti-violence folk know about your little admission of hypocrisy.
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We are also engaged in the development of rhizosecretion technologies to produce biopharmaceuticals in a state-of-the-art hydroponics laboratory with capabilities to monitor and control several environmental variables (temperature; humidity; CO2partial pressure; light intensity, spectral quality, and photoperiod; and nutrient solution composition and pH). We are currently investigating the effects of nutrient deficiencies on the type and extent of root exudates for a few varieties of tomato plants.


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Cookbook sales and other fundraisers brought in enough money for the city to install tree lights in one block of Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo, a merchant said.
But Fred Menard of Indian Alley Antiques isn't done with fundraising in an effort to pay for decorative tree lights.
"The 400 block of Georgia is taken care of but we've got more to do," he said.
The downtown business owner said he and other merchants are holding a Wine Walk 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 to pay for more lights.
During the event, participants can sample wine at nearly 20 stores and businesses on Marin, Georgia and Virginia streets in the downtown's core.
Tickets are $20 each and can be bought at Menard's store at 412 Georgia St. or through http://vallejomainstreet.brownpapertickets.com.
Proceeds will go to install lights in the trees along more blocks downtown.
The cookbooks are for sale in Menard's store, and include recipes from a variety of downtown merchants.


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NSU pushing for Chinese cultural, language center
By Kevin Burbach
PIERRE (AP) — Northern State University is moving forward with plans to create a Chinese language and cultural center that will be the first of its kind in the Dakotas and that officials hope will give the state a link to China's growing economy.
The South Dakota Board of Regents made funding for NSU's proposed Confucius Center in Aberdeen its top priority on the list of one-time spending requests it sent the Legislature this week.
Legislators still must agree to fund the $400,000 request, but President James Smith said he's confident school officials can make a strong case for the institute, which would make Northern State the only public school in South Dakota to offer Mandarin Chinese language courses.
"I'm hopeful that people will see it as the opportunity that I think that it is, which is to really expose South Dakota kids to ... a really growing part of the world," he said.
As of 2011, there were more than 350 Confucius Institutes in 104 countries, according to documents provided by the regents. The majority of U.S. states have at least one. If approved, the cultural center at Northern State would be one of the last in the country for now. The Institute will stop taking applications to partner with American institutions at the end of the year.
Northern State has been working with the University of Jinan for several months to establish a partnership.
Northern State could be the first university in the Dakotas to have a Confucius Institute, but it isn't the first to vie for one.
The North Dakota Board of Higher Education gave Dickinson State University permission to establish a partnership with a Chinese university and set up a Confucius Institute, but it never happened. A majority of faculty members had voted against the idea and state officials had also found that the university had given Chinese exchange students hundreds of unearned diplomas.
Northern State stopped offering Mandarin language courses in 1996. Smith said the Institute would be especially valuable for students in the school's Center for Excellence in International Business, who can already travel to China to study abroad but often face a language barrier.
"Obviously, if you're an international business major, you realize that China is a huge market," he said.
Smith will travel to Jinan and Shanghai with several of his colleagues after the next Board of Regents meeting in October to discuss funding with Chinese education officials. Northern State has asked the regents to help fund one year of the institute. Future years would be supported by the school's Chinese counterparts.


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Dogs, cats, puppies and kittens are available for adoption from Operation Kindness, 3201 Earhart Drive (near Keller Springs Road and Midway Road), Carrollton. The no-kill shelter is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. Thursday) and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Cost to adopt is $110 for cats and kittens and $135 for dogs and puppies. The cost includes spay or neuter surgery, microchipping, vaccinations and other tests. Those 65 and above and those who adopt two pets at the same time get a $20 discount. For more information call 972-418-PAWS, or visit www.operationkindness.org.
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Nice Work! Thank-you to everyone who participated in the Red Envelope Project and sent President Obama a red envelope representing a life ended by abortion. The visual must have been amazing. Story from World Net Daily:
The White House mail office has confirmed it received a "deluge" of as many as 2.25 million red envelopes symbolizing the empty promise of lives snuffed out in abortion in a massive campaign that was larger than most White House mailing movements in the last 35 years.
White House mail worker "Steve" has handled letters for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for more than three decades. Every single package and letter destined for the White House goes through his office.
Asked if he has seen a flood of red envelopes bound for the White House, Steve chuckled.
"Uh, yes," he said emphatically. "Believe me, they made it here."
Steve said while Obama has been occupied in Europe, his administration has noticed millions of red envelopes on behalf of aborted children.
"Quite frankly, there was definitely a deluge of mail coming through," he laughed. "I had to handle them all."
"I've been here 35 years, so I've seen presidents come and go," Steve told WND. "This campaign ranks up there with the big ones."
The Red Envelope Project is an idea sparked in the mind and prayers of a Massachusetts man, Christ Otto, who envisioned in January thousands of red envelopes sent to the White House, a visual expression of moral outrage over the president's position on abortion.


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Mr. Crisp was a World War II Veteran of the U.S. Army and served with the 3415th Quarter Master Truck Company in the European theater of operations. While serving he received several decorations, including 3 Bronze Stars, and was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant in 1946.
Lawrence was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church of Lorain. He retired from U.S. Steel in 1986, where he worked as a relief foreman in the Brick Department for 43 years. He was also a member of the United Steel Workers (USWA) Local 1104 and the Retired Steel Workers. He enjoyed hunting and was an avid sports fan. His favorite pastime was cooking on the grill and spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.
He leaves to cherish his memory, three daughters, Constance (nee Crisp) Thomas and Angela (Alfred) Guice, both of Lorain, and Charlene (Russell) Roach-Glymph of Washington DC; 12 grandchildren; 27 great grandchildren; and a host of other family members.
Lawrence was preceded in death by his parents, Matthew and Lillie Mae (nee Smith) Crisp, Sr.; his son, David Anthony; eight brothers and five sisters; and an infant granddaughter, Elizabeth Thomas.
Visitation will be Monday, December 3, 2012 from 3 to 7 P.M. at Brown-Robinson Funeral Home, 2652 Broadway Ave, Lorain. The Homegoing Services will be held Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 11 A.M. at Wesley United Methodist Church, 220 W. 7th St., Lorain, where the Pastor Rev. Monique M. Greenfield, will officiate. Burial with military honors will follow at Elmwood Cemetery, Lorain.


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Committee Charges
Note: CHAIRS OF STANDING COMMITTEES SERVE ON THE SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: Develop expertise and serve as a resource on issues and strategies relating to academic integrity,including discipline-specific practices, copyright issues, the impact of digital media, and pedagogical best practices. Organize design and delivery of curricular and co-curriculari resources and activities to support instructors and students including the Academic Integrity Seminar (Note: The content of the Academic Integrity Seminar, along with the content of three faculty workshops and supporting materials and a presentation for doctoral students, has already been developed and will be made available to the committee.) Develop and deliver programming through the Division of Student Life to introduce new freshman and transfer students to our academic integrity policy and to support all students. Total 23 members
ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: Reviews and recommends academic policies and procedures of the University, including grading policies, academic dismissal and academic warning procedures, honors and dean's list policies. Total 15 members.
CAMPUS AESTHETICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS: Reviews and recommends proposed changes that affect the aesthetic quality of the campus environment; recommends acceptance or rejection of proposals to the University President; reviews existing aesthetic qualities and recommends needed changes; and addresses campus environmental concerns that affect the health and well-being of the University community and/or the natural environment. Total 20 members.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT: Develops procedures for the receipt and processing of career development materials from candidates and academic department assessment committees; receives and considers the reports of the department assessment committees, the supporting documentation, and the statements of the President/designee concerning all employees being assessed; prepares a report to the President containing its recommendations concerning the allocation of Career Development funds. Total 11 members.
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES: Polls eligible faculty/professional staff on committee membership choices; prepares a balanced list of suggested members for each committee and submits the lists for Senate approval; reviews the existing committee structure and recommends changes; oversees the following special committees to which the Senate appoints members: Awards Committee, University Scholarship Committee, Library Committee, Bookstore Committee, International Education Council, Interdepartmental Promotion/Tenure and Recontracting. Total 6 members.
CURRICULUM: Reviews proposals for title and credit changes, minors, concentrations, specializations, major programs, courses, certifications, reorganization of academic department/college offerings, and new or revised University-wide curricular patterns; reviews proposals to create, dissolve or significantly reconstitute academic departments or colleges; forwards recommendations to the Senate and then to the executive vice president/provost. Total 20 members.
DIVERSITY: Monitors diversity throughout all areas and for all members of the Rowan University community, with special attention to issues of social justice; recommends practices and policies that will enhance diversity at Rowan; assists in the development and establishment of such practices and policies. Total 17 members.
GRADUATE EDUCATION AND GLOBAL LEARNING AND PARTNERSHIPS: reviews and recommends academic policies and procedures in the Division of Global Learning and Partnerships, including the development of online and hybrid courses, as well as traditional courses offered by DGLP. Will work with the Graduate Advisory Council. Also reviews and recommends academic policies and procedures for graduate programs not housed in DGLP. Total 16 members.
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS: Monitors the entire operation of intercollegiate sports on the campus. The NCAA faculty athletics representative may serve as the chair of the committee. The athletic director shall serve as an ex-officio (non-voting) member of the committee. Total 19 members.
LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT: Engages in the ongoing review of the University's assessment principles and observes the application of the principles in practice; reviews and recommends assessment plans from academic programs, general education, and student development; assists in the establishment of a process for the systematic review of assessment information collected each year. Total 15 members.
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND WELFARE: Evaluates conditions under which faculty/professional staff function; recommends rules to ensure fair treatment for all faculty/professional staff members. Total 11 members.
PROMOTION: Supervises the election of college promotion committees, develops procedures for receipt and processing of promotion materials from candidates and college promotion committees, reviews applicant portfolios in light of the procedures established by the institution and the department and approved by the dean, certifies to provost that the procedures have or have not been correctly carried out by both the department and college committees. Total 9 members.
RECRUITMENT, ADMISSIONS AND RETENTION: Reviews and evaluates recruitment and admissions policies and procedures, specifically those which relate to curriculum, programs and instruction, and academic standards affecting progress toward a degree; recommends needed changes. Total 19 members.
RESEARCH: The Research committee monitors research and research services on campus to identify and address issued of research interest. The committee makes recommendations for (I) promoting research and research awareness on campus; (2) meting resource needs for research; and (III) establishing policies to ensure that research related issues on campus are addressed appropriately. The committee solicits, compiles and disseminates input from the campus community to insure that the faculty, staff, students, and administration are aware of current research efforts, resources, and challenges. Total 19 members.
ROWAN CORE: The Rowan Core Committee reviews curriculum proposals for new and exisiting courses seeking inclusion within the Rowan Core. Evaulates the assessment outcomes submitted by departments for their Rowan Core courses. Develops goals and outcomes for any new literacies included in revisions to the Core. Recomends selection of the Rowan Core Director. Total 21 members.
SABBATICAL LEAVE: The Sabbatical Leave Committee shall conduct its review of applications for sabbatical leave, and make its recommendations to the President in accordance with the current contractual agreement. Total 11 members.
STUDENT RELATIONS: Evaluates existing and proposed relations and procedures and initiates recommendations for changes. Total 17 members.
TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES: Monitors technological resources to insure that the services and resources meet the needs of the campus community in research and academic pursuits. By soliciting and compiling input from the campus community, the committee attempts to insure that the faculty, staff and students are aware of the current services on campus that can and do support these efforts. Responses to a periodic faculty and staff survey will insure that a collaborative effort exists in developing recommendations to enhance the University vision in the areas defined by the committee charge. Total 19 members.
TENURE AND RECONTRACTING: Develops procedures ensuring equitable treatment for all faculty/professional staff, screens candidates not under tenure or multi-year contracts, and recommends to the University President those qualified for retention. Cannot serve concurrently on Departmental Tenure & Recontracting Committee. Total 13 members.
UNIVERSITY BUDGET & PLANNING: Maintains a meaningful dialogue on budget and planning decisions between the University Administration and the University Senate. Total 17 members.
AWARDS: selects the students whose names are submitted as nominees by their sponsors to receive honors for outstanding achievement in various areas, most of which are related to the curriculum. Total 9 members.
BOOKSTORE: Mediates faculty, student and bookstore relations and concerns. This committee provides an ongoing evaluation of staffing levels of the bookstore, works on improving the perceptions about the bookstore's work, both within the bookstore and externally among the rest of the campus, and facilitates cooperation of the faculty with bookstore needs and the bookstore with faculty and student needs. Total 12 members.
CHAIRS COUNCIL: To provide a channel through which department chairs may readily communicate with other chairs in order to share information and solve problems; enable junior chairs to take advantage of the expertise of more experienced chairs; act as a clearinghouse to share information that individual Chairs obtain from their respective professional societies; participate in the formation of hiring committees for Deans and the scheduling of interviews.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION COUNCIL: Plans and presents programs related to education in all countries. Total 22 members.
LIBRARY: Reviews available learning resources of the University including those in the Campbell Library, the Camden Campus library, the music library and educational media. The committee also reviews the policies regarding the management and use of these centers and materials and makes appropriate recommendations. Total 13 members.
UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP: Reviews and revises application procedures for University-awarded scholarships and awards scholarships on the basis of academic achievement, financial need and contribution to the University and the community. Total 11 members.
CALENDAR: Sets the academic calendar several years in advance. One representative is appointed by the Senate
CAMPUS HEARING BOARD: Is part of the student judiciary system. It hears alleged student misconduct in violation of University rules, then decides the guilt or innocence of students and makes cases of recommendations. Three representatives are appointed by the Senate President.
COMMENCEMENT: Meets to recommend commencement activity and appropriate speakers. One representative is appointed by the Senate President.
HONORARY DEGREE: Considers and recommends people for an honorary degree. One representative is appointed by the Senate President.
STUDENT GRIEVANCE: Listens to student appeals regarding grades and makes recommendations as to a final disposition of the complaints. Two representatives are appointed by the Senate President.


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NRA Convention opens Friday in Indianapolis
Thousands of gun enthusiasts converged on downtown Indianapolis for the show, including many Hoosiers.
"When we first heard it was gonna be in Indianapolis, we started making plans right away to make sure that we were gonna be free and be able to come to this," said Terre Mays of Auburn.
The meeting also attracted Shannon Watts of Zionsville. She founded Moms Demand Action, which has now merged with other groups to speak out against gun violence.
"It is no longer possible to ignore the truth that 86 Americans are killed every day in this country with guns," she said.
Tom Sullivan, from Aurora, CO, was among those in Watts' group. He lost his son Alex to gun violence.
"Alex was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was at the movies on his birthday, just where he wanted to be. His last message on Twitter to a friend was, 'OMG, this is going to be the best birthday ever.' His birthday lasted only 38 minutes," said Sullivan.
The NRA fired back at the Michael Bloomberg-funded organizations.
"Firearms in the hands of good people save lives," said NRA President Wayne LaPierre.
"It is absolutely awesome. It's not just the displays. It's the people. These are good American people and it's just awesome that in this country, we can come to something like this and be in the middle of like-minded people. And it's okay. It's awesome," said Terre Mays.One issue for the NRA is a renewed push for a law requiring all 50 states to recognize concealed carry gun permits from other states. The convention also will focus on politics as the organization maps out its strategy for this year's mid-term elections and 2016.
A leadership forum Friday featured Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Indiana Governor Mike Pence and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. All have been mentioned as possible GOP contenders for the White House in 2016.
Also, organizers expect to see a growing number of women taking part in the convention. In fact, NRA exhibitors and firearms instructors say it's a sign of the times that more women are carrying guns for protection.
Julie Webb is one of them.
"The only time I don't carry it is when I'm going somewhere where I'm legally not allowed to carry or at work," said Webb.
Indiana law says visitors to the convention can have their weapons with them if they have a gun permit from their home state.
The NRA Convention will be held through the weekend at the Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis. It's expected to have an estimated economic impact of $55million for the city.
About two dozen gun control supporters gathered Thursday ahead of the NRA's convention. They asked for the organizations help lowering the city's homicide rate.
The Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence president says it's too easy for young people to get their hands on guns. He says kids are turning to guns to settle their disputes and the only answer is to keep guns off the streets.
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As a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan, I participate in an Internet e-mail forum known as Savoynet, where everything about the famous librettist and composer of late Victorian comic opera comes under discussion. Recently a forum participant lamented the demise more than 20 years ago of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which began producing the operas in 1889 under impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte. The participant speculated that had the British government extended sufficient subsidies, the company might have survived. There ensued a discussion of whether subsidies would have done the trick.
I took another tack: "But that [a subsidy] would have meant forcing the taxpayers to do what they would not do voluntarily as theatergoers. Where's the justice in that? Maybe they had something else to do with their money."
That didn't go over well. One respondent wrote: "That is precisely why taxes exist. They permit community expenditure on things that individuals cannot or will not support on their own, but that are necessary or desirable."
I replied, "'Necessary or desirable' by whose standard? The individual should be free to decide what it is necessary or desirable for him to spend his own money on. 'Community expenditure' is a euphemism for the larger gang compelling the smaller group to do something its members don't want to do. Special-interest peddling is not the least bit noble, regardless of how much communitarian crepe paper is draped over it."
I might as well have been speaking Sumerian.
Another participant wrote this: "Huge subsidies of opera/theatre worldwide are a modern fact of life, and are unrelated to the benevolence of taxpayers. For example, at the splendid Colón Theatre in Buenos Aires, once described by Toscanini as 'the best theatre in the world,' the 1995 Government grant was 75 percent. Would it have been reasonable to ask 'where is the justice in that?'"
To which I replied: "By all means it would have been reasonable. Why should elitist policymakers, with or without Toscanini's blessing, decide that an individual must spend his money on the Colón Theatre rather than on his family or himself?"
To which he replied: "I would say, Sheldon, that the world would be a poorer place if it were possible for your thinking to be universally applied!"
No space here to elaborate on the irony of this gentleman's suggestion that a world without coercive subsides would be a poorer place. On the contrary, in more than one way it would be a richer place.
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In its effort to protect children from unsavory material, the U.S. government is trying to create a safe haven on the World Wide Web. Gary McGath predicts that it won't protect anyone, but says this venture in shaping the Internet is ominous.
Understanding that knowledge is open-ended sheds light on so many things, including the work of FEE. So says Israel Kirzner in this classic reprint.
The freedom philosophy comes down to making a moral distinction between persuasion and aggression. Since most people already accept that distinction in their personal lives, Gene Callahan says the foundation for building a free society is already in place.
Environmental activists who think capitalism isn't "sustainable" are apparently unacquainted with the lengths to which businessmen have gone to get the most from resources. Pierre Desrochers continues his look at the benign environmental consequences of the profit motive.
The difference between advocates of the freedom philosophy and of socialism comes down to a clash over whether human beings have a specific nature. Frédéric Bastiat early on understood what the debate was about. Jim Peron explains.
Another way that compulsory unionism makes life difficult for people is by raising the cost of government. Steven Greenhut shows how it works.
Only a misunderstanding of human motivation can explain why some people prefer nonprofit operations to for-profit enterprises. Karen Selick gets to the bottom of the mystery.
Until government stepped in, selfish capitalists intentionally paid workers so little that they could barely stay alive. That's what virtually everyone is taught. Thomas Woods corrects the record.
The controversy over whether the U.S. government should maintain an embargo against Cuba is based on the assumption that without the embargo the communist island could afford to import American products. T. Norman Van Cott questions that assumption.
Eons ago mankind lived in happy socialist communes without profit or private property. How do we know? The socialists have told us so—over and over. One problem, according to Robert Wright: the story is wrong.
Here's what this month's columnists have come up with: Lawrence Reed considers the nature of patriotism. Doug Bandow looks at the regulatory jungle. Steven Davies revisits China's industrial revolution. Donald Boudreaux dissects hypocrisy. Russell Roberts contemplates the nature of price gouging. And Clayton Cramer, considering the claim that banning handguns would, on net, save lives, protests, "It Just Ain't So!"
Books coming under the microscope deal with dependence on government, multiculturalism, H. L. Mencken, plutocracy, individualist feminism, and the late Robert Nozick.
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Teens contrite over
fake Delta kidnapping
Five teens hand-delivered a letter of apology to Delta Police Chief Robert Thomas on Monday regarding a fake-kidnapping prank at the Delta Wal-Mart Saturday night. Shoppers had been convinced a crime was being committed when some of the youths, wearing black ski masks, carried a young woman out of the store. The letter states, in part: "What we did was very wrong and at the time we were not thinking about the consequences of our actions. We take full responsibility of our actions and we are deeply sorry for wasting your time on us." No charges are pending.
All 5 shooting victims
released from hospital
All five men who were shot during a party at a Fruitvale home earlier this month have been released from St. Mary's Hospital.
The Mesa County Sheriff's Department announced Monday that the three remaining victims who were still hospitalized have been released.
The victims, whose ages range from 16 to 22 but whose names haven't been released, were shot during a Dec. 13 party at 2984 Krista Court.
Joshua Anton, 20, was arrested in connection with the shooting, although his father has claimed his son acted in self-defense. Anton is being held at the Mesa County Jail on $500,000 bond and is due back in court Dec. 29.
The arrest affidavit in the case remains sealed.
According to the Grand Junction Police Department:
Creston Scott Glanz, 22, 1302 Bunting Ave., and Derek Gordon Wood, 21, of Arlington, Texas, were arrested Sunday in the 100 block of Chipeta Avenue on suspicion of first-degree burglary, third-degree assault and criminal mischief.
Cindy Ramirez, 23, and Carlos Serna-Lopez, 23, addresses unavailable, were issued summonses on Saturday on suspicion of theft after they allegedly stole merchandise from a store at Mesa Mall.
Patricia Snider, 40, address unavailable, was issued a summons Sunday on suspicion of theft after she allegedly stole less than $500 in merchandise from a store at Mesa Mall.
Geremy Brown, 36, address unavailable, was issued a summons Sunday on suspicion of theft after he allegedly stole less than $100 in merchandise from a business at 666 Patterson Road.
Patricia Niess, 72, address unavailable, was issued a summons Sunday on suspicion of theft after she allegedly stole less than $100 in merchandise from City Market, 2830 North Ave.
According to the Mesa County Sheriff's Department:
A man reported Sunday that he is missing cattle from the area of Big Creek Reservoir and Forest Service Road 121 on Grand Mesa. The cattle are worth more than $21,000.


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Railroads Wrangle With States to Keep Oil Shipments SecretBy
Last month, the Department of Transportation ordered railroads to start giving state emergency response teams basic information about trains hauling crude oil through their cities and towns. The idea is that if state emergency teams are armed with at least some details on these shipments—when they're arriving, how much oil they're hauling—they can be better prepared in case something happens. Such as a train derails. Or a giant, fireball-inducing explosion erupts.
But railroads aren't so keen on making that information public. As the Associated Press has reported, companies such as BNSF, CSX, and Union Pacific are asking states to sign strict non-disclosure agreements promising not to make the information public. Some states are complying. Others aren't.
Officials in Wisconsin, Montana, Illinois, North Dakota, Idaho, and Washington have all declined to sign the agreements, AP reported, while California, Louisiana, and New Jersey have agreed to keep the information secure. Colorado, South Dakota, Iowa, Oregon, and New York are reviewing the requests.
At issue is whether the non-disclosure agreements violate state sunshine laws governing open access to public records. Officials in Wisconsin and Washington say that they clearly do. Under the agreements, the information that railroads provide states would be shielded from Freedom of Information Act requests and rendered unavailable to citizens and journalists. For its part, the DOT says it has no problem with railroads asking for these protections.
In some cases, states are crafting specific arrangements with railroads that get around FOIA laws. Under an agreement with Virginia, CSX must mark documents as proprietary when submitting them to state emergency officials. "Any information that CSX has not deemed proprietary can be released outside of emergency services," Dawn Eischen, a spokeswoman with the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, wrote in an e-mail. That way, since state officials aren't themselves marking the data for non-public use, they are presumably still in compliance with FOIA laws. Seems semantic, though perhaps acceptable.
When a CSX train derailed in downtown Lynchburg, Va., exploding and spilling 30,000 gallons of oil into the James River, no one was hurt, but emergency crews were caught unprepared. City officials admitted to having had no idea that crude oil was traveling through town on that day in April.
A week later, the DOT issued an emergency order requiring railroads to tell state emergency response teams how much crude they're hauling, along with the exact route they intend to take. Railroads must also provide local officials with contact information for at least one person familiar with the load. The order pertains only to trains carrying more than 1 million gallons of crude from the Bakken region of North Dakota.
The deadline to comply passed on June 7. Railroads that missed it were supposed to be banned from hauling Bakken crude while facing fines up to $175,000 a day. It appears that neither is happening yet. Kevin Thompson, a spokesman at the Federal Railroad Administration, said that the DOT has granted railroads a "period of discretion" in some cases while they negotiate with a handful of states. The period would last a "few days," he said. As of Monday, no fines had been levied.
Yet, according to Virginia officials, CSX is already in violation of the order. Despite the state's agreement with CSX, Dawn Eischen said that as of Monday afternoon, the state still had not gotten any transport notifications from CSX. Thompson, the FRA spokesman, said he was unaware of this. CSX did not reply to questions as to whether it was still shipping crude through the state or if it had been notified by the DOT that it was in violation of the emergency order. (In an earlier e-mail, a CSX spokesperson said that it had provided oil train information to all states it operates in as required under the emergency order.)
Meanwhile in Wisconsin and Washington state, emergency officials have received routing and shipment info from BNSF despite having balked at signing the railroad's non-disclosure agreement. So while states that played hardball and refused to sign the non-disclosure agreement are getting the info they need, those that played along are getting stiffed.
Why all the fuss to begin with? Why are railroads fighting so hard to keep this information out of the public domain? For one thing, the railroads are often bound by strict non-disclosure agreements with the oil companies whose crude they're hauling.
Railroads often say that making their oil activities public would expose them to security and competitive risks, but this seems overstated and beyond the point. Over the past four years there's been a triple-digit increase in the amount of oil being hauled by rail across the U.S. It's no secret that the vast majority of it comes out of North Dakota. Putting that information in the public domain would no more increase the risk of an attack than keeping it secret. And competitive risk shouldn't even be an issue if the point is to improve public safety.
One risk that railroads could be worried about is the possibility of greater regulation. Oil is not subject to the same strict routing standards as other hazardous chemicals. While a train filled with toxic chlorine has to be routed away from populated areas—often via a competing company's rail network—an oil train can chug right through downtown in the middle of the day. That could change in July, when new rules take effect that subject oil trains to tougher routing standards.
Citizen groups in several states are already starting to mobilize and station watch parties to count passing oil trains. Once more people realize just how close they are to millions of barrels of crude oil every day, it's safe to say that the push to keep a better eye on it will only grow more intense.
UPDATE ON JUNE 11: Wisconsin officials confirm they have also received pertinent information from railroads as required under the emergency order, without having signed non-disclosure agreements. Also adds that new tougher routing rules for oil trains will take effect on July 1.


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Originally Posted by Jay@Section222
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Peck, Jeff can and DOES hit most of his layups/close shots now. That's an old criticism of Jeff that's a year too old now. He improved big time at hitting most of his gimme's this past year.
Here is what it is going to take for Jeff to become able to hit the 10-15 ft wide open jumper during games.
I don't care if he shoots 10,000 jumpers each and every day this summer, unless or until he is encourages and forced to shoot during real games, practice won't mean a thing.
it has to start in training camp, the coaching staff much force Jeff to shoot when open, every time. Then it must cary over to the preseason games. Then and most importantly it has to carry over to the regular season.
I don't care if Jeff has a few games early in the season where he goes 1 for 8 and the Pacers lose a game or two because of it. If he keeps shooting it will pay off in the long run, he'll get some confidence and he'll get used to taking the shots and then used to making a good %.
Look at Freddie this past season, in November, December and January his outside shooting was poor, but he kept shooting ad it really paid off late in the season and during the playoffs.
If jeff has all the confidence in the world on October 1st, if he had shot 10,000 jupers per day all summer, that won't mean a thing if he is not forced to shoot.
If jeff can become a decent shooter from 12 - 15 ft it will open up his driving to the basket game.
Edit: I am a huge believer in in quick athletic big guys, it helps a defnese so, so much.
Jay to your point about the pacers not being strong enough at the 4 and 5 positions. That is another reason why Ron is so important he helps offset that a little.
Keep in mind though Jeff is an extremely physical player, and he has gotten quick good at it
im with you UB 100%
I agree UB that that's how Jeff will learn to hit them. However I don't expect it to happen, Rick never encouraged Ben to do anything offensively in Det.
Maybe that will change here, though. Other things he didn't do there have changed.
Somewhere I was going to post that I'm no longer concerned about Jeff's ability to score 'garbage' points. I don't think the Pacers need to run any plays for him, as long as he scores a high % of the time in 'garbage' opportunities, then the opponents have to take him somewhat seriously. I'll include wide-open fourteen footers from the baseline as 'garbage points' because the defense is basically begging him to shoot those.Originally Posted by Unclebuck
Jeff is never going to be part of 'stretching the defense' and if that's what the Pacers need from the PF position, then they've got to find someone else. I'm not saying that it has to come from the PF position, we can all dream about a physical PF with a jumper like Buck Williams or Oakley but those guys are very rare in today's NBA.
I'm intrigued with the idea of Harrison backing up both JO and Jeff next season. That might alleviate some of my concerns about our (lack of) size at 4 and 5. Last season, our two best backups (Al and Austin) were also undersized for that position. I know its a big 'if' but if he's ready to play 12-16 mpg then that's a huge pickup in the draft. If not, then what the heck, it *was* the 29th pick.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
Originally Posted by Unclebuck
I agree completely with this, but I would have to say that even better is a quick athletic big guy that can block shots. Having two shot blockers as opposed to one I feel gives a team defense a WHOLE new dynamic.
This is the only thing I have against Jeff. Offensively, I think I think Jeff is adequate offensively for this team, but could be much better obviously. he shoots the close range shot very well, even adding the reverse layup to his repertoire, and he has always been capable of throwing it down. However, a center with shot blocking ability, post up moves and a mid range jumpshot would catapult this team into greatness in my opinion.
I think Jeff is good enough to start and end games for a winning team, and if lucky, even a championship team. But this Pacer team has the ability to be GREAT next season. I really believe that. and with an outside shooter, a shotblocking center, and minus Al Harrington (I believe in the case of al it is addition by subtraction) this team could be GREAT.
Oh btw that is why I think Marcus Camby would be a GREAT addition to this team, but no one seems to want him and i know hes probably just going to resign with the nuggets.
One way to improve Jeff's offensive game is to team JO how to block out under the boards.
That would definitely lead to more garbage points for Jeff.
Foster can hit threes too. I've seen him before games shooting them.
edit: Maybe he's just too afraid to take the shots? Maybe he's just a good practice shooter, not a game shooter.
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Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
Originally Posted by Unclebuck
Your going to have to remind me which game that was. Was it the game in Sacramento that Brad scored 18 points grabbed 15 rebounds & threw out 10 assist in leading Sacramento to victory. Or was it the game in Indiana that coming off of the bench he scored 12 points grabbed 13 rebounds threw out 5 assist & blocked 4 shots in leading Sacramento to victory.
BTW, Mr. Rebound Jeff Foster, was out rebounded in both of those games by the player that is not a better rebounder. If memory serves me correct, 4 of Brad's rebounds on that second game came in the last 3 min. of the game to seal victory. Also the earth bound Miller outblocked the sky soaring Foster.
I'm sorry, but I'll say it again, outside the fan base of the Indiana Pacers nobody will say that Jeff Foster is better at anything compared to Brad Miller.
Even if I conceded that Jeff is a better defender
(I don't btw) I would have to not only concede this I would have to say that Brad sucks as a defender to even make it equal, because Brad is so much better at everything else. But because Brad does not suck as a defender then the fact that he is better at everything else more than trumps any advantage you think Jeff might have as a defender.
Oh, btw, those same games that you are talking about I would like to remind you of one thing. They started out both games with Jeff guarding Brad. He was destroyed in both games & O'Neal had to switch to him.
I will never EVER concede that Jeff is a better player than Brad. I will never EVER concede that Jeff is a better fit for our team. For the one thing you list as an advantage (I do not agree with) I can list everything else that Brad does better.


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**I've been sitting on this unfinished article for sometime now. I got around to it today. I'm hoping someone here will have the time to offer some feedback and point out any grammatical errors. If not, I understand."
Calculators Are Not the Enemy
As others have, I often speculate if we assembled a committee for the sole purpose of rendering a subject near useless, if that committee could possibly do a better job than the public school system has done with mathematics? Public school math has been drilled, beaten and stripped of all possible usefulness. All for what? Students hate learning it. Teachers dislike teaching it (or at the least dislike teaching it to students who dislike learning it) and still we press on. Actually it's worse; we press on without even knowing whom to point the finger. Lacking even the ability to pinpoint the problem, educators, out of desperation, begin turning their hatred toward small little rectangular objects that calculate numbers. Why? It is again the purpose of this article to answer this inquiry.
What is it about these small little calculating devices that make them such easy targets for the failure of math literacy? Is it that these machines are doing the thinking for us? Is it that students are simply learning to punch buttons? I assume it's possible, however, I recall an article some time ago where the author concluded that the helpfulness of most advice is inversely related to the advice-givers age; as age increased, the helpfulness of advice typically decreased. Certainly this hasn't curtailed my desire to tell the world what I think they should do; after all, at our core, we are simply a bunch of advice-giving machines. Nevertheless, we must accept that we may suffer from this generational lag and our distaste for calculators may simply be a function of this. For example, I come from a generation of the "Resume". I was taught the importance of the resume in job candidacy. I even outsourced my resume-making when I entered the labor force because I believed it was so vastly important. Today, studies show that networking devices such as Linked and Facebook allow many individuals to bypass the importance of building a resume by networking. It's been shown that resumes are not as important today as they were in the past, but how many of us know this? How many of you who read that previous sentence cringed and shook your head in disbelief? I did, when I first read it. This inability to place our beliefs under scrutiny creates vast problems in our advice giving. I believe this generational lag is partially responsible for the 'blame-calculator' bias our educators support.
Let us pretend for a second that the importance of mathematics is simply being able to produce textbook answers to standardized textbook questions. If true, then most of today's calculators could, in theory, displace most of today's math educators. A four function calculator, at a cost of about .99 cents, could answer 90% off all math questions for grades K-4. A scientific calculator, at a cost of about $14.99, could answer 90% of all math questions from grades K-8. A graphing calculator, with a variable solver and factoring application, could answer the majority of Algebra, Algebra II and Pre Calc questions. Most of theses same graphing calculators have statistical software capable of handling most first year statistics courses. A slight step up to one of the higher end graphing calculators equips all the tools to make a first semester of calculus a breeze. In all, for about $180.00 ($100 if used), a student could purchase the majority of textbook answers from kindergarten through their freshman year of college.
Now, clearly this says nothing about understanding the material, but, on paper, would an individual truly be able to tell the difference between the traditional paper-pencil student and the calculator student when taking standardized tests? Let me pose a question, is it possible for a student to have more understanding of the significance and methodology of a problem but be more dependent upon technology to solve it? Let me approach this problem from a different angle. For instance, in academia, I work alongside many engineers who are also adjunct math professors. They tell me they use very little of their mathematical training in their day job and many have mentioned that they have nearly forgotten much of their math training. This says nothing about their abilities as engineers; they've simply outsourced much of their work to software applications. The math training they went through is much more a symbol of their ability and reliability than their productivity, yet, the question still remains. Is it possible for a student to have more understanding of the significance and methodology of a problem but be more dependent upon technology to solve it? To answer this question we need to discuss the parts of a math problem.
Conrad Wolfram, in a wonderful talk about using computers to teach mathematics, points to four parts of teaching a math problem to which I will purposefully change the titles:
1) Asking/Understanding the right question
2) Setting up the question
3) The actual computations
4) Interpreting the answer.
Now, according to Wolfram, math students today spend about 80% of their math training on part 3, the part that our technology can do exponentially faster than we can. In fact, Wolfram has calculated that "on an average school day in the world, we use up about 106 average lifetimes learning hand calculating." Now, there are only two possible conclusions here. Either part three, the computation part, is the most important portion of the four parts of a math problem (important enough to spend 80% of classroom time, or 106 average lifetimes per day) or the other three parts are being neglected.
An example may serve,
1) Find the interest rate r if $2,000 is compounded annually and grows to $2,420 in 2 years.
2) A = P(1+r)^t The formula for compound interest
$2420 = $2000(1+ r)^2
3) The Calculations
2420 = 2000(1+ r)^2
2420/2000 = (1+ r)^2
121/100 = (1+ r)^2
+/- SqRoot (121/100) = 1 + r
+/- 11/10 = 1 + r
-1 +/- 11/10 = r
r = 1/10 or
r = -21/10
Check the solutions by plugging them in for r
$2420 = $2000(1+ 1/10)^2
$2420 = $2000(1.10)^2
$2420 = $2000(1.21)
$2420 = $2420
$2420 = $2000(1 - 21/10)^2
$2420 = $2000(-1.1)^2
4) The rate cannot be negative, so we reject r = -21/10. r = 1/10
Now, which of the four parts do you believe took up the most time? Yet, I could have plugged part 3 into my calculator or software and churned out the answers in a matter of seconds. We could have been devoting that time to parts 1, 2 and 4. Instead of calculating, we could have been asking,
Now, one might say that we could still have asked these questions, but could we? Do we? How much could we really discuss within a 60 minute class if we are spending 80% of our time doing computations? If an educator wanted to complete, say, 5 of these types of problems after a lecture, he or she would surely be stressed for time when engaging the other three parts of a math problem. This is normally the case. Educators tend to devote the majority of their time toward practicing computations while the student is left not understanding the value of the question, how or when to set it up, or what the solution truly means. We can see this whenever we slightly change a problem. When a problem, or wording of a problem, is slightly changed, students instantly become confused. This is partially due to the fact that they never understood the question in the first place; they were simply parroting their teachers' computations.
Yet, the problem above is just simple algebra. Imagine if we were using computations to solve something more tedious? Let's call upon the same problem Wolfram used in his talk. Here is the formula of the general form of a 4th degree equation (commonly called a Quartic)
ax4 + bx3 + cx2 + dx + e = 0
Quartics have 4 roots which can be represented in the following equations--we will produce one of the four below (click here for the other three):
(Equation 1: First Root (of four))
How many of these problems do you think we could compute within a 60 minute block of time without the help of technology? One? Are we starting to see what our students might truly be loosing with our unfounded calculator bias?
From here the arguments start becoming warped. Many old-school math learners were forced to use paper and pencil, and thus anything newer and faster must, by definition, be lowering our math intelligence. I think this attitude could be summed up as the "order of invention bias". In other words, the order of the invention matters to the students' development. Since the parents didn't have software and advanced calculators when they were growing up, these technologies must not be needed, or worse, they might be detrimental. The fallacy is, of course, rooted in the limited technology of even previous generations. What did the parents of our parent's lack? Look at the history of computing, and how far we have come. One wonders if these same anti-technology arguments were made over the course of time. For example, what of those who engaged in math before recording was available? They must have performed all computations within their mind, but were they better off? The fact of the matter is "order of invention" is not important to the study of mathematics. We do not need to pretend that calculating devices are not available the same way we don't need to pretend that writing/recording devices are not available. Instead of mindless computation we need to invest more time in asking the right questions, understanding and setting up the right questions, and understanding our solutions.
Yet, why don't we?
Though I disagree, the skeptic in me understands why most math educators would be anti-calculator. After all, it's probably within our interests to limit the public from these devices in order to keep demand for our skills high. Yet, why are other individuals, most of whom grew up prior to the calculator revolution, so anti-calculator? Normally their reasoning has to do with some story of the power going out while standing in a checkout line and the clerk who couldn't add in their head. Or, some myth about how calculator users aren't thinking. Before this, it used to be that it wasn't fair to the students who couldn't afford calculators (of course, it's becoming harder to make these types of arguments today). I've also heard the argument that standardized tests don't allow calculators and thus more reason why they shouldn't be used. It is my opinion that all of these arguments are weak and lacking. They are reaching at best.
Before offering a potential median for the public school math classroom, let me put forward my thoughts as to how I will personally teach mathematics to my two sons. Foremost, I will never drill multiplication/division tables (or anything for that matter) into their minds. I personally don't care if they ever remember them. At the earliest age possible I will place a calculator in their hands and free them from all this barbaric drill. I will do this so that we can jump into the more advanced topics sooner (see my blog for ways to teach math). Moreover, we will only, and I mean only, engage in real life problems where the solutions are meaningful.
With all this in mind, what are math educators to do? It is here that my advice is limited and that is simply to do your best, under the circumstances, with the time you have. There are things that I would like to do in my college math classes that I haven't the time to do. There are methods of teaching that I know are inferior to others, but I haven't the time to change them. But, given the few hours I have with my students per semester, I do my best to engage as many application problems as I can. I do my best to word my test questions so that students must demonstrate mastery. I do my best to outsource the computation process to technology so that I can concentrate on the more important parts of the problems. We can only do out best…
Read until you have something to write...Write until you have nothing to write...when you have nothing to write, read...read until you have something to write...Jeremiah
Well I love it (and your blog).
Great article! Only three things caught my eye:
A four function calculator, at a cost of about .99 cents, could answer 90% off all math questions for grades K-4. A scientific calculator, at a cost of about $14.99, could answer 90% of all math questions from grades K-8.
A four function calculator, at a cost of about .99 cents, could answer 90% off all math questions for grades K-4. A scientific calculator, at a cost of about $14.99, could answer 90% of all math questions from grades K-8.
I actually don't know the rule, so I can only bring it to your attention to check out: is it 99 cents, .99 cents, or $0.99? It's not really a big deal, as we all know what you are saying.
Most of theses same graphing calculators have statistical software capable of handling most first year statistics courses.
Most of theses same graphing calculators have statistical software capable of handling most first year statistics courses.
Most of theses same graphing calculators have statistical software capable of handling most first year statistics courses.
We can only do out best…
We can only do out best…
We can only do out best…
Thanks for the comments and the editing. It's amazing how you get tunnel vision when writing and you don't notice the most obvious errors.