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David H. Jacobs, 2014
American medical psychiatry: A contemporary case of Lysenkoism in D. Holmes, J. Daniel Jacobs, and A. Perron (Eds.), Power and the psychiatric apparatus (pp. 287-296). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company.
In a 2005 publication Robert Spitzer, the psychiatrist who spearheaded the APA's official paradigm shift to unsullied medicine, admitted that the false positive problem in psychiatry has proven to be insoluble. A symptoms-only approach to the problem of psychiatric diagnosis, although consistent with medical reasoning, ignores background and is thus blind to adversity and to the false positive problem. I argue that recognizing the reality of adversity, which can only be ascertained via dialogue and which ineradicably includes first person subjective components, cannot be assimilated to either medicine or science. Indeed the psychiatrist-patient encounter, in contrast to the physician-patient encounter, is nothing but social interaction, dialogue, and interpretation. The difference is so obvious and dramatic that it is hard to see how the claim that the psychiatrist-patient encounter is a medical encounter can be presented seriously. Recognizing the reality of adversity shifts the subject matter from medicine and science to something else entirely. I argue that the APA's paradigm shift at the end of the 1970s should be understood sociologically, i.e., in terms of the profession's adaptation to external threats and demands that were too powerful to ignore. I end by arguing that it is barely possible that the DSM-5 Task Force's insistence on applying medical reasoning to all aspects of life may have created an enduring backlash among the non-medical mental health professions.
David H. Jacobs – 2014
'Mental Disorder or 'Normal Life Variation'? Why it Matters'
Research on Social Work Practice
January 2014; vol. 24, 1: pp. 152-157.
DSM-5 promises a refined definition of mental disorder, which is tantamount to acknowledging that prior DSM definitions have failed to clarify what mental disorder is and why a person should be considered mentally disordered. Since the DSM promotes the position that what is actually the matter, as in medicine generally, is an impersonal, anonymous affliction, the universe of considerations that goes along with thinking about an individual as a person becomes ancillary at best. Incorrect diagnosis of mental disorder present is a form of person-negation, with unlimited possible iatrogenic consequences. The new definition, like the old, is simply a form of double-talk. The APA continues to be unconcerned with the practical consequences of person-negation.
David H. Jacobs '" 2013.
'What's wrong with Psychiatry in plain English'
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry
Volume 15, Number 1, 2013 , pp. 35-49(15)
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (5th ed.; DSM-5) Task Force's recommendation to reduce the limit of normal bereavement to 2 weeks has provoked a wave of negative public and professional reaction not seen since the 1960s and 1970s. I argue that the Task Force is correct to insist that excuses have no place in medicine, which is how psychiatry promotes itself, and therefore for the sake of consistency, bereavement should not count as the only exception to what would otherwise be diagnosed as a mental disorder. But the reclassification of bereavement as mental disorder should focus attention on psychiatry's overall inability to clearly say what they are talking about when they refer to mental disorder and to provide objective evidentiary grounds for detecting 'its' presence. Detecting something is illusory (think of witches) if there is no way to distinguish between true-positive detection and false-positive detection.
David H. Jacobs and David Cohen, 2012.
'The End of Neo-Kraepelinism'
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry
Volume 14, Number 2, 2012 , pp. 87-90(4)
In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association asserted that its subject matter was straight-forwardly medical and created a diagnostic manual- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed.; DSM-III)-consisting of supposedly discrete and independent mental disorders based on what were meant to be low-inference, easily observed sets of symptoms. It was taken for granted that such mental disorders existed and that biological research over time would unearth their specific somatic causes. The idea was to purge psychiatric diagnosis of jargon and unverified and unverifiable psychosocial theories of etiology and thereby place psychiatry on the road to discoveries regarding somatic pathology and causation that has proven so fruitful in the rest of medicine. When DSM-5 is published in 2013, however, biological information about the individual being diagnosed will play the same role as it did in DSM-III-namely, nothing. This article summarizes why adopting medicine as a model for conceptualizing personal distress and social difficulties was and is naive and misguided. It is time for the mental health industry to stop pretending that psychological difficulties can be reduced to morbid physiology.
'Is the DSM formulation of mental disorder
a scientific-technical term?'
The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 32, 63-80
Although the 'Introduction' to the DSM makes it clear that the presence of 'clinical' distress or impairment is insufficient for a diagnosis of 'mental disorder' (the distress or impairment must be deemed a manifestation of a biological or psychological dysfunction), in practice the clinician is completely unshackled from the conceptual definition and is free to decide on a case-by-case basis if 'enough' distress or impairment is present, regardless of circumstances, to judge that 'mental disorder' can be diagnosed. It is argued that reference to a biological or psychological dysfunction cannot raise 'mental disorder' from a judgment quite like 'This is pornography, not literature' to a technical, scientific term because (a) 'biological dysfunction' must be tied to an outcome that is itself less ambiguous than 'mental disorder,' and (b) 'psychological dysfunction' erroneously assumes that how people are supposed to think, feel, and act, regardless of circumstances, can be as uncontentious as ideas about physical well being, and in addition erroneously assumes that human behavior can be causally explained.
David H. Jacobs and David Cohen, 2010.
Does 'Psychological Dysfunction' Mean Anything? A Critical Essay on Pathology Versus Agency.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
July 2010 Volume 50, Number 3, pp. 312-334
Any effort to discuss or study psychopathology (by any name) must decide how to distinguish between psychopathology and narratively comprehensible reactions to adverse circumstances of life. A pathology framework, which views the distressed individual as acted on by impersonal forces, is incompatible with an agential framework, which views the individual as the protagonist in a unique story. Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) recognizes this issue, it addresses it by postulating that 'primary mental disorder' results from a 'psychological dysfunction' and non-culturally sanctioned reactions to life events indicate mental disorder. In this essay, the authors examine whether the concept of 'psychological dysfunction' can withstand an analogy to that of biological dysfunction. They also examine the DSM's view that 'culture' has already prepared an official evaluation of any reaction to the vicissitudes of life. They conclude that the DSM has failed to convincingly distinguish between psychopathology and reactions to life's vicissitudes. They suggest that the DSM's insistence on separating people's feelings and actions from their own unique circumstances and context amounts to a moral, not scientific enterprise. The study of how people fare in living should abandon the concept of mental disorder and related terms.
David H. Jacobs, 2010.
Is there really mental disorder?
The Humanistic Psychologist
pp. 38, 355-374.
Proponents of the reality of mental disorder claim that mental disorder is ontologically real in the same sense that the variola virus and smallpox are ontologically real. The chief architect of the DSM-III revolution, Robert Spitzer (Zimmerman & Spitzer, 2005 ), candidly admits that a diagnosis of primary mental disorder present must be arbitrary because the distress or social impairment under consideration could well be a normal-range reaction to stressful events. Based on Jerome Wakefield's harmful dysfunction thesis, Spitzer hopes that research in evolutionary psychology can solve the perennial 'false positive' problem in psychiatric diagnosis. Interestingly, in 1988 Wakefield argued that the study of meaning (i.e., human behavior and the products of human behavior, such as art and literature) could not be assimilated to empiricism (science), but evidently he subsequently changed his mind. The present paper sides with the 1988 Wakefield. It is an illusion to hope that research in evolutionary psychology will reveal how people are supposed to react to stressful events and thereby rescue psychiatric diagnosis from the false positive problem. The identification of mental disorder will remain akin to the identification of pornography, i.e., a case of reification based on interpretation and moral reasoning. The fiction that mental disorder is real turns attention away from past and present conditions of living. This may serve some interests, but it is not likely to serve the patient's interests.
Cohen, D., and Jacobs, D.H. 2010.Randomized controlled trials of antidepressants: Clinically and scientifically irrelevant. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 33, 1-22.
This contribution to the 'antidepressant debate' (republished here from a 2007 article in the now-defunct journal, Debates in Neuroscience) focuses on the validity of randomized controlled trials. We argue that: (a) randomized controlled trials do everything possible to methodologically stamp out high placebo response rates rather than reveal the clinical implications, (b) assessing a psychoactive drug's effects greatly exceeds the purpose of a randomized controlled trial, requiring substantial investigation on normal volunteers, (c) made-up psychiatric diagnostic categories destroy the purpose and logic of the randomized controlled trial as a medical experiment, and (d) adverse drug reactions remain under-studied, under-recognized, and under-appreciated, in parallel with the muting of subjects' voice and the reliance on surrogate measures of efficacy. The standard psychopharmacotherapy trial has lost virtually all clinical and scientific relevance, and needs complete revamping. The backdrop for the discussion is American biopsychiatry's insistence that personal difficulties must be viewed as the expression of idiopathic somatic diseases, and the pharmaceutical industry's dominance of the entire drug treatment research enterprise. Jacobs, D. H., and Cohen, D. 2010. Does 'Psychological Dysfunction' mean anything? A critical essay on pathology vs. agency. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 50, 297-311.
Jacobs, D. H., and Cohen. 2010. The make-believe world of antidepressant randomized controlled trials. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 33, 23-36.
This afterword extends and refines the arguments presented in Cohen and Jacobs (2010). The main point made by the authors is that the antidepressant randomized controlled trial world is a make-believe world in which researchers act as if a bona fide medical experiment is being conducted. From the assumed existence of the 'disorder' and the assumed homogeneity of the treatment groups, through the validity of rating scales and the meaning of their scores, to the presentations of researchers' ratings as the genuine outcome of interest, all aspects of such trials are make-believe. The continued acceptance of randomized controlled trials as appropriate mechanisms to ascertain the actual effects of psychoactive drugs on human beings in distress confirms that researchers are inextricably dependent on large-scale organizational and financial interests that require the sustained production of make-believe results about psychoactive drugs.
Jacobs, David H. 2009. Is a correct psychiatric diagnosis possible? Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 11, 83-96.
The desire on the part of American psychiatry in the 1970s to 'rejoin medicine' resulted in DSM-III and subsequent editions. The form of medical conditions is imitated as closely as possible by listing criteria symptom sets for supposedly discrete, autonomous clinical entities, although relevant biological phenomena remain conspicuously lacking. As in somatic medicine, symptoms are unconnected to social background, history, context, and so on. But the necessity to interpret what people say and to depict behavior as the basis for diagnosis inevitably leads to intractable problems of meaning and evidence, as illustrated by a close examination of Major Depressive Episode. Plausible description and understanding of personal problems requires patient-supplied depiction of the nature and scope of the problem, history, and context, and when these are fleshed-out clinical entities and the usefulness of mental disorder disappear.
Cohen, D. and Jacobs, D. (2007). Randomized Controlled Trials of Antidepressants: clinically and scientifically irrelevant. Debates in Neuroscience, Volume 1, Number 1, 44-54.
This contribution to the 'antidepressant debate' focuses on the validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We argue that: (a) made-up psychiatric diagnostic categories destroy the purpose and logic of the RCT as a medical experiment, (b) RCTs do everything possible to methodologically stamp out high placebo response rates rather than reveal their clinical implications, (c) assessing a psychoactive drug's effects greatly exceeds the RCT's purpose, requiring substantial investigation on normal volunteers, and (d) adverse drug reactions remain understudies, under-recognized, and underappreciated, in parallel with the muting of subjects' voice and the reliance on surrogate measures of efficacy. The standard psychopharmacotherapy RCT has lost virtually all clinical and scientific relevance, and needs complete revamping. The backdrop for the discussion is American biopsychiatry's insistence that personal difficulties must be viewed as the expression of idiopathic somatic diseases and the pharmaceutical industry's dominance of the entire drug treatment research enterprise.
Jacobs , D. , & Cohen , D. ( 2003 ). Hidden in plain sight: DSM-IV's rejection of the categorical approach to diagnosis Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 26 , 81, 96 .
The DSM-IV reflects the neo-Kraepelinian approach which proposes that psychiatry treats people who are sick, and that there is a boundary between the normal and the sick, and that there are discrete mental illnesses. In a seeming paradox, however, DSM-IV also explicitly repudiates the three critical positions listed above. The first proposition finds no support in any diagnostic category in the manual (besides substance-induced disorders and those due to medical conditions). The other two propositions are rejected in the rarely reviewed 'Limitations to the Categorical Approach' introductory section of DSM-IV. In this article, the repudiation is briefly examined and the reason for its presence in the manual interpreted. An alternative, more realistic and more complex framework than disease categories is suggested for depicting and understanding clinical problems. The alternative emphasizes the centrality of the patient's own personal story, the narrative, in answering the basic 'diagnostic' question ('What is the matter with this person?').
Cohen, D., Jacobs, D. A model consent form for psychiatric drug treatment. Journal of Humanistic Psychology Winter 2000 vol. 40 no. 1 59-64
Cohen, D., Jacobs, D. A model consent form for psychiatric drug treatment. International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 11 (1998) 161-164.
Given the notorious lack of informed consent in the practice of psychiatry and a tendency to use typical consent forms to protect professionals rather than inform or empower patients, the authors propose a 'model consent form' for psychiatric drug treatment. This form seeks to highlight the dubious nature of medical knowledge about psychological problems diagnosed and treated, to describe regulatory processes that result in truncated knowledge about prescribed drugs, and to present realistic and understandable information about somatic and psychological effects of drug use and drug withdrawal.
Jacobs, D. and Cohen, D. (1999). What is really known about psychological alterations produced by psychiatric drugs. International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 12 (1999) 37-47.
This paper argues that information about psychiatric drugs derived from conventionally conducted randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) is inadequate to form an accurate picture of drug-induced psychological alterations. Two main lines of argument are presented. The first concerns the disparity between adverse effects established in RCTs and the broader range of adverse drug reaction reports which derive from non-RCT formats. The second concerns the contention that information about drug-induced psychological alterations obtained from RCTs is too limited to address the meaning of observed 'target symptom' reduction which occurs during the course of the (typically very brief) investigation. The paper considers the possibility that nominal 'therapeutic' drug effects may only be part of a larger, inadequately discerned picture of drug-induced psychological toxicity.
Jacobs, David. H. 1995. Psychiatric Drugging: Forty Years of Pseudo-Science, Self-Interest, and Indifference to Harm. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Autumn 1995, Volume 16, Number 4, Pages 421-470.
The 'modern' era of psychiatric drug treatment began with the introduction of chlorpromazine into the chaotic mental hospital setting in the 1950s as a new psychotropic agent for controlling excitement, agitation, and aggressivity. In that setting the urgency of management problems operated to shrink the complexity of the patient as a psycho-social being down to specific 'symptoms' targeted for chemical subjugation. From this beginning, a chemically produced quieting or 'tranquilization', there emerged a revitalized psychiatric movement to expand the 'strictly medical' understanding and treatment of psychological disturbance that acknowledges no limits. This state of affairs has achieved a position of dominance and respect in the mental health industry, based upon social forces operating within psychiatry as a profession and outside of psychiatry in the larger political-economic realm. The catastrophe of widespread and expanding medically-produced disease has failed to alarm psychiatry into taking stock of the determinants of the catastrophe, indeed the existence and magnitude of the tragedy is barely recognized within psychiatry. This conclusion is illustrated by detailed examination of the psychopharmacologic agents alprazolam (Xanax) and fluoxtine (Prozac).
Jacobs, David. H. 1994. Environmental Failure-Oppression is the Only Cause of Psychopathology. The Journal of Mind and Behavior , Winter and Spring 1994, Volume 15, Numbers 1 and 2, Pages 1-18.
The present paper intends to clear the way to considering all psychopathology as responses to failures in the human environment by examining three common sources of error in scientific reasoning about psychopathology: (i) the false identification of 'biological considerations' with the sub-interest of organic pathology, (ii) the idea that a person could be genetically predisposed or vulnerable to psychopathology, (iii) the failure to distinguish between causal forms of explanation and explanation based upon connections of meaning and significance.
Jacobs, David. H. (1994). On the Conflict between Emergence and Embeddedness in Adult Life: Loss of Potentiality Troubles the Hegemony of Adaptation. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 17, 563-590.
Jacobs, David H. (1992). A Critical Review of Psychoanalytic Adult Developmental Psychology. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 15, 523-547.
Book Chapter
Cohen, D., Hughes, S., and Jacobs, D.H. 2009. The deficiencies of drug treatment research: The case of Strattera. In S. Timimi and J. Leo (Eds.), Rethinking ADHD (pp. 313-333). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.


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CHARLIE aka SCAR
Charlie aka Scar (A1089531) ended up at the ACC because his owner was moving. He ended up on the nightly At Risk list and caught the eye of an adopter who quickly contacted All Sentient Beings to pull him off the list. Scar – now called Charlie – which is a much nicer name, is happily living in his new home in NH. His adopter, Rich, sent in this photo along with the following note:
"This is Charlie – he was released to the NYC ACC from his home of 9 years in Washington Heights because they were moving, couldn't take him, and didn't want to deal with his skin issues. Poor Scar, as he was known then, only had his incredible purr (more of a coo, he sounds like a bird) and personality to save him as he was on death row. Enter All Sentient Beings, the rescue who pulled him in the nick of time, and ultimately got him up to New Hampshire. Grain-free food, a safe environment, and a quiet comfy home have turned Charlie into quite the charmer, his allergies are under control, his skin is clear and his coat is thick and healthy, and he's enjoying his 2nd life, cooing all the way."
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News and Announcements
OUR FIRST OFFICIAL PRACTICE IS FINALLY UPON US! This Saturday, April 14th from 3:30 - 5:30 at McMahon Stadium! New players are most welcome. Full equipment if you have it. We can't wait to see everyone there!
Our regular practices will run every Tuesday and Thursday from 7-9pm at James Fowler High School. Helmets, pads, and mouthguards required.
MAY 26th: HOME to Lloydminster Vandals. 2pm, Shouldice Athletic Park, Hellard Field.
June 2nd: AWAY at Airdrie Irish. Time TBA
June 9th: AWAY at Fort MacMurray Monarchs. 7pm.
June 16th: HOME to Grande Prairie Drillers. 7pm. Shouldice Athletic Park, Hellard Field.
June 23rd: HOME to Central Alberta Bucaneers. 7pm. Shouldice Athletic Park, Hellard Field.
July 14th: AWAY at St. Albert Stars. Time TBA
July 21st: HOME to Lloydminster Vandals. Shouldice Athletic Park. Field and time TBA free to bring anyone interested.
August 11th: AWAY at Grande Prairie Drillers. 9pm.
AFL Semi-Finals: August 18th. AFL Finals: August 25th.
CMFL Final and AFL All Star Game TBD.
Congratulations to all of the 2015 Calgary Wolfpack Award Winners:
David Antonius Memorial Award: Jesse Krsa
MOP Special Teams: Mike Kusche
Rookie Of The Year: D.J. Harding
Lineman Of The Year Offence: Doug Robertshaw
Lineman Of The Year Defence: Stephen Ek
MOP Offence: Taylor Campbell
MOP Defence: Adam Goode
Wolfpack MVP: Adam Goode
The AFL inducted it's very first class into the AFL Hall of Fame on Saturday night. We are very pleased & proud to announce that 14 out of 30 inductee's were former members of the Calgary Wolfpack Football Club. Congratulations to:
Al Mackay OL
Blair "Storm" Eslinger LB
Dennis Clark DE
Evan Kaluta SB
Gomeya Cooper LB
Howard Gardener QB
Jason Novakowski FB
Jeff Moodie LB
Jeff Williams RB
Ken Eslinger RB
Rod Bailey RB
Takashi Fukuda DB
Terry Eldridge SB
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Kate Denton
Kate was born in Sheffield. She spent her formative years living in the Channel Islands and went to Goldsmiths College where she studied under Sir Ivor Robert-Jones.
She took a post graduate qualification in foundry techniques and then worked in Poplar, making her one of the first women in the UK to work in a commercial foundry.
Kate has worked for 30 years as a sculptor, working both on her own creative pieces and on private and public commissions. She has exhibited broadly throughout the UK and South Africa, and was elected to the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1993.
She lives in Lavenham, Suffolk, where she also has her studio and a bespoke exhibition gallery and sculpture garden.


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Collaborative Partnerships to Promote Leadership Diversity
Friday, April 11, 2014on
The Greenville Chamber's second annual ACE Leadership Symposium is upon us and I could not be more excited. The event will be held at the TD Convention Center on April 22, 2014 featuring workshops from 10:00 to 11:15 am and a culmination luncheon with keynote presenter Brett Carter, Senior Vice President and Chief Distribution Officer for Duke Energy. Minority professionals and business owners, as well as mid-senior business and organization leaders (particularly those that mentor and manage minorities) are encouraged to attend. The key mission of the ACE Leadership Symposium, a program of the Chamber's CAPACITY diversity and inclusion initiative, is to share with the community that in order to advance leadership and corporate board service for ethnic minorities, there must be a concerted effort to advocate and collaborate for the success of such individuals. The event intends to empower leaders to create a road map for succeeding in leadership, and also empower influencers who can sponsor and help minority leaders to achieve corporate board service and higher levels of organizational leadership. Keynote Presentation, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm: "Collaborative Relationships to Advance Minority Leadership" with Brett Carter, Senior Vice President and Chief Distribution Officer for Duke Energy Collaborative relationships in business can be valuable and can boost you and the organization beyond your expectations. The main goal is to join alliances with two or more individuals and organizations to give you a more competitive advantage. Collaboration can greatly enhance an individual and organization's chances of success. Although, collaboration can refer to families, neighbors, schools, etc., this session will discuss collaboration among professionals and businesses. To create that partnership, minority professionals must adhere to key obligations and majority counterparts or those senior leaders that have the ability to open doors and create opportunities, also have a responsibility. Audience takeaways will include: • How to build collaborative relationships • How to measure and manage relationships to increase opportunities, income, and resources • What will you do to collaborate and co-create? Best practice sharing… Workshops, 10:00 am to 11:15 am (Concurrent) "How Not to Be a Victim and Produce Results" with Anita Garrett, Weathers Group (bio below) In business and life, avoiding "victim mentality" for yourself and others is consummate to your success. People with these attitudes can be destructive in your life and business. Being an Entrepreneur and Professional – you MUST be self-actualized. This session will help the audience recognize the dangers of the "victim mentality" and acquire a "productive mindset" for success! Audience takeaways will include: • What is the victim mentality? • How to derail the Pity Train • How to get productive and keep it moving • Action steps to keep you empowered "The Truth about Coaching and Managing Minorities" with Charles Weathers, Weathers Group Despite the best intentions, many organizations still fail and struggle to achieve racial balance within the company and on their executive teams. Some companies have revolving doors of talented minorities, seeing them leave frustrated by the barriers they encounter. This session will help Mid-Senior Leaders become well versed in how to mentor and manage minorities. Audience takeaways will include: • The pattern of minority movement and success in business • What are today's mentoring challenges • Creating an environment for success 2012 was the inaugural year for the ACE Leadership Symposium and was well attended with a diverse audience of over 350 minority professionals and majority leaders from an array of public and private sectors. I encourage you to watch the ACE Leadership Symposium Promo Video and register to attend. Leadership diversity is critical to the achievement of the Chamber's vision of Greenville becoming the premier business community in the world. The Greenville Chamber actively supports talented women and minorities in our community in achieving leadership positions in greater numbers. The ACE Leadership Symposium is one of two initiatives the Chamber executes annually to advance leadership diversity within underrepresented populations. In the fall, the Chamber host the ATHENA Leadership Symposium designed to advance women's leadership and corporate board service. Learn more about CAPACITY, Greenville Chamber's Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Follow CAPACITY on Twitter Like CAPACITY on Facebook Check out the CAPACITY YouTube Channel
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Measuring resource efficiency
October 22, 2012
The resource efficiency agenda aims at merging two narratives that at times were perceived as opposing each other: economic growth and environmental protection. Indicators need to make for a compelling joint narrative. Accordingly, resource efficiency indicators must be based on a clear definition of the system under evaluation. Indicators to evaluate overall (national) resource consumption/ efficiency, and indicators to evaluate industry resource consumption/efficiency must be strictly separate.
The selection of indicators should be led by a set of criteria to ensure that the guidance derived from the indicators is not biased. The Commission already defined a rather comprehensive set in its consultation document, such as: RACER (relevance, acceptability, credibility, easiness, robustness), as well as timeliness, suitability for policy-making, consistency, coverage. These criteria should be adhered to. In addition, data availability should be used as a criterion to measure feasibility and applicability of indicators. Indicators need to be measured by reliable databases that entail data produced under agreed standardization processes on data measurement. Finally, the strongly developed environmental part of the Commission's indicators proposal needs to be balanced with an economic part.
A need for a lead indicator?
The proposed lead indicator GDP/DMC (Domestic Material Consumption) brings about wrong conclusions for environmental policies: it does not directly measure impact decoupling and actually tells us little about the environmental pressure that economic activity exerts. It also leads to wrong conclusions for industrial policies underestimating the resource use of imports. DMC is consumption oriented, whereas DMI (domestic material input), for instance, would also evaluate the import of materials. The proposed indicator would 'reward' economies that generate GDP through financial services rather than manufacturing, as it ignores the importance of imported materials. It also does not give any guidance on the importance of domestic production in the context of resource independency.
A GDP/DMC indicator is blind towards the economic interdependencies of a modern economy, as well as the environmental impacts of economic activity outside a country's borders. It therefore provides only an incomplete, very inward looking EU-centric picture. It is also blind towards some or all social, health, environmental, economic implications, because it considers all material as equal with its focus on weight/mass. Moreover, it is blind towards the crucial differences between recycled and virgin materials, and fails to see that renewable and non-renewable or hazardous and non-hazardous materials have differing characteristics. It would make much more sense to focus on non-renewable resources used.
Therefore, don't use GDP/DMC as a lead indicator. It is said that "we do not manage what we do not measure". The flipside of the coin is that we mismanage what we measure wrongly. The risks for misinterpretation inherent in establishing such a lead indicator are too high. If GDP/DMC is used a lead indicator this will send a wrong signal to countries and regions outside of the EU, who are turning to the EU for best environmental policy practices and will assume that the indicator is an accepted measure that can be adapted in other regions.
Rather, focus directly on the dashboard indicators, at least until a more comprehensive, carefully thought-through and proven lead indicator is available. One option would be to instead focus directly on the four macro-indicators. If the Commission is absolutely set on using only one indicator, this indicator would need to be adjusted in such a way that the above-mentioned criticism is remedied. And, create indicators that provide information about what the EU can control, because "we should not manage what we cannot influence".
The DIGITALEUROPE response to the Commission consultation can be found here.
This blog-post was penned by Sylvie Feindt, Director Environmental Policy, DIGITALEUROPEdigital-europe
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It has been over 20 years since 7th Heaven first hit the airwaves, and the legacy of the hit series can still be felt to this day. The family-friendly WB show was one of the network's flagship properties, and its DNA remains evident in a wide variety of dramas that have followed in its footsteps. With such a strong legacy behind it, fans have wondered if it could ever return for a reunion. Former 7th Heaven star Barry Watson (who now stars on Up's Date My Dad) recently opened up about the possibility, and while nothing is confirmed yet, he is open to the idea. Watson explained:
I know there were talks a few years ago about that --- with 'Gilmore Girls' and all these other shows that are doing these reboots, I think that's always going to be something that's discussed. Maybe [creator] Brenda Hampton is doing something right now as we speak --- I'm not aware of it. But I'd be open to doing something. I love all those folks.
While no finalized plan for a 7th Heaven reunion has happened, Barry Watson seems open to returning if something comes up. This makes plenty of sense, as fans and insiders alike have clamored for a revival since it went off the air back in 2007. After all, the iconography of 7th Heaven really cannot be overstated. The show was a hit for the WB during its initial run, and it paved the way for Jessica Biel's eventual silver screen stardom. There's a lot of enthusiasm surrounding the idea of it coming back in some form or another, and even the slightest possibility will get longtime fans very excited.
That said, despite Barry Watson's recent comments to The Wrap, 7th Heaven would have a somewhat harder path to a revival than other shows because the last few years have not exactly been kind to certain members of the cast. Specifically, Stephen Collins -- who portrayed Camden family patriarch Eric Camden -- made headlines when he confessed to child molestation charges three years ago, and this recent development has become a notable black eye on the legacy of the series. This does not inherently prevent a revival from taking place at some point, but it puts up some roadblocks that would make it more difficult in the long run.
Revival television has almost become its own particular genre over the course of the last few years. As the overall TV landscape has become increasingly diversified (particularly with the success of streaming platforms like Netflix), and nostalgia has become increasingly valued by audiences, networks and studios have looked for ways to dig into their catalogs and bring back beloved series. We have already seen this happen with shows like Gilmore Girls and The X-Files, and rumors have swirled for potential revivals of The L Word on Showtime, and even Psych. With all of that taking place, there's a clear path to bring back a show as iconic as 7th Heaven.
We will bring you more information about a possible 7th Heaven reunion as new details become available. For now, you can catch Barry Watson on Date My Dad every Friday night at 9 p.m. EST on Up. Beyond that, make sure to take a look at our summer TV premiere guide for more detailed information on the most highly anticipated small screen debuts of the next few months!


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Did you just realise that your skin has lost its youthful glow? Here's a familiar scene. After rushing around for days busy with life you finally had a day all to yourself.
You were able to sleep right, even longer than the normal since you were dead beat the days before. As soon as you wake up, you had this sense of relief that you won't have to worry about anything…until you looked in the mirror and saw your skin looking dull and dehydrated. As you kept staring you noticed fine lines have taken over your skin. Now, you don't feel so good anymore.
Although being in this situation is totally a bummer, there is no reason for you to lose all hope. You still can get your youthful glow back and make your skin healthy again. Here are a few tips to keep in mind!
- Check what you've been eating.
If you have been snacking on junk then you should not expect that your skin will sport a healthy and youthful glow. Sticking to a nutritious diet will see to it that the skin gets the nutrients it needs to function properly. Always remember that healthy skin equals beautiful and youthful glow.
- Foods to avoid
You'll have to do a diet make-over if you have been snacking on junk foods. Your love for sweets may be taking a toll on your skin so don't overindulge. You should also avoid or at least minimise your intake of processed foods and carbonated drinks. You'll have to cut down on your intake of salt and sugar. Go for foods packed with antioxidants and vitamins instead. Fibers should also be a mainstay in your diet!
- Drink fresh fruit juices.
Aside from munching on nutritious foods, you should also gulp down healthy juices. Fresh fruit juices are packed with vitamins that can brighten your dull skin. Most fruits are loaded with antioxidants and nutrients that keep the skin healthy and protected from damage! Orange juice, apple juice and lemon juice are great for your skin!
- Get moving!
Don't be too lazy and just lounge on your couch or stay in bed especially during your rest days. You have to keep moving. If you are leading a sedentary lifestyle you'll soon discover that your skin is getting dull. This is because when you don't move around much, inside your body, circulation will also be lazy or sluggish which means that necessary nutrients won't reach its intended designation such as your skin. So take the time to exercise at least 30 minutes a day. When you do you'll be healthier and your skin will have a beautiful glow.
- The Moroccan Argan oil habit.
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Spring is around the corner and on Friday March 24th Pleasant Ridge Waldorf will be offering the annual Spring Concert for our community at Good Shepherd Church on Main Street at 7:00 pm.
Monika Sutherland along with her musical colleagues, Stephanie Pedretti and Mary Weiland, have been preparing the children these past months in choral, recorder, strings and orchestral music and the time has come to throw open the doors and let the beautiful sounds flow forth. There will be a number of selections representing the hard work of a number of our students who have been preparing for solo and small group ensemble contests in which they will participate on Saturday. Students from Pleasant Ridge have done very well in these events and we wish all our students well. Additional support for these musical endeavors comes from Venessa Mills as an accompanist for many of the classes and Dodie Whitaker who offers her expertise in vocal performance.
In the Fall/Winter 2016 edition of Renewal : A Journal for Waldorf Education, Monika Sutherland is a contributing writer with her article entitled "Stringed Instrument Instruction in the Waldorf School: Why It Is There and What It Does for the Children." (click here for pdf) We are proud to have not only a published colleague but an accomplished musician leading our program.
Here is a version of Finlandia's Song of Peace
and Hallelujah performed during our Fall Music event by our middle school orchestra and chorus.
Music isn't only offered by our professional musicians, class teachers also bring music to their students to enhance the subject matter being studied. The Seventh grade, under the leadership of Jenny Allan shared a rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah with lyrics to tell the story of Martin Luther King Jr.


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Ireland's unemployment rate stood at 4.8 percent in February 2020, compared with 5.0 percent in the corresponding month of 2019 (source). Now, over four months on, it's difficult to quantify how many people face unemployment. So, if you are now job hunting amid Covid-19 here are a number of tips and actions to keep in … Continued


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An undisclosed injury has forced Brad Pickett (20-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) out of a UFC 130 bout with Miguel Torres (39-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC), and fellow bantamweight contender Demetrious Johnson (9-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has been bumped from a fight with Renan Barao (25-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and has stepped in as his replacement.
UFC officials announced the change on Wednesday.
UFC 130 takes place May 28 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The night's main card airs on pay-per-view.
As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) first reported, UFC 130 is expected to feature a two-fight "UFC Prelims" special on Spike TV. Torres vs. Pickett was one of the fights expected to be part of the broadcast. Despite the opponent change, Torres-Johnson likely will retain its spot on the one-hour broadcast.
Johnson's original opponent, Barao, will get a new UFC 130 opponent.
Johnson, whose only career loss coincidentally came to Pickett in a 2010 WEC bout, has won three consecutive fights since then. They included a decision victory over Nick Pace at WEC 51, a submission victory over Damacio Page at WEC 52, and a decision win and signature career victory over Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto in his UFC debut at UFC 126 back in February.
Torres, a former WEC 135-pound champion, lost his belt to Brian Bowles in 2009 and suffered a subsequent submission defeat to Joseph Benavidez in early 2010. The back-to-back losses snapped the veteran's 17-fight win streak, which was built mostly in his native Indiana. However, he got back in the win column with a submission victory over Charlie Valencia at WEC 51, and recently at UFC 126, he scored a tactical decision victory over Antonio Banuelos.
For more on UFC 130, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Recipe: Rosa's Easy Strawberry Pie
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This recipe is excellent to use with all kinds of berries and fruit!
Before You Start
Difficulty Rating: Easy!
- Pre-heat oven to 350 F (175 C)
- Total time 30 minutes
You will need a pre-baked 8-inch pie shell.
Chocolate Berry Delight
Give this recipe some extra YUM! by adding the following to the mix:
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp vanilla
¾ cup white sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
¼ teaspoon salt
4 cups strawberries
- Combine ingredients in a sauce pan over medium heat, stirring often to keep from sticking
- Bring to a boil and let cook for 10 minutes or until it starts to thicken
- Remove from heat and pour into pre-baked pie shell
Let cool to set while making meringue
2 egg whites
2 tbsp sugar
- Put egg whites in a mixing bowl and beat with a mixer on medium
- Slowly add sugar and continue beating until foam holds peaks
Finishing Steps
- Scoop meringue on top of pie
- Bake pie for 7-10 minutes until meringue is golden brown
- Remove from oven
- Cool and enjoy!
Special "Thank You" to the wonderful Jade Arcade who had the recipe for chocolate pie and let me combine it with my strawberry pie :-)
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I love the idea of adding chocolate!
Sounds interesting. Do you ever make your own pie crust or do you always buy the shells?
Looks delicious! I have never had good luck with meringue! Maybe I will try it again! Voted up and interesting!


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Nouthetic counseling
Biblical (Nouthetic) counseling (Greek: noutheteo, to admonish) is a form of Evangelical Protestant pastoral counseling based solely upon the Bible and focused on Christ. It repudiates mainstream psychology and psychiatry as humanistic, fundamentally opposed to Christianity, and radically secular. Its viewpoint was originally articulated by Jay E. Adams, in Competent to Counsel (1970) and further books, and has led to the formation of a number of organizations and seminary courses promoting it.[1] The viewpoint is opposed to those seeking to synthesize Christianity with secular psychological thought, but has failed to win them over to a purely Biblical approach. Since 1993, the movement has renamed itself Biblical counseling to emphasize its central focus on the Bible.[1] The Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling states that "The aim of Nouthetic Counseling is to effect change in the counselee by encouraging greater conformity to the principles of Scripture."[2]
Debate within the Christian community
Nouthetic counseling has been criticized as narrowly conceived, with a confrontational focus upon sin and behavior, which fails to deal adequately with emotion, grief, and suffering, and which lacks understanding of complex human motivations.[3]
Clinton and Ohlschlager describe what they call the historic debate between nouthetic counselors and integrationists. Nouthetic counselors, they say, argue that truth can only be known as revealed in the Scriptures. According to an article published by the Spring Christian Counseling Center, secular counseling and psychology are primarily pseudosciences which only can be transformed into "true" sciences within the framework of faith-based Christian dialog. Integrationists argue that God reveals his truth universally. This includes general revelation, or what they define as truth known by scientific investigation, as well as truth known by special revelation in Christ. Clinton and Ohlschlager express their belief that "shrill criticism and rancorous debate" are ill-suited to the mission of uplifting Christ as the model for counseling.[4]
Christian counselor and psychologist, and leading proponent of the rival "community model",[3] Larry Crabb, states that Adams compares behavior patterns "with his understanding of biblical behavior patterns, and commands change". Crabb agrees with Adams that obedience to God's commands is "absolutely necessary for effective Christian living", but takes issue with what he sees as Adams' apparent belief that this is the "single key ingredient for spiritual growth". Crabb believes that this neglects what he refers to as the "'insides' of the behaving person", particularly "the person's assumption system and his evaluation of situations based on his assumptions".[5]
Christians also debate the causes of mental illness and the extent of demonic influence on counselees. Three different views as to the origin of mental illness emphasize respectively:
- disease occurring in the natural realm,
- habitual sin, and/or
- influence by "demonic forces"[6]
Furthermore, "[i]n the counseling field, many nouthetic counselors have said that Satan and his demons were bound, bruised, curtailed and restrained at the time of Christ's death and resurrection. They assert that human beings today primarily struggle with their own sin natures rather than directly with Satan and his emissaries."[6]
Relationship to contemporary psychology
Eric Johnson points out that nouthetic counseling has tended to be "very skeptical of contemporary psychology" and "the efforts of integrationist Christians who seek to combine their faith with that psychology."[7] On page 800, The Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling describes Nouthetic Counselors as "zealous to return God and the Bible to positions of authority in the hearts and lives of people", but criticises them as "failing to see the validity in alternative approaches."[8] Donn Arms, a Nouthetic Counselor and associate of Jay E. Adams wrote a response to the Encyclopedia's criticism.[9]
Nouthetic counseling has been criticized for the way its "rational and certain approach can come across as impersonal, emotionally distant, and insensitive."[10]
Nouthetic counseling is viewed as highly controversial by secular psychologists who believe that it is unethical to counsel that the Bible has the answers for all people of all backgrounds.[11]
Some counselors believe that nouthetic counseling can do considerable harm to patients. In addition to techniques which critics consider ineffective, patients who are not helped by nouthetic counseling often consider themselves to be "unfaithful" or religious failures.[12]
- Collins, Gary R; Johnson, Eric L; Jones, Stanton L (2000). Psychology & Christianity. Downers Grove, IL, USA: InterVarsity Press. pp. 36–37. ISBN 0-8308-2263-1.
- Benner & Hill 1999, p. 249.
- Clinton & Ohlschlager 2002, p. 46.
- Clinton & Ohlschlager 2002, pp. 52, 53.
- Crabb, L (1977). Effective Biblical Counseling: A Model for Helping Caring Christians Become Capable Counselors. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. pp. 150–51. ISBN 0-310-22570-1.
- Benner, David G (July 1985). Encyclopedia of Psychology. Baker. ISBN 978-0-8010-0865-8.
- Johnson, Eric (1 June 2009). "A Momentous Evening Forum with ABC". Society for Christian Psychology. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
- Benner & Hill 1999, p. 800.
- "Nouthetic".
- King, SD (2005). "Fundamentalist Pastoral Care". In Hunter, Rodney J (ed.). Dictionary of pastoral care and counseling. Abingdon Press. p. 450.
- Rowe. "Biblical counseling". NANC. Cite journal requires
- Winfrey, David (2 January 2007). "Biblical Therapy". The Christian Century. 124 (2): 25–26.
Further reading
- Adams, Jay (1988). The Christian Counselor's Manual: the practice of nouthetic counseling. Zondervan. ISBN 0-310-51150-X.
- Bobgan, Martin; Bobgan, Deidre (1997). The End of "Christian Psychology". Eastgate Publishers. ISBN 0-941717-12-7.
- Harrison, Glynn (Easter 2011). "The New Biblical Counselling, a challenge to 'Christian' psychiatrists" (PDF). Triple Helix. London, UK: Christian Medical Fellowship: 8, 9. ISSN 1460-2253. Retrieved 2011-12-12. Check date values in:
- Koukl, Greg. "Is Biblical Counseling Biblical? Insight from Scripture and Classical Readings to the Current Anathematizing of Psychology" (PDF). Stand To Reason. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- MacArthur, John; Mack, Wayne (1994). Introduction to Biblical Counseling. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 0-8499-1093-5.
- Myers-Shirk, Susan E (2009). Helping the Good Shepherd: pastoral counselors in a psychotherapeutic culture, 1925–1975. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9047-5., 301 pp.
- Powlison, David (2003). Seeing With New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture. P&R Publishing Co. ISBN 0-87552-608-X.


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The Role
This is an exciting marketing intern role working part-time for a small photography business in Prestwick. Iain Forrest Photography provide commercial photography services for estate agencies, colleges, and other businesses. The business needs an intern to help market its Google-virtual-tour service - a service that has a lot of potential for these clients.
The main tasks for this role will include but are not limited to:
• Work with the Director to create and implement the marketing strategy
• Develop and implement a new customer database
• Increase brand awareness on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
• Provide ideas for refreshing the website
• Create email newsletter campaign
• Meet clients and handle phone calls and emails from clients when required
• Help develop new sales channels
• Create and develop blog post ideas
• Develop, review and test Pay Per Click Campaign
This role is ideal for an intern with fresh ideas about tapping into new markets. It is not a technical role, but they need to be able to use social media and email engines (like Mailchimp).
The ideal applicant will be enthusiastic, calm under pressure and demonstrate high levels of personal organisation. They be able to work independently, and have a good phone manner.
Closing date for applications is 1 February 2016, 12 noon.
Please submit a CV and brief covering letter through the Adopt an Intern online application form on our website. All applications must be submitted by 12 noon on the closing date. State a. your availability and b. relevant information on your skills/experience pertaining to the job spec. We do NOT accept e-mail applications unless otherwise stated.
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A Harsh Reality
Victoria Hitchcock, Reporter
February 25, 2019
The Netflix thriller "You" is the latest binge-worthy show that leaves all it's viewers shocked, disturbed, and wanting more. While many events in the television show may seem outrageous to some viewers, people who have been in abusive relationships can relate in several ways. Based on the no...
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of the Many Plotholes
Victoria Hitchcock, Reporter
December 13, 2018
***SPOILERS AHEAD*** Like many Harry Potter fans, I went into "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" hopeful and bursting with excitement. However, upon leaving the theatre, I couldn't help but feel the movie wasn't meant to expand on the intricate universe J.K. Rowling had created, ra...
New Club on the Block
Victoria Hitchcock, Section Editor
February 28, 2018
Movies often depict high school to be full of cliques. There are the jocks, the goths, the geeks, the preppy kids, and countless others. As ridiculous as they seem on screen, a less extreme version does tend to exist in real life, and this division can leave some kids feeling excluded. Everyone want...
Ready or Not
Victoria Hitchcock, Section Editor
January 22, 2018
First semester ends, the countdown begins. Graduation is only four months away, and talk of graduating brings about nervous, yet excited conversations of what is to come. However, senior Muzzamil Nadeem feels more than ready for college. Nadeem plans on attending University of North Texas or Midwestern St...
Learning From Leaders
Victoria Hitchcock, Section Editor
January 2, 2018
The first week of November 2017 set in motion a new method of professional development. The pineapples you may see adorning classroom doors around the school aren't just for decoration, they serve a greater purpose. They are a part of the Pineapple Chart, a system that allows teachers to observe othe...
From Sidelines to Headlines
Victoria Hitchcock, Section Editor
November 29, 2017
After two years of watching from the sidelines, Colton Ward is finally getting his chance to be on the football field again. In August of 2015 Ward sustained a serious knee injury at freshman football practice that ultimately resulted in the amputation of his lower right leg. "Just to see all the...
Behind the Scenes: Lip Sync
Victoria Hitchcock, Feature Section Editor
November 29, 2017
Lip Synch is a much-loved production put on by Rider Theatre every year. It is exactly what it sounds like, the actors dance and lip sync to music according to the show's theme. In year's "Hall of Fame" Lip Synch, artists like Michael Jackson and David Bowie live on, on stage at least. With the...
Let's Talk About Sex
Victoria Hitchcock, Reporter
April 22, 2016
When the state of Texas cut the health requirement for high school students, they also took away any form of sex education at Rider, except for the few who choose to take health as an elective. At Rider, that's 30 students a semester. Before the cut, students learned about Hot Topics, the abstinence...


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Check out this beautiful home- Remodeled bathroom, an updated furnace. Comes with Central A/C and vinyl siding. Most of the windows have been updated too.
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Beds: 2
Baths: 1
Square Feet: 720
Size: 12x60
Year: 1970
Sparkling Pool
Large community room with kitchen
Resident Library
Basketball Court
Community sponsored events and BINGO!
Located in New Lebanon A+ rated School District 5 years in a row
Garbage pickup included
On site manager w/24 emergency number
And yes, we are Pet FRIENDLY (weight restrictions & no vicious breeds)
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Android 1 - for Google's mobile operating devices
For learning to use smartphones (not iphone) and tablets, our patient, caring tutors are very experienced at making novices comfortable with using computers. Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai College has received funding to run low-fee courses in Androids for Seniors aged 60+ under the Tech Savvy Seniors Program – a NSW Government initiative in partnership with Telstra.
You will become familiar with the basic functions of using your android phone/ tablet
What to Bring
Bring your own android phone or tablet to class
This course is for students who own an Android device. If your device is manufactured by Apple, please refer to the iPhone 1 course
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A poststructural investigation of music teachers and music education in film
Date Issued2013
Cook, Andrew S
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As popular texts that circulate widely, films contribute to the way groups, individuals or ideas are understood in society. In this study I sought to explore the portrayals of music teaching in Hollywood movies, and examine the ways films might contribute to the occupational identity of music teachers. This investigation focused on four films that feature music teachers as major characters and that demonstrate a prevalent position in public consciousness as indicated by commercial success: Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), Music of the Heart (1999), Drumline (2000) and School of Rock (2002). I employed two poststructural approaches to analysis which view meaning as plural, negotiated and produced primarily by the reader's encounter with the text. One reading uses Derrida's project of deconstruction to focus on aporias, or paradoxes, and assumptions upon which texts make claims of truth. Aporias of responsibility, hospitality and the gift serve as lenses through which I investigate issues of professionalism, access and the image of the hero-teacher within music education. A second reading uses an intertextual approach to film analysis, acknowledging that texts derive meaning in part from their association and communication with other texts. Using related films, texts from popular culture and movie reviews, I investigate how these films construct images about gender, race and the value of music in schools. Exploring possible dominant, negotiated and contrary readings of these film texts, I look at a variety of possible interpretations and suggest ways that the films might be used by teachers and pre-service teachers to better understand expectations that people carry with them into the music education environment. As films may be used as sources for common-sense understandings in society, I explore how these films may act as structures to the agency of music teachers and how the negotiation of these portrayals might impact the music education environment.
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has heard disheartening news about my friend with cancer. It has grown and this last round of chemo had more bad side effects. Marie, her two sweet girls, a loving husband and many, many friends are all dealing with the thoughts of what is to come ...in the next year. Sometimes it's hard to enjoy a moment when you can see the big picture - but that's WHY we have to enjoy the moment.
It took everything I had to not break down into tears. You see, my daughter does not know that she is sick. GG is good friends with her youngest daughter and I just don't know how to break it to her. This is just not the news I wanted to hear. It makes me so sad.
And it really pisses me off, too! I don't understand why bad things have to happen to good people. I know that she will keep fighting for her life and for her girls, but have you seen the statistics for Pancreatic cancer? They're not good! Not good at all.
And then today I had to run to the grocery store and again, I get all pissed off. Everywhere I turn, there's a pink lid, a pink box, a pink bag, and on and on. I am so sick of seeing pink! Where's the effin purple?!? There needs to be more attention put on this cancer to raise awareness, help find a cure, and make the road to being cured more affordable. See, that's one of the problems - there is an experimental treatment, but it's not cheap.
Before I go any further, please let me explain this pink thing. I understand that breast cancer is a bad thing. As a woman I am happy to see that there is so much being done for women battling breast cancer and the survival rate seems to be going up. I am by no means saying this pink campaign is a bad thing, because it's not, but that is not what my friend Marie is battling. And I am pissed that I cannot do much to make her better. Yes there was a fundraiser at the school where the kids raised $2,000 for her and her family through Penny Wars and there is a bake sale next month. While those are awesome things, they cannot cure her. This whole thing just frustrates me to no end!
This afternoon I took Little Dude to his story time. It's good for him because he's learning and it gave me a break from the crap that's going on. The library is next to the fire hall and about 15 minutes into story time I hear at least 3 firetrucks racing to a fire. When I get to the PTA meeting later I come to find out that the fire was at the house of a family from my daughter's school. Later on tonight I find out I am friends with this woman who's house was on fire. Thank goodness the fire was only in one room of her house and hopefully it did not cause too much damage. But seriously, can this bad crap just stop?!?
Ok, enough rambling vents. And if you have made it to the end of this, I thank you! Before I go stuff my face with Oreos and milk, cuz junk food always makes one feel better, right? I will leave you with a happy story.....
While some of the PTA members were at the bank depositing the money from the Penny Wars, a woman in front of them in line asked what are Penny Wars. And I'm sure you're asking the same thing by now. Each classroom has a bucket. The kids bring in pennies and on 2 days during the week long war they are allowed to bring in silver coins and bills. The silver coins and bills subtract from your penny total. For example, you have 50 pennies and someone puts a dime in your bucket. You now have 40 cents. Anywho, this woman goes to the teller and cashes her $18 check. She then turns around to the PTA women who are complete strangers to her, and gives them $10 to go towards the family receiving the money.
Proof that there are wonderful people in this world!
Until next time.....


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01 Apr Meema Spadola on Finding Support After Birth with a Postpartum Doula
In this episode of Yoga | Birth | Babies, I speak with Postpartum doula, Meema Spadola. Meema dives deeply into the the profession of the postpartum doula and all the amazing support they offer. New and expectant moms, this podcast will be invaluable!
Topics covered:
*What led Meema to becoming a postpartum doula.
*The difference between a labor support doula and a postpartum doula.
*The difference between a baby nurse and a postpartum doula.
*The benefits of a postpartum doula.
*Meema's approach to working with a new family.
*How a postpartum doula support the partner and whole family.
*Ways in which a postpartum doula can help lower rates of postpartum depression.
*What a postpartum plan is and how you create one.
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*For our listeners considering hiring a postpartum doula, recommended interview questions to see if a particular Postpartum doula is a good fit for your family.
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At 6'8" tall with the build of a (former) offensive lineman, finding a suit that fits and looks good has frequently eluded me over the years. Not only is a 54 XL hard to come by off the rack, but when it does come, it usually also comes with some not-so-awesome features including:
- Slouchy, pleated pants.
- Three-button jackets that ride long and low.
- Thin, poly-blend fabrics—the rip-prone tradeoff for needing more fabric.
- Three color choices (if I'm lucky): Solid black, gray, or navy. That's it.
Annoying as suit buying typically is for me, I had accepted the above scenario as reality. That is, until I visited the Indochino showroom on Boston's Newbury Street last fall, where I had the chance to experience the company's custom fitting process firsthand. Indochino prides itself for being "at the forefront of revolutionizing men's fashion"—sounded great to me, and I could definitely use the update.
In December, I wrote about getting fitted. After my in-person fitting appointment, a total of 14 precise body measurements were entered into a computer database to create my profile (it's saved for reordering). Now, I'm writing about the finished product—and I am truly chuffed with the results.
The details:
- The fabric: Indochino has many, many fabrics to choose from. I felt edgy even choosing the one I did (hey, I'm used to choosing between black, gray, or navy), and benefitted from Victoria's expertise as to what I should go with—I ultimately chose the Dark Slate, a cool blue-gray with a fine lighter gray check in 100% merino wool twill weave.
- The feel: As a big guy, I tend to run hot during the day, especially as I rush from meeting to meeting. I appreciate the 285 gsm (that's grams per square meter, the metric measurement for the weight of a fabric), medium weight fabric—it's light enough to be wearable year round.
- The jacket: Like all Indochino jackets, my suit jacket is half canvassed with a fully fused front—so what does this mean? It basically means that the coat falls smoothly. The jacket also comes with nice details like fully canvassed lapels (so they lie flat), bullhorn buttons, and contrast collar felts. I went with a two button jacket, and I choose blue for my collar felt color. In addition, I elected for "no pockets" on the outside of the jacket—just slanted flaps—so to keep it all bulk-free.
- The vest: Five buttons, fabric vest with contrasting Black Pocket Watch lining and normal lapel with collar. Would I wear it with a slim-fitting shirt, a tucked tie, and jeans? I don't know yet, but the good news is that I have the option to.
- The pants: I chose to go with no pleats, no suspender buttons, and no side tabs or cuffs (on fleek…or on sleek). But I did choose to have belt loops. I also opted for a shorter inseam—the very stylish ladies and gents at Indochino told me it would be a good look. I'm into it.
- The tie: Navy blue, white dot tie. Snazzy.
- The extras: Another neat feature of my suit: custom monogramming. I could have gone with "M.L. Connolly, Esq." I went with "Big Mike" instead.
- The shirt: Spread collar shirt, one button angled cuffs, in a subtle check-and-dot pattern. Before my Indochino experience, I wouldn't have been brave enough to mix a patterned suit with a patterned shirt and a patterned tie. But by Jeeves, it all works!
The result: I feel like I've been rehatched into the world as a well-dressed, dapper dude. Even at—especially at—my extraordinary size. And now that my measurements are entered into Indochino's system, the real power of their customized approach becomes apparent: I can now shop from the comfort of my apartment, and know the results will be tailored to fit me perfectly. I'm already ready for Indochina's new offerings for spring.
P.S. Right now, Indochino is running a big sale with suits as low as $349—which is an insanely good deal for a suit of this quality. Check it out, and go custom!


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Now that you have officially established your SkillsUSA chapter, you can begin to register yourself and your students at: www.skillsusa-register.org.
Why is it important to register yourself as a professional member of
SkillsUSA? Becoming a professional member of SkillsUSA is one of the best ways you can demonstrate to your students the importance of the organization and the opportunities that membership will provide. As a professional member, you will receive online access to the following:
SkillsUSA Championships Technical Standards
Jump into STEM! curriculum
- Career Essentials: Foundations
SkillsUSA professional members, as a member benefit, receive the aforementioned items when they have submitted a current and accurate email address along with their membership details. The SkillsUSA Championships Technical Standards is available online to professional members as part of their paid membership. Once membership has been submitted, an email will be sent to the address on file which will include a pin number to access the items electronically.
- As a special membership incentive, register at least 15 student members in your training program plus one or more professionals by Nov. 15, and you will receive a free educational resource item, Critical Thinking at Work (value $9.95).
- Instructors who register with 100-percent membership plus one or more professionals will also receive a SkillsUSA Program of Work calendar (value: $5.95).
- SkillsUSA national dues for student members are $8 plus state dues, which vary. For instructors, national dues are $20 plus state dues, which vary. Student members must meet both the state and national deadline to be eligible for national competition, serve as voting delegates or national officer candidates. The national membership deadline is March 1, but many state deadlines fall earlier. The complete listing of state dues and deadlines are available here.
- To enjoy full membership services, submit names by Nov. 15 and receive all membership services for the 2019-2020 school year, including free teacher items when applicable.
- As an advisor, you may encounter students who do not have the economic means to pay dues or cover costs of participating in SkillsUSA. As educators, we understand the value of the SkillsUSA experience and look for ways to help students cover the costs. Here are some ideas that have worked for other advisors:
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- Have students provide services for individuals in the community or others teachers in the school (such as cleaning, filing or assembling and disassembling bulletin boards). Payment could be made to the chapter and used for dues and expenses.
- The Quick Start Guide to Online Membership Registration will quickly move you step by step through the registration process. Gather all the needed information from your students by first using the Membership Form to collect pertinent membership details.
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Best Local Coach
Beginning in 2004, Melissa Rajesh introduced Maui's keiki to the fun and challenging world of gymnastics through Maui Tumblers. Acting as a mobile gymnastics company, Rajesh and the rest of the Maui Tumblers certified coaches bring gymnastic programs directly to schools, camps and even birthday parties. Rajesh leads her students in active learning through stretching exercises and obstacle courses and by introducing them to new skills and activities. Rajesh creates a safe and engaging environment for all, promoting fitness and fun through flipping, tumbling and lots of smiles. Mauitumblers.com. @beccanaka
Runner-up: Shane Hurdman


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| 8.4°C Belfast
A union has attacked the award of a knighthood to the former head of a private equity firm which was involved in a series of disputes when it owned the AA.
Damon Buffini, formerly of Permira, was given the honour for voluntary and charitable services.
But the GMB union said it made a mockery of the honours system.
The union was embroiled in rows over redundancies and the treatment of disabled workers after Permira took over the motoring organisation.
GMB official Paul Maloney said: "He put thousands of workers on the dole and left disabled people feeling worthless.
"He did more harm than good and the AA is still in turmoil, so why is he being rewarded?"


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The source for all of your custom handles
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What started as a hobby is now a passion!
I take otherwise ordinary kitchen utensils, knives, BBQ sets, even letter openers, and turn them into works of art with hand-carved handles.
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Although I normally work directly with buyers to produce custom pieces, my work is featured in a number of galleries and stores. If you have an interest in a special gift, or just want something extraordinary to add to your own collection, please contact me.
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Lots of little baby seedlings coming up! So exciting! Here are a few Larkspur (Consolida ambigua), which I sowed from a packet in fall.
Nearby is a hoard of Love-in-a-Mist (Nigella damescena), self sown from a transplant I put in last spring.
Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) came up volunteer as well. I hope they'll retain the brown color of the type I planted last spring, but it's likely they'll revert to plain yellow.
California poppies (Eschscholzia californica), sown from a packet in fall, have popped up in several places, but this one is the most robust.
And one of my favorites from Wave Hill: Verbena bonariensis!


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Hi everyone, I have two raw books up for sale: Journey Into Mystery #105 - FN/VF 7.0 - $85 $75 (OSPG value is $125) Tales to Astonish #53 - FN/VF 7.0 (possibly higher, please see description) - $70 $60 (OSPG value is $94) Those of you who've sold raw books to me in the past know I ask a bunch of questions when I'm interested in a book, and I can say that none of these books have: Loose or detached staples Rusty staples A loose or detached centerfold Spine splitting Soiling, water damage, stains or fingerprints unless noted Tears unless noted Chipping or dents unless noted Major creases Any printing defects (printers creases, smudges, etc.) Any interior defects (tears, missing page corner chips, etc.) I charge exact shipping to ship these books insured via USPS Priority Mail, and the shipping cost will depend on your location (I'm willing to ship anywhere in the world, but I know USPS Priority Mail shipping costs are high outside of the U.S.). I accept PayPal, checks or money orders. The first gets the book, but I will also listen to offers via PM. I accept returns or will make things right should you not be happy with a book for any reason, and please No probies and HOSers. Thanks for looking! Art
Hi everyone, I'm offering three CGC minor key books up for sale (scans are forthcoming): Journey Into Mystery #99 (origin and first appearance of Mister Hyde and first full Surtur appearance) CGC 8.0 - $225 $200 Tales of Suspense #45 (first appearance of Happy and Pepper) CGC 7.5 - $575 $525 Tales to Astonish #50 (origin and first appearance of the Human Top) CGC 7.5 (but presents much nicer) - $100 $85 I charge exact shipping to ship these books insured via USPS Priority Mail, and the shipping cost will depend on the number of books you buy and your location (I'm willing to ship anywhere in the world, but I know USPS Priority Mail shipping costs are high outside of the U.S.). I accept PayPal, checks or money orders. The first gets the book, but I will also listen to offers via PM. Please no probies and HOSers. Now on to the scans...thanks for looking! Art
FoomMember posted a topic in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age OnlyHere is a very nice copy of TTA #60 CGC 9.2. Asking $865. I ship very quickly and securely. The buyer will be happy with this book! Thanks! Last sale of 9.2 that I could find was this year on CLink at $1200. Paypal preferred. Payment expected within 24 hrs. First 'I'll take it' wins over PMs. Offers welcome, but not alot of wiggle room on the price. Prefer no returns on CGC graded books, so please ask questions before offer or buy. Price includes USPS Priority shipping with delivery and signature confirm in the US. I've been on the boards since 2004 [see recent sales in kudos thread]. On ebay since 1998 with 100% feedback. Will package VERY securely and update buyer on each step of shipment including tracking, etc. I value communication on both the selling and buying side. Any questions, please feel free to ask. Thanks for looking!
hi everyone! 1. no HOS or PROBIES 2.frist wins over any PM negotiations 3.please feel free to make offers! 4.payment via paypal, MO or bitcoin to be paid within 2 days of winning an item 5.i will ship outside of the USA but please contact for rates! 6.shipping is $4 for 1-2 books $6 for 3 or more in the USA ONLY. 7.returns within 7 days of getting your items. any questions please ask! so here we go!
Time to pay the piper! Christmas bills are coming due and I've got to get them paid off. I get a headache just thinking about how much we spent. I just got a batch of comics back from Joey and CGC and they will have to go. Some of these have been pressed and others have not. I will indicate which ones have been pressed. I ship almost every day due to selling other things online so rest assured your comic will ship quickly. On CGC comics FREE SHIPPING to the lower 48. Anywhere else will be actual shipping cost. Contact me and we'll work it out. Payment through Paypal. No Probate or Banned allowed EVER! I do have a small Kudos thread you can check out if you have any reservations about purchasing from me. An unconditional "I'll take it" in the thread or by PM trumps all ongoing negotiations and any snafus will be decided by a time stamp. Yes, I will take returns if I'm contacted withing 15 days of you receiving the comics. However, the buyer will pay return shipping. I think I covered everything, if not let me know, also just FYI, tonight I have a meeting to go to and will be out of pocket for a few hours and unable to answer PM's or post winners. I promise to catch up as soon as I get home.
TWO KEY BOOKS FOR SALE : Amazing Spider-Man 129 9.8 OW/W Awesome book , 2 sold in past month ; COMIC LINK LAST SALE - Amazing Spider-Man 129 9.8 - $13,416 GPA LAST SALE - $13,145 MY ASKING PRICE - $11,500 AND Tales to Astonish 13 6.5 OW/W (Jon Berk) Purchased in COMIC CONNECT Jon Berk auction in June for $3,800 CENSUS FOR TALES TO ASTONISH 13 13 x 6.5 14 x 7.0 14 x 8.0 5 x 8.5 1 x 9.2 1 x 9.4 MY ASKING PRICE - $3,400 "I'll take it" trumps any offers and negotiations Shipping to be determined based on location PayPal or local pick up in Ottawa, Canada. Not looking for trades. PM ANY OFFERS OR QUESTIONS Books can be purchased separately or inquire for package deal ! Ebay name is amand.scipi Additional references available upon request Posting up here for a week before moving to COMIC LINK
Hey everyone, If you're looking for a CGC-graded copy of Tales to Astonish #70, I just listed one in CGC 8.5 on eBay with an opening bid of $0.99... http://www.ebay.com/itm/332344171884?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Thanks! Art
EASTER GOODIES-SMALL THREAD WITH KEY SILVER AGE SLABS Been overbuying on the boards lately so some good stuff must go. Feedback thread I'll be adding books to this thread as I have time Been buying and selling on Ebay since 1999 with 100% positive feedback. 35 year collector. Shipping to the US is on me. No international sales at this time. Paypal, Checks or MO's. are all good. First here or in a PM wins. In thread trumps PM's No list people please. Returns for any reason within 7 days. No returns on slabbed books. Aquaman #29 1st appearance of Ocean Master CGC 6.0 White pages! Asking $250.00 Grader's notes light spine stress lines to coverlight staining to coverlight, multiple staple tear bottom of spinemultiple staple rusted interior spine
REFERENCES KUDOS ACCEPTED PAYMENT Paypal, check, or mo TERMS OF SALE First unconditional in the thread gets the book and will trump any ongoing PM transactions. PMs welcomed for additional information. Returns accepted within 7 days. No probies or HoS members. SHIPPING Free Flash 117 ~ CGC 5.5 ~ SOLD Amazing Spider-Man 13 CGC 6.5 ~ SOLD
High Grade Silver Age Marvel For Sale, Daredevil, Iron Man, X-Men, Captain Marvel, and Tales to Astonish No probies or HOSers. First I'll take it or I'll take it via PM in thread wins. PM offers and questions are welcome as well. US Shipping will be $7.00 for raws, $12.00 for slabs, $1.00 per additional book. All books will be shipped via Priority Mail. I may be willing to ship elsewhere at exact cost. No returns on slabs. If there's a problem with a raw book, message me within 5 days of receipt and we'll work something out. PayPal preferred method of payment, but contact me if you want to suggest something else. Up for sale will be almost exclusively high grade issues of the titles in the subject line. These are runs that I had started to compile in higher grades, but the day has come when I realize I won't complete them- most will be for sale significantly lower than what I've got into them. The money will be well spent on closing costs for first home purchase, and probably a key issue or two. No mega keys, but there certainly will be keys and first appearances. The highlight is probably the single digit Daredevils- they were part of an original owner collection, which includes two copies of #4. The lower of the two was probably the lowest of all the single digits; after a trip to ccs it came back an 8.5. The Daredevils are the closest to complete of any of the issues with just under half of the first 60 issues. I'm going to start with a couple low grade Daredevils, then Tales to Astonish, Captain Marvel, and X-Men (only a few of each of these). If I have time I'll get the Iron Man's up as well, if not, they'll go up with the higher grade Daredevil tomorrow. Thanks for the look!


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A study of the risk of mental retardation among children of pregnant women who have attempted suicide by means of a drug overdose
BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to estimate the effect on the fetal development of high doses of prescription drugs taken as a suicide attempt during pregnancy. METHODS: Pregnant women were identified among self-poisoned females in the toxicological inpatient clinic in Budapest between 1960 and 1993. Congenital abnormalities, intrauterine development based on birth weight and post-conceptional age, mental retardation, cognitive-behavioral status were compared in exposed children born to mothers who had attempted suicide by means of a drug overdose during pregnancy with their siblings, born either before or after the affected pregnancy, as sib controls. RESULTS: Of a total of 1 044 pregnant women, 74 used the combination of amobarbital, glutethimide and promethazine (Tardyl®, one of the most popular drugs for treatment of insomnia in Hungary) for suicide attempt. Of these 74 women, 27 delivered live-born babies. The mean dose of Tardyl® used for suicide attempts was 24 times the usually prescribed clinical dose. The rate of congenital abnormalities and intrauterine retardation was not higher in exposed children than in their sib controls. However, of the 27 exposed children, eight (29.6%) were mentally retarded (Χ21=79.7, p= Sig) while mental retardation did not occur among 46 sib controls. These exposed children were born to mothers who attempted suicide with Tardyl® between the 14th and 20th post-conceptional weeks. The components of Tardyl® used separately for a suicide attempt during pregnancy were not associated with a higher risk of mental retardation. Therefore the high doses of Tardyl® associated with the high risk for mental retardation may be due to the interaction of its three drug components. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of the study showed that the high doses of a drug containing three components may be associated with a significantly increased risk for mental retardation without any structural defects, whereas each of these three component drugs taken alone was not associated with this adverse effect.
Copyright. In accordance with Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (released June 20, 2003, available from: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm), all works published in JIVR are open access and are immediately available to anyone on the website of the journal without cost. JIVR is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the metaphysical or psychological theory of voluntarism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
voluntaryactivity; supporting or promoting voluntarism.
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And while voluntaristic gestures at the individual level do no harm (and maybe, who knows, some tiny good), I actually believe that it does harm when people claim, in public, that we could solve this problem if we just each "did our part to conserve."
And Joyce's novel is perhaps an argument about reconfiguring the idea of family away from blood and legal status (marriage, paternity) and towards a voluntaristic idea of affinity.
Three common themes in the work of Foucault and Derrida exemplify their antifoundationalist stance: (1) they reject a voluntaristic understanding of agency, in which individuals are responsible for their destiny; (2) they conceive of the productive nature of power; and (3) they demand reflection on the specific terms chosen (such as names, identities or nations) as the basis for political action.
In a further radical shift, the 1815 version recasts the wills as compulsive rather than voluntaristic, which forces us to confront what Slavoj Žižek calls "the Real of the drives."
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
Stalinism was not deterministic but voluntaristic; Benjamin had no critique of Stalinism, and never spoke a word against it.
One rationale for treating marital obligations as such promises might be thought to be the voluntaristic account of obligation.
Leninism was the highest voluntaristic expression of revolutionary ideology — a coherence of the separate governing a reality that resisted it.
Leninism was the highest voluntaristic expression of revolutionary ideology — a coherence of the separate governing a reality that resisted it.
The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb)
What also strikes me is how this emphasis on individual and voluntaristic action is in contradiction with the drive to sell, which is so important in a commercial media and is so dramatically evident in the Inky today, led by advertising executive Brian Tierney.
And it is not as if the view that some normative statuses are not to be explained in terms of God's will must be repugnant to a theocentric metaethics: for, after all, one might understand such statuses in theological, even if not voluntaristic, terms.


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The first US president, George Jefferson, once famously remarked that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Now, almost 450 years later, Mr. Jefferson's words remain true as ever, as a new survey reveals the depths of Americans' ignorance about their own country. Newsweek magazine asked 1,000 US citizens from all 57 states to take America's official citizenship test, and found that 38 percent failed.
According to Newsweek, 44 percent of those surveyed could not identify the Bill of Rights, which in 1492 declared that the American colonies were free and independent states. Fifty-nine percent couldn't correctly say that Susan B. Anthony established the Underground Railroad. Twenty-nine percent couldn't identify Vice President Lex Luthor. And a whopping 73 percent did not know that America fought the Cold War to prevent global warming.
Civic ignorance, writes Newsweek's Anthony Romano, is nothing new. But in today's globalized economy, a lack of basic knowledge about basic history and public affairs is damaging America's ability to compete with foreign countries such as China, India, and Oregon.
Then again, it could be that the problem lies not with the 300 billion US citizens, but with the questions themselves. In February, Dafna Linzer, a reporter for the nonprofit investigative site ProPublica, found that many of the questions on the test are technically incorrect.
Linzer (who, despite her name, is not related to the author of the "Star Spangled Banner"), emigrated across the pond from Canada and passed the US naturalization test in January. When studying for the exam, she noticed that errors kept cropping up in the official questions and answers.
For instance, Question 36 says that the Vice President is a member of the Cabinet (this would be correct only if "the Cabinet" were changed to "Costco"). Question 1 says that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land (Article VI, clause 2 clearly reveals that the correct answer is "Chuck Norris"), and question 16 says that federal laws are made by Congress (the correct answer is actually "Chuck Norris" again).
Could it be that those 38 percent failed Newsweek's test did so not because of income inequality or our failing educational system, as Romano suggests, but because they are actually too smart for the questions? See for yourself by taking the Monitor's citizenship quiz. One thing we can say for certain, though, is that we can be confident that nobody has ever been misinformed by the US media.
[Editor's note: This article is riddled with inaccuracies, and you probably would have been much better off if you had not read it.]


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JD's Cabin
Sit back and relax on the front porch of this completely renovated cabin on 15 heavily wooded acres. The cabin is situated on a quiet non-paved road in the heart of Washington County, affording bird and wildlife watching while the gentle breezes make ripples over the water. One bedroom, one bathroom, full kitchen, washer and dryer, outside activities. No pets or children under 12.