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Since installing OO 3.1, I can't get the page to stay at 100%. In other words, every time I inadvertently move my fingers the wrong way, the page gets bigger or smaller. I did not have this problem with previous versions of OO. Is there anyway to fix this? I reset the zoom at 100%, only to have it change the moment I touch the trackpad the wrong way.Is there a fix for this? It's so annoying, I don't want to use Open Office any more until it's fixed.
Please help.
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
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By: Virginia Fuss
Along with National Latin Honors Society, this club is designed to bring students closer to the ancient Latin language and culture. During school meetings, they like to play buzzer games and trivia to test their knowledge in a fun and engaging way. Outside of this, bigger projects are taking place. Jackie Anderson, the president of this club, says, "We are redoing the outdoor classroom and having a toy drive for the children's hospital." Along with this, they also plan to get together outside of school to attend "toga bowling nights" or go Christmas caroling (in Latin!) in the winter.
Being a very well-constructed club, they will be able to achieve a lot this year. Of all their excursions, one stands out. Jackie is working hard to get the club and its members to take a trip to Nashville. There, they will partake in Latin and Greek education activities, such as academic bowl competitions. It's a great opportunity to show their language skills and be exposed to others learning the same culture. In all, this club is a fun way to expand one's horizons and earn credits on a national level!

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Since there are potential spoilers for SPN in the comments on Jason's MySpace blog, here's the news! ETA Jason mentions an upcoming episode of SPN in a way. Knowing the TV industry the way I do, I really don't think this is a spoiler, but some people might. end edit
My song on Supernatural!!
Well my thanks definitely goes out to Kripke! I got the call a couple days ago, and my song "I Remember" is going to be featured in an upcoming episode of Supernatural! It's a quick little snippet, so keep an eye out! I'm not sure how at liberty I am to say when and where it will appear, but I can say I think the episode is airing on May 1... I know alot of ya'll will be watching anyway, but listen a little closer as well!
in other news, i'm getting ready to come over to the UK again with Riley, Hank and Steve, and I'm really looking forward to it. Just as a reminder to everyone, there is only one show that Steve, Riley and Hank, and myself are all playing together and it is the monday night after asylum at the Opal Lounge near Birmingham. Those of you who can should all stick around and check out the show, it should be a really fun night, and a good way to end the weekend!! for more info on that and all of our other shows on this trip, please visit www.sliqueevents.com
See ya'll soon!!
hope all is well, God Bless,
Unfortunately I won't be able to go to the Monday night show since our transport back to Scotland had been booked before the show was announced, but I am going to see him over the Week of Insanity!
I really don't think it's a spoiler because Jason is an unknown artist, he says it's a "quick little snippet" which to me means that it'll be background music in a bar scene, or on a car radio, or something of that ilk. I do not believe it will be apropos to the plot in any specific way. I may be wrong, and if I am I will apologise, but my belief (and my knowledge of how TV and film works - which is what I got my degree in) is that this is not a spoiler. I will not of course try to dictate to you what is and isn't a spoiler - we each have our own opinions on that.


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I've been wanting to write for a long time now. I've been struggling with what to say and how to say it. I have a lot to say so brace yourselves.
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'm looking for some HEROES this week! I kicked off a week-long fundraiser and book drive with my amazing UBAM team to work together to donate $10,000 worth of AMAZING high-quality books and activity books to families who are staying at the Ronald McDonald House this summer!
Manically Entering 2019
Most people who have a basic understanding of bipolar disorder understand mania to be a "euphoric" state. This is NOT correct. Yes, sometimes we do feel euphoric and like superheroes that can't die which is super dangerous. But there is so much more to it than that. *CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL BLOG POST*


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This is not a new book -- it's copyright 1997 -- but I somehow missed it at the time, and I have to say that was a mistake. The more I read of Sawyer the more impressed I am, and that continues to be true even reading this older work.
The core story here is a modern day mystery; most of the actual science fiction comes in through the subplots and side stories. A whole bunch of stuff happens in this book, even though it's a short novel by today's standards, and most of it is interesting to think about. Sawyer doesn't get everything right -- there are a few points of the practical details of American society that he gets wrong, which I find slightly jarring, and there's some overarching philosophy that I don't necessarily agree with. But the science, the social speculation, and the philosophy are presented in ways that invite the reader (at least if the reader is me) to think about them, rather than beating the reader over the head with The Truth. I can't really say more without spoilers, which I wish to avoid more strongly than usual, because I'm actually hoping to encourage people to read this book.
This book isn't perfect; it has a fair number of flaws. But I find the flaws are minor and forgivable in a book that is worth reading for itself and that hopefully stimulates thinking about several matters that it's good for people to think about. This is a book I'd love to sit around and talk about with intelligent people. 9 out of 10.


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Previous generations of 911 cabin have each marked a big step up on their predecessors, and the latest 911's is little different. The 992's interior is classy, well appointed, solidly built and luxuriously trimmed, and can of course be enhanced even further with an almost endless list of optional finishes and accessories.
The basic design has certainly matured. Centrepiece is a three-spoke, 918-style steering wheel just like before, but also notable is the new instrument cluster, which comprises a traditional analogue tachometer (albeit quite different in appearance to previous 911 clusters), flanked by a pair of digital screens.
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Porsche tradition continues in that the outer edges of these two screens are obscured by the steering wheel, but the information they present (from conventional trip computers to satnav mapping) is as clear and concise as in any other Porsche.
The rest of the interior takes several cues that were introduced with the current Panamera, from a flat centre console adorned with touch-sensitive switches, to the wide touchscreen in the centre of the dashboard. The environment is certainly more traditional than the Panamera's high-tech approach, but quite different from the 991's. Different too is the gear selector for the PDK, which is one of few areas to let the side down both visually and in terms of tactility – the small lever is nothing like as satisfying as the old pistol-grip affair.
The driving position is excellent, and as a 2+2 with a surprisingly large luggage area under the front cover, the 911 continues to offer more practicality than many cars you'd consider rivals. It's a shame though that in the move towards a more GT-like feel, the old 911 bugbear of high road noise hasn't been banished – it's one of very few things that spoil the cabin ambience.


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Independent regulation of all remuneration of MPs – that's it?
(1) How fucking embarrassing. The governors of our nation admit they cannot be trusted to govern themselves.
(2) Is it really possible to have 'statutory independent regulation'? I mean, who is going to choose these regulators? From what funds will they be paid? From public funds? In which case, are they really independent?
(3) If they will be paid from public funds, how much hiring and paying and funding of this new, presumably civil service, branch of the state is going to go on? When this came up in a discussion with libertarians on Saturday afternoon, a figure of £600,000pa was posited. Small change in terms of spending, but surely part of the whole scandal is that public money is being spent not only too much, but unwisely!
(4) Brown's little press conference would have been a hell of a lot better without his autoencomium. His own Bill of Rights and Duties (ugh), and New Labour's devolution, reform of the House of Lords, etc., etc. Nobody cares or wants to hear that sort of boasting in this situation.
(5) Someone has asked what the definition of 'breaking the rules' is, under which MPs will not be able to stand in the next election. Brown has no answer. I suspect that since the running excuse is that all these expenses were within the rules – and, indeed, it appears many of the most obnoxious ones were – we will see bunches of these bastards standing again, more's the pity. (That, or Brown intends to use this ploy to neutralise his political enemies.)
(6) Brown has no response to a remark about how the public are saying that, if they did this stuff, they'd go to jail; the example given is of a shoplifter offering to return or pay for his booty. Brown's claim: not an equivalent situation, because Hazel Blears acted within the rules. No 'discipline' for her then. Aha.
(7) A radio reporter-type has said Brown should call a general election. His response: it is the system at fault, not the Government, since 'all parties must take responsibility for this.' Never mind that the real reason for an election is the total collapse of public confidence in government. When the government cannot govern – as it appears not to have done over the past three weeks – a new democratic mandate is needed. Brown must be hugely delighted on the inside that the European elections are happening so soon, as it means the public will take out their justified rage and exercise their democratic privilege there – where it will have no effect on Labour's continuing grasp-of-dead-hand hold on the UK. Once the voters have vented their spleen on MEPs, perhaps their disaffection will be purged! (He hopes.)
(8) A question about the Tamil protestors. Brown defends freedom of assembly. [Stopped listening; laughing too hard.]
(9) Brown keeps smiling – what the fuck has he got to smile about? He's also leaning on the lectern in a way that, I'm sure, Obama the Orator never would. This bizarre body language actually makes him look… bored.
Speaking of which, I'm bored now too. Most of the snide questions I was droolingly anticipating have been asked, and Brown is now wittering like a madman: a maximum of words, a minimum of meaning, and enough use of the passive voice that, if this were transcribed into Latin, the page would be littered with -turs.
Make that turds. Which represent exactly what Brown, his speech, all other MPs, and the whole rotten edifice of this state are worth.
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I thought you were a citizen of the USA. If so, why do you refer to 'my' Member of Parliament? If fact, why do you take the whole expenses mess so personally? It is never seemly for a guest to be overly critical of her hosts, and it is always wrong for a foreigner to get involved in domestic politics. (Unless you work for the CIA).
If you don't want unsolicited advice why do you have comments? You may not agree with the advice, but your profane reaction was immoderate. I thought better of you.
@ ZT: Nobody else has treated the comments section of my blog as a place to censure my manners or to suggest that I have no business expressing an opinion about the politics of the country I live in. However better than what I am you may have thought me, clearly your high opinion didn't extend to engaging with anything I wrote or acknowledging that foreigners living in the UK may have valid criticisms to make. If you don't want profane and immoderate responses, don't leave rude and snotty comments.
…if this were transcribed into Latin, the page would be littered with -turs.
As I read this, my mind translated it to "turds". Then I read the next sentence…
@ ZT: I may not be a citizen, but as long as I am resident in his constituency, Afriye is 'my' MP and represents me in the government of this country. Just because I can't vote doesn't mean I'm not represented. And I take the whole mess personally because, first, I live here and it affects me, and second, because I pay a fuckload of tax here, so that's a hefty portion of my salary being embezzled by these other twats in Westminster. Finally, I am not 'involved' in domestic politics (see: lack of franchise, supra), merely commenting on them, and I will stop being critical of my 'hosts' when they stop giving me things to be critical about. Now fuck off and don't come back until you've learned the exact value of unsolicited advice.
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Quick Definition:
Shock treatment, also called shocking or superchlorinating, is the process of adding enough sanitizing agent to a swimming pool to overwhelm any microorganisms in the water, killing or rendering their numbers small enough for safe swimming.
What is a Shock Treatment?
Shock treatment, also called superchlorinating or shocking, is a process to oxidize and sanitize water, keeping it disinfected and visibly clear. The idea behind shocking a pool is to dramatically raise the sanitation level in the water, basically overwhelming any undesired contaminates in the water such as bacteria, viruses, mold, and algae growth. Although chlorine-based shock is most commonly used, non-chlorine based shock options exist. Potassium Peroxymonosulfate is a non-chlorine based shock which sanitizes the water without raising chlorine levels.
Shocking swimming pool water is common and the recommended way to keep organic contaminates from taking hold in the pool water.
Free chlorine level must be maintained at levels 10 ppm or greater. The chlorine strips the pool water of combined chlorine, also called chloramines, of any ammonia and causes the ammonia to form gas bubbles; rising up and out of the pool water. The oxidized materials are either completely destroyed, or what is left is filtered out through the pool filter, leaving the water clear and clean.
The pool will be left with high concentrations of chlorine, at or above 10 ppm. Leaving the pool open in the sunlight will quickly reduce this chlorine level. Testing the pool water chlorine level is recommended after shocking the pool and letting the chlorine level drop after about two hours.
Some sources recommend weekly shock treatments, although chlorine levels should first be tested to determine how much shock product to add. If no combined chlorine exists, which means free chlorine and total chlorine are equal values and between 1-3 ppm, then there is no need to shock the pool.
- Pool & Spa Water Chemistry, A Testing and Treatment Guide, Waterproof Edition, 2005. Taylor"
- Wikipedia: "Superchlorination", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloramine#Superchlorination


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January Dairy Cow Slaughter Up Over December
The United States Department of Agriculture reported this week that dairy cow slaughter was up 16,000 head over December, a jump of 6.3%.
And culling through federally inspected slaughter plants was also up 3,500 head over January, 2016. However, January 2017 had one more business day than a year ago. So on a daily basis, January 2017 over a year ago slaughter actually declined about 465 head per day, or about 3.5%.
Total cattle slaughter was up 9.2% over a year ago, and on a daily basis, up 4.3%.
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The birth place of Joe Hachem is Lebanon in the year 1966. He is a Lebanese Australian professional poker player. He is not the first Australian player to win main event of WSOP in the year 2005, but even beat out many great players in a largest number of 5,618. It is a record breaking that Hachem took cash prize of $7.5 million from his very first tournament attempt. Later on he moved to Australia with his loving family during 1970's and since then he has continued living there. By the time of 1990's he started looking at poker card games more seriously and started practicing.
He held a practice of chiropractic for 13 years unless a disorder of rare blood took over it and stayed away from the poker table, he returned back in 2000 after curing. Due to the disease inhibiting in him he became mortgage broker. He became regular player of the Crown Casino, Melbourne. He won many hands in the game of Texas Hold'Em. After seeing his friend winning satellite tournament of WSOP, Hachem decided to walk along with his friend and he bought his own $10,000 to get entrance in the tournament. After his first winning of $25,850 by occupying 10th place in the event $1,000 No Limit Hold'Em, he successfully converted this amount into $7.5 million.
He created history by winning large amount of money of $7.5 million in one single tournament of WSOP. He continued playing poker in next WSOP Tournament of Circuit Main Event and stood 5th in the current tournament. He returned to the city of live Las Vegas and landed 2nd in the WSOP No Limit Hold'Em event of Short Handed, and even stood 4th in the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'Em event. He has family of four kids and a loving wife; he met her at the age of 15. He loves playing golf and dinning, even likes to smoke at a bar one of the finest cigars.


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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists working in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) seized 200 pounds of prohibited fresh dates that a passenger, who arrived from Qatar last month, allegedly carried inside luggage.
The customs agriculture specialists had referred the passenger to agricultural secondary for examination, and during the secondary inspection the traveler provided a verbal declaration on carrying fresh dates from Saudi Arabia, a CBP spokesman said. The agriculture specialists discovered and seized 10 plastic baskets containing approximately 20 pounds of the fruit in each, according to CBP.
Customs officials noted that fresh dates from Qatar and Saudi Arabia are prohibited in the United States due to the possibility of disease and insect infestation. The planthopper species, mites, and scale insects are considered pests of palm trees and their fruit. The introduction of any of these insects into the United States agriculture could be financially catastrophic, CBP officials said.
"CBP agriculture specialists play an active role in protecting the U.S. agriculture industry and I applaud the efforts that lead to this important discovery," said Carlos Martel, CBP acting director of field operations in Los Angeles.
"The introduction of foreign pests and plant diseases, even if accidental, is a significant threat to American agriculture with potentially severe consequences to our nation's farming industry and economy."
In fiscal year 2009, CBP agriculture specialists seized more than 1.5 million prohibited meat, plant materials or animal products, including 166,727 agricultural pests at ports of entry.


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An FCT high court, Maitama, on Tuesday discharged Steve Oronsaye, former head of the civil service of the federation, of the N190 million corruption charges levelled against him.
Oronsaye was also the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force, set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He was arraigned on a seven-count charge, bordering on breach of trust and diversion of N190 million meant for the committee he chaired.
In her ruling, Olasumbo Goodluck, the judge said the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against Oronsaye.
"There was contradictory evidence by the prosecution witnesses on whether the defendant was still the head of service as at the time he chaired the committee," she said.
"The court seems to discredit the evidence, suffice it to say that there is no evidence linking the accused with the statutory element and ingredients of the offence with which he is charged.
"The court of trial must as a matter of law discharge him because it has no business scouting for evidence that is nowhere to be found.
"I have looked through the case and I am unable to see any justifications for this case. The defendant is hereby discharged."
On November 15, the prosecution closed its case on after calling six witnesses to testify.
On December 9, the defence filed no-case submission, on the ground that the prosecution had no case against the defendant.
In his submission, Kanu Agabi the defence counsel, argued that there were omissions of essential elements in the charges against his client.
He said on that account the charges were imperfect.
Agabi said that the charge was initially two- count later amended to seven-count.
He said that, that was a sign that something was wrong with the charge from the beginning.
Responding, the prosecuting counsel, Offem Uket, told the court that the prosecution had proved its case, adding that the defendant should enter his defence.
Uket said it was not right to bring up the issue of imperfection of charges now, as it was against the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, (ACJA) 2015.
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While I was sitting there I noticed some strange looking "phone" booths. At first glance I didn't realize what I was looking at. But upon further investigation, I discovered, Kansas City has put in Hot Lines to God. Yes, that's right, we have Prayer Booths. They look just like phone booths, with the same blue and white markings, but instead of a phone, there is a fold out steel kneeling pad and elbow rests. Plus instructions on the inside as to how to use it. And at the very center, there's a piece of PVC pipe sticking out. I guess that's what you're supposed to talk into.
To say the least, everyone else passing by was also very impressed. I sat there for half an hour watching people walk by, take a double-take and go back to look again. Just to make sure they really saw what they thought they saw. One guy actually pulled out his camera to take pictures. I kept waiting for Peter Funt to jump out of the bushes and yell, "You're on Candid Camera." .
I guess they must be something fairly new, since there was a city worker collecting trash out of the bins, who also had to do a double-take. At least all these visitors to our city can go home and tell all their friends how up to date we are.
I also walked down to Starbuck's to get my latte'. There was a really cute hot dog vendor on the corner. I had to wonder to myself, just how hot his wiener was. When Lynn picked me up, I had to make him drive that way, just so he could salivate at the boy also. He was probably about 22, blonde hair, maybe 5'8". Looked just like a California surfer boy, and had one of those butts you just want to grab.
I have one more day of the conference, and then back to work. Some of the topics are interesting, if you find hearing about quality, interesting. There are a few pieces of eye-candy running around to help ease some of the boredom, but mostly it's middle to older age, heavy set, balding men. Of course, at my age, middle age means 50's. :)
Lynn's uncle passed away, Sunday night, so he'll be heading to Wichita on Thursday for the funeral. He was planning on going down over the weekend to visit his brother and take down the computer, anyway. Now he'll be there a couple more days. He's going to a wedding in Lawrence on Saturday, so he may drive back Friday night, go to the wedding on Saturday, and then back to Wichita afterwards. In other words, he's got a busy week of running.


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Living With Flat Affect: Like 'Resting Bitch Face' But Not Funny
We live in a time when "resting bitch face" is a joke, selfies are constant, and activist art implores us to stop telling women to smile: We're as aware of our faces as ever. But the conversation still largely excludes people who don't always have control of theirs: people with a flattened affect.
In psychology, the word "affect" refers to someone's variability in facial expression, pitch of voice, and the use of hand and body movements, according to a University of Washington Department of Psychiatry glossary. A person's affect can be "broad" (which is the norm), "restricted" or "blunted" (which both mean pared back in some way) or "flat": lacking signs of affective expression, or having a monotonous voice and unmoving face.
Think about the time you've wasted wondering if you made an awkward face when trying to remember if you knew that person you ran into on the street, or if you scrunched your eyebrows too much in that job interview. For people with flat affect, emotional expression is limited, reduced or nonexistent. This isn't an illness or a disorder in its own right, but a possible symptom of many brain conditions, such as depression, Parkinson's disease, autism, traumatic brain injury and schizophrenia, according to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMV).
Flat affect is the face of lethargy and voice of apathy: no eye rolling, no winking, no smirking. "The rise of 'Resting Bitch Face' is kind of a step in the right direction," says 30-year-old Kaille Kirkham, who says she was diagnosed with depression at age nine, and experiences a flattened affect. "Because it explains, no, my face doesn't match with my feelings—don't assume it does."
Kirkham explains it like this: "You're constantly expending energy trying to either display emotions you don't feel, or explain yourself to people who perceive your expression negatively." For her, her expressiveness dims when her depression is at its worst. Though experts are mixed on whether depression on its own leads to a flat affect, Kirkham describes a lack of connection to her emotions that she says reads across her face. "I'm mostly just exhausted at that point and have a hard time caring about anything, including how others perceive me."
At the University of the Southwest in New Mexico, where Kirkham received her Master's in counseling, she came across a description of flat affect in a textbook, and she saw herself.
"I immediately recognized it," she wrote in an email to Glamour from Tokyo where she now lives and works as an English instructor. "I've been masking my emotions in public settings since I was very young." She says she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 19, and before that her childhood was tough; her parents chose to homeschool her to protect her from the "emotional ringer" she was put through at school. "Mental illness runs through both sides of my family, so even though at six I couldn't articulate my depression and anxiety, my father recognized it." Maybe he saw it on her face.
Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D., professor and chair of psychiatry at Columbia University, said that flat affect exists on a spectrum of severity, and most who experience it, don't even know they have it. "[Flat affect] can create a dissonance in terms of how you think you're making your way through the world and navigating day-to-day activities and what's really happened. You're getting a reaction from people that doesn't align with your own self-image." And that experience can be tough. "Expression of emotion is an integral component of personal well-being; if someone's emotionality is unusual in some way, that's potentially consequential. Just like if you had asthma and you suddenly couldn't exercise—it limits you."
Let's say your co-worker, in a single conversation, shares both good and bad news: she got a promotion and her dog died. Your face would react without you having to say a word: your eyes opening in celebration; or the soft exhalation of a breath, as your mouth turns down to show empathy. For someone with a flat affect, their mouth may remain a straight line, or their tone of voice unchanged. It's like a dial tone instead of a greeting.
Having a school textbook put a name to symptoms like this is an experience Kirkham shares with Wakilah Majied, 35, who came across the definition of flat affect last year in an abnormal psychology course at community college. The New Orleans-based substitute teacher says she thought, "Wow, I have this. This has to be what I experience."
Majied's flat affect was a symptom of her schizophrenia, a diagnosis she says she received at 28. She sees a psychiatrist about once a month to discuss how she is, and to titrate her medication, but says visits are short; her face hadn't come up. But when she read the description—"still faces that show less anger, joy, and other feelings than most people"—the words on the page seemed to bridge a bewildering chasm between how she felt and how she knew she came across to others.
"I don't want to give off that reaction as if I'm not welcoming, that I'm not friendly," Majied says. But, throughout her life, she has heard that she gives that impression. As a teenager, she says her classmates and teachers told her she looked sad. Her own sister once said she noticed her appearing robotic, a blunt version of her former self. At her first job out of college, she was introduced to a co-worker's friend, and said she was happy to see her social life beginning to develop, only to later hear that the friend thought Mejied "didn't like her." In an email to Glamour, Mejied wrote that these comments made her think, "it must be something going on with my facial expressions and body language."
Mejied describes a disconnect that flat affect can create between the emotions someone feels (excitement to meet a new friend, for example) and the emotions they are able to express (such as with a heightened tone of voice, engaging eye contact or a warm expression). A study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry found that flat affect is common but not omnipresent in people with schizophrenia and depression, but some people with flat affect can move through life completely blunted.
An expressionless face might seem like no biggie when you consider the severity of delusions that people with schizophrenia can also experience (Majied said she endured terrifying visual hallucinations in her twenties, including seeing strange men on her wall and hearing voices). Not so, says Bethany Yeiser, 36, founding president of CURESZ Foundation (Comprehensive Understanding via Research and Education into Schizophrenia). "Flat affect is a devastating symptom. You might think, 'Oh well, you're just not quite interested. You're a little aloof.' But for me, that's not what it was. The biggest thing I found with flattened affect is relationship problems. I loved my mom, but I just couldn't express that love."
Yeiser was 20 years old and studying at the University of Southern California when she started to experience negative symptoms of schizophrenia, including flat affect. "I didn't know that I had it, but looking back, my parents remember seeing me during an online phone call. They said my face was just like a rock," she told Glamour over Skype.
Dr. Lieberman says that flat affect is just one behavioral symptom that occurs in a constellation of features of different illnesses, and they aren't all psychiatric. It also shows up in developmental disorders such as autism, and degenerative ones including parkinson's.
"We may disregard someone with facial masking because their facial expressions, or lack thereof, go against our social expectations. Also, it can be difficult to trust verbal communication when the facial expression doesn't match the sentiment," a daughter wrote in a blog post about her father's Parkinson's and the flat affect (or "facial masking" he experiences as a result).
As if literal communication hurdles weren't challenging enough for people experiencing this, "flat affect" is also being tossed around online as an insult. A search on Twitter delivers pro-gun activists claiming Parkland survivor David Hogg has a flat affect, as well as critics speculating that Sarah Huckabee Sanders has it. Of course, these mentions are politically loaded and mired in the stigma that surrounds mental illness, but they do raise an important point: people can appear flat, either intentionally (say, when speaking about emotionally charged topics in the public eye) or as a feature of their personality (a tendency toward seriousness, for example).
Another painful reality is medical treatment that itself comes with flat affect as a side effect. A paper published in International Journal of Bipolar Disorders concluded that antidepressants such as SSRIs can cause emotional blunting and so can antipsychotics, according to a study by the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University and published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Bethany Yeiser experienced this. Her mother, Karen Yeiser, a nurse and author of Flight From Reason, a memoir about her daughter's mental illness and recovery, told Glamour that within hours of Bethany taking one drug for her schizophrenia, a blank stare started to form on her face. "When she was at her sickest, with untreated schizophrenia, she was actually more animated and full of expression, much more than when she went on medication that had the side effect of flat affect." That's just the price you pay, she adds: "Sometimes you have to tolerate certain side effects in order to get medicine that saves your life."
But Yeiser did end up switching medications. In an email to Glamour, Karen Yeiser wrote, "Recovery was like watching her personality slowly emerge from within a dense cloud and into the light of the sun." Dr. Lieberman confirmed that the reversal of flat affect could indicate a "measure of the efficacy of treatment." Yeiser went back to school to earn her B.S. in molecular biology and went on to write the memoir Mind Estranged: My Journey from Schizophrenia and Homelessness to Recovery.
Others are still the journey to finding a medication that fits, and a way to move through life with this symptom. Mejied says, "I have to pay attention to my reactions to the different medications. I don't want my behavior to change, with regards to how I'm interacting with my family and the outside world. I worry about that." To combat her fears about how others perceive her, she says she sometimes forces herself to form facial expressions by reminding herself to try to smile back when someone smiles at her: a gesture that comes so naturally to most. "I do my best to give that same energy back to someone, but it doesn't always come across the way that it's supposed to."
Kirkham says it comes down to acting, which she took classes for as a kid and now does constantly—offstage. "When I'm not depressed or manic, I'm generally a bubbly, positive, and funny person. When I'm dealing with a flat affect, I have to keep that up, both to maintain the quality of my lessons, and so that nobody catches on." And that's no easy feat.
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Tennessee Williams Films, Now in One Box Set
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From NPR News this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.
Blanche depending on the kindness of strangers, Maggie and Brick trying to get on Big Daddy's good side. All this is found in a new DVD release, The Tennessee Williams Film Collection. Our movie critic Bob Mondello says it's a reminder of the impact that one of America's great playwrights had on Hollywood.
BOB MONDELLO reporting:
The south, as Tennessee Williams sees it, is filled with southern belles who never wear anything but a slip and handsome brutes who drive them crazy.
Ms. ELIZABETH TAYLOR (as Margaret Pollitt): You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Mr. PAUL NEWMAN (as Brick Pollitt): Then jump off the roof, Maggie, jump off. Cat's jump off roofs and they land uninjured. Do it, jump.
Ms. TAYLOR (as Margaret Politt): Jump where? Into what?
Mr. MONDELLO: Elizabeth Taylor at the peak of her career, Paul Newman just coming into his. Cat was Williams' fifth picture in six years, all based on his stage plays. No playwright had ever crossed over to Hollywood so successfully. Arthur Miller even married Marilyn Monroe, but still didn't come close. As it happens, Miller's Death of Salesman and Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire were both turned into very good films in 1951, but Death of a Salesman got nominated for five Oscars and Streetcar for 12.
Mr. MARLON BRANDO (as Stanley Kowalski): Hey Stella. Hey Stella.
MONDELLO: Marlon Brando pretty much rewrote the book on American acting when he played Stanley Kowalski. But if you think it was all Brando, that the words didn't matter even with a line with just one word like that. Well, here's an outtake where Brando adlibbed.
Mr. BRANDO (as Stanley Kowalski): Hey, honey.
MONDELLO: Honey doesn't ring quite the same does it? The extras in the Tennessee Williams film collection are great fun including lots of outtakes and a Brando screen test for Rebel Without a Cause that suggests that if he had made that film instead of James Dean, the high school rebel might actually have been a criminal.
(Soundbite from Rebel Without a Cause screen test)
Mr. BRANDO (as Jim Stark): If we could get a boat going down the river it wouldn't cost us anything, and we could go another town and live. And there I could pull a job, one job, an easy one. And that would give us enough dough to keep going.
Unidentified Woman#1 (as Judy): Well where'd we go?
Mr. BRANDO (as Jim Stark): Well I don't know. We'll go to another country.
MONDELLO: It's nice that they included that bit of non-Williams dialogue, because it points out the difference between ordinary speech and the heightened speech of even a bad Tennessee Williams script, like the one for Baby Doll.
Ms. CARROLL BAKER (as Baby Doll Meighan): Ain't they got some plan to round up destructive men and shoot them?
Mr. KARL MALDEN (as Archie Lee Meighan): Well what destructive men you talking about?
Ms. BAKER (as Baby Doll Meighan): Men that blows things up and burns things down. 'Cause they're too evil and too stupid to get along otherwise. 'Cause fair competition is too much for them, so they turn criminal.
MONDELLO: Baby Doll is supremely silly, as is the Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone in which Warren Beatty plays an Italian gigolo whose suits fit him better than his accent does.
Mr. WARREN BEATTY (as Paolo di Leo): I, too, and drifting, senior. The whole world, everybody, the stars, everything is drifting. Is it so bad to drift?
MONDELLO: By the time Night of the Iguana came along in 1964, with Richard Burton's priest fending off Ava Gardner, Deborah Carr and Sue Lyon, Williams had wandered off into seriously campy territory. Still, Street Car and Cat and parts of Sweet Bird of Youth remain pretty wonderful. And if the others depend on the kindness of viewers, well that's because Williams' career faded not with grace but with flamboyance, much as the older women in his plays always did. I'm Bob Mondello.
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- You can't make money without any skills.
- No skills No money.
The most important factor is definitely you should have some patience, after started your work. Because you will not get the money instantly. It may take time up to 3-6 months. Or more than it for some time. Without putting any effort in your work, you can't make it. So you have to remember No patience, no money
There are some short ways to get money, but it won't make any benefit to you. Those are Like data entry, captcha entry, and email forwarding, Personally, I don't refer to these types of jobs. Because of Most of, they were fake and you may have a chance to post your valuable time and effort. So please don't go for small (silly) works. Try to "Do big and get big".
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- Freelancing
- Blogging
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Web development is the great way to earn money online. If you are a computer programmer, So let me explain, how to earn web development.
First and foremost thing is you need to develop a high-quality website with your programming knowledge.
And you can start selling the products on your website.
If you are serious about it, you can make huge money.
The website should be good in performance as well as in looks wise. For Ex. (Open cart, eBay, OLX, etc.). And then you can start selling the products.
Even you can sell your own products on your website and make your business in online mode, with completely under in your own control.
2. Web designing:
Web design is also another Real way to making money online. If you can design a website for others to their requirements, you will get paid by them, for your work.
As we know very well there are so many businesses in offline right?
If you can make their business in online, So you will get money for website design. Because if they want to make the Business in online, compulsory they need a website right.
For that, They will hire a Website designer. If you can go directly to the Businessman who running their business in the offline and try to explain the benefits for online Business, So you may get the chance to get the project of web design.
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Smartphone Users from 2014-2019
If you see the above picture, you will get to understand the users of smartphones and how it is increasing year by year. So there is a big scope of app development. I will explain to you How it is?
As we know very well every smartphone users require an application on their phones and most mobile runs with apps.
If you can develop a useful app for the users. You will become a greater entrepreneur in coming years. And you can earn huge money. Just you can take an app from google play store. And let us see how it is going.
Just you can take an app from google play store. And let us see how it is going.
Ex. Automatic call recorder pro (Just I am taking this as an example)
This app cost is 2.24 dollars. And it has more than 50 million downloads.
So you can calculate now how much it is. This is the scope of app development in the Future.
Some tips for app development.
1. First what you do is, Just make an app with some feature and release it in a free version. If people started to like your app then you can release the full version and make it premium.
2. In the free version, you can also earn money through Google Adsense.
4. Freelancing.
Freelancing is the best way to make money online. I will give you some freelancing websites below.You can sign up and start.
Now let me tell you how the freelance works?
I Already wrote an article about freelancing. If you did not find click here to what is freelancing and how can we earn money from it.
If you open these websites first you can see a lot of categories for work.
Now you can choose a category, In which you have got a knowledge. Ex. (Mobile, Computer, Programmings, Design, etc.) And bid for a project. If the employer likes your profile he will give the project to you.
After you got the project you can start doing work, Once you finished the project. You will get paid.
I would say you can earn a good amount of freelance.
These are some freelance websites.
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Blogging is another great way to make money Internet. Nowadays there are so many people earning money on blogging. And again, I would say blogging is the best way if you are interested in.
So let's start how can we earn through blogging.
There are some ways to earn money online with blogging.
- Ads
- Affiliate marketing
- E-book selling etc.
First, you create a blog. Learn, How to create a blog through Blogspot and WordPress.
Blog on any particular topics like (Technology, Food, Travel, Fashion, etc.)
Let me explain each in details.
1. Adsense:
Once you finished your blog, Just Apply for Adsense. After Adsense approval, You can post ads on your blog. If any visitors visit your blog and click on ads you will get paid some amount from Google Adsense
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There are some companies who offering affiliate programs. What you need to do is, just go to the particular company website and take an affiliate program.
Once you have taken just paste the track id on your blog, So they will display ads which you have chosen. If the visitor comes and takes that product you will get some commission.
3. E-book selling:
You should write some articles on any important topics. And make it like An E-book. After made you just sell it on your blog they will pay you directly to your account.
So, these are some very important and truly Roots to "genuine way to make money online".
All The Best.
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Increased bolt support (fixit weld washers)These are the first of a series of products we are coming out with in collaboration with Shannon Campbell. By the time we're done we'll have a full suspension lineup designed and tested by the Campbell racers (Shannon, Nick, Wayland, & Bailey).
Shannon and I have talked about doing a project together for a couple of years. Garett (Ruffstuff President at the time, CEO now!) spent a week in Gilbert Arizona, working with Shannon and Nick on deciding exactly what we were going to make. Together decided these would be a great first project and they are exactly what was used in the rig Bailey has been racing (She took 5th in KOH on these!).
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If you have any questions about our products then we will answer them here.
Hi guys
Not really Strelets related, but just a heads up to those who are interested, that ive noticed Sarissa precision have now released this farm in 20mm. You can choose to buy the whole farm or parts of it.
It will be the same one as Italeri`s, as they make them for them. I pestered them in to making Rorkes drift in 1/72 in a persistent I am going to keep reminding you sort of way. The El Alamein station is available to on it`s own.
That's a good tip Roger!
I have the old Airfix Farmhouse (built and based) and I think I have a 'spare' in the back of the loft as well...but I'd have to check! The Airfix model was pretty good, and with some embellishments is still perfectly presentable: But this Sarissa model looks quite superb. It's a touch more expensive than the Airfix one though.
Interestingly, in researching the battle of Ramillies (1706) recently I have come to realise that farm buildings in that part of Belgium did not change greatly between the early 1700s and early 1800s - meaning that in fact parts of La Haye Sainte (and indeed the whole thing) are perfectly useable for the War of Spanish Succession in Flanders as well.
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Yes i too used to have the Airfix version when I was a kid. All sorts of armys fought over that farm back then!!
This is indeed the version Italeri released in their Waterloo set. I bought it beginning of last year, along with the barn and stables. The main set only came with the farmhouse and frontage (and a few sprues from Italeri's Napoleonic range), so the barn and stables had to be purchased seperately. I think the main box was somthing like £65, the Barn £30 and the stables around £25.
Now the whole farm can be bought for £75 (and without Italeri's "wonderful" Napoleonic offerings!), so still pricey, but it is a high quality representation in laser cut MDF.
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A federal judge ruled that the Constitution trumps religion. "In America even sincere and long-held religious views do not trump the constitutional rights of those who happen to have been out-voted," U.S. District Judge John Heyburn in Louisville argued.
What a fool.
Not to be outdone, "At a press conference Thursday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said people with religious beliefs who disagree with the ObamaCare contraception mandate can choose their faith or 'you don't have to form a corporation.'
"'You're born with a religion or you adopt a religion. You have to obey the precepts of that religion and the government gives you a wide penumbra—you don't have to form a corporation,' Schumer said."
Schumer claims that religious protection is only for an individual's personal views. It does not apply to persons who own and operate a business. The business is not protected by the First Amendment.
Once a person opens a business, according to Schumer, the government has ultimate claim on that business. Once a business sells to the general public, that business loses certain constitutional rights.
The Hobby Lobby ruling by the Supreme Court has driven liberals insane.
"When we wrote RFRA [Religious Freedom Restoration Act] back in 1993 we did so to protect individuals with strong religious beliefs and give them the presumption they have always enjoyed; that they should be able to exercise their religious beliefs without interference from the government. The court took that and applied it—misapplied it—to for-profit companies who exist for the purpose of benefitting from the open market, working in the marketplace under our laws."
Laws mean nothing to liberals if they can't interpret them. They'll vote for anything that will give them political cover because they know that the real power of a law is in its interpretation.
A business sells goods and/or services. People buy those goods and services. No one is forcing a business to sell anything, and no one is forcing people to buy anything. The transactions are voluntary.
Moreover, no one is forced to work at Hobby Lobby. If people don't like the religious views of the owners of a company, they are free to start a competing business and offer any benefits they want.
What business is it of the government's what benefits an employer offers to its employees? An employee can take them or leave them. No harm—no foul.
As has been repeated numerous times, no employee at Hobby Lobby is being denied anything because of the religious views of the owners of the company. If Schumer does not know this, then he has no business being in Congress. The least he should do is keep his mouth shut, because his comments are more than ignorant—they are fascist. You either comply with how we tell you how to spend your money (your religion be damned) or don't start a business.
What is it about the First Amendment that people like Chuck Schumer do not understand? The first five words are very clear: "Congress shall make NO law. . ." About what? "Prohibiting the free exercise" of religion.
Religion aside, what right does the Federal Government have to force businesses to pay for baby-killing drugs? This is the bigger question, one that is ignored by the Left and not often brought up by those on the Right.
I'll go further. Why should government be empowered to force businesses to pay anything to employees other than what was contracted when an employee was first hired? If I own a business and post a job offer, the conditions of that employment are stated in the interview. A prospective employee can take it or leave it. If it turns out that I'm unable to get good employees because I don't pay enough or offer certain benefits, it should be my decision and only my decision to make changes to my hiring policies.
Will Christian business owners be forced to paint a cross on their stores like the Star of David that Jewish businesses in German-occupied lands painted on their shops? Will we see signs with Verboten pasted on shop doors and windows of Christian businesses because of opposition to baby-killing abortifacients and Christian schools opposing same-sex sexuality?
Don't ever say it can't happen here.
There are theologians who claim that Christians are ordained to suffer in this world, so if persecution comes, it's all part of the Christian's walk with Jesus. If this is true, then why did Paul escape from persecution?
In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me, and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands. (2 Cor. 11:33; Acts 9:25)
On another occasion, Paul appealed to his Roman citizenship instead of suffering physical harm at the hands of the Roman government for the sake of the gospel (Acts 22:23-30). At one point he appealed to Caesar (25:11).
Paul used God-sanctified wisdom when needed. He did not declare that, because his citizenship was in heaven, all earthly relationships were of no consequence.
Civil government is God's creation. How is it possible that people who claim to believe the Bible will not apply the Bible to the realm of civil government? The civil magistrate is a "minister [διάκονός] of God" (Rom. 13:4). Dιάκονός (diakonos) is the Greek word translated "deacon" and is used not only of civil magistrates but of ministers in ecclesiastical government (1 Tim. 3:8, 12; Phil. 1:1).
We are entering a dangerous period in our nation's history because ministers of God's word are silent on the issues of the day.
Pastors should be using their pulpits to preach the "whole purpose of God" (Acts 20:27), especially on the issues that are pressing hard against our freedoms.
A quotation attributed to Martin Luther comes to mind:
If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not professing Christ, however boldly I may be proclaiming Christ. Wherever the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that one point.
In the end, "we must obey God rather than men" (Acts 529), and that includes pastors who fail in their ministerial task as shepherds of God's flock (Ezek. 34:2).


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Executive Order No. 116
When the Department of Agriculture (DA) was reorganized in January 1987 under the Executive Order No. 116, the Bureau of Agricultural Extension (BAEx), the Philippine Agricultural Training Council (PATC) and the Philippine Training Centers for Rural Development (PTC-RD) merged, and paved the way for the establishment of the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI).
The ATI started its operations in 1987 with 10 training centers from the former PTC-RD. A year after, more training centers were set up adding nine Regional Training Centers (RTC) and seven Farmers' Training Centers (FTC).
Network of Training Centers
In 1989, more facilities were installed -- adding seven FTCs, seven Regional Fishermen's Training Centers (RFTC) and the International Training Center on Pig Husbandry (ITCPH). Since then, a total of 41 training centers geographically located nationwide comprised the ATI's network of training centers.
Republic Act 8435
ATI's role as the DA's extension and training arm was strengthened with Republic Act 8435 or the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) of 1997.
RFTCs back to BFAR
The RFTCs were turned over to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, while the FTCs were renamed Provincial Training Centers. To date, ATI is operating with its 16 Regional Training Centers and one International Training Center on Pig Husbandry.
Quality Management System
ATI received a plaque of recognition from the Government Quality Management Committee for successfully establishing its Quality Management System leading to its ISO 9001:2008 certification. Likewise, ATI Training Centers in the Cordillera Administrative Region, regions II, VI, VIII, XII, and XIII as well as the International Training Center on Pig Husbandry have earned their certifications after complying the same ISO standards.
Under Executive Order No. 116
The Visayas State University-based ATI was the former Philippine Training Council for Rural Development built in 1978. Our center was the then ATI-National Training Center for the Visayas created through Executive Order 116. Before there were three satellite centers in Region 8 in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Sab-a Basin in Alang-alang, Leyte, and in the Visayas State College of Agriculture in Baybay, Leyte. With the restructured ATI, three centers in the region were merged and the center became one of the 15 regional training centers that serves Region 8, which has six provinces: Leyte, Southern Leyte, Biliran, Western Samar, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar


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Saffron Walden Town chairman steps down from club role
PUBLISHED: 17:12 27 July 2016 | UPDATED: 17:12 27 July 2016
Chairman Martin Johnson says he was 'proud' of Saffron Walden Town Football Club's achievements during his tenure at the club following his resignation at the Bloods' annual general meeting last Wednesday night.
Johnson, who joined the now Thurlow Nunn Premier Division side four-and-a-half years ago, was one of six existing board members to leave their posts with Phil Strong, Jon Hawker, Andy Player, Jim Duvall and club secretary Rob Thurston all stepping down.
Jon Scripps, Jim Haynes and Carol Wilson arrive as replacements for the departing sextet.
Johnson said: "It has been a privilege to serve on the board and the club has moved forward a huge distance in that time. I am very proud of what we have all achieved by working together.
"We have delivered so many major milestones – getting back into the league, signing a new long-term lease for Catons Lane, establishing the new Community Benefit Society to protect the club going forward, bringing the new mini pitches into use in the coming weeks, developing the facilities we have, and improving our position every season on the pitch with of course the amazing promotion run in 2015. The final game of the 2014-15 season against Great Yarmouth with almost 800 people in the ground will be long remembered at the club.
"I wish the new board, Stuart, Ray, Mike and all the coaches and teams the very best of luck in the year ahead. I also hope everyone in the town continues to get behind the club. We are a community club and if we all work together we can go far.
"I will continue to support the club in any way I can in the future and will certainly be cheering on the team at Catons Lane. I wish everyone the very best of luck and have no doubt the club can continue to prosper in the future. Up the Bloods!"
Thurston's club secretary role has been divided among four board members.
Scripps becomes first team secretary, Brian Wilson will be club secretary, Malcolm Nash is reserve secretary and Andrew Green is now membership secretary.
Paul Daw and Ken Vincent continue as president and vice-chairman respectively. Lee Dorrington and John Power also continue their roles
The board intend to name a new chairman and treasurer in the coming weeks.
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Nicholas is a Producer / Production Manager / First Assistant Director / Location Scout and wannabe Driftless Area resident. Nicholas is based between Milwaukee, Mineral Point, and at the hotel wherever his current film shoot has him. He has been making movies, commercials, and television shows for the last 15 years. He has shot in 30 states and on location in Sudan, Uganda, Brazil, Dominica, and Mexico. Nicholas first resided in the Driftless Area in the early 2000's when he House Managed American Players Theatre, splitting his work year between there and film sets in New York City. Finding a way to live full-time in the Driftless Area is still one of his main life goals.
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Darren is perhaps best known from the hit television series Northern Exposure where he played Ed Chigliak for six seasons. Darren's versatility spans the big screen as well, where he has worked with some of the most prominent directors in the business, including leading roles in Steven Spielberg's Amistad, Brian DePalma's Casualties of War, John Waters' Cry Baby, and Stephen Fears' The Hi-Lo Country. More recently, Darren starred in Ira Sachs' Forty Shades of Blue and guest-starred on the long-running series CSI.


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ADD / ADHD Marijuana Clinical Research
Case report Cannabis improves symptoms of ADHD
Peter Strohbeck-Kuehner, Gisela Skopp, Rainer Mattern Institute of Legal- and Traffic Medicine, Heidelberg University Medical Centre, Voss Str. 2, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by attention deficits and an altered activation level. The purpose of this case investigation was to highlight that people with ADHD can benefit in some cases from the consumption of THC. A 28-year old male, who showed improper behaviour and appeared to be very maladjusted and inattentive while sober, appeared to be completely inconspicuous while having a very high blood plasma level of delta-9tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Performance tests, which were conducted with the test batteries ART2020 and TAP provided sufficient and partly over-averaged results in driving related performance. Thus, it has to be considered, that in the case of ADHD, THC can have atypical effects and can even lead to an enhanced driving related performance. Keywords: ADHD, cannabis, performance, driving
This article can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited (see copyright info below). Available online at www.cannabis-med.org Author's address: Peter Strohbeck-Kuehner, email@example.com
Assessing the performance or impairment of cannabis users is generally problematic as there is no stringent proof of a linear dose-effect relationship between the concentration of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in blood and THC-induced impairment. The cause of the absence of such a relationship has not been identified. In this context it is rarely considered that the missing correlation may be due in part to a conceivable positive effect of cannabis on the behaviour and performance of individuals. Recently, Adriani et al. [1] gave evidence that cannabinoid agonists reduce hyperactivity in a spontaneously hypertensive rat strain, which is regarded as a validated animal model for attention deficiency hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There was also a significantly better treatment retention of cocaine dependent patients with comorbid ADHD among moderate users of cannabis compared to abstainers or heavy users [2]. ADHD was long considered a disorder limited to children and adolescents. It has now been proven that ADHD symptoms may persist into adulthood [3,4]. Individuals suffering from ADHD characteristically have an increased drive to move around and are unable to calm down. They are lacking in directed planning of their actions and the ability to assess the impact of their decisions. Their ability to organize day-to-day activi
ties is reduced, they usually have a poor short-term memory, are forgetful and tend to work in a chaotic and inefficient way. Emotionally, they are prone to impulsive outburst, excessiveness and instability [5,6]. This present case study describes a male, 28 years of age, who was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and whose response to THC suggests that such a positive effect may exist. Considering that the subject applied for the reinstallation of his driving licence gives particular significance to psycho-physical performance deficits caused by ADHD. Numerous studies have shown that various performance functions, such as divided attention, selective attention, long-term attention and vigilance are impaired [7].
Case Description
The subject had a record of several violations of the German drug control law. He also had a record of numerous violations of traffic laws, including speeding, running of a red traffic light and driving under the influence of cannabis during which a high THC concentration in blood had been detected. Seven years ago, the subject had been diagnosed with ADHD (ICD 10 F90.0) for the first time, and that diagnosis had been assessed repeatedly and independently since by several psychiatric units. There was some
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evidence from his carrier that typical symptoms were already present in childhood, they were, however, not properly recorded. Comorbidities such as addiction, including cannabis, or personality disorders were absent. He had been treated over a period of about 12 months through a combination of methylphenidate (Ritalin®, 20-30 milligram/day) and behaviour therapy. Being not sufficiently efficacious, the medication was stopped. A subsequent certificate by a specialist for general medicine suggests that ADHD symptoms were much improved under cannabis and that dronabinol (THC) had been prescribed, even though ADHD is not indicated for this drug. Prior to the first contact the subject had been advised not to consume any medicinal or recreational drug. During that first visit he showed grossly conspicuous behaviour. His attitude was pushy, demanding and lacking distance. He expressed impatience, for example by drumming his fingers on the table. He also constantly shifted position, folded arms behind his head or leaned over the table in front of him. He was not open to discussing the potential impairment of driving skills caused by cannabis consumption. As the conversation continued and he was informed of the preconditions for a positive assessment of his suitability to operate a vehicle, his behaviour became even more conspicuous and aggressive. Finally, he got up, grabbed the table, leaned forward and shouted that he needed a driving license and that he needed cannabis. Overall he showed behaviour typical of persons who suffer from ADHD. During this visit, an appropriate performance of the tests was impossible. He was then offered to undergo, at a later time, a test of the impact of dronabinol on performance. During this appointment he appeared fundamentally changed and
was not disturbed at all. He stated that he had stopped smoking cannabis, was taking dronabinol on a regular basis and that he had consumed it just two hours ago. He appeared calm, but not sedated, organized and restrained. Unlike during the first meeting he was able to accept and discuss arguments. When trying to make clear that THC was indispensable for his quality of life he became more engaged but without losing restraint. Rather, he was understanding of the position of the expert and indicated that the path to get back his driver license may be long but that he was willing to undertake it. His behaviour, motor function, mood and consciousness did not give any indications of a prior use of a psychoactive substance. The tests of performance functions that are relevant to driving skills involved the four subtests of ART2020, a computer-controlled test system, which is commonly used to assess driving performance. These subtests evaluate complex reactions (RST3), sustained attention (Q1), directed attention (LL3) and visual surveying and perception (TT15). In addition the functions of "vigilance" and "divided attention" were tested with the attention test module (TAP). The results of these tests (see Fig. 1) showed that the subject met, in all of the functions tested by ART2020, not only minimum criteria but that he achieved average or, in some areas, even above-average results. In the very demanding tests for "vigilance" and "divided attention" categories he also showed average performance. ADHD or acute effects of THC by themselves would usually impair performance particularly in these tests. A blood sample was taken after completion of the tests. It showed a very high concentration of THC (71 ng/mL serum), of the psychoactive metabolite 11-hydroxy-
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THC (30 ng/mL serum) and of the main nonpsychoactive metabolite 11-nor-delta-9-carboxy-THC (251 ng/mL serum). Such levels indicate recent as well as frequent consumption of THC-containing matters, and the analyte pattern also suggests smoking. Detection of cannabinol in hair (5.3 ng/mg) along with THC (3 ng/mg) gives evidence that the medication could not have been the only source of the THC. Only much later did the subject, who had been arrested for a drug offence a few days after the second visit, report that he had not consumed pharmaceutical dronabinol products but instead smoked cannabis just before the tests, since it was much less costly.
The present case report suggests that individuals suffering from ADHD, a dysfunction with a symptomatic change in activity levels, may – in some cases – benefit from cannabis treatment in that it appears to regulate activation to a level which may be considered optimum for performance. There was evidence, that the consumption of cannabis had a positive impact on performance, behaviour and mental state of the subject. The present observation corroborates previous data of Müller-Vahl et al. [8] suggesting that in patients suffering from Tourette syndrome, treatment with THC causes no cognitive defects. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a neurobehavioral disorder associated with motor and vocal tics as well as behavioural and cognitive problems. The authors also hypothesized that the effects of cannabinoids in patients may be different from those in healthy users suggesting an involvement of the central cannabinoid receptor systems in the pathology of the disorder. The same conclusion may be drawn from previous studies [1, 2] and the present case report, although more information on these atypical effects should be provided and the underlying mechanisms are still to be elucidated.
References 1. Adriani W, Caprioli A, Granstrem O, Carli M, Laviola G. The spontaneously hypertensive- rat as an animal model of ADHD: evidence for impulsive and non-impulsive subpopulations. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2003;27:639-651. 2. Aharonovich E, Garawi F, Bisaga A, Brooks D, Raby, WN, Rubin, E, Nunes EV, Levin FR. Concurrent cannabis use during treatment for comorbid ADHD and cocaine dependence: effects on outcome. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 2006;32: 629-635. 3. Mannuzza S, Klein RG, Bessler A, Malloy P, Lapadula M. Adult outcome of hyperactive boys. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1992;50:565-576. 4. Murphy K, Barkley RA. Attention deficit hyperactive disorder adults: comorbidities and adaptive impairments. Compr Psychiatry 1993;37:393401. 5. Wender PH, Wolf LE, Wasserstein J. Adults with ADHD. Ann NY Acad Sci 2001;931:1-16 6. Sobanski E, Alm B. Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit/Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS) bei Erwachsenen – Ein Überblick. Der Nervenarzt 2004;75: 697-715. 7. Woods SW, Lovejoy DW, Ball JD. Neuropsychological characteristics of adults with ADHD: a comprehensive review of initial studies. Clin Neuropsych 2002;16:12-34. 8. Müller-Vahl KR, Prevedel H, Theloe K, Kolbe H, Emrich HM. Treatment of the Tourette syndrome with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (∆9-THC): no influence on neuropsychological performance. Neuropsychopharmacology 2003;28.384-388.
The complete case-report was published in 2007 in Archiv fuer Kriminologie 220: 11-19.
Subtypes of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cannabis use.
- Department of Psychology, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA.
The current study examined the association between subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cannabis use within a sample of 2811 current users. Data were collected in 2012 from a national U.S. survey of cannabis users. A series of logistic regression equations and chi-squares were assessed for proportional differences between users. When asked about the ADHD symptoms they have experienced when not using cannabis, a higher proportion of daily users met symptom criteria for an ADHD diagnoses of the subtypes that include hyperactive-impulsive symptoms than the inattentive subtype. For nondaily users, the proportions of users meeting symptom criteria did not differ by subtype. These results have implications for identifying which individuals with ADHD might be more likely to self-medicate using cannabis. Furthermore, these findings indirectly support research linking relevant cannabinoid receptors to regulatory control.
Concurrent cannabis use during treatment for comorbid ADHD and cocaine dependence: effects on outcome.
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. firstname.lastname@example.com
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit substance in the United States with especially high prevalence of use among those with psychiatric disorders. Few studies have examined the relationship between concurrent cannabis use and treatment outcome among patients receiving treatment for comorbid substance abuse and psychiatric disorders. This study investigated the effects of cannabis use on treatment retention and abstinence from cocaine among cocaine dependent patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Cocaine dependent patients diagnosed with current ADHD (DSM-IV, N = 92) aged 25 to 51 participated in a randomized clinical trial of methylphenidate for treatment of ADHD and cocaine dependence in an outpatient setting. The majority of patients (69%) used cannabis during treatment. Results suggest that moderate/intermittent cannabis users had greater retention rates compared to abstainers and consistent users (p = .02). This study is the first to examine concurrent cannabis use in cocaine dependent patients diagnosed with ADHD.
Subtypes of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cannabis use.
- Department of Psychology, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA.
The current study examined the association between subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cannabis use within a sample of 2811 current users. Data were collected in 2012 from a national U.S. survey of cannabis users. A series of logistic regression equations and chi-squares were assessed for proportional differences between users. When asked about the ADHD symptoms they have experienced when not using cannabis, a higher proportion of daily users met symptom criteria for an ADHD diagnoses of the subtypes that include hyperactive-impulsive symptoms than the inattentive subtype. For nondaily users, the proportions of users meeting symptom criteria did not differ by subtype. These results have implications for identifying which individuals with ADHD might be more likely to self-medicate using cannabis. Furthermore, these findings indirectly support research linking relevant cannabinoid receptors to regulatory control.
Searching for a neurobiological basis for self-medication theory in ADHD comorbid with substance use disorders: an in vivo study of dopamine transporters using (99m)Tc-TRODAT-1 SPECT.
- From the *Laboratório de Medicina Nuclear do Complexo Hospitalar Santa Casa (LAMENU), Porto Alegre; †ADHD Outpatient Program, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Division (PRODAH), Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre; ‡Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neurociências Clínicas (LiNC), Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo; §Center for Drug and Alcohol Research, HCPA, Universidade Federal do RGS (UFRGS), Porto Alegre; ¶Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Porto Alegre; and ∥Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria do Desenvolvimento, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and substance use disorders (SUD) frequently co-occur. Although several studies have shown changes in striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) density in these disorders, little is known about the neurobiological basis of the comorbidity. The aim of this study was to evaluate striatal DAT density in treatment-naive ADHD adolescents with SUD (ADHD + SUD) and without SUD (ADHD), compared to SUD adolescents without ADHD (SUD) and healthy control subjects (HC).
Sixty-two male age-matched subjects diagnosed with DSM-IV criteria were included: ADHD + SUD (n = 18), SUD (n = 14), HC (n = 19), and ADHD (n = 11). Urine tests confirmed participants' drug use. All subjects performed SPECT scans with Tc-TRODAT-1 to evaluate DAT density in the striatum.
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Sheep & Goat Webinar Series for Beginners
Are you considering raising sheep or goats? Have you recently gotten sheep or goats and need to learn more?
N.C. Cooperative Extension will be offering an online series for new and beginning producers.
Introduction to Sheep & Goats – October 8, 2020
- During this introductory session, you will learn the difference between sheep and goats and their purposes. We will discuss meat vs dairy vs fiber and which one may be the right fit for your operation.
Fencing & Facilities for Sheep & Goats – October 22, 2020
- If you plan to raise livestock, you need to have appropriate fencing and facilities. It will look different on every farm, but there are some basics you must consider. We will discuss pasture layout, fencing, and working facilities.
Beginner Nutrition for Sheep & Goats – November 12, 2020
- Knowing what and how much to feed your animal is paramount to helping to keep them healthy. Nutrient requirements change based on the animals' stage of production. Join us for this session to gain an understanding of how to feed your animal to its potential.
The series will be offered through Zoom. All sessions will be from 6:30-7:30 p.m. EST. Registration for each event is separate. Click on the above links to register for the sessions you want to participate in.
If you have any questions, please email April Bowman, 4-H, Livestock & Forages Extension Agent – Forsyth County, Emily Cope, County Extension Director -Stokes County, Sara Drake, Livestock Extension Agent-Davidson County, or Phil Rucker, Livestock Extension Agent – Davie & Yadkin Counties.


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What's the Best Food to Eat After a Long Night of Celebrating? Spoiler: It's Chicken
So you're planning an epic night out with all of your friends. Maybe it's someone's birthday, or maybe a friend just got engaged. Whatever the occasion is, you're ready to celebrate.
Amidst the plans of bar hopping, you may forget to think about food. It is very common that food is on the back burner when alcohol is involved. That being said, it's actually really important that you eat before, during, and after a night on the town to save your body from a hangover and other adverse effects.
Here are a few awesome tips on what the best foods are to eat before, during, and after a night at the bar.
You should never drink on an empty stomach. Having food in your stomach protects many of your internal organs from being hit a little too fast by the alcohol. So what is the best thing to eat before you start drinking? High-fat content foods work the best. Stop at some restaurants with your friends before the bar and get some salmon or avocados to line your stomach for the night.
It can sometimes be hard to find a place to eat because many bars do not serve food. However, most bars at least serve some snack food. And the best snack food is nuts. Whether it's peanuts, cashews, or almonds, nuts provide a great boost of vitamin B, which is depleted from drinking alcohol.
Typically, after a night on the town, your body craves greasy foods. It's actually best to avoid these, so forget about fast food. Greasy food will just weigh down your stomach the next day. The best food to eat after a night of drinking is actually chicken. Compared to the rest of the world, Americans consume the greatest amount of chicken. In the United States, chicken is the number one source of protein.
The chicken will give your liver a good supply of amino acids that are used to metabolize and remove alcohol from your body. The good news is we offer chicken delivery!
If you're on your way home from the night scene in South Beach, fear not. We offer a great selection of options for all your chicken needs. If you've already returned home or have arrived back at the hotel, don't forget that chicken delivery is a service that we are happy to offer.


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Joined insider program and was able to download 17692. Will check out during the weekend.
can you repost the link for the Vnext please ?
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kept getting the "installation path not supported" message trying to upgrade. weird.
"For 17692 only, we recommend a clean install. See Known Issues, below. Build-to-build upgrade is currently not supported."
lool thank you working for me (Bere88)
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can someone provide a Download link for Windows Server 2019 insider preview x64 i just want an ordinary Setup Image no hyper core or HyperV or SDK or ADK
just a basic Setup Disk