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Ready out of the gutter: Superchunk at Cat's Cradle, Wednesday, April 15.
Superchunk, Hammer No More the Fingers
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
Wednesday, April 15
I've been trying to remember the last time Superchunk played, you know, a normal hometown gig, and I'm drawing a blank: Last year, they gigged for Barack Obama outdoors under the warm spring sun and for Cy Rawls inside a sweaty Cat's Cradle; previously, there was the show with then-labelmates Dinosaur Jr. in which both bands only pulled from their first three albums, a Tsunami benefit, an Alejandro Escovedo benefit and Merge's 15th anniversary party almost exactly five years ago.* But when's the last time the quartetclosing in on two decades of two lineups and two namessimply got up on stage and played a casual set for the locals? Last night, April 15, actually.
Before Superchunk even launched into slow-building, rangy opener 'Tiny Bombs," guitarist Jim Wilbur was apologizing for the way things would go: Hammer No More the Fingersthe young Durham trio often compared to Superchunk but, with real harmonies and songs that shift direction three or four times in as many minutes, generally more complexhad just impressed a slowly gathering crowd with a tight set that comes road-reheaesed. Superchunk, a sporadically gigging band for the better part of a decade, doesn't have that anymore. Last night, then, was an admitted warm-up gig for the band's set in California at the Coachella festival on Saturday, and Wilbur (and likely the rest of the band) anticipated that working the rust out might mean a few mishaps. He was sort of right: At one point, frontman Mac McCaughan pawed away at a tune's opening chord and could only repeat it, as Wilburright hand in the air, much like a hitter holding off the pitcher from the batter's boxtuned. After a few numbers, including the unreleased and hooky 'Crossed Wires" (I've been humming it all day), drummer Jon Wurster smiled big, as if relieved the band made it through the previous four minutes mostly intact.
The apologies really weren't necessary: The predominately local crowd (a few people drove from Pennsylvania and New Jersey for the rare stand-alone Superchunk gig) wasn't looking to nitpick as much as they were ready to listen. Many stood with arms crossed, tapping feat and mouthing words to 17 cuts from one of the area's deepest catalogs. A small but passionate pit developed down front, pushed into frenzy by cuts like 'Cool" and 'The Popular Music." They cheered when McCaughan, dressed in a white Carolina Hurricanes T-shirt, scolded the New Jersey Devils and laughed when Wilbur riffed on Pete Seeger and Judee Sill.
Hell, the band was all right, too: The guitars of 'Driveway to Driveway" moved in those familiar fits in the verses and arches in the chorus, and 'The Question is How Fast" nailed every turn with sharp rhythm. Interspersing the old with the new, the obscure with the obvious, Superchunk covered all of its bases, dropping into the smolder of 'Like a Fool" mid-set before crushing 'Precision Auto" in the first encore and 'Slack Motherfucker" in the unplanned second. And, as reported, this doesn't look to be a victory lap for the band: Playing 'Misfits and Mistakes" and 'Learned to Surf," both tunes from new EP Leaves in the Gutter, only seemed to ratchet the band's consistent energy level higher, Laura Ballance pogo-ing more for both of those than a classic like 'Tie a Rope to the Back of the Bus."
It was the sort of set that suggested Superchunk didn't needed a warm-up gig before heading to the weekend's big show in California, even if they felt the need to apologize for bad things that never actually happened.
*David Menconi points out that the band also played Sept. 1, 2006, at Cat's Cradle for OSCS's anniversary. Thanks, David.


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Hamdan bin Zayed offers condolences on death of Mohammed Al Mazrouie
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A 60-year-old woman was rescued after a fall at McConnells Mill State Park. The incident happened just before 10 a.m. Saturday along Alpha Pass Trail. WFMJ-TV reports the woman was hiking with family members when she fell over a small embankment. First responders used a stokes basket to pull her back up to safety.
She was taken to the hospital. Her condition is unclear at this time.
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association voted Friday to delay the start of fall sports two weeks in order to continue discussions with the Wolf Administration about whether or how sports can safely take place. The board said its hopes to "work collaboratively" with Wolf and the Department of Health to discuss fall sports. The Governor along with the departments of Health and Education strongly recommended that the no sports take place until January of 2021.
Extracurricular activities in the Blackhawk School District are on hold after a student tested positive for COVID-19. School officials told families yesterday that a student-athlete is in isolation after the positive test. Sports practices and other activities are scheduled to resume August 24th.
The P-A Department of Health says the Commonwealth's total number of COVID-19 cases is now up to 118-thousand-847 since the start of the pandemic. The death toll related to coronavirus complications reached 73-hundred-14 through Sunday's announcement. More than one-point-two million COVID-19 tests have come back negative for the virus thus far. Lawrence County has 390 cases and the death toll is now at 16.
Police in Sharon are investigated a shooting that resulted in a woman's death. The shooting took place Saturday morning just after 12:30. Police said they found 23 year old Kelli Johnston with a gunshot wound to the head. She was first taken to Sharon Regional Hospital then flown to St.Elizabeth's Hospital in Youngstown where she died. 20 year old Ezra Daye was arrested by police and is in the Mercer County Jail charged with criminal homicide. The investigation is ongoing.
Allegheny County Health officials are reporting their single lowest one-day total of new COVID-19 cases since late June. They added 61 new coronavirus cases Sunday, bringing the countywide total to 88-hundred-57 since the start of the pandemic. There was one new death related to COVID-19 complications announced for Allegheny County Sunday, with the death toll now at 259.
State Police in Mercer County report a woman faces charges after she was found passed out in her car with two children. Police said the incident took place last night just before seven o'clock. 38 year old Lindsey Cambert of Mercer faces charges of Endangering the welfare of children and DUI.
Police say three people are in custody following a drug bust last week in Butler. A search warrant was served at a home on the 100-block of Heim Avenue, with police seizing more than three ounces of methamphetamine, cash, guns, and other drug packaging paraphernalia. Shayne Lipka, Jesse George, and Jams Francis are each facing charges.
The Pittsburgh Pirates upcoming series against the St. Louis Cardinals is being postponed because of the coronavirus. The first game was scheduled to be played Monday. The Cards have not played a game since July 29th because of an outbreak within the clubhouse. There have now been 27 games postponed because of COVID concerns.


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My School, TTWR School, Balanagar, I feel, is one of the best schools in Mahabubnagar district. It is a very convenient point as it is situated on the national high way and the ambience of the school is quite inviting and welcoming. I took admission in VI class in this school in 2012 with an ambition to become a teacher. Later I got selected for Civil Service Foundation Course in IX class. This was the turning point of my life as my goal shifted from IAS to IPS with the inspiring words of our beloved Secretary Sir. I remember the great quotation, "Think like Genius, Work like Giant and Live like a Saint."
My school offers everyone to take part in many activities like games and sports, E-plus Club, Youth Parliament, Ignite Fest, W-Plus Club, dancing, singing etc. I am fortunate enough to be one of the School Council members and the Literary Secretary of the Emerald Group. Students of every class in our school are divided into four groups like Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald and Topaz. Many competitions are being held among these groups.
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10 Magnificent Trails You Have To Hike Around San Francisco Before You Die
In San Francisco, we are lucky to have so much nature at our disposal. And better yet, comfortably hiking year round in California is possible and a breeze. So, take the time to explore our beautiful city and add these 10 magnificent hikes to your list before it is too late. There are many gorgeous places at your fingertips in San Francisco, so narrowing it down to 10 was difficult. Read on and fall in love with these hiking trails. Happy trails!
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United Way of GSC Kids of Character: Sophie Blakeslee
Name: Gerald (Jerry) Hudnall
School: Canton Central Catholic High School
Residence: Perry
Age: 63
High school alma mater: Ellet High
College: University of Akron
Family: Single
What do you teach? Honors English 4, English 4, Holocaust Literature and Genocide Studies.
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A: Watching students excel.
Q: What is the most challenging part of your job?
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A: I like to listen to records on my parent's console stereo from the 1960s.
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He is able to work closely with some of our most gifted students while guiding others who are new at facing the challenges of high school or struggling with the subject matter. Whether he is in the classroom or the gym, Brian DeLap is a true professional, an asset to our school, and a master teacher by any definition.
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Mozambique set up checkpoints along its border with Malawi to prevent an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo from spreading to the country.
Travelers coming from Malawi will be monitored for the disease using a scanner, Hidayate Kassim, the provincial health director of the Zambezia region in Mozambique, told reporters, citing reports of "suspected" cases of Ebola in Malawi that have not been confirmed. Malawi has no direct border with Congo, but it borders Zambia and Tanzania, which both do.
Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases on Earth with a fatality rate as high as 90%, is among a handful of illnesses governments consider a threat to national security. The current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which began in August 2018, has infected more than 2400 people and killed more than 1800, making it the deadliest since a 2013 epidemic.
Mozambique has not yet reported a case of Ebola and the checkpoints are precautionary. It joins Rwanda in stepping up preventive measures. Congolese health authorities this week said they'd detected a third case of Ebola in the eastern city of Goma, a key trade hub of about 1 million people close to the Rwandan border.
Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, the Central African Republic, Burundi, South Sudan and the Republic of Congo all border the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organisation declared the current outbreak of Ebola an international public health emergency in July.
"Setting up Ebola checkpoints is a guideline given by a decision of the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization to prevent the spread of the disease to other countries," Kassim said.
The Mozambique scanners started operating on Saturday in the Milage and Morrumbala Districts in Zambezia and they are expected to expand to other areas that border Malawi.


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I was in sixth grade. We used to move a lot back in those days. I've lived in six different places so far, and what I hated about it was not about leaving friends behind (I went to the same catholic all-girls school and I never made friends with neighbors. Too many dog-eaters and gossips); I hated packing.
Anyway, we lived in a house in project 4. I can't put the entire address here, but it was near Kalantiaw. It was a small house -three tiny bedrooms, one bathroom, and one outhouse, a kitchen next to the dining room, a living room and a veranda. The house also had weird wall carvings. There was one on the veranda wall: a Mindanao scene with Muslim princesses and servants holding umbrellas over their heads and whatnot. Another one in the dining room depicted the Last Supper (hardy har) and another one near the bathroom depicted two tribal urns. We lived there for about two years, and then my mom decided that the house had gotten too small for us, so she decided to rent a house in Pasig instead.
A lot of funny things happened that day. A lot of funny things happened at that house, actually. Once, we had a caterpillar infestation. I guess it doesn't sound all that weird, but our house didn't even have a proper garden. What we had were an old tree stump that held a coconut cup with an orchid in it, clumps of aloe vera and a small patch of caribou grass that passed as our front lawn. The caterpillars were everywhere for days, maybe weeks. Our neighbours didn't have this problem, but we did.
The day we were going to move, the moving truck didn't make it to our house because it had engine trouble. We called out for another truck, which also didn't make it to our house, because of a minor accident en route which involved electrical wires. My dad joked about how someone or something didn't want us to leave.
On moving day, my sister and I were the only ones in the house. My other sisters hated packing and had disappeared before we could ask them to help. Sunny and I were in her bedroom, tying up books in bundles. The bedroom had a window that faced an old, disused shed next to the outhouse. I've never been inside that shed. It was always kept locked. We were almost finished tidying up when we heard noises coming from the shed. It sounded like random things were falling to the ground: plates, pieces of metal, etc. My sister and I looked at each other, scared, and she suggested that we sing a gospel song to drive whatever was making the noise away (I was a Roman Catholic in those days, and so was she. Still is). We started singing, and trying to finish tidying up as fast as we could. I was tying a piece of twine around a bunch of books when we both heard it: someone, or something, was singing along with us, and the voice was coming from the shed. The padlocked, disused shed. The voice sounded amused, and it knew the words to the song. Remember, no one was in the house except me and my sister. My dad was sitting near the gate. My sister and I ran for the door as fast as we could.
After a few hours in the sunshine, I felt brave enough to go back inside and finish cleaning up. I don't know where my sister went; maybe she joined my other sisters. Anyway, I walked back in, broom and dustpan in hand, and walked through the living room to the dining room. The moment I got there, I heard another noise: like somebody was breaking dishes and throwing silverware against the metal sink. I summoned all my courage and peeked into the kitchen. There was nothing there and the sink was empty. I ran back outside and didn't go back in alone.
I've never been back to see the house. Last I heard, somebody had built another floor and was using the house as a rehearsal studio.
I don't know if you believe my story or not, but I have no reason to lie. I'm 25 and I have a kid now, and I'm no longer as starved for attention as I was back in my teen years. Besides, I may have been a lot of things at any point in my life, but I was never a liar.
P.s. If you live/d in project 4, Q.C., Philippines and you think you may know the house I'm talking about, drop me a line.
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Pillar content is a strategy of content marketing that intelligently structures central and secondary content. The basic content is the actual pillar content around which topic clusters are grouped. The long-term effect of this approach is the position of an expert on a particular topic. For many keywords – especially long-tail keywords – this position has a positive effect on Google ranking. Pillar Pages give Google a clear signal of the relevance of a website for a specific topic.
Understanding the rules of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not always easy, mainly because the search engine algorithms are constantly changing. However, it is important to always stay updated, because this is the only way you can ensure that your blog posts achieve a good ranking in the search results. A current trend that you should definitely pay attention to in this regard is topic clusters and content strategies that are designed to build authority for such clusters.
The search behavior of users has changed, as has the technology that is used to interpret and generate search results. So far, longtail keywords have been the focus of most SEO strategies. But a lot has changed here and new approaches come to the fore, which also affects the structural organization of your content.
In this post, we want to take a closer look at how user search behavior has changed, the benefits of SEO strategies that focus on topic clusters, and what pillar sites are all about.
Some of the other Content related Guidelines:
- What is thin content?
- What is duplicate content?
- What is Evergreen Content?
- What is hidden content?
- What is Content Seeding?
What is Pillar Content?
Pillar is the English word for a pillar, or support. The catchphrase Pillar Content stands for a paradigm shift in content marketing. The trend is moving away from a purely keyword-oriented SEO strategy towards focusing on topics. A pillar page provides comprehensive, at the same time compact information on a topic. A topic or content cluster is grouped around this pillar page.
- The term cluster stands for a cluster of similar elements that have to be brought into a certain structure.
The secret of effective pillar content is to structure the many aspects of a topic. The pillar is the starting point for further, specialized content. An example:
- The main topic (corresponding to the main keyword): the bicycle.
- Content cluster: mountain bikes, racing bikes, e-bikes, bicycle repairs, bike tours, cycling in summer and winter, accessories and spare parts for bicycles, advantages of bicycles as a means of transport.
This content strategy is primarily not a question of format, but of structure. The content can be presented in various forms – for example as texts on a blog, but also as videos, graphics, e-books, podcasts, or picture galleries. Correct linking is crucial for cluster content. This is primarily based on long-tail keywords, i.e. longer search queries that do not consist of just one key term. An example: "How do you repair a gear shift on a bicycle?" Or similar.
Why is Pillar Content So Important?
Aligning content to search queries that are entered verbally is becoming increasingly important. Because simple keywords are increasingly replaced by formulated questions. Some of them touch on several aspects of a topic. And some of these questions are also asked in colloquial language. That means: Search engine optimization of content is becoming much more complex. In inbound marketing it used to be enough to rank well for a simple keyword, today it is necessary to consider almost all possible questions.
But how do you target topic-oriented questions instead of simple keywords out? This is where the Pillar Content concept comes in. Pillar content is core content, i.e. the basic pillars of a topic. Secondary content is gathered around this core content so that the website as a whole captures all aspects of a topic. So two points are important here:
- The core topic (pillar content)
- The secondary aspects relevant to the topic (cluster content).
The actual pillar page is the basis for the content cluster. Certain secondary aspects of the topic can in turn have sub-pages. This creates a kind of tree structure with hierarchical levels.
It is important not to lose sight of the central term, which can usually be focused on a single keyword.
Google search is changing.
Search engines are getting smarter every day. Google has become excellent at scouring huge amounts of content for relevant content pieces and returning the most suitable results to the searcher. Pages with too many irrelevant internal links are punished. Just like "keyword-stuffers" – these are pages that are filled with keywords – often without context – to manipulate search results – without giving the reader any value.
It is therefore not surprising that Google has changed the way search results are displayed. It is no longer about keyword-relevant results, but about subject-related results. Since the RankBrain update in 2015, Google has been able to compare keywords and sentences from past searches with similar topics. The result: a real context-controlled search results page! For Google users, this means that if you search for a specific topic now, you will get relevant results like never before. Regardless of which keyword you used to get there. Even if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, Google smart is smart enough to find out by using the context of the search query. Google knows what you meant, not just what you typed in!
We search differently in Google.
At the same time, the way we search has changed. At the beginning we typed single words, often the most important keywords were included. When someone was looking for a restaurant in Hamburg, they would type "Hamburg Restaurants" and click through the search results to find one that was nearby. As the search engines became more intelligent, users entered longer searches. Rather, as they said: "Where is there a restaurant near me?" In 2017, 64% of all searches contained four or more words.
Users enter longer, formulated search queries
Imagine you were looking for a sushi restaurant. Do you simply enter "restaurant" in the search box or rather a longer query like "Japanese restaurants near me"?
The majority of users choose the second variant: 64% of all search queries contain at least four words. In addition, an increasing number of users are entering phrased sentences as search terms, as this enables them to achieve the most suitable search results.
One reason for this is the increasing use of voice input. Thanks to Siri, Google Assistant, and Co., 20% of all Google searches on mobile devices are done by voice. And given the growing popularity of Amazon Echo and Google Home devices, it is expected that this number will continue to grow.
But this is not the only reason for the longer searches. The amount of content with which the Internet is flooded plays a role here, because quantity is not always the same as quality. So users with more targeted searches try to bypass the flood of unusable information and limit the results from the outset. Furthermore, more and more users are moving to just skim Google search results and focus on blog post headings and highlighted Google snippets. Because they often provide rough answers to their questions.
On the other hand, search engines are also getting better at filtering out the most relevant results from thousands of contents.
The quality and accuracy of search results increases
Google is continuously optimizing its algorithm in order to continuously improve the relevance of search results. For example, Google takes action against the excessive use of irrelevant internal links by no longer having formulated search queries checked for individual keywords. Instead, they are now interpreted as a unit. The company also uses artificial intelligence to interpret certain search terms more precisely.
In other words, Google helps users find exactly what they were looking for – even if their search query wasn't formulated optimally. For example, if you type "running shoes", Google will now show results for "sneakers". For bloggers and SEO experts, this means that when creating content, they need to be even more careful about closing any gaps that could prevent their content from ranking well.
In order to cover as many variants of search queries on a particular topic as possible, it is advisable to structure your website with regard to various core topics. This core content is then linked via hyperlinks to more specific blog posts on specific longtail keywords (in formulated form). And that brings us to the thematic cluster model.
Topic clusters enable better rankings and more relevant search results
So far, most bloggers and SEO experts have focused on achieving a high ranking for certain keywords with individual blog posts. However, with such an approach, content is usually poorly structured and users find it difficult to find the information they want. In addition, this approach means that your own contributions on similar topics compete with each other in terms of their ranking.
Until recently, this was our approach, and the structure of our content was roughly as follows:
However, if you want to achieve a high ranking these days and also want to provide the best answers to searchers, a new approach is needed: the topic cluster model. First, select the topics for which you want to achieve a good ranking in the search results. You then create the content based on certain keywords that are relevant to this topic and that are interrelated. The aim is to comprehensively cover a topic area in your own content and thus build SEO authority. With the changeover to this model, our blog structure is now designed in such a way that many different articles are arranged around a topic (cluster) and linked to other content in the cluster via hyperlinks:
At the heart of this model is an optimized page architecture, which is designed to arrange and link URLs in such a way that multiple pages of a website make it into the Google ranking – and users can find the desired content more quickly. This architecture is based on three components – pillar content, cluster content, and hyperlinks:
The "pillar content" describes the topic for which bloggers and SEO experts want to achieve the best possible ranking, which in turn is done by creating more specific cluster content.
How do you create pillar content?
The first thing you should do is get rid of your focus on keywords. Instead, focus first on the topics for which you want to get a good ranking. Then search for relevant blog topics based on relevant keywords.
Also, take into account what interests your target group the most and what challenges they are facing. Your topic should be broad enough that there is room for further contributions, i.e. further cluster content. But also make sure to choose it so that you can actually address all aspects of the topic on a single page.
A pillar page should provide an answer to the questions that users type into Google search. This, in turn, should lead them to choose your content with all other results in view of further information. After visitors have read in on your Pillar page, they should be able to find out more about hyperlinks to more specific cluster content.
The procedure for creating pillar content (or for converting existing pages) can be described in five points:
- Find the topic and express it in the main keyword.
- Create an overview of the topic clusters.
- Create content.
- Build a cluster structure that essentially consists of links to the individual pages.
- Constant updating of the content.
Pillar Content is less about the form of the content, but more about structuring it in a user-friendly way. For example:
- Overview pages that briefly but comprehensively present the main topic. In addition sub-pages on individual topic aspects.
- Main content in various media formats (texts, graphics, videos, audios), which are linked in a structured manner and thus illuminate all aspects of the topic.
So that the actual pillar page does not become too long, reference is made to cluster content pages with regard to individual aspects. An intelligent and structured link is a key success factor for the pillar content strategy.
Pillar Pages are Comprehensive and Up to Date
How do I get content for Pillar Pages? The Internet offers numerous tools for this. Four examples:
- Google Trends can be used to find out which questions are frequently asked about a topic or problem.
- Tools for finding synonyms or TF-IDF tools also provide valuable information on which keywords appear frequently in connection with another related keyword.
- Google News is a good tool to get inspiration for creating current cluster pages or to update existing content.
- The personas concept can be used well for the creation of pillar content. Which topics are of interest to the personas? What relevance do these topics have for everyday life, for problems or challenges of the target group?
A pillar page is never actually finished because it has to be constantly adjusted. But this wisdom is actually nothing new for SEO experts.
Note: The terms pillar content and cornerstone content are largely congruent. While one term chooses the pillar as a metaphor (Pillar), Cornerstone stands for a cornerstone. What is meant is the same content marketing strategy: building a web page that in the long term becomes a comprehensive expert page on a specific topic.
Last Thoughts on Pillar Content and Topic Cluster Term
Pillar Content is more than just a new buzzword from the SEO scene. Above all, it stands for a reorientation of search engine optimization. The structured presentation means that a website designed according to the Pillar content approach has the potential to become an expert site for the respective topic. Topics take the place of keywords. The more comprehensively and holistically a website deals with a certain topic and the better this content is structured, the higher the chances of a long-term good ranking.
As Holistic SEOs, we will continue to improve our Pillar Content and Topic Cluster Guide.
- Holistic SEO Case Study: The Importance of a Holistic Approach and Clear Communication to SEO - November 24, 2022
- Importance of Lexical Semantics and Semantic Similarity (Closeness) for SEO – (An SEO Case Study with 26 Websites) - November 17, 2022
- Importance of "Entity-oriented Search" Understanding for SEO: Beyond Strings - November 8, 2022


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Money is essential to facilitate virtually everything, including financing the growth and development of businesses. To meet the needs and demand for money, lending has evolved with financial institutions, especially banks, offering large-scale credit facilities primarily for investments and related matters. This then expanded to include low-income people who wanted to buy essentials such as cars, refrigerators, televisions, generators, etc., and meet other personal needs. Eventually, cash lending evolved beyond line of credit loans to acquire consumer goods from manufacturers, homeowners, distributors or retailers for which payment was made in installments or deferred to a future date. .
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Stitches brew: A brief look at self-harm lip sewing
Posted by drmarkgriffiths
In previous blogs I have examined both self-harming behaviour (such as cutting off one's own genitals, removing one's own eye, removing one's own ear, self-asphyxial risk taking in adolescence, and religious self-flagellation) and extreme body modification. One area where these two areas intersect is lip sewing. According to the Wikipedia entry on lip sewing:
"Lip sewing or mouth sewing, the operation of stitching together human lips, is a form of body modification. It may be carried out for aesthetic or religious reasons; as a play piercing practice; or as a form of protest. Sutures are often used to stitch the lips together, though sometimes piercings are made with needle blades or cannulas and monofilament is threaded through the holes. There is usually a fair amount of swelling, but permanent scarring is rare. Lip sewing may be done for aesthetic reasons, or to aid meditation by helping the mind to focus by removing the temptation to speak. BMEzine, an online magazine for body modification culture, published an article about a 23-year-old film student Inza, whose quest for body modifications was very varied. She spoke about her experiences with lip sewing as a form of play piercing".
My reason for writing this blog was prompted by a case study published by Dr. Safak Taktak and his colleagues in the journal Health Care Current Reviews. (I ought to add that I have read a number of papers by Taktak and his colleagues as they have reported some interesting other interesting case studies including those on shoe fetishism, semen fetishism, and fetishes more generally – see 'Further reading' below). In this particular paper, they reported the case of a male prisoner who had continually sewed his lips together. Although they were aware of cases of sewing lips together as a form of protest, they claimed that there had never been any case reported in the medical literature.
The case report involved a male 37-year old Turkish (imprisoned) farmer, father of two children, with only basic education. After sewing his lips together, the man was brought into the hospital by the police, along with a handwritten note that read: "My jinns imposed speech ban to me and they made me sew my lips unwillingly. Otherwise, they threaten me with my children. I want to meet a psychiatrist urgently". (Jinns I later learned are – in Arabian and Muslim mythology – intelligent spirits of lower rank than the angels, able to appear in human and animal forms and are able to possess humans). Not only were his lips sown together with black thread but he had also sewn both of his ears to the side of his head (these are also photographed in the paper and you can download the report free from here). This was actually the fourth time the man had sewed his lips together (but the first that he had sewn his ears). Each time, the doctors took out the stitches and dressed the wounds. The authors examined previous documentation about the man and reported that the man had been in prison for four years after injuring someone (no details were provided) and had been diagnosed with both anxiety disorder and anti-social personality disorder. On a prison ward comprising ten other prisoners, he had attempted suicide when trying to hang himself (in fact, you can clearly see the marks on his neck in the paper's photographs). The authors reported that:
[The man] had blunted affect. He wasn't able to stay in the [prison] ward because of the directive voices in his head. He declared he needed to stay in the ward alone. He heard all the words as swearing and he was punished by some people as well as some entities. He also said that some jinns in the form of animals threatened him not to speak and listen to anyone; otherwise they were going to kill his kids. He wanted to protect his children [and] he stitched his lips not to speak anyone and stitched his ears not to hear anyone. In his family history, he stated that his uncle committed suicide by hanging himself and saying 'the birds are calling me'; his father was schizophrenia-diagnosed".
The authors then reported:
"The patient stated that he sewed his lips with any colour of thread he could find. He had approximately fifteen pinholes on his upper and lower lips. He tended to suicide with directive auditory and visual hallucination (sic) and reference paranoid delirium. As he was imprisoned, he wasn't able to use drugs. The patient who was thought to have a psychotic disorder was injected [with] 10 mg haloperidol intramuscularly and he was sent to a safe psychiatry hospital".
As I have noted in my previous blogs on self-harming behaviour (and as noted in this particular paper), there are many different definitions of what constitutes self-destructive behaviour. This particular case was said to be suited to the psychotic behaviours characterised by Dr. Armando Favazza's three self-destructive behaviours (i.e., compulsive, typical, and psychotic) outlined in his 1992 paper 'Repetitive self-mutilation' (published in the journal Psychiatry Annals). In their discussion of the case, the authors noted:
"The cases like sewing one's own lips which we observe as a different type of destructing oneself in our case are mostly regarded as intercultural expression of feelings. The ones, who sew their lips in order to protest something, show their reactions by blocking the nutrition intake organ to the ones who want to continue their superiority. It can be expected in psychotic cases that the patients or his beloved ones might be harmed, damaged or affected emotionally. Thus, the patient who is furious and anxious might react by [attempting] violence as a reaction to these repetitive threats. Auditory hallucinations giving orders can cause the aggressive behaviours to start…In our psychotic case, this kind of behaviour is a way to prevent the voices coming from his inner world, not to answer them and hence making passive defending to world which he does not want to interact. By this means, he may harmonise with the secret natural powers which affect him and he may protect himself his children…[also] there can be a relief through sewing lips and ears or strangulation against the oppression created by the person not being able to adapt the prison…It should not be forgotten that the prison is a stressful environment and stressful living [increases] the disposition to psychopathologic behaviour that the living difficulties in prisons can affect the way of thinking and the capacity of coping and it may cause different psychiatric incidences".
As noted at the start of this article, lip sewing is typically attributed to religious reasons, reasons of protest or aesthetic reasons. In this particular case, none of these reasons was apparent (and therefore notable – in the medical and psychiatric literature at the very least). The addition of sewing his ears appears to be even more rare, and thus warrants further research.
Dr. Mark Griffiths, Professor of Behavioural Addiction, International Gaming Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Further reading
Favazza, A.R. (1992). Repetitive self-mutilation. Psychiatric Annals, 22(2), 60-63.
Taktak, S., Ersoy, S., Ünsal, A., & Yetkiner, M. (2014). The man who sewed his mouth and ears: A case report. Health Care Current Reviews, 2(121), 2.
Taktak, S., Karakus, M., & Eke, S. M. (2015). The man whose fetish object is ejaculate: A case report. Journal of Psychiatry, 18(276), 2.
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My fiction 'addiction': The psychology of Hannibal Lecter
Posted by drmarkgriffiths
If I ever went on the BBC television show Mastermind, one of my potential specialist subjects would be the fictional serial killing psychiatrist Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter (in print and on screen). I have devoured all four of Thomas Harris' original books and all the DVDs (all five films and the TV series). In short, I am an obsessive Lecterite. While I was at university in the 1980s doing my undergraduate psychology degree, I was also the Entertainment Editor of the University of Bradford's newspaper (Fleece). One of the perks of my part-time (unpaid) job was that I got to watch all the latest cinema releases for free and review them for Fleece. In 1986, one of the films that I watched (and loved) was Manhunter directed by Michael Mann. At the time, I didn't realize that the film was based on Thomas Harris' second book Red Dragon (first published in 1981 following his 1975 non-Lecter novel Black Sunday). However, I do remember the great (and understated) performance by Scottish actor Brian Cox playing the serial killing psychiatrist (spelled 'Lecktor' rather than Lecter in that particular film).
It was in 1991 that my real fascination with Lecter began after seeing The Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Demme (and starring Anthony Hopkins as Lecter). I went to see it in the first week it was out as I was a big fan of Demme's work particularly his musical documentary of Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense (1984), and films such as Melvin and Howard (1980), Swing Shift (1984), and Something Wild (1986). I came out of the cinema and within the space of a few weeks I had seen the film three times (and I was delighted when the film won all five of the main Oscar categories in 1992 – only the third film ever to have done so). At the time, I was a psychology lecturer at the University of Plymouth, and was teaching a weekly criminal psychology module to police inspectors on the university's BA in Social and Organizational Studies. I was enthralled by the film's use of behavioural profiling of criminals and the fact that the star of the film was a strange and bizarre paradox – a highly intelligent and highly cultured psychiatrist that also happened to be a serial killing cannibal.
It was at this point that I bought the two Thomas Harris novels that featured Lecter (i.e., Red Dragon and the 1988 sequel The Silence of the Lambs). I was gripped. Harris had clearly done his psychological and criminological research well (and I found the two books even better than the films). From then on I sought out anything Lecter-related and bought Harris' further sequel (Hannibal, 1999) and prequel (Hannibal Rising, 2006), and watched and bought the big-budget Hollywood films Hannibal (2001, directed by Ridley Scott), Red Dragon (2002, directed by Brett Ratner) and Hannibal Rising (2007, directed by Peter Webber and starring Gaspard Ulliel as the young Hannibal), and most recently the US television series Hannibal (2013, starring Mads Mikkelsen as Lecter). My good friends also started buying me Lecter-related gifts (such as Daniel O'Brien's excellent 2001 book The Hannibal Files).
So why am I – and millions of others worldwide – so fascinated, and – for want of a better word – 'hooked' on Hannibal the Cannibal's fictional exploits? In 2005, the American Film Institute voted Hannibal Lecter the No.1 villain of all time (and who would argue against?). I suppose one of the scariest things about Lecter is that he's the composite of real serial killers. People like Lecter actually exist and Harris clearly did his homework in writing his novels. In July 2013, Harris gave a rare interview and claimed that his inspiration for Lecter was a real-life Mexican murdering doctor (that he gave a pseudonym 'Dr. Salazar') and that he met in the 1960s while he was a newspaper crime reporter. Harris claimed that 'Salazar' had a "certain elegance". It has also been noted that Harris attended the trial of Pietro Pacciani, a suspected serial killer nicknamed the 'Monster of Florence'. The Wikipedia entry on Lecter claims that Pacciani's serial killing modus operandi was used in his Hannibal novel. The Wikipedia entry also went on to say:
"According to David Sexton, author of The Strange World of Thomas Harris: Inside the Mind of the Creator of Hannibal Lecter, Harris once told a librarian in Cleveland, Mississippi, that Lecter was inspired by William Coyne, a local murderer who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage that included acts of murder and cannibalism. In her book Evil Serial Killers, Charlotte Greig asserts that the serial killer Albert Fish was the inspiration, at least in part, for Lecter. Greig also states that to explain Lecter's pathology, Harris borrowed the story of serial killer and cannibal Andrei Chikatilo's brother Stepan being kidnapped and eaten by starving neighbours (though she states that it is unclear whether the story was true or whether Stepan Chikatilo even existed)".
I was surprised to find that there are dozens of academic papers written from many perspectives including psychology, psychiatry, criminology, media/film studies, and literary criticism (and I may well come back and write further blogs on Lecter using some of these). However, the rest of today's blog concentrates on a really interesting trilogy of papers about Lecter written by Professor James Oleson in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture (during 2005-2006). Oleson did a thorough review of various academic literatures and noted (in his 2005 paper) the following in relation to (i) the appeal of serial killers, and (ii) the appeal of Lecter more specifically:
"Apter (1992) suggests that serial killers transfix people because dangerous things – like serial killers – tend to create a state of invigorating psychological arousal. To neutralize the feelings of anxiety that accompany dangerous threats – like serial killers – we use protective frames such as narrative explanations or criminological theories. In explaining the serial killer's behavior, we allow ourselves to succumb to the exciting magnetism of evil (Kloer, 2002) and can thereby 'experience the excitement of arousal without being overwhelmed by anxiety' (Ramsland, 2005)…Why do we love Lecter? Perhaps because he is the 'perfect gothic hero' (Dunant, 1999) or because he is the perfect gothic antihero (Dery, 1999). Perhaps it is because the heroic and the villainous co-exist within him. Because he is Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader rolled into one (Hawker, 2001), because he is Darth Vader and Superman rolled into one (Cagle, 2002), or because he is Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty rolled into one (Sexton, 2001)".
Professor Oleson spends a lot of the first paper examining whether Lecter fits any of the serial killer typologies that various criminologists have formulated over the last three or four decades. According to Oleson, various researchers have identified two key precursors that have a high association with serial homicide – a pathological fantasy life and childhood trauma. Oleson argues that Lecter fits "this basic etiological model" because "he enjoys a rich and detailed fantasy life" and "he suffered serious childhood trauma". Oleson also recounted the FBI's research into 'organized' and 'disorganized' serial killers, and argued that there was evidence across all Harris' books that Lecter displayed all 14 profile characteristics of an organized serial killer: (i) average to above-average intelligence, (ii) socially competent, (iii) skilled work preferred, (iv) sexually competent, (v) high birth order status, (vi) father's work stable, (vii) inconsistent childhood discipline, (viii) controlled mood during crime, (ix) use of alcohol with crime, (x) precipitating situational stress, (xi) living with partner, (xii) mobility with car in good condition, (xiii) follows crime in news media, and (xiv) may change jobs or leave town.
Oleson also notes there are some models of serial killing that Lecter does not fit at all. For instance, the 'addiction model' of killing argues that some serial killers have a compulsion to kill and that they become addicted to killing (as put forward in the 1988 book Serial Killers by Dr. Joel Norris, and the 1996 book The Psychopathology of Serial Murder by Dr. Stephen Giannangelo). Another psychological model associated with serial killers is the concept of 'sociopathy' and 'psychopathy' (now termed 'antisocial personality disorder'). Throughout Harris' novels there are various references to Lecter being a sociopath and in the films he is described as being a psychopath (most notably by the psychiatrist Dr. Frederick Chilton, Director of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where Lecter was sent after being caught by his former profiling partner at the FBI (Will Graham). Oleson uses Dr. Robert Hare's commonly used Psychopathy Checklist (first published in a 1980 issue of the journal Personality and Individual Differences) and convincingly shows that there is little evidence that Lecter is a psychopath.
Another model that Lecter does not fit is the "homicidal triad" of warning-sign behaviours (i.e., bed-wetting, animal cruelty, and fire starting) outlined in the many books of the FBI's Dr. John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. This FBI research asserts that these three warning behaviours (particularly when they co-occur in adolescence) signal an elevated risk of subsequent serial homicide. However, Oleson shows that Lecter does not fit this profile at all. In his second (2006) paper, Oleson also assesses to what extent Lecter is insane. According to the M'Naughten test for insanity:
"It must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or that [if] he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong (Finkel, 1988)".
Oleson argues that Lecter "flunks the M'Naughten test on all counts". In fact he goes on to say that:
"[Lecter] does not suffer from a defect of reason – if anything, as a genius with an infinitely rare IQ score, he may suffer from a superhuman perfection of the reason… Similarly, Lecter knows perfectly well the nature and quality of the crimes he commits, and he knows that they are denounced as wrong by society…The character of Hannibal Lecter would be deemed sane under more recently developed tests for insanity, as well. Lecter, in perfect command of his will, does not commit his crimes because he is compelled. Accordingly, he would not be insane under any formulation of the irresistible impulse test (Finkel, 1988). Nor would he be found insane under the American Law Institute test. 'A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law' (Finkel, 1988). Lecter possesses both near-infallible cognitive ability and an iron will. He in no way fits the categories of insanity articulated under prevailing rules".
Oleson's papers also examine the idea that Lecter may be a non-human monster, a vampire, a superhuman, and/or the Devil. He also speculates that his crimes may be the product of his superhuman intellect (as Lecter's IQ is so high that it cannot be assessed by any instruments that are currently used). As Oleson concludes in the second of his three papers:
"It has been suggested that the character of Hannibal Lecter is so memorable because he emerges from paradox…It could simply be the case, however, that Lecter is such a successful villain because we love monster stories…because we need monsters…and because the Lecter novels skillfully combine the police procedural with particularly resonant elements of the supernatural horror story".
I (for one) love the paradox of Lecter's personality and character. Both (super)man and monster. I admire some of his character traits but (of course) despise others. He is a highly flawed criminal genius and polymath. A serial killer and a cannibal. Victim and villain. In his third paper on Lecter, Oleson asserts something that I agree (and will leave you) with:
"By asking why Hannibal Lecter commits his crimes, criminologists may be able to use the Lecter novels and movies as a catalyst for the study of the etiology of serial homicide. The character of Hannibal Lecter is, after all, based on real life serial killers, and provides readers and viewers with an intimate (if hyperbolic) case study of an organized serial killer. Characters drawn from novels can serve as valuable heuristic devices…teaching us a great deal about the nature of crime and evil".
Dr Mark Griffiths, Professor of Gambling Studies, International Gaming Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Further reading
American Film Institute. (2005). Heroes and villains. Located at: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/handv.aspx
Finkel, N. J. (1988). Insanity on Trial. New York: Plenum Press.
Hare, R.D. (1980). A research scale for the assessment of psychopathy in criminal populations. Personality and Individual Differences, 1, 111-119.
Hare, R.D. (1996). Psychopathy: A clinical construct whose time has come. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 23, 25-54.
Hare, R. D. (2003). Manual for the Revised Psychopathy Checklist (2nd ed.). Toronto, ON, Canada: Multi-Health Systems.
Hickey, E. W. (1991). Serial Murderers and Their Victims. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Oleson, J. C. (2003). The celebrity of infamy: A review essay of five autobiographies by three criminal geniuses. Crime, Law, and Social Change, 40, 409-16.
Oleson, J. C. (2005). King of killers: The criminological theories of Hannibal Lecter, part one. Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 12, 186-210.
Oleson, J. C. (2006). Contemporary demonology: The criminological theories of Hannibal Lecter, part two. Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 13, 29-49.
Oleson, J. C. (2006). The devil made me do it: the criminological theories of Hannibal Lecter, part three. Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 13, 117-133.
Raine, A. (1993). The Psychopathology of Crime. New York: Academic Press.
Sexton, D. (2001). The Strange Mind of Thomas Harris. London: Faber and Faber.
Wikipedia (2013). Hannibal Lecter. Located at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter
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