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Why Gold Rush is closing after more than four decades
The 44-year-old bar and restaurant is a mainstay of Nashville's "Rock Block"
Why Gold Rush is closing after more than four decades The 44-year-old bar and restaurant is a mainstay of Nashville's "Rock Block" Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2019/02/18/gold-rush-nashville-closing-renovations/2910366002/
Sandy Mazza, Nashville Tennessean Published 6:50 p.m. CT Feb. 18, 2019 | Updated 3:13 p.m. CT Feb. 21, 2019
The phone wouldn't stop ringing at Gold Rush.
News that the 44-year-old bar and restaurant had closed Monday spread quickly on social media.
As General Manager Frank Hall packed up items, he fielded the steady stream of calls from surprised, disappointed customers.
A passerby reads a sign announcing the Gold Rush's closure on Monday (Photo: Sandy Mazza)
He wanted them to hear it directly from him.
"We've been trying to make it work," Hall said. "It's been a struggle the last 7 or 8 months. We tried everything we can. We just can't get enough people in here."
A developer is interested in replacing the brick bar at 2205 Elliston Place with a luxury boutique hotel. But plans aren't finalized.
The bar is part of Nashville's "Rock Block" – one of the few places in town where live rock music, rather than country, is a regular feature at the Exit/In venue across the street.
Customers used to stream in after shows for a beer and a cigarette.
But business slowed after a 2016 renovation, when the bar stopped allowing smoking and added items like craft cocktails that appealed to the city's fast-growing number of tourists.
Nashville bar Gold Rush closes
The Gold Rush in Nashville opened in 1974. Shelley Mays /Tennessean
Indian portraits, antique chandeliers and the familiar "Nashville" sign from the Robert Altman film all blend in to give the Gold Rush here Sept. 9, 1976 a look straight out of the Old West. The Elliston Place establishment recently reopened its doors as an expanded restaurant. Robert Johnson / The Tennessean
In the new addition to the Gold Rush here Sept. 9, 1976, one can enjoy sandwiches on "Texas Toast" or Mexican food in an atmosphere harking back to the stand-up saloon days of the wild, wild West. The Elliston Place establishment recently reopened its doors as an expanded restaurant. Robert Johnson / The Tennessean
Gold Rush cocktail server Cara Manka played a little pool before the evening rush recently. Eric Parsons, Copyright 2002;Yes Tennessean
Sandra Walters, left, and Jennifer Niceley enjoy shelter and happy hour drinks by candle light while Gold Rush bartender, Cindy Mitchell, works through a power outage on Thursday, April 16, 1998, in Nashville, Tenn. About 100 people were injured and hundreds of buildings were damaged when a tornado touched down in downtown Nashville on Thursday afternoon, knocking out power to about two-thirds of the downtown. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey) Christopher Berkey, Copyright 1996 The Tennessean;No Tennessean
Don Brumit is the owner of the Gold Rush along Elliston Place, which was remodeled in 2002 Eric Parsons, Copyright 2002;Yes Tennessean
Businesses along Elliston Place including the Gold Rush bar in 2004. Billy Kingsley, Copyright 2004;Yes Tennessean
The Gold Rush, 2205 Elliston Place in Nashville Nick Bumgardner
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James "Buster" DePue at The Gold Rush in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, May 14, 2010. Mandy Lunn
The Gold Rush in Nashville opened in 1974. Shelley Mays, /Tennessean
The changes weren't welcomed by many regulars.
"It was a great place to chain smoke, eat nachos, down cheap drinks," said customer Adam Gold. "A lot of that vibe went away after it was renovated."
Hall said that business slowed dramatically after last summer, as the bar struggled to retain a base of regular customers.
"Nobody really wants old Nashville anymore," Hall said. "They want new Nashville, which is ridiculous. There are so many new people and new restaurants coming in every day. People will go some place, get tired of it, and go somewhere else."
On Sunday night, an employee told customers that it would be the bar's last night in business.
Some patrons stole photos of musicians off the wall, Hall's guitar strap and liquor signs.
"It's like somebody coming into your grandma's funeral asking: 'Can I have her dress,'" Hall said. "They're calling, saying: 'I wish you'd stay open so we can come in one last time.' Well where have you been?"
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The Lower Bar at Le Sel Lizzy Alfs / The Tennessean
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When I was pregnant with you, a lot of intense changes happened to my mind and body. Some were expected (like constant nausea), but others… not so much. Some of the most drastic changes were to my hormones and general mindset. I achieved a sense of calm that I'd never known before.
People can shove quotes at you like "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent" or they can talk about how you should "ignore the haters" and "just focus on loving yourself" or whatever all they want, but it rarely changes how you feel and react. That's far too deep down to be affected by banal platitudes.
During my first trimester, before anyone except your father and the doctors knew, I suddenly gained a peace and clarity I'd never realized I'd been missing. I knew that nothing could really affect me because there was something so much more important.
And yes, feel free to quote this song, because it was totally me, even if I didn't vocalize any (or maybe much) of the smugness.
Specifically, I had (still have) this coworker who was always a pain. I was technically his superior ("team lead") but had exactly 0 power or authority. Every damn day, he'd come over to my desk and argue about some tiny little detail – usually, something that he'd gotten wrong, often claiming that the rules had suddenly changed (spoiler: they didn't). But once I became pregnant, he just… couldn't get to me. Nothing he said could elicit a rise from me. He would argue until he was red in the face and I would just remain this immobile wall. Eventually, he stopped (or drastically reduced) arguing with me because he knew I wouldn't budge.
Throughout my life, I've generally been very easily affected by people's words and actions. Teachers and other authority figures would say things like "Oh, just ignore it, they're just doing it to bug you." I would try (and usually fail) to hide that it bothered me. Regardless, it didn't change how it felt inside. I hated it. I hated how it made me feel and I hated how easily I could be baited into reacting. But now?
None of it mattered. They didn't matter.
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I don't know if you'll ever truly understand how you've changed me. I hope your father and I can instill some of that same strength and fierceness back into you, but I don't think we'll have to. I think you already have that in you. I think all we have to do is stand back and watch you turn into the amazing person we know you to be.


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On Author Chats today, I'm thrilled to welcome Drema Drudge to talk about her brilliant new novel, Victorine. Thanks for coming, Drema. First of all, a word about your book:
In 1863, Civil War is raging in the United States. Victorine Meurent is posing nude, in Paris, for paintings that will be heralded as the beginning of modern art: Manet's Olympia and Picnic on the Grass. However, Victorine's persistent desire is not to be a model but to be a painter herself.
In order to live authentically, she finds the strength to flout the expectations of her parents, bourgeois society, and the dominant male artists (whom she knows personally) while never losing her capacity for affection, kindness, and loyalty. Possessing both the incisive mind of a critic and the intuitive and unconventional impulses of an artist, Victorine and her survival instincts are tested in 1870, when the Prussian army lays siege to Paris and rat becomes a culinary delicacy.
Drema Drudge's powerful first novel Victorine not only gives this determined and gifted artist back to us but also recreates an era of important transition into the modern world.
Drema, tell us a little about yourself and what inspired your work:
What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
I've been privileged to travel to many places in pursuit of authors and the like. One of my favorite trips was to Thomas Hardy country in Dorset, England, where I saw the author's birthplace, a charming, tiny cob and thatch home containing his early writing desk. (I think I could happily live and write there!)
My tour of Max Gate, the home he later built, included a visit to his family's pet cemetery. While I already adored Hardy, my admiration and appreciation for his writing increased by having seen where he wrote, and he remains one of my favorite writers.
What music do you listen to when you write (or don't you)
If I listen to music when I write, I only listen to classical, usually Mozart. I can't write to lyrics, and sometimes the classical music inspires me. Oddly enough, if I'm revising, I can even watch TV, but I put it on pause when I need to dive deeper.
Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are you building a body of work with connections or themes between each book?
It's hard to leave a book I've invested so much time, energy, and heart into, and yet there's the thrill of what's next. So while I do have an overarching idea for my novels that amounts to something of a tie-in, it's a loose connection that others might not even notice if I didn't mention it: to write about each area of art, starting with painting. My next novel, for example, explores music.
Tell us more about Victorine, your new novel. When you did your research, did it change your plot or your characters significantly?
Because my main character, Victorine Meurent, remains someone who we know more about by the paintings done of her than through her history, my circuitous research did indeed change my plot.
At first I thought I'd have to merely write about the eleven (known) paintings Edouard Manet did of her, and I imagined writing a book of linked stories. However, Victorine had other ideas, I'm happy to say. While actual facts of her remain scant due to her status as a woman of her time and as someone from the lower class, my digging revealed that she wasn't just the model for Manet's (and others') paintings. She went to art school and became a painter who work was worthy of inclusion in the prestigious Paris Salon!
Did you hide any secrets in this book that only a few people will find?
I certainly did! One has already been found by a beta reader. She put "Ha!" in her margin notes to me. I was thrilled she knew I meant her. I look forward to seeing if other Easter eggs are discovered by those who know me. Then the intertextual connections between my novel and others! Endless.
What's the best thing a reader has said about or written to you?
"Your writing saved my life." This young woman had been drinking wine at the time, so I can't say that didn't have something to do with her declaration, but if there's any truth to that, wow.
Tea or Coffee: Tea
Dark or Milk Chocolate: Milk Chocolate
When were you the happiest? It's not a time, but a location: writing outdoors.
Favourite Children's Book: Five Little Peppers and How they Grew by Margaret Sidney.
Favourite Adult Novel: Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
A final word:
Drēma suffers from Stendhal's Syndrome, the condition in which one becomes overwhelmed in the presence of great art. She attended Spalding University's MFA in Creative Writing Program where she learned to transform that intensity into fiction.
Drēma has been writing in one capacity or another since she was nine, starting with terrible poems and graduating to melodramatic stories in junior high that her classmates passed around literature class.
She and her husband, musician and writer Barry Drudge, live in Indiana where they record their biweekly podcast, Writing All the Things, when not traveling. Her first novel, Victorine, was literally written in five countries while she and her husband wandered the globe. The pair has two grown children.
In addition to writing fiction, Drema has served as a writing coach, freelance writer, and educator. She's represented by literary agent Lisa Gallagher of Defiore and Company.
Connect with Drema:
Website: https://dremadrudge.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dremadrudge
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dremadrudge/
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What Schizophrenia Can Teach Us About Ourselves
This is a pretty good article on schizophrenia from PBS's Nova Next blog. However, they adhere to the standard "biological disease" model of schizophrenia, which is a partial truth, and one that prevents many researchers from looking into the interpersonal antecedents of schizophrenia.
I especially appreciate, however, the take on hearing voices presented in the article. They mention Intervoice, a mostly European organization that holds voice hallucinations to be a natural and non-frightening phenomenon.
I feel it's important to make another point here - a lot of people with PTSD hear voices and how we, as therapists, deal with that is much different (in my opinion) than how we handle the voices in schizophrenia, or even dissociative identity disorder. The voices are qualitatively different in PTSD.
By Allison Eck on Wed, 22 Oct 2014
"I don't believe in anything. That's my cardinal rule. I do it for my mental health. If I believe in God, then I start talking to God and God starts talking to me. As soon as I start believing in something, then it talks to me. So, I don't believe in anything."
Sara, whose name we changed to protect her identity, was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 19 during her senior year at New York University. She had not experienced any trauma as a child—no abuse, no bouts of depression, nothing that would raise any red flags. She led a more or less happy life. But in high school she experimented with drugs, and upon travelling abroad around the same time, she experienced intense culture shock.
This series of events may have been Sara's personalized recipe for mental illness, cooked up with all the flavors of her unique position in life, her temperament, and her family's history. Her mind became a prison; she felt as though people were constantly laughing at her. She could no longer distinguish fantasy from reality. She assumed she wouldn't go back to school.
"I thought that my life was over, that I would never be able to do anything," she says. "Because that's what the doctors told me."
Then she began to hear voices.
The Schizophrenic Brain
Schizophrenia is a disease that afflicts almost all walks of life. Because it can be so debilitating, scientists have been feverishly searching for its genetic basis. In July, researchers affiliated with the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium compared the genomes of nearly 37,000 people with schizophrenia to the genomes of more than 113,000 people without the disease. In the end, they identified 108 locations where the DNA sequence in schizophrenic people tends to differ. The finding was a major advance in the field of psychiatric genomics, one that could ultimately help scientists understand who is susceptible and why.
Still, the biological markers aren't always clear—often, a patient's genes for schizophrenia can lay dormant until certain circumstances trigger their expression, making a diagnosis based on DNA alone less than clear-cut. And with no blood test or brain scan available to detect schizophrenia's symptoms elsewhere in the body, diagnosis is based almost entirely on what the patient reports.
Treatment of mental illness is nested in confusion, too. Many therapists approach their practice from a different medical perspective than a cognitive psychologist or a geneticist. And while a geneticist might have access to the most current research, she isn't going to have direct daily contact with a patient's behavioral nuances like a psychiatrist. What's going on in the lab, in other words, is often divorced from what's being implemented "on the couch."
But it doesn't have to be that way.
Some scientists are arguing that our new understanding of a particular network in the brain is allowing neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists—even artists and writers—to understand each other in ways that wouldn't have made sense ten years ago. Called the default mode network, or DMN, it's a set of brain regions that are typically suppressed when a person is engaged in an external task (playing a sport, working on a budget), but activated during a so-called "resting state" (sitting quietly, day-dreaming).
"It's an extremely important platform for any kind of thought that is disengaged from the 'here-and-now,'" says Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute. That includes processing other people's stories, reflecting on our own lives, planning for the future, or making important decisions. Immordino-Yang says the default mode network is "metabolically expensive." In other words, when your head is lost in the clouds, your brain is hard at work.
The default mode network, which is hyperactive in schizophrenic people, plays an important role in self-reflection, identity, and mind-wandering.
Though not the only "resting state" network that's active when we're staring off into space, the DMN is unusual in that it is reliable and identifiable, making it easy for scientists to study. Like a web of taut ropes overlaying and intersecting one another, the regions of the DMN—which include the medial prefrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate, both of which are involved in self-awareness, self-reflection, and so on—light up in concert, despite any distance separating them.
When neurologist Marcus Raichle and his colleagues discovered the DMN in 2001, it took the scientific community by surprise. How could rest and self-reflection excite the same brain regions in us all? Why are those regions so intimately correlated? Wouldn't a brain scan vary more from person to person depending on the content of an individual's thoughts? It turned out that the DMN has nothing to do with content and everything to do with context. This network is functioning all the time—focusing on a task merely tempers and subdues it.
"This is first time we've found a neural system that actually reveals your inner self," says Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, a research scientist at MIT. In 2009, she and her colleagues found that in schizophrenic people, the DMN operates on overdrive. When clinically diagnosed patients enter an fMRI scanner and are asked to perform various tasks, the dial on their DMN doesn't turn down like it should. And when the patients are at rest, their DMN is hyper-connected, buzzing with surplus energy. What's more, they lack the ability to toggle out of the DMN, this highly self-referential state of being. "They're actually stuck in their default mode network," Whitfield-Gabrieli says.
So how does a schizophrenic person get unstuck? That's a question hundreds of experts from diverse backgrounds are trying to answer.
Coping with Voices
One lens through which experts are studying schizophrenia is anthropology. If the default mode network is related to identity and self-reflection—and if schizophrenia, in turn, is associated with the default mode network—then considering culture may help us understand how psychosis manifests itself globally. After all, how you experience your inner world depends partly on where you live and how you've grown up. The same is true of mental illness. "When immigrant groups move to a new cultural group, they take on the mental illness liabilities of the culture where they are," Immordino-Yang says. Because 60 to 80% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia hear voices, a good indicator of how a given culture views the disease might be how its people cope with its most well known but most misunderstood facets: auditory verbal hallucinations.
"Americans hate their voices. Their voices mean schizophrenia to them," says Tanya Luhrmann, an anthropologist at Stanford University. By contrast, people in India and Africa don't typically label their illnesses or their voices, she revealed in a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. "It's not that they don't recognize that they're struggling," she says. "But they talk about their experience as having much more of a natural role." For example, they may think of their auditory hallucinations as benevolent or spiritual—like a friend or even the voice of God.
People not diagnosed with a mental illness, too, hear voices. In some cases, what they experience may be something that would be classified as a hallucination if reported by a clinically psychotic person. "If you ask someone, 'have you ever heard a voice when you're alone?' the rate is somewhere between 15 to 80% depending on how you ask the question," Luhrmann says. If you couple it with an example of what might be considered an auditory verbal hallucination, the percentage of people who say "yes" goes up.
Testimonies from people who experience varying kinds of auditory hallucinations support the idea that voice-hearing is complex and culturally-dependent. Their range of experiences is vast. Some say they hear audible, crystalline voices that emanate from inside their heads. Others report cacophonous screeches and bangs coming from outside their bodies. Still others sense murmurs and whispers that crawl over from the next room. Finally, some people describe a phenomenon similar to what cognitive psychologists call "inner speech," the wordless soup of dialogue that you "hear" when deep in thought. For some, inner speech is acoustically more intense than it is for others. For example, they might say their mental landscape is made up of "loud thoughts" or "soundless voices."
For Sara, the voices she heard began as disembodied, made-up personalities. Then, after about a year of taking a handful of different medications to varying degrees of success, her voices became solely associated with real people and their private thoughts. Sara is now 33—and though she's been well enough to go without medication for 11 years, she still hears this latter type of voice.
"If I hear somebody psychically communicating with me—which I don't believe in; I'm a complete atheist—then the sound will come from above their head or behind their hair…even from inside their stomach. It's somewhere besides their actual mouth," she says. "It's not as loud as their real voice. It's softer, but I don't think the tone and quality of the voice is compromised."
The reason why Sara can talk about her voices so intelligently is because she's cultivated a relationship with them, in a sense. Though she tries not to engage too much with them, she's learned to understand her voices and even use them to her advantage. If she's bored, they're sometimes entertaining. Occasionally she even asks them questions.
"Sometimes I'm worried about what people think of me," she says. "And so I ask them [what they think of me] in the air above their head, and I hear their voice say it."
Sara enjoys and even values some of her auditory hallucinations now, which is atypical of most American psychotic and post-psychotic patients. But that's not the case everywhere. A simple internet search in her early 20s led Sara to Intervoice, a network established in the U.K. and now widely recognized in 29 (mostly European) countries. The organization's central tenet is that hearing voices is a meaningful human experience and not necessarily a sign of mental illness. Members set up support groups where people can meet and talk about their experiences without fear of stigma.
Still, Intervoice has not caught on in the U.S. like it has in the U.K. and elsewhere. "There are real differences in the way Americans and Europeans think about voices," Luhrmann says. In Europe, people are generally more comfortable with the ambiguity between psychosis and religion, and there's more interest in applying humanities research to medicine.
For Sara, the idea that people could handle and live with their voices made the difference. "I decided I was going to be one of those people," she says. "Just a small glimmer of hope was all I needed."
Angela Woods, a medical humanities researcher at Durham University in the U.K., is leading a team of experts in a project called "Hearing the Voice," which works closely with the broader Intervoice network. It aims to dispel some of the myths about voice-hearing and to see how cognitive neuroscientists can work with writers, artists, clinicians, theologians, and even philosophers to grasp the full spectrum of schizophrenia itself.
A "Voice Walk" in a U.K. cemetery earlier this year encouraged voice-hearers to tell their stories.
"We wanted to call for a more nuanced, richer account of what it is like to hear voices," Woods says. An initial step in their research involved sending surveys to 158 people from around the world in an attempt to better understand what the experience is like. The team has hosted a number of different events to raise public awareness of schizophrenia and its many shades, including a "VoiceWalk" in a U.K. cemetery to bring people's voice-hearing stories to the fore and an event at the Durham Book Festival to promote a better understanding of how writers cope with disparate inner voices—their characters, their muse, their narrators, and so on.
Another way people can learn to cope with their voices is by bringing them into the lab. Whitfield-Gabrieli, in collaboration with Margaret Niznikiewicz of Harvard University, is training patients to regulate their auditory hallucinations by consciously controlling activation in their auditory cortex. Participants attempt to push their cortex activation levels up and down, without receiving any auditory stimuli other than the background noise of the fMRI scanner. Meanwhile, they receive visual feedback from the fMRI on their progress. Whitfield-Gabrieli says the hope is that patients can learn to mitigate their voices by focusing on what's going on in their own brain.
"Teaching people with psychosis to use their imagination to handle their voices is a promising tool," Luhrmann says. As a society, we can encourage positive relationships with auditory hallucinations by helping patients—schizophrenic or not—better understand them. That means allowing people to tag their voices as "me" or "not me," give the voices names, recognize what they're saying and why, and discover what personal significance, if any, a particular voice might have.
Whatever the auditory input may be, Luhrmann says people can have positive or negative experiences depending on the attitude they adopt. "People attend to different pieces of that good-bad spectrum depending on the way their culture invites them to attend," she says.
While there's no evidence yet that a learning-based method will work, Whitfield-Gabrieli has reason to believe it's possible. Research has linked increased DMN activity to the phenomenon of voice-hearing. While scientists still aren't entirely certain how or why people hear voices, they think that auditory hallucinations may be a misattributed form of inner speech. A hyperactive DMN agitates the auditory cortex, resulting in what could be a fundamental confusion between what the brain "hears" inside itself and what it actually hears as a result of real, external stimuli. Many factors, though—including social isolation—contribute to the health of a person's brain. Imagination can help with the healing process and reclaim a functioning relationship between the self, the auditory cortex, and inner speech.
Woods' and Luhrmann's work—as well as their colleagues'—dovetails with a study published about a month ago in the American Journal of Psychiatry, which concluded that the term "schizophrenia" actually encompasses eight genetically distinct disorders, not just one. The assertion, whether or not it holds up, suggests that mental well being comes in a variety of different "packages" depending on your genetic makeup. That goes for clinically diagnosed patients as well as healthy individuals.
"We should be wary of seeing a schizophrenic person as someone with a kind of deficiency," Woods says. Rather, it may be just another part of what it means to be human. A person might simply process language differently or ruminate on social interactions for too long. His or her inner speech might be more fragmented or circuitous. Individual differences in DMN activity account for the diverse ways the human mind freely wanders.
The default mode network may sound like a gold mine to psychiatrists and neuroscientists alike. The reality, though, is somewhat more complicated. Brain imaging, while promising, has yet to definitively solve major mental health issues like schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
Daniel Margulies of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences argues that even if our scientific understanding of the DMN evolves, its weight in the science world has "opened up a way of talking about the relationship between the self and these disorders." The default mode network (and its relationship to voice-hearing), he says, can provide a gateway to understanding the full range of how people comprehend themselves—even if anomalies in the network aren't proven to be a direct cause of schizophrenia.
That may be what matters most, since schizophrenia is not necessarily about neurons or synapses. It's about the people it affects.
"Technology is giving us important information, but not the final answers," says David Farb, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the Boston University School of Medicine. He advocates an approach that views diseases and disorders as "vast and complex chimeras of symptoms that can be mixed and matched." For example, depression may share symptoms with other disorders, like severe anxiety. It's also possible, he says, that a person may develop an anxiety disorder as they grow increasingly self-conscious of their schizophrenia, for example. In that case, Farb says that schizophrenia may be made even more complex by "an expression of learned helplessness."
By acquiring as much genetic and neurological information about a patient as possible, we may be able to intervene at an earlier stage and prevent schizophrenia before it develops. Whitfield-Gabrieli and Larry Seidman of Harvard University are studying at-risk people in Shanghai to find brain markers that predict whether or not someone will become schizophrenic. Interestingly, they've noticed a skew toward more female than male schizophrenic patients in China; in the U.S, schizophrenia is a predominantly male disorder, again pointing to the cultural element.
And that is what's so striking to the U.K. researchers associated with Hearing the Voice. We shouldn't assume that nature (rather than nurture) is the primary culprit when it comes to schizophrenia, they say. "If the default mode network is somehow connected with mind-wandering, self-referential cognition, you can't simply use objective measures," says Felicity Callard, another Durham University researcher involved in the project. "You have to get at what people think is going on in their own heads." In other words, to find a cure, we might have to put ourselves in other peoples' shoes.
"We should direct energy and funding and resources into exploring people's lives—not just their chemistry, their neuroanatomy, or their genes," Woods says. PSTD, for example, is a legitimate response to a traumatic event. Likewise, schizophrenia is a legitimate response to a lifetime of accumulated events, thoughts, interactions, and engrained beliefs. "We need to be able to ask, 'What happened to you?' That's not ruling genetics out, but it's taking things from another angle."
Farb suspects the answer might be simpler than that. Drugs that target genes regulating DMN connectivity or surgery that modifies key points of DMN activity, for example, could resolve schizophrenic symptoms. He acknowledges, though, that there may be other factors at play. Schizophrenia—like PTSD or chronic pain—may have a cumulative effect on the brain that's hard to anticipate. "While we may be able to correct the original deficit, we may still be left with others because they are a consequence of all of those years spent living with the disorder," he says. "It's really complicated to get a cure."
As a patient, Sara believes that the process needs to be individualized. Doctors should ask patients questions about their experiences and how they want to go about getting better. Woods agrees. "The more we treat schizophrenia as a mysterious entity that we're going to pin down in a piece of DNA," she says, "the more we'll miss the complicated, multifaceted aspects of existence that go into making someone have an experience of psychosis."
"And if people don't feel as though they're able to tell stories about their experiences, then it's hard to see that a cure would be particularly welcome, rich, or meaningful."
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Structure-Property Relationships in Rubber/Layered Silicate Nanocomposites
Konstantinos, G. Gatos
The scientific and industrial interest devoted to polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites due to their outstanding properties and novel applications resulted in numerous studies in the last decade. They cover mostly thermoplastic- and thermoset-based systems. Recently, studies in rubber/layered silicate nanocomposites were started, as well. It was presented how complex maybe the nanocomposite formation for the related systems. Therefore the rules governing their structure-property relationships have to be clarified. In this Thesis, the related aspects were addressed. For the investigations several ethylene propylene diene rubbers (EPDM) of polar and non-polar origin were selected, as well as, the more polar hydrogenated acrylonitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR). The polarity was found to be beneficial on the nanocomposite formation as it assisted to the intercalation of the polymer chains within the clay galleries. This favored the development of exfoliated structures. Finding an appropriate processing procedure, i.e. compounding in a kneader instead of on an open mill, the mechanical performance of the nanocomposites was significantly improved. The complexity of the nanocomposite formation in rubber/organoclay system was demonstrated. The deintercalation of the organoclay observed, was traced to the vulcanization system used. It was evidenced by an indirect way that during sulfur curing, the primary amine clay intercalant leaves the silicate surface and migrates in the rubber matrix. This was explained by its participation in the sulfur-rich Zn-complexes created. Thus, by using quaternary amine clay intercalants (as it was presented for EPDM or HNBR compounds) the deintercalation was eliminated. The organoclay intercalation/deintercalation detected for the primary amine clay intercalants, were controlled by means of peroxide curing (as it was presented for HNBR compounds), where the vulcanization mechanism differs from that of the sulfur curing. The current analysis showed that by selecting the appropriate organoclay type the properties of the nanocomposites can be tailored. This occurs via generating different nanostructures (i.e. exfoliated, intercalated or deintercalated). In all cases, the rubber/organoclay nanocomposites exhibited better performance than vulcanizates with traditional fillers, like silica or unmodified (pristine) layered silicates.The mechanical and gas permeation behavior of the respective nanocomposites were modelled. It was shown that models (e.g. Guth's or Nielsen's equations) developed for "traditional" vulcanizates can be used when specific aspects are taken into consideration. These involve characteristics related to the platy structure of the silicates, i.e. their aspect ratio after compounding (appearance of platelet stacks), or their orientation in the rubber matrix (order parameter).
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Wife of the deceased, Mrs Wonuola Olapade-Agoro, who confirmed the news of his death, said, "It is very true, baba has left. He has left us."
Olapade Agoro
Olapade Agoro, a prominent politician who was also a former presidential candidate of the National Action Council, has died.
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Agoro reportedly died in the hospital in the early hours of Sunday.
The late Agoro's family confirmed to The PUNCH on Sunday that the late politician passed on early Sunday morning after falling sick for three weeks.
According to late Pa Agoro's son, Adebo, the former presidential candidate of the National Action Council passed on after a brief illness.
He said, "It happened around 2:15 am on Sunday. He has been sick. He has been at the hospital for about three weeks.
"He passed on at the hospital where he was receiving treatment. He passed on at a specialist hospital at age 77."
Agoro was born on October 9, 1943 at Ajibabi village of Ibadan to Royal Prince of Atapami Dynasty of Itapa Ijesha, Late Omo-Oba Owa 'Tapa Joshua Alaba Agoro and his wife Late Mother in Israel Dorcas Oyejola Asabi Agoro.
He was educated through Primary School, Secondary School, Enfield Training Centre, Colleges of Technology at Willesden London NW10 and Gateshead Co. Durham, California Western University, University of Ibadan, and later California Coast University ending up with a Doctorate Degree in Interdisciplinary Engineering.
In 1982, he was installed the Owa 'Tapa of Itapa-Ijesha, an Obaship Traditional title.
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The first thing to consider is quality over quantity. The aim here is profit, not popularity, so reaching a targeted audience is more important that having a high number under the word 'Followers'.
Engaged followers say "yes" – when people get to know, like and trust you, they will be more willing to buy from you.
When you look to some of the most well-known Instagram influencers, you'll notice one thing they all have in common: their feed tells a story. You can immediately see who they are, what they enjoy doing and where they've been going. To grow your own following, you need to become a story-teller too.
Your bio is the first thing people see when they come across your profile. This is your chance to really hook people and convince them to click the follow button. Aim to tell them what's in it for them.
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Australia GK Quiz and Questions
Q1. Who was the first European to land in Australia
(A) Willem Janszoon
(B) James Cook
(C) Dirk Hartog
(D) William Dampier
Answer: (A) Willem Janszoon
Q2. In which year Captain James Cook reach the eastern part of Australia
Answer: (C) 1770
Q3. Which one is the largest city in Australia
(A) Canberra
(B) Melbourne
(C) Sydney
(D) Perth
Answer: (C) Sydney
Q4. In which year the Federation of Australia was formed
Answer: (D) 1901
Q5. How many separate British self-governing colonies are united to form Federation of Australia
Answer: (B) 6
Q6. Which one is the largest Australian State by area wise
(A) South Australia
(B) Northern Territory
(C) Queensland
(D) Western Australia
Answer: (D) Western Australia
Q7. Who was the first Prime Minister of Australia
(A) Sir Edmund Barton
(B) Alfred Deakin
(C) Chris Watson
(D) Andrew Fisher
Answer: (A) Sir Edmund Barton
Q8. Who was the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia
(A) John Hope
(B) Samuel Griffith
(C) Sir Isaac Isaacs
(D) Sir Edmund Barton
Answer: (C) Sir Isaac Isaacs
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(A) Mount Townsend
(B) Mount Kosciuszko
(C) Mount Twynam
(D) Rams Head
Answer: (B) Mount Kosciuszko
Q10. Which one is the longest river in Australia
(A) Flinders River
(B) Murrumbidgee River
(C) River Murray
(D) Lachlan River
Answer: (C) River Murray
Q11. The Wallaman Falls is located in
(A) Tasmania
(B) Victoria
(D) New South Wales
Answer: (C) Queensland
Q12. In which year the Great Barrier Reef selected as one of the World Heritage Sites
Q13. Which city hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics Game in Australia
(A) Sydney
(C) Adelaide
(D) Brisbane
Answer: (B) Melbourne
Q14. In which year Australia hosted the Commonwealth Games for the first time
Answer: (A) 1938
Q15. In which year Sydney Opera House was opened for public


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When coated with panko and oven-baked, avocado becomes the perfect stand-in for fries. Lime juice will help preserve the green color of these avocado fries and also add a bit of a zingy flavor. They're delicious when dipped into your favorite sauce -- ketchup, mayonnaise, or even a homemade chipotle sauce, the recipe for which you'll find alongside the fry recipe.
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Avocados are perfectly shaped to be turned into their own tiny little serving dishes, and this vegan Mexican taco boat is the perfect place to start. The grilled avocados are stuffed with a filling inspired by Mexican street corn, made with a vegan cashew sour cream, corn, cilantro, red onion, and roasted jalapeño. A little bit of lime, and this dish is ready to serve.
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No. Prov. aces First Amendment audit, wins global kudos
In this screen grab from an Auditing America video at North Providence Town Hall, Chief of Staff Dick Fossa asks the person taking the video if he'd like a tour of Town Hall.
By ETHAN SHOREY Valley Breeze Managing Editor
NORTH PROVIDENCE – When a YouTube watchdog group with a camera showed up to Town Hall last week, Chief of Staff Dick Fossa made the town proud, said Mayor Charlie Lombardi.
Fossa's response to a representative from Auditing America coming in to film inside the town's main government building was to offer him a comprehensive tour of every department, even taking him to the basement level to meet workers in the break room.
The response, a far cry from similar filming efforts by the group in other Rhode Island communities and around the world, had Auditing America videographer and narrator "Enrique" raving about the experience.
Lombardi said his office took some 75 calls from around the world last Friday as the 15-minute video of the encounter went viral. Calls came in from across the country and around the world with people praising the town for its openness.
"They were saying, this is how it should be, this is how government should work," he said. Some were even calling for Fossa to run for national office, saying he's the type of person Washington needs, said the mayor, laughing.
The video, with the caption, "Wow, you won't believe his behavior," had about 54,000 YouTube views on the Auditing America channel as of Monday. That channel has a combined 15 million video views, and Fossa said Enrique told him he makes good money running it.
Fossa said he got a kick out of the calls that came in immediately after the video was posted. He said he received one call from a man in Austin, Texas, telling him he made the caller proud to be an American. Another person called from Stockholm, Sweden, to tell him he'd like to stop in to see him if he's ever in the area. Other calls came from London and Germany.
"I'm not into the high-tech stuff, but it was an experience, it was funny," said Fossa.
He added that he's not sure what goes into people seeing such a thing online and then reaching out to the subject of the video. He added that he only knows about the popularity of the video because others have told him about it.
"I don't know how to go on YouTube," he said. "I don't really care how many hits it gets."
A U.S. Air Force veteran wrote to Lombardi to commend his staff on its professionalism and transparency seen on the video.
"It is amazing that this can still exist in the environment we live in today. I beg that you inform your staff they are champions of government officials," wrote the man in an email provided to The Breeze. "They have set the bar extremely high when it comes to interactions with the general public. We can only dream to have more people like you and yours in positions of local, state, and federal governments throughout the United States."
Fossa said Enrique was videotaping for a while when someone from tax collections came to his office and told him he was in the building. His initial thought was that it was a TV crew and, "oh boy, what did we do now?"
When Fossa saw Enrique, he said he knew immediately who he was, having seen him and his crew at the governor's State of the State address. Knowing that the group sometimes tries to get negative reactions from government officials, he made the choice to go all positive and take Enrique for a walk.
"We killed them with kindness," he said.
Other communities haven't handled the situation quite so well, said Fossa.
"Wow, I've never seen that happen," said Enrique as he walked out of Town Hall. He told Fossa several times during his tour how impressed he was and how awesome town employees were, saying this was the best tour of a town hall he'd ever had.
Fossa kept offering to take him to new places in Town Hall.
"You can go anywhere you want, it's a public building," said the chief of staff.
The best part of the video, said Fossa and Lombardi, was when Fossa showed Enrique the mayor's office.
"It's a little busy, but he loves pictures," Fossa said on video, describing the mayor's cluttered walls.
Auditing America bills itself as a group that runs First Amendment audits and "right to film" audits, going into public places to take footage and see how the government reacts in supporting the freedom of the press.
"Former 'Mayor Dick' is a great guy! Even took me to the non-public areas," wrote Enrique under his North Providence video. "401-232-0900. Call them to say how great they are!"
Lombardi said the positive publicity for North Providence, a community that's seen its share of headlines for bad government at work, is "fantastic for the town. It's so positive, it's crazy. We beat them at their own game."
The mayor said he was especially happy to see Fossa, who lives next to celebrity Judge Frank Caprio, get his own viral recognition, and Fossa was sure to let Caprio know of his accomplishment.
Lombardi was at an outside meeting when the encounter took place. He said when he came back, Fossa joked that he'd stepped in to save him.
Please don't give Auditing America attention
Permalink Submitted by ribornribred on Wed, 2019-06-19 09:38
When I first read the article I thought that perhaps they were referring to some sort of legitimate, respectable official audit from a government organization or a right group. Sadly, we're talking about a group of two guys only concerned about viewership of their youtube channel. They are annoying, obnoxious individuals that are vying for a revenue stream, and this article only serves to congratulate the City of North Providence for not feeding internet trolls while giving said trolls a veneer of legitimacy.
To be clear, I'm glad that Mr. Fossa enjoyed his time showing these two men around and that he felt it was a positive experience and this is not a dig on him at all. However, the motivation behind the actions of the two individuals that film Auditing America is not noble, and we shouldn't be legitimizing their behavior with a pomp-and-circumstance news article.
Put another way: it would be like if the Breeze was to publish an article on a picked-on kid convincing a bully to not steal his lunch money, and the article congratulated the picked-on kid while suggesting that the bully's behavior had good intentions.
Permalink Submitted by Jim James on Thu, 2019-06-20 07:54
Now the Mayor can go the next step and publish all of the towns employment contracts on their website.
dont make him out to be a good guy
Permalink Submitted by justwatchin on Thu, 2019-06-20 13:01
I get that Mr Fossa was trying to avoid any confrontations like auditing america has in his past video's and showing his city in a favorable way. But there is not need to make Anselmo or his other sidekick Joe famous. For what they do it is not of anything near to be considered news worthy let alone to get the top headline in the Breeze NP section. Just sad. Great job by Mr Fossa, but these 2 do this antagonizing of city and state workers, specifically police to get views which in turns makes them money, its not about the 1st amendment, its about money.
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