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To think that everyone in the organization would instantly participate without hesitation is only a dream, of course. If change were that easy, they wouldn't need you to lead it! Plus, the change and its outcomes are made better by understanding and working with the resistance that comes up. However, it does help to have people on your side from the start, who don't need much convincing to help you out.
1. They connect with the change.
Occasionally, your change initiative will trigger someone's curiosity or passion. The minute you say you are working on a [sustainability, innovation, leadership, Lean, you-name-it] initiative, they want to be involved. The topic is part of their expertise, or perhaps they would like it to be. They know the problem you are trying to solve, and they want to be part of the solution.
2. They have nothing better to do.
Have you ever gone into somebody's workspace and they seem relieved that you interrupted? If you asked them to do anything at that moment besides what they were working on, they probably would. Some employees stuck in the daily grind are looking for something more meaningful, interesting or just different to be involved in. The opportunity to use their skills (or learn new ones) to help make a difference in the organization may be just what they have been waiting for to get them out of their rut. Extend an invitation, and they will likely show up.
3. They believe in you.
Some of your colleagues will get involved simply because it's you. If you were not involved, they may not have considered it. There may be a variety of sources of this adulation. Some may view it as an opportunity to learn from you. Some see that you are headed toward great things and want to follow in your footsteps. Others may just know that if you are involved, it must be a good idea. Your friends will naturally want to work with you on a project that you are passionate about.
You may think that in order to have that kind of magnetism, you must be charismatic. When you are passionate about your project, your charisma appears. Far more important traits, however, are integrity and respect. If colleagues believe you are trustworthy and that your intentions are noble, they will honor you with their time and attention.
Locate people in your organization who connect with what you are doing, who crave something new, or who are your personal fans, and you will have found instant followers for your change initiative.


happy fathers day to all .
Thread: happy fathers day to all .
have , a great day green hulk dads .
Slaved for me all day!! JK, had a great day with my daughter. Thanks.
I agree..everyday should be Father's Day...my daughter's the greatest!..
Fathers day is not until September in OZ, but I must tell you about a friend of mine last year who woke up early on Fathers day with his wife sitting up next to him in bed with a long rope in her hands, and telling him as it was Fathers early in the morning and that he should tie her up and do anything he wished.
So he did-----he tied her up and went and played golf.


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Instinto y Deseo (Eng.: Instinct and Desire) is the seventh studio album released on January 30, 2001 by performer Víctor Manuelle. This album became his first number-one album in the Billboard Top Latin Albums. Also received a Billboard Latin Music Award nomination for Tropical/Salsa Album of the Year, Male, which was awarded to Libre by Marc Anthony.

Track listing
No Eres la Mujer (Diego Javier González) — 4:49
Me Da lo Mismo (Omar Alfanno) — 4:32
Lejos (Ramón Rodríguez) — 4:50
Cómo Se lo Explico al Corazón (Héctor Rivera) — 4:41
Quisiera Inventar (Diego Javier González) — 4:40
Te Voy an Encontrar (Omar Alfanno) — 4:48
Instinto y Deseo (Salsa version) (Héctor Gustavo) — 4:23
Ni Un Día Más (Gustavo Márquez) — 4:31
Así Fué (Juan Gabriel) — 4:44
Instinto y Deseo (Pop version) — 4:23

Credits
This information from Allmusic.
José Lugo: Piano, arranger, keyboards, producer
Víctor Manuelle: Arranger
Ernesto Sánchez: Arranger
Tommy Villarini: Trumpet, arranger
Rolando Alejandro: Engineer
Carmelo Álvarez: bongos
Vicente Cusi Castillo: Trumpet
Osvaldo De La Rosa: Copyist
Jorge Díaz: Trombone
Jan Duclerc: Trumpet
Chago Martínez: percussion, timbales
Gilberto Méndez: Bass
Luis "Perico" Ortíz: Trumpet
Roberto Pérez: Arranger
Marc Quiñones: Bongos, conga, timbales
Johnny Rivera: vocals
Angel Torres: saxophone (Baritone)
Johnny Torres: Transcription
Bobby Valentín: Bass, arranger
Antonio "Tonito" Vásquez: Trombone
Tony Vera: Photography
Frank Gener Villar: Digital art
Martha Medina: Make-Up, stylist

Chart performance

Sales and certifications

See also
List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2001
List of number-one Billboard Tropical Albums from the 2000s

References

2001 albums
Víctor Manuelle albums
Sony Discos albums

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Ben Carson Says a Muslim Should Not Be US President; Draws Outrage, 'Religious Bigotry' Accusations
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks during the second official Republican presidential candidates debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California on Sept 16, 2015.
Written by Stoyan Zaimov
Ben Carson sparked outrage from his fellow Republican presidential candidates and members of the Muslim community after stating on Sunday that a Muslim man or woman should not be elected president of the United States.
"I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that," the retired neurosurgeon told NBC's "Meet the Press."
The Republican candidate pointed as a warning to the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who immigrated to the United States as refugees from Kyrgyzstan, before carrying out the 2013 bombing that killed six people and injured 280.
Carson further argued that Islam as a religion is incompatible with the American Constitution, and a presidential candidate's faith should be considered during the election.
"If it's inconsistent with the values and principles of America, then of course it should matter," he added.
Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz reacted by reminding that the U.S. Constitution says there is no religious test for public office.
"You know, the Constitution specifies there shall be no religious test for public office and I am a constitutionalist," he said.
In a Fox News interview, presidential candidate Sen. Lindsay Graham called on Carson to apologize to all Muslim Americans for the remark.
Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim to be elected to Congress, described Carson's comments as "fear mongering."
"The freedom of religion is a founding principle of our nation," Ellison said, according to TIME Magazine. "Every American should be disturbed that these national figures are engaging in and tolerating blatant acts of religious bigotry."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations further called on Carson to drop out of the presidential race.
"Mr. Carson clearly does not understand or care about the Constitution, which states that 'no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office,'" said the group's national executive director, Nihad Awad.
Carson campaign spokesman Doug Watts responded to the outrage and clarified that Carson did not suggest that a Muslim should be prevented from running for office.
"He [Carson] just doesn't believe the American people are ready for that," Watts said.
"Dr. Carson is a strict adherent to the First Amendment — freedom of religion. That includes people of all faith," the spokesman continued.
"He has great respect for the Muslim community, but there is a huge gulf between the faith and practice of the Muslim faith, and our Constitution and American values."
Carson, who is a Christian, has been gaining strong support from Evangelical churchgoers and especially those who describe themselves as "highly religious" in the polls, going up against the current frontrunner Donald Trump.
The retired neurosurgeon has also spoken out on the growing crisis of Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Western states, and said that the U.S. should not allow any such refugees until a stricter screening process is implemented.
"I would recognize that bringing in people from the Middle East right now carries extra danger and we have to be extra cautious," Carson said.
"You know, the typical mechanisms that we use for screening people, perhaps, have to be enhanced."
This article was originally posted at ChristianPost.com.
Uncategorized | David E. Smith | September 22, 2015 8:24 AM

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Q: Installing Fedora Core 12 on a VPS I'm working on a Linux VPS that is running FC6, and I want to reinstall with the latest version FC12. The VPS is running on the Virtuozzo platform. I am also running Plesk on the VPS. This is all managed hosting through Network Solutions, so I don't have access to the actual box.
My question is, how does one reinstall a different OS through Virtuozzo? I see "reinstall VPS" in virtuozzo, but this just burns a fresh copy of FC6?
Is this a host-by-host thing, or are there best practices for accomplishing this..?

A: What is Guest OS are you using if you running any Linux then you install http://www.mondorescue.org/ take image of your live os it will be around 4 GB plus, or if you are using any microsoft os then you use any of the symantec back /ghost software take image then reinstall fc12 and virtuozzo

A: If the reinstall VPS thing only offers you the option to reinstall FC6, then you need to get in touch with your host, otherwise it will likely offer a list of options, and it will also delete the contents of your VPS, so be careful.

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A survey by the Society of Museum Archaeologists (SMA) has exposed a lack of storage space and curatorial expertise in English museums dealing with archaeological archives. The survey of 134 museums found that 36 could not accept archaeological archives because of lack of space. It also revealed that museums in 47 local authorities were no longer collecting, while 70% of museums had no specialist archaeology curator.
Adrian Tindall, chief executive of the Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers (FAME), said he thought the numbers in the survey were conservative. Tindall added that the federation would like a more rigorous disposal policy, with disposal as the default option unless there were good reasons for retaining material, alongside funding for more storage space around the country.
Just a thought: if the archives, including the objects, would be digitized properly, they could be handed over to the public under the mandatory condition of careful management and availability for exhibitions. Only a few (voluntary) curators are needed to provide information on preservation and performing some random checks now and than. In this way storage, adding (and editing) of metadata and connecting the archives with the actuality would be organized. Even more important is the added value from the commitment of (many) individual enthusiasts.


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Cleveland Abduction (2015 TV Movie)
Tragic but true story of three women held captive for ten years
Ed-Shullivan5 May 2015
This drama is based on actual events that occurred over a period of more than ten (10) years. The actual perpetrator Ariel Castro was 42 when he first abducted Michelle Knight on August 21, 2002. Michelle was in the process of trying to regain custody of her son from the state when she was abducted. Michelle had agreed to get in to Ariel Castro's truck as she knew Ariel's daughter so she failed to see any danger in getting in to Ariel's truck at that time.
Subsequent to Michelle Knight's kidnapping Ariel then kidnapped Amanda Berry on April 21, 2003 and Gina DeJesus on April 02, 2004. The film focuses mainly on the relationship between the dominant kidnapper Ariel Castro (played by Raymond Cruz) and his first victim Michelle Knight (played by Taryn Manning). The film does more than an adequate job in the 90 minutes made available to capture the imprisonment of the three young girls and how Ariel Castro first physically and then mentally subjected his kidnapping victims to torture to the point that they knew if they even attempted to escape they would receive a beating.
Fortunately for the films viewers we were spared any vivid graphic violence and rape of the three girls. Actor Raymond Cruz recently starred in the multi Emmy winning series Breaking Bad as drug kingpin Tuco Salamanca. For those of you who have watched Breaking Bad you will be familiar with Tuco's violent and crazy side so when I first heard that Raymond Cruz was playing the role of the vile Ariel Castro I was a bit concerned that the film may include some gratuitous violence as it was in Raymond Cruz's capacity as an actor to emulate this scum of the earth kidnapper Ariel Castro. Fortunately the director Alex Kalymnios chose to maintain a factual film theme and limit the depiction of the hundreds of rapes and beatings that Ariel Castro subjected his victims to.
This 90 minute film also does a good job of encapsulating the friendship and feeling of family the three girls shared which most likely made it a bit more bearable under the circumstances of being chained, beaten and repeatedly raped. As in the actual events we get to see how Amanda Berry gave birth to Ariel Castro's daughter with the assistance of Michelle Knight who was threatened with death if she did not succeed in ensuring Amanda's baby lived.
It is sad to realize that Castro's first victim, Michelle Knight was considered a runaway and very little was done to look for her as she was 21 years old at the time of her abduction. The press and police had communicated publicly that she most likely chose on her own accord to disappear as she had lost custody of her son to the state. Taryn Manning who played Michelle Knight made the audience feel how a kidnapped victim may have despaired as the years progressed and the abuse continued. In fact the film also depicts how Ariel Castro beat Michelle up when he felt she was pregnant with his child and so he ensured Michelle would abort the fetus by hitting her in the stomach with a barbell and kicking her in the stomach.
This is both a film about hopelessness, family by circumstances, and the evil of men with no conscience. Castro was arrested on May 06, 2013, more than 10 years and 8 months since he first abducted Michelle Knight. As mentioned earlier the films run time was only approximately 90 minutes and maybe the producers could have provided more in depth of the psyche of both the perpetrator Ariel Castro and the victims at the time of their abduction who were Michelle Knight (21), Amanda Berry (she turned 17 the day after her abduction) and the youngest and last of his victims Gina Dejesus (14) had the film been produced as a 4 or 6 hour mini-series.
I felt the producers did a very good job in providing the facts of this 11 year case history. Remember when Castro was arrested on May 06, 2013, CNN news carried the story almost exclusively for the next two weeks, 24 hours a day. No one could believe that not one but "THREE" young girls who were missing and presumed dead for years were being held prisoners less than 3 miles from their own homes. By the end of the film it leaves us with the question if Ariel Castro deliberately wanted to get caught and so he neglected to lock the front door because he was behind on his mortgage payments, could not afford to feed his 3 captors and his child, and after close to eleven years of maintaining a prison in his home he had just had enough of the lies, beatings and rapes that he had been responsible for.
This is a tragic but true story that covers a lot of abuse and actual events that the kidnapper Ariel Castro was able to hide from his own children, his band mates who actually practiced as a band in his home, and his two brothers who were initially also arrested under the assumption that they had to have known about the kidnappings and 10 year imprisonment when in fact Ariel was able to keep everyone fooled including his own family by keeping locks on the basement door as well as the upstairs bedrooms and by sealed windows.
I hope the victims benefit financially from this film and if so I recommend the film to parents and children alike to ensure one of the films messages is clear. That message being if you are getting in to someone's vehicle make sure your family knows where you are going and with whom you are going. I give this true story a 7 out of 10 rating.
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The Cruel Story of a Monster and His Victims
claudio_carvalho23 September 2015
In 2002, the single mother Michelle Knight (Taryn Manning) is walking to the court for the custody case of her five year-old son Joey, of whom she had lost custody. She realizes that she is late and accepts the ride from her acquaintance Ariel Castro (Raymond Cruz), who is the father of a schoolmate. He lures Michelle telling that his dog delivered several puppies and he would like to give one to her for Joey. Once inside his house, he imprisons her with chains in a dark room. For eleven years, Michelle is beaten and submitted to sexual abuse and abortion. In 2003 and 2004, Ariel also kidnaps and abuses of Amanda Berry (Samantha Droke), who has a child with him, and Gina DeJesus (Katie Sarife). In 2013, Amanda succeeds in escaping from the house and the police arrive and release the women.
"Cleveland Abduction" is a great TV movie that tells the cruel story of a monster and his victims. The direction and performances are impressive for a movie made for television. I still recall this notorious case in the Brazilian news and it is very sad to see how cruel a human being can be. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Sequestro em Cleveland" ("Cleveland Abduction")
Half-hearted storytelling lacking depth and conviction
areatw25 November 2018
I'm always keen to learn about real-life crime stories and the Ariel Castro kidnappings particularly interested me. The 'Cleveland Abduction' TV film is certainly an interesting watch, though that is down almost entirely to the subject it is covering and not the actual merits of the film. At best, 'Cleveland Abduction' is a solid portrayal of kidnappings, but in reality it could have and probably should have been at lot better.
The film seems to cover the bare minimum of the story, covering all the main events but without going into any real detail and with very little character development. It all feels very half-hearted and even the events the film does cover are portrayed without any real conviction and are less than convincing. 'Cleveland Abduction' is a fascinating watch, but almost entirely because of the story. The film itself is average at best, covering the minimum but lacking in depth and conviction.
A Rather Distant Feel To A Real Life Horror Story
Theo Robertson12 May 2015
The Cleveland abductions ? You remember that don't you ? No ? Let me refresh your memory . , A couple of years ago police in Cleveland Ohio raided a house belonging to one Ariel Castro who as it turned out kept three young women as captives . One of whom Michelle Knight had been held prisoner for eleven years . You remember it now and it'd be impossible to forget this true life horror story and this TVM tells of Michelle's ordeal
Now to be fair having the story told through a television film via the Lifetime Channel is both a blessing and a curse . A blessing that we're not going to be subjected to extreme exploitation that's going to keep us awake for nights on end due to the disturbing subject material but at the same time a curse that the restrain of a TVM really doesn't do the story justice . In this medium it's a rather uneasy mix but doesn't stop an opening caption that "Contains distressing scenes . Viewer discretion advised" . The constant rapes and beatings of Michelle are thankfully left mainly to the imagination but at the same time you're left thinking that this isn't due to any cerebral reason except that you're not allowed to show that type of stuff on the channel . In other words the story is shaped by outside criteria that have got absolutely nothing to do with the story and everything to do with outside factors . Another irritant is that you never get to feel much in the way of Michelle's hopes of ever being rescued being dashed time and again which I'm sure must have constantly happened . None of this is helped by the feeling of time passing being conspicuous by its absence and much of this TVM feels like it has taken place in 90 minutes rather than the eleven years of Michelle's real time imprisonment . There's not enough foundations for the audience to emotionally invest enough in to Michelle's ordeal which is terrible but at the same time abstract which means despite the compelling subject matter the characters remain entirely distant
Raymond Cruz is good but the story is mainly from one victim's POV
phd_travel17 July 2015
Raymond Cruz is a most effective actor. For those who watched 'Breaking Bad', Tuco Salamanca is one of the all time great TV villains thanks to Raymond's convincing intense performance. Here he is pretty scary as Ariel Castro. The real Ariel Castro looked more benign than him. Raymond is a bit too scary to be the wolf in sheep's clothing that Ariel was.
The story shows things from mainly one victim's point of view. Might have been better to show things from all three victims points of view. There was enough time to show how each was kidnapped and the background of each briefly so it's strange they didn't. In this sense the story could have been better written. The TV movie does not make it that clear how one of them couldn't run out while Ariel Castro was sleeping or something for such a long time.
Overall watch this for a TV version of the terrible crime.
aldstewart29 July 2015
From the start it was clear that this TV movie was based on Michelle Knight's story and not that of Amanda Berry & Gina Dejesus'.It felt like only half of the story was being told, and not even truthfully told (the tying up and hoisting of Michelle) There was no way the makers of this film could ever have portrayed the tense,traumatic, life threatening ordeal that spanned 10 years into a movie of around 113 minutes. It started quite promisingly but rapidly descended into a rushed, lazy account with mediocre acting and what I can only assume is artistic license, why else would they stray from the actual story written by the actual person abducted! I'm sure this will not be the only movie made about such a horrific and truly astonishing event, my only hope is that it is made with more depth, thought, accuracy,and better acting. Get a decent director on board, one who cares about the delicate subject at hand.
Superficial treatment of a horrendous tragedy
spotifeyeball6 May 2015
Vapid, bland acting on the part of the lead who plays Michelle Knight, does not look like her, act like her, talk like her, I cannot understand why this untalented woman was cast as this part. She showed the least emotion of the three female actresses and I was wincing more for how bad her acting was than how horribly Michelle Knight was treated. I read Michelle's book and have studied this case and watched her interviews, this lead was horribly miscast. The male lead was not much better, he was way too good-looking to be that demon-man monster, he was too nice and not psychopathic enough at all. It was way too much of a story to cram into 90 minutes, I am not sure any movie or documentary or book will ever do justice to what happened to these girls and the daughter produced in captivity. The actresses who played Gina and Amanda were far better cast and were credible actors. As far as the storyline, it was superficial and glossed over so many important issues, like how the police ignored this man-- a man who had beaten his common-law wife to a pulp years before kidnapping these girls, how the police came to the home when there were reports of screams and noises and did not attempt to enter; how somehow this man was not considered a suspect in the circle of at least Gina's world when he had a violent history and knew her by way of his own daughter. I am stunned the police were this blind, how this man was literally hiding in plain sight for so long. My best wishes for these four victims in that home is that that their futures are filled with every good thing that they would like from now on, that they will find love and appreciation and healing and fulfillment. But if you do not know the story do not rely on this cheeseball Lifetime show. Read Michelle's book, read Amanda and Gina's book, watch their interviews. This was a waste of time and did not do them justice in any way. Someone out there make a better movie than this about what happened for 11 years in Cleveland!
Too Rushed
pscbkhan11 February 2016
Overall, the film certainly was enthralling. However, the reason for this is the fascinating and truly disturbing nature of this heinous, cold, brutal and unfathomable crime, not the quality of the script or screenplay.
I understand Michelle's reasons for wanting to authorise and contribute to the making of this film, but sadly that doesn't change the fact that the finished product is rushed and does no justice to the sheer despair and pain these girls felt captive in that place. This case shocked me at the time, but when recently I was reminded of it after watching a Fritzl documentary, I became really intrigued by many things about this case. Castro as a person, his deceiving ways of luring the victims, that house, the street, Cleveland as a place. I've seen the interviews and news coverage, Castro's statement in court etc. As a sociologist, its truly mind boggling that these women made it through such a distressing, frightening and brutal situation. How did it go unnoticed? How is it possible with people visiting that house? In some parallel American universe, boarded up windows on a residential house is somehow inconspicuous, and the fact that the police ignored reports of screams is diabolical on their behalf. If that was England, the previous two points I made would undoubtedly prompted more of a reaction by the Police.
All this movie did for me was shed more light on what went on in the house and Ariel's relationship with the girls, so for that I can't fault it much. But some of the acting and the way the scenes play out doesn't in any way capture the extent of the suffering that took place and the effects it could have on someone. Amanda Berry being apparently alone all the time in another room and having a child with him deserved more airtime than she received, as well as Gina being so so very young, naive and scared too. What i'm saying is that this story needs a better director, around 200 minutes minimum, a much bigger budget and a plot that delves deeper into the circumstances around each kidnapping and the effects on each victim, individually.
May all three of these women have the rest of their lives filled with joy and may they be able to move past this hell and be loved like they deserved, along with Amanda's child.
Her son will come to her one day and we will wait for that day with her
heidi_s-962219 May 2015
First of all, I do not like shows of this nature and the happenings of what goes on with woman or men in nature. I do not believe these girls were giving much justice in this movie. Michael knights mother never looked for her, put up posters. If in fact someone seen this young lady in the Doller store talking to this man, and she did in fact wave to this no good of a mans neighbor before going in his house then this young lady should have been saved. The fact the the lady they show talking to the cop that she heard screams from houses nearby and then it stopped. Did the cop not check houses knowing that 2 girls were missing in the area. That part is so really, really sad. We will never know how these girls felt, never being in their situation. I believe cops could have put a end to this and Michaels mother could have also. You can not go back in time. It is still a shame that 10 years of these girls lives were taken. I do believe that her son will know who she is one day. Kids eventually know that they are adopted. I do not know, they just do. She has always said his name. You have to commend her for putting herself in the position to wait so that she does not disrupt his life. What he is probably 16 now. She will wait and it will be worth it. We all know that. She could have gotten him back because she did not sign papers to have him adopted. He will find out who she is and we will all wait with her. We will watch in years to come the reunion that the two of them encounter.
Emotionally haunting and eerily close to home
quincytheodore11 August 2015
Cleveland Abduction is very identical to case documentary or event reenactment, and it's highly effective. It doesn't present too much glossy cinematography to make it as authentic as possible, though still with enough restriction for the delicate subject. Acting from Taryn Manning and Raymond Cruz, the captor and captive, are brazenly intimidating to highlight the gruesome struggle.
It follows the event of actual kidnapping where a man, Ariel Castro (Raymond Cruz) abducts three women for eleven years. The movie depicts this horrendous act with superior acting and true to life visual. It occasionally looks devoid of color, grainy and dirty, while some of the outdoor scenery seems refreshing with cool ambiance. This presents the urban location in accurate perspective along with its darker shade.
Much of its better moments are from the good performance by the actors. It has surprisingly tender and sorrowful moments, all of which look genuine. This is not a well-orchestrated crime, yet it's incredibly shocking that the real person can maintain the act for so long. Raymond Cruz is a good cast for the role, he's often sickeningly brutal and easily becomes the fitting antagonist.
However, it does have some flaws. Several of the scenes try to depict the abuse, but they might feel heavy-handed in the approach. The camera is sometimes out of focus, it's probably intentional to induce realism, though it's a bit comfortable at times. The pace tends to screech a bit towards the second half despite the good intention of showing the aftermath or restrain for more gory moments. These don't take away the venerable effort to convey its message though.
Keeping the story grounded, it manages to tell the abusive story and its ramification with equal poise and intimate outlook.
Poor Even for TV Standards
jenniferconleykc26 February 2017
I want to start off my review by stating that the victims, Michelle Knight (Now Lily Rose Lee), Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus deserve all respect and dignity for the atrocities they went through.
This film does not give them that, especially Amanda and Gina.
We can disregard the bad taste in making a film about a horror. The point of such films should be about informing people of what happened and how such horror should be watched out for and how people can help in these situations. It shouldn't be about entertainment.
The sin of this film is that it clearly is a message to entertain people and not on the truth.
This film focuses on one of the victims, Michelle, and that is probably one of the worst decisions made. It almost ignores the other two which is beyond frustrating. Why were their stories not worth being told? Why did we only see their families grief through the eyes of Michelle? Worse, the grief was shown for the purpose of highlighting the fact that Michelle had no one looking for her. Instead of feeling pain for Gina and Amanda's families, we were supposed to feel sadness that Michelle did not have that. Important moments like when Amanda learns of her mother's death from a news story were told strictly through Michelle's eyes when it would have been better served to have been told from the grieving daughter.
Michelle's story deserved to be told, but so did Amanda's and Gina's
Another problem is because this is a film meant to tell strictly Michelle's story and also with the guise to entertain instead of inform, the filmmakers made the decision to twist the truth to pull focus onto Michelle. This causes problems because in many instances it makes the other two victims appear worse. They present both Amanda and Gina as entirely subservient to Ariel and completely under his thumb from the beginning, both too afraid to even entertain the idea of escaping while Michelle is always looking for ways to get out. When reading the book written by both Amanda and Gina it is clear that both of them tried to find ways of getting out, including a moment where Amanda considered stealing the very van they were all abducted in. By trying to prop up Michelle as the "strong one" they make the other two look meek and ignore the bravery of ALL THREE of them.
But the example that bothers me the most is at the very end of the film. After the three of them are rescued it shows them all trying to move on. In a particularly tragic scene Gina informs Michelle she wants to stop talking to her for a while so she can move on. Its' sad because its supposed to highlight the fact that Michelle is alone again, no family, no son and now now help from the other two people she could share her story with.
The problem is that this simply is NOT true. The fact is it was Michelle who needed to separate herself from Gina and Amanda and told them both this, even though they are still in contact to this day. Gina and Amanda see each other every week and are in constant contact and in fact wrote a book together. Michelle needed to separate herself from them in order to heal, since she was older and went through some atrocities they did not (such as being forced to miscarry 5 times and losing custody of her son) it is certainly understandable that she would need space from her two fellow captors in order to heal
For the film to completely lie and try to paint Michelle as the one abandoned is a complete and utter disservice to Amanda and Gina. It is horrifying that they would decide to mute the voices of two of the victims.
I know this film was based on Michelle's book, but that doesn't mean it was right to almost ignore the stories of Gina and Amanda. All three of them deserve more than this piece of crap.
Ashamed to be a man......
rbrb5 July 2016
This drama is apparently based on true events and I have no idea how accurate is the depiction in the film. But that said this movie is both compelling and heart wrenching.
A young woman is kidnapped by a lunatic and kept prisoner and tortured as are other young females. The brutal treatment of the victims is appalling. Both lead players give first rate performances as do the other performers though there are times in this picture I needed to look away due to the horrid nature of events.
Sometimes I really feel ashamed that men can be so wicked to females..
Despite the sordid content in this movie, its' realism gains it a vote of:
This is hands-down THE WORST movie I have ever seen!!
rknaak18 May 2015
This is hands-down THE WORST movie I have ever seen!! Everything about it is awful! The acting, the dialog, the storyline.... It is a large span of real-life time and tragedy jammed into a 90 minute made-for-TV movie, and all it leaves you with are questions, confusion, and wonder as to how anyone could think that this 90 minute run-of-events could be classified as a "story" and made into a movie. I realize that it is all based on true events, however the way the chosen events were written and portrayed in this movie do not compound together to make a storyline. It is a bunch of factual events thrown together and filmed. And very poorly done at that.
Profound.
luke-723-9950014 May 2019
I knew nothing of the case before watching this movie so I found the events beyond shocking. I was gripped all the away through. I found the storytelling suspenseful and I believed the performances. The faith of the lead character was deeply inspiring and I was left feeling equally moved as I was haunted. There were some particularly difficult scenes to reconstruct in this movie and I felt the filmmakers did a brilliant job in tackling such a challenging and sensitive set of circumstances. I would recommend this as a must watch.
Hooked me
poprok171 June 2015
I started off watching this movie knowing little to nothing about this horrific, true event. While watching it I was searching the internet looking up facts, videos, etc and was shocked I didn't know more. I think the movie, for lifetime and NOT HBO or cable did this story justice. To me, it was interesting enough that I went beyond and bought the books, looked up the videos and read all the articles.
Tara Manning is the main actress, the review I read earlier on this is way off in saying she can't act. She was chosen because of her supreme acting in the recent "orange is the new black" netflix show. I thought she did a good job. It's pretty impossible to find actress's that look and talk like normal everyday women. After watching all the footage, all three girls did a great job, I feel.
Also these women lived through horrific crimes that no one should ever have to endure. If you want the real story, of course read their books. If you want 90 minutes of entertainment then watch this movie. I don't think any Lifetime movie claims to be scene by scene the actual real life story. The scenes with the bar bell, killing the dog, rape etc. were hard enough to watch, how much did you really want to see (this is for the review on here claiming it's not "real" enough)? This movie brought to light a horrible situation in 90 minutes of what these girls dealt with for 10 YEARS! That's a pretty impossible feat for any movie, let alone Lifetime. So, I say watch this movie with your hand over your eyes on some parts and then read their books, to get the full story.
These women are brave and amazing and more people should know about them.
wrightiswright19 June 2019
Films like this are why I never take too seriously the reviews on Amazon for movies, when something as mediocre as this can get an average of four and a half stars.
Basically, it's a retelling of the real life incident in America where three young females where kidnapped and held in a man's house for close to a decade, even raising a daughter together when one of the abused captives fell pregnant with his baby.
Despite all the elements being present for a riveting 'Based On A True Story' drama, you don't really get much of a passage of time here, nor due you really see any explicit scenes of the awful torture the girls must have gone through.
Basically, Cleveland Abduction is too fast-paced for us to develop an emotional connection with the victims, and too censored in it's approach to highlighting their horrendous treatment whilst imprisoned.
The actors play their parts well and from what I understand, the screenplay sticks mostly to the facts, but ultimately I can't help but feel a far more comprehensive mini-series was the way to go to document this modern tragedy.
Maybe we'll get one in the future, that'll tell us a lot more. I wait in hope... 5/10
Well done movie
mkaykrempel3 May 2019
I raised a family just outside Cleveland. No store or restraunt here took down the fliers until the women were rescued. I lasted 10 minutes with this movie, it totally sickened me and made me cry. NO one who does such a horrible things should achieve celebrity status! Remember the names Michelle, Amanda, and Gina! As for the criminal, his name should be FORGOTTEN!
A summary of a story.
jayjaymacca-17-78963012 September 2018
Trying to squeeze over a decade of horrific events into under 90 minutes was always going to be a challenge regardless of budget and cast. Nonetheless the film is very well made and does not dissapoint. I have never seen Taryn Manning in a leading role and I must say she really done a superb job. It's hard to believe that you are you watching events that these women actually went through and someone could be so evil to put them through it which makes it hard to watch at times, but its a story that needed to be told.
Very painful
MeiSsLman3 July 2018
Fight for your son and then you be kidnapped, raped and tortured for many years . very sad after being freed you have to sacrifice the most cherished possessions (your son)
Many sad moments in this Movie I really enjoyed it
brutal true story
SnoopyStyle6 July 2016
It's 2002 Cleveland. Michelle Knight (Taryn Manning) is a struggling single mother. Her mother is unreliable. Social services is trying to take away her son. While walking to court to get him back, she is kidnapped by acquaintance Ariel Castro (Raymond Cruz). She is kept as a sex slave for 11 years during which he also kidnaps Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. They finally escape in 2013.
It's a Lifetime movie. The brutal true story is told in a straight forward manner. Taryn Manning makes this more compelling than simply the material. The brutality is kept at a certain level since it's a Lifetime movie. It's a harrowing story. A couple of scenes after the rescue are actually quite heart-breaking.
Cleveland Abduction
a_baron23 July 2016
Once upon a time there was a wicked ogre named Ariel Castro who snatched three girls off the street and held them captive in secret in a residential area for over a decade. Imagine if that story had come down to us from ancient Greece, or even a much more recent era.
Okay, let's try another approach, imagine this was a novel or a film script, would it get past the slush pile or anywhere near a studio? Of course not. Sadly, this well-documented tale of sexual sadism and just plain sadism is not only more outrageous than any such legendary or fictional offering, it is 100% true. "Cleveland Abduction" has been given a semi-documentary format, seen mostly through the eyes of Michelle Knight, Castro's first victim, and the one who suffered most.
We follow the tale from Michelle's abduction as far as her victim impact statement at his trial. Sadly or otherwise, Castro avoided a living hell by committing suicide a mere month into his life sentence. Doubtless he will have gone to the real one where he will occupy a place or torment only slightly less hot than Ted Bundy.
This film is well acted by all the players. How could he have got away with it for so long? We can all ask that question, but wisdom is hindsight is a wonderful thing.
edwagreen16 July 2015
Everything seemed to be going wrong for our heroine, a high school dropout with a child, and an uncaring mother. It just seems that there is one misfortune after another and eventually the loss of her young son to the courts and her inability to get to the court on time forces her to take what will be the most memorable ride in her life.
Bound and sadistically tortured by someone she trusted, this is basically a story of survival.
Our demented man tries to start a family by kidnapping two other girls and impregnating one of them.
The story is also poignant since once freedom is achieved, we see how our young unfortunate had to work her way back into life,after she had experienced rejection and no one missed her during her 10 years of captivity.
A harrowing, tragic experience that altered the lives of its victims.
melissamcdaid6 September 2015
Taryn Manning plays a tremendous part in this true story. While I understand many viewers frustration at the focus being mostly on Michelle's character, I believe that it is important to remember that the film is based mostly on Michelle's book which helped steer the story in that direction. Although difficult to watch at times due to the implied brutality, I was unable to take my eyes from the screen the entire movie. Depicts the story of these 3 young girls (and not forgetting the daughter) excellently while allowing an understanding as to why the girls were never able to escape. This would have been an 8 star review if not for the performance of Taryn Manning, which bumps it up to 9 stars.
I Cried, I Got Mad, But I'm Glad I Watched This.
arenburns23 August 2018
I finally watched this because I wanted to know more of what these 3 poor women went thru. By the end I was in tears, they go thru so much but what Michelle Knight (the single mother) went thru is followed by even more, incredibly sad. She went thru 11 years of absolute hell, thinking of nothing but being free and seeing here sweet son again who was only 3 at the time, just to be told that bc she was kidnapped and didnt show he was up for adoption and his adopted family didn't want them to have any contact. That's when I lost it. I bawled my eyes out of the thought of her situation. Trying to get a job, moving out of her alcoholic mother's home and trying to make all these changes just to get her son back just for it to be ripped from her bc the monster used giving her a ride to the courthouse as a trap. Then remembering his birthday every single year, praying, singing, dreaming and thinking of seeing him again despite her captor constantly bringing her down in every way every chance he could. The 1st thing she did once she was free was look up and say she was gonna see her son again. It was all she talked about at the hospital and simply the only thing she needed. Yet the absolutely heartless new family refused to let her see even a picture of him or know if they even kept his name?! Absolutely cold. All that pain just for heartbreak and having to move on and start completely over.
spieringsm30 November 2015
I true story that has to. Be told so the victims can live on. I like the movie even its a horrible story. And I'm glad the women are saved en can live there life's even it most be hard for them. I hope the are happy now with there lives as good as it gets. And i also hope the men who did this will never leave jail. Somebody like him does not deserve the live his life ever in freedom he's a animal no worser than a animal. It was a difficult movie to watch but i am glad i did. I saw one of the women by the Doctor phill show i have real respect for this women that she told her story and still after all she come true have the power to go on with her life. Respect it most be hard.
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Finding Relief with Mind-Based Therapies
By Jen Jenkins
According to national health figures, one in four adults in the United States has experienced back pain within the past month. Back pain is the second most common cause of disability for American adults and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Sufferers have tried it all, from painkillers and shots to physical therapy. In our previous post on MCNTalk we discussed chronic pain in the United States and the growing concerns surrounding opioid painkillers, their addictive nature, and the rise in opioid-related deaths. Amid this evolving crisis, a new study is now reporting that many people may find relief with a form of meditation called mindfulness-based stress reduction. This technique harnesses the power of the mind to help manage pain and involves a combination of meditation, body awareness and yoga.
"This new study is exciting, because here's a technique that doesn't involve taking any pharmaceutical agents, and doesn't involve the side effects of pharmaceutical agents."
– Dr. Madhav Goyal
Dr. Madhav Goyal of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine co-wrote an editorial accompanying the paper published on the study of mindfulness-based stress reduction. Participants in the study were assigned to meditation or cognitive behavior therapy and they received eight weekly two-hour sessions of group training in the techniques. Six months later, those learning meditation had an easier time with activities such as getting up out of a chair, climbing stairs, or putting on socks; a year later, they were still doing better and expressed meaningful improvement. The sheer size of this study is considered one of its strengths – it included 342 participants ranging from age 20 to age 70. However, Dr. Goyal does warn, "It may not be for everybody." Some people with back pain might find yoga and certain movements too painful, but Dr. Goyal thinks that this technique is very empowering for people who want to do something using their own mind to help their pain.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction was developed in the 1970s by scientist Jon Kabat-Zinn, who used Buddhist meditation practices as a template for his technique. Dr. Cherkin explained that the goal is for pain sufferers to increase their awareness of their experience through meditation. They are meant to understand how their pain is affecting them and more importantly, how they respond to it. The idea is for participants "to change their mindset and, in a way, almost befriend the pain, and not feel it's oppressing them."
It is important to be able to offer a lot of options for chronic pain because while some treatments may help some people, they may not work well for others. Dr. Cherkin believes that mindfulness-based stress reduction is helpful because even if someone does not use it all the time, it is a skill they will never forget and it is something that can be used anywhere. Currently, the downsides for those who are interested in mindfulness-based stress reduction revolve around getting access to is, which is problematic without certified instructor training available everywhere; and, as an alternative remedy, receiving instruction in it may not be covered by health insurance.
View this New York Times article on mind-based therapy and back pain. Also, please share your comments with us!
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Hospitals Are Getting Bigger (And Not Just In Texas)
by Jen Jenkins, Market Analyst
Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas is gaining exposure, and it isn't due to its plush newness, updated equipment, sophisticated technology, or a tragic event of 1963 (for readers who are familiar with the name "Parkland Memorial."). Instead, Parkland is getting attention because each room in the hospital has been specifically designed to more effectively treat overweight patients, or more accurately, "the bariatric population." This population is made up of patients who typically have a body mass index of 40 or higher and as the need to accommodate these patients has grown, so has the trend to redesign hospital rooms across the country.
According to Nancy Connolly, a senior executive at a hospital consulting group, "Most hospitals we are building are providing an increasingly larger percentage of rooms that can accommodate the larger person." These changes are necessary due to the unique challenges obese patients tend to face: beds, wheelchairs, and other equipment need to be larger and sturdier which also means that door frames and the rooms themselves need to designed differently. This is now routinely kept in mind as old hospitals are updated and new hospitals are built.
Regardless of what this new trend may indicate, the overall idea moving forward is for hospitals to be designed with the "universal patient" in mind so that every single person may feel comfortable and accounted for. Many arguments can and are being made about what this means about our society, food consumption, economic issues, etc. However, in this scenario hospitals are simply doing what is necessary to be in a better position to care for patients in every way possible – which is undoubtedly their most pertinent responsibility. According to an article featured in The New York Times, although this trend is being seen across the country, Parkland has done an especially remarkable job in its new design, which will likely be replicated here on out.
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West Point Professor and Iraq War Veteran Weighs in on Disability Pay
Disability benefits, especially for veterans, can be a difficult, often emotional issue to discuss as is witnessed in this The New York Times article and accompanying comments. Lt. Col. Daniel Gade, a professor of public policy at the United States Military Academy, lost a leg while serving as a tank company commander in Iraq in 2005. He spends much of his spare time publishing essays and traveling the country pushing the idea that the Department of Veterans Affairs should move away from paying veterans for their wounds and instead create incentives for them to find work or create businesses.
"It's a difficult issue to broach. People immediately think you are trying to shortchange veterans," he said in an interview. "But I'm in a position to do it because I have skin in the game, literally."
Colonel Gade wants to avoid a partisan fight over his ideas which says are first about helping veterans and second about saving money: "I think we can show we have a no-kidding better way to help veterans that is cheaper and more effective."
One comment author summed many points up not just on veterans' benefits but the disability system in general: "We can say that 'disability status' can become a disability in itself, without suggesting any sort of malingering or intent to defraud. This applies to vets and civilians alike. There are many cases of disability where the person really can't work; gaining disability status is a godsend for them. It enables them to actually be more successfully productive in the community than continually failing in the workplace. BUT…Some people don't do well being disabled. The status itself seems to undermine their ability to take charge of their lives." Read more…
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Emergence of the Trauma Industry
This article from The New York Times focuses on a particular criminal ex-cop. But reference is made to many other defendants involved in this particular crime, of "feigning mental illness" and invoking the 9-11 attacks as a source of psychological scarring. These crimes did not take place in a vacuum. They occurred in a social context where the defendants, many sworn officers, believed they could get away with it, and likely saw themselves as damaged and entitled.
The experience of trauma and even the development of a diagnosis such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder does not correlate with a person being damaged or disabled. Trauma is part of the human condition, and in most cases the victims adjust, move on, and support themselves and their families – at times with the help of some therapy. Men and women have gone to war, and returned to productive civilian lives. A bureaucracy of entitlement for compensation and pensions based upon ones experiences, rather than one's actual impairment, did not exist.
Only in recent years have we observed an emergence of a trauma industry, where both individuals and clinicians all too frequently appear to correlate an unfortunate experience or experiences with damage. The ability to obtain compensation likely has driven this process and outcome.
Those who die in performing their jobs or who sustain serious injury warrant eternal respect and honor. What of those who ride on the coat-tails of dramatic news, and do their sometimes unpleasant and highly stressful jobs? Has the human condition and the nature of trauma and war changed fundamentally in the past couple decades to explain or justify the increased level of diagnoses and compensation for trauma-related experiences?
The article reflects some who were caught. In the culture of cynical entitlement that appears to be reflected in the article, what remains unrecognized? Does one really believe that this case and the Long Island Railroad abuses cover and resolve the core issues?
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106 Indicted in $21.4 Million New York Disability Fraud Scheme
An indictment unsealed on Monday by the Manhattan district attorney's office charges 106 people, four of whom are accused of fraud in a scheme involving Social Security disability payments.
Many of the 72 city police officers and eight firefighters named in the 205-count indictment had blamed the Sept. 11 attacks for what they described as mental problems: post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and severe depression.
Several of the defendants documented their activities on Facebook. The bail letter includes photographs culled from the Internet that show one former officer riding a water scooter and others working at jobs including helicopter pilot and martial arts instructor. One is shown fishing off the coast of Costa Rica and another sitting astride a motorcycle, while another appeared in a television news story selling cannoli at the Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan.
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Emotional Support, with Fur
Pocket, the author's pet, aka emotional support animal.
That a dog provides comfort to owners is a given. That's why we call them pets. But now, under the guise of subjective criteria of any physician or licensed therapist and the perceived needs of certain individuals, some are claimed as a necessity that others must tolerate in the public sphere.
Some are claiming and demanding that their pets have therapeutic impact and address an emotional disability and must accompany them on planes, at work, in restaurants, and in pet-free housing. Others claim their animals can retrieve dropped items that they can't stoop down for, or have the uncanny and improbable talent of detecting and stopping seizures.
Please note that highly trained service animals such as seeing eye dogs actually DO something and deserve respect and access to any setting. But a clear line must be drawn when it comes to animals whose sole talent is BEING. By all means, enjoy your pet, dress it up in silly costumes, feed it from the table, and pay for its chemotherapy. But someone else's pet provides zero social good to society at large. It will never pay taxes, teach our kids, or shovel the snow off your walk out of altruism. They have earned no dispensation or right to privilege or sacrifice from the rest of us. As one commenter queried, she derives comfort from their husband — can he fly free and sit at her feet on a plane? One's perceived needs and wishes need not be indulged by society, or endorsed with misguided and abused rules.
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Benefits suspended for Long Island Railroad retirees
MCNTalk previously discussed the abuse of the disability system at the Long Island Rail Road. With this follow-up we see hundreds having their benefits cut off and reference is made to one doctor going to jail. While we have not followed this story closely, the article begs a number of questions:
Who else if anything was held to account for this glaring abuse? Reference is made to another defendant in the case going to trial soon? How many defendants are there?
For the Railroad Disability Board to not know or have reason to suspect abuse long ago is not credible. Is the leadership still in place? Ultimately the Board had to approve each application and there were individuals working there along with management who were fully aware of the nature of the claims. They were fully capable of using their heads to review and challenge. How many of the L.I.R.R. applicants had their claims reviewed and denied? What about other Railroad employees at other companies? Are their claims being similarly approved?
Are managers at the L.I.R.R. who were involved in this travesty still working there and are any of them facing charges?
Lastly, let's look to the 600 retirees losing their benefits. In the original Times article, we note the following:
Virtually every career employee — as many as 97 percent in one recent year — applies for and gets disability payments soon after retirement, a computer analysis of federal records by The New York Times has found. Since 2000, those records show, about a quarter of a billion dollars in federal disability money has gone to former L.I.R.R. employees, including about 2,000 who retired during that time.
The L.I.R.R.'s disability rate suggests it is one of the nation's most dangerous places to work. Yet in four of the last five years, the railroad has won national awards for improving worker safety.
"Short of the gulag, I can't imagine any work force that would have a so-to-speak 90 percent disability attrition rate," said Glenn Scammel, long one of Capitol Hill's top experts on railroads. "That defies both logic and experience."
Said Dr. J. Mark Melhorn, co-editor of a book on occupational disability published by the American Medical Association: "No one has a rate that high — that just doesn't happen."
Clearly those who applied for and received disability included a significant number of individuals who were engaged in fraud and theft from the government – from all of us. What is their punishment and account? To lose future benefits! How many if any will face prosecution and restitution? Just because everyone does it does not make it right. These individuals were not forced to apply for benefits and they were not forced to see particular doctors. They applied for benefits and most were fully aware of the scam they were engaged in.
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Sentencing in the Long Island Railroad Disability Fraud Scheme
What is missing in this New York Times article is any reference to the consequences for those many claimants who engaged in the fraud, and the management and employees of the Long Island Rail Road, who clearly were aware that such fraudulent claims were the norm. Perhaps they were only counting the days until their own disability retirements. How many of those who Dr. Ajemian helped obtain benefits have been criminally charged for fraud and how much of the millions of dollars of ill-begotten compensation has been returned to the public from which it came?
What this doctor did, based upon the article, was reprehensible, but let's not kid ourselves. The culture of disability is alive and well in the public and private sector. Well intended efforts to addresses excesses and distortions in the system may lead to personal attacks on those who try.
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Release of the DSM-V
The American Psychiatric Association unveiled this past week the fifth edition of its handbook of diagnoses, the D.S.M-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition), after 14 years in the making.
This article in The New York Times neatly summarizes a major, on-going discussion over the publication. Per the author,
The media will trumpet the release of the new D.S.M., but practicing psychiatrists will largely regard it as a nonevent. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for other institutions — insurance companies, state and government agencies, and even the courts — which will continue to imbue the D.S.M. with a precision and an authority it does not have.
Psychiatrists tend to treat according to symptoms. However, the manual carries a fair amount of clout with the rest of society: They are the passports to insurance coverage, the keys to special educational and behavioral services in school and the tickets to disability benefits. Sometimes a diagnosis of a condition like autism, A.D.H.D. or conduct disorder is necessary for students to qualify for special therapies. And diagnoses also figure in disability determination.
As noted, the D.S.M. is an imperfect guide to predicting what treatments will benefit patients most — a reality tied to the fact that psychiatric diagnoses are based on clinical appearances that tend to cluster, not on the mechanism behind the illness, as is the case with, say, bacterial pneumonia.
There are definitely changes in the D.S.M.-V over the fourth edition, and as the article notes much of this this will most likely change as researchers learn more about genetics, brain circuitry and cognitive data to fashion better guides to what to prescribe for patients, and in terms of what new compounds to develop. Read more…
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Trends with Benefits: The Growth of Federal Disability Benefits in the U.S.
One of MCN's favorite radio programs is "This American Life" from National Public Radio. The March 22, 2013 show, "Trends With Benefits," was on the massive growth in federal disability benefits in the U.S. Much of this is no surprise to those of us who work in the sector. To quote their blurb:
"The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties around the nation where almost 1/4 of adults are on disability. Planet Money's Chana Joffe-Walt spent 6 months exploring the disability program, and emerges with a story of the U.S. economy quite different than the one we've been hearing."
Well worth a listen. This American Life: Trends With Benefits
And additional information in available from the author on the web at:
http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
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March 10, 2021 by Shelly Palmer
Chinese Hackers Did It. Now What?
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Microsoft has confirmed that Chinese hackers were responsible for the attacks it announced on March 2 that exploited vulnerabilities in the standalone version of its Exchange Server mail and calendar software. The hackers have been targeting corporate and government data centers since January, but the vulnerabilities may go back as long as 10 years. Microsoft published a fix on Patch Tuesday (that's the second Tuesday of every month), but now what?
Here's a quick tip. Stop using the standalone version of Exchange Server. No one is hacking the Microsoft cloud or the Google cloud. When they do, it will mark the beginning of a cyber world war. No matter how big your in-house cybersecurity team is, it isn't big enough to fight nation-state-backed armies of cyberwarriors. Like WOPR says, "The only way to win is not to play." Stick a fork in Microsoft Exchange Server. It's done.
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The Immigration Penalties of Criminal Convictions: Resurrecting Categorical Analysis in Immigration Law
For over a century, noncitizens in the United States have faced adverse immigration
consequences if convicted of certain types of offenses in criminal court. Many criminal
convictions carry severe immigration penalties, including deportation, detention,
and the denial of statuses like asylum and U.S. citizenship. The Supreme
Court recently recognized that these penalties are so intimately tied to criminal
court adjudications that criminal defense attorneys have a duty to advise noncitizen
defendants of the immigration consequences of a conviction before the entry of a
guilty plea in criminal court. Yet there is little clarity about how to determine
whether a particular conviction triggers an immigration penalty. Historically, courts
and immigration officials have applied a categorical analysis to assess the immigration
consequences of a criminal conviction. Under a categorical analysis, a court or
immigration official determines the penalties based on an examination of the statutory
definition of the offense, not the factual circumstances of the crime. However,
several recent Supreme Court, federal court, and agency decisions have ignored this
longstanding analysis and have instead examined these issues through the lens of
Taylor v. United States, a criminal sentencing case that adopts a categorical analysis
in a different context. Distinguishing Taylor and its criminal sentencing rationales,
these decisions have invented a new approach to assessing past criminal
convictions in the immigration context. That approach now permits a circumstance-specific inquiry into facts beyond the criminal court's findings in some immigration
cases. Under these recent decisions, the immigration consequences of a criminal
conviction no longer turn on the criminal court adjudication alone, but may also be
determined by facts that were not proven or pleaded in the criminal court proceeding.
This Article argues that this shift in approach is based on a fundamental
misunderstanding of the origins of categorical analysis in immigration law and its
independent rationales, including its promotion of notice and an opportunity to be
heard, uniformity, predictability, efficiency, and judicial review in the administrative
agency context. This Article further argues that, because of this flaw in the
current debate, courts have failed to consider the negative impact of the erosion of
categorical analysis on the functioning of the current immigration and criminal justice
systems. The rationales for categorical analysis apply with even greater force
today than they did when categorical analysis was first articulated nearly a century
ago. Rather than erode categorical analysis, courts and the agency should require
its robust application in light of its longstanding rationales and modern-day
implications.
Unshackling Habeas Review
Chevron Deference and Statutory Interpretation in Immigration Detention Cases
This article questions the application of Chevron deference in federal court habeas review of statutory immigration detention challenges. Since the enactment of a mandatory detention statute for immigrants facing deportation, the Board of Immigration Appeals—an administrative body within the U.S. Department of Justice—has played an increasingly important role in interpreting the scope of detention for thousands of immigrants each year. Federal courts have long served as an important check against executive detention through habeas review and have declined to accommodate other deference norms in the immigration detention context. Federal courts have nonetheless applied Chevron to immigration detention cases without questioning whether such deference to the agency is appropriate. This article explains why federal courts should reject the application of Chevron when exercising habeas review of statutory immigration detention challenges. This article further explains that federal courts, whether or not fettered by Chevron, should apply interpretive norms that properly account for the important physical liberty interest at stake.


The Importance of Condo Insurance - ABEX Affiliated Brokers Exchange Inc.
The proper insurance is critical for those that own or are looking to own a condominium (sometimes referred to as a strata). However, understanding how condo coverage works is not always a straightforward process.
To protect their investment, condo owners must purchase coverage (also known as condo or unit owner insurance) that works in conjunction with a condo association or corporation's master policy. Condo owners often wrongly assume they do not need coverage because their condo corporation already has a policy.
Failing to purchase a condo or unit owner policy can leave you exposed to gaps in coverage—gaps that could be incredibly costly in the event of a claim. To better understand the need for coverage, it's important to learn what master and condo policies commonly cover.
One of the key takeaways is that your condo corporation's insurance may cover insured losses to the condo building and common property, but it does not cover your personal contents, liability or improvements to your unit. That's why purchasing additional coverage in the form of condo insurance is so important.
While having a separate insurance policy for your condo unit is not mandatory, it is highly recommended.
As noted above, a condo corporation's master policy typically covers common areas. Not only does this limited protection put your personal belongings at risk, but any improvements you make, damage you do to another unit or injuries that occur in your unit will also not be covered.
What's more, in the event of a major disaster (like a pipe bursting in your unit), you could be held liable for the cost of any repairs. Master policies often include language that identifies the owner of the unit where a specific loss began as the individual responsible for the entire deductible. With this cost sometimes exceeding tens of thousands of dollars, condo insurance is a must in order to protect your finances.
Contents or personal property. Condo policies will often protect personal property such as clothing, appliances and furniture.
Additional living expenses. In the event of an insured loss that leaves your condo unit uninhabitable, condo policies may provide policyholders with funds over and above the normal cost of living. This coverage is essential, as condo owners will need a place to live if their unit is ever uninhabitable.
Third-party liability. Condo policies can provide coverage for your personal liability for any bodily injury or property damage unintentionally caused to others.
Improvements and betterments. Condo polices provide coverage for any upgrades to your unit (e.g., adding in custom hardwood flooring or custom counters). This coverage is available whether the improvements were made by you or previous owners of your unit.
Loss assessments. In the event that that your condo corporation's insurance fails to provide adequate coverage, loss assessment protection kicks in. This protection helps insure common property and liability.
Contingent coverage. Similar to loss assessment protection, contingent coverage insures your condo unit itself in the event that the master policy fails to protect you or is insufficient.
When it comes to condo insurance, it's important to remember that a condo corporation will seldom protect your personal property or pay for your living expenses if you are displaced following an incident.
As such, before purchasing your unit, it is imperative that you ask for a copy of the condo corporation's insurance agreement. That way you are aware of your responsibilities and the amount you need to pay for any deductibles.
In addition, when meeting with your insurance broker, bring a copy of your condo's bylaws and master policy. This will help in the underwriting process and will ensure that you get the right level of protection.
Depending on the province, condo associations may be required to offer certain levels of protection, and your broker can help you better understand any insurance gaps.
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Expanded Polystyrene (ESP) – That is the white foam board that is made up of numerous tiny white foam balls. Hydroponics Techniques Two other sow nutritionists by the University of California were requested to research Rickert's claims. His tanks are part of a system very completely different from a fish farm or natural ecosystem. Commercial hydroponics production of huge vegetation like tomatoes, cucumber, and peppers use one type or one other of run to waste hydroponics. The fragile stability of pH is a key issue when forecasting the potential progress of a hydroponic system. Firstly you will want some system plans even when your not completely new to this activity. Small Hydroponic Systems While this method is actually achievable, the vitamins which have to be used for the system to be thought of 'natural' often require processing by micro organisms earlier than plants can take these up and due to this fact lack the synthetic chatting agents we commonly use in traditional hydroponic methods. Again, the grower can get their hands dirty and construct their very own system if they've the time and the know-how. The mall, which opened in April, has grown from one business to 6, and providers offered include vapor lounges and hydroponics tools. The electrical becoming used to comprise the electric parts of a lighting system. You can get directions from a gardening store or online or purchase separate parts and build your personal. The aeronautic system is probably essentially the most excessive-tech type of hydroponic gardening.
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Former deputy charged on suspicion of possessing child pornography returns to court
Caleb Lunetta
A former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy charged on suspicion of possessing child pornography returned to court Friday.
Scott T. Rodriguez, an employee of LASD until he was dismissed from county service on Jan. 22, the same day the charges against him were filed by the District Attorney's Office, was said to have been in possession of the pornography on or about July 18, 2019, according to case's lead investigator at the LASD Department of Internal Criminal Investigations.
Rodriguez was arraigned March 17 at the Clara Foltz Criminal Justice Center on one count of possessing child pornography; a charge on which he was held to answer.
On April 26, Rodriguez entered a not-guilty plea to the charge against him, however, he was asked to return to the courthouse once again Friday to be arraigned on the single count, according to the Los Angeles Superior Court website.
Officials from the District Attorney's Office had not responded to requests for comment regarding the discrepancy as of the publication of this article. A request to pull the physical case file on Rodriguez at Clara Foltz before the Friday hearing was largely devoid of any additional information on the case, such as the complete testimony of lead investigator Roger Ballesteros given May 7, and gave access to only the initial criminal complaint listing the charge and court officials involved in the proceedings, a brief minute order of previous appearances and a confidential parole file.
Deputy District Attorney Teresa De Castro of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office Cyber Crimes Division is scheduled to be the prosecutor for the case. Rodriguez is represented by Michael Williamson, a retired LAPD sergeant who specializes in officer-involved shootings and/or other matters involving law enforcement internal investigation cases.
When asked why Rodriguez was not listed on the Sheriff's Department's inmate locator — a standard practice for almost all other criminal cases within the county — officials instructed The Signal to file a Public Records Act request.
Rodriguez was previously released on his own recognizance and scheduled to return to court on July 12 for a pretrial hearing. A pretrial hearing involves the judge, prosecution and defense convening in order to present evidence, documents and/or any other relevant materials/matters before the trial begins.


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Q: Difference with pointers in C I'm new to C and I'm wondering what the difference is between these two:
char* name;
struct book *abook;

I know the struct constructs a book, but with the char how come the * is place before the variable name?

A: TYPE * variableName, TYPE* variableName and TYPE *variableName are all syntactically the same. It's a matter of notation how you use them.
Personally I prefer the last form. It's simply because the star operator works on the token to the right of it. In a declaration like
TYPE* foo, bar;

only foo is a pointer but not bar. Therefore it looks more logical to put the star right next to the variable name.

A: The C compiler will ignore whitespace between symbols so:
char* name;

is the same as
char *name;
char * name;
char*name;

and
struct book *abook;

is the same as
struct book* abook;
struct book * abook;
struct book*abook;

The asterisk is probably best placed next to the variable name, as it only applies to the variable it is in front of, and not the type. So if you do:
int* a1, b1;

You have defined a1 as an int pointer and b1 as an int so this is a little clearer:
int  *a1,  b1;

As far as the internal difference between a pointer to a char and a pointer to a struct book, they both are 8 bytes (on a 64 bit system - 4 bytes on 32 bit system). That is,
sizeof (char *)  is the same as sizeof(struct book *).
But the compiler keeps information about what each points to so it knows how to handle things like when you increment one ( a++ ) or dereference one ( *b ). That is, it needs to know how many bytes are involved, in addition to the first one who's address is stored in the pointer variable.
If a1 points to an int, a1++ should now point four bytes further (the address integer value in a1 should be 4 higher). While if a1 points to a char, a1++ should now point only one byte further.

A: struct book and char are both types.
So struct book* abook is a pointer to a structure of the type book with the pointer being named abook.
The char* name declaration is the same. It is a pointer to the char type.
This way of defining pointers is often used to pass text strings to functions without filling the local stack heap to much. It's also less CPU intensive than copying a whole char array. So mostly this char pointer will point to the first char in an array (example: char name[30];)

A: If you want to create multiple instances of an structure you need to tag declaration of the structure. If the declaration is tagged, the tag can be used later in definitions of instances of the structure. For example:
struct book b;

defines a variable pt which is a structure of type struct point.
struct book is your type. Now you can define pointers to this type.
If it still is confusing for you, use typedef to define a new type for this structure :
typedef struct book Book;
typedef struct book* BookPtr;

Just remember that BookPtr will only affect first variable.


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It takes a village to raise a Carlisle Syrian refugee family
by Linda Myers-Tierney
The tables were full at the dinner held at the First Religious Society on January 27 to benefit the Alloh family, refugees from Syria. (Photo by Linda Myers-Tierney)
The First Religious Society's (FRS)Union Hall was full to capacity Saturday night as it hosted a delicious Syrian-themed dinner to benefit the Alloh family, Syrian refugees who relocated to Carlisle in 2017. This event had been well anticipated by the FRS community for weeks—with many adults and children planning, organizing and preparing. Even the Religious Education program's children and teen-aged youth had been active baking cookies and making hand-painted bowls to be given as gifts to guests. Many of them had already become friends with members of the Alloh family as their classmates in the Carlisle School.
FRS is no stranger to social action and acts of love and helping for those in need. Over the years, special events have supported victims of hurricanes, floods and various natural disasters. There are also ongoing programs regularly supporting the hungry and poor in Boston and Lowell and asylum-seeking refugees locally, as well as many other efforts directed toward others in need.
What overwhelmed me Saturday night was not only the generosity of FRS, which I have come to expect as well as to admire, but also the catalyzing effect that both the Allohs' arrival and this event have had on the broader community of Carlisle and its environs. Many who have encountered the Allohs since their arrival have been pleased to embrace them as friends and to help them out.
The Allohs come to Carlisle
Ready to serve the meal are (left to right) Holly West, FRS Director of Religious Education Pam Howell, Rachel Bryon, Claire Beckley, Ashley Bryon and Lorena Nepture. (Photo by Linda Myers-Tierney)
Sean Kavanagh (left) speaks at the post-dinner discussion while Heba Alloh and
Mohammed Alloh listen and event organizer and FRS Social Action Committee
chairperson Lauree Cameron Eckler (right) prepares to present Heba and Mohammed with a "Hope-Full Bowl" painted by FRS children. (Photo by Ellen Huber)
Sean Kavanagh and his wife Donna Vaillancourt have been the Alloh family's hosts in Carlisle since they came here in 2017. They have provided all manner of support, mentoring and friendship. Sean spoke to the gathering and recounted that when he was recovering from a life-threatening bicycle accident in August 2016 and his wife was changing careers after getting her RN degree, they both wondered how they could be of help in a world torn by war and strife.
About the same time, the Allohs were cleared to come to the U.S. from the Jordanian refugee camp where they had been for five years, after having fled their home in civil war-torn southern Syria. While in the camp, the family went through an extensive vetting process to officially become government-sanctioned refugees. That process provides for them to soon be granted green cards and ultimately citizenship, though this policy is currently under presidential review and may be changed.
Carlisle classmates and friends Dylan Kattwinkel (left) and Eman Alloh share a smile. (Photo by Linda Myers-Tierney)
The Allohs were sent to Lowell which proved to be another challenging experience for them, due to the city's resources being already overwhelmed. After about five months there, thanks to the efforts of Sean and Donna, the Alloh family came to live temporarily in their in-law apartment. While there, the couple continued to search for a more permanent home for their guests and found an empty house in Carlisle owned by the Raymond family, recently inherited by the two sisters, Jessica and Sonya, who had grown up in Carlisle. Sean contacted them, explained the Allohs' situation, and secured a generous rental agreement for the Alloh family.
A confluence of generosity and gratitude
Sean cites the homeowners' generosity as part of a long list of blessings that have materialized. When the children were given some bikes, Sean took them to the bike shop in Acton, Pedal Power, to be fitted for helmets. When the owner heard their story, she insisted on donating the helmets to the children. When his neighbors heard of the family moving in, they appeared at his door the next day with gifts of clothing, a department store gift card and an open invitation for the children to play on the swing set in their yard. Of the many blessings Sean is grateful for, he sums it up by saying "I am grateful for the Allohs helping us all to realize who we can be."
Marianne Boswell also spoke, representing LEXRAP, the all-volunteer nonprofit refugee assistance program which is currently supporting eight area families. Her organization provides tutoring, English as a second language (ESL) training, social worker assistance in liaising with schools, help in finding housing, job training, clothing and laptop computers. Many of these generous LEXRAP volunteers attended this festive event, telling their stories informally over dinner with other attendees.
Throughout the evening many people shared with me the happy experience they have had with members of the Alloh family, often initially through the school-aged Alloh children who have become friends of their own children. My friend Talie Kattwinkel told me "the Alloh children are happy, outgoing and friendly. They are good friends of my children and wonderful additions to the Carlisle School community." Her daughter Dylan has become close friends with Eman Alloh, a lovely girl who is the oldest of the family's five children.
Brindalyn Chen, who worked tirelessly to help plan and set up for the event, became friends with the Allohs initially by helping with preschool carpooling. She enthuses that they are a very warm, low-key family. "It is refreshing and inspiring being around them. All the children, ages three to 14, look out for each other in such a warm and loving way." She recalls how fun it was having the Allohs trick-or-treat with her family. "They took right to it, due to the candy involved!" Brin explains that Saturday's event was designed to help with both fundraising and friendraising. She has offered to set up a network of volunteer resources for tutoring, rides, play dates, tips on caring for a house and friendly visits to practice English.
Carlisle School Superintendent Jim O'Shea (far left) who has welcomed the family into the Carlisle Schools chats with (left to right) Frank Rigg, Art Milliken and Tim Hult after dinner. (Photo by Ellen Huber)
As for fundraising, the goal is to provide enough assistance so the family can ultimately become self-sufficient. Along with increasing job skills and language proficiency, and providing the children an education, that will allow them to become productive American citizens. The family is also paying off a $6,000 debt owed to the U.S. government for the plane fare to bring them here from Jordan, and dealing with unforeseen expenses like medical and dental costs, as well as home repairs.
As Sean and Marianne wrapped up their remarks and discussion time with the compassionate crowd, both Mohammed Alloh and his wife Heba asked to say a few words. Mohammed expressed his gratitude to be here with great humility and warmth. A hard-working carpenter who commutes 90 minutes each way daily to provide for his family, he shared with great emotion that he left behind in Syria both his parents and his brother and family. Yet here in Carlisle he has been privileged to find another brother in Sean Kavanagh and a sister in Donna Vaillancourt.
Heba too wished to convey her gratitude. Through the help of an interpreter, she recalled the tremendous challenges and fear she had felt for the family's safety while they were living in Lowell, saying it almost made her wish she could return to Jordan. Yet once her family became settled in Carlisle all that changed. Heba said, "Carlisle—this is America! This is my Dreamland!" It is clear that the Allohs are as grateful to be in Carlisle as Carlisle is to have them.
Donna Vaillancourt's observation is that "Refugees are typically sent to a city or town that they can afford. However what they really need is to be in a town that can afford to help them." Sean asked us to "Imagine if every town took just one family and surrounded them with support." Event organizer and FRS Social Action Committee chairperson Lauree Cameron Eckler told me "It takes a village to raise a family. Carlisle is that village for the Allohs."
Financial contributions of checks can be sent to FRS Carlisle, PO Box 817, Carlisle, memo Alloh Family. Donations via PayPal can be made at uucarlisle.org. To lend a hand in other ways, contact Brin Chen at brin.webster@gmail.com or Jean Bagnaschi at jbagnaschi@comcast.net. ∆
No part of Syria is safe from violence
The U.S. State Department has declared that Syria does not have a single safe area due to war and terrorism.
• Over half a million Syrians have been killed in just the last seven years
• 5.5 million have fled the country
• 6.1 million remaining there have lost their homes
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Obama's economic brain trust keeps on growing: At his third press conference in as many days, Obama announced the creation of a new economic recovery advisory board led by Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman. The president-elect said that the board, whose White House liason will be longtime Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, would provide oversight and an outside perspective to prevent "groupthink" from taking hold. He also responded to a question on whether his cabinet picks, many of whom worked in the Clinton administration, were in fact the same Washington insiders he pledged to push out of government during his campaign. "What we are going to do is combine experience with fresh thinking. But understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost--it comes from me," Obama said, "That's my job--to provide a vision as to where we're going and make sure my team is implementing."


Keeping our shopping dollars in our local economy allows our Salmon Idaho area businesses to support our causes giving back to the community through volunteer hours to local organizations, hosting community events, mentoring our youth and supporting new business ventures.
Our businesses give back through donations on a regular basis to local organizations and groups, the schools, the churches, and to fundraising benefits for residents in need.
Giving Back is our way of saying "Thank You" to you our customers for supporting our local businesses, giving us the opportunity to support your causes!
It makes all the difference in keeping our community vibrant, healthy, and strong!