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Eva und die Zukunft (1898) by Max Klinger.
• "It is no exaggeration to say that MAD invented the modern, postwar American takedown." Thomas Larson reviews Seeing MAD: Essays on Mad Magazine's Humor and Legacy.
• At the Internet Archive: Cartoon Modern: Style And Design In Fifties Animation (2006) by Amid Amidi, a book which has been made available as a free download by its author.
• New music: A preview of Metta, Benevolence by Sunn O))), recorded live in the Mary Anne Hobbs' radio show in 2019; Veils by Víz; The Mountain (Blakkat Dub) by Ladytron.
• At Public Domain Review: Claude Mellan's The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649), an engraving made with a single continuous line.
• "For Harry Houdini, séances and Spiritualism were just an illusion," says Bryan Greene.
• TheStencil is Steven Heller's font of the month.
• At Dennis Cooper's: Derek Jarman Day.
• Nicky Mao's favourite music.
• Mad Man Blues (1951) by John Lee Hooker | Mad Pierrot (1978) by Yellow Magic Orchestra | Mad Keys (2002) by Al-Pha-X
Author JohnPosted on November 6, 2021 January 20, 2022 Categories {animation}, {art}, {books}, {comics}, {electronica}, {film}, {gay}, {music}, {religion}, {typography}Tags Al-Pha-X, Amid Amidi, Blakkat, Bryan Greene, Claude Mellan, Dennis Cooper, Derek Jarman, Harry Houdini, John Lee Hooker, Ladytron, Mad magazine, Mary Anne Hobbs, Max Klinger, Nicky Mao, Steven Heller, Sunn O))), Thomas Larson, Víz (musician), Yellow Magic Orchestra
Number One: Teen Angels in Anguish. Cover by Barry Kamen.
Among the recent uploads at the Internet Archive is a complete run of Heartbreak Hotel, a British magazine six issues of which were published in 1988. (More or less…I think the first issue may have appeared at the end of 1987.) Heartbreak Hotel differed from other bi-monthly publications by being predominantly a comics magazine, but it also differed from other comics magazines by a) having the contents of each issue themed to follow a different musical genre, b) running articles by and interviews with people who had little or no connection to the comics world, and c) being a lot more openly sympathetic towards gay men and lesbians than any other magazine aimed at a general readership. The latter stance was a political one in 1988. This was the year when the Thatcher government, growing hubristic after a third election win, passed a Local Government Act whose notorious Section 28 prevented authorities from "promoting homosexuality". The clause was designed to prevent Labour-run councils from funding gay and lesbian support groups, as well as to stop teachers from mentioning homosexuality in sex education lessons. The editors of Heartbreak Hotel, Don Melia and Lionel Gracey-Whitman, were a gay couple, so the magazine stood against the repressive atmosphere of the time without being too polemical or too serious. The polemic was more overt in affiliated publications Strip AIDS, a benefit comic for the London Lighthouse (a residential and daycare centre for people with AIDS), and AARGH (or Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia), a collection of comics taking a stand against Section 28 which was the first publication from Alan Moore's Mad Love imprint.
The other notable feature of Heartbreak Hotel was the attention it gave to new artists, to women artists, or to people who weren't drawing generic action/adventure strips. The first two issues appeared while I was working on the last pages of my adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu so I sent the magazine some sample pages and was subsequently invited to meet the editors at the launch of the next issue in London. I spent a somewhat nervous weekend in the capital; this was my first introduction to the wider comics world, and my introversion in those days was a lot more pronounced among strangers than it is today. I met Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie for the first time (separately—they weren't a couple at that time), and was amused when Don made a point of telling me that he and Lionel were gay, something he evidently felt he had to declare even though it had been (for me, at least) quite obvious from the editorial stance of Heartbreak Hotel, as well as the camp graphics scattered throughout the magazine's pages, and the fact that the publisher was co-named "Willyprods".
Dave Gibbons spills the beans in issue one.
The format of the magazine was established in the first issue: five or six strips based on songs that suited that issue's theme, together with interviews or features, some of which also matched the theme. "Spill It!!" was a regular feature in which a different artist had a page to create an autobiographical piece in strip form, and there was also a column about comics and related matters by artist/writer Trina Robbins. I'd initially hoped to draw something for the psychedelic issue but by the time I posted my photocopies that number was already being prepared for print. I did turn up in the fourth issue, however, in a short news piece which announced the publication of the Caemaen Books edition of my Haunter of the Dark strip.
Also from issue one, Alan Moore recounts his trip to the USA.
A more important outcome from my journey to London was Lionel's offer to run The Call of Cthulhu in BLAAM, a spin-off comic that Willyprods/Small Time Ink was planning. Heartbreak Hotel had been inundated with work by talented newcomers so rather than make them wait for a slot in the parent magazine the editors decided to launch another title to provide an additional outlet for new creators. Lionel had been very impressed with my Lovecraft story, and also assisted with its conclusion when he suggested that I add an extra page to help the pacing near the end, something I did, and which I've been grateful for ever since. The first issue of BLAAM, printed on tabloid-size newsprint sheets, came bundled with issue five of Heartbreak Hotel. The idea was that BLAAM would continue separately as a free publication thanks to a combination of low production costs, advertising, and Don Melia's contacts at Titan Distribution. This was all very exciting, especially when two more issues of BLAAM appeared soon after. My strip was slated to run in number four or five but Willyprods/Small Time Ink didn't publish anything more after December 1988. I was disappointed by this but not for long. A year later I'd started working on the Savoy comics, and Steve Bissette offered to publish the Cthulhu strip in Lovecraft Lives, a book he was planning for Kevin Eastman's new enterprise, Tundra Publishing. That one didn't work out either—the stars weren't right for a variety of reasons—but all this attention, and the enthusiasm shown by everyone involved with Heartbreak Hotel, made the comics world seem like a good place to be. For a while, anyway.
Continue reading "Heartbreak Hotel"
Author JohnPosted on June 14, 2021 Categories {art}, {comics}, {gay}, {magazines}, {music}, {politics}, {work}Tags Alan Moore, Barry Kamen, BLAAM, Caemaen Books, Clive Barker, Cthulhu, Dave Gibbons, Derek Jarman, Divine (actor), Don Melia, Duncan Fegredo, GROC, Heartbreak Hotel (magazine), Jamie Reid, Jonathan Ross, Kathy Acker, Kevin Eastman, Lionel Gracey-Whitman, Melinda Gebbie, Neil Gaiman, Oz (magazine), Promethea, Rian Hughes, Steve Bissette, The Move (group), Trevs Phoenix, Trina Robbins
Duggie Fields, 1975
RIP Duggie Fields, seen here in 1975 courtesy of Derek Jarman's Super-8 camera. The occasion was an exhibition at the Kinsman-Morrison Gallery of Fields' paintings, many of which are seen throughout the film, although the low light and poor quality of Super-8 stock doesn't do them any favours. Fields and Jarman were both constituents of the mid-70s London art crowd known as "Them" so it's no surprise to see other Them faces at the gallery, notably Andrew Logan interviewing all the attendees (the film is silent, unfortunately), and an insistently bare-breasted Nell Campbell, aka Little Nell, either just before or just after her appearance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This wasn't the first or last time that Fields and Campbell had appeared before Jarman's roaming lens, they're both in an earlier Super-8 short, Ulla's Fete, and in also Jubilee, while Fields may be found reclining in a toga during the opening scene of Sebastiane. For a better look at Fields' paintings, plus some comment from the man himself, there's this recent visit to his Earl's Court studio.
Author JohnPosted on March 11, 2021 March 11, 2021 Categories {art}, {film}, {painting}Tags Andrew Logan, Derek Jarman, Duggie Fields, Nell Campbell3 Comments on Duggie Fields, 1975
An imaginary book cover by Toby Melville-Brown.
• At the Internet Archive (for a change): Directory 1979, a collection of John Cooper Clarke's poetry designed by Barney Bubbles; 25 issues of Wrapped in Plastic, the magazine devoted to all things David Lynch; and Cinefantastique, 1970–2002, the magazine about special effects in cinema whose making-of articles were often the first such analyses published anywhere. No contents list for the latter, unfortunately, but the covers shown here give an idea of the main features.
• "Physicist Andreas Schinner recounted a rumor that the Voynich manuscript can be 'pure poison' for a scholarly career, because when studying the manuscript there's 'always an easy option to make a ridiculous mistake.'" Jillian Foley on the strange quest to decipher the Voynich manuscript.
• At the BFI: Stephen Puddicombe examines six mysterious paintings on film, and Anna Bogutskaya selects ten examples of Lovecraftian cinema. Regarding the latter, I deplore the omission of Huan Vu's Die Farbe (2011).
• In The Driver's Seat: Neil Fox on the demented fun of Nicolas Winding Refn's streaming site for cinematic obscurities, ByNWR.
• "Feed your head": Akim Reinhardt on the progress of a White Rabbit from Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's novel to Grace Slick's song.
• Mixes of the week: Marshland: The Andrew Weatherall Mix, and Music's Not For Everyone, hours of Weatherall mixes at NTS.
• Borderland, an album of music by Fordell Research Unit based on The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.
• At Dangerous Minds: Thirteen-year-old Mariangela and her adventurous pop album, produced by Vangelis, 1975.
• Heavy Metal, Year One: Kory Grow on the inside story of Black Sabbath's groundbreaking debut.
• "Theire Soe Admirable Herbe": How the English Found Cannabis by Benjamin Breen.
• Derek Jarman and friends in Dungeness: unseen pictures.
• Closing periods at Flickr.
• Heavy Rock (1976) by Sound Dimension | Heavy Denim (1994) by Stereolab | Heavy Soul (2002) by The Black Keys
Author JohnPosted on February 23, 2020 Categories {art}, {books}, {design}, {drugs}, {electronica}, {film}, {gay}, {horror}, {lovecraft}, {magazines}, {music}, {painting}, {photography}, {psychedelia}, {typography}Tags Akim Reinhardt, Andreas Schinner, Andrew Weatherall, Anna Bogutskaya, Barney Bubbles, Benjamin Breen, Black Sabbath, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Cinefantastique, David Lynch, Derek Jarman, Fordell Research Unit, Grace Slick, HP Lovecraf, Huan Vu, Internet Archive, Jillian Foley, John Cooper Clarke, Kory Grow, Mariangela, Neil Fox, Nicolas Winding Refn, Sound Dimension, Stephen Puddicombe, Stereolab, The Black Keys, Toby Melville-Brown, Vangelis, Voynich Manuscript, William Hope Hodgson2 Comments on Weekend links 505
Rabbit Man with Skull Lady (1998) by Allan Kausch.
• "They were the first generation that said, 'Fuck it, we're not going to be intimidated.' They weren't going to make specifically pro-gay statements, but they were the first generation to really live that out. If you look at the Alternative Miss World, it's a kind of gender-fuck, it's almost like the English version of the Cockettes." Jon Savage speaking in a piece by Alex Petridis about "Them" (Kevin Whitney, Luciana Martinez de la Rosa, Duggie Fields, Derek Jarman, Zandra Rhodes, Andrew Logan et al). Related: Andrew Logan in Andrew's Adventures in Loganland.
• Sex, Satanism, Manson, Murder, and LSD: Kenneth Anger tells his tale. "Anger rarely if ever veers from the script as he is a man who has carefully controlled his myth and reputation for decades," says Paul Gallagher.
• "Don't even think about operating heavy machinery while listening to this mix." The latest Dave Maier collection of recent ambient drift, drone-works and beatless atmospherics.
It is by no means easy to track or trace relationships between women, past or present. Women's relationships with other women are often disguised: by well-documented marriages to men, by a cultural refusal to see what is in full view or even to believe such relationships exist. In a world built by and for men and their pursuits, a woman who loves women does not register—and is not registered, i.e., written down. Reasons for this layer one upon the other: A lesbian purposely hides her identity and remains closeted. A lesbian refuses to call herself a lesbian, disidentifying from the term and its associations for reasons personal or political. A woman does not know she is a lesbian—because she does not ever have a relationship with another woman, or because she is not aware that the relationships she engages in could be called lesbian. I didn't call myself one for several years. Or, as in Carson's case, her own self-understanding and identification are difficult to determine because of the efforts of those who outlived her and pushed her into the closet.
Jenn Shapland on the closeting of Carson McCullers
• At The Paris Review: The Collages of Max Ernst. Related: Kolaj: A directory of collage books.
• Adam Scovell on the deathly hinterlands of Georges Franju's Eyes without a Face.
• When Dorothy Parker got fired from Vanity Fair, by Jonathan Goldman.
• At Dennis Cooper's: The Proto-Psychedelic Art of CG Jung's Red Book.
• The abstract, single-stroke paintings of Daigoro Yonekura.
• Adam Gopnik on the seriousness of George Steiner.
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• The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (1987) by Prince | Lotus Collage (1979) by Laraaji | Death Collage (1992) by Snakefinger & The Residents
Author JohnPosted on February 9, 2020 Categories {art}, {books}, {collage}, {drugs}, {electronica}, {film}, {gay}, {horror}, {music}, {occult}, {psychedelia}, {surrealism}Tags Adam Gopnik, Adam Scovell, Allan Kausch, Andrew Logan, Carson McCullers, CG Jung, Daigoro Yonekura, Dave Maier, Dennis Cooper, Derek Jarman, Dorothy Parker, Duggie Fields, George Steiner, Georges Franju, Jenn Shapland, Jon Savage, Jonathan Goldman, Kenneth Anger, Kevin Whitney, Laraaji, Luciana Martinez de la Rosa, Max Ernst, Paul Gallagher, Prince (musician), Snakefinger, The Residents, Zandra Rhodes


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CBF Issues Statement on Proposed EPA Budget
(ANNAPOLIS, MD)—Today, the Trump Administration released the details of the Administration's fiscal year 2018 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency, which proposes to zero out funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program, the Great Lakes, and other EPA Geographic Programs.
In response, Chesapeake Bay Foundation President William C. Baker issued this statement:
"It is outrageous that the Administration would eliminate programs that protect clean water, like the Chesapeake Bay Program—this is a program that is effective and yielding results.
"The Chesapeake Bay Program has strong bipartisan support because it is working. Female crab numbers are up, oysters are rebounding, and we have had record acreage of Bay grasses in each of the last four years.
"In addition, the Bay and its rivers and streams support hundreds of thousands of jobs, and are also critical to our quality of life; our property values; and safe, drinkable water.
"People across the nation value clean water, and their Representatives in Congress heard that message when the Administration attempted to zero out funding for the rest of this fiscal year.
"The Bay Program is the glue that holds the multi-state restoration effort together. If it is eliminated, there is the very real chance that the Bay will revert to a national disgrace with deteriorating water quality, unhealthy fish and shellfish, and water-borne diseases that pose a real threat to human health.
"The federal/state effort to restore local rivers, streams, and the Chesapeake Bay is a prime example of the cooperative federalism that the Administration has indicated it would like to foster. It makes no sense to end this partnership, especially when it is showing such success. The Chesapeake Bay is a national treasure and our children and grandchildren will benefit from the work being done today."
TAKE ACTION NOW TO URGE CONGRESS TO STAND UP FOR THE BAY!
Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint Advocate Water Quality CBF in Maryland CBF in Virginia Eastern Shore Office Federal Affairs Office Hampton Roads Office Maryland Office, Annapolis Pennsylvania Office
Do you enjoy working with others to help clean the Chesapeake Bay? Do you have a few hours to spare? Whether growing oysters, planting trees, or helping in our offices, there are plenty of ways you can contribute.

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The Video Motion Detection sensor reacts to movements in certain image areas called video motion windows (VM windows in short). You can define one or more independent video motion windows for each image sensor (camera image).
If Video Motion Detection Style has been set to On and highlight on event, for example, the camera will display every VM window as a dotted frame.
Frame: If the camera detects movements in an active VM window that exceed the percentage set in the minimum area parameter (and that is below maximum area, see Video Motion Window Definitions below), the complete frame of the window turns red.
Video Motion Window ID: If Show Video Motion Window ID has been enabled (this is the default), every window shows an identification number in its top left corner. This number can be set in the Video Motion Window definitions (see below). IDs for windows with no explicit or erroneous definitions are automatically assigned in the order of their definitions.
(optional parameters have square brackets).
(optional parameters have square brackets, parameters that can be used as often as needed have curly brackets).
Number of pixels measured from the left edge of the visible image to the left border of the VM window (based on a MEGA image 1280x960).
Number of pixels measured from the bottom edge of the visible image to the bottom border of the VM window (based on a MEGA image 1280x960).
Controls the sensitivity to image noise.
Controls how changes in illumination are treated.
1 (default): Activates "post-filtering" of the VM window(s). Uniform changes in illumination are filtered and will not result in a triggering action.
Defines a percentage for pixel brightness from which video motion detection will be more sensitive.
0..99: Use this parameter to increase the sensitivity of VM windows especially for bright image areas; a setting of $limit=60, for example, would limit VM detection to all pixels that have at least 60% brightness.


"Our stay here was ok! That's about all I can say! The bathroom was nice the living area ok apart from all drawers and doors on furniture not..."
"Very small single room, but fine for what it is, although a little tired around the edges. Considering the location, it was very quiet and p..."
"Lovely, welcoming hotel in the heart of Covent Garden, yet away from the hustle and bustle. We had the Queen room with the addition of the l..."
"Lovely welcome, great location, couldn't wish for better...."
The Fielding Hotel is situated in a charming pedestrian street that still retains its 19th century gas lamps, just opposite the Royal Opera House, it is a haven of peace and quiet in the midst of bustling Covent Garden which, with its pubs, markets, restaurants, shops and street entertainment, is one of London's liveliest areas. Central to all the West End, theatres and cinemas, it is also within walking distance of the British Museum to the north, the Thames and Southbank Arts Centre with its concert halls, theatres, museum and gallery to the south, and to the west, Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery, itself close to Buckingham Palace and Westminster. Other places of entertainment and historical interest abound in all directions.
The Fielding Hotel is also ideally placed for the legal profession being only a short walk from the Royal Courts of Justice, the legal nerve centre of the capital. And for the business person, a little further east lies the heart of London's financial and business activities, the City. Please note the hotel has no elevator and may prove unsuitable for persons with mobility difficulties. The hotel do have rooms that are located on the lower ground floor.
We were charged £192 for a night at this hotel, which purports to be 4*.
There is NO WAY this is a 4* hotel. The room was tiny with barely 2 foot spare around the bed, the mattress was like a rock, the common parts of the hotel (of which there was only staircase and corridors) were very basic. The hotel's own brochure advertises the rooms at cheaper than this, so feel totally ripped off.


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How can advisers increase their conversion rates?
I've long admired the world of Dan Solin. Dan Solin is the author of the Smartest series of investing books and The Smartest Sales Book You'll Ever Read. He blogs regularly for The Huffington Post and Advisor Perspectives, and he also works as a sales coach to advisory firms throughout North America.
Here he gives his views on the future of the advisory profession, and explains what advisers can do to increase their conversion rates and why sharing high-quality content is so important.
Dan, you obviously wear a number of different hats, but what projects are you focusing on at the moment?
I'm coaching advisers and helping them increase their conversion rates. I am doing a joint venture with Advisor Perspectives and will be offering mastermind groups to advisers. I am also working on a new book that will break the mould for investing books. Finally, I'm working on a new YouTube channel for investors.
That all sounds intriguing. What can you tell me about the book?
My book will discuss the new platforms available to investors and will serve as a guide to assist them in deciding the optimal choice.
How much of a threat is robo-advice to traditional, face-to-face advice, and how should traditional advisers respond to it?
I disagree with those who are trivialising the impact of robo-advisers. I believe it is a seismic threat to traditional advisers. They will have to invest significantly in technology and re-evaluate their fee model.
What do you think the advice profession will look like, say, ten years from now?
Everyone agrees it will be radically different. None of us can predict the specifics. My personal view is that the current business model of traditional advisers will not survive. I also believe the preference of investors for robo solutions will accelerate at a more rapid pace than many believe.
Advisers often meet a prospective client and never hear from them again. How can they do things differently at that initial meeting to maximise their chances of securing a second meeting?
Many advisers don't understand that their job at the initial meeting is to elicit information and not convey it. This basic misunderstanding is the primary reason why conversion rates are so low.
Where else do you think advisers are going wrong from a client-acquisition point of view?
Many advisers overemphasise the importance of data and underestimate the rôle of empathy, making an emotional connection and sharing experiences. It's ironic that advisors who believe in evidence that supports their investment philosophy ignore the wealth of evidence on converting prospects.
You're a big fan of Robert Cialdini and the science of persuasion. What are the main lessons that advisory firms can learn from Cialdini?
Cialdini's seminal book, Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion, should be required reading for all advisers. It's as important as familiarity with the work of Fama and French on the investing side.
How important do you think it is for advisers to be producing high-quality content? And what sort of content should they go for?
It's critically important, but the problem is the definition of "high-quality content." Most of what I see is self-serving, too long, incredibly boring and formulaic. With the exception of your videos, Robin, I can't recall seeing any video content that I didn't believe was a waste of time, effort and money.
In the past, you've also argued there's a rôle for humour in adviser marketing. Why is that? And do you have any specific suggestions?
The proper use of humour reduces tension and makes advisers more relatable. It also makes them more likeable. That's important because there's compelling data that "likeability" relates positively to conversion rates.
I understand you were involved in the making of John Oliver's recent film about workplace retirement plans. That sounds fascinating!
I learned a lot from working on that show. The YouTube video was viewed millions of times. Oliver probably did more to help investors than all the books and blogs written on how the securities industry is rife with conflicts and greed.
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Cerabino: Defund police? That'll affect area's biggest mental health provider
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The three most controversial words in the national dialogue this week are "defund the police."
It sounds like a radical idea, and to many it is. But on the margins, there are areas of agreement that both its most staunch advocates and critics can agree on.
So, let's go back in the time machine. Two years ago. It was just an ordinary Central Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
But the invited speaker that day, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, said something extraordinary. And it was far from the first time he has made a similar statement.
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"I don't think it's my job to be the biggest mental health provider in the county," Bradshaw told the local business group. "I don't like it. It's not the right way to do things."
Bradshaw said his deputies deal with 3,700 mental health cases every year, about 10 to 12 a day.
About 85 percent of the population in the county jail are there for a drug issue, and about a quarter of those with drug issues are people self-medicating their mental illnesses.
Those too poor to post bail sit untreated in their jail cells, awaiting the disposition of their cases — often for petty crimes — then get released back to the street, where the cycle repeats.
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"Deputies don't have the skills or intricacies for mental health treatment," Bradshaw said.
Bradshaw's not an outlier in this view of misplaced law enforcement resources. Four years before he made that luncheon speech, the National Sheriff's Association complained that America had returned to the 18-century practice of incarcerating the mentally ill rather than treating them in medical settings.
"Prison and jail officials are being asked to assume responsibility for the nation's most seriously mentally ill individuals, despite the fact that the officials did not sign up to do this job; are not trained to do it; face severe legal restrictions in their ability to provide treatment for such individuals; and yet are held responsible when things go wrong, as they inevitably do under such circumstances," the association said.
In the middle of last century, large and often cruel mental institutions were phased out for what was supposed to be a comprehensive network of community health services.
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But years of inadequate funding to meet the growing demand for those services has led to a return to criminalizing mental illness as a standard practice.
The Florida Supreme Court weighed in on what this has wrought.
"The unintended, but nonetheless undeniable consequences of this system have been increased homelessness, increased police injuries, increased police shootings of people with mental illnesses, critical tax dollars wasted, and the reality that we have made mental illness a crime; or at the very least a significant risk factor for criminal justice system involvement," the state's high court wrote 13 years ago in a 165-page report on the state of Florida's mental health services.
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"Our jails and prisons have become the unfortunate and undeserving 'safety nets' for an impoverished system of community mental health care, and some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals in our society are allowed to unnecessarily suffer from horrific and imminently treatable illnesses," the report concluded.
So, maybe this is a good place to start. Taking this off the long menu of daunting law enforcement responsibilities.
It ought to be one area where we can all agree that defunding the police doesn't sound in the least bit crazy.
@FranklyFlorida


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Will it be love at first dance?
Flirty Dancing is a timeless romantic dating series in which complete strangers separately learn a bespoke dance routine – choreographed by Diversity's Ashley Banjo – and their first blind date is when they perform it together for the first time. After they dance they part, without a word spoken, and only then decide if the dance created enough of a spark for them to want to meet again.


Amillia Sonja Taylor made headlines worldwide as the world�s most premature baby to have survived. She weighed only 4 ounces when born by Caesarian section at Baptist Children�s Hospital in Kendall, Florida.
Miami obstetrician Guillermo Lievano thought she was two weeks older when he decided to schedule the Caesarian. Otherwise, �my focus would have shifted to simply preserving the mother�s health, because I knew babies that small don�t survive,� he said.
Later review of the in vitro fertilization records established the gestational age with certainty (MSNBC.com 2/23/07).
Amillia weighed 4 pounds 17 weeks after birth. With proper care, her physicians expect her to be able to live a normal life (McClatchy Newspapers 2/19/07).
Amillia�s story prompted more calls for Britain to restrict late-term abortions. A bill to lower the limits from 24 to 21 weeks failed in Parliament last year (LifeNews.com 2/25/07).
Britain has permitted unlimited abortions through the 24th week of pregnancy since 1967. About 180,000 abortions are done annually in England and Wales, as many as 2,000 between the 22nd and 24th weeks.
According to a poll conducted by Communicate Research for Choose Life, 53 percent of respondents said they agreed that the number of abortions was too high and should be reduced; 29 percent disagreed; 18 percent said they didn�t know or declined to answer (Angus Reid Global Scan 6/24/06, cited in Population Research Institute Review, July-August 2006).
British fertility was 1.87 children per woman in 2005, with the mean age at first birth being 27.2 years.
In the European Union as a whole, fertility is 1.5, well below the replacement rate of 2.1. Falling fertility will be largely offset by rising immigration, writes Gideon Rachman. He dismisses certain American prophecies of doom, saying that European population over the next 50 years will simply become �much older and much more diverse� (Financial Times 10/16/06).
�Demographic Stresses Increase,� AAPS News of the Day 12/27/06.


I guess I have some time to type. Its Thursday nite and it too early to go to bed. The drive up here was uneventful and thats a good thing. I did stop and stretch out my back at least three times in the 5 and a 1\2 hour ride up here.
After we checked into the hotel we dressed for a ride and decided to ride from the Fish Hatchery trail head that was just a few miles from the hotel. These trails are the southern most part of CAMBA system.
We really did not know what to expect. Snow? Ice? Dirt? Nope. It was mud. Not a lick of snow or ice.
Not at first. We rode in about a mile before it started to get a little greasy. Then it was a lot greasy and we did the right thing and turned around. Who would of thought we would have a muddy ride up here at this time of year. Its been warm for sure. Even the bike race has been rerouted to 10k laps. The ski trails are pure ice.
But…. crazy as it sounds. Being about 31 degrees today its going to get down to -3 tonite. We wont pre ride the course until noon tomorrow hoping it will get into the double digits for temps.
Not sure how much I will ride tomorrow. I might want to save something for the race, but really could not care less how I do. Im sure I would see any more mud this weekend. Originally I was concerned with carrying all the extra weight of the EX full suspension but its totally the bike to have with the lack of snow. Pretty much summer riding.
I doubt I will post tomorrow (Friday). Maybe I will. Time will tell.


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West Michigan senior makes triumphant return to football field amid leukemia battle
Ravenna's Keigen Swan was back on the field Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, about 11 months after his original diagnosis.
RAVENNA — For several months, Keigen Swan has tackled leukemia head on.
It kept the Ravenna High School senior away from the football field, his happy place. But that officially changed Friday night during the Bulldogs' homecoming game at Citizens' Field.
With about 6 1/2 minutes left in the second quarter, Keigen made his triumphant return in Ravenna's 62-30 victory over Hesperia. His big moment was announced by the public-address announcer as he trotted onto the field and he was greeted by teammates with high-fives and pats on his helmet. Keigen also served as a team captain that night.
The soft-spoken lineman is fighting B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), a cancer of the blood. His mother, Jennifer Miller, said he is doing well and has a couple years of treatment remaining.
Prior to Friday's game, the last time he stepped foot on the field was Ravenna's 7-6 playoff-opening win over North Muskegon on Oct. 29, 2021, at Citizens' Field.
This Friday (Oct. 7), Ravenna travels to North Muskegon the North Grove Brewers West Michigan Conference Game of the Week pitting teams that are both 5-1 overall and unbeaten in the WMC Rivers Division.
CatchMark SportsNet will produce a free livestream as part of our comprehensive coverage of the contest. The game will kick off at 7 p.m. with the pregame show at 6:30 p.m. on the CatchMark SportsNet YouTube channel.
Watch the heartfelt video about Keigen's journey at the top of this story.
If you wish to contribute to a Go Fund Me page created on Keigen's and his family's behalf, then CLICK HERE.
Photos by Bethany McCullough | CatchMark
Ravenna community embraces Keigen Swan in leukemia battle: 'I love everybody in this town'
Three others players, plus a coach, receive second-team all-state honors.
Michigan High School Football Coaches Association honors four from the conference.
Whitehall leads the way with 7 all-region players, plus regional coach of the year.
Saturday marked the end of an era for Eagles assistant coach Nate Danicek and...
West Michigan Conference football roundup: Ludington tops long-standing rival Manistee
West Michigan Conference 2022 football standings entering Week 7


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Music Education Continues to Thrive
The Festival's Education Department has had a busy year filled with various events and milestones that have demonstrated the enduring power of music education and its ability to impact students' lives for the better.
On May 6, we presented our first-ever Virtual Violin Spotlight—an online concert (see above) that featured performances by students who participate in our Strings in Our Schools program at four elementary schools (three in Santa Fe and one in Pecos).
Capital High School graduating seniors Manuel Bojorquez, tuba; Mariajosé Garcia Madrid, viola; and Lourdes Armenta Cazares, viola
Less than two weeks later, on May 17, we presented another first: an online concert called Dream Big Youth Music, which showcased the talents of 15 students in our Dream Big Private Lesson Program at Santa Fe's Ortiz Middle School and Capital High School. The students proudly demonstrated the progress they made this past year thanks to their own hard work and the dedication of our Dream Big private instructors. Capital High School graduating seniors who performed in the concert include Nicole Bernal, violin; Jazmin Jacquez-Hernandez, flute; Mateo Muñoz, clarinet; and three students who were accepted to the University of New Mexico as music majors: Manuel Bojorquez, tuba; Lourdes Armenta Cazares, viola; and Mariajosé Garcia Madrid, viola.
For the spring semester of Music in Our Schools, the Festival provided the program's teachers—who teach pre-K and K–6—a musically diverse curriculum that focused on instruments such as the marimba, xylophone, trap set, and steel-pan drum as well as music by Irving Burgie, Sadie Koninsky, Charles Ignatius Sancho, Francisco Pérez Muñoz, and Irene Mary Giblin O'Brien.
All of the Festival's education programs contributed to the musical and personal development of many students this past year. Strings in Our Schools and the Dream Big Private Lesson Program served 32 elementary school students and 27 middle school and high school students, respectively, while Music in Our Schools served more than 8,000 students in 28 schools in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.
Dream Big is very generously sponsored by Enterprise Bank & Trust and The Fasken Foundation. All of us at the Festival offer our heartfelt thanks to them and to everyone who supports our music education programs.


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Food bank scrambles to get 100,000 eggs into hands of needy
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) – A farm that supplies vaccine manufacturers is donating nearly 100,000 surplus eggs to a central Pennsylvania food bank that's scrambling to get them to needy families.
The Bloomsburg Press Enterprise reported Thursday that the eggs are too small or too large for the drug-making process, so they're going to help families in Columbia and Montour counties.
A charity picked up about 8,000 dozen eggs this week, driving them away in a box truck but only breaking about 100. Volunteers have been stockpiling egg cartons to prepare for the donation.
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MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (WHTM) - Lottery players no longer need to leave their homes to buy tickets for the Powerball and Mega Millions games.
Tickets for both multi-state games are now available online, at pailottery.com, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced Friday.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The 14 Pennsylvania state universities hope to reduce the size of their faculties by offering an incentive for professors eligible for retirement.
The State System of Higher Education's governing board on Thursday approved the plan to align staffing with the decrease in student enrollment, PennLive reported.
Teenage boy charged in murders of his foster mother, man
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia teenager has been charged with the slayings of his foster mother and a man who authorities say were both "brutally tortured and murdered."
The 17-year-old boy was charged with murder in the stabbing death of Renee Gilyard, 64, and in the death of Jimmy Mao, 20, whose remains were found in a duffel bag. Robbery appears to be the motive in both cases, authorities said.
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Gail Wilson Kenna
Crosshill Creek Publications
Writer, Editor,Instructor
Soul-Making Keats Creative Nonfiction Judge
Former President Obama while campaigning in Iowa long ago, read Gilead and admired it.
As the story goes, he had time while riding from one Iowa town to another, to read Marilynne Robinson's 2005 Pulitzer prize-winning novel. Years later there would be that long meeting between the President and Robinson, with their interview featured in two issues of The New York Review of Books. I like to imagine that as the literate and verbally gifted Obama passed Iowa's wintry cornfields in late 2007 and early 2008, he paused at length over this line from Gilead.
History could make a stone weep.
Yet it is personal history that the novel's narrator, Reverend John Ames, wants his son to know. Ames has been told that his heart could give out at any time, which is why he sits down at age 76 and begins a letter to his seven-year-old son with these words: "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime." The setting for this novel is the early 1950s, in the small Iowa town of Gilead, where Ames is the third John Ames in his family to serve the Congregational church as its Reverend.
I stopped just now, on this rainy Monday morning, to listen to Nina Simone sing an old Negro spiritual: "There is a balm in Gilead." You can hear it on the internet. In the Old Testament, in Jeremiah 8:22, a question is posed: "Is there no balm in Gilead?" The spiritual answers with these words: "There is a balm in Gilead/ to make the wounded whole/there is a balm in Gilead/ to heal the sin-sick soul." That you might say is the essence of this epistolary novel, the first of a trilogy. The wound concerns John Ames Boughton, the Reverend's namesake, who returns to Gilead after a long absence. He will be the main character in Home, the next novel, followed by Lila. She is the Reverend's young wife and the mother of his only child. The trilogy, however, is now a quartet, with the recent publication months ago of a fourth novel, Jack.
But here is the rub, to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare! In the winter of 2005, after my discovery of Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, I bought Gilead as soon as it came out. Then I told every reader I knew about it. My experience replicated a writer's whose name I will not use. She had read Gilead on a long flight, then opened it to the first page, and read the novel again. Once the plane landed, she sent e-mail to her large audience of friends and readers. Her message? Gilead was brilliant and had to be read. But there was little response from her audience. Her husband, a literary critic, said, "The novel is not everyone's cup of tea."
Yesterday, Sunday December 13th, I read the novel for the seventh or eighth time. And once again at novel's end, the scene between John Ames and his namesake moved me to tears. If you have not read the novel lately (or have never read it), I would suggest a large mug of fine tea one winter's afternoon with Gilead as your companion. You will hear a soothing, intelligent voice, so unlike 'the troubling cacophony and relentless noise of our political, pandemic times'…
Next week: The continuing mystery of Jack in Home.
Former President Obama, who reads and writes fine prose, appreciates Marilynne Robinson.
Weary, or bitter or bewildered as you may be, please do not assail the author and teacher…
I thought DeSoto might be incantatory in Marilynne Robinson's Home. It is.


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When those who require medical assistance most are neglected by the people entrusted with their health and safety, the result can be life-threatening. At Karlin, Fleisher & Falkenberg, LLC, our impassioned Chicago bedsores attorneys believe neglecting those who are at their most vulnerable is unacceptable. These injuries are a major indication of nursing home neglect and medical malpractice. While we regret that your loved one was subjected to this injury, our adept legal team is ready to hold negligent parties accountable for the suffering they have caused. Contact us at (312) 346-8620 so we can set up a consultation and begin representing you.
Finding out that your relatives have been neglected to the point where they develop bedsores can be stressful and infuriating. If it happens, your first priority should be making sure that your loved one gets the help that they need right away. While you focus on that, the experienced attorneys at Karlin, Fleisher & Falkenberg, LLC will focus on representing you. We can deal with the nursing home and, if necessary, the courts to make sure that you get the compensation you deserve. We can worry about the paperwork while you worry about your relatives.
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Nursing homes are given the great responsibility of taking care of our elderly loved ones. The lawyers at Karlin, Fleisher & Falkenberg, LLC are dedicated to making sure that they live up to that responsibility, and for years we have done just that. We have won hundreds of thousands of dollars in individual nursing home abuse cases, including cases where the elderly victim suffered from serious bedsores. Our lawyers make sure that our clients get the compensation that they deserve. Our knowledge, experience, and results all show that we can properly represent you and fight for the rights of your elderly loved ones.
The expenses caused by elder neglect can pile up quickly, and you should not have to bear the burden. You and your loved ones can be compensated for the damage that you have suffered at the hands of the nursing home.
Nursing homes can carry liability insurance to deal with cases of neglect and abuse, but Illinois law does not require them to have this kind of insurance. It is possible that the nursing home might not be able to cover the expenses for all the damage they have caused. However, Karlin, Fleisher & Falkenberg, LLC is here to make sure that you are not left with all the expenses. We can negotiate with the nursing home to get you the best deal possible and make sure the nursing home pays what they can. We have done this before, and we can do it again for you. Don't wait, contact us today so we can give you the help that you need.
These factors are mainly caused by a lack of attention and improper medical care. The severity of bedsores is categorized into four stages and, while bedsores are complicated to treat, they can be managed by proper medical attention, repositioning body weight, and surgery.
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J Gravit Physiol July 1, 2000; 7 (2): P39-42.
Wiederhold ML , Harrison JL , Parker K , Nomura H .
Little is known about mechanisms that regulate the development of the otoliths in the gravity-sensing organs. Several reported experiments suggest that the growth of the otoliths is adjusted to produce a test mass of the appropriate weight. If this is the case, larger than normal otoliths would be expected in animals reared in reduced gravity and a reduced mass, relative to 1-g controls, would be expected in animals reared at elevated g. In gastropod mollusks, the gravity-sensing organ is the statocyst, a spherical organ whose wall is made largely of sensory receptor cells with motile cilia facing the lumen. Dense statoconia in the cyst lumen interact with cilia of receptor cells at the bottom of the cyst and action potentials in their axons carry information on direction and magnitude of gravity and linear acceleration. In the marine mollusk, Aplysia californica, larvae reared at 2 to 5-g, the volume of statoconia was reduced in a graded manner, compared to 1-g control animals. In the statocyst of the fresh-water pond snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, reared in space in the Closed Equilibrated Biological Aquatic System (CEBAS), the number and total volume of statoconia was increased approximately 50%, relative to ground-reared controls. Lychakov found the utricular otolith to be 30% larger in space-reared Xenopus, whereas we found the saccular otolith to be significantly larger in newt larvae reared in space. In cichlid fish reared on a centrifuge, the saccular otolith was smaller than in 1-g controls. Here, we demonstrate that the otoliths of late-stage embryos of the swordtail fish, Xiphophorus helleri, reared in space on STS-89 and STS-90 (Neurolab) were significantly larger than those of ground-controls reared in functionally identical hardware.


Sri Lanka vs South Africa Only T20I Match Prediction – Who will win?
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Henry Cunningham Human Rights Essay Competition 2019
On August 9 1973 gunmen opened fire from a bridge over the M2 motorway at a van carrying workmen back to Donegal from a building site near Glengormley. 16 year Henry Cunningham was sitting in the front of the Bedford van when he was shot. He died soon after.
PFC REMEMBERS NEW SINN FEIN COUNCILLOR'S GRANDFATHER
PFC | 12 January 2018
As Sinn Fein prepares to co-opt Ryan Murphy onto Belfast City Council, the PFC remembers his grandfather, Terry McCafferty, who was shot dead by the UDA in Newtownabbey using a gun taken from a British Army base in Lurgan in 1972. The same weapon was used to kill 16-year-old Henry Cunningham on his...
Rewriting History on Film: Panel discussion with Jimmy McGovern, Sean Murray & Eimhear O'Neill
Museum of Free Derr, Sunday 28th Jan 2017 | 25 January 2018
Theresa May misled Parliament @ PMQs
Guardian ad with PFC, RFJ & JFF | 16 May 2018
Today a half page advertisement appeared in the Guardian Newspaper, calling out British Prime Minister Theresa May for misleading Parliament at Prime Minister's Questions regarding the investigations into conflict-related deaths in the north.
The Pat Finucane Centre at Féile an Phobail 2017
PFC | 25 July 2017
The PFC is making two presentations at this year's Féile an Phobail. (1) Torture and the Legacy of Colonialism and (2) How Statistics Are Twisted For Political Purposes
British Lies to European Court Paved Way for Global Use of Torture
Tom Griffin/Open Democracy | 25 July 2017
When the European Court ruled that detainees in Northern Ireland were NOT tortured but only subjected to "inhuman and degrading" treatment, it gave the green light to other regimes worldwide. New evidence shows the court's ruling was based on false evidence - yet people are still being tortured...
"Becoming an Orphan: Losing Both My Parents And My Idyllic County Tyrone Childhood"
Eamon Devlin/Peter Carroll (for Unison Active) | 04 September 2017
Eamon Devlin, his two brothers and their sister, Patricia, lost both parents in an attack on their home in County Tyrone in May 1974. Gertrude and James Devlin were victims of the so-called "Glenanne Gang" whose members included RUC and UDR men. Here, Eamon tells his story to Peter Carroll for the...
Families Bereaved By The Glenanne Gang Still Waiting To Hear From PSNI
Pat Finucane Centre/Justice for the Forgotten | 05 September 2017
FAMILIES WAIT TO HEAR FROM PSNI Five weeks since the High Court ordered the PSNI to meet with the Glenanne families, nothing has been heard. The deadline of 4 September has passed without a word from the PSNI hierarchy or their lawyers. By now, an agreement should have been reached on a way forward.
PSNI defends investigation linked to 'Derry Four' case
BBC News | 23 August 2016
The PSNI has defended its handling of an investigation into alleged criminal activity within the Police Ombudsman's office linked to the 'Derry Four' case.
History of the Belgian Congo: Imperialism, Genocide & Atrocities
study.com | 07 March 2015
The Belgian Congo is often cited as one of the most brutal and exploitative colonial regimes in modern history. It stands as an extreme example of the cruelty of European rule in Africa for the sake of economic gain.
Belgium revisits the scene of its colonial shame
Vanessa Mock, The Independent | 07 March 2010
King Leopold II terrorised Congo. Now his descendant is there to help celebrate 50 years of independence
King Leopold's legacy of DR Congo violence
Mark Dummett, BBC | 24 February 2004
Of the Europeans who scrambled for control of Africa at the end of the 19th century, Belgium's King Leopold II left arguably the largest and most horrid legacy of all
Internment criteria letter
Letter from Secretary of State William Whitelaw to General Officer Commanding Harry Tuzo outlining criteria for internment orders and why loyalists 'may not fall' within the new Order.
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(-) Congo (3)
(-) Detective Superindent Derek Martindale (1)
(-) letters of comfort (1)
(-) Prime Minister (1)
(-) Unquiet Graves (1)
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Laura Pazzaglia
Pazzaglia has contributed her pressure cooker recipes and photographs to pressure cooker manufacturers for use in promotional material and recipe booklets, magazines, newspapers and websites.
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Laura Pazzaglia is a pressure cooker and small appliance expert. She is the and founder of Hip Pressure Cooking, a website of pressure cooker recipes, reviews and tips.
Pazzaglia believes that if you can boil it, steam it or braise it...you can pressure cook it. She'll make a Tabasco sauce in the pressure cooker in a minute or a one pot meal with roast, potatoes and carrots in 20. Every recipe on the hip pressure cooking website includes step-by-step photographs and instructions for both stove top and electric pressure cookers.
Hip Pressure Cooking: Fresh, Fast & Flavorful is Pazzaglia's first cookbook. In it, she explains how ingredients react under pressure with easy-to-follow recipes with a minimum of prep. The book is filled with tips, techniques and detailed information on pressure cookery that has never been shared before- a must-have reference.
She worked with Adams Media to publish a book project The Everything Healthy Pressure Cooker in 2012. In it, she "healthyfies" the publisher's recipes by removing all packets, cans, and pouches and re-configures them to use only whole, fresh ingredients - she also added some reader favorites from her website.
A former IT project director in Silicon Valley, she now lives in Rome with her husband and two children. She moved from computer to kitchen technology after her first child was born, and needed a way to make healthier meals in less time. She has lived in four countries (U.K, Italy, U.S.A, and Austria), and speaks three languages (English, Italian and some German).
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Egg Salad with Onions and Mushrooms
Though you probably think of egg salad as archetypally American, Jews have been eating a mix of chopped egg, onion, and schmaltz for… See more


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In this article, you learn how to make Automated Dashboard with various correlation visualizations in R. First you need to install the `rmarkdown` package into your R library. Assuming that you installed the `rmarkdown`, next you create a new `rmarkdown` script in R.
title: "Dashboard visualizations in R: Scatter plots"
theme_set(theme_bw())  # pre-set the bw theme.
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Concussion Managementadmin2021-11-09T17:12:14+00:00
Concussion is a diagnosis that has been present within the medical body of literature since the time of Hippocrates, however, it has been all but ignored as a significant and deleterious disease process until the past 10 years when professional athletes and media attention brought it to the forefront of awareness within Sports Medicine, and other subspecialists who deal with athletes.
The science of concussion is only now beginning to accelerate as scientists and clinicians collaborate to evolve understanding of this injury and its implications.
As of July 2017, there remains no "biomarker" or "test" that can define whether a concussion has occurred. Currently the best diagnosis is made after the subjective assessment of symptoms combined with the objective clinical appraisal of a Medical Doctor to establish whether a concussion is likely. Similarly this is the only way it is established whether a concussion has likely resolved.
Highmark Health's clinical team has acquired many years of diagnosing and treating concussions, and in so doing has established a solid clinical acumen on which to base diagnostic and return to work, learn or play decisions. Furthermore Highmark is committed to treating concussion as a "whole brain" injury and utilizes a number of medical technology facilitated assessment processes to more objectively define neurologic dysfunction. Baseline assessments, before an injury has occurred, are strongly recommended by the Highmark team as a critical means of better diagnosing concussion as we compare "Johnny to Johnny" and not to a vague set of population norms.
The multidisciplinary team approach at Highmark, is a cornerstone of our 360-degree approach to the treatment of concussion and post concussion syndrome. Since concussion is primarily a cellular injury first, there are a variety of symptoms and patterns, and at Highmark the saying is: concussions are like snowflakes – every one is different. We have found that concussions tend to present with symptoms and therefore treatment that can be roughly separated into the following trajectories:
Visual Motor
Autonomic
Cervicogenic
Neuroendocrine
Patients present with symptoms reflective of dysfunction in some or all trajectories in a variety of patterns, and this is the key reason that Highmark assesses concussion as a global injury, and treats it from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Exercise Re-Integration
Patients who have suffered from a concussion often notice the following regarding their efforts to engage in physical activity:
Their resting heart rate tends to be higher than pre-injury and it elevates to significantly higher levels for much lower levels of exertion than would have been experienced before injury;
Any change in body position from laying to sitting or sitting to standing often leaves patients feeling lightheaded and faint in a way not previously experienced;
Attempts to work with resistance exercises (weights and bands) leads to irregular breathing and headaches and/or;
Exercise, in general, often leads to an exacerbation of their symptoms particularly dizziness and headache.
Highmark's clinical team has managed and cared for a significant volume of patients over their decades of clinical experience, and observed the above feature consistently in non-athletes, as well as amateur and professional athletes. Clinicians at the University of Buffalo had similar observations and over the past several years designed a protocol for assessing and following this dysfunction – Buffalo Treadmill Concussion Test (BCTT). Highmark employs the BCTT in all concussion patients before clearing patients to return to play and/or return to any form of significant exercise regime.


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Summary and book reviews of A Free Life by Ha Jin
Summary | Excerpt | Reading Guide | Reviews | Beyond the book | Readalikes | Genres & Themes | Author Bio
A Free Life
by Ha Jin
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Oct 2007, 624 pages
Jan 2009, 672 pages
Mis. Ala. Ga.
20th Century (multiple decades)
Immigrants & Expatriates
Asian Writers
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Lucia Silva Buy This Book
A moving, realistic, but always hopeful narrative novel of the Wu family - father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao - as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in the United States.
From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash, comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s America. We follow the Wu family--father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao--as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in the United States.
At first, their future seems well-assured--Nan's graduate work in political science at Brandeis University would guarantee him a teaching position in China--but after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan's disillusionment turns him towards his first love, poetry. Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper. As Nan struggles to adapt to a new language and culture, his love of poetry and literature sustains him through difficult, lean years.
Ha Jin creates a moving, realistic, but always hopeful narrative as Nan moves from Boston to New York to Atlanta, ever in search of financial stability and success, even in a culture that sometimes feels oppressive and hostile. As Pingping and Taotao slowly adjust to American life, Nan still feels a strange, paradoxical attachment to his homeland, though he violently disagrees with Communist policy. And severing all ties--including his love for a woman who rejected him in his youth--proves to be more difficult than he could have ever imagined.
Ha Jin's prodigious talents are evident in this powerful new book, which brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes that characterize the contemporary immigrant experience. With its lyrical prose and confident grace, A Free Life is a luminous addition to the works of one of the preeminent writers in America today.
Finally Taotao got his passport and visa. For weeks his parents had feared that China, even if not closing the door outright, would restrict the outflow of people. After the Tiananmen massacre on June 4, 1989, all the American airlines except United had canceled their flights to Beijing and Shanghai. At the good news, Pingping burst into tears. She quickly rinsed the colander in which she had drained the shredded turnip for her jellyfish salad, took off her apron, and set out with her husband, Nan Wu, for the town center of Woodland, where the office of Travel International was located.
The plane ticket cost seventy percent more than the regular fare because it had not been purchased three weeks in advance. The Wus didn't hesitate; as long as Taotao could get out of China in time and safely, it was worth any price. They also bought round-trip tickets from Boston to San Francisco for themselves.
Neither Pingping nor Nan could go back to China to fetch Taotao, who ...
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Nan Wu is a Chinese graduate student in political science at Brandeis University when the Tiananmen Square massacre changes everything for him. Because of his activity with a prodemocracy group, it is now impossible for him to return to China to take up the academic career he had been working toward. His wife, Pingping, is already with him in Boston; their six-year-old son, Taotao, who has been living with his grandparents in Jinan, is finally able to join them. Nan has not seen his son for four years, and Taotao doesn't remember his father. Reunited now in exile, they must all begin a new life.
Nan soon decides that political science, the field of study assigned to him by the Chinese government, does ...
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Readers will fall into separate camps over A Free Life. Something about Jin's detached, yet obsessively attentive prose is ultimately readable, and produces a style that some will read as refreshingly spare and realist, while others find stunted and astoundingly boring. The bottom line: If you've never read anything by Ha Jin, definitely read Waiting first. If you're one of many who read Waiting and loved it, then try out A Free Life. Already attuned to his stripped prose styling, you'll be interested to see what happens when he removes the layer of exoticism and lays bare the classic immigrant story with his meticulous rendering and trademark reserve...continued
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The New York Sun - Hua Hsu
Much like Mr. Jin's breakthrough novel, Waiting, a great deal of A Free Life describes how men frequently rationalize their emotional unavailability by claiming a higher purpose — in this case, it is the inextinguishable fire of poetry. These men hurt those around them, so as not to damage them permanently: Nan constantly fantasizes about escape from his loveless obligations to his wife and son, yet he refuses to leave them, which occasionally seems like the crueler fate.
Entertainment Weekly - Jennifer Reese
How do you convey the splendor of a novel when the first adjectives that spring to mind are among the deadliest in a critic's repertoire? Ha Jin's new book is ''long,'' ''earnest,'' and ''slow-moving.'' His prose is ''plain'' and ''quaint,'' his settings ''drab,'' and his characters ''humble'' and ''melancholy.'' Yet A Free Life is one of the most powerful novels of the year, a richly textured and quietly engrossing portrait of the artist as a Chinese immigrant marooned in suburban Atlanta. Rated "A".
A book that has obviously been labored over, yet still feels inchoate and unfocused.
[W]hile Ha Jin's novel lacks Zhivago's epic grandeur, his biggest feat may be making the reader wonder whether the trivialities of American life are not, in some ways, as strange and barbaric as the upheavals of revolution.
Booklist - Donna Seaman
Starred Review. Capacious, pointillistic, empathic, and tender, Ha Jin's tale of one immigrant family's odyssey in America affirms humankind's essential mission, to honor life.
Why create? A theme explored in A Free Life
I read the BookBrowse review after I'd just begun the book, and almost put it down, but I'm glad I didn't. This is not a page-turning, fast-moving plot; rather, it's an exploration of several themes by an interesting, introspective character, Nan Wu.... Read More
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Ha Jin does a wonderful job of bringing the awareness of immigration to the forefront in this novel. Each day, immigrants often have to deal with the process of identity change and racism due to their colour. Pingping and Nan immigrated to the ... Read More
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Beginning in mid-April, 1989, thousands of demonstrators anchored by a core group of dissident university students occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square. In what has been described as the greatest challenge to the communist state in China since its inception in 1949, tens of thousands soon joined in the peaceful protest, angered by widespread governmental corruption and calling for democratic reform.
In May, demonstrations and marches throughout Beijing exceeded one million participants. Late on June 3, 1989, army tanks moved into the square and began firing indiscriminately into the crowd of unarmed protesters. Estimates of the death toll range from 200 to more than 3000, as the Chinese ...
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Q: Fasm x64 MsgBox I want to compile x64 app with simple MsgBox using Fasm. I've wrote the code, it compiles successfully, but when I run it nothing is shown and the program just ends. What's wrong?
format PE64 GUI 4.0
entry main

include 'win64a.inc'

main:
  invoke MessageBox,NULL,'Hello, World!','Fasm message box:',MB_OK
  invoke ExitProcess,0

library kernel32,'kernel32.dll',\
        user32,'user32.dll'

include 'api/kernel32.inc'
include 'api/user32.inc'

If try to debug in VS2017 I get an exception:

Вызвано исключение по адресу 0x0000000000001108 в program.exe: 0xC0000005: нарушение прав доступа при исполнении по адресу 0x0000000000001108.

If translate:

Exception at address 0x0000000000001108 in program.exe: 0xC0000005: access violation when executing address 0x0000000000001108.

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*.idata section for imports

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The code:
include 'win64a.inc'

format PE64 GUI 4.0
entry main

section '.text' code readable executable
main:
  sub rsp, 8
  invoke MessageBox,NULL,'Hello, World!','Fasm message box:',MB_OK
  invoke ExitProcess,0

;section '.data' data readable writeable
; Data here

section '.idata' import data readable
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        user32,'user32.dll'

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EDDIE TRUNK EXCLUSIVE: KROKUS BASSIST CHRIS VON ROHR COMMENTS ON THE AC/DC SITUATION, WRITES, [SINGER] MARC STORACE WAS NEVER IN CONTENTION FOR THE JOB
March 26, 2016Dana 14 Comments
Founding member of Krokus, bassist Chris Von Rohr, has sent the following message to Eddie, and his website:
"Hello eddie and fellow hardrock maniacs out there,
This is Chris Von Rohr, founder,bassist and producer of Swiss metal band Krokus.
Some facts regarding the AC/DC, Marc Storace and Krokus rumors. Of course for every band, and every singer, it would be the number one dream to team up with AC/DC, but lets get real for a minute, life is no damn wish concert!
1. For me, this whole news about Brain Johnson seems very strange. I would love to hear HIS personal opinion about what transpired. Can everyone just back off from being ready to jump on Brian's job? Where is the respect? Don't you see what he has accomplished in all those years, from Back In Black until today? The high level of his singing, his charisma and his humor? Until I hear differently from AC/DC, Brian is still the singer of AC/DC-end of story!
2. Marc is a great singer, but he never was really asked for an audition. Not now or after Bon Scott's death. This is an untrue rumor. At the time, it was just a lighting guy from Birmingham, England, who suggested an audition. Of course, we wish Marc would get the chance as it would help krokus too. But honestly, no f–king body can replace Brain Johnson.
3. As we know, AC/DC, and their producer at the time, John Mutt Lange, did not want a Bon Scott type of singer-otherwise they would sound like their own tribute band. So, they came up with something new and fresh. By the way, Bon Scott himself said before his death that he was a big fan of Brain [Johnson's].
4. For me, as a producer, it is hard to believe without Malcom, Phil and Brain that they will go on for another 10 years, even if Angus would be bored painting tulipes in Holland. But, they [could] possibly go on again with something fresh and new.
5. You're absolutly right Eddie [Trunk], for the remaining shows (if they happen at all), the only option is a big famous singer like a Steven Tyler or the possibility of money back.
Anyway, as we all know, its maybe the hardest thing to decide when the final curtain should fall, when something has to come to an end. As a dedicated AC/DC fan, I wish Angus the power, the wisdom and the instinct to know when the time is right. We owe them a lot, and it truly will be a very sad moment, because what would be left without AC/DC? Millions of coverbands, who have no damn clue how to play that unique big arena sound and beat.
Eddie, I wish you and all your dedicated listeners a great Easter and yes, "let there be rock!"
PS- Krokus is working on a album and will hopefully be back in the states in 2017.
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Randy Schmieder on March 27, 2016 at 4:57 am
I think if you quote EXACTLY what BB from BACK:N:BLACK wrote on Blabbermouth on March 16, you should at least acknowledge your source. Those are HER words you used. She was pissed when everyone started jumping on Brian's job. I know because I was there when she wrote them. And she still means it.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/krokus-singer-marc-storace-would-certainly-accept-offer-to-front-acdc/
Michael B on March 28, 2016 at 5:12 pm
Just out of interest and procrastination, I read through all the comments on Blabbermouth, (about as crappy as VHND for Van Halen fans) and found no posts by the person that has been mentioned (BB?) or those words in any comment.
Lighten up anyways, who cares?
3:) Hell-ena 3:) BACK:N:BLACK on March 30, 2016 at 1:48 am
BB = "Beatrix Young"
Whoa. Wow, someone told me about this. I couldn't believe it was true, but it is. I can't believe that I'm seeing this article being quoted all over the Internet, "Founder of Krokus says, 'Where is your respect for Brian?" When that is a direct copy and paste of what BB said 10 days earlier on an article about the lead singer of the same band who was talking about taking his job. This is only disgusting, it is frankly embarrassing. I'm sorry, but that is extremely uncool to copy and paste what someone else said and pretend it was something that you said– Especially when it was about the singer of your own band!
As women, we are regularly disregarded as having very little to say, and very little too far for us to rock 'n' roll. If you are in a position where people listen to you, you should have the class to at least cite who you are quoting if you are following what they say.
No, our band is also from Switzerland, and I am well aware that saying what I am saying here is the equivalent of shooting ourselves in the foot. But we do not care. We are here for truth and rock 'n' roll, not to be cool say the right things at the right moment.
Let there be rock, or GTFO.
3:) Hell-ena 3:)
BACK:N:BLACK – The Girls Who Play AC/DC
Eddie on March 28, 2016 at 1:48 pm
No clue what this is about. Is this person BB the only one who may have had that position? Strange thing to get upset about but maybe take it up with Chris if there is an issue. It was his statement HE sent me to post..
shannon mehaffey on March 30, 2016 at 10:16 am
Wait…this is a TRIBUTE band's rant? lol..you gotta be kidding me lady.
Dario Rothauer on March 28, 2016 at 3:57 am
That is absolutely incorrect from you. Actually, it is stealing. You could have written that the quote was BB's – that it wasn't yours – but you didn't. Taking other musician's sentences and using them for one's won, that's absolutely not OK. And to use them in order to take an advantage out of it is even worse! You can be a famous musician or an unknown novelist, but you always should stick to your own words. Stealing the words from a woman or a man, no difference, so you wouldn't have liked it too if anyone would have done that. If you think being better because you are male or whatsoever reason, you didn't understand much about life. Finally, you are not more than cellular mass, not being able to do more than others.
"Sharing is one of the most important tools needed for personal growth" (Victor Wooten)
Sharing with his fans would have been ok, but taking the words and using them for yourself and not giving the true source the chance to stand for her words and being recognized for them is egoistic, false and shows your true character.
BB is one of the biggest AC/DC-fans I know, her dedication makes her putting so much love into what she does. And how you speak about cover bands is inappropriate too! Listen: Music doesn't belong to anyone, everybody should be allowed to play whatever he or she likes! It is not genuine when someone else plays it, yes, but the importance is how you play it, if you can bring across what you intended to. If only 5 people are allowed to play the songs of AC/DC, the songs would be dead at the moment they don't play any more. The honour that there are people willing to play what others came up with AND REWARDING THE IDEA TO THEM is precious; they give the songs life and every member of AC/DC put his heart and soul into the song. So the music carries their point with it, no matter who plays it because if they DON'T CLAIM THE SONG BEING THEIRS they only show their appreciation and dedication. So you should not claim someone's words being yours.
I have no idea what anyone here is talking about. Chris Von Rohr asked me to post his statement that he emailed me (I have the email!) about AC/DC and Storace. I have NO IDEA who BB is or what anyone is talking about. But if you think the line "have respect for Brian" is something only one person ever said then I don't know what to tell you. I said it myself countless times since this story..
robert davenport on March 28, 2016 at 2:49 pm
the internet is chock full -o-nuts
Randy Schmieder on March 28, 2016 at 3:30 pm
BB is the guitarist for the Swiss band BACK:N:BLACK. Who she is not important, but what she said is.
Of course having respect is nothing new. I think you got a big reaction because the words Chris used seemed essentially copied and pasted from what BB said as a comment on a Blabbermouth article about Marc Storace — 10 days ago. I was there when she read this article about Marc Storace, and she was very angry that it seemed yet another person was talking about taking Brian's job. We discussed it, and to be quite honest, we worked carefully together on how to express exactly how she felt. I am a mother tongue English speaker, and I naturally say things like "Where is your respect", and "Until I hear otherwise…". She liked these phrases and used them.
When some saw these words repeated and attributed to Chris Von Rohr, I think it rubbed some of the band and their fans the wrong way. Fans of BACK:N:BLACK know that BB stands for what she believes in, and feels she owes a huge amount to AC/DC. This is why many were proud that BB out Jim Breuer immediately for his insensitive remarks. And this is likely why they came to her defense and called out Chris when he apparently used her words. I guess it just came across as a bit insincere, something that was underscored by the plug for the new Krokus album at the end.
Dana on March 28, 2016 at 5:20 pm
With all deference to you, and BB, a good portion of people use these phrases and idioms. There is no copyright on the expressions that you mentioned.
Also, if you are offended, please take it to the direct source. We will not be tying up the thread any further with a discourse over syntax. All further comments will be deleted.
Dana from ET.com
shannon mehaffey on March 30, 2016 at 2:53 am
Hey Dana, I've got another record for you, Astra by Asia, it came out in '85 (this sneaks in on this thread because Mandy Meyer from Krokus replaces Steve Howe). We were discussing Pyromania, and this one here is another Concorde of a rock record. Astra is an absolute masterpiece from beginning to end, and again, vinyl is the best, only?, way to experience it.
No problem Dana. The point was made, and no need to beat a dead horse. I'll clear out and leave the thread for others who want to discuss Chris's statement. Cheers, Randy
Dana 🙂


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Q: FileUpload error - "The form field fileInput did not contain a file" (CFML - FW/1) I'm trying to upload a file on a ColdFusion site and am receiving the following error:
"The form field fileInput did not contain a file."
The file along with some text values are submitted through a form on an Edit page. The form is submitted to the "save" method in the controller, which sends two calls to fileService. The text values are passed as expected and updating them works fine. When I dump the RC Scope struct "fileInput" (the name of the input I am using to get the file) shows as [empty string]. It is not shown in the Form scope at all. Does anyone have an idea on what could be causing the issue with this? There are a couple of answered questions that are related to forms that use cffile (tags), but everything on the site I'm working on uses FileUpload (cfscript), so I'm not sure how to apply those answers here.
FYI The site uses Framework One (FW/1 version 4.1) as its MVC framework. I'm using ColdFusion 2016. Following are snippets of the code being used.

View: Edit.cfm
<form action="#BuildURL( action='file.save' )#" name="filesForm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <input id="file_id" name="file_id" type="hidden" value="#rc.file_id#">

    File Name
    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Enter File Name" value="#rc.name#">

    File Upload
    <input type="file" id="fileInput" name"fileInput">

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" name="Submit">Save</button>

</form>

Controller: file.cfc
public void function edit(rc){
  if (StructKeyExists(rc, 'file_id') && rc.file_id > 0){
    var q = fileService.getFile(rc.file_id);
    rc.file_id = q.file_id;
    rc.name = q.name;
  }
}

public void function save(required struct rc){
  rc.file_id = variables.fileService.save(rc.file_id, rc.name);

  param name = "rc.fileInput" default="";
  rc.result = variables.fileService.uploadFile(file = "fileInput");

  variables.fw.redirect(action='file.edit', append='file_id', queryString = "msg=updated");
}

Service: file.cfc
struct function uploadFile(required string file){
  fileUploadResult = FileUpload(getTempDirectory(), arguments.file, "application/pdf", "MakeUnique");
}

A: Turns out the issue was in the file input tag. I'd left out the 'equals' sign in the name declaration (i.e. name="fileInput"), which is why the file was not included. Unbelievable... Everything else worked after I fixed that, though I will take the suggestions to clean up the naming. Thanks everyone for your help.

A: I am not familiar with FW/1, but maybe in public void function save(), fileInput should be rc.fileInput, i.e.
 rc.result = variables.fileService.uploadFile(file = rc.fileInput);

A: Did you try dumping the rc scope variable and what file are you trying to upload make sure it isnt an empty text file.