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The many faces of bipolar disorder — (Digital Journal)
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
By Lisa duTrieuille
Aug 2, 2013 in Health
Christine Adewunmi, a 37-year-old stay-at-home mom and a former physical education teacher from Missouri, was struggling with bipolar disorder, depression, including researching suicide methods online.
On March 16, 2012, Christine Adewunmi, fatally shot her three young daughters in the head and then killed herself. The next day, a guest of Blue Springs Ranch, 80 miles south west of St. Louis found the bodies on a gravel road with a handgun nearby.
Leonard Adewunmi, husband of the former physical education teacher, is suing Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, West County physicians and an on-call psychiatrist, Dr. Saad Khan of negligence. According to the widower, a day before the tragic incident, his wife had come to the hospital seeking treatment. An assessment of Adewunnmi's former wife had been done and revealed that his wife had been suicidal and had not taken her anti-depressants for two days. Furthermore, a hospital employee, indented as Joan Bova, had determined that the former stay at home mom was a danger to herself, that she had refused treatment.
According to the widower, had the hospital staff bothered to communicate with him directly, March 15, 2012, he would have explained that his wife's therapist had referred her for inpatient care, that Christine had previously taken their daughters on unsupervised trips and had expressed her desire to die. Mr. Adewunmi, claims that had his wife been hospitalized March 15, 2012, she wouldn't have shot her daughters in the head, ending their young lives, and then killed herself with a handgun.
Holly Osment, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who specializes in bipolar disorder, says that those with bipolar disorder have a fifteen fold increased risk of suicide than the general population. Osment says generally the statistic is one third of people with bipolar disorder have suicidal intent or act on their suicidal intent. As was the case with Christine Adewunmi, who was battling bipolar disorder. Osment says there's often resistance to medications among those with bipolar disorder. Patients are at risk for stopping their medications. She says often they're okay with taking medication when they're depressed, because they want relief. However, once they become stable, then they think, "I don't need it anymore." Osment adds that they may subsequently swing into mania, which they may enjoy (unless it is dysphoric mania). The therapist says it is sometimes difficult to keep them taking their medications consistently. The care provider may try to help by framing bipolar disorder similar to any other chronic medical condition that needs medication management. "You have a chronic, medical disease, its kind of like hypertension or diabetes. You may always need to be on medication." That can be a hard sell, but that's often the best course for most patients.
According to Osment, manic episodes may include paranoia as well as psychosis, which is technically losing touch with reality (such as visual or auditory hallucinations). Osment adds that the mania is the more harmful aspect of bipolar disorder to the brain, and that patients should be helped to actively take steps to prevent it from occurring. Furthermore, suicidal thinking combined with untreated mania or depression puts the patient at very high risk. Most likely had Christine Adewumni been hospitalized as an inpatient the day before she shot her three daughters in the head and then killed herself, the priority of the psychiatrist treating her in the hospital would have been to get her stabilized on medications to treat the bipolar, depression and suicidal ideation.
According to Dr. Dorson Liss, who has been a psychiatrist for over 40 years, and had been treating many clients who have mood disorders, including bipolar disorder, about 40 percent of patients with bipolar disorder have some kind of substance abuse problem. And, the most common explanation is that they are trying to use drugs and alcohol as a way of treating their severe mood shifts.
Dr. Liss says that bipolar is marked by a number of severe depressive episodes and often by sever manic episodes- moods that are marked by increased levels in energy, increased repeatability of thought, difficulty focusing thoughts, distractibility, elevated mood, instability and cognitive distortions in thinking.
Liss states that that the diagnostic systems divide bipolar disorder into bipolar I and bipolar II. Bipolar I is marked by both depressions and a series of manic episodes, usually necessitating some dramatic treatment, either use of medication and/or hospitalizations, or severe restrictions in a person's lifestyle. He adds that in bipolar II, the manic episodes are less dramatic, do not involve hospitalizations or marked alternative lifestyle. Furthermore Dr. Liss says they can be incapacitating and sometimes life threatening depressive episodes.
Cyclothymia is another diagnosis where the depressive symptoms don't reach the level of Major Depression, nor the manic symptoms reach the level of true mania. Sometimes when one sees cyclothymia, it's a precursor to actual bipolar disorder, but not always.
Liss says that the manic episodes tend to last no more than seven months. The depressive episodes last several months and sometimes years. In addition, the depressive episodes far out number the manic episodes by five to one. Furthermore, he says there's the existence of what's called a mixed manic state( also known as dysphoric mania) that people don't associate with mania. Many people when they think of mania they think its all euphoric. That isn't always the case with dysphoric mania ( also know by some clients- as the painful mania) which by some estimates account for as much as 30% of mood shifts in one with bipolar. Liss emphasizes that these mood shifts can be so severe that they require hospitalization because of intense anger and violence or, potential for violence.
The Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist says that signs of bipolar, the illness has a genetic component in addition to environmental factors and the kind of stressors one has. In addition, she adds that it appears that bipolar disorder is sort of genetic cousins with schizophrenia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder( OCD) and ADHD, sometimes sharing some genes with these other disorders.
The Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist says that signs of bipolar can be seen in childhood, or early twenties. It sometimes takes many years for someone to get correctly diagnosed, while meanwhile the bipolar symptoms are left untreated properly.
According to a study Liss read, about five to ten percent of people who had one bipolar parent, become bipolar. There's no doubt that the existence of bipolar in one's parents, dramatically increases the possibility of a person developing bipolar disorder.
Osment and Dr. Liss seem to disagree about the link between bipolar and creativity. Osment says from the abundance of current information that supports the fact that many with bipolar have lots of creativity, the artistic kind like Van Gogh. Whereas Dr. Liss doesn't think having bipolar disorder predisposes one to become more creative. Although, he says that creative people seem to have bipolar disorder, but he says it is not known for sure what the relationship is.
Osment strongly believes that someone with bipolar disorder has to become an expert on the illness as well as their family. She firmly believes that the therapeutic relationship is extremely helpful. For example, Osment says therapies such as cognitive behavioral or existential therapy are very helpful because the therapist is really intervening. Osment believes that a strong therapeutic connection can be part of the healing process as well as helping with compliance with treatment. Educating the patient ( and his or her family, if possible) on the importance of sleep, stressors and medication, and working with the patient to cope with the emotional impact of living with bipolar disorder may help increase quality of life and add deeper meaning to one's own existence.
In order to get a diagnosis of bipolar I, bipolar II or cyclothymia, the main criteria is that one has to have a history or some evidence of having a manic or hypomanic episode before it can be diagnosed, according to Osment.
Whereas Osment strongly believes that genetics, the environment and stressors in a bipolar person's life are all factors in terms of triggering episodes of mania, dysphoric mania and/or hypomania. Dr. Liss disagrees somewhat with Osment. Liss says that things such as deficiencies in parenting, traumatic events, disadvantaged situations fostering a whole set of faulty cognitive approaches to life. An important part of the non-somatic treatment of bipolar incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy according to Liss which helps people re-frame the way they deal with and conceptualize things that are happening in their lives.
Dr. Liss firmly believes when medication and/or anything else doesn't work for a client who is severely depressed, the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) treatments usually are given to the patient. Liss says that ECT remains the gold standard against which all treatments for any depression has to be measured, including bipolar depression. [The truth is that this "gold standard" causes brain damage, evidenced by typical severe memory loss – SSRI Ed.]
Not many therapists such as Osment specialize in bipolar disorder because many therapists think of bipolar as based on a medical modality. In the ever expanding field on bipolar disorder, she feels ethically compelled to keep on top of all the latest research on bipolar disorder, including being well-versed in all the medications that are out there to treat the illness, which usually makes some psychiatrists give her a bit more respect. If Osment really knows what she's talking about, its better for the client because they can both have a better conversation advocating for the client.
Getting stabilized from a depressive or manic episode includes establishing a regular sleep cycle. When depressed, patients often sleep excessively while when manic they may feel a need for very little. Osment recommends getting eight to ten hours of sleep, and establishing a regular sleep/wake rhythm to the day. Waking up at the same time and going to sleep at the same time every day is often recommended for those with bipolar disorder. Exercise can be a tremendous way to manage depression. Of course most importantly is the client taking their medications as prescribed by their psychiatrist.
In conclusion, Osment says, "The good thing about bipolar disorder is that once someone finds the right medications for them, they may be able to stay fairly stable. Being watchful for stressors tipping them toward depression or mania and intervening immediately can help maintain stability more quickly. It is a chronic condition and can cause a lot of disruption and harm if not treated properly.


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Race Report: Moab Trail Marathon
This desert adventure run hosted the USATF Trail Marathon National Championship, and tested runners of all levels on its beautifully rugged course.
By Lisa Jhung
The Moab Trail Marathon has been attracting area runners since its inception four years ago, but last weekend, as the USATF Trail Marathon National Championship, the wild and rugged course drew a whole new field of competition.
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A 24-year-old working on her doctorate in Salt Lake City, Utah, Lyons (left) had only run one other marathon before Saturday's race. "I ran the Country Music Marathon with friends for fun, and then this one," she says. A 1500 and 3000 runner at Cornell, Lyons exclaimed about marathons, "They're long!"
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A Universidade Nacional Experimental Politécnica "Antonio José de Sucre" (UNEXPO) é uma universidade pública da Venezuela. É a maior universidade de engenharia da Venezuela e um dos centros de excelência en ensino e pesquisa no país e na América Latina.

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Елена Владимировна Медведева (род. 30 октября 1971, Горький, РСФСР, СССР) — российская актриса театра и кино.

Биография
Елена родилась и выросла в городе Горький (ныне Нижний Новгород), там она окончила физико-математическую школу № 36 Автозаводского района города Горький, но свою жизнь она всегда мечтала связать с театром. Окончив школу, Елена поступила в Нижегородское театральное училище на курс к Семёну Эммануиловичу Лерману и успешно окончила его в 1993 году. В том же году Лена уехала в Москву и была принята в Школу-студию МХАТ на курс Авангарда Николаевича Леонтьева. И уже на 2 курсе Елена вышла на сцену МХАТ им. Чехова в спектаклях «Ундина» и «Горе от ума». И хотя её роли были малы, но это был бесценный опыт, который впоследствии очень пригодился актрисе в жизни.

В 1997 году Елена окончила Школу-студию МХАТ, а спустя два года была принята в труппу Московского драматического театра под руководством Армена Джигарханяна. На его сцене актриса была занята во многих спектаклях, в том числе: «Возвращение домой» (Рут), «Ревизор» (Анна Андреевна), «Сердце не камень» (Ольга), «Безумный день, или Женитьба Фигаро» (Графиня), «Театр — убийца» (Синтия, мисс Друдж), «Она в отсутствии любви и смерти» (Мать), «Три сестры» (Ольга), «Сюда ещё бы пару мужиков» (Марта), «Дон Жуан, или каменный гость» (Эльвира).

Впервые на экране Елена Медведева появилась в эпизодической роли в сериале «Жизнь продолжается».

В 2005 году актриса сыграла мать Алисы в картине режиссёра Петра Харизова «Манга». Среди последних работ Елены Медведевой: роль медсестры Марины в драме Карена Оганесяна «Я остаюсь», роль Веры Ковалёвой в сериале «Личная жизнь доктора Селивановой», роль Ольги Боковой в сериале «Без срока давности», роль Наринэ Папазян в сериале «Кровинушка».

Личная жизнь
Елена замужем за актёром Александром Бухаровым. Супруги воспитывают сына Дмитрия.

Театральные роли
МХАТ им. Чехова с 1994 по 1997 год
 Ундина — Русалка, Придворная дама
 Горе от ума — княжна

ГБУК Московский драматический театр под руководством
А. Джигарханяна с 1999 года
 Три сестры — Ольга
 Возвращение домой — Рут
 Сюда ещё бы пару мужиков — Марта, Джесси
 Безумный день или женитьба Фигаро — графиня
 Ревизор — Анна Андреевна
 Сердце не камень — Ольга Дмитриевна
 Пороховая бочка — Евдокия
 Театр-убийца — Мисс Друдж, Синтия Малдун
 Она в отсутствие любви и смерти — Мать
 Дон Жуан, или Каменный гость — Донья Эльвира, Статуя Командора
 Грачи прилетели — Надежда
 Сказки учёного кота — Попадья

Московский театр «Творчество» с 2010 года
 Опасные связи — Графиня де Воланж

Московский театр «Игроки» c 2002 года
 За закрытой дверью — Инес Серрано

Арт-союз «Легко сказать» с 2013 года
 Бегу, лечу, плыву — Мэджи Скотт

Фильмография

Участие в рекламе
 Рекламный ролик Head & Shoulders
 Рекламный ролик Domestos
 Рекламный ролик Новопассит

Участие в музыкальных видеоклипах
Группа «СеtИ»
 «Смайл»
 «Небо на земле»

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт Елены Медведевой
 Биография Елены Медведевой на сайте Rusactors
 Клип группы СеtИ — Smile
 Клип группы СеtИ — Небо на земле

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Q: Question on Condition (/;) Condition has attribute HoldAll which prevents evaluation of its first argument before applying the Condition. But for some reason Condition evaluates its first argument even if the test gives False:
In[1]:= Condition[Print[x],False]
During evaluation of In[1]:= x
Out[1]= Null/;False

Why is this? For what purposes Condition evaluates its first argument if the test gives False? In which cases this behavior can be useful?
P.S. Its behavior differs when the Condition is used as the second argument of SetDelayed:
In[5]:= f:=Condition[Print[x],False]; f
Out[6]= f

This is what I expected for the all cases.

A: As far as I can tell (and this has been mentioned by other answerers already), Condition should not be thought of as a standalone function, but as a wrapper used in forming larger expressions involving patterns. But I want to stress that part of the subtlety here comes from the fact that Rule and RuleDelayed  are scoping constructs. In general, scoping constructs must have a variable-binding stage, where they resolve possible conflicts in variable names and actually bind variables to their occurrences in the body of the scoping construct (or, in the r.h.s. of the rule for Rule and RuleDelayed). This may be considered a part of the inner workings of the scoping constructs, but, because Mathematica allows top-level manipulations through attributes and things like Evaluate, scoping constructs are not as black-box as they may seem - we may change the bindings by forcing the variable declarations, or the body, or both, to evaluate before the binding happens - for example, by removing some of the Hold* - attributes. I discussed these things here in somewhat more detail, although, not knowing the exact implementation details for the scoping constructs, I had to mostly guess.
Returning back to the case of Rule, RuleDelayed and Condition, it is instructive to Trace one of the examples discussed:
In[28]:= Trace[Cases[{3,3.},a_:>Print[a]/;(Print["!"];IntegerQ[a])],RuleCondition,TraceAbove->All]
During evaluation of In[28]:= !
During evaluation of In[28]:= !
During evaluation of In[28]:= 3

Out[28]= {Cases[{3,3.},a_:>Print[a]/;(Print[!];IntegerQ[a])],
{RuleCondition[$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[Print[3]]],True],
      $ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[Print[3]]]},
{RuleCondition[$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[Print[3.]]],False],Fail},
 {Print[3]},{Null}}

What you see is that there are special internal heads RuleCondition and $ConditionHold, which appear when Condition is used with Rule or RuleDelayed. My guess is that these implement the mechanism to incorporate conditions on pattern variables, including the variable binding. When you use Condition as a standalone function, these don't appear. These heads are crucial for condition mechanism to really work.
You can look at how they work in Rule and RuleDelayed:
In[31]:= RuleCondition[$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[Print[3.`]]],True]
Out[31]= $ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[Print[3.]]]

In[32]:= RuleCondition[$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[Print[3.`]]],False]
Out[32]= Fail

You can see that, say, Cases picks up only elements of the form $ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[something]], and ignore those where RuleCondition results in Fail.   Now, what happens when you use Condition as a stand-alone function is different - thus the difference in results.
One good example I am aware of, which illustrates the above points very well, is in this thread, where possible implementations of a version of With which binds sequentially, are discussed. I will repeat a part of that discussion here, since it is instructive. The idea was to make a version of With, where previous declarations can be used for declarations further down the declaration list. If we call it Let, then,  for example, for code like
Clear[h, xl, yl];
xl = 1;
yl = 2;
h[x_, y_] := Let[{xl = x, yl = y + xl + 1}, xl^2 + yl^2];
h[a, b]

we should get
a^2+(1+a+b)^2

One of the implementations which was suggested, and gives this result, is:
ClearAll[Let];
SetAttributes[Let, HoldAll];
Let /: (lhs_ := Let[vars_, expr_ /; cond_]) :=
   Let[vars, lhs := expr /; cond]
Let[{}, expr_] := expr;
Let[{head_}, expr_] := With[{head}, expr]
Let[{head_, tail__}, expr_] := With[{head}, Let[{tail}, expr]]

(this is due to Bastian Erdnuess). What happens here is that this Let performs bindings at run-time, rather than at the time when function is being defined. And as soon as we want to use shared local variables, it fails:
Clear[f];
f[x_,y_]:=Let[{xl=x,yl=y+xl+1},xl^2+yl^2/;(xl+yl<15)];
f[x_,y_]:=x+y;

?f
Global`f
f[x_,y_]:=x+y

Had it worked correctly, and we should have ended up with 2 distinct definitions. And here we come to the crux of the matter: since this Let acts at run-time, SetDelayed does not perceive the Condition as a part of the pattern - it would do that for With, Block, Module, but not some unknown Let. So, both definitions look for Mathematica the same (in terms of patterns), and therefore, the second replaces the first. But this is not all. Now we only create the first definition, and try to execute:
Clear[f];
f[x_, y_] := Let[{xl = x, yl = y + xl + 1}, xl^2 + yl^2 /; (xl + yl < 15)];

In[121]:= f[3, 4]

Out[121]= 73 /; 3 + 8 < 15

If you trace the last execution, it would be very unclear why the Condition did not fire here. The reason is that we messed up the binding stage. Here is my improved version, which is free from these flaws:
ClearAll[LetL];
SetAttributes[LetL, HoldAll];
LetL /: Verbatim[SetDelayed][lhs_, rhs : HoldPattern[LetL[{__}, _]]] :=
   Block[{With}, Attributes[With] = {HoldAll};
     lhs := Evaluate[rhs]];
LetL[{}, expr_] := expr;
LetL[{head_}, expr_] := With[{head}, expr];
LetL[{head_, tail__}, expr_] :=
  Block[{With}, Attributes[With] = {HoldAll};
    With[{head}, Evaluate[LetL[{tail}, expr]]]];

What is does is that it expands LetL into nested With at definition-time, not run-time, and that happens before the binding stage. Now, let us see:
In[122]:=
Clear[ff];
ff[x_,y_]:=LetL[{xl=x,yl=y+xl+1},xl^2+yl^2/;(xl+yl<15)];

Trace[ff[3,4]]

Out[124]= {ff[3,4],
{With[{xl$=3},With[{yl$=4+xl$+1},RuleCondition[$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[xl$^2+yl$^2]],
 xl$+yl$<15]]],With[{yl$=4+3+1},RuleCondition[$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[3^2+yl$^2]],3+yl$<15]],
{4+3+1,8},RuleCondition[$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[3^2+8^2]],3+8<15],
{{3+8,11},11<15,True},RuleCondition[$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[3^2+8^2]],True],
$ConditionHold[$ConditionHold[3^2+8^2]]},3^2+8^2,{3^2,9},{8^2,64},9+64,73}

This works fine, and you can see the heads RuleCondition and $ConditionHold showing up all right. It is instructive to look at the resulting  definition  for ff:
?ff
Global`ff
ff[x_,y_]:=With[{xl=x},With[{yl=y+xl+1},xl^2+yl^2/;xl+yl<15]]

You can see that LetL has expanded at definition-time, as advertised. And since pattern variable binding happened after that, things work fine. Also, if we add another definition:
ff[x_,y_]:=x+y;

?ff
Global`ff
ff[x_,y_]:=With[{xl=x},With[{yl=y+xl+1},xl^2+yl^2/;xl+yl<15]]

ff[x_,y_]:=x+y

We see that the patterns are now perceived as different by Mathematica.
The final question was why Unevaluated does not restore the behavior of RuleDelayed broken by the removal of its HoldRest attribute. I can only guess that this is related to the unusual behavior of RuleDelayed (it eats up any number of Unevaluated wrappers around the r.h.s.), noted in the comments to  this question.
To summarize: one of the most frequent intended uses of Condition is closely tied to the enclosing scoping constructs (Rule and RuleDelayed), and one should take into account the variable binding stage in scoping constructs, when analyzing their behavior.

A: Condition use often depends on what is in the left hand side, so it must evaluate the LHS at least to some degree.  Consider:
MatchQ[3, a_ /; IntegerQ[a]]

   True
p = {a_, b_};

MatchQ[{3, 0.2}, p /; IntegerQ[a] && b < 1]

   True
Both for this and from this, I would have guessed that Condition had attribute HoldRest rather than HoldAll.  It probably needs HoldAll for some internal use, perhaps related to the SetDelayed usage.


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It definitely looks like 360 and as far as I'm concerned there are no copies announced.
Motorola posted saying it was.
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I think you need some glasses there friend. Moto 360 looks like a real watch.
Watches with large faces have been in for a while now. The Moto doesn't look any bigger than those.
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You just like to pile on assumption on assumption, huh? Mind you, I'm just a casual observer of smart watches (I don't care to wear a normal watch, either), so I'm not biased toward any of these smart watches. I just find it funny that people can already write something off before its even unveiled or even leaked in any sort of substantial detail.
He wrote it off the second he heard it wasn't running iOS.
But what channel or program was impaired on?
I meant what channel/program did the 360 aired on?
JT was on the Verge in a video, pleading to see the watch close up, not long ago while Moto's guy acted coy, stating he couldn't. The whole thing an act obviously.
I can't wait to see what HTC is crafting.


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Miss Mercenary Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Chonghua
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Japan, a certain temple.
A woman dressed in black was busy in the kitchen. Black trench coat, black pants, black leather boots, and a black eye on her face, it seemed that no other color could be found on her body. With no apron on, her outfit looked out of place in the kitchen, but her slender fingers were carefully fiddling with the vegetables!
After a long time, a plate of delicate dishes were served on the table. With a careful look, it was actually all Sichuan cuisine. Each dish had peppers and the aroma was fragrant.
"It's so fragrant!" An old man wearing a monk's robe ran from outside, grabbed a piece of beef with his hand and sent it to his mouth, not afraid at all of being scalded.
Chonghua grabbed the old man's collar and threw it out the door: "D*mn old man, go wash your hands first!"
The old man neatly flipped over and stood outside, with a flat mouth that was aggrieved. But after seeing Chonghua's sharp eyes, he obediently went to wash his hands, came back quickly, grabbed the chopsticks, and started to gobble down the food. His mouth said vaguely: "Yummy…yummy…"
Chonghua sat on the side, not surprised. To have the world's top mercenary cook for him, she was afraid that there was only this old man in front of her.
"Chonghua", a name that frightened both the black and the white paths, she was the world's top mercenary. As long as she took on the task, she had never failed. There were countless people who wanted to kill her. Yet to this day, they couldn't even touch the corner of her clothes, they didn't even know whether she was a man or a woman; but who would have thought that such a mysterious character could actually cook?
Compared to those killers, Chonghua was a different kind of person. She had killed countless people, but you can't even find a trace of murderous aura on her and she doesn't need to hide it deliberately. Maybe she was influenced by the old man. After a long time, not only was there no murderous aura, but sometimes people could feel a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, not like a killer at all.
This old man was also a strange person. Chonghua didn't know his name and didn't want to know, so she just called him old man. He taught Chonghua a lot of kung fu, and he could be regarded as her master, but he never asked her to call him Master. He just asked her to cook Chinese food for him in exchange for him teaching her martial arts, whether it was Chinese or Japanese martial arts.
To this old man, Chonghua had always been grateful and had already viewed him as a relative to take care of. No matter how powerful she was, no matter how famous she was, she had never been too arrogant. These were all things he taught her.
A few dishes on the table were quickly swept away, and the old man patted his stomach contentedly, occasionally burping.
After a long time, the old man remembered something. After fumbling in his sleeve for a long time, he finally took out a piece of letter and handed it to Chonghua. Chonghua had long ago lost all her words regarding the old man opening her letter privately. Taking it for a look, it was something sent by Leng family. It probably meant that they wanted that woman to take her daughter home!
Without speaking, the old man gave the letter to her. Naturally, there was a reason. Sure enough, there was a hint of seriousness on the old man's face. It was this seriousness that surprised Chonghua. Things that can make the old man show a serious look, it's really not many.
"Go back and take a look! There may be some unexpected surprises waiting for you there!"
Chonghua knew that the old man had made the decision by saying this, and thought about it: "There is another task the day after tomorrow, I will leave after completing it."
Until she returned to her villa, Chonghua was still a little puzzled. She didn't understand why the old man always had a faint sadness on his body when he talked about China. Maybe one day she would understand, but not now.
Maybe it was because she had been nurtured by the old man for too long. Instead of worrying about things like others, she looked at everything very openly, which made her live a more free and easy life.
The night was adorned with lights like the daytime, a luxurious but somewhat ancient mansion. Thousands of bodyguards were on guard, while the snipers in the dark didn't even blink an eye, and there were many mercenaries around, everyone were 200% alert. It was not for any other reason, but because Chonghua took over the task of assassinating the owner of this mansion.
The people present were all the world's elites and there were many mercenaries outside who were well-known, but no one dared to relax. It was because tonight they were facing "Chonghua".
With a neat flip, Chonghua stood on the high wall in the distance. From her glasses, she could clearly see the criss-crossing wire nets and the positions of the snipers. The dense protective net, even a fly would find it difficult to escape. Her lips slowly hooked upwards and her body swept past the snipers like the wind, but no one noticed, still staring straight ahead.
Shaking the corners of her clothes, the smile on her lips remained the same. The windbreaker on Chonghua's body seemed to be no different from ordinary windbreakers, but it was made of special materials. On her body, there was no piece that wasn't carefully manufactured. Moreover, it was especially designed to deal with Infrared laser, etc., and its materials were unique and rare, and there was only one in the world.
So Chonghua only needed to avoid those eyes and swagger into the most guarded room. As soon as the door was opened, more than a dozen guns were aimed at her at the same time, but the moment they saw her, they collapsed in horror.
How did she get in? Before they could reflect from their shock, most of the people in the room were already finished. Chonghua mercilessly killed the remaining people and walked step by step towards the ultimate goal. That person was a senior government official who secretly engaged in some underworld activities, and was famous in the underworld. However, at this moment he was so frightened that he hid behind the chair, and even forgot to call for help.
Chonghua held a small silver needle in her hand, and one end of the needle was tied with a silver wire. These little things were the tools that killed everyone in an instant and that many people couldn't even make a sound; it seems that Li Xin's hidden weapon invention had advanced again.
The target was solved neatly. After checking, she disappeared without a sound, just like how she came. Unfortunately, it won't be until the next morning that someone will find out that the person they wanted to protect is dead!
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Brings Perspective. It Doesn't Go Well For Him.
August 4, 2019 / consskep
We, in the U.S., have experienced two horrific mass shootings in just something like 24 hours: the first in el Paso, Texas, the second, earlier today (Sunday) in Dayton, Ohio. I'm not going to comment directly on either because it's too soon. What we are experiencing, mostly, from the media are a mixture of fact and fiction with a generous dose of pure speculation. I've not been watching the news, based on just those factors and when an incident occurs, I always avoid the news for at least a couple of days because no one has anything pertinent to add that would inform me as to the why of the situation. too many partisan voices. on both sides of the gun control debate, who have nothing to add concerning the actual event versus their own political agenda.
Media should, in my opinion, spend less time speculating and pontificating and more time attempting to discover the why. Of course, there are cases, like the Las Vegas shooter, that we'll never know. Yes, the FBI actually closed the case without making a determination as to the provocation of that shooter. In other cases, like the two this weekend, voices are all over the place, it's white supremacy, or something akin. Again, without any direct knowledge. when someone does attempt to interject, for a moment, something beyond what everyone else is discussing online or on television, it sometimes doesn't go over very well.
Case in point is an article concerning a tweet from Neil deGrasse Tyson, attempting to place some perspective in place and the immediate dog-piling he received. Here's the tweet:
As most readers here are aware, I'm not a fan if Tyson, mainly because over the last decade at least, he's become less a science communicator than a celebrity – a status I believe he enjoys more. So this tweet startled me, mainly because Tyson has become a mouthpiece for what I call left-wing causes over time. This tweet, however, does nothing to move the anti-gun lobby narrative forward and anyone looking at some of the responses he's received, will quickly understand that point.
Some of the responses indicated that he should "stick with astrophysics", something never heard from the same crowd when he discusses climate change. I'm pretty sure the same could be said on any topic he brings up outside of his specialty but that he didn't support the narrative that people wanted or expected, his own supporters come after him in droves. that'll teach him to discuss something he knows nothing about, won't it? Yes, that was sarcasm.
Some replies focused on deaths due to car accidents and said things about how cars were regulated, unlike guns (a falsehood, BTW). Yes, there are lots of safety standards applied to vehicles, but that doesn't prevent someone getting behind the wheel, drunk, and killing someone else, or themselves, in an accident. Maybe we should outlaw alcoholic beverages? Wait! We tried that didn't we? The 500 that die everyday due to medical errors? I'm thinking we should do the same with medicine.
Yeah, I'm being ridiculous but it reinforces, I believe, the point that Tyson was making and that's always going to be a problem when there is a political divide on a hot-button issue like guns and yet the same people ignore those other pesky statistics that just don't move their agenda (pro or con) forward.
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9 thoughts on "Neil deGrasse Tyson Brings Perspective. It Doesn't Go Well For Him."
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I didn't see it as going after the gun hysteria as much as you did. However, I heard on the news today that most gun owners favor responsible gun laws. I live in the state with the largest gun shows in the entire world. Everybody has guns except me. My nephew is a gunsmith and builds special tactical rifles for the police department. I have argued with everyone that I don't see a need for the rapid fire ARs, and they all tell me you can rapid fire other types of guns and that I don't understand. Of course, they are all avid hunters and target shooters and are extremely responsible. We have open carry and the whole shebang. They then give me a lecture about how anything can be a weapon if you are intent on being violent. It's true, I believe, that it's not the gun but the person with the gun. But I really am not crazy about the rapid fire weapons that do so much damage in such a short amount of time.
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I'm a dun owner and I agree with having "responsible gun laws", but if you take a careful look at the Federal, and then individual state laws, there are literally hundreds of laws regulating the possession of firearms already. When people respond that way, what is never asked is "what would you consider responsible gun laws?" You see? You can ask a general question and receive a positive response, but if you ask a more specific question, say about legal AR/AK style rifles, you will get a different response.
Example: I saw a tweet today from someone that claimed that when the Assault Weapons Ban was in effect (1994-2004) there was a 43% drop in murders with these weapons and it was "Republicans" that refused to reenact it. Well, 2 lies there: There was no significant change in murder by these firearms (up or down) in 10 years and also, not renewing the ban, was BI-PARTISAN because of that lack of any change. Of course, in the response thread, there were tons of replies that agreed with BOTH lies – people who had no knowledge of it at all. That's the problem as I view it: Too many [people willing to accept a "truth" based on ideology instead of actual facts.
I think Tyson was attempting to have people view these tragedies with perspective ad that's all. If you recall, he also pointed out that in the last 48 hours, statistically, there have been 40 murders by handguns. What is the solution to all of these he mentioned?
Yes, these incidents are shocking and horrible, Trying to place blame on anyone other than the perpetrator does nothing to even begin to attempt for honest and open discussion about sensible gun ownership.
I probably should have made this into another post. 🤠 I have more to say, but I'll leave it there for now.
I'm with you on the only one to blame is the one who did it. And you're right–I forgot that it was explained to me how many laws are already in place. What people don't realize is that it's the illegal guns on the street that are the ones being used to commit crimes. It has nothing to do with the responsible gun owners. I do have one additional problem which is that with so many illegal guns on the streets, I think this leads to more police shootings because the police have to assume everyone is armed where I live. There's a fair amount of gang activity and reformed gun laws will do nothing to stop the illegal gun trade. Shoot, I could probably get an illegal weapon right now! I don't know the answer and don't understand why you get these different answers from different sources–as you were saying above. I have talked to people in Australia and in NZ on Twitter who think we're all crazy and are very anti-guns. Some think they would be scared to come to the US because they think there are shootings all the time.
Austrailia and NZ still have murders – with guns! In 2018 they had 289 murders total in Australia which doesn't seem like a lot but it has to be placed in perspective that their population 1) already went through some(most) guns being confiscated from responsible people of course. And their population is what? Somewhere around 25 million? NZ, I just read recently, only 7% of gun owners have complied with the new law there. What are they going to do, put everyone in jail that refuse to comply? My question has always been this: Why does everyone need to be punished for the crimes of a few? That question may be used in any instance where government decides that something is a problem and that they need to place greater controls on whatever it is. Think e-cigarettes.
There was a kind of funny little news story here this week. A man was out watering his lawn and three kids — two teens and one in twenties, approached him in broad daylight to rob him. They didn't bother to notice he was strapped up, as I think they say, and he pulled his gun and they hit the road. One ended up jumping into someone's back yard to get away and that homeowner shot that kid. What a mess.
While I'm about as Pro-Second Amendment as it gets, I do feel like it is our responsibility as responsible, law-abiding gun owners to tell the truth about firearms; and the truth is some people probably shouldn't own them. Even though I 100% believe that a gun in the hands of a responsible, trained gun owner is a good thing, one in the hands of some guy who has never bothered to take a firearms safety course, or learn how to use that firearm in a self-defense situation is downright dangerous.This really comes down to proper training. Far too many gun owners have the mentality that because they have or carry a firearm they are somehow protected from bad guys and violence.
Even though a firearm may level the playing field, having one without taking the proper training courses is gonna get you killed. When I'm at the shooting range, I often hear some loudmouth say something like, "no one will ever get the drop on me," or "I'd like to see that guy break into my house." That's usually when I take a break because it's usually the same guy who the range officer singles out because he's doing something that is a danger to himself and everyone on the range. Equivalent to someone drinking before driving and saying something like" I got this". It's not about having a Wild West mentality, it's about proper safety, training, & responsibility.
Every year, law-abiding citizens draw their guns over 2.5 million times in personal defense, saving a countless number of lives and serving as a serious deterrent to criminals. Sometimes, the mere presence of a firearm is enough to stop a criminal dead in his tracks, without ever having to fire a single round.
While the government and the media would like you to believe that banning guns will somehow solve the world's problems, the truth is, criminals by their very nature don't follow the law. Anti-gun laws do very little good when you're staring down the barrel of some psychopath's gun.
But what about all those mass shootings, couldn't they have been prevented by passing more gun control bills?
Since 1950, all but two of this country's mass shootings have taken place in a designated gun-free zone.
Yes, the criminals had guns; the good guys didn't! The law and all those fancy gun-free zone signs did nothing to stop the bad guys from killing people. The only thing that could have made a difference in these cases would have been a law-abiding citizen allowed to lawfully carry his gun in these areas.
It always amazes me how some people can be so caviler with their family's lives. In my opinion, if you have a family you should have and know how to use a gun.Sometimes we hear the anti-gun crowd say things like, "people don't need firearms, that's why we have cops." Well, cops can get kinda heavy to carry around. But in all seriousness, when seconds count, you simply can't count on 911 to keep you safe. Law enforcement does not have a legal obligation to protect you from criminals.
In 2005, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that police officers do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm. The ruling backed up an earlier court case, Warren v. District of Columbia, where the Court ruled that official police personnel and the government employing them owes no duty to victims of criminal acts and thus are not liable for a failure to provide adequate police protection. When it comes to protecting yourself from that threat, you are the only person who can do something to stop the crime and put down the threat. You cannot count on law enforcement to respond in time to protect you from the chaos. According to the Department of Justice, police response times range from 4 minutes for the best in the country to the worst clocking in at over an hour. The national average response time for law enforcement responding to a high-priority call is 11 minutes.
Like most things, I look at firearms from a preparedness point of view. And from that lens, owning a firearm is no different than buying fire insurance or a fire extinguisher. I hope I never need to use either one of them. But like the saying goes" it's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. "
Safety should be the FIRST concern for any gun owner, especially a first time gun owner.
Thanks for your perspective. It's always welcome here.
Excellent addition to Jim's article, Anon.
I don't care much for deGrasse-Tyson, either, but appreciate that he was attempting to bring perspective to a national conversation. As with airplane crashes that so horrify because they kill so many in one place at one time, mass shootings bring about the same sort of illogical thinking. Yes, the details are horrifying, but if all the transportation deaths from a week or all the murders from a week are brought together each Sunday on the news, people would be traumatized from the knowledge that others are dying all around them every minute of every day.
I was listening to Sam Harris on this. He is not really a no guns advocate, but he does advocate for more stringent training laws, like driving a car or flying a plane. I think here you just buy a gun and you don't have compulsory training. We also have the largest gun shows in the world. I always figure I wouldn't be fast enough to grab a gun in a threat. I had a first degree burglary–a person entered my house thru an unlocked door. I don't think he was armed nor was his accomplice who didn't enter. He knew it was my son's house but my son was only friend's with his brother so he said my son invited him over during school hours–nope. I believe there was a beat down arranged which kind of made me happy. The cops wouldn't listen to me. They thought it was innocent until they found out he was part of a large burglary ring and had stolen someone's heirloom sword from a war. All the sudden they were interested in my story. They were worthless. My stupid dogs didn't even react. I was furious.
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Middle, high school students use creativity and STEM skills to build wind turbines
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Students from the Newport News middle and high schools designed and built wind turbines with provided supplies over two hour time period for the Engineering and Design Challenge STEM competition Friday January 11, 2019.
NEWPORT NEWS — The dragon perched atop science teacher Erin Watson's shoulder carefully watched her students work.
The sixth-graders from Dozier Middle School likewise donned dragon-themed items, including shirts bearing the school's scaly mascot.
The students built model after model — four total — in an effort to create the fastest, most durable wind turbine possible.
Dozier's team was one of about a dozen groups of students from almost every middle and high school across the city. Each was competing to build the best turbine as part of the first engineering design challenge to include high school students.
The challenges started in spring 2014. During each contest, groups of students get a surprise task to complete with the given materials and allotted time. Each is centered around STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — concepts and held in partnership with a business or sponsor.
Elementary students compete, too, although with somewhat less sophisticated assignments. The students who work on the city-wide challenges are finalists from ones previously held in their schools, which are built into the curriculum.
"When we talk about building a pipeline of future engineers, it really starts in (prekindergarten) in Newport News," Brian Nichols, chief academic officer, said as the challenge kicked off. "There's going to be some stiff competition here because there are people who have been through this process."
Friday's event was sponsored by Dominion Energy and held in conjunction with the company's offshore wind project off Virginia Beach.
Students had access to balsa wood, sheets of plastic, tape, hot glue, PVC piping and a few other materials to add to a center piece that would spin if its blades were properly constructed.
David Leaf, project manager of the turbines at Dominion, served as a judge. He and other subject-matter experts circled the room to answer students' questions.
"It's been interesting to see these young minds put these things together and approach things differently," Leaf said.
The Dozier team — which won the team spirit award for all the dragons and green-and-yellow apparel — first tried a version with big, wide blades.
It refused to budge as it stood in front of a big box fan, the testing site for the model, even after dragon head-clad Brayden Post, 12, trimmed the blades. Watson and her dragon observed and asked a few questions, but the task of actually doing the work fell to the students.
A few more trials produced another tri-bladed model, this time with cardboard flags, essentially, that gave it the lift needed to pass the 20-second judge's test.
They didn't score the most points — the top prizes went to host site Gildersleeve Middle and Menchville High — but all immediately had the same conclusion as to what the day's biggest lesson was: teamwork.
"Towards the second part, we thought we were doing good, but then we started kind of getting mad at each other a lot," said Ariana Lee, 11. "But towards the end we figured out how to work together."
Jane Hammond
Jane Hammond covers education for the Daily Press. She graduated with a journalism degree from Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism in May 2015. She previously worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (Macon) Telegraph, AL.com/The Huntsville Times and Georgia Public Broadcasting. She feels strongly about Mercer basketball, Target and neon nail polish.
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