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Predictions for 2018 Season
By Reboulet'sStache, July 22, 2018 in NCAA Football
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With fall practice about to start, figured I'd get my predictions in for the 2018 Season.
Big XII:
OU v. Texas, with OU winning it.
I'm going to keep riding that Texas bandwagon because I guess it has to hit some year. But I really like them this year. Darkhorse playoff contender.
Big Ten:
Ohio State v. Wisconsin, Ohio State winning it.
Nebraska is probably a year away from running through the cornfield teams of the West. Penn State is probably another recruiting class away from really making you have to think about penciling in OSU every year.
Bama v. UGA, Bama taking it.
There really isn't an argument for any other team out of the East. I guess you could argue Auburn out of the West. But if Tua wins the job at Bama, good luck with that.
ACC:
Miami v. Clemson, Clemson taking it.
I really like FSU to bounce back this year. I think Taggart's simplified, uptempo offense and simple, aggressive defense is tailor made for Florida talent. I wouldn't be shocked if they won it, but Clemson is probably a top 2 or 3 talent team in the country this year. Miami is probably a year away recruiting before they are really ready to compete with national powers, but I think they have pulled away from the Coastal to the point where you have to pencil them in every year for the Coastal.
PAC 12:
Oregon v USCw, Oregon taking it.
The PAC 12 North is probably the toughest division to predict this year because I don't think Oregon, Washington, or Stanford are that far away from each other. There's not really that elite recruiting power in the division whose talent you just defer to. And I didn't want to go all chalk in the predictions, so I'm going Oregon.
G5:
Has to Boise State. Although I like Arkansas State with that schedule and Houston with Kendall Briles now calling plays.
Ohio State, Bama, OU, Clemson.
Bama takes it, although Trevor Lawrence might be the X factor in all of this.
BamaOsFan
Hard to argue. There will be a surprise team along the way.
Surprise team
ChrisP
Word on the radio in OKC is that OU has a REALLY good offense. I think you're picks look pretty good. Clemson has the easiest path to the playoffs, IMO.
5 hours ago, ChrisP said:
See I'd say OU does.
OU out recruits everybody but Texas in the Big XII. I'm obviously banking on Texas getting it together this year, but if they are still a year away, OU's recruiting classes dwarf everybody else's on their schedule.
Talent is how you overcome those bad games. Talent is how you overcome the bad luck games. It gives you a certain amount of slack. It allows Alabama to get outplayed by Miss. State last year, and still win.
Nobody else in the country has the advantage that OU has in the Big XII.
Well I was going to pick Ohio state to win it all. Urban Meyer will be gone in the next few days. So there goes that pick.
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Can't disagree with too much in the original post.
Wonder if Penn State can give the Buckeyes a run for their money in their division of the Big 10. They get OSU at home.
On 8/6/2018 at 5:45 PM, SteveA said:
Penn State has very good front end talent. Starters, and some of the two deep. But you saw it last year in the Ohio State game. Ohio State just sent waves of talent at them. And Penn State buckled as the game went on because they didn't have the roster to go blow for blow over an entire game.
Franklin is just owning the entire Mid-Atlantic in the recruiting world, and will have them as an elite team in the future. But I don't think they have the roster yet. Give them one more recruiting class.
I can't believe Maryland beat Texas again!!! I thought this was going to be The longhorns break out year.
VT's lost to ODU is the kind of loss that just kills a staff. Year 3, trying to build recruiting momentum, and you lose to Old Dominion. For a staff that wasn't exactly known for being great salesmen on the recruiting trail, that's just brutal.
22 hours ago, Reboulet'sStache said:
And followed it up this morning by kicking one of our few excellent veteran defensive players off the team for some undisclosed act. (Notably it's the 3rd high performing player that Fuente has kicked off the team for academics or other non-specified violations... and all 3 were Beamer recruits). He obviously is trying to send some kind of message about what type of player he wants.
Texas kinda came through for me this past weekend.
Can't believe Michigan when down yet again.
foxfield
ofan239
O's re-sign Eshelman
I don't think that is a problem. 2B/SS/3B are black holes. Bunch of young pitchers that have to learn on the job and if that doesn't work Mancini, Cobb and Sanchez are prime candidates to be traded at the deadline. Elias knows how to get high draft choices.


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A Clemency Expert on Why Trump's Pardon of Arpaio Is Both Legal and Troubling
The presidential pardon power is limited only by shame and politics, one expert says, and Trump is beholden to neither.
Kate Wheeling
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is surrounded by protesters and members of the media at the site of the Republican National Convention on July 19th, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.
(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Joe Arpaio, the infamous former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County who last week became the first person to be pardoned by President Donald Trump, is now asking the federal judge who found him in criminal contempt of the court to vacate his conviction.
Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt after failing to obey a 2011 court order to stop detaining individuals he suspected had immigrated to the country illegally. He faced up to six months in jail, and was set to be sentenced on October 5th. (Arpaio was a controversial figure long before that. As the Phoenix News Times laid out on Twitter last week, he has a long history of allegedly violating basic human rights.)
Defending his decision to pardon Arpaio—a move that's drawn backlash from even his own party—Trump pointed to several controversial pardons made by his predecessors, and claimed that Arpaio was no worse. "Sheriff Joe is a patriot," Trump said on Monday. "Sheriff Joe loves our country. Sheriff Joe protected our borders. And Sheriff Joe was very unfairly treated by the Obama administration."
While everyone agrees it was a lawful use of the presidential pardon power, it was also unusual on many levels. For one thing, Arpaio hadn't even officially applied for clemency with the Department of Justice (DOJ). Arpaio also hasn't expressed guilt or remorse—despite the fact that the DOJ explicitly states in its instructions for clemency applicants that they "should be genuinely desirous of forgiveness rather than vindication."
Arpaio hadn't yet exhausted all of his appeals for his conviction. Indeed, one appeal still pending before the United States Supreme Court when Trump issued the pardon objected to the federal district judge's decision to reject Arpaio's request for a jury trial. But Trump's pardon makes his case moot and essentially resolved in the eyes of the law, which means that no court will hear Arpaio's challenges to his conviction and he is left with no legal recourse to try to get his conviction overturned.
Pacific Standard spoke with Mark Osler, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and a clemency expert, about Arpaio's unusual situation, and what his pardon means for the future of this presidential power.
Is it common for those who receive pardons to seek to have their convictions overturned?
No, not at all. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard of that before, in part because the pardon itself, unlike a commutation, lifts off the burden of the conviction in most instances in the first place. For example, if you've received a pardon, limitations on being licensed that apply to felons usually no longer apply. Your rights are restored: You can have a gun, you can vote. So there's no reason to do it. Most of them have admitted their acts, and that was part of them getting the pardon.
Everyone agrees that the president's decision to pardon Arpaio was within his power as commander-in-chief, but many legal experts are still concerned. Why is that?
It destroys the spirit of what the constitution intends clemency to be. As commander-in-chief, the president has the ability to do some terrible things. If the president was to use the commander-in-chief power to support his own personal ends rather than those of the country, that would be a violation of the intent of giving him that power.
Mark Osler.
(Photo: University of St. Thomas)
You've written that, historically, "the powerful forces of politics and shame" have effectively served as checks and balances to presidential pardon power. Why don't these forces constrain Trump as well?
He seems to not have a sense of shame the way other do. He also seems to defy the normal rules of politics, given that that's what normally constrains the pardon power and steers it away from abuse—we don't see that applying here. That takes us to a new place. Trump himself has pointed to previous controversial uses of the pardon power: Marc Rich, for example. Yeah, Marc Rich was a terrible mistake by Bill Clinton. Scooter Libby was a real mistake by George Bush, but this goes beyond that in some important ways. With these prior bad pardons, the president didn't embrace the crime. The president showed favoritism to a friend or someone who was a supporter, but didn't go that next step of saying, "Not only do I believe in this person, but I believe in what he did." That's a deeper threat to the rule of law.
In that it undermines the authority of the judicial branch?
There's the general sense that he's undermining a court order. But in a more specific sense, by granting a pardon to someone who is facing sentencing on contempt, he's lifting off the only tool, the only hammer, that a court has to enforce their decisions. That threatens to really upset the balance of power. There's a way in which this is as much about Michael Flynn as it is about Joe Arpaio. Because what happens when Michael Flynn is given a pardon and then is called to testify before a grand jury? Well maybe he just won't show up. All a court can do in that instance is to hold him in contempt. We know now that this president is willing to pardon someone who is facing that sanction. What we have to fear now with people involved in the Russia investigation isn't just a pardon but a double pardon: one for the underlying offense and one for being held in contempt, if they are called to testify.
Is there any legal recourse to reign in the presidents use of the pardon power, to stop him from doing something like this?
There's only one, and that's impeachment.
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Kate Wheeling is a staff writer at Pacific Standard, where she specializes in criminal justice and the environment.
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Cues for different diagnostic patterns of interpersonal violence in a psychiatric sample: an observational study
Dalila Talevi1,
Alberto Collazzoni1,
Alessandro Rossi1,
Paolo Stratta2,
Monica Mazza1,
Francesca Pacitti1,
Manuela Costa1,
Claudio Crescini1 &
Rodolfo Rossi3
Interpersonal violence has increased as a health concern, especially in psychiatry practice, over the last decades. Nevertheless, most patients with stable mental disorders do not present an increased risk of violence, and mental disorder is not a necessary or sufficient cause of violent behaviours. People with mental disorders endorse more often a number of risk factors for violence that could confound this association, such as young age and male gender. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of age, gender, and diagnosis on reported levels of interpersonal violence in a sample of people with severe mental illness.
The sample was composed of 160 inpatients: 73 with a psychosis within the schizophrenia spectrum, 53 with a mood disorder and 34 with a personality disorder. All patients enrolled in the study were assessed for experiences of victimization and perpetration of interpersonal violence using the Karolinska Interpersonal Violence Scale interview. Demographic variables were also collected.
Both violence perpetration and victimization negatively correlated with age. Compared to males, females were exposed to higher degree of victimization in childhood and adulthood, whereas males were more involved in the perpetration of violence in childhood. Personality disorders were associated with higher levels of interpersonal violence, both perpetration and victimization; an interaction effect of gender and diagnosis was also observed for violence perpetration in adulthood. Distinct patterns of interpersonal violence did emerge for the diagnostic groups with mood disorder showing a victimization pattern, personality disorders a perpetration pattern and psychoses less defined patterns.
The main finding is that psychotic disorders, mood disorders and personality disorders have different patterns of violent experiences interacting with age and gender. This study offers a better understanding of how gender and age could affect violent behaviours. Moreover, study findings may increase the comprehension of the reason why some mental disorders, compared to others, are more associated with the risk of victimization or perpetration of violence. These patterns could have pathophysiological or pathoplastic meaning addressing clinical and diagnostic trajectories and they could interact with other intervening risk factors.
Interpersonal violence (IV) has become a major public health issue over the last decades [1], being a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide [2, 3]. IV has increased as a health concern especially in psychiatry practice [4]. IV encompasses two main components: expression (i.e., perpetration) of and exposure (i.e., victimization) to violence. It's important to distinguish victimization and perpetration experiences given that the two types of violence are associated with different risk factors, health consequences and management [5].
Most patients with stable mental disorders do not present an increased risk of violent behaviour [6] and they are more likely to be victims than perpetrators [7,8,9]. However, schizophrenia, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders and substance use disorders are related to a high occurrence of violent behaviours especially when active symptoms or a relapse are present [6, 8, 10,11,12,13]. A broad body of research focused on the detection of risk factors for violence perpetration related to psychiatric morbidity. Most epidemiological and clinical studies support the notion that mental disorders provide a modest contribution to violence risk among adults [11, 14, 15], concluding that a mental disorder is not a necessary or sufficient cause of violent behaviours [7], nor an independent predictor [16]. Patients who more frequently reported violent experiences showed other factors associated with violence, such as historical, dispositional, and contextual ones [6, 14, 16].
Among demographic variables associated with violence, age and gender have received large attention so far [2, 11, 17]. Literature consistently reports that younger age is associated with high levels of both perpetration and victimization in community samples as well as clinical and forensic populations [2, 7, 9, 11, 12, 16,17,18,19,20]. The role of gender in IV is largely debated and controversial, with both evidence supporting gender imbalance in violence perpetration (i.e., males > females, [6, 7, 11, 16]; females > males, [12]), as well as studies reporting similar rates in males and females [21,22,23,24]. The gender pattern of victimization is more consistent, with women being overly victimized compared to men [8, 9, 12, 21, 24,25,26,27,28]. Globally, evidence suggests that men represent the majority of perpetrators and women the majority of victims [29].
Aims and hypotheses
Suffering from a severe mental illness (SMI) might increase the probability of experiencing violence; however, people with SMI endorse more often a number of risk factors for violence that could confound this association.
The goal of this study is to investigate how the diagnosis of a SMI interact with age and gender in the context of violent experiences. We aimed to detect any diagnosis-life stages and diagnosis-gender pattern associated with violence perpetration and victimization. The Karolinska Interpersonal Violence Scale (KIVS) was used as it measures expression of and exposure to violence, consistent with a victimization and a perpetration pattern of interpersonal violence, respectively. Our hypothesis is that different victimization/perpetration patterns exist for psychoses within the schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders (SSOPD), mood disorders and personality disorders when combining diagnosis with age and with gender.
This study had a cross-sectional observational design. Data were collected at the psychiatric unit of the L'Aquila San Salvatore Hospital, Italy, in collaboration with the Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences of University (DISCAB) from December 2016 to March 2018. All the procedures and the research project were approved by the local ethics committee.
Participants and procedures
Among 230 consecutively admitted patients who were eligible for the study, 164 agreed to participate (71.3% of eligible patients); 66 (28.7% of eligible patients) refused to participate for many reasons. Our final sample was of 160 patients (69.6% of eligible patients) hospitalized for a SMI (i.e., mood disorders, SSOPD, and personality disorders) index episode. Four patients showed more than 5% of missing data and were therefore not involved in statistical computations.
The primary psychiatric diagnosis was established by senior psychiatrists (AR, FP), according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition [30] criteria. Participants were appropriately informed of the possibility of being recruited into the study through clinical interview and information materials posted on the bulletin boards of the ward. Each patient gave written informed consent prior to inclusion. Subjects who provided consent were interviewed for socio-demographic characteristics and evaluated for assessing violence perpetration and victimization experiences. Evaluations were performed when patients achieved remission, in order to minimize bias due to variations of clinical conditions. Exclusion criteria were: a) age > 65 years, b) language barriers, c) impaired consciousness, d) severe aphasia, and e) intellectual disability or other cognitive deficits.
Assessment tool for interpersonal violence
Violence victimization and perpetration were assessed using the KIVS. KIVS is composed of four rating scales assessing exposure to violence ("victim of violence" subscales) and expressed violence behaviour ("used violence" subscales) in childhood (between 6 and 14 years of age) and adulthood (from 15 years upwards). The steps of the KIVS are defined by short statements about concrete examples of violent episodes of increasing severity and frequency that could have occurred throughout the respondent's lifetime. The ratings (0–5 for each subscale, in total maximum of 20) are based on a semi-structured interview performed by trained clinicians. KIVS is specific for IV and distinguished aggressive acts from thoughts. It was validated against several questionnaires measuring aggression and acts of violence and has good psychometric properties [31]. Moreover, it allows for use of composite scores of its subscales [32]. It has been used in several suicide research studies [19, 33,34,35,36] and in observational studies within clinical samples [32, 37,38,39,40]. In the current study, we used the four subscales separately as well as the composite scores of lifetime (from childhood to adulthood) expressed violence and exposure to violence ("lifetime expressed violent behaviour" composite score and "lifetime exposure to violence" composite score). Upon completion of a back-translation process, the Italian version was administered after authorization by original authors [41].
Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS®, version 24, IBM, U.S.A.). Mean ± SD, and frequencies were calculated for descriptive analysis. Diagnostic differences in violence experiences were examined using a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni's post hoc test among the three diagnostic groups.
In order to investigate gender differences on levels of violence, an independent-samples t-test was calculated for all the KIVS subscales. t-test was initially performed on the whole sample, and subsequently it was repeated stratifying the sample by diagnosis and gender.
Bivariate Pearson correlations were calculated between age and the composite KIVS scores of lifetime expressed violence and exposure to violence.
Two-way ANOVAs were conducted to test the diagnosis-gender pattern of perpetration and victimization.
Finally, to test the diagnosis-life stages pattern, bivariate Pearson correlations was calculated between the four KIVS subscales.
The sample was composed of 86 male patients (53.80%) and 74 (46.30%) female patients, with a mean age of 41.15 ± 12.60 years. About 90% of the participants were of Italian nationality and almost 99% were Caucasians. Most of them belonged to the lower class, had a medium level of education (secondary or high school, 76.20%), were single (60.60%) and unemployed (48.80%). Seventy-three subjects were diagnosed as affected by SSOPD (45.6%), 53 by mood disorders (33.1%), and 34 by personality disorders (21.3%; Table 1).
Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the sample (N = 160)
The KIVS mean scores in the total sample were: Total score = 4.91 ± 3.57; Used violence as a child subscale = 0.48 ± 0.84; Used violence as an adult subscale = 1.03 ± 1.28; Victim of violence in childhood subscale = 1.81 ± 1.59; Victim of violence in adulthood subscale = 1.61 ± 1.47.
Incidentally, even though it was not a primary aim of the study, KIVS differences between the clinical sample and a matched control group (n = 160) was calculated. The control group showed lower scores for all the KIVS subscales (Total score = 1.16 ± 0.80; Used violence as a child subscale = 0.22 ± 0.63; Used violence as an adult subscale = 0.12 ± 0.50; Victim of violence in childhood subscale = 0.44 ± 0.32; Victim of violence in adulthood subscale = 0.37 ± 0.26). All these differences were significant (two-tailed independent t-test at the 5% level, p < .001). The same results were confirmed in an expanded sample [41].
Diagnostic, age and gender differences
The personality disorders group had higher Used violence as an adult [F (2, 157) = 3,64, p = .03], Victim of violence in adulthood [F (2, 157) = 5.05, p = .01], and KIVS total score [F (2, 157) = 4,96, p = .01] values than the patients with mood disorders. No other significant differences were found between the groups (Table 2).
Table 2 One-way ANOVA analysis evaluating the differences on KIVS subscales and total score in the three diagnostic groups (Mean + SD)
In the total sample, violence (KIVS total score) negatively correlated with age (r = −.33), both victimization ("lifetime exposure to violence" composite score; r = −.28) and perpetration ("lifetime expressed violent behaviour" composite score; r = −.27).
Used violence as a child score is higher in males (0.64 ± 0.90) than in females (0.28 ± 0.71), [t (158) = 2.77, p = .01]. Victim of violence in childhood score is higher in females (2.08 ± 1.74) than in males (1.58 ± 1.41), [t (158) = − 1.97, p = .05] as well as Victim of violence in adulthood score (females: 1.92 ± 1.67; males: 1.35 ± 1.21), [t (158) = − 2.43, p = .02]. No significant differences were found for Used violence as an adult (females: 0.89 ± 1.21; males: 1.15 ± 1.33) and KIVS total score (females: 5.16 ± 3.62; males: 4.70 ± 3.53).
Diagnosis-life stages pattern
Significant and positive correlations between the different types of violence at two life stages (i.e., childhood and adulthood) in the three diagnostic groups have been found (Fig. 1).
Diagnostic-life stages patterns of violence victimization and perpetration in Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, Mood and Personality Disordersa.
Note. aPearson's correlation coefficient at the .05 level of significance. KIVS = Karolinska Interpersonal Violence Scale; Uv-C = Used violence as a child; Uv-A = Used violence as an adult; Vv-C = Victim of violence in childhood; Vv-A = Victim of violence in adulthood
The Victim of violence in childhood subscale showed a significant, positive, weak correlation with the Victim of violence in adulthood subscale in SSOPD patients (r = .24). Similarly, the Victim of violence in childhood and the Victim of violence in adulthood subscales showed a significant, positive, but higher, correlation in mood disorders sample (r = .52). On the contrary, in the personality disorder sample, the Used violence as a child and the Used violence as an adult subscales showed a significant, positive correlation (r = .57).
The Used violence as a child subscale had a significant, positive, but small correlation with the Victim of violence in childhood subscale only in the SSOPD sample (r = .25). Instead, the Used violence as an adult subscale is significantly and positively correlated to the Victim of violence in adulthood subscale in SSOPD (r = .29) and mood disorder (r = .37) samples.
Diagnosis-gender pattern
The t-test, when the sample was broken down by diagnosis, showed significant gender differences for the KIVS subscales in mood and personality disorders groups, but not in SSOPD one (Fig. 2).
Diagnostic-gender patterns of violence victimization and perpetration in Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, Mood and Personality Disorders.
Note. SSOPD = Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders; M = males; F = females; M/F = distribution in males and females in each diagnostic group. Karolinska Interpersonal Violence Scale (KIVS) mean scores for diagnoses and genders were calculated. *independent samples t-test was used for testing statistically significant differences among males and females of each diagnostic group. a,b,c,d Significant differences at the .05 level. †A Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted on the influence of gender and diagnosis on level of violence measured by each subscale of the Karolinska Interpersonal Violence Scale
The two-way ANOVAs reported a statistically significant interaction between the effects of gender and diagnosis on Used violence as an adult subscale [F (2, 154) = 2.99, p = .05]. To better understand if the Used violence as an adult is different in the considered diagnoses for gender, we analyzed males and females separately. We ran a one-way ANOVA for just diagnoses on either group. The one-way ANOVA performed on Used violence as an adult subscale [F (2, 83) = 6.40, p = .03] in all of the three-diagnosis, showed that the male patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder had higher scores than the other patients. No differences were reported between the other diagnoses. Finally, no differences have been found in female group. There was not a statistically significant interaction between the effects of gender and diagnosis on Victim of violence in childhood [F (2, 154) = 2.76, p = .07], on Victim of violence in adulthood [F (2, 154), = .16, p=. 85), on Used violence as a child subscales [F (2, 154), = 1.40, p = .25], and on KIVS total score [F (2, 154), = 2.12, p = .12] (Fig. 2).
The main finding of this study is that psychotic disorders (SSOPD), mood disorders and personality disorders have different patterns of violent experiences when combined with age and gender.
Overall, in our sample, people with personality disorders showed the highest levels of both violence perpetration and victimization, reporting significant differences compared to mood disorders in adulthood. Younger age was associated with both perpetration and victimization. Females were more often victimized than males, both in childhood and adulthood, whereas males engaged more often in violent behaviours than females in early life. When we explored the episodes of violence victimization and perpetration that occurred in childhood and adulthood, a distinct diagnosis-life stages pattern did emerge for the three diagnostic groups, with mood disorders showing a strong victimization pattern, personality disorders a strong perpetration pattern and SSOPD less defined patterns. For people affected by a mood disorder, victimization in childhood is positively correlated with victimization in adulthood. Moreover, victimization was positively correlated with perpetration in adults with mood disorders, based on a medium "victimization-perpetration association pattern". This finding is in line with the evidence that victimized subjects are more likely to engage in violent events [9, 12]. On the contrary, in personality disorders, engaging in violent behaviour in childhood is positively and strongly correlated with violent acts perpetrated in adulthood. People with SSOPD showed weaker "childhood-adulthood victimization association pattern" and "victimization-perpetration association pattern" (both childhood and adulthood) than other patients (see Fig. 1).
Our findings on the diagnosis-gender pattern showed that male subjects suffering from a personality disorder had higher scores than other patients in "Used violence as an adult subscale". We could claim that in these subjects a cluster of risk factors (i.e., gender, marital status, diagnosis, substance misuse) interact with each other increasing exponentially the risk of violent behaviours.
According to a more general perspective, our findings about the gender-diagnosis interaction allows some comments. Firstly, the absence of the interaction in childhood was expectable: a psychiatric condition might not have developed or be pervasive yet at that time. Secondly, gender and diagnosis had an interaction effect only on expression of violence in adulthood, that was the only subscale not to show a gender difference, although showing differences among diagnostic groups. This finding could mean that a specific SMI in a specific gender might have a more pervasive impact on the perpetration of violence, not on victimization. These findings should be interpreted carefully given their inherent methodological shortcomings.
Males had higher scores in used violence subscales than females with the same diagnosis and in the same period of life; on the contrary, females had the highest scores on victimization subscales. This pattern did not repeat for "used violence as an adult" and "victim of violence in childhood": in the first case, females with mood disorders reported greater expression of violence than males; in the second case, female victims of violence in childhood with a mood disorder got higher scores than females with SSOPD. Moreover, males with SSOPD reported higher levels of victimization in childhood then females. Although the results are not statistically significant in most cases, they and their graphic representations provide stimulating cues. For example, mood disorders showed to have a trend of a lower involvement in both violence perpetration and victimization, in particular for males; both males and females with personality disorders showed a trend of greater involvement in the expression of and in the exposure to violence, respectively (see Fig. 2).
Overall, our findings are consistent with pre-existing literature. As regards the relation between mental disorders and violence, a recent large American population-based study confirms that personality disorders show higher odds for violence perpetration [11], compared to other mental disorders. Cluster B and paranoid personality disorders are considered the most likely linked to violent offending and aggression [42, 43], to suicidal behaviours and criminal arrest [44]. The association between personality disorders and violence perpetration is possibly linked to their intrinsic impulsiveness, substance abuse and bio-psychological mechanisms [6, 45]. As regards SSOPD, only a modest relation with violent acts has been found in several large population-based studies [46]; regarding mood disorders, some evidence suggests an increased risk of engaging in violence in particular those with bipolar disorder [47].
Our results regarding the correlation between age and violence are consistent with other researches [2, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19]. Using the KIVS, which distinguishes exposure to and expression of violence in childhood and adulthood, we demonstrated the strong, inverse correlation between age and both perpetration and victimization. Further studies are necessary to understand if the young are actually more violent than older people, or they merely tend to remember more often or disclose more freely violent episodes.
With regard to gender, the results concerning the victimization pattern are in line with previous literature reporting that females are the main victims of IV [8, 9, 12, 21, 25,26,27,28]. When broken down by diagnosis, the exposure to violence both in childhood and adulthood was more frequent in females for mood disorders only. This finding is somewhat in line with studies reporting an association between victimization and the presence of a mood disorder in females [8, 11, 27]. As regards perpetration of violence, we replicated that males are more likely than females to act aggressively in childhood [19, 31, 35, 48]. On the other hand, we did not find a significant difference for violence perpetration in adulthood between males and females, contrary to previous studies. This finding could be due to several reasons, including the small sample size. The largest epidemiological studies on this issue found that males commit acts of violence at greater rates than females [11, 14, 15, 49]; only the National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE), which investigated violent outcomes in schizophrenia patients as part of a large multisite randomized clinical trial, found an association between female, rather than male gender, and minor violence [50]. A paucity of other studies came to different conclusions: in an extensive review, Gillies & Brien [18] reported that, due to inconsistent results from literature, no clear "gender-violence perpetration" pattern could be established. Hamberger [21] conducted a "gender analysis" about intimate partner violence, finding no difference between males and females in terms of "frequency", whereas males engage in more severe violent behaviours. Lastly, Desmarais and colleagues [9], pooling data from five studies on individuals with mental disorders from the United States, found that women reported significantly higher rates of violence perpetration than men, suggesting that this finding might reflect, for women in the community, increased opportunity of being violent or the more likelihood to disclose violence-related experiences.
Taken together, these findings suggest that people with personality disorders are at greater risk for perpetuating cycles of violence perpetration, whereas people with mood disorders are more predisposed to be a victim across the life span. In another perspective, we could argue that being a victim of violence in early life plays a role in developing a mood disorder and predisposes to revictimization. Regards to SSOPD, results are more ambiguous, so no comment can be made regarding any specific pathway or pattern of violence.
Although somehow in line with previous literature [8, 10, 11, 42, 45] future research comparing diagnoses, gender and age impact, including larger size samples and using more sophisticated methodological approaches are warranted.
This study presents a number of limitations. The cross-sectional nature of the study design is a major limitation making impossible to confirm any causal association between the variables of interest. As a matter of fact, we could not sustain that suffering from a SMI represents a condition favoring experiences of violence.
A second limitation is the relatively small sample size. Furthermore, most of participants belonged to the same ethnicity and socioeconomic class, so the chance of detecting any effects due to interethnic or social differences played a meaningful role was limited.
Thirdly, the study solely based on KIVS, a clinical interview, whose ratings was not compared with other measurements, such as self-report questionnaires. Higher rates in self-reported victimization and perpetration of violence have been shown in comparison to clinical interview [31], so, in this study, the participants' ratings could depend on their openness to disclose their experiences to others, not on the truth of the facts.
Moreover, we did not perform an interrater reliability analysis of this clinician-administered interview, so we cannot exclude inhomogeneity in the ratings given by various clinicians. Finally, previous researches based on KIVS failed to consider issues of ethnic diversity since the instrument was administered to Sweden and Italian populations only; therefore, the findings reported cannot be generalized. Even if gender distribution across diagnoses reflects that reported in the literature, this finding could affect results.
Furthermore, we conducted the research in an inpatients psychiatric unit, so that the findings reported cannot be generalized to other clinical or outpatient samples likely affected by less severe disorders. Circumstances related to hospital admission may have rekindled memories of past experiences of violence, above all in early life, and may have influenced the patients' report.
This study offers a better understanding of how gender and age could affect violent behaviours. Moreover, our findings may increase the comprehension of the reason why some mental disorders, compared to others, are more associated with the risk of victimization (i.e., mood disorders) or perpetration of violence (i.e., personality disorders). These patterns could have pathophysiological or pathoplastic meaning addressing clinical and diagnostic trajectories and they could interact with other intervening risk factors.
The datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are not publicly available as they contain individual-level data, but may be available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness
IV:
KIVS:
Karolinska Interpersonal Violence Scale
SMI:
Severe mental illness
SSOPD:
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This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences (DISCAB), University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Dalila Talevi, Alberto Collazzoni, Alessandro Rossi, Monica Mazza, Francesca Pacitti, Manuela Costa & Claudio Crescini
Department of Mental Health, ASL 1 Avezzano Sulmona L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Paolo Stratta
Chair of Psychiatry, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Dalila Talevi
Alberto Collazzoni
Alessandro Rossi
Monica Mazza
Francesca Pacitti
Manuela Costa
Claudio Crescini
DT made substantial contributions to study design, data acquisition, analyses, and interpretation of results; was involved in manuscript drafting and revision; gave final approval of the final version; and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work; AC: made substantial contributions to study design and interpretation of results; was involved in manuscript drafting and revision; AR: made substantial contributions to study design, analyses, and interpretation of results; was involved in manuscript drafting and revision; PS: made substantial contributions to study design, analyses, and interpretation of results; was involved in manuscript drafting and revision; MM: made substantial contributions to study design, analyses, and interpretation of results; was involved in manuscript drafting and revision; FP: made substantial contributions to study design, analyses, and interpretation of results; was involved in manuscript drafting and revision; MC: made substantial contributions to data acquisition and was involved in manuscript drafting and revision; CC: made substantial contributions to data acquisition and was involved in manuscript drafting and revision; RR: made substantial contributions to data acquisition and was involved in manuscript drafting and revision. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.
Correspondence to Dalila Talevi.
All the procedures and the research project were approved by the local ethics committee (Internal Review Board of University of L'Aquila, approval number: 38204). Written informed consent was obtained from each participant prior to inclusion.
Talevi, D., Collazzoni, A., Rossi, A. et al. Cues for different diagnostic patterns of interpersonal violence in a psychiatric sample: an observational study. BMC Psychiatry 20, 196 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-02594-0
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Category Archives: Famous People
Not Dually Noted
He was an integral part of his community—
much more notable than either you or me.
With anything that mattered, he was associated.
His social calendar was full. Its pace never abated.
As they unrolled red carpets for notables to enter,
he always made an effort to be there, front and center.
In short, he was ubiquitous—adept at being seen
in every newspaper column. In every magazine.
Yet when he slipped this mortal coil and reached the pearly gate,
standing at the back of lines became his final fate.
A shock, because the truth of it had not been very quotable:
In heaven, every denizen is considered notable!
The prompt words today were anything, integral and effort.
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/02/02/fowc-with-fandango-anything/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/integral/
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/rdp-saturday-effort/
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John Wayne and I
When the Union Pacific Railroad was finally completed on May 10,1869, it was a cause for great celebration. A very good source describing the somewhat hilarious ceremony may be found here, but a segment from that source follows as a background for my own story:
A railroad linking America's east and west coasts had been a dream almost since the steam locomotive made its first appearance in the early 1830s. The need for such a link was dramatized by the discovery of gold in California in 1848 that brought thousands to the West Coast. At that time only two routes to the West were available: by wagon across the plains or by ship around South America. Traveling either of these could take four months or more to complete.
Although everyone thought a transcontinental railroad was a good idea, deep disagreement arose over its path. The Northern states favored a northern route while the Southern states pushed for a southern route. This log jam was broken in 1861 with the secession of the Southern states from the Union that allowed Congress to select a route running through Nebraska to California.
Construction of the railroad presented a daunting task requiring the laying of over 2000 miles of track that stretched through some the most forbidding landscape on the continent. Tunnels would have to be blasted out of the mountains, rivers bridged and wilderness tamed. Two railroad companies took up the challenge. The Union Pacific began laying track from Omaha to the west while the Central Pacific headed east from Sacramento.
Progress was slow initially, but the pace quickened with the end of the Civil War. Finally the two sets of railroad tracks were joined and the continent united with elaborate ceremony at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869. The impact was immediate and dramatic. Travel time between America's east and west coasts was reduced from months to less than a week.
The ceremony at Promontory culminated with Governor Stanford of California (representing the Central Pacific Railroad) and Thomas Durant (president of the Union Pacific Railroad) taking turns pounding a Golden Spike into the final tie that united the railroad's east and west sections. As the spike was struck, telegraph signals simultaneously alerted San Francisco and New York City, igniting a celebratory cacophony of tolling bells and cannon fire in each city.
"It was a very hilarious occasion; everybody had all they wanted to drink…"
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/goldenspike.htm
It will probably come as no surprise that in 1969 it was decided to have a huge ceremony honoring the 100th anniversary of the "Wedding of the Rails" in Utah. To that end, two trains set out—one from the easternmost point of the track and the other from the westernmost point. These trains were destined to meet at the original point of their joining, but since they were filled with dignitaries, they made numerous stops along the way with celebrations at each point where they stopped.
In 1969, I was attending university in Laramie, Wyoming. It was announced that John Wayne and Glen Campbell would be on one of the trains and that they would do a whistle stop where they would both say a few words before continuing on to the ceremony. Now it just so happened that this event coincided with Sigma Chi Derby Days—an annual event that consisted of a number of challenges whereby campus groups could assemble points. What the prize was I can't remember, but I do remember that one of the contests was to gain the signature of the most famous person, and I happened to know that John Wayne himself had been a Sigma Chi. If I could somehow gain his signature, we would have it made in the shade for that particular challenge.
And so on the prescribed day, we were off, fully laden, with five of us filling the seats of my little red Ford Galaxy. How we would get close enough to the train to gain the autograph, I did not know, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
There was, as may be expected, a huge crowd at the Laramie train station, and we waited in anticipation for the train. Finally, it came up, sounding its whistle, flags waving. Several men came out to a small stage that had been constructed just in front of the train. Finally, Glen Campbell came out, but no John Wayne. We were puzzled when the speeches started without him. What could have happened to John Wayne? Finally, I was hit with one of those instant inspirations often depicted by a light bulb going off over someone's head in cartoon bubbles.
"I bet he got off the train to fly back to California!" No one disagreed and it was my car, so off we sped to the airport, which was several miles outside of town. We drove well over the speed limit down the two-lane nearly carless road. As we approached the airport, we could see no larger planes loading, but there was one smaller private plane. We went speeding up to the airport. "I'll go see what's going on with that small plane," I told my friends, springing from the door almost as soon as the car had come to a screeching halt. I went running out onto the field—not hard to do in a small airport in those years before airport security—and ran smack dab into a man who was walking toward the plane from the opposite direction. "Well, whoa, there, little lady. Where ya goin?" said the brick wall I'd just run into.
"I'm trying to find John Wayne. Do you know if he might be in that plane?" I asked.
"Nope, I'm pretty sure he's not," said the man, "because he's standing right here!"
I looked up—way up—and sure enough. There he was with his hands still on my forearms where he had caught me just before I ran into him broadside!
Yes. It was a surreal experience. And it was even more surreal when I explained about the points and he said, "Well, would it give ya more points if instead of delivering my autograph you could deliver me?" I said it sure would, and we had reached my car and my somewhat astonished friends had piled four in the back for him to climb into the front seat with me when a harried looking man came running out from the landing field shouting, "John, John! What are you doing?"
Long story short, John Wayne did not come back to campus with us. His manager managed to persuade him it was not in his best interests given that something in California was important enough to warrant his immediate return. But, I did get his signature and no, I did not turn it in for Sigma Chi Derby Days. To this day, it resides in a square of a memory box—one of the kind popular in the sixties and seventies that is made out of an old newspaper print box—and as proof, I include a picture below.
And yes, of course John Wayne was three sheets to the wind, for in keeping with the original rail-joining ceremony, "It was a very hilarious occasion; everybody had all they wanted to drink…"
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/whoa/
For another great story about how Garry Armstrong met John Wayne, go here: http://teepee12.com/2016/01/08/the-duke-and-garry-a-pilgrims-tale-garry-armstrong/
The Prompt: What's the most surreal experience you've ever had?
My earlier post wouldn't pingback to the Daily Prompt site, so I had to repost. Here are comments from that earlier post:
lifelessons
grieflessons.wordpress.com
jubob2@hotmail.com
Submitted on 2015/03/21 at 11:26 AM | In reply to Anton Wills-Eve.
This seems to be a day for synchronicities. Did you read Mark Aldrich's piece? Today is also my best friend's birthday and I need to call her as well. Your mentioning your birthday reminded me of hers, so the chain goes on. Thanks for your kind words, Anton.
Mark Aldrich
thegadabouttown.wordpress.com
markaldrich68@hotmail.com
Submitted on 2015/03/21 at 11:18 AM
I wonder why that did not ping properly.
That is a treasure of a story.
Anton Wills-Eve
antonwillseve.com
willseve@aol.com
Judy you should have been a journalist! One of the best and most interesting posts I've ever read.Well done, but tell me, how did you know May 10 was my birthday? Seriously, it is. Anton. 🙂
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Q: Complex check-methods with boost.test I want to test different constructors of a string class. Therefore I wrote myself a test method that checks a couple standard things:
void checkStringStandards(String& s, size_t length, const char* text){
    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(s.length(), length);
    ...
}

Then I added a test method
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(String_construct){
    String s1;
    checkStringStandards(s1, 0, "");

    String s2("normal char");
    checkStringStandards(s2, 11, "normal char");
}

The problem is, that when it fails, I only get the line- and file information from within checkStringStandards ! I can't know by the output whether the first or the second call caused this.
What's the common fix for that?
Cheers!

A: The solution to this problem is to write a custom predicate that performs the checks and use BOOST_REQUIRE(custom_predicate(args)) in the different test cases.  A custom predicate can take any arguments you want and returns boost::test_tools::predicate_result, a type that is compatible with the assertion macros in Boost.Test into which you can build up a detailed diagnostic message during failure.
To use your example:
using namespace boost::test_tools;
predicate_result checkStringStandards(String& s, size_t length, const char* text) {
    predicate_result result{true};
    if (s.length() != length) {
        result = false;
        result.message() << "\nString " << s
            << " differs in length; expected: "
            << length << ", actual: " << s.length();
    }
    ...
    return result;
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(String_construct){
    String s1;
    BOOST_REQUIRE(checkStringStandards(s1, 0, ""));

    String s2("normal char");
    BOOST_REQUIRE(checkStringStandards(s2, 11, "normal char"));
}

The curious \n at the beginning of the message is so that when the diagnostic is printed, the text with "String ... differs in length" will be emitted on it's own line.  If the predicate fails, it bubbles its failure up to BOOST_REQUIRE which will trigger the test failure and report the failure at the line invoking BOOST_REQUIRE instead of inside your custom predicate.
There is another yuckier alternative that also achieves the same result by making your custom assertions as gigantic megamacros, but I find that so horrid I'm not even going to show an example of how to do it :).

A: there is no common fix for that. these BOOST_CHECK_... macros exist by intention to avoid function calls where the line number gets lost (unless explicitely passed as param).
you can get round this problem by looping through the parameter set inside your test case.

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Road test: 2011 BMW 335is
Preview: 2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost
Gallery: 2011 BMW 335is
by Derek McNaughton	 | November 18, 2010
2011 BMW 335is.
Derek McNaughton, Postmedia News
Boy, was I wrong. Lighting the engine on the 2011 BMW 335is, I could have sworn the car sounded like it had an exhaust leak. The sound was lumpy — more like cold porridge than dark chocolate — nothing like the richness of a Ford Mustang GT.
After adjusting the mirrors, seat and steering wheel and letting the twin turbos of the in-line 3.0-litre six-cylinder engine warm a little, I eased out to the highway ramp with my usual vigour. The car felt immediately firm, precise, exact. Exiting carefully, I goosed the gas as soon as the ramp was straight and the traffic clear.
Oh. My. Gosh. What I heard from those dual exhaust pipes made me "woo hoo!" with the excitement of a nine-year-old receiving his first iPhone. The 335is let out a serious, high-pitched wail that sounded like it was qualifying for the 24 Hours of Daytona.
Before I could look down to see how fast I was going, cars and trucks were being overtaken at a frantic rate. I was too preoccupied snaking my way around them to notice the car was still accelerating despite what I thought was a steady foot. When I did glance down, the speedometer was climbing past 140 kilometres an hour, requiring a quick application of the car's big, chewy brakes.
What the heck? Where did all that urgency come from? How did a mostly standard-looking 3 Series become so delightfully quick and come to sound so menacing?
Therein, perhaps, is some of the rationale behind the 335is, a car that at first blush looks not much meaner than a regular 3 Series with the upgraded M package. You could say the "s" denotes the sleeping giant within a regular 3 Series, but it really means the car falls squarely between a regular 335i and the track-mastering M3.
So what do you get for the 335is's $58,800 price tag — a sticker that is $5,400 more than a stock 335 but $13,000 less than an M3?
For openers, there's 20 more horsepower and 32 pound-feet of torque over the 335's 300 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque. On the surface, those numbers might not sound like much to brag about (though there's an overboost function that shoots torque to 370 lb-ft for up to seven seconds).
Even with the overboost, that's still shy of your neighbour's new 5.0L, 412-horsepower Mustang. But the beauty of just about every BMW ever built is that these cars make do with what they have, as if their leanness is a strength.
Don't believe me? The 335is with the automatic gearbox tackles 96 km/h in 4.6 seconds, according to Car and Driver test results. The Mustang? Also 4.6 seconds to 96 km/h, according to the magazine, despite the large horsepower and torque advantage.
And, trust me, you can do almost the same beautiful burnouts in the 335is as you can with the Stang.
Like a diesel, almost all the torque is available right out of the gate, at less than 2,000 rpm. In the corners and on the track, however, the precise nature of the steering and overall feedback from the 335is makes it plenty more manageable than any pony car. Like some Porsches, this BMW is a car that you get to know very quickly, such is the way it communicates.
Despite being a die-hard manual transmission fan, I have to admit BMW's optional seven-speed double-clutch automatic had me second-guessing whether manuals could indeed some day become extinct. It's as if the auto-equipped 335is — the only non-M car to receive this gung-ho gearbox — is out to discredit manual transmissions everywhere since it flips gears with the near instantaneous alacrity of a Glock 19 pistol.
Unless you are an angry Paul Tracy, there is simply no way you can shift faster in a manual-equipped 335is. In normal mode, the automatic can be frustrating with early upshifts in the name of fuel economy, but hit the sport button just aft of the shifter and throttle response tightens and the rpm are held longer, staying put to almost the exact point where you would shift in the heat of competition.
A full manual-auto mode further enhances control with shifts that are bang-bang fast either through the main shifter or paddles behind the wheel. It's genuinely delightful.
Out on the street, it's almost hard to tell this special 3 Series is anything unique, which may be just the way BMW customers like it since you can park what is essentially a club racer in the driveway and nobody will be the wiser. Fuel economy of 12.4 litres per 100 kilometres in the city and 8.4 L/100 km on the highway is nothing to sneeze at either.
Sure, some might prefer louder badging or something extra to express the fact you're not driving a garden-variety BMW, but understatement has always been more powerful than overstatement, and if you look hard enough, there's enough to give the car away, especially to BMW faithful. First, there's a front fascia absent of fog lights in the coupe and a much more aggressive intake to capture more air that filters through a larger radiator. Gloss black paint on the grille, mirrors and window trim are the most subtle cues; in the rear, chrome exhaust tips poke out from a functional rear diffuser, and the car rides on smoked grey 18-inch split five-spokes. The 335is also comes standard with BMW's M sport package, which brings ultra-supportive sport seats and other interior niceties, but, more importantly, it drops the ride height and adds stiffer springs and shocks.
But that's it. There's no monster spoiler, flashy graphics, supersized wheels or tricked-out runways of LED lamps. Just a simple, honest-to-goodness sports coupe with some of the best handling, braking and steering feel in the business.
Most people looking at a 335is will surmise the car is just another BMW in the six-generation 3 Series. They will be wrong.
Vehicle type: Rear-wheel drive sports coupe
Engine: Twin-turbocharged 3.0L DOHC in-line six-cylinder
Power: 320 bhp @ 5,900 rpm; 370 lb-ft @ 1,500 rpm
Transmission: Seven-speed manumatic
Brakes: Four-wheel disc with ABS
Tires: P225/40R18 front, P255/35R18 rear
Price: base/as tested: $58,800/$67,450
Transport Canada fuel economy L/100 km: 12.4 city, 8.4 hwy.
Standard features: Sport exhaust with chrome pipes, electronic limited slip differential, advanced head protection front and rear, sunroof, gloss black exterior mirrors, gloss black grille, M aerodynamics package, Alcantara gear shift and brake lever (manual models), aluminum glacier silver trim, split folding rear seats, stainless steel pedals, automatic seat belt assistant, sport seats, Dakota leather, eight-speaker sound system with two subwoofers.
Options: Executive package ($3,900) includes alarm system, garage door opener, auto-dimming exterior mirrors, lumbar support, park distance control, satellite radio and upgraded stereo; voice-operated navigation ($2,000), metallic paint ($800), 7-speed double-clutch transmission (1,950).
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Doughnuts start with Brioche Dough. I used the dough from The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, but you can make a batch with whole grains from Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day.
Mix the yeast, salt, eggs, honey and melted butter with the water in a 6-quart lidded container. Add the flour and combine with a Danish Dough Whisk or 5-Quart Stand Mixer (with paddle) until a smooth dough forms. Cover, but not airtight, and allow to rest on the counter for 2 hours. It will be quite wet and can't be used until thoroughly chilled. Refrigerate and use over the next 5 days. For more detailed instructions please refer to page 301 of The New ABin5.
Vegetable Oil – 3 to 4 inches deep, use a pot that is large enough that your oil is not sitting too high in the pot.
Pull out a 1-pound piece of dough and roll it out to a 1/2-inch thick. Use a round cookie or biscuit cutter.
Allow the dough to sit for at least 20 minutes and up to 60 minutes while the oil heats up.
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Use a slotted spoon or Basket Strainer to flip the doughnuts over after about 2 minutes and then to take them out of the oil once they are golden brown on both sides. Lay them out on paper towel to allow some of the oil to drain off.
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Poor warm gravy over the potatoes.
Top with the crispy chicken, and eat immediately. Add some greens if you are feeling guilty.


Blaine County school holiday performances will take place through December.
Performances will include Hailey Elementary with kindergarten and dual-immersion students today, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m.; Thursday, Dec. 2, at 6 p.m. for grades 1-3; and Wednesday, Dec. 15, at 6 p.m. for grades 4-5, which will include bell choir and honor choir. These performances will take place at the school gymnasium.
Woodside Elementary will have performances on Monday, Dec. 6, Tuesday, Dec. 7, and Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. for grades 1-5, at the school gymnasium. All performances will include "Songs of Peace and Joy: A Musical Revue."
Hemingway Elementary will have a performance with kindergarten, second- and fourth-grade classes on Friday, Dec. 10, at 1 p.m. at the school gym. The performance will include the fourth- and fifth-grade honor choir and bell choir.
Bellevue Elementary School will have a performance at its gymnasium with first and second grades on Tuesday, Dec. 14, at 6:30 p.m. A performance by third- through fifth-graders will take place at the school gymnasium on Wednesday, Dec. 15, at 6:30 p.m.
The Wood River High School and Wood River Middle School bands will perform at the Community Campus auditorium in Hailey on Monday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. The two schools' orchestras will perform at the auditorium on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. The schools' choirs will perform at the auditorium on Monday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m.
Community School kindergarten through fifth-grade classes will perform "Snow Biz" at the Community School Theatre in Sun Valley on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m.


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The Commerce Department of ARSD College was established in the year 1964with just two teachers, Mr. R.K. Grover and Mr. A.K. Mittal. Our first batch of B. Com. (P) was introduced in 1970s, when this course was bagged by only two colleges of University of Delhi- Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College and Hans Raj College. Top rank holder was from our College. ARSD College was also the first college in the University of Delhi to start a Vocational Guidance and Training Scheme (now Placement Cell) in 1975under the 20-point program of the then Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi with Dr. R.K. Kaushik, Principal ARSD College, as the Chairman and Mr. S.K.Grover (Retd.), Commerce faculty, as the Staff Advisor.
To enable the students to explore and understand themselves by exposing them to the best of Academic and Extra-Curricular environment.
To be a department of Academic Excellence with total commitment to quality education with holistic concern for better life, environment and society.
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