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Margaret Curran's Strangly Disfunctional Memory
Galloway - Plays the Sectarian Card Once Again
We've Earned The Right To Be Free
Ian Smart, My Brother
DEREK BATEMAN ( BBC Radio Scotland): What do we make of Denis Healey admitting that when [North Sea] oil was discovered, Labour – a Labour government, ahead of a referendum, interestingly, on the constitution of Scotland – misled, deliberately misled the Scots about the value of oil?
MARGARET CURRAN MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland) : Well, Derek, I don't know anything about that, those times, I don't know the basis on which Denis Healey said that, I don't know the argument, I don't know the papers around that.
DB: But you're the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland! You're a senior Labour figure, I mean, he was a Labour chancellor.
MC: I know I'm getting on a bit, but I wasn't around in Denis Healey's days.
Oh yes she was.
Unless it was another Margaret Curran I met who was Secretary of Glasgow University Labour Club, the biggest in the UK, when Healey was Labour Chancellor in the Callaghan Government. This would have been in 1978, two years after Healey had made global front page news and labour movement noteriety after he went to the IMF for a bail out in exchange for huge public spending cuts.
Indeed not only did 20 year Margaret know who he was, but was sufficiently angry with him to be calling for his resignation. Because, difficult though it may be to imagine, Margaret was at that time was a prominent supporter of the Labour left opposition . And her, "not around" line is as credible as David Cameron claiming he was "not around" when Thatcher introduced the Poll Tax: As credible as would the current Secretary of Oxford University Conservative Association claiming in 30 years time he was "not around" when George Osbourne slashed welfare budgets.
So what is it about today's Scottish Labour Party that makes decent enough people, spout such untruths on Scotland's national radio station? Deny their own past? Be "not around?"
I think on this one it is obvious. Because Margaret well remembers that, in addition to being in the middle of an economic crisis in 1978, the Labour Party in Scotland, and grassroots activists like her in particular, were under immense political pressure from the SNP, which with 11 MPs at Westminster and opinion poll rating s touching 40% threatened to wipe Labour out whenever the next UK General Election came around. It had already near done it in the Council elections on May 1977, where for the first time in decades Labour had been swept from office in Glasgow. Or were you 'not around" for that either Margaret?
Like, me she will certainly remember spending the best part of the Spring of 1978 campaigning for Donald Dewar in the knife edge Garscadden by-election, where the SNP started as clear favorites to take Labour out in one of its west central Scotland heartland seats, a success that would have left every last one of them vulnerable. The SNP rallying cry at the time? "It's Scotland's Oil", backed up by detailed proposal on how a national oil fund in an independent Scotland could transform our country and deliver prosperity and social justice for folks in places like Garscadden and beyond. Folks like Margaret indeed.
Scottish Labour, with an able candidate in Donald Dewar, set about the nationalist claim with some gusto and effectiveness, and as a participant, I went along with this, genuinely believing the SNP claims were way over-hyped. I am sure Margaret then was little different from me in this respect.
But we now find - 36 years down the line - not only that the SNP was correct, but that the entire Labour Cabinet at the time, Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer especially, knew this but decided not to tell anyone, including Labour activists like me and Margaret.
Now I am long out the Labour Party, and have been lied to so often by Labour that I feel I am kind of immune to being shocked or outraged. But this one is so close to the bone, so central to my first experiences of serious political campaigning that it has shocked even me. "I spent all that time, all that energy, money I barely had, took all those early morning buses to Drumchapel, missed out on all these social events, that Elvis Costello concert in Edinburgh, to campaign on a lie, a lie known to the people who led that campaign?" And not just the 1978 Garscadden by-election, but the 1979 Referendum too. Our best argument was denied to us - by our own side.
But Margaret was "not around".
Yet she most certainly was. Because I do remember, even if she chooses not to. At that time Glasgow University Labour Club, with over 300 individual members, was the largest in the UK by far. It was "on the circuit". Everyone who was anyone spoke there - Tony Benn, Neil Kinnock, Michael Foot all regulars, as were all the leading lights in the Labour Party in Scotland. And Margaret, as Labour Club Secretary was their first point of contact, the facilitator. But according to her"not around". Maybe she organised it all on the internet!
One other detail I must mention before I conclude. Margaret was a leading light on campus in the "Labour Yes" campaign for the 1979 Referendum. The "Labour Yes" campaign mind, not "Yes for Scotland", the all party campaign, where those pesky "nats, liberals and commies" were also involved. But her direct university and Labour club comrade and friend, Johan Lamont was not. She was a leading light in the "Labour Vote No" campaign. You read that right: Johan Lamont, in 1979 actively campaigned against the ever so modest measure of devolution her own Labour Government offered the people of Scotland.
Go ask Johan. Or maybe she was "not around" either.
But believe me, they both were, and very much so. Key Labour student activists, earmarked as ones to watch by Helen Liddell the then Scottish Secretary of the Labour Party, situated in Keir Hardie House just 5 minutes walk away from Glasgow University. And Margaret and Johan, even in these days were on relaxed first name speaking terms with Donald Dewar, John Reid, Brian Wilson, Robin Cook, John Smith, George Foulkes, Bruce Milan......the list goes on. "Not around?" They were part of the show.
Which comes back to my initial question. Why is Margaret denying this?
Simple to answer: Because she needs to. Without that denial, her credibility and the credibility of her entire generation that is now running the Labour Party in Scotland is shot. They were mugged. We were mugged - because I was part of it too. Scotland was mugged. Poor working class people in Garscadden were mugged.
Some folks learn from history.
Others deny it. Repeat it.
One is the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
Alan Smart. Glasgow Univesity Labour Club, 1976-82. Chairperson Glasgow University Labour Club, 1980-81, Chairperson of Scottish Organisation of Labour Students, 1981-82. President NUS Scotland 1984-86, (elected on Labour Student ticket)
Margaret Curran: Glasgow University Labour Club, 1975-80. Secretary Glasgow University Labour Club. 1978-79. Chairperson Scottish Organisation of Labour Students 1979-80)
For Margaret (That history degree she got don't seem too have done her much good) :
Denis Healey. Chancellor of The Exchequer, 1974-79. Deputy Leader of the Labour Party 1980-83.
Here in full is what Dennis Healey told Holyrood Magazine in May 2013:
Footnote: Many have commented that, with the exception of the bold Derek Batemen on his BBC Radio Scotland programme, and unlike the rest of the media, including STV, BBC Scotland's coverage of this major admission by arguably the most important Labour politician of the late 1970s early 80s period has been near non existent, especially on TV. There may be many explanations for this. Here is a possible one:
John Boothman, Present Head of News and Current Affairs, BBC Scotland: Chairperson of Strathclyde University Labour Club 1979, Chairperson Scottish Organisation of Labour Students 1980-81. Chairperson of the National (UK) Organisation of Labour Students 1981-2. Around at the time? For sure.
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"I'll tell you what would happen when an independent Scotland proved to be a chimera. Scots would turn inwards, turn on the English and turn on each other. First they would come for the 'unionists' as they describe people like me. We would become a 'fifth column'. Soon other scapegoats would have to be found. Catholic schools, judging by the cyber-nats-speak, would have to succumb. Then it might be the immigrants, brown as well as white who would be 'taking our jobs', 'our houses', 'marrying our women' and the rest. We would become an embittered people, the very opposite of the Scottish internationalist we have been for so long" George Galloway, Red Molluca, 19th May, 2013
Sound familiar? The same shit spouted on Twitter by my bother Ian Smart in his disasterous Twitter foray barely a week ago. I am just waiting for Jack McConnell to directly join in: He is supportive enough to re-tweet their musings.
Because it is no co-incidence that these old chums spout the same smear. Their evidence-free and baseless assertions come from failed generation of Scottish Labour activists who, having delivered near nothing - but managing to enrich themselves in the process - will now spend their later years attacking all things nationalist. The irony is though, nationalism was a horse they themselves were happy to ride, until the good people of Scotland clocked they could do better than be led by these self-serving poseures, who only played the card to gain them some tactical leverage in their internal battles within the Labour Party. Self-determination for them always meant to be on their terms and within parameters of the British labour movement.
This more than anything else explains their later day extreme unionism, so extreme that even the Better Together campaign has all but disowned them: I do wish though Better Together would just do this in quite unequivocal terms. Tell them this is just unacceptable. Slap them down, so as the rest of us can have a sensible debate on Scotland future, uncontaminated by these sad and time-warped sectarians. How about it, Alastair?
Because as I said in my last blog about my brother, this stuff really is the gutter. The politics of Enoch Powell: Stir up a sectional fear for a cheap headline and narrow political gain, not remotely thinking through the potential implications and consequences of your spoutings.
Galloway's latest article is written under the pretext of defending Nigel Farage's right to free speech, following the over-zelous harassment of him by members of the Radical Independence Conference last week in Edinburgh. Now you can view this incident in a number of ways, and certainly I can think of better ways of combating UKIP in Scotland than confronting its leader having a quite pint in a Royal Mile pub. But Galloway don't just make that point, but rather goes into altogether murkier territory, which amounts to a smear on the entire national movement in Scotland.
We are told "cybernats" - and I presume I am one - are " the mirror image of the Faragists" But he get worse.....
"It was once said that anti-semitism was the socialism of fools. So too is the idea that Scotland broken from the rest of this small, island of English- speaking people will somehow lead to some kind of progressive beacon of hope for the world"
So a man who has spent a lifetime dodging the unsupported smear that he is himself anti-semitic, equates supporters of independence, and the left leaning ones in particular, as being little better than anti-semites. Just how low can you go George?
I am kind of aware Galloway's stock in Scotland is now about as low as Farage's - that 2% of the vote in Glasgow in the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections took some doing. But I am also aware that beyond Scotland, near universally amongst people who have never worked with him, he retains a significant cult following. So for their benefit, it might be useful to end with a simple list:
Parties in Scotland who support Scottish Independence
The Scottish National Party
The Scottish Green Party
The Scottish Socialist Party
The Socialist Workers Party
The International Socialist Group
The Scottish Republican Socialist Party
Parties in Scotland Who Oppose Scottish Independence
The Scottish Labour Party
The Scottish Liberal Democrats
The Scottish Conservative Party
The British National Party
The Scottish Defence League
The Orange Order
Figure that out..........


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Research study provides insight on school stress
Rachel Corry
College students are no strangers to stress. High levels of stress are noticeably common around midterms and finals, but this isn't the only time that students are affected. A study conducted by American Addiction Centers analyzed what college students stress about and how they cope with it.
The study surveyed 980 current students and recent graduates over the past five years to measure their college stress and coping techniques. Almost 88 percent of student respondents said their school life was stressful.
The highest stress levels were reported by education and medical majors, followed by psychology, the arts and the sciences. Top stressors also varied by major. For the sciences and business, the top stressor was studying; for engineering, the top stressor was social life issues; and for IT and technology, the top stressor was exams.
Key overall stressful factors college students reported in their lives were exams, financial issues, academic performance pressure, homework and work outside of school. What stressed out students the most was exams — a visit to Strozier Library during finals week will further attest to that.
Financial issues were close behind as the second biggest general stressor. On average, a student relying on school loans has a student loan debt of approximately $37,000 upon graduation.
Missy Pollack is the alumni coordinator at Recovery First Treatment Center and an FSU alumna. She shared how stress negatively affected her during college.
"The biggest stressors I experienced were in line with the study's findings; financial stress was huge," said Pollack. "I remember struggling to come up with enough money to make ends meet, especially since I couldn't ask my parents for help and had to work outside of school."
Like Pollack, many students may feel internal pressure to hide their financial struggles. The panic to pull everything together at the end of the semester after falling behind with a busy work schedule can be overwhelming.
According to the study, 97.8 percent of students said stress affected their mental health. Top coping mechanisms that students reported included sleeping, physical exercise, eating and consuming alcohol.
Sleeping was found to be an especially common coping technique for education majors, physical exercise for business majors, eating for medical majors and consuming alcohol for engineering and communications majors.
60 percent of students reported drinking alcohol to cope with stress. By club participation, most likely to engage in alcohol consumption as a coping mechanism were students in sororities at 72.1 percent. By academic level, seniors in a bachelor's program were most likely at 60 percent.
The study also revealed that about 26 percent of students have tried using study drugs without a prescription. Study drugs are used to increase concentration and stamina levels, and include Adderall, Focalin, Vyvanse and Ritalin.
Most likely to use study drugs as a coping mechanism for stress were students in sororities at 54.7 percent and students in business majors at 26.6 percent. Top reasons for taking study drugs included to improve academic performance, stay up to study and stay awake in class.
College is stressful at times for most all students. However, Pollack encourages students to learn how to cope with stress in healthy ways. She said that relying on substances like alcohol and study drugs to relieve stress can lead to serious long term issues like addiction.
"I know how prevalent study drugs are and how they follow you into the real world," said Pollack. "I wish college students knew how dangerous drugs are; it's not okay to take them just because other people are. Drinking and partying is mostly a learned behavior."
Drinking and drug taking behaviors do not just disappear after college, but persist throughout life and present potential addictions.
"Addiction is real and killing millennials among many others," said Pollack. "Universities need to take action and responsibility, recognizing they can't turn a blind eye to this problem."

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Turlock, CA (November 8, 2018) — Stanislaus County Fair officials have confirmed the dates for the 108th Fair in 2019.
The Stanislaus County Fair is set to run for 10-days on July 12 – 21, 2019.
"We had a very successful 2018 Fair and we are looking at different ways to bring a new and exciting fair next year to the community while keeping true to our traditions," said Matt Cranford, Chief Executive Officer for the Stanislaus County Fair.
Many new options for the 2019 Fair are being reviewed. New for 2019 are duck races and returning in 2019 will be the empowHER Lounge; Baby Care Center; live entertainment and more. The fair will also have their annual educational exhibits, along with continued efforts to provide cost-effective options for guests who attend next year's Fair, such as Free 'til 3 p.m. Sundays, Fair Savings Coupon Book, Taco Bell coupon and many more.
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MACSClinical ResourcesTools
Stigma-Reducing Language
Conversation Starters for Patients and Their Doctors
CDC released four new fact sheets to encourage patients and doctors to discuss pain management options and the potential risks of opioid medication. The four resources cover the important questions and information that patients and healthcare providers should cover when they talk about acute pain, chronic pain, prescription opioids, and reducing risk of opioid addiction.
How to talk with your patients about substance use disorders
Talking with patients about potential substance misuse can be challenging. This overview and video from AMA demonstrates how one physician approaches this conversation during her addiction consultations with patients.
The Power of Perceptions & Understanding: Changing How We Deliver Treatment & Recovery Services
This four-part webcast series from SAMHSA educates healthcare professionals about the importance of using approaches that are free of discriminatory attitudes and behaviors in treating individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and related conditions, as well as patients living their lives in recovery.
Language Guide
A list of links to guides and resources on changing the language around substance use disorder recovery and treatment.
Addiction and Substance Use Disorders: Tips for Communicating without Stigma
Words Matter - Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction
Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response
The current United States opioid overdose crisis is a complex, multifaceted, public health emergency that urgently requires the implementation of evidence-based primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive interventions. We develop a typology of the stigma related to opioid use, showing how multiple dimensions of stigma continue to fundamentally hinder the response to the crisis.
Screening Tools
Substance Use Disorder Screening & Assessment Tools Chart (NIDA)
Provides links to evidence-based screening and assessment tools and is organized by substance type, patient age, and administration method to help you find the right tool for your practice.
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
SBIRT is an approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment to people with substance use disorders and those at risk of developing these disorders.
Addressing Alcohol Use Practice Manual
This AAFP practice manual provides a systems-change approach for implementing alcohol SBI into your practice.
Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
Guidance about the effective use of drug testing in the identification, diagnosis, treatment and promotion of recovery for patients with, or at risk for, addiction.
Drug Testing Pocket Guide
Download the full ASAM Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine in journal format.
The ASAM National Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder - 2020 Focused Update
which provides the latest information on evidence-based treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) to guide clinicians in assessing, diagnosing, and treating OUD in the United States.
Best Practices and Barriers to Engaging People with Substance Use Disorders in Treatment
This study used NCQA-accredited HEDIS data, which captures at least 75 percent of health plans, to identify high performing plans on the IET measure to help assess characteristics and interventions associated with better initiation and engagement of SUD treatment by plan members
Rural Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Toolkit
This toolkit from the Rural Health Information Hub provides evidence-based examples, promising models, program best practices, and resources that can be used by your organization to implement substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.
Knoweledge Application Network (SAMHSA)
Review products used for technical assistance as well as publications and manuals for treatment protocols.
Substance Abuse Confidentiality Regulations
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding the Substance Abuse Confidentiality Regulations.
Identification of and Treatment for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care Settings
Ways in which family physicians can implement this screening recommendation and then intervene when a patient has a positive screen.
Pharmacotherapy for Alcohol Use Disorder
This PCSS module reviews and compares pharmacological treatment options for individuals with AUD, including acamprosate, disulfiram, and naltrexone (oral and long-acting intramuscular formulations
ASAM Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Management
This clinical guideline provides the latest information to provide guidance on the identification and management of alcohol withdrawal in patients with varying degrees of syndrome severity.
The NIAAA Alcohol Treatment Navigator®
Today there are more treatment choices than you may expect for your patients or clients with alcohol use disorder (AUD). The NIAAA Alcohol Treatment Navigator will help you find evidence-based care for your patients or clients.
Implementing Screening and Treatment of Unhealthy Alcohol Use During COVID-19
AHRQ is responding to the rise in unhealthy alcohol use by supporting the implementation of evidence around unhealthy alcohol use screening and treatment.
Advances in the science and treatment of alcohol use disorder
Management of Opioid Withdrawal and Overdose (PCSS)
This module describes the management of opioid withdrawal, including induction on to maintenance medication treatment, and overdose.
HHS Guide for Clinicians on the Appropriate Dosage Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Analgesics
The HHS Guide provides advice to clinicians who are contemplating or initiating a change in opioid dosage.
Before It's Too Late (BHA/MDH)
The Maryland statewide effort to bring awareness to the rapid escalation of the heroin, opioid, and fentanyl crisis in Maryland–and to mobilize all available resources for effective prevention, treatment, and recovery before it's too late.
AMA Opioid Task Force Recommendations for Physicians
Actions physicians can take to demonstrate leadership and help end the nation's opioid epidemic.
Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit (SAMHSA)
This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths.
Prevención de la Sobredosis de Opioides Manual de Instrucción (SAMHSA)
Equipa a los proveedores de atención médica, las comunidades y los gobiernos locales con materiales para desarrollar prácticas y políticas para ayudar a prevenir las sobredosis y las muertes relacionadas con los opioides.
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Practical Tools for Prescribing and Promoting Buprenorphine in Primary Care Settings
Guidance and step-by-step tactics on implementing opioid use disorder treatment using buprenorphine.
Medication Treatment for Opiod Use Disorder in the Primary Care Setting (NIDA)
Getting started: Preparing your practice and treating patients.
Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction: Pocket Guide Physicians (SAMHSA)
Condensed, downloadable guide on Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction.
MATx Mobile App for MAT Providers (SAMHSA)
This free app supports practitioners who currently provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT), as well as those who plan to do so in the future.
TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (SAMHSA)
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder for Healthcare and Addiction Professionals, Policymakers, Patients, and Families
Buprenorphine Master Class: Managing Opioid Use Disorder for the Generalist
Treating people with Opioid Use Disorder can be the most rewarding part of your practice! Get comfortable with counseling and pharmacotherapy for OUD with tips from MACS Consultant, Dr. Michael Fingerhood on the Curbsiders, a CME podcast accredited by ACP.
Buprenorphine Formulations: Clinical Best Practice Strategies Recommendations for Perioperative Management of Patients Undergoing Surgical or Interventional Pain Procedures (Pain Physician Journal)
The present investigation aims to review the literature and provide recommendations when encountering a patient on buprenorphine therapy who is scheduled for a surgical or interventional pain procedure.
Sublingual & Transmucosal Buprenorphine for OUD: Review and Update (SAMHSA)
This advisory summarizes data on the use of sublingual and transmucosal buprenorphine for the medication-assisted treatment of opioid use disorder.
Transfer from Methadone to Buprenorphine Guidance (PCSS)
Buprenorphine Home Induction App (Yale)
An informative mobile application that guides patients on how to conduct Buprenorphine induction using a series of questions that the patient is asked in the mobile application.
Patient wants to stop taking buprenorphine
Dr. Edwin Salsitz, a Providers Clinical Support System Clinical (PCSS) expert, speaks to a patient who has been on buprenorphine and has done well and now wants to taper off buprenorphine.
Stimulant Use Disorder
Treatment of Stimulant Use Disorders
This guide from SAMHSA supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to treat stimulant use disorders. It describes relevant research findings, examines best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.
CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
CDC Guide to provide recommendations for the prescribing of opioid pain medication for patients 18 and older in primary care settings.
CDC Guideline Resources: Clinical Tools
These clinical tools have been developed with the primary care provider, in mind, to help carry out the complex task of balancing pain management with the potential risks that prescription opioids pose.
Maryland State Medical Board Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
In light of the opioid epidemic, the Maryland State Board of Physicians has adopted the following guidance for Maryland physicians and physician assistants to consider when determining whether and how to prescribe opioids.
SCOPE of Pain
Find information, resources and tools about safe and competent opioid prescribing for patients with chronic pain.
SCOPE of Pain Trainer's Toolkit
Interactive Trainer's Toolkit that you can use to train all the clinicians in your facility, practice or health system on all facets of opioid prescribing.
AAFP Chronic Pain Management Toolkit
Designed to help family physicians identify gaps in practice flow, standardize evaluation and treatment of chronic pain patients, and facilitate conversations surrounding pain and treatment goals, as well as identify and mitigate risk.
Pain Management and Opioids Resources (ASAM)
Link to materials available on pain management and opioid related topics as well as materials from the Pain Management and Opioids: Balancing Risks and Benefits course.
Pain Management Fact Sheet (NIH)
This fact sheet tells the story of research discovery, current treatment status, and future expectations for the prevention and management of pain.
When to refer a patient to a pain specialist (AAPM)
Document to assist primary care providers in providing their patients the best of chronic pain care.
Advancing Racial Justice in Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
These statements are part of ASAM's effort to recognize, understand, and then counteract the adverse effects of America's historical, pervasive, and continuing systemic racism, specifically with respect to addiction prevention, early intervention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. The goal of this series is to increase structural competency among addiction medicine professionals, public health authorities, policymakers and others with societal influence or authority.
Building Health Equity & Inclusion (Addiction Technology Transfer Center)
Health equity is the right to access quality health care for all populations regardless of the individual's race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or geographical location. This includes access to prevention, treatment, and recovery services for mental and substance use disorders. These resources from ATTC help behavioral health providers ensure they are building practices and providing services that are equitable for all.
Building Health Equity & Inclusion (Prevention Technology Transfer Center)
This resource list was developed by the PTTC Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Practices Work Group, and represents a compilation of resources produced by the PTTC Network to help individuals understand the impact of culture and identity in prevention efforts.
Behavioral Health Equity (SAMHSA)
The Office of Behavioral Health Equity coordinates SAMHSA's efforts to reduce disparities in mental and/or substance use disorders across populations. Its work is organized around key strategies, including data, policy, and quality practice and workforce development.
Improving Cultural Competence
This guide from SAMHSA helps professional care providers and administrators understand the role of culture in the delivery of mental health and substance use services. It describes cultural competence and discusses racial, ethnic, and cultural considerations.
Behavioral Health Implementation Guide for the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care
The Behavioral Health Guide is a companion document to the Blueprint for Advancing and Sustaining CLAS Policy and Practice. Together these documents provide concrete, feasible implementation strategies for the health and behavioral healthcare community to improve the provision of services to all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, and other cultural characteristics.
A Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care - for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
As healthcare disparities among cultural minority groups persist in our country, culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) are increasingly recognized as an important strategy for improving quality of care to diverse populations. This e-learning program from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Think Cultural Health Program will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and awareness to best serve all patients, regardless of cultural or linguistic background.
Primary Care's role in Achieving Health Equity: A guidebook to the Health Equity Curricular Toolkit
The Health Equity Curricular Toolkit was championed by the Health Equity Team of Family Medicine for America's Health and inspired by the Starfield II Health Equity Summit. This toolkit provides a structured curricular tool to facilitate exploration of some of the most pressing questions around social determinants of health, vulnerable populations, and economics and policy. The toolkit also provides resources to promote skill-building to confront drivers of persistent and pervasive inequities.
Trauma And Resiliency: The Opioid Crisis In Communities Of Color
Promoting Health Equity for Black Patients with OUD
Culturally Responsive Recovery Support Services (BRSS TACS)
Addressing Emerging Prevention Issues: Building Strategic Partnerships to Improve Health Equity
Integrating a Trauma-Informed Approach into Substance Use Disorder Treatment (CHCS)
Racial Disparities in Accessing Evidence-Based OUD Treatment and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (FORE)
The Opioid Epidemic and COVID-19: How Social Determinants of Health Create Differential Impact (Opioid Response Network)
Racism and Black Mental Health (APA CME)
Five Trainings for Health Professionals to Integrate Racial Equity into Practice
Health Care for LGBTQIA+ People of Color (National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center)
Let's Talk: American Racism Through the Lens of COVID-19 Series (Aspen Institute)
A Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care - for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants (HHS)
Cultural Humility in PMH Nursing (APNA)
Conferences/Panels
Just Medicine: CFHA 2018 Plenary by Dayna Matthew
The problem with race-based medicine- Global scholar, University of Pennsylvania civil rights sociologist, and law professor Dorothy Roberts exposes the myths of race-based medicine.
Allegories on race and racism- Camara Jones, MD, MPH
How racism makes us sick - Sociologist David R. Williams challenges us to tackle the striking levels of early death and poor health that are due to the color of one's skin. David is the Norman Professor of Public Health at Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University.
Racial/Ethnic Groups
SAMHSA Data, Reports, and Issue Briefs
MHA Mental Health Resources for Asian American/Pacific Islander Communities
Black & African American
MHA Mental Health Resources for Black & African American Communities
Latinx/Hispanic
MHA Mental Health Resources for Latinx/Hispanic Communities
Native & Indigenous
SAMHSA Data, Reports, and Issue Briefs, Office of Tribal Affairs
MHA Mental Health Resources for Native and Indigenous Communities
Caring for Women with Opioid Use Disorder: A Toolkit for Organization Leaders and Providers
This HRSA toolkit provides resources and information to bolster care coordination services for women with opioid use disorder.
Substance Abuse Treatment: Addressing the Specific Needs of Women
This guide from SAMHSA assists providers in offering treatment to women living with substance use disorders. It reviews gender-specific research and best practices, such as common patterns of initial use and specific treatment issues and strategies.
White Paper: Opioid Use, Misuse, and Overdose in Women
Developed to serve as a starting point for a September 2016 national meeting hosted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Women's Health (OWH) to examine prevention, treatment, and recovery issues for women who misuse, have use disorders, and/or overdose on opioids.
This Clinical Guide from SAMHSA provides comprehensive, national guidance for optimal management of pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorder and their infants.
This series of four fact sheets from SAMHSA emphasizes the importance of continuing a mother's treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) throughout pregnancy.
State Options for Promoting Recovery among Pregnant and Parenting Women with Opioid or Substance Use Disorder
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) interviewed state Medicaid, behavioral health, and public health officials from Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Texas to learn about their unique interagency approaches to treating and supporting pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorder (SUD).
In-Depth Technical Assistance: Infants with Prenatal Substance Exposure
This brief summarizes the accomplishments, key findings, and conclusions that emerged from three In-Depth Technical Assistance (IDTA) Infants with Prenatal Substance Exposure (IPSE) sites.
A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals
Webinar: SBIRT with LGBT Patients: Identifying and Addressing Unhealthy Substance Use in Primary Care Settings
Additional Resources from SAMHSA
Resources on the LGBTQ+ population include national survey reports, agency and federal initiatives, and related behavioral health resources.
Substance Use Treatment for Older Adults
Older adults age 50 and over with substance use disorders need treatment services that are sensitive to age-related or generational issues.
A Day in the Life of Older Adults: Substance Use Facts
Linking Older Adults With Medication, Alcohol, and Mental Health Resources
People in the Criminal Justice System
Guidelines for Successful Transition of People with Mental or Substance Use Disorders from Jail and Prison
Provides examples of the implementation of successful strategies for transitioning people with mental or substance use disorders from institutional correctional settings into the community.
Drug Court Resources
Webinars and pocket guides for providing addiction treatment in drug court settings.
Individuals in the Criminal Justice System - ASAM eLearning Courses
Adapting Your Practice:Recommendations for the Care of Homeless Patients with Opioid Use Disorders
The purpose of this document is to educate clinicians, other direct service providers, and program administrators about optimal care for people with opioid use disorders who are homeless or marginally housed, addressing clinical and programmatic issues.
Treatment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (TIEH)
SAMHSA's Treatment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (TIEH) program expands access to mental and substance use disorders treatment for people experiencing homelessness along with a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or co-occurring disorders.
Treating Opioid Addiction in Homeless Populations: Challenges and Opportunities Providing Medication Assisted Treatment
This webinar identifies challenges to treating opioid addiction with Medication Assisted Treatment (Buprenorphine) in a health center environment, and discusses provider practices to overcome these challenges to promote access and recovery.
Strategies to Address the Intersection of the Opioid Crisis and Homelessness
This document identifies strategies that communities, providers, and policymakers can use to address the intersection of homelessness and the opioid crisis and highlights resources developed by federal and national partners to support such efforts.
People with Cognitive & Physical Disabilities
Mental and Substance Use Disorder Treatment for People With Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
This SAMHSA Advisory highlights how mental and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs can better serve people with physical and cognitive disabilities and SUDs and/or serious mental illness (SMI).
Adolescent substance use: Challenges and opportunities related to COVID-19 - Journal of Substance Abuse
What Does Adolescent Substance Use Look Like During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Examining Changes in Frequency, Social Contexts, and Pandemic-Related Predictors - Journal of Adolescent Health
As 2020 Closes, Many Questions Remain about Youth Substance Use Trends - NIDA
Buprenorphine treatment for adolescents and young adults with opioid use disorders: a narrative review - Journal of Addiction Medicine
MACS Consultant and Child / Addiction Psychiatrist, Dr. Marc Fishman, is an author
Receipt of Addiction Treatment After Opioid Overdose Among Medicaid-Enrolled Adolescents and Young Adults - JAMA Pediatrics
Suspected Nonfatal Drug-Related Overdoses Among Youth in the US: 2016–2019 - Pediatrics
Treating Youth's Substance Use Disorder Using Telehealth: Clear Benefits, New Challenges - BMC
Conceptual framework for telehealth strategies to increase family involvement in treatment and recovery for youth opioid use disorder - Journal of Marital Therapy
Facts for Families: Substance Use - CMHM
CRAFFT substance use screening tool for adolescents aged 12-21 - Boston's Children Hospital
YOUTH SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION, TREATMENT, AND RECOVERY RESOURCE GUIDE - BHA
Youth and Substances: What's a Primary Care Provider to Do?
Presenter: Marc Fishman, MD
Youth and Substances slides
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Treatment of Opioid Use Disorders in Youth
Treatment of OUD in Youth slides
Advancing Cross-Cutting Engagement and Service Strategies for People Who Use Drugs (ACCESS) Harm Reduction
A centralized platform for harm reduction resources made available by the Maryland Department of Health for local health departments and community-based organizations. Resources are provided through ACCESS with the goal of improving service engagement of people who use drugs and reducing drug-related harms in Maryland.
Harm Reduction Coalition Resources
Safe drug disposal pouches
MACS offers safe drug disposal pouches to prescribers and their practices to prevent drug misuse and ensure safe disposal of medications.
HIV/AIDS and Substance Use
Prevention and Treatment of HIV Among People Living with Substance Use and/or Mental Disorders
This guide reviews interventions for people living with substance use and mental disorders who are at risk for or living with HIV.
Primary Care Guidance for Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: 2020 Update by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
This guidance from an expert panel of the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America updates previous 2013 primary care guidelines.
AIDS Education & Training Center
Maryland education opportinities for providers from the Institute of Human Virology
HIV and Substance Use in the United States
Information and resources from the CDC.
The Connection Between Substance Use and HIV
Research report from NIDA.
Substance Use and HIV Risk
HIV Prevention: Reducing Risk from Alcohol & Drug Use from HIV.gov.
Syringe Services Programs (SSPs)
Addressing Unhealthy Alcohol Use and the HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Care Continuum in Primary Care: A Scoping Review
Supporting Parents with Substance Use
Steps you can take to decrease the impact of parental or household substance use
Information sheet from MACS Consultant, Marc Fishman, MD
Maryland Substance Exposed Newborn Tool Kit
The purpose of the toolkit is to educate the public, including, community service providers, local agencies, and health professionals, as to best practices for supporting substance exposed newborns and families impacted by substance use.
The Role of Primary Care Providers in Decreasing Impact of Parental Addiction (National Association for Children of Addiction)
Family practitioners and others can act as important advocates for appropriate community and school-based prevention approaches and in educating patients and parent, ensuring that local programs are culturally relevant and appropriate for the various communities and populations they serve.
Parental Addiction Resources for Providers (Sesame Street)
Resources to help children and families grow and heal from the impact of parental addiction.
Call us at 1-855-337-MACS to request a copy of the Parental Addiction book for your office. Supplies are limited, so call soon!
SUD and Parental Addiction Webinars for Providers
Sesame Street in Communities has developed a webinar series focused on substance use disorder and parental addiction to help providers support children and families.
Supporting Families in Child Welfare Affected by Substance Use Disorders Webinars for Providers (NCSACW)
Resources that providers and communities can use to better serve families in child welfare affected substance use disorders.
Substance Use and Suicide: A Nexus Requiring a Public Health Approach
SAMHSA's In Brief summarizes the relationship between substance use and suicide and provides state and tribal prevention professionals with information on the scope of the problem, an understanding of traditional barriers to collaboration and current programming, and ways to work together on substance misuse and suicide prevention strategies.
Risk Factors for Suicide among People with Chronic Pain
Current evidence suggests that people who experience chronic pain are at increased risk for a number of adverse health outcomes, including opioid overdose and suicide.
Screening Tools for Suicide Risk, and Mental and Substance Use Disorders
Provides links to a variety of screening tools on SAMHSA's website to identify trauma, suicide, substance use disorders, and other mental disorders.
Suicide Prevention Resource Database
An extensive, searchable resource (e.g., articles, tools, fact sheets, reports) and program database developed by SPRC and other suicide prevention organizations and experts.
Local Crisis Hotlines - Maryland Coalition of Families
Maryland's Crisis Hotline is available 24 hours/7 days a week to provide support, guidance and assistance. Call 211, press 1.
Behavioral Health Administration (BHA), Maryland Department of Health
Learn more about how Maryland is combatting the heroin and opioid crisis.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.
American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
ASAM is dedicated to increasing access and improving the quality of addiction treatment, educating physicians and the public, supporting research and prevention, and promoting the appropriate role of physicians in the care of patients with addiction.
These resources for treating OUD and chronic pain were developed for health professionals, patients, family members and significant others of patients and the general community to learn more about the evidence-based treatment of opioid use disorders and the treatment of chronic pain.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Clinician (NIAAA) Resources
Resources for clinicians, physicians, social workers, and other healthcare professionals.
National Institutes on Drug Abuse Clinician Resources (NIDA)
Science-based resources to health professionals on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction, and advances in pain management.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) - National Opioid Crisis
Help, Resources, and Information on combating the national opioid epidemic.
Opioid Cloud Library
A searchable library of curated, evidence-based resources on opioids and the opioid crisis.
Safe medication disposal
Talk to your patients about the most appropriate way to dispose of expired, unwanted and unused medications.


Researchers at the University of Minnesota's St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) recently received $400,000 to help generate clean energy for New York City. Fotis Sotiropoulos, director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, will lead a team of researchers in developing computational models for optimizing underwater turbines to help Verdant Power generate power from tidal, river and ocean currents. Projects under way include the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) project in New York City's East River.
The project is jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Minnesota's Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE), in collaboration with Verdant Power, Sandia National Labs, and private industry.
Sotiropoulos and his team will use the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory's powerful computational fluid dynamics tools for analyzing the design and enhancing the environmental compatibility of the turbine rotors, turbine system, and array levels. Turbine wakes will be analyzed in order to determine turbine-turbine and turbine-channel interactions for array optimization and feedback to the turbine design process.
Verdant is a world leader in developing free-flow turbine technologies, and the company has already installed a pilot-scale project off of Roosevelt Island a six turbine array that has powered a nearby parking garage and supermarket.
"I think that this new project, along with our recent Xcel Energy wind-power project, places SAFL and IREE in a great position to provide national research leadership in wind- and water-based renewable energy systems," said Sotiropoulos.
For more information about Professor Sotiropoulos' research at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, visit www.safl.umn.edu. For more information on the RITE project, visit www.verdantpower.com.


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Kia Sorento Overview:
2020 vs 2021: What's the Difference?
For 2021, Kia completely transformed the Sorento. It went from something similar to a minivan to a rugged vehicle that definitely fits in the SUV department. The Sorento looks much more muscular than its counterpart did, and it seems to sit taller and have a more aggressive look. 2021 is the first year in which the Sorento is available as a hybrid.
What Do the Various Trim Levels Offer?
The S is the entry-level trim for the 2021 Sorento Hybrid. It looks quite modern with its black front grille, chrome around the windows, and a rear spoiler. Its side mirrors have LED turn signals built into them, and there are more LEDs in the Daytime Running Lights and headlights.
In this base model, there is plenty of technology to appreciate. All the components that people are looking for, like a touchscreen and smartphone compatibility, are part of the standard package. This trim has two reclining seats in the third row and captain's chairs in the middle row. Those seats can be quickly slid forward or folded down to create more room.
From a safety perspective, the EX has more comprehensive protection. It has distance sensors in both the front and back to help with parking, and its forward collision avoidance system can detect the presence of cyclists in addition to pedestrians and vehicles. This system works even when the vehicle is turning.
Inside the cabin of the EX, there are wood graphics and elegant interior lighting that uses LEDs in the vanity mirrors and overhead lights. Wireless charging is very convenient to use.
On the outside of the EX, a few things have been enhanced. This trim has a smart power tailgate and panoramic sunroof, two components that can be appreciated on a regular basis.
Which Trim is Right for Me?
These two trims differ in price by only about $3,000. For that extra amount of money, a customer could get a more upscale vehicle with a panoramic sunroof, hands-free tailgate, and wireless charging, among other quality components.
However, not everyone has that extra money to spend. The S is a solid option and has many of the advanced systems people are looking for. From its capable, efficient powertrain to its comfortable and modern cabin, it really does have a lot going for it.
What Kind of Technology Does it Have?
An eight-inch touchscreen can be found in every Sorento Hybrid. It comes along with many desirable features, such as Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, Bluetooth, and SiriusXM Satellite Radio. Voice recognition adds another way to control the system, and there are also controls mounted on the steering wheel.
In recognition of the fact that groups often travel with multiple devices, Kia has put in two USB outlets in each row. This way, everyone has access to a charging port. Wireless charging is part of the EX's technology package.
How Does It Perform?
A 1.6-liter turbocharged engine is one of the mechanical components in the 2021 Kia Sorento Hybrid. It has four cylinders and is used in conjunction with an electric motor. Net horsepower is 227, and torque is 258 pound-feet. Fuel efficiency is a strength; this vehicle can achieve up to 39 miles per gallon.
All of the hybrid versions of this SUV are only available as front-wheel-drive models. Those who occasionally tow items can do so with this model. The S is rated to tow up to 2,000 pounds, and the EX is rated to tow up to 3,500 pounds.
Is It Safe and Reliable?
In recent years, Kia has worked hard on designing vehicles that people can have total confidence in. With the Sorento Hybrid, it's clear that the company paid a lot of attention to keeping people safe.
This SUV comes standard with forward collision avoidance-assist. This program has the ability to sense when the Kia is approaching other vehicles and pedestrians too quickly. The Sorento Hybrid is also able to sense when it's veering out of a lane, about to back up into cross traffic or hit an object, and likely to swipe another vehicle when changing lanes. In any of these situations, the driver will be given a warning, and the Kia will be able to take appropriate action by correcting steering or hitting the brakes.
On the higher trim of the Sorento Hybrid, there is the addition of smart cruise control. It can adjust the speed of the vehicle if the car in front is slowing down or speeding up, and it can bring the Sorento to a stop in case there is a lot of traffic congestion.
What's the Interior Like?
There's an ideal amount of room inside the cabin of a Sorento Hybrid. Leg room in the front is 41.4 inches, and in the second row, things get even better. The two passengers in the middle row get to enjoy 41.7 inches of leg room. The third row isn't as large, but it still has nearly 30 inches of leg room for the two people who may be riding in the back. The standard cargo capacity of 16 cubic feet can be expanded significantly by folding down all the rear seats.
All of the Sorento Hybrid models are nicely equipped. They have features like Smart Key entry, remote start, and a dual-zone temperature control system to make things more convenient for drivers and passengers. Regardless of what trim is selected, the seats are covered in a SynTex material. This synthetic material is soft while being durable and easy to clean. Heated front seats and a power-adjustable driver's seat are other standard features.
What are the Alternatives to this Model?
Many SUVs are similar in size to the Kia Sorento Hybrid. The Ford Explorer and Toyota Highlander are close competitors to the Kia because they are available as hybrids. The Honda Pilot and Chevy Traverse are some examples of SUVs that aren't available as hybrids but may share other things in common with the Sorento.
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This is an original, rolled, Polish movie poster from 1973 for The Godfather starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and John Cazale. Francis Ford Coppola directed the Academy Award-winning film based on the book by Mario Puzo. Tomasz Ruminski is the artist for the poster.
The A1 poster measures 22.75" x 32.5" and is in very good to excellent, unused condition with minimal edge wear from previous handling. It has never been folded.
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The Yale theologian George Lindbeck grew up in a missionary family in Loyang, China. His 17-year sojourn in this city resulted in a deep love for Chinese literature and culture. He listened in on the conversations his highly Sinicized parents had with their Chinese visitors and concluded that it was possible to be warmly Christian in spirit, and in manners be Confucian to the core.1 In the tradition of Matteo Ricci, Bishop K. T. Ting, and Chinese New Testament scholar Xinping Zhou, Professor Bin You proposes in his essay a conversation between Confucianism and Christianity in which the former makes a contribution to the latter. This is not an essay that simplistically translates concepts from one tradition to the other, nor does it contextualize Western theology for Chinese Christians. Professor Bin You works indigenously to offer insights from Confucian sages and at the same time find parallels between the two traditions. First, he points out that the dualism of Western theology contrasts sharply with the monism of the Confucian tradition. Second, both traditions emphasize the importance of reading their respective sacred texts in shaping and transforming character.
However, healing in Chinese psychology has been colonized by Western therapies that are largely secular, professional, individualistic, dualist, and scientific. With the exception of Xuefu Wang (2011) and Esther Liu (2017), little work has been done in developing Chinese perspectives on pastoral care and counseling. Hence, we underline the importance of Professor Bin You's call for a recovery of the best in ancient Confucian wisdom and an indigenized Chinese theology for an understanding of healing that affirms the unity of mind and body and that privileges the reading of ancient texts in the process of spiritual transformation. These indeed are rich cultural and spiritual resources.
The legacy of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and Descartes in terms of the separation of mind and body has had implications in the West for ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Generally, Western psychology has neglected the body in psychological healing, though the critical role of the body in healing is increasingly recognized.3 It is the dualist assumptions implicit not only in much Western psychology but also in Western theology that have been exported to China, on the assumption that this model of thinking theologically and facilitating healing was universal. But Professor Bin You seeks a corrective to these generalizations in his own Confucian and Neo-Confucian tradition.
The notion of accessing ancient wisdom for healing in the present comports well with Carl Jung's accessing archetypal themes for interpreting modern psychological maladies and structuring recovery.4 For him, however, healing is not the consequence of reading written text, but rather parsing the "text" of the collective unconscious. Few Western programs for therapists provide training or certification for bibliotherapy,5 despite the fact that the critical role of written text in the process of healing has been studied extensively and found efficacious in the treatment of depression,6 deliberate self-harm, bulimia, and insomnia.7 However, the texts recommended for reading in these studies are not, of course, the sacred texts of ancient traditions.
Harmony between heaven (Tian, 天) and humanity as a theme in all Chinese religions is integrated with the Chinese philosophy of life. Harmony, as a higher and ideal level of human status than health, has traditionally been the aim of formation. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) interpreted harmony as a balance of yin and yang (阴阳平衡), and as guidance for all diagnoses (symptoms) and treatment (herbs, massage, acupuncture, and moxibustion). The normal treatment of disorders aims for this: holistic healing for a harmonious state. Harmony within the human body—or integration of body, mind, and spirituality—has always been the focus of formation and medical treatment in Chinese daily life.
Professor Bin You articulates two kinds of relations between the traditions: monism and the importance of ancient wisdom. We wonder if the correlative notions of energy (qi) in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the Holy Spirit in Christianity might not also be critical in understanding healing. In TCM, qi, the energy of life, can be viewed as a key component in the process of integrating body, mind, and spirituality. Lee8 traces the meaning of qi through Confucian, Taoist, and Neo-Confucian texts and suggests that the psychophysical energy of qi is nondualistic, constantly creative, a changing process, liberating, harmonious, and heaven sent. In TCM, healing and qi are intimately related: "Where there is no flow there is pain; when there is no pain there is flow" (通则不 痛).9 Internal harmony between opposites (yin and yang) is related to the flow of qi.
Lee argues that the word qi is the functional equivalent of the word "Spirit" (ruach) in Christianity and has "rich root-metaphorical connections to the physical, biological, and psychic phenomena of wind, fire, water, energy, breath, life-force, consciousness, and mind" (p. 32). What is needed for a mutual fertilization of meanings is a decolonialized and deprivatized pneumatology in which the Spirit hovers back and forth between the one and the many, ideal and material, mind and body, divine and human.
1. R. Wood, "Performing the Faith: An Interview with George Lindbeck," Christian Century, November 26, 2006, 28–35.
2. X. Cai, Z. Song, and L. Liu, "Academic Overview of Wang Fengyi Xing-Li Therapy," Medicine and Philosophy: Humanity, Society and Medicine Press 28, no. 6 (2007): 73–74. 3. P. Elisha, The Conscious Body: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Psychotherapy (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2011).
4. C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (New York: Pantheon, 1961).
5. R. J. Rubin, Using Bibliotherapy: A Guide to Theory and Practice (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1978).
6. N. M. Smith, M. R. Floyd, C. Jamison, and F. Scogin, "Three-Year Follow Up of Bibliotherapy for Depression," Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 65, no. 2 (1997): 324–27.
7. G. McKenna, D. Hevey, and E. Martin, "Patients' and Providers' Perspectives on Bibliotherapy in Primary Care," Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy 17, no. 6 (2010): 497–509.
8. H. D. Lee, Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude: A Comparative Theology for the Democracy of Creation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
9. H. Hong, "The Ontological Status of Meridians," in Acupuncture: Theories and Evidence (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013).
10. "Xi stresses philosophy, social sciences for socialist development, and highlighting Chinese characteristics," Xinhua, May 17, 2016, www.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-05/17/c_135366343.htm.
Buxin Han is a professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.


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"Keep your eyes open" prospects for Saints
It's that time of the year when even as successful as the season has been for the New Orleans Saints people want to know who to keep a close eye on when it comes to college players for bowl time and all-star games.
Here is my look at 6 prospects that look to be late first round picks for the 2014 NFL draft in May.
1. Jarvis Landry-Wide Receiver LSU
2. Cyril Richardson-Offensive Guard Baylor
3. Travis Swanson-Offensive Center Arkansas
4. Justin Gilbert-Cornerback Oklahoma State
5. Trevor Reilly-Outside Linebacker/Defensive End Utah
6. La'El Collins- Offensive Tackle LSU
Give it up to Mett
LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger had a signature season for the Tigers in 2013, but what he will be remembered for is how he finished his senior season.
Mettenberger completed 64.9% of his passes for 3,082 yards, 22 touchdowns and 8 pass interceptions in 2013 and he led a team with a mediocre at best defense to a 9-3 regular season finish.
But it was how he played through an injury that everyone should remember him for.
It was obvious since the Ole Miss game that the flame-throwing Mettenberger had a lower-leg injury and a knee issue. He played through that injury and the 6-4, 230 pounder was still a really good player for the Tigers after a sizzling early season start.
While Mettenberger is not a "get in your face" type leader for criticism or encouragement he really caught everyone's attention for his toughness, his grittiness and his quiet leadership on a team void of a "big man" leader on offense and also on the defensive side of the ball.
While being banged around quite often against Alabama and again against Arkansas Mettenberger showed the type intangibles that the pros were looking for and for some, it was in question.
You might question his decision making process at times, his lack of quickness in the pocket and a lack of a take-charge presence out on the field, but you can't question Mettenberger's toughness as a player and how much football means to him.
I strongly believe that Mettenberger will end up being a late first round pick in the 2014 NFL draft and my comparison to Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco coming out of Delaware will be the one you will hear quite often over the next couple of months.
G-Rob making a huge mark for AU
Just a couple of years back one of the most highly-sought after football players in the country was Thibodaux High School star quarterback/athlete Trovon Reed. Reed had his choice of just about any school in the country to choose from before he decided to sign with Auburn over LSU.
A player on that Thibodaux High School team who was overshadowed due to the exploits of Reed was offensive tackle Greg Robinson.
Robinson was also a highly coveted player and like Reed he also signed on with Auburn.
But in college Greg Robinson has emerged as the star performer from Thibodaux and emerged as one of the top left tackles in the Southeast Conference.
This season the second year fulltime starter has emerged as one of the elite left tackles in the SEC and he has caught the eyes of NFL scouts.
The 6-5, 320 pound Robinson redshirted in 2011, but he earned a starting spot in 2012, starting 11 games and this season he has been outstanding in pass protection and also being a huge impact player as a run blocker.
While Robinson is listed as a redshirt sophomore he is three years out of high school and his play has him in my eyes as a probable top-100 pick in the 2014 NFL draft, if he decides to come out early. Robinson has not only been a good player, but he has been dominant at the left tackle spot displaying excellent athleticism and "power" skills as a run blocker.
While Alabama's Cyrus Kouandjio will be named 1st team All-SEC and he will probably be a top-12 pick in the 2014 NFL draft I really think the best left tackle all season long in the state of Alabama has been Greg Robinson.
A playoff game in December
When the(9-2) New Orleans Saints play the (10-1) Seattle Seahawks it will be a playoff game with mother-load of implications for both teams.
The Seahawks are riding a 13-game home winning streak. They have outscored their opponents 405 to 172 in those 13 games.
The only teams to score more than 20 points on the Seahawks in those 13 games were the New England Patriots (23) in 2012 and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (24) in 2013.
The Seahawks have one of the best young signal-callers in the game in Russell Wilson, who in so many ways reminds you of Drew Brees off the field and for his command of the moment on the field.
The Seahawks have the best runner in the NFL for yardage after initial contact in Marshawn Lynch.
Lynch is as physical a runner as anyone in the NFL and stopping him is the key to this contest.
The Seahawks also have the best run after catch yardage receiver in the league today in wide receiver Golden Tate and one of the most explosive slot-end/return specialists Percy Harvin in the lineup.
The Seahawks are known for putting great pressure on opponents with their front four and have one of the top young middle linebackers in the league in Bobby Wagner.
And they have the best secondary in the NFL.
Mike D's top 27 players eligible for 2014 draft
1. Jadeveon Clowney-Defensive End South Carolina
2. Teddy Bridgewater-Quarterback Louisville
3. Anthony Barr-Outside Linebacker UCLA
4. Marcus Mariota- Quarterback Oregon
5. Jake Matthews-Offensive Tackle Texas A&M
6. Taylor Lewan-Offensive Tackle Michigan
7. Brett Hundley-Quarterback UCLA
8. Cyrus Kouandjio- Offensive Tackle Alabama
9. C.J. Mosley-Outside Linebacker Alabama
10. Johnny Manziel-Quarterback Texas A&M
11. Odell Beckham Jr.- Wide Receiver LSU
12. Mike Evans- Wide Receiver Texas A&M
13. Khalil Mack-Outside Linebacker Buffalo
14. Stephon Tuitt- Defensive End Notre Dame
15. Sammy Watkins- Wide Receiver Clemson
16. Louis Nix- Defensive Tackle Notre Dame
17. David Yankey-Offensive Guard Stanford
18. Jason Verrett- Cornerback TCU
19. Ha Ha Clinton Dix- Free Safety Alabama
20. Eric Ebron- Tight End North Carolina
21. Marqise Lee-Wide Receiver USC
22. Trent Murphy-Outside Linebacker Stanford
23. Antonio Richardson-Offensive Tackle Tennessee
24. Tajh Boyd-Quarterback Clemson
25. Ryan Shazier-Outside Linebacker Ohio State
26. Zach Mettenberger-Quarterback LSU
27. La'El Collins-Offensive Tackle LSU
Talent + Coaching = Production
The most of amount of quarterback sacks for the New Orleans Saints in the Sean Payton-era was 38 back in 2006.
With 5 games left in the season the Saints now have 37.
With this sort of pace the Saints look to be in the mid-40's when the 2013 season is over with.
Give defensive coordinator Rob Ryan a lot of credit for putting the players in the right spot to make a big play defensively, but don't overlook the emerging talents of Akiem Hicks, Cameron Jordan, John Jenkins, Glenn Foster, Junior Galette and Tom Johnson along the defensive front.
In the 9 victories this season the Saints defense has held opponents to 20 points or less in each winning contest.
Words of football wisdom from Ed Reed
A couple of years back I had an opportunity to sit down for quite some time with future NFL Hall of Fame free safety Ed Reed. Arguably Reed, now with the New York Jets, may go down as the greatest defensive player to ever come out of Louisiana and he spoke to me about what is the most important feature to have a cover man in the NFL as a cornerback or safety.
"Most of the time it is not about athleticism, it is about being mentally tough. There are some really talented athletes who have played the position, but because they can't take the fact that you will get beat at times and teams pick on you no matter who are they crack physically and then mentally under the pressure.
Every year you watch these Combine athletes and you see these really good college players hit the league and few make an impact. In the NFL they don't care about your resume in high school or college. They challenge you over and over again. You have to shake off a bad play and make them pay the price to challenge you again. Some guys get beat, it affects the next play and it is like an odor that comes off them that teams notice and with body language. It's like that in other professions too. You can see who has been challenged and who produces. It's called mental toughness.
In the NFL you are not always going to defend or shut down your opponent. But what makes someone great is making plays when you have been challenged and getting ready because next week they will come after you again. Enjoy being challenged and make so many plays that they look another way. I am not afraid mentally when I hit the field. I know Deion Sanders, Rod Woodson, Ronnie Lott, Champ Bailey, Darrelle Revis played with that same mentality and the younger guys today in Patrick Peterson, Richard Sherman, Lardarius Webb and Earl Thomas play that way. You better be mentally tough to play cornerback or safety in the NFL today. You can talk all the smack you want, but you had better be prepared to be challenged, no matter how good you are. "
Saints cornerback Corey White take note of that advice from one of the greatest defensive players to ever put on a jockstrap and shoulder pads at his position.
The battle will happen again next week and the following ones.
It's been about the D
When the 2013 NFL season started virtually everyone thought the offense of the New Orleans Saints would again be one of the very best in the NFL due to the return of Sean Payton as head coach and offensive play-caller and there was no sign of age or decline in the play of quarterback Drew Brees.
The Saints offensive line has played better over the past three games, but it is still an area of concern. It is easy to see this offensive line is not as stout in run blocking as the group they had in 2009 and 2011, but what is still a concern for me is the leakage happening in the pass protection part of the game.
In 2013 with 5 games left to play the Saints have given up 23 quarterback sacks. The most they have given up as a unit was 26 in both 2012 and 2010, but it has also been the hurries and pressures.
Down the stretch that is the area to watch closely.
The Saints need to do a better job protecting Brees for him to throw downfield against defenses like the Seattle Seahawks, Carolina Panthers and the St. Louis Rams.
But what I wrote about in early August has been even better than I could have imagined and that is the maturing and production increase of the Saints defensive line.
It has been a main reason why the Saints with 5 games left on the schedule have given up just 21 touchdowns.
Last season this defense gave up 53.


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The Humor of the Colored Supplement
Ralph Bergengren
The Novels of Mrs. Wharton
Henry Dwight Sedgwick
A Dissolving View of Punctuation
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Father Taylor
Norman Duncan
The Autobiography of a Southerner Since the Civil War
Nicholas Worth
By Ralph Bergengren
Ten or a dozen years ago,—the exact date is here immaterial,—an enterprising newspaper publisher conceived the idea of appealing to what is known as the American "sense of humor" by printing a so-called comic supplement in colors. He chose Sunday as of all days the most lacking in popular amusements, carefully restricted himself to pictures without humor and color without beauty, and presently inaugurated a new era in American journalism. The colored supplement became an institution. No Sunday is complete without it,—not because its pages invariably delight, but because, like flies in suummer, there is no screen that will altogether exclude them. A newspaper without a color press hardly considers itself a newspaper, and the smaller journals are utterly unmindful of the kindness of -Providence in putting the guardian angel, Poverty, outside their portals. Sometimes, indeed, they think to outwit this kindly interference by printing a syndicated comic page without color; and mercy is thus served in a half portion, for, uncolored, the pictures are inevitably about twice as attractive. Some print them without color, but on pink paper. Others rejoice, as best they may, in a press that will reproduce at least a fraction of the original discord. One and all they unite vigorously, as if driven by a perverse and cynical intention, to prove the American sense of humor a national shame and degredation. Fortunately the public has so little to say about its reading matter that one may fairly suspend judgment.
For, after all, what is the sense of humor upon which every man prides him-self, as belonging only to a gifted minority? Nothing more nor less than a certain mental quickness, alert to catch the point of an anecdote or to appreciate the surprise of a new and unexpected point of view toward an old and familiar phenomenon. Add together these gifted minorities, and each nation reaches what is fallaciously termed the national sense of humor,—an English word, incidentally, for which D'Israeli was unable to find an equivalent in any other language, and which is in itself simply a natural developmcnt of the critical faculty, born of a present need of describing what earlier ages had taken for granted. The jovial porter and his charming chance acquaintances, the three ladies of Bagdad, enlivened conversation with a kind of humor, carefully removed from the translation of commerce and the public libraries, for which they needed no descriptive noun, but which may nevertheless be fairly taken as typical of that city in the day of the Caliph Haroun.
The Middle Ages rejoiced in a similar form of persiflage, and the present day in France, Germany, England, or America, for example, inherits it,—minus its too juvenile indecency,—in the kind of pleasure afforded by these comic supplements. Their kinship with the lower publications of European countries is curiously evident to whoever has examined them. Vulgarity, in fact, speaks the same tongue in all countries, talks, even in art-ruled France, with the same crude draughtsmanship, and usurps universally a province that Emerson declared "far better than wit for a poet or writer." In its expression and enjoyment no country can fairly claim the dubious superiority. All are on the dead level of that surprising moment when the savage had ceased to be dignified and man had not yet become rational. Men, indeed, speak freely and vaingloriously of their national sense of humor; but they are usually unconscious idealists. For the comic cut that amuses the most stupid Englishman may be shifted entire into an American comic supplement; the "catastrophe joke" of the American comic weekly of the next higher grade is stole in quantity to delight the readers of similar but more economical publications in Germany; the lower humor of France, barring the expurgations demanded by Anglo-Saxon prudery, is equally transferable; and the average American often examines on Sunday morning, without knowing it, an international loan-exhibit.
Humor, in other words, is cosmopolitan, reduced, since usage insists on reducing it, at this lowest imaginable level, to such obvious and universal elements that any intellect can grasp their combinations. And at its highest it is again cosmpoloitan, like art; like art, a cultivated characteristic, no more spontaneously natural than a "love of nature." It is an insult to the whole line of English and American humorists—Sterne, Thackeray, Dickens, Meredith, Twain, Holmes, Irving, and others of a distinguished company—to include as humor what is merely the crude brutality of human nature, mocking at grief and laughing boisterously at physical deformity. And in these Sunday comics Humor, stolen by vandals from her honest, if sometimes rough-and-ready companionship, thrusts a woe-begone visage from the painted canvas of the national sideshow, and none too poor to "shy a brick" at her.
At no period in the world's history has there been a steadier output of so-called humor,—especially in this country. The simple idea of printing a page of comic pictures has produced families. The very element of variety has been obliterated by the creation of types,—a confusing medly of impossible countrymen, mules, goats, German-Americans and their irreverent progeny, specialized children with a genius for annoying their elders, white-whiskered elders with a genius for playing practical jokes on their grandchildren, policemen, Chinamen, Irishmen, negroes, inhuman conceptions of the genus tramp, boy inventors whose inventions invariably end in causing somebody to be mirthfully splattered with paint or joyously torn to pieces by machinery, bright boys with a talent for deceit, laziness, or cruelty, and even the beasts of the jungle dehumanized to the point of practical joking. Mirabile dictu!—some of these things have even been dramatized.
With each type the reader is expected to become personally acquainted,—to watch for its coming on Sunday mornings, happily wondering with what form of inhuamnity the author will have been able to endow his brainless manikins. And the authors are often men of intelligence, capable here and there of a bit of adequate drawing and an idea that is honestly and self-respectingly provocative of laughter. Doubtless they are often ashamed of their product; but the demand of the hour is imperative. The presses are waiting. They, too, are both quick and heavy. And the cry of the publisher is for "fun" that no intellect in all his heterogeneous public shall be too dull to appreciate. We see, indeed, the outward manifestation of a curious paradox: humor prepared and printed for the extremely dull, and—what is still more remarkable—excused by grown men, capable of editing newspapers, on the ground that it gives pleasure to children.
Reduced to first principles, therefore, it is not humor, but simply a supply created in answer to a demand, hastily produced by machine methods and hastily accepted by editors too busy with other editorial duties to examine it intelligently. Under these conditions "humor" is naturally concieved as something preeminently quick; and so quickness predominates. Somebody is always hitting somebody else with a club; somebody is always falling downstairs, or out of a balloon, or over a cliff, or into a river, a barrel of paint, a bucket of eggs, a convenient cistern, or a tub of hot water. The comic cartoonists have already exhausted every available substance into which one can fall, and are compelled to fall themselves into a veritable ocean of vain repetition. They have exhausted everything by which one can be blown up. They have exhausted everything by which one can be knocked down or run over. And if the victim is never actually killed in these mirthful experiments, it is obviously because he would then cease to be funny—which is very much the point of view of the Spanish Inquisition, the cat with a mouse, or the American Indian with a captive. But respect for property, respect for parents, for law, for decency, for truth, for beauty, for kindliness, for dignity, or for honor, are killed, without mercy. Morality alone, in its restricted sense of sexual relations, is treated with courtesy, although we find throughout the accepted theory that marriage is a union of uncongenial spirits, and the chart of petty marital deceit is carefully laid out and marked for whoever is likely to respond to endless unconscious suggestions. Sadly must the American child sometimes be puzzled while comparing his own grandmother with the visiting mother-in-law of the colored comic.
Lest this seem a harsh, even an unkind inquiry into the innocent amusements of other people, a few instances may be mentioned, drawn from the Easter Sunday output of papers otherwise both respectable and unrespectable; papers, moreover, depending largely on syndicated humor that may fairly be said to have reached a total circulation of several million readers. We have, to begin with, two rival versions of a creation that made the originator famous, and that chronicle the adventures of a small boy whose name and features are everywhere familiar. Often these adventures, in the original youngster, have been amusing, and amusingly seasoned with the salt of legitimately absurd phraseology. But the pace is too fast, even for the originator. The imitator fails invariably to catch the spirit of them, and in this instance is driven to an ancient subterfuge. To come briefly to an unpleasant point, an entire page is devoted to showing the reader how the boy was made ill by smoking his father's cigars. Incidentally he falls down stairs. Meantime, his twin is rejoicing the readers of another comic supplement by spoiling a wedding party; it is the minister who first comes to grief, and is stood on his head, the boy who later is quite properly thrashed by an angry mother, and it is all presumably very delightful and a fine example for the imitative genius of other children. Further, we meet a mule who kicks a policeman and whose owner is led away to the lockup; a manicured vacuum who slips on a banana peel, crushes the box containing his fiancee's Easter bonnet, and is assaulted by her father (he, after the manner of comic fathers, having just paid one hundred dollars for the bonnet out of a plethoric pocketbook); a nondescript creature, presumably human, who slips on another banana peel and knocks over a citizen, who in turn knocks over a policeman, and is also marched off to undeserved punishment. We see the German-American child covering his father with water from a street gutter, another child deluging his parent with water from a hose; another teasing his younger brother and sister. To keep the humor of the banana peel in countenance we find the picture of a fat man accidentally sitting down on a tack; he exclaims, "ouch," throws a basket of eggs into the air, and they come down on the head of the boy who arranged the tacks. We see two white boys beating a little negro over the head with a plank (the hardness of the negro's skull here affording the humorous motif), and we see an idiot blowing up a mule with dynamite. Lunacy, in short, could go no farther than this pandemonium of undisguised coarseness and brutality,-the humor offered on Easter Sunday morning by leading American newspapers for the edification of American readers.
And every one of the countless creatures, even to the poor, maligned dumb animals, is saying something. To the woeful extravagance of foolish acts must be added an equal extravagance of foolish words: "Out with you, intoxicated rowdy," "Shut up," "Skidoo," "They've set the dog on me," "Hee-haw," "My uncle had it tooken in Hamburg," "Dat old gentleman will slip on dem banana skins," "Little Buster got all that was coming to him," "Aw, shut up," "Y-e-c-e G-o-d-s," "Ouch," "Golly, dynamite am powerful stuff," "I am listening to vat der vild vaves is sedding," "I don't think Pa and I will ever get along together until he gets rid of his conceit,"" phew." The brightness of this repartee could be continued indefinitely; profanity, of course, is indicated by dashes and exclamation points; a person who has fallen overboard says "blub;" concussion is visibly represented by stars; "biff" and "bang" are used according to taste to accompany a blow on the nose or an explosion of dynamite.
From this brief summary it may be seen how few are the fundamental conceptions that supply the bulk of almost the entire output, and in these days of syndicated ideas a comparatively small body of men produce the greater part of it. Physical pain is the most glaringly omnipresent of these motifs; it is counted upon invariably to amuse the average humanity of our so-called Christian civilization. The entire group of Easter Sunday pictures constitutes a saturnalia of prearranged accidents in which the artist is never hampered by the exigencies of logic; machinery in which even the presupposed poorest intellect might be expected to detect the obvious flaw accomplishes its evil purpose with inevitable accuracy; jails and lunatic asylums are crowded with new inmates; the policeman always uses his club or revolver; the parents usually thrash their offspring at the end of the performance; household furniture is demolished, clothes ruined, and unsalable eggs broken by the dozen. Deceit is another universal concept of humor, that combines easily with the physical pain motif and mistaken identity, in which the juvenile idiot disguises himself and deceives his parents in various ways, is another favorite resort of the humorists. The paucity of invention is hardly less remarkable than the willingness of the inventors to sign their products, or the willingness of editors to publish them. But the age is notoriously one in which editors underrate and insult the public intelligence.
Doubtless there are some to applaud the spectacle,-the imitative spirits, for example, who recently compelled a woman to seek the protection of a police departmeet because of the persecution of a gang of boys and young men shouting "hee-haw" whenever she appeared on the street; the rowdies whose exploits figure so frequently in metropolitan newspapers: or that class of adults who tell indecent stories at the dinner table and laugh joyously at their wives' efforts to turn the conversation. But the Sunday comic goes into other homes than these, and is handed to their children by parents whose souls would shudder at the thought of a dime novel. Alas, poor parents! That very dime novel as a rule holds up ideals of bravery and chivalry, rewards good and punishes evil, offers at the worst a temptation to golden adventuring, for which not one child in a million will ever attempt to surmount the obvious obstacles. It is no easy matter to become an Indian fighter, pirate, or detective; the dream is, after all, a daydream, tinctured with the beautiful color of old romance, and built on eternal qualities that the world has rightfully esteemed worthy of emulation. And in place of it the comic supplement, like that other brutal horror, the juvenile comic story, that goes on its immoral way unnoticed, raises no high ambition, but devotes itself to "mischief made easy." Hard as it is to become an Indian fighter, any boy has plenty of opportunity to throw stones at his neighbor's windows. And on any special occasion, such, for example, as Christmas or Washington's Birthday, almost the entire ponderous machine is set in motion to make reverence and ideals ridiculous. Evil example is strong in proportion as it is easy to imitate. The state of mind that accepts the humor of the comic weekly is the same as that which shudders at Ibsen, and smiles complacently at the musical comedy, with its open acceptance of the wild oats theory, and its humorous exposition of a kind of wild oats that youth may harvest without going out of its own neighborhood.
In all this noisy, explosive, garrulous pandemonium one finds here and there a moment of rest and refreshment,—the work of the few pioneers of decency and decorum brave enough to bring their wares to the noisome market and lucky enough to infuse their spirit of refinement, art, and genuine humor into its otherwise hopeless atmosphere. Preeminent among them stands the inventor of "Little Nemo in Slumberland," a man of genuine pantomimic humor, charming draughtsmanship, and an excellent decorative sense of color, who has apparently studied his medium and makes the best of it. And with him come Peter Newell, Grace G. Weiderseim, and Conde—now illustrating Uncle Remus for a Sunday audience,—whose pictures in some of the Sunday papers are a delightful and self-respecting proof of the possibilities of this type of journalism. Out of the noisy streets, the cheap restaurants with their unsteady-footed waiters and avalanches of crockery, out of the slums, the quarreling families, the prisons and the lunatic asylums, we step for a moment into the world of childish fantasy, closing the iron door behind us and trying to shut out the clamor of hooting mobs, the laughter of imbeciles, and the crash of explosives. After all, there is no reason why children should not have their innocent amusement on a Sunday morning; but there seems to be every reason why the average editor of the weekly comic supplement should be given a course in art, literature, common sense, and Christianity.