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The Genoa bridge disaster will be memorialized with this bright red skyway
It's a place of remembrance and infrastructure, in one.
On August 14 of last year, the rains came to Genoa, Italy, so hard that you could barely see. Traffic began to slow down to a crawl on the Morandi Bridge, a 1960s-era engineering marvel that eschewed most suspension cabling with one of the longest runs of reinforced concrete in the world. Then, around 11:30 a.m., hundreds of feet of the bridge collapsed. Forty-three people died, and hundreds were displaced from their homes.
While the exact cause of the collapse is still unclear, the city is currently rebuilding the bridge with plans to open the replacement in 2020. Designed by legendary Italian architect Renzo Piano, the new bridge will be "sober," and "simple but not banal." But Piano's bridge won't stand alone. Another Italian firm, Stefano Boeri Architecture, has unveiled its designs for pedestrian pathway that will snake around Piano's new bridge—and serve as a memorial to the 43 people who died in the collapse.
The design is called Red Circle. It's a striking steel ring, rendered in this material as an optimistic nod to Genoa's industrial heritage of smelting furnaces and cranes. Spanning nearly a mile, it will provide access to a memorial park being completed under the bridge. The park will house an installation by artist Luca Vitone called Genova in the Wood. Forty-three trees, one for each life lost, will commemorate their lives as a small forest where people can walk, rest, read, and study botany with books in an onsite library.
[Image: The Big Picture/Renovatio Design/courtesy Stefano Boeri Architetti]
The elevated pathway will also serve a functional purpose beyond offering walkers and cyclists a car-free route: It will also be a source of energy for the city. It will distribute energy generated by solar panels, as well as through piezoelectric flooring that generates electricity from vibrations on the bridge, and most strikingly, a 400-foot red wind tower that juts into the sky like a flame.
In a statement, Boeri described the project as a way to welcome people to the city, adding that Genoa is a "superb city, even though it is afflicted by poignant melancholy; beautiful, even if in the harshness of its everlasting contradictions. A city of steel and sea, sculpted by wind and tragedy, but always able to stand tall."
It's a memorial that is more than just an art installation, and a bridge that's more than just a structure built to carry people. All in all, it looks to be a powerful and captivating project—one that will slice through the city, ensuring that you just cannot look away.
Mark Wilson is a senior writer at Fast Company who has written about design, technology, and culture for almost 15 years. His work has appeared at Gizmodo, Kotaku, PopMech, PopSci, Esquire, American Photo and Lucky Peach
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American football centers
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American people of Lithuanian descent
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Vince Banonis
Banonis in 1941
No. 32, 51
Center / defensive tackle
(1921-04-09)April 9, 1921
Catholic Central (Redford, Michigan)
Detroit Mercy
* Chicago Cardinals ( 1942)
Card-Pitt ( 1944)
Chicago Cardinals ( 1946– 1950)
Detroit Lions ( 1951– 1953)
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2× All-Pro (1947, 1949)
Vincent Joseph Banonis (April 9, 1921 – October 23, 2010) was an American football player. He played college football at the University of Detroit Mercy where he was selected as a first-team All-American in 1940. He also played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Cardinals from 1942 to 1950, and for the Detroit Lions from 1951 to 1953. He was a first-team All-NFL player three times and played on three NFL championship teams. He was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1975 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
Banonis was born on April 9, 1921, in Detroit, Michigan, to a family of Lithuanian origin.[1] He attended Detroit Catholic Central High School. He was the center and captain for Catholic Central team that won a Detroit city championship.[2]
College football Edit
Banonis enrolled at the University of Detroit in 1938 and played at the center position (on both offense and defense) for head coach Gus Dorais' Detroit Titans football team from 1939 to 1941. In 1939, Detroit's line coach, Bud Boeringer, who had been an All-American center at Notre Dame, told reporters that he had never had a better candidate for center than Banonis.[3] He was reported to be "almost uncanny at diagnosing plays" on defense and to be "particularly strong on forward pass defense."[3] At the end of the 1941 season, Banonis was chosen as a first-round All-American by Collier's Weekly (selected by Grantland Rice),[4] International News Service,[5] and Paramount News.[6] He was also chosen as a second-team All-American by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.[7]
Professional football Edit
Banonis was selected by the Chicago Cardinals in the fourth round of the 1942 NFL Draft with the 29th overall pick.[8] Banonis appeared in 11 games for the 1942 Cardinals and intercepted two passes that season.[8]
Banonis' football career was interrupted for three years by wartime service in the United States Navy during World War II.[2] He returned to the Cardinals in 1946 and remained with the club through the 1950 season. During his time with the Cardinals, he was selected as a first-team All-NFL player three times (1947, by UPI, 1948, by Chicago Herald Am. and NY Daily News, and 1949, by Int. News Service) and a second-team All-NFL player three times (1946, by NY Daily News, 1948, by Sporting News and UPI, and 1949, by UPI).[8] He intercepted 11 passes from 1946 to 1949 and led the NFL with 83 return yards on two fumble recoveries in 1947.[8] He was a member of the 1947 Cardinals team that won the NFL championship.
In July 1950, Banonis' younger brother, Vic Banonis, was signed by the Cardinals after playing college football at Georgetown.[9] However, his brother did not appear in any regular season games in the NFL.
In 1951, Banonis was traded by the Cardinals to the Detroit Lions in exchange for offensive lineman Jack Simmons.[2] Banonis appeared in 36 games at center for the Lions from 1951 to 1953 and played on the Lions' NFL championship teams in 1952 and 1953.[8] The Lions signed center Joe Schmidt in 1953, and Banonis appeared in his last professional football game that year at age 32.
Later years Edit
Banonis has been inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame (1975) and the College Football Hall of Fame (1986).[2] He died in 2010 at age 89 at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan.[2][10] He was buried at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Southfield.[11]
↑ "Merged 1944 Cardinals-Steelers team brought memories, not wins". January 25, 2009. http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/story/09000d5d80e57730/article/merged-1944-cardinalssteelers-team-brought-memories-not-wins. Retrieved October 24, 2018. "Told of Banonis' performance, Bulger laughed. "He was always singing these Lithuanian songs," Bulger said. "Oh, what a football player he was.""
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Former Lions' Great and Detroit Native Vince Banonis Dies at 89". October 25, 2010. http://media.detroitlions.com/former-lions-great-and-detroit-native-vince-banonis-dies-at-89.htm. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
↑ 3.0 3.1 "Titan Sophomore Center Makes Captain Hustle". The Pittsburgh Press: p. 8. November 4, 1939. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19391104&id=eWIbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YUwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3798,1385756.
↑ "Rokisky on Collier's Team". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. December 5, 1941. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZeUMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LWoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4459,6537831&dq=all-america-board&hl=en.
↑ Lawton Carver (December 1, 1941). "Albert Tops INS All-America Grid Selections". Reading Eagle. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wo8hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uJcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4367,355573&dq=wildung+sinkwich&hl=en.
↑ "Al DeMao, Rokisky on All-America Teams". The Pittsburgh Press. 1941-11-29. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mFgbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bkwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5048,2795105&dq=wildung+sinkwich&hl=en.
↑ Harry Grayson (November 21, 1941). "Duke's Lach Makes NEA All-America Team". The Rock Hill Herald. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kictAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zqQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1444,1037890&dq=nea+westfall&hl=en.
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "Vince Banonis Football Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BanoVi20.htm. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
↑ "Banonis Brothers Signed by Cardinals". The Milwaukee Journal: p. 5. July 14, 1950.
↑ Carlos Monarrez (October 26, 2010). "Detroit football great Vince Banonis dies". Detroit Free Press: p. B.2. https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/doc/759909297.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+26%2C+2010&author=MONARREZ%2C+CARLOS&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&edition=&startpage=&desc=Detroit+football+great+Vince+Banonis+dies.
↑ "BANONIS, VINCENT JOSEPH SR.". Michigan Death Notices. http://www.mideathnotices.com/view-single.php?id=251472. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
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Q: Java install on Windows I have installed the Java JDK (jdk1.8.0_161) on a Windows Server 2012 box.
Created the path JAVA_HOME path to the location of install.
When I run java -version from the PowerShell, it returns the version info but in red error text.. (It seems to return the info fine from the command prompt).
Is this an issue? I'm trying to run Maven and getting issues and looking to resolve root issues before digging deeper.
Thanks
java -version
java : java version "1.8.0_161"
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Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_161-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.161-b12, mixed mode)

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When i run java -version from the powershell it returns the version info but in red error text.. (It seems to return the info fine from the command prompt).
Is this an issue?

I don't think so.
The behavior of java -version is unusual.  Where most applications write version information to standard output, the tools in the Oracle Java tool chains write the information to standard error.
With a typical shell, you don't notice this unless you redirect java -version output.
Apparently, powershell is using colors to distinguish output coming from standard error.  If this is the explanation, then it is harmless.

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Stantec announces global climate action leadership team to help clients adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts
With proven expertise in sustainability and climate science, leaders will support creating sustainable, resilient communities
10/13/2022 EDMONTON, AB; NEW YORK, NY TSX, NYSE:STN
Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has announced an integrated climate action leadership team that includes Climate Solutions leaders, a climate science director, and a sustainable development goals (SDG) impact leader. This most recent alignment of expertise and experience is a continuation of the firm's long-held commitment to supporting client sustainability goals.
Drawing on decades of industry leadership, Stantec's climate practice combines its global services and expertise to support clients through every step of their planning, regulatory, mitigation, and adaptation journey. Seven new leaders spread across the globe will help drive creative and innovative approaches to sustainability and climate challenges.
"With their unique experiences across industry sectors and commitment to science-driven outcomes, our climate action leadership team will help our clients address a defining issue of our time," said Gord Johnston, president and chief executive officer. "As many of our clients face regulatory and investor demands, we know that our leadership and innovative solutions will help the resilient and sustainable communities of tomorrow."
Working across business lines, the team will drive Stantec's Climate Solutions to design and deliver integrated strategies for our clients, communities, and the environment.
The Climate Solutions leaders are respected engineers, scientists, designers, and business leaders with decades of experience driving forward sustainable and resilient environmental solutions and design:
Curt Bjurlin, US: With 26 years of experience in the power sector, both as developer and as consultant, Bjurlin recently served as a reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report. For the past decade, he has led Stantec's environmental services program for power clients in the United States, working with clients to implement integrated energy transition and climate change adaptation strategies.
Nicole Flanagan, Canada: Flanagan has over 20 years of experience in delivering services in the sustainability and climate change space. She launched Stantec's greenhouse gas quantification and verification services and helps lead the company's services relating to environmental, social, and governance consulting and climate risk assessments and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure framework.
Natalie Muir, Australia and New Zealand: Muir is an environmental engineer with over 25 years of experience in the water and infrastructure industry, serving in senior leadership positions on multiple region-defining water infrastructure projects across Australia. She is vice chair for the FIDIC (International Federation for Consulting Engineers) Sustainable Development Committee and has a passion for bringing a sustainability focus to all her project work.
Christophe Leroy, Continental Europe: With 21 years of experience, Leroy has worked as project director on numerous European Union (EU) programs and technical assistance services contracts, providing him with key insights into the energy, climate change, governance, and development sectors. He has supported the EU on several Conference of the Parties events and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for its climate change annual report. Based in Belgium, Leroy leads Stantec's international development work.
Lucy Wood, UK and Ireland: Wood, a former partner of Barton Willmore, brings over 17 years of experience advising on environmental planning, climate change, and health and well-being for a wide range of industry sectors. She has advised a wide range of public and private sector clients on potential climate change updates to the UK's National Planning Policy Framework and wider policy amendments. Combining a commercial focus with a background in environmental consultancy and planning, she applies her technical knowledge, strategic thinking, and energy to shape ambitious and deliverable projects that drive towards net zero and social equity.
The geographic specific Climate Solution leaders will be complemented by a newly appointed climate science director, Dr. Francis Wiese, to help drive global integration and promote the use of up-to-date science and innovation. Wiese brings 28 years of experience in climate science and the marine environment and has been researching, publishing, and promoting climate change science and awareness around the globe since 2005. He has primarily focused on the impacts of and adaptation to climate change on natural and human systems.
To challenge Stantec to think holistically about improving the environmental and social/cultural sustainability of company projects, a new position has been created called SDG impact leader, filled by Rachel Bannon-Godfrey. She will be responsible for fully integrating the United Nations SDGs into Stantec's operations, project work, and culture. She will bring her insights to the climate action leadership team for the benefit of clients. With 20 years of experience, Bannon-Godfrey's career includes designing high-performance and net zero energy buildings, as well as climate-resilient and sustainable master planning across the globe.
Learn more about Stantec's climate and sustainability commitments in its 2021 Sustainability Report.
About Stantec
Communities are fundamental. Whether around the corner or across the globe, they provide a foundation, a sense of place and of belonging. That's why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind.
We care about the communities we serve—because they're our communities too. This allows us to assess what's needed and connect our expertise, to appreciate nuances and envision what's never been considered, to bring together diverse perspectives so we can collaborate toward a shared success.
We're designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers, innovating together at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Balancing these priorities results in projects that advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.
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Return to 2010 December 2nd horoscopes
Week of December 2nd, 2010
Physicist Stephen Hawking believes it would be dangerous to get in touch with extraterrestrial creatures. "If aliens visit us," he says, "the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans." Those who've studied the teeming evidence for UFOs would say that Hawking's warning is too late. Some mysterious non-human intelligence has been here for a long time, and the fact that we are still around proves they're no Spanish conquistadors. Aside from that, though, let's marvel at the stupidity of Hawking's lame advice. As any mildly wise person knows, exploring the unknown is not only an aid to our mental and spiritual health -- it's a prerequisite. That'll be especially true for you Aries in the coming weeks.
Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed on the hypothesis that cultivating joy can make you a more ethical and compassionate person. Imagine that feeling good has something important to teach you every day. For inspiration in practicing this approach, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
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Thousands of things go right for you every day, beginning the moment you wake up. Through some magic you don't fully understand, you're still breathing and your heart is beating, even though you've been unconscious for many hours. The air is a mix of gases that's just right for your body's needs, as it was before you fell asleep.
You can see! Light of many colors floods into your eyes, registered by nerves that took God or evolution or some process millions of years to perfect. The interesting gift of these vivid hues is made possible by an unimaginably immense globe of fire, the sun, which continually detonates nuclear reactions in order to convert its own body into light and heat and energy for your personal use.
The preceding oracle comes from my book, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings.
"At times, although one is perfectly in the right, one's legs tremble," wrote philosopher V.V. Rozanov. "At other times, although one is completely in the wrong, birds sing in one's soul." That may have been the case for you last month, Taurus, but these days it's the exact reverse. If your knees are wobbly, you're off-center, missing the mark, or far from the heart of the matter. If, on the other, birds are singing in your soul, it's because you're united with the beautiful truth. There are a couple of caveats, though: The beautiful truth won't be simple and bright; it'll be dense, convoluted, and kaleidoscopic. And the birds' songs will sound more like a philharmonic orchestra pounding out Beethoven's Fifth Symphony than a single flute playing a quaint folk song.
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." So begins Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield. I'd like to inspire you to write a story of your own that begins like that. For help, tune into your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
Dear Beauty and Truth Lab: I was wondering if you had any information about Beyonders, people who were born under no star and who are therefore not ruled by the stars. - Wannabe Beyonder
Dear Wannabe: It's impossible to be born under no star. However, we all go through periods when we're relatively free from the authority of the stars we were born under and therefore immune from cosmic compulsion. During these times, we're less susceptible to the whims of fate and the demands of the past and the inertia of karma. Our willpower has more breathing room, and we're more likely to fulfill Einstein's dictum, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
The preceding oracle comes from my new book, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings.
Are there any actors who have impersonated as many different types of characters as Gemini chameleon Johnny Depp? From rogue agent to chocolatier, from psychotic barber to astronaut, he is a model of inconsistency -- a master of not imitating himself. (To glimpse 24 of his various personas, go here: http://bit.ly/GeminiActor.) According to my reading of the omens, you now have a poetic license to follow his lead. There have been few times in the last two years when you've had this much freedom and permission to be so multiple, mercurial, and mutant.
I invite you to keep a running list of all the ways life delights you and helps you and energizes you. Describe everyday miracles you take for granted . . . the uncanny powers you possess . . . the small joys that occur so routinely you forget how much they mean to you . . . the steady flow of benefits bestowed on you by people you know and don't know. What works for you? What makes you feel at home in the world? For inspiration in this noble effort, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
Of the many things that have gone right for you during your time on Earth, the most crucial was your birth. As you crossed over the threshold, trading the warm dark sanctuary for the bright noisy enigma, you didn't die! It was a difficult act of high magic that involved many people who worked very hard in your behalf. The skills they provided in helping you navigate your rite of passage were in turn made possible by previous generations of threshold-tenders who bequeathed their expertise.
Months before that initiation, a more secret miracle bloomed: Your life began as a single cell, spawned by the explosive fusion of two highly specialized bundles of chromosomes. How could that tiny package of raw material have possibly grown a brain and liver and heart and stomach over a period of a few months? What inscrutable genius guided and oversaw the emergence of your fully formed infant body, that virtuoso creation, from the slimmest of clues?
A tattoo now adorns the neck of pop star Rihanna. It says "rebelle fleur," which is a French phrase meaning "rebel flower." The grammar police protested her new body art. They wished she would have rendered it correctly -- as "fleur rebelle" -- since in French, adjectives are supposed to follow, not precede, the nouns they refer to. But I'm guessing Rihanna knew that. In reversing the order, she was double-asserting her right to commit breezy acts of insurrection. Let's make "rebelle fleur" your keynote in the coming days, Cancerian. Break taboos, buck tradition, and overthrow conventional wisdom -- always with blithe grace and jaunty charm.
All of creation loves you very much. Even now, people you know and people you don't know are collaborating to make sure you have all you need to make your next smart move. But are you willing to start loving life back with an equal intensity? The adoration it offers you has not exactly been unrequited, but there is room for you to be more demonstrative. For help in cultivating this approach, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
You can drink a glass of water. You can spread butter on a slice of toast. You can wash your hair and prune your plants and draw infinity signs on a piece of paper. Your hands work wonderfully well! Their intricate force and sustained grace are amply supported by your heart, which circulates your blood all the way out to replenish the energy of the muscles and nerves in your fingers and palms and wrists. After your blood has delivered its blessings, it finds its way back to your heart to be refreshed. This masterful mystery repeats itself over and over again without you ever having to think about it.
Research by German psychologists suggests that positive superstitions may be helpful. Reporting in the journal Psychological Science, they discovered that people who think they are in possession of good luck charms outperform people who don't. "Superstition-induced confidence" seems to act in ways akin to how placebos work to heal sick people: It can provide a mysterious boost. (More here: tinyurl.com/LuckCharm.) Just for the fun of it, Leo -- and in accordance with the astrological omens -- put this finding to the test. Get yourself a magical object that stimulates your power to achieve success.
What is the obvious secret you can't quite see? How could you turn your challenges into daily gifts for yourself? For clues to mysteries like these, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
Your imagination may be the best gift you've been given. It's the source of your creative power. If there's a particular experience or object you want to bring into your life, the first thing you've got to do is visualize it. The practical actions you take to manifest your dreams always refer back to the pictures in your mind's eye. And so every goal you fulfill, every quest you carry out, begins as an inner vision. Your imagination is the engine of your destiny. It's the catalyst with which you design your future. Do you know where it comes from? Do you have any idea how powerful it is?
Psychologist Carl Jung said that we are all connected to each other via the collective unconscious. Your psyche and my psyche have taproots that sink deep into the memories and capacities of the entire human race. According to my reading of the omens, your taproots are now functioning more vigorously than they have in a long time. You're in more intimate contact than usual with the primal pool of possibilities. And what good is that, you may ask? Well, it means you have the power to draw on mojo that transcends your personal abilities. Could you make use of some liquid lightning, ambrosial dreams, or healing balm from the beginning of time?
Grace emerges in the ebb and flow, not just the flow. The waning reveals a different blessing than the waxing. Where are you in the great cycle of your life? For inspiration in figuring it all out, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.
May you wake up to salsa music one summer morning and start dancing while you're still half-asleep.
May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses.
May you mix stripes with plaids, floral patterns with checks, and yellowish-green with brownish-purple.
May you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds and one extrasolar planet.
May you put a bumper sticker on your car or bike that says, "My god can kick your god's ass!"
If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."
May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.
May you actually kiss the earth now and then.
May you find many good excuses to say, as physicist Niels Bohr once did, "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
If you want to get a gallon of milk directly from the source, you have to squeeze a cow's udder over 300 times. I recommend you use that as a metaphor for your task in the days to come. It's going to take a lot of squirts or tugs or tweaks to get the totality of what you want. Be patient and precise as you fill your cup little by little. There's no way you can hurry the process by skipping some steps.
Whether it's your time to ferment in the shadows or sing in the sun, fresh power to transform yourself is on the way. Life always delivers the creative energy you need to change into the new thing you must become. For more help in understanding it all, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
Have you ever been loved? I bet you have been loved so much and so deeply that you have become blasé about the enormity of the grace it confers. So let me remind you: To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.
Animals, too: You have been the recipient of their boundless affection. The spirits of allies who've left this world continue to send their tender regards, as well. Do you "believe" in angels and other divine beings? Whether or not you do, I can assure you that there are hordes of them beaming their uncanny consecrations your way. You are awash in torrents of love.
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth," says the Bible. That doesn't mean what most people think it does. The word translated as "meek" is the Greek word praus, which in ancient times didn't mean "weak-willed, passive, mild." Rather, it referred to great power that was under rigorous control. For example, soldiers' warhorses were considered praus. They heeded the commands of their riders, but were fierce warriors that fought with tireless fervor. In this spirit, Scorpio, I'm predicting you're about to get very "meek": offering your tremendous force of will and intelligence in disciplined service to a noble cause. (Thanks to Merlin Hawk for the info I used in this 'scope.) P.S. Check out the poem Who the Meek Are Not.
You can learn to be lucky. It's not a mystical force you're born with, but a habit you can develop. How? For starters, be open to new experiences, trust your gut wisdom, expect good fortune, see the bright side of challenging events, and master the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities. For more help, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
Imagine you're with a team of explorers in Antarctica. You're climbing the 2,000-foot granite spire called Rakekniven that thrusts up out of the ice in Queen Maud Land. The temperature is 10 degrees below zero. There's not a plant or animal in sight. The blinding white emptiness of the wasteland beneath you fills you with desolate reverence, alienated awe, and soaring gratitude. You are far from everything that normally gives you comfort.
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a book called Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. I'd love it if in the next few weeks you would think a lot about how you are on your way to becoming what you were born to be. Current astrological omens suggest you will have special insight into that theme. For inspiration, you might want to borrow some of Nietzsche's chapter titles, including the following: "Why I Am So Wise," "Why I Am So Clever," and "Why I Am a Destiny."
Somewhere there's a treasure that has no value to anyone but you, and a secret that's meaningless to everyone except you, and a frontier that harbors a revelation only you would know how to exploit. Why not go in search of those things? For inspiration, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
Breathe more like a wild boar and less like a parakeet. Act more like an unfathomable game with no time limit and less like a puzzle with just a few last pieces missing. Shimmer more like the aurora borealis in the early morning sky and less like a furnace heating a mansion. See more like a panther sees and less like your first teacher. Write more fat messages in the mist on the glass, and speak less about the skinny facts you know by heart. Eat more magic cookies and less brain candy.
During some of her concerts, Capricorn singer Hayley Williams (lead vocalist of Paramore) has worn a tank top that bears the phrase "Brand New Eyes." I encourage you to consider making that your own guiding principle for a while. By pointedly declaring your intention to view the world with refreshed vision, you will be able to tune in to sights that have been invisible to you. You will discover secrets hidden in plain view and maybe even carve out a window where before there had been a thick, blank wall.
When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean? Certainly not the self that wants to win every game and use up every resource and stand alone at the end of time on a mountain of pretty garbage. So which self is it? For guidance, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
Try this meditation: Imagine that you are the wood and the fire that consumes the wood.
First, focus your awareness on the part of you that is the wood. You may tremble or gasp, feeling the jolt of your solidity disintegrating, your form changing. As you shift your attention to the part of you that is the fire, you may exult in the wild joy of power and liberation.
It may be tempting to favor the fire over the wood, to love the burning more than the being burned. But if you'd like to understand pronoia in its fullness, you've got to appreciate them equally. Can you imagine yourself being the fire and wood simultaneously? Is it possible for you to experience the deep pleasure of their collaboration?
Much of my recent book, Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, is rated PG. Some is R. But there's one story that's X. Not in the same way that porn is. While it's uninhibited in its rendering of ecstatic eroticism, it's a feminist meditation on spiritual intimacy, not a heap of vulgar stereotypes. Still, when the book came out, I couldn't bear the thought of sending copies to certain relatives of mine who are a bit prudish. So I came to an honorable compromise: Using a razor blade, I sliced out the nine pages in question and gave my loved ones the mostly-intact remainder. May I suggest you consider a comparable editing of your efforts, Aquarius? Your main object right now is to win friends and influence people.
Take inventory of the extent that "No" dominates your life. Notice how often you say or think: 1. "That's not right." 2. "I don't like that." 3. "I don't agree with that." 4. "They don't like me." 5. "I'm not very good." 6. "That should be different from what it is." For help in retraining yourself to say "Yes!" at least 51% of the time, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
One of life's bounties is its changeableness, which ensures that boredom will never last very long. You may underestimate the intensity of your longing for continual transformation, but the universe doesn't. That's why it provides you with the boundless entertainment of your ever-shifting story. That's why it is always revising the challenges it sends your way, providing your curious soul with a rich variety of unpredictable teachings.
Neuroscientists have turned up evidence that suggests you love this aspect of the universe's behavior. They say that you are literally addicted to learning. At the moment when you grasp a lesson you've been grappling with, your brain experiences a rush of a natural opium-like chemical, boosting your pleasure levels. You crave this experience. You thrive on it.
In the waters off the southwest coast of Africa, the small fish known as the bearded goby has always been preyed upon by jellyfish -- until recently. Now this formerly mild-mannered species, whose diet used to consist of phytoplankton, has overthrown the ancient status quo: It is feasting on the jellyfish that once feasted on it. Scientists aren't sure why. I foresee a metaphorically comparable development in your life, Pisces. How it will play out exactly, I'm not sure. Maybe you'll gain an advantage over someone or something that has always had an advantage over you. Maybe you will become the topdog in a place where you've been the underdog. Or maybe you'll begin drawing energy from a source that has in the past sucked your energy.
How's your fight for freedom going? Are you making progress in liberating yourself from your unconscious obsessions, bad habits, and conditioned responses? For assistance and inspiration, tune in to your EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPE.
The phrase "new roses" can serve as an antidote to neurosis -- as a kind of magical spell. You might invoke it when you're in danger of getting undermined by either your own neurosis or someone else's.
If you notice, for instance, that your subconscious mind is spiraling down into a sour fantasy stirred up by one of your habitual fears, you could mutter a cheerful round of "new roses, new roses, new roses."
If your allies slip into the same compulsive behavior that they tend to get stuck in whenever stress overflows, you could chant "new roses, new roses, new roses" in a tuneful, affectionate tone.


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The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and... more...
William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood
I DESIRE this evening to give you some account of the life and labours of a very noble Englishman—William Harvey. William Harvey was born in the year 1578, and as he lived until the year 1657, he very nearly attained the age of 80. He was the son of a small landowner in Kent, who was sufficiently wealthy to send this, his eldest son, to the University of Cambridge; while he embarked the others in mercantile pursuits, in which they all, as... more...
The Present Condition of Organic Nature
THE PRESENT CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE. When it was my duty to consider what subject I would select for the six lectures [*To Working Men, at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863.] which I shall now have the pleasure of delivering to you, it occurred to me that I could not do better than endeavour to put before you in a true light, or in what I might perhaps with more modesty call, that which I conceive myself to be the true light, the... more...
The Perpetuation of Living Beings; hereditary transmission and...
The inquiry which we undertook, at our last meeting, into the state of our knowledge of the causes of the phenomena of organic nature,—of the past and of the present,—resolved itself into two subsidiary inquiries: the first was, whether we know anything, either historically or experimentally, of the mode of origin of living beings; the second subsidiary inquiry was, whether, granting the origin, we know anything about the perpetuation... more...
The Past Condition of Organic Nature
IN the lecture which I delivered last Monday evening, I endeavoured to sketch in a very brief manner, but as well as the time at my disposal would permit, the present condition of organic nature, meaning by that large title simply an indication of the great, broad, and general principles which are to be discovered by those who look attentively at the phenomena of organic nature as at present displayed. The general result of our investigations... more...
The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
There are three ways of regarding any account of past occurrences, whether delivered to us orally or recorded in writing. The narrative may be exactly true. That is to say, the words, taken in their natural sense, and interpreted according to the rules of grammar, may convey to the mind of the hearer, or of the reader an idea precisely correspondent with one which would have remained in the mind of a witness. For example, the statement that King... more...
The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature
Our fabulist warns "those who in quarrels interpose" of the fate which is probably in store for them; and, in venturing to place myself between so powerful a controversialist as Mr. Gladstone and the eminent divine whom he assaults with such vigour in the last number of this Review, I am fully aware that I run great danger of verifying Gay's prediction. Moreover, it is quite possible that my zeal in offering aid to a combatant so extremely well... more...
MR. DARWIN'S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of the philosopher have not yet wholly superseded the ambition and the vanity of the carnal man within him, he must be well satisfied with the results of his venture in publishing the 'Origin of Species'. Overflowing the narrow bounds of purely scientific circles, the... more...
On the Study of Zoology
NATURAL HISTORY is the name familiarly applied to the study of the properties of such natural bodies as minerals, plants, and animals; the sciences which embody the knowledge man has acquired upon these subjects are commonly termed Natural Sciences, in contradistinction to other so-called "physical" sciences; and those who devote themselves especially to the pursuit of such sciences have been and are commonly termed "Naturalists." Linnaeus was a... more...
On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'
ON THE RECEPTION OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday; and, like them, calls up the grand ideal of a searcher after truth and interpreter of Nature. They think of him who bore it as a rare combination of genius, industry, and unswerving veracity, who earned his... more...


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Mental health: ethnic minority experiences
Onset of mental health problems
Getting a diagnosis of a mental health problem
Hallucinations & delusions
Anxiety, negativity, mania & loss of energy
Views about causes of mental health problems: individual factors
Views about causes of mental health problems: social & environmental factors
Living with mental health problems
Ways of describing mental health problems
Losses & gains: impact of mental health problems on everyday lives
Discrimination due to mental health
The role of family, friends & carers
Support from mental health charities & support groups
Complementary & alternative medicine (CAM)
The role of faith, spirituality & religion for people with mental health problems
What else helps
Getting information about mental health
Experience of mental health services
Outpatient & community services for mental health problems
Being in hospital for mental health problems
Being sectioned under the Mental Health Act
Prescribed medication for mental health problems and their side effects
Not taking prescribed medication
Talking therapies & ECT for mental health problems
Messages for others about mental health
Messages for professionals about mental health
Suggestions for improving service provision for mental health
People thinking about stopping their medication should always discuss their plans with their doctor first. Stopping medication can cause unwanted effects and most should be reduced gradually. The Rethink Mental illness website provides useful guidance for people considering stopping their medication.
Although many people we talked to were taking some form of medication, some people currently were not taking any or talked about occasions when they had stopped taking it in the past for a period of time. Others did not stop taking their medication altogether but took it only when they felt they needed it - against the advice of their doctor and contrary to the instructions.
Consequences of stopping medication
Most people became unwell within weeks when they stopped taking their medication. It was precisely for this reason that some people said they would not stop taking their medication, despite any side effects.
Ugo describes the side effects from her medication but says she would not stop taking it because...
Okay, do you experience any side effects from the medication at all?
Yeah dry mouth and the shakes.
And how is that?
It's alright, I just drink a lot and try and not hold hot drinks.
Okay but it doesn't ever make you want to not take the medication?
No because I stop taking my medication and I know I become unwell really quick so [Laughs a little] I don't want to go back to being unwell so I try and not stop taking me medication.
How, how quickly does that happen?
Six weeks'
Some thought it was difficult to reduce or stop taking medication, especially if you have ongoing problems in your life or no support, and side effects can occur.
Ataur describes the side effects he experienced when he reduced his dose of medication and what...
You see those four, I used to take 40mg depression tablet when I cut down I talked to my doctor, he said, 'Alright try.' Because I take half, I, I cut it down half in a straight away, three weeks is so much problem in the head, it's sometime I feel somebody hitting the head, although there is nobody in here. Just jumping [jumps] on top, pushing, [gestures with hand] somebody pushing through the head like this. And I said, 'What happened?' [Looks around, rubs head and laughs]. So I, so now is okay, the doctor said two weeks it disturb you a little bit. Because the reaction from your blood have to be resettled, it will take three weeks, it's okay now. When I going to cut it down another 10mg it will be doing the same thing so now I'm, I'm used to it, I've got the experience so I won't be worrying. Before I was worried [Pause] So this is, this is the way I'm running my life, and I'm over 60, I'm okay, I'm happy now. But from, but I have to take the tablets. I think the tablet is controlling me. I rely on the tablet and very much I wanted to give up the tablet but [shakes head] I'll get ill if I do. I'll start crying, it's happened many times, I get nervous and worried, worried, worried, for nothing! I know it's for nothing but it's come to me, what can I do? Sometimes I get angry as well but I hold it back.
Some people talked about putting support measures in place to help them reduce or stop their medication. One man used prayer and fasting to help him reduce his medication and a woman relied on the support of friends with experience of taking medication for mental health problems.
Dolly describes her reasons for wanting to stop taking her medication and the importance of...
I mean, there are kind of a couple of times I have wanted to stop taking medication, because even though it helped with the kind of negative symptoms, you know, I was just going to bed at a silly time, like 8 pm and waking up like 8 or 9 and it just felt I didn't have the energy to do stuff I wanted. And also kind of, the kind of political aspects, you know, of how the pharmaceutical companies have some much power within the mental health system. And that I didn't want to be part of it and also knowing that a lot of the pharmaceutical companies test on animals which I'm not comfortable with. So for those reasons I have tried to stop taking it before, but it usually just ends up me becoming very ill very quickly.
Hopefully in the future I would like to be off my medication but I realise what my mistake was before. It wasn't having a kind of strong supportive structure that was there if I did become unwell, and how I would kind of deal with stressful, stressful situations. But that's, I think something for the future, not right now. Because I'm kind of starting university as a mature student in September. You know, I don't want to get ill, so I'm going to stay with it, at least through my kind of university time, and maybe after that, kind of try and find a way of coming off it.
So just to make sure that I understand because earlier you were talking about medication not being like a cure as such.
And so when you are talking about may be in the future being able to come off your medication is that because you see yourself recovering or is that because you see yourself finding a way to manage without medication?
Yes, just to manage without medication, you know. I have come to the point I don't think I am every going to be rid of these symptoms, because I've just had them so long. So it's finding like other ways to manage the symptoms, that's, you know, what I'm kind of investigating and kind of slowly building up a supportive structure around me really. So, you know, when I do hopefully come off them, I've got something that will, you know, will keep me standing really.
Doctors often encouraged people who did not take their medication to take it and told them that they needed it. Sometimes stopping medication and becoming unwell meant being admitted to hospital or given treatment against their wishes or without them knowing under the Bournewood gap - a gap in the law that allows mental health inpatients lacking capacity to make decisions or consent to treatment to be given hospital treatment informally, without the need to section them under the Mental Health Act. To stop the abuse of this gap in the law the government introduced the 'Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards', which came into force in April 2009. A mechanism by which people can challenge the compulsory detention of people who are unable to speak for themselves. Unfortunately many families still don't know the safeguards exist, and as a result despite the large numbers of people detained informally very few have been challenged.
The language barrier meant she and the doctors did not understand each other and she was forced...
I think because of the language barrier, communication was nearly impossible. My experience of Chinese medicine/treatment, doctors would examine carefully through sight, odour, question and autopsy. But during my treatment here, the doctors just tell me to do counting exercises, which at the time my mind could not mentally manage. The doctors then prescribed medication for me straight after. I wondered how the doctors could prescribe drugs at such an early stage. Shouldn't you ask me about my history and situation, before giving medication? I constantly worried about my medication; what type of drugs are these? Why won't the doctors tell me? Because I don't understand English and because the doctor told me that I have to take medication, adding with the strange environment, I felt a bit worried and scared. I did not want to take the medication. I tried my best to communicate that I would like to have interpretation. They didn't understand very well, but brought along a nurse who knew a bit Chinese. She asked me to open my mouth and swallow the medication. I felt like I was forced to do something I didn't want to. She then asked me to open my mouth to check whether I swallowed the pill or not. I did not approve of this method, but there was nothing I could do, so I had no choice but I take the pills. I later realized thought that it could have been a tranquilizer or sleeping pills that I had been given, although I didn't sleep at all that night.
Some people who had been labelled as "non-compliant" by doctors were given medication by injection. Some found being injected highly distressing and humiliating. One man, however, did not mind. Another man said he noticed when he was in hospital that injections were used mainly for people of African-Caribbean origin. He also thought that being injected in the buttock had sexual overtones that might be particularly traumatic for people like him who had been victims of rape.
Niabingi was injected because she stopped taking her medication and says she felt undignified,...
Well, I've been on, yeah I've been on Depixol, I've been on risperidone, I've been on Sulpiride, I've been on oh what's the other one, Depixol, Sulpiride, risperidone, clorpromazine I think, I think chlorpromazine, I've been on quite a few. injections and I mean 'cause I was always non-compliant because you know, I was convinced I could get by without the medication they called me non-compliant because I used to stop taking it. So at first they insisted that I had the injection, I had to come in for the injection but then I'd promised them that I would take it you know, because the injection, I find injections so undignified you've got to go in and take down your pants or you know, and everybody seeing your privates and you know, not everybody but even just the one nurse is too much for me you know, and all that kind of thing. And sit there like a, a, a, a, a passive, a passive animal and just you know, have somebody, somebody inject you like an orange and I just, I really felt very upset with the injections, very undignified and belittled that I felt with the injections so I promised them I'd take the medication, you know, the oral medication. [Rubbing hands together] So that, that's , that, you know, they, you know they, eventually they agreed that you know, that you know, to give it to me. And you know, I've been on that for a while now, for a good few years, a good few years.
and I've also had a stable mental health team, you know, I've only just lost my CPN, I think it's been, how long has it been now'? It's been about three or four years that I haven't had a CPN but my social worker and psychiatrist, my shrink have been with me coming up to ten years so they know me now you know. And if I say to them well I don't feel like taking the medication you know, they'll say well you know, you should, you really should but you know, you know, you know, we can't force you but you know, you could get ill or you'll go into hospital, you know, you will go into hospital. But I mean they don't sort of insist you know, it's, it's, it's you know, they don't, they, I mean now they don't call me non-compliant, they just understand, they just, they understand that I've been trying, you know, because for me to get back to normal, to really get back to normal, because what used to sort of upset me was that people would say you were well you know, but you'd still be taking these, these drugs, these drugs, these tablets or you these, or having this injection and people who are well don't take tablets and drugs so I'd say well how well am I? So what I tried to do was to get by without the medication' [Begins to cry] So because that would signify that I was properly well, so I think they understood after a while that I was just trying to get a bit better [Crying].
Chapman stopped taking his medication in case the weed and alcohol he was using affected them and...
Do you know the name of the medication that you're taking then?
Consta risperidone 50mgs.
Right and do you take that 50mgs?
Fortnight.
OK is that, you take a, have an injection or something? Is it a depo?
A depo yeah.
What's that like having that injection?
It doesn't make a difference.
No? Do you mind going for the injection?
I don't mind.
No, exactly.
Would you rather have tablets or'?
If, I have been on tablets but I, got so bad that I wasn't taking them, I'd piled them, stashed up, I used to get it delivered at home so my social worker said that I should start getting an injection, that that would be easier because I wasn't taking my medication. My medication as well wasn't, I don't think it was making a difference.
Why weren't, why weren't you taking it because'?
I was drinking so I thought if I was drinking it would, it would affect the way the medication would work. And I was taking drugs as well.
Right, what kind of drugs?
No just weed.
Yeah okay. Did that help or'?
It makes me even more paranoid. Makes me even more paranoid when I smoke weed.
Reasons for wanting to stop medication
Reasons for not wanting to take medication varied: people often felt it was not helping them (or not helping enough) or that they did not need it. Some stopped taking it to control a situation in which they felt they were controlled both by their mental health problems, the medication or their doctors. Others said that they had rejected medication at some point in the past because they were unwell at the time.
Lorenz thought he did not need his prescribed medication and believed that the doctors were just...
I thought I'm ill. they say they're psychiatrists, know about the mind which I think my mind was disturbed or my mind got an illness and so I can only put it down as an illness in the mind. It's not that, it's like a physical illness but a mind illness. So I said they have the drugs to help me to recover so I was relying on them, which I probably shouldn't have, relying on them to get me the right medication. But what I noticed they was, to a degree they was doing they had, they wanted control of me to say because I have a mental illness, I probably might do certain things. They have, a conception, perception of me which wasn't quite right. I didn't want them to perceive what I'm like before I show some sign of doing it, you know. So I felt that medication, the only type of medication throughout the years they were giving me was to say keep me under control rather than saying '[Lorenz], you're, you're being treated only for this illness.' It's a controlling mechanism because I said this because I need to go to the hospital regularly to get injections or I need to have fortnightly check up with the psychiatrist, one or the other, it's either a fortnightly check up with the psychiatrist or monthly with the injection, for many years it was like that. And I just thought this isn't right, nothing I can do. They tell me the medication is right to get me better but maybe this is where I should have said it was my colour [laughs] but I, as I said I never thought there was a colour problem, it was just that it's a controlling system.
Concern about unpleasant side effects was another reason for wanting to stop medication. People also worried about potential risks to their brain and memory and the risk of becoming addicted and were reluctant to take medication long-term or for the rest of their lives. Some also objected to the influence pharmaceutical companies have in the mental health system and their use of animal testing. One man said he stopped taking his medication when he was drinking alcohol and taking drugs because he thought that would affect the way the medication worked (see Chapman above).
People who were no longer taking any prescribed medication gave additional reasons. They were motivated to give up their medication by the idea that it masked their real problems and not taking it would help them to understand what was causing their mental health problems and find other ways to deal with them. One man had found medication helpful in the past but felt he could manage without it. He compared tablets with a defibrillator (an electrical device used to restore a normal heartbeat), saying that they were a temporary fix that does not solve your problems but just bring you back to life. One woman said she thought "communication is the best medication." A few people said that they had been misdiagnosed and wanted to stop taking the antipsychotics that had therefore been wrongly prescribed (see 'Getting a diagnosis').
Sara says taking antidepressant would imply that her depression was caused by a chemical...
And yes, something I did want to say was that, I like, have looked on the website and I have seen some people saying that they felt relieved to take medication because it felt like someone was saying it's not your fault, and you have got a chemical imbalance and for me, I actually think, if someone said that to me it would negate all my experiences that led to me becoming so depressed, if they just said, 'Oh well you well you've just got a chemical imbalance in your brain and''
I mean I can see the point why people might think that, you know, if they're told they have got a chemical imbalance that makes them feel it's not their fault and it is a real illness. But for me for somebody to tell me that and say, 'Oh just take an antidepressant.' I feel quite angry about that, because I think that, in a way I think I'm justified in being depressed I suppose. I think well, and I know that there's a lot of people who do have terrible lives and they don't get depressed and maybe I am not, I don't know, maybe there is some brain chemical imbalance but I just think. And I'm not really very good at explaining my experiences in a way that could make people understand why I would be so depressed. I think it's like only if you have lived through it, that you might understand. But I sort of think well, no wonder I'm depressed.
Having medication stopped by a doctor
Other people described how their doctor stopped or changed their medication, or reduced the dose - sometimes without explaining why. One woman was rationing her remaining supply of medication because her doctor had refused to give her any more. One man hoped that he would eventually find a treatment that worked after his doctors discharged him against his wishes.
Anton takes no medication - he felt the doctors gave up on him.
So nothing came out of them, and then one of the psychiatrists sort of said to me. 'Look, well you don't seem to respond to medicine. So therefore we can't do much about it. And therefore, as far as we're concerned we have given up. You will just have to grin and bear it.'
Now me being me, I never take no for an answer. My being an auditor when the company has problems, well I want to solve it and come up with something. And if I didn't I would go and ask somebody. So, so I said, 'I want to see some other consultants'.
So went and saw another, one of their consultants, and the consultant first he treated me nicely. He didn't prescribe any medicine. I am a member of the Depression Alliance and Manic Depression Fellowship. I get their monthly magazine, and various information.
When some new treatment came up. I used to go and say, 'Doctor, there is a new thing. Well let's try this.' Then he said to me, 'Well look, we have discussed all these things before. Medicines don't work for you.' And then he said, 'Oh I know about all that. You know, I'm a consultant. You know, you're just wasting our time. And that is our business.'
You said that they had given up on you.
Oh they've given up even when I go and show the latest research or pill, or development, they say, 'Oh we have discussed all that.' Well then they quote statistics. There are 20% of the depressed, people suffering from depression, medication doesn't work. Then I said, 'Well I could, this may work, one in a million chance.' But they just wouldn't.
How does that make you feel?
Oh I feel very bad, though. Because they, I am not asking them for something, for, I am suffering, when you're suffering, even if they tell me, gulp that stone which I will do it. You know, when you're suffering, somebody is suffering, why don't they do it? All they do is write another prescription and say, 'How are you getting on, you know.'
Coming to terms with taking medication
Over time, many who had rejected medication at some point said they eventually came to terms with their mental health problems and realised that they needed to take it. Others thought side effects were "a small price to pay" and found other ways to take control of their situation, for example, by developing strategies to manage side effects (see 'Prescribed medication & side effects', 'Complementary and Alternative Medicine' and 'The role of faith, religion & spirituality').
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How Do Companies Fight Truck Accident Lawsuits?
Posted on October 22, 2014 at 12:00pm by Targan Pender & Strickland, P.C.
It is not uncommon for defense attorneys in truck accident cases to try to blame victims for their injuries.
This is done in an attempt to reduce potential damages that could go to victims, by placing responsibility in their hands. This is why it is important to speak to our Atlantic City injury attorneys if you have been involved in a crash.
Sadly, this occurred recently when Wal-Mart filed documents in a federal court in response to a lawsuit brought on by actor Tracy Morgan.
Morgan was involved in a truck accident in June in Newark when Kevin Roper struck the limousine he was riding in. Roper, who was working for Wal-Mart, was charged with death by auto and assault by auto charges in a state court. He reportedly had not slept for 24 hours prior to the crash, in violation of state law.
Morgan suffered critical injuries and spent several months in rehabilitation, and is still recovering. Four other people were injured in the accident, and one person, James McNair, was killed.
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Археологическата експозиция в Бургас е най-старият музей в Бургаска област, съхраняващ културно-историческото наследство на някои от най-древните градове в страната – Созопол (Аполония), Несебър (Месамбрия), Поморие (Анхиало) и др.

Създаден е като частен музей на Археологическото дружество "Дебелт" през 1912 г. Отредена му е сградата на днешната Археологическа експозиция – тогавашната Девическа гимназия.

Археологическата експозиция на РИМ-Бургас се помещава в сграда на централната бургаска улица "Богориди", която е изцяло пешеходна и предоставя възможност за придвижване на хората с инвалидни колички.

Първите редовни археологически изследвания на специалисти от бургаското археологическо дружество са проведени през 1927 г. През 30-те и 40-те години на 20 век, бъдещият Бургаски археологически музей се сдобива с най-ценните си експонати. Това са основно около 300 керамични съда, открити при драгиране на Созополското пристанище от различни исторически периоди. Сред находките следва да се споменат и римския надпис от село Пънчево, мраморната статуя от полуостров Атия – най-ранният пример на кръгла скулптура от България, мраморното торсо на бог Дионис от село Оризаре, многобройните находки от праисторическата, тракийската, гръцката, римската, византийската, старобългарската и османската култура по тези земи.

През 2012 г. Археологическата експозиция празнува своята 100-годишнина под шапката на Регионален исторически музей. В неговия основен фонд се съхраняват над 15 хиляди движими културни ценности.

В Археологическия музей са изложени колекции от археологически находки, свързани с древна Тракия, гръцките колонии по Черноморието и времето на Римската империя. Експонати показват най-ранната история на корабоплаването по Черно море, както и развитието на проспериращите южночерноморски пристанища в България през Средните векове до падането на страната под османско владичество в края на 14 – средата на 15 век.

В залите на музея могат да бъдат видени експонати, намерени при археологически проучвания в цялата Бургаска област. Тук се съхранява най-ранната статуя, намирана някога на българските земи. Бургаският музей има една от най-пълните колекции от домонетни и монетни форми в страната и на Балканите. Впечатляващ експонат е бронзов слитък, от който са открити само четири в света.

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On the Possible in Mormon Styles
Raymond Queneau (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I've gotten into the, perhaps bad, habit of looking for a Mormon parallel to interesting works I come across. I know I'm not alone in doing this–after the first online dating site how long did it take before we had a Mormon one?
My most recent foray into potential Mormon parallels came when I purchased a copy of Raymond Queneau's fascinating book Exercises in Style , which consists of 99 versions of the same mundane story told in a stunning variety of ways. For me this book has highlighted the similarity of much of today's literature, especially so-called genre fiction. Contemporary fiction seems focused on a narrow range of styles–either first person or third person omniscient, narrative told in chronological order. [There are, of course, plenty of exceptions. But elements like this seem to dominate.]
Cover of Exercises in Style
In his book, Queneau doesn't really invent new styles. Instead, the styles reflect what already exists; the way people talk or write or portray stories. Styles in the book include things like Metaphorically, Retrograde, Dream, Word Game, Narrative, Anagrams, Onomatopoeia, Logical Analysis, Official Letter, Past, Present, Reported Speech etc.
For example, the "Notation" style (first in the book) is told this way:
On the S bus, in the rush hour. A chap of about twenty-six, soft hat with a cord instead of a ribbon, neck too long, as if someone's been tugging at it. People getting off. The chap in question gets annoyed with one of the men standing next to him. He accuses him of jostling him every time anyone goes past. A snivelling tone which is meant to be aggressive. When he sees a vacant seat he throws himself onto it.
Two hours later, I come across him in the Cour de Rome, in front of the Gare Saint-Lazare. He's with a friend who's saying: "You ought to get an extra button put on your overcoat." He shows him where (at the lapels) and why.
To me this concept is brilliant. For authors and readers alike it breaks down the customary approach to literature and promotes creativity. It also simply helps us to understand what style is and the breadth of its possibilities.
So, would it be possible to produce a Mormon Exercises in Style? I know many of our fellow Church members who would say no — that Mormons have no style, or that all of Mormon writing and discourse uses the same style. But this seems demonstrably false to me. If nothing else we see stylistic differences in different situations: testimonies have stylistic differences when compared to lessons or talks or interviews. And different authors have their own styles–who doubts that President Monson's familiar use of a kind of passive past tense near the emotional and spiritual climax of his stories ("Hugs were shared; tears were shed"¦") constitutes an important element of the Monsonian style?
I don't know if there are enough identifiable Mormon styles for a book like Queneau's. But I think the effort of telling the same story in a series of Mormon styles would at least help those who wrote the stories, and likely would enlighten readers about the customary ways Mormons communicate with each other.
Since I'm not at all confident about my own ability to mimic a variety of Mormon styles (I'm not even sure I have the ability to do just one!), I'd like to suggest open this idea up to the online Mormon world (the bloggernacle or whatever you would like to call it) and ask for submissions, which would then be published here on AMV and perhaps improved by the suggestions of our readers and visitors.
In order to do this, we will need a couple of things:
First, we need a mundane story. Make that a mundane Mormon story. I hope to write a post in the next week asking for suggestions about what should be included in this story. Somehow, without being dramatic, I think it will need to include elements of a typical Mormon life — perhaps what happens in Church, at least in part. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.
Second, we will need a list of possible styles in which the story can be rendered. I've mentioned some possibilities above, and I'm including those and a few more below.
[Note that some of these could be subdivided — travelog testimonies may be stylistically different, for example — while others may not actually be clear styles, and still others may not work to tell a story at all. To get started, lets list possibilities regardless of these issues.]:
church lesson (as delivered)
sacrament meeting talk
priesthood leader interview
Monsonian
lesson manual
bloggernacle post
mormon.org profile
I don't know if this will work or not. To me it seems like it might be fun and perhaps useful. What do you think?
Author tylerchadwickPosted on 06/19/2015 Categories Authoring, Criticism, Idea, LiteratureTags Authored by Kent Larsen10 Comments on On the Possible in Mormon Styles
Needing an Editor: a Review of Alfred Osmond's Married Sweethearts
I think someone should read this old stuff and find out if it is any good.
There is a kind of "lost" Mormon literature, hundreds of works published before the 1970s that today even most of us who study our literature have never heard of, let alone read. Married Sweethearts (1928) clearly falls in this category. I'd heard of Osmond's epic poem The Exiles (1926) and knew that he was a professor of English at BYU when I came across a note by Sam Taylor that mentioned Osmond's novel (which I excerpted here). In that excerpt, Taylor had a poor opinion of Osmond's work:
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Author tylerchadwickPosted on 08/29/2014 Categories History, ReviewsTags Alfred Osmond, Authored by Kent Larsen, BYU, marriage, Married Sweethearts, Romance, westerns2 Comments on Needing an Editor: a Review of Alfred Osmond's Married Sweethearts
What should the talks be about for Mormon Arts Sunday?
Why Kent can't wear a beret on Mormon Arts Sunday (plus, his daughter stole the beret!!)
Our nascent annual attempt to change the way Mormons think about the arts, Mormon Arts Sunday, (a.k.a. "Wear a Black Beret to Church Day") is approaching soon! I'm trying hard to make this a "thing," and so while the whole "black beret" thing won't work for me (as this photo demonstrates), I have managed to arrange for our ward to devote its sacrament meeting on June 8th (the 1st of June is Fast Sunday, so that won't work) to the arts.
However, we do have to somehow give those who speak on Mormon Arts Sunday a subject. And since there will probably be 3 speakers, we need to divide up the subject of the Gospel and the Arts and Mormon Art into general areas–or at least select three specific topics from among the universe of possible topics. What should we say to speakers? What should they talk about?
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Author tylerchadwickPosted on 05/12/2014 Categories Commentary, Culture, Mormon Arts SundayTags Arts Awareness, Authored by Kent Larsen, Black Berets, Sabbath Day Activism12 Comments on What should the talks be about for Mormon Arts Sunday?
The First Course in Mormon Literature?
As I understand it, university-level Mormon literature courses have been taught since the late 1970s, mainly at BYU thanks to the efforts of Eugene England. In recent years the number of courses have increased, and currently exist at least at BYU, LDS Business College and Utah Valley University.
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And there have been courses with Mormon literature components taught elsewhere as well.
But the university level isn't the only place where Mormon literature courses could be taught, and as I've already noted, the idea of using Mormon writing to teach children, at least, occurred to Parley P. Pratt quite early. Now, I've come across another course, this one aimed at Relief Society sisters in 1948. And this course was apparently taught–at least in some Relief Societies. Still better, its author was a recently retired English professor who had taught for 19 years at New York University.
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Author tylerchadwickPosted on 03/27/2014 Categories History, LiteratureTags Authored by Kent Larsen, history of Mormon literature, Howard R. Driggs, Mormon Literature Course4 Comments on The First Course in Mormon Literature?
Sunday Lit Crit Sermon #87: Orson F. Whitney on Oratory as Milk
In the past 40 years the descriptions of Mormon literature published by Eugene England and his successors have designated oratory as one of the primary forms of our literary output, one that Church members are most familiar with. It is in oratory, as well as the personal essay, that Mormons are sometimes thought to excel. Given the pattern of Mormon worship, that makes sense.
But we also might ask whether a strength in oratory is best for our literature. Are some forms of literature inherently better than others? And does the Mormon view differ from that of others who have examined literature?
Its no surprise that Orson F. Whitney had has opinion about oratory:
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Author tylerchadwickPosted on 03/16/2014 Categories Oratory, Poetry, Sunday Lit Crit SermonTags Authored by Kent Larsen, bad literature, literary forms, oratory, Orson F. Whitney, Poetry
Sunday Lit Crit Sermon #86: Ramona Wilcox Cannon on the spiritual in literature
Literary theory often leaves out any spiritual element or claim–something that separates religious thinkers and writers from others. I believe that the role of spirituality in literature is particularly important in Mormonism, since we believe in personal revelation and that such revelation is relevant to everyday tasks, such as writing and consuming literary works. I believe, therefore, that spirituality must be an important element of any Mormon literary theory.
Nor is my belief unique. For example, Ramona Wilcox Cannon decried the lack of spirituality in the following article in 1926.
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Author tylerchadwickPosted on 03/02/2014 Categories Sunday Lit Crit SermonTags Authored by Kent Larsen, Joseph J. Cannon, Ramona Wilcox Cannon, spirituality1 Comment on Sunday Lit Crit Sermon #86: Ramona Wilcox Cannon on the spiritual in literature
Sunday Lit Crit Sermon #85: Orson F. Whitney on Poetry, Music and Silence
What makes poetry work? Why is it different than fiction and other genres? I'm not sure any scientific answer is possible to this question, since it involves so many elements, many of which simply can't be measured objectively. But this view hasn't kept appraisers of literature from trying to say what makes poetry different.
Part of the difference is found in the "music" of poetry–its use of rhythm, rhyme and other features to connect to the reader or hearer of its words.
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Author tylerchadwickPosted on 02/16/2014 Categories Poetry, Sunday Lit Crit SermonTags Authored by Kent Larsen, Music, Orson F. Whitney, Poetry, silence


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The Creek - The city of Dubai, together with its over-the-water suburb of Deira, is situated on the shores of a deep natural inlet, known as 'the creek'. It is both functional and aesthetic, somehow retaining strong elements of its traditional charm as the large wooden dhows still tie-up along the roadside quays. White throbbed merchants supervise loading or off-loading in a trading practice that seem to have changed little, despite the inevitable march of modernity. Whilst the goods have changed, with car tyres and electrical items replacing the pearl shells, spices and other more traditional goods of times-past, there is much about this scene that reminds one of Arabia's long maritime history.
The Souks - Walk up the narrow streets of Deira's traditional markets: its spice souk offering a free gift of appetising aromas from the dozens of different spices and herbs on sale in shops that have hardly changed for over a hundred years; or its perfume souk where shop-keepers are delighted to cover your wrist in samples of their alluring fragrances; or the gold souk where every pocket and taste is catered for; or to just wend one's way through the colourful cloth souk, wherever one ventures the essence of traditional Arabia is to be found here. Taste local bread, baked in domed clay ovens as one watches; or check out the nargilehs (hookah pipes), many of which are sold as decorations. This is a place to linger as much as to shop. The fish-souk is another story, requiring an energetic early morning rise, or a late night visit, and a brisk walk among the bustling stalls, covered in every kind of local marine-life from succulent prawns to impressive large sharks.
Traditional Architecture - The characteristic structure of Dubai was its wind-towers, most of which have long since disappeared, thanks to modern air-conditioning. Some are still to be seen however, either in their renovated or newly built states, or in their more dilapidated original form. The Bastakiya district, just to the east of Al Fahidi Fort, is worth a visit for its traditional style buildings.
Palace of Sheikh Saeed - This original residence of the present ruler of Dubai's grandfather, Sheikh Saeed, has been carefully restored to its original condition. Beautifully located on the shores of Dubai Creek, and with some fine wind-towers, it is a magnificent building with excellent examples of traditional architecture.
Jumeira Mosque - It is almost impossible to drive past Jumeirah mosque without marvelling at its sheer beauty or even deciding to stop and take in its fine lines at one's leisure. This spectacular example of modern Islamic architecture is also one of the most photographed sites in Dubai. The best time to admire it is when it is lit in the early evening.
Dubai Museum - Housed in Al Fahidi Fort the recently renovated Dubai Museum provides a window into the UAE's past and tells a fascinating story that many visitors find helps them to place their other experiences of the Emirates in context. The fort was built in the 19th century and has been lovingly adapted for its present role as the Emirate's museum. Displays of traditional life from the past include vivid portrayals of pearl fishing and the every day life of a pearl merchant. Some of the archaeological finds on display are over four thousand years old.
Dubai World Trade Centre - This 39 story office and exhibition block is a prominent landmark on Dubai's skyline. In addition to housing offices of many of the world's largest corporations, it regularly hosts major trade exhibitions, attracting visitors from all over the world.
Parks and Gardens - As with Abu Dhabi and the other emirates, Dubai has an extensive network of public parks, offering picnic and barbecue sites, children's areas and a variety of entertainment facilities. The main parks are Jumeirah Beach Park (featuring a desert garden, playground, volleyball courts and barbecue areas); Dubai Creek Side Park (including amphitheatre, 18-hole mini-golf course, miniature-train and restaurants); Mushrif Park (including ''World Village'', miniature train, merry-go-round and camel or pony rides); Ras Mamzar Park (featuring sea-side chalets, paved terraces, play and barbecue areas) and Safa Park with its mini-city and artificial lake.


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Removable Window Bars are the ideal solution for domestic and commercial applications where removal of the security bars is occasionally required.
The bars are manufactured from tough, powder-coated anti-cut steel bars, which can be fitted vertically or horizontally for internal fitting. They are finished to a high standard and deliver a security solution which is quick and easy to install, yet highly effective in a range of locations.
This security system make it ideal for lower security, domestic and commercial applications where removal of the window bars is required occasionally and a very useful option for openings that fall below the minimum size for retractable window grilles.
How do Removable Window Bars work?
The window bars are locked into place on the inside of windows using strong extruded aluminium retaining units, yet can be easily released from the inside to allow easy access for maintenance and visibility. Strong extruded aluminium retaining units secure each bar, yet the unique locking system means that they are released in seconds.
Easy to install, the window bar system is designed to fit as close as possible to the window frame, which will avoid any cavity for dust and dirt to collect in. Operated by a single radial lock point, the key must always be pressed in before any key rotation is possible.
A higher security fixed window bar system is also available for locations where removal is not a requirement.
Visual deterrent to vandals and burglars.
Can be removed as required.