Monday Nile cruise is a cruise which starts the tour and the embarkation each Monday of the week. In fact, the Monday Nile cruise features 4 night tour from Luxor. Moreover, it starts the 3 night Nile cruise and the embarkation on each Friday from Aswan. In fact, there is a group of Monday Nile cruises which starts the embarkation and the tour from Aswan. They offer only 3 night Nile cruise tour. In fact, they are few in comparison to these ones who start from Luxor.
In fact, the embarkation on the Monday Nile cruise is before lunch either in Luxor or Aswan. There are daily flights from Cairo to Luxor and Aswan as well. Moreover, Egypt Air also runs domestic flight from Hurghada to Luxor on fixed days of the week. Please to contact us to know the schedule.
The accommodation on the Monday Nile cruise.
In fact, the accommodation on the Monday Nile cruise is always based on full board. The breakfast, lunch and dinner meals always offered in an open buffet style. Some Nile cruises offer sometimes a set menu system. In fact, the prices always include all meals and drinks which offered in the buffet. You should pay in case you would like for extra drinks.
In fact, the Monday Nile cruise facilities are the same like the hotels. Most of Nile cruises have sun deck, swimming pool and spa facilities. Moreover, Monday Nile cruises also feature of course restaurant, bar, lounges and reception desk. In fact, any Monday Nile cruise consists of 4 or 5 decks. The cabins and suites distributed on the decks except the sun deck. Moreover, the cabins are either twin, double, triple or single. In fact, there is no quarter cabins on any Monday Nile cruise except 2 Nile cruises. The Monday Nile cruise also features suites which can accommodate 2 or 3 person. Most of Nile cruises in Egypt have WiFi for free in public areas. Yey, some of them, the internet is against charge.
Moreover, most of Monday Nile cruises feature international telephone and fax against charge. In fact, most of Egypt Nile cruises feature fitness rooms, gym facilities and Jacuzzi. Furthermore, most of the Monday Nile cruises feature beauty salon, hair dresser and doctor on call.
In fact, most of Egypt Monday Nile cruises cabins feature air conditioning with individual control. The cabins also feature private bathroom with private shower and bathtub. Moreover, they also feature mini fridge or mini bar and music system. They also feature TV with satellite channels. The cabins also feature coffee and tea making facilities. All cabins and suites have telephone line which connected to the reception desk. Moreover, the room service is available in most of Egypt Nile cruises. In fact, the luxurious Nile cruises feature Jacuzzi in the suites.
In fact, most of Monday Nile cruises in Egypt feature entertainment programs. The programs include folkloric show, belly dance show and Galabeya party. Moreover, some Monday Nile cruises have their own programs of the entertainments. In fact, it depends on the cruise category.
In fact, the tour starts be the embarkation on the Nile river cruise board before the lunch. And then, there will be sightseeing to visit Karnak and Luxor temples. You will be back to the cruise for dinner and overnight. In this day, you will have a chance to get an optional tour of Sound & Light Show. In fact, the show held in fixed time at Karnak temple. On Tuesday, you will visit the valley of Queens, Valley of Kings and colossi of Memnon. And then, you will be back for lunch and cruise activities. In fact, in this day, you can have optional tour of Hot Air Balloon Ride. The cruise sails on this day to Edfu. In fact, the dinner and overnight will be also on the cruise board. On the Wednesday, you will visit Edfu temple which also known as Horus temple.
And then, you will be back to the cruise for taking the lunch while sailing to Kom Ombo. Once the cruise reaches Kom Ombo, it will stop to visit Kom Ombo temple. And then you will be back to the cruise for dinner and overnight while sailing to Aswan. On the Thursday, the cruise will dock in Aswan and you will visit Aswan High dam. Moreover, you will also visit the Unfinished obelisk. And then, you will be back to the cruise for taking the lunch. PM, you will sail by sailing boat to visit Elephantine Island and Philae temple. And then, you will be back to the cruise for the dinner and the overnight. On the Friday, you will disembark after the breakfast. In fact, in this day, you will have a great chance to visit Abu Simbel temples as an optional tour.


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Q: null is getting returned when $location.search is used I am using $location.search to get the params from the url but it gives a null.
My url is  http://localhost/Site/?user=12345.
app.controller('UrlController', ['$scope', '$log','$location', function($scope,$log,$location) {

    var testsearch = $location.search();
    console.log(testsearch);

}])

I want to get the value 12345 for the user by parsing the url. How this can be achieved.
how can i parse the params from the url. I checked the documentation
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$location

A: You need to use $window
So:
var qstring = $window.location.search.substring(1);
The substring(1) just removes the ?
You can then use a function, like this one, to parse it into an object
String.prototype.parseQuerystring = function () {
    var query = {};
    var a = this.split('&');
    for (var i in a)
    {
        var b = a[i].split('=');
        query[decodeURIComponent(b[0])] = decodeURIComponent(b[1]);
    }

    return query;

}

And call it with:
var qParts = qString.parseQuerystring();
Issues with $location
There are some known issues with $location depending on HTML5 mode etc. Where $window doesn't have this issue. E.G https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/7239

A: If you configure $location to use html5Mode (history.pushState), you need to specify the base URL for the application with a  tag or configure $locationProvider to not require a base tag by passing a definition object with requireBase:false to $locationProvider.html5Mode():
  app.config(['$locationProvider', function($locationProvider) {
    $locationProvider.html5Mode({
        enabled: true,
        requireBase: false
    });
}]);

please refer https://docs.angularjs.org/error/$location/nobase
And for getting url parameter you can use belwo in your controller. you get parameter as a array in $location.search()
var urlParameter = $location.search();
 console.log(urlParameter);

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Patients with a severe TBI are at high risk of post-traumatic events, such as intracranial bleeding or brain edema, which lead to a rise in intracranial pressure and secondary brain damage. In such cases, rapid intervention is essential in order to relieve the intracranial pressure through medication and/or surgery (craniotomy).
S100 serum measurement is proven in monitoring the cerebral status of patients with severe TBI. As the majority of individuals do not have clinically significant intracerebral lesions on CT scan, a negative S100 value is a valuable tool for ruling out pathological findings and preventing unnecessary CT Scanning after minor head injury.
International guidelines advise that adult patients with mild head injury and no risk factors who have a serum S100B level <0.10 μg/L measured within 6 hours of injury may be discharged without the need for CT.
Contingency table for serum S100B according to cranial CT (CCT) findings in 1,309 patients with minor head injury.3 CCT-, patients without any sign of trauma-relevant intracerebral lesions on CT; CCT+, patients with at least one trauma-relevant CT finding.
Zongo, D., Ribéreau-Gayon, R., Masson, F., Laborey, M., Contrand, B., Salmi, L. R. et al. (2012). S100-B protein as a screening tool for the early assessment of minor head injury. Ann Emerg Med, 59(3), 209-218.
Bloomfield, S. M., McKinney, J., Smith, L. & Brisman, J. (2007). Reliability of S100B in predicting severity of central nervous system injury. Neurocrit Care, 6(2), 121-138.
Pelinka, L. E., Toegel, E., Mauritz, W. & Redl, H. (2003). Serum S 100 B: a marker of brain damage in traumatic brain injury with and without multiple trauma. Shock, 19(3), 195-200.
Murillo-Cabezas, F., Muñoz-Sánchez, M. A., Rincón-Ferrari, M. D., Martín-Rodríguez, J. F., maya-Villar, R., García-Gómez, S. et al. (2010). The prognostic value of the temporal course of S100beta protein in post-acute severe brain injury: A prospective and observational study. Brain Inj, 24(4), 609-619.
Guo HB, Stofffel-Wagner B, Bierwirth T, et al. Clinical significance of serum S100 in metastatic malignant melanoma. Eur J Cancer 1995;31A:924-928.
8. Mohammed MQ, Abraha HD, Sherwood RA, et al. Serum S100β protein as a marker of disease activity in patients with malignant melanoma. Med Oncol 2001;18:109-120.
9. Krähn G, Kaskel P, Sander S, et al. S100β is a more reliable tumor marker in peripheral blood for patients with newly occurred melanoma metastases compared with MIA, albumin and lactate-dehydrogenase. Cancer Research 2001;21:1311-1316.
10. von Schoultz E, Hansson LO, Djureen E, et al. Prognostic value of serum analysis S-100β protein in malignant melanoma. Melanoma Research 1996;6:133-137.
11. Abraha HD, Fuller LC, Vivier AW, et al. Serum S-100 protein: a potentially useful prognostic marker in cutaneous melanoma. Br J Dermatol 1997;137:381-385.


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I finally came up with a way to make custom copper wound load resistors for loading MC cartridges.
The values are best to be kept below 1K (hey we only load the cartridge directly right!) which should cover most cases.
Above is a 120 ohm and a190 ohm to load a Zu 103R feeding a 1:20 silver SUT.
and a peek under the black shrink. I have some clear shrink on the way to see if the peekaboo look works.
As for the measured parameters.... They are wound in a non-inductive fashion and here is the impedance plot from 10hz-100Khz of a 190 ohm unit.
Are they perfect? Hell no! Am I going to lose any sleep over their imperfections? No way... I'll just put some BS marketing spin on them like 5% tolerance throughout the entire audio spectrum... or maybe just let the audio jackals have at me for this silly idea.


With their brilliant smiles and frequent bouts of laughter, Carmene Guerrier, 16, and Julmiste Shelove, 25, light up the medical ward. Their friends come to visit often, sitting on the edges of their beds. They gossip, tease each other and teach simple Haitian Creole phrases to the English speaking clinicians. Although both girls have lived in the hospital for the past two months, where there's few forms of entertainment, the near constant hair maintenance they partake in—braiding, corn rows, combing knots out and complaining about the lack of shampoo—never ceases to absorb them. When the physical and occupational therapists arrive to interrupt their fun, just like typical teens, they try distraction techniques to avoid what they know is coming. "Pa mal, pa mal," says Shelove, as she points to her leg. Guerrier grabs the hologram stickers she received earlier and mimics that she wants more.
Shelove conquers the steep hill, with help from Michael Felber.
"If you walk up the hill, I'll get you some," says Annette Correia, a Children's occupational therapist, motioning for them to grab their crutches. The girls groan playfully. Nicknamed the princesses because of their doting followers and impeccable attention to their outfits and hairstyles, the two girls are both recent amputees. And after two months of strength and mobility training from Ketlie, a physical therapist at the hospital, they are moving about confidently on their prosthetic legs—a testament to the value of the physical therapy.
"Before the earthquake, we mostly worked with bed ridden patients who were very weak, and stroke patients," says Ketlie. Since the earthquake, with the large number of amputees and post operative patients, there's been a constant need for physical therapy, "I haven't had a break since," she says.
When Ketlie found out Carmene and Shelove would be receiving prosthetic limbs, she gave them exercises to practice to strengthen their arms. Part of the struggle was convincing the girls that they would eventually be okay. "Carmene thought the prosthetic was ugly, she felt like her life was over, but I explained to her that she would gain her strength and eventually she wouldn't even need a cane," she recalls.
Carmene's prosthetic legs come with pretty shoes.
After surgery or an injury, people are usually reluctant to move about because of pain. But if you don't move, explains Ploski, you can get muscle atrophy, which causes weakness and can limit your range of motion. It can also cause other complications, such as blood clots. "Getting someone moving after injury or surgery is both preventive as well as rehabilitative," says Ploski.
In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, many injured patients were depressed and had little desire to work with her, says Ketlie. "I needed to do a lot of coaxing and talking before they finally accepted physical therapy." But now, a few months later, and after witnessing countless patients getting better, moving about and returning to some semblance of a normal existence, most are eager to learn exercises to improve their flexibility, balance and strength.
Another patient Correia and Ploski have been working with each day is a little boy with cerebral palsy who was abandoned by his family. For this little boy, holding his head up is a challenge and he's been lying flat, unable to move. In the United States, he would been custom fitted for a chair with braces. Here, Correia and Ploski built a chair with supplies found in the hospital.
"Everyone was so happy to see him sitting up for the first time," says Michael Felber, who witnessed Correia and Ploski giving the boy his chair.
melissa, the pictures of the "princesses" are great — such beautiful spirit!
Powerful stuff. Puts our everyday problems into perspective. Thanks for writing this.


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ExecutionEnvironmentTypeCybOX Common Schema

The ExecutionEnvironmentType contains information describing the execution environment of the tool.

      <form id="nav-version">
        <select>

            <option value="1.2" >STIX 1.2</option>

            <option value="1.1.1" >STIX 1.1.1</option>

            <option value="1.1" >STIX 1.1</option>

            <option value="1.0.1" >STIX 1.0.1</option>

            <option value="1.0" selected="selected">STIX 1.0</option>

        </select>
      </form>

Fields

      Field Name
      Type
      Description

      System0..1

          ObjectPropertiesType

This field contains information describing the system on which the tool was executed. System should be of type SystemObj:SystemObjectType.

      User_Account_Info0..1

          ObjectPropertiesType

This field contains information describing the user account that executed the tool. User_Account_Info should be of type UserAccountObj:UserAccountObjectType.

      Command_Line0..1

          string

This field specifies the command line string used to run the tool.

      Start_Time0..1

          dateTime

Thie field specifies when the tool was run.

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Upon request, the School District of Beloit Turner is required to evaluate a child for eligibility for special education services. A request for evaluation is known as a referral. When the District receives a referral, the District will appoint an Individualized Education Program (IEP) team to determine if the child has a disability, and if the child needs special education services. The district locates, identifies, and evaluates all children with disabilities who are enrolled by their parents in private (including religious) schools, elementary schools, and secondary schools located within the boundaries of the school district.
Referrals must be in writing and include the reason why the person believes the child is a child with a disability. A referral may be made by contacting Christine Brown, Director of Special Education, School District of Beloit Turner, at (608) 364-6372, or by writing her at 1237 E Inman Parkway, Beloit, WI 53511 or maxwelld@turnerschools.org.


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Stamos on Richards' Bedroom Rating!
Denise Richards recently dished to Howard Stern about her bedroom life with John Stamos -- and "Extra" has his response!
John also confirmed that a "Full House" movie is in the works! "This has been in development for a few years... the truth is that it's out there. I have about ten things in development and that's one of them," Stamos says. "I always thought it would make a great family movie... of course, they would never do it, but it was someone's idea to have James Franco to be Uncle Jessie and then Steve Carell to play Bob Saget and I was thinking Tracy Morgan for the Dave Coulier's character."
"Extra" caught up with John at a benefit for Project Cuddle, an organization that fights to stop baby abandonment. For more information, call 1-88-TO-CUDDLE (888-628-3353).
#CandidConfessions #DeniseRichards #HowardStern #JohnStamos
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Stars React to President Donald Trump's Second Impeachment
Norah O'Donnell Warns Political Chaos 'Will Be Worse'
Can You Still Get COVID-19 After Getting the Vaccine?
Schwarzenegger Slams Trump in Personal Message of Patriotism
Jonathan Karl on Whether President Trump Could Be Removed from Office or Impeached
President Trump Permanently Banned from Twitter

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This course is designed to extend knowledge of federal and state courts interpretation of statues and regulations addressing the delivery of special education and related services to students with disabilities. The candidate will also examine the collaborative practices with families, school personnel, and community members. During this course, candidates will complete step 4 of the research process: Step 4 Choosing a Research Design. Candidates will also submit the IRB review form.
Integrate knowledge pf the legal bases and mandates of special education including the protections and rights afforded by federal law, practices expected of teachers, (e.g. fair assessment practices, development of IEP's and IFSP's, monitoring and instruction, etc).
Apply knowledge of the ethical standards and professional practices of general and special education including the ability to provide a safe environment.
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Working towards making sensory, and communication devices even more efficient and compact than they are today, researchers from Case Western University have now developed atomically thin drumheads.
These drumheads, according to the paper written by the researchers, is ten trillion times lesser in volume, and a hundred thousand times thinner than a human eardrum. Along with that, the drum is capable of sensing sounds far beyond the capabilities of a human ear.
Apparently, the synthetically made drums offer a broad dynamic range (upto ~110dB) at radio frequencies up to 120MHz. For comparison, a human eardrum offers dynamic range of upto 100dB in the range of 10Hz to 10KHz — in other words, not even close to what the synthetic drum can offer.
Feng and his team made the synthetic drums out of atomic layers of semiconductor crystals. The team exfoliated atomic layers from the semiconductor crystal; and used a combination of nanofabrication and micromanipulation techniques to suspend the atomic-layers over micro-cavities pre-defined on a silicon wafer.
Naturally, the team is very proud of what they've built. "Not only having surprisingly large dynamic range with such tiny volume and mass, they are also energy-efficient and very 'quiet' devices," Feng said. They hope that these new 'drums' will be able to drive the next generation of communication, and sensory devices.


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'Miracle' survivor achieves a top award
A Leighton boy who narrowly avoided death after falling 16ft from a balcony onto his head has defied the odds to earn a top award.
Daniel Betley was a month from his second birthday when the horrific incident occurred on a holiday in Spain with his mother and grandparents in July 2008.
After being airlifted to a hospital in Barcelona Daniel underwent emergency surgery and was put into a medical coma, after which he remained in intensive care for a week.
Despite initially being left totally paralysed by the fall, the infant made a heroic recovery and was able to celebrate his brother's birthday at home four weeks later.
Six-and-a-half years later Daniel continues to beat the odds and has been honoured with the highest award a Beaver Scout can receive, for his efforts with the 1st Linslade group.
Daniel's mother Louise told the LBO that she is proud of her eight-year-old's achievement, after an incident which "should have killed him".
She said: "When he was being airlifted I still didn't know whether he was alive or not but he fought so strongly that when they put him into a medical coma they had to give him four times the dosage to keep him under.
"On the way to the hospital all I could think was 'how am I going to tell his brothers?'
"After he came out of the coma I knew he had survived the worst of it but then I began to fear that he may not recover from his injuries.
"He fell directly onto his head, so much so that there was not a scratch on the rest of his body."
After coming through head to toe paralysis Daniel was left with mobility problems, learning difficulties and Bell's palsy- a condition which causes weakness or paralysis in one side of the face.
The eight-year-old still has physiotherapy and is due to undergo speech therapy but has not let his conditions hold him back, as he regularly attends drama and football clubs.
After earning all 27 badges Daniel has been awarded the Chief Scout Bronze Award.
For his last badge, which he achieved at group camp, Daniel had to cook over a fire, prepare camp donuts using space dust, develop his archery skills and learn to drive a go kart.
He has now joined the Cub Scouts.
Louise said: "Daniel pushes on so hard with everything he does.
"He's behind at school academically but he is such a trier, his school has said that he is doing so much extra work.
"I'm so pleased for him, most of the badges required him to do some homework which he did."


Korua is still a sapling of a brand, formed in 2014 by Stephan Maurer and Nicholas Wolken. However, the positive buzz it's received in these carve-friendly times could soon see it grow into a mighty oak.
In case the handsaw logo hasn't already made it clear, the M.O. of Korua is to experiment with board shapes. Indeed, their entire range features the same 'Float Camber' profile, which is essentially setback camber with a rocker nose. It means that you'll still get plenty of edge hold on firm snow, and keeping the nose out of the softer stuff will be a breeze.
The Korua Puzzle 61 (161cm is the only length it comes in for now) features a stubby tail with a slight protrusion that delivers effortless float and quick, easy turning. Despite the wide waist it's still quite nimble, and there's a little more tail to pop off than some of the boys' other creations.
Switch riding isn't recommended, nor is buttering on the piste, so go for a more conventional stick if that's what you're after. However, it wasn't for nothing that Korua called their promotional video 'Yearning For Turning'.
So if you ache for some proper, no-nonsense snowboarding either on or off the piste, the Puzzle could be worth adding to your quiver.
"The shorter, stubby tail on the Puzzle means that it's tailored more towards bombing about in the trees than opening up on big faces.
For a board with this length it's surprisingly playful; turns are performed on a dime, and the big, spooned-out nose gives you incredible float when it's deep: I had this out on multiple pow days last winter and never once even felt like I was about to go over the bars.


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package rssreader.service

import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
import scala.concurrent.Future

import org.mockito.Mockito._
import org.scalatest.mock.MockitoSugar
import reactivemongo.bson.BSONObjectID
import rssreader.core.Feed
import rssreader.dao.FeedDao
import rssreader.utils.MongoContext
import rssreader.utils.tests.MongoTestSpec

class FeedServiceSpec extends MongoTestSpec with MockitoSugar {

  val mongoCollection = "RSSReader-FeedServiceSpec"

  trait NewFeed {
    // Default feed for test usage, override if another feed is required
    val url = fileExampleFeed
    val feed = Feed.parse(url).get

    // Run the callback function once the feed is saved
    def whenInserted[U](callback: (Feed) => U) = {
      val future = service.saveFeed(url)
      whenReady(future)(_.map(callback))
    }
  }

  behavior of "Counting number of feeds saved"
  it should "return 0 when no feeds saved" in {
    service.count().futureValue shouldBe 0
  }

  it should "return 1 when new feed inserted" in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { _ =>
      service.count().futureValue shouldBe 1
    }
  }

  behavior of "Checking if a feed exists"
  it should "return true for existing feeds by id" in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { f =>
      service.exists(f._id).futureValue shouldBe true
    }
  }

  it should "return false if feed does not exist by id" in new NewFeed {
    service.exists(feed._id).futureValue shouldBe false
  }

  it should "return true for existing feeds by url" in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { f =>
      service.exists(feed.rssUrl).futureValue shouldBe true
    }
  }

  it should "return false if feed does not exist by url" in new NewFeed {
    service.exists(feed.rssUrl).futureValue shouldBe false
  }

  behavior of "Querying Feeds"
  it should "find feed by id" in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { f =>
      service.findById(f._id).futureValue shouldBe Some(f)
    }
  }

  it should "find feed by url" in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { f =>
      service.findByUrl(f.rssUrl).futureValue shouldBe Some(f)
    }
  }

  it should "find feed by title" in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { f =>
      service.findByTitle(f.title).futureValue shouldBe Some(f)
    }
  }

  it should "return all feeds" in  {
    val files = validFiles
    val futures: List[Future[Option[Feed]]] = files.map(service.saveFeed)
    whenReady(Future.sequence(futures)){ feeds =>
      service.count().futureValue shouldBe files.size // Check size, if all feeds saved
      service.findAll().futureValue should contain theSameElementsAs feeds.flatten // check contents
    }
  }

  behavior of "Saving new feeds"
  it should "save new valid feed from url" in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { f =>
      service.exists(f.rssUrl).futureValue shouldBe true
    }
  }

  it should "fail when attempting to save malformed feed" in {
    val future = service.saveFeed(fileInvalidFeed)
    whenReady(future){ result =>
      result shouldEqual None
      service.exists(fileInvalidFeed.toString).futureValue shouldBe false // feed was not saved
    }
  }

  behavior of "Updating existing feeds"
  it should "update feed metadata + add any new items"  in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { insertedFeed  => // Insert original exampleFeed

      // Create our spied DAO
      val mDao = spy(new FeedDao(MongoContext.connection(mongoCollection)))
      val fakeService = new FeedService { override val dao = mDao }

      // Stub our DAO findById method so it returns our updated feed object
      val updatedFeed = Feed.parse(fileExampleFeedUpdated, insertedFeed._id).get
      when(mDao.findById(insertedFeed._id)).thenReturn(Future.successful(Some(updatedFeed)))

      // Run our update function
      val updatedFuture = fakeService.updateFeed(insertedFeed._id)
      whenReady(updatedFuture){ _ =>
        // DB feed item should now be updated to reflect changes from fileExampleFeedUpdated
        val updatedDbFeed = service.findById(insertedFeed._id).futureValue.get

        // DB feed should no longer match either original or updated feed
        updatedDbFeed should not equal insertedFeed
        updatedDbFeed should not equal updatedFeed

        updatedDbFeed.items should have size 2 // 1 from each version of the feed original/updated
        updatedDbFeed shouldEqual updatedFeed.copy(items = updatedDbFeed.items) // Equal latest metadata + all items
      }
    }
  }

  it should "update all existing feeds" in {
    // Setup our service with a mocked dao + spied instance to use for testing
    class FakedService extends FeedService { override val dao = mock[FeedDao] } // Due to Mockito restrictions
    val mService = spy(new FakedService)

    val ids = Seq.fill(5)(BSONObjectID.generate).toList // Create 5 random feed ids

    // Setup spying
    when(mService.dao.findAllIds()).thenReturn(Future.successful(ids)) // Return our specified ids
    ids.foreach(id => doReturn(Future.successful(true)).when(mService).updateFeed(id)) // Return true when updateFeed(id) is called

    // Perform action
    mService.updateAllFeeds()

    // Verify the correct actions take place (find all ids + perform update on each id)
    verify(mService.dao).findAllIds()
    ids.foreach{ id => verify(mService).updateFeed(id)}
}

  behavior of "Deleting feed"
  it should "delete existing feed" in new NewFeed {
    whenInserted { f =>
      whenReady(service.deleteFeed(f._id)){ _ =>
        service.exists(f._id).futureValue shouldBe false
      }
    }
  }
}


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Our View: Davis, Foley, Mason, Langmaid for Vail Town Council
Opinion | October 29, 2019
This is a particularly good year for Vail Town Council candidates.
Seven excellent candidates are seeking four seats on the seven-member board. Our recommendation is for Vail voters to re-elect council members Kim Langmaid, Jen Mason and Kevin Foley, along with newcomer Barry Davis.
The incumbents are doing a pretty good job handling the town's affairs, and Davis presents voters with an opportunity to elect a candidate who brings a fresh perspective and thinking to the board.
Again, though, any of these seven candidates would bring knowledge, experience and a love of the town to the office.
Pete Seibert's name will ring a lot of familiar bells with voters, since he's the son of Vail's founder. But Seibert's more than just a familiar name and face. He has long experience in the resort and real estate businesses, and has spent years involved in community groups including Ski and Snowboard Club Vail.
Brian Stockmar brings perhaps the longest resume to the race, with experience in international law and finance. Stockmar is also the current chair of the Vail Planning and Environmental Commission.
Karen Perez is representative of a new kind of Vail resident. An attorney, she works remotely, but is involved in the Vail Valley Business Women and other civic groups. She's also a member of Vail's planning board.
Any of these candidates would do well on the council. But the four candidates we're recommending bring a mixture of personal, professional and community experience that's hard to top.
Incumbent Kevin Foley is the longest-serving member of the council — all done within the town's term-limit regulations. Foley is the quintessential working man in Vail, having experience in the lodging and restaurant business. He's seen, and participated in, most of the town's most contentious issues since the 1990s, including as a one-time member of the Vail Recreation District's board of directors.
Foley is on Vail's front lines nearly every day — he postponed an endorsement interview due to a large group coming in without notice to the restaurant at which he works.
He has a distinctive perspective about how the town works — and doesn't — for the people who really make the place run. For a town with a focus on housing, that's important.
Jen Mason also brings long experience in Vail to the council. When it comes to events, Mason's tenure managing the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater gives her invaluable knowledge when it comes to understanding events and what it takes to lure and host them. Her current job as the executive director of the Colorado Snowsports Museum adds to that perspective.
Mason has visibly agonized over some decisions in the past, trying to find the balance between neighborhood wants and the town's needs. She brings a thoughtful approach to those deliberations and listens to arguments for and against sometimes-divisive issues.
Kim Langmaid, the third incumbent running this year, has lived in the valley virtually her entire life. She knows what Vail used to be, and, learning at the feet of her parents and grandparents, knows first-hand about running a small business in a resort town.
Langmaid, the founder of Walking Mountains Science Center, often takes a little different view of various issues facing the council. She'll almost always ask how just about anything can be more environmentally responsible, from new building projects to looking at more sustainable ways to heat the town's streets.
That brings us to Barry Davis, the person who would be the rookie on the council. As a member of the Vail Commission on Special Events, Davis is no stranger to the town government and its operations. Davis has bought, run and sold several businesses in town, including Yellowbelly chicken, and has a keen understanding of the challenges and rewards of running a small business in town.
Davis is also a resident of the Chamonix townhomes neighborhood, living there with his wife and young son.
From hiring to housing to bringing a different perspective to the town's ongoing debate about short-term rentals, Davis has the mix of experience and inquisitiveness that will serve Vail well in the coming years.
Again, Vail voters can't make any bad choices this year, but Davis, Foley, Langmaid and Mason are the best of a good group.
Please, though, do your own research into these candidates. Our opinion should be just one data point among many. For more information, check out our voter guide at vaildaily.com.
The Vail Daily Editorial Board is Publisher Mark Wurzer, Editor Nate Peterson, Assistant Editor Ross Leonhart, Advertising Director Holli Snyder, Digital Engagement Editor Sean Naylor, Business Editor Scott Miller and Eagle Valley Enterprise Editor Pam Boyd.
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Michigan City, Indiana
Michigan: Report from Hell
Michigan (disambiguation)
Indiana (David Mead album)
SS Indiana (1873)
Michigan City is a city in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. It is one of the two principal cities of the Michigan City-La Porte, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City Combined Statistical Area.
Located in the region known to locals as Michiana, it is approximately 50 miles east of Chicago and 40 miles west of South Bend. The city had a population of 31,479 at the 2010 census.
Michigan City is noted for both its proximity to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and for bordering Lake Michigan. Due to this, Michigan City receives a fair amount of tourism during the summer months, especially by residents of Chicago and of nearby cities in Northern Indiana. The lighthouse is a notable symbol for the city and is incorporated in the heading of Michigan City's sole newspaper, The News Dispatch, and the city's official seal.
Michigan City is located at 41°42′34″N 86°53′13″W / 41.70944°N 86.88694°W / 41.70944; -86.88694 (41.709389, -86.886928).
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Michigan City may refer to:
Michigan City, California
Michigan City, Mississippi
Michigan City, North Dakota
Michigan City station (disambiguation), stations of the name
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Michigan: Report from Hell, released as Michigan in Japan, is a survival horror game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Spike. It was released in Japan on August 5, 2004, in Europe on September 30, 2005, and in Australia in 2005. This game was never released in North America. Directed by Akira Ueda and planned by Goichi Suda, the game focuses on a news crew for the fictional ZaKa TV, dedicated to covering strange phenomena. The game is unique in the sense that it is played almost entirely though the viewfinder of a camera; and the game is lost if the player runs out of film before solving the mysteries in a mission.
In Michigan, players take the role of a rookie cameraman for ZaKa TV, the entertainment division of the powerful ZaKa conglomerate. Accompanied by Brisco, an outspoken sound engineer, and Pamela, a reporter, the player is sent to investigate a mysterious mist that has descended over the city. The player quickly discovers that the mist is somehow transforming people into fleshy, leech-like monsters with human limbs. Pamela is attacked by the creatures, and is later found in the process of transforming into one. The player, Brisco, and a new female reporter are sent to investigate the source of the monster outbreak.
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Michigan is a U.S. state.
Michigan may also refer to:
Michigan (album), also known as Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State, an album by Sufjan Stevens
Michigan, West Virginia
Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes, an inland fresh-water sea
University of Michigan typically the flagship Ann Arbor campus
Michigan Wolverines, the athletic program of the University of Michigan
USS Michigan, U.S. Navy ship
Michigan: Report from Hell, a horror-themed video game released for the PlayStation 2
the Michigan (train), a train which operated between Chicago and Detroit
Michigan hot dog, a Canadian hot dog slathered with meat sauce, similar to the Coney Island hot dog
Michigan J. Frog, a Looney Tunes cartoon character
Michigan (grape), another name for the Catawba grape
Lake Michigan Shore AVA, Michigan wine region
One of the Detroit People Mover stations
All pages beginning with "Michigan"
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Indiana i/ɪndiˈænə/ is a U.S. state located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th U.S. state on December 11, 1816.
Before becoming a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Since its founding as a territory, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States; the state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by people from New England and New York, Central Indiana by migrants from the Mid-Atlantic states and from adjacent Ohio, and Southern Indiana by settlers from the Southern states, particularly Kentucky and Tennessee.
Indiana has a diverse economy with a gross state product of $298 billion in 2012. Indiana has several metropolitan areas with populations greater than 100,000 and a number of smaller industrial cities and towns. Indiana is home to several major sports teams and athletic events including the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, the NASL's Indy Eleven, the NBA's Indiana Pacers, the WNBA's Indiana Fever, the Indianapolis 500, and Brickyard 400 motorsports races.
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Indiana is the third album by singer/songwriter David Mead, his first for Nettwerk. It was released in 2004.
"Nashville"
"You Might See Him"
"Indiana"
"Beauty"
"Only a Girl"
"Oneplusone"
"Bucket of Girls"
"New Mexico"
"Ordinary Life"
"Human Nature" (Steve Porcaro/John Bettis)
"Queensboro Bridge"
"Chutes And Ladders" (Japanese copies only)
Session outtakes
"How Will The Kids Get High" (version 2)
"Lease On Life"
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SS Indiana was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1873. The third of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Indiana and her three sister ships – Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois – were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and among the first to be fitted with compound steam engines. They were also the first ships to challenge British dominance of the transatlantic trade since the American Civil War.
Though soon outclassed by newer vessels, Indiana was to enjoy a substantial 36-year career, a highlight of which was her transportation of United States President Ulysses S. Grant on the first leg of his celebrated 1877–78 world tour. After 24 years of transatlantic crossings, Indiana was sold for Pacific service, before being requisitioned as a troopship for service during the Spanish–American War. She was wrecked off Isla Santa Margarita, Mexico, in 1909.
The four Pennsylvania class liners were constructed at a cost of $520,000 each by William Cramp & Sons on behalf of the American Steamship Company (ASC), a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Railroad intended to utilize the vessels to bring European immigrants direct to Philadelphia, thus ensuring the company a steady stream of customers. In recognition of this purpose, the four ships—Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio—were named after the four states serviced by the Railroad. Design of the ships was entrusted to Charles H. Cramp of the Cramp & Sons shipyard, and Barnabas H. Bartol, a director of the ASC.
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Hundreds attend funeral for veteran with no known relatives
Holland Sentinel 19 Jul 2019
... surgery in May, years after he'd made funeral arrangements for himself at Brown Funeral Home and Cremation Services.The funeral home's director invited Niles residents to Wednesday's services after learning that the Michigan City, Indiana, native had no known living relatives....
Detroit residents to Dems: Don't overlook us like in 2016
Detroit news 19 Jul 2019
Predominantly black cities in Michigan, including Detroit, are hurt by declining black homeownership, inequity in education funding and poor air quality, said Democratic Rep ... Other candidates have their own racial baggage, including Buttigieg, whose Indiana city is reeling in the ......
Indiana Dunes — what's in store at the new national park
Chicago Sun-Times 18 Jul 2019
Baldy at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan City, Indiana ... But the change puts Indiana Dunes in an elite group of 61 national parks around the country, an upgrade that means more publicity and visitors to the area, bracketed by Gary on the west and Michigan City, Indiana, on the east....
Hundreds Attend Funeral For Michigan Veteran With No Known Relatives
CBS Sports 18 Jul 2019
... from Michigan who had no known living relatives ... The funeral home's director invited Niles residents to Wednesday's services after learning that the Michigan City, Indiana, native had no known living relatives....
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Stars and Stripes 18 Jul 2019
NILES, Mich. (Tribune News Service) — Hundreds of people Wednesday at Niles' Silverbrook Cemetery to honor a veteran without a family ... Mikel sent out a press release, expecting a dozen or so people to attend the service. So did Wilson's friend, Charlotte Andrews of Niles ... Sen ... 11, 1951, in Michigan City, Indiana ... "It is a testament to the city of Niles....
Jim M. Bolding Feb. 17, 1962 - July 14, 2019
News Dispatch 17 Jul 2019
Jim M. Bolding, age 57, of Michigan City, Indiana, passed away on Sunday, July 14, 2019, at his home. He was born Feb. 17, 1962, in Michigan City, Indiana, to William and Norma (Stroud) Bolding ... ....
Jean (Craft) Kretschmar April 2, 1937 - July 1, 2019
Herald Argus 17 Jul 2019
Jean (Craft) Kretschmar, formerly of Michigan City, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 1, 2019, at Sun Valley Lodge in Sun City, Arizona. Jean was born April 2, 1937, in Michigan City, Indiana, to Loyal and Mina Craft ... ....
Anna Lee McDonald May 12, 1926 - July 12, 2019
Anna Lee McDonald, 93, Michigan City, Indiana, passed away Friday, July 12, 2019 at 11.05 a.m. in Aperion Care Arbors at Michigan City ... ....
Robert L. Wiencek Feb. 2, 1939 - July 15, 2019
Robert L. Wiencek, 80, of Michigan City, Indiana, passed away Monday, July 15, 2019, at 9.30 a.m. in Life Care Center of Michigan City ... ....
Harry Lewis Chapman Jan. 7, 1935 - July 14, 2019
Harry Lewis Chapman, 84, of Michigan City, Indiana, passed away Sunday, July 14, 2019, at 6.48 p.m. in Golden Living Center - La Porte, La Porte, Indiana, surrounded by his family ... ....
Jean Gregory Aug. 10, 1959 - July 12, 2019
Jean Gregory, 59, of Michigan City, Indiana, passed away Friday, July 12, 2019, at 8.15 a.m. in her home with her family at her side ... ....
First test for new E-Squad members
MICHIGAN CITY – Sixty men and women graduated last month from the Indiana Department of Correction's Emergency Response Operation's Basic Emergency Squad Academy for specialized training to take back to their assigned facilities ... ....
Three Oaks Civil War Days set for July 27 & 28
Harbor Country News 17 Jul 2019
Units from Michigan, Indiana and elsewhere will converge at Dewey Cannon Park along with artillery ... 212 in Michigan City, Ind ... The Michiana Humane Society & SPCA, 722 Indiana Hwy 212, Michigan City, Ind., is offering a new program that allows members of the community to socialize with shelter dogs on field trips for a day....


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Q: Rails 3 - Home address without model name? I would like to have all the instances of submissions shown right at my home address
something .com instead of something.com/submissions
How do I do this?

A: If you want the submissions#index action to be your "home" page, then add this to your config/routes.rb file:
root :to => "submissions#index"

And make sure you get rid of public/index.html if it exists.

A: You could set up your routes.rb file like so:
root :to => "submissions#index"


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Q: Categorically vs Undeniably I was going through one of my CAE tests when I came across the following example:

"It was not until 1939 that the two ladies who took the photos
  admitted these were fake. They simply cut out pictures of fairies from
  a book and arranged them among flowers. The results are undeniably
  beautiful."

However, one of the options for the bolded word was categorically.
Do they not mean the same thing? Why is categorically incorrect?
The suggestion I found in this link introduced me to the same definition, I feel. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/categorically?s=t

A: categorically bears very specific connotation of denying smth / categorically reject smth / categorically deny the charges/the guilt / It is categorically false. / categorically dispute smth.
It doesn't usually collocate with beautiful, though I clearly remember a moment from one TV-show when a man compliments a woman saying "[You look] Categorically stunning!" But I guess some literary device, which I don't know the name of, is used here.


WASHINGTON — House Republicans reversed themselves Tuesday under pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, and dropped plans to swiftly gut an independent congressional ethics board.
The dizzying about-face came as lawmakers convened for the first day of the 115th Congress, an occasion normally reserved for pomp and ceremony under the Capitol Dome. Instead, House Republicans found themselves under attack not only from Democrats, but from their new president, over their secretive move Monday to immediately neuter the independent Office of Congressional Ethics and place it under lawmakers' control.
GOP leaders scrambled to contain the damage, and within hours of Trump registering his criticism over the timing on Twitter, they called an emergency meeting of House Republicans where lawmakers voted to undo the change.
The episode, coming even before the new Congress had convened and lawmakers were sworn in, was a powerful illustration of the sway Trump may hold over his party in a Washington that will be fully under Republican control for the first time in a decade.
"With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority," Trump had asked over Twitter Tuesday morning.


Leading Causes of Car Crashes in the United States 50% of drivers rate themselves in the top 20% of driver safety and skill. With that in mind here's a look (and a reminder) of the leading causes of car crashes.
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Don't Be a Victim of Not Having Uninsured Motorist Insurance Many people learn after a crash that 40% of Florida drivers have no insurance to pay for the injuries they cause. Be sure to carry UM insurance on your policy.
What Does Full Coverage Really Mean On Your Auto Policy? The meaning of full coverage can mean different things. Often times the meaning doesn't include UM which is something every driver in Florida should have.
Moral Dilemma of Self Driving Cars We're astonished at the moral choices drivers make when faced with a crises which saves multiple lives. Will self-driving cars make the same choices you do?
Tesla Autopilot Crash Kills Driver Joshua Brown was killed when his Tesla failed to detect a white 18-wheel tractor trailer. He is the first person known to be killed by a self-driving vehicle.
Stop Calling It "An Accident" There is a movement across the nation that is encouraging people to use the word "crash" instead of "accident" when the incident was the fault of someone else.
What if Everything You Knew About Your Insurance was Wrong? Between the language of an auto insurance policy and the over-simplified nature of car insurance commercials, the truth about car insurance gets lost somewhere.
What if Everything You Knew About Your UM Coverage is Wrong? UM coverage is designed to protect you in cases where the other driver has little to no liability insurance and cannot cover the expenses of the accident.


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Not Spike Activity
I often get emails asking why we don't do Spike Activity posts any more. The simple answer is they take time and I now have a somewhat more unpredictable job where I am frequently 'on the road'.
So until I return to a more predictable pace of life, I'm afraid they're going to be taking a break, although a well earned one I hope.
However, if you're a Twitter user, both me and Tom Stafford post mind and brain news as it strikes us at our respective accounts at @tomstafford and @vaughanbell
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 31, 2011 July 31, 2011 Categories Linkage5 Comments on Not Spike Activity
Interfacing with the brain
ABC Radio National's All in the Mind has just broadcast a fantastic edition on neural prosthetics – the science of creating artificial limbs that are controlled through direct interfaces with the nervous system.
The programme looks at the some of the cutting-edge research motivated by the US Military's need to replace lots of limbs blown off in combat.
Some fantastic stories and fascinating science. Highly recommended.
Link to All in the Mind on neural prosthetics.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 30, 2011 July 30, 2011 Categories Inside the Brain2 Comments on Interfacing with the brain
Patients and power struggles
Medical History has a brief but good article on the political wranglings and scientific battles between psychiatry, psychoanalysis and clinical psychology in 20th Century America.
It's by history of psychiatry ninja (not his official title) Andrew Scull, who tracks the events behind the waxing and waning of mental health fashions and how they have played out among professionals of different camps.
Psychoanalysis had managed initially to contain the potential threat posed by the drugs revolution, but by the mid-1970s, that resolution was threatening to break down. Antipsychotic drugs had proved to be an enormously lucrative market, and questions were beginning to be raised in many quarters about precisely what therapeutic advantages accrued from adding seemingly interminable and expensive psychoanalytic treatments to the mix.
A decade earlier, virtually every academic department of psychiatry was led by a psychoanalyst or a psychoanalytic fellow-traveller, but increasingly, the sums on offer to conduct laboratory research on potentially therapeutic compounds were exercising a powerful appeal, one bolstered by the critical importance of funded research in establishing pecking orders in large research universities.
It's worth noting that quite a different story played out in Europe, where the fashion for psychoanalysis never really caught on and the success of mental health treatment were much less determined by the whims of insurance companies.
Link to 'Mental Health Fight Club, 1940–2010' (not the official title).
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 29, 2011 July 29, 2011 Categories RememberingLeave a comment on Patients and power struggles
Musket to a brain surgeon
Phineas Gage is famous for having an iron bar being blown through his frontal lobes. Although his case is usually described as the first of its kind, this month's edition of The Psychologist has a surprising article on many lesser known cases from the 1800s, usually due to mishaps with early firearms.
The piece is packed with amazing case vignettes of people who have suffered serious frontal lobe injury but were described as relatively unaffected.
This is one of the many striking examples:
In 1827 came a report by a Dr Rogers in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, where a young man received a frontal impact, again from a breech explosion. It was not until another three weeks, when the soldier, 'discovered a piece of iron lodged within the head in the bottom of the wound from which a considerable quantity of bone had come away… it proved to be the breech pin of the gun three inches in length and three ounces in weight'. Four months later he was 'perfectly cured'. Another case, here, was of an exploding breech pin penetrating 1½ inches into the brain, making a hole ¾ inch in diameter, resulting in an 'escape of cerebral substance'. But 'no severe symptoms occurred, and recovery took place in less than 24 days'.
Link to The Psychologist article 'Blasts from the past'.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 28, 2011 Categories Inside the Brain, RememberingLeave a comment on Musket to a brain surgeon
Diagnostic dilemma, innit bruv
I've just been directed to a wonderful 2007 case study from the British Medical Journal that reports how middle aged doctors can mistake street slang for symptoms of schizophrenia.
Detailed and repeated assessment of [the patient's] mental state found a normal affect, no delusions, hallucinations, or catatonia, and no cognitive dysfunction. His speech, however, was peppered with what seemed (to his middle class and older psychiatrist) to be an unusual use of words, although he said they were street slang.
It was thus unclear whether he was displaying subtle signs of formal thought disorder (manifest as disorganised speech, including the use of unusual words or phrases, and neologisms) or using a "street" argot. This was a crucial diagnostic distinction as thought disorder is a feature of psychotic illnesses and can indicate a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
We sought to verify his explanations using an online dictionary of slang (urbandictionary.com). To our surprise, many of the words he used were listed and the definitions accorded with those he gave.
The article also contains a brief test where doctors can test themselves to see if they can distinguish between slang and thought disorder symptoms.
It's probably worth noting that traditional British and, particularly London slang, could easily seem like thought disorder to the uninitiated as it is heavily based on word play and substitution.
For example, "I was having having a ruby when I caught Susan having a butchers at my missus' new barnet" probably makes perfect sense to lots of British people, but if you're not familiar with cockney rhyming slang, it could be mistaken for a language impairment.
I have noted that British sarcasm can cause similar difficulties during discussions with Americans.
Link to 'Street slang and schizophrenia' (via @Matthew Broome)
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 27, 2011 July 27, 2011 Categories Hearing and Language, Theory, Togetherness17 Comments on Diagnostic dilemma, innit bruv
The princess who swallowed a glass piano
The Glass Piano is a wonderful BBC Radio 3 programme about Princess Alexandra of Bavaria who thought she had swallowed a glass piano.
The programme was created by writer and poet Deborah Levy who "considers the true story of Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria, 1826-1875 who at the age of 23 was observed awkwardly walking sideways down the corridors of her family palace. When questioned by her worried royal parents, she announced that she had swallowed a grand glass piano."
As we've discussed previously, glass delusions were quite regularly reported by physicians in the 19th century but are now seemingly extinct in a curious cultural shift in madness.
People who experienced the delusion believed that their body was entirely, or in part, made of glass
The Glass Piano is a curious blend between a drama and documentary that recounts the case of Princess Alexandra and explores the history of this curious conviction.
It has some fantastic insights from historian of psychiatry Erin Sullivan, a trauma specialist, and rather more unpredictably from psychoanalyst Susie Orbach who makes some genuinely insightful comments while at other times sounding like she's been smoking a glass pipe:
"Certainly she would not have walked like a princess because in order to bear a piano inside of her she would have had to had her legs quite far apart. We want to think Freud because its that moment in history where Freud discovers that we're all sexual beings. So you could say that her legs are far apart for that reason."
You could indeed.
I have to say, however, that these somewhat whimsical comments are actually in the spirit of the piece, which mixes conjecture with solid historical research, original musical and drama.
Unfortunately, the audio for the piece was only available for a week but an mp3 of the programme has mysteriously found its way online which you can get here.
Link to programme information on BBC site.
Link to download / streaming of mp3.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 26, 2011 July 26, 2011 Categories Remembering, Togetherness3 Comments on The princess who swallowed a glass piano
The scent of the past
The Boston Globe has a fascinating piece on the growing movement to incorporate smells into the historical record and the technology that is allowing us to 'record' scents.
To put smells in a historical context is to add a whole dimension to how we understand the world. Boston's Back Bay, for instance, has at different times been filled with the smells of a saltwater marsh, a cesspool, horses, and car exhaust. Some smells vanish, new ones arise, and some shift in a way that tells a cultural story.
The jasmine and leather notes of a Chanel perfume from 1927 help us understand the boldly androgynous women of the flapper era, just as the candied sweetness of the latest Victoria's Secret fragrance tells us something about femininity today. What we smell in our cities, homes, and natural spaces is just as much a part of our lives as the what we see, hear, and touch.
It's a fantastic article that touches on everything from the neuroscience of smell, to the cultural meaning of certain scents, to the science of storing and recreating odours from the past.
Link to fantastic article 'A Whiff of History'.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 24, 2011 July 24, 2011 Categories Integrating, Remembering4 Comments on The scent of the past
Writing on cocaine, literally
The New York Times reviews a new book about the early enthusiasm for cocaine among the medical community and particularly how it affected two of the world's most influential doctors.
The book is called 'An Anatomy of Addiction' and looks at how psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and pioneering surgeon William Halsted became heavily dependent on the drug.
A long-term cocaine and morphine addict, Halsted is of particular interest because he wrote a scientific article about cocaine, while clearly off his face on cocaine.
Despite being almost complete nonsense it got published in the New York Medical Journal in 1885.
Rather ironically, it was entitled "Practical comments on the use and abuse of cocaine". This is the first paragraph:
Neither indifferent as to which of how many possibilities may best explain, nor yet at a loss to comprehend, why surgeons have, and that so many, quite without discredit, could have exhibited scarcely any interest in what, as a local anesthetic, had been supposed, if not declared, by most so very sure to prove, especially to them, attractive, still I do not think that this circumstance, or some sense of obligation to rescue fragmentary reputation for surgeons rather than belief that an opportunity existed for assisting others to an appreciable extent, induced me, several months ago, to write on the subject in hand the greater part of a somewhat comprehensible paper, which poor health disinclined me to complete.
This was a different era in the the history of cocaine, however. So different in fact, that His Holiness the Pope endorsed a cocaine infused wine.
Link to NYT article on Freud and Halsted on cocaine.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 23, 2011 July 25, 2011 Categories Remembering3 Comments on Writing on cocaine, literally
Subtle word change affects election participation
A subtle word change to refer to the self on a pre-election survey seems to significantly boost the number of voters in national elections.
A new study led by psychologist Christopher Bryan and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences investigated how the sense of self motivates the public act of voting.
The authors point out that in terms of individual self-interest, voting is irrational. Just the probability of being killed in a car accident on the way to the polls far outweighs the likelihood that the average American's vote will influence the outcome of most elections.
But from a public point of view, voting is essential for a functioning democracy, so the study tested the hypothesis that doing something positive for the community might motivate people by giving a potential boost to our self-image.
To do this, the researchers ran three experiments where they asked potential voters to complete an internet survey asking about the upcoming elections.
Importantly, half the people got a survey that referred to the act of voting while the other half got an identical survey but where the questions were worded to refer to them as a voter, directly implicating their self-identity.
For example, one version of a question would use a verb to refer to voting as an act ("How important is it to you to vote in the upcoming election?") while another would use a noun to directly implicate the respondent ("How important is it to you to be a voter in the upcoming election?")
Directly after the survey, respondents in the self-implicating condition said they were much interested in voting in the upcoming election than those who completed the 'voting as act' survey, suggesting that the self-focused wording boosted enthusiasm.
Crucially, the effect also transferred into actions as another study looked at public voting records and found that those who had completed the self-focused survey were actually more likely to vote than those who had completed the action-focused survey.
Finally, the researchers ran the same study using a survey company to randomly select a nationally representative sample of people. These respondents were also more likely to vote if they completed the self-focused 'election survey'.
Studies that attempt to influence behaviour often find effects that are 'small but reliable'.
In contrast, the authors note that the effects of the simple word change "are among the largest experimental effects ever observed on objectively measured voter turnout" – increasing actual turnout by more than 10%.
The researchers suggest that the effect is not solely about make the questions more self-relevant, but more strongly linking the self to a concept generally regarded as positive – voting.
This means the perception of the concept itself is also key and the effect might be reversed if the wording change referred to something generally regarded as negative – for example, a criminal act.
Link to open-access study in PNAS.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 22, 2011 July 22, 2011 Categories Reasoning, Togetherness8 Comments on Subtle word change affects election participation
Google, memory and the damp drawers Olympics
If pant-wetting were a sport, the recent study on how memory adjusts to the constant availability of online information would have launched the damp drawers Olympics.
'Poor memory? Blame Google' claimed The Guardian. 'Internet search engines cause poor memory, scientists claim' said The Telegraph. 'Google turning us into forgetful morons' wibbled The Register.
If you want a good write-up of the study you couldn't do better than checking out the post on Not Exactly Rocket Science which captures the dry undies fact that although the online availability of the information reduced memory for content, it improved memory for its location.
Conversely, when participants knew that the information was not available online, memory for content improved. In other words, the brain is adjusting memory to make information retrieval more efficient depending on the context.
Memory management in general is known as metamemory and the storage of pointers to other information sources (usually people) rather than the content itself, is known as transactive memory.
Think of working in a team where the knowledge is shared across members. Effectively, transactive memory is a form of social memory where each individual is adjusting how much they need to personally remember based on knowledge of other people's expertise.
This new study, by a group of researchers led by the wonderfully named Betsy Sparrow, found that we treat online information in a similar way.
What this does not show is that information technology is somehow 'damaging' our memory, as the participants remembered the location of the information much better when they thought it would be digitally available.
It does, however, raise the interesting question of our relationship to technology and particularly its impact on performance in different contexts.
For example, people making life or death decisions may train using computers but may have to work without them. This transition usually takes place during the student years.
So how can we promote content memory for important information? Probably something old-fashioned like exams.
Link to excellent write-up of study on Not Exactly Rocket Science.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 18, 2011 Categories Remembering10 Comments on Google, memory and the damp drawers Olympics
The buried story of Los 33
The Guardian has an insightful and moving article on how the thirty three Chilean miners and their families have coped with their post-disaster world, many under the beguiling spotlight of the global media.
The article looks at the largely unknown story of the how the men's families dealt with the days leading up to their rescue, who were not even known to be alive until their famous note appeared attached to the drillhead after 17 days underground.
It also examines the difficult process of adjustment that both the men and the families have faced since the rescue.
Back home, the men have received weekly therapy as part of a government insurance scheme that covers their incomes until they are able to go back to work. But their global travels have meant patchy attendance – and pretty quickly, the authorities were threatening to withdraw the therapy if they continued to go abroad and miss sessions. Meeting the miners, you sense that there has been no coherent strategy to help them find their way back to any sort of normality, no serious attempt to help them through their extraordinary experience.
Ariel says he does not need any therapy; others complain that the meetings are pointless and lead nowhere. You sense they have not been told in any coherent way the long-term nature of the trauma they may have suffered and the type of treatment that may require. They were, after all, trapped underground for longer than any other recorded group of men. Certainly in many cases the therapy has combined with much shorter-term solutions: astonishing levels of medication – pills to let them sleep, pills to keep them calm when awake.
Some of the men find solace with one another. The bonds of friendship and solidarity they forged down the mine are now stronger than those with their own families. Others refuse to see one another at all – jealousy over who is appearing where, appearance money and fame have driven them apart. That is the men.
Their wives and partners have to live with them, desperately trying to work out how to cope with quiet lives blown apart. For them, of course, there has been no help on offer.
Apparently the author of the piece has made a documentary about the men and their families on exactly this topic called '17 Days Buried Alive' which is due to be broadcast on UK TV on the 12th of August.
Link to article on 'Los 33' (via @JadAbumrad)
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 17, 2011 Categories Togetherness5 Comments on The buried story of Los 33
Antipsychotics and the profit panacea
Aljazeera has an interesting if not worrying article about the fact that antipsychotic drugs have become "the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux."
The huge rise in prescriptions has been sparked by the availability of a relatively new class of drugs called 'atypical antipsychotics'.
All antipsychotics block the D2 type of dopamine receptor and their effect on the mesolimbic dopamine pathway is what largely causes the reduction in psychotic symptoms.
The older drugs block D2 receptors fairly indiscriminately in the brain, including in the nigrostriatal pathway.
This pathway is involved in movement regulation and blocking dopamine here leads to similar problems to Parkinson's disease (tremors, rigid and uncontrollable movements) – a type of dementia where this brain area starts to break down due to disease.
The newer 'atypical antipsychotics' usually also block serotonin 2A (5HT-2A) receptors in the key movement pathway.
Serotonin normally reduces dopamine release but because serotonin is being blocked, more dopamine is released in the movement pathway with the newer atypical antipsychotic drugs than with the older typical antipsychotic medications.
This means less Parkinson's-like movement side-effects with the atypicals – a genuine advance – but unfortunately, the serotonin effect causes additional problems with weight gain and often obesity, diabetes and heart problems.
However, these problems are perhaps easier to control and more 'socially acceptable' (compare with someone who make strange contorted movements during conversation).
On the commercial side, many newer atypicals are still under patent, meaning one company has sole control over their manufacture and sale, while other companies are not able to make cheaper copies.
Over time, these newer drugs have been promoted, legally and illegally, by drug companies for a wider and wider range of problems – everything from depression to dementia.
Despite limited evidence for their effectiveness in these areas, the sales campaign has been a huge success and the drugs are now being widely prescribed.
Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses – primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics. Americans with symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national mass psychosis…
What's especially troubling about the over-prescription of the new antipsychotics is its prevalence among the very young and the very old – vulnerable groups who often do not make their own choices when it comes to what medications they take. Investigations into antipsychotic use suggests that their purpose, in these cases, may be to subdue and tranquilize rather than to treat any genuine psychosis.
Antipsychotic drugs have been one of the great advances of 20th century medicine. For the first time we have an effective treatment for psychosis, one of the most disabling of any of the disorders, that works for at least a fair proportion of patients.
The side-effects of both the older and newer drugs, however, are among the worst of any medication and they should genuinely be used with caution.
Unfortunately, the well-being of patients has become secondary to the profit margins of large pharmaceutical companies who continue to promote these drugs to as many patients as possible, regardless of their benefits or adverse effects.
The Aljazeera article tracks this campaign to the point where they have become top selling medications.
Link to 'How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs.'
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 16, 2011 July 16, 2011 Categories Inside the Brain, Togetherness14 Comments on Antipsychotics and the profit panacea
Book review: Crazy Like Us
'Cultures become particularly vulnerable to new beliefs about the mind and madness particularly during times of social anxiety or discord', notes Ethan Watters in this compelling book. Watters sees social discord as making cultures 'vulnerable' to new beliefs, rather than simply 'receptive', and this sentence captures both the depth of insight in Crazy Like Us and its main theme – that sees the spread of Western ideas about mental illness as a form of psychological imperialism.
'Imperialism' is perhaps too strong a word, as Watters is neither overtly political nor tiresomely polemic in his analysis, which results in one of the most engaging, accessible and well-researched non-academic books about culture and mental illness available. But in summing up he does tend towards suggesting that Western ideas about the disordered mind are imposed on other cultures, when occasionally there are more subtle stories in the details.
Not unlike the adoption of Western music and fashions by young people in traditional cultures, the shift toward new ideas is as often driven by local enthusiasm for concepts of wealth and sophistication as by deliberate outside forces. The book gives several examples of how changes occur by a combination of the two, as, for example, aggressive drug company campaigns to market the Western concept of depression to the public in Japan relied on the fact that these ideas had been already adopted by Japanese psychiatrists, many of whom trained in Europe and America.
Watters discusses culture as a powerful determinant of how we express psychological distress and mental illness. This influence is not always positive, and the book notes how Western models of mental illness may be detrimental over traditional ideas of coping, for example by silence or even spirit possession. The clearest example is how disasters and emergencies often draw in well-meaning 'experts' who clumsily apply Western concepts of psychological trauma and pathologise local reactions that may be psychological helpful but don't fit the model.
I was left with a few minor quibbles, including the reliance on World Health Organisation data on how schizophrenia outcomes in developing countries are better than in developed countries, when more recent work has shown that there is so much variation between countries that this generalisation really means very little. These, however, remain minor concerns in the overall scheme of things. The book is not an academic tome and the approach is narrative, but Watters has clearly mastered the scientific research where it counts. As an introduction to (and perhaps even a revelation of) how culture and mental illness are intertwined, you are unlikely to find a more engaging and thought-provoking book.
This review was originally published in The Psychologist and you can read it online here.
It's worth noting the book is available in both a US edition and a UK edition which seem to differ only in the subtitle.
Link to Crazy Like Us companion site.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 14, 2011 July 14, 2011 Categories books, Togetherness5 Comments on Book review: Crazy Like Us
Two weeks of hell, forty years ago
It's been forty years since the Stanford prison experiment and the university's alumni magazine has asked the participants and researchers for their reflections on their role in the notorious events of 1971.
It makes for a fascinating read as it not only gets Zimbardo to comment on the eventually out-of-control study but also talks to one of the abusive 'guards' (now a mortgage salesman) one of the 'prisoners' (now a teacher) and the whistleblower who eventually called for the study to end.
This is from Craig Haney, one of the researchers from the study:
I also realized how quickly we get used to things that are shocking one day and a week later become matter-of-fact. During the study, when we decided to move prisoners to different parts of the prison, we realized that they were going to see where they were and be reminded they're not in a prison—they're just in the psych building at Stanford. We didn't want that to happen.
So we put paper bags over their heads. The first time I saw that, it was shocking. By the next day we're putting bags on their heads and not thinking about it. That happens all the time in real correctional facilities. You get used to it. I do a lot of work in solitary-confinement units, on the psychological effects of supermax prisons. In places like that, when prisoners undergo the so-called therapy counseling, they are kept in actual cages. I constantly remind myself never to get used to seeing the cages.
The article sheds light both on the study and the lives of the the key players, now and then.
Link to article on Stanford Alumni Magazine (via @crimepsychblog)
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 10, 2011 July 10, 2011 Categories Remembering, Togetherness5 Comments on Two weeks of hell, forty years ago
Couch of desire
'Sleaze' books were cheap exploitation paperbacks written in the 1950s and sold to anyone with 50 cents to spare. A popular subgenre was psychiatrist's couch bodice ripper that revealed the secrets of sexually frustrated patients or the lurid downfall of predatory doctors.
They often turn up on eBay searches or can be tracked down through searching Google Images where titles like 'Try My Couch' and 'Orgy Office' have found a special place in pulp paperback history.
With the advent of modern neuroscience we now know that these books rewire the brain and turn people into sex addicts.
No wait, they take take advantage of latent oedipal urges and allow the expression of dangerously repressed desires.
It's definitely one or the other. Either way, don't click the links below or you'll go blind.
Link to psychiatrist pulp paperbacks on eBay.
Link to psychiatrist pulp paperbacks on Google Images.
Author vaughanbellPosted on July 9, 2011 July 9, 2011 Categories Nonsense2 Comments on Couch of desire
They're Made Out of Meat!
"They're Made Out of Meat" is a short story by Terry Bisson. It's a great riff on the improbability of the human situation, and particularly relevant to psychologists (e.g. "So … what does the thinking?") The full text is here. The story has its own wikipedia page, and there's a YouTube film here. Now, for your listening delight Erin Revell and Geraint Edwards, at my request, have recorded the story so I can play parts of it during a lecture. The result was too good not to share, so with Terry Bisson's permission, here's a link for the whole thing:
Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat"
(Cross posted at idiolect.org.uk)
Author tomstaffordPosted on July 7, 2011 July 20, 2011 Categories Nonsense13 Comments on They're Made Out of Meat!


Eliza W.Y. LEE (PhD, Syracuse University) is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and Director of Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong. Her current research interests are civil society, state-society relations, civic engagement, collaborative governance, and the politics of social policy development, with particular focus on Hong Kong and its comparison with selected Asian states. Her articles have appeared in Governance, Policy and Politics, Journal of Social Policy, Voluntas, Public Administration Review, Asian Survey, and International Review of Administrative Sciences. She is a member of the editorial board of Public Administration Review, Voluntas, and International Review of Administrative Sciences, and is an associate editor of the Asian-Pacific Journal of Public Administration. She is the lead author of Public Policymaking in Hong Kong: Civic Engagement and State-Society Relations in a Semi-Democracy (Routledge, 2013) and the editor of Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy (University of British Columbia Press, 2003). Her latest research projects include: capacity assessment of civil society sectors in Hong Kong; the Occupy Movement and state-society dynamics in Hong Kong. She served as Head of the Department from July 2013 to June 2016.