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Insulin as a substance of misuse in a patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus - Lesson of the Week
From British Medical Journal, 11/27/99 by Eugene M Cassidy
Doctors should be alert to the possibility of insulin misuse, and should consider psychological evaluation, in an insulin dependent diabetic patient with poor control
The relation between substance misuse and poor compliance with treatment is well established in both general medicine and psychiatry.[1 2] Although young patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus may have lower rates of comorbid substance misuse,[3] there is direct evidence that their compliance with treatment is poor.[4] Patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of developing a psychiatric disorder, particularly in the early course of their illness,[3] and treating the psychiatric disorder improves glycaemic control.[5]
Hypoglycaemic events are common in people with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus[6] and may be associated with cognitive, affective, and sometimes life threatening sequelae.[7] Specific mood changes caused by changes in blood glucose concentrations are idiosyncratic, and although negative affective states are the most common, positive changes such as giddiness and euphoria are also seen.[8] Although there is a strong relation between severe hypoglycaemia and tight glycaemic control,[9] cases of deliberate misuse of insulin have been reported. Typically, these patients either attempt suicide or feign illness.[10] We report the rare case of a patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and no history of a psychiatric disorder who misused insulin regularly over a two year period for its euphoric effects. The consequences were ultimately serious.
A 30 year old man with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus was admitted to hospital. He had lost consciousness for two hours as a result of severe hypoglycaemia, and had then experienced prolonged confusion. The man, a college lecturer, was unmarried. Since his diagnosis three years previously, his diabetic control had been erratic (Hb[A.sub.1c] values ranged from 8% to 9.5%; normal range 2.7%-4.9%). He had had several episodes of severe hypoglycaemia, most of which had been managed at home. The patient's insulin treatment regimen consisted of a basal bolus dose of intermediate acting insulin at night and rapid acting insulin three times daily before meals.
The hypoglycaemic episode preceding the patient's admission to hospital was unexplained in terms of lifestyle or concomitant physical disease, and there was no evidence of microvascular disease. His Hb[A.sub.1c] value at admission was 10.1%, indicating poor recent glycaemic control, and he had failed to keep two outpatient appointments.
The man remained confused for more than three days after hospital admission. Although computed tomograms of the brain were normal and electro-encephalographic findings were inconclusive, formal cognitive assessment one month later showed impaired intellectual functioning and memory functioning (performance IQ= 71 and general memory index = 69 on the revised Wechsler memory scale) in someone whose premorbid intelligence had been average (measured on national adult reading test). The patient had no insight into his cognitive dysfunction, but he complied with the recommendation of the psychologist that he should retire from work on health grounds.
Three months later the man was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because of depressed mood and ideas of self harm and was observed to have mood swings and irritability. He had no psychiatric history, although a collateral history from his family suggested an emotionally immature premorbid personality. Repeat cognitive assessment showed some improvement in his memory function (general memory index = 92), and his mood stabilised with antidepressant medication.
At this time he recounted his difficulties in coming to terms with the diagnosis of diabetes, his erratic glycaemic control, and his serendipitous discovery of the potential mood altering effects of hypoglycaemia. He confessed that he had been dosing himself secretly with soluble insulin (three 36 U vials) every two weeks over the previous two years to induce hypoglycaemia. He described a craving for the affective state it induced: "happy ... disorientated ... like when you're drunk ... being unable to perceive things as they really were ... feeling helpless."
The patient had no history of substance misuse and drank 8-10 units of alcohol a week. He sought no attention after these episodes of hypoglycaemia, and he prevented coma by having carbohydrate enriched drinks to hand. He clearly differentiated these episodes from the index episode described above which required hospital admission and which, he said, was a suicide attempt. This involved a larger dose of insulin (more than 200 U) and resulted in the coma and cognitive impairment described. Since the disclosure of insulin misuse the patient's medication has been supervised, and although his mood has improved considerably, his prognosis remains uncertain.
Misuse of prescribed drugs is well described[11 12] and is not confined to drugs with the potential to create dependency.[13 14] To our knowledge, only four cases of misusing insulin to promote positive affective change have been reported. This is surprising, given the prevalence of both insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and substance misuse. Three of these cases involved people who were not diabetic but injected insulin to "get a kick,"[15] to feel "quite different,"[16] and for the "exquisite pleasure" associated with the perceived risk of death.[17] There is only one previous report of insulin misuse in a patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.[18] That report described a male adolescent with a borderline personality disorder who compulsively sought the excitement and euphoria associated with a rapid lowering of his blood glucose concentration.
In our patient, regular insulin misuse over two years went unrecognised until his psychological distress culminated in a serious suicide attempt and a depressive illness. The consequences of this misuse were serious--a decline in cognitive function led to retirement from work. We alert doctors to the possibility of insulin as a substance of misuse in patients with insulin dependent diabetes and poor control, and recommend psychological evaluation where this is suspected.
Contributors: SB was the consultant psychiatrist to whom the index subject initially disclosed his dependency on the mood altering effects of insulin; at that stage she was unaware that insulin could have this potential for misuse. On the subject's admission to psychiatric hospital, EMC carried out an extensive literature search and then prepared a draft of the paper. DJO'H became involved in the care of the subject during his index admission to hospital in a coma. He supplied information on the subject's physical status and contributed to the final draft.
Competing interests: None declared.
[1] Caminero JA, Pavon JM, Rodriguez de Castro F, Diaz F, Julia G, Cayla JA, et al. Evaluation of a directly observed six months fully intermittent treatment regimen for tuberculosis in patients suspected of poor compliance. Thorax 1996;51:1130-3.
[2] Weiss RD, Greenfield SF, Najavits LM, Soto JA, Wyner D, Tohen M, et al. Medication compliance among patients with bipolar disorder and substance use disorder. J Clin Psychiatry 1998;59:172-4.
[3] Kovacs M, Goldston D, Obrosky DS, Bonar LK. Psychiatric disorders in youths with IDDM: rates and risk factors. Diabetes Care 1997;20:36-44.
[4] Morris AD, Boyle DI, McMahon AD, Greene SA, MacDonald TM, Newton RW. Adherence to insulin treatment, glycaemic control, and ketoacidosis in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Lancet 1997;350:1505-10.
[5] Lustman PJ, Griffith LS, Clouse RE, Freedland KE, Eisen SA, Rubin EH, et al. Effects of nortriptyline on depression and glycemic control in diabetes. Psychosom Med 1997;59:241-50.
[6] Potter J, Clarke P, Gale EA, Dave SH, Tattersall RB. Insulin-induced hypoglycaemia in an accident and emergency department: the tip of an iceberg? BMJ 1982;285:1182-90.
[7] Gonder-Freerick LA, Clarke WL, Cox DJ. The emotional, social and behavioural implications of insulin-induced hypoglycemia. Semin Clin Neuropsychiatry 1997;2:57-65.
[8] Gonder-Freerick LA, Cox DJ, Bobbitt SA. Mood changes associated with fluctuations in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Health Psychol 1989;8:45-9.
[9] Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group. The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of longterm complications in insulin-dependent diabetes. N Engl J Med 1993;329:977-86.
[10] Kaminer Y, Robbins DR. Insulin misuse: a review of an overlooked psychiatric problem. Psychosomatics 1989;30:19-24.
[11] Freedman JB, O'Dowd MA, McKegney FP, Kaplan IJ, Bernstein G, Biderman DJ, et al. Managing diazepam abuse in an AIDS-related psychiatric clinic with a high percentage of substance abusers. Psychosomatics 1996;37:43-7.
[12] Szwabo PA. Substance abuse in older women. Clin Geriatr Med 1993;9: 197-208.
[13] Craig DH, Rosen P. Abuse of antiparkinsonian drugs. Ann Emerg Med 1981;10:98-100.
[14] Dorman A, Talbot D, Byrne P, O'Connor J. Misuse of dothiepin. BMJ 1995;311:1502.
[15] Retsas S. Insulin abuse by a drug addict BMJ 1972;iv:792-3.
[16] Scarlett JA, Mako ME, Rubenstein AH, Blix PM, Goldman J, Horwitz DL, et al. Factitious hypoglycemia. Diagnosis by measurement of serum C-peptide immunoreactivity and insulin-binding antibodies. N Engl J Med 1977;297:1029-32.
[17] Odie ELA. Insulin habituation and psychopathy. BMJ 1968;ii:346.
[18] Scaramuzza A, Castellani G, Lorini R. Insulin abuse in an adolescent with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Eur J Pediatr 1996; 155:526.
(Accepted 14 August 1998)
Correspondence to: Dr Barry
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BMJ 1999;319:1417-8
Department of Psychiatry, Cluain Mhuire Service, Blackrock, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland Eugene M Cassidy registrar in psychiatry Siobhan Barry consultant psychiatrist
Cork University Hospital, Cork, Republic of Ireland DJ O'Halloran consultant physician
COPYRIGHT 1999 British Medical Association

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Several months ago I reached out with my right hand to grasp the handle of a rolling suitcase, and my thumb did not grip. I was met with pain as I often am. The IP joint and the MP joint (see joint abbreviations below) turned red. KB and I took pictures over the next few hours as we watched my thumb joints blow up like balloons right before our eyes.
The next day I went to an orthopedist walk-in clinic.
It always seems good to let a doctor see when something is very swollen because there are so many times when swelling is subtle and inflammation would only be detected on ultrasound. The orthopedist put a cast on my rheumatoid arthritis thumb to immobilize it until it calmed down.. That's right – a cast. He said I must have sprained my thumb somehow for it to swell like that. It looked TOO SWOLLEN to be just the rheumatoid disease. He felt there must have been an injury.
Rheumatoid arthritis thumb: Don't be confused!
I didn't "injure" my thumb that day. But, I've said before that we ought to think of rheumatoid disease in joints as "injury" – injury without an incident that we can see. We can't see what triggers tissues to inflame as if they are injured – but something does.
That's why Rheumatoid Disease is a mystery in the first place.
No one was hitting our hands with a hammer during the night – but it often seems so in the morning. Yet SOMETHING WAS happening. Beneath a veil of secrecy. That immunology has yet to uncover.
I was opening a can using a hand can opener with my right hand and holding the can in my left. I felt a sharp brief pain in my left thumb and after that I could no longer bend the first joint. Got in to see a hand surgeon and he determined that because my wrist joints were so jagged from RA, they had severed the tendon in my thumb. The surgeon said he could remove the tendon from my ring finger and put it into the thumb and then my ring finger would be immobilized, and then I would need weeks of PT. I opted out of that real quick. I get along just fine without that joint as long I remember to keep the nail short so that it doesn't get jammed back. It's always something new and exciting with RA isn't it.
This is actually one of the first mysteries to clue me in that something was wrong…a good 10 years before my official diagnosis of RA.
Of course, the mystery swellings were happening at an infrequency, and there were always many months in between their occurrences.
But now it happens nearly at a two week frequency. And call me crazy, but I can feel the damage happening a day or two before the swelling appears. The joint feels like it is burning, constant burning, and a stiffness that makes it nearly impossible to bend. Sometimes there is red, more often there is not.
I asked my Rheumy about this and he shrugged it off as just disease progression. I asked him why it was continuing to happen even after I've started all the DMARDS, and he basically told me it was normal.
So I'm normal by having mystery injuries. Maybe you're normal too.
That's an interesting point..being healthy. Would any of you describe yourselves as healthy? I can say "I'm not sick" (meaning I don't currently have any active infections), but I wouldn't describe myself as "healthy" in any way. Is this something we should just accept that we are not or are we giving up if we do so?
I don't think it's just what we should accept as a community of patients and that has been one driver of this site from 2009. We need more effective treatments that work for more people. We still need many in the medical community to recognize the ads for current treatments dont portray the whole story.. as ads in any product present only one side.
Of course we all need to practice some level of *acceptance* of circumstances personally so we don't go nuts / become stuck emotionally. But those are 2 different things.
Not only does my thumbs feel like they have been hit by a hammer. My elbows are even worse.
Ha! That's so funny, I call it "hammer hand" coz it often feels like someone just slammed a hammer into my hand!!
One of my fingers started "triggering" about 4 months ago. Rheum doc gave me cortisone injections in the joints involved. 4 months later, it was no longer triggering, but was having trouble getting and staying straight when I straightened it. More injections. Plus a referral for hand therapy. Now my hips are going out. "Healthy?" I haven't been healthy for years. Every time I go to the orthopedic surgeon, they ask me if "this is the result of an accident." It never is. It's RD. Neurosurgeon probably is next for neck and back.
Simponi infusions are finally helping some. Wish I could have started them sooner.
RA – the gift that keeps on taking.
Why do Drs not listen? I'm not in a hospital under a 5150. Pain? Take Tylenol? Can't breathe? Here's an Antibiotic. The typing is the worst. I'm a 911 operator and it's harder and harder to type and remember. Can MTX do that? I'm new to it.
Why oh why do we constantly have to prove that yes, we actually do have RA? One (ex-)rheumatologist suggested I may have 1)carpal tunnel syndrome in my hands;2)osteoarthritis;3)fibromyalgia; 4)or bursitis. She came up with these alternate explanations for pain although I was diagnosed with RA 4 years ago("luckily" I did have RA factor for the blood test).
I never, ever get swelling in all the joints that hurt. Swelling is so rare for me that I recently walked for 7 weeks on a broken tibia without any swelling– I just thought I had just a little more than the "usual" amount of pain in my knee because I'd fallen.
A person could get frustrated.
Ever since my daughter was five she has had strange symptoms. She's now 38. She has Sjogrens and I have RA. At age 12 she complained of not just joint pain, but her ankle would swell up, the veins would bulge out and she was in throbbing pain. The progression from normal to swollen would happen right before our eyes and then diminish about an hour later. Strange thing Elavil a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibiter seemed to help it from occurring. I know it's not RA, but I just thought you should know.
I was diagnosed with RA 18yrs ago. First it was hands, then wrists, then both feet (4 foot surgeries). All this time my back has been killing me. Now neurosurgeon tells me that R A has "mangled" at least the of my joints in my neck. Need sergery but R A and mess causes a problem. My rheumatologist says RA usually doesn't affect the back. I beg to differ. Anther big surprise. They just keep coming.
I just checked & I don't think I've posted (a blog post) on this yet. Some other PRD have told me they have this too. As far as I understnad it's breaking of small blood vessels & forming a bruise under the skin. It's what my mom called "breaking a blood vessel" when I was a kid, if you hit something hard with your hand. Just as you describe, it smarts for a couple minutes & then duller pain as it swells, tightens, blood beneath the skin – over the next minutes.
The strange part is that, like you said, you don't hit the spot with a hammer or even bump it hard – it's spontaneous. I've had this happen to me many many times – often I'm folding laundry. It happens to toes when I'm just standing or walking. I've taken pix of it along the way & brought both the pix & the live "bruises" to docs who just shake their heads saying IDK.
Ok, how could it be related to RD? The only thing I have found with is vasculitis – inflammation of blood vessels. It can happen w/ RD & I've had other symptoms of it.
I am glad to see this because I have been wondering why my right thumb is so swollen. I started having this problem a month ago and the burning pain is terrible. I have severe RA.
Does anyone know what to do to make the swelling go away? Thanks!
Thank you Kelly!! Yes!! That's it!! Another bizzarre RD thing.
Now you know why my digital camera gets a workout taking pictures of my inflamed joints when they happen.
The random stinging then a bruise I use to get that a lot it has stopped for the most part but stopped taking some of my meds. Less prednisone maybe??
You said it best! I am always wondering WHAT I did to make this or that hurt… That you go thru too and still is very assuring, albeit sad for you and for the whole RD community!
Being a hairdresser with RA has a few disadvantages. I have been diagnosed for about 8 years now and I would say until recently, my major complaints were joint stiffness and major fatigue. Once in a while a joint in my ankle or foot flares and I am limping around. This past year has brought thumb pain that goes through my whole hand. I have been told by drs it is carpel tunnel. I am refusing surgery because as painful as this is, one day I will wake up and not even remember exactly where the pain was. And just like that, a light switch turns it off and all pain is gone. I know that something is triggering this. My right thumb is twice the size of my left thumb. The tendons around my thumb are thickened and stick out of my thumb. My whole hand becomes weak and my grip is about gone. Ice packs help but I am so chilly in the fall that I don't like to use them. I am sure this will pass like it has in the past. Weird to see your post as I can feel your pain.
You have described myself, it means a lot to me to know I'm not alone.


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2017 ANZAC Day Dawn Service Singapore
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Another year has flown by and it was time again to commemorate another ANZAC Day. I was in Singapore so attended the Dawn Service at the Kranji War Memorial. As usual I was fairly somber, but being able to attend the Dawn Service here in Singapore helps!
This year's event was managed by the Kiwis, they did a great job (can't believe I typed that, joking my friends from the South Eastern Australian Islands). This included an Honor Guard of Royal New Zealand Navy and Royal Australian Navy Sailors.
Australian International School Choir
The Australian International School provided the choir who which, as usual, added to the service.
ANZAC – France 1917
This year is 100 years since the ANZACs fought in France at Bullecourt, Messines, and the four-month campaign around Ypres known as the Battle of Passchendaele. In 2017 there were 76,836 Australian casualties.
Catafalque Party
This years Catafalque Party consisted of both Aussies and Kiwis. In my youth I was a member of a couple of these and must admit that the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) looked a lot better than the Steyr that is now used by the Australian and New Zealand Armed Forces.
Kranji Commonwealth War Memorial
The Kranji Commonwealth War Memorial is where 4,458 Allied servicemen have been buried in marked graves of which over 850 of the graves unidentified.
The physical War Memorial itself represents Air Force, Army and Navy.
(Not my pics, thanks to serametin and Bernard Goh courtesy of Flickr)
The columns represent the Army marching columns, the "roof" over the columns is shaped to represent the wings of a plane and the sail at the top resembles the fin or sail of a submarine. This something I just learnt, and maybe why I have such an affinity with the place.
The Memorial's walls are inscribed with over 24,000 names of allied servicemen whose died in whilst defending Singapore and whose bodies were never found.
75 Years Since the Fall of Singapore
2017 marks the 75th Anniversary of the Fall of Singapore, which occurred on 15 February 1942.
The Dawn Service
The Dawn Service was run like clockwork, the Last Post was played at just before Sunrise and the 2 minutes of silence ending at about sunrise when Reveille was played.
A Dawn Service to commemorate the fallen is apparently an ANZAC only tradition that started in Sydney on ANZAC Day in 1927. Originally attended only by Veterans and Servicemen with the day time commemorations attended by family and friends, these services are now attended by all. The Dawn Service is usually followed by a Gun Fire breakfast, milk tea (which usually has a GENEROUS dosage of rum added if it is made by my Submariner brethren). An ANZAC Day March usually commence at around 9am in every city and most towns in Australia.
The Dawn Service also includes the laying wreathes by dignitaries from various Countries and Armed Forces.
Ataturk
As always the Turkish Ambassador or their representative is invited to provide a reading as a part of the Dawn Service and they will always include a quote attributed to Ataturk. Ataturk was the Turkish General who lead their troops at Gallipoli and who became the first President of Turkey after the Ottoman Empire was disbanded.
The Ode
Another of the traditions is the reciting of The Ode of Remembrance.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
The Sunrise
We were lucky with the weather as during the Dawn Service the skies were clear, a couple of hours later it was pouring.
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Ted Kaczynski, also known as the "Unabomber," terrified the nation over the span of 20 years from the 1980s through the early 1990s. He was a mathematics prodigy, graduating from Harvard, and embarked on a career in academia. He would also become the perpetrator of one of the most baffling crime sprees the public had ever seen.
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Keith NoakesMarch 2, 2018
Here are our predictions for this Sunday's 90th Academy Awards.
Predictions by Critics Without Credentials, Dylan S. Phillips, Corbin Stewart, and Keith Noakes.
Best Picture:
"Call Me by Your Name" 19/1
"Darkest Hour" 200/1
"Dunkirk" 4/1
"Get Out" 25/1
"Lady Bird" 9/1
"Phantom Thread" 300/1
"The Post" 50/1
"The Shape of Water" 3/1
"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" 2/1
Should Win: The Shape of Water (CWC, Dylan), Lady Bird (Corbin), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Keith)
Will Win: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (CWC, Dylan, Keith), Get Out (Corbin)
Lead Actor:
Timothée Chalamet "Call Me by Your Name" 4/1
Daniel Day-Lewis "Phantom Thread" 19/1
Daniel Kaluuya "Get Out" 100/1
Gary Oldman "Darkest Hour" 3/7
Denzel Washington "Roman J. Israel, Esq." 25/1
Should Win: Gary Oldman (CWC, Dylan), Timothée Chalamet (Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Gary Oldman (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Lead Actress:
Sally Hawkins "The Shape of Water" 19/1
Frances McDormand "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" 1/3
Margot Robbie "I, Tonya" 100/1
Saoirse Ronan "Lady Bird" 17/3
Meryl Streep "The Post" 25/1
Should Win: Margot Robbie (CWC, Dylan), Sally Hawkins (Corbin), Frances McDormand (Keith)
Will Win: Frances McDormand (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Supporting Actor:
Willem Dafoe "The Florida Project" 2/1
Woody Harrelson "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" 100/1
Richard Jenkins "The Shape of Water" 19/1
Christopher Plummer "All the Money in the World" 4/1
Sam Rockwell "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" 3/2
Should Win: Richard Jenkins (CWC, Keith), Sam Rockwell (Dylan), Willem Dafoe (Corbin)
Will Win: Sam Rockwell (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Supporting Actress:
Mary J. Blige "Mudbound" 19/1
Allison Janney "I, Tonya" 1/1
Lesley Manville "Phantom Thread" 100/1
Laurie Metcalf "Lady Bird" 2/1
Octavia Spencer "The Shape of Water" 9/1
Should Win: Allison Janney (CWC, Dylan), Laurie Metcalf (Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Allison Janney (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
"Dunkirk" Christopher Nolan 3/1
"Get Out" Jordan Peele 23/2
"Lady Bird" Greta Gerwig 9/1
"Phantom Thread" Paul Thomas Anderson 49/1
"The Shape of Water" Guillermo del Toro 9/11
Should Win: Guillermo del Toro (CWC, Dylan), Christopher Nolan (Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Guillermo del Toro (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Animated Feature:
"The Boss Baby" Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito 150/1
"The Breadwinner" Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo 25/1
"Coco" Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson 1/9
"Ferdinand" Carlos Saldanha 200/1
"Loving Vincent" Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh Welchman 19/1
Should Win: The Breadwinner (CWC), Coco (Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Coco (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Animated Short:
"Dear Basketball" Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant 3/2
"Garden Party" Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon 19/1
"Lou" Dave Mullins, Dana Murray 3/1
"Negative Space" Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata 17/3
"Revolting Rhymes" Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer 19/1
Should Win: Garden Party (CWC, Corbin)
Will Win: Revolting Rhymes (CWC), Dear Basketball (Corbin)
Adapted Screenplay:
"Call Me by Your Name" James Ivory 1/1
"The Disaster Artist" Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber 97/3
"Logan" Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green 49/1
"Molly's Game" Aaron Sorkin 4/1
"Mudbound" Virgil Williams and Dee Rees 17/3
Should Win: Call Me by Your Name (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Call Me by Your Name (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Original Screenplay:
"The Big Sick" Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani 49/1
"Get Out" Jordan Peele 9/1
"The Shape of Water" Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor 97/3
"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" Martin McDonagh 11/9
Should Win: The Shape of Water (CWC), Get Out (Dylan, Corbin), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Keith)
Will Win: Get Out (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
"Blade Runner 2049" Roger Deakins 3/2
"Darkest Hour" Bruno Delbonnel 9/1
"Dunkirk" Hoyte van Hoytema 7/3
"Mudbound" Rachel Morrison 9/1
"The Shape of Water" Dan Laustsen 9/1
Should Win: Blade Runner 2049 (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Blade Runner 2049 (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Best Documentary Feature:
"Abacus: Small Enough to Jail" Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman 100/1
"Faces Places" JR, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda 7/13
"Icarus" Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan 9/1
"Last Men in Aleppo" Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Soren Steen Jepersen 4/1
"Strong Island" Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes 25/1
Should Win: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (CWC), Faces Places (Corbin)
Will Win: Icarus (CWC), Faces Places (Corbin)
Best Documentary Short Subject:
"Edith+Eddie" Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright 7/3
"Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405" Frank Stiefel 17/3
"Heroin(e)" Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon 11/9
"Knife Skills" Thomas Lennon 19/1
"Traffic Stop" Kate Davis, David Heilbroner 19/1
Should Win: Heroin(e) (CWC), Knife Skills (Corbin)
Will Win: Edith+Eddie (CWC), Heroin(e) (Corbin)
Best Live Action Short Film:
"DeKalb Elementary" Reed Van Dyk 3/2
"The Eleven O'Clock" Derin Seale, Josh Lawson 22/3
"My Nephew Emmett" Kevin Wilson, Jr. 23/2
"The Silent Child" Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton 7/3
"Watu Wote/All of Us" Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen 9/1
Should Win: Watu Wote/All of Us (CWC), DeKalb Elementary (Corbin)
Will Win: DeKalb Elementary (CWC, Corbin)
Best Foreign Language Film:
"A Fantastic Woman" (Chile) 3/1
"The Insult" (Lebanon) 9/1
"Loveless" (Russia) 3/1
"On Body and Soul (Hungary) 9/1
"The Square" (Sweden) 3/2
Should Win: On Body and Soul (CWC), A Fantastic Woman (Keith)
Will Win: A Fantastic Woman (CWC, Keith)
Film Editing:
"Baby Driver" Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss 19/1
"Dunkirk" Lee Smith 11/9
"I, Tonya" Tatiana S. Riegel 19/1
"The Shape of Water" Sidney Wolinsky 7/3
"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" Jon Gregory 17/3
Should Win: Baby Driver (CWC, Dylan, Keith), Dunkirk (Corbin)
Will Win: Dunkirk (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Sound Editing:
"Baby Driver" Julian Slater
"Blade Runner 2049" Mark Mangini, Theo Green
"Dunkirk" Alex Gibson, Richard King
"The Shape of Water" Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Ren Klyce, Matthew Wood
Should Win: Baby Driver (CWC), Dunkirk (Dylan, Keith), Blade Runner 2049 (Corbin)
Will Win: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (CWC), Dunkirk (Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Sound Mixing:
"Baby Driver" Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin 22/3
"Blade Runner 2049" Mac Ruth, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hephill 7/3
"Dunkirk" Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo 3/2
"The Shape of Water" Glen Gauthier, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern 9/1
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Stuart Wilson, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick 23/2
Should Win: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (CWC), Dunkirk (Dylan, Corbin), Baby Driver (Keith)
Will Win: Baby Driver (CWC, Keith), Dunkirk (Dylan, Corbin)
"Beauty and the Beast" Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer 19/1
"Blade Runner 2049" Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola 7/3
"Darkest Hour" Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer 19/1
"Dunkirk" Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis 17/3
"The Shape of Water" Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau 11/9
Should Win: The Shape of Water (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: The Shape of Water (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Original Score:
"Dunkirk" Hans Zimmer 13/7
"Phantom Thread" Jonny Greenwood 17/3
"The Shape of Water" Alexandre Desplat 7/3
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" John Williams 23/2
"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" Carter Burwell 49/1
Should Win: The Shape of Water (CWC, Dylan, Keith), Phantom Thread (Corbin)
Will Win: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (CWC), The Shape of Water (Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Original Song:
"Mighty River" from "Mudbound," Mary J. Blige 19/1
"Mystery of Love" from "Call Me by Your Name," Sufjan Stevens 17/3
"Remember Me" from "Coco," Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez 3/2
"Stand Up for Something" from "Marshall," Diane Warren, Common 19/1
"This Is Me" from "The Greatest Showman," Benj Pasek, Justin Paul 3/1
Should Win: "This Is Me" (CWC, Dylan), "Mystery of Love" (Corbin), "Remember Me" (Keith)
Will Win: "This Is Me" (CWC, Keith), "Remember Me" (Dylan, Corbin)
Makeup and Hair:
"Darkest Hour" Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick
"Victoria and Abdul" Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
"Wonder" Arjen Tuiten
Should Win: Darkest Hour (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Darkest Hour (CWC, Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
"Beauty and the Beast" Jacqueline Durran 17/3
"Darkest Hour" Jacqueline Durran 22/3
"Phantom Thread" Mark Bridges 9/11
"The Shape of Water" Luis Sequeira 9/1
"Victoria and Abdul" Consolata Boyle 23/2
Should Win: The Shape of Water (CWC), Beauty and the Beast (Dylan), Phantom Thread (Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Beauty and the Beast (CWC), Phantom Thread (Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Visual Effects:
"Blade Runner 2049" John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer 1/1
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick 97/3
"Kong: Skull Island" Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus 97/3
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Chris Corbould, Neal Scanlon 97/3
"War for the Planet of the Apes" Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Joel Whist 3/2
Should Win: War for the Planet of the Apes (CWC), Blade Runner 2049 (Dylan, Corbin, Keith)
Will Win: Blade Runner 2049 (CWC, Keith), War for the Planet of the Apes (Dylan, Corbin)
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As you can see, everything is precisely explained in the chart. The pair was supported for several times from 108.13 (the low), all the way to 108.70 and on Friday September 08, the pair finaly broke the support, closing the week at 107.84, well bellow the support area. For sure, that closing on Friday gave the sellers view of the possible furder fall toward 106 and they've probably placed SL-es above the previous strong support.
On Sunday evening, without any particular reason, (yeah, yeah I know N.Korea didn't fire a missle during the weekend) the pair opened above the support level at 108.13. That level gave the buyers strenght again and they have continued to push the pair strongly up during the Monday, all the way to 109.40. In my point of view, exactly where the short stops were placed. Well, there is only one reason for this move and that's a so called stop loss hunting. Nobody can say othewise because, this was techically clear short trade for this week, as most the analysts have predicted during the weekend. I predicted the move simply based on psichology of the market and try to trade the same. How? Take a look at our USD/JPY long from Friday.
I sow that move could come, but I even thought that, they will make it on Friday evening. That's why I searched a place for long and found the same here almost at the bottom. I waited for the buyers to confirm the support and to broke the trend line (Rasing Flag), after which I placed our long at 107.43. I've placed our target at 109.11, yes 109.11! Why? As I wrote it already, I sow it coming and I was sure it will happen. But, because of the strong resistance at the area of the previous strong support near 108.00, I've decided to close our long on Friday. Why? I usualy trade what I see, not what I think and I didn't want to leave the position opened during the weekend, despite my prediction of the possible move on Friday. I simply didn't want to gamble with real account. Well, the opening and today's move proves I was right and the move up, let's say the SL hunting happened indeed.
Always think of this and be careful on importnant levels. The analysts called this a fail brake, but that's not a fail brake. That's a move with a purpose, how the banks will took your money in the market. You simply should not take their money, right!? Try to see something like this before it happens, before everyone. If you don't, the big market players will take your money as well.
I don't see this move as a regular and ususal daily SL hunting, but more as an opportunity for the big ones to take a bigger money on huge volume.


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Don't Sleep | K-Beta – See You in Hell, Coward
Don't sleep on this latest extended play from K-Beta. It was released on September 27th this year in 2019. K-Beta is an artist who I've just recently become familiar with; he was actually featured on a Reef the Lost Cauze project around 2010. I think he's released a few projects in the past, but this was my first time listening to him. It's also the first project he's self produced entirely on his own, so that's pretty cool.
The project begins with My Name K-Beta, which was a pretty good introduction since this was my first time listening to him. I really like the drums that come in at the beginning of this song; they seem to have kind of a muffled, yet echoey effect on them, which sounds really cool. The first verse is very good. I like his flow a lot, and I think he has a pretty good voice. The production kinda sounds like something I'd hear in a video game honestly. It kinda made me think of old Final Fantasy games & Mega Ran. The hook is cool; it's pretty much exactly the kinda stuff you'd expect to hear from a dope underground rapper.
My name K-Beta, and I'm here to say
That I'm the best damn rapper in the USA
I think the second verse is even better than the first one. I think K-Beta was on a musical hiatus for a while, and he seems to explain it during this part of the song. I guess that explains why his earliest release on Bandcamp is from 2018. I think he's going through a rebrand. Or maybe not. I guess if it was a full rebrand he'd come back with an entirely new stage name. I don't fuckin' know. Anyway, I think the song is really dope, but he actually released a remix produced by VA Vice in October, and I think it's even better than the original song.
I love the production on this track, but what really stood out is the new verse. Not only does K-Beta fucking slaughter this track, but he actually sounds scarily similar to Method Man in my opinion. Seriously, when the track first started I thought VA Vice just sampled on old freestyle from Method Man and laid it over the new beat, but it just kept going, so I eventually realized that it was actually K-Beta himself. It's uncanny. It literally sounds exactly like Method Man to me. K-Beta doesn't really sound like Method Man on any of the tracks from the EP, so it really caught me off guard. I love it though. It's dope af. Anyway, the second track on the EP is called Right To, and it features two artists named Willie Waze & Lord Betta. I think the production on this track is superior to that of the opening track—the original version at least. The melody of the instrumental actually sounds kinda familiar, but I can't remember where I've heard it before. I think that's Willie Waze on the first verse, and I was really impressed by his performance.
You a simp, son, and a clown
Nigga, you Krusty
Picture me rollin'
Nothin' but will & vision amongst me
The one nitpick I have with this song is the mixing. The beat—specifically the percussion—kinda drowns out Willie's verse. The hook, which is dope, is easier to hear though. I think K-Beta sounds really good over this beat. His verse was great. Lord Betta probably had my least favorite performance, but that's not saying much because he still had a really great verse. The song is dope af honestly. Again, I think I'd like it more if the verses weren't as drowned out by the beat as they currently are, but it's still a really great song. I love it. The following track is called Kagebot, and it features an artist named Rated R. At first I thought that it was the same dude from Pac's Thug Life group, but then I realized that I was being dumb. For whatever reason I still felt the need to ask K-Beta if it was him, and it obviously is not. Rated R is credited as Revolution on Apple Music, so I guess he uses both of those aliases interchangeably. Anyway, I think the beat is really fucking cool. It kinda has a videogame-ish feel, just like the first beat. I like this one more though. It sounds more like a Nintendo game than a Squaresoft game. K-Beta's flow on the first verse is fucking awesome. He was floating over that beat effortlessly, and the content about authoritarian fuckery is dope. Rated R killed his verse too. Honestly, there's not a single aspect of the song that I dislike. I think it's dope af. It's followed by the title track, which I think is my favorite song on the project. This song has another instrumental that reminds me of video games, but it's definitely my favorite beat on the whole EP. I think it's dope af. It's impossible to not get that involuntary head nod while listening to this shit. K-Beta killed the first verse too.
The media tells half the story of guns drawn for justice
Americans rush to make uninformed judgements
Everything from his writing, to his flow, to his aggressive delivery is perfect in my opinion. The second verse is even better honestly. It would've been my favorite track on the album even if it didn't have any features, but this dude Mental Stamina came through for the final verse and absolutely fucking annihilated that shit. His verse is fucking crazy. I love his weird ass delivery. Dude raps like a mad scientist. His flow is crazy too. The verse is amazing. Again, this is easily my favorite song on the project. I think it's fucking awesome. Every verse is fantastic, and I love the beat. It's dope af. The penultimate song is called Brand New Brothers, and it features another verse from Rated R. I think this is my second favorite track on the album. Once again, the production sounds kind of familiar—specifically the bassline. I love it though. The first verse from Rated R is fucking awesome too. I also think this track has one of K-Beta's best performances. He slaughtered that second verse. There's really not a single aspect of the song that I don't love. Both of the MCs killed their verses, and the beat is great. The song is dope af. I don't really care for the final track, Nicca Nicca, but I think it's decent. It features an artist named jn0z, who I'm not familiar with. It also features contributions from The Fairy Flutist, as well as Chris Bartholomew on the saxophone. It's definitely not a bad song at all, but I just don't see myself coming back to it. I'm not crazy about the beat, but the instrumentation from The Fairy Flutist & Chris Bartholomew sounds pretty good. I think jn0z and K-Beta sound good trading bars. I think it's just the strange sample of the guy in the background saying "nicca" over and over again that I didn't love. The actual rapping is very good though. I kinda like the song, but just not enough to return to it in the future. Once they stop rapping, there's a long instrumental outro, which was just kind of boring to me. The rest of the song is cool though. It's an okay track.
This extended play is great. I actually think it's one of the better EPs that I heard in 2019, and I'm looking forward to hearing whatever K-Beta does next. He's clearly a very skilled rapper, and he affiliates himself with other very proficient MCs. He's also a pretty talented producer, but I was mainly impressed by the rapping. Honestly, I don't think I have any consistent gripes with it. If anything, the mixing was a little shaky; some of the verses seemed to be slightly drowned out by the production. However, for the most part, I'm very satisfied. This shit is dope. Check it out.
Favorite Song: See You in Hell, Coward
Least Favorite Song: Nicca Nicca
Extended Play
Chris Bartholomew
jn0z
K-Beta
Lord Betta
Mental Stamina
The Fairy Flutist
VA Vice
Willie Waze
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