Shiloh Tipi - 12 ft.
Dakota Tipi - 22 ft.
Come stay in one of our 12 foot tipi!
***If the calendar says we are booked.....we have additional tent camping and RV sites. Please call for additional information. Please no fireworks, guns or fires allowed during the summer season.
PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE BRINGING A DOG...THEY ARE ALLOWED HOWEVER WE MUST KNOW YOU ARE BRINGING ONE. YOU MUST PICK UP AFTER YOUR DOG.
You have access to a fire ring season permitting and a BBQ. There will be a campfire with Native American story telling and songs. This tipi, is just the tipi with 4 camp chairs for star gazing. Upgrade for a double bed.
Forget anything? We have sleeping bags, air mattresses and blankets available for a small laundry fee. Single burner camp stove and a basket of cooking utensils is available for a small butane and clean up fee. We have a propane space heater for rent as well.
There are 40 acres of off leash dog access, all dogs must have up dated medical records. No aggressive dogs.
The valley has plenty of places to go hiking, There are olive orchards, vineyards, pistachio farms, a catch and release pond and a 300 yard golf driving range near by. We have stables for those of you who have horses.
A few miles away are some off road trails. Its an excellent place for star gazing at 3500 feet. The valley is known for being a harmonic vortex It has a unique mountain range and the Cuyama River flows north to the ocean. The Bitterroot condor sanctuary is a few miles away. Only in this area does the California condor, the eagle, the owl, the hawk and a rare leopard lizard lives.
If the calendar says we are booked.....we have additional tent camping and RV sites. Please call for additional information. Please no fireworks, guns or fires allowed during the summer season.
Fires are only allowed in the designated fire pits and you must ensure that fires are fully extinguished before going to bed. (8-7-16) Due to drought conditions campfires are restricted.
Dogs must be contained at night.
Have a question? Send Vincent a message!
Natural features you'll find at Shiloh Tipi - 12 ft. in California.
The vibe at Shiloh Tipi - 12 ft.
Dakota Tipi Village Camp is situated between the picturesque mountains leading out of Ojai, and the intriguing expanse of flat oil fields heading towards Bakersfield. It's on native land, a valley that's having a revival turning agricultural farms into vineyards. There are things offered nearby, from horseback riding and hiking to wine tasting, but the valley itself is kind of hidden. One of those corners of the world that remind you that California is one incredibly varied and wide open state.
The property itself is owned and managed by Thomas, a Chumash native. He greeted and spoke to us for the first hour or so, telling about the ancient spirituality of the land (vortex mountains), the issues it has now (no water regulation) and other native facts. The tipi was extremely well built, and even had a little fire pit for morning coffee. It had two beds and side tables too. Would be a great place to camp in the winter months. Though because of the high altitude - was 100 degrees during the day but got quite freezing in the early morning. I was glad he left us blankets and bedding (though they were dusty and the dogs had sat on them while we were speaking). There was a separate BBQ and then a fire pit with surrounding stumps. We were allowed a fire, had our meal, and stargazed.
Because of the high altitude, THE STARS were magnificent. We could see the Milky Way, though it only touched one horizon. The other horizon did have slight light pollution coming over the mountains, but barely. There was also a few night flood lights from neighboring farms, as well as a generator that created the only noise during the night.
-A few claw foot bathtubs with natural hot mineral water. The springs are ready, but a walkway needs to be built.
-Figure out some sort of bedding situation, whether to offer it or not (it can get quite dusty).
-A shaded area for coffee and tea in the morning. The structure is built but there's nothing usable yet.
- More trees and landscaping. Some trees are planted and growing but are baby and brand new!
- He offers visits to his other ranch to see the horses.
- An outhouse with flushing toilet (think 80's RV style) and toilet paper.
-Tipis, most barren inside, some with beds.
-A very large fire pit with some scrap wood (still recommend bringing some yourself). Note that the fire pit is shared amongst all tipis.
-Outdoor chairs and a grill that could probably be started up.
In conclusion, I think this land has great potential, but Thomas recognizes that he needs help. Anyone interested in work-trade please inquire. Once the mineral baths get going, if they will be well built and well-kept, I'd definitely visit again for a little private getaway. Hopefully the neighbors can tone down their floodlights and generators. It wasn't too obtrusive though, and the drive through the mountains to Ojai was magnificent, as well as the oil fields over the cliff by Taft. There's a lot more to learn about this land than I was able to explore. In August it was fairly brown, but it the spring will be green. The tipis were so cool, and didn't feel ingenuine at all as they were built by a native. Would be a good spot to do some motorbiking around, or to explore a bunch of different things while having a comfortable base. Solar showers would be good, Thomas plans to install something similar in the future. He was very welcoming and accommodating, and would work with you on what you need. Close to LA, but in a culture so far away. I give my best wishes for the progress on this HipCamp!
What a fantastic spot. If you want to just get away, and be transported to simple, excellent desert camping, then this is the place. Thomas was super helpful and gave us info about some great open hiking and things to do to fill our time. We're planning on making this an annual destination.
I took some guys here and we had a fun time in the tipis. As of now, there was only 1 tipi that had a fire ring. It would have been nice to have the other tipis with fire rings as it got pretty cold at night.
Had an amazing time staying on this property! The views and scenery are amazing - definitely a good spot to get away from the city, enjoy the quiet and explore a little.
Great place to escape the city and relax in the desert! Host was very welcoming and provided fresh farm eggs in the morning for breakfast! Thanks for a great weekend!
Great host with alot of future projects but needs some work! Great property! Bring blankets it gets really cold !
This was such an incredible trip. Maxiwo, our host, was extremely kind and welcoming. He shared so much about his culture and was a highlight of the trip. The dogs on the property are awesome and very friendly. The tipis themselves are comfy and snug while the site as a whole has a lot of potential and is growing quickly. Highly recommend!
We loved it here. Yes, it's basic and still work in progress but that's what we enjoyed. Away from it all, take it slow, enjoy the quiet remoteness . Maxiwo was great, he found the right mix of being present and sharing his people's story and traditions and giving us our space. And that night sky! We happened to stay the second night of the Perseid Meteor shower with clear view of the Milky Way. One of my favorite nightly shows ever. We will be back!
While our stay was definitely a memorable weekend and delightful, I would maybe wait to stay here until the facilities are up and running and in good shape. The area is beautiful and Thomas the owner is great and has so much great wisdom to share. But our tipi had quite a draft coming in at night and when it's 40 degrees and the wind is howling, it is definitely not the most enjoyable night of sleep. We ended up sleeping in our cars the second night. Additionally the bathrooms were under construction and so we had to drive to a port-a-potty to use the restroom, and we didn't know about this till we got there (There's no trees to hide behind). overall we enjoyed ourselves and made some great memories but if bathrooms and a enclosed shelter are desired it might be best to wait a couple of months till all the work and construction is done!
We have a new toilet in the camping area and check out our Dakota Village Cowboy Cabin if you want a warm and enclosed cabin.
If you've fully explored and read the information on this listing page and still have questions, you can message Vincent here.


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Q: How to add color to a specific cell using openXml? I created a row and cell like this =
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Can anyone please tell me how to color this particular cell using openXml in C#? I don't want to color all the cells, only this particular cell.
Found the SOLUTION = https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/chrisquon/stylizing-your-excel-worksheets-with-open-xml-2-0

A: You need to create a PatternFill for that and set its background- or foregroundcolor. Then you will need to create a CellFormat which refers to that PatternFill. Then you set the StyleIndex of your cell to that CellFormat-index.
Dealing with styles in OpenXML is a real pain. Unless you have really good reasons to stick with OpenXML, my advise would be to switch to something like ClosedXML.

A: In my case I need to fill a range of cells with gray color. The approach I used is as follows
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The first is for selecting a range of cells. Next set the pattern and set the background color.
I am trying to fill column 6's 8 cells (starting from 2nd cell)with a Gray color.
Note: I am using OfficeOpenXML
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Richland County schools are getting their budget back in the black.
OLNEY, Ill. (WTHI) - Over the last few years, money has been tight in Richland county. But administrators with the school corporation say that things are beginning to look up.
As with most schools in Illinois, the district has had to struggle with receiving money from the state. Currently, the state owes Richland county schools just under a half a million dollars. That's down from numbers in the three million range.
The district was able to stay afloat thanks to four million dollars in incentives. The incentives were from the consolidation of east and west Richland schools. This year was the final year for that extra money.
News 10 spoke with Richland county superintendent Larry Bussard. He believes a new system of funding in Illinois called "evidence-based" funding, will help keep the school on track.
Bussard says, "If we can keep receiving these new evidence-based dollars along with that. We should be sound. As long as the state funding continues to be pretty regular, we feel pretty positive where we're going."
Bussard says the district hopes to hire a few more teachers as well as a school resource officer.


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DATABASES = {
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MoviesFlix (2022): Top 15+ Best Alternatives & Similar Sites Like MoviesFlix
MoviesFlix Presently, several illegal and legal sites and apps have come up that provide viewers with old and new movies, web series, tv shows, documentaries, etc. The Moviesflix is one such illegal site that offers similar services. All latest movies and other artistic creations are available in HD quality on this site. The website has a huge collection of old and new movies that simply amazes its users. Read below to know more about this site.
About the Movieflix 2022
The Movieflix 2022 was established back in 2011. Over 9 years, the site has gained immense popularity as an illegal torrent website that provides free movie streaming and downloading opportunities to viewers in various formats. the Movieflix has emerged to be a place where viewers can get all sorts of movies, old and new in HD quality. Initially, the site offered only Malayalam moviesm, but now has a humongous collection of mobile of all kinds, Punjabi, Marathi, Bollywood, Hollywood, etc.
In addition to movies, one can also download or stream web series, tv shows, documentaries, etc on this site. Before going any further, know that this site is an illegal one and browsing throughout any of such kind of sites is considered to be a crime in India. The original site has been banned by the Indian government. But the site keeps changing its domain name and continues to function smoothly. Searching on Google," the Movieflix or the Movieflix 2020 won't fetch you the original site, because Google has deindexed the site.
Categories if movies available
Several categories of movies are available here. Some of them has been mentioned below:
Malayalam 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015 Movies
Malayalam dubbed movies A-Z
Tamil HD movie download
Malayalam dubbed movie collection
Malayalam MP3 and Video Songs
Features of the Movieflix:
Apart from downloading Malayalam movies, you can also download the latest Hollywood Dubbed, Bollywood, Telegu and other south Indian movies. Movieflix's movie collection will never leave you disappointed.
The structure and interface of the site will amaze you surely. It's user-friendly. The site can be accessed from mobiles, laptops, PCs, etc. This free movie downloading site offers all old and new movies in 320p, 1080p, and 720 p formats, allowing users to download and stream in their desired format. Due to its quality fo service, it has emerged to be one of the fastest-growing movie downloading sites in India.
The site provides its viewers with satisfaction by offering several categories of video standards. You can pick up one of your choices.
You can download your favourite tv shows, web series for free too to watch it later.
In their last update, the site removed unnecessary bugs, ensuring bug fixes as a result of which there are fewer chances of your app crashing.
This site has super-fast servers that help users in various ways.
This site's user-friendly UI enables users to navigate through the site easily.
The Movieflix app's size is quite small, hence doesn't occupy enough of your device storage.
Is it legal to download movies from the Movieflix 2022?
Browsing through the Movieflix or any other pirated site is considered to be a crime in India. These re illegal sites and if anyone is ever caught to be streaming or downloading movies from such sites, the policy has every right to arrest that person and imprison him as per the anti-piracy law. Streaming and downloading movies from any such site indicate that you too are supporting the illegal piracy business. Hence, as viewers, we must stop using these sites. Unfortunately, the Indian government hasn't yet taken stern measures to stip the piracy business and as a result, these sites continue to infringe copyright and operate smoothly at present. However, there have been cases when individuals who were found to be associated with any of such illegal sites were arrested by police.
How to Get movies from the Movieflix site?
Streaming or downloading movies, be it Bollywood dubbed, Tollyw wood, Hollywood dubbed, Malayalam, Telegu or Tamil, is very easy on the Movieflix. You can do it by following the below-mentioned steps:
Click on the active site of the Movieflix.
On the home screen, search for your desired movie. You will then be redirected to another page where you will get the streaming or downloading option. Below that, you will see a window having a play button.
Now decide whether you want to stream the movie online or download it. Accordingly, click on any one of the two options. That's all you have to do.
If you don't have an account created on the Movieflix, you might have to come across certain advertisements while streaming or downloading the movie. Keep closing all irrelevant ads with patience. Also, see that you have a high-speed internet connection so that the movie gets downloaded quickly.
Why you should avoid downloading movies from the Movieflix site?
Similar to the advantages, the website has some drawbacks as well. First of all, Movieflix is not a legal movie streaming site. Visiting the Movieflix 2020 website might create a problem for you. The website is destroying Tollywood, Kollywood and other film industries by leaking all the latest movies on their theatrical release or before their official release.
Despite taking action against the Movieflix or other piracy websites such as TodayPk, Movierulz, and 123 Movies, these websites continue to operate with impunity. If you visit the site, you are unknowingly supporting this illegal business. As per the reports, owing to piracy business in India, the film Industry bears a loss of more than Rs. 1800 crores every year. Hence, despite using illegal websites, you have several safe alternatives.
Why should we not use the Movieflix site?
As has already been said, the Movieflix is notorious for leaking the latest movies on its site in HD resolution for free download. Because of this, the Indian film industries have to suffer losses every year. The box office collection of the new films gets reduced drastically because once the latest films are made available to viewers at no cost, they stop buying tickets to watch movies in theatres. Producers, as a result, don't get compensated for the amount of money they have spent in shooting one film. Everyone knows the hard work and dedication involved in making a complete film. Now, if that film reaches everyone free of cost, it's unfair. The entire cast and crew should get what they deserve and as responsible citizens, we must respect that.
Besides, every time an individual browses through the Movieflix, he is not not only unknowingly supporting the piracy business and causing losses to the film, but he is also sharing his mobile's information and data ignorantly. These sites don't ask viewers to log in but these sites earn money from third party advertisements, which aren't safe.
Reports show that the Indian film industries lose approximately 2.8 billion every year to such pirated downloads. Indian viewers comprise the second largest group to use illegal torrent sites for free movie download.
Best Alternatives of the Movieflix site
Below given are some of the legal alternatives of the Movieflix:
1. StreamingSites.com
streamingsites.com is the most popular site which reviews the top sites to watch Free Movies, Web Series, TV Shows, Cartoon, Sports & more. It reviewed more than 440 sites so far that are safe and ranked by quality. You should check it out!
2. Gostream
The site's interface is great. Users can hence easily navigate through the home page. One can find an amazing collection of content on this site. The site allows its users to download and stream in SD or HD quality. All its services are provided for free.
3. Moviewatcher
This is another popular website that offers similar services. In addition to providing its users with some amazing videos and content, the website has great visuals. Over ten thousand web series, films, documentaries, short films are available here, old and new. The site, because of this amazing variety of contents attracts millions of traffic every year.
4. Vumoo
Vumoo again provides movies of different languages, coming from different genres. In addition to movies, web series and documentaries and tv shows bare also available here. One characteristic of this site is that it provides a piece of short information regarding all its movies so that viewers get an idea of what the film is about.
5. CmoviesHD
As per the name, the site provides all contents in HD quality. All services are provided free of cost to its users. However, the site keeps facing copyright infringement issues many times. Hence, always use VPN technology while accessing this site.
6. Movierill
The site is also known as Movieicon. It is an online website that allows its users to stream and download content. All services are available free of cost. The contents belong to diverse genres of movies. Users aren't required to create an account or register on this site for accessing its services. Neither is any kind of personal details like their aadhar card, debit card or credit number required.
7. Movie4u
Movie4u brings together services of an HD TV, allowing users to access content for free. Users aren't required to create an account and subscribe. The site uploads all the latest contents as soon as possible and keeps itself updated. No personal details like credit card number or debit card details are required.
8. Snagfilms
Snagfilms has gained popularity for uploading independent documentaries and movies. It is an online site that contains a rare and unique collection of movies that usually can't be found anywhere else. The site offers free services. Categories of contents available here include drama, horror, science fiction, romantic movies, etc.
9. TeaTV
A digital application, TeaTV has been designed especially for mobiles where viewers can download and stream movies and other content of their choice. The website's interface is user-friendly, allowing viewers to navigate through its site easily. All sorts of contents like documentaries, web series, movies, mp3 songs, and videos are available here in HD quality.
10. MXPlayer
MX Player is a media player app which is available free for iOS and Android Smartphone specifying in videos and is also able to play audio. The MX player for iOS and Android advertisement- aided freeware which can play all video files without or with subtitles in different formats and languages. It is an excellent tool for playing audio and video files that are downloaded from the web, played from websites streaming videos and videos recorded from your phone camera. The MX Player App requires several permissions for its optimum performance and doesn't install easily in all the Smartphone.
11. HotStar
Hotstar was launched in early 2015 and is amongst the most downloaded app in India. It has influenced over 350 million people behind the highly progressed video-streaming technology and its high concentration to the standard of experience across various platforms and devices. Hotstar has safe, top spots in Apple App Store and Google Play Store and is one of the widely renowned apps on both the platforms. Hotstar is ruling the charge with its vigorous technology backbone and its content.
12. Filywap
This is a website that has a significant collection in movies from across the globe. Not only will you be able to seamlessly download can also watch time free on this website without any hassle.
13. FMovies
If you want a site that will provide you with free content and yet maintain variety in it, then this is the site for you. This site gives you access to exactly such a huge range of movies that transcends the boundaries of language, genre, and the era of the cinematic universe. From Bollywood to Hollywood to Tollywood, to south Indian cinema and dubbed and subbed version of cinema as well, this site has it all. However, as the site is an illegal one, it cannot use google advertisements and hence there might be some interruptions in your movie watching experience due to pop up ads. But you can always install an Ad Blocker and continue with uninterrupted service.
14. YoMovies
Another torrent movie downloading site, Yomovies has time and again proven its place in the market. It, of course, has a wide range of movies to choose from. However, the movies are varied in genre, language, and video qualities. It is great if you are someone who enjoys Romcoms in a family of everyone who loves thrillers. You can just sit in any corner of the world, log into the site, download your favourite movies and watch them in peace.
15. Khatrimaza
Khatrimaza is another illegal torrent website that offers you innumerable Bollywood, Hollywood, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi movies for free streaming and downloading. The movies cover all genres like science fiction, horror, crime, thriller, romance, comedy, etc. The site even contains dubbed versions of several original movies, allowing viewers to stream them in their desired formats. All contents on this site are categorised, making it easy for viewers to find out their desired content. Moreover, the site provides you with good downloading speed and audio quality. However, one disadvantage of this site is that viewers have to come across irreverent ads while streaming and downloading movies. They need to have patience and keep closing these ads.
16. Tamilrockers
Another illegal free movie streaming and downloading site are the Tamilrockers. Similar to other pirated sites, it provides the latest releases for free in HD resolution. One of the most popular pirated sites, this site's URL has been blocked and banned by the Indian government. Despite this, it still operates smoothly. The site can be accessed via proxy servers and vpn technology. If you a looking for a site that provides other contents too, apart from movies, the Tamilrockers is the best site. It offers a wide range of web series, documentaries, short stories and tv shows that can be streamed and downloaded for free.
What steps have the Indian government taken to eradicate piracy?
The Indian government has taken several steps to put an end to this piracy business since it affects the Indian film industries severely. But despite all measures taken, such sites continue to function smoothly. According to the cinematograph act of 2019, any person found to browse through such sites will be jailed for 3 years. In addition to this, the culprit will also be charged a hefty sum of Rs. 10 lakhs as fine. All individuals who circulate pirated copies of movies will also be imprisoned if caught.
We don't intend to promote any kind of piracy business or Website, nor does it support the illegal torrent movie downloading sites. We have much respect for our Indian Constitution and try to Abide by its laws. We know the dangerous consequences that one might face from downloading or streaming movies on these illegal sites. Hence, we urge all viewers not to use such sites and our life and your device's data and information at stake. As human beings, we shouldn't do that. The above information provided only aimed at making viewers aware of the piracy business and the dangers associated with it. We request everyone to stay away from such sites.
FAQs For MoviesFlix
1. What categories of movies are available on the Movieflix site?
Varieties if movie categories are available on this site like Malayalam HD, Tamil HD, Hollywood dubbed, mp3 songs and videos, old Bollywood dubbed movies, etc.
2. Is the Movieflix site safe for use?
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Spotify is looking for the right person to handle manufacturing, supply chain, and sales and marketing, for its first physical products.
The rumours began from a series of job postings on the Spotify website. Among others, the company is looking for its first Operations Manager to lead its new hardware product division in Stockholm.
The job ad explains that "Spotify is on its way to creating its first physical products." The use of plural could mean that the company is not looking at launching only one, but several products. Could it be a portable iPod-like device for users to carry their music around? Or a home smart speaker to steal market share from competitors like Apple or Amazon?
Perhaps Spotify is even planning to reinvent the category. In the past, the company had hinted at its interest in creating a category-defining product that would answer all of a user's needs: voice, smart assistant, and even AR. That would certainly sound more exciting than a new iPod-like product, or something similar to the Apple HomePod, or even the Amazon Echo.
.@Spotify could be working on a category-defining product, inclusive of voice control, a smart assistant, and even AR!
Since Spotify was founded in 2006, Apple Music and Amazon Music have been its main rivals, both of which have already beaten Spotify in the race to hardware products.


Cover photo from Trudell's album, "A.K.A. Grafitti Man".
John Trudell passed away December 8 after a long illness, and he will most assuredly be remembered as the most prolific, vocal, dogmatic, and creative members of the American Indian Movement.
His life was like a film—as dramatic, moving, cerebral, evolutionary, and as epic as any blockbuster. He was a survivor and a jokester; a trickster of sorts. Trudell was able to bring his strengths as an activist into the arena of the arts, intact and incensed. An American Indian Movement co-founder, he channeled the pain and loss in his life into his art, making him one of the leading voices of the human spirit in the artistic community.
I once ran into Trudell at party in Hollywood twenty-five years ago. As he was smoking corporate tobacco, I took the opportunity to harangue him in a friendly way: "John! What are you doing smoking corporate cigarettes?" The least he could do, I told him, is to smoke American Spirit tobacco.
Trudell, whom I had befriended previously at anti-nuclear demonstrations, looked at me with his even, stoic face, and slowly took off his (then) trademark sunglasses. Staring at me straight in the eyes with no irony, he said "I'm very suspicious of anything that calls itself American Spirit." Coming from Trudell, that meant a great deal. Hounded by the FBI for years (they compiled a file in excess of 17,000 pages on him), he was heavy cat whose life was fuelled by tragedy, passion, and history.
Trudell's voice as a poet distinguished him as the unofficial bard of the Native American Community. You can almost hear him smirking through some of the cuts on his albums. Likewise, the searing pain is self evident in the passion of his lyrics-poems. His creative lifework served as catharsis for the pain and loss he experienced.
Born and raised in eastern Nebraska on and around the Santee Sioux reservation, he came from a mother whose tribal roots were in Mexico, in the Chihuahua and Michoacan regions where her father ran with Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution. Trudell's father was Santee Sioux. Hardship was part of Trudell's youth, his mother passed away when he was only six, leaving a large family. His boyhood was divided between Omaha where his father worked, and his grandparents' home on the reservation. He watched as his father struggled to raise the family. This taught him a deep contempt for the American work ethic. In 1963, faced with limited economic opportunities, Trudell joined the Navy and found active duty in the waters off of Vietnam on a ship doing search and rescue for downed pilots.
Trudell began his life as an activist when he joined the Indians of All Tribes 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay and became the spokesperson for the action. A broadcasting student in college, he went on air with a radio show from the island called Radio Free Alcatraz. The takeover was quickly recognised as a watershed event in the struggle in native cultural and land rights.
AIM sprang from its wake and Trudell gravitated toward other young militant Native Americans like himself. He participated in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties, a national car-caravan that brought together more than 2,000 urban and reservation Indians from across the nation to present a formal list of demands to the federal government.
Failure of communication resulted in an impasse and a 71-hour occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C. Trudell's effectiveness as a speaker throughout the turbulent affair gained him the scrutiny of the FBI. In 1973, when he was elected co-chair of AIM, the scrutiny intensified. Later that same year he participated in the historic seizure of Wounded Knee, a small town in the heart of the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation of South Dakota. During the period, using his uncanny abilities for candid, brutal irony, Trudell continued to make enemies with his bold statements concerning AIM, Native rights, and federal policy.
Trudell ultimately served short prison sentences on several occasions due to his activism. In one facility, an inmate told him that unless he stopped his political efforts, his family might be harmed. In 1976, Trudell coordinated the AIM support of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents in June 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
On February 11, 1979 in Washington D.C., to bring attention to the work of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Trudell delivered a vociferously anti-government speech on the steps of the FBI building during which he burned an upside-down American flag and was arrested. Within 12 hours, at 1:30 in the morning, his pregnant wife Tina, their three children, and his mother-in-law all burned to death in a mysterious fire in their home on the Shoshone Paiute reservation in Nevada. Although the FBI declined to investigate, it was later proved the cause was arson. Trudell repeatedly asserted that he suspected government complicity in the fire and subsequent deaths.
"It was murder," he once told me.
After the loss of his family, to help get through the profound heartache, Trudell traveled 100,000 miles over the next three years. His creative spirit blossomed as he discovered his poetic gift. "My poetry was born out of the rage of losing my family, but also out of pain, clarity, and confusion. My whole life experience. When bad things happened, poetry exploded out of me. I've been told people perceive anger in my work. I don't have a problem with that anger. Fear and courage are part of the natural process. I didn't discover my poetic gift, it discovered me."
What was initially just therapy became something larger, as he began incorporating poetry into his speaking engagements. As he reconfigured his life after AIM, Trudell became involved with environmentalists opposing nuclear energy. At a 1979 rally to protest uranium mining, near Mt Taylor, New Mexico, he appeared on stage with Jackson Browne. "He was by far the most compelling speaker, Browne remembers, "very impassioned, with unflinching honesty and a certain good will, even when he was talking about 500 years of abuse."
Trudell recorded an album, "A.K.A Grafitti Man" (with "graffiti" misspelled in the title) in 1986 with Jesse Ed Davis (a Kiowa known for recording with Taj Mahal, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Conway Twitty). This re-recording moved among the Native communities by cassette as was common in the community at the time. In 1992, Trudell remade and re-released "A.K.A Grafitti Man" as a CD. Trudell went on to become the most well-known Native American rock and roll poet, with early fans such as Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson helping him with encouragement and support.
Over time, he refined his performance delivery and style and appeared on stage on both Midnight Oil and Peter Gabriel's WOMAD tours. Between 1993 and 2015 he appeared on 15 albums and toured extensively with his multicultural band Bad Dog. His music drew from his own poetry and a variety of musical genres, rock, blues and native beats, and political protest songs. His unique, moving, evocative content and slow, deliberate cadence earned him fans around the world.
He authored two books, Living in Reality: Songs Called Poems, Society of the People Struggling to be Free, 1982, and Stickman: Poems, Lyrics, Talks, 1999. During the 1990s and 2000s, Trudell acted in a variety of films, including Thunderheart, Powwow Highway, Some Say Phoenix Arizona, Extreme Measures, On Deadly Ground, and Smoke Signals.
Trudell's AIM past proved useful in 2004, when he testified on behalf of the prosecution in the trial of two men who were found guilty in taking part in the 1975 killing of Annie Mae Aquash, a Mi'kmaq woman from Nova Scotia.
Over the years, he appeared in a variety of documentaries about the struggle for indigenous rights and a biographical film, produced by Marcheline Bertrand, mother of actress Angelina Jolie. Trudell and Bertrand were in a relationship for several years before her death from cancer in 2007. In 2005, Bertrand was the executive producer of the documentary Trudell. The film was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival, and it won the Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival.
In the documentary, Robert Redford spoke to Trudell's longstanding concerns for the environment and increasing corporatization of the Earth's resources.
"The conversations I had with him were explosive in their insights, they were exciting," said Redford. "I would imagine it was not too dissimilar for what some people feel when they talk to the Dalai Lama. John was way ahead of the game."
"I see a real future for spoken word with music," Trudell told me 20 years ago. "Poetry," he said, "is based on the oldest oral traditions. In music, lyrics are written to what the math of the music allows us to say; poetry is what we need to say. And to me, it's a canyon worth of difference."
A great deal of his work can be seen on Youtube and the internet as his dedicated fans and associates took advantage of the expanding technology to broaden his audience. In recent years, Trudell had been actively advocating for legalization of hemp cultivation for its many beneficial industrial uses such as fabric, oil and paper pulp. In 2012, he co-founded Hempstead Project Heart with Willie Nelson, a group dedicated to raising awareness about the environmental, social, and health benefits of hemp through collaborations, arts and music.
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David Kupfer is a writer whose work has appeared in The Progressive, The Sun, Whole Earth, Adbusters, and Earth Island Journal. He lives in Northern California.
John was a good friend of mine, but he was no."progressive". And, he didn't have to doe the way he did, either..I think he kinda gave up,.now his insirance was iffy, but I think.if he had reached out to.Jackson.Browne, for one,.I.think.he.might have been.able to beat this..Yeah,.he was an."activist", but.more than anything he was a human being..A scarred,.wary,.tough, romantic, sagacious human.being..People who throw him.in the "left" ashpile didn't really know him.


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In climbdown, Israel says Tlaib can enter to visit her Palestinian family
Congresswoman to be allowed into the country after she vows to respect 'any restrictions,' refrain from promoting a boycott during her stay
By TOI staff	16 August 2019, 11:57 am 26 Edit
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., addresses the 110th NAACP National Convention, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Friday said he would allow Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, whom Israel barred from visiting the country a day earlier along with her colleague Ilhan Omar, to enter Israel on humanitarian grounds.
The decision came hours after Tlaib submitted a letter requesting to be allowed in despite the ban, citing her elderly Palestinian grandmother in the West Bank. The Interior Ministry had said Thursday that it would consider letting Tlaib enter Israel on humanitarian grounds in order to visit her relatives in the West Bank.
"I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother, who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fouqa," Tlaib wrote in her letter to Deri. "This could be my last opportunity to see her. I will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit."
A statement from Deri's office Friday morning said he had decided to allow the congresswoman into the country based on her letter. It said he "expressed hope that she will live up to her promise and that the visit will only be for humanitarian needs."
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri leads a Shas faction meeting at the Knesset on May 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israel had announced in July that it would allow Omar and Tlaib to visit, despite a controversial 2017 Israeli law prohibiting any foreigner from entering the country who "knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel."
But on Thursday, shortly after US President Donald Trump tweeted that allowing them to enter would "show great weakness," Jerusalem reversed that decision, saying it would ban the lawmakers over their support of the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
Tlaib on Thursday panned the Israeli government for its decision, saying that preventing her from visiting her grandmother in the West Bank was a "sign of weakness" because "the truth of what is happening to Palestinians is frightening."
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How Much Coffee Beans For Espresso?
Use 6–8 grams (1.5-2 teaspoons) of ground beans for each 1–1.5 ounces of drink for making a single shot (2-3 Tbsp). Use 15 grams (3.5 teaspoons) of ground beans for every 2 ounces of liquid for making a double shot (4 Tbsp). Espresso basics: Make sure you only use the most recently roasted coffee beans.
The selection of the coffee beans to use in espresso is a subject not only of one's individual preference but also of a stringent technical checklist. If we were to declare that we can brew espresso with any kind of coffee beans, we would only be half telling the truth. However, we might say that.
How many coffee beans are in a double shot of espresso?
Putting aside all of those calculations, we're looking at around 50–60 beans for a single shot of espresso, and between 100 and 120 for a double shot or a cup of filter coffee. (Rather than counting your beans for each cup, it is much simpler to simply start grinding and stop when you have enough ground coffee for a cup.)
How much should you grind coffee beans for espresso?
In order to make espresso, you need to utilize a setting that produces a fine grind, which results in ground particles that are about 1/32 of an inch, or 0.8 mm, in size. Despite the fact that this specific amount can shift depending on the coffee beans used and the espresso machine used, it is generally somewhere around 0.75 grams per ounce.
How many coffee beans should I grind per cup?
Utilizing Some Kind of Scale To prepare a cup of coffee that is 6 ounces in volume, you will need either 0.38 ounces or 10.6 grams of ground coffee beans. This is roughly equivalent to two tablespoons' worth of ground coffee. To get an accurate reading of these weights, you need use a digital kitchen scale.
How many shots of espresso will 12 oz of beans make?
For someone who consumes three to four espresso shots on a daily basis, 12 ounces of coffee may seem like a trifle. There are 24 shots of coffee that can be made from a 12 ounce bag of coffee beans. This amount of coffee would only last me a maximum of six days, which is why I try to only buy coffee once every seven days. It was in San Francisco where I first saw this peculiar occurrence.
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How much espresso does 1kg of beans make?
On average, between 120 and 140 cups of single-shot coffee may be made from the contents of a bag of coffee beans weighing 1 kilogram. The normal espresso shot in the coffee industry is 30 milliliters (ml) in volume and utilizes 7 grams of ground coffee. If there is absolutely no waste, a bag of coffee beans weighing one kilogram can produce exactly 143 cups' worth of espresso coffee.
Can espresso grind be too fine?
When coffee is ground to a finer consistency, the grounds have a tendency to settle and clump together in the basket of the espresso machine, which can clog an otherwise uniform mesh and make it difficult for water to pass through. As a direct consequence of this, some cups turn out to be sour, while others turn out to be bitter; some taste robust, while others taste faint.
How many grams of coffee is in one espresso?
The weight of the coffee that is necessary for a single shot is normally 7 grams, but the weight of the coffee that is required for a double shot is 14 grams.
This may be changed to a maximum of 9 grams for a single cup and 18 grams for a double cup, depending on the machine you use and how potent you prefer your coffee.
The brewing time for a double shot of espresso should be between 20 and 30 seconds.
How do you grind perfect espresso?
You put them in the blender in an effort to mix them, but espresso does not work well with that method.
Blenders are ineffective at producing the required fine grain consistency for espresso grind.
You won't have much success reducing them to a powder by chopping them with a knife or pounding them with a mortar and pestle.
You are in luck because we know just the thing to help you out: a burr grinder.
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What is the golden ratio for coffee?
One to two teaspoons of ground coffee should be added for every six ounces of water, according to the ″Golden Ratio,″ which is a basic rule of thumb. This may be altered to fit the preferences of each person's unique palate.
How many whole beans make a cup of coffee?
The short answer is that the standard ratio for making coffee at home is two tablespoons (10.6 grams) of ground coffee beans to six ounces of water.
How many beans do I grind for 4 cups of coffee?
What is the ratio of cups to tablespoons of coffee while making four cups? If you want to make four cups of coffee, you will need precisely four scoops of ground beans, or if you prefer, eight tablespoons. Either measure will work. If you want a stronger cup of coffee, you may increase the amount of grounds to 10 tablespoons, which will yield four satisfying cups of coffee.
How many shots of espresso do you get from a pound of beans?
The cost of espresso coffee is $8.20 per pound of ground coffee (the cost of espresso). 41 single shots are equal to one pound. A single shot will cost you twenty cents.
How much espresso does a pound of beans make?
One pound of coffee is sufficient for around 30 cups of coffee when brewed, on average. With one pound of ground coffee, you can produce 153 double shots of espresso, if that is your preferred beverage.
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Appropriate Volume
Brew Time
Single 1 ounce 20-30 seconds
Double ~2 ounces 20-30 seconds
Triple ~3 ounces 20-30 seconds
Single Ristretto 1/2 ounce 20-30 seconds
How many coffee beans in an espresso shot?
The kind of coffee bean and the degree of roasting of that coffee bean will have a significant impact on the number of genuine coffee beans that are included in an espresso shot. The darker the bean is roasted, the less it will weigh once it has been roasted, which means that more beans are required to create one shot of espresso. How much caffeine is in a single shot of espresso?
How much espresso do I need to make a perfect espresso?
Clive has provided the following advice for you to guarantee that you achieve the most potential success in the shortest amount of time.
We have found that it is preferable to begin by carefully following these directions before moving on to experimentation.
When making espresso, Clive suggests using a brew ratio of 1:1.5.
For a triple basket, you should aim to extract around 30 grams of liquid espresso for every 20 grams of ground coffee beans that you put in.
How much caffeine is in an espresso?
A shot of espresso will typically include between 50 and 80 milligrams of caffeine. It should come as no surprise that the quantity of caffeine present in an espresso can change drastically, depending not just on the kind of coffee bean used but also the roasting method. It is reasonable to believe that a single shot of espresso contains around 75 milligrams of caffeine.
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Tensions rise on Capitol Hill as Kavanaugh vote nears
Protesters roam the halls, seeking out lawmakers who are increasingly surrounded by police protection.
By Frank Thorp V, Garrett Haake and Rebecca Shabad
WASHINGTON — Tensions are rising on Capitol Hill.
The anticipated vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this week has sparked protests and an increased police presence, with small bands of protesters roaming the halls of the Senate office buildings, loudly confronting lawmakers.
Multiple senators, including Sen. Susan Collins, who was helped back to her office by Capitol Police after a committee hearing on Wednesday, have been spotted with police escorts in recent days. Hallways have been briefly closed off, even to media, and Collins was driven away from the Hill in a Capitol Police car last Friday.
Trump facing backlash after comments on Christine Blasey Ford
Anti-Kavanaugh protesters have fixated on the Maine Republican for a reason: She is one of a handful of senators — including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. — who have not said publicly how they plan to vote on President Donald Trump's pick.
What those senators decide will be critical for Kavanaugh, whose nomination has been roiled by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that he sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers, and other allegations of sexual misconduct.
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed that a confirmation vote would occur this week, regardless of when the FBI hands over the results of a supplemental investigation into the allegations, the drama intensified, with many senators appearing on edge both in the halls of Congress and even outside of Washington.
Though the large-scale demonstrations from last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Kavanaugh Ford have dissipated, some protesters are still making themselves heard.
"Would you please leave me alone," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., told a pair of anti-Kavanaugh protesters Wednesday afternoon. The same pair of protesters caught Collins in the Senate's basement, and hollered at her about how she'll vote.
"Your voice matters, and your decision matters," a protester said while confronting Murkowski by an elevator on Tuesday.
After two female protesters pleaded with Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., last Friday to listen to their stories of sexual assault and oppose Kavanaugh, he was again approached by a female protester on Tuesday. She thanked him for his pivotal decision to call for an investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh — ultimately causing the White House, at the request of Republican leaders, to direct the FBI to conduct a supplemental background check.
"I appreciate you listening to those women, you're doing the right thing," said the protester, who said she drove 13 hours from west of Boston in order to talk to him.
Flake has said he would like to see Kavanaugh confirmed, but that it's important for the FBI to release its findings first.
Even outside of Washington, senators have not escaped the anti-Kavanaugh outcry.
Nine women were reportedly charged early Tuesday morning after staging a sit-in at Manchin's campaign office in Charleston, West Virginia, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Originally, 17 women had entered the office on Monday afternoon, saying that they wouldn't leave until the Democratic senator pledged to oppose Kavanaugh's nomination.
McConnell on Wednesday accused the "far-left"of trying to "bully and intimidate" members of the GOP conference.
"One of our colleagues and his family were effectively run out of a restaurant in recent days," McConnell said in remarks on the Senate floor, referring to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife. "Another reported having protesters physically block his car door. And some have seen organized far-left protestors camp out at their homes. I'm not suggesting we're the victims here. But I want to make it clear to these people who are chasing my members around the hall here, or harassing them at the airports, or going to their homes. We will not be intimidated by these people. There is no chance in the world that they're going to scare us out of doing our duty."
McConnell said that the "national spectacle" consuming Kavanaugh's nomination "has now reached some kind of fever pitch."
"It has been 17 days since Dr. Ford's confidential correspondence was leaked to the press. Seventeen days of a feeding frenzy on Judge Kavanaugh and his family unlike anything we have seen in recent memory," he said.
And though Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Tuesday said that he and McConnell normally "get along" and the GOP leader laughs at his jokes, Schumer derided the "gall" of McConnell to complain about the delay in Kavanaugh's confirmation vote after he held up the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland for 10 months.
President Donald Trump added fuel to the fire Tuesday night by mocking Ford at a campaign rally, prompting a number of GOP senators, including those who are publicly undecided, to criticize him.
Flake called his comments "appalling" in an interview on NBC's "Today." Collins told reporters that "the president's comments were just plain wrong."
The White House and Senate Republicans gave the FBI until Friday to complete its new probe into the allegations against Kavanaugh, and McConnell has not yet announced which day this week that the Senate will vote on the judge's nomination.
Still, Republican leaders have signaled that they plan to plow ahead quickly.
Asked Tuesday how long he would give senators to read and digest the FBI's report on Kavanaugh before moving to a full Senate floor vote, McConnell said, "It shouldn't take long."


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L'International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), ora denominato International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), è l'organismo responsabile dell'emanazione dei principi contabili internazionali.

Fondato a Londra nel 1973 quale ente di natura privata, è frutto di un accordo fra le maggiori associazioni professionali operanti in Australia, Stati Uniti, Canada, Messico, Giappone, Francia, Germania e Regno Unito.

Attualità
Oggi può contare sulla adesione degli organismi di definizione degli standard di oltre cento paesi (Italia compresa); dal 2000, a conclusione di un lungo processo di ristrutturazione che ha condotto alla definizione di nuovi piani strategici e di un diverso assetto organizzativo, l'ente ha modificato la propria denominazione in IASB e ha assunto una nuova struttura, capace di coinvolgere nella elaborazione degli standard non solo la professione contabile, ma anche i rappresentanti degli investitori, degli analisti finanziari, del mondo accademico e imprenditoriale.

I principi contabili emanati dal "vecchio" IASC mantengono tuttora l'originaria denominazione di International Accounting Standards (IAS); i principi approvati a partire dal 2001 dallo IASB assumono invece la nuova denominazione di International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Funzioni
In qualità di ente di carattere privatistico, lo IASB non vanta alcun "diritto di imposizione" nei confronti degli organismi che vi aderiscono, e ,di conseguenza non può obbligare loro l'utilizzo dei propri principi, dovendosi limitare a incentivarne la libera accettazione.
Il suo operato, tuttavia, acquisisce autorevolezza grazie all'appoggio del Comitato di Basilea, della IOSCO, dell'EFRAG, di organismi intergovernativi quali OCSE e ONU e di enti per lo sviluppo come la Banca Mondiale.

Struttura organizzativa
La struttura organizzativa dello IASB si articola così: al vertice si trova la IASC Foundation, una organizzazione privata senza fini di lucro con sede nello Stato del Delaware (USA).

Trustee
La sua amministrazione compete a un Consiglio di garanti composto da ventidue membri (Trustee), scelti da un apposito Nominating Committee in modo tale da offrire una rappresentazione omogenea delle differenti aree geografiche e delle diverse professionalità interessate allo sviluppo dei principi contabili internazionali.
I membri della IASC Foundation restano in carica per tre anni, con una sola possibilità di rinnovo; essi stessi provvedono alla nomina di un presidente.
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International Business Times UK
Syrian refugee numbers pass five million for the first time
More than half of the Syrian population has been displaced at some point during the conflict.
By Jordan Bhatt
Updated March 30, 2017 18:26 BST
The number of refugees who have fled Syria has topped five million for the first time since the civil war began six years ago, according to the UN's refugee agency.
Syrians have poured across the borders into Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq since anti-government protests in 2011 spiralled into a full-blown conflict between rebels, Islamist militants, government troops and foreign backers.
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After levelling off in 2016, refugee numbers rose this year following the military victory by the government and its Russian and Iranian-backed allies in the northern city of Aleppo.
More than half of Syria's population of 22 million people has been uprooted at some point during the conflict.
The latest arrivals into Turkey mean the number of Syrians who have fled the country stands at more than five million people, four years after the UNHCR announced that one million people had fled.
The figure of five million includes refugees who have been resettled in Europe, but the UNHCR urged Europeans to do more to help share a burden that is still largely falling on countries bordering Syria; Turkey has taken in nearly three million Syrians.
France and Germany are both gearing up for crucial elections, with far-right candidates seeking to exploit public fears about immigration.
The UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch said: "This is not the time to shun Syrian refugees. Our hope is that humanity will not be put on a ballot.
"Europe went through this during the Second World War and there were many countries which supported Europe. Syria is currently going through this trauma and it now needs the world's support. We should not be turning our backs on people in need."
Syrian refugees arriving in Lesbos on an inflatable boat with other refugees, having crossed the sea from Turkey to Lesbos Alexander Koerner/ Getty Images
He added: "The solution to the crisis in Syria is political, but in terms of support it is humanity that is needed. We are asking other countries to come forward and help those countries neighbouring Syria that are hosting large numbers of Syrian refugees to share responsibility for resettlement and humanitarian admissions. Those desperate refugees are in need of resettlement."
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has defended her government's immigration policy in the face of criticism from the anti-refugee Alternative for Germany party, which will contest seats in the country's elections in September.
Speaking at a conference of the centre-right European People's party in Malta on Thursday, she said: "We had done too little in the past, that is why we took in refugees – because it was the right thing to do."
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In the throes of True Grit fever John Wayne's estate has just inked a deal with powerHouse to publish the first-ever authorized John Wayne photo book for release this fall. Combining never-before-seen photographs culled from the family's vast personal archives with images from some of The Duke's 175 feature films, the book (as yet untitled) will be a must. Hopefully this will help Wayne, a true Hollywood icon of the old school, get some of the style cred he deserves. Just check out his dashing Vespa riding ensemble.
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Dealing with mentally ill citizens on patrol
by candlken on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | No Comments
Anxiety and Mood Disorders
For most people, our normal mood is neither especially happy or sad, angry or loving, agitated or calm, but just a steady sense of what I call provisional well-being: the overall feeling that everything right now is basically okay. It's like the feeling between meals when we're neither hungry nor full, when in fact, we're too preoccupied with what we're presently doing to pay conscious attention to our digestive – or emotional – states at all. All healthy people show a range of moods, getting periodically happier, sadder, angrier, calmer and so on, in response to various life circumstances, and some otherwise normal people seem to be dispositionally predisposed to either the cheerier or more dour side of the mood spectrum. Like any trait or syndrome, it is the extremes of mood that characterize a disorder, especially when these mood disturbances impair healthy life functioning or produce unreasonable conflict with others.
Clinical features of mood disorders. Mood disorders generally fall into the two broad categories of anxiety disorders and depressive disorders, although the symptoms often overlap. Anxiety disorders are characterized by heightened worry, fear and arousal. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) involves a pervasive feeling of anxiety that is not necessarily tied to any specific event or circumstance, sometimes referred to as "free-floating anxiety." These individuals are always anxious about something, although the level of anxiety may wax and wane in response to different situations. Others may perceive these individuals as never being able to relax or be at peace.
Some individuals, with or without GAD, may suffer from panic disorder, which involves brief episodes of extremely elevated physiological arousal and fear. The individual may experience a racing, pounding heart, profuse sweating, rapid, shallow breathing, numbness and tingling in the face and extremities, and faintness or lightheadedness – all the hallmarks of sheer terror. Many subjects fear they will pass out during an attack, although actual loss of consciousness is exceedingly rare. The attacks may occur in response to certain events or they may happen randomly "out of nowhere." Panic attacks are also likely to occur in the context of depression, often in response to perceived abandonment or loss of support.
If the anxiety and panic are associated with particular places or situations, the individual may develop one or more phobias, which are irrational fears of particular persons, places, or things. Note that these are not delusions, because the person usually recognizes that the fear is not based on anything real, yet he or she feels powerless to control it and must avoid the feared situation to forestall panic. Thus, sufferers often feel demoralized and out of control at not being able to will themselves out of what they know to be irrational fears. Phobias may be generalized, involving fears of a wide variety of people, places, or things (that are usually found to have some elements in common), or they may be quite specific, e.g. to a particular room, class of objects, or type of animal.
Posttraumatic stress disorder is a severe anxiety disorder that arises in reaction to a specific traumatic event and is characterized by a standard set of symptoms, including heightened physical arousal, intrusive recollections or images of the traumatic event, nightmares about the traumatic event, numbing or dissociation to block out the disturbing thoughts or imagery, and a general restriction of life activities. In some cases, without knowing the subject's history, this may be confused with other psychotic or mood disorders.
Mood disorders are generally classified into unipolar and bipolar types, depending on whether the extreme changes in mood are in one direction (down-depressed) or both directions (down-depressed and up-elated or up-angry). Major depressive disorder is characterized by episodes of depressed mood that may last for weeks or months at a time. In severe cases, the individual may be virtually immobilized. Subjects often feel dejected, demoralized, helpless, and hopeless. Sleep and appetite may be impaired; alternatively, some individuals become hypersomnic (sleep virtually all the time) or may binge-eat. Concentration and memory may be affected to the point where individuals feel they are becoming demented. Gone is any motivation or enthusiasm for work, play, or family activities and the individual may describe a pervasive fatigue and lack of stamina that makes even simple tasks seem overwhelming. Accompanying emotions may include anxiety, panic, irritability, or anger. The disorder usually occurs in cycles over the lifespan, and fortunately, in most cases, is very responsive to proper treatment.
Dysthymic disorder is a more persistent, but less severe, mood disorder. Such individuals mentally limp through life, able to perform sufficiently to get by at work or at home, but experiencing little pleasure or excitement from anything they do – the "walking wounded," leading a drab, joyless existence. Many of these individuals will deny being depressed per se, but report that they've never known what it feels like to be happy. Some individuals with major depression will recover from their severe episodes, but only to a bland baseline state of dysthymia, rarely experiencing anything that could be called a happy or even normal mood.
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is characterized by extreme shifts in mood, from elation to depression, usually with an absence of normal mood in between: for such individuals, there are only highs and lows, no middle range.
The manic phase usually begins with the individual feeling energized and overconfident – "pumped." He becomes hyperactive and grandiose, spinning all kinds of half-baked unrealistic plans, but is too impulsive and distractible to follow through on any of them. Thinking and speech become rapid and pressured. Need for sleep decreases and the individual may be hypersexual – all appetites are on sensory overdrive. The general impression is of someone on stimulant drugs, and indeed, such individuals may abuse amphetamines, cocaine, or alcohol to enhance the natural high and try to keep it going.
At the beginning of the manic phase, the individual may appear quite engaging and entertaining, but as the manic phase progresses, he becomes increasingly short-tempered, irritable, anxious and paranoid. Inevitably, the crash comes as the individual cycles into the depressed phase. At this point, he may increase his use of stimulants to try to prolong the high, but eventually even this isn't enough to stave off the depressive avalanche. Suicide is a distinct risk at this stage. In other bipolar patients, the manic episodes do not involve much elation at all, but are characterized mainly by irritability, anger and paranoia, and may be misdiagnosed as schizophrenia.
Law enforcement response. The most frequent law enforcement crisis intervention context for an anxious or depressed subject is potential suicide, although depressed subjects are frequently seen in correctional and other institutional settings, as well as on daily street patrol. The first priority is always safety. Since police response is often associated with some type of confrontation in most people's minds, be sure to assess for suicidal ideation and emphasize the subject's wellbeing: "I'm officer Smith and this is officer Jones. We're here to make sure you're okay and to get you any help you need right now."
Violence against others is rare in unipolar depression, although it may occur as part of a "suicide pact" with another person, usually an elderly couple with a serious illness or disability. Violence against police officers is a more likely risk for bipolar manic individuals who may be angry and delusional. Move slowly and take your time, avoiding any unnecessary intimidation. Us
e verbal and nonverbal calming techniques, and employ cautious physical restraint where necessary. Subjects in a manic state may not initially intend to attack you, but may be subject to explosions of anger on hair-trigger provocation. And if they do get physical, you'll be dealing with a huge adrenalin factor and it's going to take a lot of force to keep this person under control, so injuries on all sides are a distinct risk. In these cases especially, your judicious use of verbal and nonverbal de-escalation strategies can make the difference between a subject who gets talked-down and treated at a hospital for his mental disorder vs. a subject who gets taken-down and carted off to jail for assaulting an officer. Assuming no arrest is called for, if the subject requires further disposition, transport him or her to an appropriate receiving facility or call paramedics to do so.
Psychoses: Schizophrenia and Other Delusional Disorders
Psychotic disorders comprise a group of syndromes which share the common feature of a significant break with reality, characterized by severe disturbances of mood, thought, and goal-directed action. The most common form of psychotic disorder is schizophrenia, which is a progressive syndrome, usually first presenting in adolescence or early adulthood (although childhood forms occur), and characterized by delusional thinking and the presence of hallucinations, which are typically auditory (hearing voices), and more rarely, visual (seeing things). Untreated schizophrenics may suffer episodic bouts of delusional and hallucinatory psychosis, between which they may appear simply odd or weird, unable to maintain any consistent work or other activity.
Many of these individuals swell the ranks of the "street people" comprising a proportion of an officer's patrol area in any major metropolitan jurisdiction. Although diagnostic overlap is common, schizophrenia may be seen in several forms, including the paranoid type, characterized mainly by delusions of persecution and accusatory hallucinations; the disorganized type, characterized by general aimlessness and lack of contact with reality; the catatonic type, which is more commonly seen in institutional settings because of their near-immobility; or the undifferentiated type, which may comprise features of the other three classifications or show additional symptoms, often appearing "just crazy."
Delusional disorders are distinguished clinically from schizophrenia by the fact that the affected individuals may function adequately in most life areas despite the presence of isolated, fixed ideas, which themselves are sufficiently out of sync with reality to qualify as delusions. Thus, a movie fan convinced that a starlet is in love with him would have an erotomanic type of delusional disorder. A grandiose type of delusion would involve the belief that one has the true secret for world peace, if only he could get before the UN General Assembly and tell everyone. Persecutory delusional disorder would characterize the individual who believes that "they" (whoever they are) are after him (often for the purpose of stealing or silencing his grandiose idea). The jealous type of delusion would apply the husband who is absolutely convinced that his wife is having an affair despite no shred of hard evidence. Someone convinced that his body is decaying from within, shrinking or expanding, or that radio waves are changing his skin color or brain patterns might be suffering from the somatic type of delusional disorder.
Psychotic disorders: Risk factors for violence. Although not intended to needlessly stigmatize the mentally ill, clinical and research evidence to date does suggest that subjects with schizophrenic disorders are at greater risk for violence than the population at large. The rate of schizophrenia is three times higher in prisons than in the general population, although this may reflect differential rates of arrest or access to competent legal representation, as untreated mental illness is typically associated with poverty and lower social status. When asked to describe their own behavior, the prevalence of self-reported violence is five times higher among schizophrenic subjects than among the general population.
Paranoid schizophrenic subjects may be an especially dangerous group. One study investigated the arrest records of paranoid schizophrenic former psychiatric patients who attempted to gain access to the U.S. President or other high government officials. It was found that one in seven had been arrested for murder or aggravated assault during the 9 to 12 years following their discharge from mental hospitals where they had been committed.
Certain factors serve to increase the risk of violence among psychotic subjects. Some of these are associated with generic violence risk factors such as access to weapons and co-existing substance abuse. More syndrome-specific risk factors include the presence of persecutory delusions which may impel psychotic subjects to lash out as a way of protecting themselves – a "preemptive strike." Also, command hallucinations that order the subject to use offensive or defensive aggression are an important risk factor. In general, however, mentally ill citizens are far more likely to be the victims of violence than its perpetrators.
Psychotic disorders: Police response. Officers who encounter a psychotic individual should observe a few basic rules of engagement. First, if possible, assess the nature of the subject's psychotic state and overall behavior before approaching. This is to prevent either a lapse of precaution on the one hand, or an unnecessarily aggressive response on the other. Approach the subject as slowly and as non-threateningly as possible. If more than one officer is present, keep the sensory overload to a minimum by having only one officer speak at a time. Try to determine if the subject can be verbally engaged. Always speak and act slowly, firmly and deliberatively – remember the difference between authoritative (Sheriff Andy Taylor) and authoritarian (Deputy Barney Fife).
If the subject is willing to talk, encourage venting, but not ranting. If the subject expresses delusional ideas and beliefs, neither argue nor agree with the delusions. Through their painful life experiences, most schizophrenics have learned that other people don't believe their delusional ideas, so pretending you do may only serve to further alienate and enrage an already disturbed psychotic subject. Conversely, it is highly unlikely that trying to "talk sense" into a delusional subject is going to make him suddenly see things more rationally. Instead, acknowledge the content of the delusion and try to ally yourself with the subject's perspective and perception of the situation, while keeping the focus on present reality:
"Let me try to understand this. The terrorists have been sending you messages through your radio and cell phone, telling you of their plots to kill people, and you're trying to fight them off and warn people, but nobody believes you. Do I have that right? That must be pretty scary and frustrating."
Try to utilize active listening skills with the goal of calming the situation as much as possible. If physical restraint or arrest is required, utilize appropriate backup and safe takedown procedures. Remember that psychotic subjects can be very unpredictable – sitting and mumbling distractedly one moment, thrashing and kicking violently the next. If an arrest is not made, transport the subject to an appropriate medical or psychiatric receiving facility. Unfortunately, many mentally ill subjects who would best be served by a medical-psychiatric facility are nevertheless turned away from such facilities due to lack of funding or the facility's refusal to accept intoxicated or potentially violent patients. In such cases, officers often have no choice but to arrest the subject on a misdemeanor charge in order to transport him to jail for his own and others' safety.
Paranoid disorders: Police response. Paranoid schizophrenia presents a special challenge to nonviolent law enforcement intervention because the subject is already predisposed to mistrust everything you do or say. It is here that the concepts of de-escalation and preventive intervention are crucially important to keep the situation from escalating to violence.
Paranoid subjects are hypervigilant and suspicious. They are on high alert for the slightest hint of attack or treachery and tend to interpret every statement or action in a malevolent light. With such subjects, adopt an attitude of friendly and detached neutrality, of understanding without condescension. That is, commiserate with the distress the subject is obviously feeling, but don't dismiss or talk down to him. This may sometimes be a challenge due to the natural tendency most people have to treat a "crazy person" like a child, which will only further infuriate a paranoid subject.
Wrong: "C'mon now, nobody's after you, it's just your imagination. Why don't you be a good boy and come with us."
Better: "I'm not sure I understand the whole situation, but I can see this is really upsetting you. Anything we can do to help?"
As with psychotic subjects in general, neither argue nor agree with the subject's delusional content, but empathize with the distress the subject is expressing and show open-mindedness to the validity of the subject's complaints. Remember that many paranoid delusions may build up around a kernel of reality, e.g. a worker may have truly been unfairly fired – not because of any delusional secret government plot to silence him, but because the small company was downsizing and they had to lay off somebody, so they picked the weird guy, betting that he wouldn't have the mental wherewithal to pursue an antidiscrimination or unfair labor practices claim.
One thing to be especially alert for in the content of a paranoid subject's verbalization is any risk of suicidality or violence, particularly if expressed toward specific targets ("Those yuppies can't do this to me – I'm gonna teach that spoiled-brat boss a lesson!"). Again, it's probably futile to try to correct the subject's misinterpretations of reality, so keep your statements simple, concrete, and focused on the subject's safety and well-being.
To this end, utilize appropriate proxemics (personal space) and body language, as well as verbal and nonverbal calming techniques [see the 04/18/08 column on "Patrol Psychology 101"]. Remember that paranoid subjects are particularly skittish about physical boundaries and proximity – they're always on the alert for an attack. Unless and until physical restraint becomes necessary, keep a reasonable distance and inform the subject of what you are about to do: "Sir, I'm going to reach into my pocket to take out a pen and a pad, so I can write down some notes, okay? It's just a pen and pad." Then move slowly. Always use caution, however, because the subject may become panicked and turn violent in a flash.
When the decision to take down the subject has been made, do so quickly and purposefully. If the paranoid subject needs to be taken into custody, try to allow for some degree of self-respect to be preserved. Barking orders or playing rough as a "show of force" to cow the subject into submission is less likely to be effective with paranoid subjects and may only serve to further crank up the adrenalin spigot, heightening the risk of injury to all parties. Remember the principle of calm show of force from Part 1 of this series [05/12/08]: It's usually safer for everyone concerned for 6 or 8 officers to calmly and safely restrain an agitated subject than for 2 or 3 officers to try and gator-wrassle a violently resisting, delusional citizen, so call for as much backup as needed for everyone's safety.
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Brazilian Senator Aecio Neves (C) speaks to the media next to Lilian Tintori (R), wife of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, Patricia Ceballos (back L), mayor of San Cristobal and wife of jailed former mayor Daniel Ceballos, and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado (2nd L), at the Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas, June 18, 2015.
Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party legislators called a trip by Brazilian senators to visit jailed opponents of President Nicolas Maduro "abusive" and "meddling" on Friday.
"There is an ill intention from these political groups, not only to come and threaten ... but also to torpedo the good relations between Venezuela and Brazil," National Assembly Vice President Tania Diaz told reporters. "They want the same as Venezuela's extreme right: to isolate the country and sabotage integration."
Brazil is a major investor in Venezuela, and ties have been good since Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez took office in 1999.
But President Dilma Rousseff has faced increasing internal pressure to distance herself from Maduro.
Ledezma, 60, is accused of conspiracy. Both men deny the charges.