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practitioners tend to be very sophisticated in understanding of Bias and Variance.
Bias and Variance is one of those concepts that's easily learned but difficult to master.
there's often more new ones to it than you'd expect.
less discussion of what's called the bias-variance trade-off.
You might have heard this thing called the bias-variance trade-off.
but we just talk less about the bias-variance trade-off.
Let's see the data set that looks like this.
maybe get a logistic regression fit to that.
This is not a very good fit to the data.
what we say that this is underfitting the data.
but that doesn't look like a great fit either.
So there's a classifier of high variance and this is overfitting the data.
that maybe fits it correctly like that.
so we call that just right. It's somewhere in between.
X-1 and X-2, you can plot the data and visualize bias and variance.
you can't plot the data and visualize division boundary.
that we'll look at, to try to understand bias and variance.
the train set error and the dev set or the development set error.
is something that people can do nearly perfectly, right?
but you're doing relatively poorly on the development set.
to this whole cross-validation set in the development set.
we would say this has high variance.
you would be able to render a diagnosis of your algorithm having high variance.
and you get a different result.
Let's say, that your training set error is 15%.
and your dev set error is 16%.
then it looks like the algorithm is not even doing very well on the training set.
then this is underfitting the data.
And so this algorithm has high bias.
whereas performance in the dev set is only 1% worse than performance in the training set.
because it was not even fitting the training set.
Well, this is similar to the leftmost plots we had on the previous slide.
because it's not doing that well on the training set, and high variance.
So this has really the worst of both worlds.
than just we have low bias and low variance.
so the base in optimal error is nearly 0%.
wouldn't see it as high bias and also a pretty low variance.
and then there are some details of how this analysis will change.
and so that tells you if you have a bias problem.
that gives you sense of your variance.
small and that your training and your dev sets are drawn from the same distribution.
which we'll talk about in the later video.
and I guess you have the sense of what it a good class can look like.
What does high bias and high variance looks like?
This is kind of the worst of both worlds.
because it underfits the data.
we're drawing this is purple.
then it is actually overfitting parts of the data as well.
has both high bias and high variance.
and this example overfits those two examples as well.
but you need maybe a curve function or quadratic function.
or those live examples in the middle as well.
but with very high dimensional inputs.
in high dimensional inputs that seem less contrived.
or maybe both, or maybe neither.
it turns out that there are different things you could try.
depending on whether it has high bias or high variance issues.


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Is the Contraception Controversy a Political Election Ploy?
The Washington Post suggests that perhaps it is:
Arron Blake offers this tidbit:
The White House's decision to force Catholic hospitals to dispense emergency contraception was a hot topic at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday.
And that's probably AOK with the Obama campaign.
For a White House that has often been accused of trying to undermine Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential race, the contraception debate is perhaps its happiest accident in that quest.
After all, while the issue hasn't exactly been fun to deal with for the White House, what better way to help a social conservative like Rick Santorum in his quest to bring down Romney?
Interesting take. I think I agree with him. Perhaps this is strategy. Now the accommodation will come to make the President look like "the bigger person" as well. Santorum has no chance of winning but will certainly be more attractive to social conservatives than Mitt Romney, who is both a Mormon (conservative evangelicals don't even consider that a religion) and a social moderate, while Santorum is a hardliner.
Oh and here's this little item:
During a press conference Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney compared the Obama administration's policy on emergency contraception at Catholic hospitals to the policy under Romney in Massachusetts.
"This is, I think, ironic, the fact that Mitt Romney is expressing — criticizing the president for pursuing a policy that is virtually identical to the one that was in place when he was governor of Massachusetts," Carney said.
Does this distract the GOP a bit more and delay them getting their act together and naming a candidate to defeat President Obama? I think so and it's already pretty late in the day for the Republicans to not have a candidate.
And for President Obama's Administration–that suits them just fine.
Is There a Communications Director in the House?
UPDATE: An Accommodation Expected from the Obama Administration
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A clarification is in order…. that policy in Massachusetts was only enacted into law after the State Legislature overrode Mitt Romney's veto….

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Florida Offers of Judgment: A New Trend To Uphold
Construction | Construction Litigation | Mass Tort and Product Liability | Real Estate | Real Property Litigation | Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices | March 8, 2012
Ellen Koehler Lyons
Gary M. Pappas
After years of invalidating offers of judgment based on "technical" violations of section 768.79, Florida Statutes, and Rule 1.442 of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Florida appellate courts now, at least anecdotally, seem to be upholding more offers as valid and enforceable. This apparent trend is important since such offers of judgment play a key role in how Florida lawyers and their clients assess the risks of litigation and the potential to resolve cases before trial. A case in point is the Second District Court of Appeal's recent decision in Wolfe v. Culpepper Const. Inc., __ So. 3d __ (Fla. 2d DCA Feb. 29, 2012).
Dream Home Leads to Litigation
In Wolfe, a husband and wife, the Wolfes, had pursued their dream of renovating and restoring a historic home in South Florida. But the dream turned into nightmare. Culpepper, their construction contractor, submitted a final invoice of $91,261.65, and the Wolfes refused to pay it, claiming overcharges and defective workmanship. In response, Culpepper recorded a claim of lien and a notice of lis pendens and sued to foreclose the lien and recover damages for breach of contract. Culpepper also sought prejudgment interest, prevailing party attorney fees pursuant to the construction lien statutes, and taxable costs. The Wolfes denied liability, asserted numerous defenses, and filed a counterclaim. These events took place in 2006.
Before trial, the Wolfes served a joint offer of judgment (OJ) pursuant to section 768.79 on Culpepper for $25,000, half to be paid by Mr. Wolfe and half by Mrs. Wolfe. The OJ expressly stated it was made to resolve all claims and counterclaims in the litigation, including attorney fees, with several conditions of acceptance: (a) that Culpepper would dismiss all claims against the Wolfes with prejudice; (b) that Culpepper would discharge the claim of lien; and (c) that Culpepper would discharge the notice of lis pendens. Culpepper rejected the OJ and the case proceeded to trial. The jury agreed that Culpepper was due its $91,000 with prejudgment interest dating back to 2006, but also found for the Wolfes on their counterclaims. After accounting for interest and set-offs, the trial judge entered a net final judgment for Culpepper in the amount of $9,074.06 and specifically found that neither side was the prevailing party. The Wolfes, however, sought to recover their attorney fees from Culpepper pursuant to the rejected OJ. Culpepper's net final judgment was considerably below $18,750, or 25 percent less than the Wolfes' $25,000 offer, and thus the attorney fee sanction in the OJ statute appeared to apply. The trial court disagreed. It held that the Wolfes' OJ was an invalid "joint offer" and denied their fee claim. The Wolfes sought relief in the Second DCA and won.
Florida Appellate Court Laments Increased Litigation Over Offers of Judgment
The Second DCA began its analysis by noting that the OJ statute and rule, operating in tandem, were designed to encourage settlement by providing a sanction in the form of an award of attorney fees against a party that unreasonably rejects a properly made OJ. Quoting the Florida Supreme Court's 2010 Gorka opinion, however, the Second DCA lamented that the OJ statute and rule "have not had their desired effect." Attorneys' Title Ins. Fund, Inc. v. Gorka, 36 So. 3d 646, 650 (Fla. 2010). In fact, they appear to have increased litigation over the validity and enforceability of the OJ "as shown by the circumstances of the case presently before us."
This is not surprising to Florida practitioners, who have come to expect a new OJ opinion from one of our five district courts of appeal with each advance sheet, not to mention an OJ opinion from the Florida Supreme Court every other year or so. Much of this jurisprudence has focused on strict compliance with the OJ statute and rule involving joint offers (to or from multiple offerors) and various non-monetary conditions (such as releases) often included in offers. Many of these cases invalidated offers on seemingly "technical" grounds that tended to reduce the incentive to accept an OJ based on the risk of the sanction.
Not this time. The Second DCA held that the OJ was a valid joint offer from two plaintiffs to one defendant. The fact that Culpepper would have had to dismiss both Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe upon acceptance did not run afoul of the OJ statute or rule. The Court cited a recent case, Rossmore v. Smith, 55 So. 3d 680 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011) as factually indistinguishable and yet another recent Fifth DCA case, Andrews v. Frey, 66 So.2d 376 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011) with favor, albeit under different facts. The Court distinguished Gorka, which involved a single offeror and joint offerees with a condition that both offerees must accept. In that situation, the joint offer is invalid because the individual offerees do not have independent control over acceptance thereby impermissibly interlocking their fate in the litigation. Here, Culpepper's fate in the litigation was in its own hands, and it could have ended the entire litigation by accepting the Wolfes' joint offer. Having rolled the dice and lost, now Culpepper had to pay the Wolfes' attorney fees. Notably, the Court did not cite the Fourth DCA's decision in Donovan Marine, Inc. v. Delmonico, 40 So. 3d 69 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010), but it could have. The facts in Donovan were equally indistinguishable on the "joint offer" issue.
Offer Enforced Despite Non-Monetary Conditions
The Court did not devote any detailed analysis to whether the non-monetary conditions contained in the Wolfes' OJ were valid. If Culpeper had accepted the Wolfes' OJ, it would have been required to not only dismiss its complaint but also discharge the statutory construction lien and lis pendens upon acceptance. Florida courts have often wrestled with analyzing whether such conditions disturb the simple mathematical calculation contemplated by the OJ statute and rule (comparing the amount of the offer to the amount of the final judgment). In this case, it was implicit that the Wolfes' conditions were nothing more than what they would have been entitled to at the conclusion of the trial and thus were entirely valid. See Dryden v. Pedemonti, 910 So.2d 854, 858 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005) (the only permissible non-monetary conditions are those the offeror would be entitled to by operation of law). The same might not have been true in Donovan, however, because in that case the offer required the offeree to expressly acknowledge that the offerors were not admitting fault but were merely paying money to buy their peace. The offeror would have only been "entitled" to the functional equivalent of that non-monetary condition had it prevailed at trial. Notably, the Fourth DCA in Donovan did not analyze this issue but instead concluded that the language was clear and unambiguous.
Balancing the Risk of Enforcement
Construction litigation, such as in Wolfe, is precisely the type of case that Florida's offer of judgment statute and companion rule were intended to help resolve by increasing the financial risk of an unsuccessful trial to one or both sides. In the past, Florida courts have invalidated so many OJs on technical grounds that parties like Culpepper may have questioned whether any offer would be upheld on appeal and determined that such an offer posed little risk of enforcement. Clearly, this is probably not the type of risk balancing that the Legislature or the Florida Supreme Court intended. As more and more cases like Wolfe demonstrate the appellate courts' apparent willingness to uphold more OJs as enforceable, the goal of the statute and rule to reduce rather than increase litigation may eventually become realized.
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Employees of Department on struggle against smuggling of drugs Crimean customs were prevented entry into the territory of the Russian Federation from the Republic of Belarus illicit trafficking of drugs using international mail.
The post office in Simferopol during receiving packages containing potent substances, law enforcement officers with the power support of SOBR of the Crimean customs detained the resident of Simferopol.
At the opening of international mail, received by the resident, police found pills and vials of liquid containing a prohibited substance.
According to the expert seized the pills and the liquid in the ampoules contain in their composition 38 grams of potent substances: testosterone and stanozolol, which are included in "Lists of potent and toxic substances for the purposes of article 234 and other articles of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation", approved by RF Government Decree of 29.12.2007, № 964.
In a survey of 38-year-old man explained that he had purchased the tablets and capsules, on one of the sites in the Internet as freely available in pharmacies to purchase drugs failed. Drugs planned to use in sporting activities.
"Currently, against the person who committed the crime, the Crimean customs initiated a criminal case under part 1 of article 226.1 of the criminal code – contraband of potent substances. For the illegal movement across the customs border of the Customs Union within the EAEC potent substances krymchanin be punished with imprisonment for the term up to 7 years",– said the Deputy head of the Crimean customs Igor Vladimirov.
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Reg Hall's monumental and comprehensive history of Irish music in London A Few Tunes of Good Music is now available for viewing and download, complete with many illustrations, discography and original interview material. On March 18th 2016 Topic Records released two magnificent [...]
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Anyone ever wonder why se tend to stick to Caesars, low cuts, and fades? Seems like we're constricted to only a few hair styles. Anyone ever try something new like side swiping your hair? Maybe I'm rambling. Maybe I should've posted this in the thread about nothing. Oh well. Care to discuss?
I'm honestly a little bored with the same ol' same ol'. I just cut my semi hi-top fade because it was getting boring. 3 days later, I'm bored with my caesar.
What in the world is side swiping your hair?
I want dreads but I'm not willing to put in the time. There's also the whole work thing.
Because white people become terrified if we don't have our @!%% basic.
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at first it should, but I think after a while your hair gets used to it, but it could be a difficult process and you might need some sort of pomade or hair holding cream to get that look right at first.
it might be super difficult if you have tight curls though, g'luck if you're trying to do this if thats the case.
work kills all my hair ideas. wolfing right now, gonna get the "gumby" when its long enough. we'll see how long i can pull it off before a "Reminder abt professional appearance & demeanor" email is sent out.
soundview and bluebuffbraves like this.
saw a black dude the other day who looked like he was going for the mullet look. weirdest cut ever, he had it kind of slicked up on the top and straightened the back and it was past his shoulders.
I'm cool with a wavy cease or a curly fro for the rest of my life.
You mean like perming your hair like Sammy Davis or Malcom Little? Or even a Jheri curl?
1) black men look horrible with toupees, 2) most of us actually look nice with bald heads so I think subconsciously we just keep it short and simple now. It's a nice transition. I used to have hi tops, curls all of that when I was younger now I just keep it low with a taper.
Although if I could I would grow my hair out like Snoop. %^^$ is luxurious.
Please don't turn this into a race thread.
Rocking the braids like Andre 3k right now, but I'm about to cut it off Tuesday. I know i don't want a Caesar though.
Nah, not like relaxing your hair. I don't want to look like MJ or the Temptations. Just trying to think of why different cuts would be compatible with black guy hair. I'm not an expert on hair and I don't know the difference of textures and how that relates to hair cuts and what not. Just essentially trying to see if there are any looks besides dark Caesars, low cuts, dreads, etc. And by the side swipe, I meant something like this. Just got. My hair cut and decide to brush side ways as opposed to straight down. Then brushed in the opposite direction where te part is created. Just wondering if any of you all have successfully added different styles into your look.
Faux hawk with the waves faded on the side..
His hair kinda remind me of Skrillex's.
Pics of how your faux hawk turned out? I wanted to try one earlier this year.


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Brian Wilson, Norah Jones, and more deliver covers of the late Beatle in an awkward format
by Wren Graves
on February 23, 2016, 12:02am
Dhani Harrison's career as a musician was born out of the unfortunate circumstances of his father's death. He studied visual arts at Brown before helping his father, George Harrison, record his final album when the latter's cancer was pronounced terminal. With the help of Jeff Lynne, Dhani completed Brainwashed after his father died. In 2002, and with the surviving members of The Beatles, Dhani participated in the Concert for George on the one-year anniversary of his death, the proceeds of which were donated to Harrison's charity, The Material World Foundation.
That concert provided the template for George Fest: A Night To Celebrate the Music of George Harrison, which took place on September 28th, 2014. The all-star benefit was filmed, recorded, and mixed, and is now set to be released on what would have been Harrison's 73rd birthday. As a survey of a great songwriter, George Fest works fairly well, spanning The Beatles through Brainwashed: the hits, collaborations, and deep cuts.
The problem is that this mix of musicians, while well-suited to raising money for charity, makes for an awkward album experience. There are all-time greats like Brian Wilson; modern rock luminaries like Perry Farrell, Wayne Coyne, Brandon Flowers, and Britt Daniel; bluesy crooners ranging from fairly famous (Norah Jones) to less so (Chase Cohl); musical celebrities who are more celebrity than musical, including the ex-Mrs. Jack White, Karen Elson; and comedic curiosities like Conan O'Brien and "Weird Al" Yankovic. The results are never bad, exactly, but they do fall somewhere between tribute and karaoke — call it Now That's What I Call George.
All of the songs are roughly the same tempo and arrangement as the original, which means that the most memorable moments tend to go to the most accomplished vocalists. Norah Jones is a purring revelation on "Something", teasing out the silky melody until she hums with a nearly physical ache. She also highlights a problem with the album: A lot of these dudes paying tribute to Harrison blend together. It's easy to nod along to the familiar songs, half-listening. While Jones is the best of the bunch, these too infrequent female voices tend to wake the listener up like a sort of aural espresso.
Harrison's triple album All Things Must Pass contributes several of George Fest's most exciting tracks, possibly because the artists chosen to cover those songs bring qualities lacking in the original. One of the odder implications of George Fest is that Harrison's voice, relaxed and pretty, wasn't quite flexible enough to do his songwriting credit. What makes "My Sweet Lord" such a delight is Brain Wilson's phrasing, the way he'll sometimes growl and bite off the ends of words, and sometimes melt the melody like a vocal imitation of Harrison's iconic slide guitar. "My Sweet Lord" is a tremendous song, one of the best of Harrison's solo career, but Wilson's faithful cover might just be an improvement. Also falling into this category are Nick Valensi's wild, rocking version of "Wah-Wah" and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's haunting "Art Of Dying".
Dhani Harrison makes several appearances, sounding eerily like his father. Unfortunately, this is more interesting to think about than listen to, except perhaps for devoted Harrison fans who always craved live versions of "Savoy Truffle" and "Let It Down" that sound nearly identical to the studio versions except with the noise of a crowd sprinkled in. Although the voices are different elsewhere, the same could be said about over half of these songs. Completists, collectors, and charitable givers who like the Material World Foundation won't be disappointed by George Fest: It's a consistent, competent, and sometimes moving tribute to George Harrison. Anyone else interested in the project might find more satisfaction in returning again to the deep discography of one of the 20th century's most underrated songwriters.
Essential Tracks: "Something" (Norah Jones), "My Sweet Lord" (Brian Wilson and Al Jardine), and "Art of Dying" (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
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Nick Valensi
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Educationist Raj Kushwaha's quench for good cinema makes him one of the producers of Rahat Kazmi and Hina Khan's LINES
Rahat Kazmi and Hina Khan's lines has started streaming on Vootselect and receiving excellent reviews all across the globe. The film was much awaited after its first look at Cannes and its win at New York cinematography awards. Among all the praises for Lines and its makers a new name came into the spotlight- Raj Kushwaha: a name synonymous with quality education, is a pioneer in technical education and the founder of Axis chain of colleges in India. But wondering why are we discussing him here? It's because Rahat Kazmi's film, Lines released on July 29, 2021, and he is one of the major producers of the film…So, let's know how an educationist landed in the world of cinema! So, Raj Kushwaha, who is known for providing quality education to young people, also has a great love for sensible cinema. He's not a big fan of commercial movies and hence, was always looking for such a filmmaker, who had a quench of good quality cinema and that's how he ended up meeting Rahat Kazmi and Shoib Nikash Shah. It was not a random meeting though as the former was watching the duo climbing the stepping stones to success, walking down the red carpet in Cannes, and bagging back-to-back international awards for their quality scripts & wonderful plots world over.That's how, Raj Kushwaha partnered with Rahat Kazmi Films to jointly produce Lines, which has a wonderful storyline with a gist of emotional touch. As you know, Lines is a tale of love divided by borders. An innocent yet gritty story of a young girl Nazia (played by Hina Khan) representing the pains of the people of Kashmir, who have been the sufferers of hatred between the two countries. Raj Kushwaha, who holds a deep love for literature, loved the script and the idea behind making this film. He is of the view that cinema and society are reflections of each other but unfortunately, filmmakers these days run after commercial success and ignore good quality cinema. Consequently, good films are taking a back seat, which shouldn't be the case. He believes that cinema should inspire people and its plot should be motivating enough, bringing a change in the society, something that people learn and take back with them! Before this, Raj Kushwaha had also partnered with Shoib Nikash Shah for Antenna. It's another beautiful film with a marvellous storyline; you'll know when you watch it!Lines is, however, just the beginning! Raj Kushwaha intends to keep supporting and promoting Rahat Kazmi as well as Shoib Nikash Shah in their future endeavours of making world-class cinema with good scripts thereby, touching million hearts with their magnificent work!Written by Rahat Kazmi & Shakti Singh, the film – Lines has been directed by Hussain Khan and was shot in Kashmir. The film's poster was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, marking Hina Khan's big red-carpet debut. The film, which also stars Farida Jalal in the lead role, has been jointly produced by Rahat Kazmi Films, Tariq Khan Productions, and Zeba Sajid Films while co-produced under Hina & Rocky Jaiswal's production venture, Hiro's Faar Better Films and Alpha Productions in association with Seven Two Creations as well as Assad Motion Pictures.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Several families of the 10 people who died from injuries in a massive crowd surge at the Astroworld festival have turned down an offer by headliner Travis Scott to pay for their loved ones' funeral costs.
Attorneys for the families of four of the victims said Tuesday that they received a letter from Scott's attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, in which the offer was made.
In a letter sent Nov. 24 to the attorneys for the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, Petrocelli said Scott extended his "deepest sympathies and condolences" to Ezra's father, Treston Blount, and Scott had wanted to reach out personally "but does not wish to intrude on Mr. Blount's privacy during his time of grieving."
Ezra was the youngest person to die from injuries suffered during Scott's concert at the sold-out festival on Nov. 5 that was attended by 50,000 people. The others who died ranged in age from 14 to 27. Some 300 people were treated at the festival site and 13 were hospitalized.
"Travis is devastated by the tragedy that occurred at the Astroworld Festival and grieves for the families whose loved ones died or were injured. Travis is committed to doing his part to help the families who have suffered and begin the long process of healing in the Houston community," Petrocelli wrote.
In his reply, Robert Hilliard, an attorney representing Treston Blount in a lawsuit against Scott, the concert promoter and others, declined the offer, saying that while he believes Scott feels remorse, Scott must see "that he bears some of the responsibility for this tragedy."
"And perhaps one day, once time allows some healing for the victims and acceptance of responsibility by Mr. Scott and others, Treston and Mr. Scott might meet — as there is also healing in that," Hilliard said. "For now, Mr. Scott must respect the fact that his pain and his devastation pale to Treston's, Ezra's mom, and the other victims."
Petrocelli did not immediately return a call or email seeking comment Tuesday.
Michael Lyons, an attorney for the family of 27-year-old Mirza "Danish" Baig, said he viewed the offer to pay for funeral costs partly as a public relations ploy by Scott to "soften people up" in the court of public opinion. Baig's family declined the offer, he said.
"Sadly, for my clients, a check from Travis Scott ... is not going to relieve the pain and suffering that they presently are experiencing," Lyons said. "I think it will only make it worse."
Richard Mithoff, an attorney for the family of 14-year-old John Hilgert, also declined Scott's offer.
Valerie Cortinas Fisher, a lawyer for the family of 23-year-old Rodolfo "Rudy" Peña, said her clients are grieving and have yet to consider Scott's offer.
Peña's family, who is from Laredo, Texas, traveled to Houston on Monday to visit a memorial site near where the concert was held.
Maria de los Angeles Peña, Rodolfo Peña's mother, remembered her son a joyful person who loved life and was a good student.
"I want to say to the world, take care of your children, pray for them, watch where they go, and Travis Scott, God bless him. How there is earthly law, there is also divine law," she said.
Tony Buzbee, who is representing the family of 21-year-old Axel Acosta Avila, said in an email Tuesday he had received a voicemail from a lawyer who was not Petrocelli making an offer for funeral expenses.
"The offer made didn't warrant a response," Buzbee said.
Attorneys for the families of others who died at the festival did not immediately return emails or calls seeking comment.
Scott and the event organizers are the focus of a criminal investigation by Houston police. No timetable has been set for when the investigation would be completed.
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1. Put fresh hand towels in the bath before the arrive. It's a great way to give your bathroom a simple facelift. Pretty paper ones are great or fluffy cotton ones in a fun accent color just to switch it up.
2. Stock up the a candy jar. Sweets are so great to have around. Put them in a pretty glass container on the kitchen counter and a note to help yourself!
3. Organize the fridge. I know this sounds like a funny one but this is so helpful when you have people around. Leave space for those that are helping you put away leftovers or keep snacks and drinks handy so guests can help themselves.
4. Keep the blankets handy: If you're like me I keep it pretty cool in my place in the winter. So make sure you keep a basket with a stack of blankets in them.
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In a previous post, I discussed my thoughts on Frontline's New Asylums documentary, about the overcriminalization of the mentally ill. Millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on housing the mentally ill in prisons, when they could be treated more affordably (and more humanely) by the community. Because that video (filmed in 2005) left me with a lot of questions, I looked up some more recent resources. Of the videos I watched, my favorite was a series created by Brave New Films.
Brave New Films: Why are we using prisons to treat mental illness?
The video begins by dramatically pointing out a problem: police and correctional officers are not trained to deal with mentally ill "offenders," which results in unnecessary deaths. This is an issue that I've already been seething about in my home suburb here in Minnesota. There have been a few times in recent years when our police have killed mentally ill people that they have been called to help. For instance, an officer shot a knife-wielding suicidal teen after his family called the police for help. Because the police are untrained to deal with mentally ill, families are left in a quandary: they sometimes don't feel safe around their mentally ill loved one, but they don't want to call the police for fear that their loved one will either be killed or get tied up indefinitely in a revolving-door judicial system.
The video continues by describing the Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) program. In CIT, officers are trained to drop the authoritative attitude that they are supposed to use in non-crisis occasions. They are trained to use soothing and empathetic tones of voice to disarm the mentally ill. The video included a heartwarming interview with a mother of a schizophrenic man who is grateful for the CIT officers' treatment of her son during a crisis – how the officers managed to defuse the situation without anyone getting hurt or being sent to jail.
CIT officers in San Antonio can now bring mentally ill people to treatment centers instead of emergency rooms. This change keeps ER and officer overtime costs down. (Officers must be paid overtime because they spend hours in the ER waiting for the "offenders" to get psych evaluations.) An officer on the video claims that in the past 5 years they've saved about $50 million of taxpayer money by utilizing CIT and treatment centers.
Watching this video made me feel optimistic about the future of mental health. There's a lot of work to be done – a lot of training to do, a lot of lobbying to resistant politicians (and an unsympathetic public), a lot of treatment centers to be built – but there is a solution. New Asylums was a fantastic documentary, but it left me feeling hopeless. I'm happy I found the Brave New Films' snippet.
I also watched this Brave New Films documentary:
Brave New Films: This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Health
This video begins in much the same way as Why are we using prisons to treat mental illness, providing different examples. It continues by discussing brutality within prisons, and the over-use of solitary confinement for mentally ill inmates. One mentally ill woman claims that of the 18 years she spent in prison, 4 of them were in solitary confinement. Each person in solitary confinement costs taxpayers $75,000 a year; compared to the $16,000 a year per person in supportive housing.
Finally, This is Crazy discusses the fate of prisoners once they are released from prison. As discussed in New Asylums, prison is like a revolving door for the mentally ill. Most of the homeless population are mentally ill. They break laws either because they are delusional or because they have basic needs. When they are arrested, they spend 3 to 4 times more jail time than "normal" inmates. They often get shuttled back and forth between stabilization hospitals and jail (where their psychiatric treatment, and their mental state, degenerates). When released, they are given 2 weeks' worth of medication and are left out on the streets again – with nowhere to look for treatment. Despite the fact that community treatment would save taxpayer money, the first item on the political finance chopping block are treatment centers and institutions for mental illness.
The take-home point of these documentaries is that because police are not trained to deal with mentally ill people in crisis, many mentally ill people end up being abused, killed, or put in a revolving door prison system. Once a mentally ill person has a bad experience with cops, he is likely to be fearful and uncooperative in the future. I have seen this myself. I have a mentally ill friend who suffers from PTSD after being brutalized by police for a case of mistaken identity. Now whenever he sees a cop, even if the cop is completely uninterested in him, my friend goes into a blind panic. I strongly suspect that my friend wouldn't have been brutalized by the cops if he hadn't been mentally ill. Another important point is that outrageous amounts of taxpayer money would be saved, and deserving human beings would be treated with compassion, if only cities around the US would develop CIT programs and fund more treatment centers. If only the taxpayers and politicians would listen to reason.
This is a series of posts summarizing what I'm learning in my Abnormal Psychology course. Much of the information provided comes from reading my James N. Butcher's textbook Abnormal Psychology. To read the other posts, follow these links:
The Definition of Abnormal
A History of Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Psychology in Contemporary Society
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Clinical Mental Health Diagnosis: Biological Assessment
Clinical Mental Health Diagnosis: Psychological Assessment
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Hoarding and Body Dysmorphic Disorders
Depression – an Overview
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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Paraphilic Disorders
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New Asylums (2005) is a Frontline documentary that delves into the problem of housing the mentally ill in prison systems. Believe it or not, the world's three largest asylums for mentally ill are the Cook County Jail in Chicago, the Twin Towers of the Los Angeles County Jail, and Riker's Island in New York. This problem has been escalating ever since the mid 1900's when deinstitutionalization of mentally ill and intellectually challenged became a popular movement to encourage "humane" treatment of mentally ill and to reduce state expenditures on medical care.
The original plan, as described by the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, was to fund community mental health centers in which the mentally ill could be treated while working and living at home. However, most of the proposed centers were never built, and few of those built were fully funded. As deinstitutionalization accelerated, hundreds of thousands of mentally ill patients were released without a place to go and without adequate access to mental health care. A lot of them ended up on the streets. And on the streets, their mental illnesses flared up, leading to law-breaking. Many of the laws broken were for basic living purposes – theft of food, break-ins to get a place to sleep, stealing blankets out of a car – and many were violent crimes fueled by a desperate situation combined with psychosis. And this is how jails and prisons became the new asylums.
The documentary New Asylums focuses on the Ohio state prison system, which has a relatively well-developed system for dealing with the mentally ill. In 2005, when the documentary was filmed, there were nearly 500,000 mentally ill people housed in America's prison systems – 10 times more than the 50,000 housed in mental institutions.
The documentary begins with a disturbing scene of "group therapy" in which inmates are locked inside tiny cages, with just enough room to sit in a chair. In this warm, inviting environment, the inmates are encouraged to share their problems with their fellow inmates. I think it is fantastic that group therapy is provided for inmates, but how helpful is it really, in this environment? Can an inmate really share his fears and heartbreaking secrets with other inmates? Wouldn't rumors get around quickly among the inmates and less sympathetic officers in prison? How much help can group therapy really do these inmates, especially since they are locked in a tiny cage; which probably doesn't encourage openness?
A while back, I told my therapist that I thought Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which I was currently undergoing, would be a world of help to many people in prison. She agreed. But now that I see this video, I realize the limitations of such therapy. Prison does not provide a safe environment to let those feelings out. But what to do? Do we just not provide the inmates with therapy because of these limitations? Clearly, the problem needs to be solved before the mentally ill people are imprisoned, but I don't know how to solve that problem, other than reinstitutionalization.
The documentary only became more horrifying after that. There were scenes in which a naked, frightened, screaming man was resisting being handcuffed. Eventually, a group of 5 men who were dressed like a SWAT team and carrying a riot shield burst into the cell, pinned the man down, and carried him kicking and screaming away. One officer tells the camera "A lot of the mentally ill inmates in here, you gotta use more…I mean, you do have to use force on them."
Having seen the footage, I understand why the officers feel that they need to use a lot of force. I mean, how else would they get the naked, psychotic, screaming man down to solitary? But don't you think that the strict and unforgiving culture of prisons is part of the reason these inmates are acting out? Isn't the fear of solitary, which would certainly exacerbate psychotic symptoms, part of why they're acting out? Most of them would certainly be better behaved in a healthier, more caring environment. And then force wouldn't have to be used.
I can see two solutions (both of which I think should be implemented): the number of mentally ill patients housed in mental institutions should be increased, thus decreasing the prison population. And people in prison should be treated with more kindness – providing a rehabilitative instead of punitive justice system.
The documentary continued by describing Oakwood Correctional Facility, which is a temporary housing unit for mentally ill inmates who need to be stabilized. The culture and environment seems so much more caring and open – it appears that inmates who were dangerously psychotic in the general prison are stable and well-behaved at Oakwood. There's a heartbreaking scene in which one of the inmates is being told by a panel of mental health workers that he's stabilized and ready to go back to the general prison population. The inmate practically begs to stay at Oakwood. The panel is at first kind, but they become more and more firm. They show a depressing lack of empathy. The tragedy is that they have to. They have to send the inmate back to the general population, because they don't have enough beds to house all the thousands of mentally ill inmates in the Ohio state prison system.
At this point I got into a discussion with a classmate about why these inmates aren't all housed in such therapeutic environments as Oakwood. But where would Ohio state get the money to pay for those units to be built? How would they decide who is mentally ill enough to end up in such a facility? And is it ethical to treat some 16% of their inmate population so humanely and ignore the inhumane treatment of all the other prisoners? Do the "healthy" prisoners not matter just because they don't have a serious mental illness? Once we start creating this humane prison system, where do we stop?
During most of the documentary, I was applauding Ohio state for at least trying to create a therapeutic environment for its mentally ill inmates. But there were a couple of comments which made me rethink. Reginald Wilkinson, the Director of the Ohio Department of Corrections said that he once had a judge mention to him: "Well, I hate to do this, but you know the person will get treated if we send the person to prison." So judges are more likely to give a prison sentence because they feel there's better mental health care there? My question was confirmed later in the documentary when it pointed out: "We shouldn't devote ourselves to continually raising the level of mental health care in prisons because the better you make an institution that shouldn't be used for the purpose you're improving, the more you're ensuring its use."
It's a catch-22. If you don't work to take care of the mentally ill in prisons, they'll get worse and you'll have to stash them away in solitary or other "general population" punishment areas. If you do develop a system to care for the mentally ill, then you end up with even more mentally ill people dumped into your system, where they don't belong. So tragic. I wish enough people cared about this highly stigmatized group so that money could be raised to properly care for both the imprisoned and the unimprisoned mentally ill.
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Chapter 2 of Butcher's Abnormal Psychology is a bit harder to summarize than Chapter 1. It covered the reactions of people towards the mentally ill throughout history. There were lots of names mentioned, and trends galore. But I will try to focus on the ones that I found most interesting.
During the classical age of Greek and Roman philosophers, mental illness began to be viewed more as a physiological trait than as demonic possession, which was the common viewpoint before this time. Hippocrates, a Greek philosopher considered the father of modern medicine, believed that mental illnesses were due to brain pathology. He recognized heredity, predisposition, and head injuries as common causes of mental illness. The doctrine of the four humors was related to Hippocrates and later to the Roman physician Galen. These four fluids in the body could combine in different ways to regulate the personality of an individual. Hippocrates promoted healthy living as a remedy to mental illness.
Plato, also, supported the kind, empathetic treatment of mentally ill individuals. He suggested that mentally disturbed individuals were not responsible for criminal acts. However, Plato viewed mental illness, at least partly, as an effect of spirituality. Hippocrates' and Plato's support of humane treatments for mental illness influenced later Greek and Roman philosophers.
During the Middle Ages, the belief that mental illness had physiological origins almost disappeared in Europe. The texts of the Greeks and Romans survived in Islamic and Middle Eastern regions, but very few Europeans of this time were able to read Greek or Roman texts. The Middle Ages marked a regression in both scientific and philosophical thought. The Greek and Roman texts weren't "rediscovered" until the Renaissance.
Supernatural explanations for mental illness gained popularity, and treatment was left mainly to the clergy. At least the treatment of the mentally ill by the clergy was mainly humane.
It is commonly thought that the mentally ill were often accused of being witches during the Middle Ages, and were thus cruelly executed. However, recent research suggests that witchcraft was not believed to be an effect of possession, as mental illness was. Usually the accused were ill-tempered, impoverished women.
Scientific explanations for mental illness reemerged in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Even some of the clergy were falling away from possession as the cause of mental illness. Saint Vincent de Paul declared "Mental disease is no different than bodily disease and Christianity demands of the humane and powerful to protect, and the skillful to relieve the one as well as the other."
Despite the resurgence in the belief of physiological explanations for mental illness during the Renaissance, inhumane asylums for the storage of individuals who could not care for themselves were on the rise.
In the late 1700s, humanitarians began to intervene on behalf of the mentally ill. Physicians began to experiment with more humane treatment of individuals. The French physician Philippe Pinel demonstrated that the removal of chains, and introduction of healthy living in an asylum had extraordinary effects on the recovery of mentally ill individuals. English Quaker William Tuke later established a pleasant retreat for mentally ill patients, with similar positive results.
The success of Pinel and Tuke led to a period of humanitarian reform and the use of moral management. This movement promoted the rehabilitation of moral and spiritual character, as well as manual labor. Moral management was highly effective. Recovery and discharge rates increased dramatically.
Unfortunately, moral management made way to the mental hygiene movement, which emphasized the physical (rather than spiritual) treatment of institutionalized patients. Although hygiene and the belief in physiological as well as spiritual causes of mental illness were important, improving the hygiene of the patients alone was not successful, and recovery rates plummeted. However, the mental hygiene movement was meant to create a more humane environment for the institutionalized – so in that way it was progress.
The number of institutionalized patients increased throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, but during the late 20th century humanitarians began to support deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. Popular culture seems to believe deinstitutionalization to be a good thing – and for many, it was. Reintroduction of the mentally ill and developmentally challenged to their supportive families was a huge success when that family had the resources to care for its loved one. However, deinstitutionalization occurred too quickly, leaving many people without shelter, and of those who had shelter, many families didn't have the resources to care for the patients. Many of the shelterless people became homeless, and others were quickly shunted off into prisons.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, four major themes in psychology developed: 1) biological discoveries, 2) classification system for mental disorders, 3) the emergence of psychological causations and views 4) experimental and research psychology.
The first major breakthrough in biological treatment of mental illness was the discovery that a form of paresis was caused by syphilis. This discovery boded well for the discovery of more biological treatments for other illnesses. Later discoveries showed deterioration of the brain led to senility and that some disorders could be caused by exposure to toxic substances. Biological treatments also had some mishaps – such as surgical removal of body parts including tonsils, part of the colon, gonads, and the frontal lobe of the brain.
Emil Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, pioneered classification of mental illnesses, and his system became the forerunner to the DSM.
The Nancy school began a movement exploring psychological causations of mental illness. Two scientists in Nancy, France, discovered that some of the traits observed in hysteria – psychological paralysis, blindness, deafness, and pain – could be introduced in healthy patients through hypnosis. These symptoms could also be removed by hypnosis. Therefore, the Nancy school believed that hysteria, and later other disorders, were a form of self-hypnosis. Jean Charcot, a French neurologist, disagreed with the Nancy School. His research suggested that mental disorders were caused by brain degeneration. Toward the end of the 19th century, it was accepted that mental disorders could have a psychological basis, biological basis, or both.
Sigmund Freud was a student of Charcot, but later leant more towards the psychological causations mental illness. Freud discovered that if patients were encouraged to discuss their problems under hypnosis, they felt considerable emotional release. The patients, upon awakening, made no connection between their problems and their disorder. This led to the discovery of the unconscious mind. Freud also discovered that free-association and dream analysis had the same cathartic effect on his patients.
By the first decade of the 20th century clinical psychology labs, which performed experiments on causes and treatments of mental illness, were on the rise. Soon, the behavioral perspective developed. This perspective emphasized the role of learning in disorders. It began with Ivan Pavlov's serendipitous discovery that he could condition dogs to salivate upon the ringing of a bell. Watson used Pavlov's discovery to develop behaviorism – the belief that humans gain personalities through changes in their environments. Watson believed that he could train a child to become anyone he wanted the child to become simply by creating the right environment. (Stephen Pinker's argument against this belief is discussed in my review of The Blank Slate.)
B. F. Skinner developed his own form of behaviorism in which consequences of behavior influenced subsequent behavior. This type of learning was named "operant conditioning." For example, positive conditioning occurs when someone is rewarded for a behavior, such as when we give a treat to a potty-training child who has successfully used the toilet. Negative conditioning occurs when a child receives a shock when sticking his finger into an electrical outlet.
And thus abruptly ended Chapter 2 – after a long list of names and dates that the book thought were important for us to remember.
Butcher, James N. Hooley, Jill M. Mineka, Susan. (2014) Chapter 2: Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior. Abnormal Psychology, sixteenth edition (pp. 29-53). Pearson Education Inc.
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Are you comfortable with your knowledge of concussion?
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– The signs and symptoms of concussion.
– Mandates in the New Jersey Concussion Law.
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It's been a decade since the Australian audience has seen the likes of a gritty, no-holds barred western across our dusty, harsh environs in The Proposition (2005).
Come 2015, writer/director Matthew Holmes' bushranger epic The Legend of Ben Hall not only stands out in a starved genre, but begs the question – why is the Australian film market not flooded with more westerns given the country's rugged, sun-drenched landscape and rich bushranging history?
The Legend of Ben Hall trailer:
Strictly adhering to historical fact, The Legend of Ben Hall focuses on the tumultuous last six months in the life of the bushranger played by Jack Martin in the titular role.
'When it comes to telling the Ben Hall story, I'm not interested in presenting fiction'.
It's been Holmes' filmmaking passion to make an 'Australian version' of the cowboy movies he soaked up in his teen years. Dedicating several years to his infatuation with the notorious outlaw, Holmes felt it was only proper to re-create every element from shootouts and robberies to wardrobe and weaponry as recorded in the historical documents, abiding by the ethos that truth will always trump fiction.
Watch part 1 of our interview with Matthew and learn more about the origins of Ben Hall, writing this beast and shooting in regional Victoria and New South Wales.
Matthew Holmes Part 1:
Period dramas cost big money, period! So how do you secure big money when your story dwells in a genre that hasn't been tried and tested to any great extent, or to any great success?
For The Legend of Ben Hall, it was a proof-of-concept short film funded via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, which happened to strike the fancy of producers at Odin's Eye Entertainment and Greg McLean of Wolf Creek (2005), who have been instrumental in the project's evolution to feature status, not to mention the dedication and hard work of a talented film crew.
Check out part 2 of our chat with Matthew to hear more about the hurdles, how you learn from failure and the future of Ben Hall.
"You really need to love what you do. This is what I want to do with my life come hell or highwater" the energetic Holmes proclaims, brimming with an infectious attitude the Australian western genre has long hungered for.
And it is with this sheer drive the young writer/director saddles up for not only his ambitious second feature in The Legend of Ben Hall, but for a slate of proposed films in a 'Legends Trilogy' – an epic saga of the New South Wales bushrangers.
The Legend of Ben Hall is due for release in late 2015.
For the film's website go here.
For the film's IMDB page go here.
Check out the facebook page here.
For Matthew Holmes' IMDB page go here.
Wanna know more about The Legend of Ben Hall? Comment below or on our facebook page and we'll hit up Matthew for more info.
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Die Inde ist ein 54,1 km langer, linker Nebenfluss der Rur in Wallonien (Belgien) und Nordrhein-Westfalen (Deutschland). Verwaltungstechnisch gehört sie zum Wasserverband Eifel-Rur.

Name
Der Name der Inde ist als Inda zuerst belegt für die Zeit der Jahre 496 bis 506 n. Chr. in einer Handschrift des 13./14. Jahrhunderts, welche ihrerseits eine aus dem 7./8. Jahrhundert stammende Kopie der Cosmographia (4, 24) des Geographen von Ravenna kopiert. Der Ortsname der Klostergründung der Reichsabtei Kornelimünster im frühen 9. Jahrhundert, der zuerst ebenfalls kurz Inda lautete, erscheint bis 855 als Sancti Corneli ad Indam. Der Flussname ist keltischer Herkunft zu einer rekonstruierten nominalen Grundform *Indā = "die Leuchtende" aus einem Präsensstamm aus urkeltisch *ind-o- "aufleuchten". Die keltischen Formen leiten sich ab vom urindogermanischen Präsensstamm *h2i-n-dh- des Verbs *h2éi̯dh "entzünden", das noch im Mittelhochdeutschen als eit aus dem urgermanischen *aidaz "Flamme", "Feuer" überlebte. Parallele Benennungen liegen in den Südtiroler Namen der Ortschaft Innichen im oberen Pustertal und des Drau-Zuflusses Sextenbach, dessen ursprünglicher Name im 9. Jahrhundert als India belegt ist.

In den lokalen Mundarten wie dem Eschweiler Platt heißt der Fluss Eng. Die Inde ist namensgebend für die Gemeinde Inden im Kreis Düren sowie für den Zusatznamen "Indestadt" für Eschweiler; auch das in Kornelimünster liegende Inda-Gymnasium und der Sportverein FC Inde Hahn sind nach dem Fluss benannt. Sie ist auch namensgebend für das Projekt Indeland. In Stolberg wird die Inde von der Einmündung der Vicht bachaufwärts auch Münsterbach genannt.  Das Münsterbachtal, die Münsterbachstraße als auch das Natura 2000 FFH-Gebiet Nr. DE-5203-307, Münsterbachtal sind danach benannt. Die Reichsabtei Kornelimünster war im Mittelalter der Eigentümer umfangreicher Ländereien, dem sogenannten Münsterländchen. In alten Karten ist der Bach dort als Münsterbach bezeichnet.

Geographie

Verlauf
Die Inde entspringt im Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel etwa 1,5 km westsüdwestlich der belgisch-deutschen Grenze im Gebiet der belgischen Gemeinde Raeren. Ihre Quelle liegt zwischen dem Raerener Kernort im Nordwesten und dem Ortsteil Petergensfeld im Südosten in der Flur Perschei auf  Höhe. Aus einem etwa 3,5 km² großen Quellgebiet, das in dieser Flur liegt, fließen der Inde kurz unterhalb ihrer Quelle mehrere kleine Bäche zu.

Bereits 2,4 Bachkilometer nach ihrer Quelle trifft die Inde beim Grenzstein 904 auf die Grenze von Wallonien nach Nordrhein-Westfalen und bildet die belgisch-deutsche Grenze auf 1,3 Bachkilometern Länge bis zum Grenzstein 912. Fortan prägt sie das Naturschutzgebiet Oberlauf der Inde im Münsterwald und fließt weiter in den Gemarkungen Sief und Walheim durch Aachener Stadtgebiet. Dabei passiert oder tangiert sie die Stadtteile oder Ortslagen Schmithof, Friesenrath, Walheim, Hahn, Kornelimünster, Niederforstbach, Krauthausen und Freund.

Danach passiert oder tangiert die Inde im Stadtgebiet von Stolberg die Stadtteile oder Ortslagen Büsbach, Münsterbusch (Naturschutzgebiet Muensterbusch zwischen Hamm und Haumuehle (ACK-015)), Unterstolberg, Atsch, Velau und Steinfurt. Dann fließt sie im Stadtgebiet von Eschweiler vorbei an Eschweiler-Aue, durch die Kernstadt und durch den Stadtteil Weisweiler und unterquert die Bundesautobahn 4, die seit Anfang 1987 pro Fahrtrichtung ein Hinweisschild "Inde" hat. Hiernach verläuft die Inde im Gemeindegebiet von Inden durch den Ortsteil Frenz und dann zwischen Kernort und durch Lamersdorf hindurch. Anschließend wird sie westlich am Tagebau Inden vorbeigeleitet; dabei gelangt sie nochmals auf Eschweiler Stadtgebiet und passiert im Gebiet der ehemaligen Ortschaft Lohn die Gedächtniskapelle Lohn.

Danach fließt die Inde südlich am Jülicher Stadtteil Kirchberg vorbei, um kurz darauf östlich davon auf  in den dort von Südosten heran fließenden Maas-Zufluss Rur zu münden.

Einzugsgebiet und Zuflüsse
Das Einzugsgebiet der Inde ist 374,227 km² groß und liegt in der belgischen Gemeinde Raeren, der Städteregion Aachen sowie dem Kreis Düren.

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Geschichte
Westlich von Büsbach und Münsterbusch, in der Atsch, auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Stadt Stolberg, und auf dem Gebiet der damaligen Reichsabtei Kornelimünster, trieben die Wasser der Inde mehrere Mühlen an, darunter die Abteimühle Kornelimünster in Kornelimünster und die Komericher Mühle bei Brand, sowie auf Stolberger Gebiet die Kupfermühlen, Elgermühle, Bocksmühle, Haumühle, Hamm-Mühle und Buschmühle, deren Gebäude noch erhalten sind. An einem Altarm der Inde im Kreis Düren entdeckten Archäologen im Jahre 2009 Reste einer etwa 2000 Jahre alten Wassermühle, die das älteste entdeckte Bauwerk dieser Art nördlich der Alpen ist. Bei den Funden handelt sich um zwei große hölzerne Achslager, schaufelähnliche Gegenstände sowie um Mühlsteine. Durch in Mühlennähe gefundene Fibeln soll eine Datierung der Funde ermöglicht werden, da sie einem modischen Wandel unterlagen. Die Archäologen gehen aufgrund ihrer Recherchen davon aus, dass es sich bei Mühlenbetreibern um Einheimische handelte, die die römische Technologie übernommen hatten.

Verunreinigung

Durch Eintrag von Sickerwasser aus einer alten Industriehalde der Kali Chemie und aus den sogenannten Vegla-Poldern ist die Inde ab Stolberg unter anderem mit Dünnsäure stark verschmutzt. Seit 19. September 2005 liegt ein öffentlich-rechtlicher Vertrag vor, nach dem die huminsäurehaltigen Sickerwässer an den Poldern aufgefangen, über eine Förderleitung auf das Betriebsgelände des Stolberger Unternehmens "Saint-Gobain Glass" und von dort weiter zur Kläranlage Stolberg-Steinfurt geführt werden sollen. Dieses Projekt wird voraussichtlich 10 Mio. Euro kosten. Es muss mindestens 30 Jahre lang betrieben werden.

Die Kali-Halde der Chemischen Fabrik Rhenania – sie liegt auf Stolberger Stadtgebiet gegenüber dem Vegla-Polder – ist die größte Altlast der Städteregion Aachen.

2007 wurde eine Behandlungsanlage für Sickerwässer aus den Vegla-Poldern auf dem nördlichen Firmengelände der "Saint-Gobain Glass" in Betrieb genommen; die Einleitungen in die Inde sind seitdem sauberer.

2018 wurde an Inde und Münsterbach erhöhte Dioxin-Werte gemessen.

Neues Flussbett
Seit 1996 wurde im Rahmen der Wiedernutzbarmachung des ehemaligen Tagebaugeländes Inden damit begonnen, ein neues Flussbett für die Inde zwischen den Orten Lamersdorf und Kirchberg anzulegen. Aufgrund der tagebautechnischen Notwendigkeiten wurde die neue Inde in unmittelbarer Randlage zum laufenden Braunkohlentagebau angelegt. Künftig fließt die Inde in einem halbkreisförmigen Bogen nach Westen nahe an Neu-Lohn vorbei. Das neue Gewässerbett wurde unter besonderen ökologischen Gesichtspunkten gestaltet: Statt bisher 5 km begradigtem Flusslauf beträgt die Länge des Teilstücks jetzt 12 km. Die Gewässeraue ist bis zu 300 m breit. Nach den Vorgaben der Planfeststellung aus dem Jahr 1998 soll sich das Gewässer zukünftig eigendynamisch innerhalb der Gewässeraue weiter entwickeln. Nach dem Beginn des Probebetriebes am 20. April 2005 wurde die Wasserführung schrittweise erhöht. Die vollständige Flutung fand am 2. September 2005 statt. Das alte Bett der Inde zwischen Lamersdorf und Kirchberg wurde durch das Fortschreiten des Tagebaus Inden II bereits wenige Wochen später beseitigt.

Wenngleich im Auftrag von RWE Power vor der Trockenlegung des alten Flussbettes Fische abgefischt und umgesetzt wurden, berichtete der Fischerei-Aufseher für den Kreis Düren von "über 10.000 zum Teil großen Fischen", die infolge der Trockenlegung starben.

Durch langanhaltenden Starkregen kam es beim Hochwasser in West- und Mitteleuropa 2021 am 15. Juli 2021 zu einer Überflutung der Inde und zu einem Dammbruch, wodurch der Tagebau Inden teilgeflutet wurde.

Impressionen

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Die Inde, beim Wasserverband Eifel-Rur, auf wver.de
 Mehr Leben für Inde und Co., auf rur.nrw.de (PDF; 3 MB)

Fluss in der Eifel
Gewässer im Kreis Düren
Indeland
Gewässer in der Städteregion Aachen
Grenzfluss

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import os
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LA Pride parade will return in June 2022
by City News Service November 26, 2021 November 24, 2021
Canceled past two years
After two years without an LA Pride parade due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers have announced that it is planning a 2022 parade, along with a musical event, during the celebrations from June 10-12.
Details about the parade and musical event will be released at a later date, according to Christopher Street West (CSW), which has organized LA Pride for more than 50 years.
"We made sure our 2021 events were inclusive and safe in the hopes we could bring our parade and bigger in-person events back for the following year," said CSW board President Sharon-Franklin Brown.
"LA Pride is ready to celebrate our community's resilience and strength together. It's why we wanted to share the dates now. It's an incredible honor to resume such an iconic celebration for 2022."
Brown was recently reelected as president through 2023. In 2020, she made history as the first Black transgender woman to lead Christopher Street West, which now has a Board of Directors which is 71 percent people of color and 24 percent trans or nonbinary.
CSW also announced that its treasurer Gerald Garth was elected vice president of programs and initiatives, which is a new position that will focus on year-round community outreach.
LA Pride last year had major in-person events—including an LGBTQ+ Night at Dodger Stadium—but the last Pride Parade in Los Angeles was in 2019.
Organizers also hosted a live streamed TikTok concert—viewed by 770,000 people across the U.S.–with headliner Charli XCX and host Benito Skinner.
In 2020, CSW announced that LA Pride would move its annual LGBTQ parade and celebrations out of West Hollywood after more than four decades in the city, but a new location has not been announced.
Compton Christmas parade set Saturday
Southland celebrates the spirit of independence
Celebrating the stars and stripes
Tagged: Christopher Street West, entertainment, La Local News, LA Pride Parade, LGBTQ


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Q: Need to save result as a PHP variable out the result of a MySQL SUM() query I need to echo the result of my MySQL query, the query works.  Just complete mind blank into how to work out how to echo the result of it.
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A: Not sure what you're getting at with the query. SUM() applies to a particular FIELD in the table you're querying. Most likely you'd want
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Note the quotes around the variable. If that variable contains anything that is NOT purely numeric, it must be quoted. And you must also take care of any SQL injection problems:
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South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, a subsidiary of BioBridge Global, today launched a program to aid accident and trauma patients served by area air medical services and hospital helicopters. The program, "Brothers in Arms," will enable air medical crews to administer special pre-hospital transfusions of whole blood, proven to counter blood loss and dramatically improve survival rates when tested in battlefield situations.
Research led by Dr. Donald Jenkins, a former U.S. Air Force officer and the principal architect of the Joint Trauma Theater Trauma System in Iraq and Afghanistan, showed that combining the practice of pre-hospital transfusions with specially tested units of whole blood – rather than transfusing individual blood components of red cells, plasma or platelets – is most effective in treating trauma victim suffering from significant blood loss.
Dr. Jenkins later began to transfer the program to civilian use as trauma medical director at the Mayo Clinic. He is now a surgical critical care specialist affiliated with University Hospital in San Antonio, and the Betty and Bob Kelso Distinguished Chair in Burn and Trauma Surgery at UT Health San Antonio.
The new program represents a collaboration involving the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC), University Health System, the San Antonio Military Medical Center, The US Army Institute of Surgical Research, the UT Health Science Center and medical helicopter services Air Evac Lifeteam, PHI Inc. and San Antonio AirLIFE.
The program was established in San Antonio with support from a grant provided by the San Antonio Medical Foundation.
Blood for the Brothers in Arms program will come from the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, donated by specially tested male O-positive donors.
The universal blood type generally used for emergency transfusions, O-negative, is found in just 7 percent of the population. More than 30 percent of donors are type O-positive, making it the most common blood type. South Texas Blood & Tissue Center's sister blood-testing organization, QualTex Laboratories, worked with the military to develop the testing protocol to identify O-positive donors with low antibody levels, making it possible to use O-positive blood for these trauma victims. The program is targeting male O-positive donors because men tend to have lower levels of certain types of antibodies in their blood than women, reducing the possibility of adverse reactions in patients.
STBTC is working to sign up a committed pool of male O-positive donors for the Brothers in Arms program to ensure a regular supply of specially tested whole blood for medical helicopters. The goal is to eventually expand the program to provide whole blood to area emergency vehicles.
Male donors who would like to see if they qualify to be a "Brothers in Arms" volunteer are encouraged to call 210-731-5590 to schedule an appointment for testing.