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Challenging perceptions of addiction
Posted on January 29, 2015 February 5, 2015 by drjbdunphy
Do we need to alter our understanding of addiction to tackle it effectively as a society?
This article from the Irish Examiner explores alternative perceptions of addiction and interviews people who have conquered their addiction. The original article can be also read here.
Heroin users and the effect drugs had on them
By Liz Dunphy
As addiction insidiously strangles our streets and often targets vulnerable youth, new perceptions of addiction, and policies designed to target it are gaining international traction.
Portugal has de-criminalised all drug possession to seemingly positive effect, and even some US states are de-criminalising and legalising drug use amid a growing realisation that the 'war on drugs' is failing.
Recently even a fashion trend that was criticised for glamourising everything from drug-use to dirty hair, extreme skinniness to extreme kohl eyeliner has influenced an effecting video project which adds to these new narratives on addiction.
Downtown Divas contrasts the high fashion photographed in the 'Heroin Chic' look that dominated the 90s with real-life contemporary heroin addiction and the physical, mental and emotional toll that the drug takes on users.
Gigi Ben Artzi and Loral Amir's project shows women in designer clothes talking about their hopes and dreams, their loves and memories. (https://vimeo.com/108770583 )
These women are addicted to drugs, living dangerous and chaotic lives but the project focuses on their humanity rather than reducing them to their addiction or to the prostitution which helps fund it.
This intimacy and honesty helps viewers to break through the wall that addiction can erect around an individual, which often bars us from recognising our similarities and shared vulnerabilities. Fashion is used as a vehicle to re-contextualise these women's stories and to subvert prejudices, and the concept of fashion, which is so often concerned with escapism ironically resonates with the escapism inherent in drug use while temporarily allowing these women to escape from their dangerous lives.
Heroin Chic as a sartorial trend originally arose in the 90s as a stark reaction to the glamour-on-amphetamines, hyper-consumerism of the 1980s.
Created largely by fashion photographer Corrine Day and the then adolescent Kate Moss, the photographs that started the 'Heroin Chic' aesthetic were often shot in dingy apartments and began Moss' speedy rise to become arguably the iconic face of that generation and the next.
That it is still spawning influences now, from the resurgence in 90s fashion in 2014 to this intimate portrayal of women suffering from heroin addiction is a reminder of the potency that images can have when they tap into the zeitgeist, especially in today's hyper-mediated societies where images have become so dominant that we're arguably moving towards a hybrid form of hieroglyphic communications.
And perhaps this honest and intimate glimpse inside the minds of some of the most marginalised in our society can remind us of our shared humanity and help mount pressure to improve services and perhaps to better understand and relate to addiction.
Tony Duffin, Director of the Ana Liffey Drug Project which is currently calling to legalise medically supervised centres where addicts can inject and have their habits better monitored (and hopefully reduced) while also taking needles and drug use off the streets, believes that such portrayals may be useful.
"We work with thousands of people who are affected by addiction in Ireland and they all have hopes, fears and dreams like anyone else. People who use drugs need to be portrayed as human beings and not merely as drug users.
It is important that the lived experience of people affected by addiction is portrayed and the stigma they encounter is challenged. It is also important that this is done in such a way that promotes the dignity and respect of those people who are telling their story," says Duffin.
James from Cork, now 18 months free from heroin, also believes that it is important to amplify marginalised voices in our community.
"Hearing people's stories allows to you to empathise with those people on the streets who are often easy to ignore. When you hear their stories you recognise that it could have been you, had your circumstances been different."
Bruce Alexander, a psychologist and professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Canada has found that it may be those societal circumstances that predict addictive behaviours in the first place.
He conducted experiments which contradicted contemporary orthodoxies about addiction as far back as the 1980's. Up until that point, studies on addiction had found that when rats isolated in cages were given access to morphine they would quickly develop addictions and consume the drug until it killed them.
This finding formed the still largely dominant theory that physically addictive substances such as opiates (like heroin) will turn most users into addicts.
Alexander interrogated this study by creating 'Rat Park', a veritable rat heaven where rats could play, mate, rest and feed in a pleasant, stimulating, clean environment. Rats were given access to two water sources, one contained morphine and one contained plain water.
None of these rats developed heroin habits despite having ready access to the drug. Even when Alexander and his team added sugar to the morphine laden water source, rats still chose the clean water.
And after he force-fed the rats morphine for two months they reverted to the clean water supply when given the choice, despite exhibiting withdrawal symptoms.
Alexander simultaneously monitored rats kept isolated in cages and these less fortunate subjects consistently chose morphine over clean water, leading Alexander to the conclusion that happy rats (and as a likely extension happy humans) choose to avoid opiates even when introduced to them, but isolated, unhappy rats self-medicate and presumably escape their miserable reality through addiction.
These findings led Alexander to theorise that addiction is caused by social fragmentation. As the historically close ties to family, culture and spirituality are loosened by a modern global society focused on individualism and unrelenting competition, his thesis contests that people adapt to this dislocation by finding substitutes which often manifests as addiction in all its chameleon guises.
So although differences in vulnerability are partially dictated by genetics, individual experiences and character, addiction in his view is more of a social problem than an individual disorder, caused by wider societal, cultural and political pressures.
And perhaps this is a more useful paradigm to help us understand (and hopefully tackle) addiction.
Brain plasticity – the brain's ability to grow and change – was only fully accepted and understood in the past decade, so it seems conceivable that with the right support and will people can re-wire their brains to break addiction's insidious grip.
James sees merit in Alexander's theory.
"I remember looking in the mirror with tears rolling down my face, not wanting to use heroin but still feeling this compulsion to use. When I moved to a treatment centre in Carlow we were taught Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), we had councillors who helped us challenge our thought processes in a calm, peaceful environment on a farm close to nature. I didn't feel that compulsion to use there."
On leaving the treatment centre he was homeless.
"Cork Simon had just opened a rehabilitation house for recovering addicts. They took me in and they gave me work to do in the organisation. I would have been lost without them." James is hugely grateful to Cork Simon.
He is now studying Social Studies and Applied Psychology (in the Cork College of Commerce) and plans to continue his studies in Social Science at UCC specialising in Youth and Community, so that he can use his experiences to help other young people.
James feels that the very nature of addiction depends on isolation.
"Addiction wants you alone and dead. And it's the same mentality regardless of what you're addicted to, whether it's drugs, alcohol, food, whatever. That's how my addiction was, I'd use alone and have suicidal thoughts but through Narcotics Anonymous (NA) I learned to control my thoughts which empowered me. Now I'm in college and the world is my oyster."
Áine Duffy speaking for Alone, a charity that addresses homelessness and also recognises the link between social isolation and addiction.
"Studies show that isolation and loneliness makes it harder to regulate behaviour," says Duffy.
Philip McCarthy, a successful film maker who beat a heroin addiction agrees.
"Even when I was young I had the makings of an addict but I didn't recognise it. I had the best parents in the world but I always felt like I was an outsider looking in at my happy family, I didn't really feel part of it."
McCarthy says that suffering sustained sexual abuse and not telling anyone due to threats from the abuser from the age of nine made him turn to drugs to deaden the pain and confusion that the abuse caused. Both McCarthy and James are emphatic that heroin is unfortunately here to stay, and that the only way to prevent new users is through education and support.
"We need more workshops to make kids aware. Many now think that smoking heroin is ok, that you have to use needles to be an addict which is not true. If you have awareness you have choice," says James.
McCarthy believes that it is vital to get people who have battled addiction and managed to turn their lives around into schools to talk to youths.
"I spoke to kids in Deerpark CBS in Cork and you could hear a pin drop. They listen to you because they know that you've been there. All kids will experiment so we need to give them the tools to deal with it," says McCarthy.
He pours his energy into his films now, he is currently in pre-production on a film about gangland Ireland and he has already cast some Hollywood names and a few members of the RTÉ series Love/Hate in the production which is due to start filming in Cork this summer, and he is also writing his first book.
"The sense of achievement of seeing my films and all that hard work come alive on a screen gives me a rush that no drug ever could," says McCarthy.
"That sense of achievement is unbeatable and utterly priceless."
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The following tutorial introduces programming of your AVR microcontroller using In System Programming (ISP). This programming technique allows you to program the eeprom and flash memories of your chip while in circuit. This removes the requirement of placing your chip in a dedicated programmer every time for programming.
In this tutorial, we're going to use an ATMega8 on a breadboard.
Connect the reset pin (pin 1) to 5V through your resistor. Connect power and ground from your power source to the 5V regulator. This regulator generates a contant voltage even if the current draw varies (within limits). We suggest your wire 5V along your top rail and GND along your bottom rail. This makes it easier to get power to all your devices on your breadboard. Wire VCC (pin 7) to 5V and GND (pins 8 and 22) to GND.
Cut 6 short lengths (approx 100mm) of coloured hookup wire. Each of these represents one of the following control signals necessary to program the mega8.
Simply strip about 5mm of insulation off each wire and connect the respective pins of the Mega8 and the programmer.
You have now finished setting up the hardware reqired to run your ATmega8. It's as simple as that.
AVRDude is getting a little old and does not support all the new microcontrollers that Atmel has brought out. For programming new microcontroller I suggest using USBasp.


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Bartsch's New Aeneid.
May 11, 2021 by languagehat 34 Comments
In 2008 I posted about Sarah Ruden's then-new translation of the Aeneid; now there's a fresh contender, by Shadi Bartsch [I messed up the names in the first version of this post — sorry!]. Stuart Lyons' brief review at Classics for All convinces me that if I actually buy another version, it will be Ruden's:
B.'s new translation has been praised by an American professor as 'probably the best version of the Aeneid in modern English'. Pacy and often colloquial, with occasional italics for emphasis, much of it reads like prose. A passage in 11.85-88 illustrates the differing treatments […] B., eschewing initial upper-case letters, translates:
'Wretched Acoetes, weak with age, was led
along. He beat his chest with fists and clawed his face,
falling prostrate on the ground. Next came chariots
spattered with Rutulian blood [and Pallas' warhorse … ]'
The enjambment of 'led / along' is jarring. It distorts Virgil's architecture and leads to the unidiomatic two-syllable expression 'with fists'. Nor does B.'s 'falling prostrate on the ground' do justice to sternitur et toto proiectus corpore terrae. B. reduces Virgil's four lines to three and a half before her text merges mid-line into a new period.
Enjambment and compression pervade B's translation. […] Such preferences give this result as Dido's story reaches its climax (4.296-300):
at regina dolos (quis fallere possit amantem?)
praesensit, motusque excepit prima futuros
omnia tuta timens. eadem impia Fama furenti
detulit armari classem cursumque parari.
'But Dido sensed the trick (who can deceive
a lover?) and the launch they planned. Now everything
seemed suspect, even if it wasn't. That same impious
Rumor told the desperate queen the fleet prepared
to sail.'
Here, motusque excepit prima futuros surely means 'she was the first to get wind of his future movements'; armari is omitted, as is the English 'that', which elegance demands be inserted after 'queen'.
Generally, B.'s translation is accurate, but there are lapses, e.g. quattuor a stabulis praestanti corpore tauros (8.207) become 'seven perfect bulls'.
Frankly, I was already recoiling at "much of it reads like prose," but the details (more at the link, of course) put the nail in the coffin. Translating is hard, and newer is not always better.
PatrickC says
There seems to be a mixup here: Bartsch is the translator of the new Aeneid, not the reviewer, who is Stuart Lyons. Braund wrote the introduction to the new edition of Ruden's translation.
Antoon says
This is not presented terribly clearly on the Classics For All website, but: the translation that is reviewed is by Shadi Bartsch. The reviewer is Stuart Lyons. Susanna Braund is indeed mentioned, but B. (why just the initial?) refers to "Bartsch" rather than "Braund". Braund has a preface to the revised Ruden translation, which looks already to be published in the US (by Yale UP).
David Driscoll says
Thanks for sharing — I would have never seen this nice review otherwise. But I believe the reviewer is in fact one Stuart Lyons, as signed at the end of the review, and the translator of the new translation is Shadi Bartsch.
Thanks to all — sloppy of me, but yes, the website is confusing!
Brett says
I was surprised by the word pacy in the review. Although its meaning was fairly clear, I was not familiar with it.
Bathrobe says
You weren't quite yourself when you posted this, Hat. The review had a comparison of three translations that perfectly illustrate the reviewer's criticism. Normally, you wouldn't pass up a chance to compare translations, but for some reason you did this time.
the English 'that', which elegance demands be inserted after 'queen'.
Is that so? What strikes me about that line is something else: prepared should be had prepared or was preparing (which wouldn't fit in the line of course).
PlasticPaddy says
@dm
I read "prepared" as poetic/excited diction for "were preparing". There are a lot of examples of this in Shakespeare and in heroic poetry, but I am not giving you any (exercise for reader)????
If I were to do that, I would have had to repost the entire review. I generally prefer to give a sense of what's to be found at the link and send people there for the rest. LH is not meant to be your one-stop shop for all good things, just a pointer to where good things are to be found.
I too was mildly puzzled by "pacy" and quite puzzled by "elegance demands." Yet consensus reactions seem somehow boring by Hattic standards.
OED s.v. pacy:
Originally British colloquial. Having much pace or speed; fast-moving; progressing quickly. Frequently in extended use (esp. applied to drama, narrative, etc.).
1906 J. J. Munro Let. 25 Aug. in O.E.D. Suppl. (1933) (at cited word) In the practice of the day before yesterday, Cantab was perceptibly the pacier boat.
1927 Observer 29 May 28/4 These hitters, when once they get a real start, play havoc with pacey bowling.
1967 Listener 25 May 688/2 The production..is..pacey and vivid.
1969 C. Booker Neophiliacs ii. 48 The whole world..had been reduced to the same grainy, pacy, ever more 'realistic' dream.
1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 1 Nov. H7 For 400 pages, Jig is a great thriller. It's full of intrigue, pacy and plausible plotting, attractive characters on both sides of the law, a steady stream of corpses, [etc.].
2002 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 25/6 Chris Columbus has pushed the envelope farther, made a sequel that is pacier and more swashbuckling.
LH is not meant to be your one-stop shop for all good things, just a pointer to where good things are to be found.
But LH is my one-stop shop for good things!
I rather suspected "pacy" of being a UK-ism. I am intrigued to learn that not only has Lyons (the reviewer here) translated Horace into English, he has also tried his hand at translating early-20th-century Chinese modernist poetry, as demonstrated here: https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/2020/kings-alumnus-wins-prestigious-national-poetry-prize
I have no idea how good is grasp of Chinese is or whether he was proceeding in a more Poundian manner.
南天北天暗暗默默 south sky north sky hugger-mugger hush hush
东天中天舒舒阖阖 east sky mid sky totally leisurely
宇宙在寂静中构合 universe gathering in tranquillity
太阳在头赫里告别 sun departing in supreme glory
一阵临风 a gust of wind
几声 "可可" some sounds bye-bye
I find it enjoyable in small doses but probably would be wearied by trying to read a whole book of it.
Obviously the relevance of Joyce to the poem was as some sort of mindblowing-in-1922 stylistic influence, not as a direct source, but it strikes me that it would be interesting to have non-English translations of Joyce back-translated into English by translators denied access to Joyce's actual text to see if the results were "Joycean" in an interesting way or just incoherent in an uninteresting way.
Hans says
This is how I relate to all poetry.
David Eddyshaw says
It reminds me not so much of Joyce as of Gertrude Stein: specifically Lucy Church Amiably, a perfectly enjoyable work if you're in the right frame of mind.
Lucy church pagoda!
http://languagehat.com/pagoda/#comment-2303633
Which invariably reminds me of:
There's a wonderful family called Stein.
There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein:
Gert's poems are bunk,
Ep's statues are junk,
And nobody understands Ein!
Lucy Church Amiably (in Miss Stein's own words, "A Novel of Romantic beauty and nature and which Looks Like an Engraving."). God bless Dalkey Archive.
Jen in Edinburgh says
'Pacy' surprises me only because I thought it was restricted to describing thrillers.
January First-of-May says
I too was mildly puzzled by "pacy"
Of course pacy is regular-ish (if apparently not frequent) in the meaning "having much pace", though I would have spelled if pacey. I don't think I actually recognized the word, but it was understandable enough in the context.
(Wiktionary says that pacey is the main spelling, but apparently claims that the word is limited to sports.)
This incidentally reminds me of my favorite answer to the "third word ending in -gry" question: ogry, as in "similar to, or resembling, that of an ogre". (Wiktionary gives a slightly different definition and provides a quotation from Finnegans Wake.)
TR says
prepared should be had prepared or was preparing (which wouldn't fit in the line of course)
The meaning is definitely "was preparing" (parari rather than paratum esse). But "prepared" seems normal to me in this sentence — actually more so than the underlying direct version with a simple present "Your Majesty, the fleet prepares to sail!", which somehow feels more literary / old-fashioned.
I suspect these prosy translations are largely intended for students. A lot of "ancient epic" classes move through Homer and Virgil at a fairly brisk pace (four books of the Aeneid a week in the Fagles translation, for my class this semester) and the more familiar the language, the more likely students are to keep up. If I ever teach the poem again I'll actually consider using Bartsch for that reason, though it does seem like she might as well have got rid of the line breaks and published it as a prose version.
I find it hard to countenance translating Virgil into prose. The horrible idea puts me in mind of Yeats' comments:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150422-how-to-read-a-poem
The Irish poet made a series of radio broadcasts for the BBC in the 1930s. He seemed to know even then that his reading manner was going out of style. "I am going to read my poems with great emphasis upon their rhythm, and that may seem strange if you are not used to it," warned Yeats when introducing the Lake Isle of Innisfree in a 1931 recording. "I remember the great English poet, William Morris, coming in a rage out of some lecture hall where somebody had recited a passage out of his Sigurd the Volsung. 'It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble,' said Morris, 'to get that thing into verse.' It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose."
Y says
third word ending in -gry
Let us not speak of the recent cutesy-fashionable hangry.
Vanya says
"Pacy" is a very familiar word to anyone who follows English football. "They played with a lot of pace tonight" is one of those fall back expressions British commentators will grab to describe an otherwise nondescript competition.
I will certainly confess to not following English soccer. I think one reason "pacy" strikes me as odd is that it seems to mean more or less "fast-paced" but I don't quite think of "pace" as that sort of scalar quality. Something can be fast-paced or slow-paced, but the fast-paced alternative doesn't (as I conceptualize it) have "more pace" any more than a fast piece of music has "more tempo" than a slow piece of music does. And indeed "pace yourself" typically means "slow down" (or at least "don't speed up" — emulate the tortoise rather than the hare by finding the optimal pace for the context, which may well not be the fastest). For another parallel, I wouldn't use "sizey" to mean "larger," i.e. "having more size."
But things may be otherwise in varieties of English other than mine.
If something has a lot of "pace", it would suggest to me something fast rather than something slow.
Nelson Goering says
Sizeable means, basically, '(relatively) large'.
@J.W. Brewer – I understand pacey in a sporting context to mean "at a consistent fairly high speed without interruption". The consistency of the speed is more important than the speed itself though. That's why it cannot be used for American football or baseball.
So pacey doesn't have to be particularly fast or breathless, it would imply to me the writer has found a tempo and maintains it through the piece with control.
@Vanya, so you could substitute in "pacey" for "steadily paced" in a blurb like '"…as steadily paced as the first issue with a strong flow of plot and character development," says Darryll Robson of Monkeys Fighting Robots about DISASTER INC. #2'?
The first sport that comes to my mind when I think of 'pacey' is cricket, where it refers to a fast bowler — particularly, I think, one who delivers the ball faster than it might appear from their action. So it doesn't refer in that example to sustained or steady pace.
'Steadily paced' as the description of a book's plot sounds to me like a bit of a put-down — fast enough to keep the reader interested but not enough to make it a breathless page-turner, which would be truly pacey.
Amanda Adams says
We often criticize films for pace. We seem to mean a single, steady pace. We may move on to saying "plodding". What we mean is that there is no variation is pace. No rushing on bits, contrasted with contemplative bits. Even in a thriller one wants to draw breath before the next crisis?
It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble
Which is very different from the devil a bit of trouble, as we recently discussed. Apparently there's a negative devil and a positive or amplifying devil; does Christian theology know anything of this diabolical binity?
So the metaphorical application of "pacey" to a translated Latin poem may mean one thing if it's an extension of soccer jargon but another if it's an extension of cricket jargon? Leaving aside whether it's to be considered a positive, negative, or neutral quality as the reviewer uses it here …
Sticking to music rather than film or literature, some musical works pick a tempo, whether fast or slow, and stick to it throughout. Others have deliberate variations in tempo, with some parts faster and others slower, which can be both done well or done poorly, just as sticking to a steady tempo, whether fast or slow, can lead to good results in some cases and bad results in others.
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I think I figured out why the police had to call in the FBI to retrieve the body. Crystall was last seen at her home on Paschal-Ballard Road (right off Balltown Road). Houck's farm is at the intersection of Loretta Road and Balltown Road. They found the bones about 5 miles from Houck's farm. The only body of water close by would be Monk's Creek. It is about 5 miles due west of Houck's. Monk's creek is private monastery land belonging to Abbey of Gethsemani - Trappist, Kentucky. I would say the police could not go on that private land so they called in the FBI to go on that land. Maybe a monk found the body. I just could not understand why the police couldn't retrieve the body but the FBI could. (all JMO).
***I WAS WRONG ON THIS. THE CREEK WAS TO THE NORTH EAST****
We went to this monastery about a year ago. They make fruitcake (soaked in KY boubon), fudge and lots of other sweets. It is so good, yes even the fruit cake is delicious. We were going to tour the grounds but there was a sign at the entrance that you had to maintain complete and total silence and my husband said "let's go, no way you can do that for the entire tour".
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If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.<br />Quote: Amory Lovins
"FBI searching three properties in Crystal Rogers investigation
One home being searched is owned by Rogers' ex-boyfriend who police have named a suspect in her disappearance."
"(WBKO)
By WKYT News Staff
Published: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:05 AM CDT|Updated: 5 hours ago
BARDSTOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - The FBI has announced it is now the lead investigative agency on the Crystal Rogers case.
The organization made the announcement early Thursday morning.
A spokesperson for the agency told WKYT that investigators searched three properties early Thursday morning.
Those properties belong to Rogers' ex-boyfriend and suspect in her disappearance, Brooks Houck, his brother and former Bardstown Police Officer Nick Houck, and their mother, Rosemary Houck.
In a release, FBI Louisville says it is working closely with several federal, state, and local agencies including the IRS, Kentucky State Police, and the United States Attorney's Office..........................
(https://www.wkyt.com/2020/08/06/fbi-louisville-now-in-charge-of-crystal-rogers-investigation/)
Don't know what to make of this. Is the FBI taking over because the remains are hers or are they taking over because the remains are not hers? Weird. Hope answers are coming soon for her 5 kids and her mother.
texasmom
ARUBA: It's all about Natalee...we won't give up!
Video footage here from where the remains were found, they say it has eroded a lot over the years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvNvD2zirk8
https://www.youtube.com/v/zvNvD2zirk8
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I stand with the girl, Natalee Holloway.
"I can look back over the past 10 years and there were no steps wasted, and there are no regrets,'' she said. "I did all I knew to do and I think that gives me greater peace now." "I've lived every parent's worst nightmare and I'm the parent that nobody wants to be," she said.
Beth Holloway, 2015 interview with Greta van Susteren
Second day of searching in connection to Crystal Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/v/txCT_0pes4k
Quote from: Blue Moon on August 06, 2020, 10:55:02 AM
Exactly! I'm leaning toward thinking it is her, but the next minute I don't know! The FBI taking over is encouraging to me, I hope this is resolved soon too! Her poor babies.
http://crystalrogerstaskforce.com/about/
Crystal Marie Rogers grew up in Bardstown and was the mother of five children. According to those who knew her, Crystal loved being a mother and was a caring person who would help friends when they were in need.
On July 5, 2015, Crystal's mother reported her missing after Crystal had not been seen or heard from since the evening of July 3, 2015. The same day Crystal was reported missing, her car was found abandoned with a flat tire at mile marker 14 on the Bluegrass Parkway. Crystal's keys, phone, and purse were still inside her red Chevrolet Impala. Sadly, while most families were enjoying the Fourth of July celebrations over that weekend, Crystal's family was instead left wondering as to her whereabouts.
http://crystalrogerstaskforce.com/
Why this community misses Crystal:
"There's so much I could say about Crystal. She was fun, caring, happy, humble, beautiful..... I could go on and on. She was the best friend anyone could ever have. Anytime I needed her she would drop everything. It did not matter. There was a time we were joined at the hip. Where one of us was you'd always find the other. As we got older and had families of our own we didn't get to spend much time together, but always picked up right back where we left off. She was a great Mom. One of the best. Her kids were always her priority no matter what, and she always treated my girls like they were her own as well. She would always be willing to help someone. She would give her shirt off her back if needed and never ask for anything in return. She was blunt and not scared to tell you how it was. Sometimes I did not like it, but it was what I needed to hear. She always had my best interest at heart. She meant the world to me and always will. I will always cherish what we had in our friendship. I am a better person for having had her in my life. There will never be another Crystal as she was one of a kind." -Beth Downs.
"My mom is a very special women. The memory that will forever be in my heart is going to DQ and buying my momma lunch. We would always get the chicken strip basket with the toast and gravy to go with it. Going over to mamaw Martins and playing phase 10 and aggravation over and over while eating snacks. Since my mom's been missing, life has been really hard. I always wonder what my life would be like if she and my papaw was still here." – K. Daughter of Crystal
Justice for Crystal!
Quote from: texasmom on August 07, 2020, 09:24:30 PM
I'll have to look for the article on the location. They made it sound like the bones had been buried on the banks of that creek in the last couple of years. If it is Crystal then someone got scared and moved the remains. JMO
I don't think it is her remains. There are a couple missing people in adjourning counties that it could be them also. I can only surmise that the FBI has identified the remains as Crystal or they cannot identify them at all. JMO
I watched her daughter speak of her mother. It is so sad for those children. And the grandmother had the youngest son removed from her visiting with him because Houck said the grandmother was causing problems with the little boy. Said he would come home and ask his father what he did to his mother. So sad for the grandmother-lost her daughter, lost her husband, now has lost her grandson.
Did you see the hole they found the remains in? Almost looks like an oven.
This family has really endured the unthinkable not once but 3 times:
Crystal Rogers not first woman in her family to go missing
Forty years ago, Tommy Ballard's pregnant sister, Sherry Ballard Barnes, was murdered by her husband and his friend.
Sherry Ballard Barnes
"They say time heals everything, but it don't," Till Ballard said. "Unless it happens to you—you know you get up with it in the morning and you go to...bed with it. It's never...never off in my mind."
Till Ballard has endured hardships only so many can understand: his son was killed in front of his great-grandson, his granddaughter is still considered a missing case and 40 years ago his pregnant daughter was murdered.
Sherry Ballard Barnes was only 19 when she never returned from running errands.................
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/crime/unsolved/crystal-rogers-ballard-family-missing/417-d7a42522-0336-40c3-9772-39b9b2029c7d
Maybe getting a little closer to identifying the remains:
"FBI gives new details on Nelson County human remains, waiting on DNA"
The remains were found close to where Crystal Rogers, the only reported missing person in Nelson County, was last seen alive.
BARDSTOWN, Ky. — A forensic anthropologist has completed a review of human remains found in Nelson County nearly one month ago, the FBI confirmed to WHAS11.
The review gives new details on the remains found near the border of Washington County, close to where Crystal Rogers was last seen alive in July 2015.
According to the report, the remains likely belong to a female estimated between 24 and 82 years old, with height between 62.6 and 70.9 inches. The FBI said it is still waiting for DNA analysis to positively identify the person........................................
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/investigations/bardstown/crystal-rogers-nelson-county-investigation-fbi-human-remains/417-8a41fc5a-4b50-4375-9977-4d630fba81a5
Just strange. Nothing new since this was 1st reported. Nothing on who the remains belong to. FBI took it over but nothing, nothing, nothing. I don't believe this family will ever see justice. So sad for them.
I thought this was how it would turn out. Took way too long to identify the remains (which they did not identify who they belong to).
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article247326239.html
"Remains found last summer didn't belong to missing Kentucky mom Crystal Rogers"
By Karla Ward
Human remains that were found in Central Kentucky last summer were not those of Crystal Rogers, a mother of five who has been missing from Bardstown for five years....................................................................
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Tragedy as mum, 38, dies with Covid after telling husband and son she loves them
Emma Reilly was placed on a ventilator but never woke up
Andy Richardson
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A young mum told her husband and son she loved them moments before she was placed onto a ventilator - but tragically never woke up.
Emma Reilly died on the afternoon of January 7 after contracting Covid and spending more than 12 days in hospital. She was just 38.
The mum leaves behind her devastated husband Tony and five-year-old son Connor.
Ian Taylor leads tributes
Emma Reilly who died of Covid. Pictured with husband Tony and son Connor (Image: Handout)
Tony, also 38, originally from Stirchley but now living in Manchester, told BirminghamLive how Emma had cold symptoms which worsened over the Christmas period until he made the decision to call 999 for an ambulance on Boxing Day.
The IT manager told BirminghamLive: "We both had symptoms of a heavy cold before Christmas. A sore throat and a runny nose, not the classic symptoms of Covid like a cough, headache or loss of taste.
"But we decided to get tested and it came back that we both had Covid. On Christmas Day Emma came downstairs and she looked unwell but we watched Connor open his presents.
Emma Reilly who died of Covid with son Connor (Image: Handout)
"She stayed on the sofa all day and didn't open any of her own presents. That night she said she wanted to sleep on the sofa because she was so hot and wanted to keep the patio doors open.
"At about 1am on the Boxing Day morning I heard Emma cough but it was quite an unusual cough and I was concerned. I made the desision to ring for an ambulance.
"She was taken to Salford Royal Hospital where she was given a special helmet to be worn around her head which supplies oxygen."
Staff later told Tony that Emma wasn't getting enough oxygen into her body and they were looking to put her to sleep and place her on a ventilator.
Emma Reilly who died of Covid. She is pictured with husband Tony and son Connor (Image: Handout)
"She rang me and she was so weak she could hardly speak, " Tony said.
"She told me and Connor that she loved us. That was the last time I ever spoke to her. They put her to sleep and placed her on a ventilator."
Emma was on a ventilator for days but Tony received a call in the early hours of January 7 to say nothing more could be done for Emma and that he needed to go to the hospital.
He said: "I had Connor with me and asked if he could come which they agreed. The staff were amazing and helped to look after him while I was there.
Emma Reilly who died of Covid (Image: Handout)
"She briefly showed signs of recovery and they told me to go back home again, take a shower, and have some food. I did that and returned later but her condition worsened. They said she didn't have much longer. I held her hand as she passed away.
"The hardest thing I have ever had to do was to tell Connor that his mummy had gone to heaven. It broke my heart. He has been very brave but I catch him crying at times. He seems to get a bit embarrassed that he is crying but I tell him that it's ok we need to speak about mummy."
Tony said medical staff at the hospital told him Emma had been suffering from undiagnosed cellulitis.
He said her death has not just devastated his family, including Emma's parents Doreen and Mike, but her many friends in Redditch where she lived most of her life as well as all around the world.
He said: "Emma was such a bubbly fun going woman with a heart of gold. She was always there to support people in their time of need. She liked to raise money for charity through Race For Life and other fundraising events.
"She lived in New York as a child as her father was working over there so she has many friends in America. She spent most of her life in Redditch and has many friends there too.
"I have received so many messages of support from so many people."
Tony is an Aston Villa fan and he says he has received messages of support from former players Ian Talyor, Lee Hendrie and Shaun Teale.
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Elaine Darwin is headteacher of Irlam Primary School in Manchester which Connor attends.
She has set up a GoFundMe fundraising campaign to help go towards Emma's funeral costs with the rest put away for Connor's future.
To donate to the cause click here
She posted: "This is for the family of Emma Reilly, a beautiful lady both inside and out, who passed away in hospital after contracting COVID 19.
"She leaves behind her heartbroken husband, Tony, and 5-year-old son Connor. The money raised will help the family through their devastating loss and will be put into savings to help Connor, which is what Emma would have wanted."
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Q: Cannot start bundle programmatically Note: In my case, I'm using Apache Felix implementation if that's matters.
I have written bundle which I'm using as test. It's very simple "Hello World" bundle that do nothing more than print message to stdout when started/stopped:
public class Activator implements BundleActivator {

    @Override
    public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("Hello, World.");
    }

    @Override
    public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("Goodbye, World.");
    }

}

There is also MANIFEST file which rather pointless to post since when I deploy above bundle through Apache Felix console from standard distribution (which can be downloaded here) bundle starts and print out message.

Next step I'm trying to do is deploy the very same bundle using programmatic approach. Unfortunately this is not working for me. My code looks as follow:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    FrameworkFactory frameworkFactory = getFrameworkFactory();
    Framework framework = frameworkFactory.newFramework(null);

    System.out.println("BundleID = " + framework.getBundleId());
    System.out.println("State = " + getState(framework.getState()));

    framework.init();

    System.out.println("BundleID = " + framework.getBundleId());
    System.out.println("State = " + getState(framework.getState()));

    BundleContext bundleContext = framework.getBundleContext();
    bundleContext.addBundleListener((event) -> {
        System.out.println("Bundle Changed Event");
    });
    bundleContext.addFrameworkListener((event) -> {
        System.out.println("Framework Event");
    });
    bundleContext.addServiceListener((event) -> {
        System.out.println("Service Changed Event");
    });

    Bundle bundle = bundleContext.installBundle("file://<absolute-path-to-bundle-jar-same-as-above");

    System.out.println("BundleID = " + bundle.getBundleId());
    System.out.println("State = " + getState(bundle.getState()));

    bundle.start();

    System.out.println("BundleID = " + bundle.getBundleId());
    System.out.println("State = " + getState(bundle.getState()));
}

private static FrameworkFactory getFrameworkFactory() throws IllegalStateException {
    ServiceLoader<FrameworkFactory> loader = ServiceLoader.load(FrameworkFactory.class);

    FrameworkFactory factory = null;
    for (FrameworkFactory iterator : loader) {
        if (factory != null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Ambiguous SPI implementations.");
        }

        factory = iterator;
    }

    return factory;
}

private static String getState(int state) {
    switch (state) {
    case Bundle.UNINSTALLED:
        return "UNINSTALLED";
    case Bundle.INSTALLED:
        return "INSTALLED";
    case Bundle.RESOLVED:
        return "RESOLVED";
    case Bundle.STARTING:
        return "STARTING";
    case Bundle.STOPPING:
        return "STOPPING";
    case Bundle.ACTIVE:
        return "ACTIVE";
    default:
        throw new IllegalStateException("Unknown state");
    }
}

The output looks like follow:
BundleID = 0
State = INSTALLED
BundleID = 0
State = STARTING
Bundle Changed Event
BundleID = 1
State = INSTALLED
BundleID = 1
State = INSTALLED

So as far as I understand bundle got installed but last 4 lines indicate that bundle.start() got ignored for some reason.
Could you point out me what am I missing to make this work?

A: After hour of debugging and reading through javadoc more carefully this is happening because framework was only initialized instead of being started. To make example work you have to simply  add framework.start() after framework.init() (or just call framwork.start() which calls framework.init() if found it necessary).
I'm leaving this information as there are few confusing things:

*

*Official documentation to Apache Felix have information about embedding framework into host application. Unfortunately there is only example that use Apache Felix custom mechanisms that make it not portable to other implementations. What is confusing is warning note which if you want to create portable solution you should use init() and getBundleContext(). Whole note cited bellow:

WARNING The felix.systembundle.activators configuration property is specific to the Felix framework implementation. If you want your code to work with other framework implementations, you should call init() on the framework instance and use getBundleContext() directly. Otherwise, the approach would be very similar.

*JavaDoc for parameterless version of init() method do not mention about initialization is not same as starting the framework, although init(FrameworkListener...) have such information.

This Framework will not actually be started until start is called.

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Pleading Reliance in Unfair-Trade-Practices Claims
Two years ago, the North Carolina Supreme Court held that a plaintiff who sues under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1 based on a misrepresentation must show actual and reasonable reliance on the misrepresentation.
Courts often say that the reasonableness of reliance is a question of fact. A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, however, shows that courts can decide the unreasonableness of a party's reliance as a matter of law—including at the pleading stage.
In Solum v. CertainTeed Corp., Chief Judge James Dever dismissed a section 75-1.1 claim by two homeowners against a vinyl-siding manufacturer. Judge Dever concluded that the complaint's allegations of actual and reasonable reliance were insufficient as a matter of law.
This post examines Solum, a new and potent weapon for any seller charged with a 75-1.1 violation.
Mastery and Puffery
Timothy and Angela Solum wanted vinyl siding on their home. They considered various building contractors, including a company named Superior Home Improvement. Superior's owner, Donald Follett, told the Solums that CertainTeed had named him a certified "Master Craftsman." Follett invited the Solums to verify his Master Craftsman credential on CertainTeed's website.
The Solums accepted Follett's invitation. They went to CertainTeed's website, which explains the company's Master Craftsman Program. They verified Follett's Master Craftsman certification, and—in reliance on the certification—hired Superior.
Superior's performance, however, was inferior. The Solums had to hire a second contractor to fix Superior's mistakes.
The Solums then sued CertainTeed for violating section 75-1.1. They alleged that CertainTeed's "Master Craftsman" representations convinced them that Follett had more expertise than he really had.
CertainTeed filed a motion to dismiss. It argued that the Solums' allegations, even if taken as true, did not state a plausible violation of section 75-1.1.
Siding with the Manufacturer
After noting that the Solums "must plausibly allege actual reliance and reasonable reliance," Judge Dever outlined standards for the plausibility of a complaint in this context.
First, reasonable reliance on a misrepresentation requires a plaintiff to use reasonable care to ascertain the truth or falsity of the misrepresentation. Reasonable care, in turn, requires one of two showings: (1) the plaintiff could not have learned the true facts by exercise of reasonable diligence, or (2) the plaintiff could have discovered the truth by investigating, but was denied the opportunity to investigate.
Judge Dever then added another hurdle: reliance is unreasonable as a matter of law if the plaintiff relied on a representation that was directly contrary to the express terms of a written contract. A party can't circumvent this rule by failing to read a contract that he signed.
Next, Judge Dever stated one more rule: a plaintiff can't make out a misrepresentation claim under section 75-1.1 based on "mere puffery." This standard, Judge Dever admitted, amounts to a prediction of what the North Carolina Supreme Court would hold. To support this prediction, Judge Dever cited a 2014 decision by the North Carolina Business Court.
Judge Dever then applied these standards to the Solums' 75-1.1 claim.
First, Judge Dever concluded that the Solums could have discovered the truth about the Master Craftsman designation by reading the clickwrap statement on CertainTeed's website. That clickwrap statement says that "CertainTeed makes no guarantees or representations regarding the skills or representations of such service professional or the quality of the job that he or she may perform for you." It also says that "CertainTeed does not endorse or recommend the services of any particular service professional."
The CertainTeed website also would have told the Solums more about the Master Craftsman course requirements. The website shows that, to become certified, a professional must read a one-hundred-page workbook and pass a twenty-five-question, ninety-minute multiple-choice quiz. The Solums should have understood that CertainTeed was not making, and could not make, any endorsement of a "Master Craftsman" beyond certifying that the contractor passed the quiz.
Finally, Judge Dever concluded that the Master Craftsman certification is mere puffery. The complaint says that CertainTeed misrepresented the credential as a "prestigious" designation that is awarded only after completion of a "rigorous course." These statements, Judge Dever explained, are vague and general opinions that "contain no meaningful substance upon which a reasonable person could rely."
Reconstructing Allegations of Reliance
Solum creates a potent one-two punch that can be thrown—at least in federal court—by defendants who face section 75-1.1 claims based on misrepresentations. As we have discussed, the recent Topshelf decision from the Middle District holds that heightened pleading standards apply to misrepresentation-based claims under section 75-1.1. Solum ups the ante by rigorously enforcing the federal plausibility standard as applied to allegations of reliance. A 75-1.1 plaintiff in federal court might need to satisfy both of these standards.
The decision also sends a warning to plaintiffs who, like the Solums, file state-court complaints that are removed to federal court. After CertainTeed filed its motion to dismiss, the Solums could have filed, but did not file, an amended complaint with more robust allegations about the reasonableness of their reliance. Solum counsels future 75-1.1 plaintiffs to amend their complaints, if possible, to strengthen their allegations of actual and reasonable reliance.
Author: Stephen Feldman
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Former Vancouver Firefighter Declares Psychedelic Drug Saved His Life
In the last few years, various scientific studies have shown how different psychedelic substances such as LSD, MDMA and magic mushrooms may help treat mental health conditions. This credible and extensive research has only propelled these drugs further into the mainstream.
For many years now, these substances had been labeled as destructive and dangerous. However, science is now demonstrating how they hold great potential and could be used as alternative treatments for various ailments, such as PTSD, anxiety and depression, in the near future. It should be noted, however, that this only applies when they are administered in the correct medical setting.
A rescue member and retired firefighter from Vancouver, Eric Bjarnason can attest to this. Bjarnason stated that one psychedelic in particular, iboga, had saved his life.
He explained that after a harrowing rescue mission on Mount Logan in southwestern Yukon that ended with having his fingers amputated because of frostbite, he had turned to alcohol to drown his sorrow. He explained that depression had then set in, which led him to drink even more.
It was years later before Bjarnason heard about iboga, a powerful mind-altering psychedelic grown in Africa that could assist him in treating his addiction. Hopeful, Bjarnason travelled to Costa Rica where he ingested the drug during a ceremony under Mark Howard, an experienced practitioner.
Howard explains that iboga is a medicine that possesses physical abilities that assist an individual get rid of toxins in their body. The medicine, Howard continues, has the ability to clean up an individual's spirit as well, by offering them the opportunity to look deeper into their self.
While iboga clinical trials have not yet begun, other psychedelics such as psilocybin mushrooms are being extensively studied globally, the results showing remarkable potential.
Several studies have been published by different research centers, including Johns Hopkins, showing how psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in psilocybin mushrooms, can help treat mental health conditions such as depression.
Despite most psychedelics being illegal to prescribe in Canada, Bjarnason professed that iboga for him had been a game changer. He explained that the psychedelic made an individual have a real conversation with themselves, which opened up the doors of one's perception. Bjarnason added that he didn't get better at once, stating that the iboga showed him how to cure himself. He explained that after the therapy, the long journey had shown him how to be a better person.
However, iboga is no different from other drugs when it comes to risks. If administered without proper medical supervision, the drug is fatal.
Many companies are doing what they can to develop products and therapies for the growing psychedelics market. For instance, Cybin Inc. (NEO: CYBN) (OTC: CLXPF) has an inhalation device, which is in the preclinical stage of testing.
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As a son of two physicians (father – rheumatologist, mother – radiologist), talk of medicine has always been present in my house. Whether it was dad reading the latest NEJM or mom heading to the next American College of Radiology (ACR) conference, there was always something "medically related" going on.
And so, when news of healthcare reform and "death panels" splashed all over the news, I naturally understood that my family would be affected. What I didn't realize, was that my parents – two very intelligent and capable medical practitioners – had, at best, a feeble understanding of the upcoming changes.
"How strange," I remember thinking. Lawyers, who had absolutely no clinical experience, were making drastic changes in the American healthcare system. Doctors, those who actually practice healthcare, had very little representation in the proceedings. While doctors do lead extremely busy, stressful lives, at the same time, they alone truly understand hospitals, clinics, and the physician-patient relationship.
As respected, influential members in their communities, doctors have the power to make beneficial changes for the betterment of healthcare as a larger institution. As I see it, they can rise to this challenge to help remedy an unsustainable system of care in the United States.
After taking a course at Yale by Dr. Howard Forman titled "Health Economics and Public Policy," I became interested in the recent reform measures enacted by President Obama. What's more important is that I realized just how complex the healthcare system is. HMOs, physician reimbursement schemes, and accountable care organizations may sound quite ordinary to practicing doctors; however, to the average person, these terms are incomprehensible. Very few people actually understand the current system, the health reform law, and the benefits that they are entitled to. Doctors, thus, are already well-educated through experience, and can correctly inform patients, neighbors, and community members of healthcare changes.
The current system must change, for healthcare costs account for over 18% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product, while simultaneously, over 50 million people remain uninsured. As we try to build a system that provides quality, affordable, and accessible care, doctors must make their voices heard. This is why DFA is an important, unique organization, which addresses a gaping hole in the American political landscape. Doctors, a notoriously underrepresented political constituency, are demonstrating their strength through organization. It's important; after all, if doctors don't address healthcare…who else will?
This experience with Doctors for America will give me insights into research and advocacy for healthcare issues. It's an exciting time to be involved with the organization, as physicians are realizing their strength as policymakers. Over time, I hope to learn how DFA channels its resources and members to fight for a worthwhile, necessary cause.
Thanks, DFA, for this opportunity!
I'm catching up on my reading on the DFA site, and I just came across your post. When you wrote "...when news of healthcare reform and "death panels" splashed all over the news, I naturally understood that my family would be affected. What I didn't realize, was that my parents – two very intelligent and capable medical practitioners – had, at best, a feeble understanding of the upcoming changes."
This resonated with me, and it's great to see that your generation of physicians - many hopefully - are "getting it" about our crisis. As a 50 yo doc who's had many colleagues making 7-figure incomes and turning away anyone without good coverage, I finally "got it" as well, and after an extensive search found DFA as the organization to which I can contribute.
Your parents represent the group of docs who,compassionate and giving to their patients, simply don't have the time or energy left to dig into the mass of confusion that we are facing. As you may be aware,DFA is launching an educational campaign not only for the public but for doctors as well. We intend to break down the complexities to gain widespread understanding and support.
In Dec 2010, I closed my orthopedic practice to take a sabbatical for healthcare reform. Since then I've spent over 1,000 hours studying and participating in various groups and projects. I'm still learning! I have a lot of compassion for docs like your parents, and my colleagues, at least the ones who aren't trying to exploit the system. It's important to keep giving simple reminders and brief updates. In my estimation, less than 10% of us are participating in healthcare reform, but we are a very important 10%. Good luck with your studies, and I hope you have classmates following in your footsteps.


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El serín del Drakensberg (Crithagra symonsi) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Fringillidae endémica del África austral. Se encuentra únicamente en los montes Drakensberg y los altiplanos y valles aledaños. Anteriormente se consideraba una subespecie del serín de El Cabo.

Descripción

El serín del Drakensberg mide entre los 13 y 14 cm de largo. El macho adulto tiene la espalda de tonos pardos claros no veteado más oscuro, alas marrones claras, y el obispillo y la base superior de la cola amarillentos, mientras que sus partes inferiores son amarillas. Su cabeza se entremezclan los tonos amarillentos, oliváceos y grises. Su garganta es de color amarillo intenso, pero el resto de partes inferiores son de un tono más apagado. Su cola tiene plumas exteriores blancas solo visibles en vuelo, y es una característica distintiva entre ambos sexos. Además la hembra no tiene amarillo en las partes inferiores y cabeza que son de tonos anteados y con un fino moteado oscuro, como en el pecho. Los  juveniles se parecen a las hembras pero con un moteado más denso.

No solapan su área de distribución con el serín de El Cabo, que tiene motas blancas en las plumas de vuelo de alas y cola, y tiene las partes superiores de color más uniforme.

Taxonomía

El serín de Drakensberg anteriormente se clasificaba como la subespecie oriental del serín de El Cabo. Ambos se clasificaron en los géneros Pseudochloroptila y Serinus, hasta que los estudios genéticos determinaron que este último género era polifilético, por lo que se escindió trasladando la mayoría de las especies al género Crithagra.

Distribución y hábitat
Se encuentra en los montes Drakensberg y altiplanos aledaños, distribuido por el este de Sudáfrica (en la región Transkei de la provincia Oriental del Cabo y el oeste de Natal) y Lesoto. Su hábitat natural son las zonas de matorral de los valles, altiplanos y laderas de las montañas.

Comportamiento

Alimentación
El serín del Drakensberg suele observarse en parejas y pequeños grupos, que se desplazan discretamente entre los matorrales buscando su alimento, que se compone de semillas (incluidas las de las proteas), insectos y otros pequeños animales.

Reproducción
Construye un nido en forma de cuenco que sitúa entre las grietas y huecos de las rocas, en las cornisas o escondido entre la vegetación, especialmente entre los helechos. Raramente usan los huecos naturales de los árboles.

La hembra se encarga de construir el nido con materias vegetales finas, y forra su interior con plumón o pelo. La puesta suele constar de tres o cuatro huevos, ocasionalmente cinco, que incuba solo la hembra. Ella es alimentada por el macho mientras permanece en el nido con alimento regurgitado.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002) ISBN 1-86872-721-1
 Clement, Harris and Davis, Finches and Sparrows by ISBN 0-7136-8017-2

Enlaces externos

 Ficha de la especie en Atlas of Southern African Birds.

symonsi
Aves de África Austral
Animales descritos en 1916
Taxones descritos por Austin Roberts

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Q: The http session loses the attribute after request.sendRedirect Inside filter I am trying to set one attribute to the current http session. Then I am redirecting to another resource using response.sendRedirect(). The resource sends the request back to the filter. Second time the session losses the session attribute.
Please provide some pointer.
First Request is as below:
HttpSession objSession = request.getSession(true);
objSession.setAttribute("wasRequestURL", completeURL);

Second request is as below:
if (null != objSession.getAttribute("wasRequestURL") &&
    !"".equals(objSession.getAttribute("wasRequestURL").toString().trim())) {

    requestedURL = objSession.getAttribute("wasRequestURL").toString();

    logger.info("The session value for wasRequestURL is :::"+requestedURL);
}

A: Most likely you are loosing your first session object in between. This can be verified by using
HttpSession objSession=request.getSession(false);//don't create session when absent

in your second request. I am almost sure, it will return null since your first session is lost. If so, please investigate your mechanism/configuration created around the session.

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*Check your session expiration time.  It may be set too low.

*Are you using a cookie-aware client like a web-browser or a more low-level client which may not be storing cookies?

*When you say "redirecting to another resource", do you mean another web container/server?  If so, unless you have replication enabled, the session will not be available on the second request.

A: I had the same issue and tore my hair out looking for the best solution. Try putting sessionCookiePath="/" attribute into your context.xml root node:
<Context ... sessionCookiePath="/" > ... </Context>
This will set the path of your session cookie to the root of your app so that it will be passed on redirect. This simple fix worked for me, hope it works for anyone else having this issue years later.


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The Science of How Your Feelings Affect Your Face
By Melissa Dahl
Welcome to the world of psychodermatology. Photo: Cristina Amaral / EyeEm/Getty Images
"Tell me about your relationship with your skin," the nice man on my computer screen asks me. It's something I've spent countless hours thinking about, but never talking about, and so I falter for a moment before figuring out how to reply. "Well," I begin. "I guess it started in college?"
I'm teleconferencing with Matt Traube, a licensed clinical therapist who specializes in something called psychodermatology: therapy, but for your skin. It's a small field — there are only about a half-dozen clinics in the U.S. — and from the outset it sounds a little quacky, maybe even a little Goop-y. But in recent years, researchers across the world have quietly made advances in understanding the physiological mechanism underlying the so-called "brain-skin axis," the term often used to describe the interplay between the nervous system and the skin. So far, it's safe to say that, for some people, emotional problems do seem to worsen skin problems, and vice versa. But what's happening in the brain and body to cause this? And is psychotherapy really powerful enough to make it stop?
The field of psychodermatology encompasses a few different ways of dealing with the connection between the mind and the skin. Some psychologists work with people whose dermatological problems, like severe psoriasis or eczema or alopecia, have caused or exacerbated psychological issues such as social anxiety or depression. Others work with those whose psychiatric issues have manifested into skin problems, like hair-pulling, skin-picking, or other body-focused repetitive disorders. Still others may work with people who suffer from delusions involving the skin — like delusional parasitosis, in which patients vehemently insist that their skin is infected with mites or fleas or other organisms, when in reality none are present.
Psychodermatology encompasses a few ways of dealing with the connection between the mind and the skin.
But some of the most intriguing scientific research is being done in an area I want to talk to Traube about: how emotional stress may cause skin problems, and how alleviating the stress may help alleviate the skin problems, too. Traube tells me that he's usually something of a last resort for patients, and he wants it that way. "I always tell people, 'Go see a dermatologist first, see how you do,'" Traube says. "'And if you get the results you need, great. And if not, let's talk.'" Medicated creams and lotions prescribed by a physician certainly help, as can a change in diet. But in addition to these interventions — or if they are simply not working well enough — it can be worth trying to address the role of the mind.
In working with his patients, Traube tries to ask open-ended questions, searching for patterns around their flare-ups. "People will say, 'Oh, I noticed it was whenever I had to go to my in-laws' house,' or 'I was getting married' — something, some big life event, or some stressful situation that triggers it," he tells me. Mine is easy: It is work. To help me understand psychodermatology, Traube has agreed to do a 40-minute pseudotherapy session with me, during which I tell him about the way the acne that plagued me in college has a way of coming back when I take on too much work, which is not … not often. "When you think about a standard psychological visit, you talk about all that," he explains. "But here, we're really focused on what these real, psychological influences may be doing to the skin."
I'm lucky in that, apart from the occasional flare-up, I seem to have mostly outgrown the worst of my skin issues. Others are not so fortunate. Much of the research in psychodermatology has focused on psoriasis, a chronic skin condition caused by a haywire immune system that creates an overgrowth of skin cells, which manifests in itchy, scaly patches on the skin. The findings that have emerged from studying psoriasis likely apply to acne or eczema or other conditions resulting from inflammation, explained John Koo, director of the Psoriasis, Phototherapy and Skin Treatment Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco. One of the reasons so much of the research so far has focused on psoriasis is the same reason the condition is so distressing to people who have it: It's so easy to study because it's so easy to see.
As many of the estimated 7.5 million Americans who have psoriasis could tell you, stress has a way of making the condition worse. A couple of recent studies have corroborated this, with one finding that most people with psoriasis named emotional stress — not diet, not the weather, not medications or infections — as the No. 1 trigger for their symptoms. "I think dermatologists have always accepted the fact that the skin and the mind are very intertwined," Dr. Richard Granstein, a physician and researcher specializing in psychodermatology at Weill Cornell Medicine, tells me. "I think it's always been true. What's different now is there is a scientific basis for understanding how the mind affects the skin."
Perhaps your understanding of the body's physiological stress response goes something like mine did before I started poking around in the world of psychodermatology: something-something cortisol … ? In his lab, Granstein and his colleagues have found cortisol is a key factor, but they've also investigated how specific immune cells react to stressors. In response to stress, Granstein explains, "There are certain neurohormones that are released — so, for example, cortisol — which may cause cells to release other things that might make blood vessels dilate or widen a bit, and become leaky." On the skin, this would show up as redness and swelling — inflammation, in other words — and if you are genetically predisposed to inflammatory skin conditions like acne, eczema, or psoriasis, this could be how a flare-up begins.
But the latest research has stretched beyond cortisol response, zeroing in on specific types of immune cells that appear to respond to stress regardless of whatever cortisol is or is not doing in the body. Take something called Langerhans cells, for instance, which are in the upper layers of the skin, and act as a go-between for the nervous system and the immune system. In psoriasis patients, those scaly skin patches that are symptomatic of the condition tend to form when Langerhans cells leave the upper layer of the skin — and research has suggested that stress may be involved in causing this movement of those cells. In one recent experiment, scientists stressed out their study participants by putting them through something called the Trier social stress test, a mildly nightmarish task in which people are asked to prepare and deliver a short speech, all while a panel of strangers stares at them blankly, judging. It's an exercise that has been shown to reliably induce stress, and in this study, the Langerhans cells in these volunteers' upper layers of skins decreased after suffering through the Trier test. It's not confirmed that this is what's happening in inflammatory skin conditions like psoriasis. But it could be.
In my session, Traube asks me what I was feeling the last time I had a bad acne flareup.
Or consider the mast cell, which is also associated with inflammatory response. Some researchers have observed a kind of vicious cycle when it comes to stress and psoriasis: "[S]tressed nerves release substances that activate mast cells," as Nature reported in 2012, "and these cells encourage the growth of more nerve fibers, which in turn release more of the molecules that activate mast cells." This biological vicious cycle is not a bad metaphor for the psychological problems here, and how stress can induce skin problems, skin problems can induce stress, and round and round. "You're stressed because of your disease, and your disease gets worse because you're stressed," Granstein said. "I think that's certainly true. And the fact that stress probably causes the diseases to get worse is, I think, a good reason why — in selected patients — things that alleviate stress, including support groups and, sometimes, psychotherapy are useful."
In my session with Traube, for instance, he takes me through a guided-imagery exercise, after which I feel extremely relaxed, and also a little bit high. He also tiptoes into some cognitive behavioral therapy, an evidence-based psychotherapy practice that helps people unravel their cognitive distortions. He asks me to share what I was feeling the last time I had a bad acne flareup, and as he does I can picture myself in a hotel bathroom in Louisville, Kentucky, angrily scrubbing my face the night before giving a talk at a psychology conference. I tell him that it can feel distracting, like I can't concentrate on what I'm saying or a presentation I'm trying to deliver, because I'm imagining that no one is listening because they are too busy staring at my stupid, broken-out face. Traube starts to gently point out that this probably isn't true, and I agree with him intellectually, of course.
But I also know what he's doing. The first time I talked to him, a few days earlier, he mentioned the vicious skin-stress cycle, and how CBT can help. "If we can somehow get in the middle of that and work with those thoughts that are not necessarily always accurate, like this idea that everyone is somehow staring at them and their skin imperfection, we can reduce the stress, and we can reduce flare-ups," Traube said. It makes sense intuitively, and there's now a growing case coming out of labs like Granstein's that suggests this approach makes sense biologically, too. "But even if it's not true," Granstein told me, "it's useful anyway. Because the disease makes you stressed. And this can help you cope with the disease, even if it doesn't make it better."
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The table below is the same one we first printed in the on-paper version of Farmnews back in 2001. Over the years we've had several requests for this table and we've had to hunt it out numerous times ourselves, so here it is.
The figures are for lambs off grass with about 1kg of wool. For example a 34kg lamb (if yielding at 44%) should weigh about 15kg on the hook.
Some further adjustments are also necessary. They are: Ewe lambs +1%; Ram lambs -1%; Extra woolly -1%; 12 hour empty out +2%; Prime breed cross +1%.