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Music Is Adrian Croom's Bridge to Special-Needs Clients
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Adrian Croom, Austin musician
Guest article by Debbie Stanley
Some of Adrian Croom's best relationships are completely nonverbal. As a songwriter, composer and producer, he creates captivating instrumental music that is sometimes lavish, sometimes elegantly spare and always evocative.
As a service provider for Austin Travis County Integral Care (ATCIC), he assists clients ages 17-52 who have behavioral health needs and developmental disabilities, and his music is often a fundamental component of his work.
Communicating Without Words
One client, an 18 year old young man named Robbie Morse, has been with Croom for several years and is the inspiration for the song "Morse Code." Morse does not speak, but Croom has learned to understand his client's nonverbal communication.
Music is an especially rich topic of engagement between the two. Croom can now anticipate which elements of his own music will be most appealing to Morse. Because he creates all components of his songs, either organically or digitally, Croom can experiment with various tones, pitches and instruments to find those that best help him to connect with his clients.
Adrian Croom working on a musical composition
"Robbie is by far my most cultured kid," Croom said of Morse. "His parents want him to experience as much art and music as possible, so I take him out to a lot of places." Destinations such as the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, musician Isaac Pena's studio and local live music events are favorites, as are local restaurants. "We've eaten just about everywhere in town," Croom joked, "but enchiladas from Amaya's are his favorite."
Morse's parents, Kevin and Catherine Morse, are amazed at Croom's ability to motivate Robbie. He will often resist going out, but Kevin marvels at the fact that "with the promise of music, Adrian can take Robbie almost anywhere." The Morses consider Croom essential to their son's wellbeing and an irreplaceable help to them as well. For caregivers like Croom "to come and bring respite and also grow your child…they're like saints among us," Kevin Morse asserted.
Living the Dream as a Working Musician
Croom, a native Austinite, has found an ideal balance between his "day job" and his music. As an independent contractor with ATCIC, he is able to set his own hours, which allows him time for creating music, managing the business aspects of his catalog and playing the occasional gig with his friend Ira Henderson as the duo Virgin Shores.
Croom has also collaborated with other skilled local talents including Whiskey Jonez, Roberto Riggio (Atash), engineer Travis Bonner, Isaac Pena (Trio Los Vigilantes), Jon McMahan (Caspian) and producer Tim Moore.
Adrian Croom has completed three albums and licenses music for film
Croom has three albums to his credit so far, all of which are available on iTunes, and his music can be heard on Pandora as well. He has also had success licensing his music for film, a growing revenue stream for contemporary independent artists.
John Aielli is a fan and has welcomed Croom to his KUTX-FM show "Eklektikos" multiple times. Among Aielli's reflections on Croom: "Just you wait. Hans Zimmer move aside!…You have a really good sense of what makes music, the melodies, the harmonies, the rhythms and percussion are all very strong."
While some musicians measure success by how frequently they play out or how much recognition they receive in the media, Croom is content with the career he's constructing outside of those realms. "I'm building my brand, which is just myself," he noted. "I'm not trying to 'make it'…I'm making it."
Learn more about Adrian Croom at AdrianCroom.com and catch him at Cherrywood Coffeehouse for a rare DJ set November 16. 2014 between 12-2 PM during the East Austin Studio Tour.
Debbie Stanley, president of Thoughts In Order, helps clients in the music industry and beyond to get and keep their act together.
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Today is dedicated as National Pet Day to remind us all to give some extra love, and a hug to our pets. It's amazing how much joy they bring to our lives.
Therapy Dogs are pets that bring comfort and peace to others whether they are in hospital, senior residences, or even libraries for children to read with. Read about the special work that Joyce Akers does with her Shetland Charity at St. Anthony's Family Center in comforting families in need.
Set aside some time today to give an extra treat or snuggle to a pet who brings you comfort.
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We are taking a few days off to enjoy the love of family and friends, to read and eat more than we should, and enjoy the slower pace of winter. We will be back Monday, Dec. 29th.
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Cute tin and I LOVE your new blog look!!!! Great banner and background color!!!!!
So cute Kendra! I forget how much I like these until I see them again!
Wow - I love it and I bet the teacher did too! Great job.
ooooh, what a beauty!!! :) Love, love, love it! I can never get enough of ribbons like that!
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Ohh Kendra! This is just awesome! I just need to sit down and do one of these - I even have the tin already! Love your colors!!
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Soaring eagles and killer blackflies!
I was lucky to get out with my life. They were huge, and there were a lot of them…actually clouds of them. It was like a scene out of the Walking Dead; hordes of blood-thirsty man-eaters looking for blood. They were inescapable, around you wherever you went and did. And no matter how many you killed, there were always more swarming around you. My body bears the scars of my harrowing escape-scars that have not yet healed.
Facetious, always; funny, maybe; based on a true story; you betcha! Hope you like my attempt at literary wit. So I'm back kids! After a well-deserved week break, I've returned to the keyboard, more or less in one piece. Obviously I've been referring to the swarms of mosquitoes and black flies I encountered on my expedition this weekend (the bites of which I am still scratching while I type). The respite was nice; I was actually too busy to write more than anything else. But we'll just say it was a vacation.
So speaking of vacation, there's only 7 days left until exams…halleluiah! I know, I know, poor teacher, two whole months of holidays to worry about. I need a break though. The last few weeks have been crazy and very stressful; I need to get away for a bit and recharge the battery. Even as I sit here and write my head is pounding and I'm thinking about the essays beside me I need to mark. I guess soon enough I'll be able to clear my mind and just focus on my family and some me stuff for a while.
One of the things that kept me from writing last week was our annual spring football camp. I know it was only three days, but it does take up quite a bit of time in what is already a very hectic period. It was worth it though; 26 Grade 9's and 8's came out to prepare for next season. We did a couple of days of drills followed by a game of two-hand touch to wrap up the camp. I always love that last day as the coaches get involved as well…it's nice to be out on the field for a change. I had a ton of fun-had a big stretch pass break-up and a pick six, but boy did my body hate me the next day! My hip flexors were so tight I could barely walk. Must be getting old! On a positive note, we have finally moved the program into the next arena of social media; you can now visit us on Facebook!
On Saturday I finally made it out to my second railway "hike" of the year. I use the term hike lightly, as there wasn't a heck of a lot of walking done, mostly exploring you could say. This adventure took me and the boys back to the North Lake area, somewhere we hadn't been since last spring. That trip took us to Little North Lake (west of North Lake) in search of telegraph poles and insulators. I made a big discovery of an intact insulator still attached to the wire beside the rotten remains of the pole; I was determined to find more.
The drive to North Lake is about 105km from my house, which normally takes about an hour and a half. However, since I was going to be towing my boat, I would need to drive a bit slower this time around. It was a beautiful morning and the lake was very calm and tranquil. By 10:30 we were heading west across the lake toward Trestle Bay. My newer, bigger boat made the 4.5km journey much quicker and in 10 minutes we had arrived at the site of the once mighty 1000 foot trestle that spanned the bay.
I always love visiting Trestle Bay, and while I'm there try to imagine what the trestle used to look like that spanned this long bay. The water is very clear and the depth is fairly shallow (9-15ft), so on a calm day you can clearly make out everything resting on the bottom. In addition to pilings and rails, there is a 1952 Pontiac sitting submerged on the side of a large rock bed (the chrome is still shiny). It's a bit of a mystery as to how it got there.
Eastern abutment, Trestle Bay, June 2013.
Heading from the east side to the west is very neat, but also very freaky. There are still pilings that jut upward from the bottom, massive 12+ inch logs still in their place 121 years after being driven through the mud to the bed rock. It's kinda fascinating to see. Last year I was sent an image that was taken from the air in 2007 when the lake level was very low (the rock bed that today is 3 feet under water was above the surface). It almost appears as if the trestle is still there, hiding below the water.
Trestle Bay, July 2007 (B. Rushton).
From Trestle Bay we headed west toward the end of the lake and into the narrows that leads to Little North Lake. That area of the boundary waters is always breathtaking and on Saturday it was no exception. As we neared Little North I could see eagles soaring through the sky, looking for a meal or roused from their perch by the sound of our boat. I even caught one is the distance as I snapped a picture of the lake. I always wish I could spend more time on the lakes to see and experience their natural beauty.
Little North Lake, June 2013.
A few minutes later we arrived at the end of Little North, where the water spills westward through a small creek into Little Gunflint Lake. It was at this spot, presumably during the construction of the railway in 1892 (there is no definitive mention of it), that one of the most unique objects in the railway history was built. The creek itself is not very wide (and it looks as if its course was altered by the engineers), so they fashioned a marine railroad to move boats carrying supplies between the two lakes.
Small rails were laid across the spit of land between in the two lakes on the Minnesota side. A small cart with railway wheels was fashioned, attached to a manually operated capstan. This allowed the laden boats to be winched across to Little Gunflint, thus keeping the work crews far from the rail head well supplied.
I was hoping to get some good video of what is left of the tracks and capstan, as well as the creek itself. However the water was high from our recent rains and so I decided to postpone until later in the year when the lake levels are lower.
Marine Railroad, Little North Lake, June 2013.
Creek between Little North and Little Gunflint Lakes, June 2013.
I did poke around for some remains of buildings north of the grade. I figured that these buildings were the Ontario Forest Ranger cabins indicated on another old map. I didn't see any foundations or anything, but it has been a long time. I did find some old cans, but it's tough to spend a lot of time in one place, especially when you have young kids with you.
Back in the boat we went another 1000m back toward the east end of the lake. It was at this spot that I had found the intact insulator. My goal was to grab some of the wire (to preserve the authenticity of it) and maybe find more poles and insulators.
When we arrived at the spot, I grabbed the piece of attached wire and immediately began following the rest of the wire through the bush. It is rather tough, since the wire in many cases has been on the ground so long that trees have now grown over it. The initial piece led to a dead end, as did another piece I found a short distance away. About 150m to the east I found a shard of an insulator beside a round hole in the ground, which could have held the pole. The bush then became very grown in, so I decided to turn around and head west.
I walked about 150m west from the previous site until it once again became very dense growth. I was a bit disappointed, but I thought that I should retrace my steps, this time a little closer to the grade. My perseverance paid off, for lying next to a tree and previously hidden from my view was another intact insulator (the tree had grown on top of the wire). This time I snapped off the wire away from the insulator and coiled it around a tree branch for easier retrieval. I obviously was quite excited by the find and it makes me want to go back and look for even more. I need to get a metal detector so I can find the poles and wire in the ground!
After my great find I realized it was now getting close to 2 o'clock, so we needed to head back to the truck. Our decision was helped by swarms of black flies that had made walking around insufferable, despite an ample application of bug dope. It was also quite hot along the closed-in railway grade, so it felt good to get out on the open lake. Loading the boat also became quite the ordeal, as we were beset by more blackflies and mosquitoes. This is where I probably acquired most of my battlescars that I spoke so eloquently about earlier.
Little North Lake (ON left, MN right), June 2013.
Unlike the two previous hikes/adventures of this year, I have a very short turnaround between trips this week. I have the day off on Friday, so I will be driving down to Leeblain on Gunflint Lake to do some exploring of what remains of some of the buildings that made up that ghost town. I'm pretty excited to see what turns up, though the drive diminishes some of that zeal. The road into Leeblain is one of the worst ones I've ever experienced and I don't relish my trips over it. The last 20 miles into the lake are particularly pleasant and enjoyable!


I'd just seen my fourth patient of the week complaining anxiously of persistent loose motions, and I smelt a rat. Or maybe it was faecal incontinence.
Ah! It had passed me by, this particular campaign. Apparently, the Department of Health had been informing the public that one of the main symptoms of bowel cancer is 'loose poo for three weeks or more'. A self-fulfilling prophecy then, because by this time half the nation was crapping itself.
As well it might. These campaigns may promote awareness, but they achieve a state of neurotic hypervigilance. They're only occasional irritants, though, even if this one was particularly notable for a lack of any age-related context, meaning that the mums of kids with toddler diarrhoea weren't sleeping as well as they should.
But hang on. Flushed with the success of its bowel cancer campaign, the DH is at it again. Its new policy of regularly dictating exactly what the worried well will be banging our doors down with continues on 8 May with a national lung cancer awareness campaign. And get this: the key message is that patients who have had a cough for three weeks or more should see their doctor. Yep. It's that magic three weeks, again. According to the blurb, that's consistent with NICE cancer referral guidelines. Gotcha! It can't be. Not even in the throes of one of its more florid episodes of wild-eyed psychosis would NICE seriously suggest that cancer-phobic punters flock to their GP after just three weeks of cough.
Okay. It's buried in the guidance. It's poorly and ambiguously worded. It's obviously the dumb-assiest thing NICE has ever said. But instead of discreetly drawing a veil over this obvious embarrassment, the DH has decided to trumpet it from the hilltops as the basis for a national campaign. Bloody excellent.
Fact: the cough of a straightforward, and usually viral, bronchitis lasts, on average – you guessed it – three weeks. In other words, this 'awareness' campaign takes a bog standard minor illness and turns it into a major catastrophe. That's the DH and NICE working in perfect harmony to terrify patients and terrorise GPs.
Jesus. The campaign against campaigns starts here.


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An emulsion can be defined as a dispersion of small droplets of one liquid in another liquid. Bitumen emulsions are an oil-in-water type of emulsion where the bitumen is dispersed in water. The size of the droplets is generally in the range 1 to 50 micron.
To obtain a stable bitumen emulsion, an emulsifier has to be added. The bitumen droplets are kept apart due to the effect of the ionized emulsifier molecules, and a stable emulsion will be produced.
Depending on emulsion types and their applications, two main types of emulsifiers (Cationic and Anionic) are produced in BNSP Company.
In a cationic emulsion the positivelycharged ions orientate themselves to the surface of the bitumen droplets.
The fact that roadways can suffer water damage is well established. The symptoms of water damage are various and include rutting and shoving, loss of chippings from surface dressings (chip seal), raveling of surface layers leading to potholes, susceptibility to freeze-thaw damage, cracking and bleeding. But the underlying problem on a micro scale is loss of adhesion between the binder and the aggregate.
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Q: Formatting SQL rows to a list in python I have a bunch of SQL rows that I have converted to lists:
cursor = conn.cursor()
result = cursor.execute(SQLqueries.sql_qry1)

for row in result:
    row_to_list = list(row)
    print(row_to_list)

The output of this is lists like:
['FreqBand,Frequency,0, 5, 10\r\n1,0.006,16.56,25.15,30.96\r\n']
['FreqBand,Frequency,0, 5, 10\r\n1,0.006,12.56,15.27,31.90\r\n']
['FreqBand,Frequency,0, 5, 10\r\n1,0.006,16.36,25.15,34.46\r\n']

I would like to edit these lists to exclude the first two words and replace the "\r\n" characters with commas. I've tried this to get rid of the 'FreqBand,Frequency':
for row in result:
    row_to_list = list(row)
    i = 0
    for each in row_to_list:
        row_to_list[i].replace('FreqBand', '')
        i += 1
    print(row_to_list)

but the output of this seems to get rid of half the first list and doesn't edit any of the others. Any help on this would be appreciated.

A: You need to assign the result of replace() back to the list element. And use range() to get a sequence of numbers instead of incrementing i yourself.
for row in result:
    row_to_list = list(row)
    for i in range(len(row_to_list)):
        row_to_list[i] = row_to_list[i].replace('FreqBand,Frequency,', '').replace('\r\n', ',')
    print(row_to_list)

A: First of all, the list below has a size of 1 rather than 8-10 that I assumed when I first saw the question. So initially, please check if that is something you are aware of.
['FreqBand,Frequency,0, 5, 10\r\n1,0.006,16.56,25.15,30.96\r\n']

In this way, when you iterate over this list with for each in row_to_list:, all you will get is the string that has no difference from the string you would get with row_to_list[0].
Secondly, you might want to double check what you are trying to accomplish with the counter i. In the case of manipulating first elements of each list you name as row_to_list, all you need to do is to access by index then reassign the variable.
for row in result:
    row_to_list = list(row)
    row_to_list[0] = row_to_list[0].replace('FreqBand,Frequency,', '')
    row_to_list[-1] = row_to_list[-1].replace('\r\n', ',')

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First Published by the "Mennonite Historian" Vol.XXI, No. 3, September 1995, pages 1-2.
In 1772 upon the first partition of Poland, Galicia, (Kleinpolen) became part of the Austrian Empire. Galicia was a predominately agrarian society, undeveloped culturally, with a peasant population largely uneducated and poor. Large sections of the region were properties of the Church and the aristocracy. Monasteries also had large land holdings. The Polish nobility valued hunting and other enterainments above developing the land and its people. Galicia was wild and untamed.
In 1780 the Austrian emporer, Franz Joseph II, extended an offer to German farmers to settle the land gained through this Polish partitioning. Thus in 1784 six Mennonite families joined this eastward flood of humanity out of Germany. The Mennonite surnames included Bachmann, Ewy, Krehiel, Mundelien and Schrag. By 1786, twenty-one more families followed them. Their surnames included Bergthold, Brubacher, Huwen, (Hubin), Klein, Kintzi, Linscheid, Merk, Müller (Miller), Rupp and Schmidt. The first settlement was named Falkenstein after their Rheinpfalz home. Its location was about 40 kilometers southwest of Lemberg (L'vov, L'vov), their chief cultural, governmental and economic center.
New settlements grew as the population increased. Einsiedel and Rosenberg spawned the daughter colonies of Neuhof, Kiernica, Wiszenka, Ehrenfeld, Troscianiec, Debrovalny, Lipowice and Podusilna. Following the lead of some 80 years earlier, in 1862, another smaller group from Rheinpfalz settled in Galacia. Their surnames included Forrer, Jotter, Laise (Leisy) and Stauffer. The total Mennonite population increased from 72 families in 1856 to 142 families in 1880.
Attempts at bringing in other preachers from outside the congregation during the years 1910-1929 proved less than favorable for various reasons. Heinrich Pauls, Leopold Gesell and Christian Guth pastored during those years.
The devastating effects of two world wars took a tragic toll of Galician Mennonite lives and property. In effect, all these families were forced to flee their homeland, a fate endured by many caught in the web of warfare. Following World War II, resettlement efforts brought many of these refugees to the USA, to Canada, and to Uruguay. Many also resettled in what was then West Germany. It was in Hichst am Odenwald that Arnold Bachmann came to reside with his family.
1. Peter Bachmann. Mennoniten in Kleinpolen (1934), 91, Cf. Also an unpublished summary translation by Albert F. Rupp, Los Angeles, CA, p.11.
2. Lola (Regier) Friesen. Kintzi. The Story of Theodore and Wilhelmine (Linscheid) Kintzi and their Descendants (North Newton, KS, 1986), B-1.
3. MIK, 39; Rupp, 242.
4. MIK, 62, Rupp, 351.
5. MIK, 62; Rupp, 351.
6. Cf. C.J. Dyck, "History of the Mennonite World Conference", Mennonite World Handbook (Lombard, IL: MWC, 1978), 1-9.
7. Romauld Mueller in a funeral oration given as a final tribute to Deacon Amold Bachmann, the last pastor of the Lemberg-Kiernica (Galicia) Mennonite parish, 20 September 1990. Heubach, Germany.
8. Orpha V. Schrag, "Andreas D. Schrag: Volhynia to Dakota", Mennonite Family History Vol. XII, 3, (July 1993), 107. The author and her husband traveled in Ukraine on a pilot project to search for the former Swiss-German villages located between Zhitomir and L'vov. They visited 15 such villages. The address of the Schrags is: 3511 Echo Hill Rd., Nashville, TN, 37215.
9. ArnoldBachmann. Galiziens Mennoniten im Wandel der Zeiten (Weierhof: Mennonitischer Buchversand, 1984) To order this book write to: Gary Waltner, D-67295 Weierhof, b. Bolanden, Germany. The newsletter can be ordered from Glen Linscheid, Box 194, Butterfield, MN USA 56120. See also Brian J. Lenius, "Galizien Genealogical Organizations", Newsletter of the Foundation of East European Family History Studies, Vol.3, No.1 (April, 1995), 9-13.


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FILE - Uber's self-driving cars hit a snag in San Francisco. (Uber)
Ride-hailing service Uber reportedly encountered a snag Wednesday after two autonomous vehicles appeared to run red lights during the company's rollout of its driverless car.
Video of one of the company's self-driving Volvo SUV's running a light was recorded by a camera mounted on the dashboard of a nearby car, according to a report from the local CBS station.
The incident occurred just hours after Uber launched the driverless service in San Francisco, the second city in which the new technology is being tested. The company first tested driverless cars on a very limited scale, in Pittsburgh, earlier this year.
Another incident was reported later in the day when Twitter user Annie Gaus said she witnessed a driverless car run a red light and snapped a photo.
As in Pittsburgh, Uber's driverless cars still have a human on board should anything go wrong, and in a statement about the incidents, Uber said the issue was with the driver.
"This incident was due to human error," the statement read. "This is why we believe so much in making the roads safer by building self-driving Ubers. This vehicle was not part of the pilot and was not carrying customers. The driver involved has been suspended while we continue to investigate."
Uber's ability to test the autonomous cars in California was controversial as it was unclear if the company needed a permit.
According to The New York Times, it was not clear if Uber legally could test driverless cars in San Francisco as it was not listed as a company holding a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. An Uber spokeswoman told the paper the company was "compliant with applicable federal and state laws."
On Wednesday, state regulators said Uber should suspend driverless service until it has the proper paperwork.
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MEDFORD - DuBell Lumber Co., which two years ago was planning a sizable expansion, has closed its doors instead.
The company's stores and showrooms closed Saturday, according to an announcement at the firm's Facebook page.
"It is with a heavy heart that we must report that Dubell Lumber … has ceased operations effective immediately," the statement said. "All locations are closed."
The shutdown doomed 157 jobs at the Medford-based firm, according to a layoff notice posted by the state Department of Labor.
DuBell, which started in 1922, operated stores in Medford, Cherry Hill, Pleasantville and Winslow, as well as a kitchen and bath showroom in Vineland.
It also operated a distribution center in Vineland and a truss plant in Millville.
The closing came more than two years after DuBell was approved for an $18 million tax break in connection with its planned expansion to a Camden site.
The state Economic Development Authority supported the 10-year incentive in August 2016. It said the company would bring 92 jobs and create 30 positions to a site on Mount Ephraim Avenue near the Haddon Township border.
"DuBell Lumber has not certified completion of its project," according to EDA spokeswoman Virginia Pellerin.
Because the incentive program is performance-based, she said, "the company has not received any portion of its tax credits.
The shutdown announcement also followed several days of uncertainty for DuBell employees.
A reporter visiting the Cherry Hill and Medford stores last week heard some employees discussing a pending shutdown, while others expressed hope that a buyer would save the company.
The company referred questions about its fate to a consultant, John Bambach, who declined immediate comment.
DuBell was founded in Camden but left the city after a "devastating" fire in 1981, according to a company history. It was sold in 1971 to the operators of Camden-based DiMedio Lime Co.


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Senate Democratic Leader Audrey Gibson, Senator Lori Berman Respond to Governor's Latest PR Roundtable
Senate Democratic Leader Audrey Gibson: "The governor's so-called "Discussion on Public Health" was a misnomer. It was an echo-chamber of the terrible policies he has chosen to follow as the coronavirus pandemic raged in Florida, and he placed his loyalties to Donald Trump over the health of the people of this state. No one is advocating for a full-scale lockdown in Florida. But we have been and continue to ask for common sense prevention measures such as face masks which are essential to preventing further spread. Without that, the virus remains a threat, the elderly will remain in isolation, and those who do contract the disease will live with the ongoing uncertainty of possible long-term health damages scientists are only now beginning to document. If this virus is akin to the flu, as the governor and his experts contend, and little threat to most people, let him be the first to throw open to the public his office and mansion – both of which remain closed thanks to a pandemic he cannot control."
Senator Lori Berman: "The governor's round table today was little more than a collection of like-minded individuals echoing the governor's push for herd immunity policies. There would be no need for lockdowns had he endorsed mandatory masks and widespread, more robust testing. Our positivity rate is still north of 11%, according to Johns Hopkins University, despite the decline in testing. Almost 14,000 deaths and almost 700,000 cases in Florida are testament to the failures of the governor in effectively combating this pandemic. So, too, are the current outbreaks and hotspots in schools and on college campuses, thanks to his push to quickly reopen these facilities. Whether it was the disease, or the economic disaster that followed, Governor DeSantis was out of his depths in leading this state, and none of his handpicked roundtables will be able to whitewash that terrible record."
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Roy Harper resurfaces and 'Laurel' is back from the dead in the latest Arrow
Mar 9, 2018, 6:41 PM EST (Updated)
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What's old is new again this week, as a few former members of Team Arrow are back in action (though one is admittedly a self-professed doppelgänger) as Diaz starts to make his play for the soul of Star City.
Spoilers ahead for "Doppelganger," the latest episode of The CW's Arrow, which aired Thursday, March 8, 2018!
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This one had a lot of moving parts, though the headline was almost certainly the return of Colton Haynes' Roy Harper, who basically pops in for a few scenes to get beaten to a bloody pulp. Diaz is proving to be a weirdly omniscient crime boss, having pieced together the identities of Team Arrow and even tracked down Roy, who had been living incognito across the country. It's easy to forget just how much this show has changed and evolved over the past few years, but tossing Roy back into the ensemble really drove the point home. Oliver has recruited and trained an entirely new team (and subsequently seen them go rogue) in the time since Roy left. It's great to have him back in the fold, but awkward all the same.
As for the endgame for pulling Roy back into Star City? It seems his re-emergence could potentially serve as an exit strategy for Thea, a character the writers have struggled to support in the years since Roy left town. In the post-Roy era, she's been kidnapped, brainwashed, and put in a coma, and that's just scratching the surface (a point Thea herself not-too-pointedly points out). If the writers do opt to have Thea run away with her true love Roy, it'd arguably be one of the best options to bring the character some closure. It's been a long time since they've written her with any real agency, and at least having her reconnect with the love of her life would send her off on a happy ending. Or, who knows, maybe she'll stick around and Roy's return will help spur some better stories for Thea in the long run.
Along with Roy's re-emergence, Black Siren has gone public and taken the late Laurel Lance's name and identity — taking the "hide in plain sight" approach to try and protect herself from Dinah's quest for revenge. Katie Cassidy has been a part of this cast from the jump, and having her evil Earth-2 counterpart join the series full-time has been a clever way to keep her in the fold. But the character needs to move the needle at some point. Quentin has been trying to rehabilitate her most of the season, an effort that has seen fits and false starts. Now, after helping Team Arrow rescue Roy, it seems she might be working with Diaz anyway. There are only so many times you can dip back into that well and keep it interesting. Here's hoping it's headed somewhere clever.
*Well, the cat is out of the bag: Team Arrow knows Diaz has been pulling the strings all along, and the breadth of his operation is starting to come into view. Dinah and Quentin are looking into the extensive police corruption (which actually reaches all the way to the chief), and Diaz is certainly shaping up to be a formidable baddie.
*We don't get much follow-up on Rene after his hospitalization, though we do see Curtis visit Rene's daughter to tell her about his injury. It seems New Team Arrow is taking a bit of a break this week, with Dinah more than busy enough with her official business at Star City PD.
*It's kind of funny that so much crazy crap has happened in the Arrowverse that the doctor who conducted an autopsy on Laurel isn't even all that surprised to see her back alive.
*Oliver gets to grapple with some big ethical questions this episode, but they didn't really get the attention they deserved. He questions if he really learned anything from letting Roy take the fall for him as the Green Arrow a few years ago (he really hasn't), and brushes off Diggle when he tells him he wants to take up the Arrow mantle again. The show has really written itself into a corner here, evolving Oliver to the point he'd want to retire as a vigilante to be a better father, while simultaneously grappling with the fact that you can't really do that and still have a show. It'll be interesting to see how those opposing forces collide.
*An ethical question: We see Oliver and Diggle shoot and seemingly kill at least some of Diaz's goons (including some who don't even see it coming), yet Oliver won't pull the trigger when he has Diaz dead to rights. Yes, this show has dealt with the ethics of killing in the Damien Darhk story a few years back, but the conviction and seriousness of that oath seems to weirdly come and go as-needed.
*That stinger scene makes it clear the League of Assassins is still kicking around, and it seems Thea will be recruited back in the fold as the one surviving heir of the most recent Ra's al Ghul — her birth father, the late Malcolm Merlyn.
Next on Arrow: The series returns on March 29 with Thea taking on (or joining?) the League of Assassins.
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The Wounded Warrior Project on Facebook. recently posted about another study on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) treatments for veterans. This study looks at effects of meditation on PTSD in improving outcomes and helping vets become less dependent on medication. (It's confusing I know, meditation and medication, but follow along!) The article, "Meditation may reduce PTSD, medication in soldiers in UPC.com," by Stephen Feller, explains that Dwight Eisenhower Army Medical Center's Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic and Augusta University researchers conducted a study mounted the study that taught active duty military personnel with concussions and PTSD to use transcendental meditation as part of their recovery. The study demonstrated that meditation techniques helped reduce the anxious, hyperactive state that is common with those suffering from PTSD symptoms.
According to Fellers article: "One month into the study, 83.7 percent of the meditation group had stabilized, decreased or stopped taking meditation, while 10.9 percent increased their medication dosage. Of the non-meditation group, 59.4 percent had stabilized, decreased or stopped using drugs, while 40.5 percent increased the amount of medication taken. Similar patterns were seen at two- and six-month follow-ups." That's good news for military and civilians with symptoms of PTSD.
How does TM help those with PTSD and concussions? Feller states that meditation helps people tune out distractions and feel an inner calm that helps reduce the amount of stress hormones in the brain while meditating.
Want to learn how to meditate via transcendental meditation? Go to the TM website here and learn more.


Malaysian indie poppers Joanna & Co have been awfully quiet for quite a while now since singer Joanna got hitched sometime last year. They're now back though with another pleasing slice of indie pop goodness in new single Miko. Let's hope an album or an EP is in the works for this new year.
For now, you can give the song a spin below, which we're sure will please all you Mocca and La Luna fans out there. Check them out on their Facebook page as well.
Azzief often wonders what the point of anything is. He also blogs about international music, his record collection, and other such stuff over on his blog Try and Be Grateful.


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Stirling engine, an external combustion reciprocating engine having an enclosed working fluid that is alternately compressed and expanded to operate a piston, thus converting heat from a variety of sources into mechanical energy. A Stirling engine can use any type of fuel as well as solar energy and heat from the waters of a hot spring. The engine was invented in 1816 by a Scottish minister, Robert Stirling, before the gasoline and diesel engines appeared. Stirling engines are unique heat engines because their theoretical efficiency is nearly equal to their theoretical maximum efficiency, known as the Carnot cycle efficiency.


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The Lonely Forest Brings a Fresh Pacific Northwest Blast to Florida
April 11, 2012 April 12, 2013 Evan Brenner
Hailing from Anacortes, WA, The Lonely Forest visits Tampa on their way through Florida.
"It's nice to be in the warm weather," said the Lonely Forest's Jon Van Deusen. "We haven't played Florida in a long time, so it's good to be back," he said.
Van Deusen mans the keys and vocals in the group, with a side of guitar. The band, which also consists of guitarist Tony Ruland, drummer Braydn Krueger and bassist Eric Sturgeon, got its start in 2005, playing locally in Washington state and the surrounding areas.
Their hometown of Anacortes has a well-known D.I.Y. scene, a scene that Van Deusen and company became involved with immediately, even while some of the members still attended high school.
The group is accompanied on this tour by fellow Pacific Northwest rock group, Portugal. The Man, a band that recently released the critically acclaimed album In The Mountain In The Cloud. PTM's members hail from Northwest cities like Portland and Wasilla, Alaska.
The Yagermeister-sponsored tour, which began April 3, has already landed Van Deusen and his band mates in front of fresh faces.
"A couple of the spots we've played on the tour are cities we've never performed in yet like Reno and Boise," said Van Deusen.
Later this year, the group will play at one of the biggest festivals in the nation: Bonnaroo.
"We've never played a festival this size," said Van Deusen.
The Lonely Forest is no stranger to festivals, though. In 2009, the band played Bumbershoot, and in 2010, the group had the honor of playing at Sasquatch festival. In august, the group headlines at a large festival in their hometown of Anacortes, where many Washington state indie rock bands will play as well.
Van Deusen describes the band's music as loud, but straight and to the point.
"We have fun, and we try to stay away from gimmicks," he said.
Check out The Lonely Forest, Portugal. The Man and The Sunbears at the Ritz Ybor Wednesday night. Doors open at 8:30, and tickets are $18.
Listen to The Lonely Forest on social media and the web:
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Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thelonelyforest
Website: http://www.thelonelyforest.com
Twitter: Twitter.com/thelonelyforest
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Die Kawanishi E7K (alliierter Codename "Alf") war ein für Aufklärungszwecke konstruiertes Wasserflugzeug der Kaiserlich japanischen Marine im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Kaiserliche Marine führte das Flugzeug als Marine Typ 94 Seeaufklärer (jap. .

Geschichte
Die Kaiserlich japanische Marine schrieb 1932 einen Auftrag für die Entwicklung eines neuen, schiffsgestützten Wasserflugzeuges für Aufklärungszwecke aus. Kawanishi entwickelte die E7K1, ausgestattet mit einem W-Motor Typ 91 mit 441 kW (600 PS). Die Marine erprobte das Muster vom Februar 1933 an und entschied sich, die E7K1 zu bestellen. Ab 1935 wurde der Flugzeugtyp bei den Streitkräften eingeführt. Ab 1938 wurden die von der Firma Hiro produzierten Motoren in einem neuen Baulos mit der Bezeichnung E7K2 wegen mangelnder Zuverlässigkeit durch Sternmotoren der Firma Mitsubishi mit 649 kW (870 PS) ersetzt. Der so überarbeitete Typ wurde als Marine Typ 94 Seeaufklärer Model 2 eingeführt.

Im Pazifikkrieg war die E7K dem Dienst an der Front nicht gewachsen und wurde ab 1943 nur noch bei rückwärtigen Einheiten verwendet.

Technische Daten E7K1

Belege und Verweise

Literatur
Rene J. Francillon Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War US Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-313-X
William Green Floatplanes: War Planes of the Second World War, Volume Six Doubleday and Company, 1963

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Phase 2 will begin February 7, 2015 and end March 15, 2015.
A valid hunting license is required to apply for all permits. The deadline for ALL permit applications will be Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Hard copies of applications may be obtained at both the East and West Hawaii DOFAW offices OR online at http://hawaii.gov/dlnr/dofaw/.
Permits for the PWW MAKAI ARCHERY program will be assigned for the FIRST day of the first weekend ONLY for both phases by telephone call-ins to the DOFAW office in Kamuela at (808) 887-6063 from 9 a.m. August 27, 2014 to 10 a.m. September 3, 2014. A maximum of five permittees will be allowed per call and only one slot per hunter is allowed. Participation for the remaining portion of the Makai Archery program will be on a first-come, first-served basis at the hunter check station on the day of program.
Permit assignments for the PWW Makai Muzzleloader, the PWW Mauka NON-TYPICAL RAM/EWE hunt, and the TYPICAL RAM INCENTIVE hunt, hunters will be selected through random lottery drawings to be held on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 at the DLNR Hunter Education Building in Kamuela, HI.
Applicants may only submit their name once for the MAKAI MUZZLELOADER program, once for the MAUKA NON-TYPICAL RAM/EWE program, and once for the MAUKA TYPICAL INCENTIVE program. Duplicate entries, after the first entry, will be discarded. Results of the random lottery drawings will be made available at the West Hawaii DOFAW office, as well as online at http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dofaw. The lottery drawing for the Makai MUZZLELOADER program will assign a maximum of 50 permits per WEEKEND from applications received by the deadline. The lottery drawings for BOTH Mauka ARCHERY programs will assign a maximum of 30 permits per WEEKEND drawn from all applications received by the deadline.
The PWW MAKAI ARCHERY program (below Mamalahoa Highway) will take place during the first three (3) weekends of Phase 1 (September 20, 2014 – October 5, 2014) and the first four (4) weekends of Phase 2 (February 7, 2015 – March 1, 2015).
The PWW MAKAI MUZZLELOADER program will take place during the last two (2) weekends of Phase 1 (October 11-19, 2014) and the last two (2) weekends of Phase 2 (March 7- 15, 2015). For permit assignments for both phases of the PWW Makai, MUZZLELOADER program, hunters will be selected through a random lottery drawing to be held on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at the DLNR Hunter Education Building in Kamuela, HI.
The bag limit on goats for both PWW Makai programs will be two (2) per hunter per day of the program. Deboning is not allowed, but quartering feral goats is permissible with skin attached for identification purposes. For safety purposes, a maximum of 50 permittees will be allowed in the PWW Makai section per day.
For PWW MAUKA (above Mamalahoa Highway), there will be two control programs in the safety zone. The first program will be a NON-TYPICAL RAM/EWE hunt to take place during Phase 1. The bag limit for the non-typical ram/ewe hunt will be two (2) non-typical rams and one (1) ewe per hunter per weekend. The second program will be a TYPICAL RAM INCENTIVE hunt, to take place during Phase 2. The bag limit for typical rams will be one (1) ONLY AFTER one (1) non-typical ram has been harvested and checked-out by the same permittee. There is no bag limit on feral goats for PWW Mauka during either program. Whole carcasses (entrails can be cleaned but with attached genitalia on carcass) need to be inspected at checkout. For safety purposes, a maximum of 30 permittees will be allowed per day.
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Summary: This month Kathy Long seeks to create an awareness of five of the most common pitfalls found in the work of defining, improving, and implementing positive change in the business through the lens of business processes. The five topics that she outlines as 'mistakes' are not meant to be all-inclusive but will, hopefully, provide some useful insights into process discovery so that the reader can avoid the most common pitfalls.
The purpose of this article is to create an awareness of five of the most common pitfalls related to the work of defining, improving, and implementing positive change in the business through the lens of business processes. The five topics, covered as 'mistakes', are not meant to be all-inclusive. There are almost as many opportunities to fail as there are to succeed when individuals or teams seek to contribute to the success of an organization through positive changes to its "ways of working." There are numerous challenges faced when change becomes the norm in a business. Hopefully, this article will provide a few useful insights into process discovery that will allow the reader to avoid the most common pitfalls.
decrease in revenue as a result of high levels of customer dissatisfaction and loss of market share.
Finally, the company closes its doors as competitors take the business.
To avoid this, organizations start by creating transparency with regard to people, process, and technology from the top down. To support and enable this transparency and understanding, the documentation of processes must be from the top down, not bottom up, perspective.
What value is being delivered to the business through the technical functionality?
What business process does the technical functionality enable?
How does the technical functionality help the business achieve its business objectives?
The stakeholders of a process are often not identified until the project is testing or in preparation for implementation. As a result, the needs and requirements of these stakeholders are not known or made part of the solution and often result in the project being put on hold while it is determined what should be done to respond to these requirements. In some cases, it is only during implementation that these requirements are discovered. This can result in the project being stopped completely and, in some cases, never implemented due to these delayed requirements.
Projects should make the identification of stakeholders one of its number-one priorities, perhaps even before the complete definition of the project. It is not only the external stakeholders but also the internal stakeholders who must be identified. The majority of the time the internal stakeholders are identified as functional groups within an organization. While this is a starting point, the real internal stakeholders are processes not functional groups. Since processes are cross-functional, identifying a functional group as a stakeholder will be very limiting in scope. Normally, one process will encompass stakeholders from two to seven functional areas. By identifying only one, the project is missing the requirements of the other three to six, or perhaps 50% of the requirements. Missing any stakeholder requirements will create problems with the appropriate changes being made to the processes and technology, and will create numerous problems with implementation. This results in unanticipated consequences that are rarely positive.
As noted earlier, about 65% of organizations are conducting process improvement projects at the tactical or project level. For example, a problem is identified in a specific area of an organization and a project is initiated to solve the problem. The majority of these organizations don't have their processes identified but will attempt to document some of them as part of the project. The result is that, at the beginning of the project when the scope, resources, objectives, and timelines are being defined and signed off, very few of the interfaces are known between the various groups in an organization. This relates directly back to Mistake #1.
Fundamentally, to avoid most of the issues around this problem an organization should first create, then maintain and mature, a process architecture before making any major investments in business or technology changes.
A process architecture enables an organization to identify all of the interfaces for a process, both internal and external, as part of the definition and discovery phase of a project, providing more accurate information for resources, timelines, milestones, and deliverables. This also provides very useful information to the Change Management team for scoping the impact and communication strategy. These interfaces include the familiar and traditional input and output flow but also the classifications of additional categories of information called guides and enablers. Guides include the events and policies, procedures, KPIs, knowledge, business rules, requirements, and criteria. Enablers are systems, tools, resources, and assets of any kind that are required to transform an input into an output. This will allow an organization to identify how the process-in-focus fits within the organization's other processes and to more accurately evaluate the impact of changes to the organization.
When making changes to an organization's business or "way of working", one of the greatest obstacles to identifying the real opportunities for improvement is that only a very small portion of the information about the process is actually known. This is caused by documenting business processes in basically the same way that system flows are captured, e.g., a system flow is comprised of inputs and outputs. Unfortunately, from a business perspective, these inputs and outputs represent only about 15% of the understanding, and therefore opportunity, to improve a process. The majority of the opportunities identified will come from knowledge about the guides and enablers (mentioned above) for process. Additionally, many of these flow diagrams only show the lines between the activities, not what is moving across that line. This lack of labeling the lines means that even the inputs and outputs aren't really captured.
The business rules are a major source of opportunity for significant improvements to a process. The business rules should be captured as Guides in process documentation. For example, in one organization, by changing the business rules regarding who was empowered to review, verify, and authorize certain transactions, they were able to reduce the cycle time for a portion of their process from fifteen days to forty-five minutes. Applying the same concept, another organization reduced the cycle time for the acquisition and installation of network servers from ten days to two days.
These examples of efficiency are exclusive of technology. They relate to improvements to the activities in the process. Technology solutions are then applied to these improved activities.
The fifth major obstacle to process change is resistance from the people in the process. The phrase "resistance is futile" cannot be applied to process change. People can and will successfully resist change in process. In many cases it could be classified as passive resistance, but it's still resistance and it will prevent "real" process change from occurring.
To avoid this, the people who work in the process targeted for improvement should be part of the team working on the improvement. Their ideas and suggestions must be eagerly sought out, welcomed, and implemented as quick wins or as part of the overall solution whenever possible. It's critically important to create a sense of ownership with the people who are part of the process. People who model the process DO NOT own the process, but that perception is easily created.
People will almost always resist change. Therefore, they must believe that the changes being made are actually beneficial to them and the organization. In addition, appropriate recognition must be given for their ideas that have resulted in positive, bottom-line results. This recognition and celebration encourages employees on future projects to contribute positively by actively submitting and encouraging both major and minor changes. This creates an environment where anyone can easily be part of the solution, not the problem.
It should be readily apparent that all of these issues are related with an overall theme of a top-down strategic approach that strives to involve as many of the stakeholders (as is reasonable) in the solution. Furthermore, the strategic alignment of business and IT is a critical success factor of the overall solution. Finally, just as a home or building or an airplane cannot be built without blueprints, neither can a successful business. The blueprints for a business are the various architectures, with an Enterprise Architecture as the overarching view, supported and integrated with other various architectures, including (but not limited to) a Process Architecture. Although not the main focus of this article, a Process Architecture is one of the critical components of successfully adding value to the organization through the transparency it enables.


During the dark throes of addiction, there comes a point of no return wherein an individual develops a severe drug or substance dependency. They may continue to use, even though they are aware of the harm the drug causes. The acute cravings make it very difficult to quit using drugs, especially if the root causes aren't fully addressed.
As is the case with many drugs, if you stop using abruptly after a period of regular use, or go "cold turkey", you may experience unpleasant and even fatal withdrawal effects. Sadly, this can also become the reason for continued-use (or even overdose) amongst addicts, as the physical and mental burden of withdrawal becomes too much to bear.
One drug with a pronounced rebound and withdrawal syndrome is Xanax; a commonly prescribed anti-anxiety medication.
Alprazolam – available under the trade name Xanax – is a potent, intermediate-onset benzodiazepine. It is commonly used for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder (Ait-Daoud, Hamby, Sharma & Blevins, 2018).
Xanax works like any other benzodiazepine; by enhancing the effects of Gamma-Aminobutryric Acid (GABA), a chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. It plays a principal role in reducing neuronal excitability throughout the central nervous system via inhibition of postsynaptic neurons. GABA produces a calming effect on the brain, thereby decreasing anxiety (Longo & Johnson, 2000).
Alprazolam is the most commonly prescribed benzodiazepine and the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medication within the United States (Grohol, 2016). However, this does not mean that this is a safe medication. In fact, statistics show that alprazolam is the most common benzodiazepine responsible for drug-related emergency department visits (SAMHSA, 2013). Studies suggest that alprazolam causes a more severe withdrawal syndrome than other benzodiazepine (Browne & Hauge, 1986).
Xanax can, however, cause adverse effects even in a short period of time. O'Sullivan et. al (1994) demonstrated that, by 8 weeks, patients using alpeazolam developed depression, bed-wetting, aggression, sedation, slurred speech, irritability and impaired memory.
The great dichotomy with Xanax is that, although it is effective in the short-term, it has a high misuse potential. All benzodiazepines, in susceptible patients, are liable to misuse but Xanax is of particular importance due to its rapid absorption and short half-life. These pharmacokinetics increase its abuse liability (Ait-Daoud, Hamby, Sharma & Blevins, 2018). It isn't unusual for those under the effects of Xanax to have slurred speech and appear almost intoxicated.
When Xanax is taken in larger doses, the effects become even more dramatic. Confusion, memory impairments, cognitive impairments and respiratory depression or coma may be induced at these high doses (Longo & Johnson, 2000).
There is no way of supposedly sugar-coating the pill or this following issue; going "cold turkey" or discontinuing the use of Xanax abruptly can cause severe withdrawal symptoms (Browne & Hauge, 1986). Any sustained-use of a benzodiazepine requires medical supervision for withdrawal. It is recommended that, if you have been using a benzodiazepine for a week or longer (especially at a higher dose), that you are adequately weaned off of the medication by a doctor (Ait-Daoud, Hamby, Sharma & Blevins, 2018).
Xanax or alprazolam withdrawal syndrome causes rebound anxiety, insomnia, homicidal or suicidal ideation. It may even cause delirium and psychosis, and this is not a common occurrence with other benzodiazepine withdrawals. Seizures have also been reported on discontinuation (Ait-Daoud, Hamby, Sharma & Blevins, 2018).
The symptoms of withdrawal are secondary to the body's response to sudden changes in chemicals in the brain. When a patient abuses Xanax, the body becomes accustomed to the effect it causes (tolerance), and without the drug, the body goes into overdrive trying to compensate for the loss of GABA activity (Longo & Johnson, 2000).
There is only one recommended method for coming off Xanax and that is to gradually reduce the dose under medical supervision; a process called weaning or tapering. In a medical setting, the withdrawal process is managed by slowly reducing the dose and transferring the patient to a longer acting form of the drug. This can take as long as 6 months (or even longer).
Severe withdrawal symptoms previously mentioned can importantly occur even if the dose is tapered or weaned (Ait-Daoud, Hamby, Sharma & Blevins, 2018). The chance of them occurring is lower, but not altogether eliminated. That means that tapering the dose without the supervision of a medical professional is foolhardy at best. Always detox safely under the encouragement and supervision of trained professionals.
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I Am Jane Doe
By Candice Bernd
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On the drizzly, overcast morning of Thursday, July 28, 15 activists gathered outside the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago to send a clear message: "I am Jane Doe." The Jane Doe in question was a recent rape victim who decided to remain anonymous, though the declaration was one of solidarity with all such victims. The demonstration was organized to coincide with the first status hearing of Paul Clavijo and Juan Vasquez, two Chicago police officers charged with sexually assaulting a woman while on duty on March 30.
The woman was walking home following a long night of drinking and arguing with a friend. She was crying when the officers pulled up alongside her and offered a ride home. In the woman's lawsuit, she alleges the officers told her she could not sit in the back seat, but made her to sit in Clavijo's lap. The 22-year-old Jane Doe's blood-alcohol content was tested at .38, nearly five times the legal limit, but the officers decided to drive to a liquor store after picking her up. While one of the officers was inside the store, the woman was sexually assaulted in the marked SUV.
After reaching her apartment, they played a game of strip poker, and the woman was again sexually assaulted. She began to bang on the walls hoping to awaken her neighbor. She screamed and ran out of her apartment when another neighbor saw her and called the police. Defense attorneys are toting the typical victim-blaming line—the encounters were consensual. Prosecutors and activists say the woman was too drunk to consent and was clearly taken advantage of.
"We've been talking about ways to fight the culture of impunity that systematically tries to deny the legitimacy of any rape case, and tries to justify rape," feminist activist and organizer Cassandra Avenatti said. Avenatti has been taking part in organizing meetings of Chicago Activists against Police Sexual Violence, a coalition force united for Jane Doe. Thursday morning's demonstration was their first action, with more still to come.
The Chicago case came on the heels of a stunningly similar police sexual assault case in New York, reflecting an ugly trend of abuse of power amid a still-raging war on women. The two officers involved in that case were acquitted of rape in May, once again validating just how hard it is to defeat the rape culture that stigmatizes women who speak out. This evolving trend, from the Assange accusers to the DSK maid (who chose to identify herself recently to counter increasing scrutiny) to cases of predatory police, is part of the reason the coalition is so fired-up to work around this issue.
Avenatti is uniquely positioned to speak up about police raping women as a former sex worker. She was involved in sex work while living in Miami, and said some of her friends in the industry were regularly subjected to brutalization by police. "The cops will say 'I'm going to take you to jail or you're going to give me a blow job,'" she said. Avenatti became radicalized as a feminist activist after her experience there.
With laws popping up in state legislatures across the country seeking to soften the definition of rape to only include that which is "forcible," the idea of consent is once again being taken up by women's rights activists participating in the SlutWalk marches around the country. Activists chanted one slogan that emerged from the SlutWalk in front of the courthouse Thursday morning: "However we dress, wherever we go, yes means yes, no means no."
But attacks against women continue to mount steadily. In the most recent event, a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney, Texas, was attacked with a Molotov cocktail, breaking the glass door and starting a fire.
Clavijo is also facing sexual assault charges of another 26-year-old Jane Doe, the incident occurring within only 19 days of the assault of the 22-year-old Jane Doe. Clavijo and Vasquez's attorneys told Judge Flood Thursday they are requesting audio and video from the Chicago Police Department to use in court. The officers are expected to reappear in court September 9. They will be accompanied by silent activists in the courtroom with name tags that read "I am Jane Doe."
Candice Bernd
Candice Bernd is an editor and staff reporter at Truthout. Her work has also appeared in several other publications, including The Nation, In These Times, the Texas Observer, Salon, Rewire.News, YES! Magazine and Earth Island Journal, as well as in Truthout's anthology on police violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? She received two awards from the San Francisco Press Club in November 2018, and the Dallas Peace and Justice Center's annual journalism award in December 2016. Follow her on Twitter: @CandiceBernd.
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