What?s missing from this headline and story by Julie Chang over at The Austin Sanctuary-City-Statesman?
Two men, juvenile accused of stealing truck to smuggle immigrants
Two men and a juvenile have been arrested after police say they stole a truck to smuggle immigrants, according to arrest affidavits.
Oscar Hernandez-Villanueva, 18, and Rosalio Tovar-Torres, 30, were charged with engaging in organized criminal activity ? theft.
On Tuesday, Austin police were conducting surveillance on a 2003 Yukon Denali, which they said in the affidavit had been involved in several large truck thefts in the past. The trucks were stolen for human smuggling, police said in the affidavit.
You can read the rest of the report if you?d like to?but I?ll save you the trouble. The key word missing from this report and headline? Everybody?all at once: ILLEGAL!
I believe the word you?re looking for is ill-fucking-legal. As in ?criminal trespass.?
Reading their story, you might be under the impression that these young Canadian men (Hernandez-Villanueva and?Tovar-Torres are Canadian surnames, right?) were doing little more than giving a lift to a bunch of their fellow Canadian friends who were also totally-legally in the States. Their only crime, really, was stealing a truck.
The word you?re missing is ILLEGAL, Julie Chang (who, given her surname, might also very well be an ?immigrant.? Or perhaps her parents were. If she, or they are ?immigrants,? statistically they are much, much more likely to be LEGAL immigrants. You?d think a possible immigrant from China [or possibly Korea] would be pissed about a bunch of ILLEGAL immigrants encroaching on her LEGAL immigrant status).
Ms. Chang also?interned in Washington, D.C., working on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
state farm insurance Garfield Heights OH We see more and more cars on the road every year. This could lead to an increased likelihood of a collision. Car insurance can make the difference between a minor setback and a large hassle. But why do you need insurance and just how much do you need? Required coverage varies by state/province but usually includes the following: Liability: Personal injury and property damage that you are responsible for will be paid for under liability insurance. If you are in legal trouble, it also pays your defense and court costs. State laws usually mandate standard amounts of liability insurance, but larger amounts can be purchased and are very beneficial. Personal Injury Protection: Personal injury protection pays for the medical treatment for you and other people in your car, no matter who was at fault in the crash. It is required in some states and optional in others. State law usually sets minimum amounts. Medical Payments: Medical payment coverage can be purchased in states that are not considered no-fault; it will pay regardless of who carries responsibility for a crash. All reasonable medical or funeral expenses will be covered under this insurance policy. Collision: Damages resulting from a collision will be covered under this type of car insurance. Comprehensive: This applies if your car is stolen or damaged by causes other than an accident, including weather damage or vandalism. Uninsured Motorist: If you are in an accident with a driver without insurance, this type of insurance coverage will make sure you are covered. Under-Insured Motorist: Many drivers have liability insurance that might not be able to cover all the expenses they are responsible for. Under-insured motorist coverage covers you in accidents involving those drivers. Other kinds of coverage, including emergency road service and car rental, are also available. What you pay for auto insurance varies by company and will depend on several factors, including: * Which policies you select * The make and model of the car you own * Your driving record * Your age, sex and marital status * The place where you live Some people have consider auto insurance as a necessary evil, but it is something you will need if you are ever in an accident. Review your needs, research your options, and with the guidance of your insurance agency, choose the option that best suits you.
NEW ORLEANS -- The Super Bowl is back in New Orleans for the first time since February 2002, when the Patriots upset the mighty St. Louis Rams.
On Tuesday, I asked Marshall Faulk if being back in the Superdome this week conjured up any emotions from that day.
"All of my memories about playing the game is all good feelings," Faulk began. "I only remember the Super Bowl I won in Atlanta (after the 1999 season). I couldn't even conjure up the feelings of what I felt after the game (against the Patriots). I'm sure I was heartbroken and maybe a little upset but when you talk Super Bowl, all of my feelings go directly to winning."
People in New England, Faulk was told, believe he still shows bitterness over the loss. And a dislike of the Patriots in his role as an NFL Network commentator.
"They misunderstand," Faulk corrected. "Am I over the loss? Yeah, I'm over the loss. But I'll never be over being cheated out of the Super Bowl. That's a different story. I can understand losing a Super Bowl, that's fine . . . But how things happened and what took place. Obviously, the commissioner gets to handle things how he wants to handle them but if they wanted us to shut up about what happened, show us the tapes. Don't burn 'em."
Faulk was referring to tapes the Patriots had of opposing coaches sending in defensive signals. It's a story from another epoch, to be sure, but as Faulk spoke, it became obvious the scab is still there. And with just a scratch to the surface, Faulk was soon rolling downhill in accusing the Patriots of having taped the Rams' walkthrough prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said back in 2008 that he had no evidence that the Patriots -- and video assistant Matt Walsh in particular -- taped the Rams walkthrough.
In April of 2008, Goodell explained his findings and decision to destroy the tapes he'd confiscated.
"The reason I destroyed the tapes is they were totally consistent
with what the team told me," Goodell said during his State of the NFL
speech at the NFL Owners Meetings. "It was the appropriate thing to do and I think it sent a
message.
"The actual effectiveness of taping and taking of signals from
opponents -- it is something done widely in many sports. I think it
probably had limited, if any effect, on the outcome of games.
"That doesn't change my perspective on violating rules and the need to be punished."
Goodell said there were six tapes, some from 2007 preseason games and the rest from 2006. Another reason he destroyed them was one tape was leaked to the media just after the Patriots-Jets game.
"We wanted to take and destroy that information," he said. "They
may have collected it within the rules, but we couldn't determine that.
So we felt that it should be destroyed."
The NFL did present some tapes at the 2008 NFL Owners Meetings that it hadn't destroyed. The tapes showed the Patriots' taping defensive signals, shots of the scoreboard and even 15 seconds of cheerleaders performing.
Still, Faulk says circumstantial evidence from the game leaves him believing the Patriots gathered intel somehow.
"I understand Bill (Belichick) is a great coach," said Faulk. "But No. 13 (Kurt Warner) will tell you. Mike Martz will tell you. We had some plays in the red zone that we hadn't ran. I think we got to fourth down -- we ran three plays that we hadn't ran, that Mike drew up for that game -- Bill's a helluva coach . . . we hadn't ran them the whole year (and the Patriots were ready for them)."
Faulk said the only time those plays were practiced were at the walkthrough.
"I know, in that game, in the red zone, the plays we ran, most of them we hadn't ran most of those plays that year," Faulk noted. "And a couple of plays on third down that we walked through also . . .? Any time that I was offset, I was always stationary. And we had creating motioning in the backfield at the same depth on the other side of the field. And they created a check for it. It's just little things like that. It's either the best coaching in the world when you come up with situations that you had never seen before. Or you'd seen it and knew what to do."
At one point in the conversation, Faulk said, "I don't even know why you brought this up now."
In fact, Faulk was the one who broached it.?
Faulk attempted to temper his comments, saying, "Bill has done a great job. I love Mr. Kraft and what he's done. They almost drafted me. I remember (Kraft's) vision for that organization. I respect everything about that organization. But am I bitter about how that went? Am I bitter about how the league handled them taping people? If Bountygate was that bad and Sean got suspended for a whole year? If we want to talk about some unfair assessment of how we're assessing things? Man.
"If you lost a game and your brother cheated you," said Faulk, "you'll remember that."
Tags: Bill Belichick, New England Patriots, St. Louis Rams, Tom E. Curran, Marshall Faulk
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20 January 2013 - Ellen Musahino, Tokyo, Japan 3:40 a.m.
2-3 seconds duration. East, very bright yellowish white. There was a flash and then a diving star bright as the moon with a long and beautiful tail. Little sparks along the tail. It was bright enough to be confused with the flash of a camera in a dark room.
20 January 2013 - A Shorb Nasu, Tochigi, Japan 2:42 JST
Around 5 seconds duration. Travelling West to East. A large flash of light like lightning followed by a bluish-green ball. Maybe as bright as the moon? It seemed very close. I've found some Youtube videos of the meteor, taken from from near Tokyo:
Contact: Eric Sauter esauter@scripps.edu 267-337-3859 Scripps Research Institute
JUPITER, FL, January 30, 2013 It takes a lot to make a memory. New proteins have to be synthesized, neuron structures altered. While some of these memory-building mechanisms are known, many are not. Some recent studies have indicated that a unique group of molecules called microRNAs, known to control production of proteins in cells, may play a far more important role in memory formation than previously thought.
Now, a new study by scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has for the first time confirmed a critical role for microRNAs in the development of memory in the part of the brain called the amygdala, which is involved in emotional memory. The new study found that a specific microRNAmiR-182was deeply involved in memory formation within this brain structure.
"No one had looked at the role of microRNAs in amygdala memory," said Courtney Miller, a TSRI assistant professor who led the study. "And it looks as though miR-182 may be promoting local protein synthesis, helping to support the synapse-specificity of memories."
In the new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the scientists measured the levels of all known microRNAs following an animal model of learning. A microarray analysis, which enables rapid genetic testing on a large scale, showed that more than half of all known microRNAs are expressed in the amygdala. Seven of those microRNAs increased and 32 decreased when learning occurred.
The study found that, of the microRNAs expressed in the brain, miR-182 had one of the lowest levels and these decreased further with learning. Despite these very low levels, its overexpression prevented the formation of memory and led to a decrease in proteins that regulate neuronal plasticity (neurons' ability to adapt) through changes in structure.
These findings suggest that learning-induced suppression of miR-182 is a main supporting factor in the formation of long-term memory in the amagdala, as well as an underappreciated mechanism for regulating protein synthesis during memory consolidation, Miller said.
Further analysis identified miR-182 as a repressor of proteins that control actina major component of the cytoskeleton, the scaffolding that holds cells together.
"We know that memory formation requires changes in dendritic spines on the neurons through regulation of the actin cytoskeleton," Miller said. "When miR-182 is suppressed through learning it halts, at least in part, repression of actin-regulating proteins, so there's a good chance that miR-182 exerts important control over the actin cytoskeleton."
Miller is now interested in whether or not high levels of miR-182 accumulate in the aging brain, something that would help to explain a tendency toward memory loss in the elderly. She also notes that other research has shown that animal models lacking miR-182 had no significant physical or cellular abnormalities, suggesting that miR-182 could be a viable target for drug discovery.
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The study, "MicroRNA-182 Regulates Amygdala-Dependent Memory Formation," was published in January 23, 2013 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience (33(4):1734-1740; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2873-12.2013). The first author of the study was Erica M. Griggs of TSRI; Erica J. Young and Gavin Rumbaugh, also of TSRI, were other contributors. For more information on the paper, see http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/4/1734.abstract
The study was supported by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders of the National Institutes of Health (grants R00DA024761 and R01NS064079).
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Contact: Eric Sauter esauter@scripps.edu 267-337-3859 Scripps Research Institute
JUPITER, FL, January 30, 2013 It takes a lot to make a memory. New proteins have to be synthesized, neuron structures altered. While some of these memory-building mechanisms are known, many are not. Some recent studies have indicated that a unique group of molecules called microRNAs, known to control production of proteins in cells, may play a far more important role in memory formation than previously thought.
Now, a new study by scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has for the first time confirmed a critical role for microRNAs in the development of memory in the part of the brain called the amygdala, which is involved in emotional memory. The new study found that a specific microRNAmiR-182was deeply involved in memory formation within this brain structure.
"No one had looked at the role of microRNAs in amygdala memory," said Courtney Miller, a TSRI assistant professor who led the study. "And it looks as though miR-182 may be promoting local protein synthesis, helping to support the synapse-specificity of memories."
In the new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the scientists measured the levels of all known microRNAs following an animal model of learning. A microarray analysis, which enables rapid genetic testing on a large scale, showed that more than half of all known microRNAs are expressed in the amygdala. Seven of those microRNAs increased and 32 decreased when learning occurred.
The study found that, of the microRNAs expressed in the brain, miR-182 had one of the lowest levels and these decreased further with learning. Despite these very low levels, its overexpression prevented the formation of memory and led to a decrease in proteins that regulate neuronal plasticity (neurons' ability to adapt) through changes in structure.
These findings suggest that learning-induced suppression of miR-182 is a main supporting factor in the formation of long-term memory in the amagdala, as well as an underappreciated mechanism for regulating protein synthesis during memory consolidation, Miller said.
Further analysis identified miR-182 as a repressor of proteins that control actina major component of the cytoskeleton, the scaffolding that holds cells together.
"We know that memory formation requires changes in dendritic spines on the neurons through regulation of the actin cytoskeleton," Miller said. "When miR-182 is suppressed through learning it halts, at least in part, repression of actin-regulating proteins, so there's a good chance that miR-182 exerts important control over the actin cytoskeleton."
Miller is now interested in whether or not high levels of miR-182 accumulate in the aging brain, something that would help to explain a tendency toward memory loss in the elderly. She also notes that other research has shown that animal models lacking miR-182 had no significant physical or cellular abnormalities, suggesting that miR-182 could be a viable target for drug discovery.
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The study, "MicroRNA-182 Regulates Amygdala-Dependent Memory Formation," was published in January 23, 2013 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience (33(4):1734-1740; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2873-12.2013). The first author of the study was Erica M. Griggs of TSRI; Erica J. Young and Gavin Rumbaugh, also of TSRI, were other contributors. For more information on the paper, see http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/4/1734.abstract
The study was supported by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders of the National Institutes of Health (grants R00DA024761 and R01NS064079).
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This past week we saw an extraordinary change in the military lifting the ban on direct combat for women. Former Marine Corps General James Cartwright, a defense consultant for ABC News, lived through a similar sea change in the 1990s, when the military lifted its combat ban for female aviators.
Cartwright recalls the first integrated deployment with female marines to Japan and the Philippines in the early 1980s.
"For all of the hoopla that goes with that, quite frankly they did extremely well," says the retired general. "If you set the conditions, if you set the moral temperature of the organization, you will do just fine."
"Fast forward to when we brought them into the officer ranks as pilots," adds Cartwright. "There were all sorts of speculation -- women couldn't go faster than the speed of sound, they'd break or whatever, I don't know ... But the reality was, in many cases they were better."
Cartwright, who also served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says it all comes down to leadership. But in 1991, then Commandant Robert Barrow came out publicly against women in combat.
"If you want to make a combat unit ineffective, assign women to it," Barrow told the Senate Arms Services Subcommittee.
"We change and we evolve," says Cartwright, who adds that emotional strength is probably more important than physical strength in modern combat units.
"The evolution of seeing this gender integration ... has been overdue, it's been a little bit too slow, but now that we're able to realize it, you know I can only see that we will be better off," says Cartwright. "Because at the end of the day, any time you add diversity to an organization, it's going to be better."
The Marine Corps recently put two young women through the infantry officers course; neither of them completed it. That class of young male marines may now be saying, 'Yea, see, they can't do it,' but to get over that prejudice, Cartwright says leaders have to make sure ground rules are the same for everybody.
"We found that in aviation if you make them special, if you set them aside, if you do things, then you set them up for failure. They've got to be equal," says the former Marine Corps aviator.
To those young female marines, he offered some advice.
"Don't give up," says Cartwright. "If this is your goal and this is your passion, then get yourself back together again."
For more from Ret. Gen. Cartwright, including his response to the alleged problem of arm strength, whether women should be called to serve if there was a draft again, and a memorable story involving a guy, a gal, and the ability to pull Gs to centrifuge, check out this week's On the Radar.
More hard-won advice from the fantastic Kate McGuinness, author, advocate, and former BigLaw partner and Fortune 300 GC. Do check out the video at the end!
I imagine many readers are burned out from adopting and abandoning New Year?s resolutions, but I?m going to suggest one more: Speak up in class.
A 2012 study by the Yale Women Law Women revealed that:
Men continue to participate more in class than women?and the disparity between male and female participation rates have barely improved over the past ten years.
Faculty and students observe that women seem more risk-adverse in their participation and are more likely to undermine or discount their own comments in class.
Yeah, yeah, you?ve already heard this. But before you reject this advice, think about what lawyers do.
Speaking Up is What Lawyers Do
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct describe lawyers? responsibilities as advocating their clients? positions ? whether in court or in negotiations ? or explaining to their clients the implications of relevant law and facts. In a significant majority of cases, the advocacy or the explanations are delivered orally.
You want to be a lawyer? You better get comfortable with public speaking. Not just prepared remarks, but spontaneous descriptions, justifications, defenses and wild-ass strategies. That is what it takes to succeed as a lawyer.
Wouldn?t you rather acquire this skill in law school than babble the first time a partner asks you a question?
Speaking Up Makes You a Better Law Student
Class participation will likely have short-term benefits as well. The results of a 2012 survey of law student engagement found that:
Higher levels of interaction with professors and peers relate to greater development in students? writing, speaking and legal research skills, job- or work-related knowledge and skills, critical and analytical thinking, and ethical development.
Not Convinced? Watch this TED Talk
If you?re ready to stop reading because the prospect seems so daunting, I?m going to make it easy on you. Watch this marvelous, career-transforming TED Talk by Harvard B-school professor Amy Cuddy.
Yes, it?s twenty minutes long, and you could use those minutes to brief a case or eat or even sleep. Sacrifice whatever it takes to make the time to watch this video. Everything she says makes sense, and when you get to the sixteenth minute Professor Cuddy shares a personal experience that will totally win you over to her approach.
I promise it will make you a better lawyer.
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Thanks, Kate! I couldn?t agree more. Although speaking up in class can definitely be intimidating, it gets easier over time and it?s the only way you?ll find your voice. So, take a deep breath and do it! Chances are good you?ll survive. (And, seriously, the video is a must watch. Bookmark it right now.)
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Deezer, the music streaming service which raised $130 million this fall to expand its business internationally, is today making good on those ambitions with launches in twenty-two new regions across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Brazil. Included in the rollout are the Republic of Korea, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates, among others. The company is also touting its claim to fame as the first legal streaming service in the Maghreb region of Africa.
We commonly think that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is something that only combat troops face. It?s thought of as an effect only of war. But that?s not the whole story.
Through news reports and media coverage we are also aware of the ripples and problems PTSD can create in the lives of many brave military members after they return home. But what if I was to tell you that people who have lived through difficult financial problems can also suffer from PTSD?
Debt Related PTSD and FInancial PTSD Quietly Hurts Many ? Click to Tweet
Your first reaction to such a statement would probably be ?that?s not possible? or ?that?s not true.? But in fact it is possible and it is true that many people have struggled with debt related PTSD.
It?s quite possible that Dave Ramsey?s entire efforts to talk people out of bankruptcy are based not on logic or reality but on the unresolved PTSD he faced after living through his financial problems.
Dave Ramsey?s unawareness of what was actually happening to him is not a unique occurrence. In fact I might also be just one such person that was struck with debt related PTSD.
Years ago Pam and I recorded a video about our experience with our financial problems and if you watch this section of that video you can hear us described symptoms that we experienced.
While I had previously associated post-debt depression with the financial struggles we had. After doing the research for this article I think that what we actually lived through was most similar to some PTSD experiences.
Society minimizes the impact that a problem debt has on lives. Those suffering with problem debt are often disparagingly labeled. But the fact remains, that no matter how someone landed in financial trouble, they still must deal with the trauma and find a way out.
Money problems have two primary components. The first is the actual events that led to the financial trauma but the second is that of the aftermath and impact that financial trauma has on the individual lives.
It would be wrong to label people with debt in negative ways without realize many are suffering with what could be easily classified as post-traumatic stress disorder and need to seek help for that illness.
[Financial] Trauma: ?An emotional state of discomfort and stress resulting from memories of an extraordinary, catastrophic experience which shattered the survivor?s sense of invulnerability to harm.? (Trauma and its Wake, Charles Figley, Ph.D.)
This article introduces a common condition we have heard much about, PTSD, and the reality that many traumatized by money troubles actually suffer from the psychological impact of PTSD related difficulties and without treatment and/or awareness it can dramatically alter the otherwise healthier path in life that could be possible after money troubles.
And that detour in life from debt related PTSD does not began after the event is over, but once the trauma has been felt. The presence of PTSD also hurts the ability for the individual to deal with their debt in a healthy way. Dr. Goulston, a psychiatrist, describes what he calls the ?Four Ds of Financial PTSD,? debt, dependency, distrust and denial. Those conditions hold people back from making good and level-headed decisions about how to best deal with their debt.
I can?t tell you how many times I?ve had people tell me that they are stuck not knowing what to do to get out of debt or following their financial problems they want to avoid credit because they don?t want to face that pain again. They mistakenly continue to link credit with the retraumatizing feeling that occurs when they think about having good credit again. Good credit in their minds equals pain because the good credit led to problem debt and the problem debt led to pain.
The reality is most likely their financial PTSD is keeping them linked in behavior that actually holds them back from escaping the bonds of their lingering emotional debt. By not taking action or only taking avoidance action to deal with their debt they circle in a nearly perpetual cycle of self-fulfilling financial unhappiness.
Some say their money troubles have left them distrusting and depressed. And I?ve talked about the impact of denial in the process of dealing with debt in my article on the seven stages of debt.
The Seven Emotional Stages of Debt
A financial collapse can lead to the same emotional reactions as those experienced by those facing other traumatic events. It?s not the exact nature of the event that leads to PTSD, but how the trauma impacts the individual.
This example from psychiatrist Dr. Mark Goulston shows the way many people have felt living through their money troubles. I remember similar feelings myself.
Dr G: How big a trauma has losing all this money been?
Client: Big.
Dr. G: How big?
Client (now beginning to cry with upset and relief): I can?t even think about it.
Dr. G: What does it make you want to do?
Client: I don?t know. I guess, just hide. (He then continues to speak about this for several minutes).
Dr. G: How well do you think you could handle another trauma with your wife, children, parents, health?
Client (looking at me incredulously): Are you nuts? I couldn?t.
Dr. G: What do you think you?d do?
Client: I couldn?t even imagine. (He continues to speak about this for several minutes).
Dr. G: So, you?re as scared as you?ve ever been.
Client: More than I?ve ever been. ? Source
Lind Friend, a practicing psychotherapist for many decades has also witnessed the same PTSD symptoms in people experiencing financial loss and worries. She describes the PTSD symptoms as, ?anxiety, sleeplessness, heart palpations, overreacting, irritability, excessive worry, a sense of doom, loss of interest in normal events, emotional numbing, and flashbacks to traumatic events.? ? Source
Dr. Maggie Baker, another experienced in anxiety, depression and financial issues, says she sees ?patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These patients are grappling with the psychological burden that results from catastrophic losses.?
Dr. Baker states the symptoms of financial PTSD are easy to recognize. Ask yourself the following questions:
Do you think about your money more in the last few weeks?
Are you worried about the current and future performance of your 401(K)?
Do you wake up at night with persistent memories of the 2008 financial collapse?
Have any small events (such as friend asking if you are going on vacation) caused you anxiety or worried money thoughts?
Do you feel a jolt of anxiety when financial statements arrive?
Do you avoid opening or reading your financial statements?
Do you have a growing sense of fear, helplessness and hopelessness?
If 4 or more of your answers are YES, then you are being held captive to the symptoms of PTSD. ? Source
Sarah who lived through debt said, ?When I was debt, it didn?t just feel like ?stress?- it felt like my life was falling apart. It also left me wondering if I will ever shake the feeling that I could lose everything again at the drop of a hat.?
There have been a limited number of studies about the effects of financial problems and the result of PTSD. One such study was published in 2012. In that study by Audrey Freshman (Freshman, A. (2012). Financial disaster as a risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder: Internet survey of trauma in victims of the madoff ponzi scheme. Health and Social Work, 37(1), 39-48.) she stated:
There are no known studies to date examining the risk of PTSD associated with sudden and dramatic personal financial loss. A Web-based, online, nonprobability convenience survey of 172 Madoff victims (56% female; mean age, 60.9 years) using the Posttraumatic Stress List Checklist, civilian version was conducted 8 to 10 months following the focal event.
Sociodemographic information and data concerning anxiety/depression and health-related concerns were gathered by self-report questionnaire. A five-point Likert-type scale was used to assess victim response to government regulatory systems.
Results demonstrated that a majority of respondents (55.7%) met criteria for a presumptive DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of PTSD, and as a group, respondents acknowledged high levels of anxiety (60.7%), depression (58%), and health-related problems (34%). Victims overwhelmingly affirmed a substantial loss of confidence in financial institutions (90%). This raises a public health concern as to governmental response and counseling needs during times of severe economic trauma.
Dr. Goulston, who I previously mentioned, describes in an interview which you can listen to here, some key experiences of those with debt PTSD.
Goulston: I think what goes on for a lot of people, something that I call the ?Four D?s of financial PTSD,? and that?s debt, dependency, distrust and then our denials in working. And what that means is when you?re in debt, whenever someone calls you to try to get money from you, it re-traumatizes you, it makes you realize how you don?t have what you thought you had. And then, when you feel that vulnerable, you reach out ? who can I depend on? Who can I rely on? I?ll call my stock broker, I?ll call my financial person. I?ll read the news. And then what happens is when you hear the news changing from day-to-day, you feel I can?t trust anyone.
So when you?re in a state of feeling like the world is trying to take more money from you and you don?t even have that much leftover, and who can you depend on, because you don?t know what you can do under your own control, and the people that you have trusted, you can?t trust anymore. It puts you into this real state of irritability, almost brittleness, fragility. And that?s where the fourth D is, what allows us to get through life is denial that functions?
Moon: ?I?d rather not think about it.?
Goulston: There you go. I mean, if we were aware of how dangerous it is to drive, how dangerous it is to fly, all the side effects of every medication we take ? if we didn?t have healthy denial, we would be frozen. So I think what?s happening is people are living with these four D?s constantly, which leads to ?so what do you do about it?? So any thing that?ll help you regain a sense of control will help you feel better. And also, talk with each other and you listen to each other, makes it better.
Moon: What are some of the warning signs, if you will, that you might be experiencing this?
Goulston: OK, warning signs are you feel a change in your personality, you tend to be irritable, you snap at people, you?re withdrawn. But the key signs for PTSD is that you tend to relive the event over again, either in dreams or you even have flashbacks when you read the newspaper. And you want to avoid it, you want to avoid being re-traumatized, because if you?re feeling vulnerable and you get another hit, a lot of people feel shattered, I just won?t come back. And then the third thing is that you have this increased arousal in your hyper-vigilance. So you can?t ever totally lower your guard. And if you think about it, think about that you can never lower your guard, so you never know what it?s like to relax.
PTSD is an anxiety disorder following a traumatic event like injury, death or even something as emotional as the death of your financial like.
The symptoms of PTSD fall into three main categories:
?Reliving? the event, which disturbs day-to-day activity
Flashback episodes, where the event seems to be happening again and again
Repeated upsetting memories of the event
Repeated nightmares of the event
Strong, uncomfortable reactions to situations that remind you of the event
Avoidance
Emotional ?numbing,? or feeling as though you don?t care about anything
Feeling detached
Being unable to remember important aspects of the trauma
Having a lack of interest in normal activities
Showing less of your moods
Avoiding places, people, or thoughts that remind you of the event
Feeling like you have no future
Hyperarousal
Difficulty concentrating
Startling easily
Having an exaggerated response to things that startle you
Feeling more aware (hypervigilance)
Feeling irritable or having outbursts of anger
Having trouble falling or staying asleep
You might feel guilt about the event (including ?survivor guilt?). You might also have some of the following symptoms, which are typical of anxiety, stress, and tension:
Agitation or excitability
Dizziness
Fainting
Feeling your heart beat in your chest
Headache ? Source
According to the National Institute of Mental Health to be diagnosed with PTSD, a person must have all of the following for at least 1 month:
At least one re-experiencing symptom
At least three avoidance symptoms
At least two hyperarousal symptoms
Symptoms that make it hard to go about daily life, go to school or work, be with friends, and take care of important tasks. ? Source
It?s one thing to now recognize the reality that PTSD can be experienced by many as a result of financial trauma or debt trauma, but what now?
Currently there are a number of therapies for those that suffer from PTSD. But the most important step to take is the one that allows you to either reach out to someone suffering and guide them towards help or to seek help if you are the one struggling with these issues.
The most common avenues of treatment are counseling, therapy, medication, or a combination of all. If you are looking for help you should talk to your physician about a referral for help with anxiety counseling or find a local mental health professional that has experience with PTSD or anxiety counseling. You may also want to use the links provided here.
With treatment, you can actually learn to get past these issues and resume a more emotionally stable and healthy life again.
In my personal situation the financial trauma I lived through decades ago is still easily recalled and felt as if it was yesterday. But the good news is that it long ago stopped controlling my life because I took action and steps to deal with my trauma.
Ironically, helping others with their debt problems was probably a real blessing for my recovery. It helped me to see I was not alone and that my issues were not catastrophic but actually trivial compared to many people face in debt.
But my experience dealing with debt was not unique. Take Dave Ramsey for example, all you have to do is listen to his traumatic tales of his financial problems and you can begin to see some glimpses of the impact debt had on his life and how he struggle with the emotional implications of his financial stress.
Dave says things like ?I?ve never forgotten how painful it was for both of us,? Dave says. ?I feel that pain to this very day.? ? Source. He also says, ?Bankruptcy is a gut-wrenching, life-changing event that causes lifelong damage? and ?Bankruptcy. That word sends chills up the spine. If you?re facing the prospect of bankruptcy or you?re in the middle of it right now, you know it?s a living nightmare. It can devastate your job, destroy your marriage and steal your peace of mind? and ?Bankruptcy is listed in the top five life-altering negative events that we can go through, along with divorce, severe illness, disability, and loss of a loved one. I would never say that bankruptcy is as bad as losing a loved one, but it is life-altering and leaves deep wounds both to the psyche and the credit report.? ? Source.
It?s very possible that Dave?s disgust with bankruptcy and credit cards is not a position based on logic as I talked about here, but the remaining bits of his unresolved debt PTSD issues he faced.
Balance is one of the six qualities of an Inspiring Speaker. But how does balance help you to structure a speech? Without a strong and balanced structure, your speech structure will be like a gingerbread house with no icing to hold it together: just a collection of pieces that nobody can make sense of. Let?s investigate?
Writing a speech is easy.
We can all write something down on paper that might be spoken out as a speech, can?t we? It just might not be very good? But if you?re trying to be influential, or even inspiring with your speaking it?s getting the speech structure right that?s the tricky part.
One of the biggest speech writing mistakes speakers make is to try to pack in too much information into their structure. Like a gingerbread house that?s designed to be part castle, part luxury hotel, part mountain refuge, we will become confused about what your speech is built for.
Other speakers stay focused on one tiny area of their speech structure for too long and then rush the rest of the speech, like making a really beautiful door for your gingerbread house, but having nothing to attach it to.
How to structure a speech
To become experts in structuring a speech, we need to develop the quality of Balance; one of six qualities of an inspiring speaker I speak about in my book ?How to be Brilliant at Public Speaking?. It?s the quality that tells us: ?Yes, this information should go in my speech structure and this information should be left out this time.?
Balance is developing an understanding of which information goes where in a speech structure.
Balance in public speaking is like building a beautiful gingerbread house structure with a solid foundation and stable walls. It?s about concocting your ?icing? to be just the right consistency to hold the structure together. If the structure of your speech is wobbling in front of you as you speak and you?re making on-the-spot decisions about what information to put where? your audience will not see the full power of your message.?
Structuring a speech the Balanced Way
To develop a powerful speech structure, think about the following four things -?
1.?Choose speech content that contains just the right amount of just the right type of information
2. Create a powerful flow of information
Seek a structure that turns up the intensity as you progress through your speech.
Keep the audience?s attention throughout your speech by building to a climax, rather than peaking too soon. Your structure should always show them a reason why they should keep listening, but don?t quite satisfy that reason until just before the end of your speech.
Use your structure to build that intensity over time to a crescendo then end quickly. This allows the audience to remember your peak and not a 10 minute droning ending that never ends. (Think ?out with a whimper?)
3. Find your narrative
Think of a familiar or archetypical plot or storyline that you can structure your speech. This will help your speech to be more memorable to your audience. Here are 4 of the most common speech narratives:
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Melodrama Structure:
A story personal to the speaker with a similar structure to many movies. We meet the character and see their circumstances. Then a tragedy occurs. And finally tell how your character overcomes and triumphs over the tragedy. This speech structure creates a journey that will emotionally engage your audience and build credibility.?
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The Tower Structure:
This structure is all about using different layers of information that garners the audience?s attention by supporting your key message. When you (and your audience) finish building the structure together you can look at the power of the structure you?ve created.?
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Mystery?Structure:
Structure your speech around asking a question or presenting a problem to the audience that they are desperate to know. Keep them on the edge of their seats by their desire to hear your crucial message.
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Ping Pong Structure:
Another fun way to structure a speech is to present both sides of the argument in such a way that the audience wants to find out ?Who wins??.?
4. Look for a speech structure that compels your audience to act on your words.?
Organise your thoughts so that you don?t have to make snap decisions while presenting.
Structure your speech so that you send your audience home remembering your key messages rather than wondering ?what was that all about??
Don?t be afraid to edit your speech down to the simplest possible structure. If your structure is simple (without being over simplistic) you will keep everyone on board.
As you establish your structure and feel confident about it, you are more able to improvise and then come back to the plan. This helps you to be more fresh and empathetic with your audience.
Any time invested in working on the structure of a speech will help you to be more powerful and engaging as a speaker. So, good luck in building a well structured gingerbread house for your audience to gratefully nibble on!
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog made clear on Tuesday it had seen no sign of any explosion at one of Iran's most sensitive nuclear plants, backing up Tehran's denial that such an incident had taken place last week.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in an unusual move, made a brief statement following media reports at the weekend of significant damage at the underground Fordow uranium enrichment site.
IAEA inspectors regularly visit Iranian nuclear sites, including the one at Fordow, and the U.N. agency suggested in its comment that they had been at the site after the reports in some Israeli and Western media of an explosion there.
"We understand that Iran has denied that there has been an incident at Fordow. This is consistent with our observations," IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor said in an emailed comment in response to a question.
In late 2011 the plant at Fordow began producing uranium enriched to 20 percent fissile purity, compared with the 3.5 percent level needed for nuclear energy plants.
The West says this takes Iran a significant step closer to producing weapons-grade material. Iran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful.
(Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Three months after Superstorm Sandy ravaged coastal areas in much of the Northeast, Congress on Monday sent a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for storm victims to President Barack Obama for his signature.
"I commend Congress for giving families and businesses the help they deserve, and I will sign this bill into law as soon as it hits my desk," Obama said in a statement late Monday.
Despite opposition from conservatives concerned about adding billions of dollars more to the nation's debt, the Senate cleared the long-delayed bill, 62-36, after House Republicans had stripped it earlier this month of spending unrelated to disasters. All 36 votes against the bill were from Republican senators.
"This is a huge relief," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., noting the vote came 91 days after Sandy struck.
The House passed the bill two weeks ago. Lawmakers say the money is urgently needed to start rebuilding homes, businesses, public transportation facilities and other infrastructure damaged by the Oct. 29 storm, one of the worst to strike the Northeast.
Sandy roared up the East Coast and is blamed for more than 130 deaths and tens of billions of dollars in property damage, particularly in New York and New Jersey. The measure is aimed primarily at helping residents and businesses as well as state and local governments rebuild.
The biggest chunk of money is $16 billion for Housing and Urban Development Department community development block grants. Of that, about $12.1 billion will be shared among Sandy victims as well as those from other federally declared disasters in 2011-2013. The remaining $3.9 billion is solely for Sandy-related projects.
More than $11 billion will go to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief aid fund for providing shelter, restoring power and other storm-interrupted utility services and meeting other immediate needs arising from Sandy and other disasters. Another $10 billion is devoted to repairing New York and New Jersey transit systems and making them more resistant to future storms.
Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., said Republicans weren't seeking "to undermine" help for Sandy victims but instead were trying to make sure that the money was actually being spent on emergency needs.
"We're simply trying to say we need some standards," Coats said.
Earlier in January, Congress approved and Obama signed a $9.7 billion bill to replenish the National Flood Insurance Program, which has received well over 100,000 flood insurance claims related to Sandy. Added to the new, $50.5 billion package, the total is roughly in line with the $60.4 billion that Obama requested in December.
The aid package was greased for passage before the last Congress adjourned and the new one came in on Jan. 3. But Speaker John Boehner refused to bring it to the floor after two-thirds of House Republicans voted against a "fiscal cliff" deficit-reduction deal raising taxes on couples making more than $450,000 a year while deferring some $24 billion in spending cuts to defense and domestic programs.
The ruckus after the Senate had passed an earlier $60.4 billion Sandy relief package by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Dec. 28 exposed deep political divisions within Republican ranks. "There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims, the House majority and their speaker, John Boehner," Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fumed at the time.
Top House Republicans responded by bringing new Sandy aid legislation to the floor under ground rules designed to win over as many Republicans as possible while retaining support from Democrats eager to approve as much in disaster aid as possible.
GOP leaders cut spending in the Senate bill unrelated to disasters. One would have transferred $1 billion for training Iraqi policemen to instead be used to bolster security at U.S. diplomatic missions. The shift in money followed a Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed.
Also deleted were $188 million for an Amtrak expansion project that included new, long-planned tunnels from New Jersey to Penn Station in Manhattan, and another $150 million for fisheries disasters that states such as Alaska and Mississippi could have shared.
After all the cost-cutting, 179 House Republicans still voted against the disaster aid package with only 49 favoring it. GOP leaders had to rely on yes votes from 192 Democrats to pass it.
As with past natural disasters, the Sandy aid bill is not offset with spending cuts, meaning the aid adds to the deficit. The lone exception is an offset provision requiring that $3.4 billion for Army Corps of Engineers projects to protect against future storms be covered by an equal amount of unspecified spending cuts in other programs before next October.
The Senate on Monday rejected, 35-62, an attempt by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, to amend the final package Monday with a provision to cut federal programs across the board by one-half of 1 percent through 2021 as a way to prevent the disaster aid from swelling the U.S. debt.
As of Monday, FEMA said it spent $3.3 billion in disaster relief money for shelter, restoring power and other immediate needs arising from the storm.
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Ohio, Delaware, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia have shared that money.
Samsung's Android smartphones are most recommended by UK retailers, according to new market research, with the Galaxy S3 being the most recommended handset. According to research carried out by Informa Telecoms and Media, which carried out the survey in leading high-street and carrier stores, sales assistants were more likely to recommend Samsung handsets than competing phones from Apple, HTC, Nokia or others.
At the other end of the scale, Android rivals like ZTE, Motorola, LG, Huawei had next to no in-store presence in the UK, Informa found.
According to UK newspaper The Telegraph, Infroma considers it "likely that sales assistants see the Samsung devices as a safe bet to earn greater commissions."
"The mystery shop showed that the most recommended Samsung handsets were the Galaxy SIII and the Galaxy Note II, despite having been on the market longer than the latest handsets from Apple, Nokia and HTC," said Julian Jest of Informa.
"However, most surprising was the way that, despite an in-store advertising campaign and recent product launch, Apple was recommended in only two stores, 3 and Phones 4 U, with both recommending the iPhone 5."
The Galaxy S3 was the most successful Android phone of 2012, even outselling Apple's iPhone in certain quarters. Sales of the device recently topped 30 million worldwide, as total Galaxy S line shipments reached 100 million.
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at Wayne State University School of Medicine investigated the acidity in solid tumors to determine if pH levels play a role in cancer cell invasion in surrounding tissues. They found that an acidic microenvironment can drive cancer cells to spread and propose that neutralizing pH would inhibit further invasion, providing a therapeutic opportunity to slow the progression of cancers.
Their study appeared in the Jan. 3 online release of Cancer Research, a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research.
According to the study's corresponding author, Robert J. Gillies, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Cancer Imaging & Metabolism at Moffitt, acidity in solid tumors is the result of an increased fermentative metabolism combined with poor delivery of blood to tissues.
In this study, tumor invasion and pH were monitored in immunodeficient laboratory mice hosting a variety of tumors. "We monitored the test animals over time using microscopy and found that the highest regions of tumor invasion corresponded to areas with the lowest pH," Gillies explained. "Tumor invasion did not occur in regions with normal or near normal pH levels. Furthermore, when we neutralized the acidity with oral sodium bicarbonate, the invasion was halted."
Researchers proposed that the acidic pH of the tumor microenvironment represents a "niche engineering" strategy on the part of tumor cells, promoting invasion and growth of malignant tumors into surrounding tissue. Niche engineering is a concept in ecology describes how plants and animals alter their environment to in ways that promote their own growth and survival over their competitors. "We have long regarded cancers cells as an invading species," said study co-author Robert Gatenby, M.D., chair of the Diagnostic Imaging Services and Integrated Mathematical Oncology departments at Moffitt.
A key to this process of adaptation and invasion is increased glucose metabolism in the tumor. "The vast majority of malignant tumors metabolize glucose at high rates," Gillies said. "We have proposed that there is a direct, causative link between increased glucose metabolism and the ability of cancer cells to invade and metastasize."
According to the research, elevated glucose metabolism is the cause of increased acidity in the tumor microenvironment. Most tumors develop an abnormal vascular network that tends to be poorly organized and leaky, disrupting blood flow and hampering the delivery of oxygen.
"This poorly organized vascular system has a two-fold effect on tumor acidity," explained Gatenby. "First, it subjects tumor regions to poor perfusion, which restricts oxygen and increases the rate of glucose fermentation. Second, the poor perfusion hampers the ability to eliminate the resulting acids, resulting in very low pH in surrounding tissues."
As tumor cells adapt to increasing acidity, niche engineering through normal cell death and new blood vessel formation occurs in the tumor and the immune response is suppressed.
"Tumor cells perform niche engineering by creating an acidic environment that is not toxic to the malignant cells but, through its negative effects on normal cells and tissues, promotes local invasion of malignant cells," Gatenby said.
The researchers suggested that targeting this activity with buffers and other mechanisms aimed at increasing pH levels will likely provide a valuable alternative to traditional therapies focused entirely on killing tumor cells.
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H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute: http://www.moffitt.usf.edu
Thanks to H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute for this article.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Just weeks before Nevada's Legislature is set to convene, an only-in-Las-Vegas series of events, including a lawmaker's alleged death threat against the speaker of the state Assembly, is offering a distracting sideshow.
The chaos began when Democratic Assemblyman Steven Brooks was arrested this month on accusations of threatening incoming Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, also a Democrat. Kirkpatrick had recently passed Brooks over for the chairmanship of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, in the latest in a series of political disputes between the two, according to an attorney for Brooks.
After he was released from jail on bail last Sunday, Brooks called a news conference on Tuesday and then failed to show up. His attorney, Mitchell Posin, said the lawmaker had been hospitalized with intestinal bleeding.
Then, on Friday, Brooks gave an interview to the Las Vegas Review-Journal in which he proclaimed his innocence. He asked a reporter to take photos of him shirtless, with his arms outstretched, to document his bruises, and one of these appeared alongside the story.
Later the same day, police were called to a domestic disturbance involving Brooks, who was taken to a hospital for a medical evaluation, according to authorities.
Despite the kerfuffle, Brooks told the Review-Journal he would take his seat in the Legislature on February 4 - raising questions about just how the state should conduct business in such circumstances.
"It's become a multi-ringed circus," said Guy Rocha, historian and former state archivist. "We've never been confronted with the dynamics we're seeing right now."
Showy and sparkling, Las Vegas is not exactly known for its restraint - gamblers, bachelor parties and conventioneers flock to Sin City for a reason. Nevada has seen its share of political scandal, including U.S. Senator John Ensign's 2011 resignation following a sex scandal involving a former aide and four Clark County Commissioners going to prison for taking bribes from a strip club owner.
But even here, the Brooks story has caused a commotion.
If the 40-year-old second-term lawmaker does not resign, the Assembly may have to decide whether to take a vote to expel Brooks, who has been charged with but not tried or convicted of a felony.
Expelling Brooks, who police said was in possession of a .357 Smith & Wesson and 41 rounds of ammunition when arrested, would require a two-thirds vote of the state Assembly. It has never before been done.
While it may be a first in Nevada, 23 legislatures have expelled sitting members in the past 100 years, said Brenda Erickson, program principal at the Legislative Management Program of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Last year, Illinois voted to expel a member of the state Assembly, Derrick Smith, after he was indicted on federal bribery charges.
DEATH THREAT
Las Vegas police learned of the alleged threat against the assembly speaker through Democratic state Senator Kelvin Atkinson, who told them last Saturday that Brooks had expressed a desire to "do in" Kirkpatrick, according to an arrest report.
Officers found Brooks driving around last Saturday with the gun, which was registered to another person. Brooks told police he had the gun because he had been invited to a National Rifle Association event at which lawmakers could shoot guns and learn about them. Police indicated in the arrest report that legislative staff said Brooks had not gone to the event. He was arrested and posted bail the next day, according to the police and local media.
Prosecution will be handled by the state attorney general, a Democrat, and Brooks is due in court on Monday over the alleged threat. Neither he, Kirkpatrick, nor legislative staff returned calls seeking comment.
But in the Review-Journal story in which he posed shirtless, Brooks he said it was he, not Kirkpatrick, who was in danger, and that he had an armed guard.
"No one is going to touch me again, I'm safe," Brooks told the reporter.
On Friday, his former boss, Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Barlow, released a statement through an attorney saying that Atkinson sent him an email disclaiming the version of events from the police arrest report and accusing the North Las Vegas Police of "misinformation."
Atkinson could not immediately be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, another Democratic Las Vegas-area legislator, Assemblyman William Horne, told local media he was afraid for his safety, and was considering arming himself while attending the Legislature.
"I've never seen anything like this," said Jon Ralston, a columnist and TV host who has been covering Nevada politics for more than 25 years - and who said he has received text messages in the last week from Brooks at 1:41 a.m.
"One thing is for sure," he added. "We're closer to the beginning of this than the end."
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