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The State of Depression

19 Feb

This article on http://www.weather.com was rather interesting until the last page.

The 10 Most Depressing States in the U.S.

To summarize, it lists (rather irresponsibly and), alphabetically, indicators of what makes these states possibly depressive to live in.  Things like poor economy, high unemployment rate, poor health statistics, etc.  I was rather intrigued by these statistics until I read the last page, listed for West Virginia:

The Mountain State is ranked last or next-to-last in every mental-health category on our list, including the average number of “mentally unhealthy” days residents have per month and the percentage of people who experience frequent mental distress (15%).

One reason may be that roughly two-thirds of West Virginians live in rural areas, where both steady jobs and access to mental health care can be hard to come by. A 2000 study found that while nearly 1 in 3 residents living in rural areas had “a high level” of depression symptoms, almost half had never been treated for the condition by any doctor, let alone a psychiatrist or mental-health specialist.

I think the most interesting sentence there is the one listing their supposition behind these markers for frequent mental distress: these people live in rural areas where almost half had never been treated for their conditions by any doctor, psychiatrist or mental-health specialist.

Doesn’t this seem a bit arrogant to you?

I can see one side of the coin, and probably how it was meant, that it is a largely agrarian, mining, and industrial society that has incredibly sparse access to the luxury of a mental health physician…but the other side of the coin?

Are they really implying that rural society must be depressed because they are rural?  That’s how this last page read to me.  Not to mention that it was incredibly irresponsible to make a LIST of the most depressing states for those states to see.  Gee, let’s just tell people how sick they are! (and watch the money roll in for the medical profession, I think?)

Look at that last sentence.  “1 in 3 residents living in rural areas had a ‘high level’ of depression symptoms“.  Where are the actual numbers stating that these people have depression?  I can sigh and have a bad day, but maybe I just stubbed my toe.  Does that mean I’m depressed?  Maybe I’m having trouble making my checkbook balance and my kid’s clothes weren’t completely dry before sending them off to school today so they might catch cold before the day’s out.  With winter storms like we’ve been having, every day being cloudy and rainy and snowy…YEAH, I’m going to look depressed, but that doesn’t mean I am clinically or chronically depressed to the point where I need help.  You can observe many points where I might look like I need medical attention, but I can look on Webmd.com all day long and find symptoms I’m sick with, too.  That doesn’t mean I’m really sick.  I can write an entire thesis on the supposed connection between strep throat carriers and autistic children, but it doesn’t mean it’s true.

My point is, the medical profession and their researchers are becoming increasingly arrogant to believe that just because they say something is so, we need to believe it and never question them.  I know this is one report and one article, but honestly, how many times do you read or see some kind of advertisement that wants you to try something new, simply because you “might” be expressing those symptoms?

THAT’S unhealthy, and something incredibly arrogant in the current pharmaceutical and medical professions.

I leave you with this:  Please don’t hesitate to question your doctors.  They are human and second opinions are well-respected.  Don’t fall for this claptrap that someone puts online about “depressing states”.  If you feel depressed, yes of course, get whatever help you need and I’m sure you (and especially West Virginia) have a medical professional or at least a counselor within at least 100 miles that can help.  Do not forget the power of friends and family, or if you’re religious, the higher power of your faith.

What have you seen recently that has been a solid representation of irresponsible medical advertising?

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Scottish Government response to the Calman Commission

Mike Russell used his speech at the Constitution Unit on Monday night formally to launch the Scottish Government’s response to the Calman Commission’s report.  The response is available here, and a press release summarising Russell’s speech is here. A video podcast will be available on the Constitution Unit’s website, probably early next week.

The response is largely unsurprising.  The Scottish Government is critical of the narrowness of remit of the Commission because of its refusal to consider independence, and of the limited scope of its recommendations for fiscal autonomy.  It is more welcoming of its practical proposals to extend the scope of devolved powers, limited as they are.  It does not welcome the small number of cases where the Commission recommended ‘un-devolving’ powers and returning matters such as the definitions of ‘charity’ and ‘charitable purpose’, or regulation of some health professions.  There is a cautious welcome for proposals to enable adaptation of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit to Scottish circumstances.

Perhaps more interesting than what the Scottish Government has said is the fact that it has bothered to say it.  The Calman Commission, after all, reported to the bodies that set it up – the UK Government and the Scottish Parliament.  This response is a convenient way for the Scottish Government to take the debate forward and to identify more clearly areas of disagreement between the Scottish Government and the Commission.  However, that cautious welcome may also increase the perception in unionist circles, particularly in London, that any embrace of the Calman recommendations is simply a further concession to ‘the Nats’ and therefore to be resisted.  (Given the strength of support in Scotland for more devolution not less, that position is wrong and indeed counterproductive, but it has a lot of supporters on both Conservative and Labour sides of the divide in London.)

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The BBC reports that formal nominations are being sought in the Northern Ireland Assembly for a Justice Minister, the next stage in the long-running saga of trying to devolve justice and policing there.   The Beeb mentions David Ford, leader of the Alliance Party, as the most obvious candidate (though I’ve heard several other Alliance MLAs mentioned in that context too).  We might start to get some idea of who is in the frame next week.

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Letter, To: "My dear Grace" From: Mary Elizabeth Kite, April 15, 1925.

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o encourage the integration of people and nature, my Capstone Project promotes public awareness about naturals lands. This project involved the design, development and production of a self-guided nature trail brochure of a vernal pool ecosystem and its surroundings at Henneken Lake, Fort Ord, California. The brochure was designed to help the community and visitors to the area become more aware of nature and the environment. With this new awareness, the hope is that it would increase people's compassion for the environment and ultimately promote public action to protect and preserve our natural lands. The preliminary feedback that I obtained from an informal field test and the comments I gathered from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) suggest that this will be a successful tool in promoting public awareness about the area. The BLM plans to implement the self-guided nature trail brochure during the early part of 2000. Further study needs to be conducted in order to measure the effectiveness of this particular project. This could be accomplished by conducting pre- and post-tests to two target audiences. I recommend selecting one audience that does not possess a scientific background and another audience that does possess a scientific background. To be considered effective, the post-test scores would need to be higher than the pre-test scores for both groups. This level of effectiveness would suggest that the participants learned something new about nature or became more aware of the Henneken Lake area.

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[Challenge] Anagram Detector

My solution in Java

import java.util.Arrays;
class Input{
    static int find(String x, String y){
        String s1=x.replaceAll("\\s","");
        String s2=y.replaceAll("\\s","");
        boolean state=true;
            char[] s1Array=s1.toCharArray();
            char[] s2Array=s2.toCharArray();
            return 1;
            System.out.print("Not anagrams");
            return 0;
class Anagram{
   public static void main(String...s){

Following steps are involved in the code:
1. Remove the white spaces using Regex
2. Convert the Strings into character arrays
3. Sort the characters in the array
4. Use the equals() method to check for matches
5. Return "1" if they are anagrams and "0" if they are not anagrams

Since the input is guaranteed to be strings of spaces and uppercase letters, removing the spaces and comparing the sorted strings will do in Python 3:

def isanagram_slow(s1, s2):
    if [a for a in sorted(s1) if a!=" "]==[b for b in sorted(s2) if b!=" "]:
        return 1
    return 0
#    return 1 if sorted(s1)==sorted(s2) else 0

This is inefficient but compact easy version. Should whitespace be treated like any other char, the hashed line is the whole function in an even more compact form.

Intermediate difficulty version:

def isanagram(s1, s2):
    A=[0 for i in range(27)]
    B=[0 for i in range(27)]
#    A=[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
#    B=[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    for i in s1:
        if i == " ": pass
#        if i == " ": A[0]+=1
        else: A[ord(i)-64]+=1
    for i in s2:
        if i == " ": pass
#        if i == " ": B[0]+=1
        else: B[ord(i)-64]+=1
    return 1 if A == B else 0

A & B will hold the amount of char occurencies in each string. In this case, position 0 counts spaces, others count letters. According to wikipedia, whitespaces don't count (eg "A B C" == "ABC") so I pass them, but they can be enabled by uncommenting the hashed tests.

Should list comprehension be considered to put a dent in the O(m+n) time for shorter strings, A&B arrays can be defined like the hashed examples. The code could easily be scaled to handle all the chars recognized by Python at the memory cost of 2*1,114,111 bytes (valid chr() range according to docs) for the A & B arrays.

Explanations are in comments.

Hi, my first challenge :smiley: Solution on python:

def anagram_tester(s1,s2):
  if len(s1)!=len(s2):
    return 0
  s = [0]*23
  for a in s1:
  for a in s2:
    if s[ord(a)-ord('A')]<0:
      return 0
  if sum(s)==0:
    return 1
  else:return 0
print ("Anagram? %d" % anagram_tester(s1,s2))

It’s basically creating a list of the number of presences of each letter and increment on the first word and decrement on the second, the result should be that first there’s no negative numbers, and second the sum should be zero.

Any comments appreciated.

Link to Python code on repl.it:
Anagram Tester from Anupama.

ifelse loop logic within the function:

# 1) if length of the two strings do not match, then the strings are NOT anagrams. Stop checking. (iteration = 1)
# 2) if the number of unique letters in the two strings are NOT equal, then strings are NOT anagrams. Stop checking. (iteration = 2)
# 3) Convert to upper case and Sort the strings. The two strings should match at every index. If not, they are not anagrams. Stop checking. (iteration = 2 + length(string1) )

O = (number of iterations) = length(string1) + 2

Raw code:

def anagramfn(a, b, strflag):
  if(len(a) != len(b) ):
    strflag = strflag + 1
  elif len(''.join(sorted(set(a.lower()))) ) != len(''.join(sorted(set(a.lower()))) ):
    strflag = strflag + 1
    a = a.upper()
    a = ''.join(sorted(a))
    b = b.upper()
    b = ''.join(sorted(b))
    ptr = 0
    while(ptr < len(a)):
      if(a[ptr] != b[ptr]):
          strflag = strflag + 1
      ptr = ptr + 1
  if strflag > 0:
    print("NOT Anagrams")
  else :

# initialize test strings:
a = 'practi ce'
b = 'ce racpti;'

# initialize flag to indicate whether the two strings are anagrams or not.
# strflag = 1 implies the strings are true anagrams.
strflag = 0

# accept the two strings:
print("Anagram Tester")
a = input("Input String1: ")
b = input("Input String2: ")

anagramfn(a, b, strflag) ;

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Like last week, I thought I would take a slightly more functional approach to this challenge, and like most people, I figured comparing two sorted lists is the way to go. While a lot of people just used Python’s sorted() function, I figured that if I want to make things more interesting, I could implement my own quicksort function. The quicksort I used is inspired by the elegant Haskell implementation of quicksort. Here it is:

Now for a quick explanation:

First, I define the quickSort function, which takes a pivot (the first element in a word or list) and then creates two lists, one of which contains all the values in the list after the pivot greater than or equal to the pivot, and one of those values less than the pivot. Then, it puts the pivot between these lists and sorts both of these lists using the same method recursively.

The actual anagram function is pretty straightforward. All that this does is convert the supplied words into a usable format, sorts them, and compares them to see if they are the same. If they are, then they are anagrams, otherwise they are not.

Finally, let’s talk about efficiency. I realize that this is definitely not O(M + N), since it uses quicksort, which is at best O(NlogN). This program is probably slower than this, though, due to the other stuff involved, but the purpose of this exercise for me is to practice my functional programming skills with Python, so I don’t mind the slowness.

Note: here is the wikipedia article on quicksort for anyone looking to read about it in more depth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort

A post was merged into an existing topic: Validation for incorrect inputs

A solution in Python which has a O(n+m) time complexity. It iterates through the first string and counts up the occurences of each character, and then does the same for the second string but decrements the count instead. If the two strings are anagrams then the count for every character should be 0.

Decided to handle all 128 ASCII codes so that the function works with all ASCII characters and not just capital letters, and it removes the need to subtract a base value from each of the ASCII values to convert it to a 0-based index.

def is_anagram(s1, s2):
    # can return 0 immediately if the strings are different lengths
    if len(s1) != len(s2):
        return 0
    # for counting the ASCII characters 0 to 127
    counts = [0]*128
    # increment the count for each character in the first string
    for c in s1:
        counts[ord(c)] += 1
    # decrement the count for each character in the second string
    for c in s2:
        counts[ord(c)] -= 1
    # the strings are anagrams if all the counts cancel each other out
    return 0 if any(counts) else 1

There is a simple optimisation to check that the strings are the same length at the start of the function; if the strings are different lengths then they cannot be anagrams. Would be significant improvement for very big strings.

A totally inconsequential optimisation (but why not) is the use of the any() function instead of sum(). It is ever so slightly faster as it only needs to do a comparison with 0 instead of addition, and it does lazy evaluation, meaning it will return as soon as a non-zero value is found.

%timeit sum([0]*128)
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.48 µs per loop

%timeit any([0]*128)
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.07 µs per loop

%timeit sum([1]*128)
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.47 µs per loop

%timeit any([1]*128)
1000000 loops, best of 3: 764 ns per loop

Out of interest, I compared the runtime with a solution that use sorting to compare the strings (shown below). The time complexity for sorting is O(n log(n)), but for short strings the function below is faster. The point where the function above is faster is about strings of length 70 on my laptop.

def is_anagram(s1, s2):
    return 1 if len(s1) == len(s2) and sorted(s1) == sorted(s2) else 0

I had this idea as well, but I don't think it works! Just adding up the ASCII values would mean it would see these two strings as anagrams, "AD" and "BC".

I thought maybe you can use the product but it would only work if each letter was represented by a prime number and the calculation of that product would probably make the function slow compared to the other methods, especially for large strings.

Here is my entry using Python 3.6.1 hosted on repl.it:

My first bit of thinking was to be sure to get the input from the user and prompt them as to what words they would like to compare. I then assigned another set of variables equal to the original input ran through the built-in .upper() function, to guarantee that the function would be handling uppercase letters, as per the challenge rules. Next up was converting the strings into lists with a for loop to iterate through each of the words and append each iterated item to the appropriate list. After assigning the lists to sorted versions of themselves, I then compared the sorted lists to each other and returned 1 for anagrams, and 0 for not anagrams.
Code below for those who do not wish to follow links:

def anagram():
    #ask the user for words to compare
    print('What two words would you like to compare and see if they are anagrams?')
    print('First word: ')
    word1 = str(input())
    print('Second word: ')
    word2 = str(input())

    #converts the strings from the user to uppercase
    word1Upper = word1.upper()
    word2Upper = word2.upper()

    #creation of empty lists for conversion from strings to lists
    word1u = []
    word2u = []
    #for loops do the work of making lists from the strings
    for char in word1Upper:

    for char in word2Upper:

    #sorting the letters into sequential order so that Python can compare the lists
    word1u = sorted(word1u)
    word2u = sorted(word2u)

    #condition that compares the sorted lists to each other to see if they match
    if word1u == word2u:
        #returns 1 if they match
       """ print('anagram')"""
       return 1

       """ print('not an anagram')"""
        #returns 0 if they don't
       return 0

    #print(word1u, word2u)

Time complexity was not taken into consideration when devising this solution as I’m still definitely a beginner.

Here is my simple code in PHP.

  1. Then the string length, if it is same then it will proceed to next step.
  2. Then using a for loop, checked each character of the string 1 against string 2 in the reverse order.

function find_anagram ($sample_string1, $sample_string2)
	$string1 = str_replace(' ', '', $sample_string1);
	$string2 = str_replace(' ', '', $sample_string2);
	$str_len1 = strlen($string1);
	$str_len2 = strlen($string2);
	else {
		$c = $str_len2-1;
		for($i = 0; $i<$str_len1; $i++)
			If ($string1[$i] != $string2[$c])
	echo $flag . "<br />";
find_anagram("amma", "amma");
find_anagram("asdf", "asdf");

Just a note to anyone using a SORTING FUNCTION this is not O(n + m), so you might want to look for a different solution.

ES6 / Javascript Solution:

  1. My function takes two strings as arguments. It loops through first one and creates a Map object to store frequencies of each letter in string (“letter => occurance” pairs).
  2. Then the function loops through second string decreasing these values - if any value is not already in our Map or the value becomes less than 0, then loop stops because we know the words can’t be anagrams.
  3. In worst case scenario the loop finishes and then function checks if any value in our Map is left greater than 0 - if yes, then the words are not anagrams. Otherwise they are.

I chose Map object, because i needed (key, value) pairs and hence i knew I wanted to iterate over the values it was easier to use Map rather than regular Object. It also provides quick access of values which was exactly what i needed.
The function takes into account that anagrams can have different space character counts. The second for loop stops immediatly if it finds a letter that does not occur in our Map or frequency of this particular letter became greater than it was in the first string.
Time complexity is O(n+m). Tests provided. Thanks for reading!

My submission is in Python 3.

I decided to use a dictionary to keep track of the letters used in each of the two candidate strings.
For the first candidate string, I increment the letter count,
and for the second candidate string, I decrement the letter count.
If the two candidates are actually anagrams of each other, then all the counts should end up zero.
This can be easily checked with the any() function.

Here is my code:

def are_anagrams(a,b):
    letters = {}
    for c in a:
        if c.isupper():
            letters[c] = letters.get(c, 0) + 1
    for c in b:
        if c.isupper():
            letters[c] = letters.get(c, 0) - 1

    if any(letters.values()):
        return 0
        return 1
print("\""+"BRITNEY SPEARS"+"\"", "\""+"PRESBYTERIANS"+"\"", are_anagrams("BRITNEY SPEARS", "PRESBYTERIANS") )
print("\""+"DEDUCTION"+"\"", "\""+"DISCOUNTED"+"\"", are_anagrams("DEDUCTION", "DISCOUNTED") )
print("\""+"CLINT EASTWOOD"+"\"", "\""+"OLD WEST ACTION"+"\"", are_anagrams("CLINT EASTWOOD", "OLD WEST ACTION") )
print("\""+"DICTIONARIES"+"\"", "\""+"NEAR IODIOTIC"+"\"", are_anagrams("DICTIONARIES", "NEAR IODIOTIC") )

And here is the corresponding output:

Here is a link to my repl.it:

I also have a run where I capture some timing metrics:

def are_anagrams(a,b):
    letters = {}
    for c in a:
        if c.isupper():
            letters[c] = letters.get(c, 0) + 1
    for c in b:
        if c.isupper():
            letters[c] = letters.get(c, 0) - 1

    if any(letters.values()):
        return 0
        return 1

from timeit import timeit
f = open("bible.txt")
j = 1
for i in range(7):
    d = f.read(j)
    e = f.read(j)
    print("%d\t%e" % (len(d), timeit("are_anagrams(d, e)", setup="from __main__ import are_anagrams, d, e", number=10)))
    j *= 10

It appears to be O(N) as the size grows:

1       1.185185e-05
10      2.330863e-05
100     2.200493e-04
1000    2.495999e-03
10000   1.445293e-02
100000  1.419389e-01
1000000 1.397571e+00

so the 'aab' is anagram of 'abb' in your code? :wink:

Thank you artysta,
I used some seriously flawed logic there. I came up with a new solution, which seems to work fine now :smiley:

This is just a proof of concept, without sorting…

>>> x = "ANAGRAM".replace(" ", "")
>>> y = "NAG A RAM".replace(" ", "")
>>> y = list(y)
>>> z = []
>>> for i in x:
	if i in y: z.append(y.pop(y.index(i)))

>>> len(y) == 0

Will work on refinement and get this into function form. Looks like O(n + m), now.

def is_anagram(base, test):
    # are they string inputs?
    if type(base) != str or type(test) != str: raise TypeError

    # strip space characters
    base = base.replace(' ', '')
    test = list(test.replace(' ', '')

    # test is a list in order to allow `pop()`

    for char in base:
        if char in test: test.pop(test.index(char))
    # test will have no characters left if is anagram of base
    return len(test) == 0

print (is_anagram("JIM MORRISON", "MR MOJO RISIN"))     # True
print (is_anagram("JAMES MORRISON", "MR MOJO RISIN"))   # False

This is my code in python. Anagram detection is made simply counting letters in each string, and if the same letters are equal in both strings, they are anagrams.

I'm using arrays because accessing an array member is faster than accessing a hash member. And using the ascii of the letter made it direct into the array. So, when I find an 'C' in the string, for example, I modify the 3rd element in the array (ord('C') - ord('A')), incrementing it for the first string, and decrementing it for the second. At the end, if the array of counters sums 0, the strings are anagrams.

def anagram(s1, s2):
counts = [0] * (ord('Z')-ord('A')+1)

   for i in range(len(s1)):
      if ord('A') <= ord(s1[i]) <= ord('Z'):
        counts[ord(s1[i]) - ord('A')] += 1

   for i in range(len(s2)):
      if ord('A') <= ord(s2[i]) <= ord('Z'):
        counts[ord(s2[i]) - ord('A')] -= 1

   if sum(counts) == 0:
      return 1
      return 0

s1 = input("string 1: ").upper()
s2 = input("string 2: ").upper()

if anagram(s1,s2) == 1:
   print("anagram found")
   print("anagram not found")

I think this approach is O(m+n), as suggested.

Ooops, I just figure an error. Code must be:

def anagram(s1, s2):
   counts = [0] * (ord('Z')-ord('A')+1)

   for i in range(len(s1)):
      if ord('A') <= ord(s1[i]) <= ord('Z'):
        counts[ord(s1[i]) - ord('A')] += 1

   for i in range(len(s2)):
      if ord('A') <= ord(s2[i]) <= ord('Z'):
        counts[ord(s2[i]) - ord('A')] -= 1

   for i in counts:
      if i != 0:
         return 0

   return 1

s1 = input("string 1: ").upper()
s2 = input("string 2: ").upper()

if anagram(s1,s2) == 1:
   print("anagram found")
   print("anagram not found")

Because it's possible have a sum = 0, and members not zero (-1 y 1, for example)


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47 Plus 2

Dear Eric,

A friend of mine referred to your 49th birthday as “47 Plus 2.” It’s an interesting vantage point in which to view each February 3rd, all the February 3rds that you will never share with me. And I, with you. This is your second birthday absent from this life, and I can’t help but think of all the ways we would have celebrated the last one, this one, and certainly the next one.

For this one, you probably would have gone to the Super Bowl. Just sucked it up…all the cost and hassle…and gone. Even to a place like Minnesota in February. Maybe your friend Tom, who lives there, would’ve joined you for the game. Maybe you would have wanted me to go with you. Maybe Sean. But regardless, I bet that this one would have been the one where you decided that you’d at last earned the right to go. And Tom Brady is 40 so you had better just do it before the sky, at long last, falls down on him…like it eventually does to everyone.

The next one? Well, that’s easy. I bet we would’ve planned a trip. Maybe an extended family affair on a cruise ship, even if just for a few days. We’d go some place warm, probably the Caribbean, so everyone could mostly afford it and enjoy themselves. If someone couldn’t afford it,

IMG_4272.jpg you would have offered to pay the way. You would have wanted to be around your family for your 50th, I have no doubt. You would have wanted to share the fruits of your hard work with all of them. And we would have had a great time.

It’s quiet today at Topsail Beach in North Carolina. The girls and I are here to get away from the relentless sadness of your absence and the constant rat race of our three respective lives to watch the perfect sunrises on this beach – sunrises that you will never see – and toast a Jack and Ginger toward St. Croix – where the beach bar is sitting, the one we will never buy together. We will eat a piece of strawberry cake, your favorite. Abby baked one and then messed up the “Happy Birthday Dad” because the icing tip broke. So it just says, “Happy.” Does that not describe the absoluIMG_7717.jpgte joke of this all? The joke on us? “Happy?”

You’d be proud of our girls and how strong they have been, how they are both carrying on with their young lives on their own paths. Abby will move out on her own soon, is working full time in a major hospital, and is stillin school, doing school on her own dime and with her own pace. She might even get engaged this year. Your dad wants the young man to call him before he asks her, though. He’s doing the things you would have wanted him to do for you. Pook is in her last semester at App and then headed to Africa with the Peace Corps after graduation. That will be better than a Master’s program or some entry leIMG_4052.JPGvel job in some company somewhere. She is living the kind of life that she believes in – and that is exactly what you would’ve wanted for her.

And me? Well, I write. I work to help the girls. I walk and feed the dogs. I run a lot of miles – up to 31 miles a week now. I hike. Sometimes alone and sometimes with a friend. I seek adventure. I seek adrenaline rushes. I seek something, anything, to feel alive. Dori OP (39).JPGA touch of grace from the universe, a spark of hope from the kindness of another, a connection to peace and love and understanding and acceptance. I try to go out and build upon a few friendships, some new, some older. I applied to Grad School. I’ve been invited to compete for a spot in the SBI Academy. I read. I read a lot. I remember. I reminisce. I wrestle with demons. I keep trying to get up each day with a sense of possibilities. Some days, that doesn’t go so well. I have learned that I can care again. But its sparingly. I suppose that’s progress.

I’m still terribly angry. And the loneliness, the emptiness, the insecurities and anxiety. There’s still a long parade of pain to work through.

You don’t visit me much anymore, but one recent rough night, I begged for you to come by. To remind me of your promise that you’d always be with me. The next morning, Stretch sat staring at that blank space on the wall again. Just staring. Looked at me, looked at the wall.IMG_4213.jpg Looked at me, then sat staring at the wall.

So, thanks. I know you were just letting me know that you haven’t gone anywhere, like you promised that one time as we sat together on the coffee table in the living room, the last time you held my hand. But you know what? Much of the time, it feels like you have left me. So, you need to step it up. Because I deserve better than that. And I know you know that.

My fear is that I’m relegated to an emptiness and loneliness that I may never be able to extricate myself from. No matter what I want in life. No matter what you’d want for me. No matter where I go and what I do and who I meet. And God knows, I’ve tried. I really have. I suppose I need to keep trying until I either free myself, or die, which ever comes first. But I’ve also come to realize this dark and sad possibility…maybe there is a loneliness so deep that it simply cannot be filled with anyone or anything.

Holes – even big, deep, infinite, soul-sucking black ones – certainly have their purpose.

We miss you. I miss you. “Happy” (47 Plus 2).

Love you forever,

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I'm pleased to be on the panel with someone from the correctional service. I'll provocatively state however that i'll be looking forward to find out what it is that the correctional service actually corrects. In my view, very little. And I completely agree the justice system is completely criminal, and it should be studied that way. So, what do we see when we look at addictions? Many of the addicts in the downtown east side, the ones that the police spend their time chasing in the streets, are actually people who suffer from sever post traumatic stress disorder. People self medicate depression. Prozac is intended to increase the levels of serotonin. Cocaine also elevates serotonin level. People use cocaine to self medicate depression. What dexedrine does, or ritalin, is it elevates the level of dopamine. It actually calms down the hyperactive brain. What does cocaine do? What does nicotine do? Or crystal meth, or caffeine? It elevates dopamine levels. People self medicate ADHD. A good 30% of the people in jail in this country suffer from ADHD. That's why they're there! I mean, you do a brain scan on people who are experiencing a moment of emotional rejection; the same part of the brain will light up as if you stuck them with a knife. So the first question is not: "Why the addiction?", but "Why the pain?" You wanna know why the pain? I don't have a single female patient on the downtown east side who wasn't sexually abused as a child. That's why the pain. Because all the addiction substances are actually pain relievers. Cocaine is a local anasctetic. The men were also abused, If not sexually, then physically, and emotionally and abandoned, and neglected. The child has got very limited means of surviving the trauma. One way to survive it is to deaden his emotions because otherwise they are too overwhelming, he can't live with that much pain. Essentially what we're doing in this country, with our so called justice system, is we're punishing people and jailing them for having been abused in the first place. And this is what the canadian government is now spending 10 billion dollars on, building more jails, for these people, while they're starving the social system of support for kids with learning disabilities, kids with family problems, kids with behavior problems. Those services are being cut in the name of economic... what? But why do we have receptors for a derivative of a poppy plant? Well of course the answer is we don't. We have receptors for our own opiates. And there's a term for that; our own opiates are called endorphins. Why do we have that? First of all, they're pain relievers, physical and emotional pain relievers. You have to have pain in this life, pain is an important warning, you also have to have some internal pain relief because too much pain is unbearable. Number two, opiates are the reward and pleasure chemicals. So when you have an esctatic, gleeful, an orgasmic experience, whether physical or emotional, you have opiates. Now that's important for human life because without pleasure and reward life becomes, as you can imagine, rather difficult. The third function of opiates is also the most important one, It can be summed up in one word: love. Without opiates there's no experience of connection, attachement, and love. Now, that's not a luxury. In fact, love is a basic emotion without which life is impossible. Love is a basic emotion without which life is impossible. Now I want you to consider the following question: If a human being comes to the conclusion that without this particular substance, he or she will have no experience of pain relief, pleasure and reward, love and connection, just exactly how are you going to take that away from them? By putting up a billboard saying "Just say no"? Same with the dopamine system. It's essential in motivation and incentive. So dopamine flows whenever you're seeking food, seeking a sexual parter, exploring a novel environment. Food seeking will increase your dopanime levels by 50%, sex by 100%, a shot of cocaine by 300%, and crystal meth by 1200% Imagine a kid then who comes to the intuitive conclusion that without that chemical, he has no experience of vitality, curiosity, aliveness, motivation and incentive. How are you gonna take that away from him? By putting him in jail? By punishing him? There are a number of brain circuits involved in addiction. Impulse control is the capacity not to act on an impulse. When you do brain scans on drug addicts, that's not functioning well. So you're looking at people's brains that are actually not capable, relatively speaking, of withstanding the impulse. Because along with the many myths around addiction, one of them is that drugs are addictive. Well clearly, that's ridiculous. Most of you can go into a hospital and be given large quantities of morphine, If you need it, and once the problem is dealt with, you're off the morphine and you barely even suffer withdrawal. Nicotine, food, sex, gambling, shopping; none of these are inherently addictive. In other words, the addiction doesn't happen because of the substance. So the whole emphasis of the legal apparatus on interdicting the substance is completely beside the point. The real issue that I'm raising here is what makes somebody succeptible. Turns out that the human brain, for the most part, develops under the impact of the environment. The person's stress response. It's when people are stressed that they go off and do something harmful to themselves, like eat too much, or do a drug. The stress regulation mechanism of the childs brain is actually programmed because the dopamine receptors of the brain depend on the emotional states of the mother during pregnancy, and early in life. The neccessary condition for the development is the presense of non stressed, non depressed, emotionally available, parenting caregivers, which is precisely what the addict never had. What's adverse childhood experience? Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, death of a parent, a rancorous divorce, violence in the family, addiction in the family, a parent being jailed. For each of these adverse childhood experiences, the risk of addiction in the adult goes up exponentially, so that by the time a male child has had six of these adverse childhood experiences, his risk of becoming a substance dependant addict is 4600% greater. That's a 46 fold increase based on childhood adversity. These are then the people who's brains are susceptible, who are lacking these systems when they develop, when they meet a substance... (sighs) ...It's the answer to their life's prayer. One sex trade worker; she said, "The first time I did heroin it felt like a warm soft hug". And that's exactly what it was It follows therefore that choice has nothing to do with it. It's all based on early experience. Genes have nothing to do with it. I shouldn't say nothing. There are genes that predispose to certain behaviors. Predispose though is not the same as predetermine. See, the media love these genetic stories. So as soon as somebody discovers the "alcoholism gene", It goes on the cover of Time magazine. Three years later it turns out that nobody dicovered anything of the sort. That goes in some back little article... and the violence genes! Kids who are violent are more likely to have a certain genetic variant. But it turns out if these kids are brought up in families without violence or abuse, they're less likely to be violent then others. So it takes a combination of abuse and that gene to create the violence. Same with addiction. So, genes don't determine- In fact, there's a whole science called "Epigenetics". The influnces that override genetics are far more important that what the genes say themselves. So the genetic argument and the choice argument are simply cop outs that prevent us from looking at what actually happens, nothing genetic about it. There were addictive substances in North America prior to the coming of the caucasians; peyote, there was tobacco, there were even alcoholic spirits; there was no addiction. After that massive dislocation, the historical horror that befell the aboriginals in North America, that's when addiction becomes their response to all the pain. So when I go to native communities now, the trauma now is entrenched in the generations, it's passed on multi-generationally. They are destroyed when their lands are taken away, when their movement is restricted, and then on top of that, when they experience generations of sexual abuse in the christian run residential homes. In Thunder Bay there was a woman there from a reserve nearby, she said that on her reservation there are 188 people, 133 are addicted. And it's simply a legacy of what happened to them and what continues to happen to them. Again, the assumption when it comes to addictions is that these people have to hit rock bottom, they have to be punished, and so on, and then they'll see the light. No, they don't. What's rock bottom for somebody who lives in the downtown east side? With hiv, having lost everything? What's the rock bottom that they're gonna have to hit? People don't need rock bottom, they need the very opposite. They have to have some confidence, some hope of victory. Victory is when you're treated like a human being, when you can look upon yourself with some compassion, when you realize that despite all that's happened to you, and despite all that you've done, you're still a worthwhile human being. That's not the kind of victory our system gives people. The politicians thrive from creating enemies out of the most abused segments of the population. They thrive on creating fear of them. When you marginalize our society, criminalize people, impoverish them, you are simply making sure that they're gonna stay addicted. For the most part, the system is almost designed to keep people entrenched in misery. We're busy building jails. We have to get our priorities straight, right? The british government cut programs for addicted youth in the north (sighs) but it's got money to support olympic athletes. Now you tell me what our priorities are. Look, the use of psychoactive drugs has increased exponentially in the last several decades, including with children. In the states right now there are 3 million kids on stimulant medications for ADHD. There are a half million kids on heavy duty anti-psychotics. Not because they're psychotic, but because we don't know how to control their behavior. Because their environment has become so toxic for them that they simply are acting out all the time. There's a so called "biological psychiatry" these days; giving drugs to change people's biology. But the understanding that the human psychology, the interpersonal neurobiology, that the neurobiology, the biology of our nervous system, depends very much on our relationships; that's completely ignored in medical practice. That's the reality. When you ask me how to change that, I have no idea! I mean, I can talk till I'm blue in the face. I'm not pessimistic about it in the long term I think at some point sanity will prevail. But the short term outcome is very dismal as far as I'm concerned. When you look at the suicide rate, the school drop out rate, the incarceration rate, and our country is spending 11 billion dollars in jails. What's needed first of all is a massive shift of attitude. We spend I don't know how many billions on supposedly bringing freedom, and justice, and education, to the Afghanis. Oh, what a joke. In other words, it would take a massive reorientation of priorities, and a massive commitment to be a bit humble and honest about what we're doing and what we've done. We haven't even begun to address that. My message is not to wait for the government to do any of that cause it ain't going to happen anytime soon. They're going to have to confront the abuse in their own communities, you know, without shame, without self blame, but they're gonna have to confront it. Because without confronting the abuse question they're never gonna confront the addiction question either. That's the first step. If we had that shift of perspective I think the possibilities would be infinite... Would be infinite... Be infinite... Infinite... Edited by www.theinfinityes.com

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Gabor Maté specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and is also widely recognized for his unique perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder and his firmly held belief in the connection between mind and body health.

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Discover Kabbalah Part 2 Class 6 : Rav on Tithing

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Rav on Tithing (Audience question - can we go back to the example again of the person you were talking about, with the giving of money with the person who has much less but gives the same percentage as the person with more did we arrive at that, it was equal sort of) Absolutely. Because in the revelation of Ein Sof there is no fragmentation the fragmentation are in our own illusionary minds. (Audience question - Okay so for a minute there I thought we said that the person with the less who gave an equal share, revealed more.) He reveals the totality right? In other words, how do, why does it say you must give 10%? In the Torah, it says you must give 10% of your earnings, right? Why 10%? Why not 20%? Why not 50%? Why not 2%? Why did they arrive at this figure? Arbitrarily? 1 tenth we know. 1 tenth must have something to do with sefirot which is true. That's the secret. You know the same reason that the telephone dial system works on 10, right? Seems to to be complete. So I'm not going to go into the full, the full implication of the 1 tenth but what it's saying is, the amount of sharing, of what has been earned the amount of restriction taking place is sufficient to create that circuitry. 10%. Now whether it's a million dollars or a dollar. That 10% causes circuitry. Like the 5 watt bulb. Does it have to have the capacity of handling all the electricity? To create circuitry? No. What is required? The restriction. The sharing. That's all that's required. What do you reveal? Circuitry. Circuitry is circuitry. There is no half circuitries. There is no 1 quarter circuitries but how do you determine. The bulb we know, the scientist has perfected the bulb how a 5 watt bulb handles circuitry. How do we handle circuitry? I mean, are we a, are we a station for circuitry? The answer is yes. I say in Wheels of a Soul, marriage is a circuit of energy. It's not getting married. It's supposed to generate energy. Sometimes it generates, you know, prisons. But, you know, it generates. It's positive and negative being brought together. It's marriage. So on that level and that's where we are trying to get to is to understand things in our own life that operate on the same principles. Except, you know you don't, when you're getting a little more spiritual people will say wow you throw off a good vibe. You know, that's getting more spiritual. You're saying there is an energy flow here from this person which is obviously non observable and yet people begin to feel things of that nature. So you talking about, this is what 10% means. When that 10% generates, which generates a total circuitry, it's the same circuitry. But if someone is earning a million and does not give $100,000 he's giving $90,000 he has shared or created a circuitry of a lesser dimension. So he is, in fact generating less circuitry because this is the 10% idea. And why does it work out to 10% is beautiful too but you should begin to imagine you know, we say 99% and 1%. It's really 90 and 10 without going into details.

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Mark Naison debunks Charter School mythology in this episode of Education News. Comparing the Charter School explosion to the subprime mortgage collapse, Naison reveals the startling failures and false promises of the Charter mystique.

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Short teaser from the documentary DMT The Spirit Molecule, about psychedelics, ayahuasca and the intiguing effects of theis specific molecule, N,N-dimethyltryptamine

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BITC / Biodiversity Inventories - Accumulation Curves II

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This talk was presented in the course on Biodiversity Inventories, an advanced course focused on developing complete inventories of species present at sites. The workshop was held in Buea, Cameroon, during 2-5 March 2015. Workshop organized by the Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum, with funding from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation. Instructors included David Blackburn, Rafe Brown, Town Peterson, Mark Robbins, and Moses Sainge

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Vivre en intégrité avec Ren Hurst: Incapacité acquise (sous-titres français)

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New World Sanctuary ... In a world where conformity rules ... One woman ... ... looked within ... ... and found herself ... ... ... ... A woman who became a trailblazer. ... ... Living in integrity with Ren Hurst Hi, Ren here, i'm the author of Riding on the Power of Others and i'm at the New World Sanctuary Foundation and this is probably the 4th video that i've made and today i just want to talk to you a little bit about learned helplessness and how it relates to some of the topics i've already covered. A lot of people don't realize what's possible when you stop controlling horses. And by control i don't just mean the obvious forcing them to do things. I mean the very subtle things we do like halter them every day, the way we micromanage their living areas and the way they're just expected to fall in line and do what they're conditioned to do on a daily basis. And unfortunately because they're in our control, if you exercise even these subtle forms of control, -this is Badaboom crying that you hear- they get to a place where they don't really realize they have much of a voice in their situation. This isn't that much different than a lot of people in society today, so it's really hard to recognize conditioning in an animal if you yourself are a product of conditioned society which brings me to talk about why this work is so important. By freeing up these horses, i've liberated myself to be a free thinker and challenge the norms and that's one of the gifts that this work has to offer. But, i learned helplessness is a real thing. When we're constantly controlled in subtle ways, it keeps us less intelligent than we're capable of being, so sadly to say, most horses you've met that are conditioned with management and halters ans any sort of control devices, even treats, they're not operating at the same level of awareness and intelligence that a free animal is. You can't just have a conversation, you can't just say: "Hey, i don't really want you to stand that close to me" or "Hey, please don't bite me or be aware of your surroundings" you have to rely on training methods and really ridiculous things that aren't necessary when you can just have a conversation. And i'm not saying necessarily that they understand the exact words even though i think a lot of them do to a great extent but if i don't like something that one of the horses do, i don't judge them, i just say "Hey, that's not really cool for me" or just something like that and energetically they understand what i mean because they are aware enough to pay attention to what i'm putting out when i say it. With a typically conditioned horse, you don't really have that, you have to teach them all sorts of ways to just respond to specific stimuli. It's so much easier just to have a conversation and, see this cat and this horse have this conversation all the time. Right now, the cat is biting me because he wants attention-Badaboom, knock it off- And that's all you gotta do and that's how they talk to each other when they're not fighting for survival. And they taught me a lot about this. One of the greatest reward for removing control from the horses lives is that they've become so easy to take care of. I can walk out here and ask any one of these guys if i can trim their feet and they just stand there and let me and hand me their hooves and as a professional trimmer, the contrast is, it's so difficult because when i'm out trimming on a schedule and having to put horses in cross ties or have their owners hold them on the halter just because that horse isn't aware of a different reality, it's so hard to continue doing any of that when i can come home and trim any one of the 19 horses here in less than 20 minutes simply because they walk right over to me, stand completely unencumbered and let me do what i need to do to take care of them. Brings me to another thing, is, horses are not expensive to take care of if you are taking care of them the way biology designed. Horses only really need about 4 things to be healthy and happy in this world. They need free choice access to roughage, the food they are designed to eat, mostly grass available to them at all times, and i know a lot of people are gonna be upset and think, oh my horse overeats and i can't let him do that. Horses only overeat if there's another problem just the way humans do. It's always a sign of an internal stress response, to either pain or some emotional disturbance or something like that so there are ways to correct that but i'm not going to get into it in this video. So, number 1, horses need free access to roughage based food constantly. Number 2, they need to live in an area just big enough to allow them to have as much movement that allows them to move in any way they like as much as they like and without any fear of moving that way. So, some of the most healthy herds i've managed were 5 horses set upon a paddock paradise one 1 acre. But horses don't really need a lot of space. They just need a lot of freedom in their mind and a lot of balance and health in their body. And they will take care of themselves quite well. On top of free choice hay obviously they need access to salt and water. But they need to have companions that they enjoy the company of, not forced friendships like we do so often in domesticated situations and they need proper mechanical hoof care so that their foundation is correct from the bottom up in terms of balance and the way it's affecting the rest of their body. That's really it. So, even if you have zero graze, a healthy horse that you're not using in some way and not having to buy all sorts of crazy supplements and equipment for, costs about a 100$ a month. And trust me, we know, we have 19 horses here, they cost about 2.000$ a month to feed. Which is crazy expensive if you have 19 so i don't suggest that but i get it, when people are scared to stop using horses as a paycheck and do something different because that's what we did and it's hard but we're figuring it out along the way and we're going to turn it into something that really helps other people too. Just remember, i didn't really go into details on learned helplessness because i'm tired and this horse is tired and we just kinda want to take a nap, but there's so much more to this than people realize and i'll keep showing up and i'll keep talking about it a little bit more and break it down more and more but the benefit to this isn't about finding out, oh, i've been doing this horrible thing. I know i've come on these videos and told you, horseback riding isn't vegan, it's harmful, i've destroyed all your lives and you don't know what to do now. Operating the way i do now with these horses has taught me more about love in action and relationship. Not just to horses but to everyone, every one of my personal relationships including and especially the one with myself has improved in ways that i never knew were possible. The sense of inner freedom that i have experienced by allowing these animals to live undomesticated in captivity has changed who i am and for those of you complimenting me, thank you so much but read the book and you'll understand that i really, really had a lot of issues before now that i'm so glad that this work has helped me overcome. There's so much more benefit to me, to loving horses like this than using them in some way. So, i'm really excited for the opportunity to share that and why it's so important, not just for horses, not just for me but for everyone who can see the benefit in learning how to take love and put it into action in all relationships in our lives. Thanks for watching, I'll keep rolling these out. If you have any questions, if you have any topic you want me to cover, send me a message. Boo's gonna fall asleep now. And if you're interested in what we do here, you wanna learn more and wanna help, please go to NewWorldSanctuary.org and consider donating. All of the money goes directly to the horses and if we can just get these horses fed on a regular funding source then we'll be able to use some of the rest of the money that comes through here to develop opportunities for people to come here to learn and so that's what we're trying to do. Thanks so much for helping and thanks for watching again.

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Dependence is Not Bad if There is Dependence on the Proper Place - Prabhupada 0476

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I do not know that my position is to surrender, and that surrendering principle is my life, is my happy life. Just like a small child, if he surrenders to the wishes of the parents, his life is very pleasing, very happy. A young girl, if she surrenders to the wishes of the parents, and... That is the system, Vedic system. A woman, by nature, is dependent. Artificially, if woman wants liberty, then his (her) life is unhappy, her life is unhappy. Therefore Vedic system is... I am not manufacturing, I am speaking authorizedly on the Vedic principle. The Manu-saṁhitā, the law of Vedas, Manu, the master of the humankind, Manu... Manu is the father of the mankind. So he has got his lawbook. That Manu-saṁhitā lawbook is still followed in India so far as the Hindus are concerned. So in that book Manu-saṁhitā, it is stated, na striyaṁ svatantram arhati. He gives the law that woman should not be given independence. Then? What should be the life? The life should be so long she's not married, she must live under the guidance, dependent on the parents. And as soon as she is married, she should live dependent on her husband. And when the husband is gone out... Because according to Hindu system, the husband does not remain at home for all the days, till death. No. When children are grown up, he gives up wife and children and becomes a sannyāsī, just like I have become. I have my children, I have my grandsons, I have my wife still... But I have given up all connection. So how my wife is being maintained? Oh, she has got grown-up children. So there is no anxiety. So dependence is not bad if there is dependence on the proper place. No father neglects to look after the comforts of an unmarried girl, of his unmarried girls and boys. According to Hindu system, a father, mother responsibility ceases after he gets the children married, either daughter or son. So much obligation. Then they are free. So dependence, I am speaking on the dependence. So dependence is not bad; surrender is not bad. I have seen practically that woman surrendering to the husband... Still there are so many women in India, they are so happy and their life is so glorious. So we have to learn how things are to be done. Independence, artificial independence is no good always. Practically, we have no independence. I may think of independence, but practically I have no independence. I am servant of my senses. Kāmādīnāṁ kati na katidhā pālitā durnideśa. We are all serving the senses. So where is my independence? I may declare independence from my father, from my state, from my country, from my community, but I am servant of my senses. So where is my independence? So we should know our constitutional position, that in all circumstances we are dependent. Therefore the best method of my perfection of life is to become dependent on God, Kṛṣṇa. That is the solution of all problems. And Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is that. Try to understand your constitutional position and be surrendered to God, to Kṛṣṇa. Then you'll be happy. Very simple thing. The moment you surrender unto God, immediately you become happy. Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te.

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Prabhupada speaks during a General Lecture - Part 5 in Seattle on October 7, 1968

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Well, today I’ve decided to answer a question that I get asked all the time, namely: What’s it like to drive a Lotus Elise? As you may recall, I drove mine across the United States, which is a distance of roughly 3,000 miles or approximately eleven million incredibly uncomfortable highway expansion joints.

Anyway, my answer to this question is: You can find out for yourself. For free.

Now, before I explain how this is possible, I – as usual – know exactly what you’re thinking. And that is: Did you just make a Hartford Whalers reference? No, that’s not it. What you’re really thinking is: Oh my God, now that he’s charmed us with all these columns, he’s going to try to sell us on some Lotus-related multi-level marketing scheme! But I’m here to tell you that’s grossly inaccurate, because let’s be honest, I haven’t charmed you at all.

Plus, I’m not trying to sell you anything. You really can own a Lotus for free, thanks to two simple Lotus-related truths I’ll describe now. They are:

1. Every single Lotus Elise costs $30,000.

OK, so when I said “for free,” there was a slight catch. And the catch is there might be one or two up-front costs that total, say, thirty thousand dollars. But if you have thirty grand to spend on a car, you can buy a Lotus without any fear of losing a penny. Think of it as a mid-engine, open-roof, Toyota-powered savings account.

The reason for this is that every single Lotus Elise costs $30,000. Yes, I’m aware that some newer models are a bit more, as are some special editions. But the bulk of the used Elise market – 2005 and 2006 models – all cost $30,000, almost completely without regard to petty things like mileage, and color, and the fact that the previous owner autocrossed it every weekend since the Bush presidency.

The crazy thing is the $30,000 price floor isn’t a new phenomenon. The Elise cost $30,000 in 2010. They cost $30,000 when I bought mine in 2011. They cost $30,000 when I sold mine in 2012. And a check of average prices on AutoTrader.com reveals they still cost $30,000 today.

The conclusion here is simple: you don’t need to ask me what it’s like to own an Elise. You can buy one, drive it for as long as you like, and not lose a dime. And that’s especially true when you consider…

2. The Lotus Elise costs practically nothing to own.

Here’s the thing about the Elise: it’s really reliable. This may surprise you, considering it comes from the same country as my Range Rover, which, on occasion, drives from one place to another without an electrical fault.

But you have to remember that the Elise is really just a Toyota under its skin. That’s a Toyota engine, a Toyota transmission, and a bunch of Toyota parts, all screwed together by Japanese people who couldn’t possibly fathom the Lotus automotive assembly strategy of: “Eh. Close enough.”

Sure, there are a few Lotus bits in the car. But who needs the power windows to work? I hope you answered “no one,” because you can pretty much expect they won’t work, and if you shut the door hard enough, they’ll shatter in your face.

Anyway: because of all those Toyota parts, the Elise is pretty cheap to fix and reasonable to work on. The downside, of course, is that people in M3s see you in traffic and yell out “NICE CELICA!”

But back to the bit about owning a Lotus for free. For a real world example, let’s return to my Elise, a 2006 model painted in a shade of bright orange called No, Really I Am Cool! Look at Me! Look at Me! Orange Metallic.

Although I can’t quite remember the exact details, I think I bought it for around $30,000, and sold it six months later, after adding 6,500 miles to the odometer, for $29,500. I probably could’ve eeked out a little more, but I was in a real hurry to buy a Mercedes G-Wagen, apparently because the Elise didn’t make me seem like enough of an asshole on the road.

As for ownership costs, my story is a little different than most. Although my only maintenance expense was an oil change, I bought the car from a seller who failed to tell me that the air conditioning wasn’t working. Unfortunately, I didn’t discover this until I was sitting in a pool of my own sweat. In the Mojave Desert. In July. The result was a $1,500 repair bill because, as stated by my Lotus mechanic, ”It’s an easy part to change out… once we take off the body.”

So I didn’t technically drive my Elise for free, but you can. Just make sure the air conditioning works before you go driving through the desert. And for God’s sake, don’t spend more than thirty grand. After all, it’s just a nice Celica.

@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He operates PlaysWithCars.com. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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Phoenix Street Food Coalition offers food trucks a chance to network locally

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The Phoenix Street Food Coalition, comprised of more than 54 food trucks, offers the chance for the trucks, the community and other local businesses to better each other. (Lillian Reid/DD)

Food trucks have become a stitch in the fabric of downtown’s culinary culture, a growing market in a rapidly expanding industry that pairs outside-the-box creations with mobile eateries.

As food trucks rise in popularity and number, many have banded together over the past two years to create the Phoenix Street Food Coalition.

The coalition’s main goal is to bring food vendors, local businesses and the community together and to shed light on how street food can help cities and local businesses.

Brad Moore, owner of the food truck Short Leash Hot Dogs and chair of the coalition, said he and his wife, Kat, wanted to create an association that would enable all the like-minded individuals in their industry to band together and have strength in numbers.

“(We) wanted the kind of power in numbers and the voice type deal,” he said. “We have a pretty formal organization now. We have bylaws and we have application requirements for people to become members.”

He said the coalition, founded in August of 2010 and made up of at least 54 trucks, wanted to be a business that was about supporting other small businesses.

“One of our requirements is that 30 percent of the menu has to be sourced locally or at least something that is made from scratch,” Moore said.

In addition to sourcing locally, members have to submit their menu and a list of the vendors they use in order to apply.

“They can use local farms or local meat shops or local bakeries that they work with to purvey some of their products,” Moore said.

Scott Schraml, owner and founder of Mojo Bowl, which is part of the coalition, said he thinks it’s important to source products locally for the same reason he hopes people would buy from him—it keeps everyone going.

“We’re local, we’re not franchises or big companies,” he said. “We’re little mom and pop operations and we wanna keep it all in the family so to say.”

Schraml said he sources products used in his salads and parfaits locally.

“Not everything is 100-percent sourced,” he said. “But at least a portion of it is, like the granola which is made by Laura’s Gourmet Granola in Tempe.”

Moore said Short Leash uses some local meat shops and local farms to create their popular menu of hot-dog creations.

“Just kind of a variety of different things,” he said. “Like sometimes you will have some seasonal things that will be available to you, so you use things like that based on seasonality and what’s available.”

He believes that people underestimate not only the marketing power behind sourcing locally, but also the relationships that are forged through it.

“It’s kind of a win-win for everybody and obviously the more local business we support, the stronger economic impact that occurs,” Moore said.

Gwen Smith, owner of Smitty’s, said it’s very important for her to use fresh, local products.

“Everything I cook is fresh,” she said. “The chicken is grilled. I use fresh herbs and veggies and no frozen food.”

Moore said the coalition wanted to build and focus its organization on this small niche market for aspiring entrepreneurs and restaurateurs, which is why one of the other requirements for applicants is that they cannot be a part of a national franchise.

“We’re going to build this organization, so let’s make it about small businesses and let’s try and leverage that,” he said. “We really cater around small, locally owned business and not big national franchises because in my opinion, that’s not what food trucks are about.”

Moore also said that the coalition is continuing to grow and the wait list to be a part of it keeps growing as well.

Smith said she had been trying to become a part of the coalition for almost two months before she was finally allowed to participate in the Wednesday night Open Air Market.

“We kept trying and taking samples,” she said. “There’s no African-Caribbean food here yet, so I figured, they have to let me in.”

The coalition provides more opportunities for food trucks and creates a larger network to work with, Moore said.

Smith and her husband, who is the namesake for the food truck, run Smitty’s as a catering company and she said it was important for her to try be a part of the coalition because she knew the kind of status and opportunity it could give her business.

Schraml agreed, saying, “The Phoenix Food Truck Coalition is the premiere food truck group and the best of the best are a part of this group. I wanted to be in a situation where I would have the greatest exposure.”

Correction: April 24, 2013

A previous version of this article implied that Smitty’s was a recent member of the Phoenix Street Food Coalition, based on the information the reporter gathered from the owner of Smitty’s. According to members of the Phoenix Street Food Coalition, Smitty’s is not a member but has been allowed to attend some of the coalition’s events.

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Suitable fabrics • light or medium weight fabric with drape for both the bodice and the lining. This particular sample was made by Named in 100% Rayon.

Suitable for those with some sewing experience.

The seam allowance is included in this pattern and there are no overlapping pattern pieces.

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Glenn Beck mocks humanity

Just when I think Glenn Beck couldn't sink any lower depth of depravity and inhumanity, he proves me wrong. Again.

On September 29th, firefighters in South Fulton, TN refused to respond to a call to put out a fire that burned Gene Cranick's house to the ground. The local fire chief, David Wilds, stated that the reason no firefighters were dispatched is that he refused to pay an annual $75.00 fee for fire services. Cranick stated that he forgot to pay the fee. In reality, it doesn't matter whether he Cranick forgot to pay the fee or not. Also, the town's mayor, David Crocker (Republican, of course), is reported to have said "You're out of luck" to Cranick. Later that day, Cranick's son sustained an injury to his hand after knocking the living daylights out of Wilds.

Wilds' response to the whole situation? It was a "stressful" and "emotional" day. Cry for me. At least you and Crocker still have a house to live in.

Enter Glenn, who, along with trusty sidekick Pat Gray, mocked Cranick.

I seem to remember Beck talking about the finer points of "faith, hope and charity, the essential teachings of Christ." Where is your heart for charity now, Glenn? More importantly, where are the hearts of firefighters who took an oath to protect life and property, only to watch a fire burn down with three dogs and one cat inside? I can understand a filthy-rich, right-wing coward like Beck having no heart, but to be a firefighter and watch a house burn down?

I took the liberty to browse the Obion County website for directives of this stupid, inhuman policy that county executives have implemented. I came across this pdf and read this:

"The only rural property owners guaranteed to receive fire protection services are those who choose to pay for it. It they choose not to purchase an annual subscription and require fire protection services, they fall on the mercy of a municipal department who provide services on an as needed basis. When such occurs, the responding fire department normally provides those services without compensation."

In other words, David Wilds is a cold-hearted prick who simply chose not to do the right thing. Case closed. Also, although I can't find a reliable source, apparently Obion County firefighters must respond to calls, regardless of whether the $75.00 fee was paid or not. This story should never have made local news, other than firefighters were dispatched to put out a fire at the Cranick residence.

Anyway, I'm proud to live in a country where citizens in financially distressed areas are forced to pay a subscription fee in order to enjoy safety and security when it should be assumed as a common service to all, regardless of income.

Read more about Beck's so-called "charity" here.

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