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I do like community...and while I prefer to be 'invisible', I don't like to be alone. I want to see the research, now...
Group culture protects from depression
from the Press Release page of The Royal Society
28 Oct 2009
Collectivistic cultures, which promote social harmony over individuality, protect people who are genetically predisposed to depression from experiencing the condition. So says a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which looks at how genes and environment can evolve together.
People living in individualistic cultures such as Western societies are more likely to suffer from a genetic tendency for depression than people in Eastern cultures, despite fewer people carrying the specific 'depression gene' being studied, say psychologists Joan Chiao and Katherine Blizinsky from Northwestern University. The research supports the idea that depression can result from both genes and the environment, and an interaction of the two.
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Librettist needed for operetta project (General)
Date: 2009-09-28, 10:24AM PDT
Reply to: gigs-kx4wz-1396463358@craigslist.org
ASCAP composer seeks librettist for collaboration on an original operetta concept.
Libretto experience preferred, but poetry and/or dramaturgical background also acceptable.
Enthusiasm, versatility, and imaginativeness a must.
Familiarity with Broadway and operatic idioms recommended.
Enjoyment of "cult classic" science fiction, horror, and/or dystopian cinema also preferred.
Project seeks to fuse the so-called "New Wave/Neo-Romantic movement" of American opera and musical theatre ("Dead Man Walking", "Harvey Milk", "Little Women"/ "Sweeney Todd", "Wicked") with the idioms of the cinematic styles mentioned above (see the work of George Romero, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg and Roger Corman, among others) to create a truly engaging new work for a new generation of operagoers.
CA [California] residence not required, as most collaboration will likely take place via email, etc.
* Location: General
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: Project is speculative, however, any eventual profits/fees will be divided as close to 50/50 as possible.
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Audio files of authors talking about their books. I discovered it looking for more about Oscar and Lucinda, my "silent movie" for tonight (no sound, because the lad and his family are asleep). But whoa, Nellie, there's a lot of good stuff here!
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Maurice Sendak's Arbuthnot lecture, Descent into Limbo, in the Summer/Fall 2003 issue of ALA's Children & Libraries ??
I'd really appreciate it. I'm slowly transcribing the video http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/65 but a) I keep getting caught up in the lecture and missing my place and b) I can't listen well at work, because 'my' lad is sleeping so no turning up the sound or earphones (the one might disturb him, the other I might miss something, a change in his breathing, for intstance).
Thank you in advance. .doc, .rtf, .pdf- they all work for me. And please let me know if I need to pay you for costs, copying, postage, anything like that.
Pass the word for me? I can really use this transcript for some articles I'm writing for An Ounce of Prevention. Thank you so very very much.
(I'm also looking for an article by Patricia Moccia, RN, from American Journal of Nursing ca 1992, titled "Are We Dying for Nuclear Weapons?" I have a paper copy someplace, but not handy, and not enough time/money to go through ordering it online/uni library. Just in case someone here can access it "free" (your time/trouble will be reimbursed in some way- fic, postcards from Europe, some other research I can do for you) I'm asking. Thanks!)
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Is today. Florence Nightingale's birthday.
In her honor, three things. Gifts for her, maybe, or for all of us.
It's also Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
FM awareness day at Chronic Pain/Karen Lee Richards
Personal story
It's International Nurses' Day. It's ten days until I graduate with my BSN. One thing I have learned over the long haul is, nursing applies to everything, and everything applies to nursing. Florence, with her meticulous data collection and interpretation and the help of a few well-placed friends, brought the British Government to a completely different understanding of how a man wounded at the front should be treated, and why. It took her over a decade just to be heard- she is my model for keeping on keeping on.
All that said: I went back to school to get my BSN after getting my RN because I have a concern, as Quakers say: I'm concerned about the presence of nuclear weapons on the planet. I find them to be the single most expensive public health hazard of our times, and I want them gone. An Ounce of Prevention launched yesterday. This is my professional blog: This is where I am pursuing my goal in connection with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. I am keeping this identity separate from that one for reasons of focus, but you're all welcome to read there, to find me on Twitter and Facebook, and help me help others have better health/lives/world. (Ideas for columns gratefully accepted, caveat being, I'll be writing about it from my angle. Just so we're clear. I can't write the column you would, but I might be able to host it as a guest column. We can talk about it.)
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And how I love the Greenham Common Women.
Were any of you there? Do you know someone who was? Any chance I can interview you/her (possibly him, if he was inside the fence) while I'm over in London or even in e-mail?
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Speak Its Name has a call out for well-written Lesbian Historical Romance.
To further that cause, and in the name of getting the most bang for a buck I can, I'm posting this list of books that are for sale at EnjoyIt which might be useful for research, reading, or sharing. Some lesbian, some historical, some factual, some fiction, some seemingly odd until you realize they're snapshots of a period of time- but if (when? maybe) I attempt something in this vein, these will have been some of my references.
In regard to amazonfail: yes, my shop's an Amazon Associates shop. I'm looking at other places: Alibris.com, Biblio.com, but right now it's still all posted up at Amazon. I'm shipping until May 25th, then it goes on hiatus until mid-July.
To spare the FL, a cut before the list of books, which I hope tickle your imaginations and help produce glorious new works!( Read more... )
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Yes, I'm very happy with the results of my little Amazon Associate reseller shop. Y'all have been just wonderful buying, recommending, and generally supporting my efforts, and I really appreciate it.
But on another hand, Amazon's a business, and it makes business decisions that have social ramifications and implications. Like This one, ref'd in Mark Probst's LJ here and in meta_writer here. Essentially, Amazon's excluding books with homosexual characters from its search index rankings.
Really. This oughta make ohnotheydidn't, the front page of the NYT, and every writer's radar.
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Everybody wants to get into the act:
Harry Potter and the order of the Harman
Published Date: 08 March 2009
By Nicholas Christian
HARRY Potter was looking glum. With a sigh, he picked up his trusty magic wand and muttered: "Magic is one thing, but this will take a miracle."( full article, but go to the site to read the comments because they're snarkily worth it )
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| As seen around and about - that question meme (or one of 'em, anyway) |
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Most of these meme things either intimidate or bore me, but this one caught my eye, I have a moment, so-
Make a list of things you can see around you without getting up: oh man, well, I'm in 'my girl's' apartment's living room, so it's all the usual- sofa, chairs, lamps, tv, plants, stuffed animals and dolls (two of everything, one for her and one for her sister), family photos, computer desk/nurse's desk, wheelchair, kitchen, her nephew's toys for when he comes to see gramma, my junk I bring with me every night... stuff.
How do you style your hair?
I lean over from the waist, brush it all out, stand up and curl it into a knot at the top of my head and hold it with a clamshell clip. Unless, of course, I'm wearing it down and beading the braids in it. Feast or famine.
What are you wearing now?( it's just not that interesting, folks, but what the hey! )
What are you listening to right now?
PBS: The Rat Pack: Conference of Cool. (KQED)
Oh no, now it's Latin Pulse on Best of LinkTV, on KRCB, and it's about Venezuela being on the verge of war with Ecuador and Colombia. :(
But I do love LinkTV- without it I'd never know about The Black Farmer. And I do need to know what's going on in this hemisphere south of Los Angeles. It just makes me sad, more war.
What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
I have to make a list. actually, I'll make a zip, since I'm inundating y'all with links anyway. Ashokan Farewell. Universe. Bibo No Aozora/Endless Flight/Babel. Hymn. I'll See Your Heart and I'll Raise You Mine. Rocks and Water. Same Mistake. The Luckiest. You've Got a Friend. zip
( continuing )
How are you?
Fine. Wishing I could just 'come up with' this last paper for that Damn Critical Thinking Course (c). Tired, and my shoulders ache. Ready to go home/ to come into about $10,000 tax-free/to go back to Europe. Happy enough.
What's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
I got my tickets!!! I'll be there just as we planned.
Say something to the person who tagged you.
No-one tagged me, but to lj user japanpeterpan- I still think there's room in this world (and in my writing life) for some Hook/Pan fic, and by god, one day, I'm going to write it. *nods*
Not going to tag anyone either, but hey- It's been interesting to do.
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Once upon a school (and the history of 826 Valencia and the Pirate Supply Store).
Thanks to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) illuminated_sin for the Proliteracy.org link.
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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
—Dennis Kucinich (from Perceval Press)
I'm not so inexperienced as to think that it's enough to say "Everyone, keep yourself healthy!" Or so negative as to think that it's someone's fault if I get sick, or so naive as to think that doctors should know everything or so cynical as to think all doctors (hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, nursing agencies) are only in it for the money.
But seriously.
I'm very interested- personally as well as professionally- in how health care reaches people, and what people expect "health care" to be. How do I, a registered nurse, make available my knowledge, skills, and experience, if I'm not going to do it within the confines of a hospital system, the state/federal public health system, or an agency? Can I charge for it? Barter for goods or services? What risk do I assume? What risk does someone I work with assume?
On the larger scale, do we, as health care "consumers", have any obligation to stay as healthy as possible, to reduce the pressure on those who provide us with basic health care? When private industry takes over the municipal water supply or the garbage pick-up, how does a citizen ensure his or her neighborhood, town, city is safe and sanitary?
What is possible, at the overarching level of the State? How feasible is employer-based insurance? Insurance in general? What are the obligations of the individual-in terms of caring for oneself, for one's family, community, the organizations that provide care?
One of the things that came up at dinner tonight was that Kaiser Permanente has figured out that, with only 2 percent of medical students planning to go into primary care, it needs to take care of the primary care MDs it already has, since it "needs to make them last", as my friend put it. She is 63, had, 10 years ago, her own practice, which she had to give up when spiraling costs and sinking reimbursements made it impossible to continue and still pay off her medical school debt as well as care for her family.
You know what I'd like? If you would give me your experiences- good or bad, honest, I'm interested in all sides- with health care, lack of health care, health care access, health insurance (employer or government based, US or in another country)- how it's changed for you over time, or depending on your age, or status (student, military, married or not, employed or not, healthy or not, pre-existing condition or evolving condition). It feels to me like there's something in this- an article, or series of articles, at least, for one of the nursing magazines- and, in some paradise of enough time and energy and focus and luck, a book or two or three (perhaps one for nurses, one for the public, and those children's books I so want to write about being healthy, having a healthy community). But I can't write anything with only my own experience- so if you would be willing to share yours, or even point me in the direction of things you know or have experienced, but anonymously- I would appreciate it tremendously.
Of course, I would keep any confidences. That's my obligation as an RN- but more, it's my obligation to you as a person, one person to another.
And on that note... /ramble.
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making progress on the paper for Latina/Chicana film studies. thank goodness. of course, a good deal of it will have to be scrapped and rewritten as a film review and not a nursing research paper (maniacal laugh) but at least it's being written!
i could live without this constant low-grade sinus headache. ah. sonoma county, allergy capital of the world. (or so we style ourselves.) *makes note to get more sinus rinse at market*
am i the only person who has, in their fat bottom, the equivalent of at least ten car-tanks of petrol stored? one of the great freedoms of not being in uni will be having time to walk to the market and shop. *nods*
nothing else atm- am at work, plugging away at paper, and mulling over larger issues such as why it's so hard to define what nurses do and have it be reimbursed well. (not me, but in general, in the world.)
as you were. enjoy your saturday.
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I've mentioned before, I think, about this book about Hans Christian Andersen I found while in San Francisco (of which there are now a very few, not very good pictures, which may or may not be posted at some point).
I enjoy the writer's style- it's a style I grew up with- aspired to!- and find both involves me in the reading and informs me about the subject, while gently showing me ways to improve my own writing. I am equally delighted to know that while she was researching this book- published in 1965- I was pursuing an interest in Denmark which, sadly, had to be laid aside on the precipice of adult life and was not to be picked up again until a few years ago- but I feel as though I can open this book and continue on directly from where I stopped, and that is soothing and happy-making beyond belief, because it feels like I am buying back lost time.
I am parceling it out, this book- it's a reward for finishing a section of uni work. Instead of inhaling it, of moving in and being carried along, I'm journeying with Andersen, walking pace, carriage at the fastest, and it's a wonderful respite from car/uni/television news.
This bit I'm going to share with you tonight (particularly for the struggling writers on my FL, of whatever level of skill or attainment, published or not, in whatever field- fanfiction, academia, journalism) struck me for several reasons: the foreshadowing of a later friendship, perceived by intuition before it became fact. An insightful piece of advice that is no-nonsense, straightforward, and compassionate. And the advice itself, which I find calming for me and which I hope is of some use or value to some of you in your endeavours.
"As a boy of fourteen, newly arrived in Copenhagen, Andersen had once seen Thorvaldsen, who was then visiting his native land. Recognizing him in the street from his pictures, Andersen had taken off his hat to him. Thorvaldsen walked on a few pace, then stopped, turned back, and asked the boy, 'Where have I seen you before? I seem to think we two know each other.' When Andersen later reminded him of this incident, Thorvaldsen smiled, pressed his hand, and said, 'Yes, I must have had a feeling that we two should be friends. ' Thorvaldsen was a leonine character who was popularly supposed to have once told a rival, 'Tie my hands behind my back and I will bite the marble better than you can chisel it,' and he took an immediate liking to his young countryman and gave him excellent advice. He fully understood Andersen's dread of the pedagogic criticism to which he was subjected in Copenhagen and told him: 'Never let that sort of thing touch you. Feel your own strength. Don't be led by public opinion. Go quietly ahead. Peace of mind is essential to creative work. You are unfortunate in needing a public, but this is something the public must never be made aware of, otherwise one becomes prey to its whims. I know what they are like at home. It would have been no better for me had I stayed there. I might have been prevented from working from the nude. Thank goodness I don't need them. If one needs them they know how to torment and irritate one.'"
The Wild Swan: the life and times of Hans Christian Andersen
by Monica Sterling. Harcourt Brace & World, New York. 1965 As always, lots of love, and blessings on your heads. Bertel Thorvaldsen and links to his works here: a general links list and here: images.
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there wanted to be fic written tonight, more in the little au, or perhaps something piratey, or even something not fandom-related at all, but just a story, something unpretentious and light- but the words won't unscramble at the moment, so instead i'm posting a song that moved me terribly over the summer and seems to have settled in for the night's studying, now.
download
( Naked As We Came )
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Laptop is glorious. Feels safer, somehow, to have access at work when my Europeans are up. Feels more practical, too- can do writing for uni, research, while I'm in a more alert state.
Tickets for Europe are bought. That's the bones of getting there and back again- the inside of the trip, and the making my way from Manchester to London [and perhaps as far as Southampton- just need to work that out-] remain to be filled in.
Uni is settling in. I don't read as much as I should, or spend as much time on my actual coursework as I should, and I'm hoping to reverse that trend with my new schedule. But it's fun- not grueling and tedious, but fun.
I need more exercise. Just need it. Want it. Will have it. Have joined the gym for swimming- that'll start this weekend, swimming. Also will be walking more, now the weather's better [yes, I'm a big California baby. I like it above 40, not raining, and not windy as hell before I go for a walk].
Finances are- for the first time in years and years, and mainly thanks to Your Money or Your Life, in reasonable short-term good order. I feel like I can start taking deep breaths about money, and build up a little something to live on as I get older.
I guess that's all. Still updates in The little AU from time to time as the fellows come by and talk to me. I've a MonaBoyd simmering, a bit of Firefly, and some PotC, but nothing really ambitious or exciting.
Hope you are all doing ok. Blessings on your heads.
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Because I will be taking Political Science, and Critical Thinking this Spring Term, some things in my FL and around and about. (Sorry, no lj-cut today ;))
1) The gay rights meme: I dislike the wording of it [posted it last year, and had the wording pointed out to me then- a lot to think about since then]. Suffice to say my son's gay, and I do worry about his rights being restricted because of that.
2) Rudeness in LJ and other places: reading someone's journal is like anything else voluntary: You're free to leave, anytime. No need to flame them, email rude things, or start a brawl in comments. Save your sanity, and just leave.
3) notes from all over:
About the US elections:
from ithiliana13: Gloria Steinem and Melissa Harris-Lacewell on race and gender in presidential politics. Ithiliana says: "Steinem has not done enough to think about racism and intersectional theory, and it shows."
from ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) dark_christian: Mike Huckabee, the Constitution, and 'God's Standards' "(excerpt)[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. (thanks to zorya_speaks) from The New York Times : Dennis Kucinich battles for your right to hear all the candidates, so you can make up your own mind. about US policyUS Joint Chief of Staff would like to see Guantánamo shut down (thanks to nverland and she_gollum for surfacing the story and for keeping Gitmo front and center in my thinking). About thinking:from circe_tigana: A discussion (not stated truths) about the Cassie Edwards/Signet Publishing plagiarism situation, and secondarily, as Circe says, "a case study in the evolution of a created newstory in the internet age i[which] can't be beat." (linked with permission). The Fallacy of NeutralityPlagiarism is a Community IssueThe New P&P: Professionalism and Plagiarism, a not so classic tale of romance. [A woman who, oh, 35 years ago, I took care of in daycare (and am still in contact with), is now a romance and sci-fi writer (among many, many other things), so I'm following this with particular interest because it is close to home.] About writing:from penknife: prompts at the potcfest as well as other ficathons are still available!from dorrie6 ! axial_tilt multifandom pg fanfic exchange- today is last day to sign up</a> Movies I recommend, or want to see, and what I'm reading about movies: Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side; Wonders are Many by Jon Else; Black Light/White Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Steven Okazaki; Sweeney Todd; Comanche Moon; Women in Film by Jeannie Rose. And what is a long, link-filled post without a present or two? Ocean Surf: timeless and sublime by Dan Gibson (will reupload on yousendit soon); and Kindness, by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.
Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~
(Words From Under the Words: Selected Poems)blessings on your heads. all of you.
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