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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Chapters: Habit and impulse disorders, Personality disorders, Trichotillomania, Borderline personality disorder, Psychopathy, Schizoid personality disorder, Management of borderline personality disorder, Antisocial personality disorder, Dependent personality disorder, Narcissistic personality disorder, Avoidant personality disorder, Problem gambling, Idée fixe, Histrionic personality disorder, Obsessive¿compulsive personality disorder, Depressive personality disorder, Passive¿aggressive behavior, Schizotypal personality disorder, Paranoid personality disorder, Kleptomania, Joan Lachkar, Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand, Sadistic personality disorder, Pyromania, Self-defeating personality disorder, Personality disorder not otherwise specified, Queen bee syndrome, National Council on Problem Gambling, Personality pathology, Avellis syndrome. Excerpt: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder described as a prolonged disturbance of personality function in a person (generally over the age of eighteen years, although it is also found in adolescents), characterized by depth and variability of moods. The disorder typically involves unusual levels of instability in mood; black and white thinking, or splitting; the disorder often manifests itself in idealization and devaluation episodes, as well as chaotic and unstable interpersonal relationships, self-image, identity, and behavior; as well as a disturbance in the individual's sense of self. In extreme cases, this disturbance in the sense of self can lead to periods of dissociation. BPD splitting includes a switch between idealizing and demonizing others. This, combined with mood disturbances, can undermine relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. BPD disturbances also may include self-harm. Without treatment, symptoms may worsen, leading (in extreme cases) to suicide attempts. There is an ongoing debate among clinicians and patients worldwide about terminology and the use of the word borderline, and some have suggested that this disorder should be renamed. The ICD-10 manual has an alternative definition and terminology to this disorder, called Emotionally unstable personality disorder. There is related concern that the diagnosis of BPD stigmatizes people and supports pejorative and discriminatory practices. Borderline personality disorder is a diagnosis about which many articles and books have been written, yet about which very little is known based on empirical research. Studies suggest that individuals with BPD tend to experience frequent, strong and long-lasting states of aversive tension, often triggered by perceived rejection, being alone or perceived failure. Individuals with BPD may show lability (changeability) between anger and anxiety or between depression and anxiety and temperamental sensitivity to emotive stimuli. The nega

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: American Society of Media Photographers, Boston Camera Club, Carolina Nature Photographers Association, Center for Fine Art Photography, En Foco, Group f/64, Hallmark Institute of Photography, International Center of Photography, International Photo-Engravers Union of North America, Maine Media Workshops, Mid-West Society for Photographic Education, National Photographic Association of the United States, National Press Photographers Association, New England School of Photography, New York Press Photographers Association, North American Nature Photography Association, Photo-Secession, Photo League, Photo Marketing Association, Professional Photographers of America, The Camera Club of New York, The Image Expedition. Excerpt: The Boston Camera Club is the leading amateur photographic organization serving Boston, Massachusetts and vicinity. Founded in 1881, it offers activities of interest to amateur photographers, particularly digital photography. It meets weekly and is open to the public. Photography was introduced publicly in 1839. For some decades practice was limited largely to professionals because it involved laborious wet-plate processes. Amateur photography in the United States received major impetus in 1880 when Eastman Kodak introduced dry plates ¿ glass plates with dry emulsion that were easier to handle than wet plates. In 1888 Kodak introduced the first flexible roll photographic medium ¿ first paper and soon film ¿ and third-party processing. These innovations brought photography to the masses. Still, camera club photography typically used glass plates until the early 20th century, when the capabilities of film began to approach that of glass. Outside processing of photographs was typically frowned upon in camera clubs until the color photography era. The club known today as the Boston Camera Club was founded October 7, 1881 in Boston, Massachusetts as the Boston Society of Amateur Photographers, and is the second-oldest continuously extant amateur camera club in the United States. The club was founded by F. H. Blair, James M. Codman, W. C. Greenough, A. P. Howard, Lucius L. Hubbard, Frederick Ober and John H. Thurston, with Thurston having the most influential role. At first, temporary officers were elected. The seven men were joined on November 18, 1881 by James F. Babcock (1844¿1897), William T. Brigham, Wilfred A. French and William A. Hovey, at which time permanent officers were elected ¿ Brigham president, Babcock vice president, and French secretary and treasurer. The club first met temporarily in the offices of the Boston Sunday Budget, and then regularly at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the time located in Boston. As amateur photography in the United St

Excerpt: ...To a man they had hated Great Britain. Not a Tory was found among them. The cries of their martyred dead were still ringing in their souls when George III started on his career of oppression. The fiery words of Patrick Henry, their spokesman in the valley of Virginia, 188 had swept the aristocracy of the Old Dominion into rebellion against the King and on into triumphant Democracy. They had made North Carolina the first home of freedom in the New World, issued the first Declaration of Independence in Mecklenburg, and lifted the first banner of rebellion against the tyranny of the Crown. They grew to the soil wherever they stopped, always home lovers and home builders, loyal to their own people, instinctive clan leaders and clan followers. A sturdy, honest, covenant-keeping, God-fearing, fighting people, above all things they hated sham and pretence. They never boasted of their families, though some of them might have quartered the royal arms of Scotland on their shields. To these sturdy qualities had been added a strain of Huguenot tenderness and vivacity. The culture of cotton as the sole industry had fixed African slavery as their economic system. With the heritage of the Old World had been blended forces inherent in the earth and air of the new Southland, something of the breath of its unbroken forests, the freedom of its untrod mountains, the temper of its sun, and the sweetness of its tropic perfumes. When Mrs. Cameron received Elsie's letter, asking her to secure for them six good rooms at the ?Palmetto? hotel, she laughed. The big rambling hostelry had been burned by roving negroes, pigs were wallowing in the sulphur springs, and along its walks, where lovers of olden days had strolled, the cows were browsing on the shrubbery. But she laughed for a more important reason. They 189 had asked for a six-room cottage if accommodations could not be had in the hotel. She could put them in the Lenoir place. The cotton crop from...

Excerpt: ...and will continue so for a long time. As long as we supply oxygen, so long can we carry on the combustion of the iron, until the latter is consumed. We will now put that on one side, and take some other substance; but we must limit our experiments, for we have not time to spare for all the illustrations you would have a right to if we had more time. We will take a piece of sulphur¿you know how sulphur burns in the air¿well, we put it into the oxygen, and you will see that whatever can burn in air, can burn with a far greater intensity in oxygen, leading you to think that perhaps the atmosphere itself owes all its power of combustion to this gas. The sulphur is now burning very quietly in the oxygen; but you cannot for a moment mistake the very high and increased action which takes place when it is so burnt, instead of being burnt merely in common air. Illustration: Fig. 24. I am now about to shew you the combustion of another substance¿phosphorus. I can do it better for you here than you can do it at home. This is a very combustible substance; and if it be so combustible in air, what might you expect it would be in oxygen? I am about to shew it to you not in its fullest intensity, for if I did so we should almost blow the apparatus up¿I may even now crack the jar, though I do not want to break things carelessly. You see how it burns in the air. But what a glorious light it gives out when I introduce it into oxygen! Introducing the lighted phosphorus into the jar of oxygen. There you see the solid particles going off which cause that combustion to be so brilliantly luminous. Thus far we have tested this power of oxygen, and the high combustion it produces by means of other substances. We must now, for a little while longer, look at it as respects the hydrogen. You know, when we allowed the oxygen and the hydrogen derived from the water to mix and burn together, we had a little explosion. You remember, also, that when I burnt the oxygen and the...