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Podcast: My Amazing Body
Around 1 million Australian adults have depression.
Dr Daniel Gileppa, a mental health expert and psychiatrist at Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, explains what depression is and how it affects your body. He also talks about the signs and symptoms of depression and the best ways to look after your mental wellbeing. Kasey, a Queensland woman, talks about her lived experience with depression
My Amazing Body is a podcast where we explore interesting, unknown and misunderstood parts of your body with help from medical experts and stories from real Queenslanders. Join us for our special five-part series focused specifically on mental health and wellbeing.
In Australia, it's estimated that 45 per cent of people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime and in any one year, around 1 million Australian adults have depression. In this episode we explore depression. What is depression? Who does it affect and what does it do to your body?
Meet our Guests
"To self-recognize is important, but not to self-diagnose. If you find that you're not functioning, and you think you might have depression, it's really important to see a GP or a psychologist or another mental health professional for a formal diagnosis."
"There is definitely no weakness in depression at all, but there is massive strength in stepping up and talking about it."
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If you or someone you know need support, book an appointment to see your GP and talk to them or contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, and if it's an emergency, please call 000 immediately.
Queensland Health Help lines, counselling and support groups – Including 1300 MH CALL (1300 642255) a confidential mental health telephone triage service that provides the first point of contact to public mental health services to Queenslanders.
LifeLine - a national charity who provide all Australians experiencing emotional distress with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
Queensland Health Dear Mind website. - Taking some 'me time' is important. And it also helps strengthen your mental wellbeing. Having a healthy sense of mental wellbeing has many benefits. It lifts your mood, promotes resilience in difficult situations and helps you get the most out of life. It doesn't matter who you are, where you live or how you're feeling – taking a few moments for yourself each day will help you be a happier and more resilient you.
Beyond Blue - provides information and support to help everyone in Australia to achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live.
Beyond Blue Depression Checklist
Dr Gileppa: Each person has hundreds of billions of brain cells; they're all joined together in a very complicated way by hundreds of trillions of connections. And in between those tiny connections are absolutely minuscule amounts of chemicals called neurotransmitters, and they help to send or block information from one brain cell to another. It's extremely difficult to map out and measure these things … it would be like trying to track a piece of dust in a cyclone.
Host: Welcome to season three of My Amazing Body - a podcast where we explore interesting, unknown and misunderstood parts of your body. This is episode two of our special five-part series, focused specifically on mental health and wellbeing.
This episode contains a firsthand account of what it's like to experience depression.
It references suicide and self-harm. If you or someone you know need support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, and if it's an emergency, please call 000 immediately.
In Australia, it's estimated that 45 per cent of people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime and in any one year, around 1 million Australian adults have depression. In this episode we explore depression. What is depression? Who does it affect? And what does it do to your body?
Dr Gileppa, a mental health expert and psychiatrist at Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, explained that depression is a symptom rather than a condition in itself.
Dr Gileppa: The word depression means different things to different people. In general terms, depression is shorthand for a depression of mood - meaning a low or sad or unpleasant mood. Depression - a symptom - is not a condition itself, but it might indicate the presence of a mental health condition such as major depressive disorder or bipolar affective disorder. Just because a person's got a depressed mood doesn't mean they necessarily have a mental health condition, and it depends on a lot of factors like how long they've had the low mood, whether there are other symptoms, the persistence of the symptoms, and impairments to social functioning, occupational functioning, that sort of thing.
Host: Dr Gileppa says it's normal to have a low mood from time to time and that sadness can often serve a purpose. It's when these feelings are prolonged or constant that they can sometimes indicate a mental health condition.
Dr Gileppa: Sadness and tears often serve a purpose - for example to relieve an intense emotional state or to communicate our internal state to other people. If you think about when we're grieving over the death of somebody, for example, who was close to us, that shared experience of sadness is meaningful, and it's important from a social perspective. And also, having an outlet for those intense feelings can help us to overcome grief and loss.
What's not normal is when the depression is very prolonged, or when it's constant, or when you start talking or behaving in a way that people find bizarre or very abnormal, when it has a negative impact on your ability to function at work or at home for a protracted period of time, that kind of thing. Having a day here and there, not so much a mental health condition. If it's every day for a period of time … could be a mental health condition.
Host: Experts still don't know exactly what causes depression. A bout of depression may come about after a life-changing event, or it can be linked to personality, family history, or drug and alcohol abuse.
Dr Gileppa: And it's really important to emphasize that there are some substances that can either cause or masquerade as a mental health condition. The most common one we see is alcohol, but there's others like cannabis, amphetamines, opioids … even caffeine, though that's more commonly associated with anxiety disorders. There's sometimes an idea that these substances are being used to self-medicate. I don't really like that term, because firstly, there isn't really any evidence that they effectively cure or treat depression, and secondly, there's a lot of evidence that they make depression worse. All those substances, alcohol, cannabis, amphetamines, they all work on the reward centre of the brain, so they give us the feeling or the impression that they're helping, but really, that's an illusion, a very powerful illusion.
Host: Sadness, guilt and loss of hope can all be signs of depression, but Dr Gileppa says that symptoms can vary from person to person.
Dr Gileppa: Every person is different, every person's physical and psychological makeup is different, and so the way depression manifests is different from person to person, which is why we take an individualized approach, it's not a one-size-fits-all situation. Some of the symptoms are sadness, anxiety, irritability, apathy, guilt, and loss of hope, loss of interest in pleasurable activities, social isolation, excessive crying, irritability, restlessness, thoughts going over and over and over, difficulty concentrating, thoughts of suicide, problems with sleep.
Host: It's thought that the human brain has many billions of brain cells, so what actually happens to your brain when you are experiencing depression? Is it all about the chemicals?
Dr Gileppa: Each person has hundreds of billions of brain cells, which we call neurons. They're all joined together in a very complicated way by hundreds of trillions of connections, which we call synapses. And in between those tiny connections are absolutely minuscule amounts of chemicals called neurotransmitters, and they help to send or block information from one brain cell to another.
As you can appreciate, it's extremely difficult to map out and measure these things, particularly in living creatures, let alone making sense of it all. Billions of cells, trillions of connections - it would be like trying to track a piece of dust in a cyclone. So, we mostly have to rely on hypotheses, testing these hypotheses, and updating our understanding as new information becomes available.
We used to think that depression was due to some sort of chemical imbalance, and specifically that there was a lack of a neurotransmitter, serotonin, which is a natural chemical in the brain that's thought to heavily influence things like mood and appetite and sleep. This hypothesis was largely based on the fact that certain people with depression improved when given medications that increase their levels of natural serotonin floating around between the brain cells.
More recently, though, there's been studies that have suggested that, actually, it's probably more likely to do with the growth or shrinkage of brain cells in certain parts of the brain and their connections. There are parts of the brain called the amygdala, thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus. These are areas of the brain that are associated with pleasure, fear, joy, anger, appetite, thinking, and learning, and that sort of thing. And they think that probably growth or shrinkage in those areas (has) something to do with depression.
Host: We all have bad days, low moods, and times when we may not feel quite like ourselves. But what should we do if we think we have depression? Dr Gileppa says that communication is key.
Dr Gileppa: Talk to somebody. Talk to a friend or a family member or somebody you trust. And just as a first port of call. Remember that a lot of people don't understand depression, and a lot of people are scared of depression, and that's not their fault, it's just something different, and people often are a bit afraid of something that's different. And sometimes, when you talk to somebody about your depression, they might say things that are unhelpful or that seem really insensitive. They might say things like, "Come on, mate, just harden up," or, "Oh yeah, I feel depressed sometimes, and that's life, and you just need to get over it." Or they might start to panic, or they might cry, or try to change the subject. I guess it's important to remember they don't mean to be dismissive or insensitive. They think they're making an effort and being helpful; they just are doing it in the way they best know how.
If they're not being helpful, you can just let them know in a polite way, you know, saying something like, "I know you're trying to be helpful, and I appreciate it, but I can't just get over it. I've been able to get over feeling down in the past, but this time I can't. I need your help. Can you help me?"
The next thing to do is talk with an expert about what steps to take from here. GPs - general practitioners - are absolute masters at depression and anxiety. They see it all the time, so that often is a person's first professional port of call. And there are also phone services like Lifeline, which is 13 11 14, and the Mental Health Call, that's 1300 64 2255.
Host: Some people find it hard to talk to their doctor or healthcare professional about mental health because they're worried they'll be judged. But Dr Gileppa says for a diagnosis to be made and the right treatment put in place, your doctor will need all the information. It will help them make a judgement, but they won't be judgemental.
Dr Gileppa: GPs and other health professionals have seen a lot of people with depression. They're usually able to make a firm diagnosis. Having said that, every person is different, and the way that depression manifests is different from person to person, so somebody might initially be diagnosed with, say, major depression, but that diagnosis might change over time as new information comes to light. This happens in all areas of medicine, but mental health in particular, because there aren't any scans or blood tests that say, "Yes, this person is having a major depressive episode right now."
One of the reasons a doctor might order blood tests or a head scan if they think you have depression is to rule out other causes of depressed mood. There are some medical conditions like low iron, or low B12, low vitamin D, sometimes thyroid problems, other hormonal problems, that can masquerade as mental health conditions. And if these tests find a problem, then you'll go down a different treatment pathway. So, if you have a low B12, you probably don't need a psychologist, you probably need a B12 injection. And there's also some physical conditions that can worsen depression. Actually, almost any physical condition can worsen depression, but some of the examples that we see kind of more commonly are persistent pain, diabetes, things like even Parkinson's disease, but really almost anything.
Host: Just like people will have different symptoms the treatment of depression is different from person to person. There is no one method that helps every person. But depression can be treated.
Dr Gileppa: Well the majority of people who experience a major depressive episode will get better from their depression. Some will get better without any treatment, but most of them will need some kind of treatment. And when I say treatment, I mean maybe a medication, or maybe psychological therapy, maybe some self-directed or some self-guided, activities, maybe a combination of those. If a person has had one episode of major depression, they're more likely to have another episode compared with the general population, but they might never have another episode. It depends on what else is happening in their life, what techniques they've learned, what medication they take, et cetera.
A small percentage of people with depression find that their symptoms never go away entirely. They might have some good days and some bad days, but they always have a certain level of depression or feeling not great. And this is something you see in other areas of medicine too, people with diabetes, or chronic kidney disease, or persistent pain. It's not fair, but sometimes it does happen that, despite trying medicine, and psychological therapy, and self-guided activities, and having social support, even though all those things have lined up, still there's a degree of depression. But, as I say, for the majority of people who experience a major depressive episode, they will get better from their depression. So, for the vast majority of people, depression is not forever.
Host: Dr Gileppa says there are passive and active treatments for depression, these include medical or psychological.
Dr Gileppa: Passive treatments are the ones that happen to the person. Most of the work is done by the treatment. These are things like medication, like antidepressants, containment in hospital, electroconvulsive therapy or ECT - used to be called shock therapy. Transcranial magnetic stimulation is one of the newer ones. These are treatments that are useful for a certain subset of people with depression, but there are a lot of people, including people who are suffering the most for the longest period of time, where the passive treatments alone might not work.
The active psychological therapies, psychiatric therapies, include psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is where you talk with a psychologist, and there's a bit of an idea that you just talk and talking gets it out. That's more counselling. Psychological therapies are where the psychologist will observe a pattern of thinking, or observe a pattern of behaviour, and will make suggestions in terms of ... or give homework, give you things to do at home, and suggest techniques that you might practise and learn and get really good at implementing so that your depression gets better.
You can see a psychologist in person, or you can see one online nowadays. And also nowadays, there are some very high-quality, evidence-based self-guided therapies that are available online.
Kasey: My name is Kasey Rainbow. I am an artist-slash-designer who lives on Brisbane's Bayside. I have suffered from depression since I was probably about 18 years old and have been on medication for it on and off since then.
Host: We spoke with Queensland artist Kasey Rainbow about her lived experience with depression. She shares what it's like to be diagnosed at the age of 18. Just a warning: Kasey's story references suicide and self-harm. If you or someone you know need support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, or if it's an emergency call triple zero immediately.
Kasey: When I was around 18, I had not a great adolescent period I guess you could call it. I did go through a lot of bullying in high school, I had an eating disorder, there was a lot of things that probably played a part in triggering depression for me. I have always been a sensitive, emotional type person. So, it wasn't rare for me to have a day where I just didn't want to get out of bed, or would cry a lot, but when I was around 18, I started to think that it probably wasn't normal for me to be having them so often.
It was around then that I actually went to a GP to discuss how I was feeling. I think it was my family GP that I saw then, and he agreed that it probably wasn't quite normal for me to be having so many days that I was feeling so down and that's when we first started me on a script for antidepressant medication. It was a long time ago now, so I can't actually remember what one it was, but I do remember that it did start working and that's when I realized that I needed medication to kind of live a semi-normal life I guess you could call it.
Host: Kasey says a relationship breakdown at the time had a big impact on her, and while she doesn't remember a lot of the details, she does recall the strong feeling of not wanting to get out of bed.
Kasey: I was with a partner at that time who - he was fine - nothing happened there, but it just … because that relationship I think ended in heartbreak for me, I personally have blocked a lot of that time out in my mind, because I just don't like going back there and thinking about it, and I was with him when I started on medication and everything. So, it's really, that time for me is very fuzzy and I can't really recall a lot of it. I do know that for me, just the feeling of just wanting to stay in bed and just not have to deal with life was, has and is to this day still my biggest, probably my biggest symptom.
I know that it's going to be a bad day if I wake up in the morning and just think, "Oh, I just want to stay here all day." Obviously, I can't do that now because I'm a mum and I have a daughter who needs my … I need to look after her. So that is obviously a big kick in the butt to get out of bed, which is a blessing sometimes but also sometimes makes it really hard.
Host: In her early 20's Kasey really struggled with her diagnosis and the stigma associated with depression.
Kasey: To be honest, it has definitely been something that I have struggled with. Especially when I was younger in my early twenties. Even back then, there was still quite a stigma around depression, and to me, admitting that I had it, felt like a weakness. So, I would very much hide the fact that I was on medication and wouldn't talk about it to anyone. Obviously, the people closest to me knew, my mum and my boyfriend at the time, they were both aware of what was going on. Just to go back to the symptoms and things like that that were happening, I had the episodes of not being able to get out of bed, but I did go through really bad patches as well. One, which was when I was younger was I did actually self-harm.
So that was something that I tried to hide but was a little bit difficult at times depending on where I decided to do it. And I also suffered from a really bad eating disorder, bulimia, for probably the better part of five years plus. So those sorts of things, it's such a hard thing to admit that you have, and it spawns into these other things that can just end up spiralling because you're not talking about it to anyone and you just continually have these thoughts in your head, which you don't … I wasn't seeing a counsellor or a psychologist or anything at that time. So, I literally was trying to deal with it all on my own, which as a late teenager, early twenties something, that's a really, really heavy subject to deal with by yourself.
Host: In 2015, Kasey had a daughter, and it was this life changing event that lead her to seek help with her GP and accept her diagnosis.
Kasey: I really rode this roller coaster throughout all of my twenties. The biggest triggering thing for me was when I had my daughter. I had her in 2015 and because I knew that I had this previous history with depression, I had this suspicion that I was going to get postnatal depression on top of that.
I remember when my daughter, Darcy, was about three months old, the definitive moment for me, I can still remember it clear as day, was I woke up one morning to her crying and my husband had already gone to work, and I woke up and I could hear her and I just remember thinking, "What would happen if I just didn't get up? If I just stayed in bed, went to sleep, what would actually happen to her and to me?" And it really scared me having that thought and just feeling like I couldn't get up to even handle or give my daughter a hug. I just didn't want to deal with life. I just wanted to stay in bed and not have to worry about it. And I did get up. I got up and I gave her a big cuddle and I had a big cry and it was at that moment that I knew I needed to go to someone and talk about it in more depth and accept that this was something that I really had to deal with because it wasn't just me now that I had to take into account.
I had this beautiful little girl that I had to look after and make sure that she ... there's no way that I could ever have let something happen to her and knowing that I was having those thoughts, this is really, really scary. So that for me definitely was the definitive moment that I went and booked in with my GP and just cried to her for hours. And from there we made all the next steps to going through my recovery process and really nutting it out and working out what I needed to do.
Host: Although Kasey has a great network of support, having depression has impacted her personal and professional relationships.
Kasey: it definitely does take its toll on relationships, while it can, but I am very, very lucky in that I have an incredibly supportive network around me. Obviously, my husband is amazing. We've been together 17 years now, so he knows everything about me really and he'll just check in with me and if I say, "Oh you know, it's not a good day," he knows exactly what that means and he knows that when he comes home from work I might be a bit quieter, I might be a bit more just flatter, not have that same bubbly happiness to me. But he knows it will always pass and so many times he's asked me, he's like, "What can I do? What?" Men very quickly just want to fix problems and that's one of the hardest things is that it's not something that can just be fixed.
So many times he'll just be like, "What can I do? What do you need me to do to fix it?" And I'm like, "You can't. All I need is just to have you here to just give me a hug if I need it and to just let me feel what I'm feeling and just let me be." For me, the days pass. The bad days will always pass. So, I really just need people to accept that some days that's what I'm going to be like.
In terms of friendships and stuff, it can be tricky because there's been days where I might've pre-arranged to meet up with a friend, but I will wake up that morning and just know that I can't cope with life that day. So, I will, a lot of times I cancel on friends, which I always feel awful about … but I think and I hope that they know that it's not ever a personal thing, it's always me. But it does make it tricky, because it hinders normal life. Some days it doesn't, some days it's fine and you can easily manage, but there are other days where it all, it can take its toll on everyday life. When I was working for someone else - I'm lucky enough now that I work for myself so I can take mental health days whenever I need - but when I was working for an employer, that was really hard because mental health days I believe, it's something that really do need to be a thing - like a sick day. I would have days where I just couldn't go into the office and I knew that I wasn't going to be productive that day. I knew that I wasn't going to be … I would be more of a hindrance to the team than I would be a help.
I always felt that my relationship with my workplaces and employer was probably always the one that was the hardest because I have been so lucky to have really great support outside of work. But again, in saying that, I always had really lovely employers as well and again, especially over the last five years or so since my daughter was born, I have been a lot more open about it and I did feel more comfortable in saying to employers if I was having a really rough time, just so they could be aware because I didn't want them to think that if I was at work and just, people can tell if I'm not in a good place. So, I didn't want them to think that I was hating my job or anything, I just wanted them to know what was happening in my life and that I was working through it and I just needed that support.
Host: For Kasey medication is the key to managing her depression.
Kasey: The biggest management tool for me now that I've accepted it, is medication. I need to take my medication every day because if I miss a day, I can tell. I have my medication in the morning and if for some reason I forget it one morning, by that afternoon I can tell that I'm not going to have a good night. It can then sometimes play on to the next day and I might be feeling worse the next day as well. So, for me, medication is definitely my number one management tool. I've definitely come to terms with it and know that it's just something that I need now, just like someone who has any form of illness really. Someone who has a headache knows that they need to take a Panadol or something to help them. I know that I need this medication to help me. It's not something that I feel ashamed of anymore, it's just something that I know that I need for my brain and my body to function the way that I need it to.
Host: Kasey says that exercise and being outdoors is important for her mental wellbeing, but she still finds it tough some days to put on the shoes.
Kasey: Things like exercise and just getting outdoors and those sorts of things, I know how important they are. But sometimes it's really hard to implement them, especially when you're just feeling … it's the last thing you feel like doing sometimes. But I know how important it is, it's just getting to that, sometimes putting a pair of shoes on and walking out the door can feel like a really, really big task.
Lots of things that I know that I need to improve on myself. I haven't spoken to a psychologist, probably for the last couple of years. I did have a really good one while I was going through my really bad patch of postnatal depression. I had an amazing psychologist, but she stopped practicing so, unfortunately, I stopped seeing her, but I am actually in the process now of trying to find a new one because I also believe that just speaking to someone outside of your direct inner circle is really important. Even for people who don't suffer from mental illness, I personally think that every single person would benefit from talking to someone, whether it's a counsellor or a psychologist or whoever. It just helps you offload all this stuff that's in your mind that you might not want to offload onto loved ones or burden them with the things that are in your mind.
Host: As an artist, Kasey says that her work is a form of therapy, but it's when she is creating art for herself that she can really express the darkness she feels, which helps her process it.
Kasey: My art is like a therapy to me. So, I will have days - I'm lucky enough in that I get to do what I love every single day - but even then if I'm working on client projects and whatnot, it's the creating for myself that is the biggest thing for me. So, I might have days where I've just been flat out working on client projects all day and then I just feel like I need to do something for me. So, I will spend, it might only even be 10, 15 minutes, but just drawing something or painting or something that is purely just for me, that is always such a lifesaver for me. As well, I am very known for my colourful, bright art and design that I do and for me that is a way of just dealing with the darkness I think that I have suffered from for the last, 15 odd years of longer even of darkness that I have felt within myself.
I feel like now I'm able to actually start letting some of that out and the way that I'm letting it out is through colour. It just seems the right way for me. That probably sounds incredibly lame, but it's the truth. Surrounding myself with colour is the way that I get through some of the darkest days that I have.
Host: The one message Kasey hopes to share is that speaking up and talking about how you are feeling is not a weakness but in fact a strength.
Kasey: I feel like I have spoken so much about just to speak up and to talk about how you're feeling is so, so important. But the main thing that I want people to know and to get across is that depression is not a weakness, it's not something that you should feel ashamed of. So many days I felt so weak because of it, because I had it, … when in reality, depression actually makes you stronger because the stuff that you have to deal with internally and everything, it is, it's like a battle with yourself, sometimes every day. And there is definitely no weakness in depression at all, but there is massive strength in stepping up and talking about it.
Host: If this story has brought up any feelings for you, you can talk to someone at Lifeline on 13 11 14 and if it's an emergency, please call 000 immediately.
Keeping your mind engaged with new ideas and experiences is an important part of your mental wellbeing. Doing regular mental challenges helps train your mental pathways. Let's give it a go, can you solve this brain teaser? We'll reveal the answer at the end of the episode.
I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeze but can come like a gale.
By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear.
Of names I have many, of names I have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I?
One in seven Australians will experience depression in their lifetime. So, chances are you may know someone who has been clinically diagnosed with depression. Or maybe you've notice that something isn't right with a friend or loved one. So, what can you do to support someone experiencing depression?
Dr Gileppa: The first step is to recognize that something isn't right, to see that and to acknowledge that. It's natural for families to be in a little bit of denial about a family member or friend who has a mental health condition. And also, there's a tendency, completely understandably, to protect that person from the stigma that's associated with mental health conditions. But recognizing it is really important.
Then having that conversation with the person that you're concerned about, that you think might have a mental health condition, is really important. And just being there, being there with them, talking with them about it in a non-judgmental way, finding a good place to talk with them about it - like a bar is probably not the best place. Probably in a house where you don't have other distractions around, where there aren't people running around, kids running around.
And the next thing to do is to really acknowledge the impact of the depression on that person's life, or the mental health condition on that person's life, and to support them to see a health professional - if they're ready to. Forcing somebody to is, in some situations, it's necessary, but in most situations, and certainly, particularly the thinking in recent years is, it really is a lot better to convince the person to seek help themselves, so that they are driving it, so that they are in control of their diagnosis, they are in control of their treatment.
Host: Kasey says that living with or supporting someone with depression can be hard and wants people to make sure they also get support.
Kasey: That's another thing that I'm really passionate about, bringing some light onto is that people know that it is heavy living with a mental illness and stuff, but the other thing that people don't realize that it's really heavy living with someone who suffers from a mental illness, because you are their safe person, you're the person that they come to when they're feeling all those feelings - and there's a lot of them - and it can be a lot to take on board.
And there needs to be more support for the support people, as well, because they go through a lot of stuff. I know my poor husband has definitely had his days, where I don't know how he's dealt with me to be honest because it's - I'm a roller coaster so living with me is a roller coaster - and it's hard for everyone. But the more that it's openly talked about and the more that the person with the mental illness and the people who are supporting them talk about it to each other, it's only going to be better.
Host: If you think you may be suffering from depression, book an appointment to see your GP and talk to them.
Beyond Blue also has a depression checklist that can provide a useful starting point for assessing whether or not you need help.
If you suspect a loved one is experiencing depression, the best thing to do is to sit and talk to them. We've provided resources in our show notes.
The most important thing to remember is that depression is treatable and with the right plan and support, most people can experience a full recovery.
Whether or not you're suffering from a mental health condition like a depressive disorder taking care of your mental wellbeing is important for us all. Developing good mental wellbeing is as simple as being active, eating healthy and staying social. Dr Gileppa says taking care of your mental wellbeing will help you be the best version of yourself and can help to protect against certain kinds of mental health conditions.
Dr Gileppa: The things we can do are look after our physical state - so to eat well, to ensure that we have - you know, you don't have to be obsessional about it, and in fact, don't be obsessional about it - but try to make an effort to ensure adequate nutrition. Be active. Again, don't have to be running marathons. You can if you like, that's all right, but you don't have to. Just some activity is good. People are often put off physical activity or eating well because they think they have to be the absolute best at it, and so they never start, because they think, "Oh, well, jeez, that's such a huge task. I'll not be able to do that." But really, it's about getting some exercise, eating well for a part of the time at least, and getting enough sleep as well - so important. If we sleep well, we think well and we feel well.
Another thing we can do is to make and to maintain social connections. Social connectedness is really important. The best gauge that we have of who we are as a person is how that's reflected to us by others. And that can be really helpful in terms of self-improvement, but it can be also really helpful in terms of our sense of self and our feelings of positive self-regard.
Host: Improving your mental wellbeing isn't hard and can be achieved by making small changes - like going for a short walk, calling a friend for a chat or learning something new - which you've done just now by listening to our podcast.
If you'd like to know more about your mental wellbeing and simple activities that you can add to your daily routine to help strengthen your wellbeing head to qld.gov.au/mentalwellbeing. You'll find the link in our show notes.
Thanks for joining us for this episode of My Amazing Body - Mental Health and Wellbeing. If you enjoyed it, don't forget to leave us a rating or review in your podcast app!
Did you guess this episode's brain teaser? I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run? The answer is a shadow. Congratulations if you figured it out!
Thank you to Dr Gileppa and the team at the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service for lending their time and expertise to this episode. And thanks to Kasey, for sharing her lived experience with depression. My Amazing Body is brought to you by Queensland Health. Thanks to my podcast colleagues: producer Jess, Carol our audio technician and Helen on music and sound effects.


It's here. The news we've all been waiting for. No, not the second coming. Better. Stranger Things season two is coming straight to our TV, laptop, and tablet screens on October 27.
If you've read this far then chances are you know a thing or two about the Netflix hit series.
Set in Hawkins, Indianna in the 80's, the first season focussed around the investigation into the disappearance of a young boy however rather quickly, things got weird.
It's 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab.
Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.
I highly doubt it's a coincidence that the new episodes will be set in the dystopian year of years, 1984.
Only three months to go before the binging on pizzza, prezzles, beer, and classic TV commences.


Viddx Review: Does It Actually Work?
Welcome! In today's installment, we're going to review Viddx. This is Joe Sturtevant. I hope this helps you to make a great decision.
It's truly an honor to be going over the pros and cons of this new software by Mosh Bari for your benefit. I very recently picked up my own personal copy, gave it a nice, focused look, and I've cultivated quite a well-formed opinion regarding this software for this very reason.
Of course, virtually no software or system is flawless. I'll say that Viddx has both its pros and cons. Those will be covered momentarily.
But just remember, if you should happen to go ahead and pick up Viddx by clicking here while the offer's still valid, you will be thanked with a special bonus package from me, which was constructed in the spirit of eliminating the negatives.
Viddx Review: What Is It?
Viddx is actually a cloud-based software which will operate for you no matter what operating system you use.
The software was actually programmed to assist you in producing higher converting videos for your marketing campagns. It's supposed to work by get more engagement and sales from these in-video calls to action.
Like I already mentioned, this software is still new to me. So in full disclosure, I haven't taken it to the top. On the offer page, however, Mosh reveals that Jason Fulton earns around $500 in only one day. That's pretty exciting!
When it comes to user-friendliness, I have to give it a solid 9 out of 10 rating. I was able to get the full grasp of it within 30 minutes. You shouldn't have much trouble there.
Yep. And honestly, I found them to be one of the best parts of this particular offer. The results you experience with the Viddx software should be magnified when you combine these tutorials with my custom bonuses.
My bonuses will be discussed momentarily. First, let's discuss the price of Viddx, all the free bonus products which are included, and any n' all upgrades that might be available right now. Beyond that, we will be moving into the pros and cons… and finally, you'll get to see what my bonuses are and how they can help you.
Viddx – How Much Does It Cost?
As I'm writing this review, Viddx is available for only $22.
This price will very likely be rising, however. If the price is still cheap, therefore, then picking this up right now may be the best move for you. Otherwise, it may still be worth however much it's selling for when you're reading this. And still, if it's still available at the ridiculously low special price quoted above, I would make the investment when you can!
Viddx – What About Bonuses?
Yes, there are a few nice-looking bonuses mentioned on the sales page. That said, I can only speak about what the situation is during the launch period. So I won't go into too much detail about this, seeing how you can just go to the offer page and see for yourself what they are, if they're still available.
These upsells are "value-added" in nature, which means quite simply that the front-end product should work even better for you when you add these to the mix. However, please don't think that you NEED them in order for Viddx to work.
Really, Viddx is TOUTED as being able to work just fine in and of itself. But… is it actually GONNA?
Viddx Review… Does It Work?
Time for brass tacks. Is Viddx gonna help you build a bigger income with far less effort? I don't want to be the person who says this, but… it's probably up to you. I can say that the proof on the sales page does seem convincing.
This ViddX Review is on Medium.
Please understand, I want for you take Viddx and make a fortune with it! That's the purpose that this bonus package is aiming to serve. I do attempt to never offer any any "$25,000 value bonus package" nonsense, as this would only insult your intelligence and not really help you.
These types of unrealistically priced bonuses made up almost entirely of irrelevant, unhelpful PLR or MRR crap. More often than not, these aren't actually designed to enhance your online success. My bonuses, on the other hand, are.
In all, I'd say that Viddx is worth the small investment, and then some. If you agree, then you can order it using this link post haste. As a reminder, this deal ends soon, so you really need to act fast.
It is my hope that this honest Viddx review has served you well. It's my goal to be a friend who helps you to make a great decision.
An unacceptable amount of marketing would-bes make investments in software programs, and yet never do much with the stuff. Hardly anyone takes a piece of software and uses the software to earn a profit. I hope that you'll take full advantage of this opportunity.


I lived here when I was 22 and working for the North Platte Telegraph. My friend Marcus was passing through, so I asked him to take a picture for me. He obliged.
On June 25, I underwent vertical sleeve gastrectomy. Essentially, 85 percent of my stomach was removed. This is a drastic weight-loss procedure, far more so than the Lap-Band that I had placed nearly four years ago. With the band, I lost 50 pounds, then had to have it unfilled and gained it all back.
This link explores the incredibly high failure rate of bands. In my case, it was a learned art that never took. I was either overfilled and miserable, unable to eat, or I was underfilled and so what the hell was the point of having the damn thing in my body?
At Thanksgiving 2011, I found myself in the emergency room at Kaiser Zion in San Diego getting completely unfilled. Then we went to Missouri for four months and I could EAT -- without puking -- and boy did I. I gained it all back in a matter of months and things were never the same.
Years later, I started thinking about the sleeve. Insomnia brought me to it, really. I would lie awake at night, tapping at my phone, thinking and wondering. Earlier this year I talked to Adam about a revision. We agreed it would be a good idea. Then I got the approval from my insurance company. We kept it quiet for a while, but before the surgery I spilled it all on Facebook because I knew I'd need the support. I couldn't be happier that I did. Everyone has been great.
I'm not going to lie: Surgery kind of sucked. I knew the minute I woke up in recovery that it was going to be a hard road. After the band I was joking about having Doritos WHILE IN THE RECOVERY ROOM -- no lie. This time it was far different, harder and more humbling. The first full day at Summit Medical Center in Oakland was completely challenging. I was nauseous and exhausted and all I wanted to do was go home, shower and have a good cry.
But now I'm five days out and nine pounds down. And if I feel good enough to pound this blog post out, I feel good enough to keep pushing forward. I plan to do just that.


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Posted by Dalton Carver | Mar 31, 2014 | Opinion, Reviews | 0 |
By Dalton Carver
What's the easiest way to tell if a music artist is successful?
Apparently, it's by how many people on the Internet claim to hate them. Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, has garnered quite a bit of attention with his foray into electronic music, and not all of it has been positive. With his latest release, "Recess," I'm starting to see where these negative attitudes are directed toward. It's not for Moore's lack of trying, though.
Now common knowledge, Moore comes from a post-hardcore rock background. He was originally the frontman in the band, From First to Last. He left the band to create his alter-ego of Skrillex, now one of the most mainstream names in the electronic dance music industry.
Categorizing Moore's music is impossible without utilizing the Internet. Skrillex's variety of electronic music has often been labeled as "brostep," which has a mostly negative connotation in the EDM community. To most listeners, it's just regular ol' dubstep, as ridiculous as that sounds. However, "Recess" is more tame than Moore's previous releases.
"Recess" suffers from having a decent album beginning and gradually shifting into songs that I forget I'm even listening to. The first four songs had me bobbing my head to the beat, but that's about it. However, by the fifth song, I was struggling not to hit the 'Skip' button. "Coast Is Clear" features Chance the Rapper, which is a cool collaboration. However, the track itself sounds like the Cee Lo Green, hot tub-themed song on American Dad. In other words, it sounds like a joke.
Moore's not trying to place as many sounds and deviations in one song, which is good. However, the sounds he uses don't tickle my EDM fancy. There just wasn't much to get excited about. A few drops were decent, like the hollow-tube-sounding one on the "Recess" single, but it's nothing that hasn't been done better or more creatively.
The first song, "All Is Fair In Love and Brostep" wasn't a bad start to the album. I also appreciated how he's not taking the negativity behind the brostep branding seriously. Another song I enjoyed was "Stranger," expectedly at the beginning of the album. It was more "chill" than what Moore normally does, but it worked.
There isn't a lot of similarity between "Recess" and "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites," aside from the high-pitched, sprite voice making reappearances on some tracks. If you listened to both albums without knowing the artist, it'd be difficult to determine that Skrillex was behind both creations.
I was disappointed with Skrillex's effort this time around. It's not as exciting as his first release and probably won't be as popular as "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites." I assume many of the songs will be recycled as remix fodder, which I hope make the songs a bit better to listen to. It's nice to see him trying other things, though. If anything, this album proves that Skrillex can make songs that don't just have a million sounds thrown together. The next album needs to prove that he can make those songs sound good.
Dalton Carver is a junior majoring in communication. You can email him at Dalton.Carver@sckans.edu or tweet him @Dalty_James.
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Such an absolutely beautifully rendered planet! Well done.
Your space art is extremely gorgeous!
The essence of speed is very notable in this piece, which in a way kinda scares me just how that red shepherd moon is still holding itself together if it's zooming at THAT speed.
Its so perfect and beautiful and both colors and lightning are so insane, its just those flat looking asteroids ... ^^"
Your eye for detail and sense of composition, movement and color are among the best I've seen! Thank you for being an inspiration.
The auroras are a great touch!
I personally don't like the close/blurry asteroids/rocks that you have on the left. I feel they don't add anything to the image, and distract from the overall framing of the rest of it. Without those, I would easily put this into my background rotation. With them, it's close, but I'll pass.
Stunning art, beautiful and inspirational.
The colours of the drawing weave together very smoothly. I also like the idea of having the storm/aurora like effect at the pole, although the shape is too regular. Moreover, the lighting deserves praise for its consistency.
However, since I am a physicist, I must say the asteroids are not necessary- the proportion seems a little off and I think they're rather too large to be stable. But I'm just nit-picking ! But also, is that a planet orbiting the gas giant? I think it looks cool! Not temperature-wise of course, which doesn't make too much sense.
The extra little bits you've added are also marvellous e.g. the galaxy in the background and what I presume to be a red nebula, which also act as different light sources to give a rich variation in colours. Furthermore, I also compliment the fact that the extra features are not too cluttered, being spaced out just enough to make the drawing interesting.
A love the composition, rings and aurora on this.
Not a fan of the asteroids though, they feel too smooth and regular, and don't scale well with the ship.
This is quite amazing! Details are pretty good and they actually make this entire piece totally cool.
This has such a perfect balance of action and tranquility that I can tell is deliberate. The left side is very energetic with the fiery orange colour scheme, the spaceship and asteroids racing past and a burning moon leaving its hot trail between the rings, all creating a sense of dynamic urgency. Then on the other side it's a different story altogether. Cool aqua colours, a heavenly gas giant with aurora's and all and a moon that seems to be the polar opposite of the one closer to us. Very good composition!


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You would never guess what it is or where it is.
Our favorite contemporary sculptor is undoubtedly Mihály Kolodko. Kolodko is a Transcarpathian sculptor or better to say guerrilla sculptor, because his works are often published in public spaces without permission. Most of his sculptures are located in Uzhhorod (Ungvár), but after he moved to Hungary in 2017, his works (mainly the popular mini-sculptures) have started to appear in the city.
This was exactly the same thing a few days ago when a statue of Mr. Bean's teddy bear appeared on the former British Embassy building. Of course, the mini-statue was again the work of Mihály Kolodko, and the photograph of the statue also appeared on the artist's community page. In the past few days, this small bear became a must see in the Budapest, just as Kolodko's other works.
His first statue in Budapest was the miniature statue of Főkukac, known from a Hungarian cartoon. The 15 cm statue is located opposite the Parliament on Halász Street. Kolodko enjoys depicting television cartoon or puppet figures in his works, he has already formed, among others, Mekk Mester and Süsü the Dragon (who are also well-known characters of Hungarian cartoon series), Lisa Simpson or Kermit the Frog from the Muppet show.
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Professional performances tailored to your requirements. Having worked at thousands of events across the globe for the last 16 years. Dan will ensure the client is happy everytime. A sure fire winner with every audience, no matter where in the world he is. A plethora of different skills and stupid stunts all bound together with his genuinely funny onstage persona. A show for all ages, anywhere in the world. Dan can undertake one off bookings or short term contracts. Dan will work with any client to ensure they are happy with set lengths and numbers of performances.
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We don't blame you for thinking farms like this don't exist anymore. Pigs live in sheds now, eggs are found in boxes, fish come with chips… like Elton said: It's the circle of life. But fear not camping compadres. Mill Farm is here to put you to rights and if you fancy some proper on-the-farm glamping then your search has come to a close.
Nestled in the trees and meadows of the South Downs, Mill Farm is a delightfully rustic little farm with a host of different animals and acres for little'uns to explore. It's not a twee imitation of ye olde farming – don't expect horse drawn plows and hand scattered seedlings – but it still has a wonderfully traditional feel and, with its free range farming methods, avoids large scale commercial life. Pigs here live freely in the woods, wrestling their snouts against the roots and scratching their oversized rumpuses on the bows of old oaks, while chickens too flutter around the undergrowth. And, since there is no fixed coup, the morning breakfast can proceed only after a kid-friendly treasure hunt reveals eggs carefully deposited in hidden places.
It's such simple pleasures that make Mill Farm one of the best sites around and the accommodation itself becomes almost a side-note. Farmer's Andrew and Jennifer are knowledgeable and friendly, the amount of activities to be found are seemingly endless and the enviable surroundings (think charming old pub, traditional post office and miles of national footpaths) make it a tiptop location. Yet when you do slope back to your tent for the night, well, let's just say its time to rethink your concept of camping!
Aptly described by the site as 'canvas lodges', the ginormous safari tents feature an en-suite bathroom with shower, basin and proper flushing loo, alongside a plush master bedroom and a separate room with bunks. The real gem is actually out in the main living space – a cupboard bed that works just as the name suggests and will leave the kids fighting for its occupation. You have been warned. The décor has a slightly Country Life feel, with big bronze chandeliers and vintage-style lanterns that, when evening comes, cast a warm glow across the interior of the tent. By day, the veranda out front enjoys spectacular views towards the Blackdown Hills and by night it's the perfect place to keep the barbecue going and enjoy a quiet glass of vino from the amazing local winery. Now that's a circle of life we could go for!
Canvas Frills Lodges include a double bed, bunk beds and a cosy cupboard bed. The lodge has an En-suite bathroom with shower and basin and flushing toilet. There is a kitchenette with outdoor cooker, and canvas covered veranda along with a living space area with sofas, a dining table and the like. Wood is supplied for heating and cooking along with a starter pack of candles and lamp oil. Towels and bedding are all provided. Campers shouldn't pass up the opportunity to have a farm tour, but there are also chickens around the lodges and coup where you can collect fresh eggs. There is a wood fired oven that pizzas can be cooked in and campfires are permitted in the pit provided. Campers can also fish in the mill pond.
It's a pleasant stroll from site to pub (or two pubs) and a short drive to Upperton Vineyards (01798 343695; see food and drink). For longer walks, though, you're certainly in the right place, with several footpaths running directly through Mill Farm itself and out into the surrounding South Downs (03003 031053). For a little heritage, Petworth House and Park (01798 342207) – a vast 17th-century mansion – is highly recommended and Woolbeding Garden (08442 491895) is also less than 15 minutes away, complete with a ruined abbey and a Chinese-style bridge and waterfall. Both are National Trust owned.
If you go for a walk from the farm you're almost certain to end up re-hydrating in Lurgashall's 16th-century pub overlooking the village green! The Noah's Ark Inn (01428 707346) is a wonderful spot, with real ales on tap and a modern but still pub-like menu. On sunny days you can spill onto the picnic tables out front. Also within walking distance (slightly further) is The Lickfold Inn (01789 532535), similarly quaint with its exposed tudor beams in the restaurant though perhaps a slightly more up-market feel. There are several wineries in the area and Lugashall's own (01428 707292) is not to be missed – as much for the old building itself as the wine and tea shop on offer. If it gets you interested it's a short drive to Upperton Vineyards (01798 343695) where there are tours and a visitor centre.


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Why The Airbus A350 Was The Make It Or Break It Aircraft For Airbus
Exactly 6 years ago, on June 14th, 2013, the Airbus A350 made its first flight.
On that day, everyone at Airbus was generally anxious – the Airbus A350 will either lift the company up or, if unsuccessful, would spiral Airbus into a slow failure.
At the beginning of the day, the workers at Toulouse watching the first Airbus A350 flight live and the people at other Airbus manufacturing sites watching live streams were nervously waiting for the lift-off of the A350.
At the end of the day, a collective sigh of relief could probably be heard all over Europe.
But why? Why was the Airbus A350 so important to the company?
In short, wide-body aircraft.
On a longer note, let's try to understand the at-the-time situation at Airbus, the wide-body market and how did it all turn out, 6 years later.
The Airbus A350 similarities with the Boeing 737 MAX
Ironically, just like Boeing had a huge headache with the Airbus A320neo in 2011, so did Airbus with the Boeing 787. Initially, Airbus thought that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner would go head-to-head with the Airbus A330, but as time went on, Airbus realized that they needed a response to the Dreamliner.
In addition, Airbus was already investing a lot of money into the Airbus A380, as Airbus saw a gap in the very large aircraft market. The Airbus A380 recorded its first test flight in 2005. A year earlier, in a private meeting with various airlines, Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard announced a new model that did not have a name at the time.
The new model was supposed to complement the existing A330. A new aircraft would be dubbed the A330-200 Lite and promise an increased range – the fuselage would stay the same, meaning no extra passengers would be seated on the aircraft. But the 787 promised to do everything better than the A330 Lite – more range, more passengers and most importantly, it was more economical due to the new engines and materials used on the frame.
Anyhow, airlines initially were not very keen – Airbus received limited attention to its new project, as customers wanted something new and better than the Boeing 787 or the Airbus A330. If Airbus wanted to beat Boeing in the twin-engine long-haul aircraft market, it would need something revolutionary to sway airlines from ordering the Dreamliner.
And an A330 Lite was not the solution.
Airbus was back to the drawing board under a difficult time – the A380 had its own fair share of production issues and the aviation sector was facing a downturn. But Airbus had to do something, as Boeing was dominating the industry at the time.
Drawing the wide-body market
In the late '90s to early 2000s when Airbus announced the A350 for the first time in 2004, the commercial aviation looked quite different from what it is today.
Boeing was clearly ahead of Airbus, as it had several wide-body jets out at the time – 747, 767 and the 777.
Meanwhile, Airbus had the A300, A310, A330 and the A340.
In addition, you had the tri-jet wide-bodies at the time – the DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar.
But the tri-jets were nearing their expiration date and Boeing absorbed McDonnell Douglas, including all of their aircraft, as McDonnell Douglas was heavily struggling with the repercussions from their decision to release the MD-11 with three engines. At a time when everyone in the aviation industry started to tilt towards twin-engine configurations, someone had to be the stubborn guy, right?
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Are you considering selling your home? If so the process may seem a bit confusing or even overwhelming. There are so many homes on the market already, what is going to make someone pick your home over another? How can you draw the maximum value for your home? There are so many questions to answer, but the good news is that you are working with us. We can answer those questions for you and guide you through the home sales process!
No matter if you are a first time home seller, or you have sold many homes before it is important to consider many things when selling your home. The home sales process is made up of 10 stages, just like the home buying process, and each stage is very important. By learning about the 10 stages you can make the selling process a bit easier to navigate. The best news is that you don't have to navigate it alone, we will be there to help you though each and every stage.
Determining your reason for selling. Not every home sale is the same. Your unique situation can make a difference in your home sale. We will talk through this with you and help you highlight your reasons for selling.
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J S Vermas family refuses Padma Bhushan
Written by Seema Chishti | Seema Chishti | Updated: Jan 31 2014, 17:47pm hrs
Family, friends are learnt to be unhappy that the late Verma (left) did not get Padma Vibhushan. ARCHIVE
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In what could cause considerable embarrassment to the government, the family of eminent jurist and former chief justice of India, late Justice J S Verma, has decided not to accept the Padma Bhushan awarded to him posthumously on the eve of Republic Day this year.
It is believed Verma being given just a Padma Bhushan has hurt his family and friends, leading to their decision to not accept the award. Their not being consulted formally before the announcement too has added to a sense of feeling undermined.
We do not want to accept what we know Justice Verma himself would not have accepted, Vermas wife Pushpa Verma has said in a letter written and couriered to President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday.
Pushpa Verma has written that she is yet to receive any official communication but is responding after reading reports in the media that her late husband has been given the Padma Bhushan.
She has written she does not think it appropriate to accept the award on his behalf as he never hankered or lobbied for any acclaim, reward or favour.
He always and strictly, put India first before any personal profit or gain. He will always be remembered as one of Indias most pre-eminent jurists and with a legacy of alleviating substantive injustice through the forging of globally acclaimed new legal tools, she has said.
Verma had most recently headed a three-member committee, set up in the aftermath of the December 16, 2012 gangrape in Delhi, to suggest changes in criminal law to ensure speedy justice to victims of sex crimes. He died after a brief spell of illness in April.
Pushpa Verma has also written how the greatest honour to him remains how he is held in the hearts and minds of his fellow countrymen, as a true friend not just to women and youth, but to those, most in need of one.
This, she writes, is what will remain invaluable to us, him and the constitutional ideal of justice he fought for.
While there is no hint of rancour in the letter about Verma not being considered for a higher award, his daughter Shubhra told The Indian Express that there were informal enquiries in my fathers school in Satna and in Noida, at our home too, for the Padma Vibhushan. But when the announcement was made, it was the Padma Bhushan. We have received no communication at all, formally.
Vermas contemporaries expressed their unhappiness Thursday on the Padma Bhushan being too small an award for someone of his stature.
Justice Rajinder Sachar, a former chief justice of the Delhi High Court, expressed his horror at the insensitivity of the bureaucracy and said giving him the Padma Bhushan and not the Padma Vibhushan was a shoddy job.
Justice Verma was universally respected both in Judiciary and the Public. His contribution in Judiciary and post-retirement period was immense. I know personally his pain at the horrible happening in 2002 Gujarat and his bold and persistent intervention as a chairperson of National Human Rights Commission. To calm the situation, the Union government turned to him to do a speedy job for reforming the rape law, which everybody agrees was done with commendable speed, Sachar said in a statement.
Bureaucracy has of course bungled. But can the supervising political authorities excuse themselves for this lack of sensitivity Sachar has asked.
Leading Advocate Raju Ramachandran said he speaks for many when he says that a Padma Vibhushan for a former chief justice of his eminence would have been much more suitable. Attorneys General, except one, and eminent jurists like Fali Nariman have all got the Padma Vibhushan, so why not him


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UC finds mammoth problem with extinction timeline
DNA found in sediments can mislead since mammoths can shed genetic material long after they die
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Exactly when mammoths went extinct has fascinated paleontologists for generations, perhaps because their decline coincided with the arrival of people to North and South America.
So it's only natural to wonder if humans more than contributed to the extinction of these enormous beasts of the ice age more than 10,000 years ago.
A University of Cincinnati paleontologist refutes the latest timeline published in 2021 in the journal Nature that suggested mammoths met their end much more recently than we believed. An international team of researchers examined environmental DNA of mammoth remains and more than 1,500 arctic plants to conclude that a wetter climate quickly changed the landscape from tundra grassland steppe to forested wetlands that could not support many of these big grazing animals, driving mammoths to extinction as recently as 3,900 years ago.
But in a rebuttal paper to be published Dec. 1 in Nature, UC College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor Joshua Miller and co-author Carl Simpson at the University of Colorado Boulder argue that the environmental DNA used to establish their updated timeline is more complex than previously recognized.
"The issue is you have no idea how old that DNA is," Miller said. "Sedimentary deposits are complex. Materials of different ages are routinely buried together."
UC assistant professor Joshua Miller examines a mammoth tusk at the Cincinnati Museum Center's Geier Collections and Research Center. Photo/Andrew Higley/UC Marketing + Brand
Researchers have many tools to date sedimentary deposits and the materials contained in them. But not everything can be dated, Miller said.
"We can radiocarbon date all kinds of things: bones, teeth, charcoal, leaves. That's very powerful. But currently we can't independently date DNA found in sediments," Miller said.
From recent discoveries like the baby mammoth found in Canada this year, we know that many ice age animals that died tens of thousands of years ago can become mummified in the arctic's dry, cold environment. Miller said researchers can't tell whether environmental DNA preserved in sediment was shed from a living or dead animal.
"DNA is shed from organisms all the time," Miller said. "In fact, DNA continues to be shed long after the animal dies. In places where decomposition is slow, that means long-dead and even long-extinct species can continue to make their way into surrounding sediments. In the arctic and other cold-weather places, it can take thousands of years for something to decompose."
They're tantalizingly similar to animals that live among us today. We can almost touch them. That makes mammoths really alluring.
Joshua Miller, UC paleontologist
The researchers say the slow decomposition of animals in arctic regions could explain how mammoth DNA is showing up thousands of years later than the most recent mammoth fossil discovered. The paper notes that the mummified remains of elephant seals near Antarctica can be more than 5,000 years old.
In some remote parts of the arctic, it's not unusual to find 2,000-year-old caribou antlers on the surface, Miller said. But the most recent mammoth fossils found in the Siberian area were entombed in permafrost 11,000 years ago.
Simpson said his work studying marine environments from recently eroded hillsides demonstrates how difficult it is to date ancient specimens.
"Seashells can sit on the seafloor for thousands of years. When you see shells on the beach, some could be from animals that died recently while others might be from shellfish that died millennia ago," Simpson said. "This happens in the vertebrate record as well."
UC paleontologist Joshua Miller and Abigail Kelly, a 2022 doctoral graduate, study ice age fossils in his lab in this 2019 file photo. Photo/Andrew Higley/UC Marketing + Brand
Miller has spent his career using isotopic analysis to study extinct ice age animals. Earlier this year, he and his research partners followed the life story of a single mastodon as it traveled across what is now the Midwest before dying in what they believe was a territorial mating battle with another mastodon.
He regularly undertakes scientific expeditions to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to study the historic migrations and human impacts on caribou.
Miller said the question remains what impact, if any, humans had on the global decline and extinction of mammoths. Humans were known to use fire to alter landscapes in profound ways, Miller said. They also hunted mammoths and made use of their ivory tusks.
Examining the causes of extinction requires an accurate timeline. When did mammoths vanish?
"The timing between human arrival and extinction is fairly tight in many places. Until recently, this included what is currently the contiguous United States," Miller said. "But recent studies have pushed back the arrival of humans here, creating more of a gap between human arrival and extinctions of mammoths and other megafauna. This certainly has added complexity to the debates over the mechanisms of those extinctions."
So when did the last mammoths die off? Scientists say most mammoths went extinct around 10,000 years ago but remnant populations lived on islands such as Russia's Wrangel Island until much more recently.
This cohabitation with modern humans is one reason mammoths capture our imaginations, researchers said.
"They're tantalizingly similar to animals that live among us today," Miller said. "We can almost touch them. That makes mammoths really alluring. For many people they are the poster children of ice age megafauna."
"Mammoths lived on the Channel Islands of California near where I grew up," Simpson said.
The islands were home to pygmy mammoths weighing 2,000 pounds. Today, the biggest mammal on the island is a tiny endemic fox.
"I think about how amazing it would have been to grow up with all of those big animals walking around," Simpson said. "But I just missed them."
Featured image at top: Cameron Schwalbach, paleontology collections manager for the Cincinnati Museum Center's Geier Collections and Research Center, and UC assistant professor Joshua Miller examine a mammoth skull. Photo/Andrew Higley/UC Marketing + Brand
UC assistant professor Joshua Miller stands next to a bronze mammoth sculpture outside the Cincinnati Museum Center's Geier Collections and Research Center. Photo/Andrew Higley/UC Marketing + Brand
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On Friday, March 5, The Cincinnati Project (TCP) will host its seventh-annual symposium titled "The Art and Science of Socially Just Community Partnered Research," sponsored by UC's College of Arts and Sciences and The Taft Research Center. Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) Mohan Dutta will deliver the keynote speech. Based in New Zealand, CARE is a global organization dedicated to developing community-based solutions for social change, advocacy and activism, inspired by the conviction that health is a human right. Founded in 2016, TCP unites researchers from UC's College of Arts and Sciences with community partners to benefit marginalized communities in Cincinnati, tackling economic, race, gender and health issues. Past TCP research has focused on high eviction rates in Hamilton County, resulting in city legislation to protect the rights of renters through an eviction prevention plan. In addition to the keynote speaker, the symposium will include discussion panels from area organizations such as Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME), the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio, the Center for Closing the Health Gap, and UC faculty researchers. Topics will include ways in which community-based research can be conducted in socially just ways, in order to benefit the communities it is designed to serve. The symposium will be held virtually via Zoom from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and is free and open to the public. For more information or to register, please visit The Cincinnati Project.


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How Mexican Cartels Use Chinese Crypto Brokers to Launder Drug Money
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Law enforcement agencies in the United States have expressed worries that Chinese crypto channels are increasingly being used to launder money by Mexican drug cartels and other transnational organized crime groups.
This comes at a time when the size of Chinese exports such as chemicals and other ingredients used in making hard drugs to the U.S. has been growing, per Asia Times. According to a senior official at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Paul Knierim, a notable increase in money launderers from Asia has subsequently been observed:
The shift toward Chinese and Asian money launderers is believed to be, in part, due to the natural relationship created by the large volume of both licit and illicit trade goods and chemicals imported from China. The use of an Asian money broker simplifies the money laundering process and streamlines the purchase of precursor chemicals and paraphernalia utilized in manufacturing drugs for street sales.
In a report issued a few weeks ago, the DEA pointed out that in the last eight years, a steady decline in the amount of cash seized throughout the United States had been recorded and this could mean that more discreet techniques of moving illicit cash were being employed.
Specifically, the DEA cited the Chinese Underground Banking Systems (CUBS) as a key laundering channel. The CUBS money brokers, the DEA noted, was turning to bitcoin both to launder money for drug traffickers and to assist Chinese nationals interested in moving amounts exceeding the allowed annual limit of US$50,000 outside the country:
CUBS money brokers sell Bitcoin to drug traffickers for cash earned from drug sales in the US, Australia, and Europe. This drug cash is then sold to Chinese nationals in exchange for Bitcoin the Chinese nationals use to transfer the value of their assets outside of China.
To avoid detection and traceability, these bitcoin trades are conducted over the counter with the Chinese brokers relying on foreign-based exchanges which have lax Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering policies.
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Besides the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has also blamed Chinese transnational criminal organizations for the rise in the use of cryptocurrencies to launder money. This was made clear during a U.S. congressional hearing earlier in the month.
But while using cryptocurrencies to launder money may offer some advantages, the extent to which they can be used is limited due to the fact that, with the exception of privacy coins such as Monero and Zcash, transactions are transparent since they can be viewed on the respective blockchains.
Globally, the money laundering turnover is estimated to reach US$2 trillion, and the use of cryptocurrencies in cleaning illicit cash is tiny compared to other channels.
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CC130342 Hercules - Epilogue
Report / February 21, 2012 / Project number: CC130342 - A Cat
Location: Key West, Florida
During a touch and go at Naval Air Station Key West just prior to the aircraft becoming airborne, the Loadmaster, who was seated in the rear of the cargo compartment, heard an electrical buzzing sound and observed an orange jet-like flame shoot across the cargo ramp floor. He unbuckled his harness and was reaching for the fire extinguisher when an expansive orange fireball erupted, causing him to protect his head with his jacket. Once the fireball receded, he alerted the crew to the fire and moved forward to escape the heat and smoke.
Concurrent with the fire alert, the aircraft became airborne and reached 10 feet in altitude above the runway. With sufficient runway remaining, the Flying Pilot landed straight ahead and aggressively stopped the aircraft while the Non-Flying Pilot notified Air Traffic Control. Once the aircraft came to rest and the engines were shut down, all nine crewmembers quickly egressed and moved upwind of the aircraft. Crash Fire and Rescue services responded and expeditiously extinguished the fire. The aircraft was extensively damaged and one crewmember received a minor injury.
The investigation determined that routing and clamping deficiencies in a modification to install ground test connections to the auxiliary hydraulic system, resulted in chafing between the hydraulic pump motor power wire and a pressurized hydraulic flexible hose. Electrical arcing between the wire and the hose resulted in a pin-hole breach of the flexible hose, release of hydraulic fluid under high pressure, and initiation of the fire.
Preventive measures included redesign of the modification, as well as changes to the modification process to include specialist review of wiring and hydraulic lines to ensure proper routing, support and protection from chafing, abrasion, harsh environments and damage from anticipated hazards. Preventive measures also included measures to educate and create awareness of the hazards associated with chafing.
A number of collateral observations were made and preventive measures recommended, including use of the dual layer principle for aircrew fire protection, policy for maintenance technicians flying as crew members, and improving communication between airworthiness authorities when imposing and lifting operational restrictions.