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Depression and Infertility
February 15, 2014 in Lupus and Pregnancy
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Are Severe Depressive Symptoms Associated With Infertility-related Distress in Individuals and Their Partners?
Brennan D. Peterson, Camilla S. Sejbaek, Matthew Pirritano, Lone Schmidt
Hum Reprod. 2014;29(1):76-82.
Abstract and Introduction Abstract
Study question Are severe depressive symptoms in women and men associated with individual and dyadic infertility-related stress in couples undergoing infertility treatment?
Summary answer Severe depressive symptoms were significantly associated with increased infertility-related distress at both the individual and partner level.
What is known already? An infertility diagnosis, the stress of medical treatments and a prior history of depression are risk factors for future depression in those undergoing fertility treatments. Studies examining the impact of severe depressive symptoms on infertility-related distress in couples are lacking.
Study design, size, duration This cross-sectional study included 1406 couples who were consecutively referred patients undergoing fertility treatments in Denmark in the year 2000. A total of 1049 men and 1131 women were included in the study.
Participants/materials, setting, methods Participants were consecutively referred patients undergoing a cycle of medically assisted reproduction treatment at five Danish public and private clinics specializing in treating fertility patients. Severe depressive symptoms were measured by the Mental Health Inventory 5 from the Short Form Health Survey 36. Infertility distress was measured by the COMPI Fertility Problem Stress Scales. Multilevel modelling using the actor–partner interdependence model was used to study the couple as the unit of analysis.
Main results and the role of chance Severe depressive symptoms were reported in 11.6% of women and 4.3% of men, and were significantly associated with increased infertility-related distress at the individual and partner level. There was no significant interaction for gender indicating that men and women did not differ in how severe depressive symptoms were associated with infertility distress.
Limitations, reason for caution Because of the cross-sectional study design, the study findings only show an association between severe depressive symptoms to individual and partner distress at a single point in time; however, nothing is known about causality.
Wider implications of the findings This study adds to the growing body of literature using the couple as the unit of analysis to study the relationship between depression and infertility distress. Recommendations for medical and mental health professionals that underscore the potential risk factors for depressed men and women who are pursuing infertility treatments are provided. Additional studies using a longitudinal study design to track the impact of depression on distress over the course of the infertility treatment cycle would be valuable for increasing our understanding of the complex relationship that exists between these psychosocial factors.
Study funding/competing interests Authors Brennan Peterson and Matthew Pirritano have no financial disclosures for this study. Camilla Sandal Sejbaek and Lone Schmidt have received research grants from the Danish Health Insurance Foundation (J. nr. 2008B105) and Merck Sharp & Dohme. The funders had no influence on the data collection, analyses or conclusions of the study.
The experience of infertility is commonly linked with unexpected stressors that can impact one's personal life, social support networks and marital relationships (Newton et al., 1999). These stressors can cause significant disruption in one's life and be related to increased psychological distress in men and women (Wichman et al., 2011). One of the key types of distress reported in infertility patients is depression. An infertility diagnosis and the stress of medical treatment can put women at risk of depressive symptoms, particularly after treatment failure (Newton et al., 1990; Domar et al., 1992; Verhaak et al., 2007; Volgsten et al., 2010). On the other hand, women with depressive symptoms may be more likely to experience infertility due to depression's impact on the biological mechanisms that influence hormone production and ovulation (Lapane et al, 1995; Williams et al., 2007). Adding to the already complicated relationship that exists between these variables, a prior history of depression is a risk factor for future depression in women undergoing fertility treatments (Vahratian et al., 2011; Pasch et al., 2012).
The majority of studies examining the relationship between depression and infertility have examined the impact of depression on pregnancy and live birth rates. While some studies have found that depression is linked with lower pregnancy rates in couples pursuing assisted reproductive technologies (ART) (Klonoff-Cohen, 2005), two recent meta-analyses have found that depression was not associated with a reduced chance of pregnancy outcome (Boivin et al., 2011; Matthiesen et al., 2011). However, a recent study using a national register-based cohort found that of the 42 880 Danish women participating in ART treatments, women with a depression diagnosis prior to fertility treatments participated in fewer ART cycles and had fewer ART live births when compared with the non-depressed group (Sejbaek et al., 2013). This supports a previous research finding that women with major depression reported the lowest live birth rate among study participants (Volgsten et al., 2010).
For infertility patients who undergo ART, a prior depression history is the strongest risk factor for future depression (Vahratian et al., 2011; Pasch et al., 2012). Men and women with depression prior to infertility treatment likely have less physical, emotional and social resources to cope with the stress of infertility treatments and treatment failure, and thus may be considered an 'at risk' group. In a Swedish study of 545 couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), 10.9% of women and 5.1% of men had major depression at treatment initiation (Volgsten et al., 2008). In this study, major depression was measured by the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD) based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). This is a substantial percentage of the patients seen for infertility treatments, and because we currently know very little about the association between pre-existing depressive symptoms and infertility-related distress in infertility patients, it is important to establish a baseline if such an association exists.
In addition to our limited understanding of the association between severe depressive symptoms and infertility-related distress, we know very little about how depression is associated with infertility distress at the dyadic level. In other words, is there an association between an individual's severe depressive symptoms and a partner's levels of infertility-related distress? To address the lack of studies using the couple as the unit of analysis, researchers have begun to use a data analytic technique called the actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) (Kenny et al., 2006), to study how the stressors of infertility are related to individual and partner outcomes (Peterson et al., 2008, 2009, 2011; Benyamini et al., 2009). A small number of these studies have used depression as a study variable and have examined its relationship with coping (Berghuis and Stanton, 2002), marital conflict (Proulx et al., 2009) and the transmission of depressive symptoms between partners undergoing fertility treatments (Knoll et al., 2009). However, few studies have examined how depression is associated with infertility distress, and particularly how depressive symptoms are associated with both the individual's and partner's levels of distress. Because infertility is ultimately a shared stressor that exists between both members of the couple, more studies are needed to utilize dyadic analyses in order to provide a more complete picture of the infertility experience.
The current study attempted to examine how severe depressive symptoms in women and men are associated with individual and dyadic infertility-related distress. The study asked the following research questions: (i) Prior to fertility treatments, do men and women with severe depressive symptoms experience higher levels of infertility distress when compared with men and women who do not report severe depressive symptoms? (ii) Are an individual's severe depressive symptoms associated with increased infertility-related distress in the individual and in their partner?
Materials and Methods Procedure
This study is part of The Copenhagen Multi-centre Psychosocial Infertility (COMPI) Research Programme (Schmidt, 2006), a prospective longitudinal cohort study of infertile couples in fertility treatment. Patients who were consecutively referred at one of the four public hospital-based tertiary fertility clinics and one private clinic between January 2000 and August 2001 received a questionnaire for each spouse before attending their first treatment. The study complied with the Helsinki II Declaration was assessed by the Scientific Ethical Committee of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg Municipalities (KF 01-107/99), and was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (J. nr. 1999-1200-233; 2001-41-1486; 2005-41-5694).
The 5-item Mental Health Inventory 5 (MHI-5) from the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), Medical Outcomes Study, was used to measure severe depressive symptoms (Bjorner et al., 1998a,b; Strand et al., 2003). Previous studies comparing MHI-5 with other (validated) mental health scales have shown MHI-5 to be a good measure of severe depressive symptoms (Berwick et al., 1991; Strand et al., 2003). The five items in the MHI-5 measure the mood of the participants in the past 4 weeks (e.g. felt so down in the dumps that nothing could cheer you up, felt downhearted and blue). The response key was a 6-point scale ranging from (1) all of the time to (6) none of the time. The scores for two of the items were reversed and the answers were summed up to a raw score ranging from 5 to 30 (Bjørner et al., 1997). The raw score was then transformed to a scale ranging from 0 to 100. The scale was dichotomized with a cut-off point at 52 and participants scoring ≤52 were categorized as having severe depressive symptoms. This cut-off point was chosen in agreement with previous studies comparing other scales measuring depressive symptoms to the MHI-5, and investigating different cut-off points for the MHI-5 (Holmes, 1998; Strand et al., 2003). Studies in other research fields also use a cut-off point at ≤52 (Rugulies et al., 2012). Therefore, choosing the same cut-off point as other studies makes it possible to compare results. The MHI-5 has been widely used in studies assessing mental health, as well as general health, and has had a Cronbach's alpha of 0.82 (Strand et al., 2003).
Infertility-related distress was measured by the COMPI Fertility Problem Stress Scales, a 14-item instrument based on The Fertility Problem Stress Inventory (Abbey et al., 1991) and qualitative interviews of Danish infertile patients regarding the psychosocial consequences of infertility and fertility treatment (Schmidt, 1996). The measure includes questions regarding one's personal distress (six items, e.g. how much stress the individual felt in their life as a result of the childlessness), marital distress (four items, e.g. how much stress the childlessness placed on marriage and sexual relationship) and social distress (four items, e.g. how much stress the fertility problem placed on relationships with family, friends and workmates). The response key for 10 of the 14 items is based on a 4-point scale from (1) a great deal to (4) none at all, while four items are based on a 5-point scale from (1) strongly agree to (5) strongly disagree. An exploratory factor analysis produced a set of parsimonious factors (Schmidt et al., 2003). In the exploratory factor analysis, items with factor loadings >0.45 were assigned to the factor (personal, marital or social distress) for which they had the greatest loading. As mentioned above, the three domains were uncovered in accordance with Abbey et al. (1991) and the interviews conducted by Schmidt (1996). The range, mean and Cronbach alpha coefficients differed depending on the subscale: personal distress (range 0–20, mean 6.86, SD 4.48, Cronbach alpha 0.82); marital distress (range 0–14, mean 3.86, SD 3.16, alpha 0.73) and social distress (range 0–12, mean 1.87, SD 2.43, alpha 0.82) (Schmidt et al., 2003).
This study was cross-sectional. Multilevel modelling using the APIM(Kenny et al., 2006; Kashy and Donnellan, 2008) was used to study the association between a partner's severe depressive symptoms and his or her partner's distress (personal, marital and social) (see Fig. 1). The APIM allows for the simultaneous estimation of actor effects (individual effects) and partner effects (the effects of another closely associated person) to shared stressors in dyads, thus providing a more complete picture of how severe depressive symptoms are related to distress in couples.
General model of actor and partner effects of severe depressive symptoms on distress.
Data were analysed with the couple as the unit of analysis. This was done by conducting multilevel analyses using the SAS 9.2® mixed procedure. A multilevel analysis involves more than one regression model calculated at different levels of a nested design. In the current set of analyses, level 1 was the individual level that was nested within level 2, the couple. Multilevel analyses estimate the model independently at each of these levels. The design of the analysis is very similar to a multiple regression with one dependent variable and a set of predictors, or independent variables. Analyses provide unstandardized estimates of path coefficients for actor and partner effects.
The analyses were cross-sectional with severe depressive symptoms (dichotomous) as the independent variable, and personal, marital and social distress as the dependent variables. Three analyses were conducted, one for each of the three types of distress. Because previous research has found infertility diagnosis (i.e. male or female factor infertility) to be related to other psychosocial consequences of infertility (Peronace et al., 2007), infertility diagnosis based on five categories [i.e. male factor, female factor, both male–female factor, other causes (not specified), unknown] was therefore tested as a covariate in the analyses. However, no statistical association between infertility diagnosis and severe depressive symptoms and personal and marital distress was found, so it was not included in the final analyses.
In total, 2812 fertility patients (1406 couples) received a baseline questionnaire for each partner and 80.0% ( n = 2250) participated. Couples who had a child together prior to inclusion in COMPI and participants without a severe depressive symptoms score were excluded from the analyses. Thus, 1049 men and 1131 women were included in the overall study. At baseline the mean age of women was 31.9 years (SD = 3.6 years) while their male partners mean age was 34.3 years (SD = 5.1 years). Couples had been together for an average of 7.7 years (SD = 3.7) and had been infertile for ~4.2 years (SD = 2.3). Nearly 60% had been in fertility treatment prior to inclusion in the COMPI Research Programme.
As shown in , 11.6% of women in the sample reported severe depressive symptoms compared with 4.3% of men (χ 2 = 39.0, P < 0.001). Women with severe depressive symptoms had significantly higher distress levels for all three measures compared with women with no severe depressive symptoms. The same relationship was also found for men (see ). Women reported significantly higher levels of personal distress ( t = −15.9, P < 0.001) and social distress ( t = −7.73, P < 0.001) when compared with men. However, no difference was found between women and men with respect to marital distress.
Severe depressive symptoms were significantly associated with increased personal, marital and social distress in both men and women (i.e. significant actor effects). There were no interaction effects with gender, indicating that the association between depression and distress did not differ between men and women. There were also significant partner effects for men and women in that an individual's severe depressive symptoms were associated with higher levels of personal and marital distress in one's partner. However, for social distress only a female partner effect was found, showing that a male's severe depressive symptoms were significantly associated with a female partner's social distress. None of the interaction effects between partner effects and gender were significant, indicating that the association between severe depressive symptoms and effects on the partner's distress did not differ between males and females.
This study adds to the growing body of literature that examines the dyadic impact of a partner's response to infertility (Berghuis and Stanton, 2002; Benyamini et al., 2009; Knoll et al, 2009; Peterson et al., 2009, 2011) by providing support that severe depressive symptoms are significantly associated with personal, marital and social infertility-related distress at the individual and partner level. Although there are studies that have examined the dyadic impact of depression in couples pursuing infertility treatments (Berghuis and Stanton, 2002; Knoll et al., 2009), to our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that severe depressive symptoms are significantly associated with individual and partner infertility distress.
The current study used severe depressive symptoms as the independent variable in the study analysis. Although we cannot draw predictive conclusions relative to severe depressive symptoms and infertility-related distress, the purpose of the current study was to examine if such an association exists so that baseline data can lay the groundwork for future longitudinal studies. In our sample, 11.6% of women and 4.3% of men reported severe depressive symptoms; these rates compared favourably with a large sample of infertility patients reporting depression in Sweden (10.9% women, 5.1%, men) (Volgsten et al., 2008). The fact that two studies found such high rates of depressive symptoms in men and women prior to pursuing infertility treatments illustrates the significance of studying the possible association between severe depressive symptoms and infertility-related distress. Furthermore, it is possible that these rates even underrepresent the actual percentage of depressed men and women experiencing infertility, as researchers have found that depression can act as a barrier to seeking out medical advice for infertility (Herbert et al., 2010).
It has been well documented that infertility is commonly linked with depression, particularly in women (Domar et al, 1992), and that an infertility diagnosis and the subsequent stress of treatments have been linked with increased infertility distress (Newton et al., 1999; Greil et al., 2010). In the current study, women reported higher levels of infertility distress when compared with men, a finding supported by a wide body of literature (Newton et al., 1999; Greil et al., 2010). In addition, a significantly higher percentage of women reported severe depressive symptoms when compared with men. This is consistent with depression rates in the general population where women are two to three times as likely to be depressed as men (Kessler, 2003).
It is noteworthy that the current study used a sample of men and women that included people who reported severe depressive symptoms. A meta-analysis of 28 studies examining the relationship between depression and women experiencing polycystic ovary syndrome found that over 50% of the studies reported depression scores in the non-clinical range, while the remaining studies were in the mild depression range (Veltman-Verhulst et al., 2012). Using a sample of couples with severe depressive symptoms helps give voice to an understudied and at-risk population of women and men. Furthermore, the current study answered calls of previous researchers to use multilevel models that enhance our understanding of the dyadic impact of an individual's severe depressive symptoms on one's partner (Lund et al., 2009). The finding of the current study that an individual's severe depressive symptoms are related to increased infertility-related distress in the partner supports this call, and underscores the importance of conceptualizing infertility as a couples-level stressor.
A large number of studies examining the relationship between depression and infertility have done so by examining the impact of depression on pregnancy outcomes. While it is encouraging that recent meta-analyses and studies have found that depression prior to infertility treatment does not influence pregnancy rates, a finding that can reduce the amount of self-blame a woman may feel following unsuccessful treatment (Boivin et al., 2011; Matthiesen et al., 2011; Pasch et al., 2012), the findings from this study underscore possible risk factors for depressed men and women pursuing infertility treatments. It has been shown that higher depression in women prior to IVF treatment was associated with higher depression following IVF treatment (Pasch et al., 2012). This finding may be explained in part because men and women, who are depressed prior to treatments, are likely experiencing greater amounts of infertility distress compared with non-depressed couples. Because this distress increases at both the individual and partner level, and because depressed individuals have fewer emotional resources to cope with this distress, this group may be at particular risk of future depression following treatment failure.
The findings from the current study may have implications for medical and mental health professionals (Peterson et al., 2012). Pasch et al. (2012) recommended that psychological interventions be focused on helping couples cope with the stress of infertility and treatment failure, as opposed to using psychological treatments to reduce stress in an attempt to become pregnant. This may be particularly true for men and women entering treatment with severe depressive symptoms, as their levels of infertility stress may be higher than those without depressive symptoms.
The findings from this study must be interpreted in the context of the study's limitations. First, due to the cross-sectional study design, we cannot make conclusions that depressive symptoms cause increased infertility distress in individuals or partners, or that infertility distress causes an increase in an individual's or partner's depressive symptoms. These findings only represent the association between severe depressive symptoms and infertility distress, and therefore cannot be used to infer any causality or directionality of this relationship. Second, the COMPI scales used in this study have not yet been validated in large-scale psychometric studies. The fertility problem stress scales were adopted from an existing scale (Abbey et al., 1991) and further developed based on findings from in-depth detailed qualitative research and interviews with Danish fertility patients (Schmidt, 1996). Explanatory factor analyses showed infertility-specific distress in three different domains (personal, marital, social) (Schmidt et al., 2003), and the infertility-specific scales are being used in several other studies in different countries, with a cross-cultural validation study currently being carried out. Third, the multilevel analyses are unadjusted, although the findings show that the couples are intertwined and that the dyadic analyses add information about couples and their influence on each other. Fourth, the MHI-5 was developed to assess mental health in general and was not designed to assess severe depressive symptoms. However, a study comparing clinical diagnosis with MHI-5 found good agreement for mood disorders and the MHI-5 (Rumpf et al., 2001), which indicates that it is plausible to use the MHI-5 as a proxy for severe depressive symptoms. Finally, the cut-point of the MHI-5 could have been higher (e.g. 56 or 60), hence identifying more individuals with severe depressive symptoms. However, because the MHI-5 is not a clinical instrument, the lowest cut-point identified was used. This is also in accordance with other studies (Holmes, 1998; Strand et al., 2003; Rugulies et al., 2012) that found ≤52 as the best cut-point. Given these limitations, additional studies using a longitudinal study design to track the impact of depression on distress over the course of the infertility treatment cycle would be valuable in increasing our understanding of the complex relationship that exists between these variables.
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Hi Ros,
Thanks it brought back some memories I had artifical insemination for Alison and Vicky.
Dear Lizzy,
I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), but at that time, I was undiagnosed with lupus. I, therefore, needed help to produce mature eggs and was under the Middlesex Hospital. I was prescribed courses of injections every month and even so, I only ovulated 4 times in one year. Happily, I conceived (twins), just before they were going to stop the treatment because of the impact on my body.
Interestingly, when I returned to see this gynaecologist and told him I had lupus, he was very sympathetic but told me that there is a relationship between lupus and hormones, even though they do not understand all of the connections. I had high levels of serum prolactin, which usually indicates the production of breast milk and clearly this was not the case. There have been small studies (Mexico was one in the 1980s I think) whereby female patients were given a particular hormone to see whether this would be helpful. Although the women reported feeling better, after a short period, the symptoms returned.
After the births, I had a massive flare, which the hospital could not fathom as I was undiagnosed. As you know, this does occur in some women with SLE, some of whom find their symptoms improving during pregnancy, although this is not universal. Both Dr Hughes and my gynaecologist advised me to take Provera which would give a menstrual cycle (without ovulation) and both confirmed that given I had SLE, this would be a good idea. I was very grateful and fortunate to have these doctors.
Being told there is an infertility problem has a devastating effect on us - women and men. I am glad this article has been written because there is very little psychological support available or even the need for this support. At one point, I saw a junior doctor who advised me to see a sex therapist as if this was the problem because I mentioned that sex was merely the means to make a baby and not for sexual gratification. As this doctor was a woman, I could not seem to help her understand how infertility psychologically devastates both the woman and her partner/husband. No amount of talking takes away the pain, anxiety and depression of failing to conceive and many women feel they are a failure as a woman. Rationally, we can see this is not the case, but feelings are not rational entities and woman and men deserve the addition of psychological support.
Like you I was not diagnosed with SLE when I had my children, I also had a big flare after the birth of my children. This was left untreated and eventually calmed down.
I had problems with my eggs they didn't mature properly and I had to have ultrasound to track the eggs. I took tablets to help.
I have a theory about my pragnancys, all my children are born in sept x1 and Oct x3, I beleive this is when I felt my best health wise to conceive (Dec/Jan) I noticed that this is when I have no active allergies.
going to ring the doc this morning to sort out the pain in my feet.
Wishing you a good day.
As with you, I had eggs but I did not ovulate. Unfortunately, I required a big kick to get the process going. Infertility is such a big issue, in terms of having to deal with the possibility of never being able to conceive or be a mother.
I am sure you are right about your body and how it works!
Please let me know how you get on at the doctor.
Thanks Ros,
I have Plantar Fascaitis, doc has given me a months worth of pain killlers with a stomach liner. Along with physio with my daughter hopefully this will work.
I hope you will feel better soon!


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Ekaterina Enokaeva Wiki Bio, age, height, family, net worth, husband
Olivia Wilson February 27, 2019
1 Who is Ekaterina Enokaeva?
2 Ekaterina Enokaeva Wiki: Age, Childhood, and Education
4 Rise to Prominence
5 Ekaterina Enokaeva Net Worth
6 Ekaterina Enokaeva Personal Life, Dating, Boyfriend
7 Ekaterina Enokaeva Internet Fame
8 Ekaterina Enokaeva Height, Weight, and Body Measurements
Who is Ekaterina Enokaeva?
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Ekaterina Enokaeva Wiki: Age, Childhood, and Education
Ekaterine Enokaeva was born on the 16th December 1989, in Moscow, Russian Federation, but further information about Ekaterina's early life has been kept from the media, including the names of her parents and their vocations, and whether she has any siblings or not. Furthermore, Ekaterina's educational background also remains a mystery.
From an early age, Ekaterina aspired to become a model and her dreams came through as early as 2014 when she started posting pictures and videos of herself on Instagram. With every new picture she was attracting new followers, and in no time reached 100,000 of them. Gradually, she was becoming more popular, and realizing that she could make a career out of Instagram, Ekaterina started working with professional photographers, making her pictures even more stunning than they already were, which brought in new followers, and the attention of a few successful brands.
Ekaterina has reached prominence only recently, but she hasn't stopped improving her career, and with every passing day her portfolio becomes richer. Some of the brands with which she has collaborated include PaintPods, then PetraLingerie, EPL Diamonds, and of course Muehle Russia, among many others, all of which helped her improve her career and bank account. She has also expanded her career into adult modeling, and has featured in a number of magazines, such as Sports Illustrated, Sports Mediaset, and Corriere Dello Sport, among others. All of her accomplishments have only boosted her career, and who knows what her limit is?
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Although she has only recently launched her career, Ekaterina has already become a star, not only in her native Russia but also throughout the world. She has recently shared pictures of herself from the Dominican Republic, where she enjoys vast popularity. Her success has only increased her wealth, so let's just see how rich Ekaterina Enokaeva is? Well, according to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Enokaeva's net worth is close to $1 million, which is rather impressive, considering that she is a relative newcomer. Undoubtedly, her wealth will become even higher in the upcoming years, assuming she successfully continues her career.
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Although she has become quite popular within the media, Ekaterina's personal life still remains a mystery for her fans, since she has chosen not to share much information with us. For now, we can only tell you that Ekaterina is single and focused on her rising career, until she makes public comments about having a romantic life, in addition to her career. Hopefully, she discloses this information in the near future, as many fans are eager to find out all the important things about this stunning beauty.
Ekaterina Enokaeva Internet Fame
Instagram became her way to express herself towards the world, and since then she has expanded to other social media platforms, including Facebook and Russian network VKontakte. Her official Instagram page has over a million fans, viewing more than 450 pictures of herself, all of which you can easily see if you follow the link to her page. On Facebook, Ekaterina has close to 15,000 fans, who have also enjoyed pictures of this prominent model, and also a couple of videos. You can find her on the Russian network VKontakte, on which she has over 150,000 followers and has uploaded over 1,500 pictures. So, what are you waiting for, become a new fan in just a few seconds?
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Overlooking one of the world-class golf courses, the seven-bedroom villa features a fabulous pool terrace that is sure to become one of the most frequented spots. With an infinity edge pool and an elevated spa tub, it is a perfect spot for whiling away the days. Surrounded on one side by the stone terrace with its sun beds and impressive dining and lounging gazebo, the pool area also opens into the portico.
Beneath the shade, guests enjoy an array of lounging areas with oversized furnishings. More dining is possible here, and when you step inside, you encounter even more of the stylish shared living spaces. The distinctly Asian influences of the décor offer a nice balance to the deeply stained wood accents and the high white walls and ceilings. A formal living room and dining room are just off the main entrance, and so too is the enormous gourmet kitchen with its central island sized for cooking and dining.
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Dazzle like it's 1925.
arpege, baccarat, baker, bergamot, chanel, guerlain, Iris, patou, roses, shalimar, tonka bean
The 1920's were a decade that had great impact on perfumes and perfume use. In fact, this decade produced some of the most important perfumes of the entire century. One significant trend was that fashion designers started to sell perfumes under their clothing brands, the most legendary one (and quite revolutionary at the time) of course being Chanel No 5, released by Chanel in 1921. Even the bottle was a bold zeitgeist statement with a bottle design far from the ornamentation associated with feminine things. It was simple, bold and unquestionable.
Bottle designs and the visuals around the fragrances were extremely important and often flirted with contemporary life style. There was the mascerade theme… Masque Rouge, for example, was introduced in a modern bottle, and a box with a red mask. "Mascarades" by Cherigan came in a black bottle with a golden face under a rain of gold dust and gilded triangles. Baccarat were extremely popular for bottles because of their superior quality crystal.
One of the reasons for doing a post on the 1920's, I admit, is the occasion to indulge in…
Shalimar. A fragrance that, for me, just basically sums it all up. All of it. Shalimar was created by Jacques (I feel this name keeps reappearing in my perfume-life) Guerlain in the early 1921 but it was in 1925 that it had its breakthrough, at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris where it was an instant success. The fragrance is named after the Garden of Shalimar in Lahore, built by emperor Shah Jahan for his favorite wife, Mumtaz. (Also the woman that Taj Mahal was built for…). Shalimar means the 'Abode of Love' in Sanskrit. The sweet vanilla creation mesmerized its first discoverers. Oh…how I wish I could have been there. Can you imagine? Being one of the first women to put Shalimar on your skin? The 1925 bottle was designed by Raymond Guerlain and made by Baccarat.
Shalimar had a bit of a comeback in the 1980's. It was relaunched in a new bottle in 1985 to commemorate the 60th anniversary. This was followed by the addition of Shalimar Light in 2004 which was replaced by Eau de Shalimar in 2008. Shalimar is currently made as Shalimar Extract, Eau de Parfum, Eau de Toilette, Eau de Cologne, and as a Fleur de Shalimar Edition. Shalimar contains bergamot (top), lemon, jasmine (heart), rose (heart), iris (heart), opopanax (heart), tonka bean (base), and vanilla (base). It is an oriental perfume, which is also according to what was fashionable at that time – an era seduced by its own interest and fascination for things exotic.
Other famous fragrances from these years are Arpège, created by Jeanne Lanvin for her daugter's 30th birthday and of course Jean Patous Joy. Joy was created with the intent to send a message to the heavy cynical Great Depression-attitude that Patou described as dominating society. He asked Henri Almeras to create something using Bulgarian rose and jasmine from Grasse. The result that Almeras presented to Patou was sensational, but Almeras was worried that the ingredients were too expensive for the fragrance to have success on the market. Joy became the most expensive perfume in the world, and a huge success. It is also the perfume supposedly worn by Josephine Baker.


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XANDRIA Bassist Forced To Sit Out European Tour
German female-fronted symphonic metallers XANDRIA have issued the following update:
"Bad luck for our bass guitar player Nils [Middelahauve]. Whilst we were playing the most recent shows with EPICA, Nils severely hurt his right forefinger on stage which eventually led to a serious blood poisoning after the last show. Due to this sepsis, he had to undergo surgery twice in the course of the past week, which will now disable him to tour for the upcoming 4-6 weeks. Nils surely is extremely disappointed to not hit the road again in April, but feels comfortable in knowing there is a well-known substitute: XANDRIA's European tour with EPICA and STREAM OF PASSION in April will now be played with SERENITY's Fabio D'Amore, who is happy to fill in on bass guitar for the tour. So, no worries, we won't miss a single show. Please come out and support Fabio on his spontaneous new endeavor and wish Nils all the best for a return very soon!"
XANDRIA's new album, "Neverworld's End", was released in North America on March 6 via Napalm Records.
XANDRIA last year took part in the "Out Of The Dark" European tour with VAN CANTO, TRISTANIA, SERENITY and AMBERIAN DAWN.
XANDRIA in December 2010 announced the addition of singer Manuela Kraller to the group's ranks.
Commented Manuela: "My musical life started very late, at the age of 23. In a choir in Finland I discovered singing for me and since then it became my passion. I began to take classical singing lessons, sang in church and gospel choirs and soon I was asked to be a solo singer in choirs, at churchly and also at private occasions. But as I have grown up with metal and rock music I soon wanted to combine it with my classical background. So I started singing rock and metal songs with a friend and also wrote own songs for the first time. Soon after that I joined a metal band called NAGOR MAR (Switzerland) and I also became a singer in the German band HAGGARD, where I had great experiences on stage and on tour. And now a 'new age' has begun for me and I am very pleased to be the new singer of XANDRIA!"
XANDRIA performed several concerts in 2009 with the band's former frontwoman, Lisa Middelhauve, filling in.
XANDRIA in February 2011 parted ways with its singer of one year, Kerstin Bischof. The group stated at the time, "Due to occupational and private reasons, [Kerstin] wants to concentrate on her non-musical career in the future and cannot support XANDRIA the way it would be necessary."
Bischof joined XANDRIA in February 2009 as the replacement for Middelhauve, who left the band in May 2008 for "personal reasons." Lisa stated at the time, "My exit has nothing to do with dispute or controversy within the band. It was just time to split."
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"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington
This past week we have been vividly reminded of what we long have known: that the man currently occupying the office of President of the United States, the Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of what is still the most powerful country in the world, is impulsive, incompetent, malevolent, and unhinged.
Bob Woodward is justifiably regarded as a hero for his work — with Carl Bernstein, who I always liked better, in part because of Dustin Hoffman, in part because of Nora Efron — in breaking the news of the Watergate burglary and coverup. At the same time, his work over the years has received much valid criticism, especially for the way he trades on insider connections and avoids the challenging work of critical analysis, preferring instead to reconstruct dramatic backstage conversations and events based on the testimony of unnamed sources (The classic critique, "The Deferential Spirit," was penned by Joan Didion and published in the New York Review of Books in 1996. Back in 2006, Paul McLeary offered a more judicious discussion in the Columbia Journalism Review). I find Woodward's self-importance grating and his lionization by the media unfortunate. But there is no doubt that he works hard, and typically gains unprecedented access to those in the inner sanctum of power, and that in broad terms the stories that he reports seem true. And while Fear, his new book about the Trump White House, has yet to be released, advance copies have been widely distributed, and the book's contents are already well known. And it would seem that Woodward presents a truly frightened and frightening account of the disarray that has seized the White House and the mind, such as it is, of the narcissist who lives there.
If the first news of the revelations contained in Woodward's book was not enough, the week also saw something unprecedented: the publication of an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times bearing this heading: "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration: I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations."
The media has been abuzz, speculating on the author, identified by the Times only as "a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure"; on the ethical issues raised by the piece itself, by the stories of Trump's malfeasance and of his underlings' disobedience, and by its anonymous publication; and on its implications for the short-term and long-term futures of American politics.
These are all important questions. And I will confess that I was exceptionally pleased by the way in which they were raised by none other than Barack Obama in his fiery campaign speech last Friday, which articulated many of the issues around which the November election, and the one to follow in 2020, will be fought.
At the same time, the important issues here are political, not moral. And the op-ed, and the stories contained in the Woodward book, and in the Omarosa Manigault Newman and Michael Wolf books before it, and in the regular reporting in the Times and the Washington Post and CNN and MSNBC, tell us nothing that we did not already know: by any standards, Trump is not simply a bad President, or a reactionary one — he is both of those things — but an unprecedently uninformed, disorganized, decompensating and thus dangerous President.
I thus fully agree with Jennifer Rubin when she writes, in the Washington Post: "Stop Looking for the anonymous writer. Start looking at Trump." And with Peter Beinart, writing in the Atlantic: "Congressional Republicans are the Real Authors of the Anonymous Op Ed." Indeed, Susan B. Glasser beautifully sums up the past week in the New Yorker: "Crazy Town: A Bob Woodward Book, an Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed, and a Growing Crisis for the Trump Presidency."
The criticisms that have been leveled at Anonymous, and by implication at all of those who serve with her or him in the White House, are entirely on target, and have been well summarized by Michelle Goldberg writing in the Times: "The Corrupt Bargain of the Adults in the Room: They're not restraining Trump; they're making him more powerful." The most brilliant piece written on this is Matthew Dessem's satire in Slate: "I am Part of the Police Department Inside this Bank Robbery." For as Susan B. Glasser explains, Anonymous represents "the quintessence of the Trump-enabling Republican. He or she purports to be standing between us and the calamities that our ignorant and unstable president could unleash, while complaining, in the very same op-ed , that the media doesn't give the White House enough credit. This person wants the administration to thrive because it has advanced Republican policy objectives, even as he or she argues that the administration is so dangerous that it must be contained by unprecedented internal sabotage."
What the entire situation makes clear is that we confront not a simple crisis but an overdetermined one involving institutions, parties, and a uniquely unhinged individual.
At a deep level, we face a situation where all three branches of the national government, and a great many state governments as well, are controlled by a Republican party in the grip of reaction. This party is intent on reversing virtually all of the policy gains of the past five decades with regard to civil rights, gender and sexual equality, environmental regulation, and social citizenship. It is also committed to curtailing important features of constitutional democracy itself: the impartial administration of justice; the accountability of police to the rule of law; the right of all residents, regardless of citizenship status, to due process under the law; and, perhaps most importantly, the rights of all citizens to vote, to peaceably assemble and associate, and to challenge the government, via elections and via freedom of the press. Trump has brought Republican hostility toward these things to the fore, and it was Trump, by virtue of the enormous reservoirs of resentment he was able to mobilize and the extraordinary amounts of media attention he was able to command, who was able to turn this extremely reactionary agenda into a governing agenda. But make no mistake. This agenda is not simply Trump's; it is also the agenda of Mike Pence, and of Betsey DeVos, and most importantly of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, who has done more than anyone else in the past year to advance the agenda. And it is an agenda that has made great headway, both in broad public discourse and through the administrative actions taken by the Administration, especially at the Departments of Justice and Labor. And while the above-mentioned miscreants are the chief ideological allies of Trump, the commitments in question have become the overriding commitments of the entire Republican Party, both in its Congressional leadership and among its base. Absent these commitments, there is no Republican party. And those associated with this party who have even the slightest reservations about aspects of these commitments have resigned, retired, or simply faded away.
The current steamrolling of the Brett Kavanagh Supreme Court nomination is a case in point. A few self-important Republican Senators, such as pre-pubescent Ben Sasse and the always-pontificating Jeff Flake, have sometimes summoned the faux courage to expatiate about Trump's erratic behavior. But all have offered their support to Trump whenever it has mattered, and all will support Kavanaugh's confirmation, because while Trump's garishness might offend their sensibilities — or while they might at least derive advantage from acting as if it offends their sensibilities — Trump's agenda is by and large their agenda. It is the agenda of reaction. Kavanaugh is indeed their perfect nominee. For not only has he long been in league with some of the most reactionary forces within the Republican elite — as David Brock's new piece makes clear. He is a strong supporter of a maximalist conception of executive power, and is sure to give maximum leeway to Trump and his entire administration to do that thing they do — destroy everything of value that has been achieved politically in the last fifty years.
This is the deep crisis we confront. It is not a crisis of "the deep state," but it is a crisis of the post-New Deal, post-civil rights "welfare state," and of the weakening of this state by a Republican right that has long been ascendant, and that has found in Trump not simply a weakener of but an attacker on this state.
At a more surface level is the crisis of Trump himself. Here I mean both his own obvious psychological decompensation — and it matters little whether this is neurological, or clinical, or simply "merely" an extreme form of narcissism — and the crisis that his distinctive dispositional extremism intensifies on a daily basis. It's true, many Republicans might wish that Trump would simply go away; now that he has elevated their agenda to power, it would be more convenient for them to proceed without him. At the same time, they will do nothing to make him go away, and indeed it is his popularity among the highly aggrieved Republican base that now sustains them politically. And so they both recognize his dangerous instability, and to the extent that they are troubled, they proceed in the manner of Anonymous, or in the manner of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, who indeed stand by their names, but have in every other sense long ago given up their minds and their souls to Trumpism and thus to Trump himself.
And so in the past week we have been forced to contend not simply with the Republican agenda, and with Kavanaugh and the corrupt process of his inevitable confirmation, but also with Trump denouncing Anonymous as a "traitor," and declaring that he perhaps supports the death penalty for such "traitors" (we already know that he adores Rodrigo Duterte, idolizes Vladimir Putin, and has developed something of a man-crush on Kim Jong Il), and calling on the Justice Department to commence investigations of both the "leak" and the New York Times for publishing the op-ed, and observing that he just doesn't understand why the government puts up with protest. Trump is unhinged. And his minions are the handymen and handywomen, tools in hand, determined to prevent him, and his government, from flying completely off the handle (if this is a mixed metaphor, then make the most of it!).
Trump might be the "superstructure" to the broader and deeper Republican party's "base." He might represent the apotheosis of a Republican reaction that began with Goldwater and Reagan and has festered and strengthened ever since. But in the past three years, Trump has captured this Republicanism and made it his own, with his own unique brand of paranoia and malevolence and World Wrestling Federation fakery, and his own distinctive form of kleptocratic narcissism. There is now a profound synergy, and co-dependency, between Trump and Republicanism, and the name for this synergy is Trumpism. Trumpism is about more than Trump. It is about the peculiar aspirational fascism that Trump represents, and brings to the fore, and feeds. This is Trump's historical contribution to the narrative of "America." It is poisonous, and harmful, and it will remain, as something with which we must contend, long after he has left the scene.
As many have noted, the "resistance" described and enacted in theTimes op-ed is not real resistance at all. It iscomplicity.
And it is precisely for this reason that those who have spoken with outrage and moral indignation about a "soft coup" in the White House — see especially recent pieces by David Frum and by David Graham in the Atlantic — are so wrong. For, however critical of Trump such commentators wish to be, and however much they might be motivated by a desire that Anonymous, and Woodward's anonymous sources, would go public against the President, their very response in fact strengthens Trump, and in two ways.
First, by using the language of "coup," they give credence to Trump's long-standing demagogic and absurd claim that he (and he alone) authentically represents "the will of the people" and that he is being obstructed by a range of "enemies of the people" that includes "deep state" operatives in league with a malevolent press corps epitomized by the New York Times.
And second, because the language of "coup" is utterly misleading. What is going on is not a "coup." What Anonymous describes is the President's own appointees using their discretion, and getting away with it, because the President is an out-to-lunch, self-absorbed lunatic who spends his time watching TV and Tweeting and eating cheeseburgers and being wheeled around on golf courses, and does not read or listen or pay attention to any serious aspect of his job. What Anonymous says plainly is plainly true: these guys are sincere Republicans, i.e., reactionaries, who were appointed by the President to do reactionary jobs, and who are simply trying to do these jobs. This is not a "coup" because at any time the President can actually start taking the duties of his office seriously, and learning about the policies, and paying attention to what the government actually does, and holding his appointees accountable. And it is not a coup because these appointees are not in any way at odds with the Administration. They are simply trying to realize the goals of their addled, attention-deficient Leader.
Now, it is surely legitimate to point out that if these appointees were serious about the Constitution or about democracy then they might behave differently, through the 25th Amendment or whatever. But indeed, pointing this out simply exposes the unpleasant truth that these people basically share the same view of the Constitution and of democracy as that of Their Leader, but simply hold this view in a more consistent and rational way, and have mastered forms of impulse control that elude their petulant Chief. Perhaps some of them have thought about the 25th Amendment. And perhaps they do not wish to so disrupt the always-entertaining political performance that gives them cover. Trump does give them agita. It's not easy being a Trumpist. But they are basically doing just fine. To place this all at risk for a lackluster Tribune of the People like Pence or Sessions just seems too foolish. Let Trump be Trump. Contain the damage. And proceed with the business of making the U.S. a much less perfect union.
This is no coup. Or, if it is a coup, the coup took place on January 20, 2017, when Trump — with the assistance of Trey Gowdy and his Bengazi witchhunt, and McConnell and Manafort and Flynn and Cohen and Putin and Wikileaks — was able to convert a deficit of 3 million votes into a Presidency.
Our system of constitutional democracy was in decay long before this event took place. And it has continued to decay, at a rapid and frightening pace, every day since.
Trump in the White House is a clear and present danger to freedom, human rights, constitutional democracy, and elemental well-being for the entire planet.
His enablers there are doing their best to keep him in check so that they can more effectively realize the Trumpist agenda — an agenda that threatens freedom, human rights, constitutional democracy, and the fate of the earth.
His enablers in Congress, say what they will, are doing their best to keep him in power, surrounded by sober and reliable ideological allies — Kelly, Kavanaugh, Kellyanne among them — capable of restraining some of his excesses, or humoring him, or helping him stay on track in the common Republican effort to Realize Reaction.
And what hangs in the balance is liberal democracy, and social democracy, and indeed any meaningful sense of democracy beyond the noxious combination of xenophobia, racism, masculinism, and unfettered capitalism dressed in the garb of Vox Populii, that is Trumpism.
Susan B. Glasser, again, says it well: "For twenty months, Washington has been asking, Is this the crisis? Is this finally the constitutional confrontation we have been waiting for? The Trump Presidency, to those closely watching it, and to many of those participating in it, has always seemed unsustainable. And yet it has gone on, and will keep going on, until and unless something seismic happens in our politics — and our Congress — to change it. We don't need to wonder when the crisis will hit; it already has. Every day since January 20, 2017, has been the crisis."
The entire situation is terrifying. And, in every sense, twisted.
And yet, as Duke Ellington teaches, just when we feel most like pouting, we can turn to the blues.
And so I share with you a jazz standard that is surely one of the most widely known blues tunes: "Twisted."
The most famous version of the tune was recorded in 1960 by the great vocal group Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, with lyrics written by the great Annie Ross, who first recorded her vocal version by herself in 1952):
The tune was also popularized for a younger American audience by Joni Mitchell, who recorded it on her 1974 album "Court and Spark":
The story of how the tune both came to be and came to be a classic is an interesting one that goes back to the story of Wardell Gray, a brilliant and influential tenor saxophonist of the 1940's who played an important role in the birth of both bebop and "west coast jazz." Gray toured and recorded with a wide range of jazz greats. He died, under mysterious circumstances, in 1955 at the age of 34, his body found, neck broken, in an abandoned car in the desert on the outskirts of Las Vegas.
In 1949 Gray first recorded "Twisted" as an instrumental blues. This recording, including Gray's solo, became the basis of Annie Ross's more famous version.
Victor Schermer, in a fine piece entitled "Why the World Should Remember Wardell Gray," describes Gray's importance:
In the jazz cosmos, Wardell Gray was like a comet streaking across the heavens and, if you were fortunate enough to be the right place at the right time, you might have witnessed his musical light. Some still know the name of the comet, and a few "astronomers" have studied its trajectory. Gray graced the jazz scene for a few years, played the tenor saxophone (and occasionally alto and baritone) in inimitable style, and had all the earmarks of becoming a star. He performed with and was admired and appreciated by a galaxy of greats such as Earl Hines, Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner, Hampton Hawes, Benny Carter, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Art Farmer, Clark Terry, Dexter Gordon, Al Haig, Howard McGhee, and Charlie Parker. He died prematurely in 1955 at the age of 34 under tragic and partly unexplained circumstances. Even though Gray appeared on a substantial number of recordings and was revered by his peers, he vanished into relative oblivion after his death.
I have always been fascinated by Gray's story. Schermer's words put me in mind of the writing of Hannah Arendt, who was fascinated, following her friend Walter Benjamin, with the power, resonance, and renascence of episodes of greatness and especially episodes of political "greatness," which she associated with the upsurge of citizen activism in the modern world. There was a strong tragic dimension to Arendt's political thinking. At the same time, she retained a hopefulness, borne of experience and of her understanding of the human condition, that rebellious moments can arise and at least briefly flourish, and that when they do they can draw from the remembrance of past moments of rebelliousness. In her 1963 classic On Revolution, she described such initiatives as "islands in a sea or . . . oases in a desert." The sea surrounds islands, and always threatens to engulf them (something much more obvious to us than it was when Arendt wrote). The desert surrounds oases, and always encroaches. Resistance to tyranny is a rare, precious, and precarious thing. It sometimes arises, and bears fruit. And invariably fades into the background if not into oblivion. But the legacies of such resistance live. And they sometimes furnish illumination, and inspiration.
We live in a dark and twisted time.
Trumpism is a dark and twisted force that seeks to destroy the most important achievements of post-WWII U.S. history, the achievements of the New Deal, and of the civil rights and welfare rights and feminist and sexual liberation and environmental and peace movements. This is a complex history, and it is not reducible to a neat story of progress or liberty and justice for all. All the same, if we are to defeat Trump and Trumpism, and to address the serious problems that helped give rise to Trump and to Trumpism, then we will need to revisit this history, to take inspiration from it, and to create new narratives that can empower a renascent democratic left and a rebirth of democracy itself.
Jeffrey Isaac is James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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Surrey Memorial Hospital's pediatrics ER is one of many in the region overflowing with patients. (Photo by Anna Burns)
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When they arrived, they saw the line to check in was out the door. Winter asked someone in the line,
"Is this the lineup to go in?" she asked someone in line. "And she's like, 'Yeah, we haven't checked in yet.' So then we left."
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Jane Adams, CEO of Surrey Hospital Foundation, said the pediatric ER is only 5,500 square feet.
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Adams said that health care has "not been keeping pace in terms of the specialized services we need for children."
The 2021 census from Stats Canada showed that Surrey is the fastest-growing city in Western Canada and 23 per cent of its population are children and youth. Surrey also has the highest birth rate in the province.
Adams added that some health care available for children and youth in Surrey "have contracted over the last two decades."
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