Most of the content in our Knowledge Center requires you to Register using the form below and Login to gain access. You may preview the categories of our content that will become available to you after you register by viewing our main Knowledge Center page: www.successioninstitute.com/knowledge-center/.
If you register we will occasionally update you on various products and services that may be of interest to you, as well as provide you with greater access to the content in our Knowledge Center.
Our Knowledge Center is constantly updated with articles and videos which hopefully will provide you valuable insight as you manager your business.
Your registration on this site is confidential and your personal information (name, email address, etc.) will not be sold or distributed to any other organizations.
No, thank you. I am just looking for content.
Bill has an ability to cut through the politics and tell it like is without alienating the partner group. His observations are on point and his systems and insights are invaluable to any firm wishing to grow and prosper. I highly recommend Bill's organization. You won't be disappointed.


This post is for all my girls. It's a post to tell you to plan that trip, if it's on your mind. And take that leap of faith…. And Europe is the best place to start for any inspired female solo traveller with over 50+ countries to explore, and cultures varying drastically between countries. Whether you are looking for a relaxing weekend or an adventure-filled week away of sightseeing, there are plenty of European destinations to choose from.
Also read my guide to travel around Europe here which gives you tips and tricks on how to see five countries in 2 weeks by travelling through Europe by train.


Example project demonstrating integration with a Heatmiser Neo Hub, via our Centro 8 processor. Just like the Heatmiser WiFi integration, the Neo module works by linking the device to the processor, and going to the Heatmiser configuration module. There, you associate flags/numbers/labels with the appropriate module elements.
* Since the Neo Hub runs on DHCP, you'll need to set a static link to its MAC address on the router.
** An important first step is to correctly set the name of the Neo Hub - this is done by setting the 'Device Name Label'. This has to be done once per Centro.


It wasn't something I'd usually do but my friend insisted and I'm glad she did. So fun!
It's a pretty reasonable amount for a day trip! Not sure what accommodation prices on the island are like though.
Wonder why it's called that? The high speed action looks ace.
Apparently (according to wiki) Captain Cook thought it had a magnetic effect on his ship's compass. The island also has some pretty cool named areas like Radical Bay and Arcadia.


My Native Admission Statement: At The Philanthropy Roundtable, we are conveners, collaborators, thought partners,and consultants to like-minded donors. A common thread throughout my career has been my drive to build consensus solutions, enlist cooperative relationships, and build coalitions focused on goals larger than any one organization. In formative consulting roles, I developed a strong ethic of client service towards the pharmaceutical, managed care, and health system executives I served. A second phase of my career focused on raising philanthropic capital to provide HIV medications, micro-loans, scholarships, and hope to individuals who had lost everything — in communities across the country and world. My work today focuses on unleashing the power of philanthropic capital for social impact. My emphasis is on innovation — identifying the social entrepreneurs and best-in-class non-profits that can drive ground-up change.
Our clients are philanthropists. We serve our philanthropists with customized consultation and critical insight from leading philanthropists and practitioners; solicitation-free convenings on a range of cutting-edge topics in health; and working groups that facilitate joint funding efforts to solve some of our nation's most pressing health problems. Based on demand from donors, the Health Program is releasing a briefing this month that showcases thoughtful approaches to addressing the mental health crisis in this country. We also provide a service by hosting invitation-only conference calls that allow like-minded donors to hear from leading experts in the field of health and ask their questions.


An experienced logo designer knows that designing a great logo requires an equally great design process to ensure that the outcome is outstanding. I have broken down the logo design process into five steps that will create an effective pathway from initial brief to final presentation. Though each designer will have his or her own process, I would like to discuss a process that has worked for me and other logo designers.
There are no shortcuts to a great logo design; if you don't put in the work at each step of the design process, you won't get the most optimal results.
You owe it not only to your clients, but also to your design portfolio, to follow a judicious logo design process so that you can complete the project efficiently and effectively.
The time and effort required to complete a design brief, as well as what content the design brief will have, will depend on the client you are working with.
Some clients know exactly what logo they want and give you all the information you need to produce it without you having to ask. One situation where this can be the case is when your client is also a designer, or has extensively worked with other designers in the past.
Some clients, on the other hand, only know that they need a logo and would rather leave the rest to you. Often, this is the case when you work with non-designers, such as new entrepreneurs.
At this step, your challenge as a logo designer is to get the information you need about the project to enable you to come up with the perfect logo for them.
Interview your client until you are satisfied you have the answers to all these questions.
This step requires you to find out more about the industry your client is in. Consider the historical perspective of your client and their industry, and look at emerging trends in the marketplace.
This is also a good time to do your visual research, which may involve reviewing the logo designs of your client's competitors. Analyze what you find: What makes one logo good, and others not so good?
If you see a definite trend in logo designs within your client's industry, decide whether going with the trend or innovating on the trend is beneficial to your client's business.
Once you have done your research, you can get on to the fun part of the logo design process. Let your ideas run free and get them down on paper. This is the step in which every designer will have his/her own way of doing things.
Step back from your work, take a break, and look at it later or even the next day.
If you have come up with a lot of logo design concepts, focus on the stronger ones and discard the weak ones.
Make changes and let the designs develop; now is a great time to get feedback from colleagues and other designers, and possibly even from your client.
No one likes to see his/her work criticized, but constructive criticism will enable you to improve upon your work, so this step is an essential component of design projects. Don't take critiques personally.
Be open-minded to the opinions of others and experiment with the changes they suggest.
Analyze how and why the changes will improve the current design.
Once you have finalized your designs, it's time for a formal presentation to your client.
They may have asked for a variety of logos to choose from, but this step, in my experience, generally works better if you keep the amount of logo design concepts you present to a minimum.
Hopefully, they will absolutely love the logo concepts you present to them but, as a paid professional, it's up to you to take on board any comments they might have and resolve any issues if need be through a design revision process.
A professional presentation — whether you do the presentation remotely through a web app and Skype, or face-to-face with a client — is essential.
A face-to-face presentation will give you the chance to explain your thinking and answer any questions. Take the opportunity to meet in person if possible.


In fact, there are a number of major corporations in America who do very little productive work — never making products or delivering services that benefit their consumers. Instead, the profits they earn and the big CEO salaries they pay are derived by sucking or skimming a portion of the dollars they have convinced the Government to send through their corporate accounts — generally to perform a function that is or ought to be an inherently governmental function.
Ironically, many of these corporate parasites are the loudest defenders of "free markets" and the most vociferous opponents of "government takeovers," when in fact they exist by feeding off the taxpayers.
1). Banks that provide government guaranteed student loans. The house voted yesterday to end its four-decade practice of subsidizing private lenders to make student loans. Since the 1960s, the government has subsidized banks to lend students money and guaranteed lenders against loss if students defaulted.
But since the early 1990s the government itself has done direct lending for many student loans and avoided paying the subsidy to the banks. Why, after all, should banks take a percentage of every dollar to generate loans if the taxpayers guarantee the loan in full? In fact, it turns out that the government – which, after all, has a responsibility to provide higher education to its citizenry — can provide loans directly at a much cheaper price than it can through the banks.
In fact it's estimated that eliminating the subsidy to the banks will save $40 billion that can be transferred into the Pell Grant program that provides college grants to moderate and low income students.
2). Private military contractors that provide security services. One of the things that defines civilized society is that the government has a monopoly on the use of lethal force. Yet over the last decade private military security firms have exploded. They have been hired with increasing frequency to do essentially governmental security functions. We've seen the results in the murders of civilians by Blackwater operatives in Iraq. And the growth of free-standing, mercenary armies that are available for hire by governments around the world is a danger to international security.
But these contractors are also economic parasites, since they charge a great deal more to do functions that could otherwise be performed by the government. In fact, most of their personnel are trained by the American military. After they leave the service and go to work making much more than they would if they re-enlisted for another turn with the Army or Marines. Then, the Blackwaters of the world turn around and bill their people out at huge markups so that the taxpayers — who paid for their training in the first place — have to pay a corporation for the privilege of hiring them back at much higher rates.
3). Private health insurance companies. These are the granddaddy of all parasitic operations. Remember that every other industrial society has long since decided that financing the health care of its citizens is an inherently governmental function — that it is cheaper and much more consistent with our values — to provide health care to all as a right.
With that approach, every other industrial society pays 50% less than we do per person for health care and, according to the World Health Organization, 36 countries have better health care outcomes than we do in the U.S.
Remember that health insurance companies don't provide an iota of health care services. They do hire an army of claims agents to deny claims for coverage, and another army of salesmen and admen to sell you policies that you would automatically have in most other countries. They simply take your money, skim off profits and CEO salaries and then — once they get their end — pay for your health care.
We know that the one thing government does very well is managing insurance pools. Medicare and Social Security are two of the most successful programs in history. And the health care financing authorities in countries like France and Spain are pretty good at it too.
The so-called "Medicare Advantage" program is a great example of a side-by-side comparison of how the private insurance companies compare with government run insurance programs. Medicare Advantage was set up by the Bush administration and Republican Congress to allow private insurance companies to skim off a share of Federal Medicare dollars. Originally, the private insurance companies claimed they would provide these services more efficiently than the "government." But it turned out they required a 14% to 19% subsidy above the normal costs of Medicare.
Now the private insurance industry is battling tooth and nail to prevent a public health insurance program from competing for its non-Medicare business. They want to continue to skim their share off of every health care dollar they can.
In fact, they hope that the final insurance reform bill will require people to buy their products without any competition from a public plan or rate regulation to limit the amount they can skim into the hands of Wall Street investors and CEO's.
That's why President Obama has proposed that the final health insurance reform bill include a robust public health insurance option that doesn't leave us with a mandate to buy insurance from a monopoly of private insurers (that are, by the way, also exempt from the anti-trust laws). That would just guarantee a government-mandated stream of revenue on which the private insurance companies can feed.
Of course, corporate parasites like these have always existed. But they have burgeoned over the last several decades as some of the best and brightest graduates of our universities have been convinced that they would be "chumps" to go out and create products and services that provide value to the economy. Much better to work for a corporate parasite that can make huge sums of money simply by convincing government to keep directing huge streams of revenue through its corporate coffers and then slicing off its share as the money comes by.
It's time for the age of the corporate parasite to come to an end — otherwise, we're the "chumps".
Robert Creamer is a longtime political organizer and strategist, and author of the recent book: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, available on Amazon.com.
A majority of Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Bush/Cheney regime ended, but has it? Like the zombie banks, the era of government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich lives on, with massive transfers of wealth from the poor to the rich continuing, as beleaguered poor and middle class taxpayers bail out the banks we are told are too big to fail.
Unfortunately for those of us too small to succeed, the American dream has to be deferred as our children and grandchildren get saddled with the debt we are piling up in the hope that Main Street will be stimulated once the gamblers and bookies on Wall Street come clean and get paid off with more of our money. Unwitting taxpayers are angry they rewarded bonuses to the insiders who created a rigged casino and manufactured their own chips to bet the house then bring it down. But they have focused their outrage on only one thousandth of just one shakedown, AIG, while the real scandal is the "cash for trash" transfer of what's left of the treasury to Wall Street's big banks who will end stronger as Main Street gets boarded up.
This Robin Hood in reverse phenomenon is not new. It began when Ronald Reagan declared he was taking the handcuffs off the millionaires and putting them on the welfare queens. Since then wages have remained stagnant as working Americans have maintained their standard of living on credit from banks who get cheap money from the Fed they then loan back at usurious rates.
Meanwhile productivity has soared, with the benefits going to capital, not labor. Under George W. Bush the transfer of public money to private hands accelerated as lobbyists and revolving door Congressmen, cashing in on public service for private gain, captured Washington to the extent that most politicians today represent special interests, not people.
When Reagan cut taxes for the rich while rewarding the Military Industrial Complex with billions from the remaining overburdened poor and middle class taxpayers, the resulting deficits his budget director David Stockman warned him about ballooned. Reagan's deficit also became an extra burden on those unfairly taxed, since the servicing of the resulting debt, which was largely owned by the rich, had to be paid by the poor.
About the only voice of outrage back then in the Congress came from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who railed against this double jeopardy. Mercifully, Moynihan did not live to see what George W. Bush managed to pull off after Clinton paid down the debt and left a surplus for Bush.
With a self-proclaimed mandate from his "War on Terror", Bush opened up the treasury to the usual suspects and then some. In a spree of corporate socialism he invited crony contractors to embed themselves at the government trough, in effect taking money from the Post Office to subsidize Fed Ex and UPS. However these "Beltway Bandits" who hung up their shingles did not have to deliver services, as long as they offered private jets to their political patrons. Meanwhile the rest of us have become POW's in the class war Bush successfully waged against America's poor and middle class.
So here we are, America the screwed, and we only have ourselves to blame since you get the government you deserve. Now the question is, does the populist rage out there get focused on political action with millions phoning, emailing and marching on Washington, or do we sullenly pay up and hope the stimulus works? The last time this happened, it was not solved by the top-down largesse of FDR, but rather from the bottom-up outrage of the American people that was felt in Washington, forcing politicians to act with a New Deal. We've had a bad deal for the last thirty years, now it's time for a fair deal.


text:
New Research Brings Insights into Role of Mutated FUS Protein In ALS
by Joana Fernandes, PhD
Mutations in the FUS gene, which are the major cause of juvenile forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), are linked to the loss of motor neurons. European researchers have now found that these mutations also affect other cell types in the brain.
The French-German study, "Motor neuron intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms contribute to the pathogenesis of FUS-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis," appeared in the journal Acta Neuropathologica.
High levels of FUS (fused in sarcoma), either the normal or mutant forms, kill motor neurons, and certain mutations change the protein's location, which might impair the normal functioning of neurons.
To further explore the mechanisms by which mutant FUS contributes to ALS, researchers used mice carrying a genetic defect that mimics human ALS-FUS patients. These animals had progressive loss of motor neurons and molecular changes similar to those seen in ALS-FUS.
Using genetic tools, researchers were able to turn off mutant FUS in specific cell populations to observe how this protein works. Indeed, they turned off the expression of mutant FUS in motor neurons only, but left it intact in other brain cells such as oligodendrocytes. These cells support and protect motor neurons by creating a myelin layer around them to ensure that electrical signals go through a motor neuron to a muscle cell.
They observed that turning off mutant FUS in motor neurons protected these cells from death, proving that this abnormal form of FUS is key to triggering motor neuron damage and death.
However, even with no mutant FUS in the motor neurons, oligodendrocytes were abnormal and damaged, with signs of demyelination. These mice still developed muscle weakness, though later than those with intact expression of mutant FUS in the motor neurons.
Together, these results support the idea that expression of mutant FUS in motor neurons leads to cell death, but the appearance of motor symptoms is caused by the action of this abnormal protein in both motor neurons and other cell types as well, including oligodendrocytes.
"In this study we show that a … mutation in the endogenous [FUS] gene, that is similar to the most severe mutations in juvenile ALS, partially recapitulates ALS-FUS pathology and triggers mild progressive ALS-like symptoms," researchers wrote. "We demonstrate that this [FUS] mutation is associated with motor neuron degeneration …, while [neuronal] damage and demyelination occur independent of mutant FUS expression in motor neurons."
Tagged demyelination, FUS mutations, FUS protein, motor neurons, motor weakness, oligodendrocytes.
Previous: HealthWell Foundation Launches Fund to Assist Medicare Patients Living with ALS
Next:Project ALS Announces Don't Talk-a-Thon Fundraising Event

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


As adults we become more self-directed in how we learn. It needs to be relevant, experiential and customized, to cite a few adult learning principles.
Horses speak their own language. They communicate with each other with the twitch of an ear in close quarters or a whinny that sends a message clear across a valley.


text:
Shahidul News
Musings by Shahidul Alam
The Tide Will Turn
DrikPath building
Palestinian children 'abused' in Israeli jail
Recent studies allege a system of abuse targeting children detained by Israel's military court system.
Dalia Hatuqa?Al Jazeera report
Israeli military courts imprison about 500-700 Palestinian children per year, according to a new study (AFP)
Ramallah, occupied Palestinian territories –?A dirty mattress fills up a space barely two metres long and?one metre wide. A suffocating stench emanating from the toilet hovers over the windowless room, and a light turned on 24/7 means sleep is a distant dream. This is the infamous Cell 36 in Al Jalameh Prison in Israel. It's one of the cells that many Palestinian children have either heard of or, worse, been inside when placed in solitary confinement.
The children imprisoned here are most often taken from their homes between midnight and 5am. Most don't even see it coming. In one case, in Beit Ummar near Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers detained a Palestinian boy after reportedly taking some of the house's doors off their hinges. Most of the children detained live close to "friction points", areas close to Israeli settlements, roads used by settlers or near the separation wall. And their offence is almost always throwing stones at settlers or troops.
"Mohammad was interrogated for two to three hours every day while sitting on a low seat with his hands tied to the chair."
These vivid details emerged recently in a report based on the testimonies of more than 300 Palestinian children, which were collected over four years. The study by Defence for Children International,?Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children Held in Military Detentionhighlights a pattern of abuse towards children detained under the Israeli military court system. In the past 11 years, DCI estimates that around 7,500 children, some as young as 12, have been detained, interrogated and imprisoned within this system. This is about 500-700 children per year, or nearly two children every day.
Mohammad S, from the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem, was 16 when he was arrested, according to the report. It was 2:30am when Israeli soldiers dragged him out of bed. He was blindfolded and verbally abused and taken to an unknown destination, where he says he was forced to lay down in the cold for an hour. He was later taken to an interrogation centre near Nablus at around 11am, and only then was he allowed to drink some water and use the bathroom, after he underwent a strip search. Tied and blindfolded still, he was then taken to Al Jalameh, near Haifa in Israel. There he was taken to Cell 36, where he was forced to spend his first night sleeping on the floor because there was no mattress or blanket.
Mohammad says he spent 17 days in solitary confinement in Cell 36 and Cell 37, interrupted only by interrogations. Mohammad was reportedly interrogated for two to three hours every day, while sitting on a low seat with his hands tied to the chair.
Children have taken part in demonstrations aganist the treatment of those held in prison (AFP)
The most crucial hours"The first 48 hours after a child is taken are the most important because that's when the most abuse happens," DCI's lawyer Gerard Horton said. Children taken from their homes in the night are blindfolded and bound and made to lie face down or up on the floors of military vehicles, according to the centre's report.
Very rarely are parents told where their child is being taken, and, unlike Israeli children from within either Israel or the settlements in the occupied?West Bank, Palestinian minors are reportedly not allowed to have a parent present before or during initial interrogation, and generally do not see a lawyer until after their interrogation is over.
Specifically, Israeli children have access to a lawyer within 48 hours and those under the age of 14 cannot be imprisoned. Palestinian children, however, can be jailed even if they are as young as 12 and, like adults, can be held in jail without having formal charges against them for up to 188 days.
"The key issue is one of equality. If two children, a Palestinian and an Israeli, are caught throwing stones at each other, then one will be processed in a juvenile justice system and one in a military court," Horton said.
"They have completely different rights. It's hard to justify this after 45 years of occupation. It's not a question of whether offences are committed. What we are saying is children should not be treated completely differently."
As soon as children are taken from their homes, and placed inside an Israeli military vehicle, they are often kicked or slapped, according to testimonies obtained by DCI. Some said they were laughed at and others said they heard cameras clicking.
Because children are often taken late at night, they are driven to the nearest settlement to wait until Israeli police interrogators open up shop in the morning. This means children are sometimes placed out in the cold or rain for many hours. Requests for water or using the bathroom are most often denied, and children are taken straight to interrogation after a night of little sleep.
That's what Ahmad F said happened to him. A?15-year-old from 'Iraq Burin village, just outside Nablus, he was arrested in July 2011. He was taken to the nearby Huwwara interrogation centre, where he was left outside from 5am until 3pm. At one point, soldiers brought a dog. "They brought the dog's food and put it on my head," Ahmad told DCI. "Then they put another piece of bread on my trousers near my genitals, so I tried to move away but [the dog] started barking. I was terrified."
"During interrogation, many children reported being facing with?slurs and threatened with physical violence. In a small number of cases, interrogators have reportedly threatened minors with rape.
"During interrogation, many children reported being facing with?slurs and threatened with physical violence. In a small number of cases, interrogators have reportedly threatened minors with rape.In 29 per cent of cases studied by DCI, Arabic-speaking children were either shown or given documentation written in Hebrew to sign. An Israeli spokesperson denied this to Al Jazeera, saying "the norm is that interrogations in Arabic should be either recorded or written in Arabic". Israeli officials did say, however, they had identified 13 cases from the report where children had signed a confession written in Hebrew. Yet the spokesperson maintained that video recordings of those interrogations had been available, should the lawyers acting for the children doubt the accuracy of the written Hebrew statements.
After children sign a "confession", they are brought before an Israeli military court. Since 2009, an Israeli?spokesperson said, children have faced juvenile military courts. Most often, that's the first time the minor will see their lawyer. The confession is generally the primary evidence against the child, say DCI officials. Other evidence will often consist of a statement by an interrogator, and sometimes a soldier.
Because so few are granted bail, children face a legal dilemma: they can ask the lawyer to challenge the system – and by doing so potentially wait, locked up, for four to six months – or plead guilty and get a two or three month prison sentence for a "first offence".
Pleading guilty
"So, very rarely does anyone challenge the system," said DCI's Horton, as the quickest way to be released is to plead guilty. This goes some way to explain why, according to the military courts, the conviction rate for adults and children in 2010 was?99.74 per cent.
According to DCI, some fifty to sixty per cent of the time, children are taken to prisons inside Israel, making it difficult for parents to visit. "Some parents are denied permits on unspecified 'security grounds'. For the others, the bureaucracy can take up to two months to get a permit, which means if their children are sentenced to less time, they will not receive a visit," Horton said. "However, some permits are processed in less than two months, and those children sentenced to more time will also generally receive visits."
"Israel's practice of holding children 'for substantial periods in solitary confinement would, if it occurred, be capable of amounting to torture', the report concluded."
The allegations of what seems to be a deliberate?system of abuse appear to be corroborated by another?report?published by a group of British jurists. The UK government-backed delegation of nine lawyers, with human rights, crime and child welfare backgrounds, concluded that Israel's soldiers regularly breach?the?UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?(UNCRC) and the?Fourth Geneva Convention, of which Israel is a signatory.
Their report,?Children in Military Custody, attributed much of Israel's reluctance to treat Palestinian children in accordance with international norms to "a belief, which was advanced to us by a military prosecutor, that every Palestinian child is a 'potential terrorist'". The lawyers said this seemed to be "the starting point of a spiral of injustice, and one which only Israel, as the Occupying Power in the West Bank, can reverse".
Israel's practice of holding children "for substantial periods in solitary confinement would, if it occurred, be capable of amounting to torture", the report concluded. Of all the children represented by DCI, 12 per cent reported being held in solitary confinement for an average of 11 days.
The Israel Security Agency (ISA), also known as Shin Bet,?denied that children were mistreated under the military court system, calling claims to the contrary "utterly baseless". The ISA also said that claims regarding the prevention of legal counsel were also completely groundless.
"No one questioned, including minors being questioned, is kept alone in a cell as a punitive measure or in order to obtain a confession," said the ISA in a statement when the?Guardian?first released?a special report?about the status of child detainees in Israel.
A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to hurl a stone at Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank (REUTERS)
The ISA also said that it provides minors special protection because of their age and adheres to "international treaties of which the State of Israel is a signatory, and according to Israeli law, including the right to legal counsel and visits by the Red Cross".
Speaking to Al Jazeera, an Israeli spokesperson accused the DCI report of bias, and?refuted the group's finding that the majority of children prosecuted were charged with throwing stones: "This was the basis for only 40 per cent of the indictments filed against minors in the West Bank … the young age of offenders is not relevant to the gravity of the act: it has been proven beyond doubt that a stone thrown by a 15-year-old child can be no less fatal than a stone thrown by an adult."
Stone-throwing can prove deadly, stressed the spokesperson, citing a case from September 2011, when an Israeli settler and his one-year-old son were killed after their car overturned as a result of stones hurled at them. "Two Palestinians from Halhul confessed to throwing the stone which caused the deaths of Asher and Yonatan. The stone was hurled from a driving car," the spokesperson said. The official said that children were also involved in grenade throwing, the use of explosives, shooting and assault
The spokesperson also denied that the ISA used isolation as an interrogation technique or as punishment to exert confessions out of minors. "There are certain cases in which an interrogee will be held alone for a few days at the most, in order to prevent information in his/her possession from leaking to other terrorist activists in the same detention facility, which could compromise the interrogation of the suspect. Note that even in these cases, the interrogee is not held in absolute confinement, but is entitled to meet with Red Cross representatives, medical staff etc."
Furthermore, the spokesperson rejected the idea that pleading guilty was the quickest way out of the system for a defendant, deeming the accusation "misleading, distorted, and premised upon incorrect information".
"Should a minor defendant choose to plead 'not guilty' and challenge the prosecutorial evidence by proceeding to a full trial and mounting a good-faith defence, military courts will, in the vast majority of the cases, conduct the hearings very efficiently, sometimes even in a few weeks."
Yet, since the DCI and UK reports came out, "there's?no substantive change on the ground", Horton said. "The response by the military authorities has been to start talking about making some changes and amending the military orders. But when you look at the details, the changes are of little substance."
"In reality, what we are seeing is a?de facto?annexation of most of the West Bank; it's not a temporary military occupation," he concluded. "The military courts are an integral part of this process used to control the population."
Follow Dalia Hatuqa on Twitter:?@DaliaHatuqa
Author: Shahidul Alam
Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work "The Struggle for Democracy" contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world. Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography. Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society. John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book "My journey as a witness", (listed in "Best Photo Books of 2011" by American Photo), as "The most important book ever written by a photographer." View all posts by Shahidul Alam
Author Shahidul AlamPosted on August 16, 2012 Categories exploitation, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Law, Occupation, politics, Religion, WarTags abuse, Children, Israel, jail, Occupation, Palestine
Previous Previous post: Women, wartime and the dream of peace
Next Next post: 20 Most Influential Asian Photographers 2012
Headers and Snippets
Editor: shahidul@drik.net
Shahidul Alam, one of the journalists collectively considered the Time Person of the Year 2018. Photo Moises Sam/Magnum for Time
Majority World – a photo agency with a difference!
MW is an innovative agency that specialises in high quality imagery that provides unique insights into local cultures, development issues, environments and contemporary lifestyles in these diverse continents. It is a social enterprise that works with client organisations to commission assignments with experienced photographers who understand the language, the culture, and the locality because it is their own.
To know more click on this link (http://www.majorityworld.com)
'All that I have left of him'
On Life in Prison
I didn't eat the bananas!
The Tide Will Turn amongst "Best Art Books of 2020" list by New York Times.
As Mujib Watches Helplessly
Research notes: atrocities and allegory – A stone in the way on Crossfire
A personal odyssey: In search of Kalpana Chakma - Emaho Magazine on Searching for Kalpana Chakma
Establishment Earthquaker : Shahidul Alam - Emaho Magazine on Searching for Kalpana Chakma
Establishment Earthquaker : Shahidul Alam – Emaho Magazine on Searching for Kalpana Chakma
Establishment Earthquaker : Shahidul Alam – Emaho Magazine on Crossfire
Shahidul News Proudly powered by WordPress


text:
Q: Applications of Faber's conjecture Faber's perfect pairing conjecture states that the tautological ring $R^*$ of the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_g$ of curves of genus $g$ behaves as if it were the rational cohomology of a closed, oriented manifold of dimension $g-2$.  Specifically, $R^{g-2}$ is rank one, and multiplication into this degree gives a perfect pairing between $R^k$ and $R^{g-2-k}$.
My understanding is that it is known (through work of Looijenga, Faber, and Pandharipande) that $R^{g-2} = \mathbb{Q}$, but the perfect pairing part hasn't been proven (though it has been verified in low genus cases).  I'd like to know:

*

*Why might Faber have conjectured this to be the case?  What is it about $R^*$ that suggests that it might satisfy Poincare duality?

*If true, what sort of applications does this have (to our understanding of $\mathcal{M}_g$, for instance)?

A: *

*Numerical evidence, from computing the cases $g=2,3,\dots$, eventually $g\le 15$, and seeing the symmetry in the numbers $\dim R_g^n$. I recall Carel saying he made the conjecture when $g$ was still pretty low, maybe 6. For any $g$, there is an algorithm computing $\dim R^n_g$ in finite time, that Faber came up with.

*That's not so clear. But that's a very mysterious property. The search for the meaning is on.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Why is that when someone, usually someone who doesn't know you that well (or really at all for that matter), prefaces a statement with "I don't mean to offend you but..." they usually succeed in doing the very thing that they told you they're not going to do? Serenity now!
What OtherParent proceeded to tell me (in about the most directive way possible) was that the decision to have our daughter attend two different schools was, well, wrong. Talk about a conversation stopper. I decided to take the bait anyway and rolled with the resistance. "What do you mean by that?" I asked (suppressing the urge to raise my voice).
OtherParent's point was two-fold: (1) that it's too confusing to have my child learn two different languages at the same time (too bad, she's learning three since I also speak Spanish); (2) that OtherParent would feel badly about my daughter losing the ability to speak with my wife's parents (wait, what about my Korean-speaking parents!?).
First, OtherParent was wrong. Bilingualism is, in fact, good for the brain. Research shows that speaking more than one language helps with multi-tasking, prioritizing information in potentially confusing situations, and helps ward off early symptoms of Alzheimer's in the elderly. Not to mention, that bilingualism helps me communicate with my daughter because her Japanese got chotto better than mine after she turned two (sugoi ne).
Second, in any language, my in-laws and my own parents are good people. Yes, I was forced to go to Korean school (even though I would have preferred to fill my pie hole with sugary breakfast cereals while killing brain cells watching cartoons) on Saturday mornings, but I was also instructed repeatedly as a child to be an "All-American" boy (and given the freedom to figure out what that means on my own). Time has either made my parents soft or time has made my parents realize that there isn't a whole lot of time (left). So for what does that leave time? Simply put, time for agape.
"We like to think we're so smart, that we have all the answers. And we want to pass that on to our children. But if you scratch beneath the surface, you won't have to dig deep to find the kid you were, which is why it's kind of crazy that we're raising kids of our own. I guess that's the real circle of life. Your parents faked their way through it. You fake your way through it. And you just hope you didn't raise a serial killer."
Amen and thanks for the opportunity to post my (virgin) musings with you, my Rice Daddies brethren.
Is it terrible for me to already assume what OtherParent's ethnicity is? Hrmmm.
I would add music & programming as analogous other languages. They're good at expanding the breadth of how we think.
That said, I'm not sending my kids to a second language school so its great to hear on RD and elsewhere about what a critical choice it is to make.
And thumbs up for working in a Modern Family reference. Sad to say but I wholeheartedly agree with it!
Mainstream bilingualism (teaching more than one language from day one to a child) and introducing a second language several years later are both valid ways of developing bilingual capabilities. Each has certain disadvantages too. Each parent should speak to their child in a single language, preferably that parent's native language. People who are not bilingual or have not raised bilingual children have a variety of outdated or ignorant assumptions and beliefs.
It looks like a more generalized version of "I'm not a racist, but..."
It's like a non-apology apology. "I'm sorry you were offended." but not actually sorry that what I said was inappropriate and offensive. Sheesh.
I agree with you 1 million percent! We speak to our son in Korean and Chinese at home, and have him figure out English when he gets to be school aged :). But since his mom and I speak english to each other, I have a feeling English won't be a problem for him anyway :).
That's pretty interesting that they have weekday foreign-language schools that the states will allow for those students. I'm sure the curriculum would be the same though, with probably a few extra language classes thrown in.
I wish my parents enforced heritage language skills more strongly when I was younger. It's a skill set I probably won't reclaim without a great deal of effort and professionally, other languages are more useful to me now. So if I had to choose, I'd put my aging-brain cells to work on the languages I would continue to use now, not ones that would make me feel closer to the past.
Multilingualism is proven to be positive for cognitive development AND self-esteem, two things all kids need more of. OtherParent, like many single-language speakers, might observe multilingual children as being "quiet" at younger ages, but their brains are processing many stimuli. A little bit longer of a silent period at the start is worth the variety of languages skills later.
Thank you for this wonderful posts. Really made my spare time one pleasant experience.


A teenage bedroom must have a precise thoughtful layout. That's so because teenagers experience a lot of requirements that should be considered in their room. If you're going away to design a room for your kid or kids by yourself you necessity do that.
Designing a teen room is not so easy, but you can avail your teenage boy or girl to make up one's mind the bedroom arrangement accordant to their taste and needs. Use a little creative thinking and creativity to make a such sleeping room that your young will dearest and cherish. c Always keep in your head that you feature to embellish your teen's sleeping room according to your teen's necessity and choices.
There are a lot of holding you should move care of — from choosing a cool color message to deciding what furniture makes it to the room, you should listen good to your hoity-toity and fashionable immature woman ahead deciding on the concluding product. Our proposal for decorating newborn girls' bedrooms is that they condition to be practical, yet cozy at the cookie-cutter time. Having a table is not a bad opinion considering that your teenage young lady volition do preparation in her bantam crib.


text:
Heroes List
BJJ Stats Compilation
ADCC 2019 Athlete List
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Team History, Fighter Stats, Biographies and News
Tarikoplata
Crab Ride
The Truck
Cross Choke
Jiu Jitsu Culture
Unlikely Villains
BJJ Heroes,
Home Jiu Jitsu Culture Unlikely Villains
In sports, as in many other activities, practitioners and fans tend to choose sides, often vilifying the opposing forces. In jiu jitsu this same rule applies. Forged by conflict the Gracie style of jiu jitsu grew technically with the constant quarrels against men and their fighting styles which were settled on the mats, in front of sold out crowds. Quarrels that ended up being a fantastic tool to promote this crazy thing we dedicate ourselves to daily.
See no Evil Hear no Evil
The objects of this vilification have been varied, from Waldemar Santana to Eugênio Tadeu and his luta livre crew. But there were many others, and not always distant rivals. Some have been fellow practitioners and even members of jiu jitsu's royal family.
Forgotten by time, and erased from Gracie Jiu Jitsu history by those who (re)wrote it, George Gracie's come back is owed to Reila Gracie and her book "The Creator of a Fighting Dynasty – Carlos Gracie Sr Biography". If there is little mention of George Gracie's long list of achievements during the 1920's and 1930's in the "Gracies in Action DVD", it is most likely because George did now follow the documentary's promotional agenda, nor did he side with Helio Gracie's views in matters of the fight game. Training and competing in different fighting styles, including luta livre esportiva (LLE). In fact, George is regarded as an important figure in the development of LLE in Brazil, having trained with one of the founders of the style Orlando Américo da Silva, the famous "Dudú", a bond that started in 1932 and lasted for many years.
George was not the ideal poster boy for Gracie jiu jitsu, he didn't follow protocol and he often did what he wanted in detriment of the family's vision for the martial art. On the flipside, he was also the Gracie's best and most utilized weapon when campaigning for their combat system for two decades, and not worthy of the censorship his name was subjected to for many years.
Fast forward a few decades and you have yet another productive member of the jiu jitsu community cast aside. Eddie Bravo appeared in the jiu jitsu scene in 2003 qualifying for the ADCC finals in Brazil as a brown belt. He made himself noticed at the tournament after his much debated win over Royler Gracie, going on to found his own school, 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu. Though Bravo purposely distanced himself from the Brazilian jiu jitsu brand, his creativity has brought many valid positions to the grappling game, and his students have proved they are worthy of their place in the sport. Bravo has also tried to develop jiu jitsu, by opening up his own endeavour, the Eddie Bravo Invitational (EBI) with his views on the jiu jitsu rule book, further broadening the sport's bubble.
The reason why Bravo has been somewhat chastised by some of the specialized media and general community is not totally clear, though according to Royce Gracie, they have to do with his life choices outside the mat.
The Patience Game
Today two of the most praised and idolized grapplers in jiu jitsu are the Mendes Brothers (Rafael and Guilherme), but it wasn't always this way, and the dynamic duo suffered a fair share of negativity during their first few years as black belts.
Both made their way to the top of the jiu jitsu ladder by using a position often frowned upon by the old school competitors, the controversial 50/50 guard. Regarded as a stalling and highly tactical move, the 50/50 was kept on the shelves of the jiu jitsu game for many years, seldom used, until the Mendes arrived at the scene.
With complete disregard for the "hatters", the Mendes revolutionized the game, first with their use of the aforementioned guard and later adding equally tactical and highly technical positions such as the berimbolo. Tried and tested at the highest level time and time again, both positions became totally absorbed. A natural consequence of an ever evolving sport, although they are still criticized by most advocates of a fast paced, submission orientated method.
The transformation of the Mendes Bros to the eyes of the media and the general public from 2009 to 2015 has been staggering. In 6 years the two are among the most sought out coaches in the world. Their systematic approach to the game is revered around the globe, with students flying in droves from all corners of the planet for a chance to train with them at the Art of Jiu Jitsu gym at any given month.
In the female division, no other competitor's losses are cheered as vehemently as those of Gabrielle Garcia. Her case is possibly the most curious out of the lot presented to you in this piece. Where George, Bravo and the Mendes Brothers tried to break out of the chains that bound them, placing themselves under scrutiny for their actions, Gabi has always stood in conformity with the norm. Her style is very "old school", and Garcia presents herself in a non-confrontational manner to the general public.
As a competitor, her submission rate is pretty high (over 50%), and her work ethics are kept in high regard on and outside the mats. As an ambassador for jiu jitsu Gabi has also done a great job, particularly in "The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3" series, where she steamrolled half the cast at her guest appearance.
So why the hate? Some could argue that the animosity could have originated through her historical use of PED's, but this would be a foolish justification as many of the sport's most idolized grapplers (ie.: Felipe Pena and Braulio Estima) have remained in the good grace of the fans even after their positive tests were disclosed. Could it be because Gabrielle is one of the largest female athletes in the sport? Hardly a reason to end up on the wrong side of a heckling clinic at the semi final of the world's biggest tournament, and there are other big women out there competing, such as Tayane Porfírio or Joaquina Bonfim who don't receive the same treatment. The question remains open.
Epilogue: Be Like Water
Although the BJJ community is for the most part focussed on the positives, no doubt animosity fuels the interest of the general public, and most of the athletes here described have somewhat gained from being the underdogs, particularly in the sponsoring business. This is particularly of interest as the sport gallops into a professional environment.
As jiu jitsu grows and enters the mine filled business of spectator sports, these villains will come into play in a big way. One quick look over the fastest growing contact sport of our times, mixed martial arts (MMA) and we can see how much these characters have helped grow their promotions. Tank Abbot, Tito Ortiz, Koscheck, Mcgregor, Sonnen, etc.
Let't hope we all get there in one piece.
Polaris 2 Results
Buchecha to debut in MMA in 2016
BJJ Heroes
Jiu Jitsu vs. Luta Livre
Santeri & Emilia, BJJ's Good Samaritans
The Science of Taping your Fingers for Jiu Jitsu
BJJ Dirty Dozen
ADCC, EBI, IBJJF, GPC: How Rules Change Jiu Jitsu
Famous Jiu Jitsu Quotes
Gabrieli Pessanha Rules Queen Of Mats in Abu Dhabi
Who Brought The Biggest Army? Most Represented Countries At The Euros
Gustavo Maron
© Copyright 2014. BJJ Heroes


I don't know what other reviewers found "thrilling" about this story. It was just predictably average.
I enjoyed this book, but a few details got to me. Michael has obviously never had a cesarean and it bugged me that Meg was up and going for a shower only hours after having surgery and scaling walls a week or so later. Mmm, not likely. It was also a bit much that all the babies had formula feeding issues. I found it particularly hard to swallow Emily's death, since she was already 3 months old. Nobody can be that unlucky. If he wrote that Aggie panicked and smothered her or hid her somewhere and something happened, I could have bought it. Non the less, it was a good read and I wanted to know what happened next.
Wow. This is the first book I have come across by Michael robotham. I read and listen to books all the time and this would certainly be in my top 5 now. Never before have I had such empathy with a villen that I am nearly willing her on during a crucial part of the plot because I can feel her anguish and need as her character has been masterfully built throughout the story.
Lucy price-lewis reads in a beautiful captivating voice that I could listen to all day which really finishes off the jewel of this novel.
Where has Michael Robothom gone?
chapter by chapter the book keeps you guessing and listening. The narrirator does a fabulous job with the characters also.
Not really a thriller as you quickly know what is going to happen.
Ok storyline line ... ok performance ... just sort of all round ok.
Have listened to far worse and to much better.
Another brilliant book by the amazing Michael Robotham.
The reading was perfect!! Hope I hear Lucy's voice on more books!!
Fantastic suspenseful couldn't stop listening till the end .The Ending was a little disappointing after such a good story .
Very good,. Michael did a great job at making the criminal a victim as well.
Excellent story. Gives real insight into the mind of a desperate hurting woman. True to life.
The performance was amazing!! And so was the book. I finished it in only 2 days. If you're looking for a good psychological thriller, this is it!
Love each minuto of it, it kept me on edge, feeling sorry for Agatha and hating her at the same time. First book I got from M.R. And definitely not the last!
A suspenseful family drama about motherhood, paternity, families, infidelity, abuse, and mental illness. The secrets she keeps is the story of two women whose lives come into contact with devastating consequences. It was well plotted and well written with engaging characters, although the women seemed too complex and unstable, while the men too gullible and easily manipulared. It reminded me of other similar themed novels I've read recently. It's told from two points of view. Especially for lovers of psychological thrillers. The profiler was my favourite character. I loved the dramatic reading.
Once again Michael Robotham did not disappoint.I got used to the Joe series but this was a beautiful piece of art.I could not put it down until the end.Cant wait for the next one.
I love Michael Robotham. But, I've finished up feeling very flat. I'm not a fan of books where the characters are speaking for themselves.
Aside from that, the storyline was very boring and I've fast forwarded through half of it. But listening to the end. It got better about four hours from the end.
The narrator, Lucy Price-Lewis is okay for a woman narrator. Says things as they are and doesn't use the soft feely nicey tone of voice as most women do.
Would I spend the money if I knew it was written like this - no.
Highly recommend but not for the feint hearted. I love how the book is presented from the two main characters and takes us through their journey.
From the first sentence I was totally hooked to this book. There is lots of twist and turns... and, surprises. Absolutely amazing.
Really enjoyed this. Yes it starts as a domestic drama but quickly starts to build into an excellent thriller told from 2 different perspectives. Different type of book for this author but very well written. Don't be put off by the negative reviews, it was a gripping story.
I was looking forward to this book as I am a big fan of Michaels books but it lacked suspense and I found it long winded and boring. Not one of his best.
Never dissapoints. This book is totally absorbing. Always look forward to his next publication.
Very different story from Robotham!
Such an interesting story, told from two people's points of view, both women. Quite a change from the mournful Joseph O'Loughlin stories, which, frankly, are becoming full of self-pity and verging on the annoying.
It's a very good stab at seeing the world from a female perspective and extremely well narrated. My only reservation is that the author seems to believe in the Superwoman myth, e.g., that a women who has had major stomach surgery (a C-section) can clamber over a wall a few days later!
Never mind, I really enjoyed the psychological cat and mouse game and was gripped by the twists and turns of the plot. Recommended!
This book is one of Michael Robotham's best, full of suspense and hard to put down. It is well written with excellent characterisations and superbly read by Lucy Price-Lewis. I loved it!
The author has done his research..
as with all his books I was captivated till the end.
Listened to it on my commute everyday and just couldn't wait to finish work and listen more. Really great story, page turner! The reader was excellent, very easy listening.
Would you consider the audio edition of The Secrets She Keeps to be better than the print version?
What other book might you compare The Secrets She Keeps to, and why?
I think it's in a niche of its own because it explores many different issues - fertility, families, abuse, mental health issues etc.
I though she read clearly and adopted accurate accents for the different characters in the book and she made it easy to distinguish which character was speaking.
I would have done if I'd had the time!
I rarely leave a review but felt I had to for this book as I enjoyed it so much. The various issues explored were covered sensitively yet you were able to appreciate the problems suffered by the main characters. I haven't read any of the author's other books but I'll certainly be giving them a try. Highly recommended.


Are you a Maths Teacher who is looking for some supply work?
The role is a full-time ongoing supply role, for a Maths Teacher at an all boys independant school.
In order to be considered you must have a Maths Degree, have QTS, and a passion for teaching!
The role will be teaching KS3 students all the way up to KS5 and ideally you will have a great degree of experience.


text:
Closing The 'Boyfriend Loophole' Could Prevent Domestic Violence Deaths. Congress Hasn't Acted.
Advocates want to prevent boyfriends and girlfriends with a history of domestic violence from buying guns, but the National Rifle Association argues that would limit gun rights.
By Jill AmentDecember 13, 2019 1:14 pmCrime & Justice, Government & Politics
Matthew C. Wright/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
"Red Women" statues in front of the Texas Capitol in 2006, representing women who have died from domestic violence. The statues were a project of the Texas Conference on Family Violence.
The recent death of a Houston police officer reignited an aspect of the gun control debate that intersects with domestic violence.
Sgt. Christopher Brewster was shot and killed when he responded to a call about a man who reportedly had assaulted his girlfriend. Brewster's boss, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, blamed top Republican Texas lawmakers in Congress for the officer's death, saying it could have been prevented had Congress reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act and closing the so-called boyfriend loophole.
Natalie Nanasi is director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women at Southern Methodist University. She says the concept of the boyfriend loophole has been around for awhile. It's based on the idea that people don't have the same legal protections against an abusive partner if that person isn't their spouse, live-in partner or co-parent of their child.
"There are certain categories of people who have perpetrated domestic violence who are prohibited from possessing a firearm," Nanasi says.
But boyfriends – and girlfriends – aren't part of those categories.
Nanasi says defining what a "boyfriend" is is up to the courts.
"You decide it the same way that you would prove whether somebody is living with somebody else," she says. "Sometimes that isn't always so clear cut; there are shades of gray."
Nanasi says that closing the loophole would help reduce domestic violence deaths, and that studies show that violence looks the same whether someone is married, divorced or dating.
"Half of the women that are murdered here in this country are murdered by their intimate partners," she says.
Congress has reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act three times since it was enacted in 1994. But only recently has it been controversial. That's because the National Rifle Association has argued that the loophole could limit gun rights. She says that's partly why Congress has stalled on re-authorizing the Act this year.
"The gun rights provisions have definitely made it much more difficult to get bipartisan support like it has gotten in the past," Nanasi says.
Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn responded to Chief Acevedo's critique about Congress and the Violence Against Women Act in emails to Texas Standard:
"All of Texas is mourning Sgt. Brewster, grieving with his family, and celebrating his heroic service keeping us safe. It's unfortunate the chief of police in Houston seems more focused on trying to advance his own political ambitions than on supporting the brave men and women of HPD. The fact is that this killer was a criminal whom federal law already prohibited from having a gun. Instead of playing politics with tragedy, Congress should take up and pass the Grassley-Cruz legislation, which has bipartisan support, to strengthen the background check system, put violent felons in jail, and get guns out of the hands of criminals."
– Ted Cruz
"[Acevedo] has my telephone number and if he had bothered to call me, I would have told him that he and I agree that convicted domestic abusers should not be able to own a gun…. I think the Chief just simply was mistaken on this issue because the gunman was already prohibited under Texas law from owning or possessing a firearm."
– John Cornyn
Written by Caroline Covington.
Texas Standard For December 13, 2019
Impeachment Isn't A US Creation, But It's Rarely Used Around The World
A Dallas Company Plans To Be Among The First To Process Texas Hemp
US Military Says Now's The Time To Start Mining Rare Earth Minerals At Home
The Invisible Pollutant: Tracking How Much Methane West Texas Gas Wells Release
School Gymnasiums Were A Place For Sports But Also Community
Virtual Tour Allows Caregivers To Experience Dementia-Like Limitations
Typewriter Rodeo: Lone Star Playlist
A Dozen Democrats Are Vying To Challenge John Cornyn For His Senate Seat


C.L. Cummings is a simple being. Most recently, her poetry appears or is set to appear in A Garden Of Black Joy: Global Poetry From the Edges of Liberation and Living, OUT/CAST, and apt. Currently, she resides in Baton Rouge, LA and edits BA/G, an online literary journal.


Use power of attorney, cash savings bonds?
I have the power of attorney for my aunt who has dementia and lives in a memory care home. She has about $30,000 in Series EE savings bonds. She is rapidly going through her savings paying for care. Should I cash in the savings bonds now to provide a cushion in her bank account, or wait until the account balance is lower?
I also am an heir to her estate and was told that my power of attorney becomes void upon her death. I am not the executor of her will in another state and the attorney advised me to liquidate her assets to avoid probate.
I took the savings bonds to my bank to redeem them, but they told me to mail them to the U.S. Treasury. They gave me a website, which makes me nervous. Please advise what I should do with the savings bonds. She has $63,000 in the bank and $36,000 held in another account designated to her three nephews. Is it safe to mail the savings bonds to the U.S. Treasury?
Your bank spelled out the process. Savings bonds are registered bonds, so if the bonds were to get lost in the mail, that wouldn't mean that someone else could redeem them. You can get them replaced. Still, it would be a good idea to send them either by registered mail or certified mail with return receipt.
The Treasury has a special form, PD F 1522 E, Special Form of Request for Payment of United States Savings and Retirement Securities Where Use of a Detached Request is Authorized, available online at the Treasury Direct website, that you'll need to fill out to redeem the bonds. The key to this process is having the form signed by a certifying officer. An officer at your bank should be able to act in that capacity.
I'd argue that you shouldn't wait to redeem the savings bonds. Keep in mind that your aunt will owe income tax on the interest earnings, so some of the proceeds will be needed to pay those taxes.
Because the possibility exists that your aunt may need to rely on Medicaid to pay for her care once her savings are exhausted, it's important to remember that the federal government will review gifts and other transfers of holdings over a five-year "look-back" provision that kicks in at the time of a Medicaid application. Don't give assets as gifts prior to her death without seeking the advice of an elder care or estate planning attorney.
Caring for elderly parents' finances?


text:
Q: Passing a string pointer to a struct in C++ I'm trying to pass various strings into members of a Struct via pointer but I am doing something fundamentally incorrect. What I think is that it doesn't need to be dereferenced. The process below works for other types of data such as int or char. For example:
typedef struct Course {
    string location[15];
    string course[20];
    string title[40];
    string prof[40];
    string focus[10];
    int credit;
    int CRN;
    int section;
} Course;

void c_SetLocation(Course *d, string location){
    d->location = location;
    . . .
}

I get an error when I try to compile the following algorithm to initialize a Course:
    void c_Init(Course *d, string &location, ... ){
        c_SetLocation(d, location[]);
        . . .

    }

The error:
error: cannot convert 'const char*' to 'std::string* {aka std::basic_string<char>*}' for argument '2' to 'void c_Init(Course*, std::string*, ..

A: You're actually defining, for example, an array of 15 strings in the location field. Either use regular strings; e. g.:
typedef struct Course {
    string location;
    string course;
    string title;
    string prof;
    string focus;
    int credit;
    int CRN;
    int section;
} Course;

or use char arrays:
typedef struct Course {
    char location[15];
    char course[20];
    char title[40];
    char prof[40];
    char focus[10];
    int credit;
    int CRN;
    int section;
} Course;

A: When you declare char a[10], you're creating an array of 10 characters. When you declare an std::string, you're creating a string that can grow to arbitrary size. When you declare an std::string[15], you're creating an array of 15 strings that can grow to arbitrary size.
Here's what your struct should look like:
typedef struct Course {
    std::string location;
    std::string course;
    std::string title;
    std::string prof;
    std::string focus;
    int credit;
    int CRN;
    int section;
} Course;

A: string location[15] means that you want to create 15 instances of a string, and each of those individual instances can have any length of text.
Instead of d->location, you need to assign one of those 15 strings: d->location[0] = location, d->location[1] = location, etc.


text:
The Brandy Masters 2019 results
8th May, 2019 by Amy Hopkins
This article is over multiple pages: 1 2
Brandy's ability to innovate without regulatory constraints means producers are putting out liquids that skilfully showcase the category's provenance, creativity and unique approach to flavour.
At a press briefing this year, IWSR CEO Mark Meek identified high-end brandy as one of the key trends to watch in the spirits world. While it was once seen as dull and static, the category has benefited from a craft renaissance, with a number of innovative artisan distilleries showing what the grape-based spirit is capable of. The big players are upping their game too, releasing premium iterations that display provenance and creative maturation techniques.
Some commentators even believe that as brandy cultivates a more luxurious and serious image, the category has the potential to take market share from Cognac. Furthermore, since brandy is less constrained by legal shackles than its GI cousin, it is able to entice experimental drinkers.
Our annual Brandy Masters assessed spirits from the New and Old Worlds, spanning a multitude of styles from large and small producers. The blind-tasting competition took place on the same day as our Cognac Masters and was chaired by me, Amy Hopkins, editor of The Spirits Business. The panel also included: Phil Duffy, head of spirits at Amathus Drinks; Jamie Matthewson, buying manager for beer, cider, spirits, soft drinks and tobacco at Waitrose; Bryan Rodriguez, spirits buyer at Harvey Nichols; Tobias Gorn, award-winning writer and specialist consultant; and Elise Craft, co-ordinator at the Whisky Squad. Some of the entries were also tasted by judges in The Asian Spirits Masters.
In the first leg of the competition, we assessed Other French Brandies – those made outside of the Cognac and Armagnac appellations. Here, Beehive VSOP was awarded a Gold medal after receiving praise for its "perfume aroma" and "creamy palate". Three more brandies made by French group Bardinet won Silver medals, as did St-Rémy French Chardonnay Cask Finish, which was found to have a "smoky aroma" and a "nice mouthfeel".
Brandies from South Africa came up next, with Klipdrift Premium Brandy being awarded the first Master medal of the competition. The brandy, which was tasted in the South African – Blended flight, impressed the judges with its "honey blossom" aroma and "floral violet" palate. The round produced another two Gold medallists: "savoury" Klipdrift Premium Export Brandy and "characterful" 100 Reserve Premium Brandy from Oude Molen Distillers.
The next round assessed pot still brandies from South Africa that had been aged for three to nine years. Here, judges were looking for bold character resulting from pot still distillation and rounded flavour from the maturation period. Three Gold medals were awarded: to "well integrated" Joseph Barry VS Cape Brandy and "balanced, tropical" Ladismith Cape Brandy, both from Oude Molen, as well as "sweet and juicy" Viceroy Pot Still Brandy 5 Year Old, produced by Distell. Two more Oude Molen brandies were awarded Silver medals in the flight.
Gorn believed the round offered a "refreshing take on the category". He added: "Other brandy-producing nations feel they have to produce something heavy and use colourants. But these South African expressions were fresh and easy-drinking. Each one had its own stamp." Judges agreed that the expertise of South African producers in winemaking arguably means brandy distillers have an exalted understanding of how to present their base ingredient. As Duffy noted: "The best ones in the flight let the eaux-de-vie shine through."
In the next round, judges assessed pot still brandies from South Africa aged for between 10 and 12 years. Master medal-winning Van Ryns Single Pot Still Brandy 10 Year Old wowed the judges with its "well balanced acidity" and "amazing integration" of wood. "This was a really elegant brandy and a complete joy to taste," said one judge.
Stablemate Van Ryns 12 Year Old Single Pot Still won plaudits for its ability to display "real rancio character at the same time as retaining all its fresh-grape flavour", securing a Gold medal. Richelieu Vintage Brandy 10 Years Old also won a Gold medal, impressing the panel with its flavours of "pomegranate, honey and lavender", as well as its "lingering finish". Oude Molen continued its success in the competition, securing two Silvers, one for Oude Molen XO Cape Brandy and one for Joseph Barry XO Cape Brandy. Matthewson said the former was "very rounded and inviting on the nose", while the latter brandy had a "floral quality" with notes of "blossom and elderflower".
The South African contingent concluded with two medallists aged for more than 13 years. Van Ryns once again secured the top Master accolade, this time for its 15-year-old pot still brandy, described as "deep, mellow and complex" with a "natural dryness and natural sweetness". The 20-year-old Van Ryns pot still iteration, meanwhile, received Gold.
L-r: Jamie Matthewson, Phil Duffy, Amy Hopkins, Tobias Gorn, Bryan Rodriguez and Elise Craft
With an impressive haul of medals bestowed on South African brandies, judges turned their attention to the penultimate flight: Rest of the World. Here, Bolivian brandy Singani Rujero Colección Privada, made using only Muscat of Alexandria grapes, was awarded Gold. "The nose on this brandy was so inviting," said Matthewson. "It has a wonderful balance – with sweetness on the nose and a herbaceous thyme finish." Rodriguez, meanwhile, identified notes of Sauvignon Blanc, elderflower and gooseberry, and said the spirit would be "great in a cocktail". The expression is part of a growing trend of terroir-focused spirits made using indigenous grape varieties.
The final flight of the day was Fruit Brandies, in which Ableforth's Cherry Brandy was awarded Gold. Made using French brandy as its base, the bottling was scored highly for its "remarkable balance of sweetness and acidity". Gorn enthused: "With this brandy I get kirsch and a touch of smoke on the palate. Its finish is super long, but it carries it nicely. It's a lovely product and delivers what you expect."
At the end of the judging session, the panellists revisited the Master-winning spirits and ranked them in order to find out which would be deemed Taste Master – the overall favourite of the day.
Van Ryns Single Pot Still Brandy 10 Year Old, which was judged in the South African Pot Still Aged 10-12 Years round, took home the title after judges reiterated their appreciation of its "elegant spice" and "beautiful flavours".
With so many impressive medals awarded throughout the competition, it's not difficult to see brandy's potential to rival some of the more established premium spirits groups in terms of quality and value for money.
Click through to the following page for the complete list of medal winners from The Brandy Masters 2019.


text:
Durning F.C. First
The Mid-Essex Football League
Durning F.C. First are a Grassroots football team.
The team is from England, United Kingdom and play in the The Mid-Essex Football League Division Four.
The Mid-Essex Football League - Division Four
Find out who's playing Durning F.C. First in The Mid-Essex Football League Division Four
All the scores of matches played in The Mid-Essex Football League Division Four
See where Durning F.C. First are currently sitting in the league table.
View Division Four Table Season Performance
Other teams from The Mid-Essex Football League
Tillingham Athletic F.C. First
Great Bradfords F.C. Development
Silver End United F.C. Reserves
Shenfield Association F.C. A
Southend Rangers F.C. Reserves
Southend-on-Sea, England
Hutton F.C. Development
Springfield F.C. A


text:
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace AsyncDolls.Dequeuing
{
    public class AsyncClosable
    {
        readonly Func<Task> closable;

        public AsyncClosable(Func<Task> closable)
        {
            this.closable = closable;
        }

        public Task CloseAsync()
        {
            return closable();
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Here you can view a few of the many items that we have sold direct from this website. It provides you with the chance to see what they looked like, and to see how prices have changed as well. Please note that these items are SOLD and no longer available, so please do not try and buy them!
Similar items may be available in the correct category, or in some cases we have been able to replace them but have still to list them, so a call may prove worthwhile.


AddCon 2017 - "Power of the Past, Force for the Future"
AddonSoftware's 2017 conference was held on October 18-20, in Albuquerque, NM.
Why Do All of This Yourself? - In this big picture strategic and technical session, we describe the goals of the renewal of AddonSoftware and talk about the future-proof nature of the solution. We also discuss how the channel partners that serve you have been empowered to be more efficient in delivering and maintaining customizations through the upgrade cycle. We cover the various 'built-in' functions of the solution that remove the necessity of having to augment it with third-party components. We talk security, auditing and disaster recovery. We'll set the scene for the conference and launch the 'show'!
Queries, Documents, and Google-like Search (Oh My!) - All business applications at their core consist of gathering data, manipulating data and outputting data. The process by which these tasks are done and especially the mechanisms now available to introspect and massage the data have moved forward in leaps-and-bounds. Paper-output is seldom necessary and instantaneous transmission of data is the order of the day. In this session you'll see firsthand how AddonSoftware has adopted all the new technologies and how that translates into benefits for you. From Google-like searches, to user-driven queries, AddonSoftware has put the user in control.
History and Benefits - With each new annual release of the underlying technology for AddonSoftware, improvements are 'absorbed' into the solution. We'll look back at the yearly milestones and revisit the delivery of the results therefrom and illustrate how non-intrusive they are to the users. The past is often a good predictor for the future, by seeing how far we've come; we'll see how far we might go.
Document Archiving - In the simple construct of a system as being data-in, data manipulation and data-out, it's relatively easy to keep electronic copies of data generated by the system, the data-out part. But what about the data-in, how does one manage that data after it has been 'captured'? And how does one keep track of both the data-in and the data-out? With the new document archiving subsystem that's under development, we'll show you how it can be done, driving efficiencies in your organization and allowing some of your resources to be freed up to improve on customer satisfaction. This is one session that you can't afford to miss.
New AddonSoftware Features Part 1 - It's been almost 10 years since the release of the first of the new modules; we'll go through the modules and highlight the new features of each. Part one will cover the exciting Business Intelligence Digital Dashboard, Accounting modules and the AddonSoftware provided interface to the popular Goldmine CRM product.
New AddonSoftware Features Part 2 - Part two of the new features session series covers Distribution and Manufacturing including Bill of Materials. We'll look at the Addon Store, a web store offering to augment your normal brick-and-mortar activities. We'll also discuss examples of customization projects that deliver mobile and desktop web components like enabling order confirmation and payments to be entered directly via email links to one's customers.
New Payroll - If you need Payroll or are running the older AddonSoftware version and want to benefit from all the new features, this session is for you. This fast-paced session will pack in a review of the plethora of new enhancements from electronic payments, through keeping all historical data, to the multitude of built-in reports. Electronic or printed W2 and W3 tax forms, the ability to flag employees as active or inactive and report on the data accordingly and a host of additional capabilities will be covered including the ability to deliver customizations.
Low Risk Step-Wise Upgrades - This session addresses the question most often asked by those who have not yet upgraded or who want further customizations to their applications. We show how you can begin to get the benefits of the new functionality in AddonSoftware without having to commit to a wholesale redevelopment of customizations that have accrued to your existing version. You can mix-and-match the old versions with the new on a module-by-module basis, even running a mix of character-based 'green screen' parts of the application with the new graphical components. At the simplest level, leverage the improved decision making power of the Business Intelligent Digital Dashboards while keeping the rest of the application unchanged or go a step further by also replacing the normally unmodified General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Payroll modules with the new modules. Consider investing in small incremental projects to bring on new functionality that will provide you with a good return on your investment. It's all low risk and delivers a good ROI.


Where can I get tickets for Los Angeles FC vs Cincinnati?
Los Angeles FC are rampant right now, with five wins and a draw in their opening six games and both Vela and Rossi netting hat-tricks in thumping recent wins over San Jose and DC United. It has been far more of a mixed bag for Cincinnati, who seem unlikely to be able to stem the LA tide.


When I moved to Seoul, I wasn't sure what to expect. I imagined a loud, busy, crazy city; ignited at night with endless lights and covered in thick purple smog during the day.
After spending a month here, I seriously love Korea. While there are some things that drive me wild, I am ecstatic to have another 3 months to explore.


Tampa, Fla. (December 13, 2017) — A proven leader in hotel-specific accounting and business intelligence software, M3 was the first hospitality accounting software delivered online, equipping hotel owners, operators, and managers with enhanced tools for improving data-based decision-making. As part of their efforts to help hoteliers drive financial performance using software and technology, M3 brought on Haneke Design to create a completely reinvented mobile app interface that delivers hotel performance at a glance.
The spirit of the M3 app is to allow General Managers of hotel properties to have a quick access dashboard to view current KPIs compared to last year. The user's landing page, inside of the app, is a dashboard with 6 gauges which show data for each hotel's KPI. If the user taps on a specific gauge, it rotates into focus and expands to display more in-depth data that a user can toggle through.
The mobile app features a dashboard view that allows hotel owners and staff to see how their hotel is performing based on common indicators like occupancy percentage, revenue, and food and beverage sales.
The app allows the user to navigate between properties in a portfolio with the swipe of a finger, or toggle between prior year or budget comparisons to view variances based on daily, month-to-date, or year-to-date numbers in the current year.
Additionally, the user can select different properties from the locations list and also toggle between different days to view the data for a particular location and day.
"This app is all about data visualization. We wanted the user to be able to access several points of data at once, understand trends at a glance, and drill down into details," noted Jason Rivers, Director of Design Services at Haneke Design.
Often times, hotel's systems are extremely archaic when it comes to displaying data. That's why M3's mission is to use the latest technology to drive success and increase the hotel's earnings.
"Haneke Design translated our pain points and turned them into solutions in this new mobile app. We have already received extremely positive feedback from our clients and are excited to continue to see how we can develop the features and functions of the app even further," said Tim Pinson, Senior VP of Information Technology at M3.
Now hoteliers can spend less time worrying and sorting through disparate data sources, and focus more on driving their hotel's financial performance with M3.
M3 is the national leader in hotel-specific accounting software, operations reporting, business intelligence, and analytics, processing more than $21 billion in financial transactions for more than 5,000 properties. M3's integrated suite of hospitality accounting products includes: Accounting Core, Operations Management, Time Management, Payroll and Labor Management Services, and Document Imaging and Retrieval – all designed to help provide hotel operators, owners, and managers unsurpassed access to the information they need in the most integrated and cost-effective manner. M3 also offers outsourced hotel accounting solutions via M3 Professional Services. More information is available at http://www.m3as.com.
Driven to amaze and delight users, Haneke Design is a Tampa, Florida-based custom software development firm focused on delivering user-centered solutions for connected devices. Haneke Design works with some of the world's leading brands and advertising agencies to deliver multi-platform, cross-device campaigns. Additionally, Haneke Design helps SMB and enterprise customers mobilize their web applications and web services. These solutions integrate seamlessly, are easy to use, and deliver bottom line results. Learn more at hanekedesign.com.


Abstract : The H2020 project PARTHENOS (Pooling Activities Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies) aims at strengthening the cohesion of European research in Arts and Humanities. The involved infrastructures have to address the new challenges posed by the increasing amount of digital contents and tools, and to support the emergence of a next generation of digitally aware scholars in the Arts and Humanities. Various reports and statements - like Riding the wave in 2010 - has thus acknowledged the growing importance to develop a data-centered strategy for the management of scientific data. In this context, standardization becomes a necessity for researchers in Arts and Humanities. The poster will present the work carried out for a) the Standardization Survival Kit (SSK), an overlay platform dedicated to promote a wider use of standards within Arts and Humanities; and b) a specific awareness package articulated around the "Why standards?" leaflet to make scholars understand the essential role of standardized methods and content for the reusability of research results. The SSK is a comprehensive interface aiming at providing documentation and resources concerning standards. It covers three types of activities related to the deployment and use of standards in the Arts and Humanities scholarship: - Documenting existing standards by providing reference materials - Fostering the adoption of standards - Communicating to research communities The SSK is designed as a comprehensive interface to guide scholars through all available resources, on the basis of reference scenarios identified since the beginning of the project. The design intends to provide a single entry point for novice or advanced scholars in the domain of digital methods, so that they can have quick access to the information needed for managing digital content, or applying the appropriate method in a scholarly context. Take, for example,a scholar,with few technical skills, who wishes to work on textual resources with digital tools. The SSK will offer her/him to explore reference scenarios, enabling her/him to easily discover new materials concerning standards (e.g. TEI P5 And Its subsets), such as bibliographic references, tutorials, prototypical examples, transformation stylesheets. It will thus accompany her/him throughout her/his project, from the transcription of the primary documents to their publication online. Theposter will also present the "Why standards"leaflet - key element of the SSK's awareness package.The leaflet integrates a short text and a cartoon, and aims to be the point of entry to the SSK, but also to the PARTHENOS website and the helpdesk. This awareness-raising cartoon targets scholars with few technical skills: it is designed to communicate the necessity of standardization in the scientific world, in a way that will appeal to a wide audience and give a more modern and less off-putting image of standards.


English Composition has taught me many new skills throughout the duration of this spring semester. Not only was I pushed to develop my writing, but also I was encouraged to talk in front of the class and better my confidence in public speaking.... Writing tips about how to write an evaluation paragraph to help an English learner improve their writing skills or as a review for a student taking the TOEFL test.
Self Evaluation Of My English 101 Class Essay - Self Evaluation As my English 101 class comes to an end, I have realized how much I have transformed as a writer. how to start an argument letter English Composition has taught me many new skills throughout the duration of this spring semester. Not only was I pushed to develop my writing, but also I was encouraged to talk in front of the class and better my confidence in public speaking.
Writing a General English essay is different from writing Critical Analysis Essay and a High school essay. If you want to see all kinds of custom essay papers written only by professionals and experts ProfEssays is the correct place to search. how to write a college level argumentative essay English Composition has taught me many new skills throughout the duration of this spring semester. Not only was I pushed to develop my writing, but also I was encouraged to talk in front of the class and better my confidence in public speaking.
Writing tips about how to write an evaluation paragraph to help an English learner improve their writing skills or as a review for a student taking the TOEFL test.
Teacher & Class Evaluation Questionaires This is a collection of teacher and class evaluation questionaires used by various schools with their ESL classes. You can use these as a reference to put together your own evaluation questionaire or to improve an existing one.


text:
Babylonian treasure seized at Heathrow is returned to Iraq by UK government
There are only 200 examples of a kudurru (boundary stone), an official document drawn up on the instructions of a Babylonian king
Kudurru boundary stone, 1126 – 1103 BC, returned by the UK Government to Iraq (British Museum)
Adam Sherwin 4 months Tuesday March 19th 2019
Brothers in Arms: how Mark Knopfler ended up writing a musical
When is the Love Island 2019 final?
Where is Stranger Things filmed? Season 3 filming locations around Atlanta for Netflix series
When is the Steam summer sale 2019? Start and end dates, and the best deals to look out for
A rare Babylonian cuneiform treasure, looted during the final years of Saddam Hussein's regime and later seized at Heathrow, has been returned to Iraq by the UK government.
There are only 200 examples of a kudurru (boundary stone), an official document drawn up on the instructions of a Babylonian king to record the gift of land to a loyal servant, in existence.
The kudurru was seized at Heathrow airport in 2012.
It is thought it was being illegally trafficked for the antiquities market, having been taken from Iraq during looting of archaeological sites between 1994 and 2004.
Stone on display in Baghdad
The boundary stone, which would have once been placed in a temple, will go on display at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, having been identified by experts at the British Museum.
The kudurru has been dated to the reign of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar I, who reigned from about 1126–1103 BC.
The British Museum identified the unknown cuneiform object (Trustees of the British Museum)
The carving depicts icons including Shamash (the sun-god) and Ishtar (Venus). About 30cm high, it also contains a list of witnesses to the gift and curses anyone who might dispute it.
The object was previously unknown to scholars and bears no museum number, leading the British Museum to conclude that it was looted and brought to London by traffickers of illegal antiquities.
Invaluable
Dr Salih Husain Ali, Iraq's Ambassador to the UK, said: "It is very important for Iraq to regain ownership of its looted artefacts which are part of our country and nation's rich culture."
"We are grateful to the British authorities and in particular to the British Museum for the extraordinary efforts in identifying and returning this invaluable piece of Iraq's heritage."
Michael Ellis, Arts minister, hailed a "great example of cultural diplomacy in action and demonstrates positive UK-Iraqi relations." Last year, the British authorities returned eight Sumerian inscriptions and other antiquities to Iraq.
More British Museum
Boris Johnson's Ashurbanipal socks: The story behind the Assyrian king
Artwork 'The Scream' is 'not about a man screaming'
British Museum 'rules out' return of Elgin Marbles to Greece
Roman statue in margarine tub found by detectorist in Treasure haul
Ancient Egypt's missing tombs: could one still be intact?
'You have our soul': Easter Island asks for Maoi statue back


Elite Lamp Inc Headquarters Contacts.
Corporate office address, contact information and phone numbers for the Elite Lamp Inc Headquarters.
Elite Lamp Inc Headquarters Phone Number and Contacts.
1 Elite Lamp Inc Headquarters Contacts.
1.1 Elite Lamp Inc Headquarters Phone Number and Contacts.


Women tend to focus or dwell on their negative feelings more often than men. Unfortunately, too much pondering on negative emotions worsens depression instead of relieving it. Men, on the other hand, tend to distract themselves as much as they can.
Women have a different physiological response to stress as women produce more stress hormones compared to men.
Women are faced with high expectations about maintaining a successful career and home life.
Hormonal fluctuations that cause depression during the menstrual cycle, perimenopause, and menopause.
Hormonal changes during pregnancy and periods of infertility also play a huge role in depression.
Intense feelings of loneliness and feelings of worthlessness.
Women tend to focus their negative emotions inward which make the feelings of sadness more serious. Depressed women feel that their existence does not have significance, that they do not have intrinsic value, and tend to interpret happenings in their life in this paradigm.
Depressed women are prone to apprehension about normal events in their lives. These emotions might prevent them from socializing and going about their daily lives. This can be very difficult to bear; may women feel relationships are the most important things in their lives, and those relationships can suffer.
Feelings of guilt and hopelessness.
Women who are suffering from depression tend to blame themselves about every negative happening in their lives, even if the event happened a long time ago. For instance, there are divorced women who find it hard to move on with their lives even after years of being separated. They are still nitpicking and analyzing the "mistakes" they committed that could have "saved" the relationship.
Another sign of depression can be observed through one's sleep pattern. Although it is not the same on all women, the sleep pattern is extremely irregular not to be noticeable. For instance, some depressed women tend to stay in bed for many hours, without going to work, eating or showering. Others, on the other hand, tend to stay still without getting sleepy at all.
Since depression causes women to feel hopeless and desperate, there is a possibility fo ther depressed patients think about taking their lives to relieve themselves of the suffering and loneliness they feel.
Taking into account the stark difference between women and men depression it is critical that women seek professional help in a facility that specializes in depression treatment for women. While common mental health centers can also assist women patients suffering from depression, their treatment methods and approaches may prove to be limited, if not seriously lacking, to fully address the recovery requirements and needs of women.