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Sam Smith Asks To Be Referred To As "They" Or "Them"
Following recently coming out as non-binary, English singer-songwriter Sam Smith has announced that they do not want to be referred to as 'him' or he.'
Taking to social media to explain, Smith said, "Today is a good day so here goes," they tweeted. "I've decided I am changing my pronouns to THEY/THEM. After a lifetime of being at war with my gender, I've decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out…"
Smith added that they had been "very nervous about announcing this because I care too much about what people think but fuck it!"
"I understand there will be many mistakes and misgendering but all I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like I see myself now. Thank you."
The star continued and thanked both activists and leaders of the non-binary/trans community that they say helped and give "so much clarity and understanding."
Smith concluded thanking fans, "Love you all. I'm scared shitless, but feeling super free right now. Be kind x."
Sam Smith first came out in 2014, identifying as gay, when they revealed that the album In the Lonely Hour was "about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back." They added that being gay is "as normal as my right arm."
Following winning an Oscar for Writing's on the Wall, Smith dedicated the award "to the LGBT community all around the world," and stated, "I hope that we can all stand together as equals one day."
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The letter was sent to the Pope to try to persuade him to endorse the shared origins of Christianity and Islam, since many Christians are reluctant to take the word of Muslims themselves in this era of tense relations between the two faiths. In the past year, a group of 138 senior Muslim scholars with the backing of almost 300 leaders, including Sunnis, Shias, Sufis, and other Muslim traditions, have developed a manifesto letter called "A Common Word" that seeks to clearly establish the shared origins betweens Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Although the idea that Islam shares the same God and the same prophets as Christianity and Judaism, albeit with some key differences in interpretation, is basic knowledge to Muslims, that idea is a revelation to many Christians in particular. The letter was sent to the Pope to try to persuade him to endorse the shared origins of Christianity and Islam, since many Christians are reluctant to take the word of Muslims themselves in this era of tense relations between the two faiths.
The Pope has been open to increased dialogue and has been willing to meet with the Muslim delegation, but he has shown reluctance about acknowledging that Muslims and Christians in fact believe in the same God and the same prophets and that Islam is in the same line of teachings as that of all the former prophets in the Judeo-Christian record. Instead, his interests seem to have been toward improving situations for Christians in Muslim-majority countries and improving women's rights in certain countries like Saudi Arabia.
The Common Word initiative was started in part in response to a statement by the Pope in 2006 claiming that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny) spread Islam through violence, as well as to meet pressing needs for dialogue in a post-9/11, post-Prophet Cartoon Scandal world. The project is not just aimed at the Pope, who represents and leads a fraction of the Christian world, but to a great number of Christian and Jewish organizations. The website for A Common Word contains excerpts of the letter, news, and responses from various Christian and Jewish groups.
Many religious leaders and organizations are eager to work together with Muslims for peace and understanding in the context of this initiative. One typical letter of response reads in part:
"Addressed to leaders of Christian churches around the world, your letter expresses an intent to engage seriously with Christians in dialogue that is grounded in the authentic religious convictions of our respective communities. Based upon the love of God and the love of neighbor – the two great commandments central to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism – your letter invites Christians to join with Muslims to forge ties of peace. This is a bold and timely invitation….We agree that striving together as people who would seek to be peacemakers – as Christians and Muslims, and also in cooperation with people of other religious traditions – for fairness, justice, and mutual goodwill is indeed necessary for the welfare of the world. We note in 'A Common Word' that the Arabic word translated 'common' as used in the Qur'an ('Say: O People of the Scripture! Come to a common word between us and you.' [3:64]) also means 'just' and 'fair'. Thus we are called to a 'just word' or a 'fair word' between one another. It is our belief that proclaiming this just word together, and acting in accordance with it, will contribute significantly to a just world for all."
There are certain issues on which Muslims, Christians, and Jews are not likely to agree, such as the Trinitarian versus the Unitarian view of God or the matter of the crucifixion of Jesus (peace be upon him). But by agreeing to disagree on these matters, the purpose is to rather build upon the common beliefs and heritage of all three faiths with the intent of increasing dialogue and cooperation while decreasing the violence, hatred, ignorance, and bad will among the practitioners of these faiths.
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Q: AngularJS: Sort on a multi select I have a filter working on the multi select but when I try what I saw on the following link it doesn't work:
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/filter/orderBy
How do I get the sort to change by clicking on the glyphicon?

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        <input type="text" ng-model="filterText" style="width: 50px; position: relative; left:-36px;"/>
        <button style="position: relative; left: -30px;">Filter</button>

        <select id="available-groups"  multiple>
            <option value="{{group._id}}"  ng-repeat="group in rbacGroups | filter:filterText">{{group.name}}</option>
        </select>
        <button id="addGroup" style="position: relative; top: -72px; left: 21px;">Add »</button>

        <button id="removeGroup" style="position: relative; top: -72px; left: 375px;">« Remove</button>

        <select id="assigned-groups" ng-model="cgroups"  multiple required="required">

        </select>

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Week 17 of fortheloveofBLOG. Last week I had the lovely Sarah from Tammymum guest co-hosting with me whilst Fi was on holiday. Sarah did an absolutely fabulous job, and I loved her being part of fortheloveofBLOG. This week Fi is back and we can't wait for you all to start linking up with us.
This weekend it's my Brother's wedding. I'm super excited although a little nervous about doing a reading in church, and whether our 1 year old will sit still through the service. I'm sure it'll so much fun, and I'll be blogging about taking a baby to a wedding for sure. This also means that I will be retweeting and replying to your #fortheloveofBLOG tweets on Sunday instead of Saturday.
My first post Street Feast: Hawker House is a slightly different post for me. It's a foodie review and I wanted to share it with you all as it was so baby friendly. I've spent a couple of Saturday afternoon here with friends having delicious food and drink, and the babies love it too. If anyone is in London, Street Feast food markets are a brilliant place to visit.
My second post is the latest installment in my series The Partner's View, this week I'm featuring Sarah and Lauren from 2 Brides 2 Mummies who share their story from conception to birth. Having read their story I am so amazed at how calm they both were throughout pregnancy and in the decision making process when it came to the birth.
Sarah's favourite post of the week was by Meme and Harri – What If I Fail. I'm sure that a lot of us can relate to this post, where we all want to achieve so much with our blog, yet are concerned that we might fail.
My favourite post goes to Min from Single Mum Speaks – Parenting Judgement. Min's post is all about the parenting judgement that can arise when for example we offer our children You Tube to watch, or a chip to eat. There are certain times of the day where to save our sanity, this things are a life saver. Obviously it's not happening all the time, but they'll always be someone judging you for it. Being a Mum is hard, and giving your child You Tube to watch so you can have 5 minutes to finish your dinner is not going to harm your child.
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package org.wso2.carbon.core.util;

import org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource;
import org.wso2.carbon.user.api.RealmConfiguration;
import org.wso2.carbon.user.core.UserStoreException;
import org.wso2.carbon.user.core.UserStoreManager;
import org.wso2.carbon.user.core.config.RealmConfigXMLProcessor;
import org.wso2.carbon.user.core.jdbc.JDBCUserStoreManager;
import org.wso2.carbon.utils.InputReader;
import org.wso2.carbon.utils.ServerConstants;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;

/**
 * A tool for updating the password of a user
 */
public class PasswordUpdater {
    private static final String USAGE_MSG_INDENT_SPACES = "         ";
	public static final String DB_URL = "--db-url";
    public static final String DB_DRIVER = "--db-driver";
    public static final String DB_USERNAME = "--db-username";
    public static final String DB_PASSWORD = "--db-password";
    public static final String USERNAME = "--username";
    public static final String NEW_PASSWORD = "--new-password";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new PasswordUpdater().run(args);
    }

    private void run(String[] args) {
        String wso2wsasHome = System.getProperty(ServerConstants.CARBON_HOME);
        if (wso2wsasHome == null) {
            wso2wsasHome = new File(".").getAbsolutePath();
            System.setProperty(ServerConstants.CARBON_HOME, wso2wsasHome);
        }

        if (args.length == 0) {
            printUsage();
            System.exit(0);
        }

        String dbURL = getParam(DB_URL, args);

        if (dbURL == null || dbURL.indexOf("jdbc:") != 0) {
            System.err.println(" Invalid database DB_URL : " + dbURL);
            printUsage();
            System.exit(0);
        }

        // ------- DB Connection params
        String dbDriver = getParam(DB_DRIVER, args);
        if (dbDriver == null) {
            dbDriver = "org.h2.Driver";
        }
        String dbUsername = getParam(DB_USERNAME, args);
        if (dbUsername == null) {
            dbUsername = "wso2carbon";
        }
        String dbPassword = getParam(DB_PASSWORD, args);
        if (dbPassword == null) {
            dbPassword = "wso2carbon";
        }

        // ------------ Load the DB Driver
        try {
            Class.forName(dbDriver);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            System.err.println(" Database driver [" + dbDriver + "] not found in classpath.");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        // Connect to the database
        Connection conn = null;
        try {
            conn = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL, dbUsername, dbPassword);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Cannot connect to database. \n" +
                               "Please make sure that the JDBC URL is correct and that you have \n" +
                               "stopped WSO2 Carbon before running this script. Root cause is : \n" + e);
            System.exit(1);
        } finally {
            if (conn != null) {
                try {
                    conn.close();
                } catch (SQLException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }

        // --------- Capture the service username and password
        String username = getParam(USERNAME, args);
        while (username == null || username.trim().length() == 0) {
            System.out.print("Username: ");
            try {
                username = InputReader.readInput();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.err.println(" Could not read username : " + e);
                System.exit(1);
            }
        }

        String password = getParam(NEW_PASSWORD, args);
        if (password == null || password.trim().length() == 0) {
            String passwordRepeat = null;
            while (password == null || password.trim().length() == 0) {
                try {
                    password = InputReader.readPassword("New password: ");
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    System.err.println("Unable to read password : " + e);
                    System.exit(1);
                }
            }
            while (passwordRepeat == null || passwordRepeat.trim().length() == 0) {
                try {
                    passwordRepeat = InputReader.readPassword("Re-enter new password: ");
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    System.err.println("Unable to read re-entered password : " + e);
                    System.exit(1);
                }
            }
            if (!password.equals(passwordRepeat)) {
                System.err.println(" Password and re-entered password do not match");
                System.exit(1);
            }
        }

        // DataSource is created to connect to user store DB using input parameters given by user

        BasicDataSource ds = new BasicDataSource();
        ds.setUrl(dbURL);
        ds.setDriverClassName(dbDriver);
        ds.setUsername(dbUsername);
        ds.setPassword(dbPassword);

        try {
            RealmConfiguration realmConfig = new RealmConfigXMLProcessor()
                    .buildRealmConfigurationFromFile();
            JDBCUserStoreManager userStore = new JDBCUserStoreManager(ds, realmConfig);
            userStore.doUpdateCredentialByAdmin(username, password);
            System.out.println("Password updated successfully.");
        } catch (UserStoreException ex) {
            System.err.println("Error updating credentials for user " + username + " : " + ex);
        }
    }

    /**
     * This will check the given parameter in the array and will return, if available
     *
     * @param param
     * @param args
     * @return the parameter
     */
    private String getParam(String param, String[] args) {
        if (param == null || "".equals(param)) {
            return null;
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i = i + 2) {
            String arg = args[i];
            if (param.equalsIgnoreCase(arg) && (args.length >= (i + 1))) {
                return args[i + 1];
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    private void printUsage() {
        System.out.println("Usage: chpasswd --db-url DB_URL [OPTIONS]\n");
        System.out.println(USAGE_MSG_INDENT_SPACES + DB_URL + " : The JDBC database URL. " +
                           "e.g. jdbc:h2:/home/carbon/database/WSO2CARBON_DB\n");
        System.out.println("Options");
        System.out.println(USAGE_MSG_INDENT_SPACES + DB_DRIVER + "    : The database driver class. " +
                           "e.g. org.h2.Driver");
        System.out.println(USAGE_MSG_INDENT_SPACES + DB_USERNAME + "  : The database username");
        System.out.println(USAGE_MSG_INDENT_SPACES + DB_PASSWORD + "  : The database password");
        System.out.println(USAGE_MSG_INDENT_SPACES + USERNAME + "     : The username of the user whose " +
                           "password is to be changed. If this is not given, " +
                           "you will be prompted for this field later.");
        System.out.println(USAGE_MSG_INDENT_SPACES + NEW_PASSWORD + " : The new password of the user " +
                           "whose password is to be changed. If this is not given, " +
                           "you will be prompted for this field later.");
    }
}

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The unlikely life of inventor and Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr
Alex McClintock and Sharon Carleton
Posted Mon 14 Jul 2014, 4:36pm
Updated Tue 15 Jul 2014, 10:52am
Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Hedy Lamarr's frequency hopping technology has contributed to everything from barcode scanners to Wi-Fi.
During the golden age of Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr was known as one of the most beautiful women in the world. Lamarr, however, wanted to be appreciated for her intelligence and invented a device that was crucial to the development of modern communications technology, write Alex McClintock and Sharon Carleton.
'Any girl can be glamorous, all you have to do is stand still and look stupid.'
So said Hedy Lamarr, the 1940s Hollywood star and inventor described by Forbes magazine as the most glamorous geek of all time. Lamarr, a contract star with MGM at the height of Hollywood's golden age, was certainly glamorous. Her intelligence, however, was never appreciated at the time, and her role in the development of modern communications technology is only now being recognised.
Apparently she has no time for anybody except something ultra-mysterious about which no inside Hollywood columnist has dared to even venture a guess. Believe it or not, Hedy Lamarr stays home nights and invents.
'She was an incredibly beautiful woman, which I think to a certain degree might have been her misfortune because she was making movies at a time when beautiful women were not also considered bright,' says Trina Robbins, author of Hedy Lamarr and a Secret Communication System. 'But she was a brilliant woman, and that was simply not noticed.'
Lamarr, originally Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, took an unlikely path to Hollywood. After starring in Czech director Gustav Machaty's Ecstasy aged 18, she married Austrian industrialist and arms dealer Friedrich Mandl in 1933. Despite being a Jew, Mandl was heavily involved in selling munitions to both Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy. Though she otherwise found herself bored at Mandl's lavish dinners with Germany military figures (up to and possibly including the Fuhrer himself), Lamarr listened intently to conversations about the technical aspects of weapon design.
'Hedy was his trophy wife,' says Robbins. 'She was 19 and she was very famous and he wanted to basically own the most beautiful woman in Vienna as proof of what a successful man he was. I think that Hedy was kind of impressed by him in the beginning, but pretty soon she was very disappointed because he kept her a prisoner in her own home.'
Eventually Lamarr escaped (after drugging a maid and taking her uniform as a disguise, according to her autobiography) and made her way to America, making her Hollywood debut in Algiers in 1938.
Lamarr, however, was equally unhappy in Hollywood. 'It was difficult for me to grow up with the person that I saw basically destroyed by an industry,' says Lamarr's son, Anthony Loder. 'The wonderful, happy, carefree Viennese Hedy was morphed into the movie star that had to be perfect and look perfect constantly.'
The actress, who was hoping to enlarge her breasts, was introduced to avant garde composer and amateur endocrinologist George Antheil at a dinner party after the outbreak of war in 1939. Though their conversation about hormones failed to yield the desired result, a duet on the piano ended up producing an unlikely scientific breakthrough.
Antheil, who was famous for his work with pianolas or player pianos, kept changing key, forcing Lamarr to keep up. After they finished, Lamarr told him she had an idea that could be used to fight Nazi Germany: a piano roll-like system could change the radio frequencies used to control torpedoes in order to protect them from interference or jamming.
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'Here then and at long last must suddenly come the true solution as to why Hedy does not go out upon joyous evening relaxations to which all Hollywood would only too willingly invite her,' said Antheil, 'why her drawing room sure enough is filled both with unreadable books and very usable drawing boards that look as if they are in constant use, why apparently she has no time for anybody except something ultra-mysterious about which no inside Hollywood columnist has dared to even venture a guess. Believe it or not, Hedy Lamarr stays home nights and invents. I believe it because I know.'
Lamarr and Antheil patented their frequency hopping device in 1942 and approached the US Navy with the idea. Navy bureaucrats fundamentally misunderstood the idea, however, and it was not until the 1950s that the idea was taken off the shelf. With the advent of miniature circuits and eventually microchips, the technology proved enormously useful.
'As soon as they developed the technology, it spread through the Navy like wildfire,' says Richard Rhodes, author of Hedy's Folly. 'This was just an absolutely wonderful system for protecting radio communications.'
'By the time of the Cuban missile crisis all of the ships that were involved in quarantining Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis were equipped with frequency hopped radios. In the years that followed, the technology spread through all of the military services.'
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Eventually, frequency hopping would contribute to virtually every major communications technology, from GPS to Wi-Fi and the mobile phone network.
However, while her invention enjoyed success and helped to start the digital revolution, Lamarr herself was in a downward spiral. She became increasingly reclusive and was arrested for shoplifting in 1966, the year her autobiography was released.
'I had made—and spent—some thirty million dollars. Yet earlier that day I had been unable to pay for a sandwich at Schwab's drug store,' she wrote. She moved to Miami Beach and was involved in a series of lawsuits. In 1991 she was arrested again, this time for stealing $20 of laxatives and eye drops.
The most glamorous geek of all time
Listen to this episode of The Science Show for more.
Yet towards the end of her life (Lamarr died in 2000), she began to receive the recognition she deserved for her brains, not just her beauty. Anthony Loder accepted a Pioneer Award from the American Electronic Frontier Foundation on her behalf in 1997, and in 2014 was posthumously inducted into the United States National Inventors Hall of Fame.
'Hedy realised that what she came up with was important but I don't think she knew how important it's going to be,' says her son. 'The definition of importance is the more people that it affects over the longer period of time. The longer this goes on and the more people it affects the more important she will be.'
'She has her place in history now.'
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Today's scripture readings are an interesting mix. Malachi speaks of the coming messenger who will be like a refiner's fire. The psalm response is, Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord! In Hebrews, we are told of Jesus. That through his death, he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the Devil. Because he himself was tested through what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested. And in Luke, we hear the story of Mary and Joseph bringing the infant Jesus to Jerusalem for consecration. They are greeted by Simeon and Anna, waiting for the Christ at the temple.
Hebrews is the scripture that jumps out at me today. Probably because it speaks of death and there seems to have been a lot of death in my life recently.
I teach junior high Sunday School. In a recent discussion a young lady asked the question, why did God allow our pastor to die? Our pastor had recently lost his battle with cancer. It was a striking question. And I would love to tell you I had a brilliant, theologically sound response. I did not. I was honored and humbled that this group of young people trusted me enough to ask the question. We talked about what we know. There is pain and suffering in the world. We are all going to die. And God loves us. It seems like such a disconnect. Yet we know these are all true. I would love a clear, clean, concise answer. Sometimes there simply is none. Sometimes there are questions in life that just cannot be answered. A mystery, if you will.
Pretty much sums it up. Jesus is the model for us on how to live. Jesus is the model to show us how much God loves us.
My prayer this day is for those of us grieving; that we will know and feel the love of Jesus.


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The Vivo Y81 price in India is Rs. 12,999 for the only 3GB+32GB model. The smartphone is available on Vivo online store, Flipkart, and Amazon. The smartphone is available in Black and Gold colors. There is some exchange offer on the Y81 both on Amazon and Flipkart.
The Vivo Y81 sports a 6.22-inch HD+ (720×1520 pixels) IPS display with 19:9 aspect ratio and Gorilla Glass protection. It is powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT6762 (Helio P22) processor, paired with 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of inbuilt storage which is expandable up to 256GB. The smartphone runs on FunTouch OS 4.0 on top of Android 8.1 Oreo. For the camera, the Y81 sports a 13MP rear camera with f/2.2 aperture and LED flash. It has features like HDR, Pro mode, portrait, AI face beauty, slow motion, time lapse, panorama, PDAF, and live photo. Up front, there is a 5MP selfie camera with the same aperture, a screen flash and features like face beauty, group selfie, filters, voice control, and portrait mode.
The Vivo Y81 houses a 3,260mAh battery. Connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 (2.4GHz), GPS, Micro-USB, and 3.5mm jack. The dimensions are 155.06×75.0x7.77mm and it weighs 146.5 grams. The sensors include a fingerprint sensor, accelerometer, ambient light, proximity, e-compass, and gyroscope.


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What town in Yemen did Saudi air strikes kill over 120 civilians on July 25?
On 25 July airstrikes killed over 120 civilians in the town of Mokha, marking the deadliest strike yet against civilians. The airstrikes hit workers' housing for a power plant in Mokha, flattening some of the buildings, the officials said. A fire erupted in the area, charring many of the corpses. "It just shows what is the trend now of the airstrikes from the coalition," said Hassan Boucenine of the Geneva-based Doctors Without Borders. "Now, it's a house, it's a market, it's anything." He added that many of the workers had families visiting for the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Mokha, populated largely by fisherman, had a reputation as one of the safest places in the country embroiled in war, said Boucenine.
When did Ahmed Dubba die?
In October 2017, a Yemeni citizen died under "severe torture" inside a secret prison run by the United Arab Emirates in the south of Yemen. As videos showed, the body of Ahmed Dubba revealed disturbing signs of torture after it was released from Khanfar Prison. According to media reports, UAE forces in Yemen had carried out a detention campaign against religious scholars and preachers who opposed their presence in the country where prisoners were subject to physical and psychological torture. According to Yemeni rights group Sam, the issue of secret prisons in Yemen has become a regular phenomenon.
When did Qatar leave the Yemen coalition?
Pakistan was called on by Saudi Arabia to join the coalition, but its parliament voted to maintain neutrality. On February 2016 Academi, the security firm withdraw from front-line duties in the Yemen campaing. Qatar was suspended from the coalition due to the 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis. Morocco ended their participation in 2019 due to deterioration of Morocco–Saudi Arabia relations followed by United Arab Emirates in July 2019 amid possible tensions with Iran on the Persian Gulf and differences with Saudi Arabia. Sudan announced its decision to reduce troops commitment from 15,000 to 5,000 in early December 2019.
What group captured Sanaʽa?
By September 2014, Houthi fighters captured Sanaʽa, toppling Hadi's government. Soon after, a peace deal (known as the 'Peace and Partnership Agreement') was sealed between the Hadi government and the Houthis, but was not honored by either party. The deal was drafted with the intent of defining a power-sharing government. A conflict over a draft constitution resulted in the Houthis consolidating control over the Yemeni capital in January 2015. After resigning from his post alongside his prime minister and remaining under virtual house arrest for one month, Hadi fled to Aden in southern Yemen in February. Upon arriving in Aden, Hadi withdrew his resignation, saying that the actions of the Houthis from September 2014 had amounted to a "coup" against him. By 25 March, forces answering to Sanaʽa were rapidly closing in on Aden, which Hadi had declared to be Yemen's temporary capital.
How many air strikes did the Saudi-led coalition conduct in Yemen in one day?
On the night of 6 May 2015, the Saudi-led coalition carried out 130 airstrikes in Yemen in a 24-hour period. At first, coalition spokesperson Ahmed Asiri admitted that schools and hospitals were targeted but claimed that these were used as weapon storage sites. Asiri later claimed that his words had been mistranslated. The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Yemen Johannes Van Der Klaauw said that these bombings constituted a war crime. "The indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is a contravention international humanitarian law," he said. He continued to say that he was particularly concerned about airstrikes on Saada "where scores of civilians were reportedly killed and thousands were forced to flee their homes after the coalition declared the entire governate a military target".
When did Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen occur?
On 8 October 2016, Saudi-led airstrikes targeted a hall in Sanaʽa where a funeral was taking place. At least 140 people were killed and about 600 were wounded. According to The Independent, one rescuer said: "The place has been turned into a lake of blood." After initially denying it was behind the attack, the Coalition's Joint Incidents Assessment Team admitted that it had bombed the hall but claimed that this attack had been a mistake caused by bad information. After this attack, US national security spokesperson said that the US government was "deeply disturbed" by the bombing and added that US support for the Saudi-led coalition was "not a blank cheque". He added "we have initiated an immediate review of our already significantly reduced support to the Saudi-led Coalition." The United Nations humanitarian co-ordinator in Yemen Jamie McGoldrick said he was "shocked and outraged" by the "horrific" bombing. "This violence against civilians in Yemen must stop," he said.


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Report: Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer urged Danny Ferry to resign
By Dan FeldmanOct 6, 2015, 12:55 PM EDT
When Danny Ferry's racism scandal came to light, Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer publicly supported his general manager. Budenholzer called the "African" remarks about Luol Deng "very much out of character" and said Ferry was trying to learn from his mistakes.
And while Budenholzer might not have done anything privately to contradict his public statements, his tone apparently differed with Ferry and then-owner Bruce Levenson last fall.
Kevin Arnovitz and Brian Windhorst of ESPN:
Budenholzer very much owed his job to Ferry. His former Spurs colleague had pleaded with Levenson that the Gregg Popovich assistant was the man for the position. Yet Budenholzer felt Ferry should resign, lest the Hawks be subsumed in disruption when training camp opened, and he made his wishes known in a heartfelt conversation with Ferry and Levenson at that time.
In some respect, Budenholzer was just doing his job as coaching – trying to maximize his teams chances of on-court success. Ferry didn't resign. He took a leave of absence that lasted until he agreed to a buyout this summer. That was apparently enough to avoid a paralyzing distraction. The Hawks won 60 games and reached their first conference finals since moving to Atlanta.
Ferry's departure also significantly benefitted Budenholzer personally. Budenholzer ran the Hawks' front office during Ferry's leave, and the new owners have installed him as the teams permanent president.
The only other four active coaches with personnel control experienced much more success before getting the dual president/coach title.
Gregg Popovich coached the Spurs to four championships and 11 playoff berths before they named him president in 2008. Doc Rivers won Coach of the Year with the Magic and then guided the Celtics to a title during his 14 seasons before the Clippers plucked him to run their franchise. Stan Van Gundy steered the Heat and Magic to the playoffs in all seven of his full seasons, including a trip to the 2009 NBA Finals with Orlando, before getting hired by the Pistons. Flip Saunders won more games than every other Timberwolves coach combined, is responsible for every playoff win in franchise history and made four trips to the conference finals (including thrice with the Pistons) over 16 total seasons before Minnesota gave him the huge role.
Budenholzer has been a head coach just two seasons, including a 38-44 debut year. He has done a good job, winning Coach of the Year last season, and he might make a good team president.
But he lacks the track record most coaches need to gain such status. Budenholzer, more than anything, was at the right place at the right time.


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How Trump's Tariffs Are Likely to Affect Canadian Mortgage Rates
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Last Thursday, seemingly out of the blue, President Trump announced that the U.S. would impose a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminum, adding that these new taxes may be applied as early as this week.
The U.S. President has a surprising amount of latitude on trade policy. In this case, Trump is arguing that the U.S. steel and aluminum industries are strategically important to the U.S. military. In theory, if foreign competition is allowed to starve out domestic production by dumping cheap steel and aluminum into U.S. markets, the U.S. industrial base may be degraded to the point where it cannot adequately supply the U.S. military in times of war.
Interestingly, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) quickly responded to Trump's announcement by saying that "DoD does not believe that the findings in the reports [of harm to domestic steel and aluminum producers from foreign competition] impact the ability of DoD programs to acquire the steel or aluminum necessary to meet national defense requirements." Furthermore, the DoD has expressed concern that the newly announced tariffs may do more harm than good to U.S. national security because they risk damaging relationships with long-standing U.S. allies.
Also, by increasing their costs, the tariffs will make many other U.S. industries more vulnerable to foreign competition.
While President Trump used national security concerns to justify the new tariffs, it is widely agreed that his real motivation was to throw protectionist red meat to his political base. Strangely though, while he has tended to focus on China when railing against unfair trade practices, the new tariffs will have a much more significant impact on its allies, including Canada and the EU.
This is where President Trump's decision becomes increasingly confounding.
We sell more steel and aluminum into the U.S. market than any other country (China ranks fourth in U.S. aluminum imports and is not even among the top ten countries for U.S. steel imports), but we actually buy about $2 billion more steel from the U.S. than we sell to it each year. And while the tariffs may help protect the 140,000 or so jobs that are directly tied to steel and aluminium production, they will surely hurt the more than 6 million estimated jobs that are tied to industries that rely on these commodities as key production inputs.
This report estimates that the last time the U.S. imposed a steel tariff, in 2002, steel-reliant industries lost more than 200,000 jobs, which was more that the total number of people directly employed in the entire steel industry at that time. That tariff was unwound after only 20 months.
More broadly, U.S. and Canadian supply chains are so tightly integrated that the new tariffs will lead to price rises across the U.S. economy, from military spending and infrastructure projects to cars and beer cans – with lower income Americans being disproportionately impacted.
And that's just in round one.
Other countries will inevitably respond with tariffs of their own, leading to a tit-for-tat game of political one-upmanship.
Europe has already threatened that it will place new tariffs on U.S. imports from the states of the U.S. Republican leadership, such as Harley-Davidson motorbikes (Paul Ryan - Wisconsin) and bourbon whiskey (Mitch McConnell - Kentucky), and it would be easy for Canada to target its tariff response at the economies of the swing states that handed Trump the presidency, like Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which all rely heavily on exports to Canadian markets.
As this unfolds, does anyone want to hazard a guess on how the Trump tariffs are likely to affect the ongoing NAFTA negotiations?
This all leads us to the key question for Canadian mortgage borrowers: How will the Trump tariffs and its aftermath affect Canadian mortgage rates?
In last week's post I outlined five reasons why I expected the Bank of Canada (BoC) to remain cautious for longer than the consensus was forecasting, with trade uncertainty being one of them. The new Trump tariffs take that uncertainty to a whole new level and should give the Bank additional pause.
Before last week, the consensus had recently lowered its forecast for BoC rate increases in 2018 from three down to two, and I wouldn't be surprised if we now start hearing talk that the BoC's next move might actually be a rate cut - if and when a trade war starts to materialize.
Government of Canada (GoC) bond yields dropped sharply after President Trump's announcement on Thursday and it will be interesting to see how bond-market investors reconcile the negative impact that tariffs will have on economic growth with the inflationary impact that they will have on prices. To that end, we will probably be reading a lot more about stagflation in the coming days.
On balance, I expect that the Trump tariffs, unless they are somehow headed off at the pass, will keep a lid on our variable mortgage rates in 2018 and over the short term should put downward pressure on GoC bond yields, which our fixed mortgage rates are priced on.
Last week President Trump ominously tweeted that "trade wars are good, and easy to win". That quote makes me think that we may have to go farther down this road to ruin before he realizes the folly of his ways, and it reminds me of another insightful quote from George Santayana, which warns that "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
The Bottom Line: The Trump tariffs are likely to delay the BoC's plans for additional rate increases and may even put rate cuts back on the table if our worst trade-war fears are realized. As uncertainty about our economic future increases, the optimism about our economy that has moved our mortgage rates higher of late is likely to wane, and the pessimism that takes its place may well push them lower.
That said, if a trade war hammers our hard-won economic momentum, lower mortgage rates will prove to be a thin silver lining during the darker economic clouds that lie ahead. Stay tuned.
David Larock is an independent mortgage broker and industry insider specializing in helping clients purchase, refinance or renew their mortgages. David's posts appear on Mondays on this blog, Move Smartly, and on his own blog, Integrated Mortgage Planners Email Dave
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Bitter ginger plants are comprised of long, thin, and leafy, upright stalks that produce 10 to 12 oval to oblong leaves ranging from 15 to 20 centimeters in length. In the summer, the plants develop cone-like inflorescences that taper slightly at the top, covered in overlapping scales, also known as bracts, averaging 3 to 10 centimeters in length. The scaly, waxy, and smooth inflorescences are green when young, transitioning into a bright red hue over time. The inflorescences also produce a few small yellow-white flowers and a slimy, viscous, and slippery liquid when mature. This liquid has a pleasant and refreshing ginger-like smell. Underneath the leafy plant, Bitter ginger develops long and skinny rhizomes approximately 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter with a knobby, variable appearance. The rhizome's skin is tan to brown, sometimes showcasing red undertones, depending on soil and growing conditions, and has a rough, textured, and firm feel. The golden yellow flesh is dense, fibrous, and moist, bearing a chewy, crisp consistency. Bitter ginger releases a faintly zesty and slightly medicinal aroma and has an earthy, peppery, and bitter taste.
Bitter ginger is available year-round.
Bitter ginger, botanically classified as Zingiber zerumbet, is an Asian ginger variety belonging to the Zingiberaceae family. The rhizomes grow from perennial, leafy plants that reach up to 1.2 meters in height and are an ancient variety that has been used in natural medicines for thousands of years. Bitter ginger is valued in Southeast Asia for its underground rhizome. The rhizome's juice, essential oils, and flesh are incorporated into a wide array of medicinal and culinary applications. The tropical plant has also been naturalized worldwide, foraged for its colorful inflorescences, rhizomes, and leaves. Bitter ginger is known by several names, including Lempoyang in Malaysia and Indonesia, Pinecone ginger, Shampoo ginger, Hong Qiu Jiang in China, Awapuhi in Hawaii, and Wild ginger. The rhizomes are not commercially cultivated and are gathered from wild plants or found in home gardens. The fast-growing plants are also established as an ornamental in garden landscapes. Bitter ginger plants flower in the summer, and the inflorescences are harvested for decorative floral arrangements, while the rhizomes are collected throughout the year.
Bitter ginger is a source of fiber to stimulate the digestive tract, potassium to balance fluid levels within the body, and vitamin C to strengthen the immune system while reducing inflammation. The rhizomes also contain magnesium to regulate optimal nerve functioning, calcium to build strong bones and teeth, and antioxidants to protect the cells against external environmental damage. In natural medicines, Bitter ginger is customarily incorporated into tonics and tea as a remedy for colds, fevers, fatigue, and stomach aches. The rhizomes are also boiled with other herbs and infused into bathwater to refresh the body, mixed with noni fruit juice, and used as a painkiller for teeth and sore throats, or given to children to help increase appetite.
Bitter ginger has an earthy, bitter taste well suited for use as flavoring in savory dishes. The rhizomes should be used sparingly and added according to individual preference, as the bitter flavor can become unpalatable if used in excessive amounts. Young Bitter ginger will have a milder flavor, while mature rhizomes will express a more pungent taste. Bitter ginger can be peeled, grated, and incorporated as a spice similar to common ginger in curries, soups, rice dishes, and sauces. The grated rhizomes can also be stirred into dips and chile pastes, a dish known as Lempoyang sambal in Southeast Asia. The paste is comprised of tamarind, anchovies, ginger, turmeric, Bitter ginger, and sometimes chile peppers, ground into a semi-smooth consistency using a stone mortar. This paste is traditionally mixed into rice. Beyond the rhizomes, young Bitter ginger flower buds can be boiled and eaten as a vegetable. Bitter ginger leaves are also used to wrap meats and fish in cooking. The leaves keep the fish and meat from drying out and add a subtle ginger-like flavoring. Whole, unpeeled Bitter ginger will keep for a couple of weeks when stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator's crisper drawer. The ginger can also be dried, ground into a powder, and stored for extended use. When made into a powder, Bitter ginger can be sprinkled into medicinal drinks or stirred into culinary preparations as a spice.
Bitter ginger is known as Awapuhi or Awapuhi Kuawihi in Hawaiian and is valued among the Polynesians as a multiuse plant. Awapuhi was one of the canoe plants carried to new settlements in the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, sometime between 1400 BCE to 12 CE. Awapuhi thrived in the island's warm, humid climate and fertile soil. Over time, Awapuhi became associated with the Hawaiian deity Kane, one of the four main gods in Hawaiian culture, and the plant became an earthly symbol for the deity. In addition to the plant's spiritual symbolism, Awapuhi is most popularly used as a shampoo, earning it the nickname Shampoo ginger. The colorful inflorescences that form between the leaves of the plant produce a slippery, thick, and vitamin-filled liquid known as mucilage. This viscous liquid is massaged into the hair and can be left in as a conditioner or washed out like a shampoo. The mucilage has a pleasant, gingery scent and helps to reduce dandruff, get rid of lice, add shine, and soften the hair.
Bitter ginger is native to tropical Asia and Australasia regions and has been growing wild since ancient times. The plant thrives in moist, fertile spots and is often found growing alongside water-filled areas, including riverbanks, streams, mangroves, and lakes, roadsides, forests, and damp hillsides with humus-rich soils. In the early ages, Bitter ginger was spread throughout communities as a medicinal plant, and the Polynesians carried the plant in their canoes as they ventured out onto the Pacific Ocean. Bitter ginger was planted in Hawaii with Polynesian settlements and was also transported with other migrating peoples over time, eventually introducing the plant into tropical regions worldwide. Today Bitter ginger is not commercially produced, but it is a favored houseplant in tropical landscapes and container growing. Local retailers throughout Southeast Asia cultivate the plant on a small scale to sell the rhizomes for medicinal and culinary purposes, but most of Bitter ginger's use stems from home garden production. Bitter ginger is found throughout Southeast Asia, including Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia, in southern islands of China, Taiwan, Australia, Oceania, Hawaii, Southern Florida, and Central America. The rhizomes featured in the photograph above were sourced from a local vendor at Geylang Serai Market and Food Center in Singapore. They were imported from Malaysia.
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Australian Rugby League is upset with the early release of details about the proposed Four Nations tournament.
Yesterday the Rugby League Federation announced locations and dates for the new tournament to be held in England and France starting in October.
The new tournament is supposed to carry on from the success of last year's World Cup in Australia, with 10th placed France added to the previous Tri Nations format.
But in another case of the international game shooting itself in the foot, the Australian Rugby League claim it has yet to agree to the proposal.
ARL chief executive Geoff Carr says the Kangaroos will definitely participate in the series, but is annoyed the International Federation released details before it had been finalised.
The schedule released has Australia facing nemesis and current world champions New Zealand in London on the weekend of October 24th-25th, with England facing France in Doncaster.
The final of the Four Nations will be held at Elland Road Stadium in Leeds on November 14th.
The location for the two games in France, involving the Kiwis and Kangaroos, have not disclosed.


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COMORBIDITIES OF ALCOHOL USE DISORDER
Nr.2/2018 | Autor: Maria Bonea, Mădălina C Neacșu, Ioana V. Micluția
Cuvinte cheie: Alcoholism, dependence, dual diagnosis, hospital costs, therapy
Introduction: Dual diagnosis is frequent among psychiatric patients. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) negatively affects the treatment and the progression of co- occurring disorders. The reverse could also be valid, other symptoms of other diseases and therapies may hinder the achievement and maintenance of abstinence. Aim: The aim of the present study is to assess the frequency of psychiatric and medical comorbidities, of the prescribed drugs and the hospital costs related to AUD. Methods: Using AtlasMed database, we searched the patients admitted to the Cluj County Emergency Hospital County Emergency Hospital Psychiatry Department, during a one year span, mostly men, accounting for 23% of the total number of hospitalisations and 12.1% of the h o s p i t a l c o s t s . T h e m o s t f re q u e n t p s y c h i a t r i c comorbidities were personality disorders, major depressive disorder (MDD), neurocognitive disorders, alcohol-related psychosis and suicide attempts. The most common medical conditions in alcoholics were alcoholic l i v e r d i s e a s e ( A L D ) , c a rd i o v a s c u l a r d i s e a s e , dyslipidemia, alcoholic polyneuropathy, alcoholic pancreatitis, type 2 diabetes and head injuries. The most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications were Psychiatry Department between January the 1st and benzodiazepines, anticonvulsants and tiapride. December 31st 2016, with a main or secondary diagnosis of alcohol dependence. The socio-demographic (age, gender, geographic area), the psychiatric and medical diagnosis and the prescribed psychotropic medications were recorded. Results: 623 alcoholic patients were admitted to the Cluj Conclusions: Alcohol dependence has become an increasingly stringent public health problem, from the point of view of prevalence, frequent admittances, relapses and comorbidities.
According to the International Classification of Diseases,
10th Revision (ICD-10), alcohol abuse was associated with over 200 medical conditions (1). The presence of alcohol dependence affects the prognosis and treatment of associated diseases, and in the long run increases hospital morbidity and mortality (2). The economic impact is significant, literature studies indicating a 50% increase in costs related to treatment and decreased productivity over abstinent patients (3), with substantially higher indirect costs (4).
Approximately half of alcoholics also have a diagnosis of personality disorder, involving frequent heavy drinking patterns, but not necessarily a worse prognosis if the patients are compliant later on (5).
Depression constitutes a frequent comorbidity, or it can be only part of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome, the later one resolving spontaneously in a few weeks. In addition to the common genetic interface, there is also a neuroimmune hypothesis, both being caused by central nervous system (CNS) inflammation, which provides another potential explanation for this recurrent dual diagnosis (6). Although the literature reports a high prevalence of anxiety disorder among alcoholics (up to 35%), it is difficult to discern if these symptoms are part of alcohol intoxication or withdrawal or make up for a separate diagnosis. An AUD in a psychotic patient increases the risk of relapse and mortality (7). Alcohol induced neuronal destruction generates a spectrum of neuropsychiatric conditions i n c l u d i n g m i l d c o g n i t i v e i m p a i r m e n t ( M C I ) , Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) and dementia (8). Although moderate alcohol intake may decrease the risk of progression from MCI to dementia, heavy drinking has the opposite effect (9).
MATERIALAND METHODS
Using the AtlasMed database, officially employed by the Cluj County Emergency Hospital Psychiatry Department, admissions between January 1st and December 31st 2016 of patients, with a main or secondary diagnosis of alcohol dependence, according to ICD-10 diagnostic criteria were analyzed. Socio-demographic data (age, gender, geographic area), the psychiatric and medical diagnosis and the prescribed psychotropic medications were prescribed. The Analysis ToolPak in Microsoft Office Excel 2010 was used for statistical data analysis and the assessment of relative risk (RR). The study procedures respect confidentiality and are in accordance to the norms of research and were approved by the Local Ethical Committee.
Between January 1st and December 31st 2016, 623 patients were admitted 817 times with a main or secondary diagnosis of alcohol dependence, accounting for 23.02% of the total 3549 hospital admissions. During that one year period, the number of admissions varied between 1 (75.76%) and 9 (one case). Men were over-represented (87%), the mean age was 52.4 years, less for women (50.4 years). Both men and women came mainly from urban areas (64%).
2016 direct hospital costs for AUDs (intoxication, abuse, dependence, withdrawal) were 562794.3 Euro (12.1% of the total costs, placing this disorder on the 4th place on the yearly hospital costs hierarchy according to the main psychiatric diagnosis) (Table 1).
The most common psychiatric comorbidities were personality disorders (53.1%), MDD (15.75%) and neurocognitive disorders (MCI, 9.72%; dementias, 4.02% and WKS, 1.94%) (Table 2). The most frequent personality disorders were emotionally unstable personality disorder, impulsive type, both in men and women, and antisocial personality disorder.
77.52% of the patients were hospitalized for alcohol withdrawal syndrome, the rest of 22.48% were abstinent and were admitted for other disorders. Most often, the subjects experimented an uncomplicated alcohol withdrawal (71.01%), the rest underwent complicated alcohol withdrawal, with seizures (14.07%), with delirium (10.97%) or both (3.93%).
Table 3 shows the distribution of somatic comorbidities of AUD according to gender. 31.14% developed alcohol liver disease (ALD) (men slightly more frequent than women, 35.62% vs 32.14%). 29.37% had a history of cardiovascular disease (hypertension, coronary heart disease, arrhythmias or stroke) and 12.18% had dyslipidemia. The neurological comorbidities were represented by alcoholic polyneuropathy (10.46%), head injuries (5.15%) and epilepsy (3.72%). Type 2 Diabetes is present in 4.15% of patients in both male and female alike.
3.72% developed various stages of alcoholic pancreatitis. Although not a comorbidity per se, carbamazepine allergic reaction was a complication present in 0.86% of the subjects.
The prescribing trends in psychotropic medications are shown in Figure 1. All the patients received benzodiazepines. Among them, the most prescribed were diazepam (73.19%), nitrazepam (16.05%) and lorazepam (9.31%). For the entire study, the most prescribed drug was carmbamazepine (73.84%). Other prescribed anticonvulsants were valproate (17.98%), gabapentine (5.46%) and phenobarbital (3.37%).
The anticraving medications recommended for the treatment of alcoholism were seldom prescribed. Only 3.85% of the patients admitted in 2016 received opioid antagonists (nalmefene 1.93%, naltrexone 0.64%), aversion therapy with disulfiram (0.96%) or acamprosate (0.32%). It is worth mentioning the use of metronidazole as an antidipsotropic in 1.44% of the patients.
The most prescribed antidepressants for the treatment of the depressed alcoholic patients were tianeptine (41.03%), sertraline (18.8%) and mirtazapine (11.97%). Doxepin (5.13%), trazodone (4.27%), escitalopram (4.27%) and agomelatine (1.71%) were recommended less often.
Excluding tiapride, the third most prescribed drug in the present study (43.98%), typical antipsychotics were given in 11.4% of cases and the atypical ones in 16.37%.
DISCUTIONS
Despite the fact that in the Western countries the gender gap regarding alcohol use is progressively diminishing (10), the Transylvanian population does not follow the same trend. There is still a significant difference between men and women, probably due to the traditional social acceptability of alcohol intoxication in males.
The direct hospital costs of AUD in 2016 places alcoholism on 4th place (12.1%), close to 2nd (acute psychotic disorder, 14.43%) and 3rd place (MDD, 13.82%) but very far from 5th place (bipolar affective disorder, one of the most severe psychiatric disorders, that involves more expensive drugs than the ones usually used for alcoholic patients) (Table 1). For technical reasons, to avoid overlapping reported expenses, these results do not include the costs of admissions with only a secondary diagnosis of AUD. Thus, the real total hospital costs for alcoholics are higher, transforming this addiction into an important public health problem.
Women appeared to be more vulnerable to the complications of heavy drinking. They had a 2.5 times greater risk to develop an alcohol-related psychosis (p=0.044), a 1.62 times higher risk to have comorbid depression and were more predisposed to attempt suicide (3.57% of females vs 1.67% of males). In addition, women had a 3.52 times greater risk to experiment a complicated withdrawal (p=0.0001) and WKS and more female schizophrenic abused alcohol (5.95%) then males (1.11%). MCI and dementias were an exception, since they were almost two times more frequent in men. Anxiety disorders were unexpectedly rarely coded (0.67%), probably through overlapping symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. Patients with a personality disorder had a 1.61 times greater risk to be admitted more than 2 times in one year (p=0.001). Though the gender distribution of emotionally unstable personality disorder, impulsive type was similar, in our study, the borderline type was reported only in females.
As expected, approximately one third of the patients developed alcoholic liver disease, males (36.62%) slightly more than women (32.14%). A similar distribution was reported for cardiovascular diseases, with a mild masculine predominance (33.4% of male vs
29.76% of females). While dyslipidemia was recorded only in 12.18% of the subjects, the real prevalence is probably much higher. By virtue of our study design, dyslipidemia as well as important comorbidities, such as smoking and obesity, could not be assessed, since they are rarely coded as official diagnosis. Thus, a thorough evaluation of the patients' charts is needed. Alcoholic pancreatitis was less common (3.72%), women were twice as likely to develop significant elevations of serum lipase than men (7.14% of females vs 3.71% of males). Type 2 Diabetes was present in 4.15% of alcoholics, with an equal gender distribution and there were not any patients with type 1 diabetes. Apart from cognitive impairments, alcohol induced neurological complications were polyneuropathy (10.46% of individuals, with similar gender distribution) and head injuries, generally caused by falling during intoxications or during complicated withdrawal seizures (slightly more frequent in men, 4.82% than in women, 3.57%). 3.72% of alcohol dependent individuals had a diagnosis of epilepsy, twice as common in men. Of them, only 23% presented with a complicated withdrawal with seizures, since they were probably covered by their chronic anticonvulsant treatment. Actually a rare complication (only 7 cases or 0.87% of patients, exclusively male), carbamazepine allergic reaction is of major importance since it is potentially lethal. Additionally, since carbamazepine was the most prescribed drug in our study, vigilance is required to catch early signs of anaphylaxis.
Considering that most of the subjects in the present study were admitted for alcohol withdrawal, concurrently to international guidelines, the most prescribed drug classes were benzodiazepines and anticonvulsants. All the patients were treated most frequently with diazepam (73.19%), the main substitution medication for alcohol withdrawal, followed by nitrazepam (16.05%, with insomnia being one of the most distressing symptoms for psychiatric patients) and lorazepam (9.31%). The latter is the drug of choice for elderly and liver impaired patients (in our study, in subjects with alcohol liver disease, lorazepam prescription rose from 8.67% to 12.66%). In these particular situations, diazepam has a higher risk of excessive sedation and respiratory depression (11). Another widely used class was anticonvulsants. As stated earlier, carbamazepine was the most prescribed drug for alcoholic patients in 2016 in our clinic. It was recommended in the short term for preventing seizures (by increasing the convulsant threshold), although some systematic reviews declared it even more effective and with fewer side effects for treating alcohol withdrawal than benzodiazepines (12). In the long term, carbamazepine produces a decrease in drinks per drinking day and a delay in time to relapse (13). In addition to its antiepileptic and mood stabilizing effects on highly impulsive individuals, valproate has the benefits of diminishing heavy drinking days in bipolar patients with a dual diagnosis (14). Seldom prescribed, gabapentin seems to be as efficient as lorazepam in the treatment of mild withdrawal, in outpatients (15), and also, in the long run it prevents craving and relapse (16). Granting that barbiturates are not first-line therapy, in selected cases, phenobarbital proved beneficial for severe complicated withdrawal (in this study, 25.93% of patients with complicated withdrawal with seizures and 5.66% of the ones with delirium received phenobarbital, vs 2.92% of the cases with uncomplicated withdrawal) (17). In the present study, levetiracetam was a preexisting treatment of epileptic patients and was not prescribed for psychiatric purposes. Nevertheless, levetiracetam does not seem to be a suitable choice for alcoholic epileptic individuals, since it is the only anticonvulsant that does not prolong the duration of abstinence and does not decrease heavy drinking (18). In such a situation, considering that ethanol can increase the likelihood of seizures, a tight collaboration with a neurologist could improve the prognosis.
The anticraving medications were seldom prescribed, due to the prohibitive cost of opioid antagonists and acamprosate (which is no longer even available in Romania). The latter and naltrexone are only moderately effective, but significantly reduces the risk of relapse after abstinence is obtained, with minimal side effects (19, 20). Nalmefene, with the advantage of "as needed" administration, seems to be superior to naltrexone, according to some studies (21) (others suggest only a limited efficacy for certain patients (22). Although their effectiveness has yet to be established due to great variability of studies' design, their use could prove salutary in lack of other viable therapeutic alternatives.
Disulfiram, the only pharmacotherapeutical option for alcoholism for decades, has become a second-line drug because of its potentially dangerous aversive reaction. Nonetheless, its administration under supervision can be useful when other options have failed (adjunct to cognitive-behavioural, educational and psychosocial interventions) (23). There is also the practice of using metronidazole for its alleged aversive properties (1.44% of the patients), yet the evidence of its disulfiram-like reaction in combination with ethanol is scarce (24). Furthermore, a treatment longer than 2 weeks with metronidazole dramatically pauperizes the variability of microbiota, with unforeseeable effects on the functioning of the entire body (25).
Tianeptine was the most widely prescribed antidepressant in the present study, with the advantage that dose reduction is not necessary for liver impaired patients, with or without cirrhosis. Its effectiveness in depressed alcoholics, while delayed to 4 to 8 weeks, was established, however its influence on craving, maintaining abstinence and long term prognosis of alcohol dependence is not clear (26). Lately, tianeptine's μ opioid receptor agonist activity was proved (27), accountable, apart from the antidepressant and anxiolytic effects (28), for its addictive potential (especially for patients under 50 years, with a history of drug or alcohol abuse) (29). The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) is controversial, since they could trigger heavy drinking, especially for type B alcoholism (earlier onset, more alcohol intake) (30). Furthermore, a series of 93 cases describes even the onset of alcohol dependence after therapy with SSRIs for MDD (31). Still, a safer alternative could be naltrexone in combination with sertraline (but not escitalopram), with positive effects on this dual diagnosis (32). Although doxepin has an indication for depression during alcohol abstinence, in the present study it was rarely used. Because of multiple side effects, it remains a second-line medication. Also, mirtazapine was seldom prescribed, although it is effective in the long term both as an antidepressant, as well as for lowering alcohol consumption (even if other studies suggest that it does not influence alcohol intake, mirtazapine is considered safe for this group of patients) (33, 34). Since it is insufficiently studied in depressed alcoholics, trazodone was prescribed particularly for persistent insomnia after achieving abstinence, notably because it does not appear to influence relapse rates (35).
Antipsychotics were prescribed mostly for psychosis and aggressiveness. A meta-analysis of 13 randomized double blind placebo controlled studies (3 papers on tiapride) did not show any benefit regarding abstinence, craving control or the reduction of the consumed amount of alcohol for neither antipsychotic (36). Tiapride (the third most prescribed drug in our study, 48.98%) is worth special mention. It was prescribed for short term control of agitation and aggressiveness. In the long term, its benefit is controversial, a randomized double blind placebo controlled study noticed earlier and higher rates of relapse for patients that received tiapride (37).
Alcohol dependence represents a costly public health problem. On the Psychiatry ward in Cluj-Napoca, an alcoholic patient has the following profile, according to our study: an approximately 50 year old man, from an urban area, with at least one psychiatric or somatic comorbidity, admitted for alcohol withdrawal syndrome. More often, men tend to develop a somatic complication and women a psychiatric comorbidity. Cluster B personality disorders were the most frequent in alcoholics. T h e m o s t p r e s c r i b e d c l a s s e s o f d r u g s w e r e benzodiazepines and anticonvulsants, while anticraving medication was rarely recommended.
ALD – Alcoholic liver disease APD – Acute psychotic disorder ARP – Alcohol-related psychosis AUD – Alcohol use disorder BAD – Bipolar affective disorder CNS – Central nervous system
ICD-10 – International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision
MCI – Mild cognitive impairment
MDD – Major depressive disorder
SSRI – Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
SUD – Substance use disorder (other than alcohol)
WKS – Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome
TABELS AND FIGURES
Table 1. Annual hospital costs according to the main psychiatric diagnosis
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Henry's message from Southwold reaches Germany via Calais!
Henry Cox was surprised to get the reply from Germany Picture: JAMES COX - Credit: Archant
How far can you expect a jar to travel by sea from the end of Southwold Pier? To the heart of the German industrial area – via Calais.
Henry and Florence Cox were on holiday in Southwold in April Picture: JAMES COX - Credit: Archant
Six-year-old Henry Cox was on holiday with his family from Buckinghamshire and was looking for something to do on a wet April day during a holiday at the Suffolk resort – so he decided to send a message in a bottle to see if he ever got a reply.
Instead of a bottle, he used a pesto jar and thoughtfully included a £1 coin to cover the cost of postage for anyone who found the letter.
His father James warned him that he would probably never hear anything from it – but this week he did get a reply from the Maran family from the German city of Duisburg on the River Rhine.
The jar was found on a beach at Calais while they were on holiday in northern France and Henry, who is now seven, was thrilled at the response.
The letter Henry put into the jar Picture: JAMES COX - Credit: Archant
He said: "Before I got the letter I thought it would be washed down into the ocean but actually it was found by a family and I am really excited and happy about that."
Henry and his sister Florence, five, had a good time in Southwold but were looking for something to do on the one grey day of their break.
Dad James said: "It was Henry's idea. I warned him there probably wouldn't be a reply but a week or so ago we got this letter from the family in Germany. It was a real thrill for Henry and his sister.
"We've looked up Calais and Duisburg on the map and it's been good for him and Florence to learn how far messages can go."
The reply from the German family who found the jar at Calais Picture: JAMES COX - Credit: Archant
To reach the coast at Calais the jar had to negotiate its way through one of the busiest shipping routes in the world – and around wind turbines, a new obstacle for bottles or jars.
Putting messages in a bottle has been a feature of beach holidays for many years, and although Henry's crossed busy shipping lanes to end up on a beach in northern France, its journey was short in comparison with some floating notes.
A message put into the North Sea near Sunderland turned up on a beach near Perth in Australia 17 months later – and a message thrown into the English Channel at Bournemouth ended up on a South Australian beach.
And compared to some it didn't last long in the water – a message thrown from a ship in the Indian Ocean in 1886 was found on an Australian beach earlier this year!


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GITIC is organizing an informal meetup of Goan tech CEO's at it's Verna campus this Saturday. The aim of the event is to connect local tech companies and encourage partnerships and collaboration.
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My husband and I recently began saying the Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows. It began on The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sept. 8th) and culminates today, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. In typical "us" fashion, we started the Novena a day late. Anyway, we figured since there is no time with God, our eventual prayers count for something regardless of when we started.
Lately, I've been reminded to ask Our Blessed Mother to take a larger place in my daily life (that's a whole 'nother story). Through this Novena, in prayerfully pondering the seven sorrows throughout Mary's life as Theotokos, I have found a certain deeper kinship with she whom I had often thought almost too perfect to approach. I mean, she was born without sin, after all! We're not exactly in the same social circles! Or are we?
I have read or heard this passage several times, yet this time I heard something else, something personal – something interesting. I heard the Angel speaking directly to me, reminding me that I shouldn't be afraid to invite Mary into my prayer life, my home, my journey to Christ. It was, to me, a most beautiful epiphany. I felt compelled to be more intentional in my prayer life, specifically inviting Mary to watch over me as a Mother and Wife, and to cover me and my family in her loving mantle of grace and peace. Practically speaking, we'll have to stick pretty close by Mary if we're expecting her to cover us with her coat!
Seriously, though, I am etermally grateful for Mary's fiat – her "yes" to God. Just like all of us, she had some profoundly difficult challenges during her life. God never told her it would be easy, but He was with her, as He is with all of us. And, He sent us a Mom – His Mother – because, as every child knows, sometimes you just want your Mommy.
I'm glad to have a loving Mother like Mary to invite into my home, my life, and my heart. Don't be afraid to invite her into yours.


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