The focus of recovery should be on the person or the individual and not the process of treatment. There is a constant shift in the manners by which people suffering from psychological disorders are being treated.
During the past centuries, due partly to the drive to establish more reliable and effective treatment methods, most mental health professionals fail to focus on the process occurring in a patient, the changes he is undergoing throughout the treatment and the improvements that are associated with the treatment.
Instead, the common point for most practitioners is the process of treatment itself- whether or not one treatment is more effective than the other or whether or not a specific therapy could actually work for all patients.
It is a good thing that mental illnesses are viewed now from the sufferer's perspectives rather than the technicalities of the treatment or therapy. Individuals have various presentations of a mental disorder. Thus needing individualized forms of recovery treatments that are curtailed to the person's preferences, unique characteristics such as resiliency, strengths and weaknesses, cultural background and experiences.
It should be grounded on peer support – External support is invaluable in the process of recovery. Knowing that there are other people who, like the patient, also struggle to achieve the state of well being they want to achieve. It helps for them to know that there are people who cares for them, who wants to see them gain back their life and who shares the same sufferings as they do.
There should exist a mental health support group that would guide and enlighten the patients with the reality of the psychological disorder. This also provides the mutual support that is needed in gaining skills and knowledge on the disorder which is a contributory factor towards improvement.
It should be well-directed – A direction set by both the mental health providers and the patient should be prepared during the initial stage of recovery. The patient determines the pace of healing while the mental health professional facilitate the direction.
It should be non-linear – This perspective adheres to the belief that a recovery process is both an end and a process. It is not the usual step-by-step process that has varying levels. In mental health recovery, it is possible that a person who has already overcome the symptoms of a mental disorder could still be troubled by the relapse of the same symptoms. It is, in fact, a trial-and-error process with the promise of development and usual setbacks.
It should be holistic – The concept of holism should be fully integrated into the process of recovery. Recovery from a mental disorder does not only cover specific and separate issues like biological or psychosocial aspects of the disorder. Instead, it affects a person in an extensive manner. Thus recovery should also focus on the micro as well as macro issues surrounding the disorder.
Lastly, the process of recovery should be empowered by hope matched by the motivation and willingness to break free from the mental illness. This could only be achieved when all individual factors – the perspective of the individual and the direction he is taking, the support of external groups such as the family and peers and the right frame of mind.


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Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe illuminates the capaciousness of Margery Kempe studies in the twenty-first century. Through multiple, probing 'encounters', this innovative collection of essays generates and inspires interdisciplinary, overlapping, supportive, disruptive, and exploratory theor...
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Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe illuminates the capaciousness of Margery Kempe studies in the twenty-first century. Through multiple, probing 'encounters', this innovative collection of essays generates and inspires interdisciplinary, overlapping, supportive, disruptive, and exploratory theoretical and creative approaches to the Book, and is a valuable new critical companion. Structured around four categories of encounter – textual, internal, external, and performative – the volume suggests particular thematic threads yet reveals the way in which The Book of Margery Kempe resists strict categorisation. The fundamental unruliness of the Book is a touchstone for the analyses in the volume's essays, which define and destabilise concepts such 'autobiography' or 'feeling', and communities of texts and people, both medieval and modern. The essays, written by leading scholars in Margery Kempe studies, cover a broad range of approaches: theories of psychoanalysis, emotion, ecocriticism, autobiography, post-structuralism, and performance; and methodologies including the medical humanities, history of science, history of medieval women's literary culture, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the Global Middle Ages, archival discovery, and creative re-imagining. Deliberately diverse, these encounters with the Book capture the necessary expanse that it demands. Topics include the intertextuality of the Book, particularly in Europe; Kempe's position within a global context, both urban and rural; the historicity of her life and kin; the Book's contested form as a 'life' textualised and memorialised; and its performative, collaborative mode. Encounters are dynamic, but they always require negotiation and reciprocity. This volume examines how encountering Kempe and her Book is a multi-way process, and paves the way for future critical work.
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Our Fellows & Staff
Jay Bernstein Elected President of The Washington Institute
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy today elected Jay Bernstein of Old Westbury, NY, and Palm Beach, FL, to be president of its Board of Directors.
Mr. Bernstein succeeds Shelly Kassen of Westport, CT, who will become the chairman of the organization's Board of Trustees, a position currently held by James Schreiber of Greenwich, CT, who will become chairman emeritus.
"I am honored to have been elected to this position," said Mr. Bernstein. "I look forward to devoting my term as president to helping the Institute continue its vital mission of providing U.S. policymakers with cutting-edge advice on Middle East policy, which is an especially difficult task at this time of profound uncertainty here and around the world."
"We are delighted to congratulate Jay on his election," said Ms. Kassen and Mr. Schreiber. "With his proven commitment to the Institute and strong background in both business and foreign affairs, we are confident he will be an outstanding leader."
Mr. Bernstein has served since 1988 as chairman and CEO of NIC Holding Corp., a privately owned company that trades petroleum on futures exchanges and spot markets in the Atlantic basin. NIC owns and operates petroleum and pipeline distribution terminals on Long Island. It also built a 91-mile pipeline across Panama in 1981 in partnership with the government of Panama that has since shipped several billion barrels of crude oil.
Mr. Bernstein is a longstanding member of the Institute's Board of Directors. He and his wife Jill support the Institute's Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy. They were honored at the Institute's 2017 Scholar-Statesman Award event in New York City for their outstanding support for the Institute and other non-profit organizations in the United States and abroad. They have three daughters.
About The Washington Institute: The Washington Institute is an independent, nonpartisan research institution funded exclusively by U.S. citizens that seeks to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them. Drawing on the research of its fellows and the experience of its policy practitioners, the Institute promotes informed debate and scholarly research on U.S. policy in the region.


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'24:' There are no good guys here
May 10, 2010 | 11:11 pm
It's taken eight seasons, but Jack Bauer is finally looking for help from a power bigger than himself: The media.
With his back to the wall and nowhere else to turn in his efforts to blow the lid of the Russian's role in the assassination of Kamistan President Omar Hassan, Bauer reaches to Meredith Reed, the reporter who was set up as a patsy by the IRK terrorists, to expose the truth.
Of course, the fact that Reed was personally involved with Hassan should mean she's off the story, but apparently her New York paper did about as much fact checking on her as CTU did on Dana Walsh.
But, as usual, I've veered off course. Bauer sets up a meeting with Reed to show her the evidence he got off of Dana Walsh before pumping two slugs into her at close range. Meanwhile, former President Logan and Jason Pillar, his crony that he's installed at CTU, get in touch with the Russian hitter Pavel who took out Renee.
The plan is to kill Bauer while he meets with Reed. Seems a little crazy to try to kill Bauer in front of a reporter in a crowded midtown Manhattan store. Bauer knows that odds are his phone call to Reed was detected and comes prepared. He gets his old pal Ricker (Michael Madsen) to come out of his Alphabet City cave to neutralize Pavel while Bauer takes out another four Russian hit men. Then Ricker, Bauer, Reed and Pavel flee the store to a basement somewhere. Reed gets a look at the evidence while Bauer goes Mr. Blond on Pavel ("Reservoir Dog" fans will get that reference). Bauer wants to know who gave Pavel the order to take out Renee. Pavel's not talking, and when he does he finally says no one, Bauer doesn't believe him.
Actually, Pavel is telling the truth. One of the things that bothered me about this season is that Pavel acted without orders when he took out Renee and tried to shoot Bauer. He had not been given clearance by Mikhail and he seems like the type who would not disobey a direct order. The fact that he did led to the Russians ultimately being exposed. Why not just have Pavel be given an order to shoot Renee? His fate would not have changed nor would the role of the Russians. I should have asked that when Fox held a teleconference with "24" showrunner Howard Gordon. Instead I blew my question on whether anyone would find Stephen Root's body in that closet (not yet).
Back to our recap. While Bauer is torturing Pavel, Pillar races to the department store to clean up the bodies of the Russian hit men (and woman) that Bauer disposed of. He also advises Logan to distance himself from this whole mess, but it's too late as he has already persuaded President Taylor to publicly thank him in his role in keeping the Russians on board with the peace treaty with Kamistan.
Logan's going to wish he stayed in retirement. Bauer gets Pavel's phone working and hits redial and ends up getting Logan's voice mail. Looks like Jack's headed back to the United Nations to do a little cleaning up.
As much as I poke holes in "24," Monday night's episode was nonstop action and a blast. I'll be curious to see how Meredith Reed reports this one, but I'm glad that for once the mainstream media was seen as a vehicle for truth rather than a bunch of agenda pushers. That's what we have bloggers for.
-- Joe Flint
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Q: i have a vhdl code that take a 16 bit binary converts it to 5 bcd(4bit) how can i connect each bcd with a display? i have a code that take a 16 bit binary converts it to 5 bcd(4bit)
how can i connect each bcd with a display?
the bcd 0 has to connect to the display 0 (seven segment display) so that the binary number is going to convert to decimal and display it on 5 seven segment displays
library ieee;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;
use ieee.std_logic_unsigned.all;

entity binary_bcd is
    generic(N: positive := 16);
    port(
        clk, reset: in std_logic;
        binary_in: in std_logic_vector(N-1 downto 0);
        bcd0, bcd1, bcd2, bcd3, bcd4: out std_logic_vector(3 downto 0)
    );
end binary_bcd ;

architecture behaviour of binary_bcd is
    type states is (start, shift, done);
    signal state, state_next: states;

    signal binary, binary_next: std_logic_vector(N-1 downto 0);
    signal bcds, bcds_reg, bcds_next: std_logic_vector(19 downto 0);
    -- output register keep output constant during conversion
    signal bcds_out_reg, bcds_out_reg_next: std_logic_vector(19 downto 0);
    -- need to keep track of shifts
    signal shift_counter, shift_counter_next: natural range 0 to N;
begin

    process(clk, reset)
    begin
        if reset = '1' then
            binary <= (others => '0');
            bcds <= (others => '0');
            state <= start;
            bcds_out_reg <= (others => '0');
            shift_counter <= 0;
        elsif falling_edge(clk) then
            binary <= binary_next;
            bcds <= bcds_next;
            state <= state_next;
            bcds_out_reg <= bcds_out_reg_next;
            shift_counter <= shift_counter_next;
        end if;
    end process;

    convert:
    process(state, binary, binary_in, bcds, bcds_reg, shift_counter)
    begin
        state_next <= state;
        bcds_next <= bcds;
        binary_next <= binary;
        shift_counter_next <= shift_counter;

        case state is
            when start =>
                state_next <= shift;
                binary_next <= binary_in;
                bcds_next <= (others => '0');
                shift_counter_next <= 0;
            when shift =>
                if shift_counter = N then
                    state_next <= done;
                else
                    binary_next <= binary(N-2 downto 0) & 'L';
                    bcds_next <= bcds_reg(18 downto 0) & binary(N-1);
                    shift_counter_next <= shift_counter + 1;
                end if;
            when done =>
                state_next <= start;
        end case;
    end process;

    bcds_reg(19 downto 16) <= bcds(19 downto 16) + 3 when bcds(19 downto 16) > 4 else
                              bcds(19 downto 16);
    bcds_reg(15 downto 12) <= bcds(15 downto 12) + 3 when bcds(15 downto 12) > 4 else
                              bcds(15 downto 12);
    bcds_reg(11 downto 8) <= bcds(11 downto 8) + 3 when bcds(11 downto 8) > 4 else
                             bcds(11 downto 8);
    bcds_reg(7 downto 4) <= bcds(7 downto 4) + 3 when bcds(7 downto 4) > 4 else
                            bcds(7 downto 4);
    bcds_reg(3 downto 0) <= bcds(3 downto 0) + 3 when bcds(3 downto 0) > 4 else
                            bcds(3 downto 0);

    bcds_out_reg_next <= bcds when state = done else
                         bcds_out_reg;

    bcd4 <= bcds_out_reg(19 downto 16);
    bcd3 <= bcds_out_reg(15 downto 12);
    bcd2 <= bcds_out_reg(11 downto 8);
    bcd1 <= bcds_out_reg(7 downto 4);
    bcd0 <= bcds_out_reg(3 downto 0);

end behaviour;

test bench
LIBRARY ieee;
USE ieee.std_logic_1164.ALL;

ENTITY tb_bcd IS
END tb_bcd;

ARCHITECTURE behavior OF tb_bcd IS

    -- Component Declaration for the Unit Under Test (UUT)

    COMPONENT binary_bcd
    PORT(
         clk : IN  std_logic;
         reset : IN  std_logic;
         binary_in : IN  std_logic_vector(15 downto 0);
         bcd0 : OUT  std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
         bcd1 : OUT  std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
         bcd2 : OUT  std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
         bcd3 : OUT  std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
         bcd4 : OUT  std_logic_vector(3 downto 0)
        );
    END COMPONENT;

   --Inputs
   signal clk : std_logic := '0';
   signal reset : std_logic := '0';
   signal binary_in : std_logic_vector(15 downto 0) := (others => '0');

    --Outputs
   signal bcd0 : std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
   signal bcd1 : std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
   signal bcd2 : std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
   signal bcd3 : std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
   signal bcd4 : std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);

   -- Clock period definitions
   constant clk_period : time := 10 ns;

BEGIN

    -- Instantiate the Unit Under Test (UUT)
   uut: binary_bcd PORT MAP (
          clk => clk,
          reset => reset,
          binary_in => binary_in,
          bcd0 => bcd0,
          bcd1 => bcd1,
          bcd2 => bcd2,
          bcd3 => bcd3,
          bcd4 => bcd4
        );

   -- Clock process definitions
   clk_process :process
   begin
        clk <= '0';
        wait for clk_period/2;
        clk <= '1';
        wait for clk_period/2;
   end process;

   -- Stimulus process
   stim_proc: process
   begin
      -- hold reset state for 100 ns.
        reset <= '1';
      wait for 100 ns;
        reset <= '0';

        binary_in <= "0000000000001111";
      wait for 200 ns;

        binary_in <= "0000000001001111";
      wait for 200 ns;

        binary_in <= "0000000001111111";
      wait for 200 ns;

        binary_in <= "0000111101001111";
      wait for 2000 ns;

    end process;

END;

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Special Notice #57: Update on V5558 SGR (N Sgr 07) and N VUL 07 [V458 Vul]
V5558 SGR (N SGR 07)
The slow nova V5558 Sgr (see Special Notice #53 for most recent assessment) remains bright at V=7.4, and continues to exhibit weeks-long brightening episodes. The most recent event began on JD 2454320 (2007 August 7), reached m(vis) = 7.0, declined, and now appears to be brightening again. This behavior is similar to what was seen in other slow novae, including HR Del (N Del 67) and V723 Cas (N Cas 95). Both visual magnitude estimates and filtered photometry are strongly encouraged for the duration of this nova event. Given past behavior of other slow novae, V5558 Sgr may remain brighter than 10th magnitude well into 2008.
Coordinates are: RA 18:10:18.27, Dec: -18:46:52.1 (J2000)
Please report observations to the AAVSO as 1804-18 V5558 SGR.
N VUL 07 [V458 Vul]
After its discovery at CCD magnitude 9.30 (RZD) on August 8.9604 UT (see Special Notices #55 and #56), N Vul 07 brightened to magnitude 8.126V on Aug 9.4285 (CTX), then declined to 9.41V on Aug 10.3014 (NMR), brightened slightly to 9.2-9.3 and stayed there until Aug 12.08, then dipped to 9.5 on Aug 12.1170 (WI) and 9.6 on Aug 12.4549 (MTH), brightened to 9.1 on Aug 12.8264 (MPR), then to 8.2 on Aug 13.8389 (SFI), and most recently has declined again to 9.9 on Aug 14.8125 (SFI).
Coordinates are: RA 19:54:24.64 Dec +20:52:51.9 (J2000.0)
N Vul 07 has not yet been assigned an official name. Please continue to report your observations of this classical Fe II nova to the AAVSO as 1950+20 N VUL 07.
Observations and light curves of both novae may be found at http://www.aavso.org/data/ql/ and http://www.aavso.org/data/lcg/ , respectively.
Thank you for all of the excellent observations. Continued good observing!
This special notice was compiled by: Matthew Templeton and Elizabeth O. Waagen ---------------------------------------------------
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Information on submitting observations to the AAVSO may be found at: http://www.aavso.org/observing/submit/
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Subscribing and Unsubscribing may be done at the following URL: http://www.aavso.org/publications/email/
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