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Many of you will know that Sunday Adelaja, "the pastor of the largest Church in Europe" based in Kiev, Ukraine has been exposed as a serial adulterer and has confessed to sexual relations with "at least 70 women" (he cannot remember them all) of his congregation.
This may not be a big deal in the western world but in the post soviet world with a resurgent, strident and increasingly nationalistic Orthodox church this is a big deal. They label all free churches as cults and "western plots". To have one of the most well known christian leaders in the area exposed in such a manner makes it vastly more difficult for other free churches.
To the secularists of the former soviet world that Sunday has been exposed as first a financial scam artist and now a serial adulterer only confirms to them that the religious leaders are the same as their corrupt politicians.
Remember John's thing about the stuff in the world? You know "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life" not being "of the Father"? That one?
So in the charismatic world we have this "culture of honour" stuff where "the man of God" teaches the people of God to honour the man of God. Right! (I really do wish I was making this stuff up!) So the leader ends up with all of his/her pride of life issues filled to the max. They have titles, preference, place and end up being the head of a personality cult. We have made "pride of life" into a spiritual accomplishment!
Likewise we have the prosperity gospel where material blessing is a sign of God's favour. The "man of God" is honoured with every material, financial blessing so that they live like a rock star and teach that you can have the same if you have enough faith (or can manipulate enough people to give to you!). We have made possessing whatever our eyes see as the proof of the blessing of God.
Why is that we celebrate pride of life as honour and baptize rank materialism as blessing but sexual "variety" as scandalous?
Actually some do NOT view a variety of sexual relationships as scandalous. They say that David was the man after God's own heart and he had multiple wives. They say that Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived and he had hundreds. They say we live under a better covenant so we should have at least as much as they did!
But those who believe such nonsense tend to hide it for fear of losing followers and finances but my question stands- Why do so many accept pride of life and its attendant personality cults rebranded as a "culture of honour", the lust of the eyes rebranded as the blessing of God and cannot see that they are on the same list as the "lusts of the flesh"?
The logic of pride works like this, If I can have everything I want in title, position and honour and if I can have everything I want in finances and things why can I not have everything I want sexually? Indeed why not?
Why not? Because cultures of honour and the prosperity gospel have nothing to do with the Kingdom of God just as using your position and power to seduce members of your congregation has nothing to do with the Kingdom of God.
How many times must we see these things to get the lesson?
Jesus walked among us as with a band of brothers. He called us friends. When the crowd tried to make Him a king, he ran from them. When will we learn to do the same?
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Since 1995, ESP has been a proud partner of the DelDOT inspection program. We provide the equipment and maintenance of systems that analyze vehicle exhaust and fuel systems. ESP also provides analyzer software that is used to capture the safety inspection results.
The following tests are conducted on eligible vehicles in the Delaware program:
- 1997 and newer vehicles receive an OBD-II test.
- 1981 and newer receive a two-speed exhaust emissions test.
- 1980 model year and older receive curb idle tests
- 1996 model and older receive a test of the fuel system for leaks
- VIN verification is done on the newest five model year vehicles that are being titled for the first time in Delaware
For Specific program information, please go to http://www.dmv.de.gov/services/vehicle_services/other/ve_other_general.shtml.
ESP's support and service offerings are superior to any other provider in the market. We understand that time is money; the quicker we can make repairs for you, the more profitable you will be. Our factory-direct service technicians offer the fastest repair time in the industry.


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A warm welcome from me at HJE Energy Healing School to all of you... my fellow teachers and students, this is the place you want to be to learn the powerful art of healing with energy.
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It is time to enjoy this increased acceptance of all things sacred and "ancient", to understand and accept what the scientists and the "ancients" before them have been telling us for millennia...
~ You and me, like all life in the universe are "energy in motion" ~
It is therefore it is imperative for you to learn to understand energy & you will begin to understand the very essence of life itself that your thoughts, feelings, and actions are all energy events.
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...you must know yourself energetically and re-align yourself with the dynamic dance of the universe.
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As you've probably gathered by now I am passionate about learning, teaching and healing with energy.
Loving energy healing and having done so since I first discovered it more than 20 years ago.
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An absolute revelation, suddenly my life had new meaning as it came to me that I could be in control, I could learn to control my health and my well-being. You can read all about my healing journey here.
Througout the years I have studied many different healing modalities, Reiki, Crystals, Meditation, Color & Angel Healing to mention a few. I now practice as a Healer, and a full time Teacher of the healing arts.
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I have spent many hours finding ways to help you learn how to use energy healing to heal yourself and others so that you can spread your wings and fly!
I truly believe that learning how to heal with energy be it color, Reiki, crystal or angel energy easily and affordably is your right and I would like nothing more than to give you that opportunity.
When you complete any one of the programs at HJE School of Healing with Energy you will:
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Just a reminder for you... this site is not about religion and is by no means medical.... it is about healing, universal energy and spirituality and learning to create a better future for yourself using various energy and spiritual healing methods enabling you to lead a happier, healthier and more prosperous life.
Energy Healing is not meant to replace conventional medicine, but rather to complement and enhance it and should only be used with the understanding that it is not an independent therapy, but rather one that is a part of a holistic healing approach.
Spirituality and energy healing are not something only for the chosen few - you found this site seeking answers, enjoy my site... it is for you!
You and I are learning to live in unity, to love each other fully and to nurture the magnificent planet we are living on - Mother Earth, Gaia.
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This web site is a collation of my knowledge spread over more than 400 pages but I know that there is a lot more information and success stories out there and I would just love to hear about them.
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"Do as We Say, Not as We Do" = No Model for Sustainability
Environmentally-conscious citizens of India aren't alone in their concern about the rollout of the Tata Nano, the "world's cheapest car." But in an op-ed piece for Forbes, Projjal Dutta, the director of sustainability initiatives for the MTA, writes that American critics should look to their own example if they expect developing nations to follow a more sustainable path.
As with many other issues, the world will expect America's "talk" — say, urging China and India not to become auto-centric — to be accompanied by "walk," at home. That, unfortunately, despite early glimmers of hope, is not happening. The stimulus bill has allocated about 8 billion dollars to transit, compared with 30 billion to highways. This is roughly in keeping with the traditional 80/20 split of federal transportation funds that have been enshrined since the Eisenhower days. If we are to get serious about halting climate-change, this split will also have to change.
Dutta cites Japanese and European models — "Make cars, buy cars, just don't drive them all the time." — as potential templates for India and other developing economies, so long as they, too, make adequate investments in public transportation.
The same could be said of the U.S., where the average citizen consumes 25 times as much energy as the average Indian. Dutta suggests America will need to commit to a long-term, "multi-generational" approach to transit development if it wants the kind of results already evident in its most urbanized cities.
The average Texan consumes approximately 500 million BTU per year,
about six to seven times that consumed by a resident of New York City
or San Francisco. The difference largely results from level of dependence on
the automobile. Metropolitan regions where many people travel by public
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Notepad++ 5.7 release (outside the USA)
Under the pretext of cryptographic exportation control, US government made the major FOSS hosts (SourceForge, Google code, Fedora, etc…) in USA territory comply with the Export Administration Regulations. As a result they reject the access of FOSS resources from the 5 countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) in the "black list" of US government.
It's not the first time that a government try to control Internet access to protect its interest. One of most famous examples is the Grand Firewall of China. Obviously the US government is walking into the footsteps of the Chinese government. In our case it's about the violation of FOSS community's right, we cannot just let it happen without doing something. It should never be any government to decide who has the access right to FOSS resource and who has not.
A walk around from SourceForge
After complying with this law, SourceForge provided an option "Export Control: non-encryption algorithms included". A mail to make this option explicit was sent to all project managers on SF recently. It's the only FOSS host who offers such walk around as far as I know. We appreciate all their efforts and we will keep our binary releases on SourceForge.
So here it is the version 5.7, which (and the future versions) is (will be) released on both sourceforge.net and tuxfamily.org (France) - that ensures the access of Notepad++ resources is out of US government control and guarantees the freedom of access of Notepad++ resource for everyone.
Update (the 27th September 2012):
Both binaries and source code of Notepad++ have not been available on SourceForge since the 4th June 2011. Due to the difficulty of maitenance, they are not distributed on SourceForge anymore.


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Just for fun, why don't you visit the blog linked up before yours and comment. That way everyone is shown some love and it may even introduce you to some new blogs. You can always check out any other ideas too!!
Thanks for linking up! I can't wait to see what inspiration is out there!
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In 1953, the idea of a single female police recruit to the New York City Police Department, let alone a handful, was big news. And when the New York Times wrote up the-then shocking idea of these women engaged in public outdoor physical activity as part of the examinations they needed to pass, naturally they included photos of the department's newest members — including one young mother and engineer's wife, born and raised on Ryer Avenue in the Bronx. A decade later, Dorothy Uhnak immortalized her beat-walking experiences — which included knocking down a robber more than twice her size — in her memoir Police Woman.
By the end of the 1960s, Uhnak had added to pioneering police work literary acclaim with a trio of award- winning novels following the career of Christie Opara, a detective protagonist as cool and methodical on the trail of multiple murderers (The Bait) political protesters (The Witness) and mobbed-up types (The Ledger) as she was raising a child on her own and considering a romance with her brash and sharp-tongued boss. Consciously or otherwise, Uhnak was planting the seeds for female detectives more private-minded — like Millhone, McCone and Warshawski — and subsequent generations of hard-boiled literary women. But until the Times reported Uhnak's death of a self-administered drug overdose in 2006, her contributions went unnoticed by a great many readers — including me. I soon realized this void was shameful on several levels.
Uhnak dispensed with Christie Opara so quickly (a much-altered version of the character surfaced briefly on television in Get Christie Love) because her matter-of-fact prose and complex characters needed more room to breathe. Spurred by her editor's desire to emulate such 1970s publishing phenomena as Mario Puzo's The Godfather and Joseph Wambaugh's The New Centurions, Uhnak made the leap from tight-focus cop chronicles to blockbuster sagas, including 1977's The Investigation and Victims (1985), a loose account of the Kitty Genovese murder. Sadly, the only one of these novels that remains in print is the first, the meaty, multi-generational doorstopper Law and Order (1973), which charts the entwined fates of the O'Malley family and their perpetual employer, the NYPD.
Those twin worlds, depicted between 1937 and 1970, are insular ones. The O'Malleys, with their repeating names and vigorous breeding habits, are too busy taking care of their own — personally and professionally –to bother with what happens outside their Ryer Avenue environs or the codes, written or otherwise, of the department. A brutal opening scene sketches the boundaries of the mindset. When the elder Brian O'Malley, a hard-drinking, rough-living Irish cop, meets his grisly death at the hands of a black prostitute he frequents, "I don't want any part of it," thinks his brand-new partner, Aaron Levine. "God he wished they were on their way back to the precinct house. It was nearly time for the tour to end. He never thought that filthy precinct would feel like home, but it was where he wanted to be right now."
Levine's wilful blindness, which continues as he slides all the way up to a cushy academic position (the reward for his "not wanting any part of it") is the key metaphor for how people operate in Law & Order. O'Malley's death is covered up, blamed on a robbery gone wrong. His eponymous son Brian steps in his father's place, a brilliant recruit on the fast track to becoming Detective Chief Inspector — but not before he also tunes out the disturbing signals that don't fit the overall narrative of cop culture. As for the O'Malleys as a family, they too doom themselves to repeating the same mistakes, generation after generation. Margaret, wife of the original Brian, grows from a young woman fearful of the clan she's married into a hardened shell prone to snapping at her children. Eldest daughter Roseanne pays the price of her insolent adolescence when the wild young man she fancies turns out to be a rotten husband (her niece Maureen, the daughter of Brian Jr., will make virtually the same mistakes decades later.) Brian is himself prone to self-castigation about "sins of the flesh", going so far as to try purging himself at the confessional, but — even after marrying a girl whose supposed job it is to rid himself of base desires — he indulges in multiple affairs.
The sense of fait accompli comes out even in how Uhnak depicts Brian Jr.'s original police examination: "Thirty-three thousand young men took the examination for Patrolman, New York City Police Department. Fewer than twelve hundred survived the written, physical, medical and background check-out. The class at the Police Academy was comprised of the top 10 per cent of the resulting list of eligibles. Eighty-five per cent of them held college degrees. By the time they received their appointments, they all knew they were something special."
No wonder then such recruits, like Brian, are invited to do as they please; to free, for example, a statutory rapist of a neighborhood girl considered to be a slut — while another man, guilty of raping Brian's young sister, merits a life-threatening assault. No wonder certain recruits are allowed to take a doctored exam while others cavalierly murder in the name of shutting up a would-be snitch determined to expose department-wide corruption. It's only when the stage is set for Brian's son Patrick, fresh off a tour in Vietnam that's exposed him as much to war as it has to racial divides, to take his place in the cop pantheon, that the presumptions undergirding the system are threatened.
Which is why, when the bad apples have been shaken loose and events mimicking the 1972 Knapp Commission partially reveal the fault line of corruption – as well as the truth about what happened to Brian, Sr. — we're left with Patrick, having a drink with his old man, his mouth open and holding his hands up. "Christ, isn't there a moral way to commit a moral act?" asks the younger O'Malley, sick with disillusionment over how the Department handles corruption from within. His father has none of it. "In all of my life I've found morality counts shit when it comes to getting a job done. What counts is doing it any goddamn way you can, but get the job done."
When their minds meet, resolved in a middle ground, Law & Order completes its newest generational cycle, where innocence crumbles in the face of hard-earned cynicism and means justified by the ends. The NYPD is as much family as the O'Malleys, and in Uhnak's hard-bitten world, both of them — no matter the cost — take care of their own.


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This question might not be a directly related to programming but more the culture around it, specifically Stack Overflow.
I recently stumbled onto Stack Overflow Careers, and read how you could create an online CV that links to your Stack Overflow reputation, thus allowing future employers to review your answers and questions. Since Stack Overflow has become such a phenomenal success for developers, I realised that Stack Overflow Careers was going to be crucial when applying for software development jobs in the future. This would imply that a high reputation is needed to reflect well on your CV.
Now, I love Stack Overflow and think it's a great resource for finding solutions to problems regarding software development. However, I cannot possibly sit on the site 24/7 and hope to be one of the first replies to a question to try and increase my reputation. Developers need to work, you know.
So my question is: How do you increase your reputation score on Stack Overflow in a realistic manner? There are users out there boasting reputations of 25,000 and higher. How do you do this? Suggestions, comments, tricks, etc. would be helpful.


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My Sisters Will Not Be Silenced
Over the past year, there has been a public outcry and protests on college campuses across the nation due to the handling of sexual assault and sexual harassment cases filed by students with their respective institutions.
The most recent survey by the Association of American Universities found that more than 11 percent of college students have experienced nonconsensual sexual contact in their college careers. The same report found that less than half the women surveyed did not even report their sexual assault. The picture is clear, women are survivors of nonconsensual sexual contact at alarming rates on college campuses (and everywhere else), yet do not report or the incidents and do not receive the help and support they deserve.
Recent examples of confronting this system of sexual injustice include the protests on the campus of Howard University in March. I, myself, am a Howard alumnus and was proud of my fellow Bison as current students stood in solidarity with a survivor of sexual assault. This was a result of what was perceived as an unsatisfactory response by university administration in dealing with the real issues.
Yes, it is true that the university must follow due process because of the possibility of false accusations, which also happens. But with the number of cases that are, in fact, valid, it is good to see students speaking out against these issues and standing in solidarity against the institutional and cultural dynamics that have not yet dismantled our rape culture in the United States, especially on college campuses.
Like many of my peers, I also have personal stake in fighting against rape culture. I, personally, know too many women who have been victims of sexual harassment, assault, and rape.
One particular case is etched in my mind as I remember the fury I felt when I learned that one of my close friends at Howard had been raped. "How could a man do something like that?" I asked myself. My friend felt guilty that it happened. There was a sense of guilt for putting herself in that position, defiled and sinful for something that was never her fault.
It is never a survivor's fault that they are assaulted. She didn't report it because she didn't think it was "worth it" and didn't want to "be responsible for another black man in prison."
There are several scriptures that address sexual violence in the Bible, but the rape of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13 captures these emotions and their aftermath best in my view. The lust, misogyny, anger, denial, guilt, depression, lack of fulfillment, and self-hatred and shame of the rapist, the stigma, the sorrow of the survivor, Tamar, are all found in scripture.
The anger of the aftermath and how it impacts people so far beyond the parties directly involved are also found there in those verses. It is illuminating that the aggressor, the victim, and their families experience psychological, social, and spiritual pain from the event, even in scripture.
Jesus stood on the side of those who were survivors of oppression, violence, and sexual devaluation. So, it is also safe to say that He would stand against rape as well.
As men, we must stand with our sisters against patriarchal, oppressive structures and influences. We must stand with them in the midst of the pain. We must, as Christians, stand and speak against sexual violence in all of its forms, against men and women.
We must stand for God's Kingdom Culture influenced by love and justice against the rape culture that covers our country. We saw a step toward that on Howard's campus in March and on other campuses nationwide last year. We have to keep walking toward justice and true love. We must break the silence about sexual violence.
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This chapter and the next describe the visual formatting model: how user agents process the document tree for visual media.
In the visual formatting model, each element in the document tree generates zero or more boxes according to the box model. The layout of these boxes is governed by:
The properties defined in this chapter and the next apply to both continuous media and paged media. However, the meanings of the margin properties vary when applied to paged media (see the page model for details).
The visual formatting model does not specify all aspects of formatting (e.g., it does not specify a letter-spacing algorithm). Conforming user agents may behave differently for those formatting issues not covered by this specification.
User agents for continuous media generally offer users a viewport (a window or other viewing area on the screen) through which users consult a document. User agents may change the document's layout when the viewport is resized (see the initial containing block).
When the viewport is smaller than the area of the canvas on which the document is rendered, the user agent should offer a scrolling mechanism. There is at most one viewport per canvas, but user agents may render to more than one canvas (i.e., provide different views of the same document).
In CSS 2.1, many box positions and sizes are calculated with respect to the edges of a rectangular box called a containing block. In general, generated boxes act as containing blocks for descendant boxes; we say that a box "establishes" the containing block for its descendants. The phrase "a box's containing block" means "the containing block in which the box lives," not the one it generates.
Each box is given a position with respect to its containing block, but it is not confined by this containing block; it may overflow.
The details of how a containing block's dimensions are calculated are described in the next chapter.
The following sections describe the types of boxes that may be generated in CSS 2.1. A box's type affects, in part, its behavior in the visual formatting model. The 'display' property, described below, specifies a box's type.
Block-level elements are those elements of the source document that are formatted visually as blocks (e.g., paragraphs). The following values of the 'display' property make an element block-level: 'block', 'list-item', and 'table'.
Block-level boxes are boxes that participate in a block formatting context. Each block-level element generates a principal block-level box that contains descendant boxes and generated content and is also the box involved in any positioning scheme. Some block-level elements may generate additional boxes in addition to the principal box: 'list-item' elements. These additional boxes are placed with respect to the principal box.
Except for table boxes, which are described in a later chapter, and replaced elements, a block-level box is also a block container box. A block container box either contains only block-level boxes or establishes an inline formatting context and thus contains only inline-level boxes. Not all block container boxes are block-level boxes: non-replaced inline blocks and non-replaced table cells are block containers but not block-level boxes. Block-level boxes that are also block containers are called block boxes.
The three terms "block-level box," "block container box," and "block box" are sometimes abbreviated as "block" where unambiguous.
In a document like this:
Some text

More text
(and assuming the DIV and the P both have 'display: block'), the DIV appears to have both inline content and block content. To make it easier to define the formatting, we assume that there is an anonymous block box around "Some text".
In other words: if a block container box (such as that generated for the DIV above) has a block-level box inside it (such as the P above), then we force it to have only block-level boxes inside it.
When an inline box contains an in-flow block-level box, the inline box (and its inline ancestors within the same line box) are broken around the block-level box (and any block-level siblings that are consecutive or separated only by collapsible whitespace and/or out-of-flow elements), splitting the inline box into two boxes (even if either side is empty), one on each side of the block-level box(es). The line boxes before the break and after the break are enclosed in anonymous block boxes, and the block-level box becomes a sibling of those anonymous boxes. When such an inline box is affected by relative positioning, any resulting translation also affects the block-level box contained in the inline box.
This model would apply in the following example if the following rules:
p { display: inline }
span { display: block }
were used with this HTML document:
<TITLE>Anonymous text interrupted by a block</TITLE>
This is anonymous text before the SPAN.
This is the content of SPAN.
This is anonymous text after the SPAN.
The P element contains a chunk (C1) of anonymous text followed by a block-level element followed by another chunk (C2) of anonymous text. The resulting boxes would be a block box representing the BODY, containing an anonymous block box around C1, the SPAN block box, and another anonymous block box around C2.
The properties of anonymous boxes are inherited from the enclosing non-anonymous box (e.g., in the example just below the subsection heading "Anonymous block boxes", the one for DIV). Non-inherited properties have their initial value. For example, the font of the anonymous box is inherited from the DIV, but the margins will be 0.
Properties set on elements that cause anonymous block boxes to be generated still apply to the boxes and content of that element. For example, if a border had been set on the P element in the above example, the border would be drawn around C1 (open at the end of the line) and C2 (open at the start of the line).
Some user agents have implemented borders on inlines containing blocks in other ways, e.g., by wrapping such nested blocks inside "anonymous line boxes" and thus drawing inline borders around such boxes. As CSS1 and CSS2 did not define this behavior, CSS1-only and CSS2-only user agents may implement this alternative model and still claim conformance to this part of CSS 2.1. This does not apply to UAs developed after this specification was released.
Anonymous block boxes are ignored when resolving percentage values that would refer to it: the closest non-anonymous ancestor box is used instead. For example, if the child of the anonymous block box inside the DIV above needs to know the height of its containing block to resolve a percentage height, then it will use the height of the containing block formed by the DIV, not of the anonymous block box.
Inline-level elements are those elements of the source document that do not form new blocks of content; the content is distributed in lines (e.g., emphasized pieces of text within a paragraph, inline images, etc.). The following values of the 'display' property make an element inline-level: 'inline', 'inline-table', and 'inline-block'. Inline-level elements generate inline-level boxes, which are boxes that participate in an inline formatting context.
An inline box is one that is both inline-level and whose contents participate in its containing inline formatting context. A non-replaced element with a 'display' value of 'inline' generates an inline box. Inline-level boxes that are not inline boxes (such as replaced inline-level elements, inline-block elements, and inline-table elements) are called atomic inline-level boxes because they participate in their inline formatting context as a single opaque box.
Any text that is directly contained inside a block container element (not inside an inline element) must be treated as an anonymous inline element.
In a document with HTML markup like this:

Some emphasized text

the

generates a block box, with several inline boxes inside
it. The box for "emphasized" is an inline box generated by an inline
element (
), but the other boxes ("Some" and "text") are inline boxes generated by a block-level element (

). The latter are called anonymous inline
boxes, because they do not have an associated inline-level element.
Such anonymous inline boxes inherit inheritable properties from their block parent box. Non-inherited properties have their initial value. In the example, the color of the anonymous inline boxes is inherited from the P, but the background is transparent.
White space content that would subsequently be collapsed away according to the 'white-space' property does not generate any anonymous inline boxes.
If it is clear from the context which type of anonymous box is meant, both anonymous inline boxes and anonymous block boxes are simply called anonymous boxes in this specification.
There are more types of anonymous boxes that arise when formatting tables.
[This section exists so that the section numbers are the same as in previous drafts. 'Display: run-in' is now defined in CSS level 3 (see CSS basic box model).]
Value: | inline | block | list-item | inline-block | table | inline-table | table-row-group | table-header-group | table-footer-group | table-row | table-column-group | table-column | table-cell | table-caption | none | inherit |
Initial: | inline |
Applies to: | all elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | all |
Computed value: | see text |
The values of this property have the following meanings:
Please note that a display of 'none' does not create an invisible box; it creates no box at all. CSS includes mechanisms that enable an element to generate boxes in the formatting structure that affect formatting but are not visible themselves. Please consult the section on visibility for details.
The computed value is the same as the specified value, except for positioned and floating elements (see Relationships between 'display', 'position', and 'float') and for the root element. For the root element, the computed value is changed as described in the section on the relationships between 'display', 'position', and 'float'.
Note that although the initial value of 'display' is 'inline', rules in the user agent's default style sheet may override this value. See the sample style sheet for HTML 4 in the appendix.
Here are some examples of the 'display' property:
p { display: block }
em { display: inline }
li { display: list-item }
img { display: none } /* Do not display images */
In CSS 2.1, a box may be laid out according to three positioning schemes:
An element is called out of flow if it is floated, absolutely positioned, or is the root element. An element is called in-flow if it is not out-of-flow. The flow of an element A is the set consisting of A and all in-flow elements whose nearest out-of-flow ancestor is A.
The 'position' and 'float' properties determine which of the CSS 2.1 positioning algorithms is used to calculate the position of a box.
Value: | static | relative | absolute | fixed | inherit |
Initial: | static |
Applies to: | all elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | as specified |
The values of this property have the following meanings:
@media screen {
h1#first { position: fixed }
@media print {
h1#first { position: static }
UAs must not paginate the content of fixed boxes. Note that UAs may print invisible content in other ways. See "Content outside the page box" in chapter 13.
User agents may treat position as 'static' on the root element.
An element is said to be positioned if its 'position' property has a value other than 'static'. Positioned elements generate positioned boxes, laid out according to four properties:
Value: | <length> | <percentage> | auto | inherit |
Initial: | auto |
Applies to: | positioned elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | refer to height of containing block |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | if specified as a length, the corresponding absolute length; if specified as a percentage, the specified value; otherwise, 'auto'. |
This property specifies how far an absolutely positioned box's top margin edge is offset below the top edge of the box's containing block. For relatively positioned boxes, the offset is with respect to the top edges of the box itself (i.e., the box is given a position in the normal flow, then offset from that position according to these properties).
Value: | <length> | <percentage> | auto | inherit |
Initial: | auto |
Applies to: | positioned elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | refer to width of containing block |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | if specified as a length, the corresponding absolute length; if specified as a percentage, the specified value; otherwise, 'auto'. |
Like 'top', but specifies how far a box's right margin edge is offset to the left of the right edge of the box's containing block. For relatively positioned boxes, the offset is with respect to the right edge of the box itself.
Value: | <length> | <percentage> | auto | inherit |
Initial: | auto |
Applies to: | positioned elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | refer to height of containing block |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | if specified as a length, the corresponding absolute length; if specified as a percentage, the specified value; otherwise, 'auto'. |
Like 'top', but specifies how far a box's bottom margin edge is offset above the bottom of the box's containing block. For relatively positioned boxes, the offset is with respect to the bottom edge of the box itself.
Value: | <length> | <percentage> | auto | inherit |
Initial: | auto |
Applies to: | positioned elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | refer to width of containing block |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | if specified as a length, the corresponding absolute length; if specified as a percentage, the specified value; otherwise, 'auto'. |
Like 'top', but specifies how far a box's left margin edge is offset to the right of the left edge of the box's containing block. For relatively positioned boxes, the offset is with respect to the left edge of the box itself.
The values for the four properties have the following meanings:
Boxes in the normal flow belong to a formatting context, which may be block or inline, but not both simultaneously. Block-level boxes participate in a block formatting context. Inline-level boxes participate in an inline formatting context.
Floats, absolutely positioned elements, block containers (such as inline-blocks, table-cells, and table-captions) that are not block boxes, and block boxes with 'overflow' other than 'visible' (except when that value has been propagated to the viewport) establish new block formatting contexts for their contents.
In a block formatting context, boxes are laid out one after the other, vertically, beginning at the top of a containing block. The vertical distance between two sibling boxes is determined by the 'margin' properties. Vertical margins between adjacent block-level boxes in a block formatting context collapse.
In a block formatting context, each box's left outer edge touches the left edge of the containing block (for right-to-left formatting, right edges touch). This is true even in the presence of floats (although a box's line boxes may shrink due to the floats), unless the box establishes a new block formatting context (in which case the box itself may become narrower due to the floats).
For information about page breaks in paged media, please consult the section on allowed page breaks.
In an inline formatting context, boxes are laid out horizontally, one after the other, beginning at the top of a containing block. Horizontal margins, borders, and padding are respected between these boxes. The boxes may be aligned vertically in different ways: their bottoms or tops may be aligned, or the baselines of text within them may be aligned. The rectangular area that contains the boxes that form a line is called a line box.
The width of a line box is determined by a containing block and the presence of floats. The height of a line box is determined by the rules given in the section on line height calculations.
A line box is always tall enough for all of the boxes it contains. However, it may be taller than the tallest box it contains (if, for example, boxes are aligned so that baselines line up). When the height of a box B is less than the height of the line box containing it, the vertical alignment of B within the line box is determined by the 'vertical-align' property. When several inline-level boxes cannot fit horizontally within a single line box, they are distributed among two or more vertically-stacked line boxes. Thus, a paragraph is a vertical stack of line boxes. Line boxes are stacked with no vertical separation (except as specified elsewhere) and they never overlap.
In general, the left edge of a line box touches the left edge of its containing block and the right edge touches the right edge of its containing block. However, floating boxes may come between the containing block edge and the line box edge. Thus, although line boxes in the same inline formatting context generally have the same width (that of the containing block), they may vary in width if available horizontal space is reduced due to floats. Line boxes in the same inline formatting context generally vary in height (e.g., one line might contain a tall image while the others contain only text).
When the total width of the inline-level boxes on a line is less than the width of the line box containing them, their horizontal distribution within the line box is determined by the 'text-align' property. If that property has the value 'justify', the user agent may stretch spaces and words in inline boxes (but not inline-table and inline-block boxes) as well.
When an inline box exceeds the width of a line box, it is split into several boxes and these boxes are distributed across several line boxes. If an inline box cannot be split (e.g., if the inline box contains a single character, or language specific word breaking rules disallow a break within the inline box, or if the inline box is affected by a white-space value of nowrap or pre), then the inline box overflows the line box.
When an inline box is split, margins, borders, and padding have no visual effect where the split occurs (or at any split, when there are several).
Inline boxes may also be split into several boxes within the same line box due to bidirectional text processing.
Line boxes are created as needed to hold inline-level content within an inline formatting context. Line boxes that contain no text, no preserved white space, no inline elements with non-zero margins, padding, or borders, and no other in-flow content (such as images, inline blocks or inline tables), and do not end with a preserved newline must be treated as zero-height line boxes for the purposes of determining the positions of any elements inside of them, and must be treated as not existing for any other purpose.
Here is an example of inline box construction. The following paragraph (created by the HTML block-level element P) contains anonymous text interspersed with the elements EM and STRONG:

Several emphasized words appear
in this sentence, dear.

The P element generates a block box that contains five inline boxes, three of which are anonymous:
To format the paragraph, the user agent flows the five boxes into line boxes. In this example, the box generated for the P element establishes the containing block for the line boxes. If the containing block is sufficiently wide, all the inline boxes will fit into a single line box:
Several emphasized words appear in this sentence, dear.
If not, the inline boxes will be split up and distributed across several line boxes. The previous paragraph might be split as follows:
Several emphasized words appear in this sentence, dear.or like this:
Several emphasized words appear in this sentence, dear.
In the previous example, the EM box was split into two EM boxes (call them "split1" and "split2"). Margins, borders, padding, or text decorations have no visible effect after split1 or before split2.
Consider the following example:
<TITLE>Example of inline flow on several lines</TITLE>


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I grew up in the House of Authority. My father was born on May 10th, the day of the strictest disciplinarian in the zodiac. He was also a cop, more or less. Sometimes he would read about some petty crime in the newspaper that had to do with an event on the base and he would look over the paper at me and say, "That had better not be you" with a menace that had the effect of Darth Vader in a black neoprene, Waffen SS suit, holding a cat o' nine tails. Imagine Patrick Willis on a bad hair day. Sometimes he would whip me for something I had not done. His rationale was that I got away with plenty that he didn't catch me at; not true. I was pretty well behaved, given the circumstances; until I wasn't, given the circumstances. I've no idea why I'm opening with this but my invisible friends do, so... I don't have to concern myself with that.
Last night I was trying to accomplish something and the amount of obstacles that were placed in my way, finally turned into something out of the theater of the absurd. For several years now, I have been hearing, "rely on me, rely on me utterly for everything, even the smallest detail". The sense of that necessity and the force of intention from the invisible has increased, slowly but surely, until this moment I find myself in. Last night it got hammered home. The thing is, I forget. We all do. It is no easy task to assign everything in your life to something, even when you implicitly believe in it, even when it has gone out of its way to prove its existence to you. We have this automatic thing that responds to a lot of life's duties and challenges without thinking about it.
I was after something and I had figured out all the steps to get it happening and then? And then? "And then along came Jones", so to speak. Now I'm at an impasse, except I only think I am so, we'll leave that as it is for the moment. What I don't get is that an informed and helpful soul, named "Hippie Lovegods" showed up to help me out, near instantaneously, when I put out a call at Facebook. It seemed destined, so I naturally assumed and... I guess I'm not supposed to do that.
During a recent international flight, I began to notice something right away in a small airport. The assistance level and ease of passage was remarkable. They didn't even ask me for a certain custom slip. In the process of observing what was happening, my invisible friend said, "Watch closely. Watch closely everything that happens in the process of this trip". The trip was as smooth as glass. At one point I set off the buzzer (only time it happened) and the lady told me to take off my shoes. I was backing up through the radar when I said, "I have a pin in my leg". This guy appears out of the mix and tells me to go through and I mean in a very friendly and commanding way. It went on like this and when I got picked up at the airport it was a full on reversal of all things that existed prior to, when I set off in the other direction to begin with. This ties in with 'rely on me'. I was being shown this and I was also doing that.
I'm about as forgiving as it gets. I have to be. One of the reasons, is that most of the things most people find important, I don't consider to be important at all. However there are a couple of things I sometimes struggle with; treachery and meanspiritness (I command the genesis of new words around here, heh heh). The two times I was in deep shit with the temporal orcs, it came about because people I helped out decided to conspire with the wolves, about what they were going to have for lunch. The second time there were actually two of them. They didn't know each other beforehand, or maybe they did in some former time. One of them stayed in my home for two months, on my dime, while I helped him study to become a police officer. He did not contribute anything during that time and I finally showed him the door, when he couldn't be troubled to stay with my infant daughter during the half an hour window between my arriving from my restaurant and Lauren heading off for her catering job. This fellow is/was something of a psychopath. I had not known that initially. I had met him at an ashram. He was also a pretty good Kung Fu artist and at the time I was less adept than later on. He promptly called the cops and told them I stole his handgun. Once again the invisible was on the spot. I told them it was in his bag and that was the end of it, only that wasn't the end of it.
Well, I beat the Big Kahuna of a life sentence a couple of years later. He had to leave the police force and the other guy got arrested by the Washington state authorities upon his return from testifying against me. It all should have been a movie but, then again, it was. I have been dogged by this kind of behavior from people I have helped, off and on through my life; not so much anymore but it's there in the underbrush like those isolated red eyes you see in comics. This also comes back to "rely on me".
I used to perform stand up comedy with Bud (the Birdman) Clifton. We were pretty funny. One time on stage, Bud said, "Visible is a comedian but he doesn't make people laugh. He makes people angry". That got a laugh. There were a few times I got off stage and somebody wanted a little one on one time. This also comes back to rely on me. Well, I am a far different fellow than in those days but I am not by any professional definition, sane and I am extremely grateful for it.
God is about to be very generous with me. I have already seen the signs. This is not unexpected; all those planets in the eighth house and their relationship to legacies and benefiting from associations. I kind of knew if I made it this far that certain things were going to happen, for the purpose of demonstration and also because, when you actually have relied on The One; been forced to rely on The One, then there are all kinds of payoffs in the latter days. "Faith is the substance of things unseen". These things do not arrive without certain prepackaged dilemmas. Getting into things is a lot easier than getting out of things. I have certainly learned that and understand what it means to, 'cut your losses'.
That my kundalini is activated should be fairly obvious. It certainly is to those who have spent any time around me. What many people don't understand about Kundalini is that it is not just a force. It is a goddess. It is a being, a superconscious being that perceives and sees through the vehicle it is awakened in. She has an agenda that may not be the agenda of the horse she is riding. Horse and rider have to come to an understanding and that is often not easy. She's unpredictable and capable of all sorts of outrageous displays; you can trust me on that. She's also in touch with everything and afraid of nothing.
Once I had to hitchhike out of Palm Springs, Ca. I was hitching with an acquaintance and we both thought it a good time to leave. We had both been arrested a couple of days before for trespassing. We were staying in an abandoned cabin on some lower slope of San Jacinto. Thank goodness we didn't get charged with having underage girls at the cabin but nothing was happening in any untoward way. They were runaways I suspect. Anyway, I had looked at a map that showed a short line between Palm Canyon highway and the highway to Arizona. It didn't look like it could be more than a few miles. It turned out to be at least 35. You catch this little dirt road somewhere short of Indio. We set out on it, through orange groves and ahead were high sandstone cliffs that were on both sides of the road for a long way. I didn't know this or anything else. We'd gone a few miles when a state trooper pulled up and wanted to see ID. He had us unroll our sleeping bags and I had a few oranges in there. Technically that would have been misdemeanor theft. He said, "I saw you guys yesterday at the station." He knew. He said to my companion, "You're coming with me". Then he just left me there alone. It was getting on toward dusk as I entered what I later learned was a haunted Indian burial ground.
I had not eaten for a couple of days, except for some oranges and I was very high, not on anything but I had been having epic acid adventures and that was followed by a lot of regular meditation and such. The first thing I noticed after awhile was that someone was speaking to me from a sagebrush. I bent down and saw a black king that looked just like the ones off of a chessboard. He was speaking to me and I couldn't understand him but it didn't sound good. I continued on as night fell and the sense of other beings all around me was unmistakeable and as real as it gets. I soldiered on. There were few cars in the day. There were none at night and I was miles from any other human being. I came out of the sandstone canyons into a wide flat space. In the distance, I could see the headlights of cars passing. I thought, 'Thank God, that can only be a little ways off'. It turned out to be at least ten miles. As I came out of the canyons, large winged creatures came out of the night and began to howl around me. For anyone sane it would have been terrifying. I cannot transmit the degree of force and presence that attended these things and they were big. They were jinns.
There was a moment when time stood still and the thought that this might be the end of me, when suddenly a course of action came into my mind and I turned to these beings and said, "Hello my friends! Will you come with me"? I spun around and danced a bit and they howled and they howled and swirled and danced all down the highway with me and into the dawn, where I caught a ride with an anthropologist who smelled like an ape; true story.
I learned a very important lesson that night and it has served me well since. It is a critical point that one must comprehend or serious trouble waits up the line.
Continuing about The Goddess. She knows things I don't know and she will go to various lengths to engineer situations in which these things can be revealed to me. It's another matter whether God then engineers that people respond in a certain fashion, or whether they are self-compelled to demonstrate in a particular manner. They always do however, but not always in the same way. Some reactions are justified for any of the usual 'human reasons'. Then there are reactions that are far beyond what are reasonable and have only injury in mind. This is what The Goddess wants me to see. I ponder it all and thank my lucky stars I have a friend inseparable from me, who appears to genuinely like me and have my best interests at heart, even though I can't often see that.
I realize that all of us are subject to some degree of 'doom and gloom' due to the tenor of the times but I can tell you with confidence that along with the nasties on the menu, some extraordinarily wonderful things are going to happen to some of us. It will be as if God whacked the sky like a pinata and the door of heavenly blessings came off its hinges. It may not seem apparent to many of you at the moment but I get the coming attraction trailers as a download from my personal internet. Be confident, hopeful and expectant. That should do for the moment and I'll see you in the next post if there is one.
End Transmission.......
'Gone Too Far in Front' is track no. 2 of 13 on Visible's 2007 album
'The Sacred and The Profane'
Sunday's radio show is now available for download.


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I'm new to GIS, having only dabbled with ArcGIS for Desktop for about 4 weeks in 2007. The business I am at wants to target writing complete solutions that involve GIS as it would benefit their hardware sales. They do not know which market they want to target but want me to pick the GIS software to use, yet I am very green to GIS markets. All i know if target platforms are windows, windows mobile, android and web applications. The idea of mobile applications means data connection is not 100% so internet based services may need to be ruled out, i.e. GoogleMaps.
I was struggling to work out how to phrase this as a question, given the huge range of GIS products available, Esri's ArcGIS for Desktop, CadCorp, MapInfo, GoogleMap/Earth, qGIS, Manifold, openJump, openstreetmap etc.
To avoid the what do I buy question, I instead ask the question why do you use Esri ArcGIS. From my experience its slow to navigate around maps and quite verbose to program in causing quite a lead time in development. Esri is also the most expensive product on the market, and i believe also the most popular. But why do people continue to use it, when other systems like CadCorp have the same functionality if not more, seem to be more responsive, can import Esri data and cost less.
I feel that I must be overlooking something here. I know client demands in some industries like defense, want Esri but why is it still so popular, given I often hear how other products are betters (Is this a Windows vs. Mac example on market share vs. quality)
P.s. This question has been spawned from this one on StackOverflow.


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Solitary confinement, or segregation, is used for several reasons. Inmates are put into segregation as a disciplinary measure for doing things like threatening or fighting with officers, escaping, destroying state property or setting fires. Segregation is used for medical reasons for inmates who may have infectious diseases (like tuberculosis) or who are refusing evaluation for infectious diseases. Segregation is used for protective custody if the inmate is a juvenile or if there are reasons to believe the inmate's safety might be at risk in regular housing (also called general population). Finally, there are also mental health reasons for putting someone in segregation. Inmates who are new to the facility, who are frightened and need time to adjust, or who have had a recent trauma or loss may temporarily be put by themselves to give them a quiet place to deal with whatever is going on.
In free society segregation is used for therapeutic reasons too, although the terminology changes. On an inpatient unit "segregation" becomes "seclusion" even though the physical conditions may be identical, or very similar to, the physical environment in a prison. Seclusion rooms and segregation cells are usually bare with minimal comforts. The patient (or inmate) is deprived of access to outside resources and supports, with no regular recreation or entertainment. The food is, well, institutional food is institutional food.
The only real difference is that in free society when someone is put in seclusion there must be a clinical evaluation that finds an indication for using this intervention, usually unpredictability or evidence that the patient may be a danger to himself or others. The indication is documented and the patient is usually also observed at regular intervals. The order for seclusion must be rewritten at regular intervals and the basis for continued seclusion documented in the patient's chart. The patient must be allowed periodic freedom from restraint (if physically restrained) and access to hygiene and toileting facilities. Seclusion must end when the clinical indication for it is over.
In a correctional facility segregation does not have to be based on clinical need, and most often it's not used for mental health reasons. Segregation is usually used for security and disciplinary reasons, in which case it's called "disciplinary lockdown". The length of confinement is predetermined, usually a few days to a few weeks. If the inmate is really really bad (has killed other inmates or correctional officers) or presents an extreme security risk (repeated escapes or organizing riots) the segregation may last for months or even years. Inmates have a lot to lose by being placed in lockdown for this long, so correctional facilities have due process protections in place to provide them with a chance to challenge their confinement. The legal steps used to place an inmate in lockdown are very similar to the process used for civil commitment in free society: the inmate is given a notice that documents the alleged behavior leading to the lockdown, he is given a hearing before an independent factfinder with a chance to present evidence and confront witnesses, and he's given an opportunity to appeal the results of the disciplinary hearing. He is also allowed to be given less restrictive sanctions, like loss of privileges or cell restriction in general population. If all else fails, the inmate has the right to appeal the administrative hearing officer's decision to a court in free society.
So, now that you have this background I'll come to the real reason I want to talk about longterm segregation:
Inmate advocates allege that longterm segregation drives prisoners crazy. Whether you know it or not, millions of taxpayer dollars are spent every year litigating the use of longterm segregation. Specialized correctional facilities, known as control unit prisons, were invented specifically for inmates who require segregation for months or years. Class action suits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy organizations allege that this causes psychiatric deterioration and psychosis, with some groups calling for closure of all control unit prisons.
But is this true?
The fact of the matter is that despite all the money we've spent regulating the use of control unit prisons and monitoring inmates who are on segregation, the data are sketchy. Epidemiologic studies have shown that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among prisoners increases with each increase in security level---in other words you find more psychiatric patients in maximum security than in minimum security---but this does not prove that high security causes psychiatric disorder. In all likelihood, inmates with aggressive or disruptive behavior, such as those found in maximum security, are more likely to be diagnosed with a psychiatric illness. Aggressive antisocial or borderline inmates often are also concurrently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Conversely, inmates with psychiatric disorders are less likely to be classified to lower security levels where on-site psychiatry services may not be available. The epidemiologic findings are an artifact of the classification process and a reflection of our limited diagnostic schema.
I did a PubMed search (I'm big on these lately for some reason) using the terms "administrative segregation", "longterm segregation", "control unit prison" and "solitary confinement". There are only about 20 significant articles on this topic going back 45 years---not exactly an overwhelming body of literature. Only four of the nineteen are controlled studies with data, while the majority are descriptive, theoretical or speculative in nature.
Contrast this with the court's view of the psychological effects of control unit prisons, as outlined in David Fahti's law review article "The Common Law of Supermax Litigation" (Pace Law Review Vol. 24:675, 2005):"Federal courts continue to recognize as established fact that isolated confinement inflicts serious psychological harm on many prisoners."
And in one case cited in the article:"The effect of prolonged isolation on inmates has been repeatedly confirmed in medical and scientific studies".
The medical articles cited in these legal cases are few, and are usually 20 years or more out of date. They point to the effects of social isolation and sensory deprivation, a line of research popular in the 1960's when research into brainwashing was de rigueur for psychologists. Unfortunately, because most of these cases are settled by consent decree and rarely go to trial, this lack of scientific scrutiny is left unchallenged. The result is that courts are mandating that certain inmates be removed from segregation based on the presence or abscence of an Axis I DSM diagnosis, disregarding the inmate's behavior and adjustment in previous facilities. In one case a court mandated that any inmate with a "serious personality disorder" be removed from a control unit prison---I imagine that must have pretty much emptied out the place.
I agree with the courts that control unit prisons should practice humane care under safe and reasonably comfortable conditions. It should be done because it's the right thing to do but you shouldn't misrepresent or distort scientific evidence to justify it.
I had trouble saving the link to the combined search, so I'll just post the references:
1: Arrigo BA, Bullock JL.
The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners in Supermax Units:
Reviewing What We Know and Recommending What Should Change.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2007 Nov 19. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 18025074 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
2: Cloyes KG.
Prisoners signify: a political discourse analysis of mental illness in a prison
control unit.
Nurs Inq. 2007 Sep;14(3):202-11.
PMID: 17718746 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
3: Doncliff B.
Solitary confinement in mental health nursing.
Qld Nurse. 2007 Jun;26(3):7. No abstract available.
PMID: 17624037 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
4: Way BB, Sawyer DA, Barboza S, Nash R.
Inmate suicide and time spent in special disciplinary housing in New York State
Psychiatr Serv. 2007 Apr;58(4):558-60.
PMID: 17412861 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
5: Andersen HS.
Mental health in prison populations. A review--with special emphasis on a study
of Danish prisoners on remand.
Acta Psychiatr Scand Suppl. 2004;(424):5-59. Review.
PMID: 15447785 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
6: Andersen HS, Sestoft D, Lillebaek T, Gabrielsen G, Hemmingsen R.
A longitudinal study of prisoners on remand: repeated measures of psychopathology
in the initial phase of solitary versus nonsolitary confinement.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2003 Mar-Apr;26(2):165-77. No abstract available.
PMID: 12581753 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
7: Andersen HS, Sestoft D, Lillebaek T.
Ganser syndrome after solitary confinement in prison: a short review and a case
Nord J Psychiatry. 2001;55(3):199-201.
PMID: 11827615 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
8: Andersen HS, Sestoft D, Lillebaek T, Gabrielsen G, Hemmingsen R, Kramp P.
A longitudinal study of prisoners on remand: psychiatric prevalence, incidence
and psychopathology in solitary vs. non-solitary confinement.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2000 Jul;102(1):19-25.
PMID: 10892605 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
9: Gore SM.
Suicide in prisons. Reflection of the communities served, or exacerbated risk?
Br J Psychiatry. 1999 Jul;175:50-5.
PMID: 10621768 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
10: Sestoft DM, Andersen HS, Lillebaek T, Gabrielsen G.
Impact of solitary confinement on hospitalization among Danish prisoners in
Int J Law Psychiatry. 1998 Winter;21(1):99-108. No abstract available.
PMID: 9526719 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
11: Farrell GA, Dares G.
Seclusion or solitary confinement: therapeutic or punitive treatment?
Aust N Z J Ment Health Nurs. 1996 Dec;5(4):171-9. Review.
PMID: 9079314 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
12: Grassian S, Friedman N.
Effects of sensory deprivation in psychiatric seclusion and solitary confinement.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 1986;8(1):49-65. No abstract available.
PMID: 3940165 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
13: Suedfeld P.
Measuring the effects of solitary confinement.
Am J Psychiatry. 1984 Oct;141(10):1306-8. No abstract available.
PMID: 6486277 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
14: Grassian S.
Psychopathological effects of solitary confinement.
Am J Psychiatry. 1983 Nov;140(11):1450-4.
PMID: 6624990 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
15: Volkart R, Rothenfluh T, Kobelt W, Dittrich A, Ernst K.
[Solitary confinement as risk factor for psychiatric hospitalization]
Psychiatr Clin (Basel). 1983;16(5-6):365-77. German.
PMID: 6647886 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
16: Kaufman E.
The violation of psychiatric standards of care in prisons.
Am J Psychiatry. 1980 May;137(5):566-70.
PMID: 7369400 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
17: Maclay DT.
Letter: Solitary confinement in control units.
Lancet. 1975 Aug 30;2(7931):408. No abstract available.
PMID: 51211 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
18: Gendreau P, Freedman NL, Wilde GJ, Scott GD.
Changes in EEG alpha frequency and evoked response latency during solitary
J Abnorm Psychol. 1972 Feb;79(1):54-9. No abstract available.
PMID: 5060981 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Effect of solitary confinement on prisoners.
Am J Psychiatry. 1963 Feb;119:771-3. No abstract available.
PMID: 13998703 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
20: van WULFFTEN PALTHE P.
Fluctuations in level of consciousness caused by reduced sensorial stimulation
and by limited motility in solitary confinement.
Psychiatr Neurol Neurochir. 1962 Nov-Dec;65:377-401. No abstract available.
PMID: 14002046 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


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