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By Kathryn Reed
With the Factory Stores at the Y signing a multi-year lease agreement with Big 5 Sporting Goods, the South Lake Tahoe center may be able to find solid financial ground.
"I'm still in negotiations with the bank and trying to get a loan modification. Certainly the Big 5 lease helps me. But nothing has been settled yet," Shannon Casteel told Lake Tahoe News.
Casteel and her sister Nancy Irmer bought the center in 2004 from their brother Gary Casteel. Since Irmer's death her family and Shannon Casteel have operated the center.
As reported last month by Lake Tahoe News, the center that is located on one of the four corners of the Y, was about to be auctioned off. That did not happen. Casteel is trying to save her business.
Casteel said she has been talking to Big 5 for five years about moving in. All the hurdles were cleared and the retailer already has keys to the building. They will be taking over the old Adidas spot.
"They are hoping to open before Memorial Day," Casteel said.
Calls to Big 5 headquarters in El Segundo were not returned. Other Big 5 stores in the area are in Minden, Carson City, Placerville, Reno and Sparks.
City Manager Nancy Kerry told Lake Tahoe News she got word March 6 that Big 5 is coming to town.
"It is very exciting news. I understand they will have a job fair in the next couple weeks," she said.
How many employees will be hired is not known.
While the Adidas store was not one of the top 25 sales tax generators in South Lake Tahoe, Kerry anticipates Big 5 being able to bring in the kind of numbers that would put it in the company of Grocery Outlet, DIY, Ross and Fresh Ketch. Those are some of the top 25 sales tax producers.
Sales, property and hotel taxes are the three main revenue sources for the city.
Kerry said when she got wind Big 5 was looking seriously at South Lake Tahoe she reached out to the company to see how the city could help.
"We are definitely doing everything we can to encourage retail. We don't want to be a roadblock to them," Kerry said.
On the April 2 City Council agenda will be an item to waive special use permit fees. Right now a prospective business may have to pay thousands of dollars to determine if the location they want to operate at falls within the parameters of the city's rulebook. Even if it doesn't, the fee, per today's policy, must be paid.
Casteel is also in negotiations with other potential renters.
"I can't say who because we have not signed the lease," Casteel said. "I have another major tenant that I am negotiating with right now. They would take the area from (the Big 5) store toward where Great Outdoors was."
She also said people are interested in renting the storefront on the corner closest to Emerald Bay Road.
The Big 5 lease is for five years, with an option for 20.


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Background This is the first report on the epidemiology of depressive disorders from the European Outcome of Depression International Network (ODIN) study.
Aims To assess the prevalence of depressive disorders in randomly selected samples of the general population in five European countries.
Method The study was designed as a cross-sectional two-phase community study using the Beck Depression inventory during Phase 1, and the Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry during Phase 2.
Results An analysis of the combined sample (n=8.764) gave an overall prevalence of depressive disorders of 8.56% (95% CI 7.05-10.37). The figures were 10.05% (95% CI 7.80-12.85) for women and 6.61% (95% CI 4.92-8.83) for men. The centres fall into three categories: high prevalence (urban Ireland and urban UK), low prevalence (urban Spain) and medium prevalence (the remaining sites).
Conclusions Depressive disorder is a highly prevalent condition in Europe. The major finding is the wide difference in the prevalence of depressive disorders found across the study sites.
Depression has an impact on the community greater than that of many chronic physical diseases. Any attempt to address the public health challenge posed by depressive disorders in Europe should be based on reliable epidemiological data which will enable us to better understand depression and assist us in allocating resources for intervention. The prevalence of depression appears to vary considerably across countries, and between urban and rural areas (see Table 1). This variety of reported outcomes could be attributable to differences in the measures used, and in the selection and sampling of rural and urban areas. In 1996, the European Commission funded the Outcome of Depression International Network (ODIN) study with two aims: (a) to provide comparable data on the prevalence and risk factors of depressive disorders in rural and urban settings within Europe, based on an epidemiological sampling frame and using similar methodology; and (b) to assess the impact of two psychological interventions on the outcome of depression. We provide comparative data on the prevalence of depressive disorders in rural and urban settings in five European countries, using a standardised two-phase epidemiological survey.
Selection of centres
Details of the study's methodology and organisation have been published elsewhere (Dowrick et al, 1998). The following criteria were used to identify suitable centres: expertise in mental health epidemiological research and/or research into strategies for the prevention of depression; access to urban and rural populations; and a geographical and cultural spread across Europe. On this basis, the project brought together five independent partners in as many countries, in Liverpool (UK), Dublin (Ireland), Oslo (Norway), Turku (Finland) and Santander (Spain). Each centre identified one rural and one urban setting in which to conduct its research. Owing to funding restrictions which arose after the study had been designed, it was not possible to carry out the epidemiological study in the Santander site's rural area. The urban areas divide into three large coastal cities (Dublin, Liverpool and Oslo) and two medium-sized ones (Santander and Turku). The rural areas were defined as having no centre of population greater than 15 000 people, with at least 20% of economically active citizens engaged in occupations directly related to agriculture, fishing or forestry. The British rural research site was in the Welsh Vale of Clwyd, and in Ireland it was the county of Laois. In Norway it was the district of Rakkestad, and in Finland the rural area encompassed the three municipalities of Marttila, Koskitl and Tarvasjoki.
Target populations and sampling frames
Adults aged 18-64 years were the primary survey population. Community study samples were identified through census registers or lists of patients registered with primary care physicians. These sampling frames may be considered equally valid in terms of the reliability of the data sets (Shanks et al, 1995). Census registers may be highly reliable at the time of collection, but suffer from attrition over time, and the quality of electoral registers in Britain has been vitiated by their use for local taxation purposes. Primary care registers, accessed conjointly across a locality, offer a slightly different but equally accurate representation of the population. In the present study, the different research teams involved made the choice to use one sampling procedure or the other — that is, either census records or lists of patients registered with primary care physicians — based on their previous experience in community surveys. Three centres (Oslo, Turku and Santander) had previously achieved high response rates through population register surveys, and therefore used this method for Phase 1 screening in the ODIN study. Patients in Britain and Ireland were identified through primary health care registers, a selection process similar to the one used in the EURODEP study that assessed the prevalence of depression among those aged ≥ 65 years at the Dublin and Liverpool centres (Copeland et al, 1999). The Irish research team had to reduce the scope of its intended sampling and interviewing procedures owing to operational problems which arose during the study. At the rural site in Ireland, the registers of five general practitioners were involved, out of a total of 27; in Dublin, the registers of two general practitioners were involved, from a total of 390. At the British rural site, seven of the nine practices that covered the population area took part in the study; in Liverpool, 32 practices of the 106 that covered the population area participated.
In Oslo, Turku and Santander, the sample was randomly drawn from the population registers of the five sites (two in Norway and Finland, one in Spain) involved in the study. In Liverpool, a random set of patient names was obtained from health authorities, and interviewers contacted the practices with which the patients were listed. In northern Wales and Ireland, the procedure was to identify relevant practices, and obtain random sets of names from their patient lists. The entire sample was stratified by gender and age in all the centres.
Assessment methods
First phase
The first-phase assessment identified possible cases of depression using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck et al, 1961), with a threshold score above 12 (Nielsen & Williams, 1980; Lasa et al, 2000). The BDI was combined with a questionnaire on social support (details available from the author upon request), the List of Threatening Experiences (Brugha et al, 1985) and socio-demographic details. In Santander, the first phase was conducted by home-based personal interview. In all other centres, it was conducted using an initial postal survey, with postal, then telephone, then home-visit follow-ups. All refusals were accepted, and non-responders were contacted up to three times.
Second phase
All of those scoring at or above the BDI threshold and a random 5% of responders were offered detailed interviews with research workers trained in mental health, conducted in the participant's language. To date, most of the epidemiological studies on depression in the general population have used strict definitions of depression, according to DSM-III/IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1980, 1994) and ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1992) criteria, focusing on the prevalence of depressive episodes or major depression. This may lead to a tendency to consider severe/major depression as the only affective disorder worthy of intervention. In order to overcome such a prejudice, in our study we extended the definition of depressive disorders to include dysthymia and adjustment disorders with depressive mood. The Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) Version 2.0 (World Health Organization, 1994) was used to generate diagnoses of depressive disorders on the basis of ICD-10 and DSM-IV categories. For ICD-10, these include single and recurrent depressive episodes (F32, F33), bipolar and persistent affective disorders (F31, F34) and adjustment disorders with a depressive component (F43.2). For DSM-IV, these include depressive, bipolar and adjustment disorders with a depressive component (codes 293.83, 296.xx, 300.4, 309.xx, 311, V62.82). Other instruments administered at this phase have been described elsewhere (Dowrick et al, 1998).
Training and quality control
The diagnostic interviewers were psychiatrists, general practitioners or psychologists. All interviewers received an initial weeklong training course at an approved SCAN training centre, and subsequently practised the full diagnostic interview schedule on at least 10 volunteers. Interrater reliability over time was monitored by means of assessment and feedback using a standardised videotaped consultation. A videotape including a full SCAN interview was used for this exercise, supplied by the WHO-approved SCAN training centre that trained ODIN's first-phase diagnostic interviewers. Each diagnostic interviewer was asked to rate and score the interview, then send their score sheets to a central analysis centre (Liverpool). Scores were compared with the 'official' set of ratings which accompanied the video. The videotaped interview contained 113 questions that could be rated, and all 13 of the interviewers were included in this exercise. A 100% agreement was reached for overall diagnosis (moderate depressive episode) and for diagnostic category (F32.1). There was 70% interrater agreement on scores for individual questions.
Statistical analysis
Routine data management and description of the results were carried out using SPSS 7.5 for Windows (SPSS Corporation, 1997). Prevalence estimates were carried out using STATA Release 6.0 (Stata Corporation, 1999) after allowing for both the two-phase sampling procedure and different response rates across sites through the use of weights (Pickles et al, 1995; Dunn et al, 1999). Information arising from the Phase 1 screening results and the Phase 2 sampling mechanism was processed by assigning a 'sampling weight' to each individual participant, given by the inverse of the Phase 2 sampling fraction. The sampling weight is an indicator of how many participants in Phase 1 are 'represented by' each of the Phase 2 records. We used adjustment weights in order to standardise the overall prevalence estimates at each centre for the age and gender distribution of the population of Santander, which served as our reference. Prevalence estimates were obtained via a logistic model, producing a symmetrical confidence interval for the regression coefficient, and then reversing the logistic transformation to produce the corresponding interval for the prevalence itself. Prevalence estimates were calculated separately for each of the study sites. We also carried out a meta-analysis of the pooled data from the nine centres to obtain an overall weighted prevalence.
Sample compositions
Table 2 shows the demographic characteristics across centres. The different study samples' age—gender compositions were compared with those of the census populations at each of the nine study sites. There were no significant differences between the samples and the populations in terms of gender at any site nor, in rural Ireland, Norway, Finland and Santander, in terms of age profiles. At the two British sites and in Dublin, the samples had significantly lower proportions of younger participants than the census populations.
Response rates
Table 2 describes the response rate and exclusions owing to errors in census registers or lists of patients registered with primary care physicians. The overall response rate for the first phase of the survey was 65%, which included variations by study site, ranging from 54% (rural Ireland) to 90% (urban Spain). The overall response rate for the Phase 2 survey was 73%, with a variation from 55% (rural Ireland) to 92% (rural Finland). Non-responders were more likely to be male, young and socio-economically disadvantaged. For the screening phase of the survey, gender differences in non-response rate were significant at P < 0.05 in rural Britain, Ireland and Norway. Response rates increased with age.
Prevalence estimates
Figure 1 gives the weighted prevalence of depressive disorders (ICD-10 and/or DSM-IV criteria) for survey responders on each site, together with the 95% CIs. An analysis of the combined sample (n=8.764) gave an overall prevalence of 8.56% (95% CI 7.05-10.37). The figures were 10.05% (95% CI 7.80-12.85) for women and 6.61% (95% CI 4.92-8.83) for men. Rates in Liverpool were more than six times higher, and in Oslo over three times higher, than those in Santander. There was relatively little variation among the four rural areas, with weighted prevalence ranging from 6.1% in Wales to 9.3% in rural Norway. In Britain and Ireland urban rates were two to three times higher than in their rural communities, but in Norway and Finland there was little difference between the urban and rural figures. Figures 2 and 3 show that, at seven study sites, women present higher proportions of depressive disorders than men, although 95% CIs overlap at all the centres. A higher prevalence of depressive disorders in the female population was found in the five urban settings. Gender differences in prevalence were not so evident in the rural settings.
Subtypes of depressive disorders
Table 3 shows the weighted prevalence of the different diagnostic categories according to the ICD-10 classification included under the depressive disorder umbrella diagnosis used in the ODIN study. In the global sample, the weighted prevalence of depressive episodes (F31-F33.3) was more than six times higher than the weighted prevalence of dysthymia and adjustment disorder. This pattern was also found at each of the nine study sites, and in both genders. Table 4 shows the weighted prevalence of the different categories according to the DSM-IV classification. When DSM-IV and ICD-10 criteria were compared, there were notable similarities in the overall prevalence figures for all diagnostic categories. However, in Liverpool and Dublin and at the rural UK site, to a lesser extent, there is a discordance between ICD-10 and DSM-IV diagnoses.
Limitations of the study
The apparent wide variation in prevalence of depressive disorders among the nine centres needs careful assessment. First of all, the low response rate obtained at some of the centres, that is, the UK and Ireland, may have resulted in prevalence figures of questionable reliability which are not representative of the target population at these sites. The reliability of the data derived from community-based epidemiological studies depends on at least two methodological elements: (a) application of a reliable strategy of psychopathological assessment; and (b) the selection and assessment of a population sample representative of the general population. In our study, we believe that the first condition has been met, with the use of two psychopathological assessment instruments (that is, the BDI and the SCAN) that have proven high rates of validity and reliability (Lasa et al, 2000), and which, as discussed above, resulted in high rates of interrater reliability, owing to the use of appropriate training and quality-control strategies for the psychopathological examinations conducted. Regarding the other conditioning element, its reliability rests, first, on the elaboration of an initial sample that is representative of the community to be studied, for which the adequate representation of all significant population groups must be guaranteed in the sample initially chosen; and second, whether non-responders who appear in the different phases of the project (whether owing to refusal to participate or to technical difficulties) do not introduce significant biases that are impossible to correct.
Critical analysis of the data from our study, in which very significant morbidity differences can be seen between some centres, as well as excessively wide confidence intervals, suggests that in some of the participating centres, bias could have been introduced in some of these elements of the sample designing process. Thus, with regard to the element of guaranteeing the design of an initially representative sample, the differing age profiles of the surveyed samples and census populations in Britain and Dublin may reflect a discrepancy between samples drawn from census and primary care sources. Younger people may be less likely to be registered with a general practitioner, may be less motivated to take part in a study and may be more mobile and have a less structured lifestyle — both obstacles to participation in a community study like the one presented here. There is evidence of systematic differences between survey responders and the populations from which they were drawn. Responders were more likely to be female, and older, than non-responders. Both of these factors may have introduced a bias towards higher prevalence rates among responders than among the survey populations. This trend may have been compounded at the British sites and in Dublin, where the primary care groups were older than their corresponding census populations. In addition, one of the nine study sites (Dublin) used a sample covering only part of the city, so it is possible that subgroups of the urban population characterised by the presence of negative psychosocial characteristics were over-represented. Some of the differences between centres may relate more to the socio-economic indices of the area sampled than to the city as a whole.
Regarding possible bias derived from non-responders, in our study there were highly significant differences in the response rates. The response rates for Phase 1 of the community survey were more than 20% higher in Santander than elsewhere. It is probable that this difference reflected the decision of the Spanish team to use an initial home interview, rather than the initial postal approach employed at the other centres. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that there was no such discrepancy in response rates between Santander and the other centres for the later phases of the survey, when similar methods were used across all centres. During the later phases, the Finnish sites tended to have the highest response rates. This may have been due to the efficiency and persistence of the research team, or to the relatively higher acceptability of such studies in general within the survey sample. This problem is more evident in urban areas than in rural ones, and within the former, precisely in large cities with areas suffering from social disintegration (Dublin and Liverpool) in which the sample selection process is more complicated and difficult than in middle-sized cities.
Multinational, multi-centric epidemiological studies often run into problems due to differing sampling frames and refusal rate levels (Copeland et al, 1999). In such studies, each centre must, necessarily, adapt the common research methodology in order to meet local administrative and ethical norms. Among other factors involved in such adaptation are different social attitudes towards collaborating in epidemiological studies, the quality of population registers, budgetary constraints, and the experience and ability of the local research team. The impact of these problems can partially be minimised in the morbidity analysis by applying appropriate statistical strategies. We have weighted our results to take different response rates into account; in addition, we used adjustment weights in order to standardise the overall prevalence estimates at each centre for the age and gender distribution of Santander's population, which served as our standard of reference. Nevertheless, these features of the survey impose some limitation on the generalisability of the findings at some of the study sites.
Other methodological considerations should also be considered in trying to explain the differences that we encountered, and the wide confidence intervals at some centres. The methodological decision to offer diagnostic interviews to only a 5% sample of participants below BDI cut-off led to considerably higher standard errors (and hence wider confidence intervals) than would have been the case if a larger proportion of 'BDI-negative' participants had been included in the second phase of the community survey.
Prevalence estimates
The methodology used in this project, two-phase sampling, is a type of stratified design that has been proposed in psychiatric research as an efficient way of estimating prevalence of psychopathology in large epidemiological surveys. The diagnostic instrument used in the second phase of the study is the latest version of the SCAN, which has been presented by some authors (Brugha et al, 1999) as closely approximating a 'clinical gold standard'.
The major finding of the present study is the wide difference in the prevalence of depressive disorders found across the study sites and between urban and rural centres. Taking the genders together, the centres fall into three categories: high prevalence (urban Ireland and urban UK: 12.8-17.1% respectively), low prevalence (urban Spain: 2.6%) and medium prevalence (the rest of the sites: 6-9.3%). The study found high proportions of depression among survey responders in some centres, particularly among the female population in urban areas. At seven of the nine study sites, the prevalence of depressive disorders was higher among women than among men, confirming the results of several previous studies (Bebbington et al, 1984; Weissman et al, 1996). Over the past few decades, there has been growing evidence of significant intergender differences in the rates of specific mental disorders (Lehtinen et al, 1990). A variety of social and medical factors have been considered in an attempt to explain the higher rate of depressive disorders in women (Bebbington et al, 1984; Vázquez-Barquero, 1987). Further analysis of the data collected in the epidemiological arm of the ODIN study will enable us to test whether some of the gender differences in the depressive disorders prevalence estimates across sites could be explained by different levels of exposure to life events and other social factors.
When DSM-IV and ICD-10 criteria were compared, there were notable similarities in the global prevalence figures for all diagnostic categories; however, at some centres a discordance was found between ICD-10 and DSM-IV diagnoses. Previous studies have also documented discordance between these two major psychiatric classification systems, for the diagnosis of cases in community surveys (Andrews et al, 1999). This could be due to the ICD-10's lower threshold in the number of symptoms required for the diagnosis of a depressive episode.
Urban-rural differences
Most research on the epidemiology of depression in Europe has been conducted in urban settings. The few available studies assessing differences in prevalence of depression between urban and rural areas vary widely in their findings (Brown & Prudo, 1981; Vázquez-Barquero et al, 1987; Sievewright et al, 1991). This variety of outcomes could be attributable to differences in the measures used, and in the selection and sampling of rural and urban areas. In the ODIN study we tried to overcome these problems by using the same methodology in the urban and rural sites at each centre. We found that the weighted prevalence of depressive disorders among responders in the four rural communities was relatively uniform, ranging between 6.5% and 9.3%. However, the weighted prevalence in the five urban communities varied markedly, from 2.6% in Santander to 17.1% in Liverpool and 12.8% in Dublin. These differences in the prevalence figures suggest that there are cultural differences or different risk-factor profiles across countries and sites which may affect the expression of the disorder. The role of psychosocial factors (mainly life events and social support) in explaining these wide differences in the prevalence of depressive disorder across study sites will also be examined in later publications. Our finding of lower prevalence of depressive disorders in rural areas than in urban ones, in three of the four countries where urban and rural samples were studied, agrees with the results of other epidemiological studies (Crowell et al, 1986). In Britain, the National Psychiatric Morbidity Survey reported higher rates of depression in urban areas than in rural ones, but relied on the interviewers' opinion of whether subjects lived in an urban, semi-rural or rural areas (Jenkins et al, 1997). The Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study also found that people living in rural regions showed lower prevalences of mood disorders (Bijl et al, 1998).
In the ODIN study, not only did the rural communities show a lower prevalence of depressive disorders than the urban ones, but the prevalence figures in rural areas remained strikingly similar across the different sites, whereas the urban figures varied markedly from one country to another. A methodological factor in our design could have influenced this uniform distribution of depressive disorders among rural communities in Europe found in the ODIN study. In our methodology, 'rural' was defined according to a similar socio-economic definition: rural areas were those having no centre of population greater than 15 000 people, with at least 20% of economically active citizens engaged in occupations directly related to agriculture, fishing or forestry. On the contrary, 'urban' was defined solely in terms of population density criteria. Thus, the uniform distribution of depressive disorders across the rural sites could be merely a reflection of a similar distribution of socio-economic factors. On the contrary, the heterogeneity of the prevalence figures in the urban sites could be related in part to the heterogeneous socio-economic circumstances across the study sites. Further analysis of the ODIN sample will enable us to study to what extent these urban-rural differences in the prevalence of depressive disorders may be related to differential exposure to life events or differential levels of social support networks, as has been recently proposed by Paykel et al (2000).
Although the representation of European countries is incomplete, the centres in this study are spread between northern and southern Europe, representing different religious denominations and covering mainland areas and islands. The information gathered in the ODIN study could be used to evaluate needs for treatment and the allocation of health resources. However, some authors have raised concerns about the health policy implications of high prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders for determining treatment needs (Regier et al, 1998; Spitzer, 1998). In particular, they question whether making a psychiatric disorder diagnosis can be equated with demonstrating a treatment need. It is still unclear to what extent the psychiatric disorders, as defined by rigorous criteria such as the ICD-10 or DSM-IV used in our project, identified in community populations are equivalent to those identified with the same criteria in clinical settings, or whether they have the same clinical significance and response to treatment. The design of the ODIN enables us to introduce new elements of discussion into this debate, and adds fresh evidence that validates the ability of epidemiological studies to identify subjects with depressive disorders who might benefit from therapeutic interventions. As we have described elsewhere (Dowrick et al, 1998), this is the first population-based study that incorporated into its design a randomised controlled trial of individual problem-solving treatment and a group psychoeducation programme. Participants identified as having depression in the epidemiological phase were offered the chance to take part in the controlled trial, the results of which (Dowrick et al, 2000) suggest that psychological interventions are effective in reducing depressive caseness, symptoms and personal disability in the short term. Thus, our prevalence estimates identified a segment of the population with a depressive disorder that could benefit from an intervention.
We believe that the data in the present study confirm that depressive disorder is a highly prevalent condition among working-age adults in Europe, particularly in urban centres, and that this epidemiological information should be used to inform and implement equitable and effective health policies across the continent in order to address this public health challenge.
Clinical Implications and Limitations
The prevalence estimates in the present study show that a substantial proportion of the population of working age in Europe has a depressive disorder that could benefit from an intervention in the short term.
Rural communities show a lower prevalence of depressive episodes than urban ones in three of the four countries where urban and rural samples were studied.
Our findings could be considered a representative baseline framework on the extent of depressive disorders in Europe. By repeating this survey in future years, it will be possible to monitor the effectiveness of mental health prevention and treatment programmes.
The representation of European countries is incomplete.
Use of different strategies in the first phase of the community survey (home interviews in Santander, postal survey in the other centres).
Problems related to the representativeness of the sample in some of the centres, mainly due to the high rate of refusal and low response rate at those centres.
Financial support for the ODIN Project, in addition to that provided by the European Commission Biomed 2 programme, has come from the NHS Executive North-West Research and Development Office (Contract RDO/18/31); the Spanish FIS (Exp. No 96/1798); the Wales Office of Research and Development (Contrast RC092); the Norwegian Research Council, Council for Mental Health and Department of Health and Social Welfare; and the Finnish Pensions Institute of Agricultural Entrepreneurs (Contract 0339).
The ODIN Group is composed of the academic colleagues and research and administrative staff who have worked on this part of the Outcome of Depression International Network (ODIN) Project. They include: Javier Ballesteros, Gail Birkbeck, Trygve Børve, Maura Costello, Pim Cuijpers, loana Davies, Juan Francisco Diez-Manrique, Nicholas Fenlon, Mette Finne, Fiona Ford, Luis Gaite, Andres Gomez del Barrio, Claire Hayes, Andrés Herrán, Ann Horgan, Tarja Koffert, Nicola Jones, Marja Lehtilä, Catherine McDonough, Erin Michalak, Christine Murphy, Anna Nevra, Teija Nummelin and Britta Sohlman.
- Received July 3, 2000.
- Revision received April 5, 2001.
- Accepted April 6, 2001.
- © 2001 Royal College of Psychiatrists


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Advocate editorial board opinion: It doesn't have to be city's way or the driveway
By the Advocate Editorial Board
April 29, 2014 at 5:05 p.m.
Updated April 28, 2014 at 11:29 p.m.
When looking for a solution, it's often best to look toward the middle of the road.
That's what the city of Victoria appears ready to do after receiving intense public backlash for its handling of a homeowner's variance request for a second driveway. To better understand the driveway drama, it's best to back up a bit first.
About a year ago, the homeowner, Ben Commerson, obtained a permit to build a 1,200-square-foot workshop in back of his home in the Northcrest neighborhood. The city OK'd that building and a temporary driveway for its construction, but Commerson did not get permission to build a second, permanent driveway.
The city suspects Commerson knowingly built the driveway without permission, based partly on the fact that he waited until after the final city inspection to add a garage door facing the street. Before then, only a solid wall faced the street.
However, Commerson says he just didn't understand the process and added the bay door later when he could afford it. He said he thought it was clear he planned a second driveway, as several other homes in his neighborhood do, including one directly across the street. Those second driveways were built, though, before the neighborhood became part of the city and didn't have to adhere to current regulations.
A key point Commerson said he also learned along the way is that the city owns the right-of-way along its streets. Homeowners must maintain this right-of-way and may use it, but ultimately, they don't control it.
As Commerson told our editorial board this week, he can pave his yard, but he can't pave the street right-of-way without the city's permission. This distinction is critical for the public's understanding, given that many characterized this as government infringement on private property.
The city must control the right-of-way for water, sewer, drainage and other reasons for the public good. There's nothing at all wrong with the city doing that.
Where the city veered off course is in failing to reach a compromise before this issue went all the way to the City Council. Somehow, common sense needed to enter sooner into the equation.
Commerson constructed a good-looking driveway that fits the neighborhood. He said he was willing to alter the driveway in whatever way necessary to be sure proper drainage and safety.
After the city told him his driveway violated the city's rules, he applied for a variance. Somewhere in this process, the city should have worked more with him to find a compromise.
Of course, the burden also is on the homeowner to learn the city's rules and procedures. Commerson said he didn't know to show up for the planning commission meeting in which his variance request was first considered.
The City Council then upheld the planning commissioner's rejection of the variance. Mayor Paul Polasek said he has since talked with city staff about working out a compromise to require Commerson to bring the driveway up to city code. His variance requested could be reconsidered and granted on that condition.
If the city chooses, it also can take Commerson to Municipal Court to decide on a fine. This type of code violation is punishable by a fine of up to $500.
If the city wants to force Commerson to tear out the driveway, it would need to sue him in civil court. The city probably would win the case, but that doesn't mean it's the right course of action.
The city still has time to change direction and work out a compromise that respects both the private property owner and the public good. There's a middle ground here.
This editorial reflects the views of the Victoria Advocate's editorial board.


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I think the perfect combo here would be a purple, gold or green casual dress paired with accessories and ballet flats to dress it down. Or try wearing a skirt with a Mardi Gras colored top. It's important to be comfortable, but I'd much rather be over dressed than under dressed. Plus, it's a party, so don't be afraid to step it up a bit! When creating these outfits, I tried to stick to stores found in Louisiana like Forever 21, Wet Seal, Target, etc. I wouldn't rely on online shipping dates since the event is coming up so soon — Who doesn't love a trip to the mall anyway? :)
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This is Theorem 10.27 in Page 267-268 of Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis", as the picture below shows.
I have three questions:
First, what is "oriented rectilinear -simplex"? Is it the same as oriented affine -simplex defined in the previous page?
Second, if is in open set , that is, its range , how to guarantee that is also in ? If not, integral may not be meaningful at all.
Three, the proof deals only with the relation of Jacobians of and , what about the coefficient function? In page 254, the integral is defined as or , where is the parameter domain, but in general , how can we say that the two integrals differ only in the sign?
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This course is hands-on, taught by practitioners in the field, and is well worth the time and effort.
Advanced Contract Management
Presenters: Bill Noorlander and Carol Ginsburg
Sunday, 15 July 2012
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
This course is designed to help information professionals who have five years or more of experience in supplier management and contract negotiations at a material level. The course content will focus on the details of contracts, usage requirement and rules, contract models, client/vendor relationships and potential opportunities to reopen previously negotiated contracts. There will a concentration on contract models and negotiation strategy.
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Kenya Safari Package | Safari from Nairobi | 5 Days Amboseli, Lake Nakuru and Masai Mara Kenya Safari
Duration: 5 days
Country: Kenya
Departures: Nairobi - Any day
Destination: Amboseli National Park / Lake Nakuru National Park / Masai Mara Game Reserve / Nairobi
Price: Custom Safari Van - From USD 1,120.00 PP | 4 x 4 Land Cruiser - From USD 1,360.00 PP
Day 1: Nairobi - Amboseli
Breakfast and route for Amboseli national park, arrive for lunch at –Ol TukaiLodge. Afternoon game drive in the park. Dinner and overnight at Amboseli –Ol Tukai Lodge.
Day 2: Amboseli- Lake Nakuru
Breakfast and depart for Lake Nakuru national park, famous for its millions of seasonal pink flamingos and other aquatic birds. Arrive for lunch at -Flamingo Hill Tented Camp. After lunch, game drive around the lake. Dinner and overnight at –Flamingo Hill Tented Camp or Lake Nakuru Lodge.
Day 3: Lake Nakuru –Masai Mara
After breakfast depart for Masai Mara, one of East Africa's most famous reserves, The Mara consists of undulating hills and great rolling grasslands that sustain some of the most varied wildlife in Africa, if not the world. Arrive in time for lunch at – Azure Mara Haven Camp-. Afternoon game viewing, where lion, elephant, cheetah, giraffe, buffalo, wildebeest, gazelle and other plains game abound, not forgetting the hundreds of species of birds. Dinner and overnight in -Azure Mara Haven Camp.
Day 4 : Masai Mara
Full day is dedicated to game spotting in this sprawling reserve. You can watch a lion, cheetah or leopard hunting or feasting on its kill. Option of a visit to a Masai village or a hot-air balloon ride that starts at 06.00 am and ends with a Champagne breakfast on the plains. What an exhilarating experience! All meals and overnight at the –Azure Mara Haven Camp.
Day 5: Masai Mara – Nairobi
After breakfast driver to Nairobi. Arrive for lunch at –Nairobi Carnivore. After lunch drive to the airport.


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Well, it's election season again, and that means we are all treated to unending hymns of praise for this candidate or that, with everyone swearing on a stack of Bibles what fine human beings they are. There are, however, people who know the truth about a candidate, people who get the chance to observe them in "their native habitat," unguarded in their actions. I am referring to neighbors. A neighbor sees how a man treats his wife, how his kids respond to him, how he manages his household and whether or not his public image matches the private reality.
I was Wade Padgett's next-door neighbor for a number of years, and I can tell you the truth about him: He is absolutely one of the finest men I have ever known. He is a genuinely decent and generous individual, the kind of guy you could call at 3 in the morning for help and know he would come to your aid. He is a model of integrity and common sense, and he treats everyone with fairness and old-fashioned courtesy.
Despite his commitments to the magistrate court, to his law practice, to his church and community, he always puts his family first, which is all too rare these days.For those who are wondering where all the good guys have gone, Wade Padgett is your man. I hope you will join me in voting to elect Wade our next chief magistrate judge for Columbia County.
Ed Rees
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Coachella publishes summer '12 lineup
The Black Keys, Radiohead, Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre will headline this years Coachella festival in Californiatwice.
For the first time, the festival will run identical line-ups over two weekends in April.
The headline acts will be joined by Florence and the Machine, Arctic Monkeys, La Roux, Laura Marling and Pulp, among other performers.
The announcement arrived in the form of a tweet. Reading, psst... pass it on, the message linked to a poster listing the acts.
For 150,000 festival-goers who will soak up the sun and the sounds over 13-15 April and 20-22 April, the tweet arrived as a beacon. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Are you ready for the festival season?


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Real Mallorca coach Joaquin Caparros has rapped Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo for winding up the home fans on Sunday. Ronaldo cupped his ear towards the home support after being relentlessly jeered during the thumping away win.
But Caparros was unimpressed and snapped: "He has to show a lot more humility and a lot more ambition on other things, because as a player he has it all, the data is there to prove it. But you lose everything in that kind of situation."


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Last night, the CNBC anchors addressed the most urgent economic question of the moment – the fate of the euro – to four of the Republican presidential candidates: Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman.
I want to begin with what we saw today, another rough day for our money, for our 401(k)s. Once again, we were all impacted by the news that the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 400 points today. The reason, Italy is on the brink of financial disaster.
It is the world's seventh largest economy. As president, what will you do to make sure that their problems do not take down the U.S. Financial system? It is the world's seventh largest economy.
As president, what will you do to make sure their problems do not take down the U.S. financial system?
The results were pretty bad.
Cain struggled to avoid the question altogether, but when pressed, gave an answer that revealed that he did not understand the problem, let alone have a solution to offer.
There's not a lot that the United States can directly do for Italy right now, because they have — they're really way beyond the point of return that we — we as the United States can save them.
Ron Paul was of course Ron Paul, always eager to plunge the whole world into a second Great Depression, to chasten us all into repenting our sins and returning to using rocks and metal as money.
you have to let it — you have to let it liquidate. We've had — we took 40 years to build up this worldwide debt. We're in a debt crisis never seen before in our history. The sovereign debt of this world is equal to the GDP, as ours is in this country. If you prop it up, you'll do exactly what we did in the depression, prolong the agony. If you do — if you prop it up, you do what Japan has done for 20 years.
So, yes, you want to liquidate the debt. The debt is unsustainable. And this bubble was predictable, because 40 years ago we had no restraints whatsoever on the monetary authorities, and we piled debt on debt, we pyramided debt, we had no restraints on the spending. And if you keep bailing people out and prop it up, you just prolong the agony, as we're doing in the housing bubble.
For me, the shocker of the evening was Jon Huntsman's answer. Advertised as the thinking man's candidate, his answer to this urgent question was more articulate than Herman Cain's, but very nearly as uninformed.
So we wake up this morning, and we find that the yield curve with respect to Italy is up, and prices are down. So if you want a window into what this country is going to look like in the future if we don't get on top of our debt, you are seeing it playing out in Europe right now.
You are seeing the metastasy effect of the banking sector. And what does it mean here? What am I most concerned about, Jim? I'm concerned that it impacts us in way that moves into our banking sector where we have got a huge problem called "too big to fail" in this country.
We have six banks in this country that combined have assets worth 66 percent of our nation's GDP, $9.4 trillion. These institutions get hit. They have an implied bailout by the taxpayers in this country, and that means that we are setting ourselves up for disaster again.
Jim, as long as we have banks that are "too big to fail" in this country, we are going to catch the contagion and it's going to hurt us. We have got to get back to a day and age where we have properly sized banks and financial institutions.
Of course, the issue facing the US financial system today is not the size of any individual bank, but the size of the collective banks' exposure to Euro-denominated bonds–not only Italian bonds, but all Euro-denominated bonds, including French bonds. The issue is not that we may awake to a higher yield curve, but that we may awake to discover that the world's largest currency zone has broken apart–presenting the whole planet with a de facto continent-wide partial default on debt.
I can appreciate why a politician might want to avoid delivering an answer about such a horrible contingency. But he should at least signal that he understands the issues. Huntsman did not.
On the Italy question Romney was, as usual, unstumpable.
Romney's answer shows that he understands the nature of the problem in Italy and Europe. He has anticipated the demands that will be put upon the US–that the US will be asked to join a Euro bailout fund, either directly or via the IMF. As always, he has hyper-awareness of the answer his audience wants to hear.
Well, Europe is able to take care of their own problems. We don't want to step in and try and bail out their banks and bail out their governments. They have the capacity to deal with that themselves. They're a very large economy.
And there will be, I'm sure, cries if Italy does default, if Italy does get in trouble. And we don't know that'll happen, but if they get to a point where they're in crisis and banks throughout Europe that hold a lot of Italy debt will — will then face crisis and there will have to be some kind of effort to try and uphold their financial system.
There will be some who say here that banks in the U.S. that have Italian debt, that we ought to help those, as well. My view is no, no, no. We do not need to step in to bail out banks either in Europe or banks here in the U.S. that may have Italian debt. The right answer is for us…
BARTIROMO: But — but the U.S. does contribute to the International Monetary Fund, and the IMF has given $150 billion to the eurozone. Are you saying the U.S. should stop contributing to the IMF?
ROMNEY: I'm happy to continue to participate in world efforts like the World Bank and the IMF, but I'm not happy to have the United States government put in place a TARP-like program to try and save U.S. banks that have Italian debt, foreign banks doing business in the U.S. that have Italian debt, or European debt. We're just — banks there.
There's going to be an effort to try and draw us in and talk about how we need to help — help Italy and help Europe. Europe is able to help Europe. We have to focus on getting our own economy in order and making sure we never reach the kind of problem Italy is having.
If we stay on the course we're on, with the level of borrowing this administration is carrying out, if we don't get serious about cutting and capping our spending and balancing our — our budget, you're going to find America in the same position Italy is in four or five years from now, and that is unacceptable. We've got to fix our — our deficit here.
"Fixing our deficit here" is not of course a very good answer to the question about how to protect the US from a Euro shock, and Mitt Romney must know that. In fact, Mitt Romney's evident intelligence is one reason that he gets such a rap as a panderer. It's credible that Herman Cain or Rick Perry might believe that "fix the deficit" is a good answer to the Euro question. It's not credible that Mitt Romney believes it. If he says such a thing, we intuit that he must be saying it cynically.
But last night's debate also should also debunk a false charge against Romney. He may pander, yes, but not on the epic scale of the man seeking now to emerge as the next Not Mitt: Newt Gingrich.
Listen to this, from Gingrich's first answer of the night:
GINGRICH: Well, first of all, I think Ben Bernanke is a large part of the problem and ought to be fired as rapidly as possible.
GINGRICH: I think the Federal Reserve ought to be audited and we should have all the decision documents for 2008, '09 and '10 so we can understand who he bailed out, why he bailed them out, who he did not bail out, and why he did not bail them out.
GINGRICH: So, I'm glad that Ben Bernanke recognizes some of the wreckage his policies have led to.
The reason we follow — I think most of us are for tax policies that lead to jobs is because we have had two cycles in my lifetime, Ronald Reagan, and the Contract with America, both of which had the same policy: lower taxes, less regulation, more American energy, and have faith in the American job creator as distinct from the Saul Alinsky radicalism of higher taxes, bigger bureaucracy with more regulations, no American energy, as the president announced again today in his decision on offshore, and finally class warfare.
So I would say that all of us on the stage represent a dramatically greater likelihood of getting to a paycheck and leaving behind food stamps than does Barack Obama.
The Gingrich answer is so vehement that you have to believe it's heartfelt, right? Now look again. That answer has been constructed as delicately as a bird's nest out of all the discards and fragments favored by the Not Mitt coalition: the attack on the Federal Reserve, the warning of class warfare, the Saul Alinsky paranoia, the sly racial politics of the food stamps slam.
Compared to this pander, Romney's carefully parsed phrases about "not being happy" about a Euro-TARP look like a profile in courage.
As always, I come away from these debates thinking: I see only one president on that stage. I don't know that he'll be a successful president, but at least he won't be immediately lost in the job and won't immediately embarrass himself or disgrace the country.


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Big Brother: Sticking to Her GunsSteve Marsi at . Comments
Following last Thursday's elimination of Brendon and Kalia's surprising rise to the HoH room, the balance of power truly shifted on Big Brother. Perhaps for good.
Jeff, Rachel and Jordan were left in an unfamiliar position as tensions in the house began to run high. They knew a combination of them would be on the block.
With the twist looming, Kalia weighed her options, but ultimately decided to go with her gut. This did not go over well with one or more houseguests, obviously.
Who was nominated for eviction at the end of the night? How did the nominees react to Kalia's tough call? Find out in THG's comprehensive Big Brother recap ...
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Alan Wood already gave a good answer, so I'll just fill in the details.
on 10/6/00 8:17 AM, Suzanne Topping <email@example.com> wrote:
> 1) Did Unicode ennoblement replace WorldScript functionality, or is
> WorldScript II still in the picture somehow?
They're independent. WorldScript is still present and required. WorldScript
II was integrated into the system back around OS 8.5; WorldScript I (for
complex one-byte scripts) is still a separate extension.
> 2) Does anyone have a source of info. on double-byte handling prior to
> version 7.1?
Prior to 7.1 I believe it was only present in the individual localized
operating systems for the double-byte countries. This was before my time;
Mark Davis could probably comment.
> 3) Is there some common industry handling for backward compatibility when
> building Japanese Mac applications now? If there is a need for an
> application to work on post 7.1 systems and 9.0 systems, is there a
> workaround, or are two versions of the application needed?
I don't believe you need to do anything special for a Japanese application
to run on Japanese systems prior to 7.1, beyond what you have to do to get
*any* application to run on such an early system. If you can get it running
on KanjiTalk 7 or earlier, it will probably run on later Japanese OSs and
under the Japanese Language Kit on non-Japanese OSs.
Apple always tells developers to be "good citizens" and not do things that
try to go around the OS. If you want your application to run across such a
broad range of OS versions, that's especially important. It would be a
really good idea to test the application on all the intermediate versions of
the OS.
Most developers these days don't bother going back that far. A lot of
developers today have 8.0 or 8.1 as their minimum system. The only customers
who use older OSs generally are not in the market to buy new applications.
To clarify one thing Alan brought up:
> There are two experimental text editors that use the built-in support of Mac
> OS 9 for Unicode TrueType fonts. I don't know if they require the Language
> Kits (I don't want to uninstall them all to find out).
> MLTE Demo: http://www.merzwaren.com/snippets/index.html#mltedemo
> SUE: http://members.tripod.com/%7Etomaszek/sue.html
Unicode applications on Mac OS do not make use of Language Kit features
except for input methods or keyboards and fonts. For example, you can do
Arabic or Devanagari in a Unicode application without WorldScript I, but you
do need the appropriate fonts and keyboards.
Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, International Toolbox Group
Apple Computer, Inc.
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As Chu Tail Whipped the Meditite, Rizza giggled. It was such a funny sight. She had hoped that she brought her camera for that priceless moment. The Thundershock seemed to hurt the Meditite a little harder than expected. She smirked. But as Rizza heard Todd's words, that smirk faded. Bide is one of the most manipulative attacks she knows. "I'll stop the Thundershocks for the mean time. It might regret it if I used them.", she thought. Then she planned her next move.
"Chu, I think you should use Tail Whip again and Growl as loud as you can to steer away its concentration from Bide." Chu nodded, looking a bit tired but nevertheless determined to beat that Medite, did as told. Rizza stared at Todd in the eyes and thought, "I hope I can beat him. Maybe he'd date me. He is kinda cute." Rizza giggled at that thought, of course Todd won't date someone like me, I'm just a beginner and he's kind of experienced. Chu looked at its beloved trainer in the eye as if saying, "We can do this" and smirked at the Meditite.


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East Timor makes case for oil industry development
Published 7:00 pm, Saturday, September 12, 2009
By Anthony Deutsch
Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia — East Timor's government has designated land to be developed into a regional petrochemicals hub, its top resources official said Thursday, in the latest push to bring disputed offshore oil and gas to its coast rather than to Australia.
The neighbors share proceeds from the Bayu Undan field in the Timor Sea, but there is disagreement about a larger, untapped field called Greater Sunrise, which contains an estimated 240 million barrels of light oil and 5.4 trillion cubic feet (154 billion cubic meters) of natural gas.
It is worth billions of dollars in commercial oil and gas sales and the country that hosts the processing facilities will also generate billions in tax revenue.
East Timor's government has designated three towns in the southern part of the island to build a petrochemical processing plant, liquid natural gas facility and supply center, Alfredo Pires, the country's state secretary for natural resources, said Thursday.
"We feel quite strongly that for the people to benefit from these resources they need to be brought to our shores," Pires told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
"The discussions will continue, but we are making our position known … we are not just the stakeholders, we are the owners of these resources," he said.
Pires's comments show the apparently unwavering position of East Timor's leaders and could set the stage for a standoff with a group of oil and gas companies led by Australia's Woodside and even block short-term development. Woodside said in its latest annual report a deal is expected by the end of 2009.
"Our commitment to this project makes it very difficult to reconcile any other agreement," Pires told an oil conference Thursday in a speech e-mailed to AP. "The development of Greater Sunrise will either transform our nation on shore or remain a distant dream for all of us."
Woodside and its partners are licensed to develop Greater Sunrise and want to build a 330-mile (530-kilometer) pipeline running south to Darwin, where ConocoPhillips has built a $5 billion natural gas processing plant, or to a floating gas processing facility.
The group argues that technical studies concluded processing the resources in Australia is more commercially viable.
"It is possible to build a subsea pipeline from the Greater Sunrise reservoir to onshore Timor Leste (East Timor), (but) it carries significant technical, cost and schedule risks," Woodside said in a statement Thursday.
The studies concluded that a floating liquid natural gas facility or a pipeline to Darwin are "the best commercial and technical development options for Sunrise," it said.
But East Timor sees the resources as key to lifting its 1.1 million people out of poverty, by stimulating the local economy and creating jobs. The nation has no major industry and unemployment is more than 30 percent.
East Timor has around $5 billion in a petroleum fund that can be used to build infrastructure such as roads, ports and a power plant. But it is seeking outside funding of up to $10 billion to create the petrochemicals industry, Pires told AP. He said discussions are ongoing with several companies, but provided no names.
Under a current agreement, neither party can develop Greater Sunrise unilaterally.
East Timor became Asia's youngest democracy in 2002 after centuries of colonization, but faces challenges in rebuilding infrastructure that was devastated by departing Indonesian troops in 1999. Roughly half the population lives below the poverty line and many lack access to health services.


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Last night, just one day after Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock teamed up for an impromptu stand-up set at New York's Comedy Cellar, the duo took the stage again. This time, they brought along a few more friends: the Roots' drummer Questlove and comedians Kevin Hart, Marlon Wayans and Bill Bellamy.
Questlove posted a photo to Instagram of the five funnymen along with a caption that detailed the night's events – which, for him, began when he received a text reading, "Get yo arse down here NOW!!!!!" He hightailed it to the club, where up-and-coming comedian Hannibal Buress was performing before Chappelle took the stage.
"Chappelle did an amazing off the top bit about what life will be like in a South African jail with prosthetic legs. . . and the pope quitting his career too," wrote Questlove of the reclusive comedian's set. The percussionist also chronicled the night on his Twitter.
Next, keeping with the previous night's Jay-Z theme, Kevin Hart cracked jokes about spilling drinks on the MC. After that, the group gathered in a circle for "a mini roast/dozens/lovefest about each other."
"It was honest to god like watching the comic version of 'scenario' or 'the symphony,'" wrote Questlove. "Jokes and punchlines were flying fast. Stories of way back when was told. And I had the best seat in the house." Chappelle even asked the drummer to play the piano, but Questlove admitted that he took the bench "just to get a good view."
Chappelle has been stopping by the famed Comedy Cellar this week to test out new material after his long absence from the comedy world. During his set with Rock on Tuesday night, the two teased a possible tour, with Rock telling Chappelle, "You should come down to West Palm," and Chappelle replying, "After next Tuesday, I'm free for like 11 years." Rock pointed out that he's busy filming a new movie in the spring, but left things open: "By Halloween, I could do dates."


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Adding Teeth
A great reference site on saw sharpening (existing teeth) does exist on the web and is available at www.vintagesaws.com. Most, if not all, of the sharpening procedures are covered on that site, some maybe in more detail than what I do. I will also cover some of the basics of saw sharpening well enough to do a good job, using my experience, from a "what users need to know" sort of perspective. But it certainly never hurts to check out other references for additional perspectives.
An important note - sharpening saws is pretty much impossible to accomplish without some sort of a saw vise, be it iron or wood. If you buy one, avoid the no-name steel versions and go for the classic cast iron ones from companies such as Disston or Wentworth.
Should you decide you would rather make your own - an excellent plan for a wooden saw vise is available on The Cornish Workshop's web site. I've used both cast iron and wooden saw vises, and each have their respective advantages and disadvantages. I've found that both types work well, and I personally don't prefer one over the other..
- Less than a week after I first wrote this, my Disston model 3D saw vise went the way of the dodo, developing a crack that essentially renders it useless. Not having another handy - I looked closer at the plans mentioned above. While it would work great for standard saws, it would not work at all on back saws without a great deal of modification. I decided just to buy another old Disston rather than try build a wooden one.
- Added 11/04/04 - Jasper Homminga has contributed a small article on making a simple wooden saw vise - available on this web site HERE.
Some advice for those who haven't done much sharpening, or have only sharpened larger saws - go slowly, and with a light touch until you get the hang of it. Even then, not all days are good saw sharpening days. There have been many instances for me while sharpening saws where I just about gave up in frustration because I just couldn't get the teeth to come out right - it took a little time away from it to get some perspective. Teeth as small as these are can be difficult to get right without some practice.
I've also found that a magnifying light is of great help when doing such fine teeth.
Joint the Cutting Edge Flat
Using a large flat bastard file, I straighten out the cutting edge of the blade. It's important that it be both perpendicular as well as straight, otherwise the teeth won't be on the same plane. To accomplish this, I use a square scrap of wood to guide the file along the saw blade, as is seen in this photo:
Commercial versions of file holders were made, but I've never owned one. I know my dad has one tucked away someplace - I've always gotten by with a simple scrap of wood. I wouldn't mind having one, though.
Marking the Teeth
I use a cad program to draw a set of lines that are spaced at the correct number of Points Per Inch (PPI) that I want so I can print it out to use as a reference. This can also be done with a square and a tape measure (using measurements on the tape, like 1/16" which equals 16 PPI), or if you have another saw that has the number of teeth you want you can use it as a guide.
In case you have no other options, I have made up some jpegs that have lines at the number indicated (pictures like the sheet you see me using in the photo below) that might do the trick. Right click on the following to download the one you want (warning, 130 to 190 Kb each) and print them off - the size of each jpeg is 7" wide by 10" tall at 150 dpi - using a graphics program such as Photoshop (I believe Microsoft Paint will work as well). If you print them directly from your web browser, you might not get the correct size - you should double check it in any case.
I mount the paper in the saw vise directly next to the saw blade. You could also use some spray adhesive to mount the paper directly to the saw blade, if that helps you. When done, a rag dampened with mineral spirits should dissolve the adhesive and clean it and the paper from the metal.
For me, at such a small scale, it's usually best to start out by simply marking out the locations of the teeth using an old file. Hold the file so one side is perpendicular to the blade so you can sight along side it to match the lines in the paper:
- The photos I'm using are for an 9 PPI blade, so that you can see what I'm doing better than if I used the actual photos from the 15 PPI (or so) blades sharpened for these back saws. The process is the same for either, however.
If you have difficulty in using a file, a hacksaw blade can also be used for this step. It's thinness allows you to see the lines more clearly. Really, all you need to end up with is something that can guide the start of your file in the next step.
Sizes of Files Used in Sharpening Saws
This is taken verbatim from vintagesaws site - I have no reason to quarrel with it:
|7" Regular Taper
|7" Slim Taper
|6" Slim Taper
|6" XSlim Taper
|6" 2XSlim Taper
|5" 2XSlim Taper
|4" 2XSlim Taper
Absolute adherence to the above is not necessary, just recommended. You should try to be close, though. Too large of a file for too small of a tooth can lead to problems with with the file being too rounded at the corner to be effective, and the opposite can waste a file by using too much of its side up, dulling it when you try to use another corner of the file. I find I can use a file for shaping teeth for quite a while, but for final sharpening it really pays to use a nice sharp one. For teeth finer than 16 PPI, you can also look into using a needle file. I've not done this, but others have reported success to me using them.
Files less than 6" long can be difficult to find in your local hardware store. I've had good luck getting them from Lee Valley, Highland Hardware, toolsforworkingwood.com, and of course, they are also available from Vintage Saws.
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Chapter 121: Jin Yan's Trust
Lan Jue chuckled. "So afraid of death! In this aspect, your in much better straits than Jin Tao – thanks to your natural talent. You'll suffer, to be sure, but don't worry. Your path is considerably less dangerous. His Talent is simply too weak to match up to yours, unless we take steps to change that."
Tang Xiao's mouth hung agape. "Professor, surely you aren't saying that with these measures Jin Tao could reach ninth rank?"
Lan Jue fixed his pupil with a stare. "Interesting response."
"Man…" Tang Xiao almost looked dizzy from what he'd learned. "This guy's making out like a bandit. If you had a method to get someone to ninth rank almost anyone would be willing to give it a shot, no matter the dangers. To reach the very pinnacle of human ability! Dumb-Mutt sure as hell is a lucky one."
Lan Jue's response came in quiet, earnest tones. "What I require from you is simple; don't let him surpass you. If you do, it'll prove to me you don't have what it take to be my pupil. Do you understand? Alright, that's all for you today. We'll begin tomorrow, and your training will officially commence. We'll find somewhere else to meet as well, away from the school. This place is no longer suitable."
"Yes, Professor." Tang Xiao rose, letting his respectful answer serve as goodbye.
But as he turned to leave, he suddenly stopped in his tracks. "Professor," he began, his voice low, "If one day I'm strong enough, do you think I'll be able to beat that man from yesterday?"
The question took Lan Jue by surprise, but it quickly became a smile. "If one day you're strong enough to do so, you'll have earned my pride and respect."
Tang Xiao's knuckles whitened as he tightened his fist. "It'll happen."
He quickly made his way from the small yard.
"Oi, this fatty. He actually wants to beat on me." An indignant voice arose from nearby.
"What's wrong with having such lofty ambitions? If there does one day come a time when you can't best my pupils, you'll probably have to give up the title of Poseidon." Lan Jue hadn't expected the intrusion, and grinned broadly.
"He's dreaming," Hua Li muttered in agitation. "But it looks like you're really gearing up to train these guys properly!"
Lan Jue nodded. "If what Piao Hong said was true, then we ninth ranked Talents have a responsibility to all of humanity."
"Should we wait here a while before we respond to them?"
Resolution shone in Lan Jue's eyes, and nodded in agreement. "What are personal gains and losses when the fate of our galaxy lies in the balance? Moreover, in the last three years I've done nothing to improve myself. Thor will also need some polishing. When this competition they've concocted is over, I'll really need to make myself stronger. I can't keep losing out to him."
"Good! Then we'll train together. Without you trying to run ahead I wont have the motivation to improve myself." Hua Li stuffed his hands in his pockets and rocked on his heels, the picture of leisurely cool. Of course, this was somewhat offset by his giant facemask and ridiculous sunglasses.
It was then Jin Tao returned with the clearly confused Jin Yan. Upon seeing that it was indeed Lan Jue upon the bench, she visibly relaxed some.
"Professor Lan," she greeted, smiling.
Lan Jue rose and returned her greeting. "Hello Professor Yan. I apologize for being bold in asking Jin Tao to call you here. It is something important we have to discuss. I felt it only prudent that I consult with you and his family, as close relatives, before any further action was taken."
"Professor Lan, don't frighten me," Jin Yan stated. "What could be so important? Dumb-Mutt! What terrible thing did you do this time?" It appeared Jin Tao pulled her here directly without explanation – probably because he wasn't sure himself of what his teacher was planning. He wouldn't be able to explain it to her clearly even if he knew.
Lan Jue hastily waved his hands. "He didn't do anything wrong. Professor Jin. Take it easy, and listen carefully to what I have to say. I've decided to take Jin Tao on as my personal disciple."
Jin Yan looked at him in surprise, but it quickly changed to joy. "This is excellent news! This kid's always needed a good guide. You probably didn't notice, Professor, but that first time in your class I noticed how engrossed Jin Tao was in your lecture. I knew from that instant you'd be the only one to get through to him. Frankly speaking neither me or my parents have ever really had any success with him, we just hoped he'd grow to be a useful member of society. If you've agreed to teach him then that's amazing."
This time it was Lan Jue who was struck silent. He looked at Jin Tao. 'Dumb-Mutt' resolutely held his gaze.
No wonder he rushed headlong towards any opportunity. Even his family, the people who cared for him, expected nothing to come of his life. As a man, an adult, so much was hidden away, buried within him as a result of his treatment. Behind his flippant nature, there was deep insecurity – and an iron stubborness.
"I plan to train his Discipline, Professor Jin. But during the training process he's likely to encounter some risks. I cannot guarantee his safety. Of course, I'll do everything in my power to protect him, and reduce the risk of harm. This is why I needed to speak with you. If you all agree to have him study with me, he'll probably have to leave school for a time as we work on his foundation. From there he'll rise quickly. It'll take about three months. We'll say he needs sick leave. This, too, will require you and your family's agreement." Lan Jue spoke clearly and slowly to ensure Jin Yan understood the gravity.
"Sick leave? Three months?" Questions were clearly written on jin Yan's face. After a moment, she resolutely nodded her head. "You're right! Jin Tao absolutely needs work, from the bottom up. You'll need to start from the beginning. Professor Lan, I'm very sorry for all the trouble you're going through to help my brother. This is no problem, I'll have him set for sick leave as soon as possible. If it weren't for our family connections he'd never even have made it in to the school, much less have graduated. Professor, thank you so much."
Jin Yan bowed earnestly before Lan Jue. "I'll take him now." She grabbed Jin Tao and pulled him away without another word. Lan Jue watched them go, flabbergasted.
"She agreed awful quick," Lan Jue muttered to himself.
Hua Li's faint voice intruded on his soliloquy. "Sounds like she chose not to hear about that whole 'dangerous' thing. The kid hasn't taken anything serious in his life, a big disappointment to his family. It's also pretty clear this lady fancies you. Unconditional trust from the onset."
"Stop spreading rumors," Lan Jue hissed.
"Pfft," came Hua Li's dismissive response. "When it comes to reading people, you got nothing on me. And I guess I have to admit, if I weren't here you'd be an attractive option."
Lan Jue twisted to look back. "A-Li, you hide behind my lack of strength, without fear of repercussion for your obstinance."
This caused Hua Li to chuckle. "And when you recovered whadda ya gunna do? Think you can take me on in a fair fight?"
Lan Jue shook his fist in his direction. "When I'm better we'll give it a shot and see. Ah, right, and in two days the school is organizing a teachers trip to Taihua. I don't think I can get out of it. I doubt you, as a late-arriving student, will be able to take leave either."
Hua Li's brows knitted in concern. "You'll leave Skyfire? You sure you can't get out of it?"
"What," Lan Jue said, "You afraid they'll hunt me down or something?"
"Your discipline has only partially recovered," Hua Li said. "If you really do run in to something, you'll be in significant danger."
Lan Jue lifted his left hand, revealing the glowing Thor's Promise. "Don't worry, Thor's with me. His damage isn't so serious any longer. More or less finished with the repairs. And Taihua's close, there's no need for worry. And besides, if he can't handle the fight, what's stopping me from running? The whole thing should only be a couple days. And there's another reason you can't come with me. Tomorrow I plan to give Jin Tao the Fantascia Genetica decoction. You've got to help me keep an eye on him, to make sure nothing happens."
Hua Li lapsed in to quiet thought for a moment. "Fine. I suppose it's unlikely you'll run in to trouble on Taihua. Just be careful. I'll have someone erase any trace of you leaving Skyfire. Go early, come back soon."
Lan Jue nodded. "I know my limits."
"So if you got nothing going in the afternoon, how about we head back? We can get to Dreamburg ahead of schedule, that'd be good."
Suddenly, Zhou Qianlin's figure emerged through his memories. He nodded. "That's fine. Let's head home. If something happens I'll come back."
Hua Li and Lan Jue made their way back to Skyfire Avenue, proceeding immediately to the warehouse and the simulators stored within.
"Your reply?" Piao Hong was a little surprised to see Zeus standing before her. It had only been a day, and already the Four Divine Monarchs had an answer for her. The prize pool was massive, to be sure, but for any god-team to participate in an open competition before the three alliances – and thus revealing the scope of their abilities – was taboo to say the least.
"We agree, but not for DreamNet, and not for the reward," Zeus replied. "It's because of what you said yesterday. We hope what you said is true… otherwise what will befall the Guardians will be terrible. In addition, as partial payment for our agreement I hope you can assist me with something. It shouldn't be anything DreamNet can't handle."
"Speak." Piao Hong didn't even ask, immediately ready to offer assistance.
Zeus lifted a hand, and a beam of light floated towards Piao Hong. A data-stream. More specifically, a video.
"Help me find the whereabouts of this woman. She deceived me once, and took something she shouldn't have."


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Hello to ALL Saviours,
From past 5 days i am struggling with cryptography problem. Let me explain my problem statement.
I have to test Intel AES-NI feature on Westmere EP series processor with a JAVA Application.
My Environment Setup:-
Application server: Apache Tomcat 6.0.33
Database: Derby
Application: JPetStore
JAVA: jdk1.6.0_23
Network Security Services(NSS): 3.12.10
OS: CentOS 6.0 x86-64
Steps i have followed to make it work.
1. Setup the application running perfectly fine on 8443 port. Created a key using "keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA".
2. Checked the property of page of my application. Output is "TLS 1.0, AES with 128 bit encryption (High); RSA with 1024 bit exchange".
3. I have compiled the NSS and put all *.so files into the existing JDK ($JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64).
4. Update jre/lib/security/java.security AS "security.provider.1=sun.security.pkcs11.SunPK CS11 ${java.home}/lib/security/nss.cfg"
5. put nss.cfg to ($JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security).
#Content of nss.cfg
6. Started the Application again. Application running fine without any error in CATALINA.out.
Problem Statement:-
I have generated a load of 20 virtual users and collected the Throughput. In both the cases (With and Without PKCS#11-NSS Implemented) i am getting same Results.
I am not sure whether i am missing some steps or done something mis-configuration.
Help is appreciated because i am in need of it badly.
Please suggest your views.