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Welcome to the forum!I'm not sure what you are asking for. Are you asking if there are any PDF books with the sayings of the Oriental Orthodox Fathers? If that is what you are asking, I think the answer would be "no." Unfortunately, as noted in replies 61, 62 and 63 above, there aren't really any formal compilations of any kind like we are trying to do here.I hope you enjoy the forum. I'm looking forward to your participation here.
Abouna Elia of St. Bishoy's Monastery, (Scetis) Wadi El-Natrun (21st century):In Mary, Christ Jesus began his descent into our humanity, into our suffering, so it is also in her that we begin our ascent to his love. Our sufferings have become the place of his visitation ever since she accepted his coming into her troubled heart, into her womb. Our desert becomes a watered garden by his visit. There is, in the desert of our suffering, a secret fountain, the hidden spring of her prayer, just as in the desert of the Wadi Natroun, the ancient subterranean rivers of the Nile are still providingwater these thousands of years later.A moral point to all of this is that we must accept the pattern of the great commute in our life. We must enjoy the feast of divine affirmation when it is presented, most especially in the Eucharist. On every occasion of grace and mercy, we must enjoy the blessing. But at the same time, we must be willing to be driven by the Spirit into the desert, into the work that we must do for others in compassion. We must go out into the desert of our own purification and sanctification. We must accept the eventualitiesof Divine Providence which come to us with the same Spirit of affirmation who came over Jesus in the waters of the Jordan, the Spirit who likewise drove him into the desert where he was alone and abandoned, the Spirit who drove him even to the Cross. We do these things in union with Christ Jesus in the prayer of Mary, for it was by her prayer, her Fiat, that this process was initiated. God came to visit us to make this fountain of life flow into our desert.
Sorry, I haven't been able to update this thread in a while due to my hectic schedule; I'm hoping to resume regular participation by the middle of next month. I will give a few quotations to make up for my past and near future absence:Pope St Kyrillos VI (20th Century):Nothing in this world can distress or perturb me, for I take refuge in the impregnable fortress of the Church. I am reassured in the bosom of God's mercies. Comfort and blessing continuously flows from Him. The Lord's grace flutters its wings and casts away all sadness, and heals the heart with its indescribable balm. Oh, how sweet it is! No one can withstand the trials of this world without His care or power. Our Fathers compare this Grace with a mother teaching her child to walk. She stands at a distance and when she sees that he is about to fall she hurries to him and wipes every tear from his eyes. Such is the way that God's Grace deals with man. Amid his struggles, God's Grace distances itself just a little in order to train him to walk in the path of virtue. But when he is found to be saddened or discouraged, this Grace hurries to comfort and encourage him.
Abouna Mikhail Ibrahim (+1975):I'm sure many of us pray in regard to the difficulties we face, and for the difficulties faced by others, but how many times do we postpone prayer until after we have sought to resolve it ourselves either through discussion, action, or even mere thought? How many times has our immediate response been, "let us pray"? I know I myself am a miserable failure in this regard; I sometimes tend to overthink things at first, and only think of praying once I begin to feel the burden such thoughts have on my mind. May the Grace of God give us the faith and wisdom of Abouna Mikhail, so that our immediate impulse may always be to pray before we even have a chance to think of a solution to a problem or advice to give to others. May Abouna's prayers and blessings be with us all, and glory be to God forever, Amen.
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Principal Proposed Uses
Other Proposed Uses
- Anxiety
- Back Pain
- Constipation
- Female Stress Incontinence
- Insomnia
- Headaches ( Migraine and Tension )
- Pain in General (Many Types)
- Raynaud's Disease
- Rehabilitation from Strokes
- Stress
- Tension-type Headaches
Some functions in the body occur automatically, outside of conscious control (such as heart rate and blood pressure). Biofeedback is a method of making those "involuntary" processes something you can do at will.
The basic method is quite simple. In biofeedback, a machine gives you direct information regarding the bodily process in question (the "feedback" part of the term "biofeedback"). Given this information, you can find a way to control it, just like you can learn to wiggle your ears if you try hard enough.
For example, your blood pressure might be displayed on a screen. Blood pressure naturally goes up and down from time to time. When it goes down, you'll notice that and feel pleased; when it goes up, you'll feel displeased. Pleasure and displeasure act like the reward and punishment technique used for training animals. When a rat in a maze is rewarded with food for going the right way and given an electric shock for going the wrong way, it will soon learn to go the right way. Similarly, the unconscious parts of the nervous system figure out a way to get a "reward" instead of receive "punishment." In the case just described, this means reducing blood pressure.
The display screen provides the feedback because normally we can't detect our own blood pressure. Using a machine to provide that information allows the person to achieve conscious control. This process generally works, at least to a modest extent. After a number of sessions, most people reach a place where they can lower their blood pressure simply by thinking, "I want my blood pressure to fall." They don't know how they're doing it (any more than ear wigglers know how they've accomplished that); nonetheless, they can cause the desired effect.
In addition to measuring blood pressure and heart rate, there are biofeedback machines in fairly common use that measure muscle tension, skin temperature, skin resistance to electricity, and brain wave activity.
What Is Biofeedback Used For?
Probably the most common use of biofeedback is to treat stress and stress-related conditions, including anxiety , insomnia , high blood pressure , fibromyalgia , muscle pain, migraine headaches , and tension headaches .
What Is the Scientific Evidence for Biofeedback?
Although many studies have evaluated biofeedback, most of them suffer from inadequate design. 1 Only one form of study can truly prove that a treatment is effective: the double-blind, placebo-controlled trial . (For more information on why such studies are so crucial, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-blind Studies? )
However, it is somewhat tricky to fit biofeedback into a study design of this type. The main problem is finding a placebo for biofeedback treatment. In the best-designed studies of biofeedback, people in the placebo group practice biofeedback with a machine that produces carefully garbled information. Study participants in this group believe they are practicing biofeedback, but in fact they are not learning any conscious control over the body process in question.
Many biofeedback studies do not use placebo biofeedback; they compare biofeedback to no treatment. Studies of this type cannot provide reliable evidence about the efficacy of a treatment. If a benefit is seen, there is no way to determine whether biofeedback caused it or whether it was caused generically by attention. (Attention alone will almost always produce some reported benefit.)
Other trials used intentionally neutral therapies, such as the use of a home diary. These are better than studies with a no-treatment control group. However, when the placebo is so different in form than the treatment under study, any apparent differences in outcome could simply represent differences in the power of suggestion in each approach.
Still other studies simply involved giving people biofeedback and seeing whether they improved. Such trials are almost completely meaningless; numerous studies have shown that both participants and examining physicians will frequently think they observe improvement in people given a treatment, regardless of whether the treatment does anything on its own. For example, early studies of biofeedback for stroke rehabilitation that did not use blinding or a control group reported miraculous successes equivalent to the "throw down your crutches and walk" cliché. 2 However, when controlled trials were performed, it turned out that biofeedback did not provide much more than marginal benefit, if any. For this reason, we do not even report uncontrolled studies below.
Given these caveats, the following is a summary of what science knows about the medical benefits of biofeedback.
Possible Effects of Biofeedback
Of all the medical conditions for which biofeedback has been advocated, the best studied is hypertension . However, a review of the literature published in 2003, which found 22 controlled trials of acceptable quality, 3 concluded that real biofeedback is not more effective than fake biofeedback. A study published subsequent to this review did report benefits, but it was poorly designed. 24 In addition, a 2010 review of 36 trials involving 1,660 patients found no consistent evidence that biofeedback's effectiveness for hypertension compared to other behavioral therapies, drug therapy, placebo, or no intervention. 31
Prehypertension is a condition where blood pressure is elevated above what is considered normal, but not the level of a hypertension diagnosis. A small randomized trial involving 43 patients with prehypertension showed that heart rate variability feedback reduced systolic blood pressure compared to slow abdominal breathing and control groups. 34
Biofeedback has been studied for other medical conditions as well. At least one controlled study supports the use of biofeedback for each of the following: anxiety , 12,33 chronic low-back pain, 13 female stress incontinence, 14 incontinence associated with radical prostatectomy, 29insomnia , 5 and, possibly, rehabilitation from strokes . 18-20 Note that the evidence of benefit with biofeedback is not definitive for any of these conditions, and in many cases there are also studies with negative outcomes.
There is mixed evidence for the effectiveness of biofeedback for recurrent headaches, both migraine and tension . 15-17 In a detailed review of multiple controlled studies, however, researchers concluded that biofeedback is useful for tension headaches, particularly when combined with other relaxation therapies. 25 And, in another review of 94 studies, researchers concluded that biofeedback is capable of significantly reducing the frequency for both migraine and tension-type headaches, among other benefits. 27 However, it is important to note that not all of the studies they used to arrive at this conclusion were randomized, placebo-controlled trials.
The balance of the evidence suggests that biofeedback is not effective for asthma , 7 and no more than marginally effective for Raynaud's disease . 10,11 Evidence is mixed regarding biofeedback's effectiveness for constipation and fecal incontinence. 8-9,21,23-24,28,30 However, a number of small trials have found biofeedback to be more effective than standard therapies alone for constipation related to pelvic floor dysfunction. 26,32
What to Expect During a Biofeedback Session
As described above, biofeedback training involves the use of a machine that relays information about the aspect of the body that you wish to control. In early stages, the trick is finding the "muscles" necessary to produce the desired effect. Typically, a biofeedback practitioner will teach a series of visualizations and other mental exercises in the hope that it will facilitate the process. For example, if you have high blood pressure, you might be asked to imagine the blood vessels in your body opening up and dilating.
How to Choose a Biofeedback Practitioner
As with all medical therapies, it is best to choose a licensed practitioner in states where a biofeedback license is available. Where licensure is not available, seek a referral from a qualified and knowledgeable healthcare provider.
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Investors really love equities, or maybe it's simply that — like Zack Mayo — they have nowhere else to go.
TrimTabs Investment Research reported on Tuesday that all equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have received net inflows of $45.5 billion in October through last Friday. This month's inflow is the fifth-highest in any month on record.
Comparing the equity rush to Silicon Valley's bestowal of multibillion-dollar valuations on technology outfits that had neither revenue nor profits, David Santschi, CEO of TrimTabs, said investors were piling into equity funds at the fastest rate since the technology stock bubble popped in 2000.
"This year's inflow of $277 billion into all equity funds is the biggest since the inflow of $324 billion in all of 2000," he said in a statement.
In an accompanying research note, TrimTabs explained that 3 of the 10 largest monthly inflows into equity funds have occurred this year. The inflows of $66.3 billion in January and $55.3 billion in July were the biggest monthly inflows on record.
"All but three of the ten largest monthly inflows into equity funds occurred in 2000 or 2013," said Santschi. "Such strong enthusiasm among fund investors should make contrarians nervous."
TrimTabs also reported that the bond bloodletting continues, with bond funds posting redemptions for the fifth consecutive month. Bond mutual funds and ETFs have redeemed $17.8 billion in October, lifting the total outflow in the past five months to $140.6 billion.
"These outflows mark a huge shift for the fixed-income world," Santschi said. "Not since late 2003 have bond funds posted five monthly outflows in a row."
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Qt Everywhere: 4.5 To Be Relicensed As LGPL
Nokia has announced that starting with version 4.5, Qt will be available under the LGPL 2.1. From the announcement,
This exciting change, made with consultation of the
Kai Öistämö, Executive Vice President of Devices at Nokia expands,
The change in licensing for Qt is happening under the mantra "Qt
Nokia will also be opening up the development of Qt. A clear path for the
The simple fact behind this is that Nokia is less reliant on the
While kdelibs has always been available under the LGPL, this marks the first
Meanwhile, Nokia reiterates their commitment to a commercially viable and,
All-in-all today's news means tremendous things for Free and Open Source software. The
Re: This is good news?
I was thinking the same thing first, but then i realised quickly 2 things.
Gnome does not have that problem.
By Beat Wolf at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
> I am the only one who doesn't think this is a good idea?
Pretty much.
By Vee at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
> We will see many more smaller proprietary apps using Qt and KDE in future.
And that is good news. Sometimes, there is no choice and you have to use/write non-free software. Now, you have a fair chance that this software will at least integrate well with your KDE desktop. And become more convenient, as a side effect of using the excellent Qt framework (think of the bletcherous GTK open-file dialog!).
Or am I the only one who gets annoyed at the GTK interfaces of some apps (e.g. the NVidia driver configuration applet) standing out in KDE (both in terms of look and (un)usability)?
I won't even talk about the issues of license freedom that GPL-hating open source pundits (including BSD guys) would gladly pound into your head with their trusty rugged clue-by-fours :).
By slacker at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
> And that is good news. Sometimes, there is no choice and you have to use/write non-free software.
How exactly do you define "no choice"? Someone is forcing you to write non-fre software? Maybe you should call the police ;)
> I won't even talk about the issues of license freedom that GPL-hating open source pundits (including BSD guys) would gladly pound into your head with their trusty rugged clue-by-fours :).
I use BSD almost exclusively, I don't hate the GPL. It makes no difference for BSD-licensed software, since the BSDL is compatible with both GPL and LGPL. Also there was an additional GPL-Exception for BSD-licensed code in Qt.
By Hannes at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
> Someone is forcing you to write non-fre software?
In my own time - hell no ;). At work - it's an entirely different matter.
> I use BSD almost exclusively, I don't hate the GPL.
I was talking about BSD _LICENSE_ zealots here. You misunderstood me :).
By slacker at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
Idealism is lame.
By Max Howell at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
What's wrong with idealism? Shortsightedness and stubbornness on the other side...
By Sergio Pistone at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
Actually, idealism can be bad when it results in unnecessary eiher-or thinking, or it starts to make a bad image on the ideas you are trying to support.
However, lack of idealism can also be a bad idea. Idealism is what often makes the world better. And, of course, F/L/OSS wouldn't be what it is today without Stallman's work both coding and promoting.
p.s. are we, perhaps, related ;)
By Michael "Ideali... at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
GNU's licensing recommendations are directed at you, the reader. License your own software however you want, but allow Nokia and its customers the same freedom. How other people use Qt does not affect your use of Qt.
By Brandybuck at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
QT-proprietary stuff can become QT-GPL
A lot of GPL'd software starts out life as proprietary. Look at OOo, Mozilla, Java. And there are more.
Having a great library like QT available as LGPL will mean that more proprietary software will be QT-based. And when some of those projects go FOSS, they'll be FOSS QT, not some other package.
Had QT been LGPL (and OS/X cross-platform) many years ago, Firefox, OOo and Java might use QT for their GUIs today.
By littlenoodles at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
My personal preference is GPL over LGPL. It is absolutely unbelievable to see people attacking Stallman here. As someone involved with free software for nearly 10 years and managing projects and watching companies let me give you my take. When I first read Stallman's ideas in the 1990s I thought it was a lovely hippie pipe dream. Now for reality... If you're reading this you probably are interested in the Linux kernel and associated libraries and KDE on top of it. Read up. There was no need for a Linux kernel except that the hurd kernel being developed by GNU wasn't cutting it. Who cares. There was BSD which was solid stable and free. If you don't know the BSD license look for it in the TCP/IP stack in Windows NT or newer. (LGPL offers something between BSD and GPL) Why then is is the Linux kernel so popular? Individuals and companies felt more secure with the protections that their work would not end up being forked for private projects. Linux was not better than BSD for years. And I should point out Linux is just a kernel. It is compiled with the GNU compiler and and linked to GNU libraries. Hello? That's Stallman's baby and why he suggests you call it what it really is, GNU/Linux. Linux would never have overtaken BSD without the GNU GPL and GNU software.
So if you are hostile to the GPL and Richard Stallman I suggest you either check your history or go back and kiss up to Stallman's former contemporary, Bill Gates. For years it looks like Gates was a visionary, but now it looks like Stallman had the vision that persisted. Having said that I don't worship the guy nor do I think he's the most fun geek to meet at a cocktail party. I just recognize that whatever your opinion of him is you have to give him his due.
So am I against Qt being LGPL's? No. Idealistically I like the GPL and the dual license makes rational sense. Pragmatically the LGPL option is killer. I say this for one reason. Even an idealist likes to listen to MP3s and watch DVDs. Idealists also have to process documents. In a perfect world new programs and technologies come to us without proprietary hooks. In a nightmare world nothing is accessible without approval by a gate keeper. In our world we allow the two ideas to compete because we know open standards, freedom and quality software has an edge and can attract content and development. By compromising our ideals we can introduce a viral element into the mix that favors our world view and fosters development of our software. We want more people drinking out koolaid because that's how we infect them to work with us.
Again, the stated goal here for Qt is to make it 10 times as big, and in effect this is the first time ever that commercial development on KDE makes any real sense. Let me point out I'm talking KDE, not Qt which I feel always made sense if there was a profitable model. Imagine having 10 times as many developers on KDE. I get excited about that.
Where does this make a difference? GNOME on Qt? It's funny but they have swung from we're GPL and C to we're LGPL and Mono. It will be interesting to see if there is another argument. I'm not a fan of Gtk but I don't wish it dead. Where this will make a difference is in programs like OOo where they take community contributions and then make additions and package them into a commercial version. Projects like Firefox or other programs running on Linux for media and such may show up running Qt.
I may prefer the GPL to the LGPL idealistically, but I prefer a more wide spread adoption of my software tools and a larger developer base of our associated projects in practice. There can be no doubt the acquisition of Qt by Nokia has turned out to be a huge boon to KDE users.
By Eric Laffoon at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
Thanks for taking the time :)
I am not sure whether I understand you completely though.
To me "adoption of software" in itself has no ethical value. It is only benificiary to "the people", as a whole, if it also leads to more freedom. There are situations where permissive licensing can be the right decision, e.g. concerning open standards or free alternatives to non-open-standards, but giving Qt "away for free to proprietary developers" will primarily improve non-free software.
> and in effect this is the first time ever that commercial development on KDE makes any real sense.
commercial as in proprietary? Who would benefit from that? How long before everybody starts finding excuses why this and that proprietary application should be considired part of kde/qt/${gnulinuxdistro}? "It fits in so well" "It's just this one module" "my friends have it"...
By Hannes at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
"This means that the free software community is losing an advantage and proprietary developers are gaining one."
The only thing the free software community loses is exclusivity. Good riddance, in my opinion. It doesn't bother me in the least that other people might be using the same software that I am.
By David Johnson at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
Absolutely agree. I like the GPL since it forces payment of some kind. And prevents the type of situation where free software developers are free workers for someone else.
However, this is interesting. Nokia seems to be attempting to build a platform. Cross platform, cross hardware, cross business plan. A place for everyone. And much larger than Nokia/QtSoftware.
What is very interesting, and probably bigger news than the license change is the announced opening up of the repository.
Maybe all those KDE developers they hired are convincing when they say how an open and free development system produces amazing results. Maybe the decision makers have been listening to what makes a free software community tick. Nokia seems to be attempting to unleash something instead of exploiting.
And if they manage to unleash what I think, they will benefit monetarily. And we will benefit immensely.
I've been reading of instances in previous economic downturns where game changing businesses were established. Time will tell, but this is going to be interesting to watch.
By Derek Kite at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
Complitely agree. I'm more and more shocked about how little Freedom is considered among GNU/Linux users, expecially Ubuntu ones that scream "I want Skype included", install proprietary video drivers, etc..
By marki at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: This is good news?
Restricting users from the freedom of choosing the apps or drivers they want to use isn't keeping users free.
Protecting source-code so that the software is always free is a reasonable goal.
Restricting choice from the end-users in the so called name of freedom isn't.
By T. J. Brumfield at Fri, 2009/01/16 - 6:00am
The comercial license is what prevented me for doing my GUI work with QT on my personal projects, speciall since I find QT a great C++ library, now this is no longer an issue.
Thanks for the license change,
By Paulo Pinto at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Would this mean the coming of a Qt based GNOME?
Do you know what this means?
I see a Qt 4.5-based GNOME in the horizon... This move has shattered the only serious obstacle impeding that. If KDE and GNOME agree in the next GUADEC/aKademy, and you have a LGPL licensed Qt 4.5, this is coming, sirs. Maybe not now, but in a 2-3 years frame from now.
The unification of the Linux desktop around Qt is coming.
By Ernesto Manríquez at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Would this mean the coming of a Qt based GNOME?
Since a large proportion of GNOME developers hate C++ (and Qt itself, for reasons that often have little to do with its license), I don't see this as being very likely. Additionally, it's unlikely that GNU would throw its weight behind a project where a really core part - the toolkit - had a commercial company as its copyright holder, "poison pill" or no.
Even more - what would a Qt-based GNOME look like? They may as well go the whole hog and make use of kdelibs. In which case, if they want to write a desktop, they might as well use libplasma, which would basically boil down to "GNOME will be a special case of Plasma".
I really don't see this happening, to be honest - GNOME is a big project and is GTK through-and-through, so the only way it could switch to Qt is effectively to die completely and re-write itself using KDE technologies, in which case it would simply end up being a small specialisation of KDE.
Re: Would this mean the coming of a Qt based GNOME?
I've long said that Gnome as a project has a differing philosophy than KDE. That's fine. A Gnome built upon Qt wouldn't look like KDE, or operate like KDE. They have very different opinions on how a UI should be designed, and how apps should work.
That being said, the idea behind the Free Desktop project is to unify some core concepts and technologies between desktops. I think building upon Qt would further that goal.
Gnome can have a Clearlooks engine, put their Cancel buttons in weird places, and have a desktop operate how they want. More common libraries are a good thing.
I think the C++ issue will sadly be a deal-breaker, but I really would love to see gnomelibs built upon Qt regardless, especially given the unclear direction of Gnome 3.0.
The current plan is to clean up and deprecate portions of GTK+ moving forward to refactor it while still preserving compatibility. Yet other devs are calling for breaking of APIs and a major refactoring. I don't think the Gnome devs want to go through the KDE 4.0 process because of the negative reaction it provoked. That being said, they either hobble along on a poorly written GTK platform that was never designed to carry a desktop platform, majorly rewrite GTK, or jump over to Qt.
Hobbling along is not the best decision for the future. The two remaining options are to redesign GTK, and that takes time, as well as fighting over that design. Moving to Qt means they can start on rewriting gnomelibs tomorrow as opposed to first designing the new GTK.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Would this mean the coming of a Qt based GNOME?
That's even more silly then people asking Amarok to be ported to gtk. :D
Gnome/Gtk and KDE/Qt are technologically incompatible at that sort of level.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Would this mean the coming of a Qt based GNOME?
Next thing you'll expect KDE to not only port from QT 3 to QT 4, but to rewrite their core libraries and many of their apps largely from scratch. That will never happen.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
I know your being sarcastic
Really not much of kdelibs was rewritten from scratch at all in the KDE3->KDE4 transition.
Besides that was KDE, Gnome is far more conservative. They're going to release something called "Gnome 3", where they will basically just remove their deprecated functions.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: I know your being sarcastic
I haven't run a diff between the two versions of kdelibs, and frankly I wouldn't know what I was looking at anyway.
I based my comment on Aaron's comments that kdelibs was completely rewritten.
I did see the plans for Gnome 3, but I've also seen dissenting comments from various Gnome devs who weren't invited to that conversation and feel that GTK needs a major rewrite, not just a compatibility release with some deprecation.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: I know your being sarcastic
"I based my comment on Aaron's comments that kdelibs was completely rewritten."
Whoa - where?
Re: I know your being sarcastic
I believe I saw those comments in response to people calling for KDE forks, and people wondering why not all the KDE 3 features immediately ported over to KDE 4. He insisted that they didn't just port KDE 3 to QT 4, but many of the core underlying libraries of KDE were completely rewritten.
I know for one I can point to Plasma being a part of the new kdelibs as a huge difference.
Perhaps Aaron can come in and clarify, but I know I've seen those comments.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
maybe he said core apps
Plasma is hardly core, its the successor of something that was in kdebase.
And Aaron isn't a higher authority. :)
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: maybe he said core apps
I'd contend that Aaron is a higher authority on his statements.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: maybe he said core apps
only when i'm in an airplane. or on a very tall ladder.
Re: maybe he said core apps
Yeah, for that the ladder must be very tall indeed :-P
By Alex at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: I know your being sarcastic
i don't believe i ever said kdelibs was rewritten =)
the desktop shell has been rewritten (kdesktop+kicker -> plasma), and that meant libkicker and some classes in libkdeui bit the dust as well.
we did add a lot of stuff to kdelibs: solid, phonon, threadweaver, the paged dialog classes, sonnet, the model/view based file listings, etc..
and we did do a massive amount of moving stuff around to make the library better segretated and more sensible.
and we did do a massive amount of API cleansing, and in some cases that resulted in huge changes in API approach.
but through all of that, kdelibs wasn't actually rewritten. it was refactored and augmeneted.
that effort was gigantic as it was; a rewrite of the rest of the stuff that already works would have been insane.
i don't think it's overly analogous to what's in GNOME, however. they are busy removing dependencies on things like libgnomeui and slowly moving everything into Gtk+ or below.
at the end of it, which will probably take a few more years, they'll probably end up with a bunch of applications on top of one library: gtk+. various apps will use different libs for application specific things (e.g. reading tags out of oggs/mp3s, etc).
once they are 'there' i have no idea what they'll do next. i could hazard a few sensible guesses, but they'd only be WAGs really so i won't bother. =) one of the GNOME devs could do a much better job of that than me anyways.
Re: I know your being sarcastic
What you just described sounded like a rewrite to me, and thusly if I read something previous to that extent, I no doubt interpreted that as a rewrite.
By T. J. Brumfield at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: I know your being sarcastic
The word "rewrite" implies something was started from zero again. This is only true for the desktop and panel as Aaron pointed out.
By anon at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: Would this mean the coming of a Qt based GNOME?
We saw how difficult was to port KDE from Qt 3 to Qt 4. Porting a desktop from GTK to Qt would be 5 times or so more difficult.
By Grósz Dániel at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Would this mean the coming of a Qt based GNOME?
Re: Would this mean the coming of a Qt based GNOME?
Gnome is due for a major port/upgrade anyways if you listen to all the rumblings. If you're going to do a refactoring, you might as well discuss what to build around. Gnome seems to be building more and more on Mono (more and more Gnome packages depend on Mono every month it seems). I for one would prefer to see a Qt-centric Gnome rather than a Mono-centric Gnome. But that is just me.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
I guess we can expect a useable desktop soon!
This is great news!
I really have never thought this will happen! Qt is so much better and faster than GTK(+). Unfortunately it's expensive license has spoiled a lot of shareware developers away.
It will give the community the possibility to build a commercial friendly desktop environment for linux with a state of the art toolkit!
Let's just hope there will be strong and experienced projects leaders who avoid horrible design mistakes done in KDE4 (like using threads for desktop applets instead of processes).
With good marketing (like not using childish names like K*****, over hyping pre-alpha releases, etc.) this could be another step stone for Linux on the desktop. Professional cross platform apps are finally possible - Linux with the current market share (below 1%) on the desktop can only benefit from it.
By KDETroll at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: I guess we can expect a useable desktop soon!
"horrible design mistakes done in KDE4 (like using threads for desktop applets instead of processes)."
"childish names like K*****"
Strongly disagreed. KHexEdit > Okteta. I can look at the former and know what it does. Apple also disagrees with you, except in their choice of letter. iTunes and iPhoto communicate what they are for. Amarok does not. KPDF does, Okular does not. I very literally hate this unfounded bashing of k**** names.
By jason at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: I guess we can expect a useable desktop soon!
> Agreed.
you do realize you just agreed to something that was factually incorrect, right? =)
Re: I guess we can expect a useable desktop soon!
Actually, I refactored all the Plasma code to use threads instead of processes. But it was a mistake, so I never committed it. So, he's actually agreeing with something which is factually correct. Possibly. Depending on whether I'm telling the truth or not...
By Johhny Awkward at Thu, 2009/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: I guess we can expect a useable desktop soon!
"like using threads for desktop applets instead of processes"
whatever gave you the idea we're using threads for desktop applets? (because, well, we're not.) i'd also love to hear your solution for out of process rendering and interaction that doesn't result in insanity. remember, these aren't tabs in a window, but interacting objects.
i do have the inkling of moving the dataengines out of process at some point, however.
Yes but...
For the short term Qt going LGPL is ending a very long troll, on the long term Qt software is becoming a cost center for Nokia.
The quality of Qt was also reliant on the paying customers that would not pay if the documentation was bad, or cross-platform was shaky and had a wide range of interests from the desktop to the embedded market.
Now there is only one client, Nokia, with little interest on the desktop. If the going gets tough they will cut Qt software staff or community-source it. Qt will certainly work very well on Nokia platforms but it will be up to the community to make it work elsewhere. There is a clear risk in the long term of an 'androidification' of Qt.
It will also make it hard for the small Qt ecosystem to bill clients for extra software or services. If you can write commercial software with Qt for free why pay for quality python bindings or extra testing tools ?
The fact that Gtk is LGPL was not a real blessing for the library. Red Hat has reduced its investment in it, different groups of payed developpers have pushed the library in orthogonal ways...
By Charles de Miramon at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Yes but...
Mod parent up! Also, Im all for a wider adoption of KDE, but 10x bigger? Lets hope this growth can be managed in a sane way...
Re: Yes but...
I don't think the LGPL'ing of Qt will hurt the ecosystem. In fact, I think the opposite will happen.
There will be more people evaluating Qt and using in their projects. In the past, either they made it opensource (in which case, the ecosystem was of little interest anyways), or they acquired a license. And to justify the expense of the license, they really needed to evaluate it and have a solid business plan.
Now, we may get a surge of short-on-cash companies who will jump onto Qt and may require the services of partners to complete their work.
Besides, testing tools? Hell yeah, every one should use them, regardless of whether they're paying a license to Nokia or not.
By Thiago Macieira at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Yes but...
> For the short term Qt going LGPL is ending a very long troll, on the long term Qt software is becoming a cost center for Nokia.
If eveyone codes with Qt API's, how is Nokia going to loose? :-/ They've opened themselves for a much larger pool of developers. Instead of coding on Android, Java or .Net you can to Qt all the way now.
All those applications can be migrated easily to Nokia phones. Getting people to use your API is important (MS all thought us that, and this could beat them at that same playing field :-p). Killing the desktop would kill the stream of applications which can be easily ported, so I wouldn't be too pessimistic about it.
By Diederik van de... at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Yes but...
As a Qt developer for a Nokia partner, let me chime in here: Putting Qt under the LGPL is awesome news for me! The only way this news could have gotten better is if they had used the BSD or MIT license instead :-)
The business model for Trolltech/Nokia has now shifted from selling licenses to selling professional services. That's where I am. The more commercial software firms there are using Qt, the more demand there is for me. I'm not a pollyanna, and expect some rocky situations as the ecosphere rebalances itself, but in the long term this is awesome news.
For more perspective on this move from the services side, see this whitepaper: http://www.ics.com/files/docs/Qt_LGPL.pdf
By Brandybuck at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Yes but...
LGPL license for Qt will make the situation more similar with the GPL license of the Linux kernel.
A lot of companies develop for Linux as a platform for their commercial applications and/or special needs.
There are hundreds of full time developers of the Linux kernel.
- Will it be a need for paid developers? Yes! Someone needs to get the job done.
My guess is that OpenOffice.org and Firefox will be ported to Qt. LGPL Qt will also open up a lot of possibilities for open source Java.
A LGPL Qt version of OpenOffice.org will be a huge step.
I am a Gnome user since the start of Gnome. Why? The Qt license is the major reason. I also agree with the philosophy of the Gnome Desktop. A Gnome desktop integrated with Qt would be great.
By Martin at Wed, 2009/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Yes but...
> Now there is only one client, Nokia
you analysis hinges on this point. unfortunately for the analysis, this point is incorrect.
Qt Software will continue to sell commercial licenses and provide professional support. the goal is to actually increase the number of clients, not decrease it to one (Nokia) while ignoring the other users of Qt.
if it was indeed a Nokia-for-itself play, i'd agree with some of what you said.
"If you can write commercial software with Qt for free why pay for quality python bindings or extra testing tools ?"
because the Python bindings have value, as do the testing tools. in fact, with more people using Qt at lower cost, there are going to be more people using Qt and less money taken out of their budget in the process. this means a bigger market with more money per consumer to spend on things like Python bindings or testing tools.
i actually expect the ecosystem of add-ons and professional services to grow as a result.
Re: Yes but...
>Qt Software will continue to sell commercial licenses and provide professional >support. the goal is to actually increase the number of clients, not decrease >it to one (Nokia) while ignoring the other users of Qt.
I hope you are right but I doubt it. The idea that Open Source will support itself by selling services is a mantra we keep repeating. But, we have always overestimated the amount of services people are ready to pay if they have a product for free.
Now that Qt is LGPL, it makes it possible for other companies to offer support. These companies will not bear the cost of developping Qt and will be able to cut the prices. We saw that for Linux distributions. Suse missed the München municipality market, Mandriva missed the French National Assembly because the "serious" distributions were undercut in the tenders by cheap competitors that were just rebranding Debian.
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In the corporate world, rarely do suits seem to trust anything free. I just tried convincing two VPs that we should move to Untangle from expensive proprietary network appliances where we are paying for the device, and subscription fees. Even though we are in cost-cutting mode, they just didn't trust someone that was free.
The only version of Linux the suits are happy with is Red Hat, because we pay for support on it, even though we've never once called Red Hat. When I suggested that we could use CentOS for free, immediately people became skeptical.
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Some of the most well-known carotenoids are beta-carotene , lutein , lycopene , astaxanthin and zeaxanthin. The results of some but not all observational studies suggest that a diet high in these carotenoids can reduce the risk of developing various illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, age-related vision loss, and various types of cancer. 1-3 These findings led to large-scale studies of synthetic beta-carotene for preventing cancer (especially lung cancer), heart disease , cataracts , strokes , and macular degeneration . To everyone's surprise, the results showed at best no benefit, and, at worst, a possible increase in risk. 4-13
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- Beta-carotene alone may not be as useful as mixed carotenoids (and other healthful substances) found in fruits and vegetables.
- Synthetic beta-carotene may be less effective than natural beta-carotene.
- The participants in these studies were the wrong group of people (generally, smokers).
However, while any of these explanations may be correct, it is also quite possible that carotenoids simply do not provide any of the healthful effects attributed to them. Observational studies are notoriously unreliable for proving a treatment effective. Such studies only find associations between events, rather than cause and effect. It is quite possible, for example, that people who tend to eat more fruits and vegetables may be healthier in various other ways than those who do not, and that these other factors account for the apparent improvements. Consider the history of medical beliefs about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women. Observational studies had found evidence that women who used hormone replacement therapy had less heart disease, and on this basis millions of women were prescribed HRT. However, when proper double-blind studies were done, the results indicated that HRT actually caused heart disease. (For information on why double-blind studies are the best type of study, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-blind Studies? )
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- "We are talking about a different breed of being. Dealings between wizards and goblins have been fraught for centuries ... There has been fault on both sides, I would never claim that wizards have been innocent. However, there is a belief among some goblins, and those at Gringotts are perhaps most prone to it, that wizards cannot be trusted in matters of gold and treasure, that they have no respect for goblin ownership."
- —Bill Weasley talking to Harry Potter about goblins[src]
Goblins are a highly intelligent race of small hominids with long fingers and feet that coexist with wizards. Their diet consists of meat, roots and fungi. Goblins converse in a language known as Gobbledegook, and are adept metalsmiths notable for their silverwork; they even mint coins for wizarding currency. Due to their skills with money and finances, they control the wizarding economy to a large extent and run Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
Goblins have their own type of magic and can do magic without a wand. They are represented by the Goblin Liaison Office of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures in the Ministry of Magic. Goblins are considered to be inferior by many wizards, who foolishly believe that the goblins are comfortable with that arrangement.
- Harry Potter: "Hagrid, what exactly are these things?"
- Rubeus Hagrid: "They're goblins, Harry. Clever as they come, goblins, but not the most friendly of beasts."
- — Harry Potter's first experience of goblins[src]
Throughout the history of the Wizarding world, there have been several goblin rebellions. These rebellions were most prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries. One rebellion, in 1612, took place in the vicinity of Hogsmeade; the Three Broomsticks Inn was used as headquarters for the rebellion. The rebellions have been described as "bloody and vicious". The names of the rebels tend to run along the lines of "Bodrod the Bearded" and "Urg the Unclean", according to Ron Weasley.
According to the Daily Prophet, even today there are subversive goblin groups who work in secret against the Ministry, although the validity of these claims is uncertain.
The reasons for starting some of the varied Goblin Rebellions include all but one of the following (according to J.K. Rowling's Official Site's 3rd W.O.M.B.A.T. test, all but one of the following are true):
- An allegation by Ragnuk the First that Godric Gryffindor stole his sword
- The pursuit and imprisonment of Ug the Unreliable, who was peddling leprechaun gold
- The accidental death of Nagnok, Gringotts Wizarding Bank goblin, at the hands of an untrained Security troll sent by the Ministry of Magic
- Imprisonment of the notoriously violent Hodrod the Horny-Handed, who attempted to kill three wizards
- The public ducking in the village pond by a gang of young wizards of goblin activist Urg the Unclean
- The Ministry of Magic decree of 1631 preventing magical beings other than wizards and witches from carrying a wand.
Wizarding WarsEdit
The goblins suffered their share of losses during the first rise of Lord Voldemort in the 1970s. A family living near Nottingham had been murdered by Voldemort's followers at that time, and Bill Weasley has been approaching the goblins, appealing to their sense of belonging to the Wizarding community. This proved problematic, however, because a Ministry official, Ludo Bagman, swindled a group of goblins out of a large amount of gold at the Quidditch World Cup in the summer of 1994, leading the goblins to distrust both sides and became neutral during the war. When the trio broke into the Lestrange Vault in 1998, Voldemort personally murdered many goblins present in the bank in fury and to eliminate witnesses of those who knew of his cup horcrux.
Goblins are extremely clever and over the years have dealt with wizard-kind effectively. They are still subservient in the minds of most wizards, but they have established themselves as a vital part of wizarding society. The goblins run Gringotts, the wizarding bank. Therefore, they control the wizarding economy to a large extent. It is unknown if Gringotts is the only bank in the wizarding world. Goblins are extremely clever and more than able to stand up to wizards. The fact that the wizarding population treats them poorly is evidence of the severe injustice built into wizard culture. Ironically, the Fountain of Magical Brethren in the Atrium of the Ministry of Magic shows a goblin, along with a house-elf and a centaur, gazing admiringly at a witch and wizard.
Apart from their cleverness with money and finances, goblins are also very capable metalsmiths. Their silverwork is well known and prized (Sirius Black's wealthy family had dishes which were 'finest fifteenth-century goblin-wrought silver, embossed with the Black family crest'). When Rubeus Hagrid visited the Giants, one of the presents he brought was a goblin-wrought helmet which was described as "indestructible". Goblins actually mint the Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts used in the Wizarding world; each coin is stamped with a serial number identifying the goblin who cast it.
It is possible that part-goblin Filius Flitwick has inherited such cleverness since he is in Ravenclaw. He has also demonstrated such brilliance in many occasions, such as during the Battle of Hogwarts, with his successful charmswork.
Known GoblinsEdit
- Ragnuk the First: maker of Godric Gryffindor's Sword.
- Gringott: Founder of Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
- Filius Flitwick's goblin ancestor: distant ancestor of Filius Flitwick.
- Eargit the Ugly: a spokes-goblin.
- Urg the Unclean: an activist.
- Ug the Unreliable: a con-artist.
- Alguff the Awful: a commercialist.
- Brodrig the Boss-Eyed: spokesgoblin at the Brotherhood of Goblins.
- Ragnok the Pigeon-Toed: an author and activist.
- Ragnok: an associate of Bill Weasley.
- Bogrod: employee at Gringotts.
- Griphook: employee at Gringotts.
- Gornuk: employee at Gringotts.
- Nagnok: employee at Gringotts.
- Gringotts Head Goblin: employee and head at Gringotts.
- Ludovic Bagman's goblin creditors: some goblins that put Bagman under pressure because he could not pay the money.
- Unidentified goblin associate of Oswald Beamish: a goblin that was an associate of Beamish.
- Unidentified goblin killed by Voldemort: former employee at Gringotts.
- Unidentified goblin philosopher: a philosopher goblin.
- Unidentified Gringotts Bank teller: a goblin that was counting the cash-money.
- Unidentified goblin stockbroker: a goblin that works at the Ministry of Magic.
- Unidentified Gringotts Bank goblin guard: a goblin that guarded the silver doors at Gringotts.
- Unidentified Gringotts spokesgoblin: a goblin that tells about serious events.
- Goblin who had himself pictured in portraits: a famous goblin.
- Tall goblin: employee at Gringotts.
- Magic goblin: employee at Gringotts.
- Clever goblin: employee at Gringotts.
Known Part-GoblinsEdit
Human relationsEdit
- "Gold, filthy gold! We cannot live without it, yet I confess I deplore the necessity of consorting with our long-fingered friends."
- —Travers, a Death Eater, on his distate of goblins[src]
Throughout wizarding history there has been a dispute between wizards and goblins due to errors on both sides. Goblins can be bloodthirsty and cruel towards wizards and consider them to be arrogant while many wizards consider goblins inferior. Goblins have in the past, resenting the fact that they occupy positions as second-class citizens, resorted to violence in the form of rebellions and riots.
Goblins can use magic without the aid of a wand, although they are insulted by the refusal of wizards to allow them to use wands. In turn, goblins conceal the secrets of their own magic from wizards. Their weaponry and armour are nearly indestructible when created and have their own kinds of magical properties.
Goblin valuesEdit
- Bill: "You don't understand, Harry, nobody could understand unless they have lived with goblins. To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs."
- Harry: "But if it was bought --"
- Bill: "-- then they would consider it rented by the one who had paid the money. They have, however, great difficulty with the idea of goblin-made objects passing from wizard to wizard. You saw Griphook's face when the tiara passed under his eyes. He disapproves. I believe he thinks, as do the fiercest of his kind, that it ought to have been returned to the goblins once the original purchaser died. They consider our habit of keeping goblin-made objects, passing them from wizard to wizard without further payment, little more than theft."
- — Bill Weasley explaining goblin notions of payment and ownership[src]
Overall, goblins' idea of payment and repayment are not the same as humans. Goblins dislike theft, but use a different definition of the word. By goblin standards, the maker of an item, not the purchaser is the rightful owner; the purchaser is required to return the item to its maker upon his or her death. Goblins believe that the wizard paying for a goblin-made artefact is merely renting it, not owning it. Goblins consider the passing of an item from one wizard or witch to another without further payment to its maker "little more than theft", as Bill Weasley puts it.
Goblins also hold debt to extremes, as they hunted down Ludo Bagman after he lost a bet with them, and even though they took everything of value from him after he cheated them with Leprechaun gold, they still hounded him due to it being not enough to cover his debt. When Bagman ran out on his final loss against the goblins, they refused to side with the humans due to this cheat.
Behind the ScenesEdit
- According to W.O.M.B.A.T., it is possible that goblins fear sunlight, which may explain why Humans guarded the outside doors of Gringotts.
- At Gringotts, goblins appear to have a lounge, where they can relax and dance. It is located in Vault 712.
- Goblins are known to have not agreed with the Statute of Secrecy summit decisions of 1692.
- Former Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge was nicknamed "Goblin-Crusher" by the tabloid magazine The Quibbler due to debatable claims that Fudge kills goblins in ways that may seem ridiculous, such as cooking them in pies.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 the goblin that asked Hagrid for Harry's keys appeared to have been taking notes. However, when the goblin went to fetch Griphook, Hagrid caught a glimpse of the paper, revealing it to have simply been a child's drawing of a house.
- Given that there were never any female goblins featured in Harry Potter, it is possible that goblins have stereotypical sexist beliefs that women should do domestic labour, and female goblins therefore do domestic chores for their working husbands.
- Goblin ideas of ownership are similar to the theory of Georgism.
- Rowling perhaps used the fact that the goblins were a vital part of Wizarding life, controlling their only bank, no matter how wizards see goblins as an inferior race, inspired by the prejudice of Nazi against Jews (hitherto anti-Semitism) and Adolf Hitler's theory of Jews coverting world domination by controlling banks all over the world. This is supported by the fact that some wizards, like Hermione Granger, see this prejudice in a negative way.
- Goblins have the power to do magic. However, in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, they only come with a key.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, many of the Gringotts goblins were portrayed by members of Willow Management, an agency founded in part by Warwick Davis, specializing in representing actors under 5 feet tall.
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It is possible to develop AUD with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing AUD. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
AUD is highest among young adults aged 18-35 years, but AUD can occur at any point in during a lifetime.
The most common risk factors for AUD include:
AUD is far more common in men than in women. However, the incidence of dependence in women has been on the rise in the past several years. Women tend to have problems later in life than men, but the condition has a faster progression in women.
Many studies link genetic factors to AUD. This includes how the body processes and responds to alcohol. Genetics can also make you prone to dependence, but for most people, it is only one piece of a larger puzzle.
AUD tends to run in families. Rates of problem drinking are higher among men with one or more affected parent than among men without affected parents. Though these links are present with women, it is not as strong as with men. Having these associations does not guarantee that AUD will be present in all family members, if at all.
Cultural, ethnic and social norms influence alcohol use. Traditions also play a part in how alcohol is used. This may result in patterns of problem drinking that exist in some cultures more than others. For example, dependency rates are higher in Europe and the US where alcohol consumption is common and socially acceptable. In American culture, alcohol is often used as a social lubricant and a means of reducing tension. Binge drinking is becoming more popular, resulting in more social problems. In contrast, certain religious groups who abstain from drinking alcohol have minimal dependency rates.
Higher rates of AUD are also related to peer pressure and easy access to alcohol.
Certain personality traits may increase risk for AUD. These may include high self-expectations, low frustration tolerance, feelings of inadequacy and uncertainty in one's roles, needing an inordinate amount of praise and reassurance, and having a tendency to be impulsive and aggressive.
AUD is also associated with many mental health and other use disorders:
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