Financial advice for women during a divorce is crucial in the early stages of the legal process. Many women going through a divorce don't know what steps to take in order to secure their finances and often don't feel comfortable taking on a new role of opposition with their spouse. Below are some helpful tips to get you started on your path to financial independence.
It's in the best interest of both parties to separate accounts and split up the money in them. You should be able to civilly agree on figures to avoid someone getting petty during the divorce and wiping out huge lump sums out of spite. You can even open up a new account at another bank to earn some cash, as most banks offer rewards for switching.
People often act differently and become irrational during divorces. You should make sure to cancel any joint accounts you may have for your credit cards and take your spouse off any credit cards that are in your name. There are many stories of people racking up debt to get back at their spouse during this time. However, you can quickly and easily avoid this with a few phone calls.
During your divorce, you will start splitting up your assets. Many people have no idea how to do this properly. A good way to gauge how much you need is tracking the amount you spend on a monthly basis. From there, you can begin to determine the amount you'll need to start living on your own.
It's a good investment to hire an accountant or money coach to help you sort out your affairs. While they do have a fee, you can actually learn a lot about financial literacy. If you're not used to planning for your financial future, doing so becomes a necessity. Becoming more knowledgeable in this subject will help you in the future, well after your divorce.


The primary goal of the noodles library is to ease the construction and execution of computational workflows using the Python language. This library is meant for scientists who want to perform complex compute-intensive tasks on parallel/distributed infrastructures in a readable, scalable and sustainable/reproducible? manner. A workflow is commonly modelled as a directed acyclic graph (DAG or simply graph) in which the computations are represented as nodes whereas the dependencies between them are represented as directed edges (indicating data transport).
At this point it is good to know what the module noodles.tutorial looks like. It looks very simple. However, you should be aware of what happens behind the curtains, to understand the limitations of this approach.
"""Adding up numbers! (is very uplifting)"""
The @schedule decorators takes care that the functions actually return promises instead of values. Such a PromisedObject is a placeholder for the expected result. It stores the workflow graph that is needed to compute the promise. When another schedule-decorated function is called with a promise, the graphs of the dependencies are merged to create a new workflow graph.
The promised object can be of any type and can be used as a normal object. You access attributes and functions of the object that is promised as you normally would. Be aware, however, that it is important to program in a functional way, so changing the attributes of a promised object is not a good idea. Instead, return a copy of the object with the changed values.
Using the Noodles approach it becomes very easy to paralellise computations. Let's look at a second example.
This time the workflow graph will look a bit more complicated.
The workflow graph of the second example.
By unpacking the list (by doing gather(*w)) in the call to gather, each item in w becomes a dependency of the gather node in this workflow, as we can see in the figure above.
To make use of the parallelism in this workflow, we run it with run_parallel(). This runner function creates a specified number of threads, each taking jobs from the Noodles scheduler and returning results.
Noodles ships with a few ready-made functions that run the workflow for you, depending on the amount of work that needs to be done.
Runs your workflow in the same thread as the caller. This function is mainly for testing. When running workflows you almost always want to use one of the other functions.
Runs your workflow in parallel using any number of threads. Usually, specifying the number of cores in your CPU will give optimal performance for this runner.
If you are very very certain that your workflow will never need to scale to cluster-computing, this runner is more lenient on the kinds of Python that is supported, because function arguments are not converted to and from JSON. Think of nested functions, lambda forms, generators, etc.
Starts a second process to run jobs. This is usefull for testing the JSON compatability of your workflow on your own machine.
Xenon is a Java library offering a uniform interface to all manners of job schedulers. Running a job on your local machine is as easy as submitting it to SLURM or Torque on your groceries supercomputer. To talk to Xenon from Python we use pyxenon.
Using the Xenon runner, there are two modes of operation: batch and online. In online mode, jobs are streamed to the worker and results read back. If your laptop crashes while an online computation is running, that is to say, the connection is broken, the worker dies and you may lose results. Getting the online mode to be more robust is one of the aims for upcomming releases.
The Xenon runner needs a way to setup the virtualenv on the remote side, so a worker script needs to be specified. We have included a bash-script worker.sh that should work in the simplest cases.
# start the worker with the rest of the arguments.
# stderr is written to a file.
If you need to setup some more aspects of the environment, load modules, set variables etc., modify this script and put it in the directory where you want to run the jobs. Specify this directory in the Python script.
# passwords ending up as ASCII in your source files.
# Configure Xenon to access your favourite super computer.
# Specify how to submit jobs.
We may have a situation where a workflow consists of some very heavy compute jobs and a lot of smaller jobs that do some bookkeeping. If we were to schedule all the menial jobs to a SLURM queue we actually slow down the computation through the overhead of job submission. The Noodles cook may provide the schedule functions with hints on the type of job the function represents. Depending on these hints we may dispatch the job to a remote worker or keep it on the local machine.
We provide an example on how to use the hybrid worker in the source.
If you really need to, it is not too complicated to develop your own job runner based on some of these examples. Elsewhere in this documentation we elaborate on the architecture and interaction between runners and the scheduler, see: The Noodles Scheduler.


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Did you know or realize, the apostle Paul, the Apostle "appointed out of due season" wrote 13 of the 27 books in the New Testament? As well, there are some who attribute the book of Hebrews to him as well, but we don't know that for certain. Just think, 13 of the books, which are actually letters, the apostle Paul was inspired to write so "Christians" would know how to live as Christians. Obviously with each letter or epistle, the apostle Paul covers a great many things his audience of the time needed to better understand so they could deal with certain issues as well as false teachers. His letters were also written for us today as well as for those in time past and for those in the future. As the Holy Spirit inspired men to write, they were not to write of their own opinion but as the Holy Spirit moved them to write. The apostle Peter tells us in 2 Peter 1:20-21, "knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." One of the great things about the letters written by Paul is in the fact, because we have so much written by him; we can get to know him very well. We know from Paul's letters, as well as Luke's testimony of Paul, when he was Saul in the book of Acts, that Paul made a tremendous transformation from one who persecuted the Lord's church to becoming one of its greatest champions. We see Saul going from one who would drag men and women out of their homes and put them in prison to the consenting of their deaths as we read concerning the stoning of Stephen in Acts 7:58, "and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul." It was the apostle Paul, Saul at that time, who held the coats of those who did the stoning of Stephen. In Acts 8:1 we learn, "Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem…" When Jesus confronted Saul on the road to Damascus in Acts 9:4 He said, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?" Jesus ultimately sent him into the city where Ananias would baptize him in Acts 22:16 "And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'" After Paul's baptism with Ananias, if you recall, it was Barnabas who testified of the faithfulness of Paul when it came to being with other Christians who feared Paul because of what he had done. Listen to what is stated in Acts 9:27, "But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus." There is so much to write concerning the apostle Paul we need much more time than this 30 minute program allows for. However, we do have a section of Scripture that we can utilize that will aid us in identifying nine things that you and I can grasp concerning Paul's manner of Serving the Lord. It is in our best interest that we strive to apply these mannerisms to our own lives. In fact, we are exhorted to be imitators of the apostle Paul on two occasions. In 1 Corinthians 4:16 where Paul says, "Therefore I urge you, imitate me." As well in 1 Corinthians 11:1 he says, "Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ." The section of Scripture we want to examine is found in Acts 20:17-27. From the context of this section of Scripture we find the apostle Paul in Miletus where he has called the Ephesian elders to meet with him, "From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church. 18 And when they had come to him, he said to them: "You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, in what manner I always lived among you, 19 "serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews; 20 "how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, 21 "testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. 22 "And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, 23 "except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. 24 "But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 25 "And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more. 26 "Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 "For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God."
As the apostle Paul begins his discourse with the Ephesians elders, he reminds them in Acts 20:18, "…You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, in what manner I always lived among you, …" It is here he strives to bring to their remembrance what his manner was in his service to the Lord. From this point we see him express his manner of humility in his service when he says in Acts 20:19, "…serving the Lord with all humility…" The apostle Paul gives us a great "living" definition of humility in his service to Christ. For Paul did nothing of his own accord but always at the direction of the Lord. Paul had taken on the Will of Christ and completely forfeited his own. Just as he says in Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." This humble disposition is clearly seen in Paul's next description of his manner of service to the Lord when we read the second part of Acts 20:19, "…with many tears and trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews…" It was devastating to the apostle Paul that his Jewish brethren would not believe what he was preaching to them concerning the Christ in which they had crucified. His tears were tears of sorrow for their lost condition as well as the suffering he himself endured because of their rebellious spirit concerning what he was preaching to them. His heart was broken just as Christ's was in that they were rejecting the hope of salvation they had all been looking for. When the opportunity had manifested itself to them, they turned. But they didn't just turn, they became violent in their rejection both killing Jesus, stoning Stephen, persecuting Christians and even doing numerous cruel things to the apostle Paul. But let's note this concerning Paul's disposition and manner of serving the Lord as we read on in Acts 20:20, "how I kept back nothing that was helpful…" It is in this verse that he explains to the Ephesian elders that even with all this persecution and suffering in which he suffered it did not deter him from preaching everything that would aid Christians in their service to Christ. He did not let the rejection and cruelty from doing those things which would profit others who sought to serve the Lord. As he continues with this thought of keeping nothing back, he reminds them that he did not preach to them concerning these profitable things in secret. Paul tells them in the second part of Acts 20:20, "…but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house." Everywhere the apostle Paul went he both taught in public as well as in homes. Every opportunity that was afforded him to spread the gospel and help Christians in their walk he did. But let's not forget, that it wasn't just in his teaching, but in his manner of life that he accomplished these things.
As the apostle Paul continues his discussion, he also shows that he was not prejudice in whom he taught for as Acts 20:21 says, "testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." Paul's only concern was that he was desperate to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all of mankind. He felt himself a debtor to them. This is just as we should be. We should take on this attitude, that we must do all we can to help bring lost souls to Christ, whether it be through teaching directly or simply in our manner of living as Paul did. We know from the apostle Paul; he was determined that bonds and afflictions would not deter or move him from his task. Listen closely to what he says in Acts 20:22-24, "And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, 23 "except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. 24 "But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God." Did you hear what the apostle Paul said about his own life in Acts 20:24, the second part, "nor do I count my life dear to myself…" he was more concerned about the cause of Christ then his own wants or wishes. He didn't count his life dear to himself, but his life was to be for Jesus Christ.
From Acts 20:26 we find Paul concluding his discussion with the Ephesian elders. He spoke concerning himself and his manner of serving the Lord in which they were aware. Paul emphasizes to them that his manner of living was such that he could say he was pure from the blood of all men. Listen to how he says it in Acts 20:26, "Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men." He goes on to explain why he is innocent in Acts 20:27, "For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God." The apostle Paul took advantage of every opportunity to preach the whole counsel of God to everyone he met. He did not hide in his efforts but went boldly and taught without fear of harm. For he truly believed in Jesus, and obeyed with all his heart, mind, and soul. Turning over to the apostle Paul's second letter to Timothy we can see his disposition when he knows he is nearing the end of his life in service to Christ. Paul tells Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:6-8, "For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing." When the apostle Paul says, a crown of righteousness is laid up not just for him but for all who have loved his appearing, he is helping us all to see that if we will follow his example, we too can have that hope of eternal life in heaven.
Let's listen again to our text. This time with our discussion in mind, pay close attention to Paul's wording, and see if you can pick up the "tone" of his voice. He is indeed trying to build his brethren up in the most Holy Faith. Acts 20:17-27, "From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church. 18 And when they had come to him, he said to them: "You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, in what manner I always lived among you, 19 "serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews; 20 "how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, 21 "testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. 22 "And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, 23 "except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. 24 "But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 25 "And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more. 26 "Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 "For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God."
When Paul nears the end of his discussion with the Ephesian elders, he admonishes them, or warns them. As we will see from the conclusion of his time with them, they received his counsel with open hearts and minds. Just listen to how they respond at the end. Let's read Acts 20:28-38, "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. 29 "For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 "Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. 31 "Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears. 32 "So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33 "I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. 34 "Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me. 35 "I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" 36 And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. 37 Then they all wept freely, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him, 38 sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they would see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship."
Paul's manner of life for the Lord was just as he said in Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Can we say the same about our own?
Let each one of us make the choice to obey Christ as the apostle Paul explains in Philippians 2:12, "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;"

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Souey Charged for Spurs Comment
December 8, 2003 in News
The FA have charged Blackburn manager Graeme Souness with using abusive and insulting language to referee Graham Poll during the Spurs game on November 29th.
Ref Upset at Spurs Fan Slur.
Souness has untill December 23rd to reply to the charges.
Amazingly if Souness had questioned the impartiality of the FA as a manager of a high profile club did recently regarding the Arsenal players fines, then maybe he wouldn't have to reply to the charges.
Following comments by Sir Alex Ferguson, when he reportedly suggested that a deal had been done, the FA announced that it wasn't taking any action in a statement released on their web site.
"The Football Association has been in correspondence with Manchester United regarding newspaper comments in connection with disciplinary processes after last September's Manchester United-Arsenal match.
"Manchester United, and their manager Sir Alex Ferguson, have confirmed that they do not question the integrity or impartiality of the FA's disciplinary process or those entrusted with running it.
"Having received these explanations, and after further assessment of the reports in question, the FA regards this matter as closed."
One wonders whether Souness's comments will be assessed in the same light.


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They have less entrepreneurial opportunities and earn less than 1% of the money spent on vendors by large corporations and governments. Globally, the proportion of senior business roles held by women stands at 24%, and while this is up slightly from 22% in 2015, the number of firms with no senior female representation has also risen from 32% to 33%.
We've been awaiting a great shift for a while now. There is still so much more we can do - men and women, workers, entrepreneurs, people - together we can force the change.
Although the simple expectation of equal rights within the workplace is not yet a reality, it's fantastic to be involved in organisations that have it firmly at their core and that encourage us to work together to make a difference to the fundamental way the world does business.
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Q: R: Function without arguments and without return value? I would like a function in R to just evaluate a few lines of code. I can do it like this:
MyFunction = function(x){
  x = rnorm(10)
  x <<- x^2
  print("and dinosaurs are scary")
  y = TRUE
}

But I find it a bit ugly that I have to define an inputvarable (x) which I don't use and the function returns a value (TRUE) which I don't need.
Actually I am looking for the R equivalent of a "sub" in VBA.

A: Combining the advice from Rushabh and Gregor this would be a solution:
MyFunction = function(){
  x = rnorm(10)
  x <<- x^2
  print("and dinosaurs are scary")
  y = TRUE

  return(invisible())
}

Thanks for helping!

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Who's gonna fill their shoes?
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Truck Yeah
The Loudpiss Posturing Of The Pre-Recession Ford F-150
Raphael Orlove
Filed to:Ford F-150
Truck YeahThe trucks are good!
While the Hummer carries most of the historical weight of the blowhard puffed chest Bush Years, it's the Pre-Recession Ford F-150 that most encapsulates the bland bigness of the era, as Regular Car Reviews explains.
"Life is the acquisition of keys," RCR intones. "Car keys, house keys, office keys, and yes, the keys to a Ford F-150. Carry them with a certain responsibility—You're grown, son. You'll be expected to handle this and not embarrass the rest of us—It's a responsibility that feels fully American in how it's blown out of proportion."
That's what's funny about this no-face 2006 F-150, and all the other F-trucks of the era. They are so flat and devoid of character, but they still lumber around like they are glowing visions of exceptionalism.
Maybe that's what made these trucks so popular then, and still so popular today.
Contact the author at raphael@jalopnik.com.


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La Major Indoor Soccer League (spesso chiamata MISL II per distinguerla da quella, omonima, chiamata MISL I) è stata la Lega professionistica che dalla stagione dal 2001 al 2008 ha organizzato il campionato di calcio indoor in Nord America (più precisamente in Messico e negli Stati Uniti).

La MISL operava sotto la giurisdizione sia della Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación che della U.S. Soccer Federation, alle quali era affiliata; era inoltre riconosciuta dalla FIFA, che quindi garantiva al torneo da essa organizzato lo status di campionato nordamericano di vertice di calcio indoor.

Storia
La nascita della MISL fece seguito alla chiusura della Lega di calcio indoor nota come NPSL II, avvenuta nel 2001. I sei club superstiti organizzarono quindi una nuova associazione sul modello della Major League, e fondarono la MISL. Essendo quest'ultima la prosecuzione di fatto della defunta NPSL II, la FIFA la riconobbe subito. Nel 2002 altri due club provenienti da un'altra Lega calcio indoor si unirono alla MISL, portando il totale a 8 squadre. Dalla NPSL II la MISL ereditò anche il titolo sportivo di campionato di vertice di calcio indoor negli Stati Uniti e, in seguito, del Nord America.

Organizzazione
Il campionato della MISL era organizzato a girone unico. Si disputava nella stagione invernale, quando la Major League era in pausa, con inizio della regular season intorno a ottobre e fine a marzo. Intorno alle festività natalizie era normalmente previsto un All-Star Game, in genere giocato da rappresentanti delle squadre della costa atlantica contro quelli di quelle del Pacifico. Le quattro migliori classificate della regular season disputavano le semifinali tra marzo e aprile (la prima contro la quarta, la seconda contro la terza classificata) in gara unica (nei campionati 2005/06 e 2006/07 le due semifinali furono in gara doppia di andata e ritorno con eventuale golden goal ai supplementari in caso di parità); la finale si disputava in gara unica.

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>Katherine E. Watkins
Katherine E. Watkins
Senior Physician Policy Researcher
Santa Monica Office
M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; M.S.H.S., UCLA School of Public Health
One Page Bio
This researcher is available for interviews.
To arrange an interview, contact the RAND Office of Media Relations at (310) 451-6913, or email media@rand.org.
Katherine Watkins is a senior physician policy researcher at RAND Corporation and a board-certified practicing psychiatrist. She uniquely combines a research background in substance abuse and mental health treatment services with a clinical background in treatment for substance use and co-occurring disorders, and she has focused on training substance abuse providers to deliver evidence-based mental health services to individuals with drug and alcohol problems. She is particularly interested in increasing access to treatment for vulnerable populations and in improving care for individuals with co-occurring mental disorders and substance abuse.
Watkins received her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she obtained her master's degree in health services.
Group cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for depression and alcohol and other drug disorders
Quality of mental health and substance abuse care
Evaluation of services for seriously mentally ill patients in the Veterans Health Administration
Integration of addiction treatment in primary care
Watkins, K. E., et al., "Association Between Quality Measures and Mortality in Individuals With Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders," Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 69, 2016
Watkins, K. E., et al., "The Affordable Care Act: An opportunity for improving care for substance use disorders?" Psychiatric Services, 66(3), 2015
Watkins, K. E., et al., "The cost-effectiveness of depression treatment for co-occurring disorders: A clinical trial," Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 46(2), 2014
Watkins, K. E., et al., "An effectiveness trial of group cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with persistent depressive symptoms in substance abuse treatment.," Archives of General Psychiatry, 68(6), 2011
Watkins, K. E., et al., "Care for veterans with mental and substance use disorders: Good performance, but room to improve on many measures," Health Affairs, 30(11), 2011
Watkins, K. E., et al., "Developing medical record-based performance indicators to measure the quality of mental health care.," Journal for Healthcare Quality, 33(1), 2011
Watkins, K. E., et al., "The health value and cost of care for major depression.," Value in Health, 12(1), 2009
Watkins, K. E., et al., "Improving Care for Depression in Patients with Comorbid Substance Misuse," American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(1), 2006
The ACA's Opportunity to Improve Care for Substance Use Disorders
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will significantly increase coverage for the publicly funded treatment of substance use disorders. But in order to maximize the benefit to patients, families, and society, it's critical to invest in the development, validation, and use of performance measures.
Jul 28, 2014 The RAND Blog
California's Misguided Approach
Despite the frequency with which people are convicted of multiple DUI offenses, California continues to require that all individuals with a DUI attend a 30- or 60-hour education program. However, these programs aren't that effective.
Mar 17, 2014 Orange County Register
Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder in Mental Health Settings
This tool reviews how clinicians who work in mental health settings can provide pharmacotherapy treatment for an alcohol use disorder that co-occurs with a primary mental health condition.
Randomized Clinical Trial Examining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Individuals With a First-Time DUI Offense
The current study aims to elucidate the effectiveness of the services DUI programs provide compared to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to prevent impaired driving.
Rates and Impact of Adherence to Recommended Care for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
The objectives of this study were to describe quality of care for unhealthy alcohol use among patients visiting primary care settings and to determine whether better quality of alcohol care was linked to reduced alcohol consumption 6 months later.
Sustaining Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in Primary Care: A Mixed Methods Study
Access to external funding and staff support are two important factors for the sustainability of substance use disorder treatment provision within primary care clinics.
Patient Predictors of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Initiation in Primary Care
Primary care clinics are opportune settings for the delivery of substance use disorder treatment, but little is known about which patients initiate treatment in these settings.
Effects of Motivational Interviewing Fidelity on Substance Use Treatment Engagement in Primary Care
Motivational interviewing is used extensively to improve health and substance use-related outcomes, but therapists may need more training in strategic use of the approach.
Commentary: Applying the Community Partners in Care Approach to the Opioid Crisis
Consideration of how the CPIC approach of comparing coalition and individual technical assistance interventions to implement behavioral health treatments across sectors might be adapted to address the opioid epidemic.
Evidence for Misspecification of a Nationally Used Quality Measure for Substance Use Treatment
Our results suggest that the omission of MAT in the current version of the HEDIS measure "Initiation and Engagement of Alcohol and Other Drug Dependence Treatment" results in meaningful measurement error.
Initiation and Engagement as Mechanisms for Change Caused by Collaborative Care in Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders
This research sheds light on how collaborative care (CC) may work to increase abstinence in a sample of primary care patients with opioid and alcohol use disorders (OAUD).
Predictors of Treatment Initiation for Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care
This study suggests that either treatment may not be delivered equitably or that patient preference may be an important factor in determining who gets what treatment.
Demographic and Mental Health Characteristics of Individuals Who Present to Community Health Clinics With Substance Misuse
Patients of community health clinics who screen positive for alcohol or opioid misuse have a high probability of an alcohol- or substance-use disorder and a slightly higher prevalence of mental illness than the overall clinic population.
The Costs of Implementing Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care
This report describes the costs of implementing the substance use motivation and medication integrated treatment (SUMMIT) program, separating the resources spent by a multi-site large health center in Los Angeles County and the external facilitators.
Association Between Process Measures and Mortality in Individuals with Opioid Use Disorders
Three possible measures for quality of care may help reduce deaths from opioid addiction by one-third.
Barriers to Integrating the Continuum of Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study
Some perceived barriers to implementing the continuum of care for opioid and alcohol use disorders in primary care clinics persist over time, but most barriers decreased.
Internalized Stigma as an Independent Risk Factor for Substance Use Problems Among Primary Care Patients: Rationale and Preliminary Support
High rates of internalized stigma - self-applied negative stereotypes - among primary care patients with opioid or alcohol use disorders were significantly related to greater substance use problems.
Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care: The SUMMIT Randomized Clinical Trial
Among adults with opioid and alcohol use disorders, a collaborative care intervention—which integrates behavioral health care into primary care—increased both access to treatment and abstinence.
Association Between Process Based Quality Indicators and Mortality for Patients With Substance Use Disorders
Receiving appropriate care is associated with lower mortality for patients with substance use disorders.
Association Between Quality Measures and Perceptions of Care Among Patients With Substance Use Disorders
Two quality measures – receipt of psychotherapy and psychosocial treatment – were associated with patient perceptions of their own improvement.
SUMMIT Study Protocol: Step-by-Step Procedures for Providing Screening, Brief Intervention, and Treatment Services to Primary Care Patients with Opioid or Alcohol Use Disorders
This integrated collaborative care protocol was created for a research study that looked at ways to implement medication-assisted and behavioral treatment for patients with opioid and alcohol use disorders in a community health clinic.
Quality of Care Measures for the Management of Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Proposed quality of care measures for unhealthy alcohol use focus on screening, assessment, treatment, and follow-up in outpatient care.
Implementing the Chronic Care Model for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care
This paper describes the process of planning and developing an intervention for delivering treatment for opioid and alcohol use disorders in primary care.
Patient-Reported Offers of Alcohol Treatment for Primary Care Patients at High-Risk for an Alcohol Use Disorder
Most primary care patients in this study, who were at high risk for an alcohol use disorder, report that they were not offered treatment after an annual screening.
SUMMIT: Procedures for Medication-Assisted Treatment of Alcohol or Opioid Dependence in Primary Care
This tool reviews how primary care providers should discuss and treat alcohol or opioid dependence with their patients, including using extended-release, injectable naltrexone and administering buprenorphine/naloxone.
Association Between Quality Measures and Mortality in Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
This study suggests that the association between process-based measures of care quality and mortality in veterans with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders could be used to improve performance and reduce mortality in this population.
Candidate Quality Measures to Assess Care for Alcohol Misuse: Technical Specifications
This tool presents detailed technical specifications for the set of quality measures identified and specified in a study of the link between improvements in processes of care for alcohol misuse and improvements in outcomes, known as the AQual study.
Brief Treatment for Substance Use Disorders: A Guide for Behavioral Health Providers
Brief Treatment for Substance Use Disorders: A Guide for Behavioral Health Providers is a clinician guidebook that describes a six-session brief treatment for patients with alcohol and opiate use disorders.
Study Design to Evaluate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Among a Diverse Sample of Adults with a First-Time DUI Offense
The proposed study addresses 2 important public health problems: (1) Individuals convicted of a DUI are mandated to attend a DUI program, but many recidivate and, (2) There is a disproportionate lack of access to AUD treatment for Latino populations.
Resources and Capabilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Provide Timely and Accessible Care to Veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, with broad resources and capabilities, provides timely and high-quality care to most, but not all, patients. Meeting veterans' needs over the next five years will require additional capacity.
The Quality of Medication Treatment for Mental Disorders in the Department of Veterans Affairs and in Private-Sector Plans
The quality of mental health care provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was compared with care provided to a comparable population treated in the private sector.
A Pilot Study Comparing In-Person and Web-Based Motivational Interviewing Among Adults with a First-Time DUI Offense
Receiving a DUI may be significant enough to reduce short-term behaviors, but future research should explore whether more intensive interventions are needed to sustain long-term changes.
Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol: Could California Do More to Prevent It?
RAND researchers consider whether California could do more to reduce driving under the influence (DUI) and other threats to public health and safety imposed by repeat DUI offenders.
An Organizational Readiness Intervention and Randomized Controlled Trial to Test Strategies for Implementing Substance Use Disorder Treatment Into Primary Care: SUMMIT Study Protocol
Millions of people who need treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) do not receive it.
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System: Candidate Quality Measures for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder
Researchers identified, developed, and described a framework and candidate set of measures to monitor, assess, and improve the quality of care delivered by the military health system for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder.
Without Quality Measures, Increasing Access to Substance Use Treatment May Not Improve Patient Outcomes
Expanded coverage under the Affordable Care Act could provide evidence-based substance use care for many individuals whose condition now goes untreated, but effective quality measures must be developed and tested to ensure high-quality care.
The Affordable Care Act: An Opportunity for Improving Care for Substance Use Disorders?
The ACA expands coverage for substance use treatment, but provides no measures for assessing its quality.
Veterans' Perceptions of Behavioral Health Care in the Veterans Health Administration: A National Survey
This study provided national estimates of perceptions of behavioral health care services among patients of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) with a diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, major depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, or substance use disorder.
The Cost-Effectiveness of Depression Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders: A Clinical Trial
The authors aimed to determine the economic value of providing on-site group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression to clients receiving residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment.
Training Addiction Counselors to Implement an Evidence-Based Intervention: Strategies for Increasing Organizational and Provider Acceptance
This article makes recommendations for selecting and training addiction counselors to deliver group-base cognitive behavioral therapy for depression and provides suggestions for the structure and process of their ongoing clinical supervision.
The study goal was to determine whether client attributes were associated with outcomes from group cognitive behavioral therapy for depression (GCBT-D) as delivered in community-based addiction treatment settings.
The Quality of Mental Health Care for Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom
Efforts to maintain and/or increase OEF/OIF veteran participation in VA MH/SUD services should be informed by their characteristics, such as younger age and better physical health relative to other veterans.
Evaluating the Impact of Prevention and Early Intervention Activities on the Mental Health of California's Population
This report describes a collection of frameworks for evaluating prevention and early intervention funding for mental health services for the California population.
Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Clients with Major Depression in Residential Substance Abuse Treatment
Group cognitive behavioral therapy was an effective treatment for major depression for clients in residential substance abuse treatment, thus extending the effectiveness of group CBT for major depression to a new setting, patient population, and type of provider.
RAND Review: Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2012
Stories cover Iran's nuclear threat, social security in Mexico, programs for veterans, crime costs, U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, the health insurance mandate, legal defense, marijuana legalization, global education, and Louisiana's coastal planning.
Multicultural Web-Based Motivational Interviewing for Clients with a First-Time DUI Offense
A culturally relevant web-based Motivational Interviewing in English and Spanish was developed to serve as a standalone or adjunctive program in DUI educational settings. This study evaluated its feasibility and acceptability among clients.
The Moderating Effects of Group Cognitive–behavioral Therapy for Depression Among Substance Users
This study examined the prospective longitudinal relationship between changes in depressive symptoms on alcohol and or drug use among addiction participants in treatment, and whether group cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression (GCBT-D) moderated the relationship.
Suicidal Ideation Among Patients with Bladder Pain Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis
Bladder pain syndrome or interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) severity may not increase the likelihood of suicidal ideation except via severity of depression symptoms.
Treating Depression and Substance Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial
To meet the call for more "transportable" interventions, the authors conducted a pilot study to test a group cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression and substance use that was designed for delivery by outpatient substance abuse treatment counselors.
Assessing and Improving Organizational Readiness to Implement Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Primary Care: Findings from the SUMMIT Study
An organizational readiness intervention improved some implementation outcomes related to integrating treatment for opioid and alcohol use disorders in primary care, but not all.
Suicide Prevention Efforts and Behavioral Health Treatment in the Veterans Health Administration
Testimony presented before the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Health on December 2, 2011.
The Cost and Quality of VA Mental Health Services
The quality of mental health care delivered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is generally as good or better than care delivered by private health plans, although it falls short of the high standards set in VA guidelines.
Veterans Health Administration Mental Health Program Evaluation: Capstone Report
Evaluation of mental health services provided by the VA for veterans with selected mental diagnoses and recommendations for improving capacity and quality monitoring.
A Fidelity Coding Guide for a Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Description of fidelity rating tools for the Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT) and BRIGHT-2 interventions for depression and substance abuse, interrater reliability of measures, and a training plan for coders.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT): A Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Clients with Co-Occurring Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Leader's Manual
This is the group leader's manual for BRIGHT, a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for depression in individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT): A Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Clients with Co-Occurring Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Member's Workbook
This is the group member's workbook for BRIGHT, a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for depression in individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2): An Integrated Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Member's Workbook
This is the group member's workbook for BRIGHT-2, a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2): An Integrated Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Leader's Manual
This is the group leader's manual for BRIGHT-2, a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems.
An Effectiveness Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Persistent Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Treatment
Providing group cognitive behavioral therapy for depression to clients with persistent depressive symptoms receiving residential substance abuse treatment is associated with improved depression and substance use outcomes.
Depressive Disorders and Panic Attacks in Women with Bladder Pain Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis: A Population-Based Sample
Clinicians should be alert to complaints of bladder pain in patients seeking treatment for depressive or anxiety disorders and to complaints of emotional or personal problems in patients seeking treatment for painful bladder symptoms.
Developing Medical Record-Based Performance Indicators to Measure the Quality of Mental Healthcare
This paper presents the methodology used to develop a comprehensive set of performance indicators in a national evaluation of the mental healthcare delivered by the Veterans Health Administration.
Analysis of Rolling Group Therapy Data Using Conditionally Autoregressive Priors
This article describes a new approach to analyzing client outcomes when a rolling admissions policy is used in group therapy.
Care for Veterans with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: Good Performance, but Room to Improve on Many Measures
The 15 % of veterans with mental health illness accounted for about one-third of total VA costs, mostly for non-mental health conditions. VA quality of care was generally better than care in private plans, but quality varied across VA regions.
Training Addiction Counselors to Implement CBT for Depression
Training addiction counselors to deliver group therapy can bring effective mental treatment to depressed individuals who are also substance abusers.
Exploring Productivity Outcomes from a Brief Intervention for At-Risk Drinking in an Employee Assistance Program
This exploratory study examines changes in workplace productivity and related costs for clients receiving a Brief intervention (BI) for at-risk drinking in the employee assistance program (EAP).
Transforming Mental Healthcare in the Veterans Health Administration: A Model for Measuring Performance to Improve Access, Quality, and Outcomes
This paper describes the conceptual framework and research design of a national evaluation of the quality of mental healthcare provided to veterans by the Veterans Health Administration, and present results on the reported availability of evidence-based practices.
Veterans Health Administration Mental Health Program Evaluation Technical Manual
Presents the technical specifications for the performance indicators developed during a study to evaluate the Veterans Health Administration in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs mental health services.
A Comparison of Two Depressive Symptomatology Measures in Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Clients
Comorbid depression is common among substance abusers, making routine assessment of depression critical for high-quality care. The authors evaluated two of the most commonly used depressive symptomatology measures in a sample of clients in residential substance abuse treatment settings.
Developing an Integrated Treatment for Substance Use and Depression Using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Providing a unified treatment approach to meet the substance abuse and mental health needs of clients is the preferred model for addressing co-occurring disorders.
The Health Value and Cost of Care for Major Depression
Describes a new approach to estimating the health value of alternative treatment patterns and applies the approach to common treatment patterns for major depression.
Training Addiction Counselors in Group CBT for Depression: Preliminary Findings
Limited access to empirically supported interventions for depression within public sector AOD treatment settings could be increased if CBT for depression were provided within these settings. The authors adapted an existing CBT treatment manual and trained addiction counselors to deliver the intervention.
The Behavioral Health Care System Is Poised for Change
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Institute of Medicine's quality improvement framework for behavioral health care and highlights current quality improvement projects that incorporate the framework's recommendations.
Applying the Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm Framework to Improving Health Care for Mental and Substance Use Conditions
Describes findings that shaped the reports recommendations: co-occurrence of mental health, substance use, and general health conditions; and differences in the delivery of services for mental health/substance use and general health care.
Improving Service Delivery for Individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders: New Perspectives on the Quadrant Model
Examines the usefulness of the quadrant model for improving service delivery for persons with co-occurring disorders. Although useful for conceptualizing factors, its further development is unlikely to result in improved care at the clinical level.
Obtaining Utility Estimates of the Health Value of Commonly Prescribed Treatments for Asthma and Depression
Comparing the costs and health value associated with alternative quality improvement efforts , this study employs expert panel methodology to elicit numerical estimates based on a 0 to 1 utility scale of the health benefit of usual treatment patterns for 2 medical conditions, depression and asthma.
Integrating Treatment for People with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in Public Systems of Care
This fact sheet describes an analysis to review progress in, identify challenges for, and point to promising directions for future integrated financing arrangements and care of people with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.
A Collaboration Between Researchers and Practitioners to Improve Care for Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment
Describes a community-based intervention trial intended to address the gap in effective service provision for clients in substance abuse treatment programs with co-occurring disorders.
Improving Care for Depression in Patients With Comorbid Substance Misuse
Investigates whether quality improvement programs for depression would be effective among substance misusers.
Co-occurring substance misuse is associated with depression and increased risk for poorer depression treatment outcomes under usual care conditions.
Substance Abuse with Mental Disorders: Specialized Public Systems and Integrated Care
Separate public financing and regulation of substance (SA) abuse treatment distinct from mental health (MH) treatment preserves a focus on the special needs of those with substance abuse but creates challenges to providing appropriate care for the large number of people with co-occurring conditions.
An Update on Adolescent Drug Use: What School Counselors Need to Know
School counselors need to have accurate and age-appropriate prevention education information in order to counsel teens on drug use.
Research-practice Partners Assess Their First Joint Project
Advisability of consulting collaboratively with clinic staff during the planning of studies and the pretesting of study protocols.
Review of Treatment Recommendations for Persons with a Co-Occurring Affective or Anxiety and Substance Use Disorder
The authors review and evaluate the literature and guidelines on care for individuals with a co-occurring affective or anxiety disorder and substance use disorder.
Training Substance Abuse Treatment Staff to Care for Co-Occurring Disorders
This article describes an intervention to improve the quality of mental health care provided in outpatient substance abuse treatment programs.
Prevalence and Characteristics of Clients with Co-Occurring Disorders in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment
Identifying people with probable mental health disorders as they enter treatment may increase access to care among those with limited prior access.
Using the Chronic Care Model to Improve Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care Settings
Work is needed on developing tools, self-management support resources and training strategies before the CCM can be evaluated in real world settings.
Health Information on the Internet: Accessibility, Quality, and Readability in English and Spanish
Evidence Based Care Models for Recognizing and Treating Alcohol Problems in Primary Care Settings
This report discusses how a chronic disease management model can be adapted to improve the detection, treatment, and management of patients with alcohol-related problems in primary care settings.
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Scientific Considerations and Policy Implications
This report presents an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the effects of cocaine on the developing brain and offers policy considerations for addressing the issues that arise from cocaine use by pregnant women.
Changes in Mental Health and Service Use After Termination of SSI Benefits
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for a substance abuse disability were terminated by federal legislation as of January 1, 1997.
The Health and Mental Health of Disabled Substance Abusers
Examines the effect of terminated Supplemental Security Income benefits on individuals in Los Angeles County who are disabled by substance abuse.
A National Survey of Care for Persons with Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Use Disorders
Use of appropriate mental health and comprehensive substance abuse care among adults in the US with probable co-occurring disorders.
Using the Internet to Access Health Information: Can It Deliver?
The Internet has the potential to be a powerful resource for both patients and health care professionals.
Drug Use and Disability Payments in Los Angeles County After SSI Reform
This paper describes the economic, health, and other effects of SSI reform among Los Angeles County SSI recipients.
The Impact of Terminating Disability Benefits of Substance Abusers on Substance Use and Treatment Participation
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By	Tom Tugend	 April 8, 2002 9:00 am
A film still from ´Eyes of the Holocaust,´ directed by Janos Szasz. (HBO)
LOS ANGELES, April 8 (JTA) — The Holocaust, as seen through the eyes of five international filmmakers, will air on five successive evenings on a U.S. cable network.	Collectively titled "Broken Silence," the series, to be televised on Cinemax, from April 15-19, at 7 p.m., consists of one-hour documentaries from Hungary, Argentina, Russia, Czech Republic and Poland — each in its native language with English subtitles. The series is one more spinoff from the prodigious work of Steven Spielberg´s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which has videotaped the testimonies of more than 50,000 survivors in 57 countries and 32 languages. While the massive testimonies are still being cataloged, the Shoah Foundation has already culled its archives to produce three prize-winning documentaries and two educational CDs. Cinemax made tapes of three of the five films available for previews, of which the most impressive is the Hungarian entry, "Eyes of the Holocaust" by director Janos Szasz. The son of two Holocaust survivors, Szasz focuses on the experiences of child survivors and dedicates the film "to the 1.5 million children who perished, and for those who survived and had children of their own." As in the other films, the actual survivor testimonies form the backbone of the documentary, but Szasz interweaves some devices that might have been jarring in a filmmaker of less artistic sensitivity. One such device is to have a young girl read out the dictionary definition of a topic, such as "anti-Semitism," "ghetto" and "deportation," and then graphically illustrating the topic with archival footage. Throughout, there are the haunting eyes of children, tearful and bewildered as they are separated from their parents, huge in the gaunt faces of death camp survivors. The one-time child survivors, now old, remember well: The gleeful laughter of their neighbors as the Jews march to the deportation trains, concentration camp life in which "there was no space for solidarity, everyone had to trample on the others," and the sad conclusion, "God was not there in Auschwitz." Russia´s "Children from the Abyss" also concentrates on the younger victims of the Holocaust, with director Pavel Chukhraj largely letting the horrifying facts and reminiscences speak for themselves. Leafing through old family photo albums, Chukhraj creates a picture of prewar Jewish life in the Soviet Union that seems a touch too idyllic. Curious, in the light of Stalin´s subsequent paranoid anti-Semitism, is the faith of some death camp inmates that "If Stalin knew what was happening here, he would save us." Another delusion by some as the deportation trains rolled onward was that "We are being sent to Palestine — it´s warm there." Most gut-wrenching are the recollections of the child survivors of Babi Yar, where tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews were slaughtered, and the sadistic brutality of the Ukrainian police.	The Czech Republic´s "Hell on Earth" was directed by Vojtech Jasny, who fought the Nazis as a partisan after his father was murdered in Auschwitz. He focuses on the sad history within his country´s borders: Hitler´s rapturous reception by the Sudeten Germans in 1939, then the occupation of Prague, and, after he war´s beginning, establishment of the "model" ghetto at Theresienstadt. In Czechoslovakia, as in Austria, the anti-Semitic laws which took years to evolve in Germany, were imposed full-blown and immediately on Czech Jews. As throughout conquered Europe, most Czech Jews ended up in Auschwitz, and the graphic details of the survivors´ recollections bear out their insistence that "it is impossible to share our experiences, they can´t be captured." James Moll, who won an Oscar for the documentary "The Last Days," served as over-all producer for "Broken Silence." (The five documentaries will be shown in the following sequence: April 15: "Eyes of the Holocaust," from Hungary; April 16: "Some Who Lived," from Argentina; April 17: "Children from the Abyss," from Russia; April 18: "Hell on Earth," from the Czech Republic; and April 19: "I Remember," from Poland.)
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Date has changed from 16th to 23rd!
After a lot of organisation, discussions, chatting and messaging sweepers I am now ready to announce that the 2012 Minesweeper World Championship will take place in Munich, Germany on June 23. It will take place in a computer lab at my old high school, from which i graduated in 2010. The address is Sadelerstrasse 10 and is a 10 minute walk away from the next subway stations. The big advantage of us being able to use the computer lab is that we won't have to rush and can have the room for as long as we need. I'd like to sincerely invite all of you to come to Munich and take part. If you should happen to not be able to make it, there will also be a chance to take part online. However, online-only participants are only eligible for the title 'Online World Champion' and there will be an extra meatspace ranking for in-place participants.
If you want to come to Munich an dparticipate, please let me know. Either by posting in this thread, via IRC-chat, via the guestbook (frowned upon), via Facebook, via Youtube, via email, via pm in this forum. I hope that like last time, Damien will email all possible participants too.
By plane: A lot of airways cover Munich's airport. The earlier you book, the cheaper tickets will be. The airport is located >20km north of the city and the fastest way to get to the city centre is using one of the suburban trains. Both lines take about the same time. Make sure you buy a ticket for Munich's public transportation network, as the fine when getting caught without having a valid ticket is 40€. Money you probably can spend better.
By train: Central Station is pretty much central. From there you can easily reach any destination in the city area by using public transportation within 20 minutes. Make sure you have a valid ticket for that with you.
Take Underground line U1 to Westfriedhof, then either take bus lines 164, 165 or 151 to Sadelerstrasse (You could walk these 500m as well). Then turn left and walk down Sadelerstrasse. You should be able to see the building already from the bus stop.
Like in 2012 I recommend participants to stay at Meininger Youth Hostel. The hostel is 10min away from the city centre and 15min from the venue.
To ensure flawless organisation players are asked to be on-site at 13:00, players arriving after 13:30 have no guarantee to be able to participate.
Players will be ranked on the sum of their best 5 Intermediate and 5 Expert games. Each unfinished game will be given a penalty of 999 seconds.
It is considered cheating if a player tries to submit a game that was not played during the alotted time.
Players should not be disruptive. Announcing successful solves or lost games is allowed, celebrating records or very good games is very welcome. Participants may leave their seats to take a break as they wish at any point in time. Talking to other sweepers during the competition is no problem, as long as it is ensured that they aren't interrupted during a game.
The on-site participant that has the lowest score at the end of the world championship may claim the title "Minesweeper World Champion 2012". The participant (on-site or online) that has the lowest tournament score at the end of the world championship may claim the title "Online Minesweeper World Champion 2012". It is possible for one player to claim more than one title. The second participant of each of the respective rankings may claim the title "[Online] Minesweeper World Championship 2012 Runner-Up".
The tournament format will be the standard format used by most world championships until now, using realtime and thousandths.
That is, every player has three hours to complete intermediate and expert games. The sum of the realtime scores of the fastest (least time) five intermediate games and the realtime scores of the fastest (least time) five expert games of a given player is that player's tournament score. Game and tournament scores are measured in thousandths. Should a player not manage to complete a sufficient number of games for any level, a 999.999 second penalty will be added in place of the unfinished game.
The comparatively bad intermediate game doesn't affect the ranking at all, but had Tim had two games less, it would still have been much better than the 999.999 penalty.
The tournament takes three hours; this is a Long Time. A fairly consistent player capable of getting scores that are as good as Tim's would likely have no problems finishing many more expert games in that time, so the example is slightly contrived in that respect. Playing at least one three hour session in private to get a feel for one's consistency capabilities is considered a very good idea. As a rule of thumb, if you are a beginner or very inconsistent (as some non-flagging professional players are), it is advised to play for completion, otherwise, trading consistency for speed is probably a very good idea.
I fully intend to come, not booked my planet tickets yet so I don't have dates. I plan to say for a while to enjoy the city a little - maybe 5 or 6 days.
to bump this topic: please let me know (preferrably by posting here) about your plans for this tournament. be it whether you're planning to come to munich, going to take part online or won't be able to participate at all. also, alix, it'd be nice to have a list of chinese players who are going to take part online.
I am keen and will most likely come, but I am attending a conference that ends on the 15th so I will probably only be able to come on the Friday evening or Saturday morning, and won't be able to stay for long.
Last edited by alix on Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:16 pm, edited 3 times in total.
please get your names onto the list and tell sweepers you know about this tournament. let's see whether we can get 100 participants!
due to unforeseeable events the room in which the wch was planned to take place on june 16th will not be free at that time. i am very sorry for that and hope that nobody has booked anything yet. the now fixed date is 1 week later: june 23rd. this date is confirmed and signed. i try to message/call/get in touch with all potential participants as soon as i can, but in the unlikely case that i might forget to inform somebody, don't hesitate to message all minesweeper players you can reach. once again, i'm extremely sorry that i had to change the date, but i still hope that many of you can make it to munich.


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