It is not uncommon for a person to experience bouts of depressive symptoms after enduring a terrifying ordeal such as a heart attack or stroke. During the recovery process, many people will begin to demonstrate signs of depression—an illness that affects about 350 million people worldwide, 19 million in the United States. Major depressive disorder (or clinical depression) occurs when feelings of hopelessness and sadness become chronic. Other symptoms may include insomnia, change in appetite, loss of interest in daily activities, physical pain, and thoughts of suicide.
Likewise, living with a depressive disorder can increase a person's risks for developing many health issues. Depression has been linked to an array of serious, often life-threatening illnesses. The consequences of depression happen for two main reasons: 1. Depression can lead to an apathetic and uncooperative lifestyle, which causes a person to neglect routine health precautions; and 2. The neurotransmission (the chemical messages of the brain) of people with depression may negatively impact various parts of the body, leading to chronic pain, inflammation, and poor blood flow. These latter symptoms are what concern many medical and mental health professionals.
In particular, inflammation and decreased blood flow can result in two deadly and debilitating events: heart attack and stroke. Unmonitored and persistent depression is taxing on the body and may lead to cardiac disease, which amplifies a person's risk of heart attack and stroke. People with depression are more apt to smoke, have unhealthy diets, and remain sedentary. These issues can lead to a host of issues that increase the probability of developing cardiac disease, including high blood pressure, obesity, stress, diabetes, and cholesterol.
Many researchers have attempted to combat cardiovascular disease through treating depression because of its prevalence in cardiac patients. Unfortunately, many studies lack the proper evidence that provides the medical community with clear treatment plans. In most cases, depression treatment is positive in that it may enhance a person's quality of life, but researchers are befuddled that it hasn't shown the desired outcomes of alleviating cardiovascular symptoms. So investigators have had to approach the issue from a different angle: if depression is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, can preventing depression also prevent heart attack and stroke?
In a study conducted through the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, researchers have discovered a significant relationship between treating depression (in patients without cardiovascular issues) and diminishing the chances of heart attack and stroke. The researchers randomly assigned 235 older patients with clinical depression to two groups: one with collaborative care that included treatment for depression and one with traditional care, without depression treatment. The collaborative care included psychotherapy and the use of antidepressants. Of this sample, 168 participants had no prior symptoms of cardiovascular disease, while the remaining 67 did. The results were promising.
Patients without preexisting cardiac disease, who received the collaborative care, were 48% less likely to endure a heart attack or stroke over an 8-year period. The results did not indicate the same outcome for those that received traditional care without depression treatment. Discouragingly, no change in risk factor occurred for patients with preexisting cardiovascular disease.
These results are significant, because they signify the importance of preventing and treating depression before it leads to other illnesses, specifically cardiovascular disease. Nevertheless, other risk factors for cardiovascular disease exist without the presence of depression. Researchers suggest that physicians and mental health professionals approach treatment in a holistic manner—dealing with blood pressure, cholesterol, weight, smoking, as well as depression. In other words, depression plays a formidable role in the onset of cardiovascular disease, and its prevention and treatment should be a priority.
Beyond psychotherapy (talk therapy), antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy are two treatments for depression that may also help improve cerebral blood flow, both directly and indirectly. Studies have already revealed an association between decreased cerebral blood flow and depression, so researchers wanted to know if increasing blood flow in the brain would improve symptoms of depression. By using molecular imaging/nuclear medicine, scientists at the Department of Psychiatry at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, have discovered that increased blood flow does alleviate signs of depression. Most antidepressants promote cerebral blood flow; however, electroconvulsive treatment exacerbates diminished blood flow. So how is this second treatment beneficial?
The study's findings indicate that people who do not respond well to antidepressants typically respond well to electroconvulsive treatment. Even though brain imaging techniques revealed decreased blood flow by using this therapy, images also demonstrated that as depression symptoms improved, so did blood flow. More research must be conducted to fully understand how patients respond differently to various therapies, but the initial findings are assuring. By identifying proper treatments for individuals with depression, specific treatments can help ameliorate symptoms of depression by improving blood flow. In turn, this outcome can benefit people susceptible to enhanced risks of heart attack and stroke.


The Kensington presents depths and dimensions of personalities through body expression. Students of the Hastings College performance studies class mirror and shadow each other among the aged furnishings of the Kensington's sixth floor ballroom. Both the 100 year-old building and the youthful students transform and reflect each other through gestures.
The Kensington is the third video in a series using movement to explore interpersonal relationships and was filmed in Hastings, Nebraska.


I know this has been discussed numerous times. This is my take on it. I followed the other threads on this. There are a lot of great ideas. This is what I came up with, it's kinda a combination of the other ideas. Sorry I copied some of it. I used VDO electric gauges .
Looks great!!!! I may need to do that for my gauges.
That looks great, nice work.
Very nice job there and yes that's what it's all about, take ideas, tips and tricks from all the others and in turn, add yet another alternative.
It doesn't have to be complicated, just efficient. It's the end result that matters. The use of electronic gauges simplifies the process, far easier to string wires than it is delicate tubing.
Turned out very nice. It's great how forum members come up with solutions like this.


At the end of a long, hard week a friend invited us for dinner. I had a stiff whisky and then he provided a traditional roast chicken and a nutmeg bread sauce. I mellowed… I became once again human… and it wasn't just the warming whisky. Why is bread sauce so often reserved just for the Christmas turkey? It goes perfectly with chicken, and, unless you have a truly gargantuan, youthful appetite, you can forego the roast potatoes and just serve with broccoli, purple spouting – or broccolini.
Bread sauce keeps in the fridge for about a week, or you can freeze it. Ultimate cheat? You can buy it ready-made – Marks and Spencer (rich taste) or Joubère (good texture – available at Ocado, Waitrose etc) make good ones. When you're making it the key to both the rich taste and the smooth texture is the cream….
NB allow infusing time – could be an hour, or could be overnight or while you're out at work.
Simmer for three or four minutes, add the cream and one more walnut of butter (to prevent a skin) – don't simmer any more, but just make sure it's heated through.


Because city council members in small towns are intimately acquainted with the public they serve, they clearly have a more difficult job than city council members in larger cities.
The conclusion above rests on which of the following assumptions?
* Working directly with members of the public is the one of the most challenging aspects of serving on a city council.
* Managing the affairs of a large city requires a more significant time commitment than working directly with the public.
* City council members in small towns are often related to a certain percentage of the population, making them intimately acquainted with the people they serve.
* Residents of small towns often attend city council meetings to present their concerns.
* City council members in large cities rarely engage the public directly.
Working directly with members of the public is the one of the most challenging aspects of serving on a city council.
Managing the affairs of a large city requires a more significant time commitment than working directly with the public.
City council members in small towns are often related to a certain percentage of the population, making them intimately acquainted with the people they serve.
Residents of small towns often attend city council meetings to present their concerns.
City council members in large cities rarely engage the public directly.
Consider Kudos, If my post helps!!!!
Originally posted by Archit143 on 19 Feb 2013, 05:28.
Last edited by Archit143 on 20 Feb 2013, 01:21, edited 2 times in total.
This fills the gap between council members in small towns are intimately acquainted with the public they serve and they clearly have a more difficult job than city council members in larger cities.
B is wrong. We are talking about council members in small town. Large city is out of scope here.
C is wrong. Although it tells you the people from small town are well acquainted, it does not tells you why its a difficult job.
D and E are simply out of scope.
My major confusion was can being directly acquainted mean working closely ? Infact this has to be the assumption .. It may also be the case that you know lot of people but they don't work with you closely.. infact they might not be interested in public issues..
Nevertheless the OA is A.
I will post the OA after discussions....Excellent cause and effect Assumptions question!!!
B) Out of scope... time commitment is not talked about.
Premise: small town council members are involved with public they serve.
Conclusion: small city council members clearly have a more difficult job than city council members in larger cities.
A- Working directly with members of the public is the one of the most challenging aspects of serving on a city council.
IMO : this answer is Correct because it fills the gap between the premise and conlusion.
Say Small town council members are involved with public they serve + Working direclty with members of the public is the one of the most challenging aspects of serving on a city council --> Small city council members clearly have a more difficult job than city council members in larger cities.
B- Managing the affairs of a large city requires a more significant time commitment than working directly with the public.
C- City council members in small towns are often related to a certain percentage of the population, making them intimately acquainted with the people they serve.
D-Residents of small towns often attend city council meetings to present their concerns.
E- City council members in large cities rarely engage the public directly.
Consider Kudos If my post helps!!!
Effect: they ( small city council members) clearly have a more difficult job than city council members in larger cities.
why? because the argument needs E to be valid. if somehow city council members in large cities do usually engage the public directly then they would be intimately acquainted with the public they serve as small city council do. Then, the effect falls apart right ?! So it is the correct answer while option A cannot be assumed since the argument didn't tell anything about whether city council members in large cities work directly with memebrs of the public or Not.
Analysis :- (Premise) city council members in small towns have close interaction with public they serve than their counterparts in large cities do. (Assumption) serving the person whom you have a close interaction is difficult. (Conclusion) So their job is difficult.
C) The thing to be assumed is having close interaction is difficult to serve. This choice explains why the members of small towns are intimatly acquainted with people. So this choice only strengthens the conclusion.
D) This choice is also explains why the members of small towns are intimatly acquainted with people. So this choice only strenthens the conclusion.
E) This, we can say, is only the extension of premise. City council members in large cities are not intimately acquinted with public they serve..why .. They rarely engage the public directly.whether this be assumed or not, conclusion would not have any effect on it. The thing to be assumed is having close interaction is difficult to serve.
I fully agree with u!!!! E is extension of the premise and hence the assumption It is necessary if you then check that to satisfy the criteria for it to be a assumption.
Kudos , if u like.
Status: Dedicates 2013 to MBA !!
+1 for E (Though I found all choices to be very awkwardly framed).
Never Never Never GIVE UP !!
Consider KUDOS in case I was able to help you.
So their job is difficult.
they clearly have a more difficult job than city council members in larger cities.
You have considered incomplete conclusion. Its somewhat like comparison or drawing analogy for large cities based on what happens in small cities.
I don't really care for the question, because the conclusion does not require us to specifically assume any of the five answer choices. We learn that small town council members work with the public. The conclusion is that they have a more difficult job than big city council members. There's a huge gap in that argument. The conclusion only follows if we know that it is difficult to work with the public. So A is the only answer which bridges that gap.
But we do not need to assume specifically that working with the public is "one of the most challenging" parts of a council member's job, which is why I don't care much for answer A. If small-town and big-city council members had exactly the same jobs with the one exception that small-town council members had an additional challenge - they need to work with the public - then small-town council members would have more difficult jobs than big-city members, even if working with the public was not one of the most challenging parts of their jobs. So as A is worded, it's not an assumption required for the argument.
edit - rereading the question, we also need to assume something like what E says. The question never mentions what interaction big-city council members have with the public. The argument only makes any sense if we assume they have less interaction than do small-town council members. The wording is so imprecise though that it's hard to tell what any of it means; being " intimately acquainted" with the public does not mean the same thing as "engage the public directly".
So the argument requires two assumptions, and there are two answers which are imperfect but are reasonably close to what we need. I don't think the language of the question is precise enough to let us distinguish between those two choices.
In my opinion this is not a fully gmat-like question because generally speaking if you see each one of the Og questions they provide a context and more premises.
They have a well balanced approach giving information: not so short (such as in this situation) not so convoluted.
here we have a brief sentence and a conclusion (even not so clear how it is formulated) BUT we do not have an argument.
What not convince me is this "in small towns are often related to a certain percentage of the population,"
Working directly with members of the public is the one of the most challenging aspects of serving on a city council - Provides the parameter for considering a job tough.
Managing the affairs of a large city requires a more significant time commitment than working directly with the public - If true, would negate the sentence.
City council members in small towns are often related to a certain percentage of the population, making them intimately acquainted with the people they serve - Solves no purpose, this should make the city council people work easier.
Residents of small towns often attend city council meetings to present their concerns - Solves no purpose.
City council members in large cities rarely engage the public directly. - Doesn't help in determining why the job of small town city council is tougher.


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Pinochet, Thatcher and Carmen Quintana, a victim of western hypocrisy
Originally blogged in 2013 this opinion piece is being shared again as another anniversary of the 1973 bloody coup in Chile passes us by.
We should never forget the atrocities carried out in Pinochet's name nore the support and hospitality Tory UK PM Margaret Thatcher showered on General Pinochet.
This blog however remembers one young victim of Pinochet, a woman called Carmen Quintana.
2013 Commentary: There is a lot of western hypocrisy right now concerning Syria and the Middle East. This is nothing new. A report by the BBC concerning one victim of former Chilean dictator General Pinochet brought memories of former U.K. P.M. Mrs Thatcher and her support of that man flooding back.
"Forty years ago [in 1973], Gen Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile - 17 years of military rule followed, during which thousands of people were tortured or killed. One woman who was doused with kerosene and set on fire, survived to tell the tale." -- BBC News
33 years ago Carmen Quintana, 18, a young student, was on the streets of Chile with others protesting against the brutal regime of Pinochet. Two days of strikes in protest against the regime were planned. It was day one -- July 2, 1986
Carmen was a feisty young woman who held strong political views. Brought up in an environment of political awareness she was prepared to speak out against the terrible regime, which at that time held the people of Chile in an iron grip.
Carmen and others worked tirelessly to garner support for the strike and protests.
"Eighteen-year-old Carmen was a serious young woman with thick bushy hair, from a left-wing family fiercely opposed to the Pinochet regime. From an early age she had gone with her parents on anti-government demonstrations - and had witnessed first-hand the repression meted out by the feared Carabineros, Pinochet's jackbooted police. We believed in what we were doing, and we thought we could bring about change."
Where was the West?
One crucial fact was that those protesting were on the left of politics. Pinochet led an extreme right-wing regime. The west chose its position and did nothing.
The protesters made their way to the rally expecting it to be a straight-forward protest. What they did not bargain for was the much-feared Carabineros, Pinochet's jackbooted police. Speaking from her home country of almost 30 years, Canada, where she was given refuge, Carmen, now a married mother of three and aged 45 in 2013, recalls events of the day:

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The Blue Power charger features a microprocessor controlled 'adaptive' battery management. The 'adaptive' feature will automatically optimize the charging process relative to the way the battery is being used.
The storage mode kicks in whenever the battery has not been subjected to discharge during 24 hours. In the storage mode float voltage is reduced to 2,2 V/cell (13,2 V for a 12 V battery) to minimize gassing and corrosion of the positive plates. Once a week the voltage is raised back to the absorption level to 'equalize' the battery. This feature prevents stratification of the electrolyte and sulphation, a major cause of early battery failure.


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Caballero Home Video is an American pornographic film studio, based in Canoga Park, California founded by Noel C. Bloom. It was previously known as Caballero Control Corporation. The company was founded in 1974, making it one of the oldest U.S. porn studios still in existence. Caballero (meaning "gentleman" in Spanish) was one of the largest studios during the Golden Age of Porn, and produced several of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed pornographic films of the 1980s and early 1990s. Its dominance of the adult video market saw it called the "General Motors of Porn". Its films starred some of the most successful and best known performers of the period, such as Marilyn Chambers, Seka, Amber Lynn, Stacey Donovan, Ginger Lynn, John Holmes, Joey Silvera, Traci Lords, Nina Hartley, Ron Jeremy and Christy Canyon. Previous company Presidents include Al Bloom. Throughout the 1980s it was awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages due to its films being illegally pirated. It also acquired the U.S. rights to rival studio Cal Vista's entire catalogue of more than 150 films. Caballero is a contributor to the Free Speech Coalition.

Throughout the early 1980s, Caballero expanded its holdings launching several labels like Family Home Entertainment (a label used for non-adult releases) and U.S.A. Home Video, as well as Monterey Home Video, but both U.S.A. and Family was absorbed into Lionsgate, and Monterey became a standalone label, using the NCB Entertainment Group moniker by 1984.

Ben and Jerry's lawsuit
In September 2012 Vermont-based ice cream maker Ben and Jerry's filed a lawsuit against Caballero for copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in Manhattan on September 5, and claims that the sale of 10 "exploitative, hardcore pornographic" movies in Caballero's  "Ben & Cherry's"  line harms the reputation of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.'s by linking it with pornography.

The lawsuit was settled on July 29, 2013, with Caballero agreeing not to sell products that make reference to Ben & Jerry's products.

Films
Caballero was responsible for many of the classic films of the "Golden Age of Porn". Some of these films are listed below.

Insatiable

Insatiable is a classic pornographic movie released in 1980, at the close of the era of 'porn chic' in the US.  It starred Marilyn Chambers and was directed by Stu Segall (credited as "Godfrey Daniels").  It was followed by a sequel, Insatiable II.

Traci, I Love You

Traci, I Love You was Traci Lords' final adult film, in addition to being the only of her films to be made after her 18th birthday. It was produced in Cannes, France, two days after her 18th birthday, making it the only one of her credited titles legally available in the United States, due to child pornography laws. This movie has provided another aspect of controversy to Lords' life. It was the third and final film by her eponymous production company. She subsequently sold her rights to the film.

Awards
The following is a selection of some of the major awards Caballero films have won:

1988 AVN Award – 'Top Selling Release of the Year' for Traci, I Love You
1988 AVN Award – 'Best Film' for Careful, He May be Watching
1989 AVN Award – 'Top Selling Release of the Year' for Miami Spice II
1990 AVN Award – 'Top Selling Release of the Year' for The Nicole Stanton Story
1990 AVN Award – 'Best Film' for Night Trips
1991 AVN Award – 'Top Selling Release of the Year' for House of Dreams
1991 AVN Award – 'Best Film' for House of Dreams

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American pornographic film studios
Film production companies of the United States
Pornography in Los Angeles
Companies based in Los Angeles
Canoga Park, Los Angeles
American companies established in 1974
Entertainment companies established in 1974
Mass media companies established in 1974
1974 establishments in California

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Q: Why am I getting String where should get a dict when using pycorenlp.StanfordCoreNLP.annotate? I'm running this example using pycorenlp Stanford Core NLP python wrapper, but the annotate function returns a string instead of a dict, so, when I iterate over it to get each sentence sentiment value I get the following error: "string indices must be integers".
What could I do to get over it? Anyone could help me? Thanks in advance.
The code is below:
from pycorenlp import StanfordCoreNLP
nlp_wrapper = StanfordCoreNLP('http://localhost:9000')
doc = "I like this chocolate. This chocolate is not good. The chocolate is delicious. Its a very
    tasty chocolate. This is so bad"
annot_doc = nlp_wrapper.annotate(doc,
                                 properties={
                                            'annotators': 'sentiment',
                                            'outputFormat': 'json',
                                            'timeout': 100000,
                                 })
for sentence in annot_doc["sentences"]:
      print(" ".join([word["word"] for word in sentence["tokens"]]) + " => "\
            + str(sentence["sentimentValue"]) + " = "+ sentence["sentiment"])

A: You should just use the official stanfordnlp package! (note: the name is going to be changed to stanza at some point)
Here are all the details, and you can get various output formats from the server including JSON.
https://stanfordnlp.github.io/stanfordnlp/corenlp_client.html
from stanfordnlp.server import CoreNLPClient
with CoreNLPClient(annotators=['tokenize','ssplit','pos','lemma','ner', 'parse', 'depparse','coref'], timeout=30000, memory='16G') as client:
    # submit the request to the server
    ann = client.annotate(text)

A: It would be great if you provide the error stack trace. The reason for this is that the annotator is meeting timeout sooner and returns a assertion message 'the text is too large..'. Its dtype is . Further, I would put more light on Petr Matuska comment. By looking at your example it is clear that your goal is to find sentiment for the sentence along with its sentiment score.
The sentiment score is not found with result in using CoreNLPCLient. I faced similar issue, but i did work around which fixed this issue. If the text is large you must set the timeout value to much higher (eg., timeout = 500000). Also the annotator results in a dictionary and therefore it consumes a lot of memory. For a larger text corpus, this will be a great problem!! So it is upto us how we can handle the data structure in the code. There are alternatives such using slot, tupple or named tupple for faster access.

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