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Cancer affects your emotional health
Anxiety, Fear, And Depression
A cancer diagnosis can affect your emotional health
Most patients, families, and caregivers face some degree of depression, anxiety, and fear when cancer becomes part of their lives. These feelings are normal responses to such a life-changing experience. In people with cancer, these feelings may be caused by many things, including changes in how they are able to fill family or work roles, the loss of control over life events, body image changes, fear of death, fear of suffering and pain, or fear of the unknown. Family members may have these feelings because they are afraid of losing their loved one. They may also feel angry because someone they love has cancer, frustrated that they cannot "do enough," or stressed because they have to do more at home.
It's important to remember that people can feel distress at any time after cancer diagnosis and treatment, even many years after the cancer is treated. As their health situations change, people with cancer must cope with new stressors along with the old, and their feelings often change, too. For instance, people with advanced cancer may have more emotional distress than those with earlier-stage cancers.
People who have physical symptoms such as pain, nausea, or extreme tiredness (fatigue) also seem more likely to have emotional distress. Most of the time, these physical symptoms can be controlled with medicines -- but it may take more than one try to find the right drug or combination of drugs. This is one reason to stay in touch with your cancer care team, so that they can help you with these kinds of symptoms before you feel overwhelmed.
The information we talk about here will help families, friends, and caregivers know what feelings and behaviors they may expect from their loved one who has been diagnosed with cancer. It will also help you understand what is not normal and when outside help may be needed.
It is normal to grieve over the changes that cancer brings to a person's life. The future, which may have seemed so sure before, now becomes uncertain. Some dreams and plans may be lost forever. But if you are caring for a person who has been sad for a long time or is having trouble carrying out day-to-day activities, that person may have clinical depression. In fact, up to 1 in 4 people with cancer do have clinical depression. Clinical depression causes great distress, impairs functioning, and may even make the person with cancer less able to follow their cancer treatment plan. The good news is that clinical depression can be treated.
If you are caring for someone who has symptoms of clinical depression, encourage him or her to get help. There are many treatments for clinical depression including medicines, counseling, or a combination of both. Treatments can reduce suffering and improve your loved one's quality of life.
Symptoms of clinical depression
- Ongoing sad or "empty" mood for most of the day
- Loss of interest or pleasure in almost all activities most of the time
- Major weight loss (when not dieting) or weight gain
- Being "slowed down" or restless and agitated almost every day, enough for others to notice
- Extreme tiredness (fatigue) or loss of energy
- Trouble sleeping with early waking, sleeping too much, or not being able to sleep
- Trouble focusing thoughts, remembering, or making decisions
- Feeling guilty, worthless, or helpless
- Frequent thoughts of death or suicide (not just fear of death), suicide plans or attempts
Keep in mind that some of these symptoms, such as weight changes, fatigue, or even forgetfulness can be caused by cancer treatment. But if 5 or more of these symptoms happen nearly every day for 2 weeks or more, or are severe enough to interfere with normal activities, encourage the person you are caring for to be checked for clinical depression by a qualified health or mental health professional. If your loved one tries to hurt himself or herself, or has a plan to do so, get help right away.
What to do
- Encourage the depressed person to continue treatment until symptoms improve, or to talk to the doctor about different treatment if there is no improvement after 2 or 3 weeks.
- Promote physical activity, especially mild exercise such as daily walks.
- Help make appointments for mental health treatment, if needed.
- Provide transportation for treatment, if needed.
- Engage your loved one in conversation and other activities they enjoy.
- Realize that negative thinking is one of the symptoms of depression and should get better with treatment.
- Reassure your loved one that with time and treatment, he or she will begin to feel better.
Keep in mind that caregivers and family members can also become depressed. If you suspect you may be depressed, see a doctor. Make time to get the help and support you need. If you notice symptoms in another friend or family member, try to get them help.
Anxiety and fear
At many different times during their treatment and recovery, people with cancer may be fearful and anxious. For most people with cancer, finding out that they have cancer or that the cancer came back causes the most anxiety and fear. Fear of treatment, doctor visits, and tests may also cause apprehension (the feeling that something bad is going to happen). It is normal to feel afraid. People may be afraid of uncontrolled pain, dying, or what happens after death, including what may happen to loved ones. Below are some signs and symptoms of fear and anxiety.
Symptoms of anxiety and fear
- Anxious facial expression
- Uncontrolled worry
- Trouble solving problems and focusing thoughts
- Muscle tension (looks tense or uptight)
- Trembling, shaking, and other signs of restlessness
- Dry mouth
- Angry outbursts
- Irritability (grouchy or short-tempered)
If a person has these symptoms, and they are interfering with her or his life, a mental health evaluation may be helpful. Keep in mind that sometimes, despite having all the symptoms, a person may deny having these feelings. But if they are willing to admit that they feel distressed or uncomfortable, therapy can often help.
What to do
- Encourage, but do not force, each other to talk.
- Share feelings and fears that you or your loved one may be having.
- Listen carefully to each other's feelings. Offer support, but don't deny or discount feelings.
- Remember that it is OK to feel sad and frustrated.
- Get help through counseling and/or support groups.
- Use prayer or other types of spiritual support if it helps.
- Try deep breathing and relaxation exercises. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, focus on each body part and relax it, start with your toes and work up to your head. When relaxed try to think of a pleasant place such as a beach in the morning or a sunny field on a spring day.
- Talk with a doctor about using anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medicines.
Do not
- Keep feelings inside.
- Force someone to talk if they are not ready to.
- Tell a person to cheer up if they seem depressed.
- Blame yourself or another person for feeling fearful, anxious, or depressed.
- Try to reason with a person whose fears, anxieties, or depression are severe; talk with the doctor about medicines and other kinds of help.
Panic attacks
Panic attacks can be an alarming symptom of anxiety. Panic attacks happen very suddenly and often reach their worst within about 10 minutes. The person may seem fine between attacks, but is usually afraid that they will happen again.
Symptoms of a panic attack
- Shortness of breath*
- Racing heart*
- Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint*
- Chest pain or discomfort*
- Feeling as if they're choking*
- Trembling or shaking
- Sweating
- Fear of losing control or "going crazy"
- Urge to escape
- Numbness or tingling sensations
- Feeling "unreal" or "detached" from themselves
- Chills (shaking or shivering) or hot flashes (may involve sweating or facial reddening)
*If a person is having any of the first 5 symptoms (marked with asterisks), it can mean an urgent or life-threatening condition. Call 911 or the doctor right away if the patient unexpectedly has any of these. These symptoms can be signs of other, more serious problems such as allergic reaction, heart attack, blood chemistry imbalance, collapsed lung, or others. It is not safe to assume that they are panic-related until diagnosed by a doctor.
If the person has had panic attacks in the past, and it happens again exactly like it did before, they can often recognize it as a panic attack.
If the person recovers completely within a few minutes and has no more symptoms, it is more likely to be a panic attack. If panic attacks are diagnosed, brief therapy and medicines have been shown to be helpful.
What to do
- Check with the doctor to be sure that the symptoms are caused by panic and not another medical problem.
- Stay calm and speak softly during a panic attack.
- Sit with the person during panic attacks until he or she is feeling better.
- Call for help if needed.
- After the panic attack is over, encourage the person to get treatment for the panic attacks.
- Provide transportation to treatment if needed. The person may be afraid that a panic attack will happen while driving.
- The ideas listed above (under "What to do" for anxiety) may also be helpful.
Do not
- Minimize the person's terror or fear.
- Judge the person for feeling scared and acting strangely.
- Try to talk the person out of their fear or other feelings.
- Hesitate to call the doctor if you have questions about what is happening.
What if the person with cancer acts as if nothing is wrong?
Be aware that your loved one may put up a false front, or on a "happy face," even if he or she doesn't really feel that way. This may be their way to try to protect the people they love, and possibly themselves, from painful feelings. And some people believe that a person with cancer can improve their outcome by being cheerful and happy all the time.
Studies of coping styles and survival or recurrence show that being cheerful has little to no effect on cancer. But some people with cancer feel guilty for being sad or fearful, and may try to act happy and "be positive" even when it is painful to them. (See our document Attitudes and Cancer for more information.)
If you think that this is happening, gently tell the person that you are willing to listen to their feelings, no matter what they are. The message may be something like, "I care for you, and I am here for you whether you are happy, afraid, angry, or sad."
Support from loved ones and the cancer team can help
It may help to know that patients with more social support tend to feel less anxious and depressed and have a better quality of life. People with cancer find it encouraging to have others who listen and help with the practical aspects of dealing with cancer. Asking family members and loved ones for this kind of support may help reduce your distress as well as the patient's.
Being able to talk with the cancer care team about medical fears, concerns about pain, and other issues may also help the patient feel more comfortable. You or someone who is close to the patient might offer to go with (or take) them to the doctor. Your being with them may have a calming effect, and you might be able to help the person remember symptoms or problems that need to be addressed. The doctor and cancer care team can answer questions and talk about any concerns you or your loved one have. They can also refer your loved one to a mental health professional if needed.
When to call the doctor
Going through a wide range of emotions is a normal part of coping with cancer. But some things should not be ignored. If your loved one has any of these problems, please call the doctor right away:
- Has thoughts of suicide (or of hurting himself or herself)
- Is unable to eat or sleep
- Lacks interest in usual activities for many days
- Is unable to find pleasure in anything
- Has emotions that interfere with daily activities and last more than a few days
- Is confused
- Has trouble breathing
- Is sweating more than usual
- Is very restless
- Has new or unusual symptoms that cause concern
There is no doubt that cancer changes people's lives. The emotional stress it causes can be overwhelming, but no one has to manage it alone. Your loved one's health care team may seem focused on his or her physical health, but they care about emotional health, too. Keep them involved in and aware of what your loved one is feeling and doing. Learn about and use the resources available to you. Coping with cancer is stressful, but you don't have to do it alone.
Additional resources
More information from your American Cancer Society
The following related information may also be helpful to you. These materials may be ordered from our toll-free number or read on our Web site.
Distress in People With Cancer
Caring for the Patient With Cancer at Home: A Guide for Patients and Families (also available in Spanish)
Listen With Your Heart (also available in Spanish)
Caregiving: How to Care for a Loved One With Cancer -- and Yourself
Chemo Brain
After Diagnosis: A Guide for Patients and Families (also available in Spanish)
A Message of Hope: Coping With Cancer in Everyday Life (also available in Spanish)
Talking with Friends and Relatives about Your Cancer (also available in Spanish)
I Can Cope
When Someone You Know Has Cancer (also available in Spanish)
Attitudes and Cancer
Living With Uncertainty: The Fear of Cancer Recurrence
When Your Cancer Comes Back: Cancer Recurrence
National organizations and Web sites*
Along with the American Cancer Society, other sources of information and support include
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA)
Web site: www.samhsa.gov
National Mental Health Information Center Clearinghouse
Toll-free number: 1-877-726-4727
Web site: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov
For information on mental health and treatment referrals
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
Toll-free number: 1-877-SAMHSA (1-800-729-6686)
Spanish toll-free number: 1-877-767-8432
International telephone number: 240-221-4017
Web site: http://ncadi.org
For substance use/abuse treatment referrals and information
Suicide Prevention Hotline
Toll-free number: 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
Web site: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Free, confidential prevention counseling and information for anyone thinking of suicide
American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS)
Toll-free number: 1-866-276-7443 (if after hours, leave message -- calls returned within 48 hours)
Web site: www.apos-society.org
For a free, confidential referral to a local mental health professional or cancer support group
Toll-free number: 1-800-813-4673
Web site: www.cancercare.org
Telephone and Internet support available to anyone affected by cancer
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
NIMH Public Health Inquiries
Toll-free number: 1-866-615-6464
Web site: www.nimh.nih.gov
For information on symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders
*Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement by the American Cancer Society.
No matter who you are, we can help. Contact us anytime, day or night, for information and support. Call us at 1-800-227-2345 or visit www.cancer.org.
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, VA. 2000.
Jacobsen PB, Jim HS. Psychosocial Interventions for Anxiety and Depression in Adult Cancer Patients. Achievements and Challenges. CA Cancer J Clin. 2008;58:214-230.
National Institute of Mental Health. Mental Health Topics. Accessed at www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/index.shtml on August 14, 2009.
Parker PA, Baile WF, de Moor C, Cohen L. Psychosocial and demographic predictors of quality of life in a large sample of cancer patients. Psychooncology. 2003;12:183-193.
Petticrew M, Bell R, Hunter D. Influence of psychological coping on survival and recurrence in people with cancer: Systematic review. BMJ. 2002;325:1066.
Pirl WF. Evidence Report on the Occurrence, Assessment, and Treatment of Depression in Cancer Patients. JNCI Monographs. 2004(32):32-39. Accessed at http://jncimono.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/2004/32/32 on August 14, 2009.
Rodin G, Lloyd N, Katz M, et al. The treatment of depression in cancer patients: a systematic review. Support Care Cancer. 2007;15(2):123-136.
White CA, Macleod U. ABCs of psychological medicine: Cancer. BMJ. 2002;325:377-380.
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exactly what I try to say. As much as I love the tailwater trout fishery and I do not agree with the Tellico project, but other than that I'm fine with it. TVA has to operate in order to produce power for the ever increasing demand. Yes, I'm an outsider and I have added to the demand, but like it or not if no one wanted to live here we will have to revert to the old ways. I'm not saying that is necessarily bad but you won't have the amenities and luxuries we have now. My in-laws are from eastern KY and they still live there. They still don't have the jobs and infrstructure that we have. I know some of those people like it that way but they sure have a hard time to make a living. Tobaccoo and "that other crop" is just not doing it for them anymore.
Development and such is a two edged sword but I get a little tired of so called experts who think that they have all the answers as long as everyone go along with them. Enjoy what we got and try to see the positive in TVA. I know the rate increase is going to hurt business and residents a lot but TVA has a budget and mandate to follow.
I'm sorry but I can't just sit idle when people on the one hand says, I just don't understand when someone is complaining about a coldwater fishery being destroyed and then says that TVA damaged a bunch of warmwater fisheries. Don't forget that little t was not a natural fishery either. All trout in this part of the world is exotics. Brown, Rainbow, Lake, and you name it.
Brook Trout is not even a trout. It's a char and I seriously doubt Little T supported many of those in it's lower reaches where Tellico is nowadays.
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The first weekly delivery of fresh, organic vegetables provided by Brookhaven Sciences Associates' $20,000 donation for Superstorm Sandy relief arrived at the Mastics and Shirley Community Emergency Food Center on Thursday, June 20. Pictured are (from left) Clint Applin, Green Thumb Organic Farm; Brookhaven Lab Director and Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) President Doon Gibbs; BSA Board Member, and Stony Brook University Provost and Vice President for Brookhaven Affairs Dennis Assanis; and Mastics and Shirley Community Emergency Food Center Director Bill Jackson.
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- Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA), the company that manages Brookhaven National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, has donated $20,000 to provide weekly deliveries of fresh, organic vegetables for families served by the Mastics and Shirley Community Emergency Food Center. The donation comes from BSA's two partners—Stony Brook University and Battelle—and is part of a $50,000 commitment to local disaster relief efforts for people who are still displaced and recovering from the effects of Superstorm Sandy.
BSA's donation will provide seasonal, fresh-picked crops to feed 50 or more families each week between now and December 5. The vegetables are grown and delivered by Green Thumb Organic Farm of Watermill, N.Y. through its community-supported agriculture program. The first delivery of vegetables arrived at the pantry on Thursday, June 20.
"We hope this donation of fresh produce to the Mastics and Shirley Community Emergency Food Center will help people in need in our community," said BSA Co-chair and Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D. "We heard first hand of the many people who suffered incredibly from Superstorm Sandy, including many of our students, faculty, and staff at Stony Brook. An overwhelming event like that underscores the importance of helping members of the community during a difficult time and it is gratifying to know that we can provide this valuable support to our neighbors."
"BSA and our employees at Brookhaven Lab look forward to providing organic vegetables as some relief for local community residents still recovering from the devastating effects of Superstorm Sandy, while we continue our work to lessen the impacts of future storms by developing new energy technologies and applications for a smarter, more recoverable electrical grid." said Brookhaven Lab Director and BSA President Doon Gibbs. "We're also pleased that this donation will benefit a long-standing Long Island business."
Director of the Mastics and Shirley Community Emergency Food Center Bill Jackson said, "Even though the storm hit eight months ago, we're still serving 700 families—about 2,100 people—each month compared to 500 families per month in years past. People love fresh produce and serving it now allows us to save canned goods for winter."
The Mastics and Shirley Community Emergency Food Center is open four days each week to families who live in the Mastic, Mastic Beach, and Shirley areas. These areas have been identified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a "food desert," where community members lack ready access to healthy, affordable food.
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In addition to the vegetables paid for by BSA, Green Thumb Organic Farm will donate to the pantry any extra crops—including beans, eggplants, and peppers—that are available each week.
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#14824 - 01/06/01 12:35 AM but
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Are we in Oz unique in our overuse/misuse of "but"?
Give you a typical example....
Question : "Do you like caramel?"
Answer : "No. Chocolate's not bad but"
Believe it or not folks!
#14825 - 01/06/01 04:26 AM Re: but
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In spite of intensive quarantine regulations being formulated and enforced vigorously by immigration and customs, it's crossed the Tasman. And it's as insidious as the possum ..._________________________
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#14826 - 01/06/01 10:49 AM Re: but
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Well, do you add anything after the "but"?
Does the sentence finish there or continue to clarify; or is your point that they should use "however"?
#14827 - 01/06/01 11:24 AM Re: but
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>Are we in Oz unique in our overuse/misuse of "but"?
>Answer : "No. Chocolate's not bad but"
Usually when I am going to call someone that, I spell it with two t's._________________________
#14828 - 01/06/01 03:20 PM Re: but
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Are we in Oz unique in our overuse/misuse of "but"?
Give you a typical example....
Question : "Do you like caramel?"
Answer : "No. Chocolate's not bad but"
But why the but?
#14829 - 01/06/01 03:37 PM Re: but
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Wow pleaded:But why the but?
Dunno. Might be anastrophe but.
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#14831 - 01/06/01 03:54 PM Re: but
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>"No. Chocolate's not bad but"
the anastrophe explanation makes more sense....
no; but chocolate's not bad.
#14832 - 01/06/01 07:22 PM Re: but
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I have it on irrefutable authority that this is a manner of speech, used in a similar way to how some Canadians add
"eh" on to the end of a sentence. Rhetorically, I reckon, eh.
#14833 - 01/06/01 07:34 PM Re: anastrophic 'buts'
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out is the jury on this one....
I'm thinking it may be a way to ameliorate what you say, so as not to cause undue offense, as in the rising intonation at the end of a sentence, apparently originating in Oz but having gained widespread use(age) among American teen-age girls in the last decade....(?*) ['awaiting wet-noodle flogging' emoticon]
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The easy money of the aughts came with a drawback or two, but the extent to which the consumer credit market has dried up since then isn't without its own problems. Trustworthy borrowers with credit damaged by the financial crisis are having an unreasonably difficult time getting loans from banks. At least that's the argument made by a new wave of tech-savvy financial upstarts who think they're smarter than banks and are willing to be braver.
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The effort shares characteristics with peer-to-peer lending platforms like Lending Club and Prosper; FreedomPlus's chief investment officer, Joe Toms, has been an executive at both companies. It also bears similarities to companies like Zest Finance and Cognical, which developed novel data-analysis techniques intended to determine creditworthiness from information the credit bureaus ignore.
Freedom Plus's effort is notable in part because of the size of the bet being placed on it. "It's the largest commitment from an individual investor that I've ever seen in this space," says Peter Renton of Lend Academy, which tracks peer-to-peer lending and other financial-tech startups.
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If it works out, the opportunity is huge. This year the 25 largest banks in the country are lending three-quarters of the money they have on deposit, according to Bloomberg Industries. That ratio has dropped every year since 2007, when they lent 121 percent of deposits, showing that banks haven't gone back to lending even as they have stabilized.
Toms says there are 80 million people with FICO scores between 600 and 700. Many of them can't qualify for loans, but about half of them will see their scores rise in the next year. The point is to get them before the banks even consider them.
Of course, companies that extend credit to people who can't qualify for standard loans don't have the most spotless of reputations, largely because there have been all kinds of underhanded operators among payday lenders and their usurious brethren. FreedomPlus, which runs a debt consolidation business already, knows it has to prove its good intentions. The rates it charges are 3.75 percent above prime consumer debt rates, but significantly below what the average credit card charges.
To further drive the point home, FreedomPlus is tying its own payment to the performance of loans rather than living on origination and servicing fees, effectively punishing itself for writing bad loans.
That's all well and good, but the big test will come not now, when the economy seems to be finding its feet and the banking sector is widely regarded as overly timid; it will likely take another big downturn. Prosper, the peer-to-peer lending company, found that its idealism about people being good judges of the creditworthiness of their friends and neighbors almost killed it during the financial crisis. Eventually, FreedomPlus will get its own moment of reckoning, and then we'll know how good of an idea this all is.
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Hello there! Firstly I'd like to say my apologies if this is in the wrong place, for I am a newbie. But I'm really rather confused and was wondering if any of you brainy chappies could help me.
I've owned a Sony NW-HD5 mp3 player (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-NW-HD5-.../dp/B000934N2E) for eight years now, but I was recently forced to purchase something new because the software that accompanied it was in fact built by monkeys on crack. And I'd had enough. So's after some research I got myself a shiney Cowon S9, and wow, 'tis amazing.
However I'm having trouble getting my head round a few things, especially since the player I'm so used to was so basic in comparison. I was wondering, could a kind person please tell me how to put playlists onto this thing?
I've had a read of the beginner's guide but I'm still a bit confused >.< this is all terribly new to me. There are acronyms and abbreviations that make me pull a face that looks uncannily like this - O.o Furthermore, I had a go at downloading the handily linked bits of kit created by someone named Claw (who I like to think has claws at the end of his nails) and Antilamer, but sadly all I get when I press the links are pages in German. I think they say 'page not found'. Or they might be about cake. I don't know. I was terrible at German in school.
I've had a go at playing with the software included with the player, the Cowon Media Center. It lets me create playlists, so I made a test playlist by selecting a few songs from my music folder (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n/9d6e0685.jpg)
Hey. Lady Gaga is cool, alright.
But I can't figure out how I put the playlist onto the S9. I tried to drag it into a few things but all it did was to copy the list of songs into random places. Whoops. I know it must be possible because in the browser section of the s9 there is a playlist function, but how do I actually put things in it?
Please, could anyone provide me with an idiot's guide on how to put playlists on there, or at least link me to one? I'd be ever so grateful. I am a bird of very little brain, but I can be taught.
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You should try the method described here.
I've tried another method with MediaMonkey and couldn't get it to work, but with WMP it worked right away. Extra tip: make sure that the M3U playlist you created is encoded in Unicode format; just open it in Notepad and choose "save as" and the type of encoding will be shown. If it's not Unicode, change for Unicode and save (overwrite) the file.
Easy as 123 !
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Thanks so much! I'll give it a try right now. I'm a little daunted at the idea of having to rewrite all my playlists for the third time (just done it in Sonicstage and then in WMP too, based on the locations in my computer and they take days >.<) but if the third time is a charm, it'll be worth it.
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Finally, it's done! Thanks so much to the chappie who wrote that little guide. It took me ages and ages, but I've finally gotten the playlists working. Happy bird here!
I can't believe that if you follow the instructions on the official Cowon website/FAQ, you end up merely duplicating the songs you want to be in a playlist, taking up space and generally messing up the folders and making them two or three times as big. I did this a few times, wondering what the heck was wrong. Bad show, Cowon.
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In April 2011, JICL co-sponsored the symposium "Challenges to International Law, Challenges from International Law: New Realities and the Global Order" with CICL and the American Society of International Law (ASIL). At the event, preeminent academics, practitioners and past and present government officials examined current challenges facing international law through the lens of three areas of regulation—the use of force, human rights and economic relations. Participants also explored the United States' role in international law-making and enforcement.
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I. Trade Liberalization as Counter-Terrorism
How should the world trading system be regulated? Not by using the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations as an example. Who should regulate the world trading system? Not the World Trade Organization (WTO) Members, if their behavior in this Round, particularly that of most major, and several developing Members, is an example.
The Members of the WTO have succumbed so completely to the pursuit of their commercial self-interest that the Doha Round has devolved from its grand launch in November 2001 as a counter-terrorist strategy to a monstrous mishmash of international trade law minutiae. The Round has lost its links to its original purpose, to fight Islamist extremism by attacking one (not the only, but one) of its causes: poverty. The correct idea was that multilateral trade liberalization could spur poverty alleviation among Muslim communities and countries, and integrate them more completely into the global trade order. Seeing and experiencing the benefits from this order, otherwise marginalized Muslims might be less susceptible to plotting against the order and some of its non-Muslim participants. Why take a dangerous job as a lowly courier for Osama Bin Laden when the WTO system offers the realistic possibility of a lucrative career with an import-export business and promises, in a legally binding manner, market access and a level competitive playing field for the merchandise of that trading house?
About the Author
Raj Bhala - Rice Distinguished Professor, The University of Kansas, School of Law; J.D., Harvard (1989); M.Sc., Oxford (1986); M.Sc., London School of Economics (1985); A.B., Duke (1984). Marshall Scholar (1984-86). Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. This essay is based on the author's April 2011 remarks at the symposium entitled, "Challenges to International Law, Challenges from International Law: New Realities and the Global Order." The author is grateful to his colleagues and friends at St. John's Law School, including Professors Christopher Borgen, Margaret McGuinness, and Mark Movsesian, and the Editors and Staff of the St. John's Journal of International and Comparative Law. He is also grateful to his Research Assistant, Ms. Sarah Schmidt; J.D., University of Kansas School of Law; M.A. Economics, University of Kansas (expected May 2013).
For a more in depth treatment of the matters discussed herein, please see the Doha Round Trilogy by the author:
● Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part One of a Trilogy – Agricultural Tariffs and Subsidies, UNIVERSITY OF SAINT THOMAS LAW JOURNAL (2011, Annual Law Journal Lecture);
● Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part Two of a Trilogy – Non-Agricultural Market Access and Services Trade, 44 CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW issues 1 & 2 (2012, War Crimes Research Symposium on International Law in Crisis);
● Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part Three of a Trilogy – Trade Remedies and Facilitation, 40 DENVER JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY issue 1 (2012, 40th Anniversary Symposium in Honor of Professor Ved Nanda).
This essay addresses the issue of how separation of powers relates to the domestic enforcement of international human rights standards in the face of opposition from the President. Specifically, I consider the role of the judiciary in defending international human rights standards when the Executive branch invokes its ostensible foreign relations expertise against them.
Nowhere has such conflict arisen more sharply than in the cases arising from the attacks of 9/11. Three scenarios have stood out. First, the President and Supreme Court have joined issue over statutes implicating human rights commitments. Notable in this regard is Justice Souter's concurrence in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, in which he bolstered his reading of the Non-Detention Act with reference to Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention. Second, the judiciary has challenged the executive more directly on issues of treaty interpretation. In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Justice Stevens' majority opinion summarily rejected the Bush administration's idiosyncratic argument that "unlawful enemy combatants" were not entitled to the protections of the same treaties' Common Article 3. Lastly, the Court has refused to set aside constitutional principles at the executive's behest in the name of national security. Not least, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the Court rejected the President's arguments for a restrictive reading of Guantanamo detainees' Constitutional Due Process rights. Though here the parallel international standards operated offstage in U.S. Reports, they did make a significant appearance in amicus briefs. No less important, the Court refused to consider only Article II's national security concerns at the expense of the Fifth Amendment.
About the Author
Martin S. Flaherty - Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights Law, Fordham Law School; Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE NEWLY ADOPTED INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT DEFINITION OF THE CRIME OF AGGRESSIONWritten by Jennifer Trahan
From May 31 to June 11, 2010, a significant event occurred in Kampala, Uganda: the first ever Review Conference to consider amendments to the International Criminal Court's Statute. At the conference, agreement was reached by States Parties to the International Criminal Court ("ICC") to adopt an amendment to the Rome Statute, adding, inter alia, the definition of the crime of aggression as well as conditions for the ICC's exercise of jurisdiction over it.
The fact that States Parties reached this agreement was a significant advancement for the rule of law. Over the years, many States Parties supported these negotiations, including some of the U.S.'s closest allies. States Parties also expressed broad support for the amendment during the 2010 session of the Assembly of States Parties ("ASP"). This support for adoption of the crime of aggression is not shared by all states, and, even among States Parties, there is no doubt some diversity of views as to the merits of the final agreement.
About the Author
Jennifer Trahan - Assistant Clinical Professor of Global Affairs, N.Y.U.-S.C.P.S. Professor Trahan attended negations on the crime of aggression, including the International Criminal Court Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda, as an NGO observer for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a member of the American Bar Association 2010 International Criminal Court Task Force, and Chair of the American Branch of the International Law Association International Criminal Court Committee. These remarks were originally delivered as a speech on April 1, 2011, at St. John's School of Law, as part of a symposium entitled "Challenges to International Law, Challenges from International Law: New Realities and the Global Order."
In her recent New York Times column, Gail Collins addressed Republican criticism of President Obama's approach to foreign policy:
Mitt [Romney] told a conservative radio host [Hugh Hewitt] this week that the President is weak because of "his fundamental disbelief in American exceptionalism." This is part of a widespread Republican theory that simply believing that our country is a great and unique nation is not good enough unless you also run around the world publicly pointing out to our allies that we are way, way better than they are.
Ms. Collins goes on to refer sarcastically to Mr. Romney's criticism of President Obama's "nuanced" diplomacy given that most diplomatic exchanges require at least a nuanced approach.
While President Obama was almost certainly not even thinking about Mr. Romney's remarks, I thought that the President responded rather well to this criticism in his speech at the National Defense University concerning, among other matters, the United States' role in Libya. Whatever one might say about the merits of the decision concerning Libya, the President set out a useful framework for the range of American responses to calls for United States intervention. He discussed those cases where, as he submitted was the situation in Libya, the safety of our country is not at risk but "our interests and values are." He calls these threats to "our common humanity and our common security" and makes clear that they can arise from natural or man-made disasters. The President added, "In such cases, we should not be afraid to act – but the burden of action should not be America's alone."
About the Author
Peter D. Trooboff - Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP. Peter Trooboff has practiced in the area of international trade and investment for over forty years. He won a Theberge award for private international law in 2010 and was the president of the American Society of International Law from 1990 to 1992. He has supervised numerous investigations into U.S. foreign trade control violations by international corporations and is often involved in international arbitral proceedings.
This Essay is based on the author's remarks at the symposium on "Challenges to International Law, Challenges from International Law: New Realities and the Global Order," held at the St. John's University School of Law, April 1, 2011.
This Essay focuses on "transnational judicial governance"—that is, the regulation of transnational activity by domestic courts. Specifically, the Essay makes three points: First, transnational judicial governance is an important form of global governance that interacts with, but is distinct from, other forms of global governance such as international institutions, transgovernmental networks, and private governance. Second, it appears that the influence of U.S. courts in transnational judicial governance may be declining as the transnational litigation system becomes increasingly multipolar. Third, transnational judicial governance seems to be a normatively mixed bag. But, for better or worse, it is likely that domestic courts will continue to play an important role in global governance.
I. Transnational Judicial Governance and Other Forms of Global Governance
Legal scholars and political scientists have devoted considerable attention to the role of domestic courts in domestic governance, as well as to the role of international courts in global governance. So far, however, they have devoted little attention to the role of domestic courts in global governance. Yet domestic courts are routinely involved in the regulation of transnational activity. This section briefly discusses the important, but often neglected, role of domestic courts in global governance, and highlights the relationship between transnational judicial governance and other forms of global governance.
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Christopher A. Whytock - Acting Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine School of Law. This Essay is based on the author's remarks at the symposium on "Challenges to International Law, Challenges from International Law: New Realities and the Global Order," held at the St. John's University School of Law, April 1, 2011. The author thanks Christopher Borgen, Margaret McGuinness and Trea McPherson for organizing the symposium, and Mark Movsesian for moderating the panel on global economic regulation.


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The mainstream-movie creed abhors murderers, terrorists and most extraterrestrials, but nothing affronts it more than skeptics. So it's clear that the protagonist of "The Awakening" will be punished severely as soon she opens the film by busting up a seance. How dare Florence (Rebecca Hall) challenge fantasy-peddlers who make good money by scaring the rubes?
Florence lives in 1921 London, after World War I and a flu epidemic killed millions worldwide. "This is a time for ghosts," the movie's introduction portentously announces. Florence doesn't agree, and she has become something of a celebrity as a debunker.
She's haunted in her own way, of course; she lost her true love in the war. But that's just part of Florence's motivation. "The Awakening" takes its time introducing all of the specters that torment the young woman. Eventually, Florence's tangled, outlandish back story will be revealed.
Immediately after exposing the seance, Florence is visited by a stuttering, war-scarred teacher, Robert (Dominic West). He has been sent, somewhat reluctantly, to bring her to a Lake District boys school where a student recently died. Apparently, the student was frightened to death by the apparition of a boy who was slain in the building years before.
Drained by her ghostbusting, Florence declines. In the next scene, she's taking a train north. That's the kind of rigorously predictable undertaking this is.
At the school, Florence meets the matron, Maud (Imelda Staunton), an admirer. With scientific gear and outlook, Florence quickly dispels the mystery of the dead student. But she becomes convinced that there are deeper bewilderments to be plumbed. So she stays during a school break, when her only companions in the vast, shadowy building are Robert, Maud, an ominous groundskeeper (Joseph Mawle) and a boy (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) whose parents are said to be in India. Every one of these characters has a dark secret, although some are more supernatural than others.
"The Awakening" is nonsense, but with its posh British cast and colors drained to near-gray, it's very solemn nonsense. Director and co-writer Nick Murphy gravely invokes the trauma of the Great War, as well as the agony of boarding schools where every infraction was answered with the sting of the teacher's cane.
Taking a break from playing Yanks in such movies as "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Hall renders Florence about as believable as the script will allow. But her character's personal history is as bloody ridiculous as it is gory. And once the movie starts to chasten her, it just can't stop. Both physical and psychological, her awakening is as harshly unenlightening as a blow to a schoolboy's knuckles.


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When predator kills hostJune 19,2014You can buy food from farmers directly, through markets, any way you can find and I hope you do. But unless youre radically different from most of us, much of what you eat comes from corporations that process, market, deliver and sell food, a majority of which is processed beyond recognition.
The problem is that real food isnt real profitable. Its hard to market fruit and vegetables without adding value, says Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University.If you
turn a potato into a potato chip you not only make more money you create a product with a long shelf life. Potatoes into chips and frozen fries; wheat into soft enriched bread; soybeans into oil and meat; corn into meat and a staggering variety of junk.
How do we break this cycle? You cant blame corporations for trying to profit by any means necessary, even immoral ones: Its their nature.
You can possibly blame them for stupidity: Even a mindless parasite knows that if it kills its host the partys over, and by pushing products that promote illth the opposite of health Big Food is unwittingly destroying its own market. Diet-related Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease disable and kill people, and undoubtedly well be hearing more about nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, an increasingly prevalent fatty liver disease thats brought on by diet and may lead to liver failure.
Food companies are well aware of the health crisis their products cause, and recognize that the situation is unsustainable. But one theory has it that as long as even one of the big food companies remains cynical and uncaring about its market, they all must remain so.
Chief among the hopeful arguments is one that goes something like this: The first big food outfit to recognize that its future lies in creating a market for healthy and even environmentally neutral food (lets throw in justice for workers and animal welfare while were at it!) may show the way to the future of healthy food as a sound business model. Some profitable corporations nibble at the edges of this already, but as a piece in the current Harvard Business Review points out American capitalists have become poor innovators.
Only the naïve, however, would believe that Big Food is generally working toward this. As Nestle and Michele Simon, author of Appetite for Profit, have been saying for years, these organizations represent not the public interest but the corporate one, and since they havent devised a way to improve or even maintain their bottom lines selling real food, they have to appear to be selling better food.
But the key remains selling. A new paper in the journal Social Currents by Ivy Ken, an associate professor of sociology at George Washington University, discusses Big Foods strategy of working together with communities to fight the obesity crisis. The goal is threefold, according to Ken: Corporations want us to focus on the importance of their role in solving childhood obesity and presenting themselves as part of the solution. Their part of working together is re-engineering their products; our part of working together is to buy more and more of this food thats not real, Ken said to me.
The food industry also wants us to ignore its use of that strategy to increase its market share and profits; and it wants to maintain legitimacy at a time when community groups and public health officials are, Ken writes, demanding limits to their involvement in supplying food to children.
Our efforts to demand limits on the sale of junk to children are a threat to Big Food. If we succeed, it fails, or at least suffers. But if industry succeeds, whether in selling blatant junk or re-engineered versions that are low in fat or sodium or gluten- or sugar-free or reduced-calorie or high fiber or whatever companies can create any frankenfood they feel will sell we will continue to suffer. (Nestlé often says, A slightly-better-for-you junk food is still junk food.) Our health will decline further, the environment will be further degraded, and our health care system (and therefore economy) will spend an increasingly disproportionate amount of money on diet-generated chronic disease.
If the most profitable scenario means that most food choices are essentially toxic in the sense that overconsumption will cause illness thats a failure of the market, not of individual choice. And governments rightful role is not to form partnerships with industry so that the latter can voluntarily solve the problem, but to oversee and regulate industry. Its mandate is to protect public health, and one good step toward fulfilling that right now would be to regulate the marketing of junk to children. Anything short of that is a failure.
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I have always wanted to but yet to attend a MATTA Fair. I missed out on the most recent one in September this year. MATTA Fair is the grandest of its kind showcasing various top travel and tour agents in Malaysia. I believe their trade show carpet should not be simply laid. Some travel booths may even make use of logo mats and logo canopy. A nice looking exhibit booth can certainly attract more walk in customers, don't you think so?
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Mickey Rourke Slams Unnamed Actress Who 'S**ts Herself' When The Cameras Start Rolling
Mickey Rourke has got movie gossips guessing about the actress he hated working with after confessing to teaming up with "a pain in the a**" in a recent movie.
The "Iron Man 2" star reveals the actress in question has fooled everyone into thinking she's "a lot better than she is."
Rourke tells MovieHole.net, "I worked with an actress recently who, despite having a reputation as a good actress, s**ts herself when that little red light comes on. She's fooled everyone into thinking she's a lot better than she is. Working with someone like that is a pain in the a**."
One actress who definitely didn't annoy the actor was "Transformers" star Megan Fox - his co-star in new film Passion Play.
Rourke is confident Fox is all set to become a great star.
He explains, "It was a lot of fun. (Fox) was great to work with... I mean, look at her! And it was also great to work with someone who may be beautiful and good-looking but also knows how to do her homework. I think people will have a different perspective of her (after this film). It was great to work with someone like Megan."
Rourke's most recent co-stars, aside from Fox, include Scarlett Johansson, Olivia Munn and Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man 2), Isabel Lucas and Freida Pinto (Immortals), Emmanuelle Chriqui (13) and Winona Ryder and Amber Heard (Informers).


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Jami is a writer and graphic designer living in Atlanta. She's a single mom with a dirty mouth and a penchant for snark. She used to want to teach Jazzercise, but realized she liked ice cream too much. She authored the hilarious blog, Date Wrecks, where she mocked the most wretched refuse of internet romance and currently writes about whatever she damn well pleases at Freak Bacon. She sort of overseeing this new project and will be contributing on a semi-regular basis… Which is code for whenever she damn well pleases. Contact.
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It's all opinions, but there are plenty of people who believe Spain's La Liga to be the best top flight of football in the world right now.
One thing is for sure, it's certainly home to some of the best talent in the game—Andres Iniesta, Mesut Ozil, Radamel Falcao; the names just roll off the tongue, and to watch them is, at times, to be in the presence of some of the game's true greats.
Form is a wonderful thing, though; it can make the most accomplished players in the game appear sluggish, slovenly and far from their best and can help mere mortals compete with the finest in the game.
The very best, of course, remain in-form and play to their highest capabilities as often as possible.
Here are the 20 best players in La Liga right now.