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Feeling sad, or what we may call "depressed", happens to all of us. The sensation usually passes after a while. However, a person with a depressive disorder - clinical depression - finds that his state interferes with his daily life. His normal functioning is undermined to such an extent that both he and those who care about him are affected by it.  According to MediLexicon's  Medical Dictionary ,  depression  is  "a mental state or chronic mental disorder characterized by feelings of sadness, loneliness, despair, low self-esteem, and self-reproach; accompanying signs include psychomotor retardation (or less frequently agitation), withdrawal from social contact, and vegetative states such as loss of appetite and insomnia." What are the different forms of depression? There are several forms of depression (depressive disorders). Major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder are the most common. Major depressive disorder (major depression)  Major depre...

Before Hearing Adhan - Before Meeting Muslims - Before Watching Salat - Laim Nesson  Before Islam While we wait for him to make his shahadah and enter Islam completely, we thought it a good idea to give Muslims some idea of who he was before being affected by the adhan and coming to love Islam. Please take some time to read about him and his past, make dua for him and if you can think of something that might help him - leave him a message at the end of this story (even if you did it before - say something to encourage him)... Read: As film stars go, Liam Neeson certainly did it the hard way. In his late twenties he was still struggling in Irish regional theatre. By his mid-thirties, he'd risen only as far as supporting roles in a few of the Eighties' plethora of TV miniseries. Indeed, he was into his forties before his star really rose, when, as the fine character actor he had become, he brought grace, pain and a necessary touch of sleaze to the part of Oskar Schindler ...

March 4, 2012 11:47 AM ET Ronnie Montrose Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Ronnie Montrose, who is best known for his fiery guitar work as a member of the band Montrose, died Saturday. It is believed that the cause of death was prostate cancer, which he had been battling for the past few years. "A few months ago, we held a surprise party for Ronnie Montrose's 64th birthday," a statement said on Montrose's official website. "He gave an impromptu speech, and told us that after a long life, filled with joy and hardship, he didn't take any of our love for granted. He passed today. He'd battled cancer, and staved off old age for long enough. And true to form, he chose his own exit the way he chose his own life. We miss him already, but we're glad to have shared with him while we could." Born in Denver, Colorado, Montrose got his first break when he was invited to play on Van Morrison's 1971 album,  Tupelo Honey...

Java SE 7 (July 07, 2011) Java 7 (codename  Dolphin [56] ) is a major update to Java that was launched on July 7, 2011 [57]  and was made available for developers on July 28, 2011. [58]  The development period was organized into thirteen milestones; on February 18, 2011, milestone 13 (the last milestone) was reached. [59] [60]  On average, 8 builds (which generally included enhancements and bug fixes) were released per milestone. The  feature list at the OpenJDK 7 project  lists many of the feature changes. Feature additions for Java 7 include: [61] JVM  support for  dynamic languages , following the prototyping work currently done on the  Multi Language Virtual Machine Compressed 64-bit pointers [62]  Available in Java 6 with  -XX:+UseCompressedOops Small language changes (grouped under a project named Coin) [63] : Strings in  switch [64] Automatic resource management in try-statement [65] Improved type inferen...