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A Covington man convicted of killing his wife and burying her in a cemetery will spend 40 years in prison.
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A Covington man faces a July sentencing after pleading no contest to charges that he killed his wife and buried her in a cemetery., Online court records show that Adan Quiroz Rodriguez pleaded no contest last week to first-degree murder and concealing a body.
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By Lisa Blackman. London, Free Association Books, 2001, 266 pp., $55.00; $25.00 (paper).
Approximately 60%–70% of patients with schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations of spoken speech. These experiences respond poorly to pharmacotherapy in perhaps 25% of cases and produce high rates of distress and disruptions of behavior and judgment. This book turns this conventional view on its head by challenging the wisdom of viewing hearing voices as an indication of illness rooted in the biology of the brain. The book, which is written by a cultural historian with a long-standing interest in the delineation of subjective states, begins by noting the difficulties in objectively attempting to define characteristic features of auditory hallucinations that reliably identify the experience as pathological. These difficulties arise because auditory hallucinations can also arise from drugs, alcohol, and transitional states between sleep and waking. Moreover, some people who do not have an obvious mental illness still "hear voices" with an entirely clear sensorium. States of religious or creative inspiration seem to induce these experiences, for instance. Joan of Arc described hearing voices of saints telling her to free her country from the English. The German poet Rainer Rilke heard the voice of a "terrible angel" amid the sound of a crashing sea after living alone in a castle for 2 months. This experience prompted his writing the famous Duino Elegies. Where and how should the clinician draw the line between these experiences and the voices of schizophrenia?
The author notes that sensory qualities of the experience—loudness, vividness, whether voices are external or internal, degree of self-control—do not always provide good indicators. Instead, psychiatrists tend to rely on the disruptive effect of these experiences on the individual's functioning in the world when ascribing pathology. The author takes great offense at this assessment criterion because it entails judgments based on social convention of what is "normal functioning," a slippery business according to the likes of Foucault, whom the author relies on heavily. Instead, her view is that people hearing voices should not be labeled as ill at all but taught to embrace voices as an essential and not terribly negative aspect of their unique personal experience. Although she endorses the cognitive behavior therapy focus on helping patients take control of their voices, Blackman objects to cognitive behavior therapy because it often uses distraction and refocusing, which cause patients to further disenfranchise themselves from their voices.
The author's alternative view arises from her work with the Hearing Voices Network, "an international group of voice-hearers who are challenging the notion that voices must be lived and experienced purely as signs of disease and illness" (p. 5). This self-help organization brings "voice-hearers" together to share experiences, provide support, and encourage alternative methods of coping outside the realm of psychiatric practice. According to the author, many people participating in this organization come to view voices as a kind of a gift rather than an affliction. First-person anecdotes are offered as evidence for the usefulness of this alternative approach.
I am a great advocate for anything that truly helps people who suffer from hearing voices. Having studied these experiences extensively, I agree with the author that there is much to be learned by talking with patients at length about their voices. I am consistently surprised to learn that in spite of years of treatment, patients have never actually been asked to describe them—what they sound like, the actual verbal content, when and where these experiences occur, what makes then better or worse, etc. And I remain very impressed by how much there is to be learned about these experiences—how they are different from ordinary verbal thoughts and how each person has learned to accommodate and adjust to them. On the basis of these discussions, I have come to hypothesize that voices are made worse by two specific factors. First is extreme social isolation—the failure to engage in meaningful verbal discourse with people in the real world. Voices often are turned on by the absence of these experiences in the ordinary world, perhaps analogous to a phantom limb phenomenon. Second, high levels of emotionality, especially negative emotions, appear to worsen voices. It is therefore not surprising to me that the Voice Hearers Network could provide benefit to some people—a social network is restored that provides meaningful discourse, and negative emotions provoked by voices are reduced or eliminated. Yet I have no hesitation in ascribing illness to the individuals who approach me to enroll in our treatment trials (1, 2). Often they have been ravaged for years by extremely disruptive and repetitive hallucinations to the point of extreme despair and suicidality. One patient described hearing voices as being in a constant state of mental rape. This patient, if given a choice between viewing voices as a gift or just getting rid of them, would, I suspect, embrace the second alternative in a heartbeat.
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Oil shale is a domestic energy source with the potential to provide Americans with secure, reliable and affordable energy sources. Section 21 of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 U.S.C. 241), authorizes the leasing of federal lands for the development of oil shale.
The oil shale lands managed by BLM Colorado are part of the largest known concentration of oil shale in the world – the Green River Formation. More than 70 percent of the Formation is on public lands in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Oil shale is found in the Piceance Basin located in western Colorado. The U.S. Geological Survey (2011), completed an assessment of in-place oil shale resources, regardless of grade, in the Green River Formation. The USGS did not attempt to estimate the amount of oil that is economically recoverable because there has not yet been an economic method developed to recover the oil from Green River Formation oil shale. Total in-place resources for southwestern Wyoming, northwestern Colorado, and northeastern Utah are 4.3 trillion barrels.
Following direction in the National Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Colorado BLM has approved seven Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) leases. Two separate solicitations for nomination of RD&D parcels have occurred. One was announced on June 9, 2005 and the second solicitation for RD&D parcels was announced November 3, 2009. Five projects were selected as part of the first round nomination process: three for Shell Frontier Oil and Gas Inc., and one each for Chevron USA and American Shale Oil, LLC (formerly EGL Resources Inc.) Two additional leases were selected as part of the second round of solicitations of interest in RD&D leases: Exxon-Mobil Exploration Company and Natural Soda Holdings, Inc. The RD&D leases grant rights to develop oil shale on 160-acre tracts of public land for lease. The initial term of the leases is 10 years. For the first round RD&D leases, there is an option of extending up to five years with proof of diligent pursuit of commercial production. The first round leases also contain a preferential right to convert the RD&D acreage plus adjacent acreage up to 4,960 acres, to a 20-year commercial lease once commercial production levels have been achieved and all requirements have been met. The second round leases contain a preferential right to convert the RD&D acreage plus adjacent acreage up to 480 acres, to a 20-year commercial lease once commercial production levels have been achieved and all requirements have been met.
Nationally, the BLM completed work on a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) March 22, 2013, amending 10 land use plans in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming to make approximately 678,000 acres available for potential development of oil shale, and approximately 132,000 acres available for development of tar sands. In Colorado, the plans that have been amended are the Grand Junction Resource Management Plan, the White River Resource Management Plan, and the Colorado River Valley (formerly Glenwood Springs) Resource Management Plan. In September 2008, pursuant to Section 369 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, FLPMA, and NEPA, the BLM issued a Proposed Plan Amendments/Final Oil Shale and Tar Sands (OSTS) Programmatic EIS analyzing the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of amending 12 land use plans to designate public lands administered by the BLM as available for commercial leasing for oil shale or tar sands development. The November 17, 2008, ROD that followed this Programmatic EIS adopted the proposed land use amendments reflecting the allocation decisions analyzed in the 2008 OSTS Programmatic EIS. These land allocation decisions, which are currently in effect, were challenged in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of environmental organizations in January 2009. As part of a settlement agreement entered into by the United States to resolve the lawsuit and in light of new information that has emerged since the 2008 OSTS Programmatic EIS was prepared, the BLM and the Department made the decision to take a hard look at whether the acreage opened in the 2008 PEIS should remain available for potential development of oil shale and tar sands resources in the future.
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The BLM is taking a measured approach by requiring, in the case of oil shale, that those potential commercial developers of this resource first prove the commercial viability of the technologies they intend to use. This approach is intended to ensure that commercial viability is proven, and the environmental consequences of these technologies known before any commitment to broad-scale development.
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On Thursday, June 13, 2013, a Notice was published in the Federal Register that the comment period for the proposed rule published March 27, 2013, at 78 FR 18547, is reopended. The comment period closed on July 15, 2013.
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A course for students who want to be English teachers, at all levels. A course in "the theory of practice." We'll read four interesting and challenging books and then write about them in a freewriting journal and talk about them—react to them, question them, think about them—in class. The work is the freewriting journal, leading to a midterm and final essay, along with in-class group presentations.
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Huge Viruses Are Shaking Up The Tree of Life
Pandoraviruses are challenging some long-held biological beliefs. These newly-discovered beasts are larger, in size and in genetic complexity, than any other virus that we know of (details on the graphic are below). They are not as doom-worthy as their name implies, but they may have opened a box full of new biological forms that will challenge what we think of when we say "alive" or "virus". For the scientific low-down on pandoraviruses, check out this great article by Carl Zimmer.
Giant viruses of all kinds seem to be more common than we've ever imagined. It makes sense, in a way. Just like there is not a clear transition point between any two species, the complexity of life should also exist on a continuum from the small (bacterial viruses) to the complex (us). So maybe these little guys aren't so surprising after all?
I drew up a little graphic (above) to show just how large and complex pandoraviruses are compared to other life forms.
- Pandoraviruses are huge. A human egg cell is about 100 millionths of a meter across. An E. coli is about 50 times smaller. But pandoraviruses (which dwarf flu viruses) are nearly as big as the bacterium!
- The area of the circles show how many genes each type of cell contains. The human genome has about 20,000 genes, while E. coli has about 4,500. Compared to a measly 13 genes in the flu virus, pandoraviruses have about 2,500!, almost none of which seem to be related to known genes.
- The size of the genome, in bases, is where it gets weird. The human egg's genome, at 3 billion bases, dwarfs them all. E. coli and pandoraviruses have around 4 and 2 million, respectively. And there's a tiny little single pixel in there representing the 13,588 letters of the influenza genome.
I can't wait to see what other kinds of life/not life we find inside this Pandora's box.
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Leslie Porterfield, who was recently declared the world's fastest female motorcyclist by Guinness, has just been introduced to the BMW S1000RR , not to ride the 193 bhp German superbike full throttle, but for a classy picture gallery by Markus Hofmann, one of Germany's best photographers.
Hofmann, who has in the past made other similar photos with various models on the same bike and in the same aircraft hangar, seems to have reached to the conclusion that fashionable Leslie Porterfield is the most appropriate person to photograph on his apparently favorite superbike.
The artist started from the fact that 'There are so many motorcycle manufacturers that combine motorcycles and women in an artless and sleazy way, that I thought there just had to be a better way of doing it' and mentions: 'I had no intention of putting a naked woman on a bike, and it was very clear to me that the bike had to be the S1000RR superbike in the same colour that people have seen on the racetrack in 2009. I didn't want the bike to fade into the background either – showing the name of the manufacturer was also very important for me, because it made the feeling of a pit stop and racetrack environment much more authentic.'
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LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Inside her Port-au-Prince apartment for four days in September 1991, Erica Johnson-Meadows '85 dared not leave.
Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been overthrown in a coup d'état, and the streets exploded with violence. Rebels set roadblocks afire. Gun-toting men rode through the city in the back of pickup trucks, shooting people in the streets.
After spending more than a year as a health-care worker in one of the poorest areas of the city, Johnson-Meadows had become accustomed to the poverty and desperation. But this was anarchy.
"You felt like you were watching the world fall apart before your eyes," she says.
Disarray and upheaval
Johnson-Meadows remained in Haiti for several more years, continuing to work in health care and later as a member of the U.N. Human Rights Mission. In 1996, she moved with the U.N. to the Balkans, another site of disarray and upheaval.
"In many ways, the problems that followed the years of political unrest stemmed from leadership that went wrong," she says. "In the Balkans, it was a complex scenario, with Franjo Tudjman, Alija Izetbegovic, and Slobodan Milosevic all in power. All of them were powerful leaders, but they were more interested in holding onto their power than in working on any kind of power sharing. Bosnia is still coming out of that dark post-war period."
Leadership matters
Clearly, leadership matters today as much as it ever did. Human misery can be alleviated through leadership or exacerbated by its failure. Hurricane Katrina may well go down in history as much for the spectacularly bungled response to the disaster as for the power of the storm itself.
This past September, as the nation prepared for the 2008 presidential election season, during which the leadership potential of the candidates will be scrutinized endlessly, the University kicked off a 16-month national speaker series, "The Bucknell Forum: The Citizen & Politics in America." Inaugurated with a talk by NBC's Tim Russert, the series is bringing prominent speakers to campus to address vital topics such as leadership, citizens' responsibilities, and the direction of our country.
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PETERHEAD, Scotland, Aug. 1 (UPI) — A BP oil pipeline was shut down off the coast of Scotland to remove an unexploded sea mine from World War II, officials say.
BP's Forties oil pipeline, responsible for transporting about 40 percent of oil produced in the United Kingdom, has been closed for five days to remove the mine found off Peterhead coast in Scotland, The Guardian reported.
"It didn't pose any risks where it was, but we knew pretty quickly we didn't want it there," a BP spokesman said Monday. "It's very rare that the whole system is shut down, but we are not taking any chances."
The German-built sea mine, discovered in late March, will be transported 2.5 miles away and safely set off underwater.
BP said the shutdown has come during a time of lower demand, and will also be taking the time to do essential maintenance on the pipeline.
"The Forties pipeline system has started a five-day planned shutdown, to enable the safe removal and disposal of ordnance lying next to the pipeline," BP said. "BP is also taking the opportunity to conduct some important maintenance while the system is shut down. All users of the Forties pipeline system have been kept regularly informed and are fully aware of the plan. The plans have also received full regulatory approvals and support."


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The second Arab Social Media Report highlights and specifically analyzes usage trends of online social networking across the Arab region based on data collected in the first quarter of 2011. In this edition, the report analyzes data on Twitter and Facebook users in all 22 Arab countries, in addition to Iran, Israel and Turkey, highlighting the role they played in the civil movements that swept the region during that period.
The Arab Social Media Report, produced by the Dubai School of Government's Governance and Innovation Program, is the first in a quarterly series that will highlight and analyze usage trends of specific networking tools across the Arab region. In its inaugural edition, the report analyzes data on Facebook users in all 22 Arab countries, in addition to Iran and Israel.
This paper explores barriers to unleashing the potential power of ICTs for creating a culture of innovation within the Arab region, with a focus on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) specifically.
As electronic government initiatives continue to gain global momentum, interest in benchmarking various aspects of e-government is expanding rapidly.
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10 U.S. Code § 7676 - Compensation of prize commissioners and special prize commissioners
(a) Naval prize commissioners and naval special prize commissioners may not receive compensation for their services in prize causes other than that to which they are entitled as officers of the Navy.
(b) Prize commissioners and special prize commissioners, except naval prize commissioners and naval special prize commissioners, are entitled to just and suitable compensation for their services in prize causes. The amount of compensation in each cause shall be determined by the court and allowed as costs.
(c) Annually, on the anniversary of his appointment, each prize commissioner and special prize commissioner, except a naval prize commissioner or a naval special prize commissioner, shall submit to the Attorney General an account of all amounts received for his services in prize causes within the previous year. Of the amounts reported, each such commissioner may retain not more than $3,000, which is in full satisfaction for all his services in prize causes for that year. He shall pay any excess over that amount into the Treasury.
Source(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 482.)
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|Aug. 18, 1942, ch. 553, § 5 (as applicable to compensation of naval special prize commissioner), 56 Stat. 746.
In subsection (c) the words "on the anniversary of his appointment" are inserted for clarity, as "year" in the context of this section means a year of service as prize commissioner. The words "and shall be credited to the fund for paying naval pensions" are omitted because the Act of June 26, 1934, ch. 756, § 9,48 Stat. 1229, abolished the naval pension fund and provided that moneys previously required to be paid into it should be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. The words "as miscellaneous receipts" are omitted as surplusage. The word "amounts" is substituted for the word "sums".
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Sunday morning a recent piece of mine, called On Prayer and Praying, got its first performance at the 11:15 Mass at the Church of the Advent in Boston by the excellent–very excellent, in fact–countertenor (and composer) Martin Near and the also very excellent organist Ross Wood. Since it was in the middle of a quite long church service, there didn't seem to be any good reason to let anybody who wasn't going to be there anyway know about it beforehand. Edith Ho, the music director at the Advent, has been, and continues to be, very good to me. She's done two or three pieces of mine with the choir (which is absolutely top-notch) for years now, and will also schedule other pieces, like this one, periodically. This particularly service also included the Josquin L'homme Arme voces musicale Mass and pieces by Philippe de Monte and Contanzo Porta (both from the 1500's, neither of who I've ever heard of).
The piece was a sort of "political" statement, albeit pretty lame as agitprop: I get tired of hearing on radio and tv from Fundamentalists that there should be prayer in school and prayer before ball games and prayer during graduations and prayer where ever else (There is an old joke: As long as there are math test there'll be prayer in school), so I decided to set the words of Jesus on the matter (Matthew 6:5-13), which forbids praying in public. (Well, "forbids" isn't exactly the right word, but he certainly didn't endorse it. He actually says that praying in public is its own reward.) Anyway, Martin and Ross did a great performance. I thought it sounded great.
Later in the day I worked with a chamber music group, a piano quartet, I coach at the NEC Prep School who are playing a house concert next week. They're playing pieces by students Jeremiah Klarman (13) and Stephen Feigenbaum (17) and the Schumann Piano Quartet, along with the first Piano Quartet by Gerald Barry. I have to say that the Barry, which I think is a really really good piece, is one of the strangest ones I've ever encountered: unremittingly diatonic, with folky tunes, sometimes agressively imitative to the point of inpenitribility, having a straight-line, but very highly disjunct continuity, absolutely non-developmental, relying completely on the repetition and juxtaposition of the same material. It's extreme, rollicking, brutal, and a little mistifying; I think it's probably best described as sounding like a rough and rowdy night down at the pub or maybe Grainger with heavy boots and explosives. We've been working on it for about eight months now, and it doesn't get any less strange (and sort of disturbing) with greater acquaintance. I like it a lot.
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7 U.S. Code § 2009bb–2 - Economic and community development grants
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The Authority may approve grants to States, Indian tribes, local governments, and public and nonprofit organizations for projects, approved in accordance with section 2009bb–8 of this title—
(1) to assist the region in obtaining the job training, employment-related education, and business development (with an emphasis on entrepreneurship) that are needed to build and maintain strong local economies;
(2) to develop the transportation, renewable energy transmission, and telecommunication infrastructure of the region for the purpose of facilitating economic development in the region (except that grants for this purpose may be made only to States, Indian tribes, local governments, and nonprofit organizations);
(3) to provide assistance to severely distressed and underdeveloped areas that lack financial resources for improving basic public services;
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Funds for grants under subsection (a) of this section may be provided—
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(B) Transportation and telecommunication infrastructure for the purpose of facilitating economic development in the region.
Source(Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 383D, formerly § 383C, as added Pub. L. 107–171, title VI, § 6028,May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 380; renumbered § 383D and amended Pub. L. 110–234, title VI, § 6026(c)(1)(A), (2)(B), (d),May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1178, 1179, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title VI, § 6026(c)(1)(A), (2)(B), (d),June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1940, 1941.)
Pub. L. 110–234and Pub. L. 110–246made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by Pub. L. 110–234were repealed by section 4(a) ofPub. L. 110–246.
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A prior section 383D ofPub. L. 87–128, title III, was renumbered section 383E and is classified to section 2009bb–3 of this title.
2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6026(c)(2)(B), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in introductory provisions as reference to section 2009bb–8 of this title.
Subsec. (a)(1), (2). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6026(d)(1), redesignated pars. (2) and (1) as (1) and (2), respectively, and, in par. (2), substituted "transportation, renewable energy transmission, and telecommunication" for "transportation and telecommunication".
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6026(d)(2), substituted "the following activities" for "the activities in the following order or priority" in introductory provisions.
Effective Date of 2008 Amendment
Amendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234by Pub. L. 110–246effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 ofPub. L. 110–246, set out as an Effective Date note under section 8701 of this title.
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Idea Gallery: Lessons from a Survey of Americans' Beliefs in Medical Conspiracy Theories
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. In this Idea Gallery, Brian C. Quinn, PhD, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Assistant Vice President, Research-Evaluation-Learning, provided his perspective on how to address medical conspiracies and other controversial narratives when developing a Culture of Health.
You may have recently seen the headline "Half of Americans believe in medical conspiracy theories"—or one like it—on your favorite news outlet. Or even on The Onion.
When the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation decided to fund the study responsible for grabbing these headlines, we wanted to know much more than just how many—as in, "How many Americans believes in health conspiracies?" We wanted to answer many other "how" questions, too. How do these beliefs spread? How do they correlate with people's health behaviors? How should providers and others approach treating and talking to those who hold these beliefs?
>>What can medical conspiracy theories tell us about improving health and health care? A lot, as you'll hear in this conversation between RWJF's Brian Quinn and University of Chicago political scientist Eric Oliver.
It's important to note that this study's authors did not set out to pass judgment on these controversial narratives—or those who hold them. In fact, it was critical to the researchers' success that they remain agnostic in that regard. The bottom line is nearly half of Americans believe in at least one health conspiracy, such as the government is hiding evidence that cell phones cause cancer or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is intentionally suppressing natural cures for cancer. And, if we are serious about building a Culture of Health, we cannot afford to ignore the perspective of one in every two Americans.
I recently enjoyed a fascinating conversation with the study's lead researcher, University of Chicago political scientist Eric Oliver, and came away with a few such insights that should enlighten—and may even surprise—some of you.
Keeping Children Safe: Commissioner Bryan Samuels on Child Abuse Prevention Month
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. In this Idea Gallery, Bryan Samuels, Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, provides his perspective on how communities and organizations and families can work together to keep children safe, in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Nancy Barrand, Senior Adviser for Program Development at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), also weighed in to provide some context for Commissioner Samuels' post:
Few events are more traumatic for children than being removed from their families and entered into the foster care system. In 2010, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the Corporation for Supportive Housing to develop and implement a pilot program in New York City that uses supportive housing to offer stability to families with children who are at risk of recurring involvement in the child welfare system. The New York pilot initiative, called Keeping Families Together (KFT), showed positive results in keeping and reuniting children with their families in a safe, stable environment. A 2011 evaluation indicates that the KFT pilot generated a 91 percent housing retention rate among participating families. By the end of the evaluation, 61 percent of the child welfare cases open at the time of placement in supportive housing had been closed, and there were fewer repeat incidents of child maltreatment.Now, RWJF has partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children Youth and Families and three private foundations – the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs, and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation – to jointly fund a $35.5 million initiative to further test how supportive housing can help stabilize highly vulnerable families. The national replication effort will be evaluated and we're anxious to see whether, again, secure and affordable housing, when paired with the right services for struggling families, can reduce instances of child abuse and neglect. The long-term gains in health and well-being, and costs saved, could be tremendous.
Commissioner Bryan Samuels on Child Abuse Prevention
Throughout the month of April, we turn our attention to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, celebrating those efforts in neighborhoods, faith communities, and schools that keep children safe and help families thrive. Whether formal or informal, these efforts involve wrapping caregivers and children in supports that reduce risk factors for maltreatment and promote protective factors, by decreasing stress, boosting parenting skills, and helping parents manage substance abuse or mental health issues.
Last year, more than 675,000 U.S. children were victims of maltreatment. These children are more likely than their peers to have emotional and behavioral problems, struggles in school, and difficulty forming and maintaining relationships. The effects of abuse and neglect can be pernicious and lifelong.
In recent years, we've come a long way in learning what it takes to help children who have experienced abuse and neglect heal and recover. We have interventions that help put families back together after maltreatment has occurred. But preventing abuse and neglect in the first place by giving families the support they need, when they need it, yields the best outcomes.
Speaking to the Next Generation of Mental Health Professionals
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. In this Idea Gallery, Jane Isaacs Lowe, Team Director for the Vulnerable Populations Portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provided her perspective on the critical impact of public policies on the mental health of urban populations.
Recently I attended and spoke at the Social Determinants of Urban Mental Health conference hosted by the Adler School of Professional Psychology. Lynn Todman, the Executive Director of Adler's Institute on Social Exclusion and the conference's organizer, has been doing groundbreaking work on the link between public policies and the mental health of urban communities, including the Institute's Mental Health Impact Assessment, which was developed in part through support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
It's been exciting to see the field of health impact assessments grow so rapidly. But, of course, physical health is not the only outcome that matters; equally important is our mental health and its integral connection to physical health, especially for the most vulnerable among us. This is reflected in many of the organizations and models in which we've invested and which we're helping to scale for greater impact. You'll see it, for instance, in a video we just released on Child First, a psychotherapeutic home-visiting program that works with families with very young children who are showing signs of severe developmental, emotional, and behavioral problems. Child First partners with providers all across the community who touch these families' lives — including doctors, day care providers, teachers, and social workers. If a provider sees a problem, she makes a referral to Child First, which then arranges a comprehensive assessment and home visit with a team of trained specialists, including a masters-level mental health clinician. That team works on the relationship between the child and parent or caregiver and on environmental factors, such as depression, substance use, domestic violence, food insecurity or homelessness that are detrimental to the child and family.
Ultimately, the goal is to foster strong, stable, nurturing relationships between parents and children and also create a safer and healthier overall environment for the child. In so doing, Child First effectively helps to buffer the developing brains of these young children from the damage caused by repeated exposure to toxic stress, and sets the families on a course toward stability and better health.
As Lynn Todman explains it, effective interventions for addressing the social determinants' impact on mental health exist along a continuum — from trying to "fix" the individual within the clinical setting to structural reforms that create a social environment that will lead to better mental health outcomes. This is demonstrated in the Child First model, which goes beyond the clinical setting to engage individuals and institutions from across the community united by a common goal. The Adler School wants their students to be able to operate along that continuum, and to understand that, to improve outcomes, change will need to happen outside of the clinical setting, in the context of people's lives and where they live, learn, work and play. This also must include the realm of policy change. Being able to contribute to this goal was well worth my time.
The other speakers at the conference reflected this belief in the need for interventions along a continuum and which engage individuals and institutions from multiple sectors. Lynn Todman's background is as an urban planner, which is inherently a multi-disciplinary role. As an urban planner, she needed to understand housing, transportation, social services delivery, fiscal policy, and more. And she needed to be able to apply a lens that allowed her to see the connections between all of these seemingly different issues. It's worth noting that it's a lens through which Risa Lavizzo-Mourey is also looking in her recent chapter, "Why Health, Poverty, and Community Development Are Inseparable," in the book, Investing in What Works for America's Communities. She makes a forceful case that, "community development and health must be partners in planning and building communities."
We've pulled together some of the highlights from the conference, including resources that were shared by speakers. I hope you'll take a look and, more importantly, put them to use in your own work.
>>Catch up on highlights from the Social Determinants of Urban Mental Health conference.
The Economics of Walkability
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health.
We all know that living in a walkable neighborhood is good for your health. The more surrounded we are by trees, water and parks and the more we are within walking distance of meaningful places for daily needs, the more likely these destinations are a part of our day-to-day lives. In a recent op ed for the New York Times, Christopher Leinberger comments on a new Brookings Institution study he co-authored with Mariela Alfonzo, PhD, a research fellow at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, which shows that more walkable neighborhoods also fare better economically. In this Idea Gallery for NewPublicHealth, Leinberger expands on the benefits of walkability for a community.
The takeaway from our report is that there's been a structural shift in how we build the built environment. This is not a cyclical change caused by a periodic recession. This is a structural shift. The last time we had this was after the Second World War. We're building fundamentally a different America.
Before you build it you have to be sure that you have the strategy and management structures in place to make it happen. Generally in this country, walkable urban development is illegal—there is no zoning in place to allow it to happen. Plus it works best when the place has a strategy and management entity in place, generally taking the form of a non-profit building improvement district (BID).
There is then the possibility of achieving the triple bottom line: 1) make money, 2) be responsible to the environment, and 3) be socially equitable.
On social equity, certain jurisdictions in this country have said we want a mix of incomes in our neighborhoods, and I believe this is the proper approach. The price premiums telling the real estate industry to build more also portend an inability for working- and even middle-class buyers to live in walkable urban places.
Frontiers in Public Health Services & Systems Research: Making Critical Research Accessible, Quickly
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today, Glen Mays, MPH, PhD, F. Douglas Scutchfield Endowed Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, talks about the launch of a brand new online journal covering public health systems and services research, and why it is so critical right now, to inform smart investments in public health and prevention. The new journal, Frontiers in PHSSR, is designed to disseminate the most critical early findings from PHSSR research much faster—making these findings accessible far in advance of the fully-developed scientific manuscript. To be eligible for inclusion in Frontiers, findings must have the potential to guide future public health practice, health policy, and research. Mays is the editor in chief of the new journal.
Portions of the post below are adapted from the opening commentary in Frontiers, authored by Mays, F. Douglas Scutchfield, Paul K. Halverson, William Riley and Peggy Honore.
The need for a strong and effective public health system in the United States is perhaps more urgent today than at any other time in our nation's history. Preventable diseases and injuries account for more than three-fourths of the $2.6 trillion in health care expenditures incurred annually in the U.S. The growing prevalence of obesity, diabetes and other preventable conditions constrains the nation's economic productivity and global competitiveness. The American public health system—the diffuse constellation of governmental public health agencies and their peers and partners in community-based settings and the private sector—is tasked with developing and delivering strategies that promote health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis. They share the mission of creating conditions in which people can be healthy.
The public health system is uniquely positioned—but not optimally equipped or resourced—to take on these challenges. Only about 3 percent of the nation's $2.6 trillion in annual health expenditures is devoted to public health activities. Some of our greatest uncertainties now lie in how best to organize, finance, and deliver effective public health prevention strategies to communities across the U.S. The field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) has emerged to fill this void.
Frontiers in PHSSR
The American public health system and the populations it serves do not have the luxury of waiting the 15 years typically required to get research-tested solutions widely adopted into practice. The costs associated with missed opportunities for disease prevention and health promotion are straining government and household budgets now.
To help develop and grow this scientific learning community, we have launched a new, open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research. This journal provides a platform for rapidly and widely communicating emerging findings and lessons learned from studies of public health services and delivery systems. Frontiers will feature brief descriptions of preliminary findings from ongoing or recently completed empirical studies and quality improvement projects that answer important questions regarding the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services.
Healthy Babies are Worth the Wait
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today, Jennifer L. Howse, PhD, president of the March of Dimes, comments on efforts to give more babies a healthier start in life. This week, a regional Infant Mortality Summit will kick off a collaborative, multi-State initiative to improve infant health outcomes. NewPublicHealth will feature some of the innovative programs and initiatives to support healthy babies.
A baby born in the United States today faces a one out of eight chance of being born too soon. Prematurity is a common, costly, serious and a largely silent health epidemic. The good news is that national, state and local health officials are addressing this problem with historic public health initiatives to give more babies a healthy start in life.
On Nov. 1, the United States received a grade of "C" on the March of Dimes 2011 Premature Birth Report Card. Preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn death. Babies who survive an early birth face an increased risk of serious life-long health challenges, such as breathing problems, cerebral palsy, or learning disabilities. Even babies born just a few weeks early have higher rates of hospitalization and illness than "full-term" infants (39-40 weeks of pregnancy). We've developed an educational campaign and a hospital-based toolkit to help parents and professionals better understand the critical importance of those last weeks of pregnancy to a baby's health.
Although the U.S. preterm birth rate has improved slightly in recent years, nearly half a million infants still are born too soon. Each early birth places a terrible emotional toll on families and a financial burden on the health system. In fact, the first year health and medical costs of one preterm birth are nearly ten times more than a full term birth.
But, the problem hasn't gone unheeded.
Dr. Douglas Jutte: My Patient's Most Pressing Health Issue was a Broken Carburetor
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today, Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH, offers a physician's perspective on how unmet social needs—like access to nutritious food, transportation assistance and housing assistance—are affecting the health of Americans.
During medical school and pediatric residency I spent over a year living in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, so when I finished my training I wanted to continue my work with Spanish-speaking families. My first job was in the neighborhood clinic of East Palo Alto, California, a low-income community inhabited primarily by first- and second-generation Mexican immigrants.
One of my earliest patients in East Palo Alto was a little boy with Down syndrome and a serious congenital heart defect, a common feature of that condition. When I met him, he had recently undergone open-heart surgery and had a gastric tube placed so that he could be fed without requiring him to eat. His mother was enormously attentive but had very limited resources and spoke only Spanish. Together we monitored his health as he stabilized, grew and began to eat on his own. With a full medical recovery, his continued healthy development now relied primarily on obtaining the proper setting for his schooling.
With no caseworker or nurse in my clinic to help me out, I made calls and wrote letters to enroll him in a fantastic school near the Stanford campus. Months later, before a pending well-child visit, I called the school to get an update on his development. I was shocked to learn that it had been weeks since he had last attended. When he and his mother came in for their appointment, I learned her car had broken down. She was saving money for a fix, but had no one to rely on for her son's transportation and hadn't known where to turn for help. Desperate, I called the school and discovered that not only did they have a shuttle service but also it was free for needy children.
This was a crystallizing moment for me. The long-term health and well being of a developmentally delayed child whom I had helped coax through recovery from prolonged hospitalizations and multiple complicated surgeries hinged not on the quality of my medical care but on a taxi voucher and a broken carburetor.
This month the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in partnership with Harris Interactive, released a poll indicating that the majority of physicians are not only conscious of the relationship between the social risk factors of their patients and poor health outcomes, but they perceive these factors to be as important as their patients' medical conditions. In regard to that latter point—the recognition that social needs are as important as medical conditions—I was, admittedly, a bit surprised. And when I told a colleague of mine, her response was, "Are you kidding me?"
Our experience has been that, in many ways, the medical field rejects or downplays the notion that social factors are as important to consider as biological factors. It's not the way we, as doctors, are trained. Two years ago, I completed an article comparing the importance of social and biological risk factors in predicting poor health and educational outcomes for children, but was forced to publish in an epidemiology journal. Several medical journals rejected it, their reason: not "clinically relevant."
Perhaps the tide is turning. But what can be done to compel more health care providers to recognize this relationship? And what must be done to ensure they have the support to address these important social needs effectively?
Idea Gallery: A Decade After 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks, Public Health Preparedness Remains Critical
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today, Jeffrey Levi, Executive Director of Trust for America's Health (TFAH), writes about public health preparedness and a report issued by TFAH and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Remembering 9/11 and Anthrax: Public Health's Vital Role in National Defense.
Ten years ago, the September 11th and anthrax tragedies clearly demonstrated that the public health system was not prepared for the range of modern health threats we face. Since then, significant investments have resulted in the country being much better prepared to respond to public health emergencies ranging from threats of bioterrorism to major infectious disease outbreaks like a pandemic flu or natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods.
However, the United States often takes a band-aid approach to public health preparedness. As new emergencies and concerns emerge and attention shifts, it often means resources are diverted from one pressing priority to another, leaving other ongoing areas unaddressed. The unprecedented federal investment in public health preparedness after the September 11th and anthrax attacks was not at a sufficient level to backfill long-standing gaps in infrastructure or update technologies to meet state-of-the-art standards. Currently, there is an additional new threat to preparedness – the current economic climate and budget cuts at the federal, state and local level mean that progress made over the past decade could be lost.
Idea Gallery: Providing Answers Through Public Health Services and Systems Research
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health.
In this era of declining resources for public health, and for that matter all of government, now more than ever it is imperative that we get the maximum bang for our buck. We simply cannot afford to be inefficient and ineffective in the delivery of public services. That means we need the best information, based on rigorous research, about how to provide public health services.
Public health services and systems research (PHSSR) provides answers. It guides us in how best to structure the public health delivery system and assure that what we do is the most efficient and effective way to keep people healthy and protected from disease. Just as good science needs to drive how we provide patient-centered, high quality, cost-effective health care services, we must have the information to assure population-centered, high quality, cost-effective public health services. PHSSR is the tool that allows that to happen.
New Tobacco Warning Labels: A Step in the Right Direction
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today, the Surgeon General, Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A. writes about the new FDA cigarette health warnings.
It's simple: Smoking kills.
Sending this message to smokers — or to those who are thinking of starting smoking — just got a lot easier. Earlier today, the federal government released nine new graphic health warnings that will appear on everything from cigarette packs to in-store tobacco displays.
Stark images and bold messaging will now graphically illustrate — on every ad and every pack of cigarettes — the painful and deadly reality of tobacco use: A diseased lung. A baby surrounded by secondhand smoke. A man who needs an oxygen mask to breathe.
Beginning September 2012, each pack of cigarettes will serve as a vivid reminder of the real public health effects of smoking.
Smoking is the leading cause of premature and preventable death in the United States, killing 443,000 people each year. The next cigarette could be the one that triggers a heart attack, a stroke or cancer. And it is not just smokers who are affected: There is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke. Any exposure to tobacco — even if secondhand — is harmful.
The new U.S. Food and Drug Administration warnings are a major component of the Department of Health and Human Services' new comprehensive strategy to prevent children from starting to use tobacco and to help current tobacco users quit. In fact, each new warning label carries the government-funded 1-800-QUIT-NOW cessation resource phone number.
The new labels illustrate the message — that tobacco use is harmful. The graphic warning labels will bring us one step closer to ending this completely preventable epidemic.
For more information and to see the final images, visit www.fda.gov/cigarettewarnings.


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(1) to support and promote the expansion of the National Writing Project network of sites so that teachers in every region of the United States will have access to a National Writing Project program;
(2) to ensure the consistent high quality of the sites through ongoing review, evaluation, and technical assistance;
(3) to support and promote the establishment of programs to disseminate effective practices and research findings about the teaching of writing; and
Source(Pub. L. 89–10, title II, § 2331, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title II, § 201,Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1660.)
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