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Dear ACHP Friends,
We want to wish each of you a happy and healthy New Year of the Rabbit! In Chinese philosophy the rabbit is a harbinger of peaceful cooperation and togetherness. Promoting abundance and the blessings of plenty for all, in the Rabbit Year we are encouraged to set aside our differences and work together to make a difference.
In a heartening show of enthusiasm and support, members have taken up the challenge to become more active in our SPIG and thus bring us closer to becoming a bona fide section! Our slate of leadership is impressive, and we want to acknowledge the efforts of everyone mentioned below:
Deborah Hughes-Ndao, MPH firstname.lastname@example.com
Bei-Hung Chang, ScD firstname.lastname@example.com
Membership Co-Chairs
Douglas Chung, PhD, MSW, MA firstname.lastname@example.com
Kim Tippens, ND, MSAOM email@example.com
Newsletter Co-Editors
Elizabeth Sommers, PhD, MPH, LAc email@example.com
Paul Kadetz, PhD, MSN, MPH email@example.com
Program Co-chairs
Anupana Kishakkeveettil email@example.com
Prasad Vinjamurry, MD firstname.lastname@example.com
Governing Council Co-Chairs
Donna Feeley, MPH, BSN, RN email@example.com
Richard Harvey, PhD email@example.com
Web Chair
Carla Wilson, MA, LAc DAOM (candidate) firstname.lastname@example.com
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Liaison
Adam Burke, PhD, MPH, LAc email@example.com
Anne Doherty-Gilman, MPH firstname.lastname@example.com
Elizabeth Sommers, PhD, MPH, LAc email@example.com
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Our group held a teleconference on May 12, 2011, during which about 15 members participated and discussed a number of topics including:
Planning for the APHA Annual Meeting
Updates on policy-related activities
Process of becoming a section
It was great to speak with members from around the country who expressed their ongoing interest and commitment to developing ACHP and keeping the mind/body/spirit in public health.
APHA is holding its Annual Meeting this year in Washington, D.C., from Oct. Oct. 29 through Nov. 2. This year's theme is "Healthy Communities promote Healthy Minds and Bodies", which definitely reflects our group's priorities!
Anne Doherty reported that ACHP received approximately 60 abstracts for presentation. There will be four poster sessions planned for Sunday and Monday (on the broad topics of health promotion, research, health practices, and special topics). Round-table discussions are on the agenda for Monday, and oral sessions will be held on Monday and Tuesday (in the areas of pediatrics, CAM usage, mind-body approaches, and cancer and other chronic conditions).
Because of general interest in working more closely with federal-level agencies such as NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Therapy (NCCAM) and the National Cancer Institute's specialty area on CAM, we are trying to arrange a special session in which representatives from these agencies can present and have dialogue with our members. Stay tuned! Adam Burke has been our liaison with NCCAM and is doing a great job of establishing linkages. Jay Borneman also expressed interest in working on developing a session related to national policy.
In addition to the impressive slate of oral and poster presentations planned, we discussed staffing and content for our information booth in the Exhibition Hall. Although the new way in which the exhibition space has been designed doesn't allow for demonstrations like we've offered in the past (e.g. massage or acupuncture), we'd like to offer a movement opportunity like yoga or Tai Chi in the mornings on Monday and Tuesday (this will probably be scheduled around 7 a.m. because other presentations and activities start at 8 a.m.). Beth Sommers will check into the possibilities for finding a space to do this.
Members indicated that we'd like to have more of a presence at our information booth this year in order to promote our work and our group's agenda. Because so many attendees of APHA visit the Exhibition Hall, this is a great opportunity to increase our visibility within APHA. Paul Kadetz volunteered to organize the staffing schedule of when our members will be at the booth.
We'd like to have materials at the booth that represent the variety of activities and interests of our members. Materials can include brochures, booklets, or newsletters from your organization. Although we don't have the capacity to sell items from the booth, sample copies of books or journals can be displayed. Please feel free to bring materials to the Annual Meeting and display and distribute them at our booth!
To foster our commitment to students, we'd like to give awards for student posters this year. As a developing future strategy, Rick Harvey suggested working with a corporate sponsor to offer awards to other presenters as well.
Please note the change in the day of our Business Meeting: it will be held on Tuesday evening this year; details about time and location will be in the conference program.
In order to carry out these ideas for the Annual Meeting, volunteers will be needed for the following activities:
Staff our booth for one hour (Monday and Tuesday)
Contact Paul Kadetz (email@example.com)
Lead a class in Tai Chi or yoga
Contact Beth Sommers (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Review student posters and determine awards
Develop a "national policy leaders" presentation
Contact Adam Burke (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Donna Feeley and Rick Harvey have been doing a fantastic job representing ACHP in the policy realm of APHA. They both have been offering a mind/body/spirit perspective to APHA policy review.
Donna attended an Advisory Group meeting in D.C. related to Health Promotion, Integrative Health and Public Health. We'll hear more about this at our Business Meeting in November.
A quick update on the process of applying to become a Section within APHA:
ACHP is currently a Special Interest Group (SPIG) and would like to "grow up" to be a Section! Section status confers greater visibility within APHA and access to some additional resources. In order to qualify for Section status, a group has to achieve a number of benchmarks in the following areas:
Consistently have leadership positions in the following categories: Chair or co-chairs; secretary, Governing Council member, Section Council member, membership committee, newsletter editor(s), program planner(s).
Promote a competitive and diverse slate of officers.
Appoint members for APHA leadership roles (Action Board, Science Board, Education Board).
Produce three newsletters/year.
Offer high-quality scientific sessions (posters and oral presentations) at the Annual Meeting.
Actively participate in APHA policy-making activities.
Promote student involvement.
Increase membership (minimum of 250 members needed for Section status).
All these require person-power! We've made great advancements over the past few years and need to keep our momentum going and growing.
Thanks to all the tele-meeting participants. It's truly a pleasure and honor to work with each of you.
Beth Sommers
From National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine Newsletter Fall 2010 Vol. 5 Issue 2
Reprinted with permission
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition
More than 13,000 public health professionals attended the 138th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition from Nov. 6-10, 2010, in Denver, Colo. More than 1,000 scientific sessions, 700 booths, and over 4,000 scientific papers detailed the latest public health challenges. The theme of this year's meeting focused on the link between social justice and public health and featured Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Bill Jenkins as the keynote speakers.
Complementary and alternative medicine was a topic of interest to many meeting attendees, with two days of CAM-related sessions held by APHA's special primary interest group
Alternative and Complementary Health Practices. Anne Doherty-Gilman, associate director of the Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and program chair for the Alternative and Complementary Health Practices group was very pleased with the quality of the CAM-related sessions.
"This year's Alternative and Complementary Health Practices sessions included an impressive array of innovative public health initiatives and scientifically rigorous studies that offered important guidance to those of us working in this field. It was truly inspiring to see the breadth of high quality work being done to advance the evidence base for these therapies and to promote access to wellness and whole person care," Doherty-Gilman said. Highlights included a session on CAM for Cancer and Chronic Diseases and a special session that Isis Mikhail, MD, MPH, DrPH, OCCAM's Extramural Research Program director, and Wendy Weber, ND, PhD, MPH, from NCCAM led on NIH grants applicable for the public health field.
Mikhail was also impressed with this year's meeting. "There is a growing interest in CAM research at APHA," he said. "It's evident not only through the CAM-related conference sessions, but also through the attendees I talked to about cancer CAM research and the research abstracts presented during the poster sessions." Dr. Mikhail also participated in NCI's "Meet the Expert" session at the NCI expo booth. As one of 19 NCI experts she was able to connect with many researchers interested in funding opportunities at NCI.
NCI has a large presence at APHA, connecting with health professionals about NCI programs, products, and services. This year the NCI expo booth won first place for a non-profit, island exhibit booth. Improved IT services at the booth allowed meeting attendees to order NCI publications and have them shipped directly to their offices. NCI also had a big screen TV showcasing NCI websites and a seating area for presentations of interest to meeting attendees.
OCCAM Staff Attends Leading Integrative Oncology Conference
The Society for Integrative Oncology hosted its Seventh International Conference at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City, Nov. 11-13, 2010. The Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) is a non-profit organization of research professionals and practitioners dedicated to studying and facilitating cancer treatment and the recovery process through the use of integrated complementary treatment options. SIO's conference draws attendees from around the world because of its important lectures, scientific sessions and tight focus on the field of integrative oncology. The title of this year's conference, "Integrative Oncology: Informing the Debate in Practice, Research and Public Policy", placed an especially important focus on public policy in this time of health care reform and changes.
OCCAM's Communications and Outreach Program exhibited at the conference and handed out research grant information and patient education materials to attendees as well as discussed aspects of OCCAM's research portfolio. Information about funding opportunities in integrative oncology was of great importance to those that visited the booth. Dr. Isis Mikhail, MD, MPH, DrPH, director of the Extramural Research Program at OCCAM sat on a panel titled: "Career Development Workshop for CAM Practitioners and Students." Dr. Mikhail noted, "This workshop was received very positively by the audience that included a group of physicians, junior research investigators, practitioners, post-doctoral fellows, among others. The panel included speakers from NIH (NCCAM, NCI, National Institute of Nursing Research), cancer research organizations (American Cancer Society and American Institute for Cancer Research), and academia; and addressed different areas of interest and prospects for career development. A number of attendees used this opportunity to communicate with the speakers who made themselves available for additional inquiries after the end of the session." Dan Xi, PhD, program officer at OCCAM also took part in a panel titled: "Whole Systems Workshop" in which she presented a talk titled: "Traditional Chinese Medicine, Systems Biology and Systems Medicine". She stated that the topics of the workshop were extremely relevant to Cancer CAM research because: "many CAM interventions use personalized whole systems approaches to patient care. This provided the platform for research methodology discussion, information exchange, and education."
Conference chair Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, wrote that this year's conference goals included addressing the challenges facing integrative oncology in the era of health care reform, identifying gaps in integrative oncology comparative effectiveness research and issues related to reimbursement for services. Three days of scientific sessions covered various aspects of integrative oncology from emerging research in vitamin D supplementation, energy balance in cancer survivorship and patient advocacy. Information about the conference and the Society for Integrative Oncology are available at the Society's website at http://www.integrativeonc.org/.
Our organization, Herban Health, was the beneficiary of the good work that the Alternative and Complementary Health Practices group has been doing over the years in placing holistic health care on the agenda of APHA. We were honored to be chosen to make two poster presentations at this year's 2010 APHA Annual Meeting, one entitled "Holistic Healthcare Services Responsive to the Local Community: Collaboration on a Shoestring", and the other "A No/Low Cost Model for Promoting and Providing Holistic Healthcare to Medically Underserved Communities of Low Income Families, Homeless People and People in Recovery".
Herban Health, based in East Palo Alto, Calif., is a 501©3 organization made up of primarily volunteer acupuncturists. Our goal in going to the APHA conference was: 1) to support ACHP's work in highlighting not only the treatment of the whole person but also how the individual cannot be separated from the society in which he/she lives; and 2) to show that anyone who is involved in health care, from providers to administrators to community organizations, can integrate into their services holistic health care for people with very low income.
Herban Health's working model is one way of reaching the medically underserved. We are primarily interested in supporting all attempts to reach this important part of our society. Our particular model provides free bilingual holistic health care to people who have little access to health care resources; the homeless, people in recovery, undocumented people, and others who fall through our leaky health care system. We now provide between 400-500 free treatments each month, including acupuncture, massage, nutritional and lifestyle advice, as well as classes in yoga, meditation, nutrition and other subjects that are in response to the expressed interests of our patients.
Our model is based on two assumptions. One, people know their own situations best, and so health care services need to be responsive to their needs. In so doing, we believe that the overall patient outcomes are improved. Two, for people with limited resources, the best way to reach them is going to their community-based organizations, such as senior centers, homeless shelters, churches, etc. Not only do we reach people more efficiently in this way, but also we are allowed to use space at these organizations without paying any rent. For holistic health care services, we primarily rely on volunteer providers, although we support having providers be paid and we are actively seeking funding to that end. To date, we are working with a recovery center for drugs and alcohol, an organization that provides food and clothing for people in need, a homeless shelter and a local community health clinic. In addition we have started a mobile acupuncture clinic based on the community acupuncture model, using portable zero gravity reclining chairs.
In summary, Herban Health: 1) encourages the alternative and complementary health services community to integrate into its goals the provision of services to the medically underserved in our society; and 2) stresses that there are ways, such as our model and many others, where anyone can participate in providing those services.
For more information or ideas, please contact us at: herbanhealthepa.org, telephone (650) 327-7894, address: 1765 East Bayshore Road unit 205 East Palo Alto, CA 95430.
Purvi Mehta, MA, MS, & Manoj Sharma, MBBS, PhD, University of Cincinnati
Yoga aims to achieve equilibrium between the body, mind and soul. It is often viewed as an alternative form of therapy for ailments such as depression and anxiety. In particular, this ancient Indian technique has been widely used for reducing stress in the hectic lives of millions. Its components of asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), shava asana (relaxation), and dhyana (meditation) aid the individual in controlling the five senses leading to a reduction of mental activity. This eventually leads individuals into a nirvana-like state, where relief from stress and anxiety is achieved. While the premise of yoga is constant and unchanged, many schools of yoga exist: Hatha, Bikram, Iyengar, Kundalini Yoga, Siddha Samadhi, Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY), Silver Yoga, and Sahaj Yoga. Practicing yoga for as little as 15 minutes daily enables the individual to reap its benefits.
Yoga combined with a theoretical framework can be used to build an intervention to alleviate stress and anxiety levels in adults. The social cognitive theory has been noted for its role in changing health behaviors. According to the theory, the individual learns through a triad of behavior, environmental factors and personal factors. There are nine constructs comprising the theory: knowledge, outcome expectations, outcome expectancies, situational perception, environment, self-efficacy, self-efficacy in overcoming impediments, goal setting or self-control, and emotional coping. While using all of the constructs for an intervention is not possible, a few should be chosen. Self-efficacy and expectations are known to be the best predictors of behavior change, as they enhance confidence in a particular behavior and beliefs/values of the outcomes of performing the particular behavior.
A 50 minute yoga class for 10 weeks based on the social cognitive theory has been developed for stress relief in adults. Discussions about the benefits of yoga (outcome expectations), relating those benefits to personal lives and discussion on values (outcome expectancies), asanas (poses or postures) in small steps to build self-efficacy (15-20 minutes), pranayama (breathing techniques) in small steps to build self-efficacy (5-10 minutes), shava asana (relaxation) in small steps to build self-efficacy for 5 minutes and dhyana (meditation) in small steps to build self-efficacy (5-10 minutes) were components of the intervention. Self-efficacy was built by talking about role models in yoga and persuading participants that they can practice yoga every day for 30 minutes. A question and answer session was also held with participants on ways to increase their self-efficacy, expectations and self-control which will help them reduce stress. Participants were encouraged to share tips that help them practice these strategies. Self-control was built by asking participants to self-reward after regular practice of yoga every day for one week. These topics were addressed every week. In addition, an email to the group was sent mid-week with tips and reminders to practice strategies discussed at the yoga session.
Based on this program, it was found that social cognitive theory is a useful framework for teaching yoga. Overall, a yoga practice with a social cognitive theory framework can be effective in reducing stress and anxiety in adults.
This study tested whether an accepted psychological theory, Gray's Behavioral Inhibition System, or BIS, is one way to explain how mindfulness leads to feelings of well-being. Mindfulness is a state of mind that allows focusing on the present moment with a non-judgmental or accepting attitude. While mindfulness is thought to be associated with feelings of well-being, there is a lack of neurobiological evidence to explain this connection. The Behavioral Inhibition System is known to create negative emotions, such as anxiety. (BIS may be thought of as similar to the "fight or flight" response.) The current study hypothesized that practicing mindfulness will not only lead to feelings of well-being, but will also lessen the negative effects of BIS. Study results supported these hypotheses by reporting that there was a strong total effect between the Behavioral Inhibition System and the negative emotions that go along with it and that of mindfulness on well-being. People who practiced mindfulness had higher scores of well-being and lower BIS scores. BIS can therefore be thought of as a "mediator" of mindfulness towards well-being.
Sauer S, Walach H, Kohls, N. Gray's Behavioural Inhibition System as a mediator of mindfulness towards well-being. Personality and Individual Differences. 2011; 50.
Systematic Review of Integrative Health Care Research
A systematic literature review to assess the level of evidence for integrative health care was conducted, focusing on randomized controlled trials, controlled clinical trials, and systematic reviews. Of the 11,891 total citations only six clinical studies, including four randomized controlled trials, met the authors' inclusion criteria. One challenge of the study was the variety of definitions for the term "integrative health care," as the authors found that definitions range from the incorporation of complementary and alternative medicine into conventional medicine to the idea that integrative health care constitutes a new type of medical practice. The authors adopted the principle that integrative health care research is the study of the incorporation of CAM with biomedicine as a collaborative and integral part of the health care system. The authors found that the reviewed studies provided limited evidence of the effectiveness of integrative health care in some modalities; however integrative health care regimens appear to be generally safe. The authors concluded that more research consisting of randomized controlled trials should be conducted in order to build a stronger evidence based body of knowledge on the effectiveness of integrative health care.
Khorsan R, Coulter I, Crawford C, Hisao A. Systematic review of integrative health care research: randomized controlled trials, clinical controlled trials, and meta-analysis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2011; 6361134.
Acupuncture and relaxation response for substance use disorder recovery. Chang BH, Sommers E, Herz L. Journal of Substance Use Dec. 2010;15(6):390-401.
Kadetz, P. 2011. Endangered Practices: Challenging the discourse of health care integration. In V. Scheid and H. Macpherson (eds.) Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare: Authenticity, Best Practice and the Evidence Mosaic. London: Elsevier.
Kadetz, P. 2011. Assumptions of Global Beneficence: Health care disparity, the WHO, and the effects of global integrative health care policy on local levels in the Philippines. Biosocieties. (6):88–105.
I am a new member of APHA's ACHP SPIG and wanted to share some recent personal accomplishments related to my work:I have published three books in the area of nature-based illness prevention: The Wellness Project -- A Rocket Scientist's Blueprint for Health; The Original Diet -- The Omnivore's Solution; and Nature's Detox Plan -- A Program for Physical and Emotional Detoxification. Background can be found at http://www.MontecitoWellness.com .Currently, I am completing a science-based thriller novel (working title is The Fourth Generation), predicting the effects of genetically modified foods on our great-grandchildren. I expect publication in 2011.
I am also in the process of co-authoring the following books: The Omnivore's Delight on the health and ecological benefits of including pastured animal foods in your diet; The Original Workout on the types of exercise that most closely mimic those from our paleo heritage; and The Original Cookbook on modern ways to prepare the foods from our ancestral diet.
Heading Toward APHA's Annual Meeting…
ACHP members in the Washington, D.C., area (or elsewhere) who are interested in planning our exhibition booth for the Annual Meeting in October are invited to contact Beth Sommers. Various elements of planning the booth include: soliciting and collecting materials for display and organizing staffing schedule. This is a great way to meet and greet other ACHP and APHA members!
Update on APHA Book Publications – June 2011
I am very pleased to announce that there are a
number books in production as well proposals for books that have been accepted,
and work on them is under way. Furthermore, several authors of current
products will be available to sign their books at the fall APHA Annual Meeting
in Washington, D.C.
APHA members of all sections are encouraged to
using existing, new and emerging products in their academic courses. These
resources are also very relevant to policy, prevention, advocacy and client
care initiatives. Please encourage your colleagues to use these timely and
evidence-based resources. Go to the APHA website to find out more: www.aphabookstore.org
We are also looking for new proposals for books. If
you have an idea for a book, please send a few paragraphs describing the idea,
intended audience and your qualifications to Nina Tristani, Director of
Publications, APHA, email@example.com
Thank you for supporting APHA Books and promoting
these products.
Norman Giesbrecht, PhD, Chair, APHA Publications
• Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States,
Authors: Robert D. Bullard, PhD; Glenn S. Johnson, PhD; and Angel O. Torres,
Books at Printer in June
• Megacities and Public
Health, Omar Khan, MD, MHS
• Public Health Management of Disasters, 3rd edition, Linda Landesman
Books Currently in Production
• Injury Prevention for
Children and Adolescents: Research Practice, and Advocacy, 2nd edition, Karen
D. Liller, PhD
• School–Based Health Care, Terri Wright, MPH and Jeanita Richardson, PhD
Books in Development
• Control of Communicable
Diseases Manual, 20th Edition
• Control of Communicable Diseases Lab Book
• Compendium of Methods for the Examination of Foods, 5th Edition
• Caring for Our Children, 3rd edition
• Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 22nd
• Communicating Public
Health Information Effectively is now on Kindle.
Co-sponsored Books
Jossey-Bass: Emerging Infectious Diseases published in April
Jones and Bartlett Learning books to be published before the 2011 Annual Meeting:
Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Essential Case Studies in Public
Health: Putting Public Health into Practice, Global Health 101, Field
Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Epidemiology in Women's Health,
Essentials of Health, Culture and Diversity, Epidemiology of Chronic Disease,
Introduction to Air Pollution Science, and Essentials of Program Planning and
APHA is also co-publishing with Wiley, Designing
Healthy Communities by Richard Jackson. The book is a companion to a PBS series
to air this fall.
Transportation, Equity and Health
These are exciting times when considering the many ways our transportation systems impact health and equity in our communities. Congress extended the current federal surface transportation bill until Sept. 30, 2011, and Congressional committees are aiming to draft a new transportation bill before this latest extension ends.
Want to learn more about the connections between transportation, equity and health? View our archived webinar series, subscribe to the monthly transportation and health eNewsletter that offers an array of new events and updates, and download the newly released online public health and transportation toolkit and accompanying resources today.
We also invite you to send a message to your members of Congress urging that they ensure that strong public health provisions are included in the federal surface transportation re-authorization. For more information, visit http://apha.org/transportation.
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- Rob Freda
- Pylesville, MD
- United States
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Solving gun violence in the US in today's insane political climate requires a solution that makes it painless for everyone.
First that this idea even needs to be broached in the first place is ridiculous especially given the lack of clarity in the second amendment (eg it does not specify types of arms so that should be handled by laws not as a "do what you will free for all").
That said it seems there are some major elements that would be necessary to reduce gun deaths in the US and there are some obfuscating interests embodied in the NRA that must be sidestepped or accommodated in the solution.
Four main areas of focus jump out to reduce gun deaths:
1) "mass killings" (included in this would be the 2 or 3 person shootings as well as as Newtown or Aurora types)
2) Accidental shootings
3) Non-owner shootings (eg the shooter is not the owner of the gun)
4) "black market" trading
Added to these I would say the parameter that makes gun control legislation difficult is gun manufacturer revenue stream protection using the second amendment as a shill.
So what are the necessary parameters to make something happen vs. the absurdity of what is going to happen over the next few months in Washington:
1) Figure out a way that shifting policy creates more revenue for gun manufacturers so they get the NRA on board
2) Make sure that guns cannot be used in public places or by someone other than their owner
The Idea - Mandatory gun locks and universal kill switches.
On locks, all responsible gun owners have gun safes. Why not move the lock to the gun's trigger mechanism either with a combination code or biometric locks. That would prevent unauthorized use of the gun by anyone but the owner.
On kill switches, in the same locking mechanism put a chip and actuator that freezes the locking mechanism mentioned above when it receives a certain modulated radio signal.
If mandatory then all existing guns will have to be refitted with the new bolt mechanism creating revenue streams for the gun manufacturers and on all new guns they can charge more creating more revenue.
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Feb 10 2013: The saddest form of a United States of America Is already in the making it involves the willful act of voting away the rights of the American people by the american people themselves out of fear and ignorance. The Police already have too much power and authority. When I was a child we use to see the films of Nazi's using dogs on the Jews to represent the viciousness of the Nazi's.
Now the American Police regularly do this. they shoot rubber bullets at peaceful demonstrators and create so called "free speech zones" which is a contradiction of the term and the constitution.
Did you know that a Police dog is a higher citizen than you or I. If you kill a policemen it's a capital crime if you kill another citizen it's murder. If you kill a police dog defending yourself it's a capital crime. I guess that means that our government values the life of a dog that is used to attack it's own people more than it values a common citizens life.
If you don't fear tyranny you're not realistic and you keep going down the same road that the other victims of tyranny went down.. Only this time you are trying to disarm yourself. I'm not political I'm not an activist but I am a realist. Believing it can't or won't happen again or here is delusional. Take responsibility for yourself and what freedom you have left. because that's the only course to retain it.
Feb 10 2013: You try to excuse your beliefs by pointing your fingers at others. When police officers kill 8800 people per year with guns then you have an argument.
I do not fear tyranny and that makes me far more realistic than yourself as tyranny can be described in many different ways.
You have an unrealistic fear of your government yet, you are the ones that vote them in to guide you, to represent you.
And if you were the realist that you claim you are, you would be living in a cave somewhere cowering in the fear of your government, fear of being struck by lightning, fear of being stung by a bee, fear of being murdered by your own citizenry. The last having a greater chance of happening than facing the unimagined tyranny that you live in fear for every day.
I would suggest that you refrain from singing the last line of your national anthem. Land of the Free? Home of the Brave?? I think not
Feb 11 2013: Wow very emotional. I figured I'd get a rise out of someone and lucky you. You're it! I'd really like to read from your post at least one issue mentioned in mine. Then we might have something to discuss. You know like a conversation where ideas are exchanged and debated. So, I'm gonna try for you.
There are no excuses only reasons, at least that's my view
I don't know how many people Police kill each year. Do you? Not nearly the whole issue.
Tyranny? Loss of due process. Free speech zone. Are those unrealistic? Look it up! It's a slippery slope.
Voting?You have no idea whether I vote or not.
Fear? That's a big one I'm just gonna say; The White house memo that just came out saying the President has the right to send an armed drone to kill anyone anywhere including you. And, just so you know it's not really a fear on my part that I keep a healthy observation of those who claim to up hold the constitution.
I'm going out on limb here and being a bit like your statements when I say this but.
You watch a lot of Fox news don't you?
Your statements are very reactionary and accusatory in their nature without discussing or stating any facts whatsoever.
Free? Free speech zones during the bush administration. as well as the loss of due process.
Brave? Means standing up for your country when needed and against it when it violates the Law, you know the Constitution.
(I did write that to get a strong reaction.)
And..... finally.
It's like when you fall. It's usually the little things that cause your feet to slip from under you but you hit the big things on the way down.
Good luck my friend.
Feb 11 2013: Pat,
Please. you do not need to vote them away. they are a fantasy in the first place. you are required to have car insurance. try buying anything more than 1K without already having a credit card and a good history of paying it off. go to an emergency room during soft hours and see how long they let you sit there so they can charge you a "facility" fee to amortize their capital equipment. try resolving a categorically impossible bill with ConEd and watch the "arbitration" committee tell you that despite there being no way the bill could be accurate you have to pay it anyway.
your rights in the modern day US boil down to this. you have the right to consume yourself to death and the market has the right to ream you at any moment.
if you think you have actual rights at this stage vs the fantasy of rights you lack common sense and must have been living under a rock for the last 40 years.
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Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, or similar motorized vehicles.
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Tasks | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Repair or adjust motorcycle subassemblies, such as forks, transmissions, brakes, or drive chains, according to specifications.
- Replace defective parts, using hand tools, arbor presses, flexible power presses, or power tools.
- Connect test panels to engines and measure generator output, ignition timing, or other engine performance indicators.
- Listen to engines, examine vehicle frames, or confer with customers to determine nature and extent of malfunction or damage.
- Reassemble and test subassembly units.
- Dismantle engines and repair or replace defective parts, such as magnetos, carburetors, or generators.
- Remove cylinder heads and grind valves to scrape off carbon and replace defective valves, pistons, cylinders, or rings, using hand and power tools.
- Repair or replace other parts, such as headlights, horns, handlebar controls, gasoline or oil tanks, starters, or mufflers.
- Disassemble subassembly units and examine condition, movement, or alignment of parts, visually or using gauges.
- Hammer out dents and bends in frames, weld tears and breaks; then reassemble frames and reinstall engines.
|Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
|Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
|Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
|Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
|Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
|Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
|Repairing — Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
|Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
|Troubleshooting — Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
|Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
|Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
|Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
|Equipment Maintenance — Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
|Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
|Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
|Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
|Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
|Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
|Hearing Sensitivity — The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
|Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
|Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
|Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
|Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
|Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
|Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
|Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
Work Activities
|Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment — Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
|Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
|Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
|Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
|Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
|Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
|Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
|Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Work Context
|Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?
|Frequency of Decision Making — How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?
|Freedom to Make Decisions — How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
|Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions?
|Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — How do the decisions an employee makes impact the results of co-workers, clients or the company?
|Consequence of Error — How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable?
|Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
|Telephone — How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?
|Face-to-Face Discussions — How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job?
|Spend Time Standing — How much does this job require standing?
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include food service managers, electricians, agricultural technicians, legal secretaries, interviewers, and insurance sales agents.
|SVP Range
|(6.0 to < 7.0)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|High school diploma or equivalent
|Post-secondary certificate
|Some college, no degree
Interest code: R
|Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
Work Styles
|Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
|Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
|Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
|Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
|Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
|Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
|Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
|Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
|Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
|Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
Work Values
|Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
|Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
|Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2013)
|$16.15 hourly, $33,590 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2012)
|17,000 employees
|Projected growth (2012-2022)
|Slower than average (3% to 7%)
|Projected job openings (2012-2022)
|State trends
|Top industries (2012)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2013 wage data and 2012-2022 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2012-2022). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
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I couldn't care less.
I know who the biggest winner was last night: coal.
Coal put its money on the right candidates. It made some solid investments in people like Roy Blunt of Missouri, Joe Barton of Texas, Nick Rahall of West Virginia, Ohio's Rob Portman and West Virginia's Joe Manchin. All received sizable donations from the industry. All won big.
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It pays just to say "OK, go buy" and leave it at that.
So go buy Peabody (BTU).
Here's why: Gridlock may be a recipe for getting nothing big done, but the people coal put its money behind have a simple to-do list, a simple favor list, and that's to get the Environmental Protection Agency to back down so the coal companies can make more money.
Oops, wait a second. I didn't mean to tell the truth so starkly. There's always a way you can justify taking coal's money while being thoughtful. In this case, the pols always say the EPA will cost us jobs and hurt our domestic security if it cracks down on coal. Unfortunately, any rigorous analysis would tell you that isn't true.
First, if we close coal plants, we have to build new plants, and new plants put more money to work than just using old coal plants.
Second, the new plants would most likely run on natural gas, and the natural-gas industry would hire more people in a few months than the declining coal industry could put to work for years if the nation switched base-load fuel sources.
Finally, domestic security isn't on the line, as we have as much domestic natural gas as coal. But it sounds good.
The investment coal made in these politicians will allow the industry to pressure its new representatives and senators into cutting back funding for the EPA and heckling the EPA and wearing it down so it doesn't do its job minimizing pollution that comes from coal.
Recently, Brendan Gilfilian, an EPA spokesman, told the Times, "EPA does not have a problem with coal, or any other industry." Pretty funny; of course it doesn't. It's coal that has a problem with the EPA. You can't buy the EPA, which is a shame for the coal industry, because it would be a lot cheaper. But you can buy "mind share" with these senators and representatives.
Now, why BTU and not the others? Money can't do miracles. The pols can't call in the EPA and say, "Look the other way with coal." That won't fly, because in the end we have a bit of democracy in the country still. There is a degree of agency independence with the Democrats who run the EPA.
But they can pressure the EPA to see it from coal's point of view, to continue to allow cleaner coal to be burned. That's a decent compromise. Plus, the EPA can still go after the more egregious environment-destroying coal companies -- degrees of hell, so to speak -- which means cracking down on mountaintop mining.
Who has the cleanest coal? Who creates the least mountaintop destruction in extracting coal?
Why, Peabody does.
Peabody was already doing a blazing-hot business with China going into the election, courtesy of its Australian operation. But these crucial investments in Congress are worth a lot more than any crucial investments in mining equipment for Peabody.
The coal industry's dollars could directly impact BTU's bottom line. That brings me back to the first precept of investing. Almost every single piece of claptrap I have read about what will happen in the market because of the election is wrong, because almost none of it impacts what drives stocks -- corporate earnings.
Except this coal investment.
I think that it could bump BTU's $4.57 earnings estimate by as much as 50 cents in more business here, a combination of less inspection and more pressure to use cleaner burning coal rather than shut down plants which had kept a lid on BTU's numbers.
Let's say BTU earns $5. The best energy growth name selling at less than 15 times earnings? Seems silly.
Raising numbers on BTU. Taking price target up to $75.
Now, there's Washington to Wall Street for you.
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His reason for closing plants are 1) building new plants creates jobs and 2) switching to natural gas creates jobs in natural gas industries. 1) The new jobs created to build plants would be paid by utility customers (businesses) paying higher electricity rates for the same service. Utility customers would then replace the money spent on productive workers with money spent on increased energy expenses. 2) The jobs created in the natural gas industry would be offset by the jobs lost in the coal industry.
The only reason to try to ban coal is that you still believe Al Gore's nonsense. If that is the case, you need more help than him.
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