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J.C. Penney will also have to woo its workers
As the stumbling retailer tries to rebuild ties to shoppers, it has a massive employee morale problem to deal with as well.
Under ousted chief executive Ron Johnson, J.C. Penney (JCP) had a massive housecleaning, sweeping away thousands of jobs as it eliminated popular clothing lines like St. John's Bay.
Now, returning CEO Myron Ullman has a knotty problem on his hands: how to revive those brands with a company suffering from deep morale problems and an employee base that has shrunk by 23%, reports The Wall Street Journal.
When Johnson completed his first full fiscal year on the job, Penney employed only 116,000 people, down from its recent historic level of 150,000, according to the report.
While the ex-CEO argued that the job cuts were needed to boost Penney's financial performance, the opposite resulted: Loyal customers fled, with many angered at his decision to dump St. John's Bay. Sales plunged 25% last year.
St. John's Bay may have been a linchpin leading to Johnson's failure. MSN moneyNOW readers often cited the disappearance of the casual-wear clothing line as the reason they abandoned Penney stores.
"If JC Penney brings back the brands that they ditched, St. John's Bay women's jeans for instance, I will think about shopping there again......but not until then," one reader wrote on Thursday.
And it turns out that Penney is planning on bringing back the clothing line, which had brought in annual sales of a billion dollars, The Journal notes.
Why would Johnson single-handedly get rid of a brand that racked up such huge sales? The former Apple executive wanted to "de-frump" the stores and instead brought in edgier designers such as Cynthia Rowley. The problem, though, was that Penney customers had been happy with those comfortable clothing lines. Feeling alienated, many of them swore off shopping at the retailer.
Johnson misunderstood the store's customer base, which tends to be older than 55. One-third of its customers earn less than $35,000 a year, according to BloombergBusinessweek. Getting rid of coupons also alienated his price-conscious customers.
Penney plans to return coupon advertising to newspapers, activist investor William Ackman said on Thursday, according to Bloomberg. The company needs to "calm the vendors," he added.
But what to do about those morale problems? According to The Journal, the layoffs weren't pretty. Because Penney didn't have enough staff to cut people in face-to-face meetings, groups of employees were ushered into Penney's auditorium to hear the news. Sometimes more than 100 people were fired at once, the story notes.
With Ullman's plan to bring back St. John's Bay, he might be taking one step toward dealing with his alienated customer base. And getting rid of Johnson was likely a big boost to internal morale. According to the New York Post, clapping and laughing erupted last Monday at an employee meeting when word of his ouster was announced.
This is another reason most CEO's are just overpaid idiots. They make changed for the sake of change but have little regard for their employees or their customers. Old Coke and New Coke is a good example of how the guy at the top is just overpaid idiot.
There is a difference between innovation and self immolation and I bet the ex CEO does not know the difference.
I liked going to J C Penny since their clothes always seemed to be a fair value but seldom go anymore because they do not seem to carry anything I want to buy even though I has a $10 coupon.
I have been shopping JC Penny for decades. Used to love their catalog, then the changes started to happen with a new hipper catalog, I shop for big and tall at their store. Well I went into my local Pennies the other day and the store is a disaster to me with big and tall stuck back in the corner of the store with no inventory. What happened to Izod big and tall products? What has happened to JC Pennies??
I like St. John's Bay, however, also like the newer look too.. As a working woman who doesn't want to dress like my 80 yr old mother or a 19 yr old college girl, I think a nice mix is necessary. Also, I think clothing should again be separated by depts., i.e. women, plus, jrs, etc.
I do like the new pricing set up, but the old prices with sales wasn't so bad, but the new prices had me looking and shopping more
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Green Bay Campus Faculty Member Beth Marquez Recognized for her Contributions to the Professional Association for Nurses in Wisconsin
October 4, 2010
GREEN BAY, Wis., (October 4, 2010) – Rasmussen College Green Bay, Wis., campus Dean of Nursing Beth Marquez has been selected as a 2010 recipient of the Wisconsin Nurses Association (WNA) Service to WNA Award. Marquez will be recognized along with the members of the Continuing Education Approval Program (CEAP) committee for their contributions and involvement as active members of WNA at an awards recognition dinner at the Monona Terrace and Convention Center in Madison, Wis., on Friday, October 8.
Established in 1976, the WNA Service Awards are presented on a biennial basis to recognize registered nurses and individuals who have made significant contributions to health or nursing care. Marquez, along with the other recipients of this year's award, will be recognized for her ongoing professionalism, dedication, and commitment to nursing. The Service to WNA Award category recognizes someone who exhibits outstanding participation in WNA through elected office and committee involvement.
"It has been a distinct honor and privilege to support the Wisconsin Nurses Association through my work on the CEAP committee, and I see this award as an opportunity to give back to a profession that has given me so much over the last 30 years," said Marquez. "Through my commitment and involvement in organizations such as WNA, I am able to help integrate the issues and topics at the forefront of the nursing industry into the Rasmussen College nursing school."
With a broad range of nursing experience and clients served across the lifespan, Marquez has demonstrated a strong history of leadership in the nursing field. In addition to her role as Dean of Nursing at Rasmussen College in Green Bay, she currently serves WNA on its Online Education Advisory Council. Marquez was also recently elected to join the Board of Directors for the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (N-OADN), an organization founded to protect the future of Associate Degree nursing.
To learn more about the WNA, please visit www.wisconsinnurses.org. For additional information about Rasmussen College, please visit www.Rasmussen.edu.
Rasmussen College is a regionally accredited private college and Public Benefit Corporation that is dedicated to changing lives through high-demand educational programs and public service. Rasmussen College offers Certificate and Diploma programs through Associate's and Bachelor's degrees online and across its 24 Midwest and Florida campuses in a supportive, student-centered and career-focused environment. Since 1900, Rasmussen College has been dedicated to being a primary contributor to the growth and development of the communities it serves. As a Benefit Corporation, Rasmussen College is committed to helping change lives through education and making a positive impact on society through public service and a variety of community-based initiatives. For more information about Rasmussen College, please visit www.Rasmussen.edu.

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New Survey: Americans like Mass Transit
A new report on public transit, Who's on Board: The 2014 Mobility Attitudes Survey, has good news for developers and planners. The review of transit across the United States by TransitCenter, a New York City-based non-profit aimed at increasing and improving mass transit, finds that Americans across the country think about and use public transit in remarkably similar ways. That can result in communities adopting good ideas from other regions—reducing cost and speeding up new and improved transit systems.
"We commissioned this survey to take a deeper look at the public attitudes which are propelling recent increases in transit ridership," said Rosemary Scanlon, Chair of TransitCenter and Divisional Dean of New York University's Schack Institute of Real Estate. "As Millennials begin to take center stage in American life and the Baby Boom generation confronts retirement, both the transit industry and the real estate industry will need to adjust."
The survey—the largest of its kind, according to TransitCenter—reviewed online survey responses from nearly 12,000 people from 46 metropolitan areas across the country, including a mix of what the group refers to as "transit progressive" cities (such as Miami, Denver, Seattle and Minneapolis) and "transit deficient" cities (such as Tampa, Dallas, Fresno and Detroit.)
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- When choosing whether or not to take public transportation, riders of all ages and in all regions place the greatest value on factors such as travel time, proximity, cost and reliability, putting them above safety, frequency and perks such as Wi-Fi.
- There is a high demand for quality public transportation nationwide, but such infrastructure is often missing in the places where people currently live.
- Fifty-eight percent of survey respondents said their ideal neighborhood contained "a mix of houses, shops and businesses," but only 39 percent currently live in that type of neighborhood.
- Mass transit attracts the wealthy as well as the poor. In New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, people with a salary of $150,000 or greater are just as likely to ride public transportation as people with a $30,000 salary.
"There is a desire for reliable, quality transportation in communities across all regions of the U.S., and among riders of all ages, backgrounds and financial status," said David Bragdon, Executive Director of TransitCenter. "Unfortunately, this desire is largely going unmet, to the detriment of many local economies. To serve and attract residents and workforces today and in the future, cities need to unite land use and transit planning to form comprehensive, innovative infrastructures that can support this demand."
The report is based on an online survey that TransitCenter plans to update regularly. Bragdon said that one innovation is the increased number of transit options in suburban areas for people who don't plan to move to the city, but who still want some of the conveniences of city life. Daybreak, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, for example, now has a buses, light rail stations, sidewalks and bike lanes. Planners say Daybreak took a "transit first" approach to new community development rail stations.
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Public Health News Roundup: September 18
EBOLA UPDATE: Death Toll to at Least 2,622
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The World Health Organization announced today that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has now claimed at least 2,622 lives and infected at least 5,335 people. "The upward epidemic trend continues in the three countries that have widespread and intense transmission—Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone," the global health agency said in a statement, adding that the disease's spread through Liberia is in large part due to an increasing number of cases in the capital of Monrovia. Read more on Ebola.
HHS to Sponsor the Development of a Portable Ventilator for Use in Public Health Emergencies
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is sponsoring the development of a next-generation portable ventilator for use in pandemics and other public health emergencies. The low-cost, user-friendly device will be developed with Philips Respironics under a $13.8 million contract; the project will be overseen by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) within the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. "In pandemics and other emergencies, doctors must have medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and critical equipment such as mechanical ventilators at the ready in order to save lives," said BARDA Director Robin Robinson, PhD, in a release. Read more on preparedness.
HUD Launches $1B National Disaster Resilience Competition
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is launching a $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition to help state, local and tribal leaders prepare their communities for the impacts of climate change and other factors using federal funds. "The National Disaster Resilience Competition is going to help communities that have been devastated by natural disasters build back stronger and better prepared for the future," said HUD Secretary Julián Castro, in a release. "This competition will help spur innovation, creatively distribute limited federal resources, and help communities across the country cope with the reality of severe weather that is being made worse by climate change." Read more on disasters.
Can Idea Sharing Among CEOs Improve Health and Bring Down Health Care Costs?
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in Washington, D.C., and nine CEOs from leading U.S. companies issued a report yesterday that lays out their ideas for improving individual and community health while reducing health care costs. The report, Building Better Health: Innovative Strategies from America's Business Leaders, shares strategies from all the companies and makes several recommendations:
- Implement and track the outcomes of corporate health and wellness programs
- Collaborate on the implementation of community-based programs
- Improve the health care system by supporting the movement toward transparency and payment and delivery models that are based on outcomes rather than on volume
The CEOs are members of the BPC's CEO Council and collectively employ more than one million people and provide coverage for over 150 million people. Council participants include McKinsey & Company, Aetna, Johnson & Johnson, The Coca-Cola Company, Verizon Communications, Bank of America, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Walgreens Co.
In addition to the report, the council released an interactive website with examples of initiatives the companies have taken to improve individual and community health. Some examples also improve the corporations' bottom lines, such as Verizon's partnerships with university research centers to test wireless health monitors that individuals or companies can download and buy through the technology company. However, David Erickson, director of the Center for Community Development Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, points out that no for-profit company can afford the investments required for improving public health without also being able to see an impact on their own bottom line. Examples include increased sales and greater efficiencies in delivering health care.
For example, Walgreens has increased its share of flu shots given from fewer than one million in 2009 to more than seven million in 2013. While that represents improved income for the company, Walgreens—which has stores within three miles of 63 percent of Americans, 75 percent of African-Americans and 78 percent of Latinos—has also worked with state and federal health officials to publicize and increase immunization initiatives. It has also worked with many third-party payers so that patients are often fully or largely covered for the vaccines, with little or no copayment required. Retail clinics such as those at many Walgreen stores also often improve on current health care delivery, such as being open 365 days a year, unlike most doctors' offices.
Public Health News Roundup: September 17
White House Announces Significant Increase in U.S. Ebola Response
Yesterday, NewPublicHealth reported President Obama's initial planned response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The White House has since expanded on the plans. They will include:
- A military command center in Liberia.
- A staging area in Senegal to help dispatch personnel and aid to affected communities more quickly
- Personnel from the U.S. Public Health Service will deploy to a new field hospitals the U.S. is setting up in Liberia.
- US AID will help distribute home kits with items such as gloves and masks to help reduce the number of Ebola cases.
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Survey Finds Doctors are Overextended or At Capacity for Patients
A new survey of 20,000 doctors by the Physicians Foundation, a non-profit group that works with practicing physicians, finds that 81 percent of doctors say they are over-extended or at full capacity and only 19 percent indicate they have time to see more patients. Forty-four percent of doctors responding say they plan to take steps that would reduce patient access to their practices , including cutting back on patients seen, retiring, working part-time, closing their practice to new patients or seeking non-clinical jobs, leading to the potential loss of tens of thousands of physicians in the United States. The timing of the survey is significant because signup for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act begins in just a few weeks. Read more about access to care.
Number of Smokers Increases in New York City
Earlier this week the New York City Health Department released new 2013 data showing that 16.1 percent of adult New Yorkers are smokers, a significant increase from the city's lowest recorded adult smoking rate of 14 percent in 2010. For the first time since 2007, there are more than one million smokers in New York City who are at risk of developing a smoking-related illness, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, emphysema, lung and other cancers, according to the health department. So far, the city does not have strong data to explain the uptick in smoking. Nationally, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 18 percent of U.S. adults are smokers, down from 20 percent several years ago. However, New York City is often a bellwether for public health issues, and the health experts across the country will be looking to see whether the city's tobacco control efforts—including a new ad campaign that focuses on both daily and occasional smokers—have an impact on smoking rates. Read more on tobacco.
Reading, Writing and Hands-Free CPR: AHA Calls for More CPR Training in Schools
The American Heart Association (AHA) is working with dozens of state legislatures this year to develop laws that would add cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) classes to middle or high school curricula. Nineteen states require in-school training for high school students, and more are expected to consider or implement the training in the next few years. In Virginia, for example, Gwyneth's Law—named for a little girl who went into cardiac arrest and died waiting for an ambulance with no one with CPR training able to step forward to try to help—goes into effect in two years and makes CPR mandatory for high school graduation, unless students are specifically exempted.
The AHA says that by graduating young adults with the knowledge to perform CPR—now taught as a hands-only skill, with no mouth-to-mouth resuscitation so as to keep the emphasis on chest compressions—they can vastly reduce the number of Americans, currently 420,000, who die of cardiac arrest outside a hospital each year. The numbers are highest among Latinos and African-Americans, according to the AHA, largely because too many members of those communities have not been taught CPR. AHA surveys find that people who live in lower-income, African-American neighborhoods are 50 percent less likely to have CPR performed.
New AHA grants are helping fund the training in underserved areas. A 2013 study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes studied several underserved, high-risk neighborhoods to learn about CPR barriers. The researchers found that the biggest challenges for minorities in urban communities are cost (including child care and travel costs), fear and lack of information.
"Our continued research shows disparities exist in learning and performing CPR, and we are ready to move beyond documenting gaps to finding solutions to fix them," said Dianne Atkins, MD, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa. "School is a great equalizer, which is why CPR in schools is an integral part of the solution and will help increase bystander CPR across all communities and save more lives."
The AHA has received funding from Ross, the national clothing store chain, for a program called CPR in Schools, which teaches hands-free CPR to seventh and eighth graders. As a way to increase training for minority students, AHA is partnering local Ross stores with nearby public schools where at least 50 percent of students receive free or reduced lunches.
>>Bonus Links:
- Read a NewPublicHealth story about a pilot kiosk CPR trainer to teach hands-free CPR in the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. The pilot program will expand to other locations in 2015.
- Watch hands-only CPR training videos from the American Heart Association. Tip: First learn to hum "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees. The beat is almost precisely the rhythm needed for effective CPR chest compressions.
Public Health News Roundup: September 16
EBOLA UPDATE: Obama to Commit as Many as 3,000 Troops to Epidemic Response
(NewPublicHealth is monitoring the public health crisis in West Africa.)
President Obama will today announce an expansion of military and medical resources that could send as many as 3,000 people to West Africa to help combat the ongoing Ebola outbreak. According to The New York Times, the United States will help train health workers and build as many as 17 Ebola treatment centers, which will house approximately 1,700 treatment beds. The U.S. Department of Defense will also open a joint command operation in Liberia in order to coordinate an international response to the outbreak. Read more on Ebola.
Report: 1 in 9 People Worldwide are Chronically Undernourished
An estimated 805 million people in the world are chronically undernourished, according to a new report, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014, from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. While that means that approximately one in every nine people are undernourished, the number is down more than 100 million over the past decade and 209 million since 1990-1992. In the past two decades the prevalence of undernourishment has also dropped from 23.4 percent to 13.5 percent in developing countries. According to the health agency, the eradication of hunger requires a sustained political commitment that emphasizes food security and nutrition. Read more on global health.
SAMHSA: Percentage of Youth Using Illegal Drugs is Down Over the Past Decade
The percentage of U.S. teens using illegal drugs is down over the past decade, according to a new study from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA). The report, the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, found that the rate of illicit drug use in the past month for adolescents ages 12-17 was 8.8 percent, down from 9.5 percent in 2012 and 11.6 percent in 2002. From 2002 to 2013, the percentage of youth in that age group with a substance abuse or dependence problem dropped from 8.9 percent to 5.2 percent. "This report shows that we have made important progress in some key areas, but that we need to rejuvenate our efforts to promote prevention, treatment and recovery to reach all aspects of our community," said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, in a release. "The real lives represented by these statistics deserve our protection and help from the ravages of substance use disorders. Through a comprehensive, national effort we can help people avoid, or recover from substance use problems and lead, healthy, productive lives." Read more on substance abuse.
Recommended Reading: Some Drugs—Especially Oncology Medicines—Have Been in Short Supply for Too Many Years
Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently released an issue brief on the continuing shortages of certain drugs, most frequently injectable drugs for cancer treatment. According to the issue brief, there have been fewer reports of newly unavailable drugs in the last few years, but problems remain, forcing many patients to skip some treatments or sometimes opt for a less-effective drug. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates on drug shortages in just the first two weeks of September found sixteen injectable drugs in short supply, two of them new to the list.
Recent Government Accountability Office reports have found several reasons for the shortages, including:
- Difficulty acquiring raw materials
- Manufacturing problems
- A loss of drug products when factories are updated and modernized
- Low reimbursement by Medicare and other government payment programs
- FDA regulations that may slow down new drug approvals
The authors of the issue brief say that it is unlikely that Congress will act, and that the industry has and will make changes likely to help bolster some supplies. Also, thorough reviews such as the current issue brief help remind policymakers that some drug shortages remain.
Read the full issue brief.
Public Health News Roundup: September 15
EBOLA UPDATE: Obama to Announce New Ebola Plan Tomorrow
(NewPublicHealth is monitoring the public health crisis in West Africa.)
President Obama is expected to make an announcement tomorrow detailing the United States' increased involvement in combatting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The plan would likely involve an increased U.S. military presence; the government has already committed approximately $100 million related to protective equipment for health care workers; food; water; and medical and hygiene equipment. More than 2,400 people have so far died in the outbreak. Read more on Ebola.
HHS: $295M to Expand Health Services for 1.5M New Patients
Late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $295 million in funds to enable 1,195 health centers across the country to hire approximately 4,750 new staff, stay open later and expand their services to cover areas such as oral health, behavioral health, pharmacy and vision services. The funds are available through the Affordable Care Act. HHS estimates that this will help 1.5 million new patients. "These funds will enable health centers to provide high-quality primary health care to more people including the newly insured, many of whom may be accessing primary care for the first time," said HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell, in a release. Read more on the Affordable Care Act.
Study: 11 Million Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescriptions for Kids Annually
Physicians prescribe antibiotics for kids approximately twice as often than they are needed, contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers analyzed a selection of studies published between 2000 and 2011, as well as data on children examined at outpatient clinics, finding that an estimated 27 percent of U.S. children with infections of the ear, sinus area, throat or upper respiratory tract had illnesses caused by bacteria, yet antibiotics were prescribed for approximately 57 percent of these visits. They estimate that there are more than 11 million such unnecessary prescriptions for kids each year. Read more on prescription drugs.
Faces of Public Health: Q&A with Andrea Gielen, the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently awarded $4 million to the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Bloomberg School of Public Health to further fund its work on injury prevention research and policy development. According to the CDC, injuries are the leading cause of death in the United States among people ages 1 to 44, costing the country $406 billion each year. And across the globe, 16,000 people die from largely preventable injuries every day.
"This funding will allow us to advance our work in closing the gap between research and practice in new and innovative ways," said Andrea Gielen, ScD, ScM, the center's director. "Whether fatal or non-fatal, injuries take an enormous toll on communities. Our faculty, staff and students are dedicated to preventing injuries and ameliorating their effects through better design of products and environments, more effective policies, increased education and improved treatment."
The five-year grant will support several innovative research projects on key issues, including evaluating motor vehicle ignition interlock laws, studying universal bicycle helmet policies, testing m-Health tools to reduce prescription drug overdose and evaluating programs to prevent falls among older adults. The center will also continue to offer training and education to public health students and practitioners, as well as to new audiences that can contribute to injury prevention.
NewPublicHealth recently spoke with Gielen about the CDC grant
NewPublicHealth: What are the goals for each of the four research areas for which you've received funding?
Andrea Gielen: Each of the four is a full research projects with specific aims. For example, with ignition interlock laws—which are car ignitions that can't start unless a breathalyzer confirms that a driver is sober—there's been a little bit of evidence that they reduce alcohol-related motor vehicle crash injuries and deaths, but there are two gaps. There has never been a national study of the impact of these laws, and we don't know a whole lot about how they're implemented. What is it about ignition interlock policies and how they're implemented that's really related to their impact on reducing fatal crashes?
We want to look at all four projects in the same way: We'll be looking at barriers and facilitators to how policies that we think are effective are adopted and implemented, and what it is about that adoption and implementation of the processes that make these policies effective.
Public Health News Roundup: September 12
EBOLA OUTBREAK: WHO Says Ebola is Spreading at a Faster Rate than Health Workers Can Handle
(NewPublicHealth is monitoring the public health crisis in West Africa.)
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa—the largest in history—shows no signs of slowing down. Today the global health organization followed that by declaring that health officials are currently unable to handle the growing number of cases. "In the three hardest hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the number of new cases is moving far faster than the capacity to manage them in the Ebola-specific treatment centers," said Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general, according to CNN. "Today, there is not one single bed available for the treatment of an Ebola patient in the entire country of Liberia." More than 2,400 people have died from Ebola since the start of the outbreak. Read more on Ebola.
Study: Majority of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia Receive Questionable Medications
The majority of nursing home residents dealing with advanced dementia receive medications that are both questionable—if not outright ineffective—and cost them needless amounts of money, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine. In a review of 5,406 nursing home residents with advanced dementia, researchers determined that slightly more than half (53.9 percent) received at least one medication with questionable benefit; the medications constituted approximately 35.2 percent of the total cost of care for those patients. According to the researchers, the patients' goals of care should dictate the treatment they receive when dealing with a terminal illness, and medications that don't promote that primary goal should be minimized. Read more on aging.
Study: 'Fat Shaming' is Counterproductive
"Fat shaming" does not promote weight loss and in fact can be counterproductive, according to a new study in the journal Obesity. In an analysis of nearly 3,000 adults tracked over four years, researchers determined that weight discrimination was associated with a weight gain of approximately 2 pounds, while the participants who reported no fat shaming lost an average of 1.5 pounds. "Our study clearly shows that weight discrimination is part of the obesity problem and not the solution," said the study's senior author, Jane Wardle, director of the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Centre at University College London (UCL), in a release. "Weight bias has been documented not only among the general public but also among health professionals, and many obese patients report being treated disrespectfully by doctors because of their weight. Everyone, including doctors, should stop blaming and shaming people for their weight and offer support, and where appropriate, treatment." Read more on obesity.


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Winslow also says he will seek another term. She's been on the council since 1993.
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(WMC-TV) – Memphis police arrested 26-year-old Kenosha Williams early Wednesday morning in connection with Tuesday's crash that involved at least two vehicles and threw bodies all over the front yard of a Whitehaven home on Berta Road at Shelby Drive.
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You can easily fit a dozen people in a Chevy Tahoe, especially if they are small children. However, Tahoes only have between five and seven seat belts.
Williams was the driver of the SUV that police say sideswiped a truck. Witnesses say a yelling match erupted after the crash.
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Northern Alexandria Native Plant Sale(formerly located
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Saturday, April 26, 20149 a.m. to 2 p.m.
sale:Saturday, September 27, 20149 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Church of St. Clement1701 N. Quaker LaneAlexandria, Virginia
NOTE: This website is being updated for the sale on September 27, 2014.Please
email me if you have any questions. (My contact information is at the bottom of this page.) --Scott
Fifteen or 16 vendors from four states (VA, MD, PA, and WV) will be hosted at the Northern Alexandria Native Plant Sale on 9/27/14.
Biannual Sale Dates: The Parkfairfax Native Plant Sale is held twice a year. The spring sale is the last Saturday
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it easier for local gardeners to find quality plants and encourages a greater demand for natives in the nursery industry.
Nursery vendors from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and South Carolina will be at the sale.
The sale is entirely organized and run by volunteers. No one makes money from it except the vendors. Parkfairfax Unit
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Mine isn't for 10 weeks and that just seems so weird to me. With my last pregnancy they wanted to see me right away.
Mine first appointment was just prior to 6 weeks, but I'd had two losses previously, so they understood my concerns and got me in pretty early. At my doctor's office, the norrm is about 8 weeks.
With Nolan it was at 6wks for an ultrasound (I was on Clomid at the time) this time I postponed it (purposefully) til 12wks. Though I think generally they see people around 8ishwks
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For my clinic, women with no history of miscarriages/health issues don't get seen until 8-10 weeks, earlier for first pregnancies and later for subsequent pregnancies. I actually know a woman who went to a clinic that didn't have their first appointments until 12 weeks so I think your clinic is definitely in the normal range.
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For both I saw the doctor at 5-6 weeks to confirm pregnancy and at 8-9 weeks for the first ultrasound. I saw my ob/gyn once a month until I hit 30 weeks with both children and then on a weekly basis just how the office did things. Most offices will be once a month then 2x a month at 7 months then weekly after 36 weeks unless there is a high risk pregnancy.
With all 3 of my pg the doctor scheduled my appt at 8 weeks. This time I had to reschedule my 1st appt for the next week, which put me at 9 weeks. It was kind of funny b/c the receptionist on the phone told me that they didn't want to wait too long to get me in...so I was like, ok, you won't see me before 8 weeks but waiting an extra week or two is a bit deal?
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I never know how far along I am when I get a BFP because my cycles are so out of wack. I've always had an appointment right when I find out and get an u/s to determine due date. With this one, I happened to be 6 weeks along at the first appointment and then the next appointment was scheduled for 10.5 weeks.


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Problems extending Member class
5 February 2010 at 11:25am
I wrote a module and added a new member class. To do this, I wrote following line in the modules _config.php file:
Object::useCustomClass( "Member", "CommunityMember" );
The CommunityMember.php is located under the modules folder in code/members. The code is:
* Community Members extend basic member class
class CommunityMember extends Member
static $singular_name = "Community Mitglied";
static $plural_name = "Community Mitglieder";
static $db = array(
"Street" => "Varchar(250)",
"ZIP" => "Varchar(50)",
"City" => "Varchar(250)",
"EmailVerified" => "Boolean",
"EmailVerifyHash" => "Varchar(250)",
"MustChangePassword" => "Boolean"
I used to write a registration form to create members. To do this, I wrote
$member = new CommunityMember();
$form->saveInto( $member );
inside the method called by form action. It seems alright, the members are created, I can view them in phpmyadmin. But I can not see them in the Backoffice (Tab Security/Group/Members). Does anyone have a idea what´s wrong? If recommended I also post the code of the registration form...
Thanks a lot!
Re: Problems extending Member class
9 February 2010 at 3:23pm Last edited: 9 February 2010 3:25pm
Subclassing Member isn't a good idea, because there's so many assumptions in the framework that assume "Member".
The better way is to create a Member extension using DataObjectDecorator which effectively lets you add additional DB fields onto the existing Member table and create additional methods, without subclassing Member. Go here for more information:
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Re: Problems extending Member class
9 February 2010 at 3:46pm
Sean: then why is subclassing the Member class used in the SilverStripe book? You know, the "class Developer extends Member" example in the CRM chapter...
Re: Problems extending Member class
9 February 2010 at 4:58pm Last edited: 9 February 2010 5:03pm
The book only used an example of using the Member subclass with ModelAdmin, and on more front end focused tasks like MultiForm and collections. It did not, however, demonstrate that you can use derived classes of Member with the Security section of the CMS.
The real problem is that the MemberTableField class that sits within the Security tab of the CMS is only designed to show Member records - not subclassed ones as well. This is generally not a problem, but because you add additional database fields to a Member subclass, this subclass will get it's own database table, and MemberTableField will no longer be able to show both Member and Developer because Developer has it's own fields.
There's also other places within the framework that use code like singleton('Member') or new Member() - obviously these wouldn't work for your derived classes of Member because it doesn't know about them.
The alternative would be to use ModelAdmin to manage your Member subclasses instead. I believe you could add a Groups tab containing checkboxes of group membership that would allow you to manage the Member "Groups" relationship. Another would be to just decorate the existing Member class with additional fields, and use Groups to put them in different categories like "Staff" or "Community Member".
Hope this helps!
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Re: Problems extending Member class
9 February 2010 at 6:18pm
Thanks for the insight, Sean, much appreciated!
Re: Problems extending Member class
9 February 2010 at 9:03pm
Thanks for your answers and help! I know now, it is not recommended to sublcass the Member class. Some other forum entries wrote about it too. So I decided to decorate member class, but failed. I always got an session error with this. Maybe it´s because I have already extended Member Class and database relations between Member class and CommunityMember where not removed (even if I called dev/build. I wonder, if there is a way to reset database to only required tables and tablefields without lossing data?
Re: Problems extending Member class
10 February 2010 at 8:41am
I now created a decorater to the member class. Code as follows:
class MemberDecorator extends DataObjectDecorator {
function augmentSQL(SQLQuery &$query) {}
function extraStatics() {
return array(
'db' => array(
"Street" => "Varchar(250)",
"ZIP" => "Varchar(50)",
"City" => "Varchar(250)",
"EmailVerified" => "Boolean",
"EmailVerifyHash" => "Varchar(250)",
"MustChangePassword" => "Boolean"
public function updateCMSFields( FieldSet &$fields )
$fields->addFieldToTab( "Root.Members", new TextField( "Street", "Straße" ) );
$fields->addFieldToTab( "Root.Members", new TextField( "ZIP", "PLZ" ) );
$fields->addFieldToTab( "Root.Members", new TextField( "City", "Ortschaft" ) );
$fields->addFieldToTab( "Root.Members", new CheckboxField( "EmailVerified", "E-Mail Adresse verifiziert" ) );
$fields->addFieldToTab( "Root.Members", new CheckboxField( "MustChangePassword", "Passwort bei Erstanmeldung ändern" ) );
Inside _config.php:
Object::add_extension( "Group", "GroupDecorator" );
DataObject::add_extension( "Member", "MemberDecorator" );
Again the same problem: I can not list registered members in backoffice. Confusing, because there is no error displayed or mailed...
Re: Problems extending Member class
10 February 2010 at 10:06am
Your member records should be in the database - in order to add them to a Group in the CMS it is necessary to type the first name in order to bring up an autocomplete list of people to add.
I've attached a screenshot to describe what I'm saying
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Located in the south of Tenerife, El Nogal is just a short distance from El Teide National Park and 15km from the best beaches and golf courses on the island.
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Is Social Business the future of capitalism ?
Social business, as the term is commonly used, was first defined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and is described in his books Creating a world without poverty—Social Business and the future of capitalism and Building Social Business—The new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs.
In Yunus' definition, a social business is a non-loss, non-dividend company designed to address a social objective within the highly regulated marketplace of today. It is distinct from a non-profit because the business should seek to generate a modest profit but this will be used to expand the company's reach, improve the product or service or in other ways to subsidise the social mission.
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May 27 2012: To me, Business is a social enterprise. It falls under the discipline of 'Economics' which, of course, is a social science. Capitalism is an economic theory that has proven (through much experimentation) to not only be the most successful theory in application, but now is being adopted by many societies who previously were much maligned against it. This, I believe, is evolutionary in nature. Whereas in ancient hisory capital was only for the royalty and elite, social revolution created democracy. Democracy (and Capitalism) created Communism which failed because of it's lack of real sustainable mass incentive. Now the 'always known' limitations of equalized distribution within Capitalism are being met with technological advances, instantaneous world-wide communication, and decades of post-modern scientific research which is showing the 'true cost' of neglect & exploitation. It is, again in my opinion, inevitable that the next stage of Capitalism (if we survive ourselves) will be filled with competing incentives of least cost and highest profitability of 9 billion potential customers able to buy the products made while supporting the limited natural resources available to be as fully growth-oriented and enhanced as we can possibly design.
May 28 2012: You've read my mind, friend. Please check out my short essay on "Scientific Positivism". Your primary points are all repeated in different words and expanded, even as it alludes to future writings.
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It is not every day that you watch a human being tear a car door off with their bare hands, but as of Friday, March 2, I can now say that I have witnessed it twice. The first time was back in 2002 before I came to The Day. I was working for a paper in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I was on my way into work when I heard a serious accident reported on my scanner. Immediately, I responded to the scene. A car had collided head-on with a dump truck, and before firefighters could deploy extrication tools, one firefighter managed to pull the driver's door clean off the car. I was totally amazed. The photo ended up in my portfolio because I figured that I would never see that happen again.
I was wrong. Jumping ahead to last Friday morning, I was once again driving to work when I heard lots of scanner traffic about a serious car accident just over the New London line in Waterford on Broad Street, and as in 2002, I went straight to the scene. I arrived to find the car heavily impacted on the tree and Waterford firefighters getting extrication tools to free the driver from the car. Then it happened. Two firefighters grabbed the driver door and with as much force as they could muster, all but peeled the door off, bending it up to the front fender (or what was left of it) on the car. Firefighters then used an extrication tool to fully remove the door. What are the chances of that? Twice, covering two accidents on my way to work, where firefighters all but overcame the laws of physics to help those in need.
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- Hassan Syed
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Do you believe that our future is bright, if yes, why and if not, why not?
While looking at the trends like human health, access to knowledge, access to technology, technology growth, etc., we start believing that our future is going to be very good. On the other hand, looking at the trends like destruction of nature, speed at with we are consuming natural and environmental resources, explosion of human population, carbon in the air and climate change, etc., we think that really difficult times are ahead of us.
I am interested in knowing the sources of optimism and causes of pessimism in us.
Just to be clear, "our" means humankind :-)
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Sep 24 2012: I tend to view the future with pessimism. I am a baby buster, gen X, had it tough all my life. So, let's see...technology is destroying the rainforests, the oceans, polluting the air, poisoning the land. Our technology has created things that are not advancing us, from the small such as fish finders to the large like atomic bombs. For every good creation, there is multiple downsides.
Now we humans are going to be replaced by robots. What will happen to assembly line workers when robots replace them? The 3 million truck drivers? Are they going to become computer programmers, and still participate in the economy, or live on welfare?
Back in the 60s and 70s, authors in books like Ecotopia predicted that by now, a worker would only have to work about 20 hours a week to produce enough income for a reasonable living. That little bit hasn't worked out, has it?
My cheery prognosis: the rich will get richer, the poor will start to starve, there will be a revolt, and when the dust settles, we will be back about 50 years, in both jobs and population.
Or even more cheery, the new AI computers will consider us redundant, and use us as the slaves.
Better yet, in 50 years, total ecological collapse, 6 billion people die, the Earth regenerates, with a much smaller human population.
Of course, instead of gladiator games during the fall of Rome, we will be glued to our eye candy IPODs and the like, being entertained as our civilization falls.
Ah well, like I said, I tend to be pessimistic!
Sep 24 2012: Good points Peter. Being from the same generation, I can relate to what you are saying.
Why do you think people feel the need for robots when lots of people are jobless? Is it because we want to pay less for the things or is it because industrialists and businessmen want more profit? If a choice was given, would people opt for little expensive products in favour of human factor in the making of it?
Sep 24 2012: Well, bottom line, some people are greedy. If they can replace a worker who they paid say $30K a year with a robot for $60K the robot would pay for itself quickly. Of course, who would be able to buy a car at $30K if they are jobless? That's why Henry Ford paid his workers well, so they could afford his cars.
People will always opt for the cheaper option. Why? Well, as you become un(der)employed, you start looking for cheaper sources (dollar stores, thrift marts) for items...even though you know that you should be buying products locally made. So, for 10 years or so, everything will be made in China. Then, when North America wages fall and workers can no longer even afford that, society will start breaking down..
The robots will exasperate the issue, as they wipe out all local jobs, and manufacturing will go overseas to cheaper job markets. The short sighted manufactuers will lose all their local North American customers.and apply to get government loans, which would be a huge error. Its called a downward spiral.
But hey, with an increasing world human population, lets make a billion or so robots that can replace 6 billion workers. Where's the logic in that?
The only real way out would be a complete abandoning of monetary capitalism, where we use robots to do our bidding as we sit back and enjoy our lazy lives. Bored, but not hungry!
Oct 12 2012: Who repairs the robots? Who designs robots to do new things? Are all things automatable? If one person now generates 10x as much wealth with the same amount of work as the previous generation, what happens to the difference? Massive consumerism is what creates scarcity. What if we learned to meter our production and let go of consuming many of the things we don't need? Maybe you call this lazy. Would you be bored? I wouldn't be. Do you know everything you could? Have you seen all the sites, experienced all there is to behold? Do you know your neighbors? Do you know yourself? Do you know the nature of a single atom, much less the entire universe? You're right, the nature of money would have to change. The concept of scarcity should still apply to opportunity, but not to survival.
The point of solving small problems, for the individual and for the society, is to free yourself to look further. When you have a big problem, rejoice! You stand on the shoulders of giants. Language and technology are both tools of abstraction. They separate us from nature but also give us power over it. The disconnection we all feel is a consequence of that power and separation.
Most people are not aware of the basic principles which guide their lives. They are not mature enough to spend 10 minutes alone meditating, much less a lifetime. They've forgotten how to play, I think, to really be consumed by their curiosity of the experience they find themselves in. Who are you, and what really matters in your life? And how can you be jealous of a robot? [laugh]
Viktor E Frankl was a Jewish psychologist imprisoned in a Nazi death camp. His book "Man's Search For Meaning" is a very interesting read. It is that search, more than anything, that defines us. And our answers are more important than all than all the gold in the world. But perhaps not so important as continuing to ask the question.
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Molly Mimier
I didn't want my debt to make career decisions for me. A lot of new law school graduates are contract attorneys . . . it ended up being wonderful for me."
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Molly Mimier has traveled a long way to her position in Lima, Peru, as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Growing up in Seattle, she got homesick easily and had no interest in going abroad. She imagined a career as an artistic director of her own theater in her hometown. But then her older sister studied abroad for a semester and Mimier decided to do the same. She enrolled in Semester at Sea, a floating university that travels the world, and was deeply affected by what she saw in developing countries.
"It made a big impression on me," she said, "seeing the disconnect between wealth and happiness and how different cultures face similar challenges" in fighting poverty, injustice and pollution.
That experience led Mimier to Vermont Law School and an interest in working for a federal agency or nonprofit group and helping people and the environment in developing nations.
After graduating, though, she made it a top priority to pay down her $120,000 in student loans, especially her private loans, whose interest rates were far higher than her federal loans. "It was a telling moment when that first monthly loan payment was due," she said. "I realized that I couldn't work in a nonprofit or government agency right away. I needed better money to repay my loans."
To do that, she worked up to 80 hours a week as a temporary contract attorney for nearly three years in Washington, D.C., earning a base salary of $72,000 and racking up enough overtime to pay off most of her student loans and buy a condominium unit
"I had a laser focus on paying down my debt," she said. "I didn't want my debt to make career decisions for me. A lot of new law school graduates are contract attorneys, but people hide it from one another or downplay it on their resume. But it ended up being wonderful for me."
During those nearly three years as a contract attorney, Mimier sent out hundreds of resumes for permanent positions, including at USAID. It was a grueling process that tested her patience, but her persistence paid off in 2009 when she was hired as a Foreign Service Officer at USAID. After being hired, she worked at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., for a year and learned to speak Spanish before being posted to Peru. She handles contracts and grants for the NGO's that USAID hires to do its field work in Peru and four neighboring countries, including projects in public health, education, the environment and other issues.
Mimier, 31, said her experiences studying, working and traveling abroad put her in a good position to land her dream job. She's completed half of her two-year tour in Peru and would like to be posted next at USAID's headquarters in Washington, D.C. "I'm still committed to international development, but I can do that from Washington, D.C., too."
Mimier advises new and recent VLS graduates to be open-minded in their careers, including working as a contract attorney, paralegal or even a non-law job while they gain the experience and contacts needed for their dream job.
"A legal career these days isn't as linear as it used to be," she said. "You might have to take a few jobs that don't immediately make sense in an overall career trajectory, but as a whole will give you the skills necessary to land your dream job. I'd also say be patient. I used to worry that I'd never get an opportunity to work in international development. But I learned that if you focus on your dream and don't lose your passion for it, you'll get there. Even if you have to step off that typical career path for some time, focus on the positive parts of each job. That way, when you do finally have an interview for your dream job, you'll be ready and the interviewer will recognize the passion in your eyes."


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