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Given the high prevalence of mental disorders and the comparatively low rate of professional help-seeking, it is useful for members of the public to have some skills in how to assist people developing mental disorders. A Mental Health First Aid course has been developed to provide these skills. Two randomized controlled trials of this course have shown positive effects on participants' knowledge, attitudes and behavior. However, these trials have provided limited data on participants' subsequent experiences in providing first aid. To remedy this, a study was carried out gathering stories from participants in one of the trials, 19–21 months post-training.
Former course participants were contacted and sent a questionnaire either by post or via the internet. Responses were received from 94 out of the 131 trainees who were contacted. The questionnaire asked about whether the participant had experienced a post-training situation where someone appeared to have a mental health problem and, if so, asked questions about that experience.
Post-training experiences were reported by 78% of respondents. Five key points emerged from the qualitative data: (1) the majority of respondents had had some direct experience of a situation where mental health issues were salient and the course enabled them to take steps that led to better effects than otherwise might have been the case; (2) positive effects were experienced in terms of increased empathy and confidence, as well as being better able to handle crises; (3) the positive effects were experienced by a wide range of people with varied expectations and needs; (4) there was no evidence of people over-reaching themselves because of over-confidence and (5) those who attended were able to identify quite specific benefits and many thought the course not only very useful, but were keen to see it repeated and extended.
The qualitative data confirm that most members of the public who receive Mental Health First Aid training subsequently provide support to people with mental health problems and that this support generally has positive effects.
Community surveys in a range of countries show a high prevalence of mental disorders, but with many cases not receiving appropriate professional help [1]. As well as this unmet need with clinical disorders, there is the problem of how to help the large number of people with sub-clinical symptoms. These people are a source of considerable disability in the population and have a high risk of progressing on to clinical disorders [2]. The problem of unmet need is not uniform within the community. Some sub-groups, such as people living in rural areas, have even lower access to services [3,4].
In order to help overcome the problems of high prevalence, unmet need for treatment, the impact of sub-clinical symptoms, and the uneven geographic distribution of services, there is a need to consider solutions that lie outside formal health services. One approach is to widen the base of people with some knowledge and skills in helping people with mental health problems. Examples of such an approach, which have either been implemented or proposed, include the use of lay people as counsellors in telephone help-lines [5], web sites giving mental health information or therapy directly to the public [5], training of community members, including parents, in how to assist people in crisis situations [6,7], and training of human service providers in rural areas in how to support people suffering from mental disorders [8].
An approach of this sort, which has recently been developed in Australia and has spread to a number of other countries, is Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training [9,10]. The philosophy behind this approach is that people with mental health problems can potentially be assisted by those in their social network. There is evidence that better social support reduces risk of developing mental disorders and improves outcomes for people experiencing disorders [11,12]. However, potential helpers often lack the confidence and skills to provide basic help. Supporting this view, a recent national survey of the Australian public found that many people had a less than adequate range of first aid responses to people with mental disorders [13]. The MHFA course follows the model that has been successfully applied with first aid for physical disorders. It trains members of the public to give early help to people with developing mental health problems and to give assistance in mental health crisis situations.
Two controlled trials have been carried out to evaluate the MHFA course. The first of these involved 301 employees of government departments who were randomized to either receive the training immediately or to be wait-listed for 5 months before undertaking the training [14]. The trained group improved more than the wait-list control group in terms of confidence in providing help to others, likelihood of advising people to seek professional help, concordance with health professionals about treatments, stigmatizing attitudes, and mental health of the participants themselves.
The second controlled trial was carried out with 753 members of the public in a large rural area of south-east Australia [15]. In this trial, the catchment of an area health service was divided into 16 local government areas. Eight of these areas received the course immediately and the other eight were controls and placed on a waiting list to receive the training later in the year. Relative to controls, people who did the course showed better recognition of disorders from case descriptions, decreased social distance towards people with mental disorders, became more like health professionals in their beliefs about what treatments are likely to be helpful, had greater confidence in providing help to someone, and were more likely to actually provide help.
While these controlled trials showed benefits of the training, the quantitative measures did not seem to fully capture the effects. There have been many instances where participants have told stories, sometimes dramatic ones, of how they used their skills following the course to help someone. It may be more natural for participants to report their experiences in the form of stories, because that is the way they are organized in memory [16], than to answer more abstract questions about them. Furthermore, the quantitative measures did not capture the effects on the recipients of first aid, whether positive or negative, because it was not possible to identify and survey these recipients. By analyzing the stories it is possible to get some indirect information about the effects on the recipients. We therefore sought to gather such stories in a systematic way using participants from the second controlled trial and to analyze the major themes that emerged.
The sample was drawn from 131 participants in a cluster randomized trial (ISRCTN53887541) [15]. These were the participants who were in the intervention group (N = 416) and were known to have completed every session of the 9-hour training course in March-April 2003. Those excluded either did not attend the course after random assignment (n = 76), only attended some sessions (n = 33) or had missing attendance data (n = 176). The participants were phoned by one of two research assistants who asked them to complete an additional questionnaire. Out of the 131 approached, 94 actually completed the questionnaire. The questionnaires were completed in November 2004–January 2005, which was 19–21 months after finishing the training course.
A survey questionnaire was developed to achieve the following: (1) Gather data on respondents with regard to age, gender and education; (2) Ascertain whether the respondent had, or had not, experienced a post-course situation where someone seemed to have a mental health problem; (3) For those who had experienced such a situation, a variety of questions were asked which allowed the respondent to describe that experience; and (4) For those who had not had such an experience, the questionnaire asked them a few questions about expectation and about confidence with such a situation if it were to arise in the future.
For those who had experienced a post-course situation where someone seemed to have a mental health problem, the questions ran as follows: Could you tell us something about the situation(s) and the problems you believed the person(s) was experiencing? Were you able to do anything specific to help the person (s) you believed was suffering the mental health problem(s)? [For those who could not help] What was the reason(s) that you were not able to help that person(s)? Can you give us any examples of something you did? What do you think were the effects on that person/s of what you did? Can you give us any examples of how your relations with that person/s, or your feelings towards them, have changed? Do you think this change had any effect on the person/s, either good or bad? How (if at all) has doing the MHFA course changed how you relate to or feel about the person(s) suffering from that mental health problem?
For those who had not experienced a post-course situation where someone seemed to have a mental health problem, the questions ran as follows: Is this what you would have expected or is it somewhat surprising not to have come across such a situation? If you were now to come across someone who you believed was suffering from a mental health problem, how well prepared would you feel to deal with that? How has doing the MHFA course changed how you relate to or feel about a person(s) suffering from mental health problems? Is there anything else you would like to say about the MHFA course and its value for you?
Participants were given the option of completing the questionnaire either on-line or on paper. If the former, the participant was asked to provide an email address and was subsequently emailed the URL which gave the questionnaire at a WebSurveyor™ site. By clicking on the URL, the respondent was connected to an on-line facility. This site allows built in switching and skipping, so that only the questions applicable to a given respondent appear on the screen. S/he either selected a button based response for closed-ended questions or typed in free text for open-ended responses. The data generated were downloaded as Excel spreadsheets. Participants who chose to do a paper questionnaire had it mailed out. The paper responses were entered into Excel and the two data sources combined into one. Participants who failed to complete a questionnaire were given a reminder either by email or post, as appropriate.
To give independence in the evaluation from the developers of the Mental Health First Aid course, the company Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research was contracted to develop the questionnaire and carry out the analysis. The analysis consisted of three parts: (1) description of the respondents (2) quantitative analysis of frequencies of response and cross-tabulations of respondent characteristics with types of response, and (3) qualitative analysis identifying themes behind responses to each question and selecting stories that illustrate the range of experiences reported. The raw material of the stories was examined in print form. First, the material was read through by one of the authors (SKM) and broad themes were developed. Each major element of an answer was then tagged with a code to identify the themes and the material sorted to ensure that any themes that were identified in the analysis and any quotes that were to be used to illustrate these themes were genuinely representative of the material. Particular emphasis was laid upon ensuring that those themes that emerged frequently were highlighted in the reported analysis. As far as possible, stories quoted are in the exact words of the respondents – some very minimal editing has been undertaken to improve the flow of the story and to tidy up grammar, syntax and spelling.
There were 94 respondents to the questionnaire, with 56 responding by mailing a paper copy and 38 completing it on-line. The respondents were predominantly female (75/94) and had an age range from 21–74 years (mean 51 years). With regard to education, 31 had a university degree. Looking at previous experience with mental illness, 29 reported a personal experience, 21 a family experience, 8 reported both, and 36 neither. Compared to the full sample participating in the intervention group of the trial [15], these respondents tended to be better educated (33% vs 21% with a degree), but were similar in age and gender.
Table Table11 shows the distribution of responses to the basic questions asked. Most respondents had experienced, post-course, a situation where someone seemed to have a mental health problem. Of the 73 who had experienced a mental health related situation, 79% said they had definitely been able to help, 17% said they thought they had been helpful and only 7% were unsure. Of those who had not clearly had any encounter with a mental health issue post course, most felt they could cope well or moderately well with such a situation if it arose.
The data were also examined to see if there were any apparent patterns of association, either between independent variables, such as age, sex, education or form of response (on paper vs. on line) or between independent and dependent variables (qualities of the experience). The principal method used was to compile contingency tables and then examine various measures of association – as well as visual inspection – as a guide. Formal chi-square tests were not used because cluster effects in the sample violated the assumption of independent observations. Associations are not reported here, because only one association of any apparent size emerged: an association between levels of reported education and how the survey was completed, with on-line completion being associated with higher levels of education. However, the lack of other associations shows that the MHFA course was equally valuable to a wide range of people, irrespective of age, gender and education.
Answers to each of the open-ended questions could be analysed as a block of data in their own right. However, it was also possible to connect the responses from consecutive questions to create short stories that illustrate the value of the course.
Table Table22 presents three stories that are focused mainly around problems that took place within the intimate social network of friends and family, while Table Table33 presents three that examine issues that arose in the work setting (broadly defined).
In Table Table2,2, Story 1 shows how the course helped someone cope with a challenge, reacting constructively to a partner with a mental disorder. The story is not one with a conventional happy ending – they did not in fact "live happily ever after" – but it does illustrate how the respondent was able to act constructively and make sense for himself about what happened.
Story 2 is somewhat similar in that it centres on dealing with a person with a mental disorder in an intimate, family relationship. Again there is a benefit with regard to increased understanding and self-knowledge. Here, however, we also see that it enabled the respondent to take actions that preserved a relationship that otherwise was in serious jeopardy.
Story 3 is slightly less intimate, but concerns the way a person responded to a friend who was experiencing mental health issues. The main benefits here are focused around the short term – it helped to get the man concerned to get counselling – and in palliating the emotional impact of the challenge. While the respondent does not see that having been at the course solved the problem, clearly he finds the short term and palliative effects valuable.
The three workplace stories (Table (Table3)3) are quite different in context, even though they share some themes: the first comes from a person who works directly in a helping profession, the second from someone who works in a context where clients have ancillary problems, while the last example comes from someone who was carrying out work experience.
In Story 4, the respondent clearly identifies benefits for him and for a client with whom he was working who experienced mental health issues. While he does not feel he fully solved anything, he is clearly able to show how deploying the skills he had acquired led to a positive set of developments and small wins.
In Story 5, a person who works with socially disadvantaged clients mentions that he sees many people with mental health issues. Choosing one recent case as an example, he shows how increased understanding and awareness led to taking positive steps that benefited the client.
Story 6 introduces a quite different aspect. Here we see that while the intervention the respondent took was positive for a client, and also increased the respondent's self-awareness and positive feelings, a major benefit is that the knowledge acquired on the course positively role modelled something for co-workers and helped them meet a challenge.
In this section, each open ended-question is presented and the results analysed and illustrated with examples.
As the following illustrations show, some people took the course because of existing problems with friends and family in their life, others because voluntary work brought them into contact with people experiencing mental health problems and there were also quite a few people with professional health care positions who sought to receive additional training. Problems also varied in character from the more serious (schizophrenia) to somewhat less serious (panic attacks) and from the chronic to the episodic.
My son has for many years experienced depression and more recently possibly some kind of psychosis. He admitted himself into a mental health hospital and received help from psychologists on release. He is currently taking anti-depression medication, but I was not sure he would continue to take the drugs.
I was with a friend who had an anxiety attack which included difficulty in breathing, racing heart, chest pains, cold clammy skin and obvious distress.
As I am a trained nurse and work in a Day Room. We have quite a lot of patients with problems. I found the course very informative as my training 40 years ago lacked in psychiatry. My knowledge comes from life and reading and nowadays I can recognise panic attacks, depression and look after these much better.
The large majority of respondents felt they were able to be helpful with the situation faced. Those who could not help were asked "What was the reason(s) that you were not able to help that person(s)?" The three responses to this question referred to the fact that the person was already getting help or did not want help.
There was a wide variety of response here. While each response is unique, several broad themes emerged. The foremost theme, especially common for problems with family and friends, was calming the distressed person and listening to them. A sub-theme concerned listening and also actively referring for more specialist assistance.
I helped calm the person, kept them safe with supportive doctor and family members. I also supported without agreeing with their delusions and thoughts.
Listened. Identified that I could understand somewhat of how they saw things. Encouraged to consult a doctor or psychologist.
Two other major themes ran a roughly equal second place. One concerned referral to specialist help, which was more obvious among respondents where the contact was through a professional, workplace situation.
Persuade the person to seek counselling. Tried to listen and advise, also gave essential financial assistance.
The other main theme concerned giving concrete support and practical help and information/advice.
Offered non-discriminatory, non-judgmental support. Made gentle suggestions about ways she might get child to school, helped her get a Christmas tree up (for the kids) which alleviated her guilt around not feeling like having a Christmas.
A few people responded to this question with general, positive statements such as "helpful" or "excellent" effects. The largest group, however, described immediate impacts, which involved calming, comforting or emotional support.
A calm and relaxed atmosphere brought the client a reassurance that I was not a threat to him, so calmed the client down so he could talk and get what was in his mind out and not be prejudged.
The second largest group overall described long term changes. These included getting the person on medication, giving practical help and establishing better relationships.
Kept him alive during the first severe stages of his illness (about one month), reassurance, gave him the time and space to recover himself, cut to a small degree the despair of "utter aloneness", did a lot of simple things (phone calls, tax, Centrelink, bills, forms etc) that for the duration of the illness were impossible for him but helped keep his "life on track".
It cannot be ascertained for certain, but one sensible interpretation of the contrast between these two groups is that more focus was placed on the immediate effects when the respondent was less heavily involved with the person experiencing the mental health problem and/or the problem was less severe. Where the problem was more severe, and especially when the respondent was more closely involved (e.g. friend or family member) more detailed answers, with a longer time frame, were supplied.
The overwhelming trend in the data here was in the direction of very positive answers, with a relative trickle of answers that were either mixed or negative. Within the positive trend, two sub-trends could be identified, reflecting the double- barrelled character of the question. In the first, the respondent concentrated mainly upon how the relationship improved:
Our relationship has improved. Communication is better and violent mood swings are not as frequent.
The second theme, of course, focused more on positive improvement in the way the respondent felt or thought.
More tolerant – I'm less inclined to get "cross" about my time being "wasted".
A few respondents gave a negative response, although none of these suggested that the course was in any way deficient or that the things they learned failed to work.
Not a lot. Perhaps they are more willing to communicate their feelings.
Clearly, the experience of the course had positive effects for the large majority of people, either in improving their relationship with someone experiencing a mental health problem or in their feelings towards and ideas about that person, or both.
Importantly, here and elsewhere in the analysis, no hint emerged that the course led people into an unrealistic position. For example, no one told a story that suggested they became over-confident and hence made a mess of a situation.
The overwhelming response here was that effects had been positive. In a number of cases the respondent simply said "good", or "positive", but many others elaborated.
I believe the change has had a good effect, she is gradually moving forward to make things better in her life with the support of services, GP, etc.
This change has been very positive on both of us. I have seen first hand the benefits of being a good listener and friend and giving helpful advice. My friend states that she is more patient and understanding of others.
Very few overall gave negative responses. Clearly, the dominant response to this question was that the knowledge and skills assisted people to take a constructive and positive response which led to desirable and welcome outcomes.
Two main themes emerged in the answers here – competence and empathy – both with sub-themes. The largest single group of answers concerned professional competence. A substantial number of people who did the course worked with people in the broad area of health or the helping professions. For these respondents, the course clearly delivered a greatly increased sense of comfort and confidence.
It has opened my eyes to the wide range of mental health problems people may suffer. In my work I deal with unemployed people who may be suffering from mental health problem as a result of unemployment or it may be affecting their ability to hold down employment.
While professional competence was important, a linked but smaller theme was personal competence, that is, the capacity to deal confidently with something that had previously been an on-going challenge.
The course provided me the gateway to education about mental health issues, it has made me more self aware and prepared me better for the experiences that I have had thus far especially as it was emotionally hard for me to accept that a close family member was ill.
The second large theme in response to this question centred upon having developed empathy and understanding. As with competence, this theme sub-divided, in this case almost equally, into two themes: generalised empathy towards people with a mental illness and specific empathy towards someone with whom there had previously been tensions and strain.
I have deeper understanding on what these people actually going through. I have become more empathetic towards them.
Made me much more aware of his problem and to question how much of his earlier behaviour (he is now 48) may have been a result of his mental condition.
A third and minor theme was that the course refreshed or reinforced existing knowledge, skills and attitudes.
It was really a "filling in" and affirmation, and "refresher" of all I had learned and experienced in the past when working with people with cerebral palsy, head injuries, and autism. I learned a little more about other mental health problems.
Again, the responses showed that people did the course with a variety of expectations and needs, yet despite this variety, it succeeded across the board in meeting those varied needs and expectations.
This question generated a particularly rich vein of data. The central trend that informed the vast bulk of comments was an extremely positive view of the program. Indeed, only one or two negative comments were received of any kind. Nonetheless, some themes could be discerned. First, within those who were directly positive, some were rather non-specific, while others gave detailed examples. These included gaining knowledge of how to help, greater confidence in providing help, breaking down barriers to dealing with mental health problems, and making contact with other people with similar concerns about mental health issues.
This was some of the best information I've had for years and wish I had done a course this good 30 years ago.
I found the course quite confronting. The insight gained on my personal situation was appreciated. The value of the course to me was high. I would encourage everyone to attend. I think the handbook is an excellent tool. I learnt a lot from the course.
Extremely valuable from point of view of year Advisor at a large rural high school. Provided information and avenues where to get help or refer young people to. Also valuable as a legal studies teacher (an added benefit).
Another group were very enthusiastic about the course and wanted to see it extended, either by follow on courses or by linking to new audiences.
I think it should run regularly as the population needs to learn how to deal with the situations and it creates an awareness and perhaps takes away the fear of the unknown.
This course was exceptional in its presentation and content. A more in-depth and extensive follow up program would be beneficial and valuable.
Finally, another group offered criticism. This was almost always constructive and linked to positive evaluation.
I found it very interesting, but would have liked a little more in-depth treatment of some conditions, with some various "case histories." That would have been very helpful. There seems to be a bit of a gap between how community and mental health departments are portrayed, and what they actually deliver, or take responsibility for.
The data strongly indicate the positive value of the MHFA course. It is true that this was a non-random, availability sample and that such samples can always be challenged on the basis that they lack representation and reflect the views only of a self-selected sample, in this case perhaps of the more satisfied clients. However, if there really were some dissatisfied clients in the population, it seems very likely that at least a few would have wanted to put a critical point of view, but none were found in this study.
Moreover, the findings of this study fit with earlier quantitative evaluations which showed that the course was well received and this allows one to be even more confident of the utility of the data [10,14,15].
The qualitative data allow some more specific points to emerge beyond basic satisfaction and at least five key points should be made. First, the majority of respondents had had some direct experience, post-course, of a situation where mental health issues were salient and it is clear that for this group the course enabled them to take steps that led to better effects than otherwise might have been the case.
Second, it is clear that positive effects were experienced both intra-personally (increased empathy and understanding, increased confidence to act appropriately) as well as inter-personally (increased capacity to handle crises, manage strained relationships, offer help in an effective way, etc.)
Third, and perhaps most strikingly, the positive effects were experienced by a wide range of people including: professionals attending the course to extend their competence; family members/friends attending the course to deal with a pressing problem in their network; and individuals who themselves had experienced mental health problems. These and other groups had varied expectations and needs, yet the course was able to meet the needs of all of these groups with high levels of effectiveness.
Fourth, there is an important absence of certain kinds of potentially bad news. Any well-received course dealing with a sensitive topic runs the risk of being almost too successful. The danger would be that, flushed with enthusiasm and over-confidence, neophytes may rush in where angels fear to tread, not appreciating the dangers of their actions. If the MHFA course has had that effect, there is certainly not a trace of it in these data. This is an important and positive absence. A possible reservation on this conclusion is that those who were over-confident might not have necessarily recognized that this was the case.
Finally, those who attended were able to identify quite specific benefits and many thought the course not only immensely useful, but were keen to see it repeated and extended.
Examination of the post-course experiences of participants confirms the success of the MHFA course in encouraging supportive actions towards people with mental health problems. These results confirm the earlier quantitative findings from controlled trials.
BAK and AFJ were developers of the Mental Health First Aid course.
AFJ secured funding, was involved in the design of the study and co-wrote the paper.
BAK was involved in the design of the study and its management.
SKM had a major role in devising the questionnaire, analyzed the responses and co-wrote the paper.
All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:
This study was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council. Program Grant. We thank Kelly Blewitt and Nicole Burgess for their assistance with the study and our colleagues who were involved in the original cluster randomized trial, particularly Richard O'Kearney and Karen Peterson. The original trial was funded by the Health Promotion Demonstration Research Grants Scheme of the New South Wales Department of Health.
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i always give a little gift from my country, (something hungarian or wherever i am coming from) and i am trying to spread the idea, as you are coming to someones flat. it's just my habitat, keep it!
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Graphically stunning game Ordinarium has been updated with an all new control scheme and several new creatures.
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Kontact with IMAP-based Calendar and Address Management
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Kontact gives you email,address books,and calendaring in a neat package. And IMAP supportmeans you can access this data from anywhere on the network.
KDE's Kontact 1.0 Personal Information Manager (PIM) supports a feature that provides IMAP-based network storage of calendar and address data. Kontact lets you store address and calendar information along with email messages on an IMAP server. This information is then available when you access the server from anywhere on the network. IMAP Resources With mailboxes growing larger day by day, more and more providers now offer their customers access to an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) server. IMAP has several advantages over the earlier Post Office Protocol (POP). Thus far, however, only a few Internet providers have given their customers enough storage to tap the full range of IMAP capabilities. But Google has now launched the first offensive in the Gigabyte mailbox war, and its competitors have tentatively started to offer similarly dimensioned mail storage.
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San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
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NEW YORK (AP) Ś The teenage actor who plays the half in the hit CBS comedy ôTwo and a Half Menö says itĺs ôfilthö and through a video posted by a Christian church has urged viewers not to watch it.
Nineteen-year-old Angus T. Jones has been on the show since he was 10 but says he doesnĺt want to be on it. He says, ôPlease stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.ö
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Whether you enjoy a light round of golf for fun or plan to attend the monumental 98th PGA Championship event, New Jersey is an ideal destination to enjoy with your family and friends. There are over 150 public golf courses throughout the state, which allows visitors to choose from some of the finest courses in the nation, along with numerous private courses.
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As borders become increasingly fluid in a globalized world, border security remains at the heart of public and policymaker concerns about immigration. This volume brings together perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on what border security means in practice. It addresses the challenges that continue to evade policymakers and assesses which policies have been most—and least—successful in achieving "secure" borders while also allowing for the movement of people and commerce.
From border dynamics and drug trafficking in Central America to challenges to the asylum regime in Europe, Managing Borders in an Increasingly Borderless World offers a thought-provoking and well-rounded account of how borders are interpreted and managed in diverse settings.
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As a neighboring country and member of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico is a natural market for U.S. exporters
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was enacted in 1994 and created a free trade zone for Mexico, Canada, and the United States, is the most important feature in the U.S.-Mexico bilateral commercial relationship. Mexico is the United States' third largest trading partner and second largest export market for U.S. products. U.S-Mexico bilateral trade in goods increased from $88 billion in 1993, the year prior to the implementation of NAFTA, to $535 billion in 2014, an increase of 508 percent, or 9.8 percent per year. Negotiations are now underway for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), with U.S. and Mexican participation. The two countries seek to boost economic growth by increasing exports in a region that includes some of the world's most robust economies and that represents more than 40 percent of global trade. The TPP presents an opportunity to go beyond NAFTA. With the recent passage of Trade Promotion Authority by the U.S. Congress, President Obama hopes to complete TPP this year.
Proximity to the United States, combined with advances in access to information technology, has created an open and welcoming market for U.S. products and services. The U.S. Commercial Service offers several Services for U.S. Companies, to help you learn about your industry in Mexico, identify opportunities and find potential Mexican business partners.
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Released: Apr 19th, 2010
Running Time: 106 Min.
Director: Lee Roy Myers
Company: New Sensations
DVD Extras: Behind the Scenes, Dolby Digital, Fetish Menus, Still Gallery(ies), Trailer(s), Widescreen
Cast: Niko (I), Heather Summers, Velicity Von, Evan Stone, Charles Dera, Joey Brass, Monique Alexander, Gracie Glam
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Feature
Sometimes 9 to 5 can be the most erotic part of the day. Janet craves the touch of the man at the desk across from hers, but as she daydreams about the sensual caress of Mark, he is transferred to a different office. If only Janet knew the mysterious circumstances that brought Mark to her department in the first place; or the secret love affair that her bosses Max and Wendy carry on while nobody is looking; or the heartache that tortures her friend Steve as he works so closely with Melissa ... but never close enough. Will the longing and lust surrounding Janet finally inspire her to act on her desires?
The third entry in this very strong new Romance series from New Sensations suffers by comparison to An Eternal Love and The Wedding Day. Still, this is good couples fare, well-produced and acted, but without a great plot and with an abundance of songs whose lyrics comment on the plot, it lacks the same impact as the first two features.
Monique Alexander lusts after co-worker Charles Dera, but is cock-blocked each time she tries to ask him out. He also harbors a crush, but can't express it. So they fantasize about each other having sex with other people and we get two gauzy sex scenes (Dera with Heather Summers; Monique with Niko) that aren't as hot as the final culmination between the two stars. In the final Dera/Alexander sex scene, she's so turned on by his pussy-licking that juices drip off the desk and then they fuck in all positions, but in a loving, seductive way.
Gracie Glam and Joey Brass, her friends and co-workers, also begin an inter-office affair and have a passionate fuck scene on a couch. Less for plot, and more to get another sex scene in the movie, Velicty Von and Evan Stone get it on desktop style with Evan ejaculating on her tits.
Monique Alexander once again shows off her abundant thespian skills, and Glam and Brass are good in supporting roles. But the plot is by-the-numbers and that music gets annoying fairly quickly. Nice production values and a very good BTS help make this a mixed bag, still recommended for women or couples.


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Hi, is there any way to load a YouTube playlist in reverse order?
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In Robert Bordoâs exhibition 'Blind Spot', the conceptual and the formal, the abstract and the representational co-exist in paintings that are attentive to atmosphere and mood - suggesting narratives of place and time.
Venue: Rubicon Gallery, 10 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
Preview: Wednesday 10 Oct 07 (6pm - 8pm)
Dates: 11 Oct 07 - 17 Nov 07
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Robert Bordo's recent work offers abstract pictorial elements that describe the ruminative quality of experience. Meandering dots and dashes refer to weather or wandering; rippled surfaces act interchangeably as water, sky or ground; brush stroke and color field as wind or plane. His paintings reference locations where conflict, thoughts and emotion, run together disrupting the inherent lyricism of both landscape and abstract painting. Indeed these paintings hover between abstraction and landscape utilizing the particulars of time, place and ecology.
"All of these things are embodied in paintings of texture and nuance, positively reticent in their use of colour and form. Acutely attentive to atmosphere, they are intimate in mood and suffused with feeling - often a quality of muted sadness, an awareness of loss - though at the same time they are thoroughly unsentimental and not particularly emotional in any overt way......... Robert Bordo indicates what almost isnât visible, whether itâs hiding in plain sight, or fading from sight, lost in mist or falling snow or flowing water, or something distant and faint. " Aidan Dunne 2007
New York based painter, Robert Bordo, was born in Montreal. He has exhibited consistently since 1987 at; Brooke Alexander, Tibor de Nagy, Rene Blouin and latterly, Alexander and Bonin in the United States of America. He is on the full-time faculty of The Cooper Union School of Art in Manhattan and a 2007 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Rubicon Gallery are delighted to present his first Solo Exhibition in Ireland. The exhibition will be accompanied by a full colour publication.
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AbstractIncreasing Navy use of embedded computer systems results in stringent requirements for real-time performance, reliability, and cost. Computer systems are critical embedded components of Naval warfare systems. The demands on embedded computer systems are increasing in terms of information processing and storage/retrieval. The designer must analyze results across many dimensions to identify critical design components and initiate design changes that meet numerous requirements simultaneously. These mission critical distributed computer systems are too complex to engineer without automated support. Currently available standalone support tools provide no help for managing complex design tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and cost. Previous research results can provide a basis for developing an expert system for extensible, multi-measure design evaluation of real-time distributed systems. The Phase l effort will determine the feasibility of developing an expert system/ performance modeling tool to provide extensible support for engineering complex real-time, distributed systems. The proposed tool will be of immediate use by the Navy. It will result in lower cost, greater reliability, and higher performance while reducing developmental and operational risks. Because the expert system will be extensible, it will be applicable to a wide range of Naval systems.
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Sometimes it looks right in the drawing tool but doesn't look right in the document. I forgot about balancing the image with the way that it looks on the page with words around it. Another post in my series on Network Diagrams.
Network Diagrams: Drawing Overlay Network Layers
Network diagrams that show overlay networks take some getting used to. Here is my current method for producing a stacked layers idea for overview.
Network Diagrams: Choosing Better and Free Fonts
Making diagrams aesthetically appealing with visual impact is better documentation. Choosing the correct fonts on network diagrams will improve your network diagrams significantly. Here is some work on how to choose a good font and some recommendations on the best free fonts for your machine.
Max OSX: Set Default Font in OmniGraffle
A quick tip on setting the Text Tool in OmniGraffle to your favourite font. I have my preferred font when creating diagrams and you set effectively make it the default font. There are two ways that involve the way you choose the Text Tool. One 'trick' is to press click and hold on the Text Tool and […]
Network Diagrams: OmniGraffle Tip – Merging Shapes
In OmniGraffle, you often want to merge shapes together to create a single object, but you don't want to lose resolution and you want them to scale properly. Grouping doesn't help, but this does.
Network Diagrams: Rotating Text on a Line
You want to put text on a line, but it's the wrong direction or along the line. Here's how to get that right.
Network Diagrams: Tips for Printing from Visio
It seems that printing from Visio is not particularly obvious. So this post covers how I would print documents from A4 to A0 paper sizes and some tips on getting good results.
Network Diagrams:Zones on a diagram with Visio shape union
The post looks at using the Union of shapes in Visio to create unusal shaped objects. Especially useful when trying to draw zones to show the DMZ in dual layer firewall cluster.
Network Diagrams: Drawing complex VLAN Networks with IP Addressing
Following my previous articles, lets go a little deeper in labelling the VLAN created and ways to handle multiple VLANs on a diagram.
Network Diagrams: Drawing Freehand Curves (and then fixing them)
Continuing on with absurdly popular posts about making diagrams in Visio. Lets draw a line in freehand. It will be broken, because we aren't artists so lets talk about how to fix it.


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Sheriff Tony Estrada: "We cannot afford SB 1070"
Check out this link for a bit of common sense amidst all the anti-immigrant hysteria now swirling throughout Sand Land. It's a videotaped interview with Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada by Eric Byler, co-director of the documentary 9500 Liberty, which chronicled the rise and fall of a measure similar to SB 1070 in Prince William County, Virginia.
The Estrada interview is part of an effort called Liberty Arizona, which has a Facebook page and a YouTube site. It's a project that mimics the one Byler and his co-director Annabel Park pursued in Prince William County, which eventually morphed into a compelling documentary dealing with many of the same issues Arizona faces over immigration.
Despite Governor Jan Brewer's shibboleths about decapitated bodies found in the Arizona desert, Estrada points out that murders are almost non-existent in his small, 1,240 square-mile county, which includes the city of Nogales, Arizona. Across the border in Nogales, Sonora, the count is more like a murder a day, he says.
"I don't think the illegal immigrant is a major factor in these issues of crime," the sheriff tells Byler of crime in Arizona. "In a lot of cases, they may be victims of it. But I don't think they're perpetrators."
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Estrada discusses how the new law might mean higher insurance premiums for the county, if the county is sued because of failure to enforce SB 1070 or because someone's rights are violated in the process of enforcing it.
"If you don't do it, you get sued," says Estrada. "If you do it and you do it wrong, you get sued."
The new law will also mean a strain on the five or six deputies Estrada has per shift on patrol. If they're taking time to run down someone's immigration status, this diverts them from doing real law enforcement.
"One of our deputies could come across 15 [persons] at any given time, up in the valley or the rural area," he explains. "That's going to take a lot of time. Now if we're going to transport them somewhere, maybe going to transport them here, we're going to have to send I don't know how many squad cars out there or vans to bring them in. It's just a humongous problem."
Such burdens, the resulting reduction in services, and a possible rise in property taxes, lead Estrada to conclude, "We cannot afford Senate Bill 1070."
Estrada is also concerned that the new law will a drive a wedge between law enforcement and the community, making witnesses to crime less likely to talk with the authorities.
Santa Cruz County is 80 percent Hispanic, with many from Nogales, Sonora crossing over legally to visit relatives or shop. Estrada also comments on the ties that bind the two sides economically and culturally.
It's a solid video, and I look forward to more like it. Right now this state needs a lot less hyperbole, and a lot more calm professionalism, like that displayed here by Sheriff Estrada.
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WASHINGTON — With Mideast peace talks on the verge of collapse, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared Friday that "it's reality check time" on whether an agreement can be reached anytime soon after decades of bitterness between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. The U.S. will re-evaluate its role as mediator, he said.
It was Kerry's most pessimistic take yet on the peace effort after nearly nine months of frustrating talks with little progress to show.
Kerry made clear that his push for peace is not yet over, and he said both sides claim to want to continue negotiating. But he also said that continuing setbacks in the process — culminating this week with tit-for-tat moves by Israeli and Palestinian officials that have upended good-faith bargaining — could force the U.S. to shift focus to other crises where Washington might have more success.
"We have an enormous amount on the plate," Kerry told reporters during a diplomatic visit to Rabat, Morocco, the end of a marathon trip that saw him jumping back and forth between Israel, Ramallah and Europe. He noted that the U.S. is also dealing with challenges in Ukraine, Iran and Syria, and he said, "There are limits to the amount of time and effort the United States can spend if the parties themselves are unwilling to take constructive steps in order to be able to move forward."
The nine months of talks are scheduled to end April 29, and Kerry has been pressing to have them continue through much of the rest of the year. "But we're not going to sit here indefinitely," he said. "So it's reality check time, and we intend to evaluate precisely what the next steps will be."
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he "would anticipate that a conversation with the president is in the near future."
Kerry has spent major portions of his 14 months as secretary of state pursuing an Israeli-Palestinian agreement despite the seemingly long odds. A collapse of the talks could be a diplomatic embarrassment for him and the administration — and a danger in the region as well.
Failed efforts in the past have led to major bouts of violence. On Friday, Palestinians fired rockets at Israel, which responded with warplanes attacking military targets in the Gaza Strip.
Uzi Rabi, director of Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, said it's doubtful the two sides will broker a final peace agreement, given years of bitterness and sharp differences over borders, claims to Jerusalem and recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. But he said the talks should continue — if only to ward off a new Palestinian uprising against Israelis that would surely lead to a surge in violence.
"I think the Americans know that" the talks ultimately will fail, Rabi said. "So why are they going on? Because it's much better to talk than something which is much more problematic, like intifada." Intifada is the Arabic term for past Palestinian uprisings against Israel. The last one began in 2000, and more than 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis were killed in several years of fighting.
In the West Bank city of Ramallah, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat expressed hope Friday the talks would continue. But, he said, Palestinian leaders do not feel bound to follow Kerry's ground rules for negotiating if Israel fails to live up to its own commitments.
"We don't have anything to lose," Erekat said, after the moves and countermoves that Israeli and Palestinian officials have undertaken over the past week that have left the negotiations on life support.
Already lacking signs of progress, the peace process was put into serious jeopardy last weekend when Israel refused to release a group of Palestinian prisoners it had said last summer it would free as part of the agreement to resume talks that had been stalled since 2011.
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