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Members of civil society group – Concerned Citizens – on Sunday placed some proposals to bring amendments to the Constitution for establishing banance of power by ending concentration of too much power in the hands of the Prime Minister.
Representatives of the civil society group put forward the proposals at a press conference at a press conference at Jatiya Press Club. They also called for autonomy of the constitutional and the statuary bodies in a bid to ensuring independence of the President and sustainable solution of the current political stalemate.They observed that Bangladesh's journey towards the path of full democracy is being obstructed as the two major political parties are giving maximum emphasis on elections only.
The civil society people proposed to scrap Article 70 of the Constitution barring floor crossing by the MPs
"Unfortunately, our leaders either consciously and unconsciously failed to understand that our constitutional and statuary institutions should be strengthened and made accountable, side by side holding national elections," said convenor of the "Concerned Citizens" and former chief election commissioner Dr ATM Shamsul Huda.
In his written statement, he said the leaders also failed to realise the necessity of presence of a responsible opposition and having a mentality of resolving the previous and present affairs through talks for the national interests and flourishment of democracy.
Replying to a question, he said they have yet not received replies to their letters they sent to the President, the Prime Minister and the BNP chairperson giving a reminder to sit in a dialogue to resolve the political impasse.
The concerned citizens thought that sometimes a real democratic atmosphere would prevail in the country if their proposals comes for discussion and debate.
They however said that the political leaders only can bring changes in the politics that they are seeking.
Prof Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, M Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, former advisers to caretaker government, Syed Abul Maksud, Badiul Alam Majumder, Tofayel Ahmed and Manjur Hasan, among others, were present on the occasion.
The concerned citizens are also for preserving a certain number of seats for women keeping direct election for them, decentralization of power, handing over properties to local government bodies and introducing referendum.
They proposed the bringing of modification in the statuary institutions like Jatiya Sangsad, Election Commission, Public Service Commission, Anti-Corruption Commission, Human Rights Commission and the Bureaucracy.
The Concerned Citizens also proposed the practicing democracy inside the political parties, financial solvency of political parties, total abolition of foreign, student and professional wings of the political parties. – Staff Reporter
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Members of civil society group – Concerned Citizens – on Sunday placed some proposals to bring amendments to the Constitution for establishing banance of power by ending concentration of too much power in the hands of the Prime Minister.


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Jessica's hematoma has been continually getting worse so I took her to a doctor last week on Thursday. Actually, we weren't able to get in to see her primary card doctor so we saw a nurse practitioner. She numbed an area on the hematoma and took a sample. She wanted to make sure that Jess didn't have an infection. It seemed to be fine so she referred us to a surgeon. She said that they may want to make a small incision to drain the blood but a surgeon would have to do it.
I called the surgeon's office and they said, "You need to see our vascular surgeon" so we set up the appointment for Monday afternoon. The surgeon took a look at it and kept saying that she needed to have it drained. There was an area that had been a small scratch but Jess had kept picking at it and we were all concerned that it would become infected. Karl and I both felt that it needed to be done and when he said, "Let's do the surgery tomorrow afternoon", we decided that sooner was better than later. Jessica had been keeping me up all night every night since her appointment on Thursday because she was so afraid of what the surgeon might say! So let's just do it and get it over with. Karl called in sick so he could be there with me. Thank goodness! (Gosh I love that man!)
The surgery itself, which was Tues at 1:00pm, went well. We arrived at TMC at about 11:00am. We were so glad to have two very special visitors from our Tu Nidito group. First Amanda came bearing gifts! Jess got a gift card to Target. *woo-hoo!* She was a great distraction for Jess while I went over Jessica's medical history with the nurses. Just as Amanda was leaving, Susan came to stay with us for a while. She is also from Tu Nidito. We were so glad to have them there. Susan was able to stay with us until just after the surgeon came out to talk to us post surgery. She is so sweet to stay with us and just be there.
I spent quite a bit of time talking to the anesthesiologist about Jessica's unique cardiac anatomy. He thanked me several times for explaining it to him so clearly. He then asked me about Jessica's living will and if we wanted to waive it for this procedure. I told him no. He explained that the medication could possibly send her over the edge temporarily but could be reversed. I asked him if that involved compressions and intubation. When he said yes I shook my head and said no. You can't do that to her. So he then asked if he could talk to Jessica about it. I said sure but you have to understand that she is at about the level of a 3rd grader. So he started talking to her and I could tell that she didn't understand anything he was saying. When he was done I asked her if she wanted the tube in her throat. She adamantly said NO! "And if you do, you'll be in big trouble! And my daddy is a police officer" hehe... He then told Jess that there would be NO tube and Jess was satisfied. The doctor turned to me and I told him that I would be in big trouble if Jess were to wake up intubated "or brain dead" the doctor finished my sentence. I told him that Jessica's heart can't be repaired, her health is deteriorating and now she is experiencing bowel ischemia among other things.... there's no way she would want to survive another stroke or even wake up intubated. He seemed to really understand. Oh yeah, what was interesting is that when he was trying to talk to Jess, he started off by saying that it's very rare for him to work with people with the same type of heart problems as her because none have survived this long without being repaired. He knew she had pulmonary atresia but didn't know to what extent... when I told him that there was never a connection between her pulmonary artery and right ventricle of her heart and that there still isn't one, he was very surprised. She is my miracle for sure! I told Jessica that she is unique and special. That got me a smile.
We had to keep reminding everyone that Jessica needed a huge dose of antibiotics before the surgery and it was actually the anesthesiologist who ordered it and got it going. He was also the one to start the IV since everyone else apparently had other things to do. *gah!* I love that doctor because he took the time to talk to me about Jessica's unique cardiac anatomy and what her oxygen sats are. He really listened and cared. I don't remember his name but he is German. He had an accent but I could understand him just fine.
The surgery went well. The surgeon told us that he was able to extract a lot of blood from the hematoma. The problem is that the surgeon didn't mention to us that Jessica would have an open wound that would have to be cleaned and packed every day! He said one thing and then did another. He told us what kind of wound she had AFTER the surgery. Karl and I started asking him questions and he seemed flustered and said, "We went over this yesterday". Excuse me... we aren't stupid. We would know if he mentioned, "open wound" and he didn't say anything about it during our visit on Monday. Every time we tried to ask him questions he would say, "you are getting ahead of yourself" and kept saying, "She will be fine". So after the operation the surgeon said, "I'll have to check my schedule but I want you to come into my office on Thursday so that I can look at it and change it. I don't trust anyone but myself with this. Then we'll set up wound care" So we were sent home with the idea that his office was going to call us and set up an appointment for Thursday.
Meanwhile, Jessica has been having a lot of pain. We finally got her pain level down and she went to sleep at about 2:15am - and that's when I went to bed. At 4:00am she got up saying that her leg was really hurting and something about her bruise... I thought she had opened up the bandage and panicked. Karl and I both got up with her and the blood had soaked through the bandage. She was crying because she thought I had accused her of doing something she hadn't done. We got her settled down and Karl sent me back to bed. Karl was able to get a hold of the surgeon (at about 6:00am is when he called us back). The surgeon said, "bring her into my office so I can look at it and change the bandage. I will be there between 9 - noon." Jessica had finally gone back to sleep so Karl let her sleep (and slept a little himself) and then got her up and took her in at 10:00am. Nobody at the office knew Jessica was coming in and get this: the surgeon called in sick! What the....??? He had told Karl at 6:00am to go into the office and then turned around and called in sick - and didn't tell anyone that Jessica was coming in?!
The assistant changed the bandage and cleaned out the wound and then repacked it. By the way, after surgery, the doctor had said that the incision was only about "this" big - using his fingers to indicate about an inch long incision. Well, Karl says that the incision is about 3 inches long and that you can see all the way into the bone! Poor Jessica had no idea that it was open and she was shocked at seeing her own bone and tendons, etc. She said that is really stung when they cleaned it and it hurt really badly when they packed it. The assistant said, "I'm surprised that TMC didn't send you home with wound care. They usually do." Well, the doctor didn't set it up so how could the hospital do it? Also, the office said that the surgeon never comes into the office on Thursday and they didn't have an appointment set up to see him then either. They almost acted like we were crazy and didn't know what we were talking about. I'm just blown away at how nonchalant this doctor has been with us. Poor Jessica has been traumatized and keeps saying how her leg didn't hurt this bad before surgery. We are trying to keep her down and her leg up. She has soaked through her bandage twice already tonight. (Weds night) They gave Karl a package of gauze to put on top of their dressing so we have been doing that. We have been trying to get wound care set up through the nursing agency. If they don't have it set up then we'll have to take her back to the surgeon's office and have the assistant change it again. Jessica wants me to learn how to do it. I've always been so queasy about these kinds of things. I've had to take care of her wounds before but nothing like this. I've had to make myself NOT throw up or pass out while caring for her post heart surgery or cath and all the while praying that God gives me the stomach to do it. I have been so sleep deprived lately and emotional thinking about how Jessica got the hematoma in the first place, knowing that she doesn't have a very good quality of life in the first place and now for this to happen to her. I've been thinking about Marcus and how sick he is becoming and now I have to take care of this very nauseating wound... and hearing my daughter crying because she is in pain and has been traumatized.... I've been a wreck. Thank goodness Karl was able to take Jess in today and I was able to get some sleep. I'm feeling a bit better tonight and even dealt with her bandages.
If only we knew all the details we probably would have insisted on having a surgeon who goes to UMC and we could have prepared Jessica and ourselves for post-op care. We also would have had home wound care set up.
Tomorrow will be better. It just has to be. Good night.


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Sean McGuire.
I recently came across an article which described football fans as 'inhuman', 'mindless' and 'perverse'. He went onto to describe fans as a 'cancer'. These are all words that have dehumanising connotations.
However just as in life, everything that people think is right is actually wrong. The world is a revolving contradiction. The gauntlet has been thrown down and I challenge you to a duel. I am a football fan, and guess what? I have a mind; and unlike you I am human.
This is the dramatic irony in said writer's opinion piece. The reason why this self-confessed 'normal' person is so opposed to football fans behaviour is because he is the one who cannot think for himself. He is the entity that is devoid of a mind.
To me football fans are the last remnants of time when there were actually human beings roaming the planet. It is tribal, intrinsically human and is the biggest outlet for those left to feel alive. Why? Because it is the last human freedom. It is the only place where a human being can fully express themselves tribally. Expression is freedom. Freedom is humanity.
This writer, unfortunately, has fallen foul to the mind police that are the oppressing classes of this country. The poor soul believes in sensationalism. He waits for social cues before he acts. He jumps on the vitriolic bandwagon that is political correctness. His mind is not free. He doesn't think, therefore he isn't. I think therefore I am; and here is the message to him who isn't and those disgruntled soap-watching, consumer-consumed, pre-programmed, nine-to-fivers who differ.
Freedom as a human being is NOT the ability to stroll around anywhere in the world, because you made the decision to abide by social 'norms' that the rich and powerful have invented to keep the masses in their place. People act in this pre-programmed way and follow the 'rules' because they are in fear having their physical freedom taken away. However, here is the bombshell that will be like a virus to your expertly constructed hard drives – not conforming to what the masses do, does not take away your physical freedom. Moreover, it gives you your freedom as a human being back.
You see now, if you believe this revelation, when someone presses 'z' on your social cue keyboard, 'x' will now appear in your computer screen-like mind. This means you will no longer function like a computer. You are now non-mechanical, alas you are a human being.
Having your mind repressed into a tiny ball of political correctness is a prison in itself. This may guarantee that you can walk out of a door unrestrained for the rest of your life; however you can never be a true human being, because you function in a pre-determined way. A man who is confined within four small walls, yet not being affected by society's oppression has a freedom that extends way beyond the universe. Those who think they have the freedom of the universe, but conform to what they a 'supposed' to think, may as well be in a confined space the size of a coffin. Because after all, they are technically dead. Freedom as a human is to be able to think then do, not think then don't.
Perhaps some convincing is in order for those becoming seriously adverse to this notion. You cannot help but disagree with this idea because it is not compatible with the software already installed on your brain. It is what windows would call an error code C7. It is an 'incompatible system error'. New information has attempted to enter your pre-programmed hard drive however the incompatibility causes a reaction of aversion and confusion. Most computers will shut-down, re-boot and rid the new in-put from their system. So it's OK if you 'feel' angry. It's not your fault. Turn off your brain and re-boot. Freedom is overrated anyway.
A human being on the other hand absorb new ideas in all their glory, they take on board and embrace the multi-emotional euphoria of free-thinking and broad-mindedness. A person who has succumbed to the programming of the oppressing classes cannot do this. They are the narrow-minded ones. They are the scourge.
Their computerised brains are the ones that are 'inhuman'; they will never know how to be a human being. Those who need to 'act' in public, those who respond to life's situations with pre-installed out-put, they are the 'mindless' people on Earth.
The biggest threat the technological has presented to humanity is artificial intelligence; and many people dread the day that computers start to think like human beings. The irony is that the biggest threat to humanity is actually human beings starting to think like computers. Living is about autonomy, not automation. Emotion, not emoticons. Instead of 'USB', think 'you should be'.
For the anti-football fan writer, who shall remain anonymous – not to avoid a rift, but to dehumanise him down to the statistic he is for his amateurish diatribe directed towards football fans – on the contrary dear contemporary, you are the one who is 'inhuman' you are the one who is 'mindless' you are the 'cancer'. Cancer is an unwanted intruder that destroys living organisms; and that is actually what you are – not football fans.
Who would have known that you did not look at football fans, you in fact looked in the mirror. You are the one who is mindless, inhuman, perverse and cancerous. So carry on writing down someone else's thoughts in your little paper; after all, you have no choice.
So for those who are opposed to football fans and want to continue with this myth that we are mindless -here is my contentment that I sit in like a warm bath. Whilst I am breathing my mind will be free; and whilst your mind is not free, you will merely be breathing. I love being a football fan, and today is a great day to be alive.


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Now, I wasn't exactly sure what to do for a dotticure.. 'cause honestly, how is it so much different than the polka dot one of a few weeks back?
A friend of mine asked how my dippin dots nails were (referring to my Kaviar nails) and that's when it hit me! OMG, I can use the glass beads AGAIN and call it a "Dippin Dots" mani and the Dots will work for Dotticure, right!?!?!
Soooo here it is!
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I thought the use of multi-colored beads makes it look so fun! I want to use the glass beads on every mani now hahahah.
Have you used the glass beads yet?? It is one of the easiest ways to dress up your nails and so fun!:)
Next challenge is Earth Day mani... lol. We'll see what I can come up with for that:)


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Boris Johnson was one of the leading proponents of Brexit. It was sold to millions of British people on the flaky foundation of a return of sovereignty. In fact, Britain has not yet even Brexited, but it has already become apparent that rather than regaining sovereignty, it has given up whatever sovereignty it had. Bojo's latest antics indicate the extent to which a rapidly declining Britain is merely a vassal state of the US, so that Bojo's latest outburst tells us that when Trump shouts "Jump", Britain's only response is "Yes sir. How high sir?"
No sooner had May triggered Article 50, than she scuttled off to the US, to supplicate herself, fawningly before Emperor Trump. She tried to cover her selling of UK plc to the dealmaker by claiming that she had obtained significant promises from him. Well anyone watching Trump's first 100 days, knows just how much those promises are worth. It was only a matter of a few weeks before Trump announced that he would be putting the EU ahead of Britain in any trade negotiations, and when it came to his strike on Syria, Britain came behind Russia in being even notified about it.
Now, Bojo, wanting to seem like he and Britain still has a role to play, has offered again to play second fiddle to the US in any foreign wars it wants to start, so as to hope to curry favour. Its like the new boy at Eton, who offers to fag for the school bully in order to try to gain some credibility and protection from other bullies. For most of us, that's only something we learn about from reading Tom Brown's Schooldays, but for Boris and the other Tory members of the establishment its part of their actual upbringing. No wonder they are such an arrogant bunch of snobs, who think they have a god given right to rule and lead the rest of us free from any criticism or opposition; no wonder they hate anti-establishment figures like Corbyn with a venality they could never show for people like Blair.
The Brexiters like Bojo sold the idea largely to that group of older voters who grew up when the world was a very different place, but who have not come to terms with the fact that times have changed. They grew up at a time when their school books showed large areas of the world coloured pink, where the British Empire still ruled. On a Sunday morning, they got up to listen to "Two-Way Family Favourites" on the radio that broadcast messages and music from families in Britain to their spouses, and children serving in the armed forces, in these far flung outposts of the Empire, even if by then it was called the Commonwealth. And many, like many of the Tories themselves are still under the delusion that Britain still has that importance, when, in fact, it is merely a second rate power on the global stage, whose importance is decreasing by the day.
Even before Britain has Brexited, not only did May scuttle off to try to curry favours from Trump, but having embarrassed herself there, she scuttled off to visit the medieval butchers of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies, pleading with them to buy more British weapons to use on their peoples, so as to prop up the British economy for a while longer. Then she went to visit the dictator in Turkey, Erdogan, perhaps to learn some lessons on how to prevent criticism and opposition, and also to try to sell him more weapons. Then in the last week we have had International Trade Minister, Liam Fox, going off to visit the butcherous dictator, Duterte, in the Phillippines, and speaking of their shared values!
Even before Brexit has happened, it has been turned into a vassal state of the US, and a creature of any rogue or dictator across the globe who might be the source of a few silver coins. And, its no wonder, therefore, that May and the Tory government are trying to prevent any criticism or opposition at home, and why Bojo is now even talking about sending British troops to fight US wars, without parliamentary approval. The only approval that counts now for British Tory politicians is the approval of Trump.
As members of the EU, Britain at least had Ministers who sat on the Council of Ministers, Commissioners appointed to the EU Commission, and MEP's directly elected to the European Parliament. Now British voters will have no votes in the decisions taken by the US president and Congress, but Britain will be automatically signed up to those decisions by May and Bojo. That is why they are trying to establish May as a dictatorial strong leader now, in the fashion of Erdogan.
They should be careful what they wish for.


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The below statue of Lord Narasimha is located at the Arunagirinathar Temple near the Ayyankulam Tank, Tiruvannamalai. Its a nice sequence of snaps that shows (perhaps to some) Lord Narasimha isn't so scarey after all! To read about the latest posting on Narasimha go to this link here.
14 April 2009
Not so scarey!
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2 comments:
- Divya said...
Cute! the squirrel doesn't seem scared at all.
- May 18, 2009
- Meenakshi Ammal said...
Theres been a lot of discussion on several postings about Narasimha and his fierceness. But he is actually very loving to his devotees (e.g. Prahlada) its only asuras and inimical forces (of the mind) that need fear him.
I thought the snaps of the squirrel playing so happily on Narasimha, was a divine set-up. How else would I have been there at just the right time with my camera to hand? Hmmm!?
- May 18, 2009
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We the undersigned are extremely appalled and outraged by the arbitrary arrest of Comrade Abhay Sahoo at Bhubaneshwar airport by Odisha Police. This outright despicable patently illegal act was made to appease the Posco company's blood sucking appetite to drain the life blood from Odisha, it's land, water, minerals, forests and culture. Millions of people are filled in false encounters, jailed, tortured and externed to suppress the peoples struggle to save their land, forests, mines and undemocratic aspirations to freedom and right to self-determination.
The men, women and children have been waging a heroic battle against Naveen Patnaik since 2005 to save their land, water, seashore, rivers, field, livelihood habitat and culture. The Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik the sick imperialist bootlicker has unleashed the most brutal form of repression against the struggling people led by Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samitee.
This comprador cobra Naveen Patnaik on behalf of his imperial masters bared his fangs again by arresting Comrade Abhay Sahoo. This favorite butler of Uncle Sam Naveen Patnaik from the day one of the heroic anti-POSCO struggle has created suffocating blockade around the anti-POSCO struggle villages turning them into virtual concentration camps. Hundreds of people were arbitrarily arressted, false criminal cases are imposed on almost 90% of the people in the area. Such is the repressive stranglehold that people of the area cannot go out for marketing, marriages or medical emergencies. This lackey of imperialism Naveen Patnaik is so eager to please his imperial masters that he has been overactive in brutally repressing the people's resistance to save their lands, livelihoods, mines, forests, waters, culture and democratic aspirations. The trail of blood runs from Kashipur to Kalinganagar, Narayanpatna to POSCO, Nyamgiri to South Odisha.
In the neoliberal era the Indian ruling classes have bared their fangs to facilitate the imperial loot of the natural resources in this country. The caste, class, and patriarchal nature of the Indian state is bared every second in this country. On the orders of his bosses in Washington, it has unleashed the most cruellest form of white terror in POSCO, Nandigram, Lalgarh, Chattisgarh, Dandkarnya, Telangana, North East and Kashmir. Only for the super profits of national and International big business. In fact what we are witnessing today is obscene display of sadistic and ruthless twenty first century primitive accumulation. In this process of violent accumulation through dispossession millions of people are dispossessed from their land, livelihood, culture and commons to join the rank of the reserved army of labor who fill in the ranks of the urban underclass to be equally exploited by the urban elite. This sick clown of the imperial circus Manmohan Singh whose intellectual training was done in the Bretton Wood institutions, as soon as he became the prime minister to declare a war on the Indian people, to hand their lands, waters and mines for imperialist exploitation. He declared the poorest of the poor in this country the heroic adivasis who are resisting to defend their livelihoods as the biggest internal threat. Another henchman of the Wall Street Chidambaram unleashed a cruel war on the adivasis named as Operation Greenhunt. In the process they have killed, tortured, maimed and imprisoned thousands of adivasis and working people. During the combing operations women are molested and raped and their jewelry looted. All this to play into the super profits of the hungry finance capital and predatory industrialization!
However, the people of India have refused to cow down in front of the Indian state. There is a fierce resistance going on from Dandakarnya to Jangalamahal, from POSCO to Nagari, from Jehanabad to Ranchi. In fact we salute the heroic men women and children of the anti-Posco struggle villages, which have become an advanced outpost of the anti-imperialist resistance in this country. We condemn
1) the arrests of Comrade Abhay Sahoo and demand his immediate release
2) withdrawal of all false cases of the people of Antiposco struggle villages
3) crapping of the POSCO and all the MOUs in Orissa
4) resignation of Naveen Patnaik who has unleashed brutal repression on the struggling people of Orissa
1. Student for resistance DELHI
2.Chittaranjan Singh National Secretary PUCL
3. Dr. Anand Teltumbde CPDR- Mumbai
4. Kiran Shaheen Women for water democracy Delhi
5. Ranjana Padhi Women against sexual violence- and state repression (WSS) Delhi
6. Kaveri Rajaraman WSS BANGLORE
7. Anirban Kar SANHATI Delhi
8. Rakesh Ranjan NAVROJ Delhi
9. Sumati Pannikar Viplav Sanskritik Manch Delhi
10. Shweta Tripathy SRUTI Delhi
11. Swati Birla SANHATI Mumbai
12. Wilfred D costa INSAF Delhi
13. P.K. Sundaram Research Scholar JNU
14. Usman Research Scholar JNU
15. Asit Das POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity Delhi
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May 12, 1971
Mary BALASKA and John Balaska, her husband,
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The wife-plaintiff, Mrs. Mary Balaska, slipped upon liquid detergent in the aisle of defendant's store. Shortly before the fall of the wife-plaintiff, another fall had occurred in the same place and defendant had attempted to clean the aisle. The defense offered no testimony and presented no evidence at all to contradict plaintiff's liability witnesses, all of which testimony was consistent with defendant's liability. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant; whereupon the plaintiff then moved for judgment notwithstanding the verdict in accordance with the prior motion for a directed verdict, or in the alternative a motion for a new trial. These matters are presently before the court for decision.
While this court is most reluctant to disturb a jury verdict, the verdict in the instant case is so completely against the overwhelming weight of the evidence as to make this an appropriate case for the granting of a new trial. A motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence is addressed primarily to the sound discretion of the trial judge. Livergood v. S.J. Groves & Sons Co., 361 F.2d 269 (3d Cir. 1966); Dessi v. Penna. R. Co., 150 F. Supp. 703 (D.C. Pa. 1957) aff'd 251 F.2d 149 (3 Cir.), cert. den. 356 U.S. 967, 78 S. Ct. 1006, 2 L. Ed. 2d 1073.
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and the duty to set aside this jury's verdict as the preponderance of the evidence is so heavily in favor of the plaintiff as to justify the granting of a new trial, even though technically there was sufficient oral evidence to go to the jury, particularly in the light of the contradictions in the manager's testimony. Peters v. Smith, 221 F.2d 721 (3d Cir. 1955). The manager of the store in which the accident took place, Louis Fantone, testified, at first, that when the first lady fell, he helped her up, went for a mop and when he got back, Mrs. Balaska had fallen.
The store manager later testified that after the first lady fell, he or one of the store's employees tried to wipe the area with a dry mop and dispersed the white liquid over a larger area of the green and white tile squares.
This witness was called by plaintiff. Several other witnesses testified that the liquid detergent covered about a third of the aisle and could not be seen, particularly after it had been dispersed.
The evidence in this case shows that prior to plaintiff's fall, the defendant had actual notice of the slippery condition of the aisleway by the first fall of Mrs. Baker. It thereupon became defendant's duty to clean the floor effectively or to warn others. Cardone v. Sheldon Hotel Corp., 160 Pa. Super. 193, 50 A. 2d 700 (1947); Gripp v. Lit. Bros., 181 Pa. Super. 444, 124 A. 2d 378 (1956). Furthermore, the evidence shows that defendant took no precautions by blocking off the slippery aisle or giving any warning of the condition to other customers in the store.
In a case in which the verdict is overwhelmingly against the weight of the evidence, it is for the trial judge "to see that right and justice are done in the case before him, setting aside the verdict and granting a new trial if in the exercise of a sound discretion he thinks such action necessary to prevent an unjust result." Magee v. General Motors Corp., 213 F.2d 899 (3d Cir. 1954). This case is not one in which substantial disputed questions of fact exist and thus one in which the Seventh Amendment compels adherence to a jury's decision.
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- Told by a former high-level member of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown survivor,Seductive Poisonis the "truly unforgettable" (Kirkus Review) story of how one woman was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory and how she found her way back to sanity. From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share of cult tragedies. But none has been quite so dramatic or compelling as the Jonestown massacre of 1978, in which the Reverend Jim Jones and 913 of his disciples perished. Deborah Layton had been a member of the Peoples Temple for seven years when she departed for Jonestown, Guyana, the promised land nestled deep in the South American jungle. When she arrived, however, Layton saw that something was seriously wrong. Jones constantly spoke of a revolutionary mass suicide, and Layton knew only too well that he had enough control over the minds of the Jonestown residents to carry it out. But her pleas for help--and her sworn affidavit to the U. S. government--fell on skeptical ears. In this very personal account, Layton opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone can fall under their spell. Seductive Poisonis both an unflinching historical document and a riveting story of intrigue, power, and murder.
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Heavies back to business in Premier Grade
Nic Darveniza
The University of Queensland Red Heavies have defeated Wests 57-17 in Premier Grade's first west-side derby of 2017
The new-look Heavies, missing eight starters from 2016's Grand Final, showed great variety in attack to put nine tries through Wests in the first competition match at their new home, Scifleet Stadium.
The win sends UQ straight to the top of the Premier Rugby leaderboard with a firm grip on the competition's best attacking record while holding the second-best defensive record as well.
Acting captain and scrumhalf Scott Gale was named Man of the Match in the season-opening clash, taking out the True Protein High Performer award for Round One's best player.
Defence coach Elton Berrange said the match went as expected, given the improvements the side has made over the course of the preseason.
"I think the boys really benefitted from knowing their roles this weekend, whereas in the trials the chopping and changing really affected that.
"University always lines up with a younger team than most and this year we've taken it even further, but we're expecting some more experienced guys back soon.
"I thought (openside flanker, 20-year-old) Conor Moroney was one of our best, he really slowed down their ball and stifled their attack," Berrange said. "He was probably unlucky not to have six or seven turnovers, so if he keeps that up he'll be in for one hell of a season."
Buoyed by a powerful wind sweeping down towards Sylvan Road, the kicking game of reunited halves partners Scott Gale and James Dalgleish kept the Bulldogs pinned down and under pressure from start to finish.
The Red Heavies lived true to their name in a physical first half and Wests had no answers for the power game of the forwards.
Three tries from close range and one long range strike delivered UQ a 26-10 lead at the half-time break which would prove impossible to overcome.
Pick and drive tries in the third, 13th and 25th minute to lock Pat Morrey, flanker Sam Wallis and prop James McColl pushed University out to a formidable 19-nil lead.
Wests roared to life with a long range try but the boisterous crowd were quickly silenced as centre Nathan Russell took a well-timed offload to the big house in the 32nd minute.
Blessed with possession and territory to close the half, Wests attacked with impetus to force their way over for a second unconverted try.
That would prove Wests' last hurrah as the Heavies piled on tries to Campbell Wakely, Nathan Russell, Clifton Setu and two to Jack Cornelsen after half-time to secure a nine try win.
The win bucks University's recent trend of dropping season openers and delivered memorable Premier Grade starting debuts to James McColl, Sam Wallis and Matt Feaunati, as well as to Jacob Williams, SJ Tamala and TJ Siakisini from the bench.
WESTS 17 (Tries: Liam Dillon, Shai Wiperi, Sione Na'a Helu; Cons: Byron Hutchinson (1/3) defeated by UNIVERSITY 57 (Tries: Pat Morrey, Sam Wallis, James McColl, Nathan Russell (2), Cam Wakely, Jack Cornelsen (2), Clifton Setu; Cons: James Dalgleish (6/7), Alex Horan (0/2)


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'I beheaded them, I cooked their heads, I burned their bodies': The 'housewife' militia leader and grandmother who tops ISIS's most wanted list in Iraq
- WARNING: Contains graphic images some may find upsetting
- Wahida Mohamed has been fighting Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq since 2004
- The 39-year-old grandmother's husband, father and brother were killed by ISIS, and she has survived six assassination attempts
- Her Facebook page shows graphic images of dead enemies
- She commands a 70-strong militia group in Shirqat and helped drive ISIS terrorists away
Holding aloft the severed head of an enemy, this militia leader is one of the people most feared by ISIS in Iraq.
Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily, a 39-year-old grandmother has lost loved ones in her battle with the terror group – her second husband was killed earlier this year, and jihadists have also killed her father and three brothers.
In response, the military leader – who describes herself as a 'housewife' – said, she beheaded her enemies, cooked their heads and burned their bodies.
Um Hanadi holds a Beretta 9-millimeter pistol aloft in front of some of the men she commands
The grandmother describes herself as a 'rabat manzal' – meaning housewife.
The grandmother, who describes herself as a 'rabat manzal' – meaning housewife – has described taking a bloody revenge against those who killed her family members.
In an interview with CNN, Um Hanadi said: 'I fought them. I beheaded them. I cooked their heads, I burned their bodies.'
She told Al Sabah that her son-in-law was tortured, with hands and feet amputated, before he was executed, after ISIS took control of Shirqat in 2014.
The militia leader claims to have personally killed 18 ISIS fighters, and said she had boiled their heads and burned their bodies
The militia leader led a group of 50 fighters which fought back ISIS terrorists in Shirqat city centre, Iraqi media reports.
She fell foul of fundamentalist groups, which eventually became al-Qaeda and later the so-called Islamic State, after she started working for Iraqi security forces and the coalition in 2004.
The militia leader said: 'I received threats from the top leadership of ISIS, including from (ISIS leader) Abu Bakr (al-Baghdadi) himself.
'But I refused.
'I'm at the top of their most wanted list, even more than the Prime Minister.'
Surveying resources in Iraq, Um Hanadi is one of the most feared figures by ISIS
Pictures on the militia leader's Facebook page show her alongside heavily-armed fighters, who she has led in successful operations against ISIS
Despite six assassination attempts, Um Hanadi said she is determined to defeat ISIS in her native Iraq.
She said her two daughters, aged 22 and 20, are trained and ready to fight, but are currently focused on looking after their children.
The militia leader said ISIS supporters had planted car bombs outside her home in 2006, 2009, 2010, and made three attempts on her life in 2013 and 2014.
She was badly injured, and has scars showing where shrapnel was left in her head and legs.
'But all that didn't stop me from fighting,' she said.
General Jamaa Anad, who commands ground forces in the Salahuddin province, told CNN that the military has provided Um Hanadi with vehicles and weapons.
The grandmother said she has been threatened by ISIS's senior leadership, but that has not deterred her
A picture of Um Hanadi features on a vehicle used by militia members
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We didn't much care for this cottage when we first saw it...the 'garden' at the front was so terribly over-grown that the windows were hidden behind long grass and unruly shrubs...the roof was covered in clumps of bright green moss and baby trees were growing out of the guttering.
But the estate agent was determined. The gate to the yard was locked with a huge padlock so he clambered over it in his best suit and his shiny shoes and said he'd open the front door to let us in.
The back door was open but the front one wasn't, so we climbed over the gate as well and were met by a wilderness of trees and undergrowth...right in the middle there was movement...two small ponies emerged and whinnied a greeting... the poor agent flapped his hands about and said Shoo! Shoo! which they interpreted as 'this man has Ginger Nut biscuits in his pocket...our favourite sort' ...I bribed them with Polo Mints I found lurking at the bottom of my handbag and they ate those then wandered off again...
I took one look at the hearth in the sitting-room and practically wrote out a cheque for the asking price there and then...it is enormous. It has a great curved stone over the actual hearth and inside was the original crane with the hooks for the pots...the walls were grimy from years of turf smoke...the ceiling was plain awful...deep dark brown from smoke and the rather odd, thick brown paint that was all the fashion about a hundred years ago...the windows were sash but they'd lost the cords long past and we needed a hammer to open them once we moved in and then they had to be propped open otherwise they shut with a bang...taking your fingers with them if you weren't careful.
The floor in the sitting room was a thin layer of concrete...so badly worn that the original earth floor was showing through...but there was an impressive hearth stone or flag and another by the back door.
There was rudimentary electricity in the sitting room but not in the other three rooms...no kitchen as such...no piped water, but for an outside tap...and no bathroom.
We loved it.
Our first cottage was already sold...we'd 'done it up' and it sold within six weeks of putting it on the market, so we had the money, with enough left over...so we thought at the time...to buy this one.
And that is what we did.
It wasn't until we'd moved in that we ventured down the back and found the river runs through our land...then we discovered what looked like another cottage...one half was used for the hens...the other part was for the pig. The hen part has the original beams cut straight from the hedgerow...and nesting places in the walls. The pig side has a little fireplace and is surrounded by a stone wall...there are flags on the floor both inside and out
There are stone steps leading down to the water in the river...and a big enough field at the side...surrounded by massive Horse Chestnut and Beech trees, for our donkeys...we only had the two at that time.
It was only a day or so before the neighbours began to call...and they told us about Mikey who used to live here and how he washed in the river and his sisters who went to Americay and how once upon a time all the fields behind us belonged to this cottage and people would bring their hay across the wooden bridge and on through our yard...out to the street and away to their own homes and small farms...
They told of tickling for Trout in the river when they were children and Marie confided that she used to wash John's nappies in the river and hang them in the barn to dry before she and Hubert had enough money to put the water in the house...Marie is twenty years younger than me.
Some could remember their parents telling of when Douglas Hyde...the First President of Ireland...would come in his horse and trap to sit by the hearth fires and speak the Irish with the small farmers and he came here to our home to talk with Mikey's parents.
Our tiny cottage is full of ghosts of the past...kindly spirits who whisper tales of unmade roads and deep wells holding sweet tasting water...of Grouse Moor and the wild Swans who fly in each winter...of the unearthly cries of the young Long Eared Owls who fly by night and the brief glimpses of the way it used to be.


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Yes to school time. I told Becca I wanted to use the same family pictures but use them to describe our family members, and then we would talk a little about some animals and describe how they look too. She said yes, that sounded good. Becca had a hard time with the session today, she was very tired and had lots of coughing, both of which made it hard for her to engage and for me to be sure I was seeing her eye choices correctly.
I got out the board with our pictures still on the left side (her left). Then I pulled out four pictures: a boy, a girl, a big person and a little person. Each time I would hold them up and describe them to Becca. Then I attached them to the right side of the board and said I wanted us to try describing the people in our family.
I went first and pointed to myself. I said daddy (I pointed to my picture) is a boy (I pointed to the boy) and is big (I pointed to the big picture). I went over what the pictures on the right stood for one more time, then I let Becca have a turn.
She looked at Becca first, and I said great, let's do Becca. What can you tell me about Becca? She kept looking at the people side, but not long enough to say any of them were choices. Then she had a coughing fit so we had to wait. After that I asked if Becca was a boy or a girl. She looked around, but on the second prompt she picked girl. Then without prompting she picked big, not little. I said that was right, Becca was a very big girl.
Next we let Becca's sister go. She picked herself, and said she was a big girl, touching each picture as she went. I repeated that a couple times.
Next I held it up for Becca to go again. She picked her brother this time. I asked if he was big or little, and she said big after a short delay. I asked if he was a boy or a girl and she was slow to answer. Actually I think she was slow to answer that question every time. She wasn't super engaged and she might have been a little annoyed and thought it was obvious question, not sure. She did eventually pick boy.
I tried to model again how we can use picking different pictures to make a sentence. I did Becca's brother again, showing that we could say he was a big boy by selecting those pictures one by one.
I held the board up again for Becca and asked if she wanted to talk about anyone else. She picked mommy this time. I asked if she wanted to say anything about mommy and she quickly chose big. I asked if she wanted to say anything else about mommy. She had another coughing fit, and after getting re-settled again she picked boy. I laughed and said that was silly, mommy is a girl, not a boy. I asked if she was trying to trick me. She looked away, not sure what that meant. I modeled saying mommy is a big girl again.
I asked if Becca wanted to talk about anyone else, but she wouldn't look at the board anymore. After that we looked at a couple pictures of animals but only because I'd promised to. I told Becca we'd work more on the animals next time, but that she seemed very tired and we should probably be done for now.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Lift Us Up Where We Be long
I am not bragging, but I've never experienced E.D. I'm not bragging because I feel like that makes me weird and uncool. The E.D. med commercials have been on for years now and featured some of my favorite sports stars and even Bob Dole, who always has that pen in his hand, so you know he likes to keep busy. The E.D. guys on TV seem to attract a lot of pretty – and horny – women. I'm not interested in getting together with anyone besides my wife, but a little attention doesn't hurt. I went to my doctor and asked him what is wrong with me. "I've never had erectile dysfunction, Doc. Why everyone else but me? I'm not normal." I wanted to have a need for some Cialis, because I could use a day at the beach, so I asked if he could give me something to cause E.D. He said, "Here's what I use to cause E.D.," and he showed me a picture of his wife. That was just rude.
Then he told me, "JohnnyB, you do realize that some men just use those drugs recreationally, right?"
"Recreationally? What, do they go to some Viagra Dude Ranch and sit around a campfire in a circle, like a bunch of jerks, holding…um...hands, and singing cum-baya?
I didn't end up getting any meds. I just went back home and watched a few, Levitra, Viagra and Cialis ads I had DVR'd so I could get the vicarious thrill of having a limp willy.
Then I noticed perhaps the strangest thing of all about the commercials. At the end, there is a disclaimer in text at the bottom of the screen that says something like, "This product will not prevent sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV." Who out there thinks that an erection pill is going to have the benefits of a condom? Oh yeah, that would be men – men whose entire blood supply is being medically redirected to a region below the belt line, leaving the brain totally lacking in oxygen needed for reason and logic.
erectile dysfunction = I end soft unit (recycle)
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5 comments:
- Kitty Girl said...
I have to laugh whenever I see one of those commercials, especially the ones where they are sitting in a bathtub outside... yea because people really do that... and isn't the whole point of the e.d. med to be having sex? so whats the point of two tubs? shouoldnt they be together getting it on in the same tub?
- June 27, 2008 at 10:56 AM
- Bill Brohaugh said...
Oh yeah, like the phrasing "circle, like a bunch of jerks" was unintentional.
- June 27, 2008 at 10:56 AM
- JohnnyB said...
K.G. - yes, I don't see how sitting outside in separate bathtubs is romantic. Who decided that was a good image to use?
Bill - Those lines about the Dr. and "recreational" use of the meds come from a bit I did in stand-up a few times. The phrase you quote always got a big laugh - I don't know why.....
- June 27, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- susan said...
Which reminds me..do you ever do stand up anymore?
- June 27, 2008 at 4:57 PM
- JohnnyB said...
Given the topic of this post, there are some possible answers to that that...I....must....resist....
The *straight* answer is, no, it's too *hard* to do stand-up comedy well and continue to develop a routine, or routines, while being a full-time profit wrangler.
- June 27, 2008 at 5:09 PM


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My dad grew up in Brooklyn and we lived only 35 miles away from Manhattan, so we often made trips in for him to share some of New York City's treasures with us. One of my favorites was the American Museum of Natural History located at Central Park West at 79th Street . I got a chance to visit again last week and explored many of the halls. For many people this is as close as they will get to travel, to see the way animals and people live around the world, or to see the skeletons of dinsoaurs.
The displays include animal life found around the world, including birds
~~~and insects, mammals-both living and long gone.
and even those found in the oceans.
Dioramas also depicted people living in other cultures, both current and in the past.
~~~~~~~~~~It is a magical place where early imaginations can soar and children of all ages can learn about the world around them. There is also a wonderful planetarium and many special short term exhibits.


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Societal Costs of Vascular Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults
Background and Purpose— The construct of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) includes many whose care is or will be costly. Nevertheless, estimates of these costs are not well described. We therefore set out to estimate the societal costs of VCI in elderly people.
Methods— In a secondary analysis of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, a representative cohort study, Canadian dollar costs using a societal perspective were estimated by standard methods.
Results— The total annual per-patient societal costs for VCI by severity were $15 022 for those with mild disease, $14 468 for those with mild to moderate disease, $20 063 for those with moderate disease, and $34 515 for those with severe disease. The most expensive component per individual was the cost of institutional long-term care. Although severe impairment was associated with higher costs, the extent of institutionalization at all levels of severity and less drug use among those more severely impaired mitigated a severity-cost gradient.
Conclusions— The societal costs of VCI are not inconsiderable. In contrast to Alzheimer disease, there is no clear gradient relating cost to severity. Unpaid caregiver costs are an important aspect of societal costs, even in those with only mild impairment.
In recent years, the idea of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) has been advanced as an alternative to the more narrowly construed notion of vascular dementia.1,2⇓ Compared with vascular dementia, VCI includes patients with mixed vascular and neurodegenerative dementias, as well as patients with cognitive impairment of vascular origin who do not meet the traditional dementia criteria.2,3⇓ The latter patients include 2 groups: those with important cognitive and functional impairment who nevertheless do not meet the criteria for dementia (eg, hemiparesis and aphasia, followed left middle cerebral artery stroke) and a group, akin to people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, who potentially have a "predementia" syndrome.4
Patients with VCI comprise a spectrum that includes many whose care is or will be costly. Nevertheless, to date there appear to be no published estimates of the cost to society of VCI. We report here population-based Canadian data on the societal costs of providing care for people with VCI.
Materials and Methods
To provide context for these estimates and to aid comparisons with Alzheimer disease, we followed the cost estimation protocol of Hux and colleagues.5 They estimated the costs of Alzheimer disease from a societal point of view, taking into account direct care costs and estimating unpaid costs of time by informal caregivers.
The data are drawn from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA), a representative cohort study of older (>65 years) Canadians undertaken chiefly to estimate the prevalence and incidence of dementia6,7⇓ and risks for Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia.8,9⇓ Briefly, in 1991 to 1992, community-dwelling subjects were sampled in a 2-stage sample, clustered by area, and stratified by age. These people were screened with the Modified Mini-Mental State Examination.10 Those who screened positive (≤77 of 100) and a sample who screened negative were invited to a detailed clinical11 and neuropsychological examination.12 In addition, a similar sample of institutionalized residents was examined.11 Follow-up interviews were carried out after 5 years and included interviews with knowledgeable informants, even for those participants who had died in the interval.3,7⇓
The present analysis relies on cost figures produced for the 1998 analysis of Hux et al.5 A number of assumptions are noteworthy. The costs are in Canadian dollars. (As of February 1, 2002, Can $1=US $0.62US, Eur $0.73, and 0.44£.) The estimated cost of institutional care is based on the cost of providing care in Ontario, the most populous province in Canada. Because this included no estimate of the cost of institutional care for those with mild impairment, we were obliged to extrapolate that number from the relationship between cost and severity for the other levels of severity for which costs were known by using a regression equation and noting that the fit of the line was high (R2=0.995). Institutions included nursing homes and other facilities providing domiciliary care with personal assistance. The cost of community care came from estimates of the Ontario Ministry of Health, supplemented by additional data from the City of Hamilton Homecare Placement Day-Center Program. The cost of unpaid caregiver time was assigned a value equivalent to the 1998 Ontario minimum wage of Can $6.85/h.
Medication was coded by use of the World Health Organization's Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification (ATC) Index,13 which also lists defined daily doses for medication. A defined daily dose is "the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used for its main indication in adults." For products not found in the ATC index, the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties14 was consulted, and the defined daily dose was based on the recommended maintenance dose for adults. Because we did not know the doses prescribed, we assumed that drugs were prescribed in defined daily doses. The cost per defined daily dose was calculated by use of the suggested retail price, excluding pharmacist's dispensing fee, listed in the 1996 Atlantic Pharmaceutical Services Incorporated Pricing Guide.15 The price was calculated using the least expensive product because we did not know which manufacturers for multisource products were used. If the drug was not supplied in a dosage equal to the defined daily dose, it was calculated by either adding 2 dosage forms together (eg, to calculate a defined daily dose of 5 mg, the prices of the 1- and 4-mg dosages were added) or dividing the price by the appropriate denominator (eg, to calculate a defined daily dose of 5 mg, the price of the 10-mg dose was divided by 2). This price was then multiplied by 365 to obtain price per year. Only drugs in the following 4 categories were included: anticoagulant or antiplatelet, antihyperlipidemic, antihypertensive, and psychotropic (ie, antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics) medications.
To estimate severity of illness, we aimed to take into account that the construct of VCI is likely to have stages distinct from the usual cognitive staging in Alzheimer disease. Most staging measures comprise estimates of functional and cognitive impairment.16 In Alzheimer disease, such impairment generally precedes in parallel, but the same assumption appears less tenable in VCI. Folstein et al17 based their severity estimate on the Mini-Mental State Examination Score (MMSE). Our estimate reproduces their cut points but also includes the global clinical measure of severity used in the CSHA clinical consensus diagnosis.11 When the clinical impression of severity and MMSE accorded, we used the Folstein et al17 MMSE cut points. When the clinical assessment of severity and the MMSE cut points did not accord, we used the higher (less severe) score.
To estimate costs associated with the use of community services and caregiver time, we used data from the CSHA Caregiver Survey. This survey was undertaken with all people identified as "primary caregivers" of participants with cognitive impairment, as well as a comparison group who were caregivers, or potential caregivers, for elderly persons who were cognitively normal. Estimates in this report came from the caregivers of those identified as having VCI. Details of the caregiver interview, which included information on functional impairment, caregiver health and burden, and use of formal and informal services, are outlined elsewhere.5,18⇓ Informal caregivers were asked about direct care activities such as assistance with activities of daily living and supervision in the case of those who could not be left alone in the house. These elements were costed separately.
Table 1 presents the proportion of people with VCI in the CSHA who were in long-term residential care and the expected cost of care per subject by level of disease severity. On a per-person basis, costs increase with disease severity. A significant proportion of those with mild (41.4%) and mild to moderate disease (43.1%) are in institutional long-term care.
Table 2 presents the costs of monthly medication use. For community-dwelling people, there is no clear relationship between disease severity and the cost of either vascular or psychotropic medications. In contrast, among institutionalized respondents, the costs of vascular medications decrease with severity, whereas the cost of psychotropic medications increases as impairment becomes more severe.
Table 3 reports the use and costs of community support services. Costs vary substantially by stage. Those with the most severe impairment have the highest costs, but otherwise there is no evident gradient relationship between severity and cost. Use of respite care, caregiver support, and counseling was reported only infrequently.
Table 4 presents the results of estimating the cost of otherwise unpaid caregiver time. Unpaid costs in the community appear to be substituting for paid costs in institutions. Nevertheless, unpaid caregiver costs are still incurred for those who are in institutions.
The total effect of these various costs is summarized in the Figure, which portrays the mean annual cost of care for people with VCI by disease severity. From this and given the CSHA estimate, the societal costs (sum of direct care costs and unpaid informal caregiver time) by level of severity are $15 022 for patients with mild disease, $14 468 for those with mild to moderate disease, $20 063 for those with moderate disease, and $34 515 for those with severe disease.
We have estimated societal costs of vascular cognitive impairment, which appear to be considerable. The data suggest that treatment of VCI and, better still, its prevention will be important in managing illnesses associated with the aging of the population. Our data, however, are subject to some important caveats. The costs are derived from an era before symptom- or disease-modifying treatments for dementia became available. The costs do not include the cost of diagnosis. The perspective is simple and reflects societal costs, without attendant benefits being estimated. In addition, the costs are driven in large measure by the valuation of the costs of informal care. The best way to do this is not clear.19 Briefly, 2 methods predominate: All informal care can be costed at the rate that would be required to substitute paid formal care, or a value representing the opportunity cost of the earnings forgone to provide the care can be estimated. Our method, which is a compromise between these 2 perspectives, was to limit total informal costs to those needed to substitute formal care in a long-term care institution for informal care provided at home. One component of societal costs is not measured in this study, ie, market productivity losses attributable to VCI onset and progression. Such costs are probably small, however, because VCI onset typically occurs in older persons already retired from the labor force.
Compared with Alzheimer disease, in which staging is well understood and has a determining impact on disease costs,20 staging of VCI remains controversial. How best to summarize across subtypes of VCI (eg, VCI, no dementia, vascular dementia, mixed Alzheimer disease with vascular dementia) is not known. Our method was to compare the cognitive cut points of Hux et al5 with the clinical global severity measure.11 When they accorded, that level was used, with the cognitive cut point used to discriminate between mild and mild to moderate disease severity. When they were discrepant, we scored the patient at the higher level of function and lower level of disability. Although this is a more conservative means of estimating costs, it likely contributed to our finding of a less evident gradient relationship between severity and cost. Underlying this pattern (essentially of greater-than-expected functional impairment) is chiefly the motoric effects of stroke. Other factors appear to operate as well, including aspects of cognitive impairment that necessitate supervision but that are not well captured by cognitive measures that emphasize the predominance of memory impairment that is seen in Alzheimer disease.4 These considerations likely underlie the striking comparison to the report of costs of care for people with Alzheimer disease, in which no subjects with mild dementia were in institutions, with our finding that 41% of those with mild VCI were in institutional long-term care. In general, our cost estimates for VCI are slightly lower than the estimates of Hux et al5 for Alzheimer disease at all levels of severity. The 1 exception is for mild disease, for which the cost estimates for VCI are much higher. Specifically, the estimates contrast as follows: for mild disease: VCI, $15 022; Alzheimer disease, $9451; for mild to moderate disease: VCI, $14 468; Alzheimer disease, $16 054; for moderate disease: VCI, $20 063; Alzheimer disease, $25 724; and for severe disease: VCI, $34 515; Alzheimer disease, $36 794. One of the limitations of this work is that the comorbidities in these patients (eg, heart disease, diabetes) were not compared.
As has been noted,20 staging appears to have an impact on prescribing practices in VCI. Especially for those in institutional long-term care, pharmacotherapy of vascular risks is used less frequently as the impairment becomes severe.21 Nevertheless, the cost offset of medications is minor compared with the high prevalence of institutionalization (93%) among those with the most severe impairment.
The data reflect the Canadian situation in 1996 to 1997, when community services were more underdeveloped than today. For example, very few caregivers availed themselves of respite care or caregiver counseling and support. A third wave of the CSHA is now underway, and a comparison of the present with the earlier pattern will be of interest in this regard.
At all levels of severity, the largest direct cost of VCI is institutionalization. Such observations in other causes of dementia sometimes prompt a desire to see a larger proportion of patients maintained in the community. The societal cost perspective, however, allows us to see that such policies simply shift the focus of costs from formal to informal providers and even then do not account for costs to providers in terms of health and quality of life.
In our view, the chief merits of the present study are providing a baseline understanding of the costs of untreated VCI and drawing attention to the not inconsiderable societal costs associated with cognitive impairment in general. As we come to grips with this new construct, it is important that such information be known so that VCI as the subject for further study can be appreciated.
Dr Rockwood is supported by a Canadian Institute of Health Research Investigator Award and by the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation as the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research. Dr Sketris is supported by a Canadian Institute of Health Research/Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation Chair in Health Services Research. The data reported in this article were collected as part of the CSHA. The core study was funded by the Seniors' Independence Research Program through the National Health Research and Development Program of Health Canada [project 6606-3954-MC(S)]. We thank Chole Campbell, BSc, for assistance with pharmacy costs. The VCI Investigators of the CSHA are Ian McDowell, University of Ottawa; David B. Hogan, University of Calgary; Réjean Hébért, Université de Sherbrooke; Christine Wolfson, McGill University; and René Verreault, Centre Hospitalier Saint-Augustin.
The Vascular Cognitive Impairment Investigators of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging are listed in the Acknowledgments.
- Received September 4, 2001.
- Revision received February 5, 2002.
- Accepted February 28, 2002.
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