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A research team that includes investigators from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded $1.9 million over three years to study a new model of health delivery. Dr. Paula Song, associate professor of health policy and management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, is principal investigator of the study.
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Dr. Song and Dr. Marisa Domino, professor of health policy and management, will work with academics and stakeholders from Ohio and Washington state, along with the Carolina Survey Research Lab, to assess the efficiency and efficacy of accountable care organizations (ACOs) designed to improve care coordination for patients with chronic or complex health-care needs.
The funding comes from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), which selected Dr. Song's team for the highly competitive grant. PCORI is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization in Washington, D.C., with a mandate to improve the quality and relevance of evidence available to help patients, caregivers, clinicians, employers, insurers and policy makers reach informed health decisions.
ACOs — groups of health-care providers that organize in new ways to take responsibility for the care of a specific health need population — emerged from the Affordable Care Act as vehicles to improve both the quality and efficiency of health care. ACOs reduce health-care costs by eliminating duplication of services for patients who have several health-care providers, at the same time they improve care by ensuring that other care needs are not overlooked.
Dr. Song and her team will focus on children with disabilities, a cohort that requires a wide variety of care from health-care providers, social service agencies, family members and other caregivers.
Increasingly, state Medicaid programs look to ACOs to coordinate care for disabled children. The researchers will assess care coordination provided by an ACO and note how those interventions affect outcomes for these children and their caregivers.
The traditional fee-for-service model offers no financial incentives for providers to coordinate care. In contrast, ACOs share in any savings resulting from providing high-quality care more efficiently. A recent policy change in Ohio that resulted in 8,000 disabled children being switched from fee-for-service plans to a large pediatric ACO provided a venue for the research.
By using multiple methods, such as focus groups, interviews, surveys, medical record data and Medicaid claims, researchers will compare the benefits and challenges of fee-for-service plans with ACOs. Dr. Song and her team will engage some 2,800 patients, their caregivers and health-system stakeholders to gain a complete picture. An advisory panel of caregivers and advocates for disabled children will have input as the study proceeds.
The research results will be relevant to policymakers and care providers.
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This is the lazy girl's post today, as I'm just cribbing most of it out of an email I received from a coworker.
I seem to have caught a bit of a sniffle. Despite the fact that a lot of medicines make me all foggy I was pleased to see that someone had donated a bottle of generic Claritin to the company medicine chest. Accepting my upcoming fate of mental fog I took one and then sent a grateful email to the general junk alias, to which I received this response:
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Back in the early 90s a friend of mine joined a software company in Santa Cruz as employee #8. At that time their employee handbook contained the one-line drug policy "Bring enough for everyone." Sadly, that policy had to change as the company grew but they got bought by Cisco a few years later and all became stinking rich, which took the sting off somewhat.
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J., September 15, 2017 – Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., an affiliate of
Ipsen (Euronext: IPN; ADR: IPSEY) (Ipsen), today announced a presentation of data from a
retrospective study on managed Medicaid costs of treating children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) at
the annual meeting of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
(AACPDM) on September 13-16, 2017 in Montreal, Canada. This data evaluated recent, largescale, landscape studies of the burden of illness for CP patients in the U.S.
Cerebral Palsy is a term for a group of neurological disorders that appear in infancy or early
childhood and affect the part of the brain that controls muscle movements.1 One of the
symptoms associated with CP is spasticity – a condition in which there is an abnormal increase
in muscle tone or stiffness in one or more muscles.2
The study objective was to better understand the epidemiology, treatment patterns, resource
utilization and associated costs of children with CP in the U.S. Managed Medicaid data from a
proprietary database covering 15 states and encompassing seven million lives between 2013-
2015 was analyzed, with 3,294 unique cases, which represent patients with CP (aged 2-20)
identified through ICD-9/10 diagnosis codes.
The analysis indicates that 42 percent of children diagnosed with CP did not receive any of 10
selected therapies commonly used for spasticity management; these therapies included
physical therapy, orthotics, oral baclofen, botulinum toxin, anti-spasm medication, casting,
orthopedic surgery, baclofen injection, baclofen pumps, and rhizotomies. These therapies were
selected by a group of multidisciplinary researchers and care team members who determined
that these methods were the most commonly used spasticity management options for CP
The data also showed the average annual cost of treatment for a child with CP was about 16
times higher than the average cost of treatment for any child enrolled in Medicaid ($22,383
versus $1,359, respectively) between the years 2013 and 2015. Annual costs included
expenditure from utilization of pharmacy, medical services, home health, long term care and
hospice. Because CP disease severity cannot be obtained from diagnosis codes, the study
team developed clinical algorithms to assess the likelihood of ambulation among CP children;
30.5 percent were identified as likely ambulatory, 33.8 percent as likely non-ambulatory, and the
remainder unknown. Children with CP that were likely non-ambulatory had average annual
costs four times higher than those for children with CP who were likely ambulatory. There was
large variability in the medical expenditure for children with CP, even for those with the same
ambulatory status. This may be driven in part by regional Medicaid coverage differences.
Limitations of this retrospective study include incomplete or inaccurate submitted claims. Further
research is needed to understand the specific cost drivers associated with the care of children
with CP.
"This study supports the need for a broader look into the overall management plans for children
living with Cerebral Palsy, including appropriate treatment options and physical and
occupational therapies. We hope this would also lead to better management of costs for
families," said David Cox, VP North American Medical, HEOR & Regulatory Affairs, Ipsen.
"Ipsen is committed to improving the care of children with lower limb spasticity – especially
those with Cerebral Palsy, the most common motor disability in children.3"
About Ipsen in North America
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. is the US affiliate of Ipsen, a global specialty-driven
pharmaceutical group. The US head office is located in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Ipsen
Biopharmaceuticals Canada, Inc. is an integrated business unit within North America and has its
head office located in Mississauga, Ontario. Ipsen Bioscience, Inc., the Ipsen US research and
development center focused on peptide research in oncology and endocrinology, is located in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Ipsen Bioscience, we focus on creating a highly cooperative and
passionate R&D organization through partnerships, innovation, and continuous learning to
effectively deliver new treatments for patients. At Ipsen, we focus our resources, investments,
and energy on discovering, developing, and commercializing new therapeutic options for
oncologic, neurologic, and endocrine diseases. For more information on Ipsen in North America,
please visit www.ipsenus.com or www.ipsen.ca.
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Ipsen is a global specialty-driven biopharmaceutical group focused on innovation and specialty
care. The group develops and commercializes innovative medicines in three key therapeutic
areas – Oncology, Neurosciences and Rare Diseases. Its commitment to oncology is
exemplified through its growing portfolio of key therapies for prostate cancer, neuroendocrine
tumors, renal cell carcinoma and pancreatic cancer. Ipsen also has a well-established
Consumer Healthcare business. With total sales close to €1.6 billion in 2016, Ipsen sells more
than 20 drugs in over 115 countries, with a direct commercial presence in more than 30
countries. Ipsen's R&D is focused on its innovative and differentiated technological platforms
located in the heart of the leading biotechnological and life sciences hubs (Paris-Saclay, France;
Oxford, UK; Cambridge, US). The Group has about 5,100 employees worldwide. Ipsen is listed
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1. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. NINDS Cerebral Palsy
Information Page. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Cerebral-PalsyInformation-Page. Accessed September 12, 2017
2. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Spasticity Information Page.
Accessed September 12, 2017.
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Data & Statistics for Cerebral Palsy.
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Sept. 22: Columbia City
Monday, September 7, 2009
Labor Day Weekend at Quilcene
This weekend we were fortunate enough to be invited to stay at a friends cabin off of Dabob Bay. Lots of clamming, oyster picking, fishing...but none caught except on huge dogfish!
It was sunny, windy, rainy...with lightning and thunder...all the weather you could want...
Here is a sketch of the cabin which was built by the family 35 years ago...it had great character!
There were moments of dramatic lighting coming through the trees. Really hard to capture it but I tried.
The clouds were spectacular. Blue skies above and dark threatening clouds below. Pretty amazing sight.
The weekend ended in a great harvest feast at a friend's house with the oysters and clams we harvested, salmon (not caught), sweet tomatoes, corn, figs, pears from everyone's garden. It felt like thanksgiving dinner. A great weekend in the Northwest.
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Ingrid Kretschmer dedicated her whole life to cartography both at university and scientific associations. She was a constant contributor to the Cartography and Geoinformation teaching during the long vacancies of the professorship of geography and cartography in the Institute.
Besides the administrative duties, Ingrid Kretschmer dedicated herself to education, in which the history of cartography, thematic cartography and school cartography were her specialisations. Many graduates remember the exactness and rigorous attention to the correct usage of professional terminology, which was characteristic of Prof Kretschmer.
The scientific work of Prof Kretschmer consists of 282 publications about fundamental issues and the history of cartography, as well as collaborations in editorial work. The most important among the numerous publications are Wesen und Aufgaben der Kartographie – Topographische Karten (Character and Duties of Cartography – Topographic Maps) in the encyclopedia Die Kartographie und ihre Randgebiete (Cartography and its Peripheral Areas) together with Erik Arnberger (1975), Lexikon zur Geschichte der Kartographie (Lexicon of the History of Cartography) together with Johannes Dörflinger and Franz Wawrik (1986) and Atlantes Austriaci in cooperation with Johannes Dörflinger and Helga Hühnel (1995). From 1977 to 1997 she was editor of the Geographischer Jahresbericht aus Österreich (Annual Geographic Report of Austria) and from 1996 to 2004 she was co-editor of Wiener Schriften zur Geographie und Kartographie (Viennese Writings in Geography and Cartography), founded by Ferdinand Mayer.
Besides the academic research and education, the Austrian Geographic Association and the Austrian Cartographic Commission were Prof Kretschmer's fields of activity. She was active within the Austrian Cartographic Commission from the beginning of her academic career. She worked on numerous map exhibitions at international conferences and on the organisation of cartographic historical conferences. She was member of the editorial board and corresponding member of the editorial staff of Kartographische Nachrichten (Cartographic News). For more than 25 years she worked on Bibliographia Cartographica and was member of the Imago Mundi Board of Directors since 1993.
Between 1997–2004 she was president of the Austrian Geographic Association and worked tirelessly in preparing the 150th anniversary celebration of the association in 2006 including the edition of the celebration bulletin. Due to her excellent achievements for the association, she was appointed honorary president of the association in 2006. Already in 1995 she became honorary member of the German Cartographic Association, from which she received its highest award, the Mercator Medal, on 13 October 2004.
Ingrid Kretschmer died in Linz on 22 January 2011, one month before her 72nd birthday. The funeral took place at Meidling cemetery in Vienna. Austrian, German and international cartography lost an adorable person, who dedicated herself and her whole life to cartography. We will miss her wealth of knowledge and energy. The Austrian Cartographic Commission lost one of its outstanding members.
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March has been a wildly busy month – but I think I say that about every month!
It has been a month filled with learning, new projects, stepping out of my comfort zone, lots of coffee, family visits, & goodbyes to good friends.
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March has been a wildly busy month – but I think I say that about every month!
It has been a month filled with learning, new projects, stepping out of my comfort zone, lots of coffee, family visits, & goodbyes to good friends.
It's a long-standing tradition, dating back to who-knows-when, for women to take their husband's last name when they were married. In much of history, wives were considered the property of their husband, and taking on their last name was just one little part of that. Even in our relatively recent American history, married women were unable to get a credit card unless their husband cosigned, even up until 1974!
While marriage is an important institution, one that has (slowly) changed along with our society, it has such a deep history connected to female oppression and male ownership of women. The assumption that a woman will change her last name to that of her husband is a part of that history. It's also super heteronormative.
Okay okay, I know I'm not writing an essay for a women's studies class.
It can be a beautiful thing to take on someone else's last name. It shows that you're creating a new family unit, that you are a part of someone else's life so deeply and truly, and it just generally signifies marriage and lasting commitment. I don't think there's anything wrong with the desire for a woman to change her last name, but I do think that it shouldn't be an automatic, this-is-the-only-way-to-do-this notion.
Continue reading "My husband took my last name when we got married."
It's been almost a year since Ben & I got married, and a few days after that will be a year since we moved to Dayton. What the what?!?????
Time is FLYING by, and I'm not sure if it's because life has been generally good and we've been keeping busy, or if that's just what it's gonna be like as I get older. Either way, I still can't believe it.
It's been quite a year. We got married (duh), moved to Ohio, bought a house, have been slowly furnishing the house and making it ours, adopted two cats, I started a new job (almost a year ago there, too!), Ben started grad school, we've traveled, made new friends, found communities, and have explored this new area that now feels so familiar.
I feel like the only thing that could have made this year even crazier would be having babies, but don't worry, that's not happening for a few years. (Really Mom, I'm not pregnant, I promise!)
I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about where I was (both physically and mentally) last year, how many aspects of my life have changed, and how Ben & I have grown together. It's been a wild first year, but there's no one I would rather have spent it with. Here's to many more crazy years ahead of us!
After four wonderful years together, Ben and I got married on August 9, 2015 at Whitehall Estate in Bluemont, Virginia. It was one of the best days of my life!!
We got engaged in August 2014 and started wedding planning around November 2014. We wanted a simple, personal wedding, and worked hard to make that happen with the support of our families and friends. Planning the wedding was incredibly exciting, but a little overwhelming, and I'm glad to be done with it and moving on to the next big thing in our lives.


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VAT / New EU Directive
On 1 June 2011 the EU implementation rules on the common VAT system Directive entered into force that should ensure a unified application of VAT rules in the EU region. The Directive has a direct effect and must be respected although it is not implemented in Czech laws.
One of the most significant points of the Directive is its specification of a company's seat, individual's residence, and better definition of an establishment (place of business) for the VAT purposes when it comes to identifying a place for performing services. For the VAT purpose an establishment means any establishment or organisational unit that is sufficiently stable and independent and has a suitable structure from the human and technical point of view. The application of the Directive may lead to changes in the application of VAT, or to a new VAT registration obligation if the provision of services is related to the establishment in a way.
Real estate tax / hard surfaces
Earlier we informed you about the prepared changes in taxation of hard surfaces used for business purposes by a real estate tax. This change has already passed through the legislative process and the amended law will enter into force on 1 January 2012, when the hard surfaces will be taxed explicitly like plots of land.
A hard surface is newly defined as a plot of land entered in the Real Estate Register, with the type of land being other land or built land and yard whose surface has been solidified without a vertical supporting construction. Hard surfaces newly include a special group of plots of land and according to the type of business activity for which they are used they are taxed either by CZK 1 per one square metre in agricultural primary production, forest or water management, or by CZK 5 per one square metre in industry, construction, transportation, energy, other agricultural production and other business activities.
Considering that hard surfaces have recently been taxed as plots of land (other land or built land) by CZK 0.20 per one square metre, this may result in a significant tax burden for owners of such land.
International taxation / New treaty with China
On 4 May 2011 a new Double Taxation Treaty entered into force between the Czech Republic and People's Republic of China to prevent tax evasions in relationship to income taxes.
The Treaty provisions will start being applied in practice from 1 January 2012. At the same time on this day the original 1987 Treaty provisions will lose effect as they no longer reflected the political and economic situation in both countries. The new Treaty has been prepared according to the model OECD and UN agreements and in principle it respects the features of modern agreements entered into over the last years.
Interpretations of laws in force
VAT / Bonuses and discounts
The General Financial Directorate issued information about the application of VAT on bonuses and discounts (provided for example due to exceeded turnovers, or cash payments, or payments within a shortened period). The Directorate thus responded to the unclear situation which occurred in this area after the 1 April 2011 VAT amendment entered into force.
Before this amendment, the issue of VAT on bonuses and discounts was rather clear and established. If a bonus was recognised as a price condition in a business relationship, the supplier could, when providing a bonus or discount, issue an endorsement. If however a bonus or discount was set as a payment condition, it represented a financial performance that was not subject to VAT.
After 1 April 2011 this was changed in laws and the interpretations of the Finance Ministry and the General Financial Directorate were not unified.
The currently valid interpretation according to the information above is such that it is always decisive whether bonuses and discounts are provided in direct relationship to the previous taxable performances. If yes, the payer, as opposed to the laws before April 2011, was always required to issue a corrective tax document (not an endorsement) in which the payer indicated the correct tax base and tax amount.
VAT / Insolvency proceedings
At the end of July 2011 the General Financial Directorate issued information about the procedure in tax corrections for receivables from debtors in insolvency proceedings under § 44 of the VAT Act as amended with effect as of 1 April 2011.
According to this information, a correction under § 44 means an independent taxable performance based on new facts. The tax base can also be corrected in relationship to receivables that arose before 1 April 2011, and not only in relationship to performances provided to the debtor after this date, as was the case under the previous interpretation.
This information is thus in conflict with the judgement that the Ostrava Regional Court issued in June 2011, according to which the debtor's creditors may only use the correction for performances provided to the debtor in the period beginning on 1 April 2011.
Accounting / foreign currency receivables and obligations, and conditional investment expenditures
We would like to draw you attention to the existence of the National Accounting Council, an independent professional institution active in the field of accountancy, which issues interpretations on various ambiguous accounting procedures. Although the Council's views are not binding from a legal point of view, the aim of them being issued is to provide a unified and practical application of accounting regulations, which can be meaningful for the society.
In our Newsletter we would like to alert you in particular to two interpretations, one concerns the write-offs of foreign obligations and receivables, and the other the procedure in relationship with conditional investment expenditures. You will find more information at the Council's website www.nur.cz in the Czech language.
Anticipated developments
We would also like to draw your attention to the changes in laws that are currently in discussion.
These changes include for example the introduction of progressive income taxation of individuals, an increased VAT, an amendment to the Employment Act, the renewed inclusion of executive directors among persons eligible to health insurance, a proposal to introduce tax recognition of remuneration costs of statutory bodies' and other bodies' members in legal entities that are currently not being recognised, systemic changes in the Tax and Customs Administration (some offices were cancelled while other new controlling institutions have been created), and furthermore a large set of changes in practically all tax laws related to the introduction of a join payment place from 2013.


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Genetic Testing:
Your Family History Matters.
If you have a family history you too could be at risk. Below are several things you and your doctor should discuss to determine if Kardia Guard screening is right for you. The list is for educational purposes and you may use our FREE tool to see if you qualify for a genetic test covered by medicare or your provider with no out of pocket cost to you. Not all inclusive but designed to help you start a conversation with your primary care provider and care team!
Does your family have a history of heart disease involving heart muscle (pumping) weakness (cardiomyopathy)?
Treadmill Stress Tests
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Genetic testing is done for screening and possible medical treatment. The most common reasons are:
• Diagnostic testing: confirm a suspected disorder.
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The interpretation of a positive result will depend on whythe testing was done in the first place.
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• If the test was done for family planning, it may be important for your children or future children.
• If the test determines you might develop a disease or condition, keep in mind that does not guarantee you will get that disorder, only that you may be at risk. The best examples are the breast and ovarian cancer genes BRCA1 or BRCA2. Another example it the Huntington disease gene which means you may eventually develop the disease.
Keep in mind, a negative result is not a guarantee that you don't have the disorder. For example, many women who develop breast or ovarian cancer do not have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.
Genetic testing may not be able to detect all genetic defectsin every case.
Everyone has a unique set of genes, made up of DNA. Genetic testing can provide answers to questions regarding your and your family's health which may not be readily available otherwise. It can provide life-saving information.
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MAA #009: Bullet Train to Gyokusendo, Japan | DIY Rolling Mill Patterns | Show & Tool
Hop a shinkansen with Anne & Ame to Tsubame-Sanjo, Japan for a visit to the 200 year old Gyokusendo metal arts factory! We'll take a tour, meet the artists and see their amazing work. After that we'll learn to make ingenious DIY rolling mill patterns with Karla in Santa Fe and Anne will Show & Tool her latest score direct from its celebrity previous owner! As always we'll finish by talking about current projects, sharing ideas & resources and having an open Q&A. For resource links and downloads, click Read more.
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NLCSW Professional Development Fund
The NLCSW Professional Development Fund provides financial sponsorship to current NLCSW members to attend professional education and development activities that comply with the NLCSW Continuing Education Policy. Deadlines for applications are September 16 and March 16 of each year.
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The Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) in partnership with BMS and the NLCSW offers scholarships to assist social workers attend educational events which align with the mission and purpose of CASW, uphold the values of the CASW Code of Ethics and meet the criteria established by the NLCSW Continuing Professional Education Policy.
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Be Prepared for a Social Media Lawsuit
City:How Spokane, WA
A Government Social Media Lawsuit: Not If, But When
In 2013, the Spokane Parks Department was faced with a major lawsuit. As part of the discovery process, the city was asked to produce social media posts for a two-year period for all of its park social media sites. Had the city still been relying on printed screenshots, the cost of producing the records could have been astronomical. Fortunately, Spokane was prepared with an automated archive solution that was able to produce the requested records with a few clicks.
Located in the heart of the inland Northwest, the city of Spokane is home to more than 210,000 people with nearly half a million residents in its larger metropolitan area. Once dependent upon agriculture and extracting natural resources, its economy found equilibrium over the last decade by diversifying into technology, education, health services and manufacturing. It's a place where prosperity is picking up — and like most American cities today, constituents there who want to gather information or communicate about its multitude of public services and issues do so online.
City of Spokane Utilities Communications Manager Marlene Feist says, "Long gone are the days where you just put out a meeting notice and everyone shows up — it just doesn't happen. So with today's instant 24/7 communications, it's really imperative for local government to be in the space where their customers are. For us, it means we have our own cable access channel and Web presence, and our mayor is out there talking to the media. But it also means that we're in the social media space where our constituents spend a lot of time, using as many avenues as possible to reach them."[1]
Active users of social media for the last six years, the various departments — police, fire, parks and library, as well as the main city itself — use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to connect with and inform their community. But as social media usage gains momentum, so too does the risk factor involved with public records documentation. Over time, the city's communications and legal teams grew concerned about preserving social media records in such a way that would comply with state laws around record keeping. Staff struggled to comply with regulations by printing out every single social media post, and as volume expanded to more posts each day and additional platforms, that practice became utterly unwieldy.
"In Washington state, printing out posts doesn't actually meet the spirit of the law," Feist says. "If it's an electronic record, you're supposed to be able to provide it to the requester in an electronic form." Screenshots also fail to capture the metadata associated with each post and tweet, which is considered public record under Washington case law.[2]
"Even if I had a dedicated employee to do all that printing, am I using public dollars effectively and efficiently? Not to mention the lack of ability to search and pull information. Our conclusion was that we needed to hire a company that could archive the records for us."
The city contracted with ArchiveSocial, a social media archiving service, whose assistance proved to be invaluable during an important juncture not long afterwards.
Be Prepared: Records Risk Management
Public records requests are increasingly common in government, and agencies are often the target of litigation. The costs of a legal case in terms of fees, labor, time and financial liability can be disastrous for any city. In Washington state, public entities can also incur daily fines for not producing requested information within five business days — an excellent reason to have a records retention policy and an automated archiving solution that permits fast data gathering.
When the Spokane Parks Department was facing litigation in 2013 and needed to produce complete records of all of its social media posts for two years, the department was able to retrieve the requested information instantly. "Using ArchiveSocial, we were able to select time parameters, refine the search functionality to do the search ourselves and collect all the posts for a two-year period from multiple sites, with all comments attached to the original posts," Feist says. "Without the archiving service, it would have been very difficult for us to provide that information in a timely fashion, if at all. But with it, we were able to get the legal team what they needed to respond to the discovery request."
Feist feels that maintaining an archiving service such as ArchiveSocial is an excellent risk management tool. "You don't know when you will receive the next public records or discovery request, and you have to be prepared to answer those," she says.
ArchiveSocial: A Public Records Partner
The mandate that federal, state and local agencies must abide by Freedom of Information Act or other public records requests has government scrambling to make sure their social media is as open and accessible as the rest of their communications. For some, it can be a difficult adjustment without clear-cut rules and practices. While a jurisdiction may have the best of intentions where record keeping is concerned, social media is still relatively new. There is danger in not knowing what formally constitutes an actual public record, which can vary from state to state. For example, Norfolk, Va., was sued earlier this year for not archiving its city council members' text messages.[3]
ArchiveSocial can help agencies map out their jurisdictional responsibilities, and simplify and automate record keeping. It has the ability to go back in time, and gather and store all social media content ever generated by a jurisdiction by way of its authentic capture and digital signature technologies. Raw metadata underlying social media is gathered, time-stamped and recorded permanently, with easy access for swift retrieval whenever needed.
The city of Austin, Texas, also uses ArchiveSocial to retain a historical record of its social media activity. Doug Matthews, the city's chief communications director, says, "One of the attractive things about ArchiveSocial [is] the ability to capture all posts — even those that were edited or deleted — which is the requirement under public information law. Once it's posted, it's public."[4]
Don't Fly Without a Safety Net
In a time when social media has become the go-to instrument of engagement between government and its citizenry, it has taken a prominent place in the regulatory spotlight. It is now critical to control social media information and assure its delivery in an effective, well-documented manner when necessary.
Feist warns against relying on third-party, cloud-based social media platforms. "If Twitter's servers went down tomorrow and they said, 'Sorry, everybody, but we can't reproduce tweets back to the beginning – we're only going to give you tweets for the last six months,' well, that's their business decision. But what's just happened is I've lost all my records, and that's a problem." Furthermore, social media platforms do not maintain deleted content. There is a risk of losing records when citizens delete their own comments or private messages to the city.
She underscores a key differential in utilizing a professional archiving service such as ArchiveSocial. "ArchiveSocial is a cloud service too," Feist says, "but I have a contractual relationship with them that they're going to manage. They have an obligation to do what I've asked. It's a great way to manage public records that might otherwise be far less under your control – and can help your city stay prepared."
1. Interview with city of Spokane Utilities Communications Manager Marlene Feist was conducted on Nov. 14, 2014.
2. http://mrsc.org/Home/Explore-Topics/Legal/Open-Government/Electronic-Public-Records-Retention.aspx
3. www.govtech.com/data/Should-Governments-Bother-Archiving- Social-Media.html
4. Ibid.
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South-West Leads In Exclusive Breast Feeding
•May Attain UN 2025 Target
By Chioma Umeha
If any zone in Nigeria would attain the United Nations global targets to improve maternal, infant and young child nutrition by 2025, the South West States is not far from taking the lead.
This is because the latest report of the Multiple Indicators Cluster (MIC) survey of 2016/2017 showed that there are sharp increase in the number of women breastfeeding their infants exclusively for six months.
The MIC survey is an international household survey on a wide range of indicators on situation of children and women.
The World Health Organisation's (WHO's) member States had in 2014 endorsed global targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition and are committed to monitoring progress.
According to them the targets are vital for identifying priority areas for action and catalysing global change.
The global nutrition targets 2025 focuses on increasing the rate of exclusive (EBF) breastfeeding in the first six months up to at least 50 per cent.
It further aims at reducing the by 40 per cent the number of children under-five who are stunted.
It also targets to reduce by 50 per cent the incidence of anaemia in women of reproductive age.
Other areas targeted include; 30 per cent reduction in low birth weight, zero increase in childhood overweight and reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than five per cent.
Experts say exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is key to achieving these targets. In 2007, the South West could only boast of 17.1 per cent of exclusive breastfeeding rate. But, recent 2016/2017 MICS report showed an increased by over 200 per cent.
Today, the region has 43.9 per cent exclusive breastfeeding rate by mothers in 2016 and 2017 as against 17.1 per cent in 2007.
In the region, Osun had the highest percentage of exclusive breastfeeding rate with 55.3 per cent in 2017 followed by Lagos State with 51.8 per cent. Edo state increased from 11.9 per cent in 2007 to 27.1 per cent in 2017.
However, Ogun and Ondo States had the lowest percentages of exclusive breast feeding.
The MICS report showed that exclusive breastfeeding rate in Ogun was 23.1 per cent in 2007, 13.6 per cent in 2011 and 20.9 per cent in 2016 and 2017.
Also, Ondo State recorded 14.3 per cent of exclusive breastfeeding rate in 2007, 8.6 per cent in 2011 and 23.5 per cent for 2016 and 2017.
Confirming the reports, the Dr Niyi Olaleye, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, says the percentage of mothers in South-west and Edo engaging in exclusive breastfeeding for their infants under six months has improved over the years.
In the views of Mrs. Ada Ezeogu, UNICEF Nutrition Specialist, Akure Office, breastfeeding is one of the best investments in global health as every $1 invested in it generates $35 in economic returns.
For her, with the right policies and behavioural change of mothers and health workers, exclusive breastfeeding will soar up to 90 per cent in the country.
"The 50 per cent UN target is achievable in Nigeria because if you look at the pattern you will find out that most mothers in Nigeria is breastfeeding but the problem we have is that many of them give water.
"So if we can change their orientation on how to position and attach the baby to breast, provide them with the support they need at home and get them to understand that breast milk itself has over 88 percent water even in Nigeria climate where it can be pretty hot.
"The breast contains enough water for the baby. If we can just drop the water from zero to six months, we will indeed achieve much more than 50 per cent if not almost 90 per cent of EBF. We will then derive the benefit of breast feeding.
"Again, if 90 per cent of mothers exclusively breastfed their infants for the first six months of life, we will derive 13 per cent reduction in infant mortality.
"We need to change the norm of breastfeeding in Nigeria. EBF has the potential to save more children's lives than any other preventive intervention.
"Breastfed children have at least six times greater chance of survival in the early months than non-breastfed children. And an exclusively breastfed child is 14 times less likely to die in the first six months than a non-breastfed child.
Ezeogu also explained that another strategy to achieve the UN target was by enforcing the BreastMilk Code. Lamenting non implementation of the code, she stressed the need for the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, charged with enforcement of the Code to go in and enforce the code.
Ezeogu explained that aggressive marketing by infant formula companies, non-enforcement of the Code of Marketing of BMS are currently posing a barrier to the campaign.
The Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes aims to shield breastfeeding from commercial promotion that affects mothers, health workers and health care systems. All forms of product advertising and promotion are prohibited.
Mothers should not be given free product samples and promotional devices such as discounts.
The UNICEF Nutrition Specialist stressed the need to build the skills of health workers who engage women on daily basis to be able to teach them how to breastfeed and why they should not give water until after six months.
"Knowledge is dynamic and they should be retrained. There is also the need to support these mothers. Usually there are a lot of pressures from grandparents who did not do exclusive breastfeeding that is why there is need for social mobilisation of the community to understand benefit of EBF and to encourage community members to do that."
The UNICEF Nutrition Specialist also called for a holistic budget line for nutrition that would cover all aspect of nutrition because after breastfeeding the child will go to complementary feeding and adequate feeding for all.
On the benefits of breastfeeding, Ezeogu advised mothers to ensure that their newborns are put to breast within an hour of delivery as well as ensure that the baby is fed with the first milk they produces known as Colostrum. According to her, colostrum serves as the baby's first immunisation and contains antibodies that can protect against allergy & infection, many white cells – protects against infection, purgative that can clear meconium, helps to prevent jaundice, rich in Vitamin A among others.
Dissuading mothers from artificial feeding, she said it interferes with bonding, causes persistent diarrhoea, frequent respiratory infections, malnutrition; Vitamin A deficiency, milk intolerance, increased risk of some adult on set of chronic diseases. lower scores on intelligence tests, increases risk of anaemia, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer in mothers.


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Governments must focus on saving lives rather than keeping foreigners out at a time when more people than ever are embarking on risky sea crossings in search of asylum or a better life, the United Nations' refugee agency said on Wednesday.
UNHCR said at least 384,000 people, including a growing number of asylum seekers, had taken to the seas since the beginning of the year.
The bulk of the arrivals has been in Europe where more than 207,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean since the start of January - about three times the previous high of about 70,000 in 2011 during the Libyan civil war.
Despite the increase, the international community's response has been marred by confusion over to how to tackle the problem. Some governments are more concerned about keeping people out than treating them as individuals who may be fleeing war or persecution, UNHCR said.
"This is a mistake, and precisely the wrong reaction for an era in which record numbers of people are fleeing wars," the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said in a statement.
"Security and immigration management are concerns for any country, but policies must be designed in a way that human lives do not end up becoming collateral damage," he said.
Guterres made his comments as UNHCR opened a two-day debate with government officials, aid workers, coastguards, lawyers, academics and other experts on the matter.
It comes less than two months after Italy announced it would halt a sea rescue mission - Mare Nostrum - that had saved the lives of more than 100,000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East since it began over a year ago.
Italy said the mission would end to make way for a smaller European Union scheme.
UNHCR said for the first time, people from "refugee producing countries" have become a major source of those leaving their homelands by boat, accounting for almost half the individuals undertaking sea journeys.
Most are from Syria, where conflict has raged for nearly four years, and Eritrea, where human rights experts say national service, an indefinite conscription, amounts to forced labour.
UNHCR said besides the Mediterranean, there were at least three other major sea routes being used by migrants and asylum seekers.
In the Horn of Africa, more than 80,000 people, mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia, crossed the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea between Jan. 1 and end of November en route to Yemen or Saudi Arabia.
In Southeast Asia, an estimated 54,000 people have taken to the sea so far this year, most of them leaving Bangladesh or Myanmar and heading to Thailand or Malaysia. In the Caribbean, nearly 5,000 people took to boats between Jan. 1 and Dec. 1, hoping to flee poverty or in search of asylum, UNHCR said.
Many travel in rickety, unseaworthy boats. Others die or fall victim to human traffickers. Worldwide, UNHCR said it had received information of 4,272 reported deaths this year.
UNHCR spokesman William Spindler told a press briefing on Friday that ethnic tensions in Myanmar and little prospect of integration in Bangladesh were driving more Rohingya, a mostly stateless Muslim people, to the open seas than before.
The vast majority use smugglers, who typically charge them very little, to make the crossings. Once they arrive they are held for ransom in secluded camps, he said.
"In some cases these people stay there for months under terrible conditions," Spindler said. "We know of beatings, torture, rape against these refugees and migrants."
Guterres called for all players to address the root causes of why people are fleeing and how to crack down on the criminal networks profiting from desperate would-be migrants.
He also highlighted the importance of having systems to deal with arrivals and distinguish real refugees from migrants.
ReutersGüncelleme Tarihi: 10 Aralık 2014, 16:57