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Until quite recently, Chancellor Merkel's calm, but efficient political professionalism was widely praised by the Anglo-American and German media. Now these same media circles are assailing her as dull, petty minded and ineffective in dealing with the financial-economic crisis. Of particular significance, in this media campaign is Der Spiegel's correspondent in Washington, Gabor Steingart.
By Michael Liebig
One of Germany's leading media figures is Gabor Steingart. He is not just writing articles in Der Spiegel, but is a prolific writer of books on political and economic affairs, and he often appears in Germany's "trend-setting" political TV talk shows. Steingart says, he is no "looker-on", for him journalism is political "agenda setting".
There are some striking similarities between Steingart and the London Daily Telegraph's economics editor, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who also served as that paper's Washington correspondent. Both pursue a journalistic style of — reputably looking — hype. The methodology underlying the hype is "fallacy of composition":
- Select one or two aspects of the news picture, usually very real issues
- Blow up these aspects out of any proportion
- Then present these overblown aspects as the "total picture"
- In doing so, use a narrative of absolute certainty
In 2001-07, before becoming correspondent in Washington, Steingart was Spiegel's chief correspondent in Berlin. There, he became notorious for conducting a ruthless media campaign against the "red-green" government of then-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Much is to be criticized in what Schroeder was doing, but let's not forget that he kept Germany out of the Iraq War. And that earned Schroeder the status of political enemy for the Bush administration.
Germany's "Downfall" in the "World War for Wealth"
Steingart did not criticize the Schroeder government's social "reforms" nor its dismantling of financial market regulation. Quite the opposite, Steingart used Spiegel's media clout to push these "reforms", but for him they did not go far enough. In 2004, Steingart published, together with Spiegel's then-chief editor, Stefan Aust, a book, titled: Germany – The Downfall of a Champion. The "message" of the book is simple: The paradigms of "social market economy" and the "social state" have ruined Germany. The cost of labour and social expenditures have become too high. A "cartel" of trade unions and sclerotic politicians has wrecked the German economy's competitiveness in the age of globalization.
In 2006, Steingart published his next book: World War for Wealth – How Political and Economic Power is Redistributed. In it, he repeats his core message that the German "social market economy" model is outdated, self-destructive and will inevitably be buried by globalization. Germany's fate is de-industrialization and proletarization. The rising "cheap labour" powers of Asia are gaining the upper hand in the "world war for wealth". But right at the moment when the reader is ready to write off Germany for good, Steinhart offers a way out: "A NATO of the economy" to repulse the Asian onslaught. Germany has still a chance if it were to go for a "Transatlantic Free Trade Zone".
Since, Steinhart has of course realized that George W. Bush is a "loser" who squandered America's economic, financial and strategic capital. However, following this embarrassing failure, the election of Barack Obama has opened up new and grandiose perspectives. Please read what Gabor Steingart wrote on March 9, 2009 in SpiegelOnline (and please note that the following lines are not meant ironically):
American Orchids and German Weeds
"When Barack Obama speaks up on American TV, there is silence like in a church. The words of the President are perceived as an enrichment, not an annoyance. The people hear themselves speaking; one could say: the people speak to themselves. Obama is not merely doing politics, he explains what he is doing. For many [Americans], a world, increasingly seen as hostile, becomes comprehensible now. The financial crisis is combated with tons of money [by the Obama administration]; and the response to the fear of ruin through the crisis are the right words and the showing of compassion [by Obama].
Today, the world is looking towards America – and compares what it sees with the conditions back home […] No one can yet judge the content of Obama's policies; he is in office only for seven weeks. But already today, his political style has become the new gold standard […] Politics with the people, democracy carried by compassion; whoever is not impressed by what's happening [in America] is a cynic or a senior member of a German political party.
In the global village, the White House and the [German] Chancellor's Office are not far away. It's worth looking over the fence. It is as if our best friend has reinvented his life and leaves us behind with our old habits. In his living room, there is productive debate, in ours the TV is running. We see, how he lets in fresh air; we keep our windows closed. In his garden, orchids are blossoming; while in our garden common dandelion is growing".
From Merkel down: All Dull and Grey
We see here that, if necessary, Gabor Steingart's "agenda setting" journalism can even become lyrical. But we are also getting an uneasy sense that the political lyrics may just be the appetizer for rude polemics. Indeed:
Obama "is the worst that could happen to German politicians", because "he shames them", writes Steingart. The "legitimacy" of the Chancellor Merkel's government is "shrinking faster than the stock indices". Merkel is "showing off her decolletes more explicitly than her political convictions." Merkel does not find the "right words", but uses the "language of bureaucrats". She cannot speak to the people, only about the people. No wonder, "everything looks so grey" in Germany.
Steingart gets really angry at Merkel, because she dared to say that, in spite of the current crisis, "our economy is strong, our products are internationally competitive, our social net is stable." Does she not realize that "the crisis weakens the strong too," he exclaims (five years after he had ascertained the "downfall" of the German economy).
If you think that Steingart, in view of the Bundestag elections in September 2009, might prefer the Socialdemocratic Vice-Chancellor to the Christian-democratic Chancellor, you are way off. No, the Socialdemocrats too are vague, vacillating and, moreover, they lack the will for power, writes Steingart. They don't know whether they should be "the friend of the social climbers or the advocate of the fearful"? So forget the Socialdemocratic chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Then, Steingart goes a step further: The whole political system in Germany is defunct! Germany is a "party state", characterized by compromise, shifting coalitions and "grey party hacks". In Germany, the constitution allows merely "indirect democracy," while in the United States, "the people rule American politics like God the universe".
Steingart's "Political Project"
Alas, after the "downfall" of the German economy in 2004, Steinhart now diagnoses the bankruptcy of the German political system, the constitution included. Please read carefully: "If there is currently a political project in Germany, it is not the reform of the party state, but overcoming it". The way for overcoming the German "party state" is simple: Stay home and abstain from voting at the coming Bundestag election! Many people still have the illusion that voting for a political party will somehow strengthen democracy, writes Steingart, but "today, the opposite is true": The political parties are no longer "part of the solution". And, of course, Gabor Steingart, has his next book ready: The Question of Power – Views of a Non-Voter.
Rainer Burchardt reviewed Steingart's new book in Deutschlandfunk. He noted that Steingart identifies many of of the defects in the political system and skillfully appeals to widespread dissatisfaction with non-transparent motions and compromises of political parties. But to advocate "mass voting abstention" as the solution, he concludes, is "strange".
Strange, indeed. We can only speculate about the origins of Steingart's latest political "agenda setting". Let's assume for a moment his "political project" would materialize: mass voting abstention at the Bundestag elections in September. What would be the consequence? Internal destabilization and the weakening of Germany's international position in the midst of the financial-economic crisis. Cui Bono?
The Real Issues in the Crisis
Interestingly enough, Steingart, in his new book, with particular verve assails the Merkel government's handling of the crisis: "In the financial crisis, Merkel distinguished herself by a nervous and erratic policy. One grows with challenges, is a popular saying. In her case, it's the opposite. Merkel has shrunk." Really?
Fact is that Merkel and her socialdemocratic Finance Minister Steinbrueck have refused to imitate the American ways of dealing with the crisis: Exploding state debt (currently standing at $11 trillion) to stimulate consumption, not innovative public/private investments; and turning the Federal Reserve into a giant "bad bank" for the "toxic assets" of private banks. To pay for the "toxic assets," the Fed is literally printing money; and by the same method the Fed pays for US Treasury Bills which no one else is willing to buy. Over the past six months, the money printing amounts to $2 trillion.
Germany's problems today derive from having imitated American financial and economic policies — before the crisis blew up. Had Germany stuck to the home-grown principles of "Rheinish capitalism", its problems today would be much smaller. To assume that the same US establishment which caused the crisis, now possesses the supreme capacity for overcoming the crisis is not just naïve.
On March 14, Juergen Stark, the German member of directorate of the European Central Bank, made an interesting remark at the Tutzing Academy. Neither the causes nor the origins of the current crisis lay in continental Europe, he said, and called for a "continental European" approach in dealing with crisis. And that indeed is being done in continental Europe — which still has an industrial base and technologically innovative SMEs. That far too little is being done here in promoting state/private investments for basic innovations as the way out of crisis, is most regrettable, but it's a different matter.
On March 16, the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, who currently holds the rotating EU Presidency, gave in interview to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He said the EU countries must take a unified stance at the April 2 G-20 summit in London, otherwise the consequence will be that "the United States will solve their problems at the expense of the rest of the world". Topolanek warned against those in the EU who say: "Obama is doing it, so we too have to do it."
Topolanek surely didn't think of Gabor Steingart when he gave the interview. But what he said, sums up Steingart's message. Again, one wonders where this journalistic "message maker" is getting his message from?


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I saw a post about half an hour ago talking about his most recent video so I thought hey, why not give it a look and see why he doesn't really like the emotes being added to the game.
Edit here: idk if the mods would consider that I am promoting myself (somehow) so I wont out the video to the link. The video is called emote angry review and is the latest one on team vash channel.
I will return to before the 14 mins mark at the end of the post. But for now lets talk about what he is saying at 14 mins. The gravedigger and how its rarity mattered.
I completely agree that some schematics and even heroes should be locked behind either long (good) quests or hard limited time challenges and should never come back. But the problem with this thought is:
1- the "og" schematics were good when they released and nowadays they dont excel at anything.
2- due to how the schematic and crafting system works, we can't really have a rare schematic. What would be the point of having a mythic weapon locked behind the longest and hardest questline if I can just craft it to anyone and trade it. The schematics lose their rarity as soon as more than 1 person has them. Because ANYONE could have a grave if they wanted. Making the schematic available was the best move imo so now a people would craft their own and realize the weapon was mediocre at best.
Having "og" schematic doesnt compare to br battlepass emotes because those are exclusive. Those will never be obtained again. But again, the way stw works doesnt allow for schematics to be considered rare.
About 20 minutes in he starts repeating the same thing (how emotes are basically epic way of saying we dont care and we will just give you br leftovers. Be happy)
We just got the announcement saying we are getting emotes. On the video we can see that those are classified as locker emotes and on the bday llama 2 post some epic employers/devs said we wont need to change to br to change what emotes we are using. Which confirms we are getting some sort of locker.
And about the locker, one of the last dev replies was refering to the "more details soon". Team vash/vash is just assuming at this point that we are only getting br left overs and nothing more. We dont know exactly what the locker will give us and even what can be added to it on the "long term".
We might get our own emotes or get some exclusive skins for our new locker in the future (season 10). What I really don't get is why you are criticizing so heavily something we don't have a lot of information about. O would love being able to choose a different skin but keeping the same commander perk on one hero. It would be amazing.
(Some things I dont know where to put in so I am just going to throw it all here including the things before the 14 mins mark which was basically the game is too casual now).
1- the progression is bad and it was worse (at least imo). I think players should still need to do a good part of plankerton and canny to learn the gamem they shouldnt be able to do survivor xp missions and skip everything. But reverting the way the game works to how it once did is just so bad.
We had to do a cat 4, 4x mission. One of the hardest missions (at that time) on the game. Wasting a lot of materials. Without the great addition of the hero loadout, just to get enough xp to level a single schematic to 106.
If you like how it works hey thats great. But I dont think everyone should suffer doing a lot of missions for duch a small reward. I also dont think xp should be given freely but its hard to balance what would be the ideal amount of xp.
2- but he suggested each minute of a game (with the max of 20 mins) giving you more rewards and letting you choose what you would receive.
Oh thats great. One second just let me go to this 116 4x rtd and do a jail build over and over so I can get everything in the game.
This just doesnt work. And jail builds arent even something you can nerf or fix because it isnt an exploit. You are just playing the game and using its mechanics to its best potential. So please tell me how this would be any better than afking wargames (which you knew was going be bad from day 1).
Tldr: most of the video is assumptions on how the locker will ruin stw and how epic again isnt doing anything to stw. Absolutely nothing.
Anyways u/teamvash as you said on the end of your video "leave your opnion in the comments". While not exavtly the comments I would love to hear your opnion on my opnion about your opnion. (Hope you still use reddit otherwise idk how to contact you).
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In response to current and projected demographic changes in the United States, many dental schools have taken steps to increase the cultural competence of their students through various educational methods. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the cultural competency curriculum at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM). The curriculum was evaluated using a pre and post design, utilizing an instrument developed for pharmacy students and modified for dental students. The questionnaire was comprised of 11 items designed to assess changes in students' awareness, knowledge, and skills in providing culturally competent care. Data were collected for two classes of second-year DMD students and first-year Advanced Standing students. The total number of returned surveys was 485, for a response rate of 79.5%. The students' post-curriculum mean scores were all higher than their pre-curriculum scores for overall cultural competence (pre 26.5±6.3 to post 29.8±7.2) and for individual subscores on awareness (pre 5.3±1.4 to post 5.5±1.5), knowledge (pre 7.2±1.9 to post 8.1±2.1), and skills (pre 14.1±4.4 to post 16.2±4.4). The improvements on all scores were statistically significant (p<0.0001), with the exception of the awareness component. This evaluation suggests that the cultural competency curriculum at GSDM has been effective in producing improvements in these students' cultural competence in the domains of knowledge and skills.
- dental education
- cultural competence
- attitude of health personnel
- dental health services
- community health education
- public health
- access to health care
- dentist-patient relations
The growing diversity in the United States has had a tremendous impact on health care delivery. As noted in the surgeon general's report Oral Health in America, the burden of oral diseases is spread unevenly across the population.1 Poor people, people with limited education, and members of some racial and ethnic groups have a higher incidence of untreated oral disease than the population as a whole, as documented by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).2,3 An indicator of the serious implications of such disparities in health care is the poorer outcomes for patients who are not provided appropriate care, as noted in the landmark Institute of Medicine report Unequal Treatment.4 It is a national public health priority to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care and expand care for underserved populations.5–7 One strategy that has received much attention is to train health care providers in the cultural competence that is considered an important component in efforts to eliminate health care disparities in the affected racial and ethnic groups.8
The role of medical and dental schools is crucial in training health care providers and providing a culturally competent workforce.8–12 Dental educators can train the next generation of practitioners to better understand various belief systems, cultural biases, ethnic origins, family structures, and other culturally determined factors that influence how people experience illness.11,13 Graduates of dental schools are now required by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) to be "competent in managing a diverse patient population and have the interpersonal and communications skills to function successfully in a multicultural work environment."14
A study of the status of cultural competency education in U.S. dental schools published in 2006 found that although the majority of schools indicated the concept of cultural competence was integrated into their curricula, only six of the 34 responding schools (18%) provided a free-standing cultural competency course.8 In another study published the same year, 29 of the responding 45 schools (64%) reported having formal cross-cultural competency curricula provided in a separate course and/or integrated into other courses.15 In general, integration of cultural instruction into other didactic and clinical subjects suggests that, for most schools, cultural competence has a meaningful place in the curriculum.
The Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) is one school that, in 2004, incorporated cultural competence into its predoctoral curriculum, as part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grant.16 The intent of the cultural competency curriculum is to ensure that graduating students have the awareness, knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will allow them to work effectively with patients and their families from culturally diverse populations. Beginning in 2005, data collection was initiated to assess the effectiveness of the newly integrated cultural competency curriculum using a pre- and posttest design to assess the students' awareness, knowledge, and skills. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the didactic cultural competency curriculum and related courses for dental students at GSDM.
Materials and Methods
The cultural competency curriculum at GSDM is comprised of 1) two two-hour lectures about cultural competence; 2) experiential learning experiences in the Applied Professional Experience Program (APEX) rotation; and 3) a series of discussion seminars in the Integrated Problems in Practice Management (IPPM) course. This study is the evaluation component of the RWJF-funded project that was submitted to the Boston University Medical Center Institutional Review Board for review and was determined to be exempt.
The first of the two lectures is an introduction to cultural competence with in-depth information on the extent of disparities in oral health care among various ethnic groups in the United States. Language challenges, attitude variations, communication problems, and clinical differences among people from various ethnic groups are presented and supported with case scenarios. The first lecture is taught only to second-year dental (DMD-II) students. The second lecture focuses on how culture affects health beliefs, health-seeking behaviors, decision making, and compliance and includes a discussion of communication and learning styles. The second lecture is provided both to DMD-II students and to first-year Advanced Standing (AS-I) students, who generally hold international dental degrees and are seeking licensure in the United States.
During the APEX rotation, these DMD-II students participated in an eight-week off-site internship. The internships take place in over 100 public and private dental sites in 23 states across the United States, including community health centers, hospital-based ambulatory facilities, and private practices that mostly serve culturally diverse populations. The intent of the rotation is for students to function as a member of the dental team. In the rotation, they are exposed to all aspects of patient care, e.g., communications, professionalism, and practice management. To further enhance their learning and experience in caring for diverse populations, students are required to complete two assignments during the rotation. The first assignment is a case presentation, while the second requires students to observe patient and provider/staff interactions and to make notes of any communication breakdowns observed.
At the end of the off-site rotation, students write a paper on their observations of the patient interactions and submit it to their group facilitator on the first day of the discussion seminars in the IPPM-I and IPPM-II courses. The seminar groups meet twice, during which students cover three cases related to the communication breakdowns identified during their APEX rotations. In their groups, they discuss observations that may characterize individuals from various ethnic backgrounds.
To assess the students' awareness, knowledge, and skills in providing culturally competent dental care, we used an 11-item instrument previously used with pharmacy students17 and modified for preclinical dental students. For example, the item "Effectively utilize an interpreter to interview or counsel a patient" was not used as the dental students were not currently involved with patient care.
A convenience sample was used for the study. The subjects were GSDM DMD-II and AS-I students from the 2009 and 2010 graduating classes. The DMD-II students' perceptions of their awareness, knowledge, and skills in providing culturally competent dental care were assessed prior to and after the curriculum using pre and post surveys. Differences between DMD-II students, who received all three parts of the curriculum, and AS-I students, who did not receive the Introduction to Cultural Competence lecture portion, were also assessed to evaluate the impact of one versus two lectures.
The pre-curriculum survey for both classes was distributed to the DMD students on orientation day of the DMD-I year, and the post-curriculum survey was distributed to both the DMD-II and the AS-I students at the conclusion of the cultural competency curriculum. The two surveys consisted of the same 11 questions, which asked students to rate their confidence and addressed the three domains of awareness, knowledge, and skills. A unique identifier code was created, so that the responses for each student could be evaluated before and after receiving the curriculum while keeping their identities anonymous. The data used for these analyses were collected between 2005 and 2008. For each item, students chose a response on a scale from 0 to 4, with 0=not at all confident, 1=not very confident, 2=moderately confident, 3=very confident, and 4=extremely confident.
Epi InfoVersion 3.4.1 was used for data entry, and SAS version 9.1 was employed for analyses. The 11 survey items were collapsed into three domains, and new variables were created. The knowledge domain was derived from three questions asking how confident students were in their ability to accurately define and describe the differences among culture, ethnicity, and race; to explain the difference between a stereotype and an assumption; and to list and describe elements of culturally competent health care. The awareness domain was based on responses to two survey questions. The first asked how confident students were in their ability to recognize when they make assumptions about various groups or people; the second asked them to identify the influence of stereotypes on their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors towards various groups of people when providing patient care or education.
The skills domain was derived from six questions that asked how confident students were in several areas: interacting with people culturally different from themselves; eliciting a patient's perspective on illness during a patient encounter or consultation; eliciting a patient's perspective on health promotion during a patient encounter or consultation; effectively counseling a patient from a different cultural group on treatment, treatment options, or treatment plans; effectively counseling a patient from a different cultural group on his or her understanding of the proposed treatment plan; and effectively monitoring the treatment or treatment plan for a patient from a different cultural group. An overall variable was also created that summed the awareness, knowledge, and skills responses. The maximum possible scores were 12 for knowledge, 8 for awareness, 24 for skills, and 44 for overall.
Analyses included univariate and bivariate analysis of responses using paired and Student's t-tests at a statistical significance level (alpha) of 0.05. The analyses compared the aspects of cultural competence for DMD-II students pre and post curriculum and between DMD-II students and AS-I students. Additionally, analyses evaluated whether there were differences between the two graduating classes of 2009 and 2010.
The total number of returned surveys was 485 for a response rate of 79.5%. Of these, 187 surveys (39%) were pre curriculum (from DMD-II students), and 298 surveys (61%) were post curriculum: 173 DMD-II (58%) and 125 AS-I (42%) students (Table 1). The pre- and post-curriculum surveys for 100 out of 187 students (53.0%) were matched using the unique identifier code.
Table 2 shows pre versus post comparisons for DMD-II students for the 360 unpaired and 100 paired responses. The overall scores for the DMD-II students were higher (29.8±7.2) after the curriculum than before receiving it (26.5±6.2), out of a maximum score of 44 (p<0.0001). However, when the individual domains of awareness, knowledge, and skills were compared, statistically significant differences were found for the questions addressing knowledge and skills but not for awareness. In the paired data, the post-curriculum and pre-curriculum differences for overall cultural competence (4.2±6.5), awareness (0.2±1.7), knowledge (1.3±2.0), and skills (2.7±4.1) were statistically significant, with the post-curriculum scores higher (p<0.0001) than the pre-curriculum scores, with the exception of the awareness domain (p=0.3).
Comparisons between graduating classes (Table 3) showed that the DMD-II students' level of confidence increased for both years (2009 and 2010) post curriculum. The overall composite scores for both classes on the post-curriculum survey (30.5±6.8 and 29.2±7.4, respectively) were higher than the pre-curriculum responses (27.1±6.0 and 25.9±6.5, respectively), with statistically significant p-values of <0.05. The knowledge and skills subcomponents showed statistically significant improvement, while awareness was not significantly improved.
When data were compared between the two graduating classes (50 paired surveys for each graduating class), there was a statistically significant improvement for both classes. However, the class of 2009 showed slightly more improvement in overall cultural competence than the class of 2010. DMD-II and AS-I student response comparisons showed that the overall composite scores for DMD-II students were higher (29.8±7.2) than for AS-I students (27.8±6.8), with a p=0.02 (Table 4). The scores for all three domains were higher for DMD-II students than for AS-I students. While awareness (p=0.0006) and knowledge (p=0.003) scores were statistically significantly different, the skills score was not statistically significant between the two groups (p=0.2).
To date, the dental education community has yet to develop adequately comprehensive tools for evaluation of dental students' awareness, knowledge, and skills in providing culturally competent dental care.18 Using a questionnaire developed at the University of San Francisco School of Pharmacy17 and modifying this questionnaire for dental settings was reasonable for our study, as the original tool represented the general core constructs of several behavioral theories and models, including Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory and Prochaska and DiClemente's Transtheoretical Model of Change.19–22 The scale's validity has been tested using confirmatory factor analysis, and robust and diverse assessments of concurrent validity and additional indicators of reliability have been conducted.23
Most research evaluating cultural competence in dental education has consisted of cross-sectional studies conducted either to investigate the need for a cultural competency curriculum or to evaluate its effectiveness.24–26 For example, using data from the 2003 American Dental Education Association (ADEA) survey of dental school seniors, Hewlett et al. found that 87% felt prepared to treat a diverse population.24 Thind et al. reported that 64.7% of the students in their study perceived that time spent on extramural clinical rotations during dental education was a positive educational experience.25 Kuthy et al. found that, after completing their extramural clinical rotations, 77.7% of responding University of Iowa College of Dentistry students reported some experience in treating patients from ethnic groups different from their own.26 However, rarely have studies investigated the precise impact of a cultural competency curriculum on dental students by following them over time. One longitudinal study at the Medical University of South Carolina found that its cultural competency curriculum had a strong positive impact on dental students' perceptions.27 However, some of the students' reflective paper responses included negative comments about people from backgrounds different from their own. Another study attempted to evaluate first-year dental students' perceptions of cultural competence with school-based programs using a pre/post survey design.28 This study reported improvement in the students' perceptions using two questions to evaluate cultural competence; however, the investigators failed to use identifiers to match pre and post responses.
Our study used a pre- and post-intervention design to assess the effect of our cultural competency curriculum on students' perceptions, resolving some methodological issues of earlier studies. Overall, there was a measureable improvement in confidence for the DMD-II students in overall competence and the domains of knowledge and skills. This was seen across the various cohorts included (DMD classes of 2009 and 2010 and AS-I students). Further, when compared to the AS-I students, the DMD-II students reported more confidence in their awareness, knowledge, and skills in providing culturally competent care (post-curriculum mean overall score: DMD-II students 29.8, AS-I students 27.8), which indicates higher confidence among the DMD-II students. This finding may indicate a dose-effect relationship, as the DMD-II students were exposed to more of the curriculum than the AS-I students. Additionally, these differences were statistically significant, with the exception of the skills domain. This might be attributed to the fact that the AS-I students were mainly foreign-born dentists, some of whom had previous clinical experience in treating patients of various races/ethnicities, whereas the majority of DMD-II students were born in the United States and more likely to be raised in homogeneous communities with little experience in communicating with people from ethnic and racial groups different from their own. Another study found a similar relationship between clinical experience and higher levels of cultural skills when comparing graduate dentists to dental students in Melbourne, Australia.29
One reason for the lack of improvement in the awareness domain may be due to the greater diversity of faculty, students, and patients at GSDM. Also, the impact of the curriculum may be underestimated since students in the pre survey reported fairly high cultural sensitivity and confidence before receiving the intervention. This is a common concern with self-reported data as students tend to overestimate their competence, meaning that self-evaluations may not be reliable predictors of actual performance. As Gozu et al. explained, "A high rating of confidence may be based on arrogance or lack of awareness of one's limitations rather than on actual ability."30 This potential could account for our not seeing larger differences post-curriculum and is a possible limitation of this study.
Loss to follow-up is another limitation as only 100 out of 187 surveys (53%) were matched between pre and post delivery. This response rate might be attributed to student absences from class at the post-curriculum stage, non-response of some of the attendees, and/or errors in entering the exact identification code. Twelve codes were excluded due to an incomplete match. Simpler identification codes for future surveys may help resolve this issue. Finally, the lack of a pre test for AS-I students could be a limitation since we were unable to obtain baseline data to facilitate comparisons. Pretesting AS-I students would allow for more comparisons between groups and would further clarify whether there is a dose-effect relationship (since DMD-II students received two lectures, the APEX rotations, and seminar discussions compared to AS-I students who received only one lecture).
This study found strong evidence that, after receiving the cultural competency curriculum, students became more confident overall and particularly in their knowledge and skills in providing culturally competent dental care. These results suggest that the curriculum is successfully preparing students to address this important issue.
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Carol Marder, co-founder and chairwoman of Inkwell Global Marketing, passed away on August 22. She was 76.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Carol co-founded the company in 1983. Her son Steven Marder is the president and CEO.
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IF you are interested in being a part of L.E.A.D. local on Monday, December 17, please reach out to Donna-Jean at email@example.com or (914) 848-7369 or Michele Jennrich at firstname.lastname@example.com or (201) 213-3941.
Congratulations Tim Howe, Spectrum Designs, for being named a PPB 2018 Rising Star!
Tim and nineteen other PPB 2018 Rising Stars were recognized at the opening dinner of the PPAI North American Leadership Conference at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C.
"There's no better indication of our industry's bright future than the bold attitudes and ambition of these inspiring individuals," said PPB Editor Tina Berres Filipski, in her opening remarks about this year's honorees.
PPB's Rising Stars is an annual recognition program that has sought out and spotlighted the industry's young up-and-coming individuals since 2010. Those selected this year were among nearly 90 nominees recommended by their bosses, coworkers, clients or suppliers.
Tim Howe also was the recipient of the SAAGNY 2018 Rising Star Award.
Tim also was one of nine industry professionals that earned their Certified Advertising Specialist (CAS) designations this past July . Tim joins an elite group of individuals who have demonstrated their commitment to the promotional products industry and to continuing their education.
The full article about PPB Rising Stars can be reached by clicking here.
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The Specialty Advertising Association of Greater New York (SAAGNY) has grown to be the largest regional Promotional Products association in the country. Our growth would not have been possible without the visionary planning and untiring efforts of a few outstanding leaders.
The SAAGNY Hall of Fame recognizes the extraordinary achievements of these leaders who have contributed to our success. This is your opportunity to help choose the next recipient of this prestigious honor. When making your selection, please keep in mind the following criteria:
SAAGNY Pioneers are defined as individuals previously employed by member companies who are no longer active in our region or business and served AMASS or SAAGNY prior to 1989.
SAAGNY Contemporaries are defined as current or past members who have had service to SAAGNY and the industry since 1989.
· The nominee shall have made significant and lasting contributions to SAAGNY and the Promotional Products industry and have served on a committee or on the Board of Directors of SAAGNY.
· The nominee has not served on the SAAGNY Board of Directors for a minimum of three (3) years before induction into the Hall of Fame.
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Thank you for your participation.
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SPARK, PPAI's conference for young professionals in the promotional products industry, improved on its inaugural success this year. Held on July 19-20 at several venues in Nashville, Tennessee, SPARK delivered education and networking opportunities for 80 practitioners who are at the beginning stages of their careers in the promotional products industry.
"This year is different," says Kalie Herron, Augusta Sportswear Brands/Boxercraft multi-line rep, and SPARK work group chair. "With 33 attendees who are second-timers, there's an idea of how it's supposed to be, and how we're supposed to grow and build from here. We've brought in speakers and education sessions that take it to the next level. SPARK gives people new to the industry an education on what it's about, taking those next steps to become a better leader or employee, and how to take that leadership role forward."
Delivering a unique take on education in the industry, SPARK moved through different locations throughout the host city, giving attendees a feel for Nashville, showcasing presentations in fresh environments and creating opportunities to network and collaborate.
"SPARK has been a really great experience," says Rayan Horak, owner of distributor Pivot Communications Group and a first-time attendee. "I appreciate the opportunity to connect with other people in the industry with similar interests, [and enjoyed] the interactive sessions and the format of the event itself. Everyone is so collaborative and cooperative, and we all want the best for us and the industry. There's a huge passion that's great to be a part of. What I'm going to take from this are the relationships and connections, and reaching out to that network because we're all in it together."
The conference's programming focused on creating an educational event that has a positive impact on attendees, getting them to think creatively and helping them network and learn from their peers. This year's conference featured more than 15 speakers over its two-day run.
"I have been in the industry for two and a half years; my first week on the job was at The PPAI Expo in Vegas. It was kind of a trial by fire, but I'm a big believer in that being the best way to learn," says Mason Linn, central region account executive with Raining Rose and first-time SPARK attendee. "SPARK has been great. It's been a phenomenal opportunity for me to meet with different people throughout the industry and start building strong relationships. And I'm excited to go home and implement what I've learned from the speakers and education sessions."
He adds, "One of the big things for me, being on the sales side of things, is the importance of communication. [We learned] how to do it properly and things we should be doing going forward. [Saying] 'yes, and' instead of 'but' is a big one that we've talked about, and I think it's one of the takeaways from SPARK that is really going to help me going forward."
In thinking about the full SPARK experience, Herron says, "This helps me grow every time. I don't think I've attended a SPARK event and not taken something away I can use in my everyday practice. It's really given me insights that I didn't see before, or [helped me to] take a step back and take a better look at the big picture."
Beyond the SPARK Conference, young industry professionals can stay involved by connecting on the SPARK Promo Connect page throughout the year, and planning to attend the SPARK After Dark networking reception at the PPAI Expo in January.
Michele Jennrich, MAS, supplier representative of Michigan-based Howard Miller Co., has been selected as recipient of the 2019 PPAI Distinguished Service Award. Jennrich will be honored during the Chairman's Leadership Dinner at The PPAI Expo in Las Vegas, January 13-17, 2019 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
"Michele is a change-maker whose dedication and leadership set an example for all of us," says Paul Bellantone, CAE, PPAI president and CEO. "For her commitment and service to this great industry, PPAI is proud to recognize Michele Jennrich with the Distinguished Service Award."
Jennrich is an independent sales representative with more than 40 years in the industry. She served as a regional association legislative chair from 2009-2010, and she was the 2008-2009 chair of the Promotional Professional Mentoring Network. She has served in key roles and dedicated countless volunteer hours to PPAI work and advisory groups, committees and councils, and has been a dedicated participant in PPAI's Legislative Education and Action Day since its inception in 2010.
Jennrich's tireless service also includes the SAAGNY Board of Directors, serving from 1992-1999 as a director, treasurer, secretary, vice president and president. In 2011, she was recognized as the RAC Volunteer of the Year and in 2016 as a PPAI Fellow. She is also a member of the SAAGNY Hall of Fame.
The Distinguished Service Award celebrates PPAI members who consistently contribute their skills and expertise toward the betterment of the Association. Through volunteer service or by offering their leadership to PPAI, these members generously share their time, energy and talents for the benefit of the industry.
Congratulations Michele!
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Japan's Heisei Era, which began in 1989 and is set to end April 30 with the abdication of Emperior Akihito, saw the rise of Japanese video games as a worldwide force to be reckoned with.
But what were the greatest video games of the last 30 years? Readers of the storied gaming magazine Famitsu have had their say, and their number one choice was the Super Nintendo RPG Chrono Trigger.
The game, which hardly requires introduction, was released by Squaresoft (now Square Enix) back in 1995, and chronicles the adventures of a time-traveling group in their attempt to save the world. With unique gameplay that built and expanded upon Square RPGs like Final Fantasy, a classic soundtrack by Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu, and character designs by Dragon Ball's Akira Toriyama, Chrono Trigger had all the elements that made it a classic then and now.
Number two and three on Famitsu's list? More recent titles: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch and Wii U, 2018) and NieR: Automata (PlayStation 4, 2017).
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