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\| Skip Navigation Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on SMS Share on Email Navigation News Back Local Sports Entertainment Health Money Nation World Politics Investigations Coronavirus Shows Features 10 Rising Hearts Latest News Stories Eat your way through Latin America without leaving East Tennessee McClung Museum collaborates with Native American tribes to open new Repatriation exhibit Weather Back Forecast Radar 10-Day Hourly Maps Closings/Delays Traffic Gibbon Cam Text Alerts Latest Weather Stories Another warm but pleasant day returns today Another warm but pleasant day returns today Near Me VERIFY Watch Live Search Search: Search Right Now Knoxville, TN » 82° Knoxville, TN » Weather Closings Advertise With Us 2022 Parent Survey As Seen on TV Vols Live at Five @4 High School Sports Noticias WBIR Recipes Contests Educator of the Week 10 Rising Hearts 10 Listens 10 About Town Hometown Spotlight OD Epidemic Service & Sacrifice Appalachian Unsolved Inside Tennessee Breaking News Read More » More () » Politics The bill says that student-athletes in middle and high school teams can only compete in sports under the gender theytaff Published: 6:08 PM EDT March 26, 2021 Updated: 6:09 PM EDT March 26, 2021 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Friday he signed a bill into law prohibiting transgender student-athletes from competing in sporting events on teams that align with their gender identity. It requires that a student's gender be determined by their sex at the time of their birth when it comes to athletics, and says they must provide evidence of their birth sex if it doesn't appear on their birth certificate. The bill was proposed by GOP lawmakers and had been discussed several times. It led to an uproar from LGBTQ+ communities and human rights advocates who said it directly discriminated against transgender students. I signed the bill to preserve women's athletics and ensure fair competition. This legislation responds to damaging federal policies that stand in opposition to the years of progress made under Title IX and I commend members of the General Assembly for their bipartisan work. — Gov. Bill Lee (@GovBillLee) March 26, 2021 Most said there was no evidence supporting even the need for the legislation. Middle Tennessee Republican Scott Cepicky introduced the bill. He said that the bill was meant to maintain a competitive balance in athletics. Lee said that it would "preserve women's athletics and ensure fair competition." Lee said that the bill was meant to oppose federal policies, but did not specify which ones. The House of Representatives voted 71-16 to pass it March 22. Rep. Eddie Mannis, R-Knoxville, called on lawmakers to reconsider the bill in late February. He said that it would only further marginalize teens and do more harm. "When we look at things like this we need to look at the risk versus the reward, or the cost and benefits, so to speak," Mannis said. "The cost is continuing to marginalize, even more, a community and the suicide rate can continue to increase, and the benefit is what? There's not a measurable problem here." He said there is no data supporting claims that transgender athletes are preventing other athletes from earning scholarships, or that they intentionally play for a competitive advantage. However, he said that the marginalization of the LGBTQ+ community -- and against transgender people at large -- can lead to an increase in assaults and suicides. He would have rather seen the legislature's effort put into suicide prevention. Other advocates warned that the bill could cost the state tourism revenue after boycotts took place against states that passed similar bills during a meeting hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union in early March. "That Tennessee is talking about this and looks on the verge of passing this -- conventions will go elsewhere," said Joe Woolley, CEO of the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce. "They will not take their attendees to a place that is not welcoming ... We are about to step in front of a speeding bus and get ran over if we are not careful." Related Articles TN transgender athlete bill criticized for being discriminatory heads to governor's desk after passing House "They just want to play sports for fun" \| ACLU condemns TN's transgender athlete ban bill Mannis: Focus of legislature should be reducing teen suicide, instead of barring transgender athletes Paid Advertisement Before You Leave, Check This Out Jobs Terms of Service Privacy Policy Ad Choices EEO Public File Report FCC Online Public Inspection File Closed Caption Procedures Do Not Sell My Personal Information © 2022 WBIR-TV. All Rights Reserved. WBIR would like to send you push notifications about the latest news and weather. Notifi	https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/gov-lee-signs-transgender-athlete-bill-preventing-students-from-playing-on-teams-aligning-with-gender-identity/51-e7ee92ed-c2ae-40ec-b556-7c5e8bcabfb5	1,660,841,197
\| A Knight's Reads Skip to primary content A Knight's Reads All things bookish Search Main menu Home About Contact Review policy Post navigation ← Previous Next → Posted on August 2, 2018 by Claire K Woooooooooo hoooooooooooo 🎉🎉🎉🎉 it’s publication day for the very loive thank you to the fantabulous Sarah Hardy of Bloodhound Books for inviting me to join the blog blitz and to Bloodhound Books for my advanced copy of The Stranger Within which I received through Netgalley. The Blurb Dealing with everyday crime in London, DI Denis Hamilton is urgently called into a briefing in the early hours of his weekend off. Torn away from his family life, he must unravel an investigation he thought had long closed. Putting his personal worries to one side, Hamilton and his Murder Investigation Team come up against a patient with a mental disorder hell-bent on revenge. Comparing the present day with memories of his tragic past, can Hamilton open his mind to the difficulties of mental illness in order to catch a murderer? And when a colleague’s life is threatened, can Hamilton unlock the truth of the stranger within before it’s too late? What Did I Think? DI Hamilton is back and he’s up against it in The Stranger Within when one of his team is taken by an escaped convict. A dangerous convict on a mission. They say revenge is a dish best served cold; well let’s just say this individual wants their ice cream…. I do like Denis Hamilton, he’s a no-nonsense kind of policeman. When he comes up against something new which in this twisted case is the concept of ‘dissociative identity disorder’, he needs get on board. And things don’t get any easier when he has to choose between his home and his work, especially when his wife drops a bombshell! 😲😲 Ms Lyons dropped enough clues to keep me guessing as to the whats and whys. Plenty of shockers to keep me turning the pages as fast as my eyes would let me. But that climax, my jaw dropped and stayed there. I could not believe what I was reading. I really did not expect that outcome! I’ve read each of the Denis Hamilton books in order which is rare for me and each can be read as a standalone however I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ IN THE SHADOWS BEFORE VENTURING INTO THE STRANGER WITHIN. Yes I did shout that….it has to be said so that you get the full picture of what Denis and the team are up against. But please don’t just take my word for it; there are plenty of other posts over the next few days for you to catch!! Who Is Tara Lyons? Tara is a crime/psychological thriller author from London, UK. Turning 30 in 2015 propelled her to fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. She studied English Literature at Brunel University and was an Assistant Editor for an in-house magazine for eight years. In the Shadows is the author’s solo debut novel published in March 2016, which later went on to be republished by Bloodhound Books after signing a contract with them in 2017. She has also co-written with New York Times bestselling author, M.A. Comley – The Caller and Web of Deceit. When she’s not writing, Tara can be found at a local soft-play activity centre, bowling alley, trampoline park or cinema with her young, energetic son. You can keep up with all Tara’s news and books on the following social media options: Amazon: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: To sign up to Tara’s monthly newsletter for exclusive news, previews and giveaways: Share this: Tweet More Share on Tumblr Pocket Telegram WhatsApp Like this: Like Loading... This entry was posted in #blogblitz, #netgalley, #publicationday, #review by Claire K. Bookmark the permalink. Start a Blog at Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.	https://aknightsreads.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/the-stranger-within-by-tara-lyons-taralyonsauthor-bloodhoundbook-review-blogblitz-publicationday/	1,659,998,232
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\| BMC Public Health \| Full Text Skip to main content Advertisement Search Explore journals Get published About BMC My account Search all BMblished: 19 August 2016 Tone Langjordet Johnsen1,4, Aage Indahl1, Valborg Baste2, Hege Randi Eriksen2,3 & Torill Helene Tveito2,4 BMC Public Health volume 16, Article number: 844 (2016) Cite this article 1876 Accesses th complaints, have a high prevalence in the general population, and account for a large proportion of sick leave in Norway. It may be difficult to prevent the occurrence of subjective health complaints, butleave and return to work after sick leave. Long term sick leave has many negative health and social consequences, and it is important to gain knowledge about effective interventions to prevent and reduce long term sick leave. Methods/Design This study is a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of the modified atWork intervention, targeting non-specific musculoskeletal complaints and mentnly non-specific musculoskeletal complaints. Kindergartens in Norway are invited to participate in the study and will be randomly assigned to one of the two interventions. Estimated sample size is 100 kindergartens, with a total of approximately 1100 employees. Primary outcome is sick leave at unit level, measured using register data from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. One kindergarten equals one unit, regardless of number of employees. Secondary outcomes will be measured at the individual level and include coping, health, job satisfaction, social support, and workplace inclusion, collected through questionnaires distributed at baseline and at 12 months follow up. All employees in the included kindergartens are eligible for participating in the survey. Discussion The effect evaluation of the modified atWork intervention is a large and comprehensive project, providing evidence-based information on prevention of long-term sick leave, which may be of considerable benefit both from a societal, organisational, and individual perspective. Trial registration Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02396797. Registered March 23th, 2015. Peer Review reports Background Subjective health complaints (SHC), such as musculoskeletal and mental health complaints, have a high prevalence in the general population [1, 2]. SHC refers to complaints without a pathophysiological explanation or where the pathological findings are disproportionate to the illness experience [3]. The complaints can be very troublesome, affecting the ability to function both at work and in social settings. Non-specific musculoskeletal complaints and mental health complaints present a major public health problem and a high economical burden in western societies [4–6], and are the most frequent reasons reported for sick leave [7–9]. Sick leave is a multi-13]). However, there is considerably more consensus regarding the negative consequences of long-term sick leave, both in terms of the major costs for society and organisations and the serious consequences it may have for the individual (e.g. [5, 14, 15]). Accordinglleave - both from a societal and an individual perspective. Preventing the occurrence of SHC is difficult, or may not even be possible. These common complaints seem to be inherent in human nature and a part of everyday life, regardless of society or modern civilisation [16–18]. However, it may be possible to influence the employees’ perception and management of SHC, which in turn can have impact on sick leave and return to work after sick leave [19]. Non-specific musculoskeletal disorders Non-specific musculoskeletal disorders refer to pain or discomfort where it is not possible to identify an underlying cause of the pain, and back pain (BP) is the most common musculoskeletal complaint [20]. A multitude of treatments have been developed for the prevention of BP, but the results have been disappointing [20]. It seems difficult to prevent acute non-specific BP, but the consequences of the BP, such as fear of injury or activity, inactivity, and/or sick leave may be prevented [20]. Development of maladaptive perceptions about the cause and prognosis of BP is associated with a poorer clinical outcome [21]. The prevention of the negative consequences of BP can thus be seen as a way to improve the long term work participation for employees with BP, as well as decreasing the risk of the BP becoming chronic. Brief Interventions (BI), based on the ‘non-injury model’ proposed by Indahl [22–26], have been among the most successful approaches to increase return to work for employees with BP [24, 25, 27–29]. According to this model, the spine is a strong and robust structure. Pain is not a sign of injury to the spine caused by any wrongdoing or ‘inappropriate’ behaviour. When a patient has the perception that the BP is caused by an injury to the spine and that the spine is likely to deteriorate with activity, inactivity is a rational choice. In the BI this illness perception [30] is challenged by presenting a perception of BP as a painful, but benign and usually self-limiting condition. The treatment providers’ job is not to ‘cure’ the pain, nor to remove fear of activity, but simply to present the evidence for the benefit of being active [31] and let the employee decide how to make best use of the information. The intention is to replace any maladaptive previous perceptions of BP. This non-injury model is consistent with the understanding and recommendations in the European Guidelines for the prevention of BP [20]. Common mental disorders Anxiety and depression are often termed ‘common mental disorders’ (CMD), because of their high prevalence, affecting 20–25 % of the adult population [32–34]. CMD has emerged as a major public and occupational health problem in many countries [5, 35]. Depression and mild anxiety are the most common mental disorders among employees [35, 36]. As with other mental disorders, the core symptoms of anxiety and depression affect a person’s emotional, cognitive and social functioning, which also may have impact on the capacity for work [37]. The increase in sick leave and work disability because of CMD has serious negative health and economical consequences calling for prevention [38–40]. Although mental disorders has become one of the greatest new social and labour market challenges in the OECD countries, little is known about the underlying causes of this phenomenon [9]. The most straightforward explanation would be an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders, but that does not seem to be the case. Most of the studies that have examined this, find limited evidence to suggest an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders over time (e.g. [41–45]). It appears that the increased awareness of complaints that have always been there without really being acknowledged, also has led to more exclusion from the workforce for these problems [9]. There is a high degree of comorbidity between CMD and BP [46–48]. In the general population persons with BP are more likely to report CMD than persons without BP [48, 49], and few pathological findings by physical examination in patients with BP are associated with more psychiatric symptoms than for patients with an identified structural or organic cause for the BP [50, 51]. However, the relationship seems to work both ways; BP can precede CMD, and CMD can precede BP [52]. Interventions targeting both BP and CMD should consider the high comorbidity between these conditions. There is evidence that cognitive behavioural therapy and psychoeducational treatment for risk groups and individuals in an early stage of anxiety and depression may be effective [53–56]. However, reaching the majority of the population who are at risk of these disorders are difficult, because most people do not seek help until their problems are well advanced or do not seek help at all [57, 58]. Thus, population-based health promotion and prevention interventions targeting CMD may be useful, because it may be provided to everyone at risk, including those with no or very low risk. Population-based interventions are also found to be the most cost-effective interventions [59]. The workplace is an ideal setting for such population-oriented prevention programs [60, 61]. Distributing knowledge about CMD at the workplace, expressed with respect for the participants, delivered in a way that normalises but at the same time does not trivialise the complaints, presents an opportunity to overcome widespread stigma and fears concerning CMD. Stigma and self-stigma is still prevalent across the OECD countries [9]. Social support and coping skills are important factors to increase resistance to development of mental disorders [54, 62, 63]. Prolonged stress activation as a result of lack of coping might lead to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, both proposed as cognitive models of depression [64–66]. Coping seems to be a stronger predictor for health than socioeconomic status [67, 68], and interventions aimed at targeting these factors can be expected to produce benefits to employees’ mental health, and further induce a beneficial effect on organisational health. Interventions providing information about mental health and illness report significant gains in knowledge, improved health, greater confidence in seeking help and providing help to others, decreased stigmatising attitudes, increased use of positive coping strategies, and improved social skills [69–74]. The atWork intervention atWork was established in 2007 as a new stepped-care approach to musculoskeletal complaints [19]. The intervention consisted of three workplace information meetings about BP to all employees, in addition to peer support. The atWork intervention targeting BP reduced sick leave and myths about BP in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) [19]. After this RCT the atWork intervention has been further developed with the goal to increase effect on health related measures. Because of the high comorbidity between BP and CMD, the high prevalence and the negative consequences of CMD, the atWork intervention has been modified to also comprise mental health complaints. A management seminar is also included, aiming to increase manager involvement and knowledge about the message distributed in the intervention. atWork is a cognitive workplace intervention, based on the BI and the non-injury model [23–25]. atWork uses the workplace as an arena for health promotion. By focusing on altering employees’ beliefs and behaviour through evidence-based health information, atWork aims to enable employees to cope with the consequences of their health complaints [19]. This is done by providing insight and understanding of BP and CMD to all employees and managers, based on the non-directive social support model [75] and peer support [19]. atWork also has a theoretical foundation from the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS), where coping is defined as a positive response outcome expectancy, a belief that your actions or strategies will lead to a positive result [66]. In addition to reaching out to all employees with the intervention, the aim of atWork is to reinforce an organisational culture where workers with health complaints are accepted as part of the normal work environment. Methods/Design Aims and objectives The main aim of this study is to investigate if modifying the atWork intervention to also comprise a management course and knowledge about mental health complaints will improve the effect on sick leave and other health related outcomes compared to the original atWork intervention. We aim to address the following questions: 1. Is the modified atWork intervention more effective than the original atWork intervention in terms of reducing sick leave? 2. Is the modified atWork intervention more effective than the original atWork intervention in terms of increasing coping expectancies, job satisfaction and social support? Participants and recruitment Eligible participants are private kindergartens, working with children from 0–6 years, in four Norwegian counties. In these four counties outpatient clinics and the necessary collaboration for implementing atWork are already established, so for convenience reasons we selected these counties for the trial. The first atWork trial was conducted on workplaces in the public sector [19]. This trial will investigate the effect of atWork on workplaces in the private sector. In Norway women have a higher sick leave rate than men, and a higher prevalence of SHC [1, 7]. The kindergartens have a high percentage of women employed, and are therefore chosen as participants in this trial. Participants will mainly be recruited through The National Association of Private Kindergartens, but also through the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAd to one of two groups, receiving different workplace interventions aiming to increase participation in working life and prever group will receive the modified atWork intervention (MAW) [19]. We firmly believe that one of the success criteria of the atWork intervention is that all employees get the same information. We therefore recommend that managers encourage all employees to attend the workplace sessions and facilitate their attendance. To ensure a high participation rate, the different workplace sessions will be held several times at the same workplace if necessary. All workplace sessions will last for approximately one hour, and will be conducted by healthcare workers from Vestfold Hospital Trust. Fig. 1 Flowchart of trial design Full size image 1. The original atWork intervention, OAW The OAW intervention consists of three workplace sessions for all employees, and peer support [19]. Workplace sessions The workplace sessions are for all employees at the workplace, also the managers. The first workplace session focuses on the prevalence of BP, what non-specific health complaints are, what the atWork intervention is and the reason for its development, and the selection of a peer adviser (see below). Questions are encouraged. The second workplace session focuses on giving evidence-based information on spine and pain physiology, and how to cope with BP. The main message is the non injury model and the evidence for it, and emphasising the importance of staying active when experiencing BP. Questions and discussions on how the workplace may accommodate employees with BP are encouraged. The third workplace session focuses on the quite widespread myths about BP, such as the consequence of inactivity and bed rest, or the value of imaging like X-rays and MRs. Questions are encouraged. Peer support Peer support involves selecting a ‘peer adviser’ at each workplace. The peer adviser is a fellow worker, recruited among employees in each kindergarten during the first workplace session. Recruitment takes place either by volunteering or agreeing after being suggested by colleagues. All peer advisers will participate in two seminars at an outpatient clinic. The seminars will focus on more in depth knowledge about the spine and BP, and guidance on how to function as a peer adviser at the workplace. The peer advisers’ role is to give social support and to use their local knowledge of the working environment to help their colleagues stay at work despite the BP. The peer advisers are instructed not to give any medical advice or to recommend treatment options. If an employee has persistent BP, or is unsure about the nature of the BP, the peer adviser will guide the employee to make an appointment with their general practitioion, and a book explaining BP in layman’s terms [76]. All seminars in the OWA will be conducted by healthcare workers from Vestfold Hospital Trust. 2. The modified atWork intervention, MAW The MAW intervention includes one session for the managers and two workplace sessions for all employees. After these three sessions there will also be one additional session for the managers for the purpose of reflection and review of the content and use of the information presented in the intervention. Session for managers The first session is for managers’ at all organisational levels, health and safety representatives, and local union representatives, as these positions may function as facilitators for a good psychosocial workplace environment. The session provides an introduction to the atWork intervention, and informs the participants about what will be communicated to all employees. It is important that managers and workplace representatives understand and agree with the message distributed, to support the use of this knowledge at the workplace. The session also focuses on how to create a health promoting workplace perceived as welcoming to workers with health complaints, how to facilitate work for employees when needed, and where to get external support when needed. The support and consideration of managers is a strong determinant of job satisfaction and effective in alleviating employee strain in a wide variety of work settings [77]. These seminars will be conducted by healthcare workers from Vestfold Hospital Trust, together with a consultant from the resource center for an inclusive working life at NAV. The purpose of this collaboration is to increase the organisational knowledge about how to cope with health complaints in the work setting. Workplace sessions The two workplace sessions are for all employees at the workplace, including managers, health and safety representatives, and local union representatives. The first workplace session focuses on evidence based information about CMD, including prevalence, physiology, anxiety, stress, depression, comorbidity, myths, and coping. The information will emphasise that igmatising attitudes. Questions and discussions on how the workplace may accommodate employees with CMD are encouraged. The second workplace session focuses on evidence based information about BP, including prevalence, spine and pain physiology, myths, comorbidity, and coping. The main message is the non injury model and the evidence for it, and emphasising the importance of staying active when experiencing BP. Questions and discussions on how the workplace may accommodate employees with BP are encouraged. Number of sessions targeting BP is reduced in the MAW compared to OAW. This is due to a low attendance rate on the last workplace sessions in the first RCT [19], and participants’ feedback. Employees have expressed that three sessions targeting BP leads to a great deal of overlap and repetition, and experience this as a waste of time in a busy work schedule. Reflection and review session The reflection and review session is for managers’ at all organisational levels, health and safety representatives, and local union representatives, and will be a meeting where reflection on how to implement the new knowledge at the workplace is encouraged. The aim of this meeting is to discuss how each particular workplace can create an inclusive culture, and what further assistance they may need to achieve this goal. Further assistance will mainly be given by NAV, as a part of their daily work as a resource centre for inclusive working life. Peer support is not a part of the MAW. In the OAW the peer adviser was not frequently used [19]. Companies have also reported that the role interferes with the management structure in the organisation, it takes too much time from work (the 2 days of qualification), and some of the tasks assigned to the role is perceived to collide with management responsibilities. The peer adviser is thus removed and a seminar for managers is added to the modified intervention. Inclusion and exclusion All private kindergartens in the four counties Telemark, Vestfold, Buskerud, and Akers groups; 1) OAW or 2) MAW. This is done according to a computer generated randomisation list, generated by the trial statistician. The block randomisation is stratified by county and size of the kindergarten (small: <11 employees, large: ≥11). The randomisation and treatment allocation procedures are performed by a research technician at the randomising unit (Uni Research Health) and are concealed from the researchers and healthcare workers. The code for intervention allocation will not be revealed to the researchers or the healthcare workers until recruitment and baseline data collection are completed. The trial coordinator emails the randomisatformation about intervention allocation is emailed back. For obvious reasons there is no blinding to group assignment. Ethical considerations The Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics for South-Eastern Norway has approved the study (Registration 2014/162/REC South East). The research will be carried out in compliance with the Helsinki declaration. The participants are informed about the study from their manager and from an information sheet at the start of the electronic survey. In the information sheet the participants are told that by continuing to the questionnaire after having read the information, they are giving their informed consent to participate in the study. In the information sheet the right to withdraw from the trial at any time without any explanation is emphasised. The timeframe for questionnaire completion is estimated to approximately 20 min. All participating kindergartens are thoroughly informed about the random allocation to either OAW or MAW. OAW has been effective in reducing sick leave. MAW contains crucial elements from the OAW, and is modified with the aim to increase positive effect on health related variables. The companies receiving OAW during the study period will be offered the sessions that are unique for the MAW after the project is terminated. Data collection Survey data will be collected from both groups at baseline and 12 month follow-up. Data will be collected electronically using secure survey software (Qualtrics®). The baseline questionnaire is administrated by email to the manager at each kindergarten immediately after enrolment. This email contains detailed information on the study processes and purposes, and a link to the study survey. The manager distributes this information to all employees, who then may make an informed choice on whether to participate. Recruitment and collection of baseline data started in November 2014. Recruitment will continue until a sufficient number of kindergartens are enrolled. In the baseline questionnaire all employees will be asked to enter their email address. The email address will be used to link answers from the baseline questionnaire with the follow up questionnaire. Follow-up questionnaires will be administered electronically l data will be treated confidentially. Printed questionnaires will be an option for participants who prefer this to filling in an electronic version of the questionnaire. Sick leave will be collected at unit level, through register data from NAV. This allows for complete and objective data and will be collected every quarter, from all kindergartens, with no loss to follow-up. Data will be collected for the year before and after the intervention. Outcome measures The primary outcome of this study is sick leave at unit level, collected through register data from NAV. One kindergarten equals one unit. Because sick leave is collected at unit level, we will collect data from all employees in the participating companies, not only the employees responding to the questionnaires. The secondary outcomes, coping expectancies, health, job satisfaction, social support, and workplace inclusion, will be measured through validated questionnaires, in addition to demographics and belief about BP and CMD: Coping expectancies will be measured using the Theoretically Originated Measure of the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress, TOMCATS [68]. TOMCATS is a newly developed scale, designed to measure response outcome expectancies as defined in the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS) [66]. The scale consists of three factors, which represent the three response outcome expectancies in CATS: positive expectancy/coping, no expectancy/helplessness and negative expectancy/hopelessness. Subjective health complaints will be measured using the Subjective Health Complaints Inventory, SHC [78]. The SHC-inventory records complaints without asking for attributions or medical diagnosis. The selection of items is not based on any specific theory, but covers the most frequent health complaints and reasons for being seen by the general practitioner [3]. The inventory has five subscales; musculoskeletal pain, pseudoneurological complaints, gastrointestinal complaints, flu, and allergy complaints, and covers the period of the previous 30 days. Psychological distress will be measured by the Hopkins Symptom Checklist, HSCL-10 [79–81]. The HSCL-10 consists of 10 items derived from the widely used HSCL-25, a questionnaire designed to measure psychological distress, or, more specifically, mainly symptoms of anxiety and depression [82]. The 10 items includes feeling panicky, anxious, dizzy, tense, sleepless, sad, worthless, hopeless, fault within self, and finding everything is a burden. Job satisfaction will be measured using the Global Job Satisfaction, GJS [83–85]. The scale consists of 6 items to measure an employee’s general affective reaction to his or her job without reference to any specific facets. Psychological demands, decision latitude and social support will be measured using the DCSQ [86, 87]. DCSQ is based on the Demand–Control Model by Karasek and Theorell [88] and the support dimension is added to the model by Johnson and Hall [89]. The scale consists of three subscales; demands, latitude and support. Social support will be measured using the 16-item Social Support Inventory (SSI) [90–93]. SSI will in this study be used to measure the participants’ perceptions of received directive and nondirective support in a workplace setting. The scale consists of four factors, with four items in each category; nondirective instrumental, nondirective emotional, directive instrumental and directive emotional. Workplace inclusion will be measured using the Workplace Inclusion Questionnaire (Sveinsdottir V, Fyhn T, Opsahl J, Tveito TH, Indahl A, Reme SE; Development of the Workplace Inclusion Questionnaire, in preparation). The questionnaire examines attitudes towards including employees with various health complaints and/or limitations at the workplace. The questionnaire consists of short case stories describing people with various common diagnoses, such as BP and CMD, as well as common social groups that may be discriminated for other reasons. Employees and managers are asked to indicate how well the various individuals fit into their workplace. Each case story has four questions. The first two items addresses how well the person in the case story would fit into their workplace. If the respondent does not think the person in the case story fits well or very well into their workplace, the third item addresses the main barriers for this reason. The fourth item asks about the respondents’ previous experience with colleagues or employees that are similar to the case story in question. Sample size estimation and power calculation Our estimate of the sample size is based on the results from the project of Odeen et al. [19], where the same method of data collection was used. We will collect sick leave data at unit level from the participating kindergartens. Data will be analysed at the unit level, according to the principle of assessing effect of interventions at the same level that they are conducted [94]. The data collected will be clustered by companies. Registered number of sick-leave days may follow a Poisson distribution. A straightforward sample size calculation based on an assumption of normal based data is therefore not valid for our project. Thus, we based our sample size estimation on the results from Odeen et al. [19], since the units we will include in this study are comparable to the units in the study of Odeen et al. They showed a significant change of 11 % in sick leave with 42 and 48 units. We plan to include a minimum of 50 units in each intervention group. If we base our calculation on an assumption that change in sick leave follows a normal distribution, a decrease of 20 % in the MAW group versus the OAW group (from 9.0 to 7.2 %, SD = 3) and a significance level set to 0.05, will have a power of 0.84. 100 kindergartens are estimated to comprise approximately 1100 employees. Statistical analyses Primary analyses of effect A Generalised Linear Mixed-effects Poisson Model will be used to investigate a possible difference between the two intervention groups on sick leave. The model will estimate rate ratios and will account for the random variation in sick leave days between the participating units, measured repeatedly over time [19]. Secondary analyses of effect Analysis of the secondary outcomes will be conducted on the individual level and will be based on changes from baseline. T-tests and chi-square tests will be used to investigate if there are significant differences between the two intervention groups. Discussion The effect evaluation of the modified atWork intervention (MAW) is a large and comprehensive project. We have chosen a randomised controlled design to assess the effect of the MAW compared to the OAW, a design considered to provide the most reliable evidence on the effectiveness of interventions, because the used procedures reduce the risk of confounding factors influencing the results. When finished, the project it will provide evidence based information on prevention of long term sick leave, which may be of considerable benefit both from a societal, organisational, and individual perspective. The project will also generate knowledge on coping expectancies and social support, both strong predictors for health. However, if the MAW proves to be effective, the described study provides limited data to investigate why an effect occurred. Investigating more closely what the participants perceive as useful parts of the two interventions e.g. by focus group discussions, might add valuable insights to our research and intervention development. The MAW is designed to further improve the effect on sick leave and other health related variables compared to the OAW. 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Funding The project is funded by Vestfold Hospital Trust. Availability of data and material Not applicable. Authors’ contributions THT, AI, and TLJ designed the study. THT is the principal investigator, and TLJ is the project coordinator. TLJ drafted the manuscript, while THT, AI, VB, and HRE revised and commented on the script. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. The Trial Steering Committee (TSC) is the scientific advisory board responsible for the general overview of the project and progress. The Trial Management Group (TMG) is the project group responsible for the daily management and coordination of the trial. The TSC consists of: • Professor Torill Helene Tveito (principal investigator), • Professor Dr. Med. Aage Indahl (medically responsible doctor), • Professor Hege Randi Eriksen (overseeing the trial). The TMG consists of:• Principal investigator (Professor Torill Helene Tveito), • Trial coordinator (Ph.D.-candidate Tone Langjordet Johnsen), • Medically responsible doctor (Professor Dr. Med. Aage Indahl), • Trial statistician (Ph.D.Valborg Baste). Competing interests The authors declare they have no competing interests. Consent for publication Not applicable. Ethics approval and consent to participate The The Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics for South-Eastern Norway has approved the study (2014/162/REK sør-øst). The research will be carried out in compliance with the Helsinki declaration. Personal confidentiality is guaranteed, and declarations of voluntary participation will be collected from each participant, emphasising the right to withdraw from the trial at any time without any explanation. Author information Authors and Affiliations Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vestfold Hospital Trust, POB 2168, NO, 3103, Tønsberg, Norway Tone Langjordet Johnsen & Aage Indahl Uni Research Health, POB 7810, NO, 5020, Bergen, Norway Valborg Baste, Hege Randi Eriksen & Torill Helene Tveito Department of Sport and Physical Activity, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway Hege Randi Eriksen Department of Health Promotion, University College of Southeast Norway, Horten, Norway Tone Langjordet Johnsen & Torill Helene Tveito Authors Tone Langjordet Johnsen View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Aage Indahl View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Valborg Baste View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Hege Randi Eriksen View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Torill Helene Tveito View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Corresponding author Correspondence to Torill Helene Tveito. 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\| Bookworks Skip to main content Shop Gifts Gift Grab E-books & Audio Libro FM About Contact Affiliates Philanthropy Press Used Books Events Event Calendar For Authors Schools School Reading Lists Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center Bosque School Summer Reading 2022 Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School 2021-2022 Escuela del Sol Book Club Sandia Preparatory School St. Pius X High School Summer Reading 2021 Tony Hillerman Middle School Books in Spanish/ en español Author Visits to Schools Adobe Acres Manzano Day School Rex Ogle visit with Holy Ghost Catholic School Rex Ogle visit with Lew Wallace ES Rex Ogle visit with Longfellow ES Rex Ogle visit with Manzano Day School Award Winning Kids Books Battle of the Books Educator's Discount Program Land of Enchantment Book Award NACA Inspired Schools Network Reading List School Book Fairs My Account Cart Story Time! Bookworks Gift Certificate Search form Advanced Search By Geraldine Ellis Watson $37.95 Email or call for price. Other Books in Series This is book number 3 in the Temple Big Thicket5 Description When Geraldine Watson’s father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River, called Snow River by the Indians. Watson grew up hearing his tales of the steamboats, log rafts, and the flora and fauna of East Texas. So when she was sixty-three years old, she decided to repeat his odyssey in her own backwater boat. Reflections on the Neches is both the story of her journey retracing her father’s steps and a natural and social history of the Neches region of the Big Thicket. The Neches, one of the last “wild” rivers in Texas, is now being subjected to dams. Watson’s story captures the wildness of the river and imparts a detailed history of its people and wildlife. Profusely illustrated with drawings by the author and including maps of her journey, Reflections on the Neches will appeal to all those interested in the Big Thicket region and those indulging a feeling of wanderlust—and float trips—down the river. About the Author A native of Tyler County, GERALDINE ELLIS WATSON was a plant ecologist and park ranger for the National Park Service for fifteen years and the author of Big Thicket Plant Ecology. Praise For… “Reflections is not a book to skim. It should be absorbed, ideally from a canoe drifting down current in the Snow River. This book is a captivating blend of art and history and biological facts from a writer whose heart and soul has been bound up in the Big Thicket for a long, adventuresome, and sometimes combative lifetime. . . . You will be riveted by her tales of the fabled Ivory-billed woodpecker.”—East Texas Historical Association Journal “This book makes the Neches River come alive and makes the reader want to find the nearest canoe in order to travel in her footsteps to rediscover the beauty that exists around each river bend. . . . In addition to the expected exquisitely detailed travelogue, Watson adds her superior observations as a naturalist, sharing geographical, geological, hydrographic and biological information on the Neches, the Big Thicket and Southeast Texas in terms that a layman can understand.”—Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record “Like the river, Reflections on the Neches has a natural flow; like the river, it is charming. One is easily drawn into the world of the river, and into the lives of its people.”—Pete A. Y. Gunter, author of The Big Thicket and co-editor of The Big Thicket Guidebook Product Details ISBN: 9781574411607 ISBN-10: 1574411608 Publisher: University of North Texas Press Publication Date: June 20th, 2003 Pages: 376 Language: English Series: Temple Big Thicket Series Categories History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Canoeing Travel / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX) Related Editions (all) Kobo eBook (May 14th, 2003): $30.36 Paperback (September 19th, 2013): $24.95 Donate Now Proud member of the American Booksellers Association & the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association. ©2015 by Bookworks. 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107. 505-344-8139. All Rights Reserved. \| Website by EnvisionIT Solutions. \| Privacy Policy \| Refund Policy	https://www.bkwrks.com/book/9781574411607	1,660,840,921
\| Business Wire Newcomers Deerfield, Qiming, Cormorant, and Invus join existing investors Third Rock and Google Ventures; Fuof products March 03, 2020 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Element Science, an innovative health technology company pioneering a next-generation digital wearable platform focused on high-risk cardiovascular patients transitioning from the hospital-to-home, announced today that it had raised $145.6 million in Series C financing. The funding round, led by Deerfield Healthcare and Qiming Venture Partners USA, includes Cormorant Asset Management and Invus Opportunities, as well as participation from existing investors Third Rock Ventures and Google Ventures. The new funds will enable completion of clinical studies through commercial launch of the Company’s initial product, the Jewel Patch Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator (P-WCD), an unobtrusive, low-profile personal defibrillator designed to detect and treat life-threatening arrhythmias in patients with an elevated temporary risk of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), a condition for which more than 500,000 patients in the US are at risk every year. Element Science has been led since its inception by Uday N. Kumar, MD, a cardiac electrophysiologist, who serves as faculty at Stanford University’s Byers Center for Biodesign and was a former Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Third Rock Ventures as well as the Founder of iRhythm Technologies (NASDAQ: IRTC), a leading digital healthcare company pioneering the use of wearables in cardiac rhythm monitoring. "Given Dr. Kumar’s background, the Jewel P-WCD was designed with patients and physicians foremost in mind and truly represents a significant advancement in therapeutic digital wearables,” said Neil Exter, Board member, Element Science and Partner, Third Rock Ventures, an initial investor in the company. “We are excited to have this new group of prominent investors join the Company to help ensure this life-saving therapy reaches patients.” The Jewel P-WCD is the first product to be built on Element’s novel Jewel platform, which unites patient-centric human factor engineering and sophisticated machine learning algorithm development principles upon a foundation of rigorous electromechanical medical device development standards. “Our next-generation digital wearable is a unique breakthrough in personalized digital healthcare based on years of extensive research and testing. The Jewel platform supports both therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities and is designed for ease of wearability to facilitate high compliance and efficacy,” said Dr. Kumar, Founder, President and CEO. “Given the broad potential for the Jewel platform to save and improve the lives of patients worldwide, we welcome the strong support of this impressive consortium of investors.” The new funds will also be used to develop a family of digital wearables based on the modular Jewel platform, including solutions that address related unmet needs such as the treatment of SCD in inpatient settings as well as the diagnosis of heart failure exacerbations in recently discharged patients. “We believe that Element Science’s ability to apply cutting-edge principles of data science and patient-centered design holds great potential in disrupting the way these cardiovascular patients are monitored, diagnosed, and treated” said Andrew ElBardissi, MD, Partner, Deerfield Management. “We are delighted to support the company as it works to bring life-saving therapies to patients, while changing the paradigm of treatment in multi-billion dollar global markets.” The Jewel platform has the potential to be easily adapted to a variety of clinical settings and care delivery models. “We see massive opportunities to significantly impact patient health with the proprietary Jewel platform in the US and Europe, as well as large, underserved markets such as China,” said Christopher Shen, MD, Managing Partner, Qiming Venture Partners USA. “We are excited to partner with Element Science in leading the effort to make this important life-saving technology available for patients globally.” The team at Element Science has deep expertise in wearable patches, user-centered design and advanced algorithms, and a Scientific Advisory Board with distinguished leaders including Dr. Robert Harrington, Chair of Stanford University’s Department of Medicine, Dr. Jeremy Ruskin, Founder and Director Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiac Arrhythmia Service and Dr. Harlan Krumholz, Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital. “Given the seriousness of the conditions Element Science is addressing, this important level of funding is needed to support the efforts needed to scale Element Science’s manufacturing, quality and clinical infrastructure in the appropriate manner necessary for the next stage of the Company’s development,” said William (“Hank”) Kucheman, former CEO of Boston Scientific Corporation and long-standing member of Element Science’s Board of Directors. “Everyone at the Company is focused on successfully completing our clinical studies and beginning commercialization, and is looking forward to broadly providing these needed solutions to patients to help save lives.” About Element Science, Inc. Element Science, Inc. is a medical device and digital health company focused on developing solutions at the intersection of clinical-grade wearables, machine learning algorithms, and lifesaving therapies in order to address leading causes of death and hospitalization in patients with heart disease, primarily as they transition from the hospital-to-home. By putting the needs of patients and physicians first, our personalized digital devices, which are designed for function, comfort and ease-of-use, aim to redefine the paradigm of care for these patients. Our first product, a wearable patch defibrillator, is initially targeted at treating the more than 500,000 patients in the US with an elevated temporary risk of potentially experiencing a lethal heart rhythm. Based in San Francisco, our funders include Third Rock Ventures, Google Ventures, Deerfield Healthcare, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Cormorant Asset Management, and Invus Opportunities. 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\| Business Wire Says game-changing biotechnology solutions are needed to accelerate a global mission to eradicate ‘needless’ corneal blindnre long-term visual impairment Download MPEG-4 Video Loading media player... VIDEO: Wendy & Tej Kohli Discuss The Mission And Purpose Of The Tej Kohli Foundation VIDEO: The Tej Kohli Foundation: Curing An Entire Family Of Visual Impairment MPEG-4 Video VIDEO: Wendy & Tej Kohli Discuss The Mission And Purpose Of The Tej Kohli Foundation MPEG-4 Video October 10, 2019 02:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On World Sight Day, the Tej Kohli Foundation says that a focus on new technologies is needed to accelerate the global mission to end curable corneal blindness worldwide. The Foundation is currently funding the clinical trials and development of a ‘liquid biosynthetic’ solution that could offer an accessible, scalable and affordable solution to corneal blindness that would be relevant to many of the 12 million people worldwide who suffer from this type of blindness. The thesis of the Tej Kohli Foundation is that humanitarian efforts the world over will be greatly advanced by exponential growth technologies such as AI, robotics and genomics. The Foundation behaves like a venture fund by backing, incubating, acquiring and accelerating the development of technology solutions. Only successful projects secure further funding support, leaving the Foundation agile to back the projects that will have the greatest impact. Blindness is heavily impacted by poverty. According to the WHO, 14 million of the 39 million people who are blind live in India. 12.7 million people are currently waiting for a cornea transplant, including 6 million in India. The Tej Kohli Foundation’s ‘Cornea Institute’ at the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad already conducts thousands of corneal transplants every year using donor cornea, largely for free. The Foundation recently cured five brothers and sisters in the same family from Rajasthan who had all been suffering with long-term visual impairment. But the limited supply of donor cornea and the need for invasive surgery means that worldwide less than 1 in 70 will receive a cornea transplant each year. Artificial cornea or keratoprotheses are expensive and can cost up to US$20,000. The Tej Kohli Foundation is backing the development of technological solutions, because ending corneal blindness will require an affordable, accessible and scalable solution that does not rely on transplantation. The Tej Kohli Foundation previously backed methods of synthesising artificial cornea from yeast and peptides, but new advances mean it has switched this funding to the development of the liquid biosynthetic, which aims to work by causing the regeneration of corneal tissue. The pro-regeneration tissue replacement could avoid the need for expensive corneal grafting and be applied in less than thirty minutes to fill a perforation or to repair a corneal ulcer. In July 2018 the Tej Kohli Foundation also made a $2m gift to Massachusetts Ear and Eye, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, to fund innovation in research into nano-string and DNA-sequencing technologies for early diagnostics and prevention, as well as ‘GelCORE,’ an adhesive biomaterial for replacing corneal tissue. Michael Macfarlane, spokesperson for the Tej Kohli Foundation: “There are limits to the number of corneal transplants that can take place each year, especially in poor and remote rural areas. The Tej Kohli Foundation is a global focal point for scientists and others who are developing pioneering treatments in this field. Our mission is to work with a range of partners in our goal to eliminate corneal blindness by 2035.” Tej Kohli, co-Founder of the Tej Kohli Foundation: “Eliminating corneal blindness is what I am most passionate about. I favour a venture-led approach to philanthropy whereby we bring people together and provide the funding to accelerate the development of solutions that might bring us a step closer to ending corneal blindness. The way that we run our Foundation is directly aligned with how we manage our commercial ventures and investments, and this approach means we can drive greater progress from every pound or dollar or rupee that we spend on achieving our mission.” Find out more about the Tej Kohli Foundation at: A video about a family of five siblings having their long-term visual impairment cured by the Tej Kohli Foundation is available to embed using this link: A video interview with Wendy and Tej Kohli in which they talk about the work of the Tej Kohli Foundation is available to embed using this link: A video about the Tej Kohli Cornea Program is available to embed using this link: A video about the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute is available to embed using this link: About The Tej Kohli Foundation The Tej Kohli Foundation was launched by Wendy and Tej Kohli in 2005 as a focal point for their global philanthropic endeavours. The Foundation includes: Cornea Institute: which since 2016 has seen more than 180,000 outpatients and carried out 17,000+ cornea replacement surgeries, largely for free. Cornea Program: which funds innovation in research to cure corneal blindness at Mass. Eye and Ear, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Applied Research: which is engaged in the acquisition and development of new technologies that have the potential to substantially reduce corneal blindness globally. Impact Initiatives: which supports projects in underserved communities where direct interventions can have a sustained and positive impact upon individual lives. About Tej Kohli Tej Kohli is a London-based investor and entrepreneur with a well-publicized mission to cure corneal blindness worldwide by 2035. He first rose to success during the dotcom boom selling technology solutions and e-commerce payments software before becoming a real estate investor in technology hubs. He now focuses on high-impact investments into AI, robotics, biotech and genomics ventures. Tej Kohli is a Distinguished Alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (IITK) where he completed a degree in Electrical Engineering. END Contacts To request interviews, video and / or photos please use the contact details below: Helen Tarbet / Simon Compton / Kim van Beeck / Hannah Ratcliff (Buchanan Communications) +44 207 466 5000 Mike Macfarlane (Tej Kohli Foundation) +44 7764 225 924 Contacts To request interviews, video and / or photos please use the contact details below: Helen Tarbet / Simon Compton / Kim van Beeck / Hann	https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191009005535/en/4643547/Tej-Kohli-Foundation-advocates-a-scalable-accessible-and-affordable-technology-solution-to-end-corneal-blindness-worldwide.	1,660,689,634
\| Cargo Connect Air Cargo Road Transport Shipping Railways Warehousing Logistics More Supply Chain Buzz Apu Borah - August 18, 2020 1540 0 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Linkedin Kuwait-based global logistics provider, Agility has reported first-half net profit of KD 16.2 million (USD $53mn), a decrease of 61.3% over the same period in 2019. EBITDA declined by 20.1% to KD 75.8 million (USD $247.67mn), and revenue declined 1.3% to KD 765.1 million (USD $2499.89mn). Tarek Sultan, Agility Vice Chairman and CEO said, “We entered 2020 with our business on sound footing, which is one reason that we were able to react quickly to the sweeping impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We acted immediately to protect employees, customd the world. We also took steps to bring operating expenses and other costs in line with the new environment.” Agility Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) Global Integrated Logistics’ first-half EBITDA was KD 28.8 million, a 1.3% increase from the same period in 2019. This was driven by strong Contract Logistics, Project Logistics, and Air Freight results, as well as a sharp focus on containing costs. GIL’s H1 net revenue was KD 135.8 million, in line with last year’s performance. Net revenue increased in Contract Logistics, Project Logistics, and Air Freight, but fell in Ocean Freight and Fairs & Events. GIL gross revenue was KD 570.6 million, a 2.5% increase from same period in 2019. Volumes were down in both Air Freight and Ocean Freight in the first half of this year, by 23.6% in Air Freight (tonnage) and 14.8% in Ocean Freight (TEUs), due to COVID-19 impact on demand due to lockdowns, production stoppages, and economic contraction across industries and geographies. However, H1 saw higher yields in Air Freight due to capacity shortages and a spike in demand for urgent shipments of PPE and other medical equipment. First-half Air Freight net revenue increased 17% vs. the same period a year earlier, while Ocean Freight net revenue decreased 16% vs. same period last year. Sultan said the economic fallout from the pandemic has had an uneven effect on Agility businesses. “Our contract logistics business and logistics parks have weathered this reasonably well because demand for storage space has been steady or increased, especially as customers have looked to add to safety stock or support pandemic-driven increases in e-commerce sales. In many instances, we are experiencing accelerated adoption of disruptive and emerging technologies related to the COVID-19 pandemic or underlying CSR paradigms. Other Agility businesses, such as aviation and airport operations have been directly impacted by the decline in air travel and traffic and are now pivoting towards the development of pioneering new technologies that will be essential to the re-enablement of global travel.” Contract Logistics achieved healthy growth (7% net revenue growth), mainly in the MEA Region (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia) as the result of the addition of new facilities and increased operating efficiencies. Project Logistics showed strong performance across all regions with 25% net revenue increase, driven by new capital projects and positive volume development from existing customers. Fairs & Events net revenue fell 46% with the cancellation and postponement of key events. Starting in Q1, GIL introduced a range of both temporary and permanent cost reduction measures in response to the pandemic. The measures are intended to ensure continued strength of profitability performance during a period of falling and volatile global trade activity. GIL continues to focus on operational productivity as well as customer solutions to respond to the changing market environment. Agility’s Infrastructure Companies Agility’s Infrastructure group EBITDA declined 18% to KD 56 million for the first half of 2020. Net revenue fell 8.4% and gross revenue declined 10.2%. This decrease was driven mainly by UPAC, NAS and GCS entities, which experienced significant declines as a result of the pandemic. In contrast, Agility Logistics Parks (ALP) and Tristar proved to be resilient during the first half of the year. ALP revenue grew 4.5% in the first half amid increased demand for warehousing space, mainly from suppliers of medical equipment and food. ALP also witnessed strong demand from e-commerce players as it is strategically placed to service the requirements of fulfilment providers. ALP accelerated delivery of a few projects to meet customer demand. Developments in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Africa are proceeding as planned, despite some interruptions due to lockdowns. Tristar, a fully integrated liquid logistics company, posted a 10% revenue decline in the first 6 months. Despite that, Tristar’s contractual business model provided resiliency, allowing profitability to grow by double digits during the same period. The revenue decline in the first half of the year was primarily due to the sharp drop in fuel prices and volume slowdown from COVID-19 pandemic impacting Fuel and Road Transport and Warehousing (RTW) segments. The Maritime segment showed healthy growth due to the deployment of new vessels and strong market demand. With the Coronavirus outbreak, Tristar took measures to ensure no business interruption for its customers. Although uncertainty remains in market, we believe Tristar is positioned us for a successful second half of 2020. Tristar continues to execute and to look for opportunities to unlock additional value for its shareholders. National Aviation Services (NAS) reported a revenue decline of 29%, despite performing well in January and February. In March, NAS revenue came under pressure as airlines and airports where it operates curtailed flights and related services, or in some cases, halted operations entirely. Despite the limited operations at many airports, NAS continued to serve evacuation flights, private jets, and cargo freighters. With airport and carrier activity resuming in some locations, NAS is seeing increased demand for its services. NAS’s focus for the remainder of 2020 will be on cash flow, reduction of costs in line with the two-year outlook for aviation, pursuit of new growth opportunities, and adjustment of policies and procedures to operate in a post-COVID world. The pandemic impacted United Projects for Aviation Services Company (UPAC), which saw revenue fall 51.8% in the first half due to the cessation of operations at the Kuwait International Airport. In response, UPAC activated its business contingency plan and took steps to reduce the negative impact on its business. At GCS, Agility’s customs modernisation company, revenue fell 21%, due to precautionary measures taken by the Kuwait Government in response to COVID-19. Some border areas were closed temporarily starting March, curtailing trade and causing decreases in GCS revenue. Sultan said, “In response to the COVID 19 crisis, all entities across the board activated their BCPs and cost alignment measures. And even during these difficult times, each business has contributed to several CSR activities including delivering food to families in Kuwait and supporting the Kuwait Red Crescent Society’s initiatives. Agility also provided free warehousing and local transportation services as part of its COVID-19 response. In Mozambique, we moved PPE for seven hospitals and arranged for storage at the newly built Agility Logistics Park in Maputo.” Looking ahead “The full impact of COVID-19 is not yet clear – there are many possible scenarios and many unknowns – but we are taking steps to weather the storm and emerge stronger. We are adjusting to the reality on the ground within each respective business, and bringing the cost structure in line with the new levels of business we are seeing. We have a strong focus on cash, with a view to having ample liquidity to cover us for the foreseeable future,” Sultan said. “Ultimately, we feel that our long-term vision of infrastructure growth in emerging markets, our growing focus on disruptive technologies and digital enablement for logistics, and expansion into new market segments like e-commerce, is more important than ever,” Sultan added. 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\| Cell Death Discovery Skip to main content Thank you for visiting You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to1, Yuanzheng Lu2,3, Yan Yang1,2, Bo Li2,3, Xiao-Xing Liao2,3, Gang Dai3, Xiaoli Jing1,2, Yan Xiong1 & Chunlin Hu1,2 Cell Death Discovery volume 5, Article number: 129 (2019) Cite this article 1167 Accesses 10 Citations Metrics details Subjects Cell death in the nervous system White matter injury Abstract Mild hypothermia treatment (MHT) improves the neurological function of cardiac arrest (CA) patients, but the exact mechanisms of recovery remain unclear. Herein, we generated a CA and cardiopulmanimals had normal body temperature, and a MHT group, in which animals had a body temperature of 33 °C (range: 32–34 °C), after the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), followed by CA/CPR. MHT significantly improved t P53 phosphorylation (p-P53) in the cortex of CA/CPR mice, which coincided with the elevated autophagic flux. However, Sirt1 deletion compromised the neuroprotection offered by MHT, indicating that Sirt1 plays an important role. Consistent with the observations obtained from in vivo work, our in vitro study utilizing cultured neurons subjected to oxygen/glucose deprivation and reperfusion (OGD/R) also indicated that Sirt1 knockdown increased OGD/R-induced neuron necrosis and apoptosis, which was accompanied by decreased autophagic flux and increased p-P53. However, the depletion of P53 did not suppress neuron death, suggesting that P53 was not critically involved in MHT-induced neuroprotection. In contrast, the application of autophagic inhibitor 3-methyladenine attenuated MHT-improved neuron survival after OGD/R, further demonstrating that increased autophagic flux significantly contributes to MHT-linked neuroprotection of CA/CRP mice. Our findings indicate that MHT improves neurological outcome of mice after CA/CPR through Sirt1-mediated activation of autophagic flux. Introduction Development of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) technology has significantly improved the success rate of the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in patients with sudden cardiac arrest (CA)1. Still, <10% of such patients are discharged from the hospital; most patients in fact die from hypoxic ischemic brain damage after CPR2. Hence, suppressing the brain injury is critical for reducing CPR-linked brain damage and subsequent death. Recently, mild hypothermia treatment (MHT) has been shown to be effective in improving outcomes of patients after CA/CPR3,4. Mechanistically, MHT reduces the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS)5, ameliorates cellular dysfunction and apoptosis6, and reduces the metabolic rate in the brain, all of which collectively diminish oxygen consumption7. Another mechanism involving MHT-mediated neuroprotection is autophagy. Basal autophagy is a physiological process that removes bulk cellular components and organelles. However, autophagic flux may be altered, either increased or decreased, in response to external stimuli. A certain level of autophagy induced by mild or moderate cerebral ischemia or hypoxia offers protection against brain injury, decreases aging and increases tolerance to ischemia and hypoxia8, but excessive autophagy caused by hypoxia can lead to cell death9. Our previous study showed that activation of autophagy induces neurological protection in a rat CA model10. Also, both in vivo11 and in vitro12 studies have shown that increased autophagic flux is an important mechanism for MHT to reduce neuronal injury. However, how MHT regulates autophagy is still unclear. Silent Information Regulator 1 (Sirt1) is abundant in the nervous system and has important neuroprotective functions. For instance, Sirt1 over-expression reduces neurodegeneration by suppressing neuronal apoptosis or deacetylating forkhead transcription factor 1 (FoxO1) and P5313. Sirt1 is also an important regulator of autophagy, as evidenced by the finding that Sirt1 regulates the autophagy-lysosome pathway by deacetylation of autophagy-related genes Atg5, Atg7, Atg8, and FoxO14,15. Consistent with the above findings, resveratrol, a Sirt1 activator, has been shown to induce autophagy in chronic myelogenous leukemia cells through JNK-mediated p62 expression and AMPK activation16. Recently, Sirt1 has been identified as a mediator of cerebral ischemia, with potential of being a therapeutic target17. Given the above findings, we hypothesized that Sirt1 may play an important role in MHT-regulated neuronal autophagy after CA/CRP. We examined our hypothesis in a mouse CA model and in the cultured neurons subjected to oxygenation deprivation and reoxygenation (OGD/R). Results MHT improved the survival rate and reduced apoptosis in the cortex of mice after CA/CPR Injection of KCL is an efficient way to induce CA and can also obtain a high ROSC rate in mice18. We established the animal CA model based on the protocol shown in the flow chart in Supplementary Fig. 1. All animals (18 in each group) achieved ROSC, but within 24 h after ROSC, approximately 40% of mice in the NT group and 30% mice in the MHT died; only two in the NT group and five in the MHT group survived past 72 h. The survival analysis demonstrated that MHT significantly improved the survival rate of mice (Fig. 1a). The CA and subsequent CPR induced severe injury to the neurons in the cortex of mice, as suggested by the observation that the number of dead cells in the MHT group was significantly lower than that in the NT group (Fig. 1b). Fig. 1: MHT rescues neurons from CA/CPR and OGD/R both in vivo and in vitro. a MHT improves the 72 h survival rate of mice after CA/CPR following ROSC from KCL-induced CA. b MHT reduces cell death in cortex after ROSC for 72 h. c MHT reduces apoptosis in cortex after ROSC for 72 h (scale bar 100 µm). d MHT reduces primary cortical neuron death after OGD/R for 24 h. NT normothermia, MHT mild hypothermia therapy, ROSC return of spontaneous circulation, OGD/R oxygen glucose deprivation and reperfusion. p < 0.05; p < 0.01; p < 0.001; *p < 0.0001, vs. NT Full size image Epinephrine has been shown to significantly impair myocardial function by decreasing contractility and diastolic function. Hearts treated with epinephrine require a larger number of electrical countershocks to attain rhythm conversion due to its β receptor activation effects, by which the myocardial oxygen requirement is generall increased19. However, based on the dose used in this study, we did not see significant differences between the NT and MHT groups with regard to the basal physiological parameters (Supplementary Fig. 2). Neuronal apoptosis is one of the important manifestations induced by CA/CPR. Indeed, MHT significantly reduced apoptosis after ROSC compared with NT (14% vs. 25%) (Fig. 1c). We further isolated primary cortex neurons from the P0-P1 newborn rats and seeded these cells onto six well plates at a concentration of 4–5 × 106/well. Cytarabine (2 µmol) was used to inhibit glial cells after 6 h of planting. The neuronal specific markers Neun and map2 were used to identify the neurons;>95% cells were positive (Supplementary Fig. 3). The isolated neurons were subjected to 2 h of OGD and then shifted to normal culture conditions. The cells were then divided into two groups, the NT group, in which cells were placed into a normal incubator (37 °C) for 24 h, or the MHT group, in which cells were placed in a 330 °C incubator for 12 h and then moved back to the normal incubator for another 12 h. Cell death in these groups was then analyzed by flow cytometry with propidium iodide. As shown in Fig. 1d, compared to the NT group, neuronal death in the MHT group cells was significantly suppressed after OGD/R for 24 h. MHT increased the expression of Sirt1 and LC3B but decreased p-P53 in cortical and cultured neurons after CA/CPR or OGD/R Previously, Sirt1 has been shown to exhibit neuroprotective properties in an array of neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease20. Mechanistically, Sirt1 inhibits neuronal apoptosis or deacetylates FoxO1 or P53 and promotes autophagy13. We examined the expression of Sirt1 in the cortex of mice from sham, ROSC 6 and 12 h mice, respectively, and found that Sirt1 expression was significantly suppressed by ROSC, which coincided with increased p-P53 and decreased LC3B expression (Fig. 2a). We also found that 12 h of MHT increased the Sirt1 and LC3B protein levels and decreased p-P53 in mouse cortex after ROSC compared with 12 h of NT (Fig. 2b). Similar results were found in cultured neurons after OGD/R for 12 h (Fig. 2c). Fig. 2: MHT increases expression of Sirt1 and LC3B and decreases p-P53 after CA/CPR and OGD/R both in vivo and in vitro. a Decreased expression of Sirt1 and LC3B but increased p-P53 in cortex of mice after ROSC for 6 h and 12 h. b MHT increases expression of Sirt1 and LC3B and decreases p-P53 in cortex of mice after ROSC for 12 h. c MHT increases expression of Sirt1 and LC3B and decreases p-P53 in cultured neurons after OGD/R for 12 h. p < 0.05; p < 0.01; p < 0.001; **p < 0.0001, vs. NT (normothemia) Full size image MHT increased expression of autophagic gene expression and autophagic flux in cortex and cultured neurons after CA/CPR or OGD/R Sirt1 is an important regulator of autophagy14,15. Given that MHT increased the expression of Sir1 and LC3B in cortical and cultured neurons after ROSC or OGD/R, we next examined whether MHT could change the autophagic flux in cortex and cultured neurons insulted by ROSC or OGD/R. We first analyzed the mRNA levels of 50 genes reported to be involved in the autophagic pathway21,22,23. A subset of autophagic genes (AMBRA1, ATG10, ATG1L1, ATG4B, CXCR4, BECLIN1, GAA, MAPLC3A, MAPLC3B, PIK3C3, ATG5, ATG7, ATG12) were significantly upregulated in the MHT group compared those in the NT group (Fig. 3A,C). Since autophagy is a dynamic process, we used the autophagy inhibitor chloroquine in mice and bafilomycin A1 in neurons to further assess the autophagic levels in our model systems. We found that MHT increased the autophagic flux both in mice and in neurons in response to ROSC or OGD/R(Fig. 3b, d). Fig. 3: MHT increases autophagic flux in mice after CA/CPR and in ATG10, ATG1L1, ATG4B, CXCR4, BECLIN1, GAA, MAPLC3A, MAPLC3B, PIK3C3, ATG5, ATG7, ATG12) in cortex of mice after ROSC for 12 h. b MHT increases autophagic flux in the cortex of mice after ROSC for 12 h. c MHT increases expression of a subset of autophagic genes (AMBRA1, ATG10, ATG1L1, ATG4B, CXCR4, BECLIN1, GAA, MAPLC3A, MAPLC3B, PIK3C3, ATG5, ATG7, ATG12) in cultured cortical neurons after OGD/R for 12 h. d MHT increases autophagic flux in cultured cortical neurons after OGD/R for 12 h. e MHT increases the number of red and yellow puncta in cultured neurons after OGD/R for 12 h. p < 0.05; p < 0.01; p < 0.001; **p < 0.0001, vs. respehe double fluorescence labeled LC3 through adenovirus-mediated expression. This process fluoresced red and green (yellow) puncta when forming an autophagosome but only red puncta (as the GFP is quenched by the acidic environment of the lysosome) when forming an autolysosome. As shown in Fig. 3e, MHT significantly increased the number of red and yellow puncta in neurons after OGD/R for 12 h compared with NT. In aggregates, these findings suggest that MHT increased the Sirt1 expression, which was accompanied by the elevated autophagic flux in cortex in vivo when insulted with ROSC, and in cultured neurons in vitro when subjected to OGD/R. Suppression of Sirt1 abolisht1 and MHT-induced neuronal protection during ROSC, we generated a CA/CPR model in Sirt1 knockout mice, which were then treated with either NT (Sirt1-/-:NT) or MHT (Sirt1-/-:MHT). While the wild type (WT):MHT group displayed significantly lowe-P53 levels in mice compared with the Sirt1-/-:NT group (Fig. 4a). Similar findings were obtained from the cultured neurons, which exhibited knockdown of the Sirt1 gene by siRNA, when subjected to OGD/R (Fig. 4b, c). Knockdown of Sirt1 also blocked the autophagic flux in neurons after OGD/R (Fig. 4d). Fig. 4:ates the MHT-induced increase in LC3B expression and decrease in p-P53 level in cortex of mice. b Western blot showing Sirt1 knockdown efficiency by siSirt1 and siSirt2 in cultured neurons. GAPDH is used as a loading control. c Sirt1 knockdown increases p-P53 in cultured neurons. d Sirt1 knockdown blocks the autophagic flux in NT or MHT treated neurons after OGD/R. p < 0.05; p < 0.01; p < 0.001; **p < 0.0001, vs. respective control group as indicated Full size image We next examined whether Sirt1 knockdown could affect the survival of mice subjected to ROSC. Sirt1 knockdown did not increase the death rate of mice after ROSC, but abolished the beneficial effects of MHT on the survival rate (Fig. 5a–c). Similarly, Sirt1 knockdown significantly increased apoptosis in NT and MHT neurons (Fig. 5d, e), as well as in the neurons in which OGD/R was applied (Fig. 5f). Fig. 5: Suppression of Sirt1 abolishes the neuronal protection of MHT both in vivo and in vitro. a No difference in the survival rate between wild type and Sirt1 knockout mice after ROSC for 72 h. b Sirt1 knockout abolishes the MHT-improved survival rate of mice after ROSC for 72 h. c MHT does not significantly affect the survival rate of Sirt1 knockout mice. d Sirt1 knockout promotes cell death in the cortex of mice after ROSC for 72 h and abolishes the neuronal protection by MHT. e Sirt1 knockout increases the apoptosis in the cortex of mice after ROSC for 72 h and abolishes the inhibitory effects of MHT on neurons apoptosis (scale bar 100 µm). f Sirt1 knockdown promotes neuron death after OGD/R for 24 h and abolishes the neuronal protections by MHT. p < 0.05; p < 0.01; p < 0.001; **p < 0.0001, vs. respective control groups as indicated Full size image Increased autophagy contributes to MHT-induced neuroprotection To further elucidate the molecular basis leading to the neuronal protection of MHT, we knocked down P53 in cultured neurons (Fig. 6a) and subjected them to normal oxygenation or OGD/R. We found that the knockdown of P53 had no significant effect on neuron death after OGD/R (Fig. 6b), consistent with the recently published study24. We next used 3-MA, an important inhibitor of autophagy by means of blocking autophagosome formation25,26, to inhibit autophagy in neurons (Fig. 6c). The neurons treated with 3-MA suffered from increased apoptosis and abolished the neuronal protection by MHT after 24 h of OGD/R (Fig. 6d). Fig. 6: Suppression of autophagy attenuates MHT-reduced neuron death after OGD/R. a Western blot showing the efficiency in P53 knockdown by siRNAs in cultured neurons. b P53 knockdown has no significant effect on neuron survival after OGD/R for 24 h. c 3-MA inhibits autophagy in cultured neurons. d 3-MA treatment increases neuron death and abolishes neuroprotection by MHT after OGD/R for 24 h. p < 0.05; p < 0.01; p < 0.001; ***p < 0.0001, vs. respective control as indicated Full size image Discussion The present study investigated the mechanisms leading to the neuronal protection of MHT. The major findings from this study include that: (1) MHT significantly increases the survival rate of mice after CA/CPR following ROSC, and decreases apoptosis of cerebral cortical neurons, (2) MHT reduces primary cultured neuronal cell death after OGD/R, (3) Sirt1 expression in the cerebral cortex of mice is significantly downregulated after CA/CPR, and is accompanied by the decreased expression of autophagy-related protein LC3B and increan of Sirt1 by either genetic knockout in mice or siRNA-mediated knockdown in cultured neurons attenuated the neuronal protection by MHT, and (5) direct inhibition of autophagy compromised the MHT-linked neuroprotection. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that Sirt1-induced autophagy plays an important role in the neuroprotection by MHT after ROSC. Sirt1 has important neuroprotective effects, and is also an important regulator of autophagy as has been previously demonstrated14,15. Sirt1−/− mice displayed larger infarct size following permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (pMCAo) compared to their WT counterparts27. In contrast, Sirt1 transgenic mice showed less hippocampal damage following bilateral common carotid artery occlusion than WT mice28. A similar protection was seen in the Sirt1-Tg mice in a bilateral common carotid artery stenosis model of hypoperfusion injury29. Also, Sirt1 levels are modulated by ischemic injury as well. For example, Sirt1 was upregulated in the peri-infarct area for up to 7 days following pMCAo in mice27. On the other hand, in rats subjected to transient focal ischemia with various reperfusion periods, Sirt1 was downregulated for 6 h after reperfusion, compared with non-reperfused animals30. In the present study using a transient global ischemia/reperfusion model, the Sirt1 expression levels were decreased at 6 and 12 h after reperfusion. The discrepancy between these findings could be explained by the different species and ischemia/reperfusion models used. In the present study, we used a Sirt1 loss of function approach and found that suppression of Sirt1 compromised the neuroprotection by MHT both in vivo and in vitro, further supporting the notion that Sirt1 is critically involved in MHT-mediated neuroprotection against CA/CPR following ROSC. The regulation of Sirt1 activity is complex and multifactorial. The basal level of Sirt1 is regulated by the transcription factor E2F1 (E2F1) that directly binds to the Sirt1 promoter at a cognate site31. Hence, factors such as calorie restriction and cellular stresses that increase the transcriptional activity of E2F1 may upregulate the Sirt1 levels31. FOXO belongs to another group of transcription factors that activates Sirt1. FOXO1 binds to several consensus sites on the Sirt1 promoter and enables its transcription32, while starvation in mammal cells activates FOXO3a and consequently augments Sirt1 expression33. In the present study, while we found that MHT upregulated Sirt1 expression in the cortex of mice after ROSC, we did not further investigate which signaling molecule(s) is involved in this mediation. However, this warrants further exploration. Although P53 is known to regulate apoptosis and autophagy, the role of P53 in cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury remains up for debate34,35, likely due to the different animal species used and/or ischemia/reperfusion models generated for the various studies. In the severe ischemic model, the high expression of P53 persists, thereby continuously activating its downstream genes to promote apoptosis. In the model of transient ischemia/reperfusion, the upregulated P53 expression does not persist and thus its role in promoting apoptosis is limited36. In the present study, the period of cerebral blood flow interruption lasted about 8 min, and was then reversed by CPR. Thus, in our model, the ischemic brain duration was shorter than the regular stroke model. In addition, the p-P53 only increased at 12 h after ROSC, which can explain why P53 did not play an important role in neuronal death after ROSC. In the early stage of cerebral ischemia/reperfusion, the damage of neuronal cells mainly manifests as necrotic death. In the late stage, it is mainly characterized by delayed neuronal apoptosis37,38. However, which method of cell death, necrosis or apoptosis, is more important in the prognosis of neurological function after ROSC remains to be answered. In the current study, we found that MHT reduced both necrosis and apoptosis, which we believe should be one of the major mechanisms underlying MHT-mediated neuronal protection. Recent studies have shown that activation of autophagy is associated with the neuroprotection in brain ischemia or reperfusion model39,40. The protective role of autophagy during reperfusion may be attributable to mitophagy-related mitochondrial clearance and inhibition of downstream apoptosis41. Rapamycin, an autophagy enhancer, protects against focal brain ischemia in rats, indicating that autophagy may be neuroprotective42. Autophagy activation is an important mechanism for the MHT-mediated benefits to neuronal injury both in vivo11 and in vitro12. Consistent with the above findings, our previous study also suggested that activation of autophagy displays neurological protections in a rat CA model10. In line with these findings, in the current study, we found that 3-MA blocked the protective effect of MHT on neurons after OGD/R, further supporting the premise that activation of autophagy is an important mechanism by which MHT exerts its protection on neuronal cells after OGD/R. In conclusion, in the present study, we employed loss and gain of function approaches to demonstrate both in vitro and in vivo that MTH provides neuroprotection after CA/CPR following ROSC at least in part through Sirt1-activated autophagic flux. Materials and methods This project was approved by the Animal Investigation Committee of Sun Yat-sen University and the animal protocol conformed with National Institutes of Health Guidelines for ethical animal research. Animals C57 male mice (6–8 weeks old, weight 20.0–30.0 g) were provided by the Animal Laboratory of Sun Yat-Sen University with animal permit number SCXK (Yue) 2015–0029 and certification No. 44008500011874. Sirt1 knockout mice (6–8 weeks old, weight 20.0–30.0 g) were provided by the Hubei Provincial Laboratory Animal Public Service Center with certification No. 34018402012771. Antibodies Mouse antibodies against β-tubulin (ab78078), MAP2 (ab5392), NeuN (ab128886), Sirt1 (ab104833), LC3A/B (ab128025), and p-P53 (hosphor S15) (ab1431) were purchased from Abcam. The rabbit anti-β-actin (20536-1-AP) antibody was purchased from Proteintech. The goat anti-rabbit IgG (sc-2004) secondary antibody was purchased from Santa Curz Biotechnology. T rabbit anti-mouse IgG (A9044) secondary antibody was purchased from Sigma. The goat anti-mouse IgG (DyLight™ 488 conjugated) (#4316) secondary antibody was purchased from Cell Signaling Technology. Generation of mouse CA model Adult (6–8-week-old) male C57B/6 mice were randomly divided into two groups after ROSC, a normothermia (NT) group, in which the animal body temperature was maintained at 37 °C (acceptable range, 36.5−37.5 °C), and a mild hypothermia therapy (MHT) group, in which the animal body temperature was maintained at 33 °C (acceptable range, 32−34 °C). All animals were then subjected to CA/CPR. Briefly, mice were fasted overnight but had access to water. Anesthesia was then induced with 3% isoflurane and maintained with 1.5–2% isoflurane in oxygen-enriched air using a nose cone. A temperature probe was inserted into the rectum to monitor body temperature. A PE-10 catheter was inserted into the right jugular vein for drug administration. Needle electrodes were placed subcutaneously in the chest for continuous electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring. Mice were intubated endotracheally and connected to a ventilator (MiniVent Ventilator, Harvard Apparatus) with a respiratory rate of 150 breaths/min, a tidal volume of 0.2 ml, and an inspiratory–expiratory ratio of 1:1. CA was induced with an injection of 50 μl KCl (0.5 M) via the jugular catheter and confirmed by asystole on EKG. The cerebral blood flow was detected using laser Doppler flowmetry (Perimed, PeriScan Pim3), and declined over 80% of baseline during CA. During CA, the endotracheal tube was disconnected, and anesthesia was discontinued. Resuscitation began eight minutes after the induction of CA by a slow injection of 0.5–1.0 ml epinephrine solution (16 μg epinephrine/ml 0.9% saline), chest compressions, and ventilation with 100% oxygen at a respiratory rate of 150 breaths/min. Chest compressions were stopped as soon as spontaneous circulation was restored. Resuscitation was abandoned if spontaneous circulation was not restored within 20 min. Mice were extubated after an adequate respiratory rate was recovered and were provided with access to water and food. NT animals underwent the same procedures as those in MTH group except that they did not receive KCl or epinephrine injections or chest compressions. Rectal temperature of mice was maintained at 37 °C (NT group, acceptable range, 36.5−37.5 °C) or 33 °C (MHT group, acceptable range, 32 −34 °C) using a thermostatically regulated heating blanket or ice packs after CPR. The specific number of animals in each group has been written into supplementary materials. Genotyping of Sirt1 knockout mice PCR was used for genotyping Sirt1 knockout mice as detailed in Supplementary data 4. The DNA was amplified and authenticated by agarose gel electrophoresis using 1.0% agarose (Biowest, BY-R0100) gel. Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining Mouse brain tissue was collected, immediately fixed in 4% formaldehyde, dehydrated and paraffin embedded. Five micrometer thick sections were generated from these fixed brain tissues, followed by standard H&E staining. Histopathological examinations were performed by a senior pathologist at the hospital. Cells were considered dead when any one of the following morphological criteria was met: (1) the cell lost the integrity of its plasma membrane, (2) the cell, including its nucleus, underwent complete fragmentation into discrete bodies (which are frequently referred to as ‘apoptotic bodies’), and (3) its corpse (or its fragments) was engulfed by an adjacent cell43. The dead neurons in each cortex section were counted per 400 × 400-pixel region under 40× magnification by light microscopy (OLYMPUS BX51; OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP, Japan). TUNEL staining TUNEL staining was performed using the In-Situ Cell Death Detection kit (Roche) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Propidium iodide staining was performed to visualize nuclei after TUNEL reaction. At least five randomly selected fields were scored, and the percentage of TUNEL-positive nuclei was quantified using the Image J software. Cell culture Whole brains were collected from 1-day old neonatal sprague dawley (SD) rats. The cerebral cortex was isolated, cut into 0.5 mm3 pieces and digested in 0.25% Trypsin-EDTA (Gibco, 930004) for 30 min at 37 °C to isolate individual primary cortex neurons (PNs). PNs were then planted on poly-D-lysine (40 μg/ml, P6407, Sigma)-coated plates for 5 h in high glucose DMEM (Gibco, 11960085) supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Gibco, 1581729) and 1% penicillin/streptomycin (Hyclone, SV30010). Next, the planting medium was replaced by neurobasal-A medium supplemented with 1% GlutaMAX (Invitrogen, 35050-06), 2% B-27 (Invitrogen, 17504-044) and 1% penicillin/streptomycin. Twelve hours later, the medium was replaced again with neuron culture medium containing 2 µmol cytarabine for 24 h (to inhibit glial cells growth) and was then replenished with fresh culture medium. Immunofluorescence The PNs planted on the sheet glass were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde for 20 min, washed with 0.1 M phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), permeablized in 0.3% Triton X-100 (MP Biomedicals, #194854) for 20 min and rinsed with PBS. Cells were blocked in 5% bovine serum albumin (BSA) at room temperature for 1 h, then incubated with anti-MAP2 and anti-NeuN antibodies at 4 °C overnight. This was followed by another incubation with DyLight 488 conjugated secondary antibody (H + L) (1:200) in wet-cassette for 1 h at 37 °C. After nuclear staining with DAPI, cells were visualized under a confocal fluorescent microscope (Leica, TCS SP5II). siRNA siRNAs were purchased from Invitrogen and reconstituted as a stock solution of 40 mM. Five days after plating, neurons were transfected with siRNA negative control (siNC), and siRNAs against Sirt1 (siSirt1) and P53 (siP53) using RNAi Max transfectant according to the manufacturer’s recommendations. Following 48 h of siRNA transfection, neurons were switched to a serum-free medium. Generation of cellular OGD/R model PNs were assigned randomly to the following groups, OGD-NT and OGD-MHT, which were further divided into siCN and siSirt1 groups with each having NT and MHT treatment. PNs were bathed in an appropriate amount of anoxic liquid (3.283 g deoxyglucose, 0.596 g KCl, 0.150 g MgSO4, 0.525 g NaHCO3, 4.766 g HEPES, 7.313 g NaCl, 0.163 g KH2PO4, 0.133 g CaCl2, and 0.560 g sodium lactate dissolved in 1 L of ddH2O, pH 6.6). Cell culture plates were arranged in a modular incubator chamber (95% N2 and 5% CO2) (Billups-rothenberg, CA92014). The ventilation pipe was closed 5 min after the oxygen detector (SMART SENSOR, AS8801) reachs a steady state of 0.3%. Hypoxia was induced for 2 h at 37 °C to establish the OGD mode. Then, the ischemic medium was replaced with the complete medium. Cells were arranged on the 37 °C (NT treatment) or 34 °C (MHT treatment) incubator to re-oxygenate for 12 or 24 h. Reverse transcription and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) RNA was purified from the brain tissue or PNs using Trizol (Invitrogen, 15596026). one microgram of total RNA was reverse transcribed into cDNA using the PrimeScript™ RT reagent Kit with gDNA Eraser (Takara, RR047A). qPCR was performed in a Real-Time PCR System (Bio-Rad, CFX96 touch) using SYBR® Premix Ex Taq™ II (Takara, RR820A). In every RT-qPCR test, melting curves were detected at the end of the experiment to examine the primer specificity. Relative mRNA transcription was normalized to Actb and evaluated using the F = 2^(-△△Ct) formula. Primers were provided by Invitrogen and their sequences are listed in Supplementary data. Western blot Cells were lysed in RIPA (Beyotime, P0013B) containing 1% phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride (PMSF, Beyotime, ST506), and 1% protease/phosphatase inhibitor (PI/PHI, Thermo Scientific, 78440). Protein concentrations were determined using a Pierce BCA Protein Assay Kit (Beyotime, P0009). Twenty microgram of total protein was resolved in 10% SDS-PAGE and transferred onto 0.2 μm polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes (Millipore, ISEQ00010). The membranes were subsequently blocked with 5% BSA (Sigma, A7030) at room temperature for 1 h, and incubated with the primary antibodies of interest at 4 ˚C overnight, followed by another incubation with the appropriate secondary polyclonal antibodies (HRP-labeled goat anti-rabbit Ig G) for 1 h at room temperature. GAPDH was used as a loading control. The protein bands were visualized with a chemiluminescent imaging analysis system (General Electric, ImageQuant Las4000mini). Measurement of autophagic flux Adenoviruses expressing GFP (Ad-GFP, control) and mRFP-GFP-LC3 (Ad-mRFP-GFP-LC3) were provided by Hanbio. PNs were seeded onto slides, and infected with Ad-GFP or Ad-mRFP-GFP-LC3 at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 0, 50, 100, 200 or 400, respectively for 8 h. In 72 h, cells were visualized under the automatic inverted fluorescent microscope. After OGD/R, autophagic flow of PNs was detected using a laser scanning confocal microscope (Leica, TCS SP5II). Statistical analysis Data are represented as mean ± standard deviation (SD). An independent test and an one-way ANOVA, followed by a Bonferroni test for multiple comparisons, was used to compare continuous and discrete variables between groups, respectively. For animal studies, normality was assessed via the Shapiro–Wilk and Anderson–Darling statistics. 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\| Center for Inclusion and Belonging Skip to main content DONATE Search form Search Toggle navigation CIB menu Trainings Campaigns Research Community of Practice Blog Trainings Campaigns Research Community of Practice Blog You are here Home Amicus Briefs American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan v. Calhoun County Sheriff's Office Enforcement Deil filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of Michigan in support of a detained individual’s request to review a Court “FOIA”). Calhoun County had refused to produce records to the United States citizen requester in response to his state FOIA request for information regarding his wrongful detention. Calhoun County relied on a federal regulation, 8 CFR § 236.6, to withhold records that otherwise would be released under the Michigan state FOIA because the requester was in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) detention. State open records laws are important tools to hold ICE and local jails accountable for their treatment of individuals in immigration detention. Often, documents maintained by state and local law enforcement agencies are the only way to obtain information about how these entities operate and how they treat people in their custody. ICE has a well-documented history of abusive and illegal enforcement practices including mistreatment of individuals held in its detention facilities as well as unlawful detention of U.S. citizens. The American Immigration Council filed this amicus with several other organizations. On February 4, 2022, the state’s Supreme Court found that Calhoun County improperly withheld the records relating to the plaintiff’s wrongful detention, marking a victory for transparency in the state. The Court held that a federal regulation, such as the one raised by the County to block access to the records in question, cannot serve as the basis for exempting these records from disclosure under the specific wording of Michigan’s state FOIA. Calhoun County submitted a request for the Michigan Supreme Court to reconsider its decision, and a decision from the Court on this request is pending.	https://inclusion.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/amicus_brief/amicus-brief-filed-supreme-court-michigan-support-state-foia-request-wrongful-detention	1,660,087,576
\| Conflict and Health \| Full Text Skip to main content Advertisement Search Explore journals Get published About BMC My account Search all BMC articles Search Conflict and Health Home About Articles Collections of health systems framework Opportunities Challenges Developing political commitment Reinforcing leadership and strengthening the capacity of the health system for prevention and control of NCDs was a key objective in the national policy. Efforts have focused on reproductive, maternal and child health, and communicable diseases. Lowinclude regulatory, fiscal and educational reforms. The priorities reflect international best practice. Evidence gaps relating to NCDs mean that the basis for priority setting is absent. Strengthening interagency cooperation An interim national technical working group was established in 2018. There are plans to set up a substantive Technical Working Group that encompasses all the relevant actors. The NCD directorate is in the process of establishing an NCD and injury commission. Facility Management Committees and Village Development Committees can be a potential platform to conduct NCD prevention and control. The interim group does not have a strong intersectoral presence. There is weak NCD coordination at district level where external support is lacking. Enhancing population empowerment The national NCD policy is built around eight key principles, with health promotion and education a priority. The importance of outreach and health education to address causal factors is recognised in principle. No programmes in operation specifically target at health literacy or knowledge of entitlements in relation to NCDs. Knowledge of communities is limited. Perceptions of quality of care is compomised due to medicine stock-outs and distance. Informal providers preferred by some population groups. No formal peer support groups exist. Growing risk factors include: adopting western lifestyles; urbanisation; smoking and alcohol drinking; sedentary lifestyles. Diabetes and hypertension are increasing. Establishing effective models of service deliver Providers have received some teaching on NCDs during their pre-service training. Lack of policies to support early detection of NCDs. Access to palliative care is very limited. No national guidelines or desk guides for NCD management were in operation at primary care level. Care has been dependent on knowledge of the providers and availability of equipment. Public facilities have limited opening hours. Services at primary care level were reported to be limited. Weak referral systems. Limited specialist services are available. Establishing coordination across provider MoHS has a vision for a coordinated approach to NCDs across levels of the health system. Community health workers (CHWs) have recently been established. Traditional healers are trusted by many NCD patients. Informal sector can also play an important role. Little implementation of MoHS policies. Patients often present late with complicated symptoms. Private and informal providers are posing potential barriers for quality, continuity and loss to follow up. Traditional healers reported to be overstepping their boundaries. Taking advantage of economies of scale and specialisation Less relevant at this stage given low levels of coverage for NCD services. Creating the right incentive system Fiscal, regulatory and communication proposals developed. Resourcing is currently very limited and actions have not yet been put in place. Implementation of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for Sierra Leone was estimated at only 9%. Integrating evidence into planning International evidence has been incorporated in MoHS strategies and plans. There is an urgent need for more locally generated evidence. The STEP survey conducted in 2009 was incomplete. The National Steering Committee has not yet been established. Little progress has been made in implementing and therefore evaluating the national NCD policy and strategy. Addressing human resources challenge Work is on-going to improve the basic and in-service training for NCDs. Health talks are given by community health nurses in the health centres and during outreach activities. Human resources for health are generally inadequate in number, distribution and supportive working conditions. Many staff are not yet on payroll. More assessment of competence in managing NCD care by different cadres is required. In-service training is ad hoc and typically project-linked, with little emphasis on NCDs. Staff needs skills-building in a number of NCD-related areas, including providing lifestyle counselling. Improving access to quality medicines for NCD The Free Health Care Initiative provides free drugs for pregnant and lactating women and under-fives. The government supplies methyldopa, suitable for high blood pressure in pregnancy to health centres (though this is not reliable). Some CHOs have worked with DHMTs and local chiefs to try to control the activities of pepper doctors. Lack of medicines in public facilities. Lack of national budget line or programme funding for NCD medicines and general problems with the central purchasing of pharmaceuticals. NCD drugs generally fall within the cost recovery pharmacies at public health facilities. Many purchase poor quality drugs or have no access. A private faith-based clinic in Makeni that provides free insulin treatment faces high patient loads. Basic diagnostic equipment is often lacking or malfunctioning. Staff are in a potential conflict of interest situation if they buy and sell on medicines to patients. Informal drug peddlers are illegal but popular among NCD and other patients. Strengthening health system management The NCD and Mental Health Directorate at the MoHS provides overall leadership and NCDs are integrated within routine health system management structures and processes. NCDs receive relatively little prominence within the sector at all levels. Creating adequate information solution Monthly reports sent to DHTM and MoHS. Health data on NCDs suffers from lack of completeness, fragmentation, and limited detail or disaggregation. Overcoming resistance to change A draft Tobacco Bill is currently ready for review. Relatively limited action has been taken to date. Challenges include low levels of health education, economic resources and trust in formal services. Ensuring access to care and reducing financial burdens Some support is available through non-governmental projects and small-scale donor support. Physical and financial access to NCD services is challenged, especially in rural areas. There is no policy in place to subsidise care for NCDs. Informal sector can be costly and is of unassessed (likely to be low) quality. Back to article page Conflict and Health ISSN: 1752-1505 Contact us Submission enquiries: General enquiries: Read more on our blogs Receive BMC newsletters Manage article alerts Language editing for authors Scientific editing for authors Policies Accessibility Press center Support and Contact Leave feedback Careers Follow BMC BMC Twitter page BMC Facebook page BMC Weibo page By using this website, you agree to our Terms and Conditions, California Privacy Statement, Privacy statement and Cookies policy. Manage cookies/Do not sell my data we use in the preference centre.	https://conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13031-019-0248-3/tables/3	1,660,533,216
\| GOGLA The Voice of the Off-Grid Solar Energy Industry Member Login Low-bandwidth Who We Are About Us Our Values Team Governance Board Statutes Supporting Partners Career Contact Report Us What We Do Access to Finance Circularity Consumer Protection Impact Measurement Policy and Regulation The Connect Initiative Members Become a Member Our Members List Map Product Showcase ELEVATE LEAN Data Platform News & Events News Media Blog Events Newsletter Archive Resources End User Subsidy Lab Policy Knowledge Hub Publications Semiannual Market Report Investment trends Powering Opportunity 2020 Global Off-Grid Solar Forum Opportunities Database Academy Search Become a member Home >> About us >> Blogs >> Jan 15, 2021 Guest blog by Sam Grant and Hannah Blair While disrupting the daily lives of billions, Coalition, explores the implications of the pandemic on off-grid communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and how solar technologies can support emergencyng three times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men, including household chores and cooking, both unpaid and invisible. Now, according to Energia unpaid care work in homes is increasing due to social distancing practices, school closures and home schooling, heightened care needs of older, at risk and sick people, and more cooking being done at home. Shopping, storing food, and procuring food and fuel are more stressful, risky and time-consuming than ever before. Access to modern energy services and electrical appliances are essential to save time and labor linked to the increasing demands of the pandemic and to build future resiliency. Technologies like televisions and radios are now essential for distance learning, and clean cooking technologies like electric pressure cookers can reduce exposure to dangerous household air pollution and significantly reduce time spent preparing daily meals, freeing up time for other productive activities. Data shows that appliances contribute to more equitable distribution of household labor, since men are more willing to share housework using modern appliances. The coronavirus exacerbates a learning crisis for off- and weak-grid communities The pandemic, which forced learning institutions to close and kept some 1.2 billion students worldwide out of the classroom, has worsened a pre-existing problem. Prior to COVID-19 lockdowns, millions of girls were out of school in Africa and South Asia—5.5 million in Nigeria and over 1 million in Ethiopia did not attend school yearly. While the situation varies between countries, 56% of the out-of-school children globally are girls. With schools closed, technology has become the only option for families adapting to distance learning. Across the globe, appliances like radios, televisions and computers are enabling students to stay active and engaged with their coursework to meet learning targets. Kept at home to help with the growing burden of domestic chores, access to educational technology can close the education gap for girls and support learning at-home. But in sub-Saharan Africa, up to 80 percent of students are unable to connect to the internet and lack technologies like televisions and radios to access learning opportunities like their peers in more developed countries. “Access to technology and materials needed to continue learning while schools are closed is desperately unequal. Likewise, children with limited learning support at home have almost no means to support their education,” explained Robert Jenkins, UNICEF Chief of Education. There is an opportunity—made more evident by the virus—to increase access to high-quality, energy-efficient off- and weak-grid appropriate appliances that enable distance learning for vulnerable student groups, like girls. Off-grid technologies keep girls connected and learning through the pandemic Governments are recognizing and promoting the use of off-grid solar-powered technologies to enhance learning opportunities for out-of-school youth. In Uganda, President Museveni unveiled a plan to procure 137,000 solar televisions and 10 million solar radio sets to support distance learning. Meanwhile, the Rwandan government is supporting the rapid uptake of solar home systems for education purposes. State-owned networks are broadcasting lessons via SMS, radio and television in Cote D’Ivoire, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Kenya. In Kenya, Google deployed Loon Balloons to increase coverage of 4G base stations. Bringing education into the home would allow girls to participate in school activities when physical distance or domestic chores present a barrier. In a recent Efficiency for Access survey of almost 4,000 solar TV users in East Africa, 96% felt that their knowledge or awareness of current affairs, politics, and general knowledge had improved because of the TV. 79% felt their stress levels had reduced since using the solar TV, and 83% said that their family was more connected. “As a family we watch movies and documentaries together and discuss about events we have seen on TV; this strengthens our relationship as a family,” explained one customer in Kenya. Access to news and information via off-grid televisions and other connectivity-enabling devices can contribute to higher levels of education access and foster positive behavior change, including financial decision-making, family planning, literacy, and in a pandemic, awareness of proper health and sanitation practices. Biomass cooking poses a danger to women and girls More people at home also means that the burden of unpaid care and domestic work has increased for women and girls. One of the most time-consuming and dangerous daily chores is the process of cooking with biomass fuels. Three billion people, or 40% of the world population, rely on polluting, open fires and inefficient fuels such as wood, charcoal, coal, and kerosene for cooking. These practices have real long-term implications on the wellbeing of women and girls. Close to 4 million people die prematurely each year from illness attributable to household air pollution (HAP) from inefficient cooking practices using polluting stoves. Close to half of deaths due to pneumonia among children under 5 years of age are caused by particulate matter (soot) inhaled from indoor air pollution. The health impacts of biomass cooking are exacerbated by the physical labor needed to collect fuel for daily cooking. It is estimated that women provide 91% of households’ total efforts in collecting fuel and water, and women have an average working day of 11-14 hours, compared to 10 hours on average for men. A reduction in time spent collecting fuel and cooking enables women to spend more time on other activities— supporting distance learning, enabling income-generating activities, and allowing leisure time. E-cooking technologies provide time-saving and health benefits Electric pressure cookers (EPCs) offer a clean alternative to polluting biomass fuels, substantially reducing cooking time and eliminating dangerous smoke from daily cooking. In the pandemic context, EPCs provides a wide range of benefits, from reducing personal exposure to harmful pollutants, to saving families valuable income spent on rising alternative fuel sources like charcoal and wood. “The best thing about this [EPC] is having more time. I used to sit inside for two or three hours to prepare each meal [lunch and dinner], but now I can put the food inside the cooker and just leave. I go to my farm and can work there all day. It is especially helpful during the harvest season when we have so much to do. Now I come home and the food is ready,” explained Esther Matayo of Londoni, Tanzania. Esther participated in a pilot studying the uptake and impact of EPCs with microgrid customers in rural Tanzania. The majority of EPC users, like Esther, were women and reported that the EPCs were easier to use, safer and quicker than their alternative cooking methods. In the Tanzania pilot, users also reported that health issues like eye irritation and coughing improved with EPC usage. Although customers still used biomass to cook certain dishes, EPCs did reduce exposure to HAP. Access to appliances for learning and clean cooking remains stagnant Quality, cost and availability pose a significant barrier to scaling gender-empowering technologies. Today’s off-grid solar energy market is characterized by products with varying levels of quality and durability. Some are designed and manufactured well, while others fall short of expectations for safety, durability, and performance. For many bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers, purchasing a solar product is a major decision and investment. While common charcoal stoves sold in markets across East Africa cost between $3-5 on average, EPCs can range from $90-200 USD. Similarly, a solar TV or radio and associated power system can range up to 500 dollars USD. The majority of EPC customers (86%) could not have afforded their appliance without a loan facility, while 99% of solar TV customers bought their appliance on credit. Spending limited funds on a poor-quality product could be devastating for the consumer and harm the reputation of off-grid solar products generally. Establishing appliance quality assurance policies and implementation models builds a competitive global market where high-performing products help consumers unlock the full range of benefits that stem from having access to modern energy services. Beyond creating an enabling policy environment, appropriately designed product subsidies and financing schemes allow low-income customers access to life-changing technologies.	https://www.gogla.org/about-us/blogs/protecting-women-and-girls-during-the-global-recession-solar-powered-appliances	1,660,085,490
\| Gaslamp Games Warning: Javascript is disabled. While you can still view most of our website, we recommend enabling javascript for your web browser to fully experience . Home Weblog Forums Store About Contact All posts tagged with "" Some Rubbish Screenshots May 8, 2013 by David Baumgart Radical notions about “the Natural Environmwith respect to the effects of Unbridled Industry and So-Called Progress in our Nation” are dismissed as debased spiritualists that can be assumed to gather in Laudanum Dens to associate with Poets who fill their heads with rambling apocalyptic screeds. When all is quiet, the Rubbish Beetles scurry from their burrows and perform the duties Nature has seen fit to assign to them. Continuing forthwith: All et up from that tin of Doctor E. Sanin’s Patent Tinned Meat* Slurry Product? Just toss it aside with nary a care. Divested the shipping crate of its contents of finely enameled bric-a-brac (including a set of commemorative plates featuring portraits of our fine Prime Minister)? Toss it on the heap with the rest of the rubbish. The world provides its obviously limitless bounty to us to be used, dear reader! { read this article } Posted in Clockwork Empires \| Tagged artists at Gaslamp Games are trained to safely use the most vexing angles in their work, doctor e sanins patent tinned meat slurry product is not guaranteed to not contain one of sawdust and/or processed carapace, even steampunk rubbish heaps have cogs on them, i like turtles, not pictured for whatever reason: tortoise standing next to huge pile of ammunition, Potemkin's garbage heap, rubbish, rubbish screenshots, screenshots, Sean's work this week was garbage, this post makes a fearful solid month of David blogging, was really tempted to put a Nwabudike Morgan quote in this post, , ya'know- I could serialize this great novel I've been working on through these tags, you'd think someone else would write one of these damn things but here we go again 21 Comments Search Mailing List SUBSCRIBE HERE Posts RSS / Comments RSS Categories Clockwork Empires Dungeons of Dredmor Game Design Games Ger 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016	https://www.gaslampgames.com/tag/we-have-been-assured-that-all-errors-in-the-luminous-aether-calculations-are-being-rapidly-corrected/	1,660,062,036
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\| Glamour Skip to main content Open Navigation Menu Menu Story Saved To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Close Style Beauty Entertainment Wellness Culture Video Women of the Year MoreChevron Story Saved To revisit this arttertainment Wellness Culture Video Women of the Year Rewards Free Stuff Promos Makeup Boy, bye. By Deanna Pai November 17, 2016 Facebook Twitter Email Getty Images Facebook Twitter Email Throughout the nightmare circus that was this election season (which, somehow, culminated in another nightmare circus), Hillary Clinton's makeup has been a point of contention. It's actually been a topic of discussion since her first primnce apparently you cannot be a woman in this world without people commenting on your mascara or the lack thereof. Getty Images Last night, the former Democratic presidential candidate, Secretary of State, and chief nasty woman was honored at the Children's Defense Fund's Beat the Odds Celebration. She delivered her remarks without much, if any, makeup. It stands in stark difference to the red lipstick and warm, peachy complexion she wore at the third debate—and it's not totally surprising that the Internet welcomed the change with open arms. Twitter content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Twitter content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Twitter content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. There were, obviously, the staple detractors who called her "sickly" and asked what it would take for her to do her hair and makeup before an appearance. Honestly, Hillary, didn't you know that you have hordes of armchair pundits with a wi-fi password and workable fingers to impress? For shame! I'm trying to understand what some t! Give me a second to curl my lashes!" And even if she did show up last night decked out in makeup, that's her prerogative, too. This isn't a partisan issue. This is a issue. I, for one, have developed this new habit where I sometimes wear dark, inky lipstick that makes it impossible to kiss my boyfriend without turning his face into a Rorschach test. I think of it as my "I'm not here for your shit" makeup, because when I wear it, I'm not here for his shit, your shit, or anyone's shit. (My boyfriend doesn't mind, since he's comfortable in his masculinity.) And so I think of Hillary's choice to lay off the makeup as her own "I'm not here for your shit" look. She has no one but herself to impress, no one to please, no one to win over. And her speech last night underlined that Hillary Clinton is going to keep doing what Hillary Clinton wants. "There are people in this audience I’ve had the privilege of working with and admiring for so many decades. You refuse to stop pushing and when you get knocked down, you get back up," she said. "You don’t get to stop paying rent just because things don’t go your way." When she puts it like that, does the makeup even matter? It shouldn't—and, in our opinion, doesn't. Topicshillary clintonno makeupmakeupelection 2016 Glamour Beauty Makeup ideas, product reviews, and the latest celebrity trends—delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Read More icon Play Video 12 Celebrities Who Voted in Style These celebrities know that there’s no better accessory than an “I Voted” sticker on election day. Make sure to vote on November 8th! beauty Siren Eyes Are Summer’s Sultriest Eye Makeup Trend Here's how to master Bella Hadid's go-to look. By Danielle Sinay beauty Keke Palmer’s Nope Makeup Contains a Big Clue About Her Mysterious Character Her makeup artist shares the details you might have missed. By Sarah Y. Wu fashion Elle Woods Attended a Movie Premiere Last Night Did I say Elle? I meant Reese Witherspoon…. By Sam Reed Authentic, Accessible, Relevant Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Tiktok More from Glamour About Glamour Newsletter Signup Masthead Glamour Media Kit See More Stories Fashion Beauty Wellness News & Culture Sex & Relationships Site Map RSS Feeds Accessibility Help Condé Nast Store Contact Glamour Condé Nast Spotlight Do Not Sell My Personal Info © 2022 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Glamour may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices	https://www.glamour.com/story/hillary-clinton-no-makeup-post-election-speech	1,660,021,502
\| Hampshire Safeguarding Adults Board Hampshire Safeguarding Adults Board Report Concerns > Search Search Search for: MENU Skip to content Home About Us HSAB Strategic Plan 2022-2025 Annual Report Membership Subgroups Quality Assurance Engaging Hampshire Communities Learning and Development Strategy Safeguarding Adult Reviews Keeping Safe Report Concerns What is Abuse or Neglect? Signs and Indicators of Abuse Keeping Safe Professionals Area Hampshire, IOW, Portsmouth and Southampton 4LSAB Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adults Policy and Guidance Practice Guidance and Resources Glossary Other useful websites HSAB Learning Zone Safeguarding Adult Reviews News & Events HSAB Members Area Meetings Memorandum of Agreement Subgroups HSAB Protocols and Frameworks Risk Registers Learning and Development Strategy Templates Safeguarding Adults Policy and Practice Bulletins Real Life Case Studies Care Act Guidance Safeguarding Adult Reviews In this section All News & Events August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 Our new app is now available 27 July 2022 The Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board has published a thematic safeguarding adults revies is available on the PSAB website here. The chair of Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board, David Goosey, said: “Today we have published an independent review into the deaths of four men who sadly died in Portsmouth in 2020. All four were homeless at the time of their deaths. “None of the deaths were linked to abuse or neglect, but we identified that there had been a number of similar deaths at this time and chose to carry out a review to see what could be learned and to identify improvements in the way services in the city support homeless people. “These four cases were chosen purely because they seemed representative. “The review has highlighted the unprecedented challenges experienced by individuals and services at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. It also has a number of recommendations. I am pleased to note that a great deal of work has already been done to improve outcomes for homeless people. “These include: the introduction of a healthcare team based in Portsmouth City Council’s homeless day service strengthened links between housing and social care services, including a specialist council social worker based in the homeless service run by the Society of St James homeless liaison officers from Two Saints based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, who support patients and visitors with housing issues new housing and substance-misuse services. For instance, the council’s services for rough sleepers have been re-designed and now include three buildings, converted from student accommodation, which offer intensive, medium, and lower levels of support according to individual needs. Services work with people to help them move along a pathway into settled accommodation. “The board and our partner agencies are also developing an action plan which will ensure that relevant learning is taken into account in the future provision of services for homeless people. We are also working on new guidance for staff and will be offering further training opportunities. “On behalf of the Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board, I would like to express my sincere condolences to each of the families involved.” PortsmouthpublicationSAR Post navigation Previous PostPublication of the HSAB Annual Report 2021-22Next PostHampshire Safeguarding Adults Board Learning and Development Programme 2021/22 now published Please do not use this email address to report concerns. If you are worried about an adult please telephone Hampshire Adult Services.	https://www.hampshiresab.org.uk/psab-publication-of-thematic-safeguarding-adults-review-following-the-deaths-of-mr-g-mr-h-mr-i-and-mr-j/	1,660,841,801
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Only humans experience disgust, an emotion that evolved initially to help us avoid toxic food and disease and morphed into a manipulable sense that infuses personal choices about cuisine and friends and sex partners as well as cultural decisions on economics, law, moral codes, politics, and allies and enemies. Whether something is disgusting varies from place to place and over history. In the 1600s, for example, New Englanders found lobster so foul that laws were enacted to bar slave owners from serving it to slaves more than three days a week -- yet now most people consider lobster a delicacy. In her latest book, That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion (W.W. Norton & Co), Dr. Rachel Herz -- a psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist and expert on the sense of smell -- explores this fascinating emotion and how it permeates so many important aspects of our lives. She differentiates disgust, our most egoistic and individualized emotion, from our other relatively outward-focused, automatic emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, fear and surprise. That’s Disgusting offers a journey through the vile and disgusting from fetid food and vomit, blood, urine, and feces to pornography, horror movies, disease, cannibalism, and the fear behind it all, death. Dr. Herz relies on recent psychological and medical studies to explain how the brain interprets disgust and how disgust affects human behavior. And she points out how leaders have manipulated disgust to vilify and isolate particular groups such as what happened with the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, the Jews in Nazi Germany, and immigrants today. Dr. Rachel Herz grew up in Montreal Canada and received her PhD from the University of Toronto. She is on the faculty of Brown University and also works as a professional consultant. She has studied the psychology of smell, emotion and cognition since 1990 and has written dozens of academic articles on human emotion and smell as well as a critically acclaimed 2007 book, The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (William Morrow/Harper-Collins). In her research studies, she uses psychophysical, self-report, cognitive-behavioral and neurological techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Dr. Herz also serves on several advisory boards, including The Fragrance Foundation, and consults for many of the world's leading flavor and fragrance companies. Dr. Herz recently spoke extensively by telephone about That’s Disgusting and her other research from her office in New England. How did you come to write about disgust now? It came from two directions. The first was a joke because my first book, The Scent of Desire, was about the psychology of smell. After writing that book, I got a lot more media attention, and the National Rotten Sneakers Contest contacted me and asked if I’d be a judge for it. The contest was explained to me. Kids would come together from all around the country after their regional stink-offs, and the contest was for the smelliest sneakers of all. It sounded like fun. It was held in Montpelier, Vermont, and I was being offered a hotel room at a resort in Stowe so I said “okay.” This contest is actually in The Farmers’ Almanac, so it is well known. When I told people about it they couldn’t believe I had agreed to do it, and kept pointing out to me how disgusting it was going to be. Two things then happened. One, I made a joke that I was doing it for research for my next book, The Scent of Disgust. That set the ball rolling in my mind that maybe disgust was an interesting topic, and I had been looking for a topic for my next book. But also, thinking about what I was going to deal with in the contest influenced how I responded to the sneakers [and] when I had to come nose to nose with them I discovered it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. I had imagined the most excruciating smells possible, and when I got down to actually smelling the odors were tolerable by comparison. This started me to think about how cognitively and psychologically manipulable disgust is, and how it has a lot of fundamental commonalities with the sense of smell, which is also very psychologically manipulable, contextual, and meaning dependent, and I began to think more deeply about disgust as a viable topic. In fact, long before this contest, when I started my faculty career, I became intellectually interested in disgust. I was at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, an institute devoted to smell and taste research affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, and I met Paul Rozin in the psychology department at Penn, he is the leading [expert] on disgust, and he was also interested in taste. I participated in his group seminars. He first got me intrigued with disgust when he talked with me about his research. So for a long time I had a percolating interest, but never expected to put it all together. You write about the evolution of disgust and how it’s an emotion that has contributed to human survival through history. Disgust is a very interesting emotion. It contributes to our survival by helping us avoid eating poisons and catching diseases. But it’s also something which, from a historical perspective, has been put to terrible use in terms of maligning groups of people, inciting genocide, and influencing our response to the “other,” whether foreigners or immigrants and so forth. The manipulation of disgust at a political level has been extraordinarily damaging if not outright entirely destructive to whole groups of people. Even though it’s an emotion that helps us, it’s also an emotion that destroys us. More important, it’s an emotion that needs to be learned. We don’t automatically know what we need to be disgusted by. We need to learn it, and we learn it from our culture and it’s very manipulable and can be influenced by all sorts of things. The disease-vector connection historically has been the most powerful and negative in creating an response towards groups of people. For example, calling a group of people “cancerous tumors” or calling them “vermin” as was done in World War II with Nazi propaganda against Jews and in the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. In fact, recently in the news, the UN ambassador from Iran called Israel a “cancerous tumor.” That’s directly out of the playbook of the Nazi propaganda machine. When you do that, people have a disgust response, which they have learned, to disease and vermin. As soon as we castigate a group of people as having those qualities, those people become contaminated and viewed as subhuman vermin and diseased—things that we want to eradicate, to exterminate. It’s very dangerous. You’d think we wouldn’t be so susceptible as rational people but it is actually very easy to manipulate. In a recent experiment, it was shown that college students think about drug addicts and the homeless as subhuman and disgusting. The “human focused” part of the brain is literally turned off when looking at pictures of people in these groups. They are subhuman in the students’ minds and literally no different from an overflowing toilet in terms of the kind of disgust and aversion they elicit, whereas other downtrodden groups, such as people with disabilities, elicit a certain degree of human pity so that, although they may perceived as disgusting, they are not perceived as nonhuman. A very dangerous thing happens when you turn somebody into some thing, and that’s where the destructiveness takes place. It’s amazing how quickly that sense of disgust can take hold. It’s called the instinct that has to be learned. It feels like an instinct when we experience disgust. When you look at an earthworm or step in poop or have to shake hands with a sweaty, coughing stranger, it feels like disgust comes on automatically out, but had you not learned what to be disgusted by and how to be disgusted, you wouldn’t have that response. For example, there are feral children who have been brought up without any socialization whatsoever, and they do not appear to show any disgust. The same with young children prior to being socialized. And there are certain individuals who, because of neurological abnormalities, also do not recognize or experience disgust. It’s particularly interesting to me that psychopaths don’t experience disgust, because they are also the classic anti-social personality. It turns out that disgust is an extremely social emotion. Do you think Americans view poverty and homelessness with a collective kind of disgust? It seems that American society tends to put things we don’t like to see out of sight, out of mind, such as mental illness and homelessness, and we fight wars at a great distance. We live in a world in North America where we have the privilege of being able to sanitize our environment to a fairly high degree, and we do this at several levels. We also clean our bodies excessively compared to the rest of the world. And we clean up our streets by hustling homeless people into shelters so other people won’t see them much more than is done in Europe or the rest of the world. It’s interesting how we sanitize our bodies and our environments. This also happens with mental illness, but I think fortunately this is changing (with respect to mental illness). But it’s still the case that when people are told that the last people who swam in a pool were mental patients, they don’t want to swim in the pool. We’re very easily affected by a kind of magical contagion. For example, the repulsion we have at the concept of mental illness creates the feeling of magical contamination, and so we don’t want to touch or be immersed in something that is connected to our aversion. Even though we know logically that we can’t put something in the water to cause or catch mental illness, we still somehow feel it could rub off on us. And you write about the disgust evoked by the idea of wearing a sweater that was supposedly worn by Hitler or buying a bag of cookies that is placed in a shopping cart with a sealed package of feminine hygiene products. That’s very interesting to me. Menstrual blood is deemed the worst blood in the world, and much worse -- depending on the culture -- than any other bodily fluid that comes out of humans. That’s shocking to me. It is the signifier of being able to produce life, so there’s a strange paradox about why it would be so disgusting. Menstruation is indicative of a fertile female and the concept of procreation is the basis for everything, and yet menstrual blood is viewed as this repulsive signal. Women also have a long history of being [seen as] illness-producing and contaminating. The same kind of language that has been used against Jews has also been used against women. I was blown away by the amount of misogyny there has been historically and how disgust has been used to make women more repulsive. It’s interesting how feminine attributes have been disgustified: soft and moist and other qualities that are perceived as disgusting compared to the smooth, strong and sleek male body. As you suggest, women -- like lepers -- have often been isolated through history because of a sense they’re diseased. That has been a longstanding trajectory through cultural history with the idea that women could cause sickness by menstruation. In the nineteenth century, doctors said women shouldn’t be around food while menstruating because they could literally spoil the food by their contact with it as a function of menstruating, which is so nonsensical that it boggles the mind, yet it was taken seriously and stated by medical practitioners. I can’t imagine the folkloric anecdote that was used to justify this belief because it sounds so absurd to me. It’s interesting too that [menstruation] is viewed as something women should be ashamed of and women should not have sex when menstruating, and many women unfortunately hold this attitude. Many men and women in our culture now don’t care if the woman is menstruating while having sex, but there are still both men and women who view this as disgusting. And many women have internalized this shame and disgust about their bodies and how they shouldn’t be touched during this time. You write also of pornography and disgust. In the images of nudes in men’s magazines like Playboy, pubic hair was airbrushed out in the fifties and sixties, and then appeared in the seventies. Has our sensitivity changed? There’s been a big upswing in what we’re exposed to in terms of sexuality and much more so with gore. It’s much more acceptable to show extreme gore than even mild sexuality. In the seventies and eighties, magazines like Playboy showed women’s bodies with pubic hair, and now the fashion is in fact to have no or almost no pubic hair. Although they show the full body, the body is not fully human in the animal sense. These bodies are perfectly sleek and smooth and hairless -- and this goes for men as well -- in pornographic magazines and movies. This relates to a problem we have with sexuality as animalistic. Important triggers for disgust are things that remind us we are animals and, as other animals, we will die. So we have transformed the human body, and people who enact sex [have] bodies that are not really human in the base, animal way. They are hairless and flawless and often surgically distorted. Even though we’re seeing more, we’re seeing an unreal version. You also explore disgust in terms of gruesome images of violence and disease. In her book, A Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence, Prof. Susie Linfield calls for publication of photographs of political violence and atrocity to promote human rights. Shocking people with real life atrocities in well-crafted photographs can do that, but I think more the opposite. We are so inundated with gruesomeness at so many levels in fantasy and reality that we are inured to it and don’t react to it, which is a terrible thing. The right photograph can create the right response, but I don’t know that seeing too many of them is such a good idea. When we see pictures of starvation in the Sudan, for example, that photograph of a dying child crawling across the desert made a huge impact on me that was absolutely heart wrenching and chilling, but if I keep seeing picture after picture of death and destruction, I feel it doesn’t have much impact. The problem is the fine line between inundation and reaction. With disgust, the more you’re exposed to something, the less disgusted you become by it. This is true in all of us. For instance, people who work in hospital emergency wards see all kinds of disgusting things all the time, and nurses or nurses’ aides deal with all kinds of body fluids. Maybe when they initially started their jobs, they had a hard time with it, but then it gets easier. This happens to everybody. With medical professionals and first responders, is there a physiological or psychological mechanism that suppresses the disgust response? It’s truly the idea of regression towards the mean. The more you’re exposed to something, the more boring it becomes, and the less you react to it. You become desensitized with overexposure. I also think that the degree to which you emotionally detach from what you’re doing or what’s going on, can be a help. People who work in the medical profession are trained to emotionally detach from their patients because, if they were empathic to the degree a normal person might be, they would never be able to do their jobs. They are trained to dissociate emotionally and that, coupled with the constant exposure to gross stuff, doubles up to make it tolerable. You use the term “benign masochism” to describe human morbid curiosity or the desire to see horror movies or stop at accident scenes. Benign masochism is a term Paul Rozin came up with to describe the peculiar predilection of many humans to do things that would seem very unpleasant to do. Why would you subject yourself to seeing gore and horror, or why would you eat peppers [until] your mouth burns so much that you can’t taste anything, or why would you bungee jump off a building to see what that felt like? Why do we expose ourselves to these things, which are logically speaking terrifying and horrific? The explanation is that we know they are safe, and as a function of knowing they’re safe and we won’t be hurt, they serve two purposes. One is the general interest we have to dance on the edge with death. Death is such a mystery and we suppress thinking about it so much of the time that it is a release when we get to play with it in situations like horror movies or roller coaster rides and things like that. The other side depends on our age and our personality. Your internal arousal system is a moderator for how much arousal you want from the outside. People who are set on low seek high levels of stimulation from the outside world and horror and terror give lots of arousal and help those people feel more alive. People who are set on high want to avoid those things because they’re already dealing with a lot of stimulation from the inside and so they’re trying to damp it down from outside as much as possible. Furthermore, young people generally have more desire for thrills than people over forty. So both the drive for thrills and the neurological baseline settings for how internally revved up we are work together and explain why the primary audience at horror movies are teenagers and young adults. For writing this book, I made myself watch a couple of classic horror movies which, during the time they appeared, I had refused to see. One was The Exorcist and I was shocked by how unscary it seemed. One part of that was that in the past thirty years I have been exposed to so much more extreme, disgusting, terrifying stuff that this was nothing by comparison, and it looked fake and hokey in terms of special effects, so it didn’t have any great impact on me. I had been afraid to see it, and my expectations were not met. The same thing happened with watching Halloween. You’ve got to be kidding me. In the horror domain now, it’s more about who can be the grossest and it has escalated. The whole point is to make it as disgusting, as gory, as blood-spattered, as evil as possible, and the content is nothing else but that. My students say it’s basically a comedy of horrors because it’s so absurd that it becomes laughable. To an extent the audience is disconnected from the mayhem because it’s so ridiculous. At the same time, there’s a competition to see who can make the grossest film as well as a drive from the audience to see the most gore possible. The video game world has also become like movies with lots of violence and gore. The research goes both ways in terms of whether this promotes a willingness to accept violence and maybe enact violence. Regardless, to me it is a bad sign about humanity that this is taken so easily. How is “moral disgust” related to physical disgust? It’s both related and unrelated, and it can become related by language. For example, from the research I’ve seen, when you talk about someone stealing or lying or cheating, the use of the word disgust in that context is actually metaphorical and the feeling you really have is anger or outrage or shock. You don’t feel sick to your stomach because a student was cheating on an exam. But by using the word disgust in a cheating situation, you can actually elicit a conditioned response within yourself that is capable of triggering a physical pang where your stomach does turn. Words can elicit conditioned responses and, because our baseline for disgust is usually on the visceral level, by simply saying “that’s disgusting” about the student who cheated on the exam, we can create a pang of physical revulsion within ourselves and then we’ll think it’s truly physically disgusting. But if instead we say “that’s terrible” or “outrageous” or some other word to convey our anger or dismay, we wouldn’t feel physically disgusted—instead we’d feel angry. It also depends on whether the moral transgression itself is embedded with a physical disgust trigger. For example, if I stole from a colleague’s desk drawer when [he or she] was away at lunch, you might say that’s morally bad or that makes you angry, but I don’t think that disgusts anyone in a truly visceral sense. But if I said that I held my colleague up at knifepoint and threatened to stab him if he didn’t give me his money, that could evoke feelings of disgust because we’re dealing with the physical: body violation, blood, piercing the body envelope. Depending on how much viscerality is brought into the equation this will influence the degree to which disgust is felt. In fact, I’m going to run an experiment soon to test just this. You mention that disgust taps into our fear of death. I believe that the basic kernel of disgust is in our terror of death and our desire that it won’t happen to us. It works at multiple levels. One is to protect ourselves so we won’t ingest poisons or come into contact with diseased things that could lead to our demise. But, anything that reminds us that we are going to die triggers our repulsion. For example, when you think about sexuality and the raw, rutting beast with two backs, that reminds us of our animality and consequently our mortality and that can disgust us. But even at a higher philosophical level, when we’re reminded that the world can be chaotic and that the universe is random and out of our control, this shatters the veneer of order and stability that we delude ourselves with and reminds us that our death is inevitable. We’re the only creatures who have an awareness that we will die. This is a horrifying concept and we do all kinds of things to pretend that it won’t happen. But when the truth rears its ugly head, we do whatever we can to reject it, turn away from it, and the things that elicit these terrifying thoughts are disgusting to us. I also believe that we are the only creatures who experience emotional disgust because we’re the only animals who have sophisticated and complicated enough brains to figure out the connection between say touching a man with oozing red sores who then dies a week later, and the fact that I am now covered in red sores and what that means is in store for me. To make that connection takes a lot of complexity. Unlike fear when a fire is blazing and, like other animals, we automatically know to get away, it’s different with disgust -- even if we don’t realize it at the moment, we need to think in order to be disgusted. You write that we’d be kinder people if we were less traumatized by death. Yes, I believe that. And there are different prescriptions for it in different cultures and religions. There are Buddhist monks who will meditate over a decomposing corpse for days as a means to come to accept death, which also necessitates not being disgusted by gruesome decomposition. They become overexposed and desensitized [to death] and then accepting of it as part of the cycle of life and able to see it as something that everything goes through and therefore that everything connects. I don’t think many people would be willing to do that, but maybe, rather than pretending that death is not going to happen, if there were more openness about it, if it was treated differently by our culture and the media, it would create a different response in us. It’s interesting that people live as if they’ll escape death and talk about death in probabilistic terms. We’re all dying of a lethal illness and it’s called life. I heard a story about a man who was dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease which was very hopeful and inspiring. He said it was a good thing for humanity for him to have this illness because it made him realize he’s living with an expiration date, and he said everybody’s living with an expiration date and nobody appreciates that. We don’t pay attention to the moment. We don’t live to our fullest. We waste time. We waste experience. He said it was a gift for him to realize his finite time and that more people should have that realization. I think that if we thought like this man, we’d be a lot better off and better to each other. Has your study of disgust changed your sensitivity or behavior? I started out with a relatively high disgust sensitivity, but it seemed to decline over the course of the research I did for the book, so I’m a classic example of someone who through over-exposure became more desensitized. On the flip side, I have gotten more germ-phobic because I have a much better understanding now of the connection between death and disease. I’m much more likely to open the public restroom door with my elbow and do more of that sort of thing than before. The upside is that I’ve had fewer colds in the past couple of years. Is there anything else you’d like to add on what you hope readers will take from your book on disgust? I’d like readers to take away that disgust is under our control because it is so psychologically manipulable. We can choose when to be disgusted. Under certain circumstances, particularly social ones where we can be manipulated, we might want to step back and ask whether it’s worth being disgusted, or maybe if we stopped to think about it we’d discover that that we’re not disgusted and actually feeling something else. In general, more mindful living is a lesson I would hope people could learn from the realization that we can take control of disgust and to understand the origins of disgust and why we feel it in ourselves both specifically and philosophically.	http://hnn.us/article/146398	1,660,062,208
\| Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club \| Washington University in St. Louis Skip to content Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club Open Menu Back Close Menu Search for: Loading... Search Close Search About Archives FAQs How to Access Full-text Articles How to Use Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Open Search • December 29, 2020 Link to article at PubMed PLoS Med. 2020 Dec 29;17(12):e1003461. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003461. eCollection 2020 Dec. ABSTRACT BACKGROUimits their use. Ability to predict DKA risk and therapeutic responses would enable appropriate patient selection for SGLT2i. We conducted a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating SGLT2i in T1DM to assess moderators of the relative risk (RR) of DKA, of glycemic (HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose, continuous glucose monitoring parameters, insulin dose, and insulin sensitivity indices) and non-glycemic (body mass index (BMI), systolic BP, renal function, albuminuria, and diabetic eye disorders) efficacy, and of other safety outcomes (including hypoglycemia, infections, major adverse cardiovascular events, and death). METHODS AND FINDINGS: We searched MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, ClinicalTrials.gov, Cochrane CENTRAL Register of Controlled Trials, and other electronic sources through August 30, 2020, for RCTs comparing SGLT2i with active comparators or placebo in adult patients with T1DM. Reviewers extracted data for relevant outcomes, performed random effects meta-analyses, subgroup analyses, and multivariable meta-regression. The strength of evidence was summarized with the GRADE approach. Among 9,914 records identified, 18 placebo-controlled RCTs (7,396 participants, 50% males, mean age 42 y (range 23 to 55 y), 5 different SGLT2i evaluated), were included. Main outcome measures were effect sizes and moderators of glycemic and non-glycemic efficacy and of safety outcomes. In a multivariable meta-regression model, baseline BMI (β = 0.439 [95% CI: 0.211, 0.666], p < 0.001) and estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR) (β = -0.766 [-1.276, -0.256], p = 0.001) were associated with the RR of DKA (RR: 2.81; 95% CI:1.97, 4.01; p < 0.001, R2 = 61%). A model including also treatment-related parameters (insulin dose change-to-baseline insulin sensitivity ratio and volume depletion) explained 86% of variance across studies in the risk of DKA (R2 = 86%). The association of DKA with a BMI >27 kg/m2 and with an eGDR <8.3 mg/kg/min was confirmed also in subgroup analyses. Among efficacy outcomes, the novel findings were a reduction in albuminuria (WMD: -9.91, 95% CI: -16.26, -3.55 mg/g, p = 0.002), and in RR of diabetic eye disorders (RR: 0.27[0.11, 0.67], p = 0.005) associated with SGLT2i. A SGLT2i dose-response gradient was consistently observed for main efficacy outcomes, but not for adverse events (AEs). Overall, predictors of DKA and of other AEs differed substantially from those of glycemic and non-glycemic efficacy. A limitation of our analysis was the relatively short (≤52 weeks) duration of included RCTs. The potential relevance for clinical practice needs also to be confirmed by real-world prospective studies. CONCLUSIONS: In T1DM, the risk of DKA and main therapeutic responses to SGLT2i are modified by baseline BMI and insulin resistance, by total insulin dose reduction-to-baseline insulin sensitivity ratio, and by volume depletion, which may enable the targeted use of these drugs in patients with the greatest benefit and the lowest risk of DKA. PMID:33373368 \| PMC:PMC7771708 \| DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003461 Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment * Name Email Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I commenonald M. Chavin on What about tocilizumab? 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\| India News – India TV Thursday, August 18, 2022 English हिन्दी iOSAndroid Facebook Twitter You tube Sign in Live tv search home Videos India World Entertainment Sports Tech Photos Health Business Trending Astrology Live TV Lifestyle Politics Auto India@75 Opinion Science Crime FYI Jobs Education Latest News Results Brand Content Russia Ukraine Samvaad हिन्दी You Are At: English News India Probably facing the worst-ever crisis, the Shiv Sena is currently battling a stiff battle for survival after party's strongepartment had issued an orange alert of heavy rains for several districts in Maharashtra earlier this week. Mumbai and other adjoining area witnessed rainfall bringing back woes that have become a norm every monsoon. While Mumbaikars continue to brave monsoon rains, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena finds itself drenched in unrest triggered by one of its own. Probably facing the worst-ever crisis, the Shiv Sena is currently battling a stiff battle for survival after party's strongman Eknath Shinde stunned his boss Uddhav Thackeray and claimed that he has support of over 40 MLAs. To make matters worse for Uddhav, over 10 of Shiv Sena's 19 MPs have also backed Shinde in the revolt, reports have said. Eknath Shinde, earlier on Wednesday (June 22), said that Shiv Sena must break 'unnatural alliance' with Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party and Congress (the two other alliance partners in the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi -MVA government). Later in the evening, Uddhav made an emotional appeal to dissident Sena MLAs to sit and talk face-to-face to bridgethe MLAs (of Shiv Sena) tells me to quit," Uddhav said in address over Facebook live. Hours later he moved out of Varsha - the official chief minister's house to Matoshree - the family home of Thackerays. Uddhav's soft Hindutva plank cost him? Shiv Sena's rebel pack has raised the issue of 'Hindutva'. Uddhav, in his FB address hit back, saying,"Shiv Sena and Hindutva cannot be separated from each other. I am the first CM to speak about Hindutva in the assembly." ALSO READ: Maharashtra crisis: Will quit if even one of disgruntled MLAs says he doesn't want me as CM, says Uddhav After the 2019 assembly elections, Uddhav Thackeray, in an apparent bid to keep the BJP out of power, joined hands with NCP and Congress - two parties completely opposite to the ideology that Sena is known for. Uddhav failed to realise that the move could upset Shivsainiks. Though party's staunch supporters had then backed Uddhav's decision, the ground level Shivsainik didn't approve of the party's stand of opposing Modi government's big decision of scrapping Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir. Image Source : FILE PHOTO/PTI Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with his son and State Minister Aaditya Thackeray during the Shivsampark Abhiyan rally at BKC in Mumbai on May 14, 2022. Related Stories Maharashtra political crisis: Shiv Sena faces 4th rebellion in 56 years, 1st under Uddhav's watch Eknath Shinde after Uddhav's emotional appeal, 'essential to get out of unnatural alliance' Lobbing emotional bomb to leaving CM's residence for Matoshree, is it Uddhav's endgame? \| Top points The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has adopted a wait and watch strategy amid the latest Sena drama, used a well-crafted campaign to question Shiv Sena's new approach while slamming Uddhav of sidelining the 'saffron' heritage of Balasaheb Thackeray. Though the Shiv Sena leadership realised the discontent among supporters over this issue which was evident from Aaditya Thackeray's visit to recent visit to Ayodhya, it was too late to send across the intended message. Reports of Uddhav Thackeray not entertaining calls of senior ministers from NCP or that of top Sena leaders made headlines in local media frequently. The CM, in his Facebook speech, himself stopped short of admitting the same but attributed it to health issues. Now, even if Uddhav steps down to pacify the rebel group led by Eknath Shinde, it is only prudent to say that the present day Shiv Sena has weaned in power that it enjoyed during Balasaheb's leadership.	https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/maharashtra-political-crisis-who-s-to-be-blamed-for-shiv-sena-s-monsoon-of-woes-uddhav-thackeray-eknath-shinde-shiv-sena-bjp-mlas-numbers-2022-06-23-786774?utm_source=deskarticle&utm_campaign=relatedwidget	1,660,842,895
\| Inked Rainbow Reviews Inked Rainbow Reviews Skip to content About Request Review Review Policy ← NEW RELEASE! 5 stars for Spy Stuff by Matthew J. Metzger @MatthewJMetzger #MM #YA 5 stars for Blue Notes Bundle by Shira Anthony and Venona Keyesole Colville (Hidden Pleasures) Publication Date & Length: April 20,. 2016 – 525 pgs Is there a fated path we follow, or is it simply a series of coincidental events? Police officer Kellan Howard is rumoured to have spent too much time in no time for a relationship, and although meaningless sex satisfies his physical need, it’s empty. When he attends a fatal traffic accident, he didn’t expect his entire life to change. Along with a final message, Kellan is offered something else from the dying man: the chance to fall in love. Kellan’s never considered being with a man, but when he meets Valentino, he’s instantly drawn to him. Suffering from crippling agoraphobia, talented Italian artist Valentino has a solitary existence, only experiencing life outside the house through his partner Stuart. When their relationship comes to an abrupt end, Kellan helps ease his suffering. A deep bond binds the two men together, and the sexual tension can’t be denied, but Valentino questions if the distance between their very different lives is too much, and if they can bridge the gap by themselves. Ballet dancer Blue has a vibrant personality which demands attention, but his humour and courageous attitude are a shield. Blue’s good at making others believe in themselves, but what he needs is someone to believe in him. He could be the bridge both men are looking for, but Blue’s never allowed anyone to get too close, and when Kellan and Valentino enter his life, he desperately tries to protect his heart and his secrets. When all three meet, the chemistry is undeniable, but each have fears about moving forwards. Together, they learn love comes in many forms. It can’t be restrained or labelled, and it doesn’t always appear in the way you first imagined. Blue is a standalone book, and although characters from previous books do make an appearance, it won’t spoil their stories if you choose to read them afterwards. Triggers: Death OK, let me start by stating that I have not read the previous books in this series. Next, let me say that if you’re in to really long stories that take about 45% to get in to the actual story, then this is your book. However, it just wasn’t for me. I had a very hard time connecting with the characters and really, the only one I enjoyed was Kellan. You start out with this tragic event that is supposed to push two of the men together. In reality, I thought that it was more of a barrier to them figuring out that they wanted each other. There was this constant ghost between them. And, while the writing wasn’t poor, it was incredibly slow. I literally kept checking the status bar to find out if I had moved at all in the story. Then you have Blue… Oh Blue. Drama like the Kardashian’s could only dream up. He was the most annoying character in this book for me. Always with something to harp about, and although I know that for the most part it was a front for his own insecurities, it just became too much. I did like how Colville split the men up in this story. You were given a little bit at a time rather than the whole group of them. However, again, when they came together, they just didn’t really gel for me. Unfortunately, despite wanting to enjoy and like the characters in this story, I just couldn’t picture their story. Tessa I was exciting to read this when I read the synopsis…and was sadly disappointed. I love MMM…and this one wasn’t very convincing at ALL. I think giving it 3 stars was generous of me, actually, but I liked the cover, I liked the beginning, and I give the author props for writing over 500 pages for this book. Too bad it was 300 pages too long in my HONEST opinion. I really liked the plot, well the plot that was written in the description for this book, but I hate it when an author brings the 3rd partner in the relationship in the middle of the book and all 3 of them didn’t even realize they knew each other til like 80% of the book. Meaning there wasn’t a 3some til 80% of the book. I disliked that very much. I felt cheated. I almost gave up half way when I realized that the menage wasn’t going to happen any time soon and I was on like page 250. All I got was Kellan and Valentino together, then not together. Characters from previous books taking over the pages and Blue’s annoying thoughts. I admit that I thought that Blue was cute at first…but after 525 pages, he got really annoying. sigh This book did not need to be 525 pages. Why the heck was it that long? I don’t mind long books, but only if the story draws me in and this didn’t. I ain’t gonna lie, I skipped some pages after reaching 50% of the book cause I just wanted to get to the 3some already and even that disappointed me. If the other books are like this one, I’m not reading them, sorry. Cookie Honestly, this book was way too long. I was skimming so much because it was just too wordy and at times didn’t hold my attention at all. I struggled to get to the 50% mark. The blurb just caught my attention and I had to read it. Unfortunately I should have just stuck with the blurb. I wanted to like it, I wanted to connect with the characters and fall in love with all of them and feel everything they did, it just didn’t happen for me with this book. Angie This is a great addition to the Manchester Menage Collection. You get to see all the previous characters and how they are doing and actually wrap up a few of their loose ends while the story of these three men unfold. It’s great to get Blue’s story after falling a little in love with him from the previous story! I don’t think you could find three so very different men and make it work like this story does. Kellan is solid and steady but self contained. Valentino is a beautiful artist who is suffering deeply. Blue is enigmatic, energetic and inside crushed by self doubt. Through tragedy Kellan and Valentino come together to struggle through the aftermath of true loss. I was unable to deny the absolute attraction these two have and it’s well written given what is happening in the story. It’s erotic and consuming but can’t block out the real problems that come from the devastation after such a tragedy. Blue with his outrageous personality and attitude makes for some great laughs even while I wanted to shake him sometimes during the story but being such a smart ass. But he really is the balm that Kellan and Valentino need. This story really is a marathon and not a sprint so it builds slowly to the pay off for these three men. While I would have loved a bit more at the end, the end really is endearing and shows how fate sometimes steps in and puts the right person in your life at the right time. This story is a bit heartbreaking at points and yeah sometimes makes you want to scream. However it’s so well written you can’t put it down because you want to see these three men come together so badly and find some happiness and love. ~Jessica You will tear up, nod to agree, and definitely laugh with the humor that was set forth in this beautiful story about loss, hope, believing in yourself, finding love and to love again. Valentino, completely broke my heart from the start through to the end. I truly felt that this story was about him than about Blue. I loved Blue and his constant manners. A lot of people in this world could learn a thing or two from him. And his humor and love of life…I laughed so much with him. Kellan was just a solid rock all around. These three men were so completely opposite yet were all the missing pieces in each other lives to become a whole. Most of the story you learn about each one and how they come together. Kellan was the common link until the end, then you find out it was Blue. But to me, it will always be Tino who was my favorite. Tino was such a strong man. I felt every tear, every breath, every sorrow, every fear from him. I loved how these men came together to support and push each other. The love was real and deep. This was a great addition to the Ménage Collection. This can be read as a standalone but worth reading them in order. ~Keri I have found my next go to book. I cried. I laughed. I laughed until I cried. The story is based in England but it isn’t hard to follow along with the wording. There are many elements to this story that must be touched upon. I hope I remember them all. As a police officer, Kellan is called upon to help when needed. He also volunteers for many extra shifts because he has no one at home waiting for him when he gets done with work. The weather has taken a drastic turn, bringing snow too quickly, causing the roads to become dangerous to be out on. He’s on his way back to town when he happens upon two officers from neighboring Manchester. They are stuck on the slick road so Kellan must help them push their car. As the three men are nearing a dangerous turn they spot a car that has crashed into the rocks. They work desperately for hours to free the driver. As the rescue team works to free Stuart, the driver, he talks to Kellan about his boyfriend Valentino. Sharing stories and secrets. Unfortunately, Stuart doesn’t survive his injuries and dies shortly after being rescued. Valentino has lived the several years of his life through the eyes of Stuart. Never leaving the home that he and Stuart had come to share. When Kellan arrived on his doorstep, Valentino was terrified. He has been a loner for so long, he doesn’t know how to interact with anyone other than Stuart and the owner of the art gallery. His family disowned him when he was 15. He has pushed everyone else away. But, every chance Kellan gets he is banging on Valentino’s door, asking for acceptance into his life. Blue. What can I say about Blue? He has such a strong spirit. A spirit that anyone could be jealous of. He has a supportive and loving family as well as friends. You can’t help but be his friend. You’re drawn to him when you walk into a room. Except for Kellan. Kellan can’t seem to get on Blue’s good side no matter what he does. Every time they meet its oil and water. Until Kellan has to rescue a very drunk Blue from a man who wants to rape him. The two men are able to set aside their differences and soon their relationship starts. The three men are brought together when Blue is requested by Valentino to be his model. It is Blue who eventually brings Valentino and Kellan back together. And it is Blue who keeps the throuple together when all the dust has settled. ~Kris For me, Blue, Kellan and Valentino are the most interesting characters in this series. Kellen and Valentino meet through tragedy; Blue is Valentio’s muse and Kellen works with Blue’s friends. The relationships are complicated and the men are wonderfully original. The triad is well balanced here and it was easy to understand the balance created by the threesome that wouldn’t have existed for two of the men as a couple. I enjoyed the lack of angst and drama in these relationships, though the tension between Blue and Kellan at the start felt a little exaggerated. Despite some incredibly heavy topics and some serious issues each man has to work through, this remains a fun, sexy story. I challenge any reader to refrain from sobbing through the first thirty pages, but the grief and strain at the start of the story is tempered by hope and humour as the story progresses. Once these men get to know each other, there is fantastic heat between all three. My only reservation about the story is that I’m not sure the men’s ages worked for me completely. Party boy Blue feels much younger than the other two, but he is only supposed to be a few years younger than Kellan. In the same way, Valentino, mourning his life partner, felt considerably older than Kellan. But all three men are supposedly in their early to mid twenties which didn’t quite fit for me. This story linked in to the two previous stories more than the second one did and I enjoyed revisiting characters from earlier books. This is such a great series and this third book is a wonderful addition. ~Sarah If you do not believe in fate, once you read this book maybe you will. This is a book about loss, about love, about acceptance, and about fate. Kellan is a police officer and is straight. One night on a bad snow storm him and two other police officers come across a man that is a terrible vehicle accident, Stuart. Stuart knows he is not going to make it and Kellan will not leave his side. Stuart tells Kellan about his sole mate and the love of his life and tells Kellan to go to him and they will find love in each other. Valentino is the man that Stuart was talking about and Valentino turns out to be exactly what Stuart said he was and so much more. Of course Valentino is heart broken and grieving. Even though he is heartbroken he and Kellan start to get closer and Kellan and start to fall for one another till Valentino pushes him away. Kellan is heartbroken but respects his wishes and eventually starts to move on with Blue, but once all of them come together unintentionally sparks start to fly between the three of them and they decide to become a trio. But nothing that is easy is worth it and there are so many obstacles these three men have to overcome to start towards their happily ever after. I truly enjoyed this book. I cried with these characters. I got mad about some of the things these characters went through in the past. I laughed with them and I routed for them. Blue is my favorite of the three I think. He is the light for all of them. He is so full of life that is hard to not to be happy when you are around him. He is full of spunk and he takes no BS off of anyone. He is just him and it is a take it or leave it type of person. Kellan is the one that hold them all together. He is the one that is caring, compassionate, and at some points the peace keeper. He is the voice of reason and he loves these two men unconditionally. Valentino is the one that makes these two men realize that they are worth the love they are given. He shows these two men how beautiful they are both inside and out. He is also such a strong individual and just does not realize it. I would highly recommend this book because it is so amazing. Tosha Amazon US Amazon UK Amazon CA Kellan gritted his teeth together and stood up. “I won’t leave you like this.” “Get the hell out!!” Valentino gripped the base of his nose, rubbing it gruffly. His eyes snapped shut, but not quickly enough. Kellan spotted the misty glimmer in them. Whether his tears were caused through sheer frustration or sadness, it didn’t matter. Kellan couldn’t leave. He’d have to be forced from the house by an armed response team. “No!” Kellan held his shoulders firmly. “I won’t leave you.” “God-damn it, Kellan.” Valentino’s eyes flew open, and Kellan’s hands were thrust from him with a jerk. “You’re such a pain in the arse.” He leaned forward, almost hissing his words out against Kellan’s lips. “Why don’t you just leave me alone, huh? Why do you continue to push me when I don’t want it?” Kellan’s body brushed against Valentino’s firm flesh, and he cursed himself for responding so quickly. “Don’t lie and say you don’t want me here when I know damn well what you want.” Kellan didn’t really know for sure, but there was a heat and need between them which couldn’t be ignored anymore. Valentino needed him, and Kellan was willing to hand over whatever he could to fulfil that need. Valentino turned those teal green eyes on Kellan’s, a soft growl spilling from his lips. “You’re a fucking tease! A tease, Kellan.” Kellan was about to come back with a response, like how he had no idea he’d been teasing Valentino, but he was halted by two hands on either side of his head and Valentino’s mouth being forced against his. He stopped breathing, too stunned to act. Valentino had his face clasped tightly to his, those full lips hitting Kellan’s hard and fast, his tongue licking and seeking entrance inside. A white hot shot of lust spiked through his body and every thought other than being against this writhing, sexy man disappeared. Kellan grabbed hold of Valentino’s hips, rushing him up against the wall and taking ownership of his mouth with a grunt. Valentino bit down on his lip causing Kellan to pull back. As soon as they separated, Valentino had the upper hand and was spinning him around, holding him against the wall and spreading his thighs open with his knee, rubbing up against the hard length of Kellan’s cock. Despite knowing he could easily restrain Valentino and take control back, he didn’t want to. He wanted this from him. “You know what I want?” Valentino breathed out through their kisses. “You want to give me what I need, Kellan?” Welcome to the home of bittersweet M/M romances which will leave you craving more Nicole Colville was born and currently lives in Leeds, England. She is a wife to her very understanding hubby and mother of two young girls who somehow manages to fit in being a full time author of m/m romance and erotic into her busy home life. She loves writing complex characters in bittersweet romances which will leave you addicted and craving more from her men. Although best known for her popular series, Hidden and Knights to Remember, she also enjoys writing with friend, and fellow author, E.M Leya. Together they have published two books in their Sinful Temptation Collection with more planned. 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\| Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition \| Full Text Skip to main content Advertisement Search Explore journals Get published About BMC My account Search all BMC articlOpen Access Published: 28 December 2006 Tim N. Ziegenfuss1, Jennifer E. Hofheins1, Ronald W. Mendel1, Jamie Landis2 & Richard A. Anderson3 Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition volume 3, Articudy was to determine the effects of supplementation with a water-soluble cinnamon extract (Cinnulin PF®) on body composition and features of the metabolic syndrome. Methods Twenty-two subjects with prediabetes and the metabolic syndrome (mean ±6 mg/dL) were randomly assigned to supplement their diet with either Cinnulin PF® (500 mg/d) or a placebo for 12-weeks. Main outcome measures were changes in FBG, SBP, and body composition measured after 12-weeks of supplementation. The primary statistical analyses consisted of two factor (group × time), repeated-measures ANOVA for between group differences over time. In all analyses, an intent-to-treat approach was used and significance was accepted at P < 0.05. Results Subjects in the Cinnulin PF® group had significant decreases in FBG (-8.4%: 116.3 ± 12.8 mg/dL [pre] to 106.5 ± 20.1 mg/dL [post], p < 0.01), SBP (-3.8%: 133 ± 14 mm Hg [pre] to 128 ± 18 mm Hg [post], p < 0.001), and increases in lean mass (+1.1%: 53.7 ± 11.8 kg [pre] to 54.3 ± 11.8 kg [post], p < 0.002) compared with the placebo group. Additionally, within-group analyses uncovered small, but statistically significant decreases in body fat (-0.7%: 37.9 ± 9.2% [pre] to 37.2 ± 8.9% [post], p < 0.02) in the Cinnulin PF® group. No significant changes in clinical blood chemistries were observed between groups over time. Conclusion These data support the efficacy of Cinnulin PF® supplementation on reducing FBG and SBP, and improving body composition in men and women with the metabolic syndrome and suggest that this naturally-occurring spice can reduce risk factors associated with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Introduction A number of spices and herbs have a long history of traditional use in treating elevated blood sugar levels [1]. One such compound that has recently been the subject of intense research is cinnamon, a compound granted GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) status by the United States Food and Drug Administration. The beneficial effects of cinnamon on glucose control appear to be in part due to doubly-linked polyphenol type-A compounds [2]. Over the past two decades, in vitro and in vivo data have been accumulating which support the role of cinnamon on glycemic control. For example, Jarvill-Taylor et al. [3] reported that cinnamon stimulated glucose uptake, glycogen synthesis, and activated glycogen synthase in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. In rats, cinnamon enhanced glucose uptake by enhancing insulin-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor-β, insulin receptor substrate-1, and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in a dose-dependent fashion [4, 5]. To date, human studies demonstrating beneficial effects of cinnamon supplementation on glucose regulation have studied subjects with type II diabetes [6, 7]. In a dose-response study, Khan et al. [6] reported that 40-days of supplementation with 1, 3, or 6 grams of whole cinnamon per day resulted in dose-dependent decreases in fasting blood glucose (FBG), and improvements in blood lipid profiles, in subjects with poorly controlled diabetes and dyslipidemia. More recently, Mang et al. [7] reported a 10.3% decrease in FBG after four months of supplementation with a purified aqueous cinnamon extract. Thus, the effects of cinnamon and cinnamon extract on improving insulin signaling and glucose regulation in type II diabetics appear promising. Several studies have linked diabetes to obesity-induced insulin resistance [8]. In this regard, an estimated 41 million people in the U.S. have prediabetes, a condition of elevated fasting blood sugar that is strongly associated with hyperlipidemias and cardiovascular disease [9]. When considered collectively, elevated blood sugar, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and obesity constitute a potentially dangerous physiological condition known as "Syndrome X" or the Metabolic Syndrome. The National Cholesterol Education Program has established the current criteria for the metabolic syndrome as ≥ three of the following: 1) waist circumference > 102 cm (40 inches) for men or > 88 cm (35 inches) for women; 2) a fasting total serum triacylglycerol concentration of > 1.7 mmol/L (150 mg/dL); 3) a fasting HDL cholesterol concentration < 1.0 mmol/L (40 mg/dL) for men or < 1.2 mmol/L (50 mg/dL) for women; 4) a fasting glucose > 6.1 mmol/L (110 mg/dL); or blood pressure > 130 mm Hg (systolic) and/or 85 mm Hg (diastolic) and/or the use of antihypertensive medication [10]. In addition to the positive effects of cinnamon on glucose regulation, there are data which support the beneficial effects of cinnamon on blood pressure [11] and hyperlipidemias [6]. Though limited, the existing evidence suggests a potential role for cinnamon as a positive influence on several features of the metabolic syndrome. The purpose of this placebo-controlled, double-blind study was to determine the effects of supplementation with a specific water-soluble cinnamon extract (Cinnulin PF®) on FBG and body composition in prediabetic men and women with features of the metabolic syndrome. In addition, to assess the safety profile of this compound we measured changes in standard markers of health (e.g., resting heart rate and blood pressure) and clinical chemistry panels of serum and plasma. Several markers of plasma antioxidant status as well as long-term glucose control and insulin sensitivity were also measured, and will be addressed in a separate manuscript (in preparation). Research Design and Methods Experimental approach This study was a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial with two parallel groups. Serum chemistry, body weight, and body composition were measured at baseline and at the end of the 12-week supplementation period. Subjects also completed 3-day food records and had measurements of their systolic and diastolic blood pressures during pre (week 0), mid (week 6), and post (week 12) testing. Figure 1 presents the flow of participants through the study. Figure 1 Study Flow Chart. *One subject in the Cinnulin group withdrew at week 6 due to pregnancy. For this subject, we imputed her remaining data using the method (i.e., week 0 values were used at week 6 and week 12). Full size image Subjects Subjects were recruited from northeastern Ohio, a typical suburban region, by word of mouth and posted announcements. Thirty potential participants aged 30–60 years were interviewed by telephone. Of these, 22 were invited for a preliminary screening consisting of height, weight, blood pressure, and a fasting blood sample. Subjects were required to have FBG between 100 mg/dL (5.6 mmol/L) and 125 mg/dL (6.9 mmol/L), have normal values for liver and kidney function tests, and be willing to maintain their usual dietary and physical activity habits. Subjects were excluded from the study if they had a body mass index (BMI) > 40 kg/m2, thyroid disease, hypogonadism, a history of musculoskeletal, autoimmune, or neurologic disease, or if they were currently taking thyroid, hyperlipidemic, hypoglycemic, anti-hypertensive, or anti-coagulant medications. Prior to obtaining written informed consent from each subject, an institutional review board (IntegReview Inc, Austin, TX) approved the experimental protocol. All procedures in the study were in accord with ethical standards set forth in the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983. Supplementation After matching for age, FBG, SBP, and habitual physical activity levels, subjects were randomly assigned to a Cinnulin PF® (n = 12) or placebo (n = 10) group. Each subject was instructed to take two capsules (250 mg) of their respective supplement twice per day (with breakfast and dinner). According to the manufacturer, 500 mg of Cinnulin PF® is equivalent to approximately 10 g of whole cinnamon powder (i.e., 20:1 extract), and contains at least 1% doubly-linked polyphenol type-A polymers (considered to be the bioactive component). Supplements were prepared in a 2-piece hard shell capsule form and packaged in coded generic containers for double-blind administration by Integrity Nutraceuticals International (Sarasota, FL). Medical monitoring and compliance to the supplementation protocol was supervised by a research technician who contacted the subjects on a weekly basis. Each subject was required to return the original bottle of their respective supplement for capsule counts during mid (week 6) and post (week 12) testing. Heart rate and blood pressure All subjects reported to the laboratory after a 12-hour fast and at least 48-hours after participating in intense physical activity. Following ten minutes of seated rest, subjects' heart rate and blood pressure were determined by palpation of the radial artery and aneroid sphygmomanometry, respectively. The same technician performed all measurements using standard procedures. Blood collection and analyses Immediately following blood pressure readings, approximately 20 mL of blood was drawn with stasis via venipuncture of an antecubital vein. All blood samples were taken in the morning at approximately the same time of day to minimize diurnal variation, and subjects used their baseline diet records to standardize their final (evening) meal before mid (week 6) and post (week 12) testing. Blood samples were harvested into tubes with and without EDTA, centrifuged (Drucker Model 614, Philipsburg, PA) at room temperature for 15 minutes at 1200 × g to obtain plasma and serum, and immediately placed into two aliquots. One aliquot was immediately analyzed for a 21-item clinical chemistry profile (Hitachi D2400, Roche Diagnostics, Germany) by a certified clinical laboratory (Laboratory Corporation of America, Dublin, OH). This profile consisted of a comprehensive metabolic panel (glucose, BUN, creatinine, sodium, potassium, chloride, carbon dioxide, calcium, total protein, albumin, globulin, total bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, AST [SGOT], and ALT [SGPT]) as well as a lipid profile (total cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C, VLDL-C, triacylglycerol). Body composition Body weight was measured using a calibrated digital A&D™ Medical Scale (Model UC-300, Milpitas, CA), standing height was measured using a wall-mounted stadiometer (Seca Model 216, Hanover, MD) and body composition was measured with dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (GE Lunar DPX Pro, Madison, WI). All dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans were performed by the same technician and analyzed according to software (enCORE version 7.53.002, 2003) provided by the manufacturer. Briefly, subjects were positioned in the scanner according to standard procedures and remained motionless for approximately 15 minutes during scanning. DEXA segments for the arms, legs, and trunk were subsequently obtained using standard anatomical landmarks. Using a three-compartment model, DEXA calculates fat mass, lean mass, and bone mass. Percent fat was calculated by dividing fat mass by the total scanned mass. Quality control calibration procedures were performed prior to all scans using a calibration block provided by the manufacturer. Prior to this study, we determined test-retest reliability for repeated measurements of lean mass, bone mineral content, and fat mass with this DEXA via intra-class correlation coefficients. All values were > 0.98. Diet and physical activity As mentioned previously, this study used a free-living design where subjects were advised to maintain their normal diet during the study. To verify this, subjects completed 3-d food records (which included two weekdays and one weekend day) during baseline testing, week 6, and week 12. All food records were analyzed by a licensed, registered dietitian using commercially available software (NutriBase IV Clinical Edition, AZ). To enhance accuracy of the food records, all subjects received instruction during baseline testing on how to accurately estimate portion sizes. This counseling was reinforced during each visit to the laboratory. No dietary supplements were allowed with the exception of standard strength multivitamins. Subjects were also advised to maintain their current level of habitual physical activity throughout the study. Physical activity levels were measured with the Framingham Physical Activity Index [12] during baseline testing, week 6, and week 12. Statistical analyses Statistical analyses were conducted using Statistica version 7.1 (Stat Soft Inc., Tulsa, OK). Differences between groups at baseline were analyzed with independent t-tests and chi-square tests. Separate 2 × 2 or 2 × 3 (Group × Time) univariate ANOVA with repeated measures on the last factor were used to analyze between group differences over time. Since a drop-out did occur in this study, intent-to-treat analyses (ITT) were performed, using the method. In an ITT approach, all randomized subject's data are included in the data analyses, regardless of whether they complete the trial or are compliant with the procedures. In contrast, most studies on dietary supplements use a "per protocol" analysis and exclude non-compliant subjects or subjects who drop-out. Although a discussion of ITT analyses is beyond the scope of this paper, many researchers consider ITT to be the preferred method of data analysis in clinical efficacy studies as it is less prone to bias. Readers are referred to Hollis et al. [13] and Moher et al. [14] for a more thorough overview of ITT analyses. When a significant interaction was observed, Fisher's Least Significant Differences (LSD) posthoc test was performed. When the interaction term was "marginally significant" (i.e., 0.05 < P < 0.10), changes from day 0 to day 84 within treatment groups were assessed with a paired t-test. Differences were considered statistically significant at P < 0.05. Power analysis for this 2 × 3 design indicated that a sample size of 10–15 subjects per group yields moderate power (≥ 0.80) for delta values of 0.75 to 1.25. Results Table 1 presents baseline characteristics of the subjects. Both groups met the criteria of the Adult Treatment Panel III of the National Cholesterol Education Program for having the metabolic syndrome [10]. Specifically, both groups had FBG > 110 mg/dL (Cinnulin: 116 ± 13, Placebo: 112 ± 10), systolic BP > 130 mm Hg (Cinnulin: 133 ± 14, Placebo: 133 ± 22) and triacylglycerol > 150 mg/dL (Cinnulin: 166 ± 142, Placebo: 165 ± 107). There were no significant differences in general, metabolic, or dietary characteristics between groups at baseline (Table 1). Table 1 Baseline Characteristics of Subjects Full size table Supplementation Compliance and Adverse Events Compliance to the supplementation regimen was defined as the number of capsules actually taken by each subject divided by the number of capsules that should have been taken over the course of the study. Excluding one drop-out in the Cinnulin group, compliance was > 97% in both groups. Adverse events were based on spontaneous reporting by subjects as well as open-ended inquiries by members of the research staff. No adverse events were reported during the study in either group. HR and BP After 12-weeks, subjects in the Cinnulin group decreased their SBP by 3.8% (from 133 ± 14 mm Hg [pre] to 128 ± 18 mm Hg [post], P < 0.001) compared to subjects in the Placebo group (from 133 ± 22 mm Hg [pre] to 142 ± 20 mm Hg [post]). No between or within-group changes in diastolic blood pressure (Cinnulin: from 83 ± 6 mm Hg [pre] to 84 ± 9 mm Hg [post]; Placebo: from 83 ± 14 mm Hg [pre] to 86 ± 12 mm Hg [post], P < 0.32) or HR (Cinnulin: from 69 ± 14 beats/min [pre] to 69 ± 12 beats/min [post]; Placebo: from 71 ± 15 beats/min [pre] to 74 ± 8 beats/min [post], P < 0.73) were noted in either group. Blood Chemistry Figure 2 presents changes in FBG during the study. Subjects in the Cinnulin group had significant decreases in FBG (-8.4%: from 116.3 ± 12.8 mg/dL [pre] to 106.5 ± 20.1 mg/dL [post], P < 0.01) compared to subjects in the Placebo group (from 112.0 ± 10.0 mg/dL [pre] to 113.1 ± 14.7 mg/dL [post]). No other between group effects were noted for BUN, creatinine, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, AST (SGOT), ALT (SGPT), sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, albumin, globulin, CO2, total protein, total cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C, VLDL-C, or triglycerides and all values remained within normal clinical limits (selected hematological variables are shown in Table 2). Figure 2 Significant Changes in Primary Endpoints During the Study. Data are expressed as change scores (week 12 – week 0). Values represent group means ± SE. P-values were calculated from repeated measures (group × time) ANOVA, except for % fat where a dependent t-test was used following a marginally significant (P < 0.06) interaction term. Full size image Table 2 Selected Hematological Responses to Supplementation. Full size table Body Composition Figure 2 presents changes in body composition during the study. Subjects in the Cinnulin group increased their lean mass by 1.1% (from 53.7 ± 11.8 kg [pre] to 54.3 ± 11.8 kg [post], P < 0.002), and decreased their body fat by 0.7% (from 37.9 ± 9.2% [pre] to 37.2 ± 8.9% [post]; within-group analysis, P < 0.02). No changes in lean mass (from 43.9 ± 11.1 kg [pre] to 43.1 ± 10.9 kg [post]) or fat mass (from 43.8 ± 8.0% [pre] to 44.2 ± 9.0% [post]) were noted in the Placebo group. Because the baseline value for lean mass was marginally significant (P < 0.06), we also performed an ANCOVA using week 0 lean mass as the covariate. Results confirmed that lean mass at week-12 was significantly greater in the Cinnulin group (P < 0.004). Diet and Physical Activity Table 3 presents totals for three-day dietary intake obtained during the study. No changes in total daily energy, macronutrient, or fluid intake were noted during the study, although there was a trend for subjects in the Cinnulin group to consume more total energy (P < 0.07). Follow-up testing for within-group changes (via dependent t-test) indicated subjects in the Cinnulin group ingested significantly more total energy during week-12 (P < 0.04). Due to errors in data recording and processing, our quantitative assessment of physical activity (via the Framingham Physical Activity Index) could not be accurately completed. However, during mid and post-testing, no subject reported any changes in habitual activity levels during the course of the study. Table 3 Three-day Total Dietary Intake of Subjects Full size table Discussion Our findings indicate that consuming 500 mg/day of a specific aqueous extract of cinnamon (Cinnulin PF®) for 12-weeks leads to significant improvements in several features of the metabolic syndrome (i.e., fasting blood sugar, systolic blood pressure, and body composition). Because of the relationship between the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease, these results, if confirmed by other research groups, have important implications for public health. To our knowledge, this is the first study in humans that used cinnamon powder standardized to what is currently considered to be the bioactive component (e.g. doubly-linked polyphenol type-A polymers) [2]. This is important as Cinnamomum cassia is a large genus, and there may be differences in bioactivity due to methods of preparation, extraction, and geographical source. The observed reduction in FBG in our study is less than that of Khan et al. [6] and similar in magnitude to Mang et al. [7]. Khan et al. studied the effects of 1, 3, and 6 g/d of whole cinnamon powder on FBG and serum lipids in 60 people with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes from Pakistan. After 40 days of supplementation, FBG decreased by 18–29%, cholesterol decreased by 12–26%, LDL cholesterol decreased by 7–27%, and triacylglycerol decreased by 23–30%. More recently, Mang et al. supplemented 79 people with type 2 diabetes from Germany with 3 g/d cinnamon powder or a placebo for four months. Although no changes in blood lipids or glycosylated hemoglobin (HBA1c) were noted, researchers did find a 10.3% reduction in FBG. In both studies (as well as ours), no adverse events were reported by subjects taking cinnamon, and subjects with the poorest glycemic control appeared to benefit the most. In agreement with Mang et al. [7], but in contrast to Khan et al. [6], we found no changes in blood lipids from cinnamon supplementation. We suspect this is because: 1) our subjects' lipid levels were not abnormal, and 2) the observed decrease in FBG (-8.4%) was not large enough to affect lipid metabolism. Regardless, given the strong effects of cinnamon on insulin signaling in animal models, future studies in humans should consider examining changes in more sensitive predictors of cardiovascular disease risk (i.e., various lipoprotein subfractions). The statistically significant decrease in systolic SBP observed in this study (from 133 to 129 mm Hg, P < 0.001) echoes findings from Preuss et al. [11] in spontaneously hypertensive rats, and was clinically meaningful in that values > 130 mm Hg are considered to be a risk factor for the metabolic syndrome [10]. Not all studies have found beneficial effects of cinnamon on FBG. Vanschoonbeek et al. [15] reported no effect of 1.5 g/d × 6 wk cinnamon powder on indices of glycemic control (FBG, insulin, oral glucose tolerance test [OGTT], HBA1c, insulin sensitivity, and insulin resistance) or blood lipids in 25 postmenopausal women from the Netherlands. That study is different from that of Khan et al. [6] and Mang et al. [7] (as well as the current study) in that only postmenopausal females were included as subjects. Whether differences in hormonal milieu affect the potential interaction between cinnamon supplementation and glucose control is unknown at this time. A unique finding in our study is the small, but statistically significant improvement in body composition from Cinnulin PF® supplementation. Previous research has shown cinnamon extracts can activate glycogen synthase, stimulate glucose uptake, and inhibit glycogen synthase kinase 3β [1–3, 16]. Collectively, these effects, combined with the slight increase in total energy intake, may have led to the observed increases in lean mass in the Cinnulin PF® group. Cinnamon also has antioxidant effects [17–19] that may favorably impact hormone signaling via adipokine cross-talk. For example, Chrysohoou et al. [19] recently reported an inverse relationship between body fat and antioxidant capacity, even after controlling for smoking, physical activity patterns, dietary habits, blood pressure, glucose levels, and lipid concentrations. It is therefore possible that the observed improvements in FBG, as well as plasma antioxidant status (e.g., FRAP, MDA, and SH – manuscript in preparation) are responsible, at least in part, for cinnamon's beneficial effects on body composition and features of the metabolic syndrome. Summary In many parts of the civilized world, physical inactivity and poor dietary habits are increasing rates of prediabetes, obesity, and the development of cardiovascular diseases. Current estimates are that the metabolic syndrome affects over 26% of adults, or over 50 million Americans, and that it increases the risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease up to 3-fold, and the risk for type 2 diabetes up to 5-fold [9]. Based on the results of this study, Cinnulin PF® may play a beneficial role in ameliorating the effects of several chronic diseases of modernization. Although speculative, because subjects in this study were not required to follow any specific diet or exercise program, it is possible that combining Cinnulin PF® with a nutrient-dense diet and/or a regular exercise program may lead to even greater health benefits. These preliminary data support the efficacy of Cinnulin PF® supplementation on reducing FBG in prediabetic men and women. It also appears that this particular water-soluble cinnamon extract, standardized for polyphenolic type-A polymers, can favorably alter systolic blood pressure and body composition when consumed for at least 12-weeks. Finally, although it is acknowledged that we used a relatively small, homogeneous sample of subjects, Cinnulin PF® appears to be reasonably safe at the dose and duration studied. 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Integrity Nutraceuticals International had no role in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of the data. TZ, JH, RM, and RA contributed to the design of the study. JH carried out the practical aspects of the study, including data collection and dietary analyses. TZ and RM performed the statistical analyses. TZ wrote the first draft of the manuscript with help from RA and JL. All authors participated in editing the final draft of the manuscript. At the time of data collection and analysis, as well as initial submission of the manuscript for publication, none of the authors had any conflicts of interest. TZ served as a consultant to Integrity Nutraceuticals International from 10/2005 to 10/2006 and Richard Anderson has a USDA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Integrity Nutraceuticals. Author information Authors and Affiliations Ohio Research Group, Wadsworth Medical Center, Wadsworth, OH, USA Tim N. Ziegenfuss, Jennifer E. Hofheins & Ronald W. 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\| KASBIT Business Journal Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer Open Menu KASBIT Business Journal About About the Journal Editorial Team Privacy Statement Submissions Current Archives Announcements Contact Search Register Login Home / Archives / Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Volume 15 Issue 2 / Articles Authors Shaheera Ahmed Institute of Business & Administration, UET, Lahore Muhammad Usman Mumtaz Lecturer, Faculty of Management Stnjab Amina Idresss Institute of Business & Administration, UET, Lahore Keywords: Employer Branding, Employer Value Proposition, Nurses, Hospital, Pakistan Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore distinguished employee value proposition for nurses which can help hospitals to develop strong employer branding. This research signifies the distinction and role of predictors of the nurse’s commitment with their respective hospitals. This research help HRM of hospitals to find out effective and trigging values for the nurses to attract them and create strong hospital and nurses bond. This research has been conducted using semi structured interviews with nurses in private and government hospitals in Pakistan. We approached 35 Nurses to conduct in-depth interviews regarding their commitments and the driving forces for their commitments in their hospitals. The result was compiled using thematic analysis with NVIVO to identify various themes and sub-themes of the study. The results of the study identified a proposition of nine important values imperative to develop employer branding for nurses in hospitals. These values are Compensations, FOC health care by hospital, hospital brand recognition, medical staff self-hygiene, medical supplies for medical staff, organization medical supports, strict hygiene sops for medical staff, trainings and education of medical staff and workplace cleanliness. The employer must develop an offer for the employees so that they stay committed with their organizations in this case, their hospitals. This research has developed a proposition of nine values which can help develop strong employer branding between the nurses and their hospitals. The identified factors encircle numerous intrinsic as well as extrinsic values crucial for the nurses. For the policy makers and top management of the hospitals, this research reinforces the execution of critical values in hospitals in order to develop nurse-hospitals attachment.	https://kasbitoric.com/index.php/kbj/article/view/269	1,660,060,438
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Search KFF.org Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Email Health Provisions in Inflation Reduction Act Abortion in the U.S. Dashboard Mental Health Newsroom Latest Eventcent Each in FY… States Are Taking Policy Actions to Respond to the Pandemic but Most Cite Budget Concerns as Biggest Challenge Looking Ahead Published: Oct 14, 2020 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print Following several years of declining or flat enrollment growth, states expect Medicaid enrollment and spending each to jump by more than 8 percent in fiscal year 2021, chiefly due to a slumping economy amid the pandemic and federal conditions to maintain coverage to access enhanced federal matching funds, according to a new KFF Medicaid budget survey. The 20th annual survey of state Medicaid directors finds that enrollment is expected to grow by 8.2 percent ending growth of 6.3 percent for fiscal 2020, a year in which enrollment remained basically flat. The findings paint a picture of a Medicaid program that state officials expect increasingly will be relied upon to provide health coverage and help soften the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic for low-income people – all at a time when state governments’ financial capacity to provide such services is stretched thin. To help provide fiscal relief, Congress earlier this year authorized a 6.2 percentage point increase in the federal Medicaid match rate (FMAP) as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). To be eligible for the funds, states cannot tighten Medicaid eligibility standards or raise premiums beyond policies in place as of January 1, 2020 and must provide continuous eligibility for enrollees through the public emergency period. The FMAP increase does not apply to the Affordable Care Act’s expansion group, for which the federal government already pays 90 percent of costs. Nearly all states indicated that they are using the extra federal money to help pay costs related to rising Medicaid enrollment and to help close Medicaid or general budget shortfalls. About two-thirds of reporting states said the fiscal relief is also being used to mitigate provider rate and/or benefit cuts. While expected state spending on Medicaid is crucial to state budgets, the projections in this year’s survey do not provide a clear picture because enhanced federal funding is now slated to expire at the end of March 2021 based on the recent renewal of the Public Health Emergency (PHE), later than states had generally assumed. At the time of the survey, states estimated that state Medicaid spending would decline in FY 2020 (-0.5%) and then sharply increase in FY 2021 (12.2%) with most states assuming that the enhanced matching funds would expire by December 2020. Nearly all states report significant adverse economic and state budgetary impacts driven by the pandemic, as well as uncertainty about the future. Even with the extension of the enhanced FMAP, those funds are unlikely to fully offset state revenue declines and fully address state revenue budget shortfalls that range from 1 percent to up to 30 percent for FY 2021 according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. State policy actions The annual budget survey, conducted with Health Management Associates, provides an in-depth, state-specific examination of changes and initiatives taking place in Medicaid programs. This year, many involve the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Notable findings include: States are providing targeted support to providers, who are under financial strain amid decreased utilization during the pandemic. More than half of responding states indicated that one or more payment changes made in FY 2020 or FY 2021 are related in whole or in part to COVID-19. While more states at the time of the survey report targeted fee-for-service rate increases in FY 2021, a few states cut provider rates across all or nearly all provider categories and other states have indicated rate freezes or reductions were likely. The majority of states also added or expanded telehealth service delivery, and many plan to extend these changes beyond the public health emergency period. The pandemic has elevated the importance of addressing longstanding disparities in health and health care, with 27 states reporting the implementation, expansion, or reform of a program or initiative to address Medicaid enrollees’ social determinants of health in response to COVID-19. Finally, while there has been attention to institutional care, the survey report finds that the long-term care workforce (for both institutional and community based long-term care) was a challenge for many responding states, and on many fronts related to the pandemic. 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Contact Name Company Phone Email How can we assist? Menu Do Business in KY News Room Quick Links News Releases Newsletters Publications KEDFA Meeting News Annual Reports Articles Webinars Andy Beshear Governor Old Capitol Annex 300 West Broadway Frankfort, KY 40601 Jeff Noel Secretary 2022-08-01 03:37:48 For Immediate Release Brandon Mattingly 502.782.2006 Potential future phases would push investment to $1 billion, create 400 total jobs to produce sustainable electric vehicle bat growth of electric vehicle-related manufacturing in the commonwealth, as Ascend Elements Inc., a producer of advanced, sustainable battery materials made from recycled lithium-ion batteries, will invest $310 million and create 250 full-time jobs in Christian County. The Governor noted this is the single largest economic development project in the county’s history. “I am incredibly proud of how we in Kentucky have taken the initiative to ensure our state will be a leader in the automotive industry of the future,” Gov. Beshear said. “The addition of Ascend Elements to Hopkinsville is a tremendous step toward solidifying that foundation even further. This is a company focused on growing in a sustainable way and one that will benefit so many other businesses in our state and throughout North America. I want to welcome Ascend Elements to Kentucky and thank its leaders for their commitment to our talented workforce.” Company officials said the current project is planned as Phase 1, with potential to increase to $1 billion in investment and a total of 400 full-time jobs with subsequent phases to establish the company’s largest U.S. operation. The 450,000-square-foot facility on more than 140 acres in Hopkinsville’s Commerce Park II will be known as Apex 1. The location will house the company’s innovative Hydro-to-Cathode process, a closed-loop direct precursor synthesis manufacturing system that generates no toxic waste and minimal carbon emissions. The operation will produce enough recycled battery precursor and sustainable cathode active materials to equip up to 250,000 electric vehicles annually. Ascend’s Kentucky operation will serve a range of EV-related customers and build on current partnerships, including with American Honda Motor Co. and SK Battery America. Apex 1 is expected to be operational in 2024 and will create jobs that include engineers, chemists, warehouse associates and manufacturing operators. Company leaders expect the plant to create a $4.4 billion economic impact to Kentucky across construction and its first 10 years of operation. “I’d like to thank Gov. Beshear and his staff for their support as well as everyone in Christian County and the City of Hopkinsville. Clean energy and climate technology industries are bringing good jobs to communities across the country, and we couldn’t be happier with our decision to locate Apex 1 in Southwest Kentucky,” said Michael O’Kronley, CEO of Ascend Elements. “We’re building something in Kentucky that doesn’t exist anywhere in the United States – a domestic source of sustainable lithium-ion cathode material for EV batteries.” Founded in 2015 and based in Westborough, Massachusetts, Ascend raises the value of the battery supply chain by manufacturing advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from discarded lithium-ion batteries. The company maintains a mission to return 100% of battery active materials for production of new batteries. Ascend produces EV-grade, finished cathode active materials to meet or exceed performance requirements set by industry-leading brands. Kentucky has established itself as a national leader in the burgeoning EV market over the past two years. Since June 2020, the commonwealth has seen over $8.5 billion in EV-related investments, with well over 8,000 full-time jobs announced. In the past year, the Beshear administration announced the two largest economic development projects in state history. In September 2021, Gov. Beshear and leaders from Ford Motor Co. and SK Innovation celebrated a transformative $5.8 billion investment that will create 5,000 jobs in Hardin County. And in April of this year, the Governor was joined by leadership at Envision AESC to announce a $2 billion investment that will create 2,000 jobs in Warren County. These announcements solidify Kentucky as the EV battery production capital of the United States. Hopkinsville Mayor Wendell Lynch said company leaders have already made a strong impression. “The City of Hopkinsville is thrilled to support Ascend Elements and their decision to locate their state-of-the-art electric vehicle-related manufacturing facility in our community,” Mayor Lynch said. “I’ve been impressed with the company and its leadership since our initial meeting. I am confident that they’ll be a great community partner as they enjoy success for decades to come in Hopkinsville, Christian County and Southwestern Kentucky.” Christian County Judge/Executive Steve Tribble thanked everyone who had a role in bringing the project to Kentucky. “I am honored to represent Christian County government as we join Gov. Andy Beshear, the Cabinet for Economic Development, TVA, City of Hopkinsville, Pennyrile Area Development District, West Kentucky Workforce Investment Board and other strategic partners to provide Ascend Elements with an awesome opportunity to invest over $300 million and create 250 jobs for the residents of Christian County and Southwestern Kentucky,” Judge Tribble said. “Their decision to select Commerce Park II for their new facility continues to demonstrate that our region, community and state are ready to help companies grow in our business-friendly environment.” South Western Kentucky Economic Development Council Executive Director Carter Hendricks said today’s announcement is the result of months of hard work. “Every economic development project is unique and exciting, and this is certainly true for Ascend Elements. After months of discussion and assistance, we are thrilled that Ascend Elements and its leadership has selected Commerce Park II and are appreciative of the partners and support that has been provided to secure this commitment and investment,” Hendricks said. “As a result, 250 families will have transformative opportunities in a world-class company and our region will reap the benefit for years to come. We offer a special thanks to Gov. Andy Beshear, the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the Tennessee Valley Authority and countless local and regional partners that have contributed on this project. We pledge this same sense of partnership and teamwork to ensure Ascend Elements’ success for generations to come.” John Bradley, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) senior vice president of economic development, noted the impact of Ascend creating 250 jobs in Southwestern Kentucky. “TVA and Pennyrile RECC congratulate Ascend Elements on its decision to locate and create hundreds of new jobs in Christian County. Helping attract and retain jobs and investment to the region is fundamental to TVA’s mission of service,” Bradley said. “We are proud to partner with the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and Southwestern Kentucky Economic Development Council to further that mission and celebrate this announcement together.” Ascend’s investment and planned job creation furthers recent economic momentum in the commonwealth, as the state builds back stronger from the effects of the pandemic. In 2021, the commonwealth shattered every economic development record in the books. Private-sector new-location and expansion announcements included a record $11.2 billion in total planned investment and commitments to create a record 18,000-plus full-time jobs across the coming years. Kentucky’s average incentivized hourly wage for projects statewide in 2021 was $24 before benefits, a 9.4% increase over the previous year. The economic momentum has carried strongly into 2022, with both S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings upgrading Kentucky’s financial outlook to positive in recognition of the commonwealth’s surging economy. And Site Selection magazine placed Kentucky at 6th in its annual Prosperity Cup rankings for 2022, which recognizes state-level economic success based on capital investments. Kentucky has posted new record low unemployment rates for three consecutive months, falling from 3.9% in April to 3.8% in May and 3.7% in June. In July, the Governor reported the highest annual growth rate in 31 years. And for the second year in a row, Kentucky’s General Fund budget surplus has exceeded $1 billion. Also in July, Gov. Beshear reported that the state’s Rainy Day fund is up to a record balance of $2.7 billion, significantly higher than the $129 million balance the fund had when the Governor took office. To encourage investment and job growth in the community, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) on Thursday preliminarily approved a 15-year incentive agreement with the company under the Kentucky Business Investment program. The performance-based agreement can provide up to $7.5 million in tax incentives based on the company’s investment of $310 million and annual targets of: Creation and maintenance of 250 Kentucky-resident, full-time jobs across 15 years; and Paying an average hourly wage of $34 including benefits across those jobs. Additionally, KEDFA approved the company for up to $2 million in tax incentives through the Kentucky Enterprise Initiative Act (KEIA). KEIA allows approved companies to recoup Kentucky sales and use tax on construction costs, building fixtures, equipment used in research and development and electronic processing. By meeting its annual targets over the agreement term, the company can be eligible to keep a portion of the new tax revenue it generates. The company may claim eligible incentives against its income tax liability and/or wage assessments. In addition, Ascend can receive resources from Kentucky’s workforce service providers. Those include no-cost recruitment and job placement services, reduced-cost customized training and job-training incentives. For more information on Ascend Elements, visit A detailed community profile for Christian County can be viewed here. Information on Kentucky’s economic development efforts and programs is available at CED.ky.gov. Fans of the Cabinet for Economic Development can also join the discussion at on Twitter @CEDkygov, Instagram @CEDkygov and LinkedIn. ### About the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development The Cabinet for Economic Development is the primary state agency in Kentucky responsible for encouraging job creation and retention, and new investment in the state. Read More Quick Links Available Sites & Buildings Start/Grow Business Workforce Training Financial Incentives Search Statistics Export My Products Capital Investor Information Contact Us Transparency Accessibility Privacy Disclaimer © Copyright 2022 Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development \| Old Capitol Annex 300 West Broadway \| Frankfort, KY 40601 \| 502 - 564 - 7670(local) \| 800 - 626 - 2930(toll free)	https://ced.ky.gov/Newsroom/NewsPage/20220801_Ascend	1,660,467,914
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This submission is part of the overall project data package that will be submitted and evalun brings us a step closer to approval for this tragic disease," said Chief Executive Officer, Richard Chin, M.D. "We are committed to transforming how parvovirus is treated and prevented, and look forward to commencement of the pivotal efficacy study for the treatment indication." On September 16, 2020, KindredBio reported positive results from its pivotal efficacy study for the prophylactic indication. As previously stated, approval of KIND-030 is subject to regulatory risk and timelines, and there is no set review timeline at the USDA Center for Veterinary Biologics. Regulatory consultants to KindredBio anticipate possible delays to the regulatory review process due to COVID-19. KindredBio will provide an update on the timing of KIND-030's expected approval at the time of announcing the company's fourth quarter 2020 results. Regulatory approval and review timeline are subject to the typical risks inherent in such a process. KIND-030 is being pursued for two indications in dogs: prophylactic therapy to prevent clinical signs of canine parvovirus infection, and treatment of established parvovirus infection. Completion of the upcoming pivotal efficacy study for the treatment indication for KIND-030 is now expected to extend into the second quarter of 2021. KindredBio does not expect the updated timing of completion of the pivotal efficacy study for the treatment indication to impact achievement of the terms contained in the parvovirus license agreement with Elanco Animal Health Incorporated. About Kindred Biosciences Kindred Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative biologics focused on saving and improving the lives of pets. Its mission is to bring to pets the same kinds of safe and effective medicines that human family members enjoy. The Company's strategy is to identify targets that have already demonstrated safety and efficacy in humans and to develop therapeutics based on these validated targets for dogs and cats. KindredBio has a deep pipeline of novel biologics in development across many therapeutic classes, alongside state-of-the-art biologics manufacturing capabilities and a broad intellectual property portfolio. For more information, visit: Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. 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These risks include, but are not limited to, the following: our limited operating history and expectations of losses for the foreseeable future; the absence of significant revenue from our products and our product candidates for the foreseeable future; the likelihood that our revenue will vary from quarter to quarter; our potential inability to obtain any necessary additional financing; our substantial dependence on the success of our products and our lead product candidates which may not be successfully commercialized even if they are approved for marketing; the effect of competition; our potential inability to obtain regulatory approval for our existing or future product candidates; our dependence on third parties to conduct some of our development activities; our dependence upon third-party manufacturers for supplies related to our products and our product candidates and the potential inability of these manufacturers to deliver a sufficient amount of supplies on a timely basis; the uncertain effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations and financial condition; uncertainties regarding the outcomes of trials regarding our product candidates; our potential failure to attract and retain senior management and key scientific personnel; uncertainty about our ability to enter into satisfactory agreements with third-party licensees of our biologic products and uncertainty about the amount of revenue that we will receive from such agreements; our significant costs of operating as a public company; potential cyber-attacks on our information technology systems or on our third-party providers' information technology systems, which could disrupt our operations; our potential inability to repay the secured indebtedness that we have incurred from third-party lenders, and the restrictions on our business activities that are contained in our loan agreement with these lenders; the risk that our 2020 strategic realignment and restructuring plans will result in unanticipated costs or revenue shortfalls; uncertainty about the amount of royalties that we will receive from the sale of Mirataz® to Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC; the risk that the revenue from our delivery of services or products under any contract may be less than we anticipate if the other party to the contract exercises its right to terminate the contract prior to the completion of the contract; our potential inability to obtain and maintain patent protection and other intellectual property protection for our products and our product candidates; potential claims by third parties alleging our infringement of their patents and other intellectual property rights; our potential failure to comply with regulatory requirements, which are subject to change on an ongoing basis; the potential volatility of our stock price; and the significant control over our business by our principal stockholders and management. 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\| Macdonald-Laurier Institute Friday, August 5, 2022 No Result View All Result Media Support Us Home About Who We Are Who Makes MLI Work Tenth Anniversary Jobs Experts Issues Domestic Policy Program AgTime: 12 mins read A A A A Reset The fiery rhetoric during the most recent US presidential election has missed the point. The economic dislocation thrust upon so many Americans is due more to technological advances from capitalism. Canada needs to study the US example and find ways to reap the benefits of dynamic capitalism while supporting those left behind. By Sean Speer, Nov. 24, 2016 INTRODUCTION Donald Trump’s surprising election victory has produced a wellspring of early commentaries on its meaning for Canada. His pronouncements about trade, climate change, defence spending, and a range of other issues will invariably affect Canadian interests and it is critical that we are ready for the potential eventualities. But Canadian policy-makers also need to derive some lessons from the issues that animated the presidential election and what it may mean for our own politics. The election revealed a growing public unease with the vicissitudes of dynamic capitalism that is not indigenous to the United States. A recent report found that more than 40 percent of Canadians are worried about their jobs being lost to automation and other technological advancements. It thus behooves Canadian policy-makers to grapple with how to continue realizing the benefits of dynamic capitalism while supporting those affected by the process of creative destruction. Political experts continue to study exit polls and other data sources to better understand what motivated voters to elect Mr. Trump, but it is widely accepted that worker displacement and job precariousness were animating issues for a sizeable share of his electors. The shorthand explanation is a growing anti-trade disposition and economic anxiety in parts of the country. The full story is doubtless more complicated and requires some deeper thinking. It is important that we think about how to help those experiencing the financial and non-financial effects of economic dislocation including the respective roles for business, government, and civil society in supporting them and their families. It is fair to say that this may prove to be among the most important economic and societal questions of our time. We must match its consequence with proportionate rigour and humility. This short essay therefore does not purport to be conclusive. It is a preliminary and immediate formulation of one policy observer’s thoughts on the topic. The goal is to begin to reason through some of these big questions and what they may mean for Canada. The commentary takes the form of seven posits about creative destruction, left/right politics, and the limits of public policy. 1/ Creative Destruction is a Net Positive to our Economy and Society The first posit is that the procand industries, is a feature rather than a bug of dynamic capitalism. As economist Joseph Schumpeter famously wrote: The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation — if I may use that biological term — that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. The process he described is the means by which we create new and better products, become more productive and richer, and ultimately have higher living standards. It is decentralized, dynamic, and driven by market signals, gaps, and opportunities. Creative destruction is ultimately about how economies evolve. This dynamism is neither an abstraction nor a process divorced from regular citizens. Not only does it contribute to higher hourly wages and higher living standards, it produces goods and services (think, for instance, of Uber or iPads) that improve and enrich our lives. Market-driven innovation is thus an egalitarian exercise that broadly benefits society and the general welfare. But the “destruction” part of the phrase is an inextricable part of the bargain. The process of creating new industries does not occur without sweeping away parts of the pre-existing order. Jobs are lost, companies disappear, and industries are reconfigured. That is the nature of capitalism. As economists Michael Cox and Richard Alm write: “A society cannot reap the rewards of creative destruction without accepting that some individuals might be worse off, not just in the short term, but perhaps forever.” Put differently: we do not have the option of picking the good aspects of dynamic capitalism and eschewing the bad. They are one and the same. Flinching in the face of economic anxiety and agitation would therefore cause us to forgo the benefits of innovation and productivity. 2/ We Cannot Neglect Concerns about Worker Displacement and Job Precariousness The second posit is that, of course, the subject of creative destruction and its implications for the economy and society have received considerable attention ever since Schumpeter coined the phrase in the 1940s. We are hardly the first generation to feel anxious and uncertain about the dynamic effects of market capitalism or to witness whole industries undergo technologically enabled transformation. One example: the US agriculture sector has seen its share of national employment steadily fall from 70 percent in 1840 to roughly 2 percent today. This is neither the first nor the last time that policy-makers will need to confront public concerns about worker displacement and job precariousness. But, at the risk of sounding ahistorical, it does seem that the current magnitude of economic dislocation and its public awareness are higher than in recent memory. Technologies such as advanced robotics and artificial intelligence may prove to be even more significantly disruptive if widely adopted. The election of Donald Trump confirms its elevated place in our politics in any case. We are witnessing similar nascent public anxieties here in Canada. Finance Minister Bill Morneau was recently excoriated for his comment that the future of work will likely involve more churn and have millennials experiencing multiple careers. The negative reaction to what is a patently true observation highlights the public’s conflicted views about the benefits and perceived drawbacks of dynamic capitalism. The Uber/taxi dispute in some cities and the ongoing political influence of supply-managed dairy farmers are other examples of the complicated politics of creative destruction. So it seems inadequate to simply cite the disappearance of carriage- and harness-makers or blacksmiths as proof that this current experience is not unusual and thus not worth concerning ourselves with. Flouting these questions strikes us as not only a failure of empathy, but also as a doomed political strategy in the face of evidence that these issues seem to have growing resonance. There must be a middle ground between panic and neglect. 3/ These Issues Transcend Left/Right Intellectual and Political Divides The third is that these questions do not easily conform to typical left-right preconceptions. Donald Trump’s electoral success cannot be interpreted as a validation of progressive or conservative ideas. He was a decidedly non-ideological candidate and his voters seemed to be motivated by non-ideological considerations. Mr. Trump’s economic message was a hodgepodge which drew from progressive ideas on trade and entitlement reform, and conservative ideas on taxes and the regulatory state. This is somewhat intuitive. Voters concerned about worker displacement or job precariousness are unlikely to be motivated by a dogmatic check-list. Their concerns are less about first principles and more about practical matters such as rising living costs and economic opportunities. Mr. Trump’s economic populism offered the popular aspects of the Democratic and Republican orthodoxy and voters responded accordingly. More generally, though, it will require thoughtful contributions from across the intellectual and political spectrum to craft an effective and positive agenda for those negatively affected by creative destruction. It will involve grappling with big questions about the trade-offs between efficiency and equity, the relationship between inequality and mobility, and the risks of diminishing incentives for entrepreneurship and risk-taking. The first step should involve each side abandoning cartoonish characterizations of each other’s positions. No mainstream progressive voices are proposing a legislative prohibition on automation in particular or capitalism in general. No mainstream conservative voices are wantonly dismissive of the impact of economic dislocation on families and communities. These are questions that transcend partisan or ideological lines and we should treat one another with respect and goodwill in trying to address them. Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas in the face of the opportunities and challenges posed by dynamic capitalism and there is more room for overlap and consensus than people may realize. An upcoming commentary with a former economic adviser to federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair on expanding the Working Income Tax Benefit to help low-income workers is evidence of this potential for a commingling of good ideas. 4/ Dislocation is Multidimensional The fourth point is that it is not merely an economic matter and it would be a mistake to think about it only in materialistic terms. A guaranteed annual income has become a common response to the acceleration of automation and digitization in the workforce. The presumption is that displaced workers will lack financial resources and a basic government-provided income will fix the problem. But as US economist Arthur Brooks has recently shown, the real consequences of economic dislocation are much more multifaceted than one’s paycheque or bank account. Much of the anger and frustration that have come to dominate post-election explanations seems to be less an expression of economic sentiment and more a sense of loss, or what Brooks and the Dalai Lama have described as “feeling superfluous.” It draws on an Aristotelian conception of work that sees it as a source of dignity and identity. One person feeling unneeded or undervalued is unfortunate. A large number of people is a growing social problem. New research from political economist Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) shows that millions of American men have left the labour market (the share of men 20 and older without paid work is nearly 32 percent) and are now idle. The economic and social costs of what he calls a “normative sea change” could be significant in the short and long run. The upshot is that any policy agenda to address these big questions must recognize that financial support is a necessary yet insufficient solution. Conservatives should come to see the utility of income-support programs with strong pro-work biases. Progressives should come to see the limitations of redistribution to address the problems that ail dislocated regions and workers. An effective policy response must speak to the financial and non-financial aspects of worker displacement and job precariousness. 5/ Robots rather than Free Trade are at the Root of the Issue The fifth is that the US campaign’s focus on free trade and, in turn, cheap imports and outsourcing to lower-cost jurisdictions as the primary reason for worker displacement and job churn was wrongly placed. Notwithstanding Mr. Trump’s campaign message about renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement and rejecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the evidence shows that much of the concerns about negative job effects of free trade are misguided. Yet this growing popular opposition to free trade continues to mount. And such views are hardly unique to the United States. A June 2016 poll by the Angus Reid Institute found that only one in four Canadians believes that the NAFTA has produced a net benefit for the country. Technological adoption has been more responsible for economic dislocation than free trade or outsourcing. It is then less a matter of domestic production moving elsewhere or being replaced by cheaper imports and more readily explained by technologically enabled productivity gains. Put more simply: production has remained in the United States and Canada but employment has declined. The result is that US manufacturing continues to set production and export records during this period that its share of national employment has fallen. A recent Ball State University study, for instance, finds that productivity gains are responsible for 88 percent of manufacturing job losses since 2000. As the economists write: “Had we kept 2000-levels of productivity and applied them to 2010-levels of production we would have required 20.9 million manufacturing workers. Instead, we employed only 12.1 million.” Or, as AEI economist James Pethokoukis has put it: If Mr. Trump is concerned about economic dislocation, he should “shut up about China and start railing against robots.” This is not to say that free trade is not a contributing factor or that we should be dismissive of people’s concerns because they are mostly caused by automation and digitization. But it does mean that a public policy agenda designed to speak to the public’s anxieties must focus on the right issues. Abandoning free trade will forgo the enormous benefits that these agreements provide and have limited effect on worker displacement or job precariousness. 6/ Any Public Policy Response Must be Carefully Crafted An instinct for government to impede creative destruction in the name of protecting workers can be as counterproductive as it is understandable. Nobody enjoys seeing people lose their jobs and politicians tend to respond to vocal constituencies. But the inadvertent consequences of halting or forestalling dynamism can be significant. A public policy agenda to address economic dislocation therefore must be carefully crafted. Protecting a particular industry or firm blocks new innovations and technologies and also precludes other workers from getting an opportunity. The cost can be in the form of lower incomes and fewer opportunities. The Uber example is a good one. Uber has created employment opportunities for marginalized workers including the hearing impaired and some former felons searching for a second chance. Thus blocking the company from entering the market in order to protect taxi drivers essentially chooses the current workers over prospective ones. The result is a static economy in which those on the outside looking in are unfairly neglected. As US political commentator Yuval Levin writes: Providing business interests (or labour, or any other established, well-connected group) with special benefits or shielding established market actors from competition is therefore anathema to the ethic of capitalism and democracy. Of course, this does not mean that we ought to be insensitive or unsympathetic towards those negatively affected by the dynamic churn of capitalism. Quite the contrary. It is the premise of this essay that we need to develop an agenda that speaks to their circumstances and helps them adjust. But it does mean that we must be careful about simple solutions. A renewal of protectionism or more state-directed corporate welfare, for instance, may proffer short-term political upsides, but will ultimately do more harm than good. This list is far from exhaustive, but such an effective public policy agenda to address economic dislocation may include (in no particular order): education and career training reforms, more flexible labour market rules, an economic-focused immigration policy, expanding the Working Income Tax Benefit, liberalizing zoning policies that drive up housing prices, targeting unfair trading practices in other countries, and transition programming to help regions or countries experiencing structural economic changes. There are no doubt other ideas to be added, but this initial list should have broad-based and multipartisan support. The key is a pro-growth agenda that creates the conditions for investment and job creation. We should not come to see dislocated workers as a liability to manage but rather assets to be cultivated and deployed. This requires a growing economy. Therefore, we need to pursue the basic building blocks of a pro-growth agenda, including low, competitive taxation, sound public finances, limited and predictable regulations, a pro-competition legal framework, and key public investments in human capital and basic infrastructure. 7/ An Effective Response to Economic Dislocation Cannot be Limited to Government The final point (which relates to No. 4) is that an effective response to economic dislocation cannot be limited to government. The effects of worker displacement and job precariousness can come to assume a community dynamic with pervasive consequences that transcend public policy. It requires a more holistic vision that sees a role for civil society, communities, and families. As US public intellectual J. D. Vance has said about the plight of the white working poor in Appalachia: “Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us.” It is important then to ensure that we create the conditions for community engagement and leadership. Solutions cannot be imposed from afar. Community politicians, church leaders, teachers, philanthropists, and parents must be at the root of these larger economic and social manifestations of dislocation. Indigenous communities in Canada are an example. The federal government has a role to play with regards to better services and infrastructure, greater support for child care and early learning, and stronger families. But fundamentally, it is more about removing the obstacles to Indigenous communities defining and pursuing their goals and aspirations. As we have written elsewhere: “Real reconciliation cannot be managed out of Ottawa.” The same insight applies to non-Indigenous communities dealing with challenges brought about by economic and technological changes. These communities must assume responsibility for their conditions. There is also a role for businesses to play their part in the form of retraining, settlement offers, and community participation. The point is that an effective and positive agenda to address these public anxieties and agitations about creative destruction will require more than public dollars or government programming. Civil society, broadly defined, must have a large role to help affected communities remain productive, healthy, and good. CONCLUSION The presidential election has partly put dynamic capitalism on trial in the United States and it would be wrong to assume the same sentiments are not present here in Canada. It is important we come to understand the economic and social effects of economic dislocation and the respective roles of business, government, and civil society to help those regions and workers affected by structural economic changes. This will invariably involve contributions from across the intellectual and political spectrum. We must seek to address the financial and non-financial consequences of worker displacement and job precariousness. We must also recognize the limitations of public policy in addressing public concerns about creative destruction. This short essay represents a preliminary and immediate attempt to reason through some of these big questions. It is rooted in a belief that we must strike a balance between panic and neglect and proceed with a high degree of humility in our ability to anticipate economic and technological changes and how they affect workers and communities. It is incumbent upon policy-makers and others involved in public policy debates to develop an effective and positive agenda that begins to address the public anxieties and agitations that were revealed in the US election. Sean Speer is a Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Tags: Donald TrumpInside PolicySean Speer Previous Post Canada needs to hope the US political system will temper Trump’s worst excesses: Christian Leuprecht in Sun papers Next Post Tickets on sale now for the MLI Confederation Dinner! Related Posts Commentary Emergency powers and the rule of law: Why inquiries matter August 4, 2022 Columns The collateral damage of Trudeau’s war on climate change: Jamil Jivani in the National Post August 4, 2022 Multimedia United States announces killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: Christian Leuprecht on iHeart Radio August 3, 2022 Next Post Tickets on sale now for the MLI Confederation Dinner! 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The study, published in the journal Autism in Adulthood, follows up on a 2011 paper, “Infantilizing Autism,” in Disability Studies Quarterly, which had found that popular portrayals of autism were overwhelmingly focused on children. The earlier paper had raised alarm about lack of representation of adults with autism, which can limit public awareness of the unique needs of some autistic adults, like employment and housing accomodations. At the time, the authors of the 2011 paper—Jennifer L. Stevenson, Bev Harp, and Morton Ann Gernsbacher—theorized that the bias toward representing children might be due to factors like advocacy organizations being led by parents and clinicians and a predominant focus on initial diagnosis and treatment of autism. However, since then, the neurodiversity movement has continued to grow, especially as autistic self-advocates have worked to shift focus onto how autistic people can flourish throughout their lives. And a new team of researchers, led by UC Santa Cruz Psychology Professor Nameera Akhtar, wondered whether these efforts, and other potential influences, may have affected representations of autism over the past decade. So, they set out to replicate the 2011 study. “This is an important issue to track, because autistic adults often say it’s very annoying to them that autism is almost always depicted as having to do with children, and it’s like that is making them invisible,” Akhtar said. “They talk about how it’s like they fall off a cliff when they turn 18, because there are very few resources available for them after that. But, of course, you don’t stop being autistic and needing accommodations when you become an adult.” To see how trends in representation may have changed, one place the research team looked was the websites of some well-known autism advocacy and charity organizations. In reviewing online materials from 49 state and regional chapters of the Autism Society of America, the team found that 20% of photographs depicting autistic individuals were of adults, compared to only 5% of photos when the 2011 study had originally reviewed these sites. While children were still heavily favored, this was a statistically significant improvement. And 80% of websites at least mentioned autistic adults and linked to related resources. A review of 16 additional autism charity organization websites found similar results. The study also looked for trends across the entertainment industry. Researchers analyzed 124 movies and television shows released between 2010 and 2019 that featured autistic characters. They found that 58% of these characters were children, whereas 68% of autistic characters were children in the 2011 paper’s original analysis. The new paper says one factor that could be contributing to this improvement is that production teams are increasingly bringing in consultants to advise on proposed portrayals of autism—likely due to calls for more accurate representation from autistic self-advocates. However, levels of representation were quite different in the publishing industry. The research team reviewed 484 English-language fiction books published between 2010 and 2017 that included a mention of an autistic character in the book’s description. 81% of these characters were children, compared to the 91% at the time of the 2011 paper’s analysis. This was a statistically significant improvement, despite the lingering disparity. The new paper conducted an additional analysis showing that representation was better among books geared toward adult audiences, in which 67% of autistic characters were children. The research team also analyzed 90 news stories from print, television, and radio media outlets in the United States that featured one autistic individual and were published between April and May of 2020. 58% of these stories featured autistic children, compared to 79% of stories in a similar analysis for the initial study. But the new paper notes that even though autistic adults are increasingly represented in news media, they may still be portrayed as childlike. For example, the study showed that one-third of news stories that included autistic adults also mentioned their parents. And prior research has found that non-autistic researchers, parents, and clinicians are more likely to be presented as experts on autism than are autistic adults themselves. Overall, the authors of the new study say that, while their findings show a shift toward more numerical representation for adults in portrayals of autism, there’s still plenty of room for improvement, including in the capacity of those representations to truly reflect the lived experiences of autistic adults. UCSC Associate Professor of Philosophy Janette Dinishak, a coauthor of the new paper, says she hopes future improvements in representation might include increased attention to the intersectionality of autism with gender, race, ethnicity, and other social categories or identities. “We need to see a continued increase in the number of representations of autistic adults, along with an improvement in the manner of that representation to reflect the heterogeneity of how autism manifests across a person’s lifespan,” she said. “Autistic people need to be part of the conversation on how to improve that representation, and they also need to be given space to represent themselves.” /Public Release. This material from the originating organization/author(s) may be of a point-in-time nature, edited for clarity, style and length. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s).View in full here. Why? 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\| New R&B Music, Songs, Podcast, Interviews Facebook Twitter Instagram RSS Contact About Home Music New Music New Videos Albums Editor Picks Rare Gems Upcoming Artist Spotlight Interviews Artist Interviews In Depth Album Feature Podcast The SoulBack R&B Podcast About Podcast Exclusive Interviews In Depth Album Feature Top 10 Lists Album Review Editorials Year End Lists Should Have Been Singles Song Creation Event Recaps Live Video News Select Page Chico DeBarge Talks What He’s Been Up To, His Creative Process, Changes in Music (Exclusive Interview) Jul. The younger brother of the legendary El DeBarge and part of the musical DeBarge family, his style and voice always stood out from the rest. Aside from the fact that he’s a very talented singer, I’ve always had an affinity for his being a true musician and being able to compose all of his own music. He’s not an artist you’re going to get an album from every year, or every other year even, but one you know when you do get his next project, it will be something that’s genuinely from his soul. He’s the type of artist who rather than rush out a project just to appease the fans, he’s likely to indulge in the whole musical process and just let the music marinate as he expresses himself with it. Yea I know, these sound like foreign concepts in today’s r&b world. In this interview, we discuss what he’s been up to, his creative process, expressing himself with his music, being on a major label vs. going independent, the changes he’s seen in music over the years, the definition of a perfect fan, and much more. YouKnowIGotSoul: I know you released your last album “Addiction” back in 2009. What have you been up to since then? Chico DeBarge: Actually I’ve been touring quite a bit and I’ve been preparing to go with my brother El on a European tour as well. Just staying busy doing shows which is really exciting for me. YKIGS: Do you have plans to release your next album anytime soon? CD: I’m going to take my time of course and just write. I like to do that first, I like to just have some good material at my leisure so I can just decide if I want to give it to another artist or just do it myself if it fits. Writing is my first love so I try to stay constantly doing that. The artistry thing, I’m still debating on a home for the next project, I’m still with Kedar so we’re still ironing out some contractual differences so I can get a new home. So that’s the plan. YKIGS: Talk more about your writing. I’ve talked to a lot of writers and each has a different process for putting songs together, so it always interests me to hear how an artist goes into making a song. Take me through your process. CD: If I’m trying to write, and actually writing to write, I usually try to stay melody based and just base everything on melody and fill in the lyrics after. I like the melody to sound good first before I concentrate on the lyrics. It needs to feel good and that’s my theory, it needs to feel good and sound good first, then it makes sense. So that’s pretty much the basis of what I start with and go from there, the melody. YKIGS: In addition to writing, I know that you’re a true musician. You play many instruments, you compose your own music, and you put songs together on your own. That’s rare these days, so what does it mean to you? CD: It means a lot. It helps me express myself better because I don’t have to run into the issue of having someone else express it for me and then being frustrated that they’re not doing it quite the way I hear it inside my head. Being a musician, I’m able to express that as an outlet and what it is that I’m trying to hear. So it means a lot. YKIGS: I know you mentioned that you’re working out some details for a future contract. But do you feel that an artist like yourself who can create their own music is better off going the independent route? You’ve been on a major label in the past, but do you prefer to go independent at this point in your career? CD: It doesn’t really matter. The major label is a plus too because you’ve got of course the millions of dollars behind you and you don’t really have that at an independent. That’s a plus because it almost ensures the success of the album if you’ve got good material. You’ve gotta pay all that back of course, but you get that back on the road because the album is sure to be a success and you’re sure to do a tour where you could get your own money. You might be paying the label back on the royalty side but you can go out and do concerts and make plenty of money and bring home the bread. So that’s a plus. Independent, I would say it has its pluses too because if it’s successful you’ll be a millionaire and it will be a legitimate million. It’s not something that the company advanced you. YKIGS: I want to ask you about an artist you’ve collaborated with many times over the years, he’s been on your albums and you guys have done songs together over the years, and that artist is Joe. How did you originally link up with Joe and what’s your relationship like? CD: Joe is managed by Kedar and Kedar of course was the label that I started out on. So the relationship was kinda born out of that situation we both had with Kedar. So we met and were kinda around each other and became a family and frequented each other’s studio. Of course we liked each other’s music as well. Joe I think was on his second album I think when I was on my first, and he liked the direction I was going in and wanted to be a part of it. I was remixing “No Guarantee” and he already knew the lyrics and everything and I was surprised that he did! So I told him since he was singing it, why didn’t he get behind the mic! We just gelled ever since. YKIGS: I love the music you guys have made together over the years. CD: Thank you, thank you for that. YKIGS: Since you released your first album back in the 80’s, talk about the changes you’ve seen in music and r&b and soul music in general. CD: Oh man, so much. I would artist development is not much there anymore and back then it was a big thing. Berry Gordy was of course artist development heavy and into developing artists to promote longevity, he really believed in sticking behind an artist. An artist could have a bad album and still he would give them another chance, he was in it for the long haul. So back then record labels were into developing artists for the long haul and I don’t see that too much anymore. Music has changed a lot too, it’s become a little more computer dependant and not so much home grown. YKIGS: I picked out a few of my favorite songs of yours from over the years and I was hoping to hear some background on each. YKIGS: The first one is “When Can I See You Again” from “The Game” album. CD: Yea, Brian McKnight, that was one of his joints. That was a lesson for me because Brian taught me some techniques and skills that I’ve used for the rest of my life. He really taught me some singing skills and vocal techniques. YKIGS: Next is “It’s Cool” from the “Free” album. CD: That was pretty much a free form song believe it or not, I got behind the mic and wrote that on the spot, didn’t write it down on paper, it kinda just came from my feelings and what I was going through at the time. I really love that song, that’s close to my heart. It’s a very forgiving song. YKIGS: One more, and I know this is a favorite of a lot of your fans, “Iggin Me”. CD: That’s special. Me and El were in the studio and I just remember hearing El begin to play those chords and it just immediately pulled me. I got up and began to sing and El began to say “Wow, we got something, dim the lights, here it is!” El is such a seasoned and experienced writer and producer and he knows when something is being born that’s special and it’s about to be something great. He knows how to set the mood for it and make way for it. I can remember him making way for it by dimming the lights and saying that we had something here and we needed to stick to it and close our eyes and not let go of it. I love where it went to. YKIGS: You’ve had a bunch of albums over the years. Do you have a favorite or one that you feel is strongest? CD: I like the “Free” album. Pretty much I’m very, very close to that album. Some of my own favorite songs are on the “Free” album such as “Virtuous”. It’s very much an album about me pretty much crying out and looking for true love because I had never fallen in love and I was wondering if there was such a thing. Basically it was a call crying out from my soul to whoever was my soul mate to come, “Hurry up baby I’m here, where are you?” I had been going through heartbreak and I went through a lot in my relationship with a terrible breakup. It was me basically looking for love and I was very emotional. YKIGS: You’ve had many collaborations over the years on other artists’ albums. Is there one that stands out as a favorite? CD: I like the Noreaga one. “Soopaman Lova” too, I like that one with Redman. YKIGS: I have a couple of questions from your fans on Twitter who I reached out to. First question is what’s your definition of a perfect fan? CD: Oh wow! I don’t think there’s such a thing as one but let me try and describe it. Someone that is a fan of themselves as well and can walk with a confidence about themselves and separate meaning from the music. They have to understand that I’m a person and be grounded without being overboard. I think that’s important and that would be a perfect fan to me. YKIGS: Another one is what do you feel you could bring to today’s music that hasn’t been done already? CD: Maybe my expression of love. I think that’s all I can do that hasn’t been done is give my expression and my interpretation. Nothing’s new under the sun. YKIGS: Coming up in the music industry and growing up from an early age, did you ever feel alienated from the rest of the DeBarge family just because your style was so much different than theirs? CD: I wouldn’t say alienated but definitely felt different. I just didn’t know where I fit and I had an identity crisis at one time. I was concerned about living up to the rest of the family because it was such a great mark that they set. Alienated? Maybe. But not in a bad way. YKIGS: Anything you’d like to add? CD: Just one thing. I think that all music is soul music when it comes from the depths of you. When it’s heart born, it’s going to be heartfelt to someone. Our music is our message towards finding a place that we would never see so bring it from the soul so you can speak to a soul. All of the artists and writers and producers that are out there, let’s keep soul music alive. Whether you’re doing rock music or contemporary or whatever, it still can have soul. Related Posts: AMBRÉ Talks Creation of New EP "3000°, Creative Process, Learning Her Craft (Exclusive Interview) Producer Edwin Tony Nicholas Talks Work With Gerald LeVert, Joe, Creative Process (Exclusive… Al "A-Rod" Sherrod Talks Creative Process, Ariana Grande's Sophomore Album, Writing For Fantasia… JoJo Talks New Album "Good To Know", Progressing Her Sound & Creative Process (Exclusive) Seven Talks Creating Hits With Ashanti, Murder Inc's Dominance On The Charts, Creative Process… Brian Alexander Morgan Talks Hits With SWV & Beyond, Creative Process, Current Projects (Exclusive) 11 Comments Liesel J on July 25, 2011 at 5:39 pm Great interview. Is this DJ Slam? If so, you always show so much love to DeBarge and ask great questions about the music. Much love to you and the whole DeBarge clan. Slam on July 25, 2011 at 8:17 pm Yep this is Slam doing the interview! Thanks so much, that means a lot, I always try and focus on the music because I love the music! Michelle on July 25, 2011 at 6:18 pm Good job. Nice to hear from Chico. THRONE THE BK G OD? on July 28, 2011 at 2:10 pm The the brother has mad talent and he is a true artist that we have to support .not what the these international parasites shoved done the throats of the young public.stand up rep.the.leagacy bro.chico dont stop we need you peace! shell on July 28, 2011 at 10:46 pm nice interview…intelligent questions…intelligent answers! Slam on July 29, 2011 at 7:24 am Thank you! I appreciate that! Carla Bishop on July 29, 2011 at 9:27 pm First of all, great interview! Secondly, to meet Chico DeBarge is to love Chico DeBarge. Believe me, I know from personal experience. Slam on July 29, 2011 at 10:07 pm Thank you! Carla Bishop on July 30, 2011 at 12:15 am You’re welcome! musicluva on July 30, 2011 at 8:46 pm Great Interview! Chico DeBarge had some great songs back in the day and should have went much further in his career. This site is a great platform to catch up on the artist who have been off the mainstream music scene. Would LOVE to see interviews with Di Reed (now sings with Usher and Rod Stewart) or Joi Marshall from the group JADE, Chauncey Hannibal, Latocha and Tamika Scott (XSCAPE)as well as JaKima from TOTAL who is working on solo music right now. BT on March 23, 2012 at 9:23 pm That was a great interview! It was wonderful to hear Chico’s voice and really sharing his thoughts about a little bit of everything off the cuff. Thank you for opening it up to us.	https://youknowigotsoul.com/interview-chico-debarge-discusses-what-hes-been-up-to-his-creative-process-changes-hes-seen-in-music-over-the-years	1,660,532,945
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Pressure to contain the infections is even greater with China’s annual political meetings scheduled to commence this week in Beijing after being delayed from their usual March date. Thousands of political delegates will gather in the capital to endorse the government’s agenda from Friday and the central leadership is determined to project stability and calm during this period. Health officials do not yet know how the new cluster started, but suspect that the patients may have come into contact with infected returnees from Russia, which has one of the worst outbreaks in Europe. Those in charge of transporting potentially infected arrivals from abroad to centralized quarantine centers need to do a better job, said Wang Bin, a National Health Commission official, during a briefing on Sunday. “Imported cases from overseas and clustered infections domestically have created dual pressure on us in containing the virus,” she said. 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Cianchetti, Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Unitork, United States of America ⨯ Nozomi Nishimura, Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America ⨯ Chris B. Schaffer * E-mail: [email protected] Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, CorNishimura, Chris B. Schaffer x Published: May 28, 2013 Article Authors Metrics Comments Media Coverage Reader Comments Figures Flor s show more show less Show in Context Download: TIFF PNG PPT Figures Abstract Although microhemorrhages are common in the brain of the irradiation to rupture the wall of single arterioles in the brain of anesthetized rodents, producing a hematoma of ∼100-µm diameter. Our objective was to study theuropil, and astrocytes at different distances from the microhemorrhage before and 0.5, 2, and 4 hours after the creation of the lesion. We found that immediately after the hemorrhage the average amplitude of the stimulus-induced calcium response was reduced to about half within 150 µm from the hematoma. Beyond 300 µm, there was little effect on cell response, with a smooth increase in response amplitude from 150 µm to 300 µm from the lesion. Cortical function gradually improved with time and by four hours after the lesion the response from neurons and astrocytes had recovered to baseline everywhere but within 150 µm from the hematoma. To assess whether the cells closest to the microhemorrhage recovered over a longer timeframe, we developed a re-openable chronic cranial window preparation that allowed reinjection of calcium-sensitive fluorescent dye. We found that the response largely recovered by one day after the microhemorrhage even within 150 µm from the hematoma. This work suggests that neuronal and astrocyte function is transiently lost near a microhemorrhage, but recovers within one day after the lesion. Citation: Cianchetti FA, Kim DH, Dimiduk S, Nishimura N, Schaffer CB (2013) . PLoS ONE 8(5): e65663. Editor: Ken Arai, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, United States of America Received: July 30, 2012; Accepted: May 3, 2013; Published: May 28, 2013 Copyright: © 2013 Cianchetti et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was supported by a National Institutes of Health grant (R01 EB002019) and by a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellowship to NN (F32 AG031620). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Introduction Small, acutely asymptomatic, hemorrhages are frequently found in the brain of elderly patients [1], [2]. These lesions range in size from several millimeters in diameter, which are observable in MRI studies [3] and often called microbleeds, to even smaller microhemorrhages of only a few tens of micrometers diameter, which are only revealed by post-mortline and dementia [4]–[9]. While larger hemorrhages can lead to devastating effects, the consequences of microhemorrhages remain unclear and the question of whether such lesions have direct effects on cognition via altered neuronal activity is unanswered. It has been difficult to study the pathological consequences of a microhemorrhage due tossels [10]. Neural death and inflammation was found in the vicinity of these hemorrhages, however the hematomas created are greater than 1 mm in diameter and the mechanisms that cause cell injury after these lesions may not play the same role in microhemorrhages. Transgenic mice, such as hypertensive or CADASIL (Notch 3 mutation) animals, develop microhemorrhages with diameters of several hundred micrometers throughout the brain, which have been shown to trigger inflammation [11], [12]. However it is difficult to follow the effects of microhemorrhages on cells in these animals because of the unpredictable timing and location of the lesions. Finally, extravasation of blood plasma into the brain due to a nearby ischemic lesion did not cause dendrite degeneration [13]. Recently developed methods in in vivo imaging and the introduction of femtosecond laser ablation-induced models of microvascular hemorrhage have enabled studies of the impact of these lesions on the brain [14]. In recent work, we found that microhemorrhages compress surrounding tissue and cause rapid activation of microglia, leading to an increase in microglial density around the small hematoma that remains for weeks [15]. However, these microhemorrhages did not cause deterioration of nearby dendritic processes, suggesting that any effect of microhemorrhages on cognition likely comes from a process that cannot be discerned from merely structural information. While this previous work showed that neurons near the microhemorrhage did not die, the function of these cells was not characterized. In this work, we aim to investigate changes in cortical function after a single microhemorrhage by using calcium imaging to measure neuron, neuropil and astrocyte activity. We used femtosecond laser pulses to rupture targeted arterioles in the brain of live, anesthetized rodents, creating microhemorrhages of ∼100-µm diameter [14]. We used two-photon excited fluorescence (2PEF) microscopy of bulk-loaded calcium-sensitive fluorescent dyes [16] to monitor the resulting changes in response to a peripheral stimulus. We found a decrease in neural and astrocyte response in the vicinity of the hematoma immediately after the bleed that recovered toward baseline over time, with regions further from the lesion recovering more quickly. These results show that even the smallest microhemorrhages can lead to transient loss of cortical function, but suggest that any long-term impact is not caused by the inability of neurons or astrocytes to respond to input. Methods Ethics statement All animal procedures were reviewed and approved by the Cornell University Institutional Care and Use Committee (protocol numbers 2006-0044 and 2009-0043) and were conducted in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (published by NIH). Acute rat preparation We used 23 adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (Harlan, Inc.), ranging from 250 to 415 g in weight. Rats were anesthetized using 5% isoflurane (Vet-one, Inc.) and maintained at 1–2% throughout surgery. An intramuscular injection of glycopyrrolate (0.5 mg/kg rat) (Baxter, Inc.) was administered, the head was shaved, and eye ointment applied. The rat was transferred to a custom stereotaxic frame where bupivacaine (0.1 mL, 0.125%) (Hospira, Inc.) was administered subcutaneously on top of the head to provide local anesthesia. A ∼1.5-mm radius circular craniotomy was performed and the dura was removed. In order to access the hind paw somatosensory cortex, the center of the craniotomy was located 2 mm lateral and 1 mm caudal from bregma. After loading fluorescent dyes into the brain (see below), the craniotomy was filled with 1% agarose (A9793, Sigma) in artificial cerebrospinal fluid (ACSF) [17] and then sealed with a glass cover slip (50201, World Precision Instruments) that was glued to the skull using cyanoacrylate and dental cement (Co-Oral-lte Dental Mfg Corp.). One hour prior to in vivo 2PEF imaging, isoflurane anesthesia was gradually decreased to zero, while urethane (U25000, Sigma; diluted in deionized water) was administered intraperitonealy over three injections (final dose: 1.5 g/kg rat). Urethane was used during our studies of changes in stimulus-induced neural response after microhemorrhage because it has been reported to both maintain regulation of cerebral blood flow[18] as well as preserve the neural response to a peripheral stimulus[19]. Throughout surgery and imaging animals breathed oxygen-enriched air, body temperature was maintained at 37.5°C by a thermostatically regulated heating pad (Harvard Apparatus, Inc.), the blood oxygen saturation and heart rate were monitored using a pulse oximeter (MouseOx, Starr Life Sciences Corp.), and subcutaneous injections of 5% (w/v) glucose in physiological saline (1 ml/kg rat) were applied every hour. Animals were sacrificed at the conclusion of the imaging session. Chronic mouse preparation with reopenable cranial window We used 10 male adult C57BL/6 mice ranging from 17 to 32 g in weight. Animals were anesthetized on isoflurane and eye ointment was applied. Next, intramuscular injections of glycopyrrolate (0.5 mg/kg mouse) and subcutaneous injections of dexamethasone sodium phosphate (0.2 mg/kg mouse) (American Regent, Inc.) and ketoprofen (5 mg/kg mouse) (Fort Dodge) were given. The head was shaved and cleaned with providone iodine and ethanol. After giving local injections of bupivacaine, a ∼1.5 mm radius circular craniotomy was prepared over the hind paw somatosensory cortex (center located at 1 mm lateral and 0.5 mm caudal from bregma). The dura was left intact. During all procedures when the mouse was under anesthesia, body temperature was maintained at 37.5°C by a thermostatically regulated heating pad and 0.1 mL subcutaneous injections of 5% (w/v) glucose in physiological saline were applied every hour. After loading fluorescent dyes into the brain, a thin ring-shaped wall of silicone (Kwik-sil, World Precision Instruments, Inc.) was carefully applied around the edge of the craniotomy and then over the exposed mouse skull. The craniotomy was filled with sterile ACSF and a 5-mm glass cover slip was glued to the silicone using cyanoacrylate and dental cement. This procedure created a chamber that can be removed while causing minimal injury to the brain by gently pulling the silicone away from the skull. After closing the craniotomy, the animal was removed from anesthesia and allowed to recover for one hour. Animals were then re-anesthetized using isoflurane for in vivo 2PEF imaging and hemorrhage production. At the end of imaging session, the mouse was returned to a cage placed on a heating blanket and provided with wet food. We checked the window clarity and mouse behavior every eight hours until the next imaging session. Interruption of anesthesia for an hour between the surgery (2–3 hours) and the initial imaging session (4–6 hours) was found to improve the survival rate. On the next day, the mouse was re-anesthetized, the craniotomy was reopened, and fluorescent dyes were reapplied. The craniotomy was then filled with sterile ACSF and sealed by gluing a glass coverslip directly to the skull. After the second imaging session the animal was sacrificed. Fluorescent labeling of blood vessels, astrocytes, and neurons To visualize the vasculature, blood plasma was labeled via an intravenous injection of either 5% (w/v) tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate-dextran (TRITC) (T1287, Sigma) for rats, or 5% (w/v) Texas Red dextran (D1864; Invitrogen) for mice, each dissolved in physiological saline. We bulk loaded Oregon Green BAPTA (OGB) (06807, Invitrogen) and sulforhodamine 101 (S7635, Sigma) into the hind paw somatosensory region of cortex according to protocols described previously [16], [20]. Briefly, OGB (5 µg) was dissolved in 5-µL solution of 20% pluronic F-127 (P2443, Sigma) in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (472301,Sigma), then 40 µL of sulforhodamine 101 (50 µM) in ACSF was added. The final solution was microinjected ∼300 µm beneath the surface of the brain using a Picospritzer (III, Parker Hannifin Corp.) in three different locations throughout the hind paw representation. OGB is a calcium-sensitive fluorescent dye that labeled all brain cells. Sulforhodamine 101, a red-emitting dye that labels only astrocytes, allowed neurons and astrocytes to be distinguished (Figure 1B) [20]. Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Figure 1. Two-photon imaging of stimulus-induced calcium transients in somatosensory cortex. A. Animals received an electrical stimulus to the hind paw while 2PEF microscopy was used to monitor changes in neural activity with calcium-sensitive dyes that were bulk loaded into the cortex. B. 2PEF image frame taken about 100 µm beneath the cortical surface in a rat. Blood vessels are labeled red (TRITC), neurons are green (OGB), and astrocytes are yellow (OGB and surlforhodamine 101). C. Calcium transients from the neuronal cell body circled in (B). Peripheral stimulus times are indicated by arrows. D. Average amplitude of the calcium transient across ten stimuli for the neuronal cell body circled in (B). Peripheral stimulus Electrical stimulation was applied via two 25 G needles inserted underneath the skin of the hind paw contralateral to the imaging region (Figure 1A). Ten stimulation pulses of 0.5-s duration were applied with an interval of 10 s between successive stimuli. The stimulus current (∼1 mA) was adjusted to elicit a slight movement in the toes of the paw. The average response from the 10 stimuli was used in the analysis. In vivo 2PEF imaging In vivo imaging was conducted on a locally-designed 2PEF microscope using an 850-nm, 87-MHz, 100-fs pulse train from a Ti:sapphire laser system (MIRA HP; Coherent) pumped by a continuous wave laser (Verdi-V18; Coherent) for excitation. Fluorescence emission was collected in two different channels separated by a 560-nm long-pass dichroic. When imaging rats, emission filters (Chroma, Inc.) transmitting wavelengths between 485 to 550 nm and 570 to 620 nm were used to collect green (OGB) and red fluorescence (sulforhodamine 101 and TRITC), respectively. For mouse imaging, the long wavelength filter was replaced by one that transmits from 610 to 680 nm to visualize sulforhodamine 101 and Texas Red. Although imaged on the same fluorescence channel, blood vessels and astrocytes were easily distinguished based on morphology and location. Laser scanning and data acquisition was controlled by MPScope software [21]. To create a map of the cortical vasculature and to localize the regions labeled by the dye injections, we acquired a stack of images of the entire cranial window (100 µm depth) using a 0.28 numerical aperture (NA), 4X-magnification air objective (Olympus, Inc.). We changed to a 1.0-NA, 20X-magnification water-immersion objective (Zeiss, Inc.) for high-resolution imaging. We acquired 256×256 pixel frames at a rate of 13 Hz when monitoring calcium transients and 512×512 pixel frames at a rate of 3.3 Hz for image stacks. After selecting the target vessel to be ruptured (see below), we took a high-resolution stack of images centered at the hemorrhage site (Figure 2B). Then we selected between seven and ten non-overlapping 150 µm×150 µm sites that contained OGB-labeled neurons and astrocytes, located at different distances from the hemorrhage site and at a depth of 50 to 200 µm beneath the brain surface. We monitored stimulus-induced calcium transients at each of these 150 µm×150 µm locations (Figure 3). We then induced a hemorrhage in the target vessel and repeated both the high-resolution image stack (Figure 2C) and the calcium transient measurements at each site (∼30 minutes after the lesion, Figure 3). In some rats, we repeated the measurement of stimulus-induced calcium transients at two and four hours after the microhemorrhage (Figure 3). For the chronic experiments using mice we repeated these measurements one day after the lesion. Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Figure 2. Induction of microhemorrhage with femtosecond laser irradiation. A. High energy, femtosecond laser pulses were tightly focused on the wall of the target vessel to rupture the vessel and initiate bleeding. B. Projection of 150-µm deep 2PEF image stack of fluorescently-labeled cortical blood vessels. C. Projection of a 2PEF image stack over the same volume as (B) after a hemorrhage was produced by rupturing the arteriole in the center of the frame. The RBC-filled hematoma core (in black) obstructed imaging, and fluorescently-labeled blood plasma was pushed into the surrounding parenchymal tissue. D. Time course of bleeding after rupturing a vessel about 100 µm beneath the cortical surface. Fluorescently-labeled blood plasma is red, while neurons are green and astrocytes yellow (same labeling strategy as in Figure 1B). Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Figure 3. Changes in somatosensory calcium responses in neuronal cell bodies and regions of neuropil after a microhemorrhage. A. 2PEF images of cortex (120 µm beneath brain surface; same labeling as Figure 1B) before and over time after a microhemorrhage. The arrow in the second panel indicates the direction to the microhemorrhage, located 250 µm away. B. Images from a control experiment. C. Stimulus-induced calcium responses from two neuronal cell bodies and one region of neuropil (indicated by color coded regions in (A)) before and over time after a microhemorrhage. D. Calcium responses from a control experiment. Production of targeted microhemorrhages To induce microhemorrhages, we injured the vessel wall of targeted penetrating arterioles using high intensity laser pulses (800-nm, 1-kHz, 50-fs pulse train from a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier (Legend 1 k USP; Coherent) pumped by a Q-switched laser (Evolution 15; Coherent) and seeded by a Ti:sapphire oscillator (ChinhookTi:sapphire laser; Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc; pumped by Verdi-V6; Coherent, Inc)). We focused these pulses onto the vessel wall of penetrating arterioles between 100 and 200 µm beneath the brain surface (Figure 2A). To induce a microhemorrhage, we first delivered 1 to 5 bursts of 100 pulses from the 1-kHz pulse train with an initial energy estimated to be below the threshold for causing vessel rupture (∼100 nJ at about 100-µm depth)[14]. The pulse energy was then gradually increased, in 25% increments, until this irradiation (typically ∼500 nJ) lead to sufficient vessel wall damage to cause vessel rupture, allowing blood to push radially out into the brain (Figure 2D). The vessel wall clotted within seconds after the rupture, stopping the bleeding. The size of the red blood cell (RBC) filled hematoma (distinguished by dark cell-sized patches that pushed into the brain and excluded the blood plasma label) was quantified from image stacks taken within 15 minutes of producing the hemorrhage. In addition, in the mice we quantified the size of the region where fluorescently-labeled blood plasma penetrated into the brain. This was more difficult to quantify in rats because the TRITC used to label the blood plasma in these animals was not bright enough to reliably determine the limit of blood plasma penetration. One microhemorrhage was induced in each of fifteen rats and in seven mice. In addition, we performed five (three) control experiments in rats (mice), in which the same imaging protocol was followed but without the creation of a hemorrhage, as well as three sham experiments in rats, in which the vessel was targeted using laser pulse energies that were too low to rupture the vessel. Three extra mice were used for histological studies. Analysis of stimulus-evoked calcium transients We implemented custom scripts in Matlab (The Mathworks, Inc.) that enabled us to compare the average amplitude of the calcium response of neuronal cell bodies and regions of neuropil at different time points. For each of the imaged sites, we manually selected between 5 and 12 neuronal cell bodies, between 4 and 6 regions of neuropil (each around ∼900 µm2 area) and between 0 and 8 astrocytes that could be identified at all time points before and after the microhemorrhage. For each stimulus, we calculated the normalized fluorescence change (dF/Fo) (Figure 1C) over a 4-s window around the stimulus, where Fo was taken to be the mean of the lowest 50% of fluorescence values measured during the 10 s before the stimulus and dF was the instantaneous fluorescence, averaged across the cell body or region of neuropil, minus Fo [22]. This definition of Fo reduces the impact of slow changes in fluorescence due to power drifts or movement artifact. These responses were averaged across all ten stimuli and a moving median filter (50 samples wide) was applied (Figure 1D). We calculated the amplitude of the averaged calcium response for each cell or region at each time point. We excluded all cell bodies or regions of neuropil that did not exhibit a stimulus-evoked response at baseline from further analysis. We computed the ratio of the post-hemorrhage (or control/sham) response amplitude to the baseline response for each cell or region. Finally, we classified cells as having a normal post-hemorrhage response amplitude if this ratio was greater than the mean minus one standard deviation of the ratios of control and sham data. Post-mortem histology In three male adult C57BL/6 mice, we implanted a chronic cranial window [23] and, after one week of recovery, we imaged the brain and triggered four microhemorrhages in penetrating arterioles, separated by at least 1 mm. We measured the diameters of the RBC filled hematoma and the surrounding plasma from in vivo images. Three days later animals were transcardially perfused with phosphate buffered saline (PBS, Sigma-Aldrich) followed by 4% (wt/vol) paraformaldehyde in PBS. The brain was extracted, soaked in first 30% then 60% (wt/vol) sucrose in PBS for 24 hours each. Fiducial marks were placed with 30 G needle coated with black ink to indicate the edges of the cranial window and the location of individual microhemorrhages. The tissue was frozen and cut in 20-µm thick sections on a cryostat. Tissue sections were placed on Permafrost slides (Superfrost Plus, Fisher Sci.), rehydrated with PBS, and stained with diaminobenzidine (DAB) (peroxidise substrate kit, SK-4100, Vector Labs, Inc.) to label red blood cells. To identify possible apoptotic cells, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) was completed (11684795910, Roche Applied Scientific, Inc.). Briefly, sections were permeabilized in a 0.1% (wt/vol) Triton X-100, 0.1% (wt/vol) sodium citrate solution in a 4°C refrigerator for 5 min., then washed in PBS twice for 2 min. each, and treated with the TUNEL enzyme/labeling solution. The tissue sections were covered with aluminum foil to exclude light and incubated at 37°C for 3 hours. Sections were then rinsed in PBS twice for 3 min. each and imaged with an epifluorescence microscope. We checked for TUNEL-positive cells in sections that contained a microhemorrhage, as identified both by the location relative to the fiducial marks and the presence of DAB-positive red blood cells in the tissue. Statistical Analysis Moving medians of post-hemorrhage response amplitudes and the 95% confidence interval was obtained as a function of distance from the microhemorrhage using a moving window size of 1/10th of the total number of available data points: 35, 45, and 30 samples for neuronal cell bodies (Figure 4A), regions of neuropil (Figure 4C), and astrocytes (Figure 4E), respectively. The plots were further smoothed using a 20-sample moving average. Boxplots containing both control and sham data were produced for neurons (Figure 4B), neuropil (Figure 4D), and astrocytes (Figure 4F), respectively. The edges of the box represent the first and third quartile of the data, the red line across the box indicates the median and the whiskers extend to the maximum and minimum amplitude values that are not outliers. Individual data points are shown in green for control and in yellow for sham experiments (Figure 4B, Figure 4D and Figure 4F). Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Figure 4. Post-hemorrhage neural response as a function of distance from the hematoma. A. Amplitude of the stimulus-induced calcium responses for neuronal cell bodies at different distances from the hematoma core, measured within 30 minutes of lesioning, and expressed as a fraction of the baseline responses. Grey points represent measurements from individual neuronal cell bodies rats, while the red line indicates a moving median of the response amplitude. The blue line represents the fraction of neuronal cell bodies that continued to respond normally to the peripheral stimulus after the microhemorrhage (i.e. with a response amplitude ratio that was greater than the mean minus one standard deviation of the amplitude ratio for control and sham data). The red and blue shaded regions represent 95% confidence intervals about the median response amplitude and fraction of cells normally responding, respectively. Distance is defined as the three-dimensional path from the edge of the sphee calcium response from neuronal cell bodies expressed as a fraction of the baseline response, for control and sham experiments. The measurements from individual cells are indicated with green (control) and orange (sham) circles. C. Amplitude of the stimulus-induced calcium responses for regions of neuropil at different distances from the hematoma core, within 30 minutes of lesioning, and expressed as a fraction of the baseline responses. D. Box plot of the amplitude of the calcium response from regions of neuropil, expressed as a fraction of the baseline response, for control and sham experiments. E. Amplitude of the stimulus-induced calcium responses for astrocytes at different distances from the hematoma core, within 30 minutes of lesioning, and expressed as a fraction of the baseline responses. F. Box plot of the amplitude of the calcium response from astrocytes, expressed as a fraction of the baseline response, for control and sham experiments. Data was taken across 15, 5 and 3 rats for hemorrhage, control and sham experiments, respectively. Bar plots were used to compare the average post-hemorrhage response amplitude ratios at different times after the lesion and at different distances from the microhemorrhage (Figure 5). Error bars represent the standard errors of mean. For these data, distributions were found to be non-normal (Shapiro-Wilk W test), so we used rank-based statistical analysis. We performed Wilcoxon signed-rank tests to determine if the response amplitude ratios were less than one. Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Figure 5. Changes in average neuronal response over hours after a microhemorrhage. A. Average of the post-hemorrhage stimulus-induced calcium response amplitudes expressed as a fraction of the baseline response amplitudes, for neuronal cell bodies at 0.5, 2, and 4 hours after a microhemorrhage and for cells located either within 150 µm (light grey) or between 150 and 300 µm (dark grey) of the RBC-filled hematoma, as indicated in the inset. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. Dashed line indicates a response amplitude after the microhes of significance for differences of the average amplitude ratios from one are indicated by: * p<0.05, ** p<0.01, † p<0.001, †† p<0.0001 (Wilcoxon signed-rank test). Data was taken across 15 rats. Results We investigated the response of somatosensory neuronal cell bodies, regions of neuropil, and astrocytes to a peripheral stimulus using 2PEF imaging of calcium sennsisted of a RBC-filled hematoma core of about 100+/−40 µm (mean +/− standard deviation) diameter (15 hemorrhages in 15 rats; 19 hemorrhages in 10 mice). Surrounding this core was a 280+/−110 µm diameter region where fluorescently-labeled blood plasma pushed into the brain parenchyma (Figure 2). The targeted vessel was observed to be flowing after each hemorrhage. For 15 rats and 7 mice we characterized the changes in stimulus-evoked neural activity as a function of distance from the microhemorrhage and as a function of time after the lesion (Figure 3), up to one day later. Average response amplitude to a peripheral stimulus decreased immediately after a microhemorrhage in neurons located in nearby areas We found that within 30 minutes after a microhemorrhage in the acute rat preparation, the amplitude of the calcium response either disappeared or decreased in most of the neuronal cell bodies, regions of neuropil, and astrocytes located within 150 µm of the edge of the RBC-filled core of the microhemorrhage (Figure 3 and Figure 4). In this region, the average ratio of the response amplitude to the baseline response was 0.6+/−0.5 (mean +/− standard deviation), 0.6+/−0.6, and 0.5+/−0.4 for neuronal cell bodies (Figure 4A), regions of neuropil (Figure 4C), and astrocytes (Figure 4E), respectiveage the immediate impact of the lesion on stimulus-evoked response amplitude was more modest, with only a minor decrease in activity from 150 to 300 µm from the RBC-filled hemorrhage core and no decrease in activity further than 300 µm (Figure 4A, Figure 4C and Figure 4E). Further, we determined he post-hemorrhage response was greater than one standard deviation below the mean response in controls). We found that the fraction of neuronal cell bodies, regions of neuropil, and astrocytes with normal response amplitude was lowest near the microhemorrhage and recovered with distance from the microhemorrhage with a similar trend to the post-hemorrhage response amplitudes (Figure 4A, Figure 4C, and Figure 4E). The response to a peripheral stimulus recovered toward baseline with time after the microhemorrhage Over time, we observed a distance-dependent recovery of function in the neuronal cell bodies, regions of neuropil, and astrocytes that showed a decreased response immediately after the microhemorrhage. In acute rat experiments, the neuron response amplitude recovered to baseline values by four hours after the microhemorrhage at distances of 150 and 300 µm from the edge of the RBC-filled hematoma. Regions of neuropil and astrocytes recovered by 2 hours. In contrast, activity remained depressed within 150 µm (Figure 5). Longer duration acute experiments were impractical due to the inability to maintain stable physiology during extended anesthesia. To investigate whether or not neural response within 150 µm from microhemorrhage recovers over a longer time, we developed a chronic mouse preparation that enabled opening of the craniotomy for re-injection of calcium-sensitive dye (Figure 6A). Using this preparation, we characterized stimulus-evoked calcium transients 24 hours after a microhemorrhage (Figure 6B-D). Because of differences in the dye injection and the inclination of the imaging plane, we were able to successfully identify about 66% (62%) of the same neuronal cell bodies (astrocytes) one day ll bodies (astrocytes) after one day. We found that responses in neuronal cell bodies, regions of neuropil, and astrocytes within 150 µm of the hematoma recover to near baseline levels by 24 hours after the lesion (Figure 7). Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Figure 6. Chronic imaging of stimulus-induced calcium transients after a microhemorrhage. A. Schematic of a re-openable chronic cranial window preparation for mouse. A layer of silicone coated the skull around the craniotomy, and the glass was glued to the silicone. The window was reopened by gently detaching the silicone from the skull, enabling reinjection of OGB and sulforhodamine 101 into the cortex. B. Low- and C. high-magnification 2PEF images of the same regions of the brain before, immediately after, and one day after inducing a microhemorrhage. The hematoma is visible in the center of the second and third panels in (B). The arrow in the second panel of (C) indicates the direction to the microhemorrhage, located 40 µm away. D. Stimulus-induced calcium responses from the neuronal cell body and region of neuropil indicated on panel (C) by color coding. Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Figure 7. Changes in average neuronal response over one day after a microhemorrhage. Average of the post-hemorrhage stimulus-induced calcium response amplitudes, expressed as a fraction of the baseline response amplitudes, at 0.5 and 24 hours after a microhemorrhage across 7 mice (and for controls at 24 hours across 3 mice) for neuronal cell bodies (light grey), regions of neuropil (dark grey), and astrocytes (black) located within 150 µm of the RBC-filled hematoma, as indicated in the inset. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. Dashed line indicates a response amplitude after the microhemorrhage that is equal to the baseline response. Levels of significance for differences of the average amplitude ratios from one are indicated by: * p<0.05, ** p<0.01, † p<0.001, †† p<0.0001 (Wilcoxon signed-rank test). Microhemorrhages did not induced apoptosis in nearby brain cells One possible explanation for finding only about two-thirds of the cells after the second calcium dye labeling in the chronic mouse experiments is cell death. To rule this out, we checked for apoptotic cells in the vicinity of the microhemorrhage. Across three mice, 12 microhemorrhages were produced in the cortex and seven of these were successfully identified in tissue sections collected three days after the lesion. We found no TUNEL-positive cells near the microhemorrhages (nor in any other cortical sections) (Figure 8A and Figure 8B). As a positive control, we included a section of mouse intestine with each batch of TUNEL staining and consistently observed apopototic epithelial cells (data not shown). In addition, we observed extensive TUNEL-positive cells in the penumbral region of a photothrombotic stroke (Figure 8C and Figure 8D) [24]. Download: PPT PowerPoint slide PNG larger image TIFF original image Figure 8. Postmortem histology of tissue near microhemorrhages. A. Low- and B. high-magnification fluorescence images for TUNEL labeling of a representative tissue section containing a microhemorrhage near the brain surface. RBCs are stained with DAB). No TUNEL-positive cells were found across 7 microhemorrhages. C. Low- and D. high-magnification fluorescence images for TUNEL labeling of a tissue section containing a larger photothrombotic ischemic lesion. TUNEL-positive cells are visible. Discussion To help elucidate the mechanistic links between small brain bleeds and neurological dysfunction, we used tightly-focused femtosecond laser pulses to rupture the wall of targeted arterioles located beneath the surface of the brain in rodents to model cortical microhemorrhages [14]. We used in vivo nonlinear microscopy to study changes in peripheral stimulus-induced calcium transients in individual neuronal cell bodies, regions of neuropil, and astrocytes due to these microhemorrhages. We showed that neural and astrocyte function is interrupted near the microhemorrhage, but recovers over time after the lesion. Recovery occurred in a distance-dependent manner, with regions closest to the hematoma taking the longest to regain function. These studies provide the first insi the same cells on the second day of imaging, leaving open the possibility that some cells died as a result of the lesion. However, our data suggest this is unlikely because we were able to identify approximately the same number of cells on the second day of imaging in control experiments as after a microhemorrhage. Several factors may contribute to our inability to identify all of the same cells on the second day of imaging. First, the dye injection locations varied slightly between days, potentially leading to differences in which cells were labeled. Second, activated microglia and other inflammatory cells are present in the vicinity of the microhemorrhage one day after the lesion and these cells may either scavenge the calcium dye or otherwise interfere with the bulk loading process. Finally, although we consistently identified the same region of brain tissue, we often found small differences in the inclination of the imaging plane due to differences in the mouse position in the stereotaxic device between the two days of imaging. This difference in inclination leads to different cells intersecting the image plane at the edges of the frame, reducing our ability to find the same cells on both days. Further, we found no evidence of apoptotic cells in the vicinity of the microhemorrhage using histology. To give time for cells potentially affected by the microhemorrhage to progress along the apoptotic pathway and thus register as TUNEL positive, the staining was conducted at three days after the lesion. Taken together, this data suggest that the recovery in cell response seen one day after the microhemorrhage is not due to the death of the lowest-responding cells and preservation of less affected ones, but rather due to most cells recovering the ability to respond to a peripheral stimulus within one day after the microhemorrhage. The impact of bleeding from a brain blood vessel on neural health and function depends critically on the size of the hematoma that is formed. Clinically, much of the focus has been on hematomas of a few millimeters in diameter (microbleeds) and larger. The large intracerebral hemorrhages that result in acute neurological symptoms lead to widespread cell death and are associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity in patients [25], [26]. This cell death is through to be caused by several factors, including elevations in intracerebral pressure that could cause direct cell injury and crush blood vessels causing ischemia [26], excitotoxic damage from the high levels of glutamate or neurotoxic effects of other blood products, such as thrombin, that enter the brain parenchyma [26]–[29], negative effects of the inflammation triggered by the hemorrhage [30]–[32], and damage from reactive oxygen species, such as those released by lysed red blood cells a few days after the lesion [26], [29]. On the other hand, the impact of the acutely asymptomatic microbleeds identified in MRI imaging in patients remains controversial, with some studies reporting minimal long-term cognitive effects [33], [34], and others [8], [9], [35] finding an association between microbleeds and cognitive dysfunction. Microbleeds are a frequent consequence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and it has been suggested that they may contribute to the cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients [4], [9], [36], [37]. Additionally, the presence of brain microbleeds has been associated with more severe cognitive impacts after head trauma [38]. For these smaller bleeds, many of the mechanisms that lead to cell injury for large hematomas may not play a significant role. For example, there is not a significant increase in intracranial pressure. Post-mortem studies of microbleeds in humans have revealed significant inflammation near the lesion [9], [39], [40]. While there are limited studies of necrotic or apoptotic cell death after microbleeds, the current data suggest that cell death is not widespread. Even smaller microhemorrhages that are not detectable by modern MRI likely occur in many of the same conditions as MRI-visible microbleeds. However, because these microhemorrhages (diameter <200 µm) cannot be studied in patients except through post-mortem pathology, there are fewer clinical studies available and both the cognitive and local cellular impact of these lesions remain unclear. Microhemorrahges have been found in advanced Alzheimer's disease patients and are linked with more severe cognitive problems [4], [9]. In patients with CADASIL, there is clear evidence of cognitive dysfunction [41], although multiple different kinds of brain pathologies in addition to microhemorrhages, such as lacunar infarcts and diffuse white matter changes, are found in these patients [39]. There are signs of inflammation near the lesion, including activation of astrocytes and microglia [11] and invasion of neutrophils and macrophages [9], [39], [40], but no reports have shown evidence of cell death, although there are only limited studies of these small lesions to date. In our recent work, we found that the dendrites from Layer V pyramidal neurons remained healthy and intact right up to the hematoma core [15]. We did observe a rapidly activated microglia response that led to sustained presence of inflammatory cells near the hematoma. For these small hemorrhages, it is likely that the amount of blood that enters the brain is small enough that phagocytotic cells and other mechanisms can clean the cellular environment before significant injury is caused. The work we present here suggests that these microhemorrhages do, however, lead to a transient loss of cortical function within a few hundred micrometers from the lesion, but that this function largely recovers over time. One possibility is that the transient loss of neural function we observed is caused by the infusion of blood plasma into the intracellular space in the brain. This leads to changes in ion balances and extracellular messengers and to increases in reactive oxygen species, all of which may interfere with the ability of neurons to normally receive synaptic input and fire action potentials. Interestingly, the few hundred micrometer spatial extent of the most severe disruption of cortical function we observed correlates well with the distance that blood plasma penetrates into the parenchymal tissue in this microhemorrhage model. The less severe impact and more rapid recovery of cortical function in regions further from the microhemorrhage is consistent with a gradient in concentration of blood plasma products that cause dysfunction in the brain tissue. The microglial activation we observed around the microhemorrhage in previous work [15] may also be important for the neural dysfunction we observe. The region of microglial activation after a microhemorrhage closely matches the spatial extent of the neural dysfunction. Microglia are thought to play a role in the normal regulation of dendritic spine morphology and dynamics [42], [43]. In addition, recent studies have suggested that after injury, activated microglia may abnormally phagocytose spines [44], likely affecting neural function. This suggests that the microglial activation we observe after a microhemorrhage may lead to changes in neural wiring that impacts function. In this study, we did not investigate the impact of the microhemorrhage on the few neurons that were immediately adjacent to the target vessel (within ∼50 µm). These cells were likely displaced by the expanding hematoma or surrounded by red blood cells. Measurement of calcium transients from these cells was not easily achieved and so we cannot rule out the possibility that these cells are permanently dysfunctional. The lack of apoptotic cells in our histology study, however, suggests that these cells do not die, at least within three days. We also cannot rule out the possibility that lysis of red blood cells a few days after the microhemorrahge leads to additional injury that could compromise cell function later. The short-term loss of cortical function we observed here may not be completely benign. Neurons with decreased input and firing rates may gain and lose synapses at an elevated rate due to homeostatic mechanisms that seek to maintain neural input and firing rate, thereby causing potentially aberrant rewiring of neural circuits. In addition, these hemorrhages may have a more severe impact on neural health and function if combined with disease backgrounds such as hypertension, Alzheimer's disease, or if they occur in aged brain. The microhemorrhages we studied were all in cortex, and these lesions may have a different effect in other brain locations. Recent data has suggested that occlusion of single penetrating arterioles (the same class of vessel that we targeted to produce microhemorrhages) leads to dramatic degeneration of Layer V pyramidal cell dendrites near the ischemic core [13], [15] and to cell death over a several hundred micrometer region that can lead to measurable cognitive performance decreases [45]. In addition, although neural structures remained intact further away, there was, at least, an acute loss of peripheral stimulus-induced neural activity up to 300 µm from the lesion [13]. This data suggests that small hemorrhages have a less severe impact than occlusion of the same class of vessel, implying that clinical management of patients with cardiovascular risk factors may benefit from anticoagulation even with added risk of bleeding from small vessels. Acknowledgments We thank Sung Ji Ahn for help with the analysis of the Calcium imaging data. 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\| PTFC Tickets Schedule Club Thorns FC News Providence Park Camps Stand Together Academy Timbers2 Video Shop Timbers Shop Thorther game day morning. As Eryk Williamson got up to grab his coffee and begin his preparation for that night’s Cascadia Cup clash against Seattle Sounders FC at Lumen Field, he couldn’t help but feel a little more excited for what promised to be a special afternoon. For the first time, the Portland Timbers and Thorns FC would play a double header at the same stadium. Williamson’s excitement grew as he layer succumbed to long term injuries – at one point, the club's absence list stretched into double digits. That night, though, Sebastián Blanco was slated to make his first start since tearing his ACL on the same field the season before. Personally, Williamson described the period leading up to the game as the best he had felt physically. Recently back from helping the U.S. Men’s National Team win the Gold Cup, the midfielder was excited to continue another breakout season at the club level. Then, in the ninth minute of the match, his promising season ended abruptly as he tore the ACL in his left knee. “That moment was so early in the game,” Williamson said. “I was buzzing, ready to go, wanting the ball and then, boom, everything happened.” When the Sounders and Timbers face off for the first time since on July 9 as part of Heineken Rivalry Week (1:30pm PT, FOX), 314 days will have passed since the afternoon Portland’s 2-0 away win was slightly muted by yet another devastating injury. Ahead of his return to Lumen Field, Williamson discussed his recovery, leaning on teammates and everything coming full circle. While Williamson didn’t know the severity of the injury until later, Portland’s team trainers already had a sneaking suspicion when they sprinted onto to the field last year. Out of precaution, Director of Sports Medicine Matthew Weston and then-Head Athletic Trainer Jon MacGregor, told Williamson not to walk off the field and instead get on the stretcher. Before returning to the locker room to wait out the rest of the match, Williamson had the inflamed knee evaluated by Seattle’s Chief Medical Officer and Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Michael Morris – the father of Seattle forward Jordan Morris – in the bowels of the stadium. A few seasons prior, Michael Morris saw his son endure and recover from the same injury. Before Williamson left for the locker room, the elder Morris gave him words of encouragement, letting him know he would be all right. Then, Williamson waited. Without the game shown on any screen under the stadium, he turned his phone on, enabled “do not disturb” and watched the remainder of the match in relative silence. “I wasn’t able to actually see or look at what happened,” Williamson said. “Then [the trainers] told me and texts started coming in. I didn’t want to think about where I was in the moment, I just wanted to think about how the team was doing.” ----------- It’s difficult to look past the symmetry in Seattle. A year earlier, Blanco tore his ACL on the same field while Williamson put together a statement game, scoring a goal in the ninth minute and making his presence felt on both ends of the field as he continued to put himself on the radar of the USMNT. In 2021, Blanco returned to the starting 11 and scored as Williamson saw his season cut short. When players and staff returned to the locker room after last August’s 2-0 win, they prioritized checking in on Williamson, not celebrating a crucial road win against their biggest rival. In both Spanish and English, Williamson’s teammates encouraged him to keep his head up and stay strong. As Williamson awaited the inflammation in his knee to subside, he reached out to Blanco and Jaroslaw Niezgoda – who both had recently tore their ACL’s – for specific advice. The midfielder asked about the surgery itself, what pain blockers they recommended and even something as specific as whether they used their patella or hamstring to help graft the repaired ACL. “Amigo, feel it, there is no rush,” Blanco advised Williamson. Then came the recovery, a six-month battle that tested Williamson’s physical strength and mental fortitude. In the weeks following surgery, Williamson needed to slowly re-adjust to basic movements, such as going up and down stairs and bending his knees. Psychologically, the Timbers’ training staff established tiny goals to keep Williamson motivated during both good days and bad. Ticking off each tiny box one at a time, the midfielder slowly worked his way back onto the field, first in solo drills and then in light team training. Williamson, for his part, attacked each step of his recovery with aggression. “[Williamson] had to experience something totally new to him,” Weston said. “For that experience, he had a great support structure, which is what we saw from day one. His mother was in to support him, he’s got the team and staff, too.” Teammates often showed up to Williamson’s house with food and he recalls several nights in which he was watching a movie or show on his couch only to be interrupted by George Fochive, who would bring dinner and stay to keep him company. When he first injured his knee, Williamson’s mom flew out from the East Coast for a couple of weeks, helping out when her son wasn’t all that mobile. “That’s what made the process feel smoother,” Williamson said. “Seeing how many people had my back through the moment and pushed me through.” With a strong support system in place, Williamson focused on the lofty goal in the back of his head, one that drove him as he continued to rehab: he wanted to be healthy and at least make a case to be on coach Gregg Berhalter’s U.S. roster come the national team’s June camp. “It was a long shot, but it was good because it put me in a position where I was still able to play and come back quickly,” Williamson said. Related Stories Eryk Williamson named to MLS Team of the Week for Week 18 Five epic moments in the Timbers-Sounders MLS rivalry MATCH RECAP \| Portland Timbers extend unbeaten streak with 2-2 fightback draw against Nashville SC By the Numbers \| Dairon Asprilla tallied his 20th career goal While anxious to return to the field and eagerly tackling the rehab process, there were still a handful of days in which Williamson struggled to remain mentally focused. Weston called those moments common among players, especially when they see progress but realize there’s a long way yet to go. “If you’re having a rough day, just go home,” Weston occasionally told Williamson. “If you miss today, it’s not like it’s going to set you back three weeks. It’s not the end of the world.” Those comments meant a lot to Williamson, who felt respected as a human, not just as an athlete the club needed to return to the field as quickly as possible. “You have to have those conversations, too,” Weston said. “If I tell him to go home, he’s just going to mope at home. Do we keep him here? Do we push him here? It’s one of those art of caring things as opposed to science of caring.” Williamson called Portland’s run to the 2021 MLS Cup “the best thing that could have happened,” even if he admits being unable to directly contribute and instead being forced to watch from the sidelines was difficult at times. Each postseason win meant at least another few days of being able to rehab in the club’s facilities, watch training sessions and stay motivated by being around the club. Sure, he couldn’t immediately leave on vacation and enjoy a mental break, but that was the last thing he wanted as he pushed even harder in the recovery process. Off the field, Portland’s extended run produced one of Williamson’s most memorable Thanksgivings in recent years. With most of his teammates in Colorado to face the Rapids in the MLS Cup Playoffs Western Conference Semifinals, Williamson remained in Portland and celebrated the holiday with Jeff Attinella, Ismaila Jome and a few other players unable to take part in the match. Attinella brought and prepared a turkey while the rest of the group came with sides and ordered other foods from a pop-up Thanksgiving stand. After spending the holiday together, watching their club win 1-0 and advance to the Western Conference Final (with a bit of American football mixed in), they continued their rehab together the next day. And then there was the week of the MLS Cup, which provided a crucial mental boost halfway through the recovery process. The league’s marquee match allowed Williamson to catch up with friends from around the league, like Jeremy Ebobisse, who traveled to the Pacific Northwest. “It was perfect timing,” Williamson said. “That [time of year] is where it gets tough, staying in the gym every day and not going outside because of Portland weather. It’s nice when you have familiar faces to go home and hang out with.” Photo: Craig Mitchelldyer / Portland Timbers The Timbers have a specific day-by-day schedule for players rehabbing from injuries and it doesn’t often change. Players recovering from longer-term injuries figure out the rigid Monday through Thursday routine quickly and even joke they enjoy a specific day of the week much more than others. After enduring a somewhat-lengthy recovery process from undergoing ankle surgery in 2020, Williamson knew exactly what to expect from the weekly rehab schedule but didn’t quite anticipate how quickly the repetitive process would wear on him. Despite how tedious the seemingly endless loop became, going through a more serious rehab before helped him in small ways when it came to recovering from the ACL tear. For example, one issue Williamson never really faced was re-trusting his body, often the most difficult mental challenge for an athlete. In fact, there were several days in which the training staff needed to slow Williamson down. “Eryk wanted to be back in five months,” Weston said. “He wants to play, but we understand it’s better from the long-term career aspect to hold him back a little longer, really making sure the strength is where it needs to be.” The staff worked with Williamson on two to three things a day at slower speeds as he built himself back to full fitness. During the process they recorded some of the biggest moments on film, from doing a squat for the first time without cheating to walking up and down stairs without his brace. However, nothing topped March 27, a day in which the entire process reached its crux to produce a memorable moment months in the making: Williamson’s return to game action. As he jogged onto the field late into Portland’s 1-1 draw against Orlando City, the midfielder took a moment to soak in the thunderous roar of the crowd. “When you see them come back onto the field that first game, even if it’s five or 10 minutes, that’s a really nice sensation for everybody who has gone through the process with him,” Weston said. “When the stadium blew up for Eryk earlier this year it was awesome to see the support because we’re there to support [the players] every single day; to see the fan support as well is really cool.” Photo: Craig Mitchelldyer / Portland Timbers From there, Williamson’s return reached full stream. Finally, after a handful of substitute appearances, he received his first start since that night in Seattle when the Timbers hosted Real Salt Lake on April 23. Now Williamson is beginning to get himself back in the rhythm of consistently playing. He has started six games this season and is slowly regaining the form he found before the injury. His five assists over the past seven games have already matched a career high. Against Colorado on June 25 – a 3-0 Portland win – he influenced the match in every area of the field, helping the club hold and advance the ball in possession and notched an assist. In Nashville on July 3, it was Williamson's complete performance as a second-half sub which changed the game and allowed Portland to rally from a 2-0 deficit to draw 2-2 in front of over 28,000 fans on the road. "[Williamson] changed the second half," Savarese said after the draw in Nashville. "He had 45 minutes to give us and he used them very well. He managed the ball excellent and made [David] Ayala better. Credit to Eryk in how he came into the game." On July 9, Williamson will reach the final defining step of his long recovery process: returning to Seattle and Lumen Field, the same place he suffered the gruesome injury nearly a year ago. It’s a day that excites Williamson, knowing it’s the final mental hurdle he needs to clear as he looks to put his months-long recovery behind him for good. “I don’t think it was the field or anything surrounding Seattle,” Williamson said. “We can argue different things, but I think it’s just a matter of one unfortunate moment that led to such a big injury. There’s a bit of me that thinks this is going to be the last step. 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This was not a draconian result. Some might even argue that it was rational, considering that Wall might not have known he was doing anything against the rules. (Now, this whole agent thing is another story entirely, but that is about greed, not about what is good for college players.) Two seasons ago, in Turkey, Kilicli played on a team that included one player who was getting paid. Kilicli was not getting paid. One of his teammates was. Kilicli had no way of knowing that. He also had no way of knowing that that was a violation of the NCAA’s amateurism rules or that he would ever be playing for a school in the NCAA. The NCAA suspended Kilicli for 20 games. Does this make any sense? Does this punishment fit this “crime,” especially when Wall, who actually took something of value, was suspended for one real game? If you ask somebody at the NCAA about this, you get some bureaucratic legalese that probably makes sense at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis, but makes no sense to those living in the real world. By the way, Kilicli can practice with the team and will be eligible to play Feb. 3 against Pittsburgh. And he will play. He has been practicing. The WVU coaches love him and think he can help the team win the school’s first national championship. Maybe it could be WVU vs. UK in Indy on the first Monday in April for the NCAA championship. Which brings me back to my larger point, articulated in this space a few weeks ago. Why even try to police this? Just let the cheaters keep on cheating and have those schools that want to win so badly they will take any risk go off into a large cartel (sort of like the BCS). And it is only December Usually, coaches don’t reach the breaking point until February. So what was up with the bizarre scene on the CBS College Sports Network at the end of the Penn-Navy game Friday night? With 17 seconds left and Navy leading by five, Middies star Chris Harris fouled out. After a short timeout, which a team gets when a player fouls out, Penn’s Jack Eggleston went to the foul line. Navy coach Billy Lange, the former Villanova assistant, went berserk, screaming down the sideline toward the Penn bench that they put the wrong shooter on the line. It got very heated for a few moments. The officials checked the replay. It was, in fact, Eggleston who got fouled. He promptly missed both free throws. Navy won the game. Lange apologized for his outburst after the game. Don’t miss these It’s Connecticut against Kentucky in tonight’s Big East/SEC Invitational at Madison Square Garden. Good friends Jim Calhoun and John Calipari on the sideline. Is New York City big enough for both egos? And two of the early season’s most impressive teams, Syracuse and Florida, play tomorrow in Tampa. No. 1 there and then here La Salle seriously ramped up its nonconference schedule this season. Saturday, the Explorers get No. 1 Kansas at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. The Jayhawks are at Temple on Jan. 2. KU is deep, experienced, very well coached and very, very, very talented. Scary and sad The fall Ohio State’s Evan Turner took Saturday was frightening. He tried to hold on to the rim after going in for a dunk that missed. He lost his grip and fell on his back. I thought he was headed for national player of the year. Now, he will be out 8 weeks with two fractured vertebra in his back. In a sport with lots of good people, Turner is one of the best. This and that –Scottie Reynolds is only the third Villanova player to compile 1,700 points and 400 assists. The others? Kerry Kittles and Randy Foye. –By the way, ‘Nova’s game against Maryland Sunday in Washington was the first between the schools since Feb. 1, 1986. Which just happened to be the first game at the Ski Lodge. The Maryland star that day? Len Bias. I will always contend Bias was the second best player in ACC history. David Thompson was the best. Michael Jordan? Really good in college, but he did not become MJ until he got to the NBA. Maryland has 19 wins over Top 25 teams under Gary Williams. The Terps were no match for Villanova on Sunday. –West Virginia’s Da’Sean Butler reminds me of Kevin Durant. Now, I am not saying Butler is Durant, who was the player of the year as a freshman at Texas and is heading for NBA superstardom. But Butler has the same kind of smooth outside/inside game that makes him very difficult to cover.. –When Syracuse survived Colgate for the 44th straight time on Nov. 30, it marked Jim Boeheim’s 1,000th win at the school — 806 as head coach, 139 as an assistant and 55 as a player. –Yes, Simeon Marsalis, the backup point guard for Vermont when it was at Drexel’s Daskalakis Athletic Center for the Legends Classic on Thanksgiving weekend, is Wynton’s son. –Chris Mooney’s Richmond team was expected to be good, but maybe not this good. The Spiders (7-1) have wins over Mississippi State and Missouri. Their only loss was to William & Mary, which might sound bad until you realize W&M has beaten Wake Forest and beat VCU in the Colonial opener. –And what was up with Charlotte going to Freedom Hall and crushing Louisville, 87-65? 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During Phase 2 of the project, following activities will take place: 10 or more (two waves of at least 5) sound projects obtaining financing, of high significance for de-pollution of the Mediterranean Sea, with a geographical spread among the Southern Mediterranean countries; High value-added intervention in project concepts, design, procurement and implementation; Regularly updated detailed implementation plans for priority projects (extended short list/pipeline); Successfully running project implementation units or dedicated teams in promoter organisations; Effective contribution to achieving greater coordination among stakeholders at ct implementation to the national authorities and promoters the region, including the Horizon 2020 network; Integration of climate change issues into individual project plans, both energy efficiency and adaptation to potential impacts, and know-how transfer and increased awareness of promoters in the region to the benefits (including financial benefits) of taking these issues into account early; High level of local population involvement in consultations on projects, and increased awareness of promoters and authorities of the benefits of doing this consultation early in project preparation; Fully functional web based information sharing platform for project information status for the project pipeline that should be regularly updated; Continued overview and awareness of suitable means of accessing funding for project preparation and implementation among national and international stakeholders. Description The Mediterranean environment is recognised as one of the richest and at the same time most vulnerable in the world. The region is predominantly arid and suffering the stress of demographic pressures and pollution, which has a severe impact on the Mediterranean Sea. Its marine and coastal environments are exposed to a combination of pressures with 80 % of pollution originating from land based sources. The EIB, with the help of the FEMIP carried out the MeHSIP 2007 study to assess the potential of a pipeline of pollution prevention investments addressing pollution Hot Spots in the ENP countries and the need for a Mediterranean Hot Spot investment programme (MeHSIP). The focus of the study has been on pollution prevention projects to reduce the most significant sources of pollution (Hot Spots), namely in the sectors of: industrial emissions, municipal waste and urban waste water, which are responsible for up to 80% of Mediterranean Sea pollution. MeHSIP. As a result, a prioritized list of 44 projects appeared to be potentially suitable for financing, subject to further investigation. The related estimated total investment volume of the 44 projects amounts to approximately 2.1 Billion Euros. The objective of this study is towater and solid waste management under MeHSIP by building on and strengthening existing research, preparation and forms of cooperation. The overall objfy and prepare high priority, sustainable investment projects which will make a significant contribution to de-pollution of the Mediterranean and have a demonstration effect in target sectors; To promote adequate and sound industrial waste management, urban water & waste water management and solid waste management in the South Mediterranean region. The MeHSIP-PPIF shall be instrumental in both the preparation and assistance with implementation of targeted investments as well as support the cooperation among funding agencies, specifically within the context of the Horizon 2020 organisation in the Mediterranean region. The assignment will be carried out in 2 phases. Phase 1 will focus on updating the MeHSIP project list, reviewing the institutional design and identifying 10 -15 projects over a broad geographic region, from which a first and second wave of 5 projects will be determined. A first wave of at least 5 demonstration projects for EIB finance (including at least one solid waste, one industrial waste and one water project) will be selected. Phase 2 will involve actions to follow the detailed implementation plans for these priority projects and supporting promoters to prepare and launch up to 5 of these projects, assisting with implementation of them, including solutions for institutional and sector problems, including climate change risks, impacting on the success of the projects. Phase 1 will identify a shortlist of suitable projects for finance and facilitate information sharing and collaboration amongst stakeholders , whereas Phase 2 will support the development of short listed projects to form a model approach for later work. ldk.gr - Bottom info ldk.gr - Home Section Environmental PROJECTS National Health Care Waste Management Plan, Greece The main objective of the project is the preparation of the National Management Plan for the management of medical waste in Greece. The project ... Feasibility Study and Detail Design of Waste Water Management System for BahirDar and Hawassa Towns, Ethiopia The main objective of the assignment is to i) to undertake an in-depth assessment of the current sanitation situation including the institutional ... WWTP & accompanying network design: Xenia hotel on Parnitha mountain, Greece The project refers to the design of the waste-water treatment plant (WWTP) for the Xenia Hotel on Parnitha mountain, close to Athens. The hotel, one ... Slaughterhouse : Design of wastewater treatment plant and modification of environmental terms and conditions, Greece This project included the design of the wastewater treatment plant for a slaughterhouse in Sperchiada, located in central Greece. Along with the ... The Mediterranean environment is recognised as one of the richest and at the same time most vulnerable in the world. The region is predominantly arid ...	https://www.ldk.gr/component/ldkprojects/?view=project&id=385-mediterranean-hot-spot-investment-programme-project-preparation-and-implementation-facility-mehsip-ppif-southern-mediterranean-countries&Itemid=281&cid=45	1,659,943,897
\| Prometheus Unbound Prometheus Unbound Santi Tafarella's blog on books, culture, and politics Skip to content Home About Santi Tafarella Recommended Books & Films The Gospel of Jessica Christ The Santi Report (My Version of a Drudge Report Page) ← Reverse Super-Size Me: Kenda Swartz Pepper Feels Like 1.02 Billion Making music using iPhone apps of religious believers. As an agnostic, do I think that he is he right? I think that he is. I love this Thomas Paine quote, which is from a letter that he wrote to Samuel Adams on January 1, 1803: Between men in pursuit of truth, and whose object is the happiness of man both here and hereafter, there ought to be no reserve. Even error has a claim to indulgence, if not respect, when it is believed to be truth. In other words, in human affairs Thomas Paine asserts the importance of: honesty in dialogue freedom of thought and speech respect for conscience; and mutual and equal human recognition (I hear you out; you hear me out) Martha Nussbaum—in her excellent recent new book, From Disgust to Humanity (Oxford 2010)—detects in 18th century Americans’ attitudes toward conscience, as represented by people like Thomas Paine, an important innovation in the politics of humanity (38): We should not delude ourselves into thinking, then, that the policies of religious respect and fairness that gradually came to dominate in the colonies, shaping our Constitution, were inspired by respect for differing religious beliefs and practices. Rather, they were inspired by a more basic underlying idea of respect for persons, for our fellow citizens as bearers of human dignity and conscience. Even when we believe others are going astray, the faculty of conscience in them deserves respect from our laws and institutions. Because human beings are of equal worth, conscience is deserving of equal respect. Not respect for ideas, but for persons. That is the shift that makes democratic plurality of opinion, accompanied by vigorous, honest—and sometimes acerbic—debate, possible. To engage in dialogue we have to treat one another as equal adults, not as children who can’t hear things. And the desire to hear from the human conscience—and not to shut it up in a closet—is the glue that binds a rational and democratic people together, regardless of contending beliefs. The moment that a person cannot speak his or her conscience in full honesty is the moment that human equality, dialogue, and democracy break down. This is something that atheists can teach the squeamish (like me), for it is quite obvious that atheism is not a popular point of view and, as such, people often council atheists to tone down their rhetoric. As the atheist Greta Christina laments: It is difficult to avoid the observation that, whenever believers give advice to atheists on how to run our movement, it is always in the direction of telling us to be more quiet, to tone it down, to be less confrontational and less visible. I have yet to see a believer advise the atheist movement to speak up more loudly and more passionately; to make our arguments more compelling and more unanswerable; to get in people’s faces more about delicate and thorny issues that they don’t want to think about; to not be afraid of offending people if we think we’re right. I have received a great deal of advice from believers on how atheists should run our movement… and it is always, always, always in the direction of politely suggesting that we shut up. To reiterate: shutting up is not in accord with honesty in dialogue, freedom of thought and speech, respect for conscience, or mutual and equal human recognition (I hear you out, you hear me out). But does that mean that it is always good rhetorical strategy to come at people with vinegar, not honey? Not necessarily. That’s a judgment call with regard to rhetoric: every speaker or writer must make choices about how to address the audiences that he or she is trying to persuade. But the very right to make that call—the call of honey or vinegar in rhetoric—must, in a democracy, be sacrosanct. To want to hear from dissenters against our views—whether they are in rhetorical honey or vinegar modes—is a characteristic of a free and rational people. Love your nay bears. And who is thy nay bear? I’m coining the term for anybody who puts up a big bear yawn toward things of first-rank importance to you (such as your belief or disbelief in God, UFOs, evolution, Buddhism, Obama—or whatever). The nay bear is rough with the things you hold dear, and steals your metaphorical loaves and fishes from the back seats of your pampered and polished ideological cars. It’s very important to listen to your nay bears, and not push them away all the time, and defame them. We all have our nay bears, and we might be in the role of somebody else’s nay bear, and all of our nay bears are telling us something. So love your nay bears, even if they take your shirt. Or your fish. Or give you a vinegar scowl. This is my sermon for the soul (especially my usually narrow shrew of a soul). Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit Like this: Like Loading... About Santi Tafarella I teach writing and literature at Antelope Valley College in California. 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\| RIABiz About Us Archive Whitepapers Directory Subscribe Advertise News, Vision & Voice for the Advisory Community The Convergent CEO and ex-chief of the Schwab and Fidelity RIA custody units will refer consumers to advisory firms -- but only a going to succeed unless we build a brand. Brooke’s Note. This incubating venture could be a very, very big deal for the future of the financial advisory industry. For all the talk of making the fragmented world of RIAs into a business, well, the truth is that the efforts to do so are themselves as fragmented as custodians, roll-ups, outsourcers and other configurations. Charles Goldman and Steve Lockshin are thinking big about creating a much more all-encompassing collective organization. Better yet, some of the biggest, most esteemed advisors out there are fired up about the idea and its protagonists, as this article shows. See: Why a $2-billion RIA is embracing the idea of a $1 million annual marketing tab, and how Advizent fits in. Charles Goldman and Steve Lockshin are rapidly assembling what may be the most ambitious venture yet conceived for making RIAs competitive with Wall Street. The dynamic duo of executives is executing a rolling launch of Advizent, which is intended to be an umbrella brand for an agglomeration of the best registered investment advisors — and a way for consumers to match up with them effectively. Lockshin, 45, has enjoyed giant RIA success by founding both Convergent Wealth Advisors, a Los Angeles-based RIA with $10 billion of AUM, and Fortigent LLC, which acts as an outsourcer to $50 billion of RIA assets and was recently sold to LPL. See: LPL makes big advance into the RIA business with Fortigent acquisition He is also rated as Barron’s top financial advisor both for California and the United States. Goldman, 50, is widely known and respected for having headed the RIA custody units of both Charles Schwab & Co. and Fidelity Investments — which have a combined $1 trillion of assets in custody for 10,000 advisory firms. He is still consulting large RIA firms from Boulder, Colo. but has been looking for a venture to sink his teeth into. See: Charles Goldman is seeking his game after tumult and a year of decompression. “We’ve got two of the most prominent industry leaders and that in and of itself deserves attention,” says Andy Berg, CEO of Homrich Berg Wealth Management, which manages about $2.3 billion of assets for 500 clients from Atlanta. “I think (Advizent) is only a positive for our industry.” Andy Berg: I think [Advizent] is only a positive for our industry. For now, Advizent consists mainly of a website that is soliciting, petition-style, signatures from RIAs that want in on the new deal. Word was initially put out about the venture when Goldman and Lockshin traveled to the Barron’s conference a couple of weeks ago in Phoenix to drum up and test interest. See: What went down at Barron’s Top Independent Advisors Summit in the Arizona desert. “Advizent created some big ripples at the Barron’s conference and several RIAs we know had their interest piqued,” says John Furey, principal of Advisor Growth Strategies, LLC of Phoenix who wrote the RIABiz article about the event as our embedded columnist. Catching fire The two entrepreneurs weren’t necessarily planning to, for instance, talk to a journalist from RIABiz this early in the process, but the overwhelming response they have gotten from some of the biggest, highest quality advisors encouraged them to accelerate the unveiling. At the end of my 45-minute interview with Lockshin, he told me — as a demonstration of how quickly the effort is catching fire — that three big RIA firms had signed on with Advizent just during the course of our conversation . “We think we’re talking to the right firms,” Goldman says. “As we talk to firms we learn a lot.” One of the RIA principals I communicated with for this article was Edward Lazar, president of Threshold Group LLC, a Gig Harbor, Wash.-based multifamily office, with four offices, 55 client-family relationships, approximately 40 employees and $3 billion in assets under management. John Rafal: I believe this has the potential to be the go-to [brand]. “I think this will be a success because I believe in Steve’s passion around this topic, combined with his proven ability to build a thoughtful and sustainable enterprise by engaging others, like me, who are of like mind,” he says. “As Advizent’s website states, 84% of the investing public don’t even realize there is an alternative to buying products from huge financial institutions. Being able to 'get the word out’ that there is an independent, objective, transparent and product-free solution is a bigger and more expensive job than any one of us who are independent RIAs can do alone. It is a bit like a gang of Davids taking on a gang of Goliaths. We have to band together on this if we hope to turn heads.” Schwab started making an effort in this direction last fall though it’s been quiet since then. See: Schwab to pump millions of dollars into promoting RIAs as a channel. First to market The Advizent venture relies on gaining a critical mass (somewhere between 500 and 1,500 firms initially) of large, top-flight RIAs that express strong enough early interest to encourage Goldman and Lockshin to pour both their time and personal cash into taking the venture further. What it could be about, in a best-case scenario, is being the first mover to in bring together independent advice in one supermarket, according to Tim Welsh, president of Nexus Strategy LLC of Larkspur, Calif. Charles Goldman: There will be a physical review. [In Boulder with a stiff mountain lapel-blowing breeze in attendance. “It sounds very intriguing. Any time you aggregate an industry you have a chance to be a dominant player — whoever gets there first wins.” Goldman is also encouraged by RIA response. “The feedback has been phenomenal.” John Rafal, founder and chief executive of Essex (Conn.) Financial Services LLC, which manages about $3.5 billion, has signed on to Advizent because of his excitement about the founders and what they hope to accomplish. ““They’re high-end, established, capable people. I believe this has the potential to be the go-to [brand]; I’m willing to see what that’s about.” A desire to invest Rafal adds that he’s known Lockshin since 2004 through Barron’s Top 100 gatherings. Rafal’s liked what he’s seen though he’s never worked with Goldman. Essex Financial keeps all of its assets in custody at Pershing LLC. Rafal has had positive experiences with this kind of collective organization — having been an early owner in M Financial, the Portland, Ore.-based co-op for high-end insurance agencies. (Lockshin says that a critical difference between Advizement and M Financial is that he’s willing to invest heavily in making the brand recognizable to consumers and M Financial never has.) Neither Goldman nor Lockshin anticipates seeking outside funding unless there is an unforeseen need to build the business rapidly. For Lockshin’s part, he says he is willing to pour his own capital into the venture before looking to raise funds from outside sources. “I’m happy to fund it until it gets to many millions of dollars.” The executives say that people have stepped forward with a desire to invest. Alternative criteria Though there have been various attempts at creating the machinery to match consumers with RIAs — both in terms of referral programs at the RIA custodians and independent efforts — Goldman and Lockshin believe that they are trying a “disruptive” business model that stands a better chance to achieve the critical scale for success. Tim Welsh: Any time you aggregate an industry you have a chance to be a dominant player — whoever gets there first wins. The big value that Advizent aims to bring that has yet to be seen in the industry, Goldman says, is the auditing of those firms that are brought under the brand. The audit won’t be a financial one per se, but will vet qualities that matter most to consumers of wealth management services. One of those is size and, for now, Advizent is seeking only RIAs with $250 million or more of assets, Lockshin says. Other aspects of an RIA practice to be scrutinized will be its independence, how best practices are applied in operations and technology, its audit history and information in the firm’s ADV presented in a digestible manner. “We can say we actually read through the ADV and the disclosures are clear,” Goldman says. Lockshin adds: “The real goal is going to be to separate the wheat from the chaff.” Two factors that he anticipates being on the checklist are that an RIA have a good succession plan and that it’s properly insured for errors and omissions. For now, the group is leaning away from having hybrid advisors under the brand. Inherent conflicts of interest Though others, such as BrightScope, Inc. and Schwab — for its referral program, Schwab Advisor Network — do some vetting of advisors on behalf of consumers, Advizent believes it can take that process to a new level. “I would argue that it’ll be much more in-depth than Schwab Advisor Network. There will be a physical review.” Schwab and Fidelity declined to comment for this article. Pershing did not respond to a request for comment. Goldman and Lockshin believe that their connections and credibility give them the necessary edge to bring onboard a critical mass of advisors willing to pay a membership fee. That fee is expected to fall between $25,000 and $100,000 and would vary according to the revenues of the practice . “We won’t charge a penny until we can deliver demonstrable value,” Lockshin says. Jon Jones, principal of Seattle-based Brighton Jones LLC, which manages about $2 billion of assets, believes that the value proposition is solid. “It fits perfectly with our mission, vision and values. I love the fact that it is all about providing a better solution for the customer and getting the message out to the marketplace about the inherent conflicts of interest with the large brokerage firms. It is impossible for a small firm to spend enough money on marketing, messaging and branding to educate the marketplace on the different types of advisors and what a fee only financial advisor is … Advizent might just be the solution for this. Jon Jones: It is impossible for a small firm to spend enough money on marketing, messaging and branding… Advizent might just be the solution for this. Half-court shot The vetting is aimed at the more general goal of making Advizent into a wealth management brand that is on a par with a Merrill Lynch or Goldman Sachs with retail investors. Those companies spend on the order of $100 million annually to keep their brands solid, and Lockshin believes that Advizent has the objective of having a similar advertising budget if it can attain enough RIAs with a combined $1 trillion or more in assets. “If we can double the assets of the independents over the next five years – a reasonable expectation – that will add trillions. $100M shaved from those dollars is a rounding error, “ Lockshin says. A big budget aside, the goal of creating a national brand may be even more challenging than it sounds, Welsh says. Branding, he points out, is most effective with a mass-affluent audience, and Advizent may not want somebody who fits that category of wealth. Lockshin says that he wants Advizent to be a place where consumers of any means can go — even with as little as $5,000. He is seeking to have RIAs join Advizent with the framework to handle the needs of those smaller investors. Another challenge is that most people still do not know what an RIA is. “This is more of a half-court shot than a layup,” Welsh says. Lockshin allows that the marketing challenge is big. “We are never going to succeed unless we build a brand.” Super egos But he says the company is plenty mindful of the marketing challenge if faces and is taking steps to address it. “We’re bringing on [in the near future] someone who’s very experienced in that area, but we’re going to outsource this to the major [marketing firms] with the $100-million budget.” Right now the company is receiving marketing counsel from Judy Kirpich, CEO of Grafik Marketing Communications LLC, a Washington DC-based marketing firm that has companies such as T. Rowe Price, Fortigent and Verizon on its client list. The biggest challenge in getting Advizent to succeed is getting enough RIAs to be unified in their support, Lockshin says. He already has spoken to RIAs who say they have things figured out and don’t want their secret sauce mixed in with anyone else’s. It’s a phenomenon that Lockshin sums up with the word: “Egos.” “The concept is innovative and groundbreaking — executing will be the challenge as large RIAs tend to like the moat around their castle,” Furey says. John Furey: Large RIAs tend to like the moat around their castle Lockshin believes that one antidote to this issue will be the momentum of the venture itself. “If we quickly get to $200 billion [of combined AUM from joining RIAs], the custodians, outsourcers and other vendors will have to take notice.” We have met the enemy… Aside from doing a group buy on advertising, Lockshin has designs on having RIAs go in on a massive Lloyd’s of London-backed errors-and-omissions insurance policy. The benefit would accrue to clients of RIAs because they could get perhaps five times the coverage for a lower price than they’re paying now, he says. The idea is that this heightened coverage would protect investors from a Bernie Madoff-like extinction event. “We’ll be able to bring things to the RIA that nobody else will,” Lockshin says. Another thing Advizent plans to bring to its members is critical intelligence on how to run their practices — something that Goldman, a former management consultant with Boston Consulting Group and Lockshin, a serial entrepreneur, are qualified to deliver. Some of those issues run throughout the RIA industry and need to be addressed in aggregate. “I think the industry is challenged,” Lockshin says. “There are few firms that are purely advice only … and I think the industry is not priced properly. The biggest risk for the industry is each other. We keep cutting our fees.” Charles Goldman \| Steve Lockshin \| Tim Welsh \| John Rafal \| Jon Jones Nexus Strategy \| Fortigent \| Advisor Growth Strategies \| Convergent Wealth Advisors \| Essex Financial Services \| Threshold Group Related Moves UBS bets its 'wealth' future on ex-Schwabbie Naureen Hassan, a corporate digital A-lister, who analysts give a fighting chance to transcend PaineWebber's ossified culture Still a $2-billion cash-flow cow, the Swiss bank's 6,000-broker, US-based wirehouse is milking aging broker relationships with aging investors but needs a new kind of human presence, empathy, mindset and smarts to draw in Gen Z. July 16, 2022 – 1:35 AM AssetMark suddenly parts ways with president/CEO Charles Goldman; protégé Natalie Wolfsen named CEO; Michael Kim president AssetMark chairwoman Xiaoning Jiao provided no details, faint praise for Goldman amid his unexpected departure, but was effusive over Wolfsen appointment. February 24, 2021 – 3:31 AM Executive shake-up and staff hiring binge change Dynasty Financial Partners' talent mix, with Todd Thomson, Scott Welch, Ed Friedman and 12 women as headliners The St. Petersburg-based producer of 'synthetic RIA scale' will continue to aggressively hire and adjust its talent ranks as it readies for next growth push. September 24, 2019 – 2:02 AM Oleg Tishkevich builds instant McKinsey-killer in RIA consulting by offering gigs and equity to six solo stars, but good luck managing egos and economics, says someone who's been there The restless Invent.us founder names (thus far) Tim Welsh, Suzanne Siracuse, Gavin Spitzner, Mark Hollingsworth and Brian Bleasdell as owners in exchange for being on call to tackle big gigs as a superteam	https://riabiz.com/a/2012/4/5/steve-lockshin-and-charles-goldman-begin-to-unveil-advizent-a-venture-that-could-put-thousands-of-rias-under-a-single-cooperative	1,660,469,492
\| RedArc Assured Skip to content Close navigation Home What we do Our services RedArc Nurses Our Clients About us News & Info Contact us RedArc Assured +44 (0)1244 625180 [email protected] Home What we do Our services RedArc Nurses Our Clients About us News & Info Contact us Menu 17th July 2017 Following the call to action from the FCA over two years ago, many financial institutions haArc believes that insurers need to think more long term in order to take the interests of this group to the heart of their organisation. There are two areas in which the organisation believes insurers could do more: Practical support for vulnerable customers Support for staff on the frontline dealing with vulnerable customers Christine Husbands, managing director for RedArc says: “Having a greater awareness of this customer group is a really important first step, historically most financial organisations haven’t considered the needs of different customer groups, the importance of which should not be underestimated. However, awareness and sympathy doesn’t equate to action necessarily, and we’d question whether enough insurers have built in sufficient steps to make a long-term difference to these customers – particularly as insurers are much more likely to encounter vulnerable people on a day-to-day basis due to the nature of their proposition.” Practical support for vulnerable customers More organisations should be providing third-party services to support customers and their families in difficult circumstances. Whilst customer services teams can be expertly trained to support the individual through a claim in the short term, having a dedicated and experienced third-party expert who can help with life and medical issues holistically can make a huge difference – as cognitive abilities at times of illness, disability, trauma or bereavement can be significantly impaired. A well-supported person is more likely to be able to get back to normal more quickly, improve their confidence, and potentially get back to work, reducing their financial vulnerability – but this can take weeks and months not days. Support for staff on the frontline It is obviously vital to equip staff with suitable training to deal with customers but also with the tools to help build up personal resilience and a way to positively process the often harrowing experience of dealing with vulnerable customers. Without job satisfaction, insurers will not be able to retain staff – which decreases the organisation’s ability to deal successfully with vulnerable customers in the future. Husbands continued: “Products and services can be amended in a fairly straightforward way to accommodate the needs of vulnerable customers, but policy change – where an organisation is truly looking to change the way it behaves in respect of the vulnerabilities of their customers’ – needs a long-term approach for both the individual and employee. “In an industry that can struggle with a reputation for mistrust, insurers that go the extra mile for customers in difficult circumstances can do much to enhance the public’s perceptions. And with increasing numbers of us likely to fall in to the vulnerable customer group at some point, if only simply due to living longer and age-related illnesses, reputation could become more fundamental in how consumers make choices about financial institutions in the future.” Categories Press releases Blog Articles Patient Feedback Health Information Health Factsheets are a source of reliable, comprehensive, medically validated information covering ill-health and general well-being. Health Factsheets Our Mind and Body Toolkit, Assessment, and information on mental health conditions & treatment are designed to provide information and support.	https://www.redarc.co.uk/2017/07/press-release-insurers-need-think-long-term-providing-support-vulnerable-customers-says-redarc/	1,660,434,801
\| Scene Before Menu Home Christopher Nolan Reviews Contact Countdowns Just What the World Needs, Another Movie Reviewing Moron Movie Reviews Superhero Movie Reviews Tom Cruise Reviews Trailer Reviews Search for: Skip to content Scene Before Your click to the flicks! Posted on 9 Days Ago by SceneBefore “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” is directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, and tParenthood, Alita: Battle Angel), Thomas Mann (Kong: Skull Island, Halloween Kills), Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Crime of the Century), Dean Fleischer Camp, and Lesley Stahl (60 Minutes). The film is based on a short and book series of the same name. In this feature-length take on a preestablished character, the story centers around Marcel, who spends his days with his grandmother, Connie. Throughout the film Marcel is interviewed as he unveils everything about being an anthropomorphic shell in a big house. I have seen the trailer for “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” during my couple ventures to see “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” After all, it only makes sense as both films are from A24. I know a bit about A24 as a distributor. They have marvelous originals like “Eighth Grade,” some wonderful adaptations like “Room,” and even when a film from them is bad, they still have my respect. Because I always get the sense that an A24 film is typically bad in a way that makes me think, “Maybe that was not for me.” This is especially true with a movie like “Midsommar.” I appreciated “Midsommar” from a visual standpoint, but felt genuinely annoyed whenever it attempted anything along the lines of horror. “Marcel the Shell” is a complete drift from “Midsommar.” There were families at my screening for crying out loud. If I were given the option to pick out a movie without having seen it, kind of in the sense that I am doing a blind buy, and those were my options, I’d lean towards “Midsommar.” On the surface, it would seem like my kind of movie. I was sold on “Marcel the Shell” when seeing the trailer, but between Ari Aster’s name being attached in addition to the concept, “Midsommar” would have sold me harder. Now that I have seen both movies, I can confirm that both tell oddball, offbeat stories. “Marcel the Shell” personally tells its story to a greater ability. Between “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “Marcel the Shell,” A24 is having a heck of a year, and I hope they continue to flourish. “Marcel the Shell” has origins that go back some years ago. While Jenny Slate may also be known for her work on mainstream concepts like “Parks and Recreation,” she has dedicated her time, alongside other people, to creating “Marcel the Shell.” If her passion for the property has not been erased all these years later, Slate excels in revealing such a notion, because she gives it her all to deliver possibly the cutest voicework I have heard since maybe Young Dory in “Finding Dory.” Although I cannot give Slate’s voice all the credit, because part of what makes “Marcel the Shell” so clever and palpable is how child-like the character is written. I do not mean immature. This movie has the maturity of a great Pixar story if you ask me. However, some of the lines in this film, not to mention the overall vibes, very much felt like watching a child grow up. I do not have kids, so this may not be the best analogy, but as someone who was a kid and as someone who knows parents, I imagine this is a good comparison. One thing I remember from my childhood, either through growing up or seeing my sister grow up, is how often children mix up their words to say something that sounds similar to what they are trying to say. There is a great line in the film given by Marcel. He gives the famous quote, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take,” which traces back to the famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky. But after acing this quote, Marcel is taking all the time in the world to come up with a ton of similar sounding names, but none of them are Wayne Gretzky. The closest he comes to being right is Whale Jetski. …This is the most adorable movie ever created. Not only is Whale Jetski a cute-sounding name, but it goes to show how hilarious the movie is. This film is presented in a mockumentary style, which was never my thing. While a lot of my friends tend to enjoy “The Office,” and as much as I think some of the people behind the show are talented, the show’s mockumentary format never sat well with me. That is not the case with “Marcel the Shell,” as the mockumentary format not only lends to some unique concepts, neat editing tricks, and kneeslap-worthy jokes, but some occasional great fourth wall breaks, if you can call them that, from the character of Dean. His main purpose is to videograph the goings on of Marcel, which fits into the mockumentary aspect of the film. After all, it is revealed that he is filming a documentary, which Marcel and his shell community happen to be in on. “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” proves that the creative floodgates have a wider opening than some might think. In a world where we are inundated with sequels, reboots, comic book movies, or flashy action adventures, we still have a desire for telling and seeing stories like this. “Marcel the Shell” has the simplicity of a show like “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and the creativity of a movie like “Toy Story.” I have truly never seen anything like “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.” It is not the first story with the character, but it feels new to me. For a movie that truly is small, much like its titular character, it packs such a raw punch when delivering emotion at times. I already talked about the humor, but I can guarantee you that this movie will make New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick smile. Maybe he’ll shed a tear, who knows? I am not saying that everyone will walk out of this movie with a tear out of their eye, happy or sad. But I am saying that if you do not walk out of “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” with a smile, I would argue that you hate all things awesome. Things like swimming pools, or French fries, or redwood trees, or space. How the hell can one hate SPACE?! There is not much I find wrong with “Marcel the Shell.” I do think I became more invested in the shell community as opposed to the humans they expose through flashbacks, which is not a terrible thing, because the movie knows what it is about. Other than that, I think “Marcel the Shell” is one of the best films of the year, and if you miss it, then you are skipping possibly one of the most adorable films in cinematic history. I mean it. In the end, “Marcel the Shell” lacks the grand scale many movies tend to have nowadays, but that is also what makes it a unique and entertaining production. This is a movie about a shell who spends his days with his grandma and happens to bond over things like “60 Minutes.” Yes, THAT “60 Minutes.” The one on CBS every Sunday. It sounds weird. And in ways, it is. But that is also why you should give it a chance. This is great for adults, this is great for kids, therefore it is great for everybody. I guarantee that you will grin at least once by the time those end credits show up. If you don’t, then color me shocked. I am going to give “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” a 9/10. “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” is now playing in theaters everywhere. Tickets are available now. Thanks for reading this review! I want to apologize for not getting this out earlier. I have been somewhat busy recently and I am happy to announce that I am likely going to be taking on more movie-related writing outside of Scene Before. Those of you who have been here since the start would know that Scene Before, AKA is independently operated by me, Jack Drees. But if all aligns properly, I will be writing for a particular outlet that some of you might know. I am not going to say which one as I am not officially onboard, but if I have more information, I will share it with you. That said, if you like this review, be on the lookout for more coming soon! This week I will be sharing my thoughts on “Nope,” the new Jordan Peele film where a brother-sister duo confront a strange event around their horse ranch. Also, stay tuned for my thoughts on “DC League of Super Pets,” the new animated superhero film that focuses on Superman’s dog, Krypto, and a set of other superpowered animals. If you want to see this and more from Scene Before, follow the blog either with an email or WordPress account! Also, check out the official Facebook page! I want to know, did you see “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On?” What did you think about it? Or, if you could make a documentary on something, what it be about, and why? Let me know down below! Scene Before is your click to the flicks! Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related A24 Animation Chiodo Bros. 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\| Scholars@Duke Scholars@Duke Search form Search Advanced Search Support Index Subscribe to Announcements Menu Search Home People Schools / Institutes Research About Home People Schools / Institutes Research Journal Article (Journal Article) The relation of job psychologic demands and decision latitude to four coronary heart disease risk factorited States during the period 1959-1980 (National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys I and II, National Health Examination Survey, Western Collaborative Group Study, and Exercise Heart Survey). Using an imputation strategy, the authors attached measures of the two job characteristics above to persons in each data base by occupation. In 19 possible tests, decision latitude was related (p less than 0.05) to cholesterol and smoking in two instances in the predicted direction in the Exercise Heart Survey, when controlling for Type I error rate. Psychologic demands were not related to any of the risk factors. When a meta-analysis was performed across data bases, all relations were in the predicted direction except for the relation of psychologic demands to systolic pressure, and two of these were statistically significant (p less than 0.05): the relation of job decision latitude to smoking and to systolic pressure. The interaction of psychologic demands and decision latitude was not related to any of the risk factors when two common forms of an interaction were tested. These results indicate that psychosocial aspects of work, in particular the decision latitude of the job, may be related to some cardiovascular risk factors.	https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub793519	1,660,024,358
\| Shepherd Offshore +44 (0)191 262 9614 Home About About Us Company History Sporting History Mission Statement, Vision and Values IntegrityAgent/Clients/Third Parties: Gac Services (UK) Ltd / Technip Oceania / Sapura Energy Australia Workscope: Operation Type: Discharge and Loadout Description of Scope: Discharge 1 x reel at 80 tons. Erected towers to lift reel to SPMT, transfer to quay edge with load spreading mat and Loadout 1 x reel at 390 tons to vessel, providing seafastenings and pre quay load spreading. Vessel: Jumbo Jubilee Services prupport Mobilisation Mobile Crane Support Plant Hire Mobilisation, Positioning and Set-up of Crane Heavy/Abnormal/Complex Lifting Services Material Handling Solutions Load Bearing Solutions Storage Solutions Transportation Solutions Seafastening Solutions Project Management Logistics Support Quayside Assistance Subcontractor Support & Management Diagrams & Photos: Shepherd Offshore Comments: “In the build-up to this loadout, pre-berthage assessments were necessary to determine where the heavy reel (weighing 390T) could be positioned prior to vessel arrival with structural stability and optimal position for loadout. SOS and the client (TUL) collaboration was vital to confirm ground bearing values for quayside load spreading at our Offshore Technology Park facility. In order for the reel to be positioned on our quay edge, numerous calculations were made to find a solution so the reel weight could be equally proportioned and distributed to stop any damage occurring to our concrete HLP (heavy Load Platform). The solution in which the reel could be situated on our HLP was to position steel load spreading mats to distribute the weight evenly. This weight was over the capacity of our Shoreside Hammerhead crane which required methodical thinking to position the heavy reel on the quay and to allocate a vessel that had the capacity to lift such a weight onboard safely. A solution was decided using a Gantry lock and lift system via Mammoet to load the reel onto SPMT, the SPMT then transported the reel to the HLP. Throughout this entire operation, SOS provided many capabilities including but not limited to Mobile Crane Support, Labour Support and Plant Hire over dayshift and weekend, working to progress this operation to completion. Working hard, the team successfully supported our client on each stage of the project and fulfilled the scope of work. Job well done to all involved for this complex loadout.” Senior Project Co-ordinator, Shepherd Offshore Testimonial: Supervisor’s management, assistance and communication: 4/5 Quayside operational personnel punctuality: 4/5 Quality of service received from the operations personnel: 4/5 Quayside set up & Housekeeping: 5/5 How would you rate our HSE performance? 4/5 Was the job done accurately against the scope? 4/5 Staff’s professionalism and aptitude: 4/5 Staff’s ability to communicate and provide quality support: 4/5 How will you rate our overall quality during the full work scope? 4/5 Would you be confident to recommend SOS to others? 4/5 The scope included the mob and demob of a gantry lifting system and SPMT to transport the reel to the quay edge. 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\| South Africa Bulletin TRENDING: Healthy Joints E-cig exports banned in China “In Peace with herself’ Powerful Tips from ... Home World Business Technology Lifestyle Entertainment Art Select Page Mar 30, 2018 \| Business Los Angeles, CA, March 29, 2018 Unbeknownst to many lay people who are not in the medical field, eias. While each of these specialties are unique unto themselves, the EKG tech must be proficient in all. Phlebotomy Career Training realized the need for more cardiovascular training for its online students studying ECG and telemetry. So what is an echocardiogram? The best explanation is that it is basically an ultrasound of the heart. Just as an expectant mother receives an ultrasound of her baby to determine whether she will have a girl or boy. The echocardiogram can tell whether or not the heart is functioning properly with respect to blood flow. The professional who performs this test is an electrocardiogram technician. The EKG tech will take a device shaped like a phone and apply some gel, then position it at different locations around the heart muscle on top of the chest. Hospitals throughout the United States use both the ECG technicians and telemetry technicians to perform this test. Phlebotomy Career Training has done extensive research in the field of echocardiogram education and has determined that it is in the best interest of the student to have this knowledge. As a matter of fact, Dr. Kimmel indicated in the interview that each and every student of ECG must perform a 40-hour clinical and have documentation signed indicating that the student has done an echocardiogram. Not only does that student have to perform an echocardiogram under the supervision of a cardiologist, but they must also perform twenty twelve-lead electrocardiograms and practice reading and interpreting the telemetry printouts of each patient on a five lead telemetry monitor. The amount of hands-on training that each student must have to graduate prepares them to enter the workforce with confidence. The number of students requesting the extra training, in the opinion of Mr. Taji, one of the classroom instructors, has been extremely encouraging. According to Mr. Taji, "This shows us how much students care, not only about their careers, but also about the quality of education that they are receiving from Phlebotomy Career Training. There appears to be a large practice gap with respect to the education of online students in EKG. Educational training varies from 3 days to up to 1 year. The variation in training makes one wonder about the quality of education that students receive. According to Dr. Kimmel, "We have been educating students both in class and online for over ten years. Our philosophy is that all students should receive the same quality training, and that is why we have dedicated instructors for online classes who can answer questions and help students to learn and understand the material." It will be interesting to see how students respond to the new implementation in curriculum in echocardiogram instruction down the road. In the meantime, everyone who is considering a career in electrocardiogram training should be aware of the necessity of learning and understanding how an echocardiogram works. Contact Information: Phlebotomy Career Training Nancy Kimmel 734-762-3220 Contact via Email 28050 Ford Rd., Ste. A Garden City, MI 48135 Please call 313-826-2381 or 313-461-6668 to speak with their counselors regarding their online programs. 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\| South Seattle Emerald South Seattle Emerald Search Primary Menu Skip to content News Watchdragon Community Arts & Culture Voices Features South End Guides Events Search for: News April 14, 2016 Editor Leave a comment collected by Antonio Foster Rainier Beach’s New King and Queen Pedestrians walking along Rainierss pieces are designed by South Seattle artist Peter Reiquam, who worked with community members (alongside SDOT Safe Routes to Schools, and Seattle Arts and Culture) to develop art work that reflected the unique spirit, character, and pride of the Rainier Beach area. The pieces are a tribute to the decade-old chess club ran by the beloved Det. Cookie, and represent the power of both the king and queen, patience, and strategic thinking. An official sculpture dedication ceremony will take place on May 7th at 11am. City Aims to Lower Barriers to Immigrant, Refugee Civic Engagement On Monday, The Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (OIRA) launched the Seattle Votes campaign to identify barriers to civic engagement for Seattle’s immigrant and refugee residents. The campaign consists of an anonymous survey that will provide data for community groups, agencies, King County, and the City to better understand the civic needs of specific immigrant and refugee communities within Seattle. Immigrant and refugee residents are a growing and increasingly influential population in Seattle, with nearly 20 percent of residents being foreign born. However, evidence suggests that civic engagement rates lag behind other groups. The lack of voter data has been a challenge for City and election officials to better understand what is needed to serve communities across Seattle. “When we first started looking through the data on immigrant and refugee voting rates, we were surprised to discover that comprehensive research at the local level simply did not exist,” says OIRA Director Cuc Vu. “That’s what makes Seattle Votes such a unique project. It will be the first time in recent years that a major U.S. city has collected data on immigrant and refugee voting and civic engagement.” The campaign will focus on immigrants and refugees who are at least 18 years of age residing in the Seattle-King County area. OIRA has a goal of 5,000 completed surveys and will partner with more than 100 local community-based organizations to reach immigrants and refugees. These Seattle Votes partners will collect surveys in their communities. Name Change Finally Official for Columbia City Art Center Though many South Seattle residents had been aware of the renaming of the Rainier Valley Cultural Center to the Rainier Valley Arts Center for the past month, South East Effective Development (SEED) has officially announced the name change. In a statement, SEED said the new name was due in part to wanting to end confusion several people had in mistaking the building for the Rainier Community Center, located just a block north. SEED feels the chance to the Rainier Valley Arts Center will clearly distinguish it from other local organizations. Plans to Rename Park After Community Organizer Moves Forward Yesterday, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray moved forward with his plan to rename International Children’s Park in Seattle’s Chinatown/International District after beloved community organizer Donnie Chin. Murray sent the Seattle City Council a resolution seeking support from councilmembers to rename the park “Donnie Chin International Children’s Park.” The family of Donnie Chin requested that the new park name keep “International Children’s Park” in the title, as Mr. Chin played an essential role in the creation of the park and approved of the original name. “Our family is so pleased and deeply grateful to the community for their help and participation,” said Constance Magorty, Donnie’s sister. “Thank you to [Seattle Parks & Recreation] Superintendent Jesús Aguirre for waiving the three-year waiting period and for the generous support of Mayor Ed Murray. Donnie was truly selfless and worked tirelessly, devoting his life to making the community a better place to live and work.” Located at 700 S. Lane St., International Children’s Park was originally built in 1981 and was substantially renovated and improved in 2012. When the Chinatown/International District community began to identify needed programs and neighborhood improvements in the mid-1970s, Mr. Chin brought up the need for a children’s park and he continued to champion the idea until the park was built. SPD Arrest Suspect in New Holly Shooting On Wednesday, Seattle Police Detectives took an adolescent female into custody for the fatal shooting of a man at 33rd Ave S. & S. Holly St on February 24. The young woman was booked into the King CountyYouth Services Center. Featured image courtesy of Peter Reiquam Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Like this: Like Loading... 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\| SpringerLink Skip to main content Advertisement Search Go to cart Search SpringerLink Search Download PDF Download PDF Research article Open Access Published: 21 February 2022 Jie Liu1, Yan Tong2, S) Cite this article 1673 Accesses 1 Citations 1 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of behaviours such as social distancing in condustries. This study investigates the behavioural compliance and related factors for COVID-19 prevention among employees returning to the workplace and provide strategic recommendations for improving individual-level preventive behaviour to prevent a new outbreak. Methods A cross-sectional study design was used. Data were gathered from returning employees in China using an online questionnaire survey, from March to May, 2020. The questionnaire covered participants’ COVID-19-related knowledge, compliance with recommended preventive behaviours, and levels of depression and anxiety. Univariate and multi-factor methods were used to analyse the data and identify factors influencing behaviour compliance. Results Of the 1300 participants completing the full survey, more than half were male (71.92%) and 61% were aged between 31 and 50 years. Six hundred and ninety-eight (53.7%) participants showed high compliance, while 602 (46.3%) showed low compliance. In models adjusted for demographic and socio-economic factors, high education level (odds ratio [OR] = 0.23, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.07–0.70), office staff (OR = 0.51, 95% CI: 0.33–0.78), higher knowledge of COVID-19 (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.67–0.81), and quarantining (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.57–0.96) predicted better compliance with preventive behaviours (P < 0.05), while high anxiety levels (OR = 1.55, 95% CI: 1.10–2.18) predicted lower compliance with preventive behaviours (P < 0.05). Conclusion For employees returning to work during the post-COVID-19-epidemic period, compliance with recommended preventive behaviours requires improvement. Consequently, comprehensive intervention measures, including the provision of health education and psychological counselling, as well as the continuance of a strict isolation policy, could enhance such compliance. Peer Review reports Background Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia is an emerging infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and is characterised by high infectivity and complex transmission routes [1, 2]. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined COVID-19 as a ‘global pandemic’ [3]. There is growing evidence that effective person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 occurs in asymptomatic individuals, even during the incubation period [4, 5]. Departments at all levels in China promptly implemented measures on the prevention and control of the outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia. They followed President Xi Jinping’s mandate: ‘When an epidemic breaks out, a command is issued. It is our responsibility to prevent and control it’ [6]. Many public health measures were also implemented; for example, during the pandemic, individuals with a history of travel to or residence in high-risk areas or countries (where continuous transmission of local cases has been identified) were asked to undergo 14 days of self-isolation in dedicated facilities [7]. All individuals were required to have their temperature monitored, and those exhibiting any flu-like symptoms were separated from their family members to carry out further quarantine measures. Great changes have also taken place in people’s behaviours and habits. People were instructed to wear masks in public places and to keep at least one metre distance from each other. Consequently, as the COVID-19 epidemic was brought under control, the entire country began to resume production, and society began to return to normal in early 2020. However, the question of how to retain this level of progress remains. The WHO has recommended that people wear masks, maintain a minimum physical distance of at least one metre from others, avoid gathering in large crowds, and avoid eating meat from wild animals [8, 9]. Such behaviours can reduce the risk of infection, as the increased spread of COVID-19 is closely related to a limited adoption of preventive behaviours [10]. There is substantial evidence that transmission is closely related to a person’s socio-economic position [11, 12]; however, less attention has been paid to the factors associated with post-epidemic preventive behaviour. In the post-epidemic period, behavioural factors will be crucial to ensure that the epidemic does not return [13, 14]. Studies have shown that ‘behavioural fatigue,’ arising from quarantining or locking down too early, may lead to widespread non-adherence over time [15]. Therefore, this study aimed to (1) examine existing preventive behaviours, (2) test the relationship among behaviours that are embedded in complex systems involving individuals and socio-economic factors, and (3) provide strategic recommendations for improving individual-level preventive behaviour in the context of the prevention and control of the epidemic after returning to work in the post-epidemic period. Methods Participants and procedure From 15 March to 15 May 2020, a questionnaire survey was administered to employees in China who were returning to work after the COVID-19 pandemic through an online platform The participants were presented with a description of the study and were informed that participation was voluntary and anonymous. The inclusion criteria were: Older than 18 years old, returning to work between 15 March and 15 May 2020, and able to independently complete the online questionnaire. The exclusion criteria were: Younger than 18 years old (minor), not working or not yet returned to work, having a confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection after resuming work or during isolation, and being unable to read or write, or to complete the questionnaire independently. Invitations were sent to all potential participants via WeChat, the most popular social media app in Mainland China with one billion active users daily. At the same time, the research team providing medical services in the quarantine area and in the community offered to scan the QR code on the facility to complete the online survey. Online informed consent was obtained by asking participants to check the box on their device’s screen with the response of their choice (i.e. ‘I agree to participate in the survey’ gram terminated automatically. The questionnaire and survey was specifically developed for this study. The full questionnaires are presented in Additional file 1. The study was approved by the institutional review board of Ningxia Medical University (document number: 2020112). Survey instrument Socio-demographic information Part of our online questiased on the New Diagnosis and Treatment Scheme for Novel Coronavirus Infected Pneumonia (fifth trial edition) [16] and the Protocol on Prevention and Control of COVID-19 (sixth edition) [17] issued by the National Health Commission of China, we developed a definitive questionnaire concerning the epidemiological characteristics, clinical symptoms, and comprehensive prevention and control measures for higher the score, the higher the COVID-19 knowledge level. Mental-health status Considering the high incidence of depression and anxiety symptoms reported among quarantined subjects in previous studies [18], depression and anxiety were assessed in the present study, using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7). Both scales have shown good reliability and validity in both foreign and domestic studies [19, 20]. Both scales use a four-point Likert scale (range: 0–3) for each item. For the PHQ-9, which comprises nine items, scores of 0–4, 5–9, 10–14, 15–19, and 20–27 indicate no, mild, moderate, severe, and extremely severe depression, respectively. The GAD-7 comprises seven items, with scores of 0–4, 5–9, 10–14, 15–21 indicating no, mild, moderate, and severe anxiety, respectively. Behavioural compliance To evaluate the respondents’ compliance with COVID-19-preventive behaviours when returning to work, items concerning 10 such behaviours were included. The 10 behaviours were 1) wearing masks; 2) covering your mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing; 3) washing your hands frequently; 4) avoiding contact with, buying, or eating the meat of wild animals; 5) being mindful of symptoms such as fever and coughing and performing comprehensive health monitoring; 6) avoiding close contact with people showing symptoms of respiratory disease; 7) avoiding crowded places; 8) keeping rooms clean and opening windows for ventilation; 9) reducing social gatherings and visits to friends and relatives; and 10) maintaining a healthy diet and taking moderate exercise. For these items, a five-point Likert scale was used (1 = ‘completely unnecessary’, 5 = ‘very necessary’). Total scores ranged from 5 to 50 points. Scores of ≥40 indicated higher compliance; scores of < 40 indicated lower compliance; this means that the lower the score is, the lower the behaviour compliance is. Quality control As the questionnaire was electronic, responses were required for all questions before submission; that is, if the questions were not answered completely, they could not be submitted. A ‘skip item’ option was provided to increase the likelihood of obtaining complete and logical responses. To avoid repeat answers, each IP address could only access the questionnaire once. The survey took approximately 8–15 min to complete; a preliminary survey showed that it would take at least 300 s to complete all questions. If the questionnaire is completed in less than 300 s, it indicates that the participants did not read the questionnaire carefully, and that the quality of the responses will be poor; thus, the responses provided in less than 300 s were excluded. Data analysis The data were checked and categorised. SPSS version 21.0 statistical software was used for statistical calculations. Two-sided p-values of 0.05 were considered to indicate statistical significance. Categorical variables are presented as frequencies and percentages, while continuous variables are presented as means and standard deviations (±SD). The percentage differences in behavioural compliance across categorical variables were examined using chi-squared tests. An unconditional logistic regression method was adopted to determine the factors influencing respondents’ compliance after controlling for covariates. We used the unconditional logistic analysis method, as the dependent variable is dichotomous and matching design data is not used in this study. The dependent variable was the level (higher/lower) of respondents’ compliance with preventive behaviours (1 = no, 0 = yes). Education level, occupation, COVID-19 knowledge, anxiety, and quarantining were set as independent variables, while gender, age, household registration, and years of employment were set as covariates. Multiple categorical variables (age, occupation, education, and years of employment) were set as dummy variables. The adjusted odds ratios (OR) for the variables and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were calculated using the unconditional logistic regression model. Results Participants’ characteristics As shown in Table 1, more than half of the participants were male (71.92%), were aged between 31 and 50 years (61%), and were living in rural areas (58.4%). Most participants were married (77.8%). Approximately one third of the participants (41.3%) had an educational qualification of junior college or above. Nearly half the participants had been quarantined (49.3%). Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics, scores of knowledge, anxiety, and depression associated with COVID-19, and behaviour compliance of participants Full size table Respondents’ knowledge and psychological status The respondents showed high awareness of basic COVID-19-related knowledge and most were aware of the associated protective actions; however, some areas required strengthening. The average score for the general knowledge questionnaire was 8.07 (±1.29); 971 (74.4%) participants had a total knowledge score ≥ 8 and 329 (25.3%) had a total knowledge score < 8. The three items with the lowest rate of correct responses were related to clear sources of infection (553 correct answers; 42.5%), clear routes of transmission (963; 74.1%), and clear symptoms of infection (651; 50.1%). The average score for the PHQ-9 was 2.16 (±3.40); 1059 (81.5%) participants showed no depression symptoms, while 241 (18.5%) showed signs of depression; 93 (14.8%), 35 (2.7%), 9 (0.7%), and 4 (0.3%) had mild, moderate, severe, and very severe depression, respectively. The average GAD-7 score was 1.48 (±2.53), with 1118 (86.0%) showing no anxiety and 182 (14.0%) showing anxiety; 167 (12.8%), 13 (1%), and two (0.2%) had mild, moderate, and severe anxiety, respectively. A Spearman’s rank correlation analysis showed a strong correlation between anxiety and depression, R = 0.693 (P < 0.001). Compliance with preventive behaviours The average score for compliance with preventive behaviours was 36.39 (±6.96); 698 (53.7%) participants showed higher compliance (total score ≥ 40) and 602 (46.3%) showed lower compliance (total score < 40). The three behaviours with the worst compliance were covering your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing (50.84%), keeping rooms clean and opening windows for ventilation (54.11%), and avoiding crowded public places (56.92%). Behavioural compliance in terms of demographic and socio-economic factors characteristics In terms of behavioural compliance, as shown in Table 2, there were no statistically significant differences regarding age, household registration, source of epidemic-related concerns, or presence of signs of depression. However, statistically significant differences were found for gender, marital status, education level, occupation, years of employment, quarantining, and presence of anxiety (P < 0.05; Table 2). A Spearman’s rank correlation analysis was performed on both knowledge and behaviour scores; a value of P < 0.001 was obtained, indicating that knowledge and behaviour were significantly correlated. Table 2 Comparison and analysis of participants’ compliance with preventive behaviours and their demographic characteristics Full size table Analysis of factors influencing compliance with preventive behaviours As revealed in Table 3, education level, occupation, experience of quarantine, COVID-19 knowledge, and anxiety influenced participants’ compliance in adopting preventive behaviours. After controlling for covariates (age, educational level, household registration, and years of employment), those with bachelor’s degrees or above (OR = 0.23, 95% CI: 0.07–0.70); office staff (OR = 0.51, 95% CI: 0.33–0.78); people who were quarantining (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.57–0.96); and those with good knowledge of COVID-19 (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.67–0.81) all showed better behavioural compliance than their counterparts. Finally, people with anxiety showed lower behavioural compliance (OR = 1.55, 95% CI: 1.10–2.18). Table 3 Univariate and multivariate analyses of compliance Full size table Discussion Since the outbreak of COVID-19, China has implemented comprehensive government and social mobilisation, and the epidemic has gradually been brought under control [21]. This study involved a comprehensive investigation of the COVID-19-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of personnel returning to work in the post-epidemic period, focusing on identifying factors that influence compliance with preventive behaviours. The behaviour compliance of nearly half of the respondents is not ideal, mainly in terms of ‘covering your mouth and nose when sneezing’, ‘avoiding close contact with people with respiratory diseases’, and other behavioural problems. Education, occupation, quarantining, anxiety, and knowledge factors impacted respondents’ health behaviours. Based on the identification of the factors influencing compliance, we can propose targeted measures to boost preventive behaviours. Our findings can inform future policies to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 in China and globally, to mitigate the impact of adverse preventive behaviours. They can also provide a basis for epidemic prevention and control during the resumption of work and production and lay the foundation for smooth production, and life in general in all sections of the society, to prevent the recurrence of the epidemic. In terms of socio-economic indicators, this study included two indicators: education and occupation. People with higher education are more likely to be employed, especially at higher levels or in more prominent positions in companies and organisations [22]. The present findings showed that the higher academic background, the higher knowledge of COVID-19, the better their compliance with preventive behaviours; this is consistent with previous research [23]. This may be because people with higher levels of education may have a greater sense of health self-awareness [24]. Recent studies reported that a higher education level predicts higher knowledge of COVID-19 [25], which is consistent with our study. This indicates that more comprehensive knowledge of COVID-19, especially regarding prevention and control measures and prognoses, leads to better behavioural compliance and a more active response to COVID-19 prevention and control measures. Concurrently, this study found that the respondents had a poor understanding of the sources of COVID-19 infection, the transmission routes, and the symptoms of infected people. Public information campaigns and educational interventions could improve the overall awareness of knowledge [26]. Thus, relevant government departments should strengthen knowledge dissemination regarding the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 and training regarding symptom recognition, especially for people with low education levels. Further, medical personnel, while conducting health-monitoring work, could contribute to this by issuing informational manuals or WeChat short videos. The respondents’ occupations were also related to their compliance with preventive behaviours, with office and management personnel and professional and technical personnel reporting better scores than outdoor workers, which is in line with existing research [27, 28]. This may be because office staff have a more regular workplace and contact with the same people; hence, their behaviour is more compliant. Outdoor or out-of-office workers, however, are exposed to a greater risk of infection due to more contact with strangers who may be infected [29]. For example, face-to-face contact reduces social distance in tourism, transportation, and retail sectors [30]. Furthermore, most outdoor workers have low socio-economic status, and their education level is generally low, which often leads to low compliance [27, 31]. Therefore, government health departments and enterprises should focus on monitoring temperature, conducting computed tomography (CT) imaging and the nucleic acid test, and providing health education for outdoor workers with low socio-economic status. Businesses should conduct regular, scientific, and effective disinfection of workplaces, including the cleaning and disinfection of public areas such as offices, production workshops, vehicles, restaurants, elevators, meeting rooms, toilets, and object surfaces [32]. Existing studies have also shown that anxiety is common during epidemics, and that psychological conditions influence behavioural compliance [33]. In this study, people with high anxiety levels were found to be more likely to have poor compliance with preventive behaviours [34]. From this finding, it is clear that anxiety is linked to a lack of awareness and reluctance to perform recommended behaviours. This may arise from accepting misleading information on social media, leading to inadequate awareness of COVID-19–related prevention and control measures [22]. Businesses should be aware of employees’ mental-health status before they return to work, and should provide psychological consultation services, if necessary [22]. Further, false information on the Internet regarding COVID-19 can cause panic [35, 36]; therefore, in the short term, it is necessary to strengthen the management of online information and support scientific, in-depth, and continuous reporting by official media channels, which would serve to guide the direction of public opinion [37]; in the long term, public health literacy should be greatly improved [38]. The rationale for studying the relationship between quarantine and behavioural compliance is that a large proportion of individuals who are returning to work in China have experienced isolation or self-isolation; studies have also shown that lockdown or quarantine may induce ‘behavioural fatigue’ [39], thereby necessitating an examination of the compliance of people after quarantine. Our results showed that quarantined people had better compliance with preventive behaviours than did non-quarantined people. This indicates that people who have taken quarantine measures pay more attention to prevention and control behaviours, which plays a positive role in epidemic prevention and control. Research has shown that quarantining facilitates symptom surveillance, which allows early diagnosis and reduces the risk of infecting others [40, 41]. This approach also strategically supports subsequent epidemic prevention measures; therefore, the quarantine policy should continue to be strengthened. For those who have not been quarantined, publicity and education should be strengthened to improve compliance behaviour. According to our analysis, outdoor workers had the largest number of people in isolation (258, 40.25%, P < 0.001), thereby adding to the literature by providing evidence that outdoor personnel are exposed to more risk factors and thus should be the focus of outbreak prevention and control. Based on this finding, we recommend that during the isolation process, health education should be conducted through video courses, media, direct education. Information manuals for such prevention and control measures and a practical mental health manual could be developed [42], which could help employees improve their awareness of how to protect themselves. Finally, quarantine requires the collaboration of multiple organisations and agencies. Isolation not only requires the planning and implementation of the health sector and the cooperation of high-risk groups, it also requires the government and society to provide reasonable job security and social security for the quarantined group. Conclusions In this study, a rapid population survey was conducted during the COVID-19 epidemic using online survey questionnaire. The knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of people returning to work in the later period of the epidemic were determined, as were the factors influencing their behaviours. The findings can represent a reference for improving behavioural interventions, as well as forming a theoretical basis for epidemic prevention and control. 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YT was responsible for the overall data collection, investigation, and methodology of the study. SL handled data curation, was responsible for utilising the software, and cowrote the methodology section. ZT served as the resource project administrator. LH supervised and validated the information in our study. Finally, JZ was responsible for writing (reviewing and editing), and the study’s overall conceptualisation among others. All authors have read and approved the manuscript. Corresponding author Correspondence to Jianzhong Zheng. Ethics declarations Ethics approval and consent to participate This study was approved by the institutional review board of Ningxia Medical University (document number: 2020112). Participants provided informed consent online: participants were asked to check the box on their device’s screen with the response of their choice (i.e. ‘I agree to participate in the survey’ gram terminated automatically. 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In addition, the CPI has declined 3 months in a row. This is the first time this has ever happened. Inflation is expected to cool down to a rate of 0.8%, down from 1.9% previously. Further, nearly 20% of companies in the US have debt servicing costs that are higher than profits. This is the demand shock I mentioned in prior reports. Such will further choke the lifeblood of numerous industries if it weren't for unlimited QE. But the issue is the market hangs on Powell's every word. The correction we are seeing right now is a consequence of Powell's pessimistic view going forward. He believes the economy will recover more slowly than expected and certainly not be a V-shaped recovery. If post-2008 is any guide, the recovery could take several years or more to return to prior GDP highs. Fears on extended quarantines also rose on the report that the number of COVID-19 cases was on the rise once again. Rising COVID/Crashing Economy vs. Infinite Liquidity Nevertheless, the fact remains that limitless liquidity will be present until at least 2022. The money that gets printed typically finds its way into stocks thus stocks have always found a floor of less than 10% since 2009 as long as the printing presses were rolling. The corrections of roughly 20% occurred because the Fed had ended one of their QE programs or was in the process of tightening. Markets lost beyond 1/3 of their values in March 2020 due to the shock of the corona virus, so the Fed stepped up their game by making an unprecedented move to not just reduce both the discount and fed funds rate to 0%, but also keeping the door open to negative rates in the future. The Fed can even directly buy stocks and ETFs if they so choose to support the market. COVID-19 cases are, once again, on the rise including in the U.S. and China which suggest prolonged or reinstated lockdown measures, so the market correction we are witnessing now could fall another several percent or more from Friday's close which is why we always advise members to keep stops tight. Never get complacently comfortable about the uptrend which has been choppy with gap ups and gap downs a standard. Assets that hold their value against falling fiat will continue to do well over the longer term. Therefore, gold, stocks, bitcoin, and residential real estate will continue to benefit. Mortgage loan applications to buy a home in the US have already sprung back to pre-pandemic levels because interest rates are so low. In past recessions, real estate values often continued their uptrend even in falling stock markets. Interestingly, relative to the M2 money supply, the S&P 500 is not overvalued. Just as after the post-2008 collapse, the ratio of S&P 500 market cap to M2 money supply shot lower because the Fed launched QE1. Today, the situation is similar since massive sums of M2 are being created. So this further adds to the strength of the current bull off March 2020 lows, albeit with sharp pullbacks due to various second order effects we have discussed. Noteworthy As for stocks which are worth a watch or taking an action, LVGO provides digital health devices that monitor chronic health conditions. I mentioned this one during the webinar on April 27 calling attention to its pocket pivot of April 23. It had another pocket pivot on June 3, pulled back to its 20-dema on lower volume which was a low risk entry point, then broke out on Wednesday. In Thursday's sharp selloff, it found support at its 20-dema. The healthcare industry group should benefit in the post-COVID market. The Grayscale bitcoin ETN GBTC which we have called attention to in numerous prior reports broke out on Wednesday after finding support along its 10-dma and 20-dema in prior weeks. That could have been an add point if you already had a lower average cost from buying at lower risk entry points as prior reports have pointed out. One should never initiate a position on a breakout as the risk rises typically well beyond our suggested few percent maximum. Thursday's action in GBTC underscores this point. GBTC got some support around its 20-dema. Keep in mind bitcoin itself has to sufficiently clear $10,000 as this level has met with resistance a few times now. But, just as with moving averages, often after a few knocks, the door opens. Should fear levels spike as a smaller version of March 2020, wait for the general market to find its floor. In such a scenario, GBTC is likely to get support at its 50- and 200-dmas. With limitless liquidity out to at least the year 2022, bitcoin should not just reach old highs of around $20,000 but start on a major bull run as it has always done after reaching new highs in prior bull cycles. Zen Trading Now in terms of trading in a Zen state of mind, and especially in these unprecedented times, I find the saying "I know that I can't know" has always been the best Zen approach to the markets. Remember that each day brings new data points which enable one to connect the dots into a more complete picture. When the time is right, one then can take action in real-time. This action won't always be correct, but over time, if one remains organically fluid to changing conditions (which implies not getting wedded to any one idea as the only possibility), then one may stand a chance in outperforming the markets over each market cycle. Like what you read? 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\| Stumbling Over Chaos Stumbling Over Chaos Search Primary Menu Skip to content Administrivia Kureyon-Chan Search for: Condo Living, Randonymity, Those Cats January 20, 2010 Chris 47 Comments Belated congratulations to Mitzi, Jennifer, Deedles, Jane C., and you’d like to see me contact for contests, please leave a comment! Um, no, it’s very unlikely that Neil Gaiman, Nora Roberts, or Stephen King will respond. I’m most interested in featuring authors who have a bit less reach (for now!) and who will interact with us in the comments. Yup, Wren, Mia, Bronwyn, Dakota, Brynn, and Devyn have set the bar pretty high there. 🙂 I do promise to shamelessly exploit my friendship with Carolyn Crane when her book comes out. shoots meaningful glance at CJ I’m glad so many of you are enjoying the Misadventures in Stock Photography series! For my evil day job (EDJ), I work as a systems analyst and spend a lot of time looking for patterns in data. Turns out that looking for overused stock photos? Just more patterns. has Simon & Garfunkel moment (link is to last.fm) For the record? Looking for overused stock photos is a lot more amusing than what I do at the EDJ. On Friday, I hooked up my tv and dvd player for the first time since starting the Great IKEA Living Room Redesign last January. Probably I should admit that I’m not sending any more holiday cards for the 2009 holiday season and put all of that stuff away until next winter, huh? I had a sinus-triggered migraine last Wednesday, so I took a shot (mmm… sumatr1ptan), napped for a few hours with the kitties, and woke up feeling great. The kitties were very happy because they don’t get to sleep with me at night – there’s really only so many times I can handle having Chaos walk across my head at 2 am because he wants breakfast. Anyway, ever since then, each evening when I go in to my bedroom to sleep, Mayhem’s sitting expectantly on my bed. Sorry, May. Out you go. Although she doesn’t walk across my head while I sleep, she does cover me with her furry toy mice, apparently bringing mouse after mouse, hoping to find the magical mouse that will inspire me to wake up and play fetch with her. Shhhh… sleeping princess alert…. Share via email EDJ Post navigation Previous PostMisadventures in Stock Photography: Part the Seventh (OBJG)Next 47 thoughts on “” Marina says: January 20, 2010 at 5:41 am Alice Starmore, Mette Handberg … What? You didn’t mean knitting books? What other books are there 😉 Reply Melanie says: January 20, 2010 at 6:37 am Shelli does that too; she sleeps with us really well until about 4:30 and then she’s walking all over us because she wants us to get up. sigh, oom.” .-= MelanieÂ´s last blog ..Recipe: Melâ€™s Kickinâ€™ Fajita Scramble =-. Reply blodeuedd says: January 20, 2010 at 6:39 am No Neil Gaiman, no I am sad 🙁 Just kidding. Who could you get…yes who .-= blodeueddÂ´s last blog ..Monday Mayhem =-. Reply margene says: January 20, 2010 at 6:49 am I think Mayhem’s faking it. .-= margeneÂ´s last blog ..Frida =-. Reply Brigitte says: January 20, 2010 at 6:55 am WHAT!???!! No Stephen King?!! I’m just…oooo…that man. 😉 Mayhem’s got a way to go in order to master the circular Gandalf pose. .-= BrigitteÂ´s last blog ..Well Hello There! =-. Reply Teddypig says: January 20, 2010 at 7:12 am My Velcro (That’s her name) the 16 pound wonder fluff simply jumps on the bed. thump then if that don’t work she sits next to my head and barks at me. It’s like a half meow with authority. My 6AM wake up call. Reply Seanna Lea says: January 20, 2010 at 7:26 am That’s really sweet! Saru-chan likes to lie in between my husband and I like a long furry chaperone. .-= Seanna LeaÂ´s last blog ..victor v. saru-chan =-. Reply Carolyn Crane says: January 20, 2010 at 7:42 am Oh, you exploitationist! And, might I say, that was a thrilling moment of firing up the DVD VCR. So sorry about the migraine! But, I see the kitties aren’t sorry. .-= Carolyn CraneÂ´s last blog ..Nicole Peeler: the next Katie Couric? =-. Reply Lisa G says: January 20, 2010 at 7:48 am Chaos – 2am? That’s rude. You did it to yourself, man. I can’t complain about the kitty wake-up call anymore. 5-6 is just fine. Reply Jody says: January 20, 2010 at 7:59 am My kitty used to keep me up regardless. If he was locked out he’d sit he’d sit at the door & cry till I let him in… if he was in the bed he’d purrr and head butt me all night. dam I miss that cat. Reply limedragon :-: Harri says: January 20, 2010 at 8:00 am so cute! Did you hook up the TV to watch 24? Or…? Reply Cecile says: January 20, 2010 at 8:08 am Oh I know what that is like… Baby puppy (aka Monster) loves to hog bed… One bed + Two people + two dogs = Mommy not sleeping! Yea… know how you feel! Doesn’t my Princess look adorable… Oh faking you say… She is… She is plotting in her sweet little mind the “bring down” of fake black kittie! Look for layout plans to come, lol!! Hope the EDJ gets a little better! =) Have a great day hon! Reply Mouse says: January 20, 2010 at 8:20 am Your ability to find these stock photos over and over again in covers makes sense now that you’ve explained your EDJ! (It also explains why you prefer your socks to match up when you knit them I think… lol) Reply sprite says: January 20, 2010 at 8:24 am I just finished my Christmas cards on Monday, so depending on how long your list is, you wouldn’t be the only person mailing them out in mid-January. .-= spriteÂ´s last blog ..collection storage =-. Reply trek says: January 20, 2010 at 8:32 am Aim high – you never know which authors might respond. .-= trekÂ´s last blog ..Colorway conundrum =-. Reply Maeve says: January 20, 2010 at 8:39 am no sleeping on the bed at night? Cricket is shouting “call the SPCA!!” Or learn to make an ungodly amount of noise with a closed door. Bonus points for shredding expensive carpet in an attempt to get in! Reply Lorraine says: January 20, 2010 at 8:49 am Chris- I haven’t found a way to stop KC sleeping on my bed at night. Yes, I could close the door, but the howling and scratching wakes everyone up. .-= LorraineÂ´s last blog ..You Don’t Want To Know =-. Reply Lily says: January 20, 2010 at 8:52 am I have to make sure my Kitty is not in my room when I go to sleep. I hate those early morning walks over my head almost as much as waking up to her sitting on my chest with her face right in front of me. That’s a bit of a shock at 4 in the morning. .-= LilyÂ´s last blog ..New Books Available – Week 3 =-. Reply janna says: January 20, 2010 at 9:06 am Simon used to wake me up around 4:00 for breakfast. The current kitties are very good, and let me sleep as long as I like! .-= jannaÂ´s last blog ..Not knitting =-. Reply Tam says: January 20, 2010 at 9:11 am My cats always have dry food so they never wake us up. In fact Max is always curled next to my daughter in the morning when I wake her and oh the abuse he heaps on me when I disturb their cuddling. I love when they sleep with their nose covered. It’s so cute. Reply Renee says: January 20, 2010 at 9:45 am You are a better woman than I am. I never got any farther than buying the Christmas cards this year. (I usually at least fill them out, and get stuck on the ones I don’t have addresses for.) So that’s what a tail is for! What a nifty nose warmer. Wait. . . I see a new knitting project for you! 😛 .-= ReneeÂ´s last blog ..Pretty . . . =-. Reply ikisti says: January 20, 2010 at 9:50 am there is no stopping the kitties from sleeping with us. Though it would be fun to wake up in a pile of mice. .-= ikistiÂ´s last blog ..Patterns doing good. =-. Reply Cheryl S. says: January 20, 2010 at 10:34 am Mine just sits on the window ledge next to the bed and stares at us. It’s not a very effective method for gaining attention, especially when we’re sleeping. But then, she’s not the brightest kitty in the litterbox. Reply Nicole says: January 20, 2010 at 11:05 am Walking across my head would be a nice change. Mine destroys things until she gets my attention. She eats papers I’ve left on my desk, knocks things off my dresser, chews and rabbit-kicks any backpacks I’ve left on the floor… Of course, lock her out and she’s annoying too. Reply Brenda says: January 20, 2010 at 11:28 am May is always a cutie! That’s an easy pattern to discern. If she had a pink, furry chair, I’m sure her nose would be even warmer. Reply Donna S says: January 20, 2010 at 12:21 pm Aww. So sweet. I know one of mine is so much sweeter and cuter when sleeping or just woken up and groggy. Reply Kim says: January 20, 2010 at 1:06 pm I’d like to suggest Kathleen Valentine. I really enjoyed her latest book: Each Angel Burns She is also a knitter. May looks so innocent when she is sleeping. Reply cursingmama says: January 20, 2010 at 1:49 pm I am currently on a big Kristan Higgins kick. Devouring her books like they are yummy treats. Reply Rebekah says: January 20, 2010 at 1:59 pm What! May, Chaos come to my house you’d be welcome to share the bed. Although you’ll have to find a spot between Abner and Django. Reply kmkat says: January 20, 2010 at 2:44 pm Hannibal has taken to covering my face with his 13-pound body at 2 a.m. several times in the last week. I like having the roar of his purr vibrate my head; I do not care for the difficulty of breathing with his fur up my nose. Reply Guinifer says: January 20, 2010 at 4:28 pm Yea – I still remember the morning my old Hooter Bear brought the Teen (who was 4 at the time!) a REAL dead mouse. I found it on his bed when I went to make it in the morning. I earned credit by not FREAKING OUT in front of him. I waited until I was OUT of his bedroom to have the WILLIES. Reply Indigo says: January 20, 2010 at 5:46 pm My girls Socrates and Feather are nice to curl up with. My two boys (which are brothers) not so much. Same issue walking over my head, sticking out that one claw to nip you with to see if your done yet (what am I prime-rib). The worst is jumping on and off the bed to the point you begin to wonder how you’re supposed to sleep on a trampoline. Love the IKEA redo. ( Hugs)Indigo Reply lisa says: January 20, 2010 at 6:05 pm But where oh where are her shiny and sparkly princess slippers???????? Reply Lea says: January 20, 2010 at 6:19 pm May is just so darn cute Chris! I’m so looking forward to Carolyn’s book.. I’m still at my evil day job! Will it never end??? L Reply Marji says: January 20, 2010 at 6:54 pm So, your kitties keep their noses warm when sleeping as well. Reply cyn says: January 20, 2010 at 7:40 pm how do you say no to such unbearable cuteness!! sorry you had a megrim. Seems like it’s the time to not feel great. I have never been successful in my attempts at a shut out, but I will say that they started sleeping through the night around 8-10 yo. AND, last night? THEY were annoyed with ME for waking THEM up. REVENGE is sweet. Reply naomi says: January 20, 2010 at 8:44 pm I feed Mel in the evening, which I started so that he wouldn’t wake me up for breakfast. It doesn’t stop him from waking me up because he wants me to play, but I sleep better with a cat on my shins. 🙂 Reply Sydney says: January 20, 2010 at 9:23 pm Congrats to the winners! I bought my Christmas cards late and then did a marathon card writing right before Christmas and then gave up on the rest of them. I still have them sitting out though. Katie sleeps with me at night but luckily she’s become lazier as she’s gotten older. She gets up briefly when I do and then go back to bed. Reply Donna-FantasyDreamer says: January 20, 2010 at 10:21 pm Congratulations to the winners!! Enjoy! I’m guessing you keep your door closed and this keeps the sweet kitties out at night? If so, lucky you! One of my cats, Ninja, will sit outside a closed door (when he knows your in the room) and will paw and meow until you open the door. Seriously, forever he will do this. sigh And yes, that is an aww moment there. So sweet looking, Ms. Mayhem. 🙂 Reply Karen B. says: January 21, 2010 at 9:21 am My fault for letting my furries sleep with me all their lives. Can’t fight the feeling now 🙂 And I couldn’t say no to Panther Princess either. .-= Karen B.Â´s last blog ..How the french bread cut my finger.. =-. Reply Bronwyn Green says: January 21, 2010 at 12:41 pm – Chaos can come sleep with me (and hubby, and Angus and Willow and Morrighan and sometimes Merlin – it’s a very catful bed.) 🙂 Sigh…let’s all collectively whine at Neil Gaiman…maybe that wold get him over here! Reply Jodi says: January 21, 2010 at 1:46 pm Yep, I have the same policy — the cats get to sleep in cat prison (AKA my cozy study). They’re just too excited at night, even if we “excercise” them in the evening. .-= JodiÂ´s last blog ..fo: saroyan =-. Reply Kathleen Valentine says: January 22, 2010 at 8:40 am Kim, thank you so much for your kind words about “Each Angel Burns”, I’m always happy to know people enjoy my books. And thanks for the plug for “The Mermaid Shawl & other beauties” Reply Teyani says: January 25, 2010 at 11:40 am Are you looking for authors to correspond with you? (errr, sorry, been blog-reading deprived as of late) Have you ever read Anne Bishop “Sebastian” and “Belladonna” ? (two of my all time favorite books) She might write to you! You know, the more I hear, the more I think that Chaos and Miss Emily are cousins….. Reply mrspao says: January 26, 2010 at 3:59 pm – I’m amused at the thought of May bringing you mice. Sirius just gets under the bed and goes to sleep now. He’s learnt after many nights exile in the conservatory! .-= mrspaoÂ´s last blog ..Sneak peak =-. Reply Dotty says: January 29, 2010 at 12:42 pm – very cute pic of May. .-= DottyÂ´s last blog ..frozen fingers =-. Reply paula says: February 12, 2010 at 7:35 pm cute kitteh photo. Belvedere is worn out from watching snow, not playing in it. He has slept for hours. Reply Leave a Reply to paula Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment * Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Name * Email * Website Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Art journaling, reading, knitting, and cat parenting. It's a wild life. Recent Posts In which Harry and Polly turn 2 It’s linkity time again! 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\| Techdirt Sign In Register Preferences Techdirt TechDirt GreenHouse Free Speech Deals Jobs Support Techdirt Minneapolis Police Filming Their Own Work To Show Critics Disruptive Innovation Is Not An Orderly Proce was particularly aggressive (even to egregious levels) in stopping anyone from quoting Joyce’s works. As we stated a year ago, for Europe and much of other parts of the world, starting this year, Joyce’s published works have moved into the public domain (70 years after Joyce’s death), leading to great excitement about how people can build on them. In the US, the story is a bit more complex, however, as the Joyce Estate claims that Ulysses is still under copyright, having not been officially published as a book until 1934. Others, however, argue that the book is in the public domain, for a variety of reasons. I was a bit surprised, then, to read this PBS article, which seems to imply the work is officially public domain in the US. At best, that’s a point of contention. Either way, in Ireland, it’s clear that Ulysses is in the public domain, and since this past weekend was Bloomsday, the popular celebration of all things Joyce (based on the date on which the book Ulysses takes place) there was, indeed, renewed excitement around the event (thanks to Joe for sending this and other links). Unfortunately, it’s not all good news. That link above talks a bit about how there are still efforts to control Joyce’s “unpublished” works — such as letters and correspondence — by twisting the law. The law does cover published and unpublished works differently, but on the assumption that “unpublished works” were works that were intended to be published. When we’re talking about letters and other issues of historical note, which scholars would love to make use of, it’s ridiculous to stifle such things in the name of copyright. Even worse, as Becky Hogge warns in The Atlantic, regulators who love to extend copyright law brought Joyce’s works back in from the public domain in the past and could do so again: 2012 is not the first year Joyce entered the public domain in Ireland; that happened twenty years ago, only for the European Union to retroactively extend so-called authorial copyright from 50 years after the author’s death to 70. The extension handed control of Ulysses back to the estate, causing untold legal trouble for scholars already beginning to take advantage of its public domain status to release new editions. I’ve witnessed at close quarters a similar extension granted to copyrights held by performers and record labels in the EU. What I learned then was that politicians extend copyright like most of us write thank-you notes: it’s the least they can do to show their gratitude for the attentions of an industry they’d have preferred to join had their looks and talent permitted. In the context of the subsidies granted to farmers or fishermen, extending copyright for the benefit of ageing rock stars is something EU lawmakers do in their lunch break Hopefully, with a world more aware, thanks to SOPA and ACTA and the like, pushing through such things won’t be quite so simple. But it is something that people need to be vigilant about. Filed Under: bloomsday, europe, ireland, james joyce, public domain, ulysses 14 CommentsLeave a Comment If you liked this post, you may also be interested in... 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Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Rikuo (profile) says: June 18, 2012 at 2:36 pm Copyright – granted to an author for the purpose of advancing science and the arts. How can the author advance science/arts when they’re dead? While I am obviously well aware of the e know? What exactly was said on that day oh so long ago, to somehow say that copyright fulfils its purpose after the author’s death? Collapse replies (6) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] MrWilson says: June 18, 2012 at 2:55 pm Re: Re: The usual excuse that I’ve seen rolled out is that the author’s widow and children (because all author’s are men, right?) need to be able to make money off of their dead husband/father’s works. Of course the actual explanation is that publishing companies that have insisted authors sign over their works still want to make money after the author dies. One other, absurdly paranoid suggestion I’ve seen is that if copyrights died with the author, fans would start killing authors to get access to their works sooner. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last wor author will have more incentive to publicly release their works if they, their children, their grandchildren, and apparently their great grandchilbt there is any author who would refuse to publicly release their work with a life+50 copyright term, but would with a life+70 copyright term. However, it still has some semblance of logic in that it’s pretending to be a carrot for the act of publishing a work. Where it gets not only stupid, but not even vaguely logical, is the retroactive extension of copyright. If the author was happy enough with a life+50 term that he published his works, then there is no possible explanation for granting a life+70 term other than complete stupidity, ignorance, and/or corruption on the part of politicians. This is especially true when you realize that copyright does not grant a new rway of saying thank you, like giving a tip to the taxi driver. Normally however, you say thank you with your own means, not with others. That is, they are taking away my rights to say thank you. Screw that. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] Richard (profile) says: June 18, 2012 at 3:05 pm Re: Re: What exactly was said on that day oh so long ago, to somehow say that copyright fulfils its purpose after the author’s death? It began in the UK in 1842 – originally it was just 7 years after death – but the drip drip of constant lobbying has taken us to the present position. You can find the answer to your question here: Collapse replies (2) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] Rikuo (profile) says: June 18, 2012 at 3:13 pm Re: Re: Re: Thanks. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [4] Richard (profile) says: June 18, 2012 at 3:15 pm Re: Re: Re: Re: Interesting to see that , at that stage, the proponents of extension saw it as a redress for authors against publishers – howeverif you look at page 16 you will see that some saw through that agunebt event then… Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] Anonymous Coward says: June 18, 2012 at 3:08 pm Re: Re: If I’m not mistaken, that, like all people, content creators want to ensure that they can exploit something they made a long time ago to continue generating money, providing their chin chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word fogbugzd (profile) says: June 18, 2012 at 2:57 pm Someday we may end up thanking the copyright lobby and the extremists such as the Joyce estate. For years we have seen copyright extensions extended without resistance in legislatures and with only mi far. Before SOPA and ACTA we had lots of scholars aware of the problems of excessive copyright, but scholars alone lack organized political power. SOPA and ACTA have mobilized organizers. They have brought the ed awareness in the judiciary. The war is not over by any means, but thanks to the IP industry we now have lobbies supporting the public domain, fair dealing, indie artists, and innovation. Those lobbies are getting better access to the press, and amicus briefs from these groups now get more attention in the courts. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make thisn’t understand: how can the law be retroactive. In college courses, I was always told “the law is not retroactive,” “the law is not retroactive,” “the law is not retroactive”. So if I make a law today saying that smoking is illegal, I can’t arrest people that smoked yesterday or the day before! What is this madness? That’s like setting someone free because they served their time (art is in prison, get it?), then going to his house a year later and drag him back to jail because there’s a new law saying the penalty for that crime is now 5 years more than before. Collapse replies (2) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] jupiterkansas (profile) says: June 18, 2012 at 3:28 pm Re: Re: If you had the money to give that Disney has, you too could make yesterday’s smoking illegal. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] silverscarcat says: June 18, 2012 at 4:05 pm Re: Re: Copyright law is a special kind of evil. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Anonymous Anonymous Coward says: June 18, 2012 at 4:01 pm Progenyrights Maybe we should stop calling it copyright and start calling it Progenyrights? Just….um think of the children! Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Anonymous Coward says: June 18, 2012 at 5:15 pm Copyright Allowing people to profit from another’s work for life plus 70 years. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word says: Leave a Reply to Jeremy Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? Register here Name Email Subscribe to the Techdirt Daily newsletter URL Subject Comment * Comment Options: Use markdown. Use plain text. Make this the First Word or Last Word. No thanks. (get credits or sign in to see balance) what's this? What's this? Techdirt community members with Techdirt Credits can spotlight a comment as either the "First Word" or "Last Word" on a particular comment thread. 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\| The Arts Desk Skip to main content Search form Search mon 08/08/2022 Sections Search today new music opera film classical theatre comedy dance visual arts tv gaming CD/DVDs Books Search form Search reviews features gallery q & a Proms first person we recommend Home > node > Imperial Wax, Dead Wax, Birmingham review - ex-Fall guys whip up a storm Imperial Wax, Dead Wax, Bir a stormy autumn night by Guy OddyMonday, 04 October 2021 Share Imperial Wax: like standing in front of a jet engine As Sam Curran leant into his microphone for the first timeayed where we were. It was a decision that some will have later regretted as we spent the rest of the evening with screaming ear drums. Imperial Wax’s return to live performance for the first time since late 2019 was like coming up against an unexpected howling storm. While the tunes from their debut Gastwerk Saboteurs album are a collection of gritty garage rock, rockabilly and hefty indie flavours, their new music felt more like standing in front of a wind tunnel containing a jet engine and it was thrilling stuff. Tonight’s gig kicked off with “The Art of Projection” and its “Your routine’s not up to scratch” repeated refrain. This got the 60-or so strong crowd of 30 and 40-somethings bobbing gently and nodding heads, as Pete Greenway let loose a wall of sound from his guitar and Keiron Melling beat seven bells out of his drum kit. From there though, there are plenty of newly recorded, but yet to be released, tunes like “Yes I Do” (which to be honest could quite easily be called “Less Sardines”, such was the muddy garage rock sound quality in the small room above a pub that is Dead Wax), which had something of a Sham 69 belligerence about it but without the meat head connotations of Jimmy Pursey’s punk clowns, and “Fucking Slow” (again, a bit of a guessed title) which had a primitive thump with something of the Birthday Party about it. Potential new single (assuming the bottlenecks in Europe’s vinyl pressing plants get sorted out sooner rather than later), “Tranquiliser” saw the introduction of new bass player, Shane (his surname was never revealed) and was a muscular driving groove with howling vocals and screeching feedback. 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This had the last remaining non-dancers in the venue throwing themselves around with wild abandon to a motorik groove that sounded like it was being played by a Viking raiding party. It all ended with Curran beating Keiron Melling's cymbals with his bare knuckles as howling feedback brought things to a close and was a fine reminder of what a live rock’n’roll show can be. More new music reviews on theartsdesk It all ended with Curran beating Keiron Melling's cymbals with his bare knuckles rating Editor Rating: 4 Average: 4 (1 vote) Buy Gastwerk Saboteurs in Amazon Related Articles CD: Imperial Wax - Gastwerk Saboteurs CD: The Fall - New Facts Emerge CD: The Fall - Re-Mit CD: The Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet Explore topics New music Reviews Share this article Share Comments Can confirm. My socks got Permalink Submitted by Dog Mess Saz (not verified) on Tue, 05/10/2021 - 18:03 Can confirm. My socks got fackin blown right off on Saturday night! Am a very happy bunny I am now. 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\| The Underground Newswire The Underground Newswire Search Primary Menu Skip to content About politics Geopolitics Media Wars COVID-19 Epstein/Maxwell Health Thought Manipulation Videos Contact We Are Reader Funded Search for: corruption, Crimes Against Humanity, Geopolitics, law, Notable Occurrence, Uncategorized 16 May 2020 Ryan DeLarme Leave a comment Jim Hoft, May 15th, 2020 The Barr Justice Department dropped its case against Generr win for justice in America after General Flynn was targeted and destroyed by the Obama deep state for daring to speak out against the former failed president. But on Tuesday the Clinton-appointed Judge Emmet Sullivan made a dirty, political move to delay justice for General Mike Flynn. Judge Sullivan extended the case by soliciting amicus briefs to allow for public comment on Flynn’s criminal case. Judge Sullivan also appointed retired Clinton appointee judge John Gleeson to argue against the government’s motion to dismiss the charge against Flynn! This is unheard of! First the attorneys for the Mueller team withheld Brady evidence from General Flynn for over a year and now this crooked judge won’t acquit! Also Sullivan asked the retired judge to look at whether Flynn could be held in criminal contempt for perjury — which was NEVER the charge against the 3-Star General. The criminal case against General Flynn is over. Judge Sullivan just does not want to admit it. And Sullivan really looks foolish for his outlandish antics considering the US Supreme Court just one week ago ruled that rogue judges CANNOT do what Judge Sullivan is wanting to do. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to prevent judges like Emmet Sullivan from becoming tyrants on the bench. Viva Frei did an excellent job explaining this on his Twitter feed. This took the better part of the day… Breaking down the Motion to Dismiss in Michael Flynn’s case: and Judge Sullivan‘s decision to effectively appoint his own prosecutor. Share away! I don’t think enough people fully appreciate what happened to Flynn — Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) May 15, 2020 Mark Chenoweth at Forbes reported: U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan disregarded two controlling precedents from higher courts with his decision to appoint John Gleeson as amicus curiae in the U.S. v. Michael Flynn case this week. Judicial conduct similar to J. Sullivan’s in these prior, far less politically charged cases was roundly and unanimously condemned by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, D.C. Circuit Judge Sri Srinivasan, and their colleagues across the ideological spectrum. So, whether or not one agrees with the Department of Justice’s call to drop its charges against President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn, there should be widespread agreement that J. Sullivan has veered way out of line. One week ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 9-0 decision, authored by Justice Ginsburg, that took judges to task for similar amicus antics. Her opinion for the Court in U.S. v. Sineneng-Smith upbraided the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for violating a basic aspect of legal proceedings called the “party presentation principle.” In a nutshell, this concept dictates that judges must decide the case as presented by the parties before them. They are not to go out questing for dragons to slay (or issues to tackle) that the parties have not brought before them. As J. Ginsburg put it: “[C]ourts are essentially passive instruments of government … They ‘do not, or should not, sally forth each day looking for wrongs to right. [They] wait for cases to come to [them], and when [cases arise, courts] normally decide only questions presented by the parties.” Original Source: Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... 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\| United Nations Development Programme Skip to main content Kazakhstan Who we are What we do Our impact Get involved English Қазақша Global Nav toggle Search Who we are What we do Our impact Get involved English Locations Back Select Language Қазақшntroduction of a Temporary Basic Income for the world’s poorest people could slow the current surge in COVID-19 cases by enabling nearly thre that it would cost from $199 billion per month to provide a time-bound, guaranteed basic income to the 2.7 billion people living below or just above the poverty line in 132 developing countries. The report concludes that the measure is feasible and urgently needed, with the pandemic now spreading at a rate of more than 1.5 million new cases per week, particularly in developing countries, where seven out of ten workers make a living through informal markets and cannot earn money if they are at home. 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\| University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections Skip to main content Toggle navigation Repositories Collections Digital Materials Unprocessed Material Subjects Names Search The Archives Person Staff Only Alexander Carmichael, folklorist, antiquarian, and author, was born on 1 December can, and Elizabeth (Betty) MacColl (1791-1863). After attending schools on the island and, apparently, in Greenock, Carmichael entered the civil service as an exciseman, serving in Greenock and Dublin before stints in Islay and Carbost, Skye. There he joined the team of pioneering folklorists collecting tales for the four-volume Popular tales of the West Highlands (1860-1862) compiled under the auspices of the tireless polymath John Francis Campbell (1821-1885). The principles of 'storyology' inculcated by Campbell - the necessity of recording the performance accurately, accompanied by details concerning the informant - exerted a fundamental influence upon his collecting for the rest of his life. Nevertheless, such principles clashed with Carmichael's own artistic, spiritual, and idealistic cast of mind, his desire to redeem Gaels and their traditions from the odium of outsiders and the perceived hostility of the evangelical church, and his belief that it was his duty not only to record the present, but also to retrieve and reconstruct a glorious Gaelic past. Following a two-year interlude working in Cornwall, Carmichael returned north at the end of 1864. This time, probably on his own request, he was assigned to the Uists. His new post, initially based in Lochmaddy, allowed him to undertake arduous journeys through some of the richest areas for folklore in western Europe, scribbling down in a series of field notebooks an extraordinary range of material ranging from long Fenian tales and ballads, through historical narratives, songs, hymns, and charms, to anecdotes, observations, proverbs, riddles, and unusual words. In addition, the influence and encouragement of the surveyor and antiquarian Capt. F.W.L. Thomas focussed Carmichael's attention upon archaeological sites in the Hebrides, and their associated traditions. Although Carmichael had to rein back on his collecting expeditions following his marriage to Mary Frances MacBean (1841-1928) in January 1868, and the births of their four children Alexander (Alec) (1868-1941), Elizabeth (Ella) (1871-1928), Eoghan (1878-1966), and Iain (1878-1928), the family's house at Creagorry, close by the inn where people would wait until the South Ford between Benbecula and South Uist could be crossed, meant that he could still gather much material from passers-by. From 1873 Carmichael was able to experiment with presenting in print some of the lore he had collected, through his position as Uist correspondent for the Highlander, the radical crofting newspaper edited by John Murdoch (1818-1903), whom he had first met when they worked together in Dublin some fifteen years previously. He was increasingly preoccupied, however, with the idea of compiling a series of volumes on the environment, history, and culture of the Outer Hebrides, working up for the general public the vast store of material he had gleaned throughout the islands. Such an ambitious project would require considerably more leisure than he could afford in his exacting position. Carmichael's attempt to secure Bhàlaigh farm in North Uist for this purpose met with a rebuff from the estate; this, coupled with his increasing disillusion regarding the somewhat philistine 'Uist gentry', as well as the need to ensure a better education for his children, made him move to Oban. After a wearisome couple of years there, spurning the Revenue's offer of a prestigious and better-paid post in London, in 1880 Carmichael returned to Uist, taking a substantial pay cut in the process. There, in Scolpaig, he finished writing an appendix concerning Hebridean land customs for the third volume of Celtic Scotland (1876-1880), the magnum opus of the Historiographer Royal William Forbes Skene (1809-92). In 1882 he once more left Uist, this time for Edinburgh, where he was to spend the rest of his life. The liveliness of Carmichael's agrestic descriptions caught the eye of Francis, Lord Napier (1819-98) - indeed, he later credited the piece with first inspiring in him an interest in Highland affairs. Carmichael was requested by Napier to contribute two similar appendices for the Report of the Crofting Commission (1884). Rather to his alarm, however, Carmichael insisted on including a number of Gaelic songs and hymns in his work in order to illustrate the grace and refinement of Hebridean crofters. Although Carmichael's leanings towards spirituality were by no means latent previously, his interest in the subject had doubtless been heightened both as a result of ongoing study he was undertaking concerning the place-names of Iona, drawing upon his comprehensive work on the toponymy of Uist and Barra for the Ordnance Survey, and also the fact that, having lived among the islanders for many years, he was now in a position to gather private and personal as well as more ostensibly public lore. Carmichael's appendices in the Report proved exceptionally popular, an uncontroversial oasis in an exceptionally contentious volume. This, and the enthusiastic reception accorded a further paper on 'Uist old hymns' (1888), encouraged Carmichael to embark upon a much larger work on the subject. During the final decade of the nineteenth century, Carmichael, now in retirement, further consolidated his position not only as doyen of Edinburgh's Gaelic intellectual community, but also as a crucial player in Scotland's Celtic Renaissance, for instance in his contributions to the seminal journal Evergreen (1895-6) edited by Patrick Geddes (1854-1932). These circles, in which scholarly interests interacted with contemporary artistic movements, exerted a major influence on Alexander Carmichael's greatest and most enduring work, the two volumes of Carmina Gadelica (1900). Encouraged and advised by his protégé the scholar George Henderson (1866-1912), though with the rather more sceptical counsel of fellow folklorists such as Father Allan MacDonald (1859-1905), Carmichael compiled and edited a substantial collection of sacred pieces, hymns, and charms, expressedly intended to illustrate the refined spirituality, the crepuscular rhapsodic mysticism, the visionary qualities of the people among whom he had lived for nearly two decades. With the help of the publisher Walter Biggar Blaikie (1847-1928), and of his daughter Ella, Carmichael was able to fashion a landmark in Scottish publishing, a stately, sumptuously produced magnum opus, whose illustrations (by his wife) and hand-made paper were surely intended to recall early Christian manuscripts, to represent to the reader the original numinous experience of hearing the original chants and lays. Despite the enthusiastic response of most reviewers to the Carmina Gadelica, and notwithstanding that he was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University of Edinburgh in 1906, scholarly doubts soon surfaced concerning the editing techniques employed. It is clear from Carmichael's manuscripts that he was prepared to hone, polish, even rewrite substantial portions of his original material before publishing, smoothing metre, cadence, and rhyme, heightening and refining language, adding esoteric referents, even introducing obscure vocabulary in order to enhance the impact which the hymns and charms - and indeed the quotations from the informants themselves - would exert upon the reader of the Carmina Gadelica. Although Carmichael continued to collect lore for the rest of his life - many of his new informants were mainland contacts of his son-in-law the Gaelic scholar William J. Watson (1865-1948) - it is noteworthy that he did not see the further volumes he originally envisaged through the press. It was left to his daughter Ella to bring out a new edition of the first two books of the Carmina in 1928, with a third and fourth volume, edited by his grandson James Carmichael Watson (1910-1942), appearing in 1940-1941. Although later scholars have cast some doubt on the editing practices he employed in the creation of the Carmina Gadelica, Carmichael's great work, and his manuscript collection as a whole, remain an indispensable treasure-trove, the fruits of a lifetime spent selflessly in the service of his own people, gathering, preserving, communicating and interpreting Gaelic culture, tradition, and lore for the wider world and for future generations. Alexander Carmichael died in Edinburgh on 6 June 1912, and is buried at St Moluag's on his native island of Lismore. Professor William John Watson died in 1948. His son, James Carmichael Watson, born in 1910, and successor to his father as Professor of Celtic at Edinburgh University in 1938, contributed to later volumes of Carmina Gadelica . James Carmichael Watson died, missing in action, in 1942. Found in 1 Collection or Record: Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to Series Identifier: Coll-97/CW114 Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, noted as being 'Bought at St Columb, Cornwall, 30 Nov[ember] 1864 pr[ice] 2/3'. The back inside cover contains a note probably collected as part of excise duties which reads 'Rod[erick] MacPhie Mast of boat 21.8 [-] 1.2½ [-]'. The notebook contains one insertion. The majority of the notebook contains lore relating to Miùlaigh/Mingulay mostly collected from Roderick MacNeil, crofter, aged 88, known as Ruairidh an Rùma. Roderick MacNeil also... 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\| Veterinary Research, a journal on Animal Infection Journals Books Conferences EDPS Account Login All issues About Search Menu All issues About the journal Aims and scope Copyright transfer Reader services Advanced Search All issues Volume 31 / No 1 (January-February 2000) Vet. Res., 31 1 (2000) 95-96 Abstract All issues About the journal Aims and scope Copyright transfer Reader services Free Access Issue Vet. Res. Volume 31, Number 1, January-February 2000 Page(s) 95 - 96 DOI How to cite this article Vet. Res. (2000) 95-96 Vet. Res. 31 (2000) 95-96 A.M. Rajica, C.E. Deweya, A.E. Deckerta, R.M. Friendshipa, S.W. Martina and D. Yoob a Population Medicine, University of Guelph,a Abstract - The objectives of this research were to determine if it is possible to produce PRRS negative pigs from multiple PRRS sero-positive herds over time using segregated early weaning (SEW) and to evaluate serological stability of participating breeding herds and the impact of sow vaccination on sow herd stability. The following definitions were established. A vaccinated herd was considered serologically stable if of the sow samples had PRRS ELISA S/P ratios < 2.0. A non-vaccinated herd was considered serologically stable if of the sow samples had PRRS ELISA S/P ratios < 1.0 and of sow samples had PRRS ELISA S/P ratios > 2.0 (modified from Dee. Proc AASP, 1998; 409-411). Serological stability of ten PRRS sero-positive herds was assessed by ed between 8 and 14 days of age and isolated in an off-site nursery for 90 days. The procedure was repeated threerom pigs obtained from vaccinated herds. Serial blood tests of pigs were conducted at weaning and 30, 60 and 90 days of age. Serology was confirmed and clarified using PRRS RT-PCR and RFLP assays. Littermates remaining on the farm of origin were also tested at weaning and at 60 days of age. All closed vaccinated herds had of sow samples with PRRS ELISA S/P ratios < 2.0. All piglets from these herds became negative after 30-60 days and remained negative up to 90 days of age. The same results were obtained in the repeated trials. Littermates remaining on the farm of origin had an active PRRS virus (PRRSV) infection as demonstrated by rising S/P ratios in trial 1, but not in the repeated trials. Two closed non-vaccinated herds had of sow samples with PRRS ELISA S/P ratios < 1.0. One of these had of sow samples with PRRS ELISA S/P ratios >2.0. The number of sero-positive piglets and their S/P ratio values increased over time. In two non-vaccinated herds, piglets were PRRS virus positive at weaning. One field and one intermediate strain of PRRS virus were identified. PRRS negative pigs were produced from two stable, non-vaccinated herds. One open non-vaccinated herd had 56.7% and 10.0% of sow samples with PRRS ELISA S/P < 1.0 and PRRS ELISA S/P > 2.0, respectively. PRRSV positive piglets were detected at weaning in this herd. PRRS negative pigs were produced after dams were vaccinated. The production of PRRS virus negative pigs from multiple PRRS virus positive herds over time using SEW technology requires a stable breeding herd. Assessment of serological stability by the suggested criteria might be very useful, but should not be overestimated. The consistent stability of vaccinated herds observed in this study suggests that vaccinated herds are more likely to be stable than non-vaccinated herds. Results need to be validated in large commercial operations. Corresponding author: A.M. Rajic Tel.: (1) 519 824 4120 / 4070, 4873; fax: (1) 519 763 3117; e-mail: , © INRA, EDP Sciences 2000 Homepage Table of Contents Previous articleNext article Article Abstract Services Same authors - Google Scholar - EDP Sciences database - PubMed Recommend this article Download citation Alert me if this article is corrected Alert me if this article is cited Related Articles PRRS in North America, Latin America, and Asia Vet. Res. 31, 84-85 (2000) Passive immunity due to PRRS in vaccinated and unvaccinated sow herds Vet. Res. 31, 44-45 (2000) Distinction between infections with European and American/vaccine type PRRS virus after vaccination with a modified-live PRRS virus vaccine Vet. Res. 31, 72 (2000) Serologic profile of a cohort of pigs and antibody response to an autogenous vaccine for Actinobacillus suis	https://www.vetres.org/articles/vetres/abs/2000/01/rajic/rajic.html	1,660,018,843
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Trichotillomania Treament and making the right choices! An important question to ask yourself with regards to trichotillomania treatment is if the urge for pulling out hair is hapening outside of you or if it is the result of how you deal with things in your life. In other words, if you belief that you contribute in one way or another to doinuse this was also one of the wiser lessons from Abraham Maslow when he spoke about his pyramid of human needs and the road to self-actualization. That learning to become independent of the good opinion of others not only leads to much more feelings of peace – contentment inside, but also helps to FULLY shine in the adventure of our life here on earth. Not so much with what you consciously think of with your head, but more importantly how good it feels inside when you make the right choices and do the right things THAT WORK WELL FOR YOU. And that your conscious – rational – thoughts are sometimes not the deciding factor compared to the unconscious part in you is something you undoubtedly already discovered in your process of overcoming the urge for pulling hair out. That is why it is so important for all of us to learn to really listen to yourself and act upon what works well FOR YOU when we want to travel the path of self-actualization and freedom! Something we all strive for according to Maslow! A lesson I received myself and lovingly pass on to you when you are looking for trichotillomania treatment Here is a lesson that will inspire you if you are looking for trichotillomania treatment when you learn to apply this into your own life better and better. Not as THE SOLUTION to overcome this hair pulling disorder, but as inspiration and help for a step in the right direction. Years ago when I travelled the world for 14 months non-stop with my wife I met a very inspiring man high in the mountains of Nepal. He had rented out his house in London 12 years ago and had been traveling and discovering the world ever since. It was a desire he had carried with him for a very long time, and in order to bring that desire into reality he had learned to break through some limiting beliefs that kept him prison before. Keeping him stuck in London. But then he defined a new reality and was able to start his journey. Call it learning to see ‘reality’ with new – liberating eyes. With what is possible or not in certain situations or with what you should or should not do in order to be a good person. One evening he told me about a poem that helped him every day when he had to make the right choices for himself, something he had become better at over the years. Not so much on the basis of what was considered right by others or their expectations, but much more on what allowed for space in him to create the freedom he longed for in his life. To inspire you I enclose the original poem that the man in the mountains of Nepal referred to at the time. It was written by Robert Frost and you can download it here. That is may inspire you too in finding your path to freedom next year and to discover that overcoming Trichotillomania stands for so much more in a positive way then only learning to stop pulling out your hair. So that the energy and time that becomes available can support you to get the best out of yourself and live your life in freedom. With love and wishing you well, Rik Want free tips and valuable insights? Sign up for the Treatment for Trichotillomania E-Zine! Rik Rik van Bastelaar is the initiator and founder of Treatment for Trichotillomania - Getting Better to whom this website belongs. His personal mission is to empower people with insights and techniques that allow them to improve the quality of their lives and manifestations. 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– Friday, April 02, 2021 by: Arsenio Toledo Tags: AstraZeneca, badhealth, badmedicine, badscience, Britain, coronavirus, coronavccines Bypass censorship by sharing this link: Copy URL (Natural News) A woman from Scotland developed severely painful rashes all over her body after receiving the AstraZeneca Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. Leigh King, 41, a hairdresser from North Lanarkshire in Scotland, said her skin flared up almost immediately after she got her first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on March 12. The rashes covered her face, chest, stomach, back, arms and legs. The rashes remained two weeks later and she’s still sore and in a lot of pain. “My skin was so sore and constantly hot,” said King. “I have never felt pain like this… And to say it’s been the worst time of my life is an absolute understatement.” King became eligible to get the AstraZeneca vaccine early because she acts as the sole caretaker of her autistic 13-year-old son. But because of the excruciating pain caused by the rashes, King said she has been unable to take care of her son. (Related: AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine triggers immune response that can cause fatal blood clots in the brain.) “I am a very healthy person and am not on any medication or anything like that,” said King during an interview with a local news outlet. “I am not even in a vulnerable category… [This is] a horrible feeling. Never in my life was I prepared for what I was about to experience.” According to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the British government’s top drug regulator, rashes are listed as an “uncommon” side-effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Recent data shows it should only affect one in every 100 people. The British health authorities have received 3,795 cases of rashes as of press time. Health officials are still trying to figure out why King developed the rashes. They think the rashes are either the result of an allergic reaction or of her immune system’s “overreaction” to the vaccine. Some British dermatologists consulted by the National Health Service said that due to the hive-like nature of the rashes, it could have been triggered by “a number of other causes rather than the vaccine itself,” including food allergies, insect bites and cold exposure. King unable to take care of her autistic son due to the intense rashes On the day King received her AstraZeneca jab, she said she received a letter instructing her to seek medical assistance if the side effects she experienced persisted after two days. She went to a nearby emergency department after two days as instructed, but was turned away. “I went back twice more and the last time [I was turned away] I was in such pain I could barely walk out the hospital,” said King. King said she is disappointed in the National Health Service (NHS), Britain’s publicly-funded and government-run healthcare system, because of the lack of follow-up care she has received for her special case. As of press time, King is still waiting to see a skin specialist regarding her condition. While she is waiting, her main concern has turned to the care of her son, Aidan. “Aidan has also found this whole thing difficult. He is scared to come near me because of how my skin looks and he struggles to understand what is going on. At home is his happy place and I am his best pal, I got this vaccine to care for Aidan but I haven’t even been able to do that,” King said. “This has just been such a tough situation, and has been so physically and mentally draining for the whole family. He is seeing a specialist in Glasgow soon and I won’t be able to be there for him. I can’t be there when he needs me most.” The mother is confused by the many unanswered questions regarding her condition, and she wants people to be aware of the AstraZeneca vaccine’s potential side effects. When pressed for comment, a spokesperson from the NHS said: “We are unable to discuss individual patient care and would ask the patient to contact us directly for their concerns.” The NHS later put out a general statement saying that all of the vaccines approved by the MHRA have met the country’s “strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness” and that the NHS stands by the usefulness of the AstraZeneca vaccine. “So far, millions of people have been given a COVID-19 vaccine and reports of serious side effects, such as allergic reactions, have been very rare. No long-term complications have been reported.” Learn more about the serious side effects that come from receiving a jab from the many coronavirus vaccines out there by reading the latest articles at Vaccines.news. 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– Friday, November 20, 2020 by: Lance D Johnson Tags: Big Pharma government, body requirements, civil lld order, revolution, segregation, Ticketmaster, vaccine violence Bypass censorship by sharing this link: Copy URL (Natural News) There is a malicious plan to steal away individual liberties, to break down the autonomy of the family unit, and to create a new world order that renders every human being a piece of property, owned by centralized Big Pharma-controlled governments. This ownership of human beings will be achieved by coercing everyone to inoculate their bodies with cell-modifying mRNA vaccines. Freedoms have been stolen to force people to inoculate in order to get permission to live and gather again. The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in the House of Commons, Tom Tugendhat MP, revealed that these plans are already being put into motion. He said it’s very likely that mass production of vaccines in 2020 will ultimately become a mandatory public health measure in 2021. Europe looking to segregate healthy un-vaccinated people to ultimately achieve 100 percent vaccine compliance People who do not consent to the vaccines could be segregated throughout society and not allowed to travel. Tom Tugendhat even said that individuals may not be able to enter the workplace if they cannot provide proof of vaccination. Even though these measures violate every informed consent and medical privacy law on the books, Tom Tugendhat said that mandatory vaccines should be used with coercion throughout society to “punish” people. People who do not consent will not be allowed to gather at public venues, concerts or stadiums until they can provide proof of inoculation. This concept has already been presented by Ticketmaster, an American company that handles tickets and entry requirements for event organizers. After purchasing a ticket, fans would need to verify they had been vaccinated (offering one year of protection) or had tested negative for coronavirus 24 to 72 hours before a concert or sporting event. If a fan tested positive or did not verify vaccination, they would not be allowed access to the event. In 2020, governments set up the infrastructure of fear to take away individual liberties through discriminatory lock downs and business and gathering restrictions. In order to get those freedoms back, humans are being told they will have to submit to the mRNA vaccines. Tugendhat said people will have to provide a certificate to prove they have been vaccinated with the new mRNA inoculations or they will be barred from public utilities. “[I]f vaccination works and if we’re confident it’s safe, and all indications so far are good, then I can certainly see the day when businesses say: ‘Look, you’ve got to return to the office and if you’re not vaccinated, you’re not coming in,’” Mr. Tugendhat told the HuffPost’s Commons People podcast. He even said the inoculations could be required to enter pubs and restaurants. The senior MP iterated, “I can certainly see social venues asking for vaccination certificates.” He compared the coercive scheme to current requirements already in place for some countries. In some countries, yellow fever vaccines are mandatory in order for people to enter the country. “And I can see a situation where yes, of course you’re free not to have the vaccine, but there are consequences.” Your body may soon belong completely to the Big Vaccine Government if you don’t rise up The permit plan has already been put into action in France. In mid-October, French President Emmanuel Macron announced curfews in major cities. If anyone went out after curfew, they would need to provide authorities a permit. The United Kingdom is restricting the movement of Britons who “do not have a reasonable excuse” to be outside. If they are moving about freely, they are given a fine. Health Secretary Matt Hancock is working with his department to force people to carry “immunity certificates.” This concept of control requires everyone to submit to antibody tests as a prerequisite to having freedom. If antibodies are not detected, the person is to remain in isolation until they are forcibly vaccinated. Governments around the world are taking drastic steps to claim ownership over people’s bodies, minds, health and freedom. This government violence and vaccine force can only end one way: revolution. Sources include: Previous :Philadelphia previously rejected Dominion Voting Systems for fear of foreign interference… who knew? Next : Federal lawsuit seeks to throw out 1.2 million flawed ballots in three Michigan counties guilty of voter fraud Receive Our Free Email Newsletter Get independent news alerts on natural cures, food lab tests, cannabis medicine, science, robotics, drones, privacy and more. More news on Big Pharma government Disqus Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Take Action: Support Natural News by linking to this article from your website Permalinkg this article: Non-commercial use OK, cite with clickable link. 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– ATC News by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By PALLY TAKES TO THE SKIES IN ANGOLA As the saying goes ‘better late than never’ applies here too, when a regular Fly 540 source confirmed that the airline has now commenced domestic operations. Presently a single ATR aircraft is being used to fly the route between Luanda and Cabinda as many as three times a day and other routes are to follow soon afterwards, just as soon as another two ATR aircraft are integrated into the fleet. Operations were initially thought to start a long time ago but as Angola is under scrutiny by ICAO and its national airline faces a qualified ban in flying to the European Union over a range of safety concerns, the establishment of a private airline has been challenging to say the least, again quoting a regular Fly 540 source from their East African operations. ‘We had to source qualified staff, and then spend a lot of time training them to internationally acceptable standards to ensure a safe and secure operation in Angola. This took a lot more time than initially planned but we are now finally there, our colleagues are taking to the skies this week and we are happy for them and celebrate the youngest addition to the Fly 540 family. It is understood that Ghana will be next on the schedule of expansion although Fly 540 has also applied for air service licenses in a number of other Eastern, Central, Southern and Western African countries, aiming to become a major continental player on domestic and regional routes. Most likely as a result of these imminent developments have major shareholder ‘Lonrho’ shares risen last week by over 4 percent. In a related development it was also learned that TAAG, the national airline of Angola, presently allowed to fly under strict conditions and only with an approved aircraft into the EU, has lost engine parts soon after takeoff from Lisbon and the plane had to return to make an emergency landing. How this will affect their status in regard of flights from Angola to the EU remains to be seen but aviation observers are doubtful that they can retain their conditional approval and may go on the total black list once again. Watch this space for the latest updates from the aviation scene and watch whom you fly with. Uganda News TOURISM MINISTER UNDER RENEWED PRESSURE OVER UWA BOARD The Attorney General’s Office last weekend published advice sought by government over initial plans to install a caretaker board, following the sacking of the majority of board members on orders of the High Court in Kampala for not being suitable nor qualified as required by the Wildlife Act. The opinion of the AG’s office is such that the governing law does not provide for ‘care taker’ appointments but only for substantive appointments, and the minister – largely seen as responsible for the mess at the Uganda Wildlife Authority for his rash appointments – is now under pressure to offer stakeholders an acceptable solution, without being dragged back to court once more. Be it as it may, and as reported here last week, donors and development partners, especially those who shoulder a huge budgetary support burden for UWA, are more than just a little concerned and have privately let it be known that they will deal with a more sensible and astute minister after the next elections, to work hand in hand with someone able to repair the damage done to the organisation. None of those this correspondent spoke with however was willing to go on record, as such could be interpreted as ‘interference in Uganda’s internal affairs’ as one source put it, irrespective of the money given to UWA as grants and soft loans. Watch this space as the UWA saga seems to drag over into 2011. MV KALANGALA NOT BACK IN SERVICE BEFORE NEXT YEAR The latest information obtained from the Ministry of Works and Transport about the hugely important lake ferry connecting Entebbe with the Ssese Islands, is that it will now take till new year before the vessel can return to service. Repairs took longer than anticipated – is the official tenor – but generally the public blames the mess on incompetent management and bureaucratic procurement rules, which hindered a swift conclusion of the overdue maintenance. The latest twist in fact now is that the ministry is seeking a new concessionaire, and new maintenance arrangements, clearly expressing what the public knew for long, that the present deal was not working out and new ‘blood’ was needed to turn the fortunes of the ferry operation around. This correspondent has for long, and initially against howls of outrage, suggested that the initially given repair dates and return to service forecasts were phantastically out of range and probably only meant to string the unsuspecting public along, until it became clear for all to see what was going on. Lake travellers, in particular the ones wishing to go to the islands over the holidays, may therefore still need to take the far less lake canoes or else travel via Masaka and the Butagata ferry crossing. AVIATION AGREEMENTS WITH UAE AND OTHER GULF STATES ‘ONESIDED’ African aviation sources have in communications with this correspondent pointed out that the ongoing rollout by Emirates in particular was not necessarily in the best interest of the affected, or as others would say ‘benefitting’ countries. Reasons were advanced that open sky agreements, which give Gulf, and other global carriers almost unrestricted access to key African countries, was a likely cause for national or regional aviation sectors not to develop as fast and as successfully as they should, because key routes were being taken over by foreign, non African airlines at the expense of such carriers as Ethiopian, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, Air Mauritius and Air Seychelles. Few observers in fact disagree with the sentiment, as the ‘battle for the African skies’ has moved from the primary competition between the mentioned leading African airlines to a dual competition, between themselves and their respective alliance backers on one side and Gulf based airlines on the other, with the latter – according to some – running away with a growing market share. Few could argue that service levels, on the ground, in flight or in terms of new aircraft, is now a major factor, considering the orders and deliveries of new aircraft in place for Kenya Airways and Ethiopian, in comparison with Qatar Airways and Emirates for instance, but pricing levels and connectivity through the respective hubs are now playing an increasingly important role, and it is there that African airlines simply cannot offer a global network, as yet at least, compared to the Gulf based mega airlines. It is here in particular that ‘siphoning of traffic’ is most pronounced and most damaging. Watch this space. EGYPT AIR WIDENS REACH TO JAPAN Last week information was received that Egypt Air has operationalised a code share agreement for their 10 weekly flights between Cairo, Tokyo and Osaka with ANA, Japan’s successful international airline. Both being members of the global Star Alliance, the two carriers of course – as all other Star members – always seek to find synergy effects to save cost, and have clearly found it by code sharing on this route. Information availed to this correspondent also tells the story that Egypt Air will be able to put their own flight numbers on ANA domestic services beyond Tokyo and Osaka while ANA in turn is expected to benefit in turn for flights into the MK network beyond Cairo, in particular into Africa. Egypt Air presently flies 3 times a week between Entebbe and Cairo but is also planning to increase this number next year. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are the other Egypt Air destinations in the region. ETHIOPIAN CODESHARES WITH STAR ALLIANCE PARTNER AIR CHINA Star Alliance partner airline Air China and Star Alliance applicant Ethiopian Airlines have signed an extensive code share agreement, which will benefit travellers on ET from all over Eastern Africa to their Chinese destinations Beijing and Guangzhou. The two routes have a total of 14 weekly flights at present, operated by Ethiopian Airlines, and Air China is now offering a range of mainland destinations beyond these two airports for the convenience of passengers connecting to their final destination under one ticket. It was not immediately clear which African destinations Air China can now access in turn, but it is expected that the Africa network of Ethiopian is ‘open’ to them as a reciprocal measure, which would be good news for the East African tourism sectors as more Chinese visitors can now travel here with greater ease. Watch this space for breaking news (on Twitter via @whthome) from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean aviation sectors. Kenya News FLY 540 TAKES OVER EAST AFRICAN SAFARI AIR EXPRESS The owners of EASAX, the first victim of the escalating fare war in Kenya, had a soft landing, when – following the initial wet-lease of their DC9 aircraft by Fly 540 – the region’s first low cost carrier put in an offer to buy EASAX lock stock and barrel. The transaction took place late last week, too late for the conventional media to pick it up and report about it. There are inevitably open questions, like if EASAX will be ‘integrated’ into the Fly 540 set up, or for the time being operated as a separate airline, but one thing is already clear that the move triggered intense speculation over the resumption of flights on the EASAX network, especially those to Juba, where Fly 540 is notably absent and to Hargeisa, which EASAX had already commenced again early last week as reported here, probably in the knowledge of new owners with deeper pockets coming ‘on board’. This acquisition at first look seems to strengthen Fly 540’s market position, as the market has confidence in them as to their ability to weather intense competition, as witnessed in recent months when in particular Kenya Airways aggressively moved back into the domestic market, for long a domain of Fly 540, Jetlink and EASAX. However, Fly 540, having survived the first difficult years and now being present across Eastern Africa, is run by financially and operationally shrewd individuals who will be watching their bottom lines while undoubtedly taking instant advantage of such opportunities as and when they arise. Happy landings in any case, under the Fly 540 trademark ‘orange’ or the tail fin cheetah of EASAX. KENYA AIRWAYS TAKES DELIVERY OF THEIR FIRST EMBRAER 190 Last week, as the airline launched their new, codeshared with Alitalia destinations Rome and Malindi, did KQ receive their first new Embraer 190 aircraft under a dry lease arrangement entered into with a US leasing company. The airline had previously purchased Embraer jets of the 170 type and now opted for the slightly larger 190’s, of which additional aircraft will arrive in Nairobi in due course. Kenya Airways is in a tight race with close rival Ethiopian Airlines to ‘connect Africa’ via their home hub in Nairobi, while ET is doing the same via Addis Ababa. As both airlines belong to different global alliance partners, KQ is now a member of SkyTeam while ET is ‘applicant’ to join industry leader Star Alliance in 2011, their successes are crucial for their code share and alliance partners, to cover Africa extensively. Network expansion and increased frequencies however depend on having a reliable, cost effective and young fleet of aircraft available and while Ethiopian is regularly adding more B737-800’s fresh from Boeing’s production line, Kenya Airways has opted to use more Embraers, which can be deployed to airports with shorter runways, like Malindi, Kisumu and others, or on regional routes where the traffic demand does not justify the use of the larger Boeing 737’s. Watch this space for regular updates from East Africa’s aviation sector. AIR ARABIA TOO TALKS OF MORE FLIGHTS The Sharjah / UAE based low cost airline, presently operating 4 flights a week between Sharjah and Nairobi, has just celebrated the conclusion of their second year of operation between the UAE and Kenya. On the occasion it was confirmed that from mid March 2011 onwards, the airline would add a fifth frequency between the two airports, as a result of risen loadfactors and a strong increase anticipated in demand. The airline was cautious in giving details of their passenger mix but it is thought that besides ‘expatriate’ Kenyans working in the UAE – always keen to get the best deal for their tickets – a growing number of passengers now originates from the UAE coming to Kenya on a vacation or on business, and that the constantly low fares, compared to the traditional full service carriers flying between Kenya and the UAE, had a major bearing on this. Well done anyway and many more happy landings to Air Arabia. QATAR AIRWAYS IN NEW TERMINAL – AT LAST Information was received that over the weekend the new arrivals terminal at the Doha International Airport was made operational and that all flights from East Africa to Doha / Qatar are now ‘landing’ there. In the past there has been some discontent over the facilities in Doha, which some travellers have described as ‘inadequate, considering the service levels of Qatar Airways’ and although a new mega airport will become operational in 2012, the airport authorities have obviously listened to the feedback they got. Competition of other airports in the Gulf area, especially the upcoming brand new mega airport in Dubai, may also have played a role to take some intermediate measures for the next two years, before a state of the art brand new airport can then hold its own against the other countries in the Gulf. After all, with Qatar claiming to be a 5 star airline, facilities on the ground too have to match this claim to quality, or else all efforts are in vain if one of the links in the value chain lets all others down. BRIATORE TO BRING SARDINIAN RESORT AND SPA CONCEPT TO MALINDI Disgraced former F1 team chief of Renault Racing, Flavio Briatore, appears set to invest megabucks in the Kenyan coastal resort town of Malindi, not far from the Malindi Marine Park, according to information received over the weekend. Planning for a top of the range resort complex seem ready to start construction at the end of quarter one next year, and the investment is, at least according to Kenyan media report, worth some 500 million Euros or at present rates over 650 million US Dollars, an extraordinary investment by any standards and certainly for Eastern Africa. Briatore’s Malindi Spa recently was declared ‘best in the Africa’ by a leading travel and leisure magazine and has immediately brought the global spotlight back to the destination. Briatore reportedly also owns a similar complex to the one now planned in Malindi on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia – home of the ‘Costa Smeralda’, a retreat for the very rich and very famous – and he is expected to bring many architectural and conceptual ideas to the Kenyan coast from there. The recent start of flights by Kenya Airways between Rome and Nairobi, and onward to Malindi on their new Embraer 170 aircraft, will boost the planned investment as it offers Italian tourists instant connectivity when coming from Rome and wanting to take a holiday on the Kenyan coast. KENYA’S TOURISM BUSINESSES COUNTING THE COST OF EUROPE’S WINTER The flight cancellations and delays from leading European airports have taken their toll on East Africa’s tourism businesses too, as hundreds of passengers failed to leave their home airports to the destinations across the region, like Nairobi, Mombasa, Malindi, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Arusha / JRO, Entebbe and Kigali, where they had booked for a Christmas holiday. In the other direction were equally hundreds of residents stuck in East Africa, as their flights to Europe could also not take off due to the weather conditions in many parts of the UK and mainland Europe, for many taking away a chance to fly ‘home’ to see their families over the holidays. The situation is as of Tuesday very slowly returning to ‘normal’ but a backlog of passengers on both sides may have to wait for days to reach their final destination, as flights ahead of Christmas are normally quite full already, leaving only limited space to accommodate passengers stranded by the icy weather conditions. It is here that a travel insurance, covering such risks, comes in not only handy but is absolutely required, as the passengers – while maybe not reaching their planned holiday destination – at least are not out of pocket and get refunds for hotels, resorts, flights and other pre-paid arrangements covered by an adequate policy from a reputable travel insurance company. Commiseration of course to all those who missed their visit to Eastern Africa’s beaches and national parks – and do try come again when the weather is better. Tanzania News BLACK RHINO KILLED IN SERENGETI AFTER COSTLY RELOCATION The Tanzanian government has come under severe criticism when news emerged that one of the five Eastern Black Rhinos brought from South Africa earlier in the year, has been found dead with the horns removed by poachers. The news were greeted with dismay amongst conservationists from around the world, especially those dealing with the conservation of the rhinos in particular. The five rhinos, a further nearly 30 are due to follow, were received with much fanfare and a huge PR campaign, and President Kikwete himself had travelled to the Serengeti to witness to offloading of the five rare rhinos from the aircraft upon arrival from South Africa. The entire exercise is expected to run into the hundreds of thousands of US Dollars in cost, to capture the animals in South Africa and then fly them in batches of 5 or 6 a time to Tanzania, with money coming from the Tanzanian government, donors and development partners, who had hoped to restore the rhinos to their original habitat. Meanwhile though, plans by Kikwete, to build a highway across the migration routes of the Serengeti have created a global coalition against these plans, with key world bodies like UNESCO, AWF, WWF and others demanding that this plan be halted and the highway routed elsewhere. The Serengeti’s UNESCO World Heritage Status is subsequently now in danger, and Tanzania’s reputation as a conservation nation, has received deep dents and scratches abroad – especially in the crucially important countries where the tourists to Tanzania come from – over not just these plans but other mis-steps too. During the last CITES conference in Doha did Tanzania apply to sell dozens of tons of ivory, a request refused and rejected by the forum, but instead of learning lessons from the ‘njet’ of the delegates at the CITES conference the former tourism minister and her mouthpieces cried foul, blamed some of their neighbouring countries for having ‘spearheaded an anti Tanzania campaign’ and vowed to submit a fresh application to CITES for the next global meeting. It was also learned recently that the Tanzanian customs department is trying to circumvent the CITES regulations and the expressed ban by auctioning off confiscated ivory, claiming only ‘raw’ tusks were falling under the ban but not ‘processed or semiprocessed pieces’. This has already been challenged by conservationists and their legal teams, pointing out that besides CITES other global regulation apply, which make shipping and exporting or importing such ivory illegal and subject to potential criminal charges, besides confiscation at the destination. The slaughter of one of the rare rhinos also exposed glaring gaps in the protective mechanisms of TANAPA and other security agencies, as the animals, equipped with satellite beacons, are to have protection details nearby around the clock, and further translocations of rhinos may now well be held back, until Tanzania – already under fire for a lack of anti poaching and anti smuggling efforts in general – can show cause that they are both capable of providing budgets and manpower but also politically willing to ‘toe the line’. It was also learned that sources in Germany are now asking questions about the donation of 2 million Euro worth of funding and equipment for TANAPA by the Frankfurt Zoological Society earlier this year, aimed to prevent exactly such slaughter by poachers, and TANAPA officials will have to answer precisely what measures they had put into place to protect the five Eastern Black Rhinos and ensure their survival, and where their plans and efforts failed and how the donated funds were spent. One thing is for certain though, while we bemoan on an almost daily basis the ongoing massacres on rhinos and wildlife in general in Southern Africa, this was also a black day for the entire conservation fraternity in Eastern Africa. MT. MERU HOTEL RE-OPENS IN GRAND CEREMONY President Kikwete last weekend opened the Mt. Meru Hotel during a grand ceremony witnessed by owners, management, staff, the invited tourism fraternity, the business community and members of the diplomatic corps from Arusha and beyond. The hotel was closed for several years, following a change of ownership, to allow for a whopping 24 million US Dollar expansion, modernization and complete refurbishment of the once very popular hotel, which has housed many prominent visitors in past years. The Mt. Meru now features, according to the report from Arusha, 178 rooms and suites, including a Presidential Suite, and a range of restaurants, bars, meeting facilities and leisure options through the pool an health club. While undoubtedly facing a stiffer competition within Arusha municipality, the location of the Mt. Meru, adjoining the golf course on one side and the main highway between Arusha to the international airport and Moshi on the other, and the vicinity to the International Conference Centre which is only a short drive away, will undoubtedly assist the hotel to recapture its former market share, but overall growing business and safari traffic will also cushion the impact of a ‘new’ hotel to all the others which over the years have sprung up or existing ones which have refurbished and renovated to stay on top of the ‘game’. Fireworks illuminated the sky over Arusha for nearly 15 minutes in the evening, celebrating the re-opening of what used to be a landmark hotel and hopes to return to that status once its claims to be a five star hotel have been proven correct and accepted by patrons. Well done in any case and all the best in coming months and years. ZANZIBAR ‘UPSET’ OVER MOU BETWEEN SEYCHELLES AND TANZANIA There was bemusement as well as anger following Zanzibar’s complaints to the central government, objecting to a Memorandum of Understanding between the Seychelles government and its counterparts in what is commonly called the ‘United Republic of Tanzania’. However, the complaints, ostensibly over fears and subsequent allegations of losing beach vacation business to the Seychelles, showed little sign of ‘unity’ amongst the eternal protagonists, leaving regional observers bewildered to a point of asking ‘who is in charge of what there’. The Seychelles have for a while now successfully promoted twin centre holidays and signed similar MoU’s with Kenya, South Africa and others, to have tourists vacationing in the Seychelles also consider extending their holiday and take a safari in East or South Africa. While discussing the agreement recently in Dar es Salaam, aviation representatives were also looking at the establishment of direct flights between Tanzania and the Seychelles, presently only connected with the African continent via Kenya Airways and South African Airways (there are also of course flights between Mahe and Mauritius and La Reunion, two equally famous Indian Ocean island destinations). It is understood that Precision Air is considering to fly between Dar and Mahe, although the outbursts from Zanzibari tourism representatives are clearly not helpful to accomplish this – in the process leaving yet more room for complaints from different quarters that ‘only Kenya Airways via Nairobi’ offers such flights while bickering and individual misjudgements and greed prevent a greater integration of Tanzania tourism into the wider region. Tourism observers, analysts and journalists dealing with travel topics however have dismissed the anger by Zanzibar as ‘out of line’ as well as ‘missing the point’, as the Seychelles offer a vastly different product from Zanzibar, or the mainland beaches, while also pointing at African Union efforts, SADC efforts – to which both countries belong – and other continental bodies to increase trade and travel between African countries. Said one journalist in regular contact with this correspondent: ‘I fail to see how an MoU, or flights between Tanzania and Seychelles, could damage Zanzibar tourism. The destinations complement each other, in fact can gain from such agreements as it is seen in the case of South Africa for instance. There the two have even extended their joint promotions into South America for the benefit of both destinations. Zanzibar, instead of seeing opportunities and taking advantage of them, is forming the proverbial ‘lager’ and whipping up emotions. Do my fellow Africans ever learn that we are now living and working in a global environment, and unless we cooperate and work hand in hand, it will be other continents taking the lion’s share of future travel. Already now Africa is the least travelled continent, and this we must change so as to tap into the travel budgets of Europeans, North Americans and affluent Asian nations – not make a public spectacle over inter African cooperation. If those complaining need culprits and someone to blame, let them start by assessing their product and markets first, see where Tanzania can improve and do better and not rush to judgement over cooperation African should be proud of.’ Harsh words but quite to the point. Rwanda News Mauritius News AIR MAURITIUS GETS NEW AIRCRAFT Information was received last week that Air Mauritius has taken delivery of a French built state of the art ATR 72-500 aircraft, which will be deployed on their network with immediate effect. It is the third such aircraft Air Mauritius is now operating on shorter routes out of their home base of Port Louis, where the use of their wide bodied jet aircraft is not financially viable but where demand for air travel nevertheless exists. Seychelles News 22 YEARS IN JAIL FOR OCEAN TERRORISTS The High Court in Victoria last weekend sentenced 9 captured Somali pirates to 22 years in prison for their various offences, after finding them guilty on all charges. It is understood that the convicts will be deported back to Somalia after serving their sentence. The court’s verdict was greeted with satisfaction amongst observers in court from the naval coalition, but also by their victims who were freed through a determined and robust reaction by the Seychellois coast guard, which tracked the pirates’ vessels, cornered them and engaged them, after being first fired upon by the hapless criminals. From around the Indian Ocean similar voices were recorded, all expressing their gratitude to the Seychelles’ naval forces, the naval coalition which provided tracking and surveillance support and the archipelago’s court system, which ignored the empty threats made from the pirates safe havens in Somalia and handed down hefty sentences. The country’s determined efforts in this regard, recently bolstered by donations of navy patrol boats from India and the United Arab Emirates, were also not lost on key tourism ‘producer’ countries, as tourists coming from Europe and the Middle East have confidence that all humanly possible is actually being done by the Seychelles, at times in stark contrast with other countries which seem to believe more in talk than action. Southern Sudan News BOMBS AND THREATS AHEAD OF JANUARY INDEPENDENCE VOTE Sources from the United Nations based in Southern Sudan have last week confirmed that the Northern regime in Khartoum’s airforce has indeed bombed parts of the semi autonomous territory, where residents are seeking independence of the slave like conditions imposed on them by their oppressors for too long. It is not clear what the Antonov bomber aircraft were aiming for, or if they were only testing the Southern air defence system, or if – as on source in Juba speculated, they were destined for Darfur and completely lost their way enroute. However, what is troubling are the other ‘measures’ the regime is currently using, including court challenges by puppet organizations against the referendum commission, all aimed at delaying and obstructing the orderly conduct of the poll. Militias thought to be on Khartoum’s payroll too have reared their ugly heads again as the Southern army is keeping a close watch on their activities to prevent any wider outbreak of violence, which might put the referendum on the 09th of January in doubt. Information from Juba also tells the story of over 95 percent of the eligible voters having registered by the time the deadline had arrived last week, a further indicator how determined the ‘Southerners’ are to get their long awaited independence and form their own country free of the slavish conditions imposed on them as lower grade African citizens of the united Sudan. Khartoum has since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, in short CPA in Kenya in January of 2005 done little if anything to provide the Southern population with incentives to stay in the union, has allegedly stolen hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue due to the South and obstinately delayed and obstructed discussions on a formal separation over issues of water, oil, assets and debts while outright hindering the holding of separate referenda in places like Abyei and two other regions, which are also due to decide if they wish to belong to the South or remain in a Northern Sudan known to be hostile to all things African. On a positive note though, the head of defence forces in Uganda, as have leading politicians in the East African region, left little doubt that they would back the Southern Sudan, should renewed conflict be initiated by Khartoum, for sure raising the stakes for the hardliners in the North who have their eyes on the oilfields in the South Sudan and want nothing better than get their hands on those too. Watch this space as the clock ticks down towards the January 09th referendum day. Share this: Tweet WhatsApp Email Print Share on Tumblr Pocket Telegram Like this: Like Loading... PrevPreviousBreaking News – Fly 540 takes over East African Safari Air Express NextTourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region, Fourth edition December 2010Next #COVID19 – Work-daily updates from #Africa for Africa – Namaqua National Park: Rather late than usual flower season 2022! – eSwatini: The dates of the Reed Dance 2022 have been announced! – Cape Town: The Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome is temporarily closed! One Response kimberly says: January 15, 2011 at 21:11 sign me up Loading... Comments are closed. ATCNews : Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome is the publisher of ATCNews, Eastern Africa’s leading aviation, tourism and conservation news blog of its kind. Wolfgang has over 45 years of experience in the tourism, aviation and conservation fields in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, covering all aspects of safari operations, hotel operations and air operations. 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– BrainTap Research Center Skip to content Home Research About FAQ Contact Presented at the 2020 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health. Published at Global Advance,3, Luana Meneghini Belmonte1,2,3, Francisco Jose Cidral-Filho1,2, Patrick K. Porter4 Affiliation: 1- Experimental Neuroscience Laboratory (LaNEx), University of Southern Santa Catarina, Palhoça, Santa Catarina, Brazil. 2- Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, Brazil. 3- Graduate Program in Physiotherapy, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, Brazurons adopts the phase of an entraining stimulus, i.e., rhythmic visual or auditory (Isochronic tones, Binaural beats) stimulation that elicits synchronization of neural oscillations. Objective: The Study objective was to investigate the effect of the Audio-Visual Brain Entrainment(ABE) on Mood and Quality of Sleep of university students. Methods: The study was conducted at the Laboratory of Experimental Neuroscience – University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Brazil, and the protocol was approved by the Institutions Ethics committee. Informed consent forms were obtained during patient screening phase of the study at the site of the tests. Sample size consisted of 7 university students (Four males and three females. Ages between 20 and 58), who were not making use of analgesics, anti-inflammatories or sleep aids 7 (seven) days prior to, as well as during the study, and who had no hearing disabilities. ABE was delivered with a BrainTap headset (New Bern – NC – USA) in 20-minute sessions 3 times a week for 6 weeks. Session consists of Binaural beats at 18 to 0.5 HZ, Isochronic Tones at 18 to .0.5 HZ and visual Entrainment through light-emitting diode lights at 470 nanometers (nm) flickering at 18 to 0.5 HZ. The following questionnaires were applied at baseline and after 6 weeks: Epworth Sleepness Scale – Daytime sleepiness (ESS), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Pittsburgh Quality of Sleep Index (PQSI), Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), and Perceived Stress Scale (EPS-10). Results: ABE effectively reduced ISI (data not statistically significant); PQSI (p<0.05); DASS-21 (data not statistically significant); and EPS-10 (data not statistically significant). The participants reported feeling very relaxed during the sessions. Conclusion: Despite the reduced sample size (n=7), results indicate that Audio-Visual Brain Entrainment (ABE) significantly increased Quality of Sleep of university students (PQSI p<0.05). A lager sample size study is necessary to confirm and extend the effects of ABE on Mood. Graphs Epworth Sleepness Scale – Daytime sleepiness. The score is interpreted as follows:> 10 points = individuals with a high possibility of mild somnolence, while> 16 points are indicative of severe somnolence. The low scores are indicative of patients with low propensity to sleep and relax. NS: Not statistically significant. Paired t-test (prism graphpad 7, USA). Insomnia Severity Index. Classification is as follows: (0-7) absence of insomnia; (8-14) lower limit for insomnia; (15-21) moderate clinical insomnia; (22-28) severe clinical insomnia. NS: Not statistically significant. Paired t-test (prism graphpad 7, USA). Pittsburgh Quality of Sleep Index. Seven components (from 0 to 21 items) are evaluated, which will generate a final score. The classification is according to the score: (0-4 points) good quality of sleep; (5 to 10 points) poor quality of sleep and (> 10 points) presence of sleep disorder. *p<0.05 when compared to baseline evaluation. Paired t-test (prism graphpad 7, USA). Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale. In this scale, 21 items are evaluated into 3 categories (anxiety, stress and depression) and for each category there are 7 associated items. The higher the score, the greater the impairment in the evaluated category. NS: Not statistically significant. Paired t-test (prism graphpad 7, USA). Perceived Stress Scale. The higher the score the higher the stress. NS: Not statistically significant. Paired t-test (prism graphpad 7, USA).	https://research.braintap.com/2020/03/study-mood/	1,660,533,913
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Trending News 0 About Advertise Newsletter Subscribe Log In 18 Aug 2022 GOVERNMENT Public Governance Risk Service Delivery Procurement Public Sector Profiles Public Sector Insights Public Policy Policy Innovation Equality, Diversity and Inclusion MANAGEMENT Change Management Managing for Results Leadership Millennial Outlook Performance Measurement Evaluation TECHNOLOGY E-government Smart Communities Digital Transformation Cybersecurity Green Tech AI Cloud Data MAGAZINE PODCAST VIDEO DX SUMMIT 0 Login to add posts to your read later list Blog Post Home > News > News Admin, 4 weeks ago 0 151 The Honourable Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport, the Honourable Jean-Yves Du and the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Associate Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre aolders is helping to reduce wait times and congestion at airports across the country. Minister Alghabra meets regularly with senior leadership of airports and air carriers to discuss issues related to infrastructure, passenger safety, and travel security. Monday, July 11: Minister Alghabra met with the CEO of London International Airport to discuss strategies for addressing congestion and developing solutions for travellers. Tuesday, July 12: Minister Alghabra met with the CEO of Windsor International Airport to discuss what improvements his team is making to reduce traffic delays and bottlenecks in their area. During a visit to the NAV CANADA air traffic control tower at Windsor International Airport, the Minister was updated on the status of the tower’s operations. Last summer, NAV CANADA announced that the tower would be staying open. Minister Alghabra saw first-hand the importance of the tower for the airport and thanked workers for their continuous efforts in upkeeping safety. Wednesday, July 13: Minister Alghabra met with the CEO of Winnipeg International Airport to discuss the solutions they are implementing to alleviate congestion and wait times for their travellers. Thursday, July 14: Minister Alghabra received an update on wait times across Canadian airports from the CEO of the Canadian Air Transportation Security Authority and learned about the Authority’s ongoing efforts to bolster staffing levels at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport and in other airports across Canada. The Government of Canada and air industry partners continue to add significant resources and streamline processes to ease congestion and help keep travellers moving, including: Mandatory Random Testing The government temporarily suspended Mandatory Random Testing (MRT) for air travelers entering Canada on June 11. This was due to a decision to transition testing for air travelers outside of the airports and streamline passenger flow. MRT will resume offsite as of July 19, 2022 for fully-vaccinated air travellers, with testing taking place at the four largest airports across the country – Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. All air travellers, regardless of whether they qualify as fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated, or unvaccinated, must complete testing in order to board a commercial flight. Testing will take place outside of airports and can be completed in-person at select testing provider locations, or by self-swabbing via a virtual appointment. Travellers who do not qualify as fully vaccinated, unless exempt, must continue to test on Day 1 and Day 8 of their mandatory 14-day quarantine. Moving testing outside of airports will enable testing for travellers arriving by air while still enabling rapid responses in the event of new, serious disease variants or changes to the epidemiological situation. Air travellers who qualify as fully vaccinated, as well as those who do not qualify, can be randomly selected for mandatory testing. An email notification will be sent to them within 15 minutes of completing their customs declaration, providing information on how they can arrange for their test with a testing provider in their region. Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) staff The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority has hired over 1,200 new screening officers across Canada since April. With this addition, the number of screening officers at Toronto Pearson International Airport and Vancouver International Airport is now over 100 percent of target requirements for this summer based on projected traffic. These efforts to increase screening staff levels at all airports continue. New task force on Services to Canadians On June 25, 2022, Prime Minister Trudeau announced the creation of a new task force to improve the processing of passports and immigration applications as well as to monitor the situation at Canadian airports. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA): In order to address the staffing shortage at Canadian airports, the Canada Border Services Agency has maximized the availability of officers by rehired retired officers on a casual basis and hired additional Student Border Services Officers. The Greater Toronto Airports Authority, in collaboration with the Canada Border Services Agency, is working to improve traffic flow through customs by making available additional kiosks and eGates at Toronto Pearson International Airport. New resource for passengers The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has released a new information resource to help passengers who are experiencing flight cancellations, delays or lost luggage. ArriveCAN improvements The Government of Canada continues to make improvements to ArriveCAN with additional features for travellers to use. Travellers arriving at Toronto Pearson International Airport or Vancouver International Airport can now submit their customs declaration in advance of arrival using the CBSA Declaration optional feature in ArriveCAN. This feature will be expanded to other airports in the future, including Montréal-Trudeau International Airport during summer of 2022. Data from early testing indicates that ArriveCAN is 30 percent faster at the kiosk when travellers use it to declare in advance rather than on arrival—saving approximately 40 seconds off a two-minute transaction. Given the thousands of people who go through Toronto Pearson International Airport and use the Advance CBSA Declaration option in ArriveCAN, there is the potential to save hours of processing time each day. For frequent travellers, the “saved traveller” feature in ArriveCAN allows users to save travel documents and proof of vaccination information for future reference. As of June 28, travellers arriving in Canada will now receive a digital handout explaining their entry and post-border requirements upon arrival. This handout contains the latest health and travel measures information for their destination, so they can be fully prepared for their trip. ArriveCAN compliance Transport Canada updated its Interim Order Respecting Certain Requirements for Civil Aviation Due to COVID-19 on June 27, enabling the department to impose additional obligations on airlines that have repeated cases of the same flight occurring with high levels of ArriveCAN noncompliance. These additional obligations, including the need to report potential noncompliances shortly after take-off, will support PHAC’s continuing enforcement efforts against noncompliant travellers. 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– Capital Gazette Advertisement News By Alex Mann Capital Gazette Sep 21, 2020 at 3:57 pm Expand Bill Martin, Superintendent of the Anne A Staff) Anne Arundel County’s top jail official is retiring after 50 years working in corrections, the county announced Monday. Bill Martin, who has served as superintendent for about 18 months, is retiring effective Oct. 1. Michael Borgese, warden at the Jennifer Road Detention Center, will assume the role of acting superintendent. Advertisement The superintendent is in charge of the Jennifer Road Detention Center, the Ordnance Road Correctional Center and, as of this year, the Central Holding and Processing Center at Jennifer Road. The latter is where people charged with crimes are booked into jail. A U.S. Air Force veteran, Martin took on the role of acting superintendent on Jan. 1, 2019. He planned to retire, according to the county, but delayed retirement for a year at the request of County Executive Steuart Pittman. Last April, he was appointed as superintendent in a permanent capacity. Advertisement In a statement, Pittman said he was thankful that Martin delayed his retirement to lead the department at a “critical time.” Daily Top Stories Daily Get the day's top news, sports, opinion, features and local events. > “He eradicated a dangerously high staff vacancy rate, facilitated the opening of our new Central Holding and Processing Center, and prevented both of our detention centers from COVID-19 outbreaks," Pittman said. "His retirement is well-earned.” Martin began working in corrections in 1970 when he got a job in correctional programming for Baltimore City Circuit Court, according to the county. He stayed there for 19 years being hired as Chief Administrator for Montgomery County Corrections. After seven years, the county said, he came home to Anne Arundel. He first served as warden of the Ordnance Road facility. Martin said in a statement that serving as superintendent under Pittman “has truly been an honor.” He called it a “pleasure to cap off my 50-year career," before giving a nod to his successor. The county said Borgese is a life-long resident and has worked his entire career with Anne Arundel detention facilities. He began in 1996 as a detention officer and worked up the ranks — sergeant, lieutenant, captain — to warden at Jennifer Road. Borgese “played a critical role” in developing the new facility in Annapolis, which opened in June, and, in the face of the budding coronavirus pandemic, put in place protocols that “successfully mitigated” cases of COVID-19, the county said. The protocols shut down most programs that saw people from outside the jails come in, including visitors and educational opportunities for inmates and pre-trial detainees.	https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ac-cn-bill-martin-retirement-20200921-7uwn3x6yq5dg7fnxotafqrqs2y-story.html	1,660,087,039
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– Criminal Justice Online Sign in Welcome, Login to your account. Forget password? Remember me Sign in Recover your password. A password will be e-mailed to you. Friday, August 5, 2022 Publisher - Home Courts Prosecution Defense Lawyers Corrections And Rehabilitation Court Justice Settlement Home Defense Lawyers Defense Lawyers By Perry M. Ramirez On Jul 26, 2022 Share Old Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (pict a Democrat, and Lester, a Republican, write that “All Oklahomans, regardless of their position on capital punishment, should insist on an unwavering commitment to the fairness and accuracy” in death penalty cases. Instead, they say, “the state is forging ahead with an unprecedented number of executions despite the many loopholes in the application of the death penalty.” The Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission was created in March 2016 during a pause in state executions following the 2014 and 2015 botched executions of Clayton Locket and Charles Warner and the quasi-execution of September 2015 Richard Glossip in which the state violated its own lethal injection protocol by obtaining an unauthorized execution drug. The independent, bipartisan commission included former prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, citizens, crime victims advocates and law professors, some of whom supported the death penalty and others opposed it. In a nearly 300-page report offering 46 recommendations for reform, the commission examined all aspects of the death penalty in Oklahoma. This review, wrote Henry and Lester, “has left us with deep concern about whether the state is administering capital punishment in a way that ensures no innocent person will be executed.” The commission “identified dozens of significant reforms aimed at preventing wrongful death sentences and death sentences and reducing the arbitrariness we found inherent in Oklahoma’s death penalty system,” said Henry and Lester, and convinced the commissioners that “no executions should take place unless and until these reforms are implemented. And yet, they note, “after five years, virtually none of our recommendations have ‘was adopted “. Most of the commission’s recommendations, write Henry and Lester, were “simple, straightforward, and easy to implement.” Many spoke of “the need for better training, better education and better procedures for police, prosecutors, judges and defense lawyers in capital cases”. Others related to the retention of records, methods of enforcement and the clemency procedure. No county outside of Texas is responsible for more executions than Oklahoma and Tulsa counties in Oklahoma and these counties account for 17 of the 25 planned executions in the state between August 2022 and December 2024. The project DPIC’s 2022 Prosecution Accountability Report found that 30 death sentences handed down in Oklahoma were overturned or prisoners were exonerated due to prosecutorial misconduct. Eleven of those death sentences were handed down in Oklahoma County. Ten prisoners who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death were released from Oklahoma’s death row, while eleven others who were sentenced to death in Oklahoma County based on the testimony of the chemist Disgraced policewoman Joyce Gilchrist were executed before her systemic misconduct came to light. The 2021 DPIC Special Report: The Innocence Epidemic found that only three counties in the United States had more wrongfully convicted death row inmates exonerated from murder than the five exonerated from wrongful convictions in Oklahoma County. An independent review of Richard Glossip’s case commissioned by the Oklahoma Legislature has produced strong evidence of his likely innocence and found that Oklahoma County prosecutors ordered the destruction of key evidence that could have significantly undermined the case. of the state against him. Glossip should be running in September. When the commission released its report in 2017, write Henry and Lester, it made “one overarching recommendation:” Commission members unanimously recommend that the current moratorium on the death penalty be extended until significant reforms have been accomplished”. Nonetheless, Oklahoma has resumed executions in 2021. “Before more executions occur,” say Henry and Lester, “it is high time to implement the many reforms needed to ensure that Oklahoma’s capital punishment system is above reproach.” Related posts: Derek Chauvin will be sentenced Friday afternoon; Rochester lawyers get a glimpse of what to expect Second day of jury selection in Capital Gazette mass shooting case ends with at least 70 qualified jurors – CBS Baltimore Jury sitting in Capital Gazette to consider insanity defense Opinion: India does not respect victims of sexual harassment \| Reviews \| DW Share Perry M. Ramirez Prev Post Prisons department aims to reduce repeat offenders through rehabilitation Next Post $15 minimum wage initiative submits 610,000 signatures for 2024 ballot You might also like More from author Defense Lawyers What qualities should a criminal lawyer possess? 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– CustomsNews.pk Daily Skip to content Sun. Aug 14th, 2022 CustomsNews.pk Daily Pakistan Customs, Shipping & Business News Resource Home TopStories Port News Budget 2021-22 Federal Budget 2021 World Custom Day World Custom Day 2021 World Custom Day 2020 World Custom Day 2018 World Custom Day 2017 World Customs Day 2016 World Customs Day 2015 Downloads Valuation Rulings Classifications Explanatory Notes Fifth Edition 2012, Sixth Edition 2017 & Edition 2022 Customs General Orders (CGOs) Judgments PDF File Act Downloads VDB Names SROs S.R.O Imports S.R.O Exports Contact Us Business & Finance ByKazim Raza Rizvi Aug 5, 2022 consolidated basis, highest profit, Lucky Cement, reported Karachi: On a consolidor the year ended June 30, 2022, of which PKR 6.93 billion is attributable to the non-controlling interests. This translates into earnings per share (EPS) of PKR 91.22 / share as compared to PKR 70.69 / share reported last year. On a consolidated basis, the Company achieved 60% higher net turnover of PKR 331.5 billion as compared to last year’s turnover of PKR 207.2 billion. The consolidated Net Profit of the Company remained PKR 36.4 billion out of which PKR 29.5 billion was attributable to the owners of the holding company, compared to PKR 28.2 billion and PKR 22.9 billion, respectively for the prior year. This translates into an EPS of PKR 91.22 during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 as compared to PKR 70.69 during last year, representing a growth of 29%. The exceptional growth in revenue, despite economic challenges is owing to robust performance across all businesses of the group and is an affirmation of the successful execution of the Group’s diversification strategy. On a standalone basis the Company’s overall sales volumes declined by 8.9% to reach 9.1 million tons during the year ended June 30, 2022 in comparison to 10 million tons last year. Local sales volume dropped by 3.6% to reach 7.3 million tons in the current year compared to 7.6 million tons last year. While the export sales volume declined substantially by 25% to 1.8 million tons during the year compared to 2.4 million tons during last year due to non-viability in terms of pricing on the back of persistent high coal prices in the international market coupled with increased shipping freights. Despite the reduction in volumes in both domestic and export sales, the profitability of the local cement operations improved marginally because of enhanced operational efficiencies, including better management of sales and distribution costs, which decreased as a percentage of sales. The Company achieved a major milestone when its wholly owned subsidiary, Lucky Electric Power Company Limited (LEPCL), achieved the Commercial Operations Date (COD) on March 21, 2022 of the 660 MW coal-fired power plant set up at Port Bin Qasim, Karachi. This milestone will play a key role in increasing the energy security and prosperity of Pakistan. It will also go on to reduce the cost of electricity and reliance on imported fuel in the long run after the completion of Phase III of SECMC in June 2023. The power generated from the plant is being fed into the national grid in line with a power purchase agreement signed with the Government. In another major development, the Company’s subsidiary, Lucky Motor Corporation started assembling Samsung mobile phones in Pakistan in December, 2021. Lucky Cement remains committed towards making a real contribution to the society and the communities in which it operates. The Company extended its merit-based support to deserving and less privileged students in Pakistan and abroad. The Company also continued to donate generously towards health-based initiatives by supporting various welfare organizations. In support of the UN Sustainability Development Goals, the Company has initiated and promoted various sustainable projects to support the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. Regarding the future outlook, the Company has reported that it expects fiscal year 2023 to be challenging for Pakistan’s economy, especially due to the high Current Account Deficit, which stood at $17.4 Billion for FY 2022 versus $2.8 Billion for FY 2021. The ongoing political instability has deteriorated the economic position of the Country and resumption of foreign exchange inflows from the IMF program has faced serious delays. The IMF staff level agreement has now been signed and as per Government statements majority of conditions have been met and it expects the program to resume post approval from the IMF Board towards end of August 2022. The resumption of the IMF program will not only reduce uncertainty but also open avenues for borrowing from other sources, which could help stabilize the foreign reserves and the domestic economic situation. Apart from this, certainty in the political landscape of the Country is needed so that long term and sustainable measures are taken for enhancing the exports and ultimately reducing the current account deficit of Pakistan. The commodity super cycle, which started last year post-pandemic, continues to persist. This has been further aggravated by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict resulting in continuous volatility in commodity prices particularly coal, petroleum products and packaging material, which has significantly increased the cost of production for cement. A similar trend has been witnessed in other construction materials as well, mainly steel which has resulted in a hike in overall construction costs. On the local front, rising interest rates coupled with higher inflation have severely affected the purchasing power which will impact the cement demand in the short term. 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– Eastlondonlines About Contact Menu Hackney Tower Hamlets Lewisham Croydon News Local News Sports Arts Music Business Education Employment Environment Health Housing Crime Society Transport Coronavirus Community Lockdown lifestyle Covid news Features General Features People Meet The Traders Arts Features Reviews Podcasts Events Twitterboard Upcoming What To Do This Week Summer ELL+ Home News Transport by Taylor Duren/ January 13, 2015/ Bus strike 2004, WikiMedia Commons Join Eastlondonlines for live coverasStrike 18:30 The bus strike is tentatively scheduled to end at 4:00am on January 14. We will keep you updated if there are any changes. Safe travels! 17:24 Bus Strike Statistics tweeted by @BBCTravelAlert. 17:17 As much as the bus strike has divided politicians, opinion has also been split amongst commuters who are voicing their opinions across social media. While many complained that they weren’t prepared for the news this morning, others have expressed their support for the bus drivers, or sent out reports of a reduction of pollution and traffic usually caused by the buses. 17:12 Mainline rail work at London Bridge. Canada Water may be very crowded until 19:30. London Overground commuters can also join services at Shadwell. 17:03 The queues are beginning to pop-up around the city. Make sure you know the best route home. Long queues already piling up after work, @standardnews. 16:42 Here is a link to an updated version from TfL of available buses. 16:38 More images coming through Twitter of Oxford Street missing the trademark red bus, instead replaced by queues of the black cabs. 16:26 #busstrike whilst the 149, London Bridge and Edmonton Green (4th busiest) has two buses out now (up from zero earlier..) [ro] -@BBCTravelAlert 16:20 Transport for London has provided a system to check the status of your bus, so you can find the best route home from school or work: CLICK 15:55 Support for the bus strike has been split down the centre in the London Assembly today. Richard Tracey, the Conservative Transport spokesperson has condemned the strike action as “archaic”, whereas Valerie Shawcross, the Labour counterpart, has expressed support for the strikers on social media declaring that they “deserve a fairer deal”. 15:44 The first bus strike of this scale in 30 years has been given 84 per cent support by Unite the Union members. ELL went to see the Unite protest in action, where some of the main speakers came to display their support for the protest: Video journalist: Morgan Liesenhoff 15:39 Passengers pay one fare to travel on London’s iconic red buses, yet there are over 80 different pay rates covering bus workers, many doing the same job or driving the same route but for different rates of pay. -Wayne King, London regional officer for Unite 14:58 Mayor of London Boris Johnson urges people to look at TfL for the latest information on the bus strike before heading home this evening. 10:40 Rush hour is over, but we will back around 4:00pm with more information on the bus strike. Please keep sending us your pictures and comments to @eastlondonlines and use the #ELLBusStrike. 10:21 The Mayor of London gave his support for a rise in the strike ballot threshold to 40 per cent. He denied politics being put above solving the strike. 10:13 Severe weather warnings have appeared on the Met Office; a sudden drop in temperatures is expected this evening causing ice and sleet. Forecasted to begin at 6:00pm this evening, it may cause even more misery and chaos during rush hour with many Londoners having to find alternative routes home. Those travelling on the road are expected to experience additional disruptions with dangerous road conditions and low visibility due to the ice and sleet. 10:05 BBC’s Transport and Environment Correspondent Tom Edwards tweeted Mayor of London’s response to the bus strike: BBC’s Tom Edwards tweeted Mayor of London’s response to bus strike, @BBCTomEdwards. 9:56 Staff at London Bridge are asking commuters to find alternative routes at rush hour this evening to prevent crowding on the platforms. 9:54 A rare sight – an almost empty Oxford Street – tweeted by @EdCJ_Francis. 9:45 Tower Hamlets Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, expressed his support for the bus strikers in a tweet: 9:43 Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said on the Today programme this morning: “It is very, very sensible to have different pay rates across London”. 9:36 Metroline will extend acceptance of currently valid weekly and monthly tickets by one day. 9:29 Not everyone hates this bus strike. @FanniDavid tweeted this positive thought this morning. 9:26 A striking bus driver talking to Vanessa Feltz on BBC London claims that, before privatisation, bus drivers were paid based on experience. 9:19 More posts from Unite the Union on Twitter asking for support from their passengers: 9:17 Looking ahead – people are nervous about their journey home during rush-hour traffic. 9:14 BBC London Breakfast show has said that the bus strike is a crowd management task for Transport for London. There have been large crowds and even people trying to jump on the backs of buses that are running this morning! 9:10 An inside look of Victoria Station tweeted by @TheBlakeMartini. 9:02 Victoria, Brixton and Liverpool Street Stations will be experiencing heavy traffic as people find alternative routes during the bus strike. Click here for travel information this morning. 8:57 Brixton Station during the Bus Strike photographed by @Martin_Abrams. 8:54 A reminder to passengers affected by the bus strikes that the use of bus passes will be accepted on the underground, overground and DLR. 8:33 A reminder of the reasons for the bus strike, Wayne King, London regional officer of Unite: London’s bus operators have raked in millions in profits while driving down pay and refusing to tackle pay inequality on the capital’s buses. As bus company directors enjoy lottery style salaries, bus drivers doing the same job on the same route are being pitted against one another on different rates of pay. Strike action is the last resort. We’ve been forced into this position by the operators’ refusal to even meet with us. Passengers sitting side by side on the same route expect to pay the same fare, so why shouldn’t drivers expect to be paid the same rate? The bus operators need to stop pleading poverty in defending pay inequality and collectively start negotiating about a fairer deal for London’s bus workers. 8:27 A crowded Victoria Station this morning tweeted by @TommasoLucentin. 8:23 Bus drivers putting their message out across social media. 8:21 Blackwall tunnel was briefly closed northbound to deal with an over-height lorry – re-opened now. 8:18 Tower Hamlets Metropolitan Police have warned travellers to be very cautious of the wet weather and the extra people on the road this morning. 8:16 Londoners tweet their reaction to the bus strike, tweeted by @gincoffeeshoes 8:07 Barclays cycle hire say more bikes are on-hand today and you can plan your journey here. 8:03 More statistics from TfL who expect 94 per cent of all bus routes to be affected today. 7:58 Talking on BBC London, Boris Johnson said: “The answer is no” [to the rise in pay]. The Mayor of London claims the bus driver parity would cost £100m, as thousands of bus drivers strike. 7:53 Latest updates from TfL warn passengers that only 30 per cent of bus services are running and that they should expect journeys to be significantly affected. You can use this link to plan your route this morning: 7:46 Our members want an equal rate of pay across London and fair terms and conditions. Not a two tier workforce. – Steve Barlow, London Sovereign RATP Bus Driver 7:35 Members of the Unite Union are fighting for equal pay as 18 bus companies strike this morning. 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The most common side effects occurred after the second dose and included pain at the injection site, fatigue and headache. There were no serious adverse events associated with the vaccine, according to the FDA. The proposed dose for 5- to 11-year-olds is 10 milligrams, compared with the 30-mg dose used in those 12 years old and older. While children run a lower risk of severe illness or death than older people, COVID-19 has killed more than 630 people age 18 or younger in the U.S., according to the CDC. Nearly 6.2 million children have been infected with the coronavirus, more than 1.1 million of those in the last six weeks as the delta variant surged, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The White House explained last week how it plans to administer vaccines to that young age group, saying it will use 25,000 pediatricians’ offices, in addition to 100 children’s hospitals, “tens of thousands” of pharmacies, and some school and community sites. The U.S. is still averaging more than 1,400 COVID-19 deaths a day, according to a New York Times tracker, although new cases are averaging fewer than 75,000 a day, or less than half the number seen in early September. But as most cases, hospitalizations and deaths are in unvaccinated people, experts are still clamoring for those people to get their shots. Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are still hot spots, while Vermont, New Hampshire and Colorado are averaging more cases a day than they were two weeks ago. The CDC’s vaccine tracker is showing that 190.7 million people living in the U.S. are fully vaccinated, equal to 57.4% of the overall population, and below the 70% needed to stop the spread. CDC data has been showing that more people are getting boosters every day than getting primary shots and the vaccination rate has barely budged in weeks. Now read: People who got J&J’s COVID-19 shot can get a booster. Which one should they get? Children under 18 and people from dozens of countries with a shortage of vaccines will be exempt from new rules that will require most travelers to the United States be vaccinated against COVID-19, the Biden administration announced Monday, the Associated Press reported. The government will require airlines to collect contact information on passengers regardless of whether they have been vaccinated to help with contact tracing, if that becomes necessary. Read: The success of Merck’s antiviral — and other COVID-19 pills in development — may depend on how quickly people start taking them Beginning Nov. 8, foreign, non-immigrant adults traveling to the United States will need to be fully vaccinated, with only limited exceptions, and all travelers will need to be tested for the virus before boarding a plane to the U.S. There will be tightened restrictions for American and foreign citizens who are not fully vaccinated. Read: Some 65,000 more men than women died of COVID-19 in the U.S. through August, and Black men are at higher risk than others, study finds Russia continues to face severe challenges in persuading its vaccine-hesitant population to get their shots, even after it has set yet another one-day record death toll of 1,106 fatalities, according to The Moscow Times. Authorities in annexed Crimea said they plan to purchase mobile refrigerators to store bodies in the city of Simferopol as COVID-19 deaths continue to rise and the city’s morgues are overwhelmed. The CDC moved Ukraine to its list of “very high” risk travel destinations late Monday, as CNN reported. Ukraine, the second-largest nation in Europe in land area, was moved up from Level 3, or “high” risk forCOVID-19, to Level 4, the agency’s highest risk category. It’s the second week in a row that the CDC has moved only one new nation to the Level 4 ranks. Last week, it was the city-state of Singapore. Strict Covid-19 vaccine requirements for workers have sparked protests in Italy, despite support from most people. WSJ’s Eric Sylvers reports from Milan, where the new rules offer a glimpse into the hurdles the U.S. could face when implementing a similar mandate. Photo: Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images In China, the northern city of Lanzhou, home to four million people, has been locked down to stem a flow of new cases, AFP reported. Citizens have been ordered not to leave home except in emergencies, as the authorities seek to contain a few dozen cases. In Brazil, Facebook FB, -2.35% and YouTube GOOGL, +0.66% have removed from their platforms a video by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in which the far-right leader made a false claim that COVID-19 vaccines were linked with developing AIDS, as Reuters reported. Last week, Brazilian senators said they are considering recommending that Bolsonaro be indicted on criminal charges for allegedly bungling the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and pushing the country’s death toll to second highest in the world. In medical news, Moderna MRNA, +1.37% said it would supply the African Union with up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. The first 15 million doses are set to be delivered before the end of this year; the next 35 million in the first quarter of 2022, and up to 60 million in the second quarter of next year. Moderna also said it is developing a plan to allow fill doses of its vaccine in Africa in 2023 and it plans to build a mRNA manufacturing facility there. See: Moderna says its COVID-19 shot generates ‘robust’ response in children 6 to 11 BioNTech BNTX, +2.31% said it plans to start building a manufacturing facility for its mRNA vaccines in the African Union in 2022. Once completed, the site is expected to have the capacity to produce several hundreds of millions of doses of BioNTech’s vaccines, including the ability to produce the products used to make 50 million COVID-19 vaccine doses a year. BioNTech said it will initially staff and run the facility, but it plans to eventually “transfer manufacturing capacities and the know-how to local partners.” United Parcel Service Inc. UPS, +7.23% Chief Financial Officer Brian Newman said the delivery giant will deliver more than 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of the year. That makes UPS the biggest of COVID-19 vaccines, Newman told MarketWatch in an interview. As the FDA nears a decision on authorizing Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children 5-11 years old, public-health officials and pediatricians are sharing research with families to assure hesitant parents of the shot’s safety. 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– I AM AN EDUCATOR Skip to content I AM AN EDUCATOR Jesse Hagopian's Lesson Plan for Liberation Menu Search About This Blog About Jesse Photos Contact Education Essays Jesse’s Seattle Times op-eds Online publications Magazine Publications Media Television Print Media Radio/podcasts Online Speeches Education Racism and Civil Rights Unions & Economic Justice LGBTQ Rights Antiwar Books MAP Boycott U.S./Int’l Politics U.S. Politics International Politics Haiti Israel/Palestine Search for: Search On November 19, 2018 By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Black Lives Matter At School, Red State Revolt, School-to-prison-pipeline, Strike, Uncategorized, U Kentucky, sending shock waves through the Black community. The shooter was recorded on surveillance video trying to get into a predominately Black church just before the killing. Michelle Randolph, who teaches fourth grade in a school with a majority of Black and immigrant students in Jefferson County, Kentucky, lives in the neighborhood and shops at the Kroger that was targeted. Randolph helped organize the over 5,000 Kentucky educators who shut down schools in 30 counties and rallied with students, parents and unionists on the state Capitol for education funding. Kentucky educators were part of the “Red State Revolt,” which included strikes that shut schools down in more than five states dominated by Republican legislatures — including West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona and North Carolina — and won many millions of extra dollars in education spending for their school districts. Jesse Hagopian, a Seattle high school ethnic studies teacher and co-editor of the book Teaching for Black Lives, interviewed Michelle on the fight against racism and the struggle for education in an article that first appeared in Socialist Worker. — Jesse: Thanks for taking the time to talk after a long day in the classroom. Michelle: My pleasure. Jesse: I wanted to first ask you about the recent escalation of racist, hateful violence. There were the mail bombs sent to political opponents of Trump. Then there was the attack on the synagogue that killed 11 people, which has been called the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. And in the midst of these, there was the racist killing of two Black grandparents in Kentucky, Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones, while they were doing their weekly shopping at the Kroger supermarket. Tell me about the impact of these shootings on you and on the people of Louisville. Michelle: My first job was working at that Kroger. That’s how close my family and my parents live. I think the first thing you have to recognize about this violence that you see is that people are feeling emboldened to take violent action against things they feel are threatening. I will not name the shooter, as to give any recognition to him and what he’s done. But he’s not the only person who pulled that trigger that day. There were several people who had a hand and played a part. That’s the climate of our country right now. We have people in office, in the state of Kentucky, who support people who are against equal rights. They’re against fair pay. They’re against supporting educators and students of color. They make comments from the highest office in the land that embolden dangerous people. These were two grandparents who paid their dues. Who went to church. Who raised awesome families. Were productive citizens in their respective communities. I know Mr. Stallard was in fraternity. Mourners hold a vigil for Vicki Lee Jones and Maurice E. Stallard in Jeffersontown, Kentucky You think, “If I, as a Black person, can get them out of the west end of Louisville, if I can get my child and my family and myself to this eastern area, then we should be okay. We can live a life where we’re accepted. We can live a life where we will not have to worry about racism. We won’t have to worry about some of the things that we would necessarily see in these other neighborhoods.” It’s a violent and very sad reminder that it’s everywhere. There are no neighborhoods to move to if you Black. Jesse: It’s dangerous being Black. Michelle: Yeah. There is no area of town that shields you. There’s no membership to an organization or regular attendance to church. There’s nothing that can shield you from this level of hate. Jesse: In Trump’s America today, we’re seeing that over and over again. Horrifying. And don’t you have a connection to the family of the people who were killed? Michelle: A friend of mine, his grandmother was the woman who was slain. Jesse: I’m sorry for your loss. Michelle: Thank you. The gentleman who was slain, his family lives literally behind my family. They’re all in the same area of town. Shopping in the same places. Seeing each other. Just in the neighborhood. Jesse: How are people being impacted by these murders in your community? Michelle: I would say that the people in that area of town are on high alert — including my own husband. He does not want me and the children to go into a grocery store alone anymore. I’ve seen people go into that grocery store, people of color, and walk in with a look of fear. I’ve seen people break down crying in that grocery store. They are just trying to live what you would think of as a normal life — everybody has to go to the grocery store, right? This is the store five minutes away from my childhood home. My parents still live in that neighborhood. When I go in any grocery store, I can’t go in there without looking at anybody and being on high alert, thinking, “Am I going to be somebody whose life is cut short because they feel like I’m in the wrong area of town shopping for grapes, bananas and oranges?” I want to be able to go in the grocery store without fearing for my life. There’s an epidemic going on across the country where you can’t do anything while Black. You can’t go to church. You can’t study in a dorm. You can’t walk into your own house. You can’t go into the grocery store. You can’t go to school. It’s a growing list of things that are deeply affecting the psyche of Black and Brown people. And this is especially happening at school. Black and Brown kids see what is happening to people that look like them. Now kids are asking, “Is there something wrong with being like me?” You have to have those very real and very transparent conversations with your students to let them know that they are not the problem. Jesse: Are those conversations happening in the schools right now? About what happened with these killings and about the state of race in America? Michelle: I am, definitely. As an elementary teacher, with fourth graders, we have touched on it. But across the schools I don’t think there’s been deep conversation about it at the elementary level. I do think more conversations are starting to happen amongst staff and employees. The Jefferson County Public School district held their 2018 Equity and Inclusion Institute today. I attended, along with every teacher at my school. They talked about doing more culturally responsive teaching. And they began the conversation about understanding what the school-to-prison-pipeline really is. How your own implicit bias is connected to how you treat your students of color and your minority students in your classroom. I think we are slowly, within our particular district, trying to inform and educate those teachers and administrators who have such a diverse district to work in. However, I feel that we are very slow in moving there. I don’t even know if that conversation has been started across the commonwealth. That’s a fear that I have. Jesse: For sure. Like you said, we’re in a state of emergency where Black people are living in fear and being terrorized. What we’re hearing from the president is that the real threat are some migrant families who are fleeing violence in their homeland and trying to come here to America. But what we need to be talking about is the threat of white supremacy. Michelle: Absolutely. Jesse: I was listening to Democracy Now! this week. I heard Kentucky Rep. Attica Scott interviewed. She made a point that struck me. She said that the recent gang bill that passed in Kentucky contributed to this climate of hate and fear and racism. Michelle: She’s absolutely right. Jesse: I wanted to get your opinion on that, if you could tell us what the bill was and how you think it may have contributed to this climate of hate. Students at Meyzeek Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky protest the “gang bill” passed in mid-April (Tia Edison) Michelle: Sure. HB 169, or the gang bill, allows police to have an easier pathway to recognize a group of youth, or people, as a gang. It broadens the definition of criminal gangs, which gives them the opportunity to label any activity that maybe this said group of youth is doing as gang activity. It also allows them to prosecute with harsher penalties if they’re involved in said gang activity. Here’s how that directly affects the students in our district. There are three malls in Jefferson County. Two malls are in the east end of Jefferson County. And both those malls, within the past five years, have enacted parental guidance required program for youth. If you’re in the mall and you don’t have a parent with you after a certain time of day, you could be told to leave the mall. If it’s a group of you leaving the mall, they could then call the police and say, “There is a gang engaged in activity that makes me feel uncomfortable, unsafe.” Now you have created a climate not only where some people feel like the police serve as their personal security, but they can now call the police without any proof or evidence of wrongdoing and accuse youth of gang activity. I don’t know any teenager that doesn’t like going to the mall, or walking around the mall and hanging out. But you’ve created this culture and this climate to where you’ve made these students unwelcome. And it’s not even just at the mall where this is a problem. A lot of people don’t know that Jefferson County is one of the most integrated school districts in the country. That is because of busing. Students are being bused from the west end — which is the predominantly Black neighborhood — all over the county. Some areas are far east. If those students are getting out of school, they could literally just be walking to a gas station or walking to the public bus stop and someone could feel unsafe and call the cops. Jesse: The BBQ Becky phenomenon on steroids! I heard that in Mississippi, where they passed an anti-gang bill, in the eight years since it’s passed, it’s only Black people that have received the enhanced sentences from the gang bill. Michelle: Of course. Jesse: It’s clearly racialized. Michelle: Absolutely. And just this year, a state of the art $500 million federal prison has been approved to be built in Eastern Kentucky, so it makes sense. If you have your eyes open, it makes sense that they would start targeting Black and Brown youth so they can fill up this prison. Now, there is a growing group that’s being suspended at a much higher rate than all the other demographics in our school district. Black girls. There’s a new shift to where now not only Black boys, but Black girls are getting these labels and they’re being suspended at a much higher rate than their white counterparts. Now they are starting to surpass the rate of suspension for Black boys, which is unbelievable. Jesse: I read a really powerful book called Pushout by Monique Morris, who writes about the phenomenon of Black girls being suspended. It is something we really have to work to end. The racist narrative of the dangerous Black teen is coupled with the sexist narrative of the angry Black girl and now Black girls are suspended at some seven times the rate of white girls nationally. Michelle: Absolutely. Jesse: When you were on strike last year you were part of an effort to talk to teachers about taking up the issue of the gang bill and argued that educators shouldn’t just take up the bread-and-butter economic issues, but also the question of racism. I was really moved by your leadership on that. Michelle: It’s really clear for me. I live in Jefferson County. We have such a diverse population in Jefferson County. Just based off of what I saw in the bill, I knew that it would directly target Black and Brown students in our district. The gang bill is one of those things that, if you allow that to pass, if you allow that to go without a fight, without a struggle, then which group is next? Which group will they target next? Yes, we definitely want to fight for our pensions and our benefits. All of those things are very important. But how can you, as an educator, then go back to your school and look at those Black and Brown children in your classroom and teach them the basics and not vote in their interest? They need our support to dismantle the school-to-prison-pipeline. As educators, if we’re not advocating for our students, then we’re missing part of our responsibility. Jesse: You’re right, we have to start talking about the emergency of the school-to-prison-pipeline. I just saw a viral video from a school in Kentucky where the Kentucky sheriff was handcuffing third grade boy. He had to slide the handcuffs around the biceps of this kid because his wrists were too small. Cuffing his arms behind his back! It turns out this officer had been cuffing Black and Latino students routinely. Students with disabilities. Verbally berating them. They just won a $337,000 settlement for this painful and unconstitutional treatment of students. Of course, a settlement isn’t justice. It isn’t accountability for this officer. I wonder how this policing of students fits into the school-to-prison-pipeline you’ve been talking about. Michelle: I think it fits because, when you automatically label Black students as loud and disruptive and this is the mindset you come to school with, then your thought process is, any time you see them doing something, you’re going to think negatively. We, and I’m including myself because I am guilty too, educators, are weaponizing “The Office.” Threatening our children with “The Office” if they don’t follow instructions, are constantly disruptive and engaging in inappropriate behavior. We treat it like the BBQ Beckys [use the police] sometimes due to lack of time and or resources to work with a students who are acting out. That leads to referrals. After so many referrals, that leads to suspensions. Those suspensions then lead to loss of instructional time. Because of their loss of instructional time, they tend to either fall back severely, within their own academics, or eventually get to the place where they’re old enough to where they’ll dropout. Instead of adding more security and more police in the schools — and more systems in place to where students are having referrals that lead to suspensions — they should be putting that money and resources into behavior coaches and restorative justice programs. How about some counselors? Jesse: Thank you! I just read a story that said there are 1.7 million students in this country that go to a school where there’s a police officer but no counselor. That was appalling to me. That leads me to ask you about the Black Lives Matter at School movement that erupted in over 20 cities last year and is gearing up again for a week of action from February 4 through 9 for this school year. What are your thoughts on this movement? Michelle: I think it’s an amazing initiative. Black Lives Matter at School is not just creating some type of program where kids learn a few Black history facts and that’s it. They’re actually building a movement across the country. People who work in education. People who work in policy. Students. Parents. They’re taking the opportunity to look at some things that we can change systematically within education. This movement is saying we need to start mandating that we include Black and Brown culture and history classes at school. There’s no reason that you have a particular demographic at your school and you never touch on their history. You never touch on their contribution. You never touch on who they are. The blood that runs through their veins. How the people who came here before them helped build what they are now standing on. I think the Black Live Matter at School would be an awesome initiative for Jefferson County and the state of Kentucky. I think that Jefferson County has started, like I said before, trying to incorporate more culturally responsive education. But I think, if they were to eventually team up with the Black Lives Matter at School, that it would create another opportunity to reach those students who feel like their voices aren’t heard. Striking Kentucky teacher rally at the capitol Jesse: Right on. Speaking of making your voice heard, I was just amazed by what you and your colleagues accomplished last school year by raising your voice and taking action for education justice. You were part of a historic strike wave in this country that showed the labor movement what’s possible and showed educators, who have been suffering with underfunding for so long around the nation, how to struggle and how to win. Talk about what that movement meant to you. Michelle: I think the first thing for me was having my voice out there on behalf of my students and for my own kids. I have two kids that are in the public school system right now. I’m a product of the same public school system. So is my husband. We’re not saying things just to be saying them. We wholeheartedly believe in the public school system and believe that it can be better with proper funding, proper support and proper implementation of laws that support our youth and the people in our commonwealth. I think that the strikes that happened were because people felt empowered. People were starting to feel like maybe we can really do this. Maybe, if we work together, we can stop these injustices; There’s no good reason for having one school receive only $2,000 to spend per student, but in the same county, $8,000 is spent on each student in another school. This goes back to making sure not only that we have people in Frankfort [capital of Kentucky] who have our best interest, but it also goes back to holding them accountable. I think that’s where we have the most work ahead of all of us across the country. I’ve been blessed to meet so many instrumental people across the country who led strikes in their respective states. One thing we all saw that was in common was everybody felt that they needed to be on one accord. Everybody came together as a unit. I think now we have to move towards continuing to hold politicians accountable. Yes, tomorrow we’re going to be voting. Politicians will to let us know why we should vote for them. But once we vote, we need to make sure that we are still being active. We are still holding those people accountable. Not getting caught up in we got this particular party in office, so everything’s all good now. As Black people, as minorities, as people who have a low socioeconomic status, we can no longer afford to think that voting a particular color has anything to do with us having some type of upward mobility in this country. We have to come together and work together and struggle together, because it’s a fight. There are so many barriers in place to make you feel like there’s no way you can overcome the problems in our society. There’s systematic oppression and racism. Then there’s classism. You got all these different things that you feel are working against you whatever your cause is. Let’s come up with tangible ways to solve those problems. There is no magic bullet. There’s no magic candidate. It’s just not out there. We will have to struggle. Jesse: For sure. And I think that what you all did in Kentucky, joining the red-state revolt of educators across the country and shutting down entire school systems in states, revealed the power that was hidden in plain sight. We’re with our co-workers every day making the schools run with very little support and we often talk about how removed the politicians are from understanding the schools. On one level, know that it’s our labor that makes the school system work. But what you all did was make it explicit and demonstrate to everybody that no matter who’s in power in the halls of government, we make the schools run and we can shut them down until they agree to fund them. That lesson, I think, is invaluable. And now the strikes are spreading. We had a strike wave of schools districts here in Washington state. Now it’s looking like the Los Angeles educators are going to go out. Michelle: Yes! My connects in LA have been messaging me often. I’ve been giving them all my love and words of encouragement, because the people we’re up against don’t fight fair. It’s a struggle. It’s hard work. It’s dirty. It’s not glamorous. But it’s necessary. We are all in this together. Whether you’re in Chicago or Seattle or Louisville or LA, or you’re in Arizona or West Virginia, at the end of the day we really all want some of the same things. We want to live a nice life. We want to make sure our kids are safe and healthy and educated. It really comes down to the fact that community means all of us. Share this: Tweet Share on Tumblr Pocket Email Print Like this: Like Loading... Related State Revoltsocial justiceStrikeUnion Post navigation Previous Video of Teaching for Black Lives Book Launch: “It really touched my heart more than you will ever know.” Next Sign Petition to Endorse 2019 Black Lives Matter At School National Week of Action! One thought on “” Carol Simmons Excellent interview. Some new data regarding disproportionality data in schools and “Black girls.” The school to prison pipeline begins in the schools with the referral of certain students to “the office” and can be reduced with resources and counselors and restorative justice methods. LikeLike November 19, 2018 at 8:28 am Reply Leave a Reply to Carol Simmons Cancel reply Enter your comment here... 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For this reason when the Penang state government launched the free wifi initiative in 2009, we wanted coverage throughout Penang including the BN parliamentary constituencies of Kepala Batas and Tasik Glugor. This free wifi initiative is an effort by the Penang state government to increase broadband penetration and digital intelligence both in the urban and rural Penang to propel Penang forward as a knowledge-based economy. The Penang state government managed to secure a private company Redtone, to provide free wifi services without paying a single cent. Redtone promised to provide 750 free wifi hotspots without charge by relying on advertising revenues to get back their investment and capital outlay. The state government also facilitated Redtone by exempting them from certain rules in installing their wifi devices. The 750 free wifi hotspots were recently fully installed this year on both Penang and the mainland. However the Penang state government was concerned that there were certain areas not covered by the free wifi initiative such as the Bukit Glugor, Nibong Tebal, Kepala Batas and Tasik Glugor parliamentary constituencies. Both Bukit Glugor and Nibong Tebal are PR parliamentary seats. Redtone explained that commercial considerations compelled them to place the 750 wifi hotspots only in areas where there is commercial viability. As this is a private enterprise offered free by the company, the state government can not compel Redtone to cover all areas in Penang. To correct this imbalance and ensure that wifi coverage is available to all, the Penang state government has carried out discussions to have a joint-venture with Redtone to install an additional 750 hotspots that will cover all areas in Penang, including those areas left out earlier. In other words the additional 750 wifi hotspots will result in a total of 1,500 FREE wifi hotspots in Penang when full completed. This good intention by the state government to ensure free wifi coverage for all has now been distorted and twisted to an act of discrimination by the PR state government against BN supporters. How can the PR state government be accused of discriminating against BN supporters when even Karpal Singh’s parliamentary seat is not covered by Redtone’s first free wifi initiative? It is typical of BN mass media and its leaders’ double-standards and propaganda when the PR state government stands accused of discriminating against BN supporters or areas when the PR state government’s good intentions is to provide free wifi coverage for all. LIM GUAN ENG Post navigation ← Previous Post Next Post → Leave a Comment You must be logged in to post a comment. About Lim Guan Eng Biodata Vision for Penang New challenges, new perspective Service centre for Kadun Air Putih Add: 13B, Jalan Air Itam, 11500 Penang. 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– Lines on the Water Skip to content Lines on the Water The Blog of the Angling Trust Freshwater Team Toggle Sidebar November 26, 2019 November 26, 2019 Turning a neglected lake into a beautiful focal point for the whole local community, Easington DAS are a br story is truly remarkable; and yet with their clever use of volunteer effort and help from the EA and Angling Trust among other sources, their success is one any angling club could learn from. Dom Garnett spoke to a key man in the transformation of Wellfield Lake, Steve Arnaud. Looking at the idyllic site of Wellfield Lake today, you might never guess how grim things were not so long ago. Known in the 70s as a local jewel and noted crucian carp water, it had become a sad shadow of its former self. A site of litter-strewn scrubland whose main visitors were local drug users, it was about the last place you might take the kids to go fishing. But what on earth could be done? Quite remarkably, it wasn’t the intervention of a moneyed investor that began the site’s rejuvenation, but a simple conversation between two friends. “I would walk the dog there with a mate,” explains Steve Arnaud. “One day we were there chatting about what a mess it had become. We both agreed that we couldn’t let it get any worse, but what could we do? The paths were totally overgrown, as was the pond. You could virtually have walked across it on the weed, it was that choked.” Steve’s suggestion that the two of them came back with a shovel and get to work clearing the old paths must have seemed blindly optimistic at first; but it was this initial spark that started something infinitely bigger. “From just the two of us, we got more locals interested until three months in there were around twenty of us litter picking, weeding, the lot!” he recalls. “It was a start but we soon realised we’d need to reach out much further for help.” From a spark to a blaze… From an initial act of determination, the goodwill of those early volunteers steadily spread, bringing the whole community together and extending the agenda far beyond just fishing. Changing times at the lake: wind powered aerators go up while volunteers get to work. “Local generosity has been amazing- and the contributions just keep coming in” says Steve. “Most of it has been done on a shoestring- and in fact pretty much everything we do here we make ourselves. We have folks with engineering experience, guys who weed and remove litter, and even a gardener who helps out. How many fisheries have their own gardener?” he laughs. Not many, certainly among those that cost just £15 a year to be a member, you would guess! Pretty soon, shrubs and materials were being left for the club to use, while volunteer efforts cleaned the whole site up. Nor was it just anglers who wanted to get involved, once it was so blindingly obvious that this could once again become a beautiful shared space for just about everyone who lived locally. Indeed, this sense of huge wider value to the community has been right at the heart of the project. “Although we’re anglers, it’s about so much more than just fishing” says Steve. “You quickly realise that if you improve the habitat and the lake, the wildlife also benefits. As things improve, then people want to come back again, which in turn means that you get a different feel to the place and less antisocial behaviour.” From clearing up old junk to planting over 400 trees, the Wellingfield Lake site has become a spectacular exercise in good old fashioned, hands-on people power. Unsurprisingly, the locals have returned, fish stocks are buoyant and the whole atmosphere has shifted. A healthier fishery means fish stocks and angler numbers alike are on the up and up! Among other things, the project is also the result of a trusting, united effort, which tries to avoid arbitrary restrictions on helping out. “Provided we’re all pulling the same way and getting on with things safely, we want people just to get on with it. That’s the attitude we try to encourage – after all, not everyone can make work parties on a Sunday, so it’s a case of doing what you can when you can. We’re all members at the end of the day, and we all have the same interest- so the message is, if you want to see positive change and improvement, just get together and let’s do it. “ Finding funds and winning friends Although Steve and his volunteers are used to operating “on a shoestring” they have also made the most of the support available and been open to expert help at every step of the way. “Ultimately, we’re just local anglers and volunteers, not fishery experts, so getting support has been important. We’ve never been afraid to ask for some help; and the Environment Agency and Angling Trust have been excellent for us.” The EA, in particular, have helped with practical advice on restoring the lake, from which plants to use to how to deal with the menace that is Canadian pondweed. Sources including rod licence cash via the AIF (Angling Improvement Fund) have made a huge difference at the lake, especially with regard to accessibility. The club have also been Angling Trust members from the start, making the most of its free advice while also successfully gaining some helpful funds from rod licence money via the AIF (Angling Improvement Fund) and FIP (Fisheries Improvement Programme). The club didn’t succeed in its first application, but by persisting and showing the huge social value of what they were doing, they succeeded next time round- and Steve speaks highly of the Angling Trust’s Mark Wilton in helping them make a successful bid. Other initiatives range from recognised sources such as National Lottery funds, to more leftfield places, including the local Greggs, which provided charitable funds to help Neil Arnaud build fantastic wind powered aerators for the lake! The nearest Fishing Republic store also showed great generosity in providing dozens of whips and starter kits for kids to try fishing. The difference made from all of these pots making use of a varety of sources is plain to see, including excellent level paths and disabled-friendly pegs to allowing anglers of all abilities safe and accessible fishing. It’s a huge credit to all the volunteers. Meanwhile, there is also a tea cabin to provide shelter in bad weather and a space for visitors to share a cuppa. The ultimate win-win? The more I ask about the the project, the more abundantly clear it becomes that its success is all about keeping the bigger picture in mind and thinking of the whole community. Perhaps too often, anglers are inward looking and miss the wider impact our sport can have? Not so at Easington, where there is no mentality of “us and them” but an angling club that is at the heart of the community. “We need to get away from the idea that fishing waters are for anglers only” says Steve. “If you can involve everyone, it’s so much more likely to be a success.” He considers publically accessible waters to be of vital importance, especially in the current era when local resources risk being cut or neglected. After all, public lakes are where so many try fishing for the first time. Youth participation has massively increased, due to all the improvements and coaching days. Wellfield is a point in case, because winning the hearts of locals has been absolutely key in recruiting new anglers. Working with the likes of Get Hooked on Fishing and thanks to countless hours of coaching input from Paul Colledge and others at the club, over 500 people have tried the sport in the past two years. Memberships have quadrupled from 30 to 120, with the junior section now buoyant. “Kids’ parents actually come and knock on our door now,” says Steve. In some ways it’s like the good old days, he tells me, with the lake cleaner and safer than it’s been in ages. ”There’s a whole band of local kids who hop on their bikes after school and come fishing. It’s something we hadn’t seen in years and it’s great to see.” Wider positives and future plans Above all, the restoration of Wellfield Lake strikes you as a fantastic example of how an angling club can bring priceless wider benefits beyond just providing somewhere for people to fish. Walkers, twitchers and picnickers love the lake as much as the anglers, while other developments are fantastically far reaching. One huge current issue for any community is the importance of mental and physical health, alongside spaces and activities to combat social isolation. In this respect the club’s Wellbeing Tuesdays have been a brilliant initiative to get people out together in the outdoors. The club’s sterling efforts have been recognised with an Environment Award and some excellent positive press coverage. “The idea was a social isolation project aimed at getting people out of the house, to share a brew and socialise together in the outdoors” says Steve. “Since the start, we’ve had a real mix of people, up to those in their 80s and 90s. We’ve also welcomed kids with all kinds of special needs. It doesn’t matter if they’re 10 or 100, everyone is welcome. They can try fishing, or just come and socialise. It’s been fantastic- everyone feels better when they get outdoors in company and a fair few also then get fishing licences and go on to spend in our local tackle shops.” It’s just another example of the positive “ripple effect” within the local community, which is now spreading even further. Whether it’s local college kids getting work experience by doing things on site, or the fact that a consistent friendly presence means that the fly tippers have mostly gone, it’s all moving in the right direction. Not that Steve and his little army of local heroes are finished just yet, of course. The next plan on the go is creating a smaller pond, which will be a special crucian and tench lake. The thought of cracking genuine crucians completes the cycle of recovery in one sense, because it was several decades ago in the club’s infancy that the site was known for fantastic genuine crucians. “It was a no brainer, really” says Steve. “My suggestion was to use little bit of existing wetland that was once be part of the pond. After all 50 years ago we were renowned as a crucian lake. I said ‘how about we do this again with a new pond?’ at a club meeting and every hand in the room shot up!” Not only a very easy decision then, but fantastic news for crucian fans in the North East, a region where the species could certainly use a helping hand. It promises to be another great step; and it says it all that from a position of declining returns not so long ago, the club is now in a position where stocks are bouncing right back. Indeed, along with inspiration and practical advice to share with fellow North East fishing clubs, Easington DAA are also hoping to be able to offer top notch brood stock. Ide are among the healthy stock fish… while classic crucians are another highlight. In spite of the huge improvements, however, the one thing Steve and the club won’t be doing soon is increasing the membership prices. At just £15 per full adult member and even less for juniors, it’s amazing value- but the club fully accept that times are hard and that affordability is a massive factor with local families. “You can see the impact we’re having locally” says Steve. “We only started out wanting somewhere nice to go fishing every week, but it is so much more than that now. It’s given people a place to enjoy themselves and meet up; it’s something to to take pride in. It’s an endless thing now. There’s always something else to do, but it’s very rewarding.” From the humble starting point of two guys with shovels and a willingness to roll their sleeves up, then, it’s truly mind-blowing what has happened at Wellfield Lake. The possibilities are endless and it really does demonstrate what can be achieved when we work together and bring angling into the community, where it so rightfully belongs. Further info and useful links For more details and the latest news from Easington DAC, which offers some of the best value coarse and carp in the North East, click here to visit the club’s Facebook page. To find out more about the Angling Improvement Fund (AIF) and Fisheries Improvement Programme, and how your club could benefit from EA rod licence money, click here to see the dedicated section of our website. Don’t forget to subscribe to “Lines on the Water” and check out our blog archives for more inspiring projects and ideas that could help your club or fishery! Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Posted in Fishing, Fishing ClubsTagged Angling Improvement Fund, carp fishing, coarse fishing, community angling, crucian carp, Easington District Angling Society, Environment Agency, Environment Awards, family fishing, Fisheries Improvement Programme, habitat improvement, North East, Rod Licence money, Wellfield LakeBy domgarnettLeave a comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply Post navigation ← Into the Depths: The Angling Trust meets Jack Perks Turning EA rod licence funds into tomorrow’s specimen fish: Behind the scenes at Calverton → Thank you for reading this blog " Whilst the Angling Trust's work is reported here along with various policy positions I should make clear that the opinions expressed are those of the posts author." The Freshwater team	https://linesonthewater.anglingtrust.net/2019/11/26/from-wasteland-to-amazing-community-fishery-the-inspirational-story-of-easington-district-angling-society/	1,660,535,982
– Mostly Medicaid Skip to navigation Skip to content Search for: Search Menu Menu Consulting Services Technology Clients Health Plan Clients Government Clients Investment Clients Phy in KS Medicaid, some of which have been addressed, some have not. The article below has been highlighted and summarized by our research team. It is provided here for member convenience as part of our Curator service. Review shows agency caught $19.2 million in overpayments over 2-year period A state inspector general discovered the Kansas Department of Health and Environment didn’t detect overpayment of $1.3 million to private companies contracted to deliver services under Medicaid. (Illustration by Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — An expansive audit of Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s payments to companies contracted to deliver services under the state’s Medicaid program found $1.3 million in inappropriate compensation for care of people who had actually died. Steven Anderson, the state’s Medicaid inspector general, said the examination found 25 instances from 2015 to 2020 in which KDHE cut checks for beneficiaries who were deceased. When the period from July 2019 and July 2021 showed KDHE had identified $19.2 million improperly paid to the contractors that was subsequently recovered by docking future payments. The mistakes caught by KDHE involved 632 cases in which the state continued making payments after a death. In 56 of those cases, the inspector general’s report said, inappropriate payments had continued for five or more years after the beneficiaries’ demise. Anderson’s office reviewed the length of time overpaid funds were in possession of MCOs and determined the miscue was equivalent to giving those for-profit companies a $1.5 million cash loan. The report from the inspector general recommended KDHE “review quality control measures and staff training protocols to ensure they are sufficient to confirm staff members know how to effectively and efficiently identify and process cases involving death of a beneficiaries.” Apparently many of the mistakes occurred when the company Maximus was under contract from 2016 to 2020 to operate the state’s Medicaid clearinghouse for processing claims. KDHE should consider feasibility of taking legal action against Maximus to recover funds, Anderson’s report said. In Kansas, KDHE is responsible for administering Medicaid, also known as KanCare. KDHE contracts with three companies to coordinate health care for individuals enrolled in KanCare. The Medicaid inspector general, housed in the attorney general’s office, is responsible for independent and ongoing reviews of the program. “We have worked hard, in cooperation with the Legislature, to revitalize the office of Medicaid inspector general into a professional, independent reviewer that can promote efficiency in the Medicaid program,” said Attorney General Derek Schmidt. “These audits are products of that important work to reduce fraud and identify cost savings within the Kansas Medicaid, MediKan and State Children’s Health Insurance programs.” MediKan benefit woes The inspector general also released a July 30 report outlining challenges facing Kansans interested in reporting Medicaid fraud and recommended ways of improving access to the proper points of contact. In a third report, also released on July 30, Anderson said 912 MediKan beneficiaries who exceeded the 12-month lifetime eligibility limit between January 2018 and April 2021. Providing benefits beyond the maximum period resulted in the state paying $1.6 million for medical claims for adults 18 to 64 years of age who were ineligible for the program, the audit said. MediKan is a state-funded initiative providing medical services for people with physical or mental disabilities who wouldn’t qualify for Medicaid. Kristi Zears, spokeswoman for KDHE, said 457 of the ineligible recipients of MediKan benefits were discontinued before release of the inspector general’s audit. The other 455 improper recipients had been discontinued by July 29, she said. “We appreciate the work of the Medicaid inspector general and welcome the opportunity to further improve state medical assistance programs,” said Zears, who indicated KDHE’s reporting system would guarantee timely discontinuation of ineligible people. The inspector general, who is required by state law to report on fraud, waste, abuse and illegal contact, presented the information to Schmidt, KDHE secretary Lee Norman, KDHE Medicaid director Sarah Fertig and the House and Senate members on the KanCare oversight committee. The joint legislative oversight committee’s meeting Tuesday was called off with a tentative plan to convene lawmakers during September. Under KanCare, the managed-care companies receive a monthly payment from the state for each eligible beneficiary enrolled with that company regardless of whether the person incurred medical costs that month. Sunflower State Health Plan and United Healthcare Community Plan of Kansas have worked in the privatized Medicaid system since implemented in 2013 during the administration of Gov. Sam Brownback. Amerigroup’s contract was allowed to expire by KDHE in 2018 and that troubled company was replaced by Aetna Better Health of Kansas. 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