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Learning more about slip-disc symptoms from clinical teams that excel in non-surgical slipped disc treatment in town.
What are the Common Slip-Disc Symptoms and Signs?
Most are not familiar with slip-disc symptoms or the significance of a slip-disc. We hope to clarify the importance of slip-disc as well as the slip-disc symptoms in this article. A slip-disc (slipped disc) is a laypersons term for the medical condition known as protruded disc, prolapsed disc, herniated disc or bulging disc. Contrary to the common belief, slip-disc can be present with mild and even no pain. Much Like the millions of heart disease, diabetes or cancer patients, a slip-disc can be present with minimal to no symptoms at all. Therefore, regardless of the severity, slip-disc symptoms and signs should never be ignored. Initial slip-disc symptoms are often confusing to patients and even doctors. As a result, the vast majority of mild and even moderate slip-disc patients are misdiagnosed with muscle spasms.
Can Have a Slipped Disc Without Symptoms?
A misdiagnosed slip-disc is the primary reason for worsening of a slip-disc. Recovery from a slip-disc is not possible with a misdiagnosis. Therefore, in the coming paragraphs, we will elaborate on slip-disc and slip-disc symptoms. Our goal is to help you identify the underlying cause of your neck pain, upper back pain, low back pain, arm pain or leg pain. Before we start our discussion, let's shed light on some basic facts.
Spinal discs do not slip; they herniate, protrude, bulge and prolapse. As mentioned before, slip-disc or slipped disc is a layperson's term; therefore, it is critical to understand that a disc cannot move, slide or slip. But, for the sake of familiarity, we will continue to use this general term throughout our site.
Slip-disc happened when the jell-like soft inner portion of the spinal disc protrude or raptures through the firmer outer fibers The inner fibers are known as the nucleolus pulposus, while the outer thread (fiber) is called the annular fibrosus.
Symptoms can vary and are based on where the spinal disc damage is and if that damage (slip-disc) is compressing the spinal cord or spinal nerves.
A couple of decades ago, slip-disc was more common in the older adults. However, our modern lifestyles and all those handheld gadgets along with prolonged sitting are the leading cause of slip-disc in young adults. Today, a slip-disc is more common in younger adults. Nowadays, we see more and more teenagers that present to our center with a slip-disc. Therefore, understanding the slip-disc symptoms is critical than it has ever been before.
How to tell if you have a Slipped Disc?
Early slip-disc symptoms can be confusing for some doctors and almost every patient. The most common slip-disc symptom is a pain in the neck or back. Additional symptoms such as arm pain or leg pain may also accompany a slip-disc.
The one sure sign of a possible slip-disc is a recurrent neck pain or back pain. In short, you may have a slip-disc if you get neck pain or back pain several times during the year where these flare-ups last couple of days or more. For simplicity, we have divided slip-disc symptoms into two categories, the hidden slip-disc symptoms, and the classic slip-disc symptoms.
What are the classic signs of a slipped disc?
What are the Hidden Signs of a Slipped Disc?
What should you do if you have one or more of the signs mentioned above or symptoms?
We like to take a few moments and remind everyone that symptoms can vary from individual to individual. Also, the information presented here is to help your search in finding competent medical professionals who can identify the cause of your slip-disc and not just simply hand over a bag full of muscles relaxers or painkillers. The best advice we can provide is to visit one of our centers. We have some of the best chiropractors in Malaysia. On top of this, our methods of care are coupled with the best clinical physiotherapy and advanced technology that other does not have.
Physiotherapy rendered by one of our clinical physiotherapists is best-targeted methods of non-surgical slip-disc treatment in Malaysia. To summarize, the care and level of expertise we offer are unmatched anywhere in Southeast Asia. We back our claims through our proven records of reversing slip-disc. Chiropractic Specialty Center is the ONLY center in Malaysia to have successfully reversed a herniated spinal disc. Our treatments can fix a slipped disc through technology that others do not have. In fact, we are the only center that has clinical documentation proving the effectiveness of our slipped disc treatment, as provided through serial MRI assessments (pre and Post-therapy MRI). Don't waste time on ineffective methods offered by inexperienced individuals. If you want the best, visit us and judge for yourself.
We launched our center a decade ago and throughout these years assessed thousands of neck pain and back pain sufferers who were diagnosed with sprain/strains or muscles spasms when in fact they suffered from a slip-disc. The majority of whom were prescribed muscle relaxers, painkillers or bed rest. Painkiller can reduce some your pain, while muscles relaxers will do little, but make you drowsier. Therefore, painkiller should be used only to subdue some of the slip-disc symptoms while you get targeted therapeutic care. Medication alone is never advised; at least not by our clinical team members. We know better!
Can Medication Cure you or put an end to the symptoms and signs of a Slipped Disc?
Pain is the most common symptom in a slip-disc patient. It can dull or sharp, localized or generalized. But, as the condition progresses, it may start to radiate to the arms and legs. Some start taking painkillers, muscle relaxers or get injections, with the hope of curing their symptoms. However, these are just temporary fixes at best. Painkillers, muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatories, and injections are not cures most believe to be. In fact, they can do more harm. Back pain and neck pain will never kill you, but some of the medications prescribed to neck and back pain patients have killed many. So, avoid the pitfalls of a slip-disc by treating the root causes.
How serious is the numbness, tingling, burning or shock-like-sensation in arms or legs?
Paresthesia (numbness, tingling or burning sensations) is often present after the onset of pain. Numbness, tingling and burning sensations are signs of nerve damage. The vast majority of those that experience these symptoms are those with a rapidly progressive slip-disc issue. So, the need for urgent attention, accurate diagnosis, and targeted treatments are critical.
Additionally, some slip-disc patients may experience an "electric shock" like sensations in the arms, upper back or legs. Neglect of numbness, tingling, burning sensations or the electric-shock-like sensations can lead to permanent damage, including paralysis. Muscle weakness followed by muscle atrophy is common findings in those that have neglected the signs or symptoms of a slip-disc. A person suffering from a slip-disc may not even have the ability to lift up their hand, grip a pen, walk, or to even stand. They may even start having issues with their bowels, bladder and reproductive systems. Take our advice and do not neglect your health. We can help.
Besides a reduction in motor function, the body's systemic function will also be limited. Your spinal nerves also innervate your organs. Incontinence, constipation, asthma, erectile dysfunction and other reproductive issues are a common finding in slip-disc patients. Do not allow your body to undergo so much nerve damage. Get it treated at the onset of slip-disc symptoms.


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A number of studies have linked statins including Lipitor (atorvastatin), Crestor (rosuvastatin), as well as Zocor (simvastatin, produced by Merck) to an increased risk of diabetes.
In fact, an FDA warning was required to be included on the Lipitor label following a safety announcement on February 28, 2012, that warned of the diabetes risk as well as other side effects.
A study published in BMJ on May 23, 2013, confirmed the FDA warning and earlier research when it concluded that statins, such as Lipitor, had a higher incident of diabetes risk than pravastatin.
The study analyzed patients in Ontario, Canada were treated with Lipitor, Crestor, and Zocor.
The team of researchers examined the healthcare records of more than 1.5 million patients aged 66 or older without diabetes who started statin treatment between August 1997 and March 2010. Overall, a 10-22% increased risk of diabetes was found.
The BMJ study follows a Women's Health Initiative study published on January 23, 2012, which found a nearly 50% increase in new-onset diabetes for postmenopausal women with statins compared with a placebo.
In addition to the risk of diabetes, a BMJ research paper published on March 19, 2013, noted that users of "high potency statins" (including Lipitor) were 34% more likely to be hospitalized with acute kidney injury within 120 days after starting treatment, again confirming the need for the FDA warning.
Does Consolidation of Lipitor Cases Mean That A Lipitor Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Created?
In April of 2013, Ms. Smalls and other plaintiffs from South Carolina filed a request to consolidate the Lipitor diabetes lawsuit before one judge in South Carolina.
Consolidation of Lipitor diabetes cases would prevent duplicate discovery and inconsistent resolutions.
Although injured parties in the Lipitor diabetes lawsuit may end up included in multidistrict litigation (MDL) in front of one court, this does not make the Lipitor diabetes lawsuit a class action.
Injured victims across the country have the opportunity to their own day in court and to have their own Lipitor injury analyzed after preliminary pretrial proceedings are complete.
In May of 2013, Pfizer opposed the motion to transfer the cases out of the plaintiff's home jurisdictions, stating Pfizer would prefer to fight each case individually.
Pfizer argued that consolidation of the Lipitor diabetes lawsuit would encourage more people to file lawsuits resulting in the exposure of trade secrets behind Lipitor, one of the most prescribed medicines in history.
The Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) panel met in June and established MDL No. 2459, the national Lipitor diabetes lawsuit, in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Lipitor Diabetes Litigation
On March 25, 2013, a South Carolina woman spoke to a Lipitor diabetes lawyer and filed a complaint against Pfizer claiming that Pfizer promoted and marketed Lipitor as safe and effective (U.S. District Court of South Carolina Civil Action No. 2:13-cv-796-CWH).
Evalina Smalls, the plaintiff, alleges that prior to taking Lipitor she lived a healthy and proactive lifestyle, but despite her healthy weight and diet, Ms. Smalls developed type-2 diabetes after initiating her Lipitor treatment. Ms. Small filed a Lipitor diabetes lawsuit as a result.
The Lipitor lawyers seek to hold Pfizer accountable in the Lipitor Diabetes lawsuit for the failure to warn of this risk.
Ms. Smalls alleges the following in her Lipitor diabetes lawsuit:
August 2011 – The Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products of the FDA requested that Pfizer make labeling changes for Lipitor based upon the FDA's comprehensive review, including clinical trial data.
February 2012 – Pfizer complied and added language to the label.
Prior to February 2012, no warning was given to consumers.
Despite the February 2012 label change, Pfizer failed to warn consumers of the serious risk of developing type-2 diabetes.
Pfizer knew or should have known that the risks to consumers included the severe and life-threatening complications of type-2 diabetes.
Pfizer failed to warn of the increased risk of diabetes to Ms. Smalls and, furthermore, negligently promoted, marketed and distributed Lipitor, which caused Ms. Smalls to develop type-2 diabetes.
Did you or a loved one use Lipitor to lower your "LDL" and then develop diabetes?
If so, you may want to discuss your options with an experienced and qualified lawyer.

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Three former employees of the ANZ Amerika Samoa Bank have made their first appearance in the District Court facing charges of stealing and embezzlement.
The Samoa News reports that the three are believed to have siphoned off close to $100,000 from the bank's branch in Ofu, Manu'a.
The prosecution claims Tofa Toeaina, who served as a supervisor, misappropriated bank funds for more than two years.
Tellers Jessie Maiava and Caroline Ulberg are alleged to have started off borrowing money with the approval of their supervisor, however, the money was never paid back.
The bank staff in Tutuila conducted a surprise cash count in April and found that a large sum of money was missing from the Ofu branch.
A fourth person involved in the scheme is assisting the government in its case against the other three.


The restaurant's business model was dubious from the start. Charging almost $70 for steaks available elsewhere for $40, V Steakhouse had to be almost impossibly good; it was merely average. Service was excellent, and V's appetizers were well above the typical steakhouse fare, but a thirty-dollar premium for the entrées just wasn't going to cut it.
Frank Bruni's one-star review for the Times may have seemed unduly harsh at the time, but Bruni was prescient when he complained of "Elaborate Dishes, Assembly Required." I was not impressed with V Steakhouse, particularly at its outrageous price point.
The original concept of Time-Warner's "Restaurant Collection" was to create five restaurants under one roof that would all contend for three or four stars from the Times. Two of them in fact achieved the top rating: Per Se and Masa. Café Gray is apparently successful, despite a two-star spanking from Bruni. But Vongerichten has now failed, and the fifth tenant, Charlie Trotter, never materialized, due to escalating construction costs.
V Steakhouse's quasi-bordello space now goes to the scrap heap.
Note: V Steakhouse closed in December 2005. My final thoughts are here. The space is now occupied by Porter House New York.
V Steakhouse is part of the much-ballyhooed "restaurant collection" at the Time-Warner Center. With Masa ($300 prix fixe) and Per Se ($125-150 prix fixe) as neighbors, V Steakhouse with its $66 steaks starts to look like bargain-basement dining. Actually, you can order the chicken entrée at V for $19, and dine at the world's most expensive food court without spending a monthly rent payment. But it's no accident that V is called a steakhouse, and it's as a steakhouse that it must succeed or fail.
The Time-Warner restaurant collection was designed to be three and four-star restaurants, one and all. The nominal chef of the eponymous V, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, was none too pleased to get just one star from the Times's Frank Bruni. Bruni's review seemed an anomaly (three stars from the Post's Steve Cuozzo; a rave in Newsday) till New York Magazine came along with a review titled Steak, Not Well Done.
Vongerichten told New York Magazine, "Eighteen years in New York, and I never had a one-star review; I don't even know how to do a one-star restaurant. The hardest part is the staff. Nobody wants to work in a one-star place." Maybe it would help if they sometimes saw the boss. As Vongerichten has over half-a-dozen restaurants in New York alone, to say nothing of his global empire, you can rest assured he's seldom there.
I had a business dinner at V Steakhouse last night. The décor has been much written about. You love it or you hate it. It reminded me of the interior of the Metropolitan Opera House, with its plush velvet reds and shimmering chandeliers. To that, V adds a grove of gold-painted aluminum trees. To some, it resembles an upscale whorehouse. I found it charming, and so did my companions, who are from Boston.
They pamper you at V. Jean-Georges may not know how to do three-star steak, but he certainly knows how to deliver three-star service. It is a large dining room, but the tables are generously spaced. By the end of our evening, it was about 90% full, but not at all noisy. Most of the tables had parties of four or more. There are hardly any two-seaters at V.
One of my companions had a foie gras appetizer, which he loved, while two of us shared steak tartare, which was wonderful. However, a steakhouse must be judged mainly on the quality of its steaks, and V fails to deliver the goods. My porterhouse was unevenly charred, had an unacceptably high fat and gristle content, and offered a flimsy and under-sized filet on the smaller side of the cut. It was done correctly to the medium-rare temperature I had ordered, but it was otherwise a porterhouse no restaurant of this purported calibre should serve. The other porterhouse at our table was a bit better, but we quickly agreed: this was not a $66 steak. At half that price, I would have considered myself over-charged.
I went to the men's room, and a couple of guys asked me about my steak. I shared my experience. "Mine sucked," one fellow said. "So did mine," said another. To be fair, I should report that my other table companion ordered the Waygu, which he said was the best steak he'd ever had in his life. Undoubtedly V has the equipment to put out great steak on occasion, but they must be accepting whatever wildly inconsistent inventory appears on their loading dock every morning.
V has an ample selection of side dishes. I ordered the "fripps," which are like large potato chips prepared in a tempura batter. These are superb, but it's a problem when they utterly out-class the steak. A selection of complimentary sauces came with our meal. These added a little spice to an otherwise humdrum steak, but in my view the best steaks shouldn't need them.
For dessert, I ordered the berry cheesecake. Like so many of the V desserts, the kitchen hasn't assembled the pieces. You have a small slice of cheesecake, and a berry goo in an accompanying glass, which you're encouraged to sip through a straw. How this is supposed to be superior to a traditional cheesecake utterly eludes me. Try the assorted cheese platter instead.
The NY Times doesn't give separate ratings for service, décor, and food. But if it did, I'd say that three stars is appropriate for the first two categories, but that one star is awfully generous for the third. The kitchen desperately needs a wake-up call.


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Hyderabad reports second Covid-19 case; takes India's total to 28
Hyderabad has reported its second Covid-19 case Wednesday, Credit: Shutterstock
India's tech city Hyderabad has reported its second Covid-19 case Wednesday, taking the overall coronavirus count in the country to 28.
The newly confirmed patient is an employee of a science-based company called DSM, located in Raheja mindspace, in the heart of the city's tech and industrial corridor.
In an email sent to staff, DSM mentioned that one of its employees was tested positive for coronavirus.
As an immediate measure, the company has evacuated the building and advised employees to work from home until further notice. The same approach was extended to the company's another building located in Brightspace to curtail any potential spread.
Both buildings are currently being sanitised and disinfected thoroughly, following the company's procedures.
Citing the safety and health as company's top priority, the email further noted: "Despite the anxiety this may cause, please be assured that we are taking full precautions to minimize the risk of further spreading."
Although an official announcement from Telangana government or India's Heath Ministry is still due, the Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC) has endorsed this development stating that the final confirmation from Pune is yet be received.
According to a statement issued by SCSC on 4 March, the affected person self-quarantined effective 28 February on noticing the symptoms and was getting health check-ups done regularly as per guidelines.
In an effort to minimise panic building up in the city, especially in the IT corridor, SCSC has issued an advisory in discussion with Government of Telangana.
The advisory noted alongside highlighting the preventive steps to be taken at workplace and procedures to be followed in case of overseas travel in the last 14 days: "Fatality rate from the virus is very low and there is no need for panic."
Hyderabad has earlier reported its first confirmed Covid-19 case on 2 March of an individual who travelled from Dubai.
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I'm writing today about Afrofuturism, and one big caveat I feel compelled to mention before writing another word on this subject is that I am white. I consider myself woke, but I would never claim to be any kind of expert on a subject like this. I'm not saying a white dude can't, theoretically, become expert in this field, I'm just saying that I am most definitely not that guy. I'm interested, and enjoy works from this genre, as I enjoy works from most sci-fi sub-genres, but what I'm writing here are musings at the very most. Okay, now that's out of the way, let the mansplaining continue.
To take a very recent example, Black Panther and his technologically advanced homeland are what Afrofuturism is all about. It's about a vision of the future, informed by a black sensibility. The movie's depiction of Wakanda, the hidden fictional African nation without a colonial past, is close to an Afrofuturist paradise. Even the characters round Black Panther are infused with Afrofuturism. For example, the all-female military unit the Dora Milaje, who are armed with swords and jetpacks. They are dedicated to resistance and freedom from patriarchy.
Afrofuturism can be seen in many genres, but the Afrofuturism in comic books is a particularly rich vein. Comic books are a medium that integrates Afrofuturism in the settings, the storytelling, the characters, or all of the above. There is a huge list of Afrofuturist comic books at Libguides.
I was intrigued to see that both Misty Knight and Moon Girl are both included on that list as examples of the genre. I haven't read any comics with either of them in for a while, so I have quickly dipped back in, specially for this post. I started with Misty Knight, because she is a character that kicks ass. If ever there was a character that Pam Grier should have played, then it is Misty. Misty Knight is a cyborg with a bionic arm that gives her superhuman strength, and near-perfect aim with firearms. It's Afrofuturism with a hint of Blacksploitation cinema.
Moving on from comic books, the idea of the cyborg is to be found across genres. It also chimes with the work of musical artists such as Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae. Erykah Badu has Afrofuturism at the core of her songs, seen in Didn't Cha Know walking on an alien planet, putting on her space gear as she sings about being lost and trying to find her way.
Monae has an alter-ego named Cindi Mayweather, a cyborg in a dystopian future who represents the new other. Monae had a dream about Cindi Mayweather after watching Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Her love for science-fiction inspired her to continue to expand on the Cindi Mayweather universe with her debut album Archandroid and her The Electric Lady. With no past, as a cyborg who was created artificially, Cindi Mayweather calls into question ideas of identity as image, where our identity is a collage of cultural scraps. Identity becomes cyborg-like - nomadic, a hybrid.
Enthusiastic about Misty Knight, with these complex ideas about the cyborg in mind, I plumped for a comic from 2006 called Daughters of the Dragon. In this comic Misty is in a buddy team with Colleen Wing, the hands-down best character in the underrated Iron Fist TV show.
A comic with Misty Knight and Coleen Wing has to be a winner, I thought, with a smile of anticipation. It combines two ultimate badasses in one comic book mini-series. How wrong I was. It didn't take long before I started to realize that the art is an insult to the eyes. The comic book features images that are the male gaze taken to the extreme and beyond, Male Gaze 2.0. We see jiggling flesh in bullet time, and the two female leads are constantly straddling things, spreading their legs wide and grinding against stuff. It's as repulsive as it is dumb, both exploitative and stupid at the same time.
The art was a real smack in the face, a massive disappointment, so bad in fact that it prevented me engaging with the story at all. These two characters have so much potential that this comic book series is verging on being a crime. Both superheros absolutely deserve better, and should not be wasted and debased by being used in this kind of grim, slapdash, and questionable work.
I felt dirty after reading it, and it certainly didn't chime with anything I think of as Afrofuturism, so I then turned to Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, which was also on the list in the article. I was surprised to see that Devil Dinosaur isn't in the comic any more, and instead it seems to be reintroducing the Fantastic Four. Reed and Sue Richards are still missing, the Fantastic Four are no more, but the writer has promised a new team with all four of their power sets.
I was a little dubious, but it works amazingly well. Seeing the Thing and the Silver Surfer fighting for the attention of a young mutant genius in the shape of Lunella Lafayette in the school yard, surrounded by a chain link fence and grim brick apartment blocks, strikes me as something that fits very well with Afrofuturism.
This situation is set in motion when Ben Grim and the Human Torch, trying to come to terms with no longer having Reed Richards around, decide to clear out the Baxter Building. Both Moon Girl and Ben Grim grew up on the same Lower East Side block, albeit a generation apart, so he brings all the high-tech stuff to Moon Girl, and there is a logic to that.
If she is taking the role of Reed Richards, it also makes sense that she is sought out as a representative of Earth by the likes of the Silver Surfer and Galactus. The entire universe seems to be revolving around the imagination of a young black girl in the school yard, the way it revolves around all our imaginations. For me, that makes it a great and inclusive example of Afrofuturism.
TV networks are, apparently, now catching up with investing in Afrofuturistic narratives. On-screen adaptations are underway for post-apocalyptic books by author Nnedi Okorafor and the late Octavia Butler, a literary icon of Afrofuturism. I for one can't wait to see more from this rich genre of quality sci-fi.
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Louisville football quarterback Jawon Pass elects to run against Notre Dame
Jawon "Puma" Pass put on the jets a few times against Notre Dame, rushing for two touchdowns and 67 yards.
Louisville football quarterback Jawon Pass elects to run against Notre Dame Jawon "Puma" Pass put on the jets a few times against Notre Dame, rushing for two touchdowns and 67 yards. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2019/09/03/louisville-football-quarterback-jawon-pass-chooses-run-against-notre-dame/2163204001/
Danielle Lerner, Louisville Courier Journal Published 6:52 a.m. ET Sept. 3, 2019 | Updated 6:56 a.m. ET Sept. 3, 2019
In the early minutes of his junior season debut, Louisville quarterback Jawon "Puma" Pass made it clear he would not be restricted by his last name.
A deviation from his previous reputation as a pure pocket passer, Pass wheeled out an impressive run game Monday night as Louisville fell to Notre Dame, 35-17, at Cardinal Stadium.
Much of Louisville's first season under head coach Scott Satterfield has been framed in stark contrast to the prior regime of Bobby Petrino, and Pass was no exception.
Pass rushed for two touchdowns and 67 yards against Notre Dame, more than 70% of his 2018 rushing total of 93 yards. In the air, he completed 12 of 27 passes for 134 yards.
Some of this was to be expected since Satterfield's offense is more run-heavy than what Petrino implemented last season. But Pass overall looked notably more confident on his feet Monday.
"That puts pressure on the defense when your Q can run like that," Satterfield said. "We make (Pass) make decisions in the run game just about every play, really, with our zone read stuff. So he did a good job with that. We'll know more, obviously, when we go back to look at the film, but the way he ran the football is going to give us a chance as we move forward with this."
More: Respectability arrives ahead of schedule for Louisville football
Pass led the Cardinals in rush attempts at halftime, with two of the nine accounting for Louisville's pair of touchdowns.
On Louisville's opening drive, the quarterback ran three times for a total of 32 yards, including an 8-yard keeper for the Cardinals' first score of the game.
His second touchdown run was 17 yards up the middle, untouched.
Things began to crumble slightly toward the end of the first half, when Pass lost the ball twice as part of a bizarre series where Louisville and Notre Dame alternated three consecutive quarterback fumbles.
Pass had a higher completion percentage in the second half (8 for 14), but he added just 16 net rushing yards, was sacked four times and finished with three fumbles.
Satterfield said fumbles hadn't been an issue for his quarterback in practice. While the coach expressed overall satisfaction with the run game, he said, "We've got to do a better job with ball security."
Pass said fumbles "are just part of the game," and that the Cardinals will need to learn how to move on from it before Saturday's game against Eastern Kentucky.
Louisville football takes on Notre Dame in 2019 season opener
U of L QB Jawon Pass gains yardage against Notre Dame during their game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
The Louisville Ladybirds entertain the crowd during the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville head coach Scott Satterfield runs out of the tunnel for his first game as the Cards took on visiting Notre Dame for the team's season opener Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Notre Dame QB Ian Book (12) was tripped up for a sack by U of L's Rodjay Burns (10) during their game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Scenes from tailgating before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
U of L's Javian Hawkins (10) eluded Notre Dame defenders during their game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Louisville's Khane Pass upends Notre Dame's Tony Jones, Jr. in the second half as the Cards fell to the visiting Irish 35-17. Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
U of L set an attendance record of 58,187 as they opened their season against Notre Dame at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Notre Dame's Kyle Hamilton breaks up a pass intended for Louisville's Dez Fitzpatrick on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's Dorian Etheridge and the defense celebrated a stop against the Irish's Ian Book in the first half.Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
The UofL Cardinal Marching Band's featured twirler Steffany Lien entertains the crowd during the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
U of L versus Notre Dame during their game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Scenes from the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
U of L QB Jawon Pass (4) was sacked by against Notre Dame's Daelin Hayes (9) during their game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Notre Dame's Tommy Tremble (24) was swarmed by teammates after he scored a touchdown against U of L during their game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
The Louisville football team runs onto the field before the game against Notre Dame on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Notre Dame's Tommy Tremble (24) scored a touchdown against U of L's Jack Fagot (38) during their game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Notre Dame's Jahmir Smith (34) celebrated with teammates after he scored a touchdown against U of L during their game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
U of L head coach Scott Satterfield walks off the field after losing 35-17 against #9 Notre Dame during his inaugural game at Cardinal Stadium. Sept. 2, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Louisville's Jawan Pass gets pressured by Notre Dame's Juliah Okwara in the second half as the Cards fell to the visiting Irish 35-17. Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville's Amonte Caban celebrates after dropping the runner for a loss against Notre Dame on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville fans support their team win the game against Notre Dame on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
It was a packed Cardinal Stadium -- a sight not seen in recent years -- as Louisville opened their 2019 season against Notre Dame.Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville's Chandler Jones celebrates a defensive stop against Notre Dame on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's Russ Yeast brings down Notre Dame's Chris Finke during the punt return on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's Hassan Hall scrambles to recover a Cardinal fumble in the second half as the Cards fell to Notre Dame 35-17. Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville's Scott Satterfield had the Cards come out energetic against Notre Dame in the first half, trailing by a touchdown at halftime.Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Notre Dame's Tony Jones, Jr. runs in for a touchdown through the Louisville defense as the Cards fell to the visiting Irish 35-17. Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville's Jawon Pass tries to leap over Notre Dame's Kyle Hamilton on his way to gaining a first down against the Irish on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's Rodjay Burns (#10) and teammates celebrate sacking Notre Dame's Ian Book on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's Rodjay Burns brings down Notre Dame's Ian Book for the sack on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's Juwan Pass runs in for his second touchdown against Notre Dame in the first half. Sept. 2, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
The Louisville cheerleaders entertain the crowd during the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's Jawon Pass runs it in for a touchdown against Notre Dame on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's coach Scott Satterfield signals for his team to wait for the 3rd quarter to end before running a play against Notre Dame on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Notre Dame's Jahmir Smith dives for the touchdown early in the first half against Louisville to help put the Irish up 7-0. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Notre Dame's Ian Brook gained 37 yards as Louisville's Khana Pass misses the tackle early in the first half. The Irish would score on the drive. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
:ouisville fan Alex Phillips and Notre Dame fan Trevor Lynes of Chicago guarded their parking spot for friends before the Louisville-Notre Dame game Monday afternoon. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Emily Haddaway tossed the football around before the Louisville-Notre Dame game Monday afternoon. Russell actually went to UK but wore an Irish jersey to the game. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
The fans make their way in to Cardinal Stadium before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
'Make the Cards Great Again' says the shirt of Dave Baker wore. His wife Terry made before the 2019 football season while tailgating before the Cards game against the Irish. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Erica Meyers has a future Cardinal fan inside her that's due in October. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville head coach Scott Satterfield helps lead the Cardmartch before the game against Notre Dame Monday afternoon for the Cardinals' season opener for 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
The Goodyear Blimp circles Cardinal Stadium before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Lauren Huebler and Kellen Russell played corn hole with friends before the Louisville-Notre Dame game Monday afternoon. Russell actually went to UK but wore an Irish jersey to the game. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Dennis Brishaber cooks up some meat and chats with friends while tailgating before the Cards game against the Irish. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Rex Caldwell gets some cooling relief from Nick Coleman while cooking up wings. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Brian Whaley and David Looney played some corn hole with their wives before the Cards game against the Irish. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame on Labor Day. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville football coach Scott Satterfield greets enthusiastic fans before the game against Notre Dame Monday afternoon for the Cardinals' season opener for 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Fans greeted and talked with each other before the Louisville game against Notre Dame. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Hannah Koloski threw a bean bag with friends before the Louisville-Notre Dame game Monday afternoon. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Amanda Kinnard holds up the jersey of Dayna Kinnard with husband and father Gary Kinnard before the UofL-Notre Dame game. Thousands of fans showed up early to tailgate before the game against Notre Dame. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville cheerleaders take a selfie before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Scenes from the pregame Monday afternoon for the Cardinals' season opener for 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville players greet the fans before the game against Notre Dame Monday afternoon for the Cardinals' season opener for 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
The Louisville football team stops at midfield for a prayer circle before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville quarterback Juwan Pass looks towards the thousands of fans who lined up for Cardmarch before the game against Notre Dame Monday afternoon for the Cardinals' season opener for 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville volunteer ushers great the team as they enter the stadium before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Notre Dame fan Greg Balderas made his helmet in honor of the Blessed Mother on the Golden Dome of Notre Dame. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's coach Scott Satterfield and the rest of the team make their way through the crowd during Card March before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
The Louisville Marching Band makes it's way through the crowd before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Louisville's Jawon Pass scrambles against Notre Dame on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Notre Dame's Julian Okwara takes down Louisville's Jawon Pass on 4th down on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
The UofL Cardinal Marching Band entertains the crowd before the Louisville vs Notre Dame game on Sept. 2, 2019. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
There were flashes of promise against Notre Dame that showed Pass is capable of bouncing back from a bad play.
After being sacked for a loss on the first play of a fourth-quarter drive, Pass danced along the sideline for a 22-yard gain and a first down.
Satterfield said Louisville's game plan to run on the outside was formulated with Pass' mobility in mind.
"Part of that was Puma taking off on the edges and part of that was our stretch play," he said. "I think that's going to be a staple of our offense."
More: Instant Analysis: Lots for Louisville to like vs. Notre Dame — except the result
But it seemed every time Pass made a play, the next play would result in a loss. Other than a field goal in the third quarter, the Cardinals were unable to string together enough second-half offense to mount a comeback against Notre Dame.
"I didn't do enough to help us win," Pass said. "We just have to go back to work and get better."
Notes and quotes
Louisville didn't make great use of its receiving corps. Pass targeted Tutu Atwell 11 times and Marshon Ford four times. Atwell caught five passes for 47 yards. Seth Dawkins and Dez Fitzpatrick were each targeted only twice. No other player was targeted more than once.
Satterfield on Louisville's lacking passing game: "You add up drops and some of the bad throws and that's why the completion percentage was off. Our plan tonight was to try to get the ball down to these one-on-one matchups. It's tough, those guys do a good job of covering. We've got to get free. The receivers have to make plays."
Running backs Javian Hawkins and Hassan Hall were instrumental. Hawkins rushed for 122 yards on 19 carries while Hall tallied 69 yards on 11 carries.
Two Louisville natives had good performances: tight end Marshon Ford and outside linebacker Rodjay Burns. Ford, a Ballard graduate, totaled 43 receiving yards highlighted by a 37-yard catch in the third quarter. Trinity alum Burns made six solo tackles and sacked Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book for a loss of 8 yards.
Battle at center: Louisville's center position continues to be a contest between TJ McCoy and Cole Bentley. McCoy, the graduate transfer from Florida, earned the start, but Bentley saw time at the position as well. Louisville fumbled five times in the game, one of which was a bad snap from Bentley in the third quarter.
Danielle Lerner: 502-582-4042; dlerner@courierjournal.com; Twitter: @Danielle_Lerner. Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: courier-journal.com/daniellel.
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FULLSCREEN > Archive > 2021 > Vol 2, №7 (2021) > Hypoglycemia, an obstacle to achieving glycemic control. Importance of blood glucose self-monitoring
Hypoglycemia, an obstacle to achieving glycemic control. Importance of blood glucose self-monitoring
Inna V. Urlaeva
Hypoglycemia is a well-known factor, limiting the patient's ability to achieve adequate glycemic control, and capable of causing a number of car-diovascular diseases (CVDs). Recurrent hypoglycemia may result in severe, potentially fatal complication of diabetes mellitus (DM), the impaired hypoglycemia awareness, raising the risk of severe hypoglycemia up up to six times. Measuring blood glucose levels is a universally accepted com-ponent of glycemic control and one of the strategies for prevention of hypoglycemia, along with the structured patient education in DM manage-ment and the use of modern hypoglycemic medications. Prevention of severe hypoglycemia may be important for prevention of CVDs in patients with DM.
Kew words: diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemia, glucose meter, impaired awareness of hypoglycemia.
Inna V. Urlaeva 1
1 Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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The Missouri University of Science and Technology is a member of a relatively small number of institutions that focus primarily on engineering studies. The prescriptive nature of ABET-accredited curricula means that the opportunities for undergraduate students to study abroad over either the short or long terms are limited. An interdisciplinary group of faculty members working on international water-related research projects developed a campus-wide undergraduate minor proposal intended to attract students interested in international studies without regard to the students' major fields of study. A critical aspect of the minor was the desire by the originators to have the minor administered independently of any degree program so as to maintain an independent (or "international") spirit. Housing the minor at the campus level instead of the academic department level created a unique set of concerns and challenges which required considerable time to address. The most organized resistance to the minor came from some humanities and social science faculty members. The administration of the minor is thus highly defined, and the three- year plus time period required to formally establish the minor resulted in several lessons learned that may be of interest to others who want to pursue interdisciplinary programs. The minor is currently administered by a group of faculty from engineering, physical and natural sciences, liberal arts, and business degree programs; and it is expected that the 2009-2010 academic year will yield the first generation of students in the minor program.
A. C. Elmore, "Missouri S&T's Global Studies Minor Development Experience," Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress: Challenges of Change (2010, Providence, RI), pp. 250-257, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), May 2010.


The tradition of human rights education in Hampton schools has gone hand in hand with a social activism built on respect for the rights and freedoms of all peoples. The following school projects are examples of this activism and of Hampton's commitment to the human rights legacy of John Peters Humphrey.
In April of 2000, Hampton Elementary School presented Peace Cranes 2000. The musical, based on the life of John Peters Humphrey, was written and produced by teachers Anne Scott and Donna Veniot. On December 10, 2000, Hampton Elementary School was the recipient of the New Brunswick Human Rights Award.
The Gift for Africa Project (Oct.1999) was a joint school effort involving eight schools in the Hampton area. Over a two week period, students collected 37 cubic metres of used toys, books, bikes and soccer balls – enough to fill a 40 foot container. This was then shipped, with the help of local Rotary Clubs, to underprivileged children in the black townships of South Africa.
AIDS Orphans in South Africa; Child Victims of Landmines in Nicaragua, UNICEF's Back to School Campaign in Afghanistan; The Jakarta Centre for Street Children in Indonesia; The Rabinal School Project in Guatemala; and SEVOTA, a support group for orphans and widows of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Founded in Canada by John Peters Humphrey in 1973, Amnesty International Canada can boast over 65,000 supporters. Hampton AI groups, both within the community and the high school, work diligently through letter-writing campaigns and social justice events, in support of human rights defenders in Colombia and prisoners of conscience throughout the world.
This hands-on student environmental group operates at Hampton High School. Co-ordinated by the Art Dept., the Green Team, through its recycling efforts, raises money in support of social justice initiatives within the school.
Art students at Hampton High School produced and curated their own human rights art exhibit entitled Between The Lines. Their art works were on view to the public in Gallery 3 of the New Brunswick Museum from June to September 2000. Hampton native John Humphrey was given a special place in the exhibition.
The visit to HHS by an AIDS activist from Swaziland inspired residents from the Town of Hampton to set up a twinning relationship with the town of Piggs Peak, Swaziland. Hampton High School is 'twinned' with Fundukuela High School. To date students have sent soccer equipment and have assisted in the organization of a coffee house that raised money for this AIDS-affected town.
Speakers present their views on a wide range of human rights related topics. Speakers, such as Guillermo Chen Morales, have provided the knowledge and the inspiration that lead students to activism. In 2003, students raised approximately $3000.00 that went toward the construction of a school in Rabinal, Guatemala.


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Ethnographic Engagement with Bureaucratic Violence
in Conflict and Society
Author: Erin R. Eldridge 1 and Amanda J. Reinke 2
1 Fayetteville State University eeldridg@uncfsu.edu
2 Georgia College and State University amanda.reinke@gcsu.edu
https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2018.040108
bureaucracy; bureaucratic violence; continuum of violence; ethnography; policy; power; social suffering
Bureaucracies are dynamic and interactive sociocultural worlds that drive knowledge production, power inequalities and subsequent social struggle, and violence. The authors featured in this special section mobilize their ethnographic data to examine bureaucracies as animated spaces where violence, whether physical, structural, or symbolic, manifests in everyday bureaucratic practices and relationships. The articles span geographic contexts (e.g., United States, Canada, Chile, Eritrea) and topics (e.g., migration, extractive economies, law and sociolegal change, and settler colonialism) but are bound together in their investigation of the violence of the administration of decisions, care, and control through bureaucratic means.
Defying commonly held perceptions, anthropological studies have revealed that bureaucracies are not simply mundane, stagnant administrative structures. They are, as Anya Bernstein and Elizabeth Mertz argue, interactive sociocultural worlds where decisions are made, knowledge is created, and power is exerted in ways that affect the everyday lives of citizens. Ethnography is thus well suited for unveiling the "humanness" and everyday realities of bureaucratic practice and interactions (2011: 7). In an introduction to a set of articles on bureaucracy, Laura Bear and Nayanika Mathur recently illustrated the effectiveness of ethnographic approaches as they explored how the enactment of certain utopian goals or "new public goods" embodying values such as austerity, transparency, and decentralization can change bureaucratic organizations, shape social struggles, and produce unexpected outcomes. For example, Mathur's study of the overhaul of India's welfare system based on "good governance" strategies, namely austerity and efficiency, uncovered how the goal of efficiency was undermined by underlying conflicts between established bureaucrats and newly contracted professionals with precarious relations to the state (2015: 22-25).
Highlighting bureaucracies as "animated spaces" that can produce unintended, sometimes violent, outcomes, these anthropologists and others have called for ethnographies of bureaucracies that are more nuanced and robust, with emphasis on transparency and secrecy, paperwork, violence, class politics, and the fusion of public and private (Graeber 2015; Graeber et al. 2015). In response to this call, this collection of articles utilizes ethnographic inquiry and methodology to contribute to the growing literature on bureaucratic violence. Studies on the intersection of bureaucracy and violence uncover dynamic spaces where state and bureaucratic organizations exert force and social control and engender struggle across multiple scales. Expanding the scholarship on social suffering (Kleinman et al. 1997) and the bureaucratic production of indifference (Herzfeld 1992), for example, Akhil Gupta (2012) revealed the dynamic roles of the state and its bureaucrats in creating and reinforcing structural violence. By focusing on arbitrary decision-making among bureaucrats, corruption, and the significance of inscription, Gupta exposed the ways in which systems of care designed to address social suffering systematically reproduce and normalize violence.
Bureaucratic violence is therefore not merely an outcome of abstract structures, as the articles in this section show, but is administered through processes of decision-making, paperwork, knowledge production, inaction, and exclusion (see Gupta 2012; Rajan 2001; Tyner and Rice 2016). The authors draw on and contribute to theories of bureaucracy and bureaucratization by considering the dynamic ways in which both bureaucrats and the infrastructures within which they work interact with, shape, and are influenced by the citizens they serve. Constructed and implemented by individuals working within a state or organizational structure, bureaucracies are comprised of people making decisions and creating knowledge that can perpetuate violence on the public in myriad ways. Thus, this section builds on ethnographies of bureaucracy and violence to analyze the decidedly human element that creates, interprets, and influences the forms, structures, and public discourse of bureaucracy.
We additionally investigate how violence intimately, and often invisibly, entangles with bureaucratic relations and can manifest in a multitude of forms along the violence continuum (Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois 2004), encompassing often overlapping dimensions of physical, structural (Farmer 2004), symbolic (Bourdieu and Wacquant 2004), and slow violence (Nixon 2011). As noted by James Tyner and Stian Rice (2016: 40; also Graeber 2015: 58), bureaucracies—as structures of violence—"provide context for physical violence." The articles in this section reveal the state's physical violence via colonialism, incarceration, and failure to investigate human rights violations. Structural violence is administered through systems that fail to provide adequate access to resources, such as effective legal counsel, effective transnational legal mechanisms, safe housing and environments, and other basic rights and needs. As bureaucratic infrastructures socially control a populace and regulate life itself, states and their bureaucrats seed symbolic violence—an internalization of violence by the oppressed as normative. Thus, the administration of decisions, care, and control through bureaucratic processes simultaneously affects our physical, social, and mental-emotional well-being. The authors in this section thus reveal the multilateral and dynamic bureaucratic infrastructures that exact this continuum of violence on populations in a variety of geographic contexts while also closely examining bureaucrats and the individuals affected by their daily decision-making.
Recognizing anthropology's unique position to interrogate the intersection of bureaucracy and violence, we aim to reveal relationships that can impact both theory and practice beyond traditional anthropological settings. Contributing to the critical turn in transitional justice studies (see Jones and Brudholm 2016), Jaymelee Kim analyzes bureaucratic violence and power dynamics amid transitional justice processes (TJ) in Canada. Collected over a period of 12 months, her ethnographic data illustrates the complex power relations among TJ facilitators, nonprofits, government officials, and the Indigenous communities these processes were meant to serve. In particular, Kim highlights the ways in which TJ exists as an extension of colonial bureaucracies by challenging Indigenous identity and acknowledging only particular narratives of violence while ignoring ongoing human rights violations. Contrary to goals of justice and reconciliation, TJ processes, in this context, are entwined with the physical and psychological violence of Indian Residential Schools, bureaucratic inaction toward cases of missing Indigenous women and children, ongoing disputes over land and resources, and the continued marginalization of First Nations.
In her article, Eliza Guyol-Meinrath Echeverry examines multiple dimensions of violence imposed through Canadian-based corporate development projects in other countries, as well as novel attempts to hold Canadian corporations accountable for actions abroad. Specifically, Guyol-Meinrath Echeverry examines two civil court cases in Canada, Caal v. Hudbay and Aray v. Nevsun, to uncover changing relationships among corporations, law, extractive economies, and international human rights. Just as Kim situates the violence of TJ processes into a historical context of settler colonial violence, Guyol-Meinrath Echeverry contextualizes development-induced abuses in Guatemala and Eritrea into complex, historically based systems of violence. These two cases, which relate to sexual violence in Guatemala and forced labor in Eritrea, respectively, reveal dynamic changes to Canadian jurisdiction and the limitations and potential of bureaucratic mechanisms to address the systemic forces that undergird human rights violations.
With a similar emphasis on the complex interplay among bureaucracies, industries, and lived experience, Erin Eldridge examines the dynamic role that government regulations and bureaucratic institutions play in shaping on-the-ground experiences and realities of communities affected by coal ash waste in the Southeastern United States. Through ethnographic investigation and policy analysis, Eldridge exposes the ways in which policy processes normalize coal ash dangers and hazardous landscapes. Furthermore, she illustrates how social and ecological violence is administered through corporate-state collaborations and bureaucratic inaction and delays. Both Guyol-Meinrath Echeverry and Eldridge highlight how bureaucracies can produce uneven legal contexts that place great burdens on citizens attempting to hold corporations accountable and the ways in which governments beholden to neoliberal rationales fail to protect the citizenry from the violence and externalities of extractive economies as industries push against regulations and oversight.
The articles by Amanda Reinke and Megan Sheehan utilize ethnographic insights to analyze everyday interactions with state and nonstate bureaucracies. Reinke draws on ethnographic research in California and Virginia to investigate tensions and conflicts over the bureaucratization of alternative justice practices. Working with restorative justice (RJ) practitioners, she analyzes how bureaucratic processes, such as standardizing and professionalizing these ostensibly informal conflict resolution mechanisms, serve to entrench rather than mitigate violence and marginalization in the legal system. In this case, the absence of formal bureaucratic mechanisms creates a legitimation crisis in RJ practices. Indicative of the "hyper-credentialized world" where "nothing is real that cannot be quantified" (Graeber 2015: 41–42), the need to capture data to justify RJ practices has violent implications through the shift in focus from restorative processes to measurable outcomes.
Similarly, Sheehan's article highlights the centrality of documentation. In Chile, official documents are pivotal to one's ability to legally "exist" as a migrant, but unattainable documents in the private housing sector place individuals in precarious and unsafe housing conditions. Sheehan draws from 18 months of fieldwork in Santiago to analyze the multilateral articulations of bureaucracy that migrants encounter. Migrants in this context strive to access formal visas and residency documents through a rational bureaucratic process, but they are unable to access formal housing or rental agreements because of neoliberal bureaucratic obstacles and a highly deregulated housing market. Through her work, we see the contrast between the idealized "postal utopia" (Graeber 2015: 153–166) and the realities of everyday encounters with bureaucratic structures. Whereas lengthy and complicated bureaucratic encounters with the state stand between migrants and a variety of resources required to procure a secure existence in the country, government absence in the housing market further marginalizes migrants.
Collectively, these articles investigate new ways of knowing bureaucratic violence at multiple levels (e.g., local, national, transnational) in diverse geographic contexts and the ways in which bureaucracy, otherwise theorized as mundane, becomes a site of active contestation and agentic activity imbued with violence. The authors highlight the need to analyze not only the significance of the bureaucratic structures themselves (following Graeber and others) but also processes of bureaucratization—slow processes that we can watch from the inside and outside. Perhaps most importantly, the authors in this section demonstrate the value of emic perspectives and ethnographic insights in unveiling multiple forms of violence entangled with bureaucratic presence (e.g., documents, paperwork, legal processes, regulations) and bureaucratic absence (e.g., inaction, delays, and the lack of representation, regulations, and enforcement) that pervade everyday life. Through considerations of bureaucratic presence and absence, with an analytical eye toward the reach of state power and the temporality and substance of bureaucratic work, the authors apply their ethnographic data to further theorize bureaucracies and bureaucratic structures as violent within the communities they seek to serve.
Bear, Laura, and Nayanika Mathur. 2015. "Introduction: Remaking the Public Good—A New Anthropology of Bureaucracy." Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 33(1): 18–34.
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ERIN R. ELDRIDGE is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. She is a cultural anthropologist, with training in botany and wildlife and fisheries science. She has ethnographic fieldwork experience in Appalachia, West Africa, and Central America, and her research focuses on political ecological concerns, socioecological violence, and the intersections of development and disasters. Email: eeldridg@uncfsu.edu
AMANDA J. REINKE is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and the Paul D. Coverdell Public Policy Fellow at Georgia College and State University. She conducts ethnographic research on gender, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding amid displacement in the United States and the African Great Lakes Region. Her most recent work examines the structural and bureaucratic violence embedded within alternative justice and community peacebuilding efforts in the United States. Email: amanda.reinke@gcsu.edu
Conflict and Society
I Moral Outrage
Navigating the Politics of Anxiety
Danger, Moral Opacity, and Outrage
Moral Thresholds of Outrage
The Many Layers of Moral Outrage
When the Outrage Becomes Personal, and the Urge to Act Unbearable
II Bureaucratic Violence
Administrating Violence through Coal Ash Policies and Practices
Perspectives from the Ground
The Bureaucratic Violence of Alternative Justice
Migrant Residents in Search of Residences
Violence, Development, and Canada's New Transnational Jurisprudence
III Realities of Duress
Duress and Messianism in French Moyen-Congo
"Our Future Is Already in Jeopardy"
A Phone without Names
Bonee and Fitina
Expressions of Duress on Facebook by Chadian Urban Youth in the Diaspora and N'Djaména
Article by Erin R. Eldridge
Article by Amanda J. Reinke


Y.S. RANA, CHANDIGARH—Although he has done a number of open heart surgeries yet he recalls in vivid details, the rare surgery he performed on 11-month-old Junaid from Pakistan under the Rotary Heartline Project which gave the child a new lease of life. He is Dr T.S Mahant, whom people consider next to God. Once a small town boy of Himachal Pradesh, has made a name for himself in the medical profession not only in the country but at global level with his grit, determination, devotion and perseverance.
Dr Mahant performs multi-vessel bypass procedures on beating heart in patients with various co-morbidities, including acute myocardial infraction and ischemic heart failure. It is for this brilliance that awards always find their way onto Dr Mahants shelves. From the Outstanding Humanitarian Award by Rwanda High Commission in 2014, to Paul Harris Fellow by The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International in 2011, the appreciations have never stopped flowing. Closer home, he was been felicitated with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Meritorious Contribution Towards Human Services by CMA, Lifetime Achievement Award for Medical Tourism in 2014, Dhanwantari Award by NIMA, Award of Honour by International Punjabi Chamber for Service Industry during Punjab Parvasi Diwas, Himachal Rattan Award, and many honours by the Rotary Club. In 2015 he was awarded Global Healthcare Excellence Award for being the Best Cardio Thoracic Surgeon in North India. In 2016 he received the Bharat Jyoti Award for meritorious services by IIFS. Dr Mahant has also been given the honour of being Honorary Advisor to Government of Himachal Pradesh, besides being External Examiner in the Specialty of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery for MCh and National Board of Examinations, (DNB). Blessed with not only a brilliant mind, but also a benevolent heart, he has been the champion of many charitable ventures at Fortis Healthcare. Started under his leadership, the Rotary Heartline Project has seen over 450 children from underprivileged background avail free surgeries. Children from Rwanda, Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India have benefitted. He is involved in social ventures under Red Cross, HP and Punjab Government initiatives for BPL families and projects like Quark Prayas, apart from Fortis Chetna programme for saving the girl child. Following the dictum of Simple living, High thinking, Dr Mahant continues to save precious lives through his invaluable contribution to the society.


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Q: Does C++ compiler treat all postfix operator overloading as same (postfix version of - and --)? #include <cstdio>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class Int32 {
    int num;
public:
    Int32(int num = 0) : num(num) {}
    ~Int32() {}
    int value() { return num; }
    Int32 & operator - (int x) { cout << "Postfix of -" << endl; return *this; }
    Int32 & operator -- (int x) { cout << "Postfix of --" << endl; return *this; }
};

int main() {
    Int32 x(100);
    x--;
    x-;  // [Error] expected primary-expression before ';' token
    x.operator-(0);
    return 0;
}

From the above code I overloaded postfix increment and postfix unary minus. I know postfix unary minus doesn't make sense, but I wonder why I have compilation error for x- and don't have any issue with x-- and x.operator-(0) operations.
I compiled this code in DevC++ and I got following error.
[Error] expected primary-expression before ';' token

What is wrong with x- ?

A:
What is wrong with x- ?

Nothing wrong with it; This by language design. You will see the same error with
1 - ;

meaning, the operator - expect an argument to work with like you did it in the next line
x.operator-(0);

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