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CURE—Summer 2015
Effecting Change in Glioblastoma
August 20, 2015 – Dellann Elliott Mydland
Bookshelf: Surviving Cancer: Our Voices & Choices
August 27, 2015 – Marion Behr
Diagnosis on a Chip? No Longer Science Fiction
August 27, 2015 – Len Lichtenfeld
Healing in the Key of C: Joy in Music for Cancer Survivors
August 26, 2015 – Khevin Barnes
First Line: Taylor Swift Donates $50,000 to Help Fan Fund Cancer Treatment
August 26, 2015 – Beth Fand Incollingo
Pneumonitis: A Delayed Reaction
A Cultural and Scientific Tug of War
August 25, 2015 – Debu Tripathy
Giving Caregivers a Hand
August 25, 2015 – Melissa Silverberg
Time Management Techniques for Caregivers
Keeping the World in World-Class Cancer Care
August 24, 2015 – Mike Hennessy, Sr.
Comments From Readers
Medical Marijuana: Smoking Out the Evidence
August 24, 2015 – Andrew Smith
Patients Unable to Work May Qualify for Disability Benefits
August 21, 2015 – Deanna Power
New Treatments May Be Worth the Wait in CLL
August 21, 2015 – Erik Ness
For Survivors of Cancer, Finding Love Involves an Extra Hurdle
Non-Physician Practitioners Playing Larger Roles in Cancer Care
August 20, 2015 – Melissa Quintero
In the Spotlight: Young-Adult Cancer
Supporting Teens and Young Adults Through Cancer
August 19, 2015 – Deborah Bell
Can a Low-Acid Diet Help Prevent Cancer?
August 18, 2015 – Dara Chadwick
Delayed Reaction
August 05, 2015 – Jodi Helmer
A Country Mile: Patients in Rural Areas Face Barriers to Treatment
August 18, 2015 – Don Vaughan
Far removed from the nearest oncologist, those in rural areas often face barriers to cancer diagnosis and treatment. Telemedicine is one solution.
BY Don Vaughan
Kimberly Buchmeier of Auburn, Neb., was diagnosed with non-small cell adenocarcinoma lung cancer in March 2011, at age 37. She underwent a lower right lobe lobectomy, followed by four months of chemotherapy, and today receives regular CT scans to ensure that her cancer has not returned.
Though she feels good now, getting the treatment she needed was a huge challenge. Auburn, a town of just 3,000 people, did not have a medical oncologist, so Buchmeier was forced to travel 150 miles round trip to the Southeast Nebraska Cancer Center, in Lincoln, for her thoracic surgery, chemotherapy and follow-ups.
The experience was exhausting and often frightening, Buchmeier recalls. "If I was sick from chemo or I needed something special, help was 75 miles away," she says. "You already have cancer, you're going through chemo and you feel terrible, and you're driving an hour and 20 minutes one way just to get treatment. So the distance was a huge challenge for us." So was the lack of information about lung cancer, and of specialized treatment, which is far more accessible in larger cities. Rather than choosing from among a variety of cancer centers and oncologists, Buchmeier was simply told where to go for care, and who would treat her. "I can't believe the lack of options I had available to me," she says. "I feel I was limited in my care."
Diagnosed with lung cancer, Kimberly Buchmeier was frustrated by the lack of options for oncology care in her rural Nebraska area. [Photo by Mandy Hall]
Recognizing a Health Care Gap
As Buchmeier and countless other cancer patients have learned, receiving appropriate oncology care in a rural area can pose numerous challenges, many of which can have an adverse effect on cancer outcomes and quality of life.
At the heart of the issue, experts say, is a lack of, and uneven distribution of, oncology specialists. According to a 2015 report by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), "The State of Cancer Care in America," just 5.5 percent of physicians practice in rural areas. Yet, according to a similar ASCO report issued a year earlier, nearly 19 percent of Americans live in such areas. Even more concerning: More than 70 percent of the U.S. counties analyzed by ASCO for the 2014 report had no medical oncologists.
Getting physicians to work in rural areas can be difficult, acknowledges Anne O'Dea, a hematologist and medical oncologist with the Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Institute at the Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kan. Factors include a lack of amenities common to larger towns, such as theaters and museums, and fewer career opportunities for spouses.
But that doesn't mean the medical community considers the gap acceptable. Some major cancer centers are reaching into rural areas to offer help, both by sending visiting oncologists to satellite offices of their institutions, and via the quickly growing trend of telemedicine, which allows patients and their local doctors to consult with top cancer-treatment experts by video, telephone or closed-circuit television.
The Symptoms of Isolation
One result of a physician shortage is that people tend to neglect important cancer screenings, which means their cancers may be more advanced when diagnosed. "I see more advanced cancers in comparison to early-stage cancers in rural communities than I did when I was practicing in an urban area," O'Dea notes. "That's definitely challenging."
Worst off are patients with rare types of cancer, because diagnosis and treatment often require high levels of specialization, says Gladys Rodriguez, a medical oncologist at the START Center for Cancer Care in San Antonio, Texas. "Pancreatic cancer, liver cancer or any bile duct cancer requires special expertise for diagnosis," Rodriguez explains. "So, unfortunately, they are often diagnosed in the advanced stages" among rural residents.
Rural patients may also get diagnosed later because of ingrained cultural issues. Within rural Hispanic communities, Rodriguez says, there may be a social stigma associated with a diagnosis of cancer because it is erroneously believed to be always incurable. "A lot of times people hear only about the person who didn't make it, not all the others who have been cured," Rodriguez says. "Or they may have had a relative who got cancer 20 years ago when not as much could be done for them."
Compounding the problem of later diagnosis is that, generally speaking, rural residents tend to be poorer, underinsured and suffering from health issues directly related to their environment and lifestyle, such as obesity, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, reports Susan Krigel, a licensed clinical psychologist with the Midwest Cancer Alliance. These factors can dramatically influence cancer treatment and outcomes.
"Obesity is a powerful risk factor for the development of many cancers, so just the fact that obesity rates are higher in rural areas means we should have higher rates of certain cancers," O'Dea says. "Obesity also impacts the care patients are able to receive. If someone is morbidly obese, it's going to make any potential surgery more complicated."
Finally, there's the problem of tobacco use. In its report "Cutting Tobacco's Rural Roots: Tobacco Use in Rural Communities," the American Lung Association explains that individuals living in rural communities are more likely to use tobacco products. As a result, experts say, they face a greater risk of developing lung cancer.
"Historically, rates of tobacco use have been higher in rural areas than non-rural areas of the country, and this hasn't changed," confirms Kimberly Horn, associate dean of research in the Milken Institute of Public Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Washington, D.C., and a contributor to the ALA report. "While cigarette smoking, a major factor in lung cancer, continues to decrease across the country, rates still remain proportionately higher in rural areas, particularly Appalachia."
Horn notes that many states already sponsor widespread tobacco-control efforts, and suggests that they now tailor some programs specifically to the needs of rural populations.
"Knowing that access can be an issue, we must seize opportunities," she says. "Those might include prevention programs at the earliest stage in schools and community centers, interventions when women and families come in for neonatal care or for services at local health departments, mobile treatment services or statewide quit lines that allow people to access care from their homes."
As did Buchmeier, when rural residents do develop cancer, they frequently must travel great distances to get the care they need. It's one of the most difficult obstacles facing rural cancer patients, reports Patrick Cobb, medical director at St. Vincent Frontier Cancer Center in Billings, Mont. "It's not only the cost of gasoline, but the cost of time," he observes. "It's a big commitment to get up and drive a couple of hours to see the physician, get your labs drawn, receive your chemotherapy and then drive home. It puts another level of stress on patients that people in urban environments probably do not have to put up with."
Ultimately, that can force some hard choices. "Patients often make decisions about their treatment based on very practical things, including their geographic location," confirms O'Dea. She recalls a breast cancer patient who declined six weeks of daily radiation, which would have saved her breast, because she had no one to care for her cattle. "This woman would have had to drive three hours up and three hours back every day for six weeks," O'Dea explains. "She had a farm and she was caring for her ailing husband, so for her the decision was easy: She chose to remove her breast."
In fact, it's common for people from rural areas to find that their occupations get in the way of their cancer care. Many of the patients who come to Hays Medical Center are farmers who must wait until the seasonal harvest is over before they can see a doctor, O'Dea explains. This often means that their cancer or other illnesses have progressed before they finally make an appointment. It's frustrating, but O'Dea understands. "Harvest is their livelihood," she says. "If they don't bring it in, they don't make any money. So that's their priority." Similarly, day laborers are more likely to hold off seeing a physician because they can't afford to take time off from work. Simply put, if they don't work, they don't get paid.
Even after rural residents have found workable arrangements for receiving cancer treatment, their geographic separation from care can continue to pose problems. Because of their distance from specialists, Cobb says, it can be especially frightening when something goes wrong at home. "It's not easy for patients to drive that far when they're sick, so they may have to be seen in emergency rooms in small towns," he says. "Oftentimes the doctors there are able to take care of them, but if they can't, we'll have to send a plane or helicopter to get them. That doesn't happen often, but it's another level of concern."
Clinical Outreach
Thankfully, cancer centers in larger cities have a variety of means to assist patients in outlying areas.
At the Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Institute, for example, medical oncologists like O'Dea regularly visit satellite clinics to see patients who cannot easily travel. And St. Vincent Frontier Cancer Center has an agreement with a stem cell transplant specialist in Denver who visits Billings monthly to see patients. "The role of visiting specialists for something like that is a very big deal," Cobb says.
In addition, St. Vincent was an early adopter of telemedicine. "We have an outlying clinic in Miles City, which is about 150 miles from Billings," Cobb says. "The nurses there know our patients and deliver chemotherapy under our supervision, but with telemedicine, I believe we do a better job of keeping up with the patients and answering their questions. It's not as good as being there, but it's better than trying to do it secondhand through a nurse or physician assistant."
Telemedicine has been available in various forms for many years, says Tim Poe, director of telehealth for the UNC Cancer Network in Chapel Hill. UNC uses the technology primarily for discussion between medical professionals and for providing continuing education for physicians and nurses, but Poe acknowledges significant benefits for cancer patients in rural areas. Not only can they consult from afar with oncologists at a major cancer center, but their community-based doctors can confer with UNC multidisciplinary tumor boards about optimal strategies for treatment. This, in turn, can lead to opportunities for rural patients to participate in clinical trials, which otherwise may not have been suggested to them as a possibility.
Especially important, Poe says, is that patient health information be carefully protected when telemedicine is used – something that is absolutely achievable. "We have to be extremely careful that we follow all guidelines," he notes, "and the technology has evolved significantly in terms of our ability to do that."
Indeed, telemedicine falls under the same regulatory scrutiny as in-person medical care and must meet the same HIPAA guidelines, says Krigel. "Yes, the technology must be encrypted, but that's not sufficient," she reports. "To ensure that the technology is sufficient, you have to be able to audit who had access and you must be able to tell if access has been breached. But even that is not enough to ensure confidentiality — you must also treat the product of it confidentially." To guarantee that patient information remains private during telemedicine sessions, Krigel says she closes the blinds in her office so no one outside can see her computer screen. The transmission of her notes for placement in a patient's file is also done in a confidential, HIPAA-compliant manner.
The telemedicine arrangements available to patients depend, in part, on where they live. Each state regulates telemedicine independently, with some treating remote encounters as if they were in-person appointments and others applying a variety of rules: for instance, that a physician can't act as a patient's doctor until after an in-person exam, or that certain prescriptions may not be issued via telemedicine.
While some states have loosened restrictions on telemedicine, citing the technology as one solution to a growing doctor shortage, others have cracked down. In April, the Texas Medical Board voted to sharply restrict telemedicine because it said the technology does not adequately establish a doctor-patient relationship. Patients can still videoconference with their physicians from a health care location, such as a clinic or hospital, but a medical professional must be present with the patient, in person, to assist.
Photo courtesy of Ellen Wengert
Ellen Wengert of Jennings, Kan., relied heavily on telemedicine after being diagnosed with breast cancer — invasive ductal carcinoma with lymph node involvement — in September 2014. Her tiny town was 110 miles from Hays, so she relied on a satellite clinic in Norton 26 miles away for in-person and teleconferencing sessions with O'Dea.
"The travel to Hays was my primary concern, both physically and financially," Wengert says. "I have insurance, but there were still gas and food expenses, plus wear and tear on the car. The satellite clinic helped a lot and Dr. O'Dea tried to accommodate me as best she could." During telemedicine sessions, Wengert says, a nurse was at her side to provide medical information to the physician on the other end.
Rural patients who would like to use telemedicine to connect to a larger cancer center or other specialists outside of their geographic region should set that up with their medical oncologist or social worker, advises Camille Ellard, a social worker at Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Institute. "If telemedicine is something that interests them, they should pursue it right away. They should be comfortable with the technology before they are in any kind of a crisis situation."
If that doesn't work out, patients can seek out telemedicine options on their own by signing up with companies that offer such services. Grand Rounds (grandrounds.com) promises to connect patients remotely with expert physicians who can give second opinions or weigh in on immediate, critical health decisions; it can also connect patients with expert physicians in their own geographic areas for in-person appointments. Most people who use the service get it as a free benefit through their own or a family member's employer; those who aren't covered for the service would pay $7,500 for an expert second opinion. Another option is 2nd.MD (http://2nd.md/), which offers personalized medical second opinions by phone or video, either as a free employee benefit or for $3,000 per case.
Isolation in the face of a serious illness can negatively impact a patient's psychosocial well-being, experts warn.
Cancer support groups can provide solace, but such opportunities may not be convenient for rural patients. And while online support groups are available to nearly anyone, anywhere, and smaller communities tend to rally around those in need, O'Dea says, isolation and loneliness are still common.
Telemedicine may be able to help patients gain some support.
For instance, University of Utah Health Care is launching a telemedicine program that will include, among many other services, psychosocial help for patients of the institution who have cancer, or who have survived the disease. Many of the health system's patients live in rural or frontier areas, and the telemedicine program will allow them to get counseling without traveling to the main facility from remote locations in Montana, Nevada and Wyoming.
Some obstacles at the moment are that Medicare is not reimbursing for this service, and also that university professionals will need to be licensed in the states in which they provide telemedicine, a process that could be prohibitive for the institution, said Anna Beck, director of supportive oncology at Huntsman Cancer Institute, which is part of University of Utah Health Care.
Still, Krigel agrees that "Telemed provides a way to connect." She notes that "The University of Kansas Cancer Center has a program called the Turning Point, which offers a variety of services to both cancer patients and others with other chronic and acute illnesses to meet their psychosocial needs. We collaborate with member sites of the Midwest Cancer Alliance to extend and support their existing psychosocial services."
Whether in person or via telemedicine, patients must be their own advocates in getting both cancer care and the support they need to successfully pursue that care, experts advise. If possible, patients should seek help from a hospital social worker or patient navigator, whose job it is to guide them through the health care system and assist them in finding financial help, transportation and other resources.
"Do not let your geographic location dictate the quality of your care," states O'Dea. "If you advocate for yourself, you can seek out local experts who have expertise in treating your specific type of cancer. Patients need to be challenged to do their research and ask questions of their health care providers. If they do that, I think they will get the best care."
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The headquarters of Lendlease Group is located in Australia.

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Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill
new clauses
Disclosure of switchover help scheme costs
Mr Edward Vaizey
Not selected NC1
To move the following Clause:—
'The Secretary of State shall, at the request of any licence fee payer, disclose the
proportion of the licence fee which has been used to fund the switchover help
scheme in each financial year.'.
Withdrawn NC3
'(1)
Section 1 of this Act shall cease to have effect in specified regions on a date which
the Secretary of State shall by regulation define.
For the purpose of this Section "specified regions" shall be such areas as the
Secretary of State shall by regulation define.'.
Commencement and duration
Mr Don Foster
Not called NC4
Report Stage Proceedings: 29th January 2007
Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill, continued
Section 1 shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order
appoint.
No information may be disclosed under section 1 after the end of the intial period.
In this section "the initial period", means the period of ten years beginning with
the day on which section 1 comes into force.'.
'This Act shall not come into force until one month after the switchover help
scheme is agreed between the BBC and the Secretary of State.'.
Information on energy demand from switchover functions
Helen Goodman
Mark Lazarowicz
Mr David Chaytor
Jon Trickett
It shall be the duty of any person who establishes a switchover help function or
switchover help scheme to provide information to the Secretary of State
the effect that scheme will have on domestic energy demand, and
the steps that have been taken to ensure the effect on energy demand is
reduced to the lowest possible level.
Information provided under subsection (1) above shall in particular have regard
to energy consumption while in standby mode of any digital equipment that will
be used as a result of such a scheme.
In this section "standby mode" means a state where equipment is not receiving
broadcasts, but is still using electricity.'.
Secretary Tessa Jowell
Agreed to 4
Page 1, line 9 [Clause 1], at end insert—
'(2A)
A local authority, or in Northern Ireland, a Health and Social Services Board may,
at the request of a relevant person, supply a relevant person with visual
impairment information for use (by the person to whom it is supplied or by
another relevant person) in connection with switchover help functions.'.
Not called 7
Local authorities may, at the request of a relevant person, supply a relevant person
with information on the persons registered as blind or partially-sighted in their
area for use (by the person to whom it is supplied or by another relevant person)
in connection with switchover help functions.'.
Page 2, line 18 [Clause 2], at end insert—
"Visual impairment information" means information of a prescribed description
about persons who—
are registered as blind or partially sighted in a register maintained by or
on behalf of a local authority in England or Wales under section 29 of the
National Assistance Act 1948 (c. 29) (welfare services),
have been certified as blind or partially sighted in Scotland and in
consequence are registered as blind or partially sighted in a register
maintained by or on behalf of a local authority in Scotland, or
have been certified as blind in Northern Ireland and in consequence are
registered as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a Health and
Social Services Board in Northern Ireland.'.
'"local authority" means—
in relation to England—
a county council,
a district council for an area in relation to which it has
the functions of a county council,
a London borough council,
the Common Council of the City of London, in its
capacity as a local authority, or
the Council of the Isles of Scilly,
in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough
council, and
in relation to Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of
the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39);'
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Page 4, line 9 [Clause 5], after 'agreed', insert 'and published'.
Page 4, line 9 [Clause 5], after 'individuals', insert 'or companies'.
Bill read the third time, and passed.
Revised 30 January 2007


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Euphrosyne branchiata Treadwell, 1939
Amphinomida (Order)
Euphrosinidae (Family)
Euphrosyne (Genus)
Euphrosyne branchiata (Species)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Euphrosine armadillo Sars, 1851
Euphrosyne [auct.] accepted as Euphrosine Lamarck, 1818
Treadwell, Aaron L. 1939. New species of polychaete worms of the genus Euphrosyne, with notes on Euphrosyne borealis Örsted. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 86(3049): 169-173. [details]
Note Atlantic Ocean, Maryland,
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Maryland, [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Euphrosyne branchiata Treadwell, 1939. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336763 on 2021-01-20
original description Treadwell, Aaron L. 1939. New species of polychaete worms of the genus Euphrosyne, with notes on Euphrosyne borealis Örsted. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 86(3049): 169-173. [details]
source of synonymy Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i>. 227(1): 1-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7870746 [details]
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]


This policy applies to all staff, volunteers and interns of Youth Business International (YBI).
The Act also provides individuals with important rights, including the right to find out what personal information is held on computer and most paper records.
The General Data Protection Regulation places conditions on the organisation's accountability and governance of this framework. This requires YBI to keep records of processing activities, detailing the type of people whose personal data is being processed, e.g. staff, trustees, donors, etc. and the type of personal information being processed, e.g. name, age, contact details. Why the personal information is needed, how it is obtained and stored, whether and with whom it is shared, how long it is required and the process for deletion. In order to comply with the regulation YBI's Data management Form should be used and referred to for activities in which personal data is processed.
Were a data breach to happen YBI is liable for 4% of annual income or a fine of up to €20 million.
Youth Business International is the Data Controller and all processing of personal data will be undertaken in accordance with data protection principles. Youth Business International recognises that its first priority is to avoid causing harm to individuals. Information about individuals will be processed securely and not disclosed to any person unlawfully or unnecessarily.
Right to claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the regulations.
For the avoidance of any doubt, YBI makes no automated decisions in any regard.
YBI aims to ensure that the legitimate concerns of individuals about the ways in which their data may be used are taken into account. Individuals may exercise their right to a copy of the information held concerning them, see ACCESS TO DATA.
Personal Data is any information, whether in manual or electronic form, that identifies an individual from that information alone or in combination with other information that is likely to be held by YBI.
Printing, sorting, matching, comparing, and destroying.
The Board of Trustees recognises its overall responsibility for ensuring that Youth Business International complies with its legal obligations.
Approving data protection-related statements on publicity materials and letters.
Each member of staff, volunteer and intern at Youth Business International who handles personal data will comply with the organisation's operational procedures for handling personal data (including induction and training) to ensure that good Data Protection practice is established and followed.
All staff, volunteers and interns are required to read, understand and accept any policies and procedures that relate to the personal data they may handle in the course of their work.
Significant breaches of this policy will be handled under Youth Business International's disciplinary procedures.
All staff who have access to any kind of personal data will be given copies of all relevant policies and procedures during their induction process, including the Data Protection policy, Confidentiality policy and the operational procedures for handling personal data, relevant to the execution of their responsibilities. All staff will be expected to adhere to all these policies and procedures. Data Protection will be included in the induction training for all volunteers and interns.
Youth Business International will provide opportunities for staff to explore Data Protection issues through training, team meetings, and supervisions.
Only staff who need access to personal data will be given this privilege. Access to information on the main database is controlled by a password and only those needing access are given the password.
Destroyed confidentially when it is no longer needed.
Staff, volunteers and interns will use appropriate care to ensure personal data is not shared in insecure ways, e.g. via email or in file-sharing repositories without password protection and that personal data is only shared in this way when necessary.
Staff volunteers and interns will be careful about information that is displayed on their computer screen and make efforts to ensure that no unauthorised person can view the data when it is on display.
It is the responsibility of the staff member handling personal data to ensure this is done with the greatest care and adherence to this policy. Where a breach occurs or is suspected, the staff member discovering it should inform the Data Protection Office immediately.
The Data Protection Officer is responsible for ensuring the correct procedures are followed in order to understand, mitigate or minimise the harm of a data breach and to inform the relevant authorities.
Youth Business International has a single database, protected by password, holding basic information about a limited number of data subjects.
Data is corrected if shown to be inaccurate.
Youth Business International stores archived paper records of donors and volunteers securely in the office only for the durations that these are needed.
Consideration will be made of the lawful basis for personal data to be processed, e.g. whether YBI has a legitimate interest and does not require consent to be granted for it to process personal data or whether consent is deemed appropriate. The decision of the lawful basis being applied and the rationale for that decision shall be recorded in the Data Management Form.
Information about donors will only be made public with their consent. This includes photographs.
Consent will be freely given and explicit, although the form of consent may vary according to the situation, e.g. verbal consent may be accepted for personal data use where written consent is impractical or otherwise inappropriate. Regardless of the form, consent will be recorded with sufficient detail to reasonably corroborate its validity, e.g. time and date of consent, and any further details as necessary.
Youth Business International acknowledges that, once given, consent can be withdrawn, see Access to Data for guidance on YBI's approach. YBI is committed to fulfilling its obligations for the removal of personal information following withdrawal.
Subject Access Requests can be made to YBI's Data Protection Officer at info@youthbusiness.org.
Upon receipt of the required information to help YBI identify all personal data held, YBI commits to responding within 1 month (our legal obligation). We do endeavour to respond to queries as soon as is practicable.
Whilst the most efficient way to make a Subject Access Request is to contact YBI at info@youthbusiness.org, all requests that YBI can corroborate as genuine are valid. This includes but is not limited to postal, email, telephone and social media requests. Verbal requests are also valid if this is the most appropriate means of communication with us.
If YBI does not receive all the information required for the identification of personal data we shall revert for this.
The effect on the subject of not having the information in permanent form.
YBI is committed to providing access to your personal data in the most suitable form. Please make clear in your Subject Access Request if you require the information in a specific format (e.g. Braille, large print, email or audio format) in order for YBI to meet our obligations in this regard and under the Equality Act.
Any issues regarding Subject Access Rights request should be made via email to info@youthbusiness.org or in the most appropriate manner according to the circumstances of the subject.
Because confidentiality applies to a much wider range of information than Data Protection, Youth Business International has a separate Confidentiality Policy. This Data Protection Policy should be read in conjunction with Youth Business International's Confidentiality Policy.
Staff, volunteers and interns are required to sign a short statement indicating that they have been made aware of their confidentiality responsibilities. (See Confidentiality Policy).
In order to provide some services, Youth Business International will need to share client's personal data with other agencies (Third Parties).
Where anyone within Youth Business International feels that it is necessary to disclose information in a way contrary to the confidentiality policy, or where an official disclosure request is received, this will only be done after discussions with the Data Protection Officer. All such disclosures will be documented.
The policy will be reviewed at the first quarterly governance and risk meeting of the year by the Chief Executive and approved by the Board of Trustees. It will also be reviewed in response to changes in relevant legislation, contractual arrangements, good practice or in response to an identified failing in its effectiveness.


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SQL Saturday Atlanta – This Weekend?!?
At noon tomorrow October 11th (PST), voting for the PASS Board of Directors closes. As members of the organization we are tasked with choosing leaders that we think will positively impact PASS. All 6 candidates are excellent and have been vetted by the nomination committee. Please keep in mind that this is an opinion blog. I have placed my vote, have you?
One candidate that meets my qualifications and stands out for a US/Canada & Open opening is Jason Strate. With the hours ticking down, I thought I would share with you why I would like Jason to a member of the PASS board of directors.
I was first introduced to Jason via his Blog. The amount of and depth of his blog material has been a tool belt over the years. His Blog continues to provide me information on all aspects of SQL Server as well how to conduct my daily activities. His dedication to sharing his knowledge is a key part of the SQL Server community in my opinion.
I then had the privilege to work with Jason at Pragmatic Works where he played the key role of Architect. Jason and I were on a project together that was challenging and provided us with many opportunities. During this time together I saw Jason take lead roles, provide clear direction, and take on challenges most would shy away from. Jason played a large role in helping me adjust to the role of a consultant. There were many things that made him successful at Pragmatic Works, however, I think his strong communication and organization are what made him stand out amongst his peers.
From a work ethic perspective, Jason is solid! I really can't say more than that.
Without getting wordy and long winded, Jason is a loyal and good friend. Qualities that I look for in a person I would like to work with, follow, and go to bat for. PASS will always provide challenges to its board due in part to the size and the number of varying opinions. The qualities I see in Jason as a friend are the qualities I would want at the helm of PASS. Jason is also a stellar family man. He is a proud father, a great husband, and a friend to his kids. He is always there for them. Also a quality I like to see in a leader. He is also a very gracious person. He and I play video games into the wee hours of the morning. During these gaming sessions, he has allowed my son to play and join in the reindeer games. He is much younger than both of us; however, Jason allows him to be a kid during our gaming sessions. This quality of patience is also a quality I like to see in a leader.
VOTE JASON STRATE TO BE ON YOUR PASS BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Well it's that time again. Join us at SQL Saturday Atlanta a place to learn and meet new friends while networking. SQL Saturday Atlanta has set the bar when it comes to SQL Saturdays. If you haven't been to one this is a great first time event! If you have been to one, but not Atlanta, you will be amazed at the sessions as well as the sheer number of people that attend.
The SQL Saturday team is providing me the opportunity to share with you this weekend and it's an honor to present at an event like this. I will be presenting my session More than Just a basic Database Backup and Recovery in the afternoon right before the raffle. I promise to get you out the door in time so that you can attend. We all love free stuff and Atlanta has lined up some great sponsors.
Provided is a link to the full schedule.
What I am showing impacts your registry. Do all the precautionary steps to backup and ensure that if something bad happens when making this change you can get back to a stable state.
I found a curious registry value; one I had not seen in the past, "Disable Performance Counters". Just recently I ran across this little gem again. However, I forgot about it until I started digging further. So this time I decided to blog about it in order to help you, the audience, and me to not forgot about this in the future and save time trouble shooting the issue.
In the provided screenshot I highlighted the registry setting, and you can see the value is set to 1. Having the value set to 1 indicates that our SQL Server performance counters are disabled, and we will not be able to choose them within performance monitor.
To show this I have provided the following screenshot. Within the screenshot we can clearly see that the SQL Server performance counters are not available to us.
In order for us to see the expected performance counters we need to modify the registry value to 0. You can do this by double clicking on the "Disable Performance Counters" registry value. Enter 0 into the window and it will convert it to the Hexadecimal equivalent. After you make the change, your registry setting should appear as it does in the provided screenshot below.
Open up performance monitor, scroll down, and you should see your SQL Server performance counters. Happy monitoring!
I would like to note when I did my demos, this change did not require a restart of my SQL Server instance or the server I was working on. I have read instances where a recycle of either was required. So please keep that in mind when making this change.
As always thank you for reading and hanging out with me. If you have any questions please reach out.
First off I would like to thank all of the sponsors, volunteers, and coordinators of SQL Saturday Jacksonville. It was very well run and overall a great experience. I also want to give huge thanks to all of the attendees, without you coming on a beautiful Saturday, we would have had an event of just speakers. That would have proved to be interesting. To all the new folks I me,t you all are awesome and I look forward to meeting up again in the future.
I was excited to share my presentation More than Just a basic Database Backup and Recovery with the group. Overall the presentation went well. I thought my cadence was good and you the attendees were attentive when I was speaking. But, yes there is a but for this one. As I moved forward with the presentation I realized my timings were off. I moved into my demos and the first couple went well. However 50% of the way into my demos I noticed that I had not reset my environment. This did throw some kinks into my presentation, as well as, my demos. I was able to cover some really cool stuff; however, I did not get to the real nuts and bolts of the recoveries. Part of my goal was to show you how to do partial and piecemeal recoveries. Unfortunately time got away from us on Saturday morning. I had done this presentation prior to this but I did not tweak and account for the 60 minutes we had on Saturday.
I received good reviews on the topic and the material that was covered. I also received excellent feedback that provided insight into how the session could have gone better. I have taken this feedback to heart and will be tweaking this presentation for future events.
Provided is a link to a Webinar in which I cover all the topics of the slide deck.
There was a great question with regard to differential backups and how the differential change map behaves when SQL Server decides it would be more beneficial to do a full backup. I plan on doing a blog post on this to show what happens.
As always thank you for reading and hanging out with me and if you have any questions please reach out to me.
This is going to be one busy, crazy, and exciting week for the Bulldog. I took a break from SQL Saturdays and the community for a couple of years as I moved between jobs. As of late I have become more active in the community that has given so much to me. I knew Pragmatic Works would provide me with opportunities as well as invigorate me. I didn't realize how much.
This week I will be doing a pre-con with my good friend Bradley Ball. A Day of DBA Fundamentals: Install, Maintenance Plans, and Security is near and dear to me. We will be providing information that both of us wish that co-workers or friends had shared when we were starting out in the industry. This information is geared toward the individuals interested in become a SQL Server DBA or have just been placed into the role of a DBA. There is still time to join us May 6th!
Then on May 7th I will be giving one of my favorite presentations – More Than Just a Basic Database Backup and Recovery. Some people love fast cars; I really enjoy playing with database backups and recoveries. Every time I do a backup and recovery I think of or find something new. If you are attending the SQL Saturday Jacksonville stop on by my morning session. If you are unable to attend my session over the week I will upload my slides and demos to the site for you to exam.
If you can't attend either of the sessions, we would love to chat with you at the Pragmatic Works booth…….
A little over 2 1/2 years ago I started a new career at New York Life. I fully expected to spend a lengthy employment and retire from New York Life. Up until 2 weeks ago I was having a successful career in which I was thriving and growing as an individual. I was presented multiple "Thanks To You" awards that recognize employee effort's and was presented many opportunities to take place in key company initiatives.
During my 2 plus year stint at NYL I was able to help remediate security gaps, assist in virtualizing the DB environment, assist in identifying servers that should remain physical, install/configure/tune vendor installs and take place in many debugging sessions. While taking part in these projects/tasks I was able to make many new colleagues, co-workers and friends. These folks helped me grow technically, professionally and personally. I will miss working with the teams and challenges that were presented to me while at NYL.
So let me rewind the last 17 plus years of my career. During these 17 years I have worked for Nielsen Media Research, Publix Supermarkets and New York Life. All of these major corporations have assisted with my growth. If we look at the common dominator here I have always been comfortable working in stable large-scale environments. Like a good pair of shoes an old t-shirt or a favorite comfort food, it is hard to step away from this type of stability.
It is 17 years later and I am always amazed at how far I have come. Around May 17th, I received a text asking me if I knew anyone who would be interested in a full- time job at a consulting firm. After many hours of discussion on the topic with Missy and my son Parker, we said let's hear what they have to say and see if this move is for us. A good portion of this discussion took place at the Epcot Flower Festival which with its good food and beautiful flowers made the discussion less stressful.
At this point you are probably saying enough Dan get to the point. Drum roll please… As of Wednesday 6/2/2015 I will no longer be working at New York Life. My family and I have decided to step outside of our comfort zone and accept a full-time position at Pragmatic Works. I guess one could say "out of the frying pan into the fire". I am excited at the prospects that this new position will provide me. I really enjoy being a DBA, but I have always had a secret love for other facets of the Microsoft Stack. I plan on branching out into Cloud Services, SSRS, SSAS and SharePoint advanced topics/functionality. Yes, I said SharePoint! None of this is guaranteed but I am going to build on my current skillset providing value to Pragmatic Works. I am a darn good admin but I am much more than that and need to tap into those skillsets more. At Pragmatic Works I will be challenged to do just that. I am excited to start working for a company that promotes and encourages self-growth and encourages motivated individuals to grow. So as of 6/3/2015 I will be in Jacksonville walking thru the doors of Pragmatic Works and becoming a member of an already stellar team.
If you have seen my SQL Server tools Tips and Tricks presentation at a SQL Saturday you may remember my brief discussion on Central Management Server (CMS). A 45 to 60 minute session is not near enough time to dive into all the tools including this cool hidden gem that the Microsoft SQL Server team provided us with the SQL Server 2008 release. Even though this is a well blogged about tool a recent conversation at my new job reminded me that I needed to and wanted to blog about CMS. I run into and speak with individuals who connect with SQL Server on a regular basis and are not aware of CMS or what CMS can and can't do for you. So let's get this hidden gem installed and start utilizing its POWER!
The 1st thing you will need is a SQL Server 2008 or greater instance installed with MSDB available. I will be setting up and taking screen shots from my SQL Server 2012 instance for the purpose of this post. I will be setting up and configuring CMS as sysadmin on this database instance. For this post I will be using my local instance however you could also use an instance in your datacenter. There are advantages and disadvantages to both based on your working environment.
Let's get started with the CMS setup.
Open up SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Dependent on how you have SSMS setup it will look something like the image below.
The next step is to open up our registered services view. This can be done by Ctrl+Alt+G (2012) or by choosing view and then clicking on registered servers.
Once completing the above you should see a screen similar to the following image.
At this point we are on the screen that allows us to register CMS. Right click on Central Management Servers choosing the Register Central Management Server….
You should see the New Server Registration screen appear. For this example I chose SQL Server Authentication , you can also use Windows Authentication when registering the server. For Server name I am using (local) to connect to my local SQL Server 2012 instance. The following example is using SQL Login cmsadmin and its secure password to authenticate into the instance. At this time I am not making any changes to the Connection Properties. In rare cases I have had the need to modify one or more of the Connection Properties. Click Test once you receive a successful connection click Save.
You should see the local instance registered underneath the Central Management Servers Folder. Note (local) can be replaced with your database server name which would appear underneath the Central Management server folder.
Underneath our local server let's set up some server groups. Normally I start off by creating development, test, staging and production. This can vary based on your environment. I then later add additional Server groups. For example I supported a scaled out Biztalk and SSRS environment. I would create a server group for each of the scaled out environments registering the server/servers that are part of those environments. Our next step is to create our basic server groups. This can be done by right clicking over (local) which will display the image below.
Click on the new Server Group to display the next screen. I filled in Group name with Development and the Group description with information about the group. Click OK.
After creating the Server Groups you will end up with something like the following image.
You will fill in the Server name with a server you want to access utilizing CMS. When registering a server you MUST use Windows Authentication. Click on Test and once you have a successful connection click on save.
Please read the included link for further explanation on why Windows Authentication must be used to connect. An excerpt from the site has been provided.
Once you have registered your servers you can end up with something like this. Each person I run into that utilizes CMS has their own take on how they like to set the groups and registered servers. I typically find myself migrating to the following setup which is included in the image below.
Here is where it really gets cool. Let's utilize the power of CMS. You can 1st double click on any of the registered servers and it will open a connection to that server within SSMS. You can also right click on one of the groups and open a query window. In this case let's hover over the development group. Select new query from the selections provided and a window will open which can be used to run a provided statement against the servers registered within that Server group. Notice at the bottom of the query window we are connected to 1/1 servers. This however does not display the full power of this tool.
Not to impressive yet. Let's kick it up a notch and see what else CMS can do for us.
In a matter of seconds I was able to pull which versions of SQL Server I had out there in my different environments. Imagine this, you have hundreds if not thousands of servers. You have become the "Accidental DBA" and know nothing about the environment you inherited and were left with just a list of servers. You have no knowledge of PowerShell. This is a quick and powerful way to extract information from your SQL Server database instances just by understanding some basic SQL statements. Seeing just how powerful this is should give you some pause and think do I really want to run this statement against our live production database? Use best practices and common sense is my best advice. Possibly think about using set transaction isolation level read uncommitted when executing your queries.
Registering CMS will store information within the MSDB database. Security to CMS can be controlled utilizing a couple of database roles within the MSDB database. ServerGroupAdministratorRole provides you the ability to administer CMS. ServerGroupReaderRole grants users the ability to connect to CMS. Two views of interest are the sysmanagement_shared_server_groups and the sysmanagement_shared_registered_servers.
The sysmanagement_shared_server_groups view will return information with respect to the groups you have created for your registered CMS instance.
You may want to execute the following statement against the view to see how this data is being stored.
The sysmanagement_shared_registered_servers view will return information with respect to the servers you have registered and the group they were registered within.
There are a number of procedures that are utilized to manage CMS which you can examine for yourself by executing the following query.
You can execute the following statement to view these stored procedures.
CMS is a power tool that the Microsoft team has provided out of the box at no cost to you. Once CMS has been setup and configured the insight into you systems and environments is priceless. One of the reasons I embrace the Microsoft SQL Server Suite is that the tools provided have been thought thru and have had time put into them. Some are good, some are ah. CMS is one of those tools that provides the DBA's, Developers and even Management a view into our SQL world.
This Post written while Jamming to DKM….


Want to know what's inside a rat? This film will show you… in modeling clay.
We wanted to watch an animated Rat dissection as the Science club at school was doing a real rat dissection and some students did not want to watch. In science club we experimented with different ways to represent the rat dissection, eg on paper. As there was no animated version that did not contain real rats we decided to make our own film.
No rats were harmed during the making of this movie.
It's clear, witty, shows you what you need to know, and runs for less than two minutes. It even finishes with a nice little flourish.
It's also a terrific example of what you can achieve with limited resources. The sound is a bit fuzzy, it's been put together from still photographs rather than video, and the light keeps changing — but none of that matters, because it's been assembled with care and charm.
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Home » TV & Movies » Sharon Stone Shares Video of Sister Kelly 'Gasping' for Breath from Her COVID-19 Ward Hospital Bed
Sharon Stone Shares Video of Sister Kelly 'Gasping' for Breath from Her COVID-19 Ward Hospital Bed
Sharon Stone shared a video of her sister, who is ill with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), urging people to take the virus seriously.
Sharon's sister Kelly Stone and her husband Bruce Singer are both in the hospital with the contagious respiratory virus fighting for their lives, the 62-year-old actress shared in an Instagram video on Sunday.
On Monday, Sharon shared a video of Kelly, who said that she was "gasping" for air.
"I beg you to know that this is real," Kelly said. "I'm gasping for every breath with oxygen. Please do this for the people that you love — stand behind more tests, more masks, demanding everyone wear a mask. You never, ever want to feel like this. I promise you I only have love in my heart, it is breaking for people that can't breathe."
In the Casino star's earlier video, she shared that Kelly has lupus, which puts her in a high-risk category. She also expressed frustration at the lack of available testing in Montana, where Kelly and her husband live.
Montana has had 5,867 positive cases of COVID-19, with 778 reported in the past week, according to data from the New York Times.
"The stress, the strain, the exhaustion that is happening in that hospital is met with the conflict around the courthouse, where people are carrying guns and saying it's their freedom not to have to wear a mask," Sharon continued in her video, referencing Governor Steve Bullock's July order requiring masks to be worn indoors and outdoors where 50 people or more are gathered.
The order prompted protests outside the state's Capitol building from people who think it shows too much government control.
"This is the situation in Montana, where the governor, Steve Bullock, is not returning my calls. Where the health department, where I continuously call, is hanging up on me," Sharon said. "This is the state of affairs in the middle of our country. Where you, the people in the middle of our country are at great risk of dying from COVID."
"They keep saying that the risks are so small and that you might not die and that it'll be fine," Sharon said, adding that her family's experience has been the opposite. "But I'm telling you what's going on with my family. My grandmother died of COVID, and my godmother died of COVID. My sister and her husband are fighting for their lives and my sister is not doing well."
"There was no one to help them while they were home alone because there are no kind of nurses that can come to the house there because there's no tests for them," the actress said.
"When they say there are tests for everyone they are lying. When they say there are tests even for the nurses in the hospitals, they are lying. People are dying and fighting for their lives because there's nothing but lies."
Stone then called on fans to take action by voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the upcoming elections.
"The only thing that's going to change this is if you vote. And if you vote for Biden and if you vote for Kamala Harris," she said in the video. "And the reason that's going to happen is because with women in power, we will fight for our families. We will fight for people to live. And we will fight for people to get tested. Because the only countries that are doing well with COVID are the ones that have women in leadership. Please vote. And please, whatever you do, don't vote for a killer."


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Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D recently announced her pregnancy with her husband Leaf Seyer of the band Prayers. In an Instagram post this Thursday, Von D lamented the "unsolicited advice" she's been receiving as a parent.
She then revealed some questionable plans regarding the birth and raising of her son.
"If you don't know what it's like have people around you think you are ridiculous, try being openly vegan," she wrote.
Fair enough. It is her body. It is her child. But her child also has a right to grow up healthy. Sadly, the research that she is "diligently doing" is hugely flawed. As Jezebel points out, the couple's research partly consists of watching long-debunked anti-vaxxer documentaries such as Vaxxed and Trace Amounts.
The peer-reviewed studies deeming vaccines to be safe are overwhelming. But that does nothing to convince the anti-vax movement, which has become one of the most entrenched pseudoscience/conspiracy belief systems in the world. The negative effects of anti-vaccine ideology aren't just speculation — it has proved itself to be hugely effective in resurrecting once-eradicated diseases in small communities across the U.S. and Europe.
Many of these disease comebacks take place in wealthy and elite communities where alternative medicine and pseudoscience quackery has become a booming industry. The vaccination rates in some wealthy California areas such as Malibu, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills are reportedly similar to the vaccination rates of South Sudan.
"It's a sense of entitlement and it comes out of a customer mentality since they are often choosing their doctor and paying cash," says UCLA's Dr. Nina Shapiro, who is a vocal critic of the anti-vaccine movement.
But the entitlement also comes from living in a first-country that has been bolstered by the immense success of vaccination. Now, people who don't know what it's like to live with diseases like polio and small pox and measles takes this luxury for granted. Whatever ideological bubble Von D is living in has tricked her into thinking there's something nefarious going on when governmental and science agencies push vaccines on the public. She also thinks "research" consists of browsing the internet and reading junk links from fraudulent websites.
All we can do is hope her child grows up healthy.