Comedian Richard Ayoade returns with his unique, offbeat tourism show and in this first edition is joined by Dawn French as the pair spend two days in the Greek capital, Athens. The duo visit Lake Vouliagmeni which was rumoured to be the favourite bathing spot of goddess Athena, enjoy some local doughnuts and take in the spectacular sights of the Acropolis. They also tackle a 14-course tasting menu at a temple to molecular gastronomy before attempting to burn off the calories with some javelin and discus training on an Olympic tour.
This episode of the busiest train stations in the world travels to Calcutta and the Howrah Terminal. The station is India's busiest and serves one of the fastest growing cities on the planet. The manic Monday morning rush hour tests ticket inspector Pranab as he seeks out the fare dodgers amongst the tidal wave of commuters. Elsewhere, a signal failure halts the progress of India's most prestigious rail service – the Rajdhani Express, the luxury overnight train that goes from Calcutta to Delhi.
The expert maxillofacial team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham plan a marathon operation on former police officer Loretta. Surgeon Tim Martin and his operating partner Sat Parmer believe they will be the first UK surgeons to operate on the strange disease Loretta finds herself suffering from. Nine months earlier Tim met Loretta at his clinic where she was suffering from a mysterious condition that was destroying muscles and bones in one side of her face, subsequently causing her mouth to fuse shut. It took much detective work and investigation but Tim found the cause – an extremely rare condition called tumefactive fibroinflammatory disease. This disease is so rare only 50 cases have ever been documented worldwide.
Maitre d' Fred Sirieix returns in a new series of the restaurant based dating show. In this episode 32 year old Krystal, an owl sanctuary volunteer, worries her chattiness and energetic personality scares men off. Her date with James, 43, starts well when she gives him a knitted owl but will the date go downhill when she learns what he does for a living? Other singles to the table tonight include Georgia, a recruitment assistant seeking her dream girl and a 20 year old beautician seeking Mr Right.
A new perspective of life on earth is taken as cameras in space reveals new discoveries and explore the most remote and desolate habitats on the planet. In this first episode cameras follow a herd of elephants as they struggle through a drought, reveals colonies of penguins previously unknown to science and ice rings which could pose a serious threat to seal pups.
Three under confident people with body image issues visit a retreat on a Greek Island where they are encouraged to embrace and feel good in their own skin by a cast of regulars who wear nothing but body paint. In this episode David learns to ignore what other people think and accept his body shape, Jolie faces her vitiligo skin condition and Danielle begins to feel more confident with her curves.
After his hands are damaged in a car crash, an American surgeon seeks help from mystics, but he winds up becoming a warrior in an inter-dimensional battle between the forces of darkness and light. Marvel Comic fantasy adventure starring Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Ambitious and dynamic competitions from all across the UK test their, speed, balance and courage as they tackle the Ninja Warrior obstacle course. Those who complete the course must use their reserves and adrenaline to take on the final task – scaling a tower named Mount Midoriyama. Only one can win the title of Ninja Warrior UK. Hosted by Chris Kamara, Rochelle Hines and Ben Shephard.
Reflecting on her life, a medical school dropout travels to her deceased mothers favourite beach in Mexico to do some surfing. Unbeknownst to her she strays into the surfer, she strays into the hunting territory of a giant Great White Shark, finding herself stranded 200 yards from shore on a tiny island. As the tide moves in, her sanctuary from the patrolling predator starts to disappear and she faces a life or death struggle to get back to dry land safely. Stars Oscar Jaenada and Blake Lively.
After an attempt is made on her life, Queen Victoria learns the would-be assassin found his motivation in the political unrest dividing Ireland. Determined to resolve the conflict she arranges a Royal visit to the island, despite her husband Albert's objections. The trip also reveals a lot more to Lord Palmerston and his unconventional marriage when the Queen meets his wife.


Our lovely Aerial instructor Taylor – @tayrose925 – took some time to teach youtube sensation Markiplier some basic Aerial silks moves.
In this video, our instructor Ashleigh – @native_aerial – breaks down the basic silk climb into simple movements. She covers how important it is to use your legs and hips as you climb.
Deanna has been practicing Aerial Arts with us for a while now and every day is more committed to improving her life quality. We asked Deanna to share with us some aspects of her aerial journey. We hope you enjoy it.
Pole can be a very difficult apparatus which requires a lot of core strength. I asked our "resident drill sergeant" Erika to share with us her favorite exercises for core strength.
Straight Leg Inverts Alex here with another quick conditioning tip, this time for all Lyra beginners out there. One of the essential moves for hoop practitioners is the straddle invert. This move develops your core, upper-body strength and it feels great on your back.
One of the biggest concerns new students have is their belief that they don't have, and will never have the upper-body strength to be able to practice aerial arts. Especially for us women, upper-body strength seems to be one of our biggest struggles.


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A new Native American village based on tradition helps a Tribe reclaim its sustainable roots
Exhibition: Network |	February 14, 2012 by pseymour
The Ohkay Owingeh Tribe and Pueblo in New Mexico has returned to its roots with an award-winning, mixed-income housing project based on traditional Native forms. It's an exciting and inspiring project.
Built by the Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority explicitly as an alternative to sprawl-type housing, Tsigo Bugeh Village is a $5.3 million residential community that reflects traditional pueblo living with attached units divided around two plazas, one oriented to the solstice and the other to the equinox, as the tribe's original pueblo was built. As the Housing Authority's website points out, the homes are attached, their scale and massing similar to the original Ohkay Owingeh pueblo: "this is key to our architectural heritage, and the idea of community living that is central to our way of life."
As someone who has a part Cherokee ancestry and is proud of it, I can't help but feel a bit of wistful irony in the accomplishment, given that Native American settlements were in so many respects the original sustainable communities in North America, before the arrival of European colonists. Indeed, the well-known sustainable development firm Jonathan Rose Companies highlights the pueblo form as a model:
"Like villages in the Himalayas, [traditional] Pueblo villages have a clear edge and are surrounded by fields of sustenance. The community is organized in a progression of spaces from the private realm, to the semi-private, to the most public reality, the plaza, or town square. Culture after culture, each with different ecosystems, have built their communities this way. We believe this is the natural form for human communities."
Tsigo Bugeh Village places 40 rental homes on a 6.5-acre site. Nine have been made available at market rates, the rest reserved for those earning between 40 and 60 percent of the area median income. The Village also includes a number of traditional outdoor ovens for community use, along with a community center featuring a large kitchen, business center, exercise rooms, and laundry facilities.
The Village was built pursuant to a larger master plan to guide the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo's future. Bestowing a national award for smart growth achievement in 2004 (when the pueblo was known as the San Juan Pueblo), the federal Environmental Protection Agency hailed the plan as the first smart growth model for Native American tribes:
"It provides a long-term growth strategy, coordinates existing infrastructure with housing and commercial development, preserves the walkable historic plazas, and encourages retail and commercial uses in a 'main street' style. The plan also includes design guidelines that enhance the traditional building pattern to preserve the architectural heritage of the pueblo, fostering a distinctive sense of place."
Implementation of the plan is guided by a Tribal Planning Department and a community advisory council of neighborhood representatives.
The Housing Authority's website points out that "Tribal leaders realized that continuing to develop sprawl housing would severely limit the land base for agricultural use and open space for future generations." A premium was placed on involvement from the Tribal community and respect for the Pueblo's traditions:
"This is the first tribally driven planned housing development on the reservation since the creation of the traditional housing constructed over 400 years ago, and it is the only rental housing on the pueblo. As a result, OOHA placed a focus on planning, and sought community involvement and input. We held a series of meetings to understand what our community's housing needs were, and we asked people to tell us how their home could support their values: social, family, cultural and spiritual. We asked them what materials were most important to them in a home, and whether their current homes satisfy any of these values or needs.
"We also had esteemed storytellers in the community come to the meetings and describe their experiences growing up in the historic core of the Pueblo, with everyone's grandmother watching over them as they played, the yearly whitewashing of plaster under the portals, and the seed ball game that was played every spring. As a result, not only was the site plan and building massing built similarly to the old pueblo, but the floor plans were developed to accommodate the many people that come through the homes on feast days."
The Village's landscaping comprises all native, drought-resistant plantings. The homes are equipped with energy-efficient, high-insulation windows, and those that face south have overhangs for passive solar gain. The process and financing were not simple, but that just brings all the more credit to the Tribe and Housing Authority for such an outstanding result.
I did a bit of research on the history of the Ohkay Owingeh Tribe while preparing this article. As you might imagine, it has been rich but not pretty, especially during the many years of Spanish rule, followed by those of American occupation. Only with a Supreme Court ruling in 1913 and Congressional passage of the Pueblo Lands Board Act of 1924 was the Tribe able to fully reclaim title to Pueblo land. In the decades sense, Tribal members have blended their traditions with participation in the larger American economy. In a sense, the master plan and the completion of Tsigo Bugeh Village represents a culmination of the Tribe's reassertion of its right to a sustainable future.
By Kaid Benfield. Ken writes (almost) daily about community, development, and the environment. For more posts, see his blog's home page. Please also visit NRDC's sustainable communities video channel.
Originally posted on NRDC Switchboard
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using System;
using System.CodeDom;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using Microsoft.CSharp;
using wcg.CodeGeneration.Extensions;

namespace wcg.CodeGeneration
{
    internal class ShorthandProperties : IPostProcessor
    {
        // TODO: apply to types and enum members

        private string CSharpifyName(string name)
        {
            string pascal = CodeIdentifier.MakePascal(name);

            var words = SplitPascal(pascal);

            StringBuilder adjusted = new StringBuilder();

            foreach (var word in words)
            {
                if (word.Length > 1)
                {
                    string replacement = word[0] + new string(word.Skip(1).Select(char.ToLower).ToArray());
                    adjusted.Append(replacement);
                }
                else
                {
                    adjusted.Append(word);
                }
            }

            return adjusted.ToString();
        }

        private IEnumerable<string> SplitPascal(string pascal)
        {
            bool allUpper = false;

            int offset = 0;

            for (int i = 0; i < pascal.Length; i++)
            {
                char c = pascal[i];

                if (char.IsUpper(c))
                {
                    if (!allUpper)
                    {
                        if (i == offset + 1)
                        {
                            allUpper = true;
                        }
                        else if (i != offset)
                        {
                            yield return pascal.Substring(offset, i - offset);
                            offset = i;
                        }
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    if (allUpper)
                    {
                        // If upper-case word more than 2 characters in length, commit everything up to the character before this one
                        if (i - offset > 2)
                        {
                            // "URLRange" => "URLRa" => "Url" "Range"
                            i--;
                            yield return pascal.Substring(offset, i - offset);
                            offset = i;
                            allUpper = false;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            // Two characters upper-case: combine with lower-case letters to the right
                            // "IDs"
                            allUpper = false;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            if (offset < pascal.Length)
            {
                yield return pascal.Substring(offset);
            }
        }

        private string GetPropertyName(string className, string original, HashSet<string> otherProperties)
        {
            string pascal = CSharpifyName(original);

            if (pascal == className)
            {
                // invalid
                var words = SplitPascal(pascal).ToArray();

                if (words.Length > 1)
                {
                    string removeFirst = string.Join(string.Empty, words.Skip(1));

                    if (!otherProperties.Contains(removeFirst))
                    {
                        return removeFirst;
                    }

                    string removeLast = string.Join(string.Empty, words.Reverse().Skip(1).Reverse());

                    if (!otherProperties.Contains(removeLast))
                    {
                        return removeLast;
                    }
                }

                string field = pascal + "Value";
                if (!otherProperties.Contains(field))
                {
                    return field;
                }

                field = "The" + pascal;
                if (!otherProperties.Contains(field))
                {
                    return field;
                }

                field = pascal + "Field";
                if (!otherProperties.Contains(field))
                {
                    return field;
                }

                field = pascal + "Property";
                if (!otherProperties.Contains(field))
                {
                    return field;
                }

                field = "Inner" + pascal;
                if (!otherProperties.Contains(field))
                {
                    return field;
                }

                int number = 1;
                while (otherProperties.Contains(pascal + number))
                {
                    number++;
                }

                return pascal + number;
            }

            return pascal;
        }

        private string GetDefaultAssignmentCode(CodeConstructor ctor, string fieldName)
        {
            CodeExpression defaultValue = ctor?.Statements.OfType<CodeAssignStatement>().Where(a => (a.Left as CodeFieldReferenceExpression)?.FieldName == fieldName).Select(a => a.Right).FirstOrDefault();

            string defaultAssignment = string.Empty;
            if (defaultValue != null)
            {
                StringBuilder defaultValueCode = new StringBuilder();
                using (var stringWriter = new StringWriter(defaultValueCode))
                {
                    new CSharpCodeProvider().GenerateCodeFromExpression(defaultValue, stringWriter, new CodeGeneratorOptions());
                }

                defaultAssignment = $" = {defaultValueCode};";
            }

            return defaultAssignment;
        }

        private void SpecifyXmlNameIfRequired(CodeTypeMember modifiedProperty, string originalName)
        {
            var elementName = modifiedProperty.CustomAttributes.FirstOrDefault(a => a.Name == "System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute");
            var attributeName = modifiedProperty.CustomAttributes.FirstOrDefault(a => a.Name == "System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute");

            if (elementName == null)
            {
                if (attributeName == null)
                {
                    modifiedProperty.CustomAttributes.Add(new CodeAttributeDeclaration("System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute", new CodeAttributeArgument(new CodePrimitiveExpression(originalName))));
                }
                else
                {
                    var named = attributeName.Arguments.OfType<CodeAttributeArgument>().FirstOrDefault(a => string.IsNullOrEmpty(a.Name) || a.Name == "AttributeName");
                    if (named == null)
                    {
                        attributeName.Arguments.Add(new CodeAttributeArgument("AttributeName", new CodePrimitiveExpression(originalName)));
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        public void PostProcess(CodeNamespace codeNamespace)
        {
            foreach (var source in codeNamespace.Classes().ToArray())
            {
                var ctor = source.DefaultConstructor();

                if (ctor != null)
                {
                    source.Members.Remove(ctor);
                }

                var valueTypeProperties = RemoveSpecifiedProperties(source);

                var optionalValueTypeProperties = source.Properties().Where(p => valueTypeProperties.Contains(p.Name)).ToArray();
                var otherProperties = source.Properties().Where(p => !valueTypeProperties.Contains(p.Name)).ToArray();

                HashSet<string> allProperties = new HashSet<string>(
                    optionalValueTypeProperties.Select(p => CSharpifyName(p.Name))
                    .Concat(otherProperties.Select(p => CSharpifyName(p.Name))), StringComparer.Ordinal);

                string className = source.Name;

                foreach (var property in optionalValueTypeProperties)
                {
                    source.Members.Remove(property);

                    string privateFieldName = RemoveAssociatedField(source, property);

                    string indentation = new string(' ', 8);
                    string accessor = "public";
                    string escapedTypeName = property.Type.GetEscapedSimplifiedTypeName();
                    string propertyName = GetPropertyName(className, property.Name, allProperties);
                    allProperties.Remove(CSharpifyName(property.Name));
                    allProperties.Add(propertyName);

                    string escapedPropertyName = CodeIdentifier.MakeValid(propertyName);

                    var replacement = new CodeSnippetTypeMember($"{indentation}{accessor} {escapedTypeName}? {escapedPropertyName} {{ get; set; }}{GetDefaultAssignmentCode(ctor, privateFieldName)}");
                    replacement.Comments.Clear();
                    replacement.Comments.AddRange(property.Comments);
                    replacement.CustomAttributes.Add(new CodeAttributeDeclaration("System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute"));
                    source.Members.Add(replacement);

                    string proxyPropertyName = CodeIdentifier.MakeValid($"__{propertyName}");
                    string proxySpecifiedPropertyName = CodeIdentifier.MakeValid($"__{propertyName}Specified");

                    var proxy = new CodeMemberProperty();
                    proxy.Type = property.Type;
                    proxy.Name = proxyPropertyName;
                    proxy.Attributes = property.Attributes;
                    // return property ?? default(type);
                    proxy.GetStatements.Add(new CodeMethodReturnStatement(new CodeSnippetExpression($"{escapedPropertyName} ?? default({escapedTypeName})")));
                    // property = value != default(type) ? value : null;
                    proxy.SetStatements.Add(new CodeSnippetExpression($"{escapedPropertyName} = value != default({escapedTypeName}) ? value : ({escapedTypeName}?)null"));

                    proxy.SetStatements.Add(new CodeAssignStatement(
                                                new CodePropertyReferenceExpression(new CodeThisReferenceExpression(), proxySpecifiedPropertyName),
                                                new CodeBinaryOperatorExpression(new CodePropertySetValueReferenceExpression(),
                                                                                CodeBinaryOperatorType.IdentityInequality,
                                                                                new CodeDefaultValueExpression(property.Type))));
                    proxy.CustomAttributes.Clear();
                    proxy.CustomAttributes.AddRange(property.CustomAttributes);
                    SpecifyXmlNameIfRequired(proxy, property.Name);
                    proxy.CustomAttributes.AddOrReplace(new CodeAttributeDeclaration("System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute", new CodeAttributeArgument(new CodeFieldReferenceExpression(new CodeTypeReferenceExpression("System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState"), "Never"))));
                    source.Members.Add(proxy);

                    //var proxySpecified = new CodeSnippetTypeMember($"{indentation}{accessor} bool {proxySpecifiedPropertyName} {{ get; set; }}");

                    var proxySpecified = new CodeMemberProperty();
                    proxySpecified.Type = new CodeTypeReference(typeof(bool));
                    proxySpecified.Name = proxySpecifiedPropertyName;
                    // return property != null;
                    proxySpecified.GetStatements.Add(new CodeMethodReturnStatement(
                                                         new CodeBinaryOperatorExpression(
                                                             new CodePropertyReferenceExpression(new CodeThisReferenceExpression(), propertyName),
                                                             CodeBinaryOperatorType.IdentityInequality, new CodeSnippetExpression("null"))));
                    // property = value ? property : null;
                    proxySpecified.SetStatements.Add(new CodeSnippetExpression($"{escapedPropertyName} = value ? {escapedPropertyName} : null"));

                    proxySpecified.CustomAttributes.Clear();
                    proxySpecified.CustomAttributes.Add(new CodeAttributeDeclaration("System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute"));
                    proxySpecified.CustomAttributes.AddOrReplace(new CodeAttributeDeclaration("System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute", new CodeAttributeArgument(new CodeFieldReferenceExpression(new CodeTypeReferenceExpression("System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState"), "Never"))));

                    source.Members.Add(proxySpecified);
                }

                foreach (var property in otherProperties)
                {
                    source.Members.Remove(property);

                    string privateFieldName = RemoveAssociatedField(source, property);

                    string indentation = new string(' ', 8);
                    string accessor = "public";
                    string escapedTypeName = property.Type.GetEscapedSimplifiedTypeName();
                    string propertyName = GetPropertyName(className, property.Name, allProperties);
                    allProperties.Remove(CSharpifyName(property.Name));
                    allProperties.Add(propertyName);
                    string escapedPropertyName = CodeIdentifier.MakeValid(propertyName);

                    bool propertyNameChanged = !propertyName.Equals(property.Name, StringComparison.Ordinal);

                    // array types getting messed up too!

                    var replacement = new CodeSnippetTypeMember($"{indentation}{accessor} {escapedTypeName} {escapedPropertyName} {{ get; set; }}{GetDefaultAssignmentCode(ctor, privateFieldName)}");
                    replacement.Attributes = property.Attributes;
                    replacement.CustomAttributes.Clear();
                    replacement.CustomAttributes.AddRange(property.CustomAttributes);
                    if (propertyNameChanged)
                    {
                        SpecifyXmlNameIfRequired(replacement, property.Name);
                    }

                    StringBuilder generatedAttributes = new StringBuilder();
                    generatedAttributes.Append(replacement.CustomAttributes.GenerateSourceCode(indentation));

                    generatedAttributes.AppendLine(replacement.Text);

                    replacement.Text = generatedAttributes.ToString();

                    replacement.Comments.Clear();
                    replacement.Comments.AddRange(property.Comments);

                    source.Members.Add(replacement);
                }
            }
        }

        private HashSet<string> RemoveSpecifiedProperties(CodeTypeDeclaration source)
        {
            HashSet<string> valueTypeProperties = new HashSet<string>();

            foreach (var property in source.Properties().Where(p => p.IsSpecifiedProperty()).ToArray())
            {
                valueTypeProperties.Add(property.SpecifiedPropertyName());
                source.Members.Remove(property);
                RemoveAssociatedField(source, property);
            }

            return valueTypeProperties;
        }

        // returns field name
        private string RemoveAssociatedField(CodeTypeDeclaration source, CodeMemberProperty property)
        {
            var assignTarget = property.SetStatements.OfType<CodeAssignStatement>().FirstOrDefault()?.Left as CodeFieldReferenceExpression;

            if (assignTarget != null)
            {
                var field = source.Fields().FirstOrDefault(f => f.Name == assignTarget.FieldName);
                if (field != null)
                {
                    source.Members.Remove(field);
                    return field.Name;
                }
            }

            return null;
        }

        public string SchemaNamespace { get; set; }
    }
}

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We offer an Infusion Suite for the delivery of biologic therapies, including infliximab and vedolizumab.
The treatment of IBD is highly dependent on our surgical colleagues, and we are fortunate to have superb colorectal surgeons, with specialist interest in IBD, here at St. Vincent's Private Hospital.


Based in Watford, Cast UK's client is looking to strengthen its senior management team with the recruitment of an experienced Freight Forwarder(road and sea freight). This is a complex role that will require the successful candidate to possess strong man management and leadership skills for a significant team of colleagues. You will need to have proven project management skills along with a tenacious look to your work, whilst being an excellent communication who acts with great integrity.
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"In the developed world, patient disengagement has become the new killer disease — not the lack of diagnostic devices, trained physicians or efficacious treatment options," argues Andrea LaFountain, PhD, in her book, How Patients Think.
Disbanding prescription drugs in advance of doctors' instructions, postponing lab and diagnostic tests, and avoiding daily blood glucose testing when managing diabetes are just some examples of "how patients think" about health care and the many tasks involved in caring for oneself and the health of loved ones.
But better understanding how patients think — technically speaking, the cognitive neuropsychology underneath the thinking — can help health/care stakeholders better design care processes, programs, and products.
It's well-documented that health dis-engagement leads to poor health outcomes and higher costs. LaFountain quotes a price tag of $3 billion a year in unnecessary costs for diabetes when Medicare beneficiaries disengage from self-care and follow up with doctors, other healthcare providers, and self-care (taking prescribed drugs, blood sugar testing, exercise, and other DIY healthcare tasks).
Of course, patient disengagement isn't just a challenge in diabetes: patients diagnosed with all sorts of medical conditions can avoid necessary care, resulting in about $260 bn of annual costs that could be conserved with greater engagement.
LaFountain begins her thesis by pointing to where a patient's thinking is rooted — and where people can make what seem to be irrational decisions about their health and health care: the executive function system in the brain. This covers: planning and decision-making, error correction and trouble-shooting, situations where responses are not well-learned or require new-new actions for the person, dangerous or technically difficult situation, and scenarios that require overcoming strong habits or temptations. Health behaviors can fall into one or several of these areas.
Complex healthcare situations, like trying to get smoking or deal with the many daily tasks to manage diabetes, can challenge the person trying to make a behavior change due to the health programs lack of understanding how patients think. Thus, the problem is not disengaged patients, LaFountain notes: the problem is the status quo, out-dated models of health care given what we know we know about how the brain works in complex health-decision situations.
In the U.S., that status quo is driven by outmoded claim-based business models which can nudge people in the wrong direction.
LaFountain lays out the case and flow for developing a scientific platform that underpins sound programming for health behavior change, based on cognitive science and health psychology.
Health Populi's Hot Points: The status quo LaFountain points to (e.g., outmoded claims-based business models) can nudge people in the wrong direction. In my health economics world, I would point to the adverse impacts of high-deductible health plans, nudging some people to postpone necessary care, or not filling and taking a prescription as instructed. Our colleagues at Sloane-Kettering have termed this "financial toxicity," another side-effect beyond clinical toxicity, discussed here in Health Populi.
"Course Correction #8" in the book is for current programs to target the sickest patients to impact population health and costs. Currently, so many behavior change programs focus on wellness and healthy sectors, and affluent, more health-literate populations.
As she asserts and understands through research, one size doesn't fit all in health behave change. This calls for a more deliberate approach to patient engagement and resource allocation, LaFountain writes — sharing care with the right patient with the right intervention at the right time. Sounds straightforward, but that's not how American healthcare functions in 2016.
Patient engagement can be "the most mutable predictor of patient outcomes," LaFountain quotes Katherine Kahn in her classic column, Moving Research From Bench to Bedside to Community: There Is Still More to Do in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, February 2008. Recognizing and acting on patients' central role in driving population health is critical for realizing its full impacts for public health — and optimal individual impacts for personal, personalized health.
Actually, Course Correction #8 notwithstanding, it is often not the very sickest patients for whom PHM can drive improved outcomes and lower costs. The aim of risk stratification is to identify and wash out (A) those who will do well no matter what (the target of many "wellness" programs; and (B) those who are so sick that they will do poorly no matter what. Patients in the latter stratum may do better (at significant cost) with individualized care management, but the target strata for *population* health management are those with modifiable risk.


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The aggregation of marginal losses
David Meikle
David Meikle, author/founder of How to Buy a Gorilla, on what the advertising industry can learn from the strategy of the British Cycling team.
Many have been inspired by the strategy developed by Dave Brailsford, General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain's professional cycling team): 'the aggregation of marginal gains'. Brailsford attributes Bradley Wiggins' first ever British win of the Tour de France to this strategy.
But the aggregation of small margins can be just as useful a tool to understand why significant problems have arisen, too. While Kingston Smith have reported the lowest ever profits of their sample of ad agencies, we must recognise that there wasn't one single event that has led us to this situation, it has been the aggregation of marginal losses over a long period of time.
Much like the apocryphal frog that only knows to leap out of boiling water once plunged in (but can be totally poached if the temperature increases gradually) the advertising business has had the heat turned up further and further to a point where, I think many would agree, had the heat been felt suddenly it would have been unanimously declared intolerable.
But as much as the aggregation of marginal gains are almost imperceptible, so too have been the aggregation of marginal losses. Consequently, there has been less impetus for radical change. As Milton Friedman put it: "Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change." And as much as these marginal losses have been painful at times, they haven't felt like a crisis because they took time. Over decades, agencies have reduced their support-staff resources, increased their ratios of people per square metre, dropped many perks, moved to business districts with lower rent and rates, let alone been beaten down fees for client facing and productive roles in resource plans, such that the advertising business is taking too much of the strain of a seemingly global drive to get more for less. Agency employer brands suffers, thus the attraction and retention of talent suffers, and so agency value suffers. But why is this not seen as a crisis - actual or perceived?
It ought to be.
The organisers of the Business Growth Conference on July 5th perceive the crisis. Pitch frequency is high, there's an increasing trend away from retainers and toward project-based fees, and the agency world will only suffer more if we don't start turning marginal losses into marginal gains.
At the conference I will be presenting an overview of my new model for clients and agencies from my forthcoming book How to Buy a Gorilla. Among others, I will be in the esteemed company of Blair Enns, new business guru and author of the Win Without Pitching Manifesto, and Tim Williams, master of pricing strategy and founder of Ignition Consulting.
The challenge for agency leadership is to perceive the current crisis and bridge the knowing-doing gap - do lots of small things differently - and the Business Growth Conference will be there to help. Take the first step and we'll see you on the 5th.
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1.	Men's Soccer Set to Take on Clemson
["We're very excited about the opportunity to play Clemson again this year. I think they are a fine representation of the quality soccer that you will find in the ACC. Coach Adair always has his teams exceptionally prepared, and we expect a very good challenge on Friday night. I'm hopeful that this game will continue to prepare our team and test us as we prepare for Southern Conference matches in the near future," said Coach Kennedy.]
2.	Women's Soccer Home Opener is Now Set for Sunday at 3 pm. against Charleston Southern
["I really appreciate Eric [Terrill] coming down to play us despite the Coastal Carolina tournament being canceled. Charleston Southern has had a great start. They are a very athletic and well coached team that should challenge us on Sunday. I know our girls are looking forward to playing at home and playing in front of a home crowd. We hope to play well and give the fans an enjoyable game to watch," said Coach Hart.]
3.	Injuries sideline GSU players for remainder of season
[Eagles will miss the rest of the season because of injuries and two others will be out at least for Saturday's game against Austin Peay. Sophomore wide receiver Chris Teal and sophomore defensive end Austin Watts will miss the remainder of the football season. Linebacker Justin Callaway will also miss the remainder of the season because of recurring injuries and will remain with the program as a student assistant coach. True freshman defensive lineman Brent Russell suffered a torn ACL against Georgia and will also sit out the season.]
http://savannahnow.com/node/566871
4.	Govs prepare for grass
["We only have one game film on them (Austin Peay), and North Dakota State was an awesome team so we don't know much about them (Austin Peay)," Hatcher said. "They didn't show a whole lot so we're going blind into our second game. We're still in a mode where we are worried about ourselves more than anyone else. That's how we're approaching the early part of the season until we get them to how we want them to play. We've just got to start faster than we did against Georgia."]
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/SPORTS70/809050365
5.	These Bulldogs are built to last
[By then, those 21 Georgia Southern points will be revealed for what they were: A late-game aberration. Georgia led 38-0 before it relaxed, and why wouldn't it? There's no call for embarrassing an outmanned in-state opponent whose program was founded by one of the most revered figures in Bulldog annals. (And whose current coach is a famously good guy.) Georgia Southern got 21 points when it didn't matter.]
http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bradley/entries/2008/09/04/these_bulldogs_are_built_to_la.html
6.	No Guarantees
[Sure, outmanned programs like Georgia Southern and Youngstown State were little more than sacrificial lambs to power conference teams last week. But every now and then, there's a humbling lesson for some unexpecting team to learn.]
http://georgia.scout.com/a.z?s=135&p=2&c=787042
7.	Rants and raves
[WHEN WAS THE last time The Augusta Chronicle truly covered Georgia Southern University sports? UGA isn't the only school around.]
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/090508/met_472020.shtml
8.	'The Mash': Newspaper Written For Teens By Teens
[Senior Laura Saenz contributed to this week's "Chatter" column where she predicts who will be the Bears MVP. "I chose Adrian Peterson because he's showing a lot of potential in the preseason now," Saenz said.]
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/the.mash.teen.2.810528.html
9.	Scouting the Bears: Offense
[Garrett Wolfe, Kevin Jones, and Adrian Peterson are all well qualified to be the third-down back, but all of them have something that is holding them back from the featured role. Wolfe is too small to be an every down back at this level, Jones takes too long getting to the hole — which would be particularly costly against this defense, and Peterson has yet to show that he's more than a situational player.]
http://ind.scout.com/2/786687.html
10.	Bees: Home runs help River Cats win
[Salt Lake's bats awoke during the seventh inning during a two-out rally that saw Chris Walker's double drive in Terry Evans and Gary Patchett. Brad Coon sent a single to center field as Walker scored.]
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10387809
11.	Salt Lake Bees: River Cats use long ball to tie series
[Chris Walker, Salt Lake's No. 9 hitter, ripped a two-run double in the seventh and then scored on a single by Brad Coon. But that was after the River Cats already had a 5-0 advantage. It proved to be too little, too late.]
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700256470,00.html


Oh goody. Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day is fast approaching.
A mere couple of weeks ago, I was beginning to "celebrate" a week designated to celebrate the sheer quackiness of the quackery that is naturopathy. True, that's not what the woo-friendly Senators and Representatives who imposed Naturopathic Medicine Week 2014 on a disinterested world that didn't need, want, or understand it. They represented it as a great thing, the "integrating" of the "best of both worlds," those worlds to them being conventional science-based medicine and alternative medicine. To those of us who support science-based medicine, it was integrating cow pie with apple pie, as Mark Crislip would put it. Let's just say such an "integration" doesn't make the cow pie better; it makes the apple pie worse.
Well, October appears to be a busy month for quacks, because I found another "celebration" going on in a mere few days. Sure, it's not a whole week, as the naturopaths have somehow conned woo-friendly legislators into proclaiming each of the last two Octobers. it's just one day. That day is Friday. The "holiday" is Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day 2014.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM) Day, celebrated annually on October 24, was created to raise awareness of the benefits of acupuncture and Oriental medicine, an effective form of medicine with a 3,000 year history. This national day of observance, recognized by the thousands of licensed acupuncturists, as well as AOM leadership organizations, was spearheaded by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)® in 2002.
In the United States the use of AOM is at an all-time high. In fact, according to a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine, an estimated 36% of U.S. adults use some form of complementary and alternative therapy; however, misconceptions about this respected form of medicine still exist. AOM Day's primary purpose is to educate the public about the benefits of AOM therapies.
Notice the slick bait and switch there. The implication is that because (allegedly) 36% of Americans have used some form of CAM that much of that's traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and acupuncture. In actuality, the percentage of people using acupuncture and TCM is way smaller than 36%. The way that the 36% estimate for "complementary and alternative medicine" CAM usage was to include a lot of what I like to call "rebranded" entities, some science-based (like exercise and diet), some not (like religion and spirituality). In reality, as I've alluded to before, acupuncture, Ayruveda, and TCM didn't even make the top ten of CAM therapies used by Americans according to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey Report. Indeed, in that survey only 1.4% of Americans reported having used acupuncture within the last year and only 6.6% reported ever having used it. Although numbers might be higher now, only 0.9% reported having used Tai Chi, 0.6% qi gong. The most popular "oriental" medicine used was yoga, with 9.5% reporting ever having used it. Given that most people use yoga, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong more for exercise than any medicinal benefits, anyway.
Come enjoy Tea and snacks as you meet the AHT healing team! Free stress relief auricular treatments from 6-8pm!
My allergy treatments with my acupuncturist have literally changed my life. Being a skeptic, I refused to reveal what my allergies were. She identified my known allergies / sensitivities as well as a few I didn't know about. One of the most significant allergens were eggs. After being treated, I ate my first egg at age 36! It made eating all sorts of things possible.
Yes, it's the "conversion" story! It's the quack's favorite testimonial, because believers like to think that their woo works so well that anyone who experiences it will become a convert. Of course, as I've described more times than I can remember on this blog, there's no compelling evidence that acupuncture is more than a "theatrical placebo" (as Steve Novella and David Colqhoun put it) or just a placebo, as I put it in a recent publication. Or, just enter the term "acupuncture" into the text box.
Stimulation of acupuncture points by some other modality will not kill the Ebola virus. It can be used however to help support the body's organ systems and heighten the body's immune defenses.
You know. That claim that using "magnet acupuncture" can boost your immune system enough to fight Ebola is so quacky that by the time Friday rolls around, I might have nothing.
I want to know how come they can only get a day, whereas Naturopathy gets a whole week of woodom and vaccine injury awareness wants a whole week?
I am now waiting eagerly for the year of Ear Candling.
Magnets. They worketh better than thy grammar. "Doth" is singular, thou ninny. And what, prithee, is "confund"?
I think they're calling it Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day because the acronym AOM (if you slur the letters together) sounds all transcendental meditation-y.
In all seriousness, TCM has a lot to answer for. The near-extinction of the rhinocerous, for one thing.
Not to be a pedant, but I think the proper spelling is AUM (or Om) for the mystical sanscrit sound.
That's for damned sure! Now that it has devastated rhinoceros populations, it is well on its way to causing the extinction of pangolins. Then there are tigers, bears (poached or tortured in captivity for bile), deer for antlers and antler velvet and on and on. If it were just nitwits doing cupping and sticking needles in other nitwits, I'd shrug it off as fools folly. But is is truly destructive and anything but amusing. Piss on it, its "patients" and its practitioners.
There is a curious bit of cognitive dissonance going on for the eco-aware westerner who gets TCM treatments. They know TCM traditionally uses beast bits, but obviously want treatment and herbs without these. However, I've not heard the question asked about what discarding a set of ingredients implies for the treatment system as a whole.
Either you'd have to conclude that there is a hodge podge of folklore within the herbology, or you'd conclude that the efficacy of the system is eroded by going without these ingredients?
And if you are having it both ways, on what basis do we know which leftover bits of the herb set are the 'good' ones? I've not heard about any attempts (not that I've looked) within TCM to sift wheat from chaff though anything resembling a science based process.
We're a little short of rhinos here, but if anybody needs a few thousand deer, I think we can help.
Johnny — Maybe we should convince the Chinese that deer antler are a perfectly good impotence cure.
The word "Oriental" is acceptable when used as an adjective for inanimate objects and to denote a zoogeographical region; it is unacceptable when used as a noun referring to a person or group of people.
3. FALL FASHION TIP: YOU JUST HAVE TO WEAR MAGNETS, DAAAHLING.
is a "magnetic engine." Fine, so put the shorts where they can do the most good – on your head. That way the rest of us will know who you are. Just another WN style tip. Ta Ta!
I wonder what the think happens to it during head MRI.
Magnetic underwear? Now that gives a whole new meaning to the song 'Let's stick together'.
You've inspired my new test for acupuncture: apply needles then undergo an MRI scan to observe the effect.
Unfortunately, the Null-macher no longer sells magnetic underwear ( and other therapeutic magnetic items- including a mask) because the line doesn't attract enough customersto be profitable.
( and he makes a lot more money selling dried vegetables and fruits at insanely marked-up prices. see Gary Null,com).
BUT he does recommend using magnets for therapies for various ills when he runs down his infamous lists of 'what to do for what' condition – usually involving diet, exercise, herbs,supplements, specific foods and vegetable powders.
A while back, I talked one of my gentlemen and his friend out of acupuncture therapy by utilising Orac's spectacular take down of the toothpick study: neither has gone back and the latter has substituted massage.
HOWEVER my Irish friend developed trigeminal neuralgia and has had to call upon what seems like an un-ending queue of specialists- including dentists for tooth extraction. Not finding relief, she finally gave up and went to the acupuncturist to quell a relative's persistent badgering.
Last week, she narrated her experience which was- obviously- punctuated with a fast-flowing stream of disdainful pejoratives and expletives. In summation, acupuncture was 'bloody, [email protected] useless'.
ull-macher no longer sells magnetic underwear ( and other therapeutic magnetic items- including a mask) because the line doesn't attract enough customersto be profitable.
Perhaps he should recommend iron supplements first to make the magnetic products more attractive….
Acupuncture cures "Amenorrhea"? Do the Southern Baptists know this? Does TCM have the cure for Young Earth Creationism? Get some magnets to the Congressional Science Committee stat!
Poor acupuncture. The Naturopaths got Congress to declare them a week, but the TCMers can only declare a day for themselves. I suppose the AHT healing team can't afford to dole out free stress relief auricular treatments, tea and snacks to 36% of America for 7 whole days.
I'm not sure Pete A's definition #12 would pass muster with the late Edward Said, but I take "Oriental Medicine" to refer to the 'doctors' performing it, who are at least allegedly persons, so I'm sticking with Orac on the racism thing — if I can use the verb 'stick' in a comment about acupuncture.
If you have one which comes ready-packaged for my freezer, I'd be obliged.
I think that by the time wild deer are in season for hunting, the horns have calcified, making it useless for TCM.
You have to admit, though that the idea of having a patient lie down for several days so high gauss magnets (which are pretty heavy if theyreally are high gauss) can be placed on all their pressure points is none too sharp.
You will have to define 'high' and 'heavy'.
I shop for rare earth magnets from time to time (because they are fun to play with) and the specs on some of them are frightening.
However, if you were to walk too close to your car while wearing it, it may leave you and fly away.
Close to 5k Gauss and over a half ton of pull, in a package 4″x4″x2″, and about 8.5 pounds.
The problem we have here is that the few places that you can hunt are so full of hunters that the deer are rather skittish, and everywhere else there are so many that they have outstripped the food supply that their growth is somewhat stunted. You'd get more meat out of a large dog.
I have heard it claimed that humans are the only ones that will use up all of their resources. Not true at all.
I remember the first time I saw a road-kill deer in the area – it was an event to mention around the office coffee pot. It's now a once a week occurrence, and I've even hit on myself.
I was in violent agreement with Doug, until he listed deer. The heard would be a lot healthier if we could loose about half of them around here.
Yes, there are some places in North America where cervids (notably white tailed deer) are overabundant, because the dumbass hunters and farmers have wiped out all of the natural predators.
Regardless of current states of abundance, I don't want TCM after any animal anywhere on earth for their superstitious nonsense. What is a abundant now could be endangered before long, especially given that wealth is rising faster in places like China and Viet Nam faster than science is displacing BS. If TCM can find a use for raw sewage, preferably pig farm lagoon contents, it is welcome to it.
Where I live in Alberta, the idiot federal and provincial governments supported "farming" of native elk and a significant part of the market was for velvet for TCM. The market collapsed when chronic wasting disease (related to CJD & BSE) came to the attention of the importers (also why the US is not a big exporter). Public money flushed down the drain for the profits of a few. I'm glad the market collapsed.
Velvet from wild native caribou was also being exported. Caribou are at risk in many areas because of exploration for oil to keep the lights on in f'ing Las Vegas and run Arnie's hummer fleet. TCM is also welcome to anything they can harvest at Vegas casinos.
Deer in the wild in New Zealand are a serious pest – the NZ government used to (and maybe still does) pay hunters to kill them. But deer farming is serious business. Originally for meat (CERVENA is farmed venison), but then someone figured out that there was a good market in China for velvet antlers, and now I think that may be even more profitable than the meat part of the business.
It is unlawful for a person to discharge a firearm or to shoot with a bow and arrow or crossbow and bolt within 300 feet of a permanently occupied dwelling without permission of the owner or the occupant of the dwelling or from the owner of the land on which the person discharging the firearm or shooting the bow and arrow or crossbow and bolt is situated. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation if a natural person, or guilty of a misdemeanor if any other person.
That distance is a bit longer than the typical distance between dwellings on two-acre lots.
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Red deer in New Zealand were introduced, most likely by people who intended them to propagate so they could be shot for "sport" by Colonel or Major or Lord or Sir … (a pox on the lot of them!) There are few things that become bigger problems than introduced species, including the ones in little boxes, who all go into business and all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry.
Red deer are slightly smaller and more polite than North American elk (which occasionally teach tourists to do what they are told by personnel in our western national parks).
The commentariat suggests that fever caused by bleach is making the children docile, 'easier to handle'. No doubt that is true.
However, no-one had mentioned that there is an additional possible effect: Febrility may reduce autism symptoms.
Adults with autism and parents have both commented on this possible effect of fever. It's still no reason to use bleach or fever to treat autism.
Is there anything that causes fever but doesn't feel absolutely horrible, like a hundred times worse than autism must feel?
herr doktor, if you send me an e-mail I could have a little present for you.
Hmm, herr doktor I can't seem to put anything in that folder.
Thanks, ChrisP. Forwarding it now to the colleague.
Hot showers (start the temperature normally then gradually raise it to scalding), saunas and steam rooms.
I have encountered the Sauna life-style while visiting colleagues in Estonia… it's a bit like eating chilli… once you realise that it's not going to kill you, you learn to enjoy it. But do saunas actually raise the body temperature? Part of the appeal is the enforced relaxation, as your body shuts down muscular activity in an attempt to keep core temperature within the specified range.
The concept of "short-term, controlled febrile infections for pleasurable delirium" is a recurring trope in science fiction.
But do saunas actually raise the body temperature?
Apparently so, as well as causing other potentially dangerous physiological changes:.
Greater body mass losses were observed after the dry sauna bath compared to the wet sauna (-0.72 vs. -0.36 kg respectively). However, larger increases in rectal temperature and heart rate were observed during the wet sauna bath (38.8% and 21.2% respectively). Both types of sauna baths caused elevation of systolic blood pressure, but changes were greater after the dry one. Diastolic pressure was reduced similarly.
I'm a little puzzled by the 38.8% increase in body temperature. If they were using Fahrenheit that would be 136.6 degrees, if Celsius 51 degrees, equally incompatible with life. It must be 38.8% of something else.
The CAM way of doing this is the far-infrared sauna, of course. This removes a range of imaginary toxins from the body that the kidneys can only dream of dealing with.
Thanks. The authors' diagram shows temperature rising to 38 and 38.5 C for dry and wet saunas. No wonder there's a Finnish horror movie called "Sauna".
I'm a little puzzled by the 38.8% increase in body temperature. If they were using Fahrenheit that would be 136.6 degrees, if Celsius 51 degrees, equally incompatible with life.
I certainly hope they weren't using Kelvin, although no other scale lends itself to percentages.
I'm a little puzzled by the 38.8% increase in body temperature.
If I read it correctly, they mean that both dry and wet saunas increase rectal temperatures and heart rate, but the increases from the wet sauna were 38.8% and 21.2% greater that the increases from the dry sauna.
Viz., 1.212(59.4) = 72 for the heart rate.
"During both baths (dry and wet) the HR increased by 59.4 and 72 beats·[per minute] respectively (p<0.01)."
Regarding Julian's comment #29, apparently fever temperatures start a cellular defense response called 'heat shock' that reduces some autistic behaviors. The article I read is in the popular literature, so relatively easy reading. I'd like to see a lot more research before parents start force-feeding their kids broccoli and other sulforaphane-rich veggies.
Thank you JerryA, is there some effect of exercise that is common to the immune response to fever? I'm thinking that stimming and perhaps also self-harming may hold clues to the febrility mechanism?
@Julian Frost, are you finding yourself to be more empathic when in the sauna?
are you finding yourself to be more empathic when in the sauna?
You are repeating the old falsity about autistics lacking empathy. While we may have poor cognitive empathy, we tend to have excellent emotional empathy.
We are not very good at working out what you're feeling, but when we do, we feel it ourselves very strongly.
What I feel in a steam bath or hot shower (I've never been in a sauna) is relaxed.
I'm not autistic myself, but my daughter is, and holy cow but is this obvious in her. She doesn't pick up on cues from other people very well, but any time she notices someone else's pain, she feels it right along with them, sometimes so powerfully it's incapacitating. The first time we really saw this was when watching the campy Toho classic "Son of Godzilla". At one point, baby Godzilla falls off of daddy Godzilla's tail, but daddy Godzilla doesn't notice and walks off set, leaving the baby sad and lonely. My daughter was so distraught by this that we had to stop the movie. She was sobbing for many minutes, and for hours afterwards the tears would spontaneously return as she remembered the baby getting left behind. We tried to get her to see the next ten seconds of the movie, where poppa comes back to get baby, but no. She was too upset.
She still has reactions like that, but has grown better at calming herself. All part of growing up. She knows she doesn't do a good job of reading other people, and she has learned that autism is supposed to cause people to lack empathy. So the really tragic part here is that now she gets very deeply sad about how much she believes she hurts people because she is insensitive. Which, of course, is the complete opposite of being insensitive, but when one is upset it's hard to be rational.
Didn't Kreb postulate the opposite- broccoli causes autism?
People started eating more broccoli because natural health fanatics claimed it would prevent/ cure cancer then the rate of autism rose.
Simple docility could easily be interpreted as "reducing symptoms", so that may just be the same thing seen from a different angle. For instance, irritability is often a symptom of autism, and the amount of time it takes the child to self-soothe is often used to evaluate the child's progress. Well, since caregivers aren't mind-readers, a child being more docile would score better on these things even with no other improvement in their condition. They might be evaluated to be less disabled, since they're not freaking out. That this is only because they're sleepy might not be noticed.
So . . . I guess I'm cautious about the notion that things that make a child sleepier are also improving symptoms. My daughter is trying a med that does make her sleepier, and so this weighs on my mind a lot, especially as it's not my intention to keep her on the med long-term.
@Julian, sorry I meant the other part of empathy, the actual seeing part. Imagine you're in a room with a few strangers, but not a sauna. Would your experience, being on the spectrum, be that you would have a hard time working out what those strangers thought of you at first?
Do you find it easier to 'feel' how a stranger in a sauna might feel about you?
@Calli both lethargy and hyperactivity are symptoms of autism but are they related? Do kids with more extreme lethargy get more hyperactive, or less? Are the two symptoms independent of each other?
Finding a medication that neither causes nor prevents drowsiness while helping with sleep problems? The idea of there being 'one chemical' for 'all autisms' seems impossible.
Fair question I guess. It makes no difference really. I tend not to speak when I'm in a steam room unless someone too young to be there comes in (the club has an age restriction of no under 14s), then I mention the rule. Otherwise I focus on enjoying the warmth.
Julian, I've just re-read your question and my answer.
I think a better answer is no, being in a steam room doesn't reduce my autism symptoms. What it does is relax me, so I seem more neurotypical.
While the author of the original article pulls no punches in his/her disdain for any form of alternative medicine, I would venture to suggest that a more open mind is in order. Science (specifically Western based science originating with Bacon et al) is not all knowing nor is it the font of all health knowledge. Accupuncture is a very effective treatment for some ailments as compared to surgery or drugs.
Certainly some horrendously outlandish claims are made for all alternative medicine treatments, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Statistical analysis is not always a good end point for a debate as many drugs which are effective in individuals have been shown to be statistically useless in treating ailments. I know I was in drug discovery for many years myself and am a working scientist in molecular biology.
Yes naturopathy make NO scientific sense whatsoever, but unfortunately it does work.. again from personal experience having been dragged into it by my better half and you would not have found a bigger skeptic worldwide. For sure it does not work all the time but neither do a horrendous number of drugs (many of which kill the patient). In fact more people die from drug OD's and side effects/interactions that the public is aware of. However, this is seldom reported so the public confidence is maintained.
The next wave of medicine… personalized medicine will revolutionise the entire global healthcare arena and who knows. maybe there will be a place for alternative medicines in the new world.
Prove it, show how it works for a non-self-limiting condition.
Prove it, show that it works for a non-self-limiting condition.
For both provide the PubMed indexed studies by qualified reputable non-biased researchers. Do not post case studies or other anecdotes.
Unfortunately, too many treatments have been "known" to work which turned out with more careful study not to work at all or to have really bad side-effects.
What we ask is simply that all forms of treatment meet the same standards for demonstrating that they work (are effective for the stated condition) and are safe (careful recording and analysis of side-effects).
Statistical analysis is not the end point. But, without good data and a proper statistical analysis, we have no way of distinguishing random variation (I'm the lucky person who didn't die from this disease) from a definite improvement in results (people with treatment X lived an average of 3 years longer than after receiving the standard treatment).
And, since we're discussing Oriental Medicine, I remember one combination of 3 different herbs that was being touted. But I didn't see any studies that compared A+B, A+C, B+C, A+B+C, with a placebo mixture such as Herbs de Provence.
Do you know of any studies like that for any of the popular herbal medicine combo's?
Accupuncture is a very effective treatment for some ailments as compared to surgery or drugs.
For which ailments is acupuncture as effective a treatment as surgery or drug therapy, and how has acupuncture's equivalent efficacy been factually established? Be specific.
In fact, let's simplfy things: what in your opinion represents the single most credible and compelling clinical study or other form of scientific evidence dmonstrating acupuncture works as well as SBM medical interventions as a treatment for non-self-limiting injury or illness?
Statistical analysis is not always a good end point for a debate as many drugs which are effective in individuals have been shown to be statistically useless in treating ailments.
How exactly does one determine that a treatment is only effective in a single (individual) patient but not effective in across multiple patients is responsible for the presumed benfits observed, and they are not instead , due to one or more confounders such as regression to the mean, confirmation bias, placebo effects, etc.?
Yes naturopathy make NO scientific sense whatsoever, but unfortunately it does work.. again from personal experience having been dragged into it by my better half and you would not have found a bigger skeptic worldwide.
Your personal experience, however, doesn't constitute evidence–only anecdote.
For sure it does not work all the time but neither do a horrendous number of drugs (many of which kill the patient).
What evidence demonstrates it works even some of the time? Be specific.
Thanks, but I can't take credit for originating "Western based" science, though my contributions are increasingly recognized as critically important.
*a fellow pathology resident once ruined a new pair of Hush Puppies when he spilled intestinal contents on them during an autopsy. He switched to ski boots after that.


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WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Will Save You From Yourself
June 26, 2018 6:17 am|Comments (0)
There are more Wi-Fi devices in active use around the world—roughly 9 billion—than there are human beings. That ubiquity makes protecting Wi-Fi from hackers one of the most important tasks in cybersecurity. Which is why the arrival of next-generation wireless security protocol WPA3 deserves your attention: Not only is it going to keep Wi-Fi connections safer, but also it will help save you from your own security shortcomings.
It'll take time before you can enjoy the full benefits of WPA3; the Wi-Fi Alliance, a trade group that oversees the standard, is releasing full details today but doesn't expect broad implementation until late 2019 at the earliest. In the course that WPA3 charts for Wi-Fi, though, security experts see critical, long-overdue improvements to a technology you use more than almost any other.
"If you ask virtually any security person, they'll say don't use Wi-Fi, or if you do, immediately throw a VPN connection on top of it," says Bob Rudis, chief data officer at security firm Rapid 7. "Now, Wi-Fi becomes something where we can say hey, if the place you're going to uses WPA3 and your device uses WPA3, you can pretty much use Wi-Fi in that location."
Password Protections
Start with how WPA3 will protect you at home. Specifically, it'll mitigate the damage that might stem from your lazy passwords.
A fundamental weakness of WPA2, the current wireless security protocol that dates back to 2004, is that it lets hackers deploy a so-called offline dictionary attack to guess your password. An attacker can take as many shots as they want at guessing your credentials without being on the same network, cycling through the entire dictionary—and beyond—in relatively short order.
"Let's say that I'm trying to communicate with somebody, and you want to be able to eavesdrop on what we're saying. In an offline attack, you can either passively stand there and capture an exchange, or maybe interact with me once. And then you can leave, you can go somewhere else, you can spin up a bunch of cloud computing services and you can try a brute-force dictionary attack without ever interacting with me again, until you figure out my password," says Kevin Robinson, a Wi-Fi Alliance executive.
This kind of attack does have limitations. "If you pick a password that's 16 characters or 30 characters in length, there's just no way, we're just not going to crack it," says Joshua Wright, a senior technical analyst with information security company Counter Hack. Chances are, though, you didn't pick that kind of password. "The problem is really consumers who don't know better, where their home password is their first initial and the name of their favorite car."
If that sounds familiar, please change your password immediately. In the meantime, WPA3 will protect against dictionary attacks by implementing a new key exchange protocol. WPA2 used an imperfect four-way handshake between clients and access points to enable encrypted connections; it's what was behind the notorious KRACK vulnerability that impacted basically ever connected device. WPA3 will ditch that in favor of the more secure—and widely vetted—Simultaneous Authentication of Equals handshake.
There are plenty of technical differences, but the upshot for you is twofold. First, those dictionary attacks? They're essentially done. "In this new scenario, every single time that you want to take a guess at the password, to try to get into the conversation, you have to interact with me," says Robinson. "You get one guess each time." Which means that even if you use your pet's name as your Wi-Fi password, hackers will be much less likely to take the time to crack it.
The other benefit comes in the event that your password gets compromised nonetheless. With this new handshake, WPA3 supports forward secrecy, meaning that any traffic that came across your transom before an outsider gained access will remain encrypted. With WPA2, they can decrypt old traffic as well.
Safer Connections
When WPA2 came along in 2004, the Internet of Things had not yet become anything close to the all-consuming security horror that is its present-day hallmark. No wonder, then, that WPA2 offered no streamlined way to safely onboard these devices to an existing Wi-Fi network. And in fact, the predominant method by which that process happens today—Wi-Fi Protected Setup—has had known vulnerabilities since 2011. WPA3 provides a fix.
Wi-Fi Easy Connect, as the Wi-Fi Alliance calls it, makes it easier to get wireless devices that have no (or limited) screen or input mechanism onto your network. When enabled, you'll simply use your smartphone to scan a QR code on your router, then scan a QR code on your printer or speaker or other IoT device, and you're set—they're securely connected. With the QR code method, you're using public key-based encryption to onboard devices that currently largely lack a simple, secure method to do so.
"Right now it's really hard to deploy IoT things fairly securely. The reality is they have no screen, they have no display," says Rudis. Wi-Fi Easy Connect obviates that issue. "With WPA3, it's automatically connecting to a secure, closed network. And it's going to have the ability to lock in those credentials so that it's a lot easier to get a lot more IoT devices rolled out in a secure manner."
Here again, Wi-Fi Easy Connect's neatest trick is in its ease of use. It's not just safe; it's impossible to screw up.
That trend plays out also with Wi-Fi Enhanced Open, which the Wi-Fi Alliance detailed a few weeks before. You've probably heard that you should avoid doing any sensitive browsing or data entry on public Wi-Fi networks. That's because with WPA2, anyone on the same public network as you can observe your activity, and target you with intrusions like man-in-the-middle attacks or traffic sniffing. On WPA3? Not so much. When you log onto a coffee shop's WPA3 Wi-Fi with a WPA3 device, your connection will automatically be encrypted without the need for additional credentials. It does so using an established standard called Opportunistic Wireless Encryption.
"By default, WPA3 is going to be fully encrypted from the minute that you begin to do anything with regards to getting on the wireless network," according to Rudis. "That's fundamentally huge."
As with the password protections, WPA3's expanded encryption for public networks also keeps Wi-Fi users safe from a vulnerability they may not realize exists in the first place. In fact, if anything it might make Wi-Fi users feel too secure.
"The heart is in the right place, but it doesn't stop the attack," says Wright. "It's a partial solution. My concern is that consumers think they have this automatic encryption mechanism because of WPA3, but it's not guaranteed. An attacker can impersonate the access point, and then turn that feature off."
Switching On
Even with the added technical details, talking about WPA3 feels almost still premature. While major manufacturers like Qualcomm already have committed to its implementation as early as this summer, to take full advantage of WPA3's many upgrades, the entire ecosystem needs to embrace it.
That'll happen in time, just as it did with WPA2. And the Wi-Fi Alliance's Robinson says that backward interoperability with WPA2 will ensure that some added security benefits will be available as soon as the devices themselves are. "Even at the very beginning, when a user has a mix of device capabilities, if they get a network with WPA3 in it, they can immediately turn on a transitional mode. Any of their WPA3-capable devices will get the benefits of WPA3, and the legacy WPA2 devices can continue to connect," Robinson says.
Lurking inside that assurance, though, is the reality that WPA3 will come at a literal cost. "The gotcha is that everyone's got to buy a new everything," says Rudis. "But at least it's setting the framework for a much more secure setup than what we've got now."
Just as importantly, that framework mostly relies on solutions that security researchers already have had a chance to poke and prod for holes. That hasn't always been the case.
"Five years ago the Wi-Fi Alliance was creating its own protocols in secrecy, not disclosing the details, and then it turns out some of them have problems," says Wright. "Now, they're more adopting known and tested and vetted protocols that we have a lot more confidence in, and they're not trying to hide the details of the system."
Which makes sense. When you're securing one of the most widely used technologies on Earth, you don't want to leave anything to chance.
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China and the Children Will Save Electric Cars From the EPA
March 31, 2018 6:00 am|Comments (0)
Efforts to put cleaner cars on American roads are being threatened. In a few days, The New York Times reports, the Environmental Protection Agency will move to weaken the regulations that demand automakers producer cleaner and more efficient vehicles.
The existing standards, which Barack Obama pushed for in 2012, demand each automaker nearly double the average fuel efficiency of its cars, to deliver 36 miles per gallon. But before President Donald Trump, EPA head Scott Pruitt, or anyone else can knock that number down, they must tangle with California. The state had rules to battle govern tailpipe emissions before a 1970 amendment to the Clean Air Act gave the EPA the authority to govern vehicle efficiency. Because of its early bird status, and especially grave pollution problem at the time, Congress gave California the unusual right to keep making its own regulations, even though federal rules should supersede state ones. No other state can do this, but they may opt to follow California's rules, which tend to be more stringent than whatever Washington drums up. Today, 13 states and Washington DC do so.
Together, those states (which, unsurprisingly, cover most of the East and West Coasts) account for a third of the American car market. So automakers have long built vehicles that meet California's tougher rules. It may sound like a pain, but it's cheaper than building two versions of every car—the cleanish one for most of the country, and the cleaner one for the folks who like their air salty but clean. And so lowering the national standards is only effective if you can get California to lower its too.
Pruitt, a climate change skeptic, has signaled he's ready—and right—to wrestle the grizzly bear. "California is not the arbiter of these issues," he told Bloomberg this month. But four decades of legal precedent don't vanish without a fight, certainly not quickly. "We're prepared to do everything we need to defend the process," the state's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, told the Times.
Okay, but say Pruitt gets his way, California loses its special status, and automakers no longer have to meet such tough efficiency and emissions standards. First off, don't expect coal rolling poor Prius drivers to become the new national sport. "We're not gonna go sliding back to the gas guzzling 80s," says Rebecca Lindland, an industry analyst with Kelley Blue Book. That's because automakers plan years ahead. They have already spent the money developing the turbochargers, lightweight materials, low resistance tires, and other tech they need to meet the current rules. They're not going to change their carefully laid plans now.
That'll keep the fumes away for a few more years, at least. But there's better news for anybody worried about driving the Earth into climatic disaster: The electric cars—the ones that make the entire notion of miles per gallon outdated, the emission zero heroes—are still coming, thanks to two parties: China, and the millennials.
Let's start with China. The country is already the world's largest car market, buying about 23 million vehicles a year, and its appetite is growing by about five percent year over year, according to a McKinsey report. For automakers who have already flooded American streets with their wares, fresh territory is a vital resource. "The US [luxury] market in my view is going to remain relatively stagnant. It won't decline, but it won't grow," Cadillac head Johan de Nysschen said this week at the New York International Auto Show. "The Chinese market, in the next 10 years, is going to triple."
And China—where pollution is a serious problem—insists that any automaker doing business within its borders sell lots and lots of electric cars. That's a big part of the reason why General Motors plans to roll out 20 new fully electric cars by 2023 and Ford is putting $ 11 billion into building 16 new models by 2022. Volvo is making its entire fleet "electrified" (a term that includes hybrids), and even Jaguar Land Rover, which debuted its first all-electric car just last year, says that by 2020, it will offer electric or hybrid versions of every car it makes. In an increasingly globalized industry, you can expect to see those models hit US and European shores as well—the more of each they sell, the faster automakers can amortize heavy R&D costs.
And the youths will help the process along. Right now, Lindland says, "the push to develop and deploy electric vehicles has been driven by regulations…consumers are not demanding these products." Forcing people to change their habits—where, when, and how they fuel their vehicles—is hard. But that could change with the generation just now learning to drive. "I think people born after 2003 are those who will demand electrification," Lindland says. "Those who haven't bought a car yet. It's not even a conversion." Indeed, she says, that may help along China's push for battery-powered cars. "They have more first time buyers at their disposal."
Automakers play a very long game, and they know this new generation is coming. "As we see more millennials coming into the marketplace, companies are looking to strike a more efficient picture," says Carla Bailo, CEO of the Center for Automotive Research. That means more electric cars, fewer emissions, and cleaner air.
So millennials—the kids who kill everything—along with whatever generation comes next, just might save the planet.
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Can Machines Save Us From the the Machines?
February 17, 2018 6:02 pm|Comments (0)
Is it just me or is the cyber landscape getting more scary? Even as companies and consumers get better at playing defense, a host of new cyber threats is at our doorsteps—and it's unclear if anyone can keep them out.
My doom-and-gloom stems from the dire predictions of Aviv Ovadya, the technologist who predicted the fake news epidemic, and now fears an "information apocalypse" as the trolls turbo-charge their efforts with AI. He points to the impending arrival of "laser phishing" in which bots will perfectly impersonate people we know by scraping publicly available images and social media data. The result could be the complete demolition of an already-crumbling distinction between fact and fiction.
Meanwhile, the phenomenon of crypto-jacking—in which hackers hijack your computer to mine digital currency—has quickly morphed from a novelty to a big league threat. Last week, for instance, hackers used browser plug-ins to install malignant mining tools on a wide range of court and government websites, which in turn caused site visitors to become part of the mining effort.
The use of browser plug-ins to launch such attacks is part of a familiar strategy by hackers—treating third parties (in this case the plug-ins) as the weakest link in the security chain, and exploiting them. Recall, for instance, how hackers didn't attack Target's computer systems directly, but instead wormed their way in through a third party payment provider. The browser-based attacks feel more troubling, though, because they take place right on our home computers.
All of this raises the question of how we're supposed to defend ourselves against this next generation of threats. One option is to cross our fingers that new technologies—perhaps Microsoft's blockchain-based ID systems—will help defeat phishing and secure our browsers. But it's also hard, in an age when our machines have run amok, to believe more machines are the answer.
For a different approach, I suggest putting down your screen for a day and picking up How to Fix the Future. It's a new book by Andrew Keen, a deep thinker on Silicon Valley culture, that proposes reconstructing our whole approach to the Internet by putting humans back at the center of our technology. Featuring a lot of smart observations by Betaworks founder John Borthwick, the book could help us fight off Ovadya's information apocalypse.
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Detroit's New Streetcar Is OK, But It Can't Save a City
August 16, 2017 11:25 am|Comments (0)
The limits of public transit in a city that needs much more. The post Detroit's New Streetcar Is OK, But It Can't Save a City appeared first on WIRED.
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How The U.S. Military's Tech Is Going Green To Save Lives
March 8, 2017 10:30 am|Comments (0)
Refueling a destroyer or any other large piece of military hardware is incredibly dangerous because it leaves troops very vulnerable to attack, especially if it requires a huge convoy. U.S. troops have lost their lives trying refuel vessels that are ultra-dependent on oil. The Department of Defense knows this, and as…
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Sharks Can Sense Electricity, and That Might Save Them from Extinction
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Anyone who has ever gone fishing knows that you don't always catch what you're trying to catch. In industrial fishing, that problem is called "bycatch," and it can have grave consequences.
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January 09, 2020 Opinion » Viewpoint
Language and Leaders: Trump, Castro, and Stalin
by Michael J. LaRosa
President Trump's impeachment proceedings focused on his abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. He was not impeached for bad language, which, as we know, is protected by the First Amendment. Yet, any leader in America who sounds a lot like Fidel Castro and Joseph Stalin probably should be impeached on a language violation, or at minimum, strongly censured.
Trump has recently resorted to referring to his political enemies (the Democrats) as "scum." When he made this verbal assault — and he has said it more than once — I thought, "Where have I heard this before?" I answered my own question with two memorable words: Fidel Castro.
Castro, who ruled Cuba from 1959 until (essentially) his death a little more than three years ago, used that word frequently in his long, undisciplined, unscripted speeches in Havana. He famously called his political enemies — those who opposed his revolution — escoria. Scum. It's not a pleasant-sounding word in either Spanish or English, and Castro used it as an adjective, together with gusanos (worms) in a sort of blanket denunciation of anyone who disagreed with him.
There was plenty to disagree with: Castro murdered many political opponents in the early days of the revolution; he always seemed to win re-election (sometimes by more than 100 percent of the vote); and he put gay people in prison/re-education camps.
He wasn't, in my estimation, as bad as the truly terrible tyrants of Latin America (Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, the Argentine generals of the late 1970s and early 1980s, or the noxious General Pinochet in Chile), but he was pretty bad. He communicated mostly via long speeches that were repetitive, rambling, and represented the official word of the regime.
Trump's speeches are also repetitive and rambling, but his preferred communication method, the tweet, is the modern-day Castro speech — only much shorter. The communication is similar in style and substance. The Trump tweet is one-directional, not to be challenged, and represents (evidently) Trump's policy plans and ideas, as well as his impulses. There is no room for debate, commentary, or retraction in either a Trump tweet or a Castro speech.
Recently, I've heard Trump refer to the United States press as "the enemy of the people," and I thought "Where have I heard that?" The term, which dates back to Roman times, was popularized by former Russian leader Joseph Stalin, who referred to anyone with whom he disagreed as the "enemy of the people." You'd think that the democratically elected leader of the United States could lift language from leaders who were not Castro or Stalin, but we live in a new age where people forget about history. It translates into a sad reality, where the tyrants of times past seem slightly less terrible when emulated by the elected leader of the free world. But let's face it, when it comes to a top 10 list of reprehensible leaders of the 20th century, Stalin probably comes in second. Hitler set a high bar.
The truth is, Trump's political opponents are not scum, and the U.S. press is not the enemy of the people. All tyrannical leaders hate critics — journalists, artists, writers, free-thinkers — because the tyrant, by definition, has no new or innovative ideas and fears exposure as a fraud by those who inhabit the world of innovation and ideas.
Those who support this president and don't or won't see the historic danger of his language are refusing to acknowledge a powerful reality: Leaders who dehumanize their political opponents have rarely been democratically inclined. They also signal to their supporters — subtly and not so subtly — that scum should be cleansed away and such enemies should be vanquished, politically or otherwise.
Language matters, and though the dangerous vocabulary used by President Trump might seem to be the least of our troubles right now, it's likely he'll be president for another 12 months — maybe longer. The United States needs and deserves a president who sounds more like an aspirational leader and less like Fidel Castro — and a lot less like Joseph Stalin.
Michael J. LaRosa teaches history at Rhodes College.
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