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Experts: Advance healthcare directives crucial at any age
Apr 15, 2022, 7:42 PM | Updated: Jun 20, 2022, 1:25 pm
BY HEATHER SIMONSEN
CEDAR CITY, Utah — For many, the pandemic brought home the importance of planning for the unexpected. People of all ages faced serious illness that sometimes required end-of-life decisions about healthcare.
For Hannah Blackmon, who lives in Cedar City, every breath is precious. She had a serious bout with COVID-19 last September.
"I barely remember being at the hospital," Blackmon said. "I was like, struggling to breathe, really, really horribly."
At 36, she had never prepared an advance healthcare directive.
"It was definitely a wake-up call," she said.
But after being intubated and flown to Intermountain Medical Center, she faced a new reality.
"I was in complete shock when I heard all this stuff. I didn't realize it was that bad."
According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, more than 90% of us think it's important talk about end-of-life care with loved ones, yet less than 30% have done so.
"That's incredibly important," said Dr. Dominic Moore, medical director for Palliative Care, Intermountain Healthcare.
Moore said an advance directive makes sure your voice is heard, in case you can't speak for yourself.
It's also an act of kindness for loved ones who would be left guessing without it.
"That's a very heavy weight," he said. "It's something that no one wants to get wrong. And the stakes are often very high."
Moore recommends first, discuss your wishes with loved ones. Decide what's important to you and document it.
It's as simple as filling out this form available online through the state.
"It's always too early until it's too late," Moore said.
Update your advance directive if you get a serious diagnosis, your health is declining, you get a divorce, or if your designated healthcare agent dies.
It's advice Blackmon recommends as she slowly recovers.
"My family almost lost me," she said. "You can't predict what's going to happen, but you just want to be ready."
Finding peace knowing that come what may, they're prepared.
For more information about advance directives, visit Intermountain Healthcare's website or National Healthcare Decisions Day for state-specific requirements.
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The horrific challenges separation and divorce place on our team members cannot be accurately measured by any sensible productivity business productivity metrics. More than half of all of our associates will be faced with this potentially debilitating challenge during the course of their careers.
For some it will become a career killer. Divorce rips at the very fabric of the wonderful tapestry God has woven into the lives of not just our team members, but also into the lives and emotions of their children, parents, siblings, close friends, neighbors, and work associates.
Don't be fooled. This is not a new issue. It is one Moses had to deal with at the dawn of civilization in the early days of the Old Testament, as well as one of the major topics about which first century leaders quizzed Jesus.
A study by the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri shows 50% of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce. Again, an overwhelming number of our team members at work are going to be adversely affected by this devastating issue.
"50% of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce."
How does this affect your business? In a study produced by the Journal of Marriage and the Family, research on a national sample of men who had been married ten years or less estimated that the work loss associated with marital problems cost employers approximately $6.8 billion per year.
The statistics for divorce are equally high for Christians and non-Christians alike. Within the church, this is unfortunately one of those areas of pain where members are often shot on the battlefield, as they lay wounded by the ravages of this warlike ordeal. In many cases, they never return to the place that could have and should have been their sanctuary of healing and restoration.
So how can we truly help our team members dealing with such a crisis in their lives?
Respond in the manner Jesus would. He stands ready to wrap His loving arms around them and comfort them in this time of crisis. Most people dealing with divorce have emotions such as fear, despair, denial, anger, depression and sleeplessness. Many feel as if they are walking around in a daze. Even though they have witnessed divorce with friends and family members, they never really thought it would happen to them.
Don't hesitate to gently let them know that Jesus loves them even when it feels like everything else is falling apart around them. He can be there no matter what. He loved them so much; he was willing to die for them and will not reject them during this time of crisis.
Recognize your team members struggling with divorce will need to work through the five stages of grief associated with any great loss in their lives.
An unwillingness to accept what is really happening.
This often sounds like: "If I had only done a certain thing, then this would not have happened to me." But bargaining can take on many different forms.
There are going to be times when they are just mad and will lash out at people who have nothing to do with the problem.
Finally, they will reach a point of acceptance. How long this takes will vary, but a good rule of thumb is a minimum of one to two months for every year the relationship existed.
A great resource you can recommend for your team member struggling with divorce is through a wonderful Christian non-profit organization called DivorceCare. You can learn much about them at www.divorcecare.org. There are thousands of wonderful churches across America that facilitate DivorceCare groups. Go to the website and find a group option for your team member, and offer to go with him or her to the first meeting.
Untold volumes have been written on this subject, and this brief piece is by no means meant to cover the subject completely. My prayer is that God will bless you richly as you serve Him by offering genuine "Caring in the Workplace" to team members affected by divorce and separation.


In a transaction that has been described as another significant step in building digital and video platforms to drive future growth, Verizon Communications Inc. announced it is to sign an agreement to purchase AOL Inc. for $50 per share – a deal that has an estimated total value in the region of $4.4bn.
Verizon's agreement with AOL is expected to further drive its LTE wireless video and OTT (over-the-top video) strategy as well as supporting and connecting to its IoT (Internet of Things) platforms, creating a growth platform from wireless to IoT for consumers and businesses.
The transaction will take the form of a tender offer followed by a merger, with AOL becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon upon completion. Upon the announcement of the agreement, AOL's stock price rose to 17 percent, whilst Verizon's dropped only slightly.
Verizon has stated that it will fund the transaction from cash on hand and commercial paper. The company also continues to expect to return to pre-Vodafone transaction credit ratings in the 2018-2019 timeframe.
As of September 2014, the American broadband and telecommunications company Verizon took on the mantle of the largest wireless communications service provider in the US. Its operations are divided into three business units: wireless (Verizon Wireless), residential and small business services (Verizon FiOS) and enterprise services (Verizon Enterprise Solutions).
"Verizon's vision is to provide customers with a premium digital experience based on a global multiscreen network platform," said Lowell McAdam, chairman and chief executive of Verizon. "This acquisition supports our strategy to provide a cross-screen connection for consumers, creators and advertisers to deliver that premium customer experience.
Verizon's acquisition, AOL, is a leader in the digital content and advertising platforms space, and the combination of the two is poised to create a scaled, mobile-first platform offering directly targeted at a global advertising industry estimated to be worth nearly $600bn. AOL's key assets include its subscription business; its premium portfolio of global content brands, including The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Engadget, MAKERS and AOL.com, as well as its millennial-focused OTT, Emmy-nominated original video content; and its programmatic advertising platforms.
"Verizon is a leader in mobile and OTT connected platforms, and the combination of Verizon and AOL creates a unique and scaled mobile and OTT media platform for creators, consumers and advertisers," said Tim Armstrong, AOL chairman and chief executive. "The visions of Verizon and AOL are shared; the companies have existing successful partnerships, and we are excited to work with the team at Verizon to create the next generation of media through mobile and video.
Following the closing of the transaction, Tim Armstrong will continue to lead AOL operations.
The advisers for Verizon during the transaction were LionTree Advisors, Guggenheim Partners and Weil, Gotshal & Manges. For AOL the advisers were Allen & Company LLC and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
The Verizon/AOL transaction is subject to the customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions and is planned to complete during the summer of 2015.


The gender pay gap at Rother District Council has been revealed this week.
Rother District Council has one of the worst figures for local authorities in Sussex with women's mean hourly rate 21.3 per cent lower than men's.
Meanwhile the median hourly rate is 20.7 per cent lower for women compared to men.
The gender pay gap happens where companies or organisations employ more highly paid men than women and is not the same as having unequal pay, which has been unlawful since 1970.
The deadline for firms and public sector organisations with more than 250 staff to publish data passed on Wednesday (April 4).
Malcolm Johnston, executive director of resources at Rother District Council, said: "We should be clear that the disparity between men's and women's pay is not the result of paying women less than men for doing the same job.
"We have a clear policy of paying the same salary to employees doing the same or equivalent roles, whether they are a man or a woman, and when it comes to recruitment we're only interested in employing the best person for the job, regardless of their gender.
"The pay gap in our organisation comes from the fact we have more men in higher-paid senior roles and more women in lower-paid roles, and while of course we'd like to see this gap narrowed in the future, there is no quick fix as this is a complex issue.
"We are an equal opportunities employer and, through measures such as ensuring our vacancies are advertised externally, training and development of our existing workforce, offering parental leave and flexible working, endeavour to make careers at the council attractive to a broad cross-section of society.


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It all started in 1865 when Jules Bel decided to found a traditional cheese company (gruyere) in Orgelet, a small town in Jura, France, in the foothills of the French Alps, renowed for its dairy and cheese.
Thirty years later his two sons, Henri and Léon, inherited the company and relocated it to a bigger town, Lons-Le-Saunier. The presence of a salt company and the proximity of the railroad held importance in this decision, making the moving of the Bel company a strategic choice for transportation but also because salt is an important ingredient in the making of cheese.
Léon Bel drew on his own experience to create the brand. During World War I, Léon was affected to the logistic corps of the army. Soldiers started to draw humoristic symbols on the logistic buses, to identify the different units. The commanding officer of wrote to Benjamin Rabier, a famous illustrator, to create their symbol. In response, Rabier sent the drawing of a laughing cow, which was given the name of «La Wachkyrie» by one of the unit soldier in reference to the «Walkyrie», Wagner's opera so loved by the German army. In phonetic, "Wachkyrie" equals "Vache qui rit" (Laughing cow).
Right after the first World War, Léon Bel met the Swiss Graf family who imported processed cheese from Switzerland to Jura during the war. Convinced by the potential of the invention, Léon started his own brand with the help of the Grafs. In 1921, The Laughing Cow® cheese was born.
In 1923, Léon Bel got inspired to change the brand logo. The cow, formerly standing on all fours, was reduced to a close up of her head by Benjamin Rabier. It's the printer Vercasson who gave its red color to Rabier's drawing and rumor has it that it was Leon's wife who suggested the earrings to add a female touch to the cow!
In 1924, three years after production started, Léon Bel equiped its facilities with modern machines, allowing to increase productivity while improving working conditions for employees. The first machines manufacturing the triangular portion as we know it today were also designed during this period. 2 years later, still in Lons-Le-Saunier, a brand new and very modern plant was built.
Through time the company, called Bel Group, expanded all over the world, starting in the UK in 1929 and Belgium in 1933. In the 70's, The Laughing Cow® set off to conquer Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East as well as the USA. In the 90's, it began its expansion in Asia.
The creation of a dedicated R&D center in 1958 in Lons-le-Saunier reinforced this spirit and enabled the brand to extend its offering. Léon Bel was a pioneer of processed cheese, and he revolutionized consumption by offering a transportable and reservable cheese. Innovation is at the heart of The Laughing Cow® mindset. The original recipe in triangular portion evolved, with the launch of The Laughing Cow® light in 1988, new recipes enriched with essential nutrients and reduced fat and salt. Even new flavours appeared in the portfolio to match consumers' preferences all around the world.
Today, around 10 million portions are sold every day in 136 different countries, making The Laughing Cow® the 4th biggest cheese brand in the world and 15 plants are producing The Laughing Cow® cheese across 4 continents.
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Renaissance in Italy Art
In keeping with the spirit of humanism, artists of the early Renaissance strove to portray lifelike human forms with correct proportions and realistic clothing and expressions. Artists developed new techniques to give paintings a more three-dimensional, life-like quality, and commonly studied human and animal anatomy in efforts to better understand their subjects.
The first important painter of the Renaissance was Giotto di Bondone. Giotto painted during the turn of the fourteenth century, breaking away from the Gothic and Byzantine artistic traditions. He deeply studied nature in an effort to infuse his paintings with reality, an effort most notable in his especially realistic facial expressions. In 1334, Giotto was appointed chief architect in Florence, where he remained until his death in 1337. Giotto's innovations made in the portrayal of perspective were improved upon by a later painter, Tommaso Guidi, known as Masaccio (Messy Tom) because of his disheveled appearance. Masaccio is credited with mastering perspective, and was the first Renaissance artist to paint models in the nude, often using light and shadow to define the shape of his models rather than clear lines. Masaccio's best known work is a scene from the Bible called The Tribute Money. Furthering the accomplishments of his predecessors, Sandro Botticelli emerges as a dominant artist during the early Renaissance. One of a circle of artists and scholars sponsored by the Medici in Florence, Botticelli's most famous work, The Birth of Venus, shows the goddess rising from the sea on a conch shell. During the late fifteenth century Botticelli became a follower of the Girolamo Savonarola, and burned many of his paintings with pagan themes.
The Merchants and city officials whose patronage supported the Renaissance artists were frequently more interested in architecture than they were in painting. Therefore, as the city-states of Italy began to develop great wealth during the early fifteenth century, architects and sculptors rose to fame and power. In 1401, Florence held a competition to choose the artist to design and sculpt a pair of bronze doors for the Baptistry, a church honoring St. Paul the Baptist. The winner of the contest, Lorenzo Ghiberti, spent 28 years completing the doors, which, decorated with scenes from the Bible, remain one of the greatest treasures of the Renaissance. Ghiberti developed the techniques of three-dimensional sculpture, and greatly influenced all Italian sculpture of the Renaissance.
The loser of the contest, Filippo Brunelleschi, traveled to Rome, where he studied Roman ruins and developed mathematical formulas to be used in architecture. In 1417 he again competed against Ghiberti for the right to design the dome of the cathedral of Florence. He won the competition. The dome he designed, combining the modern trends in architecture and the style of ancient Rome, still dominates the Florentine skyline, and is considered one of the great architectural masterpieces of all time. In terms of sculpture, the acknowledged master of the early Renaissance was Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello. Donatello studied under both Ghiberti and Brunelleschi, and went on to create several masterpieces for Cosimo de Medici in Florence. His most important work is the David, which depicts the Hebrew king in the classical style of a Greek god, and was the first freestanding nude figure sculpted since the Roman era. Donatello went on to create the first bronze statue of the Renaissance, showing an incredibly realistic soldier on horseback.
During the Renaissance, artists benefited from the patronage of rich merchants and rulers, and were well known during their own times, unlike the anonymous artists who had produced works in guilds during the middle ages. Great fame and influence was conferred upon the great artists of the day, and they were celebrated wherever they traveled. This fame convinced many artists that they deserved special privileges and consideration, which they were often granted.
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Award-winning journalist Richard Harris has reported on a wide range of topics in science, medicine and the environment since he joined NPR in 1986. In early 2014, his focus shifted from an emphasis on climate change and the environment to biomedical research.
Harris has traveled to all seven continents for NPR. His reports have originated from Timbuktu, the South Pole, the Galapagos Islands, Beijing during the SARS epidemic, the center of Greenland, the Amazon rain forest, the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (for a story about tuberculosis), and Japan to cover the nuclear aftermath of the 2011 tsunami.
In 2010, Harris' reporting revealed that the blown-out BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was spewing out far more oil than asserted in the official estimates. That revelation led the federal government to make a more realistic assessment of the extent of the spill.
Harris covered climate change for decades. He reported from the United Nations climate negotiations, starting with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and including Kyoto in 1997 and Copenhagen in 2009. Harris was a major contributor to NPR's award-winning 2007-2008 "Climate Connections" series.
Over the course of his career, Harris has been the recipient of many prestigious awards. Those include the American Geophysical Union's 2013 Presidential Citation for Science and Society. He shared the 2009 National Academy of Sciences Communication Award and was a finalist again in 2011. In 2002, Harris was elected an honorary member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society. Harris shared a 1995 Peabody Award for investigative reporting on NPR about the tobacco industry. Since 1988, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has honored Harris three times with its science journalism award.
Before joining NPR, Harris was a science writer for the San Francisco Examiner. From 1981 to 1983, Harris was a staff writer at The Tri-Valley Herald in Livermore, California, covering science, technology, and health issues related to the nuclear weapons lab in Livermore. He started his career as an AAAS Mass Media Science Fellow at the now-defunct Washington Star in DC.
Harris is co-founder of the Washington, DC, Area Science Writers Association, and is past president of the National Association of Science Writers. He serves on the board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
Harris' book Rigor Mortis was published in 2017. The book covers the biomedicine "reproducibility crisis" — many studies can't be reproduced in other labs, often due to lack of rigor, hence the book's title. Rigor Mortis was a finalist for the 2018 National Academy of Sciences/Keck Communication Award.
A California native, Harris returned to the University of California-Santa Cruz in 2012, to give a commencement address at Crown College, where he had given a valedictory address at his own graduation. He earned a bachelor's degree at the school in biology, with highest honors.
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The disease is sepsis, which is the most common cause of death in hospitals. And the regulations came into being after the story of 12-year-old Rory Staunton became a cause célèbre.
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The Promises And Pitfalls Of Gene Sequencing For Newborns
By Richard Harris • Jul 8, 2019
Sequencing a person's DNA is now a routine task. That reality has left doctors looking for ways to put the technology to work.
A decade ago, a top federal scientist said, "Whether you like it or not, a complete sequencing of newborns is not far away." Dr. Francis Collins, who made that statement, has been head of the National Institutes of Health for the intervening decade. But his prophecy hasn't come to pass, for both scientific and practical reasons.
Accumulated Mutations Create A Cellular Mosaic In Our Bodies
By Richard Harris • Jun 6, 2019
Your body has about 40 trillion cells, and they all arose from a single fertilized egg. But it turns out the DNA in many of those cells is no longer a perfect clone of that original one.
A study published Thursday in the journal Science shows that our body's cells are a mosaic, with many subtle genetic variations.
Computerized Model Reveals Details Of How Human Cells Divide
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How do we grow from a single fertilized egg into a fully grown person with trillions of cells? Our cells divide, of course!
And it's no mean feat. Each time a cell divides, it must duplicate our 23 pairs of chromosomes and make sure each "daughter" cell ends up with a complete set of genes.
Errors are potentially fatal to the cell. Runaway cell division, which is the hallmark of cancer, is also serious business.
No wonder then that biologists have been studying cell division for as long as they've known about cells.
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Experimental Drug For Huntington's Disease Jams Malfunctioning Gene
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Scientists are gearing up a major study to find out whether a drug can silence the gene that causes a devastating illness called Huntington's disease.
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By Richard Harris • Apr 30, 2019
When Kim Hilliard shows up at the clinic at the New Orleans University Medical Center, she's not there simply for an eye exam. The human touches she gets along the way help her navigate her complicated medical conditions.
In addition to diabetes, the 56-year-old has high blood pressure. She has also had back surgery and has undergone bariatric surgery to help her control her weight.
Google Searches For Ways To Put Artificial Intelligence To Use In Health Care
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Google and its sister companies, parts of the holding company Alphabet, are making a huge investment in the field, with potentially big implications for everyone who interacts with Google — which is more than a billion of us.
The push into AI and health is a natural evolution for a company that has developed algorithms that reach deep into our lives through the Web.
Gene Therapy Advances To Better Treat 'Bubble Boy' Disease
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How Can We Be Sure Artificial Intelligence Is Safe For Medical Use?
When Merdis Wells visited the diabetes clinic at the University Medical Center in New Orleans about a year ago, a nurse practitioner checked her eyes to look for signs of diabetic retinopathy, the most common cause of blindness.
At her next visit, in February of this year, artificial intelligence software made the call.
The clinic had just installed a system that's designed to identify patients who need follow-up attention.
Hepatitis C Not A Barrier For Organ Transplantation, Study Finds
By Richard Harris • Apr 3, 2019
Donated organs from people who were infected with the hepatitis C virus can be safely transplanted, according to the latest in a line of studies that are building a case for using these organs.
Typically, these organs have been discarded because of concerns about spreading the viral infection. But a study of heart and lung transplants published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine finds that new antiviral drugs are so effective that the recipients can be protected from infection.
Training A Computer To Read Mammograms As Well As A Doctor
Regina Barzilay teaches one of the most popular computer science classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
And in her research — at least until five years ago — she looked at how a computer could use machine learning to read and decipher obscure ancient texts.
"This is clearly of no practical use," she says with a laugh. "But it was really cool, and I was really obsessed about this topic, how machines could do it."
Overlooked Ingredients In Medicines Can Sometimes Trigger Side Effects
By Richard Harris • Mar 13, 2019
If you have a bad reaction to a medicine, it might not be the drug itself, but what are called "inactive ingredients" in the pill or capsule.
An article published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine surveys this field and finds ingredients that are potentially troublesome for some people are ubiquitous.
Bone Marrow Transplant Renders Second Patient Free Of HIV
By Richard Harris • Mar 5, 2019
Doctors in London say they have apparently eradicated HIV from a patient's body. It's only the second time this has been accomplished, despite many attempts over more than a decade.
While some commentators are calling this a "cure" for HIV, the scientists who performed the experiment say it's too soon to say that. Instead, they say the patient is in remission.
London Patient Cleared Of HIV
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Study Found Vaping Beat Traditional Smoking-Cessation Options
By Richard Harris • Jan 30, 2019
Smokers who switched to e-cigarettes were much more likely to quit than people who used nicotine patches, gum or similar products, according to a large study.
The bad news: People who successfully quit tobacco were often hooked on e-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes are considered far less hazardous than the ones you light up. Still, American health officials worry about their addictive nature and lure for young people. But British health officials tend to look more favorably upon them.
Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch
By Richard Harris • Dec 22, 2018
Research published in a major medical journal concludes that a parachute is no more effective than an empty backpack at protecting you from harm if you have to jump from an aircraft.
But before you leap to any rash conclusions, you had better hear the whole story.
The gold standard for medical research is a study that randomly assigns volunteers to try an intervention or to go without one and be part of a control group.
Vitamin Treatment For Sepsis Is Put To The Test
Dr. Jonathan Sevransky was intrigued when he heard that a well-known physician in Virginia had reported remarkable results from a simple treatment for sepsis. Could the leading cause of death in hospitals really be treated with intravenous vitamin C, the vitamin thiamine and doses of steroids?
Before Starting A Statin, Talk It Over With Your Doctor
By Richard Harris • Dec 3, 2018
A study published Monday is pushing back against the notion that up to 40 percent of Americans should be taking statin drugs to reduce the risk of heart disease. The study, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, argues that current medical guidelines haven't adequately considered the risks from these widely used drugs.
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Distinct HIV discordancy patterns by epidemic size in stable sexual partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa
Hiam Chemaitelly, Ide Cremin, Jim Shelton, Timothy B. Hallett, Laith Aburaddad
Objective: To describe patterns of HIV infection among stable sexual partnerships across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Methods: The authors defined measures of HIV discordancy and conducted a comprehensive quantitative assessment of discordancy among stable partnerships in 20 countries in SSA through an analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey data. Results: HIV prevalence explained at least 50% of the variation in HIV discordancy, with two distinct patterns of discordancy emerging based on HIV prevalence being roughly smaller or larger than 10%. In low-prevalence countries, approximately 75% of partnerships affected by HIV are discordant, while only about half of these are discordant in high-prevalence countries. Out of each 10 HIV infected persons, two to five are engaged in discordant partnerships in low-prevalence countries compared with one to three in high-prevalence countries. Among every 100 partnerships in the population, one to nine are affected by HIV and zero to six are discordant in low-prevalence countries compared with 16-45 and 9-17, respectively, in high-prevalence countries. Finally, zero to four of every 100 sexually active adults are engaged in a discordant partnership in low-prevalence countries compared with six to eight in high-prevalence countries. Conclusions: In high-prevalence countries, a large fraction of stable partnerships were affected by HIV and half were discordant, whereas in low-prevalence countries, fewer stable partnerships were affected by HIV but a higher proportion of them were discordant. The findings provide a global view of HIV infection among stable partnerships in SSA but imply complex considerations for rolling out prevention interventions targeting discordant partnerships.
https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2011-050114
Chemaitelly, H., Cremin, I., Shelton, J., Hallett, T. B., & Aburaddad, L. (2012). Distinct HIV discordancy patterns by epidemic size in stable sexual partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 88(1), 51-57. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2011-050114
Distinct HIV discordancy patterns by epidemic size in stable sexual partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa. / Chemaitelly, Hiam; Cremin, Ide; Shelton, Jim; Hallett, Timothy B.; Aburaddad, Laith.
In: Sexually Transmitted Infections, Vol. 88, No. 1, 02.2012, p. 51-57.
Chemaitelly, H, Cremin, I, Shelton, J, Hallett, TB & Aburaddad, L 2012, 'Distinct HIV discordancy patterns by epidemic size in stable sexual partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa', Sexually Transmitted Infections, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 51-57. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2011-050114
Chemaitelly H, Cremin I, Shelton J, Hallett TB, Aburaddad L. Distinct HIV discordancy patterns by epidemic size in stable sexual partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2012 Feb;88(1):51-57. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2011-050114
Chemaitelly, Hiam ; Cremin, Ide ; Shelton, Jim ; Hallett, Timothy B. ; Aburaddad, Laith. / Distinct HIV discordancy patterns by epidemic size in stable sexual partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa. In: Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2012 ; Vol. 88, No. 1. pp. 51-57.
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What do Emma Watson, John F. Kennedy Jr., and Serena van der Woodsen from Gossip Girl have in common? They have all attended Brown University, the most liberal university in the Ivy League. Although small in area (only 143 acres), Brown is large in spirit and tradition. As one of the oldest colleges in the nation, Brown has remained a popular university because of its academic freedom and its diverse student body.
In politics, academics, and behavior, the Brown student body is known for its hippie-like sensibilities. For example, one of the major traditions of Brown includes a night called Sex Power God where the actual events remain ambiguous to those who do not attend, but wild speculation runs rampant. In fact, major conservative news personalities such as Bill O'Reilly have targeted this Brown tradition with major criticism and disgust, to the delight of many Brown students. However, not all of the school's traditions are as controversial or as extreme, some of the most beloved traditions include the Midnight Organ Concert on Halloween where an organist performs spooky music on the largest remaining Hutchings-Votey organ in the world.
The John Hay Library is the oldest library on campus.
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With all of this freedom, it is no surprise that Brown consistently tops the list of happiest students and of dream schools for students all across the nation. However, it is one of the hardest schools to get into with an acceptance rate of only 9%, lower than University of Pennsylvania's acceptance rate of12.3% and Rice University's acceptance rate of 19%. The median SAT score is around 2220 and the median ACT score is around 30. Even harder to get into is the prestigious Program in Liberal Medical Education or PLME, which is an eight year program that combines Brown undergraduate studies with Alpert Medical School. All of this comes at a hefty price tag of $54,370, but don't let that stop you from applying! Brown Financial Aid awards an average of $36,815 and acceptance is need blind.
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The film is a love story that focuses on a married couple who are both struggling to find their way in life. Sandhya's marriage is a struggle between her desire to make a name for herself, and the traditional values of her husband. Her husband is supportive, but he also wants his wife to be successful and happy. The story follows Sandhya and her journey to realize her dreams and desires.
Star Plus has renamed their popular show Diya Aur Baati Hum to reflect its new name. The show was one of the most popular shows on TRP, and will probably end with one last episode. Until this day, fans have been reacting hilariously to the show's ending. In the meantime, a renaming ceremony is planned for the sweet shop that Sooraj owns, which is now a tourist destination.
Since the show premiered in 2011, the series has been a huge hit, with a steady audience and an increasing number of viewers. It was a highly controversial show, primarily because Deepika Singh, who played the lead character, slapped Anas Rashid in the show because he touched her. The actress' controversial stance has sparked controversy, but the show has since managed to stay true to its original storyline.
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Diya Aur Baati Hum is currently airing on Hotstar. It is not currently available on ErosNow or Jio Cinema, which is disappointing for fans of the show. However, it will be re-aired on Star Plus, so fans will be able to watch the full episode of their favorite show. The film will no doubt continue to have a devoted fan base, especially as it celebrates the women's community.
The movie is based on the love story of Anas Rashid and Deepika Singh. The series was launched on 29 August 2011 and has been on television since then. It is produced by Shashi Sumeet Productions and has a large audience in India. The movie was directed by Vishal Bhanu. It premiered on Vijay TV and is now broadcast on Star Plus. It is still airing in India, and it is one of the most watched movies in the country.
The film is about two women who are trying to make their dreams come true. They must be supported by their Baati, which is the symbol of Sandy. And the Baati has to be placed in the Diya to keep it burning. Rain and wind can put out the flame. As a result, the movie ends with a happy couple holding hands and shouting, "Diya aur baati hum!"
The film is an emotional journey about two families who are trying to survive in different ways. In the first season, the characters were a couple who were fighting for their dreams. Their father and mother were both committed to the idea of their son and daughter being adopted. The father encouraged his son to pursue his dream. A woman who has her dream, becomes a police officer. He is the one who helps his family.
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The show focuses on the relationship between a woman and her husband. In the second half, the women fall in love, but they never get together. This leads to a conflict between the two. In the third episode, the children finally get to see the mother's baby, but this does not help the police. The pair ends up being separated, and the two are left to face their own fate.
After Sooraj's marriage to Laalima, they decide to marry and save the world. They feign their identity to escape the danger. The two women enslave their families, and their dreams. They live in separate houses, and their love grows stronger as time passes. But this is not the end of the story, as both women are forced to fight for their happiness. Throughout the film, the two love each other.
After the wedding, Sandhya and Bharat begin to fall in love again. The young couple is in a desperate situation. The man is lying about his age, and Bharat, who is a little too proud to admit her defeat, is furious. They have to decide how to save their relationship, and it is not easy. After all, this is a love story, and it takes courage to be different.
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Diya Aur Baati Hum ( transl. The lamp (also known as we are the lamp) can be described as an Indian television soap opera that was telecast that aired Star Plus between 29 August 2011 and 10 September 2016, which lasted from 29 August 2011 to 10 September 2016 completing 1,487 episodes.Produced under Shashi Sumeet Productions . It was an instant hit. Anas Rashid and Deepika Singh .
With a background in Pushkar, Rajasthan, Diya Aur Baati Hum was a documentary that sought to change the stereotype of women living in rural India by telling the inspiring story of Sandhya Rathi, whose ambition is to be an IPS officer. She succeeds with the support of her husband Sooraj and overcoming every obstacle.
A sequel series named Tu Sooraj Main Saanjh, Piyaji starring Rhea Sharma and Avinesh Rekhi aired from April 2017 until 1 June 2018.[77
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Attractive well-educated, Sandhya Kothari aspires to achieve her dream of becoming an IPS officer for her father, Arvind. Sooraj Rathi, a partially-educated and a simple master- confectioner is the ideal elder of his middle-class family from Rajasthan. Then, Sandhya is shattered as her parents pass away during a terrorist attack. Her brother Ankur is able to fix her wedding to Sooraj who's strict mother, Santoshi wishes for an uninformed daughter-in law to be simple and possess the qualities of a domestic worker. So, Ankur lies about Sandhya's education level.
In order to fulfill her education and hopes, Sandhya marries Sooraj. As soon as the truth about being educated and having no knowledge of how to cook is exposed, Santoshi banishes her. Sooraj is adamant and promises to assist Sandhya to become the daughter-in-law Santoshi desires. After helping Sandhya to finish her the required studies, Sooraj convinces Santoshi to agree with her goals. Sandhya is faced with challenges at the her IPS Academy and is able to establish herself her as a remarkable Police officer. She battles the terrorist chief Raj Kumar, and struggles to find a balance between her work and domestic obligations.
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Sandhya, Sooraj and Ved Live happily. They discover that Vansh has never died as she was adopted by Ankur who has was the one who planned the events of the past to keep Vansh together. In the meantime, Sooraj is aspiring to build a large hotel and working in the direction of Sandhya and is enlisted to a highly dangerous mission Mahabhali to stop the terrorist who is threatening his home state of West Bengal, by claiming to be Sagarika. Sandhya quits and pretends to being presumed dead in an accident on a train. Sooraj has a hard time regaining his hopes and mental stability as a result of the shock. Because of his health issues, Santoshi starts hating Sandhya.
Santoshi desires Sooraj to get married Laalima Agarwal, whom she believes will aid him in his recovery. Sandhya struggles with the challenges of Mahabhali and eventually sabotage the plan, however, her identity is revealed. The terrorists are captured and kill her. Sooraj discovers Sandhya is alive and is able to join her on the mission to assist. They complete their mission, and then return home. Santoshi refuses to apologize to Sandhya. Laalima finds the love of Sooraj.
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Santhoshi is averse to Pakistan due to an accident that took place at the border that claimed her younger brother's lives when they were just children. Unaware that Arzoo comes an emigrant from Pakistan and that she is from Pakistan, she makes her alliance with Aryan. In the beginning, Sandhya suspects Arzoo of being a terrorist.
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I am a Teacher who started creating online content for my students from 2016 so that they can get access to free knowledge online.
Hugo Maradona
Full name Hugo Hernan Maradona
1985–1987 Argentinos Juniors
Place of birth Lanus, Argentina
Name Hugo Maradona
Playing position midfielder
Role Football player
Years Team
Siblings Diego Maradona, Raul Maradona
Nephews Diego Sinagra, Diego Fernando Maradona Ojeda
Parents Dalma Salvadora Franco, Diego Maradona
Nieces Dalma Maradona, Giannina Maradona
Similar People Diego Maradona, Raul Maradona, Diego Sinagra, Eddy Baggio, Max Vieri
Date of birth (1969-05-09) 9 May 1969 (age 52)
Hugo Maradona - Diegos Forgotten Brother
Hugo Hernán Maradona (born 9 May 1969), also known as El Turco, is an Argentine Association football coach and former player, he is the brother of legendary player Diego Maradona. He played as a Midfielder for clubs in South America, Europe, Japan, and Canada, and was a member of the Argentina U-16 national team.
Hugo Maradona Diegos Forgotten Brother
Born in Lanús, Hugo Maradona is the youngest one of two lesser known brothers of Diego Maradona; the other is Raúl Maradona. Nevertheless, Hugo Maradona was able to accomplish celebrity on his own, becoming a well liked player in Japan and Italy as well as in his native Argentina.
In 1985, he was a part of the Argentina squad that competed at the U-16 World Championship in China. In Argentina's first round match against Congo, he scored two goals to help the team to a 4–2 win, which however was one goal short of what Argentina needed to advance past the group stage.
During 1987, Hugo Maradona was bought by Ascoli to play in the Italian Serie A championship. He played just 13 matches without scoring a goal, and was sold at the end of the season to Rayo Vallecano in Spain. During 1989 he moved again to Rapid Vienna, and after that experience he went back to Argentina. He played in the J. League from 1995–1998.
After retiring from association football as a player, Maradona lived a relatively quiet life in Argentina.
In 2004, Hugo Maradona moved part-time to Puerto Rico, where he became part of that country's association football federation's attempt to invigorate the sport among Puerto Ricans by becoming the head coach of the Puerto Rico Islanders, a team in the American USL First Division.
Hugo Maradona Wikipedia
Similar TopicsDiego Maradona
Diego Sinagra
Eddy Baggio


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Thomas Hübl (right) is the founder of the Pocket Project, an international initiative that aims to heal intergenerational trauma.
A New Initiative Grapples with Collective Traumas
Global social witnessing is a technique that uses group mindfulness to process large-scale tragedies.
By Lori Shridhare
Meeting on monthly video calls, several people sit together, close their eyes, and after several minutes of silence, turn their attention to Brexit. On another day, the topic may be the Syrian civil war, climate change, North Korean nuclear capabilities, or migrants at the US border. The meditators are engaging in a practice called "global social witnessing" (GSW), and their aim is to become more present to the pain of these events.
The idea is that we have unprecedented access to information about tragedies occurring around the world, but rather than become more informed, we allow the data to overwhelm us. We experience compassion fatigue, end up feeling numb or depressed, and retreat into indifference. The danger is not only inaction. By turning away from the world's traumas, GSW proponents argue, we also perpetuate, albeit unconsciously, painful cultural shadows that underlie global trauma. Collective and historical trauma, they believe, lies at the heart of many of the atrocities and conflicts in the world today. Global social witnessing practice groups create and experiment with a kind of "relational space," in which participants can cultivate a greater depth of understanding about their own responses to traumatic experiences of other communities.
The idea for GSW came out of the Pocket Project, a nonprofit whose mission is to support the healing of collective trauma through education, training, and other programs. In a recent weeklong training session, participants divided into triads each afternoon to unpack and digest together some of the emotionally taxing issues reverberating in our global culture today: oppression, sexual abuse, colonialism, slavery, racism, and genocide.
"Collective trauma is not an idea; it's a tremendous amount of energy that hasn't been processed yet but influences our daily thinking and feeling, and our relationships," said author, spiritual teacher, and Pocket Project founder Thomas Hübl during one of the training sessions, which was part of a part of a yearlong program. "It has created shadow structures in society that we assume are normal. The only way to address this is to create conscious structures that will support resourcing and awareness processes."
Trauma, Hübl believes, has effects similar to karma. When two people argue, then move on without a resolution, this unconscious material becomes "carry-on baggage" they transfer from one moment to the next. But while the consequences of a single argument may be relatively minor, a mass atrocity can lead to emotional scars that are passed from generation to generation. And it's this large-scale historical trauma that we have all been born into no matter where we live.
Related: Healing Trauma with Meditation
In an article on collective trauma for the journal Spanda, Hübl wrote, "We must be willing to consistently and consciously resolve those energies that have been left stored and undigested. In essence, we must open the carry-on baggage of our world, sort its contents, unpack."
One of the training participants was Flavia Valguisti, a former defender and judge in the juvenile court system of Buenos Aires. For her, framing this process in the context of karma and Buddhist practices clicked.
"When we talk about karma, it's not just personal, we're all part of it," she said. "In healing collective trauma, we move from karma to dharma. Dharma is the path."
The Pocket Project is based in Oldenburg, Germany and aims to heal collective and intergenerational trauma. The organization is led by Hübl, who completed nearly four years of medical school during the 1990s in his native Austria, when he felt a calling to drop out and dedicate himself almost entirely to meditation during what became a four-year independent retreat in Czechoslovakia. His retreats and online courses, many of which he teaches in collaboration with academics, center around both science and what he refers to as mystical principles, derived from wisdom traditions including Taoism, Buddhism, and the Kabbalah. He launched the Pocket Project in 2017, and since then, similar initiatives have formed in the US, Israel, and Argentina to explore country- and regional-specific trauma.
Many of these groups emerged during the yearlong Pocket Project training on collective trauma from June 2017 to May 2018. Most of the training was conducted via video conference except for two in-person modules that bookended the course. In the modules, trainees participated in five days of mindfulness-based meditation, movement, group discussions, and vocal-toning sessions, a sound-based group activity inspired by religious chanting. (The course fee for the year was €1,900.00 [around $2,130.00]. Several scholarships were made available.)
While trauma was familiar territory for the psychologists, scientists, and physicians in attendance, few had studied collective trauma. This isn't surprising, considering that a recent PubMed search for literature on collective trauma yielded just over a thousand results, compared with a search for publications on post-traumatic stress disorder, which generated more than 13,000.
When he returned from his meditation retreat in 2000, Hübl taught meditation in Germany and found that symptoms of trauma would arise in the group, which he believed could be traced back to historical and intergenerational trauma around the Holocaust and the horrific legacy of World War II.
Over the next couple of years, Hübl began inviting Israelis and Germans—often up to a thousand people—to meditate together and work through their respective histories. The idea of cultivating "pockets" of clarity throughout the world inspired Hübl and his wife, the Israeli artist Yehudit Sasportas, to choose the name "The Pocket Project." Students from his early training courses launched the offshoot initiative Witnessing in Empathy, which hosts meditation retreats at the former Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp sites.
And in the US, monthly practice groups meet to discuss the roots of trauma in America's history which manifest as "symptoms" such as violence, racism, and political divisiveness. In July, Dr. Christina Bethell, a board member of the Pocket Project and a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided testimony on science and policy around childhood trauma during a House Committee hearing on this topic.
Global social witnessing groups create and experiment with a kind of "relational space," in which participants can cultivate empathy for the traumatic experiences of other communities. The role of relationships in integrating trauma was a central theme of the Pocket Project training sessions.
Voices of those who work in war-ravaged communities expressed their pain and fears. Others explored their buried hurt, rage, and guilt as soldiers who harmed and injured others on behalf of the US, South Africa, and Israel. And those from countries that have perpetrated genocide explored the shame and culpability woven into their culture's psyche. Emerging from a space of deep compassion, genuine apologies were conveyed by citizens of countries that had inflicted war onto those of others.
As facilitator, Hübl encouraged people to open up about the emotions behind their words. This is a key feature of the method he employs to both encourage individual healing and to strengthen the witnessing capacity of the larger group. A key lesson from the training was the importance of translating spirituality into action.
Participant Mukara Meredith, a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism as part of the Nyingma lineage since 1984 and a leadership consultant based in Colorado, said the training reflected the three refuge vows: Buddha, sangha, and dharma.
"I love the principle of integrating the temple with the marketplace. We do live in culture, not in caves, and we need practices to help us digest our experience of culture to truly live in an interconnected way."
Meredith, who participated in the training with the blessings of her teachers, is currently developing a trauma program for women in China, and Valguisti has started a "pocket" group in Buenos Aires.
For each individual, trauma can become a roadblock, a shadow that prevents the expression of future possibilities. The same applies to our global culture: In witnessing our own blocks, we embrace our collective responsibility to work toward restoration and healing. Participants in global social witnessing and other Pocket Project initiatives see it as the tool we need to keep moving forward.
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Marco Bielsa is already setting records at Leeds United, with last season's team
The turn around at Elland Road in the opening weeks of the season has been remarkable.
Chris Linnell
Four games into his Leeds United tenure and Marco Bielsa is already setting records with his new team.
After a 2-1 victory over Rotherham on Saturday, the Argentine head coach becomes the first boss at Elland Road to win the club's first four games at the start of a domestic season, in all competitions.
The standards being set by the 63-year-old since his arrival have been somewhat remarkable with the playing style he has quickly been able to implement proving mesmerising, even to those who are typically opposed to the club.
But, perhaps the most impressive quality about the performances Championship fans are witnessing, is the fact Bielsa has set this record with practically the same team that took to the field, and could only achieve a 13th place finish, last season.
At Elland Road this weekend, the starting XI only contained one summer signing, which just goes to demonstrate the impressive work Bielsa has carried out with the players over the summer period.
Already being referred to as a 'ready-made Premier League side', after years of heart break at Elland Road, there will now be a genuine believe that the Whites can return to the English top flight come the end of the season.
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The Our Lady of Graces Cathedral () also called simply Cathedral of Koupéla is a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and is located in Koupéla in the department of Koupéla, the second most populous province of Kouritenga in the African country of Burkina Faso.

There the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Koupéla (Archidiocèse de Koupéla  or in Latin: Archidioecesis Kupelaënsis) works,
the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical Province of Koupéla, which was created in 2000 by bula  In omnes Ecclesias  of the Pope John Paul II.

See also
Roman Catholicism in Burkina Faso
Our Lady of Grace Cathedral (Nicosia)

References

Roman Catholic cathedrals in Burkina Faso
Koupéla


The magnitude of medical errors in the clinical setting is staggering. The landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System concluded that "as many as 98,000 people die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented." That IOM report accelerated the patient safety movement at both the federal and state levels.
More than a decade and a half later, the estimated number of deaths due to medical errors remains unacceptably high. According to a recent study by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine published on May 3, 2016 in the British Medical Journal, medical errors may be the third leading cause of death in America. After reviewing the scientific literature and peer-review research, the patient safety researchers from Johns Hopkins estimated that the number of deaths in America due to preventable medical error exceeds 250,000 deaths per year.
In 1987, long before the 1999 IOM report, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Lexington, Kentucky instituted a then-controversial program of disclosing medical errors and apologizing and compensating patients for them. Apart from the ethical and moral rationale for transparency and full disclosure, the VAMC believed that a policy of extreme honesty or full disclosure might reduce malpractice claims. Twelve years after the VAMC instituted its policy, it reported that hospital administration and staff supported it and, counterintuitively, it yielded unanticipated financial results.
For too long, our society has put blame and shame on the nurse or physician who was believed (often unfairly) to have caused a medical error. Apart from the devastating effects that blaming a health care practitioner can have (e.g., possible loss of a job, adverse actions by a State licensing board, collateral civil litigation, and negative reputation among peers), such an ill-conceived approach tends to understandably result in under-reporting. What is the incentive for a physician or nurse to admit and error if it will result in all manner of punishment and potentially catastrophic professional damage?


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Groups in Toronto
CAMH Peer Support Worker Chris McKinney recalls a time when patients would leave hospital with a prescription, a token and a follow-up appointment card. Now Chris and his fellow peer support workers at CAMH are helping clients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia make a smooth transition back into the community after a long hospital stay, through an initiative called the Welcome Basket project. Peer Support Workers (PSWs) are called peers because they have lived experience with mental health challenges, as well as a skill set that includes identifying client strengths, connecting clients to community resources and providing support.
"The Welcome Basket project is helping clients cope with the stress of leaving the hospital by providing valuable supports and better follow up," Chris explains.
Creating Pathways to the Community
PSWs work with a client for six weeks. They meet with clients before they are discharged from hospital and help clients come up with a 'Welcome Basket' list of items to help ease the transition back into their living space in the community. These items can include hygiene items, decorations for the new home, or tickets to entertainment excursions into the community.
Once the clients move into the community, the PSW provides two forms of support. One, derived from Cognitive Adaptive Training, involves helping clients organize their apartment, schedule appointments, or provide visual aids as reminders (such as posting a sign next to door reminding the client not to forget their glasses, phone, etc.). The second form of support involves helping the client access affordable community resources. Informed by a PSW's lived experience perspective, they talk to the client about the process of reconnecting with their communities.
"Preliminary findings suggest the program is enhancing the psychological well-being of clients, reducing anxiety, and enhancing quality of life," says CAMH's Dr. Sean Kidd, CAMH Psychologist-in-Chief and principle investigator on the project.
Bridge to Recovery
"There have been significant improvements in community functioning, satisfaction with their living situation and social relationships, and generally feeling more at home," says Research Analyst Gursharan Virdee. "Clients have felt less isolated and experienced an increased sense of autonomy."
"The peer involvement in this project appears to be the real driving force behind the changes we are seeing in clients lives – this is what clients have told us in their feedback".
"The Welcome Basket Program is all about building relationship and helping clients settle in and work on their recovery goals," says Chris McKinney. "It breaks the isolation and gives people hope that they can achieve their goals. The clients enjoy the support, and wish it would continue longer."
"I think the Peer Support Workers involved in this project have done a truly remarkable job at engaging and supporting people through the many stresses that can occur after leaving hospital after a long stay," says Sean Kidd. "It really plays to the strengths of peer support and has a great potential to help people engage in activities and roles that are important to them after leaving hospital, and reducing the loss of time and momentum that comes with what might be an avoidable return to hospital."
Student volunteer Lisa Feingold says, "It has been very exciting to listen to participants talk about the ways in which the Welcome Basket project has been able to provide support to needs that would have otherwise gone unmet. Having a peer support worker to talk to seems to have provided a level of trust and comfort for participants that would be impossible with a more clinically oriented staff."
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Do you still regard emails as having no downside because they're free?
15 March 2012 9 March 2012
There are two types of marketing manager at the moment: those who worry that the response to email is falling, and those who don't measure the response at all. That doesn't mean that email is a dead (or even dying) medium, but that it has to be done smartly. Quite frankly, sending an unsolicited, one-off email to a list of names you bought from some opportunistic publisher is the online equivalent to setting fire to a ten pound note, although the sort of people who still do this are those who never measure the response, so maybe they get what they deserve.
Some people say: "Well, I've got 500 email addresses here which I've collected over the past few years, so it seems like a waste not to make up a company newsletter from time to time and send it to them. Last time I got a couple of email enquiries back, so what's wrong with that?"
To see what's wrong with that, you need to pretend you're a periodical publisher (which, in a way, you are). Having run a magazine myself, I can tell you that it would be much more profitable to publish at irregular intervals, only when there was enough advertising (and indeed news) to justify it. But we all know that audiences prefer predictability. It would also be cheaper to just fling the magazine out to any old name and job title, rather than cultivate a loyal readership who are known to actually appreciate the magazine.
This is not just an analogy to marketing emails, it's the same principle. Don't send to 20 people thinking: "I know 19 of them won't even look at it, but it's not cost me anything". Think: "I've just sent something unwanted to as many as 19 people, and some of them might now associate my company with irritating them". And don't think: "I haven't sent emails out for a few months, let's try that for something to do". Think: "Why don't I send out a regular, expected email to people who've actually agreed specifically to receive it and who I actually stand a chance of getting into a sales conversation with?"
2 thoughts on "Do you still regard emails as having no downside because they're free?"
David Laurence 16 March 2012 at 7:47 am
"…..to people who've actually agreed to receive it…". But how do I get them to agree to receive it in the first place ?
Chris Rand 16 March 2012 at 10:48 am
You ask them. Nobody minds getting an email asking them if they want something. I have 1,500 people who've asked to receive my daily emails, all of who signed themselves up. It's taken four years to get that far, but it's worth it. A small transducer supplier who we support, set up a highly technical weekly blog, sent a sample to their customer base, and got 10% of them immediately to sign themselves up to receive it. Knowing that 50-60 customers genuinely want to receive this stuff makes it worth writing each week. Sending it to 500 people who didn't ask for it and probably don't want it wouldn't have made them nearly as enthusiastic about the effort, or confident that it would be worthwhile.


That girl there is an actress who plays the character Arya Stark in Game of Thrones.
Ahhhh….see it turns out not everyone watches game of thrones. Apparently the poster didn't realise that.
Stark or not, get this filthy shoe off of the seat!


Learn how to create a geyser by combining MENTOS® with soda. The Geyser Tube allows you to load the candies and safely disperse them into the soda bottle. Add the connection to perform this experiment indoors.