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Latest Republican health care tactic: A sneak attack on people with pre-existing conditions
In the fine print, GOP bill guts coverage of "essential health care benefits," with devastating consequences
By Amanda Marcotte
Published July 7, 2017 4:59AM (EDT)
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It's becoming clear that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan to decimate the American health care system is to tinker around the edges of his bill until, as Charles Pierce of Esquire argued, "you get a CBO score you can plausibly use to con the country, the elite political press, and the mind of Susan Collins into thinking you're 'moderating' the bill." McConnell is counting on the fact that the press is easily bored and always eager to move onto the next new thing -- often meaning whatever President Trump has just said on Twitter -- and all he needs is a week of such distractions to pass this stinker under the cover of darkness.
But don't let the tinkering or assurances that the health care bill is somehow becoming more moderate fool you. Republicans still plan on passing a bill that will lay waste to the protections offered ordinary Americans in the Affordable Care Act, leaving people vulnerable to financial ruin or even death from illnesses or conditions that are covered under existing law.
One of the ways Republicans plan to do this is to gut the part of the Affordable Care Act that guarantees coverage of what are deemed "essential health care benefits." That sounds like a minor bureaucratic adjustment, but in reality it's a back-door way to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, limit important and life-saving health services, and force people with expensive conditions to go bankrupt rather than rely on insurance to cover them.
The essential benefits that the Affordable Care Act delineated include 10 categories of care that every insurance plan has to cover. Some of these categories are straightforward things that most insurance plans, whether purchased on the individual market or provided by employers, already covered, such as hospitalization or doctor's visits. But, as Timothy Jost, a professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an expert on health care law, explained in an interview, prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act many individually purchased plans skipped major categories of coverage.
"What they didn't cover was maternity care, mental health and substance use disorder care -- and often prescription drug coverage was quite limited," Jost said. "The ACA also added habilitation care for special needs children."
Under various versions of the Republican plan, states would be able to apply for waivers to exempt plans sold in their state from this mandated list of essential health care benefits. Republicans have repeatedly insisted that their bill bars discrimination against patients with pre-existing conditions. But as Jost explained, ending essential health care benefits creates a mechanism that allows insurance companies to deny coverage of those pre-existing conditions. You'd be allowed to buy insurance, but it might not pay for the things you really need it for.
"So you got a mental health problem, sorry, we're happy to insure you, but we don't cover mental health problems," Jost said, describing the logic. "You've got cancer? We're happy to insure you. We don't cover any chemotherapy drugs or we don't cover radiation therapy."
Presumably, the reason Republicans want to cut essential health benefits is to lower premiums — which is why we get to hear Republican politicians making cracks about how men don't need maternity care — but Jost said he believes the mandatory benefits "are really a very small part of the total cost of coverage."
For instance, as Jost has argued on the Health Affairs blog, ending mandatory maternity coverage "might lower premiums by $8 to $14 per month," but would force women who are giving birth to pay as much as $30,000 to $50,000 in out-of-pocket expenses.
Most of these effects would be felt by people who buy insurance on the individual market, or who work for small companies employers that offer less expensive plans with skimpier coverage. As Matthew Fiedler, a fellow with the Center for Health Policy in the Brookings Institution's Economic Studies Program, explained, there's a poison pill buried in the bill that would also affect people who work for large employers that offer more generous health insurance packages. Repealing mandatory essential health care benefits would mean reintroducing lifetime limits or annual coverage caps for many people on those plans. Which means that a lot of people who thought they had generous, comprehensive insurance plans could still face bankruptcy in the event of a serious illness or accident.
Under the ACA, Fiedler explained, "Insurers can't put lifetime or annual limits on types of care that are considered essential health benefits. But they can put lifetime or annual limits on things that aren't essential health benefits. What that means is that when the definition of essential health benefits changes, that can substantially change the scope of the protection against annual or lifetime limits."
Even if you live in a state that sticks with the old Affordable Care Act definition of essential health benefits, you may not be protected if you work for a large employer, defined as any company or entity with 50 or more employees. That's because, according to Fielder, a large employer can choose any state's definition of "essential health benefits." It doesn't have to stick to the state where it does most of its business, or where its employees actually live.
"Employers could choose a state that had implemented a very lax definition of essential health benefits and thereby have fairly broad latitude to impose these kinds of limits," he explained.
So a worker in a state like California or Massachusetts, which is likely to continue to protect essential health care benefits, might find that her employer has instead chosen define essential health care benefits under the terms set by Texas or Mississippi. So while that person's policy might still cover cancer treatments or maternity care or mental health services, she might find out that in practice her insurance company will not cover nearly as much of the cost as it would have under the ACA.
Because of the ban on lifetime and annual limits, the cap on out-of-pocket spending for patients, and the ban on discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, the Affordable Care Act was able to cut the number of personal bankruptcy filings in the United States by half between 2010 and 2016. By drafting a way for states to opt out of the essential health care benefits mandate, the Republican bill will potentially allow insurance companies to dump those costs back onto the consumer. The number of medical-related bankruptcies could well soar back to pre-Obama levels -- if Mitch McConnell can find a moment when we stop paying attention and ram this bill through the Senate.
Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon and the author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself." Follow her on Twitter @AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.
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Archives|In 12th Book of Best-Selling Series, Jesus Returns
In 12th Book of Best-Selling Series, Jesus Returns
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK MARCH 29, 2004
Like Christian booksellers across the country, Bob Fillingane is doing everything he can to prepare the way for ''Glorious Appearing,'' the climactic installment in the ''Left Behind'' series of apocalyptic thrillers that goes on sale tomorrow.
Mr. Fillingane, owner of Lemstone Books in Hattiesburg, Miss., has arranged television, radio and newspaper advertisements and even a marquee over the front of his local mall, and next week he will hold a book signing by the authors, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, on a Bible Belt bus tour from Spartanburg, S.C., to Plano, Tex.
Not that ''Glorious Appearing'' needs his help, Mr. Fillingane said.
''I really believe that there is a blessing on this series from the Lord,'' he said. ''Just like with the 'Passion' movie, it is all part of the warning we get before Christ returns.'' He added, ''Many people have asked me, Do you think they will finish the series before Christ comes?''
Over the last nine years, the ''Left Behind'' series, which is based on Dr. LaHaye's literal, bloody interpretation of the Book of Revelation, has become one of the biggest surprise hits in American popular culture. The first 11 novels have sold more than 40 million copies. The authors have unseated John Grisham as the best-selling novelists for adults and, in some places where evangelical Christians are common, the books rival the Harry Potter series in sales. Along the way, the ''Left Behind'' books have drawn sharp criticism for elements like their emphasis on the conversion of Jews and their focus on the brutal rule of the Antichrist, who happens to head the United Nations.
''Glorious Appearing'' is the most anticipated and potentially most controversial ''Left Behind'' novel yet: it is the installment in which Jesus himself finally returns.
''There is not going to be anything bigger than that,'' said Chuck Wallington, president of the Christian Supply store in Spartanburg. He said he expected 1,000 buyers to turn up tomorrow for a book signing.
Secular stores like Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble and Wal-Mart are planning major promotions as well. Wal-Mart has been giving away copies of the first chapter. Retailers ordered more than two million copies, more than Hillary Rodham Clinton's fast-selling memoir sold in its first six months on the market.
Tyndale House, the evangelical Christian publisher of the series, says it plans to spend $2 million marketing ''Glorious Appearing.'' More than 20,000 people have volunteered for a ''Left Behind'' ''street team,'' promising to disseminate messages about the books to their family, friends and neighbors.
Some theologians call the novels a dangerous distortion of Scripture. In an interview, Joseph C. Hough Jr., president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, warned that the novels' preoccupation with the suffering that many evangelical Christians foresee for unbelievers ''leads people to think that Christianity is about cosmic fire insurance.''
Dr. Hough argues that the novels misconstrue Revelation to mean that there are only two sides to every question, God's and the Devil's.
''It's the same sort of vision of the world that is reflected in some of our recent presidential administrations, that there is the world of good and the world of evil, like 'the axis of evil' and 'the evil empire,' '' he said. ''The enemies of America are the enemies of God. It is very dangerous, because it leads you to do things in the expectation that everyone who is against you is evil.''
In an interview last week at his home in Palm Springs, Calif., however, Dr. LaHaye, 77, said that his only agenda was spreading the Gospel, by illustrating both the gruesome perdition ahead for unbelievers and the merciful salvation awaiting faithful Christians. What's more, he said, he was merely relying on what he considers the literal meaning of the words of the Bible.
''If I invented the story, you're right, I'd be terribly arrogant,'' he said, ''but I didn't invent the story.''
Still, he acknowledged the novels reflected the conservative Christian ideology that made him a political activist earlier in his career. As a pastor in San Diego 40 years ago, he became convinced of a brewing ''battle for the mind'' pitting atheists on the one side against evangelical Christians on the other, he said.
To fight the battle, he founded a system of Christian schools and a Christian college in California and later joined Jerry Falwell in the Moral Majority. His wife, Beverly LaHaye, is founder of a conservative Christian organization, Concerned Women for America. But by the early 1990's, Dr. LaHaye said, he had stepped back from politics for full-time study of Biblical prophecy.
He came up with the idea of turning prophecy into fiction about 18 years ago, and he eventually teamed with Mr. Jenkins, a prolific and best-selling Christian author, to spin Bible verses into fast-paced, futuristic thrillers. Their first novel, ''Left Behind,'' opens with a vivid description of the Rapture, the moment when many evangelical Christians believe all the born-again will abruptly disappear to heaven. In a nod to the authors' views on abortion, they describe an unborn fetus ascending from the womb to heaven as well.
The succeeding novels tick off the pivotal steps Dr. LaHaye foresees during the ensuing ''tribulation,'' a seven-year period of turmoil and cataclysm when unbelievers have a last chance to see the light. The fictional Antichrist, a Romanian named Nicolae Carpathia, rises to power as head of the United Nations. He signs a peace treaty with Israel, setting off a seven-year countdown to the Second Coming, and he ultimately establishes a worldwide government, a brutal dictatorship and a false religion with himself at its head. Meanwhile, 144,000 Jews convert to evangelical Christianity, including one rabbi whose conversion takes place live on global television, and lead an underground ''remnant'' of believers who periodically recite passages of Scripture that Dr. LaHaye relies on as a road map to their future.
Dr. LaHaye said he believed that over all the series reflected the biblical truth.
''That's the way it's going to be during the tribulation period, according to Revelation, and if it happens to parallel what the seculars are trying to do today, so be it,'' he said.
''The Bible clearly teaches there's going to be a one-world government in the last days. And after the Rapture of the church, then that one-world government will coalesce, bringing together all the governments of the world and also bringing together all the religions of the world.'' He added, ''The fact that we're seeing some of those things happen right now must be a wake-up call to some people to say, 'Hey, we may be closer than we think.' ''
To those unfamiliar with Dr. LaHaye's views of Revelation, the most striking aspect of the novels may be the bloody massacre Jesus wreaks on the Antichrist's unbelieving armies.
''Tens of thousands of foot soldiers dropped their weapons, grabbed their heads or their chests, fell to their knees, and writhed as they were invisibly sliced asunder,'' the authors write. ''Their innards and entrails gushed to the desert floor, and as those around them turned to run, they too were slain, their blood pooling and rising in the unforgiving brightness of God.''
That might seem like the end of the end, but Dr. LaHaye and Mr. Jenkins say they are not quite finished. They plan a postscript to the series, describing one last battle between God and Satan at the close of Jesus' 1,000-year rule on Earth, and a prequel, filling in the early history of the Antichrist.
But it may be hard to top ''Glorious Appearing.''
''For believers, we really are looking forward to the glorious appearing,'' said Steve Nelson, a Southern Baptist minister in Gallatin, Tenn., and fan of the series. ''We know from reading the Word that we win in the end, and this is the winning round coming up.''
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News in brief: Covid cases continue to rise in Wales as Caerphilly lockdown looms
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Covid-19 cases are continuing to spike across Wales as the latest report from Public Health Wales confirmed 150 positive tests for the virus in the last 24 hours.
The last time the number of daily infections were at this level was at the end of June when a partial lockdown, including local travel restrictions, was still in place, and the number of infections had risen following outbreaks of the virus at food processing plants in Wrexham, Llangefni and Merthyr Tydfil.
Caerphilly, which goes into local lockdown this evening, recorded 44 new cases today, the highest in Wales, taking the total number of people infected in the area over the last seven days to 132.
The infection rate in Caerphilly has now risen to 72.9 per 100,000 people, one of the highest proportions in the UK. The average across the whole of Wales is 16.1 for the last week.
Rhondda Cynon Taff has recorded 92 new cases in the last seven days after 17 confirmed infections were reported today. In response to the rise targeted community testing is due to be introduced in the lower Rhondda Valley and visits to care homes are being stopped.
Merthyr Tydfil has recorded 11 new cases, taking the weekly total there to 21 as the infection rate increased to 34.8.
Speaking at Tuesday's government press briefing Health Minister Gething said he didn't want to introduce lots of local lockdowns across Wales but warned that could happen if people don't "follow the rules and the guidance" to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
"Don't see lots of people in your own home, don't go to pubs and restaurants mixing with lots of different people," he warned.
"That's how you don't see a return on coronavirus in much larger numbers."
"If we do need to take further measures then we will not hesitate to do so to help keep Wales safe," he added.
PHW has also identified a cluster of 12 cases in Drefach after a presentation evening in the cricket and football club.
All those who attended the event, which was in breach of coronavirus regulations, will need to self-isolate for 14 days.
Carmarthenshire County Council is calling on residents and visitors to take responsibility for social distancing and is working with Public Health Wales to manage the cases identified through the national Test, Trace, Protect procedures.
The total number of cases in Wales since the start of the pandemic has risen to 18,664.
No further deaths were recorded on Tuesday, meaning the number of deaths dating back to March remains 1,597.
The boat transporting mud to Welsh waters two years ago. Picture by Cian Ciarán
Petition opposing mud dumping off Cardiff Bay passes 10,000 mark
A petition organised by campaigners opposing plans to dump mud from the site of the Hinkley Point nuclear power station off the Cardiff coast has now passed 10,000 signatures.
The petition, created by Cian Ciaran of the Super Furry Animals, demands "that a full Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is carried out before any further sediment from Hinkley Point nuclear power station can be dumped".
Two years ago, the Welsh Government approved an application by EDF Energy allowing the dumping of 300,000 tonnes of sediment from the construction of the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station a mile offshore of Cardiff Bay
In February EDF submitted a new application to deposit another 780,000 tonnes of sludge off the Welsh coast next year as part of the building work.
Welsh National Party leader, Neil McEvoy MS, who has been a prominent voice in the campaign, said: "The public is concerned about this issue. Environmentalists are outraged. Eminent scientists are on record saying they are seriously concerned. The only people who don't seem to be bothered about this are the Labour politicians sitting in Cardiff Bay. Wales is standing up for itself.
"This is first and foremost about the safety of our people and of our marine environment. It is also about how Wales is treated as a nation. The Chinese long ago brought in a ban on 'foreign garbage' to stop other countries dumping their rubbish there. In Wales, our government seems to welcome such treatment. But the Welsh people have had enough."
The petition passed the 5,000-signature threshold to trigger a debate in the Senedd last week.
New funding announced to support package of mental health services
Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced £1.3m of Welsh Government funding for telephone and online mental health support services.
The package includes SilverCloud, a new online Cognitive Behaviour Therapy course, that offers support for a range of issues including anxiety and depression. The national pilot of the programme is being evaluated to test usability and effectiveness, building on previous work led by Powys Local Health Board which so far has supported over 3,000 people.
The funding follows a number of surveys by the Office of National Statistics and Public Health Wales that have shown that levels of anxiety rose at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and have remained higher than usual during lockdown.
Mr Gething said: "The Welsh Government is committed to supporting the mental health of the public, and we have ensured this package of additional measures are in place ahead of any potential second wave this winter and as the impact of the pandemic is felt more widely.
"These services are aimed at helping low level mental health issues; they are not a replacement for more specialist services but we hope by providing instant access to support they will help reduce pressure on primary care and other more specialist services."
Services supported by the new funding are:
SilverCloud
An online course which offers support for anxiety, depression, and much more, all based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Anyone aged 16 or over can sign up at nhswales.silvercloudhealth.com/signup/.
CALL Mental Health Listening Line
Provides a confidential mental health listening and emotional support line which is open 24/7. CALL can also signpost to support in local communities and a range of online information. Call 0800132737, text 'help' to 81066 or visit callhelpline.org.uk/.
Beat eating disorders helpline
Beat provides helplines and information for adults and young people, offering a supportive environment to talk about eating disorders and how to get help. Call 0808 801 0677 or visit www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/support-services.
Mind Active Monitoring
Provides six weeks guided self-help for, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and more. To get started, talk to your GP, any other health professional, or sign up directly at: www.mind.org.uk/get-involved/active-monitoring-sign-up/active-monitoring-form/
Activate Your Life
The 'ACTivate Your Life' online video course shares practical ways to cope with thoughts and feelings causing distress and help live life with more confidence. To start go to phw.nhs.wales/activateyourlife.
Young Person's Mental Health Toolkit
The Young Person's Mental Health Toolkit links young people, aged 11 to 25, to websites, apps, helplines, and more to build resilience. You can access the toolkit at bit.ly/ypmhten
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Cancer experts concerned at Velindre plans
A group of doctors has written to Health Minister Vaughan Gething to express "deep concern" over the proposed £180m Velindre Cancer Centre being built in Cardiff.
The letter calls for an independent review of the plans and warns the facility would not be fit for purpose.
In the letter, signed by 57 cancer specialists, including surgeons, radiologists, GPs, anaesthetists and palliative care specialists, they say the new centre should be located alongside an existing hospital and called for clarity on how the original decision to build a new stand-alone centre near the existing Velindre hospital was reached.
The letter was also sent to Wales' chief medical officer, the local member of the Senedd Julie Morgan and the chief executive of the Welsh NHS.
Velindre University NHS Trust has agreed to seek independent advice on the plans for the new facility.


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Tuesday at Kettler Capitals Iceplex, a large banner was hung above the rink, congratulating defenseman Brooks Orpik and wife Erin on the birth of their second child. The couple named their baby girl Brooklyn.
The sign, prepared by the Capitals Fan Club, reads Congrats Brooks & Erin. Brooklyn is the family's second daughter. Two-year-old Harlow Orpik was born in March of 2015.
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"..Moller's music is never short of mesmerizing... With Christian X Variations, Soren Moller has created what is, thus far, the defining statement in his discography, and a record that's as close to perfect as it gets". Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz
Christian X Variations
Dick Oatts, saxophones
Soren Moller, piano
Josh Ginsburg, bass
Henry Cole, drums
Kirin Winds:
Jorunn Solloes, flute
Sai Kai, oboe
Nicolai Eghorst, clarinet
Jeppe Rasmussen, horn
Catarina Zeh, bassoon
All songs composed and arranged by Soren Moller.
The music of Christian X Variations is a celebration of every human that speaks out against discrimination or mistreatment of minorities in their community. The title refers to the Danish King Christian X's effort to protect Danish Jews from discrimination and deportation by the Nazis during World War II. The king declared that all Danes would wear the Star of David in the event that the Nazis forced Denmark's Jewish population to do so. It is this determination to unite and protect one's fellow citizens that inspired the compositions on this album.
The music is arranged for classical wind quintet and jazz quartet. It was recorded live in concert at Rønshoved Højskole. For the concert I allied myself with musicians from all over the world: American saxophone legend Dick Oatts, who has been a regular collaborator with me over the years, the Puerto Rican drummer Henry Cole, American bass player Josh Ginsburg, as well as the wind quintet Kirin Winds with members from China, Germany, Norway and Denmark. This is a collaboration of high international standard, which creates a unique realm moving between classical music and jazz.
The Christian X Variations are a celebration. I hope you will come to celebrate with us.
Soren Moller


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Kids React – E3 2018: Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu! Trailer!
E3 2018 is over and the EFG Staff has gone out of our way to share OUR thoughts. But, we wanted to reach out to some kids and see their thoughts!
Pokemon is awesome. I think We're going to get Pokemon Lets go Pikachu. A lot fo the things I have to say about this one I already said on the podcast, Integrating Pokemon go into the core RPG style sounds pretty cool.
It's kind of like Pokemon Go and a normal Pokemon game all in one. I'm sad that the Pokemon catching is different from a normal Pokemon game. The Pokeball Plus looks cool! I hope we get one!
I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like Pokemon. The Pokeball Plus is a real pokeball where you can put a Pokemon in it and take it with you!
It feels like you walk into the Pokemon world and you go to the doctor and they give you your starting Pokemon. But it's always Mew before you get there. It's really cool. I like the Pokeball and that you get an actual ball and can have Mew.
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As Barmijo mentioned in his comment there are other Virtualization providers out there. One of them being The Gridlayer from 3Tera.
The best place to check out what they are offering is to review the demo.
Looks like a good mix of GUI and CLI (Command Line Interface), building the application with drag and drop was also nice. Something for either Amazon or some third party provider to aim at.
The best bit (whilst a demo) was the scaling of resources. Given that it was done using the command line, either 3Tera would offer it or someone else, the ability to scale automatically as load reaches some thresholds with some caveats. Sometimes scaling indefinitely is not the solution to denial of Service or poor written code (of any flavour).


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NADINE ROBBINS
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"Shera" - 24"x24" - Oil on Linen
"My name is Clementine" - 8" x 8" - Oil on Linen -
"State of Mind" - 36"x36" - Oil on Linen
"The Golden Hour" - 24" x 24" - Oil on Linen
About Nadine Robbins
American painter Nadine Robbins' contemporary style is distinguished by a masterly command of academic painting techniques paired with an irreverence for rules, gender and beauty. Much of the painter's practice focuses on themes of defiance, and a singular form of eroticism that is presented from a new and unexpected perspective. In particular, Robbins has earned great admiration for her iconoclastic nudes, as well as an ongoing series of portraits that oscillate between the mysterious and the candid. There is also a remarkable group of oyster still life paintings that in their lush precision seem to achingly intersect genres of eroticism and the still life.
Overall, Robbin's use of luscious jewel toned paint and high-fidelity realism ties the artist to the late twentieth century and contemporary traditions of hyper-realism, photo-realism, and super-realism. Like Chuck Close, the artist uses a similar photographic and painterly process to produce dynamic contemporary portraits. Robbins' montage-like use of atelier technique and way of working adds to the oeuvre, a studied complexity that is enticing and refined.
It can be said that Robbin's work is decidedly at the intersection of identity politics presenting the feminine form in new and unexpected ways, allowing a dynamic to evolve between the viewer and the viewed, and as well upsetting the traditional roles of the male gaze and the feminine subject. This inversion of accepted norms and structures of power is related to a trend in contemporary art, seen in current practitioners such Kehinde Wiley wherein the artist's painting of ordinary people is set within symbolic structures and emblematic themes. Robbins for her part uses the genre of portraiture and nudity to express a similar sense of irreverence for societally assigned roles, and as well uses her work to evoke a feminine perspective or sense of sexuality, eroticism and self. More recently, the artist has been experimenting with the use of abstraction within realist picture planes, expanding on her idea of expression and form.
As well as a solo exhibition at Brill Gallery, Massachusetts, 2009 Robbins has shown widely in group shows such as Perspectives of the American Experience, American Women Artists, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York, 2018; Figurative Masters, Arcadia Contemporary, Culver City, California; The Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin; Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery, South Hampton, New York; The 12th Annual Group Show, International Guild of Realism, Winfield Gallery, Carmel, California; Dissent; Sparrow Gallery; Attention to Detail, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina and Formation, A Painting Survey in conjunction with Poets & Artists, Bernarducci.Meisel, New York, New York.
Robbins is the recipient of a grant from the Puffin Foundation, 2017 and in 2015, Robbins was selected for the special feature Poets and Artists, 50 Memorable Painters and was listed as one of top figurative painters working now by Buzzfeed, 2017. The artist's work may be found in several important private collections, most notably the Howard A. & Judith Tullman Collection, Chicago and The Count-Ibex Collection, Germany.
"Stay Calm and Eat Oyster" - 24"x24" - Oil on Linen
"Serafina" - 24"x36" - Oil on Linen


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The Psychiatrist nodded and said, "That's right! Let's think that this is not an orange, but it is you.
Someone puts pressure on you and says something you don't like.
Jesus was squeezed and forgiveness, love, and mercy came brusting out of Him.
He taught us that regardless of people insulting, beating, humiliating, and treating Him worse than a criminal that we should afterwards show love and forgiveness! It was under the mighty impulse of love that Jesus took our place in the universe and invited the Ruler of all things to treat Him as a representative of the human family.
He identified Himself with our interests, took our guilt and its penalty, and offered in our behalf a complete sacrifice to God.
Jesus identifies His interest with ours. He represents Himself as personally affected with all that concerns us.
If we are wronged, maligned, treated with contempt, our sufferings are registered in the books of heaven as done unto Him.
If we would become like Christ and receive His fashion of character, we must in little things train the soul to daily progressive sanctification. Acts make habits and habits constitute character. There is no fear of overlooking great things, but there is peril in overlooking and undervaluing little things.
Let's be filled with that love that comes from God, and let's live each day by His side.
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MEC Access Makes Three Appointments
Business Director, Account Manager & Digital Engagement Account Director join
MEC Access, the leading partnerships and content agency, has appointed Ben Bradley as Business Director, Yvonne Rarieya as a Digital Engagement Account Director and brought in Caroline Grenger as an Account Manager.
Ben Bradley, who boasts more than nine years' experience working with leading brands such as Vodafone, The FA, Speedo International, NZ Rugby Union, UK Sport, Nivea and Mars, will oversee the delivery of innovative and effective activation for MEC Access clients including Marriott and Amlin. Ben will also provide expert support and counsel to the MEC Access international network on a wide range of sponsorship and partnership marketing activities.
Ben has worked both in the UK and New Zealand, and most recently acted as Consultancy Account Director at independent agency Generate Sponsorship. Ben's work at Generate included co-founding the Consultancy division and overseeing its growth to a team of five in less than two years. He also spearheaded the development of proprietary valuation business tools and methodologies as well as bringing in the division's biggest client, Sport England. Ben has also completed stints as Senior Account Manager at Octagon and Sponsorship Manager at Vodafone.
Yvonne Rarieya will focus on MEC Access' work in the Social Media space. She will assist with the management and strategic long-term planning of all social media accounts, as well as contributing to new business. Yvonne joins MEC having previously held roles at Flixmedia, Antenna and most recently as an Account Director at Social@Ogilvy.
Additionally, Caroline Grenger will project manage brand activation and sponsorship campaigns across the Marriott and Evian accounts. Caroline joins MEC Access from Fast Track, where she spent over five years working across a breadth of sports-based sponsorship activity for the Lawn Tennis Association, UK Athletics, and a host of other sports clients.
Speaking on the appointments, Tove Okunniwa, Managing Director, MEC Access said "Ben's expertise speaks for itself, he's a real talent and we're confident that he will help the agency to maintain its position at the forefront of the partnerships industry. Yvonne has a great deal of experience in the financial services, technology and telecoms industry and we will be looking to use this knowledge and insight to develop further our offer in Social Media. We're also pleased to bolster our team with Caroline who brings a wealth of sports-based experience to MEC Access and will help us to continue to deliver outstanding work in the field."
Ben Bradley said: "I'm thrilled to be joining MEC Access at such an exciting time for the business. The agency has a fantastic set of resources to develop innovative partnership and activation strategies for clients that really resonate with audiences, and I'm looking forward to working with a passionate and creative team."
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Dispatches from Dirt Candy
Amanda Cohen on Why Tipping Is a Devil's Bargain
by Amanda Cohen Jul 18, 2014, 9:55am EDT
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This is Dispatches from Dirt Candy, a column from New York City chef Amanda Cohen that explores the realities of working in the restaurant industry. In today's installment, Cohen tackles tipping.
I can see the entire dining room of Dirt Candy from my station, and every night I see it happen. A group is splitting the check and they can't decide how much each of them should leave as a tip. Major math drama ensues. Or a family comes to eat, Dad pays the check, leaves the tip, and one minute later his son comes running back to secretly add more cash. Or people call the next day in distress: They were very drunk the night before. Did they leave a tip? Was it too small? Should they mail more?
It makes no sense. At the end of the meal, just when people are very drunk, or very full, or very ready for romance, we ask them to do math. And not just any math, but a word problem involving percentages. It's a lame way to end a meal, and I think it's becoming more and more clear: Tipping has to go.
If there was a shred of research that showed tipping was a rational process, I would be all for it, but the research shows that tipping makes no sense. Servers wearing white shirts get higher tips than servers wearing red shirts. Blonde waiters make bigger tips than brunette waiters. Waiters who draw a smiley face on the check get better tips, unless they're men, in which case they make worse tips. Black waiters make lower tips than white waiters.
Tipping turns staff into separate and not always equal factions.
Tipping is supposed to reward good service and discourage bad service, but in the six years Dirt Candy has been open only twice has a customer left a super-low punishment tip. I'd like to think that's because Dirt Candy always provides exceptional service, but it's more likely that we all know exactly how much we're going to tip before we even sit down: 9 times out of 10, each of us pretty much tips what we tipped the last time we went out.
Tipping is unfair to servers. If you do a job, you should be paid a fair salary. In New York state, minimum wage is $8 an hour. Waiters receive $5 an hour on their paycheck with the remaining $3 an hour made up by tips. This means that, by law, waiters in New York have a guaranteed salary of just $5, lower than someone running a register at Sbarro's. It usually works out to the waiter's advantage, but if the restaurant hits a slump, the waiters — not the owners — get hit in the pocketbook first. There's nothing wrong with someone leaving a little extra something to show gratitude. There is something wrong with that gratitude making up a majority of a server's salary.
Diners are aware that their server's salary comes from tips, and so it puts an unfair burden on them. We're asking our customers to turn a voluntary expression of gratitude into a living wage. On top of that, tipping asks every customer to be a spy. One of the unspoken assumptions of tipping is that it's impractical for a manager to monitor every server all the time, so tipping outsources that supervision to the customer. A bad tip is a red flag to a manager that a server requires closer supervision, but most customers just want a nice meal, not to be deputized as the owner's secret HR department. However you look at it, tipping puts extra pressure on the diner, and that's the last thing a chef wants.
Tipping hurts restaurants by turning your staff into separate and not always equal factions. I firmly believe that if you loved your meal so much that you want to leave a big tip it's because everyone worked together, from my servers, to my line cooks, to my dishwashers. Maybe the diner loved the taste of the food, maybe they loved the wine selection, maybe they thought the whole experience — from the sparkling place settings, to the exemplary service, to the perfect food — was worth a tip. But right now, only the servers are allowed to touch that money.
New York State has tried to address this by allowing tip pooling and tip sharing, and some restaurants like the Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare have replaced tipping with a 20% service charge. The problem is, by law, you cannot distribute the proceeds of a service charge to anyone who was not involved in direct customer contact, which rules out line cooks and dishwashers.
Tipping is a devil's bargain. On menus across the city, food should cost more than you're being charged, but tipping is a form of price partitioning that allows a restaurant to disguise some of its labor costs as a "voluntary" tip. In exchange for being able to keep prices lower than they should be, an owner agrees to give up control over 20% of his income, passing it on to his wait staff. It makes no sense, but there is a solution.
Some Back-of-the-Envelope Math
Hypothetical Restaurant & Cafe* has 20 tables with an average check of $100 and makes around $6,000 per night with 4 servers on the floor. The tips on $6,000 worth of business would be around $1,200, meaning that each waiter is taking home $300 for their work. A waiter is often paid for 8 hours, so each waiter is making $37.50 an hour in tips (plus $5 an hour guaranteed base wage) for a total of $42.50 an hour. Compare that to a line cook who (on average) makes $14 an hour, rain or shine, full dining room or empty. And let's not even get started on dishwashers who generally make about $9 per hour. (See footnote.)
Hypothetical Restaurant & Cafe with Tips
Servers: $42.50/hour
Line Cooks: $14/hour
Dishwashers = $9/hour
If that $1,200 was a service charge of 20 percent on every bill that could be spread among all the staff, whether they provided direct customer service or not, things would change dramatically.
Hypothetical Restaurant & Cafe with Service Charge
Line Cooks: $18 hour
Dishwashers: $13/hour
Hypothetical Restaurant Industry Pay: Tipping Versus Service Charges!! | Create Infographics
These numbers will vary from restaurant to restaurant depending on hours worked per server per week, whether servers tip out bussers and bartenders, taxes, the average check at each restaurant, and so on and so forth. But this back-of-the-envelope exercise does highlight the fact that servers can make more than twice what kitchen staff make and four times what dishwashers make in a given shift. It also suggests that it's more than possible to create a far more equal system where everyone can enjoy the benefits of happy customers. But right now, in New York state, trying to do this would be completely illegal.
Income inequality is a huge problem and every industry is going to have to start re-examining how it pays everyone, from its CEOs to its janitors. Currently, restaurants are forced to follow a feudal practice that encourages an unequal distribution of wages. Some people might protest, "Why should servers have to give up anything?" but judging by reports from restaurants that have already eliminated tipping, servers may actually find that they prefer working for a salary rather than tips. I love my servers, I think they do a great job, but I also think that paying them the same hourly wage as a nuclear reactor operator rewards their hard work while also treating them as a valued member of the restaurant team, rather than as a private contractor tap dancing for tips.
Restaurant pay needs to move into the 21st century. Right now, the United States is one of only four countries in the entire world that do not provide paid maternity leave. Restaurant workers need paid maternity leave, they need health care, they need sick leave. It won't happen overnight, but the first step in that direction is throwing an 18th century custom onto the trash pile. Servers will lose the lottery-like adrenaline rush of their job ("Maybe tonight someone will leave a $1,000 tip!"), and they'll take a small hit in their wallet, but what they'll gain is a far more stable working environment where everyone is paid more fairly. And while customers may lose the rush of feeling like a big spender, they'll also be free of getting mugged at the end of their meal and forced to do math.
*I'm talking here about the rough economics of small restaurants in NYC. Average salaries are very different for franchised restaurants like TGI Fridays or California Pizza Kitchen, and when you factor those in (along with the salaries at unionized restaurants) you come up with the Bureau of Labor Statistics's numbers which give the following as average pre-tip salaries for NYC waiter at $23,000, cooks at $28,000, and dishwashers at $20,600.
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The sequel itself, titled Top Gun: Maverick, has been in some stage of development hell for what seems like ages. Up until his death by suicide in 2012, Scott was actively working with Cruise on developing a sequel. Not much is known about the plot for the sequel, but it has been said to concern the advent of drone combat and where actual fighter pilots stand in the face of the ever-increasing robotization of warfare.
Top Gun: Maverick is directed by Joseph Kosinski, who previously worked with Cruise on 2013's Oblivion, working from a screenplay by Peter Craig (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) alongside Eric Warren Singer and Justin Marks (Jungle Book). Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the film through his production company Jerry Bruckheimer Films for Paramount Pictures.
There have been no other official looks at the rest of the film's cast, as almost everything is still under wraps. Top Gun: Maverick is set to release on July 12, 2019.
Until then, enjoy one of the single greatest moments in cinematic history.


Sailing Skate, also known as skate Catalan, is a monotype class sailing vessel of one crewman. Known for being a sailing catamaran-type single marconi without boom and the peculiarity of having no rudder or centreboard. The government of the boat is made with the movement and weight distribution pattern itself across the deck and with the sheet, which sends the candle. It is specially designed for beaching on the beach keel or rudder lacking.
Designed by the Catalan brothers Monge in 1942 is the formal development of an advanced device that was born on the beaches of Badalona at the beginning of the century. At first I had no sail and oar propulsion was done, but it was crude and heavy. After the wing was added. Finally, the ultimate creators of the class and added the barraescota lightened steel forming the boat just as we know it.


Business conduct within the clothing, textile and footwear industries has changed over time as consumer demands have shifted. Consumers have moved away from the perception that quality can only be sourced in developing nations (Chan et al. 2012), to one where they are happy to withdraw their view on perceived quality in order to fuel their need for fast fashion. This leads to issues in itself including bribery and the citizenship principle and the exploitation of these workers with focus on the dignity principle within the Global Business Standards Codex. Alternatively the argument is in place that business conduct within the industry, and specifically within developing nations, can help provide a tool for economic growth of the employees and the developing nations as a whole, whilst providing a higher level of competitive advantage for the organisations actively participating in these markets. Ultimately it is about finding equilibrium, where by organisations continue to develop their production and manufacturing relationships within developing nations, yet place a higher focus on their socially responsible conduct.
Over time, barriers of distance between countries have dropped in significance for the clothing, textile and footwear industries. As freight costs became cheaper, and transportation methods improved on a global scale, the ability for an organisation to open up manufacturing and production facilities in countries further afield have increased dramatically. Coupled with consumers demanding clothes that replicate current trends as soon as they occur (Chan et al. 2012), organisations have moved towards cheaper manufacturing and production outposts in order to fulfil the need for this 'fast fashion' coined environment (Chan et al. 2012).
As these organisations expand within developing nations, it was reported that nearly ninety percent of garment producing firms advised that bribes to government officials are an issue that is unavoidable (Yamagata, cited Kasuga 2011). It is advised that these bribes are needed to withdraw bureaucratic delays. These payments go strictly against Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) measures that are being levied by these organisations with specific reference to the citizenship principle within the Global Business Standards Codex (Bettcher et al. 2005). Activists argue that this system has been too imperfectly implemented and does not have the ability to truly solve these issues of bribery (Santoro 2009). In order for businesses to truly marry its CSR measures with sound citizenship principles, organisations need to move away from their buying of positions in the bureaucratic queue to enhance their efficiency of operations (Kasuga 2011). It is stated that if the government in developing nations improve their administration services, firms can reduce these unofficial payments (Kasuga 2011). As the need for bribery diminishes, corporations conducting business in these developing nations would be on a more equal stance for providing greater levels of competitiveness.
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WNBA Expert Picks Today: Fever vs. Dream
In Tuesday night's WNBA matchup on NBATV, the Indiana Fever are facing the Atlanta Dream; free WNBA expert picks are available. The game begins at 7 p.m. ET at the Gateway Center Arena. The two competitors are 5-5 in their past 10 games played head-to-head, and the Dream are 2.5-point favorites. On July 11, 2021, the last time these teams played one another, Indiana defeated Atlanta 79-68. The betting odds in the table below were retrieved from Bovada.
Fever vs. Dream: preview, prediction and free pick
In the Fever's 90-80 defeat versus the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday, guard Kelsey Mitchell led the team in scoring, finishing her performance with 25 points in 39 minutes played. She also had 2.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists. Center Tearira McCowan earned 17 points and 8.0 rebounds in 34 minutes played as well. Indiana held Minnesota to only 14 points in the first quarter, but they surrendered 27 points in the third quarter. The team is now 6-23 for the season.
Moreover, in Atlanta's 82-74 loss against the Washington Mystics last Friday, guard Courtney Williams closed out her showing with 23 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 34 minutes played. Forward Monique Billings had 14 points and 10 rebounds in 26 minutes played. The Dream slacked off on defense in the second quarter, allowing Washington to score 27 points. Thus far, they are 7-22 this season. For a reminder, Basketball Insiders offers other WNBA expert picks each week.
Injuries:
Fever: Jessica Breeland and Chelsey Perry are out for the season. Danielle Robinson was downgraded to out because of an ankle injury. Plus, Tiffany Mitchell is listed as questionable due to a knee injury and Kysre Gondrezick is out indefinitely.
Dream: Odyssey Sims was upgraded to probable today. Not to mention, Cheyenne Parker and Crystal Bradford are out for the season. Tianna Hawkins was downgraded to doubtful due to a foot injury, and Chennedy Carter is still serving her suspension.
Indiana is 6-8 against the spread away and 2-12 overall on the road this season. The Fever are also 9-4 ATS in their previous 13 games, 1-5 in their previous six games played and 5-2 ATS in their last seven games on the road. For another notable betting trend, Indiana is 2-18 straight up in their past 20 road games. As for the Dream, they are 1-13 straight up in their last 14 games, 4-1 ATS in the team's past five games and the total has gone under in five of their last five home games.
Additionally, Atlanta is 0-5 in their past five games played at home. Though, pick the Dream to win and expect the total to go under 156. Betting the under is the most logical. Both teams struggle offensively. The Dream scored 74 points versus the Mystics, 75 points against the Mercury and 69 points versus the Wings. The Fever scored just 65 points versus Phoenix on the first Saturday of the month, too.
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Email list segmentation divides your subscribers into smaller groups based on a set of characteristics that will help you deliver more targeted emails.
Every company in the world from Google to your local bakery want the same thing when it comes to marketing — to have the ability to send the right message to the right person at the right time.
Your subscribers have different interests, habits, and needs. Sending out mass messages to everyone will never meet those needs. Segmentation allows you to create smaller groups so that you can send messages that they care about.
Once you increase relevance in your email marketing, your open rates and click-throughs will go through the roof.
People subscribed to your list for different reasons. The best way to uncover these differences within your list is to start with a basic segmentation like sign-up source or subscriber behavior.
Your goal is to build more detailed profiles of each subscriber as times goes by. You will learn more about what your subscribers need as you interact with them.
First, you'll want to get started by defining your segmentation goals.
Segmentation goals start with your overarching email marketing goals.
What are you trying to achieve through email?
How will segmenting your list help you achieve those goals?
Let's say your goal is to get bigger open rates and more engaged audience.You can then filter your email list to send different messages to the active readers and to the passive ones.
Behavioral segmentation is the most powerful way to segment because the subscriber is activating the segmentation based on a real action.
You can now send new blogs or related content to the subscribers that you know read your blog.
At MailerLite, we often write content about email marketing, but we also cover other subjects such as digital marketing, remote work, and employee happiness, to name a few. Our leads and customers are interested in different topics, so we can create groups based on the types of blogs they read. Some subscribers receive blogs about marketing, while others only receive content about remote work.
Segment your users according to the sign-up channels. The ones that opted-in on your blog might be more interested in content about your company. The ones that opted-in in your eshop might want to know more about your products.
If you have insight into how people become customers, segment your list based on your purchase funnel. Let's say a subscriber read a blog post, then went to your product page but didn't buy. A trigger can put that person in a specific segment where you send them a targeted email to nudge them towards a purchase.
Using MailerLite e-commerce integrations, you can segment your list based on past purchases and use the information to send them new emails based on their style or interests. This type of recommendation marketing makes up over 30% of Amazon's business!
Look at your email metrics to separate the less active subscribers from those who engage often. This way you can create a segment of highly-engaged readers and offer them different incentives or encourage them to share content.
Customer happiness and user experience are paramount to retaining customers and growing your business. The best way to monitor happiness is to email surveys. Based on their responses, you can segment them to receive different follow-up emails. Read more about our recent survey experience.
Geographic segmentation divides your subscribers by where they live. Segmenting based on geography is an easy way to send targeted emails based on regional factors like weather, local customs or events.
With MailerLite, you already have geographic data on your subscribers if they signed up with a MailerLite form.
Demographic segmentation divides your list with quantifiable characteristics of people groups. Examples of demographics include age, gender, income, and ethnicity.
Let's say you are an insurance company that offers different plans based on age. Instead of sending a long, generic email listing each plan for each group, you can segment the list and create shorter, more relevant emails targeted to each age group.
Do you have subscribers that are also active on social media? These are the people you want to connect with and cultivate a stronger relationship. They can share your content and provide a much-needed boost.
If you are a sales organization, it is important to reach the right person in the organization that makes decisions. A way to accomplish this is to segment by roles within the company, so certain emails go to the management team while other emails go to the employees.
Our subscriber management feature provides all the tools that you need to organize your lists and to manage your segments. MailerLite allows you to set your rules and automate the process.


Application forms are ready for the recruitment of "Dadra and Nagar Haveli administration" jobs. And both fresher's and experienced both are welcomed. Candidates willing to apply for this job are requested to visit the site for educational qualifications, salary package, age bar, and some more.
DNHA is endowed at the nature's beauty. This territory is heaven for those look for tranquil holidays. The major tribes around this place are Varlies, Kokana, Dhodia and Dublas. It is located on the western side of the foothills of the Western Ghats and most of the total geographical area covered with forests and this make it look woodland.
Salary And Grade Pay – Rs. 5200 to 20200 with grade pay of 1900 for the post of surveyor. And for Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor the salary is 93000(post 1), Rs 84000(post 2), Rs 54000 for post 3.
Employment Type – Full time for surveyor and contractual for others.
Location – Dadra and Nagar Haveli is the location for DNHA recruitment 2016.
Surveyor- Candidates of age should be between the age of 18 to 27 are allowed.
Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor- Candidate should not exceed the age of 50 years (post 1), 45 years (post2), 35 years (post 3). If possible age relaxation will be given.
Surveyor- All Interested Candidates should have completed 10th, Diploma in Civil Engineering, or an ITI degree holder in land surveying.
Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor- Applicants should be M.Sc degree holder.
Education from the well recognized university or board is allowed.
How To Apply – All the candidates who want to apply for DNHA recruitment 2016 can download the application form from the site and fill and send the hard copy to the respective address.
Official Website – The site is dnh.nic.in.
Important Dates to Remember– For the post of Surveyor apply within 30 days.
And for others apply before 27-02-2016.
Best of luck to all!!!!!


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A fourth poor outcome of special preconception/interconception interest relates to the woman, herself.
Recurrence risk for fetal death ~ 1.5 – 3 times the background risk.
The period after delivery is the best time to determine what happened and to obtain prenatal records, discharge summaries, operative notes, pathology reports, autopsy findings, lab results, and interview the patient. However, it is very possible that the primary care provider is not the person who cared for the patient during the index pregnancy(ies) or conducted the postpartum visit.
Reassure that likelihood of a healthy pregnancy outcome is possibly better than she fears.
Address underlying risks for poor pregnancy outcome (e.g. chronic diseases, weight status, substance exposures, etc. See other sections of toolkit for guidance).
Encourage woman to continue method of contraception until she feels she has reached a healthy state and she has attended all recommended and desired consultations, as detailed below.
Stress the benefits of an interpregnancy interval of at least 18 months (but, as noted below, the ideal may require modification based on patient's age, fertility issues, etc.).
Encourage woman to take a multivitamin with 400 mcg of folic acid daily.
Preconception care for women/couples who have had a stillbirth is most efficiently managed through consultation with an OB/Gyn or maternal-fetal medicine specialist; advise woman/couple of advantages of not conceiving before seeing specialist and offer referral.
Placental: e.g. chronic abruption; placenta previa; placental infarctions; placental villitis; small placenta.
If patient (couple) has questions about general TOLAC recommendations, refer to obstetrician to address before undertaking pregnancy.
If there are multiple c-sections, risks increase with increasing number.
Definition: elevation of blood pressure after 20 weeks of gestation. Categorized as preeclampsia with or without severe features, chronic hypertension with superimposed preeclampsia, and gestational hypertension (if elevation of blood pressure was present prior to pregnancy or before 20 weeks gestation this is classified as chronic hypertension).
Recurrence risk: depends on gestational age of onset, severity of disease, and presence of chronic hypertension.
Counsel regarding long term risks of chronic hypertension; manage appropriately wile keeping in mind certain anti-hypertensive medications are teratogenic and should not be used if intending pregnancy.
Counsel about importance of early prenatal care.
If patients have questions or concerns about recurrence risks, suggest/arrange referral to genetics specialist.
If anomaly associated with a teratogenic drug exposure, consider consultation with a disease specialist/maternal fetal medicine specialist regarding need for medication and/or possible alternatives.


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World Access for the Blind – Flash Sonar
Accessible products & services
World Access for the Blind trains blind and visually impaired persons the technique of human echolocation and calls its training Flashsonar (quite like the navigation of bats). The technique allows people to navigate using tongue-clicking and by responding to the reflected sound from their surroundings. The tongue click allows the ear and brain to work together to construct a 3-D image from reflected echoes of objects.
The organization teaches people of any age, background, or ability, and it believes that anyone can learn to develop functional images of their environment to find more freedom by 'seeing' in a new way.
Additionally, the organization has developed new ways to use the long cane, which is more effective and easier to learn than the cane techniques traditionally taught to blind people. Innovations include the handshake grasp, which reduces the wrist and hand pain that blind people often suffer from when holding a cane in the traditional way; as well as the 'feather touch', whereby the tip of the cane does not drag or scrape along with its full weight, but instead glides lightly over the contours of the ground.
With Flashsonar, World Access for the Blind is rewriting the mobility instructor certification practice, a professional certification to demonstrate professional competency that supports quality service delivery to persons with vision impairments. For some employment opportunities this certification is mandatory in the United States and other countries.
Since 2001, individual and group trainings to more than 2,000 students.
Since 2001, 85 professional development workshops on Flashsonar and the long cane for more than 3,000 service providers in 39 countries
The project has been featured in over 150 major publications and broadcasts, reaching an audience of over 2 billion viewers globally in high-profile forums such as Ted, TEDx PopTech, and the Idea Festival.
The project has expanded internationally by using the 'training-of trainers' model, which prepares blind trainees to instruct other blind or visually impaired persons. Further, the organization has published a textbook and a set of training materials to help students, families, and other instructors develop their own freedom with less dependence on local institutions.