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MichaelPlant 10 Jan 2022 19:16 UTC
in reply to: lukeprog's comment on: Democratising Risk—or how EA deals with critics
Hello Luke,
Thanks for this too. I appreciate you've since moved on to other things, so this isn't really your topic to engage on anymore. However, I'll make two comments.
First, you said you read various things in the area, including by me, since 2015. It would have been really helpful (to me) if, given you had different views, you had engaged at the time and set out where you disagreed and what sort of evidence would have changed your mind.
Second, and similarly, I would really appreciate it if the current team at Open Philanthropy could more precisely set out their perspective on all this. I did have a few interactions with various Open Phil staff in 2021, but I wouldn't say I've got anything like canonical answers on what their reservations are about 1. measuring outcomes in terms of SWB - Alex Berger's recent technical update didn't comment on this—and 2. doing more research or grantmaking into the things that, from the SWB perspective, seem overlooked.
MichaelPlant 6 Jan 2022 23:14 UTC
Hello Luke, thanks for this, which was illuminating. I'll make an initial clarifying comment and then go on to the substantive issues of disagreement.
At least for me, I don't think this is a case of an EA funder repeatedly ignoring work by e.g. Michael Plant — I think it's a case of me following the debate over the years and disagreeing on the substance after having familiarized myself with the literature.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you saying GiveWell didn't repeatedly ignore the work? That Open Phil didn't? Something else? As I set out in another comment, my experience with GiveWell staff was of being ignored by people who weren't at that familiar with the relevant literature—FWIW, I don't recall the concerns you raise in your notes being raised with me. I've not had interactions with Open Phil staff prior to 2021 - for those reading, Luke and I have never spoken—so I'm not able to comment regarding that.
Onto the substantive issues. Would you be prepared to more precisely state what your concerns are, and what sort of evidence would chance your mind? Reading your comments and your notes, I'm not sure exactly what your objections are and, in so far as I do, they don't seem like strong objections.
You mention "weakly validated measures" as an issue but in the text you say "for some scales, reliability and validity have been firmly established", which implies to me you think (some) scales are validated. So which scales are you worried about, to what extent, and why? Are they so non-validated we should think they contain no information? If some scales are validated, why not just use those ones? By analogy, we wouldn't give up on measuring temperature if we thought only some of our thermometers were broken. I'm not sure if we're even on the same page about what it is to 'validate' a measure of something (I can elaborate, if helpful).
On "unconvincing intervention studies", I take it you're referring to your conversation notes with Sonja Lyubormirsky. The 'happiness interventions' you talk about are really just those from the field of 'positive psychology' where, basically, you take mentally healthy people and try to get them to change their thoughts and behaviours to be happier, such as by writing down what they're grateful for. This implies a very narrow interpretation of 'happiness interventions'. Reducing poverty or curing diseases are 'happiness interventions' in my book because they increase happiness, but they are certainly not positive psychology interventions. One can coherently think that subjective wellbeing measures, eg self-reported happiness, are valid and capture something morally important but deny gratitude journalling etc. are particularly promising ways, in practice, of increasing it. Also, there's a big difference between the lab-style experiments psychologists run and the work economists tend to do looking at large panel and cohort data sets.
Regarding "one entire literature using the wrong statistical test for decades", again, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Is the point about 'item response theory'? I confess that's not something that gets discussed in the academic world of subjective wellbeing measurement—I don't think I've ever heard it mentioned. After a quick look, it seems to be a method to relate scores of psychometric tests to real-world performance. That seems to be a separate methodological ballgame from concerns about the relationship between how people feel and how they report those feelings on a numerical scale, e.g. when we ask "how happy are you, 0-10?". Subjective wellbeing researchers do talk about the issue of 'scale cardinality', ie, roughly, does your "7/10" feel the same to you as my "7/10″ does to me? This issue has been starting to get quite a bit of attention in just the last couple of years but has, I concede, been rather neglected by the field. I've got a working paper on this under review which is (I think) the first comprehensive review of the problem.
To me, it looks like in your initial investigation you had the bad luck to run into a couple of dead ends and, quite understandably given those, didn't go further. But I hope you'll let me try to explain further to you why I think happiness research (like happiness itself) is worth taking seriously!
in reply to: Aaron Gertler's comment on: Democratising Risk—or how EA deals with critics
I've only just seen this and thought I should chime in. Before I describe my experience, I should note that I will respond to Luke's specific concerns about subjective wellbeing separately in a reply to his comment.
TL;DR Although GiveWell (and Open Phil) have started to take an interest in subjective wellbeing and mental health in the last 12 months, I have felt considerable disappointment and frustration with their level of engagement over the previous six years.
I raised the "SWB and mental health might really matter" concerns in meetings with GiveWell staff about once a year since 2015. Before 2021, my experience was that they more or less dismissed my concerns, even though they didn't seem familiar with the relevant literature. When I asked what their specific doubts were, these were vague and seemed to change each time ("we're not sure you can measure feelings", "we're worried about experimenter demand effect", etc.). I'd typically point out their concerns had already been addressed in the literature, but that still didn't seem to make them more interested. (I don't recall anyone ever mentioning 'item response theory', which Luke raises as his objection.) In the end, I got the impression that GiveWell staff thought I was a crank and were hoping I would just go away.
GiveWell's public engagement has been almost non-existent. When HLI published, in August 2020, a document explaining how GiveWell could (re)estimate their own 'moral weights' using SWB, GiveWell didn't comment on this (a Founders Pledge researcher did, however, provide detailed comments). The first and only time GiveWell has responded publicly about this was in December 2020, where they set out their concerns in relation to our cash transfer vs therapy meta-analyses; I've replied to those comments (many of which expressed quite non-specific doubts) but not yet received a follow-up.
The response I was hoping for—indeed, am still hoping for—was the one Will et al. gave above, namely, "We're really interested in serious critiques. What do you think we're getting wrong, why, and what difference would it make if you were right? Would you like us to fund you to work on this?" Obviously, you wouldn't expect an organisation to engage with critiques that are practically unimportant and from non-credible sources. In this case, however, I was raising fundamental concerns that, if true, could substantially alter the priorities, both for GiveWell and EA more broadly. And, for context, at the time I initially highlighted these points I was doing a philosophy PhD supervised by Hilary Greaves and Peter Singer and the measurement of wellbeing was a big part of my thesis.
There has been quite good engagement from other EAs and EAs orgs, as Aaron Gertler notes above. I can add to those that, for instance, Founders Pledge have taken SWB on board in their internal decision-making and have since made recommendations in mental health. However, GiveWell's lack of engagement has really made things difficult because EAs defer so much to GiveWell: a common question I get is "ah, but what does GiveWell think?" People assume that, because GiveWell didn't take something seriously, that was strong evidence they shouldn't either. This frustration was compounded by the fact that because there isn't a clear, public statement of what GiveWell's concerns were, I could neither try to address their concerns nor placate the worries of others by saying something like "GiveWell's objection is X. We don't share that because of Y".
This is pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if GiveWell (and perhaps Open Phil too) developed an 'ugh field' around subjective wellbeing and mental health. They didn't look into it initially because they were just too damn busy. But then, after a while, it became awkward to start engaging with because that would require admitting they should have done so years ago, so they just ignored it. I also suspect there's been something of an information cascade where someone originally looked at all this (see my reply to Luke above), decided it wasn't interesting, and then other staff members just took that on trust and didn't revisit it—everyone knew an idea could be safely ignored even if they weren't sure why.
Since 2021, however, things have been much better. In late 2020, as mentioned, HLI published a blog post showing how SWB could be used to (re)estimate GiveWell's 'moral weights'. I understand that some of GiveWell's donors asked them for an opinion on this and that pushed them to engage with it. HLI had a productive conversation with GiveWell in February 2021 (see GiveWell's notes) where, curiously, no specific objections to SWB were raised. GiveWell are currently working on a blog post responding to our moral weights piece and they kindly shared a draft with us in July asking for our feedback. They've told us they plan to publish reports on SWB and psychotherapy in the next 3-6 months.
Regarding Open Phil, it seemed pointless to engage unless GiveWell came on board, because Open Phil also defer strongly to GiveWell's judgements, as Alex Berger has recently stated. However, we recently had some positive engagement from Alex on Twitter, and a member of his team contacted HLI for advice after reading our report and recommendations on global mental health. Hence, we are now starting to see some serious engagement, but it's rather overdue and still less fulsome than I'd want.
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MichaelPlant's comment on Democratising Risk—or how EA deals with critics by CarlaZoeC (6 Jan 2022 23:14 UTC; 45 points)
MichaelPlant 10 Dec 2021 12:32 UTC
in reply to: MichaelPlant's comment on: Donating money, buying happiness: new meta-analyses comparing the cost-effectiveness of cash transfers and psychotherapy in terms of subjective well-being
We would guess that if we, for example, gave households the choice between 3-4 months of therapy and a $1,000 transfer, many more would choose the transfer.
To clarify, the intervention is not to provide therapy to anyone, it's just to provide it to those who are depressed. I expect that even some depressed people would choose cash over therapy. But it's reasonable to assume people don't always know what's best for them and under/overconsume on certain goods due to lack of information, etc. That's why we need studies to see what truly improves people's subjective well-being.
If one was serious about always giving people what they choose, then you would just give people cash and let them decide. Given that GiveWell claims that bednets and deworming are better than cash, it seems they already accept cash is not necessarily best. Hence, it's unclear how they could raise this as a problem for therapy without being inconsistent.
Third, it seems intuitively surprising that a $1,000 cash transfer for a household in a low-income country would have a substantially smaller effect than 3-4 months of therapy (0.5 SD for cash transfers vs. 1.6 SD for therapy in HLI's study).
What I think might have been overlooked here is that therapy is only being given to people diagnosed with mental illnesses, but the cash transfers go to poor people in general (only some of whom will be depressed). Hence, it's perhaps not so surprising that directly treating the depression of depressed people is more impactful than giving out money (even if those people are poor). If you were in pain but also poor, no one would assume that giving you money would do more for your happiness than morphine would.
Second, we've taken a very shallow look at a recent trial that compares cash transfers with therapy head-to-head. This trial finds a much smaller effect of therapy vs. cash.
We account for this trial in our meta-analysis—if we hadn't incorporated it, therapy would look even a bit more cost-effective. Of course, the point of meta-analyses is to look at the whole evidence base, rather than just selecting one or two pieces of evidence; one could discount any meta-analysis this way by pointing to the trial with the lowest effect.
We don't think one study should overshadow the results of a meta-analysis, which aggregates a much wider set of data ("beware the man of only one study" etc). If there was one study finding no impact of bednets, I doubt GiveWell would conclude it would be reasonable to discount all the previous data on bednets.
First, we've looked at the effect of therapy under our current moral weights, which we use to trade off outcomes like increasing consumption, averting deaths, and averting morbidity. Under this approach and using the effect of depression on DALYs, we find similar cost-effectiveness between therapy and cash transfers.
What is the conversion rate here between DALYs and income increases, and on what is it based? I'm not sure what method could be being used here except by inputting one's intuitions. In which case, it would be good to make that clear, as people may think the conversation rate is an authoritative fact, rather than (just) an opinion. It would be interesting to state how much readers' opinions would need to differ from GiveWell's to reach alternative conclusions!
To bang a familiar drum, the reason to use subjective wellbeing measures is that we can observe how much health and income changes improve wellbeing, rather than having to guess.
However, we think there are some limitations to these measures, and give weight to other factors. I expect that GiveWell would find interventions that have benefits beyond subjective well-being more cost-effective than HLI would.
It's not easy to respond to this—it's not stated what the limitations and other factors are.
More generally, there's no reason to think in the abstract that, if you're pluralist rather than monist about value, this changes the relative cost-effectiveness ranking of different actions. You'd need to provide a specific argument about what the different values are, how each intervention relatively does on this, and how the units of value are commensurate.
For example, imagine a scenario where intervention X provides 15 units of happiness/$ but does nothing for autonomy and intervention Y provides 10 units of happiness/$ and 10 units of autonomy/$. If we take one unit of happiness as being as valuable as one unit of autonomy, then Y is better than X. However, someone who only valued happiness would think X is better.
It seems possible there are significant spillovers from therapy, but our current best guess is these would be much smaller than for cash.
It would be helpful if GiveWell could share what their current best guess is. Even if spillovers are 30% for therapy and 100% for cash, assuming the original 12x multiple and 3 other household members, then the multiple would still be 5.7.
Cash = 1 + (1*3) = 4
Psychotherapy = 12 + ((0.3*12)*3) = 12 + 10.8 = 22.8
Hence, therapy still looks quite a bit better even if the spillover effects are small.
HLI assumes any spillover effects to other household members are proportional across interventions—i.e., if a cash transfer benefits other household members' subjective well-being x% as much as it benefits the recipient, the same is true for therapy.
If there are 4 to 5 members per household (roughly what we estimate for participants in GiveDirectly's program) and there were no household multipliers from therapy, psychotherapy would be 2x-3x as cost-effective as cash transfers, taking HLI's other assumptions as given.
This is definitely not what we think, particularly the assumption it will be proportional across 'any' intervention! I'm sure why someone would believe that.
Our position, as outlined in this twitter thread, is quite a bit more nuanced. There wasn't much evidence we could find on household spillovers—five studies for cash, one for mental health—and in each case it indicated very large spillover effects, i.e. in the range that other household members got 70-100% of the benefitted the recipient did. We didn't include that in the final estimate because there was so little evidence and, if we'd taken it at face value, it would only have modestly changed the results (making therapy 8-10x better). Even in the extreme, and implausible, case where therapy has no household spillovers, it wouldn't have yielded the result that psychotherapy is more cost-effective than cash transfers. We discussed this in the individual cost-effectiveness analysis reports and flagged it as something to come back to for further research.
We agree that the effects of household spillovers from cash are large. Where our priors may diverge is that HLI (and others) think that the spillovers from therapy are also large, whereas GiveWell is very sceptical about this. We are now conducting a thorough search for more evidence on household spillovers, so we are not just swapping priors.
in reply to: GiveWell's comment on: Donating money, buying happiness: new meta-analyses comparing the cost-effectiveness of cash transfers and psychotherapy in terms of subjective well-being
Before I respond to the details, I'd like to thank GiveWell for engaging with these questions. I'm delighted our research has led to them producing their own reports into group psychotherapy and using subjective wellbeing to determine one's moral weights.
GiveWell kindly shared a draft of their reply with us in advance and we made several comments clarifying our position. However, they decided to publish their original draft unchanged (without offering a further explanation) so we're restating our comments here so that readers can build a better understanding of where our positions differ. I'll split these up so it's easier to follow, first quoting the response from GiveWell, then providing our reply.
MichaelPlant 26 Nov 2021 12:44 UTC
on: A Red-Team Against the Impact of Small Donations
A lot's been said. Is this a fair summary: small donors can do a lot of good (and earning and giving can be much higher impact than other altruistic activities, like local community volunteering) but as the amount of 'EA dedicated' money goes up, small donors are less impactful and more people should consider careers which are directly impactful?
on: Minimal-trust investigations
I have to say, I rather like putting a name to this concept. I know this wasn't the upshot of the article, but it immediately struck me, on reading this, that it would be a good idea for the effective altruist community to engage in some minimal trust investigations of each other's analyses and frame them as such.
I'm worried about there being too much deference and actually not very much criticism of the received wisdom. Part of the issue is that to criticise the views of smart, thoughtful, well-intentioned people in leadership positions might imply either that you don't trust them (which is rude) or that you're not smart and well-informed enough to 'get it'; there are also the normal fears associated with criticising those with greater power.
These issues are somewhat addressed by saying "look, I have a lot of respect for X and assume there are right about lots of things, but I wanted to get to the bottom of this issue myself and not take anything they said for granted. So I did a 'minimal-trust investigation'. Here's what I found..."
in reply to: Kerry_Vaughan's comment on: Despite billions of extra funding, small donors can still have a significant impact
Yeah, does not seem like a good outcome if people are donating, say, 10% of their salary, then they come to EA events and they get the feeling that people look down their noses at them as if to say "that's it? You don't have an 'EA' job?"
on: Despite billions of extra funding, small donors can still have a significant impact
[restating and elaborating on what I said on twitter]
Thanks very for this update, Ben. The "EA has loads of money" meme has unfortunately led people to (incorrectly) assume that everything 'within EA' was fully funded. This made it harder to fundraise, particularly for small orgs, like mine, who do need new donors, because prospective donors assumed they weren't necessary.
Of course, the meme had no impact on organisations that are already fully-funded—which is more or less only those orgs being funded by Open Philanthropy.
What are the bad EA memes? How could we reframe them? by Nathan Young (16 Nov 2021 11:18 UTC; 15 points)
in reply to: RobBensinger's comment on: Ngo and Yudkowsky on AI capability gains
Ok, that helps—a litte! - but it's still not quite at TL;DR. :)
in reply to: Ben Williamson's comment on: Sleep: effective ways to improve it
Hello Ben!
Good to know this was based on existing literature. In most cases, it helps to show the reader you know that literature, to outline what it is, and then go on say what your new contribution is. Like I say, you missed a few of the obvious things, which is unfortunate. A piece of "what works for X" should, I say, include the things that work for X, then perhaps go on to flag which of these are likely to be a surprise, rather than assuming on the reader's behalf what they will already know. If you are going to have a piece on "what works for X that might but that might surprise you" you should at least clearly flag that, and then point to something such as "standard guidance on X".
Re strength of interventions being "40%" that still seems a confused way of presenting the information. 40% of what? Of a maximum score? A maximum score of what? Of cost-effectiveness? Well, why not just present the effectiveness numbers and divide them by the costs then?
I agree that this sort of thing can have a lower level of rigour but I stand by my concern that the method you use is so puzzling it's questionably useful at all. You gathered quite a bit of relevant info, but I think you presented it in a less-than-ideal way. Here, simpler would have been better: I'd have preferred a post that just said "here's a list of evidence-based ways to improve sleep" and then listed them and provided a brief discussion on each. That seems the way to go unless you have the data and time to do a quantitative (cost-)effectiveness analysis.
Glad you think we (at HLI) do good work. Like I see, feel free to reach out if you want to chat about research methods etc.! You can get me at michael@happierlivesinstitute.org
on: Ngo and Yudkowsky on AI capability gains
I might be interested in this, but I'd be really helped by a TL;DR or similar providing some context on what's being discussed.
on: Sleep: effective ways to improve it
While I am as much a fan of wellbeing research as the next fellow—indeed, probably a much bigger fan—I have to say I found the methodology and conclusions of this research rather confusing.
If I were approaching this topic, I would have (1) done a review of the existing literature to find out what people thought was effective and what the possible interventions were, then (2) tried to assess the options in terms of (a) a comparable metric of effectiveness and (b) cost, so readers could think about what would do the most for them at the least effort.
As it is, this research seems to have missed out many of the standard pieces of advice like avoiding alcohol, napping after 3pm, having a large meal before bed, or having a sleep routine. The author doesn't mention having looked at the existing literature, but does note that other EAs have mentioned sleep. I don't mean to single out the OP, but I do want to deride the myopic and self-referential tendency among effective altruists in general to overlook work done outside effective altruism. Lots of good has happened 'out there' and we ignore it at our peril.
What I found least satisfying about this research was how this (partial list of) interventions were assessed. As far as I can see, the 'weighted-factor model' involved assigning unexplained subjective numbers to various seemingly-arbitrarily chosen properties, then assigning a seemingly-arbitrary weight to each factor to aggregate them. * I am reminded of "Garbage-In-Garbage-Out" concept in computer science where nonsense inputs products nonsense outputs. As a reader, I have no idea how to interpret the rankings or numbers—what does it mean that melatonin gets "5.95/10″ or that CBT-I gets "5.78"? - or how much to update off them. The results are basically uninterpretable.
I would strongly recommend that the OP heavily revise their methods and the presentation of their research for any further work. The main thing would be to present the results of the interventions in a standardised metric, e.g. total sleep time, or standard deviations of something, so readers can make a comparison themselves, then make comments on cost and, if necessary research quality. I am happy to provide advice if that's helpeful.
*I recognise the weighted-factor model is something Charity Entrepreneurship use. I have raised it with them several times that, for the reasons given, I find this approach hard to follow or justify and thus questionably useful.
MichaelPlant 27 Oct 2021 16:32 UTC
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It seems that people object most to statues of those who became rich, famous, or powerful from doing something objectionable. For instance, you get rich from slavery, become a philanthropist, then get a statue for being a philanthropist, cf Edward Colston in the UK. People mind less if you so happen to do something objectionable, but that's not your reason from prominence.
Therefore, the story would have much more oompfh if it was about a factory farming magnate who, say, set up a university with the proceeds, instead of just a guy who ate meat. You could have had quite a lot of fun teasing out those parallels.


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There are a number of ways you can make a bequest to Jewish Foundation of Memphis.
Specific Bequest. A specific bequest involves making a gift of a specific asset such as real estate, a car, other property or a gift for a specific dollar amount. For example, you may wish to leave your home or $10,000 to your favorite charity.
Percentage Bequest. Another kind of specific bequest involves leaving a specific percentage of your overall estate to charity. For example, you may wish to leave 10% of your estate to your favorite charity.
Residual Bequest. A residual bequest is made from the balance of an estate after the will or trust has given away each of the specific bequests. A common residual bequest involves leaving a percentage of the residue of the estate to charity. For example, you may wish to leave 30% of the residue of your estate to your favorite charity.
Contingent Bequest. A contingent bequest is made to charity only if the purpose of the primary bequest cannot be met. For example, you could leave specific property, such as a vacation home, to a relative, but the bequest language could provide that if the relative is not alive at the time of your death, the vacation home will go to your favorite charity.
In order to make a bequest, you should speak with your attorney. Your attorney can help you include a bequest to your favorite charity in your estate plan. We have provided some basic bequest language to assist you and your attorney.
I hereby give, devise and bequeath _________ and No/100 dollars ($DOLLARS) to [charity name.], Federal Tax ID #____________, for [charity name]?s general use and purpose.
I hereby give, devise and bequeath DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY to [charity name.], Federal Tax ID #____________, for [charity name]?s general use and purpose.
I hereby give, devise and bequeath all of the right, title and interest in and to the real estate located at ADDRESS OR DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY to JFM Reality/[ or charity name], Federal Tax ID #____________, for sale and the proceeds go to [charity name]/ or [charity name]?s general use and purpose.
I hereby give, devise and bequeath ____ percent (___%) of my total estate, determined as of the date of my death, to [charity name], Federal Tax ID #______________________, for [charity name]?s general use and purpose.
I hereby give, devise and bequeath to [charity name], a nonprofit organization located at [charity address], Federal Tax ID # _________, ALL OR A PERCENTAGE of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate to be used for [charity name]'s general use and purpose.
If (primary beneficiary) does not survive me, then I hereby give, devise and bequeath to [charity name], Federal Tax ID # _________, DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY to be used for [charity name]'s general use and purpose.
If, in the judgment of the Board of Directors of [charity name], it shall become impossible for [charity name] to use this bequest to accomplish the specific purposes of this bequest, [charity name] may use the income and principal of this gift for such purpose or purposes as the Board determines is most closely related to the restricted purpose of my bequest.
Please contact us if you have any questions about how to make a bequest to your favorite Jewish charity or to request any additional information that might be helpful to you and your attorney as you consider making a bequest to us.
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Q: Need help for boolean slicing I have a dataframe. I woud like to slice based on a comparison between the 2 columns. For instance in the following example I would like to extract rows where column x is larger than column y:
d = pd.DataFrame({'x':[1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 'y':[4, 5, 6, 7, 8]})

d[d[:"x"]>d[:"y"]]

By doing so I get an error:

"unhashable type: 'slice'"

A: You need omit : and use boolean indexing:
d[d["x"]>d["y"]]

Sample (changed last value):
d = pd.DataFrame({'x':[1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 'y':[4, 5, 6, 7, 3]})
print (d)
   x  y
0  1  4
1  2  5
2  3  6
3  4  7
4  5  3

print (d["x"]>d["y"])
0    False
1    False
2    False
3    False
4     True
dtype: bool

print (d[d["x"]>d["y"]])
   x  y
4  5  3

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Balochistan: When it comes to the solution, the problem is restated
Dr Pervez Tahir | July 15, 2021
The writer is a senior political economist based in Islamabad. He can be reached at perveztahir@yahoo.com
No prefix. No suffix. Mention Balochistan and everybody and their uncle knows what the problem is. When it comes to the solution, the problem is restated. The latest on offer is from the top man in authority, or so he likes to believe. He lost a Baloch ally for making little headway on its six demands. As framed, the Baloch are angry. Before that, it was lack of development. The federal government would announce special development packages with great fanfare with the objective of mainstreaming Balochistan. Not many in other provinces feel any mainstreaming, nor an ordinary Baloch vouchsafes development. According to the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurements survey, 2019-20, the average score of districts in Balochistan in education, health, information communications and technology, and living standard is far behind the other provinces. Until 1955, Balochistan was governed as the British did — central government in ex-British Balochistan and the semi-autonomous princely states. From 1955 to 1970, there was a total loss of identity under one unit. The people in other provinces knew Sui gas from Balochistan, without knowing that Sui in Balochistan had none of it. What the official website of Balochistan says in the context of the British has not changed even long after their departure. "The defense orientation of the administration precluded development and educational outlays." Actually, this "orientation" has magnified since the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti.
Has lack of development caused anger? Does that require an anger alleviation programme? Just as a poverty alleviation programme never aims at reducing poverty, much less eliminating it, the announcement of the anger alleviation programme has brought in its wake various interpretations of anger. Is it foreign-based, RAW-inspired local, local but disgruntled? A special assistant has been appointed, like there is one for poverty alleviation. The choice of a barely angry person has fuelled more anger.
The problem is more political than economic. After 1947, the most empowering moment for Balochistan was its emergence as a province in 1970. Pakistan's only fair elections in the same year threw up leadership that eventually formed the government. This government was arbitrarily dismissed, opening the doors for engineers, with development funding as the key instrument. Two major initiatives made no difference. The 18th Amendment gave the province some control over its natural resources. Under the 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) Award, area was recognised as one of the criteria to distribute the divisible pool, besides relating Balochistan's share to projections rather than actual collections, which are usually lower. The attitude to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) explains it all. We were not consulted, is the complaint. To many, CPEC reminds the days of the Raj when the roads and railways were built for strategic purposes, with no local involvement. Rather than learning to respect the will of the people, the only lesson that seems to have been learnt from the East Pakistan debacle is to maintain massive and visible military presence to prevent secessionist tendencies. It was destined to fail. Hence another attempt to reach out to the angry Baloch.
Forget the anger. Just let Balochistan be a province like any other. Make arrangements for a fair and free election of the provincial assembly in 2023. In the run up, declare a general amnesty to allow all parties a fair chance. The military footprint should be reduced and confined to cantonments. Let the government be formed without any interference. This will permit the people of Balochistan to negotiate among themselves the rules of engagement with different ethnicities, mode of governance and resource allocation. Development packages and anger alleviation exercises have failed. Don't let anger turn into hostility.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2021.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2310727/balochistan
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The Illusionist (2006)
Déjà Vu (2009)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Training Day (2001)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Fractured (2019)
The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
John Q (2002)
Clerks (1994)
Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
The Lion King (2019)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Highlander (1986)
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
Abominable (2019)
IT Chapter Two (2019)
Directed by Louis Leterrier
After the disastrous take on the Incredible Hulk movie of 2003, Marvel reacquired the rights to the movie and wrote a fantastic entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This new Incredible Hulk movie is the second movie in the MCU and the lead was changed from Eric Bana to Edward Norton. The bad guy in this movie started as a man and grew to become Abomination.
The movie plot starts with a brief history of Hulk. It was as a result of an experiment gone wrong on trying to make super soldiers. The people involved are Dr. Bruce Banner and his girlfriend Betty Ross (Liv Tyler). They were to present the whole program to Ross's father General Ross.
Bruce got the gamma radiation exposure which turns him to Hulk for a brief time when his heart rates goes haywire. In the Hulk state Banner destroys the lab hurting both the general and his daughter.
He moves to Brazil away from the ones he loves, while he is trying to search for a cure for his problem.
An accident in the bottling company where Banner works, aided General Ross to be able to track him down. The General wants Banner for studies to be able to make more super soldiers. The capture of Banner went wrong, as Banner changed to Hulk and got away from the men led Emil Blonsky.
Emil decided to be injected with the same serum that turned Banner and he became a super human. Banner comes back to the U.S. and joins Betty when he is attacked again by Blonsky and his men. This time Blonsky is starting to lose all sense of sanity.
He loses the fight with Hulk. To see what happens after this and you will have to see the movie.
Edward Norton never got to replay the character of Hulk again in the MCU that role went to Mark Ruffalo. Who first came on the scene in the first Avengers movie in 2012. Ruffalo has remained the Hulk since that movie. The reason Norton was dropped is because Norton is known for wanting to have control over the characters he plays. This is not something Disney or Marvel is willing to abide with.
I enjoyed this Hulk movie more than the 2003 crap version. It is also sad that we will never get to see many of the great Hulk stories because of the deal Marvel made with Universal concerning the Hulk movies before Disney bought them over.
I will be looking forward to seeing this movie again, just to get the fun of it. I do not know if we will be seeing Hulk again anytime soon, since the Infinity Stones Saga (the last movie here were Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home both in 2019) is over. His presence in Thor: Ragnorok (2017) was a breather and made the movie so much fun. Disney is launching the Disney+ streaming service where there will be a She-Hulk series so maybe he will feature in it.


The Freedom Caucus better have 188 more votes up their sleeve to pass their version of Republican health care reform of President Obama's health care reform that is now the law of the land.
And will stay that way until something passes the House with 218 votes and 51 votes in the US Senate and President Trump signs it into law to supersede what President Obama and the Democrat Congress passed into law in 2010.
Those are the rules of the game whether anyone likes them or not. It is like the Rules of Golf; you move the ball in the rough while clearing some leaves or twigs around it and you incur a penalty whether you think it is fair or not.
The Republican strategy was to drag a Trojan Horse into the US Senate tent under the budget reconciliation and Byrd Rule hurdles where it could pass by simple majority vote of 51 and THEN be used as a vehicle for further reform and amendment.
If Republicans had 60 US Senators in the Senate, and they were all in agreement, the details of the Republican bill really would not have mattered very much. They could have put together a peanut butter-and-blackberry jelly sandwich and called it the 'American Health Care Reform' (AHCA) and it would have been accepted as a bill apart from the budget reconciliation and Byrd Rule restrictions and passed into law.
But they don't. Not yet anyway. With 24 Democrat Senators up for re-election in 2018, and 10-12 in states where President Trump won by double-digits, there conceivably is the chance Republicans could pick up the 8 US Senate seats to get to the magical number of 60.
The press is proclaiming this as a 'spectacular' defeat as if this was the final defeat at Waterloo for Napoleon.
This is the first major setback 2 months into a US Presidency that lasts 48 months at least. There are plenty of battles left to fight on tax reform, immigration reform, reducing the size of government bureaucracy just to name 3 that will happen after Judge Neil Gorsuch is confirmed as the next Justice on the US Supreme Court.
Unless they are waiting for 2018 elections to come around and deliver 8 more Republican Senators to get to 60 in the US Senate, that is. Which will be problematic if Republican House Members and Senators have to go back home to face an angry primary and general election electorate who thought they were going to 'repeal and replace' Obamacare this year, not in 2019 or beyond.
President Trump has proven his willingness to negotiate and compromise and cut deals with anyone during his business career and now in his first 65 days as President. He has signaled his willingness to work with more moderate and/or conservative Members of the Democratic Party in the House of which there might be about 30 or so left in order to get some sort of health care reform passed this session of Congress. Not the next one.
It is a basic matter of arithmetic. Get to 218 votes and you can pass a bill in the House. With or without the Freedom Caucus or the Tuesday Group or any other subsection of the Republican Caucus.
There was over $1 trillion of tax cuts and over $1 trillion in reduced spending from the future baseline of federal budgets in the AHCA according to Americans for Tax Freedom. For most fiscal conservatives, that alone would have been enough to start the process of unraveling the ACA instead of stonewalling it.
Anyone who says that 'fixing' our health care system is easy and simple really doesn't not have much credibility in our book. It is one of the most vexing and complicated public policy issues of our time and for the past 40 years at least.
As long as the process helps produce a system where everyone can have access to catastrophic health care insurance coverage (in order to protect them and their families against the truly catastrophic costs of adverse health conditions such as cancer, stroke, accidents, etc); preventive health care; dental care and wellness training at a very minimum, we think that would take us back towards a rational and workable health care system in America.
But the process has to get started first. 218 votes in the House of Representatives is where it has to start.
Failure to get to 218 means failure to get anything done on health care reform any time soon.
Will 24 Million People 'Lose' Their Health Care Coverage If The Republican Health Care Plan Passes?
It all depends on what you want to believe.
When it comes to political statistics, where you stand depends not only on where you sit on the political philosophy spectrum but how your amygdala gets triggered: either for the liberal side of things or things conservative. (The amygdala is where the animal response lies in the human brain).
Let's face it: we all get hard-wired one way or the other over time after listening to political debates and trained like Pavlov's dogs to respond viscerally and emotionally primarily with anger towards 'the other side'.
The first casualty is ALWAYS 'the facts'. If we can all learn to control our emotions and look at the facts first before opening our mouths and launching a fusillade of attack against 'the other side', we might all be better off in the long-run.
Doug Badger wrote a pretty good article explaining the wide range of estimates concerning the number of future enrollees in private plans and Medicaid in the Republican American Health Plan due to be voted on tomorrow if the legislative schedule, and the votes are there to pass it, hold.
'Since the release of the HHS study, the government has published two additional surveys of health-insurance coverage - the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the American Community Survey (ACS). Both offer data through the end of 2015, allowing for comparison with the NHIS estimate.
Here's another report in Real Clear Policy, 'CBO: You Can't "Lose" Medicaid You Don't Have' you need to read to get a bead on how the CBO estimates of '24 million people will lose coverage' if the Republican plan is passed in total by the end of this year after it wends its way through the gauntlet of legislative process.
'The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had to deal with two separate worlds when it analyzed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the version of "repeal and replace" put forward by two House committees. While the CBO exists to provide numbers that relate to spending, deficits, and the economy, a different number got the most attention: the assessment that by 2026, 24 million fewer people would have health insurance.
There is a very long way to go before any final version of any Republican plan to reform health care coverage in America is complete. It could be late October for all we know right now. Or it could be November or right before the Christmas holidays.
We remember several sessions lasting right up to about midnight on December 23. No one liked it but it sure made people make decisions and compromises on passing a large piece of legislation so they could get home and enjoy the holidays with their families and friends.
Be prepared with the facts before you get too heated one way or another about this bill. Calm cooler heads need to prevail if we are ever going to find some long-term solutions to health care in America.
Living more healthy lifestyles would help. Raise your hand if you think Americans are ready to give up their cigarettes, soda, chips and Twinkies and exercise 30-60 minutes every day and curtail their beer, wine and alcohol consumption.
But that would require far more than any congressional legislation could ever achieve.
If you had never heard of the differences between the US House and the US Senate in Washington, you are about to learn a lot about them in a very short time frame.
Mainstream news folks were apoplectic. Democrats were scathing. Even members of the Republican Party were pronouncing the bill 'dead on arrival' just after being introduced early this week.
As we just said, the US House and the US Senate are about as different of two legislative bodies as you could imagine. At least as they can be in two western democratic republican forms of government, that is.
There are 3 stages to this roll-out (outlined below) by Speaker Paul Ryan and backed up by HHS Secretary Tom Price, who most recently was Chairman of the House Budget Committee which was the same committee a younger congressman named Paul Ryan chaired before becoming the Vice-Presidential nominee in 2012 and then becoming Speaker of the House.
It is fair to say 'they speak the same language'. And an archaic and byzantine language it is. If it was simple and could be conveyed in first-grade English, they would do that. But they are dealing with the rules of the US Senate which is anything but first-grade elementary school.
Once you get that into your head, the proposed Republican health care alternative introduction and plan starts to make (some) sense.
Phase II will be the bills that will be introduced once HHS Secretary Price has had a chance to review the over-1400 new federal regulations put in place by the Obama Administration for Obamacare to determine which will be kept (not many) and which will be jettisoned (most of them).
Expect this bill later this spring.
Phase III will be the broader, non-budget policies most Republicans want to see passed as part of this repeal and replacement effort such as selling health insurance across state lines; returning funds and flexibility in Medicaid to the states and enhanced medical legal reforms.
Expect this bill perhaps during the summer.
'The budget reconciliation process is part of the fiscal framework established by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Titles I-IX of P.L. 93-344, 2 U.S.C. 601-688), as amended. The principal aim of this framework is to enhance Congress's coordination of spending, revenue, and debt limit legislation through the adoption and enforcement of a concurrent resolution on the budget (commonly referred to as the budget resolution). The budget reconciliation process, in particular, is intended to facilitate the consideration and enactment of legislation that implements, in whole or in part, the budget policies reflected in the budget resolution. Perhaps most significantly, the process establishes special procedures that have allowed the Senate to get to a vote on passage on budget reconciliation legislation without first having to demonstrate super-majority support (i.e., without invoking cloture with a three-fifths vote).
Note: Republicans have 52 US Senators. Democrats have 46 plus 2 Independents who caucus with them. You do the math.
'... we are in the process now of seeing ... the Pandora's box which has been opened to the abuse of the reconciliation process. That process was never meant to be used as it is being used. There are 122 items in the reconciliation bill that are extraneous.
Henceforth, if the majority on a committee should wish to include in reconciliation recommendations to the Budget Committee any measure, no matter how controversial, it can be brought to the Senate under an ironclad built-in time agreement that limits debate, plus time on amendments and motions, to no more than 20 hours.
So far, every US Senator, including even former Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV, now retired) has honored this unique Senate rule of procedure.
Our take on this after reading more detailed explanation of the House Republican strategy is that Speaker Ryan and Secretary Price know what they are doing. Both have been House Budget Committee chairs and know the process of budget reconciliation far better than the average Congressmen or Senator.
The knee-jerk reactions of Senators Rand Paul and other Freedom Caucus members flies right in the face of the fact that former fellow Freedom Caucus member, Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, IS NOW BUDGET DIRECTOR UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP!
If Mick Mulvaney is on-board with this strategy, perhaps his former colleagues should listen to him.
Advocating HSAs (Health Savings Accounts) as a panacea for providing health insurance is not a practical solution for everyone. For one thing, 50% of all taxpayers in America don't have enough income to pay federal income tax to begin with, in which case receiving a tax credit or tax deduction to buy a HSA is virtually worthless unless converted into a direct payment along the lines of an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) where people who don't earn enough for that tax credit receive a direct check from Washington for the amount owed.
In other words, that 'tax credit' becomes a 'direct subsidy' just like the ACA subsidies that now exist under Obamacare for non-Medicaid-eligible citizens.
The end result of this effort should be a flattening of the tax code with regard to treatment of health care insurance between business and individuals. There should be a basic fundamental level of tax deductibility for a basic catastrophic health care insurance plan offered by whatever source with wellness care, preventive health care and dental care included.
Beyond that, a company or individual could purchase any level of health insurance they want. They just wouldn't be able to deduct those costs as a cost of 'doing business'.
Company-provided health care is a vestige of the wage-and-price controls instituted by FDR in World War II where companies started providing health care as a way to entice good workers to come work for them. It is time for that part of employment history to be repealed.
Managed care has taken over virtually all of the Medicaid market across the country. Trained professionals are employed to help people learn how to take basic care of their own selves BEFORE they develop complications such as diabetes and heart disease that become so expensive in later years.
If we really want to get at the cost-drivers of high health care insurance premiums, we need to encourage more managed care across all forms of health insurance programs in America.
Close to 50% of all health care costs are related to heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes.
Americans can eat less unhealthy food; stop smoking; stop excessive over-drinking of alcoholic products and exercise at least 30 minutes every day and experts will tell you this will significantly reduce the incidence of those four health conditions listed above.
Want to see health care premiums drop precipitously? Get out of the chair, walk around the block a couple of times; eat kale, stop smoking and drink maybe just 1 glass of red wine at night with dinner instead of a bottle of Scotch or case of beer and get all of your family, neighbors and colleagues at work and church to join you on a daily crusade to restore America's health.
We would never have to worry about 'Obamacare', 'Trumpcare' or health care reform ever again.
And save trillions of dollars over coming decades in health care costs. At least $1.5 trillion this year alone.


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SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2018 at the University of Washington Club on the UW campus Silent auction, music and cocktails start at 5:30 PM Dinner at 7:00 PM This year, Poland celebrates the 100th anniversary of regaining independence after 123 years of partitions between its three neighbors. Pianist, composer and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski played a…
Gloomy or Glam? New Polish Cinema and Photography
Polish cinema is often seen as dark, cryptic, and often depressing with its focus on history. Yet, Martin Scorsese says, "Humour and tragedy are very close in Polish cinema". New Polish cinema is becoming transnational and liberated, especially after the political transformation of 1989 and, more recently, the 2005 law regulating the film industry. What…
How do we explain the remarkable international prestige achieved by Polish poetry in the last half-century? Why did the Russian Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky learn Polish in order to read what he called "the most extraordinary poetry" of the twentieth century in the original? What would American poets and critics do without Czesław Miłosz and…


Map for Graveyard. Ura Oni. Do not use my timing unless I give permission.
Some map with Slider velocities.
Just a new map of mine. Hope you like it.
An old map of mine from the year 2014.
Thank you for your check!
Is it time for mods? I'm very happy to see this back.
Dunskin. Die alten werden gerufen um das sinkende Boot noch zu retten.
Another old map of mine. Little SV changes.
Just a set from the old world.
Very glad to know that. Hopefully I can update the beatmap list soon as well.
Just reuploaded it: https://puu.sh/zrRWp/1020912d06.osz You can find it on the OP.
Ascending from the BN, let's welcome Raiden as our new Taiko QAT! Congratulations.
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Q: Horizontal gallery responsive jquery plugin I would like to make a horizontal gallery responsive like this site:
http://www.worldofthreea.com/evenfall001/fq890fu24ipgm09rgdjc5bitgnluuv
with css3 or jquery
Does anyone know if there is a plugin to do this?
Tnx a lot

A: It's just a responsive slider, not exactlly a gallery i would say, if you want a gallery check one of those plugins http://jster.net/category/layout , masonry, isotope or packery can get you some nice gallery like feel while being responsive, if you only want an image slider without haveing to implement UI framework i.e foundation, bootstrap which have this feature buit-in try some custom slider like nivo slider or check this site for tones of options http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/awesome-jquery-sliders/
gl m8 :)


My boy loves clothes just as much as the next person. He loves to mix and match his outfits and play it up with his style. At 7 years old I find that more of his personality really shines out through his daily apparel. He's pretty conscious of his style and how 'Cool' he's looking!
Lately, I've been having a hard time finding local apparel that fits him, it's very easy to find clothing small enough for Ella. We LOVE local! Darling + Bandit was just what we were looking for to get our Owen rad, cool dude clothing! Trisha the founder, creator and beautiful mom to three sweet boys has started this tee shirt line designed for boys and girls ranging from sizes 2t-10. With a background in fashion and a experienced sales director, Trisha had a passion for creating something just her own.
Recently launching last October, 2015. Darling + Bandit offers modern & monochromatic prints fun enough to make a statement and easy enough to dress up or down. Trisha gets her daily inspiration from of course her boys, from the things they say to their daily interactions with friends. Made with 100% cotton these tees are super soft and light weight. Owen's 'Boyish Charm' shines when he's dressed in his sweet tie dye tee.
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Q: How to deploy laravel websocket on GCP Standard App Engine? I am using laravel 6 and I want to deploy laravel based websocket server using supervisor on google cloud standard app engine platform.
I am using this package:
beyondcode/laravel-websockets
I have setup everything and everything is working fine on local machine!
What is the exact procedure to follow to deploy it on GCP?

A: At this time, WebSockets are not supported by App Engine Standard. There is work being done with Cloud Run support for WebSockets, so this situation might be changing in the future for App Engine Standard.
Cloud Run WebSockets and gRPC bi-directional streaming support
To use WebSockets today, use App Engine Flexible or switch to another service such as Compute Engine.
Creating Persistent Connections with WebSockets
Google Compute Engine WebSocket Support


Underwater 5M LED Endoscope PC camera has LED switch-adjustable lightness switch, auto exposed control, LED light, 1/6" VGA COMS Camera and many more.
Computer must have at least one serviceable USB connection port.
Place the webcam on a level surface and plug the USB connector into any free USB port on your computer. The webcam will now be automatically installed.


Hand washing to prevent infections at home or whilst travelling.
A Royal Pharmaceutical Society survey shows that 84% of British adults don't wash their hands for long enough to clean them of the bacteria which can cause infections such as diarrhoea, upset stomachs, whilst at home and certainly not on holiday when we can come across bacteria and viruses not common in the UK which our bodies may have limited resistance to.
Effective handwashing is important especially whilst travelling. Even in the UK around 30% of diarrhoea and 16% of respiratory infections can be prevented through handwashing.
The recommended time to spend washing your hands is 20 seconds, as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday to you' twice. Some people use hand gels on a regular basis, but nothing is as effective as washing hands properly with soap and hot water.
Even when we remain unaffected by the bugs we carry, if we don't wash our hands we can transmit infections which then become a real problem for those who are more vulnerable, such as children and the elderly, who may then need to be prescribed antibiotics.
We can never know what we are carrying or what impact it may have on those around us, which is why good handwashing is so important.
Remember 'Happy Birthday to you' twice!


Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Gremlins (1984), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1987). Yep, you can say I'm a fan of director Joe Dante and his extensive 80's output of horror/sci-fi/fantasy films, replete with geeky references to classic B-movies and the work of animator Chuck Jones, in particular Looney Tunes (1930-1969). So when one day I saw there was a fairly recent Dante horror pic on Netflix, I was immediately curious and excited. Did he still have the touch?
Turns out he pretty much does. The Hole is a cool little throwback about two brothers who discover what seems like an bottomless pit in the basement of their new suburban home. They start to investigate with the aid of their spunky neighbor, and soon enough the hole reveals itself to be a dark passage to their worst fears, including a bullying father, a dead little girl, and of course… clowns. It's all very simple but nonetheless effective, akin to a Stephen King short story. And as usual, Dante has fun with practical special effects, particularly during a climax that employs surreal set designs and forced perspective shots. What's not to like?


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Aurcana Class Action Settlement
Claims System
The Class Action
In 2013, a proposed class action was commenced against Aurcana Corporation ("Aurcana") and certain others. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants knew, or ought to have known, that the stated resource levels of and the production at the Shafter Mine were false or misleading.
On April 10, 2015, Justice Patterson of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved the settlement. A copy of the settlement agreement and the plan of allocation, may be downloaded from the Documents page of this website.
The "Class" or "Class Members" means all persons, other than an Excluded Person or an Opt-Out Party, who acquired Eligible Securities during the Class Period, June 24, 2011 to and including December 19, 2013.
The Administrator
The Court appointed Marsh Risk Consulting Canada ("Marsh") as the Administrator to, among other things, receive and process claims, decide eligibility for compensation, and distribute the net settlement funds to eligible Class Members.
Class Action Administration Complete
With all settlement funds distributed to authorized claimants:
The administration of this class action settlement is
complete.
Marsh Risk Consulting Canada has been discharged as Settlement
Administrator.
Terida has shut down the settlement's online Claims System.
Terida designed, operated and hosted the Claims System for Marsh Canada's administration of this class action settlement, and hosts this site.
© Terida


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Self-poisoning suicide deaths in England: could improved medical management contribute to suicide prevention?
N Kapur, C Clements, N Bateman, B Foëx, K Mackway-Jones, K Hawton, D Gunnell
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Centre for Academic Mental Health
Bristol Neuroscience
BACKGROUND: Suicide by self-poisoning is a major cause of death worldwide. Few studies have investigated the medical management of fatal self-poisoning.
AIM: To describe the characteristics and management of a national sample of individuals who died by intentional self-poisoning in hospital and assess the quality of care that they received.
DESIGN: National population-based descriptive study and confidential inquiry.
METHODS: Adults (aged ≥ 16 years) who had died by self-poisoning in English hospitals in 2005 and received a coroner's verdict of suicide or undetermined death at inquest were included. Socio-demographic and clinical data were collected through detailed questionnaires sent to clinicians at the treating hospitals. A panel of three expert assessors rated each case with respect to quality of care and likely contribution to the fatal outcome.
RESULTS: We obtained information on 121 cases (response rate for questionnaires 77%). Expert assessors rated 41/104 cases [39% (95% CI 30-49%)] as having received inadequate care; in the majority (38/41-93%) of these, this poor care was felt to have potentially contributed to the patient's death. The most common reason for a rating of inadequate care was poor airway management (recorded in over half of inadequate care cases). In three cases, the receipt of inadequate care was associated with the presence of some form of advance directive.
CONCLUSION: In as many as 39% of in-hospital self-poisoning fatalities, the care received may be in some way sub-optimal. The challenge for clinical services is to ensure that optimal management strategies are implemented in practice.
QJM
https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcq128
Epidemiologic Methods
Quality of Health Care
Socioeconomic Factors
10.1093/qjmed/hcq128
Dive into the research topics of 'Self-poisoning suicide deaths in England: could improved medical management contribute to suicide prevention?'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Self Poisoning Nursing and Health Professions 100%
Hospital Nursing and Health Professions 66%
Suicide Nursing and Health Professions 66%
Death Nursing and Health Professions 50%
Fatality Nursing and Health Professions 33%
Disease Management Nursing and Health Professions 33%
Adult Medicine and Dentistry 33%
Kapur, N., Clements, C., Bateman, N., Foëx, B., Mackway-Jones, K., Hawton, K., & Gunnell, D. (2010). Self-poisoning suicide deaths in England: could improved medical management contribute to suicide prevention? QJM, 103(10), 765-75. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcq128
Kapur, N ; Clements, C ; Bateman, N et al. / Self-poisoning suicide deaths in England : could improved medical management contribute to suicide prevention?. In: QJM. 2010 ; Vol. 103, No. 10. pp. 765-75.
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For the past 15 years my yoga mat has become the place where I can freely express myself. It serves as my foundation. It's the geographic boundary inside of which I can stretch my mind — and body, literally — and practice being deliberate and non-judgmental.
However, I've found myself becoming increasingly distracted by labels and logos on the mats of fellow yogis. I find myself snapping to quick judgements about how much this or that cost, wondering why people waste their money on low-quality mats, or even noticing something unique and new and wondering where they got it…versus focusing on letting go of my judgements and turning my attention inward. I am working on changing that.
Al Hirschfeld, a long-time illustrator for the New York Times, became famous for hiding his daughter's name, NINA, in capital letters in almost every one of his instantly recognizable caricatures. With Al as our muse, we decided to follow suit.
If you look long enough, you'll find our name seamlessly woven into the original artwork on each and every one of our mats. I invite you to spend some time getting to know our mats — our artists have enjoyed hiding BIG RAVEN in all sorts of creative places, and we hope you get as much of a kick out of finding them as they did hiding them.
Our goal at Big Raven Yoga is to create beautiful, inspiring mats that support your practice and remind you to enjoy this journey of self-discovery, and as such we value focus over labels and logos.
Joleen is the founder and CEO of Big Raven Yoga and Big Raven Media.


Deciding on a former party invitation style for an informal party can make you appear like a pretentious snob. You do not desire to lead to confusion using the wrong decision of words for your celebration invitation: remember, your celebration invitation sets the tone for the occasion! Be certain it's the best one!
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"Recently the mill was downsized due to fiber supply shortages caused by sawmill shutdowns. For this reason, there was a lot of movement of people to different departments and bumping back by seniority. Junior people had to move down and in some cases unfortunately, out. Reassignment movement affecting several departments across the mill can be very complicated. In a union environment, seniority must be respected. What makes things even more complicated is there are three kinds of seniority: company seniority, department seniority, and job seniority. It is complex, hard to understand, and even harder to explain.
In the restructuring, some people felt that the rules for seniority were not being followed. Things got pretty tense. I heard and observed that some people were not even talking to each other. Their emotions were running too high. To put it mildly, our operation was no longer working as a team.
them see and better understand how the process works step-by-step. I visually showed the members how the process works in our union and then even did a comparison to other unions in the plant.
After the meetings, the crews seemed okay now that they had a clear, easy to understand explanation that they felt they could trust. The next day, I noticed the people in the department talking to each other again. That was a relief. Most of the tension seemed to be gone and they were working as a team once again.
The lesson I learned from this experience is that when I listen to the concerns of members and explain the ground rules so people can really understand them, most situations are resolved. It really is all about communication. As Larry, our instructor, said, in times of disruptive change and uncertainty, it is important to over communicate. The action I call you to take is to listen (LP#6 – Be An Active Listener) to your team members, try and understand their point of view (LP#5 – See Their Point of View), and explain any and all changes, the reason for the process, the rule, the standard, or the change. Be sure all the ramifications are clearly understood. Use illustrations, sketches, and where appropriate, analyze and compare to other similar organizations. The benefit you will gain is people will respect you and your leadership even if and when they may not fully agree."


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The hair is reusable, it's just the tape that needs to be replaced every 4-6 weeks. Tape hair is a lot faster to apply and is more comfortable than keratin-tip hair, plus it's reusable! The hair is pre-taped and ready to apply!


U.S. TL&D – you can once again raise money for RMHC AND improve your fitness!
If you are a member of McDonald's, you may participate in this fun, inaugural 5K! Yes, U.S. TL&D, we are once again getting our team together for another challenge! Get in on the ground floor of this new event – years from now you will be telling your grandchildren that you ran/walked in the very first one! Contact Colleen M. for more info.
Hi…just saw the complete list of all our TL&D Marathon Runners and I am soooo proud of all you for your commitment to doing this great thing! I know for many of you it is a "bucket" fullfilment, so good luck and let me know how I can support you in acheiving one of your life goals!


What are your goals for October? I'd love to hear from you in the comments! If you'd like to see what I was able to mark off my September goal list, click here.
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Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy this first in the series of "Green EPM" .
Old Microsoft Project schedules: what does one do with the archived schedules that once were the sun and moon of a project or program, but now just burn megabyte space on a disk drive somewhere? Old schedules may not be of much use, aside from historical records. However, I presume a considerable amount of work went into the development, execution and closing of the schedules, as it reflected and controlled the performance of the related project. This is really documentation of the practitioner, and his/her use and enhancements of project management competencies.
Why do we want to recycle old schedules and project data? Asset management! The data and presentation of content are the raw assets of the practitioner. It is also the performance record of stakeholders to the project.
What do you want to do? Start with a new blank Microsoft Project file. Insert past schedules: Tool bar <<insert; project; select project(s)>>. Add as many projects as feasible. This is where you can be creative, but mindful. You want to bundle the projects accordingly. For example, projects within similar clients, industries, time frames, etc. You will also want to ensure your very large schedules are considered as they may dilute the value of being combined with other projects (size issues). Now that you have consolidated past schedules into one file, you can slice and dice the data to extract unique project meta data. Examples include: review your notes against a task, identifying unique, common and non-value notes. Also, look for recurring slippage. Analyze the WBS, and work packages. Which resources (whether generic or actual) where more or less proficient? The output of this exercise allows you, as a practitioner, build a referenceable library of past project experiences, by building your professional assets to be applied to future projects.
This exercise may take some time, but it is time well invested into building a portfolio view of your past (and best) practices and real performance against actual projects. Recycle, reuse applies to schedules as well as the environment. Eco-technology: data from closed projects is still useful.


Weather Advisory - Passaic Board of REALTORS®, INC.
Due to the deteriorating weather and state of emergency PCBOR® offices will be closing at 10:30am on FEBRUARY 12.
If a snow / dangerous weather advisory are issued, classes/events may be cancelled. Our best judgment call will be made the evening prior to the event and posted on the home page of the Board's website if the class/event is to be cancelled.
A new date will be scheduled as soon as possible.
Any payment received for a class or event can either be applied to another class or refunded upon request.
Even though classes or events are canceled, PCBOR® will attempt to remain open for business. Please call first if you are planning to travel to PCBOR® to ensure that we are in a position to meet your needs.
If a snow or weather emergency is declared, PCBOR® will be closed.


This December, Bon Appétit will reveal a top secret "Seal of Approval" product list, featuring the top 25 products that Team BA can't live without. "The ones that make the cut will deliver the best value, taste, comparative excellence, and performance," says Adam Rapoport. Unlike other popular seals of approval, Bon App's is strictly editorially driven (no adverti$ing motives).