art scrap & more: alexandra's Sunday scrapbooking - White Emboss on Vellum for Bastille Day!
alexandra's Sunday scrapbooking - White Emboss on Vellum for Bastille Day!
I started by stamping and heat embossing the image. I don't have white ink so I used a beige color which works just as well.
J'ai commencé par tamponné l'image avec de l'encre beige parce que je n'ai plus de blanc et que je vois mieux la beige (ça marche tout aussi bien) puis je l'ai embossée à chaud avec de la poudre blanche.
When I heat emboss vellum, I always direct the heat from behind the image. I find it is more gentle on the lines and vellum.
Je prends soin de diriger l'air chaud de derrière dans un premier temps, les lignes n'en seront que plus jolies.
Then I watercolored the image and that is super easy since the embossed lines make a natural barrier so the ink or paint will not overflow.
Le travail d'aquarelle est on ne peut plus facile puisque les lignes agissent comme une barrière naturelle.
No need to wait until one color is dry either!
Then I cut along the lines and around the leaves and buds.
Ensuite j'ai découpé le long des lignes et des feuillages.
The base of the card was cut with the creative die "Frame and Pattern".
La base bleue est découpée avec "Frame and Pattern".
I printed the sentiment "Joyeux 14 juillet" on a piece of white cardstock (notice how in French, we don't call it "Bastille Day").
J'ai imprimé le message sur un rectangle de papier blanc.
I adhered the vellum piece to the white rectangle and then the white rectangle to the blue base.
J'ai collé l'image tamponnée sur le rectangle blanc et le rectangle blanc sur la base bleue.
I also added three white pearls.
J'ai aussi ajouté trois petites perles blanches.
Thank You and Vive la France!
Merci pour ce pas à pas ... je n'ai pas encore tenté l'aquarelle sur du velum, mais j'adore l'effet !
Superbe réa, le velum donne de la légèreté et j'adore cet effet "vitrail" !!
What a stunning card you have created, Alexandra! I love France, too, and my honey is from there. He moved to the States when he was 18. I love his accent and he is the sweetest man I ever met! I must make him a card for 14 julliet!
Thanks for the tip on heating the vellum from the back. I never thought of that one...teehee.
Adieu, for now, my friend!
This is so pretty, Alexandra! I love how the embossing and watercolor looks on the vellum! What a special day to remember!
wow this is gorgeous.. love how the red and blue pop.. awesome designing Alexandra..
Beautiful! Love this technique, very pretty in the red white and blue!
Je ne suis pas fan du "bleu - blanc - rouge" sur les cartes, mais vu les circonstances, ça s'imposait ! Ta carte est pleine de charme et quelle jolie mise en scène pour les photos !
Wow wow wow!! This is gorgeous! LOVING the tower and those flowers!!!!!!
How special that you know the day your parents met, Alex. Your card is just stunning--love the red & blue watercolored flowers! Such a gorgeous image to use on vellum! You could also enter this at Die Cut Divas & CAS-ual Chic. You always inspire me, my friend--thank you!
WOW! This is fabulous. Speaks to my love affair with vellum AND watercolor, which I had now idea I could do on vellum. YAY!
This is lovely and is going to inspire me to use vellum, embossing and watercolor! Thanks!
Beautiful coloring on vellum, and a perfect card to celebrate Bastille Day!
Those colors are so bright and vibrant! I love this!
This is SOOOOo chic! LOVE everything about this from the soft romantic feel to the postage stamp looking outline. GORGEOUS!
Visiting from seeing your wonderful card at Die-Cut-Divas. Pretty. Especially like how you used the vellum.
Such a beautiful card to capture this special day! Love the watercolors on the vellum and especially love how you cut around the buds and leaves - it adds a nice touch!
Très bel hommage au 14 juillet! Ta carte est sublime!!
Oh elle est superbe ta carte embossée Alex !
Quelle jolie carte....merci de rendre hommage à notre fête nationale ! J'aime bien l'effet avec le papier transparent, cela rend bien ! Bisous de Bourgogne.
Elle est sublime cette carte, j'adore.
Puis qu'elle ne fut pas ma joie de découvrir dans ma boîte aux lettres une carte venant de toi, tu es un amour.
Encore mille mercis pour tes pensées qui me touche.
Merci et gros bisous Alex.
Ooh, what a beautiful and elegant card, Alex! I love the color palette and love that stamping on vellum! I would never think to make the leaves blue, but I absolutely love how it looks, and love the holiday feel. So gorgeous how you cut around the flowers and leaves on the panel, too. Love it!
So beautiful! The white embossing on the vellum is so delicate and pretty. Thanks for playing along at ATCAS.
This is so so beautiful! Love how you cut the flower panel! Thanks for sharing it with us over at Addicted to CAS!
Vive le France!! I am LOVING this so much! This is the kind of amazing card that stick in my little brain! Glorious post, Alexandra!
waouh cette carte est vraiment belle,quel rendu avec cet embossage et l'aquarelle!!L'idée du contour en forme de timbre fini superbement cette carte !!!
quel beau travail à chaque fois ! bravo !!!
There are so many lovely element on this card, awesome work!
One of my favourite techniques white embossing on vellum! Love the vibrant flowers around the Eiffel Tower..such a great take on the challenges! Thanks for playing along at CAS-ual Fridays!
Beautifully done. So glad you showed us the steps too. WOW.
Happy to see you at Die Cut Divas!
Fantastic card! Thanks for showing me how to emboss and watercolor on vellum....now on my list of things I want to do!
So happy that you joined us at ATCAS.
Love vellum and love watercoloring great combination and awesome card. Glad you joined us over at ATCAS.
un bien joli travail de patience !
Oooh, this is gorgeous! Thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!
Congrats on being one of the picks at Die Cut Divas! My card was, too--how neat is that?!


text:
Q: Java: Using Iterator in Switch Statement I want to cycle through an ArrayList<String> named fileContent, using the Iterator interface, and I want it to be analyzed one string at a time which should result in a specific state by the switch statement, depending on what string it is.
Object token is supposed to be read as 'Table'.
        void process() {

        Iterator fileIterator = fileContent.iterator();

        int state = 0;
        Object token = null;
        switch (state) {

        case 0:
            token = fileIterator.next();
            if (token.equals("Table")) {
                System.out.println(token);
                state = 1;
            } else {
                System.err.println("Corrupt file format at state 0: "+ token);
                System.exit(0);
            }
            break;
        }

    }

This doesn't switch state to 1, instead it prints out:
'Corrupt file format at state 0: Table'

So it seems as it reads the Object token correctly as 'Table' but not for the statement 'if (token.equals("Table"))'.
I have also tried 'if (token == ("Table"))'
Can somebody help me?

A: Looks like you want to equate Strings, try this
    void process() {

    Iterator fileIterator = fileContent.iterator();

    int state = 0;
    String token = "";  // notice this
    switch (state) {

    case 0:
        token = ((String)fileIterator.next()).trim();  // notice this
        if (token.equals("Table")) {
            System.out.println(token);
            state = 1;
        } else {
            System.err.println("Corrupt file format at state 0: "+ token);
            System.exit(0);
        }
        break;
    }

}

A: What makes you think "it reads the Object token correctly as 'Table'"? When the if() fails, then token must be something unlike Table. My guess is that the output is misleading. Try this instead:
System.err.println("Corrupt file format at state 0: ["+ token + "]");

The square brackets around the token will help you see unexpected whitespace characters.
Also note that token might not be a string but return Table when toString() is called on it (which will happen if you append it to a string).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
2022| January-February | Volume 32 | Issue 1
Online since January 28, 2022
Skin colonizers and catheter associated blood stream infections in incident Indian dialysis patients
Varun Agrawal, Anna T Valson, Yamuna Devi Bakthavatchalam, Shailesh Kakde, Anjali Mohapatra, Vinoi George David, Suceena Alexander, Shibu Jacob, John Antony Jude Prakash, Balaji Veeraraghavan, Santosh Varughese
January-February 2022, 32(1):34-41
Introduction: Skin colonization is a risk factor for multi-drug resistant (MDR) catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CABSI). This study aimed to determine the prevalence and spectrum of skin colonizing MDR organisms in incident HD patients and their correlation with CABSI. Methods: This single-center prospective cohort study included consecutive adult incident HD patients who underwent tunneled or non-tunneled internal jugular vein HD catheter insertion between June 1, 2017 and October 31, 2017. Nasal, axillary, and exit site swabs were obtained prior to catheter insertion, at 14–21 days, and 28–35 days after catheter insertion. Results: Forty-three patients (69.7% male, 32.5% diabetic) were included and provided baseline swabs, while 29 and 10 patients respectively were available for follow-up swabs. MDR bacterial colonization, MRSA colonization, and MDR gram-negative colonization on the baseline set of swabs were seen in 76.7%, 69.7%, and 9.3% patients respectively. Of the 29 patients with at least two consecutive sets of swabs, 79.3% showed persistent colonization by MDR gram-positive organisms, most commonly by MRSA. Six patients developed a CABSI during the follow-up period (incidence rate 3.7 per 1000 patient days), 83.4% were gram negative, and in only one instance (16.6%) was the bacterial strain identical to that which had previously colonized the skin. Conclusions: Three-fourths of HD patients were colonized by MDR bacteria prior to HD initiation. Despite the majority being persistently colonized by MDR gram-positive organisms, CABSIs were predominantly gram negative.
11,507 186 -
Banff classification from 1991 to 2019. A significant contribution to our understanding and reporting of allograft renal biopsies
Swarnalata Gowrishankar
January-February 2022, 32(1):1-7
The Banff schema of classification of renal allograft biopsies, first proposed at the meeting in Banff, Canada in 1991 has evolved through subsequent meetings held once in two years and is the internationally accepted scheme of classification which is consensual, current, validated and in clinical use. This review traces the evolution of the classification and our understanding of renal transplant pathology, with emphasis on alloimmune reactions. The proceedings of the meetings and the important studies which have shaped the classification are covered.
Laparoscopic versus open-surgery catheter placement in peritoneal dialysis patients: A meta-analysis of outcomes
Guled Abdijalil, Shen Shuijuan
January-February 2022, 32(1):8-15
The peritoneal dialysis catheter (PDC) can be placed either through the laparoscopic technique, percutaneous technique or surgical procedures. The utilization of these PDC placement procedures is based on successful placement and reduced risk of development of complications. The main objective of this study was to compare the complications associated with laparoscopic vs. open-surgery PDC placement procedure. Literature for this review was obtained from PubMed and Google Scholar databases. The literature search was limited to studies published in the period between 1998 and 2019. The meta-analysis was done using Stata Version 12. The results showed significant difference in catheter malfunction between the laparoscopic and open-surgery group (relative risk [RR] =0.58; 95% CI: 0.42–0.8; P = 0.031). Furthermore, there was no significant statistical difference in dialysate leakage (RR = 0.77; 95% CI: 0.51–1.17, P = 0.116) peritonitis (RR = 0.8; 95% CI: 0.6–1.06, P = 0.349) and exit-site infection (RR = 0.84; 95% CI: 0.65–1.09, P = 0.834) between the laparoscopic and open-surgery PDC placement groups. In conclusion, the laparoscopic PDC placement procedure was superior to open surgery in regards to catheter malfunction. Additionally, the choice of treatment procedure should put in consideration factors such as cost and comfortability of the patient.
ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation in India: A single-center experience of first hundred cases
Pranaw Kumar Jha, Shyam Bihari Bansal, Abhyudaysingh Rana, Ashish Nandwani, Ajay Kher, Sidharth Sethi, Manish Jain, Dinesh Bansal, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Ashwini Gadde, Amit Kumar Mahapatra, Puneet Sodhi, Rajesh Ahlawat, Vijay Kher
Aim: ABO-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantation overcomes immunological barrier of blood group incompatibility. There have been very few published experiences of ABOi kidney transplantation from India. We present our single-center experience of the first hundred ABOi kidney transplants. Material and Methods: This is a single-center retrospective study of consecutive first hundred ABOi kidney transplant with at least 6 months of follow-up. Results: During the study period (2011–2020), a total of 121 ABOi kidney transplants were performed. Of these, first hundred patients were analyzed. Median follow-up duration was 33 (10–101) months. Mean recipient and donor age were 41.5 ± 13 and 47.68 ± 11.25 years, respectively. Mean HLA mismatch was 4 ± 1.5. Median baseline anti-blood group antibody titer was 128 (2–1024). Most common recipient blood group was O. Patient and death censored graft survival was 93% and 94%, respectively, at median follow-up of 33 months. Biopsy-proven acute rejection (BPAR) rate was 17% with acute antibody-mediated rejection being 3%. Rate of infection was 37%, most common being urinary tract infection. Conclusion: ABOi kidney transplant patients had acceptable patient and graft survival as well as BPAR rates. With current preconditioning protocol, infection rate was high.
Clinical profile and outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients undergoing hemodialysis
Tanuj Moses Lamech, Govindasamy Nithya, Dhanapalan Aiswarya, Natarajan Gopalakrishnan, Paulpandian Vathsalyan, Shaji Sajmi, Kamalakannan Goutham, Ravindran Krishna, Thanikachalam Dineshkumar, Ramanathan Sakthirajan, Jeyachandran Dhanapriya, Rajendran Padmaraj
Introduction: Several months into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there remains a paucity of data on the behavior of the disease in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD). Here, we describe the clinical presentations, biochemical profile, and outcomes of 183 such patients from a large tertiary-care center in South India. Materials and Methods: This prospective, observational study, included all patients with COVID-19 and ESKD who received at least one session of hemodialysis at our center, from the start of the outbreak to July 9, 2020. Clinical features at presentation, laboratory and radiological data, and outcomes were analyzed. Results: A total of 183 patients were included in the analysis. Patients who had symptoms at presentation accounted for 49.18% of the cohort, with the most common symptoms being fever (87.1%), cough (67.7%), and breathlessness (63.4%). Factors independently associated with mortality on univariate analysis included age ≥60 years, having symptoms at presentation, neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio >6, C-reactive protein >20 mg/L, serum lactate dehydrogenase >250 IU/L, CT (computed tomography) Grades 3 and 4, and the need for respiratory support. However, on multivariate logistic regression analysis, the only factor that retained significance was an age >60 years. Conclusions: This analysis confirms the previous reports of higher COVID-19-related mortality in the dialysis population and identifies older age, higher inflammatory markers, and greater degrees of radiological lung involvement to correlate with increased mortality.
Revisiting vasculopathy in lupus nephritis: A renal biopsy evaluation study
Ramya Lakshmi V, Navatha Vangala, Megha S Uppin, Swarnalatha Gudithi, Gangadhar Taduri, Sree Bhushan Raju
Introduction: The classification of lupus nephritis (LN) on biopsy is essentially focused on morphologic changes in glomeruli. Renal vascular lesions are not addressed in detail in current classifications and are often overlooked. We aimed to determine the prevalence of vascular lesions in LN on biopsies and to compare these with biopsies not showing the vasculopathies. Methods: A total of 740 renal biopsies of LN were analysedfor presence of vasculopathies from January 2013 to June 2019. Of these, 527 (71.2%) biopsies showed vascular lesions (vascular group), which were further categorized into known five subtypes according to morphology and immunofluorescence (IF) findings. Remaining 213 (28.8%) biopsies constituted non-vascular group. Clinical, demographic and laboratory parameters were compared between these two groups. Results: The mean age was 27.95 ± 9.8 years and 27.0 ± 9.4 years in the vascular and non-vascular groups respectively with higher M:F (1:2 > 1:7) in vascular group. Majority of vasculopathies (257, 48.7%) were found in biopsies with class IV LN. Haematuria (69.8% vs. 20.1%), proteinuria (100% vs. 62%), anemia (48.3% vs. 3.60%) and hypertension (39.8% vs. 8.46%) were common in group I. Uncomplicated vascular immune deposits (426; 80.8%) were the most common vasculopathy and true vasculitis (4;0.8%) was least common. Activity and chronicity indices (7.35 ± 3 and 2.45 ± 1.5, respectively) were significantly higher in the vascular group.Activity index was highest in uncomplicated vascular immune deposits (7.45 ± 2.8) and chronicity index was highest in non-specific sclerotic vascular lesions (2.7 ± 1.6). Conclusion: Vascular involvement is common in LN. Uncomplicated vascular immune deposits were common vasculopathies whereas true vasculitis was least common. The morphology and IF both need to be carefully screened for the diagnosis of vasculopathies.
Assessment of risk factors and outcome of early versus late cytomegalovirus infection infection in living-related D+/R + renal allograft recipients
Atul Srivastava, Soumita Bagchi, Sarman Singh, Veena Balloni, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal
Introduction: Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) in a kidney transplant recipient (KTR) is a serious complication resulting in increased morbidity, mortality and reduced graft survival. There is limited data on early (within 3 months posttransplant) CMV infection (ECMVI) vs. late CMV infection (LCMVI) in patients not receiving CMV prophylaxis. In India, majority of kidney transplants are D + R + combination. This study aimed to compare the risk factors and outcome of ECMVI vs. LCMVI in living related post-KTR. Methods: This was a single-center ambispective study of adult KTR from living donor between January 2001 and December 2015 who had CMV infection. This study had two cohorts: retrospective and prospective. Retrospective cohort included all KTR from January 2001 to September 2014. Prospective cohort included KTR who received transplants from October 2014 to December 2015. Of both cohorts, patients with early and late CMV infection were included. All patients received triple-drug immunosuppression. CMV infection was diagnosed when KTR had detectable CMV copies > 500/mL. In the prospective cohort, CMV PCR was done at 45 days, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months in all patients. Patients with CMV were treated on conventional lines. All patients were followed up till June 2016. Results: Of 2175 retrospective cohort, 97 and of the 155 prospective cohorts 75 had CMV infection, total being 172 CMV infections. Of these, 90 patients had ECNVI and 82 LCMVI. Induction was used in 48.8% in ECMVI group vs. 35.3% in LCMVI group (p = 0.02). CNI toxicity was present prior to CMV infection in 15 (17.4%) in ECMVI as compared to 14 (17.9%) in LCMVI (P = 0.93). In the ECMVI, 6 (6.6%) had acute rejection as compared to 13 (15.8%) in the LCMVI (P = 0.05). While asymptomatic CMV infection was more common in early (63.3% vs 37.8%, P = 0.001), symptomatic CMV without tissue diagnosis was more common in late (54.8% vs. 31.1%, P = 0.002). Total duration of post-transplant follow-up was 22.8 ± 22.1 months in ECMVI as compared to 49.7 + 40.9 months in the LCMVI (P < 0.001). The serum creatinine at last follow-up was 1.9 ± 1.6 mg/dL in ECMVI group and 2.4 ± 2.0 mg/dL in LCMVI (P = 0.02). Conclusion: In D+/R + living renal transplant recipients, without routine CMV prophylaxis, late CMV infection had more tissue invasive disease and is associated with inferior graft function on long-term follow-up.
C1q nephropathy in children with nephrotic syndrome: Treatment strategies and outcomes
Saumil Gaur, Reeba Patrick, Mahesha Vankalakunti, Kishore Phadke
Introduction: There is a paucity of clinical data on C1q nephropathy (C1qN) in children in India and Southeast Asia. This is the first detailed analysis conducted to elucidate the prevalence, clinicopathological profile, and response to different immunosuppressives in children with C1qN in India. Materials and Methods: Detailed demographic profile, clinical features, urine and blood chemistries, kidney biopsy, and response to different immunosuppressives of the study participants were analyzed between August 2015 and October 2020 for steroid-dependent/-resistant nephrotic syndrome (NS). Results: C1qN was diagnosed in 16 (14.13%) of 113 children who underwent biopsy for steroid-dependent/-resistant NS. The mean age was 44 months (range 18–99 months) and male and female number was 12 (75%) and four (25%), respectively, and mean follow-up was 3.5 years. Eight (50%) had coexistent minimal-change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS) pattern, seven (43.7%) had focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), and one (6.2%) had diffuse mesangial hypercellularity. Thirteen children had complete follow-up, of which eight (61.5%) and four (30.7%) cases presented as steroid-dependent and primary steroid-resistant NS, respectively, whereas one (7.6%) had joint pain with rashes. At presentation, seven (53.8%) had hypertension, 12 (92.3%) had nephrotic range proteinuria, and six cases (46.1%) had hematuria. Nine (75%) of 12 cases achieved complete remission with calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) therapy, and two were non responders, one was a partial responder, and one responded to mycophenolate. Of six FSGS cases, four had complete remission, one had partial remission, and one was in non-remission. Of six cases with MCNS, five had complete remission and one was in non-remission. Renal functions remained normal in all except one case who had progression to chronic kidney disease Stage 3. Conclusion: One out of seven children with difficult NS can have underlying C1qN. CNIs are most beneficial to attain and maintain remission. Renal functions remain normal in the majority. Along with C1q deposits, MCNS and FSGS patterns are seen equally and respond almost similarly to CNIs.
ABO-incompatible repeat kidney transplantation: Coping with the 'twin immunological barrier'
Narayan Prasad, Anand Chellapan, Anis Srivastava, Dharmendra Bhadauria, Anupama Kaul, Manas Patel, Amit Gupta
A repeat renal transplantation is believed to confer the best survival advantage for allograft failure. The scarcity of matching donors at one end, coupled with the expanding pool of ABO-incompatible (ABOi) donors at the other end, lead us to consider the option of ABOi kidney re-transplantation. However, ABOi kidney re-transplantation is associated with heightened immunological risk due to the presence of two substantial immunological barriers. Concern, queries, and uncertainty exist over the course and outcome of this option. We prospectively studied five patients who underwent live-related ABOi re-transplantation after a failed previous transplant. Four patients (mean age 40.8 ± 6.6 years, 4 males) underwent a second renal transplant, whereas one patient had a third renal transplant. All patients received desensitization with rituximab, plasmapheresis, and intravenous immunoglobulin as per routine protocol. One patient required immunoadsorption to achieve the desired Anti-ABO titer. All five patients had good graft survival. One of them developed combined antibody and cell-mediated rejection and another antibody-mediated rejection. Live-related ABOi kidney re-transplantation could be a viable option for patients with a previously failed graft.
An unusual presentation of multiple myeloma
Ishan Parekh, Zaheer A Virani, Prashant Rajput, Hepal Vora, Shruti Tapiawala, Bharat V Shah
Multiple myeloma commonly presents as anemia, renal failure, bone pain, and infections. Presentation with epistaxis is extremely rare, and hence myeloma as the etiologic factor is seldom considered. We report the case of a patient who initially presented with recurrent epistaxis and then with myasthenia. It was only when he developed acute kidney injury 4 months after the initial presentation with epistaxis that a diagnosis of multiple myeloma was made.
Hypervitaminosis D and acute interstitial nephritis: Tale of injections
Vaibhav Tiwari, Veronica Arora, Jitendra Rajput, Anurag Gupta, Smita Divyaveer, Sunita Bijarnia-Mahay, Pallav Gupta, Vinant Bhargava, Manish Malik, Ashwani Gupta, Anil Kumar Bhalla, DS Rana
A 33-year-old man came with nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain due to hypercalcaemia and renal dysfunction following two doses of intramuscular vitamin D injections. Levels of vitamin D were repeatedly above 300 ng/ml over a period of 10 months. Whole-body PET CT scan revealed a thin-walled collection in the right gluteal region. The patient refused a surgical intervention for the same. After 7 months of follow-up, the abscess ruptured spontaneously and was then surgically debrided. At this point, a history of pentazocine addiction was uncovered. One month later, vitamin D levels began to fall along with improvement in serum calcium and creatinine. This case unravels a diagnostic odyssey which ended with a simple surgical debridement. We aim to highlight that vitamin D supplementation in 'megadoses' in the presence of active infection can have an exaggerated response and may take months to resolve.
Renal salt-wasting syndrome induced by neoadjuvant chemotherapy containing cisplatin – A case report
N Jinsi, A Vimala, Sreeja S Nair, R Arya, Ranjani Ravi
Hyponatremia is one of the most common electrolyte abnormality seen in oncology practice. The underlying pathogenetic mechanism for chemotherapy-induced hyponatremia is renal salt-wasting syndrome (RSWS) and syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). Fluid restriction is the treatment of choice in SIADH, whereas salt supplements is the mode of treatment in RSWS. Hence, differentiation between RSWS and SIADH is very important though difficult. Case reports of cisplatin (cis-dichloro-diammine-platinum-2)-induced RSWS and SIADH are rare in the literature. We report about a patient who developed hyponatremia, hypokalemia with excessive urinary excretion of sodium and potassium, renal glycosuria, and aminoaciduria on the third day of the first cycle of cisplatin-containing chemotherapy.
An unusual clinical manifestation of plasmablastic lymphoma in a renal transplant recipient
Devika Gupta, Satish Mendonca, Tathagata Chatterjee, Arti Trehan, Lavan Singh, Rohit Tewari, Arun Joshi, Arun Dua
Plasmablastic lymphoma is a rapidly progressive CD20 negative large cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with poor outcome. It occurs mostly in immunocompromised individuals and has a predilection for extranodal sites. They need to be differentiated from other entities sharing similar morphological features like poorly differentiated carcinoma, Burkitt's lymphoma, Alk positive large B cell lymphoma, Diffuse large B cell lymphoma, and anaplastic myeloma. EBV negativity in recipients, type, intensity, and duration of immunosuppressives used are certain risk factors in development of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders. High index of suspicion can help clinch the diagnosis early and prevent catastrophic consequences. Our renal transplant recipient presented with complaints of pain abdomen and malena for which he underwent exploratory laparotomy. Diagnosis was established on histopathology and timely treatment initiated reverted the disease.
Is ambulatory blood pressure monitoring required for elderly hemodialysis patients during the interdialytic period? - Experience of a tertiary care center in South India
E Indhumathi, Srivatsa Angraje, Biswajith Mishra, Jayakumar Macha
Introduction: Hypertension (HT) is a common and challenging problem in patients on dialysis. Routine peri-dialytic blood pressure (BP) recordings are unable to diagnose HT accurately and stratify cardiovascular risk. We report here an analysis of 2 years, single-center experience on 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in elderly hemodialysis patients in the interdialytic period. Materials and Methods: Data of all the patients above 65 years of age undergoing hemodialysis between November 2017 and December 2019 in our hemodialysis unit and for whom 24-hour ABPM was done were collected. Demographics, clinical profile, pre- and post-dialysis BP recordings, 24-hour ABPM characteristics, and the outcome status were analyzed. Results: Of the 37 patients, 28 (75.7%) were males with a mean age of 67.73 years; 67.6% were diabetic. HT was found in all patients (100%), and uncontrolled HT was noted in 30 (81%) patients by ABPM. Patients with uncontrolled HT were also nondippers of BP (100%). A significant association was observed between nondippers and coronary artery disease (n = 27, 90%, P = 0.004). Masked HT was found in 9 (24.3%) patients with normal peridialytic BP (n = 9, 24.3%, P = 0.000). No significant difference was noted between diabetic and nondiabetic patients regarding dipping status or mortality. Among 37 patients, 9 (24.3%) died during follow-up with uncontrolled HT as a significant risk factor (P = 0.05). Conclusion: The prevalence of uncontrolled HT with blunted circadian rhythm was high as detected by ABPM in the interdialytic period among elderly hemodialysis patients and had a significant impact on mortality. Masked uncontrolled HT as measured by ABPM was not uncommon in patients with normal peridialytic BP.
Microalbuminuria and Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-associated Lipocalin (uNGAL) in human immunodeficiency virus infected children
Emine A Rahiman, Pratap Kumar Patra, Deepti Suri, Amit Rawat, Surjit Singh
Introduction: Renal dysfunction and progression to end stage renal disease is well known in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We studied the role of microalbuminuria and urinary NGAL levels in children with HIV infection for the prediction of renal dysfunction. Design and Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out and 60 HIV infected children, aged (18 months to 15 years) were screened for microalbuminuria by nephelometry and for uNGAL by ELISA. Thirty healthy children were screened for uNGAL for normative data in Indian children. Results: The prevalence of microalbuminuria in studied population was 3.3%. The mean uNGAL and uNGAL/creatinine in study population was higher than controls (26.94 ± 93.12 ng/ml vs. 88.94 ± 345.20 mcg/g, and 15.53 ± 37.52 ng/ml vs. 30.12 ± 78.66 ng/ml; P = 0.003, P = 0.002). Children with lower CD4 counts had significant higher mean Albumin Creatinine Ratio (ACR) and mean uNGAL; P = 0.03, P = 0.01. Conclusions: uNGAL and urine microalbumin are useful biomarkers of early tubular and glomerular injury in children with HIV infection.
Baclofen-induced neurotoxicity in chronic kidney disease: Is there a safe dose?
Prem P Varma, Geet Bajpai
Most cases of Baclofen toxicity have been reported in patients with impaired kidney functions, within a few days to weeks after ingestion. We report three cases of Baclofen induced encephalopathy in chronic kidney disease patients; two developed encephalopathy within 6–8 h after ingestion of a single tablet and third on 4th day of consuming 2.5 mg twice daily dose. All three cases recovered fully following haemodialysis treatment.
COVID-19 in hemodialysis: A prospective, observational, single-center data from Eastern India
Arpita Ray Chaudhury, Smartya Pulai, Saugat Das Gupta, Abhishek Kumar, Aneesh Nanda, Jamshed Anwer, Arkaprava Chakrabarty, Manas Goswami, Abhirup Bhuinya, Sisir Naskar, Shubhabrata Pal, Koushik Bhattacharya, Atanu Pal, Dipankar Sircar, Debabrata Sen, Pradip Mukhopadhyay, Rajendra Pandey
An unusual cause of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome relapse
Mehmet Mert, Mevlut Ceri, Selcuk Yuksel, Belda Dursun
Cytomegalovirus-related hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis after renal transplantation
Urmila Anandh, G Sudhakar, Seema Afroze

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
COMMENTARY: The AAPI Heritage Month Connection
#NNPA BlackPress Commentary Community Entertainment Featured National News Oakland Post Post News Group
OAKLAND POST
By Emil Guillermo
It's Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage month.
Go hug your brothers and sisters. There's a lot of them.
The singer H.E.R. from Vallejo. The Congressman Bobby Scott (D.-Va.). The other half of Silk Sonic, Anderson .Paak, actress Denyce Lawton ("House of Payne"). And let's not forget The Rock, the East Bay's own Dwayne Johnson, and of course, Tiger Woods.
They are no doubt celebrating May as Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, because they're all part Asian. It's in their blood.
Understand that when people talk about Asian American, the group is a whole lot more diverse and inclusive than you think.
H.E.R. a/k/a Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, half-Black and half-Filipino, is a powerful reminder of our common humanity.
She won a Grammy in 2021 for Song of the Year for the George Floyd-inspired protest song, "I Can't Breathe."
When singers like H.E.R. sing passionately about their lives and ours, they embody an ideal vision of what can happen when we take a love interest in one another. It's all in the heart and soul.
Of course, not all stories sound like fairy tales.
Rapper Anderson .Paak (and yes the .Paak is correct) knows the blues. He was born in Oxnard, Calif. to a bi-racial Korean woman born during the Korean American War. Anderson never met his father. He was abandoned at age 7 and raised in an orphanage until he was adopted by a Black family in Los Angeles.
He grew his musical chops as a teen, gained the attention of Dr. Dre, and made a breakthrough hit in 2018. But it wasn't until 2021 that he reached true superstar status when he connected with Bruno Mars, another biracial Asian (Filipino, Jewish, Puerto Rican) artist to form the duo Silk Sonic. Their single, "Leave the Door Open," won Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 64th Grammy Awards.
Those are the Asian/Black success stories right under our noses. Pop culture examples. It's more of a thing than you think. Just know that when you cheer Hayward-born Dwayne Johnson or Tiger Woods, Asian Americans are seeing Johnson's Samoan mom. Or Tiger's Thai mother, Tida. Asian Americans are cheering alongside you.
Expect it to happen more and more compared to previous generations.
The 2020 Census reports 19.9 million people (6% of all respondents) identified as Asian alone in 2020, up from 14.7 million people (4.8%) in 2010.
A big increase was in the Asian "in combination" figure. Approximately 4.1 million respondents identified as Asian in combination with another race group. Do you think there's another H.E.R. amongst them? Or an Anderson .Paak? More than one?
The growth today is reflective of an openness in our youth-oriented culture.
But the generation before were race mixers too.
They just had to overcome racist laws like Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 that made it illegal to intermarry. In the 1920s and 1930s, the anti-mixed-marriage, or anti-miscegenation laws, spread throughout the country. Even in California.
And it didn't just ban Blacks from intermarrying. It was for Asians, too. Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos were all forbidden from marrying whites and expected to marry "their own kind."
Only in 1967 did the Supreme Court decide that the anti-intermarriage laws violated he Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Loving case (involving the incarceration of the Black/white couple, Mildred and Richard Loving) was later used in the legal justification for same-sex marriage.
Hard to imagine we'd ever take away our rights to marry. But given the current climate with the religious right hellbent on reversing settled law like on abortion rights, we must stay vigilant.
A good way to start is by celebrating our diversity and remembering Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
NOTE: I'll talk about this on "Emil Amok's Takeout," my micro-talk show. Live @2p Pacific. Livestream on Facebook; my YouTube channel; and Twitter. Catch the recordings on http://www.amok.com.
The post COMMENTARY: The AAPI Heritage Month Connection first appeared on Post News Group. This article originally appeared in Post News Group.
Related Topics:'Love Interest'19.9 million people2020 Census4.1 million respondents6% of all respondents64th Grammy Awardsabortion rightsactivismadopted by a Black familyAnderson Paakanti-intermarriage lawsanti-miscegenation lawsanti-mixed-marriageAsian aloneAsian Americanasian american pacific islander heritage monthAsian Americans are seeing Johnson's Samoan momAsian in combination with another race groupAsian "in combination" figureAsian/Black success storiesAsiansbi-racial Korean womanbiracial AsianBruno Marscaliforniacelebrating MayCelebrating Our DiversityChineseCommentarycommon humanityCommunityCongressman Bobby Scott (D-VA)Denyce Lawtondr. dreduo Silk SonicDwayne JohnsonEast BayEmil Guillermoentertainmentfairy talesfeaturedFilipinoFilipinosforbidden from marrying whitesGabriella Sarmiento WilsonGeorge Floyd-inspired protest songgiven the current climateGrammyH.E.R.half-Black and half-FilipinoHayward-born Dwayne Johnson or Tiger Woodsheart and soulHistoryhug your brothers and sistersI Can't Breatheideal visionillegal to intermarryincarceration of the Black/white coupleinclusiveintermarryingJapaneseJewishKorean American WarLeave The Door Openlegal justificationlos ángeleslot more diversemarry "their own kind"Mildred and Richard Lovingmusical chopsNationalNewsOakland PostOpennessOpinionorphanageOxnard Calif.Pacific Islander Heritage monthPop culture examplesPost News GroupPuerto Ricanrace mixersracist lawsRapper Anderson .Paakrecord of the Yearreligious rightreversing settled lawsame sex marriageSilk SonicSong of the yearsupreme courttake away our rights to marryThe BluesThe Loving caseThe Rockthey're all part AsianTidatiger woodsTiger's Thai mothertrue superstar statusU.S. ConstitutionVallejoviolated he Equal Protection ClauseVirginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924youth-oriented culture
HBCU Students: Electrify Your Future with Chevrolet and the Discover The Unexpected Fellowship!
PGA Tour and Wells Fargo Embrace Golf's Color of Change at TPC Potomac


December 2013 – Van's Urban Bicycle Co.
No matter where you ride, streets, mountains, trails, or bike paths, Montague has the right folding bike for you that meets your need. It can be used for commuting, travel, mountain biking, touring or any other kind of riding you can dream up. Of course they also fold for transport or storage in a matter of seconds.
You can find out more on Montague Bikes from Van's Urban Bicycle. Call us now at 03-7866 0311 or email us at vansurbanbicycle@gmail.com for more information.


text:
Kyrgyz-Tajik Spat Highlights Border Issues
Lack of clarity about land and water rights in undemarcated border areas creates running tensions.
By Jenish Aydarov
Officials from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan say they have resolved all outstanding border disputes between their countries, but this optimistic claim has met with some scepticism among local residents and activists who say little attempt has been made to address the root causes of tensions.
After the heads of the two countries' Security Councils met on November 25, they gave a press conference at which they said everything had been sorted out. "We reached agreement on all disputed matters," said Kyrgyz Security Council secretary Adakhan Madumarov.
The main disagreements between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in recent years have centred on a lack of clarity about where the frontier runs, leading to claims that one side is encroaching on the other; on how to manage enclaves – small pockets of one country's territory inside the other state – and on how to coordinate shared use of water resources.
Unlike most of the frontiers between Central Asian states, the 970 kilometre Kyrgyz-Tajik border has not undergone a process of demarcation to define, metre by metre on the ground, exactly where one country stops and the other begins.
In March this year, about 150 Tajik farmers and local government officials crossed into Kyrgyzstan and tried to destroy a dam that was blocking an irrigation canal that supplied their land with water. (See Tajik-Kyrgyz Water Clash a Sign of Things to Come, RCA No. 539, 02-Apr-08.)
As an example of the success of the latest talks, Madumarov cited the case of Chorku, a Tajik enclave inside Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz are to build 24 kilometres of road so that a highway takes a detour round the enclave.
Madumarov's Tajik opposite number Amirkul Azimov agreed that all controversial matters had been dealt with, including arrangements for the waters of the river Isfara to be shared fairly between the two countries.
Oddly, the officials did not take the opportunity to discuss an incident that happened only two days earlier and that clearly illustrated the kind of recurring issue that needs to be resolved.
On November 23, Kyrgyz frontier guards challenged a group of Tajiks, accusing them of grazing their livestock far over the border line. In response, the Tajiks began throwing stones at the armed border troops. When one of the Kyrgyz fired warning shots into the air, the Tajiks rushed him and took his rifle off him.
Azimov appeared to downplay the incident, saying, "We weren't going to discuss the November 23 incident at such a high level as this. The relevant agencies of the two countries will look at that situation," he said.
Madumarov added that local government authorities and journalists had circulated inaccurate information, such as a story that one of the Tajiks had been injured. Such reporting, he said, was liable to "provoke conflict between Kyrgyz and Tajiks".
IWPR interviewed the head of Kyrgyzstan's border protection service, Zamir Moldoshev, who said the meeting between Azimov and Madumarov did produce an agreement that should help defuse future incidents.
"We agreed with our colleagues from Tajikistan that as soon as a conflict arises on the border, a commission made up of representatives of various agencies from the two countries will assemble within five hours. I think a commission like this will do a lot to help resolve conflicts as they arise."
Kyrgyz deputy foreign minister Askar Beshimov told IWPR that "border-related conflicts happen everywhere, not just here".
He noted that a new Tajik-Kyrgyz coordinating committee had been approved at a meeting between the two countries' presidents in May this year, and would hold its first session in 2009.
Beshimov said the demarcation process was a lengthy one that could take years, and neither side would gain an unfair advantage as a result.
He also commented that the Kyrgyz public had an excessive fixation on border issues. "Nowhere else in the world are border problems discussed as much as in Kyrgyzstan," he said.
Narmat Kasymov lives in the village of Aksay in Batken, a region of southern Kyrgyzstan that is sandwiched between Uzbekistan to the north and Tajikistan to the south.
He is less than optimistic that government meetings will reduce the tensions
"I can't even count how many of these meeting take place within the space of a year, but I don't see any tangible results. The conflicts on the border are really getting a lot more serious every day," he said. "If only they'd mark out the frontier, we coud have a quiet life."
Aziza Abdirasulova, a human rights activist in Kyrgyzstan, says Batken faces particular problems, for example a dwindling population as people move away in search of a better life, and concerns that Tajiks are gradually moving into the area by building houses just inside the border and then laying claim to the land. (For a related story, see Tajiks Buying Up Kyrgyz Homes Near Border, RCA No. 503, 30-Jul-07.)
According to Robert Avazbekov, who heads the Batken branch of Foundation for Tolerance International, a Central Asian conflict-prevention group, one of the problems with high-level government discussions is that local people are not included.
"People from the White House [Kyrgyz government] are not too well informed about conflicts that happened on the border, and they don't know the reasons why they happen," he said. "It would make sense for the local authorities to be represented during negotions , and for government to take an interest in local residents' views."
"What happens now is that senior officials turn up and offer a solution that is superficial and works on paper only," he added.
Jenish Aydarov is an IWPR contributor in Batken. Aida Kasymalieva is IWPR's editor for Kyrgyzstan.
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
https://tinyurl.com/y5ehyc5r
Energy Fears as Kyrgyz Winter Approaches
Kyrgyz Rights 'Worse' Than Akaev Era
Central Asia: Oct '08
Kazak Reform Bills Offer Little New
Reporting Police Misconduct: Separating Facts From Fake News
Online event explores how journalists need to approach this challenging issue.


You'll probably remember that I wear an ankle cuff when I run to try and prevent my ankle dropping. This is mostly to stop me from scuffing my foot when I get tired, which has the immediate effect of sometimes making me fall spectacularly over, but has a rather more insidious knock-on effect on my foot, knees and hips.
On the whole it works pretty well, but I have had to make a few adjustments.
As I run, the ankle cuff chafes. Because I'm a runner, and because runners learn to ignore pain, this meant that I was often making bloody great big holes in my leg. I now have a selection of interesting scars around my left ankle, but I also now wear a second sweatband to try and prevent from getting any more.
Does the whole damn contraption work? Yeah, I reckon. I've been falling over a lot less, anyway.
I went out for a ten mile run yesterday. It was pretty hot, but for the first 4 miles, I was holding a pretty reasonable pace..... and then my body blew up, and I started getting slower and slower as fatigue gripped me across the shoulders and my body screamed at me to stop running. I completed the full ten miles, obviously. It wasn't much fun, and I slept most of the afternoon and had an early night, but I finished the run. This evening's 7 miler was a little easier.
Grittily determined / stubborn past the point of stupidity.... I'll let you decide. Probably both.


The OECD Enterprise and Finance Outlook is an annual publication that presents unique knowledge and analysis that appears at what may have an effect on and alter, each favourably and unfavourably, tomorrow's world of business, finance and investment. Monetary and insurance coverage services are a big player in New Zealand's financial system – in the year ending March 2015, the sector contributed $12.6bn to GDP, practically 6%. There are 25 registered banks and numerous financial institutions established in New Zealand. In support of the University's strategic plan, the Division serves to create higher organizational effectiveness and more efficient use of resources. Our departments attempt to attain a stage of service above and beyond our customer's expectations, serving students, faculty and staff with high-high quality operational support.
Time to disclose the mobile retail business by hosting a grand opening occasion! Send out a press release to local press outlets (TV, radio, newspaper, bloggers) with details. Market it in your website and social media. Put up the event to websites like eventbrite, yelp, and fb. If you happen to need help writing a press release, we've got a template you may comply with.
Hello folks, If you're severe in cash making business, it's a must to observe easy steps in our web site and practice the approach which is all free…Sure,, You heard it proper…Its all free. Viacom, Turner and Fox have joined forces to launch OpenAP, a web interface the place entrepreneurs can crunch knowledge from various sources for tv advert targeting on all three firms' networks. The TV giants understand that they need to provide something to compete with the precision supplied within the digital house.
By the point you read this, there can be even more updates and information to share. It is a real life drama that's unfolding every hour. Truthfully, we're simply along for the experience on this rollercoaster and attempting to keep our sanity. At least I have someone to hang onto this time around! Lucas has been wonderful all through this enterprise-launching stage, and I really couldn't pull this off without him (spreadsheets and I do not get along). I'll have to step up and put my strengths into play as soon as we get the keys to this primary home, which is scheduled to be the day after Valentine's. Eek! So much to plan, so little time.
It's only inner to the system that you simply discover that the general public narrative on finance helps preserve the insider vs. outsider divide that financial professionals use to assemble their sense of identification. When you're within Goldman Sachs it won't appear to you as The Vampire Squid, however rather as your own home, or your domain. You move past merely understanding it in the summary, and start to feel the inner structures intuitively, emotionally and empathetically.


text:
Exclusive to OpEdNews:
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/12/2013 at 22:48:56 H3'ed 9/12/13
The Voice of Vladimir Putin
By Candace Conradi (Page 1 of 1 pages) (# of views) 42 comments, In Series: Why Our Voice Matters
I find it fascinating that Vladimir Putin counts on the American people's gullibility to believe his op-ed article in the New York Times yesterday. There may be merit in his argument that other countries feel they are exceptional. Most citizens feel a deep loyalty to their own country and have pride for where they live. To love our roots is normal.
However, there is sound argument that America IS exceptional. Vladimir's op-ed is not only weak but exposes his true motives and political perspective. Consider the following.
Under no circumstances would the President of Russia invite our President to offer an op-ed to his countrymen. Under no circumstance would Putin allow the leaders of France, UK, or any other leader with an opposing point of view to offer their opinion or present evidence contrary to his own.
The citizens of Russia are good people. Most only wish to live their life in freedom and peace. But they are controlled by a president who does not hesitate to imprison them for their beliefs or actions that oppose his own. He will do and say whatever is necessary to maintain his control. His article appears to be a benevolent outpouring. What it is, is an attempted seduction of Americans. In truth, it is manipulation.
Simply, he has taken advantage of America's freedoms and our weariness with war. He perceives our divide and intends to use that divide to further split open our great nation.
We get to choose. We can instead see he has proven President Obama's proposition: America is exceptional.
Every American citizen has been provided the opportunity to consider Putin's argument. Some Americans will agree with him. Some will disagree. Redundant but worth repeating, America is exceptional. No one will be thrown in jail for reading the paper nor will anyone's rights be violated for voicing their opinion about it or any other matter of our government.
Yes, diplomacy is worth the effort. The pain of loss is real for all people. It does not matter to what nation a person belongs. It does not matter the religious affiliation or the color of one's skin. Loss is the same for everyone. It breaks hearts and spirits and in war inspires hatred and vengeance. The Syrian people have suffered unduly at the hands of their regime. If further loss can be prevented then there is great hope.
But hope is not based on fact, it is based upon faith.
The fact: Putin has no interest in our version of democracy. By submitting his op-ed article, he has thrown up a smoke screen to the American people and asked us to believe his version of reality. He has made a high-waged bet and hopes our desire for peace will make his argument believable. He is using the dissension in our country to buoy his own support for Syria. He believes us to be gullible.
Americans get to choose. Do we follow a man who imprisons his fellow countrymen and women for speaking out about his leadership, who controls their right to have their voice, or who violates human rights to maintain his control and power?
Or do we set aside our own prejudices and doubt and trust the leadership of our country and other powerful countries who believe in human rights?
It's a poor bet if we believe Putin. But, we can. We can believe him without threat of imprisonment. We can even write our own op-ed. That is why the United States IS an exceptional nation and why as citizens we are fortunate to call America our home.
(Image by The Guardian) Details DMCA
by The Guardian
Candace Conradi Social Media Pages:
Candace George Conradi is a best-selling and influential author known for her provocatively insightful prose about life. Her readers are impressed with her innate kindness, generosity and wisdom and find her work timeless. Her eclectic books speak (more...)
Related Topic(s): Citizens; Democracy; Democracy; Government; Hope Hopefulness; Leader; Obama; Peace; People; Putin; (more...) Rights; Russia; Vladimir Putin, Add Tags (less...)
Series: "Why Our Voice Matters"
View All 1 Articles in "Why Our Voice Matters"
Total Views for the Series: 2701
"Rob Kall's book, Bottom-Up: Tapping the Power of the Connection Revolution has really caused me to relook and reframe many of my thoughts on where our connectedness using social media tools like LinkedIn is headed, and not just for career trajectory but for life. If you are looking for a new perspective on our sometimes zany digital world we live in, this book will keep you reading and may ultimately revise but for sure challenge your current paradigm."
Wayne Breitbarth, author of The Power Formula for Linkedin Success: Kick-Start Your Business, Brand, and Job Search


text:
Solutions for Schools & Districts
Benchmark Assessment
College Prep Assessment
Analytics & Dashboards
Data Quality Analytics
Solutions for Learning Companies
Learning Standards
Content Tagging
Data Integration & Interoperability
What is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Why Do We Need It?
in All Content, Certica Blog / Sarah Bassett
While the concept of social and emotional learning (SEL) is not exactly new, it is now growing in popularity. Many school districts and educators are turning to SEL to help students cope with stress, avoid negative behaviors and achieve academic outcomes that simply wouldn't be possible without an empathetic approach.
Yet SEL may still be new enough that, at best, it is misunderstood, or at worst, it may seem to be a meaningless buzzword. This article examines why SEL is needed, what it is and how educators can begin to use it.
Why do we need a new approach to learning?
It's a changing world, and unfortunately, not all change is good. A recent report from the National Survey on Children's Health revealed that nearly 47% of all children in the United States have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE), such as neglect or abuse, the death of a parent, or witnessing violence. Nearly 22% of all children have two or more ACEs. Worse, 35 percent of all children have at least one ACE by the time they are in kindergarten.1
Clearly, these experiences change the ways students think, act and learn. Teachers must devise new strategies to adapt learning experiences to address this new world, and hopefully engage students in ways to overcome this initial disadvantage. This is where SEL comes in.
What is SEL?
According to the leading expert on SEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), SEL is "the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions."
Yet SEL is more than a program or a particular lesson. Instead, it represents a new way of thinking and a holistic approach to teaching and learning. To help educators understand SEL, CASEL presents it in the context of five core competencies:
• Self-awareness or being able to recognize and comprehend your own emotions, and how they translate into specific behaviors. Self-awareness can also include recognizing stress or other negative emotions and considering your own abilities/weaknesses in dealing with them.
• Self-management pushes the idea of self-awareness one step further, to the point where you begin to control your own feelings and behaviors. Examples of this include managing anger, improving the way you handle stress, self-motivation, and the idea of pushing through various setbacks.
• Social awareness is the part of SEL that begins to look outward. It's about empathizing with others and possessing a willingness to understand and respect students' unique experiences, perspectives and behaviors.
• Relationship skills focuses on creating and maintaining healthy relationships through cooperation, active listening, conflict resolution and communication.
• Responsible decision-making encourages making positive, healthy choices that adhere to your own moral code. More, the right decisions will contribute to the well-being of students and other participants.
Does SEL work?
Teachers have always focused on students' emotions and social skills as part of the overall learning experience. Yet as stress and trauma continue to climb—as evidenced by the increase in children's ACEs—educators need to do more to incorporate SEL in the classroom. In the SEL community, this means teaching the "whole child," a concept that must include the many factors that may be part of a student's background and how to create an ideal learning experience to address them.
Research shows that SEL is working. According to research from CASEL, embedding social and emotional development does lead to better academic results. For example, students who receive high-quality SEL instruction have achievement scores on average of 11 percentile points higher than students who did not receive SEL instruction.2
Like the old saying suggests, "new times call for new measures," and this is especially true in the classroom. SEL can be an effective way for educators to improve the way they connect and engage with new generations of students in order to achieve better outcomes and prepare them for the road ahead.
A new resource for student success
Interested in new ways of thinking about engaging students and creating better outcomes? Download our new eBook, "Seven Ways Real-Time Data Can Improve Student Success," today.
1 The Child & Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Children, October 2017.
2 CASEL, Ready to Lead: A National Principal Survey on How Social and Emotional Learning Can Prepare Children and Transform Schools, 2011.
Tags: Certica Solutions, Data-Driven Decision Making
Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett joined Certica Solutions in 2005 and leads the company's Marketing team. She has held numerous roles at Certica, including heading the Assessment business team, Sales and Client Services. She has more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, customer management and professional services with IT and enterprise software providers.
https://certicasolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/INSTCertica-228x70-1.svg 0 0 Sarah Bassett https://certicasolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/INSTCertica-228x70-1.svg Sarah Bassett2019-06-19 12:19:502019-12-30 14:56:54What is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Why Do We Need It?
Analytics (9) Assessment (43) Certica Solutions (20) Chronic Absenteeism (3) Compliance (4) Content Tagging (6) Dashboards (1) Data-Driven Decision Making (16) Data Management (12) Data Quality (5) Data Visualization (8) Distance Learning (8) EdTech (4) Equity (2) Instructional Content (5) Interoperability (10) Learning Standards (39) Personalized Learning (5) Student Attendance (4)
Tweets by Certica_K12
Ready to make an impact on student achievement?
Certica is dedicated to advancing academic progress and equity in education through measurable improvements in student achievement.
Fax for Orders:
© 2020 Certica Solutions. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Design and development by RainCastle Communications
Last week, curriculum leaders across North Carolina came together to connect with colleagues and attend a variety of relevant and timely academic sessions at the virtual NCCAT Curriculum Leaders Conference. As an unprecedented school year filled with uncertainty begins, these North Carolina education leaders gathered to discuss the myriad challenges school districts face that have either been the result of or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The issues addressed included topics at the forefront of all educators' minds: equity in the classroom, strategies for remote learning, student engagement, and moving instruction forward this school year. In one session, a panel of speakers discussed how, despite the challenges, the pandemic has also brought positive change, including a purposeful focus on social and emotional learning, new partnerships with community constituents, and an era of collaboration among educators. After a number of insightful sessions, workshops, and thought-provoking discussions, it was clear that the group was filled with innovative and enthusiastic educators with a passion for their students' success, working to lead change in a challenging time.
As in years past, Certica was pleased to serve as a sponsor for the Curriculum Leaders Conference. Many of the participants were our North Carolina district partners, who use Certica's proven CASE Assessments to measure student progress and provide teachers with data to make impactful instructional decisions, guide interventions, and personalize the student's learning experience. We are proud to work with educators across the state to better understand and use data effectively to help each student succeed.
While we missed connecting with our district partners and friends in-person at the Curriculum Leaders Conference this year, we were thrilled to support NCCAT as they continue to provide inspiring academic content virtually. Dr. Todd Wirt, a longtime North Carolina educator, principal, and former superintendent, recorded a message to his colleagues attending the Conference. Check it out below!
https://certicasolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/NCCAT-Conference-Video-Todd-Wirt-9-21-2020.mp4
Laurie Azaria Klausner
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Laurie Azaria Klausner is a metrics-driven, hands-on leader with the ability to turn strategic initiative into positive business impact. At Certica, Laurie leads all aspects of marketing with a focus on growing the Certica brand as the leader in K-12 assessments and analytics. Prior to Certica, Laurie was VP, Worldwide Marketing and Business Development at Entuity, a network analytics company, where she was responsible for all marketing related activities, including the development and management of integrated, closed-loop demand generation programs with a significant focus on digital marketing. Prior to Entuity, Laurie held several other senior management positions in marketing at technology focused companies. Laurie earned a BA from Tulane University and a MS in Marketing Analytics from Bentley University.
"We had a vision of being able to learn from student performance year-to-year in order to tweak our curriculum and to aid our teachers' professional development, but we didn't have good access to our data to make educational and curricular decisions. With Videri, data that had been buried in our SIS, or even in various file folders, is now on the dashboard with just a click or two."
– Melissa Kummerer, project manager at Regents School of Austin, Texas
The dashboards, scorecards and watch lists provide insights into student performance that otherwise would take much longer to realize or run the risk of going unnoticed. These visualizations accelerate our teachers' and leaders' ability to make data-driven decisions that help our students succeed."
– Jonathan Hulbert, director of Accountability and School Transformation at East Central Independent School District, Texas
"The CASE Benchmark Assessments have provided teachers with actionable data they can use to immediately intervene and accelerate student success. Coupled with the power of professional learning communities (PLCs), the data is an invaluable resource that provides teachers with the information they need to break down barriers to student learning. After the first year of using the CASE Benchmarks and the CASE Item Bank, some of our schools saw double digit growth in test scores!"
– Jeff McCoy, associate superintendent for Academics at Greenville County Schools, South Carolina
"Over the past three years, Fleming County Schools has moved from a school district in state assistance to one of the top districts in Kentucky. Our success is attributed to our students, teachers and staff. But we could not have experienced this success without a standardized curriculum and the CASE Benchmarks, the most powerful tool we have in our arsenal. Furthermore, we have worked closely with the CASE team to move student achievement to the highest levels. This is truly a partnership of distinction."
–Brian Creasman, Superintendent, Fleming County Schools, Kentucky
Saysha Carter, M.Ed., Ed.S.
Saysha Carter is an Implementation Manager for the CASE Benchmark Assessments. Ms. Carter has a 30-year career with school districts and with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. She served as Chief Officer of Student Learning at Pender County Schools (NC) and was the Director of Exceptional Children at Edenton-Chowan Public Schools (NC). At the state level, Ms. Carter was a Transformation Coach working with principals and teachers. She also served as an educational consultant and mentor, and as a trainer for differentiating instruction, literacy and co-teaching.
Meredith Park, Ph.D.
Meredith Park is a Professional Development Specialist. Dr. Park has more than 20 years of experience in instructional leadership, school improvement, strategic planning, curriculum and instruction, data and accountability, educational research, and policy design. Dr. Park served as an Instructional Coach, Coordinator of Benchmark Assessments, Director of Federal Programs, and Director of Professional Development at DeSoto County School District (MS) and taught in various Mississippi districts. For the past three years, she served as Assistant Superintendent of Academic Education for Germantown Municipal School District (TN).
Todd Wirt, Ed.D.
Vice President, Professional Development
Todd Wirt is the Vice President of Professional Development. Dr. Wirt has been building teaching cultures, developing leaders, and improving student achievement for 20 years. He is the former Superintendent of Orange County Schools (NC) where he created a culture of data use resulting in improved student outcomes and the successful implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). Dr. Wirt also served as the Assistant Superintendent of Academics at Wake County Schools (NC), where he developed intentional processes for scaling professional development. He has served as a middle school teacher, assistant principal and principal in North Carolina districts. In 2016 Dr. Wirt was named the North Carolina Outstanding Young Educator by the North Carolina Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Gena Overbey
Vice President, Assessment Development
George Menyhert
Senior Director, Product Management
Lou Ann Little
Senior Director, Finance & Operations
Donna Kelleher
Nancy Hester
Vice President, Assessment Services
Carl Harris, Ed.D.
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
Rob Cote
Vice President, Client Services
Charles Childre
Senior Director, Product Development
Jamie Lapensee
Jamie Lapensee joined Certica Solutions in 2016 and with over 20 years' experience in the field, oversees all aspects of human resource management at the company. Prior to joining Certica, Jamie served as regional HR director at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Over the course of 12 years, during which the city of Boston undertook the nation's largest urban transportation development project, Jamie held numerous HR roles at both the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Jamie holds an BA in Liberal Studies from Endicott College and an MBA with concentrations in Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Analytics from Simmons College.
Cindy Hollar
Vice President, Assessment Sales
Cindy Hollar leads the company's assessment sales team, after joining Certica in 2019 through the acquisition of TE21. Prior to Certica, she was the CEO of TE21, provider of the CASE Benchmark Assessments. Cindy co-founded TE21 in 1999 as a training company and later, inspired by her own daughter's success overcoming reading difficulties and her many years' experience in education, refocused the direction of the company to specialize in providing high-quality content, software programs and professional development to help schools improve the educational outcomes of students. Early in her career, Cindy worked as an elementary school teacher before making a shift to IBM, where she held numerous senior roles in corporate training, sales and sales management. In addition to 13 years at IBM, Cindy was the vice president of Product Development for The Martin Corporation, an educational software development company. Cindy hold a BA in Elementary Education from Milsaps College.
Ken Hale
Ken Hale has more than 30 years of financial and operations management experience, focusing primarily on the technology and communications industries with both public and private companies. Prior to joining Certica, Ken served as CFO and head of operations for IMN, a digital marketing provider, where he was responsible for financial management and IT operations. Before IMN, Ken served as CFO and treasurer at GlassHouse, a leading global provider of data center consulting, technology integration and managed services. Ken was also CFO at AptSoft/Wheelhouse Corporation and NaviSite; and held senior management positions at Ernst & Young. Ken holds an AB in Biochemistry from Colgate University and an MBA from Northeastern University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and was an instructor of Auditing and Taxation at Northeastern University's Graduate School of Business Administration.
Rodney Green
Vice President, Business Operations
Rodney Green has 25 years of software industry experience in a range of business, finance, marketing and operational functions. Prior to joining Certica, Rodney was vice president of operations and corporate development at digital marketing provider IMN. Throughout his tenure at IMN, Rodney led various administrative and functional areas including, business development, marketing, finance, HR and legal. In 2008, Rodney managed a fundraising effort for IMN culminating in an equity buyout by North Bridge Growth Equity. Prior to IMN, he was involved in several start-up and early stage companies including Engage, one of the operating companies of CMGI, where he helped grow the company from pre-revenue to a successful IPO. Rodney also held various business development and account management positions for Epsilon, now owned by Alliance Data. Rodney holds an BA in Economics and Political Science from Colgate University and an MBA from Boston University.
Shane Foster
Shane Foster joined Certica Solutions in 2016 and leads the company's product team, overseeing product strategy, product engineering and product management. Shane has over 20 years' experience in software and product development with companies ranging from start-ups to large public corporations. Prior to joining Certica, Shane was vice president of Product Strategy at Academic Benchmarks, which Certica acquired in 2016. Before Academic Benchmarks, Shane was the senior manager of Cloud Solutions at Worldpay (formerly Vantiv), a payment processor that provides payment technologies to over 1,400 financial institutions and processes nearly 16 billion payment transactions annually. Prior to Worldpay, Shane was director of Product Development at IVANS and also spent his early career at BWC Systems, later acquired by IVANS, as a software engineer. Shane holds a BS in Computer Science & Information Systems from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Xavier University.
Sarah Bassett joined Certica Solutions in 2005 and leads the company's marketing team. She has held numerous roles at Certica, including heading Sales, Marketing and Client Services. She has more than 25 years' experience in sales, marketing, customer management, and professional services with IT and enterprise software providers. Prior to Certica, Sarah led product marketing at enterprise portal provider Corechange, now owned by OpenText. She was executive director of marketing for business intelligence products at Ascential and collaborated on that company's spin-off from Informix. At Informix and Ardent Software, Sarah was director of strategy and planning for worldwide professional services. In the 1990s she was a member of the early team at QDB Solutions where she held senior marketing and business development positions, and at QDB's acquirer, data warehousing pioneer Prism Solutions. Sarah holds a BA in English and an MS in Public Relations from Boston University.
Jeffrey Averick
Founder and Executive Vice President, Business Integration
Jeffrey Averick founded Certica Solutions in 2000 and leads the company's business integration initiatives and assessment content development teams. Jeff was instrumental in the development and district adoption of Certica's flagship K-12 compliance application, Certify, and built a first-class SaaS technology and content products group. Prior to founding Certica, Jeff was president and CEO of QDB Solutions, a pioneer in data quality management software. Having executed the acquisition of QDB by data warehousing leader Prism Solutions, Jeff provided strategic counsel to emerging technology firms, including several in the information management sector. In the early 1990s, Jeff was vice president of product development at BGS Systems, a provider of capacity management systems. Jeff holds a BS in Mathematics from Haverford College and an MS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Boston University.
Mark Rankovic
Mark Rankovic is an experienced technology business executive who took the helm at Certica in 2006, transforming Certica from a data management consultancy into an innovative edtech company. Since 2011, Mark and team have executed six strategic acquisitions, laying the foundation for the edtech market's first Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Certica Connect. Mark has built and led software companies for more than 25 years. Prior to joining Certica, Mark was president and CEO of Kubi Software and orchestrated its acquisition by Pragmatech. Prior to Kubi, he was vice president, Worldwide Field Operations at Alphablox, managing the integration when the company was acquired by IBM. In the 1990s, Mark was vice president of worldwide professional services and vice president of the Asia Pacific region at Prism Solutions, a pioneer in data warehousing; and was founder and managing director of Object Software, prior to its acquisition by Prism. Mark holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Mike Agostino
Senior Vice President, Services
Mike Agostino leads Certica's Services organization, overseeing a range of support, onboarding, implementation and integration services for both education agency and edtech vendor clients. Mike has spent more than 20 years with leading information technology and enterprise system providers, as well as edtech innovators. Prior to joining Certica, Mike was vice president of Customer Success for Intellify Learning, a provider of education analytics. Mike spent three years at Follett Corporation leading Services & Operations, first for the company's Aspen student information system division, and then as vice president, Professional Services, for the company's portfolio of K-12 technology platforms. Mike has held several leadership positions in IBM's data management divisions, including roles with Data Warehouse Solutions and Global Education & Certification. Mike holds a BA in Operations Management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from Bentley University.


Our goal is clear: At Marketware, we're committed to bringing a passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications in healthcare. But to do that, we invest in what is most important; our people. We believe if we put our employees first everything else will follow.
We're looking for a Sales Development Representative to help convert leads into sales opportunities. This role requires enthusiasm, high energy, and the ability to communicate well with prospective clients and identify their needs. If you are confident in your sales ability and love working with people, we want to talk with you.


text:
← Makeup proves that women are hateful, deceptive creatures with too many rights, Men's Rights Redditors agree
Is revenge porn the fault of feminism? Return of Kings douchebags say "yes." →
MRA Peter Nolan: "Killing women is the only path to justice for men now."
Peter Andrew Nolan: At war with women
Men's Rights Activists love to "warn" women that they may soon face a day of reckoning if they don't shape up and start acting the way MRAs think they should. Don't make men angry, they say; you wouldn't like us when we're angry!
Still, most MRAs making these "predictions" at least make a token effort to pretend to be horrified at the notion of men rising up to wreak vengeance upon uppity women. This isn't what we want, they assure women; it's just what will happen if you continue to "provoke" men with your bad behavior.
Other MRAs find it impossible to contain their glee; like doomsday preppers with well-stocked bunkers and enough ammo to kill every living thing within a 500 mile radius, they can't wait for the end of the world.
Peter Andrew Nolan is one of these other MRAs. And he's started to celebrate a little bit early.
In a series of recent blog posts and Tweets, Nolan has heralded a number of murders of women at the hands of their exes in his native Australia as portents of a new age of antifeminist retribution. (Click on screenshots below to see archived versions of these Tweets.)
I'm sure actress Denise Richards was delighted to find the above in her Twitter notifications, sent as a reply to a Tweet of hers wishing her father a happy Father's Day.
Several feminists who ended up in a discussion with him on Twitter were treated to the following.
As Nolan sees it, the murder of women in Australia and Ireland is now perfectly legal, as he has officially declared war upon both countries.
Nolan thinks politicians and police officers are also legitimate targets in his "war."
And he assures us this "war" will continue until he is properly compensated for whatever terrible injustices he thinks have been done to him.
Now, Nolan's "legal" claims are of course ludicrous, and he is obviously in no position to "release" any murderers of women in either Ireland or Australia.
But as bizarre as his arguments are, Nolan is no troll; as longtime readers of this blog know all too well, he's deadly serious about all of this.
The man who used to call himself Peter-Andrew: Nolan©, but who now prefers to call himself Joschua-Brandon: Boehm©, is a follower of the exceedingly strange and dangerous Sovereign Citizen movement. He thinks the odd punctuation he's added to his various names actually means something important, and he does indeed believe that he is at war with Ireland and Australia, that murdering women is legal in both countries, and that he has the right to enforce these claims of his as best he can.
Happily, he is not actually in either of these countries — last I heard, he's in Germany, and as I understand it, he is barred from entering Ireland and possibly Australia as well. At least according to the laws that the rest of the world follows.
This isn't the first time Nolan has justified or indeed celebrated violence against women. His declarations of "war" are not new. He's offered some (barely) qualified praise for far-right mass murderer Anders Breivik, and at one point he warned any women thinking of commenting on his laughable Facebook ripoff MAN-BOOK that he just might just kill them for it.
But these recent Tweets are pretty brazen, even by his standards. He is clearly a threat to women, as well as to politicians and government employees regardless of gender.
H/T — @TheFirstPaige
NOTE TO COMMENTERS: Please avoid describing Nolan as "crazy," or attempting to diagnose his mental health. Mental illness doesn't cause hate. And please refrain from violent language, even when it is clearly metaphorical.
Posted in: a woman is always to blame, advocacy of violence, antifeminism, crackpottery, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c), threats, your time will come
andiexist says:
@Mad Cow
I'm going to break this down for you.
A now-dead feminist committing violence many years ago is not a threat to the world of today.
A MRA today, speaking from a position of privilege, has more power to harm others. He is alive today. He is only fringe in his supposed movement because of his sovereign citizen WTFery. His violent views are mainstream in the MRM. Misogyny has produced several shooters, and you can find only one feminist one. Who is currently dead.
I think that this says something about who is taking what as a serious call to action.
Hey, anyone got any interesting folk bands? Or bands that do epics about elves, dragons and magic stuff? You guys look like you're not doing anything over here but a bad Abbott and Costello skit, so I'd just thought I'd ask.
I have a fondness for Cats Laughing. A bit old, and they only ever really did one demo tape and one album, but what else can you say about a band that has fantasy authors like Emma Bull and Steven Brust as members?
If you really want songs about elves, dragons, and magic, you might want to look at some of the filk stuff out there, folks like Leslie Fish and Urban Tapestry. Maybe skim down the Pegasus awards or the Filk Hall of Fame to find things you might like.
Pandapool -- The Species that Endangers YOU (aka Banana Jackie Cake, for those who still want to call me "Banana", "Jackie" or whatever) says:
@Jenora
There's a filk hall of fame?
Sarah McManus says:
Why should we not throw cuss words around and diagnose him when he is gleefully justifying the killing of women? This guy is a psychopath thru and thru. H needs to be put away NOW!
Limey says:
They don't need activists. They only think they do because they're terrified of losing their dominant position and becoming an equal. God, I hope no woman was stupid enough to marry any of them.
Ian, uh…you read the above post and commented on *feminist* hate?!?!
Do you even read, bro?
OK, that was weird. I just got an entire page of comments from yesterday /earlier today that wasn't there before. (It was mostly Mad Cow saying the same crap, so I guess I didn't miss much)
Skye,
The same thing happened to me. Perhaps the thread itself is rebelling against Mad Cow's boring, repetitive comments and is trying to hide them from view.
Paradoxical Intention says:
Whelp, those who fear equality benefit from inequality.
Why is this group not considered a "Terrorist Organization"? If this man is not welcome in Ireland than he is on at least 1 terrorist watch list. Humanity can only hope his group gets worldwide terrorist status and is dealt with accordingly.
Falconer says:
Steeleye Span is a group that fuses traditional Irish, Scottish and English folk songs with rock and roll. They have plenty of elves in their songs, but the fickle, vengeful kind, not the sad and benevolent sort. I love 'em.
Rhapsody is more traditionally white-boy empowerment fantasy. I had one of their albums that was largely narrative and involved fighting dragons. I think they managed to do a track with Sir Christopher Lee on another album.
To be fair, mental illness can cause hate, potentially. Anger, bitterness, etc as well.
Not the case with this guy though.
Daniel Guillot says:
SURE Murder is always the best option,,,,WERE YOU BORN STUPID OR DO YOU WATCH FOX NEWS?
weirwoodtreehugger says:
Seriously? After pages of arguments on this topic, we're doing this again?
~c200
They have plenty of elves in their songs, but the fickle, vengeful kind, not the sad and benevolent sort.
Awww yuuus.
To be fair, mental illness can cause hat–
Drezden says:
To be fair, series cancellation can cause hate,potentially.Anger, bitterness,etc as well.
So why is nobody saying "Man, that dude is really hung up on Farscape not getting another season."
spin345 says:
Reblogged this on eachone.
mrex says:
The SCUM manifesto is HILARIOUS for ONE, SINGLE, reason; it gets men who argue that graphic depictions of violence and hate against women are "jokes" upset. I don't fully believe that Solanas truly intended it as satire; after all she did shoot 2 men and used her manifesto as justification. However, as far as unintentional jokes go, it's hilarious.
So men, how do all those stereotypes and "funny" depictions of violence feel on the flip side? You men should take a shot of Valium to calm down quickly. Women have been raised since birth to be maternal caretakers of men, after all. No need to get so upset!
(/s, for thé slow.)
This man is NOT an MRA member. He is very sick and needs help.
So a guy who says he's not an MRA, explains in one of his rambling idiotic videos why he dislikes the MRA and who is roundly dismissed by those who self identify as MRAs is somehow an MRA leader in your world.
I just don't understand, I've seen this over and over. As soon as some moron spouts some anti woman bullshit, he's labelled an MRA and his opinion is seen as indicative of the movement, whether he shows any interests in men's rights at all!
I'm pretty new to all of this but as far as I can see, these MRAs simply want to bring forward discussion and highlight issues unique to men and boys. I've yet to see anyone self identifying as an MRA say anything about encouraging violence towards women or trying to have rights removed from women or anything of the sort. Honestly, you're all bloody mental!
dudeinthewoods says:
So he's not a True Scotsman then?
Maybe we label him an MRA because he has the same exact talking points as any MRA?
I mean, it's splitting hairs. Whether it's the KKK or Nazis or apartheid supporters, they're all white supremacists, so anyone who spouts anti-women rhetoric is an MRA pretty much. A Nazi is a Klan member is a "race realist".
Maybe he should try NOT doing that is he doesn't want to be called one?
Misha says:
@James,
See Paul Elam's little 'Bash a Violent Bitch Month' campaign. You know, the head honcho of the MRM.
His views on how women who flirt in bars are 'freaking begging' to get raped is also worth mentioning.
Honestly, you're all bloody mental!
Also, fuck off with your crass ableism. So human rights, much wow.
msexceptiontotherule says:
I now pronounce the angry sovereign citizen dude who has declared violent acts against women a-ok because they are the eeeeeeevil enemy which he (and supposedly other like-minded persons) at war with….a scientologist! (I thought we were playing "guess the diagnosis for the crazy-acting and insane-making"…?)
maistrechat says:
Why is this group not considered a "Terrorist Organization"?
In the US, Sovereign Citizen groups are considered an extremest group that is the most severe terrorist threat in the country. Numbers 2 and 3 were extremist Muslims and the Militia movement. Top five were:
Sovereign Citizens Islamic extremists Militia/Patriot Racist Skinheads Neo-Nazis
That's from a DHS survey of law enforcement officers.
https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_UnderstandingLawEnforcementIntelligenceProcesses_July2014.pdf
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 7:32 AM, we hunted the mammoth wrote:
> msexceptiontotherule commented: "I now pronounce the angry sovereign > citizen dude who has declared violent acts against women a-ok because they > are the eeeeeeevil enemy which he (and supposedly other like-minded > persons) at war with….a scientologist! (I thought we were playing "guess > t"
What. A. Surprise, the antifeminists are bringing up Valerie Solanas and S.C.U.M. Manifesto. This has become so predictable that we should add it to the antifeminist bingo card.
Do you know why antifeminists always bring up Valerie Solanas and her manifesto? It's because it is literally the only example of blatant misandry that they can think of. There have been no other feminists that have called for the extermination of men. On the other hand, there have been innumerable men who have advocated for the abuse and murder of women – many of whom we extol as brilliant philosophers, such as Nietzsche. Nobody thinks of Solanas as anything more than a crackpot, yet many men who hate women are admired and looked up to. Fact is, men do not have to worry about women murdering them for being men as much as women worry about men killing them, so kindly STFU about Valerie Solanas, who has been dead for over 25 years.
no other examples of misandry?
Did you drink out of your 'male tears' mug whilst writing this?
#killallmen
How come people with delusions of grandeur never use their imaginary status for benevolent purposes? No Supreme Emperors of Earth granting all the citizens a holiday and a scoop of ice cream in their choice of flavor?
This reminded me of something George Carlin said: "What do you think about some guy who hears a voice in his head that tells him to kill his entire family, and he does it? Is that the only thing these voices ever tell paranoid guys to do? Kill people? Doesn't a voice ever say, 'Go take a shit on the salad bar at Wendy's'?"
I would add to my comment at 1:49 that the fact that these people need to go back 40+ years to find a truly man-hating feminist is evidence that their theory of rampant misandry doesn't hold any water. We could fill a library with the names of women-hating men, but MRA's keep mentioning the same woman. What does that tell you?
Did you drink out of your 'male tears' mug whilst writing this
Yep, as a matter of fact, I did.
The kill all men hashtag was all done by trolling 4 channers, not feminists.
Double or nothing James mentions that T-shirt in his next comment.
That t-shirt
Anna Nymus says:
"Do you know why antifeminists always bring up Valerie Solanas and her manifesto? It's because it is literally the only example of blatant misandry that they can think of. "
One MRA I was recently arguing with cited "International Castration Day", which I had never heard of before. When I looked it up I found it was a really obvious parody piece (over the top, in your face Monty-Python level of subtlety) by a self proclaimed anti-feminist and intactivist, yet there were a bunch of MRA's, including Paul Elam, enraged and apparently incapable of making that distinction.
B. Careful says:
Peter Nolan had a beef with columnists Sam Brett and the the now departed Sam De Brito. Here is one of his missives on 'crimesagainstfathers.com n the 5/8/2012 where he speaks of killing and eating women.
I think it is safe to say this is dangerous paranoid delusional behaviour….
"So…I kind of wondered why you even bothered allowing one post to stand…..I am wondering if your knowledge now that these evil men you serve give women breast cancer while handing them houses with the other hand might not be unbalancing you just a bit. I am wondering if knowing that they are making every effort to get a bird flu pandemic underway as well as a collapse of the food chain and water supply might not be disturbing you.
You see…I have already made up my mind how I will survive the coming maelstrom…..the holocaust…..if I survive the first nuclear/biological attacks…..You want to know how? If pushed, I will likely have to kill women to eat them. They will be one of the few plentiful sources of protein and liquid around. Just the healthy ones mind you….Now, some women find that notion 'upsetting'. Why? Women are constantly abusing men and kicking them to the gutter and laughing about it. Men are committing suicide at 4x the background population rate in divorce. And all that is completely un-necessary…it is driven simply by the greed and selfishness of women programmed into them by evil men and enabled by a corrupted legal system. Women do not HAVE to do this. Whereas, when the global holocaust comes, there will be no food to eat. Men, being larger and physically stronger, are simply going to have to kill those people less able to defend themselves to survive. And if you think there are not a LOT of men who would do this, try reading the stats on just how many men have been kicked to the gutter over the last 30 years by greedy women.
If I were you Sam, as a twenty something, I would be very, very worried about your future. Because if the Illuminati win, you are 80-90% probability to end up dead. And if you survive you are a 100% probability to be enslaved. If you want to hear their plan, listen to Gordon Brown in Congress last week. If you knew what to look for that speech should scare the hell out of you.
Lunetta says:
I've just discovered this guy Andrew Nolan in the last couple of days and I can't adequately express how unnerving I find him. I went to a couple of his websites, including his business website, looked at some of his videos, and read some of his rants. What strikes me, especially as an Australian myself, is how normal he comes across. I've known men exactly like this creep. I've worked with them, had them as middle managers to report to, hell I've even been in relationships with pricks like him, when I was young(er) & stupid(er). The calm, smug, self-satisfied way of talking, of threatening violence, of sexism. His confidence in his own superiority, intelligence and uniqueness. Ugh. It's all just so close to home. It's very unsettling.
Are you kidding me???? Oh you dont want comments on this guy's mental state? Ok, how about, this is a sorry joke. And the female that birthed this creature hopefully disowned him years ago. I could write a lot more but have no interest in feeding this thing's ego by endowing him with more credibility than he deserves.
weirwoodtreehugger: communist bonobo says:
Nice dehumanizing language. You're going to oppose misogyny by referring to the misogynist's mother as "a female?" Really?
Daria says:
Oh no!! Valerie Solanas!! Targetting men?? Feminists are monsters!!…. Oh wait…Honor killings, acid attacks, rape, revenge porn, war, Elliot Rodgers http://m.ranker.com/list/famous-serial-killers-of-women/ranker-crime
Most serial killers and 90% of all murderers are male. And here I was worrying that misandry had become an epidemic..
Men Going Their Own Way celebrate "I Hate Valentine's Day" February 14, 2016
Janet Bloomfield booted from Twitter, hopefully for good October 9, 2014
All you need is love. Also, misogyny, and a side order of homophobia. April 11, 2012
>Earthquakes and Ideologues March 17, 2011
Blazing hot takes on mail bombs from the #MAGA crowd October 25, 2018