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Silence is deadly: The importance of communication in addressing wellness and burnout in surgical residency
By Meghana V. Kashyap, MD, DIM&PH, Melissa Red Hoffman, MD, ND, Erica K. Ludi, MD and Crystal N. Johnson-Mann, MD
PUBLISHED August 1, 2019 • Print-Friendly
Walk in the shoes of a junior surgery resident for a day. Wake up at 4:30 am to another dark morning and drive to work. Do a chart check and note the pertinent data on the list for the team. The chief resident, exhausted after being called in overnight, is irritated that information is missing from the list and chides you to be more thorough. Pre-round with the team. The nursing staff is annoyed that their 6:00 am pages and orders have yet to be addressed. Rush to the preoperative holding area to receive consent from a patient who is vexed that he hasn't spoken to the attending and wants assurance that the attending, not a resident, will perform the operation. Scurry to write notes and place orders from pre-rounding as the patient is rolled into the operating room (OR).
As you finish up and respond to pages, the attending walks in and is peeved that the patient isn't positioned and prepped yet. During the procedure, your attending allows you to perform some portions of the operation but takes over at the critical portion without explaining why or offering suggestions on how you could improve your technique. Your pager goes off multiple times, and the sighs emanating from the circulating nurse make it clear that he is irritated about answering your pages. Scrub out and rush to finish the brief postop note and orders while returning several more pages. The anesthesia team is now irritated that you are sitting at the computer instead of helping to transfer the patient to the postoperative acute care unit (PACU) bed. You leave the paperwork incomplete and go to PACU with your patient.
Next, you run off to a consult and check on a few floor patients, complete the preoperative consult on the next patient, and return to the OR in time to prep and position the patient to avoid upsetting the attending again. Notify your chief resident of the consult and plan, but you don't hear back until you're scrubbed in; scrub out. Your chief is annoyed that you didn't meet her to see the consult. Your attending wants to round, so you tell the chief and finalize the consult plan together after rounds. The night float intern sends you a text at 7:00 pm, expressing concern that he is getting paged about patients whom you have yet to discharge. Respond to the pages and finish your notes and orders. At 9:00 pm, you finally sign out. Head home in the dark with reading to do for the next day. Never mind food, exercise, or any other method of self-care. Never mind that you need to vent, haven't spoken to your friends and family in a week, and have neither the time nor energy to make those phone calls. Instead, you finish your reading, and get four hours of sleep until the alarm wakes you at 4:30 am. Rinse and repeat.
These daily slights, whether nonverbal (sighs or eye rolls) or verbal, are noticeable. How we communicate within our teams, among our fellow residents, with our attendings, the OR staff, and our patients, directly affects every aspect of our professional lives. Brief, negative interactions add up. As medical students, many of us were taught that the patient's needs should take priority over our own. This mantra is reinforced throughout surgical training. Expressing our needs—whether physical, emotional, or spiritual—can result in backlash from our colleagues within the surgical community.
In her 2018 Academic Surgical Congress presidential address, Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD, FACS, discussed the fallacy of how we romantically or heroically view our surgical culture of "strength and invincibility," commenting that "it is even more flawed in its assertion that a surgeon who allows himself or herself to be vulnerable is unworthy of being a trusted and respected colleague."¹
This article reviews the effect of communication on resident wellness and offers evidence-based solutions to encourage transparency and disrupt the culture of silence in a positive manner.
One of the foundations of cognitive behavioral therapy is self-instructional training—the process of identifying negative self-talk and reframing these statements into positive thoughts.² This method of cognitive behavioral modification has been used to treat many mental health conditions, including anxiety, attention deficit disorder, and depression. Neuroimaging studies have shown that forms of self-talk, such as third-person self-talk, can help an individual regulate emotional responses to stressful situations.³ In sports psychology, positive self-talk has been associated with improved performance. In a 1995 study, Van Raalte and colleagues instructed participants to say, "You can do it," "You cannot do it," or nothing at all before throwing darts. Study subjects who said "You can do it" displayed a statistically significant more accurate performance than individuals who said "You cannot do it" or those who said nothing.4 Recently, the idea of positive self-talk has been further classified into two distinct categories: motivational self-talk, such as "I've got this," and instructional self-talk like "watch the finish line."
A meta-analysis of the effect of self-talk on sports and task performance identified three points that translate well to surgical residency. First, instructional self-talk has a greater impact on fine motor skills than on gross motor tasks. Second, although it leads to improvement in both well-learned and novel tasks, self-talk has a higher impact on novel task performance. Finally, training subjects in positive self-talk results in more immediate results and a larger effect (see Table 1).5 Because operating requires fine motor skills, the ability to adapt to unexpected findings, and an expectation of leadership during stressful situations both in and out of the OR, surgical residents may benefit from training in positive self-talk.
Despite the 80-hour per week duty-hour limits, surgical residents still spend most of their time at work. We often spend more time with our colleagues than with our families and friends. As most practicing surgeons can attest, this way of life extends well beyond residency. Therefore, our daily interactions at work certainly can affect our well-being both in and out of the hospital.
One of the more frequent interactions residents have is with nursing staff and other nonphysician team members. Several studies explore interprofessional communication between physicians and other health care professionals, including physical therapists, occupational therapists, and social workers. In one case study comparing hospitalists and consultant internists at community hospitals, three themes were identified as playing a significant role in positive communication dynamics. First, in-house hospitalists were more available, leading to improved, more efficient communication. In contrast, consultants were less likely to have developed long-term relationships with the other health care team members, leading to more formality and even reduced communication. Finally, team members felt that consultant units were physician-centered and did not foster a collaborative environment.6
In a similar study of two urban teaching hospitals, interprofessional communication was found to be poor between physicians, nursing, and allied health staff. Intraprofessional rounds were prioritized over interprofessional rounds, and during these rounds the most frequent communication was between physicians and other team members, without mutual discussion of patients. Unscheduled interactions that occurred outside of rounds were infrequent and tended toward abrupt question-answer formats between physicians and nurses rather than the more extensive exchange of ideas between nurses and allied health care professionals.7
Multiple studies have examined the communication patterns between surgical residents and nurses. In a 2016 study of 31 nurses and 18 surgical trainees at two Canadian academic medical centers, researchers reported multiple themes that impaired interprofessional communication. The surgical residents experienced nurses as territorial and disrespectful of their clinical knowledge, whereas nurses felt residents were inattentive to their clinical concerns and had a poor understanding of the nurses' role on the team.8 However, another 2016 study of 38 surgical interns and 11 nursing students found that participation in an eight-hour interprofessional training session improved attitudes toward collaboration in both groups. Postsession interviews revealed that both groups gained clarity regarding the roles of both interns and nurses on the team.9 These studies shed light on several ways that we, as residents, can improve communication and engage in more positive and effective interactions with our colleagues, including the following:
Be available and attentive
Develop positive relationships
Foster a collaborative team environment
Respect others' training and expertise
Several studies have explored communication patterns between surgeons and other physicians, with general surgeons tending to exhibit more aggressive verbal communication.10,11 As a result, there has been a push for culture change.12 A 2015 qualitative study of communication between surgeons and intensivists defined "good" and "bad" communication.12
Good communication occurred when both teams felt they were heard and were working toward a mutual goal for the patient. This communication was possible despite multiple barriers that can exist between surgical and intensive care unit (ICU) teams, including cultural differences and the presence of closed ICUs, wherein decisional authority is limited to the intensivist.
Poor communication occurred when team members felt their knowledge and experience were undervalued and seemed to stem, in part, from discrepancies between how clinicians rated their own experience versus how other health care professionals viewed their experience. In an outpatient setting, a survey of primary care physicians (PCPs) and specialists demonstrated disparate perceptions as well.13 Specialists believed they effectively communicated results back to PCPs but did not receive adequate information in the referral, whereas PCPs believed they effectively communicated information regarding the consultation but did not receive follow-up information from the referrals. Through continued research and identification of discordant perceptions that surgeons and physician colleagues have of each other, we can begin addressing the problem through team-building simulation and training.
One of the most significant examples of surgeon-team communication occurs in the OR, where surgeons are viewed as leaders. Using a validated scoring system, a 2017 retrospective review of surgeon behavior during complex operations shed light on how a task-focused leadership style is less effective than a team-oriented approach.14 Different types of behavior affected scoring of surgeon leadership, including exhibiting specific voice behavior, allowing a safe space for team members to vocalize concerns, encouraging cooperative behavior, fostering a collaborative environment, and sharing knowledge. The highest-scoring surgeon engaged all team members in the room upon entering the OR, discussed the plan for the case with the anesthesiologist, allowed the surgical resident to offer input on the case, and maintained enthusiasm throughout the operation.
In a conceptual model of disruptive surgeon behavior in the OR, participants (nurses, scrub technicians, medical students, residents, and anesthesiologists) identified four coping strategies:15
Speaking with others for support
Externalizing the behavior so that it is taken less personally
Avoiding the surgeon
Warning others as an altruistic effort to prevent similar episodes of disruptive behavior
Similar to the study of interprofessional training for surgical interns and nursing students mentioned previously,9 Awad and colleagues instituted medical team training using multiple instructional modalities and followed implementation of the learned skills on preoperative briefings.16 Surgery and anesthesia personnel rated improved perception of communication between team members after four months of enacting these preoperative briefings. Numerous other publications have highlighted interventions to improve the atmosphere in the OR and team dynamics. The key to all of these enhancements is communication.
Ultimately, communication has the most meaningful impact on the patient. By far the most important interaction that surgical residents have on a daily basis is the time spent with patients and families. However, as all residents know, patients and their families commonly assume that "the doctor" has not rounded on them until the attending shows up, despite how often a resident has rounded on the patient throughout the day. How residents communicate with patients can affect the treatment they receive from patients, nurses, attendings, and other members of the health care team. Multiple simulated models assess and intervene on resident-patient interactions. Senior residents tend to score higher on these evaluations, suggesting that communication skills improve over time.17-20 Objective, structured clinical exams with standardized patients are commonly administered in medical school and during the Step 2 Clinical Skills portion of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam; however, these assessments are no longer performed when surgical residency begins. Published simulation models and validated patient-centered assessment tools clearly demonstrate the importance of early education and continued assessment of resident-patient communication skills.
Surgical residents often are reluctant to speak up and may fall prey to the culture of silence because of the hierarchical nature of our field.21 In an attempt to address this code of silence and encourage residents to voice their concerns, one group studied the "two-challenge rule" as a method for residents to communicate concerns in a nonthreatening manner during a debriefing session.22
Anesthesia residents were subjects in two simulated cases in which a faculty anesthesiologist, an attending surgeon, and a circulating nurse introduced communication challenges. After the first case, a debriefing session allowed residents to reflect on their responses or lack thereof. They were then taught the two-challenge rule, which calls for using advocacy-inquiry language, such as, "I see that you want to administer succinylcholine to this patient. She has a 40 percent total body surface area (TBSA) burn. Can you clarify the choice of medication?" If the first challenge is ignored or insufficiently answered, the resident is encouraged to repeat with their critical thinking. "I see that you want to administer succinylcholine to this patient with a 40 percent TBSA burn. I have learned that this medication is contraindicated and may cause fatal hyperkalemia. Should we use vecuronium as an alternative?" The analysis was notable for increased verbalization on the behalf of the resident using "crisp advocacy-inquiry language" to relay concerns to the attending surgeon and faculty anesthesiologist following the debriefing session between Case A and Case B, with no significant change in communication patterns between the resident and nurse. This finding highlights the benefits of the two-challenge rule as an effective means of improving communication between trainee and faculty by overcoming potential hierarchy-related barriers to improve teamwork when patient safety is the concern.
As stated previously, how we communicate throughout the day affects every aspect of our lives. The positive interactions we have with others can lead to a sense of personal fulfillment and community; conversely, negative interactions lead to a sense of frustration, anger, loneliness, or despair. Training residents in evidence-based communication and leadership skills, with amplification of the resident voice, can improve morale, provide a sense of belonging, and remind residents that they are valued members of the patient care team.
When team communication breaks down, patients are the first to be affected, and residents often are next. When plans are made during morning rounds, the most junior resident typically is tasked with completing the orders, writing the notes, and seeing the consults, despite the fact that he or she may have the least knowledge regarding the drugs ordered or the procedures performed. Often, even if there is a question about the utility of a certain drug or the reason for the treatment plan, no time is allotted to critically think and discuss the situation with the senior resident. Similarly, senior residents are too busy managing rounds and rushing to the OR to engage in a discourse with the attendings. This lack of communication can lead not only to a failed learning opportunity, but also to patient harm or provider self-harm.
Rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) and death by suicide are higher among physicians than in the general population. It is estimated that 300 to 400 physicians die each year from suicide, double the rate of the general population.23 Risk factors for MDD and suicide include work demands, sleep deprivation, poor nutrition and fitness, desensitization to illness and death in the workplace, increased administrative oversight, access to medication, and burnout.24 A survey of members of the American College of Surgeons demonstrated that suicidal ideation is associated with burnout, symptoms of depression, and perceived medical error in the last three months. Unfortunately, of the 7 percent of survey respondents who expressed suicidal ideation in the previous 12 months, only 26 percent sought help.25
Barriers to physicians seeking help include the stigma of mental illness, concern for negative consequences on medical licensing and insurance coverage, and the perception that others will find them less competent.24,26,27 Consequently, many physicians, including surgeons, suffer in silence, missing out on the opportunity to connect with colleagues who are having similar experiences, as well as the opportunity to engage with people who may be able to connect them with available resources. Studies have shown that 40–50 percent of patients who die by suicide have seen a primary care physician within one month of their death, and 17 percent within one week; however, they did not discuss their symptoms, suicidal ideation, or plans.28
Communication is paramount for identifying and addressing burnout, depressive symptoms, and suicide risk. Prompting conversation, commiserating, and sharing experiences is the first step toward identifying distress and reducing stigma within the medical community. Once the doors of communication are opened, referrals to the appropriate resources can follow.
Wellness among trainees and faculty has become a major discussion point in surgery, and more studies are needed to determine root causes and appropriate interventions. Several surgical residency programs are paving the way and leading by example.
After a beloved surgical colleague committed suicide just months after completing residency, the Stanford University, CA, surgical residency program director and multiple residents collaborated to develop the Balance in Life program in 2011 to address key factors affecting resident physician well-being.29 In this program, residents are provided with the following resources: 24-hour access to healthy snacks and drinks, an after-hours guide to the city, scheduled group counseling, a senior-to-junior resident mentorship program, elected class representatives who express concerns to the program director at regularly scheduled meetings, and sponsored group social events. Objective measures, such as burnout and general psychological well-being, were not significantly different after introducing this program, but the surveyed residents expressed generally positive responses to all six of the program's resource areas. Furthermore, most of the residents attended the psychological counseling sessions and felt that debriefing with colleagues who shared similar experiences was of value. Although a stigma is still attached to counseling, with many residents hesitant to express personal emotions in a group setting, what we glean from Stanford's intervention is that training programs should create the physical space and time for commiserating and sharing to occur.
Similarly, the University of Arizona, Tucson, general surgery program implemented the Energy Leadership Well-Being and Resiliency Program developed by a professional coach along with the residents and program leadership.30 In this program, residents attend monthly interactive sessions during protected educational time, and topics such as leadership, team building, and communication are addressed. Although objective measures did not show statistically significant decreases in burnout (similar to the findings of the Stanford University program), components of burnout, such as emotional exhaustion, professional efficacy, and perceived stress, did improve. Positive trends also were demonstrated in areas such as self-rated satisfaction with communication skills, leadership ability, and work relationships. Ultimately, program satisfaction in the annual Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education survey increased to 96 percent from 80 percent.
More local and national programs are being developed out of the concern for, and personal experiences with, physician burnout and depression. After suffering from both conditions, Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, an acute care surgeon in Philadelphia, PA, started the LiveWell Physicians program.31 This weekly physician peer support group provides a safe forum for the confidential expression of stress and negative emotions, while also providing the skills to recognize and address symptoms of burnout and depression. The program seeks to destigmatize seeking counseling from mental health professionals.
Communication is the common thread that is intricately woven into every aspect of our daily lives as physicians. From evaluating the impact of positive self-talk to examining the methods in which we positively (or negatively) communicate among ourselves and with other health care professionals, it is clear that the effects on our well-being cannot be ignored. Failure to effectively communicate on one level can compound on multiple additional levels, with significant and long-lasting consequences. Understanding and appreciating the value of effective communication is, without question, an important factor in physician wellness and, ultimately, in maintaining career satisfaction and minimizing burnout. Ensuring the ready availability of training resources for teaching effective communication skills and implementing wellness-focused initiatives are paramount to moving the needle forward in this increasingly important area in order to preemptively address small issues before they manifest into larger and potentially fatal outcomes.
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On Saturday morning at 6.30am, a stream of cyclists flowed over Chapman's Peak, including children, geriatrics, people with rusted old bikes, carbon frames worth more than most cars, tandem bikes, a man lying on a recumbent bike pedalling with his arms, a foot-long string of mucus and sweat swinging from the tip of a nose.
A pro-looking rider wore a perfectly matched kit of pink, baby blue, black and white, with black socks that were not too long and not too short, stopping just the bulge of where his shaved calf muscle is supposed to start. He had mirrored eye shades (the glasses' arms pass over, not under, the helmet straps – strict fashion code). His expensive drinks glowed colourfully from his ride bottles.
He was passed by a sweat-drenched, hairy-legged man wearing his helmet backwards who forgot his water bottle at home.
The bikes took up both lanes, swerving, speeding, and stopping without warning.
A surfer on the way to the beach leaned on his hooter in frustration and slowly manoeuvred his car through the crowd. On the Hout Bay end of the pass, stop-go roadworks constrained the flow. When the marshals nodded and the light turned green, there was a clatter of steel-cleated shoes on pedals as a few dozen bikers set off up the hill.
A group rode ahead of the wobbling mass, their legs turning at a confident, steady cadence. Most of them used light road bikes with narrow smooth tyres. But the group was led by two very skinny men on mountain bikes. Kookily, they wore matching outfits. Even though their knobbly off-road tyres fought and ground hard against the tar, the roadies in the group could barely keep up with them.
Saturday was a typical scene for February and March in Cape Town.
This coming Sunday about 35 000 people are planning to ride around the peninsula in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Momentum Cycle Tour. Many of them have not crammed a saddle between their thighs since the 2013 tour. So they dusted off their bikes and sat on their saddles with a collective wince with just six weeks to spare. This was when Saturday mornings on Chappies became a carnival. One Saturday, the road was spotted with a few grizzled die-hards around pairs of mountain bikers, the next Saturday it was a sweating, huffing community.
And the mountain bike duos? They are a typical sight around the country this time of year. A few hundred of them emerge from about November.
They are not training for the Argus, although many will ride it. Their knobbly tyres will buzz in the roadies' ears like an aural rash – an irritating reminder for the latter that they didn't train as hard as planned (mountain bikes are supposed to be slow on tar).
The only reason the skinny pairs are riding over the tarred Chappies pass is that there is not enough rideable dirt trail on the peninsula to suit them. On a Saturday morning they will ride every gravel road and rocky single track that they can find between Signal Hill and Cape Point. The long stretches of blacktop – beautiful though Chappies may be – are just a necessary evil linking the dirt.
The pairs are preparing for the Absa Cape Epic at the end of this month. Teams of two compete in the race. So for eight days and about 700km, the teammates – who will have gotten to know each other a little too well over the preceding months – will nurse and push each other through some of the hardest mountain racing in the world.
The Epic is a gruelling thing to attempt, demanding months of obsession, rigorous training schedules laid out on calendars or spreadsheets for five to six days and 12 to 25 hours a week, depending on ambitions.
Thousands of rands are spent on broken parts, bike services, and attending preceding warm-up races. Beer intake is often, sadly, cut down, coupled with other horrible diet fads. Regular body weighing becomes a normal thing to do because a good power-to-weight ratio is critical.
My Epic partner Rory van Zyl and I are caught up in this obsession. He is at a stage where most of his friends are getting married, and goes by bike to countryside weddings or bachelors' parties.
It was my birthday last Thursday, and instead of lazily waking to a loving embrace, coffee, croissants and text messages from friends like I should have, my alarm beeped long before anyone else awoke, and I reached for my tired lycra and headed out into the dawn.
After this Sunday, most bikes will go back into storage and cars will again be able to drive freely on the city's mountain passes. But for three weeks after that, until the Cape Epic starts on March 23, the pairs will keep on riding as if the Argus had never happened.
Then, for a time, even the pairs will stay home to spend some time with their loved ones, leaving just the grizzled veterans to brave the winter.


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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Word of a coyote attack on a small dog has San Francisco residents on edge.
A man says a coyote attacked his dog "Eddie" in Stern Grove Wednesday. Eddie is in the ICU at the Animal Internal Medicine Hospital in the Sunset District.
Residents in the area say they have spotted coyotes in the park before. Eddie's owner says the fire department saved the dog from the coyote.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise $15,000 for Eddie's vet bills.
So far, more over $7,000 has been raised.


So Eric Worre (NetworkMarketingPro.com) asks a really thought provoking question in the video I've embedded below. It definitely gets right to the point about the fact there's work to be done if you are in network marketing. You have to work at network marketing just as hard as you work at your job if you want success.
Think about it. Network marketing has the potential to generate several thousand $$ each week. So it would make sense that you would spend some money on advertising and lead generation in order to earn those dollars. Right?
Assuming you said yes, you'll give some serious thought to Worre's question (if you said no, you must have fallen prey to the "something for nothing" and "we do it all for you" hucksters. Yeah they still exist.). Worre asks "how many presentations/week would you require of someone you hired to do them for you at a cost of $1,000/week"?
Interesting question. Doesn't matter what number you came up with. If you personally are not doing that number of presentations/week, then why would you expect a hired gun to do it? Presumably the number of presentations you do or get done for you, is based on how many convert to sales and revenue. And that revenue has to match your net income goal. You have to work at network marketing to reach those income goals. Or pay someone else to do the work.
You'll see that Worre's audience was all over the map with their predictions (5/week to hundreds/week). A common number was 15-25 presentations per week. But then his next question is even more interesting.
Do You Really Work At Network Marketing?
"How many presentation have you done this week, this month; have you done 25 in the whole month?" Well for me personally I'm working on it, but honestly have had to work hard at getting to an average of 1/day.
He says the hard facts are that most network marketers do absolutely nothing. I've been calling a lot of "former network marketers" recently and I can tell you that's probably true. And the worst part is the people involved blame everything and everybody else for their lack of success. I've heard "I lost a lot of money on those scams!" quite a few times.
The sad part is they undoubtedly did lose a bunch of money. But they didn't lose it on scams. Those folks lost it because they were either told or a least expected that all they had to do was sign up and the money would come flowing in. They somehow believed the laws of business do not apply to network marketing. They bought into the idea you don't have to work at network marketing like any other business. Or any job for that matter.
The laws of business do apply. You have to invest time, money and work. You gotta have ambition, passion and drive to succeed in network marketing just like any other business. If you worked as hard at your network marketing business as you do at your job, you'd be fabulously rich!
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Baby's Best Beginnings Foundations is a collection of 21 core lectures on Ayurvedic Postpartum Care and Nutrition recorded by the late Ysha Oakes in 2014. It's for anyone who wants to know the basics of how to take care of postpartum mothers and their newborns using the principles and practices of Ayurveda. Everyone is welcome to join us for this wonderful program, including moms, partners, family and friends, or professionals who do not want recognition or credits for completion.
This online course also includes 10 webinars about Ayurveda and Ayurvedic nutrition, along with course notes. It's just the basics, but it will help make the rest of the course easier to understand!
Recommended to all students who take this home study course! Please also purchase our treasured downloadable books on postpartum care entitled, Touching Heaven: Tonic Postpartum Care and Recipes with Ayurveda, also by Ysha Oakes. The webinars are meant to be accompanied by these books. For those who purchase this course now, we offer the books for only $22.50 (normally $30 in our Bookstore). Order the discounted book from inside the Baby's Best Beginnings classroom after you register.
Baby's Best Beginnings materials have long been a part of our professional Ayudoula training program, so it may seem a bit Ayurved-techie at times. But, this compilation of our core courses provides the practical foundation of Ayurvedic methods for postpartum care that have been around for thousands of years, and largely lost to modern care models — so it's worth it to dive in regardless of your background.
If you are new to Ayurvedic principles, make sure you first listen to the 12 hour introduction to Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Nutrition that is part of this course.
Each lecture consists of pre-recorded webinar(s) and support materials. When you register for this course, you will gain access to our easy to use student google-site for Baby's Best Beginnings, with downloadable class notes and access to all recordings.
To view and listen to our recordings you just need a current PC or MAC with which you can easily watch live streaming video such as a YouTube clip. We do not provide technical support; if you are having difficulties, first try refreshing your screen, or ask someone who knows more about computers than you do. Our webinar recording host is AnyMeeting.com; they provide an easy to use support site.
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Who is Kevin Owens, and why should John Cena be very afraid?
Meet Kevin Owens. He's 6 feet tall, 266 pounds, and he loves to fight.
Owens is also the reigning NXT Champion, which is why it was such a shock to the WWE Universe when he answered John Cena's U.S. Open Challenge on Raw not with a match, but with a brawl, pounding The Champ into the mat with his Pop-up Powerbomb and scuffing the Stars and Bars with his boot to end the brawl. To those unfamiliar with NXT, this might seem like an act of pure insurgency, but for anyone who knows Kevin Owens, it's sort of his thing.
The big French-Canadian has been fighting people for, as he said, the better part of 15 years, long before Cena himself ever laced up his first pair of boots in WWE. Before landing in NXT in 2014, Owens was known, like several other NXT standouts, for his time on the independent scene. Bouncing across various promotions, most notably Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerilla and Combat Zone Wrestling, Owens captured four independent World Championships as well as CZW's hard-boiled "Iron Man Championship," which Owens held for the longest-recorded reign at 364 days.
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Known in some circles as "Wrestling's Worst Nightmare," Owens had a knack for unhinged brutality; he did not wrestle people so much as fight them. Unlike Daniel Bryan's Gordian submission holds and Neville's high-flying acrobatics, Owens dealt in the same shattered bones and torn cartilage as a back-alley brawler. He does not employ a single maneuver in his arsenal that isn't designed for maximum pain. What he lacks in flair he makes up for in efficiency, and the list of broken bodies in his wake is extensive and impressive. Among his victims were younger versions of Cesaro, Seth Rollins and, most notoriously, Sami Zayn. Considered to be the best of friends and the greatest of rivals, the duo traded blows across Ring of Honor in a rivalry that went on for three years, until Owens finally piledrove Zayn through a ladder.
Despite all that street cred, it was never a guarantee that Owens would eventually make it to WWE. That he did was a result of how hard he fought — literally and figuratively — to do so, cashing in on his opponents' broken bones to put food on the table for his family. Eventually, all those prizefights landed him in a prized position. Owens signed with NXT in 2014 and, not long after putting ink to paper, left some blood on the mat to boot.
He debuted against CJ Parker at NXT TakeOver: R Evolution in December 2014, in a match he won handily despite suffering a palm to the face that left him with a nose in only the loosest sense of the word. (To this day, Parker is the only Superstar to cause Owens any lasting damage.) Almost immediately afterward, Owens resumed his rivalry with Zayn, attacking moments after The Underdog From the Underground 's emotional NXT Championship victory by powerbombing him spine-first into the ring apron. Sami was never the same after that and Owens feasted upon his friend's remains (one can only imagine what he'll do to Cena, a guy he doesn't like, when he nearly ended the career of the guy he respects), winning the title off of Zayn in a rare TKO decision at NXT TakeOver: Rival in 2015.
Owens' work in NXT — he has fielded challenges from Neville, high-flying hellraiser Finn Bálor and a raged-up Alex Riley — combined with his imposing presence and skills on the microphone has made him a force to be reckoned with in Full Sail and holding a surefire ticket to main-roster success in his back pocket. Nobody thought it would be this soon, of course, and nobody thought John Cena would be the guy he'd pick a fight with, least of all Cena himself. But it happened, he's here, and he got his bout with The Champ to boot — a fight Cena may wish he never got, should he become acquainted spine-first with the apron in the same way the sainted Sami Zayn did at NXT TakeOver: REvolution.
So now you know who Kevin Owens is. The logical follow-up is to ask what's next. The same thing that's always next: Fight, Owens, fight.
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You don't automatically get one JACK port per track, but there's something even better!
In the latest version, you can create Jack ports in Preferences->Audio->Output Buses->Add Stereo. Just create as many ports as you like, give them meaningful names, and then you can use them anywhere you like within the Bitwig routing system.
If you want to export individual tracks, just go to Mix view and set the track output to the port(s) you created. You can do the same for receiving sound - just assign a track input.
Well the answer doesn't tell you that these ports that you can add can't be JACK ports. So this is a big problem for Linux users like I pointed out here.
They are JACK ports actually. It works great on my end. I add the ports and can patch into them via JACK.
Ha, if history tells me anything about Linux I'll bet I can't either. But I'll take a look in case I see something different on my end anyhow.
@scazan Bitwig studio is advertised as a Linux DAW. So it should properly implement Linux JACK server which is used in all Linux distributions to get a realtime OS response. Enabling insertion of JACK ports is crutial, but Bitwig can't do that... Sorry but this is not a Linux problem at all and Bitwig GMBH should really hire some competent JACK experts who will do the job like it's supposed to be done.
How do i correctly setup audio under Linux?
How do i reconnect to jack after changing settings without restarting Bitwig Studio?
Will the Linux version of Bitwig Studio support JACK and ALSA?


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38-Year Old Pinay Kept Her New Year's Resolution and Started Life Over
How Madie Dinglasan fights addiction with fitness and found a way to start over.
by Samantha Ramos-Zaragoza | Aug 4, 2018
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Madie turned to alcoholism after experiencing burnout from 16 years of work in sales and marketing. At the dawn of 2017, she decided it was time to get better. IMAGE Courtesy of Madie Dinglasan
With every beat of her Pound drumsticks, 38 year-old fitness instructor Madeleine Pfiffner-Dinglasan commits to a purpose she hadn't realized until recently, a purpose that drives her to constantly be better not just for herself but for those she wishes to inspire. With every tedious action she allows her body to go through, with every sweat she sheds, and with every challenge she openly accepts, the passion to keep moving, changing, and motivating blossoms. Her story is about sheer will and what happens to a person who completely embraces progress in its every form: from physical, mental, to emotional.
And all that progress just happened in a little over a year.
What seemed to be under control at first spiralled into an addiction.
"Towards the end of 2016, I had a wake up call. I was depressed, I had no self worth, and I was drinking my problems away. I was an alcoholic and I needed help," Madie opened up. With a fruitful career in Sales and Marketing that spanned for 16 years, the wife and mother faced a circumstance that comes with a highly stressful working environment. The craft she's adept in eventually burned her out leaving her feeling unaccomplished, exhausted, and unfulfilled. She couldn't figure out what was it that she was missing no matter what she did. She turned to alcohol to help her destress and relax. What seemed to be under control at first spiralled into an addiction.
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At that moment, when she was stuck in a rut and realized what has become of her, the gears clicked in motion. This is where most inspirational stories like hers unfold. When left with a choice and only one's will, should you choose to succumb and remain with the status quo or do you write your own story and commit to progress? Madie chose the latter and marked a special occasion to prove herself right. She made a New Year resolution at the dawn of 2017. "I needed to find help and to stop my drinking and smoking. This was not an easy task because I would crave my alcohol fix as early as 1 in the afternoon. I knew I had to shift my addiction to something else. I needed to keep myself busy and try something new."
"I wanted to be a living testimony of how change can be accomplished."
Dance Aerobics classes were being held in her neighborhood and she attended four times a week to divert her attention from alcohol. At 190 pounds and what she described as a very unhealthy and toxic lifestyle, she found it extremely difficult. She was constantly out of breath compared to the other women in her class that were much older than her. But instead of giving up, she used the challenge to motivate her. The cravings haunted her, but every time she faced it with exercise she remembered her need to start over. "A new life for me was in order and I wasn't going to quit. Not anymore. I was on the verge of losing my family, friends, and myself. I remembered one night, I just prayed and prayed, I asked God to just put me where He wants me to be. I surrendered myself to Him. I needed to be healed and guided," she shared.
Just a few months after, she felt she had a new lease on life, a second chance to do something about her situation and her story. She was able to break free from the bondage of addiction and people found inspiration with her transformation. "This was the same inspiration that then made me want to be a fitness instructor, so that I could help inspire others that needed help the way I did. I wanted to be a living testimony of how change can be accomplished."
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After completing a course as a Group Fitness Instructor, she yearned to keep learning more. She then signed up for the Asian Fitness Convention in Thailand. "That's where I saw Pound Rockout Workout. The word 'Rockout' caught my attention and I did some research. When I saw their video, the heavens opened the door for me. That was it, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, what I wanted to teach, and what I wanted to excel in." In the official website, Pound is described as an "exhilarating full-body workout that combines cardio, conditioning, and strength training with yoga and pilates-inspired movements. Using Ripstix®, lightly weighted drumsticks engineered specifically for exercising, POUND transforms drumming into an incredibly effective way of working out." On September 9, 2017, Madie became a certified Pound Instructor. "That was the day that changed my life," she said.
"We have become a family that lifts each other up."
Because she had diverted all her attention into healing and rehabilitation, she kept going. She also secured certification for Piloxing, a cardio fusion of pilates and boxing, and recently finished her Amplified Training in the U.S. She vowed to make helping individuals battle depression and anxiety through her teaching, and with that, it's made her fitness journey even more rewarding. Exercise has been known to be an effective therapy for physical and mental ailments, but packaging it in a fun atmosphere with a teacher who aims to inspire help hook the habit. "Pound has so many amazing benefits. It's a stress reliever that provides a safe zone for healing. It's therapy. It helps us become confident. It allows us to release stress and emotions. It provides a community of amazing individuals. And most importantly, it teaches us to love ourselves for who we are. It is a no judgment zone where everyone can comfortably be themselves without pretension. It is also a workout that caters to all stages and ages. Of course, it's a big bonus that it's an intense cardio jam session that sculpts the body with a caloric burn of 800 to 1000 calories in a 45-minute class. It's fun, full of energy, and nothing but great music," Madie ascertained.
Madie also emanates the joy from someone who begets it. She shared that "in less than a year, I am so fortunate to have the honor to teach 16 different classes in a week. In my classes, I have met the most amazing people, all with their own stories to tell. They all inspire me to keep being a better person. I may have started with me, but now I do what I do for them. Every day, in every class, I am humbled with their dedication and willingness to be better individuals. I see the change in every class: how they progress, how their attitude in life transforms, and how, together, we have become a community. We have become a family that lifts each other up. My students are the reason why I want to be great so that they can be even greater individuals. Their success is what fills my heart with a pure sense of accomplishment. There is no greater feeling than this."
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'Could have ended in tragedy': Man strangled, beat and threatened to kill ex-girlfriend in Beach Park attack
Joe D. Fontanez-Marrero, 42, of Beach Park.
Quick police response helped stop an armed man who broke into a Beach Park home and strangled, beat and threatened to kill a woman Sunday evening, the sheriff's office said.
Joe D. Fontanez-Marrero, 42, of the 39300 block of North McAree Road in Beach Park, was charged with aggravated domestic battery with strangulation, resisting arrest causing injury and two counts of domestic battery.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office responded around 7:45 p.m. Sunday to the 39300 block of North McAree Road in Beach Park for an unknown problem call.
A 911 caller, who was not at the scene, reported that a man was attempting to break into her mother's home, according to Lake County Sheriff Spokesman Lt. Christopher Covelli.
The first sheriff's deputy arrived and saw Fontanez-Marrero exiting the residence. Fontanez-Marrero saw the deputy and immediately ran southbound from the scene.
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The sheriff's deputy pursued Fontanez-Marrero on foot and the man threw what appeared to be a knife during the chase.
The deputy was able to catch up and apprehend Fontanez-Marrero, who resisted arrest.
Covelli said that an investigation revealed Fontanez-Marrero and the victim, a 40-year-old woman who lived at the residence, had been in a previous dating relationship. Due to a previous argument, Fontanez-Marrero was not staying at the residence.
He came back just before 7:45 p.m. and could not get into the home so he forced entry to a door to get inside and attacked the victim, Covelli said.
Fontanez-Marrero smashed the victim's cellphone to prevent her from calling for help, however, the woman had already notified her daughter who was the one that called 911.
Fontanez-Marrero told the victim he was going to kill her, Covelli said. He punched, kicked and choked the victim.
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At that time, the first deputy arrived and Fontanez-Marrero fled from the scene.
The victim sustained multiple bruises and a cut from the blade. She was evaluated by paramedics but declined to go to the hospital.
The sheriff's deputy who took Fontanez-Marrero into custody sustained minor abrasions during the apprehension.
"If it were not for the quick response and quick actions of our first deputy at the scene, this situation could have ended in tragedy for the victim. The members of the sheriff's office will always be there to help victims in their time of need and to arrest the offenders responsible," Sheriff John Idleburg said.
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The Botanical Wing had long been Kale's favourite place to retreat. A thoughtful, quiet child, he had grown into an intelligent – if somewhat shy – young man who worked hard at his studies, was respectful to his elders and showed great potential. As the youngest son of the Shadow Architect, he was practically destined for some major Council position when his studies were complete, like his two brothers and older sister before him. Born administrators, all.
But Kale wasn't like them. At least, that's what he tried to convince himself in the face of all the overwhelming evidence. He was desperately trying to cultivate an air of rebellion, and all he managed to achieve was slight dissent and a tendency for his eye to twitch when he tried to tell lies.
As a boy, he had spent time in the Library Wing, absorbing fact and fiction alike. Like many other children, he was born and raised on the Shadow Proclamation's station and had never left. Unlike many other children, however, he yearned for an opportunity to get away from the place. Definitely unlike other children, he harboured a deep affection for fictional tales, filling his young head with tales of derring-do and great adventure whilst his peers sneered at fiction as lies and preferred the joys that raw facts had to offer. They laughed when Kale shyly stood up on his first day at college to say that it was his life's greatest dream to travel to a distant planet.
So the Botanical Wing was the closest Kale could come to experiencing life on other planets. The rather unique programming of the Biodome meant that he could set the temperature, the level of ambient light and with the press of a few buttons, call forth holographic representations of any planet's flora. Of course, the Botanical Wing also housed a lot of real plant life as well, but the collection was fairly sparse.
Holographic recall was the only way many extinct plant species would ever be remembered and it had become Kale's personal bugbear that so many had become extinct at all. It was just another of his peculiarities that set him apart from his peer group, but he didn't really mind.
If you keep believing it, Kale, one day they will, too.
This particular evening saw him walking through a purple-hued garden of Sontaran roses. For such a war-torn, troubled planet, the flora on the Sontaran's home planet was quite remarkable, and well adapted to the lower oxygen environment. The roses were night stock, with a delicious scent that the Proclamation's highly advanced computers recreated in every olfactory detail. Some of the plants were the real article, but it was impossible to distinguish where the real flowers stopped and the recreations began.
Kale strolled easily through the garden, inhaling the scent of the roses and appreciating them with the same attention to detail that he showed to everything. This was the first time he had 'dialled up' the Sontaran rose garden, having read about them in a traveller's journal earlier that day. As he moved through the garden, he bent towards a patch of the flowers to inhale their scent even more deeply.
The man's voice made the boy jump and he straightened up to glance over his white-robed shoulder in alarm. He was of above average height for his years, with a head of almost white-blond hair and the pale skin and ice-cool eyes of his mother's race. In human terms, Kale could probably have been considered a handsome young man, but amongst his own kind, he was considered merely of average appearance. His voice, when he spoke, was soft and gentle. He seemed, overall, to be a very pleasant young man indeed.
Looks can often be deceiving, of course – but Kale genuinely was everything he appeared. And he hated it.
"Why not?" He glanced back at the clump of roses, then at the man who had spoken. Humanoid, tall, skinny and with a shock of artfully disarrayed hair that Kale immediately envied. He was leaning up against the wall of the Biodome, looking faintly bored.
He reached out with a hand towards the closest rose which almost immediately strained to reach the offered appendage, a set of previously unnoticed petals opening to reveal serrated edges not unlike that of the Earth Venus Fly Trap.
Kale stared at the stranger, his head filled with confusion at the man's manner of speech, the way he seemed to go off on a tangent in mid-sentence and shook his head.
The man's blunt rudeness surprised Kale. Almost to a man, the people who inhabited the Proclamation base were polite, deferential and well-mannered. Even the Judoon with whom Kale had come into contact said 'please' and 'thank you', or at least its rough Judoonese equivalent. So he didn't immediately answer the Doctor's question, but stood there in confusion, his mouth slightly open.
Kale's mouth closed immediately. The Doctor sighed. "Let me make this simple for you, Kale. I promised your mother that I would come and talk to you. She promised me that I would see why I should find you a suitable candidate for a rather unique job opportunity. So far, I'm not seeing it." The Doctor knew he was being more than a little unfair by not levelling with the kid, but he was feeling faintly angry at the Shadow Architect for putting him into this position. He had seen no sign of the spark he sought in his companions, felt no jolt of connection with this – frankly – dull boy and was already planning out ways he could escape.
And with his next words, the boy completely changed the Doctor's opinion.
"Ah, but that's just it, Kale." The Doctor's grin suddenly became very real and curiously infectious. "That's exactly what the job opportunity is. Getting enthused about the unknown." He saw the spark of interest flare deep down in the boy's eyes and knew then what it was that his mother had been saying. Here was a young man whose imagination hadn't been conditioned into pure logic by the way of life on board this base. Here was a young man who might just get enthused about the unknown.
The Doctor had asked this question of people before and had experienced a range of responses from 'I'm sorry, what do you mean?', right through to 'well, I'd have to pay the milkman…put the cat into kennels…pay Auntie Mary's TV licence'.
In both cases, he'd left without taking the individuals in question.
From what he knew about the Shadow Proclamation, he predicted that the response would be the logical and clinical 'explain more fully what you mean'. He met the unflinching gaze of the boy who answered almost immediately.
Oh-HO! There IS something different about this one.
The Doctor had been in Kale's company for barely two hours and already he was starting to find the adjustment difficult.
Not difficult in the 'I wish this boy wasn't here' sense, no. Kale was almost unerringly polite and well-mannered. They had sat down with the Shadow Architect, discussed the Covenant of Hours, outlined a vague plan of education. Within the hour, the agreement had been finalised, the Doctor had eaten the last of the Shadow Architect's biscuits, Kale had packed an almost embarrassingly tiny bag of clothing and they had headed back to the TARDIS.
That had been where the difficulties had begun.
Not only had the boy been singularly unimpressed by the TARDIS interior, he had almost immediately started making what the Doctor felt were overly-critical observations about the aged machine's condition. It was strange, but after so many years of travelling with human companions, the Doctor had come to quite enjoy that look of disbelief that invariably came onto people's faces when they failed to comprehend the true size of the TARDIS.
The Doctor had never admitted that there were areas and decks inside his own ship that he had never successfully mapped himself, nor that there were other areas that were so deeply immersed in the Time Vortex that mapping them was about as much use as sending the 'Lusitania' to rescue survivors of the 'Titanic'. They changed as often as the weather.
So there had been none of the open-mouthed, fly-catching disbelief of which the Doctor had grown so fond. Of course, it was always funnier when they ran outside and back in again, but usually he was content with the look of confusion as their tiny, simplistic monkey brains tried to make the connection between the size of the TARDIS exterior and its impossible inner space.
But not Kale, oh, no.
He had strolled in through the doors, looked around himself with a faint air of disinterest and set down the bag which he had brought with him. "This ship needs some serious maintenance," he had observed, in what the Doctor had felt to be an unnecessarily blunt tone, and had looked up with an irritatingly expectant expression. The Doctor had considered urging him outside and back in again, but realised with a pang of regret that the boy had grown up around Time Lord technology.
And then the comment about the lack of maintenance on his ship – that stung. He'd spent so long alone in the TARDIS and so long with people who were amazed by its very being that none of them had ever really criticised her. Of course, he'd heard the old girl referred to variously as 'the old wreck' and 'the pile of junk', but he'd convinced himself that they had been terms of endearment rather than insults.
The Doctor had moved to the console and swept aside several random items that he had emptied out of his pockets that morning. A water pistol, a small, plastic duck, a jam sandwich that had been cultivating some rather interesting mould – all of these had been cluttering up the console and only now did he feel faintly embarrassed at their presence. He could sense Kale staring at the small, plastic duck in mild bewilderment and could feel the question coming before it was even out of the boy's mouth.
The Doctor straightened up and fixed Kale with a stern glance.
"Dib-dib?" Kale curiously attempted to mimic the salute. Sensing the upper ground, the Doctor released his fingers and changed his salute to that of the Vulcans of Star Trek.
It amused him no end that Kale couldn't separate his fingers without the help of the other hand.
"These greetings are unfamiliar to me," said the boy, sounding exasperated. "I am familiar with over seventeen thousand cultures and yet I have no point of reference for these gestures." He sounded suitably annoyed at his own ignorance. It made the Doctor feel a little better.
He threw the small, plastic duck at the boy who caught it on reflex. Kale raised it to eye level and very, very slowly squeezed it.
There was a long silence during which Kale squeezed the wheezy little duck a few more times. He almost cracked a smile.
The Doctor, busy throwing switches and programming coordinates, looked up and thought on the fly.
"Really?" He received the first youthful expression he'd seen so far in the over-serious boy. Kale's eyes lit up and he crossed to the console and looked down at the switch that the Doctor indicated.
Kale threw the switch and the TARDIS lurched, its pitched whine audible even from within as it phased from solid form into the Time Vortex. The Doctor shouted with glee at the familiar trembling beneath his feet. Used to the sluggish, but violently erratic movements of the ship's start-up, he had retained his balance with practised ease, whilst Kale had fallen over. Three times already.
"Did I, or did I not say you should hold on?" he said after he'd helped Kale up from the third fall. The boy nodded vigorously and clung to the central rail for dear life as the Doctor bounded, gazelle-like, around the controls, monitoring the readouts and – if he dared admit it – showing off.
"It's remarkable," said Kale, softly. "I mean, she is remarkable." He put out a hand gently, cautiously, and laid it on the TARDIS console. The central column briefly glowed a light shade of pink then returned to a steady green. The Doctor nodded.
Kale's eyes were as wide as saucers as he took all this information in. Then, something seemed to occur to him, and he mentally rewound several sentences.
"What is?" Kale immediately forgot about hedgehogs and still clinging tightly to the central rail, made his way around to the Doctor. He peered over the taller man's shoulder and concentrated on the symbols.
"Everyone needs a hobby." Kale shrugged, lightly.
"Scorpius Five it is, then." The Doctor shook his head in disbelief and made the course adjustments. This boy was remarkable. Hells, even Ancient Gallifreyans had often had trouble translating their own language. Along comes the Pint Sized Genius, and the evolutionary distance between the Time Lords and modern life forms was swept away.
"Should we take…" Kale had picked up the small, plastic duck. The Doctor looked at it thoughtfully.
Kale considered, then beamed a huge smile, before putting the duck carefully into his own pocket.
Oh Gods. What have I wrought?


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Current account surplus narrows to $1b
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Australia's current account is in surplus for a third consecutive quarter but it shrank by $5.5 billion to $955 million in the December quarter.
The result is lower than the market's anticipated $2.4 billion surplus, which slips from a downwardly revised $6.5 billion in the September quarter.
Tuesday's seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed exports of non-rural goods fell by 6.0 per cent as prices for metal ores, minerals, coal and mineral fuels softened.
Export volumes of meat and cereal grains increased.
The balance on goods and services surplus increased by half a billion, widening the surplus to $8.9 billion, with an expected contribution of 0.1 percentage points to growth in the December quarter.
BIS Oxford Economics chief economist Sarah Hunter says the results confirmed general trends seen in 2019, with exports were broadly flat as sharp falls in the volatile net exports of goods and non-monetary gold offset gains in rural and non-rural goods.
Services exports were also largely flat as gains in transport and travel offset falls in other services, Dr Hunter said.
Tourism-related services grew by two per cent, suggesting the bushfires in NSW at the end of the year had a limited impact on demand, she said.
"We expect to see a sharp fall back in the current quarter, when the full impact of the fires and the COVID-19 will be seen in the data," she said.
"Put together with the capex survey released last week and the retail turnover figures, we expect the national accounts data to report an expansion of around 0.4 per cent for the December quarter."
She expects the next data will report that growth momentum ground to a halt in the first quarter of 2020.
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A Conversation with Mary Bond
Mary Bond is barely legal and effortlessly intellectual. The 19-year-old is practicing selfies as art and writing essays contextualizing the online coven of young women working in intentionally feminist lo- fi self-portraiture. She's posted naked selfies on the hacker-bro message board 4chan and archived the responses, which include dick pics and haterade like "You seem like an attention whore. Fuck off" and "You may actually have decent tits but your face is horrible." She also collaborates with her boyfriend Ian Aleksander Adams on a web site called autodissociate.me, which features a randomized background of screengrabs of Mary from Skype conversations that she calls "selfies once removed" and related quotes that you can refresh and rearrange. In the pics, Mary's often topless and rarely made-up, decidedly more naked than nude, and there's a subtle sense of humor to her performance of full exposure.
By Whitney Mallett, printed in issue 10
You've used the term "girlcore" to refer to the work you and other young women are doing. What is "girlcore"?
I used to be one of those people who was like "girls are dumb." And then, I realized I was dissing all these things for no apparent reason just because they were associated with girliness so I wanted to explore why something that was deemed stereotypically girly was considered bad by society. Girlcore I think is a group of artists who are exploring that in a very intensely girl- ish way that ends up infuriating a lot of people because girlish things are considered inferior.
I started taking selfies back in 2009 when I was like 14. At first I was taking them to make fun of people who took them and as I took more and more I very quickly realized it was actually beneficial for me to be making these images of myself. I've talked about it with a professor who teaches neuroscience and selfies have so much potential to help people therapeutically, just to be comfortable with how you look and aware of how your body moves.
What do you think about people calling selfies narcissistic?
I really don't like how narcissism is a misused term to apply to people who take pictures of themselves because it doesn't make sense. If you think of narcissism as a diagnosis it's like self obsession to the point where you are unable to function properly. I think it's been twisted. Most of the time when they apply it to young girls, it's young girls who are extremely concerned with social situations and how they fit in with other people. They are obsessively cataloging themselves because they want to know how people view them.
It's cool that you're making your own context for your work. In a lot of your writing, you refer to art history. Is it a way of making people take this sort of work seriously?
I was talking to my art teachers about the work a lot of girls are doing and they weren't getting it. They were like "there's no intent here." And I was like "no, there is obviously intent here." But I think including a lot of references to the canon, that really legitimized it. I didn't really want to include that many classical male artists in my writing about girlcore but because I did, my male teachers were like "oh obviously it makes sense, they are referencing this larger visual culture." It's interesting that I had to reference all those males for it to be legitimized by them.
What happened on the 4chan message board?
I always wanted to post nudes to 4chan. I thought it would be funny because they always react in this very stereotypical ridiculous way. It was interesting to see how cliché their responses have become and to see how society in general reacts to young girls. At this point, 4chan users are following a script when there's a young girl on the Internet. They think "obviously she is going to be afraid if we try to show her nudes." They tried to dox me, which is to find all the people to send sensitive stuff to – like my mom. But my mom had already seen my web site and didn't really care. All their typical methods of scaring people didn't end up working and I already knew what they were trying to do so it was just comical to me.
You said your mom didn't really care. Did it take some time for her to be okay with your web presence?
My parents are both pretty religious and conservative. I've been slowly showing them my art: "this is a picture of an implied nude of someone else, this is an implied nude of me, this is a painting of someone that's nude, this is a painting of me that's nude." So by the time it got to this, they weren't really surprised. My mom was like "maybe you should block the people from our church," and I was like "it's art!" It does bother me that I have to put the title of art for my parents to respect it as legitimate rather than just because it's my body. Why should my body bother anyone?
Historically some of the body art and sex positivity in girlcore work is ground well-tread for feminists and women artists and sometimes I feel like it's maybe intellectually redundant but then when I see these vehement reactions to teen girls and their bodies on 4chan and other comment threads, I realize how relevant it still is.
I feel comfortable being very aggressive with my own image and I am very comfortable receiving hate, and other people aren't, so I feel comfortable putting myself out there. I am not doing it for the intellectual oh-yay-I-was-here-first, I am doing it to share my experience. And people have told me they have been helped by it, so for me that is enough.


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"I'm a real person making a real product, not a brand name hiding behind a corporation."
Stuart Weitzman's father, Seymour Weitzman, started a shoe factory in Haverhill, Massachusetts in the late 1950's. His shoes were known under the label "Seymour Shoes" and "Mr. Seymour". Stuart Weitzman began designing shoes for his father's business in the early 1960's, when Stuart was in his 20's, but he was not planning to follow in his father's footsteps although he always sketched as a hobby.
Stuart graduated George W. Hewlett High School in 1958 and the Wharton School of Business in 1963 and was originally headed for Wall Street. When Seymour Weitzman died in 1965, Stuart took over the business with his older brother, Warren Weitzman. They sold the business to a company in Spain in 1972, but Stuart continued to design shoes for the company. In 1994, he bought back the business, but continues to manufacture his shoe designs in Spain.
Stuart Weitzman's trademark is the use of unique materials - cork, vinyl, Lucite, bamboo, wallpaper, and 24-karat gold and other exotics. His shoes are now sold in 45 countries — everywhere from France to the West Indies to Japan. Combining an eye for beauty with the technical expertise of a master craftsman, he creates more than 300 new styles of shoes and handbags a year. Each is a monument to fashion and innovation.
Despite his ever-growing retail base, and his own burgeoning celebrity, Weitzman remains remarkably hands-on and is intimately involved in all aspects of production. Weitzman is one of the few designers who is also a pattern-maker, and he personally sees his products through the entire manufacturing process. Weitzman spends half of his time overseeing operations in his factories in Elda, Spain — where his shoes have been made for over 30 years, ever since a group of shoes made there caught Stuart's eye with their exceptional quality and workmanship. This extraordinary attention to detail is the kernel of the Weitzman allure. Women get as excited about a casual slide as they do about the most dramatic pave pump. Each creation transcends mere glamour and becomes a statement in quality and artistry.
Stuart Weitzman earned worldwide popularity and his shoes have been featured from magazines to movies, and are even sighted at the Oscars and the Emmys. Five years ago Stuart Weitzman began hosting a yearly celebrity shoe auction to raise fund for breast cancer research.
In 2003 Harrods department store in London displayed the creation of Stuart Weitzman, a pair of shoes inspired by the shoes worn in 'The Wizard of Oz' by Judy Garland. Woven with thread of platinum and studded with 642 rubies, the price tag on the world's most expensive shoes was $1.6 million USD.
In 2004 Stuart Weitzman did it again, creating the 'Cinderella Slippers' that boasted 565 platinum-set diamonds including one large 5 karat chunk of ice. They were worn to the 2004 Oscars by Alison Krauss and can be yours for only $2 million USD.


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A trustee of a small superannuation fund also qualifies for CGT rollover when the trustee transfers an asset or assets reflecting the entire personal interest of one of the spouses or former spouses to the trustee of another complying superannuation fund for the benefit of that spouse. For the rollover to apply both spouses must hold an interest in the small superannuation fund before the transfer. This allows spouses in a small superannuation fund to separate their superannuation arrangements on marriage breakdown without any CGT liability.
a written agreement that is binding because of a state, territory or foreign law relating to de facto marriage breakdowns and, that because of such a law, a court is prevented from making an order about matters to which the agreement applies, or that is inconsistent with the terms of the agreement in relation to those matters, unless the agreement is varied or set aside.
Once the trustee has obtained a CGT rollover for such a transfer, the rollover is no longer available for a transfer of any asset reflecting the personal superannuation interest of the other spouse if that later transfer arises out of the same marriage breakdown.
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