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The most powerful tool can be the simplest technology: ten years later, utilizing the physical exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains
S. Browne ,
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
B. Cheung,
K. Shih,
B. Smith,
D. Raff,
V. Kapoor
How to Cite: Browne, S., Cheung, B., Shih, K., Smith, B., Raff, D. and Kapoor, V., 2016. The most powerful tool can be the simplest technology: ten years later, utilizing the physical exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains. Annals of Global Health, 82(3), pp.379–380. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.613
Published on 20 Aug 2016.
Browne, S., Cheung, B., Shih, K., Smith, B., Raff, D. and Kapoor, V., 2016. The most powerful tool can be the simplest technology: ten years later, utilizing the physical exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains. Annals of Global Health, 82(3), pp.379–380. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.613
Browne S, Cheung B, Shih K, Smith B, Raff D, Kapoor V. The most powerful tool can be the simplest technology: ten years later, utilizing the physical exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains. Annals of Global Health. 2016;82(3):379–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.613
Browne, S., Cheung, B., Shih, K., Smith, B., Raff, D., & Kapoor, V. (2016). The most powerful tool can be the simplest technology: ten years later, utilizing the physical exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains. Annals of Global Health, 82(3), 379–380. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.613
Browne S and others, 'The Most Powerful Tool Can Be the Simplest Technology: Ten Years Later, Utilizing the Physical Exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains' (2016) 82 Annals of Global Health 379 DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.613
Browne, S., B. Cheung, K. Shih, B. Smith, D. Raff, and V. Kapoor. 2016. "The Most Powerful Tool Can Be the Simplest Technology: Ten Years Later, Utilizing the Physical Exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains". Annals of Global Health 82 (3): 379–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.613
Browne, S., B. Cheung, K. Shih, B. Smith, D. Raff, and V. Kapoor. "The Most Powerful Tool Can Be the Simplest Technology: Ten Years Later, Utilizing the Physical Exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains". Annals of Global Health 82, no. 3 (2016): 379–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.613
Browne, S., et al.. "The Most Powerful Tool Can Be the Simplest Technology: Ten Years Later, Utilizing the Physical Exam in the Indian Himalayan Mountains". Annals of Global Health, vol. 82, no. 3, 2016, pp. 379–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.613

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Report: Sponsors back Quick-Step for 4 more years
A Belgian newspaper reports that the squad has long-term commitments from three major sponsors, along with the team's owner.
Media reports in Belgium suggest that the long-running Quick-Step Floors franchise is poised to announce contract deals to assure the team's future for four more years.
Team boss Patrick Lefevere had put a June 30 deadline on his quest to assure the team's future in the post-Tom Boonen era. Citing sources, Het Laatste Nieuws reported that Lefevere has penned four-year deals with several key sponsors to assure the team's future.
Lefevere, however, said the deals are not finalized, adding this barb on Twitter:
Thanks @NicoDick @HLN_BE with your cheap victory. Your news not only destroys my day, everybody starts calling me, and it's not done yet 😡👏
— Patrick Lefevere (@PatLefevere) June 27, 2017
The report said that Lidl, Quick-Step, and Specialized will all remain as sponsors, with team owner Zdenek Bakala also committed to the team's long-term future. A press conference could be held on the eve of the Tour de France later this week to confirm the news.
Earlier this season, Lefevere warned that the team's future was far from settled, and put a late June deadline on securing sponsors in order to be able to sign his key riders to new contracts.
Despite the retirement of franchise rider Boonen, the team is loaded with big-name talent, including Marcel Kittel, Zdenek Stybar, Philippe Gilbert, Daniel Martin, Niki Terpstra, and Fernando Gaviria. Without assured sponsors in place going into the Tour de France, however, those top-tier riders would be under pressure to search out contracts with new teams.
So far in 2017, Quick-Step has won 35 UCI-ranked races and leads the WorldTour team ranking.
Quick-Step announced its Tour de France lineup on Wednesday, the final team to confirm its nine-man roster for Saturday's start in Düsseldorf:
Jack Bauer (NZL)
Gianluca Brambilla (ITA)
Philippe Gilbert (BEL)
Marcel Kittel (GER)
Daniel Martin (IRL)
Fabio Sabatini (ITA)
Zdenek Stybar (CZE)
Matteo Trentin (ITA)
Julien Vermote (BEL)
Deceuninck unleash powerful youngsters on California peloton
Tour of California stage 3: Cavagna wins from daylong breakaway
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This Presley home has been well maintained by the Original Owner. There is a front, covered Front Porch entry that greets you into this home. The features two Master Bedrooms. The front Master Bedroom suite has a Full Bathroom with a jetted tub & separate shower (great for In-Law or Teenager Quarters). The second Master Bedroom has a 3/4 Bath & Ceiling Fan. The Kitchen has newer Stainless Steel appliances and an extra long breakfast bar. The Dining Room has a wood-burning fire place. The large Living Room addition is a bright open space. The Rear Covered Patio has non-slip decking and a ceiling fan. Great for Outdoor Living. The 2 Car Garage has painted floors, lots of storage space, a pull down attic stair, and a recently replaced garage door opener. This is a Must See!


Big Boi is calling on his non-musical talents for his next venture in entertainment.
As reported, the Grammy-winning rapper has joined the cast of Sony's highly anticipated Superfly remake.
For his next role, which has not yet been specified, Big Boi has been cast alongside Straight Outta Compton's Jason Mitchell, Grown-ish actor Trevor Jackson, Esai Morales and The Wire's Michael K. Williams.
Director X will helm the remake of the '70s cult classic, with Alex Tse (Watchmen) penning the screenplay. Additionally, Future will curate the soundtrack alongside Joel Silver.
Superfly, which is currently filming in Atlanta, is set to be released this summer, on June 15.


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Sheet-material based gaskets can fail when used in demanding application such as petro-chemical plants. Some materials can fail because of "popcorn polymerization", which occurs when a monomer permeates the pores of a Teflon gasket. While others sheet-materials can fail because of chemical attacks on the binder of the sheet gasket material.
To solve some of these problems, Leader Gaskets introduced a revolutionary Metal Gasket called the ElastaGraphTM, which offers several advantages.
The ElastaGraphTM gasket are made by Leader Gaskets proprietary Dynagraph process which infuses a seamless layer of flexible graphite at varying densities and thicknesses over a corrugated metallic core. ElastaGraphTM utilizes a unique corrugated pattern which increases the depth of the groove and the pitch at the peak of the corrugation and has a unique low density graphite inner step. This greatly improves the gasket's sealability over traditional corrugated designs. The ElastaGraphTM gaskets are corrugated metal gaskets produced using Leader's patented Dynagraph Technology.
ElastaGraphTM was developed specifically to solve fugitive emission and compliance problems and is the most economical way of meeting low emission requirements.
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This course introduces real-time cyber security techniques and methods in the context of the TCP/IP protocol suites. Explanation of some basic TCP/IP security hacks is used to introduce the need for network security solutions such as stateless and stateful firewalls. Learners will be introduced to the techniques used to design and configure firewall solutions such as packet filters and proxies to protect enterprise assets.
Perimeter solutions such as firewalls and intrusion prevention systems are shown to have significant drawbacks in common enterprise environments. The result of such weakness is shown to often exist as advanced persistent threats (APTs) from nation-state actors. Such attacks, as well as DDOS and third-party attacks, are shown to have potential solutions for modern enterprise.


As part of Journal of Ecology's continued International Women's Day celebrations Associate Editor Honor Prentice has done a Q&A for the our blog. As expected lots of brilliance below.
What made you want to pursue a career in science?
I've always been interested in natural history: one of my earliest memories is going along the lane with my grandmother to pick the first celandines. As a child, I made endless lists of birds and plants (and confess that I still enjoy making a good list). I couldn't decide between English and Biology at school, and it wasn't until the end of my second undergraduate year at Cambridge that we had a series of field courses and lectures that unexpectedly revealed that academic biology could also include "real" biology.
I definitely never thought in terms of pursuing a career in science. It would have been presumptuous to imagine that I was aiming for something that was so obviously out of my league. I had zero self-confidence and just pushed myself from one short-term goal to the next. But I was obstinate. The setbacks and problems that I experienced as a PhD student and as a young postdoc somehow made me even more stubborn. I needed to convince myself (not easy), as well as my family and peers, that I could get a PhD. Then I felt driven to deal with the next challenge, and the next.
Were there any female scientists who inspired you?
Simple answer. "No". The very few women scientists that one glimpsed from afar as an undergraduate were impossibly remote. I never even considered the possibility that I might seek support from other women scientists! Now, many years later, I'm inspired and impressed by lots of female scientists. Things have got better.
Why do women abandon ship?
Science is a challenging profession … for both sexes. A lot of the obstacles that are recognized as being a problem for women are also just as much a problem for men. The adage about "hungry wolves" (beloved of research councils and politicians) always enrages me. We all like to measure ourselves against others in our field and to push ourselves to do better. But I would like to see the evidence that "good" science is best promoted by keeping workers on short-term contracts and making them compete for every krona of research funding.
Sweden has solved many of the problems that hold back women academics in other countries. There is good child-care provision. Longer periods of parental leave (for men as well as women) are the norm, and the periods of leave are taken into consideration when job applications are evaluated. Sweden is relatively well along the road to gender-equality … but not that well along. The ratios look fine until the postdoc level, and then the wastage begins. The bottleneck is recognized and efforts are being made (albeit slowly) to open up junior academic positions that give women a chance to get established. Thirty years ago, the situation was definitely better in Sweden than in Britain. Had I stayed in Britain, there is little chance that I would still be a scientist.
The support that I received within the academic system in Britain at the beginning of my career was non-existent. And I also experienced some really crass and openly-expressed discrimination when applying for the few jobs that were available in Britain in the late seventies. It didn't exactly help when friends and relatives asked me, as I lurched to and fro across Europe from one postdoc to the next, "when are you going to get a proper job?".
The support that has been helpful has come from colleagues that I trust and respect and who have given me the chance to rant on about my problems. It's important to be able to moan and rant in confidence!
As I said, the Swedish system is making some progress with gender equality in science and there are some marvellous mentoring programmes available for young and mid-career women. However, there is a risk that younger women are over-exploited when it comes to, for example, committee-work and evaluations … situations where the Swedish rules demand, at worst, a 60:40 gender ratio. It took me a long time to realize that being one of the 40% female representatives on a committee, at a time when the actual proportion of available women in the available pool was around 10%, meant that I was bolstering the system rather more than was reasonable! These kinds of problems get overlooked if gender equality is simply viewed in terms of head-counts.
Mentoring programmes are brilliant! They are a real contribution to the empowerment of young scientists. I love being a mentor … and I would have loved to have had an early-career mentor myself. Some years ago, our Dean was trying to persuade me to do my duty on yet another committee. I was bogged down with administration, grant applications, long-distance commuting and a family tragedy. I had an extremely short fuse and totally lost my cool. "I want a mentor!". "Okaaay" … says the Dean. "I'll see what I can do" (what a star!). And he conjured up the most amazing and wise lady who categorically refused to be my mentor but said that she would be delighted to have regular conversations with me. Now that she's retired, we talk mainly about gardening but our conversations are still very important to me. As the number of women in the system gradually grows, we can increasingly gather support from our own networks … but some late-career support for women would also be appreciated.
Why is there still a problem?
This is definitely not the first time I've been asked to reflect about gender equality in science. Have my reflections become better structured or more penetrating over time? Alas, no. I still have difficulty understanding why there is still a problem and exactly where the problem lies. The problem has elusive depths that involve "informal structures". For example, the inertia of the immense network of brotherhood that underlies the academic system. I'm absolutely not talking about a sexist maffia that is bristling with ill-will towards women. It's just that we've inherited our academic system from a time when scientists were men. If your research supervisor is a man, you start off by acquiring your supervisor's network of male colleagues. You then link into their networks … and so on. Most senior women scientists have had male supervisors, so we also started off with a male-biased network. Ask colleagues (male and female, graduate students or seniors) to suggest an outstanding scientist who could be invited to give a seminar, and 90% of the proposed names will be men. Ask again, but allow only suggestions for women speakers. Then the response to the suggested names is typically "… yes, wow, she's really good … why didn't I think of her? ". We need to get better at mentally accessing alternative networks.
Among the biologists I know, the people who seem to survive best in the academic system are those who do research because they want to know what is going on in nature and are motivated by a curiosity about how it all works. These people are happy and professionally fulfilled as long as they have some funding and enough time to do active research. The people who get disappointed and discouraged are often the ones who were originally motivated by career goals. Without a real passion for biology, it's maybe less easy to keep alive an interest in research and to use research as a "reward" when the going gets tough and one's career isn´t as stellar as one had hoped.
Be certain that you really want to do research and that you are strongly-motivated. You need to be pretty stubborn as well! Otherwise, follow your own moral codes and convictions: don't let other people or the system force you into behaving in a way that doesn't feel right for you. Your own integrity is important. And you CAN change the system! You may not be able to change it much, but every little helps.
I'm so glad that I was stubborn enough, and lucky enough, to be able to become a scientist. Being a biologist has made me both supremely happy and very unhappy … and I expect it to continue to do so. The natural world is totally amazing and we've got a tough job ahead of us.


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Nursing bottle holder
My invention relates to improvements for holders or supports for bottles or similar devices. IMy invention relates more particularly to a bottle holder or support for nursing bottles for comparatively small infants, and is adapted tb be fastened in a crib, basket or other place in which a...
Louise, Morrow
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My invention relates to improvements for holders or supports for bottles or similar devices.
IMy invention relates more particularly to a bottle holder or support for nursing bottles for comparatively small infants, and is adapted tb be fastened in a crib, basket or other place in which a small baby has been placed to drink milk or similar products.
The principal object of the present invention is to provide a nursing bottle holder of the type which may support a bottle of milk or other substance for an infant in such position that the nipple on the bottle may be positioned in the baby's mouth, and the bottle be held so that the milk or other fluid will flow into the baby's mouth.
A further object of the invention is to provide an improved nursing bottle holder provided with fastening means adjacent the nipple and also at the lower end of the bottle so that the angle of the bottle may be determined by the person who is placing the bottle in a feeding position for a reclining baby in a basket, bed or other receptacle.
A further object of the invention is to provide an improved nursing bottle holder of the type described which is made of cloth or similar material and capable of being easily fastened upon a bottle and easily removed.
A further object of the invention is to provide an improved holder for a nursing bottle provided with snap fasteners and a cut-out portion adjacent the top of the holder so that the amount of milk or other fluid in the bottle is visible while in the holder.
Other objects and advantages will be more apparent from the following description wherein reference is had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, upon which Fig. 1 is a front perspective view showing a 4 basket with a baby placed in a reclining position therein, and a bottle of milk held in feeding position by my improved holder; Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of the bottle and holder with the straps broken off; and 4 Fig. 3 is a generally diagrammatic sectional view showing the manner in which the bottle holder may be attached to the usual type of baby crib.
In the embodiment of the invention which I have chosen to illustrate, in Fig. 1 I have shown a basket 10 within which a baby B is positioned in a reclining position to receive a feeding of milk or similar substance. The basket is provided with a handle 12 which extends upwardly 5 therefrom.
My improved holder, which may be made of cloth or similar material, is shown at 14 fastened about a nursing bottle 16 with the bottle in a sloping position so that the nipple N may be positioned in the baby's mouth and the bottom end of the bottle be held in a raised position.
The holder supports the bottle in this position by means of a pair of straps 18 and 20 which may be tied about the side arm of the handle 12, and a second pair of straps 22 and 24 which may extend from the neck closing portion 26 of the holder 14 and be fastened over the crossportion of the handle 12 and be suitably tied thereto. The straps at both the upper and the lower end of the holder may be of any suitable length so that the bottle may be positioned at any desired feeding angle.
In Fig. 3 I have shown the bottle 16 supported by the holder 14 and suspended by the straps 18 and 20 from the side bar 30 of a baby crib.
The other straps 22 and 24 may be tied over the head cross-member 32 at the head of the crib. The support, which is made of cloth or other suitable material, may have snap fasteners 34 which enclose the bottle therein, providing, by reason of the cut of the side walls, a window portion 36 adjacent the upper end of the holder.
This is for the purpose of permitting an attendant to observe the amount of milk or other fluid which remains in the bottle.
From the above and foregoing description it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that I have provided a comparatively simple, yet highly advantageous type of nursing bottle holder which, by reason of the two sets of straps positioned at the lower and the upper end of the bottle, permit the fastening of the bottle in e5 a basket, crib, or other baby receptacle at any desired angle. For example, if the straps 18 and 20 in Pig. 1 were also tied over the upper portion of the handle 12, the bottle would be in practically a vertical position. In addition, the 0 window which is provided permits of easy visibilit y of the supply of milk or other fluid remaining in the bottle.
I contemplate that changes and modifications may be made in the exact details shown. What [5 I desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent of the United States is: A nursing bottle holder constructed of cloth adapted to be fastened about a nursing bottle to secure said bottle therein, said holder having a pair of straps extending from the bottom end of the same, a pair of straps extending from the end adjacent the neck of the bottle, the shape of said nursing bottle holder being such that when it is fastened about the bottle a portion of the bottle adjacent the end will be exposed so that the quantity of the contents therein can be observed.
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Democracy worked yesterday. The American people spoke, and they spoke decisively. It was thrilling, regardless of individual personal views. It's essential to freedom that the people's will be honored and respected.
More and more, I realize that it's not democracy that I object to. A democratic republic, as we have, enables its citizens to control the fate of their country. It's unfettered capitalism that drives the enormous greed and immorality in our country. not voting freedoms.
One great part about George Bush winning another term is that pro-life judges will be nominated to the Supreme Court and other judicial systems, and that Roe v. Wade can be overturned. Another is that momentum for gay marriage can be stopped in its tracks.
In the last few days before Nov 2, internet and blog rumor mills proclaimed Kerry the victor in the 2004 presidential elections. Their conclusion was based on supposedly solid statistics, projections and polling. The American people spoke, and the prognosticators were wrong. I got caught up in the euphoria, and was also wrong.
Bush and Kerry camps reportedly both believed the rampant rumors until late night on Election Day. The President looked dejected and mildly defeated on Nov 1, but he never ever gave up. Never. He's an incredibly persistent fighter.
The youth vote apparently never materialized. They stayed home. The Democratic Party was convinced that the youth vote would put Kerry over the top to victory. I've never believed that today's youth vote......ages 18 to 30....is liberal. Experience and observation tells me that today's youth leans conservative.
John Kerry is deeply European and intellectual in both style and taste. Americans in the midwest, heartland, southwest and southern United States have a horror of that persona and world. They want nothing to do with it. Deep down, we realized that, and they said it again yesterday....loud and clear!
Exit polls in several hotly contested "battleground" states revealed that 49% of voters support the war in Iraq. That may shock and appall me and millions of others....but it's a fact.
However.......the words of the pro-war Star-spangled Banner perfectly epitomize our nation, which was founded, shaped and fostered through conflict. Ours is not a nation founded on peace, nor has it ever experienced any signifcant period of peace. We have no history of great peacemaking.
George Bush must particularly love our national anthem. I have to admit.....George W. Bush is thoroughly American, and so are his wars. And, like it or not, that appeals to lots of US citizens.


This summer our big family project was the planning and construction of Vivi's (my 4-year-old daughter') tree/play house. The first thing Vivi wanted to do when it was finished was create a comfy reading nook so I turned to my trusty home decor store, At Home.
The weather has been hot, hot, hot – but if you're going to be outside, it's nice to be in a breezy tree house with a spot to read or play. Here's how we created the perfect tree house book nook. AND be sure to scroll below for an opportunity to win a $100 gift card to At Home!
Starting with chair cushions and working up, we layered three Deep Seat Chair Cushions with two Back Cushions. Because of the lack of summer rain (or really big warning of a rare shower) we added three pretty indoor pillows.
Even with all that cushion to sit on – it's still nice to define the space with a rug just like in a real house. This indoor/outdoor rug was the perfect size to tuck under the cushions and make the corner nook its own destination.
We weren't sure about a roof on the playhouse. Texas summers are hot and I didn't want to trap any heat – but shade was a necessity. These linen/poly blend shower curtains with fringe are machine washable, breezy and provide shade. Two (simply tied together using the existing holes) for the top and two hanging from a tension rod in the back add a fun detail and the necessary shade to make play and reading comfortable.
Probably not a necessity but a fun addition no less! These outdoor hanging lights are battery operated and on an automatic timer. I set them to come on just before dusk and it's so fun to play in the tree house with the lights on. We might have "sneaked" a few bedtime stories in the reading nook, as well!
…and by using a light weight basket with a flat bottom, we get double duty! This white basket is perfect for carrying books, toys and in the fall … a blanket!
By using items creatively to design the playhouse reading nook, we were able to keep the project in budget and add some fun and whimsy as well as comfort to the final product. When shopping for home projects, be sure to think about different uses that will get the job done! At Home makes it easy to find everything you need for a any room under one roof.
The sweet smell of linen blowing in the breeze adds a private secluded area to this beautiful patio. Imagine crawling up with a book on laid out pillows of different sizes and colors. This is a sweet and lovely way to spend quite time alone or with your significant other……. I am almost finished with ours. What a difference and a conversational piece.
Oh how I just love this space! Because there weren't places to note on the RC, I'm Jo on Pinterest, barkergirl38 on Instagram and barkergirl33 on YouTube.


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Everton In A Hole, Carver At Newcastle, Tottenham Learn To Shoot: Premier League Round Up
An interesting week for Everton with their chairman Dave Whelan stepping down and handing over the reins to his 23 year old grandson. Sadly, they were unable to find a win away from the DW Stadium and a 0-2 defeat to Stoke leaves them teetering on the edge of the "battle to avoid relegation" precipice. Roberto Martinez has been loyal to Wigarton and despite some rank awful defeats, larger clubs such as Evergan will surely come a-knocking in the summer.
But seriously!
It is getting a little desperate for Everton. They've only just gained enough points to presume full blown panic to be premature but the recent numbers are quite grim. A month or so back, it looked like they were on the road to recovery as they went three games without conceding and picked up 6 points in 4 games, but one point in 4 ties since (and that was at home against Leicester) and we're back wondering who the heck are that team cutting a swathe through the Europa League?
I've highlighted the particular horror. As we can see, they weren't great to start with, special notice can be drawn to their concession of goals at a very high rate (13%) but they were outshooting the opposition and scoring at a similar rate themselves. The 3-6 Chelsea defeat was notable but could maybe be categorized as a one off against a hot team. 18 points from 14 games was a bit disappointing, especially given last season's efforts. The real issue though is with what has happened since. To start, the rolling shots totals have reached a nadir:
Everton have failed to find the net on ten occasions this season. Nine of these have occurred in the last 14 games. Their raw conversion rate in this period is down at 6%, which is so bad that it's within handshake distance of Aston Villa, their shot ratios have fallen down below par and their Finishing +/- (PDO) is low, has been low all year and is getting worse. I have noted this before but the team that most consistently posted Finishing +/- scores this bad on a consistent basis was Wigan under Martinez. They survived on more than one occasion despite handicapping themselves on the numbers year after year but as weeks go by and Everton fail to pick up points or score with any regularity, it seems more and more clear that there is something in Martinez' tactical make-up that causes his teams to do the opposite that say, a Tony Pulis team might. Pulis teams always look rubbish in the stats, yet pick up average points totals. Martinez teams usually look okay under the hood, but the goals, wins and points don't necessarily follow.
Newcastle under Carver
Nine games in and I thought i'd have a quick look at John Carver's numbers at Newcastle. A seemingly convenient appointment upon the swift departure of Alan Pardew, there were valid concerns as to whether Carver had sufficient nous or clout to helm the club. Upon being thoroughly trounced by Man City, such concerns appeared valid but they returned with a close fought win over Villa and were arguably unfortunate to collectively gift Man Utd the win just earlier tonight. Here's a few background numbers:
The obvious problem for Carver, a horrid 16% goals to shots conceded rate, is unlikely to persist long term but could do with shaping up quickly. His Finishing +/- is not good but has improved / regressed from Pardew's time and Newcastle are still taking a marginally above par rate of shots. A big 8% drop in shots on target is a red flag of sorts and will need remedying if Newcastle are to do anything other than meander through to May. Nine points in nine games is not great, in fact it's pretty bad, but the Pardew era left Newcastle comfortably mid-table and pressure is unlikely to be exerted too heavily before tough (read: expensive) boardroom decisions are made in the summer. Personally, i'd hire a decorated, progressive or talented coach but the wider motivations in play at Newcastle may preclude such a move.
Obligatory Tottenham Bit
After the shrewd removal of the Europa League from the forthcoming schedule and a frustrating yet somewhat inevitable Capitol One Cup defeat, a home game against Swansea was probably about as favourable a match as you could find to try and regain some kind of thread.
Andros Townsend scored and it wasn't a penalty; his goal was more Bale than baloney. Ryan Mason did too to thankfully remove the 'next Andros Townsend' tag he was seemingly earning for his high, wide and handsome back catalogue. But more to the point, Tottenham are slowly doing better things on the pitch, and when I say "doing better" I mean "shooting" and when I say "things" I mean "a lot". This has been a recurrent criticism of Pochettino's reign: the shooting numbers have been consistently average.
At home, shooting has staged a resurgence! In the last 7 home games, Tottenham have shot over 20 times on 5 occasions, the other matches being the 0-0 against Utd and the 5-3 Chelsea game. In this period they've won five and drawn two. Twenty shots a game is Villas Boas territory and highly pleasing for the casual stats fan. Sure, they're still conceding a) too many chances and b) too many goals and their away form has looked less impressive but with a clear run (yay!) and a game a week between here and May, they've at least given themselves a slim chance. And slim is better than none.
Breaking down Finishing +/- (PDO)
As a quick curio, I've compiled a table that breaks down the value of Finishing +/- into the goals for or against expected against what has been actually achieved. This is interesting because it tells us whether the attack or defense has been powering over or under-performance and by converting it into goals, hopefully, i've given a degree of clarity as to value of the level of performance.
Man Utd have benefited at both ends of the pitch, they've scored more than projected and De Gea has saved more than expected. They are running very hot.
Man City's advantage is entirely borne from their attack.
Everton and Newcastle have suffered defensive misery.
Aston Villa's problems are entirely offense based.
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Q: Проблема отрисовки списка React Native При разработке приложения столкнулся с такой проблемой.
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При первоначальной отрисовке контент выводится как должно, при повороте экрана тоже, а после возврата появляются разрывы:

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Why Did OS/2 Fail?
Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Too many people have speculated why OS/2 faded into the sunset while Windows reigned supreme. I want to explore some of the bigger theories and then offer up one of my own. The fact remains that OS/2 was the operating system that should and could but never would. I wanted OS/2 to work. I remember the Visual Basic class I took all the way back in the summer of 1994. I remember the instructor going around the class having us introduce ourselves. I remember saying how much I hate Windows (it was 3.1 at the time) because it was such a hacked and slashed together operating system, and that I really wished we would've gone the "OS/2 route". In my mind, Windows 3.x was nothing more than a glorified version of DOS Shell, although I later learned that Windows was a real operating system; an operating system you add to pay twice for because you couldn't run it by itself. All kidding aside, even in my late teenage years I stayed loyal to the OS/2 brand. I even ran it on my PC at home, albeit in dual boot mode because there was a lot of stuff that Windows 95 could run that OS/2 could not. I owned two versions of OS/2, "OS/2 for Windows" which was OS/2 version 2.1 without a standalone copy of Windows where you used your own copy. I also purchased OS/2 Warp 4 in 1996 when I was sick and tired of Windows 95 and the constant reboots.
The superior operating system is rarely the one that becomes the most popular. The one that usually wins, at least in the very beginning, is the cheapest. That was the case with MS-DOS, or IBM's version PC-DOS, in the very beginning. They were able to undercut the closest competition by a price point of 6-1 ($40 for PC-DOS, $240 for CP/M). CP/M was a much more mature and superior version of the operating system that already had worldwide success. The power of the dollar ruled supreme here because most end users buy an IBM PC or compatible couldn't really care less what the differences were between the two. With the runaway success of Windows 3.0 and the lackluster sales performance of OS/2, Microsoft decided that OS/2 didn't fit their long-term strategy. It's hard to pin down the exact date of the breakup, but it occurred somewhere between 1990 and 1991. Microsoft pushed on with the next wave of Windows products while IBM concentrated solely on the OS/2 line. The breakup still leaves open wounds to this day as I don't think Microsoft and IBM have ever decided to kiss and make up. As a matter of fact, IBM pushes Linux as their official platform of choice today, although they do offer Windows to customers who want it.
Theory #1: Microsoft OEM Bullying
This theory suggests that Microsoft used their position of domination in the marketplace to bully PC manufacturers and to force them to commit to Windows. I don't deny that Microsoft has used this tactic in the past with CP/M and the like, but if customers demanded OS/2, the OEMs would have conceded. Besides, most OEMs offered OS/2 as an alternative operating system. Again, I believe economics played into it, and the relatively low cost for Windows and DOS (pre-Windows 95) and Windows 95 afterwards was the main consideration here. Not much, if any, Microsoft bullying was needed. There is a reason OS/2 had a higher price tag. Quite simply, it was a lot more operating system for your money. The problem was that most of your basic users just needed the bare minimum configuration. Windows offered that. It was hard to explain to your average Joe computer user why they needed the High Performance File System.
Theory #2: OS/2 Was "Too" Compatible
This is my favorite theory, just because it sounds so outlandish, not because I think the theory is plausible. This theory suggests that the reason OS/2 failed is that they truly lived up to their claim of a "Better DOS than DOS and a Better Windows than Windows". Simply put, there was no incentive for software developers to write OS/2 programs since OS/2 would still run the same DOS and Windows programs that were being developed. Just write a good Windows-based program and it will run on OS/2 and Windows. You can target all the customers instead of having to develop several independent product lines. The reason I can't buy this theory is that, if true, what would be anyone's incentive to write 32-bit Windows software supported by Windows 95 and NT? Why not continue to develop 16-bit software all around and guarantee that everyone can run it regardless of OS? The answer is that you want to develop 32-bit software because it is theoretically more stable, and you have a lot more memory to work with. There are other reasons, but we'll stop there for simplicity's sake. Let's just say that a 32-bit program can be more feature rich than a 16-bit program. If the demand was there for OS/2, I guarantee that software vendors everywhere would've been jumping on the bandwagon. IBM really didn't help their case by charging so much for their software development kits. Good, low price development kits and some conversion assistance software may have gone a long way, but, again, was not the real reason for OS/2's demise.
Theory #3: IBM Could Not Market
There is no denying that IBM as a whole did not fully support OS/2. Some at IBM even saw OS/2 as an embarrassment. If you go to YouTube and look at some of the OS/2 commercials, it almost appears like IBM didn't even try. Some of the commercials didn't even show the product in action, it just talked about it. There was a book made some years back called "IBM Way: Insights into the World's Most Successful Marketing Organization" (click this link for the book). Granted, the author, Buck Rodgers, was a former employee of IBM. I thought it was a joke when I first saw the name. But, there is a case made of why IBM is a very successful marketing company. This is actual proof that IBM can market. Although, one could make a case that IBM was bad a directly marketing to consumers. Again, not entirely true since the IBM PC was a successful consumer product. IBM made several attempts to really push OS/2 but they all came up a little short. Their biggest push was in 1994 with OS/2 Warp 3.0, trying to capitalize on the delay of Windows 95, or "Chicago" as it was known at the time. The consumer market just wasn't ready.
Theory #4: OS/2 Began as a 16-bit OS
There is no doubt that 16-bit programs, even if it runs in protected mode, are crippled in comparison to their 32-bit 386 counterparts. But, would that spell doom for OS/2? I really doubt it. Let's look at the time tables. The Intel 80386 was released in 1985. Since OS/2 was released in 1987, relatively few people could actually run it. In 1987, there were quite a few computers still released with 8088 chips. The 386 wouldn't go on to be a dominant chip in new PCs for at least another 4-5 years after inception. In reality, IBM/Microsoft had no other choice than to create OS/2 as a 16-bit operating system. If they would've waited until the 386 was a dominant player, there's a good chance that someone else would've stepped in. OS/2 1.x was not a success, and, in most ways, probably a failure. However, I don't happen to believe that starting out as 16-bit doomed OS/2. If it did, why didn't Microsoft Windows, which gained most of its success after the 16-bit release 3.0, suffer the same fate? Looking back, IBM had to launch as 16-bit. There was simply no other choice at the time. When it was first released, people balked at the 2MB+ RAM requirement. I couldn't imagine what the outcry would be if the requirements started out being 4-6MB instead.
Grantster.com Theory: IBM – Too Big to Succeed
IBM's failure goes all the way back to the original PC. In an effort to enter the entry-level home computer market, IBM decided to develop a machine using off-the-shelf components. Really the only thing that was proprietary to the IBM PC was their BIOS. IBM actually published the source code for their BIOS. Their BIOS was the only thing that made their system "proprietary". IBM wasn't worried since they knew that if anyone tried to use their BIOS, they could sue them into submission. They didn't take into account that, since the BIOS was published, that someone could reverse engineer it because they knew exactly what is was supposed to do. The inadvertent result of this was that quite a few clone manufacturers sprung up almost overnight, the largest being Compaq. This resulted in very stiff competition with IBM. Spring forward from 1980 to 1987 when OS/2 was released. Originally, the arrangement between Microsoft and IBM for OS/2 was going to be identical to their arrangement for MS-DOS. As a refresher for the uninitiated, Microsoft licensed MS-DOS to IBM to be sold as PC-DOS. Microsoft then had the freedom to license MS-DOS to anyone else who wanted to use it and to collect royalties.
This arrangement would've worked if Microsoft chose to continue their partnership with IBM. However, when Microsoft "divorced" IBM, it was up to IBM to license their operating system directly to OEMs and end users. Licensing to end users was no issue; you just sell it to them and they buy it. But most of the time, the operating system was purchased along with the computer when you bought it, which is the OEM model. Well, most OEMs were direct competitors with IBM. Although the OEMs may not have completely trusted Microsoft, they were not direct competition with them either. IBM has the unfortunate task of trying to court the very people they were trying to run out of business. How do you do this? The answer is, you don't. Or, at least, you don't do it very well. And IBM didn't. That's not to mean that they didn't try. IBM also had an issue with the availability of drivers. Most hardware manufacturers write drivers for their own equipment. Many OEMs had no desire to write device drivers for their competition. There is no way that even the biggest companies could overcome these odds.
So, the question is, how could IBM have succeeded? I can only think of one way, and I'm still not sure it could've worked. IBM would have to create a brand new company, not a subsidiary of IBM but an actual new company with completely different management. That company would have to treat IBM as any other customer and show no favoritism. That alone wouldn't work. They would also need to show all OEMs that they are willing to work with them in any and every way possible. They would have to beat Windows in price and give extra incentives to the OEMs to convince them. They would have to give away development kits.
I was, and still am, a fan of OS/2. I wanted OS/2 to work and succeed. The fact that there was no way that IBM could compete in the industry was their downfall. OS/2 is still sold today from Serenity Systems and it is called eComStation. It has better support for OS/2 on modern hardware, although some of the non-BIOS hardware will not work. I really want a copy of it; I just haven't found an excuse to buy it just yet. There is probably no practical value in it, just something to play with. It's too bad that very few people ever got to experience it.
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2 comments on "Why Did OS/2 Fail?"
Anon Y. Mouse says:
The book you want is Paul Carroll's "Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM"
It covers the OS/2 story in some detail, including the "breakup" of
IBM and Microsoft with regard to OS/2 development. OS/2 was
essentially doomed once Windows 3.0 became a success in 1990.
ChrisB says:
Coming from a commercial background and supporting customers with kit running CP/M, DOS, UNIX, Novell, OS/2 & Windows I suppose I've a different viewpoint.
OS/2 was doomed because it was almost impossible to offer a standardised support model. The seemingly infinite variety of configuration options meant that end users could (and in my professional experience) did, all too frequently 'play' with the display settings to the point of crippling their systems.
Over the course of two years I attended only 1 genuine OS/2 fault out of probably 300 client visits, circa 200 were hardware issues and half that number again were simply to restore default / as shipped settings. These calls were invoiced back to the customer because they were avoidable resulting in massively disproportionate support costs.
With the networked release WFWG and Windows 3.1 the speed advantage of OS/2 was lost, and combined with the ability to lockdown those OS releases against user adjustments the demise of OS/2 in the rapidly expanding office environment was assured.
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Daffodil day is marked on the annual calendar as one of the most significant days recognised for collecting donations from the Irish public to fund cancer research as well as various services provided by the Irish Cancer Society. Given the substantial amount of cancer researchers based in RCSI and in particular in MCT, a joint effort between the MCT and the Department of Physiology and Medical Physics was carried out to organise a "Bake sale" aimed to raise funds on this occasion. Dr. Sudipto Das (MCT) and Dr. Catriona Dowling (Physiology and Medical Physics) primarily organised the bake sale.
This year bake sale boasted a wide variety of baked goods prepared by various members of the staff including senior researchers and post-graduate students. One the main highlights of the bake sale was an auction for an exquisite chocolate biscuit cake with a daffodil theme baked by Ms. Ina Woods (Physiology and Medical Physics). The auction was successfully completed by selling the cake at the highest bid of 50 euro by Prof. Jochen Prehn. This year bake sale was a highly successful event, which effectively raised 800 euro with all proceeding going towards the Irish Cancer Society.
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Prof Tracy Robson (MCT), Prof Jochen Prehn (Physiology & Medical Physics) and Dr Darran O'Connor (MCT) have recently returned from 1 week at the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China where they participated in a workshop with faculty to explore research collaborations and future joint funding applications under the newly announced SFI-NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education. Supported by an Erasmus+ programme coordinated by Prof Marc Devocelle (Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry), the workshop involved presentations from RCSI and Soochow investigators describing their work and discussion to identify areas of synergy. Afternoon lectures by RCSI faculty were opened to postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from Soochow, leading to a vigorous and stimulating discussion and Prof Xinliang Mao from Soochow will visit RCSI next month to further strengthen future collaborative research opportunities.
At the invitation of the President of the British Pharmacological Society, Professor John Waddington (Emeritus, RCSI) has been elected to Fellowship of the Society; this is in recognition of his career contributions to research, education and service in the discipline of pharmacology, not just in Ireland but globally. He has recently returned from 3 weeks at the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, China, under his joint appointment as a Professor of Pharmacology. While there, he continued collaborative research, gave undergraduate lectures and fostered further joint endeavours between RCSI and Soochow University, which is in the top 5% of Chinese research universities.
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Medical student Jack Donohue [RSS student], was awarded the Dr Harry O'Flanagan Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for the best undergraduate oral presentation for a project carried out as part of the RCSI Research Summer School entitled "Sanger Confirmation of Suspected Epilepsy-Related Pathogenic Variants Identified Through Next-Generation Sequencing".


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We've brought members and organisations together to lobby to ensure the importance of counselling is properly reflected and are keen to continue this important work.
Following the launch of a new £10m mental health support fund by Northern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann, we contacted all 35 BACP organisational members in the nation. Four of the thirty grants from the first phase of the funding programme went to BACP organisational members.
BACP member Cancer Focus NI requested support from the policy team in its submission to the NI ten-year cancer strategy. It delivered a presentation about its counselling service in a Staying Connected event for NI members in September.
Dervilia Kernaghan and Roisin O'Connor from Cancer Focus NI
At this event, we were pleased to host Northern Ireland's Mental Health Champion, Professor Siobhan O'Neill. Professor O'Neill highlighted the opportunities for counselling and psychotherapy in the new Ten Year Mental Health Strategy. We called for action to improve status of qualified counsellors and psychotherapists within the strategy, which doesn't reflect the volume and complexity of the work they currently contribute to the field of cancer care.
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BACP President's event
The grant scheme was announced at the BACP president's event 'Race for the soul of the profession' on 14 October. Attendees at the online event included leaders from two BACP accredited services. Discussion included emphasis on the importance of communities in bringing real and lasting change that improves culturally informed and inclusive services. Key themes and progress to date on BACP's equality, diversity and inclusion strategy was introduced, and the commitment of the Board to the work was emphasised.
The work of third sector organisational members has featured in articles for the Spirituality and Coaching division journals. BACP accredited service Bikur Cholim provided a case study for an article about the need to improve access to mental health support within Orthodox Jewish communities in Thresholds, while the work of R-evolution For Good was featured in Coaching Today.
In depth: Living in a faith-based community
Open article: Akiva Angel and Jeremy Bacon talk about mental health in the Chareidi community. Thresholds, October 2021
R-evolution for good
BACP's Third Sector Lead, Jeremy Bacon, reports on how coaching is helping families to end child poverty in rural communities. Coaching Today, July 2021
Working with event
As part of her work with the UKCIS vulnerable users working group, Jo Holmes facilitated a Working with day to look at the value of a counsellor's unbiased response when working with children and young people who are particularly vulnerable to online harm. Accessed by over 170 members, the event included expert speakers from the working group and presentations from Dr Peter Buzzi, Stonewall and Southwest Grid for Learning.
Our AGM
In response to concerns expressed about the implications of a motion being tabled at our 2021 AGM, we met with leaders from nine organisational members (including eight accredited services) to discuss funding and delivery models in the context of the role of volunteers and unpaid work.
Key messages emerged about multiple funding sources, high rates of referral but no funding from NHS sources and a desire, but not the resource, to pay therapists. Members also emphasised the symbiotic relationship with some volunteers who receive high quality placements, CPD, support and supervision in return for their work.
We will further engage with these and other organisational members about unpaid work in the sector and how our policy work can support alternative service models.
Engaging with elected representatives and decision makers
Kevin Stewart MSP
In August we met with Kevin Stewart MSP, Scotland's new Mental Wellbeing and Social Care Minister, together with Gavin Gray, new Deputy Director for Improving Mental Health Services in Scottish Government and Lynne Taylor, the Scottish Government's National Psychology Advisor.
We highlighted the need for the counselling profession to play a greater role in helping deliver the Scottish Government's mental health priorities across areas including education settings, in local communities through GP and third sector provision, through digital services, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
We also discussed the importance and status of counselling within the recently proposed Long-term Mental Health Workforce Plan and the psychological therapies matrix, which is currently being refreshed by NHS Education for Scotland.
Our CEO meets Scotland's new Wellbeing Minister
They discussed opportunities for members to support Scottish Government's mental health priorities
Lynne Neagle MS
In September, Hadyn Williams and Steve Mulligan held discussions with Lynne Neagle MS, the new Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Tracey Breheny, Deputy Director, Mental Health, Substance Misuse and Vulnerable Groups Division at Welsh Government.
We used this important opportunity to highlight how the profession can play an even greater role in helping deliver the Welsh Government's new commitment to a 'no wrong door' approach to mental health support as well as stressing the need for greater parity with other mental health professions.
Our CEO meets Welsh Deputy Minister for Mental Health
Hadyn Williams discussed opportunities for our members to support the Welsh Government's mental health priorities
Using research to impact mental health policy
In July we spoke at an event held by the Open University and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) on how counselling and psychotherapy research can better translate into impact on mental health policy.
We talked about the importance of research and a strong evidence base to our work in building credibility among policy makers, both by demonstrating that counselling and psychotherapy are effective as interventions but also by challenging some of the common misunderstandings that politicians, other professional groups and commissioners within the NHS have about counselling and psychotherapy.
We also discussed the importance of being solution focused when approaching policy makers with new evidence. We have to think through the challenges they're currently facing, or that the public are demanding they address, and then demonstrate how counselling and psychotherapy can effectively help tackle these problems.
It's important that researchers and policy makers work closely together to continue to build confidence and credibility for the effectiveness of counselling and psychotherapy in meeting the needs of the public and tackling societal challenges.
Briefing MPs and peers
School counselling
Leading up to the first cross party Westminster debate on school counselling under the current administration, we briefed over 20 MPs and strengthened links with Nick Brown, Labour MP for East Newcastle, who led on the debate and set the scene for Government investment in this much needed, crucial provision.
The debate provided fascinating insights into the lack of provision in many areas across England, with cross party support for the need for funded counselling delivered by professionally trained counsellors. We are referenced within the debate, with several MPs quoting from our briefing document..
Strong support for school counselling during debate in Parliament
We're pleased to have influenced the House of Commons debate by briefing MPs
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Alongside the BMA and BPS, we briefed peers ahead of the Committee Stage of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. We urged the Government to amend the Bill and withdraw the clauses giving police the power to override the duty of medical confidentiality. We explained there's already a system in place which allows police to access confidential information in the exceptional circumstances where this is necessary for public safety. Our concerns were acknowledged and both Baroness Brinton and Lord Paddick referenced BACP in the debate.
We join BPS in calling for changes to draft crime Bill
We've briefed Peers ahead of a debate on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Drug and alcohol support
We also briefed MSPs before an important debate on substance abuse and mental health, highlighting the important role many BACP members are playing in drug and alcohol support services across Scotland. A BACP accredited service, Drugs, Alcohol and Psychotherapies Limited (DAPL) of Fife, was highlighted by Clare Baker MSP as an exemplar of a holistic approach to recovery. She called for more support for universal counselling services to be made widely available for people in recovery and their families.
Responding to consultations and inquiries
UK Government 2021 spending review
We made a strong case for key counselling and psychotherapy measures to help the nation rebuild from the pandemic in our submission to the UK Government's 2021 spending review. The Policy Team's eight-part response makes clear how investment in counselling, psychotherapy and coaching can help government to meet these objectives, demonstrating likely effectiveness, deliverability and value for money.
Senedd Health Committee inquiries
We submitted written evidence to the Senedd Health Committee's inquiry into the Health and Social Care Workforce Plan, raising concerns about professional bodies not being consulted within this process and the importance of ensuring the whole mental health system was represented in a much more holistic plan.
These concerns were highlighted by the Chair of the Committee, Russell George MS, to the two organisations leading the workforce planning programme, Health Education Improvement Wales (HEIW) and Social Care Wales (SCW), in a public hearing. As a result, we have now been contacted by HEIW and hope to use this opportunity to ensure the sector is included.
In September we provided written evidence to the Senedd Health and Social Care Committee and the Children, Young People and Education Committees on their separate inquiries on priorities for this parliamentary session. For both, we highlighted the need to examine access to counselling in the context of the proposed refresh of the Welsh Government's Together for Mental Health Strategy and the impact of the pandemic on the nation's mental health
LGBTQ+ Action Plan
We also provided written evidence to the Welsh Government's LGBTQ+ Action Plan in October. We called for a specific action to be added to tackle longstanding mental health needs of the LGBTQ+ community and ensure appropriate counselling support is urgently put in place, particularly to address the growing need exacerbated by the pandemic.
Suicide Prevention Action Plan
In November, we took part in a consultation event with Scottish Government on the new Suicide Prevention Action Plan. We'll be submitting a written response to this in the new year.
In September, in conjunction with the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy Coalition, we provided written evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee as part of their inquiry into conversion therapy. We also briefed Dr Igi Moon, Chair of the MOU Coalition, who appeared before this committee to provide verbal evidence and call for a total ban.
The Scottish Government has committed to introducing legislation to end conversion practices as comprehensively as possible within devolved powers by the end of 2023. In October we met with the Scottish Government's Equalities Office, together with other members of the MOU Coalition, to inform their approach. We are also reaching out to the new expert group established by the Scottish Government to advise on this important commitment.
In October, the UK Government launched a consultation on banning conversion therapy. We'll be responding to the consultation as part of the MoU and as an organisation. The consultation is open until 11.45 pm on 4 February 2022 for individuals and organisations.
Memorandum of understanding on conversion therapy in the UK
The MOU (Memorandum of understanding) is a joint document signed by 20 health, counselling and psychotherapy organsations which aims to end the practice of conversion therapy in the UK. PDF download
Key surveys
We launched our school and college leaders survey in November, to capture up-to-date information on the level of counselling currently taking place across schools and colleges in England. We worked closely with key teaching unions including NAHT, ASCL and NASUWT to inform the content of the survey. The survey also looks at how provision is funded, as well as the strengths and barriers linked to school and college counselling provision.
As well as the unions, other key organisations have shared the survey on our behalf, including Education Support, Charlie Waller Trust, Place2Be, Association of Colleges, the CYPMHC (children and young people's mental health coalition) and Citizen's UK. The survey is open until 19 December but may be extended until the New Year.
Jo Holmes also discussed the shift in support for school counselling and trained counsellors in England, and the importance of our survey, in her recent blog.
A focus on counselling for young people
Jo Holmes discusses the shift in support for school counselling and trained counsellors in England. BACP blogs
Data from the survey will inform the next part of our school and college counselling campaign, which will include head teachers and school leaders talking about the need for funded provision. The BBC is interested in exclusive rights to reporting the survey, through a BACP member who is a journalist on the children's news section.
Our school and college UK-wide expert reference group, chaired by members Niki Gibbs and Shira Baram, has been integral to helping develop this survey and finding headteachers to take part. Nika and Shira talked about the work of the ERG at our recent AGM as part of our 'we listen to our members' strategy.
FE supervision training
We received additional funding from the Association of Colleges to extend the reflective practice supervision skills training for staff in further education colleges in Greater Manchester. Six BACP members, who are also experienced trainers and supervisors working in educational settings, were commissioned to deliver three further training programmes across the city. The two-day training programmes took place between September to November, involving up to 40 members of staff from several colleges. Each cohort will have a follow up session in February to further consolidate the learning. A full evaluation report will be available in March 2022.
Reflective practice supportive supervision skills training
A training programme for staff working in educational settings, with funded places available for November 2021 for staff in Greater Manchester. In-house options available in other areas.
How pastoral workers in Greater Manchester further education and sixth form colleges are benefitting from supervision
In a pilot study, co-funded by BACP and the Association of Colleges, Jo Holmes and Steve Page addressed concerns about staff wellbeing and the provision of more formalised, non-managerial support. University and College Counselling, September 2021
NHS pilot training programme
Health Education England has launched a new pilot training programme for psychotherapeutic counselling as part of its ongoing work to expand the NHS psychological therapies workforce.
The three-year course will be the first ever opportunity for people to train as counsellors and psychotherapists within the NHS, while also having their course costs fully funded by NHS England and being salaried throughout their training.
The pilot is part of the workforce expansion commitments made by NHS England and Health Education England to achieve the ambitions set out in the Government's Long Term Plan for the NHS.
The curriculum will include core competencies for psychotherapeutic counselling and training from one of four non-CBT high intensity IAPT modalities:
pperson-centred experiential counselling for depression (PCE-CfD)
couple therapy for depression
brief dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT).
We're pleased to have been involved in the development of both concept and curriculum for the training programme, working with and representing SCoPEd project partners alongside colleagues from NHS England and Health Education England, service leads, trainers and experts by experience.
The launch of this pilot sends a strong message about the importance of counsellors and psychotherapists to the NHS and the important role policy makers see them having in the NHS workforce moving forward. We believe it will have positive consequences for counsellors and psychotherapists already working in the NHS, as it will further strengthen work underway to achieve consistency in pay grades between different psychological professions.
Advertising for the 60 initial training posts will begin across regions of England in 2022.
Landmark moment for NHS counselling and psychotherapy training and jobs
Paid training pathway for counsellors in the NHS launched
Rural mental health
For the last two years we've been working closely with a network of rural support organisations, including counselling services, charities and universities, to better understand the mental health needs of farm workers.
In October we were invited to the launch of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) Big Farming Survey, undertaken on its behalf by academics from the Centre for Rural Policy Research, the University of Exeter, in 2020/21.
The report clearly articulates the scale of the mental health pandemic in UK farming, with some groups – including women farmers – disproportionately affected by both the COVID pandemic and wider pressures on farming. We've worked closely with RABI to help shape a new face to face counselling service for farmers working in England.
The service, which launches in January 2022, will be free at the point of delivery, funded by RABI, and delivered entirely by BACP therapists working for member organisation Red Umbrella. The service has seen Red Umbrella take on 20 new therapists, all of whom will receive on-board training including a module on working in rural contexts.
Moving forward, the service will be expanded across England and Wales and we will join partners in submitting written evidence to a new House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) inquiry into rural mental health.
Supporting emergency responders
In recent months we've been working with the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to improve and enable access to therapists with the skills, qualifications and experience to work with emergency responders as part of a wider package of support.
The Foundation is funding the creation of the Blue Light Together Network of Emergency Services Therapists (NEST), which will be available to all those in need of support via referral partners, including the charity Police Care UK.
As part of an expert reference group, we're leading on developing a role profile for emergency responder therapists who will be listed on the NEST directory. Specialist continuing professional development will also be available to ensure they provide the best possible care to emergency responders.
In November we were invited to attend the official launch of the Blue Light Together support package. The event, which heard keynote speeches from HRH Prince William, Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Dame Cressida Dick, outlined the Foundation's commitment to supporting the mental health needs of emergency responders. It highlighted the vital role partners, including BACP, will play in improving mental health outcomes for the 999 community.
Watch the Blue Light Together launch event on YouTube
Prince William presents to The Emergence Services Mental Health Symposium
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First presented at the seventh Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa congress in 2002, these 17 essays address the ongoing conflicts in Africa and present solutions for overcoming these conflicts and sustaining peace. Topics include the sources, management, resolution, and prevention of conflict; building democracy; and public policy throughout the African continent. The discoveries made in these essays provide a useful and novel approach to the promotion of peace in an African and international context.
'" This book is a superb contribution to the literature on African conflict and democracy."


Ken is a member of Gensler's Board of Directors and the Gensler Management Committee and the Co-Managing Principal of Gensler's Southeast Region. Gensler is the largest global architecture, design and planning firm with more than 5,000 professionals networked across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and the Americas.
Ken Baker is considered a global expert on workplace design and planning, having designed more than 10 million square feet of corporate headquarters and offices for law firms and financial institutions around the world. His background is also fine arts, music, 20 years of piano and voice, acting, and drama.
How do you create a unified culture across a firm with more than 5,000 international employees?
How do you maintain innovation in the workplace through design?
Why is it important to keep listening to clients and being receptive to new ideas?
1:08 - Introducing Ken and some background on his career.
1:55 - Digging into what makes Gensler so successful.
3:03 - Creating a unified culture across a firm with more than 5,000 international employees.
6:38 - The importance placed on people in the company and how Gensler is innovating on the traditional ideas around architecture and design firms.
9:01 - What drove the move away from older models of architecture businesses and how Ken's artistic background influenced his approach.
10:55 - Using interior design as a key differentiator in the field.
13:20 - Ken's memory of his first client meeting and his mindset around the meeting.
15:32 - Getting a perspective on how much Gensler has grown since Ken came on board and how that molded their business model.
17:31 - Understanding the importance of culture in a growing business.
18:44 - Providing a link between design and the bottom line of businesses through the workplace surveys.
21:38 - Wielding the learnings from the surveys to develop the Gensler Experience Index.
23:12 - Maintaining innovation in the workplace through design.
25:01 - Surprising findings from the surveys.
27:07 - When companies began understanding the importance of people and culture.
28:33 - Gensler's big hairy audacious goals and projecting where they'll be down the line.
29:53 - How Ken sees people working in 10 years and how offices will evolve to foster productivity.
32:40 - Playing the long game and constantly trying to improve and find new things.
34:44 - The changes that Gensler has been driving through their design and research.
36:36 - Why it's so important to just listen to clients and stay receptive to new ideas.
39:33 - Clients that Ken has worked with for over 20 years and the importance of accountability.
42:45 - Authentic passion and trust as underpinnings for successful client relationships.
49:22 - Learning more about Ken and Gensler.
50:31 - Ken's story about inviting people in to check out the Gensler offices.


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Spinoff of ABC Prime-Time Show in the Works
A spinoff is in the works at ABC for one of the network's prime-time series, TVNewser.com reports. The new series will be a variation on "What Would You Do?"
According to a casting notice, the new program will "investigate and explore human psychology and behavior. The casting process will be a fascinating opportunity for those who attend to learn about themselves and their fellow human beings."
"WWYD?" has hit upon some success at ABC as a limited prime-time show, filling in when it's needed. It's also proved profitable for ABC, with the network selling reruns to HLN.
The new show, which is being produced by ABC News, could be added to ABC's prime-time schedule or sold to another network, such as HLN. It is unclear who will host or which route the show will take, the story notes.
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