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NephMadness 2016: International Nephrology Region
Posted on March 10, 2016 by AJKDblog in NephMadness // 0 Comments
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NephMadness and all of social media break down traditional geographic barriers. When we tweet, we tweet to the world. Our nephrology social media community has members from every corner of the globe. As our world shrinks, what happens in previously remote areas can walk into your clinic as the next patient. The International region highlights four issues that are shaking nephrology. At the top of the bracket are two mysterious epidemics, one an epidemic of AKI due to traditional herbal remedies and the other an epidemic of CKD mainly affecting young male agricultural workers in tropical climates. In the bottom half of the bracket we have the exotic world of international transplant. Each country's ethnic and cultural background affects its approach to transplant. This provides a rich variety of transplant behaviors from which we can learn to craft a better experience for our patients. Rounding out the region is the the league's bad boy: transplant tourism. A crafty side effect of capitalism, transplant tourism turns the kidney into just another valued commodity. Transplant tourism exploits the vulnerable and entices them to put their health at risk by selling organs. This is an important issue and nephrologists should have a voice in policies designed to curb this behavior.
Selection Committee member for the International Nephrology Region:
Professor Vivekanand Jha, MD, DM, FRCP
Prof Jha is a Professor of Nephrology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He is the councillor of the International Society of Nephrology and the Chair of ISN Education. He has been involved in several KDIGO clinical practice guidelines and controversies conferences. Among others, he is interested in investigating the global diversities of kidney disease and its determinants.
Meet the Competitors for the International Nephrology Region
Traditional Remedies and Kidney Failure
CKDu (Mesoamerican) Nephropathy
Transplant Tourism
Organ Procurement
Traditional Remedies and Kidney Failure vs CKDu (Mesoamerican) Nephropathy
Traditional Remedies and Acute Kidney Failure
Traditional (or herbal) Remedies has been playing for longer than anybody from the pharmaceutical conferences, but they have just recently been getting invited to the tournament. Aristolochia made an appearance in NephMadness in 2014 and won the Toxin Region, but fell to eventual NephMadness Champion, JNC8. This year, we see the return of Traditional Remedies in a first round match-up against CKDu. Traditional Remedies are widely used in both the developing and developed world. A 1997 survey showed that one in nine adults used herbals, to the tune of $5.1 billion. An Australian survey—found that one in four adults used traditional remedies. In Africa, China, and India, these numbers swell to 65-80%. In many countries traditional medicine is not alternative at all, but is recognized and supported by central and provincial governments. Traditional Chinese and Indian Ayurvedic and Unani medicines are examples of this.
The primary source of danger from traditional medicines is not that they may be merely expensive placebos, but rather many of them have potent biochemical effects but there is little known about the pharmacology of the compounds as they are used in practice. The problem can start with something as banal as nomenclature. This was at the root of the aristolochia disaster where toxic guang fang ji (Aristolochia fangchi) was substituted for the benign han fang ji (Stephania tetrandra) leading to an epidemic of ESRD among previously healthy, middle-aged, women. If you are not familiar with this story make sure to read about Aristolochic acid nephropathy or Chinese Herb Nephropathy. Nomenclature is just the start of the problem. A medication's recipe is often folklore and passed from generation to generation as an oral tradition. Secrecy surrounding specific ingredients makes pharmacologic analysis essentially hopeless.
Traditional remedies can have systemic toxicity but the kidneys are a particularly ripe target:
Kidneys receive 20-25% of the cardiac output, so there is a lot of exposure
Large endothelial surface area
High metabolic activity
Active uptake and concentration of toxins in the tubules
Hypoxia, in the thin limbs of the loop of Henle, increases tissue susceptibility
Acidotic urine can activate toxins
The primary cause of acute kidney injury with traditional remedies is acute interstitial nephritis (AIN). ATN and pre-renal azotemia are the other major causes of AKI with traditional medicines.
Other abnormalities include:
Hypokalemia from licorice, a common additive to traditional Chinese medicine to make them more palatable
Hyperkalemia from alfalfa or noni juice
Hematuria from anticoagulant properties of Ginko biloba
St John's Wort induces P450 and MDRP1 to lower the bioavailability of many medications including the calcineurin inhibitors. Cases of acute kidney rejection from St John's wort are particularly upsetting.
The outcomes depend on the medical setting. Rural Africa has few resources available to patients with advanced CKD. Mortality in these regions can vary from 25% to 60%. In the West, access to renal replacement therapy lowers mortality but still represents a devastating illness for the patient who may continue to ingest "safe natural supplements" without knowledge of the physician.
Callilepis laureola poisoning – Popular in Sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa. Widely used for numerous indications including: bad dreams, fertility, decongestant, sexually transmitted disease, or to ward off evil spirits. Half the population of Natal consumes Callilepis laureola and it is the most common cause of AKI in Africa. Renal failure is seen in 60% of patients with drug toxicity and mortality is 50%.
Djenkol bean poisoning – This is widely consumed in South East Asia. In adequate doses it can lead to djenkolism – A symptom complex of dysuria, lumbar pain, hypertension, hematuria and oliguria. Djenkolic acid forms needle-like crystals that precipitate and cause tubular obstruction. Precipitation is induced by high concentrations and low pH.
Propolis – it is a resinous substance collected by honeybees and claimed to have antiseptic, astringent, and anti-inflammatory properties. Most of its use and toxicity has been reported from South America and is a cause of oliguric AKI.
The problem of kidney injury due to herbal or alternative medications is huge, under reported, and global. By better understanding the mechanisms of how these agents contribute to kidney damage could aid in developing novel therapies.
CKDu (Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology) or MAN (MesoAmerican Nephropathy)
CKDu or Mesoamerican nephropathy is more of an admission of defeat than a specific disease entity. In the 1990s, increased end-stage renal disease and demand for dialysis emerged in both El Salvador and Sri Lanka. These cases of ESRD did not follow the epidemiologically common causes of ESRD, e.g., the patients were younger and largely free of diabetes and hypertension. These unusual cases of CKD and ESRD began to be recognized in other countries including Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, India, and Egypt. As these diseases were recognized, they were often given regional names: Central American nephropathy, Salvadoran agricultural nephropathy, Mesoamerican epidemic nephropathy, chronic tubulointerstitial kidney disease of Central America, Udhanam endemic nephropathy (India), and Sri Lankan agricultural nephropathy. To better track this, all of these regional epidemics are lumped together as CKD of unknown etiology or CKDu or CKD due to non traditional causes (CKDnt). CKDu is a phenotypic description rather than a pathological entity and possibly due to more than one etiological factor. Necessarily it is a diagnosis of exclusion. While there is no internationally accepted case definition, common characteristics across studies include the following:
Asymptomatic and progressive CKD as defined by international standards
Absent or sub-nephrotic proteinuria
Absence of hematuria
Absence of diabetes, chronic or severe arterial hypertension, HIV, snake bite, glomerulonephritis, or other urinary tract disease
Normal glycosylated hemoglobin (<6.5%)
Normal(ish) blood pressure
<160/100 mmHg in untreated patients
<140/90 mmHg in patients receiving up to 2 antihypertensive drugs
This new entity is burning up the actuarial charts moving CKD into the fifth most common cause of death in Central and Andean Latin America. Mortality from CKD increased 350% in the last 20 years and the second most common cause of CKD in India. (Lozano R et al, Lancet 2012, Global Burden of Disease, Martin-Cleary et al, Clin Kidney J, 2014, Rajapurkar et al BMC Nephrol 2012).
Despite the various names and the wide foot print of the disease, some characteristics seem to be consistent from region to region. This disease affects more men than women and it tends to strike at a younger age (mean age 35 years), often in the prime of life. Agricultural workers are the hardest hit. El Salvador and Nicaragua have the highest prevalence of CKDu, up to 16% of the population (compare with ~5% in North America and Europe). In El Salvador ESRD due to CKDu is now the leading cause of hospital mortality and El Salvador can now claim the highest mortality rate from CKD in the world at 51.8 deaths per 100,000.
The risk factors for CKDu were explored by a systematic review of 26 articles from Central America and South Asia. Most data were cross sectional or case-control data of variable quality. The top risk factors in South Asia are exposure to heavy metals, farming, family history, agrochemical use and smoking. The risks in Central America were age, male sex, agrochemical use, farming and heat stress. This re-emphasizes the clinical phenotype of a young male agricultural farmer working long hours in hot humid conditions, but given the variable quality of the studies making up the systematic review caution should be used in relying on the results.
One attractive hypothesis is that the combination of recurrent dehydration, heat stress, and high sugar intake, usually as sugar sweetened beverages, is a primary driver of CKDu. The finding of increased CKDu at lower, hotter altitudes supports this theory. This theory was explored in one of the first NephJCs. Laws et al recently published their study results in AJKD where they identified high IL18 and NGAL levels in Nicaraguan sugarcane workers involved in heavy field labour, though this may be just one side of a complex matrix.
While several researchers continue to explore this baffling entity there remain several unanswered questions.
Is CKDu a truly global disease?
Is it the same entity with similar pathophysiology everywhere?
When did it begin in these countries?
Are there countries where it exists but has not yet been detected?
Thus, what we have on our hands is a global phenomenon of unexplained CKD which is cutting down young, productive, men in prime of their life. Most of these young men are dying without hope. The epidemic demands urgent answers.
Transplant Tourism OR Organ Trafficking vs Organ Procurement
Transplant Tourism OR Organ Trafficking
Organ transplant tourism is similar to the illicit drug trade. There is money, desperation, crime, organized syndicates, black market, people trafficking including children. All countries actively pursuing transplantation have some form of educational program to improve the awareness of organ donations—both living and deceased. However, the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation (GODT) Report reveals that despite 118,127 transplants in 2014 this met less than 10% of the global demand for organs. This makes the situation ripe for crime, only this time the commodity is human organs. It is time we reconcile that the beautiful experience of organ donation has such an ugly side.
Transplant tourism has been around for a long time and Trafficking in Humans for Organ Removal (UN Assessment ToolKit) was recognized two decades ago. The world's poorest, illiterate, prisoners, undocumented immigrants, political or economic refugees are providing organs for the wealthy (Bagheri, 2015). Adding to the misery is the newer trend of trafficking humans themselves to serve as organ donors. To add to this disturbing picture are the reports of murdered children whose bodies turn up minus their organs (Secretary General Report UN 2006).
The plight of the donors after the transplant is pretty terrible, among the problems these donors have:
They have no way to get medical follow up
They receive a tiny portion of the price of the organ as most of the money is sucked up by slick "facilitators" leaving a pittance in the hands of the donor. The donors are often in debt but after paying off the loan, the donor often returns to debt within years of the donation.
These situations have driven some donors to suicide
A survey of 239 kidney "vendors" from Pakistan presented very disturbing statistics. These commercial donors were 34 years old, 90% illiterate, 69% bonded laborers with monthly income of $16 US. Ninety percent underwent "donation" for debt repayment of ~$1300 and were paid a mean of ~$1400. However, on follow up 88% identified no improvement in their financial status and 98% reported deterioration of their own health.
Organ trafficking is a global phenomenon. Among the countries with confirmed reports are Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan, India, China, Philippines, and Mexico. In a recent report, the Daily Mail identified an even more disturbing trend of terrorist organisations recruiting foreign doctors to help harvest organs not only from their dead comrades but also from living hostages from Syria and Iraq. Transplant tourism in China takes an even more disturbing turn where death row prisoners are a significant source of organs for transplant.
Organ trafficking has been defined after the Istanbul Declaration (2008) as:
''The recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, or receipt of living or deceased persons or their organs by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving to, or the receiving by, a third party of payments or benefits to achieve the transfer of control over the potential donor, for the purpose of exploitation by the removal of organs for transplantation."
Transplant Tourism has become a synonym for organ trafficking and is defined by UNOS as 'the purchase of a transplant organ abroad that includes access to an organ while bypassing laws, rules, or processes of any or all countries involved'. It accounts for 5-10% of all kidney transplant worldwide but this data is very difficult to come by and possibly an underestimate.
The following cartoon shows various models of transplant tourism. This concept was presented by Yosuke Shimazono at the Second Global Consultation on Human Transplantation at the WHO headquarters in Geneva in 2007:
Data from certain countries is startling (most of this data is not published in any registry unsurprisingly, but derived from interviews and visits). In Pakistan 2,000 kidney transplants were performed for foreign tourists, the donor source however is uncertain. In Philippines there are reports of more than 3,000 transplants for foreigners, with certain districts encouraging transplant tourists. In India, there are increasing reports of organ transplants to foreigners with the organ source often being the tsunami victims from Chennai. Egypt performs about 500 transplants from commercial donors. Several hundred ESRD patients from countries like Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Malaysia, and South Korea went abroad for a transplant according to data compiled by Shimazono et al and presented at the Second Global Consultation at UN. The largest number of transplants is from China where 11,000 transplants were conducted from executed prisoners of which 8,000 were kidney transplants. Since then several measures were taken by Chinese authorities to curb this menace and it was declared last year that this practice has been stopped, as presented by Dr Delmonico at the WCN 2015. However, there are still doubts.
When a patient asks about buying a kidney or tells you of her plans to get a foreign commercial kidney what is your role? Timothy Caulfield from the University of Alberta explores the legal and ethical issues surrounding this question. Physicians and other healthcare providers in the field of ESRD are well placed to play a role in monitoring and reducing these practices. Oftentimes the patient will ask this question before leaving and these are opportunities to dissuade the recipient.
Physicians should provide information about the ethical issues surrounding this practice—Click here for an excellent pamphlet in several languages to provide the patients with information.
Provide an honest assessment of health risks involved
Description of possible complications and the lack of continuity in care needs to be outlined
The plight of the organ donor needs to be conveyed to the potential "tourist"
These discussions may invoke a person's conscience and ethical integrity and hopefully prevent this sometimes fraudulent activity. Picolli et al explores this question of "Doctor can I buy a kidney" from an ethical lens and helps physicians apply a concept of "reverse" informed consent (where the patient asks advice) using four ethical principles: beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy.
Can a physician disclose that his/her patient bought a kidney? In most states there is no obligation to do this and it can have a negative impact on the patient/physician relationship so information should be provided before the transplant.
Worldwide, CKD is increasing. Every year the number of patients starting dialysis and being waitlisted for a transplant goes up. Also increasing is the number of people dying without ever getting a transplant.Globally, CKD has among the highest percent increase in deaths over the last two decades.
Data from the Global Burden of Disease website
Tragically, donor pools cannot keep up with increased demand so a smaller fraction of waitlisted patients are being transplanted every year. Over the years most countries have developed organ procurement policies and organizations to facilitate the organ donation. In United States the UNOS/OPTN work side-by-side with the transplant centers to match donors and recipients across the nation. In Canada, the Canadian Blood Services and Canadian Transplant Registry work with provincial partners to do the same. EuroTransplant is the organ procurement organization for seven European nations. The United Kingdom and Spain have their own corresponding systems. China and India's ESRD populations are immense but cultural and religious beliefs coupled with poverty and illiteracy have kept the rates of both living and deceased organ donation below levels seen in western countries. Living related donation continues to be altruistic in most part but the living unrelated donation is speculated to be have a commercial angle to it especially in the poor countries.
Organ procurement from deceased donor follows two broad principles.
OPT-OUT (Presumed Consent): Meaning every individual is considered for organ donation on death unless specifically mentioned as not willing to donate. Thus, the DEFAULT is to be a donor
OPT-IN (Explicit Consent): When the person has to have made his wish of donating organs after his/her death known and have a donor card signed. Thus, the DEFAULT is not to be a donor
Countries with OPT-OUT or Presumed Consent
Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia
Countries with OPT-IN or Explicit Consent
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Republic of Ireland, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Romania, Taiwan, UK, USA, Venezuela
In a study comparing these policies and effect on transplant rates in 44 transplanting countries, Horvat LD et al, showed that having presumed consent policy in the country pushed up the rates of deceased donor transplant but these countries had lower living donor transplant rates. Thus, it a fine line to walk—adopting presumed consent as a policy may adversely affect living donor rates:
Deceased donor kidney transplantation rates
OPT-OUT – countries (n=22): 22.6 transplants per million
OPT-IN -countries (n=22): 13.9 transplants per million
Living donor kidney transplantation rates
OPT-OUT countries 2.4 transplants per million
OPT-IN countries 5.9 transplants per million
These data were confirmed by Shepherd et al showing deceased donor transplants were higher in the OPT-OUT countries at the cost of the living donation. Despite this unfortunate consequence, the total number of kidneys and livers transplanted were still higher in OPT-OUT countries.
Rosenbaum et al studied the role next-of-kin play in deceased organ donation. In 54 nations with both presumed or explicit consent most physicians do not proceed without the next-of-kin OK. This important to incorporate into education regarding donation. It should have a next-of-kin message to improve organ procurement.
Spanish Model of Organ Donation—Why are the spaniards so asombros. Spain has the world's highest rate of organ donation, short waiting lists, and reduced reliance on living donation. Highlights of the Spanish model include
OPT-OUT since 1979
Highest proportion of ICU beds in the world
Universal healthcare including transplant
Extensive training of doctors with every aspect of donation counselling
Each hospital has its own transplant coordinators
Unlike other countries these transplant coordinators are the same healthcare professionals working in the ICU who work part-time as Tx coordinators
Country-wise specifics of organ procurement (Jingwei AH et al, 2010):
China – 90% of deceased organ transplant occur from executed prisioners. In 2015 the Chinese authorities made an announcement to end the practice; however, the clause that prisoners still have full rights in terms of organ donations and can therefore "voluntarily" donate organs after they are executed still remains, casting a doubt on the real effect of the announcement.
India – By law the living donor organ transplants can occur between first degree relatives only; this was recently expanded to include grandparents and grandchildren. Anyone beyond this degree of relation is considered a Living Unrelated Donor and undergoes several assessments by a committee to identify and stifle the commercialization of organs.
Taiwan – Has a rapidly aging population and decreased availability of organs, despite having a broad definition of living related transplant. By National Health Insurance Bureau data, close to half of the patients are transplanted overseas.
Iran – The Organ Transplantation Act passed in 2000 made the sale of living unrelated kidney donors legal. These commercial donors get anywhere from $2,000-$4,000 for their organ and a supplemental compensation of $1550 from the recipient (Broumand B, Transplantation Activities in Iran, Transplantation Proceedings, 2005). This practice has increased the number of living donations at the expense of the deceased donor program.
Saudi Arabia – There was an increasing organ shortage in Saudi Arabia leading to several patients to travel abroad for a transplant especially to China, Egypt, Pakistan, and the Philippines. In Oct 2007 the Saudi government started awarding $13,300 for an unrelated organ with lifelong medical care for the donor. This has dramatically increased the number of living donors.
Japan – Living organ donation forms the bulk of Japanese transplantation. Nearly 70% of all transplants in Japan are living donors.
Islamic Governments in Indonesia and Iran – Do not allow harvesting organs after death so deceased donor programs are nonexistent or stunted.
What about compensating a living donor?
Living donor and organ procurement has always struggled with the concepts of compensation. Ethically this is challenging—The transplant community is essentially "denying" a right to live by banning the establishment of an open organ market. If such an organ market is created, it will change the very fabric of altruistic donation and may offend cultural, religious, and ethical beliefs of many. The DONOR Network data shows that 40% of all transplants are from living donors. The highest living donation transplant rate was in Saudi Arabia (32 procedures per million population) followed by Jordan, Iceland, and Iran.
The divide in demand and supply of organs has spawned an entire industry of transplant tourism with its attending ethical conundrums and criminal activity. The answer to this global problem lies in encouraging organ donation legally and improving the means of organ procurement in a manner which is justifiable and equitable to the population of the region.
– Post written and edited by Drs. Nikhil Shah and Joel Topf.
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My stomach hurts bad from laughing. This is so freakin' hilarious! Moral of the story: BEWARE OF KIDS! They will leave you fumbling for words...I'm Serious!
2. Give this kid a medal!
5. Finding the easy way out!
6. That one's just disturbing!
7. Who are you to deny their love?
12. Looks like he's got it all planned!
16. He sure knows his history!
19. This is wrong...so wrong!
20. Talk about being human!
23. He's a free loader all right!
25. RIP Lamarck's Theory of Evolution!
26. Now, that's called smart thinking!
29. OH GOD! A kindergartner? No!


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Walking Dead: The Game for iPad Out Now
July 26, 2012 Patrick Jordan 1 Comment
Walking Dead: The Game for the iPad and iOS has been released today, and is available in the iPad App Store now.
This game is delivered in episodes by Telltale Games – this initial release has the first episode 'The Walking Dead – A New Day'. Future episodes will be released and priced at $4.99, the same as this one. See my post on Walking Dead: The Game yesterday for full details on price and iOS devices supported.
Here's a slice of the App Store intro for the game:
The Walking Dead is a five-part episodic game series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman's award-winning comic books featuring Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes.
This is not another shoot 'em up; it's a game that explores some very dark psychological places, revealing that the undead are not the only thing to be afraid of when society crumbles.
In this brand new story, you are Lee Everett, a man given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.
Experience a dark, visceral and emotional series where every action and decision you make can result in the story changing around you. This tailored experience means that your story could be very different to that of someone else.
I've just installed this game and sadly have to go out for a dental visit now. I' can't wait to give it a try when I get back. If you're a Walking Dead fan and you've tried the game out, tell us what you think of it in the comments.
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Instagram has sent a letter to the British creator of the anti-litter application Littergram, demanding it change its name.
Littergram is a not-for-profit venture started in 2014, which encourages people in Britain to take photos of litter and send them to their local councils through the dedicated app.
Instagram's lawyers though have given it just three months to change the name or face being taken to court.
The small app's owner, Danny Lucas, has recorded an impassioned plea to Mark Zuckerberg, whose Facebook owns Instagram. He claims that having to change the name at this stage would "destroy all our ingenuity and hard work".
"I would like to hope that with your own personal ambitions to help our planet that instead of spending money on lawyers and eliminating great causes such as Littergram you will join forces with me and help me take this forward," he said.
The lawyers however claim that the brand "utilises and relies on social media usage" like Instagram. It cannot therefore be used "in relation to services which are core" to their client's app.
Lucas' aim with Littergram was to help educate children about the negative effect of littering in the country and to make it as anti-social as drink driving.
What shocks us here at Pocket-lint is that Instagram, a name that is itself an amalgam of other brands (Kodak Instamatic cameras anyone), is clamping down on another, non-rivalling application simply for putting "gram" at the end.
What's next? Facebook taking a pop at Penguin Books? Instagram going after Smash Instant Mash? WhatsApp going after a couple of beer-drinking frogs?


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Schools Evacuated Amid Bomb Threats
A 12-year old is headed to court after police say he videotaped himself making terrorist threats at two schools. The boy is said to have sent emails to administrators at Erwin middle and intermediate schools in Center Point both Wednesday and Thursday of last week, stating that a bomb was planted in the bathrooms. The students were evacuated both days, but no bombs were found.
The emails were traced back to the boy, who'd also recorded video of himself sending the emails. He will be tried as a juvenile.


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WEB ASTROLOGY
ONLY COSMOS IS THE LIMIT
Antiglobalism
HOW TO STOP COMPLAINING AND START LIVING?
Simply put, complaining means voicing your opinion about something you feel isn't right or satisfactory. There can be varying degrees—whining, nagging, lamenting, remonstrating, objecting, or criticising. All these words convey an underlying tone of negativity. At the outset, however, we should draw a line between complaining for a valid reason and complaining out of habit. The former is about raising a principled objection to any wrongdoing.
For instance, if you have been unfairly charged with a traffic violation, you have every right to complain. The latter involves constantly ranting about how life has dealt you an unfair deal, or how every person around you is out to take undue advantage of you, and looking for someone or something to blame for your situation.
Experts say that if complaining becomes your second nature, you can suffer in more ways than one. "Complaining seems like an almost natural reaction to those things that are not going as per our expectations or desires. If it is transient, it may not be too harmful; it may even release bottled-up feelings," says Dr Sanjay Garg, consultant, Department of Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences, Fortis Hospital, Kolkata. "But, when complaining becomes too frequent or prolonged, it can start having toxic effects on our overall well-being."
Why do we complain?
Generally speaking, complaining can be regarded as a default coping mechanism; one starts complaining when things tend to be beyond his or her control. "Since most of us have grown up in an environment where resentment and complaining is quite the order of the day, we take it as a natural way to live life," says Vaibhav Datar, Mumbai-based mid-life coach and author of Simplify Your Life.
Apart from that, there's an associated sense of victimhood, says Datar. "There's a 'victim' position, in coaching parlance, wherein you talk about how good you are and how bad others are to you," he says. Consequently, one tries to gain sympathy by complaining. From another angle, complaining can be viewed as a form of self-defence—a weak one though. "Most of us find it difficult to admit that something was our fault; complaining just provides us with the perfect excuse to explain why it wasn't," states Dr Garg.
How does complaining affect us?
The consequences are manifold. It affects our mental health as well as our physical well-being. There can be other collateral damage too. Ways in which relentless complaining can wreck our happiness include:
It ruins our relationships: This is not limited to romantic relationships. Our day-to-day interactions with people around us can also be affected. Bengaluru-based IT consultant, Riya Saran*, underwent a series of stressful changes during a period where she found herself complaining too much. She says, "I suffered alienation, lost my job, went through severe depression, and during this dark period, found myself finding faults with and blaming everyone for all my troubles. The first casualty was my relationship with my partner. I complained about him, accusing him of not giving me enough attention. In reality, he was there for me and was also trying to help me. I just couldn't see it then."
It causes an inane amount of stress: Experts say that it's a vicious cycle— stress can lead to complaining, and vice-cersa. "Complaining causes distress levels and negative emotions to rise, which has a detrimental effect on our daily activities," says Dr Garg. "Every complaint can be a reminder of every undesirable situation we've ever experienced. Needless to say, if we are bogged down by such pessimism, our work and life are bound to suffer."
It deteriorates physical health: Complaining can affect our physical well-being as well, and research shows it can affect the brain. A 2016 study by Stanford University, shows that complaining, among other things, can affect the hippocampus, an area of the brain associated with memory and learning. "Our mind and body are closely related. Our body is able to absorb stress until a certain level. Beyond that limit, we actually start feeling physical pain," says Datar. "We also suffer from fatigue and lose interest in the simple joys of life."
How to stop complaining?
This is the tricky part, since there are really no quick-fix solutions. Experts say that the following can help:
Be grateful: Gratitude is considered to be a great healer. A study by the University of California, Davis, shows that people who are able to cultivate an attitude of gratitude are likely to undergo less anxiety, due to reduced levels of the stress hormone—cortisol. So, start feeling appreciative towards and thankful for everything you have.
Focus on the solution: When complaining, you are fixated on the problem, forgetting that you need a solution. Try and stop ruminating on the problem, and start thinking about how you can wriggle out of a tight corner, or what your next step should be.
Don't accept defeat: "The moment we start complaining, we are adopting a self-defeating attitude by indirectly telling ourselves that we cannot do anything about the situation," says Dr Garg. Stop accepting defeat easily.
Enough is enough: Datar suggests saying this to yourself aloud again and again, "I have suffered enough. I decide to change now." It's a kind of positive affirmation that will inspire you to make an effective change. All in all, stop complaining and make your own silver linings playbook.
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Guy Fletcher (* 24. Mai 1960 in Maidstone, Kent) ist ein englischer Musiker, der vor allem durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit Mark Knopfler bekannt wurde. Er begann seine Musikerkarriere als Keyboarder und ist mittlerweile Multi-Instrumentalist.

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Guy Fletchers Eltern waren Musiker und hatten gemeinsam mit seinem Onkel die Band The Cameos, so dass er in einem musikalischen Umfeld aufwuchs. Erste musikalische Einflüsse waren die Beatles und Deep Purple. Er erlernte als Teenager in den 1970er-Jahren das Spielen der Keyboard. Die Schule schloss er mit 15 Jahren ab und suchte sich einen Job im Musikgeschäft.

Seit 1983 begleitet er Mark Knopfler, zunächst bei Dire Straits und bis heute bei Knopflers Solo-Karriere.

Guy Fletcher ist mit Lourie-Ann verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder, Max und Leon.

Musikerkarriere

In den 1970er-Jahren lernte er Keyboard zu spielen. Er hatte damals auch schon seine eigene Band Atlantis.

1981 war Fletcher als Keyboarder mit Roxy Music auf Avalon-Tournee.

1983 traf er erstmals auf Mark Knopfler. Die ersten gemeinsamen Aufnahmen finden sich auf Knopflers Filmsoundtrack für Cal. Knopfler lud ihn danach ein, als zweiter Keyboarder neben Alan Clark zu seiner Band Dire Straits zu stoßen. In dieser Besetzung nahmen Dire Straits ihr erfolgreichstes Album "Brothers in Arms" auf und gingen 1985/86 auf Welttournee. Seither ist Fletcher auf jedem Album der Dire Straits bzw. Mark Knopfler (einschließlich verschiedener Filmsoundtracks) zu hören. Auch in der kurzlebigen Band Notting Hillbillies spielte er mit Knopfler zusammen.

1994/95 tourte Fletcher nochmals mit Roxy Music.

Er arbeitete in seiner Karriere auch mit anderen Musikern, wie Jimmy Nail, Tina Turner, Willy DeVille, Chet Atkins, Mick Jagger oder Randy Newman.

Während seiner Musikerkarriere lernte Fletcher außer Keyboard noch Gitarre, Ukulele, Bass und Schlagzeug zu spielen. Zusätzlich ist er auch als Background-Sänger aktiv.

Diskografie

Solo
 Inamorata (2008)
 Stone (2009)
 Natural Selection (2010)
 High Roads (2016)

Quellen
 Guy Fletcher's Homepage / about (englisch)
 Mark Knopfler News / Biogs / Guy Fletcher (englisch)

Weblinks
 Guy Fletcher's Homepage (englisch)
 Guy Fletcher's MySpace (englisch)

Musiker (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Keyboarder
Dire Straits
Brite
Geboren 1960
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Ram announces an all-electric pickup truck as part of an overall EV strategy
It's expected to go into production in 2024
Jil McIntosh
Jul 08, 2021 • July 13, 2021 • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
All-electric Ram 1500 Photo by Stellantis
Get ready for more plug-in pickups. Stellantis – the automaker formerly known to us as Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles, or FCA – has announced a company-wide commitment to electric vehicles (EVs), including an all-electric Ram 1500 that's expected to go into production in 2024.
The electric Ram was teased during a presentation outlining Stellantis' electric ambitions, and while very little information was provided, we did grab these renderings of what it could look like when it arrives.
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Stellantis plans to invest more than €30 billion from now through 2025 for electrification and software. The new company was formed earlier this year when FCA merged with PSA Group, which owns such brands as Citroën and Peugeot. It has a target of more than 70 per cent of its sales in Europe, and over 40 per cent in the U.S., being low-emission vehicles by 2030. Every one of the company's 14 brands is expected to have at least one fully-electric vehicle.
Each brand also gets its own snappy (or maybe not-so-snappy) tag line, such as "Tear Up the Streets…Not the Planet" for Dodge, and "Clean Technology for a New Generation of Families" for Chrysler. Ram's will be "Built to Serve a Sustainable Planet."
An all-electric Ram truck is planned for 2024 Photo by Stellantis
Ram also sells commercial vans, the full-size ProMaster and compact ProMaster City. While it's not yet clear which fleet vehicles will go plug-in, Stellantis has a headline of "The Global Leader in e-Commercial Vehicles" for all of its commercial products. Plans are to release medium-size vans, powered by hydrogen fuel cells, by the end of 2021, although exactly where in its global markets hasn't been confirmed.
All electric vehicles will be built on one of four platforms – small, medium, large, and frame – and with standardized battery packs and fast-charging capability of 32 kilometres per minute. Both the large and frame platforms will have a range of up to 800 kilometres, although of course that will be the maximum. We'll have to see what battery size the Ram uses, and if it'll be a single choice, or if range options will be available at different prices.
Of course an electric Ram had to happen, because everyone's plugging in that direction. Ford is already taking orders for its F-150 Lightning ; it looks like Chevrolet's electric Silverado may start production in 2023; and it's likely that Toyota's all-new Tundra will offer a hybrid powertrain and possibly a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) version when it debuts in 2022.
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5 New Albums to Stream Today
By Lizzie Manno & Paste Staff | December 6, 2019 | 9:00am
Photos by Nigel King, Amy Harris, Stewart Baxter, Nura Sheidaee/Run For Cover Records Music Lists New Albums
We're just as shocked as you that there's only a small number of remaining albums due out this decade. Before we dive headfirst into 2020, we're rounded up a few more albums worth checking out, like The Who's first studio album in 13 years, the first IDLES live album and the surprise-released debut solo album from Camp Cope's Georgia Maq. Scroll down for five new albums to stream on this New Music Friday.
1. Emily Yacina: Remember the Silver
New York-based DIY singer-songwriter and frequent (Sandy) Alex G collaborator Emily Yacina has shared her studio debut, Remember the Silver. Each of Remember the Silver's singles have a different vibe: "Gleaming" glides from choppy to ethereal, while "Bleachers" was loping and melancholy. Listening to "Arcades & Highways" is like being wrapped up in a warm cocoon: "I need you to swallow me," Yacina duets with guest vocalist Rachel Levy, and it feels an embrace. —Amanda Gersten
2. Georgia Maq: Pleaser
Camp Cope singer and guitarist Georgia Maq (nee Georgia McDonald) has delivered a very pleasant surprise this past Thursday morning: Her debut solo record Pleaser, now streaming everywhere and available for physical preorder via Run For Cover Records. Maq, Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich and Sarah Thompson released their sophomore studio album How to Socialise and Make Friends in 2018, earning a spot on Paste's list of the year's best records. Unlike the Melbourne trio's politically charged, garage-friendly indie rock, Pleaser finds Maq expanding into synth-based indie-pop territory, crooning hypnotically about matters of the heart over thumping drum machines and electronic soundscapes, with nary a guitar to be found except on the album's opener, "Away From Love." —Scott Russell
3. IDLES: A Beautiful Thing: IDLES Live at Le Bataclan
Bristol punk outfit IDLES have shared their first live album today, which was recorded live at Le Bataclan in Paris in December 2018. The album, titled A Beautiful Thing, is available via limited colored double LP, CD and download. "Our show at Bataclan was the end of a very long journey for us," frontman Joe Talbot says. "On that tour we learnt so much about ourselves, each other and the audiences we have grown with over the past 10 years. That show was nothing short of catharsis and nothing more than love. We love what we do and the people who have carried us here, there was no hiding that at Bataclan and we are so very grateful that the moment was captured in all its glory, love and fatigue. Long live the open minded and long live the moment." —Lizzie Manno
4. Junodream: Isn't It Lovely (To Be Alone)
Following their previous EP Terrible Things That Could Happen, London-based band Junodream have shared a brand new four-track EP, Isn't It Lovely (To Be Alone). Its standout track "Limiter" sounds like an unearthed early Coldplay classic, while "As Far as I See" offers dynamic, atmospheric psych-pop. —Lizzie Manno
5. The Who: WHO
British rock icons The Who just released their first new studio album in 13 years—WHO. The Who's last album of new songs was 2006's Endless Wire. Pete Townshend said fans can expect "dark ballads, heavy rock stuff, experimental electronica, sampled stuff and Who-ish tunes that began with a guitar that goes yanga-dang." —Lizzie Manno
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You may be aware that vitamin D and calcium are a powerful duo for bone health, including the prevention of osteoporosis. One of the undisputed benefits of vitamin D is that it helps you ABSORB calcium – this link has been known for many decades.
But there is also evidence that vitamin K, and specifically vitamin K2, is another key player in your bone health, and may be just as crucial in helping you prevent bone fractures as you age.
Many are under the mistaken impression that a prescription drug combined with calcium supplements is the answer to strong healthy bones, but the regular consumption of a healthy diet, along with safe sun exposure and extra supplementation when appropriate, is likely to be far superior.
Theorizing that vitamin K might have a role in the primary prevention of fractures, researchers studied the cost-effectiveness of various interventions for preventing fractures in 50-year-old postmenopausal women. They learned that the vitamin K1, vitamin D3, and calcium combination could reduce the lifetime probability of at least one fracture by 20 percent, but adding vitamin K2 to vitamin D3 reduced it by 25 percent.
Vitamin K1 and K2: Which is Better for Your Bones?
In case you weren't aware, vitamin K comes in two forms, and it is important to understand the differences between them before devising your nutritional plan of attack.
There are several different forms of vitamin K2: MK4, MK7, MK8, and MK9. The form of vitamin K that has the most relevance for health benefits is MK7, a newer and longer acting form with more practical applications. MK7 is extracted from the Japanese fermented soy product called natto. You could actually get plenty of MK7 from consuming natto, as it is relatively inexpensive and available in most Asian food markets.
Calcium: There is new evidence that it is vitamin K (specifically, vitamin K2) that directs calcium to your skeleton, while preventing it from being deposited where you don't want it -- i.e., your organs, joint spaces, and arteries. A large part of arterial plaque consists of calcium deposits (atherosclerosis), hence the term "hardening of the arteries."
Vitamin K2 activates a protein hormone called osteocalcin, produced by osteoblasts, which is needed to bind calcium into the matrix of your bone. Osteocalcin also appears to help prevent calcium from depositing into your arteries. So while increasing calcium is good for your bones, it is not so good for your arteries, which can become calcified. Vitamin K helps protect your blood vessels from calcifying when in the presence of high calcium levels.
Vitamin D3: As mentioned, vitamin D helps your body to absorb calcium, but vitamin K directs that calcium to your skeleton where it's needed. You can think of vitamin D as the gatekeeper, controlling who gets in, and vitamin K as the traffic cop, directing the traffic to where it needs to go. Lots of traffic -- but no traffic cop -- means clogging, crowding and chaos everywhere!
Calcium, vitamin K2 and vitamin D3 are obviously available in supplement form, but you should know that you can also get them naturally from food and the sun.
Calcium, in particular, is better utilized by your body if it's food-based calcium. Good sources include raw milk and cheese from pasture-raised cows (who eat plants), leafy green vegetables, the pith of citrus fruits, carob, sesame seeds and wheatgrass, to name a few. Calcium from dietary sources is typically better absorbed and utilized than calcium from supplements, which may increase your risk of heart attack or stroke.
As for vitamin D3, exposing your skin to natural sunlight is the best way to get enough of this important nutrient. Vitamin D from sunlight acts as a pro-hormone, rapidly converting in your skin into 25-hydroxyvitamin D, or vitamin D3. The next best option is using a safe tanning bed to achieve similar results as that from natural sunlight exposure, and the third best option is taking an oral vitamin D3 supplement whenever natural sun exposure is not an option, then monitoring your levels to be sure you're within the therapeutic range.
Ideally, optimize your vitamin K2 through a combination of dietary sources (leafy green vegetables, fermented foods like natto, raw milk cheeses, etc.) and a K2 supplement, as most people don't get sufficient amounts of vitamin K from their diet to reap its full health benefits. You must use caution with vitamin K if you take anticoagulants, but if you are generally healthy and not on these types of medications, I suggest 150-300 mcg daily.
One of the best parts about optimizing your levels of vitamin D3 is that you will experience a host of beneficial "side effects" – even above and beyond your bone health.
In research presented at the European Society of Hypertension conference in London, scientists studying the effects of vitamin D3 supplementation on heart health reported that they've found that patients with high blood pressure can experience significant improvements in their condition by taking only the supplement, without high-power drugs. The majority of the study's participants were deficient in vitamin D, and while scientists stopped short of recommending vitamin D be substituted for blood pressure drugs, they did say the study shows that supplementation with vitamin D was "as powerful" as the drugs.
Both vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 are important for your heart health, as they work together to increase Matrix GLA Protein (or MGP), the protein responsible for protecting your blood vessels from calcification. In healthy arteries, MGP congregates around the elastic fibers of your tunica media (arterial lining), guarding them against calcium crystal formation.
Optimize your vitamin D3 either from natural sunlight exposure, a safe tanning bed or an oral vitamin D3 supplement. Check your blood levels regularly to make sure you're within the optimal range.
Optimize your vitamin K1 through a combination of dietary sources (leafy green vegetables, fermented foods like natto, raw milk cheeses, etc.) and a K2 supplement, if needed. Although the exact dosing (for oral supplementation) is yet to be determined, and you must use caution on the higher doses if you take anticoagulants, if you are generally healthy and not on these types of medications, I suggest 150-300 mcg daily.
Make sure you do weight-bearing exercise, which has profound benefits to your skeletal systems. My favorite is Peak Fitness but it is also very important to do strength-training exercises to produce the dynamic electric forces in your bones that will stimulate the osteoblasts to produce new bone.
Consume a wide variety of fresh, local, organic whole foods, including vegetables, nuts, seeds, organic meats and eggs, and raw organic unpasteurized dairy for calcium and other nutrients. The more of your diet you consume RAW, the better nourished you will be. Minimize sugar and refined grains.
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To Be Deep in History
by Keith Mathison
The nineteenth century witnessed the conversions of two prominent Anglican clergymen to Roman Catholicism. Both men would ultimately become cardinals in the Roman Church, and both men would profoundly influence Roman Catholic theology. The first was John Henry Newman (1801–1890). The second was Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892). Newman is probably most well known for his involvement in the high church Oxford Movement and for his Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845). Manning is best known for his advocacy of social justice and for his strong support of the doctrine of papal infallibility following his conversion to Rome. He played a key role in the First Vatican Council (1869–1870).
What I find most interesting about these two men is their approach to history and what it tells us about the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Newman famously said, "To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant." He believed that if one compared the teaching and practice of both Protestantism and Rome to the teaching and practice of the early church, one would be forced to conclude that Rome was the true heir of the early church. Of course, he had to posit a rather complex theory of doctrinal development in order to make such an idea plausible to himself and others not already inclined to agree. But be that as it may, Newman believed that the study of history supported the claims of Rome.
Cardinal Manning, on the other hand, claimed that for a Roman Catholic, "the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy" and that "the only divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour" (The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost). In other words, to examine church history in order to find support for the claims of Rome is to demonstrate a lack of faith in the Church of Rome. It is to place human reason over and above faith. If you want to know what the early church taught, all you have to do is look at what the Roman Catholic Church teaches today.
The Roman Catholic theologian Walter Burghardt expresses the same view in connection with the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary, which was defined as dogma in 1950:
"A valid argument for a dogmatic tradition, for the Church's teaching in the past can be constructed from her teaching in the present. And that is actually the approach theology took to the definability of the assumption before 1st November 1950. It began with a fact: the current consensus, in the Church teaching and in the Church taught, that the Corporeal Assumption was revealed by God. If that is true, if that is the teaching of the magisterium of the moment, if that is the Church's tradition, then it was always part and parcel of the Church's teaching, part and parcel of tradition."
Manning and Burghardt are simply being consistent with belief in the infallibility of Rome and of the pope. If the church is infallible, appeals to history, tradition, and Scripture are superfluous. What the church teaches now must be what the church has always taught, regardless of what the actual evidence from Scripture and/or tradition might say.
Rome truly has no other choice if she wishes to maintain her current beliefs and practices. If she were to appeal to something like the Vincentian Canon (namely, that the true faith, the true interpretation of Scripture, is that which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all), the pope would have to give up all claims to supremacy over the entire church, and the bulk of Roman peculiarities and practice would have to be jettisoned.
Cardinal Newman recognized the obvious difference between the current Roman Church and the early church. He was too deep in history not to see it. He had to develop his famous idea of doctrinal development to explain it. He argued that all the later Roman doctrines and practices were "hidden" in the church from the beginning. They were made explicit over time under the guidance of the Spirit. But the problem that many Roman Catholics fail to see is that there is a difference between development and contradiction. It is one thing to use different language to teach something the church has always taught (e.g., the "Trinity"). It is another thing altogether to begin teaching something that the church always denied (e.g., papal supremacy or infallibility). Those doctrines in particular were built on multitudes of forgeries.
Cardinal Manning solved the problem by treating any appeal to history as treason. He called for blind faith in the papacy and magisterium. Such might have been possible had the fruits of the papacy over 1,500 years not consistently been the precise opposite of the fruit of the Spirit (Matt. 7:16).
Cardinal Newman said that to be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant. The truth is that to be deep in real history, as opposed to Rome's whitewashed, revisionist, and often forged history, is to cease to be a Roman Catholic.
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The silver-collar economy
More companies are hiring people 65 and older because they believe they are reliable and productive, while the seniors themselves need – and want – to work. But is the trend squeezing out young people?
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Rosa Finnegan works on a needle at Vita Needle in Needham, Mass. This is the cover story in the Sept. 3 edition of The Christian Science MonitorWeekly.
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Needham, Mass.
Rosa Finnegan has plenty of similarities with other wage-earning Americans. She hitches rides in with a co-worker, likes to joke around with colleagues, and feels very grateful to have her job. At the end of the day, she's ready to sink into a cushy chair at home.
But Mrs. Finnegan is also a trailblazer. She offers striking proof that employment and productive activity need not end when the so-called retirement years arrive.
Let's put it this way: Where many people now nearing retirement can recall Sputnik, civil rights protests, or the pitching wizardry of Sandy Koufax, she mentions memories of gas-lit streets, the spread of telephones, and working at a rubber plant during World War II.
Having passed her 100th birthday this year, Finnegan is still working at a needle factory in this Boston suburb, helping to make and package the stainless-steel products in custom batches.
Yes, she walks a bit more slowly now than many of her co-workers. But Rosa, as they all call her, still has willing hands and a nimble mind. And she has no desire to leave her job.
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"I'd rather be here than almost anywhere," she says. "You feel like you're still a worthwhile person, even though you're old – [you're] not sitting in a rocking chair."
What's notable is not just that she wants to keep working, but also that she's found an employer who values her presence. When Rosa notched her 100th birthday earlier this year, Fred Hartman, chief executive of the family-run business called Vita Needle Company, celebrated with a cake during a morning break time – and then let her keep right on working.
In fact, at a time when the manufacturing of many goods has shifted from the United States to overseas, Vita Needle has survived partly because it has welcomed older workers. The median age of its 48 employees is 73. These workers have proved to be both reliable and low cost. Staff turnover has decreased, and the company believes the older workers help turn out a better product, offsetting the lower-wage advantages that some overseas firms enjoy.
Vita Needle is an extreme example, but it's just one of many employers who in varying ways have been learning to value workers on the mature end of the spectrum.
The rise of the older worker is cast sometimes as a problematic feature of the current job climate: a "gray ceiling" in which the lingering of older employees leaves scant opportunity for younger workers to be hired, developed, and promoted. The challenge is genuine, as recent headlines about a "lost" generation of youth imply.
But take a larger and longer view, and the picture may be much more positive. There's the potential for ample demand for younger and older workers alike. Many seniors, for their part, are engaged in a righteous rebellion against artificial limits – against the notion that hitting 65 means one's contributions to society are largely in the rearview mirror.
The trend, while not new, is still in its early stages and promises to have long-term significance. Life spans have been expanding, and attitudes about how to live during the so-called golden years have been evolving toward less emphasis on leisure and more on usefulness.
It's also a story about the financial imperative facing individuals and nations, which is intertwined with the global economy's current aura of debt crisis. Fiscal pressures in nations like Japan, Italy, and the US are linked closely to the demographics of retirement, with a wave of age 60-plus people who will either have to support themselves or be supported by taxpayers.
The rise of the gray workforce shouldn't be exaggerated. The concept of retirement isn't being phased out entirely. But elderly people are increasingly taking on jobs, either in the form of part-time employment, seasonal work, or brief encore careers.
Combine that with the sheer size of the baby boom cohort, and the trend promises to alter the makeup of workplaces across the developed world over the next two decades. Already, in fact, the growing presence of older workers is one of the most notable facts of the current US job market.
Since January 2010, job seekers age 55 and up have accounted for 70 percent of all employment gains in the US. Viewed over the past decade, the pattern is even more stark. That older group has added some 10 million employees to its ranks, even as employment among other age groups has actually declined by more than 4 million.
Those statistics, by the way, shouldn't be interpreted to mean that older workers have found it easy in a tough economy. The reality is that only about 17 percent of seniors are employed, which is far lower than the 39 percent who say in surveys that they "need" to work in retirement, according to a report this spring by Wells Fargo.
What the statistics do show is an inexorable force. The rising share of seniors employed over the past decade, coupled with the number of boomers poised to hit retirement who want to keep working, means the number of older people in the workforce will continue to surge.
"It's staggering," says Kim Ruyle, a human resources consultant. For the next decade, he says, thousands of boomers every day will be hitting the 62 to 65 age frame that in the past has been accompanied by cake-and-speech farewells at the office.
Where are older people finding work? Just about everywhere, actually.
Across the country from Needham, Mass., amid the balmy breezes of San Diego, Scripps Health offers another case study in welcoming older workers. Scripps has been recognized many times as among the "Best Employers for Workers Over 50" – as ranked by AARP. And it's a major employer – 14,400 people in a network of local hospitals and clinics.
High demand for skilled professionals like nurses makes health care one of the key industries trying to hang onto older workers. Scripps is a leader in this trend. Its retirement rate for employees who hit 65 is half the national average.
One of those "silver collar" workers is Barbara Genzler, a registered nurse who manages the surgery department. She's 67 and has no plans to retire. With 43 years of nursing experience behind her, most of it at Scripps, Ms. Genzler says she loves the work. "That's why I'm still doing it," she says. Even though the job is physically demanding, Genzler says she doesn't tire easily and plans to work at the hospital until she's unable to physically. "I can easily see spending my 70s working here," she says. "There's a lot of longevity in our department."
In recent years, the AARP "Best Employers" list has also included manufacturing companies like John Deere, financial firms, universities, and a range of other employers. In more than a few cases, these firms report that half or more of their workers are over 50.
To some degree, older workers are found in virtually every occupation. A graying grocery bagger or orange-aproned Home Depot associate has become a common sight. But think about this: Among Americans over 65 there are 101,000 active farmers and ranchers, a similar number who drive buses or taxis, 25,000 musicians, 17,000 crossing guards, and more than 80,000 chief executives. Warren Buffett, you are not alone.
Many work as professionals, such as lawyers. But many more occupy low-paid positions, laboring as retail clerks or janitors (more than 100,000 in each of those fields, says the Urban Institute, citing US Census data).
The demand for older workers is global. If anything, the pressure on employers to welcome elderly workers appears greater in Japan and much of Europe than it is in the US. The reason is that, while the US has some population growth contributing to its labor force, those other advanced nations are plateauing or facing outright demographic decline because of low immigration and fertility rates. That translates into fewer working-age people to support each prospective retiree.
For now, Europe has a culture and policy climate that encourages retirement and discourages working past 65. But that appears to be changing. "We've seen a lot of countries in Europe, particularly Germany, starting to address these problems by raising the retirement age," says Richard Johnson, an expert on aging and retirement at the Urban Institute in Washington.
The Australian government, seeing what it perceived as a mismatch between older workers' value and employer demand, recently launched a program offering $1,000 bonuses for each worker over 50 that employers hire.
Amid pizza shops and hair salons near the town square of Needham, the entrance to the Vita Needle Company is almost invisible. It's a bit like the entrance to the railway Platform 9-3/4 in the fictional realm of Harry Potter. You'll probably see this door only if you're looking for it.
Yet there it is. Up a staircase, the little factory occupies a wooden-planked space that was once a dance hall. Where "factory" conjures up images of forklifts, assembly lines, or robotic machines, this is different: a modest-sized shop floor where people sit at workbenches, exchanging bits of casual conversation as they use hand-operated tools such as stamping machines, drills, and wire brushes.
Employees include former salesmen, postal workers, or waitresses (as Finnegan was) among them. Up the stairs come 10-foot-long boxes filled with thin steel tubing. Down the stairs go customized needles for industrial and medical uses.
"We make some of the finest needles in the world here," says Mr. Hartman, whose family founded the firm here in 1932.
For Vita Needle, the appeal of older workers is that they combine reliability with low maintenance and low costs. The older employees don't need a lot of supervision. They just come in and get the job done, sometimes setting their own schedule, like a 5 a.m. arrival.
Most of the shop-floor employees are part-time workers, not covered by the company's health-care benefits. That makes the senior demographic a good fit. (The older employees are eligible for Medicare, so they have health insurance even as the firm reduces a fast-rising cost of business.)
The needle factory blends collegiality with an industrious ethic on the part of workers. Workers like the social contact as much as anything, conversing as they pull lunch containers out of a fridge in the middle of the one-room workspace.
Finnegan says she might feel out of place if a workplace was dominated by young employees. The company's upward tilt in age is part of the banter.
"I don't want to fall," Finnegan says as she navigates an aisle. "There's too many old people around that would have to pick me up!"
Vita Needle's age profile isn't something that could be replicated everywhere. Some firms feature tasks that are too physically demanding for older workers. But the basic rationale for hiring senior workers – high quality work at relatively low cost – spans many industries.
Often older workers accept lower pay in return for jobs that are less demanding. (The needle plant emphasizes precision and quality control, but most of the jobs aren't highly skilled.)
Employers have also come to appreciate older workers for their dedication and performance. Sure, there are negative perceptions, too. Jackie James, director of research at Boston College's Sloan Center on Aging & Work, says some employers view older workers as less flexible and less interested in learning new skills. But her group's surveys find that people with silver hair and empty nests win over employers in prominent ways.
"Older workers are perceived as being reliable and having a very good work ethic, [and] more engaged in the work than the younger workers are," says Ms. James.
Mature workers often provide firms with a ready answer for particular needs, such as mentoring or taking on short-term projects. "Smart employers are targeting the mature workforce," says Melanie Holmes, a vice president at the staffing firm ManpowerGroup in Milwaukee. They offer the experience that today's productivity-focused companies are eager to have, she explains.
At the same time, Ms. Holmes says age discrimination against mature workers also lingers. In some cases, she notes, companies believe they waste money when they invest in training an older person, even though evidence suggests that young hires won't necessarily stay on the job any longer.
Perceptions remain complex, with some observers seeing exploitation where others see bosses like Vita Needle's Hartman as promoters of a healthier society.
Hartman has reaped benefits from his workers but also has tailored his operations with their interests and employability in mind. In a new book centered on Vita Needle, Caitrin Lynch, a sociologist at Olin College in Needham, describes it this way: Sometimes the workers may quip, and partly grouse, that they are "making money for Fred." At the same time, "it is due to Fred's business acumen, but also to his good will and social conscience, that they have jobs in the first place."
Howard Ring is one who's glad to work at the needle plant. "When you get to be older, it's very hard to get a job," notes Mr. Ring, now 77, who says he works to cover his expenses.
After a career in mechanical engineering ended with a layoff more than a decade ago, he says it was a "stroke of luck" that landed him his current job. He happened to visit Vita Needle's shop one day, saw a milling machine like one that he had at home, and asked if they were looking to hire anyone.
That was about six years ago. "I don't see any imminent retirement in my future at all," he says.
The rise of senior workers is part of a larger story of economic transformation. The advancement of human civilization has been enabled by various revolutions: in agriculture, metallurgy (think Bronze Age), and industrialization, to name a few.
Now, even as technology remains a driver of economic change, ManpowerGroup CEO Jeff Joerres argues that the world is in the "human age." It is one in which victory goes to organizations that best manage talent.
Companies basically want to attract the best workers (whatever their age), help them maximize productivity, and keep them happy. Efforts to tap the skills and dedication of well-seasoned workers are part of the process.
At Scripps Health in San Diego, this means offering a phased retirement program that allows employees 55 and older to gradually work less but remain on the payroll, and maintain their benefits, for as long as they want to and are able.
"We want them here," says Vic Buzachero, senior vice president of human resources for Scripps. "The more senior worker has a well-rounded knowledge base in terms of how to care for patients."
In one recent survey, the Society for Human Resource Management polled professionals in the field and found some 72 percent saying the loss of talent due to older workers retiring or departing is a current or potential problem.
So far, though, the response by employers has been mixed, with many not making older workers much of a priority, even as others cater to them in creative ways.
Some companies have made cubicles easier for mature workers to navigate, with enhanced lighting or larger keys for typing. AARP credited one of its "Best Employer" winners, First Horizon bank in Tennessee, with offering older workers something as simple as parking spaces close to the building.
One perk that appeals to older and younger alike is a flexible work schedule. This can take various forms, from adjusting start times to offering compressed workweeks, telecommuting, or job sharing.
In Des Moines, Iowa, Diana Heisner is one who appreciates something less than the 9-to-5 grind. She officially retired early in 2010 from her work as an administrative assistant at Principal Financial Group, an insurance and financial services firm.
But soon she was back at work, helping out through a program the firm developed called "Happy Returns." The idea is to encourage company retirees to come back into part-time service at the firm, whose headquarters sprawls across four blocks of downtown Des Moines.
For her part, Ms. Heisner sets aside about six weeks a year to fill in for other administrative assistants on maternity or sick leave. If she works more than that, it could cut into her Social Security income. She calls Happy Returns a win-win for retirees and the firm.
"We know the company. We know the systems. And in my case I still know a lot of the people," she says before settling into a cubicle that offers air-conditioned refuge from a searing Great Plains summer.
Heisner likes to gab with old friends about Iowa State University sports, and to earn extra income that she can use at a mall or the odd yard sale.
Some companies, including L.L. Bean, the big Maine outdoor-goods retailer, find older workers a helpful source of seasonal labor. When the company girds for its holiday season rush of mail orders for everything from backwoods jackets to backpacks for preschoolers, it comes at a time of year when many retirees wouldn't mind stepping in for a stint of work.
Carolyn Beem, a company spokeswoman, says the older workers bring a strong customer-service ethic that often rubs off on the new hires who sit alongside them. Unlike Scripps, which posts openings partly on websites targeting mature workers (such as RetirementJobs.com), L.L. Bean doesn't actively target the older population in its recruiting.
The bottom line is that em-ployers are forming increasingly close bonds with older workers, and those workers make up a growing share of the labor force. Don't expect those changes to slow down anytime soon.
Where financial experts used to talk about seniors being supported by a "three-legged stool" – Social Security, savings, and perhaps an employer pension – work is now an additional leg, says James at Boston College.
And from New England to the Pacific shores, many people are following Rosa Finnegan's path of finding fulfillment in part through staying employed.
One of the oldest employees at Scripps Health, Kenneth Curzon, is about to turn 90 in November. The cheery, slightly stooped Mr. Curzon manages parking operations full time, as he has done since 1990.
"It gives me a lot of satisfaction coming here each day, knowing I'm doing something other than sitting in a corner dreaming about things that happened years ago," says Curzon. "I have a lot of friends here."
Back at Vita Needle, longtime worker Bill Ferson can relate to that thought. As someone who lives on his own just down the road, he credits the job with keeping him alive mentally and moving physically. The results show in his spry wit.
"I'm 39 years old," he tells a visitor. This results in a raised-eyebrow pause, before Mr. Ferson explains that reversing the order of those digits would be the accurate way to put it. Then he's ready to turn back to the swaging machine he operates, putting out a new batch for his needle-factory team.
• Steve Dinnen in Des Moines, Iowa, and Eilene Zimmerman in San Diego contributed to this report.
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