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ECJ's guidance on competition assessment pharmaceutical patent settlements
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In its judgment of 30 January 2020 (Case C-307/18), the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") confirmed that the presumption of validity of patents does not, as such, prevent the application of competition law to patent settlement agreements. This even applies if the validity of the patent has been confirmed by an interim court injunction. The ECJ ruled that legal disputes about patents are a fundamental characteristic of the pharmaceutical sector and that they are indicative of the existence of a competitive relationship between the patent holder and the generic manufacturers.
The judgment concerned settlements concluded between GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK") and three generic manufacturers that were seeking to enter the Paroxetine market. The settlements were concluded in the period from 2001 to 2002, following the expiry of GSK's principle patent on the active ingredient of Paroxetine. GSK still held a secondary patent on the production process of the active ingredient.
The settlements provided for: (i) distribution arrangements allowing the generic manufacturers to resell Paroxetine; (ii) payments from GSK to the generic manufacturers (reverse payments), and; (iii) a prohibition on the generic manufacturers selling generic variants of Paroxetine for the remaining duration of the secondary patent and; (iv) a prohibition on the generic manufacturers continuing to challenge the secondary patent.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") found that the settlements constituted pay-for-delay agreements in breach of competition law and imposed fines totalling GBP 44.99 million. In the appeal procedure, the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT") requested guidance from the ECJ on a number of questions. The ECJ's answers can be summarised as follows:
1. Generic manufacturers can be considered potential competitors to the patent holder if:
The generic manufacturers have a firm intention and an inherent ability to enter the market, which is demonstrated by the preparatory steps they have taken, such as obtaining the required market authorisations, preparing adequate stock and challenging the validity of patents in litigation.
There are no insurmountable barriers to entering the market: secondary process patents do not, as such, present such barriers, because their validity may be challenged.
There is a genuine dispute as to the validity of the patent and the patent holder is willing to conclude an agreement and make transfers of considerable value.
2. Reverse payment settlements may, by their nature, be competition restrictions by object if:
The reverse payments cannot be justified, e.g. by the cost of disruption caused by litigation and remunerations for actual supply of goods or services to the patent holder;
The reverse payments can only be explained by the parties' commercial interest in not competing, thus preventing the originator medicines' appreciable fall in the sale price after the generic manufacturers' entry into the market, and
The settlement is not accompanied by proven pro-competitive effects that raise doubts about the harm to competition.
3. Settlement agreements may also be competition restrictions by effect:
It must be proven that the effect of the settlement is a restriction of competition, e.g. foreclosure effects.
For the assessment of such effects and the functioning of the market without the settlement (counterfactual), no definitive findings are required in relation to the chances of success of the manufacture of generic medicines in the patent proceedings or to the probability of the conclusion of a less restrictive agreement. It suffices to consider the realistic possible outcomes of the patent proceedings as part of many other factors to be taken into consideration for the counterfactual assessment.
4. A set of settlements may amount to an abuse of that dominant position if:
The patent holder has a dominant position on the relevant market - that may also include the generic products - provided that the generic manufacturers are in a position to enter the market within a short period with sufficient volume to provide an alternative to the originator.
The settlements are part of an overall strategy by the patent holder and the cumulative effects thereof are the temporary foreclosure of the market in relation to generic manufacturers.
The demonstrated efficiency gains of such a strategy can reverse the conclusion provided that they outweigh the negative effects on competition.
The CAT will apply the ECJ's guidance to the GSK settlements and assess whether the fines imposed by the CMA can be upheld.
For a long time, the potential anti-competitive nature of pay-for-delay settlements has been scrutinised by competition authorities: see, for example, the 8th Report on the Monitoring of Patent Settlements of the European Commission and the key focus points of ACM for the year 2020.
The ECJ's guidance is likely to encourage both the European Commission and national competition authorities to continue their scrutiny of settlement practices in the pharmaceutical sector. Although the extensive guidance will help with competition assessment, many questions remain to be decided upon in the case-by-case analysis by the competition authorities. It is therefore possible that more guidance from the ECJ will be requested in the future.
A first demonstration of the application of the ECJ's guidance to a specific case is likely to be given on 12 March 2020 with the opinion of advocate-general Kokott on the appeal cases against the General Court's Lundbeck judgment, (appeal cases C-586/16 P, C-588/16 P, C-591/16 P, C-601/16 P, C-611/16 P and C-614/16 P). A hearing has not been scheduled yet in the pending appeal cases against the General Court's Servier judgment (appeal cases C-201/19 P, C-176/19 P and C-144/19 P).
Should you have any questions following this news update, please do not hestitate to contact Greetje van Heezik or Lorenzo Fiorilli from Houthoff's Competition team.
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For the first time, Ford's F-150 pickup truck will be sold in China.
Ford Motor Co. said Friday that it's bringing the beefy, off-road version of its F-150 — the F-150 Raptor SuperCrew — to China next year.
The Raptor has been popular in China's gray market, where buyers are known to pay triple the list price. But it's never been officially sold in the country.
Ford introduced the Raptor in 2009 and it quickly gained a following among off-road enthusiasts. It was discontinued in the 2014 model year as Ford prepared to launch a new, aluminum-bodied F-150.
The new version of the Raptor goes on sale later this year. It has a more powerful 3.5-liter V6 EcoBoost engine, a new 10-speed transmission and a terrain management system for driving in sand, rocks or snow. Its aluminum body also makes it faster and lighter.
Ford didn't announce pricing, but the Raptor is expected to start around $50,000.
Chinese buyers will face additional import duties, since the truck will be built in Dearborn, Michigan.
The automaker makes multiple versions of the F-150, but it only plans to send the Raptor to China for now. The F-150 pickup is sold in 95 countries — and has been one of the best-selling vehicles in the U.S. for three decades.
Ford made the Raptor announcement ahead of this week's Beijing Motor Show.
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Carl Henrik König, född 1726, död 1804 var en svensk arkitekt. Han var stadsarkitekt i Stockholm från 1772 till sin död 1804 och efterträdde Johan Eberhard Carlberg på denna post.

Carl Henrik König härstammar från den tyska ätten König, där handelsmannen i Stockholm Henrik König adlades 1714. C. H. König fick 1745 anställning vid Stockholms stadsbyggnadskontor, där Johan Eberhard Carlberg var stadsarkitekt. König var en ämbetsman som inte ritade själv och när han utnämndes till stadens stadsarkitekt utövade han tjänsten tillsammans med den skicklige arkitekten Eric Palmstedt som var vice stadsarkitekt.

König fick sin arkitekturkunskap på studieresor i bland annat i Tyskland och Frankrike, från samtida litteratur och flera års praktisk erfarenhet i Stockholm.

König var även ledamot av målar- och bildhuggarakademin och författare av skrifter inom mekanikens område. Som lärare hade han ett starkt intresse att utbilda de elever som arbetade på kontoret och han skrev en av de få svenska läroböcker i byggteknik från den tiden. På Kungliga biblioteket i Stockholm finns manuskriptet till en föreläsning och en samling teckningar som han troligen använde vid undervisningen på kontoret. Dessa innehåller mycket praktisk och teknisk rådgivning rörande byggnader och vattenledningar samt byggandet av skorstenar, ugnar och andra eldstäder.

Av Königs arkitektoniska verk finns inte mycket bevarat. Förmodligen har ritningarna för huvudbyggnaden till Skillinge säteri söder om Ängelholm (uppförd 1778-1780) upprättats av honom.

König var gift med Fredrika Lovisa Tillæus, dotter till hovpredikant Georg Tillæus och Sara Cornelia von Muyden.

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Is toxoplasmosis a potential risk factor for liver cirrhosis?
El-Henawy, A. A., Razik, A. A., Zakaria, S., Elhammady, D., Saudy, N., Azab, M. S.
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 2015; 8: 768-775
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Objective: To document Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) antibody status in patients with liver disease, blood samples were taken from 180 hepatic patients and 180 healthy controls. Methods: Toxoplasma IgG antibody was detected using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and histopathological assessment of liver biopsy METAVIR score was applied. Results: Anti-T. gondii IgG antibodies were found in 32.8% of patients and in 22.2% of controls (P=0.02). Toxoplasma scropositivity was significantly associated with lymphadenopathy, history of blood transfusion and reflex impairment in patients. Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) and chronic HCV-related cirrhosis groups compared to chronic HBV and chronic HBV-related cirrhosis groups expressed significantly higher prevalence of T. gondii seropositivity (odds ratio (OR) =4; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.3-12.6; P=0.013, OR=4.8; 95% CI: 1.5-14.9; P=0.006, respectively). Within the chronic HCV group, T. gondii seropositivity significantly associated disease evolution as regards to METAVIR histopathological system for fibrosis and inflammation (OR=19.4; 95% Cl: 2.3-165.2; P=0.0008, OR=0.29; 95% Cl: 0.1-0.8; P=0.01, respectively). Albumin, international normalized ratio (INR) and platelets count were the laboratory parameters significantly altered in Toxoplasma-positive chronic HCV patients (P=0.001, 0.03, 0.04, respectively). Child-Pugh scoring for cirrhosis in chronic HCV group placed the majority of seropositive patient in class C with significant statistical difference compared to Child A reference group (OR=0.08; 95% Cl 0.01-0.5; P=0.003). Conclusions: Toxoplasma seropositivity was high in patients with cirrhosis and associated higher grades of inflammation and necrosis signifying disease evolution, suggesting that cirrhotic patients may thus form a risk group for toxoplasmosis
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A close collaboration between national patient safety authorities, national competent authorities, the European Medicines Agency, and the European Commission is necessary to tackle the issue of medication errors causing harm in Europe. This collaboration should engage patients and healthcare professionals. This was the conclusion of the workshop on medication errors organised by the Agency from 28 February 2013 - 1 March 2013.
This unique event at European Union (EU) level brought more than 150 people from all stakeholder groups together to determine a way forward for better reporting and prevention of medications errors.
The EU pharmacovigilance legislation provides a clear legal framework for sharing data on medication errors causing harm. Since July 2012, it has required reporting of all suspected adverse drug reactions resulting from medication errors to EudraVigilance, the EU database of adverse drug reactions.
Sharing and pooling of data on suspected adverse drug reactions at EU level has been demonstrated to result in earlier identification of emerging safety issues, and this can be leveraged to allow medication errors to be prevented through earlier detection of risks.
Based on the workshop's concrete suggestions for the development of harmonised practices across the EU and sharing of information, the Agency through its Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) will issue a best practice document and operational proposals for the reporting and prevention of medication errors in 2013.
Medication errors are the single most common preventable cause of adverse events in medication practice and a major public-health burden with an estimated annual cost between EUR 4.5 billion and EUR 21.8 billion (World Alliance for Patient Safety 2010). Medication errors refer to mistakes in the processes of prescribing, supplying, dispensing, preparing, administering or monitoring medicinal products in clinical practice.
In Europe, the medication-error rate in primary care is estimated at 7.5% at prescription and 0.08% at the dispensing stage, whereas in the hospital setting the rates vary between 0.3–9.1% and 1.6–2.1% respectively.


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A. Yes, if your move is due to a change in jobs or business locations and your home meets certain requirements.
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The second is a DISTANCE requirement. Your new home and work location must be more than 50 miles away from your old home and work location.
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Trump removes U.S. from G-7 joint statement over escalating feud with Canada's Trudeau
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By Damian Paletta, Anne Gearan, The Washington Post
President Trump feuded with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and threatened to impose penalties on foreign automobile imports Saturday, capping an acrimonious meeting of the Group of Seven industrial nations that further frayed ties between the United States and its closest allies.
Trump said Saturday evening that he had instructed U.S. officials to withdraw support for a joint statement with other member nations he had backed just hours earlier, saying the United States would not join after Trudeau publicly criticized Trump's trade policy.
"Based on Justin's false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!," Trump wrote on Twitter after leaving the summit.
Trump did not specify which of Trudeau's statements he considered false.
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Trudeau criticized Trump's recent decision to place tariffs on steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico, saying it was "insulting" that Trump cited U.S. national security as his reason for doing so.
"Canadians, we're polite, we're reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around," Trudeau said at his own, separate news conference at the meeting's end.
"I highlighted directly to the president that Canadians did not take it lightly that the United States has moved forward with significant tariffs on our steel and aluminum industry," Trudeau said. "Particularly, [they] did not take lightly that it's for a national security reason that for Canadians . . . who stood shoulder to shoulder with American soldiers in far off lands in conflicts from the First World War onward, it's kind of insulting."
Later Saturday, GOP Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) rebutted Trump's position by tweeting: "To our allies: bipartisan majorities of Americans remain pro-free trade, pro-globalization & supportive of alliances based on 70 years of shared values. Americans stand with you, even if our president doesn't."
Democrats Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), and Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) also tweeted their opposition to Trump. Schumer asked: "Are we executing Putin's diplomatic and national security strategy or AMERICA's diplomatic and national security strategy? After the last few days, it's hard to tell."
G-7 leaders had hoped the annual summit here would strengthen ties that had been tested by trade disputes. Instead, it ended in a war of words between Trump and the leader of one of the United States' largest trading partners that threatened to escalate into a full-blown trade war.
Earlier Saturday, Trump said he had floated the idea of countries dropping all import barriers, saying he would do the same in return. But he warned he could cut off U.S. trade entirely with countries that kept current rules in place, arguing they had taken advantage of previous administrations to take advantage of the United States.
"We're like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing," Trump said here at a news conference. "And that ends."
Saturday's clashes ended a summit that was marked by repeated disagreements between the United States and its closest allies. The G-7, in its current form, consists of the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan.
Trump on Friday called for Russia to be readmitted to the G-7 after it was expelled in 2014 for annexing Ukraine's Crimea. And he departed the gathering early — skipping a discussion of global climate change — to fly to Singapore for a nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Now, leaders from the G-7 and elsewhere face a string of trade decisions that will either preserve the existing global economic system or reshape it, with millions of jobs and trillions of dollars hanging in the balance.
Trump cautioned other nations — those in the G-7 and around the world — that the size of the U.S. economy means other nations can't win a trade war.
"We win that war a thousand times out of a thousand," Trump said.
Trump would almost certainly need help from Congress to completely cut off trade with a U.S. ally. But he has already made significant changes to trade policy — working around bipartisan opposition from Congress — through invoking a previously seldom-used provision that allows presidents to make trade decisions if they deem it necessary to protect national security.
Trump described foreign leaders as receptive to his demands in private, though Trudeau and others showed few, if any, public signs of caving.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office released a photo of multiple leaders appearing to confront a displeased Trump. Trump national security adviser John Bolton, who was featured in the photo Merkel's office released, used the image in his own Twitter post and criticized foreign leaders.
"Just another #G7 where other countries expect America will always be their bank. The President made it clear today. No more," he wrote.
A Reuters photographer, meanwhile, captured a photograph Friday of the imprint that French President Emmanuel Macron left on Trump's right hand after a handshake, suggesting the French leader used a forceful grip. After the summit, Macron wrote on Twitter Saturday evening that Trump had come up against a united front from the other G-7 members, added that the isolation marked a break from American tradition.
It was part of a broader, more confrontational approach by foreign leaders to the second G-7 meeting of Trump's presidency. Representatives from other G-7 countries said they felt as though they had made progress in conveying their positions to Trump, something many of them felt pressured to do by voters at home.
Trump said the leaders discussed the question of Russia's inclusion in the group but reached no conclusion. "We didn't do votes or anything, but it has been discussed," he said.
Despite the tension, the member states' leaders were cordial in person, Trump included. He made first-name references to "Angela" and "Justin," and he repeatedly insisted he blamed previous U.S. leaders, not foreign ones, for what he sees as the global trade imbalance.
Russia is a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council and plays a significant role in international security issues. It also holds a seat in the larger Group of 20.
"We're looking for peace in the world. We're not looking to play games," Trump said.
Trump is not the first politician to make the realpolitik argument that Russia belongs at the G-7 table, but his position is a turnabout from the Obama administration, which condemned the 2014 annexation and imposed sanctions on Russia as punishment.
"Crimea was let go during the Obama administration, and, you know, Obama can say all he wants, but he allowed Russia to take Crimea. I might have had a very different" response, Trump said.
Leaders from Canada and Britain rejected Trump's call to bring Russia back, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin would have to make major changes to be given a welcome. Although, new Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte sided with Trump.
U.S. intelligence agencies have said they have "high confidence" that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, and part of this year's G-7 summit was supposed to focus on protecting democracies from foreign meddling. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is investigating Russian interference efforts, including whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russian officials.
G-7 members met in part to discuss how to prevent election interference, and many remain angry over Putin's actions in Ukraine.
At his news conference, Trump first referred to the annexation of Crimea only obliquely.
"Something happened awhile ago where Russia is no longer in," he said. "I think it would be good to have Russia back in."
As they departed Saturday, it became clear that many are still searching for ways to deal with the unpredictable U.S. leader.
On Friday evening, the White House issued a statement saying Trump and Trudeau were very close to a deal to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement.
But during his comments Saturday morning, Trump raised multiple options for NAFTA, including a potential new deal or the possibility of doing separate deals with Mexico and Canada, effectively cleaving the longtime agreement in two.
"It was not contentious," Trump said. "What was strong was the language that this cannot go on, but the relationships are very good."
"The European Union is brutal to the United States, and they know it," Trump said, adding that other leaders acknowledge as much in private.
"It's like the gig is up," he said. "They can't believe they got away with it."
European officials described things much differently. Their leaders confronted Trump about how his protectionist policies had given them no choice but to retaliate with tariffs of their own, a person familiar with the encounter said. These tariffs, they told Trump, would hurt everyone. Trump had tried to essentially splinter the European leaders by negotiating some changes with Germany and different ones with France, but those leaders appeared locked together.
They had been careful not to reveal their approach before meeting with Trump, although it appeared very calculated.
"If you have a strategy, do not explain your strategy before the meeting — because if you are explaining your strategy before the meeting, you are losing your strategy," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters.
As for Trump's proposal to eliminate all tariffs, he said it was unclear how other countries would respond.
"I did suggest it," Trump said. "I guess they are going to go back to the drawing board and check it out."
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Politics - U.S. Daily News: Trump removes U.S. from G-7 joint statement over escalating feud with Canada's Trudeau
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Q: Никак не могу понять, в чём моя ошибка В чём моя ошибка? Тут все хорошо:
std::string rotation(std::string common,int n)
{
    std::string addition=common.substr(common.size()-n%common.size(), common.size());
    common.erase(common.size()-n%common.size(), common.size());
    common=addition+common;

    return common;
}

std::string encode(int n, std::string str)
{

  std::string str_c=str;
  for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
  {

    str_c.clear();
   //str_c=rotation(str_c,8); //Here is all ok
    str_c.clear();
  }
  return str_c;

}

 int main() {
   encode(8,"Hello World");
 }

А здесь не очень:
std::string rotation(std::string common,int n)
    {
        std::string addition=common.substr(common.size()-n%common.size(), common.size());
        common.erase(common.size()-n%common.size(), common.size());
        common=addition+common;

        return common;
    }

    std::string encode(int n, std::string str)
    {

      std::string str_c=str;
      for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
      {

        str_c="some string"
       str_c=rotation(str_c,8); //reason of error
        str_c="some string";
      }
      return str_c;

    }

     int main() {
       encode(8,"Hello World");
     }

Получаю ошибку:

Исключение в операции с плавающей точкой (стек памяти сброшен на диск)

A: Давайте посмотрим, что же именно передается в функцию rotation. А там пустая строка и число 8.
Теперь открываем первую строку функции rotation и немного ее переформатируем и покоментим
std::string addition
  =common.substr(
     common.size()-n%common.size(), // а это 0-8%0. делим на ноль???
     common.size()); // это ноль

это паттерн повторяется и в следующей строке.

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"We are aware of three general groups of tail risk protection from which investors may choose.
2. Options/contingent claims – Occasionally, the market provides opportunities to protect against tail risk as a by-product of its manic phases. A prime example was the credit default swaps that were a result of the demand for collateralized debt obligations. These instruments were priced on the assumption that there would be no nation-wide decline in house prices, and thus offered a great opportunity (even without the benefit of hindsight) for those who were concerned that such an outcome was more plausible than the market thought. Here, one caveat stands out above all others: one must be cautious of the dangers of over-engineering in this area of tail risk protection. It is too easy to construct an option that pays out under a very specific set of circumstances, and to do so relatively cheaply. But, of course, such an instrument tautologically only pays off under the realization of those specific events, so the tighter the constraints imposed, the less use the option is likely to be as general tail risk protection.
Options and negative correlation are more complex issues, but for the average investor I would not discount the value of cash. Some might call that an oxymoron – "the value of cash", but I have been able to generate enormous alpha over the last 5 years in my personal portfolios via the use of cash. Knowing when to pull your chips off the table is often your greatest talent. After all, if you can protect the downside the upside takes care of itself.
I view cash as its own asset class. It is, in my opinion, the ultimate form of protection. The power of cash lies in one great form of risk mitigation – your emotions. Nothing will destroy portfolios like your own emotions. And you can't make bad decisions when you're not in the game. Then again, one has to remember that you'll miss every shot you decide not to take. Therefore, being in the game is vital and hence, the use of cash should not be abused in excess. Of course, knowing when to deploy cash and get in and out of the game is a another key element of this discussion. To me, this is largely dependent on the approach you use and how systematic that approach is. But that's a discussion for another day.


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Establishing the Predictive Validity of the ScanCourse for Assessing On-Road Driving Performance
Eric Chau; Adam Nishi; Lisa Kristalovich; Ana Holowaychuk; W. Ben Mortenson
Eric Chau, BKin, MOT, OT, is Occupational Therapist, Private Practice, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. At the time of the research, Chau was Graduate Student, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Adam Nishi, BKin, MOT, OT, is Occupational Therapist, Private Practice, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. At the time of the research, Nishi was Graduate Student, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lisa Kristalovich, BMR(OT), MRSc, OT, is Clinical Instructor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of British Columbia, and Occupational Therapist, GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Ana Holowaychuk, MScOT (C), is Occupational Therapist, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
W. Ben Mortenson, BScOT, MSc, PhD, OT, is Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Principal Investigator, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and Principal Investigator, Rehabilitation Research Program, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; ben.mortenson@ubc.ca
Eric Chau, Adam Nishi, Lisa Kristalovich, Ana Holowaychuk, W. Ben Mortenson; Establishing the Predictive Validity of the ScanCourse for Assessing On-Road Driving Performance. Am J Occup Ther 2020;75(1):7501205120. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2021.041608
Importance: Scanning the environment is critical for driving safety. The ScanCourse is a functional assessment that assesses a person's ability to scan the environment for visual information while in motion. Measurement properties for the ScanCourse have been reported; however, its predictive validity is unknown.
Objective: To determine the predictive validity of the ScanCourse for on-road driving performance and establish clinical cutoff scores.
Design: Retrospective chart reviews were conducted over a 6-mo period.
Setting: Four Canadian driver rehabilitation programs.
Participants: Charts from patients with neurological or vision conditions were eligible if they contained ScanCourse and on-road driving evaluation results between September 1, 2008, and August 30, 2018. Three hundred twenty-five charts were included for analysis.
Outcomes and Measures: Area under the curve (AUC) analysis was used to determine the predictive validity of ScanCourse scores for on-road outcomes; cutoff scores were established by optimizing sensitivity and specificity.
Results: The ScanCourse had an AUC of .702. The optimal cutoff score was 18/20 with a sensitivity of 76.7% and a specificity of 47.1%.
Conclusions and Relevance: Assessing the scanning abilities of at-risk drivers who intend to return to driving after sustaining an injury can help identify safety risks and inform interventions. The ScanCourse was found to have acceptable discriminatory ability for on-road driving performance. This study provides evidence supporting its continued use as a screening tool to assess driver fitness with an identified optimal cutoff score for clinical use.
What This Article Adds: Measuring the predictive ability of the ScanCourse assessment in relation to on-road driving performance provides occupational therapists with an evidence-based clinical tool to assist with screening fitness to drive among at-risk people.


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Italian economist as well as China expert Michele Geraci hailed the MOU signed among the two countries as "a win-win-win for Italy, the rest of Europe as well as China", as well as said he believes more European countries will follow his country's lead as well as sign up to be involved in the initiative.


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Jiří Macháně (27. Dezember 1940 in Neustadt an der Mettau, Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren; † 20. Januar 2023) war ein tschechischer Kameramann.

Leben
Jirí Macháne schloss 1964 sein Studium an der Film- und Fernsehfakultät der Akademie der Musischen Künste in Prag ab. Anschließend arbeitete er einige Jahre als Kameraassistent, bevor er 1969 mit dem Drama Wut und Trauer als Kameramann für einen Langspielfilm debütierte. Neben Spielfilmen wie Das neunte Herz, Der Froschkönig und Das Findelkind war Macháne auch in Deutschland tätig. So drehte er 1997 Die Friedensmission – 10 Stunden Angst.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1969: Wut und Trauer (Smuteční slavnost)
 1974: Adam und Otka (Adam a Otka)
 1977: Ein Tag für meine Liebe (Den pro mou lásku)
 1978: Das neunte Herz (Deváté srdce)
 1978: Der Schatten des fliegenden Vogels (Stín létajícího ptáčka)
 1978: Die Schöne und das Ungeheuer (Panna a netvor)
 1979: Spröde Beziehungen (Křehké vztahy)
 1980: Eine Braut zum Küssen (Nevěsta k zulíbání)
 1980: Spiegelung (Zrcadlení)
 1983: Bulldoggen und Kirschen (Buldoci a třešně)
 1984: Ein Engel mit dem Teufel im Leib (Anděl s ďáblem v těle)
 1985: Die Nacht des smaragdgrünen Mondes (Noc smaragdového měsíce)
 1991: Der Froschkönig (Žabí král)
 1997: Die Friedensmission – 10 Stunden Angst
 1997: Passage (Pasáz)
 2000: Das Findelkind (Sans famille)

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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;

namespace SoundCloud.NET
{
    /// <summary>
    /// SoundCloud user.
    /// </summary>
    [DataContract]
    public class User : SoundCloudClient
    {
        #region Properties

        [DataMember(Name = "id")]
        public int Id { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "permalink")]
        public string Permalink { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "username")]
        public string UserName { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "uri")]
        public string Uri { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "permalink_url")]
        public string PermalinkUrl { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "avatar_url")]
        public string Avatar { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "country")]
        public string Country { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "full_name")]
        public string FullName { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "city")]
        public string City { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "description")]
        public string Description { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "discogs_name")]
        public string Discogs { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "myspace_name")]
        public string Myspace { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "website")]
        public string Website { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "website_title")]
        public string WebsiteTitle { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "online")]
        public bool? IsOnline { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "track_count")]
        public int Tracks { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "playlist_count")]
        public int Playlists { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "followers_count")]
        public int Followers { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "followings_count")]
        public int Followings { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "public_favorites_count")]
        public int Favorites { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "plan")]
        public string Plan { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "private_tracks_count")]
        public int PrivateTracks { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "private_playlists_count")]
        public int PrivatePlaylists { get; set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "primary_email_confirmed")]
        public bool EmailConfirmed { get; set; }

        #endregion Properties

        #region Public Methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a collection of users the user with user id is following.
        /// </summary>
        public List<User> GetFollowings()
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<User>>(ApiCommand.UserFollowings, Id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Adds the user with the id contact_id to the givens user's list of contacts.
        /// </summary>
        ///
        /// <param name="user">User to follow.</param>
        public void AddFollowing(User user)
        {
            AddFollowing(user.Id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Adds the user with the id contact_id to the givens user's list of contacts.
        /// </summary>
        ///
        /// <param name="id">User id to follow.</param>
        public void AddFollowing(int id)
        {
            SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<User>(ApiCommand.UserFollowingsContact, HttpMethod.Put, Id, id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Removes the user with the id contact_id from the givens user's list of contacts.
        /// </summary>
        ///
        /// <param name="user">User to remove.</param>
        public void RemoveFollowing(User user)
        {
            RemoveFollowing(user.Id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Removes the user with the id contact_id from the givens user's list of contacts.
        /// </summary>
        ///
        /// <param name="id">User id to remove.</param>
        public void RemoveFollowing(int id)
        {
            SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<User>(ApiCommand.UserFollowingsContact, HttpMethod.Delete, Id, id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a collection of users who follow the user with user id
        /// </summary>
        public List<User> GetFollowers()
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<User>>(ApiCommand.UserFollowers, Id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a collection of tracks uploaded by user id.
        /// </summary>
        public List<Track> GetTracks()
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<Track>>(ApiCommand.UserTracks, Id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a collection of tracks favorited by the user with user id.
        /// </summary>
        public List<Track> GetFavorites()
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<Track>>(ApiCommand.UserFavorites, Id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a collection of groups joined by user with user id.
        /// </summary>
        public List<Group> GetGroups()
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<Group>>(ApiCommand.UserGroups, Id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a collection of playlists created by user with user id
        /// </summary>
        public List<Playlist> GetPlaylists(int id)
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<Playlist>>(ApiCommand.UserPlaylists, Id);
        }

        #endregion Public Methods

        #region Shared Methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a collection of users.
        /// </summary>
        public static List<User> GetAllUsers()
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<User>>(ApiCommand.Users);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a limited collection of users.
        /// </summary>
        ///
        /// <param name="count">Users count.</param>
        public static List<User> GetUsers(int count)
        {
            var parameters = new Dictionary<string, object>();

            parameters.Add("limit", count);

            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<User>>(ApiCommand.Users, parameters);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a user by user id.
        /// </summary>
        ///
        /// <param name="id">User id.</param>
        public static User GetUser(int id)
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<User>(ApiCommand.User, id);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the logged-in user.
        /// </summary>
        public static User Me()
        {
            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<User>(ApiCommand.Me);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a collection of users based on a pattern.
        /// </summary>
        ///
        /// <param name="term">a term to search for.</param>
        public static List<User> Search(string term)
        {
            var parameters = new Dictionary<string, object> { { "q", term } };

            return SoundCloudApi.ApiAction<List<User>>(ApiCommand.Users, parameters);
        }

        #endregion Shared Methods
    }
}

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Faculty of Education / People in the Faculty / Elian Fink
Elian Fink
ef364@cam.ac.uk
PhD in Developmental Psychology (University of Sydney, Australia)
B.Psych Hons (University of Sydney, Australia)
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
Elian's research interests focus on social and emotional development in early childhood. Elian completed her PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia, examining the longitudinal association between children's emotion management, socio-cognitive understanding and peer relationships. Following her PhD, Elian went on to do post-doctoral research at the Evidence Based Practice Unit at University College London and the Anna Freud Centre, exploring children and young people's emotional well-being and mental health difficulties in the school context. She is now a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development & Learning (PEDAL) working on a longitudinal project examining the antecedents and outcomes of play in early childhood.
Social cognition, emotion regulation
Social competence in early childhood, friendship, peer relations
Affective and cognitive empathy
Bullying and victimisation
Parental influences on children's social development
Current Research Project(s)
Longitudinal study of the antecedents and consequences of social pretend play at the transition to school
Role of parental talk for children's social and emotional outcomes
Exploring the bullying/victimisation experience in typically developing children and children with Autism
Principal and Recent Publications
Elian Fink, Wendy V Browne, Isla Kirk & Claire Hughes (2019) Couple relationship quality and the infant home language environment: Gender-specific findings. Journal of Family Psychology
Gabrielle McHarg, Elian Fink & Claire Hughes (2019) Crying babies, empathic toddlers, responsive mothers and fathers: Exploring parent-toddler interactions in an empathy paradigm. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 23-37.
Elian Fink, Wendy Browne, Claire Hughes & Jenny Gibson (2018) Using a 'child's-eye view' of social success to understand the importance of school readiness at the transition to formal schooling. Social Development.
Elian Fink, Tjeert Olthof, Frits Goossens, Sandra van der Meijden & Sander Begeer (2018) Bullying related behaviour in adolescents with autism: Links with autism severity, and emotional and behavioural problems. Autism, 22(6), 684-692.
Elian Fink, Praveetha Patalay, Helen Sharpe & Miranda Wolpert (2017) Child- and school-level predictors of children's bullying behaviour: A multilevel analysis in 648 primary schools. Journal of Educational Psychology, 110(1), 17-26.
Rebecca Kuhnert, Sander Begeer, Elian Fink, & Marc de Rosnay (2017). Gender-differentiated effects of theory of mind, emotion understanding, and social preference on prosocial behavior development: A longitudinal study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 154, 13-27.
Dawid Gondek, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Elian Fink, Jessica Deighton, & Miranda Wolpert (2016). Feedback from Outcome Measures and Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Efficiency, and Collaborative Practice: A Systematic Review. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 43(3), 325–343.
Helen Sharpe, Praveetha Patalay, Elian Fink, Panos Vostanis, Jessica Deighton & Miranda Wolpert (2016) Exploring the relationship between quality of life and mental health problems in children: Implications for measurement and practice, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 25 (6), 659-667.
Mark R. Dadds, Nyree Gale, Megan Godbee, Caroline Moul, Dave Pasalich, Elian Fink & David J Hawes (2015) Expression and regulation of attachment-related emotions in children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits, Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 47(4), 647–65.
Fink, E., Patalay, P., Sharpe, H., Holley, S., Deighton, J., & Wolpert, M. (2015) The prevalence of mental health difficulties in adolescents in 2009 and 2014: A comparison of two cross-sectional studies, Journal of Adolescent Health.
Fink, E., Begeer, S., Peterson, C., Slaughter, V., & de Rosnay, M. (2015) Friends, friendlessness, and the social consequences of gaining a theory of mind, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(1), 27-30.
Fink, E., Deighton, J., Humphrey, N. & Wolpert, M. (2015) Assessing the bullying and victimisation experiences of children with special educational needs in mainstream schools: Development and validation of the Bullying Behaviour and Experience Scale, Research in Developmental Disorders, 36(1), 611 – 619. DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.10.048
Fink, E., Begeer, S., Hunt, C & de Rosnay, M. (online, 2014) False-belief understanding and social preference over the first two years of school: A longitudinal study, Child Development.
Fink, E., Begeer, S., Peterson, C., Slaughter, V., & de Rosnay, M. (2014) Friendlessness and theory of mind: A prospective longitudinal study, British Journal of Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12060.
de Rosnay, M., Fink, E., Begeer, S., Slaughter V., & Peterson, C. (2014) Talking theory of mind: Young school-aged children's everyday conversation and understanding of mind and emotion, Journal of Child Language, 41(5), 1179 – 1193. DOI: 10.1017/S0305000913000433
Fink, E., de Rosnay, M., Wierda, M., Kloot, H M. & Begeer, S. (2014) Recognition of Facial Emotions in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 2363 – 2368.


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At the beginning of your MPB Today career, you should expect that your enroller will grill you with the "What do you expect to accomplish with MPB Today" monologue. No matter if you blew off this milestone step as just routine textbook nonsense, or you seriously pondered why you are a part of MPB Today, now is the time to seriously reflect and determine definitively what you will achieve and why.
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Project looks at how women and children can heal from trauma caused by violence.
Sep. 29, 2018 6:00 a.m.
Castlegar and Creston are two of the final communities to join a five-year province-wide research project looking at how women and children can heal from trauma caused by violence.
Researchers are hoping to prove that yoga, with its unique focus on physical sensation, can reduce anxiety and help survivors gain control over common trauma symptoms such as panic attacks or insomnia. Funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Reaching Out With Yoga program already provides trauma-informed classes in 21 transition houses in BC.
"Violence from an intimate partner is now widely understood as having the potential to cause trauma. The practice of yoga, and in particular trauma-informed yoga, is increasingly being recognized as a valuable practice in supporting the recovery of those who have experienced such violence," says Joanne Baker, executive director of the BC Society of Transition Houses.
Over three years, the society and Yoga Outreach have noted significant positive feedback from participants, many of whom had never tried yoga before. Establishing programs at transition houses in small or remote communities allows distressed families the chance to access weekly mindfulness classes that those in larger cities like Vancouver or Kelowna take for granted.
Yoga Outreach is currently seeking volunteer instructors to teach classes at Castlegar and District Community Services Society. To volunteer, qualified yoga teachers must complete the Yoga Outreach core training, an 18-hour course that empowers instructors to plan trauma-informed classes for individuals facing multiple barriers, including domestic violence, PTSD, addictions, and mental health challenges.
Training in Castlegar is from Oct. 19 to 21. Register at yogaoutreach.com.


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Recent South Columbus Graduate talks about his climb to the top and performs a live set.
WMPH radio student Mikyhial won a NFPW award for this personal reflection in the wake of racial unrest last year in Ferguson, Missouri.
In this short piece, students talk about the messages bullies send and challenge the listener to listen for these messages.
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Historic webinar shows how journalism can help sustain warming Arab-Israel ties
Media folk from Israel, its new allies and potential new allies this week began a vital dialogue; the better we understand each other, the better the chances of stable relations
By David Horovitz 24 September 2020, 12:28 pm Edit
David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" (2004) and "A Little Too Close to God" (2000), and co-author of "Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin" (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The Jerusalem Report (1998-2004).
Screenshot from a webinar during which Israeli and Arab journalists, officials and communications professionals discussed the media's role in advancing Arab-Israel peace. September 21, 2020 (Facebook)
We were speaking a mix of English, Arabic and Hebrew, all trying to say as much as we could as clearly as we could, and also as quickly as we could because we knew so many people wanted to weigh in. Israel's minister for regional cooperation was halfway through a brief, warm welcoming statement when his internet went down. One of the participants sounded like he was joining us from the world's noisiest internet cafe, another as though he were under water.
Nobody said anything hugely dramatic. Nobody made hugely extravagant claims. But Monday's webinar on the role of media in advancing peace in our region was quietly historic nonetheless. Organized by the Arab Council for Regional Integration, it brought together editors, journalists, academics and officials from Israel, our new Emirati and Bahraini peace partners, and several other countries in the region who haven't yet joined the normalization process but may be about to do so.
** This Editor's Note was originally sent out Wednesday in ToI's weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor's Notes as they're released, join the ToI Community here.
Among its central themes were that we know far too little about each other, that there are lots of nefarious forces striving to ensure that hostility and misinformation continue to hold sway, and that we journalists should be visiting each other's countries and reporting on them — telling our readers, listeners and viewers about our diverse worlds, hitherto off-limits. The more nuance and depth journalists can bring to our relations, and thus the better we understand each other, I asserted in my brief contribution, the more likely this radical, laudable new normal will prove stable and sustainable.
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I was at my desk in central Jerusalem for our two-hour regional conversation, and I wanted to grab my desktop webcam and point it out the window — to where the YMCA building just across from our office rises into the cobalt blue sky. Designed by the American architect Arthur Loomis Harmon, who was also responsible for the Empire State Building, this "sermon in stone," as one of its former CEOs described it, was built in the 1920s and 1930s by Muslims, Christians and Jews, and its design carefully highlights Jewish, Christian and Muslim themes and sensitivities. At its entrance, a stone inscription, taken from the speech Lord Allenby delivered at the inauguration of the building in 1933, proclaims: "Here is a place whose atmosphere is peace, where political and religious jealousies can be forgotten and international unity be fostered and developed."
I wanted to show my new interlocutors this glorious building in the capital of our revived, historic Jewish state, and to briefly explain what it stands for. But I wasn't sure how well they'd be able to see what I was trying to show them (and whether I'd be able to clip the camera back onto my screen efficiently), and so I didn't risk it.
Instead, I've just walked over to the YMCA to photograph that stone inscription — a small testament to the possibilities of interfaith tolerance and harmony.
Inscription at the entrance to the Jerusalem YMCA (DH/Times of Israel)
In a letter read out on his behalf, President Reuven Rivlin invited all the participants in our online session to visit Israel "to get to know us better." He urged us all to "dream big dreams — of exchange programs, joint productions and education programs for young journalists." Said the president: "I hope you send correspondents here to cover the State of Israel and its society, as I hope our media will send to your countries."
As the editor of the Times of Israel, which publishes in French, in Hebrew, in Farsi and in Arabic precisely so that readers around the world can "get to know us better" via a fair-minded narrative of what's playing out in Israel, I felt privileged and proud to participate in Monday's webinar. And let me restate here what I said online (at about 1 hour, 26 minutes in): that The Times of Israel would be delighted to host visiting journalists, and to be part of the training of young journalists from around the region.
Unlike for some of the other participants, there was no courage whatsoever required in my being on the call. We are free in Israel to produce independent journalism, and to report on and openly discuss our country far and wide — its achievements, controversies, its democratic battles and all. Hopefully, warming ties with Israel will gradually help extend the media freedoms we enjoy and insist upon more widely across the region as well. Hopefully, Monday's quietly historic webinar was a first step, and such openness, too, can gradually become part of the new Middle East normal.
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