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The U.S. economy is seeing a run of better-than-expected news. But the slightly firmer tone for growth may mean nothing if the euro zone does not solve its protracted sovereign debt crisis.
The latest sign of improvement was a jump in activity reported by manufacturers with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia region. The Philly Fed's business activity index rose to 8.7 in October from -17.5 in September. The indexes covering new orders and shipments each increased to six-month highs.
"A host of indicators, including [the Philly Fed and job less claims], are moving back to the levels in April," says Eric Green, chief rate strategist at TD Securities.
The return to spring levels is important. Back then, economists parsing the data thought the economy had enough momentum to grow at a 3.5% annual rate during the second half of 2011. In the survey done in early October by WSJ.com, the consensus forecast was down to just over 2%.
That outlook might change for the better. After better readings on September retailing and payroll gains and August business inventories, economists have been marking up their estimates for third-quarter economic growth.


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The purchasing process of buying an IT system…
I recently overheard two senior managers complain about an IT system; the conversation went something like this.
"It just seems very clunky – we have to adapt our processes to meet the needs of the system".
"If only we could get some useful reports out of it, surely the information that we need must be in the system somewhere?"
"It cost a fortune; I don't understand why we keep investing in IT when it just doesn't work".
It struck me that I have frequently heard these sorts of complaints before, and it set me wondering why expectations are falling so short when it comes to IT.
I think the problem is that when organisations buy an IT system they think it's like buying a car. It costs a lot of money, but it works as soon as you turn it on, and you get the benefits from it pretty much immediately.
IT systems are different – just to clarify, I'm talking about large business systems, not desktop or office systems which actually do pretty much work straight away.
When you invest in a corporate system, you're basically buying a toolkit. Generally the more it costs, the more sophisticated and flexible it is. To transform this toolkit into something productive, a number of technical and business things need to happen. Unfortunately, when people keep using the term "IT system" it is somehow seen as the responsibility of the IT Team to implement it, and the necessary business inputs are done badly, or not at all.
The consequence of this is system which falls short of expectations, and this invariably leads to the sorts of complaints I described above.
There are a number of things that can be done to change this.
Firstly, ditch the term "IT system" and start calling it a "business system".
Secondly, explain that it's actually a toolkit, and it won't be a system until the necessary business work has been done.
Thirdly, make sure that responsibilities are clearly defined at the outset
Finally, ensure senior people realise that the quality of the finished product will depend on the amount of work that goes into it.
When I'm next in front of the Board, talking through a business case for a new "system", I shall explain that the process is more like fitting a kitchen, than buying a new car and a successful outcome depends not on which system we buy, or how much we spend, but on which people are made available to the project.


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Visiting over the holiday is not just a one day event but continues for the whole week and some Uyghurs will even tell you it lasts an entire month. Since I still had time, I went with my classmates to our teacher's house on Saturday. Once again the table was filled with food, and our teacher was slaving away in the kitchen.
After we had been encouraged for over half an hour to eat the dried fruit and nuts in front of us our teacher brought out a large plate of pollo. Pollo is one of the Uyghur peoples favourite meals. It is rice, carrots and mutton all together. She also had prepared about six side dishes including vegetables and chicken wings. It was enough food to feed an army instead of just three girls that had come for an afternoon visit. I worked hard to follow all rules that I posted the other day, and was actually quite pleased with how I was doing. I was just hitting a comfortable level of fullness when the large plate of pollo was finished.
But As I was still patting myself on the back, I realised I had forgotten one of the most important rules: Never, Ever assume that the food in front of you is all there is. There is always more food on the way.
The plate of pollo was removed from the table and replaced by an even bigger plate of Kordock. This is a dish of small noodles and thinly chopped, fried veggies on top, with of course more mutton. The game was far from over… in fact I felt like we were starting back at the beginning.
I once again left my friend,s house painfully full, but I guess if my biggest compliant about life out here is that they feed and host me too well, then life is pretty good.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
I Forgot an Important Rule
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Golden words of Lane Wagger (Source : Speaking Tree, Times of India, January 19, 2011):
January 19, 2011; Wednesday
- The mind is capable of the same settling (like a wave in the ocean) down, or transcending process. Waves of thought retire to the source of thought.
- The agitated, limited value of thought gains the unlimited status of being the silent depth of the ocean of consciousness.
- The mind is like a body of water : choppy on the surface, silent and stable at its depth. When we experience only the noisy surface level of thinking, difficulties abound.
- The growth of inner silence is the basis of spiritual unfolding and material success.
- Consciousness is the prime mover of life.
- Knowledge is different in different states of consciousness.
- If you are anchored to the silent blissful state of consciousness, everything you do becomes joyful.
- According to Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, handle that one thing – consciousness – by which every thing else is handled.
"Just like any other individuals in society, we the librarians do fee insecure , un happy, stressful and anxiety ridden often at times. We are skeptical and worried over the illogical behaviour of our bosses and co-workers and subordinates. We feel proud of some of our colleagues for their good deeds, feel sorry for the irrational behaviour of some others. All is well …. when we work from the core of our consciousness. All is well when we work from the source of our thoughts…that is consciousness. We are heading steadfast to emerge as the much awaited and coveted title of a 'knowledge professional'. Wagger says, "Knowledge is different in different states of consciousness". Being Knowledge professional in this context is to be operating from the source of our thoughts, to be operating from the silent blissful consciousness level. The day is not far when we slide and glide towards being recognized as a full-fledged librarian, a librarian who would be sought after by every one who has to do some thing to do with knowledge. Cheers". –
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A filmy peach like candle wax, but
loose, but shiny, like a glazed donut.
And everything behind the dress
appears just as pale also with a gleam.
I have had the dress a very long time
but have only worn it once. The occasion
now forgotten because in that dress I am
absorbed with me and with the dress. Distracted
completely by the feeling of being hidden but also
being visible--but softly visible. Pencilled in.
If I crossed my leg, you might have thought
something under the dress was winged
and had just fluttered.
Everyday movements all seemed grander,
evoked a desert wind.
In the dress, I became a phantom, a past self
climbing steps to a platform to accept
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Friday, 4 January 2008
Did Tuscan Tony have a hand in this production?
38 comments:
- The Hitch said...
I like curvy women, but Tony seems to like women that feature on maps.
- 4 January 2008 at 13:21
- Mermaid of Moorgate said...
I watched this while listening to the track from Oliver - Consider yourself at home... HEEEEELARIOUS!
- 4 January 2008 at 15:43
- lilith said...
Ha Merms, it is begging to be overdubbed with Consider Yourself!
I think it would be a rauchier video with Tuscan up front, rather than mincing Mika, pretty and talented though he may be. And MORE WOMEN.
- 4 January 2008 at 15:52
- lilith said...
raunchier, obviously, unless you are a German.
- 4 January 2008 at 15:53
- Philipa said...
Can't stand to look at that bloke to be honest, there's just something... not right. And his vid with that child in it, Eew.
Don't disagree with the sentiment though - my backside is making me look like a knot in cotton at the moment :-/
- 4 January 2008 at 18:00
- Tuscan Tony said...
Perfick! Ferggettabout Grange hermitage, I can improve on that when I am next in Somerset!
- 4 January 2008 at 19:37
- Jon said...
What a pity Ted Ray never saw that video.
- 4 January 2008 at 20:03
- Daisy said...
oh ffs hitch be honest...you don't like curvy women you like stick women (rolls eyes)
- 4 January 2008 at 23:18
- killemallletgodsortemout said...
Munters, the lot of them.
End of.
- 4 January 2008 at 23:55
- Sen. C.R.O'Blene said...
Fantastic Lilith!
After this, I Googled 'Totty', because I wanted to see if a well respected firm of old was still around, and it is - Totty Construction is alive and well!
I've just discovered also that the stunningly beautiful lady I once referred to in an earlier post works for part of the group, and just yesterday I got an email about a lunch...
Strictly work actually, but what a way to get out more! I'll have to buy Mrs S a damn good bottle to make up for that!
Tuscs seems to have this influence doesn't he?
You've outed me anyway - well done you lovely Lady...!
- 5 January 2008 at 06:39
- lilith said...
Knot in cotton? Girl, you gotta eat! My backside seems to get bigger and bigger....
- 5 January 2008 at 12:12
- lilith said...
I thought you could do much better TT...
- 5 January 2008 at 12:13
- lilith said...
Nonsense Killem. You are just scared of being squashed up against a wall by one of 'em ;-)
- 5 January 2008 at 12:13
- lilith said...
It's pretty archaic I have to say, Dennis.
- 5 January 2008 at 12:14
- lilith said...
Daisy, I have a Hitch Hunch that he likes his women to look like boys...;-)
- 5 January 2008 at 12:15
- lilith said...
Scroblene (or should I call you Kylie?) it is so important to enjoy one's work ;-)x
- 5 January 2008 at 12:17
- lilith said...
Hitch, of course you like curvy women :o)
- 5 January 2008 at 12:17
- Electro-Kevin said...
Fat seems to be in fashion.
- 5 January 2008 at 14:04
- Philipa said...
Anyones bottom looks better in a Maserati.
- 5 January 2008 at 16:06
- Philipa said...
For TT and anyone who likes 'big butts and I cannot lie'..
..this is for you. Scroll down past the tequila for the swimsuit photo :-)
- 5 January 2008 at 20:23
- lilith said...
Sweet Jesus, Philipa. That is quite a link.
- 5 January 2008 at 21:19
- Philipa said...
I'm scared - I'm getting on the treadmill next week!
- 5 January 2008 at 22:02
- The Hitch said...
I do *smirks*
Small, curvy,
big boobs ,narrow waists.
Always been my type.
A good brain also helps.
As to Tuscan , he is a Fagin figure, luring small Italian children into *shudders*
the world of insurance.
A twilight world inhabited by dark creatures.
On the other hand if you ever want to insure the Vespa , Tony's your man.
- 6 January 2008 at 22:50
- Modo said...
I am beginning to think Hitch might well be a ladyboy, and might well prefer a woman that needs to shave her bottom once a day.
- 7 January 2008 at 09:30
- The Hitch said...
The Tuscan mitt has been in many unsavoury places
But this isnt one of them
- 7 January 2008 at 21:30
errr.... I dont know!!
- 8 January 2008 at 11:18
- Tuscan Tony said...
Philipa 5 Jan no No NOOOO!!!!
That is waaaaaayyyy too big.
I envision the perfect evening as being able to playfully wobble a little bitta puppy fat, not spending 4 sweaty hours rolling her on the floor in flour and looking for the wet patch, if I may put it so indelicately.
- 8 January 2008 at 17:20
- Tuscan Tony said...
Hitch - and you, sir, spend your time luring W9 homonculi into the dark bladerunner world of Advertising. Pots and kettles, Mr H!
- 8 January 2008 at 17:22
- Tuscan Tony said...
I've just noticed the remarkable similarity (visually) between the singer and the chap in the post below, on the left.
- 8 January 2008 at 17:28
- lilith said...
Lucien, *winks*
- 8 January 2008 at 19:55
- lilith said...
I agree Hitch, Tuscan cannot have had any hand in this...he would do something appealing.
"Small, curvy,
big boobs ,narrow waists.
Always been my type.
A good brain also helps."
Kinda like the lovely Dolly Parton then, Hitch?
- 8 January 2008 at 19:55
- lilith said...
It's alright Mutley, scurch, scurch.x
- 8 January 2008 at 19:56
- lilith said...
Tuscan, it is uncanny.
- 8 January 2008 at 19:57
- lilith said...
I must do another post. Too much going on!
- 8 January 2008 at 19:58
- Mermaid of Moorgate said...
I'm a bit concerned that the guy selling melons in the market place at the beginning of the video may never get over the association
- 8 January 2008 at 19:59
- The Hitch said...
Mika is both a knob jockey and a ****.
- 8 January 2008 at 22:43
- Philipa said...
TT - is there an emotive for crying with laughter? rolling her in flour etc. hilarious.
Puppy fat TT? So.. scarlett johansson? Charlotte Church? Martine McCutcheon? Miss Piggy?
- 9 January 2008 at 12:50
- Tuscan Tony said...
Philipa - yes, no, no, no.
The all-time Tuscan Dream Pudding is Madeleine Smith. Not the C19th Scots murderess but the other one, now lives in Twickenham I think. A saucy boid indeed, and still very much so.
- 9 January 2008 at 21:06


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Name: Christine Cosentino
Title: CFO
Company Name: Cosentino Realty & Development
Real estate association / organization affiliation(s): LIREG-W, ICSC, Henry Viscardi Advisory Council, Huntingotn Chamber of Commerce
What are some of your biggest accomplishments in the last 12 months?
I completed the Advanced Real Estate Finance and Development Professional Certification Program at MIT, a highly competitive program in which I was 1 of 4 women in the U.S. to earn a certification. I was heavily involved with the negotiation, budgeting and building of the first HomeSense in New York, TJX's newest concept and our newest tenant. I also took lead on the diversification of our portfolio into mixed-use assets, in July we acquired 425 New York Ave., which is home to 10 residential units and the co-working space, Huntington Professional Suites.
How important is it for women to create a personal brand?
I think in the age of social media being so prevalent and heavily relied upon for marketing, it is extremely important. One of the drawbacks is its very time consuming, but being in a field where people are constantly interested in knowing about what's in your pipeline, it important you represent yourself and your company well. Here's how I see it–there's no drawback to having a strong online presence and you get to showcase your skills and achievements.
What blogs, resources, podcasts or influencers have helped you?
I read The Real Deal religiously, I find it keeps me up to date on all things real estate. I always find that something I read is relevant in conversation among my colleagues, as well as, the NYREJ! The "5AM Club" is a great way to start my day, it's a dial-in conference call held every morning for about five minutes with entrepreneurs and high achievers. LIREG-W has been such a beneficial networking group because the women are so supportive, as a group were not only colleagues but friends as well. Attending ICSC in several states has been so influential, I've met, listened and garnered advice from developers in several markets. My Dad is my biggest support and Scott Rechler is a mentor to me.
How many messages are in your inbox right now and how do you manage email?
1,500 messages, the goal is to always achieve a zero inbox but that never happens for me. It's definitely overwhelming at times looking at a cluttered inbox. One thing I always do is star very important emails, this way when I scroll through my inbox I know immediately what I have to work on. Organization is key, I try to label and categorize as many emails as possible. Its always that one email that you think you don't need- but you do!
What do you do like to do for fun?
Horseback riding, yoga, gym, hiking with my dogs, playing sports, anything that involves being outside and relaxing with my girlfriends! I really enjoy spending time out east. I also enjoy checking out new cities and their markets….. my mind is always thinking of where to grow our company next.. its not work if you consider it fun!!
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I Gotta Have Faith
All the believers were one in heart and mind. – Acts 4:32
Last week we were talking insurance, mandates, and every variable on the table.� One of these options is health care sharing ministries.� For�a quick refresher, the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare) defines it as:�"A health care sharing ministry is a tax-exempt organization whose members: share a common set of ethical or religious beliefs, AND share medical expenses in accordance with those beliefs, even after a member develops a medical condition."� It must also have been in existence and sharing medical expenses continuously since December 31, 1999. To claim the exemption on Form 8965, enter code "D" in Part III, column (c)), then note which months the exemption applies for.
The organizations are often called Medi-Share though it is not technically correct because Medi-Share actually refers to a specific organization within the group, Christian Care Ministry (CCM).��Due to the nature of these organizations, you may not qualify based on your religious affiliation. We searched for non-faithbased options and options for faiths outside of Christianity but did not find any.
There is one option with a "looser" statement of faith. Liberty HealthShare's "Statement of Shared Beliefs" is based on Christian Principles but does not mention Jesus, though it does mention the Bible.� That may be something that those outside of the Christian faith could discuss with their spiritual leaders to determine if it jibes with their faith, morals,�ethics, and personal religious values.
These are private options which means they are not subject to the same parameters the government has enforced on insurance companies.� Health care sharing ministries are required to have a yearly independent audit but they do not have to cover your pre-existing conditions, maternity, or stupidity. Some charge a premium if you are not within given healthy parameters (e.g. overweight, high blood pressure, etc.).� Most have options if your pre-existing condition can be cured or a large prayer pool where members can help those with exorbitant medical costs that would not be part of the normal share "pool."
However, if you are still reading and you do qualify and subscribe to Christian beliefs then health care sharing ministries may be an option for your family.� They are very affordable.� Particularly for large families. Most are purchased based on a unit or share system. Each adult would be an individual share and all the children in the family would be one share. Meaning a family of 3 and a family of 7 would be paying the same amount. These costs for the entire family of could be as low as $135 per month, though the average is probably closer $350-550.
Health Care Sharing Ministries – What are the Options?*
These plans tend to run like insurance was meant to – you cover your incidentals, regular doctors visits, wellness check-ups, etc. up to a certain amount and then anything over your designated threshold is eligible to be shared.� If you are on a high-deductible plan not much will change.
Their setups vary on how you get reimbursed and your level of involvement in your bill. Some are set up like a regular insurance company where your doctor bills to them.� Some you pay up front and try to negotiate your bill down and then submit "claims."� Some you directly write a check to another member some go through escrow and the company disburses payments.
The following five companies are the only�health care sharing ministries we found (if you know of others please comment below or contact us):
Medi-Share (Christian Care Ministries – CCM)
CCM is set up like a high-deductible insurance plan.� They offer Annual Household Portions (AHP) starting at $500 (for single persons 18-29 years old) up to $10,000. The monthly share amount varies from $0-790. This option also issues you a membership card and uses a network of providers with whom they have negotiated rates. They are part of the PHCS network. If you use a provider you may pay a penalty. When you visit the doctor there is a $35 provider fee then your doctor submits the bill and you will be billed for the net amount.� ER visits have a $135 provider fee.
Similar to insurance well-child visits up to six years old are eligible for sharing before your AHP have been met.� CCM has provisos for pre-existing conditions, maternity, physical therapy, and chiropractic care.� Something unique to Medi-Share is that you can also share costs incurred with up to two adoptions (amount based on AHP).� Further, final expenses, including those for stillborn children, are also shareable up to $5000.
A membership with Careington Discount Plan is included for all family members and helps to receive discounts for prescriptions, dental, and vision needs.
There are discounts for being healthy and a mandatory enrollment in the $80 per month health-partner program if you don't meet BMI and healthy weight ranges (it will be waived if you can become healthy).
Members share via an escrow account.
Christian Healthcare Ministries (CHM)
If you have perused the marketplace you will see a lot of Gold, Silver, and Bronze leveled plans.� CHM has followed this model and offers three levels of sharing.� Gold being the more comprehensive and expensive option.� A family can expect to pay $135-450 per month.� Additionally, there is a quarterly variable gift amount required at all levels – the average is $75 per family.
CCM also offers a yearly add-on (about $340 annually), that is common to�health care sharing ministries, to be enrolled in their "Brother's Keeper" Program which increases the maximum reimbursable amount.
Gold level members can age out of pre-existing condition requirements and Silver and Bronze level members can share their exceptional needs on their prayer page. Depending on level physical therapy, maternity, and prescriptions may be shareable. Chiropractic, Alternative, Dental, Vision, Adoption, and/or Death are not shareable.
Members share via an escrow account.
Samaritan Ministries
Samaritan Ministries is very popular option with membership exploding under Obamacare. In 1999 it serviced just 1,000 households. As of January 2018 it was up to 68,200 or over 221,000 people {source}.� Currently, they offer two levels a Basic and Classic – the Basic is $300 per month, the Classic $495 per month.� There is an optional add-on of $414 per year to join the "Save to Share" program to help when qualified expenses exceed $250,000.
Under the Basic plan you can share eligible expenses once need exceeds $1500 and then everything else can be shared up to 90%.� The classic begins sharing at $300 and then 100% of eligible costs are shared.
It has provisos for pre-existing conditions (that can be cured), physical therapy, maternity (options are available for those who join while pregnant), prescriptions (through an included discount program), chiropractic, and alternative care.
There is no coverage for dental, vision, adoption, or death.
Through this ministry, you are directly sharing with other members so you may receive many checks to deposit if you have a large bill.� Also, if needs are greater than shares your reimbursements may be prorated.� All this means is that you may have to front a significant amount of money while waiting for your full bill to be paid.
Liberty Health
Like CCM, Liberty is one of the health care sharing ministries that has three levels of membership. They have a range of prices based on age and family size, but for a family of 3 or more the prices range $345-499 per month, the family's Annual Unshared Amount (AUA) for each plan is $1500.� Liberty, like Medi-Share, charges those deemed unhealthy an extra $80 per month (which will be waived if you can become healthy).
There are provisos for pre-existing conditions, Physical�therapy, death, and maternity.� Prescriptions, dental, vision, Chiropractic/ Alternative are eligible for some plans through the mandatory add-on SavNet Discount Plan. Wellness exams can be share after AUA is met, including preventative screening like PAP smears, mammograms, and colonoscopies. Well-baby exams are eligible within the first year and not subject to AUA.
Liberty, like Samaritan's purse, is also subject to prorating when needs exceed shares.
Liberty is often seen as the option for non-Christians. While I did not find any information to the contrary on their website it has been stated elsewhere online that Muslims, Jews, and Homosexual couples (on individual plans) may join.
Members share via an escrow account called ShareBox.
Our last and least common option is Altrua. As�health care sharing ministries go it has the most variables in membership based on age and family size.� A family could conceivably spend $275-780 per month.� Plus, it also subjects overweight members to an extra monthly premium.� Members share via an escrow account.
It also is the hardest to follow with two Member Responsibility Amounts (MRA). The first is the out of pocket before eligible needs are shared and is a per person amount. The second is the percentage amount the member is responsible after the first MRA is met but before the member is eligible for 100% sharing.
It�has provisos for pre-existing conditions, maternity (for gold and silver memberships), prescriptions (via discount card), and chiropractic. Physical therapy is not generally going to be shareable unless relating to an eligible surgery.� Dental, vision, adoption, and death are not shareable.� It does allow 6 office visits annually up to $300 that is not applied to the MRAs (gold & silver plans).
Altrua also has the most comprehensive list of exclusions. It considers inline skating, trail running, skateboarding, water skiing, and many common recreational activities as extreme sports and injuries from them will not be covered.
For more details, you can compare all five�HERE.
Is that All?
Health care sharing ministries are not going to be popping up all over the place. To be eligible for the Affordable Care Act exemption they had to have been in business since 1999.� These are the options for those looking for insurance, that isn't really insurance. As of January�2018, over 625,000 believers have joined these ministries and it's easy to see why.
There's a little something for everyone so long as you want to be a part of what they're offering. They are affordable, they are largely understandable, and they make people feel good about where their hard earned money is actually going. Unless there are some major changes in Obamacare these will become more mainstream.
These ministries were around before ACA and will endure the ever-changing political tide.� In the meantime, they offer their members a certain stability in a very volatile climate. Though, they do require one thing – you gotta have faith.
*This article is my personal health care experience and research. I am not a tax attorney or insurance professional. �To the best of my knowledge, all of the information presented in this article is accurate and factual as of the time of publishing. �Please consult your own professionals and independently confirm options.


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Past events
Live Cinema at Berkeley Arts: Thingamajigs Performance Group + viDEO sAVant
A two-part, multi-room evening of visual and sonic experiments and environments, featuring local heroes and esteemed guests:
Thingamajigs Performance Group - Dylan Bolles, Keith Evans, Suki O'Kane and Edward Schocker - performs an immersive sonic and visual rendition of Jason Levis' composition Tesserae.
Media artist/wizard Charles Woodman visits from Cincinnati with his live video performance project viDEO sAVant, joined by Bay Area musicians Lisa Mezzacappa, Jason Levis, Noah Phillips, John Finkbeiner, and Tim Perkis (electronics).
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I have been practicing podiatric medicine for more than 30 years and truly have a dedication to my patients and passion for the profession. Please take a look at my website and the resources I have provided. I look forward to meeting you and providing you the food care you deserve.
Corns are small, circular and thick lesions found in the skin of the foot. They form through repeated pressure on the skin like rubbing of shoes. They occur mostly on the toes as bones tend to push against the shoe while placing pressure on the skin. This leads to a thickening of the surface layer of the skin, which in turn irritates the tissues found underneath.
As these growths resemble a kernel of corn, it is called a corn. They differ from calluses in their having a central core of hard material. Hard corns usually located at the top of the toe or on the side of the small toe and soft ones resembling open sores are found in between toes because of constant rubbing.Causes
It is usually those with foot deformities like hammertoes and claw toes who suffer the most from corns as the bent toes rub against the top of shoes.
However even shoes that don't fit properly can also lead to corns. Tight shoes squeeze the foot and increases pressure on the foot while loose shoes lead to sliding of the feet which in turn causes friction while rubbing against the shoe.
High heeled shoes are also not advised as the pressure of the body is increased on the forefoot.
Ill-fitting socks and rubbing of the foot against a seam or stitch in the shoe are other causes for a corn.Diagnosis and treatment
Corns are easily seen and diagnosed with its middle tender spot and surrounding dead and yellow skin. They are best treated as a team effort with you working with your doctor to ensure it does not recur.
There are various treatment options available which your doctor will recommend for you based on the one most appropriate for your case. However while treating corns, its underlying cause has to be treated or removed lest the corn returns.
The corn may be trimmed by shaving dead skin layers using a scalpel to restore the normal skin contour and for pain relief. This has to be done by a doctor, especially if you have poor circulation, eyesight or lack of feeling in your feet.
In case there are underlying problems like toe deformities, your doctor may suggest surgery on an outpatient basis to correct them. It is not advised to remove a corn at home or use medicated corn pads as they can lead to serious infections.
At the most, you may soak your feet and soften and reduce its size using a pumice stone. You could also try using some lamb's wool in between toes to provide cushioning to soft corns. Make it a point to wear shoes that fit properly, with lots of toe area.


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Ann Nassaga alias Afrie.
One thing that stands out the first time you meet Ann Nassaga alias Afrie is a fact that she talks.
She will comment about your hair, shoes and shirt even before the conversation starts officially (that's if such things like official conversations even exist).
And it's this same persona that follows her on stage, most times before she starts her set, she will start by talking to her audience;
"Guys, cheer up, you don't want me to be all by myself up here, you know these things are not easy,"
she once said while opening at LaBa Art Festival last year.
She goes by the name Afrie because she believes in a united Africa;
"It's something I want to stand for in my music."
Yet outside the performer and prolific vocalist she is, Afrie is a fresh graduate of Dental Technology from Makerere University in Kampala.
For many of Kampala's fine music consumers, Afrie arrived with a performance of Askari, at the official album unveiling of After Dawn by former Tusker Project Fame contestants Undercover Brothers.
Among the many that watched the performance was Jude Mugerwa and Suzan Kerunen, the two prolific brains behind Pearl Rhythm Festival and its apprentice programme, the Stage Coach.
In fact, Kerunen once noted that it was that time that they started monitoring her.
She was later lined up for the second edition of the Pearl Rhythm Stage Coach mentorship where she got an opportunity to record professionally for the first time.
"I had recorded music before but it was barely intense, it was the normal thing of creating beats using a keyboard and later singing to it in studio."
Yori Yori was the outcome of the mentorship – produced by Mugerwa, it's an upbeat song about a girl talking about the guy she loves though for some reason, they are taking forever to make the relationship public.
Like many of her present songs, Yori Yori had stayed with her for long, it was a song she had written, performed but had not recorded;
"Proper recording is costly thus, most of the times we write music, perform it to raise money to do the kind of recording we want."
She usually performs with a piano and a band, though when she's playing songs like Teliyo Mulala and Let her Know, it's the piano that takes center stage.
"I originally started playing the piano when I was younger but I didn't learn a lot, though in 2014, I became serious about playing."
Her performance at the initial Pearl Rhythm Festival was lauded as engaging, energetic and some music pundits noted that she was a force to watch out for.
Afrie would later perform at the Writivism Festival Kampala in 2016, open LaBa Art Festival's tenth edition, appear at Goethe Zentrum Kampala's Sundowners' music showcase and opened for Mo Roots, Kenneth Mugabi, Happy K and Solome Basuta at the Christmas edition of Qwela Junction.
Her second single Askari was released at the beginning of the year, a slow medley praising a man that she suggests is incomparable and thus needs to be protected by her - even before its initial release, Askari had gained a lot of momentum especially among the AfrieKans (as she often refers to her fans).
But even before they could get enough of Askari, Afrie decided to release probably one of her biggest songs so far, Let Her Know.
It sounds much different from the version she has been performing and has a choir effect to it – over her past performances, the song had been referred to by different journalists as Ugandan Girl or African Girl since it wasn't titled.
"I had thought of calling it African Girl but I realized there's a Kenyan song with the same title and in the same way, back home, Maurice Kirya has a Ugandan Girl."
On 30 April, Afrie will be one of the artistes that will light up the Blankets and Wine stage with her music; she says that she's in between surprised and excited since she never saw the call to that stage coming this early.
"I've never attended Blankets and Wine because it was way out of my league,though it was that event I always would read about in the papers, to see how it went down."
She though notes that she can't wait to get onto the stage because it's an opportunity for people to learn about her music and her story.
Listen to her music here: https://soundcloud.com/nassang


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Installing & using the free Reviso expenses mobile app is not only easy but saves you so much time and effort. Keeping track of receipts while out and about can be a task in itself, taking a quick photo on your phone and uploading direct into your Reviso agreement means it's captured and safe and ready for you or your bookkeeper to process the transaction.
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New York Comic-Con has begun, starting the hype train for projects that weren't ready in time for San Diego Comic-Con. This includes Free Guy, the mostly-under-the-radar action comedy Ryan Reynolds shot over the summer with Night at the Museum and Stranger Things director Shawn Levy. (Free Guy is written by the guy who wrote the "hot Santa who f-cks" Netflix movie. So this is going to be A Ride.) Free Guy is about a video game "non-player character" who gains sentience within the world of his video game. Reynolds plays Guy, the NPC, and Joe Keery and Jodie Comer play a couple of gamers. Taika Waititi is also on board in an unspecified role. For NYCC, Reynolds, Comer, Keery, and Waititi made a teaser video which doesn't really illuminate anything about their movie. It does, however, clarify that Reynolds and Waititi have never, ever met. Check it out:
(Am I the only person who gets weirded out whenever she hears Jodie Comer's natural accent? I always forget that's what she actually sounds like.) We don't have any actual footage from Free Guy yet, but they did screen some early stuff for the crowd at NYCC. Sounds like it went over well. This is a summer 2020 release, which means we'll probably get a trailer around the holidays. Also worth noting that this is a Disney-Fox production, and with Deadpool's fate in the now-merged MCU still undecided, this is a way to keep Reynolds occupied and happy while they figure out what to do with his R-rated character that now belongs to a family brand.
I'll be interested to see what this movie really looks like, and how much it does or does not feel like Jumanji. This is a pretty clear response to the success of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and it comes out seven months after Jumanji: The Next Level. It'll be interesting if they sell Free Guy as an action-adventure, like Jumanji, or if they focus on this being a "Ryan Reynolds movie". One thing about Disney marketing, it doesn't usually center on the star. They focus on the brand (Marvel/Pixar/Lucasfilm/Disney Animation), and the characters, actively contributing to the death of the Movie Star but also making it easier to apply the same playbook across multiple properties. You don't have to tailor each press tour to the star, the stars tailor their persona to the press. But ever since the success of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds' movies have been sold as "Ryan Reynolds movies", and it works every time. In the post-Movie Star era, he's managed to turn himself into a Movie Star. With Fox's marketing department devastated by the merger, it'll be Disney's playbook at work for Free Guy. So far, Disney has done abysmally with the Fox movies they've inherited, but maybe things will be different for Free Guy? We can dream. And hey, it's a chance for Reynolds and Waititi to rewrite their history together, following this debacle:
Honestly, it's a miracle we lured Taika Waititi back to Hollywood.


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A computer program has been trained to grade breast cancer, predicting which tumours are associated with worse outcomes and, therefore, deserve more aggressive treatment.
In doing so, the program aims to improve on a technique that has remained essentially unchanged for more than 80 years. The method for grading breast tumours was established in 1928, and is largely based on three criteria: how well the tumour cells resemble healthy tissue, how many cells have abnormal nuclei, and how many cells in the sample are dividing.
But after being fed a 'training set' of breast tumour images and survival data, the computer program — named C-Path, for computational pathologist — developed a new list of features that best predicted patient outcome. Instead of focusing on the tumour cells themselves, C-Path determined that the most predictive features were found in the cells surrounding the tumour, in a region called the stroma. The results were published today in Science Translational Medicine1.
"It tells us that cancer really is an ecosystem," says Daphne Koller, a computer scientist at Stanford University in California, and lead author on the paper. "Yet currently, pathologists don't look at the stroma at all."
Quantity and quality
To walk into a pathology lab can feel like a step back in time, with pathologists hunched over microscopes analysing slides of tissue stained with dyes that have been used for decades. But the field is changing, says David Rimm, a pathologist at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. "It's not just about the classical stains anymore," he says. "It's about the molecular events."
That transition enticed Andrew Beck, a trained pathologist and an author on the C-Path paper, to seek out graduate training in bioinformatics. He knew that pathology labs process thousands of tissue slides every year — a "treasure trove of data", he says — but that new techniques were needed if those morphological findings were ever to be correlated with the emerging molecular data that increasingly influence treatment decisions.
C-Path is not the first attempt to quantify and automate the traditional art of pathology, says Beck, now at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. "But it's difficult to do," says Beck. "The images are very complex and heterogeneous — not an easy type of information to convert into quantitative data."
Beck and his colleagues decided to take a different approach. Rather than training a computer to recognize features that pathologists had already deemed important, they decided to allow the machine to pick them out. C-Path's training set consisted of images of tumour tissue and five-year survival data from 248 women with breast cancer. The program looked for 6,642 features in that set, chose a subset of features that reliably predicted survival, and then applied those to a 'validation' set of data from 328 women.
The computationally selected features were strongly associated with overall survival in both sets of data.
An objective approach
The technique is a significant step for a rapidly modernizing field, says Rimm. But it will need to be tested in larger studies before it can be deployed clinically.
Rimm also notes that, during C-Path's training, the team had to include 42 samples from the validation set to account for differences in the staining technique used in the two data sets. This variability is common, he says: "Some labs like a little more red, some like a little more blue."
That could complicate efforts to make a program that can be widely applied in clinical settings, acknowledges Beck. It is possible that labs would have to adhere to a specific staining protocol if C-Path is involved in data analysis.
Meanwhile, Rimm is hopeful that the C-Path method can be applied to other cancers, such as prostate and bladder cancer, for which grading tumours reliably has proved difficult for even well-trained human eyes. "In those cases, if you show the sample to a different pathologist, you often get a different grade," he says. "And if you're going to treat on the basis of grade, then subjectivity is a problem."
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- Nature
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Installation options for PSR Guidance Systems
Agricultural enterprises differ from one another by their individual requirements for an automatic steering system and in general their vehicle's equipment and we do take this into consideration. Consequently we offer a variety of prefabricated platform kits for a wide choice of agricultural machines.
And even if your vehicle is not yet in our list for platform kits, we can provide you with the suitable solution.
PSR Platform Kits – Plug & Go for many agricultural machines
The guidance is performed via ISOBUS which works with vehicles which are already set up for ISOBUS-steering. This installation variation represents the easiest one (Plug & Go) which also is very cost effective.
Learn more about PSR ISO
PSR hBasic
In this case a hydraulic connection is performed which is possible for all kinds of hydraulic systems (constant oil pump and Load Sensing). An even more economical investment. as the main components of the PSR steering system can be easily swapped between several vehicles, is to prefabricate more then one of your vehicles with PSR hBasic in order to use one steering system for multiple vehicles. One advantage compared to using an steering assistant on the steering wheel lays in its quick response time especially at speeds beyond 12 km/h. The wheel angle sensor is included when choosing PSR hBasic. Underlining its quality there are TÜV sample certificates for more than 400 vehicles for PSR ISO.
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An electric steering motor on the steering wheel serves as a steering assistant. We recommend the usage of the optional wheel angle sensor. In case you want use already owned steering assistants we can provide you with the needed cabling.
Steering Wheel Motor RDU2
The RDU2 is the new ISOBUS compatible steering assistant. A universal or vehicle-specific bracket is mounted onto the steering column, An easy to use closing mechanism attaches the steering motor securely to the steering wheel.
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Reichhardt's RDU convinces in practise due to its slim design and its large swing angle. It is conveniently usable with one hand, very quiet in operation and quickly swapped from one vehicle to another one.


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Canada/Ottawa: Radagast Pet Food, Inc., a Portland, Oregon establishment, recalls an estimated 22 units of Rad Cat Raw Diet Free-Range Chicken Recipe Cat Food due to suspected Listeria monocytogenes contamination and consequential gram-positive bacterial infection, severe illness and/or possible life-changing complications, all serious health hazards.
HCSC: http://ht.ly/xLn630l2DgU
Direct link: http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/hc-sc/2018/67244r-eng.php
Additional information:
Health Canada/Santé Canada ("HCSC") reports the following Pet Food products are subject to this recall:
- Rad Cat Raw Diet Free-Range Chicken Recipe Cat Food, sold with a batch/lot code of 63069 and best before date of 10/23/19.
Please consult the photograph above for details of the product's packaging, design and retail presentation.
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According to Health Canada, the recalled Pet Food products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and there is risk of pet/human cross contamination and illness after handling the Pet Food.
Symptoms of Lsteriosis (Listeria monocytogenes illness) can include the following:
- Vomiting
- Nausea
- Persistent fever
- Muscle aches
- Severe headache
- Neck stiffness
If you believe you have purchased or have in your possession any of the recalled Pet Foods, please do not feed them to your pet(s). Instead, kindly return the product to the store where you purchased it for a full refund. Wash down all prep surfaces, serving implements and serving bowls with a bleach/water mixture; rinse well with lots of hot soapy water.
==> Never depend on your senses of sight, smell, taste or touch to confirm food poisoning or contamination. If in doubt about the safety of any food, return it to your retailer for refund or toss it out in your household garbage, making sure pets and small children can't access the suspect food.
If you have any questions about this recall notification, please contact Radagast Pet Food Inc. at 1-503-736-4649 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time, Monday to Friday. Alternatively, you can reach the company by e-mail at email@example.com.
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More information about this recall:
HCSC ID number: RA-67244
Recalls Direct RIN: 10417-2018
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Academic psychiatry is in trouble, becoming the narrowest of biological research approaches of decreasing relevance to clinical practice and global health. What is required is a rebalancing of the psychiatric academy to include greater support for researchers conducting social, clinical and community studies within a broad, more humanistic biosocial framework.
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Bonnie J. Kaplan
09 January 2013
We welcome Dr. Kleinman's perspective and want to elaborate on the manner in which academic psychiatry is making itself irrelevant. In addition to its relative neglect of psychosocial and cultural issues, academic psychiatry is failing to attend to the potential for recovery formost people with mental health problems. The recovery movement started with a broad civil rights perspective involving people who had experiencedhospitalization, forced treatment and highly stigmatizing labels of mentalillness. At the core of the advocacy efforts was the recognition that people could get better, i.e. recover. As the movement evolved, it was empirically supported by researchers like William Anthony (1), often referred to as the "father of the recovery movement," as well as by data from long-term outcome studies by people like Courtenay Harding (2) and Martin Harrow (3). The old adage that a mental disorder is analogous to insulin-dependent diabetes, requiring lifelong pharmacologic treatment, needs to be reconsidered.
Dr. Kleinman's hopes for more social justice, as well as increased attention to the effects of poverty and global health are welcome and complementary notions to the recovery movement. We also want to mention resilience, a key dynamic that is generally neglected by academic psychiatry. Resilience can refer to many of the psychosocial and economic factors mentioned in the editorial, and it can also be significantly shaped by the nutritional status of individuals. Dr Kleinman writes of putting global health on the agenda for upcoming researchers; global health in general is very sensitive to the field of nutrient status, and many international studies have shown the importance of diet and early nutrition for long-term physical and mental health outcomes. Worldwide, nutritional psychiatry is a rapidly expanding area of great relevance to mental health but virtually ignored by academic psychiatry. Recently, research from several countries has strongly suggested that Western dietary patterns may be contributing to our current epidemics of mental disorders (Jacka et al., 2011). Perhaps even more important for the field is research demonstrating that manipulation of diet by providing additional essential nutrients can prevent as well as reverse psychiatric symptoms (Rucklidge & Kaplan, 2013).
The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care (www.femhc.org) was created by professionals and people with lived experience, for the purpose of tapping private philanthropy to fund projects that recognize the general failure of drugs to treat psychiatric disorders, as recently highlighted by the provocative work of Robert Whitaker in "Anatomy of an Epidemic." By moving away from the driving forces of the last few decades that have perpetuated the idea that one disease can be treated with one drug, we open up new avenues of treatment possibilities, including social,community, lifestyle and nutritional changes, areas of research that the new academics of psychiatry could and should embrace.
1.Ellison ML, Rogers ES, Lyass A, Massaro J, Wewiorski NJ, Hsu ST, Anthony WA. Statewide initiative of intensive psychiatric rehabilitation: Outcomes and relationship to other mental health service use. Psychiatr Rehabil J 2011;35:9-19. 2.DeSisto MJ, Harding CM, McCormick RV, Ashikaga T, Brooks GW. The Maine and Vermont three-decade studies of serious mental illness. I. Matched comparison of cross-sectional outcome. Br J Psychiatry 1995;167:331-8.3.Harrow M, Jobe TH. Factors involved in outcome and recovery in schizophrenia patients not on antipsychotic medications: A 15-year multifollow-up study. J Nerv Ment Dis 2007;195:406-414.4.Jacka FN, Kremer PJ, Berk M, de Silva-Sanigorski AM, Moodie M, Leslie ER, Pasco JA, Swinburn BA. A prospective study of diet quality and mental health in adolescents. PLoS One. 2011;6(9):e24805. 5.Rucklidge JJ, Kaplan BJ. Broad-spectrum micronutrient formulas for the treatment psychiatric symptoms: A systematic review. Expert Rev Neurother 2013;13:49-73.
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Wojtek Wojcik, Honorary researcher and locum consultant psychiatrist
02 January 2013
Professor Kleinman's recent editorial (1) depicts academic psychiatryas fossilised and Sisyphus-esque, obsessed with the recurrent yet apparently futile toil of researching biomedical paradigms for mental illness. He challenges it to broaden its scope, suggesting health servicesresearch, global mental health, and psychological medicine (liaison psychiatry) as examples. Whilst we agree with his argument for breadth anddiversity in research, we find it difficult to recognise the academic psychiatry he describes.
First, the author describes important and exciting areas of research as fringe activities which by implication lack mainstream support. Our experience locally is the opposite and we are not aware of this being at all at odds with the national, or even international, picture. In 2012 Kings College London appointed a new chair in Psychological Medicine and saw a global mental health collaborative study (EMERALD) win a 5.8 millionEuro grant. What's not mainstream about that?
Second, it is difficult to reconcile academic psychiatry as it was then - in a presumed golden age of progress - and its alleged rigor mortisnow, without dismissing out of hand advances in our understanding of the rich complexity of people's lives and mental illness. Advances in the bridging of nature and nurture through gene-environment (2), epigenetic, and life-course epidemiology approaches at last settles old disputes aboutthe primacy of either. Evidence for neuroplasticity and neurogenesis overturns old notions of an immutable brain which can degenerate but not repair or grow, and allows new dialogue about how life can impact on brainand mind for those who needed convincing. An evidence-led transformation in attitudes to the treatability of borderline personality disorder (3), as well as new psychological treatments for psychosis, OCD, anxiety and depression must similarly be ignored.
Finally, it is worth noting the recent history of treatment of mentalillness, particularly the rise of psychoanalysis in the early twentieth century and the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960's. Whilst both contributed new ideas and hypotheses, neither translated directly into evidence-based treatments. Today, psychological therapies are being testedand accumulating an evidence base and critical psychiatry (the anti-psychiatry of old) continues to have a voice.
Diversity is ecologically important for maintaining a balance of explorative hypotheses and established paradigms, or the 'shock of the new' and the 'love of the true'. Our experience of UK academic psychiatry is that it is being and will continue to be invigorated by new ideas and research avenues as any field must be. Professor Kleinman's concerns do not ring true and ignore the main issue we currently observe which is of funding. Perhaps his concerns are more relevant across the Atlantic?
1.Kleinman A. Rebalancing academic psychiatry: why it needs to happen - and soon. Br J Psychiatry 2012; 201: 421-422.
2.Caspi A, Sugden K, Moffitt TE, Taylor A, Craig IW, Harrington H, McClay J, Mill J, Martin J, Braithwaite A, et al. Influence of life stresson depression: moderation by a polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene. Science 2003; 301(5631):386-9.
3.Stoffers JM, Vollm BA, Rucker G, Timmer A, Huband N, Lieb K. Psychological therapies for people with borderline personality disorder. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012, Issue 8.
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Philip J Cowen, Professor of Psychopharmacology
02 January 2013
It was a relief that Arthur Kleinman's bleak vision of the hegemony of biological psychiatry was redeemed to some extent by the original research papers which appeared in the same edition of the Journal ("Disease burden and mental health system capacity: WHO Atlas study of 117low- and middle-income countries", "Caregivers' appraisals of patients' involuntary hospital treatment: European multicentre study", "Effective treatment of perinatal depression for women in debt and lacking financial empowerment in a low-income country", etc).
Of course, this arrangement might well reflect innovative Editorial planning of a particular issue; however when I reviewed publications in the British Journal of Psychiatry over the last year I found over 90 original research papers of which only about 20 could easily be classifiedas "biological psychiatry". The great majority therefore were excellent psychosocial and clinical studies, suggesting that the condition of academic clinical and psychosocial research (at least in the UK and Europe) may be less desperate than Kleinman supposes.
Balancing biological, clinical and psychosocial approaches to psychiatry requires dialogue between all those involved in clinical mentalhealth work and Kleinman's arguments are important and compelling. I did, however, wish to query his apparent implication that senior academics pursuing biological psychiatry research were even more complacent and self-interested than their colleagues. Surely those working in psychosocial fields will not let this slight go unchallenged?
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Andrew JR Parker, Consultant Psychiatrist
02 January 2013
I agree whole-heartedly with Professor Kleinman's call for a rebalancing of academic psychiatry. It is important to understand what assumptions stand behind the failed promises of the biological programme. Professor Kleinman does not address these in his editorial, but one such issue is surely our implicit understanding of the relationship between mind (experience) and brain (physical structure)?
Unfortunately the philosophy of scientific materialism - that all is ultimately explainable in physical terms - is often assumed to be a truth amongst neuroscientists as well as the public. Dozens of popular books reinforce this view, purporting to explain away, reductively: consciousness, free will, and value1. These aspects of our being are at the very centre of every mental disorder. And yet, scientific materialism is increasingly being seen to be on very shaky philosophical grounds by those who have examined the issues carefully2,3,4,5. Might scientific materialism have skewed our efforts in dealing with mental distress? I believe we are very far from having solved the mind-brain problem, and philosophical positions other than scientific materialism must be considered.
One such position that is supported by our best physical theory (quantum mechanics) 2 is that the mental and the physical co-emerge from alarger (veiled) reality, rather than the physical causing the mental 2, 3.If such a view were taken seriously by academic psychiatrists then it would flow naturally from this that equal attention should be paid to existential and spiritual aspects of experience, at the level of personal meaning. Only then would it be possible to build a rich understanding of how mind, society and mental disorder relate, that gives due prominence toprimary features of mind - the creative, relational and holistic - rather than pretending that physical explanations are the ultimate and valid aim.
A psychiatry that is not sensitive to underlying philosophical assumptions quickly becomes a narrow and impoverished one, to the detriment of society. The mind is still mysterious and we must look again at our assumptions.
Refs1.Dennett D. Consciousness Explained. Allen Lane. 19912.D'Espagnat B. On Physics and Philosophy. Princeton University Press. 20063.Malin S. Nature loves to hide - quantum physics and the nature of reality, a western perspective. Oxford University Press. 20014.Nagel T. Mind & Cosmos. 20125.Koons RC & Bealer G. The Waning of Materialism. Oxford University Press. 2010
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Michael Fitzgerald, Psychiatrist
19 December 2012
In relation to Kleinman1 Re-balancing Academic Psychiatry: Why it needs to happen-and soon.
He is very critical of academic basically biological psychiatry. Unfortunately in the psychosocial front research there this discipline is simply repeating information that has been shown umpteen times in the pastand unfortunately that line of research is exhausted for all practical purposes.
Yours sincerely
Professor Michael Fitzgerald
1. Kleinman A., Re-Balancing Academic Psychiatry: Why it needs to happen-and soon. British Journal of Psychiatry 2012, 201, 421/422.
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Ross G. White, MSc Global Mental Health - Programme Coordinator
19 December 2012
Prof Kleinman's reflections are largely consistent with recent articles by Kirmayer (2012) and Thomas et al. (2012) that examine the influence of evidence-based practice (EBP) on mental health research. Whereas the hierarchy of evidence that EBP espouses prioritizes data from meta-analyses and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), little or no priority is given to service users' preferences (i.e. values) or narratives (i.e. meaning) (Thomas et al. 2012).
There is now growing recognition that understanding about mental health difficulties requires knowledge about the demands and opportunitiesinherent to the social world in which individuals live (Kirmayer, 2012). Factors such as culture, language, ethnicity and religion play important roles in how mental health difficulties present, how these difficulties are understood, and how individuals respond to these difficulties (Gone & Kirmayer, 2010). However, the EBP epistemological frame marginalisesthese factors and inhibits the use of a broader range of methodologies (e.g. qualitative methods or ethnographic research) in mental health research.
The future of mental health research may lie in placing more emphasison the meaning of symptoms rather than the eradication of these symptoms. Abstract concepts such as 'meaning' have hitherto been largely neglected in mental health research. But progress might be gleaned by allowing spacefor alternative methodologies that more fully explore the meaning of symptoms. As Kirmayer (2012) remarks, this will require the development of"new measures of process and outcome, some of which may well lie beyond the individual, in family interactions, communities, or relationships to larger social systems" (Kirmayer, 2012, P. 254)
It was Nietzsche who remarked "those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music". Perhaps in being too focused on stopping the dance, mental health researchers have not been sufficiently prepared to tune into the music to which people livetheir lives.
By bringing together researchers from mental health, anthropology, and sociology, the field of Global Mental Health provides an important opportunity to embark on research that firmly situates people in their socio-cultural context. Importantly, Global Mental Health will facilitate opportunities to critically reflect on how mental health difficulties are understood and treated not just in low and middle income countries, but inhigh income countries also.
Gone, J. P., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2010). On the wisdom of considering culture and context in psychopathology. In T. Millon, R. F. Krueger, & E. Simonsen (Eds.), Contemporary directions in psychopathology: Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11 (pp. 72-96). New York: Guilford
Kirmayer, L.J. (2012). Cultural competence and evidence-based practice in mental health: epistemic communities and the politics of pluralism. Social Science and Medicine, 75, 249-56.
Thomas, P., Bracken, P., Timimi, S. (2012). The anomalies of evidence-based medicine in psychiatry: time to rethink the basis of mental health practice. Mental Health Review Journal, 17, 152 - 162.
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Michael J. Smith, Consultant Psychiatrist
19 December 2012
Arthur Kleinman's article is a tremendous breath of fresh air.
Candidates for Consultant Psychiatrist appointments are often asked "what can be done to make psychiatry more attractive as a career option for medical students?"
The response is invariably to remind undergraduates that "psychiatry is a part of medicine like any other specialty". The interviewers then nodsagely, and lament the inability of medical students to grasp this fact without special assistance.
I think a better answer would be to show students that "psychiatry isa part of medicine *unlike* any other specialty". Every doctor should be aware of the psychosocial context of their patients' problems. But psychiatrists can't be effective unless they can also understand and explain how that context influences such problems.
Drugs are often a necessary step to recovery, but are always an insufficient one.
To assert these ideas should complement, rather than threaten, a biomedical model. Psychiatry needs to be "mindful" as well as "brainy": but it also needs to be meaningful. If we can achieve that, our recruitment problem will disappear.
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Derek Summerfield, Honorary Senior Lecturer
19 December 2012
Arthur Kleinman makes one misjudgement in his cogent editorial on ourpaper. He has been deceived by the claims of the global mental health field to represent humanistic and context-sensitive practice of the kind he has long advocated. Whilst their rhetoric is of respect for local traditions and perspectives, the reality is of the global deployment of the narrowly biomedical model of mental disorder which Kleinman is criticising. The field gives itself away when it says the task is to address the 'treatment gap': this means exporting what we have and they donot, and are judged to need. 'Local initiatives' here means training localworkers to administer Western mental health technologies. But to assume that Western psychiatric categories like 'depression' are universal is to commit what Kleinman has called a 'category fallacy', which is the issue of validity in psychiatric research and practice. Invalid approaches are those which fail to address the felt 'nature of reality' of subjects, and thus cannot be humanistic and cannot work. To cast Western knowledge as universal, whereas indigenous knowledge is merely local and ignorable, is to propagate a new imperialism. Global mental health workers are the new missionaries. (1)
Global mental health is a 'top-down' movement whose effect is to sellthe products of the Western mental health industry to the non-Western world. Good news for the pharmaceutical industry.Yet, as we discuss in ourpaper, the evidence base for, say, antidepressants or talk therapies is weak and contested even in the West. Most of the variance of outcome is accounted for by non-specific/placebo factors.
And what of context? The World Bank calculates that 1.4 billion people in the world are in 'absolute poverty', which is to say they will never have a decent meal in their whole lives. As many again are scarcely better off, similarly mired in bare survivalist modes of existence. The UNChildren's Fund (UNICEF) says that 3.5 million children under the age of 5die of starvation every year. (2) These are "the wretched of the earth", to use Fanon's phrase: would anti-depressants and Western talk therapy improve their lot? Who in the non-Western world is asking for them?
1. Summerfield D. Afterword: Against 'global mental health'. Transcultural Psychiatry 2012; 49: 519-530.2. Dembitzer B. Sleep Walking into Global Famine. Ethical Events, London 2012.
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Simon Bradstreet, Director
05 December 2012
Here at the Scottish Recovery Network we welcome Arthur Kleiman's suggestion that Academic Psychiatry look beyond biological confines to newand wider domains of human experience and distress. We would though suggest that during the period of reflection prompted by this piece that we don't lose sight of what our future Psychiatrists are being taught in the very same Academies.
In recent years we have seen enormous changes to the pre-registrationprogramme for Psychiatric Nursing in Scotland so that learning is underpinned by a strong emphasis on recovery focused, and person centred, principles and their associated competencies and practices (NHS Education for Scotland, 2102). What we would now like to see is that process mirrored for Psychiatry to ensure that their practice is similarly informed by the lived experience of people in recovery and that they are skilled in supporting the key facilitators of personal recovery - connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and purpose and empowerment (Leamy et al 2012).
Arthur Kleiman draws attention to "health professionals and students for whom social justice and care for the suffering of the poor are central, and have moral force." In our experience there is widespread interest in social justice and the social context that supports recovery from which to build.
Leamy, M., Bird, V.J., Le Boutillier, C., Williams, J. & Slade, M. (2011) A conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health: systematic review and narrative synthesis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 199:445-452
NHS Education for Scotland. (2012). The National Framework for Pre-registration Mental Health Nursing Field Programmes in Scotland 2012. Edinburgh: NHS Education for Scotland
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