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International Fertility Centre
IFC is a super speciallized fertility centre with state-of-the-art IVF lab, OT. It provides fertility treatment and women's health services, especially infertility and endoscopy at affordable prices. The centre is conveniently located in New Delhi.
Fertility Clinic in India
International Fertility Centre
IFC is a fertility clinic in India specialist in most fertility treatments. Couples experiencing infertility problems find outstanding support and the latest techniques at this private fertility center.
IFC is a super speciallized fertility clinic in India with a state-of-the-art IVF lab, OT, equipments and provides fertility treatments related to women's health, especially Infertility and Endoscopy, at affordable prices. The centre is conveniently located in the heart of the capital of India, New Delhi.
Infertility often creates one of the most distressing life crisis that a couple has ever experienced together. We as fertility experts well understand their emotional aspect and provide an ethical and meticulous research based approach to fertility treatment in India. IFC offers a comprehensive range of fertility services: IUI treatments, IVF treatments, ICSI, Surrogacy options, Egg and sperm donation, Laser Hatching, Freezing, Blastocyst Transfer and gynecological services that are among the best in the region. We pride ourselves in our ability to offer all our patients the very best care.
- G-36, Green Park (Main)
- FNew Delhi -110016
- India
Opening Hours
|09:00 : 19:00pm
|09:00 : 19:00pm
|09:00 : 19:00pm
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|09:00 : 19:00pm
Treatments Available
Accreditations & Social
Languages + Services
- English
- Hindi
- Assited Hatching
- Pre IVF Investigations
- IVF Programme
Health Provider Type
Meet Our Medical Team & Staff
Infertility Specialist & Endoscopy Surgeon
She has over 25 years of experience working in the fertility industry. As founder and Chairperson of International Fertility Centre, she oversees all management operations of the company. A thought leader in the industry, she is frequently interviewed on the subjects of egg donation and surrogacy and travels around the globe promoting the highest level of professional standards in a constantly evolving field. She's also the founder of ADIVA group of Hospitals.
She completed her M.B.B.S in 1983 from Lady Harding Medical College, New Delhi. She did her Diploma in Gynecology and Obstetrics (D.G.O) in 1987 from St. Stephen's Hospital, Delhi. She completed her M.D in 1990, from Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi. She did her one year Diploma from St. Stephen Hospital, Delhi, two years M.D. from Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi.She is trained in ART (Assisted reproductive Techniques) & IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) from Inst. of reproductive Medicine, Kolkata under the doyen & pioneer of IVF. Dr.B.N.Chakravorty. She has a Diploma in ART From KKIVF Hospital Singapore, and a Diploma in Endoscopy from Kiel, Germany..
She has worked as specialist and Head of the department in a public sector undertaking hospital for more than 15 years. She has done more than 4000 ART cycles with a success rate of over 50%. She has also done more than 4000 caesarean sections, 3000 Hysterectomies including non-descent hysterectomies of even up to 16 week size uterus. She has exceptional results in Egg Donor Surrogacy having a success rate of over 85 %.
She is the vice president for the last 5 years in Indian Ass.of Occupational Health dealing with industrial workers & industrial hazard exposure. She is also the vice President for the last 2 years of Medical Fitness Society, India. She is an active advocate against Cervical Cancer and has taken numerous seminars across the country & addressed thousands of women on the issue. She is part of 'AAS' -a voluntary, nonprofit organization. She is called upon regularly to give her views on various issues in leading newspapers suchas Hindustan Times, Times of India & features equally on T.V. shows on various channels such as Star Plus, NDTV, Aajtak, IBN 7, etc. She is a member of American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).
She has over 12 years experience in the fertility industry. She did her MBBSfrom Gandhi Medical Collage, Bhopal in 1995. She completed her Internshipfrom Llrm medical college,Meerutand Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal in 1996.She has done her post-graduation in DNB - Obst/Gynae from Army Hospital R&R, New Delhi in 2003.
She is trained in ART [Assisted Reproductive techniques] and IVF [in vitro fertilization] under pioneer of IVF Dr. Sadhna Desi and was a member in her team. She has done extensive training under Brig. R.K Sharma at Army Hospital R&R, New Delhi and Command Hospital, Pune.
She has worked as an IVF Specialist at ADIVA women care hospital for more than 3 years. She also worked as an IVF consultant at Fortis Hospital.Her expertise includes dealing with infertility including IUI and IVF, dealing successfully with male infertility, sperm processing, testicular biopsy [PESA, TESA] and frozen sperm ICSI.She is well versed in infertility and routine ultrasonography including 4D scanning, oocyte retrieval, denudation, IVM, laser assisted hatching, IVF Verification and embryo transfer and has been working on GE Voluson system.
She had postings in labor room where she has done emergency duties and attended high risk pregnancies. She has assisted and performed various obstetrical and gynecological surgeries. She has undergone training in various subspecialties including infertility, ultrasonography, oncology and endoscopy. She regularly participates in monthly clinical meetings, is active in academic activities of the and attends various state and national level conferences.
He has over 28 years of experience as a physician and asa cardiologist.He completed his M.B.B.S from University College of Medicine Science (UCMS) - Delhi University. He completed his M.D. (Medicine) from Lady Harding Medical College & Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi University. He did his 3 years of senior residency at Lady Harding Medical College, Delhi & was associated with Smt. Sucheta Kriplani Hospital and with Dr Ram Manohar LohiaHospital.He was awarded the Fellowship of IMA Academy of Medical Specialists inMedicine.He also attained a Diploma in Diabetes care from The University of NewcastleNovo Care Diabetes Academy (TUNNDA), Australia.He was also awarded the fellowship of Geriartic Medicine.
He attended the first structured course for family physicians psychiatry and allied Behavioral science from VIMHANS.He has also attended the course of Cardiology today & tomorrowseries on non-invasive Techniques in Cardiology. He has done his Cardiac care training at Escorts Heart InstituteandResearch Center, New Delhi.He is anExecutive member of the Geriatrics Society of India.
He holds various lectures on Diabetesand is a renowned Speaker on various platforms and forums imparting knowledge about Diabetes. In his long career he has consulted more than 50,000 patients and have helped them immensely on various issues of puzzling diagnostic problems and handled severe chronic illnesses and situations where several different illnesses have stroked at the same time. He also bring to patients an understanding of wellness (disease prevention and the promotion of health), women's health, substance abuse, mental health, as well as effective treatment of common problems of the eyes, ears, skin, nervous system and reproductive organs.)
He has over 14 years of experience as a radiologist. He completed his M.B.B.S and M.D. (Radiology) from G R Medical College, Gwalior in 1996. He did his 3 years of senior residency from R M L Hospital, Delhi.
He specializes as a sonographer. His expertise skill of conducting an ultrasound is critical for its use to support a physician's correct diagnosis; poorly captured images can lead to misdiagnoses or unnecessarily repeated exams. He does all our surrogate scans and the diagnosis and is responsible to interpret the scan to document the presence of any abnormalities.
As Director of strategy, he monitors and interprets all trends that occur within the fertility industry. He evaluates the market size, competitor accomplishments and industry structures, and makes recommendations to senior management to assist in the development of the firm's goals.
He has over 4 years of experience. He completed his B. Tech in Computers Science in 2009 from JIITU, Noida.
His previous stints include working in Infosys as a Software Engineer. He worked in the IT risk and assurance department at Ernst & Young where his role was to advise clients on how to make IT more efficient and manage the risks associated with running IT operations. He started his own gaming company, Softmines: which markets, publishes and distributes its own 2D & 3D games on Android and iOS platforms.
AT IFC, he overlooks at the marketing and financeoperations. He is responsible for overseeing the operations and planning of the marketing campaigns. He looks at advertising in many different types of media including radio, television, Internet, printed publications and others. He also oversees the preparation of financial reports, direct investment activities, and implement of cash management strategies.
She has over 10years of work experience. She completed her MBA (Hospital Administration) in 2001, with specialization in Human Resource Development from Institute of Management Studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore. She has also completed a Six months Diploma in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from IHCA, Chennai.
She previously worked in Moolchand Medicity, Delhi as a Dy. Manager in corporate sales and in Apollo Clinic as an Executive Administration. Before that she was working inMaharaja Agarsen Hospital Delhi, as an Assistant Administrative Officer and in Arpana Hospital Karnal as an Assistant Administrator.
At IFC, as head of Business Development she looks at researching the fertility markets and continuous gathering of information, preparing detail planning, networking with small business people and establishing support group and association of IFC with various companies. She adopts a team approach and loves working with a team in pursuing common goals.
Whenever you have any query related to legal work or agreement, you can contact her and she will assist you for the legal responsibilities such as preparing the agreement with Surrogate Mother, consent form or any other legal papers (as per embassy requirements). She is the first point of contact for every patient.
He has been working with IFC since its inception. He assists clients with queries related to legal agreements and paper work, prepares legal documents for clients and ensures all paperwork necessary for clients to obtain citizenship for their baby is in order. He assists Mrs. Mamta for preparing the agreements. Once your baby is born, Kamal assists baby pick up documents which are required for embassy paper work. He makes client accommodation bookings, organizes airport transfers, and coordinates drivers for clients for their travel to and from appointments.
She has done her graduation from Gargi University. She has a work experience of more than 15 years. Her previous stints include working as a manager in a Boutique in G.K M Block Market, as a marketing executive with prime Ophthalmic (Sister Concern of Corning's), as a Store Manager with Interior Designer Office and with Jewels by Annu Chadha.
At IFC, she assists all our patients very promptly. She organizes treatment and appointment schedules, and assists all our international client managers with scheduling treatment for new clients. She is the primary contact after Mamta for clients regarding information about their pregnancies. She also organizes appointments for the patients. She is on-hand to help clients with their needs at the hospital after baby is born, including completing paperwork for baby's birth certificate. She will also assist you for the passport & visa work procedure.
She has completed her Diploma in Aviation & Hospitality Management from Air Hostess Academy, South Extension-II, New Delhi. She has also done Certificate in Galileo / Fidelio Training/ Red Cross Training. She completed her Industrial Training in Ambassador Sky Chef Catering Department for Airlines.
At IFC, she sends results of medical tests and liaises with our medical team and clients regarding updates on the health of surrogates. She assists clients with surrogate and donor profiles. She updates all the profiles on weekly basis as required. She sends all USG scan report, Beta HCG to the patients on daily basis. If any surrogate is admitted she keeps them updated on daily basis. During your visit to India, if you have any wish to visit tourist place in Delhi or near by Delhi, she will organize the same as well.
She has done her graduation from Mumbai University. She has more than 5 years of experience in customer relationship & office administration.
She handles the IFC reception. She looks after all the reception work. She is available at the reception from 9:30AM to 6:30PM. If you have any query or you need any information you can leave your e-mail with her & our secretarial department will get back to you. She also coordinates with the junior staff for housekeeping/ pantry & other office management activity.
He handles statuary responsibilities of IFC accounts such as TDS, return for Surrogate mother. He also deals with petty cash, salary section & external agencies. He also assists Mr. Gaurav Garg in his day to day work.
Bodhraj handle's IFC's cafeteria. He takes care for the food & beverages of the visitors, patients & Intended parents. He is in the office from 9am to 10pm. He serves lunch, tea, coffee and water to staff & also assist Kamal in case of heavy rush. He is housekeeper of IFC. He is responsible for cleaning the floor, rooms and dusting each and every cabin and workstations of staff on a daily basis.
He is the secondary housekeeper. He takes care for the cleaning of OPD cabin after surrogate mothers & donors' consultation. He also assists Bodhraj in his work. He also drives clients from the hotels to the centre.
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Here's the handball call that meant Chelsea's goal was disallowed.3/15/2014 6:12:41 PM
VILLA 0-0 CHELSEAMatic is getting hold of the midfield now, flicking a pass through for Torres, who opts to cut back inside rather than pull away from the defence. Bad decision as he's crowded out3/15/2014 6:15:02 PM
[sundaysupplement] Matt Lawton outlines how he thinks English football should develop young players following talk of St George's Park being used as a central training camp:
I think we still have to try and play to our strengths. But when we've changed managers over the last couple of years, I don't think there's been any kind of consistency. I think they need to change the way young players are being educated in England. Look at how teams do it in Europe, how Bayern Munich and teams like that do it.3/16/2014 10:09:34 AM
[spanishfootball] Watch as Cristiano Ronaldo's 25th league goal of the season saw Real Madrid move three points clear at the top of La Liga with a 1-0 win over Malaga last night:3/16/2014 10:12:56 AM
[sundaysupplement] Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood has been particularly outspoken this week, but Jason Burt thinks he needs to focus on the job:
I'm fascinated by Tim Sherwood. Hes 45 years old and im not sure why it's taken him so long to go into management. He's straight in the Premir League at one of the biggest cubs and I think he's got to get on with it. If he was to move away from Tottenham, I think other clubs would avoid him because of the things he's been saying. He's almost been distancing himself from the situation.3/16/2014 10:18:08 AM
[manchesterunited] Wayne Rooney has dismissed suggestions that he has an input in Manchester United's transfer dealings and has praised the role David Moyes played in his decision to sign a new contract:
I want to be clear about this: I have never asked the club for any input about transfers. Who we buy and sell is nothing to do with me. It never has been and it never will. David Moyes is the manager and decisions like that are for him to make. David Moyes' influence on me signing the new contract was absolutely massive.3/16/2014 10:20:30 AM
[sundaysupplement] Jason Burt discusses the future of former Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas following reports that he could be set to take charge at Russian side Zenit St Petersburg:
I thought earlier this year he was going to the Bundesliga. I didn't think he'd takeover a team mid-season. I think they (Zenit) have definitely contacted him, I'm not sure whether he will take but I think there will be better jobs available at other points in his career.3/16/2014 10:23:55 AM
[sundaysupplement] That's all for this morning's installment of the Sunday Supplement. The guests sign off with their predictions for this afternoon's games. Jason Burt and Matt Lawton think it will be a score draw between Tottenham and Arsenal, while Antony Kastrinakis is going for a Gunners win. Burt and Lawton both think Liverpool will beat Manchester United, but Kastrinakis just wants to see some good refereeing!3/16/2014 10:28:35 AM
[goalsonsunday] Goals on Sunday is now underway on Sky Sports 1 and joining Ben Shephard and Chris Kamara in the studio is Chelsea hero Gianfranco Zola. They will be looking back at all of yesterday's Premier League action and we will bring you the best bits once again.3/16/2014 10:34:03 AM
[chriskamara] Chris Kamara was at Craven Cottage yesterday to watch Fulham's vital 1-0 win over Newcastle. He was full of praise for the goal-line technology which denied Fulham a goal from Johnny Heitinga's strike:
Hawk-eye is worth its weight in goal. The whole of the ball has to be over the line and it wasn't. To me in the gantry and to everyone watching it looked to be over.3/16/2014 10:39:39 AM
[goalsonsunday] Remaining on the topic of technology in the game, Gianfranco Zola is not convinced by the possibility of using it elsewhere on the pitch:
It might be the next step. We need to make sure that we preserved the ryhtmn of the game. I think in the future they might allow a manager to have two or three calls. But it would be endless and it would disrupt the flow of the game.3/16/2014 10:41:57 AM
[twitter]Southampton 4-2 Norwich: Sturridge (18) is the only Englishman with more #BPL goals than Rodriguez this season (12) pic.twitter.com/RRrCBCCZ0J3/16/2014 10:43:16 AM
[twitter] These will be the tunes played at Old Trafford in the build-up to the game against Liverpool...Here's today's #OTplaylist , which includes the first airing of a new version of 'Belfast Boy' by The Electric Stars. pic.twitter.com/HSKdsFMw713/16/2014 10:46:26 AM
SHERWOOD PRE-MATCH [tottenham]
We're bringing some fresh legs into the side, which is important. We've had a tough week and what better way to bounce back than in a derby? It's massive. No one knows more than me what it means to win this game - I'd give anything.3/16/2014 3:51:46 PM
[tottenham]Warm up time: @nabilbentaleb42 , @ChrisEriksen8 , @YounsKabs4 & @Knaughts88 prepare to face Arsenal #COYS pic.twitter.com/C6wJVTeT6Y3/16/2014 3:53:25 PM
STAT ATTACK [stats]Let's sneak in these stats before the teams come out of the tunnel...
- Tottenham have kept four clean sheets in their last five Premier League home games but shipped five against Man City in the other match.
- Arsenal have kept only one clean sheet in their last seven Premier League away games and have won none of the last three (D1 L2).
- Only Liverpool v Newcastle (126) has seen more goals than Arsenal v Tottenham (125) in Premier League history.
- Emmanuel Adebayor has scored more goals than any other player in north London derby history (10 – eight for Arsenal and two for Spurs).
- Arsenal have won none of the last five Premier League north London derbies at White Hart Lane (W0 D2 L3) with all three defeats by a 1-2 scoreline.
- Per Mertesacker has scored in two of his last three Premier League games against Spurs.
No time to breathe, we're on to part two of #SuperSunday ... #THFC v #AFC . Which way will this one go?3/16/2014 3:56:10 PM
YOUR VIEW [twitter]@SkyFootball spurs will roll over . Again@SkyFootball spurs have to go 4 it 2day 2 stand any chance of making top 4 #coys@SkyFootball 2-23/16/2014 3:58:14 PM
Tottenham line up like this...3/16/2014 3:58:42 PM
...and here's a reminder of the Arsenal XI.3/16/2014 3:58:55 PM
TOTTENHAM 0-0 ARSENAL [kick-off]Ready to go again? Let's do it.3/16/2014 4:00:36 PM
GOAL! TOTTENHAM 0-1 ARSENAL (Rosicky 2) [goal]Oh. My. Word. This is a sensational goal! Rosicky bursts down the right, plays the ball into Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and strikes the return ball into the top corner without breaking stride. An absolute humdinger.3/16/2014 4:01:54 PM
This does no justice at all to the wonder of that strike.3/16/2014 4:03:28 PM
"I'll never score a better goal, Olivier!"3/16/2014 4:03:36 PM
[betting]Tottenham are out to 5/1 to win having conceded that early opener, while they're 7/2 to salvage a draw. Arsenal are now 2/5 to see out the win having taken the initiative, with Rosicky 22/1 to score the second goal too. Bet in-play here.3/16/2014 4:06:40 PM
01:12 - Tomas Rosicky's goal is the fastest ever scored by Arsenal against Tottenham in the Premier League. Rapid.3/16/2014 4:06:56 PM
TOTTENHAM 0-1 ARSENALThe Arsenal fans are in boisterous mood, as you'd expect. Ex-Gunner Emmanuel Adebayor has an early sniff when Kaboul helps on an Eriksen free-kick but play's halted when the referee spots a push. [tottenham]3/16/2014 4:11:15 PM
MERSON'S VERDICT [paulmerson]Arsenal were lucky. If they play like that until the end of the season they won't win the league. I thought they were average at best; scored an early goal, sat back on it and rode their luck. They're going to come up against better teams in the run-in and if they sit back like that , other teams will hurt them. The two centre-halves were outstanding but they'll need more than that.3/16/2014 6:12:11 PM
[betting]Here's Sky Bet's revised title odds following this weekend's results. Liverpool are now 3/1 third favourites but Arsenal look the best value at 14/1, considering they're on the same number of points and games played as Brendan Rodgers' men. Bet on the Premier League here.3/16/2014 6:16:10 PM
MILLS ON CAMPBELL [audio]
While we're waiting to hear from the managers, why not have a listen to this interview with ex-Tottenham and Arsenal player Sol Campbell - and Danny Mills's reaction on Sky Sports News Radio to that now-infamous claim he should have been England captain:3/16/2014 6:17:10 PM
MESSI MILESTONE [barcelona]Still waiting for Messrs Wenger and Sherwood but it would be remiss not to mention this man tonight. He's set plenty of records already but Lionel Messi has now become Barcelona's all-time leading goalscorer with 371 after netting a hat-trick in a 7-0 thumping of Osasuna. Not a bad way to warm up for next week's El Clasico...3/16/2014 6:30:24 PM
ROSICKY REACTION [arsenal]
We brought you Tomas Rosicky's post-match quotes a little earlier but now you can see for yourself how chuffed the Arsenal man was to have scored the goal - and what a goal! - that sunk rivals Tottenham:3/16/2014 6:37:32 PM
Right, time to hear from Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood.3/16/2014 6:44:31 PM
SHERWOOD REACTION [tottenham]I thought we were better than them. I thought we played well. We had some great chances, played on the front foot, defended together. It was a wonder strike - nothing we can do about it - but no one can say we deserved to lose that game. The result for Arsenal will paper over a lot of cracks - they were outplayed today. I'm disappointed but I can't fault the players on that performance. We'll just crack on now and try to win as many games as we can.3/16/2014 6:49:26 PM
These stats won't cheer Spurs fans heading home from White Hart Lane...3/16/2014 6:50:20 PM
Did Arsene Wenger think his side was outplayed?3/16/2014 6:50:46 PM
[betting]With plenty of La Liga and Serie A action still ongoing on the continent, why not head over to Sky Bet for the latest in-play odds on tonight's football. Click here for updates.3/16/2014 7:21:33 PM
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In 2006, longtime friends K.S. and D.G. started discussing having a child. S.H., D.G.'s husband, would play a substantial role as co-parent, and would give the child his last name, but genetic material for the child would come from D.G., with K.S. giving birth. The girl, O.S.H., was born in 2009.
The four lived together for a time, with S.H. watching the child during his summer vacations from his teaching job. When the married couple moved to Manhattan, K.S. remained in New Jersey, and the men still saw their daughter on weekend visits.
Subsequently, K.S. met a man who lived in California to whom she became engaged to be married, and went to the couple to talk to them about her relocating with O.S.H. to California to live with her future husband. The three could not reach an arrangement, and D.G. and S.H. filed a complaint with the court for physical and residential custody, a determination that S.H. was a psychological and legal parent to O.S.H., and parenting time. K.S. in return sought an order permitting her to move to California, an award of residential custody, child support, and medical coverage.
After a 19-day hearing, the court largely sided with the married couple. The court determined that S.H. was indeed a psychological parent to O.S.H, due to the amount of time and emotional support he had invested in raising the child, the fact that the biological parents had determined that S.H. would play a parental role even before the child was born, and the bond S.H. had established with the child.
However, the judge felt that her hands were tied in regards to establishing a legal parental relationship. The State of New Jersey recognizes three grounds for legal parentage: Adoption, genetic contribution, and gestational primacy (i.e., giving birth to the child). The judge ruled that any additional grounds for finding a legal parental relationship would need to be established by the legislature before she could find a legal non-biological, non-adoptive parental relationship.
However, the judge determined that, since S.H. was a psychological parent, custody should be shared equally between him, D.G., and K.S., and that residential custody should be split evenly between the married couple and K.S. The court acknowledged that such a custody-sharing arrangement was uncommon, but that it was justified in this case by the close bond that the child shared with all three parents.
Based on both the circumstances of the move and the relationship between the three parents, the judge denied K.S.' application to relocate with O.S.H. to California. The judge ruled that, since K.S. did not have a detailed plan as to what would happen when she moved, since she lacked familial support there to assist with child care, and since the child would be deprived of parental time with her two parents in New Jersey, the relocation would not be in O.S.H.'s best interests.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vatican prosecutors have indicted the former president and the ex-treasurer of the Vatican-owned children's hospital for allegedly diverting money from the hospital's fundraising foundation to pay for renovations on a top cardinal's apartment.
The indictment released Thursday orders Giuseppe Profiti and Massimo Spina to stand trial in the Vatican tribunal, starting next Tuesday.
The indictment accuses the two of using 422,000 euros ($481,000) from the Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital's fundraising foundation to pay for renovations on Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's apartment starting in 2013, when he retired as Vatican secretary of state.
Profiti, whose administration was the subject of a recent AP investigation into quality of care problems at the "pope's hospital," has admitted to the payment but said it was an investment so that the foundation could use the apartment for fundraising events.
Bertone, who had appointed Profiti president of the hospital in 2008, denied knowledge of the payment and said he actually had paid for the renovations out of his own pocket. That suggests that the construction company was paid twice for the same work. Bertone was not charged; the fate of the construction company wasn't immediately clear.
Profiti resigned as president of Bambino Gesu in January 2015, nine months into a new three-year term. According to the AP investigation, a secret Vatican-authorized task force had reported in 2014 that under his administration, the mission of the pope's hospital had been "lost" and was "today more aimed at profit than on caring for children."
The AP investigation found that children sometimes paid the price as the hospital expanded its services and tried to cut costs, with overcrowding and poor hygiene contributing to deadly infection, including one 21-month superbug outbreak that killed eight children in the cancer ward.
The hospital has called the AP report a "hoax" and denied problems. The current Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has acknowledged there were past problems that the current administration is working to fix.
At the same time the task force was investigating, a Vatican-ordered external audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers confirmed that the hospital's mission had been "modified in the last few years" to focus on expansion and commercial activities without sufficient governance controls.
The audit, and details of the payment for the Bertone apartment renovations were first revealed in the 2015 book "Avarice" by Italian investigative journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi.
Profiti, who now heads a small medical clinic in southern Campania, told the AP in a May 29 telephone interview that he had told Vatican prosecutors none of the money used from the foundation for the renovations had been intended for childcare. He laughed when told of the results of the 2014 task force investigation and called it "rumor."
After the initial Vatican-authorized task force turned in its report in April 2014 after a three-month investigation, the Vatican ordered up a second in-house clinical assessment into childcare. After a three-day visit, that investigation found that the hospital in many ways was "best in class."
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'It's obviously disappointing' says Stockton Lib Dem as ex-party peer hands £10k to Labour rival
The Liberal Democrat candidate for Stockton South says he is disappointed at Lord Oakeshott handing £10,000 to his Labour rival – but can understand the decision.
Labour candidate Louise Baldock has said she will accept a £10,000 donation from the former Liberal Democrat peer .
Matthew Oakeshott, who sits in the House of Lords as an independent after leaving the Liberal Democrat party last year, has donated £600,000 to Labour and Lib Dem MPs to fight the Conservatives in key marginal seats.
And he has identified Stockton South as a key target and donated £10,000 towards Ms Baldock's campaign to unseat Tory James Wharton.
Now, Stockton South Lib Dem candidate Drew Durning has expressed his view on the donation.
"I can fully understand why Lord Oakeshott is doing everything he can to fight the Conservatives," he said.
"But the way to give the best weight to Liberal Democrat values would be to support Liberal Democrat candidates.
"It is obviously disappointing."
Mr Durning, 56, was picked to stand in the seat only this weekend.
He runs an organic food business in the area, and lives in the Oxbridge Lane area of Stockton with his wife Anna.
Mr Wharton won the seat with 38.9% of the vote in 2010, with Labour coming second with a 38.3% share.
The Lib Dems came third with 15.1%.
Source – Middlesbrough Evening Gazette, 22 Jan 2015
Bishop of Durham backs calls for nursery staff to report potentially radicalised families
> So bad news for church sunday schools, C. of E. schools and other Christian organizations who push religious dogma at kids ? Probably not…
The Bishop of Durham has backed plans to ask nursery staff to look out for radicalised families in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
Speaking in a House of Lords debate on the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, the Right Reverend Paul Butler also welcomed moves to intervene more in the lives of people at risk of being drawn in by extremism.
But he warned more needs to be done at a "grassroots" level to tackle the issue long term, and that breaking up families could help create future terrorists.
"I share with every other reasonable person a horror of the evil actions and effects of terrorism, grief for the suffering caused by terrorist acts and a heartfelt concern for those whose lives are lost or wounded through it.
"Events in Paris last week clearly illustrated this to us all. However, those events also highlight the need to ensure that we keep a global awareness and perspective, as the fresh Boko Haram attacks in Baga and its surrounding villages last Friday show us. Around 2,000 were killed.
"As we consider the latest set of government moves to strengthen the laws which guard our people against terrorist acts, we have to hold our nerve in our convictions about liberty, equality and fraternity, and look steadily at the changes being proposed," he added.
"These matters are too serious for us to polarise or politicise issues beyond what is justified in legitimate debate."
Praising the work done by the faith groups in Sunderland, Gateshead, and South Shields, to build strong community relationships – "the most powerful force against radicalisation, especially among young people" – the bishop said however that there is a fine line to be trodden between ensuring security and encouraging community cohesion.
"Some have mocked the idea of nursery staff being obliged to report any signs of extremism in a family," he said. "I do not share the mockery, as terrorist behaviour is abusive behaviour.
"Nevertheless, the placing of such an obligation adds to the risks of creating a culture of suspicion and the sense that every citizen is expected to be on the look-out to report on their neighbour rather than build good relationships with them.
"Great care needs to be taken not to overburden schools or erode their capacity to build diversity and trust among pupils, staff and parents.
"Breaking up a family, as could occur, could also create longer-term harm even, at one extreme, sowing the seeds of the next generation of terrorists in young children."
The bishop said that continuing community work would be "fundamental to long-term prevention" as it "does not carry the risks of fuelling narratives of persecution and heroic resistance."
"Countering radical terrorism is a long-term grass-roots matter. Long-term support for good community development will reap the best long-term rewards.
"This is not so much a matter of draining the swamp by immediate legislation as tilling the ground."
The debate heard from the former head of MI5, Lord Evans of Weardale, that the threat of terrorism in the UK is rising at the same time as the ability of the security services to combat it has decreased.
In his maiden speech in the upper house, Lord Evans, who retired as director general of the agency in 2013, said that the Edward Snowden leaks had made it harder to tackle the terrorist threat.
And he said the Government needed to tackle the "unfinished business" of giving the security services greater powers to access communications data.
Lord Evans told peers:
"When I left MI5 in 2013, I felt cautiously optimistic that we were over the worst as far as Al Qaeda and Islamist terrorist attacks were concerned in this country.
"It seemed to me that we were making significant progress. Regrettably, subsequent events have proved that judgment to be wrong.
"The atrocious killing of Fusilier Rigby in May 2013 demonstrated the reality of the threat we face in this country and the brutal murders in Paris last week demonstrate that this is a European and international problem, not one we face alone."
> One man got killed in the street by two other men. This happens all the time, all over the country. You've got a far higher chance of getting done in by a couple of indigenous thugs than you have by an Islamic terrorist.
All the Islamic terror attacks in Britain – as 9/11 in the USA – appear to be isolated one-off events, and although they may spark copycat attacks I don't really believe that there is a highly organized terror organization. But the government cynically encourages belief in one in order to erode our rights.
In any case, who are the real terrorists ? More people have died in Britain as a result of current government welfare policies than at the hands of terrorists.
Anyone who has had to deal with the Jobcentre and other agencies might consider that governmnent/terrorism are merely two sides of the same coin.
Lord Evans, who sits as an independent crossbench peer, said events in Syria and Iraq had given extremist networks in the UK a "jolt of energy".
> Not half as much a one as our continued poking our armed forces into other countries business (the ones with oil, at least…)
He said at least 600 people had gone as would-be jihadists to fight in Syria and Iraq, and he had no doubt that number would increase "significantly" in coming months.
And he warned the situation put him in mind of the Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan before 9/11 which "drew would-be jihadists from across the globe".
"On their return, many of them were even more radical than they had been when they departed," he said.
"They had experience of combat and had been trained in violence and they had an international network of support on which they could draw.
"Those circumstances led to a series of attacks internationally and over a long period, and I fear we may be facing the same situation as we go forward from today and we are starting to see that.
"At the same time, the revelations made by Edward Snowden, whatever you think of what he did, have clearly led a reduction in the ability of the security agencies both here and overseas to access and read the communications of terrorists internationally with the result that as the threat from terrorism has gone up in the last two years, the ability of the security agencies to counter those threats has gone down.
"The result of this can only be that the overall risk of a successful terrorist attack in this country has risen."
Source – Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 14 Jan 2015
Former Tory Minister criticises decision to prevent in-house operator from bidding for East Coast Mainline
THE decision to prevent the current public-owned railway company from bidding to run the East Coast line has been criticised by a Conservative former Cabinet minister.
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean said the point of a competitive process was to allow the best company to win.
His comments came after transport minister Baroness Kramer had defended the decision to prevent Directly Operated Railways – which was set up by the Government in July 2009 to run the East Coast franchise – from bidding to continue its operations.
The franchise is due to revert to the private sector in March next year and Lady Kramer said it was a difficult industry for a public company to operate in.
She said:
"It costs something like £7-10mto put in a bid with no assurance of winning. It is certainly a high-risk industry and the margins, even for a successful and profitable company are quite fine."
"There are a very different set of skills when you are looking at significant new investment, when you are looking at growth. This is the point we have reached with this franchise."
But Lord Forsyth told her:
"Surely you would recognise that the whole point of competitive tendering is to get the best value and the best deal for the taxpayer and if you are right that a state owned company wouldn't be able to compete why is that a reason to exclude it from the process?"
"Do you want to set a company, pay its senior management very high fees with the possibility of bids of £7-10 million that it might eventually achieve a franchise?
"I have to suggest the history of companies run over the long term by the UK government has not been one of outstanding success."
Labour peer Baroness Quin said at question time in the House of Lords:
"Many of us who use the East Coast rail service regularly are dismayed that the Government has refused to allow the current publicly owned operator, which has greatly improved the service both for the benefit of passengers and UK taxpayers alike to even bid for the franchise and continue running a good service.
Labour transport spokesman Lord Davies of Oldham said:
"Only a Government addicted to dogma would dispense with a company, an organisation which has run the line so successfully and put it out to bidders of which a successful one may be a state-owned company of another country's railway."
Source – Northern Echo, 28 Oct 2014
Lord Freud: Universal Credit £40 Million IT Write-Off 'Deeply Regrettable'
Speaking in the House of Lords, Welfare Reform Minister Lord Freud described the write-off of a failed £40 million IT system as "deeply regrettable".
He also insisted that the decision to "reorganise" Universal Credit, which led to the government's flagship welfare reform being 'reset', was taken by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith MP.
"We all know that, when you have a £2.5 billion programme with a high IT content, there are elements that you write that you do not need.
"In the private sector that can be a third of a programme. Clearly, any write-off is always deeply regrettable, but one has to put those things into a context.
"We remain within our budget of £2.5 billion — not £12 billion — and we are looking at an overall net benefit of £35 billion from this programme. The NAO (National Audit Office) has said that it is taking a regular interest in the programme; we will continue and will see more reports on it from the NAO.
"However, as regards the way in which we are doing it, it is somewhat misleading to think of this as a twin-track system, because we have a single plan for universal credit.
"We are finding what works through the rollout we have; it may be small, but you do not need huge numbers to find out what works. It is important that we do this testing.
"At the heart of the programme is what we call the "test and learn" process, in which we take what is happening and assess and measure it against other things, aiming to find out how it works. That informs what we call the end-state build, which is thoroughly under way and is in agile.
"The first Warrington programme was trying to be agile, which I think is the best way; this end-state solution — the fully digital one, the interactive digital one — is being done on an agile basis.
Lord Freud also commented on Universal Credit being classed as 'reset' by the Major Projects Authority:
"What does reset mean? What happened, as noble Lords will remember, is that Ministers, the Secretary of State in particular, took a decision that the programme was not going properly and took a view to stop it and reorganise it — reset it.
"It is not a new category; it is a description of a process. If one is in charge of a programme, rather than blundering on with it regardless, I would hope noble Lords would agree that it is the job of the Ministers in charge to take that kind of decision, work out how to rebase it — reset it — and make sure it is done safely and securely, which is what we are aiming to do. That is everything that we are doing."
> Yeah, all deeply regretable… but hey, its only public money, and you've got to spend big in order to be able to cut benefits, which we cant afford.
What's that ? Stop wasting money on mad unworkable schemes and we wouldn't need to cut benefits ?
Ho ho ho, you obviously just don't understand how politics works… next you'll be suggesting that IDS and myself should take personal responsibility for failures.
Source – Welfare News Service, 25 June 2014
North East justice system in chaos due to cuts & outsourcing
The criminal justice system in the North East is in chaos because of an "ideologically driven" drive to privatise public services and a series of "botched and expensive re-organisations", a peer has warned.
Lord Beecham, the former leader of Newcastle City Council, hit out at the Government's changes in a House of Lords debate.
He highlighted the Journal's report that there had been a massive increase in the number of people representing themselves in family law courts, thanks to cuts in legal aid – leading to lengthy delays.
The proportion of North East parents attempting to make do without a lawyer in court has leapt from 34% to 53% of litigants since the removal of legal aid from family lawyers in April 2013. It means that proceedings are delayed as judges attempt to explain how the law works to parents.
And local law firms warn that parents taking part in child custody cases, and other cases involving the welfare of children, are failing to explain their case properly to courts.
Lord Beecham urged the Ministry of Justice to act. He said: "As many of us warned, the cuts in legal aid are having a serious effect on family and especially child-related proceedings.
"The Journal newspaper reported on Saturday a rise of 61% in people representing themselves, with the predictable result of serious delays."
He also highlighted the riot in a North East prison which saw 50 inmates take over a wing at HMP Northumberland in March.
One inmate has written to prisoners' magazine Inside Time to claim the riot was down to frustration at staff shortages which had put a stop to some workshops.
Lord Beecham pointed out that the prison, previously known as HMP Acklington, was run by a private contractor.
He said: "Also in the North East we have had the experience of a prison riot at the newly privatised Acklington Prison where 130 staff left, about a third of the total.
"The prison is now managed by Sodexo, one of those oligopolies assumed by the Government to be capable of running any public service."
And the Labour peer, who led Newcastle City Council from 1977 to 1994, attacked proposals to split up the probation service.
Regional probation services will be replaced by a national service responsible for "high risk" offenders while private firms will run Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) which manage lower risk offenders.
The Northumbria Branch of trade union Napo, which represents probation officers, had written to the Ministry of Justice to raise concerns about "job security, workload, increased management spans, reduced support from human resources and especially the transfer of cases and the split between risk categories," he said.
"They are worried about the risk to public safety as a result of the split and point to bureaucratic delays in transfers, with existing users being transferred and high risk offenders going to new officers."
And Lord Beecham warned that outsourcing of child protection services could cause further problems.
He said: "The Government launched a consultation, lasting all of six weeks about plans to permit local authorities to outsource children's social services to the likes of G4S and Serco."
Source – Newcastle Journal, 10 June 2014
Councils Sit On £67m In Emergency Help For Poor
This article was written by Patrick Butler, George Arnett, Sarah Marsh and Samir Jeraj, for The Guardian on Sunday 20th April 2014
A fledgling scheme to provide emergency help to the poorest in the country is in chaos, with £67m left unspent and record numbers of families being turned away.
Figures released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests indicate that by the end of January councils in England were sitting on £67m of the £136m that had been allocated to local welfare schemes. Half of local authorities had spent less than 40% of their funds.
An analysis by the Guardian shows that under the new local welfare assistance schemes, four in 10 applications for emergency funds are turned down, despite evidence that many applicants have been made penniless by benefits sanctions and delays in processing benefit claims. Under the previous system – the social fund – just two in 10 were. In some parts of the country, as few as one in 10 applicants obtain crisis help.
The schemes were designed to help low-income families in crisis, such as those in danger of becoming homeless or subjected to domestic violence. Charities and MPs have warned that those denied help are turning to food banks and loan sharks.
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, which offers debt and legal advice, said the emergency financial support system was in chaos. "When the safety net fails, people are left with no way of putting food on the table, paying the rent or keeping the lights on. Confusion over what help is available and who to approach means that people who need support are left high and dry.
"People are in danger of being pushed into the arms of payday lenders and loan sharks by the chaotic emergency support system. Citizens Advice bureaux see people in desperate need of support who have nowhere else to turn when jobcentres and the local council don't give out support."
Under the new system, emergency funds are no longer ringfenced, meaning that councils can divert unspent cash to other budgets. Local welfare assistance schemes were created a year ago in 150 English authorities, alongside national schemes in Wales and Scotland, following the abolition of the social fund.
Most schemes do not offer cash or loans, but support in kind, such as food parcels and supermarket vouchers. The social fund provided loans repayable against future benefit payments – typically about £50 – and larger capital grants to destitute families who needed help to furnish flats or replace broken domestic appliances.
Despite charities reporting that demand for help has rocketed as a result of economic hardship and welfare cuts, some councils spent more money setting up and administering their welfare schemes than they gave to needy applicants.
Councils told the Guardian they had provided less in emergency funding than in the past because there was a lack of public awareness of the new system. Some had failed to advertise their schemes, while others set such tight eligibility criteria that many applicants – typically including low-paid working families, benefit claimants and those deemed to have not lived in their local area for long enough – were turned away.
Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale, who has repeatedly raised the issue of local welfare in parliament, said his constituents frequently reported struggles to get crisis help. Constituents he has helped include:
• A low-wage family with three children, including an 11-month-old baby, who applied for £35 to pay for gas, electricity and baby food to help them until payday. The council scheme initially referred the family to a food bank. After lobbying by Danczuk, they were given £20 for energy costs, but were refused money for baby food.
• A pregnant mother and her partner, who after benefit changes were left with £7 a week for food after rent and council tax. They were told that they could not apply as the scheme was for "genuine emergencies" such as fires and flood.
In each case Danczuk believes the families would have qualified for emergency support under the social fund. "Central and local government are pushing people into the hands of payday loan companies and food banks. They have in effect privatised the lender of last resort," he said.
A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions, which funds local welfare schemes run by 150 local authorities across England, said: "In contrast to a centralised grant system that was poorly targeted, councils can now choose how best to support those most in need. It is for local councils to decide how they spend their budgets."
But a Conservative council leader has called on the government to reinstate local welfare assistance funding, calling it a "cut too far". Louise Goldsmith, leader of West Sussex county council, said the proposed cut would leave many low income families without vital support when they were going through a "tough patch in their lives".
A briefing note prepared by the council found that 43% of 5,582 individuals and families helped by the local welfare fund to the end of February had applied because they had been left penniless by benefit sanctions and delays.
The Local Government Association has called upon the ministers to reverse the cut, and it is understood a number of councils and welfare charities are preparing to seek a judicial review of the government's decision to cut local welfare assistance funding in April 2015.
Many councils are using part of their welfare assistance allocation to provide financial support for local food banks, which provide penniless applicants with charity food parcels.
Lady Stowell, a local government minister, told the House of Lords in January that local authorities were "doing a good job of supporting people in times of crisis and are doing it without using all the funding that has been provided so far from DWP".
But Centrepoint, the homelessness charity said that local welfare assistance underspending meant many homeless youngsters could not get vital support when they moved from hostels into independent living. "Councils need to start using these funds to address urgent need now and ensure that young people have access to it," said Seyi Obakin, Centrepoint's chief executive.
Two local authorities – Labour-run Nottinghamshire county council and Tory-run Oxfordshire – have scrapped local welfare assistance altogether and plan to divert the money into social care services..
Conservative-run Herefordshire county council had spent less than £5,000 of its annual £377,000 allocation by the end of December last year, equivalent to 1% of its local welfare budget.It said its spending reflected low demand for crisis help, a claim disputed by Hereford Citizens Advice and Hereford food bank, which said they had been inundated with requests.
Labour-run Islington council had spent 80% of its emergency funds budget by the end of December last year and had spent all its emergency funds by April. It said it had encouraged its frontline staff to refer individuals to its local welfare scheme to ensure they got crisis help and assistance with any underlying problems, such as debt.
Local authorities are anticipating further problems over local welfare in 2015 when the DWP scraps funding for the schemes. Councils, charities and MPs have called on the government to restore and ringfence the crisis support allocation.
Councils say that in some cases they have refused emergency help because benefit claimants have been wrongly referred to local authority welfare schemes by jobcentres. Some councils have refused to accept applications from those who ought to have been offered a short-term benefit advance from their local jobcentre.
Scotland and Wales have their own welfare assistance schemes and these have higher applicant success rates than in England. In Northern Ireland, which still has the social fund, 70% of applicants received help.
Source – Welfare News Service 20 April 2014
Film director hits out at cuts to North East arts
Arts funding must not be limited to groups inside the golden circle of the M25, the wife of playwright Lee Hall has said.
Baroness Beeban Kidron, the director behind films such as Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, has called on the Government to ensure the North sees a legally binding share of arts funding.
The peer was one of many speaking out following a report last year that showed half of the Arts Council England funding budget went to London, as well as some 90% of the £450m Department for Culture, Media and Sport budget.
This means the capital gets £69 of cultural spending per head, compared with just £4.50 in the rest of England.
Alongside this, 45% of National Lottery arts cash goes to London.
Baroness Kidron, whose husband led efforts to reverse council arts cuts in Newcastle, said that just four institutions in the capital receive more lottery funding than the 33 local authorities which are home to six million people at the bottom of their funding list.
She added: "These local authorities are predominantly, although not exclusively, in the North, but they all cover areas that are already challenged by other symptoms of deprivation and where current and prospective local authority cuts are biting most deeply."
Speaking before members of the House of Lords, she called for the Government to make funding for the arts "a legal requirement" and to give local authorities the resources to fulfil that requirement.
She said that "talent is not centred in London, appreciation is not centred in London, the need to see oneself reflected in our world is not centred in London" and made the point that the national and international reputation of excellence in the creative arts started with individuals and groups in towns and cities across the UK .
"If we withdraw funding now we decimate the art and artists of the future," the peer said.
"Starving the ecosystem of the tiny, the local, the experimental, the site-specific and the amateur groups, or insisting that this same list become little businesses, will simply kill the juggernaut of British theatre which has conquered Broadway and beyond.
"Could not Her Majesty's Government consider making arts funding a legal requirement of local authorities and provide the resources to support that requirement, in order that we do not decimate arts provision outside the golden circle of the M25 and, in doing so, deprive ourselves of the artists and art of the future?"
Jane Tarr, director for the North at the Arts Council England said that the organisation is a "national champion for the arts and culture all over the country".
"However, we're not the biggest investor in culture in this country.
"With organisations like the National Glass Centre, The Baltic, The Sage and MIMA it's clear that the North East is home to some world class arts and culture organisations – the result of very successful partnerships between the Arts Council, local authorities and higher education."
Source – Newcastle Journal 14 Feb 2014


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The American Sociological Association (ASA) filed an amicus curiae brief yesterday with the Supreme Court of the United States in the same-sex marriage cases currently pending before the court. The ASA's brief highlights the social science consensus that children raised by same-sex parents fare just as well as children raised by different-sex parents.
With the Supreme Court of the United States expected to rule imminently in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, which addresses the matter of marriage equality and the constitutional status of state bans on same-sex marriage, the American Sociological Association (ASA) has a number of sociologists available to discuss same-sex marriage.
This study examines whether working with a broker increases or reduces the payment received for the last client among female sex workers. Building on research on the informal economy and sex work, we formulate a positive embeddedness hypothesis, expecting a positive association, and an exploitation hypothesis, expecting a negative association. We analyze a large survey combined with intensive interview data on female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India. These data uniquely distinguish between the amount the sex worker actually received and the amount the client paid.
What factors affect a scientist's choice of research problem? Qualitative research in the history and sociology of science suggests that this choice is patterned by an "essential tension" between productive tradition and risky innovation. We examine this tension through Bourdieu's field theory of science, and we explore it empirically by analyzing millions of biomedical abstracts from MEDLINE. We represent the evolving state of chemical knowledge with networks extracted from these abstracts. We then develop a typology of research strategies on these networks.
Lawyers keep the gates of public justice institutions, particularly through their roles in formal procedures like hearings and trials. Yet, it is not clear what lawyers do in such quintessentially legal settings: conclusions from past research are bedeviled by a lack of clear theory and inconsistencies in research design. Conceptualizing litigation work in terms of professional expertise, I conduct a theoretically grounded synthesis of the findings of extant studies of lawyers' impact on civil case outcomes.
Organization scholars since Max Weber have argued that formal personnel systems can prevent discrimination. We draw on sociological and psychological literatures to develop a theory of the varied effects of bureaucratic reforms on managerial motivation. Drawing on self-perception and cognitive-dissonance theories, we contend that initiatives that engage managers in promoting diversity—special recruitment and training programs—will increase diversity.
As a tribute to the body of work created by our late colleague Leonard I. Pearlin, this essay assesses how the evolution of the Stress Process Model, the centerpiece of his work, repeatedly reinvented sociological research on stress and mental health and explains why this model, therefore, possesses the potential to renew itself well into the future.
The article focuses on the relationship between street vendors and local authorities in Bangkok. We examine the goals, the means, and the effects of everyday regulation of street vending. We document how the district administration produces and maintains informality by creating a parallel set of rules where street vendors enjoy negligible rents and little competition. We provide detailed empirical evidence on earnings, rents, fines, and rules regarding commercial real estate.
Several recent spatial analyses conclude the strong positive association typically found between neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and crime in cross-sectional studies significantly differs across neighborhoods. It is possible this spatial variation is due to within-neighborhood dynamics of continuity and change, as suggested by ecological theories of neighborhood crime.
A pressing problem for the social sciences is to understand the processes leading to commitment within organizational settings. Toward this end, we argue for the stability of rewards derived from groups as a key dimension of commitment. We present a theory that links reward stability to justice evaluations and corresponding emotional reactions, which in turn predict group commitment. From this theory, we derive several hypotheses, the key one being that justice evaluations and corresponding emotional reactions explain the effect of reward stability on commitment.


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TEHRAN- Four advanced devices for medical optical imaging of brain and optogenetic examinations were built and put into operation in Laser and Plasma Research Institute (LAPRI) of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.
The devices use methods of intrinsic signal optical imaging (ISOI), voltage-sensitive dyes (potentiometric dyes), laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) and optogenetics to take an image of the brain, ISNA reported on Saturday.
Medical optical imaging is the use of light as an investigational imaging technique for medical applications.
Optogenetics is a biological technique that involves the use of light to control cells in living tissue, typically neurons that have been genetically modified to express light-sensitive ion channels. It is a neuromodulation method that uses a combination of techniques from optics and genetics to control and monitor the activities of individual neurons in living tissue, even within freely-moving animals, and to precisely measure these manipulation effects in real-time.
According to LAPRI, neuroscientists from all over the country can now use the devices to do research.


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A lovely day at Stow Maries on Easter Saturday – most people seem to have gone to the coast! The WW1 AHT Team congregated to do some currency checks for the pilots and prop=swingers on the BE2. It all went wll in glorious sunshine with both pilots, Jean Michel Munn and Jonathan Marte-Hale getting some 'touch and goes' and a display practice in and the twins and John Gilbert getting a crack at prop-swinging. John flew the N17 earlier in the day. There will be other opportunities to check all out on the Albatros once the Permit to Fly is in place and for the Stow volunteers to get some practice in ground handling.


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Day of Dinners: Sunday, June 25
To quote a recent email I received from the Women's March Movement: "Let's remind ourselves that gathering around a table over food is an act of community." On Sunday, January 25th, thousands of people across America will be opening up their homes to their neighbors and friends for a "Day of Dinners." The idea is for folks to come to a neighbor's home, share a meal and discuss the future of the country we want.
Consider yourself invited to Indivisible Ferndale's "Day of Dinner" Potluck and Meeting
- Date: Sunday, June 25
- Time: 5:00 to 8:00 pm
- Location: 1105 Cream Court (Kathleen & Tom's home)
- Please bring a dish and/or a beverage to share
- Please RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com
Monster Noise Comes to Ferndale
Wendy published a post on June 7 entitled "Monster Trucks, Noise and the Law" and then followed it up with another post on June 10 entitled "Loud. And Clear." Both of these posts were in reference to the Monster Truck Rally held on June 9 and 10 at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds. Wendy asked for a call to action: If you hear the noise, call the police and call City Hall. Many of you did just that.
Thanks to councilpersons O'Rourke and Sweeney, the topic of noise is slated for discussion at this week's city Council meeting. Read an abbreviated agenda and the city noise ordinance here. Plan to attend.
- Date: Wednesday, June 21
- Time: 7:00 to 9:00 pm
- Location: Ferndale City Hall
Read this week's message from Ezra Levin, Co-Executive Director of the Indivisible Project. This message focuses on the continuing fight to defeat TrumpCare. Indivisible is also sponsoring June 25 "Resistance Community Cookouts." I believe we have this item covered!
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We just received a new shipment of "In Our America" signs available for $15. Payment can be either cash or a check made payable to Stephen Avis. We will be bringing signs to our June 25 Potluck Meeting.
Weekly Call Sheets for June 19
Here's your weekly message from the Power (to the People) Lunch group lead by Elizabeth Conner. The Call Sheets for June 19 are here. The Tips for Calling are here.
- Pick an issue (or two) that speaks to you.
- Grab your phone and make some calls to our representatives or
- Grab a postcard or two and write to our representatives.
Lastly, a great read below from the Times-Standard on how the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bayside has declared itself a sanctuary congregation.
Bayside congregation becomes sanctuary for undocumented immigrants
Thirty years after it offered sanctuary to a El Salvadorian family fleeing from a brutal civil war, a Bayside faith-based congregation decided this week to once again become a sanctuary space for undocumented immigrants, and other local churches could follow.
A few days after the Humboldt Unitarian Universalists Fellowship's decision, several local churches, faith-based groups and community organizations gathered in the Eureka First United Methodist Church to discuss how they can work in solidarity to protect local undocumented immigrants.
The church's Pastor Kathryn Dunning said the conversation was held in response to the "climate of fear among immigrants in our community" caused by the federal government's increased enforcement of immigration laws since President Donald Trump took office.
"I feel compelled by the gospel of Jesus that told us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the stranger, care for those in need and we see this as a population in need," Dunning said Thursday. "From my perspective, there are no illegal persons. All persons are created in the image of God and we have an obligation to care for one another. Our faith compels us to care for one another."
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Representatives from the Arcata First Unified Methodist Church, United Methodist Church of the Joyful Healer and Grace Good Shepherd Church in McKinleyville, the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and community organizations True North and Centro Del Pueblo attended the meeting, Dunning said.
Along with campaign promises to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration has placed a greater focus on deportations of undocumented immigrants and issued an executive order threatening to cut funding to sanctuary cities that provide asylum to illegal immigrants, which has since been deemed unconstitutional by a U.S. District Court in California.
Centro Del Pueblo Steering Committee's Renee Saucedo said the federal government's rhetoric has led to local Latino immigrants and their families fearing to take their children to the doctor or go grocery shopping. She said that families fear that law enforcement will obtain their information, such as fingerprints, if they are pulled over and share it with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
"That's why it's important that churches are declaring themselves sanctuaries, but it's just as important for the county to pass a sanctuary law which will prohibit collaboration between local law enforcement and ICE agents except when required by state or federal law," Saucedo said.
The county Board of Supervisors is currently drafting a resolution outlining its stance that the sheriff's office will continue to not provide assistance to federal immigration enforcers in most cases. The resolution would not designate the county a sanctuary county, with several board members having expressed concern in April that any cuts of federal funding could drastically impact county services.
A sanctuary again
Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship minister Rev. Bryan Jessup said his Bayside congregation's decision on Sunday to become a sanctuary for the second time since 1987 was a nine-month process and was a direct response the federal rhetoric and "racist policies" that he said are beginning to gain traction.
"We have in our congregation, we have people who survived the Holocaust in Germany and France," Jessup said. "They were housed by people and they were protected by people, the survivors were. Somebody has to say we're going to create a safe place. Part of our commitment is to create safe places like that also."
The so-called sanctuary movement began in the 1980s when hundreds of churches began housing Central American refugees who had fled to the U.S. to escape from wars and power conflicts in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.
The sanctuary movement of today differs from that of the 1980s, recently retired Humboldt State University political science lecturer Kathleen Lee said, in that the issue was more politically-based in the 1980s during the midst of the Cold War rather than one based on ethnicity.
"The Reagan administration was willing to give asylum to people who were fleeing socialist-type governments, such as the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, but unwilling to grant asylum to right-wing governments backed by the U.S.," Lee said. "It was less this idea of hordes of brown people coming over the border and taking your jobs and committing crimes, which is the way the narrative is today. The narrative wasn't 'These are bad people coming here.' "
Lee said that churches do not have legal protections for providing sanctuary to undocumented immigrants, but said there are cultural protections.
"Churches have for centuries been seen as an area of sanctuary," Lee said. "Even before the advent of democracy and the rule of law, people were reluctant to remove people from churches. So you have this concept within the culture that if someone takes sanctuary in the church, it looks really bad for someone to come in and drag someone out of the church."
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One of the best things about mongering cheese is the opportunity to visit producers like Connie and Stuart Veldhuizen. Last week, we started the day by helping to cheddar and finish a vat of cheese. It was a real treat to taste freshly cut curd and to taste the curd again after it was salted. We stuffed forms full of curd and placed the wheels on the press (lower right).
After a guided tasting of all of the cheeses that are made on the farm, we went on a tour of their 3 aging caves. These temperature and humidity controlled vaults contain hundreds of wheels that are making the slow progression toward aged perfection. When thinking of cheesemaking, understanding the work that goes into production is evident, but visiting a cheese cave emphasizes that the work continues. Wheels have to be flipped, washed, and brushed once or twice a week!
After lunch, we hopped in the back of Stuart's pickup truck for a quick ride out to the pasture and the herd. I'm not sure how many times someone thinks to themselves that a cow is beautiful, but this group of ladies looked as fine and healthy as any I have seen. Stuart explained that he has had some of these cows for 12 years or more! We chatted about the different breeds, the type of milk they produce and the effect on the final cheese. I also found the discussion about the plants in the pasture fascinating. Oats planted next to a form of snap pea- one plant putting into the soil, what the other is taking out- both contributing to the rich, golden color of the milk.
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The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has accorded approval to Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) for procurement of power from 1,000 MW floating solar PV power project at Ujjani dam in Solapur district of Maharashtra on long term basis. The same has been approved for meeting the solar renewable purchase obligation (RPO) requirement of MSEDCL.
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