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‘Numbers don’t lie,’ concurs SFPD captain.
The San Francisco Police Department continues to disproportionately use force on black men, despite an overall 14-percent drop in use-of-force incidents in 2018 compared to the prior year.
“My issue is, why are the total uses of force against black males so high?” asked Police Commissioner Cindy Elias at Wednesday night’s commission meeting.
Elias was referring to the department’s most recent use-of-force stats, released in February, which cover the fourth quarter of 2018 and provide some year-end totals. The SFPD is required by local laws to report these numbers quarterly.
Black men were on the receiving end of 35 percent of the use-of-force incidents from October to December of 2018, while white men accounted for 21 percent. The most recent Census data pegs San Francisco’s black population at 5.3 percent, while whites make up 47 percent of the city. Latinos make up 15.2 percent of the population and accounted for 20 percent of the use-of-force incidents.
The most common manner of force used against black men was officers pointing their guns, which occurred 127 times in the reporting period, compared to 50 times against white men. Officers pointed their guns at Latino men 72 times.
“These numbers are disturbing and I want to know what the logical, reasonable explanation is for the numbers,” Elias said. “Numbers don’t lie.”
“Numbers don’t lie, I agree,” replied Captain Steven Ford of the Professional Standards and Principled Policing Bureau, a 3-year-old unit established to oversee the department’s Department of Justice Reforms.
“If you look at the numbers, I think they clearly illustrate a disparity at minimum,” he continued.
Ford, an African American, recently served as captain of the Bayview Station, which serves a large African American community.
While he agreed with Elias he also suggested that an analysis of the numbers could tell them more and offer some direction and answers. “At this juncture, in this form, I don’t have the answer.”
Ford said that definitive answers on the statistics require academic analysis, which is being undertaken by researchers at John Jay College. He said that analysis should be available in November.
Elias, however, was not satisfied. “… what else are we doing to explain or find a solution that comports with 21st century policing and [the fact that] there’s a huge disparity in numbers when it comes to black males and the use of force?”
Ford said that officers undergo a “tremendous amount” of training that exposes them to different scenarios that “get them more sensitive … with persons of color.”
SFPD trainees take eight hours of “implicit bias” training, in addition to a four-hour “racial profiling” course, according to a recent SFPD academy syllabus. Furthermore, trainees do an eight-hour “principled policing” course and four hours of “Blue Courage,” a course designed to have officers approach their work as “guardians” as opposed to “warriors.”
The entire SFPD training is 1,280 hours.
Regardless, throughout 2017 and 2018, the demographics of who was on the receiving end of police use-of-force remained largely unchanged. Black men accounted for 35 percent of all incidents, with white men and Latino men hovered at around 20 percent each.
Moreover, white police officers are using the most force. The SFPD is composed of 41 percent white male officers, and 18 percent of those officers used force at some point in the fourth quarter of 2018, the highest of any officer demographic.
Roughly 15 percent of male Asian officers used some kind of force, while some 13 percent of male Latino officers used force. Meanwhile, roughly 12 percent of male black officers used force.
“That’s concerning to me,” said Commissioner Petra DeJesus, adding “… because that’s also a lopsided number.”
“I agree,” Capt. Ford said.
Commission Vice President Damali Taylor quickly followed DeJesus. “As I think you recognize, this is a problem,” she said to Ford. Black people “are less than 6 percent of the population of this very small city and it cannot be — it is not — that we are committing all the crimes.”
She continued, “So the question is, as investigators, where is the Police Department looking?”
Taylor said she realized that there are a disproportionate number of calls to police on black men — 42 percent of calls for service were on black men, compared to 18.2 percent on white men.
“The question is: How do you respond?” she said. “And [when] the response is with a weapon drawn to such a degree when you’re dealing with black subjects as opposed to white subjects … that’s a problem.”
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Differences between vascular dementia and Alzheimer's dementia may be present in both risk factors and in behavioral manifestations. Behavioral distinctions may be apparent only at particular stages of the disease process, but comparisons at different stages require a large number of subjects. The California Alzheimer Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Center Program has collected data on a large number of subjects with dementia. We examined differences in risk factors and in behaviors in 502 subjects with vascular dementia and 810 subjects with probable Alzheimer's dementia. With respect to risk factors, vascular dementia subjects were more likely to have a history of general anesthesia. We found no difference in history of closed head trauma, family history of dementia, or cigarette smoking, suggesting that these factors are less likely to have a disease-specific etiologic role. With respect to behaviors, subjects with vascular dementia were more likely to have depression in all stages of dementia. Subjects with Alzheimer's dementia were more likely to exhibit wandering in the middle or late stages. Subjects were similar in five other behavioral factors in the three stages studied. We conclude that general anesthesia is a risk factor for vascular dementia and that depression is more prevalent in vascular dementia, while wandering is more characteristic of Alzheimer's dementia.
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|Journal||Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology|
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- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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I am tired of hearing pundits and other talking heads ascribe some patriotic fervor to Donald Trump. Trump is loyal and devoted to two things: himself and money. Period! Trump's entire life has been focused on being the BIG MAN ON THE BLOCK, and acquiring by an means possible wealth.
The talk about Trump enforcing sanctions on Russia is ludicrous. He owes Russian oligarchs millions of dollars for rescuing his family and others out of bad business deals which are all that Trump ever gets involved in. Do you really think that Trump is ever going to acknowledge or blame Russian hacking and other support for his election. When his trip to meet Putin was announced, the first news reports had Trump trying to figure out a package to present Putin as a so-called offer of good will. Putin, the man who authorized the hacking war on the US according to the intelligence community and others. Is that what you do to someone who burglarized your home?
Also, let's not forget the Christopher Steele dossier about Trump's sexual escapades in Russia and more that surfaced last year and that the FBI is/has confirmed many of the findings in it.
And then there is China, the country which just granted his corrupt daughter, Ivanka, with commercial licenses to sell her overpriced junk-ware made using slave labor. How many potentially conflicting deals has Trump himself have going on in China? How about Trump's claim that China is rigging it's currency and engaged in unfair trade deals, etc. Or the Bank of China which supports North Korea allowing it to build a nuclear arsenal.
The point is that Trump is not going to punish, sanction, or criticize any country where he is or has the potential to make money. One exception is Qatar where Trump joined with Saudia Arabia in support of their blockade, etc. The reason, Trump believes that he can getting better deals from Saudia Arabia like the $110 billion arms deal.
The gameplan to understanding Trump is what is benefiting him both in terms of image and financial gain. He already has the support of the sixty million plus low-information voters, the greedy, the racists, homophobes, misogynists, and Muslim haters so he feels his base is secure.
So don't fall for the hype about Trump being a patriot or being presidential he has never had any interest in that. The presidency to Trump is a money-making endeavor which allows him to exercise his psychosis on the entire country. Finally, as the old saying goes, follow the money and that will be all you need to know about Trump.
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Working in aged care
Working in a dynamic sector
Working in the aged care sector means taking on challenging work and working in a dynamic part of the health sector.
The funding support being provided by the Australian Government supports the sector as a growth area for employment and provides opportunities to work in innovative environments. Work is also under way to establish innovative approaches to working in aged care in a number of areas:
Teaching and Research Aged Care Services (TRACS)Teaching and Research Aged Care Services (TRACS) are aged care services that combine teaching, research, clinical care and service delivery in one location to operate as a learning environment, to support clinical placements and professional development activities in various disciplines.
The intent of the program is to provide funding to help establish a variety of TRACS models, and share the lessons learnt in establishing these models with the wider industry to inform current and future developments.
Three year funding agreements were executed in 2011-12 for 16 TRACS projects to a total value of $7.5 million (excluding GST). There are four projects in South Australia, three each in Victoria and Queensland, five in New South Wales, and one project spans three states - Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.
Collectively, the funded models will support training and professional development in a range of disciplines including nursing, psychology, medicine, physiotherapy and occupational therapy. Key features of the funded models include aged care specific curriculum development, clinical training in residential and community care settings, inter-professional learning and participation by aged care employees in teaching, learning and research.
Evaluation is a key element of the TRACS initiative. It is expected the evaluation will identify practical strategies and processes that: help the aged care sector operate as a learning environment to facilitate high quality clinical training professional development opportunities; and deliver benefits to industry, students, staff and care recipients.
Further details about individual TRACS projects are available at.
- Aged Care & Housing Group
- Brotherhood of St Laurence
- Deakin University
- Griffith University
- Queensland University of Technology
- Resthaven Incorporated
- RSL LifeCare Limited
- St John’s Village, Incorporated
- Southern NSW Local Health District Aged Care Evaluation Unit
- University of Adelaide
- University of Canberra
- University of South Australia
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of Tasmania
- University of Wollongong
ContactsMr Jeff Fiebig - Manager, Program Development
Kirsty Marles Inter-professional Learning Project Manager
Consortium MembersFlinders University, University of South Australia, University of Adelaide, ClinEdSA and SA Health
The Interprofessional Learning Delivering Good Lives project aims to develop a framework that provides a consumer directed inter-professional training approach across the disciplines of; nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, pharmacy, psychology, dietetics, exercise physiology, speech pathology, social work and occupational therapy. Care worker students/staff and hotel services students/staff will also form a part of this IPL framework. The framework will enhance customer peer learning and teaching opportunities, student clinical placement experiences and extend learning opportunities for all ACH Group staff. Action research and a formative evaluation will run throughout the life of the project to identify, create and build on new, fluid and cohesive ways for people who use the services and professionals to learn and work together across existing and new models in health and ageing. This will be particularly emphasised in the development of the ACH Group’s ViTA project which is a collaboration between the South Australian Department of Health, Flinders University and ACH Group in building a teaching research aged care facility adjacent to the Repatriation General Hospital at Daw Park in Adelaide.
ACH Group will work with Flinders University, TAFE’s and develop partnerships with other educators to undertake a project specific evaluation to explore: learning experience in an inter-professional environment; changes in reciprocal attitudes between participant groups; the use of team approaches to caring for a specific client group; inter-professional collaboration between the teaching facility, students and staff and customers and their families; transfer of inter-professional learning to practice setting; change in organisational practice; and primarily the benefits to customers/consumers.
ContactsMs Christine Morka - General Manager, Retirement and Ageing
The hallmarks of the Sumner House Centre of Excellence project will be improved outcomes for all residents through extending the knowledge and skills of existing staff and providing opportunities for student learning and practice. Particular attention will be paid to residents requiring complex care including in clinical areas such as Huntingdon's disease, Parkinson's disease, dementia, diabetes and psychiatric illness.
To ensure that the training proposed for this project addresses contemporary concerns, an analysis of the needs and preferences of residents and their families will be conducted and used to inform the development and delivery of the training and mentoring programs. The project will integrate Brotherhood's workforce capability framework with formal training and industry-specific research.
With a focus on skills development for both existing staff and students, the training model includes both on the job training and placement based training with a special emphasis on provision of complex care. It will support training towards Certificate III, Certificate IV and Bachelor of Nursing qualifications in aged care. A key feature will be the integrated mentoring program that will draw together all staff within the service. Mentoring will be underpinned by reflective practice to facilitate the incorporation of learning into service delivery.
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ContactAssociate Professor Alison Hutchinson - Deputy Director of Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research
Centre for Innovation and Education in Aged Care (CIEAC) - Clinical service partnerships at http://www.deakin.edu.au/health/nursing/cieac/partners.php
Consortium MembersSouthern Health, Western District Health Service, Cabrini Health
The Tri Focal Model of Care: Teaching and Research Aged Care Services project will expand the existing education program based on the tri-focal approach - Developing Partnership-Centred Care; Building a Positive Work Environment; and Providing Evidence-based Practice - to aged care facilities located metropolitan and rural Victoria. This education program takes account of Australian regulatory requirements and aged care standards. The program will be delivered to all interested staff, residents’ family members and residents in the participating facilities by Facility Educators trained in the Tri-focal Model of Care.
The education program includes three professional modules: Introduction to the Tri-focal Model of Care; Collegiality and Teamwork; and Evidence-Based Practice through change management and leadership; and six clinical modules: Behaviours of Concern; Continence; Depression; Medication; Mobility; and Nutrition and Hydration. The education program is designed to be used by all levels of staff in the health care workforce, as well as family members, residents, and lay people.
ContactDr Lorraine Venturato - TRACS Project Lead at School of Nursing and Midwifery
Consortium MembersRSL Care Limited
The Triple C Model: Enhancing Aged Care Education and Practice through Collaboration, Creativity and Capacity Building aims to promote interprofessional, inter-sectoral learning and research in dementia care. It will link aged care education and research structures with the creative arts and human services disciplines. The collaborative project will include a practicum component to be trialled at two RSL Care sites, and will explore facilitator experiences and exploration of graduate/transition expectations.
The project will establish and evaluate a pilot Collaborative Learning Action Network (CLAN) with a focus on evidenced-based practice, active learning and research translation into practice and policy. It will establish an Aged Care Advisory Group to provide collaboration on curriculum review for the existing BN (Aged Care) and explore postgraduate / professional development options. Membership will include experienced clinicians and aged care managers from across residential, community and acute care sectors. A collaborative working group will be established to develop and evaluate a quality clinical placement program for BN (Aged Care) students across community and residential care.
ContactMs Anne Loupis - Project Manager for TRACS
Consortium MembersUniversity of New South Wales, Catholic Healthcare
The Real Cases, Real Time TRACS model offers case-based learning via videoconferencing for aged care employees in multiple, remote localities. Interactive learning opportunities are available for two streams of trainees: staff with tertiary qualifications and professional registration (Registered Nurses, GPs and allied health) and front-line care workers (Assistants in Nursing (AINs), specialist dementia care workers and community care workers).
This project is focussed on a professional development model, particularly, improvement of work practices through case method discussions, involving real cases. Topic areas for training were identified in consultation with staff through individual annual development meetings, focus groups and team meetings. HammondCare specialists prepared the curriculum and external experts are involved in its delivery, and support interactive sessions. UNSW will undertake an external evaluation of the training program.
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ContactDr Leander Mitchell - Clinical Neuropsychologist
Consortium MembersMasonic Care QLD, Churches of Christ Care, James Cook University
The Community of Interdisciplinary Practice for People with Dementia project will develop a professional education model with a practicum component to upskill graduate health professionals in dementia care and management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). A total of 40 clinical supervision interns comprising nursing, occupational therapy and psychology graduates are expected to be trained with the participants having also supervised 40 undergraduate health professional students from participating universities.
It seeks to facilitate: graduate-level, interprofessional training in clinical supervision; implementation of sound, coordinated multidisciplinary management strategies for people with BPSD; ongoing supervision of health professional students by aged care employees; and a practicum component held onsite at an aged care facility. Action research is to be undertaken to capture: outcomes measures of participant knowledge of BPSDs, comfort with the level of engagement and comfort with interprofessional learning experience, experience of partnering RACF employees, effectiveness of the use of an iPhone application focussed on BPSD recognition and impact on clinical care.
ContactMr Simon Pavelic - Project Manager EBPAC & TRACS
Consortium MembersUniversity of Adelaide, TAFE SA
The Preparing an Aged Care Workforce: Building the Model for Teaching and Research in Aged Care project involves a skills audit for Resthaven staff particularly in the areas of clinical mentoring, supervision and education in community and residential settings. The overall training strategy will be reviewed on the basis of the skills audit and a clinical supervision structure developed. The skills audit will inform the development of on-site and off-site curriculum delivery and placement structures, in collaboration with education and training partners. Resthaven staff will provide input into curriculum development and participate in aged care research.
The model has a focus on professional development and clinical placements, and will support training in nursing, medical and allied health disciplines. It will facilitate access to Diploma in Nursing, certificate level courses in aged care and traineeships. Aged care staff will ‘mentor’ students on clinical placements, provide input into, and review curriculum development, and will be invited as speakers to ensure students have work-ready competencies.
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ContactMs Carrie Spinks - TRACS Project Coordinator
Consortium MembersAustralian Catholic University
The RSL Research and Practice Development will support training of staff in metropolitan, rural and regional services through video-conferencing. Staff will participate in practice-driven research. Training and career enhancement activities will be available for nurses, care workers and general services staff in physiotherapy, occupational therapy and diversional therapy. Curriculum/courses will be developed in aged care/gerontology, aged care leadership/management and mental health.
RSL staff will undertake Cert IV training in Training and Assessment to provide them with necessary qualifications to train participants. Educators will be available at both the RN and carer levels across the services. Staff with specialist skills in palliative care, wound management, dementia care and clinical care will teach/help translate research outcomes. Training will be repetitive to ensure new practices are embedded in day-to-day care delivery. Clinical trainers will be supported by the Professor of Ageing. The model will eliminate traditional block placements to enable students to roster themselves onto available shifts on clinical wards. This would double the clinical placement capacity from 24 weeks.
ContactMs Karen Marsh - TRACS and Special Projects Manager
Consortium MembersThe Centre for Continuing Education Inc.
The St Johns & The Centre TRACS Community Partnership project will explore in detail a community-based, regional approach to workforce development in aged care. The focus is on skill development/career pathways of existing staff and developing new partnerships with tertiary providers. Onsite training will be provided as far as possible. ICT options will be developed to provide online learning functionality to ensure flexible learning options.
This project will support St Johns staff to progress through Certificate III in Aged Care to Bachelor of Nursing qualifications. The project will assist existing employees with career pathways/higher qualifications in aged care or nursing. A core training team will complete the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment to develop and deliver a workplace training program. Development of a nursing stream through workplace learning and collaboration with local universities is a key objective of this project.
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ContactMs Annaliese Blair - Clinical Research Officer
Consortium MembersAustralian National University, Goodwin Aged Care Services Ltd
The Model for Psychologists Working in Residential Care project will provide a model that integrates the skills of clinical psychologists into residential aged care facilities, and provides opportunities for training the future psychology workforce which has the skills to work in multidisciplinary teams to treat complex presentations in old age.
The project will, in consultation with the aged care and academic sectors, further develop the role of a clinical psychologist in the residential aged care sector and train post-graduate clinical psychology students in residential aged care setting. The model will also provide training and assistance translating research into practice for management, nursing, care, diversional therapy and allied health staff. The model has a multi-disciplinary focus.
ContactMs Rosie Bonnin - TRACS Centre Coordinator
Consortium MembersResthaven Inc.
The University of Adelaide Specialised Care for Older People Teaching and Research project seeks to increase undergraduate medical student placements in aged care. The project is based at the new Adelaide Geriatric Training and Research with Aged care Centre- G-TRAC, at the Resthaven Paradise Aged Care Campus. Medical registrars and students in senior years will be trained in aged care settings. This project is supported by involvement of geriatricians, GPs and medical registrars. The TRACS centre is affiliated with the specialist geriatrician service of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Central Adelaide Local Health Network. The project is supported by collaboration with Alzheimer’s Australia, public health, rehabilitation, mental health services and palliative care services (sub-acute services).
The project aims to develop and deliver seminars (i.e. continuing education) for multi-disciplinary aged care and primary health care clinicians (including nursing, allied health, pharmacy and general practitioners); staff employed at remote areas will be able to access training via recorded seminar series; provide research advice to and partner with aged care staff in research; and encourage relevant research activity such as improving nutrition or pain management.
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ContactDr Laurie Grealish - Project Leader of Cooperative for Health Ageing Research and Teaching (CHART)
Consortium MembersCalvary Retirement Community Canberra, IRT Kangara Waters, Goodwin Aged Care Services, the Salvation Army Aged Care Plus, Banksia Village, ACT Health Directorate, Canberra Institute of Technology, Key2learning, Healthcare Consumer Association, Alzheimer's Australia.
The Cooperative Healthy Ageing Research and Teaching Service project will extend the existing Student Nurse Led Ward model to other health disciplines. A seminar series on ageing will be developed and delivered by clinicians through an interactive online learning platform, which is to be extended to aged care facilities in metropolitan, rural and regional centres. Clinical areas include dementia, palliative care, primary health care and transition between health sectors.
As part of the project, two national forums will be held by the University to promote collaboration between the aged care and education/training sectors. Research projects under the TRACS model include: service needs for people with dementia in rural NSW, dietetics – investigation of the dietetics service and student competence development in dietetics; falls intervention; and effectiveness of student-led primary health service designed for older persons.
ContactMs Susan Gilbert-Hunt - TRACS Project Manager
Consortium MembersHelping Hand Aged Care, Mary Mackillop Care SA, Eldercare Incorporated, Clayton Church Homes, TAFE SA Adelaide North, TAFE SA Regional, Aged and Community Services SA/NT
The Education, Training and Research in Aged Care: Pathway Development and Promulgation of a Student Placement Model will expand existing activities to develop dedicated teaching units in nursing and allied health for university and vocational education and training students. Training model will include students from the VET sector and the promulgation of the placement-learning model by customising and trialling the model across the aged care services.
The project provides for learning opportunities at multiple levels both formally and informally. Examples of the type of learning that includes participation in training workshops, online learning modules, mentoring arrangements, induction/orientation workshops, online learning modules, placement experiences and assessment tasks and reflective activities.
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ContactDr Clint Moloney - Nursing Lecturer
Consortium MembersAnglicare Southern Queensland
The Continuing Professional Development for the Anglicare Person-Centred Model of Care project will consider the extent to which current corporate and clinical governance standards compare to published international best practice standards. Integrated risk management and clinical care audits will assist with the prioritisation of six research utilisation projects that work towards improved patient care standards. Early succession planning will see six key Anglicare staff attend the Joanna Briggs Institute Research Fellowship program. Participants will develop skills in research utilisation including staff audit compliance and measurement of patient outcomes. Through participation in this program and to ensure sustainability of project outcomes Anglicare will become a registered research utilisation group with the Joanna Briggs Institute.
Also stemming from the integrated risk management and clinical care audits will be a structured multidisciplinary curriculum design inclusive of succession planning pathways. Multidisciplinary staff will be offered training on major issues stemming from risk prioritisation. Education will be inclusive of the use of select assistive technology via distance learning and organisational leadership. These will be supported through intensive workshops. Anglicare staff will benefit from an improved continuing professional development curriculum, redesigned roles supporting extended scopes of practice, ongoing exposure to assistive technologies, and the growth of internal expertise in evidence based practice, research utilisation, and leadership. As a final outcome the project will deliver a comprehensive research register based on risk prioritisation and the emergence of Anglicare as a recognised research utilisation centre.
ContactProfessor Andrew Robinson - Co-Director, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, Associate Dean (Research) at Faculty of Health Sciences
Consortium MembersCatholic Homes (Hawthorn Vic), Uniting Church Homes (Rowethorpe), Southern Cross Care Inc (TAS), Mount St Vincent, Australian Catholic University, Curtin University.
The Wicking Teaching Aged Care Facility (TACF) Program will extend the existing prototype Wicking Teaching Aged Care Facility project to a tripartite collaboration involving the University of Tasmania (Tasmania), Australian Catholic University (Victoria) and Curtin University (Western Australia). The universities will work in collaboration with local aged care services to support: a regional/rural node involving partnership between the University of Tasmania, Southern Cross Care Tasmania and Mount St Vincent Nursing Home - a standalone rural service; an urban node involving the Australian Catholic University and Catholic Homes; and another urban node involving partnership between Curtin and Juniper Rowethorpe (Uniting Care).
Implementing the Wicking TACF program involves a five stage process to drive both organizational and clinical change. This includes an : (i) evaluation of organisational culture and leadership capability, and design and implementation of systems and processes to both support students’ professional education and drive a high performance culture across the organisations; and (ii) Implementation of a program of quality inter-professional aged care clinical placements to facilitate students to develop their knowledge of dementia/palliation and a more positive attitude to working in aged care.
ContactProfessor Richard Fleming - Director of NSW/ACT Dementia Training Study Centre
Consortium MembersIllawarra Retirement Trust
The IRTrac project provides a framework for bringing together joint research programs between the University and IRT College in aged care, and will enhance the capacity to provide training in nursing, psychology, exercise physiology and dietetics disciplines.
The project will provide an opportunity to extend the current clinical placement program to include dietetics, exercise physiology and psychology students. It will also provide professional development opportunities for aged care staff in the areas of clinical leadership education, gerontology and dementia care. The project will establish a joint research program including research training for aged care staff, and develop a learning community involving the university staff, IRT staff, external trainers, and IRT residents as both teachers and learners.
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Australian Workplace Innovation and Social Research Centre (WISeR)
Evaluation TeamDr Kate Barnett - Deputy Director, WISeR
Dr Ann-Louise Hordacre - Senior Research Fellow, WISeR
Ms Cecilia Moretti - Research Fellow, WISeR
Dr Sara Howard - Research Fellow, WISeR
Associate Professor John Spoehr - Executive Director, WISeR
WISeR has been engaged as the national evaluator for the Teaching and Research Aged Care Services (TRACS) projects. WISeR will undertake a formative evaluation of the funded models. The evaluation process will be based on an action research model that involves an iterative process of: initial reflection, planning, action, observation and reflection. The evaluation will use a program logic approach to identify the hierarchy of inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact of the projects.
As part of this project, WISeR will:
- develop an evaluation framework to:
- study the models funded under the TRACS initiative; and
- promote a culture change within the aged care sector to ensure a learning environment for students and staff.
- developing formal affiliations between the aged care sector and academic/training sectors;
- developing strategies, processes and infrastructure to support teaching, learning and research activities on site;
- providing education and training to multidisciplinary teams in various aged care settings;
- ensuring good quality clinical supervision and mentoring for students;
- improving staff capacity to participate in teaching, learning and research;
- creating synergies between education, training, research, clinical care and service delivery to deliver benefits to staff, students and care recipients;
- creating linkages between the aged care sector and acute/primary care sectors to ensure well rounded clinical education in aged care;
- accessing funding from a range of complementary funding sources to support teaching, learning and research activities within the aged care sector;
- ·promoting research into areas of practical concern identified by aged care staff; and
- practical application of research outcomes to improve day-to-day practices.
Findings arising from the evaluation process will be shared widely to inform current and future developments in this area. A final report is expected to be available in late 2014.
Related evaluations and reportsBarnett K, Abbey J & Eyre J Implementing the Teaching Nursing Homes Initiative: Scoping Study - Final Report (March 2011)
Barnett K, Abbey J & Eyre J (2011) Bridging Education, Research and Clinical Care – the Teaching Nursing Home: Discussion Paper, Australian Institute for Social Research, The University of Adelaide (2010)
(Note: The Teaching Nursing Homes Initiative became the Teaching and Research Aged Care Services (TRACS)).
e-health and aged care
TelehealthFor information on Medicare and DVA rebates for telehealth services provided to aged care facilities and eligible Aboriginal Medical Services throughout Australia go to: MBS Online.
eHealthFive residential aged care facilities in Tasmania’s Cradle Coast project are deploying eHealth specifications and standards in real-life settings. The project targets aged and palliative care patients and their families, palliative care medical specialists and clinical nurse consultants.
The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) is establishing a panel of aged care system vendors who will enter into an agreement with NEHTA to participate in a collaborative development process to deliver aged care systems for implementation in this program.Top of page


Cervical cancer survival improved by targeted drug in trial
In a phase 2 trial, a targeted antitumor drug prolonged survival for women with cervical cancer which has spread to the nearby tissues or lymph nodes (i.e. locally advanced cervical cancer).
The research team, led by Dr. Angélica Nogueira-Rodrigues of the Brazilian National Cancer Institute, recently published their findings in the journal Cancer.
For patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (cancer that has spread only to nearby tissues or lymph nodes) cisplatin-based chemoradiation therapy (CRT) is deemed the standard treatment.
However, the researchers note there has been a lack of research into the benefits of this treatment since the late 1990s, and the therapy can be unpredictable and disappointing for patients.
With this in mind, the research team investigated a new treatment strategy. This involves targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) - a receptor that is commonly overexpressed in patients with cervical cancer.
Past research has shown that blocking EGFR can stop the development of tumors in a number of cancers, and erlotinib is a drug that is a known EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
Targeted therapy 'halts cervical cancer progression and prolongs survival'
For their phase 2 trial, the team tested the effectiveness of erlotinib in combination with cisplatin-based CRT in 36 women aged 18-70 years who had cervical cancer stages 2B to 2B.
The therapy was carried out for a median of 77 days, and the median follow-up duration was 59.3 months.
Results of the trial revealed that overall, all cancerous tumors disappeared in 34 (94.4%) patients.
At 2 years after treatment had ceased, 91.7% of the patients were still alive and 80.6% had no disease progression. A year later, 80% of the women were still alive and 73.8% had no disease progression.
In comparison, the researchers note that cisplatin-based CRT currently decreases mortality risk by 30-50% for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer who are undergoing radiotherapy.
Commenting on the findings, the study authors say: "To the best of our knowledge, the current study is the first to reveal that a target agent is safe and has promising activity against locally advanced cervical cancer when combined with CRT."
Based on their findings, the researchers say the combination of erlotinib and CRT warrants further investigation and this should involve the assessment of other potential biomarkers.
Researchers add, "In this context, a recent study has identified EGFR mutations in 36% of cases of squamous cell cervical cancer. However, this observation requires further confirmation and needs to be coupled with a thorough molecular characterization of cervical cancer to implement rational and efficacious targeted therapy for this disease."
A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine also assesses a new treatment option for patients with cervical cancer. It suggests that chemotherapy combined with a drug called Avastin (bevacizumab) may be able to extend the lives of patients in the advanced stages of the disease.
Source: Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/273738.php


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Atripla and Weight Gain
Many patients, pointing their fingers at Atripla as the culprit for their unexpected weight gain, would look for confirmation online only to find out that it’s not common for Atripla to cause abnormal fat accumulation or lipohypertrophy. What is commonly observed is that patients may gain up to 10 pounds after starting an effective regimen, regardless of the type of medications included in therapy. That weight gain in the first year of treatment is often referred to as a return-to-health phenomenon. As the body adjusts to HIV drugs, the weight loss caused by the infection is also being reversed. That doesn’t mean that Atripla cannot make you gain weight—many anecdotal pieces of evidence and experiences say otherwise—but body fat changes are found to be milder in this regimen. Because genetics also play a role in fat distribution, you may be one of the few people who would experience significant weight gain with Atripla. It is something you need to discuss with your healthcare provider. A change in regimen may not be the best solution if you have a constant suppressed viral load and no other bothersome side effects. But if you are gaining weight uncontrollably, have other comorbid conditions, or are at risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, and other metabolic problems, your doctor may suggest switching to a new regimen.
Atripla weight gain reports
According to eHealthMe, 4,693 patients experienced side effects on Atripla based on September 2018 FDA reports. Among these affected individuals, 0.92% or 43 people reported weight gain. It is more prevalent among male patients, ages 50–59 years old, and taking the drugs for 2–5 years. Aside from weight gain, the patients also experienced dizziness, insomnia, diarrhea, fatigue, and abnormal dreams.
However, the opposite is true in literature. One example is the observational cohort study performed by Norwood and colleagues in 2017. Among 495 patients taking Atripla, 136 switched to an INSTI-based regimen and 34 to a PI-based regimen. All patients gained weight over 18 months, but those who switched to DTG/ABC/3TC (Triumeq) gained the most weight (5.3 kg average).
In Gilead study 934, treatment-naïve patients were randomly assigned to receive Truvada or Combivir, both combined with Sustiva (efavirenz). At week 144, 286 patients from both groups switched to Atripla. The results from the study stated that:
- There was an increase in total cholesterol by 6 mg/dl in the Truvada to Atripla arm, while it fell by 6 mg/dL in the Combivir to Atripla arm.
- Bad cholesterol (LDL) levels remained unchanged in the Truvada to Atripla arm, while it fell by 9mg/dL in the Combivir to Atripla arm.
- Fasting triglycerides both fell for the two groups.
- There was no significant change in total limb fat in either group.
Why weight gain occurs with antiretroviral treatment?
Some people with HIV may have lost weight due to wasting syndrome before treatment. It is a severe consequence of the disease characterized by loss of muscle mass rather than fat. Many of these patients reported increased weight when ART was introduced, but this change is mainly due to fat and not muscle gain. This is only one of the many factors that play a role in weight gain while taking treatment. Other factors include psychological and emotional issues, physical injuries, poor diet, hormonal imbalance, sleeping disorders, aging, inactivity, and underlying medical conditions. When your healthcare provider tries to assess the cause of your weight gain, they will rule out these factors to know if you need to switch from Atripla to another regimen.
Also read: Atripla Side Effects
How to manage weight gain from Atripla?
Switching to anti-HIV drugs with less potential to cause fat gain is one way to fix this issue. However, it is not guaranteed that you will lose weight if you opt for a new regimen since other drugs, especially protease inhibitors, are also linked to lipohypertrophy. Changing your diet and getting more exercise will improve your overall health and bring back your weight to normal. If these lifestyle changes prove to be inadequate, there are medications and surgical treatments that could help.
- Human Growth Hormones (HGH) – For visceral fat, two HGH-related drugs have been shown to reduce fat in HIV patients. Somatropin (Serostim) is the synthetic version of the naturally occurring HGH. Tesamorelin (Egrifta), on the other hand, is a synthetic HGH releasing factor, which increases the production of growth hormones in the body.
- Leptin – Is a hormone naturally produced by fat cells. High levels of this hormone can suppress appetite and allow more fat to be used by the body. Leptin is injected under the skin twice a day.

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Former North Carolina football coach Carl Torbush, now the defensive coordinator at Kansas, is retiring to deal with prostate cancer, the school announced.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Defensive end Forrest West, who ranked second on Colorado's team with with 5 1/2 sacks as a sophomore last season, is transferring to N.C. State, Wolfpack coach Tom O'Brien announced today.
West will sit out the 2011 season and has two years of eligibility remaining. O'Brien also announced that linebacker E.J. Carter - a Syracuse transfer who has never played a down for N.C. State - has left the school.
In addition, running back Curtis Underwood has decided to return for his final year of eligibility.
West, who's 6-foot-1 and 260 pounds, played in all 12 games for Colorado in 2009 and made 10 tackles, broke up two passes and forced a fumble. He was honored as the team's most outstanding freshman after that season.
Last season, West made 19 tackles, including 8 1/2 behind the line of scrimmage.
West apparently left Colorado on good terms. In a statement meant to defuse "speculation and inaccurate rumors" earlier this month, Buffaloes coach Jon Embree said that West's departure had nothing to do with academic or disciplinary issues, a lack of commitment to the team, or questions about his ability to make substantial contributions to the team.
West is a native of Canton, Conn.
Underwood appeared in 10 games last season, carrying 15 times for 62 yards and catching a 12-yard touchdown pass.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Raleigh News & Observer columnist Caulton Tudor picks his Top 25 all-time ACC quarterbacks.
Player (last season) NFL impact ht.
1. Philip Rivers (NCSU ’03) Major 6-5
2. Charlie Ward (FSU ’93) None 6-2
3. Chris Weinke (FSU ’00) Minor 6-4
4. Boomer Esiason (Md ’83) Major 6-5
5. Homer Jordan (CU ’82) None 6-0
6. Shawn Jones (GT ’92) None 6-1
7. Matt Ryan (BC ’07) Major 6-4
8. Russell Wilson (NCSU ’10) TBD 5-11
9. Joe Hamilton (GT ’99) None 5-10
10. Shawn Moore (Va ’90) Minor 6-2
11. Norm Snead (WF ’60) Major 6-3
12. Ben Bennett (DU ’83) None 6-1
13. Danny Kanell (FSU ’95) Minor 6-3
14. Roman Gabriel (NCSU ’61) Major 6-4
15. Steve Fuller (CU ’78) Minor 6-4
16. Matt Schaub (Va ’03) Major 6-5
17. Tyrod Taylor (VT ’10) TBD 6-1
18. Aaron Brooks (Va ’98) Major 6-4
19. Darian Durant (UNC ’04) None 5-11
20. Jamie Barnette (NCSU ’99) None 5-11
21. Thad Busby (FS ’97) None 6-3
22. Woody Danzler (CU ’01) None 6-0
23. Chris Rix (FS ’04) None 6-4
24. Leo Hart (DU ’70) Minor 6-3
25. Rod Elkins (UNC ’82) None 6-1
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The ACC championship game will have a prime time kickoff at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, the conference announced today.
In its second year in Charlotte, the game will kick off at 8 p.m. on Dec. 3. An announced crowd of 72,739 watched at Bank of America Stadium last year as Virginia Tech defeated Florida State to win the ACC title.
The ACC also announced kickoffs and television assignments for the first three weeks of conference play. On Sept. 3, North Carolina plays host to James Madison at 3:30 p.m. in a Raycom broadcast; N.C. State opens at home against Liberty at 6 p.m. on ESPN3.com; Duke has a 7 p.m. home game against Richmond on ESPN3.com; and Appalachian State at Virginia Tech at 12:30 p.m. will be the ACC Network broadcast.
On Sept. 10, North Carolina's home game against Rutgers will be on the ACC Network at 12:30 p.m.; N.C. State plays at Wake Forest at 3:30 p.m. on Raycom; and Duke plays host to Stanford at 3:30 p.m. on ESPNU.
On Sept. 17, Duke visits Boston College at 12:30 p.m. on the ACC Network; North Carolina's home game against Virginia starts at 3:30 p.m. on ESPNU; and N.C. State plays host to South Alabama at 6 p.m. on ESPN3.com.
The ACC championship football game will be played Dec. 3, with kickoff at 8 p.m. at Charlotte's Bank of America Stadium, the ACC announced Wednesday.
The game will be televised live by ESPN.
It's one of at least 18 nationally televised games for the conference in 2011.
In addition, the conference announced that ACC network games will kick off later this season, at 12:30 p.m., and regional sports network package games will kick off no earlier than 12:30, with several starting at 3:30 p.m. or later.
ABC has committed to televising three games nationally: Two are on Sept. 17 with defending national champion Auburn visiting Clemson (Noon), plus either Oklahoma visiting Florida State or Ohio State at Miami (either ABC or ESPN, to be determined on Sept. 6). The third was previously announced, Boston College at Miami 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 25.
All the TV games announced by the league Wednesday:
(All times Eastern)
Date Game Network Gametime
Sept. 1 W. Carolina at Georgia Tech ESPN3.com 7:30 pm
Sept. 3 Northwestern at Boston Coll. ESPNU Noon
Sept. 3 Appalachian St. at Virginia Tech ACC Network 12:30 pm
Sept. 3 Troy at Clemson ESPN3.com 3:30 pm
Sept. 3 La. Monroe at Florida St. ESPNU 3:30 pm
Sept. 3 James Madison at N. Carolina RSN 3:30 pm
Sept. 3 Liberty at N.C. State ESPN3.com 6 pm
Sept. 3 William & Mary at Virginia ESPN3.com 6 pm
Sept. 3 Richmond at Duke ESPN3.com 7 pm
Sept. 3 Wake Forest at Syracuse TBA TBA
Sept. 5 Miami at Maryland ESPN 8 pm
Sept. 10 Rutgers at North Carolina ACC Network 12:30 pm
Sept. 10 NC State at Wake Forest RSN 3:30 pm
Sept. 10 Stanford at Duke ESPNU 3:30 pm
Sept. 10 Wofford at Clemson ESPN3.com 3:30 pm
Sept. 10 Charleston Southern at Florida State ESPN3.com 6 pm
Sept. 10 Georgia Tech at Middle Tennessee TBA TBA
Sept. 10 Boston College at UCF TBA TBA
Sept. 10 Virginia at Indiana TBA TBA
Sept. 10 Virginia Tech at East Carolina TBA TBA
Sept. 17 Auburn at Clemson ABC (National) Noon
Sept. 17 W. Virginia at Maryland ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU Noon
Sept. 17 Duke at Boston College ACC Network 12:30 pm
Sept. 17 Kansas at Georgia Tech RSN 12:30 pm
Sept. 17 Arkansas St. at Virginia Tech RSN 4 pm
Sept. 17 Virginia at N. Carolina ESPNU 3:30 pm
Sept. 17 S. Alabama at N.C. State ESPN3.com 6 pm
Sept. 17 Gardner-Webb at Wake Forest ESPN3.com 6:30 pm
Sept. 17 Ohio State at Miami ESPN or ABC (National) 7:30/8 pm
Sept. 17 Oklahoma at Florida St. ESPN or ABC (National) 7:30/8 pm
Sept. 22 N.C. State at Cincinnati ESPN 8 pm
Oct. 27 Virginia at Miami ESPN 8 pm
Nov. 3 Florida St. at Boston Coll. ESPN 8 pm
Nov. 10 Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech ESPN 8 pm
Nov. 12 Maryland vs. Notre Dame (Landover, Md.) NBC 7:30 pm
Nov. 17 N. Carolina at Virginia Tech ESPN 8 pm
Nov. 19 Boston Coll. at Notre Dame NBC 4 pm
Nov. 25. Boston Coll. at Miami ABC (National) 3:30 pm
Dec. 3 .ACC .Championship Game ESPN 8 pm
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Boston College and Miami have agreed to play their football game this season on the Friday after Thanksgiving, the ACC announced today.
Kickoff will be at 3:30 p.m. at Miami Gardens, Fla. ABC will televise the game nationally.
This will be the first time Boston College and Miami have met on a Friday since the famous game in 1984 that Eagles Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Doug Flutie won with a desperation, last play pass to Gerard Phelan for a touchdown and a 47-45 decision.


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Miss Scotland Linzi McLelland has spoken about the heartbreak of her father’s suicide as she campaigns to raise awareness of mental health issues.
Linzi says she wants to use the platform of this week’s Miss World final to “lose the stigma and shame attached to mental health illnesses”.
“I’m on a mission to let everyone know it’s okay to talk,” she said.
Linzi, 24, from East Kilbride, was left devastated by her dad Jim’s death and has spent the subsequent four years campaigning.
The business graduate has worked with and raised money for the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) and was invited to Westminster by Dr Lisa Cameron, the MP for East Kilbride, after she saw the work Linzi was doing around mental health.
“I am determined to use my time as Miss Scotland to raise as much awareness as I can for suicide prevention,” said Linzi, who is currently in China representing Scotland at the Miss World final.
“If by using this title I can raise the profile of suicide awareness and potentially save a life then my job is done.
“I will work relentlessly to let any young person in Scotland who is suffering with mental illness know that there’s another solution and there are people there to listen.
“This topic needs to be brought into the mainstream and can no longer be hidden.”
If you want to seek help or advice you can find a BACP counsellor or psychotherapist via the BACP’s Therapist Directory.
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RALEIGH, NC -- A bill that would regulate and tax video sweepstakes operations in North Carolina has yet another life in the state House.
The House Finance Committee met Tuesday to reconsider bipartisan-backed legislation to establish state and local privilege taxes on sweepstakes establishments and terminals and earmark state proceeds for public schools. No vote was taken.
Now, it's slated to get another hearing and possible vote Wednesday in the same committee. That news came several hours after the committee's senior leader suggested the idea was dead for the year.
The North Carolina State Lottery Commission would regulate the computer machines. Regulations would expire in April, but they could be extended, depending on a future state Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the games.


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The Humanitarian Catastrophe Report according to the country’s gender stereotypes experience severely limited the involvement of women in politics. In addition to a lack of sufficient health products, 6 hundred or so professions are prohibited how to date a ukrainian woman for women in Ukraine. A large number of maternal fatalities occur in education crisis situations. However , the situation in Ukraine is mostly a far cry from the situation in the United States, where women are generally marginalized in political and social sectors for decades.
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When these endeavours are positive, they are also fraught with potential risks. Amongst these dangers are sex-related violence, mistreatment, and harassment. Some aid workers record racially encouraged abuse and harassment, specifically at the region, wherever women of color happen to be left stuck in freezing temps without protection. Some aid workers have also reported hurtful abuse. This has left a psychological scar for the displaced girls. As a result, they can be working to preserve these patients.
In addition, the government must look into the requires of the Roma women in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government must take up policies that may improve the living conditions of the Roma. It should as well make conditions for the women’s people rights in law. The country’s people should not discriminate against Roma. Most citizens in Ukraine desire to protect the interests of your majority group. They are happy to support these efforts, but ought to avoid personal and legal boundaries.
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4. Did Hulk Hogan Hold A Grudge Against Vince McMahon in 1994?
On a recent episode of Eric Bischoff’s wrestling podcast, the former WCW President talked about how Hulk Hogan felt about Vince McMahon prior to signing with World Championship Wrestling in 1994.
Keep in mind that Hogan left the World Wrestling Federation on good terms in 1993 to concentrate on his career as an actor, first and foremost filming the TV series ‘Thunder in Paradise’.
Then when Hogan had already signed with WCW, his testimony in court during the infamous steroid trial eventually led to the Judge’s “Not Guilty” decision, and ultimately kept McMahon out of prison.
Here’s what Eric had to say about the entire situation:
“We did talk about it, clearly. I knew early on that there was a strong relationship and affection between Hulk and Vince. Even though they were at odds, there was tension and there was all this crap going on with the steroid trial. Deep down inside Hulk still had a deep affection for Vince and was disappointed in the way things had turned out but I never felt animus. I never felt like it was hatred or resentment or anything negative.
It was addressed, there were issues, clearly there were issues and Hulk had his side of the story and Vince still had his. It was apparent to me though that Hulk still had quite a bit of respect and affection for Vince.”


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2004-03-11 04:00:00 PDT Washington -- Washington may be getting the attention in the political battle over a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, but the real fight is in the states, where events are moving rapidly with enormous consequences for both sides.
The outcomes of these state battles -- about 30 -- will be much more immediate than any federal amendment, which faces formidable barriers to enactment. Proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage are pouring energy and money into ferocious state lobbying campaigns. Both sides believe these fights, primarily over proposed state constitutional amendments or laws to ban same-sex marriage, will lay the groundwork for an eventual U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
"This issue has seized the public's attention, and particularly for members of the gay community and people opposed to gay rights, everybody's working overtime," said Jon Davidson, senior counsel for Lambda Legal, which is leading the legal fight for same-sex marriage.
"The roof is leaking in 25 places, and we only have about 10 buckets to catch the water," Sheldon said. "It's not getting out of control. It is out of control."
Sheldon maintained that the actions of local officials such as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to permit same-sex marriages have sharply ratcheted up the stakes. "People who just don't have it on their radar screen or don't want to think about it are forced to think about it when they see a flouting of the law," Sheldon said.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay lobby, which this week will release a major report on the status of the marriage debate in each state, is consumed nearly full-time with the marriage issue, said Carrie Evans, the group's state legislative lawyer.
Sheldon said money is pouring into the coffers of conservative groups spearheading the fight to ban same-sex marriage.
"I'm not having to raise money," he said. "It is coming in. I got a check for $5,000 today. I got a check for $500 today ... they're just sending it in."
Just last Friday, Wisconsin's state Assembly cleared a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
In the past two weeks, three state legislatures -- in Maine, Indiana and Georgia -- narrowly defeated attempts to amend their state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. Georgia's measure failed by just three votes, Maine's by just one.
On March 3, Utah's legislature sent to its voters a November ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
On Feb. 18, Wyoming's legislature defeated an amendment to deny recognition of same-sex marriages from other states.
The Massachusetts Legislature convenes today for a second time a constitutional convention aimed at banning same-sex marriage.
To date, four states -- Hawaii, Alaska, Nevada and Nebraska -- have amended their constitutions to ban same-sex marriage.
Nebraska's amendment is being challenged in court by Lambda Legal Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union. The state's attorney general, Jon Bruning, told a Senate committee last week that a federal judge as much as said that Nebraska will lose the case and predicted it will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
"State constitutional amendments are not secure," Bruning said. "In Nebraska, ours is to be struck down ... and I think state statutes face the same risks," he said. He predicted that the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act will soon come under assault in the courts as well.
The key for gay rights advocates is keeping constitutional amendments away from voters. No ban on same-sex marriage -- even in liberal, Democratic- leaning states such as California and Hawaii -- has ever lost at the ballot box.
"When we work with the people and we have a ballot measure, we win," Sheldon said. "We have never lost when the people were voting."
For opponents of same-sex marriage, the key is passing a federal constitutional amendment that would supersede all state constitutions and thwart all court challenges. As social conservatives put it, a court cannot rule a constitutional amendment unconstitutional.
"So far we're winning in the courts," Davidson said. "I think we're increasingly winning in terms of public discourse, and I think it's too early to tell in terms of state constitutional amendments."
Sheldon agreed the state battles are too volatile for either side to predict victory, and he agreed with Lambda that the courts will be the ultimate arbiter. "It's going to wind up in the Supreme Court, and I hope and pray that we can win it there," Sheldon said.
After simmering for more than a decade, the marriage debate broke out nationally after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in November that the state must give gays and lesbians equal protection under state marriage laws. Events have followed with a velocity that has taken both sides by surprise -- and both claim to their advantage.
Davidson noted that the first same-sex marriage lawsuits occurred more than 30 years ago but were not taken seriously.
"I think in any civil rights struggle, people first start asserting their rights and are ignored, and then at some point, they are no longer ignored but tend to be belittled or not taken seriously," he said. "When they start to be taken seriously and people start fighting back is when you know you're really on the road to victory."
The advent of same-sex marriages, first in San Francisco, now in various counties around the country, and by mid-May, full-fledged legal marriages in Massachusetts, seriously complicates matters for opponents, he argued, in the courts and in the arena of public opinion.
"The thing that's really new over the last 2 1/2 weeks is we now have thousands of same-sex couples who have married in the United States," Davidson said. "So what previously was an abstract issue about rights and the institution of marriage, has turned instead into an issue about real families, about actual people."
He argued that it's harder for the general public "to say, take away somebody's marriage. People are having to think about this in terms of real couples and their real children and their extended families, rather than about the sanctity of marriage, whatever that is supposed to mean."
Sheldon argued that San Francisco's marriages and others around the country aid his cause.
"They are creating a leverage issue against themselves and the Democratic Party," Sheldon said. Religious conservatives are energized, he said, and unmoved by arguments by gay activists that the debate is over civil, not religious, marriage.
"I just laugh at them," he said. "The church can't give up on this issue. This is the bread and butter, this is the heart and marrow. It has nothing to do with the separation of church and state, it has to do with the survival of the Christian faith."
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are noncoding RNAs that function as post-transcriptional regulators of tumor oncogenes and suppressors. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in miRNA genes are a novel class of genetic variations in the human genome that are currently being identified and investigated in human cancers. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether SNPs in the miR-27a gene affect miR-27a expression and alter susceptibility to gastric cancer. Therefore, we conducted a case-control population study and the allele and genotype frequencies for polymorphism rs11671784 in miR-27a gene were examined in the study population. As a result, we found that the G/A polymorphism in the miR-27a gene exhibited a significant effect on gastric cancer risk. Compared with GG homozygotes, subjects who were GA heterozygotes or AA homozygotes exhibited a decreased risk of gastric cancer. The G/A polymorphism impaired the processing of pre-miR-27a to mature miR-27a, resulting in significantly reduced expression of mature miR-27a and an increased level of its target HOXA10. Furthermore, we confirmed these findings in in vitro studies by overexpressing pre-miR-27a carrying G or A allele. It provided further evidence demonstrating that allelic difference of rs11671784 is linked to gastric tumorigenesis. In summary, our results indicate that the G/A polymorphism in miR-27a gene (rs11671784) decreases miR-27a expression, reduces gastric cancer risk and plays a role in gastric tumorigenesis. This is the first study to address the role and function of miR-27a polymorphism rs11671784 in gastric cancer. These results could be useful to assess individual susceptibility of gastric cancer and will improve our understanding of the potential contribution of miRNA SNPs to cancer pathogenesis.
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We thank Xin Zhou and Wei Li (Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University) for collecting the clinicopathologic information utilized in this study. We thank Chengjie Liang (Laboratory Animal Center, Guangzhou Medical University) for assistance with the nude mice assays. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30771780, 30972443 to YJ and 81102099 to QY), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (9251018201000004 to YJ), the University Talent Program of Guangdong (2010-79 to YJ) and the University Talent Program of Guangzhou (10A003D to YJ).
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On Tuesday, the yield on the 10-year Treasury finally did something that has long been a part of the 2018 forecast, and that investors were supposedly bracing for. It crossed the 3 percent threshold.
It’s the first time above that level since 2014, and yields continue to tick higher today.
But as I said, given the Fed’s proposed path of three more interest rate hikes this year crossing 3% seemed more a matter of when than if, and yields had already flirted with this level, having traded around 2.95% just two months ago.
So why did stocks suffer a huge down day on Tuesday? Some site the breaching of 3% as a psychological level that also triggered algorithmic sell programs.
Others focused on more fundamental concerns, such as rotation from stock to bonds or that higher rates might choke off lending and therefore growth which ultimately could lead to a recession.
There are differing expectations about the chances of a recession. Whereas the flattening of the yield curve is worrying for many analysts, others suggest it’s only a temporary situation.
As Jim Bianco and others have discussed, it is not the 10-Year yield rising that is the problem, but the Two-Year Noted and shorter duration paper that has risen to 2%-2.5%. There is a great deal of borrowing priced to Libor, so the rapid increase in rates is projected to have a negative impact on profits.
If the Fed is right and wages are set to rise in response to potential inflation the feedback loop will cause forward earnings to be less than projected. This week we are seeing profit reports exceed already high projections but the stocks are struggling. In my opinion, this suggests that interest rates are going to be an investor concern as the profit story recedes.
Again, global central banks’ QE policies have provided an opportunity for businesses and consumers to gorge themselves on cheap debt. If you don’t believe that credit markets are significantly mispriced, then please explain to me how the Italian government can borrow two-year debt at -31 basis points.
Debt will become a headwind for the equity markets as the year progresses. Even the IMF had to raise concerns about the $164 trillion global debt overhang. Rising interest rates will impact profits. As for when, we don’t know. But the failure of equities to sustain rallies for the last seven days ought to concern investors. Let me add one more caveat about the recent rise in yields and the flattening 2/10 curve in the U.S.
The largest owner of U.S. Treasuries is the Federal Reserve, which still holds more than $3 trillion. The Fed does not hedge its portfolio. So, where raising rates would historically induce portfolio managers to sell futures or buy puts to insure against rising rates the Fed does not participate. So for those wondering why the curve is so flat it is because the Fed is raising short rates but curtailing supply on the long end.
A flattening yield curve has long been associated with foretelling a recession. That said, the popular 2018 forecast remains confident that there’s no immediate danger.
Diana Amoa, fixed income portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, told CNBC’s “Street Signs” that there’s a “very low” probability of a recession this year.
“We think for now it’s technically driven, the yield curve, given just how much central banks have distorted the supply dynamics.”
For now, I’ll agree that the rising rates are a function of positive economic growth and simple normalization of previously extreme monetary policy. And while there will be hiccups, stocks should be able to hold their ground in coming months.


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Sampath and Kota will be seen as villains in this film which is set in the backdrop of Guntur. The makers have planned to release the film on the 10th of February and some very interesting promotions are being planned for the same.
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