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African American And Caucasian Perceptions And Attitudes Toward Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Qualitative Study, Peter Warren, Stacie Pankow, Yvette Rother, Peggy Wagner Jan 2023
African American And Caucasian Perceptions And Attitudes Toward Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Qualitative Study, Peter Warren, Stacie Pankow, Yvette Rother, Peggy Wagner
The Qualitative Report
This study examined the attitudes held by both African Americans and Caucasians regarding colorectal cancer screening and the reasons why they avoid screenings even when clinically indicated by their physicians. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common and easily preventable types of cancer in the United States. If diagnosed and treated early prior to metastasis, the five-year colorectal cancer survival rate is approximately 90%. However, many patients avoid screening procedures for colorectal cancer due to a number of reasons. Qualitative data was gathered from focus groups and found four major themes that emerged in both groups: (1) reported …
Monkeypox: Facts For Faith Community Nurses, Melissa K. Travelsted Dec 2022
Monkeypox: Facts For Faith Community Nurses, Melissa K. Travelsted
International Journal of Faith Community Nursing
Faith community nurses provide services to diverse populations and should be aware of the recent monkeypox outbreak. The 2022 outbreak is dissimilar from previous as cases are occurring in non-endemic countries with no travel connections to endemic countries. Cases in the United States are mostly identified in the gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Symptoms of monkeypox begin with flu-like symptoms progressing to a sequential rash (macule, papule, vesicles, pustules, scabs). The distinguishing characteristic of monkeypox from other Orthopoxviruses is lymphadenopathy. There is no FDA approved treatment for monkeypox as most cases are mild and self-limiting, …
Technical Adaptations For Cardiac Sodium Mri, Taylor L. Marcus Oct 2022
Technical Adaptations For Cardiac Sodium Mri, Taylor L. Marcus
Cardiac sodium (Na+) MRI has the potential to unveil relationships between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Unfortunately, this modality requires many technical adaptations before it's possible to extract and compare image data between individuals. This study investigated whether cardiac electrocardiogram (ECG) gating could improve image quality, and whether a uniform phantom could increase signal uniformity if a surface coil is used to acquire the image. Healthy participants were imaged with a custom-built surface coil and 3.0-T MR system. Cardiac gated images presented with a decreased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), but intensity correction significantly increased image signal …
Classification Of Breast Cancer Histopathological Images Using Semi-Supervised Gans, Balaji Avvaru, Nibhrat Lohia, Sowmya Mani, Vijayasrikanth Kaniti Sep 2022
Classification Of Breast Cancer Histopathological Images Using Semi-Supervised Gans, Balaji Avvaru, Nibhrat Lohia, Sowmya Mani, Vijayasrikanth Kaniti
SMU Data Science Review
Breast cancer is diagnosed more frequently than skin cancer in women in the United States. Most breast cancer cases are diagnosed in women, while children and men are less likely to develop the disease. Various tissues in the breast grow uncontrollably, resulting in breast cancer. Different treatments analyze microscopic histopathology images for diagnosis that help accurately detect cancer cells. Deep learning is one of the evolving techniques to classify images where accuracy depends on the volume and quality of labeled images. This study used various pre-trained models to train the histopathological images and analyze these models to create a new …
Associations Between Cannabis, Psychosis, And Schizophrenia In Adolescents, Lauren Moment Sep 2022
Associations Between Cannabis, Psychosis, And Schizophrenia In Adolescents, Lauren Moment
Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research
The effects of cannabis use on the brain, mind, and body have been studied for decades. The developing brain, particularly the adolescent and young adult brain, undergoes critical development that makes it especially susceptible to the effects of cannabis use. Among the adverse effects of cannabis use in adolescence and young adulthood, psychosis and psychotic disorders (e.g., schizophrenia) have been examined. The association of cannabis use with schizophrenia was first elucidated in a Swedish study of army conscripts. Specifically, conscripts reported their cannabis use exposure and were followed longitudinally to assess the emergence of schizophrenia. The authors found that those …
Perioperative Risks Of The Patient With Heart Failure, Gabrielle Metoyer Jul 2022
Perioperative Risks Of The Patient With Heart Failure, Gabrielle Metoyer
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Perioperative Risks of the Patient with Heart Failure
Gabrielle Metoyer
Department of Nursing, Otterbein University
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Dr. Deanna Batross and Dr. Shivani Bhatnagar
According to the CDC (2020), heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood and oxygen to support other organs in your body. Heart failure is an epidemic disease affecting 1-2% of the population worldwide (Schwinger, 2020). It is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with an estimated 6.5 million adults with heart failure in the United States (Lo et al., 2021). Medical advances …
Pathophysiology Of Aortic Stenosis, Melissa Lee Jul 2022
Pathophysiology Of Aortic Stenosis, Melissa Lee
Pathophysiology of Aortic Stenosis
Melissa J. Lee
NURS 6810: Advanced Pathophysiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Dr. Deana Batross & Dr. Shivani Bhatnagar
Proper evaluation of co-morbidities is imperative for patient safety and successful outcomes for patients undergoing anesthesia. Aortic stenosis (AS) is one of the most complex diseases encountered in anesthesia, affecting five percent of older adults and ten percent of the 80-89-year-old-cohort (Joseph et al., 2017). The pathophysiological development of AS is the end result of an inflammatory process caused by endothelial damage from mechanical stress, …
Project Ankle-Brachial Index: Implementation Of An Evidence-Based Peripheral Artery Disease Protocol, Melaney Banks Jul 2022
Project Ankle-Brachial Index: Implementation Of An Evidence-Based Peripheral Artery Disease Protocol, Melaney Banks
Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a narrowing or blocking of the arteries due to plaque buildup, which prevents oxygen, blood, and other nutrients from getting to the legs. When this buildup reaches a certain point, it becomes atherosclerosis, which is more prevalent in a smoker. Smoking intensifies the problem of plaque buildup if an individual already suffers from PAD. When an individual smokes, the nicotine causes the arteries to constrict and narrow, reducing blood flow further. The ankle-brachial index (ABI) is a simple, cost-effective diagnostic test to identify the presence of PAD which will improve patient outcomes.
Purpose: This …
A Review Of The Pathogenesis, Clinical Features And Diagnostic Indicators Of The Novel Condition Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia, Ada Fleming Jun 2022
A Review Of The Pathogenesis, Clinical Features And Diagnostic Indicators Of The Novel Condition Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia, Ada Fleming
International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences
The introduction of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 infection was a welcome and significant event in the COVID-19 pandemic. While vaccine administration was for the most part successful, it did come with the emergence of a novel condition, Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT). This condition presents after the administration of adenoviral vector-based vaccines against COVID-19, causing thrombocytopenia and thrombosis in affected individuals. There have been 10 suspected cases of VITT in Ireland. While its mechanism is not fully understood, the condition is characterised by the presence of Platelet Factor 4 (PF4) antibodies. There are several laboratory indicators which may suggest that a patient …
Identifying Predictors For Inflammation-Induced Preterm Birth: A Murine Study, Tzu Ning Liu Bs, Jose Galaz Md, Nardhy Gomez-Lopez Phd Jun 2022
Identifying Predictors For Inflammation-Induced Preterm Birth: A Murine Study, Tzu Ning Liu Bs, Jose Galaz Md, Nardhy Gomez-Lopez Phd
Medical Student Research Symposium
Introduction: Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. A large proportion of preterm deliveries is affected by intra-amniotic inflammation, which can occur in the presence (intra-amniotic infection) or absence (sterile intra-amniotic inflammation) of microbes. Studies have shown an association between intra-amniotic inflammation, cervical shortening, and changes in the cervicovaginal microbiome. However, their causal relationships are unknown. This study aims to determine the causality of intra-amniotic inflammation, cervical shortening, and cervicovaginal microbiome alterations.
Methods: Pregnant C57BL/6 dams received an ultrasound-guided intra-amniotic injection of an endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or the alarmin interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha) on 16.5 …
The Role Of Age Ligand And Rap1a In Myofibroblast Signaling Cascade In Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus-Induced Cardiomyopathic Conditions, Camilla Puglia May 2022
The Role Of Age Ligand And Rap1a In Myofibroblast Signaling Cascade In Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus-Induced Cardiomyopathic Conditions, Camilla Puglia
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, taking more than 90,000 lives annually. Type 2 diabetes mellitus-induced cardiac fibrosis is a common condition seen in diabetic patients. The AGE/RAGE signaling cascade has been strongly associated with this supposed cardiac fibrosis along with hyperactive myofibroblasts which excessively remodel extracellular matrix tissue, leading to damaged and enlarged heart muscle tissue. In diabetic patients, Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) are produced in abundance and accumulate in the extracellular matrix of heart tissue. To investigate the role of of the AGE ligand on fibroblast behavior, increasing amounts of …
Case Report: How A Vallecular Cyst Could Have Become An Airway Emergency, Adam Kandil, Robin Lahr, Andrew Caravello May 2022
Case Report: How A Vallecular Cyst Could Have Become An Airway Emergency, Adam Kandil, Robin Lahr, Andrew Caravello
Vallecular cysts, also known as epiglottic mucous retention cysts are known to be generally self-limiting laryngeal lesion. They can however also be associated with airway obstruction, and dysphagia in infants. In adults, they are usually asymptomatic, and usually incidentally diagnosed. At times they are diagnosed during rapid sequence intubation, as they may contribute to endotracheal intubation difficulty. Moreover, there is question as to the correlation between vallecular cysts and the incidence of acute epiglottitis, as a vallecular cyst may become infected and cause a localized expansion of inflammation and infection. This expansion from the vallecula progresses to epiglottis.
A Case Of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis In An Adult Male With Bipolar Disorder, Jinisha Patwa, Tracey Harris May 2022
A Case Of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis In An Adult Male With Bipolar Disorder, Jinisha Patwa, Tracey Harris
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare demyelinating disease characterized by inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. The rapidly progressive inflammation in the central nervous system is known to occur in response to a prior infection or immunization.
The clinical signs of ADEM may manifest up to 60 days post illness or vaccination. Some develop encephalopathy and neurologic symptoms which include confusion, psychosis, and tetraparesis. Paresthesia of the limbs and muscular atrophy indicate a worse prognosis and higher risk of relapse as opposed to those with only CNS involvement. A predominantly psychiatric presentation is also possible.
Risk factors include …
A Case Report On Causes Of Covid-19 Induced Psychosis And Treatments, Jennifer Pires, Steven Sarner May 2022
A Case Report On Causes Of Covid-19 Induced Psychosis And Treatments, Jennifer Pires, Steven Sarner
COVID-19 is a viral infection that is caused by an RNA virus in a subfamily of Coronaviridae named severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS CoV 2). The family also includes severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS CoV) and middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS CoV) which have previously been shown to cause respiratory symptoms and psychosis with immunoreactivity to IgG.
A Puzzling Case Of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus In The Outpatient Setting, Shadi Shams, Asim Shafique, Marym Khan, James Bailey May 2022
A Puzzling Case Of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus In The Outpatient Setting, Shadi Shams, Asim Shafique, Marym Khan, James Bailey
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) is a disease of adulthood characterized by the triad of gait disturbance, dementia, and urinary incontinence. Since NPH shares a lot of characteristics with other disorders including neurodegenerative disorders and degenerative-dystrophic spine, it is usually underdiagnosed and undertreated. Combination of ventriculomegaly seen on a computerized tomography (CT) scan or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with clinical findings could be used in diagnosis of NPH. However, improvement of symptoms post spinal tap procedure would be a better indication of diagnosis. Currently, shunt placement is the best available modality of treatment for NPH. Here we present a case of …
An Herbal Liver Effect: Ashwagandha-Induced Hepatotoxicity, Mohammad Rattu, Eric Maddock, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Neeharika Bhatnagar May 2022
An Herbal Liver Effect: Ashwagandha-Induced Hepatotoxicity, Mohammad Rattu, Eric Maddock, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Neeharika Bhatnagar
Ashwagandha is a popular Ayurvedic herb that is derived from the extracts of the roots of Withania somnifera, an evergreen shrub endemic to India and Southeast Asia. It is generally utilized as a tonic to increase one's energy and reduce stress levels. Often referred to as "Indian ginseng", it provides neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory properties that address stress, pain, and fatigue. Additionally, it may assist in dealing with rashes, diabetes, and arthritis. It has also been shown to counteract the effects of aging. Though these properties have not been shown in prospective studies, it has become a popular product among western …
Case Report: Glioblastoma Tumor Presenting With Mild Changes In Memory, Samuel Thalathoti, Nicholas Palladino, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna May 2022
Case Report: Glioblastoma Tumor Presenting With Mild Changes In Memory, Samuel Thalathoti, Nicholas Palladino, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna
We report a case of a 66-year-old female who presented to the ED with generalized headache and mild confusion, who was diagnosed with high-grade glial neoplasm. The differential diagnosis of headache is vast, but without red flags or symptoms is generally from a benign cause and easily treatable. However, even in the context of a normal neurologic physical exam, symptoms such as confusion, forgetfulness, and behavioral changes should merit imaging in the workup. Glioblastoma is the most common brain tumor, accounting for 47.7% of all cases, with an incidence of 3.21 per 100,000 population. Median age of diagnosis is 64 …
Case Report: A Patient With Gait Dysfunction With Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Masquerading As Diabetic Polyneuropathy, David Parkes, Russell Mordecai May 2022
Case Report: A Patient With Gait Dysfunction With Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Masquerading As Diabetic Polyneuropathy, David Parkes, Russell Mordecai
New onset gait dysfunction often prompts admission to the hospital for further evaluation. The typical patient is an elderly person who normally is self-sufficient but had recently experienced a decline in their ability to care for themselves. Sometimes, however, those who present with gait dysfunction do not fit the expected demographic. These individuals raise concern for less common "zebra" presentations of neurological dysfunction. We describe one such rare case of a 39-year-old female with a new onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus and recent COVID-19 infection that presented to the emergency department with a sensation of bilateral lower extremity burning …
Case Report: Epigastric Abdominal Pain From Beverage Ingestion Of Freshly Squeezed Juice Of The Hardy Orange Flying Dragon Plant (Poncirus Trifoliata), James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, David Ho May 2022
Case Report: Epigastric Abdominal Pain From Beverage Ingestion Of Freshly Squeezed Juice Of The Hardy Orange Flying Dragon Plant (Poncirus Trifoliata), James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, David Ho
We report the case of a 25 year old male who presented to the ED with epigastric abdominal pain after ingesting a freshly squeezed beverage form of Flying Dragon Hardy Orange plant (Poncirus trifoliata). Poison control was contacted and recommended symptomatic treatment only. The patient's pain resolved while in the emergency department. Seed and rind preparations have been used as an herbal remedy in East Asia. Freshly squeezed Poncirus trifoliata can cause significant abdominal pain.
Case Report: Covid Arm (Covid Vaccine Arm), Joseph Pagano, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Henry Schuitema May 2022
Case Report: Covid Arm (Covid Vaccine Arm), Joseph Pagano, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Henry Schuitema
We report the case of a 38-year-old male physician who was vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. He experienced arm pain and swelling on the vaccinated arm as well as systemic symptoms, including fever, chills, headache and weakness. The systemic symptoms improved after the use of oral prednisone. A review of the literature on the COVID vaccine is presented.
Syncope Masquerading As Pulmonary Embolism, Melissa Itidiare Locke, Andrew Caravello, Melanie Angelo, Andrew Vasta May 2022
Syncope Masquerading As Pulmonary Embolism, Melissa Itidiare Locke, Andrew Caravello, Melanie Angelo, Andrew Vasta
Syncope is a clinical syndrome that occurs due to a period of inadequate cerebral blood flow that cause a transient loss of consciousness that usually resolves within 8-10 seconds) [1] Our case demonstrates a 56-year-old female who experienced syncope for the first time. The patient had an unwitnessed fall and subsequently had imaging studies performed. A discovery of a Sub-Massive Pulmonary embolism was revealed.
Case Report: Octreotide Associated Hyperkalemia, Darren Finn, Eric Maddock, James Espinosa, Andrew Caravello, Alan Lucerna, Henry Schuitema May 2022
Case Report: Octreotide Associated Hyperkalemia, Darren Finn, Eric Maddock, James Espinosa, Andrew Caravello, Alan Lucerna, Henry Schuitema
78-year-old female with past medical history of acromegaly status post pituitary adenoma status post resection presents to the emergency department with abdominal pain. ED workup was not significant for any acute intra-abdominal abnormalities; however, incidental finding of hyperkalemia was pertinent to the visit. Patient was treated in the ED for her condition but her potassium levels remained elevated despite repeated saline infusions. Patient was ultimately admitted to the hospital where it was discovered that she had recently been switched from octreotide injections to an oral somatostatin analogue Mycapssa. We believe that this patient's hyperkalemia was caused by octreotide-induced insulin suppression …
Case Study Of Metformin-Induced Lactic Acidosis, Kajel Patel, Kishan Patel May 2022
Case Study Of Metformin-Induced Lactic Acidosis, Kajel Patel, Kishan Patel
Metformin induced lactic acidosis is when high levels of metformin cause dangerously high levels of lactic acid. Here is a case report of a 72-year-old female who came in for nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea found to have a high suspicion for metformin induced lactic acidosis. She stabilized in the emergency department, nephrology and ICU was contacted, and she went for emergent dialysis. For many patients the prognosis of metformin induced lactic acidosis is poor. This patient was made comfort care by her family.
Wernicke'S Encephalopathy Secondary To Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Mohammad Rattu, Alexander Norinsky, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Henry Schuitema May 2022
Wernicke'S Encephalopathy Secondary To Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Mohammad Rattu, Alexander Norinsky, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Henry Schuitema
Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) is a neurological disorder secondary to thiamine deficiency that is precipitated by administration of glucose-containing fluids prior to thiamine supplementation. Though WE is typically diagnosed among alcoholics (12.5%), the prevalence among nonalcoholics can vary from 0.04-0.13%. Around 30-40% of patients with underlying thiamine deficiency will only experience one of the symptoms from the typical triad, with the complete triad (encephalopathy, oculomotor dysfunction/nystagmus, and ataxia) only evident among 5-16% of the population. Among the non-alcoholic patient population presenting with WE, a history of vomiting is more frequent. While nausea affects around 80% of pregnant women, an extreme form …
Digoxin Toxicity And Acute Renal Failure In A 75 Year-Old Female, Daniel Zaayenga, Andrew Caravello, Nicholas Tomasello May 2022
Digoxin Toxicity And Acute Renal Failure In A 75 Year-Old Female, Daniel Zaayenga, Andrew Caravello, Nicholas Tomasello
Digoxin toxicity can present with varying manifestations. While pathognomonic symptoms such as xanthopsia (object appearing yellow) are a board favorite it is not a required finding and is in fact not seen with most patients. Rather digoxin toxicity presents with more non-specific symptoms such as GI distress (anorexia, N/V) neurological distress (lethargy, fatigue, delirium, confusion, disorientation, weakness. EKG findings are varied and include premature ventricular contractions, bradycardia, atrial tachyarrhythmias with AV block, ventricular bigeminy, junctional rhythms, various degrees of AV nodal blockade, ventricular tachycardia, and ventricular fibrillation. Although rarely seen, digoxin is one of the only causes of bidirectional ventricular …
Comparing The Relapse Rate Between Medication Assisted-Only Treatment And Medication-Assisted Treatment With An Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Regimen In Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain, Karen Huang, Danielle Cooley May 2022
Comparing The Relapse Rate Between Medication Assisted-Only Treatment And Medication-Assisted Treatment With An Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Regimen In Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain, Karen Huang, Danielle Cooley
Since the opioid crisis first began in 1991, opioid-related overdoses in the United States have continued to increase dramatically, killing nearly 47,000 people in 2018, and making it one of the most pressing issues in healthcare. The most reported reason for misuse of pain relievers was to relieve physical pain. The increase in opioid abuse has also led to an increase in patients seeking medication-assisted treatment (MAT).
Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) has been shown to have efficacy in relieving both chronic and acute pain. No current studies have investigated the use of OMT as an adjunct treatment to MAT for …
Charles Bonnet Syndrome: A Case Report, Christian Scouarnec, Martin M. Forsberg May 2022
Charles Bonnet Syndrome: A Case Report, Christian Scouarnec, Martin M. Forsberg
Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) involves nonthreatening hallucinations in patients who have no neurological and no psychological abnormalities but with significant visual impairment secondary to ocular disease, such as macular degeneration, cataracts and diabetic retinopathy. When a patient loses vision, their visual system doesn't process new images. Without data coming through the eyes, the brain fills the void and makes up images or recalls stored images for you to see and this is what causes the hallucinations in CBS.
Many physicians are unaware of CBS and its prevalence, and with proper detection, physicians can help treat their patients with a frequently …
A Suspected Case Of Vaccine Induced Thrombosis With Thrombocytopenia Following Sars Cov2 Vaccine, Maryam Soliman May 2022
A Suspected Case Of Vaccine Induced Thrombosis With Thrombocytopenia Following Sars Cov2 Vaccine, Maryam Soliman
With the new development of the SARS-CoV vaccine and the majority of the population receiving this vaccine, it is important to recognize some of the rare side effects associated with it.
VITT is a rare complication of the COVID vaccine
Diagnostic criteria: COVID vaccine 4-24 days prior to symptom onset, any venous or arterial thrombosis, thrombocytopenia <150, positive PF4 HIT ELISA, markedly elevated D-dimer >4x ULN.
Vaccine Induced Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia is a potentially life-threatening diagnosis that must be recognized and treated correctly to prevent poor outcomes.
A Preliminary Report: The Hippocampus And Surrounding Temporal Cortex Of Patients With Schizophrenia Have Impaired Blood-Brain Barrier, Eric L. Goldwaser, Randel L. Swanson, Edgardo J. Arroyo, Venkat Venkataraman, Mary C. Kosciuk, Robert G. Nagele, L. Elliot Hong, Nimish K. Acharya May 2022
A Preliminary Report: The Hippocampus And Surrounding Temporal Cortex Of Patients With Schizophrenia Have Impaired Blood-Brain Barrier, Eric L. Goldwaser, Randel L. Swanson, Edgardo J. Arroyo, Venkat Venkataraman, Mary C. Kosciuk, Robert G. Nagele, L. Elliot Hong, Nimish K. Acharya
Schizophrenia (SZ) is one of the most severe forms of mental illness, yet mechanisms remain unclear. A widely established brain finding in SZ is hippocampal atrophy, and a coherent explanation similarly is lacking. Epidemiological evidence suggests increased cerebrovascular and cardiovascular complications in SZ independent of lifestyle and medication, pointing to disease-specific pathology. Endothelial cell contributions to blood-brain barrier (BBB) compromise may influence neurovascular unit and peripheral vascular function, and we hypothesize that downstream functional and structural abnormalities may be explained by impaired BBB.
Association Of Perceived Early Adequate Analgesia And Chronic Pain Severity, Sean Coulson, Sameer Akhtar, Brian Thomas, Aleesa Mobley May 2022
Association Of Perceived Early Adequate Analgesia And Chronic Pain Severity, Sean Coulson, Sameer Akhtar, Brian Thomas, Aleesa Mobley
Purpose: Establish if early adequate pain control is protective in the development of chronic pain syndromes.
Data collected via survey to patients being treated for chronic pain at the Neuromuscular Institute at RowanSOM
Data (small n) suggests patients with chronic pain have poorly controlled pain levels at the time of the acute event.
Anticipate with increased sample size will see a correlation between chronic pain prevalence and severity and perceived early adequate analgesia following the acute event.

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Black Conspiracy Theory 101: Did A U.S. Congresswoman Call For Hurricanes To Be Named Blacks?
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Why are U.S. hurricanes given names? Names are actually given to tropical storms but if they reach a sustained wind speed of 74 miles per hour, then they are deemed hurricanes. These types of destructive storms are given monikers because naming them makes it much easier for meteorologists, researchers, emergency response workers, ship captains, and citizens to communicate about specific hurricanes in a clear manner. So after decades of hurricane and storm names, did a Black Congresswoman demand that African-American names be included?
SEE ALSO: Black Conspiracy Theory 101: Did Cosby Buy The 'The Little Rascals' Rights To Keep Black Stereotypes Off The Air?
The practice of giving storms female names actually began in 1953, and in 1979, the names alternated between men and women. During the same year, the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Regional Association IV Hurricane Committee began using French or Spanish names for storms.
In July 2003, Sheila Jackson Lee (pictured), a Democratic member of Congress who represents the 18th District of Texas and a staunch supporter and member of the NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus, and a civil rights crusader, began criticizing the meteorological community for their blatant exclusion of African-Americans names for storms and hurricanes.
Jackson Lee felt all ethnic groups should be represented when referring to storm's names and the racist practice of giving "lily-white" names to these storms should come to an end.
What types of names did Jackson Lee want included for storms and hurricanes?
Names, such as Keisha, Jamal, and Deshawn.
At the time, Jackson Lee's campaign for giving Black names to storms/hurricanes caused incendiary criticism, with some feeling the new name demands would stereotypically label Blacks as violent. Even political blowhard Rush Limbaugh chimed in as a Jackson Lee critic, stating on his radio talk show that the mainstream populace was not responsible for what he called the "Balkanization" of race relations in America:
"It is these elected Black leaders, the civil-rights coalitions – they're the ones that keep causing all this racial divide; they're the ones that keep calling attention to all this." said Limbaugh. "They're the ones that keep stirring this pot. They're the ones who don't want there to be any colorblind society. They're the ones who keep being agitated and trying to agitate others over all this, and now it's descended into the meaningless element of the names of hurricanes!"
Thus far, Jackson Lee, whom many have criticized as someone whose only life skill is to cry "racism," has not been successful in her quest; it's been about 10 years and neither Keisha, Jamal or Deshawn has blown through any parts of these United States.
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SEE ALSO: Black Conspiracy Theory 101: Did Robert F. Kennedy Predict A Black Man Would Be President In 40 Years?
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REAch2 Academy Trust Announces New National Director of Education
Launches new era of leadership, collaboration and national connection across our family of academies
REAch2 Academy Trust is excited to announce the appointment of Andrew Rigby as their new National Director of Education, effective January 1, 2023.
"The selection of Andrew for this key position signals a bold, new era of leadership, driven by a desire for excellence in primary education, visionary innovation and collaborative working across our family of schools" said Cathie Paine, CEO. "With this appointment, we are excited to build on our touchstone values and strategic commitments in fresh and dynamic ways, to propel learning forward and continue our track record as a high-performing Multi-Academy Trust."
Mr. Rigby brings to his new position more than 20 years of progressively responsible leadership roles. This includes 10 years of senior leadership in an inner-city school and a Senior Curriculum Advisor for Excellence in Cities.
"I am thrilled, honoured, and deeply humbled to be joining an exceptional group of leaders, educators and employees within a Trust that is always aiming higher in its aspirations for children and families," says Mr. Rigby. "I look forward to sharing my passion for how great schools can make a real difference to children's life chances, while at the same time learning and collaborating with everyone I encounter on this exciting journey."
Mr. Rigby is currently the Director of Excellence and Standards at REAch2. Prior to that he was Regional Director for 16 schools across London, Kent, Suffolk and Sussex, a role he took up after 6 years in headship.
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A compass towards 2030
Navigating the EU's economy beyond GDP by applying the Doughnut Economics framework
As the world faces the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis, the political focus in Europe is on the need to build back better for a resilient economy and focusing on securing the health of citizens. Decision-makers in Europe put forth plans to address these issues, such as the 8th Environmental Action Plan, the Resilience Dashboards and the European Green Deal, while also considering the role of older policy processes such as the EU Semester or Sustainable Development Goals.
As each of the many ongoing processes have their own sets of indicators and corresponding targets to measure progress towards these indicators , policymakers are challenged to ensure targets across one policy area do not entail tensions and trade-offs with another. At the same time, policymakers need to be able to communicate the EU's progress to the public.
However, currently each of the EU's policy processes has its own monitoring dashboard, or one is planned. This proliferation of dashboards makes it difficult for decision-makers to grasp the EU's most important social, economic and environmental developments; to communicate social, environmental and economic progress to the public with a narrative fit for the challenges ahead; and to find harmony between tensions across policy areas.
To address these challenges, we propose an overarching dashboard with targets to 2030 which encompasses the priorities of and uses indicators and targets from across different EU policy processes. This dashboard should:
Track the EU's progress towards a regenerative economy in particular environmental sustainability, wellbeing and resilience.
Provide an easily accessible and cross-departmental summary of indicators of existing dashboards, including the resilience dashboards, the 8th EAP monitoring framework, the Social Scoreboard, the SDGs and the upcoming European Green Deal (EGD) dashboard.
Help to mainstream a beyond GDP agenda throughout the Commission and Member States' various services as a cross-cutting priority.
Give a clear visual representation of the EU's priorities that enables decision-makers and citizens to quickly grasp the EU's important trends and help readers to easily identify important interconnections between policy objectives that need to be balanced and gaps in goal achievement.
This report presents a set of 30 indicators and corresponding targets that can be used for this overarching beyond GDP dashboard, all of which come from existing EU data sources. This report also describes the methodology we used to define the indicators and targets as well as justifications for choosing each of them. We conclude with a set of six concrete recommendations for the EU Commission, EU Member States and the EU Parliament to consider based on our deep analysis of existing dashboards and our selection of indicators.
See Inventory of EU indicators for a compilation of over 450 EU indicators used in the development of this proposal.
See also the presentation slides and video recording of the EESC hearing, 3 November 2021, and the EESC own-initiative opinion.
Towards a thriving Europe beyond economic growth
Associated topics
Growth Independence	New Economic Thinking
Inventory of EU indicatorsExecutive summary: A compass towards 2030
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Home>Articles>Los Angeles, Oakland Push For Universal Income Projects
Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs. (Photo: Youtube)
Los Angeles, Oakland Push For Universal Income Projects
Coronavirus pandemic, economy, George Floyd protests spur cities to consider universal income
By Evan Symon, July 6, 2020 2:29 pm
Los Angeles and Oakland seek to join Stockton and Long Beach as cities trying out universal income, guaranteeing money each month to every adult regardless of work or other status.
A call for universal basic income
The mayors of the four Californian cities joined with other cities such as Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Newark in forming Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. Led by Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, the group aims to start universal basic incomes (UBI) for all adults with no strings attached and no say in how that money is spent.
While Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, and Mayor Robert Garcia of Long Beach have yet to implement or propose such a plan, Mayor Tubbs began a pilot in Stockton called the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) last year, giving 125 people who made under $46,000 a year a UBI of $500 a month. While the program has noted that more than half of the $500 each month has gone to groceries for families and that recipients 'sleep easier' at night, the program has also been found to be riddled with problems and did not help with many surrounding issues such as finding a job.
Support for UBI
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff (Photo: Wikipedia)
Despite the mixed results of the Stockton program, many cities are pulling for a UBI now due to the economic insecurity many are going through now due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the economic downturn, and the George Floyd protests still occurring more than a month since they began.
"This money is not getting wasted," said Mayor Schaaf in a statement over the weekend. "It is literally giving people the most basic level of economic security for their families.
"It's really showing how fragile Americans are in their wealth and it's showing just how big these racial disparities are."
Mayor Tubbs also weighed in on UBI being expanded following the major problems happening in the U.S. since March.
"The government has to correct the harms it has caused," noted Mayor Tubbs. "It can't do everything and it shouldn't do everything but when government has caused harm, then the government has a role in rectifying that."
Assemblyman Evan Low. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for California Globe)
Mayors for Guaranteed Income also notes a growing wealth gap, with white and Asian households making 8 to 10 times more than Hispanic or Black households. The Mayors also point to the fact that 40% of Americans cannot afford a $400 emergency as reasoning behind the UBI in their respective cities.
Many individuals, especially poorer citizens, have largely supported such a program.
"That's food and a big chunk of rent for a lot of people," explained Los Angeles community activist Edgar Ramirez in an e-mail with the Globe. "It's not just a want for many people. It's turning into a need."
In addition to the individual cities, an Assembly bill, AB 2712, authored by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), is also pushing for UBI. Under AB 2712, every California resident 18 or older who has lived in the state for at least three years whose income is not 200% higher than the median county income would receive $1,000. However, despite excitement over the bill earlier this year, the bill has not made it out of Committee and has yet to even receive a hearing, despite coronavirus related bills being given preference this session.
Opposition against UBI
Backlash against the Mayors for Guaranteed Income has been strong, with many cities, financial experts, citizens groups, and others opposing it on a variety of grounds.
"For every mayor that thinks this is a good idea, you have 100 other mayors and financial experts and citizens who are dead against this," said Los Angeles-based economist Dylan Mendel, who has studied universal basic income attempts since the 1990's, in an interview with the Globe. "It would offer some temporary relief, but it wouldn't solve anything. We've proven that.
"The SEED program failed to raise employment among those on the program, despite making people happier. This is parallel to all other UBI attempts, such as Finland's attempt a few years ago. And that's what we need now with a bad economy. We need people back at work and increased job generation, especially with the CARES Act and it's extra $600 a week for unemployed people ending at the end of July.
"All this would do is raise some spirits and pretty much be the no-limits replacement for food stamps. Everything else would suffer.
And that's not even getting into logistical nightmares, such as paying for such a program. If all cities followed Stockton's plan, that's $6,000 a year for millions of people in LA alone. Or if we did California as a whole under the Assembly plan, it's $12,000 a year for around 30 million or so people give or take a few million. That's astronomical. That's potentially hundreds of billions of tax money. It's insanity."
The question of how cities could pay for such a program during such a difficult economic time came up to Mayors for a Guaranteed Income earlier this month, with Mayor Tubbs responding that each city could use different methods, such as forming a group to find the money in the city budget or by creating public or private partnerships.
"It would all be short-term thinking," continued Mendel. "An expensive long-term situation like this would see giant complications. Look at what happened to Social Security.
"They're thinking for the now and what can alleviate things now and are not thinking long-term, especially when it comes to getting people back to work or where this money is coming from. I'm not even getting into other issues surrounding this.
"I'm just really happy at how many people oppose this."
More details about UBI plans in individual cities are expected in the coming weeks, should cities pursue the idea further amid the growing concern.
AB 2712 is not expected to pass in the Legislature.
Evan Symon
Evan V. Symon is the Senior Editor for the California Globe. Prior to the Globe, he reported for the Pasadena Independent, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and was head of the Personal Experiences section at Cracked. He can be reached at evan@californiaglobe.com.
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4 thoughts on "Los Angeles, Oakland Push For Universal Income Projects"
Queeg says:
The possibilities are endless……
NO. Besides being preposterous and impossible to sustain, this is not good for people, who need the dignity of work and of EARNING money.
What do we have here? The same leftist wackos pushing the same things, endlessly. Tell me, what good have they done —- in this state or anywhere else? They have only caused misery and destruction, and have consistently created situations where the OPPOSITE of what they say they wanted has occurred. They WANT failed programs; otherwise they have no one to rush in to "save" (really, to make worse) and thus absolutely nothing to run on.
Have you had enough of this ridiculous nonsense yet?
John the Patriot says:
WHAT THE HELL DO THE GEORGE FLOYD RIOTS HAVE TO DO WITH GUARANTEED INCOME? THESE DEMOCRAP MAYORS JUST SEEM TO THINK THAT DOLLARS FALL FROM HEAVEN. WE ARE GOING THROUGH A FORCED SHUTDOWN OF OUR ECONOMY AND DON'T FORGET THESE RIOTS THAT THESE SAME DEMOCRAPS ENCOURAGED RESULTING IN MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DESTRUCTION. MAYBE THEY GET THE MONEY FROM DEFUNDING THE POLICE? I HAVE A BETTER IDEA DEFUND WELFARE AND USE THAT MONEY TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR POLICE! BLUE LIVES MATTER!!!!
CW says:
Give the denizens of Oakland and other liberals cities a free income that way they will have more time on their hands to riot, loot, burn, rape and murder.


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Q: Google Cloud Functions googleapiclient.discovery.build() takes a long time To make use of Google ML Engine, I have the following two lines in my Google Cloud Function before I send predictions to my models with the recommended predict_json() function:
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Creating this service occasionally takes long (~6-7 seconds), however, the underlying mechanism is a simple HTTP request! I see the following log:
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I have looked through other posts in Stack Overflow and read related issues in GitHub including this one: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/issues/325. I tried creating my own cache object and passing it to the cache argument, and passing True to the cache_discovery argument. However, none of these worked. Specifically, the latter attempt results in a known error within Google Cloud API.
I need to decrease the run-time of the function, and would greatly appreciate if you have any ideas, suggestions, and comments. Thanks!
Edit: I am attaching a screenshot of logs as suggested:

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Bloomington mask drive closing while looking for new venue
Carol Kugler
At a time when wearing a face mask is considered essential by some health officials, the Bloomington Mask Drive, a volunteer effort to supply face masks to people in the Bloomington area, is preparing to close up its current operations at the Banneker Community Center.
"We have to be out of Banneker by the end of the month," explained Nola Hartman, co-founder of the mask drive. "We're kind of going dormant; we're not quitting."
The last day people can request face masks is June 20. The last face masks will be available for pick-up on June 24. All of the mask drive materials will be collected and moved by June 26, Clark said.
"The last two days will be packing things up and figuring out where they go," she explained. "For the most part, the plan right now is to store (the items) with the idea that we are going to start back up again in a limited way in a month or two."
Hartman and co-founder Kelly Clark are discussing options with volunteers, city officials and others in an effort to continue supplying face masks sewn by scores of volunteers. Bloomington Mask Drive began with Hartman and Clark working with others to sew and distribute face masks first at the Showers Complex outside of City Hall, then at Allison Jukebox Community Center and for the past month at the Banneker center. With people wanting to rent the Banneker center, it's again time for the mask drive to find a new home.
Clark said she was expecting the mask drive would have to leave its current location as more normal activities begin. The hope was that city or county officials might step in to help make the current mask drive program more official. But so far, that hasn't happened. Discussions with the public library and others may lead to new avenues for distributing face masks, she said.
"We have wonderful volunteers and many of them are willing to continue," Hartman said. "I feel like we have probably made a difference and that certainly was our goal. The more masks we get out there, the better it is for everybody."
Clark is considering an unmanned self-serve mask station. To that end, face masks will be available at the little free libraries around the city. Volunteers have already begun placing face masks in some of the little libraries, Clark said. That will continue for at least a few weeks.
Bloomington Mask Drive has distributed more than 20,000 face masks. Clark estimated they will collect about 25,000 face masks, all sewn by volunteers, before the operation ends its time at the Banneker center.
The face masks are given free of charge to anyone who requests them through bloomingtonmaskdrive.com. Many have been given to Shalom Center to help people who cannot afford to purchase a face mask, said Clark, who worries about how many people won't have masks available once the mask drive closes. She's also fearful that a second wave of COVID-19 might mean more people need face masks.
"We're going to be leaving a vacuum for all these people who want to continue making these masks and don't know where to put them," Clark said.
An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said recent study by researchers from the University of Texas and the University of California found that wearing face masks has prevented tens of thousands of coronavirus infections. The researchers assessed people in New York, Italy and Wuhan, China. The study compared infection levels of the public before and after the public was told to wear face masks.
According to an Associated Press article about the study, the scientists found that telling people in Italy to wear face masks prevented more than 78,000 infections between April 6 and May 9. In the city of New York, wearing face masks stopped more than 66,000 cases from April 17 to May 9, the scientists reported.
Requests for face masks can still be submitted at bloomingtonmaskdrive.com. The last requests must be received by June 20; the last masks will be distributed on June 24.


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Q: Query to Update Number of occurrences based on Case Persons in a Case

CaseNumber
PersonNumber
PersonType
ID
GroupID
State

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Plaintiff
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I have huge data like that. Each case would have at least 3 people. One Person from one case may exists in multiple cases. child can be multiple. I can start loop for any person. If One PersonNumber from one case exists in any another case  on any role then
1.I need to update the IterationID of Parent person to 1 and IterationParent to same PersonNumber based on whom another case found.
2. Update first occurred record IterationID to 2. and Iteration Parent to PersonNumber of found person.
Here I need to pick the PersonNumbers where IterationID 2 and continue the search in another case If another case found I need to update the IterationID to 2 and IterationParent to the PersonNumber of found person ID.
Please find attached expected result here.

A: Use the DENSE_RANK function to create an IterationID column and retrieve rows that have equal IterationID by selecting the first PersonNumber value using a select clause
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FROM cte t1

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Mufutau Yusuf: "In a way, I'm embarking on a pilgrimage to communicate with my forefathers"
Mufutau Yusuf is a Nigerian-Irish dancer, inspired by exploration of his own heritage, and by time spent training in the Austrian town of Salzburg. In his latest show, Òwe, which he'll perform at Dublin Fringe this weekend, he explores these differing roots in an attempt, ultimately, to understand himself.
Ahead of the show, I talked to Yusuf about drawing together all teh differing strands that make up hiw show, and who he is today….
First of all, give me a little background on your new show, and how it came about?
Òwe is a solo work looking into my Yoruba identity, my root and my connection to my ancestors and heritage. Using archival materials to examine the various facets of this identity, the solo is an attempt to deconstruct a personal ontology, and reformulate it into a new body of knowledge, experience and perspective, and in a way embarking on a pilgrimage to communicate with my forefathers. This piece also intends to interrogate our conceptions about archives and to redefine the notion of archives and how we understand the workings of what is contained in them.
What can the Fringe audience expect?
I guess the audience can expect a dance performance using a varied movement expression, sounds and imagery to question ideas about identity, history, and traditions. It's a personal, physical, and emotional piece that invites the audience to witness a journey of becoming.
What's your dance style, and how do you use it on stage?
I was trained in contemporary dance but over the years I've tried developing my own movements language that incorporate quick and explosive physicality, emotional engagement and added with theatrical expressions.
There are obvious Nigerian influences in your work. Being raised in Ireland, how do you relate to your roots?
Paradoxically I feel both close to and far from my roots. The closeness comes from my relationship with my father, who is in a way my anchor. I still speak Yoruba with him, I hear stories from him, and he keeps me up to date with the current affairs in Nigeria. He always reminds me of the values of our people and raised me and my brother according to those values.
He also often relates stories of my childhood adventures growing up in Nigeria, making my heart swell and nostalgic and keeping those memories alive within me. And top of that I've also stayed connected myself through the food, music, books and of course I'm an avid consumer of Nollywood drama.
The distance I feel obviously comes from the fact that I was away from Nigeria for 20 years, only revisiting this year. This became more difficult to endure during my mid-twenties as I started to really question who I was and where I came from, despite having my father as a reference. Realising the gulf that existed between myself and my kins was jarring and I guess it's what prompted me to make
this work.
Can you tell me about how you use the proverbs your dances are based on to inspire your work?
The piece isn't exactly about proverbs, rather the proverbs were reference points in allowing me to understand what I wanted to communicate in different parts of the piece. I'm not particularly animating or physicalising the proverbs, but I use them to contextualise the movements or theatrical elements, as well as the imageries and sounds and set.
The piece is in a way segmentized into parts and each part could embody some of the proverbs that I collected in the process, and furthermore the whole show can be tied up into a single message that underlies a lot of Yoruba proverbs which is knowing thyself or becoming one with your 'Ori' (one's intuition and destiny).
Is there a broader narrative to Òwe, and if so, what does it say?
On one hand the broader narrative is me trying to understand and unify the fragments of myself, getting closer to my roots and attempting to communicate with my ancestors, using everything I can find around me (in this case the various archives I have available to me). And on the other hand, I want to challenge the way we look at archive and what constitute them, and hoping to inspire others to reflect on their own self, the stories contained within and their roots.
I understand Òwe is multifaceted, in terms of bringing in different disciplines and concepts. How do you draw together, for example, sound and stage lighting, movement and style?
I think everything got tied together on the basis of what I was trying to communicate and how my collaborators understood this. I gave them freedom to experiment and the things that came out, I stringed together using my intuition and instinct. I had to trust what was manifesting and when something was not working, I either put it to the side and come back to it later or do without it altogether. And because I'm also using existing archival materials for sound and imagery and reworking them, I had to constantly readjust and reposition those materials in way to find what resonated and communicated with me.
What are the modern and contemporary elements of your work?
The contemporary elements exist through where I situate myself at this point in time, looking back into the past and making sense of what I observe with a more contemporary language and outlook. That also means approaching more traditional movements and expressions with a personal touch that is informed by my current experiences. As well, the digital element highlights the more modern aspect of the show, and it's interesting how this weave with the traditional and ritualistic elements.
How has your education in Salzburg played into what you do today?
This period, I would say was my formative period. The school gave me so much and planted the seed for what I wanted to achieve as a dance artist, especially my last year there. The various techniques and approaches, and how the program was designed offered me more than I thought and it's only after graduating that I realised the full extent of that. And that said, the people that I met along the way and what we shared was something truly special too.
I'm asking myself the same question, but hopefully something exciting.
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Description: This collection consists of general letters and correspondence, daily reports, minutes, applications, articles, booklets, and photographs concerning the Ed Hamlettt White Folks Project, including a 45-minute videotaped interview with the sister of a WFP volunteer.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Ray Money, Jr., a freshman at Georgia Tech, is interested in taking part in a work-study program mentioned in a Council of Federated Organizations memo. He is uncertain about how useful he can be due to his age but asks for more information. The original recipient is not known, but a handwritten note instructs to forward the letter to Ed Hamlett.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Braden's letter states her commitment to civil rights and expresses her frustration with being unable to participate in the civil rights movement due to her daughter Anita's heart condition. The document also has a hand-written note from Braden to Ed [Hamlett].
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Marjorie Ann Henderson, a student at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, writes to Ed [Hamlett], state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to tell him school will be out in two weeks and she will be coming to Mississippi to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Bruce Maxwell, in his letter to Ed [Hamlett], expresses his reservations and aspirations for poor whites, African-Americans, and the Freedom Democratic Party in Mississippi.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Cele Meyer, in her letter to Ed [Hamlett], explains that family responsibilities will prevent her from participating in the Mississippi Freedom Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Susan Solf writes to Ed [Hamlett], state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), that despite strong pressure from her father, she will participate in the Mississippi Freedom Project. Two photographs of Solf are included.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Shaw writes that, despite his use of a wheelchair, he is willing to work in any capacity that Ed Hamlett, state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), deems appropriate.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Diana Chiarky's letter replies to a May 29 letter from Ed Hamlett about Mississippi Freedom Project work. Chiarky asks about requirements, length of assignment, and a salary. She also expresses interest in self-fulfillment and uncertainty about being able to withstand possible intimidation.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. In Susan Solf's letter to Ed [Hamlett], Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), she writes of her inability to raise enough money to travel to the training session as the reason why she will be unable to participate in the Project until possibly later in the summer.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Feeling that working with the White Folks Project (WFP) in Mississippi would put his Mississippi parents in jeopardy, Philip Alden asks to be assigned duties with the southwest Georgia Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Philip Alden's letter indicates frustration caused by a lack of communication from the White Folks Project (WFP), and by his inability to forward a $50 check for the Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. In the notecard, Margaret [Burnham?] writes to Ed [Hamlett], Mississippi's state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to express her view that the Project is losing its good people. Possible author of this note is Margaret Burnham.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Janet McNeill writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi's state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to tell him that due to unforeseen family circumstances, she must decline being a part of the Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Janet McNeill writes that due to unforeseen family circumstances she must decline being a part of the Mississippi Freedom Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. The document is the application of Janet McNeill for the Mississippi Summer Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. The document contains Marcia Aranoff's recommendation that Jan [Janet] McNeill be included in the Mississippi Freedom Project as a worker.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Robert B. McNeill, the father of Janet McNeill, gives his permission for her to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This document is the information card on Janet McNeill.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Soren Sorenson writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks project (WFP), to communicate travel plans to Ohio and Mississippi for orientation and work with the Mississippi Freedom Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Strickland writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to tell him she will miss the training sessions. She also writes that she will probably be unable to post bond if she is arrested, since she will only have $20 left on her arrival in Mississippi.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Strickland writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to tell him that her parents will provide bail money, if needed, and that she may be able to arrive in Mississippi by July 21.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Strickland writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), that she will arrive in Jackson on July 17 in time to attend the orientation that weekend.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Due to his work with a parish, Rolland Kidder informs Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project, that he must cancel his plans to work in the Mississippi Freedom Project. He offers that, if needed for a week in August, he may be able to arrange leave from work.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. The memorandum is Rolland Kidder's withdrawal of participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Marion Palfi, who is doing a nationwide, photographic study on events since the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court, writes to Ed Hamlett seeking to interview and photograph the work of the Mississippi Freedom Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Virginia Scott writes to Ed [Hamlett] that she will be unable to work with him in Mississippi and asks about his plans for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) for September 1964 and after. She also asks how white Mississippians react to the deaths of Scherner, Chaney, and Goodman.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Braden's letter to Ed [Hamlett] is typed on Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) letterhead and is a response to Hamlett's earlier letter. She explains her delay in writing and promises to answer his questions more fully, and writes of materials she is sending to him under separate cover. Hamlett's questions are about allegations that SCEF has ties to communism and about a program of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) funded by SCEF. The letter includes a hand written note on the desired qualifications for applicants and a typed list of the Board of Directors and Advisory Committees for SCEF.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This typewritten document describes uses of role playing and gives examples for the purpose of training Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteers for real life situations they may face as civil rights workers.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. The letter from Charles Smith to Ed [Hamlett] bears a stamp from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter at The University of Texas at Austin. Smith writes that he has applied to the Jackson office of Council of Federated Organizations and that he wants to learn about community organizing activities by working as a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteer. He also asks whether, if he cannot raise funds to be self-sufficient, SNCC can subsidize his work for them. He writes about SDS activities at UT Austin, including a recent meeting at which Mark Lane spoke about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the investigation of Oswald. Smith makes a case for increased cooperation among three civil rights-oriented groups: SDS, SNCC, and the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC).


QUESTION: Why did the woman NOT cross the road?
It was quite odd to see this couple transfixed in that spot for a good five minutes or so. But since the lady was wearing a fur cape, I understood their dilemma. Right in front of the Escada boutique camped a group of anti-fur protesters.
MAN: Honey, I really need to go to Dunhill to get myself a new pair of gloves.
WOMAN: Do you mind going by yourself? I spy unfriendly forces on the other side.
MAN: We went all the way to New York to do our shopping and now you're telling me I have to go and pick stuff on my own?
WOMAN: But my safety is at stake here!
It's a dangerous world out there, I tell you.
I hate PETA because of their pretentiousness and hypocrisy.
Honestly, it's not really a social responsibility thing- what they're doing. They're just there to sabotage fashionistas.
Seriously, PETA is a seasonal thing. Remember how Linda Evangelista used to be the poster girl of their "I'd rather be naked than wear fur" then a few years later she's starring in the ad campaigns of an American fur house.
Their methods are just not right. I despise them too much. Sorry for such strong and blatant attacks on PETA!