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#Lee Sang-ho #K League #football
FC Seoul midfielder faces discipline after DUI
All News 12:01 December 07, 2018
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean football player who concealed drunk driving charges is set to face disciplinary action from the pro football league, officials here said Friday.
The K League said FC Seoul midfielder Lee Sang-ho will receive punishment from the disciplinary committee after he hid his misconduct and played matches in the K League 1.
"The K League disciplinary committee will soon convene a meeting to discuss the penalty against Lee," an official at the K League said.
Lee, 31, was indicted for driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol in September after the police caught him with a blood alcohol content level of 0.178 percent. He later received a four-month prison sentence suspended for two years from a local court.
But Lee, a veteran who has played more than 300 league matches, apparently didn't report his DUI charges to the club and played five matches even after his conviction.
Before receiving the discipline committee's verdict, the K League is likely to suspend his active status. Under K League rules, the league office can suspend a player found guilty of misconduct for up to 60 days before the discipline committee officially metes out a punishment.
The 2018 K League 1 season is not over for Seoul as they are currently engaged in a promotion-relegation playoff with Busan IPark FC. Seoul will play the second leg of the playoff at home on Sunday after winning the first leg 3-1 on Thursday.
The club said they will also mete out disciplinary action against Lee regardless of the K League punishment.
Lee made his pro debut in 2006 with Ulsan Hyundai. He played for Suwon Samsung Bluewings before moving to Seoul in 2017. He played one match for the South Korean national team in 2009.

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Q: How to connect to rabbit on vagrant host? I set up a server using vagrant on a virtual machine. After installing rabbitmq, I tried to connect to it using script outside VM. There's already Django and RabbitMQ running on VM. After running a script I have an exception:
pika.exceptions.IncompatibleProtocolError: StreamLostError: ('Transport indicated EOF',)

How to solve my problem?
My friend already used the code provided below on raspberryPi which actually managed to execute it. The only thing I changed on my PC was the hostname changed from the specified IP to my '127.0.0.1'and I added the port number.
import pika
import sys
import random
import time

credentials = pika.PlainCredentials(username='admin', password='admin')
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host='127.0.0.1',port=15672,credentials=credentials))

channel = connection.channel()
channel.queue_declare(queue='hello',durable=True)

Error message:
$ python send.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "send.py", line 8, in <module>
    connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host='127.0.0.1',port=15672,credentials=credentials))
  File "C:\Users\Pigeonnn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pika\adapters\blocking_connection.py", line 360, in __init__
    self._impl = self._create_connection(parameters, _impl_class)
  File "C:\Users\Pigeonnn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pika\adapters\blocking_connection.py", line 451, in _create_connection
    raise self._reap_last_connection_workflow_error(error)
pika.exceptions.IncompatibleProtocolError: StreamLostError: ('Transport indicated EOF',)

A: @Pigeonnn provided the answer to his own question in his own comment to the original question on this very post:

Actually I've just found a solution. The thing is if you want to
listen to rabbitmq you need to connect through port 5672 - not 15672.
Changed ports, forwarded and everything works :)

A: Stating the docs and highlighting the response, RabbitMQ listening ports are:
AMQP:       5672
AMQP/ssl:   5671
HTTP management UI: 15672

A: first forward the a host port to a guest port on Vagrant in the vagrant configuration file (Vagrantfile). Beware to not utilise a host port that is already used.
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5672, host: 5671  # Rabbit
end

then connect like so:
credentials = pika.PlainCredentials(username='admin', password='admin')
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host='127.0.0.1',port=5671,credentials=credentials))

don't forget to configure the user admin accordingly.

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lisa / 8th July 2020
Review: Notes to Self by Emily Pine
Title: Notes to Self
Author: Emily Pine
'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'
In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century – its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, she writes with radical honesty on birth and death, on the grief of infertility, on caring for her alcoholic father, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly wise – and joyful against the odds – Notes to Self offers a portrait not just of its author but of a whole generation.
Emily Pine's collection of essays Notes to Self is candid, raw and full of emotions. Within this small collection she talks about many subjects but the ones that stick out are her desperation for a baby and the ones about dealing with her father's battle with alcoholism.
You cannot help but ache along with Pine and hope that everything works out for her. Whilst the topics are very sad and – at times – heartbreaking there is an overall sense of optimism that you have once you have turned the final page.
Notes to Self is a very good but difficult read.
Notes to Self by Emily Pine is available now.
For more information regarding Penguin (@PenguinUKBooks) please visit www.penguin.co.uk.
Title: The Panic Years
Author: Nell Frizzell
Publisher: Random House/Transworld Publishers/Bantam Press
The Panic Years: something between adolescence and menopause, a personal crisis, a transformation.
The panic years can hit at any time but they are most commonly triggered somewhere between the ages of twenty-five and forty. During this time, every decision a woman makes – from postcode to partner, friends to family, work to weekends – will be impacted by the urgency of the one decision with a deadline, the one decision that is impossible to take back: whether or not to have a baby.
But how to stay sane in such a maddening time?
How to understand who you are and what you might want from life?
How to know if you're making the right decisions?
Raw, hilarious and beguilingly honest, Nell Frizzell's account of her panic years is both an arm around the shoulder and a campaign to start a conversation. This affects us all – women, men, mothers, children, partners, friends, colleagues – so it's time we started talking about it with a little more candour.
I am 36 years old. Well, I will be 37 this year and so this book, The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell should, in theory, speak to me.
Nell Frizzell is looking at things that society deems important to a 30+ year old. Things like marriage, children, and early menopause. And whilst I have thought about those things they aren't necessarily a massive concern. I can see the reasons why Frizzell wrote about them and I admire her candid approach – at times she comes across as a little cuckoo and obsessed with time running away from her – but I think for me personally I didn't mirror her concerns. I think The Panic Years would be a perfect book for someone looking for reassurance – in particular about becoming a mum – but it didn't resonate with me because I don't necessarily want the same things as her.
The Panic Years is well written and I think more books like this are needed. Women need to have their voices heard on subjects that are generally kept quiet and hidden and it needs bold voices like Nell Frizzell and so I admire her greatly for her writing and her honesty.
The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell is available now.
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lisa / 1st April 2020
Review: Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
Title: Recollections of My Non-Existence
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Granta Publications
In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, and the authority figures that routinely disbelieved her. That violence weighed on her as she faced the task of having a voice in a society that preferred women to shut up or go away.
Set in the era of punk, of growing gay pride, of counter culture and West Coast activism, during the latter years of second wave feminism, Recollections of My Non-Existence is the foundational story of an emerging artist struggling against patriarchal violence and scorn. Recalling the experience of living with fear, which Solnit contends is the normal state of women, she considers how oppression impacts on creativity and recounts the struggle to find a voice and have it be heard.
Place and the growing culture of activism liberated her, as did the magical world of literature and books. And over time, the clamour of voices against violence to women coalesced in the current feminist upheaval, a movement in which Solnit was a widely audible participant. Here is an electric account of the pauses and gains of feminism in the past forty years; and an extraordinary portrait of an artist, by a seminal American writer.
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit is a palate cleanser of a book. It is a series of essays that create a memoir. The collection, whilst being specific to Rebecca Solnit's life equally acts as a record of social change dealing with issues such as sexual assault, gentrification, race, and feminism.
Some essays are more enjoyable than others but it is an interesting collection.
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit is available now.
lisa / 25th August 2019
Review: All the Lives I Want by Alana Massey
Title: All the Lives I Want – Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to be Famous Strangers
Author: Alana Massey
Mixing Didion's affected cool with moments of giddy celebrity worship, Massey examines the lives of the women who reflect our greatest aspirations and darkest fears back onto us. These essays are personal without being confessional and clever in a way that invites readers into the joke. A cultural critique and a finely wrought fan letter, interwoven with stories that are achingly personal, ALL THE LIVES I WANT is also an exploration of mental illness, the sex industry, and the dangers of loving too hard. But it is, above all, a paean to the celebrities who have shaped a generation of women–from Scarlett Johansson to Amber Rose, Lil' Kim, Anjelica Huston, Lana Del Rey, Anna Nicole Smith and many more. These reflections aim to reimagine these women's legacies, and in the process, teach us new ways of forgiving ourselves.
All the Lives I Want is a collection of essays that celebrates women. It holds a mirror up to society and shows how women are not so subtly pitted against one another or how they are sexualised or how they are forced into submissive roles. It truly is a book to put fire in your belly.
Part memoir/part journalism, Massey's penned thoughts percolate in the brain giving you food for thought long after you have finished reading.
All the Lives I Want – Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey is available now.
For more information regarding Alana Massey (@AlanaMassey) please visit www.alanakm.com/books/
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lisa / 12th July 2019
Review: Others by Charles Fernyhough
Title: Others – Writers on the Power of Words to Help us See Beyond Ourselves
Author: Charles Fernyhough
Publisher: Unbound
It doesn't take much familiarity with the news to see that the world has become a more hate-filled place. In Others, a group of writers explore the power of words to help us to see the world as others see it, and to reveal some of the strangeness of our own selves.
Through stories, poems, memoirs and essays, we look at otherness in a variety of its forms, from the dividing lines of politics and the anonymising forces of city life, through the disputed identities of disability, gender and neurodiversity, to the catastrophic imbalances of power that stands in the way of social equality. Whether the theme is a casual act of racism or an everyday interaction with someone whose experience seems impossible to imagine, the collection challenges us to recognise our own otherness to those we would set apart as different.
Contributors include: Leila Aboulela, Gillian Allnutt, Damian Barr, Noam Chomsky, Rishi Dastidar, Peter Ho Davies, Louise Doughty, Salena Godden, Colin Grant, Sam Guglani, Matt Haig, Aamer Hussein, Anjali Joseph, A. L. Kennedy, Joanne Limburg, Rachel Mann, Tiffany Murray, Sara Novic, Edward Platt, Alex Preston, Tom Shakespeare, Kamila Shamsie, Will Storr, Preti Taneja and Marina Warner.
Much like the recent release Common People by Unbound, Others is a collection of essays, short stories, and poems of what it is like to be 'other'.
What I learned from reading this wonderful collection is that there are so many relatable ways to feel other and that by sharing these kind of stories is so important because it makes you feel less alone.
Please support Unbound publishers because they really do release great books and support brilliant undiscovered writers.
Others – Writers on the Power of Words to Help us See Beyond Ourselves by Charles Fernyhough is available now.
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Did Hamilton Write Too Much For His Own Good?
October 24, 2017 By Joseph M. Adelman in Research Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, federalist papers, Hamilton: An American Musical, Ratification	2 Comments
Hamilton wrote … the other FIFTY-ONE!
You probably know that line about the Federalist from the Act One finale of Hamilton, "Non-Stop," in which Aaron Burr repeatedly asks Hamilton, "how do you write like you're running out of time?" In the musical, his indefatigable pen is treated as a virtue (and yes, I have at times listened to the number on repeat to motivate my own writing). By contrast, scholars frequently point out that the eighty-five Federalist essays were not widely reprinted when they were first written in late 1787 and early 1788, even if they have since garnered attention as a clear statement of the views of (some of) the Founders on the meaning of the Constitution.[1]
The most common point of evidence used against the influence of the Federalist is the frequency with which essays were reprinted (or lack thereof). The last thirty-four numbers, we know, were only printed in three newspapers each, all of them in New York City. So much for national influence! But I want to re-frame the question about the Federalist with a question that's so simple (and possibly too clever by half) that it seems not worth asking: what if Publius, the pseudonymous author, went on too long to be considered widely influential? To be clear, I mean this question in a lighthearted way, and the research/analysis I'm about to share could sit in Merriam-Webster as an example for the word "inchoate." But let me walk you through some numbers.
In the past few weeks, the revisions on my book manuscript have led me into the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (DHRC), the amazing compendium of documents about the ratification debates. Because I'm most interested in what was happening in the newspapers, I've spent the majority of my time working with the volumes on newspaper debates. As part of that work, I started a spreadsheet to track how often essay series were reprinted across the states, using data from the DHRC appendices for Volumes XIII-XVII.
The DHRC included sixteen essay series where the same author (that is, the same pseudonym, regardless of how many individuals penned the essays) published at least two numbers under the name. The Federalist, obviously, was by far the longest series—coming in second was Centinel, which eventually numbered eighteen essays. Let's start though just with the Federalist. Here's what a chart of its reprintings looks like:
Very quickly the pattern that most of us know becomes apparent. Early numbers were reprinted not only in New York but also other cities, but that number quickly dwindles to the point where only New York City papers were publishing the essays. If you work out the average for the series, it comes out to just under five reprintings per number. And it never achieved the peak of a few other series. The most reprinted Federalist, Nos. 2 and 3, appeared in thirteen newspapers, while Landholder and An American each had numbers reprinted more than twenty times, and Centinel's most popular essay (No. 1 in that series) appeared in nineteen newspapers.
But all of that takes the various series as whole entities. As I noted above, though, the Federalist went on for almost seventy more essays than any other series during the ratification debates. So I charted the reprintings of the Federalist and all other series up through No. 18 (where the Centinel ended).
Now the Federalist (highlighted as the slightly thicker light-blue line in the chart) looks a bit less like an outlier. To be sure, it was not the most reprinted, but Hamilton, Madison, and Jay held their own when we line them up with other series in this way. Number 18 of the Federalist appeared in six newspapers, something that only two others (Nos. 19 and 23) would achieve, so it's after this point—when all other essayists set down their pens—that the reprintings decline to the level which scholars lament as a lack of influence. And if we look at the data in one more way, by comparing the Federalist to the average reprintings for each number of essay series (through No. 12, which six series achieved), it doesn't look that bad at all.
Through its twelfth essay, the Federalist actually achieved a slightly better than average circulation to newspapers. In other words, when you line them up essay-by-essay, the Federalist looks like many other essay series. The problem, so to speak, might simply be that Publius kept on writing and writing and writing.
So why did the reprinting drop off? Here are a few possibilities, based in part on historical evidence and in part of logic:
Once a newspaper dropped the series, the editor was unlikely to pick it back up later.
The editors of 1787/1788 newspapers had no way of knowing that certain essays would take on iconic importance with the fullness of time. This is something that our historical analysis clouds, because we've learned from legal scholars and intellectual historians that later essays (most famously No. 51, or perhaps No. 78, to give just two examples) are of critical importance to understanding the Hamilton/Madison perspective on the Constitution. But how would a random printer in Boston, Charleston, or Albany know that in the moment? All they knew was that they hadn't reprinted anything in weeks and weeks but they kept seeing Publius in the New York papers.
The series lasted so long in time that states had time to meet in convention and ratify the Constitution before the last few dozen essays appeared, obviating the need to reprint them. Federalist 51, for example, first appeared in New York City on February 8, 1788. Two days earlier, Massachusetts had voted to ratify the Constitution, so by the time news arrived in Boston, its numerous newspapers had little need to reprint its arguments … or any others that followed.
Related to the above, outside of New York City, a significant number of newspapers were printed in Pennsylvania (16), Massachusetts (13), and Connecticut (9), all of which ratified the Constitution relatively quickly. So Publius lost places where the Federalist might "pad" its reprinting numbers.[2]
These are admittedly back-of-the-envelope calculations, so I'd caution not to make too much of what's here. And I, like others who have written about the publication history of the Federalist, absolutely agree that it's a vital source for understanding the thinking that went into the Constitution (at least via Madison and Hamilton). Nonetheless, I do think it's important to think about reprinting of essay series in a very granular context. We can set the Federalist side by side with other publications, and think about whether that comparison changes how we view its popularity in the moment of 1787-1788.
[1] Trish Loughran is particularly insightful on this question in her The Republic in Print, in which she argues persuasively that the Federalist posits a national union that didn't exist and portrayed the Constitution as a logical solution to the nation's problems even as it received little attention because of a fractured political and print culture. Trish Loughran, The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 105-58.
[2] The newspaper figures come from Edward Connery Lathem, Chronological Tables of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, being a tabular guide to holdings of newspapers published in America through the year 1820 (Barre, MA: American Antiquarian Society and Barre Publishers, 1972), 6-9.
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Thank you for this. Perfect timing as my performances (I am a professional interpreter of James Madison) will be focusing on the writing of the Federalist essays and the ratification of the Constitution for the 230th anniversary next yr. Kicked it off last wknd because of insightful programming at The New-York Historical Society to celebrate the 230th of the publishing of No. 1.
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Jamaica News: President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Howard Mitchell, says the entity is in support of the Government's move to ban single-use plastic bags, straws and styrofoam, noting that the materials are hazardous to health and the environment.
"I think we have to do it. We (the PSOJ) have even written to the Government stating that we want to be a part of the implementation team, because there is no question that plastics are bad for us and the environment," he said.
He pointed out that "most of us use plastics in our lives, so we have to work out ways to accommodate a transition. We are in favour of limiting, reducing and eventually eliminating the use of plastics in this country".
Mr. Mitchell was speaking to journalists following a tour of business process outsourcing (BPO) companies at the Montego Bay Free Zone and Barnett Tech Park in St. James on Thursday (October 18).
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Q: WCF rest api - [WebGet] working, but endpoint not found for [WebInvoke(...GET...)] New to configuring anything server side ... thanks in advance for your help!
I am trying to get a simple HelloWorld REST api working in VisualStudio2008 / .NET 3.5; eventually I'll be using it to CRUD test data/results back to the server from a variety of mobile devices running on a local wireless lan.
I've found a number of other questions who's answers change related parts of my app.config, but none seem to apply to this specific issue (and trial and error hasn't yielded any results)

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*My WebGet query returns my data successfully.

*The Get request with my WebInvoke api returns an error "Endpoint not found"

Here is my ServiceContract:
[ServiceContract]
public interface IRestService
{
    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(
        Method = "GET",
        ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml,
        BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped,
        UriTemplate = "xml/{id}")]
    string XMLData(string id);  //Implemented as 'return "you requested " + id;'

    [OperationContract]
    [WebGet]
    string Test();              //Implemented as 'return "foobar";'

    [OperationContract]
    [WebGet]
    string Test2(string foo);   //Implemented as 'return "foobar=" + foo;'
}

And here is my app.config

<services>
  <service name="MyRestService.IRestServiceImpl" behaviorConfiguration="MyServiceBehavior">

    <host>
      <baseAddresses>
        <add baseAddress="http://localhost/foo/bar"/>
      </baseAddresses>
    </host>

    <endpoint address ="" binding="webHttpBinding" contract="MyRestService.IRestService" behaviorConfiguration="myRestBehavior" />

  </service>
</services>

<behaviors>

  <serviceBehaviors>
    <behavior name="MyServiceBehavior">
      <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
      <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
    </behavior>
  </serviceBehaviors>

  <endpointBehaviors>
    <behavior name="myRestBehavior">
      <webHttp/>
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I'm running via f5 in visualstudio (which I think means I don't have any .svc/IIS stuff to worry about?), and attempting to connect via
http://localhost/foo/bar/Test
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on my browser.

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*'Test' returns 'foobar'

*'Test2' returns 'foobar=' (no matter what '?param' or '/param' I add to the tail of the URL

*'XMLData' gives an error 'Endpoint not found' (displayed as html in my browser)

Thanks much

A: You've overridden the XMLData endpoint to be accessed on xml/{id}, but you're calling it as XMLData/{id}.


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Parris Afton Bonds, Loretta Hall, Esther Jantzen, Dennis Kastendiek, and Paula Paul are a few examples of the dedicated members of SouthWest Writers. Each of these authors represents a different genre, but all pushed through the craziness of 2020 to see their work published. The releases in this post couldn't fit into this year's interview schedule, but look for interviews or updates for most of these authors in 2021.
A list of previously interviewed SWW authors with 2020 releases is included at the end of this post.
In The Barons (Lagan Press, July 2020), the second entry in the Texicans saga, New York Times bestselling author Parris Afton Bonds tells a tale of intrigue and loyalty stretched to the breaking point. Politics, plunder, passion, profit, and power collide in a new and bountiful land through the eyes of the Paladín family, a captivating, richly-painted cast of characters playing out their lives against the backdrop of history. Their loves, their desires, their perils and rewards — all rendered in service to create a new state in America's southwest — take on an urgency and realism unlike any before.
With the third volume in her Texicans saga, The Bravados (Lagan Press, November 2020), Parris Afton Bonds weaves a spellbinding tale of love, hate, revenge, and reconciliation set against the milieu of the turn of the twentieth century. From the streets of Dallas to the oil fields of Louisiana and the blood-soaked jungles of Cuba, the Paladíns find themselves caught in the great struggle between the traditions of the past and the technologies that will shape the future. Can bonds of blood withstand such tides of change? What about the feuds of ages long past? With true-to-life characters, high drama, and painstaking authenticity, The Bravados is a masterpiece of epic romance.
Visit Parris at ParrisAftonBonds.com and on her Amazon author page.
Higher, Faster, Longer: My Life in Aviation and My Quest for Spaceflight (Traitmarker Books, 2020), by Wally Funk and award-winning nonfiction author Loretta Hall, tells the story of a unique American space pioneer. Since she was a girl in a Superman cape jumping off the family barn and stargazing from the slopes of Taos Mountain, Wally Funk has kept going higher, faster, and longer every time she saw an opportunity. She soared through the aviation program in college, landing herself a flight instructor position after graduation. From there, she set a record in astronaut testing. The scuttling of the Mercury 13 program didn't stop Wally, who used her dreams to fuel an adventure-studded life. Traveling the world, shattering glass ceilings, and always keeping one eye on the stars, Wally relentlessly, joyfully reached higher, flew faster, and traveled longer on her way to space.
You'll find all of Loretta's books on her Amazon author page.
In September 2020, Esther Jantzen published WALK: Jamie Bacon's Secret Mission on the Camino de Santiago, her first fiction book for children and young adults. This is the story of Jamie Bacon who's angry at his parents for making him walk 500 miles in Spain as part of their homeschooling plan. He's especially disappointed that his dad can't come along, which means he'll be alone with his mom and sister. But when Jamie meets Father Diego and hears the backstory of the Camino de Santiago, he becomes intrigued. And when he naively agrees to the request by two pilgrims to secretly carry a heavily taped envelope, unopened, all the way to Santiago de Compostela, Jamie is stuck with keeping his word and finishing the very long walk.
Visit Esther on her Amazon author page.
Dennis Kastendiek's first novel, A Seven Month Contract at Four Thousand Per (September 2020), tells the hilarious story of Johnny, a small-town Kansas high school graduate who feels guilty after a prank results in his sister breaking a leg just before her community playhouse debut. Fortunately (or not), Johnny learned all her lines while watching her rehearsals. And when a talent scout passing through town sees a girl he thinks is the most gifted actress to be found on the plains in ages, shit really hits the fan for Johnny/Johnnie. Broadway, here he/she comes! Reviewers call the story "brilliantly written, with compelling characters" and "plenty of bumps and thumps to enlighten and delight."
Murder is Contagious (February 2020) is Paula Paul's sixth installment in her Alexandra Gladstone Mystery series. Several children have died in a measles outbreak in the village of Newton-Upon-Sea. Equally as frightening is what begins to look like an epidemic of murder that may be related in some way to the measles contagion. Dr. Alexandra Gladstone finds herself deeply involved in both threats. Not only is her own life endangered, but the lives of members of her own household are at risk. Her attempts to stop both epidemics are hampered by the reappearance of an old lover who threatens to reveal secrets from Dr. Gladstone's past.
Visit Paula at PaulaPaul.net and on her Amazon author page.
SWW Author Interviews: 2020 Releases
Connie Flores
• Our Fascinating Life: The Totally Accidental Trip 1979
Sue Houser
• Wilmettie
BR Kingsolver
• Knights Magica
Dr. Barbara Koltuska-Haskin
• How My Brain Works: A Guide to Understanding It Better and Keeping It Healthy
Manfred Leuthard
• Broken Arrow: A Nuke Goes Missing
Shirley Raye Redmond
• Courageous World Changers: 50 True Stories of Daring Women of God
J.R. Seeger
• A Graveyard for Spies
Lynne Sturtevant
• Hometown: Writing a Local History or Travel Guide and The Collaboration Kit
Patricia Walkow
• New Mexico Remembers 9/11
KL Wagoner (writing as Cate Macabe) is the author of This New Mountain: a memoir of AJ Jackson, private investigator, repossessor, and grandmother. Kathy posts to a speculative fiction blog at klwagoner.com and writes about memoir at ThisNewMountain.com.
‹ 2020 New Releases for SWW Authors #1
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Study protocol | Open | Open Peer Review | Published: 29 July 2016
Searching for best practices of youth friendly services - a study protocol using qualitative comparative analysis in Sweden
Isabel Goicolea1,
Monica Christianson2,
Anna-Karin Hurtig1,
Bruno Marchal3,
Miguel San Sebastian1 &
Maria Wiklund4
Swedish youth clinics constitute one of the most comprehensive and consolidated examples of a nationwide network of health care services for young people. However, studies evaluating their 'youth-friendliness' and the combination of factors that makes them more or less 'youth-friendly' have not been conducted. This protocol will scrutinise the current youth-friendliness of youth clinics in northern Sweden and identify the best combination of conditions needed in order to implement the criteria of youth-friendliness within Swedish youth clinics and elsewhere.
In this study, we will use qualitative comparative analysis to analyse the conditions that are sufficient and/or necessary to implement Youth Friendly Health Services in 20 selected youth-clinics (cases). In order to conduct Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we will first identify the outcomes and the conditions to be assessed. The overall outcome – youth-friendliness – will be assessed together with specific outcomes for each of the five domains – accessible, acceptable, equitable, appropriate and effective. This will be done using a questionnaire to be applied to a sample of young people coming to the youth clinics. In terms of conditions, we will first identify what might be the key conditions, to ensure the youth friendliness of health care services, through literature review, interviews with professionals working at youth clinics, and with young people. The combination of conditions and outcomes will form the hypothesis to be further tested later on in the qualitative comparative analysis of the 20 cases. Once information on outcomes and conditions is gathered from each of the 20 clinics, it will be analysed using Qualitative Comparative Analysis.
The added value of this study in relation to the findings is twofold: on the one hand it will allow a thorough assessment of the youth-friendliness of northern Swedish youth clinics. On the other hand, it will extract lessons from one of the most consolidated examples of differentiated services for young people. Methodologically, this study can contribute to expanding the use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis in health systems research.
Swedish youth clinics have been responding to the health needs of young people living in Sweden for more than 40 years and constitute one of the most comprehensive and consolidated examples of a nationwide network of health care services for young people [1, 2]. However, studies evaluating their 'youth-friendliness' and the combination of factors that makes them more or less 'youth-friendly' have not been conducted.
The concept of 'youth-friendliness' has been developed by the World Health Organisation grounded on the realisation that, on the one hand, health care services can have a beneficial impact on youth health through providing good information for adolescents, treating those who are ill, and reaching those who are in vulnerable situations [3–5], but on the other hand, health care services are, in general, less accessible for young people and less responsive to their needs [4, 6]. The mere existence of health care services does not however ensure that young people's health benefits from them, and, in order to achieve this beneficial effect, such services should fulfil certain criteria, namely to be accessible, acceptable, equitable, appropriate and effective for different youth subpopulations [3, 5, 7]. Health care services that fulfil those five criteria can be labelled as youth-friendly health care services (YFHS). YFHS should be grounded on nonrestrictive policies, and should be responsive to the needs of young people without prejudice and in complete confidentiality. Such services should promote youth participation and community dialogue and implement outreach activities [3, 8]. YFHS could be implemented throughout a variety of models: differentiated services for younf'g people community based actions, non-governmental organisations outreach work, health care services within schools or integrated within existing health care facilities [9–11]. One important issue when implementing YFHS is that of equality: health care services cannot be truly qualified as youth-friendly if there are certain subgroups of young people who do not feel that they are welcome and that there is an adequate response to their health needs. Another important issue when implementing YFHS is that of the sustainability of such services – in order to be effective and sustained over time YFHSs have to be integrated as part of the health system [11–14].
Making health services more friendly to young people is an important public health strategy, since despite youth being in general a healthy period, it is also a time when individuals may face greater risks of morbidity and mortality associated with violence and with reproductive and sexual health related problems. In addition, there are great inequalities in health status and in access to health care between young people living in high income countries and youth living in low income countries [3, 4, 15, 16]. In addition, youth is a period of opportunity; healthy behaviour initiated during these years will most likely remain throughout adulthood, and healthy young people have a positive transformative potential within their communities and countries [4, 17].
Despite research evidence that shows that implementing YFHS contributes to better health among young people and does not require huge financial investment, health systems worldwide have failed to implement this approach [4, 14, 17, 18]. The implementation and sustainability of YFHS face a number of obstacles such as stigmatisation, restrictive policies, untrained staff, and lack of clear health policies and implementation guidelines [11, 13, 19, 20]. Issues of equality and appropriateness are among the less adequately addressed issues [7, 9]. Even in countries where public health systems perform well, the implementation of YFHS remains a neglected area that lacks political will and clear guidelines [4, 17, 18]. Furthermore, little research has been conducted on what might be the key factors for implementing and sustaining YFHS within health systems.
The Swedish youth clinic model
Sweden could be considered as a noteworthy exception, in the sense that the country has a comprehensive and well-established network of differentiated health care services for young people, called youth clinics (YCs). Beginning in 1970, the network of YCs was developed nationwide in order to improve young people's access to health information and services, especially in terms of sexual and reproductive health. YCs emerged from a public concern regarding the health of young people, and were considered as a means of increasing the access of young people to health information and health care. The focus was on sexual and reproductive health issues, and this still remains as the strongest area in most of the YCs [1].
There are currently 265 youth clinics in Sweden, serving people aged 13–23, although age limits vary. Information is also provided by a web-based national youth clinic (www.umo.se) [1]. The majority of the clinics are run by county councils – some by municipalities or other organisations – and staffed with multidisciplinary teams. At the national level, most clinics are integrated in the Swedish Youth Clinic Association (FSUM). How each clinic is staffed and which services are provided varies. The minimum requirement is to have a midwife and a social worker or psychologist, with a physician working some daysof each week. The role of the midwife in youth-clinics is key, since Swedish midwives can prescribe contraceptives and they can insert intrauterine devices and implants. There are clinics that integrate physiotherapists, psychiatrists, gynaecologists, district nurses and nutritionists.
In order to improve accessibility, youth clinics are, in general located off the premises of general health services, and consultations are free of charge. In addition, there are othe promotional activities aimed at increasing young people's awareness about the services offered by youth clinics [1]. Some clinics might offer group interventions, health education sessions, and outreach activities [2, 21]. Coordination with schools is well established and all pupils aged 13–14 visit the local youth clinics during the school year to get to know the location and the services available as well as having access to information on sex education.
The development and implementation of youth clinics has to be understood in the broader context of Swedish social and cultural norms. In general, Swedish society has a liberal attitude towards teenage sexual relations. Sexual and reproductive health issues are given priority: young people have been receiving sex education at schools since the 1950s, abortion is free on demand since 1975, and contraceptive counselling and access is easy [22]. Emergency contraceptives are sold over the counter and provided free of charge at most youth clinics; screening for chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections is free and easy to access. Non-coercive sexual relations among young people are not negatively perceived, and policies are, in general, progressive in terms of LGBQTI (lesbian-gay-bisexual-queer-transgender-intersex) rights. However, some backlash has also been noticed: since 1990, sex education is taught less, and social segregation has increased, which might negatively impact access to information and services [23]. There is also an emerging need for primary prevention and early treatment of youth mental health problems [2, 24, 25].
Despite the existence of this network of youth clinics, young people's health problems are a matter of concern in the country. There appear to be increasing mental health problems among young people in Sweden, as well as increases in violence, obesity, alcohol abuse, and sexually transmitted infections [25–27]. Young people from more disadvantaged backgrounds suffer more health problems, face greater risks to health and have poorer access to health services [28, 29]. Gender also plays a key role; girls and young women are at greater risk of suffering mental health problems, eating disorders and sexual abuse. Boys and young men are at greater risk of traffic injuries and suicide and have poorer access to health services compared to women. Moreover, research shows that the health problems and the help-seeking behaviour of young people are related to social aspects of gender, especially in terms of mental health and sexual and reproductive health [2, 30, 31].
A survey conducted by the Swedish Association of Youth Clinics (FSUM) showed that young people were satisfied with the care provided [32]. However, some challenges still remain, especially in terms of equity. Access to youth clinics might differ by youth subpopulation group and location. For example, boys and young men account for only 15 % of all youth clinic attendees [18, 33], migrant young people might face cultural and other barriers to access, and socioeconomic inequalities might also affect young people's access to these services. Young people with disabilities or LGBQTI youth might face more barriers in accessing youth clinics, even if there is no published evidence on this. In addition, rural youth might find it harder to access a youth clinic since many rural municipalities lack a youth clinic.
This research proposal will scrutinise the current youth-friendliness of youth clinics in northern Sweden, and identify the 'causal recipe' for youth-friendliness. In addition to mapping the northern Swedish situation, this research will also help to identify the best combination of conditions – causally relevant conditions linked to an outcome [34] needed in order to implement the criteria of youth-friendliness in Swedish youth clinics and elsewhere.
This study adopts a multiple case study design, which is well suited to research of a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident [35].
Furthermore, the case study design is appropriate for dynamic and complex situations where multiple, interacting variables may act upon intervention and outcome [36].
For the analysis, we will adopt qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), which was developed by Ragin [37]. Ragin defines comparative case studies as case studies that aim at searching for commonalities in the antecedent or causal conditions for success. In QCA, the researcher aims at finding the conditions that make the intervention work, considering them likely to be complementary or working conjuncturally (conjunctural causation). Indeed, Ragin [38] starts from the assumption that "no single causal condition may be either necessary or sufficient for the outcome in question" and that instead, only combinations of conditions may be found to be sufficient. In other words, there may be more than one causal combination that explains outcome (equifinal causation). As Ragin also puts it, the underlying idea is that of a "causal recipe", a specific combination of causally relevant ingredients linked to an outcome [34].
For Ragin, the aim is to describe how the conditions fit together to cause an effect, or, in other words, to establish the various ways a necessary condition is met [37]. To start, an analysis is carried out on a limited number of cases that all show the outcome that is of interest [37, 39]. QCA uses Boolean algebra to assess to what extent a configuration of conditions explains outcomes in terms of necessity – whether the cause is present in all (or almost all) the instances of the outcome – and sufficiency – whether the cause is invariabily (or almost) followed by the outcome. The final step of the analysis consists in the development of a solution formula that presents the combination of conditions that best explain the outcome [38, 40–42].
In this study, we will use qualitative comparative analysis to analyse what are the conditions that are sufficient and/or necessary to implement YFHS.
We will select 20 youth clinics (cases) in order to assess the best combination of conditions to implement YFHS. First, qualitative and quantitative data will be gathered sequentially and analysed separately for each case. Second, the case results will be compared using qualitative comparative analysis.
The 20 YCs to be included in this study constitute all the existing YCs in the four northern provinces of Sweden. This is a sufficient number for a QCA, as it will allow us to have an adequate number of cases sharing similar patterns of conditions without being too large and thus preventing us from becoming fully acquainted with every case.. We will select cases in the four northern counties for three main reasons. First, they provide a variety of youth clinics in terms of location, size and professionals at work, among other characteristics. Second, there is a degree of regional level coordination between the four counties and they share a similar geographical and cultural context, the so called Norrland region. These counties offer a third important advantage in the sense that their proximity enabled our research team to develop good relations with the key stakeholders. This is essential because the project aims at producing evidence useful for managers and professionals in charge of youth clinics by engaging them during the design and implementation phase.
The four selected counties in northern Sweden encompass 44 municipalities, 60 % of the country's surface but only 12 % of the population; young people aged 15–24 account for 12 % of the population. Twelve of the 20 YCs are located in rural municipalities. The oldest YC was set up in 1974 in a small municipality of 18000 inhabitants, while the newest dates from 2007. On average, they have been operational for 24 years [1]. Working days and hours range from once a week in the smallest ones to five days a week in the largest ones. Age limits of the 'target population' differ, as well as the way mental health issues are addressed – some youth clinics focus on sexual and reproductive health, while others also offer first line mental health services for young people. All YCs are managed and funded by the county councils – who also have the responsibility for the management of primary health care centres and hospitals — while in some settings the municipality finances certain aspects and/or professionals.
In order to conduct QCA, we will first identify the outcomes and the conditions to be assessed. The overall outcome – youth-friendliness – will be assessed together with specific outcomes for each of the five domains – accessible, acceptable, equitable, appropriate and effective through a questionnaire to be applied to a sample of young people coming to the youth clinics [5].
In terms of conditions, we will first identify what might be the key conditions to ensure the youth friendliness of health care services, through literature review, and through interviews with professionals working at youth clinics, and with young people. The combination of conditions and outcomes will form a hypothesis to be further tested later on in the qualitative comparative analysis of the 20 cases. For example, one possible hypothesis to test will be: clinics that are open more days a week, have multidisciplinary teams, motivated and well-trained staff and good referrals systems with other services will score higher on youth-friendliness. Once the information on outcomes and conditions is gathered from each of the 20 clinics, it will be analysed using QCA with fuzzy sets [34, 43].
Step 1: Measuring outcomes
In order to identify the outcomes, we will administer a questionnaire to assess the five domains of youth-friendliness to a sample of young people coming to the 20 YCs in the four northern provinces of Sweden. The instrument to be administered will be based on the YFHS-WHO+ questionnaire. The original instrument is based on a guide published by WHO to assess health services for young people, and on an Australian questionnaire used to assess the youth friendliness of primary care [5]. It has been validated to be used to assess youth-friendliness of first-line health care centres. It is divided into 7 subscales: access, parental support, equity, respect, privacy, absence of judgement, and quality. Since it has neither been used in the Swedish context, nor has it been used to evaluate differentiated youth health care services such as YCs, we will validate the instrument before its application.
The study universe will consist of young people (16–24 years old) users of the 20 youth clinics in the four counties in Northern Sweden: Västernorrland, Västerbotten, Jämtland-Härjedalen and Norrbotten. We will exclude people younger than 16 for ethical reasons since they are not allowed to give autonomous consent to participate. These clinics will be the primary sampling unit (PSU). Sample size was calculated using the following formula: N = 4 (Z1-α/2 + Z1-β)2 / (δ/σ)2 where Z(1−α/2) = value of the normal distribution corresponding to the probability of a type 1 error of 0.05; Z(1−β) = value of the normal distribution corresponding to a probability of a type 2 error of 0.8; δ = the difference in the mean value of the score between low and high performing clinics; σ = standard error of these means. To control for clustering by clinic, we multiplied this formula by the design effect: 1 + ρ (m − 1), where ρ = intra-class correlation and m = the number of observations per cluster [44]. A target sample size of 960 people given a type 1 error of 0.05, type 2 error at 0.8, a maximum mean difference in scores of 0.5, and intra-class correlations of up to 0.3 will be set. This would represent a sample of 48 participants/clinic. In order to take into account those who refuse to participate, the sample will be increased to 60 participants/clinic.
Data will be entered into SPSS and scores will be calculated for each of the domains as well as an overall score for each of the YCs.
Step 2: Identifying and assessing conditions
In order to identity potential conditions affecting the different domains of youth-friendliness, we will: 1) review the literature of YFHS as well as policy documents and reports of YCs in Sweden; 2) interview professionals working in YCs; and 3) interview young people.
The literature review will allow us to identify conditions that are potentially contributing to youth friendliness of health care services in other settings. Some important conditions that have been shown to enhance youth-friendliness are described in Table 1.
Table 1 WHO domains of youth-friendly health care services (modified from Tylee [4])
To our knowledge, there is no published research on this issue in Sweden, but grey literature, reports and policies from Sweden will be reviewed in order to complement the literature review.
In order to refine this preliminary list of conditions locally, we will conduct interviews with professionals working in youth clinics in northern Sweden. The COREQ guidelines will be followed when conducting and reporting the qualitative data analysis (See also Appendix). We will conduct individual interviews with around 15 professionals from different professional backgrounds, working in different YCs – in terms of i.e., size, location, and focus. In addition, and in order to gather the perspective of young people, we will conduct focus group discussions with young people who have attended YCs. Around 6 focus group discussions will be conducted. The first author and two research assistants with expertise on qualitative methods will conduct the interviews and focus groups discussions. The first author has extensive experience conducting individual interviews and focus group discussions and will closely supervise the two research assistants together with the rest of the team. Health care professionals will be invited to participate via email after a first contact with the head of the clinic. Young people will be approached through the clinic staff as well as through youth organizations (i.e., rfsu). Participants will choose the location for the individual interviews. The focus group discussions will be conducted at the university. All potential participants will be provided information about the study and the interviewer(s)/moderator before starting the interview/focus group discussion.
The final sample size of the individual interviews with professionals and focus group discussions with young people might vary and will be finally determined once saturation is reached. The interviews and focus group discussions guides will be structured in a thematic manner, inspired by the WHO domains of youth friendliness [3]. Participants will be asked to reflect on the issues that they consider important in order to ensure that strategies are put in place to deal with challenges to these domains. Participants will be asked whether they could be contacted again if needed. Interviews and focus group discussions will be audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed using thematic analysis inspired by the WHO domains of youth-friendliness [45]. Notes will be taken during and after the interview and during the analysis process. The first author and the two research assistants will be involved in the coding process and negotiate the codes between them. The software Open Code 3.4 will be used to help managing the coding process. Even if the WHO domains will be used as a starting point, we will remain open to new emerging themes. The derived themes will be further discussed with the entire research team. Preliminary findinsg will be presented to some of the participants for feedback.
From the analysis of the qualitative data from professionals and youth, a refined list of conditions that might be important to implement each of the domains of youth-friendliness will be developed. Configurations of combinations of conditions and outcomes will be developed by the team to be further tested in the next step. Afterwards, measurable indicators and instruments to collect data on the conditions selected will be created. We foresee that some of the conditions could be assessed through secondary data and reports (i.e., opening hours and number of staff), others via interview with the person in charge of the YC, and observation (i.e., physical arrangements to ensure confidentiality), while others might demand other instruments (i.e., measurement of staff motivation might demand the application of a questionnaire to the professionals working at the youth clinic). The selected conditions will be measured in each of the YCs and numeric values will be given for each of them.
Step 3: Identifying the best combination of conditions to implement YFHSs
Using the numeric values for the outcomes and conditions for each of the 20 cases, a table will be produced. The table will be calibrated in order to conduct a qualitative comparative analysis using fuzzy sets. Fuzzy sets are used when the causal conditions and outcomes are multichotomous namely, they vary by level of degree [46]. We will use the software programme fs/QCA to produce a raw table with calibrated values [47]. The raw table will be imported into fs/QCA to assess the combination of conditions that lead to the overall outcome of youth-friendliness, as well as to each of the specific outcomes of accessibility, acceptability, equity, appropriateness and effectiveness.
Afterwards a truth table will be produced that will allow us to assess the different combinations of conditions connected with positive outcomes. The truth table displays all of the possible combinations of conditions leading to the outcome. From the emerging truth table, the inconsistencies will be eliminated – configurations of conditions with less than one case, and the outcome will be reset to 1 if consistency is higher than 0.8. A standard analysis will be applied, and the intermediate solution formula will be obtained – based on logical reduction, but retaining conditions that theoretically contribute to an explanation [34, 48]. The solution formula will depict those combinations that are more relevant to produce the outcome. Since usually more than one combination of conditions emerges, for each of them, consistency and coverage scores will be calculated. Consistency represents the extent to which a combination of conditions leads to an outcome and ranges from 0 to 1. If a combination of conditions has a consistency of 1, this means that such a combination always leads to the outcome. Coverage represents how many cases with the outcome are represented by a particular combination of conditions. If a combination of conditions has a coverage of 1, this means that this combination is able to explain all of the occurrences of the outcome.
This paper describes a protocol that uses a multiple case-study design and qualitative comparative analysis to identify good practices for making health care services youth-friendly.
We foresee a number of challenges during the application of this protocol. The first challenge emerges from the way we are going to assess the outcomes, through a validated version of the YFHS-WHO+. The existing instrument has been used to assess the youth-friendliness of ordinary primary health care centres and not differentiated services, and it has never been used in the Swedish context [5]. Thus, we will need to engage in a thorough validation process to make sure that the instrument is appropriate to assess the intended outcome in the Swedish YCs' context. Experts, stakeholders, professionals within youth clinics and young people will need to be involved [49–51]. Even if this might be time consuming we consider that besides being an imperative to make sure that the outcomes are accurately measured, it can become an opportunity to engage relevant stakeholders in the project from the start. The validated instrument can become a useful tool to be applied to youth clinics and other health care services attending to the needs of young people (school health, primary health care, youth psychiatry) in Sweden and in other parts of Europe.
The second challenge will consist in defining and measuring the conditions. QCA does not allow for the inclusion of a large number of conditions, so we will need to be careful in the selection process. The selection of conditions to be included in the configurations and tested is not a mechanical exercise, but should be grounded on theoretical and locally relevant knowledge [34, 43]. We consider that basing this selection on both existing conceptual frameworks – WHO youth friendliness domains – and locally gathered information from different sources – adds to the trustworthiness of the selection process. Measuring the conditions also poses challenges, since some of the potential conditions might not be easy to measure. A third challenge relates to the fact that youth clinics might be very homogeneous in terms of outcomes, and lack of variation will make it difficult to draw any conclusions about the best combinations of conditions.
The added value of this study in relation to the findings is twofold: on the one hand it will allow a thorough assessment of the youth-friendliness of northern Swedish youth clinics. On the other hand, it will extract lessons from one of the most consolidated examples of differentiated services for young people. The research community has failed to take advantage of the Swedish model as an interesting case study to analyse facilitators and challenges for implementing and sustaining youth-friendly services within national health systems. It is especially interesting to notice that while certain countries are trying to implement youth-friendly services following the Swedish youth clinic model (i.e., Estonia [52]), there are no published assessments of Swedish youth clinics' youth-friendliness and the strategies used to achieve it. This study protocol aims to contribute to filling this knowledge gap by both by evaluating the situation of Swedish youth clinics against the World Health Organisation criteria, as well as extracting the key combination of conditions needed to make youth clinics youth-friendly. We claim that such 'causal recipes' might not only be applicable to northern Swedish clinics, but to youth clinics and other primary health care services that young people might access (i.e., primary health care centres, mental health services, school health care services) in Sweden and other similar contexts.
Methodologically, this study can contribute to expanding the use of QCA in health systems research. QCA has, as yet, not received much attention within health systems research. For health systems research, it is important to assess causality not in terms of isolated factors explaining outcomes, but in a more complex and naturalistic way where the combination of contextual conditions, intervention components and internal mechanisms combine to bring together outcomes [40]. Case-studies are useful methodologies to explore interventions and processes in a particular context. A larger numbers of cases can enrich the study by adding variation [35]. However, sometimes it becomes difficult to make sense of large amounts of information and to extract transferable results when the number of cases increases to a certain level. Qualitative comparative analysis can be useful when trying to maintain the balance between maintaining familiarity with the data as well as looking for patterns that might be transferable to other situations [34, 37, 38, 46, 53].
To come up with a 'recipe' for youth-friendliness is certainly appealing, especially for stakeholders. However, it can be criticised as too a simplistic way of solving a complex issue. In our defence we can claim that the process of identifying the conditions and outcomes to be entered into the potential 'recipes' if far from simplistic. The conditions and outcomes that will be entered into the calculations of solution formulae will be carefully chosen after a thorough process of quantitative and qualitative data collection. In addition, they will be conceptually/theoretically driven, grounded on the WHO domains. The next step, not contemplated in this protocol, should be a more in depth exploration of selected cases in order to understand how the identified 'recipes' work, for whom they work, and under what particular circumstances.
FSUM, Swedish Youth Clinics' Association; LGBQTI, lesbian-gay-bisexual-queer-transgender-intersex; QCA, qualitative comparative analysis; WHO, World Health Organization; YC, youth clinic; YFHS, youth friendly healthcare services
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We acknowledge Dr. DM Haller for her advice in regards to the use of the YFHS-WHO+ questionnaire.
This research protocol has been funded by FORTE, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Living Conditions through a competitive call. Registration number 2014–0235.
The datasets analysed during the current study will be available from the corresponding author on reasonable request and following the Swedish regulations.
IG had the idea for the protocol, drafted the first draft for the application and leaded the discussion in the group as principal investigator of the research proposal. She also developed the first draft of the manuscript based on the protocol and gathered the comments from all team members in order to revise sucesive drafts and develop and submit the final draft of the manuscript to the journal. MC, AKH, BM, MSS, MW are all part of the research team that developed the protocol. They all contributed with ideas and discussed the protocol that was submitted and granted funding from FORTE. They all read and critically commented and revised the successive drafts of the manuscript and approved the final version before submission to the journal.
Ethical approval for this study has been granted by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Umeå (2015-190-31Ö). The study will be presented to the four county councils and to the 20 youth clinics before its implementation. Written informed consent will be sought from all of the participants in the study, and when it comes to young people, only those aged 16 or older (who can give consent autonomously) will be invited to participate. Confidentiality will be assured and pseudonyms will be used for individual participants, and clinics.
Unit of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, SE-90187, Sweden
Isabel Goicolea
, Anna-Karin Hurtig
& Miguel San Sebastian
Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Monica Christianson
Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Bruno Marchal
Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå, Sweden
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Table 2 COREQ 32 items cheklist
Youth-friendly health services
Youth clinics
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Neighborhood Creates Their Own Magical 'Giving Tree' After Someone Cut It Down To A Stump
An old stump is good for sitting and resting
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The heartfelt message behind Shel Silverstein's 1964 children's book, The Giving Tree has made its way off the pages and into real life thanks to one Oakland, California, resident.
A tree along a city sidewalk in the Lake Merritt neighborhood of Oakland was cut down last week, leaving behind just a small stump and thick piece of bark shooting upward to create a seat. A passerby noticed the new stump resembled the ending pages of Silverstein's classic work and scrawled a short inscription on the bark.
For those somehow unacquainted with the book, which has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, the story revolves around a tree that, over a lifetime, gives one little boy everything he needs including branches to climb on, shade to sit under, wood for building his home, and, finally, at the end of the now elderly man's life, a tree stump to sit upon and rest. To this day, the book's true meaning is still hotly contested between it being a message of unconditional love or a warning about the perils of selfishness.
The quote on the tree stump reads:
"I don't need very much now," said the boy,
"just a quiet place to sit and rest.
I am very tired."
"Well," said the tree, straightening
herself up as much as she could,
"well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting
Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest."
The stump has become somewhat of a landmark in the lakeside neighborhood. The original photo, which was shared to reddit, has been upvoted more than 76,000 times. It's only a matter of time before the book once again becomes a best seller. Hopefully all the trees going into the making of said books will be happy.


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Architectural History and Styles /
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Author/Editor Jolliffe, Eleanor (Author)
Crosby, Paul (Author)
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Focusing on the practicalities of the profession and the intangible motivations behind design, this book provides a critical overview of 3000 years of architectural practice and education.
Availability: Available to order but not yet published
The architect's role is constantly adapting. Throughout history it has shifted significantly, shaped by social, cultural, technological and economic forces. The very definition of what an architect is and does has evolved over time from lead builder or master mason to principal designer. A collaborative and reactive profession, it is inextricably linked to the power of the patron, whether the client is an influential and affluent individual or a political, commercial, civic or religious organisation.
From Ancient Egypt, where architects were members of the ruling class, tied into the running of the empire, to the 21st century when questions are being raised about the future of the profession, this book, with its engaging narrative, explores the constant threads that remain as the profession adapts.
While architects are no longer deified, their ability to imagine a new impending reality in built form implies a visionary dimension
to their work. By focusing on both the practicalities of the profession and the more intangible motivations behind design - humans' need to make a mark upon their surroundings - this volume provides a critical overview of over 3000 years of practice and education.
Looking at the key questions of where the architectural profession originated in the Western tradition, why it is, how it is today and where it might be going next, the authors postulate that architects' ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in the past will stand them in good stead for the uncertainties of the future.
Eleanor Jolliffe is a practicing architect who holds Masters degrees in both engineering and architecture. She has a regular column in Building Design, and has been published in the Architects' Journal, Architectural Review and the Saturated Space research group at the Architectural Association. Paul Crosby is a full-time academic at the Architectural Association as Head of Professional Practice Part 3. He previously held senior positions in the offices of David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and Martha Schwartz.
About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1 The Ancients Chapter 2 From the Medieval to the Modern Chapter 3 Formalising the British Profession Chapter 4 Democratisation and Commodification Chapter 5 Flawed Utopia Chapter 6 Recessions, Diversifications and Gradual Change Chapter 7 Global Practice Chapter 8 The Contemporary Architect: The Struggle To Convey Value Chapter 9 Educating Architects Chapter 10 Conclusions Image credits Index


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Christina Aguilera in Concert (conosciuto anche come il Sears & Levis Tour) è stato il primo tour della cantante statunitense Christina Aguilera.

Partito il 19 maggio 2000 ad Holland nel Michigan, il tour ha toccato numerose città statunitensi e canadesi, ha sbarcato per un'unica data anche in Europa e Venezuela ed ha raggiunto il Giappone nel gennaio del 2001, per un totale di 86 date. Il tour si è concluso 1º febbraio 2001 a Tokyo incassando 32 milioni di dollari.

Scaletta del tour
19 maggio 2000 - 5 luglio 2000

Genie in a Bottle
When You Put Your Hands on Me
So Emotional
I Turn to You
Come on Over (All I Want Is You)
At Last
What a Girl Wants

7 luglio 2000 - 20 settembre 2000
 Introduzione: Arabian Dance
 Genie in a Bottle
 Somebody's Somebody
 So Emotional
 Don't Make Me Love You (Till I'm Ready)
 I Turn to You
 Interlude: DJ Mix Remix
 All Right Now
 When You Put You Hands On Me
 At Last
 Love For All Seasons
 Come on Over (All I Want Is You)
 What a Girl Wants

14 gennaio 2001 - 22 gennaio 2001 (leg sudamericano e asiatico)
 Introduzione: Arabian Dance
 Genio atrapado/Genie in a Bottle Medley
 Somebody's Somebody
 So Emotional
 Falsas Esperanzas
 When You Put Your Hands on Me
 Por siempre tu/I Turn to You Medley
 Contigo en la distancia
 Cuando no es contigo
 Pero me acuerdo de tí
 Ven Conmigo
 What a Girl Wants

Date del tour

Cast
 Coriste: Latonya Holumas, Elizabeth Quintones, Diane Gordon e Yvinn Patrick
 Tastiere: Alex Alessandroni, Bryan, JJ, Ezquiel Alara e Raphiel
 Basso: Michael Anderson
 DJ: DJ George
 Percussioni: Teddy Campbell
 Programming: Kay Chann
 Ballerini: Buddy, Jorge Santos, Roman, Nancy, Kayla, Robert Vinson, Joshuah Michael, Robin, Evan, Lisa, Nick Aragon, Jermaine Browne, George Mynett e Steban.

Note

Tour musicali del 2000
Tour musicali del 2001
Tour di Christina Aguilera

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