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Home Feature Tele-hospital medicine branches out
Tele-hospital medicine branches out
Opportunities range from night coverage to virtual hospitalist programs
Paula S. Katz
HOSPITAL MEDICINE is primed for its close-up in telehealth.
Hospitals and hospitalists have seen the success of telemedicine in more focused types of care; think tele-ICU and tele-trauma. Now, they want to branch out into tele-hospital medicine and replicate the same upsides: improved access for remote populations, 24/7 care, reduced costs and better patient outcomes.
Related article: "The doctor is (plugged) in: embracing telehealth," May 2016
Why now? Given the inroads that telemedicine has made in other specialties, medical staffs and patients alike have fewer concerns about doctors who appear on a screen and not in person, says Talbot "Mac" McCormick, MD, president and CEO of Eagle Telemedicine, which provides services to hospitals nationwide.
"Telemedicine is just a set of tools and capabilities that can integrate with clinicians on the ground," says Dr. McCormick. "Telemedicine is still medicine."
Tele-hospital medicine is carving out several new niches. One is providing a virtual hospitalist presence in rural hospitals that can't support full-time, on-site physician coverage. Telehospitalists are also helping small hospitals share the costs of night coverage, covering several hospitals simultaneously where nurses are the main on-site provider.
Or telehospitalists take floor call from nurses in larger hospitals so an in-house nocturnist can focus on admissions. Or they bolster staff in hospitals experiencing a patient surge. Future possibilities include assisting with post-discharge visits and skilled nursing facility rounds.
"Try not to use term 'robot' for the physicians because it sounds like artificial intelligence, like a machine is doing the thinking," Dr. McCormick says. "You can call us telehospitalists, but hospitalist is the title we like best."
Misconceptions debunked
WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST misconceptions about telehealth in hospital medicine?
First, both physicians and nurses initially believe telemedicine will be inferior care, says Susan Willis, PhD, PA-C, vice president of clinical program development for iNDIGO Health Partners in Traverse City, Mich.
"There's nothing different about the level of care doctors are able to provide."
~ Susan Willis, PhD,
PA-C
iNDIGO Health Partners
iNDIGO provides telehealth night coverage for six hospitals, with two iNDIGO hospitalists covering up to four hospitals from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Some work on a full-time basis, while others take just a few tele-shifts a month.
"At first, physicians wonder how could they possibly get a good history and provide medical care that's equivalent to in-person care," Dr. Willis says. "But other than physically touching the patient, there's nothing different about the level of care doctors are able to provide."
The carts' high-definition camera can zoom in from 15 feet. That allows the telehospitalists to view the fine print on prescription bottles as well as monitors and drips. The physician's face on the screen is roughly the same size as it would be in person.iNDIGO gives physicians two laptops (one is typically used for the encounter, while the other is used to access the hospital's EHR) and the hospitals two video carts that doctors use to visit patients. There's triple redundancy for Internet connectivity in the hospitals, as well as a 90-minute battery backup if power goes out.
Still, telehospitalists need to learn how to create the same kind of doctor-patient relationship they would in-person. And nurses initially worry that telemedicine will disrupt their workflow more than going down a hallway to talk to an onsite doctor.
Patient acceptance
Dr. Willis points out, however, that communication is just a point-and-click away once the video cart is wheeled to the patient room and plugged into a wall socket. Outside the actual patient encounters, nurses have the physician's cell number for urgent issues, and they participate in a nightly huddle with the telehospitalist when their shift starts.
And nurses find that they're now more involved in patient care than before. For example, the nurse may assist in performing pupillary exams with a flashlight in the cart drawer. Further, the telehospitalist relies on nurses to place the stethoscope for heart and lung exams, and may ask them to palpate for lymph nodes, abdominal pain or masses. The documentation will reflect that the nurse did that part of the physical exam.
Another big misconception: Patients, especially the elderly, are not tech-savvy enough to accept tele-hospital medicine.
"That's categorically false," Dr. Willis
says, pointing out that such a view of-
ten reflects physicians' own concerns.
Nurses at hospitals using iNDIGO telehealth introduce it as a cutting edge tool that mirrors familiar technology like Skype or Facetime. The response, she says, has been overwhelmingly positive.
In fact, several patients have asked to delay the physician encounter until family members are present to see the technology in action. Some patients even prep for their screen moment.
"We've had several female patients put on lipstick and fix their hair," Dr. Willis says. "They want to look nice for the camera."
Paving a new career path
ACCEPTANCE OF TELEMEDICINE has come a long way since the Atlanta-based Eagle Telemedicine started providing services eight years ago.
"When we started, most physicians had another practice and did this as a second job," says Dr. McCormick. "I'm increasingly seeing physicians leaving their on-the-ground practice and moving to a full career as a telehospitalist."
Eagle Telemedicine has helped on-site hospitalists at several partner hospitals when those facilities are experiencing volume surges. At such times, the telehospitalists typically take some admissions for the on-site providers.
"I'm increasingly seeing physicians leaving their on-the-ground practice and moving to a full career as a telehospitalist."
~ Talbot "Mac" McCormick, MD
Eagle Telemedicine
And Eagle now has 20 hospitalists working with 15 hospitals to provide night coverage. Teams of five or six physicians cover one to four hospitals in 12-hour shifts. Physicians work from their homes, but they are licensed in the state in which patients are being seen and credentialed in those hospitals. Telehospitalists are all boarded in internal medicine or family practice and have hospital medicine experience.
The physician takes the sign-out from the day physician, then fields secure texts from nurses. Patient conditions range from low potassium to a status change. If the physician is on another call, the nurse can say, "This is a 911 case" to indicate it's a priority. The response time is typically less than five minutes.
Eagle provides nurses a script they use to introduce the telehospitalist to patients. They explain that the physician is part of the team and will address the patient's condition, get care started and, if needed, admit the patient.
The hospital provides its own technology, including an InTouch robot and an Avizia or Cisco cart, which has a stethoscope, screen and camera so patients can see the physician. Before starting the telehealth service, the hospital's Wi-Fi is evaluated and broadband access is boosted, if needed.
Eagle hospitalists providing night coverage need to be comfortable working on a Windows computer and with multiple EHRs. The laptop that Eagle provides gives them EHR access, as well as operational tools and the telemedicine technology.
Doctors use cameras to zoom in, then document care in the hospital's EHR and enter orders. "Just like if we were there," Dr. McCormick says.
Telehospitalists attend rapid response calls and codes, admit patients from the emergency department, and make handoffs to the day physicians. The few things that technology won't allow include placing chest tubes and central lines or intubations. In those cases, the telehospitalists partner with someone from the hospital, usually the ED.
While Dr. McCormick has a waiting list of hospitalists eager to fill a telemedicine slot, those doctors might not have long to wait. Eagle is continuing to add practices—the company has handled 15,000 telehospitalist admissions—and he fields calls nearly daily from programs looking to integrate telehealth into their hospital medicine programs.
Bringing tertiary care to communities
AS THE ONLY TERTIARY CARE hospital in Iowa, the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City has long taken transfers from critical access hospitals. But one 25-bed hospital wanted to figure out a way to keep local patients in the community instead.
"It was really inconvenient for patients and families to travel to Iowa City," explains Ethan Kuperman, MD, medical director of the hospital's virtual hospitalist service. Yet there was no way for that facility, Van Buren County Hospital in Keosauqua, to provide round-the-clock physician care.
Dr. Kuperman did a site visit to Keosauqua, which is nearly 90 miles away, to understand what tests and resources were available. He then interviewed staff before setting up protocols, creating a handbook that outlines how to handle handoffs and communication. The telehospitalist program was launched last November.
"We want to be complementary and not replace on-site staff."
~ Ethan Kuperman, MD
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Here's how it works: Six university
hospitalists work in three-day shifts during
either their administrative or comanagement time because the hours are complementary. (Telehospitalist shifts are not
combined with general medicine ones at the academic center because the higher-acuity patients there are more time-consuming.)
The hospitalists in Iowa City communicate using the Vidyo app on their personal phone, iPad or desktop computer. Staff at Van Buren use iPads to communicate with the telehospitalists, while the telehospitalists go on to talk to the patients through their iPads as well.
The telehospitalist meets with the hospital's on-site providers at 8:45 a.m. and again at 4:30 p.m. to discuss all patients. Each telehospitalist electronically pre-rounds on patients to review vital signs, medications, labs and nursing documentation, "just as we do here in Iowa City," Dr. Kuperman says. The advance practice provider on-site sees all patients prior to those virtual meetings to report any acute event that hasn't been entered in the shared Epic EHR.
Direct admissions
The patients at Van Buren skew older with typical conditions such as acute heart failure exacerbation. Dr. Kuperman says he has seen everything from alcohol withdrawal to diverticulitis and sciatica.
For patients with more complicated conditions or who need monitoring or tests not available at Van Buren, the telehospitalist sets up a direct admission to the university hospital. That hospitalist then sees those patients when they arrive to ensure a smooth transition.
Dr. Kuperman, for example, recently transferred a patient with cellulitis of the hand. Concerned it might be septic arthritis, he arranged a same-day infectious disease consult, which isn't available at Van Buren, and the patient was in surgery within 12 hours.
Van Buren is responsible for the work order and billing and pays a subscription fee to Iowa Hospitals, which covers operational costs. Dr. Kuperman says a moonlighting bonus is taken from that fee for the hospitalists.
Results have been encouraging. The telehospitalists confirm the Van Buren plan 80% of the time, Dr. Kuperman says. "We're there for the 20% when the patient is more complicated, has red flags or a less common disease," he says. "We want to be complementary and not replace on-site staff."
Satisfaction scores indicate that patients like all their doctors working together. And "almost everybody is happy to get University of Iowa care without leaving Van Buren county," he says.
Other hospitals are hoping for the same. According to Dr. Kuperman, six other critical access hospitals are interested in connecting to Iowa Hospital's telehospitalist program. He expects to expand the program and add a full-time telehospitalist by the end of this year.
Paula S. Katz is a freelance health care writer based in Vernon Hills, Ill.
A command center for telehealth
IMAGINE A COMMAND CENTER packed with multimedia stations and physicians providing telehospitalist support for multiple hospitals.
Unfortunately, the "telehospitalist" part of that picture isn't here yet. But a telehealth operations center has been up and running at the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) in Valhalla, N.Y., a 1,700-bed health care system, since 2015.
The center provides 24/7 tele-stroke, tele-psychiatry and tele-ICU services to five of the network's 10 hospitals from a 5,500-square-foot operations hub with 24 workstations. The health system has also added telemedicine capabilities to its critical care ambulances, and an e-trauma program will be up soon.
"The telehealth physicians are a member of the staff. They're just sitting somewhere else."
~ Corey Scurlock MD, MBA
Westchester Medical Center Health Network
In each 12-hour shift, an eHealth team of three critical care nurses, two data specialists and a physician work with specialized ICU-specific software to take care of patients at WMCHealth hospitals. That team enhances the work of critical care providers in each hospital's ICU, tracks safety issues and best practices, and uses alerts to head off problems before they occur.
eHealth team members all have experience working in the ICU at the Westchester Medical Center, WMCHealth's flagship facility and a regional center for advanced care. In addition, the center has a full-time administrative manager.
Sometimes WMCHealth provides the telemedicine technology; other times, the receiving hospitals provide their own, says Corey Scurlock, MD, MBA, medical director of WMCHealth's eHealth Center. In addition, some facilities have hard-wired ICU rooms, while others use carts. Cameras in patient rooms are turned away from patients when not in use to protect privacy, Dr. Scurlock notes.
In the hub, one screen may show X-rays, while another is open as a physician talks to patients and yet another shows telemetry. While hospitalists in the system can tap into the telehealth network, telehospitalists may one day play a central role, says Paul Llobet, MD, chief medical officer of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley. HealthAlliance is a member of WMCHealth that operates two urban community hospitals in Kingston, N.Y., and one critical access hospital 60 miles west in Margaretville.
There's clearly a need for telehospitalists, particularly in rural areas where physician assistants may be standing in for hard-to-recruit hospitalists. HealthAlliance's Margaretville hospital, for example, has been recruiting for a hospitalist for five years—and has garnered only one applicant.
"It's very difficult to get a hospitalist there," says Dr. Llobet. In the future, a PA in Margaretville may be able to do telerounds with a telehospitalist in Valhalla. "The technology is there."
So is the start-up strategy. Dr. Scur
lock says that establishing the center
has meant developing work flows,
agreeing on best practices and starting first with simulated patients to increase clinicians' comfort levels. He says it takes about six months for everyone to get completely comfortable with a program once it goes live.
Now that staff are familiar with telehealth in general, there may be fewer challenges to accepting hospitalists as part of the mix. "Nurses and other ancillary staff were concerned that we were replacing a physician with a monitor," says Dr. Llobet. But they quickly realized the technology was a tool, not a replacement.
"The telehealth physicians are a member of the staff," says Dr. Scurlock. "They're just sitting somewhere else."
Look into the camera and other tips
CREATING THAT ALL-IMPORTANT physician-patient relationship as a telehospitalist means recognizing and adapting to the nature of the medium.
"Just because you know how to behave with a patient in a room doesn't mean you know how to behave with a patient on a screen," says Susan Willis, PhD, PA-C, vice president of clinical program development for iNDIGO Health Partners in Traverse City, Mich. Here are her tips:
Find a well-lit space to use your laptop.
Wear your name badge.
Look at the camera above the screen and not at other things (including the computer screen), or patients will think you're not looking at them.
Set the stage by introducing yourself and establishing the physician-patient relationship.
Make sure to ask the patient who else is in the room.
Don't mumble or roll your eyes.
Remember, the patient can see anything you do, including hand motions.
Published in the June 2017 issue of Today's Hospitalist
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Fresh from being shortlisted to the final 10 in the 'Hotpress Lift Off Competition', Champagne Animal are quickly becoming one of Irelands most exciting unsigned bands.
Siobhan Lynch (Lead Vocal), grand-daughter of Bobby Lynch of the Dubliners, founded Champagne Animal in 2010. Siobhan is a member of the Dublin Gospel Choir whose influence can easily be detected in her vocal presence. Her vocal ...styling has been compared to that of Beth Ditto and Cyndi Lauper.
After some changes in line-up, Champagne Animal eventually came to form with bassist Frank McKenna, originally from the depths of hard rock, and Daragh Armstrong, a drummer of unique talent and skill who attends the Brighton Institute for Modern Music in Dublin.Together they have set themselves the challenge of world domination!
The unique, yet accessible, sound of Champagne Animal stems from their eclectic tastes and experiences in music, which range from rock to gospel, pop to classical. This broad spectrum of styles result in a sound that is fresh, punchy and emotionally charged.
Having been likened to artists such as Florence and the Machine, Adele, Portishead, The Gossip, The White Stripes and even Led Zeppelin, Champagne Animal have come up with their own twist on the indie soul sound. Just like the iconic artists above, Champagne Animal are putting their own stamp on the music world.
While they have been together for only a short amount of time, they have managed to pack in a lot and have secured themselves some much sought after slots, such as appearances at Electric Picnic, Indiependence, Vantastival, Strawberry Fest, Cahersiveen Music and Arts festival, The Ruby Sessions, The Sunday Roast, Balcony TV, Whelans, The Workman's Club, and many other gigs across the country.
The Animals are busy completing EP number 2 and look forward to presenting their first single from it to the public this coming November. Check back for official details soon..
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Here is another project my sister and I did together.
We were able to go thrift store shopping one day and we found a bunch of great stuff.
We found this cute little plastic drawer box and thought it would be perfect in another color.
I think it was only a dollar or two--score!
Instantly it looked different with a coat of red spray paint.
We didn't even have to be that precise with the spray paint because it looked great with a little brown showing through the paint.
Even though you could see some of the brown through the red, we still thought it would look great with some glaze. We used glaze that was tinted with brown.
And this is what we ended up with.
It goes great with the rest of the decor in the room.
Can't wait to have my living room all done!
Gorgeous! I love the color of that red. Thanks for linking up to Share the Wealth Link Party at Laugh, Love, and Craft! I'm your newest follower.
SO perfect with the blue bird cage and red bird!! What a great find and a great job painting it!
Beautiful color. It looks great with the cage.
Really cute! What a great find. I love the color choice. Looks like an expensive imported antique. Cool.
The (formerly ugly, but now interesting)brown peeking through the red adds dimension to your now cute container.
Are you putting scrapbooking embellishments or recipe cards or what in it?
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Color print of two women seated next to a small book cart. There are books on the ground in front of the woman next to the cart. There is calligraphy along the top of the print. Poems by Yomo Utagaki Magao, Shūchōdō Monoyana, Santodō Kanafumi, and sic others.


Our local monumental masons, I like their numberplate.
On the corner of George Street and Savile Street the Dram Shop has somehow survived the attentions of the Luftwaffe and later city planners.
On the corner of George Street and Saville Street the Dramshop has somehow survived the attentions of the Luftwaffe and later city planners.
With the recent discovery that horses can be made to look like cows I suspect that there is nothing quite so big as the smug smile on vegetarians' faces. As far as I know this is the only greengrocer's shop in the centre of Hull and apart from one or two stalls in the covered market supermarkets have taken over completely.
High pressure over Scandinavia is drawing around an easterly wind that, we are are informed, comes all the way from Siberia. I know a wind chill of -2C is but a balmy day for some hardy folk but for a soft Englishman like myself it cuts through to the bone.


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Home Lacrosse Cheshire girls lacrosse unable to fend off Guilford in SCC title game
Cheshire girls lacrosse unable to fend off Guilford in SCC title game
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WEST HAVEN — Junior Catherine Larrow scored with 13.3 seconds left in sudden-death overtime to lift the second-seeded Guilford High girls lacrosse team to an 11-10 win over top-seeded Cheshire on Saturday afternoon in the Southern Connecticut Conference championship game at West Haven High.
Cheshire (16-2) was seeking its first SCC title since capturing four in a row from 2011-14. The Rams had lost the previous three finals to Daniel Hand of Madison.
Cheshire had defeated Guilford, 16-13, in the regular season April 23.
"Our goal was to keep Guilford under 10 goals or less," said Cheshire coach Dan Warburton. "We did everything that we needed to do. When we worked the ball, we were fine. We scored seven goals in about 15 minutes in the first half. But in the second half, we were not patient enough when we needed to be."
Cheshire junior goaltender Sophie Kurtz played exceptionally well in the net, making several key saves late in the second half and early in overtime.
"Sophie was huge for us," said Warburton.
In a low scoring game, Cheshire led 8-5 before Larrow found the net with 3:07 left in the half, cutting the deficit to 8-6.
Sophomore Raegan Bailey had three goals in the first half for Cheshire and senior Annie Eddy had two goals and four assists in the first half alone. Taylor Warburton, Mikayla Crowley and Annie Aquavita also scored first half goals.
Guilford's Maddie Epke scored her third goal of the game to cut the lead to 8-7 in the first minute of the second half but Annie Acquavita gave Cheshire a two-goal lead. But Guilford's Sydney Cunningham and Hannah Tillier scored two goals a minute apart, tying the game at 9-9.
Cheshire regained the lead on an Eddy goal, thanks to a great feed by Acquavita with 6:24 left in regulation. But the with 1:38 left, Tiller scored again, tying the score. Eddy's scoring attempt in the final seconds fell short, and the three-minute OT ensued.
Before the game, Warburton was awarded the SCC Division I Coach of the Year and Eddy was selected as the SCC Division I Player of the Year.
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Gene Every of Cornwallville, NY, passed away at home on Sunday, July 11, 2021, after a courageous battle with cancer. Gene was born on August 16, 1943, the son of the late Victor Every and Madeline (Smith) Every. He grew up in Prattsville, NY, and graduated from Gilboa Conesville Central School in 1961. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served from 1961-1966 where he received training in aviation electronics. Gene was proud of his military service and was a lifelong member of VFW Post 6292 in Stamford, NY, and the Virgil E. Deyo American Legion Post 1327 in Prattsville, NY. Gene was a man of many talents, having worked after his military service at Ferroxcube in Saugerties, NY, to eventually owning his own TV repair and antenna installation service, driving truck for Miron & Bonded Concrete, and working as an armed security guard at Stiefel Labs in Oak Hill, NY. Gene is survived by his wife of 39 years Claudia (Armstrong) Every, his daughters Michelle Every, Kimberly Murphy and their mother Joyce (Jaeger) Diamond, Amanda (Chris) Stegner, and Lisa (Kevin) MacNeill. He is also survived by his grandchildren Kristoffer (Kathryn) Berger, Samantha Berger, Blake and Brady Murphy, Cora and Wyatt Stegner, and Emmalyn and Rowan MacNeill. He is also survived by his aunt Mildred (Every) Yerry, sister-in-law Bonnie Every and many nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his siblings Barry and Dorthy Every. Memorial calling hours will be held on Friday, July 16th from 4-7 pm at the A.J. Cunningham Funeral Home, 4898 State Route 81, Greenville. A graveside service with Military Honors will be conducted at the Cornwallville Cemetery on Saturday, July 17th at 10 am. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Virgil E. Deyo Post 1327, PO Box 272, Prattsville, NY 12468. Condolences can be posted at ajcunninghamfh.com.
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Denly out of New Zealand T20 series
The Kent player will be monitored ahead of the Test series that follows.
Joe Denly has suffered ankle ligament damage (David Davies/PA)
By David Charlesworth, PA, Christchurch
November 2 2019 0:02 AM
England's Joe Denly has been ruled out of the rest of the Twenty20 series against New Zealand because of an ankle injury.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/denly-out-of-new-zealand-t20-series-38653818.html
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Denly rolled his right ankle minutes before the end of England's final training session ahead of the series opener in Christchurch, precluding his involvement in the seven-wicket win at Hagley Oval on Friday.
A scan has revealed ligament damage which will sideline the all-rounder for the last four games of the series although, at this stage, the tourists will not call for a replacement.
Joe Denly, right, with captain Eoin Morgan after a T20 win over Pakistan (Simon Galloway/PA)
Denly's involvement in the two-Test series that follows the T20 portion of the tour is now in major doubt.
He will start a rehabilitation programme and be routinely assessed before the first Test gets under way on November 21.
The Kent player would be a core part of England's plans for that series, having made half-centuries in each of this summer's last three Ashes Tests against Australia.
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Bess hopes five-wicket haul against South Africa is a sign of things to come
By Rory Dollard, PA Cricket Correspondent, Port Elizabeth Dom Bess hopes his first five-wicket haul in an England shirt represents "the start of a journey" that has plenty of successful distance left to run.
By Rory Dollard, PA Cricket Correspondent, Port Elizabeth Dom Bess made history with a maiden five-wicket haul in Port Elizabeth before a lengthy rain delay and three dropped catches from Ben Stokes halted England's victory push in the third Test...
Bess day ever for England spinner before victory push stalls in Port Elizabeth
By Rory Dollard, PA Cricket Correspondent, Port Elizabeth Dom Bess grabbed himself a slice of history with a maiden five-wicket haul in Port Elizabeth before a lengthy rain delay and three dropped catches from Ben Stokes halted England's victory push in...
Simply the Bess! Spinner takes maiden five-wicket haul to give England control
By Rory Dollard, PA Cricket Correspondent Dom Bess was the unexpected leader of the England charge on the third morning of the third Test, completing his maiden five-wicket haul as South Africa buckled under pressure in Port Elizabeth.


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Kim: Effect of Hyperthyroidism on Preventing Renal Insufficiency
Endocrinology and Metabolism 2022;37(2):220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3803/EnM.2022.201
Effect of Hyperthyroidism on Preventing Renal Insufficiency
Tae Yong Kim
Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Corresponding author: Tae Yong Kim. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505, Korea
Tel: +82-2-3010-3249, Fax: +82-2-3010-6962, E-mail: tykim@amc.seoul.kr
Received March 28, 2022 Accepted April 1, 2022
Both hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism affect the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), tubular function, and electrolyte homeostasis; these effects are reversible after restoring euthyroidism [1]. Many studies have shown that hypothyroidism has a definite effect on renal function. However, only a few clinical studies have investigated the effect of hyperthyroidism on renal function, most likely due to the low prevalence of hyperthyroidism. Furthermore, most previous studies recruited a limited number of patients with a relatively short-term follow-up period. To fill in the missing pieces, we need a large-scale epidemiological study with long-term follow-up investigating the effect of hyperthyroidism on renal dysfunction.
As described in their article published in this issue, Cho et al. [2] have found a piece of the puzzle, answering a key question: "Do patients with Graves' disease (GD) have a higher risk for developing end-stage renal disease (ESRD)?"
Cho et al. [2] retrospectively analyzed claims-based data from the Korean National Health Insurance Database and biannual health checkup data to determine the risk of developing ESRD in the GD population compared with matched healthy controls (over 400,000 subjects in each group). They found that GD patients had an almost 50% lower risk of developing ESRD than matched controls. They also showed supporting data from subgroup analyses. A higher baseline GFR, a longer treatment duration, and a higher cumulative dose of medication for GD were significant protective factors against ESRD.
This is the first epidemiological study investigating the effect of GD on renal dysfunction with long-term follow-up. I hope that this study will clarify directions for further clinical studies to prove the benefit of levothyroxine treatment for those who are susceptible to renal insufficiency, such as elderly patients and those with diabetes or hypertension.
1. Iglesias P, Bajo MA, Selgas R, Diez JJ. Thyroid dysfunction and kidney disease: an update. Rev Endocr Metab Disord 2017;18:131-44.
2. Cho YY, Kim B, Shin DW, Jang HR, Kim BY, Jung CH, et al. Graves' disease and the risk of end-stage renal disease: a Korean population-based study. Endocrine Metab 2022;37:281-9.
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Two cases of hypothyroidism presenting with dyspnea.1992 September;7(3)
Two Cases of Hyperparathyroidism Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis.1997 June;12(2)
A Case of Hypothyroidism in Remission during Pregnancy.2012 December;27(4)


This nursery investment was tasked with consolidating evidence of the benefits of vegetation and green spaces in the built environment, and communicating these benefits to an audience spanning the property, infrastructure and nursery sectors.
The project team noted that a significant amount of research has been undertaken, both nationally and internationally, to identify and quantify the benefits of green infrastructure. The project's work brought these findings together in a literature review and in case studies suitable for communication to key decision-makers. Subsequently, a range of consultations took place with those involved in the on-the-ground development (designing, planning and building), regulation and operation of green infrastructure.
As part of this process, the project was able to provide scientific evidence to the Green Building Council of Australia and the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia, to help underpin the development of 'credits' in their rating tools relating to the integration of plants in the buildings and infrastructure. The rating tools are the Infrastructure Sustainability Rating Tool and Green Star ratings.
Information sheets were also produced by the project for circulation to audiences including the nursery industry, infrastructure sector and property sector. The resource for the nursery industry includes information on the opportunities that exist with the green building and infrastructure market, and how to harness them. At the time of writing, it was still to be released.


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Think Tanks in Denmark, Lithuania, Mexico, Spain, US as eight Templeton Freedom Award finalists
The top change agents strengthening the worldwide freedom movement are named finalists for Atlas Network's 2014 Templeton Freedom Award. Awarded since 2004, the Templeton Freedom Award is named for the late investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton. The award annually honors his legacy by identifying and recognizing the most exceptional and innovative contributions to the understanding of free enterprise, and the public policies that encourage prosperity, innovation and human fulfillment via free competition.
The Templeton Freedom Award is generously supported by Templeton Religion Trust and will be presented during Atlas Network's Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner 2014. The winning organization will receive a $100,000 prize and the runners-up will receive $5,000.
The 2014 Templeton Freedom Award finalists are:
Acton Institute (Michigan, USA) - Acton University
Established in 2005, Acton University is a four-day conference that brings together a globally diverse group of influencers to discuss the intersection of human dignity and free enterprise.
Center for Political Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark) - Private Property Project
For the first time in Denmark's history, this project made it easy to review government-led expropriation of private property, particularly for the benefit of private interests, in the country's 98 municipalities. As a result, the incidence of expropriation of private property for the benefit of private interests has dramatically declined to only one such case in a single year.
Civismo (Madrid, Spain) - Low Taxes Campaign for Spain
This campaign to lower taxes and promote economic freedom all throughout Spain paved the way to significant tax reform. One component of the reform package is that the average income earner will save about 600 euros (US$777) per year.
Foundation for Government Accountability (Florida, USA) - Uncover ObamaCare initiative
The Uncover ObamaCare initiative resulted in 24 states saying no to ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion. The initiative has kept 9.4 million Americans from becoming dependent on government and will save taxpayers almost $500 billion over the next decade.
Goldwater Institute (Arizona, USA) - Education Savings Accounts initiative
Unlike school vouchers, education savings accounts create the maximum possible choice for parents and opportunities for competition among government schools, private schools, and other education providers. Arizona became the first state to launch education savings accounts in mid-2011. And in 2014 Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law the country's second education savings account program.
Illinois Policy Institute (Illinois, USA) - Campaign to stop an unfair progressive income tax
The campaign led to the defeat of a movement to amend the Illinois Constitution and replace the state's flat income tax with a progressive rate structure. This victory means that over the next five years alone, nearly $30 billion dollars will stay in the hands of Illinois' families and businesses instead of going to politicians in Springfield.
IPEA (Agora Institure for Strategic Thinking) (Mexico City, Mexico) - One Million Youth for Mexico campaign
The campaign was started to address barriers to freedom throughout Mexico and has produced a growing network of more than 155,000 young leaders in more than 20 cities across Mexico. The campaign played a critical role on the federal level in achieving the Law of Citizen's Initiative being passed, which will strengthen civil society and rule of law throughout Mexico.
Lithuanian Free Market Institute (Vilnius, Lithuania) - Municipal Performance Index for Freedom and Free Enterprise
Launched in 2011, the index measures and ranks the performance of municipal governments in three overarching categories: municipalities for citizens, municipalities for investors, and municipal governance and administration. The methodology of the index comprised 55 indicators and anchored the evaluation criteria in the underlying values of freedom of choice, private ownership and initiative, free enterprise, efficient use of public resources, and transparent and accountable governance.
Who: Atlas Network
What: $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award
When: Nov. 13, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner closing ceremony – Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York, NY 10013
(Bowery and Grand St.)


The majority decides to take a small profit or break even and exit around $14k and then $16k. With these people out of the game, it will be easy for the whales to manipulate the price and it may go down to $3000 as well if such massive selling occurs.
The rise from around $8100 is so bullish that it shoots straight up towards $20k+ with small profit taking along the way. This would mean big players have decided to get involved at this stage without waiting for a drop.
On a sidenote we are also seeing Bullish Cypher, Inverse H&S and Breaking Out of the Wedge, all point to one thing and one thing only: A determined BTC rise to $17k. What happens after that? Your guess is as good as mine. Will people start breaking even, take small profits and exit from the game or will the climb continue? That remains to be seen but for now, we have strong movement in favor of the bulls from here.


Magic winter scarves are among the most popular scarves to wear during the winter season! It is called "magic" because they can be stretched and worn in many different ways, but once you take it off it pings back to its original size and shape. This type of scarf feels exquisitely silky and luxurious, it can stretch in many different ways and will always goes back to it's original shape.
Magic winter scarves can be worn as a regular neck scarf, hood, muffler, snood, and the like. If you're planning on buying a magic winter scarf for yourself or for your family and friends as holiday presents, just browse through our pages and you'll most likely find the perfect magic scarf that'll not only keep you warm and cozy but stylish and hip during the winter season. You can also check out our striped winter scarves and our loop winter scarves.


Don't go there expect large cooked meals for there are none. However, a selection of cakes, little baked goods and some sandwiches are available. It's only decent that any coffee place provides some sort of little bites to go along with the drinks.
Sadly, the coffee is not as good as i expected it to be. S said he could taste the bitterness from the over roasted beans but it was kinda masked with the milk when it was hot. The bitterness was even more so apparent when the drink was cool and that's when the sourness came out as well. Meh.
The homemade granola fared so much better. S didn't wanna eat anything at first but he kept stealing from my bowl! Nothing makes us happier than yogurt with granola and fresh fruits. It also came with milk on the side for those who wants a lil more moisture in their bowl but my personal preference is that yogurt alone would suffice.
There were bananas, strawberries, blueberries and nuts in this one. I thought there were some crunchy dehydrated bananas as well. Very satisfying.
We were rather surprised of the huge crowd that showed up sometime after. The place was packed at 9pm! Didn't know that the coffee culture is going so strong in Singapore these days. Don't suppose people need to sleep anymore. Or maybe it was a pre clubbing shot of adrenalin. Who knows.


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Groovy!! Review
SHOW Ewj2 INFO
Ewj2 Info
Playmates Interactive
Groovy!!
After defeating Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt (Whew, try saying that five times fast!), Earth Worm Jim, our hero, was high on life. With his new girlfriend, Princess What's-Her-Name, and finally finding out what was in his backpack, Jim's life couldn't be better. That is until (There always has to be an 'until') Psy-Crow hops out from behind a nearby rock and kidnaps the Princess. Now Jim has to hurry and catch them before they get to Lost Vegas, the home of the 24 hour quick, non-consenting wedding chapel, and Psy-Crow can get crowned RULER OF THE UNIVERSE!!! On the way, our pal Jim has to face some old acquaintances, like Evil the Cat, Bob the Goldfish, and Major Mucus. Only after defeating these evil do-ers will Jim be able to have his hunny bunny back in his arms. Sounds like a great idea for a video game. . .
Earthworm Jim 2 has finally made it to the Saturn, and, boy, does it look good. With CD sound, beautiful backgrounds, and a quick loading time, Screaming Pink did a great job bringing our pal Jim to the Saturn. Though this game comes out long after its Genesis and SNES counterparts, it was well worth the wait.
"Mmmm, that background looks good enough to eat!" That's what you'll be thinking when you see the beautiful graphics in Earthworm Jim 2. Totally redone for the Saturn, these new backgrounds are brighter and cleaner. Some of them are completely different, like the background of Puppy Love. The rest of the graphics and animation are just as smooth and deranged as their cartridge counterparts. The homing natives are so fast after being launched from the catapults, that they are really hard to avoid. The twisted designers even rigged a cow to explode unless you dunk it in water. The load time isn't that bad either. You have to wait about 10 seconds between each level in order for the graphics to load. You can even use this time to write down the level password, so technically you're not wasting any time. Visually, this game is everything you'd expect of Earthworm Jim, and more.
The sound is even more kooky on the Saturn than on any other system. The game still opens with what I consider to be the best music ever in a video game. Each level has its own separate piece of music that ranges from classical to just plain bizarre. The sound effects are just as twisted as even. Let your heart soar at the melodious moo of a cow in trouble and cringe at the splat of a puppy, hitting the ground. The designers made each sound in Earthworm Jim 2 perfectly tailored for each action. It is a rare occasion when game designers are able to put that much work into a title.
The control is easy and still only uses a few buttons. Jim has gotten a little lazy in his second adventure, so he has his friend Snot do a lot of the work. Instead of the helicopter head (Which was really annoying in the first game.), Snot will form a parachute. Likewise, you swing from snot instead of from your own body. Guess Jim is trying to kick his sado-masochistic tendencies.
The only real drawback to Earthworm Jim 2 is that it is nothing new. We've seen this same game about a year ago on the Genesis and SNES. Even though this is the best version so far released, it doesn't have any new levels or enemies. (Side note: There was a version of Earthworm Jim for the Sega CD which did have an additional level.) Fans of Jim are eagerly awaiting a new game that takes full advantage of the next generation machines. With the success of both Earthworm Jim and Earthworm Jim 2, we're sure to see our favorite invertebrate again.
Just as Funny as the Origional.
Nothing new for the Saturn Release.


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We had a beautiful blue sky today!
It's gonna be hotter tomorrow!
Yap, it's summer time on the Gold Coast.
Today, I'm going to show you a review we've got from one of our old students from Slovenia.
I was looking through the photos with them and it made me nostalgic.
Here is the review from Nataza from Slovenia.
"Because my English is not good, I went to school with great fear, which passed the first day. I met good classmates, Hiroko and excellent teacher Adam. Teacher Adam is always talking slowly and understandable. It was easy for me. Incomprehensible things is always explained in a more simple way. So you should understand.
They are such a nice couple and we also enjoyed having you!
It was so interesting to know about their country.
Someday, we hope we can see you again!


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package com.google.gerrit.sshd.commands;

import com.google.common.collect.MultimapBuilder;
import com.google.common.collect.SetMultimap;
import com.google.common.flogger.FluentLogger;
import com.google.gerrit.common.data.Capable;
import com.google.gerrit.entities.Account;
import com.google.gerrit.extensions.restapi.AuthException;
import com.google.gerrit.server.CurrentUser;
import com.google.gerrit.server.git.receive.AsyncReceiveCommits;
import com.google.gerrit.server.notedb.ReviewerStateInternal;
import com.google.gerrit.server.permissions.PermissionBackend;
import com.google.gerrit.server.permissions.PermissionBackendException;
import com.google.gerrit.server.permissions.ProjectPermission;
import com.google.gerrit.sshd.AbstractGitCommand;
import com.google.gerrit.sshd.CommandMetaData;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.TooLargeObjectInPackException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.UnpackException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.transport.AdvertiseRefsHook;
import org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceivePack;
import org.kohsuke.args4j.Option;

/** Receives change upload over SSH using the Git receive-pack protocol. */
@CommandMetaData(
    name = "receive-pack",
    description = "Standard Git server side command for client side git push")
final class Receive extends AbstractGitCommand {
  private static final FluentLogger logger = FluentLogger.forEnclosingClass();

  @Inject private AsyncReceiveCommits.Factory factory;
  @Inject private PermissionBackend permissionBackend;

  private final SetMultimap<ReviewerStateInternal, Account.Id> reviewers =
      MultimapBuilder.hashKeys(2).hashSetValues().build();

  @Option(
      name = "--reviewer",
      aliases = {"--re"},
      metaVar = "EMAIL",
      usage = "request reviewer for change(s)")
  void addReviewer(Account.Id id) {
    reviewers.put(ReviewerStateInternal.REVIEWER, id);
  }

  @Option(
      name = "--cc",
      aliases = {},
      metaVar = "EMAIL",
      usage = "CC user on change(s)")
  void addCC(Account.Id id) {
    reviewers.put(ReviewerStateInternal.CC, id);
  }

  @Override
  protected void runImpl() throws IOException, Failure {
    CurrentUser currentUser = session.getUser();
    try {
      permissionBackend
          .user(currentUser)
          .project(project.getNameKey())
          .check(ProjectPermission.RUN_RECEIVE_PACK);
    } catch (AuthException e) {
      throw new Failure(1, "fatal: receive-pack not permitted on this server", e);
    } catch (PermissionBackendException e) {
      throw new Failure(1, "fatal: unable to check permissions " + e);
    }

    AsyncReceiveCommits arc =
        factory.create(projectState, currentUser.asIdentifiedUser(), repo, null);

    try {
      Capable r = arc.canUpload();
      if (r != Capable.OK) {
        throw die(r.getMessage());
      }
    } catch (PermissionBackendException e) {
      throw die(e.getMessage());
    }

    ReceivePack rp = arc.getReceivePack();
    try {
      rp.receive(in, out, err);
      session.setPeerAgent(rp.getPeerUserAgent());
    } catch (UnpackException badStream) {
      // In case this was caused by the user pushing an object whose size
      // is larger than the receive.maxObjectSizeLimit gerrit.config parameter
      // we want to present this error to the user
      if (badStream.getCause() instanceof TooLargeObjectInPackException) {
        StringBuilder msg = new StringBuilder();
        msg.append("Receive error on project \"").append(projectState.getName()).append("\"");
        msg.append(" (user ");
        msg.append(currentUser.getUserName().orElse(null));
        msg.append(" account ");
        msg.append(currentUser.getAccountId());
        msg.append("): ");
        msg.append(badStream.getCause().getMessage());
        logger.atInfo().log("%s", msg);
        throw new UnloggedFailure(128, "error: " + badStream.getCause().getMessage());
      }
      StringBuilder msg = new StringBuilder();
      msg.append("Unpack error on project \"").append(projectState.getName()).append("\":\n");

      msg.append("  AdvertiseRefsHook: ").append(rp.getAdvertiseRefsHook());
      if (rp.getAdvertiseRefsHook() == AdvertiseRefsHook.DEFAULT) {
        msg.append("DEFAULT");
      } else {
        msg.append(rp.getAdvertiseRefsHook().getClass());
      }
      msg.append("\n");

      IOException detail = new IOException(msg.toString(), badStream);
      throw new Failure(128, "fatal: Unpack error, check server log", detail);
    }
  }
}

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Saint Genis Reception opening hours: Mondays to Fridays from 8 - 12 a.m. and from 3:15 to 7 p.m.
Check-in is possible only between 3:15 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Saint Genis desk.
During the week-end, room keys are available from the security guard at the Main Entrance B from 2 p.m.
Please ensure that you check out by 11 a.m. Failure to return the keys to your room by this time may result in additional charges.
For the payment neither budget codes nor Team codes are accepted. Payments can be done with credit cards and Euros are accepted only in cash.
coffee machine, washing machine, clothes dryer, TV lounge, shared kitchen.
21 single rooms with washbasin, shower and WC.
The check-in is possible only between 3:15 p.m. and 7 p.m. weekly and the check-out at 11 a.m.


Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. Ellen is a dedicated emergency surgeon who devotes her long shifts to saving lives. Their 8-year old daughter Jackie spends most of her time with her Filipino nanny Gloria, a situation that is making Ellen start to question her priorities. When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone.


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9140 Deni è un asteroide della fascia principale. Scoperto nel 1977, presenta un'orbita caratterizzata da un semiasse maggiore pari a 2,3611453 UA e da un'eccentricità di 0,1067983, inclinata di 13,86085° rispetto all'eclittica.

Collegamenti esterni

Corpi celesti scoperti nel 1977
Deni


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MYXclusive: MATTEO GUIDICELLI Gears Up For Solo Concert "Hey Matteo"!
He's done running the same routes. Matteo Guidicelli is now going on a different course.
The triathlete-actor-singer is gearing up for his upcoming major solo concert dubbed Hey Matteo at the Kia Theatre this November 30 with special guests Morissette, Kiana Valenciano, and Loonie!
"I'm very excited I get to to work with these people. Excited, nervous at the same time but overall I'm excited to have a good time," he shared to MYX during his rehearsal.
Matteo promises to deliver "things" we've never seen before like his rock side. "We're gonna be performing some of the new songs also," he teased.
Sure, the pressure's on but as in everything Matteo takes on, he's ready to face this huge challenge. "We've been rehearsing a lot, conceptualizing what's gonna happen with my director (Rowell Santiago), with my stylist. We're just working on setting up the show."
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On Power.
June 18, 2018 June 18, 2018 onpowerblog
The Property Trap: Moving Beyond Collective Ownership
by: Agüeybaná
Throughout the decades the anti-capitalist left has made a name for itself by critically and devastatingly analyzing capitalism. Rather than focusing on parliamentary politics, reformist agendas, and other quantitative changes to capitalism and the state, radical anti-capitalists combat not just the economic problems brought about by capitalism, but the hierarchies facilitated by the state in the political, environmental, and social realm; looking always to, as the Industrial Workers of the World saying goes, "build a new world in the shell of the old". Along the way, anarchists, socialists and communists have at times provided loose conceptions of what alternatives to capitalism and the state could look like[1], but there's one concept which has evaded the cutting blade of radical alternatives for hundreds of years: property. In the following we will describe liberal conceptions of property in the form of Locke's argument, provide arguments showing that Lockean conceptions are ripe with fallacies, and show how anarchists, socialists, communists, and their fellow travelers have been presupposing Locke's liberal theory of property in their own theories of property. Ultimately, we will provide some libertarian-communist conclusions based on arguments against property which do not depend on liberalism for their philosophical backing.
Things of the senses are real if considered as perceptible things, but unreal if considered as goods.
–Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Any talk of property rights[2] must begin with John Locke, the man who provided the most common justification for property and American capitalism. Locke posited a very intuitive theory of property rights: if you build it, it is yours (this is so intuitive that it is accepted by many anarchists; more on that below). As Locke himself put it:
Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his Labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his Property…
Put in a more structured manner his argument was as follows[3]:
Humans own the labor of their bodies.
Humans can mix their labor into objects.
Any object that has a person's labor in it is the property of that person.
:. Private property is justified.
As mentioned above, this argument is incredibly intuitive. If a person puts in the work, sweats and bleeds for some object why in the world shouldn't they own that object? After all, that object wouldn't have come into existence without that person laboring over it to begin with! Unfortunately for propertarians (a more appropriate name for so called "Libertarians" in the U.S.) this argument is filled with problems that are carried across its various iterations. To begin with, Locke begs the question on point 1 by assuming that people "own" the labor of their bodies. After all, if we're trying to determine what are the parameters for how we can come to own something, we shouldn't presuppose that very something in the first point of our argument. Secondly, and this is a point examined in detail by anarchist-communist philosopher Alan Carter, the concept of "labor" in points 2 and 3 is metaphysically disparate. As Alan Carter explains[4]:
Labour is not the sort of material object that can be mixed with another. Hence, it is difficult to see how Locke is saying anything at all intelligible. The form of Locke's argument may lead to an over hasty acceptance because of a potential equivocation. The saying 'This is my labour' can be taken to mean 'This is my task', 'This is my activity' or 'This is the produce of my labour'. One should be wary of confusing 'This is the produce of my labour' with either of the two meanings… If labour were a material object, then we could certainly see how it could be mixed with another object…
That is, Locke seems to be using two different senses of the same word within the same argument; a logical fallacy known as equivocation. To some, this may appear as a rhetorical counter point, but the reality is that arguments seeking to justify property rights happen within the realm of political philosophy, and as such they are subject to logic. Therefore, proponents of Lockean property rights face an uphill battle in trying to connect "labor" in the sense of this metaphysical, untestable, elusive substance that is present somewhere (where exactly we've yet to find out) in the object created, and "labor" in the sense of an activity, or the outcome of an activity. As if that wasn't enough, this argument, prominent as it is, has been attacked even by other propertarian philosophers. Robert Nozick, a philosopher known for his work promoting minimal state free-market capitalism, famously argued that people have no reason to believe that mixing their labor with an object makes it theirs[5]:
…why isn't mixing what I own with what I don't a way of losing what I own rather than a way of gaining what I don't? If I own a can of tomato juice and spill it in the sea so that its molecules (made radioactive, so I can check this) mingle evenly throughout the sea, do I thereby come to own the sea, or have I foolishly dissipated my tomato juice?
So, according to Nozick, even if we were to presuppose that people do own their labor (in the metaphysical sense) it doesn't follow that mixing that with an un-owned object makes it the property of a person. Rather, Locke's argument, under this presupposition, allows us to justifiably claim two completely contradictory outcomes: that someone can have ownership of an object, and that someone cannot have ownership of an object; A and –A.
…stop and consider the wages that were kept back from millions of Black people, not for one year but for three hundred and ten years, you'll see how this country got so rich so fast. And what made the economy as strong as it is today. And all that slave labor that was amassed in unpaid wages, is due someone today. And you're not giving us anything when we say that it's time to collect.
–Malcolm X, "Twenty million black people in prison,"
As mentioned above, this incredibly intuitive argument from Locke has made it past the most revolutionary of political theories: anarchism. Some "fellow travelers" proudly exclaim that the tradition of anarchism has its roots in the liberalism that rose out of the feudal era. For example, when Noam Chomsky, explaining Mikail Bakunin's comments on the Paris Commune, says[6]
These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt's Limits of State Action…it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.
Others align themselves with liberal political values without saying, or knowing, as much. One can find examples of this in the works of famous anarchist-communist thinkers such as Peter Kropotkin when he mentions that one of the many ways in which capitalists exploit workers is by not paying them what they need to survive[7] :
This is the secret of wealth; find the starving and destitute, pay them half a crown, and make them produce five shillings worth in the day, amass a fortune by these means, and then increase it by some lucky hit, made with the help of the State
And Alexander Berkman who argues a very similar point in his work[8]:
Though the workers, as a class, have built the factories, a slice of their daily labor is taken from them for the privilege of using those factories.That's the landlord's profit.
As well as Errico Malatesta[9]:
…in reality the property that they defend is capitalist property, namely property that allows its owners to live from the work of others and which therefore depends on the existence of a class of the disinherited and dispossessed, forced to sell their labour to the property owners for a wage below its real value…
This is not to imply that these are not fine critiques of the capitalist system, but that the line of thought here is the same: the capitalist owns the means of production, takes the labor of the worker and returns to the worker only partial remuneration for their work, i.e. in a fair society the worker would receive what's rightfully theirs. And how, then, could we determine what's rightfully theirs? Well, let's look back at Kropotkin[10]
The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race… All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them… [sic]
It seems, then, that the answer Kropotkin has to the question of how we determine what is rightfully ours is Lockean in nature, i.e. the means of production are a collective work of humanity; all people have "worked in the measure of their strength to produce…" therefore, because their "work" is what brought about those all means of production and commodities, they are the rightful owners of those means of production and commodities. While Kropotkin is not claiming that people own the labor of their bodies as Locke does, he is using the rest of Locke's argument. Put in the same argumentative structure as above, Kropotkin's argument would look like this:
People work in factories to produce various commodities and means of production.
Every person has worked in "the measure of their strength to produce…"
:. Means of production and commodities are the property of everyone; i.e. collective property.
Although Kropotkin does not use "labor" in any of its forms, he does talk of "work" and how every person has worked on just about everything. While he avoids directly mentioning that the justificatory point of ownership is the fact of someone's "work" being mixed with whatever workers are making, the Lockean point is clear. What justifies the ownership is the fact that there is labor, or, in the case of Kropotkin, "work" in what workers happen to be creating. The same fallacy of equivocation, then, applies to Kropotkin's argument: "work" in point 1 is still metaphysically different to the sense in which "work" in point 2 is being used (some could argue that point 2, plays both sides of the metaphysical coin at the same time). However, due credit should be given to Kropotkin for he seemed to have gotten a whiff of how metaphysically problematic labor/work mixing can be and might've sought to solve, or at least nullify the problem when he adds[11]:
…and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth…
However, this line further reveals that his conception of "work" is one that is somewhere in the commodities and means of production created by workers, albeit one that is impossible to verify how much any single person has added.
It seems that in our effort to cut down the most common propertarian argument for property we've taken away the most common libertarian-communist argument for what property would look like in an anarchist society. In the section below we will explore a solution.
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Given our arguments against Locke, and by association Kropotkin, we are faced with the conclusion that property, both private and collective, is philosophically unjustifiable (as far as labor based arguments are concerned). However, the lack of any justification for collective property does not mean we must become luddites. Accepting that no property can be justified walks hand in hand with the idea that we still desire and, in many cases, need certain commodities to exist. As such, so long as society agrees on their desire and need for these commodities and accepts that no one can justifiably own anything, we have to collectively self-manage means of production to produce said commodities whilst never being under any illusion of "owning" said means of production. Managing collectively is also not anarchistic bias, but rather the only way of doing so. After all, if no agent can actually own anything, but all agree that we want or need certain things to exist, then we must come together to collectively decide the best way of bringing about those things, and if no one owns any means of production, then no one has the right to exclude anyone else in deciding how they are used. Decisions, then, must be made via a fully participatory mode of decision making. Hypothetically speaking, at it's most individualistic point this could manifest itself in, say, one exceptionally gifted person being able to pull off a particular commodity. A community, then, in its desire or need for said commodity could conclude that only by this person single handedly engaging some means of production could the community get what it needs[12]. But even this would not be anywhere near private property. The person in this scenario would have no exclusive use-rights, no seller rights, no trading rights, and no inheritance rights (what argument could they provide justifying these rights? Certainly not a Lockean one). Their lone use of the means of production would be one granted by the rest of the community under the understanding that it is not that person's property. That there's no ownership to be had, but needs to be satisfied.
At it's most collectivist point, a community could decide that the only way to get a particular commodity is to engage the whole community in the process, or that there are too many processes for everyone to engage in all of them and a system of ensuring everyone participates fairly should be in place. Something akin to the "balanced job complexes"[13] of participatory economics. Both of these routes, however, require anarchist-communist values to operate; both require direct-democratic avenues of participation/decision making and both operate under no private (or collective) ownership existing.
It should be clear that the solutions considered above are not positive arguments. They are not proposals for a libertarian-communist, or anarchist society and they are not something that can be rationally rejected due to unsavory consequences. The above is a series of conclusions based on a negative argument against property rights. As such, one can certainly imagine many scenarios that could seemingly push a society exercising no property to fall back into private property, e.g. imagine that for some elaborate reason the only way to bring about a much needed commodity is to re-introduce private-property and markets, or imagine that a person, or group held a community ransom via their skill, and force the community to grant them "property rights". In situations such as the former, the community would have to make difficult decisions weighing the ills of property and against the benefits of a commodity. However, in both situations it would still be the case that the community would have as much power as any particular agent to create property-rights: none whatsoever. The fact would still remain that private-property lacks any philosophical justification and what would be brought about would be an illusion born out of need, or extortion in the latter scenario, not reason. Leaving the holders of private-property with nothing to fall back on except coercion to hold on to their precious property – a scenario not very different from the one we have now.
Obviously, none of us can predict the future. That, however, does not give the writer any reason to not work out how political values can play out institutionally. We're not afraid of making models, and when we do so, we do so with the understanding that none of these models are the ultimate ideal of anarchism. Instead, these should be considered as some bare minimums for an anarchist society.
The word "right" will be used throughout, but this should not be taken as any sort of support for the concept. Rather, it is used for lack of a better term and for ease of understanding. It is the opinion of this writer that rights are, as Jeremy Bentham once said, "nonsense on stilts".
Readers should note that the version of Locke's argument presented here is, in our opinion, the strongest version of his argument. One that does not make mention of God, nor makes appeals to the supernatural, or mystical.
Carter, Philosophical Foundations of Property, chapter 2
5.Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia pp. 174-5
Chomsky, Notes on Anarchism
Kropotkin, Conquest of Bread, Chap 4
Berkman, What is Anarchism
Malatesta, Some thoughts on the post-revolutionary property system
Kropotkin, ibid
Assuming the person is willing. If the person is unwilling, then the community has no right to force them to partake; only morality can do that.
This being one of only a small handful of good ideas contained within participatory-economics.
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Q: Difference in encypt result bettween C# and javascript I want to encypt data to request api parameter. I converted my c# code to javascript but i got diff result:
C# code:
private byte[] GetPasswordInBytes(string password)
{
   SHA1Managed mSha1 = new SHA1Managed();
   var hashBytes = mSha1.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password));
   return hashByte;
}

Javascipt Code:
getPasswordInBytes(password) {
  let bytes = CryptoJS.enc.Utf8.parse(password);
  let hashPass = CryptoJS.SHA1(bytes);
  return this.getBytes(hashPass);
}

getBytes(hash) {
  var byteArray = [];
  hash.words.forEach(function(i) {
    var k;
    for (var j = 3; j >= 0; j--) {
      k = (i >> (j * 8)) & 0xFF;
      k = k < 128 ? k : -(256 - k);
      byteArray.push(k);
    }
  });

  return byteArray;
}

input: password="123456"
output:
C#:
[124, 74, 141, 9, 202, 55, 98, 175, 97, 229, 149, 32, 148, 61, 194, 100, 148, 248, 148, 27]

Javascript:
[124, 74, -115, 9, -54, 55, 98, -81, 97, -27, -107, 32, -108, 61, -62, 100, -108, -8, -108, 27]

I just implemet new from above code:
C# code
  private byte[] GetPasswordInBytes(string password)
    {
      SHA1Managed mSha1 = new SHA1Managed();
      var hashBytes = mSha1.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password));

      var keyBytes = new byte[16];
      Array.Copy(hashBytes, keyBytes, 16);//Copy first 128-bit.

      return keyBytes;
    }

    private string Encrypt(string plainText, string password)
    {
      byte[] plainBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText);
      byte[] keyBytes = GetPasswordInBytes(password);
      RijndaelManaged rijndaelManaged = new RijndaelManaged
      {
        Mode = CipherMode.CBC,
        Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7,
        KeySize = 128,
        BlockSize = 128,
        Key = keyBytes,
        IV = keyBytes
      };

      byte[] cryptedBytes = rijndaelManaged.CreateEncryptor()
          .TransformFinalBlock(plainBytes, 0, plainBytes.Length);

      return Convert.ToBase64String(cryptedBytes);
    }

Javascript code
getPasswordInBytes(password) {
    let bytes = CryptoJS.enc.Utf8.parse(password);
    let hashPass =  CryptoJS.SHA1(bytes);
    let byteArray = this.getBytes(hashPass);

    return byteArray.slice(0, 16);//Copy first 128-bit.
  }

 getBytes(hash)
  {
    var byteArray = [];
    hash.words.forEach(function (i) {
      var k;
      for (var j = 3; j >= 0; j--) {
        k = (i >> (j * 8)) & 0xFF;
        byteArray.push(k);
      }
    });

    return byteArray;
  }

  encrypt(clearText, password)
  {
    let key = this.getPasswordInBytes(password).toString();
    let iv = key;
    let data = CryptoJS.enc.Latin1.parse(clearText);
    var encrypted = CryptoJS.AES.encrypt(
      data,
      key,
      {
        keySize: 128,
        iv: iv,
        mode: CryptoJS.mode.CBC,
        padding: CryptoJS.pad.Pkcs7
      });

    let result =  CryptoJS.enc.Base64.stringify( encrypted.ciphertext);

    return result;
  }

call method:
encrypt('cleart text','123456')
Out put:
C#: m8BOnfX+n9Fc90dZdV2vQQ==
Javascript: 6qYSO7ZkTcesmZKvkFJz+g==

In javascript the result was changed for each run
lV2NO3NpsERUQmXMOOzcvQ==
H1Sla9/wrQXvKuTELPATDQ==
WsMHHJLskuJxmEJe7PnAAg==

UPDATE
 getPasswordInBytes(password) {
    let bytes = CryptoJS.enc.Utf8.parse(password);
    let hashPass =  CryptoJS.SHA1(bytes);
    let byteArray = this.getBytes(hashPass);
    return byteArray;
  }

  encrypt(clearText, password)
  {
    let keyBytes = this.getPasswordInBytes(password);
    let key = CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.create(keyBytes, 16);//128bit
    let iv = CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.create(keyBytes, 16);
    let data = CryptoJS.enc.Utf8.parse(clearText);
    var encrypted = CryptoJS.AES.encrypt(
      data,
      key,
      {
        keySize:128,
        blockSize: 128,
        iv: iv,
        mode: CryptoJS.mode.CBC,
        padding: CryptoJS.pad.Pkcs7
      });

    return encrypted.toString();
  }

  getBytes(hash)
  {
    var byteArray = [];
    hash.words.forEach(function (i) {
      var k;
      for (var j = 3; j >= 0; j--) {
        k = (i >> (j * 8)) & 0xFF;
        byteArray.push(k);
      }
    });

    return byteArray;
  }

call method: encrypt('cleart text','123456')
Out put: still diffrence
C#: m8BOnfX+n9Fc90dZdV2vQQ==
Javascript: gVSE5CdyGxJJRbWaJiuyhg==

A: If you would remove the line k = k < 128 ? k : -(256 - k); from the code, the results would be the same.

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Hello, and Happy September! Thanks to the excellent folks at Open Book for inviting me here, and thanks to you for tuning in, lovely readers-who-I'm-guessing-are-mostly-also-writers.
All right, let's get to it. This first post is about cold, hard cash. Because that's why we all got into this shiny, glittery literary business, am I right?
But anyway. If you're a writer and you're not in the habit of applying for grants, you need to get on that. Because it's money! For your writing!
*If you haven't applied to these programs before, you'll need to jump through a few electronic hoops first. For Canada Council for the Arts, you'll have to get on "the portal." For the Ontario Arts Council, you'll need to set up a profile in Nova, their online grant-application system.
The next deadline for the Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation component of Explore and Create is September 12, 2018. Yikes! That's really soon. But don't let that deter you because this program offers grants of up to $25,000!
The next deadline for the Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Projects (Works for Publication) program is October 18, 2018. This one offers grants of $12,000.
I'm a big fan of the OAC's Recommender Grants for Writers (formerly Writers' Reserve). It runs from September 5, 2018 to January 16, 2019 and offers grants ranging from $1,500 to $5000. The best thing about this program (besides the money) is that you send your application directly to publishers and literary magazines (the "recommenders"). This is a marvellous opportunity because even if a recommender doesn't award you a grant, your work might still attract the attention of a publisher or editor who may reach out with an offer to publish you.
Toronto writers can also apply to the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) Writers Program. Their most recent deadline was in June, but they also have an online system you could check out before the next one.
While the process of applying might seem daunting at first, it does get easier with practice. Plus, even if your application isn't successful, you'll benefit in the long run by learning to think critically and objectively about your work. The three main elements of most applications usually consist of: 1) your publishing history, 2) pages from your work-in-progress, and 3) a description of your project.
Pulpy and Midge is a novel of literary fiction about learning how to be in love. It spans two weeks in the life of Pulpy and Midge, a married couple, and is told from Pulpy's point of view. This story also looks at the intersection of private and public spaces, and the havoc that insecurity can wreak on intimacy.
Pulpy used to be Brian Lembeck, until he was christened "Pulpy" in college. He works at an office under Al, his laid-back boss, and is the bitter receptionist's only friend. Pulpy's wife Midge is trying to earn a living as a candle party hostess—she quit her 9 to 5 job to pursue this dream when Al's dog ate her pet pigeon and Pulpy was promised a promotion as a result.
Pulpy is caring but spineless and Midge is sweet but insecure, and despite their love for each other their combined foibles have weakened their marriage. As Al's retirement looms and the promised promotion doesn't appear, Pulpy's high level of anxiety increases and Midge's small supply of confidence plummets. Then Al hands the reins to Dan, the tyrannical new supervisor, and things get worse. Dan and his wife Beatrice do a workplace overhaul, installing Pulpy as head of the new Social Committee (with no pay raise) and making life even more miserable for the receptionist. She turns to Pulpy for comfort and then tries to take things further, which sets off Midge's jealous streak. At the same time, Dan and Beatrice's marriage is rapidly unravelling and they're intent on dragging Pulpy and Midge down with them. Their increasing invasiveness, which ultimately leads to an attempt at spouse swapping, upsets Pulpy and Midge's routine and threatens to destroy the fragile ecosystem of their relationship. As a result, Pulpy is inspired to get a backbone, and Midge recovers her self-esteem.
Pulpy and Midge is also about finding joy in the mundane. It celebrates "ordinary" people and how they make their mark on the world. "There are things that I do that are important," the receptionist tells Pulpy. Midge collects real-estate agent magnets and starts a house fund with her candle-party money. Pulpy is content to let life happen to him, until his situation gets so far out of his control that he has to take a stand.
Gazebo Times is a short story collection-in-progress. As part of my application, I have submitted three stories that will be included in the collection. "The Lesson" is a monologue spoken by a seasoned wedding DJ addressing the new recruit he's training on the job, and who detests those women he feels always try to hijack his song lists with their numerous dance-floor requests, personified by one female wedding guest he singles out with a menace that grows over the course of the evening. "Everyone Here Is So Friendly," told in second person, is about someone who escapes a miserable, tormentor-filled past and arrives in a bright, shiny new present full of eager new friends and adoring fans, but is too insecure to enjoy it. Lastly, the title story "Gazebo Times" peeks into the lives of several people—both victims and perpetrator—caught in the midst of a food-court shooting.
I am approximately midway through this project. In addition to the three stories submitted, I have completed three other new stories to date. "At Kimberly's Party" (3 pages) is told in the first-person-plural point of view from the combined consciousness of a group of high-school "frenemies" who are indignant over the distance between them and the successful adult version of their former teenage doormat. "He Will Speak to Us" (14 pages) is told from the point of view of the bitter father of an unnamed, Justin Bieber-esque superstar and takes place in a giant concert arena, where thousands of preteen girls wait for their idol to appear on a huge screen to apologize for accidentally killing one of his fans during a game of laser tag. "Dumpling Night" (6 pages) is about a "heavy" employed for security at a private family outing to a Chinese restaurant—he's a family friend who desperately wants to belong, and is in denial about how the people he loves take advantage of him.
I'm currently working on two more stories: "In Real Life" is about a woman in an unhappy marriage who spots a minor celebrity in her local bar and starts to unravel as she increasingly obsesses over him. "So Bright and Full of Beans" is told from the point of view of an infant, and plays with the parental fear that babies are actually paying attention to everything, and understand much more than we give them credit for.
With Gazebo Times, I'm excited to continue exploring the minds and lives of characters similar to those I dealt with in my first collection And Also Sharks—lonely, angry, and unfulfilled "losers." However, in Gazebo Times I will switch my focus (in some instances) from the bullied to the bullies, imagining their motivations for treating their fellow human beings so badly. My aim throughout is to make outwardly unlikeable individuals likeable, or at least sympathetic. I'll also examine various incarnations of fame (and infamy), and the inevitable pitfalls that accompany being "known." I'm fascinated, and a little frightened, by the seemingly universal desire to become famous for anything, at any cost.
In this project I'll return to my preferred combination of humour and sadness, but will venture into even darker territory, occasionally blurring the lines between reality and fantasy through certain characters' skewed perceptions of the world around them.
Now, go forth and apply! Here's me and Tiffany, sending you mega-grant-getting vibes.