The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) (Welsh: Undeb Rygbi Cymru) is the governing body of rugby union in the country of Wales, recognised by the sport's international governing body, World Rugby.
The roots of the Welsh Rugby Union lay in the creation of the South Wales Football Club in September 1875; formed, "...with the intention of playing matches with the principal clubs in the West of England and the neighbourhood. The rugby rules will be the code adopted." The South Wales Football Club was superseded in 1878 by the South Wales Football Union in an attempt to bring greater regulation to the sport and to select representatives from club sides to represent the international game. The SWFU though were poorly organised, and although they arranged fixtures between a South Wales team and various English clubs, they were often victims of fixture-clashes and were accused of lacking energy. In 1880, Richard Mullock, secretary of the Newport Athletic Club, decided to take matters into his own hands and without the backing of the SWFU organised an international match against England.
The match took place on 19 February 1881, and was won by England seven goals, one dropped goal and six tries to nil. This heavy defeat lay the seeds for further reforms that would lead to the creation of the WRU.
There is confusion regarding the official date of creation of the Welsh Rugby Union. In March 1880 nine teams supposedly met at the Tenby Hotel, Swansea with the intent of creating a new union. These teams are thought to have been, Cardiff RFC, Chepstow RFC, Haverfordwest RFC, Llandaff RFC, Llanelli RFC, Neath RFC, Newport RFC, Pontypridd RFC and Swansea RFC. The issue with accepting this meeting is that there is no written evidence, just oral repetition.
On 12 March 1881, eleven clubs met in the Castle Hotel, Neath to form what would be accepted as a Welsh rugby union. After a humiliating defeat in the first Wales international rugby game, the Neath meeting was organised by Mullock to form a union that could organise regular international matches. The founding clubs of the WFU (Welsh Football Union), as it was originally known, were Swansea C & FC, Pontypool RFC, Newport RFC, Merthyr RFC, Llanelli RFC, Bangor RFC, Brecon RFC, Cardiff RFC, Lampeter RFC, Llandovery RFC and Llandeilo RFC. Strangely the oldest rugby club in Wales, Neath RFC are not recorded as being present, even though the meeting took place in the town of Neath. It is unknown if this was an oversight by the committee to record the presence of the club, or if Neath RFC actually did not attend. The fact that two of the main committee members of the SWFU, John Llewellyn and Sam Clark were Neath men, and the creation of the WFU disbanded their union, is generally accepted as the reason for the absence of a Neath representative.
The WRU was a founding member of the International Rugby Football Board, now known as World Rugby, in 1886 with Scotland and Ireland, with Mullock and Horace Lyne the Welsh representatives at the formal signing of the union in 1887.
It wasn't until 1934 that the name, the Welsh Rugby Union, was adopted.
The WRU are responsible for the running of Welsh rugby, including 320 member clubs, the Welsh national team and National Leagues and Cups. The Welsh Rugby Union has a major role in the development of coaches, referees and players throughout all ages for both men and women. They also own the home of Welsh rugby union, the 74,500 capacity Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, "an icon of the modern Wales".
After the national team the next highest level of representation in Wales is the four regions based around top club sides, but representing a larger area. These regions came into being in 2003 when the WRU elected to reduce the current top tier of Welsh professional rugby union from nine clubs into five regions modelled on the successful Irish provinces and the Super Rugby franchises in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The WRU had hoped to reduce the teams to four regions but Cardiff and Llanelli successfully argued for stand-alone status. After one year the Celtic Warriors region was closed down and the four surviving regional clubs are Cardiff Blues, Scarlets, Ospreys and Newport Gwent Dragons. They play in the Pro14, European Professional Club Rugby (Champions Cup and Challenge Cup) and Anglo-Welsh Cup competitions. Each region may call up players from a set of club teams within their area. These top club sides play in the 14-strong Welsh Premier Division.
In August 2008 WRU chief Roger Lewis confirmed that the body was looking at a proposal to reinstate a fifth Welsh region, based in North Wales. Lewis admitted that he regretted the decision in 2004 to close down Celtic Warriors. In September 2008 a new North Wales Rugby development team was announced, likely to be based in Wrexham; ultimately, the team was launched as RGC 1404, and was to be based in Colwyn Bay instead of Wrexham. In the same month Llanelli Scarlets changed their name to simply Scarlets, believing the new name would better represent their region beyond Llanelli.
The current Rugby Services Agreement (or RSA) has been in place since 28 August 2014, and will be in place between the union and the four Welsh regions (Cardiff Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets) for six years. The RSA delivers £8.7million a year to the Regions guaranteed to be spent on Welsh qualified players with a complex matrix of funding, also guaranteeing a further £3.6million in loan facilities from the WRU repayable during the term of the RSA. Each Region also receives a one-off £500,000 payment on signature of the new RSA.
The new agreement also allows players to be offered a National Dual Contract (NDC), which means the union will pay 60% of a NDC player's salary and their region 40%. They also become available for all Welsh senior matches, despite if the match falls outside World Rugby's international release windows in June and November. The WRU retained the right to play up to 13 senior international games each year with a 13-day release facility for squad training before the Six Nations and Autumn series games. The new agreement does state that the national team head coach, currently Warren Gatland, will be the sole person to decide who gets a National Dual Contract, with a long-term aim of only selecting players based in Wales. The limit on foreign players in Regional squads has been capped at a maximum of six while each Region will be allowed two so-called time serving players who will be available for Welsh selection after three years residency (rising to five years, effective from 31 December 2020).
The union's patron is Elizabeth II, and her grandson Prince William became the Vice Royal Patron of the Welsh Rugby Union as of February 2007.
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Ellen Highwater is seeking compensation from her employer when she was sacked for having prawn on her computer.
As an avid seafood enthusiast, Ellen was wont to peruse pictures of the said delicacies as well as other mussels and whelks. The misunderstanding came about when she was informed on by her music device, which, because it was bought cheaper in a recent sale, malfunctioned and misheard Ellen and her friends chatting away about her favourite prawn pictures on her computer.
Her employers were a little contrite about the incident but have said they cannot reinstate her as they do not look kindly on people who, when working in the vegetable section of their local supermarket, are disloyal to their craft.
"How insincere she would sound to a discerning customer seeking advice on vegetables, when her heart belongs to seafood to such an extent. We pride ourselves on our staff's commitment to the produce with which they are recognised," Ellen's line manager said, with a completely laconic look on his face.
Asked if they might not accept Ellen's contrition and find her a job in the seafood section of the shop, the spokesperson said, "We cannot be seen to have favourites. Ellen didn't express her love of prawn in the interview, so, in a sense, she was being a little fraudulent when applying for a position in vegetables," the store manager said behind closed doors.
We pointed out that you can have vegetables with prawn, as long as they are properly cooked and/or shredded, but the store refused to elaborate further on their position.
Ellen is seeking legal advice on her next move. She is also having to challenge the DWP's intransigence. It seems they are reluctant to pay unemployment benefit as they say Ellen was indeed negligent in not understanding her disingenuousness in not telling the store of the amount of prawn on her computer.
In all of this fiasco, no-one has held the listening equipment to account.
"Why hasn't anyone sought to get the equipment to face the music, over its obvious mistake?" Ellen's friend – who is very much into crustacean and sturgeon – shouted from the top window of Ellen's house to a passing journalist.


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These local designers are bringing Philippine fashion to Tokyo
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As Bench Fashion Week came to a close, nine aspiring designers were given the opportunity to showcase their collections for the Bench Design Awards 2019.
This has been a special initiative of Bench since 2017, with the intention of promoting local designers to the world fashion stage. This years winners will be given the chance to fly to Tokyo, Japan, and exhibit their designs to an international audience.
The show proved how much local talent the country has to offer, and the variety of styles that were displayed revealed the versatility and diversity of creative minds in the industry—especially when it comes to emerging talents. From avant garde pieces to stylish streetwear, the runway was filled with inspired imagination and unique visions.
Three winners with distinctly different concept collections stood out last night, and were able to show the panel collections that were bold, inspired, and full of heart. They will be flying to Tokyo following the fashion show, and will be representing Philippine fashion on the world stage.
Hand stitched and inspired by her little sister's drawings.
Antonina Amoncio of Anoto drew her inspiration from the Filipino short story "Adarna." "I asked my my 8-year-old sister to draw her visual interpretations of the story," she shared with Preen.ph. And from those drawings, she was able to transform it into designs. The collection has a very playful vibe overall—with various textures and hand stitching involved.
"Designing makes me really happy," Antonina tells Preen.ph.
The designer plans to experiment more on the different kinds of fabric and various silhouettes for her Tokyo show. "I want to add more lean and body hugging designs," she says.
Bon Reyes
Bon experiments with "daster"-like dresses for men.
This look portrays a lot of shapes and edges.
A classic collared long-sleeved polo but turned into a dress for men.
The designs show skin to emphasize liberated Filipino life before the Spaniards came.
"Pagkahari" is the title of Bon Reyes' gender fluid collection, which translates to "royalty." Because Bon is drawn to Asian cultures, his designs were inspired by the colonial era in Tondo, Manila, when there was no concept of what was masculine and feminine. " The collection is more on gender fluidity," says Bon, "where men can wear skirts." He explained that his intention for some of the designs was to show some skin because during the olden times, Filipinos were very liberating and strong, in contrast to how the Spaniards depicted us in our history.
Bon says that his Filipino collection made him realize that we should always love our own.
After the Tokyo exhibition, Bon plans on putting up his own shop. "I'm leaning towards more on sales and trunk shows because my collections are very wearable," he shares.
Jace Quiambao
The butterfly patches make Jace's designs all the more magical.
Jace showcased a very magical collection for this year's awards. His vision for the designs were based on the illustrations on the covers of books by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, who frequently used butterflies. He describes his style as "whimsical and eccentric," which is why he chose beige and earthy tones for the base of most of his designs, with a mixture of bright pops of color to represent the butterflies.
"My self doubt? I've conquered it today," says Jace.
"This was my first time joining a big competition," Jace shares, and says that the most challenging thing he had to face was his self doubt. "To aspiring designers, never doubt yourself. Always push kung anong sinasabi ng isipan niyo sa design, especially when you're starting. (Always push with whatever your mind tells you when it comes to design) Always go big and never hesitate to try new things and experiment."
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Readers pick notable Channel 7 station logos designs
Despite the popularity of the Circle 7 logo for TV stations, there is still plenty of room for other variety — and our readers have a few favorites as well.
Here are some of our readers' picks for their favorite Channel 7 TV station logo designs.
Jumping across the ocean, Australia's Seven Network's geometric "7" is, depending on who you talk to, is either just as well known or more well know that the Circle 7 look.
The simple design uses two solid, strategically placed polygons to create the two strokes of the "7," with a thick line between the two.
In some applications of the logo over the years, the figure is treated almost like an unfolding paper, drawing inspiration from the almost origami quality of the design.
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WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Va., uses a square-ish "7" logo with a slightly upward angle on the underside of the top stroke. The diagonal downward stroke, meanwhile, features a unique set of curves, the far right of which allows the CBS eye to be tucked in neatly.
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The Devil that Danced on the Water, a memoir
An evening in 1974 when she was ten years old, Aminatta Forna opened the door to two men, members of the state secret police, come to take her father. A year later he was killed.
The Devil that Danced on the Water is Aminatta's search for the truth of her father's fate, moving and terrifying in turns, always compelling, it traces events leading to the moment of his arrest. And what happened after he was taken away.
Aminatta Forna's luminous memoir is a vivid and passionate account of an African childhood, of an idyll which becomes the stuff of nightmares. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of exile in Britain and the terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against tyranny.
Mohamed Forna was a man of unimpeachable integrity and great charisma, who quoted Alexander Pope: 'Honour and shame from no condition arise: Act well your part for there the honour lies.' As Sierra Leone faced its future as a fledgling democracy, he was a new star in the political firmament, a man who had been one of the first black students to come to Britain after the war. Already a political firebrand and a stylish dresser, he stole the heart of Aminatta's mother to the dismay of her Scottish Presbyterian parents and returned home, one of those Wole Soyinka has called the 'Renaissance generation.' But as Aminatta Forna shows with compelling clarity, the old Africa was torn apart by the new ways of Western democracy, which gave birth only to dictatorships and corruption of hitherto undreamed of magnitude. It was not long before Mohamed Forna languished in jail as a prisoner of conscience and worse was to follow.
Aminatta's search for the truth that shaped both her childhood and the nation's destiny begins among the country's elite and took her to the heart of rebel territory. Determined to break the silence surrounding her father's fate, she ultimately uncovered a conspiracy that penetrated the highest reaches of government and forced the nations politicians to confront their guilt.
The Devil that Danced on the Water is a book of pain and anger and sorrow, written with tremendous dignity and beautiful precision: a remarkable story of a father, a family, a country and a continent.
The Devil that Danced on the Water , a memoir of her dissident father and of Sierra Leone, was runner up for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2003, chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers series and serialised on BBC Radio and in The Sunday Times newspaper.
Reviews and Praise for The Devil that Danced on the Water
"Aminatta Forna [has done] something no one else did. She wrote a memoir that is not exactly a memoir, which means it's the best kind of all—an original work made out of necessity.
...She is without self pity. She writes prose that is dispassionately clear. She tells what happened and why without the self-dramatising chiaroscuro of victimhood.
We could say that Forna set the record straight. Or that she made a detective story out of personal pain. We could place her memoir alongside Nega Mezlekia's Notes from the Hyena's Belly , about Ethiopia, or Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart , about South Africa. All these remarks would be accurate enough, but they would fail to capture what The Devil that Danced on the Water most certainly is: a masterpiece that makes sense of the senseless." Lorraine Adams, The Washington Post
"Forna has written a book that is impossible to forget, or to confuse with any other memoir of tyrannical times....This is an obsessive, driven, refreshing book about Africa, despotism and exile. It is also a beautifully drawn portrait of childhood, and the ruses, stratagems, and sheer bloody-mindedness that Aminatta used to keep her young self safe, and sane in a world ruled by murder, marriage and constant movement.
The Sierra Leone Aminatta Forna loves, and the father she lost, seem gone beyond recall. But she glues them back together from a few sharp shards of memory. It is the recourse of the abandoned child, writing back into life what has been taken away. The result is a memorial teeming with life, and anger, love. It is built on the fierce determination that the best service she can pay her father is to remember him back into existence; to track down every dying or lying witness she can find, and prize from them details of what happened—at his trial, in the condemned cell, on the day of his execution.
This doesn't make The Devil that Danced on the Water a dispiriting book. On the contrary, it lets in light. It is a triumph of life against the odds. And in its conclusion there is a sanity that is, simply, majestic." Christopher Hope, The Financial Times
"Harrowing...Forna writes with a compelling mix of distance and anguish, intent on explaining her father's death and reclaiming his memory. Lush descriptions of her idyllic childhood provide eerie counterpoint to the chilling depictions of the hell Sierra Leone had become upon her return in recent years...Reminiscent of Isabelle Allende's House of the Spirits , Forna's work is a powerfully and elegantly written mix of complex history, riveting memoir and damning expose. Publisher's Weekly (Starred)
"Late one night when Forna was 10, her father—a Sierra Leone doctor and popular former cabinet minister—was taken from their home and executed in a government attempt to quash democracy. But this isn't a political book. In the first part of this moving memoir, Forna brings her family to life, in both their idyllic ups (family gatherings in Freetown) and incongruous downs (living in a camper in her mother's native Scotland).
In the second, shorter section, Forna, now a British journalist, returns to her father's homeland looking for the truth behind his death. Instead, she discovers the story of a nation's demise. "How fragile life is in a country like this," she writes. And how lucky the reader who sees it through her eyes." People Magazine
"In 1975, Mohammed Forna, a doctor and leading Sierra Leone dissident was executed for treason. A quarter century later, his daughter, who was ten when he was arrested, began to investigate his death. Her lucid, exacting memoir recounts indelible scenes: in bed with malaria, she watches a soldier ransack her room; when her stepmother goes to plead for her father's life, Aminatta asks her to get the President's autograph. She interviews the men who gave false testimony against her father, and discerns in their matter-of-fact responses a "lack of expectation" that defines life in Sierra Leone after decades of violence. In a telling episode, her stepmother takes pity on one of these witnesses, who is now destitute, and hires him as a cook. The author wonders if it is in this way, "together under the same roof" that she and her countrymen must learn to live with the past." The New Yorker
"Riveting...Memoir seems to soft a word for Aminatta Forna's The Devil that Danced on the Water ...The intimacy of a child's domestic world contrasts acutely with the looming political backdrop. Mohamed Sorie Forna was the kind of young man upon whom a society's hopes are built." Eve MacSweeney, Vogue
"An African memoir unlike any before it." The Economist
"While so many memoirs seem an exercise in group therapy, Aminatta Forna's unforgettable childhood story, The Devil that Danced on the Water , stands out as a shining example of what autobiography can be: harrowing, illuminating and thoughtful.... Forna's compulsion to learn what happened to her father in the "first ten years of her life and last ten years of his" is so intense and personal it transcends what are sometimes dizzying political machinations....Her filmic language, descriptive metaphors and close observations of the natural and human landscape of her childhood can take your breath away and leave you punched in the gut....Forna's memoir, though set in an exotic and appallingly brutal locale, teaches not only about a pivotal moment in Sierra Leone's history. The Devil that Danced on the Water also reminds us of the need to face our own lost innocence—then move on so we can work for a better future." Ayesha Court, USA Today
"The first ten years of her life and the last ten years of [her father's] are the subject of this remarkable book, in which Aminatta Forna, now a journalist and broadcaster in her late thirties, sets out to discover the truth about her father's death and in the process retrieves her own early history of confusion and loss....The two extraordinary stories—one personal, the other political—that emerge are heartbreakingly dissonant. It is Forna's achievement to cleave to this dissonance, to hold it tightly in spite of its sharp edges....In writing this book she, too, has acted her part well. She has lifted out of herself the emotional and cultural world of her childhood and represented it in scenes of startling beauty and tragedy. Few books merit being called courageous; this one does." Rachel Cusk, The Evening Standard
"Forna's memoir is reminiscent of Wild Swans , Jung Chang's acclaimed 1991 account of how three generations of women in her family survived the political turbulence of China in the 20th century. As Chang did with her native country, Forna provides a peek into the black hole of time, giving a view of so much of Africa that is mythical, ephemeral and intangible.
'For a moment at the a moment at the crest of the hill I had a rare and brief view of the vast acres of forest,' she writes. 'They were lit by the morning sun: undulating, steaming, seductive. The only sign of life was the smoke drifting here and there across the tops of trees. In that instant I saw this country of mine through the eyes of the stranger I had become, glimpsed the exotic Africa the first Portuguese and British traders must have seen. Ours was a country of immeasurable beauty, at once full of promise yet riven with unknowable perils.'
That may be the most important part of this daughter's quest: telling the story not only of Africa's political turmoil but also of its promise and potential." Charlotte Moore, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A deeply affecting and beautifully written book which transcends the sordid story of a power-hungry, murderous and corrupt regime. For all the sickening and harrowing details of African despotism, it emerges as an uplifting and marvellously readable memoir." Justin Marozzi, The Financial Times
" The Devil that Danced on the Water deserves to go on the shelf next to [Rian] Malan's. It's excellent." Aidan Hartley, Literary Review
"Forna spent much of her childhood shuttling between her European mother and her Sierra Leonean father, an almost impossibly principled and courageous man who rose to become minister of finance in 1968 by navigating the maze of alliances and enmities that constitute African politics: tribal loyalties, personal grudges, and battles for the control of the diamond trade. His popularity and integrity were a threat to the corrupt and dictatorial administration, and in 1974, he was framed and tried for treason. In this heartbreaking memoir of Forna's quest to find the truth about her father, she outlines the grim prospects of a poor and largely illiterate populace that still suffers the legacies of colonial exploitation, the misguided concept of 'benign dictatorship,' and a brutal civil war." Emily Mead, Entertainment Weekly
"This is a remarkable personal story of lies, greed and corruption amidst the cultivation of fear and violence that marked an increasingly malevolent dictatorship....her book provides one of the best views into the kinds of politics that make otherwise prosperous countries like Sierra Leone into metaphors for all that is wrong with a continent beset with more than its share of misrule. She shows that Sierra Leone's catastrophe is not inadvertent. She does this is a story that humanizes culprits (for whom she shows little sympathy) and the ordinary people who live with the result of this political horror.
Forna offers a human account of Sierra Leone's tragedy that does much to remedy a media image of a faraway country that suffers a bizarre fate at the hands of rebels." William Reno, Chicago Tribune
"At once impassioned, lucid, and understandably enraged, The Devil that Danced on the Water illuminates a troubled, tragic history of a country and a continent. It helps us understand how the faraway events we've grown used to seeing on the nightly news—the violent coups, famines, mass murders and migrations—affect the lives of individual men and women, of parents and children, of families just like our own. Francine Prose, O Magazine
"Among those who place hope in remembering is Aminatta Forna. She details her courageous search for the story of her father, a victim of the nation's deadly politics, which predated its civil war by several decades...Forna capably fills in the events of Sierra Leone's complex and confusing history....When Forna loses herself in the bittersweet memories of her childhood, her descriptions dance on the page....By sharing the travails of her vivid journey, she casts light into the darkness of Sierra Leone's history." Heather Hewett, The Christian Science Monitor
"This engaging memoir is the story of a collapsed state, Sierra Leone....It can be read as a detective story, the account of a young woman's search for the truth about the murder of her courageous politician father....Aminatta Forna captures well the boredom and drift of Seventies England, the casual racism and diminished aspirations, the squalor of the streets and the bad food. The first half of the book is written as if through the child's eyes. The observations have an appropriate strangeness and wonder, and there are moments of humour....In Sierra Leone she finds "no law, no justice, just the legal trappings of a corrupt colossus that moved unhaltingly forward, engulfing everybody in its wake." And the more she discovers about her father, the more she understands his powerlessness in the face of the inevitable slide into corruption and dictatorship.
The Devil that Danced on the Water is an impressive contribution to the literature of post-colonial Africa, the mysterious continent that continues to resist all attempts to remake it in a Western image." Jason Cowley, The Times , Book of the Week
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Pregnancy prescribing of psychotropic drugs: Keeping pace in a contemporary landscape
Kathryn M. Abel
in Perinatal Psychiatry: The legacy of Channi Kumar
10.1093/oso/9780199676859.003.0009
Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Psychiatry
Pregnant women and their fetuses are more likely than ever to be exposed to antipsychotic medications; perhaps to the newer agents in particular. Drugs like clozapine, olanzapine, risperidone, and ... More
Pregnant women and their fetuses are more likely than ever to be exposed to antipsychotic medications; perhaps to the newer agents in particular. Drugs like clozapine, olanzapine, risperidone, and quetiapine are increasingly used in women of reproductive age for a range of psychiatric and behavioural disorders other than schizophrenia (Buchanan et al. 2009). Reproductive safety data remain surprisingly incomplete and guideline recommendations lend limited support to clinical risk-benefit analyses (Howard 2005; McKenna et al. 2005; NICE 2007). This is a problem not least because the gold standard randomized controlled trial is considered unethical for assessing psychotropic medication use during pregnancy, while other available observational studies are generally underpowered, with biased samples and therefore remain unfit for purpose in a rapidly changing prescribing landscape (NICE 2007). In a UK population approaching 66 million, –3,000–4,000 births per year may be exposed to antipsychotics or other psychotropic medications. This chapter provides a critical summary of current knowledge about potential risks of fetal antipsychotic and antiepileptic drug exposure and proposes how future observational studies might fill crucial gaps in the evidence. Most incident cases of severe mental illness (schizophrenia, related disorders, and bipolar disorder) occur during the reproductive years and most are treated with continuous psychotropic pharmacotherapy (Buchanan et al. 2009). Better care, deinstitutionalization and the use of newer agents with fewer effects on fertility means that women with psychotic disorders maybe increasingly likely to become pregnant (Howard 2005; NICE 2007), while the use of newer 'atypical' antipsychotics for other mental disorders common among women of childbearing age is also expanding (McKenna et al. 2005). For these reasons, psychotropic medications is increasingly likely to be prescribed to mothers during pregnancy (Newport et al. 2007). It is surprising then that reproductive safety data for psychotropic agents remains so incomplete (Barnes 2008; Webb et al. 2004) and guideline recommendations lend limited support to women, their partners and their treating clinicians in difficult clinical risk-benefit analyses (NICE 2007). Recent reports conclude that prospective studies are needed which can access unbiased, reliable (large enough) samples of ill mothers exposed to psychotropic medication and take account of key maternal characteristics (e.g. psychiatric diagnosis, smoking, pregnancy weight) in the estimation of risk (Barnes 2008; NICE 2007). Less
Pregnant women and their fetuses are more likely than ever to be exposed to antipsychotic medications; perhaps to the newer agents in particular. Drugs like clozapine, olanzapine, risperidone, and quetiapine are increasingly used in women of reproductive age for a range of psychiatric and behavioural disorders other than schizophrenia (Buchanan et al. 2009). Reproductive safety data remain surprisingly incomplete and guideline recommendations lend limited support to clinical risk-benefit analyses (Howard 2005; McKenna et al. 2005; NICE 2007). This is a problem not least because the gold standard randomized controlled trial is considered unethical for assessing psychotropic medication use during pregnancy, while other available observational studies are generally underpowered, with biased samples and therefore remain unfit for purpose in a rapidly changing prescribing landscape (NICE 2007). In a UK population approaching 66 million, –3,000–4,000 births per year may be exposed to antipsychotics or other psychotropic medications. This chapter provides a critical summary of current knowledge about potential risks of fetal antipsychotic and antiepileptic drug exposure and proposes how future observational studies might fill crucial gaps in the evidence. Most incident cases of severe mental illness (schizophrenia, related disorders, and bipolar disorder) occur during the reproductive years and most are treated with continuous psychotropic pharmacotherapy (Buchanan et al. 2009). Better care, deinstitutionalization and the use of newer agents with fewer effects on fertility means that women with psychotic disorders maybe increasingly likely to become pregnant (Howard 2005; NICE 2007), while the use of newer 'atypical' antipsychotics for other mental disorders common among women of childbearing age is also expanding (McKenna et al. 2005). For these reasons, psychotropic medications is increasingly likely to be prescribed to mothers during pregnancy (Newport et al. 2007). It is surprising then that reproductive safety data for psychotropic agents remains so incomplete (Barnes 2008; Webb et al. 2004) and guideline recommendations lend limited support to women, their partners and their treating clinicians in difficult clinical risk-benefit analyses (NICE 2007). Recent reports conclude that prospective studies are needed which can access unbiased, reliable (large enough) samples of ill mothers exposed to psychotropic medication and take account of key maternal characteristics (e.g. psychiatric diagnosis, smoking, pregnancy weight) in the estimation of risk (Barnes 2008; NICE 2007).
Keywords: Taiwan, adherence to medication, amisulpride, antipsychotics, aripiprazole, carbamazepine, chlorpromazine, clozapine, emesis gravidarum, extrapyramidal syndrome, neonatal, flupenthixol, fluphenazine, gestational diabetes, haloperidol, immigrants, neural tube defects, olanzapine, penfluridol, phenobarbital, phenothiazines, phenytoin, pregnancy prescribing of psychotropic drugs, promethazine, psychotropics, quetiapine, risperidone, sertindole, single mothers
Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India
Stefan Ecks
10.18574/nyu/9780814724767.001.0001
Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how—or ... More
A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how—or whether—patients understand their prescribed drugs. Millions of people in India are routinely prescribed mood medications. Pharmaceutical companies give doctors strong incentives to write as many prescriptions as possible, with as little awkward questioning from patients as possible. Without a sustained public debate on psychopharmaceuticals in India, patients remain puzzled by the notion that drugs can cure disturbances of the mind. While biomedical psychopharmaceuticals are perceived with great suspicion, many non-biomedical treatments are embraced. This book illuminates how biomedical, Ayurvedic, and homeopathic treatments are used in India, and argues that pharmaceutical pluralism changes popular ideas of what drugs do. Based on several years of research on pharmaceutical markets, the book shows how doctors employ a wide range of strategies to make patients take the remedies prescribed. Yet while metaphors such as "mind food" may succeed in getting patients to accept the prescriptions, they also obscure a critical awareness of drug effects.Less
Eating Drugs : Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India
A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how—or whether—patients understand their prescribed drugs. Millions of people in India are routinely prescribed mood medications. Pharmaceutical companies give doctors strong incentives to write as many prescriptions as possible, with as little awkward questioning from patients as possible. Without a sustained public debate on psychopharmaceuticals in India, patients remain puzzled by the notion that drugs can cure disturbances of the mind. While biomedical psychopharmaceuticals are perceived with great suspicion, many non-biomedical treatments are embraced. This book illuminates how biomedical, Ayurvedic, and homeopathic treatments are used in India, and argues that pharmaceutical pluralism changes popular ideas of what drugs do. Based on several years of research on pharmaceutical markets, the book shows how doctors employ a wide range of strategies to make patients take the remedies prescribed. Yet while metaphors such as "mind food" may succeed in getting patients to accept the prescriptions, they also obscure a critical awareness of drug effects.
Keywords: psychotropic medication, prescribed drugs, India, mood medication, biomedical pharmaceutical companies, psychopharmaceuticals, Ayurvedic treatment, homeopathic treatment
Administration of Oral Medication
Fiona Creed
in Nursing OSCEs: A Complete Guide to Exam Success
Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Professional Development in Medicine
Medication administration is a key skill and it is vital that you are able to demonstrate safety in all aspects of the medication administration process in order to avoid harm or death to your ... More
Medication administration is a key skill and it is vital that you are able to demonstrate safety in all aspects of the medication administration process in order to avoid harm or death to your patient. The NMC (2004, 2010) reiterates this point, highlighting that the administration of medicines is an important aspect of a nurse's professional practice. They argue that it is not simply a mechanistic task, but one that requires thought, exercise and professional judgement. Studies suggest that medicine administration is one of the highest risk processes that a nurse will undertake in clinical practice (NPSA 2007b; Elliot and Lui 2010). Medication administration errors are one of the most common errors reported to the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). Indeed in a 12-month period in 2007, 72,482 medication errors were reported with 100 of these causing either death or severe harm to the patient (NPSA 2009). The frequency of these errors has led to a number of changes in the medication administration process. Alongside these important recommendations, most higher education establishments will want to ensure safety of medicine administration and may test this vital skill using an OSCE to ensure that you are adequately prepared for safe administration of medication in practice. There are a number of important laws and key documents that relate to the administration of medication and it is important that you understand these as they all impact upon your practice when administering medication to a patient. You may also be tested on your knowledge in relation to these areas so it is important that you have read these. Important documents you will need to know include: ● The laws that relate to medication in the UK, ● NMC Standards for Medicines Management (2010) (www.nmc-uk.org), ● Local policies related to hospital/Primary Care Trust (PCT) regulation of medication (refer to local guidance). There are a number of laws that influence the manufacturing, prescription, supply, storage and administration of medication. Whilst you will not need to study the intricacies of these laws you will need to understand the main issues each law covers. Less
Medication administration is a key skill and it is vital that you are able to demonstrate safety in all aspects of the medication administration process in order to avoid harm or death to your patient. The NMC (2004, 2010) reiterates this point, highlighting that the administration of medicines is an important aspect of a nurse's professional practice. They argue that it is not simply a mechanistic task, but one that requires thought, exercise and professional judgement. Studies suggest that medicine administration is one of the highest risk processes that a nurse will undertake in clinical practice (NPSA 2007b; Elliot and Lui 2010). Medication administration errors are one of the most common errors reported to the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). Indeed in a 12-month period in 2007, 72,482 medication errors were reported with 100 of these causing either death or severe harm to the patient (NPSA 2009). The frequency of these errors has led to a number of changes in the medication administration process. Alongside these important recommendations, most higher education establishments will want to ensure safety of medicine administration and may test this vital skill using an OSCE to ensure that you are adequately prepared for safe administration of medication in practice. There are a number of important laws and key documents that relate to the administration of medication and it is important that you understand these as they all impact upon your practice when administering medication to a patient. You may also be tested on your knowledge in relation to these areas so it is important that you have read these. Important documents you will need to know include: ● The laws that relate to medication in the UK, ● NMC Standards for Medicines Management (2010) (www.nmc-uk.org), ● Local policies related to hospital/Primary Care Trust (PCT) regulation of medication (refer to local guidance). There are a number of laws that influence the manufacturing, prescription, supply, storage and administration of medication. Whilst you will not need to study the intricacies of these laws you will need to understand the main issues each law covers.
Keywords: allergies, consent, drug reactions, insulin, medication administration, name bands, opiate analgesia, prescribing drugs, red wrist bands, salbutamol


Friday Fun: The Life of Riley & What a Life it is!
Posted by Judie Berger on Friday, October 6th, 2017 at 10:37am.
Riley had a birthday this week! She turned 8 on Wednesday and celebrated in style with her favorite toys, a smoothie and lots of love!


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by Jacob Marmor (pseudonym)
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W. J. Sidis
T Wharf has no connection with the famous Tea Party. Originally Broad Street was the waterfront of a bay that lay between the headlands of Fort Hill (Rowes Wharf) and the North End. From near the head of the bay a pier jutted out, extending far beyond the headlands of the bay, and therefore named Long Wharf; it still retains that name, though now no longer than many piers in Boston, since much of it has, since the bay was filled in, become part of State Street. From what was originally the middle of the pier, there branched off a T-shaped extension―a parallel pier, not based on land at all, but connected with Long Wharf by a cross-passage. Since the filling in, this crosspiece has become part of Atlantic Avenue, and all trace of the wharf's original T shape has been obliterated: but the title of T Wharf still remains.
How many people are aware that, till recently, there was a leaning tower of Boston? The edifice known, rather paradoxically, as the New Old South Church, had such a tower. When the Old South Church's congregation started to build themselves a new home in the Back Bay, the ground, having been just filled in, was so soft that one corner of the foundation sank over a foot while the building was under construction. As a result, the steeple leaned noticeably over Copley Square. In 1932, the leaning tower was taken down, and it was replaced in 1936 with a new―and vertical―tower of substantially the same shape.
The location of the City Hall annex is where the court house used to be before the Pemberton Square site was selected. Hence the names Court Street (for the street which, before the Revolution, was Queen Street) and Court Square (for the alleyway round the City Hall Annex.)
Until about fifteen years ago, the street numbering on Scollay Square was peculiar, in that one side of the square was numbered as of Court Street, while the other side was numbered as of a fictitious street called Tremont Row (indicated on street signs as such, though no one found the street). This was because there were originally two separate streets, separated by a "Scollay Building," which was taken down some sixty years ago to make an open square.
Those queer stone-and-glass structures on the Tremont Street Mall of the Common represent the 1893 idea of subway station entrances. As those two subway stations were the first opened anywhere, these structures are the only ones of their kind in the whole world. There are eight of them altogether.
The name "Mall," as applied on Boston Common, refers to a medieval English game―a sort of cross between croquet and golf―which used courses shaped like a long, wide walk. A "mall" in that game meant a "mallet."
In Boston there are 15 stations where surface cars and buses enter the station and enable passengers to change from rapid transit without extra fare or asking for transfers. There are two such stations in Philadelphia; none in any other cities.
In most large cities, when dialing phone numbers, you dial the first two letters of the telephone exchange, then the figures of the number. Only three cities in America are considered big enough to require dialing the first three letters of the exchange instead of the first two. These three cities are: Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.
People walking down Broad Street towards Rowes Wharf may, if their attention wanders to the side streets on the left, notice an old grayish building, on which can still be seen, cut into the masonry at the top, the words, "India Wharf." This used to be, in colonial times, the entrance to the pier used by the British East India Company's ships. Since Atlantic Avenue was filled in, the avenue cut through India Wharf, and left this stub separated from the pier. The stub which still bears the "India Wharf" inscription, is now used for a paper warehouse. The narrow street giving the approach to this spot from Broad Street, is called India Square.
The Suffolk Downs race track, lying astraddle of the Boston-Revere city line, is considered to be the largest grandstand in the world. It was designed in Boston as well as built here. An inlet of the harbor (Belle Isle Inlet) runs under the track in a culvert.
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Company C boosts downtown Concord with plan to open new store
Home goods company 'excited about playing a role' in city's growth story."
'We've always wanted a downtown location, but the right space hasn't been available,' says Company C co-founder Walter Chapin
Company C, the New Hampshire-based furniture and home goods design and manufacturing company, is moving to a larger retail space in March, relocating its flagship retail store to a new downtown Concord location, at 97 Storrs St. The new store replaces Concord Antiques, which is relocating to 137 Storrs St.
The Concord retail store is currently located at Company's C's headquarters on Old Turnpike Road.
The new storefront will span 12,0000 square feet split between two floors and will include an outlet space. The 15% increase in selling space supports Company C's growth plans, said Walter Chapin, co-founder and president of the company.
"We've always wanted a downtown location, but the right space hasn't been available," said Chapin. "The larger location on Storrs Street allows us to expand our product offering while continuing to offer exceptional shopping experiences for our current and new customers. It is a great way for us to evaluate how the business performs in a more convenient and walkable section of the city."
Christine Chapin, co-founder and colorful living officer of the firm, said the new location is yet another endorsement of Concord's revitalized downtown.
"We are supporters of the redevelopment happening in downtown Concord," she said. "This is where our business started, and we want to stay with the community that supported Company C for 25 years. We are excited about the move and playing a role in Concord's growth story."
Company C operates two retail stores. Its second location is on Commercial Street in the Old Port in downtown Portland, Maine. It also sells online at companyc.com and through more than 2,000 wholesale retailers and designers across the U.S.
The company's corporate offices and warehouse will remain on Old Turnpike Road.
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Conshohocken was just one of hundreds of small river towns in Pennsylvania. Throughout the 1800's, and 1900's, the attraction of these riverfront towns were the industries, and labor jobs were plenty. Life seemed so simple throughout these years, the lines were straight and clear.
No high school diploma needed for both men and women. When the boys/men left school a job was waiting for them at the mill, it wasn't uncommon for young men to get a job at the same mill their fathers and grandfathers worked at. They started at the bottom and worked their way up-the-ladder. The paycheck was steady and the job was for life.
Females coming out of high school also had a straight and clear line in life in a small-town. Finish high school, marry your high school sweetheart, have a few children and become the best housewife/mother they could be. Have dinner on the table at the same time every day, bath the kids, participate in their homework, put the kids to bed, get the kids off to school, pack the husband a lunch and get ready to do it all over again, for the next couple of decades.
While most of the men in most of the small river towns held up their end of married life, every once in a while the female/wife didn't cooperate with housewife-as-usual.
With all that being said, I'd like to point out a few of Conshohocken's females from over the years who broke the "housewife" mold.
We highlighted a few of these women below, taken from the book, "Conshohocken & West Conshohocken—People, Places and Stories," written by Jack and Brian Coll.
Dr. Donnelly practiced from her office once located on East Fourth Avenue, not only was she the first female doctor in Conshohocken, but notable, the first female to own and operate an automobile circa 1903.
Mrs. William Webb lived on Hector Street at the corner of Ash Street. More than a century ago, she was cooking dinner in her oven and burned her hands and arms repeatedly as she reached in the oven to retrieve the food, and/or to rotate the food. (When ovens were in there infancy they typically had a hot spot in the rear of the oven with colder areas on the sides and front of the oven, therefore it was necessary that half-way through the cooking process one would need to reach into the oven and rotate the food to get it evenly cooked). Over time, she had scars on her arms and hands from reaching into the hot oven, which wasn't uncommon back then, but she finally did something about it.
As Mrs. Webb thought about her burns, some of which had been treated by a doctor, she began to think about the housewives across the country that were living with the same problem. Eventually, she began to devise a study of cook stove ovens, as they were known back then. She came to recognize that the old fashioned oven was hard to manage and that bad heating led to burnt food and put every person who reached into an oven in danger of getting burned.
Mrs. Webb thought out a method of changing the position of foods being cooked from one part of the oven to the other. She invented the rotisserie, a crank-handle mounted on the outside of the oven which could turn the circular rack inside the oven without requiring the cook to reach inside.
She secured a patent on what was then called a "WEBB Revolving Oven Slide." She formed a company to manufacture and market her inventions (she had several other invention patents for ovens and the use of ovens), but rather than manufacture, she decided to shop the rights of her inventions.
The inventions and patents were shopped to the largest stove manufactures in the country, and they immediately recognized the great advantages they possessed. The rights and patents for the "WEBB Revolving Oven Slide" were sold to American Manufacturing Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company purchased the rights to use the patent and paid a royalty to the Webb Company on every device and oven sold.
The Webb Company continued to own the rights of the built-in oven and several other patents. The company sold the patents to several other large stove manufactures that used the patents and continued to pay royalties to Webb. Officers of the Webb Company included John Webb, President; John Edtta Esq., Secretary; and Mrs. William Webb, Treasurer.
So, women throughout the country rejoiced more than a hundred years ago, and even today, as rotisseries are used in all microwave ovens and some of the larger ovens in the world.
We can all thank Mrs. Webb, a Conshohocken resident who had enough burns and did something about it!
Dorothy Davis McBride was a one time resident of 906 Fayette Street and wife of Johnny McBride, nationally known football star, Dorothy was a radio executive at R. C. A. in New York City during the 1940's.
Dorothy's husband John McBride was a football standout at Syracuse University from 1920-1924 where he set national records and went on to play professional football with the New York Giants from 1925-1935. Mr. McBride earned the 1927 National Football League MVP Award. Following his football career McBride joined the Marines where he became a Captain.
Dorothy rose quickly thru the ranks at R. C. A. to become the head of programing for New York's top broadcasting station. Who would have thought that when she married McBride and left Conshohocken for the Great White Way that she would have an office with gold letters on the door and hold such a responsible position for the nation's leading broadcasting company.
Anna Ried, a one time resident of Ford Street in West Conshohocken was the very first female elected to the West Conshohocken School Board in December 1931, for the 1932-33 school years. Anna replaced Alva MacKenzie who had served the community on the School District's Board of Directors for eight years.
An interesting sidebar to this was Mrs. Rebecca W. Brecht was chosen as the First Woman President of the Education Board in the history of Norristown's public education system, she was voted into the position on the same night Anna Ried was for West Conshohocken.
In January 1932 Anna was elected the first female President of the West Conshohocken School District. Anna was married to Robert Ried and together they had three children including Robert, Ruth and Jane.
A former Conshohocken resident Eva Pierson Davis met her husband John at a party in Conshohocken in 1927, at the home of Clyde Hill, formerly of Tenth Avenue and Fayette Street. Twenty five years after they were married John was sworn into office of Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania in January 1959. Guest of the Davis family at the inauguration included Mr. and Mrs. John B. Kelly of East Falls, parents of Princess Grace of Monaco. The Davis's were guest of the Kelly's at Princess Grace's marriage to Prince Rainer in 1956 in Monaco. The Second Lady of Pennsylvania was a graduate of Conshohocken High School and lived in Conshohocken until she wed John.
In the mid 1940's Helen Pavlidis who lived at 119 Ford Street in West Conshohocken entertained the troops with her voice throughout the war years. The daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Isaac Pavlidis she was a talented singer who performed at the Valley Forge General Hospital, Fort Dix in New Jersey, Swarthmore Navy Hospital and canteens in and around Philadelphia.
As a student at West Conshohocken High School she was the victim of an infantile paralysis attack which interrupted her schooling but had used her talent to sing entertaining troops far and wide. Helen also performed at a number of festivals over the years.
When the history of Conshohocken's Urban Redevelopment is written, Bea Brandt's name is not likely to be mentioned. But make no mistake about it Bea Brandt's name is high on the list of the personnel who contributed to the success of the borough's redevelopment efforts.
Bea was a life-long resident of Conshohocken who served the borough as secretary for more than twenty years, not only for the borough, but for the Conshohocken Zoning Hearing Board as well. She was also a leader and an active participant in the civic, fraternal and humanitarian affairs in our community.
When the borough began its journey towards urban redevelopment, Bea Brandt was the borough's only employee, other than Walt Szwedkowski, the borough Housing and Zoning officer. Most of the heavy paperwork pertaining to government grant money both state and federal for redevelopment was completed by Bea to make urban redevelopment a reality in Conshohocken. From the mid 1960's until the mid 1980's Bea worked tirelessly on behalf of the members of borough council handling all the borough duties along with all the redevelopment responsibilities.
When Bea passed away in the fall of 1986, she left a gaping hole in Conshohocken Borough Hall that was extremely hard to replace. Think of Bea this way, as of today, (2019) the borough has nearly 15 full time employees working in borough hall, Bea handled all of that in her time.
Ada Sturgis was born in West Conshohocken in 1888 to William and Mary (O'Neill) Sturgis. Ada went to school in West Conshohocken and later graduated from the Montgomery Hospital School of Nursing in 1917. Ada didn't hesitate to enlist in the Army in 1918 as an Army Nurse. During her tour of duty she spent fourteen months state side and 22 months in Germany. While serving in Germany Ada, along with a number of other American nurses visited Italy and France, and had a chance meeting with Pope Benedict XV while in Rome.
When the Army called for volunteers to travel to France at the signing of the Armistice the government was in great need of skilled nurses and Ada was part of the first shipment of nurses outside the war zone. She was transferred to Germany where she was stationed for nearly two years before returning with the rank of Second Lieutenant in the winter of 1922.
Ada lived at 321 West Eleventh Avenue for a good portion of her life before moving to Fredrick Mennonite Home in the mid 1970's when in her late 80's. She died in 1986 at the age of 97, perhaps never realizing that she was perhaps the most prominent female that has ever lived in the borough of Conshohocken.
(For more on Ada Sturgis, refer to "Tales of Conshohocken & Beyond" Book, sold at Coll's Custom Framing).
Ethel Buler Cannon was a West Conshohocken native who served in the United States Navy Nursing Corp during and after World War II. Ethel entered the service in June of 1944 and completed her training in the U. S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va., before being assigned to a submarine base in New London, Conn. In 1945 Ethel served aboard the USS Benevolence in the Far East. After the war she was assigned to the Great Lakes Naval Hospital outside Chicago Ill., and the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. She left the Navy in June 1946. Ethel became a nurse at the former Sacred Heart Hospital where she worked for 27 years.
Isabel Tyson, a West Conshohocken native, took a job with the borough of West Conshohocken in the early 1940's, and remained there for more than two decades. She also worked in the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown as Chief Satisfaction Clerk of delinquent taxes, where she worked for nearly three decades.
Mrs. Tyson knew something about the government and politics as she was an active member of the Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women for nearly 35 years. Mrs. Tyson was an extremely educated person having attended Schissler College of Business, (a prominent business school once located in Norristown.) She also attended the University of Pennsylvania where she studied State and Local Government. Mrs. Tyson was also President of the Conshohocken Business and Professional Woman's Club.
Mrs. Tyson also found the time to raise three children with her husband Clayton. When the ramp to the Schuylkill Expressway in West Conshohocken was completed Isabel Tyson cut the ribbon to officially open the ramp on December 8, 1952, along with other borough officials and State Highway Department Engineers.
In the early part of last century Laura Wagner first worked as Chief Operator at the Bell Telephone exchange in Conshohocken for a number of years. Back in the 1920's most females would have settled for a high ranking position such as the Chief Operator. Not Laura, the Conshohocken resident became a graduate of the Montgomery County Hospital Training for Nurses and in the 1920's rose to become the Superintendent of Montgomery County Hospital in Norristown.
In the late 1920's Laura resigned as head nurse and Superintendent of the hospital to take a high ranking job with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the Pullman department at the Broad Street Station. Laura accomplished a lot in her lifetime and became a role model to young females throughout the Conshohocken area. Laura died in 1931 at the age of 47.
And so many others, the women of Conshohocken have been inspirational over the years.
We salute the women mentioned above, they weren't interested in being mentioned in conjunction with "Women's History Month" celebrated every March since 1911, no, they were interested in making Conshohocken and the rest of our country proud, contributing to the success of the future of both our borough and our country.
Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. It is celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with "International Women's Day" on March 8. And it's celebrated right here in Conshohocken.


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American Horror Story Season 8: Murder House, Coven Crossover Confirmed!
Paul Dailly at June 14, 2018 5:49 pm .
American Horror Story is going back to the past for its upcoming eighth season.
The veteran horror series will stage a crossover between American Horror Story Season 1 aka Murder House and American Horror Story Season 3 aka Coven.
The news was confirmed series creator, Ryan Murphy who took to Twitter with the news.
"The Coven/Murder House AHS crossover season won't be happening next year...because it's happening THIS YEAR. AHS #8 WITCHES RULE THIS SEPTEMBER," reads the tweet, which you can see below.
We've known for a while now that a crossover was in the works, but there was no telling when the crossover would take place.
Murphy debunked rumors that it would occur during Season 8 earlier this year.
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"We're working on it, but that's not going to be [Season 8]," he said to reporters at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour.
"That will probably be the one after that. We've already met about it and outlined it. But it won't be next because some of the [cast members] are not available."
It was previously reported that Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Billy Eichner, Cheyenne Jackson, Adina Porter and Leslie Grossman are all coming back for the new season, and Joan Collins is set to join them.
Given that Murphy has maintained before that the crossover would be occurring this year, there's no telling whether the original plan for this year has been nixed, moving the crossover up.
That also means there's a chance the cast could change before the series kicks off.
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Aside from the fact that it's a crossover season, there's no word yet on how the two worlds will be brought together.
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