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On Monday evening, I did a podcast with Coach Mike Thompson of the CoachMike Canadian swimming blog, discussing the youth in swimming and how, even as federations push for ways to keep athletes in the sport longer, the competition seems to still be dominated by youth.
This comparison holds true in the present American Team that will be sent to the Summer Olympics in London this year, on the women's side at least. For the men, however, it's the opposite of true. It wasn't until the last day, and the last finals event, that we signed up our first two amateur swimmers for the men's roster in Connor Jaeger and Andrew Gemmell in the men's 1500 free. Even if you extend it to swimmers who just finished college careers in March and haven't had much time as a true professional, that bumps the list up by only one – Jimmy Feigen.
For all of the potential youth that we've talked about making this team in the last year (Tom Shields, David Nolan, Arthur Frayler, Clay Youngquist, Dax Hill) the racing was still dominated by professional, post-graduate athletes. But that's not necessarily a huge shift, either. In 2008, there were very few amateur swimmers on the roster – Ricky Berens, Dave Walters, and Nathan Adrian were then relay-only swimmers. Scott Spann was a surprise to make the team, and final'ed in the 200 breaststroke. And that appears to be all.
The bigger shift appears to be on the women's side of the pool – and it's not in the direction one would expect. By my counts (and there's no guarantees that they're precisely accurate), there were only 7 amateurs on the 2008 Olympic Team – Elizabeth Beisel, Elaine Breeden, Kathleen Hersey, Rebecca Soni, Julia Smit, Allison Schmitt, and Christine Marshall. This year, there are a 14.
Part of that is caused by the vacancy left from 6 events that Katie Hoff swam in 2008; part of the explanation could also be that after a rush to turn professional in 2008, we've gone back to our youngest swimmers remaining amateurs. The number would've been beefed up by three with the addition of Katie Hoff, Kate Ziegler, and Chloe Sutton to the amateur ranks back then. This year, we've got only 1 swimmer who are both pros and would still be in college had they not gone pro (Sutton).
But among those 7 amateurs on the women's team in 2008, only 4 returned to make another Olympic squad, which is a lower percentage than of those who turned pro early (Ziegler and Sutton both made a second-straight team). The numbers aren't big enough to draw a statistically-significant conclusion, but it seems as though turning pro before college isn't necessarily as automatic of an end-of-the-road as some might like to make it seem.
The longer-term trends seem to indicate that men's swimming is still moving toward a more "professional" team; though I haven't done the math on it, thinking back to the early 2000's, where the American squads were dominated by collegiate swimmers like Aaron Peirsol and Brendan Hansen. The women's program, on the other hand, seems fairly stagnant in their pre-graduate ways.
So why the difference in trends between men and women? The first may be that women develop so much earlier, so it's more natural for high school and college swimmers to contend with their money-earning counterparts. Women also seem to be a bit more hesitant to delve fully into the pro lifestyle after college still, even with increased opportunities. Swimmers like Julia Smit, who retired before this year's Olympic Trials, are a great example.
So the bigger question here is "why do we care?" We'd all love for our athletes to make money, but just because more pros are making the team, doesn't mean that they're making more money doing it, so these numbers don't necessarily bare out that more swimmers should stick with swimming after they finish college. Financially, with these guys graduating from great universities, it's a loss on opportunity costs probably half of the time.
The benefit has to do with the long-term successes of the sport. For starters, the more professionals that make the National Team, the more power they have. Professionals are more likely to shift the sport toward collective bargaining for athletes – if over half of our Olympians are amateurs, it will be harder for the few professionals to be taken seriously when they ask for a bigger piece of the pie.
The other side of it is the non-monetary aspects of being a professional. Professional athletes are (usually) more accessible to the media; they're more visible in their communities; they have more freedom to compete and grow fan-bases. Swimming, as it currently sits, has only two ways to grow: into minority communities, and with an increase of the pure "fanhood" class of the sport. There are a ton of kids in this country who swim competitively, but still only a small portion of those are "fans" of the elite levels of the sport, who might buy a shirt honoring their favorite swimmer rather than their hometown basketball team; or who might buy a ticket to a Grand Prix instead of a Dodgers game.
The qualification numbers don't show a whole lot of progress in the professional arena, but these numbers aren't the be-all end-all in the story. Look at attendances (the last three nights of the Olympic Trials topped 12,000 fans). Look at the amount of coverage the sport receives on ESPN – it was a headline story on every episode of SportsCenter over the last week, as well as a topic of discussion on every talking-heads show.
The challenge now becomes how to best parlay the potential benefits into realities. Many of these Olympians are still struggling to pay their bills and feed themselves. That gap is the one that needs to be cleared. At the point to which the sport has now developed, simply putting more or less professionals on an Olympic Team doesn't even begin to tell the story of what's going on in professional swimming.


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Hot Water is. . . ineffible. For several mornings, we have spent our showers in achingly cold water, and for the past six days, I have managed exactly one hot shower.My body feels cleaner, and my spirit as well. While I've managed to soap, wash my hair, and rinse off every day, it has always left me feeling dirty, even fresh from the shower.Now, after my first warm shower since the morning after I arrived, I feel clean and (possibly) even attractive again. More importantly, I don't feel like I shouldn't approach some of these temples. I feel purified. zylch said her shower was "The best shower I ever had that didn't involve sex!" | | The Roman Agora and Athens AcropolisTemple of Hephestos beyond the altar of Ares | Turtle! | The Acropolis from near Hadrian's Library Today, I arrived at the temples of Ares, Athena Nike, the Olympian Zeus, and several others. I made offerings and enjoyed some meditative time on the Acropolis in Athens (where they have a strange rule that you cannot take "obscene pictures", which becomes extended to not allowing you to take photos that have people in them in the museum. In other words, you'd better not pose with your favourite statue.)Detail from the hem of Athena's robeAcropolis museumGigantomachyI have been making small offerings of coins at most of these temples, but the offerings have been mainly for others. These are not really my deities, and my belief in them is complicated.That's the interesting thing about our practice. I don't need to believe in a deity to do the proper or appropriate work for them. I really don't think that it would insult a god (though it seems to bug the shit out of the gods followers).But it also gives me the chance to do work for others, work I couldn't do if it were belief that was more important than practice.So I leave each site in Greece, knowing that my offering, though left for someone other than me, has been accepted. I always walk away feeling that I have done the proper thing, that I have taken the right action.
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NGO Perspective on Humanitarian Response in Level 3 Crises (ICVA, Jan. 2015) [text]
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Partnership: From Principles to Practice - Considering Partnerships in Preparation for the World Humanitarian Summit, 2015 ICVA Annual Conference, Geneva, 9 March 2015 [access]
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Turkey as a Humanitarian Actor: The Critical Cases of Somalia and Syria (Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, March 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]
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Indian cricket fans have long worshipped skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but does he really need his own church?
Fans in Ranchi, the big-hitting wicketkeeper's hometown, certainly think so which is why Dhoni's fanclub have decided to build a temple to honour their hero.
'Dhoni is God to cricket and we have decided to construct a temple,' explained fanclub president Jitendra Singh.
'He will be worshipped like other gods are worshipped in temples.'
The building will be decorated with relief carvings of Dhoni in action as fanatics file in to pay their respects.
It's enough to give anyone a messiah complex but, fortunately, the man himself is keeping his feet on the ground.
'I love my fans but this is actually a little over the top,' said the 27-year-old.
Boria Mazumdar, an Oxford scholar and noted cricket historian says the gesture illustrates just how important cricket is to many Indians.
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Today, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit stayed the court decision stopping federal funding of embroyic stem cell research:
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted a request from the Justice Department to stay an injunction issued Aug. 23 blocking the funding. In a major victory for supporters of the research, the court said the Obama administration could resume funding the research pending a full appeal of the case.
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, ruling in a lawsuit filed by two researchers working on alternatives to the cells, said the funding violated a federal rule that prohibits federal tax money from being used for research that involves the destruction of human embryos.
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* Spain unveils draft cutbacks to renewable subsidies
* Wind power companies like Acciona hit hard
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MADRID, Feb. 4 (Reuters) - Shares in Spanish renewable energy firm Acciona dropped on Tuesday, hit by draft proposals for cutting subsidies to the sector which analysts said were likely to hit the company's portfolio of mature, wind assets hard.
Shares in solar firm Abengoa, in contrast, gained on relief the proposals were not harsher for its business.
The Spanish government is cutting renewable energy subsidies as part of a drive to reduce a 30 billion euro ($41 billion) power tariff deficit, built up during years of keeping prices below regulated costs.
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"The news is worse than expected, mainly for wind energy," Banco Sabadell said in a note to clients, adding that Acciona, with a large portfolio of mature wind assets, was likely to be one of the worst hit.
Analysts said the measures, which still need government approval, looked less painful for solar thermal assets, a technology in which Abengoa is a major player.
Shares in Acciona lost 5.0 percent to 46.645 euros by 1320 GMT, the biggest fall on Spain's blue chip index, while Abengoa gained 1.2 percent to 2.51 euros.
Overall, the draft proposals imply a cut in subsidies to the renewables sector of more than 1.5 billion euros.
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Today the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure has released a letter sent to the Israeli government in regard to the interrogation, subsequent expulsion, and apparent banning from Israel of Columbia Law School Professor Katherine Franke in April. Franke, a supporter of the movement known as boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), was expelled from Israel when attempting to visiting the country in her capacity as a scholar and civil rights leader, not as a supporter of BDS. The letter urges the government of Israel to "reconsider your immigration officer's decision and to revoke any further ban on Professor Franke's entry for purposes of collaborative academic and scholarly work in Israel."


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Gymnasts fail to flatter in Glasgow
By any measure, Australia's gymnastics campaign at the Glasgow Games can only be described as unsatisfactory.
It was always going to be tough to replicate the deeds of 2010 Delhi, where the Australian collected 12 gymnastics golds, but just four silvers in Glasgow failed to match already meagre expectations.
The effort of 19-year-old Mary-Anne Monckton to gain silver in the beam apparatus final offered some hope for the future, but even that is put in the shade by the performance of English 16-year-old Claudia Fragapane.
The pocket rocket collected four gold medals on her own as part of nine golds and 19 gymnastics medals overall by England, while Canadian rhythmic gymnast Patricia Bezzoubenko won every event on offer to walk away with five golds.
There isn't much time for navel gazing for the Aussies however, with the world championships in China from October 3 the first step on the road to qualification for the Rio Olympics.
Despite the lack of medals, women's coach Peggy Liddick put on a brave face - pointing to bigger events ahead and the potential of a few 14 and 15 year-old girls back home who she believes could turn into "our Claudia".
None of those up and comers were allowed to compete in Glasgow, with International Gymnastics Federation rules stating gymnasts had to have turned 16 before they could compete at international level.
"The Commonwealth Games has always been a stepping stone to our Olympic qualification, we can really build on this," Liddick said.
"I am not disappointed at all and I think the girls are really motivated, I think they feel `alright just a few little tweaks, a few additions to our program, we can still be competitive'.
"We came in ranked third on paper, so it surpassed my expectations."
Crucial to Australia's chances of getting to Rio will be the availability and form of veteran Lauren Mitchell, who looked underdone after shoulder surgery in winning just one silver, in the floor final.
Mitchell will go to the world championships, but at 23 is at a point where it is one tournament at a time.
"As long as she's till competitive at this level she said she wanted to go on," Liddick said.
"She said ` as soon as I can't play any more I'm done. She's definitely competitive."
Asked if she could see Mitchell going to Rio, Liddick said: "I can. Whether I can convince her is another story."
MEDALS - 4 silver
STAR PERFORMER - Lauren Mitchell. Carried the group in the team final with high scores on the floor and beam before backing it up with a silver in the floor apparatus final.
ONE TO WATCH - Mary-Anne Monckton. Has long been heralded as a world class beam performer, and finally came through on the big stage with a flawless routine and silver medal in the beam final.


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Genesis 15:1-6 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great." Abram said, "O Lord God, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" And Abram said, "Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house is my heir." Then behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir." And He took him outside and said, "Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be." Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.
Psalm 32:1-7 How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered! How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit! When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I did not hide; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord"; And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him. You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance.
Romans 4:1-1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered. "Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account." Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, "Faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness." How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised; and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them, and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.
- One of the reasons we think religious acceptance is so tough today is this: We have a poor understanding of how tough religious acceptance was in the first century.
- Jewish Christians simply could not accept as truth and fact that God could accept idol worshippers in a forgiveness relationship without going through Judaism, the law, and proselytism.
- If you will consider a little insight into a huge problem, listen to the difficulty voiced in these three statements from the Bible.
- Acts 11:1-3 Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him, saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
- This was the manner in which Peter was greeted by Christians when he returned to Jerusalem after baptizing the non-Jew Cornelius.
- Cornelius was a god fearer–a devout man who feared God, gave alms to poor Jews, and prayed to Jehovah God daily. This was not a man who worshipped idols and did not know who God was!
- The issue was more fundamental than baptism: "You had table fellowship with him–you know no Jew can do that!"
- If Jews cannot even associate with them, how can God forgive them?
- Acts 15:1-5 Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved." And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue. Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren. When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them. But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses."
- Paul and Barnabas returned from their 1st missionary journey [which God directed them to go on] in which they converted gentiles.
- They returned to a huge argument in the gentile church who sent them out: the argument was from Jewish Christians from Judea [likely Jerusalem] with Christians [the church] in Antioch [likely the first gentile congregation].
- Paul and Barnabas could not settle the argument!
- The matter had to be referred to the apostles in Jerusalem.
- When the matter was discussed, some Pharisee Christians said gentile Christians must be circumcised and keep the law of Moses! Such compliance was not an option!
- Acts 21:17-26 After we arrived in Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. And the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. After he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. And when they heard it they began glorifying God; and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law; and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs. What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come. Therefore do this that we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow; take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law. But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication." Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purifying himself along with them, went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.
- Paul and his company were well received by the leadership of the Jerusalem church–the leader obviously had an understanding of evangelism among gentiles that many of the typical members did not have.
- The leaders also had a problem: how were they going to dispel false rumors about Paul's work among gentiles?
- They encouraged Paul to demonstrate his Jewish ways [which he did not bind on gentiles] to try to dispel false accusations believed by the Christian community among the Jews and in Jerusalem.
- Paul did as they requested, and there is no note of objection.
- Jews did not have to stop being Jews and gentiles did not have to stop being gentiles [culturally] for either of them to be Christians.
- Acts 11:1-3 Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him, saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
- If you will consider a little insight into a huge problem, listen to the difficulty voiced in these three statements from the Bible.
- In his letter to the Christians living in Rome, Paul affirmed there was [and always had been] a relationship with God in which God ignored some people's sins.
- That had been the case in the lives of two of the most prominent Israelite ancestors the Jewish nation celebrated.
- It was true in Abraham's life before he was circumcised.
- It was true in King David's life when he had his affair with Bathsheba.
- It was true in David's life when he had Uriah killed.
- Leviticus 20:10 If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:17 If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.
- Yet, the prophet Nathan told David:
- 2 Samuel 12:13 Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has taken away your sin; you shall not die."
- "Wait a minute! We are talking about adultery and murder here!"
- Yes, but it clearly stated God took his sin away, and he would not die.
- Were there consequences from his act? Absolutely! And they were severe!
- Yet, God forgave him.
- God can forgive an offense against Him [and does!] but the offense can set in motion consequences in the world that continue even when forgiveness is given.
- If you doubt God's ability to forgive by refusing to acknowledge sin, take note of two facts.
- David kept Bathsheba as a wife.
- The next king of Israel was Solomon who was the son of David and Bathsheba.
- There is a relationship with God in which God ignores a person's sins [which is what forgiveness is basically about!]
- Rules keeping is not relationship.
- Relationship is much deeper than rules keeping.
- Obedience involves much more than keeping some rules.
- Repentance is about relationship.
- Repentance involves the realization of an injustice that hurts and offends the God who loves you.
- Repentance involves returning love to Someone who loves you dearly.
- Repentance is not about 'jumping through hoops' to complete some divine obstacle course.
- Repentance is about loving enough to regret offenses, about redirecting life because 'I have been offensive to Someone who has treated me kindly.'
- That had been the case in the lives of two of the most prominent Israelite ancestors the Jewish nation celebrated.
- Jewish Christians simply could not accept as truth and fact that God could accept idol worshippers in a forgiveness relationship without going through Judaism, the law, and proselytism.
- Who needs this forgiveness in which God does not hold us accountable for a sin committed?
- We all do!
- Do you actually think you are aware, fully knowledgeable of every way available to you to offend God?
- Have you never learned something in which you did evil that previously you did not realize any evil was involved?
- John acknowledged God's solution to our sinfulness in 1 John 1:5-10 when he declared that God cleanses us from ALL sin through Jesus Christ and cleanses us from ALL unrighteousness if we confess our sins (that which we know to confess).
- Who needs God's solution?
- We all do!
- Thank God He forgives me of matters I am yet to realize! If He did not, none of us would stand a chance!
- Does that give me a license to knowingly be irresponsible in matters of evil?
- No!
- It gives me hope as I seek to follow God's will.
- I cannot be perfect, but I can be honest when I fail God.
- Who needs God's solution?
- To whom does God attribute righteousness?
- To the person who in faith repents!
- We do not live as we please deliberately remaining in ignorance so we can do as we please!
- We seek God's will!
- Life for every Christian is a constant redirection as we understand more completely what a godly life is about.
- Only people who understand God brings the best out of them repent!
- We all do!
God has a special appreciation for the man or woman [Christian] who: (1) assumes a sense of personal responsibility when he or she fails [guilt]; (2) is honest about his or her failure [confesses the mistake!]; and (3) learns from the failure [redirects life, repents]. That special appreciation from God is expressed in His forgiveness that refuses to acknowledge the sin.
Our commitment must be to develop that type of relationship with God!
David Chadwell
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Have you noticed your memory isn't as good as it used to be?
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- Meet with Carers Groups and support services
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- Meet with other dementia patients and their carers
- Refreshments available within the café.
Free taster sessions:
- Massage and therapies
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- Gentle exercise
- Live music throughout the day.


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Medical electives abroad are a way for you as a medical student to challenge yourself and deepen your practice. Going abroad not only allows you to experience a different country and culture but a different type of health care system. You will experience illnesses and diseases that are no longer prevalent or fatal in developing countries such as tuberculosis and polio but are still found in other countries. A medical elective abroad allows you to be on the front lines of public health and really make a difference.
As a medical student you have chosen your profession with the basic premise of doing good and helping others. With long work hours, years of training and mountains of student debt medical school is not an easy profession to choose. Choosing a medical elective abroad is a great way to remind yourself of all the good you can do as a doctor and inspire your medical career. You can experience a different way of providing health care while giving back to others in other countries.
Medical care is an ever changing sea of laws and technology. Sometimes it is hard to see past that and get to patient care, the reason that you got into medicine in the first place. Going to another country to work in their health care system you will often experience a setting that you are not familiar with. There might be little medical technology or access to few medications. The populations you serve may be uneducated about their health care needs and you will have a unique opportunity to try and educate them on their health.
Foreign Diseases
Global health care is changing. As the world becomes a smaller place with international air travel, diseases are able to spread more easily to places they have not been seen before. Training abroad will give you an advantage as you will have the opportunity to treat and study illnesses first hand that are not as prevalent in developing countries.
There have been several outbreaks of measles in the US over the last few years. One of the challenges in diagnosing it is that doctors have not seen it for so many years and often do not recognize the symptoms immediately. This can lead to more exposure to others and spread of the disease. The benefits of experiencing a medical elective abroad is that you will have a better chance at treating some of these illness that are still commonly found in developing countries. When you return to your home practice you may be the expert on measles or some other illness that you learned about while overseas.
People are traveling and relocating all over the world. In major city hospitals it is not uncommon to treat patients that have newly immigrated from a rural areas of a developing country. Your experiences abroad will make you a more prepared practitioner and you will be able to provide better care to your patients. A medical elective abroad will give you a step up in your medical practice as you will be more familiar with treating illnesses that your colleagues might have no experience with.
Public Health
Public health in developing countries is extremely important. By studying a medical elective abroad you will be providing valuable education to the people of the country about preventative health as well as health promotion. With the recent Ebola epidemic in Africa we have seen how important health education is in preventing the spread of communicable diseases. Health care workers have been on the front lines educating communities about simple steps to protect themselves from illness such as hand washing and recognizing the early signs and symptoms of Ebola. In poor and developing countries public health is an essential tool to educate communities about health and wellness. You would have the opportunity to experience programs working on important public health initiatives.
Depending on the country you choose your elective in you could be working to provide HIV education, use of mosquito nets to prevent malaria, vaccinations to eradicate illnesses such as polio as well as countless other projects. You can make a real difference in the future of a country and its people just by providing education. Your experiences in your medical elective abroad have the capacity to make a real difference in the overall health care of a country.
Cultural Care
Going overseas for a medical elective abroad you will also be able to experience a new culture. You will learn a new language, be immersed in a culture that might be very different than the one you are used to. You will also broaden your perspective on different health care systems and models. If you are working in a more rural setting you will have the chance to be a part of a community and traditions that you might not be able to experience otherwise.
Many cultures have different traditions, ideas and rituals around illnesses and diseases. In health care you are taught to provide culturally competent care to your patients. Being immersed in another culture during your medical elective abroad will allow you to really begin to understand another culture. This will help you to become a more thoughtful practitioner. By learning the medical traditions of the culture you are studying in during your elective you will be able to apply this to your interactions with other culture when you are back at your home hospital. Your experiences abroad will make you a more open to the cultural differences of your patients and you will be better able to embrace them in your health care practice.
Different Types of Programs
There are a variety of medical elective abroad programs that can provide a diversity in experiences, providing care at a state of the art hospital in South America, Africa or India or providing care in small rural villages of these same countries. Some programs combine the two so that you can get a full and rich experience. There are pros and cons to both type of medical elective experiences and it is important for you to research and enroll in the program that is the best fit for you. Being in a rural area you might not have access to cutting edge medical equipment but you will have the opportunity to be a part of a community and provide a valuable service to people that may not have the ability to get medical care on a regular basis. Being in a big city you might not get the experience of being a part of a developing community but you will have access to medical technology.
Whatever type of experience you choose you will be using your skills and knowledge to benefit others. Your experiences abroad will only only effect you and your medical practice but it will benefit the patients that you care for. A medical elective abroad is a great experience for your personal practice no matter where you choose to go. You will grow as a person and a health care provider. Your experiences abroad will make you a better doctor because you have challenges yourself to learn about a different culture and its healthcare.
Apply now to our medical electives program in Latin America! We offer programs in all areas of medicine including Accident & Emergency, General Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Clinical Medicine and Psychiatry.
Photo 1. based on Medical/Surgical Operative Photography, by Phalinn Ooi, CC BY 2.0
Photo 2. based on NEC-Medical-137, by NEC Corporation of America, CC BY 2.0
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Hi, Yoshimi again. Only a few days for the year 2010… wow, time files… I have to do the year-end cleaning in RL. Moreover in SL, my inventory has been messed up this year so i got to clean them up ! … 😦
Anyway, going back to shops in sannomiya SIM, let me introduce very challenging stuff to bring a successful conclusion of this year… 🙂
VanVicky has released cute food accessories this year, and they released a new stuff at the end of 2009, minute eyeglasses for tiny avatar. This is 'Fun-Fun'.
Fun-Fun is made for upright ears rabbit released from Wynx Tiny Avatars.
This avatar has up-angled eyes and this might look cold-looking, so jyona Weiz, the designer of this stuff, paid considerable attention to making avatars appearance meek. As a result I guess this avatar looks so cute in a way.
Please come by Yossy Planning to take a look at this cute eyeglasses.
Yossy Planning (::VANVICKY::)
Sannomiya Region Fashion Express


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JAMIE Clapham today outlined his determination not to be the fall guy this season at Blues.
The left- back made his comeback from a virus in last night's 1-0 defeat by Northampton Town and told Steve Bruce that he would be fully firing when the Premiership gets under way.
Clapham was left out of Blues' opening fixture of 2004-05 - Stan Lazaridis was preferred at left-back - then had to battle with Julian Gray and steel himself for Olivier Bernard's possible arrival in January.Related content
Bernard is still an option for the manager, who actually started Clapham at left midfield and Gray in the fullback's berth before switching them round in the second half at Sixfields.
"I felt very good," said Clapham. "Physically I was fine and I'm just missing match sharpness now. I've had three days' training with the team and had not really kicked a ball.
"Some of the lads have had three of four games, that was my first.
"I need to make sure I get to where I want to be quickly and I will. I'm sure the next game I will be that much sharper again.
"I had a good end to last season but we're beginning a new one now.
"I'm sure I'm going to be mentally and physically right if I'm called upon. And if I'm called upon, I hope to make a place my own."
Clapham has not been fazed by competition nor has he kicked up a fuss because of the Bernard interest.
"Maybe so I've tended to get on with it," he said. "Players come and players go, that's football.
"The club is always going to be linked with good players.
"Perhaps we need to boost the squad up a bit with a few more and if that's the type of quality we're looking to bring in, then that's good for the club."
On the subject of the position Bruce might use him in, he shrugged: "I don't know.
"I played left midfield at Norwich City at the end of last season. I think it may have been just a question of the players who were available last night.
"It was an opportunity for me to get a run out in midfield where you have to open your legs up a bit and get a sweat on, so that was good and
what I needed."
Clapham said that Blues should aim to improve significantly during the coming campaign, and have no more results like last night's as the August 13 kick-off nears.
"I'm hoping for us to push on," he said. "You look at the likes of Everton last season and their squad is on a par with ours, if not worse.
"I'd be looking for us to get into the top 10 easily and maybe go for that last European spot.
"The problem last season was that we didn't start so well. If we do this time, then there's no saying what we can achieve."
"Results in friendlies do bother you because you want to take a winning mentality into the season when it starts proper," he added.
"By all accounts, the lads played exceptionally at Derby County but it is a real kick in the teeth when you then go to Northampton and get beaten.
"You've got to be up for every game and take each pre- season friendly as seriously as possible.
"Last night I think we got some good balls into the box but we couldn't quite finish things off. It will come, I'm sure, there's been a lot of positive signs on the whole so far."


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StopLossBags® are designed for oil, water, & alcohol-based wood finishes. They are not suitable for lacquer.
StopLossBags® allow you to preserve the fresh off-the-shelf quality of wood finishes. The specially formulated 3-ply construction helps prevent loss of solvents while a special gas barrier inhibits oxygen penetration into the bag. Each bag holds 1.05 quarts or 1.0 liters.
Almost all woodworkers have had the experience of throwing out cans of skinned-over varnish. Metal cans are excellent for transport and storage until opened, but are not designed for dispensing the finish or the exclusion of oxygen after some of the contents are used.
Once the finish has been transferred to a StopLossBags® it is easy to dispense, a lot or a little, into a cottage cheese container or other similar wide-mouthed container for applying the varnish. After pouring out what you need simply squeeze any bubble out of the bag before tightening the cap.
Filling the bag can be done by using a turkey baster, our Filler Tube and adapter Set, or our StopLossBag® Collapsible Funnel. To use a turkey baster, draw finish into it, then fit it over the spout of the bag. It will take a number of times to make the transfer. The Filler & Adapter Tube Set fits onto the spout of the StopLossBag® and allows it to connect to most funnels. We've included plans for the "filling station," a stand to hold a funnel connected to a StopLossBag (see our DIY Accessories page). The easiest transfer is with the StopLossBag Collapsible Funnel which fits over an opened quart or liter can and the spout of a StopLossBag. It can be cleaned without solvents. Non-Glossy Finishes should be well stirred to insure the matting agents are in suspension before transferring to a StopLossBag. After the transfer it will be easy to see through the clear bag wall the settled agents at the bottom of the bag. Putting them back into suspension is done by rotating and inverting the bag several times. It will be easy to see when it is ready to use.
Use the white information block on the front of the bag to record the finish you're putting into each StopLossBag. A Magic Marker type of pen works well, and it wipes away easily with alcohol.
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Salad Bowl Finish
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The weight of the Salad Bowl Finish on July 31, 2014 was 387.5 grams. When it was weighed one year later, on July 31, 2015, it weighed 387.0 grams, a loss of 0.5 gram, or 99.87 of its original composition.
The finish left in the original metal can skinned over in 46 days.
The majority of the quart can of very popular gloss polyurethane (approx 4/5 of the can) was transferred to a StopLossBag and the rest left in the metal can. The lid was firmly replaced on the can, and the bubble of air at the top of the bag was squeezed out before tightening the cap. The finish (and StopLossBag) was weighed and the result written down, the finish left in the can was not weighed.
The weight of the Minwax Gloss Polyurethane on July 31, 2014 was 709.9 grams. When it was weighed one year later on July 31, 2015, it weighed 709.6 grams, a loss of 0.3 grams, or 99.958% of its original composition.
The finish left in the original metal can skinned over in 54 days.
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Salad Bowl Finish 385.8 g, which is 99.77% of original weight
Danish Finish 671.3g, which is 99.90% of original weight
Polyurethane 708.7g, which is 99.73% of original weight
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These Huge Trippy Murals Are Winning The Battle Against Boring Streets.
Eduardo Kobra is an internationally renowned Brazilian muralist and street artist, a man that has traveled all over the world and left beautiful pieces of artwork behind wherever he goes. He's known for his vibrant, massive portraits in public spaces, using a technique of repeating squares and triangles.
Think of his work as a kaleidoscope, only one that's created with paint and precision. Bright colors and bold lines are the name of the game for Kobra, making him part of the new urban artist vanguard in his home country, and across the world. His work can be seen in Russia, Brazil, Poland, Italy, Los Angeles, and more. See snaps of his worldwide work below.
San Paulo, Brazil
Dubai, Saudi Arabia
Lodz, Poland
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Papeete, Tahiti
Boras, Sweden
Rome, Italy
Brooklyn, New York
Tokyo, Japan
Miami, Florida
Lexington, Kentucky
To see Kobra's work in action, check out this amazing time lapse video of the artist painting a mural of Abraham Lincoln in Lexington, Kentucky.
Sources: Eduardo Kobra, The Livery


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Choose a Boutique Hotel in Chiang Rai
A boutique hotel means many different things to different people, and thus it can be difficult to define and describe a boutique hotel. There is also seemed to be different definitions of this group of accommodation.
Boutique Hotel – This provides the accommodation that is exclusive from others, and even from room to room. This type of accommodation is considered upscale, fashionable, intimate, and gives a private service that creates a memorable impression on the guest. You can click this link in order to get more info about the hotel accommodation in Chiang Rai.
Extravagance Boutique Hotel – This kind of type of accommodation creates the aura of luxury and elegance to form a unique lifestyle experience for the guest.
Trendy or Modern Hotels – These types accommodation can be considered boutique because they provide exclusive restaurants, design, and a popular atmosphere for the discerning customer. Look at a trendy nightclub transformed into a classy place of hotels.
Design Hotels – The focus of this kind of accommodation is usually the distinctive architecture and unique room design that makes a long-lasting impression on the guest. Often an artist is brought in to add unique creative vision to the hotel and implement touches and elegance such as artwork, paint, furniture, lamps, and layout of the room.
Select a Boutique Hotel
A large number of travelers are interested to have more from their accommodation than the standard room, pillow, and "fast food" type service of string hotels. The first experience and custom atmosphere of a boutique hotel is actually hard disks visitors to stay there.


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Saturday, 28 March 2015
Weekend in Black & White: A glimpse of Pole Bank
From Stockport Road, a brief glimpse of Pole Bank through the trees.
For more information about Pole Bank see my photographs on Geograph.
A different version of this image can be found on sithenah.
A contribution to The Weekend in Black and White.
Posted by Gerald (SK14) at Saturday, March 28, 2015
Labels: Gee Cross, Open spaces, Trees
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Love the texture in the bark of that tree.ReplyDelete
Great b&w composition, nice edit!ReplyDelete
My post at: https://hanshb.wordpress.com/
Very effective in black and white!ReplyDelete
What do you want to show? For me it's a bit chaotic.ReplyDelete
Have a nice weekend!
My contribution to the Weekend in Black and White: http://stapjesonderweg.blogspot.be/2015/03/adam-and-eve.html
Beautiful b&w.ReplyDelete
Beautiful capture! Love the textures, like a tapestry.ReplyDelete
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Title: Dark Space
Author: Lisa Henry
Cover Artist: Mina Carter
Buy link: Amazon.com (Second Edition)
Genre: M/M Science Fiction
Length: Novel
Rating: 5+ stars
A Guest Review by Sammy
Review Summary: Two men learn to live within the dark, teaching each other how to survive and finding that their love can provide much needed light.
Blurb: Brady Garrett needs to go home. He's a conscripted recruit on Defender Three, one of a network of stations designed to protect the Earth from alien attack. He's also angry, homesick, and afraid. If he doesn't get home he'll lose his family, but there's no way back except in a body bag.
Cameron Rushton needs a heartbeat. Four years ago Cam was taken by the Faceless — the alien race that almost destroyed Earth. Now he's back, and when the doctors make a mess of getting him out of stasis, Brady becomes his temporary human pacemaker. Except they're sharing more than a heartbeat: they're sharing thoughts, memories, and some very vivid dreams.
Not that Brady's got time to worry about his growing attraction to another guy, especially the one guy in the universe who can read his mind. It doesn't mean anything. It's just biochemistry and electrical impulses. It doesn't change the truth: Brady's alone in the universe.
Now the Faceless are coming and there's nothing anyone can do. You can't stop your nightmares. Cam says everyone will live, but Cam's probably a traitor and a liar like the military thinks. But that's okay. Guys like Brady don't expect happy endings.
Dark Space Series
Review: I am speechless. At a loss. Please go read the blurb–again if necessary because I am not really going to summarize this novel for you. Instead, I'm going to spend the next few paragraphs telling you exactly why you must read this book. That's right. Those of you who know me remember that I do that cutesy thing at the end of each review suggesting that the choice to read a book is up to you. Well, not with this one. Nope–crack open the wallet cause this is one you are going to buy. Trust me–you are.
Why? Well, it could be because Lisa Henry is a genius at developing arresting and magnificent characters. They live and breath, leaping right off the page into your heart and mind and taking up residence there. They are like old trusted friends and when they suffer-you find yourself weeping for them. Like when Cam must finally reveal all that the Faceless did to him? Oh dear reader, the horror you feel–the sadness that overwhelms you.
Or when Brady gets beaten nearly to death and then his only means of survival is to be immersed in an alien pod that is akin to drowning. I shudder just remembering how I felt as I read those passages. That is phenomenal writing at its very best–that it can reach in and grab you so fiercely that you forget you are reading fiction–for just a moment you are transported into the story. Amazing.
Dark Space thrusts two men into an unprecedented situation–two bodies sharing one heartbeat. Cameron, the military's poster boy, returns from captivity to the reality that medic in training Brady is his human battery. The touch of Brady's hand allows Cameron to live–his heart to beat true and steady. So it goes to follow then that these two men will become entwined irrevocably. The fact that they fall in love en route is a bonus and believe me, it is one of the most tender love stories ever written given the fact that it develops within a nightmare.
The Faceless are the stuff that night terrors are borne from–dark and slimy, slithery and repulsive. I shrank back each time the author allowed them space on the page. The horror they induced was so visceral, I felt myself looking over my shoulder into the dark room behind me and realized I should not be reading this at night–broad daylight was in order when it came to this alien race and its leader Kai-Ren.
This is who Cam escaped from–this is who is coming to negotiate a treaty. A race that thought the likes of these men were nothing more than bugs to be squashed underfoot. It is a dark irony then that the author paints them to look almost insect-like in appearance.
So, if these characters don't grab you…then the story–the slowly unfolding tale of self-discovery, love and potential loss undoubtedly will. Dark Space details how Brady comes to realize that not only is he gay but that he is slowly falling in love with a man who is a potential traitor and the envoy for a race of beings that can and will wipe out the world as he knows it.
Author Lisa Henry puts us right into the hearts and minds of these two men. We taste their fear, their lust and, yes, even their love. I raced through this novel–I had to get to the end, had to see how it was all going to resolve. I literally could not put this one down.
I have no glib or humorous way of saying how incredible this novel was to me. The fact is that Dark Space by Lisa Henry gripped me by the scruff of my neck from the very first word on the page to the final punctuation mark and did not let go. Even now as I read through this review, I have to acknowledge that I cannot fully put into words how much this novel affected me–it was just the best sci-fi/paranormal/romance I have ever read.
So go to the link and do yourself a huge favor–buy it. I unashamedly and unreservedly highly recommend this novel to you. It IS a five star read and you should not miss out on this one!


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Monte Carlo Masters: Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas upset French Open champions to win title
Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his Uruguayan partner, Pablo Cuevas made a dream start to the European clay season by clinching the 2017 Monte Carlo Masters at the Principality of Monaco on Sunday. The unseeded pair dropped a set but played a spectacular match tie-break to edge the seventh seeds and reigning French Open champions Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez, 6-3, 3-6, 10-4 for the title.
This is the Indian's 16th career title and his second of the season, having started 2017 with the Chennai Open crown where India's Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan was his partner. Bopanna reached yet another final at Dubai where he and Poland's Marcin Matkowski went down to the former Wimbledon champions Jean-Julien Roger and Horia Tecau in the match tie-break.
First title for the team
Bopanna and Cuevas had joined forces at the ATP Sydney in January and this was just their fifth outing together this season. They had proved to be the giant-killers at Monte Carlo all week as they toppled both the top seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers as well as the fifth seeds Rajeev Ram and Raven Klaasen.
Bopanna and Cuevas started the final brilliantly and broke the seventh seeds to go up to 4-1. They maintained that solitary break lead to pocket the opener, 6-3. All throughout the set, they did not even face a single break point.
It was a different picture in the second set as the Spanish team came storming back to make inroads into their unseeded rivals' serve to surge to a 4-1 advantage. Bopanna and Cuevas were presented with two break point opportunities none of which they could convert.
In the match tie-break, the Indo-Uruguayan pair opened up an incredible 6-0 lead to put early pressure on the French Open champions. Lopez and Lopez managed to get four quick points after that but that did nothing to disrupt the rhythm of the Indo-Uruguayan combine, who soared to 8-4 and quickly wrapped up the match.
Nadal seeks his 10th Monte Carlo title
In the singles final which will follow soon, the King of Clay Rafael Nadal will be aiming for a historic 10th title at the Monte Carlo Masters when he takes on his compatriot, the 15th seeded Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Rafa has a 2-0 head-to-head record over his fellow lefty, who has reached an ATP Masters 1000 final for the first time in his career.


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Examine Your Antiperspirant
If your underarms have become a bit red, bumpy and irritated, look at your antiperspirant before anything else. Antiperspirants do just as the name implies: They block your sweat. Most antiperspirants contain aluminum salt to block your pores and keep you dry, but that ingredient may also irritate your skin. The more aluminum salt your antiperspirant contains, the higher the chance it will cause irritation (and possibly damage your shirt, too).
Antiperspirants that contain alcohol may also be too drying for some people's skin, which can lead to irritation, as can any ingredient that ends in "-paraben" (such as methylparaben).


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Man's Best Friend? Most of us love dogs and see them as faithful companions. However, the very fact that dogs are so popular has given rise to an alarming increase in the number of dog bites suffered each year in the United States. A stunning total of more than 4.7 million dog bites occur each year, with almost 800,000 of those bites requiring medical care. Even more tragically, these dog … [Read more...]
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When Fido's Bite is Worse than His Bark: How to Protect Your Rights
Traffic Accidents: The True Costs
Mayhem on the Highway The American public would not tolerate a situation where there was a daily crash of a airplane that caused 100 fatalities and over 300 serious injuries. That is especially the case if one-third of those hundreds of crashes were due to drunken pilots and another 25 percent were attributable to the pilots flying their craft too fast. Such a situation is not, … [Read more...]
Motorcycle Riders: What You Need to Know about Head Injuries
The High Price of Freedom For many people, the feel of riding a motorcycle down a winding country road is hard to beat with any other experience. Riding without a helmet adds to a sense of freedom for many of these riders. Unfortunately, that sensation often comes at a very high price. Almost every cyclist can share one or more stories about accidents. When a serious motorcycle accident does … [Read more...]
What to Do When A Defective Product Causes Injury
The Consumer Society Over the past century the issue of protecting the consumer has gained significant support in all states through legislation and case law. It is now accepted that the consumer has the right to expect that products purchased are safe and usable without being harmed. This legal responsibility for manufacturers to protect has been extended to all participants in the process of … [Read more...]
Protecting Your Rights after an Auto-Big Truck Collision
Fighting the Laws of Physics You only have to drive on the nation's highways and Interstates a few moments to understand just how much of the traffic we encounter involves commercial trucks and eighteen wheelers. There are more than 1.9 million semi-trailer trucks registered in the U.S. and 3.2 million licensed truck drivers. These drivers cover more than 150 billion miles a year and carry 68 … [Read more...]


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