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Organizers: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Clemens / Dr. Alexander Reinfeldt, Universität Hamburg – Historisches Seminar, DFG-Projekt "'To speak with one voice?' Europäisierung in intergouvernementalen Politikbereichen am Beispiel der Europäischen Politischen Zusammenarbeit (EPZ), 1970-1981"
Date, Location: 12-14 February 2015, Hamburg
The setting up of the European Political Cooperation (EPC) by the governments of the six founding states of the European Communities (EC) at the beginning of the 1970s created a completely new form of collective European diplomacy, leading to the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union (EU) in 1993. Despite all further institutional and Treaty developments, the Common Foreign Policy of the today's EU, by now comprising 28 member states, remains one of the intergovernmental fields of European cooperation. The responsibilities in this area still lie with the member states; the foreign policy cooperation is primarily based on decisions to be taken unanimously by the governments.
However, there are indications that the gradual change in foreign policy decision-making structures, forms of action and perceptual patterns due to the setting up of the EPC initiated a process of Europeanization, and that the EPC generated integration dynamics beyond a mere intergovernmental cooperation in the European multi-level system. According to political actors involved in the EPC/CFSP the intensive form of foreign policy cooperation triggered a "socialization effect" or "coordination reflex" which had an impact on foreign policy decision-making processes. A methodically and conceptually reflected examination of such asserted Europeanization or socialization processes, based on insights from the social sciences, however, is still a desideratum of historical research on European integration since the 20th century; all the more so since also the majority of research in political sciences on the evolution of a common European foreign policy is primarily confined to stating tendencies towards Europeanization in the context of European integration under reference to contemporary actors, rather than critically analyzing them.
Emanating from the DFG-funded research project "'To speak with one voice'? Europäisierung in intergouvernementalen Politikbereichen am Beispiel der Europäischen Politischen Zusammenarbeit (EPZ), 1970-1981" at the Department of History at Universität Hamburg this conference aims at dealing with these questions in an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus will be on methodical and conceptual aspects of Europeanization or internationalization in intergovernmental policy fields as well as on empirical aspects of the historical development of a common European foreign policy, in particular since the early 1970s. In a broader sense, the questions will be raised as to whether the significance of inter- or transgovernmental policy fields for the process of European integration has to be reassessed and under which preconditions concepts of Europeanization could provide an appropriate framework for analyzing the history of the process of European integration.
Thus, proposals for papers on the following topics are particularly requested:
- Europeanization approaches and possibilities of implementing them for a new history of politics
- questions of applying social-psychological theorems to the research of contemporary history
- aspects of international socialization
- issues of a Europeanization and/or internationalization of foreign policy
- related aspects of the history of the EPC/CFSP
Please send your one-page proposal (max. 350 words) for a 15- to 20-minute paper to be presented at the conference as well as a short academic CV by 31 May 2014 at the latest to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Conference languages will be German and English.
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Morning travelers riding between Newark and the World Trade Center, as well as Hoboken and the World Trade Center, found their commute difficult as PATH train services were delayed today.
According to reports, an unattended bag was discovered just before 7 a.m. at Journal Square Station today. Port Authority police responded by bringing K9 and explosive units on the scene.
Within minutes, the suspicious package was cleared and PATH trains resumed their normal schedule.
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HARRISBURG - The state Senate unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that would ban lawmakers from accepting cash gifts from lobbyists or others seeking to "influence the legislative process."
"Senate approval of this legislation gives hope that an ugly problem is about to yield a responsible solution," said Sen. Lisa Baker (R., Luzerne), sponsor of the bill. "It sets basic ground rules everyone can grasp."
The 49-0 vote followed an unusually quick path for a piece of legislation, and came just weeks after The Inquirer first reported that four Philadelphia lawmakers had been caught on tape taking money from a lobbyist.


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The English Department at Rhodes College invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English (Tenure Track). We seek a scholar of non-Shakespearean early modern literature, with a particular focus on global and transnational approaches to the era.
Review of completed applications will begin on November 1, 2016 and continue until the position is filled.
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Deadline for applications: November 1, 2016.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the death of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) and the Hakluyt Society will mark this with an exciting programme of events in Oxford and at Hakluyt's parish of Wetheringsett in Suffolk. Centrepiece of the Hakluyt@400 events will be the two-day international conference Richard Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World, taking place in Oxford on 24-25 November: book your tickets here: https://chch.digitickets.co.uk/event/1592271?catID=6761
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The suspect is described as a black male in his 40s, about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds with a short, graying beard. He was wearing a blue New York Yankees hat, a black Carhart jacket, white sneakers and blue jeans.
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Marbles feature to air on Pittsburgh 360 Thursday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m.
October 14, 2013
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Marbles feature to air on Pittsburgh 360º Thursday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m.
PITTSBURGH—A new season of WQED's Pittsburgh 360º series will include a feature on the experienced marble players found in Allegheny County.
The feature premieres Thursday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. with "For all the Marbles."
The timeless game of marbles has put Allegheny County on the mibsters' map ("mibsters" is the name for those who play marbles).
The National Marbles Championship was first held in 1922, and has been ongoing for the past 90 years. Mibsters compete for prizes and awards that could include college scholarships and national honors. Out of the total 138 National Champions, 35 boys and girls have come from the Pittsburgh area.
Also pertinent to this piece is that a small town in West Virginia has the only factory in the entire country that still produces marbles for play, while a Penn Hills glass artist produces exquisite, orb-shaped works of art.
Dave Crawley takes us from the beaches of New Jersey, to a Southside neighborhood Billy Buck Hill, in a 360 story called "For all the Marbles."
WQED Pittsburgh has a proud history of honors, including 134 National and Mid-Atlantic Emmy® Awards, an Academy Award, and many, many others, including two Emmy® Awards for Station Excellence. WQED was founded in 1954 as the nation's first community-supported broadcaster. WQED changes lives by creating and sharing outstanding public media that educates, entertains and inspires. It is the parent company of WQED-TV (PBS); WQED: The Neighborhood Channel; WQED: The Create Channel; WQED Showcase; Classical WQED-FM 89.3/Pittsburgh; Classical WQEJ-FM 89.7/Johnstown; the Pittsburgh Concert Channel at WQED-HD2 (89.3-2FM) and online at www.wqedfm.org; local and national television and radio productions; WQED Interactive (www.wqed.org) and iQ: smartmedia, WQED's Educational initiative (www.wqed.org/edu).
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Flathead Catfish in Pennsylvania
The flathead catfish is not a new species of fish to Pennsylvania, but the presence of these fish in river basins where they have not occurred in the past is a matter of interest and some concern (view our Aquatic Invasive Species page for more).
On western Pennsylvania waters where these fish are native, anglers find flatheads an attractive sport fish and good table fare. Flathead catfish are subject to the same regulations as other catfish covered by Commonwealth Inland Regulations -- no minimum size limit, 50 per day creel limit and no closed season. [Click here for a 2002 article on flathead catfish in the Delaware River Watershed from Pennsylvania Angler & Boater magazine]
Flatheads in Eastern PA
Flathead catfish populations were identified in Southeastern Pennsylvania in 1997 at Blue Marsh Reservoir. Based on the age and size of the fish taken at Blue Marsh, it likely they had been in the reservoir for some time.
Flathead caught at the Dock St. Dam in Harrisburg in August 2009. This is the first confirmed flathead catfish at this location. Flathead catfish continue to spread upriver in the Susquehanna River watershed. The larger fish in this picture is a channel catfish, the smaller fish with the shovel head is a flathead catfish.
Flathead have also been seen in several other impoundments and in the Schuylkill River and Delaware River. Reproducing populations of flathead catfish have been documented in the Schuylkill River Basin. A few flathead catfish have been reported from the Fairmont Dam fishway on the Schuylkill River each year since 1999. The current populations in the Schuylkill River Basin and Delaware River Basin are sparse, but a directed fishery is developing on sections of the Schuylkill and Springton Reservoir.
August 2009 -- A flathead catfish is caught at the Dock Street Dam (Susquahanna River) in Harrisburg, the 1st confirmed catch at this location.
July 2005 -- Flathead catfish have been confirmed in the Susquehanna River downstream of the tail-waters of the York Haven Dam.
July 2002 -- Flathead catfish, which are native to western Pennsylvania waters, have been caught in the Susquehanna and Schuylkill river drainages in recent years. In July 2002, a number of small flathead catfish were caught downstream of Safe Harbor Dam. Based on the observation of flathead catfish populations observed thus far in the Delaware River Basin and Schuylkill River Basin, it is expected that these fish will become part of the fish community in the Susquehanna. Their populations should not be overwhelming. The source of the flatheads found in the Susquehanna River is unknown.
Species overview: Flathead catfish are native to the lower Great Lakes and the Mississippi River basin, from western Pennsylvania southward. They are also in Gulf of Mexico watersheds, and can live in reservoirs. In Pennsylvania, flatheads are found mainly in the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. Fossils of this catfish genus that are about 15 million years old, from the mid-Miocene Epoch, cant be distinguished from the modern flathead catfish. The flatheads genus name Pylodictis means mud fish, and its species name olivaris means olive-colored.
Identification: Flathead catfish grow longer and heavier than other Pennsylvania catfish. The Pennsylvania record is over 40 pounds, but flatheads in the size range of 20 or 30 pounds are more likely to be found in Pennsylvania. In more southern climates, flatheads as big as 90 to 100 pounds have been documented.
Flathead catfish have the scaleless, strong body and the well-developed pectoral and dorsal fin spines typical of catfish. The lower jaw of a flathead projects past the upper jaw. This feature is the key characteristic that helps anglers and others distinguish the identify of flatheads from other eastern Pennsylvania catfish. The dorsal fin is high. The tail is only slightly indented, or may appear square or rounded. The body looks long and slender. The upper portion of the flathead catfishs body is yellowish brown to dark, even purplish brown, with black or brown mottling on lighter brown sides. The belly is grayish or yellowish white. It does have a flat-looking head, very wide and depressed. The chin barbels are white to yellow, the fins are mottled, and the anal fin, which has fewer than 16 rays, is short and rounded. Except for very large adults, flathead catfish have a white tip on the upper lobe of the caudal fin. Young flathead catfish are nearly black on the back.
Habitat: Flathead catfish are found in large rivers, streams and lakes, usually over hard bottoms. They prefer deep, sluggish pools, with logs and other submerged debris that can be used as cover. Young flatheads live in rocky or sandy runs in the river and in the riffles.
Life history: The flathead is a loner and a traveler, leading a solitary existence except at spawning time. Flatheads spawn in early summer, later than channel catfish. The flatheads spawning behavior is like that of other catfish. The adults form pairs and build nests in natural cavelike depressions in the bank, or they may hollow out a cavity under an underwater object, like a log or boulder. Their compact egg masses contain from 4,000 to 100,000 eggs. The male guards the nest and the newly hatched fry, becoming aggressive toward the female.1
Flatheads grow fairly rapidly and mature sexually at about 15 inches and five years old. They can live to at least 19 years old. Juvenile flatheads live in riffle areas and feed on larvae and nymphs of aquatic insects. As the flathead grows, it switches to crayfish and fishes, although many items are on its menu. During the day, flathead catfish stay out of sight, hiding beneath undercut banks, in brush piles and log jams. At night they forage in a variety of habitats, including very shallow riffles where their backs and dorsal fins may be exposed. For this reason, angling at night with live fish or crayfish as bait is the way to catch a big flathead. Biologists report that one possible feeding strategy of the flathead is to lie motionless with its mouth open, until a fish looking for a spot in which to hide swims in. Others have observed flatheads lunging and grabbing prey after they have lain in wait.
1. Some recent research using telemetry has challenged the common understanding of the life history of flatheads. Flatheads are often portrayed as sedentary, freshwater restricted fish existing in low density populations. Research in the Southeastern states using telemetry and population estimation techniques has revealed some populations in densities estimated to be 100-400 per stream or river kilometer, movement of up to 30 kilometers in just a few months, and a tolerance for brackish water with salinities of 6 parts per thousand.
-- source: Tom Qwak, Ph.D, Unit Leader, NC Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Reseach Unit
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I Miss My Son When I Shouldn'tBeth Anne Ballance
I'm sitting in a beach house living room, curled up on a striped chair. Apparently Gwyneth Paltrow and her family stayed here last week and I can't help but wonder if my butt is where her butt once was. That's equally fascinating and creepy to me. I'm tucked away on a little island in North Carolina with my girlfriends; we all drove down for just a quick 48 hours to get away from the daily grind. For me, a chance to breathe a little before my husband's golf season starts, to say goodbye to summer, to simply not hear "Why, Mommy?" for one day. It's a weekend of no expectations, where books are read on the back porch and french toast is enjoyed around a table (where Gwyneth sat).
I slept in this morning until a little before nine and it felt absolutely delicious. Sinful, even. The sky is covered in low grey clouds, but it doesn't matter – the windows are open and this weekend isn't the girls' weekends of my college years. There's no tanning spray and bikinis and beer pong and gosh, I like that. I was never much of a beer pong girl anyway.
My husband texted me a few pictures this morning of Harry in a bounce house, standing by a firetruck, eating a hot dog. Our local school is holding a "Safety Day" and ever the amazing dad, my husband took Harry to see the big trucks and bounce houses. And sitting here hours away, coffee and book in hand, I started aching for those boys.
There was a time when I couldn't imagine anything better than a weekend away and now I can't imagine anything better than Saturday mornings at home with my boys. Of my napping boy curled into my side while I read a book and sweeping out the garage while he learns to pedal his bike. Now that I'm away, I want to know every moment of their day – what are they doing? eating? thinking? Did Harry say anything funny today? Did he nap? How long was his bath and did he ask for bubbles and which cartoon did he pick to watch this morning?
I'm appreciative of this weekend and thankful for friendships and hot mugs of coffee on the back deck.
But oh, how I miss my son.
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Talia Price led a balanced Kinnelon attack with three goals and three assists to lead her squad over Indian Hills, 11-8, in Oakland.
Victoria Bobinski added three goals and two assists, while Ashley Bobinski finished with three goals and an assist for Kinnelon. Marissa Caponi led Indian Hills with a game-high six goals, while Shannon Bremer made eight saves.


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2007 Research Fair - Math Abstracts
Adaptation of the Ray Tracing Computer Graphics Algorithm
Linear functions on a Cartesian coordinate system are generally used when parameterizing the paths which light follows. This makes intuitive sense and essentially states that light follows Euclidian lines. But if one selects another parameterization for the path of light other, less familiar conceptualizations can be seen.
One example of an alternative parameterization can be found in the Poincare disk, a common construction of hyperbolic geometry. In this construction, the universe is defined as the interior of a sphere. Lines are arcs of circles which intersect this sphere at right angles or diameters of it. If one can define light to follow just such a line, a new set of images can be visualized in which many of the familiar results of Euclidian geometry fail to hold.
Following this construction for hyperbolic light, one must introduce objects into the space; otherwise there is nothing to be seen. Initially one could take this universe and place in it Euclidian objects, described in the usual manner, like planes, triangles, and spheres. With some added complexity of construction and algorithm design one can add analogous hyperbolic objects which belong natively in this space. In this project I have done both. The Ray tracer can now visualize these shapes in this new space.
The images that result from these objects have a warped, bent appearance. From this abstract feeling of distortion one can gain a degree of intuition for what it means to exist in hyperbolic space, and how much the assumption of the Euclidian parallel postulate impacts the field of graphics.


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HIS 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB PCIe Graphics Card
Published: 24th December 2008 | Source: HIS | Price: £229 |Conclusion
With a price tag expected to be around £229, the HIS 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB is clearly positioned to be a direct threat to NVIDIA's recently released GTX260 216 cards - and a threat it certainly is. Factory overclocked to 770MHz with GDDR5 running at 1000MHz , the IceQ4+ Turbo managed to give the Zotac GTX2602 we happened to have in our office at the same time a proverbial run-around, beating it in both GRID, Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 while also coming within a few FPS of the GTX260 in games such as Far Cry 2 and Quake Wars.
This combined with the stunning look and performance of the IceQ4+ cooler that kept the GPU temperatures well under 60°C at all times and noise levels to little more than a whisper certainly makes the card worth every penny.
In our previous review of the HIS 4850 IceQ4 TurboX, we concluded that the card was the "crème de la crème of 4850 series cards". This is something that also rings true for the HIS 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1Gb in the 4870 series....There really is no 4870 that we've seen or tested to date which can come close.
The Good
- Exchanges blows with the GTX260 216, beating it in several games.
- Excellent aftermarket IceQ 4+ cooler keeps GPU temps and noise under control.
- Healthy overclock places the card well ahead of a stock HD4850 512MB.
- Competitively priced.
- Looks great.
The Mediocre
- Rather basic package. Most GTX260 216 cards are shipped with a game.
The Bad
- Still no 4870x2 version HIS...c'mon pull your finger out!
Based on the performance, looks and price of the HIS 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo we are delighted to award the card Overclock3D "Best In Class" for the ATI HD4870 based series of cards.
Thanks to HIS for providing the 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo for review. Discuss this review in our forums.
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HIS 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo 1GB PCIe Graphics CardQuote
Great review as always Jim!Quote
Roughly same price between the two.
Clock the GTX260 higher and it will probably beat the Turbo 4870.
And where the heck is the special screw driver thingy?Quote
I have to ask though.. This part..
Finally we come to the GRID results and as we can see, this is certainly a place where the green team fall flat on their face. Across all resolutions the HIS 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo wipes the floor with the GTX260 and in some cases even the stock clocked Sapphire HD 4870 512Mb sends the Zotac packing.
Why? It's odd that such a high end card can be ***** slapped into yester year on one game, yet hold its own and win a few on others. This about driver optimisations? The games that are popular they tweak the drivers for knowing that they will be used as benches?Quote
Originally Posted by name='fruityness'
Why? It's odd that such a high end card can be ***** slapped into yester year on one game, yet hold its own and win a few on others. This about driver optimisations? The games that are popular they tweak the drivers for knowing that they will be used as benches?
Great review Jimbo, your a machine where do you get the time!Quote
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Drivers, game engine, backhander between the developers and ATI...who knows It's quite possible that NV could turn around tomorrow with a new driver that drastically improves GRID performance on the GTX260 and the 4870 gets a good spanking.
But it's created by a game design platform called Gamebryo, similar to the version used to make DAoC and WAR.
Having a finger in the dev pie can always influence performance.Quote
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Would of been interesting to see crossfire performance with a pair of these against the gtx260 in sli, also gtx 280 single & sli.
Main reason I purchased this HIS was because of this review saying the cooler was 'whisper' quiet.
First thing I did was get myself an MCW60-4870.
Nice review otherwise.Quote
Originally Posted by name='crunchie'
The only thing I would disagree with is the cooler. The fan on this thing is like a leaf blower on full noise!
Main reason I purchased this HIS was because of this review saying the cooler was 'whisper' quiet.
First thing I did was get myself an MCW60-4870.
Nice review otherwise.
When I first installed the card I checked the temp through CCC and was surprised to see that it was 67C, no fan running. So I manually ran it using CCC. Anything below 40% fan speed was ok and brought the temps down quite a bit (the cooler itself works really good).
Testing it out and running the fan flat out, I thought that my case was going to start moving across the floor. Loudest fan I have ever heard .
I had included the card into my water loop within a week of buying it, so it's all good now.
Pity I paid a premium price for the HIS though because of it's cooler. Ended up coughing up another $AU139 for the MCW60-4870 too .
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Im all for water, but where Ive not had time to do my own :crys: Id had to stay air, and just wanted to say that the coolers are much better than the stock ones and worth the extra few quid.
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I had nothing against the ICEQ cooler. It did the job nicely. Just could not handle the noise.
I've just changed the stock 120 fans on the radiator with a couple of 90cfm coolermasters. Running at 2000rpm and they can hardly be heard.
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Kyle Flood understands there are probably more distractions with Rutgers' latest bowl trip -- the Dec. 28 Russell Athletic Bowl vs. Virginia Tech in Orlando, Fla. -- than perhaps any other in school history.
And the Scarlet Knights' first-year coach says he's fine with that, as long as work gets done when work is supposed to get done.
"I think every bowl site has activities," Flood said while meeting the Orlando media today to promote the game. "That's part of it. The bowl game is a reward. It's different than the usual road trips that we consider a business trip when you leave the day before (and) everything is geared toward the game and when you kick it off you play the game and after it you go home.
"Bowl trips are different. Bowl trips are a reward for what you accomplished during your season and I think you have to treat it like that.
"So when we are doing the football aspect, which for us we try to do in the morning, we have an expression at Rutgers: `When it's time to work it's time to work.' But then when practice is over and the film review is over we want our team, the support staff, to enjoy the bowl site. And what better place to do it than Orlando?"
Flood said the prospect of mixing business with pleasure is something he and his family hope to take advantage of as well.
"I can tell you I have a 10-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter who are looking forward to Disney, that's for sure," he said. "Now, I also have a 9-month-old so, so I don't know if my wife is looking forward to Disney as much."
Rutgers (9-3) will meet the Hokies (6-6) in a 5:30 start on Dec. 28 -- a Friday -- with the Knights seeking their sixth straight bowl victory.
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Later there was a stage road north and south, a stage station, an inn, and a
blacksmith shop. Food was brought in from Hannibal.
In March, 1855 , a young surveyor was hired to lay out the town, many of our present streets have kept their original names after the early settlers. A name for the town which would please everyone was hard to find. The name "La Plata" was drawn from a hat in which anyone who wished could put the name they preferred. "La Plata" is a Spanish word meaning "City of Silver". Pony Express mail service out of La Plata was available from 1860 to the coming of the railroads. The North Missouri Railroad was the first through the town in 1867. In February of 1887, The Santa Fe Railroad followed. It extended from Chicago to Kansas City and passed through La Plata.
In 1868, the first school was erected and called the Long Branch School, since Long Branch Creek could be seen from the school's location at the East end of present City Cemetery. When this structure was found to be too small, a five-room brick building was built in 1872. This new school was located one block west of the City square, the site of La Plata's fourth and present school building.
The first major industry to locate within La Plata was a creamery. The building was erected in 1883 at a cost of $6,000. It had a capacity of a ton and q quarter of butter per day. However, when this building burned in 1885, it was never rebuilt. In 1912, the Prairie Pipeline was the first great oil pipeline built to pass through La Plata. The Sinclair Pipeline, now Amoco, was the second major pipeline to pass through the City.


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From Sioux City, Iowa, Kristi Baker shares this simple supper. "My husband and I are both police officers, and after a long workday, I rely on meals that come together easily," she explains. "This hearty hot dish is easy to make and has a tangy twist that even our kids enjoy."
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 can (14 ounces) sauerkraut, rinsed and drained
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 1 cup uncooked long grain rice
- 1 envelope beefy mushroom soup mix
- 1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese, optional
- In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. In a bowl, combine the beef, sauerkraut, water, soup, rice and soup mix.
- Transfer to a greased 2-qt. baking dish. Cover and bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until rice is tender. Sprinkle with Swiss cheese if desired. Bake 5 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Yield: 4-6 servings.
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I know this is late, but.....
We went to Pastosa Ravioli - a small pasta maker chain in the NYC area last week (me? at an Italian market? Never would have thought it!) . Ant noticed when he drove by that they now sold gluten-free goodies. So, when we went in and shopped, I picked up two types of ravioli, crostini, bread crumbs, chestnut flour, dried pasta, and STROMBOLI. Yep. Gluten-free stromboli. (I'll blog about it soon)
So, today, we decided to have ravioli. I opted for the DeRosa Spinach Ravioli. It's made with Domata Living Flour.
The wait was sooo worth it. The pasta tasted just like what I remember the gluteny pasta. The filling was rich, creamy, and full of spinach. The pasta was so filling I could only eat six perfect pillows of pasta! *sigh*
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Do you have a PC? If so, drop the Orange Box for the 360 and get it for the PC. Much more enjoyable on the PC.
I still highly recommend Crackdown and Earth Defense Force 2017. Both are found cheap and are just great fun. EDF2017 is a great co-op splitscreen game.


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There has been some pretty good gimmicks that have panned out quite nicely in professional wrestling, The Undertaker, The Ultimate Warrior, and even Val Venis worked out pretty well.
This list isn't for them, no this list is for the gimmicks that made us laugh at them, or just change the channel when they came on.
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The default configuration of the Cusinart (bowl with blade, lid and stomper) is ideally suited to making mayonnaise and any cold emulsion sauce where oil must be "whisked" into a watery suspending medium. (It is also great for water-in-oil emulsions.) What makes this machine such an effective and, I should add, convenient instrument of emulsification, is the broad and rapidly spinning blade that hugely increases the surface area upon which the oil is broken into droplets and the means by which the oil is delivered to the blade.
Note the hole in the bottom of the stomper in the lower-right hand corner of the photo below.
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That hole is there for at least two reasons:
- It helps to prevent stomper from creating a vacuum and getting stuck when you try to remove it
- It allows you to use the stomper to dribble a liquid substance (such as oil) into another substance (such as egg) without having to stand there wondering why you needed to go to school to find work as a statue.
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The Cuisinart is not great for making less than 8 ounces of mayonnaise, and I use it only when I need at least a quart. I use a stand-mixer when I need to make much more than a quart, and for smaller amounts the best machine is an immersion blender (or blender-on-a-stick, if you prefer) or you can use a whisk and bowl. However, none of these let you walk away from them while the oil is being introduced.
Here is a slideshow that shows me (my hands really) making mayonnaise at work this Saturday past. I'll anticipate at least one question about the recipe by saying that I often use whole eggs rather than yolks alone because it produces a lighter bodied and flavored sauce which I prefer for many preparations involving raw vegetables. The mayonnaise you see being constructed in the slide show was being made for dressing a chicken salad.


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Gladys Dorothy McCloud
Gladys McCloud, 95, of Woodinville, was born Feb. 13, 1905, in Florence, Wis., and passed away Wednesday, Jan.17, at Lake View Gardens in Kirkland.
She is survived by her son Alan McCloud of Woodinville; brother Arthur Miller of Rainier, Ore.; two grandchildren and two-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of 68 years, William I. McCloud.
Gladys worked and retired as a secretary for the U.S. Navy.
She was a longtime member of Cottage Lake United Presbyterian Church, as well as the Chemeketans. She loved hiking, horseback riding, gardening and also played the organ.
Her passion for hiking took her to the summit of Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams, Mt. Jefferson, Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood.
Gladys liked to help people and was very personable, outgoing and likeable. She was admired by many people and had many friends.
A celebration of life will be held Saturday, Jan. 27, at Bear Creek Community Church, 18931 NE 143rd St. Woodinville (just off of Avondale Rd.).
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The Richie-Madden clan headed to the Palm Springs area for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, a three-day event headlined by performers including Prince, Jack Johnson and Roger Waters.
"[Nicole] hasn't been able to do a whole lot over the year, so we're having a little family trip," Madden told PEOPLE at the BPM Hpnotiq Smurf House, where he DJ'd a festival pre-party Saturday afternoon.
"I [rented] a house and surprised Nicole with a weekend trip because she likes Coachella. She was like, 'I really want to go!' So I surprised her. We brought the baby."
And their activity? "Hanging by the pool."
While Madden, 29, spun music for party guests including Dave Annable and Taryn Manning, a smiling, relaxed Richie, 26, chatted with friends about her daughter, who was being looked after at their nearby rental home.
Benji and Paris, TooMeanwhile, Joel's twin brother Benji Madden and his girlfriend Paris Hilton, who last week celebrated their relationship's two-month anniversary, were also in town for the music festival.
So which couple will make it to the altar first? "We're the family with the baby so I think probably us, but who knows," says Joel – who remained mum on his and Richie's wedding plans.
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This is a discussion on Re: sa-learn journal location for teaching spamassassin on multiple hosts - SpamAssassin ; On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Samy Ascha, Xel Media B.V. wrote: > I have recently setup a mailbox and a sa-learn script to start teaching > SpamAssassin. This was all no problem, but: > > We have ...
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Samy Ascha, Xel Media B.V.
> I have recently setup a mailbox and a sa-learn script to start teaching
> SpamAssassin. This was all no problem, but:
> We have an MX group of usually about 3 MTAs, which all run their own content
> filter (amavis) and thus use their own SpamAssassin's database. When we are
> gonna start teaching SpamAssassin with sa-learn, I need to somehow sync the
> results in the journal to all these hosts.
> I've checked out the --no-sync and --sync options and I think these options
> will give me exactly the tools I need for this job.
> I need to know the location of the journal though and I need to know if
> there are any pitfalls when syncing a SpamAssassin with a journal from
> another one on another server.
> Has anyone got experience with syncing sa-learn between multiple MTAs? How
> did you solve this? Can SA sync with a journal in an arbitrary location, or
> does it look for it in one preconfigged place?
> I hope u have some interresting thought about this issue.
Ultimately, you're not syncing 'sa-learn', you're syncing the bayes'
DB that sa-learn (and spamd) records to. There's a few ways to go
about sharing the bayesian database. Probably the best bet would be to
store the bayes DB in MySQL, and point SA on all 3 servers to it-
ideally with the database on a 4th server (hey, you can put the AWL
info into MySQL as well... may as well hit that up at the same time).
You could probably go the --sync and --no-sync route if you fiddled
with it enough (never tried it), but honestly a single MySQL DB for
bayes would probably be a lot simpler if you have any experience at
all with MySQL. It's been good for performance for us even when used
on a single server, and it's pretty bulletproof for us- been in use
for years. The only tip you really need here is to run OPTIMIZE TABLE
every now and then.
An alternative hacky solution: turn off autolearn on 2 of the 3, and
do sa-learns and autolearning on the 3rd. Then nightly rsync all the
bayes DB files over to the other 2 servers and restart spamd. Not
pretty, but it should work.


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FOUNDATIONSThe FOUNDATIONS program is a comprehensive Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Preschool Prevention Program originally developed by Saint Vincent College Prevention Projects in conjunction with Seton Hill Day Care, Inc. The goal of this curriculum is to lay a foundation of positive life skills that will assist the youth of tomorrow to foster independence, enhance coping and relating, understand self concept, learn decision making, and begin an awareness of ATOD information.
The FOUNDATIONS curriculum encourages parents and teachers joining together in cooperative and collaborative ways to help build and strengthen resiliency and protective factors in young children. Through this connection it is hoped that young children will observe adult role models who respect life and have a better chance of growing up "drug-free".
R.E.A.L. (Realistic Education About Life) In-Class Presentations are the core of this prevention curriculum developed by the Saint Vincent College Prevention Projects. A series of interactive, developmentally appropriate lessons has been designed for individual grade levels from Kindergarten through grade 6. Lessons include student activities, videos, and enrichment follow-up materials. The curriculum meets the Act 211 of 1990 empowerment Goals and the Educational Standards established by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Topic areas include Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) information, self-concept, coping/relating skills, decision making, and violence prevention skills. Evidence-Based Model Programs Evidence-based programs are approaches that have been developed and evaluated using scientific processes. These programs are grounded in a clear theoretical foundation and have been carefully implemented and evaluated. The evaluation findings have been subjected to critical review by other researchers and the program has been replicated in a variety of settings. Examples of these programs available through the Prevention Projects include – Botvin Life Skills ProgramA 3-year ATOD Prevention Program with 8 sequential lessons/year for Grades 3-5 or Grades 4-6.
Project Achieve The Stop and Think Program addresses social skills and conflict resolution for pre-kindergarten through grade 8.
Second StepAddresses violence reduction and prevention for pre-kindergarten through grade five with twenty lessons/year. There is also a parent program component.
Too Good for DrugsAddresses ATOD use and reinforces resiliency skills for kindergarten through grade 8; ten sequential lessons each year.
Olweus Bullying Prevention ProgramThis research-based program is a multilevel, multi-component, school-based program designed for the reduction and prevention of bullying/victim problems in elementary, middle, and junior high schools. The program attempts to change the culture and the behavior of students through the 4 major core components: School-Wide Elements, Classroom Elements, Individual Interventions, and Community Efforts. The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program has been recognized as an evidence-based, model program by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Researched based outcomes have shown:


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Hanahan baseball coach and HIT director Brian Mitchell looked at the sky, read the forecast and even consulted a meteorologist.
Then he decided to speed up the pace of the 29-team Hanahan Invitational Tournament based on a forecast of all-day rain on Thursday. As a result, all quarterfinal and semifinal games were played Wednesday.
In the quarterfinals, Starr's Mill (Ga.) beat Stratford, 14-5; Cox High (Va.) defeated James Island, 8-6; Summerville blanked Pinewood Prep, 12-0; and Berkeley beat Travelers' Rest, 3-2.
Starr's Mill beat Cox, 6-5, in one semifinal, and Summerville routed Berkeley, 11-2, in the other.
That sets up today's HIT championship game between Starr's Mill and Summerville at 1 p.m.
The High School League's state lacrosse playoffs also were affected by Thursday's rain.
The Bishop England boys lacrosse playoff match against Chapin was postponed and will be held at 5:30 p.m. today at Bishop England.
The Wando boys and girls lacrosse matches were pushed back a day. Both games will be played today at the Wando Athletic Complex.
The Wando girls will play Academic Magnet at 5:30 p.m. and the boys will play Hilton Head at 7:30 p.m.
Andrews shines
Allison Andrews, a sophomore at Ashley Hall, won first place and was champion in the intermediate over fences at 2-feet division at the recent Interscholastic Equestrian Association Zone 4 Finals in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
She has qualified to compete at the IEA National Finals in Syracuse, N.Y.
She is an honors student and also plays basketball and soccer.
Clark honored
Erik Clark, a senior midfielder for Wando, has been selected as the NSCAA/TopDrawer Soccer.com High School Player of the Week.
Clark registered a season-high four assists in a 5-1 victory over Summerville. The senior midfielder also had two more assists in a 4-1 victory over Hoover, Ala.
Clark has committed to play for the College of Charleston.
SCISA lacrosse
SCISA will hold its second boys state lacrosse championship on April 27.
Three teams in SCISA field varsity teams: Hammond, Heathwood Hall and Porter-Gaud. The No. 1 seed will receive a bye and will host the winner of Nos. 2 and 3.
Lowcountry Classic
The fourth annual Lowcountry Classic high school golf tournament begins today and concludes with the crowning of its champion on Sunday. The tourney is being held at the Plantation Course at Edisto.
This year's event could have its strongest field to date. Twenty teams from the Palmetto State will compete, including two-time defending champ Fort Dorchester.
Perennial SCISA power Pinewood Prep is also entered. The Panthers feature Katelyn Dambaugh, Reona Hirai and Richard Hubbard. Dambaugh, who is ranked nationally, holds the girls record at The Plantation Course (67 in 2012). She is headed to USC next year.
Hirai is ranked second in the state and is the 2012 winner of the Beth Daniel Award.
Two local players, Austin Zoller and Andrew Novak will compete in the individual competition. They will compete against Bishop England's Jeremy Grab, who is the current S.C. Junior Amateur Champion.


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After 12 years at KGNC-AM radio, talk show host James Hunt is taking a job in Austin as communications director for Sen. Teel Bivins, R-Amarillo.
Hunt, KGNC news director, said March 22 is his last day at the radio station.
"It's an excellent opportunity to work for one of the state's top lawmakers," Hunt said.
Bivins said his current communications director, Cathy Teague, is going to work for a public relations firm. Bivins said Hunt will be an asset to the state senatorial office.
"James is a very respected reporter from this area and has a great knowledge of this area," Bivins said.
Hunt said he will start his new Austin job in early April.
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Police Jury hire Noegel as public works director
The Vermilion Parish Police Jury combined two director positions in order to save money.
By a close vote of 8-6, the Police Jury hired Billy Noegel as the new public works director. He will also manage the parish's mosquito control department.
Noegel has been the director of the mosquito control department for the last five years. He and four others applied for the Police Jury's Public Works Director position after Herschel David, the present director, announced he will retire this summer.
Mark Broussard, another candidate, received the six Police Jury votes.
Police Juror Wayne Touchet, who made the motion to hire Noegel, said by combining the two positions, it will save the jury thousands of dollars. Touchet said the jury will only have to pay for one vehicle, one health insurance policy and one retirement.
Noegel was hired on a six-month
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Police Juror Mark Poché, who voted against hiring Noegel and his pay increase, remembered three or four years ago when the Police Jury combined other positions and no one got a raise for their extra duties.
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Dyrbye, Liselotte N. MD; Harper, William MD; Moutier, Christine MD; Durning, Steven J. MD; Power, David V. MD; Massie, F. Stanford MD; Eacker, Anne MD; Thomas, Matthew R. MD; Satele, Daniel; Sloan, Jeff A. PhD; Shanafelt, Tait D. MD
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Purpose: Although burnout is associated with erosion of professionalism and serious personal consequences, whether positive mental health can enhance professionalism and how it shapes personal experience remain poorly understood. The study simultaneously explores the relationship between positive mental health and burnout with professionalism and personal experience.
Method: The authors surveyed 4,400 medical students at seven U.S. medical schools in 2009 to assess mental health (categorized as languishing, moderate, and flourishing) and burnout. Additional items explored professional behaviors, beliefs, suicidal ideation, and serious thoughts of dropping out.
Results: A total of 2,682/4,400 (61%) responded. Prevalence of suicidal ideation (55/114 [48.2%], 281/1,128 [24.9%], and 127/1,409 [9.1%]) and serious thoughts of dropping out (15/114 [13.2%], 30/1,128 [2.7%], and 14/1,409 [1.0%]) decreased as mental health improved from languishing, moderate, and flourishing, respectively (all P < .0001); this relationship between personal experience and mental health persisted independent of burnout (all P < .001). As mental health improved, the prevalence of unprofessional behaviors (i.e., cheating and dishonest behaviors) also declined, whereas students' altruistic beliefs regarding physicians' responsibility toward society improved. For example, 33/113 (29.2%), 426/1,120 (38.0%), and 718/1,391 (51.6%) of students with languishing, moderate, and flourishing mental health endorsed all five altruistic professional beliefs (P < .0001). The relationship between professional beliefs and mental health persisted among students with burnout, whereas fewer relationships were found among students without burnout.
Conclusions: Findings suggest that positive mental health attenuates some adverse consequences of burnout. Medical student wellness programs should aspire to prevent burnout and promote mental health.
Professional burnout and other forms of psychological distress are common among physicians and medical students.1–4 This distress has serious personal consequences and may compromise patient care,4–7 the size of the physician workforce,8,9 competency,10 and professionalism.11 Despite these adverse consequences, whether or not a state of positive mental health enhances professionalism is unknown. Insight in this area may be helpful to wellness programs for physicians and medical students in helping such programs decide whether their primary aim should be to eliminate burnout, to pursue the more elusive goal of promoting positive mental health, or to do both.
The World Health Organization suggests that "health is a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."12 Similarly, the 1999 report of the surgeon general on mental health considered mental health (1) distinct from the absence of mental illness, (2) indispensable to personal well-being, relationships, and contributions to society, and (3) in need of immediate attention.13 Although what it means to be mentally healthy varies between cultures and is influenced by personal values,13 it is commonly viewed as having positive feelings (e.g., happiness, positive feelings toward one's life) and positive functioning in life (e.g., sense of purpose, fulfilling relationships, sense of belonging, contributing to society) rather than simply the absence of negative feelings, symptoms, or impairment (e.g., the absence of professional burnout does not mean that a person is mentally healthy or thriving).12–15 Conceptually, framing positive mental health around the combination of feelings and function is similar to (but in the opposite direction as) the definitions of mental illness used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders16 (e.g., a diagnosis of depression requires both feelings of depressed mood/anhedonia as well as malfunctioning). Common to both positive and negative mental health conditions is a reliance on the individuals' perceptions and self-assessment.
Despite calls for research on the promotion of positive mental health since the 1950s,13,17 there remains a paucity of research in this area, and the beneficial effects of achieving high mental health remain poorly understood.18 We performed a multicenter study of medical students to explore the relationship between positive mental health and burnout with professionalism and personal experience.
We have described the methods of data collection for this large, multisite study in detail elsewhere.11 Briefly, all 4,400 medical students from seven U.S. medical schools (chosen because of their diverse student population, variation in size, geographic location, public/private status, and the presence of a local investigator willing to complete the site-specific tasks necessary for student participation) were eligible to participate after the institutional review board at each school approved the study. In 2009, the survey research center at Mayo Clinic invited these students to participate in the study. Participation was elective, and responses were anonymous.
For a summary of the various study measures discussed below, see Appendix 1.
Mental health. The survey included the Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF) to measure mental health.19 The MHC-SF is a 14-item instrument assessing emotional (three items), psychological (one from each of the six dimensions of Ryff's construct of psychological well-being),20 and social well-being (one from each of the five dimensions of Keyes'21 model of social well-being).
The MHC-SF items measure the frequency with which responders have experienced symptoms of positive mental health during the past month (never, once or twice, about once a week, two or three times a week, almost every day, every day). Responders receive an overall summary score as well as subscores within each domain (emotional, psychological, and social well-being). The average MHC-SF score for the general U.S. population is 47.68 (SD 12.28).22 On the basis of established MHC-SF criteria,19 respondents are considered to have flourishing mental health if they have experienced ≥1 of the 3 symptoms of emotional well-being (i.e., they were happy, interested in life, satisfied) and ≥6 of the 11 symptoms of either positive social functioning (e.g., they felt they had something important to contribute to society, that they belonged to a community) or of positive psychological functioning (e.g., they felt confident to express their own opinions, that life has meaning to it, were positive about themselves) either daily or almost every day during the past month. Respondents who indicate a low frequency (i.e., "never" or "once or twice" during the past month) on ≥1 emotional well-being items and a low frequency on ≥6 signs of positive functioning have languishing mental health. Respondents who are neither flourishing nor languishing are considered to have moderate mental health. Previous population-based studies have borne out that flourishing mental health is better than moderate mental health and that moderate mental health is better than languishing mental health, as evidenced by work effort, conduct, absenteeism, and health care utilization.15,23,24
Burnout. The survey included the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)25 to measure burnout. The MBI, widely considered the criterion standard,3 measures three domains of burnout: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), and low sense of personal accomplishment (PA). The three-factor structure of the MBI has been confirmed in medical students.26 The reliability of the MBI in medical students is supported by Cronbach coefficient alphas for the EE, DP, and PA domains of 0.89, 0.78, and 0.81, respectively, which are nearly identical to the respective performances of the MBI in these domains in large population samples.18 Predictive validity evidence is supported by studies showing relationships between burnout, as measured by the MBI, and suicidal ideation,27 serious thoughts of dropping out,9 and low empathy28 among medical students. According to commonly accepted convention, we used EE, DP, and PA scores both as continuous variables and also as high scores using established cutoffs.25 Because high scores on either the EE (≥27) or DP (≥10) scales can distinguish clinically burned-out individuals from non-burned-out ones,29 burnout (as a dichotomous variable) was defined as having high EE and/or high DP.30,31
Personal experiences. To build on earlier work showing relationships between burnout and both suicidal ideation and serious thoughts of dropping out of medical school,9,27 the survey also included items about suicidal ideation and serious thoughts of dropping out of medical school within the previous 12 months.
Professional behaviors and beliefs. Previously published questionnaire items were used to assess professional behaviors and beliefs.11 Items regarding professional conduct explored cheating and dishonest professional behaviors that had been reported in previous studies of medical students.32–35 Altruistic professional beliefs were assessed by asking students to rate their levels of agreement with statements regarding physicians' responsibility to society derived from the Medical Students' Attitudes toward Providing Care for the Underserved (MSATU) instrument.34,35 Consistent with previous reports,11 responses to these items were dichotomized to "agree" (responses of "strongly agree" or "agree") or "neutral/disagree" (responses of "neutral," "disagree," or "strongly disagree") for analysis. Last, students were asked if they had provided care to the medically underserved in a community setting that was not related to a clerkship or required activity, to explore whether they had pursued such activities of their own initiative.
Standard descriptive summary statistics were used to characterize the sample. Differences in a dependent outcome variable by independent variables were evaluated using the Kruskal–Wallis test (continuous variables) or chi-square test (categorical variables), as appropriate. All tests were two-sided with type I error rates of 0.05. Participants were excluded from individual analyses if their data involved in the comparison were missing. The large sample size provided high precision. With 2,682 observations, percentages are accurate to within 2 percentage points with 95% confidence. Mean values are accurate to within 4% of the SD of the variable involved, a very small effect size. All analyses were conducted using Linux SAS 9.2 (Cary, North Carolina).
Of 4,400 medical students surveyed, 2,682 students returned surveys (response rate of 61%). Compared with the overall sample, responders were slightly more likely to be female (48.6% versus 45.1%), younger than 25 (32.6% versus 25.9%), and white (78.4% versus 68.4%). (We previously reported the demographic characteristics and MBI scores of the same group of medical students.)11 Collectively, 42.1% (1,079/2,562) had high EE, 35.8% (860/2,404) had high DP, and 52.5% (1,398/2,661) had positive depression screens. In addition, 17.4% (465/2,670) of respondents reported suicidal ideation, and 11.3% (297/2,627) reported serious thoughts of dropping out of medical school in the previous 12 months.
Our data confirmed the three-factor structure of the MHC-SF. Cronbach alpha was 0.921 for the entire MCH-SF and 0.899, 0.802, and 0.875 for the three domains of emotional, psychological, and social well-being, respectively, which is similar to the performance of the MCH-SF in other samples.36,37
Students' mean MHC-SF score was 47.0 (SD 12.67). Of the 2,682 students who returned surveys, all but 31 could be assigned a category of mental health (i.e., languishing, moderate, or flourishing) based on responses to the MHC-SF. Overall, 1,409 (53.1%) students were flourishing, 1,128 (42.5%) were moderately mentally healthy, and 114 (4.3%) were languishing. The prevalence of students with flourishing, moderate, and languishing mental health by demographic characteristics is shown in Table 1. Relationship status, parental status, year in medical school, and race were significantly associated with student's degree of mental health; however, no associations were observed based on sex, age, debt, or ethnicity.
Flourishing students had a lower prevalence of suicidal ideation within the last 12 months (127/1,406 [9.0%]) than did those who were moderately mentally healthy (281/1,119 [25.1%]) or languishing (55/114 [48.2%]; overall P < .0001). Similarly, flourishing students were less likely to report serious thoughts of dropping out of medical school (14/1409 [1.0%]) than were those who were moderately mentally healthy (30/1,128 [2.7%]) or languishing (15/114 [13.2%]; overall P < .0001).
On the basis of previous work showing a strong association between professional burnout and recent suicidal ideation27 and serious thoughts of dropping out of medical school,9 we repeated the analysis by burnout status. As shown in Figure 1, positive mental health stratified students' risk of suicidal ideation and serious thoughts of dropping out even after students with burnout were excluded (both P < .0001).
Students who were languishing were more likely to have engaged in unprofessional behaviors (i.e., cheating and dishonest behaviors). The mean numbers of unprofessional behaviors were 0.4 (SD, 0.62), 0.4 (SD, 0.71), and 0.5 (SD, 0.85) for flourishing, moderate, and languishing mental health, respectively; overall P = .01. When each professional conduct item was evaluated separately, the prevalence of six out of seven cheating and dishonest behaviors decreased as students' mental health improved (see Table 2).
Given the previously reported relationship between burnout and professional conduct,11 we repeated the just-described analysis by burnout status. There was no difference in the mean number of unprofessional behaviors among those with languishing, moderate, or flourishing mental health after burnout status was taken into account. With respect to individual behaviors, among students with burnout, mental health status did not relate to professional conduct except for one of the seven behaviors (i.e., signed an attendance sheet for a friend who was not present: 50/482 [10.4%], 95/706 [13.5%], and 18/90 [20.0%] for flourishing, moderate, and languishing mental health, respectively, overall P = .03). Similarly, in students without burnout, mental health status did not relate to professional conduct except for one other behavior (i.e., taking credit for another person's work: 1/850 [0.1%], 1/328 [0.3%], and 1/13 [7.7%] for flourishing, moderate, and languishing mental health, respectively, overall P < .0001).
In aggregate, students who were flourishing endorsed a larger number of the five altruistic professional beliefs regarding physicians' responsibility to society (3.3 [SD 1.57], 3.7 [SD 1.40], and 4.0 [SD 1.32] for languishing, moderate, and flourishing mental health; overall P < .0001). The prevalence of each professional belief also increased as students' mental health improved (see Figure 2). For example, students with flourishing mental health had twofold-higher odds of endorsing the belief that they could personally make an impact on the problem of the medically underserved than did students with moderate mental health (OR 2.113; 95% CI 1.424, 3.136). In turn, students who were moderately mentally healthy had 80% higher odds of having such a belief than did students who were languishing (OR 1.811; 95% CI 1.553, 2.139). Overall, 33/107 (30.8%), 426/1,077 (39.6), and 718/1,359 (52.8%) of students with languishing, moderate, and flourishing mental health endorsed all five altruistic professional beliefs (P < .0001). Student mental health also correlated with whether or not students had actually provided care to the medically underserved outside of a clerkship or required activity (53/113 [46.9%], 615/1,113 [55.3%], and 802/1,378 [58.2%] for languishing, moderate, and flourishing mental health, overall P = .04).
Given the previously reported relationship between burnout and students' altruistic professional beliefs about physicians' responsibility to society,14 we repeated this analysis by burnout status (see Figure 3). The relationship between professional beliefs and mental health persisted among students with professional burnout in that the mean number of favorable beliefs toward serving the underserved was lowest for those who were languishing (3.2, SD 1.52), higher for those who were moderately mentally healthy (3.6, SD 1.42), and highest for those who were flourishing (4.0, SD 1.36, overall P < .0001). For students with professional burnout, a statistically significant association with mental health was observed for three of the five items regarding physicians' responsibility to society (see Figure 3, top panel). Similarly, students with burnout who were flourishing* were more likely to:
* endorse a desire to provide care for the medically underserved (61/92 [66.3%], 569/739 [77.0%], and 426/501 [85.0%] for languishing, moderate, and flourishing mental health, respectively, overall P < .0001);
* feel they could make an impact on meeting the needs of the medically underserved (32/92 [34.8%], 402/740 [54.3%], and 353/500 [70.6%] for languishing, moderate, and flourishing mental health, respectively, overall P < .0001); and
* believe that medical students should be concerned about meeting the problems facing the underserved (73/92 [79.3%], 644/738 [87.3%], and 454/499 [91.0%] for languishing, moderate, and flourishing mental health, respectively, overall P = .004).
These findings suggest that, among those with burnout, positive mental health may reduce some negative consequences of burnout, especially with regard to certain aspects of professionalism.
Although there was a relationship between altruistic professional beliefs and mental health among students with professional burnout, the difference in the mean number of altruistic professional beliefs endorsed by students without burnout who were languishing, moderately mentally healthy, or flourishing was not statistically significant. As shown in Figure 3, bottom panel, when analyzing the individual altruistic professional beliefs among students free of burnout, the relationship with mental health was statistically significant for only one of five items (i.e., everyone is entitled to receive adequate medical care regardless of ability to pay: 10/14 [71.4%], 268/327 [82.0%], and 741/852 [87.0%] for languishing, moderate, and flourishing mental health, respectively, overall P = .03).
Data from this large, multi-institutional study suggest that higher mental health correlates with medical student professionalism and a better personal experience. Students' mental health stratified the likelihood that students reported engaging in cheating/dishonest clinical behaviors as well as their altruistic views regarding physicians' responsibility to society. Students' degree of mental health also stratified whether students had experienced recent suicidal ideation or considered dropping out of medical school.
Although the association between suicidal ideation and serious thoughts of dropping out with positive mental health persisted independent of burnout, a more complex relationship seems to exist between positive mental health and professional behaviors and students' altruistic views regarding physicians' responsibility to society. Although positive mental health had a more limited relationship to professional behaviors and altruistic views about physicians' responsibility to society among students without professional burnout, for students with burnout, positive mental health seemed to have a substantial effect on whether they maintained altruistic professional values. This study builds on a previous analysis showing a relationship between burnout and altruistic professional beliefs11 by documenting an incremental preservation of altruistic views about physicians' responsibility to society as positive mental health improves. In sum, these findings suggest that efforts to eliminate suicide attempts and attrition among medical students and to foster altruistic professional values should focus not only on preventing burnout but also on optimizing personal mental heath.
Although limited existing data suggested that lower stress and fatigue36 and mindfulness37 may reduce the risk of burnout, little is known about approaches to promote positive mental health that could be incorporated into medical student wellness programs required by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.38 Further study is warranted on the usefulness of strategies with the potential to bolster positive mental health, such as structured opportunities for students to contribute to a community, build meaningful relationships, and reflect on their well-being, autonomy, personal growth, personal value, and self-acceptance.19,20 Conceptually common to initiatives intended to prevent burnout and promote positive mental health is the recognition of self-care as a core competency for physicians, as also advocated by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (in CanMEDS 2005)39 and the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom (in The New Doctor 2009).40 Formalization of self-care as a core competency within the United States (e.g., by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Physician Charter) could further stimulate curricula innovation and evaluation to advance evidence-based approaches to equip trainees and physicians with skills that promote mental health and resilience. Meanwhile, given the high prevalence of students' distress, schools should take steps to measure their students' mental health while they develop methods to help improve it.
This study is limited by several factors. First, we relied on self-reported mental health status that was not corroborated by formal clinical assessment. Second, positive mental health is a multifaceted and evolving construct, and it is unlikely that the MHC-SF measures all the components that contribute to mental health. Third, because this study was cross-sectional, the causality and the direction of the relationships cannot be determined. Fourth, although our sample size was large and our response rate of 61% is robust for multi-institution physician41 and medical student surveys,1 our findings may be vulnerable to response bias. Our sample size, however, provides estimates of the mental health continuum diagnosis within 1.9% of the actual population value with 95% confidence. Fifth, the items regarding physicians' responsibility toward society are vulnerable to social desirability bias. However, given the Web-based, anonymous nature of this study, such bias is unlikely to have been substantial. Last, we recognize that other factors, such as personal experiences, family income, and political viewpoints, not explored in this study, may also influence students' attitudes toward the underserved.
The study has several important strengths. First, it is a large, multi-institutional study of students attending diverse public and private medical schools. Second, responders were representative of U.S. medical students with respect to sex, relationship status, and parental status. Third, we used established instruments to measure burnout and mental health. Fourth, items assessing professional behaviors and beliefs were derived from the literature32–35 and the MSATU.42,43
Our data show that positive mental health seems to be associated with enhanced professional behaviors and beliefs among U.S. medical students. For the good of both society and individual students, medical schools should help students not only avoid professional burnout but also learn strategies that promote positive personal mental health. Future studies are needed to evaluate the impact of positive mental health on professional development and evaluate the efficacy of interventions designed to promote positive mental health.
Funding/Support: This work was supported by a Professionalism Award from the Mayo Clinic, from the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care intramural funds, and from the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Program on Physician Well-being and the Mayo Medical School Office of Educational Research.
Other disclosures: The sponsor had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
Ethical approval: Institutional review board approval was obtained from each institution before inviting the medical students to participate.
* We speculate that students who are flourishing yet burned out may feel that their medical training is of great purpose and that they have a sense they are contributing to society in a meaningful way but are simultaneously exhausted and desensitized. Thus they believe in their work, are committed to it, but have lost some of their ability to engage in it because of personal depletion. Nonetheless, we believe that only an identified survey with qualitative data can define the profile of such a student. Cited Here...
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