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A Treatment-Oriented Research Project of NCL Disorders as a Major Cause of Dementia in Childhood
Coordinator: Angela SCHULTZ
Project Number: 281234
EC contribution: 2,998,795.00
Project website: http://www.dem-child.eu/
The DEM-CHILD project focusses on the main cause for childhood dementia in Europe, the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs). The NCLs are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by dementia, blindness, epilepsy and physical decline leading to an early death of the patients. Since no cure is currently available, these disorders represent a serious social, medical, and economic challenge.
To date, eight NCL genes have been characterised. There is evidence suggesting that further gene loci remain to be identified. NCLs are under-diagnosed in many countries around the world as there is an overall lack of research, early diagnosis, treatment and expert availability. Furthermore, due to their broad genetic heterogeneity it is difficult to collect large numbers of genetically similar patients. As such, large therapeutic studies required for advances in treatment are difficult to initiate.
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- high-technology SMEs, and will
- collaborate with Indian experts on the following objectives:
- High-technology SMEs will develop innovative cost- and time-effective testing and screening methods for all NCLs in order to ensure early diagnosis and thereby prevention.
- DEM-CHILD will collect the worlds largest, clinically and genetically best characterised set of NCL patients in order to study disease prevalence and precisely describe the natural history of the NCLs leading to the development of an evaluation tool for experimental therapy studies.
- Novel biomarkers and modifiers of NCL will be identified to support the development of innovative therapies.
- Focussing on the development of therapies for NCLs caused by mutations in intracellular transmembrane proteins, two complementary therapeutic strategies will be used and compared in eye and brain of mouse models: a) viral-mediated gene transfer and b) neural stem cell-mediated delivery of neuroprotective factors.


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Brief Summary
The Rat Tapeworm (Hymenolepis diminuta) is infrequently seen in humans, but frequently in rodents. It is one of two tapeworm species that cause hymenolepiasis in humans (the other being the Dwarf Tapeworm, H. nana). Adult H. diminuta measure 20 to 60 cm in length.
Eggs of Hymenolepis diminuta are passed out in the feces of the infected definitive host (rodents, humans). The mature eggs are ingested by an intermediate host (various arthropod adults or larvae) and oncospheres are released from the eggs; these penetrate the intestinal wall of the host and develop into cysticercoid larvae. Tribolium beetles are common intermediate hosts for H. diminuta. The cysticercoid larvae persist through the arthropod's morphogenesis to adulthood. Hymenolepis diminuta infection is acquired by the mammalian host after ingestion of an intermediate host carrying the cysticercoid larvae. Humans can be accidentally infected through the ingestion of insects in pre-cooked cereals or other food items, as well as directly from the environment (e.g., via oral exploration of the environment by children). After ingestion, the tissue of the infected arthropod is digested, releasing the cysticercoid larvae in the stomach and small intestine. Eversion of the scoleces occurs shortly after the cysticercoid larvae are released. Using the four suckers on the scolex (the anterior part of the warm specialized for attachment to the gut wall of the host), the parasite attaches to the small intestine wall. Maturation of the parasites occurs within 20 days and the adult worms reach an average of around 30 cm in length. Eggs are released in the small intestine from gravid proglottids (serially repeated bisexual reproductive segments) that disintegrate after breaking off from the adult worms. The eggs are expelled to the environment in the mammalian host's feces, beginning the cycle again.
From Centers for Disease Control Parasites and Health website
Hymenolepis diminuta lives in all temperate zones throughout the world.
Biogeographic Regions: nearctic ; palearctic ; oriental ; ethiopian ; neotropical ; australian
Other Geographic Terms: cosmopolitan
- Andreassen, J., E. Bennet-Jenkins, C. Bryant. 1999. Immunology and biochemistry of Hymenolepis diminuta. ADV PARASIT, 42: 223-275.
- Arai, H. 1980. Biology of the Tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta. New York: New York Academic Press.
Physical Description
Adult Hymenolepis diminuta reach 20 to 60 cm, and up to 90 cm . The cestode has a long cylindrical body with 4 suckers and an apical organ at its scolex with no rostellar hooks. Hymenolepis diminuta, along with all cestodes, lacks any trace of a digestive tract, and it absorbs all required substances through its external covering. Posteriorly directed microtriches cover the cestode's tegument, which add to the surface area of the animal and thus to the amount of nutrients it can absorb.
Hymenolepis diminuta, like all other cestodes, has three body sections, a scolex (head), neck, and a strobilus, which is the rest of the cestodes body. The strobilus is divided into many sections called proglottids, each with male and female sexual organs. These are the defining characteristics of cestodes.
Range length: 20 to 60 cm.
Other Physical Features: ectothermic ; heterothermic ; bilateral symmetry
- Deines, K., . Richardson, G. Conlogue. JUL 1999. Radiographic imaging of the rat tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta. JOURNAL OF HELMINTHOL SOC W, 66 (2): 202-205.
- Roberts, , Janovy. 2000. Foundations of Parasitology 6th ed.. McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
The adult worm lives in the intestine of its host, normally rats but also sometimes dogs and humans. Hymenolepis diminuta passes through the required intermediate arthropod host as a juvenile. Only when the intermediate host is injested by the definitive host will H. diminuta mature. The intermediate arthropod host is normally a grain beetle, and injestion of the intermediate host into the definative host normally occurs in piles of grain, where both rats and beetles live.
Habitat Regions: temperate ; tropical
Terrestrial Biomes: desert or dune ; savanna or grassland ; chaparral ; forest ; rainforest ; scrub forest ; mountains
Other Habitat Features: urban ; suburban ; agricultural
- Pappas, P. SEP 2000. Allometric growth of the proglottids and strobila of the tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta. J HELMINTHOL, 74 (3): 259-265.
- Shostak, A., K. Smyth. AUG 1998. Activity of flour beetles (Tribolium confusam) in the presence of feces from rats infected with rat tapeworm (Hymenolepis diminuta). CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 76 (8): 1472-1479.
- Sturdevant, L. 1907. Some Variations in Hymenolepis diminuta.
- Willis, C., R. Poulin. 1999. Effects of the tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta on maternal investment in rats. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 77 (6): 1001-1005.
Trophic Strategy
Hymenolepis diminuta has no digestive tract, all nutrients needed must be absorbed by the tegument, which is the external covering of the cestode. The cestode is covered in tiny posteriorly directed microtriches which increase the absorbtive area of the tegument. The glycocalyx found on the surface membrane of the microtiches is a layer of carbohydrate-containing macromolecules. Interaction between the glycocalyx and certain molecules has been reported to enhance amylase activity in H. diminuta, inhibit the host trypsin, chymotrypsin, and pancreatic lipase and increase the absorption of cations and adsorbtion of bile salts.
Animal Foods: body fluids
Primary Diet: carnivore (Eats body fluids)
The adult worm lives in the intestine of its host, normally rats but also sometimes dogs and humans. Hymenolepis diminuta passes through the required intermediate arthropod host as a juvenile. Only when the intermediate host is injested by the definitive host will H. diminuta mature. The intermediate arthropod host is normally a grain beetle, and injestion of the intermediate host into the definative host normally occurs in piles of grain, where both rats and beetles live.
Ecosystem Impact: parasite
Species Used as Host:
- rats, Rattus
- dogs, Canis
- arthrogpods, Arthropoda
- grain beetles, Cucujidae
- Stored grain-beetles, Tribolium
- mealworm beetles, Tenebrio
- humans, Homo sapiens
There is an extremely low chance for each egg to reach reproductive maturity and that is why H. diminuta lays so many eggs.
tapeworm of Hymenolepis diminuta endoparasitises small intestine of Rattus
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larva of Hymenolepis diminuta endoparasitises adult of Insecta
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larva of Hymenolepis diminuta endoparasitises larva of Tenebrio
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larva of Hymenolepis diminuta endoparasitises adult of Tribolium confusum
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larva of Hymenolepis diminuta endoparasitises larva of Pyralis farinalis
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larva of Hymenolepis diminuta endoparasitises larva of Nosopsyllus fasciatus
Life History and Behavior
Cestodes in general have sensory organs in the scolex, which are attached to longitudinal nerves extending down the body. The nerves are attached to organs and the cestodes can detect tactile stimulation.
Communication Channels: tactile
Perception Channels: tactile
- Brusca, R., G. Brusca. 2003. Invertebrates. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, Inc..
Life Cycle
The life cycle of H. diminuta involves rodents (rats primarily) as the definitive host and beetles (flour and grain beetles, Tribolium spp. and Tenebrio spp., respectively) as the intermediate host. The tapeworm's eggs are passed in the rat's feces, and beetles are infected when they eat the eggs; the metacestode stage in the beetle is called a cysticercoid. The rat is infected when it eats an infected beetle. Once the egg is digested by the intermediate host arthropod, the oncosphere, a fully developed larva contained in the egg, is released into the intermediate host. Its function is to migrate to the haemocoel (body cavity) of the insect where it will grow and differentiate into an encapsulated juvenile worm. This stage, the cysticercoid, is dormant and resides in the insect until both are eaten by a foraging rat. Within the definitive hosts' stomach and intestine, the larval worm responds to chemical signals and excysts. It then invades the intestinal lumen, evaginates its scolex, attaches to the intestinal mucosa and develops into an adult.
Once the adult H. diminuta is embedded in the host, it can produce over 250,000 eggs per day. Thus, over a period of slightly over a year, a single tapeworm could produce a hundred million eggs and if all these eggs reached maturity, it would be equal to 20 tons of tapeworm tissue. There is an extremely low chance for each egg to reach reproductive maturity and that is why H. diminuta lays so many eggs.
- Ohio State University, 2001. "Hymenolepis diminuta" (On-line). Parasites and Parasitological Resources. Accessed 10/14/04 at http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/hymenolepis_diminuta.html.
- Pappas, P., K. Ruthoford, A. Barley. 1999. Thermal tolerance of Hymenolepis diminuta eggs does not limit the parasite's distribution. Journal of Helminthology, 73 (1): 85-86.
- University of Aberdeen, 1997. "The life cycle, developmental sequence and crowding effect of the tapeworm *Hymenolepis diminuta*" (On-line). Biological and Soil Science. Accessed 10/14/04 at http://vcs.abdn.ac.uk/BIO_SOIL/parasite/contents.html.
Hymenolepis diminuta has both male and female reproductive organs in the same individual. Each segment has one complete set of male and female sex organs. As the segments move toward the posterior end of the strobilus, first the male organs mature, and produce sperm that are stored until the maturation of the ovary. Once the adult H. diminuta is embedded in the host, it can produce over 250,000 eggs per day. Thus, over a period of slightly over a year, a single tapeworm could produce a hundred million eggs and if all these eggs reached maturity, it would be equal to 20 tons of tapeworm tissue. There is an extremely low chance for each egg to reach reproductive maturity and that is why H. diminuta lays so many eggs.
Recent studies have been done on the temperature tolerance of Hymenolepis diminuta eggs. The tapeworm's eggs survived at higher and lower temperatures and for longer periods of time than did adult beetles, indicating that the thermal tolerance of the eggs does not limit the parasite's distribution.
Key Reproductive Features: simultaneous hermaphrodite; sexual
Parental Investment: no parental involvement
- Andreassen, J., E. Bennet-Jenkins, C. Bryant. 1999. Immunology and biochemistry of Hymenolepis diminuta. ADV PARASIT, 42: 223-275.
- Arai, H. 1980. Biology of the Tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta. New York: New York Academic Press.
- Ohio State University, 2001. "Hymenolepis diminuta" (On-line). Parasites and Parasitological Resources. Accessed 10/14/04 at http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/hymenolepis_diminuta.html.
- Pappas, P., . Barley. APR 1999. Beetle-to-beetle transmittion and dispersal of Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda) eggs via the feces of Tenebrio molitor. JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY, 85 (2): 384-385.
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Barcode data: Hymenolepis diminuta
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 2 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Hymenolepis diminuta
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
Relevance to Humans and Ecosystems
Hymenolepis diminuta is a cestode which sometimes causes infection in humans. Human infection results from eating such foods as dried fruits and precooked breakfast cereals in which the infected grain insects, themselves infected from eating rat or mouse droppings, are present. Some symptoms of infestation in humans include, enteritis, anorexia, headaches, anal pruritus, abdominal distress and small gut irritation. Hymenolepiasis is the term for a human to be infected with either H. diminuta or Hymenolepis nana, a dwarf sister species very closely related to H. diminuta.
Negative Impacts: injures humans (causes disease in humans ); causes or carries domestic animal disease
Hymenolepis diminuta
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Hymenolepis diminuta, also known as rat tapeworm, is a species of Hymenolepis tapeworm that causes hymenolepiasis. It has slightly bigger eggs and proglottids than H. nana and infects mammals using insects as intermediate hosts. The adult structure is 20 to 60 cm long and the mature proglottid is similar to that of H. nana, except it is larger.
H. diminuta is prevalent worldwide, but only a few hundred human cases have been reported.[1][2][3] Few cases have ever been reported in Australia, United States, Spain, and Italy. In countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Jamaica, Indonesia, the prevalence is higher.[4][5][6]
Life cycle[edit]
The cycle begins as arthropods ingest the eggs. Arthropods are then able to act as the intermediate host. When ingested, the eggs develop into cysticercoids. As shown in the CDC life cycle, oncospheres hatch and then penetrate the intestinal wall.[7] Rodents can become infected when they eat arthropods. Humans, especially children, can ingest the arthropods as well and therefore become infected via the same mechanism. Rodents, especially rats, are definitive hosts and natural reservoirs of H. diminuta. The intermediate hosts are the coprophilic arthropods (fleas, lepidoptera, and coleoptera). As the definitive host (rats) eats an infected arthropod, cysticercoids present in the body cavity transform into the adult worm. The resulting eggs are then passed through the stool. In recent findings, beetle-to-beetle transmission of H. diminuta can be seen via the feces. Additionally, more infections occur due to this mechanism of egg dispersal.[8]
H. diminuta infection in humans is rare, typically occurring in isolated cases. As such, several studies of H. diminuta exist as case reports describing a single affected individual.
In rural Devghar, India, a place heavily infested with rodents and cockroaches, H. diminuta eggs were found in a 12-year-old girl living in a small village.[9]
In an urban area of Rome, a 2-year-old boy was also infected by H. diminuta. However, in this instance, investigators found no evidence of rodent or other possible sources of infection in the places habitually occupied by the affected boy.[5]
In 1989, a child from St. James Parish, Jamaica was the subject of the first documented case of H. diminuta occurring in Jamaica, West Indies.[10]
Influence on host behavior[edit]
In a behavioral study of the beetle Tenebrio molitor with cysticercoids of the rat tapeworm H. diminuta, findings suggested that the parasite impairs a beetle's ability to conceal itself. The study followed a rat and a beetle infected with the parasite. Infected beetles were slower than the control group; however, they still maintained the same learning level. In the initial phase of infection, the beetle was in high stress. As time progressed, this did not worsen their ability to learn. Overall, the training experiment portrayed that infected beetles were unable to hide from the rat, illustrating the high impact the parasite had on its host, the beetle.[11]
Role in human diseases[edit]
H. diminuta is often asymptomatic. However, abdominal pain, irritability, itching, and eosinophilia are among the existing symptoms in a few of the reported cases.
H. diminuta has been cited as a possible candidate species for helminthic therapy, i.e. the controlled use of live organism parasites for the prevention and control of diseases of modern living. These diseases include allergies, asthma, autoimmune diseases and autism spectrum disorders. [12]
Since data regarding praziquantel treatment of H. diminuta is sparse, scientists have recommended that every case and treatment of H. diminuta be reported for development of protocols and parasitological purposes.[4]
A 2-year-old Italian boy affected by tuberous sclerosis was infected by H. diminuta. Due to concerns over his neurological condition, the boy was treated with niclosamide rather than praziquantel. In this case, niclosamide treatment proved to be successful.[5]
- ^ Lo CT, Ayele Y, Birrie H. Helminth and snail survey in Harerge region of Ethiopia with special reference to Schistosomiasis. Ethiop Med J 1989;27:73-83.
- ^ McMillan B, Kelly A, Walkar JC. Prevalence of Hymenolepis diminuta infection in man in the New Guinea Highlands. Trop Geogr Med 1971;23:390-2.
- ^ Mercado R, Arias B. Infections by Taenia sp and other intestinal cestodos in patients of consultorios hospitals and the public sector north of Santiago de Chile (1985–1995). Bol Chil Parasitol 1995:50:80-3.
- ^ a b Tena D, Pιrez Simón M, Gimeno C, Pιrez Pomata MT, Illescas S, Amondarain I, et al. Human infection with Hymenolepis diminuta : Case report from Spain. J Clin Microbiol 1998;36:2375-6.
- ^ a b c Marangi M, Zechini B, Fileti A, Quaranta G, Aceti A. Hymenolepis diminuta infection in a child living in the urban area of Rome, Italy. J Clin Microbiol 2003;41:3994-5.
- ^ Kan SK, Kok RT, Marto S, Thomas I , Teo WW. The first report in Hymenolepis diminuta infection in Sabah, Malaysia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1981;75:609.
- ^ CDC H. diminuta life cycle. Accessed online April 2009 at: http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx/HTML/ImageLibrary/G-L/Hymenolepiasis/body_Hymenolepiasis_il8.htm
- ^ Pappas, P. W., and A. J. Barley. 1999. Beetle-to-beetle transmission and dispersal of Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda) eggs via the feces of Tenebrio molitor. J. Parasitol. 85:384-385.
- ^ Watwe S, Dardi CK. Hymenolepis diminuta in a child from rural area. Indian Journal of Pathology & Microbiology 2008; 51(1): 149-150.
- ^ Cohen IP. A case report of Hymenolepis diminuta in a child in St James Parish, Jamaica. J La State Med Soc 1989;141: 23-4.
- ^ Sheiman IM, Shkutin MF, Terenina NB, Gustafsson MK. A behavioral study of the beetle Tenebrio molitor infected with cysticercoids of the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta. Naturwissenschaften. 2006 Jun;93(6):305-8. Epub 2006 Mar 23.
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Federal charges against Milwaukee detective Willie Huerta are dropped
The on-again, off-again federal criminal case against Milwaukee police detective Willie Huerta, who was accused of helping a drug dealer and lying to the FBI about it, is off again.
A federal judge on Thursday granted the prosecutor's motion to dismiss the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Erica O'Neil did not say why she was dismissing the case, according to court documents.
The dismissal came after Huerta's defense attorney disclosed in court documents that the FBI had failed to record the agents' three-hour interrogation of the police detective.
O'Neil, FBI spokesman Leonard Peace and Huerta's attorney, Michael Hart, did not immediately return calls and emails for comment Friday.
Huerta has applied for a duty disability retirement, citing stress from the federal investigation. That application is pending.
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Huerta, a longtime drug investigator, was first charged in federal court last May with obstruction of justice, on allegations of helping a suspected drug dealer, Julio Cruz, get out of a traffic stop.
That charge was dropped two weeks later without explanation by O'Neil.
In July, Huerta filed an application for duty disability, contending he is totally disabled because of psychological and physical injuries resulting from the investigation, according to his application filed with the Milwaukee Employees' Retirement System.
Huerta is one of at least five officers who have applied for or received duty disability during or after a disciplinary investigation since 2006, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation found.
His initial application was rejected by the retirement system.
Huerta hired an attorney and refiled it a couple of weeks ago, according to the retirement system. The claim is pending.
Huerta was again indicted in January, this time charged with lying to the FBI in 2013, during the investigation into whether Huerta was helping Cruz.
In the case charging him with lying, Huerta initially was going to be evaluated to determine if he was competent to stand trial. That was dropped when Hart conceded Huerta was competent.
Last month, Hart filed a motion seeking FBI Agent Matt Gibson's notes from the interrogation of Huerta in 2013.
According to Hart's motion, the FBI report indicates the interrogation was "not recorded for approximately the first three hours...due to a misunderstanding" — apparently that Gibson thought another agent was recording the interview.
Huerta's alleged false statements about whether Cruz was a paid informant in 2010 were made during those three hours.
Gibson wrote a report the next day, based on his notes, rather than the recording, Hart's motion said.
O'Neil responded to Hart's motion that the government would provide only the FBI report, not Gibson's notes, which she said were not a verbatim transcript of the interview.
Last week, O'Neil wrote to U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph that the case would be dismissed after the two sides "reached a resolution in this matter."
No other details were provided.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller ordered the case dismissed on Thursday.
He remains suspended
As of Friday, Huerta remained under full suspension, according to Milwaukee police spokesman Lt. Mark Stanmeyer. Huerta continues to be paid, per state law.
If Huerta's duty disability application is approved, Huerta could be paid by the city for the rest of his life. In most cases, duty disability provides such retirees with 75% of their salaries, tax-free.
Huerta's 2012 salary, including overtime, was more than $85,000.
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Detailed "how to's" of threat assessment-from the initial contact to the sharing of results! Risk management can be an organizational nightmare, but it is an essential part of your operations. Recent events have shown us that organizations need to know how to respond swiftly and effectively in emergencies and that companies need to protect their employees from
Detailed "how to's" of threat assessment-from the initial contact to the sharing of results! Risk management can be an organizational nightmare, but it is an essential part of your operations. Recent events have shown us that organizations need to know how to respond swiftly and effectively in emergencies and that companies need to protect their employees from internal and external threats. This book, which has been used as a training manual by the United States Secret Service, provides you with the tools you need to protect both your employees and yourself from a variety of threats. Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach examines the factors that human resource, security, legal, and behavioral professionals need to understand in work violence and threat situations that disrupt the working environment, revealing the best ways to reduce risk and manage emergencies. It includes case studies and hypothetical examples that show recommended practices in action and provides detailed interviewing methods that can increase the efficiency of current strategies. Helpful appendices provide sample forms for identification cards, stay-away letters, workplace behavior improvement plans for problem employees, questions for health care providers, and announcements for employees regarding security changes. An extensive bibliography points the way to other useful material on this subject. Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach explores: the role of the multidisciplinary threat management team corporate liaisons with law enforcement agencies cyberthreats and stalking insider threats category classification of offending behaviors Risk management is a constantly evolving field, and Threat Assessment provides you with access to the latest updates. Staying up-to-date on risk management innovations will help you increase corporate sensitivity to possible threats and provide the safest possible working environment to your employees. The au
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- A Threat Review Team
- Chapter 2. Work Place Violence: An Overview
- Defining Workplace Violence
- Recognizing the Types of Workplace Violence
- Statistics on Workplace Violence
- Myths Regarding Workplace Violence
- Conditions That May Lead to Workplace Violence
- Warning Signs
- Chapter 3. Organizational Response Options
- Threat Response Process
- Incident Response Checklist
- Chapter 4. Intake Process
- Initial Stage of Contact
- Second Stage of Contact
- Chapter 5. Category Classification
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- Category 4
- Category 5
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- Introduction
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- Chronological Documentation
- Establishing the Pattern
- Collateral Interviews
- Assessment of Case Material
- The Interview Environment
- Interview Phases
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- Communicated Threat Rating
- Case Example
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- Stalking As a Mental Disorder in the Workplace
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- The Development of a Problem
- Behavioral Indicators of Insider Risk
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- Appendix B: Stay Away Letter
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Anthony Hewer, Head of IT at Santia Consulting, explains, "Our ERP system had been heavily customised. Extracting and analysing key financial, HR and project management data from multiple systems and spreadsheets was slow and unreliable. The lack of integration with our internal business systems also impacted our ability to quickly schedule and align the skills of our employees to specific client projects and more closely monitor our costs."
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About Santia www.santia.co.uk
Santia is the UK's leading independent provider of health, safety and environmental risk management services and consultancy. Santia delivers bespoke solutions to businesses that help them to reduce risk, improve cost control and operational efficiency and enhance their business reputation.
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Santia offers a single reactive service as well as a complete and holistic package that saves clients time and money. This is all underpinned by the broad and in-depth experience of Santia's consultants and sector experts and proprietary management IT solution 'erisk', which is fully configurable to meet client requirements and enables the management of risk to be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days of the week.
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The city stands more than ready for the hordes of media they expect to swarm Dallas on "the 50th."
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This afternoon I attended a media event in the Old Red Courthouse Museum to announce plans for the 50th. Don't ask 50th what.
"The name is simply the 50th," Mayor Mike Rawlings said firmly at the beginning of the thing.
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So that would not be the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination in Dealey Plaza. Obviously, and I think this goes entirely without saying and I can't imagine anyone even suggesting it, it would not be the 50th anniversary of the day Kennedy got his brains blown out in Dallas.
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It's "The 50th." That's all we are to say. If we are to mention it at all to each other in the months between now and November 22, 2013, when it will take place, it would be merely to say something like, "Well, the 50th is coming up." "Yup. The 50th." And then we all sort of look at our shoes.
You know, they're almost starting to make me feel bad about this whole deal. Notice I said, "almost." I have written a lot here about the city's weird plans to shut down Dealey Plaza for a week. They expect hordes of international press here that day, and they want to make sure so no conspiracy theorists talk to the reporters and tell them there are suspicions about the Kennedy assassination.
Perhaps the most important omen auguring what will really happen was this event today, where a little tea party had been laid nicely in the hallway outside a room fitted out with 130 Ducky Bob folding chairs, of which maybe 30 wound up being occupied, at least half of those by city and museum staff.
They're all convinced -- and when I say "all," I mean the old guard -- that Dallas will be flooded with media teams next November. They're nervous. I think it will be like today. Way too many chairs and cookies.
I spoke briefly beforehand with Ruth Altshuler, chairperson of "The 50th," who is a philanthropic pillar of the city, always nice, always ready to gab about her days at Woodrow Wilson High School. I also traded a few words with former Mayor Ron Kirk, now a member of the Obama cabinet, who said some thoughtful things about how the assassination may have been good for Dallas because it forced some healthy introspection on a city that needed it.
I will have more details in a column next week. There's going to be a huge effort to control things with tickets and cops and all sorts of invitations to mayhem. If a media crowd does show up, it will be for that story more than the 50th itself.
The 50th. You know what I mean, right? OK, let's look at our shoes now.
I hope the Daily Show sends John Oliver, so he can go around sticking a giant microphone in people's faces and honking at them in that inimitable accent, "50th what? Hey, what's it the 50th of? What do you mean, 50th?"
I am picking up a note of sadness in all of this. I think I will put it down. Maybe what we need most is comic relief.
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The Minnesota Association for Pupil Transportation (MAPT) has launched a new website that offers an enhanced look and a variety of new features.
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Some of the new items on the site are a calendar with conferences and other events, an advertising area, and an e-commerce area (or "shopping cart") for registrations and purchases. MAPT's online store sells a school bus inspection training video and a school bus safety computer game for kids, among other resources.
The association also revamped its members-only area, bringing it up-to-date and making it more useful and easy to use.
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Wisconsin Senate President Mike Ellis (R-Neenah) has sent a letter to Time Warner Cable asking that it lower the bills of customers affected by the blackout of three stations in the retransmission dispute with Journal Broadcast Group.
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These are members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. The image is part of a Library of Congress online presentation titled "The American Colony in Jerusalem, 1870-2006." This presentation features selected documents from the American Colony in Jerusalem Collection. The full collection in […]
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The system, dubbed "Strong Number", has been developed under the aegis of the IDF Ground Forces Technology Division, and has been successfully tested by the IDF near the Gaza border over the last few months. The technology would allow Israel to counter the smuggling operations on the narrow strip of land situated along the border between Gaza Strip and Egypt. Dr. Aaron Lerner: "This means a dramatic shift in the equation."
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
Six women from Gaza appealed their case to the Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday to be allowed to pray at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, after their original petition was denied by the Beersheba District Court last year. The women claim discrimination based on their Muslim faith, as Christian women in Gaza are allowed to visit Israel's […]
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
Human rights group claims that Jordan is discriminating against 140,000 Syrian refugees by forcing the return of new arrivals and threatening others with deportation. The New York-based Human Rights Watch found that since April, Jordanian authorities have detained Palestinians for months with no possibility of release. Others said that they or relatives had been deported […]
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was featured in a video message Tuesday night at the Independence Day celebration at the U.S. Ambassador's home in Herzilya saying he "appreciate(s) deeply all that America has done for Israel." Netanyahu expressed hope at the power of freedom's ability to prevail, despite a skeptical society and difficulty at achieving […]
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
Two pilots, whose jet was shot down by Syria, have been found in the eastern Mediterranean sea bed. The plane was shot down on June 22, and the bodies were just found on Wednesday after a US deep-sea exploration. The F-4 jet was said to be shot down in international airspace, while Syria claims it […]
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
Yigal Amir will finish 17 years in solitary confinement after shooting Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to death in 1995. The assassin will join between one and three other inmates in a locked cell and be allowed time to walk in the prison yard for just two hours a day. Amir is serving a life sentence […]
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → Israel → The Knesset
A government coalition effort to craft a revised version of the Tal Law, whereby a sizeable number of draft eligible haredi yeshiva students would be forced to choose between joining the Israel Defense Forces or partake in Sherut Leumi (alternative national service), could become a political quagmire for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz is threatening to bolt the unity government over a lack of progress toward finding a solution.
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → Israel
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney's announced trip to Israel, at the height of his campaign to wrest the presidency from Barack Obama, could be a twofer, drawing closer two critical constituencies: evangelicals and foreign policy hawks.
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → Israel → IDF & Security
We expected to learn how to handle weapons and hone self-defense skills. I did not expect to have one of the most moving days of my life.
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → Global
WASHINGTON – When Yitzhak Shamir was Israel's prime minister, he liked to point American visitors to a gift he received upon his retirement after many years serving in the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service.
Posted on: July 4th, 2012News & Views → Israel → IDF & Security
A few hours after a report by MK Plesner's committee on "equal share in burden" was made public Wednesday morning, coalition partner Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz convened members of his faction to say that he expects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the committee's recommendations within a few days days. "The decision before us is a crucial decision for Israel," he stressed.
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"Texan by birth, Scot by ancestry." Early on in my quest to discover my Scottish heritage, and now in my dream to make Scotland my home, that phrase has become my mantra. It says very simply who I am. I've always been immensely proud of my Texas birthright and this week, (March 2-6) more than any other each year, always brings that pride home. Recent research however have served to further reinforce my growing pride in my Scot heritage, leaving me amazed yet again at how intertwined my birthright and ancestry are.
March 2nd is recognized as Texas Independence Day. On that day in 1836, 59 "Texians" as they styled themselves, gave birth to a dream. They declared Texas, then a province of Mexico, to be a sovereign nation – the Republic of Texas. They did so even as a battle was raging in San Antonio de Bexar at a mission called the Alamo. Four days later, on March 6, some 179 years ago today, the Alamo fell with the loss of the entire garrison, some 180-odd men. (The exact number of Alamo defenders has never been established). Four of those men were Scots.
As a child growing up in Texas you learn quickly of the legends of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Barrett Travis, but I'll wager few Texans know the names of the four Scots, Richard W. Ballantine, Isaac Robinson, David L. Wilson, and "Alamo John" McGregor who also died that day. Like so many of the Alamo's defenders, known and unknown, they are revered almost anonymously, their names having slipped slowly and surely into the mists of time.
Yet time has a way of changing history, or at least our perception and understanding of it. Still far from being a household name like Travis, Bowie, and Crockett, McGregor is becoming the best known of the Scots, as he was the "piper at the Alamo." He is said to have entertained the troops by engaging in musical duets/duels with Davy Crocket – he on the pipes and Crockett on the fiddle. Presumably McGregor won those melodic skirmishes by the very nature of the volume of the pipes.
It's been assumed that these musical interludes were meant to lift the spirits of the embattled garrison, and no doubt there is truth in that assumption. However, to position McGregor's piping in this context alone, as that of an early "morale officer", is believed by a growing number to disregard the more traditional role of the piper in battle.
Genealogy researcher Barbara Zoe Alexander best explains this in a 1992 paper she authored at the behest of the Clan Gregor Society in Scotland, wherein she writes:
A pity Texas' historians have never recognized the significance of McGregor's role on that day; that what appears to them as a quaint whimsy on his part, was really dead serious duty, and he saw that duty through – "to the deid." What a different story it would have made, if they had realized that the custom of playing the pipes in battle is forever meshed with Scottish tradition, for the piper was to Celtic warfare what the drummer and bugler were in later wars – and more. He was the heartbeat of the Clan, the keeper of their collective spirit, the recorder of their deeds, victories and tragedies. The tunes he played had special meaning to his people, and could rally men and stir their emotions like nothing else. Further, he went into battle expecting to die – and knowing his value to the battle tactics and spirits of his Clansmen, the enemy were generally eager to oblige. Even the soldiers of Mexico, who'd never heard the squall of the bagpipe, instinctively knew this man, McGregor, could not be allowed to live.
In that proud tradition of the Scottish pipers, John McGregor upheld the honor of his ancestors and on March 6, 1836, passed into the ranks of legend."
In 1992, Alexander and a small group of Texas MacGregors performed a small ceremony honoring their clansman at the Alamo, but still his story remained largely unknown. Having faded into history once, he would do so again…
It was not until over a decade later, in 2004, when the modern Alamo movie was released, that the public (including this Texan) first caught a fleeting glimpse of McGregor perched on the mission wall with his pipes. This was possibly the first public acknowledgement that music other than "El Deguello" may have sounded during the battle. (Even today historians disagree whether Santa Anna's band actually played "El Deguello" to signal that no quarter would be given.)
Then, visiting Texas in 2009, Scot journalist Kevin McKenna learned the story of McGregor and his fellow Scots. McKenna questioned why the Scots' contribution was ignored in a short film shown at the Texas shrine and then wrote an article about their role in the historic battle for "The Observer." This renewed public attention began a process that culminated a year later in a ceremony at the Alamo on April 8, 2010, to honor the memory and the contribution of McGregor and his fellow Scotsmen.
While the Saltire had long been displayed at the Alamo, as had the flags of all the nations represented by its defenders, never before had there been a memorial to the dead of a single nation. Scotland would be the first to be so honored.
Placed at the Alamo on that day was a plaque hewn out of Caithness stone. It reads, "From the people of Scotland in memory of the four native Scots and the many other defenders of Scots ancestry, who gave their lives at the Alamo on March 6, 1836."
I've written here before of the many similarities I find shared between Texas and Scotland. The two lands share a history of birth on the battlefield and from those battles emerged heroic characters whose names remain larger than life. John McGregor's name has not yet reached such lofty heights, but on this day, 6 March 2015, the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo 179 years ago, I will pause to remember John McGregor, Richard W. Ballantine, Isaac Robinson and David L. Wilson. In so doing I am reminded again of the pride I hold in my birthright and my ancestry, and that Texas is, again as Alexander wrote, "more Celtic than most ever knew."
While Texas' Independence was declared as the battle at the Alamo was raging (13 Days of Glory), independence was not won until more than a month later, when the Texian army defeated Santa Anna at a place near present day Houston, Texas, called San Jacinto. That battle lasted a mere 18 minutes."Remember the Alamo" was one of the battle cries of the day.
*You can read Alexander's entire paper on McGregor here, http://thepipesofwar.com/production-blog/?p=183