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Lack of Research Keeps End-of-Life Care in Status Quo
MU researcher finds only 10 clinical trials conducted in hospices since 1985, says more studies could improve patient care
Randomized controlled trials often are considered the gold standard of research studies that help guide the medical care of patients across the world. However, in hospices, randomized controlled trials are difficult to conduct because patients are so close to the end of their lives, causing a gap in research that could improve the quality of hospice care overall. Now, a University of Missouri School of Medicine researcher has found that only 10 randomized controlled trials have taken place in U.S. hospices since 1985. The researcher said more randomized trials by hospice researchers could lead to improved care for hospice patients.
"Improving care for hospice patients and their families depends, at least in part, on conducting high-quality research in hospice settings," said Robin Kruse, PhD, research professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the MU School of Medicine. "Research is how we make things better. Without research, we either maintain the status quo or implement programs that lack evidence."
Kruse and her colleagues analyzed all hospice research studies conducted between 1985 and 2015. They found only 10 hospice studies used randomized control trials, and none of the studies directly addressed managing pain, one of the most cited problems for hospice patients.
"Managing pain for hospice patients relies heavily on research conducted on other populations such as cancer patients, with the assumption that treatments and results will be the same," Kruse said. "It's a common assumption among researchers that results from other pain studies can be applied to hospice patients, but without targeted studies specifically in hospices, no one can know for sure if those are the best practices for that specific group."
Kruse said there are several strategies researchers can use to conduct more successful studies in hospices, including building strong relationships between hospices and the research team, using research staff members who are embedded in hospices and using electronic health records for patient data.
Overall, Kruse believes that if hospice researchers focused more on conducting randomized trials that do not place significant burdens on patients, families or hospice staff, it could lead to improved care for hospice patients. She encourages more researchers to address the gap of evidence-based results in hospice settings so these patients receive the best care possible in the last months or weeks of their lives.
Kruse's study, "Randomized Clinical Trials in U.S. Hospices: Challenges and the Current State of the Art," recently was published in Clinical Investigation, a journal focused on the progress and outcomes of clinical trials.
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Sherri Tippie leads a beaver-trapping mission (VIDEO)
This week's cover story, "Leave It to Beaver," explores the work of Sherri Tippie, who's spent more than 25 years rescuing beaver from trash-choked urban streams and drainage areas and relocating them to high-country habitat, or installing flow devices in dams so that beaver can thrive in the inner city. She's one of the best in the country at what she does -- and we have the video to show how she does it.
The clip below comes from a recent excursion by Tippie and Matthew Niffen, a volunteer with Tippie's Wildlife 2000 grassroots organization (find them on Facebook here), into the turbid waters of West Toll Gate Creek in Aurora. The mission: to trap and relocate a beaver colony. The traps shown here were left overnight; in the morning, they contained three beaver.
The rest of this particular family had already been caught by Tippie -- they make an appearance at the end of the video, when she returns home with some willow branches from the creekside to feed them. A few days later, the entire clan was on its way to a ranch southwest of Denver, in an area known (fittingly enough) as East Beaver Creek Valley.
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Title: | Sixtieth anniversary of the dedication of the Most Holy Name Church, Troy Hill: North Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1868-1928 |
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Sixtieth anniversary of the dedication of the Most Holy Name Church, Troy Hill North Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1868-1928 Fussenegger, Edwin P. Pittsburgh, Pa: Printing Dept., St. Joseph's Protectory, [1928] |
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The Status of State Student Assessment Programs in the United States. Annual Report.
Bond, Linda Ann; Roeber, Edward D.
In 1991 the collaborative efforts of the Council of Chief State School Officers and the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory resulted in the current form of the State Student Assessment Program (SSAP) database. This report marks the third year of that partnership, which builds on earlier data collection efforts to present information about large-scale assessment programs at the state level. The survey collects information annually to describe state programs in traditional testing and nontraditional assessment and the uses made of these assessments. Chapter 2 describes state assessment programs. Chapter 3 explores newer forms of assessment, and Chapter 4 reviews additional assessment issues. Chapter 5 considers the history and trends in statewide assessment. Appendixes present definitions of terms, a summary table of state assessment programs, and the order form for the products of the SSAP. (Contains 16 charts, 2 tables, and 2 figures.) (SLD)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cooperation, Databases, Educational Assessment, Educational History, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment, State Programs, Student Evaluation, Surveys, Test Use, Testing Programs, Trend Analysis
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What does a 709 Slim cost in your area?
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I paid $369 for my Stainless slide model in November of last year.
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$400 otd for a ss version here in Georgia. At least a few months ago.
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Just sold mine actually lol. Was just interested because there has been a good deal of talk that Taurus wasn't even going to come out with a 8 round mag. Even someone at Taurus said they didn't have plans to do it. I'll post over on taurusarmed that someone has actually laid eyes on it.
-It is a seriously scary thought that there are subsets of American society that think being intellectual is a BAD thing...
Can you post a pic of the extended mag? I'd be interested in purchasing an extended mag for mine.
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This is the best I can do tonight. It is the stock picture, not extended mag. I have not seen any 8+1 or 9+1 either but the spec. has changed. It did say 7+1.
These are from a new distributor. I have (31) 7+1 in stock. If I buy any of these, they are special order direct from the distributor. That is why my pricing seems out of whack.
I am showing plenty of 7+1 mags. in stock. You can't go by the pictures.
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Never tell Hollywood action heroes in their 50s and 60s, that they're a bit past it.
Otherwise, you'll end up with John Malkovich pulling a giant revolver on you, firing a bullet that stops an armour-piercing shell, and yelling, as he emerges from the ensuing flames: "Too old, my ass!" His old muckers, Willis, Freeman and Mirren are ex-CIA executives, specialising in "black ops," who aren't enjoying their new status as "Retired: Extremely Dangerous" (RED, geddit?) When Willis' home is shot up by an execution gang, he drags them all back into action, along with cute pensions-processor girlfriend, Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) as a goggle-eyed witness to their adventures. It's very old-fashioned spy nonsense (the jazz guitar soundtrack is 1960s The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) with walk-on parts for Ernest Borgnine, reprising his gleeful grin from The Wild Bunch, Brian Cox as a (snore) vodka-swilling Russian and Richard Dreyfuss as a smug villain. Fun, though, and memorable for Helen Mirren elegantly firing a belt-fed machine-gun in a long white ballgown.
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Two black steam cranes guarded the mouth of the Wandle, square and ugly, covered in sheets of flimsy metal, and they had iron wheels which ran on iron rails. These machines it was that loaded the barges with rubbish, scratching patiently every day into mountains of garbage that were always replenished, never diminishing. Scattered lorries waited to go scouring across Wandsworth in search of more waste; huge tipper trucks and skip-carriers stood idle between piles of discarded stoves and gutted refrigerators. Far off, between the Wandle and Wandsworth Bridge, was a mile of undulating mud-coloured barrenness, relieved only by the blobs of white which were seagulls, big as swans, tearing at offal with beaks like baling hooks.
Knocker shivered at the awesome beauty of it. 'Strike a light,' he said, 'what a place.'
The Borribles (1976), p. 100
Then the lid of the box opened completely and a thousand banknotes detonated into gaudy streamers and fastened themselves onto this great spinning wall of sewage that turned and turned and drew everything irresistibly towards it. And the paper money shone in all bright colours: green and orange, violet and yellow, amber and pale blue; and the whole whirlwind was festooned with it and so were the bodies of Flinthead and Spiff. It was beautiful.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Guest Blogger Frank Vandall: Justice Rewritten
I thought I would use my time as a guest blogger to discuss my forthcoming book "Justice Rewritten: An Historical, Political and Economic Analysis of Civil Justice." It will be published by Oxford University Press and is scheduled for late Fall, 2010. As you will see it touches on tobacco, guns, S.U.V.'s and the role of the American Law Institute, the Council for Tobacco Research and the American Association for Justice in the creation of law.
The theme of the book is to manifest the expansion of civil liability from 1466 to 1980, and the cessation of that growth in 1980 when corporations realized they could affect the content of the law. The book will evaluate the creation of tort causes of action during the period of 1400-1980. Reevaluation and limitation of those developments from 1980 to the present will be specifically considered. A keystone case is Mac Pherson v. Buick Motor Co. (1916) because it rejects the awkward and unmanageable legal frictions, and adopts negligence as a foundational cause of action. During the period from 1916 to 1944, the courts used numerous causes of action, such as express and implied warranty and fraud, as well as negligence, to accomplish justice and provide a means for injured consumers to recover.
. . . I believe the manufacturer's negligence should no longer be singled out as the basis for a plaintiff's right to recover in cases like the present one. In my opinion it should now be recognized that a manufacturer incurs an absolute liability when an article that he has placed on the market, knowing that it is to be used without inspection, proves to have a defect that causes injury to human beings . . . . Even if there is no negligence, however public policy demands that responsibility be fixed wherever it will most effectively reduce the hazards to life and health inherent in defective products that reach the market. It is evident that the manufacturer can anticipate some hazards and guard against the recurrence of others, as the public cannot. Those who suffer injury from defective products are unprepared to meet its consequences. The cost of an injury and the loss of time or health may be an overwhelming misfortune to the person injured, and a needless one for the risk of injury can be insured by the manufacturer and distributed among the public as a cost of doing business. It is to the public interest to discourage the marketing of products having defects that are a menace to the public. If such products nevertheless find their way into the market, it is to the public interest to place the responsibility for whatever injury they may cause upon the manufacturer, who, even if he is not negligent in the manufacture of the product, is responsible for its reaching the market . . . .
. . . It is needlessly circuitous to make negligence the basis of recovery and impose what is in reality liability without negligence. If public policy demands that a manufacturer of goods be responsible for their quality regardless of negligence there is no reason not to fix that responsibility openly. . . .
. . . As handicrafts have been replaced by mass production with its great markets and transportation facilities, the close relationship between the producer and consumer of a product has been altered. Manufacturing processes, frequently valuable secrets, are ordinarily either inaccessible to or beyond the ken of the general public. The consumer no longer has means or skill enough to investigate for himself the soundness of a product, even when it is not contained in a sealed package, and his erstwhile vigilance has been lulled by the steady efforts of manufacturers to build up confidence by advertising and marketing devices such as trade-marks . . . .
. . . Consumers no longer approach products warily but accept them on faith, relying on the reputation of the manufacturer or the trade mark . . . .
These policies can be summarized as a shift from a balanced playing field, negligence, to one that favored injured consumers. The strict liability foreshadowed by Traynor, was not adopted until 1962, when Traynor wrote the majority opinion in Greenman v. Yuba Power Products. For the doctrine, he relied on the policies earlier stated in Escola. The American Law Institute quickly followed Traynor's lead and adopted strict liability in Section 402A, the Restatement Second of Torts, in 1964. From 1964 to 1980 almost all states adopted the strict liability cause of action for defective products. This wave of adoption was the most rapid and dramatic expansion in consumer protection in over 500 years. Corporate
The wake-up call for product consumers was the adoption in 1980 and proliferation of the statute of repose. This was followed by numerous reforms in tort theory and civil procedure. These reforms had the effect of reducing the plaintiffs' chance to win and reducing the eventual size of the settlement or verdict.
The unique focus of the book will be, first, to argue that civil justice no longer rests on historic foundations, such as, fairness and impartiality, but has shifted to power and influence. Reform in the law, both legislative and judicial, is today driven by financial interests, not precedent and not a neutral desire for fairness or to "make it better." Second, the book will examine the role of persuasive agencies, such as the American Law Institute, in reforming and shaping civil justice. Never has it been less true that we live under the rule of law. Congress and the courts make the law, but they are driven by those who have a large financial stake in the game.
The medium for the story presented will be reality in-fact, not theory and not philosophy. Examples used to make points will be actual cases and enacted legislation. One conclusion will be that economics should be taught as a required law school course. Since law is driven by financial incentives, rather than precedent, it is appropriate to teach law and economics, more so than history and philosophy, which are vague and rarely on point.
Please let me have your comments.
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Oh my GOD. I wish I could get my cats to wear costumes. Unfortunately, they would claw my eyes out.
Oh my heart bursts! The puppy love! How sweet :)
Adorable! My little "ladybug" Morgan doesn't have a prayer of pulling off Angelic although she will try to convince you otherwise. Where did you find the Angel wings? I love those!
Ohimog this is exactly how I needed to start Monday. Thank you. And thanks to Stella and Wolfgang for being good sports.
I might have snorted while looking at these photos. Seriously adorable and hilarious and, well, I'm quite certain my dog is so glad we didn't do this to her.
So adorable! Stella is such a natural model.
they look SO CUTE. even i got costumes on my cats, they'd look so depressed and/or full of hate that it wouldn't be cute.
Oh, thank god I'm not the only person who does this shiz.
Oh the CUTENESS! I just died.
SO adorable!! Ours would have shredded those costumes in two seconds flat.
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AMAZING. Haha, I love how proud Stella looks in the last one.
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Not exactly. You can, however, split the keyboard into two smaller halves. To do so, place both thumbs together at the center of the keyboard and draw apart. The keyboard will split apart like this. To rejoin the two halves, place a finger on each half and draw them together. This re-connects the two halves.
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A comforting classic of roast chicken with fresh rosemary, thyme and lemon. Serve with Really Green Risotto as a delicious alternative to Sunday roast dinner.
Serves: 4
50g butter, softened
½ x 15g pack fresh rosemary, finely chopped
15g pack fresh thyme, leaves only
1 Waitrose Fresh British Free Range Chicken (about 2 kg)
1 lemon, cut in half
1 bulb garlic, cut in half
1 tbsp olive oil
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Mix the butter in a small bowl with the rosemary, half the thyme and seasoning.
2. Ease your hand under the skin of the chicken at the neck opening and smear the herb butter under the skin. Place the lemon and garlic in the chicken. Rub all over with the oil, season and place in a roasting tray.
3. Calculate the cooking time according to pack instructions and roast until the juices run clear and there is no pink meat. Remove from the oven, baste and scatter with the remaining thyme. Rest for 10 minutes before carving.
Typical values per serving:
Energy |
1673.6kJ 400kcals |
Fat | 25.1g |
Saturated Fat | 10.1g |
Carbohydrate | 1.9g |
Sugars | 0.6g |
Salt | 0.5g |
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BOY GENIUS AND BUSH'S BRAIN KARL ROVE seemed dumbstruck in late August and early September as political storms pounded the White House to rubbles of its former self pronounced glory. Did the wrap up of Patrick Fitzgerald's job on the Plame Out have Rove in full panic mode? [story]
Many lawyers in the case have been skeptical that Fitzgerald has the evidence to prove a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which is the complicated crime he first set out to investigate, and which requires showing that government officials knew an operative had covert status and intentionally leaked the operative's identity.
KING MAKER AND KING RAT Rove suspiciously was nowhere to be seen when the floods swamped the White House. Is it possible Fitzgerald will be serving up some Rove Rat Stew soon, a gumbo of White House goodfellas?But a new theory about Fitzgerald's aim has emerged in recent weeks from two lawyers who have had extensive conversations with the prosecutor while representing witnesses in the case. They surmise that Fitzgerald is considering whether he can bring charges of a criminal conspiracy perpetrated by a group of senior Bush administration officials. Under this legal tactic, Fitzgerald would attempt to establish that at least two or more officials agreed to take affirmative steps to discredit and retaliate against Wilson and leak sensitive government information about his wife. To prove a criminal conspiracy, the actions need not have been criminal, but conspirators must have had a criminal purpose.
AND THERE IS PLENTY OF EVIDENCE pointing to a Watergate style lying about the original offense, obstruction of justice conspiracy charge. Anybody who doesn't believe the once White House is worried about this should just review former White House Stenography Professor Scott McClellan's hilarious explanation of what could be talked about assertively at the start, but then was off limits because of an ongoing investigation. No comment. Move along. No story here.PREVIOUS RELATED HERETIK POSTS [SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES] [I KNOW WHY THE JAILED BIRD SINGS] [NON AWARD WINNING JOURNALISM BY JUDITH MILLER] [NOVAKS OUTS ANOTHER AGENT] [JUDY, JUDY, JUDY MILLER (AND MAYBE CONDI TOO)] [HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID] [KING RAT] [DO YOU FEEL LUCKY, PUNK?][TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE] [WHEN THE FAT MAN SINGS] [ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T] [CASABLANCA 2005][GEORGETOWN] [ACTUAL REPORTERS SIGHTED AT WHITE HOUSE] [ANIMAL WHITE HOUSE] [ANIMAL WHITE HOUSE TWO] [WHITE HOUSE CON]
[Firedog Lake] Odd paragraph in the NYT today that jumped out at me. Not quite sure how to read the tea leaves on this one:A lawyer who knows Mr. Libby's account said the administration efforts to limit the damage from Mr. Wilson's criticism extended as high as Mr. Cheney. This lawyer and others who spoke about the case asked that they not be identified because of grand jury secrecy rules.
Okay, "a lawyer who knows Mr. Libby's account" -- well, you mean Libby's lawyer, no? WTF is he doing implicating Cheney in all this on the front page of the New York Times?
THE HERETIK SUSPECTS some of the rats will be jumping ship early. If Cheney goes down, no doubt all the rats will drown. That would make for a very water diluted rat stew.
THE MILLER LIBBY CORRESPONDENCE [Just One Minute] The NY Times has posted the correspondence between Libby and Miller that eventually led to her jail break (via Glenn, we see that Powerline has found these letters as well).
We are most intrigued by this passage, in the letter from Libby to Miller, in which he proclaims that her testimony will aid his case:
As noted above, my lawyer confirmed my waiver to other reporters in just the way he did with your lawyer. Why? Because, as I am sure will not be news to you, the public report of every other reporter's testimony makes clear that they did not discuss Ms. Plame's name or identity with me, or knew about her before our call.
Since he is referring to their public statements, this is not really news - for example, Cooper told Libby about Plame on July 12 after he talked to Rove; with Kessler of the WaPo, Libby did not mention Ms. Plame (but did Kessler?); Tim Russert's evasion has been noted; and we are letting Walter Pincus slide for the moment.
THE HERETIK IS CERTAIN some of the rats in the press will be revealed as well. Many a mensch has done the minuet to dance away from getting tagged by Fitzgerald publicly, but when all the secret testimony is revealed and the prosecutions heat up, others besides the indicted still may get burned
OTHER PIECES IN THE PUZZLE [Anonymous Liberal] Finally, as others have noted, there is an important piece of the puzzle that is still missing. The Times has reported that Libby was not a source for Bob Novak, and we already know that Rove was only a confirming source for Novak. Therefore, there must be a third leaker. This mysterious administration official may well have been Walter Pincus' source as well. I think the most likely suspects are John Bolton's former chief of staff Fred Fleitz, former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin, and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. Any other suggestions?
THE HERETIK CAN ONLY SAY Ari, Ari, Ari. You should have listened to what you said so threateningly to everyone else so seeming long ago. Watch what you say, watch what you do. My money is on Fleischer.
[Talk Left] discusses the legalese in detail
THE SO WHAT QUESTION [Wizbang] The criminal conspiracy theory seems like a tough sell for any prosecutor. If there are any charges filled, one or more charges of obstruction of justice (or possibly perjury) would seem like the more likely outcome.
THE HERETIK AGREES and disagrees. Libby and Rove could get charged with perjury and obstruction. Obstruction would be the charge that a greater, broader conspiracy indictment would be based on. So perhaps the stewpot will be filled with more than few rats from bottom to top. And when you think of what's involved here--Niger yellowcake, the run up to the war, Judith Miller, all those visits by Libby and his dark master to the CIA at Langley--the biggest rat in the stew would be Cheney.
AND IN CASE YOU FORGOT [Liberal Oasis] But let us not forget, regardless of the criminal investigation, top White House officials who leaked Plame's identity -- be it proactively or by merely confirming what a reporter said to them -- have violated their SF-312 national security clearance agreements.
And Bush is required to investigate any such security breach and punish anyone involved.
It is indisputable that both Karl Rove and Scooter Libby have violated their national security clearance agreements. They have yet to be punished by their boss. [Via Maha]AND THE HERETIK NOTES George W. Bush has not been held accountable for holding his subordinates accountable. Perhaps Cheny ordered him not to.
AND IT JUST GETS BETTER (OR WORSE) [Joe Gandelman/The Moderate Voice] Think Progress has a tidbit that, if true, could completely change the dynamics of the last three years of President George Bush's term — and note that we said "if" true:
Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb:
Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you think it's a manageable one for the White House especially if we don't know whether Fitzgerald is going to write a report or have indictments but if he is able to show as a source close to this told me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions.
Of course, as we read this today on Oct. 2, 2005 with no indication that this is indeed a fact, you have to wonder "what source?" But it's also hard to believe Stephanopoulos would risk his credibility by just tossing something like this out there (or would he?).
THE HERETIK THINKS Stephanopoulos may have less credibility problems on this than Bush.
BOMBS AWAY [Steve Soto/The Left Coaster] . . . this would explain why Bush himself had some quality time with Fitzgerald, and totally debunk the spin that Bush was merely a bystander who wants to get to the bottom of this. It would also explain why the three judge panel, comprised of at least two judges normally solidly right wingers, would have been convinced by Fitzgerald that the gravity of what he was on to required the threat of jail time for reporters who withheld crucial evidence.
THE HERETIK REMEMBERS we forget much about Bush and this bit about Bush testifying qualifies. At least in this one, Bush didn't testify sitting on Cheney's lap.


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April, 2007, Vol. 07, Issue 04 Evolution of a Health Care OrganizationBy Kathryn Feather, Senior Associate Editor Created to bring massage therapists and other CAM providers together, the ACCAHC is stepping out on its own and separating from the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium. The Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC) has spread its wings, becoming an independent, dues-based nonprofit organization, rather than a branch of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC). "For the first time in history, organizations representing all of the leading complementary health care professions have chosen to pay dues to an organization which will allow us to collaborate with each other and with conventional educators in advancing our missions," said ACCAHC Chair Reed Phillips, DC, PhD. The ACCAHC was founded in March 2004 as an initiative of the IHPC and in the context of the National Education Dialogue to Advance Integrated Health Care: Creating Common Ground (NED). Funding to establish the ACCAHC came courtesy of a single donor, Lucy Gonda. Initially, core participation consisted of representation by councils of colleges and accrediting agencies of the five disciplines with federally-recognized accrediting agencies (massage therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture and Oriental medicine, naturopathic medicine, and direct-entry midwifery). The organization also has maintained a category of membership for "traditional world and emerging professions," such as yoga therapy and ayurvedic medicine.In July 2006, ACCAHC member entities decided to formally begin a transition out from the IHPC and become a self-sustaining, dues-based organization. A dues structure was established with a suggested level of $1,000-$5,000 per year, based on the size of a member organization. The ACCAHC also clarified additional membership features. Certifying agencies of recognized professions would be invited as core members; mechanisms were clarified through which traditional world and emerging professions would be represented; and a single college membership category was created. Membership solicitation began in 2006, with attention paid to the annual meeting dates and budget cycles of potential members. The following organizations have committed to becoming dues-paying members as of Jan. 1, 2007:
According to Dr. Phillips, the ACCAHC's move toward becoming an independent 501(c)3 charitable organization is based on a business model that is part dues-based and part grants-based. "We know that the robust agenda developed by our member educators cannot be managed based on dues payments. We will seek focused grants and the assistance of some visionary philanthropists who can see how collaboration between educators of these disciplines can advance health care." At the end of 2006, the group's founding donor, Gonda, donated $30,000 toward a grant to support the work of the ACCAHC, noting that her donation honors the decision by the ACCAHC organizations to begin paying membership dues, as well as the hard work of the ACCAHC executive team. Details have not been completely finalized, but the funds are expected to support four of the group's initiatives. The first initiative is a member retreat; the second is to help with the costs associated with the move to independence; the third is a booklet resource on each of the disciplines; and the fourth is a retreat in which a small, multidisciplinary group will begin, in an organized way, to explore new ways to approach some of the "hot spots" about which the ACCAHC member disciplines have sometimes been in conflict. The group also is looking to fill the role of its executive director, as current director Pamela Snider, ND, has stepped down after three years. Dr. Snider received much praise for her work, a point Dr. Phillips emphasizes: "Pamela built a multidisciplinary team and a safe, disciplined, respectful, and exciting context for us to collaborate. That Pamela has pulled this off says a lot about what she has accomplished." John Weeks, a close collaborator with Snider, along with being NED's founding director and the producer of the Integrator Blog News & Reports, succeeds her as interim director of the ACCAHC. "The whole ACCAHC group feels lucky to have John step in during this transition," said Dr. Phillips. Even though the ACCAHC has now become an independent organization, Dr. Phillips credits the IHPC with "laboring and giving birth to us." He also credits IHPC Executive Director Janet Kahn, PhD, and Board Chair Sheila Quinn, and anticipates continuing to work closely with the IHPC "to move policy changes that will create better health for the people we serve through advancing integrated health care." For additional information about either of these organizations, visit www.ihpc.info and click on the ACCAHC link. Join the conversation
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Thursday, December 16, 2004
Good new qualified immunity case
A while back, I wrote an article about qualified immunity in section 1983 cases, and the law continued on, and my few points of understanding about this area of the law continue have been sometimes reaffirmed in the case law in subsequent cases, including
Brosseau v. Haugen
, a per curiam opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court issued on December 13, an excessive force case in which the Court overturned the denial of qualified immunity by the Ninth Circuit.
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Roast Chicken With Moroccan Spice Rub
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 handful fresh cilantro sprigs
- 1 3 1/2- to 4-pound chicken, giblets removed
- Adjust oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 450° F. Place a rack in a large ovenproof skillet or small roasting pan. Pat the chicken dry and place it in the pan. Tuck the wings beneath the chicken, as if it were placing its arms behind its head.
- In a small bowl, combine the cumin, curry, ginger, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and cayenne in a small bowl. Add the oil and combine. Use your fingers to carefully loosen the skin from the breasts, thighs, and drumsticks. Spread the spice mixture evenly under the skin. Place the cilantro inside the cavity.
- Roast for 20 minutes. Add 1 cup water and roast until the chicken is cooked through and the thigh meat registers 165° F on a meat thermometer, about 40 minutes more.
- Use a spatula to loosen the chicken. With a wad of paper towels in each hand, transfer the bird to a cutting board. Let it rest for at least 15 minutes before carving. If making a pan sauce, reserve the drippings