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Dekut supports the development of the Észak-alföld region. The organisation participates in several projects that contribute to the realization of action plans and programs aimed at creating a more healthy society. Its main areas of expertise are quality of life, health economics and patient compliance. Dekut works in cooperation with several other organizations and knowledge centers as well as several dozen regional SMEs and large companies.
Apart from regional and national projects, Dekut also participates in EU funded projects. Currently Dekut is a partner in a project (acronym: VISIBLE) within the Leonardo Da Vinci (2007) programme and partner and WP leader in a project (acronym: AIR) within the Public Health 2008 programme.


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Will Scrum Be The Death of Product Management?
It's a great time for Agilists, especially those of the Scrum persuasion. The latest State of Scrum Report reports that half of all IT projects were Scrum-based in 2016, with 89% of the surveyed organizations applying Scrum to some extent. Adding to the good news, consulting firm KPMG reports that a solid majority of CIOs favor Agile methodologies to improve organizational responsiveness. Hooray! Scrum has turned the corner to mainstream acceptability!
However, not everyone is popping champagne corks. Even as Scrum adoption grows more widespread, there are rumblings of discontent. Large implementations are running into roadblocks, leading to a panoply of frameworks for scaling up Agile. State of Scrum respondents identified "alignment with other projects in the portfolio" as one of the top three challenges they face. Boston Consulting Group even argues that Scrum's Product Owner role is "Agile Development's Biggest Failure Point."
What accounts for these contrasting views? I believe a significant contributor is an "anti-pattern" we see too frequently: organizations moving to Scrum inadvertently abandon product management in the process.
"Wait," you counter, "how can that be? Doesn't every team have a Product Owner?"
Yes – at least if the Scrum prescriptions are being followed closely. And where do those POs come from? Often from a decision that sounds something like:
"Okay, the Scrum Guide tells us we need a Product Owner for each Development Team. Well, that's simple enough. We already have Product Managers, who do basically the same job. Just have HR change their titles, and we're done!"
…and so the seeds of failure are sown. Freshly re-labeled Product Owners begin feverishly recasting requirements documents into user stories, populating JIRA backlogs, attending daily Scrums, and refining acceptance requirements with their new teams. Usually there aren't enough POs to go around, so some are assigned to two (or more) teams. After a few sprints, the Development teams begin to settle into the new cadence. As collaboration improves and throughput increases, backlogs are depleted at an accelerating rate.
The Product Owners find themselves fully occupied in their new roles: drafting new stories, re-balancing priorities, resolving questions from their teams, joining in sprint rituals, and responding to newly engaged stakeholders. It turns out that keeping up with a productive Scrum team is no small task. As POs try to avoid becoming a bottleneck, they may begin to feel like slaves to a ravenous Scrum Machine.
And what about those tasks that used to fill their days as product managers? Remember the forward-looking research, customer/user interviews, needs analysis, task mapping, usability testing, roadmap development, cross-department coordination and roll-out planning they used to do? That's all becoming a distant memory. Who has the time, when there's a backlog to fill?
In this all-too-common scenario, the demands of product ownership drive the practice of product management to the brink of extinction. Conscientious Product Owners, highly engaged with their teams, simply don't have the bandwidth to do all that other "product stuff." (At least not in a way that lets them "maintain a constant pace indefinitely," as the Agile Manifesto advises.)
It may take some time for a company to feel the implications of this shift. At first, the POs and teams share enough institutional memory that their development efforts stay roughly aligned. But over time, each team tends to optimize locally. Each PO's view of "business value" becomes more focused around the backlogs they own. Coordination among Product Owners is reduced to negotiating story dependencies between teams.
Eventually, leadership looks back on their Agile transformation and wonders…
"What happened? We followed the process, our development group is far more productive… but our stakeholders still aren't happy with what we're delivering. Some of our projects are still outright failures. Maybe the skeptics were right."
Organizations can fall into this trap when they adopt the Scrum framework without understanding its limits. Scrum defines the Product Owner entirely in the context of the Development Team. The PO's role is encapsulated as the person "responsible for managing the Product Backlog" and "maximizing value." Beyond that, Scrum is mum on any activities that might determine customer needs, or design valuable products and services to meet those needs.
I don't view this as a failure in the definition of Scrum. Sutherland and Schwaber (and many collaborators since) were trying to help us overcome the fundamental dysfunctions of waterfall development. I doubt they imagined that organizations would become so enamored with Scrum that every other useful practice would go out the window. As the Agile Manifesto reminds us, we favor certain approaches over others, not always instead of.
IT and software organizations need to remember that solid product management is still important to successful products. All those activities needed to investigate, define and validate a software solution are as important in an Agile context as they used to be in the waterfall era. Even with the improved feedback from shorter iterations and release cycles, someone needs to be taking a broader view than the Product Owner role usually allows.
Equally important, Agile organizations need to be realistic about the time demands of both jobs—Product Owner and Product Manager. Asking one person to fill both roles is simply infeasible for products of any significant scale. Forced to choose between urgent daily demands and longer-term strategic work, urgency usually prevails. (The alternative – when entrenched Product Managers short-change their PO activities – is equally damaging.)
Today this Product Owner/Manager dichotomy is being discussed more frequently as larger organizations expand their Agile adoption. Different solutions to the challenge are proposed by various camps. For example, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) partitions the role of Product Management at the Release Train level, aligning backlogs across multiple teams. But regardless of the approach you choose, the first step toward recovery is to acknowledge the problem.
So, for the health of your company – and our industry – I implore you: The future is in your hands. Don't let Scrum be the death of Product Management.
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Great insights. Thanks, Brad. I take issue with the description of Product Owner presented, though, but in-so-much that I am in agreement with the point you are making.
The main responsibility of the Product Owner is to deliver a product his stakeholders want, need, and will use. If that means the product needs to interact with and be apart of the greater organization's vision, it should be reflected in the User Stories and backlog (and product vision). Outside of daily scrum meetings and backlog grooming, PO's should be doing all the activities you listed as former PM tasks (forward looking analysis, roadmap development, etc.) primarily. If not, how can they ensure they are the voice of the stakeholder?
All that other "product stuff" mentioned is shared responsibility of the PO, dev lead, and Scrum Master. That follows the Agile Methodology of a shared ownership and team-first approach to Scrum. In fact, part of the Agile Manifesto is organizing a cross-functional team in order to cross-train both the development and business individuals for a deeper understanding on all levels. Think about it: What happens when a PO goes on vacation, or takes a sudden leave of absence? You don't stop work or hire a backfill, the other members of the team lean in to pick up the responsibilities, reducing capacity, until the team member returns.

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Sportplay programs are unique because they work on developing children's gross motor skills, physical strength and overall coordination which ultimately will enhance their confidence and self-esteem. All Sportplay programs are taught in a safe, non-competitive, structured and fun format.
As the program progresses gross motor skills are developed and enhanced and every child's confidence and self-esteem sky rockets! While all the sports games and activities are lots of fun, they also promote teamwork between the children so they learn the importance of supporting each other and overall sportsmanship.
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"Kids in the Kitchen"
What can be more fun than measuring cups, a whole bunch of eggs and a huge bag of flour (without Mom or Dad around)…?!!!
All ready in aprons and a chef hat, Kids in the Kitchen offers your child the chance to feel like a superstar. Complete with easy to follow picture recipes, their own utensils and ingredients to experiment with, every week's theme will incorporate a culinary masterpiece!! Created, battered and baked (or burned) all by yours truly!
It's fun. It's creative. It's a very proud and accomplishing oven opening moment… And it's delicious, bowl-licking, mouth smackin' times!!
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Due to popular demand Rabbi B will be joining us once again at Kiddie Camp!
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Rabbi B also has a music bag full of different types of instruments. These instruments will be used each day as Rabbi B and the kids perform the Rabbi B Band song. The instruments in his bag include: egg shakers, maracas, tambourines, spoon cymbals, crash cymbals, various bells, wooden clappers, sand clappers, African sticks, triangles, guitars, drums, and more. At the end of the summer Kiddie Campers will be performing in our very own Kiddie Camp performance!
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Focusing on stretching our bodies and calming our minds, our child Yoga instructor offers child friendly and useful techniques for mind-muscle relaxation. She promotes a serene and peaceful atmosphere while engaging all the children's' senses in creative, fun and healthy exercises.
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Friday's at Kiddie Camp are very special as we get ready for Shabbat! Our Kiddie camp bakers braid the most beautiful Challahs! Each week the Morah chooses a Shabbat Abba and Ima who leads their friends in lighting the Shabbat candles, the Kiddush, Challah and our favorite Shabbat songs! What a great way to end a fun filled week at Kiddie Camp!


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(163). Start a Mosquitoes Fogging Business
Complete mosquito eradication by the Government is impossible, and so the need of private Mosquito control agencies is needed to reduce the threat to human health and the environment through modern technology.This can turn out to be a very profitable business as new colonies are coming in every city, and people are more aware of diseases cause by mosquitoes, so there is a lot of new opportunity for a new entrepreneur to start a mosquitoes fogging business
There are really only two reasons to control mosquitoes; to avoid nuisance biting, and to preclude the spread of mosquito-borne disease. Everyone recognizes that mosquitoes can be a real nuisance, but most people do not realize the magnitude of the health threat that they represent. Some of the world's most dreaded diseases are known to be carried and transmitted by mosquitoes. Many countries around the world are ravaged yearly by malaria, yellow fever, and dengue-hemorrhagic fever, viral and parasitic diseases, other health problems caused by mosquitoes include allergy and infection. In some cases, the chemicals within the mosquitoes' saliva are injected into its blood-meal victim, causing serious allergic reactions.
Mosquitoes can be annoying enough to make an area uninhabitable or unsuitable for recreational or industrial development. Economic losses can also be considerable in resort areas and at local tourist attractions.
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Professional pesticide companies use a variety of different chemicals in their quest for mosquito control. The substances listed below are harmful and must be administered by professional certified pesticide people, or by individuals under their charge or direct supervision.
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ONTARIO, Calif. (KABC) - — A possibly armed suspect lead authorities on a chase in the Inland Empire on Friday.
The suspect is wanted for assault with a deadly weapon on an officer. Officials said he should be considered "armed and dangerous."
The pursuit, involving a Jeep Commander, was in the Rancho Cucamonga area on the 15 Freeway before getting off on 4th Street near the Ontario Mills mall in Ontario.
After circling around surface streets, the suspect then got onto the eastbound 60 Freeway.
The driver got onto surface streets in the Chino area, at times driving on the shoulder and wrong side of the road.
Not long after, a person's hand was seen outside of the front passenger's window, leading authorities to believe at least two people are inside the Jeep.
The suspect made his way back onto the eastbound 60 Freeway, traveling at speeds of about 80 mph, with patrol units close behind.
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The California Highway Patrol became the primary agency following the suspect, who passed through the Brea, Fullerton and Placentia areas while still traveling through wide-open lanes.
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Brothers in Blood
The True Account of the Georgia Massacre
Clark Howard
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A "gripping, emotionally charged" account of a brutal crime committed by escaped prisoners from an Edgar Award–winning author (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
In 1973, six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered in their home in Donalsonville, Georgia, by fugitives who escaped from a Maryland prison and broke in to the Alday's house. Two of the escapees were brothers, and they picked up another one of their siblings, only fifteen years old, along the way. The governor at the time—future president Jimmy Carter—called it "the most heinous crime in Georgia."
This true account looks at the entire story: not only the unspeakable massacre and its aftermath, but the horrifying backstories and motives of the various perpetrators—one of whom would finally be executed thirty years later.


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After our move out of Japan this last March I will have my next exhibition at the Palo Alto ACGA Festival.
The ACGA is the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California.
The festival will be on July 13 + 14, 2013 from 10 am – 5 pm.
It is held at the Palo Alto Art Center at 1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto, CA USA.
Over 150 clay + glass artists;
Clay + glass demos;
Hands-on clay activities;
Gourmet food + music;
Free admission.
Info: 650-329-2366 or acga.net
I hope you all can come and visit my SwanCeramics Art booth!
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In the early 1990's, I volunteered a few hours a week as a crisis hotline counselor for an agency that was then called Middle Earth. During my tenure there, I became friends with another counselor who went by the name of Ian. One thing I remember about him was that he was obsessed with the movie "Blade Runner" (which is based on a story by Philip K. Dick called 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'). On several occasions, he would talk to me about what he thought was the central message of the story. I recall him saying in one conversation that it was about slavery, while another time he pondered that it was about trying to find god.
I never really gave much thought about it. While "Blade Runner" is an interesting movie in many ways, particularly for its dystopian vision of the future, there was something about the movie that just did not click for me. Still, I would find myself watching it every now and then when it would be shown on television. The main reason I would watch "Blade Runner" was because I enjoyed Rutger Hauer's brilliant performance as the replicant Roy Batty. As the main villain of the film, Hauer's character is suitably menacing, and yet he also possesses an undeniable charisma and intelligence.
Anyway, I think it was several years ago, I had rented the director's cut of the film because I wanted to see how it differed from the theatrical version. It was near the end of the movie, in the clip below, when it suddenly leaped out at me. What "Blade Runner" was about is what it is that makes us human. And what makes us human is our capacity to care about each other. I had often wondered why Roy Batty is holding a dove in his hand when he leaps over to the roof of the next building to save Deckard's life. Then I realized it. The dove represented the soul. Even though Roy was an android, his decision to save Deckard made him a human being with a soul. When Roy dies, the dove flies up towards the sky, symbolizing the ascent of Roy's soul to heaven.
After I had left Middle Earth, I lost touch with Ian, so I never got a chance to tell him about the true meaning of "Blade Runner." I wonder if he ever managed to figure it out on his own.
Well, wouldn't you know it, another version of "Blade Runner" is being released. Maybe they will finally show the love scene between Rutger Hauer and Harrison Ford!


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New Year's thoughts & reflections
When the new year comes we all get motivated to make changes and set goals to improve many aspects in our lives.
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Afik Gal
Evicore Healthcare
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AI in healthcare services - innovation with focus on business value
We discuss a machine learning product to decide which request for a medical procedure are clinically appropriate based on clinical information from the patient's medical record provided by a human user. We describe the process to build and deploy this product within a low risk tolerance,non-technological corporate environment, and how focus on data-driven analysis, data quality and processes, and user experience can create incremental value in quick iterations and are a prerequisite for deriving value from machine learning at scale. We will also compare various deep architectures to identify whether free text from a patient's clinical record provides supporting evidence for the clinical necessity of a given procedure.
Afik Gal is a healthcare executive, physician, Duke MBA and an entrepreneur with over 13 years of cross functional experience (technology, clinical and business) in healthcare analytics and digital health. Afik is currently a VP for technology innovation at eviCore healthcare after previously leading product innovation at QPIDHealth(acquired by eviCore). Prior to joining QPID, Afik led PWC's healthcare innovation lab where he focused on business model innovation and matching technologies with payers, providers and pharma needs. As an entrepreneur Afik founded a boutique consulting firm which helped hospitals and tech vendors innovate their products and business models (client included Amdocs, SAP, Orbotech, Wix,NetApp). Afik also founded a clinical analytics startup and consulted multiple other digital healthcare companies.


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After another fantastic year of growth, #TeamConsult have been getting into the festive spirit.
This week the team got their first taste of Christmas, as the famous Thursday team lunch featured a Christmas Dinner with all the trimmings! After eating our fair share of Pigs in Blankets, the team headed out to THOR's Tipi Bar for a well-deserved mulled wine or two. It was a great opportunity for the team to welcome new starters, see some old faces and celebrate a really successful winter period so far.
And that wasn't even the proper Christmas party!
We hope that all of our candidates and clients have an amazing Christmas and a Happy New Year! We look forward to working with you in 2019!
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2012 The Moving Forest: An Opera
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Moving Forest expands the last 12 minute of Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, 'Throne of Blood' (1957), into a sonic performance saga with a prelude of 12 days, a durational performance of 6 acts in 12 hours and a closing Coda for the sake of argument.
First presented at Transmediale.08. Berlin 2008, Moving Forest London maps an imaginary castle and a camouflaged forest revolt onto the hyper-playground of the London metropolis on the eve of Olympics 2012. Presented by a temporarily assembled troupe AKA the castle, Moving Forest brings together diverse visual/sonic/electronic/digital/ performance artists along with writers, walkers, coders, hackers, mobile agents, twitters, networkers and the general public to realize a contemporary version of a classic play. Making use of all media, the acts elaborate operatic manoeuvres into an escalating scheme of conspiracy and its contemporaneous political manifestations. The camouflage tree branches of Birnam Wood are electronically updated with contemporary forms of stealth and insurrection. Armed with signals and slogans, the Moving Forest forces an entry into the Castle. A final merging of forest and castle occurs during a moment of downfall, jubilation and loss.
June 22 - July 3 , 12 day prelude (London citywide and on the net
See www.movingforest.net/html/london2012.html for details.
July 4, 6 acts 12 hour performance
[act0 - omen] 9-11am (Furtherfield, Finsbury Park)
[act1 - remorse] 11am-1pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
[act2- betrayal] 1pm-3pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
[act3- overthrow] 3pm-5pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
[act4 - insurgency] 5pm-8pm (Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art)
[act5 - eternal return] 8pm-9pm (Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art)
July 5, 12 - 6pm , Coda - One Day Workshop (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
Moving Forest 2012 London
AKA the castle (in formation)
The Militant City (Isaac Marrero-Guillamón), MzTEK, labofii (John Jordan), street training (Lottie Child), Paper Tiger(Omar El-Khairy), Marc Widmer, Jonas Öhrström, Patric Kaufmann, The Hexists, Laura Oldfield Ford, Marco Donnarumma , Linda Dement, Valentina Vuksic, Olsen Wolf, Kaffe Matthews, xname, Ewa Justka, Anat Ben-David, Bioni samp, Vasco Alves, Graham Harwood, Clifford Hammett, Alexandra Sofie Joensson, AUDiNT (Toby Heys and Steve Goodman).
Organized by
TAKE2030 (Ilze Black and Shu Lea Cheang)
Matthew Fuller (Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College)
Graham Harwood (MA Interactive Media, Goldsmiths College)
Rachel Baker (irational.org)
Moving Forest workshop/coda
organized by
David Garcia, Dean of CCW Graduate School
Matthew Fuller, Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths College,
Josephine Berry Slater, editor of Mute magazine
John Cunningham, 56A InfoShop
Organization associates:
Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Interactive Media Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London
Graduate School, CCW, University of the Arts London
Wimbledon College of Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
Main location addresses:
Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ
Parade Ground and Triangle Gallery, Chelsea School of Art & Design, Millbank, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU


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William Harold Cox
Judge William Harold Cox presided over the 1967 trial of the men accused of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers that became a turning point in the struggle for racial equality in the South. Born in Indianola on 23 June 1901, Cox attended the University of Mississippi, where he roomed with future US senator James Eastland before receiving bachelor's and law degrees in 1924. Cox practiced corporate and civil law until Pres. John F. Kennedy nominated him to serve as US district court judge for the Southern District of Mississippi. The US Senate confirmed him on 27 June 1961 and he took his oath of office three days later. Cox served as chief judge from 1962 to 1971 and took senior status on 4 October 1982.
Cox became known for his rulings that slowed down the federal government's attempts to integrate the South, though those rulings were repeatedly overruled on appeal. In 1964 he called a group of black witnesses "a bunch of chimpanzees," a statement that caused Sen. Jacob Javits of New York and Rep. Peter Rodino of New Jersey to attempt to impeach the judge.
On 21 June 1964 Neshoba County deputy sheriff Cecil Ray Price arrested civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman just outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, on speeding charges. They paid a fine and were released later that night but subsequently disappeared. Their bodies were found buried in a Neshoba County dam the following August. Price had handed the three men over to members of the Ku Klux Klan, who shot and killed the workers. Since the chances of getting justice in the state courts of Mississippi were virtually nonexistent, a federal grand jury indicted eighteen men implicated in the killings on charges related to nineteenth-century civil rights statutes. Judge Cox dismissed the felony indictments on the grounds that murder did not fall within the federal court's jurisdiction, though he allowed misdemeanor charges to stand against Price, Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, and patrolman Richard Willis because they were the only suspects who allegedly acted "under color of law," a requirement for federal jurisdiction.
The US Supreme Court unanimously reversed Cox's ruling and reinstated the indictments against all of the defendants. Judge Cox then presided over their October 1967 trial before an all-white jury of five men and seven women. Defense attorneys assumed that Cox was their ally, but he "conducted the trial with scrupulous fairness." When a defense attorney asked a witness whether Schwerner sought "to get young male Negroes to sign a pledge to rape a white woman once a week during the hot summer of 1964," Cox said that he considered such a question "highly improper" and that he would not "allow farce to be made of this trial." After the jury found seven of the defendants guilty, Cox sentenced them to between three and ten years in jail. Cox declared a mistrial for the rest of the defendants, including Edgar Ray Killen, who in 2005 was convicted of planning and directing the murders. Judge Cox died in 1988.
Further Reading
- Biographical Directory of the Federal Judiciary, 1789–2000 (2001)
- Federal Judicial Center website, www.fjc.gov
- United States v. Price (1966)


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Poor response to ovarian stimulation is one of the major challenges assisted reproduction specialists must deal with.
There are no established criteria for defining a poor response. In fact, it was not until 2010 that the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology reached a consensus on its definition. It was determined that in order to confirm a poor response, at least 2 of the following criteria must be met:
- Age ≥ 40 years or any other risk factor for poor response (presence of endometriosis, absence of one ovary, etc.).
- A previous cycle with ≤ 3 oocytes retrieved using a standard stimulation protocol.
- Abnormal ovarian reserve test results (antral follicle count less than 5-7, Anti-Müllerian Hormone less than 0.5 – 1.1 ng/ml).
Normally, poor response to stimulation is the result of diminished ovarian reserve, which is in turn due to a lower number of follicles able to be stimulated using ovarian stimulation medication. http://slotsfans.com/online-slots/
Recently, other factors which may be involved in poor response have been studied, such as a hypoandrogenic state (low levels of androgens) or a decrease/malfunction of follicle-stimulating hormone receptors (the hormone which stimulates follicle growth).
In regards to treatment for poor ovarian response, there are no widely accepted recommendations. Increasing the dose of gonadotropins (medication used for ovarian stimulation) has not shown, above certain levels, to improve the number of oocytes obtained.
One way of increasing ovarian androgens is to administer a medication we call aromatase inhibitors; these inhibitors prevent androgens from converting into oestrogens, in turn increasing the level of androgens. Nonetheless, recent studies have not proven this inhibitor to be effective in terms of live birth rates.
The other way to boost androgen levels in the ovaries is to use medications with LH activity during ovarian stimulation. This LH activity may improve a poor response, though there is currently not enough evidence to show that the use of this type of medication improves pregnancy rates in patients with poor ovarian response in cycles of IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation).
The use of transdermal testosterone (gel or transdermal patches) also increases androgen levels, as it is introduced externally. The results are encouraging, but further studies showing greater scientific evidence are necessary.
The use of GH (growth hormone) seems to increase live birth rates, as it improves the body's response to the medication used during ovarian stimulation. However, the results are not completely significant due to the limited number of studies available, limited number of study participants and their sparse clinical diversity, creating the need for new studies. Moreover, growth hormone is costly and is not indicated for use in IVF in Spain, meaning it should not be recommended for use in everyday clinical practice.
Finally, there are patients who have receptors for FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone). These patients show better response to a certain type of gonadotropin owing to its composition. In these cases, administering this other type of gonadotropin could improve the ovarian response to stimulation.
As we have seen, poor response to ovarian stimulation presents us with a challenge given its multiple causes and lack of solutions. These factors should stimulate us to continue researching the mechanisms responsible for poor response, and to discover effective therapies for our patients.
José Martín Vallejo
Gynaecologist at Ginemed Valencia Assisted Reproduction Unit


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August 29, 2018
By: Cara Terreri, LCCE, CD(DONA) | 0 Comments
Who doesn't love a good checklist?! Ok, so some people don't, but this post isn't just for us type-A, list-checker-offer, to-do-list-lover types. These first trimester of pregnancy to-dos are meant to serve as practical, sensible tips and reminders to help guide you with good health and ease through the first 12 weeks.
⬜ Learn more about your health insurance coverage for pregnancy and birth
⬜ Research potential care providers (OB, midwife, family doctor): get referrals, testimonials, and set up interviews
⬜ Choose a care provider and make your first prenatal appointment
⬜ Find out whether your current medications are still safe to take, or if there is a safe alternative
⬜ Stop any unsafe-for-pregnancy habits like smoking, drinking, or drugs; seek professional support if needed to quit
⬜ Begin a pregnancy journal and/or take weekly belly pics
⬜ Review your eating habits and diet -- try adding in more protein and fruits and veggies
⬜ Begin taking a prenatal vitamin or supplements
⬜ Continue or begin an exercise routine, with oversight from your care provider (most exercise is usually safe in pregnancy
⬜ Heed your need to sleep, nap, and rest when possible
⬜ Go easy on yourself - hormones are hard at work, which means you may be tired, cranky, emotional, and/or not interested in sex (or very interested!)
⬜ Jot down questions to ask your care provider
⬜ Take an early pregnancy class to learn about prenatal testing options and early pregnancy complications
⬜ Download the Lamaze app Pregnancy to Parenting to follow your pregnancy changes and baby's development
⬜ Involve your partner in your pregnancy by sharing feelings, attending appointments and classes together, and making time to connect
⬜ Stay hydrated - drink water throughout the day
⬜ Start planning ahead for your financial needs during pregnancy and early parenthood by creating or reviewing and revising your budget
⬜ Reach out to your favorite support person(s) for comfort, fun, love, joy -- whatever you need during this time
Want to see all checklists for all three trimesters? Check out our second and third trimester checklists!


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No matter how many As you got in English class or how many words you've written over the course of your career, you don't know all the grammar rules, all the style laws or all the words. Great writers still need to look things up — probably every day. The best writers know what they don't know — and know where to look. Is your bookshelf (physical or virtual) up to the task of guiding your daily writing?
Here are the resources and references everyone should have:
1. Dictionary
Merriam-Webster is my preference, as it is the reference point for The Associated Press Stylebook. (Plus, it's easy to get what you need online.) But look, most dictionaries agree on the appropriate spellings for most words, so identify a source you trust and run with it.
2. Style guide(s)
There are a lot of style guides on the market, depending on what you're working on. Remember the good ol' MLA or APA style guides from college? If you're writing a term paper, those should still be on your shelf. But for professional writers, I recommend having an Associated Press Stylebook (stay as current as you can) as well as The Chicago Manual of Style. Personally, I have hard copies of both, and I subscribe to the online version of the AP guide as well.
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage can be useful even if you don't work for The New York Times (it's mandatory if you do!).
3. Thesaurus
I remember Roget's being on my desk when I was a kid. Today, I like thesaurus.com and Visual Thesaurus.
4. Rhyming dictionary
A rhyming dictionary, such as RhymeZone, isn't just for budding poets. I find this to be a very valuable resource for headline and tagline brainstorming sessions.
5. Plagiarism checker
Technology today enables us to do a plagiarism check, which is pretty darn amazing. I'll be honest, I often skip this step — often because I'm totally confident I did my own interviews and am presenting my own opinions. But I remember working as an editor and catching plagiarized sections of text within writers' stories. It's easy to understand how it happens. You're writing, and you copy and paste a paragraph or two from a press release or a company's website or an academic study — fully intending to return to the copy to rewrite it in your own words. But time passes, and you forget. Well, a plagiarism checker, like the one built into services like Grammarly, can help you make sure you don't submit plagiarized text on accident. Because as much as it can be an accident, plagiarism can get writing professionals into hot water.
6. Readability resource/reading grade level (RGL) checker
If you are charged with writing content that must be readable at a specific grade level — for example, you write healthcare materials that are scored by CMS — it helps to have a tool for checking the RGL. Microsoft Word can do this, offering you a Flesch-Kincaid score. I recommend checking out Readable.io as well. For starters, Readable scores the RGL based on a few different formulas, include Flesch-Kincaid. It also helps you identify some of your problem areas, saving you time as a writer or editor.
7. Other reference texts
I personally recommend The Elements of Style (that's your trusted Strunk and White from high school) and Garner's Modern American Usage, but obviously, there are plenty of reference texts out there.
What do you use?
What did I miss? What texts or online resources do you turn to when you have questions as you're writing? Share them in the comments!


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Kiwis expect to face Ponting
RICKY Ponting's career is entering the doldrums but New Zealand captain Ross Taylor still thinks he is the man to help steer a young Australian ship in the right direction.
The former Australia captain, who turns 37 next month, is in danger of the axe after averaging only 20 in the past year and having gone 28 innings without a test ton, but Taylor said he was still expecting to face Ponting in the first test at the Gabba which starts on Thursday next week.
"He's a world class batsman still," said Taylor on the eve of New Zealand's match against Australia A. "There's been a lot made of his form in recent times but any guy who is averaging over 52 [in tests] would be making most teams around the world.
"With the youth that is coming through in this Australian team, having a senior player with the stature that he has will add a lot to the Australian dressing room."
Pat Cummins is one of those up-and-coming players. The 18-year-old quick bowler took six wickets on his debut against South Africa in Johannesburg recently and Taylor is also expecting Cummins to be selected. "I don't think you drop many people who get six-for on debut do you?"
Despite Cummins' tender years and the fact that he would be wearing the green baggy cap at home for the first time, Taylor said psychological warfare was not on the agenda.
"If you start those sorts of mind games with a youngster ... As I said before, we've just got to worry about ourselves. We've got some good youngsters as well and we'll look forward to seeing how they go against Australia A.
"Doug Bracewell is a famous name in New Zealand. He took five-for on debut [against Zimbabwe] and while he isn't 18, he has only just turned 21.
"He can bowl with some high heat and I'm sure he will be looking forward to bowling on bouncier conditions than we had in Bulawayo."
Taylor said he was looking forward to the Australian conditions after lifeless pitch in Bulawayo, and it was important his batsmen spent time in the middle at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane against Australia A.
Tim Southee, who missed the recent tour of Zimbabwe due to injury, would strengthen New Zealand's bowling attack considerably, he said.
New Zealand's tour of Australia consists of the warm-up game and two tests. The other test is at Bellerive Oval in Hobart and starts on Friday, December 9.


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Indonesian police remind road users to take care by handing out flowers
Drivers and motorbike riders in Pandang, Indonesia, were given flowers at a road junction by police who asked them to drive safely and posed for photos on April 30.
Indonesia has some of the worst traffic in the world. Public transport is limited and hours-long traffic jams are routine in cities across the archipelago. Road safety is also a major problem, with traffic rules widely ignored and unenforced.
Witnesses said police in the city were asking the public to always follow the rules of the road, including the often-ignored requirements to wear helmets on motorbikes and seatbelts in cars.
Judging by the smiles and thumbs-ups, the unusual messaging was well-received.
Padang is the capital of Western Sumatra province, on the island of Sumatra, with a population of close to a million people.


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NEW YORK • When United States President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugged and said their goodbyes in January after Mr Obama's state visit to India, the two leaders promised to keep in touch.
Mr Modi said he and Mr Obama "talk with ease on the phone", and the chemistry between them was indicative of the growing closeness between the two countries.
"We have decided to give this critical partnership a new thrust and sustained attention," Mr Modi said at the time.
Since world leaders are not inclined to maintain a friendship on Facebook or conduct top-level diplomatic communications via WhatsApp, the two countries established a hotline that just recently became operational, senior White House officials said last week.
"'Hotline' has the connotation of some crisis-management phone or system that was used during the Cold War to defuse crisis," Mr Peter Lavoy, senior director for South Asian affairs at the National Security Council, told the Press Trust of India. "That's not what we have."
He said: "This is a secure line between two very, very close partners so that they can exchange views at the heads-of-state level."
Mr Lavoy added that the two leaders would "coordinate approaches to solving real problems".
The hotline between Washington and New Delhi is the first such connection at the highest level of government for India, which is seeking to assert itself as a regional power. It also shares the US' goal of checking China's power in Asia. The US already maintains similar hotlines with China, Britain and Russia.
The hotline with India has not yet been used, according to the Obama administration, but it will be an open line between the President and Mr Modi, and between the country's national security advisers.
The White House would not comment on the frequency with which the other hotlines are used to communicate with leaders in London and Beijing, where ties with Washington have been strained by the cybertheft of US government data, China's aggressive territorial claims and, most recently, the revelation that Chinese agents are operating in the US.


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Special thanks to Signia's Alex Lloyd George, who coauthored this article.
Ever since Bonobos started shipping men's pants that fit just right in 2007, direct-to-consumer (D2C) startups have infiltrated every part of your bedroom, bathroom, makeup routine, and closet. A decade later, D2C brands are no longer nipping at the heels of CPG giants — they're either teaming up with them or becoming them. Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn is at the heart of the braintrust Walmart has assembled to take on Amazon, and Warby Parker, Casper, and Dollar Shave Club are billion-dollar brands.
A recent study found growth in most consumer categories has shifted to brands that have cultivated direct consumer relationships. That's one reason why talk of "unbundling P&G" doesn't seem ridiculous; and why General Catalyst Managing Partner Hemant Taneja believes we've reached the "end of scale." Within the world of CPG, we've reached an era in which small is superior.
Not all D2C disruptions are created equal, however, and the differences among them are critical to their prospects in the long term. I think about D2C disruption in two ways: supply-chain disruption and brand disruption.
Supply-chain disruption is when startups use the distribution and exposure advantages of the internet to deliver a more convenient product experience at lower cost.
Dollar Shave Club is a classic example: it took a poor customer experience — going to CVS and paying out the nose for a five-blade Gillette razor that has to be fetched from a glass cage by the store associate — and made it cheap and easy via an affordable monthly subscription.
Internet-based platforms that emerged in the last decade made this possible: Dollar Shave Club didn't need to compete with the likes of P&G for precious drugstore shelfspace — the internet has infinite shelfspace. AWS made it easier than ever to host and scale a website. Founder Michael Dubin didn't need to spend tons of money on television or print ads to make your potential customers aware of his little enterprise — instead, he could just spend a few grand on a release video that went viral on YouTube (though to be fair, there's no way to guarantee virality). These new channels enabled Dollar Shave Club to follow a new business model that greatly simplified the front end of the supply chain, cutting out the drugstore intermediary and reducing friction for the customer.
The other principal kind of D2C disruption is brand disruption. This is when startups use internet platforms that revolve around content — such as social media and blogging — to create a more multidimensional brand experience that creates super-engaged customers and a devoted digital community.
The standout in this space is Glossier. Glossier was the CPG butterfly that emerged from the caterpillar that was founder Emily Weiss' Into the Gloss beauty blog. Originally launched in 2010, the blog was drawing 1 million unique visitors a month by the time Glossier shipped the "Balm Dot Com" face salve in its first line of products. Into the Gloss provided a willing immediate audience for Glossier, but Weiss took her insights about community-building further. The production process for the infamous "Milky Jelly Cleanser" incorporated 400 social-media comments from customers; the company started a Slack channel for a few hundred superfans who provide regular feedback and free marketing through planning events; and the Glossier Instagram page has amassed 1.1 million followers and no shortage of user-generated content.
Brand used to consist of packaging and whatever personality was conveyed through television and print ads. Those channels aside, there simply weren't that many ways for the brand to express itself. With brand-expression channels like Instagram and blogging, a company like Glossier can publish visual and textual content at zero marginal cost as frequently as it wants to. That new power gives companies with brandable products tremendous scope for building a brand personality and an engaged following.
Supply-chain disruption provides a fast and effective way to gain traction and steal market share from incumbents. Because it's fundamentally an innovation around the business model, however, it's replicable, and thus doesn't make for a strong moat. Brand disruption, on the other hand, builds a moat with a loyal fanbase that both reduces customer-acquisition costs through brand evangelism and extends lifetime value by driving the same customers to come back again and again.
The two kinds of D2C disruption aren't exclusive to each other and, in fact, some of the best D2C companies of the last decade have combined elements of both. Take Casper as an example.
Supply-chain disruption was critical to Casper's breakout success. The company started out by appealing to consumers with a reasonably priced high-quality mattress-in-a-box that could be purchased through an exceedingly simple process — a far cry from the complex, inconvenient, expensive mattress store experiences of the past.
Casper simultaneously built a strong lifestyle brand around sleep, with a consistent irreverent voice across social media, blogging, and traditional advertising. They don't style themselves as a mattress company — who gets excited about mattress companies? — but instead as the "Nike of sleep." The company has put together a focus group of 20,000 fans around the world to provide extensive data on their sleep patterns and product feedback.
The success of Casper's business model spurred copycat startups (Yogabed, Leesa, Helix), gave new exposure to existing competitors (Saatva, Tuft & Needle), and forced countermoves from incumbents (market share leader Mattress Firm now also offers a bed-in-a-box with free shipping and 120-day returns). Some industry observers estimate that there may be as many as 100 brands selling mattresses online. Casper's initial hook — its innovative business model — had effectively been neutralized as other companies replicated it.
And yet, Casper has still managed to sell around 40% of all mattresses-in-boxes since 2014. Why? Their fantastic multidimensional brand, manifested in their online presence. Supply-chain disruption was key to Casper successfully storming the mattress industry but brand — their moat — keeps them on top after their model has been copy-pasted.
Supply-chain disruption has worked wonderfully for some of the D2C companies above, but it's going to get more difficult to pull off. Amazon is creeping over an ever-greater portion of retail; Jeff Bezos has big plans for fashion and is increasingly central to beauty. It's extremely hard to compete with Amazon on price and convenience. Dollar Shave- or Casper-style undercutting will be rare. That's not to say we won't see more supply-chain disruption, but it's likely to be in ever-more obscure industries as the low-hanging fruit continues to be picked. InkBox, for example, is a startup applying a creative business model to the tattoo industry with D2C semi-permanent tattoos. Warby Parker is trying to make supply-chain lightning strike twice by going after eye exams — another expensive and inconvenient customer experience.
These exceptions notwithstanding, brand disruption will move front and center. Glossier shows it's possible to build a seminal D2C brand without innovating on supply chain. A strong community oriented around a brand that lives on multiple online channels — and provides unique IRL experiences — is a deep moat. And there's plenty of brand innovation still to come — take Volition Beauty, a digitally native beauty brand that crowdsources its product ideas from its community. Whereas Glossier solicited feedback from its customers, Volition is blurring the distinction between producer and consumer even more — or perhaps obliterating it altogether. On a more macro level, channels for brand expression are still emerging: voice and chatbot commerce are promising areas here.
The narrowing opportunity for supply-chain disruption and the multiplying channels for brand disruption lead me to believe that the breakout D2C brands of the future will look more like Glossier, and less like Dollar Shave Club.
Sunny Dhillon is a founding partner at Signia Ventures, a $100m seed and series A venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He invests in consumer and enterprise startups with Signia as well as angel investing in direct-to-consumer beauty brands. He previously worked as the first business development employee at a venture backed spin-off of New Line Cinema and in corporate strategy for Warner Bros., before launching his own startup and becoming an investor. Some of his investments include Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), Tenor (acquired by Google), and Cruise Automation (acquired by GM).
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Where To Now?
6th June 2017: Glimmers of hope seen at UIC Symposium
Argentina, Greece, Mexico – countries are falling like skittles before an overwhelming, consumer-driven surge to legalise medical cannabis or end pot prohibition outright (for stories on those places see here, here and here).
With Poland, South Africa and others poised to follow, the trend is a global phenomenon – and Australia is very much part of the fray even as the United Nations and World Health Organisation call for recreational drugs to be decriminalised – a first in their respective histories.
But while some jurisdictions with fairly mature and established systems for getting the plant to the patient appear to be flourishing, here things do not, for the moment, go well.
The reason is by and large simple – composed for the most part of three letters known but not loved by advocacy groups and their members the length and breadth of the land. Those letters are T.G. and A.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration is the Government's all-powerful medical regulator, abetted by its specially created, smaller subsidiary known as the Office of Drug Control; together they more or less hold total sway over the lawful side of all use and production of cannabis and cannabis products.
We say 'more or less' because on top of this Federal command and control structure of legislation and regulation has been plonked an entire additional tier of hindrance to accessing cannabis medicines; each State and Territory has its own rules about who can obtain a prescription, for what indications and by whom the thing can be written.
Such a heavy-handed arrangement – described perspicaciously as 'hyper-regulation' by a member of one advocacy group – has accomplished much in the eight months or so since it came into effect at the beginning of November 2016.
But as 'accomplishments' go, most are not of the type you'd want to take home from school and proudly show your mum.
For a start the current scheme has placed patients and users of such products in direct confrontation with the Government which has managed to make the pipeline of availability so painfully thin barely anyone is able to get them. To make such a state of affairs seem less unpalatable, Ministers and their bureaucrats have, to boot, relied on underhand tactics, obfuscations and at times outright lies to give the impression things aren't nearly as bad as some people have been making out.
Next, the plant has been forced into a regimen of cultivation, manufacture and supply for which it is clearly unsuited – a pharmaceutical model normally reserved for drugs based on a single agent for a single purpose and completely antithetic to a natural, botantical product.
It's a set-up that has simultaneously (via both State and Federal legislation) left GPs – largely untrained in its use – both carrying the can for failing to prescribe the stuff yet prevented from doing so without approvals and / or supervision.
Predictably then, a nascent industry is now taking shape whose business models are, necessarily, predicated upon this kind of extreme governance – i.e. the premise that to make any money, cultivation and use of the plant needs to be more tightly restricted than ever and its 'illicit' use met with unrelentingly draconian measures. It is telling that one such operation publicly 'applauded' the Federal Government recently for adopting such an approach, taking an obvious gamble on the direction of the cannabis wind legally speaking.
None of this of course is terribly good for the patient – a demographic systematically sidelined and ignored from the outset, rather than having been placed at the centre of policy-making.
The upshot, unsurprisingly, has been a massive growth in the black market which now offers most would-be users the only available source.
These and other issues were explored and discussed in depth at the United in Compassion Medical Cannabis Symposium which took place in Melbourne over the weekend before last.
Before the thing even started, UIC's Founder and event organiser Lucy Haslam wrote in the programme brochure: 'Initially I felt immense pride that Australian leaders saw fit to pass legislation on the basis of compassion for the sick, but what followed was a complete travesty. The Government failed to appoint an Advisory Council and set barricades and brick walls before genuine patients in distress. One can only conclude this was done wilfully to prevent patient access.'
This set the general tone and whilst many of the presentations – online in a few weeks – gave fascinating glimpses into the science, research and development work around the herb – much of it from overseas but all now hopefully adding to the corpus of knowledge at home – it was in the areas of policy, politics and the effects of these upon patients and society generally that some of the most interesting and urgent remarks would be heard.
Most – but not all – came during the various panel discussions scattered throughout the proceedings – such luminaries as Dr Jeffery Hergenrather from the Cannabis Clinicians Society of the US, Deepak Anand, Executive Director of the Canadian National Medical Marijuana Association, Dr Ilan Linder from the Wolfson Medical Centre in Israel and Sue Sisley MD from the University of Arizona were included to bring an experienced outsider's perspective on Australia's cannabis 'journey'. Native politicians and policy influencers such as former Federal Police Commissioner Mick Palmer, and MPs Adam Searle, Trevor Khan and Tammy Franks offered high-level critiques of the same. But of them all, two panelists in particular grabbed most of the headlines (at least as we see it) since their views and remarks, more than most, are likely to have the biggest and most immediate impact on the hole many sick Australians, some of whose lives depend upon accessing cannabis, now find themselves stuck in.
Enter then Mr Bill Turner from the above-mentioned Office of Drug Control and Dr Bastian Seidel, President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners – both pivotal to what is clearly an ongoing and pressing debate.
Turner had, prior to his first group appearance, earlier given a talk – an 'Update from the Commonwealth' followed by a Q&A.
Prowling the stage like a captive tiger under stress, he delivered a selection of messages few could have wanted to hear. Speaking in solitary splendour – a colleague from 'parent company' the TGA having failed, at the last minute, to show up – Turner gamely but quite defensively took the flack on behalf of both outfits. For this alone, and for the fact that of his own free will he remained at the Symposium for the majority of its three days, he is to be roundly applauded.
Less welcome though were some of comments he made, in particular the suggestion his organisation had done all it could to make cannabis medicines available and that somehow doctors were to blame for failing to dish it out. 'We get criticised,' he admitted, 'for the small number of applications,' referring to the fact that only 145 of them had been granted since 1992, but this, he claimed, was because medicos did not wish to prescribe. 'A need exists to convince the medical community,' he said, noting uptake of the much-lauded 'bulk imports' of cannabis products into Australia had been 'somewhat slow,' i.e. next to none at all. 'We approve almost every application we get. If we had a thousand, we'd approve a thousand, if we had ten thousand….' and so on was the lavish claim.
What he did not say was that of the requests received, a significant number, while not refused, are returned to the offending physician with the diktat that more information be given – until such applications are eventually withdrawn. Cynics see this as a deliberate ploy among Ministers and their functionaries to diminish access further still.
More than once over the duration Turner also stressed that 'if cannabis really is as great a drug as everyone keeps suggesting, it should hold its own' in the TGA's approval processes – failing to acknowledge the organisation is only geared up to evaluating 'population medicines'. Cannabis though, to work properly or work at all, needs to be personalised and based on individual need- the right strain for the right patient in the right dose, and as such requires a different approach. And it's one the TGA seems unable to accommodate – a fact Turner strongly disputes. 'We have treated it differently,' he insisted. 'We've changed legislation so it can be cultivated here, we've organised importations during the interim, we're writing a guidance document – we've never done any of these things for any other medicine.' In this he is totally right. The trouble is though none of it has eased patient access although apparently the INCB – the Swiss-based body responsible for overseeing the UN Convention on drugs – has written in glowing terms of Australia's efforts.
The Therapeutic Goods Administrations Special Access Scheme Category A pathway – 'SASCAT-A' as its shorthand seems now to have become – that was touched on too; a vote in the Senate last month reversed a regulatory tweak preventing the dying and seriously ill from getting hold of cannabis via a fast-track 'notification' rather than approvals process. It had, Turner said, caused 'great excitement from a public servant's point of view' forcing him and his colleagues into 'deep consultation with Border Protection' about personal importation which the vote also affected. Health Minister Greg Hunt had said at the time 'we cannot accept this,' so instead of tackling the issue head on, the Ministry now apparently plans to make it its mission to run thorough 'safety checks' on all products ordered through the Category ensuring the process ends up taking even longer than its detested counterpart Category B.
Given all this, still the 'tone of the conversation needed to be raised', Turner 'gently warned', citing a list of aspersions – cast mainly by this website with one or two choice ones by Lucy Haslam – which he felt constituted 'uncivil discourse.' We post this offering today duly chastened and unreservedly add Bill is a nice fellow, but….
Less uncivil perhaps was the impish question from the floor, UIC's David Caldicott clearly in leprechaun mode: 'Is it possible that we just have the wrong Framewework for cannabis?' he innocently wondered. Bill Turner paused. 'Anything's possible,' he said with (we thought) a knowing grin.
Other than annoying some with his claim there was evidence of deaths caused by weed (we are aware of none) this initial talk set out the stall for his own and his Department's position, offering a place of departure for further, perhaps meatier comments during the panel discussions.
In these, where Turner was concerned, there were moments of genuine concord, such as his assertion, on the final day, that 'some of the stories' he'd heard would be be useful to him and his TGA colleagues. And though he 'wasn't a fan of all the science' (and disliked the 'Colorado model' of cannabis use) 'as a public servant, engaging with people is one of the job's greatest joys'. It's a statement that should perhaps be accepted at face value – as we've mentioned, no-one forced him to stay for the entire three days…
What didn't astonish however was how well he thought everything was going here in relation to medical pot. When Chairman David Calidcott asked guests taking part in a session called 'Optimising Medicinal Cannabis Policy' what they thought Australia was doing right, the Canadian Deepak Anand could only manage 'you call the plant by it's proper name rather than 'marijuana',' while the good doctor Hergenrather more optimistically held that 'you're conducting a dialogue, you're having a real debate.' Despite these and the politicians insisting otherwise, Turner himself remained adamant: 'I don't think we've done anything wrong – cannabis has not made a case for itself as a medicine,' though the general consensus was that this was far from the case. 'The biggest mistake,' observed one panel member, 'was not taking heed of the Senate Inquiry into the Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis Bill back in 2015', which, had it not been derailed by the Government, would have avoided many of the problems seen now. Others blamed 'lack of leadership' on the part of the medical profession and spoke of the drug's 'fictional availability.'
Come Sunday and another discussion, some real surprises were to be had. Not least was Bill Turner's affirmation – and here explicitly speaking on behalf of the Department of Health – that, when completing a Category B SAS Application 'The TGA would be willing to accept previous experience of patients' use of medicinal cannabis' as 'evidence' when undertaking the process. Which is definite headway of sorts – but for the fact that, unless provided with the means to test such 'artisanal' (a.k.a. 'black market') products, nobody knows quite what they are.
The biggest astonishment of all though were remarks made by Bastian Seidel, the current RACGP President, whose presence was in itself a major coup. Rather than following the well-trodden path of citing lack of evidence for the drug's use as a medicine and calling for more clinical trials, Seidel shocked the audience somewhat by taking the opposite view.
Lashing out at the Government's handling of the matter he decried the excessive red tape surrounding patient access.
He would be, he said, 'really angry as a doctor' if the 'law or regulation' stopped him from prescribing a medicine such as this and insisted 'GPs were specialists' and should be the chief initiators and prescribers of their patients' treatment as well as the main monitors of it.
The comments came in response to another panelist who'd described having been recommended the medicine by her GP only to have the prescription knocked back by an 'Expert Advisory Panel' in her home state of New South Wales.
As mentioned earlier, legislation related to cannabis means this country now operates a two-tier system with permission required first from the Therapeutic Goods Administration then – in many states – further authorisation from the local Department of Health. In some instances, such as in Queensland, GPs cannot prescribe it at all and a treating specialist is required to do so.
'That's a story I didn't want to hear,' said Seidel after hearing his fellow guest's account.
He was though less enthusiastic about the recent Senate move to relax how doctors can help patients obtain the drug through the TGA's Special Access Scheme Category A pathway. This, he said, was likely to put undue pressure on members – 'I've not been trained in things like import and export,' he said, 'and we'd be responsible if anything went wrong with the treatment.'
But, refreshingly he did agree that random controlled trials were of limited value, especially for medicines like cannabis.
Calling for more n=1 trials, where individuals rather than patient populations are involved in the gathering of data, he said where cannabis treatments were concerned the medical profession 'should generate evidence as we go along.'
Such exegeses mark a radical departure from the College's previous stance and, though possibly adopted for political reasons to differentiate itself from the AMA which is its major competitor, nevertheless are to be welcomed.
The same can be said of a speech by Senator Richard Di Natale who struggled through Canberra fog to deliver a rousing and encouraging oration. He would, he said, be calling on the Government to grant amnesty for medical cannabis uses and also introduce a new Bill to Parliament allowing locally grown product to be accessed through SAS Category A (the route is currently available only for imports – except for the ones already here). Whatever your impression of the Greens, their stance on this matter at least has remained steady and constant throughout; he was unsurprisingly rewarded with healthy cheering and applause.
The day before the Symposium itself, UIC launched its first 'Medical Cannabis Course' delivered by the ubiquitous Dr David Caldicott. Pulling heavily on the bardic tradition of the Gaels he somehow managed not so much to breeze through a staggering eight hours of data, documentation and clinical evidence as storm through it as if throwing a day-long ceilidh with stethoscopes chucked in for good measure. The affair attracted lots of delicious press with dozens of healthcare practitioners attending, among them at least fifteen GPs. The Course we are told is currently with the RACGP for accreditation with another such shindig scheduled to take place in South Australia. Drs Caldicott and Hergenrather meanwhile, along with some of the medics who were present that day are discussing convening an Australian Chapter of the Cannabis Clinicians Society.
If it could be said there were major take-aways to be had either from the Course or proceedings as a whole, there would, we suggest, be mainly three – irrefutable and already well-known to anyone who's been around cannabis medicine for any length of time.
These are firstly that use of the whole whole plant is proving more effective than compounds made from it – the 'entourage effect' is alive and well in most other countries, though in Australia the Government is loathe to admit this. 'Some herbs don't want to be drugs,' one keynote speaker emphasised – hitting the nail on the head. The next we've already mentioned – that cannabis demands individual, personalised treatment – a fact reiterated time and again in a multitude of presentations – though the Government alas won't see that either, as it quite obviously doesn't the final point. Which is that this country is getting the whole shooting match wrong over cannabis – hideously, painfully, almost criminally wrong. And lives are being put at risk or have already been lost because of it.
Last week,'compassionate supplier' Jenny Hallam posted a powerful and moving video on Facebook listing those she had tried to help and who had died – by implication a result of public policy. It is something the Health Minister would do well to watch: right now lawyers are beginning to circle, either looking at bringing cases against Canberra for its atrocious handling of the situation or ready to assist those who've been busted for the drug. This 'pincer' movement of legal attack and defence might, in the fullness of time shift things a little, while at this rate the issue will once again become an election issue come 2019.
For the reality is, the TGA is unlikely to change its ways or Ministers be moved to act unless forced to do so. And as advocates are acutely aware, politics and institutions are set up to maintain 'business as usual' even if 'business as usual' does not mean what's best for the public.


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To get rid of excess weight many people stopped eating and drinking. As a result, lack of nutrition many have suffered from many different health problems. Many others admitted in the gym with the money, but regular exercise is not possible due to their idleness.
Thus weight is not reduced. Many are passing their days with the anxiety for obesity and overweight. Let's get to know the 10 best ways to reduce weight in just 10 days.
Is weight reduction a very difficult task? What do you think? Many people think that weight loss is the toughest task in the world. But this is not true actually. There is some easy steps through which you can lose at least 2/3 Kilo Gram from your total weight.
10 best ways to reduce weight in just 10 days
- At least two days in a week it is necessary to exercise around 30 with full concentration.
- Stay away 100 hands from Cakes, Pastry, Chocolate, Cold drinks, juice of sugar, sweet.
- Limit the intake of salt in daily life. Do not eat salt separately with rice.
- Do not eat any foods with carbohydrates after 8 PM.
- Do not use potatoes in cooking. Potato contains carbohydrates. If you love milk then take it cream free do not drink milk with full cream.
- More than 1 teaspoon of oil per day cannot be eaten in any way. Use olive oil for cooking instead of others.
- Take at least half kilo gram of fruits and half kilo gram of vegetables every day.
- Drink fresh water at least 8 glass in a day.
- Sound sleep is necessary and sleep 8 hours daily at night.
- After every meals take a cup of green tea without sugar and milk. Green tea is very effective to keep you slim and for fresh look.
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Guitarist and baritone Sotiris Kasparides, invite you to Technopolis 20 in Paphos for a musical journey on Saturday, 12th of May 2018, at 8pm. He will be presenting a guitar recital under the title "Around the world in 80 minutes", where composers from fourteen countries will be heard; Francisco Tárrega (Spain), Άstor Piazzolla (Argentina), Dimitris Fampas (Greece), Agustín Barrios Mangoré (Paraguay), Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil), Sotiris Kasparides and Akis Pavlou (Cyprus), Toru Takemitsu (Japan), Leo Brouwer (Cuba), Nikita Koshkin (Russia), Giuseppe Giordani (Italy), John Dowland (England), Andrew York (United States) and Roland Dyens (France). Furthermore, an arrangement from Nigeria, Africa will be heard.
The recital will follow the guitarist's approach on the music of the different composers and countries aiming to elevate the guitar and guitar colours of each country, composer and era. This journey will last eighty minutes with the sound of the guitar determining the above colours highlighting the guitar approach.
Entrance: 10 euro
Reservations are necessary at 70002420 (calls only).
A few words about the artist
Sotiris Kasparides (guitar- baritone- composer) was born in 1980 in Nicosia, Cyprus and he is a classical guitarist, baritone and composer. He started guitar lessons at the age of eight with guitar teachers Ismini Giannaki and Eftychia Angeli. He studied at University of Tennessee, USA, at ARTE Music Academy, Cyprus and at Middlesex University, London and is titled with ΑΔΜ ΑRΤΕ, BA Music and ΜΑ Music specialised on guitar performance. He studied guitar with Mario Abril, USA, Demetris Regginos, Cyprus, and Timothy Walker, London, choir with Roland Carter and Lee Harris, USA, classical singing with Rebecca St. Goar, USA and Svetlana Krasnova, Cyprus and titled with Diploma ABRSM – Singing. He also studied Byzantine music with Christodoulos Papastefanou and titled with Diploma. He participated in over fifty guitar performances mainly in Cyprus and in countries like USA, England, Bulgaria for solo and chamber music. He participated in masterclasses for solo and research on guitar with Therese Saba, Eleftheria Kotzia, Evgeni Fingelstein and other guitarists. Since 2007, he teaches guitar at ARTE Music Academy, Hellenic College of Music and A.I MusicLab. He composes for guitar and other instruments and also for small and large ensembles. In 2013, he composed and performed his chamber opera "The Warrior's Tale" and in 2017 he participated in concerts with the 100 guitars and published the guitar book "100 Studies for young guitarists".


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SEN Teacher | KS2 | West London
World Class Teachers have an incredible opportunity for a nurturing and passionate SEN Teacher in West London. About the school: This is an inclusive and popular community school that work inclusively with our families in order to maximise the learning potential of all children in our community. We aim to develop our children's confidence and


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A new report update has recently been published with regard to templates. This evolution allows us to terminate a series of developments that have been planned on our reporting tool for several weeks: graphic redesign, mailing programming and report templates. Let's look at how this new module works.
When you create a report, there are three choices available:
- Creation from a default template
- Creation from my templates
- Creation from a blank report
Assuming no model has been created for the moment, we are going to create a blank report.
After having composed the desired report, click on the "create a model for this report" button which you can see on the action bar:
After entering a name and description, your template bbwsdatewebsites is created and is available in the tool's template list:
Let's go back to step 1 and create a new report as seen previously. You should see your template in the "My Report Templates" tab:
Select your tool, your project and your site, and the report is automatically created for the site in question:
This template can be used endlessly on all your projects, allowing you to gain significant time when generating reports. Note there are 2 important limits on the templates:
- Project filters are not saved (e.g., specific keyword filters – you can't save them because if the project changes the keywords do too!)
- A template limits the creation to blocks from the same tool. If blocks from several tools are created in a report, it will not be possible to save it as a template.
The review of this update aimed at users generating multiple reports is now complete. We hope it will help you to optimise the time you spend on managing and sending reports. There are other reporting developments on the way and we will contact you very soon about these innovations.


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- Homepage
- The Environment
- Actualités
- 20th Jeun'Elec event
20th Jeun'Elec event
As part of the 20th Jeun'Elec event, Monaco's Club des Véhicules Électriques (Electric Vehicles Club), working closely with the Department of Education, Youth and Sport and the Department of the Environment, offered willing Year 9 (4ème) pupils from Collège Charles III and Collège Saint-François d'Assise Nicolas Barré the opportunity to spend a day test driving electric vehicles.
The event was held on Tuesday 5 February 2019 in the Parking des Pêcheurs car park, and featured all the main types of electric transport, with a focus this year on electric bikes.
There were three activities based around this eco-friendly means of transport, reflecting the subsidy recently introduced by the Prince's Government:
* A road safety workshop led by the Police Department
* A fun electric bike circuit organised by MonacoBike with support from FatBike
* An introduction to Monaco's electric bike sharing scheme, Vélos de Monaco, led by the Monegasque Bus Company (CAM)
These were complemented by a further two activities:
* Electric karting offered by Kart Indoor Monaco
* An electric car (Tesla, Twizy, Renault Zoé, etc.) circuit with the involvement of the Department of Urban Amenities, the Prince Albert I Foundation, Monaco Post Office, SMEG, Monaco City Hall, Mobee and Limousine Tours.
In addition to the chance to try out the electric vehicles, the aim of the day was to raise pupils' awareness of the need to look after the environment by reducing the pollution caused by road transport, and of the concept of multimodal transport. In preparation for the event, all Year 9 pupils took part in a lesson focused on these topics.
At the end of the day, they were invited to take part in the Jeun'Elec Competition for the 2018–2019 school year. The idea of the competition is to devise a slogan and design a logo to promote electric transport.
The prize ceremony will be held during the EVER Forum at Grimaldi Forum on 9 May.
Autres actualités du thème
4th Energy Transition Press Event
Biological control to protect pines and palms - Preventive treatment using sprayers
Cycling: new cycle path between Fontvieille and Port Hercule; three new Monabike stations built
UN - Launch of the Group of Friends to Combat Marine Plastic Pollution
- The latest news of the Responsible Trading and Responsible Restaurant Certifications
- Guide d'interdiction des sacs plastiques à usage unique - un sac pour la vie
- Guide to responsible, safe bathing in the Principality
- The Tree Code
- The Environment in the Principality of Monaco – Data Compendium
- Monaco Environment booklet


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Jason and Joanie often appear in scene changes or the background. As a result, they are frequently seen in various places around the mall. Quite often, they are seated at the table next to the gang's table at the Big Squeeze. Other places they have been seen include the photo booth, a changing room at the Khaki Barn, and in the stacks of Spin This.
The first time the duo were separated was in "A Lime to Party." They were kissing in a photo booth when Nikki burst in so she could spy on Wyatt and Jude without getting caught. She bumped into the two, knocking them apart, but ignored this, as she was fully focused on Spin This.
Jason and Joanie were once again separated in "The Sushi Connection." During a big sale, they were hiding out in a change room at the Khaki Barn. They occupied it for over half an hour before the acting assistant manager, Nikki, had to open the door and throw them out.
They were also separated in "The Girls in the Band." Here, Wyatt (in the Pokey the Panda costume) forcibly pulled them apart.
The time they were most forcefully separated was in "Dirty Work." There, one of Jonesy's jobs was to separate them. Jonesy was willing to do this and yanked them apart, yelling at them that nobody wanted to see them swap saliva. For this, everyone in the area applauded him, making it obvious why he had been hired for this dirty job. After he separated the duo, they slunk off, humiliated, although it can be assumed that they found another spot in which to begin making out again.
For a short time in "Baby, You Stink," they were split up by the smell of Jonesy's cheap cologne. They passed by a trashcan full of it and, upon getting a whiff, stopped their liplock long enough to vacate the area. It is assumed that after getting away from the stench they resumed kissing, however.
- The two are apparently only together because of Wayne. It is revealed in "Awake the Wyatt Within" that Wayne, who has the ability to choose the perfect movie for a couple, gave them a movie that helped them through a tough time in their relationship.
- In "Insert Name Here," Ron arrests them for violating rules against public displays of affection. Surprisingly, even though he loves to arrest people, this is the only time he has ever brought up these rules onscreen.
- Even odder is the fact that they were in a car, hidden from view. This meant that it obviously wasn't a public display, even if they were on mall property.
- Jason and Joanie have the ability to move without breaking lip contact. This is seen in "Clonesy," when they run away after smelling a bad scent without breaking their kiss.


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Dashing were briefed by the Oakley marketing team to manage their Summer Essentials window display campaign from concept to store. The window was installed across thirteen stores in Australia and New Zealand.
From concept, graphic design and industrial design to print production, distribution and installation, Dashing executed everything you see in the window. This included window decals, layered hanging banners and a custom-made acrylic surfboard to prominently and uniquely display the latest range of Oakley sunglasses.


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This was our first tea showcase opportunity in U.K.! It was an amazing experience to join the business-networking event in England! We showcased our Organic Oolong Tea, which imported from Taiwan. Taiwanese High-mountain Oolong Tea, which is precious because of the rare production and is also acknowledged as the best quality tea in Asia. We introduced the benefit of Oolong Tea, and also offered different types of tea for customers to taste. Our tea was a very refreshing drink with the sweet aftertaste that was enjoyed by everyone at our event.
The most important was that we got some awesome feedback from our customers. They can taste and discover the difference between different flavours. They said that when they drank it, they found out the leaves revealed new stages of flavour each time they are infused, and different tastes would come through. Through this event, we knew that people in U.K. enjoyed tasting the tea, and we also had the idea that they like the original flavour most. It was a fabulous event, and we had a great time with the customers.


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1. Open your Chrome browser. Go here. Then get the Hypothes.is Chrome extension.
2. You're going to need a Hypothes.is account. It's free. Enter your email and create a password in order to get one.
3. When you have a draft paper ready, cut and paste that paper into a blog post. Then leave a link to the blog post where that paper resides (not your whole blog, click on the title of the post and use THAT URL) in the comments to the draft paper blog post I leave on this blog.
4. Visit as many of your fellow students' blogs as you can. You can insert comments into those pages on the Hypothes.is layer using the Hypothes.is Chrome extension first by signing and clicking that extension in the right-hand corner of your browser. That will make the highlights where the notes reside visible. When you move the cursor over the highlighted part and click, the notes will appear in the sidebar. You can reply to existing notes or create new notes of your own by highlighting different text.
5. Final versions of each paper should once again be e-mailed to me as an ordinary Word file.


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How To Become A Cruise Ship Photographer – The 2nd Step
The Second Step: The Job Interview
The job interview will most likely be a 2-day Hiring Session with the Principal's representatives from Miami. It doesn't happen often – maybe just once a year in each of the countries where they are hiring.
The Agency's role is to screen the applicants. Once you've passed the Agency's not-too-high standards, they'll put you on the list of scheduled interviewees.
How shall you prepare for the interview?
Check with the Agency if the Hiring Company expects you to bring anything extra.
Unimportant but perhaps useful anecdote: For our batch's interview, the Agency advised us to bring our cameras. We didn't actually use our cameras but, being a photographer (hobbyist or otherwise), it would be bad to show up for a photo job interview without the most important tool of your trade.
A little piece of unsolicited advice: If you are required to bring a camera, don't feel like you must show up with a high-end DSLR. If you have one, then bring it. But if all you have and what you've been using is a film SLR or a low-end for-hobbyist DSLR, then bring that. In my opinion, it is better to show up with the actual camera that you used for the photos in your portfolio. That way, if they want you to prove on the spot that you are able to take photos like the ones in your portfolio, you'll be familiar with your tool.
FYI: The gear I brought to the Hiring Session was my Canon 300v (a.k.a. Rebel Ti) film SLR camera with its 28-90mm kit lens.
How shall you dress for the interview?
This is the time to be in business wear. The Agency will advise you on how to dress properly, if you didn't know it yet. They'll probably tell female interviewees to show up in a skirt and 2-inch heels.
If you ask me, 2-inch heels are overkill. You will not be judged by the height of the shoes that you wear, but it's a fact that the right shoes complete the look. And it can't be denied that looks do matter. Bear in mind though, ladies, that you'll be wearing those shoes all day. I say, pick comfy yet presentable footwear.
How shall you speak at the Hiring Session?
Whatever you do, do not bore them and do not waste their time.
If you are asked to introduce yourself in 1 minute, do it in 1 minute.
If you are asked to introduce yourself by giving your name, photography experience, reason for applying… do just that!
- do not start with a story or with how happy you are to be there (it's not the time to get chummy)
- do not add your age, sex, location to the list of things to say (it's an interview, not a chatroom)
- do not talk about your accomplishments and what a great person you are (unless asked to do so)
In other words,
- follow instructions
- stick to the topic
- get to the point
Don't worry. If you pass the first day, you will be asked to come back for the second day and will have plenty of time to talk.
All this is common sense and applies to other job interviews as well. The Agency will probably tell you these things when they orient you about the HIRE Session.
And also, you're not there to beat each other. Outshine each other, maybe. But don't be a crab by stepping on your fellow interviewees or making them look bad. Crab mentality is not a plus factor.
So that was Step 2. Now, click here for Step 3. 🙂


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Author: Gabriel Persechino-Forest Published: April 4th, 2019
Ikemoto Talks About Boruto's Length
During the interview, the manga artist revealed he intends for Boruto to be a series that does not exceed 30 volumes.
Source: Shonen Jump
VIZ to Produce Original Manga
VIZ Media just started VIZ Originals, a new imprint designed to produce original manga content from "Manga-inspired" creators.
Source: VIZ Media
Dance in the Vampire Bund Sequel Licensed
Nozomu Tamaki's Dance in the Vampire Bund: A.S.O. manga has been licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment with the first volume set for a physical and digital release on October 8.
Source: Seven Seas Entertainment
New Series Launching
- After Tormenting the Devil, I did no Want to Stand Out, so I Became a Guild Master: New manga series by ROHGUN that adapts the novels of Touwa Akatsuki.
- Even so, Ayumu Approaches: Soichiro Yamamoto launched the new manga on March 6th.
- Irregular at Magic High School: Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba: A manga adaptation of the spin-off novel series of the same name that will be drawn by Yuyu Ichino.
- That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime: Trinity of the Magic Kingdom: New spin-off series drawn by Tae Tono.
- Together with Filo: Manga anthology of 11 stories of The Rising of the Shield Hero character Filo that will include contribution from many manga artists.
Source: Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh's March issue, Toda Books, Udon0531 and Comic Natalie (Link 1 [Article image as well] and Link 2)
Series Ending
- Attack on Titan Before the Fall: Ryo Suzukaze and Satoshi Shiki's manga ended on March 26.
- Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls: Tatsuya Shihara's manga will end on April 8.
- Creatures Family Days: Yanai's manga recently published its final chapter.
- Divci Valka: Kouichi Ohnishi's manga will end on its 12th volume in June.
- D.N.Angel: Yukiru Sugisaki's manga is approaching its climax.
- Dokunie Cooking: Suu Minazuki's manga ended on March 8.
- Hokago Kagura Vibes: Atsushi Suzumi's manga ended on March 26.
- Katana Maiden: Sakae Saito's manga adaptation ended on March 26.
- Majestic Prince: Rando Ayamine and Hikaru Arashima's manga ended on March 1.
- Sky High Survival: Tsuina Miura's manga ended on its 257th chapter, published on March 21.
- Trinity Seven: Seven Days: Misaki Mori's spin-off manga just published its last chapter.
Source: Hakusensha's Young Animal's 5th issue of the year, Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius' April issue, Kodansha's Young Magazine's 18th issue of the year, Shinchosha's Comic Bunch's April issue, Hero's Inc.'s Monthly Hero's March issue, Kadokawa's Monthly Asuka's April issue, Kadokawa's Shonen Ace's April issue, Kouichi Ohnishi, AnimeLand and Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age's March issue