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Doug Hutzell, project coordinator with the Beaver Creek Watershed Association, stands in the clear waters and lively vegetation of Beaver Creek. (Joe Crocetta, Staff Photographer / March 20, 2013) |
The national outdoor magazine Field & Stream has recognized Doug Hutzell of Hagerstown as a Hero of Conservation for his restoration efforts on behalf of Beaver Creek as part of the Beaver Creek Watershed Association.
On Saturday, Field & Stream will join the restoration association and local volunteers at Beaver Creek to help with the restoration work as part of the magazine's Hero for a Day program.
"We need to take care of our streams because they are a living organism," Hutzell said. "If we don't take care of our waters, it's going to be devastating because we drink this water, and everybody lives in a watershed."
Hutzell, 62, was one of three people recognized in Field & Stream for the month of March for the work the Beaver Creek Watershed Association did to restore wild trout to Beaver Creek. He said he learned that there were wild brown trout in the creek after spotting them in 1999 and contacting the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to investigate it.
After learning about the brown trout, Hutzell said he began working to help clean up the water so there would be a "self-sustaining population of wild trout."
"All the impervious areas from roads, the interstate, development, and agriculture, there's a lot of different things happening within the watershed that deteriorate the quality of the water," he said. "We decided that we would get an organization like the Beaver Creek Watershed Association started, and we would then be able to establish maybe a wild trout fishery."
The association formed in 2003, and has taken various steps to clean up the stream, including fencing it off, putting in watering troughs for cattle, planting trees and shrubs along the stream, and raising awareness within the watershed to the quality of the water in the stream.
Hutzell said the association also worked to cool down the stream by working with the Maryland State Highway Administration to keep hot road surface water from running off of I-70 directly into the creek through a concrete channel and removing an irrigation pond that was at the Beaver Creek Country Club.
He added that in addition to clean water, trout need cooler temperatures as well.
"Trout are affected by higher temperatures around 70 or 72 degrees," he said. "Now we have cool, clean water coming back into Beaver Creek, where we had a lot of sediment issues."
As part of Field & Stream's "Heroes of Conservation" program, Hutzell will receive a $500 conservation grant from Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., which he said will go toward matching efforts to restore 1,800 feet to the stream to provide more habitat for the trout and stabilize the banks. The association is also applying for a Chesapeake Bay Trust Grant of $30,000 to go toward that project.
The event Saturday will be the first of 10 projects throughout the Spring in Field & Stream's Hero for a Day program. The magazine will have a film crew there to shoot video of it for a webisode that will go on its website at www.fieldandstream.com May 30, Kristyn Brady, the magazine's assistant editor, said.
Brady described Hutzell as an "extraordinary volunteer" with "great leadership qualities."
"At one point in time, that fishery was only sustaining stocked fish," she said. "Now it's sustaining wild fish, and he's played a huge role in making that happen."
Brady, who lives in New York, said that she was once fly fishing at the creek while visiting friends in the area and that she was struck by the community around her.
"There were little kids playing around the creek, people were out on their porches, and everything seems to back up to that creek," she said.
Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau Tom Riford added that the county is "truly blessed" to have the creek and Hutzell.
"Beaver Creek is Maryland's only limestone influenced trout stream," he said. "Hutzell has done a heroic effort to save and recover something that is unusual and important."
Riford also talked about what Hutzell's recognition meant for the county.
"To have a national magazine recognize the good works of one of our citizens while at the same time acknowledging this amenity and asset in Beaver Creek speaks volumes for Hagerstown and Washington County," he said. "The event Saturday is recognizing a local hero in a national sense."
The event will last from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and is open to any volunteers, Field & Stream said in a release. Everybody is asked to meet at the Beaver Creek Fly Shop at 9720 Country Store Lane.


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Russell Bolingbroke has spent nearly half his life competing, but it wasn't until the trampoline phenomenon reached Canada that the 22-year-old finally found his true calling.
Growing up in a family of former gymnasts, Bolingbroke followed in his parents' footsteps and began taking gymnastics at an early age. Although after training for a few years, Bolingbroke realized that gymnastics hadn't fully captured his attention.
After discovering that gymnastics alone wasn't for him, a then-12-year-old Bolingbroke turned his attention to Canada's newest phenomenon — the trampoline.
"You couldn't keep me off of it," said Bolingbroke, who coaches Kids SuperGym's competitive trampoline program. "I really fell into it. I just love the height and it's something unique and different that not a lot of people have seen."
Nicknamed Spiderman, Bolingbroke has been competing in trampoline for the past 10 years. Since then, he has increased his mobility and recently scored high enough to earn his Senior Elite status — the highest level in trampoline.
"It's pretty exciting," Bolingbroke said. "Next year I'm hoping to travel a lot more to some bigger competitions. There's the Elite Challenge and Nationals, and I would like to pursue it all the way to Worlds if I can."
Bolingbroke also plans to begin competing in synchronized trampoline with fellow Canadian Cameron McPherson.
Although trampoline has been Bolingbroke's passion for the last decade, tumbling has recently garnered his attention.
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While many Medgar Evers College students are finding their way back to normal routines, we encourage you to be mindful of your peers and residents of surrounding communities who might still be facing challenges and offer to help where you can. The -College has been and will continue to coordinate opportunities to volunteer and we hope you will join us in serving those whose needs are great.
Now that the initial shock of this event has passed, you may begin to experience new emotions and responses that you had not expected. Please know that the Medgar Evers College Counseling Department continues to be an important resource for all students. We encourage you to contact them for assistance. They can be reached at any number below, or you can also email us at email@example.com.
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Applications for compost products must include lab results for pathogens and heavy metals. Composts which have levels above the pathogen threshold will be listed as in a category which has the same restrictions as the Category: Manure-raw. Composts which do not meet the heavy metal requirements may receive a caution statement, or may not be eligible for OMRI listing. For information about maximum allowable levels of pathogens or heavy metals see the Review Standards for Lab Analyses information sheet in your Application Kit (you need to be logged in to the OMRI website to follow the link provided). Depending on the compost type, additional requirements may apply. See compost requirements by category on pages 80-81 of the OMRI Generic Materials section of the OMRI Generic Materials List and in the table below.
If you have ordered an Application Kit, then you can login to the website and access advanced application support materials such as a completed Example Compost Application. The Sample Compost Application is an excellent reference for applicants applying for a product review of a compost product.
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I'm back home, but I'm literally too stupid to be allowed to type right now. The trip itself was fine though I'm a little road weary. And La Crosse is pretty much nothing but bars and Dairy Queens. But having the hotel right next to the highway? Fun.
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Navistar employees look on during an opening ceremony for its new Midwest Parts distribution center in Joliet, IL on Monday June 11, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
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JOLIET — Keep those trucks on the road.
That was the message Monday at Navistar's celebration of its new 860,000-square-foot Midwest Parts Distribution Center in Joliet.
In Will County, so many distribution centers have opened in the past decade that the arrival of another one may not stir a lot of excitement.
But for Navistar, the new Joliet facility is a big deal.
The warehouse handles parts needed to keep the Navistar's International trucks and IC school buses running. Most of the focus Monday was on the trucks.
Chief Executive Officer Dan Ustian emphasized this number: $1,950. It's posted on the wall at the distribution center and represents the estimated cost per day for one trucking firm when it has a truck idled for repairs.
"You can see the criticality of us keeping trucks on the road. That's what this is all about," Ustian told a gathering that included Navistar management, dealers, customers and many of the 147 employees at the facility called Midwest PDC. "You can see what it costs one of our customers to be down. That has to be in the forefront of what we do."
Navistar moved the distribution operation from an older facility in West Chicago. All the employees came with Navistar.
But the way they work is different. Ustian said the company has reduced the time it takes to handle a day's worth of orders to the distribution center from 20 hours to 11 hours.
The Navistar plans serves as a microcosm for why so many companies have opened new distribution facilities in Will County in the last two decades.
More room for organizing warehouses. The Midwest PDC can contain the Willis Tower and its antennas.
Convenient access to major highways. One reason so many employees could move with the warehouse from West Chicago is Interstate 355, which also takes the executives to the corporate office in Lisle.
New space to implement in new ideas.
Midwest PDC in Joliet is the prototype for Navistar's future distribution practices, said Josef Kory, vice president of global distribution operations.
The company has nine distribution centers in North America — six in the United States, two in Canada and one in Mexico.
"We will take the processes that are learned here and start implementing them elsewhere," Kory said.
Midwest PDC is set up to operate with continuous precision. Work progress is monitored by the hour so any delays can be addressed. Parts most in demand are located where they can be most easily reached. And, everything, including the garbage wagons, have their place.
Although the entire building takes up 860,000 square feet, 60 percent of the orders picked each day are done in one 30,000-square-foot section, Kory said. That's because parts are better organized now, he said.
The building is divided into two sections. A regional division handles roughly 10,000 orders a day from 130 Navistar dealers in the Midwest. A national division handles slower-moving parts that go to roughly 1,000 dealers across the United States.
Much attention has been given in recent years to working conditions at local distribution centers, especially third-party providers that handle work for other companies.
Navistar management pointed with pride to their ability to bring their workforce with them from West Chicago.
The workers are union employees represented by the Steelworkers union. Management commended the union's role in the development of new working procedures in Joliet.
But the main focus again and again was on the trucks dependent on quick delivery of parts when down for repairs.
"You take a guy whose got one truck and it's sitting in our shop waiting for a part from Midwest PDC," said Shelby Howard, an owner/dealer with 11 International dealerships. "I can't stress to you enough how important it is that it is the right part, and that we get it on time, and that when it comes to our shop it's not damaged."


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She's hiding from a psychopath. He's hiding from life. Will they survive to find love?
Depressed by injuries that have sidelined his career, Heathcliffe Honeybun heads to a Dude Ranch for some "alone" time. But the ranch's pretty activities director isn't about to let him mope. And if her charms don't keep him interested, Nita's dark and dangerous past most certainly will. Especially when it looks like Heathcliffe has a killer's target on his back.
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Heathcliffe called his cousin Peyton on the way to the guest ranch and found out he wasn't there.
"I had some business to take care of in Texas," he told Heathcliffe. "But I just hired a new activities director. A young widow. She can get you settled. The main and bunkhouse are full through the weekend, but there's a cabin in the woods you can have for a week or so."
"That's perfect. I don't want to do anything while I'm there. Except maybe some riding and ice fishing. I don't need company."
Peyton laughed. "Good luck with that. Nita's very dedicated to her role as "director" of activities. You'll be lucky if she lets you go to the bathroom alone."
Heathcliffe frowned. "We'll see about that."
"Yeah. We will, won't we?" There was laughter in his cousin's tone and Heathcliffe was a little worried about it. He pressed the button on his dash to disconnect the call. The day darkened another shade and raindrops started pinging off the windshield.
"Great. Perfect." He rubbed his knee, where pain had become an almost permanent fixture, and tried to think of something to cheer himself up. He couldn't come up with anything.
It seemed that everyone around him was happy and in love. All the talk of weddings and babies had started to get overwhelming. Heathcliffe had broken up with his latest in a long string of casual girlfriends only a couple of weeks earlier and he found himself unwilling to try again.
For reasons he didn't care to explore too deeply, he'd become soured on love. He'd decided it was highly overrated and none of the women he'd been with over the years had given him even a tiny percentage of the feelings his brothers seemed to be experiencing with their honeys.
He certainly couldn't imagine going through what Edric had just experienced for one.
Speaking of Edric, Heathcliffe's phone pinged and he picked it up, opening the message he'd just received from his brother. It was a picture of Bella, rosy cheeked and smiling widely, with baby Honeybun in her arms. The baby looked much better unplugged, without all that nasty gunk all over her tiny body.
She was asleep, the feathery arcs of her eyebrows resting peacefully against her pink cheeks. One tiny fist was outside her blanket, clenched tightly as she slept.
Heathcliffe found himself grinning at that fist. The kid was gonna be a fighter. Maybe she was a Honeybun after all.
But she still looked like an alien.
The skies opened above the Jeep and Heathcliffe had to settle the phone onto the seat next to him and put both hands on the wheel. For several minutes he could only move forward at a crawl, the thick sheet of rain almost completely obscuring his view of the road ahead.
By the time he'd turned off the highway, onto the gravel road that would take him to the Honeybun Guest Ranch, the rain had finally started to abate. He inhaled as he drove through the overarching curtain of trees that bordered the mile-long drive, savoring the unique scent of the country.
He had a brief moment of déjà vu, remembering his trek south the previous fall to rescue Godric and Dini from the clutches of a killer. He shuddered. By the time that was over, he'd thought he wouldn't ever want to see another tree or smell another field spread with cow manure.
Amazing the difference a couple of months made.
On an impulse he pressed the button to open his window and sucked in a deep breath. He savored the rich scent of trees, freshly trampled grass, and even the slight aroma of manure that filtered across his senses.
The tree line ended and white fencing, framing the wide open expanse of fields, replaced the trees on either side of the gravel drive.
Dotted across the lush fields, equine heads lifted in surprise and interest as the Jeep drove slowly past. Heathcliffe whistled sharply and the horses' ears perked. A big black horse with a thick fringe of hair on its massive feet lifted its elegant head and screamed a greeting.
Heathcliffe laughed as Noire took off running, all the other horses following his lead as he galloped, bucking around the huge field. He was glad Dolfe was wintering the big Friesian at Peyton's place. Heathcliffe looked forward to putting the athletic horse through his paces while he was there.
The drive took a sharp turn and briefly succumbed to a line of huge evergreens before opening up again. The ranch house finally came into view. Heathcliffe drove the Jeep into the circular drive and stopped in front of the long, low log building. He sat staring at it for a few minutes, enjoying his first, in person, view of Peyton's new venture.
A covered porch ran the length of the rambling ranch house. Fall mums, still surviving in the warmer Southern Indiana temps, provided rich, fall color from wood boxes situated under every window. Rich greenery, spotted here and there with bright red berries, overflowed from planters that were shaped like water troughs along the front edge of the porch.
He grabbed his bag and cell phone and climbed out, happy the rain had died to a trickle as he stood and looked around.
A huge fountain in the center of the circular drive featured a bronco on horseback, his hat clutched in one hand and his face stony with determination. Heathcliffe liked the fountain. In fact, he realized, as he slid his gaze over the house and grounds, he liked everything at the Guest Ranch.
"Hello! You must be Heathcliffe?"
He turned as the high-pitched voice pierced the drone of rain hitting his car, looking for its source.
She was standing on the porch, her bright red hair blowing in curly tangles around her small, freckled face. She held her hands out in front of her. They were covered in a white substance that looked like flour. The petite woman smiled as he walked toward her. "I'd offer you my hand but you probably don't want to wear this flour." Her giggle was even more highly pitched than her voice. Heathcliffe found it strangely charming.
He stepped gratefully onto the porch, glad to get out of the building rain. "Hello."
"I'm Nita Harley. Peyton told me you were coming down today." Her bright green eyes widened as she looked at him. "My goodness! You're soaked." Jerking her head toward the house she said, "Let's get you inside. You can sit in front of the fire while I finish making my bread." She turned and entered the house without waiting for his response, leaving flour in her wake on every surface she touched.
Following the softly rounded sway of her heart-shaped butt through a comfortably appointed room with a blazing fireplace on one long wall, Heathcliffe found himself grinning for the second time in only minutes.
He decided coming south might have been a good idea. In fact, as Nita Harley turned at the door, giving him a flour-covered finger wave and grinning widely, he decided it just might have been a very good idea.
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In August, 23 people were arrested for criminal trespass while protesting the state Land Board's decisions, which they say side with companies wanting to export coal overseas.
The protesters claim that coal is harmful to humans and the environment and should be left in the ground.
About 30 people rallied on their behalf in downtown Helena at Constitution Park on Wednesday afternoon.
One of the them, Corey Bressler, said, "China is rampantly increasing their growth of coal-fired power plants and rampantly decreasing the regulation on how they burn that coal. And so, personally, for me, it's just a matter of we have these resources and we need to keep them in the ground for the health of the planet."
Sixteen of the protesters in court are asking for a joint jury trial.
Seven of the protesters waived their right and will have a bench trial.
The defendant's attorneys say they plan to plead the case based on English common law theory which holds the defense of necessity to prevent a greater harm.
The trial is expected to be held sometime in February.
Meanwhile, supporters of the coal industry say while the protesters have a right to rally for their cause, it won't hinder the efforts to continue producing much needed jobs and valuable natural resources.
Bud Clinch, director of the Montana Coal Council, said, "We recognize their right to have their opinion, quite frankly we think the industry as well as the majority of Montanans think differently. We think that coal has a role in the energy future of America and it provides a great revenue source for good employment and a variety of revenues for state, local, and federal governments."
Clinch said that each train hauling coal through Montana pays about $31,000 in local taxes.
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EMC has announced it will acquire Greenplum, a data warehousing and business analytics software firm for an undisclosed sum. EMC will use this acquisition to form the basis of a new Data Computing Products Division led by Bill Cook, CEO of Greenplum, who will report to Pat Gelsinger, COO of EMC's Information Infrastructure Products. To put that statement into perspective, Backup and Recovery Solutions (where Data Domain and other related acquisitions now live) is also a separate EMC division reporting to Gelsinger. BRS is a big division with a lot of products. Therefore, I think one can safely bet … Read more


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Whoosh!! Did you see it!? That was August. In the blink of an eye the last summer month seems to have barely been and now we are suddenly gearing up for the autumn. Having started at the beginning of the growing season all I've known so far is sunshine, warm weather and long busy days of worker bee-like activity. But August did seem to bring with it a deep satisfactory breathe akin to finishing a good day's work and standing back to admire the results. Not that the task list has eased off, but with most things planted and in the ground, the weeds slightly slowing down, and a good old drizzly English summer (compared to the near drought conditions of when I started), the last couple of weeks have certainly had a transitional feel to them.
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The latest Harry Potter film is out and a few spells up the organic grower's rolled up sleeves wouldn't go a miss at the moment. The Impedimenta spell, capable of generally impeding the target's progress, would come in handy for managing some of the weeding. Or the Aguamenti spell, which casts a jet of water, would save shifting irrigation pipes about. Either way, I often seem to get caught up in doing the everyday tasks and forget to actually notice how almost like magic the crops have suddenly grown from the seedlings we were planting not so long ago. In the space of what feels like just a week or two, they seem to have been been cast with an Engorgio spell and suddenly these bountiful looking courgettes, peppers, aubergines and more have appeared.
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I'm now three months into my apprenticeship at North Aston Organics and I'm starting to feel a little more useful about the place and fully into the swing of things. Although, of course there's always something new to learn. No sooner have I got to grips at harvesting leeks, topping and tailing them with swift, deft movements of the Opinel knife that could land me as an extra in a martial arts film, it's time to move on and harness my sugar snap pea spotting abilities and seek out all their hiding places amongst the leaves and tendrils. No matter how many times you go up and down a row more peas always seem to magically appear!
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Objective The purpose of the study was to explore changes in medical students' attitudes toward homeless persons during the Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine clerkships. Simultaneously, this study explored attitudes toward homeless persons held by Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine residents and faculty in an attempt to uncover the "hidden curriculum" in medical education, in which values are communicated from teacher to student outside of the formal instruction.
Method A group of 79 students on Psychiatry and 66 on Emergency Medicine clerkships were surveyed at the beginning and end of their rotation regarding their attitudes toward homeless persons by use of the Health Professionals' Attitudes Toward the Homeless Inventory (HPATHI). The HPATHI was also administered to 31 Psychiatry residents and faculty and 41 Emergency Medicine residents and faculty one time during the course of this study.
Results For Psychiatry clerks, t-tests showed significant differences pre- and post-clerkship experiences on 2 of the 23 items on the HPATHI. No statistically significant differences were noted for the Emergency Medicine students. An analysis of variance revealed statistically significant differences on 7 out of the 23 survey questions for residents and faculty in Psychiatry, as compared with those in Emergency Medicine.
Conclusion Results suggest that medical students showed small differences in their attitudes toward homeless people following clerkships in Psychiatry but not in Emergency Medicine. Regarding resident and faculty results, significant differences between specialties were noted, with Psychiatry residents and faculty exhibiting more favorable attitudes toward homeless persons than residents and faculty in Emergency Medicine. Given that medical student competencies should be addressing the broader social issues of homelessness, medical schools need to first understand the attitudes of medical students to such issues, and then develop curricula to overcome inaccurate or stigmatizing beliefs.
Homeless individuals generally have significant healthcare needs (1–3), yet often have great difficulty in obtaining health care, as evidenced by their high utilization of emergency departments (4). Previous studies have suggested that doctors' lack of specific training in caring for the homeless population and negative attitudes toward homeless persons can create barriers to accessing healthcare for the homeless patient (5). Little formal instruction on the causes of homelessness or the care of individuals experiencing homelessness takes place in medical student education in the United States. A search of the Association of American Medical Colleges Curriculum Management & Information Tool revealed that only 21% of medical schools have formal instruction about the homeless (6). A survey of psychiatric residency programs found that 51% offered clinical experiences that specifically serviced homeless individuals, but only 11% of these were mandatory (7).
As for attitudes toward homeless persons, a 2003 study (8) found that medical students hold more negative attitudes toward homeless people at the end of their medical school curriculum than at the beginning. It was hypothesized that at least some of the change appeared to be due to "negative" contact experiences with homeless patients during the clinical years and with doctors who viewed homeless people as less worthy of medical care. A recent study characterizes medical student attitudes toward poor people as becoming more negative, cynical, and conservative as training progresses (9). These authors point out that when these beliefs combine with individualistic attributions toward poverty, they have the potential to influence the care provided. In comparison to medical students, residents' attitudes change toward homeless persons may indicate a different trend. Buchanan and colleagues (10) showed that residents' attitudes could become more favorable during their training. In their study, primary-care residents who completed a 2-week rotation in homeless healthcare had higher beliefs in societal causes of homelessness and more comfort with homeless people (10).
No research to-date has examined the attitudes of students' pre- and post-specific clerkship experiences with faculty and residents who teach them to examine the effects that the hidden curriculum may have in the development of student attitudes toward the patient populations (11–13). Evaluations at our institution by third-year medical clerks after an ambulatory experience in a clinic serving homeless individuals prompted the current investigation of the attitudes of medical students toward individuals experiencing homelessness. Although students' comments about the rotation were uniformly positive, they revealed that students had significant knowledge deficits in the causes of homelessness before the rotation. This seemed most prominent in the broader socio-economic causes of homelessness, as over 90% of the students indicated that substance abuse and mental illness are major reasons for homelessness, whereas fewer than 50% felt that unaffordable housing was a major factor (14). Since fewer than 20% of our medical students rotate at a homeless clinic, we wondered about the broader attitudes of medical students toward this patient population.
The purpose of the current study was to explore changes in medical students' attitudes toward homeless persons during their psychiatry and emergency medicine clerkships. Simultaneously, this study explored current attitudes toward homeless persons held by Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine residents and faculty in an attempt to uncover the "hidden curriculum" in medical education, in which values are communicated from teacher to student outside of the formal instruction. Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine clerks were selected as the sample population because we believed that these two rotations would provide the most exposure to patients experiencing homelessness. Sampling these two rotations also allowed for the possibility that items relating to mental illness and physical health care might be differentially affected by rotations, which emphasized these areas.
Participants were 145 students (79 third-year students, 66 fourth-year students) and 72 residents and faculty (31 Psychiatry residents and faculty; 41 Emergency Medicine residents and faculty) at one United States community-based medical school. Response rates were 98% for third-year students and 100% for fourth-year students. For faculty and residents, response rates were 46% for Psychiatry and 72% for Emergency Medicine.
The Health Professionals' Attitudes Toward the Homeless Inventory (HPATHI) consists of 23 questions with Likert-type responses ranging from 1: Strongly Disagree to 5: Strongly Agree. The HPATHI has been shown to have an internal consistency reliability (Chronbach's alpha) of 0.88 and a test–retest reliability coefficient of 0.69 (15)
From September 2007 through June 2008, students in their third year and students in their fourth year of medical school in a midsized, midwestern city were surveyed, using the HPATHI, regarding their attitudes toward homeless persons. Students were invited to participate in this study by a faculty member in Psychiatry or in Emergency Medicine at the beginning of their respective clerkships. At our medical school, Psychiatry is a 6-week rotation completed in the third year of medical school, and Emergency Medicine is a 1 month rotation completed in the fourth year of medical school; neither rotation has a formal curriculum on homelessness. However, both of these services provide care to a significant number of uninsured patients, many of whom are homeless. The HPATHI was administered at the beginning and end of the respective clerkships, thus sampling two different cohorts. The HPATHI was also administered to Psychiatry residents and faculty (via campus mailbox) and Emergency Medicine residents and faculty (at Grand Rounds) one time during the course of this study. Informed consent was obtained, and this study was approved through the Institutional Review Board at our university. Permission was granted to use the HPATHI for purposes of the present study (personal communication; D. Rochon, June 25, 2007).
Items on the HPATHI assess attitudes toward homeless persons by measuring an individuals "level of interest and confidence in their ability to deliver healthcare services to the homeless population" (15). For the psychiatry clerkship, t-tests for matched pairs (p <0.05; Bonferroni correction: p <0.002) to determine whether changes in attitudes toward homeless persons occurring in the Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine clerkships showed statistically significant differences for two items. Effect sizes were typical or medium. After completing their Psychiatry clerkship, students were more likely to agree with the statements "Most homeless people are mentally ill;"(t[78] = −4.235; p <0.001; δ=0.485) and "I am comfortable being a primary-care provider for a homeless person with a major mental illness;" (t[78] = −6.009; p <0.001; δ=0.673). For the Emergency Medicine students, no statistically significant differences were noted after their clerkships.
Current attitudes toward homeless persons held by Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine residents and faculty were also investigated. An analysis of variance used to determine whether attitude differences exist between the specialties (p <0.05; Bonferroni correction: p <0.002) revealed statistically significant differences on 7 out of the 23 survey questions. Effect sizes ranged from larger-than-typical to much-larger-than-typical. Means and standard deviations (SD) for statistically significant items are reported in Table 1. As compared with Emergency Medicine faculty and residents, Psychiatry faculty and residents indicated more agreement with the following statements:
"More healthcare dollars should be directed toward serving the poor and homeless." (F [71]=23.97; p <0.001; δ=1.18).
"Doctors should address the physical and social problems of the homeless." (F [71]=11.28; p=0.001; δ=0.809).
"I am interested in working with the underserved." (F [71]=9.98; p=0.002; δ=0.752).
"I enjoy addressing psychosocial issues with patients." (F [71]=129.58; p <0.001; δ=2.80).
"I enjoy learning about the lives of my homeless patients." (F [71]=62.77; p <0.001; δ=1.82).
"I believe social justice is an important part of health care". (F [71]=25.66; p <0.001; δ=1.23).
1: Strongly Disagree; 2: Disagree; 3: Neither Agree Nor Disagree; 4: Agree; 5: Strongly Agree.
Significant at 0.002 level.
Questions from HPATHI provided by Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Rochon DL. Versions of the instrument appear in reference 1515.
As compared with Psychiatry faculty and residents, Emergency Medicine faculty and residents indicated more agreement with the statement: "Homeless people choose to be homeless." (F[71]=10.59; p=0.002; δ=0.785).
Although students' pre-rotation scores demonstrated a fairly good understanding of the problems leading to homelessness, few attitudes about homelessness were changed during these rotations. Only those students on the Psychiatry clerkship showed any movement in their beliefs. Given that Psychiatry rotations are completed in the third year of medical school and Emergency Medicine in the fourth at our medical school, it is possible that the lack of change noted over the course of the Emergency Medicine rotation arose from this difference in the amount of clinical experience the two groups had acquired. That is, the more clinical exposure students have had, the more solidified their beliefs about patients and healthcare have become and the less malleable to change. In this regard, our findings are consistent with other studies, which have described hardening of medical student attitudes as their education progresses (16), with attitudes toward people experiencing homelessness becoming more negative. Also, the Emergency Medicine clerks were more likely to see homeless patients on single occasions, whereas the Psychiatry clerks more often had opportunities to work with homeless patients over a longer period of time. Perhaps the Psychiatry clerks were able to get to know their patients better and thus grew more comfortable in providing care to the homeless-persons population.
It is not surprising that the item that most directly elicits comfort with working with people with mental illness, albeit as a primary-care provider, showed the most change during the psychiatry rotation. Perhaps on these rotations more attention is paid to eliciting information about the patient's social history, including such issues as education and work history, entitlement income and insurance coverage, leading to a broader consideration of access to healthcare. Last, the lack of dramatic changes in student attitude over these rotations could be due to the fact that in neither rotation was a formal effort made in classroom didactic curricula or in the clinical experience to review and discuss the risk factors for people becoming homeless, the characteristics (personal and clinical) of homeless individuals, or any broader social issues of access to healthcare and housing. Psychiatric residents who provide much of the teaching, both formal and informal, to medical students on the inpatient units, are in their first and second year of training at our school, and do not have courses covering these issues until their third year. Except for the few students assigned to the Homeless Clinic for their outpatient psychiatry rotation, most students would have lacked both the concentrated experiential learning and instruction in caring for people who are homeless.
Regarding resident and faculty results, significant differences between specialties were noted. Psychiatric residents and faculty were more likely than Emergency Medicine physicians to believe that more healthcare dollars should be directed to poor and homeless patients, that doctors should address the physical and social problems of homeless persons, endorse an interest in working with underserved groups, enjoy addressing psychosocial issues and learning about the lives of homeless people, and believe that social justice is an important part of healthcare. Emergency Medicine doctors were more likely to believe that people chose to be homeless. Possibly, Emergency Room physicians do not get to know their patients as intimately as psychiatrists do; thus, they do not understand the challenges in the lives of their patients in the same way. Some of these differences may track with differences in attitudes reflected in society, such as more sympathetic attitudes being linked with being younger, female, liberal, and less wealthy (17).
Results of this study should be interpreted in light of its limitations. First, the fact that this is a single-institution study may limit the generalizability of its findings. Second, because the Emergency Medicine clerks had completed the Psychiatry rotation in the year before this study was conducted, threats to internal validity are present in that earlier participation in the Psychiatry clerkship could confound the results for the Emergency Medicine clerks. Third, it is possible that the method for data collection (via campus mailbox versus Grand Rounds) may have confounded the results for residents and faculty in the specialties of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine. Furthermore, response rates differed between the groups, a factor that could also affect the results.
This study gives a snapshot between medical specialties and across levels of training in attitudes toward homeless persons. Medical providers' attitudes toward people experiencing homelessness is not merely an academic issue, but affects whether patients feel welcomed and understood by their doctors (18). The introduction of more formal instruction on these topics linked with a clinical experience may enhance positive changes in students' attitudes toward individuals experiencing homelessness.
Buchanan and colleagues described a rotation in homeless healthcare that showed improvements in attitudes and included clinical experiences, classroom lectures, nonclinical exposure to homeless servicing programs, and reflective and experiential learning activities (10). Nursing education research has produced several descriptions of attitude changes in students after a clinical experience serving homeless individuals by use of methods including focus groups, attitude surveys, and interviews (19–21).
Wear and Kuczewski's (9) recommendations to help improve medical students' attitudes toward poor patients include increasing the socioeconomic diversity of the physician workforce to increase the diversity of perspectives; increasing trainees' empathetic understanding of poverty through a variety of efforts; and increasing the number of positive role-models for trainees. Another opportunity to be further explored would be pairing faculty teaching with student-developed, community-service learning activities working with homeless people, similar to those described by Brown and colleagues (22). Perhaps, linking didactic instruction with formal processing of affectively satisfying service-learning experiences, would be a novel way of enhancing attitude change and empathy without putting further demands on the medical school calendar.
Given that medical student competencies should be addressing the broader social issues of homelessness, disparities in health, the cost of healthcare, access to medical care for uninsured patients, and treating underserved populations, medical schools need to first understand the attitudes of medical students to such issues, and then develop curricula to overcome stigma. Although our study contributes to the literature and moves this discussion forward, much work remains for medical educators.
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Kristjana Helgadóttir and Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
Frum- is a festival for contemporary music taking place in Reykjavik/Iceland in June every year. The goal of the festival is to introduce masterpieces of contemporary music literature - pieces that have already established themselves within music history but nevertheless are seldomly heard in the concert halls of Reykjavík. Additionally selected pieces by young composers from all over the world expand the festival's program. frum- offers a great opportunity to get an international perspective on traditions and trends of contemporary music developments. The festival is organized in cooperation with The Reykjavik Art Museum. The museum's exhibitions allow the audience to experience the music in a creative and stimulating environment.
Musicians: Kristjana Helgadóttir, flutes Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, clarinets
Solo works for alt- and bass flute, clarinet and bass clarinet
Toshio Hosokawa (1955) - Atem-Lied (1997) for bass flute Ruben Sverre Gjertsen (1977) - Murmurando (2010) for bass flute Kaija Saariaho (1952) - Couleurs du vent (1998) for alto flute Dominik Karski (1972) - streamforms (2003) for amplified bass flute
Mark André (1964) - ...IN... (2003) for amplified bass clarinet Jakob Diehl (1978) - Suada (2009) for bass clarinet Franco Donatoni (1927-2000) - Clair (1980) for clarinet Heather Frasch (1975) - Quietly breathing (2012) for bass clarinet and electronics Gérard Grisey (1946-1988) - Charme (1969) for clarinet
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The MFA Annual edition of New American Paintings has quickly become our most popular issue of the year—and rightly so. For nearly two decades, our mission has been to put the work of emerging contemporary artists in the hands of readers, collectors, curators, and painting enthusiasts, and where better to find young, emerging work than in some of best studio programs the country.
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Pepperdine University failed to monitor its athletics program, according to findings by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. This case involved violations in five sports, including incorrect eligibility certifications of transfer student-athletes and non-athletic scholarships awarded to student-athletes without applying the aid to the total number of athletics scholarships allowed. Penalties in this case include three years of probation, a vacation of athletics records and scholarship limitations.
This case was resolved through the summary disposition process, a cooperative effort where the involved parties collectively submit the case to the Committee on Infractions in written form. The NCAA enforcement staff, university and involved individuals must agree to the facts of the case in order for this process to be utilized instead of having a formal hearing.
The committee noted that it is the duty of every NCAA member to devote the resources necessary to put in place a thorough and comprehensive campus-wide compliance system operated by trained staff members, and in this case, the university failed to do so. According to the findings, the university failed to:
Twenty-two transfer student-athletes were incorrectly certified as eligible for competition between 2005-06 and 2009-10 academic years because of an inadequate compliance effort at the university. Due to an oversight, the university later did not seek reinstatement for one of the transfer student-athletes before allowing him to resume competing. The committee noted that the entire responsibility for eligibility certification of student-athletes rested with the faculty athletics representative (FAR), who inherited the duties from a former FAR who used an outdated formula that did not account for all requirements.
From 2007-08, the university's financial aid office "prioritized" students demonstrating particular gifts or talents when awarding non-athletic scholarships. Athletics participation was one of the factors considered to be a gift or talent, so the scholarships awarded should have been, but were not, counted toward team scholarship totals.
An outside audit of the university's athletics program concluded that the university did not devote sufficient manpower to the compliance effort or to educate those involved in applying NCAA rules. The audit recommended strengthening its policies regarding financial aid and rules education. The committee noted the university has started to address the deficiencies and has made significant changes.
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The members of the Division I Committee on Infractions who reviewed this case include Melissa (Missy) Conboy, acting chair of the Committee on Infractions and deputy director of athletics at the University of Notre Dame; Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., attorney; John Black, attorney; Greg Sankey, associate commissioner of compliance for the Southeastern Conference; Eleanor Myers, faculty athletics representative and law professor at Temple University; James O'Fallon, law professor and faculty athletics representative at the University of Oregon; and Christopher L. Griffin, attorney.


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It is the 7th year at Hogwarts. I don't want to play out how "The Trio" is out hunting Horcruxs, but rather the goings on at Hogwarts. Headmaster Snape has instilled strict military like principles into the remaining students of Hogwarts. Students are to be in their rooms by 7 sharp unless otherwise permitted. Punishment is severe for those who break any of the rules. The Carrows will see to that. Dearest Ginny Weasley(Your Character) is sent back to Hogwarts for her 6th year. She is conflicted with her feelings for Harry, who is unheard of and may not return alive. What's a girl to do? Draco Malfoy(My character) has also been sent back to Hogwarts as attendance was mandatory despite his duties to the Dark Lord.
I'm thinking we can leave the rest up for discussion! This will obviously be a Draco/Ginny pairing. No, I will not sub Ginny for an OC. Do not ask!
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