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By: Laura Leist, CPO, productivity consultant and author of Eliminate the Chaos at Work: 25 Techniques to Increase Productivity (Wiley 2011)
Meetings can consume the better part of your day and leave you wondering, "What did I accomplish by attending one meeting after the next?" Before you schedule or attend another meeting, consider the goals and objectives of the meeting first.
Here are 20 techniques you can implement to ensure you are scheduling, managing and participating in productive meetings.
1. Start meetings on time. This shows you respect everyone's time. If you always start meetings late, you are setting an expectation and people will arrive late. Be in your chair a few minutes before the start time.
2. Show up on time. When you show up late, you are telling everyone else that your time is more valuable than theirs -- combined.
3. Use an agenda. Meetings that last more than 20 minutes need an agenda to ensure the group remains focused and the appropriate items are covered.
4. Distribute the agenda prior to the meeting. This allows for prep time that may be necessary, rather than catching attendees off guard or risking those who will attend unprepared.
5. Keep it short. A shorter meeting can accomplish just as much as one that is twice as long.
6. Schedule a 45-minute meeting instead of an hour. Meetings have a way of filling the time scheduled -- don't allow this to happen. Use the extra 15 minutes to accomplish another task, such as: filing meeting notes, inputting tasks as the result of the meeting into your task management system, check voicemail and return a call, grab a snack or take a break!
7. Don't allow scope creep. Discussing an unrelated topic is one of the easiest ways to derail a meeting and will frustrate others. This is another reason an agenda is necessary. If a topic comes up that isn't on the agenda, put it on the parking lot and return to it at a later date, or address it at the end if there is time.
8. Acknowledge the elephant in the room. If there is something standing in the way of making forward progress, acknowledge it up front and move on.
9. Choose an effective moderator or facilitator. If this is not your strength, enlist someone to help. Someone must be responsible for keeping the meeting on topic and moving forward.
10. Conduct meetings while standing. Can you accomplish just as much in a short meeting where you stand than in a longer meeting where you get comfortable in a chair?
11. Listen. Show respect to the person speaking because you'll want the same respect when it's your turn.
12. Stop multitasking. Establish a policy of no e-mail, texting, or web surfing during meetings. If the meeting is short enough this should not be problematic.
13. Be prepared. Don't be caught off guard if someone asks for your opinion or advice. No one appreciates the person that doesn't participate; what's the point of attending?
14. Don't speak just to be heard. Speak only if you have something meaningful to add. People stop listening to those who speak all the time but never really say anything.
15. Follow up. Most meetings are likely to create action items. Though everyone should be responsible for their own to-do's, people get busy. They might forget what they were asked to do or fail to communicate the completion. Designate someone to record action items and post them to a shared document. Someone will still need to remind others of their commitment.
16. Cancel a meeting. If you are the meeting organizer and you realize that you aren't prepared for it, do everyone a favor and reschedule it.
17. Can the meeting be replaced by a phone call? Ensure that every meeting you attend or schedule can't be replaced by a phone call. If a meeting is needed later as a result of the call; schedule it at that time.
18. End the meeting on time; if not early. Never assume that you can continue a meeting after the scheduled end time; you may not be aware of what attendees have scheduled next.
19. Use the calendar scheduling feature in Microsoft Outlook to schedule meetings. You will save time using this feature when scheduling a meeting with those in your company where you can view their calendars. You can also use this to schedule meetings outside your company; you just won't be able to see when someone is available.
20. Use Doodle. Doodle did a study in September 2010 that determined that professionals spend 4.75 hours a week to arrange 8.9 meetings. That amount of wasted time translates into a Friday afternoon off each week! Wouldn't that be more fun?
Productive meetings are possible when you implement these techniques. What can you do immediately to ensure that you're scheduling and managing a productive and efficient meeting?
Author Bio: Laura Leist, CPO is a productivity consultant and author of Eliminate the Chaos at Work: 25 Techniques to Increase Productivity (Wiley 2011). To learn more, visit www.eliminatethechaosatwork.com, follow her on Twitter @LauraLeist or on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/eliminatethechaosatwork.
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When Superior Days got its start 28 years ago, the ultimate goal was to improve the economy in of northern Wisconsin.By: By Shelley Nelson, email@example.com, Superior Telegram
When Superior Days got its start 28 years ago, the ultimate goal was to improve the economy in of northern Wisconsin.
And this week, more than 100 delegates packed meeting rooms in the Capitol throughout the day Tuesday to drive that point home with state agencies.
From regulations that stand in the way of economic development to issues that could enhance economic development efforts in the north, numerous issues on the agenda this year were a direct result of efforts to improve the state of the regional economy.
From building a technology park in Ashland, increasing broadband availability, expanding health and retail sectors, mining legislation and streamlining air permitting for industry and wetland regulations, the issues were many.
"Broadband for economic development and education and quality of life is huge," said Cliff Grand of the Ashland Area Development Corp. "Our population is low, income is low — that doesn't make a good business model for any broadband provider."
Grand cited two issues brought to his attention after he brought up the issue last fall during the Superior Days issues identification meeting.
One involves a disabled veteran who owns architectural and engineering firms in New York, Wauwatosa, Wis., and Ashland, which he calls home. Most of the work is handled out of the Wauwatosa office in the Milwaukee area because the speeds available are greater.
Another involved a woman whose 10th grade daughter uses electronic books, takes tests over the internet and doesn't even have a DSL connection, he said. He said while schools make the assumption that every home has internet connectivity, that's simply not true in rural communities, and the solutions are "costly and cumbersome."
"Economically, education-wise, broadband is just a huge, huge factor in this current marketplace," Grand said.
But northlanders aren't setting their sights on the internet alone.
Good paying jobs could be a boon for a small city like Ashland.
With mining bills making the way through the legislative process, Dale Kupcyzk, director of the Ashland Area Development Corp., asked that mining permitting and reclamation balance the environment and economic benefits for the region.
He said the objective of the issue was neither an endorsement nor effort to discourage mining in the region, but requested that local residents would be given a voice and local communities be given the opportunity to consider the impact of mining and negotiate local agreements.
While a feasibility study has been done and land for the Lake Superior Technology Park has been identified, the region needs funding to purchase the land, build infrastructure for the site, and construct what could be the first of up to 14 buildings for technology-based businesses, said Tim Kane of UW-Extension Bayfield County.
"We've brought this issue down the last couple years and we think it makes a lot of sense, Kane said.
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Ian Meeker, youth educator for Bayfield County UW-Extension, proposed a "concept" that could enhance the region with good-paying jobs — bringing existing state jobs to the northland.
"There have been huge changes in terms of what telecommunications can do — in terms of videoconferencing, sharing files within systems from remote locations," Meeker said. "What we're asking for is could we have a feasibility study, see if this is possible."
The delegation also sought help with a research facility at the U.S. Geological Survey dock for the research vessel Kiyi, built in 2008 and 2009, and an aquaculture education center in Bayfield.
Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said where the structures are concerned, he would need to have more details to enumerate the proposals, get cost estimates and define the state's role in the proposals.
And Huebsch agreed that broadband will be essential to the future of the economy in northern Wisconsin.
"The governor talks about infrastructure all the time," Huebsch said. "When he talks about infrastructure, it's important to recognize that most of it is highways and bridges, but he also talks about our energy infrastructure and technology infrastructure."
He said currently, about 85 percent of all jobs in Wisconsin are within about four or five miles of a major highway.
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OVERVIEW Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was the first international emergency organization to respond to the disaster in many flood-hit areas. Along with local organizations, MSF teams were able to react immediately to meet the needs of people affected by the floods. As the disaster unfolded, MSF expanded operational activities based on its independent assessment of people's needs, following the path of the worst flooding from Balochistan to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and, finally, Sindh. MSF's emergency effort focused on ensuring that people were able to access medical care, free of charge, and had clean water that was safe to drink, so as to prevent possible outbreaks of diseases. MSF also delivered essential goods to help victims of the floods maintain a basic standard of living. At the beginning of the crisis, MSF focused on working where the needs were greatest and reaching as many people as possible. As more aid organizations started up operations in the flood-hit areas, MSF shifted its focus to populations who were difficult to reach. In some areas, communities had become geographically cut off by the floods and reaching them was a logistical challenge. In others areas, people were hard to reach due to insecurity, and at times MSF's efforts were hampered by the compromises made by other aid organizations in accepting armed protection from the police and the military. MSF does not use armed escorts for its staff on principle, nor does it allow weapons inside health facilities where it works. Six months after the floods, many people have started returning to their homes. Others, however, still lack basic needs, such as food and shelter. For this reason, MSF teams in Dera Murad Jamali, in Balochistan Province, and in Johi and Karachi, in Sindh Province, are continuing their activities, running nutrition programs, and providing essential items and transitional shelters. MSF plans to carry on working in Pakistan on long-term projects throughout the country while remaining prepared to respond to any future emergencies that may happen.
I.1. Ensuring immediate access to health care During the floods, numerous local health clinics were damaged by the floodwater, and many collapsed. MSF teams worked to ensure that health facilities could function again: cleaning them, providing a safe supply of water and electricity, donating equipment, and stocking them with medicines. MSF doctors also provided medical support to several hospitals, in outpatient departments, emergency rooms, and medical wards. In the camps for displaced people and in remote areas where many people were without access to health care, medical teams ran 15 mobile clinics to make sure that people had the medical support they need. By the end of January 2011, medical teams had provided a total of 106,616 health consultations to victims of the floods. Many of the health problems they saw were directly flood-related, including diarrhea, skin infections, eye infections, and trauma. Other conditions were unrelated, such as acute respiratory infections, dengue fever, measles, tetanus, and jaundice. Where people have returned to their homes, MSF teams have rehabilitated local health clinics to ensure that returnees have the same level of health care as they did before the floods.
I.2. Responding to outbreaks of diarrhea Teams also set up 22 points for the treatment of severely dehydrated patients and the distribution of hygiene kits and water purification tablets to help halt the outbreak. Health messages promoting hygiene and sanitation were disseminated in several camps and villages to stop the diarrhea outbreak from spreading.
I.3. Responding to malnutrition The floods destroyed the harvest and damaged farmers' fields while affecting the next season's harvest, as well. As a result, malnutrition has been a problem among flood victims. From the earliest days of the emergency, treating malnutrition was part of the mobile clinics' activities in Sindh and Balochistan provinces. Medical teams began by screening children under five years old and pregnant and lactating women. This was done by measuring their middle upper arm circumference and calculating their height-to-weight ratio. People identified as malnourished were provided with ready-to-use food and weekly check-ups at MSF's outpatient feeding centers. Those who were severely malnourished and suffering from medical complications or opportunistic diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, or pneumonia, were admitted to inpatient feeding centers. There they received specialized care until they were well enough to join the outpatient feeding programs. MSF also ran a center in one of the camps for displaced people. Teams provided daily care for malnourished children who were refusing to eat or failing to gain weight. Those affected by the floods frequently moved from place to place, and it was a challenge for the nutrition teams to make sure that malnourished children completed their full treatment program. MSF health promotion teams working in the camps and in the inpatient therapeutic feeding centers helped to boost mothers' understanding of the treatment process and raise their awareness of the importance of breastfeeding, good nutrition, hygiene, and disease prevention measures. By the end of January 2011, MSF medical teams had screened over 97,000 children and pregnant or lactating women for malnutrition, and had treated 8,800 malnourished children. Teams in Jamshoro and Karachi are continuing to monitor the nutrition situation closely in case the need for further assistance should arise.
I.4. Looking after the health of mothers and children Pakistan 2010 © Ton Koene Babies whose mothers had had complicated deliveries were transferred from the MSF-run maternity ward in Dera Murad Jamali to an around-the-clock nursery next to the inpatient department. Between August 2010 and January 2011, 339 newborns were admitted to the nursery. "I was very worried that neither my baby nor I would survive because of the problems with my pregnancy, but the Caesarean section saved both of us. He is healthy and safe and I am now a happy mother." —Patient at the MSF-supported hospital for mother-and-child healthcare, Dera Murad Jamali, Balochistan Province
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I.6. Health promotion activities At the beginning of the emergency, health promotion workers developed health messages to promote hygiene and sanitation in various camps and villages to mitigate the risk of an epidemic. As the emergency phase wound down, the health promotion workers adapted their work to people's needs, from raising awareness about hygiene and disease prevention measures to increasing knowledge about breastfeeding issues, malnutrition and chronic diseases.
II. WATER AND SANITATION "This new water tank in the camp means I won't have to walk to the water distribution points and wait for a long time. Now I can collect water whenever I want." —14-year-old Muhammad Khan in a camp in Jamshoro, Sindh Province The floods destroyed much of the infrastructure for supplying water while also contaminating water sources in various parts of the country. This caused severe shortages of clean water in flood-ravaged areas and posed a serious threat of epidemics. Preventing waterborne diseases was one of MSF's top priorities, and teams rushed to rehabilitate local water delivery systems while trucking clean water to families who needed it. They installed water points, water tanks, water bladders, and water taps, and provided jerry cans, hygiene kits and water purification tablets to communities to ensure that flood survivors had constant access to clean water. The teams also helped chlorinate water in health facilities to ensure that sick people were not given the same contaminated water that had made them ill in the first place. They also constructed latrines, showers and hand-washing points so that people had adequate sanitation facilities. The water and sanitation teams are continuing to repair damaged hand pumps and to install new hand pumps to make sure that people returning to their homes have a good supply of clean water. By January 2011, the teams had provided 2.1 million liters of safe water a day, installed 271 hand pumps, and ensured that each flood-affected person had at least 10 liters of water per day. They also installed 709 latrines, 280 showers and 130 hand-washing points for individuals and families living in camps and temporary shelters.
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Since 1988, MSF has been providing medical assistance to Pakistani nationals and Afghan refugees suffering from the effects of armed conflicts, poor access to health care, and natural disasters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Punjab, and Sindh provinces, as well as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and in Kashmir. MSF does not accept funding from any government for its work in Pakistan and chooses to rely solely on private donations. |
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The Tenacity of Hope God is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity
Survived and Flourished in Communist China
By Liao Yiwu (Translated by Wenguang Huang)
(HarperCollins 231pp £18.99)
Above the main entrance of West- minster Abbey, carved in French Richemont limestone, ten life-size sculptures of twentieth-century martyrs peer into the distance. Martin Luther King is shown with outstretched arms in a welcoming and protective gesture, an infant huddled at his feet; but how many visitors would recognise Wang Zhiming, a Protestant minister executed in 1973 during the Cultural Revolution?
Liao Yiwu first heard of Wang when wandering through some of the most inaccessible villages in the hills of Yunnan, China's southwestern province. A fearless critic of the communist regime and indefatigable collector of the life stories of the downtrodden, Liao is the author of The Corpse Walker, translated into English in 2008. That book recounts the tales of some of the regime's outcasts, from street performers, official renegades, political pariahs and impoverished farmers to shamans, crooks and even cannibals. Liao only became interested in the fate of Christians after meeting the preacher of an underground Protestant church when visiting a friend in Beijing a few years ago. He was sceptical of any form of religious belief, but admired the courage of the underground Christians. After the preacher was arrested, Liao began to research the Christian faith in China. It was the beginning of a long journey, one in which Liao remained a non-believer but learned to respect the faith of millions of impoverished farmers who find hope and meaning in Christianity, despite official persecution.
Liao tracked down Wang Zhiming's son in a cavernous courtyard house set against lush, subtropical mountains. He listened to the 67-year-old man, 'short, sturdy, like a tree stump', recount how in 1926 his father had started preaching in some of the province's most deprived regions. Christianity developed very slowly in China in the nineteenth century, but local preachers like Wang helped accelerate its indigenous growth. Before the communist conquest in 1949 there were approximately three million Catholics and one million Protestants. With the advent of communism all religious activities were decried as 'backward' and 'superstitious'. Buddhist monasteries were seized during the land reforms and monks forced to work in the fields after being denounced as parasites sucking the blood of the masses. Taoism was denounced as a 'secret society' plotting for a return of the old order. Christians too were singled out for persecution. In 1954 Wang Zhiming was sent to prison for 'refusing to mend his ways and continuing to engage in religious and spying activities'. He was soon released but for more than a decade became a target in every political campaign. (Even before the Cultural Revolution started some believers endured three hundred public condemnation meetings.)
In 1966 Red Guards ransacked Wang's house, and the whole family was paraded from village to village, being beaten and spat upon countless times. One morning a few years later, two soldiers kicked down the courtyard door and arrested Wang. He was held for four years. The day before his execution his family was allowed to visit him. 'Thin, like a skeleton', his hair grey, he hobbled towards them with shackled ankles; he was still a believer. The following day he was condemned at a public show trial, paraded through the streets and taken away to be shot – after his tongue was cut out to prevent him from preaching. No public funeral was allowed, although between seventy and eighty farmers defied the militia who guarded the village, quietly passing through the house in the middle of the night to pay their last respects.
As one of China's most persecuted writers, the author of this book developed a kinship with Chinese Christians in their stubborn commitment to freedom of expression and their search for meaning in a society obsessed by material wealth and impoverished by collective amnesia. During his journey through the religious underworld Liao came to admire the eloquence that comes with a suppressed faith. Some of the village women he spoke to were barely literate, and had been deprived of the right to speak for decades. They 'did not so much tell their stories as perform them', with dramatic variation of tone and outbursts of tears: 'They were true storytellers. I was a meager scribbler compared with their gift.'
The eighteen loosely connected interviews and essays in God is Red record a broad range of voices, from Li Linshan, a poor tailor dying of cancer and unable to afford medical treatment, who finds spiritual sustenance in religion, to Dr Sun, a successful surgeon in a medical school, who abandons everything to care for the sick and poor in the remote mountains of China's southwest.
These vibrant, mesmerising tales are often all that is left of the past. During the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards vandalised most remnants of religion, and now bland and uniform shopping malls, office towers and housing developments sweep away traditional courtyard houses and old streets. As Liao discovered during his journey deep into the hinterland, the bulldozers reach everywhere, erasing every last trace of a Christian past. On one occasion, having trekked along remote mountain paths in search of a missionary cemetery, he finally came upon an excavator, 'its metallic arm convulsing like the leg of a giant cockroach': the headstones were being extracted by property developers who prize high quality stone.
As I looked down at the uneven ground beneath my feet, I could see broken and jagged pieces of stone and, as I focused on the pieces, groups of letters from the Roman alphabet and then whole words, in English, and crosses.
George Clarke, one of the first missionaries in the region, had founded this cem-
Literary Review | d e c 2 0 1 1 / j a n 2 0 1 2 6 r l f a d etery over a century ago. The true legacy of these early efforts, however, takes the form of the many converts who flock back to Christianity today, as religion offers some sense of spirituality and meaning in the midst of grinding poverty and rampant corruption. Since so many of the converts belong to underground churches it is impossible to come up with exact numbers, but most independent estimates range from 40 to 70 million, possibly as many as 130 million Christians, most of them in the countryside. Some of us may hold that God is a delusion, but readers will surely share Liao Yiwu's admiration for the resilience and courage of those who, in China, fight against all odds to preserve their faith, illuminating in the process much bigger issues: how ordinary people struggle to keep their hope and dignity intact when faced with the daily reality of a one-party state. q h i s t o r y c h r i s t o p h e r a n dre w
For Your Eyes Only Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
By Robert Service (Macmillan 440pp £25)
Robert Service is well known for his impressive biographies of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Spies and Commissars is his most vividly written book so far. Its subject is the 'dynamic interaction between Russia and the West' during the early years of Bolshevik rule, which, Service argues, was shaped not merely by political leaders on both sides but also by 'an extraordinary miscellany of people': spies, commissars, diplomats, reporters, unofficial intermediaries, intellectuals, opportunistic businessmen and casual travellers.
Colourful characters abound. In the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University, Service's main source of new material, he has uncovered possibly the most preposterously named intelligence officer of the early twentieth century, Monsieur Faux-Pas Bidet, who was partly responsible for expelling Trotsky from France in 1916. Trotsky turned the tables on Faux-Pas Bidet after he was arrested during a mission to Russia in 1918, subjecting him to a sarcastic interrogation which left Faux-Pas Bidet persuaded that Bolshevik rule was more strongly established than he had previously supposed.
The best known of the Western conspirators against the infant Bolshevik regime was the junior British diplomat, Robert Bruce Lockhart, the leading figure in the inept 'envoys' plot' (sometimes called the 'Lockhart plot'), which was easily penetrated by the Cheka, the Leninist forerunner of the KGB. The KGB later claimed, with characteristic hyperbole, that this 'shattering blow dealt by the Chekists to the conspirators was equivalent to victory in a major military battle'. In reality, the envoys' plot was the brainchild not of an organised coalition of capitalist governments but of a group of politically naive Western diplomats and secret agents left largely to their own devices during the first chaotic year of Bolshevik rule.
Though arrested after the envoys' plot was publicly revealed, Lockhart and other British officials were allowed to return to London in October 1918 in return for the release of Soviet officials imprisoned in Britain, among them the future Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinov. Lockhart's memoirs contain an extraordinary (but, as Service suggests, probably authentic) account of his final meeting with Yakov Peters, deputy head of the Cheka, before his return home. 'I have a favour to ask of you,' Peters said. 'Will you give this letter to my English wife?' To help Lockhart identify his wife, Peters gave him several photos of her, before having second thoughts. 'No,' he said, 'I shan't trouble you. As soon as you're out of here you'll blaspheme and curse me as your worst enemy.' Lockhart told Peters not to be a fool, took the letter and delivered it to Mrs Peters on his
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Senior CommUnity meals are served at four dining sites in Delta County — Cedaredge Community Center (Monday-Thursday), Delta Community Center (Monday-Friday), Hotchkiss Senior Center (Monday-Thursday) and Paonia Senior Citizen Center (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). Meals on Wheels are also delivered from each location.
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His Excellency the Gov. Ric Todd and the Bankers Association ready say they support local businesses and entrepreneurs seeking advice and financial assistance. "I felt it was important to issue this joint statement from the government and the banking industry to reassure small business operators and entrepreneurs considering entering the commercial world that there are sympathetic people in the local banking industry ready and willing to assist them in developing their businesses and achieving their goals," the governor said at the close of a Feb. 23 summit. The summit concluded that there is already considerable support available to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the joint statement said. This includes advice, training and support from the government Small Business Unit and the strong determination of the retail banks to support and lend to sound small businesses. The summit also concluded that there could be better coordination and mutual support between government and the retail banks, working with the Banker's Association. The agreement to put in place a mechanism to enhance coordination between the government Small Business Unit and the retail banks aims to provide active assistance to small businesses in preparing them to meet requirements for seeking financial support from local banking institutions, according to the statement. This new system will include specialist representatives of the Banker's Association, officers from the government Small Business Unit and representatives from the Governor's Office. The key objective of the mechanism is to provide practical support in the form of training, mentoring and advice to existing and prospective business people, the statement said. By providing such additional support it is hoped to enhance the capabilities of the small business sector, improve the professionalism of their business planning and modelling, and make small enterprises across the TCI more attractive, credit worthy propositions for the banks. The summit agreed to meet again in June to assess progress and review the situation. "The banking industry welcomes the governor's initiative and is delighted to confirm that retail banking operations across the islands are able to offer a range of services specifically designed for small businesses and start-ups," said Anton Faessler, president of the Banker's Association. "These include tailored loans, lines of credit, business banking and financial advice. We welcome customers old and new to contact us to discuss their particular requirements in more detail."
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AlertHow Does MSF Share its Medical Findings?January 31, 2013This article is part of the Winter 2013 issue of the MSF Alert newsletter. Sierra Leone 2012 © Lynsey Addario/VII
Patricia Kahn is an MSF Medical Editor based in New York. In 2012, MSF published more than 100 papers, including some in leading journals like The Lancet and PLoS Medicine. Just before the big international AIDS conference last year, we had a very visible policy article in Science on scaling up HIV treatment. We also publish in more specialized journals, on topics like malnutrition, maternal health, and neglected tropical diseases. Some of what we publish is based on MSF research that assesses the effectiveness in the field of different diagnostics, treatments, or program strategies. We have to adapt a lot of methods and practices that were developed for Western health care conditions—so, for example, we might evaluate a newer, shorter, or simpler treatment against a standard one. Some of our research concerns programmatic innovations, the results of decisions to work with our patients in ways that fit their context better. And some of our publications don't cover research per se, but present perspectives from doctors on the front lines, viewpoints we think should be part of the medical literature. In addition to sharing our findings with the medical community, these articles can help us advocate for changes in policy. When MSF shows in a peer-reviewed medical journal that one practice works better than another, it helps a Head of Mission say to Ministry of Health officials, "We'd like to introduce this innovation, we'd like to vaccinate, for example, in response to an outbreak." Vaccination is usually viewed as a preventive intervention used in advance of outbreaks. But there are examples, such as measles, where MSF has shown the value of reactive vaccination campaigns—i.e. vaccination after an outbreak has begun. MSF's data played a big role in the World Health Organization's decision to recommend reactive vaccination in some circumstances after measles outbreaks. You can't come into a country and just do any medical intervention. Countries have guidelines. There are international guidelines as well, particularly from the WHO. In quite a number of cases, MSF research has played a role in moving national and international guidelines towards better practices that lead to better outcomes for patients. Related:
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November 5, 2011, Springfield, Ohio — DePauw's women trailed by one point entering the final event of the day at Wittenberg, but the hosts won the 200-yard freestyle relay by one-half second to claim a 152-146 win over the Tigers. DePauw dropped to 0-2 on the season.
Emily Weber picked up the Tigers' first win of the afternoon with a 10:58.60 time in the 1000 free and Emma Haynes won the 100 backstroke in 1:03.44.
Morgan Crandall won the one-meter diving competition with 189.25 points and Chelsea Courtney took first on the three-meter board with 171.25 points. Weber posted her second first of the day in the 500 free in 5:21.79 before Catie Baker won the 200 individual medley in 2:12.96.
DePauw returns to action on Friday, November 18, when it hosts Wheaton (Ill.) at 6 p.m.
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Jesse James Garrett , the man who coined the term 'Ajax' and president of Adaptive Path, has been talking to us about usability and the user experience. It makes for a great read.
Jesse's book, The Elements of User Experience, is one of the most widely read books on user-centred design, and he was recently named as one of the top ten user experience experts in an E-consultancy survey.
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Thousands of applications have been created on Facebook's open platform since the social network opened up to developers earlier this year. But launching one, and generating interest, is not necessarily easy.
'Attitudinal matching' company Synature is one UK firm that has already taken the plunge, launching a version of its qubox software that allows Facebook members to search for like-minded people on the site, as well as potentially becoming a platform for targeted advertising. Here, John Woods, its CEO, talks about the challenges the company faced, and why he thinks the API can be a significant opportunity for brands.
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Warner Breaks' Matthew Finch has over eight years experience in the online world, starting out as a developer before moving into e-commerce, online marketing and strategy. He oversees online marketing for Warner Breaks where he has significantly increased online sales and received a number of awards for campaigns.
Here, Mat talks about targeting older internet users - an untapped opportunity for many online marketers...
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We recently reported on the launch of Seedcamp, a VC-backed project that will provide a shot in the arm to Europe's technology startups. I caught up with Seedcamp founder Saul Klein to find out more...
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Are you catering for the thousands of people in the UK whose first language isn't English? If not, you might be missing a trick.
Here, we speak to E.ON UK new media manager Paul Squires about its multi-lingual content strategy and the potential boost it can give to customer service and sales.
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Next month, Wunderloop is set to launch an online exchange for behavioural targeting-based advertising in several European countries, including the UK.
Backed by big name investors including Niklas Zennström, Klaus Hommels and Howard Hartenbaum, and in beta since March, the exchange aims to provide brands with more information on web users' interests and improve the effectiveness and relevance of digital ads. Sounds good to us.
We spoke to the firm's Turlough Martin about some of the bluster surrounding behavioural targeting, what the exchange can offer to advertisers and publishers, and how it is preparing to extend its technology onto new platforms like IPTV.
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Mark Patron was appointed chief executive of RedEye in November last year. He talks to us about trends in the web analytics sector...
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Scott Switzer is the co-founder of open source ad serving company OpenAds. Launched several years ago as the tech arm of Unanimis, it has long been billed as a threat to online ad networks by giving publishers more power to pick the ads they display. Twenty five thousand of them are now using the site.
Here, Scott talks about OpenAds' upcoming move into new formats, as well as its recent funding by a group of well-known VCs.
by Richard Maven 03 July 2007 11:32am 1 comment
ValueClick Europe CEO Carl White talks about consolidation, integrated marketing, behavioural targeting and the influence of Google.
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E-consultancy this week publishes its Online Retail Checkout Special Report, a must-read for e-commerce site owners who want to understand how they can reduce abandonment rates.
Here, Dr Mike Baxter, the author, talks about some of the key issues and problem areas associated with checkouts - and some of the 'quick wins' for etailers.
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Last week, we told you about our massive dog fighting bust that spanned multiple states and resulted in the removal of 367 dogs and puppies. We gave you an inside look with our on-the-scene video, and now we have a first-person account from the rescue. Below is a guest blog by Tim Rickey, Vice President of the ASPCA's Field Investigations & Response Team, reflecting on what he found during the raid and the terrible fate of dog fighting victims.
When I first walked on the property, I stared across the yard and saw more than 100 dogs, most of them tied to heavy log chains, anchored to dilapidated dog houses. The dogs ranged from old to young, living on a worn dirt ring that likely had seen generations of dogs come and go to a sad fate.
Most were chained nose-to-nose to their neighbors to ensure continuous arousal.
I first thought of what a grim fate many of these dogs would have met without our intervention that day. But as I looked at a young, weeks-old puppy with one glance, and an aging, 10-year-old senior with another, my thoughts quickly turned to the long, lonely and painful journey of a fighting dog's life.
This cycle begins with being chained at such an early age with little to no positive human or animal interaction. The burden continues with heavy chains, often with additional weights, to drag around their entire lives. The constant noise, arousal and anxiousness push them towards aggression to or from their yard mates. If they don't respond, their life may end quickly, but if they do, they have sealed their fate of a long, torturous life.
Their only reprieve from the chain is death or brief release to be tested against another dog, eventually going back to the chain with little attention to their wounds. What follows is weeks of intense training and significant human interaction with the person who will commit the ultimate betrayal and force them into a barbaric battle for entertainment and profit. If they survive, they go back again to the chain: A vicious cycle that could go on for years until these dogs finally have no value or fight left in them and are discarded.
Our responders are still on the ground, so please stay tuned to aspcarescue.org for more news to come. Follow the conversation on Twitter using hashtag #367rescue.
If now is a good time for you to give, please consider making a gift to the ASPCA. Thank you for helping us support cruelty victims nationwide.
There is a special place in Hell for people who do this. . .
I don't understand how people can be so heartless and have no soul. Every time I read a story about pit bulls, whether it is about dog fighting or not, I think of my 2 at home. It absolutely breaks my heart to think that people can be like this. Thank goodness for the ASPCA for the work that they do to rescue these innocence, helpless dogs. No animal deserves to be treated like this. Animals were not put on this earth for us to use and abuse. The people who did this should have the same punishment done to them that they put these dogs through. I hope all of these dogs get a wonderful 2nd chance at a good life. They all deserve one.
I think these horrible people should be chained outside as a punishment for the torture these cowards put these dogs through.
We have to keep working to make penalties stiffer and making the public aware of the horrible lives these dogs have. The stigma of pits is so negative, they dont realize what wonderful dogs they are, how they love in a way that is so different than most dogs. My Apple is a rescue and I use her as an ambassador for pitbull, showing people that they are loving and well behaved with the right owners.
I think these horrible people should be chained outside as a punishment for the torture these cowards put these dogs through.
I cannot comprehend how people (I use that term loosley) can actually live with themselves whilst doing this to these dogs whose only ambition it is, is to show love and affection to us. A dog will be faithful to the end no matter how bad he/she is treated.
It actually infuriates me how people call it a sport.
I have always had a dog until 5 years ago when I had to make the hardest decision in my life. I would have given anything not to make it however she gave me 10 absolutely great years and was my faithful companion. She asked for nothing but gave everything.
In my opinion the people that are responsible for these actions should be chained up to feel what it is like. Then see how much they enjoy it.
Thank you thank you thank you! You wonderful brave people!
Thank you, ASPCA, for the work that you do!
Wow, it's hard to believe that a human would do this to an animal. One wonders what is becoming of our world that a small handful of wonderful people take such care of our animals, and others, just don't see the harm they do. The punishment should be, put them in a ring to fight each other, till the death, so they can feel what these poor poor animals must feel like. Disgusting how cruel humans are.


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After over a year of inactivity, the Rangers have returned to pile the Scourge corpses high!
Current Activities: The Rangers are only just now getting restarted after my months-long hiatus, so if you're interested in becoming a member, follow the instructions in the "How do I join?" section! Come on, what's the worst that could happen? *Whilst dodging Elite Succubus arrows*
On that note, you don't even have to be Mythic, level 40, 30, or even 20. You can join as low as level 5. Really.
I'm also trying to organize scheduling that will work for the majority of people, so if you're interested, go post down there and tell me what's available to you.
Oh, and that shiny picture up there? Yeah. That's the emblem. We finally have an emblem! \o/ The flower is an almond blossom, for anyone that's curious or is going to end up describing it sometime.
Also, if a kindly DM happens to look in here, could the old thread please be unstickied and this one stickied in its place? - Done, thank you Gotrek!
Here's a list of what we do!
* The Rangers primarily are an organized Scourge-hunting group, therefore, that is the top priority.
* Large organized dragon hunts are also frequent!
* Willing to help with major quests, even for non-members! (Unga, Blackavar, Omadon, Heart of the Scourge, etc.)
* Gathering rare and hard-to-get crafting ingredients in a more timely fashion than soloing
The Rangers can fill many other roles as well, these are just the main and most frequent ones. If you'd like to request aid from the group for an unusual task, please either post in this thread or send me a PM. We're also meant to be able to run just fine without DM intervention, though of course DM attention is always welcome! It's just meant to be so that we won't be crippled at all without a DM on the scene for every single session.
The standard meeting time will be Fridays at 8:00 PM (Sydney), at the Killing Fields (south of Tobaro).
The next session is yet to be announced
It's also worth mentioning that even though I'm in the US (and therefore 17 hours behind the Australian east coast timezone), I will always refer to scheduling in an Australian timezone, rather than my US timezone, to avoid confusion.
The killing Fields are located as shown on this minimap of the area south of Tobaro:
If you want to join the Rangers, please post here or PM me. However, there are certain criteria - but they're relatively loose rules and most are flexible to a point.
* The Rangers can be called a generally Neutral Good-aligned group, with some Chaotic tendencies. Therefore, good and neutral characters are typically in the best position for membership.
* However, evil characters may be allowed to join - but keep in mind that blatantly evil actions will not be tolerated, and there will be a close eye kept on you. This is on a case-by-case basis, since every character is different.
* If you are working with or wish to join the Scourge, you cannot join. (And probably shouldn't flaunt it in front of a Scourge-hunting group.)
* The Rangers are primarily a surfacer faction. However, Underdark characters may join (as long as they meet the other criteria).
* You must have an Enlistment Badge or an Underdark Army Badge. (By extension, this means that you must be at least level 5.)
* All character builds are welcome!
Upon joining, the character is expected to dedicate themselves to fighting the Scourge wherever they arise (to the best of their abilities). To affiliate with or join the Scourge will be regarded as the ultimate dishonor to the group, and the character will have their membership revoked without question.
If you're not sure whether your character will be allowed to join or not, please PM me with your questions/concerns.
Currently, the Rangers don't have a set ranking system (with lieutenants and the like). This might change in the future if everyone wants and agrees on a set ranking system. Also, if it's wanted, I'll make a public member list in this section. It would be totally optional whether you want your name here or not. (As a courtesy to characters that may want to hide their alliance with the Rangers)
For now, the only official ranking is: Arkuel Fay'drithe - Group Leader (played by me)
I'm willing to involve the Rangers in special events, such as PvP challenges, large DM-run plots, player-created stories, etc. If you have a special event you want the Rangers involved in specifically, please post here or PM me. I might also set up special events myself.
Edon Rangers emblem above drawn by me