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Library History as a Community

Library History as a Community

ACR Presidential Address: Rheumatologists-Folks You Can Trust.

ACR Presidential Address: Rheumatologists-Folks You Can Trust.

The prescribing safety assessment: Looking to the future.

The prescribing safety assessment: Looking to the future.

ASHP Pharmacy Technician Forum Executive Committee.

When Becky Ohrmund first signed on with her local Walgreens as a pharmacy technician in 2003, she was simply in need of a job. But she found it to be such a terrific fit, and something she was so passionate about, that she has remained in the pharmacy technician world ever since. Ohrmund, now a lead pharmacy technician specialist at Northwestern Medicine’s Lake Forest Hospital in Illinois, spends her days coleading a team of 20-plus pharmacy technicians and running the day-to-day operations of a busy hospital central pharmacy. The work includes technician training, controlled substances diversion prevention, and purchasing supplies and medications. She also enjoys mentoring new technicians and helping them discover what’s possible in their careers. In doing so, she calls upon her own varied experiences. In her 10 years at Walgreens, she advanced to a senior technician, learning the ins and outs of reimbursement and insurance along the way. Then she worked for Express Scripts, first as a data-entry technician and then as a senior intervention technician, resolving prior authorization requests and investigating other insurance issues. From there, Ohrmund transitioned to a lead role assisting one supervisor and a team of 20 to 30 data-entry technicians.

From the History of the struggle against Soviet power in Abkhazia (1921-1931)

           Questions of the history of Abkhazia in the 20-30s of the XX century are poorly studied. This is especially true of anti-Soviet speeches, since not all materials are yet available and in Soviet historiography these events were silent. Our article deals with one of understudied topics. In February 1921, the Red Army of Soviet Russia invaded Georgia. Soviet power was established in Georgia. On March 4, after prolonged fighting, units of the Red Army entered the city of Sukhumi. The chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Abkhazia, the Georgian Bolshevik I. Zhvania, proclaimed the establishment of Soviet power. Fight against Russian occupation and puppet Soviet government flared up in Georgia from the very first days. It is noteworthy that on the second day of the capture of Sukhumi By the Red Army, on March 5, a large protest rally was held here. Despite the resistance of the new government, in 1921 May 26 - Independence Day. Georgia - was widely noted throughout Georgia, including in Abkhazia.         At the beginning of May 1922, branches of the Extraordinary Commissions began arrests throughout Georgia. This event was of a preventive nature in connection with the upcoming Day Independence - May 26 [16, p. 325]. May 12 to the Kodori district branch of the Abkhazchek received a notification that performances were scheduled for May 26. It was found, that an illegal organization operated in the city of Ochamchira, whose members were engaged in anti-Soviet propaganda in the villages and prepared an armed uprising. According to the investigative materials, the purpose of the uprising was "to remind and show Europe that the Abkhaz and Georgian peoples are striving for the return of Menshevik power, and that the dream of a former independent Menshevik Georgia has not died out among the population”  Abkhazcheka arrested members of an illegal organization: Mushni Dadeshkeliani, Alexandra Machavariani, Vasili Kvaratskhelia, Tamshuga Anchabadze, Nestor Anua, Seitbeya Dzyapsh-Ipa, Tatasha Dzyapsh-Ipa, Alexander Marshania, Krbeya Marshania and others, total 47 people. They were sentenced to various punishments. many members illegal organization, including Nestor Dadiani, brothers Mushni and Otar Dadiani, Astamur Dzyapsh-Ipa, Vasili Gurjua, member of the Constituent Assembly of Georgia in 1919-1921 and others managed to escape.  In 1922-1923. an anti-Soviet organization operated in Abkhazia, which close She had contacts with the leaders of the anti-Soviet movement in Tbilisi. One of The head of the organization was David Mkheidze, a graduate of the Voronezh Cadet corps, participant in the World War, awarded for bravery with two St.crosses and golden weapons. He served in the army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, after the establishment of Soviet power, he lived in Sukhumi, was part of the anti-Soviet group operating in Abkhazia. At the beginning of April 1923, members of this organizations, including David Mkheidze, but due to lack of evidence, was released  At the end of August 1924, an anti-Soviet uprising began in Georgia. Insurrection also affected Abkhazia. On the night of August 29, the rebels under the leadership of Constantine Dadeshkeliani took power in the Kodori Gorge, protests took place in the villages Samurzakan district, including in the Saberio region, where the uprising was led by Chkhotua.  On April 17, 1930, the III session of the Central Executive Committee of Abkhazia discussed the issue of revising the status Abkhazia. The Abkhaz government's note prepared for the CEC session stated:“Due to the fact that the treaty of December 16, 1921 has lost its real significance and, therefore, it can only be regarded as an agreement on the unification of the SSR Abkhazia with the SSR Georgia, and the actual relationship of these republics was exactly defined in their constitutions - it must be recognized that the name of the contractual SSR. Abkhazia has no real content.”  The session of the CEC of Abkhazia withdrew from of the Constitution, the concept of "treaty republic", replacing it with the concept of "autonomous republic". On February 11, 1931, the changes in the Constitution were approved by the VI Congress of Soviets     Abkhazia and decided: “Include Abkhazia on an autonomous basis in the Georgian. Soviet Socialist Republic" [10, p. 506]. February 14, 1931 VI Congress of Soviets Georgia confirmed the decisions of the VI Congress of Soviets of Abkhazia.

From the Mast-Head

From the Mast-Head Brian Yothers We begin a new year and a new three-year cycle of Leviathan issues this spring. This new cycle for Leviathan corresponds with new terms for the leadership of The Melville Society as a whole, and I want to pause for a moment in this column to thank our Society leadership from the least three years, as this last three-year cycle has posed challenges of the sort that scholarly societies and journals do not routinely encounter, not least because of the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has set the terms for our work in many ways since March of 2020. We have a great deal to celebrate as we begin our new cycle, from a highly successful conference in Paris that constitutes much of the subject matter for this issue to the fact that we are now celebrating our twenty-fifth anniversary as a journal, as indicated by the twenty-fifth anniversary logo on our cover designed by Karen Coughlin in consultation with Mary Alice Fallon Yeskey. The Melville Society has benefited immensely from the commitment of its officers and committee members, not only to keeping the Society going, but also to ensuring that the growth and development of the Society and journal continue. I want to begin by thanking our officers and committee members from the last three years. Our three presidents, Samuel Otter, Timothy Marr, and Rodrigo Lazo, have all helped to ensure the strength of the organization during the pandemic and have gone beyond the traditionally ceremonial role of president in their contributions to the flourishing of The Melville Society. Our Executive Secretary of the last three years, Matthew Rebhorn, faced the challenging situation of stepping into his role at the beginning of the pandemic and offering leadership to a Society that was only able to resume meeting in person in the middle of 2022. Our Associate Secretary for Programs and Conferences, Meredith Farmer, had instituted a travel grant program in 2019 that she not only maintained, but expanded during the pandemic years, greatly aiding scholars seeking to travel to our 2022 conference in Paris. Many senior members of the Society contributed generously to the travel grant program, enabling the conference to be as broadly inclusive as possible. Zachary Hutchins, our Treasurer for the last three years, also stepped into an unexpectedly challenging situation and responded with grace and determination in addressing the Society’s finances. Robert K. Wallace and Christopher Sten maintained a flourishing Melville Society Cultural Project throughout the pandemic years, laying [End Page 1] a foundation for continued contributions by the MSCP. Kelly Ross, our at-large member in the Executive Committee was consistently a sharp and thoughtful contributor to our discussions, as Jennifer Greiman, her predecessor in that role, moved on to doing superb work as Leviathan’s new Associate Editor. Our officers from 2020–2022 accomplished a great deal under inclement circumstances, as we redefined our relationship to Johns Hopkins University Press as a Member Society, reworked the Society’s dues structure, and commissioned the redesign of the Society website, all in the service of the continued flourishing of The Melville Society at a time when the humanities as a whole have often seemed under attack. We are excited to welcome our new Executive Committee members: John Wenke as President, Dawn Coleman as Executive Secretary, Steven Olsen-Smith as Treasurer (Society members may recall that Steve has served in this role before, and we are grateful for his return to the role), and Emilio Irigoyen as member-at-large. Robert K. Wallace, Meredith Farmer, Jennifer Greiman, and I will continue in our roles from the last three years, and we offer special thanks to Matthew Rebhorn, Zachary Hutchins, Christopher Sten, and Kelly Ross for their service to the Society over the last term. Our committees have also done important work over the last three years. Of particular note is the work that Carie Schneider has done as the chair of our Communications Committee and our new Web Editor in overseeing the updating and revamping of our website, and we are very grateful to Adam Fales, Chip Badley, and Kassie Jo Badon for their...

Ленинградский управхоз в годы блокады: зона ответственности и образ

Introduction. The key figures in the communal services of Leningrad during the period of the city blockade were the household managers – upravkhozy. Their functions were determined by a special regulation adopted and approved by the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council on the eve of the Great Patriotic War. Household managers were supposed to monitor the state of the household, including the housing stock, regulate the passport regime, carry out the correct and timely collection (and in some cases, accrual) of apartment and utility bills. With the help of the employees subordinate to them, they were obliged to carry out routine repairs of the housing stock. Methods and Materials. Using a set of documents deposited in the archives, as well as diaries and official decisions of the Leningrad leaders during the war, the authors highlight the emotional background of the blockaded city. Along with the solution of the food problem, an important task in the conditions of massive shelling and bombing was the preservation of the housing stock in a satisfactory condition. Analysis. Being subordinate to the district council executive committee, the household managers accumulated in their hands the funds and property of the household, they hired and fired a significant part of the workers, and had the right to impose disciplinary sanctions on them. In the emergency conditions of the blockade, they became the most important link between the party and Soviet leadership of their district and the tenants. Since there was often no effective control over the work of the household managers, they were able to decide at their own discretion, without the sanction of the housing department, on the distribution of vacated rooms and apartments that belonged to deceased and evacuated residents of Leningrad. Results. On the basis of a set of documents, including archival materials, the article examines the impact of Leningrad administrative farms on the daily life of Leningraders during the years of the blockade. It is concluded that the abuses of household managers were explained by their low wages, insufficient professional training to solve complex issues of public utilities and a low educational level. Authors’ contribution. O.A. Gavrilova identified historical sources, analyzed the official decrees issued by the leadership of Leningrad. M.V. Khodjakov analyzed archival materials and memoirs of blockade survivors, designed the text of the article. Key words: blockade of Leningrad, Great Patriotic War, housing policy, urban economy, household manager.

Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction Dr. Marty Cooper, Editor When I was asked to be the special editor for this issue of the journal, I thought I had an idea of what I was engaging in. It seemed to be a straightforward task where I would be reviewing journal articles and making decisions on what to include in the issue. What I found instead was a deep dive into interpersonal relationships and working within a larger group myself to bring this issue to fruition. Indeed, what I found was the magic that makes the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society (EGPS) and GROUP special—its people. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that I was asked to be a temporary editor for a special journal of a special organization. There is one person without whom this issue would not have been possible—Christine Schmidt. Through this process, I have found a friend, a colleague, and a collaborator in Christine. Many thanks to you, Christine, and to the executive committee and board of directors for their support of this issue. This issue reflects the multiplicity of group work across disciplines. We decided to open the journal with the EGPS one-year group training program graduation address by Robert Grossmark. Dr. Grossmark captures the essence of the training program as well as the importance of ushering in the next generation. Additionally, he provides a timely goodbye to the esteemed training program leadership and a warm welcome to those who will take the helm. Following Dr. Grossmark’s remarks, we turn our attention to a paper by Kathleen Isaac and Christine Schmidt, who share with us their work co-leading organizational group therapy in a nonprofit setting. Brenda Boatswain discusses secondary traumatic stress experienced by nurses and a brief therapy group designed to address this. Sean Grover provides us with insight into the work he has been doing providing on-site parenting support groups. Francine R. Mendelowitz discusses the use of applied theater to promote social-emotional health in adolescents. Melisa Stevanovic and colleagues discuss casting group counseling as peer support in a mental health rehabilitation committee. Hang Ruan and colleagues [End Page 9] present long-term weekly mindfulness groups at a large Veterans Affairs hospital. Finally, Andrew I. Smolar discusses how group identification has contributed to our national discord. Although it has been a pleasure to work on this issue, I was even more excited by the recent news that I was recently selected to coedit the journal with an esteemed colleague, Dr. Jessica Jean Baptiste. I look forward to working with Dr. Jean Baptiste, the editorial team of the journal, and the Executive Committee and Board of EGPS. [End Page 10] Copyright © 2023 Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society

In Memoriam: Richard H. Grimm, Jr, MD, MPH, PhD (August 22, 1946-September 8, 2022).

In Memoriam: Richard H. Grimm, Jr, MD, MPH, PhD (August 22, 1946-September 8, 2022).

Narrative Formulation Revisited: On Seeing the Person in Mental Health Recovery

Narrative Formulation RevisitedOn Seeing the Person in Mental Health Recovery Anna Bergqvist (bio) The use of narrative in mental health contexts models consciousness as something necessarily embodied, as already part of the world, in an inherently value-laden and perspectival way. As such narrative presents a powerful tool for critical reassessment and reevaluation of preconceived ideas in relating to difficult concepts in clinical interactions. Narrative structures can reveal psychological differences between persons in a way that matters for the provision of effective treatment and management. As emphasized by Solomon (2015), narrative reasoning is also motivated by distinctly first-personal concerns that are operative in the practitioner–client relationship. I maintain that the dynamics of that interpersonal relationship are part and parcel of what it means to address the patient's needs to be seen as a person in humanistic empathetic care—without thereby reducing truth to an individual person's perspective to encourage positive transformation.1 The notion of empowering narratives to encourage positive change is a core concept behind the emphasis on the critical role of empathy in explaining human development and psychoanalytic change within the self-psychology tradition but is also key to recovery-based models of the significance of person-centered quality of life in medicine more generally. This is defined in mental health as recovering a good quality of life as determined by the values of (by what matters or is important to) the individual concerned (Allott, Loganathan, & Fulford, 2002; Fulford, 1989, 2004; Fulford, Peile, & Carroll, 2012). The importance of strengths in this regard was reflected for example in the UK government program on values-based mental health assessment. The 3 Keys program, as it was called (National Institute for Mental Health in England, NIMHE, and the Care Services Improvement Partnership, 20082) identified three shared 'keys' to good practice in mental health assessment: three things that were identified in a wide-ranging consultation as being important alike by health professionals of all kinds and by 'service users' thus understood as patients and carers (Fulford, Duhig, Hankin, Hicks, & Keeble, 2015a; Fulford, Dewey, & King, 2015b). The third of these keys was defined in [End Page 7] the subsequently published Good Practice Guidance, as "a person-centred focus that builds on the strengths, resiliencies and aspirations of the individual service user as well as identifying his or her needs and challenges" (NIMHE, 2008: 6); and the guidance included a number of real-life case examples of best recovery practice reflecting this aspect of mental health care (Slade et al., 2014). What my (Bergqvist, 2018, 2020, 2022, forthcoming) account adds to this claim is that while such choices are revelatory or expressive of a distinctly first-personal stance, they do not constitute or determine selfhood and self-interpretation in a fixed way. Moreover, the reason is that one can also adopt a second-personal stance on one's own experience and address oneself, where the relationship between the first- and the second-personal narrative perspective on experience and self-understanding is itself a dynamic and open-ended evaluative process. Anna Bergqvist Anna Bergqvist is Reader in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University since 2021, and has been Postgraduate Research Coordinator and AHRC North West Doctoral Pathway Consortium Lead for Philosophy since 2020. I was elected to a Visiting Fellowship at St Catherine's College University of Oxford for Michaelmas Term 2021. Her service to the profession out with the University includes acting as Secretary of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section for Philosophy & Humanities in Psychiatry (October 2020 – present), Executive Committee Member of the Royal College of Psychiatry (RCPsych) SIG in Philosophy (February 2020 – present) and External Examiner, University of Liverpool (November 2019 – present, 4-year tenure). She is also Director of the Values-based Theory Network at St Catherine's Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice at the University of Oxford, and Member of its Whiteness and Race Equality Network. Her approach to philosophy bridges the disciplines of moral philosophy, moral psychology and philosophy of psychiatry to improve lives through her reputable expertise in moral perception and co-production as a mechanism for change. Notes 1. Here I side with Goldie (2012) and Solomon (2015), who...

Honorary Lifetime Membership Award: Ellen D. Ketterson.

Honorary Lifetime Membership Award: Ellen D. Ketterson.

Guest Editorial: Special issue on machine learning and deep learning algorithms for complex networks

Guest Editorial: Special issue on machine learning and deep learning algorithms for complex networks

Announcements.

Free AccessAnnouncementsPublished Online:March 24, 2023https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000904PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit SectionsMoreAAS23: American Association of Suicidology Annual Conference is taking place April 19--22, 2023, in Portland, OR, USA. For more information go to https://suicidology.org/aas23/The National Suicide Prevention Conference held by Suicide Prevention Australia is taking place May 1–4, 2023, in Canberra, Australia. For more information go to https://www.suicidepreventionaust.org/our-events#national-conferenceThe 32nd World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is taking place September 19–22, 2023, in Piran, Slovenia. For more information go to https://www.iasp.info/piran2023/ Abstract submissions are now open: https://www.iasp.info/piran2023/abstract-submission/The 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour will take place in Rome, Italy, August 27–30, 2024. Further information will be provided early 2023.IASP AwardsThe International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) provides awards for those who have contributed in a significant way to the furthering of the aims of the association. The awards are presented at the IASP biennial conference.On behalf of the five award committees, we are pleased to announce that the nomination process is now open. Members of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) are invited to nominate suitable persons for the below mentioned awards. Self-nomination is permitted.The Stengel Research Award, instituted in 1977, is named in honor of the late Professor Erwin Stengel, one of the founders of IASP. This award is for outstanding active research with at least 10 years of scientific activity in the field, as evidenced by number and quality of publications in internationally acknowledged journals and indicators of esteem and reputation.The Ringel Service Award, instituted in 1995, honors the late Professor Erwin Ringel, the Founding President of IASP. This award is for distinguished service in the field of suicidology.The Farberow Award was introduced in 1997 in recognition of Professor Norman Farberow, a founding member and driving force behind the IASP. This award is for a person who has contributed significantly to the field of work with suicide survivors.The De Leo Fund Award honors the memory of Nicola and Vittorio, the beloved children of Professor Diego De Leo, IASP Past President. The award is offered to distinguished scholars in recognition of their outstanding research on suicidal behaviors carried out in developing countries.The Andrej Marušić Award is dedicated to young researchers who are invited to submit a research proposal related to suicidal behavior and prevention.For full details and selection criteria, please refer to the IASP website at https://www.iasp.info/awards/ or email to wendycliff@iasp.infoNominations will close May 1st, 2023.JOIN IASP TO BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF GLOBAL SUICIDE PREVENTION EFFORTSJoin as an individualJoin as an organizationBenefits include: Special Interest Groups, Membership Network, IASP Early Career Group, Congresses, Conferences, Symposiums & Workshops, the Crisis journal, and the IASP AwardsIASP is a nonprofit organization for those interested and working in suicide prevention. The membership consists of individuals (clinicians, researchers, crisis workers, volunteers and people who have lost a family member or friend to suicide) and community, national and international organizations. The membership currently extends over 80 countries and is affiliated with the World Health Organization as the key organization concerned with suicide prevention.IASP membership is open to all individuals and organisations interested in suicide prevention: from academics, clinicians, volunteers, and survivors to community, national, and international organizations.Sign up now at www.iasp.info/become-a-member-or-renewIASP Executive Committee 2023–2026PresidentProf. Rory O'Connor (UK) 2021–2024Vice President 1Prof. Thomas Niederkrotenthaler (Austria) 2021–2024Vice President 2Prof. Jo Robinson (Australia) 2023–2026Vice President 3Prof. Lai Fong Chan (Malaysia) 2023–2026General SecretaryProf. Annette Erlangsen (Denmark) 2021–2024TreasurerProf. Maurizio Pompili (Italy) 2023–2026IASP Council of National Representatives 2023–2026Co-ChairsProf. Charity Akotia (Ghana) 2021–2024 & Associate Professor Vita Postuvan (Slovenia) 2023–2026For a current listing of the IASP Council of National Representatives please refer to www.iasp.info/iasp-national-regional-representatives/FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 44Issue 2March 2023ISSN: 0227-5910eISSN: 2151-2396 InformationCrisis (2023), 44, pp. 173-174 https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000904.© 2023Hogrefe PublishingPDF download

On Honoring Our Volunteers

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Prevention and Management of Intraoperative Pain During Cesarean Section Under Neuraxial Anesthesia: A Technical and Interpersonal Approach

(Anaesthesia. 2022;77:588–597) The term failure in literature has several different meanings including no blockage, partial blockage, or the need for general anesthesia. In an effort to support clinicians and patients during anesthesia, this article outlines eleven recommendations created by the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association working group and the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association Executive Committee that are designed to improve care and provide minimum standards for consent, assessment of pain, management of intraoperative pain, follow-up communication, and communication as a whole. A group of varied anesthetists and a psychologist formed these recommendations based on 44 studies and literature published in Medline, Embase, CINAHL, and PubMed through the years of 1980 and 2020.

World Voice Day 2023

World Voice Day 2023 Robert T. Sataloff (bio) CARE OF THE PROFESSIONAL VOICE Each year, the journal of singing publishes an issue highlighting World Voice Day. The journal is committed to collaborating with the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), the Voice Foundation, and other organizations to support World Voice Day. This article is modified periodically and republished before World Voice Day (April 16th) in order to remind people to prepare to participate in its commemoration. This topic has been discussed previously by the author and others (see References). All singing and acting teachers, physicians, speech-language pathologists, nurses, voice patients, and others who care for and about the voice, should work together to raise awareness of the importance of the voice and of developments in voice care. Some years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized a particularly high rate of laryngeal cancer in Brazil. In April, 1989, the Executive Committee of the Sociedade Brasileira de Laringologia e Voz (Brazilian Association of Laryngology and Voice), a multidisciplinary society that includes physicians, speech-language pathologists and singing teachers, proposed April 16th as “Voice Day.” Later, that idea was transformed to a national voice week, and even a voice month in some locations. Soon, other societies around the world recognized the importance of public education about voice; and the European Laryngological Association (www.elsoc.org), the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAOHNS) (www.entnet.org), the Voice Foundation (www.voicefoundation.org), the American Laryngological Association (ALA) (www.alahns.org), American Bronchoesophagological Association (www.abea.net), the National Association of Teachers of Singing (www.nats.org), and other organizations began collaborating to establish an annual celebration of voice. The AAO-HNS recognized this event in 2002, and the name World Voice Day was adopted. World Voice Day was celebrated in the United States for the first time on April 16, 2003, supported by the AAO-HNS, the Voice Foundation, the American Laryngological Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and numerous other societies and organizations. A summary of the evolution of World Voice Day can be found on the website of the AAO-HNS, at World-Voice-Day.org, and in a 2007 editorial by Svec and Behlau. Typically, World Voice Day activities include lectures, concerts, educational programs, clinical voice screenings, and media events scheduled to take place on and around April 16th. Web-based educational initiatives may be found through the AAO-HNS, Voice Foundation and World-Voice-Day.org websites, and elsewhere. Laryngologists, speech-language pathologists, [End Page 483] nurses, singers, singing teachers, actors, acting teachers and others organize celebratory events in cities throughout the world. Voice professionals are bound together by a commitment to expand public appreciation of and knowledge about the human voice, and to raise awareness about the importance of good voice health and education. For example, in Philadelphia, Voice Foundation World Voice Day events have included a PECO Crown Lights display visible throughout much of the city, singing performances, and lectures on voice care, readings for children at venues such as libraries, stand-up comedy performances, cabaret events, and other activities. Extensive events honoring World Voice Day take place each year in Lisbon, Portugal, under the auspices of Professor Mario Andrea; in the Detroit area under the guidance of Dr. Adam Rubin; in Pittsburgh with Dr. Libby Smith; in San Francisco with Drs. Clark Rosen and VyVy Young; in Los Angeles under the guidance of Dr. Michael Johns; in Cleveland through Dr. Michael Benninger; in Paris with Dr. Jean Abitbol; in Beirut under the supervision of Dr. Abdul Hamdan; and in many other cities. In addition to the physician-led events, the National Association of Teachers of Singing supports World Voice Day actively, and many events throughout the United States are organized by singing teachers, as well as by speech-language pathologists and other voice professionals. Future activities are likely to be even more expansive. Many will be coordinated through the relatively new ad hoc World Voice Day planning committee, notable for its broad international representation. The group’s initial meeting was held in Erlangen, Germany, on July 4, 2012; and the organization is committed to sharing...

AAPM medical physics practice guideline 13.a: HDR brachytherapy, part A.

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is a nonprofit professional society whose primary purposes are to advance the science, education, and professional practice of medical physics. The AAPM has more than 8000 members and is the principal organization of medical physicists in the United States. The AAPM will periodically define new practice guidelines for medical physics practice to help advance the science of medical physics and to improve the quality of service to patients throughout the United States. Existing medical physics practice guidelines (MPPGs) will be reviewed for the purpose of revision or renewal, as appropriate, on their fifth anniversary or sooner. Each medical physics practice guideline represents a policy statement by the AAPM, has undergone a thorough consensus process in which it has been subjected to extensive review, and requires the approval of the Professional Council. The medical physics practice guidelines recognize that the safe and effective use of diagnostic and therapeutic radiology requires specific training, skills, and techniques, as described in each document. Reproduction or modification of the published practice guidelines and technical standards by those entities not providing these services is not authorized. The following terms are used in the AAPM practice guidelines: (1) Must and must not: Used to indicate that adherence to the recommendation is considered necessary to conform to this practice guideline. (2) Should and should not: Used to indicate a prudent practice to which exceptions may occasionally be made in appropriate circumstances. Approved by AAPM's Executive Committee April 28, 2022.

2023 ACC/AHA/SCAI Advanced Training Statement on Interventional Cardiology (Coronary, Peripheral Vascular, and Structural Heart Interventions): A Report of the ACC Competency Management Committee.

2023 ACC/AHA/SCAI Advanced Training Statement on Interventional Cardiology (Coronary, Peripheral Vascular, and Structural Heart Interventions): A Report of the ACC Competency Management Committee.

ASHP Pharmacy Technician Forum Executive Committee

ASHP Pharmacy Technician Forum Executive Committee

‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007

ABSTRACT In October 1998, Tony Blair suffered an embarrassing electoral defeat when four activists from the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) were elected to the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee. Despite Blair’s attempts to ‘modernise’ the Labour Party and abandon the ideological baggage of ‘Old Labour’, the election demonstrated the continued electoral competitiveness of the Labour Left among the party membership, and hostility towards New Labour’s trajectory. This article explores the CLGA’s foundation and electoral success as an illustrative case study of how the Labour Left altered its political strategy and rhetoric in the New Labour years. This helps to fill a significant gap in the existing literature, where organised dissent to New Labour has often been overlooked. The CLGA saw the Labour Left form broad cross-factional alliances previously thought impossible, as well as oversee a shift in rhetoric from criticising to passionately defending post-war social democracy and the political culture of ‘labourism’. Alongside the changing political strategies deployed by the Labour Left after the 1980s, this article also demonstrates how New Labour’s iconoclasm and the creation of the pejorative label of ‘Old Labour’ had the unintended consequences of erasing complex factional divides among opponents and facilitating a cross-factional activist opposition.