76 research outputs found
Women's Institute Celebrate Centennial
No full textNewspaper Article - 'Women's Institute Celebrate Centennial' - Innisfail Booster - February 25, 1997AWI Collection2 The Innisfail Booster Tuesday, February 25, 1997
IDomeiVs Institutes Celebrate Centennial
Centennial Banquet
One hundred years of
Women's Institutes were
celebrated at the Cottonwood-
Gordon Hall on February
19, 1997 by the Cottonwood
Women's Institute
members and guests.
A tasty supper was served
followed by a fact and fun
history of times and changes
since the first meeting which
was organized by Adelaide
Hoodless and held on February
19, 1897 in Stoney
Creek, Ontario.
Musical selections by the
lovely choir brought back
memories of yesteryears. A
K l o n d i k e c h a r a c t e r , a
Charleston dancer and even
Elvis, who put in a surprise
Centennial Choir ( I to r) Kathleen Piesse, Blanche Cunningham, Joanne Nielson, Linda
Darby, Sharon Blair, Trina Cunning han and pianist Shirley Shrader.
appearance, added to the t u t e s p r e s i d e n t D o r i s Blanche Cunningham pre-fun.
Northey was a special guest, sented Dorothy Webb with a
Alberta Women's Insti- Cottonwood W. I. president branch life membership
Positioning for Trade Liberalization: Structure of Earnings, Comparative and Competitive Advantage of Agricultural Households in the United States and Canada
No full textConsumer/Household Economics, International Relations/Trade,
Corporate responsibility and the media
No full textThis paper discusses how CR is covered in the media and the media’s own corporate responsibilities, covering both traditional and new media.Co published with Centrum fur Corporate Citizenship Deutschlan
Environmental toxicity, redox signaling and lung inflammation:the role of glutathione
No full textGlutathione (gamma-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine, GSH) is the most abundant intracellular antioxidant thiol and is central to redox defense during oxidative stress. GSH metabolism is tightly regulated and has been implicated in redox signaling and also in protection against environmental oxidant-mediated injury. Changes in the ratio of the reduced and disulfide form (GSH/GSSG) can affect signaling pathways that participate in a broad array of physiological responses from cell proliferation, autophagy and apoptosis to gene expression that involve H(2)O(2) as a second messenger. Oxidative stress due to oxidant/antioxidant imbalance and also due to environmental oxidants is an important component during inflammation and respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and asthma. It is known to activate multiple stress kinase pathways and redox-sensitive transcription factors such as Nrf2, NF-kappaB and AP-1, which differentially regulate the genes for pro-inflammatory cytokines as well as the protective antioxidant genes. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms for the induction of antioxidants, such as GSH, versus pro-inflammatory mediators at sites of oxidant-directed injuries may allow for the development of novel therapies which will allow pharmacological manipulation of GSH synthesis during inflammation and oxidative injury. This article features the current knowledge about the role of GSH in redox signaling, GSH biosynthesis and particularly the regulation of transcription factor Nrf2 by GSH and downstream signaling during oxidative stress and inflammation in various pulmonary diseases. We also discussed the current therapeutic clinical trials using GSH and other thiol compounds, such as N-acetyl-l-cysteine, fudosteine, carbocysteine, erdosteine in environment-induced airways disease
Pain catastrophizing predicts verbal expression among children with chronic pain and their mothers
No full textThis study examined intra- and inter-personal associations between pain catastrophizing and verbal expression in 70 children with recurrent abdominal pain and their mothers. Participants independently completed the Pain Catastrophizing Scale. Mothers and children then talked about the child’s pain. Speech was categorized using a linguistic analysis program. Catastrophizing was positively associated with the use of negative emotion words by both mothers and children. In addition, mothers’ catastrophizing was positively associated with both mothers’ and children’s anger word usage, whereas children’s catastrophizing was inversely associated with mothers’ anger word usage. Findings extend the literature on behavioral and interpersonal aspects of catastrophizing
Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Benefit Guarantee Insurance - An Overview of Theory and Empirics
No full textWe review the theoretical literature on defined benefit (DB) pension plans, particularly focusing on the issue of plan underfunding and benefit guarantee insurance schemes. The literature shows that underfunding can, under reasonable assumptions, be an equilibrium outcome even in the absence of benefit insurance. The introduction of benefit guarantee funds was a reaction to the problem of underfunding, and we summarize the ensuing standard problems of moral hazard and adverse selection. We briefly discuss the small empirical research on the subject and propose directions for future research.defined benefit pension plans, underfunding, pension benefit guarantee
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How Agencies Should Use Waivers and Exemptions
No full textThink of administrative agencies, and you often think of their efforts to enforce the law, such as environmental regulators fining polluters or financial regulators taking inside traders to court. In fact, agencies sometimes do just the opposite: They excuse parties from compliance. Agencies can use either prospective waivers or exemptions to excuse regulated entities from compliance. How and when agencies use these tools is the subject of a set of recommendations recently adopted by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). The topic can be tricky. On the one hand, waivers and exemptions can be good things. After all, agencies often need to grant flexibility when circumstances require. Emergencies like Hurricane Sandy, for instance, have prompted the Federal Transit Administration to issue “blanket waivers for several statutory and regulatory provisions.” New technologies, like “unmanned aircraft systems,” or drones, similarly demand adaptability. In more established settings, such as mining operations, general rules do not always fit particular situations. And agencies sometimes just do not have the resources for full enforcement. Waivers and exemptions thus often make a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, waivers and exemptions also present risks. When abused, they may result in arbitrariness and unfairness. They can also undermine predictability and public safety. Additionally, there is a danger that insiders may have greater access to waivers and exemptions than new market entrants. Further exacerbating these risks, agencies may succumb to the temptation to rely too heavily on waivers and exemptions rather than amending outdated regulations. Waivers and exemptions thus present a significant challenge: How can we gain their benefits while minimizing their costs? Thankfully, ACUS exists to tackle tough topics. In particular, ACUS can convene those working inside and outside of government to bring their collective knowledge to bear, uniting agency staff, appointed officials, practitioners, academics, and many others with regulatory experience. The result, hopefully, is a set of best practices that reflect both practical and theoretical insights. The question of when agencies should use waivers or exemptions is precisely the sort of puzzle that ACUS is designed to untangle. For over a year, ACUS has been hard at work on this puzzle. The result is a series of recommendations reflecting the input of many contributors, including our respective roles as the project’s consultant and report author and the chair of ACUS’s Administration and Management Committee. Following the report’s preparation, the committee hashed out multiple draft recommendations over the course of two meetings. The results were then passed onto the ACUS Council, which voted to place them on the agenda of the December 2017 Plenary Session, where they were adopted. Throughout this process, individuals with wide-ranging viewpoints and experiences wrestled with how to balance agencies’ need for adaptability and experimentation with weighty normative goals like transparency and consistency. Many members were also rightly concerned with legal constraints and the need for underlying statutory authorization. The recommendations are divided into three parts. The first deals with the scope of an agency’s authority by suggesting that agencies ensure that waivers and exemptions have congressional blessing and are not necessitated by vague regulations or statutes. The second part states that agencies should establish standards and internal procedures, to the extent practicable, for seeking and approving waiver and exemptions. Equal treatment of parties, absent extenuating circumstances, is also important. So is clearly announcing the duration of waivers or exemptions in advance. Finally, the last part encourages agencies to consider soliciting public comments to inform its decisions and decision-making procedures. It also encourages explanations for decisions and representative examples to the extent practicable and consistent with legal or policy concerns, such as privacy. The language of the recommendations was carefully developed during a very lengthy process, so it is difficult to summarize them in a way that does total justice to their nuances. We thus hope that agency officials and staff will review these recommendations and, where appropriate, incorporate them into agency practice. Scholars and commenters, too, may see in them ideas in need of further development. Waivers and exemptions are a critical part of administrative law and merit serious thought. We hope these recommendations are a step in the right direction
Dialogue and Collaboration in the Creation of New Works for Clarinet
No full textThis PhD thesis explores dialogue-based, “intimate” collaboration through the creation of new works for clarinet. It borrows from Grounded Theory in order to facilitate an analysis through which emergent themes within a dialogue-based
collaboration are discovered. The aim has not been to insist on one model of collaboration, but to discover methods for improving one’s collaborative skills and to identify ways in which one benefits from a focus on dialogue in
collaboration. Furthermore, it aims to suggest that through collaboration one can make discoveries about the instrument: original contributions to clarinet technique are made within this thesis. The literature from which the research draws inspiration to further collaborative “technique” is cross-disciplinary and wide-ranging: it draws from social theory, collaborative creative writing, dance, the visual arts and of course, music. Added to this is a select discussion of collaboration throughout the repertoire of the clarinet. Finally, this consists of practice-based research. Seven new pieces for clarinet accompany the text
How Agencies Should Use Waivers and Exemptions
No full textThink of administrative agencies, and you often think of their efforts to enforce the law, such as environmental regulators fining polluters or financial regulators taking inside traders to court. In fact, agencies sometimes do just the opposite: They excuse parties from compliance. Agencies can use either prospective waivers or exemptions to excuse regulated entities from compliance. How and when agencies use these tools is the subject of a set of recommendations recently adopted by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). The topic can be tricky. On the one hand, waivers and exemptions can be good things. After all, agencies often need to grant flexibility when circumstances require. Emergencies like Hurricane Sandy, for instance, have prompted the Federal Transit Administration to issue “blanket waivers for several statutory and regulatory provisions.” New technologies, like “unmanned aircraft systems,” or drones, similarly demand adaptability. In more established settings, such as mining operations, general rules do not always fit particular situations. And agencies sometimes just do not have the resources for full enforcement. Waivers and exemptions thus often make a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, waivers and exemptions also present risks. When abused, they may result in arbitrariness and unfairness. They can also undermine predictability and public safety. Additionally, there is a danger that insiders may have greater access to waivers and exemptions than new market entrants. Further exacerbating these risks, agencies may succumb to the temptation to rely too heavily on waivers and exemptions rather than amending outdated regulations. Waivers and exemptions thus present a significant challenge: How can we gain their benefits while minimizing their costs? Thankfully, ACUS exists to tackle tough topics. In particular, ACUS can convene those working inside and outside of government to bring their collective knowledge to bear, uniting agency staff, appointed officials, practitioners, academics, and many others with regulatory experience. The result, hopefully, is a set of best practices that reflect both practical and theoretical insights. The question of when agencies should use waivers or exemptions is precisely the sort of puzzle that ACUS is designed to untangle. For over a year, ACUS has been hard at work on this puzzle. The result is a series of recommendations reflecting the input of many contributors, including our respective roles as the project’s consultant and report author and the chair of ACUS’s Administration and Management Committee. Following the report’s preparation, the committee hashed out multiple draft recommendations over the course of two meetings. The results were then passed onto the ACUS Council, which voted to place them on the agenda of the December 2017 Plenary Session, where they were adopted. Throughout this process, individuals with wide-ranging viewpoints and experiences wrestled with how to balance agencies’ need for adaptability and experimentation with weighty normative goals like transparency and consistency. Many members were also rightly concerned with legal constraints and the need for underlying statutory authorization. The recommendations are divided into three parts. The first deals with the scope of an agency’s authority by suggesting that agencies ensure that waivers and exemptions have congressional blessing and are not necessitated by vague regulations or statutes. The second part states that agencies should establish standards and internal procedures, to the extent practicable, for seeking and approving waiver and exemptions. Equal treatment of parties, absent extenuating circumstances, is also important. So is clearly announcing the duration of waivers or exemptions in advance. Finally, the last part encourages agencies to consider soliciting public comments to inform its decisions and decision-making procedures. It also encourages explanations for decisions and representative examples to the extent practicable and consistent with legal or policy concerns, such as privacy. The language of the recommendations was carefully developed during a very lengthy process, so it is difficult to summarize them in a way that does total justice to their nuances. We thus hope that agency officials and staff will review these recommendations and, where appropriate, incorporate them into agency practice. Scholars and commenters, too, may see in them ideas in need of further development. Waivers and exemptions are a critical part of administrative law and merit serious thought. We hope these recommendations are a step in the right direction
Sequential analysis of child pain behavior and maternal responses: an observational study
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