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When Nevada's Senate Bill 495 threatened to eliminate educational requirements for dental hygienists, ADHA and local Nevada hygienists sprang into action. In this must-listen episode, ADHA President Elect Lancette VanGuilder of Nevada together with Dr. JoAnn Gurenlian, Nevada's Karen Solie and host Matt Crespin - all ADHA past presidents - reveal the inside story of the legislative strategy and success in Nevada. Hear how tight coordination between national and state efforts paired with relentless "boots on the ground" advocacy and mobilization of the dental hygiene community contributed to the defeat of dangerous legislation that could have compromised public safety. This is a blueprint with the practical insights you need in order to stay on top of legislative threats coming to your state - the strategy, the critical importance of early ADHA partnership and proven tactics that work. With other states already in the crosshairs, this pod episode is essential listening for dental hygienists nationwide, to unite and protect professional standards and public safety. Guests: ADHA President Elect Lancette VanGuilder, BS, RDH, PHEDH, CEAS, FADHA; Caryn Solie, RDH, FADHA and JoAnn Gurenlian, RDH, MS, PhD, AAFAAOM, FADHA Host: Matt Crespin, MPH, RDH, FADHA   Workforce Growth Initiatives    https://www.adha.org/WorkforceGrowth2025 ADHA Advocacy Action Center https://www.adha.org/takeaction ADHA Working for You https://www.adha.org/WorkingForYou Nevada Dental Hygienists' Association https://nvdha.com/ A Battle Well Fought in Nevada https://www.adha.org/hygienist-hub/a-battle-well-fought-in-nevada/  ADHA Newsroom https://www.adha.org/Newsroom 

In this powerful and honest episode, we dive deep into the connection between alcohol consumption and oral health, shedding light on a topic often overlooked in the operatory. Joined by Stephanie Botts, RDH, BSDH, CEAS, a passionate advocate for dental ergonomics and wellness, we explore how alcohol affects our mouths, minds, and lives both personally and professionally.

  We hit the ground running and don't stop until lunch (if even then) so frequently that being dehydrated is almost a way of life. Learn more about how important hydration is to a full, productive life. Katrina Klein, RDH, CEAS, CPT Read by Jackie Sanders  https://www.dentistryiq.com/dentistry/article/55277117/wellness-corner-we-are-not-part-camel-the-real-cost-of-working-dehydrated 

When it comes to polishing, one size does not fit all. Katrina Klein has recommendations to improve the experience for pros and patients. Katrina Klein, RDH, CEAS, CPT Read by Jackie Sanders  https://www.rdhmag.com/patient-care/article/55265000/selective-polishing-a-new-era-in-dental-hygiene 

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Pilar Amor hace referencia esta semana a diferentes iniciativas que ayudan a los mayores a sobrellevar la soledad no deseada como los menús que se ofrecen en los CEAS de la capital y que ayudan a hacer amistades

If you've ever felt boxed in by dental office culture, this article explores how dental hygienists can reclaim their role, elevate patient care, and find the right practice fit to thrive. Katrina Klein, RDH, CEAS, CPT Read by Jackie Sanders  https://www.rdhmag.com/patient-care/article/55249026/dont-box-me-in-five-ways-to-push-for-comprehensive-dental-hygiene

Dr. Amanda A. Carpenter, PT, CProT, CEAS, is transformational life and leadership coach. __________________________ Amanda is a transformational coach, author, speaker, and the CEO of IAH.fit, a platform dedicated to helping individuals achieve holistic wellness through innovative fitness solutions. With a compelling personal story and a dynamic approach to personal growth, Amanda's work resonates deeply with entrepreneurs, leaders, and anyone seeking to navigate life's challenges with grace and resilience. You can learn more about Amanda through her LinkedIn profile. Amanda's message is clear: resilience is not about avoiding challenges but about using them as a platform for growth. She recounts moments of profound struggle that shaped her perspective and taught her the value of self-awareness. Her coaching philosophy centers on the idea that transformation begins with embracing vulnerability and committing to personal growth. “When you lean into discomfort, you discover your true strength,” Amanda shares. This principle is not only central to her coaching but also a guiding light for her clients who seek to lead with authenticity and courage. One of Amanda's key insights in this episode is the distinction between reacting and responding to life's challenges. She encourages leaders to cultivate mindfulness and intentionality, enabling them to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively. Amanda also highlights the significance of aligning actions with core values. By staying true to one's principles, she believes leaders can inspire trust and foster meaningful connections. This authenticity, she asserts, is a cornerstone of effective leadership. Through her engaging storytelling and actionable advice, Amanda invites listeners to reframe their challenges as opportunities for growth. Her practical strategies and relatable anecdotes provide a roadmap for navigating adversity while staying grounded in one's values. Resilience is not innate; it's a skill that can be developed through intentional practices like mindfulness and self-reflection. Take Action: Identify one recent challenge and reflect on how it has helped you grow. Journal your insights. The Power of Vulnerability Vulnerability is a strength, not a weakness. Embracing it fosters genuine connections and personal growth. Take Action: Share a personal story of growth with your team or community to inspire authenticity. Respond vs. React Thoughtful responses, grounded in mindfulness, are more effective than impulsive reactions. Take Action: Practice pausing before reacting in a challenging situation this week. Reflect on the difference it makes. Aligning Actions with Values Staying true to your values builds trust and strengthens leadership. Take Action: List your top three core values and assess how your recent decisions align with them. Turning Setbacks into Setups Every setback holds the potential for a comeback. Reframing challenges as opportunities fuels resilience. Take Action: Reframe a current obstacle as an opportunity and outline steps to leverage it for growth. Connect with Amanda A. Carpenter IAH.fit Website https://iah.fit/ LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-a-carpenter Amanda's insights challenge us to embrace discomfort, lead with authenticity, and turn challenges into opportunities for growth. What's your biggest takeaway from this episode? Write it on a paper napkin and share it on social media with the hashtag #PaperNapkinWisdom. Let's continue the conversation about resilience, authenticity, and leadership!

Your weekly dose of information that keeps you up to date on the latest developments in the field of technology designed to assist people with disabilities and special needs. Special Guest: Brian Norton ATP, CEAS – Director of AT – Easterseals Crossroads Things discussed in our show today: Microsoft Adaptive Controller: https://bit.ly/3u8qUh3 Sony PlayStation Access […]

End-of-Year Episode! Matt catches up with ADHA officers on crucial dental hygiene issues, recent concerning proposals that impact the profession, patient care and scope of practice, and how the organization is opposing and addressing these. They look back at 2024 successes and look forward at the work ahead in 2025 work on professional autonomy, recruitment, education, policy, leadership development and more. The key is involvement through membership, upcoming leadership opportunities, advocacy, events and ADHA25 in Long Beach, CA.  Guests: ADHA President Erin Haley-Hitz, RDH, BSDH, MS, FADHA, MAADH; President-Elect Lancette VanGuilder, BS, RDH, PHEDH, CEAS, FADHA; Vice President Jessica August, MSDH, CDA, RDH, FADHA Host: Matt Crespin, MPH, RDH, FADHA Important Links:  www.adha.org/news www.adha2025.org https://alec.org/model-policy/dental-access-model-act/    

Send us a textVic leads the show with his thoughts on the Zach Bryan situation We learned Bakersfield has a "poop patrol" and its exactly what it sounds likeJim Halpert aka John Krasinski is the sexiest man alive. Vic gives his personal top 7How do you tell a server you were not done eating your food after she pulls the plate away prematurely without looking like a total hogSTFU of the week! - Older people telling you the secret to longevity is Dr. Pepper and cigarettes!!!!Nintendo 64 is set to release their console in 4k next year. HUGE news for Ceas and VicCouples are now turning to "kinky sex" to save their relationshipThursday night football picks and Tyson vs Paul predictionsHAPPY BIRTHDAY Ceas & MORE!!!Find Vic: @vicdradioFind the pod:@ilysayitbackpod

Send us a textVic gives a recap of the magical evening with Colbie Caillat. It lived up to every expectationHalloween parties are in full effect, Vic and Ceas give their top 5 slutties Halloween costumes Vic has a theory on why women are obsessed with HalloweenBlind water test to prove Arrowhead water is actually not absolutely disgusting anymore. SHOCKING STUFFSTFU of the week - Baby Boomers who talk crap about other generationsDodgers vs Yankees is the World Series we deserve! Vic makes his bold predictionVic had his first mini viral videobonus STFU of the week - poor sad fan who really didn't do anything wrongFind Vic: @vicdradioFind the pod:@ilysayitbackpod

En la recta final de su gestión, Armando Padilla, habla de la complicada relación que ha tenido con CFE. Las redes de distribución requieren cambios, es la principal debilidad de la institución, explica. ¿Requiere la CEAS una reingeniería? ¿Qué pendientes heredará? Previo señalamiento de que la infraestructura creció en este sexenio, reporta que la entrega-recepción avanza sin contratiempo. ¿Qué viene para él, llegó el tiempo de jubilarse? Conoce aquí toda la información

Dr. Bethany Valachi, PT, DPT, MS, CEAS is author of the book, “Practice Dentistry Pain-Free: Evidence-based Strategies to Prevent Pain & Extend Your Career,” clinical instructor of ergonomics at OHSU School of Dentistry in Portland, Oregon and Ergonomics Editor for DPR magazine. Bethany is a doctor of physical therapy who has worked exclusively with dental professionals for over 20 years. She is recognized internationally as an expert in dental ergonomics and has provided over 700 dental lectures worldwide, which have provided pain relief to thousands of dental professionals.  Bethany is also a prolific author who has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed dental journals, and produced a series of dental ergonomic & exercise Online CE Video Courses.  Bethany Valachi is a Certified Ergonomic Assessment Specialist and consults with universities and practicing dental professionals to improve ergonomics.  She is also member of the National Speaker's Association and is an AGD PACE approved CE provider. Prior to physical therapy, Bethany was a classical piano performance major.  She is now exploring blues piano, enjoys riding her horse in dressage competition and on the trails, downhill skiing, mountain biking, scuba diving and exploring nature with her husband, Dr. Keith Valachi, DDS.

Join the Sanders sisters and immunization expert Lancette VanGuilder, BS, RDH, PHEDH, CEAS, as they discuss immunizations in dental practices and how to navigate potentially tricky conversations. About Lancette Lancette VanGuilder, BS, RDH, PHEDH, CEAS,  graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1995 and has spent the last two decades actively involved in the dental industry as a leader, speaker,  clinician, and public health advocate.  Lancette is the current Vice-President of the American Dental Hygienists Association. She is a past president of the Nevada Dental Hygienists Association, is a past recipient of the Nevada Dental Hygienist of the Year and received the Innovative Career Vision Award for her work in all 7 professional roles of the dental hygienist.  In 2018 she received the ADHA Irene Newman Professional Achievement award, recognizing her for her contributions to advancing the art and science of the dental hygiene profession over the last 15 years. She was selected as one to the Top 6 Dental Hygienists to know in 2021, by the national publication Dimensions in Dental Hygiene for being a mover and shaker in dentistry. In 2022, she received global recognition, receiving the Denobi “All-Star” award for her public health, mobile dentistry, advocacy, speaking and vaccine accomplishments. Most recently, she received one of the highest honors given by the American Dental Hygienists Association by being recognized with the 2022 ADHA  Award of Excellence. This award has only been given to a small number of select individuals over the last 100 years.  Lancette has received advanced education for complete health dentistry, including sleep related disordered breathing disorders and brain health. She received her Certificate in  Alzheimer's Prevention and Reversal, ReCODE, from Apollo Health and her training in airway health from Institute for Craniofacial Sleep Medicine.  Lancette is an internationally recognized continuing education speaker and is recognized as a key leader and mentor in the dental industry. She serves as the clinical director for Sierra Sleep, Airway and Wellness Center in Reno, Nevada.  In addition, she works as a clinician in private practice, owns a mobile dentistry business, a national AGD PACE continuing education company and provides ergonomic coaching. Amidst the pandemic, she became a proud COVID vaccinator with Battle Born Medical Corp and has traveled across the globe advocating for vaccine administration by dental hygienists.  She co-founded The RISE Experience and Abundant life. RISE retreats provide education and support for women in healthcare who want to make an impact in the world and pursue entrepreneurship in dentistry. Abundant life is a wellness hub for dental professionals to have access to resources to support the 8 pillars of health.  Lancette is most proud of her work transforming healthcare, increasing access to care and bridging the medical-dental divide.  Find Lancette Here: Facebook LinkedIn Lancette's Podcast The ADHA's Website

”Al 12-lea ceas”, așa se numește o campanie lansată de organizația Viitor Plus, care-și propune să atragă atenția asupra încălcării legislației în domeniul deșeurilor și asupra riscurilor pentru mediu și sănătate care decurg de aici. Președinta asociației Viitor Plus, Teia Ciulacu, a fost invitată la emisiunea Planeta Verde.Este gestionarea deșeurilor în România un eșec? Cine e de vină? Cât se implică cetățenii și care sunt obligațiile instituțiilor statului?Viitor Plus și-a propus să prezinte cazuri concrete de încălcări ale legislației de mediu privind gestionarea deșeurilor. Ce anume va face și cum va încuraja oamenii să se implice și să sesizeze autoritățile atunci când observă încălcarea legislației?Detalii despre campanie, aici.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Extraordinary cost-effectiveness analyses call for theoretical buttressing, published by Seth Ariel Green on June 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. What needs to be true for an estimate to be reasonable? Pure Earth is a GiveWell grantee that works to reduce lead and mercury exposure. In an August 2023 post, they provided a "preliminary analysis" suggesting that their lead reduction program in Bangladesh "can avert an equivalent DALY for just under $1." By contrast, they estimate that GiveDirectly "has a cost-effectiveness of approximately $836 per DALY-equivalent averted." About 86% of the money GiveDirectly spends goes directly to recipients, so an $836 donation to GiveDirectly results in about~$719 going directly to a very poor person. In effect, Pure Earth is claiming that either GiveDirectly can give a person in poverty $719, or Pure Earth can spend $1 helping people in Bangladesh, and these would be about equally good for human welfare. Pure Earth calls this an "extraordinary result" and forthrightly identifies places where their analysis might go wrong. But what I'm missing is a sense of why their analysis might be right -- a story about why this extraordinary opportunity exists. In other words, theory. I find this to be a pretty common lacuna in effective altruist CEAs.[1] Our explanations tend to be technical but not contextual. They tend to focus on our assumptions about the world at large but lack granularity about social and political conditions. But for my tastes, any claim that that boils down to 'we can help poor people more effectively than they can help themselves' requires theoretical buttressing in the form of a plausible story. What kinds of theories might suffice? In the case of lead reduction in spices, six come to mind. 1. Poor people are generally bad at managing their own affairs and need external guidance. (I do not find this very plausible.) 2. There is extraordinary political gridlock that an external organization is especially well-suited to solving. (Pure Earth says that the "project's impact lies not in identifying and enforcing food safety regulations, but rather in expediting its implementation by several years.") 3. There is a narrow opportunity for positive impact stemming from deep insight about a particular context. 4. There is a market failure, e.g. a collective action problem, where a push from an NGO can create a self-sustaining equilibrium. 5. There is a cognitive bias and/or cultural failure that leads people to undervalue something that is good, or overvalue something that is bad, and they need a push in the right direction. 6. Unconditional cash transfers engender negative spillovers, whereas public health interventions typically have positive spillovers. The story will vary from case to case. For New Incentives, I assume it's some version of theories 4, 5, and 6. For anti-malarial interventions, I am not sure (and am generally a skeptic). For Pure Earth, I am also not sure, because I am not an expert. As a potential donor, I am looking for explanation about aspects of the world that I don't understand. I can potentially back that story out of a spreadsheet. But I'd prefer to hear it directly. 1. ^ I use Pure Earth to illustrate because their CEA was on the far tail of the distribution, so it stuck in my memory, but this point could be made about many cost-effective analyses posted the forum. As far as I can tell, Pure Earth is doing great work on an important, neglected, and tractable issue. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: We should value income doublings equally across time and place (Founders Pledge), published by NicoT on June 23, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Hi! I'm Nico and I'm on the research team at Founders Pledge. We noticed that the way we compare current to future income benefits is in tension with how we compare income benefits across interventions. However, aligning these two comparisons - choosing the same function for utility from consumption for both - might lead to large changes in our CEAs. So, we are now thinking about how to choose the right approach. Since our framework is based on GiveWell's, which is used by other organisations, too, I expect that we're facing the same issues. I'm posting here as a way of thinking out loud and with the hope of getting input from others. Summary Founders Pledge and GiveWell both use different values of η (elasticity of marginal utility from consumption) when modelling isoelastic utility from consumption depending on the context. Across interventions, we assume η=1. Over time within an intervention, we assume η1.59. We should choose the same η for both models as having different η values leads us to prefer doubling the incomes of richer people relative to poorer people. Practically, this inconsistency leads to strange conclusions in existing CEAs. Taking GiveWell's Unlimit Health (deworming) CEA as a stylised example: For two people in Madagascar, we value doubling the income of someone who makes $2,500 30% as much as for someone who makes $500. When the person making $2,500 lives in Côte d'Ivoire, however, we value doubling their income the same (100% as much) as for the person in Madagascar who makes $500. Resolving this isn't straightforward and has large implications for our prioritisation. For example: Using η=1 everywhere - which implies that income doublings have the same value regardless of absolute income levels - doubles the cost-effectiveness of education and deworming programs and makes economic growth and poverty graduation interventions look substantially better. Using η=1.87, which is implied by our discount rate, everywhere requires our evaluations to take into account the income levels of recipients and prioritise lower-income regions more. An income doubling in Malawi would be worth roughly 1.9x as much as in Ethiopia, 3.4x as much as in Kenya, 6.4x as much as in Egypt, and 75x as much as in the US. The same is true within countries: in India, an income doubling in Bihar would be worth 3.4x as much as an income doubling in Andhra Pradesh. I'm hoping this post will start a conversation around what the right value of η is. Our inconsistent η values Summary: GiveWell's framework, which we use, explicitly uses log-utility from consumption, which implies isoelastic utility with η=1. However, our (and GiveWell's) discount rate uses η1.59. We use η=1 when comparing between interventions/places. But we use η1.59 for comparisons across time, where income doublings are worth 2.6% less in a year from now solely because incomes will be higher then. We should use the same η for comparisons across time and place. Not doing so leads us to prefer doubling the incomes of richer vs poorer people (see next section). We use η=1 (log-utility) to compare the value of income benefits across people or interventions[1]. That assumption is convenient because it allows us to disregard absolute income levels: an income doubling is as valuable from $250 to $500 as it is from $2.5k to $5k. Because of that, we can make statements like "the value of a 10% income increase from a deworming program in India equals the value of a 10% income increase from a cash transfer program in Kenya" without knowing the incomes of the recipients. At the same time, we use η1.59 when comparing the value of income benefits in different years within an inte...

This week, Yotto plays new music from AME, Tinlicker, Gorgon City, GENESI, Max Styler, Trance Wax, Adriatique and many more. ODD ONE OUT INTRO 00:00:001. TIAEM & CEAS & Astral Field - Calling 00:00:532. Gorgon City ft. NORTH - Breathe You In 00:04:303. Disfreq & Notre Dame ft. Kim Wilde - The Bridge 00:07:224. Einmusik, Pretty Pink - Ayana 00:10:245. Tinlicker - Blowfish 00:13:426. Jamek Ortega - Voices 00:18:327. GENESI - Slow Down 00:23:528. Tim Engelhardt - Falling 00:29:129. Adriatique, Solique, Also Astir - Changing Colors 00:33:5010. Max Styler - Follow Me 00:38:3611. ATRIP - Ginger (Feel Good) 00:41:0812. AME - Asa 00:43:2513. The Pressure x Trance Wax - Nothings Gonna Hurt You 00:50:0214. Degrees Of Motion - Do You Want It Right Now 2007 (Haji & Emanuel Remix) 00:54:23

Abastecer de agua, de energía y atender los problemas de drenaje serán las prioridades del próximo gobierno de Nacajuca asegura el edil electo Roberto Ocaña. ¿Pedirá administrar el servicio de agua potable, hoy en manos de CEAS? Adelanta que habrá auditorias al gobierno saliente por obras mal hechas que le han denunciado. ¿Ya habló con la presidente saliente? ¿Tiene definido al equipo que “le acompañará? ¿Qué posición tiene sobre la delimitación de Tierra Amarilla? Escucha aquí la conversación.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Charity Entrepreneurship Is Overestimating the Value of Saving Lives by 10%, published by Mikolaj Kniejski on June 12, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I got this idea after I read a few of CE (Charity Entrepreneurship) cost-effectiveness estimates when I was preparing my application for the CE research training program. Although this is not a major pressing improvement, this definitely is an iterative improvement over the current methodology and I haven't seen anyone else raising this point yet. CE uses DALYs averted as a measure of impact: DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life Years): A measure of disease burden, expressed in years lost to disability or early death. Dying one year before your expected life span causes 1 DALY. DALYs are averted when we save someone from dying early, or when we reduce the number of sick people or the duration of their sickness. DALYs for a disease are the sum of YLLs and YLDs: . Years of Life Lost (YLLs): Calculated as the difference between the age at death and the life expectancy. Death is the worst possible outcome, and it gets one DALY per person per year. Years Lived with Disability (YLDs): Calculated by multiplying the severity of an illness or disability by its duration. DALYs averted: I like to think of DALYs averted as the difference between DALYs without intervention and DALYs with intervention. This captures the notion of counterfactuality, meaning our estimate should reflect the difference between a world where the intervention happened and one where it didn't. For example, if an intervention saves a person who would have otherwise died at 30 and the life expectancy is 70, 40 YLLs are averted (without considering temporal discounting and age-weighing). If the intervention reduces a year of severe disability (with a disability weight of 0.5), 0.5 YLDs are averted. When Charity Entrepreneurship estimates the number of DALYs that an intervention would avert, it uses a pre-made table by GiveWell. This table includes age weighting (which gives years in around 20-30 more value) and applies temporal discounting at 4% per year. CE uses the average values (last column). Table 1: GiveWell estimates of value of life saved at various ages of death. The table is available here and made using a formula that you can find here. Age of death Life expectancy (years) YLL incorporating discount and age-weighting Females Males Females Males Average 0 82.5 80 33.13 33.01 33.07 5 77.95 75.38 36.59 36.46 36.53 15 68.02 65.41 36.99 36.80 36.90 30 53.27 50.51 29.92 29.62 29.77 45 38.72 35.77 20.66 20.17 20.41 60 24.83 21.81 12.22 11.48 11.85 70 16.2 13.58 7.48 6.69 7.09 80 8.9 7.45 3.76 3.27 3.52 90 4.25 3.54 1.53 1.30 1.42 100 2 1.46 0.57 0.42 0.50 CE takes the exact values from the table. When an intervention saves someone who is 30 years old they literally take the value 29.77 DALYs which only includes temporal discounting and age-weighing. This implicitly assumes that the subject would live a perfectly healthy life to the life expectancy used in the estimation. The full value of e.g. 29.77 DALYs averted was calculated assuming the subject lives healthy to the life expectancy. He is not going to - The subject is almost definitely going to get sick and will fail to realize the full value. Why This Matters We want our cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) to measure counterfactual impact. The difference between the world where the intervention happened and the one where it didn't should be the key result. If we take the full value of the life saved, we will overestimate the value by the DALYs the subject will incur while being sick. This is crucial when choosing between interventions that improve lives compared to interventions that save lives. Is CE really making this mistake? I'm pretty sure they do. Here, I try to show the exact place where it hap...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Centre for Effective Altruism is spinning out of the Centre for Effective Altruism, published by OllieBase on April 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), an effective altruism (EA) project which recently spun out of Effective Ventures (EV) is spinning out of the newly established Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA). The current CEO of CEA (the Centre for Effective Altruism), Zach Robinson, CEO of CEA and Effective Ventures (CEOCEV), will be taking the position of Chief Executive Administrator (CEA) for CEA (CEA), as the venture spins out of CEA (CEA). The cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) for this new effective venture suggested that this venture will be high-EV (see: EA). CEA's CEA's CEA ventures that the new spun-out CEA venture's effectiveness is cost-effective in every available scenario (CEAS). CEA's new strategy, See EA will take effect: See: Gain a better understanding of where the community is, who is part of it and where it could go EA: Effective altruism. No need to complicate things. To provide some clarity on this rather confusing scenario, here is a diagram: Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), an effective altruism (EA) project which recently spun out of Effective Ventures (EV) is spinning out of the newly established Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA). The current CEO of CEA (the Centre for Effective Altruism), Zach Robinson, CEO of CEA and Effective Ventures (CEOCEV), will be taking the position of Chief Executive Administrator (CEA) for CEA (CEA), as the venture spins out of CEA (CEA). The cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) for this new effective venture suggested that this venture will be high-EV (see: EA). CEA's CEA's CEA ventures that the new spun-out CEA venture's effectiveness is cost-effective in every available scenario (CEAS). CEA's new strategy, See EA will take effect: See: Gain a better understanding of where the community is, who is part of it and where it could go EA: Effective altruism. No need to complicate things. To provide some clarity on [...] --- First published: April 1st, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WgneAKfjRJkYsTs3p/the-centre-for-effective-altruism-is-spinning-out-of-the --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Obese patients present ergonomic challenges for dental hygienists. To avoid injury, gently guide patients about how they can help during their appointment. Katrina Klein, RDH, CEAS, CPT Read by: Jackie Sanders

World News in 7 minutes. Tuesday 12th March 2024. Today: Spain bombing anniversary. Switzerland missing skier. Sweden environmental activists. Sudan ceasefire. Libya unified government. India Citizenship Amendment Act. Indonesia flooding. Pakistan finance minister. N Korea Mongolia talks. US Blinken Jamaica. Bolivia state of emergency. 96th Oscars awards.With Juliet MartinIf you enjoy the podcast please help to support us at send7.org/supportSupporters can read the transcripts at send7.org/transcriptsSupporters can try our weekly news quiz at send7.org/quizContact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) tells the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Ben Mallett  and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts can be found at send7.org/transcripts. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated stories in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they listen to SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.For more information visit send7.org/contact

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How We Plan to Approach Uncertainty in Our Cost-Effectiveness Models, published by GiveWell on January 3, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Author: Adam Salisbury, Senior Research Associate Summary In a nutshell We've received criticism from multiple sources that we should model uncertainty more explicitly in our cost-effectiveness analyses. These critics argue that modeling uncertainty, via Monte Carlos or other approaches, would keep us from being fooled by the optimizer's curse[1] and have other benefits. Our takeaways: We think we're mostly addressing the optimizer's curse already by skeptically adjusting key model inputs, rather than taking data at face value. However, that's not always true, and we plan to take steps to ensure we're doing this more consistently. We also plan to make sensitivity checks on our parameters and on bottom-line cost-effectiveness a more routine part of our research. We think this will help surface potential errors in our models and have other transparency and diagnostics benefits. Stepping back, we think taking uncertainty more seriously in our work means considering perspectives beyond our model, rather than investing more in modeling. This includes factoring in external sources of evidence and sense checks, expert opinion, historical track records, and qualitative features of organizations. Ways we could be wrong: We don't know if our parameter adjustments and approach to addressing the optimizer's curse are correct. Answering this question would require comparing our best guesses to "true" values for parameters, which we typically don't observe. Though we think there are good reasons to consider outside-the-model perspectives, we don't have a fully formed view of how to bring qualitative arguments to bear across programs in a consistent way. We expect to consider this further as a team. What is the criticism we've received? In our cost-effectiveness analyses, we typically do not publish uncertainty analyses that show how sensitive our models are to specific parameters or uncertainty ranges on our bottom line cost-effectiveness estimates. We've received multiple critiques of this approach: Noah Haber argues that, by not modeling uncertainty explicitly, we are subject to the optimizer's curse. If we take noisy effect sizes, burden, or cost estimates at face value, then the programs that make it over our cost-effectiveness threshold will be those that got lucky draws. In aggregate, this would make us biased toward more uncertain programs. To remedy this, he recommends that (i) we quantify uncertainty in our models by specifying distributions on key parameters and then running Monte Carlo simulations and (ii) we base decisions on a lower bound of the distribution (e.g., the 20th percentile). Others[2] have argued we're missing out on other benefits that come from specifying uncertainty. By not specifying uncertainty on key parameters or bottom line cost-effectiveness, we may be missing opportunities to prioritize research on the parameters to which our model is most sensitive and to be fully transparent about how uncertain our estimates are. (more) What do we think about this criticism? We think we're mostly guarding against the optimizer's curse by skeptically adjusting key inputs in our models, but we have some room for improvement. The optimizer's curse would be a big problem if we, e.g., took effect sizes from study abstracts or charity costs at face value, plugged them into our models, and then just funded programs that penciled above our cost-effectiveness bar. We don't think we're doing this. For example, in our vitamin A supplementation cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), we apply skeptical adjustments to treatment effects to bring them closer to what we consider plausible. In our CEAs more broadly, we triangulate our cost e...

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Kaiser Kuo, the host of the Sinica Podcast, sat down with CEAS's David Fields during his visit to the UW campus. He discussed how he became interested in the political climate surrounding US & China relations, what drew him away from graduate school, and how his personal history influenced his desire to shed a light on information coming out of China. He asks that the listeners be cautious of anyone who calls themselves and "China expert" and that rather than the highly polarized viewpoints, consider things from multiple angles. Kaiser also recommends the best episodes from the Sinica backlog to get an newly interested party started.

Welcome to another episode of The Action and Ambition Podcast! Joining us today is Mike Pace, the Senior Channel Sales & Marketing Manager at Contour Design, a market leader in the research, development, and design of ergonomic computer hardware. Mike has helped successfully launch over 30 ergonomic products into the corporate B2B space and strives to make a positive impact on office workers' health and well-being, daily. He currently holds a CEAS ergonomic certification and is always looking for new ways to spread the gospel of ergonomics to business and industry leaders alike. Tune in to learn more about this!

On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan triggering a massive tsunami and shifting the earth on its axis. Nearly 20,000 residents in the Tōhoku region lost their lives, with many hundreds of thousands more injured, displaced, and left with horrific loss. Dr. Pilvi Posio shares her PhD research based on eight months of fieldwork in the town of Yamamoto in Miyagi prefecture, where 635 residents lost their lives. She began her research on long-term community recovery four years after the disaster, when national focus was shifting from recovery and restoration (fukkyū 復旧) to reconstruction (fukkō 復興 ). Learn how large-scale, government-funded initiatives, including the construction of three new compact cities away from the immediate coastal area, had the unintended effect of causing "reconstruction disaster” by aggravating resident anxieties and accelerating depopulation. In presenting her concept of Aspired Communities, Dr. Posio argues that community is best viewed not as a static, territorially-bound identity, but as a dynamic process, one which is continually constituted from a future-oriented outlook of collective aspiration. Pilvi Posio is a senior researcher at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and is currently working on sustainability issues in Asia. Her dissertation can be found here. Satoko Naito received her PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University and teaches as a docent at CEAS. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan triggering a massive tsunami and shifting the earth on its axis. Nearly 20,000 residents in the Tōhoku region lost their lives, with many hundreds of thousands more injured, displaced, and left with horrific loss. Dr. Pilvi Posio shares her PhD research based on eight months of fieldwork in the town of Yamamoto in Miyagi prefecture, where 635 residents lost their lives. She began her research on long-term community recovery four years after the disaster, when national focus was shifting from recovery and restoration (fukkyū 復旧) to reconstruction (fukkō 復興 ). Learn how large-scale, government-funded initiatives, including the construction of three new compact cities away from the immediate coastal area, had the unintended effect of causing "reconstruction disaster” by aggravating resident anxieties and accelerating depopulation. In presenting her concept of Aspired Communities, Dr. Posio argues that community is best viewed not as a static, territorially-bound identity, but as a dynamic process, one which is continually constituted from a future-oriented outlook of collective aspiration. Pilvi Posio is a senior researcher at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and is currently working on sustainability issues in Asia. Her dissertation can be found here. Satoko Naito received her PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University and teaches as a docent at CEAS. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan triggering a massive tsunami and shifting the earth on its axis. Nearly 20,000 residents in the Tōhoku region lost their lives, with many hundreds of thousands more injured, displaced, and left with horrific loss. Dr. Pilvi Posio shares her PhD research based on eight months of fieldwork in the town of Yamamoto in Miyagi prefecture, where 635 residents lost their lives. She began her research on long-term community recovery four years after the disaster, when national focus was shifting from recovery and restoration (fukkyū 復旧) to reconstruction (fukkō 復興 ). Learn how large-scale, government-funded initiatives, including the construction of three new compact cities away from the immediate coastal area, had the unintended effect of causing "reconstruction disaster” by aggravating resident anxieties and accelerating depopulation. In presenting her concept of Aspired Communities, Dr. Posio argues that community is best viewed not as a static, territorially-bound identity, but as a dynamic process, one which is continually constituted from a future-oriented outlook of collective aspiration. Pilvi Posio is a senior researcher at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and is currently working on sustainability issues in Asia. Her dissertation can be found here. Satoko Naito received her PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University and teaches as a docent at CEAS. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan triggering a massive tsunami and shifting the earth on its axis. Nearly 20,000 residents in the Tōhoku region lost their lives, with many hundreds of thousands more injured, displaced, and left with horrific loss. Dr. Pilvi Posio shares her PhD research based on eight months of fieldwork in the town of Yamamoto in Miyagi prefecture, where 635 residents lost their lives. She began her research on long-term community recovery four years after the disaster, when national focus was shifting from recovery and restoration (fukkyū 復旧) to reconstruction (fukkō 復興 ). Learn how large-scale, government-funded initiatives, including the construction of three new compact cities away from the immediate coastal area, had the unintended effect of causing "reconstruction disaster” by aggravating resident anxieties and accelerating depopulation. In presenting her concept of Aspired Communities, Dr. Posio argues that community is best viewed not as a static, territorially-bound identity, but as a dynamic process, one which is continually constituted from a future-oriented outlook of collective aspiration. Pilvi Posio is a senior researcher at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and is currently working on sustainability issues in Asia. Her dissertation can be found here. Satoko Naito received her PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University and teaches as a docent at CEAS. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan triggering a massive tsunami and shifting the earth on its axis. Nearly 20,000 residents in the Tōhoku region lost their lives, with many hundreds of thousands more injured, displaced, and left with horrific loss. Dr. Pilvi Posio shares her PhD research based on eight months of fieldwork in the town of Yamamoto in Miyagi prefecture, where 635 residents lost their lives. She began her research on long-term community recovery four years after the disaster, when national focus was shifting from recovery and restoration (fukkyū 復旧) to reconstruction (fukkō 復興 ). Learn how large-scale, government-funded initiatives, including the construction of three new compact cities away from the immediate coastal area, had the unintended effect of causing "reconstruction disaster” by aggravating resident anxieties and accelerating depopulation. In presenting her concept of Aspired Communities, Dr. Posio argues that community is best viewed not as a static, territorially-bound identity, but as a dynamic process, one which is continually constituted from a future-oriented outlook of collective aspiration. Pilvi Posio is a senior researcher at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and is currently working on sustainability issues in Asia. Her dissertation can be found here. Satoko Naito received her PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University and teaches as a docent at CEAS. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-a...

On this episode Jackie is joined by Katrina Klein, RDH, CEAS, CPT, founder of ErgoFitLife. As a certified body builder, speaker, author and ergonomic assessment specialist, Katrina shares how important exercise and equipment can be. 

An open discussion with Stephanie Botts, BSDH, RDH, CEAS owner of Polished Posture. Stephanie and Jackie talk everything ergonomic, from in office coaching to podium presence and maintaining the busy life balance.

If you sat on and didn't like a saddle stool, it might be time to try again. Take it from Katrina Klein. At first, she didn't like it, and now she can't practice without it. by Katrina Klein, RDH, CEAS, CPT   Read article here: https://www.rdhmag.com/ergonomics/seating/article/14280848/saddle-stools-dont-buy-until-you-try 

Realitatea de la Chișinău pare o sursă inepuizabilă de idei cinematografice. Din întâmplări cu politicieni și gangsteri, Republica Moldova a alunecat, după un scurt respiro, direct în filmul războiului lui Putin. Salvată anul trecut de armata ucraineană, care a oprit avansul Rusiei spre Transnistria, Moldova se vede acum în fața altui înspăimântător scenariu – unul cu spioni și luări de ostatici, cu proteste și final necunoscut. Opozanții președintelui Maia Sandu au cerut dovezi imposibil de oferit. Susținătorii i-au luat în serios avertismentul, iar jurnaliștii au căutat să-l înțeleagă, mai ales în perspectiva unor noi proteste organizate de pro-ruși. Vitalie Cojocari e jurnalist Euronews România. A intrat, însă, în presă în Republica Moldova. Acolo s-a născut, când țara era încă parte din URSS, și tot acolo a căutat, în aceste zile, răspunsuri la câteva întrebări esențiale: De ce ar avea nevoie Vladimir Putin de un „cap de pod” la Chișinău, ca strategie în războiul din Ucraina? Se poate întoarce Republica Moldova la mâna oligarhilor pro-ruși? Are România încă o bombă cu ceas la graniță? Explicațiile – în acest episod On the Record. On the Record este un podcast săptămânal produs de Recorder. Partener: Aqua Carpatica.

On this episode Jackie has an open discussion with Cindy Purdy, BSDH, RDH, CEAS on the necessity of ergonomic health and the Thrive ergonomic program to assist the RDH with answers to their pain.  

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Shallow Report on Hypertension, published by Joel Tan (CEARCH) on November 21, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary Taking into account the expected benefits of eliminating hypertension (i.e. improved health and greater economic output), as well as the tractability of sodium taxation policy advocacy, I find that the marginal expected value of sodium taxation policy advocacy to control hypertension to be 190,927 DALYs per USD 100,000, which is around 300x as cost-effective as giving to a GiveWell top charity. Key Points Importance: This is a strongly important cause, with 1.28 1010 DALYs at stake from now to the indefinite future. Around 84% of the burden is health related, while 16% is economic in nature. Neglectedness: Whatever governments/charities/businesses are doing to solve this problem (e.g. labelling laws/providing low sodium food in food banks/developing new hypertension drugs) may be making a difference, since age-standardized DALYs lost are falling, but (a) attribution is hard, and structural factors (e.g. more educated populations eating and exercising better, or economic development expanding access to healthcare) will also be behind the decline; and (b) all this is insufficient all the same, with population growth and ageing driving an increase in DALYs lost over time for the coming decades. Tractability: A moderately tractable solution in the form of sodium taxes is available. This is highly effective if and when implemented, but there is of course considerably uncertainty as to whether advocacy for taxes on food – which are highly unpopular – can succeed. Further Discussion This is a highly promising cause area that CEARCH will be conducting deeper research into, but it is important to note that early stage CEAs tend to be overoptimistic, and it is likely that this initial x300 GiveWell estimate will be revised downwards after more research and greater scrutiny, possibly extremely substantially (e.g. a one or two magnitude downgrade in cost-effectiveness). DALYs lost to hypertension have grown tremendously (43.5%) from 1990 to 2015, and it is certainly not just a rich world problem – over that same period, DALYs lost to hypertension in LMICs exploded (45% increase in high-middle income countries, 72% increase in middle income countries, 94% in low-middle income countries, and 86% in low income countries); and of the large countries, Bangladesh notably saw a fairly staggering near-tripling of DALYs lost. Growth in DALYs lost is driven not just by population growth and ageing, but also by urbanization and corresponding lifestyle changes (e.g. excessive dietary sodium, stress, sedentary lifestyle etc). Note that the analysis here does not model income effects from the tax (i.e. reduced purchasing power causing less consumption of healthy food) or substitution effects, whether positive (e.g. reducing sugar and fat consumption from food – such as junk food – that is high in not just salt but also sugar and fat) or negative (i.e. causing people to switch to low-salt high-sugar food or drinks); the analysis here also does not model the impact of industry reformulating food products in response to a sodium tax. My sense is that these balance out to some extent, but it is very hard to say. There is extremely high uncertainty over the calculations over how the problem will grow or shrink in the coming decades. This is certainly an area where expert advice and expert epidemiological modelling would be extremely valuable, and is something that CEARCH will pursue at deeper research stages. We underestimate the economic burden insofar as it focuses on the burden from hypertension (i.e. SBP of > 140 mm Hg) even though high systolic blood pressure (i.e. SBP of > 110-115 mm Hg) has adverse health consequences and presumably negative economic effects as well....

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GiveWell Misuses Discount Rates, published by Oscar Delaney on October 27, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary GiveWell currently uses a time discount rate of 4% for all their cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs). I argue that it is a mathematical mistake to pick any single best guess value to use for the CEAs. Instead, GiveWell should use a probability distribution over possible discount rates. This is not just an aesthetic judgement for mathematical puritans; it materially changes the CEAs, notably by making all the deworming interventions more attractive relative to other interventions. This is because deworming interventions rely on multi-decadal effects, and so a lower discount rate would make them much more valuable. Epistemic Status On the object level, I cannot think of any reasons to justify GiveWell's current modelling choice over my proposal. However, I still doubt my conclusion because on the meta level it seems like an obvious thing that would be surprising if no one at GiveWell had ever thought of doing, which is evidence I am missing something important. Main GiveWell's CEAs are an impressive attempt to model many different factors in assessing the near-term impacts of various interventions.[1] I will ignore all of this complexity. For my purposes, it is sufficient to note that the CEA for most interventions is well characterised by decomposing impact into several constituents, and multiplying these numbers together. Consider Helen Keller International's Vitamin A Supplementation program: V=M×R×1C [2] where: V is cost-effectiveness [deaths/dollar], M is baseline mortality [deaths/year/child], R is mortality reduction [%], and C is treatment cost [dollars/child/year] Obviously, all of these terms are uncertain. Treatment costs we can estimate quite accurately, but there may be fluctuations in the price of labour or materials needed in the distribution. Mortality data is generally good, but some deaths may not be reported, and mortality rates will change over time. The mortality reduction is based on a solid-seeming meta-analysis of RCTs, but things change over time, and circumstances differ between the trial and intervention locations. GiveWell's model makes a subtle mathematical assumption, namely that the expectation of the product of these three random variables is equal to the product of their expectations: E[V]=E[M×R×1C]=E[M]×E[R]×E[1C] This is not, in general, true.[3] However, if the three random variables are independent, it is true. I cannot think of any plausible ways in which these three random variables correlate. Surely learning that the price of vitamin A tablets just doubled (C) does not affect how effective they are (R) or change the baseline of how many kids die (M). Thus, while GiveWell's method is mathematically unsound, it gives the correct answer in this case. It could well be that GiveWell has considered this, and decided not to explain this in their CEAs because it doesn't change the answer. I think this would be a mistake in communication, but otherwise benign. The one place where I believe this mathematical mistake translates into an incorrect answer is in the use of discount rates. From GiveWell's explanatory document: “The discount rate's primary effect in the cost-effectiveness analyses of our top charities is to represent how much we discount increases in consumption resulting from the long run effects of improved child health for our malaria, deworming and vitamin A charities (which we call "developmental effects"). It also affects the longer-run benefits from cash transfers. We don't discount mortality benefits in our cost-effectiveness analyses.” This figure shows the cost-effectiveness of all the charities in the CEA spreadsheet, when varying the discount rate.[4] Deworming interventions, shown in dashed lines, v...

Helping people change their habits to change their health is one of the main mechanisms that makes OT effective. But, I don't think we spend enough time thinking about how HARD it is to change our habits. The article we are looking at today focuses on changing lifestyle habits for adults at high risk of a cardiovascular incident, like a stroke. The author's aim is to conceptualize how engaging occupations can be used to facilitate health promoting habits.We'll use this article as a jumping off point to discuss both habit formation and Lifestyle Medicine with Ryan Balats Osal OTD, MS, OTR/L, NZROT, CEAS, CHC.In order to earn credit for this course, you must take the test within the OT Potential Club.You can find more details on this course here:https://otpotential.com/ceu-podcast-courses/lifestyle-medicine-otHere's the primary research we are discussing:Mälstam, E., Asaba, E., Åkesson, E., Guidetti, S., &; Patomella, A.-H. (2021). ‘Weaving lifestyle habits': Complex pathways to health for persons at risk for stroke. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 29(2), 152–164.  Support the show

Many of us know the feeling of the tight shoulders, sore back, and tense jaw that come from long hours working at a computer. In the age of virtual work, it's all too common. What can we do to keep our body healthy while working? Today's guest, Emile Clarke, is here to tell us his best secrets for working and moving to reduce discomfort and pain. Emile Clarke is a Certified Ergonomic Specialist with an extensive background in outpatient Physical Therapy and Corrective Exercise. He has helped more than 6000 clients reduce their risk of injury and improve their overall functional fitness. His specialty is in office, vehicle, healthcare, and Industrial Ergonomics/ Injury prevention. Don't miss this conversation that will help you better understand how to optimize your ergonomics while working and how to live and move to reduce pain. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:00 - What motivated Emile to become a physical therapy assistant? 6:03 - Can everyone optimize their bone and muscle health? 8:33 - Which conditions Emile specializes in 12:33 - Typical pain that shows up 17:30 - Are we sitting too much? 20:17 - Power of moving together 23:38 - Ergonomic recommendations 25:23 - What can we do to move our bodies optimally 28:24 - How to move with chronic pain? 35:22 - Breathwork 41:31 - Nutrition and hydration 44:55 - Morning routine 48:33 - How to work with Emile

Having correct ergonomics is vital to having a successful healthy career as a dental hygienist. We may think practicing as a hygienist is easy on the body but it's actually the complete opposite. This is why on this week's episode, ergonomic expert herself, Stephanie Botts, BSDH, RDH, CEAS takes us through her journey and how injuries affected her career. Stephanie is a dental hygienist with 14 years of experience, the founder of Posture Pros, a national public speaker, author, and a content creator. I promise you, you won't forget her name because when you're in the op reminding yourself to sit up straight and to have the patient turn instead of you it's because Stephanie taught you the importance of ergonomics.  Tune it to increase the longevity of your career through better ergonomics! Instagram: @steph.posturepros https://www.rdhmag.com/resources/contact/14209264/stephanie-botts-bsdh-rdh-ceas https://www.posturepros.net/

Disparaged as "Japanese devils" and "half-breed," some children with Chinese mothers and Japanese fathers born during the Second Sino-Japanese war long looked to Japan as their true homeland. Learn about this largely unseen group of individuals, just a few of the countless children born of war who have dealt with extreme social and political adversities as well as persistent questions of self identity. Kanako Kuramitsu speaks to Satoko Naito to share her research on children born of consensual relationships between Chinese mothers and Japanese fathers during and after the Second Sino-Japanese war, particularly those who migrated to Japan after the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations in 1972. Her work highlights men and women who, while sharing the many hardships of other children born of war, stand out for their strong identification with their fathers and their paternal country. The participants of Dr. Kuramitsu's study underscore the far-reaching effects of military conflict while simultaneously reminding us of the complexity of each individual's life story. The animation film "Michiko," mentioned in the episode, is available to view here. Kanako Kuramitsu received her PhD from the University of Birmingham and is currently a visiting scholar at the Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS) at the University of Turku in Finland. Satoko Naito studies and teaches Japanese literature and film as a docent at CEAS and holds a PhD from Columbia University. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode recorded live at ETI ToolTech 2022, we're joined by Lee Locklear, CEO of Chief Executive Officer at Cutting Edge Automotive Solutions a tool supplier out of Fairhope, Alabama (https://ceasusa.com/).This conversation is filled with inside baseball and behind-the-scene discussions about some of the most popular brands in the industry today. Support the show