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E.E. Cummings : a life
A major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright considered to be one of America's preeminent twentieth-century poets. Cummings was and remains controversial--called \"a master\" or \"hideous.\" In Susan Cheever's rich biography we see his idyllic childhood years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his sternly religious father and his loving, attentive mother. We see Cummings--slight, agile, playful, a product of a nineteenth-century New England childhood; his love of nature; his sense of fun, laughter, mimicry; his desire from the get-go to stand conventional wisdom on its head. At Harvard, he earned two degrees, discovered alcohol, fast cars, and burlesque, and raged against the school's exclusionary upper-class rule. He grew into a dark young man and set out on a lifelong course of rebellion against conventional authority. Headstrong and cavalier, he volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I, working alongside Hemingway and Joyce. He permanently fled to Greenwich Village to be among other modernist poets of the day, and we see the development of both the poet and his work against the backdrop of modernism. Cheever's book gives us the evolution of an artist whose writing was at the forefront of what was new and daring and bold in an America in transition.--From publisher description.
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Understanding the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship in Utah community pharmacies
Abstract
Objectives
Antimicrobial stewardship (AS) is essential to optimize antibiotic use and combat resistance. This study evaluated the implementation of AS activities in community pharmacies across Utah and assessed pharmacists’ understanding of AS principles, current practices and barriers. This study also aimed to increase community pharmacists’ awareness of preventing drug-resistant infections. Addressing community pharmacies AS barriers can significantly enhance AS efforts, to ensure optimal patient outcomes while combating antibiotic resistance.
Methods
A cross-sectional survey was distributed to community pharmacies throughout Utah. The survey collected data on pharmacy demographics, AS knowledge, implementation practices, perceived barriers and potential facilitators related to AS.
Results
Out of 110 respondents, 50% worked in privately owned pharmacies, and 78.7% held a Doctorate in Pharmacy. While 71.6% were familiar with ASP, 28.4% were not. Major barriers to implementing AS in community pharmacies included limited access to patient data (79.8%) and the absence of standardized AS guidelines (53%). Pharmacists identified several key facilitators that could support AS implementation, which included access to guidelines (75.2%) and better collaboration with providers (75.2%). Additionally, (86.4%) of pharmacists highlighted improved access to patient records was essential or effective for AS implementation. However, only (47.7%) of pharmacists consistently intervened when an antibiotic dosage or frequency appeared inappropriate, which indicates potential gaps in AS-related interventions.
Conclusions
Enhancing pharmacists’ access to clinical data and fostering collaboration with healthcare providers are crucial steps towards effective AS implementation in community settings.
Journal Article
Work ; Eight cousins ; Rose in bloom ; Stories & other writings
\"After the success of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott brought her genius for characterization and eye for detail to a series of revolutionary novels and stories remarkable for their forthright assertion of women's rights. In the largely autobiographical Work : A Story of Experience, twenty-one-year-old orphan Christie Devon announces 'a new Declaration of Independence' and pursues economic self-sufficiency through a variety of jobs: servant, actress, governess, companion, and seamstress, among others. Eight Cousins and its sequel, Rose in Bloom, follow the fate of Rose Campbell, another orphan, who with the benefit of a progressive education charts her own course to fulfillment and love. All three novels are presented with art from the original editions and supplemented by seven rare stories and public letters--two restored to print tor the first time in more than a century--as well as notes identifying the many allusions, quotations, and autobiographical episodes\"--Publisher's description.
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Sweating It Out The agony of deciding if a child should - or should not - go to a weight loss cmap. Sidebar: Weighing the Choices: Some Camps in the East (see end of text)
I point out to [Sarah] that these weight-loss camps are very expensive, in many cases twice as expensive as camps that seem equivalent in other ways - and even camps that provide special sports activities like horseback riding or sailing. If Sarah goes to the least expensive of the camps - Camp Shane, which has a special brochure comparing its prices to the higher prices of other camps - and loses 12 pounds in three weeks - she will be losing at the rate of about $166.60 a pound. \"Of course they lose weight here, that's a snap,\" says Michele Friedman of Camp Camelot, who says about 50 percent of Camelot campers lose weight and keep it off. \"We try to give them a plan to go home with. Each child has to realize that they and only they are responsible for what they eat. They have to come to terms with what life has given them. We give them a big boost with weight loss and then send them home with a way to cope.\" Camelot sends each camper home with an information packet and puts out a monthly mailing. Weighing the Choices: Some Camps in the East CAMP SHANE Where: Ferndale, N.Y. Price: From $2,000 for three weeks to $4,200 for nine weeks. Director: [David Ettenberg], 134 Teatown Rd., Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. 10520. Phone: (914) 271-4141; in summer, (914) 292-4644. Description: Coed, ages 6 to 17. Rural setting with cabins and bunk beds, swimming pool, woodworking shops. Sports include everything from horseback riding to drag racing. Accredited by the American Camp Association. NEW IMAGE CAMPS Where: Two campuses, at Teikyo Post University in Middlebury, Conn., and at Villanova Prep School in Ojai, Calif. Price: From $1,450 for two weeks to $4,190 for seven weeks. Director: [Tony Sparber] and Dale Sparber, 24 W. Railroad Ave., Suite 107, Tenafly, N.J. 07670. Phone: (201) 871-1557 or (800) 365-0556. Description: Coed, ages 8-18. Campus settings with real beds in double rooms and school classrooms and facilities.
Newspaper Article
What Am I? A Beetle, a Mustang or a Hummer?
My first was a used red VW Beetle convertible that I paid for with a savings bond earmarked for tuition. Then there was a new green VW convertible my father bought for me one high-spirited day when the red one wouldn't start. There was the black Ford Mustang of my early married years; we didn't have a sofa or a place to live, but we had the Mustang and later an ancient red Porsche that we spent weekends waxing even though you could see the road right through the rusted-out chassis on the passenger side. There was a red Mustang and then a yellow one, and then the beige VW Rabbit of my suburban mid-30s. Sometimes I got confused. Was it Warren I fell in love with, or his gigantic Impala convertible with the front seat as wide as a bed? Was it Dewey I cared about or the old Pontiac Firebird with an engine that sounded like the Lion King? Was it Michael or the sexy, rounded shape of his blue Peugeot? Over in the Mustang section, it's clear that the Mustang has become more macho than the ones I drove. There is no family Mustang on display, only a Mach 1 and a souped-up GT Premium Coupe, and the onlookers are not thinking about their families as they stroke the shaker hood and lower themselves into the low-slung driver's seat.
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'Hands Off' Won't Work for Sex Ed
Teaching kids about sex is the job no one wants. The parents say the teachers should do it. Last year's Kaiser Family Report found that 98 percent of parents want the burden of sexual education to be on the schools. Ninety percent or more wanted the schools to explain sexually transmitted diseases, teach what to do in cases of rape or sexual assault, teach how to deal with peer pressure and the emotional consequences of sex as well as covering the basics of reproduction and birth control. Because of our fears, no one is currently responsible for teaching our children what they need to know. They are learning on their own from hearsay and from the masses of fragmented, misleading sexual information provided by advertising. No wonder they are confused. No wonder the sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia and gonorrhea lead the list of reported infections in this country-with gonorrhea increasing for the first time in 20 years. Not only are more and more teenagers having sex younger and younger-31 percent had intercourse by the age of 15 in 1995, up from 25 percent in 1980, according to a Family Planning Perspectives study-but they are more and more confused about what constitutes sex. Many of them don't even seem to know what abstinence means. Doctors who specialize in adolescent medicine report that many teenagers think oral sex or anal sex is not sex at all. So it's no wonder that although the teenage pregnancy rate is falling, the sexually transmitted disease rate is rising.
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Give Her Credit, At Least, For This
When I had children to support, the real trouble began. My behavior didn't change at first, but it became much more painful. I was still capable of a weekend trip to Europe paid for on credit. I deserved it! But when I sank into feeling terrified, my fears had real teeth. What if I was unable to meet my children's basic needs? That was a nightmare worse than anything I could have imagined for myself. Now every panic was magnified by my concern for two people whom I loved passionately and who were financially dependent on me. My spending brought us all some pleasure, but my scrimping had effects that broke my heart. I couldn't bear to see my children suffer the results of my gambling-for gambling it was, although it took place in New York instead of in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, and in banks and stores instead of casinos, and with credit cards instead of playing cards or slot machines.
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Despite It All, Merry Isn't Quite Contrary
Furthermore, Christmas is a time of physical excesses, of eggnogs and fruitcakes and sugar plums and boxes of candy canes. Christmas is when we're supposed to let go, be dissolute and put on the weight that will reappear in our New Year's resolutions. It sounds good, but only for a moment. Our heads are dancing with visions of nutrition labels and medical admonitions. What about all that healthful living we're supposed to be doing even as we raise the wassail cup? It may taste delicious, but what is it doing to our cholesterol? What about the calories? Have another bite of Christmas pudding? Are you kidding? Another helping of the Christmas goose with all the trimmings? Are you trying to kill me? The truth is that I love Christmas. I just can't help myself. In spite of the insanity of getting and spending, in spite of the crowds, in spite of the tawdriness and the bad moods, the season enchants me. The smell of pine wreaths, the sweetness of Christmas carols, the traditions we've developed in our family of advent calendars and choosing the tree make my heart soar. I see forgiveness in the scene around the manger, whether it's played by disgruntled high school kids or represented by plastic figures. I see God's grace in the way shoppers sometimes stop for a moment to look up at a lighted tree or a glittering ornamental star. I see joy in the faces of my children when they wake up and find that their stockings have been magically filled during the night.
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