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Purpose of the Program: Nîsohkamâtowak, the Cree word for Helping Each Other, is an initiative to close gaps in kidney health care for First Nations and Métis patients, their families, and communities in northern Saskatchewan. Nîsohkamâtowak emerged from a collaboration between the Kidney Health Community Program and First Nations and Métis Health Services to find ways to deliver better care and education to First Nations and Métis people living with kidney disease while acknowledging Truth and Reconciliation and the Calls to Action. Sources of Information: This article describes how traditional Indigenous protocols and storytelling were woven into the Nîsohkamâtowak events, gathering of patient and family voices in writing and video format, and how this work led to a collaborative co-designed process that incorporates the Truth and Reconciliation: Calls to Action into kidney care and the benefits we have seen so far. The teachings of the 4 Rs—respect, reciprocity, responsibility, and relevance, were critical to ensuring that Nîsohkamâtowak reports and learning were shared with participants and the communities represented in this initiative. Methods: Group discussions and sharing circles were facilitated in several locations throughout northern and central Saskatchewan. Main topics of discussion were traditional medicines, residential schools impact, community and peer supports for kidney disease patients, and cultural safety education for health care providers. Key Findings: The general themes selected for improvement were education, support within the local community, traditional practices and cultural competency, and delivery of services. To address these gaps in kidney care, the following objectives were co-created with First Nations and Métis patients, families, and communities for Kidney Health to provide culturally appropriate education and resources, to ensure appropriate follow-up support to include strengthening connections to communities and other health authorities, to incorporate traditional practices into program design, and to ensure appropriate service delivery across the spectrum of care with a focus on screening and referral, which is strongly linked to coordination of care with local health centers. Implications: As a result of this work, the Kidney Health Community Program restructured the delivery of services and continues to work with Nîsohkamâtowak advisors on safety initiatives and chronic kidney disease awareness, prevention, and management in their respective communities. The Truth and Reconciliation and Calls to Action are honored to close the gaps in kidney care. Limitations: Nîsohkamâtowak is a local Kidney Health initiative that has the good fortune of having dedicated funding and staff to carry out this work. The findings may be unique to the First Nations and Métis communities and people who shared their stories. Truth and Reconciliation is an ongoing commitment that must be nurtured. Although not part of this publication, the effects of COVID-19 have made it difficult to further advance the Calls to Action, with more limited staff resources and the inability to meet in person as in the past.

Purpose of the Program: Nîsohkamâtowak , the Cree word for Helping Each Other , is an initiative to close gaps in kidney health care for First Nations and Métis patients, their families, and communities in northern Saskatchewan. Nîsohkamâtowak emerged from a collaboration between the Kidney Health Community Program and First Nations and Métis Health Services to find ways to deliver better care and education to First Nations and Métis people living with kidney disease while acknowledging Truth and Reconciliation and the Calls to Action. Sources of Information: This article describes how traditional Indigenous protocols and storytelling were woven into the Nîsohkamâtowak events, gathering of patient and family voices in writing and video format, and how this work led to a collaborative co-designed process that incorporates the Truth and Reconciliation: Calls to Action into kidney care and the benefits we have seen so far. The teachings of the 4 Rs—respect, reciprocity, responsibility, and relevance, were critical to ensuring that Nîsohkamâtowak reports and learning were shared with participants and the communities represented in this initiative. Methods: Group discussions and sharing circles were facilitated in several locations throughout northern and central Saskatchewan. Main topics of discussion were traditional medicines, residential schools impact, community and peer supports for kidney disease patients, and cultural safety education for health care providers. Key Findings: The general themes selected for improvement were education, support within the local community, traditional practices and cultural competency, and delivery of services. To address these gaps in kidney care, the following objectives were co-created with First Nations and Métis patients, families, and communities for Kidney Health to provide culturally appropriate education and resources, to ensure appropriate follow-up support to include strengthening connections to communities and other health authorities, to incorporate traditional practices into program design, and to ensure appropriate service delivery across the spectrum of care with a focus on screening and referral, which is strongly linked to coordination of care with local health centers. Implications: As a result of this work, the Kidney Health Community Program restructured the delivery of services and continues to work with Nîsohkamâtowak advisors on safety initiatives and chronic kidney disease awareness, prevention, and management in their respective communities. The Truth and Reconciliation and Calls to Action are honored to close the gaps in kidney care. Limitations: Nîsohkamâtowak is a local Kidney Health initiative that has the good fortune of having dedicated funding and staff to carry out this work. The findings may be unique to the First Nations and Métis communities and people who shared their stories. Truth and Reconciliation is an ongoing commitment that must be nurtured. Although not part of this publication, the effects of COVID-19 have made it difficult to further advance the Calls to Action , with more limited staff resources and the inability to meet in person as in the past.

According to the Vedic tradition, the most profound way to affect the course of your Ufe is by harnessing the power of resolution or intention, which in Sanskrit is called sankalpa. [...] by learning to apply the simple steps of meditation that I will lead you through (see the sidebar, \"Inquire Within, \" onpage 109) and by learning to \"see\" those desires that are inspired by your soul, your desires can become the means by which your short-term goals, in any of the four categories of desire, become your way of manifesting your soul's overriding purpose, or dharma.

To build your parasympathetic nervous system, you to do poses that encourage deep relaxation, such as forward and hip openers; do fewer standing poses; and do more sitsupine, and prone postures as well as inversions. Vigorous vinyasa, backbends, handstands, and arm balances are powerful and beneficial, but they don't stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system as much as the practices listed previously So if the positive changes you gain from yoga can't be entirely credited to its impact on your nervous system, what is helping you feel and live better?

According to the Pradipika, because of the way the body is \"locked\" into place, various parts of it in Lotus Pose press into the acupuncture points of stomach, gallbladder, spleen, kidneys, and liver. According to Stryker, the body's position in Lotus makes it easier to access Mula Bandha, the pelvic-floor lock, since it brings the pelvic floor directly into contact with the earth, and the heels press into the belly, helping to naturally draw the pelvic floor up. According to Stryker, the pelvis grounded into the floor stimulates the nerves in the sacrum, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system for a calming effect.

Within a 10-mile radius of this small town, 165 soldiers and policemen have been killed, along with 75 civilians, since the Troubles began 31 years ago. Nobody in Crossmaglen wants to return to that, but decommissioning is another matter: that's evident at Short's Bar. The bar was once destroyed by an IRA rocket-propelled grenade (it fell a couple of hundred yards short of the RUC base). The owner, Paddy Short, claims to still have a bullet in his shoulder from a \"dispute\" with British soldiers. Short is a well-known supporter of the IRA and the uncle of a British cabinet minister, Clare Short. He once appeared in court as a character witness for alleged IRA commander Thomas (Slab) Murphy, whose farm is a few miles outside of town. (A newspaper in 1985 identified Murphy as the IRA's operations commander in Northern Ireland; Murphy sued for libel and lost, in 1998.) Decommissioning? \"Go to hell with your decommissioning,\" says Short, to much agreement from the noontime crowd one day last week. \"The IRA called a ceasefire, and the Army still won't leave.\" The IRA may be small--with perhaps 200 hard-core active members and a support network of an additional 1,000, according to security sources--but on decommissioning it looms large. Despite Sinn Fein's rising popularity, \"the armed struggle has a veto on the political process,\" says Malachi O'Doherty, author of \"The Trouble With Guns,\" a book about the IRA. [Gerry Adams], who denies he is an IRA member, says Sinn Fein can neither speak for the IRA nor make it turn over its weapons. But he evidently knows enough about the IRA to issue warnings to people who mess with it. At the outset of last week's decommissioning battle, as pressure mounted on the IRA to budge, Adams pushed back. He warned unionists that coercion was not going to work: if they thought they could play hardball with the IRA, \"they're playing it with the wrong people.\" Is Adams right or wrong? With the clock ticking away in Northern Ireland, we're about to find out.

The meeting took place late last year, before the grotesque images out of Abu Ghraib. U.S. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the general in charge of the now-infamous prison, sat in on a staff meeting with Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, and his military legal team. The discussion: how to cope with overcrowding as detainees poured in. At one point a senior British officer spoke up. \"The best solution is to find a way to release these people instead of building more and more detention facilities,\" he said. \"Why don't we just do the decent thing?\" Recalling the incident, Karpinski tried to conjure up the incredulity with which U.S. commanders greeted the Brit's effrontery: \"They looked at him like, 'Who asked you?' \" Britain's contribution to the war effort hangs in the balance. With several Coalition members--Spain, Poland and others-- withdrawing or downsizing their commitments in Iraq, [Tony Blair] is under heavy U.S. pressure to send more troops. But with anti-war sentiment rising in Britain, and with Blair's poll ratings collapsing, President Bush's most loyal Coalition partner is finding it increasingly difficult to play the role Washington expects of him. One Blairite M.P. puts it bluntly: \"As an ally, Blair has never been weaker.\"

Boeing's sale of $7.2 billion worth of aircraft to Saudi Arabia in 1995 was the largest single overseas deal in Boeing history. After 9-11, Boeing helped pay for a newspaper supplement that touted close U.S.-Saudi ties and included such articles as \"Crown Prince Abdullah: A Leader With a Global Vision.\" Similar issues confronted former Sen. George Mitchell, who resigned last week as vice chair. His move came after congressional lawyers said he, too, would be required to disclose all the clients of his lawyer lobbying firm, Piper Rudnick. Among recent clients were the governments of Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, and a firm owned by Mohammed Hussain Al-Amoudi, a Saudi magnate under scrutiny from U.S. anti-terror investigators. (Through his lawyers, Al-Amoudi denies any connection to terrorism.) As the United States gears up for a possible invasion of Iraq, the global media have been quick to provide polls showing almost universal opposition to war. We know how the Saudis, Russians, French, Germans, Britons, Kuwaitis and Turks feel--and almost everybody's against it. Everybody that is, except the Iraqis. In a report released early this month, International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank, found that most Iraqis interviewed support the idea of an invasion, as well as U.S. occupation during the transition to a post-Saddam government. Iraqis have had it with more than a decade of impoverishment, isolation and fear, says the study's researcher, who asked not to be named. \"I found very few people who were against American intervention,\" the researcher says. Over three weeks in September and October, she spoke to Iraqis without government \"minders\" present, and found them surprisingly open and willing to talk, even in public places like beauty parlors. \"People are depressed, exhausted. They can't take it anymore,\" she says. More than half a million red and white bottles with looping script advertising \"Classic\" cola sold out with-in a week in France this Ramadan. But it wasn't Coca-Cola that American-product boycotters were thirsty for--it was Mecca-Cola. \"You can't fight violence with violence, so we're pressuring America in the economic way,\" says Tawfiq Mathlouthi, the brand's creator. With 10 percent of its profits funding Palestinian relief, increasing numbers of countries are heeding Mecca-Cola's call: \"Don't drink foolishly, drink with commitment!\" Saudi Arabia ordered 5 million bottles, and the two-month-old company is filling orders from throughout the Middle East, Pakistan, China, Russia and even the United States. Palestinian donations are a major selling point. Instead of celebs sipping soda, online ads show real-life footage of the Palestinian uprising. One features a Palestinian father crouching with his son against a wall moments before the son was shot dead in cross-fire. The cola is selling so well that Mathlouthi's considering alternatives to other American products like laun-dry detergent, soup, fried chicken and cigarettes.