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European Angst : “We need to be brave”

Article published on Dec. 13, 2016
Article published on Dec. 13, 2016

During the 4th and final conversation of the European Angst conference on populism, extremism and euroscepticism, students from different countries debated together with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Turkish writer Elif Shafak about how to bring up productive methods in order to face extremism.

The conference focused on analyzing the rise of populism and extremism in Europe, but also to learn how to approach it. Among the different participants were the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek, who was very passionate in his argumentation, and the Turkish columnist and writer Elif Shafak, who argued in a very calm way. The participating students also took the opportunity to talk about their fears about the rising populism in Europe.

One student wanted to know what angst (fear) was and how to deal with it. Soon, she found her answer: Angst is a natural feeling and the only way to come out of it is to be brave. We as Europeans need to be brave to confront angst.

That said, Zizek stressed that populism needed to be fought by its causes: “the economic and political fiasco of the center liberal block,” he said. According to him, the refugee crisis is only one of the symptoms of the rise of populism. He wasn’t going easy on the liberal left: “If the liberal left doesn’t like something, they call it fascism. It’s not that easy. For example, it’s too easy to say that Trump is a fascist. What we need is self-criticism.”

Elif Shafak spoke about how she fears that Europe will lose a lot of its consciousness like Turkey did with the loss of its cosmopolitanism and multiethnicity. She stressed the importance of getting out of our comfort zone and bringing diversity into the public space. “The only way forward it by reviving humanism and filling the gaps (knowledge, gender, wealth etc.) among the people”.

The writer also talked about the importance of knowledge and wisdom. According to her, people have access easily to a lot of information, but they have little knowledge and even less wisdom. In order to increase our knowledge and our wisdom, it is important to read and to talk to people who disagree with our point of view.

After this animated conversation, the students read out their manifesto which they had prepared in advance and handed over to EU officials. In it, they demanded to take the economic struggles in the EU seriously and they pleaded for a Europe-wide living wage. Furthermore, the youth unemployment should also be addressed and exchange programs between different schools have to be established, so that the students from different backgrounds can mingle.

The word “angst” is a germanism. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it is a feeling of anxiety, apprehension or insecurity. It was first brought into the philosophical discussion in the mid-19th century by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. “German Angst”, however, describes the Germans’ tendency to over think everything as well as having a sometimes unexplained fear of the future. Although now, this tendency has reached all of Europe, not only Germany…we can now speak of “European Angst”.


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Note: China's GDP was reported at 6.9% year-over-year, at expectations.

Schedule for Week of January 17, 2016

Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in December and Post-Mortem on November

Update: Predicting the Next Recession

• At 10:00 AM ET, the January NAHB homebuilder survey. The consensus is for a reading of 62, up from 61 in December. Any number above 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as good than poor.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures: currently S&P futures are up 12 and DOW futures are up 120 (fair value).

Oil prices were down sharply over the last week with WTI futures at $29.20 per barrel (lowest since 2003) and Brent at $28.83 per barrel (lowest since 2003).  A year ago, WTI was at $47, and Brent was at $48 - so prices are down about 40% year-over-year.

Here is a graph from for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $1.89 per gallon (down about $0.20 per gallon from a year ago).  Gasoline prices should decline over the next few weeks based on the sharp decline in oil prices.

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Following Citizens United, ideological and interest group opponents of campaign finance regulation have continued to flood the courts with cases challenging campaign finance laws at the federal, state and municipal levels.  The number of lawsuits across the country and the number well-funded groups bringing those suits continues to grow.

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Future challenges for German family businesses

Sabine Klein  is researching and teaching in the family business field at Trier University, Germany, and the INSEAD business school, Fontainebleu, France. She is an Associate with the FBCG, The Family Business Consulting Group, Marietta, Georgia, USA, and a founding board member of IFERA – International Family Enterprise Research Academy, Barcelona, Spain.

More than half the largest companies in Germany are family-owned. Economic incentives are essential to prevent these businesses from seeking a more favourable economic climate elsewhere

Family businesses are the backbone of the German economy. From very small to big international companies based in Germany, families or individuals own the majority. A recent INSEAD study found that more than half of the 250 biggest companies on the Frankfurt stock exchange in 1998 were either family businesses or entrepreneurial businesses. In 1995 nearly 60% of all companies with a turnover of more than €1 million were majority owned and/or managed by families and their members. Recent research results suggest that this percentage has increased over the past 5 years; although the data need further cross checks, the figures for 2000 indicate that the number of family businesses has risen to over 70%.

Why have the number of family and entrepreneurial businesses in Germany increased over the past years? We could assume that family businesses are more successful at surviving in difficult markets. On the other hand, it might also be that non-family businesses can, and do, move out of the country much more easily than family businesses in difficult markets. Thus, as the pool of all businesses shrinks, the percentage of family businesses in that group grows. However, the costs of moving must be lower than the benefits, which is generally unlikely in a closely linked world economy. Even when it makes economic sense to leave a country, family businesses are not likely to do so because they are often deeply rooted in their communities. We can also assume that family businesses stay solvent and continue operations and contributing to their communities even when unhealthy. While non-family corporations will be closed down or disinvest and reinvest, families often stick to their business, their market, their products and their customers, even if in the long run there are little hopes of prosperity. Nonetheless, the data do not give any indication as to whether family businesses are more or less successful than their non-family counterparts.

A relevant issue for German family business owners and managers is how to make sure their companies will survive and thrive over the next decade. In order to do so, German family businesses must overcome many challenges: some specific to family businesses, others from being part of the German market, and yet other challenges which are international in scope.

Strengthen the family
Only business-owning families that succeed in strengthening the family and its entrepreneurial spirit will survive as family business families in the long run. In order to insure family and business health several questions have to be addressed. First, family members should be clear about their reasons to stay together as a family and to be in business together. This is a particularly critical issue in Germany where an anti-family bias exists and where multiple partnerships and/or marriages in family business families are increasingly accepted, which puts a lot of stress on both the families and the businesses. So, the first and perhaps most critical questions are: Do we want to stay together? Why and how do we want to stay together? And if we cannot stay together or do not want to stay together, how do we organise our separation with as little negative outcome for the family and the business as possible?

Childhood education
Another challenge arises from the fact that the German education system is no longer in the upper third internationally: If German children are not required to perform but are coddled in their kindergarten-like primary schools (Kuschelecken-Pädagogik) how can they be helped to develop a desire for challenge and an entrepreneurial spirit? History shows that ruling families, whether business families or reigning families, lose their power if they lose their discipline, their dedication and their ability to fight for their dreams and for the benefit of others. If the German educational system is not made more competitive, it will remain with the family business families to find educational institutions, at home and abroad, to ensure an entrepreneurial and competitive spirit.

Ownership skills
Succession as "the final test of greatness" (Aronoff, McClure &Ward, 2003) is generally viewed as a single issue in German family businesses. Taking a closer look we find two related issues: ownership succession and leadership succession. The German legal system provides many rights to owners, but it also places many obligations on owners. As ownership can be inherited, the first challenge for family business owners is to ensure that heirs are well trained to be responsible owners. This topic has not yet been addressed in Germany, but this may be changing. For example, the EQUA foundation in the south of Germany, a not-for-profit organisation sponsoring research and training for owners, has recently been established.

Organise your time
Increasing complexity and growing uncertainty concerning legal and tax issues are also becoming a major challenge for German family business families. One outcome is that family business owners and managers are investing more and more time and resources into optimising their legal structure as well as their tax driven arrangements. This time and other resources invested in tax and legal management are subsequently not available for other aspects of the business; what some may call the 'real business'. Family business owners and managers who find ways to dedicate time and ideas to business development, rather than avoiding increasing taxes, while at the same time making sure someone is adequately dealing with tax and legal concerns, will be able to benefit from this challenge compared with their competitors. Their companies will benefit in comparison to those national competitors who become stuck in tax and legal topics and will still be competitive on the international field.

Financial crisis as risk and opportunity
Basel II (The New Basel Capital Accord) hit a lot of family business out of the dark. Essentially, Basel II aims to improve the safety and soundness of the financial system. It will provide a thorough review process and enhance market discipline, helping to guarantee that banks have a sound risk management strategy. German family businesses of all sizes were used to receiving financial terms from banks comparable to company capital. Over the years the working capital of companies was funded less by shareholders and more by banks, investment companies and other external sources. Recent data indicate an average of less than 20% of the capital of all German SMEs (Mittelstand) is Eigenkapital (capital raised by shareholders). With the stock market crisis, listed companies have similar problems in their balance between internal (from shareholders) and external (raised on the market without ownership rights) capital. Family businesses that are financed to a large extent by internal (family) capital can benefit from this situation as it opens opportunities to buy either market shares or entire companies. Family businesses that depend to a high degree on external capital must face this problem immediately and solve it as quickly as possible to help insure survival.

Professionalise the management team
One of the side effects of Basel II is an incentive for the professionalisation of the management team. A similar effect occurs when family businesses are listed on a stock exchange. The CEO and a shareholder of one of the biggest listed family businesses in Germany, Wendelin von Boch (Villeroy & Boch), once said  that it was this effect that the company derived the most benefit from: the required professionalisation of the company when listed. Regardless of having issues with Basel II or remaining a private company, the customers require a high standard of professionalisation from all businesses nowadays. For example, it is important that a professional management board is in place and is composed of people whose competence and expertise are the primary qualification for board membership (and not relationships or family ties). This is one of the major challenges family businesses in Germany face over the coming decade.

Management education
There is also the issue of the more or less state-based university system in Germany. As this university system is financed almost completely by the government, students are educated for big multinational anonymous companies rather than for family businesses. As we now know, family businesses are different and they require managers who understand the peculiarities of the overlap of family and business systems. In Germany, there is only one institute for family businesses, Universität Witten-Herdecke. Family business owners who want to employ managers that are trained for their business systems need to promote more family business chairs and educational programs in Germany.

Tradition vs innovation
"Should I hang on with old products and old markets or move into new opportunities?" is often a troubling question for companies attached to their traditions. A third generation family business owner manager from the north of Germany once told me, "We have always produced margarine and we will produce margarine as long as we exist." When analysing this company, it becomes obvious that they have been exceptional at producing high quality products at a very good price throughout their history. Staying with the tradition of being an outstanding producer instead of staying with one single product might change the tradition of this family business from a disadvantage into an advantage. It could also expand their opportunities to compete, earn profits and therefore provide resources for business growth, benefitting employees, the community and providing returns for family shareholders. There are quite a few German family businesses that need to address the challenge of innovation and change without giving up the positive benefits of their tradition.

Address the German disadvantages
Family businesses are loyal. While a lot of non-family businesses have moved out of Germany, most of the family businesses remain even though they face significant disadvantages. A determined entrepreneur is needed in order to survive the 'German disease' of absurd bureaucracy, high taxes (with quite reasonable average taxes if you know how to play the system), extremely high labour costs and an anti-innovation environment. If a company wants to remain in Germany – and entrepreneurs and family businesses are needed to re-establish the economic strength of Germany – a strategy is needed to deal with the constraints of location. Labour-intensive products that require a low level of knowledge will not survive in the long run if produced in Germany. The decision to change location or migrate to products that require more highly skilled labour and greater capital is one that can be made long before foreign labour markets become overwhelmingly attractive. It may be wise to set threshold levels at which new products will be sought and product lines sold. It is vital that the decision to move is not being made under pressure.

Research and development
For family businesses in industries such as high tech, pharmaceuticals or food, the lack of support for new technologies is another challenge faced in Germany. Legal procedures such as patents, admission of new products, or even research permissions in sensitive areas, are more complicated and take longer than in most of Germany's neighbouring countries, let alone in the US. Large pharmaceutical companies have already moved out, or are leaving Germany. Biotechnology as a driving force for new developments in the food sector is seen as very critical by the German consumers and government. Therefore, for German family businesses the challenge is to stay up-to-date with new developments while organising their PR and marketing in ways that build trust with their customers. If staying current and developing a better environment for new technology cannot be achieved, companies will face the decision as to whether or not they should move R&D activities to a country with better conditions.

Face globalisation challenges
Nearly all German family businesses are confronted with globalisation. Even a small family business can now optimise their purchasing via the internet, which means that all businesses face new and increasing competition from international companies trying to get a share of the German market. The brewery sector is a good example of this development. Decades of solid profits and growing markets conditions have changed in the last decade. Some family businesses in this segment were sold (Diebels, König and Becks), others are fighting for their independence by making acquisitions (Holsten), and others want to establish international brands in order to survive (Warsteiner and Bitburger). However the company's market is structured, globalisation has an effect on nearly every market and the challenge for family businesses is to try and take advantage of the associated benefits more than your competitors.

The eternal challenge: organising succession
Like most other Western industrialised countries, common values have changed a lot in Germany in the past decades. Up until the 70s it was widely accepted that the business would be passed on to the eldest son and little or nothing given to the other children, but a more democratic ideal is now widespread. The challenge family business owners' face is not how to organise the succession whilst minimising taxes (especially in Germany where this has become near science), but to make sure that through fair process, an acceptable outcome is developed. Any solution that leads to family divisiveness is not going to be good for either the business or the family.

Looking at the structure of the German economy there are no perfect solutions for the survival of family businesses. If only 10% of all family businesses fail, over 6% of all workers will lose their jobs, the German GSP will decline by more than 5%, and the financing of communities and cities will face serious threats with the loss of tax income from those companies. While the family business leaders themselves should address the challenges cited above, politicians have to acknowledge the relevance of family businesses on the German economy. If only 10% of all family businesses decide they can only survive the next decade by moving out of Germany this will have a significant, detrimental effect on the German economy. The family business that moves out may prosper but the impact on German economy will be the same as if this family business had faced bankruptcy. And, because overall economic conditions will worsen as more and more companies leave the country, there will be greater pressure on those remaining to leave. This vicious cycle can only end when incentives are put in place to insure that more companies remain and move to Germany than those that leave, or when labour rates drop making industry competitive. Since it would take a revolution to change the structure of labour in Germany, a far more politically expedient solution is to support the businesses already in Germany as well as encouraging new business investment. It is high time to address this macroeconomic challenge on the political stage. It is in the interest of both Germany and the European Union, which depends on the stable economies of member states, for German family business owners to encourage these political changes as quickly as possible.

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WWhen I was fortunate enough to cajole my father into taking me out on a ride, and even into those first few years of riding my own, seeing another motorcycle out on the road was a rare occurrence. I remember picking them out, sometimes as just a distant point of light and trying my hardest to identify the make and model before they whizzed past. Of course, friendly waves were always exchanged and since full-face helmets were not very common - hell, helmets were not that common - the wave was almost always accompanied with a warm smile. In the event that something went wrong, you could be assured that the first motorcycle to come by would stop to offer any kind of assistance they could.

Cruiser Motorcycle Rider waving at Sport Bike Motorcycle Rider

But then, right around the late 80s, things started to change. For whatever reason, reasons I won't even pretend to know, Harley-Davidson became wildly popular. Suddenly everybody wanted a "Harley". Every celebrity seemed to have one and the bar-and-shield brand was showing up in most movies. Arnold Schwarzenegger rescued John Connor while astride a black Fat Boy, Cher and Eric Stoltz were warmly accepted by SuperGlide riding, biker gang member Sam Elliott. Even Andrew McCarthy rescued Kim Cattrall from a department store with the help of his trustworthy Sportster. Suddenly, everyone wanted to be a biker and as a result Harleys were everywhere.

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Soon, it was more than just Harley-Davidson. The Asian manufacturers were no dummies and began to flood the American showrooms with bikes ominously named Intruder, Shadow and Nomad. This meant that just about everyone could now afford the biker lifestyle and chrome laden, open-pipe motorcycles began roaming the land like thundering herds of buffalo.

Within ten years I went from rarely seeing another motorcycle to seeing them in droves and around every corner. I was so excited and so happy for the new found, two-wheeled camaraderie. Sadly, because there were so many bikes on the road, if you ran into a problem, it was rare that a fellow rider would stop to offer assistance.

Plus, depending on the route or the time of the week, you'd spend more time with your left hand extended in a wave than covering the clutch. Despite economic downturns and a slow tempering of moto-popularity, this can still be the case. With so many motorcycles on the road today (which really is a good thing) I have personally, and honestly, grown a little frustrated with waving.

So here's the thing, we need to modify the etiquette of the motorcycle wave. What follows are my suggestions based on scenarios I've encountered on multiple occasions.

The Thundering Buffalo Herd

Riding Lolo Pass in Idaho, 70 miles of winding road, we came across very large group of motorcycles who were going the other way. Every single rider, at least 100 riders, waved. They each waved once, but we were expected to wave back 100 times. This happens on winding roads, empty roads and sometimes even in urban settings.

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Mind you, we have no objections to large groups of bikes heading out for a ride. (as long as you are not holding up traffic but that's another article). It's unreasonable to expect the lone rider heading the other way to wave at each and every rider. We propose that it is the lead riders responsibility to wave. All other rider in the group should keep their hands on the handlebars.

Additionally, if you are within 100 miles of a major motorcycle event, such as Sturgis or Laguna Seca, all waving should be abandoned.

I'm Clearly Preoccupied

Ever get an itch on your nose while riding? What do you do? Well, we usually just open the visor and scratch. This is the scenario. The visor is cracked open, the left hand is inside the helmet. A fellow riding coming the other way waves. Unable to reciprocate the gesture, a birdie finger is displayed in response to our inability to wave.

Motorcycle Waving at another motorcycle who is preoccupied

If the rider of the other motorcycle is looking the other way, looking down, rubbing their nose or otherwise preoccupied, do not wave.

Or, we're braking and down-shifting for a tight corner, a couple of bikes coming out of the corner wave as we're entering. Our hands are full as we operate the clutch, shifter and brakes. The bikes coming out of the same corner wave as they exit. We receive an irritated gesture from the last motorcycle, we can only assume this is due to our refusal to return the wave.

Waving should be avoided on technical and twisty roads. In this scenario, the priority needs to be on the operation and control of the motorcycle. Do not be offended if your wave is not returned in these conditions. In fact, you probably shouldn't be waving either.

The New Rider

A brand new rider, clearly a brand new rider, wobbling their way through what very well may be their very first canyon. Upon seeing us, you can almost see the stress on their face as they hurriedly remove their hand from the handlebar in a snap wave and pull their hand back into place.

We have all been new riders, and as such we all understand the fear and anxiety of learning this new skill. If you are a new rider, waving is always optional and never required.

Over Your Head

And my personal favorite wave story; the fellow rider enters a corner way too fast, in over their head and drifts into my lane. I go to the brakes hard and dive towards the white line. Seemingly unaffected, the bike on the edge of out-of-control, offers a wave. This has happened far many more times than you might think.

Motorcycle riding into oncoming traffic

If you are unable to keep your motorcycle inside the limits of your lane, the last thing you need to be worried about is waving. Slow the hell down, get your eyes up and stay on the road. When you invade our lane and cause us to evade you, you have violated the motorcycling brotherhood. If this happens, we don't even care if we get an apologetic wave. Just go.

When to Wave

If it were up to us, we would change the condition of waving to these three simple occasions. It's one thing to wave when nothing else is going on like when it's a long, straight, boring road, but we think waving needs to be reserved for special occasions.

Epic Shared Motorcycle Experiences

Wave when you see your motorcycle. This is a little harder for HD riders as the American brand is certainly the most common. But if you ride any of the smaller, alternative bikes, seeing someone else who made the same bike choice as you is neat. Great minds think alike, now is a good time to wave.

Wave when its exceptionally miserable. Its raining so hard toads are floating, it's brutally cold or swelteringly hot. Now is when we should wave. We wave because only we understand the misery and accomplishment of surviving harsh weather conditions.

Wave when its exceptionally epic. The sun is low in the horizon, casting a glow of perfect light across alpine vistas, mirror-like lakes with the clear, crisp aroma of lush vegetation... Celebrate in the sharing of something only us fellow riders understand. When the moment is the quintessential reason why we ride: Now is when we should wave.

Despite what many say, waving is not a expression of your love of all things two wheeled. Waving is the sharing and understanding of what only fellow riders understand; suffering, excitement, beauty, serenity and joy of two wheels. If we try to wave at every moving thing with two wheels, the wave becomes diluted and a dreaded chore. Save the wave for when it is most appropriate and give the wave meaning again.

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#BreakingNews Women in #Pakistan Raped and Forcibly Converted to Islam to Marry their Attackers - Please Pray

Christian women in Pakistan forcibly converted to Islam and married off to their kidnappers

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Tahira, 21, and Reema Bibi, 20, were abducted near their home last December. The Muslim men who took them, raped them and forcibly married them, and then kept them segregated. At least 1,000 Christian women are forcibly converted in Pakistan each year. If they escape, the police arrests a family member.
Lahore (AsiaNews) – Tahira, 21, and Reema Bibi, 20, are two Pakistani Christian women who were abducted on 2 December 2015 from near their home in Sargodha (Punjab) as they returned together from work.
The two Muslim men who took the two young women, raped them, and then forcibly married them. Afterwards, they kept them segregated in their Islamabad home, this according to British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA), an activist group that works for religious freedom in Pakistan, and monitors the continuous violations against minorities, especially women, which the government does not punish.
Forced marriages have been a scourge in the Muslim nation for years, one that does not seem close to any resolution. The case of Tahira and Reema is emblematic. On 11 February, Tahira managed to escape, but her Muslim "husband" filed a complaint with police, who immediately arrested six members of her family. The relatives were released thanks to pressure from human rights groups, but the authorities have ordered the family to return Tahira to her "husband."
The BPCA reported a similar case a few days ago. A Christian woman was seized and forced to marry the Muslim owner of the house where she worked as a cleaner. After she managed to escape thanks to a colleague, the police ordered her family to hand her over to the authorities; otherwise, they would arrest a relative.
According to a report by the Movement for Solidarity and Peace in Pakistan, at least 1,000 Pakistani women and girls are forced into Muslim marriages and made to convert to Islam each year. However, the real number is certainly much higher, since many incidents go unreported.
The aforementioned report found that forced marriages usually follow a similar pattern: females between the ages of 12 and 25 are abducted, made to convert to Islam, and then married to the abductor or an associate.
Even if a case goes to court, the victims are threatened and pressured by their “husband” and his family to declare that their conversion was voluntary.
Victims are often sexually abused, forced into prostitution, and suffer domestic abuse or even wind up in the human trafficking racket. Those who try to rebel are told that they “are now Muslims and that the punishment for apostasy is death”.
In November 2015, the Pakistani Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Council of Islamic Ideology opposed a law on “forced conversion”, sparking dismay and protests among Pakistani Hindus and Christians.
Since most minority Pakistanis are very poor, it is hard for them to have adequate political representation and receive justice.
That of forced marriages is just one of many issues that religious and ethnic minorities face as they are deprived of their rights, even though they are formally guaranteed by the Constitution.
A landmark Supreme Court ruling on 19 June 2014 took note of the injustice meted out to the country’s minorities.
Headed by Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, the bench included justices Azmat Saeed and Mushir Alam. It found that the government is complicitous in the acts of injustice. Unfortunately, the court’s ruling did not spark any reaction from the government.
In the latest case, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has called for the return of Tahira and Reema to their families and criminal proceedings against their captors and rapists. Established in 1994, the AHRC is based in Hong Kong.
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Meetings will be held as required, but at least once a year. The host institution is responsible for all local scheduling, logistics, and management of the meetings. The chairperson and secretary will develop meeting agendas, subject to the Group’s approval. Potential agenda items will be posted onto the collaboration tool. An agenda is considered final 10 working days prior to a meeting. The Group may allow time for presentations and participation by non-members.

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Effects of Empagliflozin on Liver Fat Content Energy Metabolism and Body Composition in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

In this multicentre, prospective, placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized, 2-arm parallel, interventional pilot study HCL and intramyocellular lipids (IMCL) will be quantified with 1H magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy. Hepatic ATP and inorganic phosphate (Pi) concentrations will be assessed with 31P MR spectroscopy (1). Whole-body and hepatic insulin sensitivity and metabolic flexibility will ...

Changes in Body Composition After EPA Supplementation in Head and Neck Patients

This study is designed to evaluate the effect of EPA supplementation on muscle mass in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck locally advanced (stage III-IVb) to assess that supplementation with EPA can maintain muscle mass along the oncologic treatment. Other aims are to evaluate the nutritional ...

Oral Nutritional Supplement Intervention Among Hemodialysis Patients With Sarcopenic Obesity

In chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, disease- and age- related changes in body composition, as well as the increased prevalence of obesity, determine a combination of excess weight and reduced muscle mass or strength, recently defined as sarcopenic obesity. The prevalence of sarcopenic obesity increase with lower eGFR, and previous ...

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VolumE maNagement Under Body Composition Monitoring in Critically Ill patientS on CRRT

Although monitoring fluid balance for continuous renal replacement therapy-treated patients is an important issue, most physicians usually use conventional methods such as the difference between the amount of intake and output (I & O), which is not objective way. Meanwhile, bioimpedance electrical vector analysis presents the patients' fluid status with ...

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Dietary Essential Fatty Acid Regulation of Omega-3 HUFA Metabolism; Satiety and Body Composition

Objective To evaluate the effects of lowering the dietary nutrient linoleic acid (LA) as a controlled variable on: 1) tissue accretion of omega-6 and omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA); 2) bioactive endocannabinoids derived from the omega-6 HUFA arachidonic acid (AA); 3) insulin sensitivity; 4) satiety and hunger; and 5) ...

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Body Composition Monitoring(BCM) for Determination of the Fluid Status in Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia

Patients undergoing anesthesia and surgery receive intravenous fluids during the procedure. The amount of administered fluid depends on the type of surgery, cardiovascular stability and intraoperative losses like hemorrhage. Fluid overload as well as hypohydration might be detrimental and might adversely effect outcome after surgery. Specifically overhydration results in significant ...

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The Effect of Neprilysin (LCZ696) on Exercise Tolerance in Patients With Heart Failure

Heart failure (HF) with reduced ventricular ejection fraction is a disease that affects around 5.7 million people in the United States, with a mortality rate of approximately 50% within 5 years. HF is characterized by an exacerbation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), which leads to an increase in sympathetic nerve ...

Body Composition and Adipose Tissue in HIV

HIV lipodystrophy is increasingly recognized as a common and clinically significant long-term sequelae of HIV treatment. In the HIV lipodystrophy lipohypertrophy phenotype, visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is increased and this is associated with reduced growth hormone (GH) secretion. Mounting evidence also links this phenotype with dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, subclinical atherosclerosis ...

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This study will examine how the supplement Shroom Tech Sport (STS) affects body composition and different performance and health measures over the course of 12 weeks. The supplement will be combined with a concurrent training regime consisting of resistance and high intensity interval training. Subjects will be tested for percent ...

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Assessing the Efficacy of Smartphone Calorie Calculator Application on Body Composition With and Without Intervention

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TELEPROM-G: A Study Evaluating Access and Care Delivery of Telehealth Services Among Community-Based Seniors

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The number of older people in Canada is growing. Many have depressive symptoms and other physical health problems, which contribute to frailty. This project tested a new system (TELEPROM-G) developed by a Canadian health informatics company (InputHealth).
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Cheryl Forchuk, PhD, RN is the Beryl and Richard Ivey Research Chair in Aging, Mental Health, Rehabilitation and Recovery and a Scientist and Assistant Director at Lawson Health Research Institute. She is also a Distinguished University Professor at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University.  In 1976, while at the University of Windsor, Forchuk received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing as well as her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.  She then obtained her Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Toronto in 1980, followed by her PhD in Nursing in 1992 from Wayne State University.  Her research interests include health promotion and issues related to community integration for people diagnosed with mental illness, which includes therapeutic relationships, social support and housing/homelessness.

Puneet Seth, BSc, MD, CCFP is a practicing academic hospitalist in Ontario. He served as Chief of Department and Founder of the Hospitalist Medicine Department at the Woodstock General Hospital from 2013-2017. He also teaches and supervises residents at both Western and McMaster Universities as an Associate Clinical Professor (Adjunct). With a previous career in information technology, his extra-clinical practice includes being a digital health entrepreneur, having co-founded a social media health promotion non-profit (Polyarticular) and an educational podcast (Primary Care Podcast), and presently is Chief Medical Officer of InputHealth Systems Inc, a health technology company transforming healthcare through patient engagement and outcome measurement. He advocates for the advancement of digital health through research, public speaking and as a columnist for The Medical Post and Hospital News. He sits on various regional and provincial eHealth steering committees in Ontario.


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