Beloved group Greensky Bluegrass continues to grow in popularity, affording them new and exciting opportunities. Yesterday marked one such occasion, as the band made their way to the historic Ryman Auditorium for their first-ever performance at the historic Nashville, TN venue. Greensky has had quite the whirlwind year, even getting to perform in front of a Bernie Sanders rally earlier this year. The chance to hit the main stage at the Ryman was certainly not lost on the band and their fans.The group played through two full sets, opening with the traditional “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” before bringing out a number of their original tunes, including “Demons,” “Wings for Wheels” and more. Among the many highlights of the show was its finale, an all-acoustic encore with Town Mountain. Together, the two groups sang the John Hartford classic “Tear Down The Grand Ole Opry,” a fitting choice to close out a great performance.Watch footage of the encore below, courtesy of disc13207.The full setlist from last night’s show can be seen below, courtesy of PT.Setlist: Greensky Bluegrass at The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN – 7/7/16Set 1: Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Demons, Wings for Wheels, All Four, Take Cover, The Four, Burn Them, Jay Walking, GumbootsSet 2: I’m Working on a Building, Living Over, A Letter to Seymour, In Control, Can’t Stop Now, Reverend, Dry County> Time, Leap YearEncore: Tear Down The Grand Ole Opry11 – With Town Mountain, Acoustic[Photo via gracemade89/Instagram] read more

Each day, an average of nine people are killed in the United States and more than 1,000 injured by drivers doing something other than driving.The totals — 3,300 U.S. deaths and 387,000 injuries in 2011 — show that laws in many states banning texting and hand-held cellphone use while driving aren’t getting the job done.Jay Winsten, Frank Stanton Director of the School of Public Health’s Center for Health Communication and associate dean for health communication, thinks it’s time to turn to a higher power: social norms.Winsten and the center hope to reduce distracted driving by enlisting the Hollywood creative community in a campaign against it. Texting and cellphone use will be the main targets, but the campaign also will seek to raise awareness of how anything that takes a driver’s attention from the road — whether programming a GPS device or re-setting a child’s entertainment center — is potentially hazardous.One recent study monitored truckers for over 3 million miles using sensors and cameras to see when they took their eyes off the road. Reading or writing a text message distracted the driver for an average of 4.6 seconds, increasing the odds of a crash 23-fold.“That’s the equivalent of driving blindfolded the length of a football field at 55 miles an hour,” Winsten said. “Imagine a texting driver heading toward you in the opposing lane of traffic. The threat comes from a combination of visual and cognitive distraction.”Dialing a handheld cellphone took an average of 3.8 seconds, and increased the crash risk 3.8 fold.A 2012 survey by the AAA Foundation found that “despite the near-universal disapproval of texting and e-mailing behind the wheel, more than one in four licensed drivers, 26.6 percent, reported typing or sending a text or e-mail at least once in the past 30 days, and more than one in three, 34.6 percent, said they read a text or e-mail while driving during this time.”With legislation outlawing distracted driving tough to enforce and awareness campaigns showing limited results, Winsten and colleagues are planning an initiative to change social norms by enlisting Hollywood as a partner. Such a strategy has worked before. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Winsten spearheaded a campaign that made “designated driver” a household term, helping to shape a new social norm that the driver doesn’t drink.The campaign, which is credited with contributing to a 25 percent drop in drunk driving deaths and creating enduring social change, was accomplished with the help of many partners, including law enforcement, Madison Avenue advertising firms, advocacy groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Students Against Drunk Driving, and a big push from Hollywood and the television networks.Winsten won the support of television producers and writers to incorporate a designated driver message into 160 episodes of some of the most popular television shows of the day, including “Cheers,” “L.A. Law,” and “The Cosby Show.” Winsten also recruited President George H.W. Bush and later President Bill Clinton as the campaign’s lead spokespersons. Surveys found that a majority of the American public supported the practice of choosing a designated driver. Winsten hopes to use a similar strategy against distracted driving.There is already a lot being done to fight distracted driving. Many states have passed laws regulating texting and cellphone use while driving and, in the business world, companies such as AT&T have been very active with advertising efforts, Winsten said. In an announcement last week, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile agreed to become partners in AT&T’s “It Can Wait” anti-texting campaign. And the Department of Transportation, under outgoing Secretary Ray LaHood, has made reducing distracted driving deaths a top priority.“We’ve gone through the initial phase of response to the problem with greatly increased awareness and it’s a good time to review gains and consolidate knowledge,” Winsten said.To do so, Winsten’s team is planning a conference this fall that will bring interested groups to HSPH for working sessions to examine existing efforts on distracted driving, extract lessons from past social change campaigns, and plan strategy.“It’s all about digging deeper to understand cultural change,” Winsten said. “What are the stages in the evolution of particular social norms and what are the levers for influencing change?”While borrowing lessons from past campaigns is important, the new effort, operating in a dramatically different media environment, will have to forge a new path.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, one could be assured of reaching a significant portion of the public with messages placed in a handful of key shows. Today, cable and satellite channels give television viewers hundreds of options and television itself competes for viewers’ screen time with video gaming, social media, and news and entertainment websites.“For sure the mission is harder now,” Winsten said. “There wasn’t even a fourth network then. Fox was only on two nights a week. [But] it’s not only the fragmented media marketplace, it’s the public’s very short attention span.”But Hollywood will still provide part of the answer, he said.“People connect to fictional characters, and become engaged in the story lines,” Winsten said. “A substantial body of research on social learning has demonstrated that the modeling of behavior through entertainment programming can strongly influence social norms and behavior.”The traditional top-down model of a public health campaign is outdated, he said, because today knowledge is disseminated laterally among the public as much as vertically from traditional knowledge sources.“Today, a large part of the conversation — for example, on the safety of vaccines —is going on without us,” Winsten said. “The challenge for public health is to re-insert ourselves into the conversation.” read more

Read Full Story Adults who are covered by Medicaid use emergency rooms 40 percent more than those in similar circumstances who do not have health insurance, according to a unique new study that sheds empirical light on the inner workings of health care in the U.S.The study takes advantage of Oregon’s recent use of a lottery to assign access to Medicaid, the government-backed health-care plan for low-income Americans, to certain uninsured adults. The research examines emergency room records for roughly 25,000 people over 18 months.“When you cover the uninsured, emergency room use goes up by a large magnitude,” says Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a principal investigator of the study, along with Katherine Baicker, professor of health economics at Harvard School of Public Health.The study, published January 2, 2014 in the journal Science, also documents that having Medicaid consistently increases visits to the emergency room across a range of demographic groups, types of visits, and medical conditions, including types of conditions that may be most readily treatable in primary-care situations.“In no case were we able to find any subpopulations, or type of conditions, for which Medicaid caused a significant decrease in emergency department use,” Finkelstein adds. “Although one always needs to be careful generalizing to other settings, these results suggest that other Medicaid expansions are unlikely to decrease emergency room use.” read more

For the fourth consecutive season, the Harvard men’s basketball team has clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title, as the Crimson topped Columbia, 80-47, before a sold-out crowd at Lavietes Pavilion this evening.Harvard (24-4, 11-1 Ivy League), which will play at Yale on NBC Sports on Friday, will look to clinch the outright conference crown with a win.Laurent Rivard paced the Crimson 21 points, nailing 6-of-8 three-point attempts, while Steve Moundou-Missi added 16 points and Wesley Saunders and Kyle Casey each scored 10 points.For full coverage, visit gocrimson.com. read more

ShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr As the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service begin to disperse stimulus payments under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), an article from KrebsOnSecurity warns that the new website to help non-filers could make it easy for thieves to intercept some payments.The agencies Friday launched a new web portal, the non-filer tool, to help those who don’t normally file a tax return register for the stimulus payments.In the article, Krebs reports that the possibility of payments being intercepted is “very real” due to the “relatively lax identification requirements” of the non-filer portal and high number of tax refund fraud in years past.“In this case, fraudsters would simply need to identify the personal information for a pool of Americans who don’t normally file tax returns, which may well include a large number of people who are disabled, poor or simply do not have easy access to a computer or the Internet,” writes Krebs. “Armed with this information, the scammers need only provide the target’s name, address, date of birth and Social Security number, and then supply their own bank account information to claim at least $1,200 in electronic payments.” continue reading » read more

Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York A 66-year-old woman was killed when an SUV crashed into the Great Neck cell phone store she was in on Monday morning.Nassau County police said a woman was driving a Toyota Rav 4 when she crashed into the AT&T store on Northern Boulevard at 10:51 a.m.The victim, Lizabeth Sbar of Great Neck, was taken to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, where she was pronounced dead two hours later.Two other people suffered non-life threatening injuries in the crash. The driver and her passenger were not injured.Detectives are continuing the investigation. read more

Forgot Password ? LOG INDon’t have an account? Register here Tycoons in the pharmaceutical and herbal medicine sectors have gained ground as Indonesians grow more conscious of health and wellbeing and the commodities business slumps.Forbes Indonesia has released its Indonesia’s 50 Richest List for last year, and among the big earners are the country’s top executives in the pharmaceutical industry. One of them is Irwan Hidayat, the director of publicly listed herbal manufacturer PT Sido Muncul.He moved up 11 ranks to 30th place after earning US$350 million over the past year. His company’s sales in the third quarter of 2019 were recorded at Rp 2.13 trillion ($154.8 million), constituting 9.48 percent annual growth.Sido Muncul’s overall growth was led by the sales of its herbal medicine and supplements segment, which grew 11.82 percent year-on-year (yoy) to Rp 1.4 trillion.Read also: Next generation of Indones… Linkedin Google Facebook Forbes-rich-Indonesians tycoon pharmaceutical-industry herbal-medicine Sido-Muncul Irwan-Hidayat kalbe-farma Bayan-Resources Log in with your social account Topics : read more

After receiving medical supplies from China, the country is set to hold COVID-19 tests in Jakarta, West Java and Banten, focusing on vulnerable groups including medical workers.The government had distributed around 125,000 COVID-19 rapid testing kits as of Tuesday, mainly to the three provinces hardest-hit by the pandemic. Jakarta received 100,000 testing kits while West Java has secured 20,000 test kits. West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said the tests in the country’s most populous province would be targeted at cities and regencies around Jakarta and Bandung, where most confirmed cases and deaths have been discovered. The areas include Bogor, Bogor city, Depok, Bekasi, Bekasi city — all part of Greater Jakarta. Iwan Dwiprahasto, a doctor and pharmacology professor at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) medical school, Yogyakarta, passed away on Tuesday after being treated at the Dr. Sardjito General Hospital.Another doctor, Toni Daniel Silitonga, reportedly died due to exhaustion and heart attack after preparing healthcare facilities and COVID-19 education programs in West Bandung regency in West Java as he was part of the local health agency and COVID-19 task force.The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) recorded that, as of Tuesday, Jakarta, West Java and Banten had recorded the most cases, with 424, 60 and 65 respectively.“The use of the rapid tests will be prioritized for medical workers because they are the most vulnerable to [COVID-19] exposure,” said BNPB head Doni Monardo.Ridwan said he had identified three vulnerable groups that would be prioritized for the rapid tests. Category A comprises health workers at hospitals handling patients with the disease, persons and patients under surveillance, as well as the patients’ family, neighbors and friends. Category B comprises people whose job exposes them to some social interaction and thus are prone to contracting the virus. Category C comprises people suspected of developing symptoms similar to those of COVID-19.Read also: COVID-19: Inadequate medical supplies take toll on lives of Indonesian medical workersTo assist the medical workers, the government has also distributed hundreds of thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves and hazmat suits to health units across the country.“The task force has distributed 105,000 pieces of personal protective equipment to a number of provinces, especially on Java given that the island is the most exposed area, especially Jakarta,” Doni said, adding that the agency expected another shipment of 70,000 pieces of protective equipment tomorrow midnight.President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has also emphasized that medical workers and their families are priority for the rapid tests.“I have ordered the health minister to prioritize medical workers and their families. And also persons under surveillance and their families,” he said.After the arrival of the test kits, the House of Representatives has announced that it would hold testing for all lawmakers and their families. The plan, however, has been rejected by political parties and caused public uproar on social media. (mfp/glh)   Topics : “The test is not for all West Java residents. If someone is healthy, has no symptoms and does not work in a high-risk profession, they don’t have to participate in the massive testing. Just stay at home and practice [physical] distancing,” he said.Read also: Greater Jakarta failing as floodgate to nationwide COVID-19 epidemicThe government has accelerated efforts to fight the pandemic as more cases and deaths are recorded. A total of 686 cases, 55 deaths and 30 recoveries had been recorded as of Tuesday.The surge in patient numbers has led to a hospital crisis that has taken the lives of doctors and at least one nurse. The Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) reported as many as eight doctors having died fighting the pandemic. read more

Elsewhere, the large-scale social restrictions have not been so bad for strawweight Stefer Rahardian. The 33-year-old, who broke a four-bout losing streak in October, is embracing the time spent at home to recover from injury.“I think I’ve been handling this COVID-19 pandemic well. I had my knee surgery right before the pandemic, so stay-home activities are perfectly matched with my recovery,” Stefer said.Thathie has found a similar sense of positivity and believes there are some good lessons to be learned from the current situation.“A lot of good things have happened since the restrictions, for example, people have become more aware about their hygiene and try to be as healthy as they can,” she said.Topics : Indonesian mixed martial art athletes currently competing in ONE Championship bouts acknowledged that the current COVID-19 pandemic had hit them hard and turned their way of life upside down.However, they acknowledged that adapting to the current social restrictions while maintaining a healthy lifestyle was the best thing they could do to survive the pandemic.Flyweight fighter Eko Roni Saputra who defeated Cambodia’s Khon Sichan in Jakarta in February, said his usual routine had vastly changed. “Only if I want to buy some food or go to the market then I go out. I do a lot of training at home and have more time with the family. I miss competing and of course, 100 percent the training sessions. And you cannot do what you would usually do at this time,” Eko, who currently resides in Singapore with his family, said.Indonesian female athlete Priscilla “Thathie” Hertati Lumban Gaol, wished that everyone would play their part until everything was back to normal again. “Stay fit, do social distancing like the government said, and stay at home if you don’t have really urgent things to do outside. And let’s hope this coronavirus will end soon so we can get back to our normal lives,” said the former wushu champion. “Apart from my workouts, over the last three weeks I’ve spent most of the time streaming movies and surfing the internet.” read more

The BHS Freshman opened up their season and EIAC play on Monday with a 43-45 OT loss to Franklin County.Batesville was led in scoring by Zach Britton with 15. Peyton Meyer added 14, and Alex Roell chipped in 11 in the loss. Other scorers for Batesville were Gunner Olsen (2), and Zach Prickel (1).“It’s obviously not the result we were looking for in the opener, but overall I can’t complain about the effort tonight. I already know, we’ll look back at the film and see some things we need to work on, but I think we’ll also see some things we did right that we can build on. The good news for us is we get to get back at it on Saturday to try to improve on tonight’s effort”  Batesville Coach Ben Siefert.The Bulldogs will host Jac-Cen-Del Saturday afternoon before the JV/Varsity Match-ups. Tip time is 3:30pm.Submitted by Batesville Coach Ben Siefert. read more