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British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Annual Conference Announced British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Annual Conference Announced A unique ‘real world’ conference and virtual event The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (‘BSLM’), the leading UK charitable organisation promoting greater adoption of lifestyle medicine in healthcare and society, has announced that its annual conference will take place on September 2 nd to 4 th, 2021 at Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The event can also be attended online to enable wider reach and convenience for th...

Engineering students Jorge Sanchez and Mercedes Pastor Senior Industrial Engineering students Jorge Sanchez and Mercedes Pastor finished second at the 2021 Student Simulation Competition sponsored by FlexSim Healthcare. This competitive international student contest is hosted by Society of Health Systems within the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. “The competition was about redesigning an ambulatory endoscopy center to help mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-19,” Sanchez said. While including requirements imposed by the Centers for Disease Control on healthcare facili...

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day tomorrow will focus attention again on how women continue to shoulder the burdens in times of strain and stress. That has become even more evident in the past year during the Covid-19 emergency. The Scottish Women’s Convention and the Scottish Parliament will hold a virtual event tomorrow from 6pm-8pm to mark the day. Professor Linda Bauld, the Bruce and John Usher chair of Public Health in The Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh, will be speaking at the event. She fears that the economic impact of the pandemic will be felt particularly harshly b...

Ameridebt Debt Rises While Pukke, Baker, and Chadwick are Broken 3 months ago It appears the trial involving the actions of Andris Pukke, Peter Baker, and Luke Chadwick with their Sanctuary Belize scheme has come to a predicted painful end. In a flurry of court documents, the Judge has trounced the participants in the foreign land sales scheme that has roots in the non-profit debt management group Ameridebt. There is no need for me to engage in any hyperbole or opinion to write this post. I’m going to stick with the facts as the Judge and the Court have determined them to be after a trial o...

Collection highlights By Joanne and Fred’s own account, the Sherman portraits, above, are a centrepiece of the collection. They were painted by the itinerant New England portraitists Samuel and Ruth Shute, whose work is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Folk Art Museum. The couple acquired the remarkable frame first. ‘It was done so well that we hung it empty on the wall,’ said Joanne, who found the portraits in East Lyme, Connecticut, three years later.  ‘I have a good eye for size and said, “That pair will fit in my frame”. They didn’t need a hair shave...