Lisa & Tyler | Wedgewood Pines Country Club | Stow, MA | 9.15.18
Lisa & Tyler were married at Wedgewood Pines Country Club in Stow, MA on September 15, 2018.
500 Years of Human Dissection
Public Lecture with David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, and Dominic Hall, Curator, Warren Anatomical Museum, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Throughout 500 years of human dissection, anatomists have struggled to maintain access to cadavers amid shifting laws and social mores. This lecture will chronicle the legal and ethical tensions involved in obtaining cadavers and how practices have changed over time. The speakers will discuss how acquisition arrangements once considered to be acceptable, even routine, became problematic and evolved into current donation systems and respectful dissection.
Presented in conjunction with Body of Knowledge: A History of Anatomy, an exhibition at Harvard University's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, one of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. It closed December 5, 2014.
Sponsored by the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Recorded September 16, 2014.
Failure as opportunity -- the founding of Lowell, MA: Richard Howe, Jr. at TEDxLowell
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Mass. Secretary of Health John Polanowicz at the 141st APHA Annual Meeting in Boston
Mass. Secretary of Health John Polanowicz at the 141st APHA Annual Meeting in Boston
Mr. Louie Diaz From Lowell House Inc.
Lowell House, Inc. (LHI) serves all the communities in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts
In FY14 (July 2013 - June 2014), LHI served 1,955 people 18 to 90 years of age in its day and residential programs. This resulted in 6,736 outpatient visits, 5,451 half-day SOAP visits and 19,706 bed days in our residential programs.
Male clients outnumbered female clients 2:1.
58% of clients served were addicted to alcohol, 22% addicted to heroin, 17% addicted to opiods (pain medication).
The racial and ethnic backgrounds of individuals and families served in FY14 was – 70% white, 5% African American, 12% Hispanic/Latino, 11% Asian.
LHI receives 50% of its funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts/Department of Public Health, 23% from insurance (MassHealth), 17% from client fees, 8% from grants and 2% from fundraising.
LHI is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
THE DISEASE OF ADDICTION
It is estimated the two-thirds of the families in Greater Lowell are affected in some way by the disease of addiction.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) data from the SAMHA National Survey on Drug Use indicates that:
That one out of every 10 Americans is addicted to a substance that requires treatment. Only 10% of those individuals ever receive necessary treatment.
Substance abuse and addiction cause this country $600 billion in crime, lost work productivity and healthcare.
There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) nationwide of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52%) were under 18.
Nearly half of the individuals using illicit drugs began with marijuana use.
Over 25% of the individuals between the ages of 18 and 24 reported using an illicit drug in the past month;
Over 7% of 8th graders admitted using marijuana in the past month which rose to nearly 23% of seniors in high school in 2013.
Illicit drug use is rapidly increasing in the elderly.
MASSACHUSETTS AND THE GREATER LOWELL AREA
The number of medically related overdoses in the City of Lowell rose by 10% from 2012 to 2013. The projected rise in overdoses will exceed 15% in 2014.
60% of people seeking treatment for drug or alcohol addiction in Lowell are between the ages of 21 and 39 years of age (Department of Public Health data).
45% of individuals seeking treatment for drug or alcohol abuse in the City of Lowell has prior mental health treatment.
A little more than 65% of the Bay State students ages 12 to17 years surveyed perceived no great risk in having five or more alcoholic drinks once or twice per week.
Professor Allison at King's Chapel
Prof. Allison visits King's Chapel and discusses its history and important place in early Boston.
This course explores the history of Boston from the 1600’s to the present day. Learn about the native people who lived on the land we now know as Boston before the Puritans arrived. Discover how the European settlers created a robust system of self government and a democracy so strong that Boston became the birthplace of the Revolutionary War. Trace the city’s role in the American anti-slavery movement and the Civil War. The course will help you understand why Boston remains revolutionary to this day, redefining education, the arts and medicine, through its world-class museums, orchestras, hospitals and schools.
Learn more: historyofboston.org
Quincy City Council - April 1st, 2019
includes Environmental & Public Health Committee - testimony from Native American Organizations regarding preservation of Indian burial ground on Long Island, adoption of five year multi-hazard mitigation plan.
Lowell, Massachusetts | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Lowell, Massachusetts
00:01:12 1 History
00:04:10 2 Zoning, development and the Massachusetts Miracle
00:07:17 3 Geography
00:08:03 3.1 Physical
00:10:38 3.2 Neighborhoods
00:13:46 4 Demographics
00:18:03 4.1 Crime
00:18:41 4.1.1 Statistics
00:19:37 4.1.2 History of anti-crime efforts
00:20:56 5 Education
00:21:05 5.1 Colleges and universities
00:21:54 5.2 Primary and secondary schools
00:22:03 5.2.1 Public schools
00:23:04 5.2.2 Private schools
00:23:12 6 Libraries
00:23:21 6.1 Municipal
00:23:29 6.1.1 Pollard Memorial Library / Lowell City Library
00:25:26 6.2 University
00:25:35 6.2.1 Lydon Library
00:26:08 6.2.2 O'Leary Library
00:26:38 6.2.3 Center for Lowell History
00:27:40 7 Infrastructure
00:27:49 7.1 Transportation
00:30:00 7.2 Hospitals
00:30:13 8 Arts and culture
00:30:22 8.1 Monthly Calendar of Events and Entertainment
00:30:42 8.2 Annual events
00:32:16 8.3 Points of interest
00:34:16 8.4 Culture
00:35:07 8.5 Museums and public galleries
00:35:59 8.6 Interactive and live performances
00:37:54 9 Sports, Teams and Athletic Venues
00:38:04 9.1 Boxing
00:38:38 9.2 Teams
00:39:13 9.3 Athletic Venues
00:40:34 10 Government
00:42:53 11 Media
00:43:01 11.1 Newspaper
00:43:35 11.2 Radio
00:44:03 11.3 Cable
00:44:18 12 Businesses started and/or products invented in Lowell
00:44:29 12.1 Current
00:45:19 12.2 Historical
00:46:24 12.3 Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (current)
00:47:44 12.4 Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (closed)
00:48:15 13 Notable people
00:48:27 14 Twin towns and sister cities
00:48:38 15 Honors
00:49:02 16 See also
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- Socrates
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Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell (along with Cambridge) was a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. With an estimated population of 109,945 in 2014, it is the fourth-largest city in Massachusetts, and the second-largest in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area called Greater Lowell, as well as New England's Merrimack Valley region.
Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, due to a large series of textile mills and factories. Many of the Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park. During the Cambodian genocide, the city took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and America's second-largest Cambodian-American population.Lowell is home to two institutions of higher education.