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Nine surgical associations have combined to form a powerful new lobbying and negotiating body which will increase their clout in preparation for among other things, the National Health Insurance, (NHI), new Ethical Tariffs, procedural fees and in attracting better congress funding. Nearly five years in the making and called the Federation of South African Surgeons, (FOSAS), the new body will allow smaller surgical and related bodies to punch well above their weight in national health related forums. So far the umbrella body consists of the Association of Surgeons of South Africa (ASSA), the College of Surgeons of South Africa, the South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons (SAAPS), the South African Colorectal Society, the South African Surgical Research Society (SRS), the South African Society of Endoscopic Surgeons (SASES), the South African Society of Surgeons in Training (SASSiT), Surgicom, the Trauma Society of South Africa (TSSA) and the Vascular Society of South Africa (VASSA). However the Chairperson, Dr Elmin Steyn, invited all other surgical disciplines and societies linked to surgery to join, emphasising that FOSAS was not created in opposition to the South African Medical Association, (SAMA), (currently hard at work trying to woo breakaway specialists back into their fold), but as a 'political grouping with clear mandates'.

En la actualidad, en una escuela de arte y diseño, los estudiantes se encuentranfísica y creativamente comprometidos por la demanda en el uso de múltiples dispositivosque desafían sus mentes y cuerpos haciendo del aprendizaje un debate constante entre elintelecto-conocimiento y el instinto-práctica. En la mayoría de los casos, los estudiantes sealejan de la oportunidad de aprender y desarrollarse en una metodología que les permitael anclaje con su oficio.Este artículo tiene por objetivo concientizar acerca de la importancia de construir lainteligencia táctil, sensorial y creativa a través de la simple práctica y el uso de trabajomanual en la producción de objetos. A través de ejemplos de estudiantes de sombrerería,se intenta demostrar que esta práctica conduce en última instancia a un mayor nivel dereconocimiento de la artesanía que se expresa no sólo en el trabajo sino en los múltiplesaspectos de la vida personal. Asimismo, este trabajo defiende el cultivo renovado de lacompetencia manual en equilibrio con las tecnologías digitales como puente entre losmétodos en los que se combinan las manos y la mente en un solo esfuerzo / ejerciciocon resultados inmediatos frente a los métodos que requieren tiempo y paciencia, y queresultan en una experiencia de aprendizaje con múltiples facetas y de por vida. Meditarsobre una simple puntada tiene un poder que trasciende el acto de hacer y construir paraconvertirse en una parte esencial de la vida como una persona creativa.

The narratives of children (2-13 years) who had experienced trauma injuries requiring hospital Emergency Room treatment were analyzed for coherence. Specifically, the degree to which the children embedded their accounts within both an orienta-tive and evaluative context was assessed as well as whether they organized their narratives around high points. In addition, distress of the children at both time of injury and of treatment was rated on a 6-point scale by parents. There were qualitative as well as quantitative changes in the narratives of children at different ages. As well, the children who were more distressed produced less coherent accounts. While 9-13-year-olds who were most upset produced more orientative propositions, highly distressed 2-3-year-olds produced fewer, and all age groups produced fewer evaluative propositions as distress increased. It was proposed that this pattern of decreased evaluation resembled the affect flattening found in victims of posttraumatic stress syndrome. As well, the changes in coherence across the preschool years were discussed in terms of their possible contribution to the phenomenon of infantile amnesia. (Psychology)