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Editor's Summary
As early e-health efforts progress, it is critical to step back to study their effectiveness and inform expanded implementation. The DOME project is a Swedish research initiative to examine the methods and implications of providing patients access to their own medical records and other e-health services. The focus is on SUSTAINS, a patient access system established in 2012 in 11 European countries. Swedens Uppsala county opened access to residents to view their electronic health records with provider notes, lab results, diagnoses and treatments in late 2012. Pre- and post-implementation studies are being carried out through DOME and mixing with the public debate on benefits and drawbacks of easy online access to personal health information. Supporters and critics share concern for quality of care and data security. But advocates focus on better decisions by empowered patients, while detractors, including many healthcare providers, see patient anxiety resulting from insufficient information and lack of consultation. The DOME project is providing the opportunity to analyze all sides of expanded access to electronic health records.
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Empowerment or Anxiety? Research on Deployment of Online Medical E-health Services in Sweden
by Isto Huvila, Gunilla Myreteg and Åsa Cajander
Development and deployment of e-health services and patient access to medical information is currently a priority all around the world. This attention is due to the increase in healthcare expenditures that is being experienced in the industrialized countries. In Sweden the first attempts to implement online access to medical records for patients were made in the 1990s [1]. However, the process has only recently accelerated due to necessary changes in legislation and also through the launch of extensive regional and national initiatives. In 2012 a major Swedish-lead, EU-funded project, SUSTAINS (Support USers To Access INformation and Services), was launched to implement a patient access system in 11 European countries. Earlier experience with such initiatives has shown that an effective deployment of relevant and successful services needs to be based on a thorough understanding of the technical, societal and organizational contexts of these implementations [2] [3]. In spite of the large number of studies in the field, the dynamics of the different factors is not fully understood. In this respect, SUSTAINS represents a unique national and international context of study for researchers to develop urgently needed theoretical and directly applicable knowledge, as well as guidelines for informing future implementations.
This paper will briefly present the DOME project, a major Swedish research initiative, that was founded to exploit the research potential of SUSTAINS and simultaneously to address the broad research needs in the field of e-health. The aim of DOME is to gather systematic evidence on the national and European-wide implementation of online patient access to electronic health records and e-health services. The article will also highlight some early findings from the project and offer some observations on the public discussion that was started in Sweden by the implementation of the online service.
The DOME Project
DOME is a collaborative research project among Lund University, the University of Skövde and Uppsala University (all in Sweden), consisting of researchers representing different fields of scholarship including, for example, management accounting, information technology, information and knowledge management and medicine. The purpose of the project is to create and disseminate knowledge about implementation and use of e-health services based on studies of on-going implementation projects. During the initial phase of DOME, the research focus has been on SUSTAINS and the deployment of e-health services in the Swedish counties of Uppland and Norrland and comparative research in the regions of Skåne and Västgötaland. Due to the complexity of the research context and the large number of stakeholders across society in the field of e-health, the practical relevance of the research findings is considered to be critical for the success of the project.
In order to ensure that the research is firmly anchored in practice, the DOME project has invested much effort in developing an effective network of reference groups. Currently, 25 national and regional organizations participate at different levels in the consultative activities. One goal of the reference groups is to help the DOME researchers identify, understand and highlight the practical problems and possibilities with e-health services from different perspectives. Another goal is to feed back the results of the research project to the national development of e-health services. A specific practical goal of the DOME project is to establish a stable and empirically informed base for the next phase: a national implementation of e-health services. In this phase, the service models and solutions developed in SUSTAINS [4] in the counties of Uppland and Norrland are going to be diffused nationwide. The DOME project perceives the reference groups as important channels for disseminating its research results and as valuable resources for performing collaborative work in developing practice guidelines and recommendations for future, practical work.
In order to make use of SUSTAINS for empirical research the DOME project has initiated a research collaboration with the European partners. In the SUSTAINS effort the County Council of Uppsala (LUL) is the coordinator of 16 partners in 11 countries. Norrbotten County Council is another Swedish partner of SUSTAINS that also works with the development of different e-health services.
Online Access to Medical Records
In the autumn of 2012 LUL gave all patients in the county access to their personal electronic medical records, together with a number of other e-health services, online. LUL is the first county in Sweden to offer this e-health service.
The online access to medical records enables patients in LUL to access and read their electronic health records (EHR) containing information such as appointment bookings, medical notes, drug prescriptions, medical lab results, diagnoses, referrals and log lists with names of medical staff who have accessed the records. For testing purposes, a minor launch limited to employees at the county was made in August 2012. This test phase was followed by a complete launch covering all patients in the county of Uppsala. In April 2013 over 18,000 patients out of the population of 200,000 inhabitants had read their EHR in a total of 67,102 sessions.
Empowerment or Anxiety?
The early research studies of the DOME project have so far focused on implementation of online access to medical records and development of related new e-health services in the County Council of Uppsala (LUL) in Sweden. This implementation is a central part of the SUSTAINS project. The pre- and post-implementation studies in the county of Uppsala have been complemented with comparative baseline research in other parts of the country. In the next phase the aim is to follow the implementations in other county councils in Sweden and, in collaboration with international research partners, in other European countries.
Not entirely unexpectedly, considering the findings published in earlier literature [5], online access to medical records has led to a debate in media. Proponents of the system regard it as a means to change the role of the patient in the healthcare system. The proponents emphasize potentially positive outcomes of patient empowerment. Whereas such interested parties as politicians and managers in healthcare organizations tend to be primarily positive toward the idea of online access to the EHRs, there is a notable divide among the healthcare professionals. Some professionals have been very positive toward the initiative, but at the same time many have expressed concerns regarding implementation of the EHR. Even if most critical voices in the public debate have belonged to professionals, findings of the DOME project show some patients also share the anxiety. At the moment it seems that in general, the opinions of the patients seem to vary the most. Some patients are indeed very positive about the possibilities offered by the EHR and the opportunities to have a say. At the same time, other patients are not sure whether they would benefit at all from consulting their medical records, and some are concerned with the security of the service.
An interesting aspect of the controversy in the media is that the proponents as well as the critics of the online access to the EHRs refer to largely similar arguments. They both express a concern for quality of care and security, for example. Those in favor of allowing citizens to access their medical records online regard the consequent empowerment of patients and their possibilities to take charge of their health as a central means to improve the quality of care. Informed patients are assumed to be better equipped to make decisions about their health care, treatments and lifestyle. Empowerment has also been suggested to lead to a deeper engagement in personal health care and to a more meaningful implementation of informed consent. The patients access to the record is also expected to yield more accurate information in the EHR, since the patient can spot mistakes and make them known to the doctor. In the long run, the changing role of the patients is expected to lead to healthier lives of citizens as well as a more effective use of healthcare resources.
The critics have expressed their concerns regarding, for instance, how some patients might become anxious after reading about preliminary diagnoses without having someone to talk to or how some individuals might misunderstand the medical record and take actions that even might compromise their health and safety. Other critical arguments relate to the possibility of an unauthorized or ineligible access to, or misuse of, data. All of these issues are said to have a potentially negative effect on the quality of health care. At the same time, many professionals have expressed their concerns about the current implementation process and how the implications of the new system for the occupational safety and work environment of healthcare professionals were neglected. The anticipated problems in working conditions would also, according to them, lead to a poorer quality of care. In order to reduce the risk of patient anxiety it has been suggested, for instance, that doctors should have sufficient time to consult a colleague and complete notes before new entries in records become accessible to patients. There are also patient and staff safety concerns related to providing access to the medical records of some psychiatric patients, which is an issue that was treated also in the earlier literature [6].
At present, the initial hypothesis of the DOME project finds strong support; there is great need for multi- and interdisciplinary research on the deployment of e-health services. In order to develop and understand the current and future processes in e-health, it is necessary to apply a simultaneous consideration of how technical, professional, political and patient-related concerns are linked. The DOME research has already shown this linkage to be an important factor for the success of the initiatives. In the next stage of the DOME research the aim is to track the implementations in other county councils in Sweden as well as in other European countries. The DOME researchers, through the European-wide SUSTAINS project and its national deployment projects in Sweden, have been given a unique opportunity to analyze the contingencies, opportunities, threats and implications related to the development and implementation of online access to EHRs and other e-health services in projects that are both large in scale and embedded in national and international contexts.
DOME project
More information about the DOME project can be found at www.it.uu.se/research/hci/dome/index.php?lang=1
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Ålander, T.; Eklund, B. & Joustra-Enquist, I. (2004). Projekt Sustains -- Journaltillgång över Internet. AllmänMedicin, 25 (6), 11-13. [The Sustains project - online access to patient records article written in Swedish.]
[2] Vaart van der, R., Drossaert, C. H., Taal, E., & Laar van de, M. A. (March 28, 2012) Giving rheumatology patients online home access to their electronic medical record (EMR): Advantages, drawbacks and preconditions according to care providers. Rheumatology International. Retrieved May 28, 2013, from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00296-012-2408-2/fulltext.html
[3] Hackl, W. O., Hoerbst, A. & Ammenwerth, E. (2011). "Why the hell do we need electronic health records?": EHR acceptance among physicians in private practice in Austria: A qualitative study. Methods of Information in Medicine, 50 (1), 53-61.
[4] SUSTAINS: www.sustainsproject.eu
[5] Ammenwerth, E., Schnell-Inderst, P. & Hoerbst, A. (2012). The impact of electronic patient portals on patient care: A systematic review of controlled trials. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14 (6), e162.
[6] Brakoulias, V. (2013). (February 21, 2013). Releasing medical records to the mentally ill: What about the carer? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 00 (0). Retrieved May 28, 2013 from http://anp.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/02/20/0004867413480409.extract.
Isto Huvila is an associate professor in the department of archival, library and museum studies, Uppsala University, and in the School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University; he is also a research scientist, DOME. His primary research area is information and knowledge management. He can be reached at Isto.Huvila<at>abm.uu.se.
Gunilla Myreteg is a member of the faculty in the department of business studies, Uppsala University, and is a research scientist, DOME. Her specialty is management accounting. She can be reached at Gunilla.Myrteg<at>fek.uu.se.
Åsa Cajander is a member of the department of information technology, Uppsala University; project manager, DOME. Her principal area is HCI and software development methods. She can be reached at Asa.Cajander<at>it.uu.se.
Articles in this Issue
Introduction to Health Informatics
Informatics and the Future of Nursing: Harnessing the Power of Standardized Nursing Technology
Public Health Informatics: An Invitation to the Field
Empowerment or Anxiety? Research on Deployment of Online Medical E-health Services in Sweden
Turning Healthcare Challenges into Big Data Opportunities: A Use-Case Review Across the Pharmaceutical Development Lifecycle
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The Kurds continued abandonment
The following is an editorial by Armstrong Williams.
The State Department is in a serious and weaken agency with the same Obama Administration team players in charge of policy, so there is a continuing growing gap between the White House policy on Iran and where State should be. The events over the past 10 days are an ongoing devastating blow to the Kurds, and to the reputation of the United States. The Kurds have been a faithful, unwavering ally since 1991-92 when we first arrived in Northern Iraq. They were instrumental in crafting the Iraqi constitution and getting it passed by the parliament in 2004. They are exercising their rights to self determination. This referendum vote, to open a dialogue with Baghdad has been coming for almost two years. The State department ignored the issue until two days before the scheduled vote, when Bret McGurk released a statement saying the referendum was "ill advised and poorly timed". Thats what passes for policy at State.
The President last week articulated the broad outline of the new Iranian policy. Yet the State department and coalition stood by and watched the Iranian Quds force leader, General Qassem Sulaymani, bribe the PUK leadership into abandoning their defensive positions and letting Shi'a militia, PMU's, and Revolutionary Guard soldiers, operating American unarmed vehicles, M1 Abrams tanks, and MRAPS enter Kirkuk and take over the strategic positions around the city. The governor of Kirkuk is missing in action. Some 60 Peshmerga have been killed. The senior Pesh commander from the PUK, who refused to abandon his post is missing in action. All while the USG stood by and watched, as yet another hostile government in Baghdad mounted a military operation against the Kurds. The exact same thing Saddam Hussein did during his reign of terror. The United States has lost over 5,000 dead, over 52,000 wounded to unseat Saddam Hussein only to allow a Shi'a government, controlled and directed by an Iranian General to take over the country.
Once again, in downtown Erbil, Sami Abdullah Rahman Park, is filled with Kurds, Kirkuk residents, sleeping on the ground, having fled their homes in Kirkuk to escape a military attack from Baghdad. This is exactly what went on under Saddam.
This is a day of shame, disgrace and betrayal. When is Secretary Tillerson going to take control of the State Department? This event was the perfect opportunity to put the White House new Iran policy to the test. How long will the State Department under it's new leadership remain missing in action.
Where do we go from here? The President's new approach to the Iran policy is correct. We must reestablish the reputation and trust in the United States with our trusted allies, and engage politically, and with military and intelligence capacity to roll the Iranian influence and their Shi'a proxy militias and PMU's back in Iraq and Syria. State should immediately engage, with new leadership and representatives, to assist and facilitate a dialogue between the Kurds and the Baghdad government. We must make an effort to understand the complex history of Iraq, and specifically the history of Kirkuk and the Kurds who lived there before Saddam took over the city and drove them out. The United States Government has some work to do, today, to recover from the events of the past 48 hours.
NSC and State are asleep at the wheel
1. State has no strategic vision, and their world view stangnant. State seems unaware that we are at a turning point in history. Decisions made 100 years ago (Sykes-Picot) are being proven untenable by demographic and ethnic imperatives. Dramatic change is inevitable, but rather than try to control or steer that change to protect our long term strategic interests, the ignorant, deep state technocrats who are controlling our policy are clinging to 20th century falacies like the notion of a unified Iraq and a strategic alliance with Turkey.
2. They cling to the naive notion that Iran can be persuaded to moderate its behavior, cease its inexorable drive to establish itself as the dominant power in the region, and join the community of civilized nations. State's position is not grounded in reality.
3. The USG has a narrow window in which to control or at least steer the course of events in the region to protect our long term interests and those of our natural allies. In short, the events in Iraq are an opportunity to change the course of history. Our actions in theater are weakening the United States and the office of the President. Russia, Turkey and Iran are out maneuvering us on the field. The administration should expect a sudden move by Turkey to suspend US flight operations from Incerlik and Erdogon to follow that move by announcing Turkey intends to withdraw from NATO. The Iranians, led by General Qassem Sulaymani, the head of the Quds Force (labeled a terrorist organization by the State Department), is reported to be within 15 km of Erbil proper. Appeasement and hope is not a strategic policy.
Secretary Tillerson, and the primary architect of the debacle that is our current Iraq policy, Brett McGurk, are currently in Riyadh visiting with the Saudis and also meeting PM Abadi discussing Iranian influence in Baghdad. This meeting may provide some political cover for Secretary Tillerson, (after all, he is doing something), but it will not erase the policy calamity the Department of State has handed The President of the United States, and our loyal Kurdish allies. Few seem to appreciate this debacle rolled out shortly after the President clearly articulated his intention to begin to roll back Iranian influence in theater. Secretary Tillerson and Brett McGurk should fly to Erbil, and visit Sami Abdel Rahman park and get a first hand view of the implementation of their policy. Decisions made in cubicles in Foggy Bottom, look a bit different when you are standing on the ground among the people dealing with your decisions.
Mr. Williams is Manager / Sole Owner of Howard Stirk Holdings I & II Broadcast Television Stations and the 2016 Multicultural Media Broadcast Owner of the year.
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Simon Whitehouse is Accenture's Senior Managing Director – Financial Services, Growth & Strategy, responsible for developing the group's growth agenda, geographically and within industry sectors.
Mr. Whitehouse has been with Accenture for more than 25 years, mostly in the financial services sector. He has concentrated on helping retail banks around the world improve their operations and performance through transformational programs.
Mr. Whitehouse has led Accenture's client relationships with some of the company's largest banking clients, and serves as a member of the board for Accenture's UK business and the Accenture Development Partnerships organization.
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Hello again! Dear me, somewhere between ending another school year and starting an internship, two weeks have quickly slipped by without a post. But this means I have a backlog of projects to share with you in the coming weeks (the craft closet is approaching completion and the dollhouse is finally going to be unveiled!). Before I completely abandon academics for the summer I wanted to add to the "Slide Projector" series with a group of artists I studied during the year.It's at the end of the first floor corridor, behind the dove gray door on the right. Room 1542, where the daydreamiest of students drift off on a bit of time travel. Not to the oft frequented Parisian exhibitions of most 19th century art history courses, but to England. To the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their circle, a thoroughly fascinating band of romantics, brooding and avant-garde, with the requisite starry eyed poet among them. They were fascinated by the medieval, and displaced by the shock of industrialism's soot and steam. Onto the banks of Ophelia's watery grave, across fields after rain, a vibrancy of color and gloried nature spills from their brushes, tempered by a compelling quality of the mysterious and the unsaid.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Slide Projector: The Pre-Raphaelites
Labels: History + Art History, Slide Projector
20 comments:
- Kavita said...
Ah,Ophelia. I've always loved that one.
It actually inspired me to believe I could reproduce it with ease a long time ago. The end result...not even close!:-)
What wonderful talent you have,Livy.
- June 22, 2009 at 2:04 AM
- rain girl said...
gorgeous post. i love your blog.. its so pretty to look at and so soothing and a delight to read. please share more of the arty stuff! can't wait for the dollhouse project..it looked so beautiful - all those lil stuff u made for it.. and do, do post some photo shoot again :)
- June 22, 2009 at 4:57 AM
- pixelhazard said...
Oh ophelia is so lovely
- June 22, 2009 at 5:16 AM
- Hannah said...
Wonderful post. You could be a poet. :D
- June 22, 2009 at 5:55 AM
- Janet said...
ooohh! one of my favorites! i have been to the Tate and seen Ophelia. Beautiful. so dreamy!
- June 22, 2009 at 6:20 AM
- LindaSonia said...
Oh, I am anxious to see that dollhouse. Will look forward to it. I was just wondering the other day how you were doing with it. LindaSonia
- June 22, 2009 at 6:21 AM
- The Yellow Door Paperie said...
This makes me nostalgic for Art History class.
- June 22, 2009 at 6:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
these slides are so fantastic!
- June 22, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- the life of a teenage scrapbooker said...
that doll house is too cute!!
i soo want one, where did you get yours??
can't wait for the revel!!
Megan P
- June 22, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- Karyn - (French Charming) said...
A true feast for the eyes...beautiful slides, thank you for sharing!
- June 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Polly R said...
I love the way you write !
I can't wait to see the craft closest or dolls house! You are SO talented!
- June 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- cindy : quaint said...
they are so lovely. do you know the book 'painted gardens : english watercolors 1850-1914' by penelope hobhouse and christopher wood? i think you would love it.
- June 22, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Ruth said...
Beautiful, and yes you write very well.
- June 23, 2009 at 2:03 AM
- ♥Simply Seductive said...
First time visit to this blog... well worth it!
All the best,
- June 23, 2009 at 4:02 PM
- Louise said...
Your blog is so beautiful- I love to visit I would like to share an award with you over at my blog.
- June 26, 2009 at 5:48 AM
- TMCPhoto said...
The Pre-Raphaelites were always my favourites in art history classes but then I've always been a closet medieval nut
- June 26, 2009 at 6:23 PM
- Kat_RN said...
Love the Pre-Raphaelites, they really do need to be appriciated more. Have you seen "the Golden Stair" by Burne-Jones? It is a favorite, If I remember correctly it resides at the Tate. Wonderful blog, I will be back.
- June 28, 2009 at 6:24 PM
- The Little Fox said...
Lovely, adorable blog! Glad I have found you!
- June 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM
- setyourselfonfire said...
every time i come to your blog i am completely captivated by all the wonderful things you share. thank you.
- June 28, 2009 at 11:56 PM
- wide open spaces said...
have i told you before that you are a genius? everything that you do is utter perfection. i am loving these slides...
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29 yrs of HIV
Jan 27, 2013
I've lived most of my life with HIV (29 yrs). There was no tx in late 1984 but I later received tx twice since diagnosis. 1996-1999 and 2003-2006. I stopped tx both times because the side effects of the meds were so severe I was constantly ill (including several hospitalizations). I have been blessed with good health for the most part. However, 8/2012 I found out I had BCC (skin cancer) and had it removed. I was concerned that my cd4 count might be getting low and ask for bloodwork to be drawn (it had been more than 5 yrs since I was at a doctor's office). My cd4 count was 126. This last week I went to the hospital for shortness of breath and a lung infection and asked for bloodwork to be drawn. Cd4 count is 65 and my viral load is 450,000. I set up an appt with an ID physician. Do you think I can achieve an undetected VL and increase my cd4 to a healthy 350 or above with treatment? Or, is my immune system weakened to the point it will be very difficult to? Sorry for the lengthy narrative but think it may give you a better understanding of my situation. Thank You for your time and patience
Response from Dr. Holodniy
Yes, current HIV treatment regimens are very effective and you should be able to get your viral load to undetectable. It is difficult to predict whether you will be able to get your CD4 count up to 350 or higher. In addition, the lower the CD4 count is when you start, the longer it may take. But you absolutely need to start now and get your immune system recovered.
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Because most companies prefer to keep their share price in a popular range from $10 to $100, a stock split may be used to bring a high-priced stock back into this range. If you own 50 shares of a $100 stock and it splits two-for-one, you will own 100 shares of a $50 stock. If it splits four-for-one, you will own 200 shares of a $25 stock. The total value is unchanged, just divided among more shares. Consolidations work in the opposite way -- the total value is distributed among fewer shares, thus increasing the share price.
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In working with client data you start to notice trends that raise flags in your mind. In my case I'm looking at data and seeing a lot of columns that have NULL in the column where a NULL doesn't mean "I don't know", it means "I was too lazy to put something here".
In the stored procedures to process the data and produce management level reports, almost every query begins with
And then most of the amount columns are referenced in the query like this:
ISNULL(t.some_amount, 0) AS some_amount
Now, when your tables have a small number of rows, it really won't hurt you, from a performance perspective. But as a business grows these practices are the start of major performance problems, as the query processor has to do a lot of extra work to clean the data as it processes each time it's needed.
Wouldn't it make more sense to keep it clean all the time, and eliminate these costly processes?
From a startup perspective, usually it makes sense to clean up and otherwise invest in better quality only after the business started growing, only when you know that it is likely to succeed. If the project fails, then all the money spent on it is lost. If you invest more money to do it right too early, then you can just lose more money.
Hey, how about having to search for "no data" with this:
WHERE CAST(FIELD AS INT)=0 or FIELD IN ('',' ','zero','n/a','NULL') or FIELD IS NULL
Hi Allen, I wholeheartedly agree. I often build a rule-based engine into my databases to continually find questionable or interesting data.
@ Alexander K
I agree with your thoughts to an extent. There's an argument to be made for applying YAGNI principles to some of your design but I don't know if data cleansing is one of those. Poor data validation often requires that more work be put into using that data and offers more opportunities for unexpected (and sometimes unnoticed) errors to creep in. Issues like this can cause a startup to fail. Furthermore, should your business take off, you're hopefully going to be busy adding features and growing the services -- maybe too busy to go back and fix those broken windows you left for later.
Software that relies on a stored data solution should have data cleanliness as its foundation.
It is very common that a startup saves money on not fully implementing data integrity, then succeeds. This very post, and dozen of other similar ones, prove that many such startups succeed and later can afford to hire data professionals for clean up.
Those that fail do not get on the radar of data professionals, they just disappear. So our statistics are skewed - we do not include those who "have data cleanliness as its foundation" as you suggest, and fail.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with Bob as I've worked in this scenario first hand. When you fail to properly store data in your database you end up with relics. This makes adding features later that much more difficult. How many shops really allocate money and talent towards data cleanup vs application features? I suspect not many since its the features that pay the bills.
I don't see the relationship between having at least a half-way decent data model (by restricting or not allowing null values) and whether a startup business is going to fail. Even if you cannot afford a DBA, it does not take that much extra work to set a column's nullability and give it a default value. Even a cave man (or a web developer) can probably do that.
Once again, correct you are, Obi-Wan ;-)
IMO dbms constructors should change this default behaviour " nulls allowed " to Nulls Not allowed.
And if that would cause a to huge cultural shift, provide a "sys.configurations" option, so each company can set the default itself.


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The results were decidedly mixed. Some of His Dark Materials is excellent, bordering on brilliant, other aspects not so much.
There are a million and one summaries of these books floating around the internet so I won't waste time writing another. That said, I have several thoughts on the series I'd like to share here. So in lieu of a traditional spoiler-free review, I'm weighing in with specific details on what I liked and did not like about the series.
A strong warning: Many spoilers follow after the book cover, as well as religious discussion.
First of all, do these books truly endorse atheism? Perhaps, but not what I would consider classic atheism, which argues against the existence of deities and the supernatural and posits that the universe is entirely explainable by science. While there apparently is no God in the universe of His Dark Materials, intelligent species like humans are inhabited by a substance called Dust, which apparently functions the same way as original sin in the Christian religion (it bestows knowledge of good and evil, etc). His Dark Materials includes elements beyond any physical explanation, such as angels, an compass-like item called an alethiometer that performs functions that can only be explained by magic, flying witches, incorporeal specters, and other monsters. Committed atheists believe that everything is physical and there is nothing beyond the grave; in The Amber Spyglass Lyra and Will travel to the underworld to visit spirits of the dead, and there are hints of some atomized afterlife of the spirit. In short, it's is not a work of scientific rationalism. I've heard it described as gnosticism, which seems a far more apt comparison.
What Pullman's books are is a rather damning indictment of organized religion, particularly the Catholic church. Now, I'm not a Catholic so I have no skin in the fire, but I found Pullman's treatment rather unfair. He portrays the church as a caricature of evil, a uniformly monstrous, insidious, intolerant organization that mercilessly persecutes non-believers. So we get dialogue like this by one of the characters: "That's what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling."
Given that His Dark Materials is ostensibly set in a world with a timeline roughly equivalent to our own (not a time of 14-century witch-hunts and the like when some of this behavior was sadly practiced), it's all faintly ridiculous. To describe the church as an evil comparable to Sauron is, well, childish in the extreme.
Pullman posits that there is no God as believers traditionally understand him, but only powerful angels. God is actually a decrepit old angelic figure called the Authority. Pullman inverts the story of Adam and Eve, making the Authority the bad guy and Satan the good. Original sin is all backwards; our bodies are wonderful and natural and the fruit of knowledge to be fully enjoyed. The heroine and hero of the story, Lyra and Will, become ciphers for the new Adam and Eve, ushering in a world free of the Christian God in exchange for a world of solid reality.
So what does the world of His Dark Materials offer for consolation? Perhaps that there are other worlds, parallel to our own, that science or the mind of mankind can open. Pullman's constructed world is not amoral or about living only for life's sake. It also includes a strong component of responsibility. When the armored bear Iorek tells Lyra not to put herself in harm's way ("While you are alive, your business is with life") she lectures him otherwise: "No, Iorek," she said gently, "our business is to keep promises, no matter how difficult they are." This is a fine lesson.
There are some great scenes in the books that alone make it worth reading for fantasy fans. Perhaps most memorable was Will and Lyra's journey into the land of the dead, complete with an implacable boatman and foul harpies right out of Greek mythology. It's terrifying and wonderful at once.
Will and Lyra's journey into the land of the dead demonstrates what happens to the "souls" of the dead in a godless world. Freed from a purgatory-like underworld, they are atomized, entirely gone. Death itself (and all our fears and superstitions built up around it) dies too. In Pullman's world, at death a person becomes a part of everything. "You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again." Life is fine and good, and death is simply the End. Pullman portrays death as tranquil, for example when the explorer Lee Scoresby dies. Unfortunately this explanation provides no solace for those left behind, as there is seemingly no possibility of reuniting in an afterlife. Heaven is a lie. Explains an ex-nun: "That's what led some of us to give our lives, and others to spend years in solitary prayer, while all the joy of life was going to waste around us and we never knew."
The Amber Spyglass packs an emotional and satisfying ending that I found quite moving and well-done. Some of the best writing in the series can be found here.
All that said…
There are problems with the series, both plot-wise and in its execution, and some are major. Not the least of which is the series' tendency to tell rather than show as it progresses, and delivering its underlying messages with an iron-booted didacticism. The best book of the series is without question The Golden Compass, which is refreshingly agenda-free and so tells a pretty good imaginative story. I've read a lot of complaints over the years about C.S. Lewis' Narnia, detractors of which point out (not unreasonably) that it's too dogmatic, or black and white in its conclusions. The same can certainly be said for His Dark Materials, and then some.
There are other problems with the series, too. Some of these include:
- Characters that float in and out without adequate ends, or explanation. For example Ama, a serving girl that Pullman spends considerable time introducing at the outset of The Amber Spyglass, simply drops out of the story without explanation. I never figured out the purpose of the scientist Mary and her encounters on another planet with a sentient race of elephant-like creatures called the mulefa. This entire sub-plot could have been safely excised, in my opinion, and any point that Pullman was attempting to convey here (perhaps showing the mulefa as an ideal natural race, without the interference of organized religion) woven into the main story.
- Lyra's mother and father fight a angel enforcer named Metatron, whose name sounds suspiciously like a transformer and acts like the worst of the Decepticons. Lame.
- The great and powerful Church, with centuries of experience of scheming and corruption and power wielded behind the scenes, decides to send one man with a rifle to kill Lyra and end the biggest threat it has ever known. Really?
- Dust is mumbo-jumbo and a wholly unsatisfying explanation for what invests us with our humanity. Pullman's explanation for homo sapiens' divergence from our ape ancestors some 30,000 years ago is an invisible, floating, sentient, substance from the cosmos. Got that? I don't either. Pullman tries to invest Dust (in our fleeting, occasional glimpses of it) with a holiness or mystery, but I found it all rather uninspired.
In short, His Dark Materials is certainly worth reading, though you (literally and figuratively) shouldn't expect a miracle. It doesn't live up to the hype.


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At the time that Karate was introduced to the Japanese mainland, many Okinawans continued to speak the Okinawan dialect. We tend to call this Hogen, but Mark Tankosich has told me that "Hogen" refers to any dialect.
Hogen is not like an accent. In the United States, people in different parts of the country have different accents. Our Hawaiian pidgin sounds different than a Southern drawl and a Northern accent. However, we are all speaking the same language. If you can get through the accent, you can understand what the person is saying.
My wife was born in Hawaii. It is funny, but she has a very hard time understanding what people are saying in movies like Braveheart. Other local people have told me the same thing. I literally have to translate for my wife sometimes.
But the Okinawan dialect is not Japanese. Perhaps there are some similarities, but a person who speaks Japanese could not understand a person speaking Okinawan Hogen, or vice versa. They might as well come from different countries -- well I guess that Japan and Okinawa (the Ryukyu Kingdom) were different countries.
When Japan abolished the Ryukyu Kingdom and make Okinawa a prefecture, the people living there were required to learn and speak Japanese. This was not optional. In schools, Japanese was the mandatory language. Students speaking Okinawan Hogen were punished.
But in the 1920s, many of the older Okinawans still spoke Okinawan Hogen. Some could not speak or write Japanese, and some might have resisted Japanese as a sign of resistance and cultural pride.
Privately, I would think that most Karate teachers in Okinawa spoke Okinawan Hogen. But when they taught in the public schools, they would have had to speak Japanese. Thus, the teachers who taught in the public schools would have had Japanese language skills, they had to.
On the Japanese mainland, Karate teachers would have to speak Japanese. If they spoke Okinawan Hogen, they might as well have been speaking Martian -- no one could understand them except other Okinawans. Okinawan Hogen would have sounded like gibberish.
In Hawaii, the Japanese, who arrived here to work on the sugar cane plantations before the Okinawans, would tease the Okinawans by chanting "long rope, long rope." Okinawa literally means "long rope."
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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson tore his anterior cruciate ligament late in the 2011 season and is inexplicably in the midst of a career year.
A four-part series on player health and safety with reporter Andrea Kremer aired Tuesday through Friday on NFL Network:
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Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose tore his ACL late in the 2011-12 NBA season and is working to return this year.
Peterson told the Chicago media that he plans to call Rose this week.
"I just got his contact this weekend, just to talk to him a little bit and see how things are going with him and to answer any questions he has for me," Peterson said, via CSNChicago.com.
A torn ACL used to be a career-changer -- or ender. Modern medicine, plus Peterson being a freak of nature, has him on pace for 1,804 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. If anyone can give Rose words of encouragement, it's All Day.
"The one piece of advice I can give him is have your mind set on what you want to accomplish and know, after four months that ligament is stable and strong, so don't back down from anything," Peterson said. "I know around that time, my leg was still a little sore, too, but the ligament was strong, almost stronger than the right side.
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It would be a mistake to write off threats of war against Syria from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as mere bluster, assuming that Turkey will maintain the status quo in valuing its relationship with the United States on one hand, while resisting Iran's hegemonic ambitions on the other.
The recent cross-border confrontation could ignite regional convulsions as Turkey is sucked into Syria, leading to belated actions on the part of the international community.
The Assad regime knows its time is limited as the rate of military and intelligence officers defecting to Jordan and Turkey increases in momentum. Rebel attacks are inching closer to the heart of the Assad regime, such as the recent attack on the Syrian air force intelligence compound in the Damascus suburb of Harasta. This contributes to the regime's recklessness in firing upon Turkey with impunity.
Ankara may also be emboldened by the fact that Iran, a key Assad ally, could be limited in its ability to intervene due to its economic woes at home. This week its currency -- the rial -- plummeted in value due to a combination of sanctions and Tehran's own mismanagement of the economy. Turkey has less to lose by responding to Syrian aggression -- this rationale is supported by recent reports that Iran has withdrawn from Syria 275 members from a special operations unit attached to its elite Quds Force.
The conflict in Syria is no longer considered a purely internal matter. It clearly has regional ramifications. Thus I believe Turkey's aim to secure its border is inextricably linked with regime change. Its increased military operations may stem from a calculus that it would accelerate the Assad regime's demise. The Turkish parliament's assent for its troops to conduct operations inside Syria is not merely a symbolic attempt to bolster Turkish pride while responding to domestic political pressure over the Syrian attacks. It gives its armed forces the ability to do more than defend its borders.
It is also likely that NATO may assist Turkey -- a member state -- with the defense of its 560-mile border, creating a de facto humanitarian buffer zone, where the Syrian opposition could have a command post. However, this risks escalating the conflict into a NATO-led mission outside the framework of the U.N. Security Council -- the kind of interventionist measure Russia and China would oppose as they did in Libya.
The shift towards conflict with Syria is characterized by the kind of strategic shift in the region that we've seen before with Turkey. Erdogan was initially reluctant to impose sanctions on Iran and is now embracing EU sanctions on Tehran. The Turkish premier was also supportive of Iran's nuclear ambitions all the while seeking to downgrade relations with Tehran's nemesis, Israel. Now it is aligning itself with the Sunni bloc, including Gulf states and Jordan against Iran and its Syrian proxy. This could prompt an Iranian military response and in turn instigate another spike in oil prices.
The longer the Syrian civil war continues, the greater the prospect of regional sectarian tensions emerging along Sunni-Shiite fault-lines. This could result in a Middle Eastern Cold War between regional powerhouses Saudi Arabia, with its mainly Sunni population, and the Shiite-dominated Iranians.
Meanwhile, The Obama administration's apparent strategy of "leading from behind" is an excuse for its dithering over the Syrian humanitarian crisis. Similarly, the United Nations' inaction over the crisis results from a deadlock at the Security Council, with China and Russia opposed to any intervention -- implausibly advocating that the rebels conduct dialogue with a murderous regime.
Yet with the UN's extensive history of paying lip service to upholding the values of human rights while ignoring genocide in Rwanda, Sudan, Balkans and Iraq, its dismissive manner towards the current massacres taking place on a daily basis in Syria should come as no surprise. There are estimates that up to 50,000 people have been killed, with up to two million people internally displaced since the conflict started. The U.N. claims that 300,000 Syrians have fled the country.
The U.S., realistically the only nation with the necessary military and logistical capability, could easily have prevented the refugee crisis that has heightened the prospect of conflict with Turkey. Its wariness to arm rebels was to prevent blowback from the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and other empowered Islamists in Syria. Yet the protracted conflict there has generated a kaleidoscopic civil-war and vacuum of governance across much of Syria that has attracted Islamists, and even revived al-Qaeda, enabling it to infiltrate the ranks of the opposition and gain support in the wake of its attacks on Syrian military and government installations.
The U.S. and its NATO allies could also have prevented much bloodshed by using air power to target the Assad regime's military apparatus. Syria's military concentrated in Damascus, Aleppo and northern Raqqa province are strained and would be overstretched if forced to respond to external military pressure.
Yet Washington and its NATO allies could now be forced to place a significant number of troops on the ground to prevent the proliferation of Syria's stockpile of chemical and biological weapons. The Obama administration has resigned itself to wishful thinking assuming, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has done, that Syrian security forces could be held together to secure chemical weapons sites in the wake of the toppling of the Assad regime. In a vacuum of governance dominated by Islamists, this may become a proliferation nightmare.
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SHANGHAI, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Novak Djokovic fought off five championship points Sunday en route to a marathon three-set win over Andy Murray in the finals of the Shanghai Rolex Masters.
Djokovic, No. 2 in the world, and Murray, ranked third, battled for 3 hours, 21 minutes before Djokovic finished off a 5-7, 7-6 (13-11), 6-3 victory. Murray had been seeking a third consecutive win at the Shanghai Masters.
Djokovic, who won in Shanghai in 2008, is 13-10 in Masters tournament finals, including 3-3 this year. It was his 52nd ATP title overall and fifth in 2012.
Murray put up a spirited defense, breaking Djokovic's serve four times in the seesaw first set. The set turned on the 11th game when Djokovic was up 40-0 but was broken on the eighth point.
Murray took the edge in the second set with a break in the seventh game but Djokovic pulled even at 5-5, fighting off Murray's first championship point in the process. Murray had four chances to end the match in the tiebreaker but Djokovic was able to take the set with a volley in the tiebreaker's 24th point.
Djokovic took the lead with a break for a 4-3 lead in the third set and won his next service game with a final-point ace. He finished the match with his sixth break of the day.
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Same workout for everyone today. Adjust the intensity of each sprint interval according to your individual ability. You should be out of breath after each sprint interval, but you should recover quickly enough to begin the next assigned sprint.
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Spotlighters Theatre to Stage THE LAST FIVE YEARS, 3/1-24
Spotlighters Theatre will present THE LAST FIVE YEARS, March 1 - March 24, 2013, featuring book, music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, and directed by Fuzz Roark with musical direction by Kevin Roland.
An emotionally powerful, yet intimate musical about two young people who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. Struggling actress Cathy tells her story backwards from their break-up while writer Jamie, his career booming, travels forward from their first date.
There is perhaps no more heartbreaking device than the one that lies at the core of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. As a story, it's fairly straightforward. What makes a pedestrian tale of love found and lost is the point and counterpoint exploration of a relationship's entropy. While the man's timeline moves forward chronologically, his wife's time moves backwards from the end of their five-year relationship. Her opening song is the end of their marriage, while his is after their first date. They move through time until his last song is sung while leaving his ring on the table, while hers is the breathless desire she felt upon meeting him. The contrast remains poignant throughout as the sine wave of emotions elegantly demonstrates the rise and fall of love turned sour.
Featuring: Norma Gomez, Lauren Schein, Zachary Carter and Bart Debicki.
Performance Dates and Times:
Fri - Mar 1, 8, 15, 22 -- 8pm
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This is HP's new Touch-to-Pair-Mouse. For just $40, HP will sell you this chunk of NFC-enabled peripheral, which can be paired with devices with the lightest tap. Sounds great, right? Apart from, who the hell has NFC on their computer?
Very few people, that's who. Off the top of my head, I can only think of—funnily enough—the HP Spectre as having NFC. There are probably more that I've forgotten, and I'm sure you'll put me straight in the comments, but as far as I can tell this product has practically no market right now.
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I realize this is late notice but if anyone is free, I'm available to hit around 2pm in and around Buffalo Grove. Perfect weather. Message me if you're up for it. Thanks! Dan
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Hi Dan, im a 4.0 as well. Any way you come out to Highland Park? If not, lets setup for another time...
I have a window, just until 3. Dont want to rush it... Care to set something up for the weekend or anytime friday?
No worries. Perhaps we can try for Friday maybe after 1:30pm? There are two nice courts beside Banner Day Camp in Lake Forest if that works for you.
I'm around 4.0-4.5 and can usually play after 6 if you're up for it.
Cant today, but that time would work for me.... What city you from originally Yuriy? Im also Russian, born in Chicago. Parents from Kharkov/Odessa
Kiev. I vacationed near Odessa when I was young, but never got to go to the city. I work in Vernon Hills around 60 and Milwaukee. I could meet you up somewhere around here after work.
Hi Yuriy, thanks for the shout out. Unfortunately evenings don't work well for me. If you can play during weekend after noon, let me know!
I hate how this thing doesn't let me know when somebody replied. I can hit up during the day on Tuesdays and Thursdays (for shorter periods), weekends are always good.
Sounds good. Saturdays or Sundays in and around Buffalo Grove work 1-4pm. Let me know if this Saturday/Sunday works for you.
I can play if you need one more player. Please let me know where the courts and the time.
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Date: 7/10/2008 8:47 am EDT
Could this be used in an covered outdoor application over an existing vinly cover that has never allowed any water to penetrate through to the wood in 15 years? It is more for the look we want to cover the vinly.
Author: The Avaire Team
Date: 7/12/2008 6:59 pm EDT
Technically, Avaire tile is not warranted for outdoor use. However, each of the components is designed to withstand a broad range of temperatures and humidity.
We've just finished a series of freeze-thaw tests that did not reveal any problems cycling from 80F to -10F multiple times over a three week period. While that is not the same as a multi-year test, it does give us confidence that the system will perform under extreme temperatures.
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Date: 7/30/2008 6:54 pm EDT
I would like to use Avaire tile on my outdoor deck which is above our patio. I was planning on using a EPDM rubber membrane attatched to the plywood deck then installing the tile over that. The deck has a slope of approx. 1/4" per foot with 3/4" plywood on 11 7/8" silent floor joists 19.2" o/c. I live in Alberta Canada where the temperature can go from -30F to +95F. Your test results give me confidence in the freeze thaw aspect and I believe the EPDM will prevent any rotting of the deck, I was wondering what might happen with the grouting and or possible moisture build up under the tile from snow melting and then freezing again several times during the fall and spring seasons. Thanks for any input.
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Date: 8/2/2008 6:03 pm EDT
We have not yet officially pronounced Avaire tile suitable for outdoor applications, but we're confident it will perform well.
Our first step will likely be approving Avaire tile for use in three season porches where there is some degree of protection from the elements. We have several three-season porches across the country that have been installed as test cases for the past 18 months. So far, so good....
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Josh Hall one of our Vancouver Canucks bloggers is back with his Tuesday Vancouver Canucks vs. Tampa Bay Lightning matchup preview. 4:30 p.m. PT, on Rogers Sportsnet. Should be a good game. Look at Tampa's talent; Steven Stamkos, Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier take on Ryan Kesler, Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin. We hope its not a snorefest.
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Hi all,
I am the author of bvhacker, a free animation application (see here: www.bvhacker.com)
I'm currently working on a new release, and am trying to change the orientation of bones in a bvh animation file. My problem is this:
I have a bvh file that has it's arms aligned down the y-axis. I need to convert it so that it's arms are aligned along the x-axis.
Or, put another way, when all joint's rotations are set to zero, the figure's arms are by it's sides. I need the figure's arms to be outstreched horizontally when zeroed out.
When I first encountered the problem I tried the naive solutions - e.g. just rotating the arms through 90 degrees. Of course, this didn't work well!
I've researched this as far as I can on the web. The solution *appears* to be in changing the arm bones initial translations from 0,L,0 to L,0,0 (where L represents the length of the arm) and then multiplying all my XYZ rotation data values in turn, each rotation value represented by a 4-element vector (where w=1), by a 4x4 'orientation matrix'. I'm fairly comfortable implementing this in code, but I have no idea of the values that should go into the orientation matrix, other than as follows ('u' is for unknown value)
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I did study matrix transformations at uni, but it was a long time ago now, and I didn't get a really good grasp on the subject at the time! Can anyone help?


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|2012-05-16, 14:39
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Don't forget the essential "HAPPY HARPY FOR NAKAMA" post.....
|2012-05-16, 14:42
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Join Date: Feb 2010
So Law's after something that can help him take down a Yonkou . I'd say it's a powerful weapon (or the blueprints to it) that Vegapunk left behind, and more importantly, CC doesn't know about it.
I'd really love for Law and Luffy to team up, but the question is which Yonkou he's got in mind - if it's Shanks, Luffy will no doubt refuse, but if it's Big Mam, he may accept the offer.
It also looks like Law's DF comes with a "built-in" defibrillator or something, and Luffy chewing through the chains was definitely weird ...
|2012-05-16, 15:02
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Anyway, I have a good feeling Luffy will accept Law's offer. He probably feels like he still owes Law for saving him at Marineford, and as long as it's something that won't get in the way of him becoming the Pirate King, he'll gladly accept any new nakama no matter who they are.
Since it's just a plan to take down ONE of the Yonkou, the alliance will probably only last that long. Then they'll go back to being friendly rivals for the title of Pirate King.
The target will most likely be Big Mom, since she already has Luffy's crew on her hit-list.~
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BTW, it most definitely looks like Law's counter shock was a haki-based move. I mean, he didn't even use his sword for that technique. The guy really is insanely powerful at this point (especially considering how he took out a freaking VA before this). But personally, I'm still not entirely convinced that the yetis are down for the count just yet. I mean, I still feel there's some reason why we still haven't gotten a clear look at their faces, for one thing.....
Heh, I like how the little mask things the switched members are wearing changes their expression along with them. Though I really do wonder if Law's proposal was the reason why he switched their bodies in the first place. I mean, if that were the case, what was the point of switching Smoker and Tashigi? Just sh*ts n' giggles?
Anyhow, I hope that CC has some more strong guardians on standby, because despite me still standing by what I said in the first paragraph, I'm still a little disappointed that the cool bros. were beaten rather quickly. Especially after the hype they had these last few chapters. Maybe Monet will prove to be a rather formidable foe, especially since she seems to be the type of person to research her enemies......
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I thought i was the only one to catch that in ch.666 Kurusu, oh well shows how many other ppl there are in the world who can read btwn the lines lol.
Anyway love the idea of a Law and Luffy alliance, they have proven to work good together so far and out of the worst generation these two captains seem to get along the best. However Law is unique and although he is one of my favorite charaters, he is untrustworthy as MarvelB said (its what makes him cool). He also seems to get along with Kid as well though. With Kid already sinking Big Mom ships somewhere in the new world, makes me wonder if Law haven't already went to Kid to form an alliance....food for thought.
But to get two members of the worst geneneration (potentially three if the Law theory holds out) wonder what kind of personality the emperor has? Can't wait to see although i think Kaido will prove to be a bigger threat for some reason.
|2012-05-16, 16:25
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I found it interesting that the gas bullets the Yeti bros used to take out Zoro, Brook and Nami basically kill by alcohol poisoning (unless the translation is way off ). Zoro and Nami can hold their liquor very well (as evidenced on Whiskey Peak), and Brook is all bones (yohohoho! ), so it's possible that they survived for that reason...
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Few thoughts after reading:
Law's attack looked more like he was using a Defibrillator rather than Haki, which would actually match well with the Ope Ope no Mi...mind you, we don't know it's full potential yet.
Anyone notice how one of the cool brothers is wearing a gas mask and the other isn't? Scotch (with the gas mask) is probably the one that uses the gas so he might still do it while they think he's KO.
I don't think they are out yet.
Luffy's new "Thank you Fire" had me laughing the whole time just from the name...but it does look like he's getting smarter.
Is Law possibly looking for an ancient weapon...like Pluto?
Ok so if Law's target is indeed Big Mam, then it would be really too bad if Luffy refused it out of some sort of pride.
If it is Kaidou then the SH would end up with 2 Emperors on their ass.
If it is Shanks then we all know how quick Luffy will refuse.
Doubt it would be BB so soon.
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As usual, hilarity ensues and I love it. Though Luffy taking on both brothers AND Monster ChopFranky with ease was nothing short of badass. Couldn't stop laughing at Nami's "THAT WAS THE STRONGEST MOVE YOU'VE USED ALL DAY!" when Luffy attacked Franky.
Also, an alliance between Luffy and Law? Yes, please.
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Gomu gomu no thank you fire is really funny... hahaha
and Franky-Chopper is rampaging...
I don't trust Law... but I think Law-Luffy alliance will be awesome
I bet Luffy won't approve that proposal... especially if the one he must take down is Shanks
well, if they want to fight against Blackbeard, I approve this alliance... lol
|2012-05-16, 19:36
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So this "important key" that Law is talking about, it's not another ancient warship is it?
And wow. This chapter doesn't fail to disappoint. Law continues to be a wild card of this arc. I have no idea what he's planning, but it'll surely be crazy. Luffy's cooperation will probably depend on which of the Emperors Law is referring to.
Still, isn't it about time for the crew to return to their original bodies? Watching them flounder around like this is pretty sad to watch.
|2012-05-16, 19:49
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You're forgetting The Samurai from Wano for Nakama...
I have this crazy theory that the Samurai use his magic or whatnot, so that the Yeti Cool Brothers will think that they have killed the three Strawhat...
|2012-05-16, 19:54
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Great chapter overall though...
I'm still hoping that the "triumvirate of supernova" Kidd, Law and Luffy will reunite again to take down hopefully Big Mom, or it could be Kaido coz' Drake has taken the initiative..
|2012-05-16, 20:23
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Wow did I enjoy that chapter, Law continues to be boss and Luffy shows he's also boss.
Luffy having to go that extra mile to take out a crew member than a enemy lol.
Good to see Chopper's monster point really does live up to being a monster, catching and throwing that "iceberg" is something else.
Weirdly something that crossed my mind reading this chapter is we're not getting enough Robin, not getting enough Robin service.
I don't mean being half naked or anything like that cause any time she's on screen is fan service, dressed or not
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HireTwits is a Twitter based app, that is targeted towards job search. It enables searching for jobs using the Twitter system.
"Home page" - Typical search site home page.
- Search box at the top, with logo integrated into the header
- will contain a list of "hire tweets" below the search box
Here's a UI mockup - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3381…9ef8_b.jpg
"Search page/results" - will contain a list of tweets along with pagination at the bottom like - "Prev, Next & 1,2 ,3 like buttons/links"
Looking for a Web 2.0 look and feel - very clean & simple. Even though its twitter based, its a serious job search site & looking for professional look and feel.
We are also thinking of punch line - "Jobs in real time", so may be playing around with that in home page would be cool to see.
- people who are looking/searching for jobs
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Some logo ideas
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St. Basil's Homes (Australia)
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St. Basil's Homes is an outreach of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia that provides residential services for the aged. St. Basil's Homes was established in 1969. A number of residencies are located in a complex in Lakemba, New South Wales. These include the St. Basil's Nursing Home, the Olive Grove Special Dementia Section, the Lourantos Village, and Sister Dorothea Village. Additionally, facilities have been added in Miranda.
In addition to the residential services St. Basil's Homes maintains a Day Care Centre that provides respite services for dementia sufferers and their families.
The Lakemba complex includes a chapel, dedicated to St. Basil. The services of a Greek Orthodox priest are available full time.
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- St. Basil's Homes and Aged Care Services
- St Basil's Homes (official site)
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|St. Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College
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|St. Basil's Homes | Estia Foundation | ProviCare Foundation
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|Phronema | TO VEMA | The Voice of Orthodoxy
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| Byzantine Music School | Australian Byzantine Choir, NSW
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