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EHRAC deplores attack against human rights lawyer and journalist in Grozny
Reacting to the news of the recent, thuggish attack on human rights lawyer Marina Dubrovina and journalist Elena Milashina in a hotel lobby in the Chechen capital of Grozny, EHRAC Director Philip Leach said:
"We were shocked and saddened to receive the horrific news of the brutal assault on Marina Dubrovina and Elena Milashina in Grozny last week. We have worked with Marina for many years in the context of her close cooperation on human rights cases with our partners at HRC Memorial. She has worked tirelessly to defend human rights in Russia and Ukraine.
The attack on Marina and Elena is an alarming reminder of the precarious position of human rights defenders in Chechnya. The Chechen authorities have effectively declared the region a no-go zone for activists.
An immediate and independent investigation is required to establish the facts of what happened to Marina and Elena, and to bring their attackers to justice."
Marina Dubrovina and Elena Milashina were set upon by a gang of more than 15 people – men and women – in the lobby of the Kontinent hotel in Grozny. The pair were both treated by doctors, and they have reported the incident to the police. Human rights activists and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have called upon the authorities to investigate the attack.


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I was asked to quill a black and white dog for a birthday card
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I am just loving my spiralizer attachment from KitchenAid and it's been super busy in my kitchen! If you don't the kitchenAid attachment there are other ways to spiralize including using a vegetable peeler.
This recipe was inspired by left overs! I love roasting 2 chickens at once and serving for dinner one night then cutting the rest up and using for several different meals. I freeze what I won't use in the next 2 days. I also keep a little packed away for Jake! Love my doggie...
Take your zucchini and rinse then cut off both ends. Spiralize to create your noodles. If they are super long then cut in half. (A little easier when eating). Set aside.
In a large sauté pan over medium heat add in about 1 tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil. Add in tomatoes and let them cook for about 6-7 minutes. Until they are starting to brown. Add in garlic and let cook for about 30 seconds.
Toss in the zucchini and season with salt, pepper and Italian seasonings.
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Researchers from The University of Manchester's MedicalSchool have discovered that eating more brightly-coloured fruits andvegetables like oranges, carrots and sweetcorn may help reduce the riskof developing inflammatory disorders like rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoidarthritis currently affects around 1% adults in the UK. Previousstudies have suggested that vitamin C and the pigmentbeta-cryptoxanthin, both of which are found in brightly-coloured fruitand veg, may act as antioxidants, and protect the body against theoxidative damage which can cause inflammation.
The Manchesterteam, based in the Arthritis Research Campaign's Epidemiology Unit,worked with researchers from the Institute of Public Health at theUniversity of Cambridge to analyse health questionnaires and dietdiaries by over 25000 45-74 year-olds; completed as part of the EPIC(European Prospective Investigation of Cancer) Norfolk study of dietand chronic disease in the 1990s. They then followed-up theparticipants over a nine year period to identify new cases ofinflammatory polyarthritis (IP), including rheumatoid arthritis.
DrDorothy Pattison, who led the research, said: "We found that theaverage daily beta-cryptoxanthin intake of the 88 patients who haddeveloped inflammatory polyarthritis was 40% lower than those whohadn't, and their intake of another carotenoid, zeaxanthin, was 20%lower.
"Those in the top third for beta-cryptoxanthin intake wereonly half as likely to develop IP as those in the lowest third, andvitamin C was also found to be an important factor."
The findingsappear to confirm previous evidence that a modest increase in fruit andvegetables containing beta-cryptoxanthin and vitamin C, equivalent toone glass of freshly-squeezed orange juice each day, might help toprotect against developing inflammatory joint diseases.
DrPattison has previously published research which found that both lowintakes of fruit and vegetables (in particular those high in vitaminC), and high levels of red meat consumption were associated with anincreased risk of developing IP.
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Now this is a real gem of a pub. Hiding away on a small residential street in Kentish Town stands the legend that is The Pineapple.
This place was recommended to me by a friend who lives in Derbyshire…she met a pub landlord in the Midlands – a few hundred miles away – who told her that his entire establishment was modelled around a small pub in north London.
That pub turned out to be The Pineapple. And luck would have it that The Pineapple just happened to be around the corner from my old flat in Tufnell Park.
It has everything you want from a pub: beer, tables, toilets, food (Thai), friendly locals, board games, beer garden, etc. The thing is, it just does everything so well. The bar is a grand affair of shimmering glass mirrors, brass beer taps and marbled surfaces. The floral wallpaper, oversized lampshades, faux chandeliers and patterned sofas run the line perfectly between elegant nostalgia and tacky sentimentalism.
I like to visit on Monday nights for the quiz, which is presented in a characteristically jovial manner by one of the bar staff. However, I don't like the way that I always place near the bottom of the pile; it seems the patrons of The Pineapple are both friendly and intelligent.
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A University of Georgia program designed to reduce alcohol use, drug use and risky sexual behavior in African-American youth also reduces the likelihood of engaging in conduct problems by up to 74 percent two years later, according to a new study.
The finding, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, is the latest in a series of studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of the Strong African-American Families (SAAF, pronounced "safe") Program, which is increasingly being adopted across Georgia and nationwide.
"A lot of programs show benefits in close proximity to the intervention, but many fewer-and none with African-American populations-show benefits one, two or more years after the intervention," said study co-author Gene Brody, director of the UGA Center for Family Research, part of the UGA Institute for Behavioral Research, and Regents Professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. "Previous research has shown benefits of SAAF up to six years later."
Developed by Brody and Professor Velma McBride Murry, SAAF is based on more than 20 years of research that has identified parenting and care-giving practices that allow low-income, African-American families living in rural areas to raise children who are successful despite the challenges that stem from poverty, racism and a lack of social services. The program consists of seven weekly meetings that include concurrent, hour-long, sessions for pre-adolescent youth and their parents followed by a joint session in which the families practice the skills they've learned.
Rather than lecturing to participants, SAAF facilitators engage them with specially designed videos, activities and games. Parents learn how to actively monitor, communicate and emotionally support their children and adolescents. Youth learn to set goals, manage peer pressure and appreciate their parents and other adults in their lives. In the joint sessions, the parents and youth participate in activities that help strengthen their relationships and instill pride in being African American.
The average age of youth in the program is 11, Brody said, and this pre-adolescent period is a critical point in development when youth start thinking about experimenting with alcohol and other substances and become more susceptible to peer pressure.
First implemented in 2001, the SAAF program is expanding to eight Georgia counties and is being adopted by the city of Denver. Brody and his colleagues have conducted several studies that compare the outcomes of hundreds of program participants with members of a control group. The researchers have found that among program participants:
- Alcohol use was reduced by 28 percent two years following the intervention and 25 percent six years later;
- Sexual behavior and marijuana use decreased;
- Caregiver depression was reduced;
- The likelihood of youth with low self-control engaging in conduct problems decreased by 74 percent two years later.
Brody points out that the SAAF program is grounded in intensive research on successful parenting, but also benefits from the input of African Americans living in the communities that the program is designed to serve.
"In every step of the development of SAAF, a focus group of African-American parents and youth was convened," Brody said. "We would develop intervention targets with community members and, after the curriculum was written, would get additional feedback to make sure we were on the right track. It really was a partnership between the rural African-American community and our research center."


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Click here to go back to the main Nursing Philosophy page.
Ontology, is the study of the nature of being according to the substantive focus in a discipline (Reed, 2018). On this page we will introduce you to the key components of nursing ontology which includes the metaparadigm and ontological worldviews.
The nursing metaparadigm is a broad statement describing the focus of nursing as a discipline. The evolution of nursings metaparadigm began with Walker in 1971, followed by Yura and Torres in 1975, and our very own Dr. Jacqui Fawcett in 1978. Many nursing scholars have challenged the metaparadigm, and offered suggestions for refinement. More recently, a mid-paradigm of nursing was proposed by Littzen, Langley, & Grant, along with Reed in 2020.
Ontological worldviews, also referred to as paradigms, discourses, or philosophies, propose various beliefs about specific concepts in nursing practice, such as human beings, health, change, the environment, and the role of the nurse (Reed, 2018). Ontological worldviews in nursing developed from the early works by the developmental psychologists Pepper (1942), and Reese and Overton (1970, 1973). Nursing scholars such as Parse (1987, 2015), Newman (1991/2, 2008), Fawcett (1993), and Terry (2018), have since proposed various ontological worldviews for nursing.
Please see the table below for substantive references to these works.
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Substantive nursing ontology references
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|Fawcett (1978a, 1984b, 1996c)
|a. The "what" of theory development.
b. The metaparadigm of nurisng: Present status and future refinements.
c. On the requirements for a metaparadigm: An invitation to dialogue.
|Fawcett (1993)
|From a plethora of paradigms to parsimony in worldviews.
|Ontological Worldviews
|Lee and Fawcett (2013)
|The influence of the metaparadigm on professionl identity development among RN-BSN students
|Littzen, Langley, and Grant (2020)
|The prismatic mid-paradigm of nursing.
|Hardy (1978a, 1978b)
|a. Perspectives on nursing theory.
b. Evaluating nursing theory.
|Newman (1991a/2, 2008b)
|a. The focus of the discipline of nursing.
b. The focus of the discipline revisited.
|Ontological Worldviews
|Parse (1987a, 2000b, 2015c)
|a. Nursing science: Major paradigms, theories, and critiques.
b. Paradigms: A reprise.
c. Chapter 15: Rosemarie rizzo parse's humanbecoming paradigm.
|Ontological Worldviews
|Reed (1997)
|Nursing: The ontology of the discipline.
|Nursing Ontology
|Reed (2020)
|Moving on: From metaparadigm to midparadigm for knowledge development
|Smith and Fitzpatrick (2019)
|Perspectives on the unitary-transformative person-environment-health process for the knowledge base of nursing
|Ontological Worldviews
|Terry (2018)
|Critical inquiry into philosophical perspectives underlying nursing research on acute coronary syndrome
|Ontological Worldviews
|Walker (1971)
|Toward a clear understanding of the concept of nursing theory
|Yura and Torres (1975)
|Today's conceptual frameworks within baccalaureate nursing programs.
Fawcett, J. (1978). The "what" of theory development. National League for Nursing Publications, (15-1708), 17-33. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/246217
Fawcett, J. (1984). The metaparadigm of nursing: Present status and future refinements. Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 16(3), 84-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1547-5069.1984.tb01393.x
Fawcett, J. (1993). From a plethora of paradigms to parsimony in worldviews. Nursing Science Quarterly, 6(2), 56-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/089431849300600202
Fawcett, J. (1996). On the requirements for a metaparadigm: an invitation to dialogue. Nursing Science Quarterly, 9(3), 94-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/089431849600900305
Lee, R. C., & Fawcett, J. (2013). The influence of the metaparadigm of nursing on professional identity development among RN-BSN students. Nursing Science Quarterly, 26(1), 96-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318412466734
Littzen, C., O. R., Langley, C. A., & Grant, C. (2020). The prismatic midparadigm of nursing. Nursing Science Quarterly, 33(1), 41-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318419881806
Hardy, M. E. (1978a). Perspectives on nursing theory. Advances in Nursing Science, 1(1), 37-48. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/110218
Hardy, M. E. (1978b). Evaluating nursing theory. National League for Nursing Publications, (15-1708), 75-86. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/246221
Newman, M. A., Sime, A. M., & Corcoran-Perry, S. A. (1991). The focus of the discipline of nursing. Advances in Nursing Science, 14(1), 1-6. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1819254
Newman, M. A., Smith, M. C., Pharris, M. D., & Jones, D. (2008). The focus of the discipline revisited. Advances in Nursing Science, 31(1), E16-27. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ans.0000311533.65941.f1
Overton, W. F., & Reese, H. W. (1973). Chapter 4: Models of development: Methodological implications. In J. R. Nesselroad & H. W. Reese (Eds.), Life-span developmental psychology (pp. 65-86). Academic Press.
Parse, R. R. (1987). Nursing science: Major paradigms, theories, and critiques. W. B. Saunders Company.
Parse, R. R. (2000). Paradigms: A reprise. Nursing Science Quarterly, 13(4), 275-276. https://doi.org/10.1177/08943180022107924
Parse, R. R. (2015). Rosemarie rizzo parse's humanbecoming paradigm. In M. C. Smith & M. E. Parker (Eds.), Nursing theories and nursing practice (4th ed., pp. 263-277). F. A. Davis Company.
Pepper, S. C. (1942). World hypotheses. University of California Press.
Reese, H. W., & Overton, W. F. (1970). Chapter 5: Models of development and theories of development. In L. R. Goulet (Ed.), Life-span developmental psychology, research and theory (pp. 115-145). New York, NY: Academic Press.
Reed, P. G. (1997). Nursing: the ontology of the discipline. Nursing Science Quarterly, 10(2), 76-79. https://doi.org/10.1177/089431849701000207
Reed, P. G. (2020). Moving on: From metaparadigm to midparadigm fro knowledge development. Nursing Science Quarterly, 33(1), 38-40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318419881796
Reed, P. G., & Shearer, N. B. C. (2018). Nursing knowledge and theory innovation: Advancing the science of practice (2nd ed). Springer Publishing Company.
Smith, M. J., & Fitzpatrick, J. J. (2019). Perspectives on the unitary-transformative person-environment-health process for the knowledge base of nursing. Advances in Nursing Science, 42(1), 43-57. https://doi.org/10.1097/ans.0000000000000250
Terry, H. E. (2018). Critical inquiry into philosophical perspectives underlying nursing research on acute coronary syndrome. (Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation). The University of Arizona.
Walker, L. O. (1971). Towards a clear understanding of the concept of nursing theory. Advances in Nursing Science, 20(5), 428-435. Retrieved from https://journals.lww.com/nursingresearchonline/Citation/1971/09000/TOWARD_A_CLEARER_UNDERSTANDING_OF_THE_CONCEPT_OF.6.aspx
Yura, H., & Torres, G. (1975). Educational trends which influenced the development of the conceptual framework within the curriculum. National League for Nursing Publications, (15-1558), 9-16. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1038606
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Why is the world like it is?
It is an interesting question. Unfortunately it is the wrong question. The world is what we perceive it to be and our perceptions are based largely on our experiences…or at least the experiences we tend to remember. This is why attitudes about the world are vastly different between generations. This doesn't mean that age determines attitude, just that age contributes to attitude.
So why do different generations tend to see the world differently?
The 1950's – The Calm After the Storms
- Population: 151.3 million
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita: $15,029
- Median Annual Income: $4,237
- Life Expectancy: 68.2
- Average Age at Marriage: Men 22.8, Women 20.3
- % of pop. w/high school degree or higher: 34.3%
- % of pop. w/college degree or higher: 6.2%
If you were an adult, you just survived through the most massive conflict in history. Millions died directly or indirectly because of the war. The United States of America was expected to fold after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Instead, Americans pulled off a miracle by sacrificing normal daily life for a united country at war.
With victory in World War II came a fierce pride, but nobody was ready to rush into another war anytime soon. Despite that, a growing fear of Russia's aggression put everyone on edge that they might be plunged into even a more horrible war than the one they survived.
Children of the 1950's were witnesses to a traumatized adult population. Their grandparents lived through the Great Depression where the unthinkable financial disaster became everyone's reality. Both grandparents and parents survived World War II. An event that stopped normal living and put everyone under the shadow of death and fear. Children also became a victim of the Cold War where fear of a global extinction event was a real possibility.
The massive industrialization for World War II created new jobs, more money, and a sudden burst of growth in the economy. Companies grabbed up anyone with advanced training or knowledge to incorporate advancements in technology created during the crisis of the war. People suddenly could afford luxuries like televisions, phones, cars and new homes. This prosperity was juxtaposed against the horrors that the world had experienced in the previous 20 years. It was truly the best of times and the worst of times.
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It's our dream to assit people who want to married in anyway that they wanted, and now this time, we've got an opportunity to assist blessing ceremony on pool.
This wedding took place at karma kandara resort's swimming pool which has a fantastic ocean and cliff, it's our challenge too for realizing our client expectations because the challenging aisle.
Mr Victor and Ms Amanda all the way from Canada to Bali for celebrate their wedding. actually they are from china who lives at canada. Ms Amanda is an easy going girl who really cheerful and active. and Mr Victor who calmly and quite person.
Even though it's a challenge for us to held wedding on water, but we never feel down because that was a beautiful aisle we are ever seen.a blue sky, blue ocean and blue water in pool combined together and completely with good decorations, it was so awesome.
The ceremony took an hour and it was run smoothly, and we can seen a hapiness through Victor and Amanda's face, then continued with the reception, the reception took at D'mare restaurant in karma resorts, they are really in to it with our run event, dancing even singing karaoke, the ambience turn heat until fireworks came for the climax.
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What is the most far-out, insane thing a smartphone could do?
In the final days of 2015, Google's secretive Advanced Technology and Projects group searched for ways to prove that Project Ara — the never-released modular phone, the anti-iPhone — could do anything, and be anything, for anyone.
The group had already developed unheard-of ways of customizing Ara — from the processor to the screen to the camera — but after three years and three leadership shuffles, high-profile delays and lingering roadblocks forced the team to pivot.
The Ara team had little choice but to start over, and they had to move — fast.
They set off to build a "shell" from scratch — a full-blown smartphone with slots at the back for radical new hardware that did things smartphones never could. Fueled by an army of contractors, the team created a working prototype in five months.
Google imagined rectangular modules that could tell you the weather with an e-ink display, prop up your phone with a kickstand, record songs with a high-end mic, call a car at the push of a button, and dispense breath mints in a pinch. But Google wanted developers to think bigger, weirder, way further ahead.
As Google neared completion of what would become a last-ditch effort at the shell for an Ara prototype, the company commissioned a team of Brooklyn engineers, designers, and artists to dream up the craziest idea imaginable and squish it down to fit inside a phone.
If you could build an entire phone out of blocks, like a high-tech Lego set, what would you create?
The water bear aquarium
As design briefs go, Google's wasn't very precise.
"So they came to us in December of 2015 — and the brief was literally: 'Here's Ara. Here's what it's going to be. Think of the weirdest possible module for this thing.' That's as much direction as we got," said David Nuñez, Midnight Commercial's managing partner.
"They wanted us to make the module that no one else would — they already had the speakers, they already had the cameras and stuff," said Midnight Commercial founder and creative director Jamie Zigelbaum. The studio had already made a name for itself with quirky art-tech projects like the Barista Bot, a robot that can 3D-print your face in foam on a latte, and the massive Rube Goldberg machine that starred in an OK GO music video.
While Google's ATAP studio pushed forward to conclude Ara's multi-year delays with a commercial release — which was at one point slated for Spring 2017, complete with a physical retail store in Los Angeles to showcase the modules — four ideas flowed out of Midnight Commercial's Downtown Brooklyn headquarters.
One pitch outlined a module that transmits touch, like a high-tech version of the heartbeat feature in the Apple Watch. Another proposed that Google launch a satellite into space: a "super high-end luxury module that would cost thousands of dollars — many, many tens of thousands of dollars. All it would do is give you a connection to this exclusive club of people who own this module that communicates to the satellite." It was "a very weird concept," said Nuñez. "They didn't like that idea."
And there was an idea for an ink-spraying graffiti printer. "You would take a picture of something — a drawing or a sketch, and then you would turn on your printer app, and then wipe your phone across a surface and it would inkjet spray onto the surface that you were printing."
And then there was Google's favorite: an aquarium, a teeny tiny one for your phone, filled with plump little micro-organisms called tardigrades, like a high-tech, living, eating, breathing Tamagotchi.
Midnight Commercial had expected to launch the aquarium module this spring, but Google's wild hardware dreams shattered last summer, sealing the fate of a project hamstrung by time, money, and worst of all, reality.
Midnight Commercial engineers swear the tardigrade idea would have worked, with one caveat: it's your responsibility to keep the creatures alive. The studio could make no guarantees for how long your micro-pets would survive.
Tardigrades had risen in popularity in 2014, at least relative to most algae-chomping microorganisms. Nicknamed "water bears," the creatures wiggled out of science labs and onto TV by way of Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Cosmos," which spoke of the creatures' mythical indestructibility. The bizarre organisms, with their fat, wiggly legs and razor-mouthed snouts, can theoretically survive the most impossible conditions: the vacuum of space, radiation, freezing temperatures, and extreme heat. That's the story, at least.
"So the idea is we create a small sealed biome with microorganisms, tardigrades, maybe some others, algae, and a solution that is balanced so that it can live for a long, indefinite period of time. That little sealed biome would sit on top of a digital microscope and that would be sealed in the module, and then through the phone itself you could look in and see the micro-organisms in real time that live in your phone. I think we were doing something like 30x optical zoom," said Zigelbaum.
It was a party trick. An expensive one. And a perfect fit for the off-beat engineer- and designer-types already swooning over Google's modular phone. It was an art piece you could carry around in your pocket: the perfect mad science concoction for an era of weird hardware at Google.
"It gets to something really big and emerging in culture, which is how the phone is a part of our body — it stays in bed with us, it's in our pockets, it's this intimate thing that extends the body," said Zigelbaum. "By putting life forms — pets — into your phone, it's a way to access some of the thinking around the barrier between organisms, technology, and what the boundary of the human body really is. And that was really exciting for us."
That idea, to the few people who learned about the project under Google's strict non-disclosure agreement, was tailor-made for Ara. Google gave Midnight Commercial's concept the green light. But first the studio had to prove it was even possible. One thing was certain: In order for the idea to take off, it had to be real. No faking.
The prototypes
Now, a year later, inside Midnight Commercial's new office in Brooklyn's maze-like Navy Yard, four engineers — Noah Feehan, Matt Borgatti, Sam Posner, and Jesse T. Gonzalez — circled up to walk me through the dusted-off plastic and silicon prototypes sitting on lab desks, now full of dried-up algae and dead tardigrades.
The engineers attempted a postmortem of the project. "There was no roadmap for doing this. We needed to create a bunch of experimental equipment so we could start evaluating some of our assumptions and we started gathering experts … So we'd read a paper, talk about stuff, and we would essentially have our homework checked by a person who did optical engineering every hour of every day," said Borgatti.
The first prototype, a very rudimentary one, was created in one night with off-the-shelf OpenBeam prototyping tools and a $35 Raspberry Pie minicomputer.
"The first, first sample was Saran-wrapped with a water droplet from our now-perished algae sample, hooked up to a screen. We could see tardigrades moving around …This allowed us to very precisely understand the distance from the imager at which the image looked best," said Feehan.
"The key was, how do you squish everything down to pocket-sized, because the phone already takes up some space? We only had a couple of millimeters to play with the optics," explained Borgatti. They had 5 millimeters to work with, to be exact, smaller than the diameter of a number two pencil.
Feehan's first prototype taught the team how to successfully capture images of the tardigrades. "We got to this point where we could start experimenting with what different biological samples look like if you can just snap them in and out. Different lighting. Does it need to be columnated? What happens when it's only one color?" said Borgatti.
"Magnification is easy when two lenses are far away, like a telescope — hard when two lenses are close together … We discovered we could use micro lens arrays, lots of small round lenses that are all together that produce a little bit of distortion each, but you can cancel the distortion out because they each overlap."
With the micro lens arrays, Posner developed an image reconstruction technique to produce clear images in the module's companion Android app on the fly, allowing for a margin of error during assembly, said Feehan. "We got that working on the actual handset." Unfortunately, that prototype handset was collected by Google last August, like all the others, when the project was abruptly cancelled.
Midnight Commercial's second series of prototypes took on more than 30 different variations through April. "The most fun part was going from a meeting about micro lens array optics to a meeting about what hats should the tardigrades wear, if we're going to let that happen," said Posner.
The team, together with former Midnight Commercial designer Bailey Meadows, explored ideas spanning tardigrade chatbots, group chat, and tardigrade outfits, but ultimately killed the add-ons to focus on the core theme. "It needed to feel like a world that you were just peeking into," said Nuñez.
The module's companion app would let you watch your tardigrades in real time as they swim around, wiggle their clawed paws, eat algae, and reproduce. But a consultant on the project, William Shindel of biotech nonprofit Genspace, discovered a very different behavior when he returned to the lab after a long weekend: A strain of tardigrades he was testing, a carnivorous strain, had turned to cannibalism inside a prototype biome. "And to be honest, that's an excellent app experience," said Feehan.
But that moment marked a much bigger problem for the aquarium. Knee-deep into development, the team hit a wall: They couldn't keep the tardigrades alive. Cannibalism was the least of it.
Despite the myths, common lab-bred tardigrades — the kind you can easily find online — are sensitive to heat — the kind of heat that radiates off the little digital cameras Midnight Commercial embedded inside its prototypes. The heat was enough to kill off the micro-animals. About two hours of the camera being left on seemed to do it.
Now, imagine tardigrade pet owners on a hot summer's day, sprinting for the air-conditioned indoors, or even the nearest refrigerator, racing against time to keep their critters alive.
It turns out the myths about tardigrades — how they're indestructible — are true, under the right circumstances. "They go into cryptobiosis. They shed up to 90 percent of their body water, turn into a little grain of rice, and that is the thing that survives in space, and that's what survives in ice cores for 300 years, and you add water and they revive. Cryptobiosis requires very narrow environmental ranges in order to begin," said Feehan.
But a sudden change in temperature? Lab-bred tardigrades are no match for that.
"It's sort of like bears hibernating, where they need the environmental signals to tell them to do the thing. And they need time to do the thing. We kept being like, 'Why are all these guys dead?' And it was like, 'Oh, it was a 70-degree day. That's why they're all dead,'" said Borgatti.
Undaunted, the team even sent one consultant to a hot springs in search of hardier, heat-loving tardigrades.
"The first time that we discovered that the camera being on was an obstacle for these guys staying alive was a little bit of a frightening moment. It got to such a temperature where these guys were dying off, and if you don't think about it too hard, that's almost like, 'Oh my gosh, how are you going to take pictures of these guys if they can't survive for a long period of time when the camera's on?' That's kind of a mini-crisis that sort of requires a lot of rethinking," said Gonzalez.
The team "collected data on shaking, rapid heat changes, suffocation, and population control," said project manager Jennifer Bernstein, Midnight Commercial's main contact with Google. But unlike a virtual Tamagotchi pet, tardigrades are living creatures. And if they die before reproducing, all they leave behind is algae.
Midnight Commercial resolved to fix the problem with software. The engineers designed the experience around nudges that let you "play" with your tardigrades without killing them with love. "If you've been looking at [them] too much, we'd have a control that says, the next time you try to open the app if it hasn't cooled down enough, it would say 'They're resting right now, why don't you see some videos that we've taken before', or what-not," said Feehan.
"We had started out with: 'It's going to be a tardigrade parade', and we ended up realizing that the most durable experience was going to be the miracle that is this whole world in this little drop. The algae on its own, watching it bloom or being eaten, is just as interesting." The team planned for the biome to eventually include rotifers, ostracods, and a spotter's manual to help module owners identify their micro-pets.
"Getting that mix, it's like a witch's brew of algae and tardigrades and other creatures. And the salinity of the water, getting that chemistry right, that was gonna be the hardest thing about the project. And by the time the project got canceled, we probably weren't very close to solving that, to be honest. But just getting the microscope and the module, we could have probably been ready for manufacturing by the spring of 2017," said Nuñez.
As the next-generation prototypes progressed, the team began designing the actual module.
"The optical stack, just by nature of what it was, was going to be very odd-looking. We have this hole, inside of a board, that's got a tiny camera module, that has this little opaque housing for the tardigrades, and micro lens arrays, and they've got to be soldered in just so. It was guaranteed to look alien," said Borgatti.
The miniature biome couldn't be entirely see-through, like in the earliest mockups, because light "needed to be coming in through the micro lens array in a structured way. But we could show what it was doing by making certain elements of it transparent. It's almost like a car with a transparent hood; you're not seeing inside the engine, but you can see it's working, and you can see that there's a complex truth inside of there," said Borgatti.
'It would have worked'
Midnight Commercial didn't bet on selling millions of the Tardigrade module. In the end, had it gone into production, the studio would have priced its Tardigrade modules like limited edition art pieces. They would have been for sale inside Google's online store and on display at its Los Angeles brick and mortar. In all, there were 27 other modules under development by Google and its closest partners.
Before Google cancelled Ara in August 2016, an avalanche of module proposals had poured in from outside developers — over 1,000, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat. Of those ideas, "there were at least 100 credible submissions that [Google was] going to pursue," the source said. Many of the modules that were in development remain a mystery. None, you can likely bet, was anything close to the water bear aquarium.
When Google shut the Tardigrade project down, "we were literally like a week away from connecting the optics stack to the app. It was like all working," said Posner.
"It was one of the few things that you couldn't possibly ship a phone with. There was no way that Apple was going to produce a phone that did that," said Borgatti. "We shot for the moon with this crazy thing, and someone said yes, and from that moment, we were like, 'We're on borrowed time. This is crazy.' And I'm amazed we got so far. We did so much."
"It would have worked," insists Posner.
"We were going to make something just totally new, and weird, and amazing, and because Google had faith in us, because the project was so interesting … we were all pretty much emotionally devastated when the project was canceled, because we were so invested and excited by it," said Zigelbaum.
The circumstances that led to the Ara project and the aquarium module were beyond rare. It was not an idea most companies would dare throw money at, and ultimately even Google bailed.
"It was a magic combination of Google being really progressive and reaching out to companies like ours, saying 'Go for it, do this thing'. The boring stuff like making a lot of money off this thing, it wasn't about that. It was this art piece," said Nuñez.
The Tardigrade module's appeal was wholly unproven, like the Ara phone itself. But Midnight Commercial may someday pursue it without Google, said Zigelbaum, possibly as a standalone device you could keep on your desk. But, he acknowledged, it loses its effect without the phone.
In the months since, Google has moved on. The company, once known for moonshots, settled for something much safer than Ara last fall: its Pixel smartphone. The Pixel is fundamentally a lot like an iPhone, both in design and features, save for the optional cobalt blue finish. It was the safe choice. Demand for the iPhone was proven. An experimental modular phone was the opposite. It was daring, visionary and — a huge risk.
The Tardigrade module was also unproven. Complicated. Weird. Beautiful.
"This was a chance to prompt a really cool conversation that never got to happen," said Nuñez. Maybe it never will. Not any time soon, at least.
It was the most far-out dream of what a smartphone could do, if only smartphones were modular.
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Money, I suppose
Torn Banner Studios is bringing its first-person medieval combat multiplayer game Chivalry to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this fall by way of publisher Activision.
While it's nice to have this sort of title available on consoles, given the choice, you'd want to get it on PC instead for the Steam sale price and mod support. Gotta have mods.
I'd probably be more forgiving of the lateness of these ports if it were also coming to PS4 and Xbox One — Chivalry launched on PC almost two years ago — but someone must've crunched the numbers and determined that last-generation systems were the way to go.


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Controlled crying is one of those issues that everyone has an opinion about. Following the recent release of a Flinders University study, the topic has lit up the Internet with social media battles raging about whether controlled-crying is bad for our children.
Let's take a close look at the research to decide whether this study should be guiding any decisions about whether to encourage controlled-crying as a safe and suitable baby-settling technique.
The study set-up
The researchers compared different approaches to baby "sleep-training" over a 12-month period. Parents were randomly assigned to one of three groups:
Group 1: Fourteen couples and their child were placed in a control group where they were given some basic infant sleep education.
Group 2: Fifteen couples and their child were in a "graduated extinction" group, otherwise known as the controlled-crying group. Parents were instructed to put their infant to bed awake and leave the room within 1 minute. When re-entering the room for a crying baby, they comforted their child, but avoided picking the child up and turning the lights on. (Not sure how comforting that would be to a child!) Each time, they waited longer to return to their infant.
Group 3: Fourteen couples and their child were placed into a bedtime fading group. In this situation, a child is kept up a little later each night so he is increasingly tired when placed into bed. The babies were aged between 6 and 16 months (with an average age of 10 months).
These are small groups. But by the time the three-month mark of the study arrived, groups had halved. We're now looking at data from about 7-8 people per group. This is not a powerful sample size from which to draw conclusions.
What they did
For a week (pre-treatment), parents kept a sleep diary for their child, and the child wore a sleep monitor. Mums provided info about their personal stress, anxiety, and depression levels. Parents collected two child saliva samples in the morning (usually about 9am) and afternoon (around 3.30pm) for cortisol analysis. Cortisol is a stress hormone. All of these measures were to establish a baseline to see how things changed over time.
Then parents were taught what they were to do for their baby's sleep. They followed these instructions for three months and parents kept a diary of sleep patterns, while babies wore the actigraph to monitor movement.
And the children participated in an experiment called the "strange situation" (which you can read about here) to assess how securely attached to mum they were at the one-year follow-up.
The outcomes
This is where it gets tricky – and where the media have slipped up. Baby sleep was measured in two ways: parent-report, and actigraphy – the sleep/activity monitor the baby wore.
When parents were asked their perspective on how long it took the baby to get to sleep, there was no difference between groups at the start of the experiment. It took an average of about 18 minutes. At the end of 3 months, parents in the two experimental groups reported their infant was going to sleep in 5-9 minutes while the control group was taking 20! Sounds like controlled-crying and bedtime-fading work.
Parents using controlled-crying said their baby was waking less at night: down from 3 times to 1.5 over the 3-month period. Bedtime fading reduced wakeups by half as well. An insignificant drop was reported for the control group.
So far it looks like crying it out works huh. But… once total sleep time is taken into account, there's no difference between the three groups. And there were also no differences in the time awake after sleep onset.
Put simply, the study claims that controlled-crying boosts infant sleep, but instead, the numbers show that parents think their baby is sleeping better. It actually isn't! Any improvement is the same across all groups, and may be simply related to maturity.
Stress for bub
The results here are essentially meaningless. Measuring infant cortisol levels in the morning yielded no differences. All the babies woke up the same. The afternoon cortisol readings were marginally different but not enough to be interesting. Because cortisol was not measured in the "sleep training" process we actually don't know what was happening to the babies at that time.
Stress for mum
A central reason controlled-crying is advocated is because mums need sleep, and this apparently helps them get there. Not based on this study. While the news articles didn't tell us this, the study found mums became less stressed in all three groups, but the least positive result was in the controlled-crying group. The bedtime fading group actually had the best results in terms of reduced stress and positive mood.
What did they do wrong?
One of the reasons people get so frustrated with studies is that "you can always find one that supports any position." This is why it's such a big deal to be able to really read the data. So here's what I'm unimpressed with:
- Groups this tiny cannot yield meaningful data. They can point to interesting directions for future research and potential trends. But to claim that controlled-crying is safe based on this study is a gross over-reach.
- The researchers didn't control for a range of important considerations including:
- whether the children were breast
- or bottle-fed (breast-fed babies wake more)
- the time they went to bed,
- the atmosphere in the home (conflict?),
- where children went to sleep (parent's room, own room)
- whether children co-slept
- illness
- how parents responded when baby woke up
- what strategies group 3 used (may not be a real control group)
- The stress measurements (via cortisol) were not taken during the baby's stress period. So we can't say the extent to which babies were affected. Stress levels will undoubtedly drop by morning.
What does it really mean?
Essentially, the study is an interesting starting point to further research. It tells us that:
- Regardless of method, the infants are sleeping as long as each other, but if we don't use controlled-crying, our children may take an extra dozen or so minutes to go to sleep, on average.
- Mums who use controlled-crying may end up a little more stressed than other mums.
- Parents who use controlled-crying may believe their child is asleep but s/he is actually awake, but just not making noise – maybe because they've learned their parent won't come to them even if they do cry (although that's not in the study – just my speculation).
But even these conclusions are tenuous. With under ten participants per group, the study really offers little support for anything at all! It's simply a pointer to the need for more and better research in the area.
What should I do?
Based on this study, my recommendation is to offer love in a calm, peaceful environment for your child to go to sleep. Our children feed off our energy. Get close to your child. Be responsive. Provide skin-to- skin contact. Breastfeed. Be present and responsive. Stay calm. Be kind.


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Male characters are twice as likely to take leading roles in children's picture books according to recent research by the Observer new...Monday, January 29, 2018
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What a great idea! There are a lot of books for older kids with female main characters and they can be really feisty and tough - like Hetty Feather - but it's great to get kids looking up to female role models from a young age.ReplyDelete
Now this is a club I can get behind. Such an important thing to have relevant role models for all ages! #readwithmeReplyDelete
I think that books like these are important to share with both sexes and it's great that children as young as the Wee Page Turner can enjoy them and be inspired by these wonderful women too. We had The Rebel Girls book for Christmas, there are so many inspiring women between those pages :o)ReplyDelete
Love your book club idea. And these look great titles. My boys are older now, but they would happily listen to "Little Princess" & "Little Miss" stories when they were small #readwithmeReplyDelete
I'll be joining this club. What a wonderful list of inspirational women that the Wee Page Turner will grow up to respect but for me the most wonderful is Malala - truly magnificent!!!!ReplyDelete
A great idea! I saw a book subscription box for something similar on Instagram, but it was US only I think. I love to find great books for my boys that feature strong female leads. #readwithmeReplyDelete
Still need to get a copy of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls - I just hate the "for" in the title. I have given multiple copies as gifts, yet I am still lacking a copy on our shelves! Will try to join in the Twitter chat - couldn't love #littlefeministbookclub more :) #readwithmeReplyDelete
- Alison30 January 2018 at 20:35
These looks great!ReplyDelete
Great idea for a book club, and I love the look of these board books! I'll be interested to read your post on 'Goodnight Stories For Rebel Girls' - I have mixed feelings about it ... #readwithmeReplyDelete
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Planbook: Lesson planning for teachers, Mac style
In an education world where parents make all the decisions and administration knows less about teaching than the students, teachers can use all the help they get. While I wait for Assistants R Us to open in the Denver area so I can take some of the burden off my wife's high school English-teaching shoulders, educators of all kinds might be able to take some solace in Planbook from Hellmansoft. Designed and developed by Jeff Hellman, a 9th grade physics and science teacher, Planbook aims to do away with the clunky ways of writing lesson plans with paper by providing tools to plan, attach files, print, publish and search the digital way. Teachers can plan out lessons for one or multiple classes for the week, month or year, attach files the students will need for homework and publish it all to the web via FTP or to a local folder. Students, parents and administrators alike can then view the site, the daily lessons and download the files at their leisure. Still need paper versions? No sweat - Planbook can print out customized reports for students and administrators, great for handing out or posting in class.
Since I am the farthest thing from a teacher, my wife graciously offered to give this software a whirl and share her thoughts. To be honest, after a minute or two of poking around, she was absolutely thrilled. She was impressed with Planbook's feature set and how easy it was to start writing plans for multiple classes. She loved the publish-to-web idea since her school already provides some digital records for parents to check from home, but I am sad to report that there was one killer deal-breaker that took the bounce out of my wife's step - Planbook is Mac-only. Now my wife is a Mac user through and through, but her school lives in the Windows world making Planbook ineligible for consideration.
[Update: Jeff Hellman stopped by to comment that he's one step ahead of me; he actually is working on a Windows version and hopes to enter beta this weekend. This could certainly boost Planbook's appeal in Windows and mixed-OS environment and for teachers who live on both sides of that fence between the home and office.]
If you or your teaching friends are fortunate enough to work on the Mac side at school, I (via my wife) definitely recommend you take a look at Planbook. Even as a 1.0 product it sounds like Hellman has hit most of the large nails right on the head, and more interest and support can only make a good product get better over time. Check out the Planbook site for more information, including an example published Planbook, as well as IM support and a Yahoo! Groups link. Individual licenses are $30, while volume licenses begins at up to 10 teachers for $100, going all the way up to 65+ teachers for $300. As a bonus, the volume license allows teachers to use Planbook on both their home and work computers.


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While on vacation in California this summer, I picked up a couple of bags of pistachios, one of my favorite nuts.
Frankly, I was surprised they've lasted this long, but when I saw this soup on the cover of the latest edition of Vegetarian Times, I knew they wouldn't last for long.
This is a super easy and tasty recipe, perfect for the cool fall days ahead. Labeled "guilt free comfort food," you can go ahead and have two bowls if you want. 🙂
Curried Carrot Soup with Roasted Pistachios
serves 4
2 tb olive oil
1 20 oz package grated carrots (8 cups)
2 large leeks, light green and white parts, rinsed well and thinly sliced (2 cups)
1/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp curry powder (I used Williams Sonoma Madras Curry, a bit spicy) 🙂
1/4 cup roasted shelled pistachios, chopped
Heat oil in large pot over medium-high heat. Add carrots, leeks, and baking soda. Cover, and cook 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until vegetables are tender.
Add curry powder and 4 cups water. Bring to a simmer, then remove from heat. Using an immersion blender, puree soup. Season with salt, if desired, and top with chopped pistachios.


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An Empirical Evaluation of Supervised Learning in High Dimensions
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In this paper we perform an empirical evaluation of supervised learning methods on high dimensional data. We evaluate learning performance on three metrics: accuracy, AUC, and squared loss. We also study the effect of increasing dimensionality on the relative performance of the learning algorithms. Our findings are consistent with previous studies for problems of relatively low dimension, but suggest that as dimensionality increases the relative performance of the various learning algorithms changes. To our surprise, the methods that seem best able to learn from high dimensional data are random forests and neural nets.
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What caught my attention this week:
- Fancy a drink on the moon? The Times
- Pigs play a vital role in keeping Cairo clean New York Times
- Molecular diagnostics - Microchip can detect type and severity of cancer: PhysOrg.com
- Quest for long life gains scientific respect: New York Times
- Why we travel New York Times
- Facebook: a viable business model (French): Techtrends
- The US lost 36% of its bee population in 2007-2008.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing."
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Please inform us of your scheduled Facility Site Review with L.A. Care. As you know, one of the criteria for maintaining your status as a participating provider with contracted health plans is a satisfactory score in both medical records and facility operation. If you participate in the Medi-Cal Managed Care Program, this includes criteria considered Critical by LA Care Health Plan and its Plan Partners. Overall scores <80% or a Critical Criteria score <90% on a L.A. Care Health Plan Facility Site Review will effectively close your practice site to new enrollment until you have successfully completed the Corrective Action Plan as outlined by LA Care's description of deficiencies. Please contact the Quality Improvement Department when you receive notice of LA Care Facility Site Review. Should you need assistance in preparing prior to the LA Care visit or in the implementation of a Corrective Action Plan, we can schedule a time for a Quality Improvement Specialist to make a visit to your practice site. The Quality Improvement Department can be reached at 818 702-0100, extension 231 or 247.PM 160 INF QUICK TIPS
As you probably know by now, these is a state timeliness requirement for PM 160 INF forms. The PM 160 forms are due to the health plans by the 10th day of each month for the previous month's CHDP services.This means that MedPOINT must receive the completed forms by the 3rd of each month. Please note: Health Net has pre printed forms that can be submitted directly to them and they do not need to be routed to MedPOINT. Supplies of these forms will be sent to your office soon so the process can be expedited. There are a few quick tips to follow when filling out the forms:
Where We Are Going
Future of health care is moving towards more coordinated and appropriate care, shorter hospital stays and better care.
The subject of managed care is one that makes physicians and health care professionals very uncomfortable. The hard truth remains that deep public dissatisfaction with unfettered doctor and hospital autonomy led to the explosive growth of managed care. Managed care is driven by the harsh realities of foreign/international competition in trade, commerce, and industries. This is compounded by the necessity that our government must learn to live within its means. Unnerved by the rampant, double digit health care inflation of the late 80's and early 90's, business and government began the search for the "magic bullet" that would rid the economy of skyrocketing health care inflation. This is why they turned to the cost-controlling techniques of managed care.
As a result, many Americans are encountering a growing assortment of cost containing measures i.e. capitations, case managers, co-payment fees, formularies, gatekeeper physicians and utilization review. As you will notice, managed care plans provide higher quality care than any individual physician can offer. Managed care plans thoughtfully coordinate each patient's medical care, promote preventive medicine, and meticulously monitor quality.
We need to be looking at care for the whole population rather than just individuals. We need to be looking at care of patients over time rather than just isolated episodes. One of the toughest sells will be to convince patients that they need to give up their desire for maximum medical benefits to make possible "the greatest good for the greatest number of people". However in a nation founded on "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", this manifesto could prove an uphill battle indeed.
The laws of supply and demand don't apply to health care, because it's not a free market. There's supply induced demand, which means that the more physicians you have, the more health care gets provided. There is much waste and redundancy in a system that for years has allowed the purchaser and provider of health care to be essentially the same person, e.g. the physician.
Tomorrow's imperatives will be cooperation, collaborations and aligned incentives for the mutual benefit of patients, health care providers and the health plans. The idea of battling managed care is as archaic as the knight on horse back. We are physicians who have accepted full risk for our patients' medical management and are ready to be held accountable. We want to control the clinical side (e.g. providing clinical guide lines, utilization management and quality improvement) while the insurance companies control the business side (e.g. benefit design, administration, claim processing, eligibility, and membership services). The reality is that we do share the turf. Managed care is a permanent fixture on the American scene, so burying your head in the sand over managed care makes no sense.
As we embrace capitation, we embrace full risk relationships with the health plans. Managed care gives physicians an opportunity to have control of health delivery decisions in exchange for being fiscally responsible. By accepting the risk and fiscal responsibility of Managed Care, the group will be able to enjoy clinical independence and member physicians will have a major deciding role on what medical care is appropriate.
As the physician groups begin to share risks, the physicians become more sensitive to the patient relationship because service is going to be very important in retaining members and cutting costs. If one spends quality time listening to the issues raised by the patient, one can become much more proactive in managing chronic diseases and in practicing preventive medicine. This improves the quality of patients' lives while decreasing costs to the physician and the health plan.
All patients, from the cuddliest youngster to the toughest marine, appreciate kindness. Practices that offer kindness to their patients by making people feel special and cared for, even when struggling under the yoke of managed care, will help in keeping and generating new business. It is advantageous for one of your staff members to become a managed care expert who can answer patient questions about authorizations, co-payments, referrals, and out of network visits. We need to keep in touch with our patients during the process and be prepared to tell them what plans we have joined without having them navigate through the Bermuda Triangle.
Physicians can even cut their malpractice costs because creating a more patient centered environment with good rapport significantly reduces malpractice risk. Global Care helps the patients communicate better with their physicians by providing patient education lituratures for the physician to distribute. We have to let our patients know that they are partners in the relationship and as partners they are expected to do their part and play an active role in their health care.
Health care value is a function of quality divided by cost. The purchaser's preoccupation with cost is driven to some degree by a lack of positive information on quality. We must get a better handle on quality or we will leave cost as the only determinant value in a health care purchase. The nature of health care as a product will change, moving away from being a commodity (purchased based on price) to a differentiated product (purchased based on its price and quality). This means that the employers will purchase health care based on its true value. Outcome information when linked to reimbursement rates, can help insurers assess the quality and value of services provided to patients. Outcome information can help our physicians determine which treatments are best for our patients. The patient will also benefit because this information allows them to set realistic expectations for their own outcome and recovery.
There are several types of managed care organizations i.e. IPA.'s, Medical Groups, Physician Hospital Organizations (PHO), Integrated delivery systems, or IDS's (practices acquired by hospitals), Physician Practice Management companies (PPM), Foundation Models, and Staff Models.
We don't like P.H.O.'s/I.D.S.'s because the don't work. Hospitals have found it difficult to manage and integrate these practices and have been plagued by productivity slumps and high operating costs. They are formed for the wrong reasons, mainly to fill hospital beds rather than to keep patients healthy and costs down. In most cases, they are more of a ruse to collect physicians and put them under a hospital's thumb. Furthermore, the hospital administrators often are unaware of the cultural and operational differences between medical practices and hospitals.
Most PPM's are publicly traded companies who's ultimate accountability is the national corporate parent and wall street. They have an aggressive profit expectation to meet and they mostly generate enough margin to satisfy investors. The priority of public companies is to demonstrate balance sheet success, many of the operational systems offered by PPM's are fiscal rather than clinical. This is in direct conflict with what most physician organizations want, which is high quality and cost effective clinical operational systems. In this model, economy of scale has proven elusive, and financial capital has been frequently squandered on dubious acquisitions rather than investing in systems tailored to achieving efficiencies and improving health care.
Staff/Foundation models tends to have problems, as physicians who become employees generally become less productive because their own stake in the success of the organization is not as great. Physicians are most productive when they are autonomous but are held accountable.
The IPA model is the most popular and is growing the fastest. The IPA model has demonstrated how physicians can remain independent and yet have the competitive edge of a large group practice. Global Care physicians have come together as a virtual multispecialty organization integrated by a concern for quality care, as well as information systems that track patients and benchmark outcomes. The health care delivery system that could emerge in a given market place could be entities owned either by physicians, hospitals, or insurers. We obviously prefer physician owned entities because we know our patients best, our patients trust us, and we have their best interests at heart. But what will separate the men from the boys is quality, cost effectiveness and mutual trust.
The current trend in health care is that health plans are contracting with IPA's and large medical groups. In most cases they are not negotiating directly with solo practitioners. This is why you need to join an IPA because there is strength in numbers. We should not be afraid of change because we are capable of dealing with it. We have a heritage of change, we should be agents of change and we should be leading the change. We should take the bull by the horns, and control its direction and rate of change.
When the health plans' profit margins are low, they start merging to gain strength in the market place and to achieve economies of scale. But some physicians are frustrated with yet another ride on the corporate ownership merry go round. Health plans will look to mergers in an effort to achieve operating synergy and increased breadth of market coverage and increased enrollees satisfaction which is related to provider access.
Things are going to be rough and tough for the physicians/health care professionals in the the next five years before stabilization occurs. We need to stop fighting each other i.e. primary care vs. specialist. Physicians should be banding together. There are several factors that are working in our favor, such as understanding the patients and the local market or local health care resources. Health care, like politics, is local. Localness is a major advantage. That is one reason PPM's and Wall Street investors have failed in their attempts to standardize health care and create brand name identities like McDonald's. They didn't understand that the product is very difficult to standardize.
There is nothing like being there. My colleagues, things are not totally hopeless for us because we have options that need to be pursued immediately. Those of you who can turn your practices into an efficient managed care business by joining forces, reducing costs and taking on capitation contracts are more likely to be courted aggressively by managed care organizations such as Global Care and the health plans. Some doctors have rushed headfirst into selling their practices out of panic, fear of the unknown, and lack of understanding about how managed care will affect them. In the future hospitals and physicians will need to work together as equals to provide high quality care for our communities. In the past, negotiations with insurers and hospitals have typically left physicians down on the floor. There is no reason for that because one party should not be subservient to the other. We want a fair shake in it. But you have to be in a large group or IPA to have a shake. Your future will be good if you are willing to change now.
Quality is very important for us and we plan to win with this emphasis. Progress in health care comes from clinical systems but these systems need to be innovative and creative. It needs to move us toward better patient care. To do this requires motivation and ideas from doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. To encourage high quality, we need a balance between physicians autonomy and doctor's accountability.
The most important reason people join a health plan is for the doctors. Only health plans with attractive doctors will attract people to join. The physician is and will remain center stage in the economics and the clinical outcomes of medicine. The health care industry revolves around the physician and this is why the physicians are our central focus at Global Care. Global Care is designed to keep the physicians happy and satisfied, while keeping the hassle factors down. This is why we say that Global Care makes managed care manageable.
The relationship between the Health Care Professionals, the Hospitals, and the Health plans is best described as a tripod stand, because they all need each other for survival. Physician owned groups should work with other providers, hospitals, and payers as equals and not as subordinates. Global Care's emphasis on high quality and cost effective health care for all should induce the health plans to give us more long term contracts with better capitation rates.
In the near future we plan to establish a specialty based medical advisory council to advise on quality and utilization related issues. Physician input into this advisory council will be welcomed, and it will report through the ranks of the company. We also plan to apply more intensive utilization management and effective case management strategies. The referral process will remain efficient but much less cumbersome. We have now successfully introduced the direct referral system and it is working well.
We have contracted with a group of hospitalists to manage other doctors' hospital patients at their request. This is more efficient because the hospitalist can see the patient as soon as he is admitted, order tests, have the results that afternoon, and perhaps discharge him/her a day sooner. They also have more time to sit and talk to the patients. The net result is expediting treatment, improving outcomes and shortening hospital stays.
Global Care IPA, utilizing Internet technologies, is creating a web site to facilitate physician communications e.g. real time access to recommended referral guidelines, care pathways and ancillary protocols at the site of care. This can serve as the glue that bonds Global Care physicians and allows us to coalesce and build a group culture. Global Care will also use data warehousing to uncover hidden opportunities. Global Care's web site address is globalcaremed.com.
We have completed arrangements with major university groups/institutions of higher learning for some secondary and tertiary coverage. This is designed to achieve operating synergy and increase patient satisfaction. There is a need to better balance disease prevention and treatment. At present, the scale is largely tilted in the direction of treatment and this should be corrected quickly. There is a need to end preventable disease complications.
An insufficient volume of patients is becoming a major problem for most physician practices and this becomes very serious, when coupled with inadequate reimbursement. This is an area of concern to most physicians due to our huge overhead. This might require a political solution at the state or federal level. It is a pragmatic fact that citizen lobbying is both necessary and rewarding. Our profession has to engage the political process, meaning that we should be proactive and appropriately reactive in the legislative and regulatory environment. Staying out of the fray will lead to nothing but situations over which physicians have no influence. We as physicians have to choose our battles and decide where to put our resources.
It is obvious to all that the future of health care is moving toward more coordinated and appropriate care, shorter hospital stays and better care. We as physicians need to position ourselves for this change. This means building true productive relationships with others who have a stake in the health care system. Real partnership, based on trust and commitment to high quality health care, will replace acquisitions as a strategic and operational model. It is up to us as physicians to partner with hospitals, payers and other relevant entities in terms of shared vision and health care integration for the benefit of our patients and the entire community.
I have some questions for you. Are you going to abdicate your role as the leaders in the health care field? Are you going to roll over dead or retire like some us have already done? We have an option staring at us. To go along kicking and screaming, doomed to accepting our fate at the end of the process and perhaps forever forfeiting our ability to take the leadership role. Or we have the option of becoming physician leaders at all levels of health care, willing to bring about dramatic and courageous changes in how we practice medicine. This means committing our best efforts in achieving marked measurable improvement in outcome and efficiency. This is top priority because it will provide value to our various communities.
As you can see, Global Care has established the best managed care organization in this geographic region. Global Care believes in reaching a reasonable size for maximum efficiency, in having true partnerships with others, in utilizing advanced information system infrastructure, and in defining clinical pathways and outcomes. We believe in working with other providers, hospitals and payers as equals, and not subordinates. Global Care is driven by vision, our mission is patient centered, and we have the infrastructure that supports quality. My dear colleagues, let's come together and ride this tidal wave of managed care to victory. Let us stand tall, work together and take back health care because it belongs to us. I am using this opportunity to invite you to join the winning team. Global Care is a winner.
*Southern California Hospital at Culver City
*Southern California Hospital at Hollywood
*Los Angeles Community Hospital at Los Angeles
*Los Angeles Community Hospital at Norwalk
*Southern California Hospital at Van Nuys (behavioral health)
*Los Angeles Community Hospital at Bellflower (behavioral health)
|Adventist Health White Memorial
|Los Angeles Community Hospital at Norwalk ^
|Adventist Health White Memorial Montebello (Beverly Hospital)
|Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
|Adventist Health Glendale
|Memorial Hospital of Gardena
|Alhambra Hospital Medical Center
|Monterey Park Hospital
|California Hospital Medical Center *
|Pacifica Hospital of the Valley
|Centinela Hospital Medical Center
|PIH Health Downey Hospital
|East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital
|Providence Little Company of Mary – San Pedro & Torrance
|Garfield Medical Center
|San Gabriel Valley Medical Center
|Greater El Monte Community Hospital
|Southern California Hospital at Culver City *^
|Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center *
|Southern California Hospital at Hollywood ^
|Lakewood Regional Medical Center
|St. Francis Medical Center
|Long Beach Memorial Medial Center / Miller Children's Hospital
|St. Mary Medical Center
|Los Angeles Community Hospital at Los Angeles ^
|Valley Presbyterian Hospital
|Legend: * - Dual Risk for Medi-Cal Health Net
^ - Dual Risk for Medi-Cal Blue Shield Promise & LA Care with Alta Hospital Systems
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In a Nov. 18th, 2011 blogpost Maya Zuckerman argues that theme (what Egri calls the "premise") is at the center of great transmedia storytelling: "Why do you want to tell the story? What is the message you want to convey?"
Maya Zuckerman's post was inspired by this Simon Sinek TED talk:


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Wattson Blue is being used daily by elite student athletes to monitor their training and recovery regime.
The app has a user friendly interface that fits into the routine easily. I love how the app gives me quantitative feedback as to how I'm feeling, particularly on fatigue. It lets me know when I can push on and when I need to look after myself.
It's a really simple way of tracking how I feel with instant feedback. I can easily take a morning HR using the app, which can help you identify early warning signs of illness.
I've found the app to be really helpful, particularly in identifying external factors that may have impacted performance on particular training days.
It's obviously one of the best apps of its kind out there.
As a scientist, I love the graphical feedback and trends that Wattson Blue provides on how I am feeling. I can monitor the impact of heavy training loads on my performance both on the water and in the laboratory.
It makes so much sense. I think it's easier for people to be more honest with the app than they might be with a coach.
Wattson Blue looks great and works. It is so accessible- everything is at your fingertips.


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Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Videos 14
World, Politics, LawAir Date 03/07/2017
Greg Miller on WikiLeaks' release of CIA documents. Jamieson and Katzmann on improving civic education. On the film "Cries from Syria."
Politics, LawAir Date 03/07/2017
A discussion about civic education, with Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and chief judge Robert Katzmann.
Politics, Education, MediaAir Date 09/21/1998
Observers analyze President Clinton's taped testimony in the Lewinsky affair; L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan.
Politics, MediaAir Date 09/21/1998
The dean of the Annenberg School for Communications analyzes President Clinton's taped testimony.
PoliticsAir Date 06/18/1997
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Andrew Lack, and E.J. Dionne discuss why people are increasingly losing confidence in news sources.
Politics, HistoryAir Date 06/18/1997
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Andrew Lack, and E.J. Dionne examine the loss in confidence in the news; historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
PoliticsAir Date 10/21/1996
A discussion about whether "soccer moms" will be convinced to vote Democrat or Republican in the 1996 election.
Politics, Books, MediaAir Date 10/21/1996
On the "soccer mom" vote in the '96 election. The author of "The Laws of Our Fathers." The editor in chief of Town & Country magazine.
Politics, Books, SocietyAir Date 05/03/1995
Kathleen Hall Jamieson on her book, "Beyond the Double Bind."
Entertainment, Politics, Society, SportsAir Date 05/03/1995
Morris Dees on the Michigan Militia; William Gates from "Hoop Dreams"; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, "Beyond the Double Bind."
PoliticsAir Date 08/20/1992
Republican strategist Roger Stone and others analyze President Bush's speech and whether it can close the gap between him and Clinton in the '92 election.
PoliticsAir Date 08/20/1992
A series of discussions about President George H.W. Bush's speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention.
PoliticsAir Date 07/16/1992
Political communications directors Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Bob Shrum, and Roger Ailes debate Clinton's nomination acceptance speech.
PoliticsAir Date 07/16/1992
A panel on Gov. Clinton's nomination speech; a panel on presidential politics; former Gov. Michael Dukakis; Sen. Tom Harkin on his failed campaign.


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You're having trouble finding less than 2,500 SF of commercial space to rent.... Here are 2 reasons why, and 3 things you can do about it:
1. In many buildings, the economics of leasing this size of space make it difficult on several fronts. Generally speaking, it's hard to stabilize a building with office suites under a certain size threshold, and rarely are new office buildings ever built with this size user in mind. (There are a few that have done so, and have done it well, but you pay a premium on a $/SF basis.)
Let's look at an example:
1500 SF X $16/SF = $24,000 per year gross income to Landlord. Pretty good for him/her/them right?
Not really. If it's a typical "full-service" lease in an office building, the landlord will pay for utilities, real estate taxes, building insurance, building management, landscaping, snow/ice removal, periodic upkeep on roof, parking, HVAC, not to mention debt service, which will reduce the net income on the building significantly.
The building can't lose money, at least not for long. That's common sense.
2. Also common in this size range, are tenants seeking shorter terms, in the 1-3 year range.
This also limits how much money the Landlord is capable of investing in the space on upgrades or renovations significantly.
If a landlord offered a reasonable $15/SF build-out allowance to renovate your new office prior to moving in, it would look like this:
$15 x 1,500 SF = $22,500.
In this example, which is not uncommon, the space would still be losing money at the end of the year, and the owner still had to cover the utilities, taxes, insurance, upkeep and maintenance in the meantime.
What happens when the actual cost to renovate is $25/SF or $40/SF?
Tenants, on the other hand, are often unwilling, or unable to dump that kind of money into someone else's property.
So as new buildings mature, owners resist chopping them up into smaller and smaller suites, yet like a pyramid, with the largest users at the top, there are many users in this range.
No wonder this size suite can be hard to find sitting empty and in "turnkey" condition.
So what can you do about it?
Here are 3 ways to improve your odds of securing your 0-2,500 SF space:
1. Take the space "as is" or as close as possible to "as is". This will require finding that perfect space, already built to your needs. But it will allow you to short cut the tenant and landlord cash flow issues related to build out.
2. Prepare to offer a longer term.
Five years, 7 years, even 10 years, and be willing to back it up by providing financials on the company, or by signing a personal guarantee and providing personal financials.
With that type of transparency and commitment, you will instantly stand out among the typical tenant that calls on the space, and it may be just the trick to entice the building owner invest in building out for you.
3. Offer to pay for the build out yourself, up front, either to the landlord or directly to the contractor.
This also removes some of the financial risk from the landlord and shows a high level of commitment from the Tenant.
Again, if you can show that you have the resources to cover your own renovations, you will immediately move to the front of the line in the Landlord's mind and you'll be in a good position to negotiate on the rate.
In my experience, as a both a Tenant Representative Agent and a Landlord Agent, these are the challenges both parties face in this size range and these are just some of the ways I've seen them come to a resolution.
Now, I know what you're thinking: "If that's the case, then I'll just buy a building!!!!"
More on that next time….
Darin Shriver is a Commercial Restate Consultant at Beynon and Co. who has saved clients tremendous amounts of time through his understanding of the commercial real estate markets and negotiating nuances in the South Hills of Pittsburgh and Washington County, PA.
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MHS Centennial Organization: St. Andrew's Society of Winnipeg
It is unquestionable that Canadians of Scottish descent have made incredibly important contributions to the development of Manitoba's character starting with the Orcadian employees of the Hudson's Bay Company who arrived on ships at York Factory in the 17th and 18th centuries. And, of course, we cannot forget the Selkirk Settlers who arrived on the banks of the Red River in 1812. Throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, numerous Scottish immigrants have chosen Manitoba as their homes.
In 1871, just one year after Manitoba joined Confederation, a group of these Scottish expatriates under President Donald A. Smith, formed the Selkirk St. Andrew's Society of Manitoba. It gained formal recognition by the Manitoba Legislature in March 1896 as the St. Andrew's Society of Winnipeg. Its membership list is a veritable Who's Who of Manitoba society, including premiers, senators, MPs, MLA, mayors, city councillors, chief constables, and numerous members of the military, business community, academia, judiciary, the clergy, the arts, and professions. And their names live on today in the names of numerous Winnipeg city streets, such as Smith, Donald, Bannatyne, Taylor, Emslie, and McMicken.
The Society's fundamental purpose is to preserve and promote Scottish culture in Manitoba and, secondarily, to promote recognition of the historic contribution of Scots and those of Scottish descent to the building of Manitoba. Among the groups' annual events are the St. Andrew's Day Dinner, a Selkirk Settlers Fall Commemorative, a New Year's Levee, and an annual golf tournament. It provides annual grants in support of the St. Andrew's Society Pipe Band and other Scottish cultural and dance groups and pipe bands. Special projects have included the erection of the Fort Douglas Cairn and the Scots Thistle Monument on Waterfront Drive in Winnipeg.
In 2015, the Society began accepting female members for the first time in its history.
An MHS Centennial Organization Award was presented by Gordon Goldsborough to Mr. Tim Flook, President of the St. Andrew's Society of Winnipeg, on 19 April 2009.
See also:
Obituary [Paul Larkin Haverstock], Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 2022.
We thank John Perrin, Robyn McCombe, and Colin T. Harris for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 December 2022


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Adobe Adds Alioscopy Autostereoscopic 3D Multi-View Algorithm to Photoshop CS6 Extended
Alioscopy® USA, a 3D technology provider today announced that Adobe® Systems Incorporated has integrated its Alioscopy auto-stereoscopic, 3D multi-view algorithm as a new feature in Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 Extended software. As more and more digital imaging artists create content in stereoscopic and auto-stereoscopic 3D, Alioscopy offers a unique patented process for generating 8-view images for viewing and play-back on auto-stereoscopic 3D HD LCD displays.
In Photoshop CS6 Extended, anyone with a stereoscopic camera (left and right lens equipped) will be able to upload two-view images to Photoshop and convert it to multi-view (8-view) for display on an Alioscopy 3D screen—currently available in 21'', 24", 42", and 47" configurations. Additionally, artists will be able to generate 3D objects directly in Photoshop or in other 3D software packages and apply the Alioscopy multi-view algorithm to create Alioscopy-ready content.
By integrating Alioscopy's patented technology into Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, millions of artists in the global Photoshop community will benefit from a streamlined, all-inclusive workflow to generate "no-glasses" 3D content—one of today's fastest growing trends in digital signage, trade show and events, advertising, and education.
"Creating and integrating 3D in Photoshop over the past few years has opened many new doors and possibilities for Photoshop artists," said Zorana Gee, Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager. "By incorporating the Alioscopy 3D multi-view algorithm and camera model into Photoshop CS6 Extended, we're offering artists yet another way to generate compelling 3D images and content which adds a whole new immersive dimension to content creation and editing," added Gee.