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Ok, so this post is going to be about the ERP market, and why LedgerSMB is headed for greatness. We are a long-standing open source project and are not going anywhere soon. There are significant strategic reasons to choose LedgerSMB over others.
We have made a lot of progress since we started, and that progress is expected to continue to accelerate. Here's why....
First, we are great because of PostgreSQL. There is no getting around that. PostgreSQL is an awesome database management system for ERP's. While there are some things it doesn't do yet as well as I would like, no other RDBMS does these either (see my recent post about this).
However, what PostgreSQL offers is an extremely powerful set of tools for addressing an ERP environment, and without per connection license costs. The latter is especially important because it allows for additional utility programs to connect to the database and perform tasks without this requiring additional client access licenses and there is a lot that can be done with the flexibility that results.
Currently we take heavy advantage of PL/PGSQL and various built-in types and functions. While there has been some talk of using PL/Perl and other stored procedure languages, we haven't yet found a case where this makes sense.
It's worth remembering that most of the work in an ERP system is in storing, retrieving, and displaying information. The database is the ideal place to put all of the logic regarding storing and retrieving the information, as well as some of the display logic. Consequently we are becoming more database-heavy and lighter-weight on the Perl side.
Less is More
In LedgerSMB we focus aggressively on overall architecture, with the idea of flexible, re-usable modules which get the logic right the first time around. For 1.4, we are removing the project and department system and replacing it with a more general "business reporting unit" system. This allows us to offer project accounting, department reports, manufacturing job costing, and more, without dedicated code to each task.
Differences are then handled by workflow scripts rather than by the model. This ensure that the application can eventually be a simple yet powerful ERP development environment rather than an application which must be everything to everybody.
Each major release of LedgerSMB has had more features but a smaller code base than the previous version.
This approach is good for a number of reasons. First it places emphasis on where the emphasis needs to be: on LedgerSMB as a platform. Secondly it encourages flexibility in implementation while focusing on getting the details regarding accounting right. It also gives us fewer maintenance points and hence a better, higher quality codebase. There are many more reasons why that is the case, but in general we try hard to do more with less.
LedgerSMB is a Multi-Vendor Project
Most open source ERP's are single-vendor products that make money selling enterprise versions. This means that the community version is basically a sales tool and many features will not be added for fear of hurting the vendor who sponsors the tool.
LedgerSMB began as a joint project between Metatron Technology Consulting and Command Prompt Inc, with a number of other consultants joining in early. While the ecosystem is constantly in flux as new individuals enter the project and old ones leave for one reason or another, one theme remains the same: you can get top-notch support from a variety of sources, and no company retains a monopoly on commit privileges.
This changes the dynamics of the project. Instead of releasing a moderately functional tool open source and then charging for advanced features, we release most things open source and only where that model breaks down do we look at subscriptions. This allows us to do things that other open source projects in the area have not yet been able to really try to do in a significant way, such as good working payroll systems with maintained rules for various tax jurisdictions (forthcoming in 1.4 at least for a couple of jurisdictions with more coming). Instead of paying for fixed asset management, you can save that money and put it towards things that matter, like maintaining payroll logic. The logic "sold" under subscription can even remain open source, since the major problem is just that of keeping the code up to compliance with the latest regulations.
LedgerSMB is a Development Platform
LedgerSMB 1.3 and higher isn't intended to be just an ERP application, but rather a development platform for helping businesses implement ERP applications in accordance to their workflows. The framework while minimalist is designed to facilitate rather than get in the way.
The framework is designed to get your teams of developers up and running as quickly as possible. The object model is designed to be clean, and most of the actual work is shipped off the the database via stored procedures, or handed off to modules to parse templates, or handed off to various CPAN modules. The actual Perl code is basically glue that holds all the rest together.
One advantage to this sort of platform is that reference implementations can be created in other platforms as well, and the basic framework can be set up such that it can be used for non-interactive batch jobs or thick clients, not just web applications. In fact that has been a major guiding feature of our framework.
Secure by Default
LedgerSMB has made security a top priority since the beginning of the project. By default users cannot do anything in LedgerSMB, but beyond that even if they find and exploit holes in the web application, the security is still further enforced on the backend.
We are trying hard to provide industry-leading security, and such that can be enforced even when integration with other software is at issue. We have plans to support Kerberos 5 authentication as soon as it is needed, as well.
Comparisons to xTuple
LedgerSMB and xTuple share a common approach to the database. We are both heavily stored-procedure centric. Both of us focus heavily on the database as an engineering discipline in itself. This means that both of us focus heavily on interoperability with other applications and a good API.
The above paragraph has been stricken because, as Ned Lilly points out it is inaccurate. In fact the fixed asset tool was developed by a third party, and this is one area they cultivate around their market. He points out further that this is an example of rapid application development in Postbooks and therefore I am incorrect there. He further asks me to suggest that their incentives are not to reduce a minimalistic product. If their marketplace materials are not mostly made by them, then I would agree on all these points. Points accepted.
I will however stand by the point that generally single-vendor solutions tend to have incentives to release minimalistic solutions to encourage folks to buy licenses. Kudos to xTuple for not falling in that trap.
I will also have to look a lot more closely at how this Javascript automation is doable. It may be possible in essence to do a fair bit more than I had considered here.
Comparisons to OpenERP
OpenERP is an open source, single-vendor ERP solution written in Python. It features a pleasing interface, a modular structure, and so forth. However the same problem occurs relating to single vendor management.
OpenERP offers rapid application development possibilities both in Python using the framework provided or in it's "application builder." However, what OpenERP as a business is really interested in selling you is a software license for the full version, which gives you exemptions from the requirements of the AGPL v3 as well as technical support. This makes it harder, I think, to leverage a larger development community around the software.
Comparisons to OpenTAPS
OpenTAPS is an ERP application and framework that is multi-vendor, built in Java, and supports multiple databases. It is based on the Apache Open for Business ERP framework.
OpenTAPS is impressive, features-wise, and it is used by some major corporations, but the choice of Java as a language means that development is less rapid than it would be in Perl or Python, and therefore the framework capabilities are more within the reach of large businesses, which likely have internal development teams familiar with Java, than small ones. This means that small businesses are still faced with the necessity of building business processes around the application rather than the other way around. It is therefore more of an upper-market product, while LedgerSMB currently shoots primarily for the midrange.


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- Preorder-exclusive Lavinia Take Shelter T-shirt
- Lavinia Take Shelter 7" (all three colors)
- Lavinia Take Shelter 7" TEST PRESS
- Mylene Sheath 45 Adapter
- Various posters, stickers, pins, etc
This package will only be available until one of the included items sells out, so jump on it!
"Following their harrowing 2010 debut EP "There Is Light Between Us", Lavinia returns with their follow-up 7", "Take Shelter". Once again featuring Nate Shumaker (ex-Eksi Ekso, On Fire) on guitar and vocals and Alex Mihm (Eksi Ekso) on drums, this time Philip Jamieson (Caspian) moves to guitar instead of bass, and John Helmig (formerly of Everdown, Crown Vict) plays bass. The two new songs push even further into the bleak territory explored on the debut, with a heavier backdrop this time around. The band starts things out with the beautifully haunting "New Blood", as the shimmering guitars gradually ascend into crunchier, nastier terrain before subsiding to allow space for Shumakers refrained vocal passages, then culminating in the heaviest sound the band has ever achieved. Then you're greeted with the sorrow of "Halo", which builds up at a dreamy pace before it chugs and crushes like a forest of falling and colliding trees, a driving close-out to the 7". In addition to his bass duties, Helmig also recorded the songs at Verse Media in Manchester, NH, then they were sent off to Jason Martin (Starflyer 59) for mastering. "Take Shelter" will be released worlwide both digitally and on limited edition vinyl May 28th via The Mylene Sheath."

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The first photo of Eddie Redmayne in his upcoming role as a transgender Danish painter in "The Danish Girl" has just been released, showing the actor in a curly bob, red lipstick and a gold dress.
The photo was tweeted Friday by the production company Working Title.
"The Danish Girl," due out sometime next year, tells the story of Lili Elbe, who in 1930 became one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
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The film, based on David Ebershoff's nonfiction novel, follows Elbe's journey from her life as Einar Wegener through her gender transition, and her fight to save her marriage.
Redmayne's casting as Elbe was met with some controversy from critics who said a transgender woman should have been cast in the role.
"There is an incredibly valid discussion for why a trans actress isn't playing the part, because there are so many brilliant trans actresses, and I'm sure there are many who could play this part sensationally," Redmayne told The Telegraph earlier this year. He said he has met with trans people in order to research his role.
The eager actor has said he likes to take on complicated roles. His starring role in "The Theory of Everything" he Best Actor award at the Academy Awards last Sunday.
For that film, the 32-year-old star worked with choreographer Alexandra Reynolds and analyzed his every movement to be sure that they matched Steven Hawking's at each stage of the physicist's life. Redmayne will reunite with Reynolds to perfect his portrayal of Elbe in "The Danish Girl."
Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech") is directing "The Danish Girl," which also stars Amber Heard ("Zombieland"), Ben Whishaw ("Skyfall"), and Matthias Schoenaerts ("Rust and Bone").
Hooper called the film "an extraordinary love story and a story about finding your true self" in an interview last year with The Hollywood Reporter.


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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Rouge Bunny Rouge Sheer Lipstick: Fluttering Sighs & "A Cappella" Autumn Look
I can see why, the colour is undeniably delicate but beautiful, a sheer, shiny peachy pink with gold shimmer.
RBR lipsticks are probably the most moisturising/hydrating formula I have come across. They are smooth and feel very comfortable.
I also wanted to highlight the Autumn look "A Cappella".
The look is soft, natural, delicate beauty.
Zuneta have done a really useful video showing the products in action; http://www.youtube.com/user/ZunetaBeauty#p/a/u/0/Wd7w9UC2j_g
Here's the picture of the products used to create the natural, luminous look.
Some things that interested me was the use of the Eyes Wide Open Brightening Liner Duo being used on areas other than the eyes, like the cheeks and cupid's bow, and I also really like the layering of the Eye Gloss over the cream shadow, my RBR wish list is now even longer!
All these products are available at zuneta.com
Disclosure: I was sent Fluttering Sighs for free.
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Fluttering Sighs looks lovely, I will have to add that to my wishlist!ReplyDelete
I love how glossy it looks! I'm not a big fan of lip gloss so I like lipsticks that give a glossy look :)ReplyDelete
This is the shade I was going to try first from the lipsticks! I didn't realize it was a favourite. Beautiful!ReplyDelete
I can definitely see why Fluttering Sighs is a favorite. I was drawn in immediately by your pictures =PReplyDelete
This colour has been on my wishlist for too long, I need to do something about it :) Btw, how do these sheer lipsticks compare to the RBR Colour Burst range? xReplyDelete
That lipstick is quite pretty, and I have heard great things about it. I fear it's too light and nudey for me, though. Your pictures do make it hard to resist.ReplyDelete
Hi Meeta,ReplyDelete
Its a shade I have been meaning to get for ages, great everyday type shade :)
Hi Vintage Makeup,
It is very glossy, I much prefer lipsticks to lipgloss as well :)
Hi PerilouslyPale,
I think it would look lovely on you.
Hi Dovey,
I always seem to get drawn in by RBR anything ;)
Hi Klara,
The colour burst are more pigmented, the sheer ones have a slightly lighter feel to them and of the ones I have I would say the finish is a lot more glossy/shiny looking x
Hi Zuzu's Petals,
Yes, it might not be enough colour for you, I wonder if you would like dark juices from the sheer range, its a cool plum, quite an interesting shade x
It looks so pretty, I just didn't like the shimmer in the other RBR Sheer lip colors I tried. Now I am gun shy.ReplyDelete
Hi Martha,ReplyDelete
Thats a shame that you didn't get on with them, I do really love this shade and don't think the shimmer is over the top :)
Thank you Replica, it sounds great! xReplyDelete


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Here's some audio of Deion Sanders demanding a raise and threatening the CEO of Prime Prep Academy, a charter school Deion Sanders helped found. In it, he names "HNIC" as his official position in the school which, you know, might be worthy of a raise on its own. [Dallas Observer]
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BBC News political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg built up a large following on Twitter with her mix of news, commentary and colour. Her move to ITV News in September has raised questions over who "owns" the almost 60,000 people who follow @BBCLauraK.
The Guardian suggests that "rather than handing her old account login back to the BBC to start from scratch with a new ITV account, the sensible thing to do is to change the name of the account." But it looks like Kuenssberg will be starting from scratch, with the Twitter handle, @ITVLauraK. Ironically, the announcement was made by Kuenssberg on her BBC Twitter account. Social media creates an opportunity for journalists to interact on a personal level with audiences. Even if an account is branded as a "BBC" journalist, it blurs the traditional barrier between the professional and personal as tweets tend to reflect the personality of the reporter.
It marks a further step in the shift from the institutional to the individual brand of the journalist, identified by the State of the Media report in 2009: Through search, e-mail, blogs, social media and more, consumers are gravitating to the work of individual writers and voices, and away somewhat from institutional brand. Social media provides journalists with a way to connect and interact with audiences in a more personal and direct way than through traditional news products. But there is an unresolved tension between the journalist and the institution, especially on Twitter, which as Jemima Kiss points out, is designed for individuals to communicate.
Media institutions may have to accept that they cannot own the Twitter accounts of their reporters. The journalist may need to switch to a new account, as Kuenssberg will be doing, but they are likely to take their following with them.


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Bangladesh's 160 million people will leap into the Internet era in October when high-speed mobile phone services are launched in the nation's two biggest cities.
The country already has 107 million mobile phone users but internet services lag far behind, with barely 36,000 subscribers by either mobile or fixed lines.
Top Bangladeshi mobile phone operator Grameenphone said on Monday it will roll out a third-generation mobile network in parts of the capital Dhaka and port city Chittagong in October, reaching 7 other cities by the end of the year.
Grameenphone, which is majority owned by Norway's Telenor, won 10 megahertz of 3G spectrum at a much-awaited auction on Sunday, paying $210 million.
"This marks the beginning of a new chapter in the history of Grameenphone and Bangladesh. The country is getting ready for the data centric era, and our mission is to help the nation move ahead through providing internet for all," Vivek Sood, chief executive of Grameenphone, said in a statement.
The company, which leads the mobile market with a 44 percent share, pledged to do its best to make 3G widely available through "affordable" packages.
Around 47 million Bangladeshis live in poverty, according to a World Bank report released in June, although this number has fallen sharply over the last decade.
The Bank's definition of poverty was an income of less than $2 a day, or a calorie intake of less than 2100 calories.
Egyptian Orascom Telecom's Banglalink, Robi, a joint venture between Malaysia's Axiata Group and Japan's NTT DoCoMo, and Airtel, majority owned by India's Bharti Airtel, won bids for 5 megahertz of spectrum each at a price of $105 million.
State-owned mobile operator Teletalk last year launched a 3G service on a test basis.
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Designer Zac Posen, recognizable worldwide for his womenswear, is known for taking what is classic and elegant and giving it a contemporary flair. His collections are rooted in modern American glamour, yet reflect the timelessness of true romantic femininity. And now he brings this same approach to a sophisticated collection of engagement rings and wedding bands that offers accessible luxury to women everywhere.


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Can Matt Bush be forgiven?
A hemorrhage in his head. A tube inside his chest. Twelve broken ribs and a shattered lateral wall.
Contusions on his right lung. A fracture in his left shoulder. And nine broken vertebrae that left his spine shot.
In March of last year, after spending the evening baby-sitting his granddaughter in North Port, Fla., Tony Tufano was struck by a Dodge Durango while riding home on his motorcycle. The drunken driver operating the vehicle — surely panicked by the prospect of a third DUI — ran over Tufano's head while fleeing the scene.
Tufano, 72 at the time, was airlifted to Lee Memorial Hospital, placed in a medically induced coma, and somehow saved.
But he'll never be the same. Because of the damage his body incurred — because of all the muscles, bones and organs that caught hell in the crash — his every day is filled with pain.
Which makes it all the more remarkable that his heart is filled with mercy.
"People argue with me about this, but I would like to see him make it. I just want to see him straighten his life out," said Tufano of the man who hit him — a man currently serving a 51-month prison sentence in Jasper, Fla. "He'll only be 30 when he gets out, and if he can still throw a ball 99 miles an hour, someone will pick him up."
We'll finally say the words: Matt Bush. Bush's name has always dwarfed Tufano's when mentioned in the same story, but it's high time the victim got first billing.
Tufano may never have had Bush's talent — talent so dazzling that the Padres selected him with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2004 amateur baseball draft — but his story deserves telling.
Tufano may never have had Bush's physical skills — skills so dynamic that he signed a $3.15 million contract weeks after graduating from Mission Bay High — but his physical achievements were nothing to scoff at.
A lifelong runner, Tufano once posted a sub-three-hour marathon time and, at age 56, ran Boston in 3:35. He was jogging nearly every day before the accident — partly to stay fit, and partly to distract him from his wife's death a year earlier.
He and his son Tony Jr. had plans of running their first marathon together, but that's not going to happen. His days of bouncing on the trampoline with his grandchildren are over, too.
Tony Jr. said his dad used to do flips alongside his 9-year-old daughter Iris, and while he later admitted he was joking, Iris didn't see the humor.
"If he didn't get hit, he could have," she said.
He was hit, though. He was hit by a man who borrowed his teammate's SUV despite having a suspended license. He was hit by a man who, upon his arrest, had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit. He was hit by a man who had two other hit-and-runs earlier in the day — first backing into a car at a stoplight and then running into a light pole.
He was hit by Matt Bush, a man who once had it all — a man whose crash was nothing compared to the burn.
Tufano is willing to forgive Bush, yes, but does Bush deserve his forgiveness? Is he worthy of clemency, or even capable of earning it?
For months, Tony Jr. had an opinion on the matter, and that opinion was essentially this: Hell no.
Bush's timeline of trouble, after all, spans nearly a decade and is light on breaks or lapses.
Two weeks after he signed with the Padres, he was suspended after fighting a Peoria, Ariz., nightclub bouncer, who denied the 18-year-old Bush entry.
Following three injury-riddled minor-league seasons, after which he was converted from a shortstop to a pitcher, Bush was hurt in an Arizona bar fight in 2008. And in 2009, witnesses on the Granite Hills High campus said he beat a member of the school's lacrosse team with a golf club while yelling, "I'm Matt (expletive) Bush!"
Five days after that incident, the Padres traded him to the Toronto Blue Jays, who laid out a zero-tolerance policy that would result in Bush's dismissal if violated. He was gone in less than two months, after allegedly assaulting a woman at a party.
Another DUI came in June 2009 when Bush, broke and living with his parents in San Diego, was filmed screaming hysterically while resisting arrest in a parking lot. A judge sentenced him to a 120-day alcohol rehabilitation program along with three years of probation.
Almost immediately after he completed rehab, the Tampa Bay Rays signed Bush, who gave them two drama-free years, sat on the brink of making his major league debut, and convinced everyone he was sober.
Guess what? He wasn't.
"My issue with the whole thing is that this guy screwed up so many times, and because he had a great arm, he kept getting another chance," Tony Jr. said. "I mean, this guy is a menace, but because he can throw 98 or whatever, he could get away with murder."
Tony Jr. says his anger has subsided, but you can still hear the hostility in his voice. He describes his father as "Superman who was suddenly handed Kryptonite."
Once a walking anti-aging ad, Tony Sr. can't run a step, do a push-up, or lift his granddaughter without feeling pain. He can walk and function around the house, but regularly struggles to get out of bed.
Ringing in his ears once caused him to spring up in the middle of the night because he thought he had heard the doorbell. And while he's coherent and engaging, he often forgets conversations minutes later.
This, in the understatement of the century, does not sit well with Tony Jr. For months, primal instinct told him that revenge was the most appropriate measure toward someone who injured his flesh and blood.
With bail set at $440,000, Bush was never able to post bond. Tony Jr. is thankful for that every day.
"I had some thoughts that shouldn't have been happening. It was bad for me. He put us through so much, and I wanted to hurt him," Tony Jr. said. "I wanted him to have his own limitations throughout life. My dad is going to have physical limitations for the rest of his life, and he won't. I thought, 'How is that fair?' To me, fair was chaining him to the ground and running him over with a truck."
Tony Jr. says time — particularly the time spent around his father — has softened his attitude toward Bush. But in a courtroom speech before Bush was sentenced, he spent five minutes expressing his rage.
Staring at a defendant who never looked back or apologized in person, Tony Jr. detailed the suffering wrought upon his family, implored Bush to get it together, and — for the sake of humanity — pleaded that he never drink again.
Bush declined to be interviewed for this story. In a response to a letter sent to him in prison, he wrote: "My condolences go out to the Tufano family. At this time, I have no comment, especially for (The) San Diego Union-Tribune."
A follow-up letter was returned unopened. Bush's parents, contacted through a third party, also declined to talk.
Padres players such as Chase Headley and Kyle Blanks, who got to know Bush in the minor leagues, have only fond memories of the man. Like former Mission Bay baseball coach Dennis Pugh and catcher Brock Ungricht, their recollections are of an affable teammate whose company they enjoyed (see sidebar).
Bush's lawyer, who called Matt one of the nicest clients he's ever had, cited alcoholism — a vicious, cyclical disease afflicting millions of Americans — as the villain that stole Bush's identity. In court, Bush himself said "when I drink, I become a person that I don't like."
Tony Jr. isn't quite buying that, though. He had his own alcohol issues in his early 30s, issues that he thought he had under control before he realized he didn't. Nothing terrible happened, but getting blitzed and blacking out was starting to become routine.
Then he thought of what it could do to his family, and he stopped — for good.
"If you know how you act when you put something into your body, don't do it," Tony Jr. said. "I just don't get it. I mean, just don't drink, man!"
Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton agrees. Hamilton, of course, is the poster boy for transforming a life lost into a life inspired. The former No. 1 pick-turned-drug-addict-turned-American League MVP actually recovered at the same Florida rehab facility as Bush.
Hamilton sympathizes with Bush's plight. He knows the demons that even one swig can ignite and the havoc they can wreak. But he also knows that those demons need fuel, and that the addict is the only one who can provide it.
"It's a choice," Hamilton said. "It's always a choice."
Many choices await Bush when he is released from prison, which is scheduled to happen in May 2016. And though he'll still have most of his life ahead of him, it's tough to think that many people will much care how it turns out.
But despite past actions, there is one man who wishes him well. A man who hopes that, unlike his own, Bush's future goes pain-free.
When Tufano was first brought out of the coma — his limbs wrapped in casts and torso covered in tubes — the hospital staff's main concern was getting him to breathe through the pain. Later, doctors decided that an epidural would be the best way to temper his agony.
Administering it, however, required that Tufano turn on his side — an excruciating act given his condition. Trying to offer comfort, Tony Jr. held his father's hand and lightly touched his head.
"Don't do that!" barked Tufano, startling a son who realized he was touching a skull that had been run over by an SUV. "That's my bald spot, and I think it's contagious."
Tony Jr. couldn't help but smile.
Tufano is the guy who gives a beggar money knowing he'll likely spend it on booze. He's the Little League coach who would put his worst player on the mound just because the kid asked.
In this case, he was the man who could elicit smiles in the bleakest of settings — and with Matt Bush, he has hope for what has been the rockiest of lives.
Not that Tufano doesn't still get angry. He admits that, though he'd like for Bush to play again, he probably wouldn't be able to watch him on TV. And before the trial last year, when police asked for his cooperation in recreating the accident, Tufano quipped, "OK, sure. But this time, I'm driving the SUV."
Ultimately, though, he is giving Bush a gift that most victims wouldn't — the freedom, if he so chooses, to move on.
"No one should have to go through their life with a burden," Tufano said. "He could still do a lot of things — hopefully do some positive. I would hope that he would feel some remorse, but if he were to straighten his life out and come back and make good — that would be all right with me."
A big-league career is highly unlikely, but a decent life is still within Bush's reach.
He'll never have a clean slate. But thanks to Tufano, he can at least have a fresh start.
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And here is another year finishing and I am looking back how did I do with my fitness.
I have not done well with regard to my class A running race, I wasn't able to make to the Jerusalem marathon due of passport problem of my kid and had to easy my running due of a bad ankle since February, but I still did a 1h32 half marathon by March and a 1h38 in L.A in Septembre, just in time to hit over 1000km by this year :
I have instead did much more cycling finishing a easy sportive in wales of 130km and a pretty hard one in south of france of 160km with a lot of mountains climbed. I made it to 5000Km (for my racing bike not counting my city bike which has around 500km on it) :
I would have done much more if I didn't have a bad upper shine when I was in australia where I was going to do a month of cycling.
This year looks promising with the Madrid Marathon in april (going for around 3h20) and probably some pretty good cycling trips during the summer if shin/ankle get sorted, I am looking forward to 2013.


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ALFRED — York County Food Rescue, which was evicted from its home earlier this month, has found what may become a permanent residence in a vacant space at the county's former Emergency Management Agency building in Alfred.
ALFRED — York County Food Rescue, which was evicted from its home earlier this month, has found what may become a permanent residence in a vacant space at the county's former Emergency Management Agency building in Alfred.
The York County Commissioners and Food Rescue officials are entering into a temporary release agreement for the building at 5 Swetts Bridge Road, according to a released statement from the commissioners and County Manager Gregory Zinser. Talks will continue on a possible permanent lease arrangement, the statement said.
"We're very excited," Food Rescue Program Director Jodi Bissonnette said Friday. "We're moving the last of our stuff today. We'll have our first (food) distribution the second week in May. We're back up."
York County Food Rescue — which distributes free food to 47 food pantries and soup kitchens in the county, including those serving residents in York, Kittery, Eliot and South Berwick — was under court order to vacate its Sanford warehouse April 1, after receiving a March 14 eviction notice from its landlord, Jagger Mill LLC.
The two parties could not come to a lease agreement for the space, according to Jagger Mill principal Brenda Scally of Saco. Food Rescue had been using the space at 199 Jagger Mill Road free of charge for about nine years.
According to Bissonnette, after word got out that Food Rescue needed a new home, the York County Commissioners stepped up and offered the former York County Emergency Management building as storage space while the charitable organization explored two leads on other buildings in the Sanford area.
"We're working on future collaboration with (the commissioners), we don't need the two other buildings," said Bissonnette, who confirmed the move. "I'm pretty sure this is working."
The commissioners are even helping with the physical move into the 5,000 square feet of warehouse and office space in the one-story metal building, she said.
York County Emergency Management moved its offices into the renovated former York County Jail in 2011.
The move has stressed Food Rescue for cash, Bissonnette said. The organization must hook up and pay for electricity and water, she said.
Volunteers took apart the large freezers that the organization uses, she said, but state law requires that professionals put them back together.
Donations may be sent to York County Food Rescue, P.O. Box 863, Sanford, ME 04073.
York County Food Rescue gives up to 1,800 pounds of free food every month to each of the pantries and soup kitchens it serves, according to Bissonnette. In 2012, the organization gave away 1.2 million pounds of food to 67,592 families, she said.
The York Community Food Pantry, Footprints Food Pantry in Kittery and the South Berwick Community Food Pantry depend on Food Rescue for more than a third of the food each distributes, according to those working with the organizations.
"If it wasn't for them, it would be difficult for Footprints to survive," said Roland Fernald, president of the pantry's board of directors. Footprints serves Kittery, Kittery Point and Eliot.
Food Rescue could have stayed another month at its current location, but it would have had to pay $5,000 in rent, money the organization doesn't have, Bissonnette said.
The terms for a lease going forward was $2,000 a month for 9,000 square feet, according to Bissonnette and Scally. The nonprofit was also being asked to pay a third of the repair costs needed for the building, an amount Bissonnette estimated could cost $200,000.
Two other tenants in the building, Habitat for Humanity and Military Surplus for Homeless Veterans and Veterans in Need, also currently pay no rent. The veterans group is not being asked for rent going forward, according to Pete Maestre, who helps run the organization.
The building was formerly owned by York County Shelter Programs of Alfred, which also operates a food pantry but is not affiliated with York County Food Rescue. When Shelter Programs sold the building to Jagger Mill in 2008, it held the mortgage in an agreement that stipulated the tenants could remain free of charge until the mortgage was paid, according to Joan Sylvester of the organization.
The mortgage was discharged Oct. 5, 2012, according to Scally, and documents were recorded with the York County Registry of Deeds in Alfred.


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So, the ecumenism could signify both that the Protestantism did make faults, but also it could be seen as a technique that avoids the Protestantism judgement by other confessions by persuading them to waive also to some of their concepts.
So, the ecumenism could signify both that the Protestantism did make faults, but also it could be seen as a technique that avoids the Protestantism judgement by other confessions by persuading them to waive also to some of their concepts.
===What to do?===
===What to do?===
There is no astonishment that the Protestantism was who proposed the ecumenism (in the shape about which we are dealing in this article). This is because the protestant movement has made the biggest changes to the Catholic Church teachings and, so, it has done the most important waiver at the Jesus Christ's words and example. The outcome was that the errors are becoming more evidently.
There is no astonishment that the Protestantism was who proposed the ecumenism (in the shape about which we are dealing in this article). This is because the protestant movement has made the biggest changes to the Catholic Church teachings and, so, it has done the most important waiver at the Jesus Christ's words and example. The outcome was that the errors are becoming more evidently.
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This article deals with a new view concerning the Protestantism and of one of the movements that it sustains, the ecumenism.
- We must note that the ecumenism had existed from the Christianity beginnings and is also manifesting in the Orthodox Church, but its meaning is different from those that it was promoted by Protestantism.
But, in this paragraph, we are dealing with something else. We stress that in the Christian Church history there is a fact that has the greatest importance: the days when the Father's Son descended at the man's level. Then, Saviour arrived among us as simple man. His words and His personal example, showed to man the way that he must follow to achieve the redemption. His message was received not only by apostle, but also by His learners and by the other men who met Him, many of those men having the chance to tell, to hear and to see Him.
But there are more that 2,000 years from those times and He neither came again among us, nor sent us a new message that could change in any mode His teachings that founded the Christianity. So, we have no reason to follow any else teachings because He gave us only the above one, we must follow His only message.
Sure, it is not an easy work to understand His teachings and there are more subtle aspects which agitated the Christians's soul and mind because different people have been understanding dissimilar meanings. The Church has solving those problems with the Sacred Spirit's help, Holy Person who had also called at the Seven Ecumenical Synods to teach man the right way. But there are other aspects that would not must to follow at different understandings because in those cases the messages were very clear. The Protestantism, for example, introduced the "Sola fide" concept, teaching people that the belief alone is enough for someone who wants to achieve the redemption, the good deed having no importance. An objective analysis reveals that their conception is true partially. However, there are also strong arguments against it, but we will not present them here because the target of this article is different. We are noticing only that the Saviour Himself stresses that the redemption needs good deeds. And, - once that the condition that must be passed to achieve the salvation depends exclusively by God - the result is clarly: any thought (however deeply it could seem to be to someone) could follow to fewer good results as it could someone get if he does what God wants.
A New View About How the Protestantism Appeared, How it Spread and What It is It
The Protestantism appeared when it took place the New World conquest. In those times the Catholic Church was full of strength and it imposed its power in all the aspects of the life, beginning with the religious and the moral ones.
As it is known, the new lands "civilization" really meant the destruction of more advanced civilizations and the killing of tens of millions of indigenous. At this fact it must be added that the Europeans that gone to the New World had not was selected to do a real civilization, but even they were the least civilized people: convicts, men with a poor morality, adventurers. They made Anti-Christian deeds: murders, thefts, and so on. When they had driven away, they not only were out of the Church teachings, but also they were impelled to do more wrong deeds. And they did do those.
When they returned to Europe with a lot of wealth for the kings and other people, they also retained some for they and so they became rich men. Of course, they didn't change their wrong religious and moral visions, but, because they had brought services to the kings and because the kings expected to send them again in expeditions to the New World to become richer, it could be supposed that the kings defeated them when they had problems. As kings's protected men, as rich people and with a conquering hero's halo it may be presumed that they acquired a great influence in the society. This implies that a segment of the society began to admire and to follow their visions and their behaviour. So, if until there Inquisition had repressed (very) drastically any departure relative to the Catholic teachings, beginning with the apparition of those people, there was installed…"the exception": for those men there were other rules, namely the population saw that it could live also without the need to follow the Catholic Church teachings… In fact, those vanquishers of the New World were a knot of influent people that exhibited Non-Catholic views and behaviours. Otherwise, caught between the Not-Christian deeds that they have did in expeditions and the opulence that they might show when they returned in Europe, it could be assumed that they didn't have much time to teach, to know and to follow the Catholic Church's requirements.
In those conditions the Protestantism was a way for Christianity to keep that people under his wings. How? We are showing that in sequel.
At it is known, the Protestantism lacks an important aspect that most of the religions of the world have: a real or supposed divine will (a god that revealed himself to someone and taught him what the people have to do, a god that showed himself to the people, etc.). The Protestants can't affirm that the God teaches they what to do. In their case only the reason of some people decided what is good and what is wrong, how to be interpreted the Saviour's message. Interesting, in overall the Protestantism has limited itself to ignore some of the Catholic Church teachings. In other words, it has throwing values that it has considering as inutile: The Holy Tradition, The Holy Sacraments, the canon laws, etc. It doesn't bring new dogmatic elements that the Catholic Church hasn't and whose applications could lead in a better manner to the resurrection. It affirms that it knows alone the resurrection path, but its way is restricted itself to disrespect some of the Catholic Church teachings.
- Of course, it could be noted that some teachings and acts of the Catholic Church (for which there is difficult to find a basis in Bible, as the Pope's power to save someone for money or the teachings about the purgatory) have played an important role in the birth of the protestant movement. But, event these facts may be considered as separations from the God's teachings, it must to be not forgotten that they represent only a little part of what the Catholic Church teaches. The most important part of it acts is founded on Bible and the teachings that traveled from those times. Therefore when the Protestantism taken position against those aspects, it would been a good choice to limit its position only against these and to not reject the good part that the Catholic Church promoted. As the protestant movement had thrown too much, he reached a state in which it lacks a big part of the good part of the Catholic Church doctrine and life and hears only the earthly human reason and interests. The fact that the human reason can fail is proven by the fact that the Protestants didn't thrown only the wrong aspects and by the situation in which they ignore the need to do good deeds, as the Saviour asked us (we refer to the protestant doctrine, not to the protestant believer who tries to do good deeds).
- Interesting, the Orthodox Church rejects – mostly – those teachings, too. Therefore the Orthodox Church doesn't talk about purgatory and it considers that all the money of the world cn't buy the salvation of someone, that man must try to understand, to respect and to follow the God's teachings, bun only He decides if somebody is saved or not. But, in the same time, the Orthodox Church is all the time concerned itself to maintain in the best condition the God's teachings, in such a manner as no items that could help to the man's salvation to be lost.
- The well known fact that the Protestantism does not recognize more of the Catholic Church teachings is frequently used to argue his separation. At a glance, it could be shown that the differences do not need to lead to a complete break with the Catholicism. As an example, if a catholic believes that the salvation can't be achieved with money, he does not need to be revolted and to separate himself from his church. Simply, it can ignore the Pope's feature (he is not obliged to use them!), to study carefully the Christian teachings and to make the deeds that he consider that the God loves. Sure, the Pope's offer could tempt the rich people, that can then waive to do good deeds and, more, to change their Christian conceptions because they thinks that, in any case, they can buy their redemption with money. From this point of view the feature can be considered harmful because it allows to somebody (but, we repeat, it not oblige them!) to fight for their salvation and, so, to discover to late that they hadn't taken oil in their candles, as in the ten virgin girls parable. But, as we shown, anybody has the freedom to seek the salvation by the mean of faith, prayers, good deeds and love for God and man.
- In the same time, it is also true that a teaching that promotes thea idea that the salvation could be bought with money can determine many people to follow wrong ways, therefore the Catholic Church must be informed about such a situation. But what could happen if the Catholic Church has restraints to recognize that it fails in some cases? I those conditions, the apparition of the protestant movement could be thought as a desperate reaction that claims to analyse with responsibility the facts.
- Of course, there is very important for the believer to know what he must do to gain the salvation. As only God knows what He loves and what He wants to ask from us to do, it appears to be evident that we must fight to understand and to do as well as we can what He asks to us. The problem is not to do something what we like, important and useful is to do what God wants. The Protestants, angry with the Catholic Church, had rejected more of its teachings. When they decided what is wrong and what is good, they appealed exclusively to their reason and interests. They didn't invoked God, as the Uniqueness that knows what is good, what is the Way, Truth and Life. They wanted to throw the tares, but they thrown also the wheat that the God had sowed. Who wants to be saved must to return and to gather carefully the Jesus's words that He had give to us 2,000 years ago. And not only the words, but also their meanings and the first Christians's state, in other words the Holy Tradition and that life inside the Church.'s liturgy. Could someone who don't know to read the scores to learn to sing using them, even he have read a lot of explications? Isn't necessary to hear also the notes and, so, to make the suitable links between the auditive impression and the symbols that there have written on the scores? The writing, as good as it could be done, can't substitute the sounds, the sensations that someone feels when he dance, the taste of food. In a similar way, the words of the Bible can't replace the state that the believers had experimented in these times. Other problem is that, in time, the meanings of some words had lost or had changed. More, in these times the Jew's spoken The Hebraic and the Aramaic, languages in which the same word had more interpretations. Only the people that had lived in these times could do the correct selection in all the situations. And, very important, Jesus Christ, as man, hadn't left us any written word! To ignore anything that hadn't been written in Bible could mean to ignore and to forget all the other deeds that the Saviour did as man. We must not to forgot that the New Testament include only a small amount of all what the Lord had taught and had spoken, of what had did the Jesus's Apostles and apprentices. Do you agree that a more complete knowledge of these elements could help us to a better understanding of the Jesus's message of salvation? For this reason there is needed the Holy Tradition and a revival of those apostolic times, fact that it is happening during each Eucharist.
- The sad side is that the Protestant's disagreements with the Catholic Church had evolved from some problems that could be discussed inside the Catholic Church to a new movement in which the protest is a main key. Dispute, contestation and disruption – not unity and love in Christ. And – very gravely – the Protestants waived to understand the Church's teachings inside it and to recognize the authority of the Divine Grace and of the priests that drive the flock that love God. (There could be useful to remark that the Divine Grace is differently perceived in the Western Churches and in the Eastern ones. According to the Wikipedia [1], "In Eastern Christianity, grace is an energy of God, or a description of how God acts in forgiving and spiritually healing others. The sacraments are seen as a <<means of grace>> because God works through his Church, not just because specific legalistic rules are followed; and Grace is the working of God Himself. not a created substance of any kind that can be treated like a commodity"). The Protestants observed that the priests, or even the Pope, make mistakes, too. But this is a normal thing and the Orthodox Church recognizes this fact: any man is under the mistakes, including the deacons, the priests and the bishops. Only God – who is the Truth Itself – is without sin. Even the Saint Apostle Peter denies the Lord when He was shut… More important that the fact that the clergy could fail is that in it the Divine Grace is working and so the Church as a whole follows the Bridegroom's teachings, the Good Shepherd's Way, who is Christ Itself. And this is true even they are not as good as we would to be. And the true question is not if the priests fails (this is, mainly, their personal problem), but how we can satisfy the God's demands. As the Divine Grace and the priesthood help us to maintain a link with God, we must use this feature. The Protestants broke this link… They had put ahead only their reason, interest and conceit. The Protestants can be firmly moved ahead in the social life with these items, but they could be of little importance if they want to be saved and they waved to hear what the God wants from they.
- Unfortunately, it seems that the people who considered very important to be resolved some supossed errors of the Catholic Church didn't know the Orthodox Church teachings… This is becouse some of the problems that the Protestants observed (with the aid of their reason), the Orthodox Church teaches from the beginnings – but as an expression of the Divine Grace that is manifesting Itself inside the Church. Becouse the Orthodoxy is the Way to reamain inside the Church that was founded by the Saviour Itself.
As a paranthesis, it could be observed that someone who acknwledges the catholic requirements will also do what the Protestants ask, whereas the acknowledgement of only the Protestantism's needings implies the emergency that some arbitrary rejected Catholic demandes to don't be accomplished.
In other words, even if (strictly hypothetic and … "rational") some of the demandes at what the Protestants waived – exaggeratedly – couldn't be necessary for the salvation, their realization is at most inutile, but not harmful, whereas if, even it exist only one needed for the resurrection requirement that was rejected, the man who do so puts himself in the emergency to loose its own salvation.
In conclusion, the Protestantism seems to be only an extreme simplification of the Catholic Church teachings.
Very interesting, even this simplification leads to his power. Because it allows even to a person that in reality has almost no belief in God - as thoughts or deeds – to name itself as Christian.
- We refer at those Protestants that participated in a direct and violent manner to the New World conquest, men that it could be supposed that had a very weak link with the Christian dogma, teachings, conceptions, deeds and behaviour, not to those that founded the first protestant movements, who was interested in religion. We can observe that, from its beginnings, the was two kind of Protestants: with a weak link with Christianity, and with a deep interest in religion, but with a strong conceit, too.
- The polarization persists in our days. We can see Protestants that are strong involved in the religious life, but there are also Protestants that – in conceptions, deeds or professions – are far from the Christianity, men who after they speak about God, at a short time, plan wars, do disruptions, invent and manufacture new weapons or blast this wonderful Earth that the Creator gave us and we must to take care about its good state.
If we refer at those first Protestants, they had been acquainted with the fact that God exists, but they had almost nothing to do to prove their membership. They believed and that was all, their behaviour and thoughts were nearly unchanged, they can do anything. Minimal requirements, maximal vows, this was an much more tempting offer as the Catholic Church could do. Warning! The promises were great because form God originates, whereas the requirements were low because they came from man. And if the man passes over the God words, if he didn't make what God asked he, then could be he doubtless that God will … give he the payment that he wish?
The Protestantism's sunny side was and is that it has allowed to man to doesn't make a completelly break between he and God, to mantain a link (even weakly) with the Creator. But there is also a dark side because it affirms that only it can conduce the man to resurrection. Because it rejected some of the God's requirements it is difficult to believe that. It is harmful because it tries to inveigle Christians that are members of other confessions to it, namely it teaches them to waive also to hear the God's Will concerning some aspects. In other words – by the extreme simplification of the Christian teachings that it brings – it is like a child that, after he learned that 1 + 1 = 2, then it tries to convince the PhD in mathematics Professor that all the mathematics is what he knows.
So, the Protestantism promises much (even it hasn't arguments to prove that it really can do what it says) and asks very few. Nearby this aspect it exhibits elements that make it attractively for many men. For example, it involves the people in many social actions as to sing together, to bring new members, to deliver newspapers, to revard the best members, etc. In reality it is like something as "the instrumentalists's batch" or "the walking friends", so it is a place when the youths can spend their energy and can challenge for a better rank in the group and the olds can avoid to feel themselves alone. But the most important is to do the God's Will. It could be of interest that every Protestant to check how much count in his participation at the Protestant groups the social needs and what is the part that is in reality for God. The money and the material goods are also elements of attraction for someone. There is no secret that some people have been becoming Protestants because on this way they can emigrate easier or to have a house. Could be named Christian belief this pass to the Protestants that depends of money, and is not founded in love for God? And this is important more when it could be seen that by this way there are men who lost their Christian deeds and beliefs and arrive to ignore some of the Good's words. Let us don't forget the Saviour teachings and life and how the first Christians had lived. Really, are the Protestantism not a movement in which the man remains in the state in which he do like to be, only speaking about God and trying to bring God at his rational level and its interests?
And the Ecumenism Came into View…
The Protestantism has the good aspect that each of its members studies carefully the Gospel. Even there are more wrong interpretations, even they don't recognize the importance of the Holy Spirit for a correct understanding of the God's word, however their reason and effort help them to understand some teachings.
In these conditions, around 1910, the Protestantism gave birth to a new and strong movement: the (protestant) ecumenism, an attempt to unify the Christian Churches. The initiative seems to be laudable because we, all the Christians, must confess the same God and we have to hike on the same narrow and straight way that carries to salvation. Of course, the ecumenism may be understood as a protestant technique to attract all the Christian under its wings, too.
But it may signify an awakening. Namely, "my family and my friends are Protestants and I myself have learning since my very early days that the Protestantism is the unique way to salvation, but…. Some things seem to don't go well. But, it seems that other confessions act more correct as us do. But, why the Protestants ignore some of the Saviour's words? I don't have the courage to think more because I am afraid that I will be regarded as heretic and because my family and my friends could avert from me, but…"
In other words, the ecumenism may be also an expression of the fact that some Protestants feel that the way is wrong. As a direct recognition could have disagreeable personal consequences, a more acceptable path seems to be the realization of a tendency toward the change of the protestant concepts themselves. The direction can be only one, toward a reapproch toward the Saviour's teachings.
As this implies to recognize that other confessions had a more correct behaviour, this thing can be interpreted as a defeat and so the conceit and the concern about how the Protestantism could be judged by other confessions begin to intervene. There are human concerns, but very important for someone who feels that he made mistakes and feels fear concerning how the others will react… In these conditions it seems to be necessary that the others waive from some of their concepts, too. If this will happen, the others can't judge your defeat and so your "honor" will remains unchanged.
So, the ecumenism could signify both that the Protestantism did make faults, but also it could be seen as a technique that avoids the Protestantism judgement by other confessions by persuading them to waive also to some of their concepts.
This graphic proves that "a mean path" could lead away from the Saviour's Way
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There is no astonishment that the Protestantism was who proposed the ecumenism (in the shape about which we are dealing in this article). This is because the protestant movement has made the biggest changes to the Catholic Church teachings and, so, it has done the most important waiver at the Jesus Christ's words and example. The outcome was that the errors are becoming more evidently.
Because the truth is this: the Christian teachings were made 2,000 years ago and those we have to follow! The Protestantism bases involved some conceit that required to Protestants to exhibit an individual way, apart from the Saviour teachings. So, it ignores some fundamental Christian aspects. Even more, at the beginning of the third millenium, the Protestantism didn't return yet to the Jesus Christ's path that leads to redemption because of the same conceit: how could it cede to other confessions?
But the most important aspect is not to cede or not to cede, but to know and to go after the teachings that were given us 2,000 years ago, to live inside the Church body in which – at each Eucharist – there is lived again the life in Christ that the first Christians had practiced, when the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity Itself, help us – by the aid of the Holy Grace that reveals Itself in Church – to progress on the Salvation Way.
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SA Journal of Radiology
On-line version ISSN 2078-6778
Print version ISSN 1027-202X
S. Afr. J. radiol. (Online) vol.18 n.1 Johannesburg Oct. 2014
The accuracy of after-hour registrar computed tomography (CT) reporting in a South African tertiary teaching hospital
Juruan F. de Witt; Stephanie Griffith-Richards; Richard D. Pitcher
Division of Radiodiagnosis, Department of Medical Imaging and Clinical Oncology, Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The Division of Radiodiagnosis at Tygerberg Academic Hospital, a 1384-bed tertiary training institution in Cape Town, South Africa provides a comprehensive 24-hour clinical radiology service, and has a duty registrar on-site at all times. The demand for computed tomography (CT) imaging is increasing and plays a pivotal role in patient management.
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of after-hour registrar CT reporting, to identify possible factors that may affect the error rate, and to assess whether or not errors had any clinical impact.
METHOD: A set of senior registrar reports (provisional reports) issued during a 28-day period was compared with the corresponding consultant reports (final reports). Discrepancies were identified and quantified, based on their impact on patient management.
RESULTS: The overall discrepancy rate was 8% (18 out of 225) and the overall accuracy rate was 92% (207 out of 225). The major error rate was 4% (9 out of 225) and the minor error rate was also 4% (9 out of 225).
CONCLUSION: We observed that the accuracy of after-hour CT reporting by senior registrars at the Division of Radiodiagnosis at Tygerberg Hospital was on par with international standards. We investigated three factors which may have affected discrepancy rates, and only found one factor, namely the time of day, to be significant. Steps can be taken to create awareness of this fact amongst registrars, which hopefully would result in improved patient care and management.
The Division of Radiodiagnosis at Tygerberg Academic Hospital, a 1384-bed tertiary training institution in Cape Town, South Africa provides a comprehensive 24-hour clinical radiology service, and has a duty registrar on-site at all times. The demand for computed tomography (CT) imaging is increasing amongst all referring specialties and plays a pivotal role in patient management, resulting in an ever-increasing workload on the Division of Radiodiagnosis.
On weekdays, registrars have on-site consultant supervision from 08:00 to 21:00. Over weekends and between 21:00 and 08:00 on weekdays, radiological services at the hospital are provided solely by a senior registrar, who has two or more years of clinical radiology experience. It is the prerogative of the senior registrar to seek telephonic advice from the off-site duty radiology consultant and, if necessary, to request that the consultant provide on-site assistance for an opinion on complicated cases or technical assistance with a challenging interventional procedure. CT scan reporting represents the most important after-hour work.
All weekday after-hour registrar reports are reviewed by a consultant the following morning, whilst weekend after-hour reports are reviewed on Mondays. The relevant registrar and referring clinicians are informed of any reporting errors.
The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of after-hour registrar CT reporting, to identify possible factors that may affect the error rate, and to assess whether or not errors had any clinical impact.
Materials and methods
A report issued by a senior registrar in the after-hour setting is referred to as a 'provisional report'. Only after review (and possible alteration) by a consultant would the 'final report' be issued. All reports are stored on PACS, the picture archiving and communication system, and can easily be viewed by clinicians.
A set of senior registrar reports (provisional reports) issued during a 28-day period was collected after institutional ethics review board approval. These reports were compared with the corresponding consultant reports (final reports). Studies included trauma-related investigations (CT imaging of the brain, cervical spine, chest, abdomen, pelvis and vascular system) and medical investigations (CT imaging of the brain, chest and abdomen). Any discrepancy in interpretation was identified and quantified. Errors were classified as either major errors or minor errors. Examples of major errors include: fractures not identified, vascular injuries not identified, major organ injuries not identified, no mention made of cerebral oedema, et cetera.1,2,3,4,5,6 Examples of minor errors include: incidental benign lesions not identified or mentioned (such as cysts in various organs), incorrect classification (e.g. fracture or laceration classification) which did not change the management of the patient, minor fractures not identified (whilst mention of major fractures was made), et cetera.1,2,3,4,5,6
Our rationale for quantifying errors (major vs minor) was based on their impact on patient management. It is easy to acknowledge that a major misinterpretation could result in major mismanagement of the patient. When one considers Box 1, one can appreciate why such mismanagement could result in devastating consequences. For example, when no mention is made of cerebral oedema, the swelling may progress to herniation and eventually death. Similarly, by not recognising significant fractures, the patient may develop infection, haemorrhage or even paralysis. Missed arterial and major organ injuries may continue to haemorrhage, leading to anaemia, organ failure and ultimately death.
A literature search was performed in order to determine whether similar research had been done. Five relevant publications of research performed at similar international institutions were reviewed - our results were compared with existing data to determine whether our error rate is acceptable and whether we should consider alternatives to current protocols in order to maximise patient benefit.
Furthermore, we determined whether any correlation existed between error rate on the one hand, and years of training, time of report and number of reports during a shift on the other.
Reports compiled by registrars who had completed the Fellowship of the College of Radiology, South Africa (FCRad) Part II examination, reports compiled by junior registrars, and reports not considered due to technical factors met the exclusion criteria. During the 28-day period a total of 372 after-hour CT investigations were performed. Of these investigations' reports, 147 met the exclusion criteria and were not considered, whilst 225 reports were considered for statistical analysis. Table 1 reflects the scanned body regions and referring disciplines.
The overall discrepancy rate was 8% (18 out of 225) and the overall accuracy rate was 92% (207 out of 225). The major error rate was 4% (9 out of 225) and the minor error rate was also 4% (9 out of 225).
Table 2 represents the statistical breakdown of the three factors under investigation, namely time of report, number of reports during a shift and years of registrar training.
We utilised a 95% confidence interval.
The reviewed literature revealed discrepancy rates ranging from 0.9% to 25%.1,2,4,5,7 The discrepancy rate at Tygerberg Hospital (8%) was considered favourable when compared with a similar training institution (17.1%) with almost identical socio-economical parameters and patient profile (i.e. resource-limited environment within the same developing country).7 When compared with well-resourced environments (i.e. developed countries), where the discrepancy rates ranged from 0.9% - 25%, our results were regarded as acceptable.
We found it somewhat surprising that significantly more errors occurred during the day shift (08:00-21:00) than during the night shift (21:00-08:00). Possible explanations include the following:
- Emergency cases (stable patients requiring CT imaging as soon as possible) enjoy priority over urgent cases (stable patients who, in the opinion of the referring clinician, need CT imaging within 24 hours), resulting in urgent cases only being scanned the following morning. The high frequency of trauma-related emergency cases conditions registrars to be vigilant regarding certain crucial findings, thereby minimising discrepancies. On the other hand, urgent cases generally tend to be acute or chronic with loaded co-morbidity. It is this co-morbidity that introduces a time-consuming component to interpretation and reporting and contributes to the overall complexity of the study.
- Registrars may experience a false sense of security during daytime. Our belief is that a registrar would be more confident in issuing a report at a time of day when a consultant is more readily available. Should a discrepancy arise (for example when a clinician queries the validity of a report), the process of contacting a consultant who would then review the case and offer his or her opinion would be less cumbersome. As inappropriate as it may seem, registrars perceive the processes of contacting consultants who are 'awake' and therefore more readily available, and 'unlikely to be awake' and therefore not readily available, differently.
Fourth-year registrars appeared to be more likely to make errors when compared with 2nd-year and 3rd-year registrars. However, a larger sample size would be necessary to confirm this trend. Possible explanations may be that:
- a more senior registrar would take responsibility of a more complex case
- senior registrars who are preparing for their final examinations are more sensitive to subtle pathology, thereby increasing the likelihood of overcalling certain findings.
The number of investigations during a shift played no statistical role in the likelihood of error occurrence. Possible explanations include the following:
- The rate at which scans can physically be performed on a 6-slice CT scanner, compared with the time required to report on the scans, is manageable for a senior registrar at Tygerberg Hospital. However, there are other training institutions in South Africa with a significantly more demanding workload, where the number of investigations performed (on more than one CT scanner) is likely to affect accuracy rate.
- The effect that lack of sleep has on report discrepancy rate appears to be insignificant. Senior registrars at Tygerberg Hospital are offered the privilege of a 'post-call' day, which may provide some incentive regarding the timely issuing of reports, as the assurance of total removal from the clinical milieu may be comforting.
We observed that the accuracy of after-hour CT reporting by senior registrars in the Division of Radiodiagnosis at Tygerberg Hospital was on par with international standards. We investigated three factors which may have affected discrepancy rates, and only found the time of day to be significant.
Steps can be taken to create awareness of this fact amongst registrars, which hopefully would result in improved patient care and management.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.
Authors' contributions
J.F.d.W. (Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University) was solely responsible for the manuscript, whilst S.G.-R. (Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University) and R.D.P. (Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University) acted as supervisors.
1. Briggs RH, Rowbotham E, Johnstone AL, et al. Provisional reporting of polytrauma CT by on-call radiology registrars. Is it safe? Clin Radiol. 2010;65:616-622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2010.04.010 [ Links ]
2. Miyakoshi A, Nguyen QT, Cohen WA, et al. Accuracy of preliminary interpretation of neurologic CT examinations by on-call radiology residents and assessment of patient outcomes at a level I trauma center. J Am Coll Radiol. 2009;6:864-870. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ij.jacr.2009.07.021 [ Links ]
3. Cooper VF, Goodhartz LA, Nemcek AA, et al. Radiology resident interpretations of on-call imaging studies: The incidence of major discrepancies. Acad Radiol. 2008;15:1198-1204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ji.acra.2008.02.011 [ Links ]
4. Lal NR, Murray UM, Eldevik OP, et al. Clinical consequences of misinterpretations of neuroradiologic CT scans by on-call radiology residents. Am J Neuroradiol. 2000;21:124-129. [ Links ]
5. Roszler MH, McCarroll KA, Rashid T, et al. Resident interpretation of emergency computed tomographic scans. Invest Radiol. 1991;26:374-376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004424-199104000-00016 [ Links ]
6. Hillier JC, Tattersall DJ, Gleeson FV. Trainee reporting of computed tomography examinations: Do they make mistakes and does it matter? Clin Radiol. 2004;59:159-162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0009-9260(03)00309-X [ Links ]
7. Terreblanche OD, Andronikou S, Hlabangana LT, et al. Should registrars be reporting after-hours CT scans? A calculation of error rate and the influencing factors in South Africa. Acta Radiol. 2012;53:61-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/ar.2011.110103 [ Links ]
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Received: 07 Nov. 2013
Accepted: 18 Jan. 2014
Published: 16 May 2014


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Driving Innovation in the U.S.
Driving Innovation in the U.S.
Innovation is the cornerstone of competitiveness in a global marketplace. It's what keeps our economy moving—driving the growth of jobs that lead to higher wages and an increasingly higher standard of living for all.
For most of the twentieth century, the U.S. has held the number one spot when it comes to innovation. But in 2010, the U.S. slipped to eleventh place (out of 133 countries) in the Global Innovation Index (GII) as reported by Insead.
The U.S. still ranked number two for global competitiveness, however, and in 2011 there was a slight uptick to seventh place in innovation. But the optimism was short-lived. In 2012, the U.S. slipped once again, barely making it into tenth place out of 141 countries.
The Scope of the Problem
The recession of 2008 hit the economy hard, but that doesn't explain why wages have been stagnant for years, jobs have been drying up, and education—especially in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)—has been in decline.
What has caused this decline in U.S. innovation? Some believe that the influx of foreign students on F-1 visas in the late 1990s into STEM graduate and Ph.D. programs suppressed wages in those industries, driving U.S. students into more lucrative fields. U.S. education programs in general may have also played a role, emphasizing literacy in elementary education, for example, instead of math and the sciences. Another contributing factor may be the high cost of a U.S. college education. At the corporate level, an emphasis on profit at the expense of research and development may be another factor contributing to the decline in innovation.
Getting Back on the Innovation Track
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce report identifies three factors as key to getting the U.S. back on track:
- federally funded research and development in concert with universities, institutions and the private sector,
- an education system that prepares students with the necessary skills to pursue higher education in the STEM fields, and
- ensuring adequate infrastructure to deliver goods and services.
A U.S. Department of Commerce Report, The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States (January 2012), estimates that a STEM workforce earns about 26 percent more than their counterparts in non-STEM occupations. They are also less likely to experience joblessness. In addition, STEM jobs over the past 10 years grew at three times the rate of non-STEM jobs.
To meet the educational challenges of poor classroom preparation in STEM, the federal government is striving to make college and postgraduate education more affordable through initiatives that include, among others, expanding the size and quality of the STEM teacher ranks and mentoring students and workers to encourage continuation of their STEM education.
Just as important are the legal steps that have been taken to address the decline of innovation in the U.S., such as the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law by President Obama in late 2011. In addition, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 extended the Research and Development Tax Credit, which had expired at the end of 2011, through 2013. The R&D tax credit is widely believed to be a catalyst for innovation. Legislation has also been introduced to help startup companies, which generally cannot take advantage of a credit against tax liability (as it generally takes time before they turn a profit). The Startup Innovation Credit Act of 2013 seeks to provide startup companies with a credit to be applied toward employment taxes.
Decline or Transition?
Innovation holds the key to long-term economic growth and has created many new industries, such as the wireless technology, software and information technology industries. These industries, in turn, employ more people earning above-average wages. The renewed emphasis on innovation may help the U.S. reemerge as a leader in innovation. Or it may be that, in a truly global economy, an increase in innovation abroad is the new normal. Welcome to the twenty-first century.
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In the market for a new washing machine? How about a refrigerator? Now's the time to buy, says Uncle Sam. The government is unveiling its latest version of "cash for clunkers," this time for energy-efficient kitchen appliances.
The Department of Energy recently allocated $300 million toward its Cash for Appliances program, which offers rebates for consumers who buy Energy Star-rated appliances – washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers, and heating and cooling units. The program varies widely from state to state, but the goal is the same, says Jen Stutsman, spokeswoman with the Department of Energy.
"Our goal is to encourage consumers to transition to Energy Star appliances that will save both money and the environment in the long term," says Ms. Stutsman. "Appliances consume a huge amount of electricity, so there's enormous potential to both save energy and save families' money. We want to help make that transition to more efficiency."
Some states have started already
The program will start in several states over the next few months, with New York State's program kicking off Friday. Eight states – Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, and Wisconsin – have already launched their programs. Other states will launch in coming months, many around Earth Day in April.
Rebates range from $50 to $250, depending on the appliance and the state. The program ends when the rebates run out, says Stutsman.
More than 70 percent of the energy used in American homes is for appliances, refrigeration, space heating, cooling, and water heating, according to the Department of Energy.
Swapping out old appliances for Energy Star appliances will save energy and lower utility bills in the long term. For example, the Department of Energy reports, the Whirlpool Duet Energy Star-qualified washer uses 74 percent less water and 80 percent less energy than a typical washer and can save up to $900 in energy costs.
Recycling old appliances
"Our goal is to make sure these [old] appliances come off the energy grid and get recycled in a way so that they don't end up in landfills," says Stutsman.
Interested in applying? Here's what you can do:
• First, find details of your state's plan online. Visit the DOE's Energy Savers' website to find specific guidelines for each state, including when your state's program begins, which appliances qualify, how much money you can expect to receive, and how to apply.
• Next, make sure the retailer you buy from is participating. Sears and Home Depot are promoting the program and helping consumers apply, but not all retailers are participating and some online purchases may be exempt from rebates.
• Figure out how much you'll get back. Some states offer different deals for consumers who buy multiple Energy Star appliances. Some states also offer a bonus of $25 to $75 if consumers recycle their old appliances.
In some states, including Georgia and New York, consumers can reserve a rebate online or by calling a toll-free number. Some retailers have in-store computer kiosks where customers can fill out rebate applications on the spot.
• Keep receipts, proof-of-purchase information, and recycling documentation, as your state's program may require one or all of these to collect your rebate. Rebates are not eligible for purchases that were made before the program started.
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Second book of Natsuo Kirino that I've read after her other book Out. Real World also a criminal novel, as dark as Out. In Real World, Kirino again talks about cruel murder, but this time the lead characters are 4 teenage girls with all their restlessness, loneliness, stress, and problems.
When one of the 4 girls, Toshi discovers that her next-door-neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect that the killer's the neighbor's son. Without any specific plan, they finally get involved with the killer and end up in a tragic life.
From their stories, we get the portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before, perhaps these teenagers are not the lucky one, so sorry for them.


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