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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
A House in Marseille by Maurice Padovani ♥ Kъща в Марсилия от Маурис Падовани
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I love the paper chandelier!ReplyDelete
I like all the lights, Tolomeo and Pipistrello table lamps in particular.ReplyDelete
But above all I love the stairs...becouse I have the same in my apartment!
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 11:45 PM
I love how beautifully wooden furnitures give warmth to spaces and how harmonically all the different materials work together...ReplyDelete
To read, be inspired and enjoy all the beautiful pictures here in your blog is like receiving bouquet of roses every day<3 Thank You!
new subscriber and am just loving everything you show! this place in particular? juxtaposition of natural and man-made elements. the light! and how the staircase rips up the vertical. yum!!ReplyDelete
I like the coffee tables in the last picture - what a lovely wood toneReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2011 at 7:10 AM
omg, the paper chandelier!!! amazing! and the stairs.ReplyDelete

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It's Small Business Week this week in Charlotte, NC, and the city is celebrating with a number of events, workshops, and awards ceremonies throughout the week.
Yesterday, the "Signature Event," the Charlotte Small Business Week Conference, was held to both celebrate and inspire small businesses in the region.
And inspire it did.
The morning was filled with speeches by entrepreneurs who, repeatedly, shared stories that focused on the real reasons behind their success.
We heard speaker after speaker tell stories that spoke of following their natural passions and gifts. They spoke of their desires to serve a cause greater than themselves. They shared experiences that left them with feelings of outrage and convictions to do something better.
Here's a sampling of what they shared:
Cassie Parsons: Named local Restaurateur of the Year by Charlotte Magazine in 2011, Cassie Parsons is the Chef and owner at local eatery Harvest Moon Grille. Already following her passion for food and cooking, Cassie worked as a chef before becoming an entrepreneur. While working for another restaurant, Cassie became discouraged and frustrated with the quality of food that she saw coming in, and ultimately she decided that the poor quality ingredients compromised the integrity that she demanded of herself and her own cooking. She left her paid job and created her own organic garden and farm. Her personal mission was to do her part in helping to provide food that was fresh, locally-grown, and antibiotic- and hormone-free. She initially sold produce and meat from her farm and then began serving from an upscale food truck in the Charlotte uptown area. Eventually, she opened Harvest Moon Grille and remains committed to using items grown or raised locally – all within 100 miles of Charlotte.
That Guy Smitty: Smitty had a passion for music from an early age. Growing up in the age of vinyl, he would spin record after record on his turntable at home. He could tell you every song on every album and had a flair for putting music together. Again, like Cassie, he let his passions lead him into the corporate world, where he worked for a steady paycheck programming music for a local corporation. Still, he had the burning desire to "gig" – live and in person as a bona fide DJ. He went out on his own and has built a successful business, following his dream and still being able to provide well for his wife and family of three children.
Robin Emmons: Another corporate-girl-turned-entrepreneur, Robin admitted that a little piece of her was dying while she worked inside her cubicle prison in an ivory tower. Almost immediately after leaving, she found herself acting as an advocate for her mentally-ill brother as he dealt with some legal issues. Her eyes were opened to the social injustices being done to the mentally ill and others who were financially challenged, particularly with regard to the lack of access to basic nutrition. She rededicated her life and career to helping eliminate barriers that prevent the needy from receiving nutrition assistance. She founded the non-profit Sow Much Good and now talks about the magic that can happen when you follow your passion. She emphasizes that the money will come; entrepreneurs just have to find the right focus (and reason) first.
Emmanuel "Manny" Ohonme: Manny is the founder and president of Samaritan's Feet International. Manny grew up in Africa in an area of extreme poverty. One day, missionaries came to his community and taught the boys how to play a game called basketball. After showing them how to play, they suggested a competition and offered a prize to the winner – a pair of shoes. Manny turned out to be a natural. He won the contest that day, becoming the first person in his family ever to own a pair of shoes. From then on, he practiced basketball and began to believe in a better future for himself. He received a scholarship to come to the United States and play college basketball. He earned a degree in business and led a successful corporate career, but he knew that he had a greater purpose to fulfill. The pair of shoes that he won that day had given him hope, and he knew the pride that he felt when he went from being barefoot to having his own pair of shoes. He also knew of all the needless injuries and illnesses that affect children around the world that could be prevented simply by protective footwear. Saying that his mother always told him, "To those whom much is given, much is expected" (a paraphrase of Luke 12:48), Manny knew what was expected of him. His vision is to provide shoes to over 10 million children in the world through Samaritan's Feet.
The speeches continued, and words like passion, purpose, bliss, integrity, God-given gifts, and God-given abilities just kept pouring out.
Words like "I did it because I thought I could get rich doing it" were completely absent from the stories. While money is certainly a necessary part of the equation, each speaker insisted that it was a by-product and not a primary motivator for them.
Each entrepreneur encouraged conference attendees to find their own gifts, embrace them, be thankful for them, to pursue them, and to dedicate themselves to a cause greater than themselves.
Great advice from some great people. I hope that their stories encourage you to think about how your own gifts, passions, and purposes are factoring into your entrepreneurial visions.
Manny Ohonme closed by sharing a few questions that he asks himself on a daily basis; I'll close with them as well and suggest that you ask yourself the same ones today:
- Is my community better off with me in it?
- If I were gone, would anyone miss me?
- Who did I serve today?


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A perfect example and parody of post-modernism, this is one of easiest to "get" of Pynchon's works: it's quite short and the plot isn't as convoluted and dense as say Gravity's Rainbow or V. However, that isn't to say it's easy-going, the characters are eccentric and the mystery is not solved, leaving the reader on a cliff-hanger right at the end. Nevertheless, it's still an entertaining and interesting read.
I went back to CoL49 after 30 years asking, what resonates in me with Pynchon? Maybe his idea that to understand America (or Western Civ, if you like), you have two choices—there's interconnection at the highest level and it's toxic, based entirely in unending, mostly secret struggles for power, or there's no connection at all, and you are surrounded by a banal history of slaughter that produced an incoherent world full of creepy simulacra, unhappy shadow people, and dead junk. Nice choice. But it wouldn't just be the defensible thesis that makes it compelling, it's the fact that Pynchon creates this epistemologically unstable world in such detail, lets you know from Word One it's a creation (as opposed to a simulacrum, something that merely imitates), telegraphs that to you with every goofy name and complex pun, every absurd plot device, every exuberant and elaborate scene of slapstick, with the sometimes labyrinthine syntax and the fancy vocabulary, and yet his world rarely seems thin or labored. He makes it a place you can and want to move around in, in four dimensions, even though it's Only Words. There are fundamental ideas in contest here—remember those? Like Joyce, Pynchon assumes you are smart enough to follow along, not because you're one of the elite, but because you are human, like him. He rewards you with insight, with craftsmanship. It's not condescending.
If you stick with the ride, in later Pynchon, in the masterpiece Against the Day, there's another choice besides those two dismal ones on offer in CoL49. That light, a physical property of the universe, connects us all, and everything that is, and persistence and imagination offer us the possibility of grace.
Not too far into this book, I found myself thinking, "What is going on here?" Not in the general, what-is-the-author-doing-here sort of sense, but in the what-on-earth-am-I-actually-reading sense. The story seems simple enough: Oedipa Maas is named co-executor of the will of a past boyfriend. She goes to the town where he lived, and where he has very successfully had a hand in just about every business and housing development. Odd signs begin to appear, and they all seem to be linked together. Is there some sort of conspiracy going on, and if so, why? If not, is Oedipa losing her mind or is someone driving her to it?
The thing I found most interesting about the book is how it did the literary equivalent of breaking the fourth wall. At some point, I started thinking that I should maybe be taking notes on the various names, organizations and relationships. You know, just to keep them straight. And then maybe to start drawing lines between the connected things and people. And then to try to add up which things seemed plausible and which seemed unlikely, who seemed to be lying, who could be at the bottom of all of it .... In other words, I was drawn into the conspiracy theory thinking to such a degree that I was contemplating making one of my own crazy-person diagrams like some obsessed person you see in the movies. And that made me laugh, because I had been thinking that the book wasn't that engaging, even as it was threatening to engage me in the real world to a larger degree than most other books ever would. Clever, Mr. Pynchon, clever.
My verdict: an intriguing, although not very satisfying book. More psychological experiment than enjoyable read.
Recommended for: documentary-watchers, House of Leaves fans.
Quote: "Oedipa, perverse, had stood in front of the painting and cried. No one had noticed; she wore dark green bubble shades. For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of this moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry."
Did not catch me, put down quickly, not finished.
St. Bart's 2014 #8 - My second off-kilter book of this vacation...a rather bizarre tale of worldwide postal turf battles lasting for many centuries (yes, that is exactly what I said), the estate of a wealthy philatelist, and a former mistress's efforts to settle his estate. Points for clever characters popping up on a regular basis, and points taken away for long philosophical ramblings about things that I was never able to care about, mainly because I could not follow what we were talking about.....again, I read for pleasure....if the symbolism and cleverness is buried so deep that I cannot find it, a 2.5 is your best hope. My only consolation is that I have always been intrigued by this title for years and I know now what it means.....I will tread cautiously with the remaining Pynchon on my shelf.
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Highway 61
Scenic Motorcycle Drives Through The Iron Range
Whether you're riding a cruiser, a chopper, a crotch rocket or a blown bike, these are the best trips for bikers through the serenity of the Iron Range.
Police: Drunk Driver Flees, Car Sets On Fire
A man is custody after allegedly driving drunk and fleeing police officers in Cottage Grove, Minn. Saturday. According to Cottage Grove police, officers responded to a call around 1 p.m. of an elderly male driving over a curb and hitting a rock in the 7100 block of 80th Street. The caller told police that they believed the driver was intoxicated, and that the car was now heading northbound on Highway 61.
1 Killed In Head-On Crash In Goodhue County
The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that happened Monday morning in Goodhue County. Few details were immediately available, but the State Patrol said the crash happened at about 7:30 a.m.
2 Arrested After Chase, Suspected Burglaries
A 26-year-old man was arrested Monday, after leading police on a chase from St. Paul to Cottage Grove, Minn. Officials say the man had multiple felony warrants out for his arrest.
Driver Ejected In Fatal White Bear Lake Rollover
A driver was killed after being ejected from a truck in a rollover crash early Friday morning. According to the State Patrol, the crash happened along Highway 61 in Ramsey County, just south of Buffalo Street.
New Hastings Bridge To Be Dedicated
After construction that took more than three years, local, state and federal officials are getting ready to dedicate the brand new, $130 million Hastings Bridge over the Mississippi River.
Rain Causes Mudslides, Road Closures In Winona Co.
Thunderstorms dumped several inches of rain in and around the bluff town of Winona early Saturday morning. WCCO Weather Watcher Dan Amundson reported eight inches of rain in the area. Flash flooding washed away part of a road on Bob Dunn's property, and the force took out a walking bridge. "You can actually see the mud build up. You can drive across there before. I used to have a decent road," Dunn said. "That used to be a bridge, used to have a bridge going right across here."
In Minn., A Serious Push To Tackle Problem Bridges
Two bridges that, for now, span the Mississippi River side by side are more than just old and new crossings of the heavily traveled Highway 61 in Hastings. They are symbols of an aggressive push in Minnesota to deal with deteriorating bridges after an eye-opening tragedy.
Semi Rollover Causes Mess In Newport
A tipped over semi-truck caused quite a mess on Interstate 494 near Highway 61 in Newport, Minn. Sunday afternoon.
Authorities ID Victim In Red Wing Moped Accident
Authorities said a 49-year-old Red Wing man on a moped was killed Wednesday morning in a crash with a car on Highway 61. The Minnesota State Patrol identified the victim as Michael Szymanski.
1 Dead After Scooter, Car Collide In Red Wing
One person is dead after colliding with a vehicle on Highway 61 in Red Wing, according to authorities. The Minnesota State Patrol said the accident happened around 6 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Highway 61 and Hill Street.
Diesel Fuel Spill Reaches Lake Superior
Regulators are monitoring a small diesel fuel spill that reached Lake Superior. A semi overturned on Highway 61 near Little Marais Tuesday afternoon, spilling about 75 to 80 gallons of diesel out of its fuel tank.
Demolition Crews Get To Work On Old Hastings Bridge
Demolition began on the Hastings Bridge this Wednesday, as motorists in the Twin Cities bid farewell to "Old Blue." Crews started tearing down the landmark bridge at 7 a.m. The demolition crews will begin by removing the decking on the downtown side.
New Hastings Bridge Opening To Traffic
This morning drivers who use Highway 61 to get to and from Wisconsin are going to notice a big change. The new Hastings Bridge is opening. The bridge over the Mississippi has been under construction for three years.
Driver Killed In Single Vehicle Crash In East Metro
A 35-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle accident Sunday night on Highway 61 in the east Twin Cities metro, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.


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A solid foundation of basic math skills is essential for early success in math. Children who can connect their understanding of math to the world around them will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The games and puzzles in this workbook are designed to help children enjoy practicing their math skills. Best of all, they'll have lots of fun doing it! Here's a peek at what's inside: Hide and Seek Counting objects in a picture, such as animals on a farm or shapes on a truck, helps bolster skills such as counting and identifying shapes. Domino DotsPutting dominoes in different formations reinforces skills such as number recognition, "less than" and "more than," and completing patterns. Picking PairsDrawing lines to connect objects that belong together, like a paintbrush and watercolor set, pail and shovel, or animals with their homes, sharpens sorting skills. Treasure HuntFollowing directions to the real pirate treasure, and avoiding the fake ones, gives children practice with maps. Plus!Game PiecesThe workbook includes spinners, dominoes, tangram pieces, and pattern blocks for children to cut out and use with the games and puzzles. Give your child's confidence in math a boost with Kindergarten Math Games & Puzzles.
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Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Dept. hosted a Safe Kids Halloween Event at
their Central Precinct on Bull Street Thursday night.
and volunteers handed out candy and there were lots of spooky Halloween lights,
props and music.
Devonn Adams was surprised by the turnout.
was great. It was larger than we thought. We had a lot of people come up and it
was a sight to see the kids in different costumes. The officers enjoyed it and
everyone had a great time."
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International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
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Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 0952-6862
Published by Emerald [308 journals] [SJR: 0.327] [H-I: 22]
- Saudi Arabian ICU safety culture and nurses' attitudes
- Authors: Abdulrahman S. Alayed et al
Abstract: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 581-593, August 2014. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine nurses' attitudes towards safety culture in six Saudi Arabian intensive care units (ICUs). Design/methodology/approach – The study is descriptive with a cross-sectional design. The Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ)-ICU version was distributed and 216 completed questionnaires were returned. Findings – The findings provide a basis for further research on Saudi Arabian ICU safety culture. This study showed that the SAQ-ICU can be used to measure safety climate to identify areas for improvement according to nurse attitudes and perceptions. Findings indicate that ICU safety culture is an important issue that hospital managers should prioritise. Practical implications – The SAQ-ICU questionnaire, used to measure safety climate in Saudi Arabian ICUs, identifies service strengths and improvement areas according to attitudes and perceptions. Originality/value – To the knowledge, this is the first study to use SAQ to examine nurses' safety culture attitudes in Saudi Arabian ICUs. The present findings provide a baseline and further details about Saudi Arabian ICU safety. Study participants represented nine nationalities, indicating the nursing workforce's diversity, which is expected to continue in the future. Such a nursing cultural heterogeneity calls for further studies to examine and evaluate attitudes and values to improve ICU safety culture.
PubDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:21:56 GMT
- Authors: Abdulrahman S. Alayed et al
- Implementation of patient-focused care: before-after effects
- Authors: Bodil Wilde-Larsson et al
Abstract: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 594-604, August 2014. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate an organizationally oriented, patient-focused care (PFC) model's effects on care quality and work climate. Design/methodology/approach – The study has a before-after (PFC implementation) design. The sample included 1,474 patients and 458 healthcare providers in six participating wards before and after PFC implementation, plus five additional randomly chosen wards, which only featured in the post-assessment. Findings – No pre-post differences were found regarding care perceptions or provider work climate evaluations. Statistically significant improvements were noted among provider care evaluations. Using aggregate-level ward data, multiple regression analyses showed that high adherence to PFC principles and a positive work climate contributed significantly to variance among care quality ratings. Research limitations/implications – Among healthcare providers, questions related to specific PFC aspects during evenings, nights and weekends had to be dropped owing to a low response rate. Practical implications – An important requirement for both practice and research is to tailor PFC to various health and social care contexts. Originality/value – The study is large-scale before-after PFC model review, where patient and provider data were collected using well-established measurements.
PubDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:21:54 GMT
- Authors: Bodil Wilde-Larsson et al
- Discharge planning in a cardiology out-patient clinic: a clinical audit
- Authors: Shirley Ingram et al
Abstract: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 573-580, August 2014. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to audit the active discharge (DC) planning process in a general cardiology clinic, by pre-assessing patients' medical notes and highlighting those suitable for potential DC to the clinic physician. Design/methodology/approach – The cardiology clinical nurse specialist (CNS) identified patients' for nine- to 12-month return visits one week prior to attendance. The previous consultation letter was accessed and information was documented by the CNS in the medical record. The key performance indicator (KPI) used was patient DCs for each clinic visit. The process was audited at three separate times to reflect recommended action carried out. Findings – The CNS pre-assessment and presence at the clinics significantly increased total DCs during the first period compared to usual care, 11 vs 34 per cent (p
PubDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:21:52 GMT
- Authors: Shirley Ingram et al
- Hospital rounding – EHR's impact
- Authors: Chih-Yang Tsai et al
Abstract: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 605-615, August 2014. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the time spent on various tasks during physician inpatient rounds and to examine the new electronic health records (EHRs) impact on time distribution. Design/methodology/approach – Trained observers shadowed hospital physicians to record times for various tasks before and after EHR implementation. Findings – Electronic records did not improve efficiency. However, task times were redistributed. Physicians spent more time reviewing patient charts using time saved from miscellaneous work. Research limitations/implications – The study focusses solely on work distribution and the changes it underwent. It does not include quality measures either on patient results or physician satisfaction. Practical implications – As EHR provides rich information and easier access to patient records, it motivates physicians to spend more time reviewing patient charts. Hospital administrators seeking immediate returns on EHR investment, therefore, may be disappointed. Originality/value – Unlike previous work, this study was conducted in a non-teaching hospital, providing a task-time comparison without any educational and team factor influence. The result serves as a benchmark for many community hospital managers seeking to address the same issue.
PubDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:21:51 GMT
- Authors: Chih-Yang Tsai et al
- Quality indicators for a consultation-liaison psychiatry service
- Authors: Rebecca Wood et al
Abstract: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 633-641, August 2014. Purpose – Consultation-liaison psychiatry (CLP) researchers have not yet developed accepted quality indicators to measure efficiency or effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to combine objective and subjective quality indicators to assess hospital-based CLP service utilisation, efficiency and effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach – Service utilisation rate was calculated over the service's first four years. Patient characteristics and objective quality indicators relating to response timeliness in 2012 were examined. Totally, 41 staff and 52 consecutive patients completed evaluation surveys to subjectively evaluate effectiveness. Findings – The utilisation rate increased initially and then slightly declined to 1.03 per cent of all hospital admissions. In 2012, 91.5 per cent were seen on the same referral day and 99.4 per cent by the next day. The benchmark for urgent referrals was not met (77.4 per cent). Patients rated involvement with the CLP service a positive experience (90 per cent), but were less clear about follow-up plans (68 per cent). Staff believed that the service improved the patients' hospital course (98 per cent) and was communicated well (93-95 per cent). Only 63 per cent agreed that relevant CLP education was provided and 76 per cent rated follow-up plans as clear. Originality/value – This CLP service was evaluated by measuring utilisation rates, referral response timeliness and consumer feedback. Referral to contact time is a useful objective quality indicator but should be combined with subjective yet standardised measures surveying service recipients (patients and referring staff) to be comprehensive and meaningful.
PubDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:21:49 GMT
- Authors: Rebecca Wood et al
- Health and social care workforce planning and development – an
- Authors: Keith Hurst et al
Abstract: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 562-572, August 2014. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issues relating to getting the right health and social care staff with the right skills in the right place at the right time and at the right price. Design/methodology/approach – Key points arising from several master-classes with health and social care managers, supported by a literature review, generated remarkable insights into health and social care workforce planning and development (WP&D). Findings – Flawed methods and overwhelming data are major barriers to health and social care WP&D. Inefficient and ineffective WP&D policy and practice, therefore, may lead to inappropriate care teams, which in turn lead to sub-optimal and costly health and social care. Increasing health and social care demand and service re-design, as the population grows and ages, and services move from hospital to community, means that workforce planners face several challenges. Issues that drive and restrain their health and social care WP&D efforts are lucid and compelling, which leave planners in no doubt what is expected if they are to succeed and health and social care is to develop. One main barrier they face is that although WP&D definitions and models in the literature are logical, clear and effective, they are imperfect, so planners do not always have comprehensive tools or data to help them determine the ideal workforce. They face other barriers. First, WP&D can be fragmented and uni-disciplinary when modern health and social care is integrating. Second, recruitment and retention problems can easily stymie planners' best endeavours because the people that services need (i.e. staff with the right skills), even if they exist, are not evenly distributed throughout the country. Practical implications – This paper underlines triangulated workforce demand and supply methods (described in the paper), which help planners to equalise workloads among disparate groups and isolated practitioners – an important job satisfaction and staff retention issue. Regular and systematic workforce reviews help planners to justify their staffing establishments; it seems vital, therefore, that they have robust methods and supporting data at their fingertips. Originality/value – This paper stock-takes the latest health and social care workforce planning and development issues.
PubDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:21:48 GMT
- Authors: Keith Hurst et al
- Does process flow make a difference to mortality and cost' An
observational study
- Authors: Kate Silvester et al
Abstract: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 616-632, August 2014. Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to investigate the potential relationships between emergency-care flow, patient mortality and healthcare costs using a patient-flow model. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers used performance data from one UK NHS trust collected over three years to identify periods where patient flow was compromised. The delays' root causes in the entire emergency care system were investigated. Event time-lines that disrupted patient flow and patient mortality statistics were compared. Findings – Data showed that patient mortality increases at times when accident and emergency (A&E) department staff were struggling to admit patients. Four delays influenced mortality: first, volume increase and mixed admissions; second, process delays; third, unplanned hospital capacity adjustments and finally, long-term capacity restructuring downstream. Research limitations/implications – This is an observational study that uses process control data to find times when mortality increases coincide with other events. It captures contextual background to whole system issues that affect patient mortality. Practical implications – Managers must consider cost-decisions and flow in the whole system. Localised, cost-focused decisions can have a detrimental effect on patient care. Attention must also be paid to mortality reports as existing data-presentation methods do not allow correlation analysis. Originality/value – Previous studies correlate A&E overcrowding and mortality. This method allows the whole system to be studied and increased mortality root causes to be understood.
PubDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:21:44 GMT
- Authors: Kate Silvester et al
- Physician recruitment and retention in rural and underserved areas
- Authors: Dane M. Lee et al
Abstract: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 642-652, August 2014. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges when recruiting and retaining rural physicians and to ascertain methods that make rural physician recruitment and retention successful. There are studies that suggest rural roots is an important factor in recruiting rural physicians, while others look at rural health exposure in medical school curricula, self-actualization, community sense and spousal perspectives in the decision to practice rural medicine. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive literature review was performed using Academic Search Complete, PubMed and The Cochrane Collaboration. Key words were rural, rural health, community hospital(s), healthcare, physicians, recruitment, recruiting, retention, retaining, physician(s) and primary care physician(s). Inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed full-text articles written in English, published from 1997 and those limited to USA and Canada. Articles from foreign countries were excluded owing to their unique healthcare systems. Findings – While there are numerous articles that call for special measures to recruit and retain physicians in rural areas, there is an overall dearth. This review identifies several articles that suggest recruitment and retention techniques. There is a need for a research agenda that includes valid, reliable and rigorous analysis regarding formulating and implementing these strategies. Originality/value – Rural Americans are under-represented when it comes to healthcare and what research there is to assist recruitment and retention is difficult to find. This paper identify the relevant research and highlights key strategies.
PubDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:21:42 GMT
- Authors: Dane M. Lee et al


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The whole civil libertarian message only really seems to catch fire among liberals when there's a Republican in the White House," says (Chase) Madar. When there's not a bumbling Texan to inveigh against, all the sudden issues that were morally black and white become complex, and liberal media starts finding nuance where there wasn't any before.
It's too soon for rebellion.
Chris Hedges finds problems galore in our nation and federal government. Hedges is right about the problems, but dead wrong about the solution. If the system doesn't work, there is a civilized process to fix it. If that is thwarted, then you can talk to me about revolution
John Lennon err, Hedges.
Resignation, I say, is the domain of political failure.


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Yunho, trying to wake Junsu up.
I swear this guy is the sweetest thing ever
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"I miss you."
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mlfao can you pls take my face off yer blog nao
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omg guys hi welcum 2 my ancient blog :((
» filed under: #wat my last update was 6 months ago #/feels bad
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sharrup stop trying to be modest it's all a LIE. //ARE YOU GOING TO STAY FOR LONG THIS TIME OR will you disappear again =.="
yes maybe around a month idk tbh D8 BUT lmfao jk i was lurking all this while ok not telling but um
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oh G0d bby u r S3xy and u kn0 eet1!!1!! sarang!!! <33333334353
junxia replied to your post: junxia replied to your post: omg finally i can log…
/sloppy kisses you right back. WAE don't you remember tho TRY. i miss your pretty graphics on my dash okay.
lmfao YES i'll try ok. wat pretty graphics. pmsl.
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junxia replied to your post: omg finally i can log in!!11!!!1!!!!1 8D
mah kokoro is crumbling with joy /snuggles withchuuuu
h0Lds ur kokoro bb!!1!!! 8'D /sloppy kisses u
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omg finally i can log in!!11!!!1!!!!1 8D
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when junsu calls changmin 'hyung' it's an honest accident.
he tries to cover it up with a hurried oyaji gag, but changmin laughs all the way through his jokes and into his protests. 'it's not funny,' junsu mutters, his brow creased in frustration, and changmin just replies 'of course, of course not – dongsaeng.'
'changminnie.' junsu whines, swinging a fist at him.
and changmin grabs junsu's hand with his firm, large one easily – and holds on like there's nothing strange about it at all. 'quiet, dongsaeng' he laughs.
junsu is quiet.
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A few nice internet service images I found:
Image by Marion Doss
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 20, 2008) Information Systems Technician 2nd Class David Coulter troubleshoots a satellite connection for Internet services aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Bonhomme Richard is participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise 2008. RIMPAC is the worldÕs largest multinational exercise and is scheduled biennially by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Participants include the U.S., Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, the Netherlands, Peru, Republic of Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jennifer R. Hudson/Released)
Haiko de Poel, Jr. at Affiliate Summit East 2008
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There are two sides to all issues and we will entertain audience questions for a panel of industry leaders.
Haiko de Poel, Jr., Managing Partner, dp internet services, LLC DBA ABestWeb (Moderator)
Connie Berg, CEO, FlamingoWorld.com, LLC
Chuck Hamrick, Affiliate Manager, www.affiliatecrew.com/
Michael Jones, Chief Operating Officer, Pepperjam
Brian Littleton, President / CEO, www.shareasale.com
Paul Nichols, Director of Sales, www.ebates.com/
Audio of the session is available at www.geekcast.fm.


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Karim Benzema: Real Madrid - If I Ruled The World 2012
Great Karim Benzema compilation, fantastic editing & effects.
Mute is definitely recommended if you can't handle the music. If I Ruled the World.
Real Madrid is all in
SUPERCOPA: Why Real Madrid Dominated Barcelona - A Display of Jose
From the days on leading from the start, I knew that this was a big match for Madrid for more reasons than just being the clasico. Over the last three seasons Los Merengues have been absolutely dominated by their rivals Barcelona, especially at their home ground of the Bernabeu with multiple 5+ goal defeats. Knowing Mourinho from his days at Chelsea, I knew that he was going to change the mentality for this match, because he knows Barcelona's only collective strength is also their only collective weakness.
If you pressure Barcelona by man marking, they will have no room to pass or receive the ball. It worked the whole match. The whole match. But Barcelona are especially lucky because they happen to have two of the indisputable best strikers in the world David Villa & Leo Messi, what other players can pull out what they did out of nothing. With that said:
I've never seen Pep Guardiola look so worried.
Barcelona were getting bossed by Madrid, it seemed that order had been restored in the Capital. They had done everything right. But… Messi… and Villa… Mourinho was frustrated too. They had the perfect game plan that was being executed perfectly. They went up a goal, they saw majestic performances from each & every one of their players including Ozil, Marcelo, young Fabio Coentrao & Jose Callejon, Benzema, Higauin, Ronaldo. His forwards were tracking back to defend, his midfielders never stopped moving their feet (when Xabi Alonso scores - everything is working for you.) For the first time in a long time los merengues moved as one on the pitch, pressuring, getting physical, looking English? But still there was Messi & Villa.
I don't think Mourinho could have been more frustrated either, he did everything right, he saw his players perform the best they have in years, not only with him, but still they did not win. I know Jose must not have slept much that night. His 26 training sessions, & multitude of preseason matches were training his squad to be victorious in this symbolic moment. And they were in every way but on the scoreline and that just isn't good enough. It was clear this match meant a lot more to Real, than Barca, but then again, a loss would have meant more to them too. Although the losers of the Supercopa with always say it doesn't really matter, for the victors it is vitally important for the mentality of the team going into the new campaign. The mentality that Mourinho is having sleepless nights trying to alter & change.
This was a start, a masked & silent victory. I think now he knows, it can be done & they will do it again. After all, Barcelona play like Barcelona, they have no plan B. It's a fact to be exploited if only someone knew how, it's a race to be the one who does it first on the biggest stage. Expect more of the same on Wednesday, and a bit more tweaks by an adventurous & determined Jose.
special thanks to umakoo for backing up my useless twitter posts with video evidence online - thank you
Real Madrid vs 109 kids in Guangzhou, China:
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