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|DRC: Ceasefire proposal agreed
|Lesotho: No compensation for looted business
Five countries involved in
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict agreed to
sign a ceasefire, along with the rebel Rassemblement
Congolais pour la Democratie (RCD), Namibian President
Sam Nujoma announced on 18 January. The announcement
followed talks in the Namibian capital Windhoek between
the presidents of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Uganda,
and Angolas defence minister.
A statement issued by participants after the meeting said significant progress had been made towards achieving greater mutual understanding.
According to media reports,
the rebels welcomed the initiative but now had to examine
the text in detail. The RCD was not invited to the
Windhoek meeting.
On Tuesday, Rwanda urged the rebels to sign the ceasefire agreement, Reuters reported. The RCD should be led one way or another to place their signature on the accord, Rwandan Foreign Minister Anastase Gasana said.
He confirmed that Kigali would sign the agreement, reached by Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Rwanda on 18 January 1999. (IRIN)
businesses devastated in Septembers political
upheaval had claimed about R300 million from the Lesotho
National Insurance Group. However, very few businesses
affected, less than 2 percent, would benefit, and these
were big companies covered for politically motivated
damage, for which about R40 million had been claimed, the
vice-chairman of the Lesotho Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, Thabang Nyewoe said last month.
Most of the businesses destroyed, which had claimed about R240 million from the LNIG, were covered by standard policies related to damage from fire or theft, and insurers would not pay them out for the damage incurred in Septembers riots. Nyewoe said the LNIG would consider paying businesses which had political riot insurance cover.
The shareholders of the LNIG are British and German insurance groups and the Lesotho government.
Referring to security problems, Nyewoe said there was a hit list of traders who were targeted to be killed. After the crisis in the wake of the May general election, the spate of killings of traders had become serious and would adversely affect investment, he said.
Business leaders expressed concern over the lack of security in the operation of their businesses and criticised the slovenly manner in which the police dealt with crime reported by the business community. (MRB)
|Samora Machel monument inaugurated
Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and Nelson Mandela of
South Africa on 19 January inaugurated a monument to the
memory of Mozambiques first president, Samora
Machel, and the 34 others who died when the presidential
aircraft crashed into a hillside in the South African
locality of Mbuzini on 19 October 1986.
The monument has been built at the crash site. Designed by Mozambican architect Jose Forjaz, the monument incorporates some of the wreckage of the plane. Central to the monument are 35 tubes of special steel, representing the 35 Mbuzini victims.
The tubes are so well constructed that, when the wind blows, they emit sounds of various tones. It therefore appears as if the monument itself is singing a lament for the Mbuzini dead.
The South African government paid for the monument, which cost about US$240,000.
Exactly how Samora Machels aircraft, a Soviet-manufacured Tupolev 134, which was returning from a summit in Zambia to Maputo, came to be so far off course, is still not clear. But the available evidence points to the use of a decoy radio beacon, broadcasting on the same frequency as the Maputo beacon, to lure the plane to its destruction. The only people with the motive and capacity to mount such a decoy were the South African military of the apartheid era.
A Mozambican government
source, cited in a recent issue of the daily paper Noticias,
declared: We believe this was a an act of
terrorism, and probably an act of state terrorism.
Building monuments is good, but the best way to honour the liberation struggle in this region would be to clarify who killed Samora Machel, added the source.
A unilateral inquiry held by the apartheid regime blamed the dead Soviet pilot for the crash, but the Mozambican authorities never accepted the legitimacy of this inquiry or its conclusions.
In 1996, on the 10th anniversary of the crash, Mandela promised to resume the investigations, pledging that we shall leave no stone unturned to ensure that, in the fullness of time, nothing but the whole truth is known about these events. (AIM)
Angola: Diamond sales fuel war
Military analysts believe the heavy fighting in the highlands will settle into a long drawn-out struggle as government forces fight to take the Unita headquarters bases of Bailundo and Andulo. The siege of Kuito in 1993-4 resulted in an estimated 30,000 deaths, while the siege of Huambo led to the deaths of an estimated 10,000 people.
In this situation the battle between the two sides is increasingly likely to be decided by their respective economic resources - a battle between diamonds and oil. The government is facing falling world oil prices and consequently substantial drops in its revenues; Unita is facing a military limitation to its diamond diggings as well as sanctions against the sale of smuggled gems. And its profits are dropping with the fall in the world price for diamonds. It is seeking to boost its revenues by increasing smuggling through new routes including rebel held DR Congo.
On the government side the war against Unita eats up more than 16 percent of the budget. Oil accounts for 90 percent of Angolas export revenue and in 1999 is expected to bring in some $4.5 billion, or around 42 percent of gross domestic product, but world oil prices are expected to fall further.
Angola has a $600 million trade deficit, and a foreign debt of more than $6 billion. (MRB)


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Her primary research examines the impact of psychological distress upon risk of and recovery from sport injury. Specifically, she's interested in the relationship between personality factors (e.g., optimism, hardiness, self-esteem) and coping, and the subsequent effects of those upon athletes' health status and sport performance. Other research interests include athletes' clinical reactions to injury (i.e., traumatic distress, depression), and the effectiveness of mental skills training for injury prevention, rehabilitation, and athletes' return to play.
Her primary teaching responsibilities include: KIN 743 - Psychological aspects of sport injury and rehabilitation, KIN 744 - Applied sport and exercise psychology, and KIN 746- Practicum in applied sport and exercise psychology. Dr. Appaneal is a member of the sports medicine team for UNCG Athletics and contributes to athletic training education regarding psychosocial issues and referral.
Dr. Appaneal has been consulting with athletes, teams, and coaches since 1995. She is a Certified Consultant in applied sport psychology (AASP-CC) and a member of the USOC Sport Psychology Registry. In addition, she is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in North Carolina and a National Certified Counselor (NCC). Beyond her work with athletes of all ages and competitive levels, Dr. Appaneal has also consulted in a variety of behavioral medicine settings. For example, she has worked with patients with chronic disease and pain related to their emotional adjustment, coping, and adoption / maintenance of physical activity and other healthy lifestyle behaviors.
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The American Hockey League announced suspensions to two players of the Hershey Bears, the minor league affiliate for the Washington Capitals.
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Self-confessed Mauriceville hippie Dave Clifton has just become a Kiwi after 50 years of living, working, and raising children in New Zealand.
Mr Clifton, who shares a home with partner Barbara Nightingale at the small country settlement north of Masterton, said upcoming international travel had led to his decision to swear in as a New Zealander at a citizenship ceremony in the town on Thursday
A dozen people, including two children, were confirmed as new citizens at the ceremony at the Masterton Town Hall. Their home nations included Britain, South Africa, Samoa, India and Romania.
Mr Clifton's family, originally from Cambridge, England, had lived in the United States for about five years before shifting to Wellington, where his father, Paul Clifton, wrote several books and worked as an editor for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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In the 1970s Mr Clifton migrated over the Rimutaka Ranges to Wairarapa.
"I'm a hippie. In the'70s the good life was in the country so I came out here. Looking back, I don't know if it ever was the good life. It's bloody hard work."
Mr Clifton has worked in the district as a freezing worker, store assistant and handyman and now works alongside his partner at Hatuma Lime at Mauriceville, where he drives a frontend loader and completes carpentry repairs and building.
He has not returned to England since a two-year visit in the mid-1970s but travel is back on his horizon, he said, especially with a 17-year-old daughter now "in the finishing stages, if you know what I mean".
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Mom: "And you were all dressed up and wearing a sequined shirt. I told you that J. was cheating on you and that I overheard him making plans to go out some a girl and you just shrugged your shoulders and said, 'He can go out if he wants." The whole dream seemed SO real!"
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ANNAPOLIS - Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to raise Maryland's gasoline tax for the first time in two decades doesn't stand a chance of passing the General Assembly this year, House Speaker Michael Busch said Thursday.
Busch told reporters that the governor's bill to phase in a 6 percent sales tax on gasoline -- a move that eventually would add 18 cents per gallon to the current 23-cents-per-gallon tax -- is as good as dead this session.
The measure is simply too unpopular given how high gas prices have risen this year. Gasoline hit $4 in Maryland on Thursday, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
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|• The Senate approved a bill to create the framework for a public marketplace to provide health care to the uninsured, joining the House. It now goes to Gov. Martin O'Malley for his signature.
|• The House approved raising the high school dropout age from 16 to 17 in 2015. The age would rise to 18 in 2017. The Senate has approved a similar bill, and differences must be worked out.
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|• A bill that prevents the use of sperm or eggs for assisted reproduction without prior permission after the donor dies has cleared the General Assembly.
"There's no appetite within the General Assembly to raise the gas tax," said Busch, D-Anne Arundel. "I think everybody understands that working, middle-class people depend on getting back forth, they see the rise in the gas prices, and that's one thing that I think there's tremendous amount of resistance from in both the House and Senate."
Busch doesn't envision calling a special session later in the year to deal with the gas tax, he said, an idea floated by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Calvert and Prince George's.
Miller has said he wants to have a debate on O'Malley's proposal this session. But he has refused to hold discussions on the bill until the House and Senate reach a budget compromise, and lawmakers remain far apart.
Both leaders expect a budget deal will be reached over the weekend, leaving Monday as the sole day to discuss the gas tax, as well as wrap up all the other legislative activity, by midnight.
Miller would be one of potentially few votes supporting the gas tax hike, he said.
"It doesn't poll well. It never will poll well. It's not about a popularity contest, it's trying to do what's right by the people of your state," Miller said.
"If it can be done fairly, we're going to consider it. I don't know if we'll have the votes. Not a single Republican will vote for it, and a good number of Democrats won't vote for it." The Senate has 35 Democrats and 12 Republicans.
O'Malley admits the gas tax faces a slim chance and instead has been suggesting raising the 6 percent sales tax another penny, dedicating the extra revenue to the state's Transportation Trust Fund.
"The governor remains open to different approaches to resolve this issue, but believes we need to get this done sooner rather than later to resolve our traffic congestion, rebuild our transportation infrastructure and create jobs for our people," said spokeswoman Takirra Winfield.


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The Dean of Students at Central Lake High School says Maris Spaulding's fight against leukemia began about nine months ago. Before that, she played on multiple sports teams and was on the honor roll; always immersed in her school community.
The Dean tells us her family has an amazing faith, and perhaps that faith is what helped get Maris through several trips to DeVos Children's Hospital, in Grand Rapids, for treatment, while everyone here at home rallied around her.
The support they've given one another is what the school district, and this small community is leaning on today.
Visitation for Maris Spaulding will be next Friday night, December 7th, at Mortensen Funeral Home, in Central Lake, from 4:00-9:00. There will also be visitation next Saturday, at Central Lake High School, from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
The funeral is next Saturday at 1:00 p.m., also at the high school.
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How to download streaming video
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There are gigabytes of videos on the internet: YouTube clips, live streams of gigs and sporting events, educational videos, and TV shows. But what if you want to save streaming video and watch it again later?
Unfortunately, online sharing websites do not offer any downloading options, and watching high quality online videos often becomes a mess. If your bandwidth is not enough, it can take too much time to load the video. As for the live streaming videos which aren't available for download or purchase, you can't review them as well. Unless you have Movavi Screen Capture Studio — a handy software for capturing online video or any other kind of screen activity. With Screen Capture Studio you can record online video without slowdowns and save it to your hard drive in any format or for any mobile device you like. Let's see how to record streaming video with this brand new Movavi capturing software.
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Wait until the download is finished then run the installation file and follow simple instructions on how to install the program.
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Run the application and click the icon on the upper-right corner to open the capture modes menu. Select the Online Video preset which has optimal settings for recording streaming movies and shows. You will see a red frame showing the capture area. Adjust it according to the size of the web video window or click the list of capture frames and select Fullscreen if you're going to view and record the video at maximum resolution.
Step 3: Record the webcast
Open the online video, move the frame to capture the exact area you need. Click the REC button to start the screen video recording and Play to view the online streaming video at the same time. Make sure the Audio option is enabled in the Recording Source area.
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Once you've captured the video from the internet, click Stop. You will see a Preview window which allows you to check the captured material and choose one of three options to continue. Click Share to upload the video to YouTube, Facebook, and other websites using the Share Online application or click Edit to improve the screencast within a built-in video editor by cutting or merging it with other video files, adding titles and special effects. The video editor also enables you to burn video files to DVD discs.
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If you don't need video editing and online sharing, save your recording in any video format or convert it for any mobile device right after the stop of screen capturing. Tick the Convert to option and choose one of the video/audio formats (AVI, MP4, FLV, MKV, etc.) or devices (iPod, Android Phones, Nokia, Sony PSP, etc.) from the list below. Then click Convert.
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text: After hours of Grand Theft Auto 3 how many of you got in your car and saw the world in a completely different perspective? I know I was ready to start terrorizing my neighborhood. The Nerf Wii Blaster might just bring the fantasy (or nightmare) a little closer to reality, but in a very safe Nerf way. Based on the pics (no official announcement yet) it looks like the Nerf Wii Blaster doubles as both a Wii controller and an actual Nerf gun. Just simply switch out the modular parts and your either shooting on screen, or at your friend's beady little eyes.


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Former Pittsburgh Pirates Sean Casey joined Seibel, Starkey and Miller on Sportsradio 93-7 The FAN to talk about the Pirates start to the season and whether or not he can see them continuing to play at this level.
Sean is pumped that this team is competing and said he can see them sustaining this success because they have a good group of players here.
The surprise of the season to Casey has been the starting pitching and Sean broke down two of the biggest surprises in Kevin Correia and Charlie Morton, and how they've had so much success. Casey went in-depth breaking down Morton, the confidence he has gained, and how that carries over for him and is putting him in a position to have this kind of success.
We wrapped things up with Casey taking a look at Pirates catcher Ryan Doumit and what the team might have planned for him after spending the entire off-season trying to unload him.


text: Ngo Dinh Luyen First. Mr. Luyen, the first question is the issue of why Bao Dai chose your brother and how he chose him. Yes, to answer, policy, (because France desired assimilation), started out with very liberal ideas, if you like, right, eh? But that resulted in this, which is that in no country dominated, protected, or colonized by France were, wish, of what the Americans thought was indispensable. And it was this, I think, this was the [incomprehensible] of success, as much because one mis-estimated the importance, one ignored


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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC)
GSC Game World's S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is a lot like hanging out with your relatives over the holidays: You find yourself having a better time than you expected, but every once in a while something happens that makes you think, "Why am I here?"
OK, forgive the lame pre-Thanksgiving analogy, but while this prequel to the 2 million unit-selling S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is for the most part a gratifyingly gritty first-person shooter, it suffers from a few glaring issues that can mar the experience.
Published by Deep Silver, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky once again paints a "what-if" scenario that surrounds a disastrous second Chernobyl nuclear power plant incident in 2006. In the year 2011, one full year before the events in Shadow of Chernobyl, you play as Scar, a mercenary who braves the irradiated sectors of the Zone to survive amongst warring factions and bizarre anomalies. Along with taking down rabid creatures and avoiding mysterious emissions called "burnouts," which look like heat shimmering off asphalt, you'll begin to interact with various factions and hear about their plight before deciding which side to fight on.
As with its predecessor, the game is played from a first-person perspective, which helps with the fear factor, and as with most other shooters you'll toggle between available weapons -- such as knife, pistol, shotgun, assault rifle, grenades, bazooka and sniper rifles -- with the mouse's middle scroll wheel or by tapping one of the numbers on the keyboard. But unlike the original game, Clear Sky offers a role-playing game-like twist that also lets you repair or upgrade weapons by visiting key people in their base. Early in the game, you also get a fancy PDA that displays info such as mission objectives, past dialogue and an overhead map that shows bases, enemies, points of interest and even the location of artifacts (think power-ups) that can enhance your performance in a myriad of ways. Some of this information might be too much if you prefer to explore and discover on your own, rather than be spoon-fed, but you don't need to glance at your PDA if you don't want to.
Most of the locations are outdoors and include swamps, wooded areas, abandoned farms, burned-out buildings surrounded by barbed wire, lookout towers, a demolished hospital, streets and heavily guarded bases. Some of these areas will be familiar to Shadow of Chernobyl players. Your main missions are usually assigned from within your faction base and will be fairly clear: escort someone to this point, stifle the resistance, take down the helicopter, or retrieve such-and-such artifact or other items. But you'll often come across a non-player character, perhaps on a darkened road, who may ask you to perform a task such as distract an enemy while others flank its squad, or trade information for a med kit.
The artificial intelligence is particularly good, as events usually don't play out the same way twice --you'll see this often if you don't save the game regularly (see below). Skirmishes can break out differently between rival factions, and enemies will try different ways to take you down (be it tossing grenades or running a half-circle around you while firing a rifle). Mutants will attack from different angles in one game or leave you alone in another. You might notice small touches, like allies who strum a guitar by a roaring campfire and then get up and walk around. There are some scripted events, but the majority of the game is free-form.
While the improved AI adds to the game's believability, it's also plagued with technical bugs that take away from it. Clipping and collision detection problems mean that a character might walk through another or through a wall, or slowly push another character across the ground as he walks into him. Characters will walk in thin air, about a half-foot above the stairs they're supposed to walk on. You can get stuck in odd crevices with no way to get loose.
But before you download the 56 MB patch to repair some of these graphic glitches, be forewarned: Installing this sucker will delete your saved games (I found out the hard way). This is too bad, because the game's DirectX 10-supported graphics are one of its strongest merits until you see someone with half a leg stuck in a rock or doorway. Therefore, take heed and install the patch before you begin to play the game.
Another issue is the lack of an auto-save feature; it's up to you to manually save the game in case you bite the bullet. And this can happen anytime, such as when you're peering through your binoculars and suddenly see yourself face-down on the ground in third-person, with the "You Are Killed" message. Great.
Clear Sky can also be played online with up to 32 players. Along with the usual Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch are two other multiplayer modes: Capture the Artifact (steal the enemy's artifact and bring it back to your base) and my favorite, Artifact Hunt, in which players are split into two groups, Stalkers and Mercenaries, and you must deliver an artifact to your team's base before your opponent does the same. You can upgrade your rank by playing well in online games, and thus unlock better equipment, weapons and weapon abilities (faster firing rate, higher accuracy and so on). Earn money to buy items by fragging others, killing with headshots, finding cash, and (depending on the mode) bringing artifacts back to the base.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky isn't a bad way to spend $40, but you should probably wait -- as with the first game -- for a number of the bugs to be addressed, by way of downloadable patches, before picking up this impressive shooter. The clever RPG elements (mixed with tactical and survival horror elements), expansive environments and high replayability (with the ability to join a different faction each time) make this action game worth trying out for PC fans. It's just too bad it shipped before it was properly tested and fixed, which might hurt its chances of becoming a fall hit.
This review was based on a retail copy of the game provided by the publisher.


text: Morning Briefing and Shadowing (Slide Presentation) On the CUSP: Stop BSIThis PowerPoint slide presentation was shown on July 12, 2011. ContentsSlide 1. Improving Situational Awareness by Conducting a Morning BriefingSlide 2. Situation Awareness: An OverviewSlide 3. Briefing DefinedSlide 4. Effective BriefingsSlide 5. When to Conduct BriefingsSlide 6. Who ParticipatesSlide 7. Morning Briefing ProcessSlide 8. What Happened Overnight That I Need to Know?Slide 9. Where Should Rounds Begin?Slide 10. As You Continue Planning RoundsSlide 11. Do You Anticipate Any Potential Defects During the Day?Slide 12. When You Identify Defects or ProblemsSlide 13. Status of Safety Issues - CUSPSlide 14. On the CUSP: Shadowing Another ProviderSlide 15.Why Do We Need to Shadow?Slide 16. Who Should Have This Experience?Slide 17. How ToSlide 18. Review This ToolSlide 19. Section 1Slide 20. Section 2Slide 21. Section 3-5Slide 22. If You Were Following a NurseSlide 23. If You Were Following a PhysicianSlide 24. How Would You AssessSlide 25. Recommendations and ActionsSlide 26. Our FindingsSlide 27. Our FindingsSlide 28. Our FindingsSlide 29. Our FindingsSlide 30. Discussion Slide 1. Improving Situational Awareness by Conducting a Morning Briefing Return to Contents Slide 2. Situation Awareness--An Overview Members of the team have an understanding of what's going on and what is likely to happen nextTeams are alert to developing situations, sensitive to cues, and aware of their implicationsReturn to Contents Slide 3. Briefing Denied A discussion between two or more people, often a team, using succinct information pertinent to an event.A briefing immediately --Maps out the plan of careIdentifies roles and responsibilities for each team member .Heightens awareness of the situation Allows the team to plan for the unexpected Allows team members' needs and expectations to be metReturn to Contents Slide 4. Effective Briefings Set the tone for the day -- Chaotic versus organized and efficientEncourage participation and ownership by all team membersOrganizes thoughts regarding the procedure Establishes competence Who has what skills Who performs what Who knows what Predicts what will happen later Plans for the unexpected, including equipment, medications, consultsReturn to Contents Slide 5. When to Conduct Briefings Beginning of the day – Morning briefing Prior to any procedure in any setting Situational – Change in patient status results in deviation from plan of care Reporting off breaks Shift changeReturn to Contents Slide 6. Who Participates Physician doing rounds who is responsible for the ICU patients that day Night charge nurseDay charge nurseReturn to Contents Slide 7. Morning Briefing Process Three simple questionsWhat happened overnight that I need to know about? Where should I begin rounds? Do you anticipate any potential defects in the day?Return to Contents Slide 8. What Happened Overnight That I Need to Know About? You should ask --Was there adequate coverage? Were there any equipment issues? Were new cases posted to the ICU? Were there unexpected changes in patient acuity? Were there any adverse events?Return to Contents Slide 9. Where Should Rounds Begin? You should ask --Is there a patient who requires my immediate attention secondary to acuity? Which patients do you believe will be transferring out of the unit today? Who has discharge orders written?Return to Contents Slide 10. As You Continue Planning Rounds You should ask --How many admissions are planned today?What time is the first admission?How many open beds do we have?Are there any patients having problems on an inpatient unit?Return to Contents Slide 11. Do You Anticipate Any Potential Defects in the Day? Patient schedulingEquipment availability or problemsOutside patient testing or road tripsPhysician or nurse staffingProvider skill mixReturn to Contents Slide 12. When You Identify Defects or Problems Assign a person to the issue and have them follow up Identify actions taken to meet any patient or unit needsReport back to the staff what those actions were or will beContinue to report it during morning briefing until it is resolved or use Status of Safety IssuesReturn to Contents Slide 13. Status of Safety Issues - CUSP Image of a blank form for new and completed safety issues.Return to Contents Slide 14. On the CUSP: Shadowing Another Provider Return to ContentsSlide 15. Why Do We Need to Shadow? To gain perspective of the other providers Practice Responsibilities Work environmentTo identify issues that affect teamwork and communication that may affect patient care, patient care delivery, and patient outcomesReturn to ContentsSlide 16. Who Should Have This Experience? Patient care areas as part of CUSPStaff involved in the delivery of patient care in units where culture score indicate a poor score in teamwork and safetyWhen there is a difference of >20 percent in culture scores between provider typesAs part of orientation to a new unitUnits with little collaboration between disciplinesReturn to ContentsSlide 17. How To Review the shadowing tool prior to your shadowing experienceFollow your health care provider through his or her daily activities.Review your list of communication and teamwork problemsDiscuss with the providerMake a plan for resolutionReturn to ContentsSlide 18. Review the Tool Set up with questions and prompts for the personnel using itMake changes that are specific to your unitReturn to ContentsSlide 19. Section 1 Were any health care providers difficult to approach? How did that impact the health care provider you followed? (obtained an order, ignored, etc.)What was the final outcome for the patient? (delay in care, etc.)Return to ContentsSlide 20. Section 2 Did one provider get approached more often for patient issues?Was it because another health care provider was difficult to work with?Return to ContentsSlide 21. Sections 3-5 Did you observe an error in transcription of orders by the provider you followed? Did you observe an error in the interpretation or delivery of an order? Were patient problems identified quickly?Return to ContentsSlide 22. If You Were Following a Nurse Did you observe that in a crisis or when there was an important issue, a nurse's page or phone call was not returned quickly?What was the outcome for this patient?Return to ContentsSlide 23. If You Were Following a Physician What were the obstacles that a physician faced in returning calls or pages? What other factors impacted his or her ability to see patients?Return to ContentsSlide 24. How Would You Assess HandoffsCommunication during a crisisProvider skillStaffingReturn to ContentsSlide 25. Recommendations and Actions What will you do differently in your clinical practice? What would you recommend to improve teamwork and communicationSpecific RecommendationActions Taken Return to ContentsSlide 26. Our Findings Handoffs for 4-hour shifts not thorough, increased opportunity to forget key details as this increased the total number of peoplePhysician consults usually obtained but not always read by the requesting teamNurse often most informed but does not always speak upReturn to ContentsSlide 27. Our Findings Nurse is the provider most often left with patient information to pass on to another provider; few conversations from MD to MDPharmacists did not realize how critical supplying Pyxis and stock drugs wereSome providers avoidedEMR was not accessedReturn to ContentsSlide 28. Our Findings Nurses did not realize how complicated sterile processing was; efforts made to keep trays togetherPOE removed an important step; communicating to RN of stat orderPhysicians unaware of unit policies, depend on RNs to complete taskReturn to ContentsSlide 29. Our Findings Some nursing practices, such as labeling, should be used hospital wideIsolation policies not adhered to -- Primarily physician personnel, consults; required RNs to speak upAssertiveness training indicatedReturn to ContentsSlide 30. Discussion Questions?Return to Contents Current as of October 2011 Internet Citation: Morning Briefing and Shadowing (Slide Presentation): On the CUSP: Stop BSI. October 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/contentcalls/briefing-slides/briefingslides.html


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Opening Keynote by Sean Cribbs "HTTP: The Good Parts"
REST demands we think about resources, representations, and rich interactions; however, it's easy to forget the substrate upon which our beautiful hypermedia APIs "rest".
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Sean Cribbs is a Senior Software Engineer at Basho Technologies, where he has contributed to many aspects of Riak, the distributed database.
REST Fest is an unconference developed by Mike Amundsen and Benjamin Young.
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I think we could have almost had a Battle of the Beards instead of an All Blacks/Canada match. :)
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Canada have some epic beards.
Sebastien will always be god, however i think he has some pretty strong competition here.
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The solo exhibition Virtual Music is a series of abstract paintings that explore the idea that sensory experiences such as music may be translated into visual art. Virtual Music, as the title for the series, suggests a sense of morphing sensory experience from one art form to another. Opening Reception Friday March 1, 2013 | 7:00pm to 9:00pm at the Okotoks Art Gallery


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IT Priorities: Storage & Servers
In this series, we look at the responses to our IT Priorities survey to find out just what business professionals around the world -- and in specific regions -- see to be their most important IT issues. These articles drill down into the wealth of data we've collected to bring you new insights around what your peers are thinking and doing. Stay tuned for more coverage.
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Despite its hype, most Aussie respondents to the ZDNet IT Priorities survey are not venturing into the cloud anytime soon.
IT vendors need to be safe and affordable
According to ZDNet Australia's 2011 ZDNet IT Priorities Survey, customers want to pay less ... and feel safer about it.
Saving data and saving money
As businesses create and gather more and more data, it stands to reason that improving backup, recovery and archiving will be a major focus for many companies.
Kwik Kopy's cloud odyssey
Supporting over 100 printing centres with only five IT staff can be a bit of a strain, which is why Kwik Kopy is now mainly a cloud shop.
After cheap bandwidth, cheap storage
Australian datacentre and cloud providers charge a premium not only because of our population and high-cost bandwidth, but also because they are spending too much on networked storage, according to Coraid, which has appointed an Australian manager on the back of a $50 million investment for worldwide expansion.
Start-up groups get behind Ninefold
Sydney-based networking group Innovation Bay and Melbourne start-up investor AngelCube have joined Ninefold's recently launched Cloud Booster Program.
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Telstra has today unveiled a brand new cloud services portal as part of its $800 million investment into cloud computing.
HP aims to make ARM servers mainstream
Project Moonshot consists of a lab, server development platform and ecosystem. If successful, HP will enable its customers to kick the tyres of ARM servers.
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So let's try this again: WHO knows more about sex, straights who have tried every configuration possible with a straight partner, or homosexuals to whom some of those options are not physically possible...?
MTV is now trying to lure young viewers with a saucy sex show in the "advice" category. They didn't reach for Dr. Drew or God forbid Dr. Ruth or an actual doctor of anything. They turned to filthy sex columnist and gay activist Dan Savage.
The new show is called "Savage U," and it documents Savage touring college campuses to offer snarky/smutty advice to college students. This is MTV's libertine ideology pitched right at children, and Savage is blunt about how he'll be going around the parents.
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The nature of information technology assets is that they may have many technical vulnerabilities, that might be exploited by external attacks. Attacks which are simply automated and indiscriminate, targetting identifiable vulnerabilities in hardware and software irrespective of the organisation that has them. These vulnerabilities include un-patched software, inadequate passwords, poorly coded websites and insecure applications.
The logical point at which you should carry out a penetration test is once you have identified the assets that are to be included in the scope of your ISMS. The penetration test results will identify vulnerabilities in detail, together with the threat that can exploit them, and will usually also identify appropriate remedial action. The identified threats and vulnerabilities will then form a key input to your risk assessment, while the identified remedial action will inform your selection of controls.
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26 March 2012
Sharing in the Cause of Christ (Passion Sun. 2012)
Judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta. –– Introit, Ps. 42:1
Passion Sunday, 25 March 2012
George Clooney is not only an actor; he is also an activist. He devotes a lot of his energies to a cause; namely, the plight of the good people of Sudan.
Now, the greater the good sought, the greater the cause. Accordingly, the greatest cause is that which Our Lord and Savior pursued to gain for us the remission of sin and the reward of eternal life. This cause of Our Lord, moreover, was more than just a passing concern of His. It is the very reason why He assumed a human nature in the first place! Even the name He adopts, the Holy Name, gives us to understand that He identifies Himself completely with His cause. Recall the words of the angel of the Lord to Joseph: "And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name JESUS. For he shall save his people from their sins."1
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As the world mourns Nelson Mandela, here in the U.S. there is a just of tinge of self-pity in all the tributes, like a barely perceptible drone note in a requiem mass. And that note is saying: Why don't we have a figure like Mandela?
OK, considering the man's astonishing biography, it's safe to say that no country on the planet has a figure quite like Mandela. But we'd settle for any public figure who could be a unifying force, who has the moral authority to command respect and admiration enough to be a positive symbol for America in the world. But here in the home of the brave, that figure doesn't exist.
It is a function of our divided culture that public figures, no matter how prominent, can only command half a country. You might say our Mandela is, for example, the Rev. Billy Graham, and though you'd get huzzahs from half the country, you'd get only eye-rolling from the other half. Make the same claim about former President Jimmy Carter and the same thing happens, only vice versa.
Consistently, the names that appear on the Most Admired Americans polls are the same names that appear on the Most Disliked American polls. The annual year-end Gallup poll named as the most admired man and woman in the U.S. at the end of 2012 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. You see our problem, right?
Obviously, the political arena is so toxic that George Washington himself probably could not escape the love him/hate him vortex. Sports culture has taught us in recent years that hero worship is risky business and that heroes can be huge frauds -- see Woods, Tiger; Armstrong, Lance. And in many arenas, heroes are adopted and embraced to use as weapons against the other side -- Tim Tebow for conservative Christians against the heathen media; Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") for liberals against global-warming deniers.
Where is that man or woman who can command respect across the spectrum of cultures in bipolar America? We have to lower our gaze to the more superficial levels of popular culture, and it is there where we tend to fall for images more than substance.
This year is the 10th anniversary of the death of a man who was beloved across all sectors of society, a Presbyterian minister from Pittsburgh named Fred Rogers. The fact that he was widely admired and yet most people probably didn't know his first name tells you that the man known as "Mister Rogers" was an icon more than a human being. By all accounts, he was as kind and decent off camera as he was on camera, but the idea that Mister Rogers is our Mandela is both laughable and sad.
The great Willie Nelson is a guy who can claim broad appeal among both stoners and cowboys, which is as good a reductive stereotype for Blue State and Red State America as any, I suppose. Urban hipsters, college-town folkies and truck-driving rednecks can all find commonality with Willie. He has somehow stumbled into that green room of widespread cross-cultural popularity.
Who else is in there? Bill Murray, for one. As the great comic's public persona has gotten ever more eccentric and deadpan, he's inexplicably become that one weird guy everybody loves. Without pandering to the public's good graces, Murray has somehow built up an enormous reservoir of goodwill and now he's doing backstrokes in it. Every month seems to bring another story of Murray partying with strangers and not playing by the velvet-rope rules of celebrity, and we love him for it. Will Ferrell might one day fit this role, but for now, Murray is a man alone.
Meryl Streep has been admired as a great actress for decades, but it's only been in recent years where her public profile has become more endearing than enduring to where she is now reaching beloved status. Betty White has unexpectedly graduated to beloved-ness by sheer dint of surviving as long as she has while maintaining a great sense of comic timing. And on the other end of the spectrum for women, young Jennifer Lawrence has a certain something that separates her from the legions of starlets in her peer group.
Notice we're pretty far afield from Nelson Mandela, which is exactly the point. In the absence of someone in the public sphere who can embody a kind of nobility that we can all recognize, whatever our political/cultural leanings, we have to settle for mere likeability.
We've become a culture more comfortable with the narcissist jerk and for every Tom Hanks nursing a good-guy persona, we have armies of Alec Baldwins, Kanye Wests and Donald Trumps. These guys will never disappoint us.
Also among those in the Willie Nelson room is the actor Morgan Freeman, known mostly for his sweet-as-molasses speaking voice than anything else. It's his voice that has allowed Freeman to hold the popular audience in his thrall, that and the often dignified and comforting demeanor with which he plays his roles, which includes God, the President and Nelson Mandela. Freeman was among the few non-politicians quoted in the stories immediately following Mandela's death.
So while the world has Mandela, the best America can do to conjure up a moral likeness of Mandela is an actor who played him in a movie. Makes a perverse kind of sense if you think about it.
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10 Signs It's Time to Get A Divorce
As I've been in the middle of my own divorce, having moved out of the family home and into an apartment, I've been open about what I'm going through. Divorce is tricky, and if one person can read the words I write and feel less alone, than it's worth it.
The one thing I've been asked over and over again is this: "how did you know it was time to get a divorce?" It's a simple-sounding question, but the answers are far from simple and they are absolutely not one-size-fits-all.
So I've come up with a list of signs that it may be time to start considering the "D" word.
1) Forget the same page; you're not even on the same book. Most couples go through spells when they're disconnected and can't see eye to eye - it happens and it's nothing to worry about. But when you realize that's become the norm rather than the exception, it may be time to think about other options.
2) You compare your marriage to "the devil you know versus the devil you don't." Once you realize you're sticking it out because it's more comfortable than the alternative, your relationship is in serious danger.
3) You have lost any respect for the other person. Doesn't matter why or how it happened, but you realize that neither one of you respects the other anymore.
4) You begin to fantasize about how much you'd rather be alone - and it doesn't scare you to bits. In fact, the notion of being on your own is somewhat of a relief.
5) You realize that you're being treated in a manner that you do not deserve. Could be disrespect. Could be emotional abuse. Could be passive-aggressive behavior. But you know deep down that you deserve better.
6) All of those traits you once found endearing about your partner now make your teeth grind and your jaw clench.
7) You realize that your partner no longer fulfills any of your needs - emotional, spiritual, physical, or sexual.
8) You've tried a separation to see if that changes matters and it doesn't. You find yourself more frustrated by the situation and your partner than ever.
9) You realize you're only staying together for the kids. Kids know when their parents are miserable, and while divorce is traumatizing, it's important for kids to understand that both Mom AND Dad deserve to be happy.
10) You've seen a marriage counselor to work through your issues and it didn't help. You still cannot see eye to eye, no matter how hard you try.
What are some other signs that it's time for a divorce?
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tuffymamaNovember 21, 2012 at 7:13 PMIMO, the only things that give you a free pass out of a marriage are cheating and abuse. The rest is stuff you can get over if you grow the hell up. I got divorced the first time because he was a serial cheater and he was abusive. The second was stealing my money and abusing drugs, and I couldn't get him to stop either no matter what I tried. I lost my house, my savings and my business because of him. Our confrontations got pretty intense. STILL, I tried to work it out. I worked hard at it, to no avail. I earned my way out. I can never look back and feel I didn't do what I should have done.
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kaeraeNovember 21, 2012 at 7:35 PMWow, Tuffy, for a two-time divorcee, you sure are judgmental about when other people should divorce. If you think being absolutely miserable is okay as long as you're not being beaten or cheated on, best of luck, but don't get all bent out of shape because some people have higher standards and actually want to enjoy their one and only life, which is very brief.
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mariesmamaNovember 21, 2012 at 8:03 PM
i agree with tuffy thats the only 2 reasons i would EVER leave if i was getting beat on or cheated on
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tuffymamaNovember 21, 2012 at 8:12 PMkaerae, I'm not judgmental. I'm not sure why you think I'm bent out of shape...? I said in my opinion. That's what IMO means. And I use my life experience to try and counsel people to avoid my mistakes. Marriage is treated entirely too casually these days. Mine is the generation of the Starter Marriage. I find that shameful and appalling. What about you?
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PonyChaserNovember 21, 2012 at 9:13 PM
I was not being abused. Neither was he. Neither of us cheated. And yet, we're still divorcing. Does that mean we treated our marriage in a cavalier manner? I don't know, we were together for 25 years, 19 of that as man and wife. We'd been through hell and back - a wreck that nearly killed him. After that long, sometimes things in life change a person, and you are no longer married to the same man or woman. We should stay together just because some tradition says that we should?
We are both miserable as husband and wife. Both of us were depressed, medicated, and plodding mechanically through life just waiting for the end. When we finally faced it, that we should divorce? Suddenly we are both optimistic. We are forging a new relationship between us. We have faced the fact that our marriage came to an end, and we are looking forward to the future as friends and parental partners to our son.
Life is too short to say, "we're married and that's it." If you've tried everything, and it's still not working, perhaps it IS time for it to end. Or, in our case, to try something new.
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earlybird11November 21, 2012 at 9:34 PMI dont know if its ever my place to say that there are only certain reasons to divorce but I do know marria think marriage us treated disposible by too manu peiole
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Cel7777November 22, 2012 at 1:12 AM
Tuffymama, I admire your dedication to marriage. That being said, I wonder about what you wrote regarding your second marriage--"I lost my house, my savings and my business because of him"---maybe if you had ended the marriage sooner, you wouldn't have had to essentially lose everything? Obviously I don't know what your situation was at the time, but in my case I have 2 young children, and if my husband were doing things that could devaste us financially and possibly cause my childen to be without a home or basic necessities, I would leave. Even if he weren't abusing me or cheating. I think that interpersonal relationships--especially marriages--are extremely complicated, and can't be put into strict black and white categeories of when it's OK to divorce and when it's not.
Ponychaser, I agree with everything you said. Particularly when you posed the question " We should stay together just because some tradition says that we should?". There seems to be extreme mind-sets on both sides of the divorce topic---those that indeed do take marriage entirely too lightly, and those who choose to remain in an unloving, unfulfilling union just because they don't want to get divorced. IMHO, neither of these mind-sets is healthy or reasonable.
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HaleiwaNovember 22, 2012 at 3:07 PMSomeone who made poor choices in partners because of lack of emotional intelligence giving advice on divorce. Chose two abusers, doesn't see her own culpability at play and wants to give advice on the "proper reasons" to divorce.
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male guestNovember 22, 2012 at 6:53 PMThe guy has the most to lose the majority of the time in any divorce the courts continually SCREW men over and favor women therefore any guy STUPID enough to get married in the first place deserves evry thing he gets.Women get it all kids,money they don't deserve and didn't earn,usually the house,car...and sorry ladies just because you decide "i want out" for no reason whatsoever is no reason for divorce but its profitable for many women to do so and yep the guy always gets screwed...class dismissed.
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male guestNovember 22, 2012 at 6:54 PMThe guy has the most to lose the majority of the time in any divorce the courts continually SCREW men over and favor women therefore any guy STUPID enough to get married in the first place deserves evry thing he gets.Women get it all kids,money they don't deserve and didn't earn,usually the house,car...and sorry ladies just because you decide "i want out" for no reason whatsoever is no reason for divorce but its profitable for many women to do so and yep the guy always gets screwed...class dismissed.


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