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Plastic Packaging Is Good for the Earth?
What if someone told you that plastic packaging was actually GOOD for the earth? In opposition to the environmentalists who are trying so hard to live packaging-free (See How to Live Packaging-Free), there are actually some who argue that it's greener to use packaging. See the argument, after the jump.
Writer James McWilliams of the New York Times' Freakonomics blog writes that plastic-wrapped fruits are a good thing. The argument? That the 1.5 grams of plastic (in the case of cucumbers) extends the life of a fruit or vegetable significantly. In the case of cucumbers, it's 14 days instead of just three. Apples, potatoes and grapes sold in shrink-wrapped trays ends in 27% waste "from home to orchard." According to McWilliams, "the longer food lasts, the better chances there are of someone consuming it."
McWilliams states that what really does matter when it comes to saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions is our behavior in the kitchen. It comes down to us, the consumers, who let food go to waste. McMillian quotes a study that "U.S. consumers throw out about half the food they buy." If each of us went to the grocery store daily and purchased only locally produced food that we needed for the next couple days, we'd negate the need for all the fancy shelf-life extending packaging. But most of us don't have the time, money or energy to do so.
His disclaimer is that in a perfect world, sure, we'd all eat locally produced food, or even produce our own but we don't. In urban areas, it'd be darn near impossible to produce your own food and even buy all of it locally.
McWilliams also argues that we can make an impact by choosing foods that are designed to ensure that we use the entire product. He cites transparent containers (bagged salad, milk bottles, ketchup), re-sealable containers, smooth surfaced containers and containers we can turn upside down as positive packaging accommodations that allow us to use all of their contents. Containers such as individually packaged yogurt, or grooved / non smooth packaging inhabits our ability to get every last drop, and thus, wastes food.
This response article on DailyFinance argues that wasted food, when composted, helps offset the "waste phenomenon" as stated by McWilliams.
So what's your take? Are you sold on the case for packaging?
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I suppose the question is: does a cucumber lasting 11 days longer offset the environmental cost of the plastic it is wrapped in?
Far from sold, but I can see his point.
long lasting?? does it weigh more than the junk and garbage a packed cucumber is going to create?...what about the non biodegradability...its common sense to understand that any freak-o-nomics is just what it is!
Hmmm...I'd have to do some math and consulting before agreeing with the above statement. Okay, maybe to the stereotype of American consumer, it benefits to have plastic wrap, especially when we think about food miles, imports from other countries, etc. But I know for a fact that I don't discard 50% of what I buy--and I don't eat exclusively from one farm type (eg industrial). And, perhaps this is my shelf-life and not transport perception, but I feel like a lot of packaging is there more for appealing looks, branding, and convenience. I guess you could build some kind of benefits model to see which one works best (plastic with longevity vs. plastic-free and susceptible). For my personal demographic, I'm still holding on to making purchases with little to no packaging.
The great oceanic garbage patch = smackdown on this argument. "Off" fruits and vegetables can be composted. Even if you end up with moldy cucumbers in your fridge, it doesn't take that much energy, once you get a composting system set up, to turn that dead cuke into humus. Plastic is forever. It's true that not everyone has a backyard for composting but there are very often garden groups who are actively looking for compostable waste. Busy is a lame argument for not switching gears; any habit change is hard, but once you have a system in place as far as better shopping, cooking and eating habits it's not all that hard. I vote not to let American consumers off the hook on this one, this is exactly the opposite of the direction we need to go.
The title of this post is completely misleading. While excessive plastic packaging may preserve the shelf life of foods, it does anything but that for the planet. Folks should consider wrapping produce in the plastic bags acquired from previous grocery trips.
So it is in fact buying only what you need and eating it before it's spoiled, not wrapping it in plastic, that is good for the earth.
But nice try spinning it for plastic, mate.
As oposing as it might seem to the other commentors here i do think the author has a point. If a wrapped cucumber can be sold for 9 days more than without wrapping the chances of somebody bying and eating it are 4 times greater. other wise the shop needs to replace the unsold cucumber 3 times. so thats 3 cucumbers wasted. especially as we can't have a compost in our area, and all waste gets burned. so In our area it means that if the cucumber gets thrown out it will only be one and not four that end up in the burner.
Although I do agree that if people would be more consious and thoughtfull about their food and consumerism, the packaging could be avoided. But allas, we can only by packaged foods in our nearest supermarket.
In the case of cucumbers, the plastic packaging means that it lasts more than four times longer than non-packaged cukes. That means that without the packaging, we'd need to produce four times as much. That's not only four times the fertilizer, four times the land, and four times the carbon footprint, but four times the waste. Most grocers and the vast majority of people don't compost, so realistically, biodegradable plastic may be a good option when available.
I recently read something about the human need to express our puritanical urges. I'd always assumed this was the crutch of "other" societal groups, but it was rightly pointed out that we "liberals" can be fairly puritanical about our food. As someone who tries to "eat right" and has switched to a mainly vegetarian diet over the last year, I was a little taken aback at my own susceptibility. It's helped me to reign in my kneejerk reactions. Do I still buy at the farmers market even though that food typically has a significantly higher carbon footprint? Do I avoid the packaged foods even though they lead to significantly less waste? Do I shop daily even though it takes many more trips to the store and burns more carbon fuel?
It's almost like taking the easy way out to regurgitate the mantras we've held dear for so long and bury our heads in the sand, but I think it comes down to what cause is nearest and dearest to you. Are you worried about global warming? Then maybe it's best to take advantage of the smaller carbon footprint of factory farms and packaged goods. Is it supporting the local economy? Then maybe you shop exclusively at the farmers market. The answers are different for each of us. All I'm suggesting is that you take the time to stop and consider all the factors before dismissing something as bad simply because that's what we've always been told.
Um, maybe I'm missing something, but the answer seems pretty obvious to me. Plastic wrap makes your food last longer, yeah. But your cucumber or your head of lettuce will rot right back into the earth in a relatively short amount of time. That plastic is going to take a whoooole lot longer.
We don't waste much food around here- when we do, it's usually because we try something new and it ends up being disgusting. If you're wasting so much food that the plastic seems like it would be better for the planet, it seems to me that the simple solution is just buying less food at a time. Also, if you still have some veggies going limp, make a nice big pot of soup.
I agree that we need to question our assumptions and be flexible and not puritanical, but in this case it is just a matter of common sense -- as acbuiten pointed out, it's the fact that organic matter rots back into the earth; plastic does not. And plastic has a whole range of negative effects on the environment which far outweigh having to produce three times the cucumbers, hormone disruption being only one of those factors. I think the earlier suggestion of reusing plastic bags is a good solution. And I'm just sort of perplexed by this whole thing - why start doing this now? Extra packaging *is* a problem, especially when it doesn't biodegrade very well and/or introduces a host of life-unfriendly materials into the water and soil? Also, I think there's the whole issue of the deep dysfunction that runs through the whole industrial food system. Not that we have a handy replacement at the moment, but I think it is imperative for people to start thinking about how to NOT eat in these sorts of ways. Of course you have to respond to the environment you find yourself in, but why not push for a better solution than this? What we have in place right now is a bunch of strung together solutions like this one that take the place of true, systemic change for the better in our food system.
Well said!! :)
PS, just saw "biodegradable plastic" in the earlier post, my apologies. That is a much better solution. Still, better to try to train people out of using extra packaging when possible. Thanks for the thought provoking post.
"In the case of cucumbers, the plastic packaging means that it lasts more than four times longer than non-packaged cukes. That means that without the packaging, we'd need to produce four times as much."
How does this follow? There's no economic law saying that a cucumber is wasted if it can't sit on the shelf for nine days. The store probably just wouldn't stock as many cukes at a time so that they would sell all they had without letting them rot. When I worked in a grocery store, we bought small quantities of veggies that rotted super quickly and larger quantities of those that lasted longer. Hence we had a few boxes of tomatoes coming in a few times a week, but a large pallet of potatoes just once a week. I'm not seeing how that 27% more waste is being generated.
Even if urban areas can't produce their own produce, they could easily buy a lot MORE local than they do now. My dad is a trucker, and primarily hauls refrigerated items like produce. He is always laughing about the fact that he hauls loads of the same product across the country in both directions during the same season. Like shipping apples from Michigan to Washington and Washington to Michigan. Happens all the time.
And yeah, plastic is forever.

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Shellos (Japanese: カラナクシ Karanakushi) is a Water-type Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Majestic Dawn expansion.
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|Shellos - Sea Slug Pokémon
|1'00" (0.3 m)
|13.9 lbs. (6.3 kg)
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|It lives along bodies of water. Its body shape has changed to suit its habitat.
|みずべに せいそくする。せいそくちの かんきょうに あわせて からだの かたちが へんかした。
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This card was released in Japan as part of a Meiji Chocolate campaign in March 2008. It was subsequently reprinted as a holographic card in the Regigigas LV.X Collection Pack released in April 2009.
The "East Sea" part of Shellos's name is a subcategorization of the card to allow it to only evolve into its respective Gastrodon form.
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Bend over and get used to it if you aren't already, Mr. and Mrs. American Taxpayer. And if you're enjoying it, grab a big tube of K-Y and vote McCain-Palin.How low can we go?
A desperate Senator John McCain, watching his poll numbers slip, has decided to "bring up questions of character" about his opponent, Senator Barack Obama. This is political code for "smearing the shit out of him" with lies, innuendoes, character assassination and guilt by association.
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Then there's Palin's Wasilla Assembly of God pastor Ed Kalnins, who is on record as slating the so-called Rapture to take place in Alaska. Despite the fact that the "consorting with dubious religious leaders" issue would seem to be a wash, expect the McCain campaign to bring it up at every opportunity, as well as the non-relationship between Ayres and Obama, and the fact that the Senator from Illinois' middle name is Hussein.
That Democrats will then complain that Obama is being a wuss if he doesn't get down into the dirt with the Republicans is a given — and a guarantee that this thing will get just as ugly and stupid as we fear.
Far more sinister and effective is something we like to call "stealing the election," a Karl Rove specialty that you will undoubtedly see employed by Steve Schmidt, a Rove protégée. It was popular in 2000 and 2004 and may be the only thing that will give McCain a victory this year.
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On September 11, 2013, Rimage Corporation (the "Company") entered into an Amendment No. 1 dated as of September 11, 2013 (the "Amendment") to the Rights Agreement, dated as of September 17, 2003, by and between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, N.A. as rights agent.
Under the terms of the Amendment, the expiration date of the Company's shareholder rights plan contemplated by the Rights Agreement has been extended. Following the Amendment, the shareholder rights plan will continue in effect to September 16, 2016, or such earlier date that the Company redeems the rights. The Amendment also includes changes to the definition of "Acquiring Person" to increase the ownership threshold triggering the rights from 15% to 20%. The Amendment changes the definition of "Beneficial Owner" to cover certain derivative transactions that might not be included in the definition beneficial ownership under Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Rights Agreement is also amended to change the purchase price for the exercise of rights under the rights plan to $35 from $100. The Company intends to put the Rights Plan, as amended by the Amendment, before the Company's shareholders for approval at its next annual meeting of shareholders.
A copy of the Amendment is attached as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report and is incorporated herein by reference. A copy of the Rights Agreement as originally executed is attached as Exhibit 1 to the Form 8-A Registration Statement of the Company filed on September 18, 2003 and is incorporated herein by reference. This foregoing summary of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1.
The summary of the Amendment in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.03.
On September 12, 2013, the Company issued a press release which announced the Amendment referred to under Item 1.01 above. A copy of the press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report.
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operations research
Summary: A group of techniques developed to apply scientific methods and tools to solve the problems of DECISION MAKING in complex organizations and systems. Operations research searches for optimal solutions in situations of conflicting GOALS and makes use of mathematical models from which solutions for actual problems may be derived. (From Psychiatric Dictionary, 6th ed)
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- A study of the effects of innovative and efficient practices on the performance of hospice care organizationsEric G Kirby
Department of Management, McCoy College of Business Administration, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 32:352-9. 2007..Hospice care organizations have responded to these pressures by pursuing more efficient and innovative business practices...
- Overcoming the barriers to implementation of operations research simulation models in healthcareSally Brailsford
School of Management, University of Southampton, UK
Clin Invest Med 28:312-5. 2005Since the 1960s, Operations Research models have been applied to a range of healthcare problems...
- Can modeling of HIV treatment processes improve outcomes? Capitalizing on an operations research approach to the global pandemicWei Xiong
Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 8:166. 2008..We describe the application of classic operations research (OR) techniques to address logistical and resource management challenges in HIV treatment scale-up ..
- Capacity building for international tuberculosis control through operations research trainingK F Laserson
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 9:145-50. 2005..This includes setting program priorities, operations planning, and implementing and evaluating program activities...
- The published research paper: is it an important indicator of successful operational research at programme level?R Zachariah
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Operational Centre Brussels, 68 Rue de Gasperich, Luxembourg
Trop Med Int Health 15:1274-7. 2010..We present arguments to support publishing operational research from low-income countries; we highlight some of the main reasons for failure of publication at programme level and suggest ways forward...
- Integration of operational research into National Tuberculosis Control ProgrammesAnthony D Harries
Malawi National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Community Health Science Unit, Private Bag 65, Lilongwe, Malawi
Tuberculosis (Edinb) 83:143-7. 2003..Finally, there should be strong advocacy for operational research, so that government policy makers can be convinced of its value...
- The Union and Médecins Sans Frontières approach to operational researchA D Harries
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 15:144-54, i. 2011....
- The Sydney Declaration: a call to scale up researchDavid Cooper
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lancet 370:7-8. 2007
- An approach to the problems of diagnosing and treating adult smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in high-HIV-prevalence settings in sub-Saharan AfricaA D Harries
College of Medicine, Chichiri, Blantyre, Malawi
Bull World Health Organ 76:651-62. 1998..Nevertheless, substantial improvement could be obtained by implementing the effective measures already available, such as improved adherence to diagnostic and treatment guidelines...
- Designing pediatric vaccine formularies and pricing pediatric combination vaccines using operations research models and algorithmsSheldon H Jacobson
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Expert Rev Vaccines 2:15-9. 2003..This review discusses how operations research models can be used to address the economics of pediatric vaccine formulary design and pricing, as well as ..
- Discrete event simulation of emergency department activity: a platform for system-level operations researchLloyd G Connelly
School of Medicine, 2315 Stockton Boulevard, PSSB 2100, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:1177-85. 2004..The authors also demonstrate one potential application of EDSIM by using simulated ED activity to compare two patient triage methods...
- Expanding uterotonic protection following childbirth through community-based distribution of misoprostol: operations research study in NepalSwaraj Rajbhandari
Options Cambodia
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 108:282-8. 2010..To determine feasibility of community-based distribution of misoprostol for preventing postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) to pregnant woman through community volunteers working under government health services...
- Current trends in trauma registry the role of the systems analystKatie E Morrison
Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Trauma Nurs 11:75-8. 2004
- Innovation in hospitals: a survey of the literatureFaridah Djellal
Clersé, Ifrési CNRS, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lille 1, Bâtiment SH1, 59 655, Vileneuve d Ascq Cedex, France
Eur J Health Econ 8:181-93. 2007..This approach makes it possible to extend the model of hospital innovation to incorporate new forms of innovation and new actors in the innovation process, in accordance with the Schumpeterian tradition of openness...
- Hospital quality, efficiency, and input slack differentialsVivian G Valdmanis
Department of Health Policy and Public Health, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, PA, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1830-48. 2008..To use an advance in data envelopment analysis (DEA) called congestion analysis to assess the trade-offs between quality and efficiency in U.S. hospitals...
- An analysis of international health care logistics: the benefits and implications of implementing just-in-time systems in the health care industryP Gary Jarrett
Kaiser, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Int J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv 19:i-x. 2006....
- Nurses and the Joint Commission tracer methodologyLinda Murphy-Knoll
Division of Accreditation and Certification Operations, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill 60181, USA
J Nurs Care Qual 21:5-7. 2006
- Assessing performance in complex team environmentsJeffrey N Whitmore
Fatigue Countermeasures Branch, Biosciences and Protection Division, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks City Base, TX 78235, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:C31-3. 2005..Most tasks performed in Command and Control environments are team tasks, and understanding this type of performance is becoming increasingly important to the evaluation of mission success and for overall system optimization...
- Cognitive performance and communications in a network-centric battle laboratoryLouis E Banderet
US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA 01760 5007, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:C21-3. 2005....
- Operational processes and cognitive mappingEdna R Fiedler
National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:C4-6. 2005....
- Performance enhancement of a contract net protocol based system through instance-based learningUmesh Deshpande
IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern 35:345-58. 2005
- Assessing psychoactive pharmaceuticals and transitioning pharmacological fatigue countermeasures into operational environmentsBrandon K Doan
Biosciences and Protection Division, US Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks City Base, TX 78235, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:C34-8. 2005....
- How can ergonomics influence design? Moving from research findings to future systemsSidney W A Dekker
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Industrial Ergonomics, Linkoping Institute of Technology, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Ergonomics 47:1624-39. 2004..Better understanding of the processes necessary to bridge this gap may be critical for progress in ergonomics research and for the use of its findings in actual design processes...
- Towards a systemic understanding of a hospital waiting listJ L Foote
Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited, Christchurch, New Zealand
J Health Organ Manag 18:140-54. 2004..The case study reported helps to shed light on why increasing funding to clear waiting lists proves ineffective...
- When to walk away from a dealGeoffrey Cullinan
Harv Bus Rev 82:96-104, 141. 2004..Successful acquirers pay close heed to the results of such in-depth investigations and analyses--to the extent that they are prepared to walk away from a deal, even in the very late stages of negotiations...
- Organizational research with impact: working backwardsIrene Fraser
Center for Delivery, Organization and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Worldviews Evid Based Nurs 1:S52-9. 2004..The opportunity and challenge for research are to find a way to work with health care leadership so that future management decisions can make use of strong evidence...
- The structure of quality systems is important to the process and outcome, an empirical study of 386 hospital departments in SwedenStefan Kunkel
Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
BMC Health Serv Res 7:104. 2007..The objectives of this study were to analyse whether structure, process, and outcome can be used to describe quality systems, to analyse whether these components are related, and to discuss implications...
- Approaching the management of hospital units with an operation research technique: the case of 32 Greek obstetric and gynaecology public unitsMaria Katharaki
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Egnatias 25, 12137 Athens, Greece
Health Policy 85:19-31. 2008....
- Success factors in hospital network performance: evidence from KoreaKwang Jum Kim
Graduate School of Health Care Management and Policy, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea
Health Serv Manage Res 20:141-52. 2007..The study finds that the quality of cooperation and information sharing between network partners are critical. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for researchers and practitioners...
- Evaluating primary care research networksEvelyn Fenton
Department of Management, The University of Reading Business School, UK
Health Serv Manage Res 20:162-73. 2007..If there is a good fit or congruence between their input factors and network objectives, networks will be internally coherent and able to operate at optimum effectiveness...
- Enhancing healthcare process design with human factors engineering and reliability science, part 1: setting the contextCarol Boston-Fleischhauer
Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA, USA
J Nurs Adm 38:27-32. 2008..An examination of these theories, application approaches, and examples are presented...
- High-performing and low-performing nursing homes: a view from complexity scienceSarah Forbes-Thompson
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 32:341-51. 2007..Some scientists have turned their attention to viewing nursing homes as complex adaptive systems to inform our understanding of organizational performance...
- Organizational and environmental effects on voluntary and involuntary turnoverChristopher Donoghue
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 32:360-9. 2007..There are few studies of voluntary and involuntary turnover in the nursing home literature. Previous research in this area has focused mainly on the linear effects of individual and organizational characteristics on total turnover...
- Operational neuroscience: neurophysiological measures in applied environmentsAmy A Kruse
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 3701 N Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B191-4. 2007..It is our hope that the discussion of this new field of study will galvanize others to increase the confidence and utility of this research through their own investigations...
- Neurocognitive monitors: toward the prevention of cognitive performance decrements and catastrophic failures in the operational environmentMaria L Thomas
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B144-52. 2007....
- Performance improvement. Which path is right for your hospital?Lee Ann Runy
Hosp Health Netw 81:6 p following 48, 2. 2007..Which of four prominent performance improvement methods is best for your hospital? First you need to understand exactly what you hope to accomplish and how much you're willing to invest in terms of money, staff time and other resources...
- Improving patient throughputDagmara Scalise
Hosp Health Netw 80:49-54. 2006
- Hassle-free consultingTerese Hudson Thrall
Hosp Health Netw 80:58-60. 2006
- The Hospital Overall Flow Scorecard: an innovative tool in patient flowAndrea Werner
Bellin Hospital, Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:703-7. 2006
- Characterizing team performance in network-centric operations: philosophical and methodological issuesRobert S Bolia
Air Force Research Laboratory, 2255 H Street, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433 7022, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B71-6. 2007..Additional research is recommended to overcome these deficiencies, as well as consideration of novel multidisciplinary approaches that draw on methodologies employed in the social, physical, and biological sciences...
- Markers for enhancing team cognition in complex environments: the power of team performance diagnosisEduardo Salas
Associate, Institute for Simulation and Training, Modeling and Simulation Graduate Program, University of Central Florida, 3100 Technology Parkway, Suite 319, Orlando, FL 32826, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B77-85. 2007..Research needs are discussed in terms of realizing the potential of this approach in operational and embedded training contexts...
- Ready or not: enhancing operational effectiveness through use of readiness measuresKeryl A Cosenzo
U S Army Research Laboratory, AMSRD ARL HR SC, Big 459, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005 5425, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B96-106. 2007..not only has implications for selection, training, and system design, but also provides the basis for the proactive development and sustainment of optimal performance, both in individual soldiers, and in small teams or military..
- Considerations of pharmacology on fitness for duty in the operational environmentMary A Kautz
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B107-12. 2007....
- Team dynamics and team empowerment in health care organizationsE Jose Proenca
Department of Management, Health Administration and Human Resources, School of Business Administration, Widener University, PA, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 32:370-8. 2007..Despite the growing pervasiveness of team-based job designs in health care organizations, there is a degree of uncertainty and ambiguity about the process through which teams affect outcomes...
- Emergency department structure and operationsJames A Espinosa
Overlook Hospital, 99 Beauvoir Avenue, Summit, NJ 08043, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 22:73-85, vi. 2004..Various theories are noted, but the intent of this article is to be eclectic so as to give the reader a feel for the rich variety of approaches available...
- Ethics orientation as a mediator of organizational integrity in health services organizationsE Jose Proenca
Department of Health and Medical Services Administration, School of Business Administration, Widener University, Chester, PA, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 29:40-50. 2004..Furthermore, program elements that induced both orientations have a larger impact on integrity. These findings have important implications for health services managers involved in designing and implementing an ethics program...
- A conceptual model of emergency department crowdingBrent R Asplin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Research Foundation, and University of Minnesota Medical School, St Paul and Minneapolis, MN 55101, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:173-80. 2003..The goal of the conceptual model is to provide a practical framework on which an organized research, policy, and operations management agenda can be based to alleviate ED crowding...
- A revenue-cycle factoryRobert N Diehl
Patient Acc 25:2-3. 2002
- Provider integration and local market conditions: a contingency theory perspectiveG J Young
Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston University School of Public Health, Program on Health Policy and Management, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 26:73-9. 2001..This article discusses contingency theory as a conceptual lens for guiding empirical studies of the effectiveness of different types of arrangements...
- The current status of home care nursing practice: part 2: operational trends and future challengesCarolyn J Humphrey
Home Healthc Nurse 20:741-7. 2002
- Applying business management models in health careMichael G Trisolini
RTI International, 411 Waverely Oaks Road, Suite 330, Waltham, Massachusetts 02452, USA
Int J Health Plann Manage 17:295-314. 2002..In sum, each of the five models is shown to provide a useful perspective for health care management. Health care managers should gain experience and training with a broader set of business management models...
- Potential paradigm for assessments of biomedical technologies in the operational environmentBernard M Corona
U S Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, Columbia, MD 21044, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 78:B245-51. 2007....
- Early-stage success in service line implementationTimothy J Hoff
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, NY, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 29:17-30. 2004..The organization examined was the Behavioral Health Service Line of the Upstate New York Veterans Healthcare Network...
- Uncertainty in health care environments: myth or reality?James W Begun
Department of Health Care Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 29:31-9. 2004..Exploratory judgments of the complexity and dynamism of the environment of health care organizations are included...
- Physician office productivity improvement through operations analysis and process redesignEugene L McCarthy
Partner HealthCARE Management Consulting, LLC, Reading, Massachusetts, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 25:37-52. 2002..Opportunities for cost reduction, increased revenues, and increased patient and physician satisfaction are identified...
- [The use of operation research tools as a way of more effective utilization of the resources of health service institutions]Rafał A Sapuła
Zakładu Zarzadzania i Ekonomiki Ochrony Zdrowia, Akademii Medycznej w Lublinie
Wiad Lek 55:440-3. 2002..One of the sciences concerned with in evaluating managers' decisions is operations research. Summing up, operations research deals with the problem of how to gain means and use resources in the most ..
- How do integrated delivery systems adopt and implement clinical information systems?Bryan J Weiner
Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 29:51-66. 2004..Using case study methods, we identified general themes and explored how organizational context factors and information technology characteristics affect adoption and implementation processes...
- Operations research methods applied to workflow in a medical records departmentS Y Edna Chan
Operations Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695 7913, USA
Health Care Manag Sci 5:191-9. 2002..The findings provided insight into the workflow, staffing and performance of the department...
- Caseload management in community children's nursingMary Lewis
Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust
Paediatr Nurs 20:18-22. 2008..This action research project aimed to find ways of managing community children's nursing caseloads that would improve the efficiency, effectiveness and equity of services and inform negotiations with service commissioners...
- Store-bought lessonsBob Kehoe
Mater Manag Health Care 15:24-30. 2006
- Why calculating PACU staffing is so hard and why/how operations research specialists can helpFranklin Dexter
Divison of Management Consulting, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
J Perianesth Nurs 22:357-9. 2007
- Change your metrics: if you get what you measure, then measure what you want--retentionJ Deane Waldman
ADM Healthcare Consulting, and the School of Medicine and the R O Anderson Graduate Schools of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
J Med Pract Manage 22:13-9. 2006....
- Improving quality and costStephen Fox
Health Estate 56:27-9. 2002..Dr Fox carries out research and consultancy with Sheffield Hallam University's School of Engineering. His focuses on the formulation and application of design methodologies...
- Coping with changing conditions: alternative strategies for the delivery of maternal and child health and family planning services in Dhaka, BangladeshS Routh
Operations Research Project, Health and Population Extension Division, ICDDR, B Centre for Health and Population Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Bull World Health Organ 79:142-9. 2001..Against this backdrop, operations research was conducted by the Centre for Health and Population Research at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal ..
- Nurse auxiliaries as providers of intrauterine devices for contraception in Guatemala and HondurasRicardo Vernon
Investigación en Salud y Demografía SC, Mexico City, Mexico
Reprod Health Matters 17:51-60. 2009..b>Operations research in Guatemala and Honduras in 1997-2005, described in this paper, have shown that nurse auxiliaries can ..
- Modelling the evolution of drug resistance in the presence of antiviral drugsJianhong Wu
Center for Disease Modeling, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, M3J 1P3, Canada
BMC Public Health 7:300. 2007..Mathematical modelling may help guide the design of treatment programs and also may help us better understand the potential benefits and limitations of prevention strategies...
- Streamlining administration at the University of Minnesota Medical SchoolPeter Mitsch
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Acad Med 82:252-7. 2007..In addition, the consultants estimated that if the medical school still had stand-alone departmental administrative units, annual administrative costs would be $3 million higher...
- Ruling out pregnancy among family planning clients: the impact of a checklist in three countriesJohn Stanback
Family Health International, Post Office Box 13950, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Stud Fam Plann 36:311-5. 2005..Researchers in Guatemala, Mali, and Senegal conducted operations research to determine whether a simple, replicable introduction of this checklist improved access to contraceptive ..
- Postabortion care in Latin America: policy and service recommendations from a decade of operations researchDeborah L Billings
Ipas, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Health Policy Plan 20:158-66. 2005..This article reviews results from 10 major PAC operations research projects conducted in public sector hospitals in seven Latin American countries, completed and published ..
- A large Markovian linear program to optimize replacement policies and dairy herd net income for diets and nitrogen excretionV E Cabrera
Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA
J Dairy Sci 93:394-406. 2010..The implementation of a Markovian linear program for dairy decision making provides both robustness and versatility in operations research. The model could become a valuable tool for economic decision making for dairy farms.
- Can research accelerate progress toward millennium development goal 5 (maternal health) in Jamaica?A McCaw-Binns
The Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
West Indian Med J 57:549-54. 2008..The model from Thailand is put forward for consideration. The operations research model for maternal health can be transferred to other MDG objectives...
- Hybrid optimization techniques for the workshift and rest assignment of nursing personnelC Valouxis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, GR 26500 Rio, Patras, Greece
Artif Intell Med 20:155-75. 2000..A hybrid methodology that utilizes the strengths of operations research and artificial intelligence was used for the solution of the problem...
- Assessing the impact of wastage on pediatric vaccine immunization formulary costs using a vaccine selection algorithmSheldon H Jacobson
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, 1206 West Green Street MC 244, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Vaccine 22:2307-15. 2004..b>Operations research models have been developed and used to make economically sound procurement choices from among a growing ..
- Lessons in integration--operations research in an Indian leprosy NGOJ D H Porter
Departments of Public Health and Policy and Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
Lepr Rev 73:147-59. 2002..Following a 'qualitative approach', this operations research project assessed the perceptions of communities and providers about leprosy and tuberculosis services...
- Utilization of obstetric care services in a rural community in southwestern NigeriaS B Bawa
Department of Community Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
Afr J Med Med Sci 33:239-44. 2004..005). We recommend operations research to assess and improve the quality of existing health facilities and training/retraining of antenatal care ..
- Large sharing networks and unusual injection practices explain the rapid rise in HIV among IDUs in Sargodha, PakistanAdnan A Khan
Research and Development Solutions, Islamabad, Pakistan
Harm Reduct J 6:13. 2009..Our findings highlight both the importance of qualitative research and operations research to enrich the quality of HIV prevention programs.
- An analysis of the average waiting time during the patient discharge process at Kashani Hospital in Esfahan, Iran: a case studySima Ajami
College of Management and Medical Informatics Esfahan Medical Sciences University, Iran
HIM J 36:37-42. 2007..SPSS and Operations Research (O.R.) methods were used to analyse data...
- Ethical issues in engineering models: an operations researcher's reflectionsJ Kleijnen
Department of Information Management and Center for Economic Research, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, Postbox 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Sci Eng Ethics 17:539-52. 2011This article starts with an overview of the author's personal involvement--as an Operations Research consultant--in several engineering case-studies that may raise ethical questions; e.g...
- Measuring satisfaction with migraine treatment: expectations, importance, outcomes, and global ratingsDonald L Patrick
Departent of Health Services, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle 98195 7660, USA
Clin Ther 25:2920-35. 2003..Previous work in health services, marketing, and operations research suggested that global ratings of satisfaction need to account for multiple influences and differing patient ..
- 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention: summary of key research and implications for policy and practice - operations researchRodney Kort
Kort Consulting, Toronto, M4Y 2T6, Canada
J Int AIDS Soc 13:S5. 2010b>Operations research was added as a fourth scientific track to the pathogenesis conference series at the 5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2009) in recognition of the importance of this growing research ..
- Prevalence and Determinants of Self-reported Morbidity among Pregnant Women in Rural Areas of PakistanFarid Midhet
Asia Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan
Int J Health Sci (Qassim) 1:243-8. 2007..METHOD : The data were collected in a baseline survey that was conducted for an operations research project of the Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan...
- Optimizing dispersal corridors for the Cape Proteaceae using network flowSteven J Phillips
AT and T Labs Research, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932, USA
Ecol Appl 18:1200-11. 2008..This allows us to apply well-established tools from operations research and computer science for solving network flow problems...
- Operational lessons from 20 years of the Mectizan Donation Program for the control of onchocerciasisB Thylefors
Mectizan Donation Program, Decatur, GA 30030, USA
Trop Med Int Health 13:689-96. 2008..the value of a broad partnership; (iii) the great potential of working through community-directed treatment; (iv) the need to streamline all drug management aspects and (v) the importance of operations research to tackle new challenges.
- Identifying functional modules in protein-protein interaction networks: an integrated exact approachMarcus T Dittrich
Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wurzburg, Germany
Bioinformatics 24:i223-31. 2008..Various heuristic approaches have been proposed in the literature...
- Cost efficiency in maternal and child health and family planning service delivery in Bangladesh: implications for NGOsSubrata Routh
ZdravPlus Programme Abt Associates Inc, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Health Policy Plan 19:11-21. 2004..The operations research on cost analyses was conducted within the health and family planning programmes of a leading NGO, using the ..
- A web-based tool for designing vaccine formularies for childhood immunization in the United StatesSheldon H Jacobson
Department of Computer Science, Simulation and Optimization Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:611-9. 2008..The tool integrates general operations research methodologies with specific local practice choices to solve for the lowest overall cost set of vaccines ..
- Revised American Pain Society Patient Outcome Questionnaire (APS-POQ-R) for quality improvement of pain management in hospitalized adults: preliminary psychometric evaluationDebra B Gordon
Department of Nursing Practice Innovations, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin 53792, USA
J Pain 11:1172-86. 2010Quality improvement (QI) is a compilation of methods adapted from psychology, statistics, and operations research to identify factors that contribute to poor treatment outcomes and to design solutions for improvement...
- The Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP)B Boatin
UNICEF UNDP World Bank WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, 20 Avenue Appia, CH 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Ann Trop Med Parasitol 102:13-7. 2008..results, the power of multicountry studies, the need for social science in community-driven endeavours and operations research, and the value of empowering communities as allies in disease control...
- Prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage: new advances for low-resource settingsSuellen Miller
Women s Global Health Imperative, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
J Midwifery Womens Health 49:283-92. 2004..New directions for clinical and operations research are suggested.
- The co-adaptive neural network approach to the Euclidean Travelling Salesman ProblemE M Cochrane
Department of Computing, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, Scotland, UK
Neural Netw 16:1499-525. 2003..we highlight the fact that none of the current NN approaches for the ETSP can compete with state of the art Operations Research heuristics...
- Obstetric first aid in the community--partners in safe motherhood. A strategy for reducing maternal mortalityL Sibley
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Nurse Midwifery 42:117-21. 1997..Special Project staff of the American College of Nurse-Midwives will lead development and testing of the strategy through operations research activities in selected countries.
- CARTHAGENE: constructing and joining maximum likelihood genetic mapsT Schiex
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Castanet Tolosan, France
Proc Int Conf Intell Syst Mol Biol 5:258-67. 1997..algorithm EM with local search techniques which have been developed in the artificial intelligence and operations research communities...
- Review of the evidence for interventions to increase young people's use of health services in developing countriesBruce Dick
Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser 938:151-204; discussion 317-41. 2006..This chapter reviews the evidence base for interventions that aim to increase young people's use of health services in developing countries...
- Operations research in public healthSumit Malhotra
Indian Institute of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
Indian J Public Health 54:145-50. 2010b>Operations Research (OR) is gaining importance in public health interventions and programmes increasingly both nationally and internationally...
- Global perceptual processing in problem solving: the case of the traveling salespersonT C Ormerod
Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, England
Percept Psychophys 61:1227-38. 1999..of finding the shortest tour around a set of locations and is an important task in computer science and operations research. In four experiments, the relationship between processes implicated in the recognition of good figures and ..
- Integration of time as a description parameter in risk characterisation: application to methyl mercuryPh Verger
INA P G, Paris, France
Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 49:25-30. 2007..Markov processes, which are widely used in a large variety of applications in insurance risk or in operations research, ranging from queuing systems to inventory/storage models...
- Reproductive choice for women and men living with HIV: contraception, abortion and fertilityThérèse Delvaux
STD HIV Research and Intervention Unit, Department of Microbiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Reprod Health Matters 15:46-66. 2007..Support for the reproductive rights of people with HIV is a priority. More operations research on best practices is needed.
- Development of a landfill model to prioritize design and operating objectivesK V H Ohman
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Environ Monit Assess 135:85-97. 2007..Researchers continue to use operations research tools to help optimize landfill design and operating parameters...
- Allergen source materials: state-of-the-artRobert E Esch
Greer Laboratories, Lenoir, NC 28645, USA
Arb Paul Ehrlich Inst Bundesinstitut Impfstoffe Biomed Arzneim Langen Hess 96:5-11: discussion 11. 2009....
- Engaging men who have sex with men in operations research in KenyaWashington Onyango-Ouma
Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Cult Health Sex 11:827-39. 2009..This study shows that despite difficulties, research of this kind can be carried out in Kenya...
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- Optimization modeling and comparative effectiveness of regionalized stroke careCharles C Branas; Fiscal Year: 2010..The broad objective of this proposal is to use operations research techniques to promote the development of optimized regional stroke systems and to compare the effectiveness ..
- APPLIED REGIONALIZATION OF EMERGENCY CARECharles Branas; Fiscal Year: 2004..The operations research work proposed here will meaningfully build on the original TRAMAH by adding hospital volume constraints to ..
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HELSINKI (Dow Jones)--Finnish utility Fortum Oyj (FUM1V.HE) Thursday said it is considering strategic options for its electricity distribution business, including divestment, as it posted a much higher-than-expected fourth quarter net profit, driven by increasing sales and a lower Swedish tax rate.
-4Q net profit rose 43% to EUR603 million, from EUR421 million year-or-year. Analysts had expected the net profit to drop to EUR374 million.
-4Q operating profit rose 6.9% to EUR619 million, from EUR579 million and against an average analyst expectation for EUR533 million.
-4Q sales rose 10% to EUR1.83 billion, from EUR1.67 billion and against an average analyst expectation for EUR1.72 billion.
-Fortum said earnings also benefited from a cut in the Swedish corporate tax rate.
-The company is assessing the strategic position of its electricity distribution business, including divestment, as part of its strategy to focus on the production and sales of low-carbon power and energy-efficient heat. It expects the strategic review to be completed this year.
-The company said the strategic review would not change the basics of an efficiency program launched in autumn and meant to improve cash flow by more than EUR1 billion in 2013-2014. The company said the program was proceeding as planned and had started to generate minor cost reductions already last year.
-The company reiterated its outlook for 0.5% average annual electricity demand growth in the Nordic countries in the coming years.
-Capital expenditure is expected to hit EUR1.1 billion to EUR1.4 billion in 2013 and EUR900 million to EUR1.1 billion in 2014, excluding potential acquisitions. The annual maintenance capital expenditure is estimated to be about EUR500 million to EUR550 million in 2013, somewhat below the level of depreciation.
-The company said Nordic power prices were clearly lower compared to 2011 due to historically high water reservoir levels in the Nordics.
-"The economic situation in Europe and globally - and the uncertainty regarding its duration - burdened Fortum," Chief Executive Tapio Kuula said.
-The Board proposes a dividend of EUR1.00 per share, unchanged from last year.
-The effective corporate tax rate for Fortum in 2013 is estimated to be 19-21%. In 2012, the Finnish Government announced that a so-called windfall tax will be introduced in 2014.
-Shares rose 4.4% to EUR14.04.
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15 texts i never sent
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15 texts i never sent
Reblogging, because i want to keep this forever
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cyberpunknoise said: Instant follow back based on the strength of your name. You gonna live up to it?
Did i win!?!?
This was an illustration I did awhile back and attempted to color but failed. So at the Bronx Comic Con the one and only Geisha VI http://goddessgeishavi.tumblr.com/ asked me to color it for her! And I hate to disappoint pretty ladies so…
Forgot to upload this to tumblr like a big dummy! It's a recoloring of my first color piece from way back. It's my take on a character of Jodi "J3T" Tong http://kaijupenguin.com/. Her character's name is Marble and she's an exotic dancer! Be sure to check out Jodi's webcomic, house of LSD http://houseoflsd.comicgenesis.com/
So I did this piece for the insanely awesome and outrageously adorable Red and Jonny or as they're commonly known, Stormtroopers in love! If you haven't already, you and everybody you know needs to check out their website and fall in love with these two Stormtroopers!
Sooo the examiner totally reviewed my book!! and Liked it!!!! I'm literally gonna vomit with excitement!
goddessgeishavi said: Hi, hi, lol, pleasure meeting you this weekend! Interesting choice of name for your blog. May I ask what inspired this name choice? :)
Hey! Pleasure meeting you too! One day a long long time ago, I was watching the Prince of Egypt (staring Val Kilmer) on stolen pay per view television. It kept repeating the entire day and I'd started watching it at around 1pm so around 2 AM, while chatting in a transformers role playing chatroom (Big Bot for those that are interested) I heard the burning bush (played by Val Kilmer), speak to Moses (also played by Val Kilmer) and say "I am the god of the Hebrews" and I felt that all of my internal organs had melted and been replaced with shining white light which, if you'd been there I'm sure you would have seen emanating from every one of my bodily orifices and I said to the chatroom. "OMG D00Dz! I don't know how I didn't see it sooner, I am The HebrewGod" and the name sorta stuck, mostly because I'm the only one who puts it as his screen name so my name never has to be "Hebrewgod316" or something. Secretly all of my character's last names are HebrewGod (unless otherwise specified, then their middle names are probably HebrewGod).
Is it bad that I am literally crying for some of these?
The tears, they keep coming.
The tears have come.
I'm not exaggerating when I say I'm sobbing.
yup.. Im crying.
geezas help
"we await your arrival to manage mischief" no no no no no no no
Awww I actually got a little teary! I think I'm PMSing.
it was okay until the last one
now i'm crying
I don't normally reblog things but this has me literally in tears. What the fuck tumblr!? What the fuck!?
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Had some spare time. Did a poster for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Petunia- THIS IS HARDCORE by greyantlers featuring a plaid mini skirt
Petunia clothes by the wonderful Greyantlers!!!!!! XD!!!!!!!
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T-shirt design for my brother. My brother was visiting from out of town so I spent the weekend hanging out with him. He's got his own T-shirt business so he asked me to toss something together for him so here ya go!
30 day drawing/art challenge!
1. Yourself or your persona.
2. Someone you like (celebrity, significant other, or crush)
3. One, some, or all of your friends.
4. An animal you think is really cute.
5. Your favourite outfit.
6. Something you've never drawn before.
7. Your family or a family member.
Space Baby Page 4! Today's my birthday, and in celebration I'll post the work in progress of Page 4 of Spacebaby!
Drake is Charmander! I can't believe I'm the first person to notice this, but they look exactly alike! it can't be a coincidence! I threw these together in photoshop a lil while back and have recently decided to share them with the world so that they too can learn the truth about Drakes origins. YOLO.


text: Call The Midwife was really fantastic. Once again, a great show from the Brits! And I think it's one that's rather timely too, with so many arguments on healthcare for women, it not only shows how important doctors, nurses, and midwives are but also how different healthcare used to be and how we cannot let it revert back. And of course, I'm so looking forward to seeing Miranda Hart as Chummy, she's one of my favorite actresses!


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You know what the number one factor that plays into skill? Experience. It's this age of a billion f'in alts that has ruined the player base as a whole. Not to sound like an elitist prick, but I've been playing the same character and spec since UBRS in Vanilla. That's more than 6 years with the same character. And guess what, I am damn good at it.
And yes, the game is about skill. There is a reason why at the start of the expansion the top end players are able to clear content within a matter of weeks, if not days. It's skill. Yes, a few of them are OCD with leveling, but when they get into dungeons they know what they are doing.
It's Joe the Huntard/Death Knight/Druid that will never be that good at the game. If you have more than one alt at level 85, chances are you are probably not very good at the game as a whole. Now, there are always exceptions to this, but it is rather prevalent.
Stick to one character, build it up, and become good. Through thick and thin, stick with it. Being able to stay on top of your class despite constant changes will make you a better player. Constantly switching only makes you a jack of all trades but a master of none.
WrecklessMEDIC said...
I agree that sticking with one character for 6 years would make you really really good at that one thing. But I like variety and just playing the same character over and over gets pretty boring. I may not be a master of one class but I have the advantage of knowing how all classes work in the game. I definately don't know everything but I still consider myself very good at this game. Don't need to be the best at 1 class to be considered good. I'd rather be a jack of all trades anyways. :)
I would argue the opposite-- I have tried every class (some only to level 25 or so, enough to get an idea of the flavor and decide I didn't care for it) and I like several classes enough that I plan to take them to 85 in time. The experience has made me a better player overall, because I picked up a better general understanding of how the overall game works and a sense of perspective. I'd be a much worse DPS if I hadn't tanked and healed first-- among other things, I seem to have a much better sense of utility than most DPSers in pugs; I'll pop out of shadow form to heal if the healer's down when DPSing on my priest, or use Army properly to take threat and soak damage if the tank (or healer, if tanking) dies and I have no brez available on my DK. I'd be a worse tank if I hadn't been a healer first; I'm very aware of LoS and mana, and I won't pull if I have any doubt about the healer needing to drink. And tanking and DPSing helped my situational awareness while healing, among other things. A lot of things do carry over from class to class, and from role to role. My opinion is that the best way to get good at the game is to try out every role, even if it's only from 1-60 or even 1-40. It's enough to get a solid idea of how most classes play.
Also, and using the term 'huntard' makes you look like a douchebag. There are bad players in every class. (Go ahead, ask me about the warrior in agi leather and a spellpower weapon I ran into in a heroic the other day.)
Agreed, Amanda. While I am particularly attached to my resto druid and invest far more time into her than any other character, I do have several other characters at or approaching level 85. Personally, the experience of being those other classes hasn't helped me much on my druid (I levelled as resto pre-LFD tool - which was really, really stupid but damn if I don't know the class/spec inside and out), but it has helped me on my other characters - my healer and tank awareness is well-honed from my healing experience, and I feel playing damage and tank classes give me an interesting and unique perspective on the raid.
So, personally I think alt-leveling is extremely valuable. And, if you're in the same role as your main, I think you're actually in a really great place. I can pick up any other kind of healer class and learn the spells and talents, and do very well simply because I'm used to the healer mentality. Is it hard for me to switch from a healer to a damage dealer? Hell yes, but that's why I don't raid on my other-role alts, because I know my skill is inferior.
I absolutely agree with Amanda. I can always tell a DPS who also plays a tank or a healer simply because their awareness of those players' responsibilities is greater. The hunter who knows adds are coming and MDs them onto me or drops a frost trap. The mage who keeps an eye on his threat and uses Invis to reset it. The rogue who uses Recoup during an especially heavy-healing phase. The DK who knows his battle rez is not to be used any time any one dies on trash because he's played a resto druid back when battle rezzes were more precious. Etc etc.
Tanks and healers overall seem to have a much greater awareness of the playing field than DPS do. I don't know why. I know on my tank I am always scanning the field for adds, pats, or just in case that warlock backs up a bit too far and buttpulls. And I still do the same thing on all my characters now, regardless of their role. It's just habit. I can't say most DPS would be doing the same. They don't have to, they shouldn't need to... but it's always instantly apparent when they do.
Sure, really excellent players can learn these nuances without having ever played a tank or a healer, and really poor players can play every class in the game and still play poorly; but I feel my experience as other roles and classes has helped me immensely in my main role (tank). I feel like I'm a more well-rounded player than I would have otherwise been.
I play many alts, and all spec they can have I learn to play. Guess what? I kick ass on all of them. No its not me being big headed, but when I can jump on a alt in lower gear and out dps the mainspecs in almost every raid (guild or pug) i enter, I know I am good. I can also heal and tank on the alts with those talent trees.
Yeah I could just play one character in one spec, but I'd be bored to tears doing it. A good player is a good player. We have a hunter in our guild who went to an alt for cata and has now switched back, his hunter is in crappy gear, but he rocks the dps charts due to pure skill. If you need someone who can pull top dps, whilst cc'in, whilst kiting several adds and doing about 7 other tasks at once, we know who to call on. Skill always > gear.
thebitterfig said...
RE: picking one class and sticking to it.
Be sure you didn't pick the wrong one. There are some hunters out there who'd do better to switch to mages. And mages who ought to be warriors. And warriors who ought to be druids, etc.
If you're choice is between the fuller class/spec (the one with the higher theoretical dps) and between the class/spec you can play best (the one you can squeeze the most dps out from), pick the one you're able to squeeze better. I'm sure we've all known that crazy BM hunter who stays BM and still is awesome, because they suck at the other specs but rock BM. Considering that player skill, timing, and execution are so important, it's doubly important to play a spec who's rotation fits for you.
To find out what's going to work for you... you'll probably have to play a fair number of classes to get a feel for how you do with them. I always had a rough go with rogues or DK, but I've got a nice touch with a Frost mage, pulling more out of them than I ought to have. For others, casters just don't go, and they'll tear up the place on a rogue.
To truly know a class, know yourself first.


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MILWAUKEE — The state's chief law enforcement officer joined the chorus of outrage Wednesday over a national organization's decision not to include a slain Wauwatosa police officer on its memorial wall — a decision expected to be discussed Thursday by the organization.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has tentatively chosen not to include police officer Jennifer Sebena on its memorial wall in Washington, D.C. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen sent a letter Wednesday to Craig W. Floyd, the memorial fund's chairman and chief executive.
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FON DU LAC, Wisconsin (WXOW) -- Score another winner for Fond du Lac's Miracle Mile. The same grocery store that sold a $209 million Powerball ticket in 2006 and a million-dollar winner in 2008 has done it again.
Ma & Pa's Grocery Express sold a Powerball ticket Wednesday worth $1 million.
Wisconsin lottery officials say it was purchased by Ron Horton of Fond du Lac. His ticket was worth $200,000 but Horton bought a prize-multiplier feature that made it worth $1 million
Horton says the win left him feeling numb. He'll take part in a lottery news conference at the store Friday morning.
Ma & Pa's sits on the so-called Miracle Mile, a stretch in downtown Fond du Lac that has been unusually lucky for lottery players. Several stores there sold multimillion-dollar tickets in the 1990s.
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Offering at auction is a nice antique Seth Thomas parlor clock. The clock measures approx. 24" tall, 14" wide, and 4" in depth. The wood is a very beautiful popular. The Mercury head is pressed brass. The clock has been restored. The glass is a Seth Thomas replacement. The movement is original and is stamped on the front Seth Thomas with the number 8 1/4. The movement has been completely overhauled adjusted and keeps good time it strikes the hour and half hour on a cathedral gong. The original dial has a new replacement paper. The label in the bottom of the clock is still in good condition. The label on the back is a replacement. The clock comes with a proper fitting key.