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Animal & Veterinary
The Importance of Risk Communication in the Development of Science-Based Regulatory Requirements
Doug Powell, Ph.D.
DR. POWELL: Always fun going after Lester. AV person? There we go. It keeps moving. There we go. Okay. I am going to make my comments brief and talk about the role of risk communication. You are going to hear a lot about risk assessment over the next two days. And Lester certainly gave a good overview.
I want you to keep in mind though the risk assessment works best when your expectations are not too high. And the reason why is other industries have gone through this where if we can just get the science better, we will have a resolution to these difficult public policy questions. And they are disappointed.
This is the model. I know FDA uses this in some of their other regulatory areas. It is from a 1997 Presidential Commission on Risk Management. And basically what it says is -- you know, in the past, it was assessment and then management and then communication, a very linear separation.
This is more than just circles. It is not just because it is the '90s and we are all holistic and draw circles. It actually is a very powerful model that says to integrate all three of those things. And what it really says is you need really good science, but you also need really good communications. And the reason why is because there is so much uncertainty in a risk assessment that you can't just rely on the numbers.
For consumers, they often view these things as stigma or stigmata. And the risk assessment isn't actually that important. Consumers might not know all the details of bovine spongeiform encephalopathy and new variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease. But if I say British beef, there is generally a yuck factor. That is a stigmata. That is a short-cut that consumers use.
And for a regulatory agency, they have to be aware of that and keep that in mind. And the characteristics apply quite nicely to the use of antimicrobials in animal agriculture. There is a hazard. There is a potential for risk, a standard of what is right and natural. You know, why are we doing this is somehow violated or overturned. Impacts are perceived inequitably. Lots of scientific uncertainty. This is normal for any risk scenario.
The bottom line is the management and the hazard is brought into question. And that is critically important and that is why you have meetings like this, is so that you have a clear and transparent management of hazard.
For example, think of the dioxin in Belgium crisis that happened earlier this year. We just reviewed about 300 stories. I mean, it gripped Europe for a couple of weeks. People were talking about, "Oh, my God, we can't even get food on the table." Grocery stores were empty.
And out of those 300 stories, we found one, one that talked about the actual risk to human health and safety in terms of consuming the stuff. The other 299 were all about how the hazard was managed and the fact that the Belgium government knew for six weeks and didn't bother telling anybody and directly led to their electoral defeat.
So management of the hazard is critical in terms of -- because what happens is something is stigmatized. Things go off the rails. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful discussion using all the great science of risk assessment.
So we need good surveillance systems. And I would argue that you generally have that. They can be improved. Good communication. A credible, open and responsive regulatory system. That varies from agency. It varies by country. Demonstrable efforts to reduce levels of uncertainty in risk and evidence that actions match words.
Surveillance, I am not going to go through this. You basically have a good system through FoodNet, PulseNet and NARMS. You are getting some of that basic data which can feed into the risk assessment that needs to be improved.
Risk communication has been around for at least ten years if not more. This is the long definition from the National Research Council. The short definition is any conversation about risk which is usually with your spouse.
This is the history of risk communication. And there are some powerful lessons in here as you embark on risk assessment for antimicrobials. Baruch Fishoff pulled this together a few years ago. In the early days, it was thought all we have to do is get the numbers right, make the risk assessment better. We will get better numbers. We will have answers. The nuclear industry went through this.
It doesn't work that way. It's like you are one in 100,000. People only remember the one. All we have to do is tell them the numbers. You know, if we educate the public, then clearly we will be able to understand this better and we will resolve conflict. Say what we mean by the numbers. This is risk analogies, you know.
These numbers, one in a billion or one in a million. People can't get their minds about it. So we have to use analogies like, you know, well, it is like a marble in a beach full of marbles the size of the United States or, you know, analogies like that. And that tends just to make people mad because what you are doing is trivializing concern.
Show them they have accepted similar risks in the past. Well, you know, you drove here so what are you worried about this for? How many times have you heard that one? You know, these guys have figured it out to get rid of this about 15 years ago. But we still hear it all the time.
Show them that is a good deal. Can you buy people off? Actually, you can sometimes in citing hazardous waste facilities. They always promise, you know, a lot of jobs and there is usually one part-time that ends up getting employed.
Then we went into -- in the early '90s, we went into what I call the happy talk phase of risk communication. And that is if we just treat people nice, we can get rid of conflict and come to some solution. We make them partners. And, you know, Clinton was certainly a man of the time. Remember, when he was elected originally in '92, he was the empathetic President. He was apparently a little too empathetic. He felt a little too much pain.
And now we've gone past that. Canadians export Canadians and hockey players. I am trying to uphold that standard.
And the bottom line is all of the above, we need all of that. It is not enough just to talk nice to people. You've got to have the data to make it meaningful.
Now, with antimicrobials, this is generally the state of public discussion. You get stories like this. I am not going to go into it.
The New York Times, oh, look, fluoroquinones and chicken. That was last -- two years ago.
Certainly, there has been a dramatic increase in media coverage over the last couple of years of antimicrobials, in particular, the agricultural use of antimicrobials leading of course to a huge increase in antibacterial products out there, both for microbial food safety concerns and other concerns which do nothing but accelerate development of antimicrobial resistance. However, they are all out there.
FDA has entered into the fray. It has gotten a lot of public coverage since last January on a proposal to manage antimicrobial resistance. And I think there is good recognition that these things are not direct anymore, that there are environmental impacts and that really we aren't talking about the environment.
It is not just a matter of plants are over here and animals are over here and humans are here. There is -- while there are different arenas, there certainly is a lot of cross-fertilization. And I mean that literally with manure.
One of the solutions then in the absence, while the risk assessments are going on, while you are improving your science, it is important also to demonstrate the management of that risk. And we have judicious use principles or prudent use guidelines. I think the Americans are on the judicious use. And a lot of the species have these things.
But what is important then is, you know, it is not just a matter of talking nice to people. You have to have data where people are actually doing it, evidence that actions match words. So in order to do that, I am going to talk about tomatoes.
And you may be wondering what's that got to do with it. Well, actually a lot of antibiotics are used on field tomatoes to control bacterial diseases. And this is another one of the environmental loads. And I think there is a growing recognition of that.
When you work with producer groups in order to implement these things, and we do this sort of stuff, we always find it useful to go out and survey them. You know, people always talk about surveying consumers to get their perceptions. We are also interested in perceptions of producers because if they are actually going to implement something to reduce and manage risk, they've got to own it.
And we've done this three times now with three different groups. And we asked people the same question we ask consumers which is an unprompted what is the greatest threat in the food supply today. And the producers always say imports. And it doesn't matter what country we ask, they all say imports.
And this is expected from a risk perception viewpoint because individuals are impervious to risk. In the United States, you know, there are surveys done every year: Is drugs a big problem for society? Absolutely. Is drugs a problem in your family? Uh-uh. Well, where is it all coming from then? Well, it is out there. It is someone else. So you need a mind-set change to demonstrate that it is their problem and they have to own it.
And this is a greenhouse tomato facility which is not important. What is important is this sort of stuff. You can develop judicious use guidelines and produce manuals. And we all have the QA programs which feed into those. But manuals aren't enough because you don't have any evidence anyone has actually read it, let alone done anything about it.
As this cartoon says, it has, "Our annual ISO 9000 audit is next week. We can pass the audit if we put all of our nonconforming documents in the trunks of our cars and then torch the cars." Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a voluntary audit?
But one of the things we did with this particular producer group that I think is instructive for implementing prudent use guidelines and communicating with producers and others who have responsibility to manage this risk is we can document changes. For instance, when we ask them, "What are the greatest threats to the food you eat?", in 1998, after imports it was pesticides. By 1999, just after a couple of rounds of meeting and after throwing the manual out, storage and handling and microorganisms were all of a sudden on the list.
More importantly, we asked them about particular programs they had implemented. And this is for microbial hazards. And in '98, they had barely heard of it. They were talking about reduce pesticides and biological control. By one year later, we are all of a sudden able to show that the number one thing is they have improved their cleanliness. They are starting to think about keeping the place clean. What a concept. But for fresh produce, this is something that is relatively new.
Hand washing and washroom facilities, not even on the list in '98, are suddenly coming in quite high. So we are able to demonstrate that there is at least an awareness. But, you know, people can lie on surveys.
So you go an additional step. And that is we have a student actually collecting data full-time on end product and on water quality and doing pathogen testing. And that is the data which supports the claims that they are making.
So as you move forward on implementing, whether it is judicious use principles for initial management because Lester and his group can be doing risk assessments for the next 20 years and they will always be getting better. That is not to slag risk assessments. The alternative I think is astrology. And what Lester said is correct.
But don't put it up on a pedestal because it will get knocked down. It is a useful tool to provide incremental, yet significant improvements in understanding. There are a lot of data gaps at this point that need to be filled to improve that understanding. But we can't wait because you can be -- you can always do a better risk assessment. And that is the point.
In the meantime, you have to demonstrate that you are aware of the risk and are taking actions to reduce risk. And while you are doing that, you need good risk communication. And what we have shown is that, you know, you have a scientific perception of risk. You have a public perception of risk.
And I am not going to go through that today. But in between is the activity of good risk communication, entering into public discussions about levels of risk. And there is a very high level of awareness on this issue from both the medical side and an agricultural side.
So as you enter into that, just some general lessons that we have learned from previous case studies and some even involving the Center for Veterinary Medicine around BST for example. A risk communication vacuum if allowed to develop is why things end up on the front page. It is exactly what happened in Europe over genetically engineered foods which is another fun topic.
Regulators and industry and academics and producers, everyone is responsible to communicate effectively about risk. And if you are responsible, do it early and often because you won't like the results if you wait. There is always more to a risk issue than what science says. And I think we are going to spend the rest of the meeting talking about what science says.
But just keep in the back of your mind that when you leave here, there will always be something additional that is not necessarily about science. Even though FDA does not have a legal mandate to assess that and that's proper, just in terms of communication, you have to be aware of that.
Educating the public is generally a non-starter. Most people do not want to be educated or they would all be here. Most people want to go shopping, not do homework. They want to go to their grocery store and have a level of confidence so that they can focus on handling the screaming kids, not whether this thing has some sort of problem.
And it is incumbent on the regulatory agencies to generate that level of trust and credibility, that level of confidence in consumers.
I think everyone has agreed that the no risk thing is out the door. You don't hear it very often, at least not in the United States. Risk messages should directly address the contest of opinion. And that is because there are issues that aren't to do with science, yet they are what is going to be out there. For example, Belgium, dioxin. What was it about? The management of the hazard.
We have to address those issues and communicating well because you want to say it is safe has good spin-off benefits for risk management because it may mean you have to change what you do.
Finally, to use a hockey analogy since we talked about hockey, since we export all our great players here including Wayne Gretzky -- these are my four girls. I had to -- I came in late last night because I coach hockey and had to stay for that because, you know, you've got to have priorities, although Scott and I missed our regular hockey game which to Canadians is somewhat tragic. And I am not sure if I've recovered yet.
You know, the NHL is really upset because Wayne Gretzky quit. You know Wayne Gretzky, right, you Americans? I've just got to check.
I know we exported him, but, you know, maybe -- the point is Gretzky was a great player, but he also was a great communicator. Now, if you watch him -- I grew up with him. He lives around the corner, or his parents do in Branford. And if you look at him on TV, he looks pretty goofy. I mean, he is about as unsmooth as it gets, scrawny and he is not too good looking and, you know, I'm not either. Maybe it is a Branford water thing. I don't know.
But the point is he went out of his way to talk to the folks who paid the bills. And that was the fans. The guy never turned down an interview even though he looked goofy. And the reason why people believed him and listened to him is when you score 1,000 goals, that is pretty good data. So get your good data and then go out and talk about it. Thank you.
DR. BEAULIEU: There may be time for one quick question if there is one?
DR. POWELL: I thought we were all going to be quiet.
(Away from microphone.)
MS. : Well, this is just a general comment. Perhaps there is some insight in the room for us it would help if the ---.
DR. POWELL: Sorry. I wish you had told me earlier. You have to get out and communicate about these things.
(Away from microphone.)
MS. : Well, it will be ---.
DR. BEAULIEU: Thank you, Doug. Our next speaker will be Dr. Al Sheldon. Dr. Sheldon has advance degrees in microbiology and genetics. He is a team leader in microbiology in the Office of Drug Evaluation IV in our Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
He has had 27 years in drug regulatory affairs, experience in drug regulatory affairs including clinical microbiology, quality control associated with drug manufacture, manufacturing and control of both bulk and finished dosage forms.
And let's see if we can't reorganize ourselves a little. I am not quite sure what cords I am running over here. Nothing seems to have unplugged itself yet. Does that help some? Okay.
I think I failed to mention that Dr. Sheldon is going to be talking to us this morning about antibiotic breakpoints, methods for determining those and their use in the medical community.


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Ask me anything!
My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Truly yours,"
Albert Camus
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You are not going in circles
You are making progress in a spiral. You do come back around to where you were at the start, since recovery and healing take time, but every time you come back around to that point you're a little higher up because you've got more experience, more knowledge, and more strength.
You ARE making progress
this is the best fucking thing i have ever read.
Always making progress
So far my favorite definition is found on the about page for the magazine, Rain and Thunder, and follows:
A radical feminist perspective is one that is aware that:
men, as a class, are waging a war against women
rape, battering, incest, prostitution, pornography,…
So well-written, and so important
(Sorry laura, im not sure how to credit and link u via my tumblr app, but this was too good to not tumblr!)
" I've put up too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less. "
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" Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion? "
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this made me wna cry.
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Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.
My need to solve the problem is the problem.
Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Said the river to the seeker, "Does one really have to fret about enlightenment? No matter which way I turn, I'm homeward bound."
Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it. (Maya Angelou)
1. You Don't Have To Have A Dream.
Americans on talent shows always talk about their dreams. Fine, if you have something that you've always dreamed of, like, in your heart, go for it! After all, it's something to do with your time… chasing a dream. And if it's a big enough one, it'll take you most of your life to achieve, so by the time you get to it and are staring into the abyss of the meaninglessness of your achievement, you'll be almost dead so it won't matter.
I never really had one of these big dreams. And so I advocate passionate dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals. Be micro-ambitious. Put your head down and work with pride on whatever is in front of you… you never know where you might end up. Just be aware that the next worthy pursuit will probably appear in your periphery. Which is why you should be careful of long-term dreams. If you focus too far in front of you, you won't see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.
2. Don't Seek Happiness
Happiness is like an orgasm: if you think about it too much, it goes away. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy, and you might find you get some as a side effect. We didn't evolve to be constantly content. Contented Australophithecus Afarensis got eaten before passing on their genes..
3. Remember, It's All Luck
You are lucky to be here. You were incalculably lucky to be born, and incredibly lucky to be brought up by a nice family that helped you get educated and encouraged you to go to Uni. Or if you were born into a horrible family, that's unlucky and you have my sympathy… but you were still lucky: lucky that you happened to be made of the sort of DNA that made the sort of brain which – when placed in a horrible childhood environment – would make decisions that meant you ended up, eventually, graduating Uni. Well done you, for dragging yourself up by the shoelaces, but you were lucky. You didn't create the bit of you that dragged you up. They're not even your shoelaces…
Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.
Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.
5. Be Hard On Your Opinions
A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.
Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
Most of society's arguments are kept alive by a failure to acknowledge nuance. We tend to generate false dichotomies, then try to argue one point using two entirely different sets of assumptions, like two tennis players trying to win a match by hitting beautifully executed shots from either end of separate tennis courts.
9. Don't Rush.
You don't need to already know what you're going to do with the rest of your life. I'm not saying sit around smoking cones all day, but also, don't panic. Most people I know who were sure of their career path at 20 are having midlife crises now.
I said at the beginning of this ramble that life is meaningless. It was not a flippant assertion. I think it's absurd: the idea of seeking "meaning" in the set of circumstances that happens to exist after 13.8 billion years worth of unguided events. Leave it to humans to think the universe has a purpose for them. However, I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here's my idea of romance:
You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it's tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you'll be
old. And then you'll be dead.
There is only one sensible thing to do with this empty existence, and that is: fill it. Not fillet. Fill. It.
And in my opinion (until I change it), life is best filled by learning as much as you can about as much as you can, taking pride in whatever you're doing, having compassion, sharing ideas, running(!), being enthusiastic. And then there's love, and travel, and wine, and sex, and art, and kids, and giving, and mountain climbing … but you know all that stuff already.
It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours. Good luck.
" You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things. "
Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese" (via adrianacarmella)
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The Type
by Sarah Kay
If you grow up the type of woman men want to look at,
You can let them look at you.
But do not mistake eyes for hands,
Or windows for mirrors.
Let them see what a woman looks like.
They may not have ever seen one before.
If you grow up the type of woman men want to touch,
You can let them touch you.
Sometimes it is not you they are reaching for.
Sometimes it is a bottle, a door, a sandwich, a Pulitzer, another woman -
But their hands found you first.
Do not mistake yourself for a guardian, or a muse, or a promise, or a victim or a snack.
You are a woman -
Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat
You are not made of metaphors,
Not apologies, not excuses.
If you grow up the type of woman men want to hold,
You can let them hold you.
All day they practice keeping their bodies upright.
Even after all this evolving it still feels unnatural,
Still strains the muscles, holds firm the arms and spine.
Only some men will want to learn what it feels like to curl themselves into a question mark around you,
Admit they don't have the answers they thought they would by now.
Some men will want to hold you like the answer.
You are not the answer.
You are not the problem.
You are not the poem, or the punchline, or the riddle, or the joke.
Woman, if you grow up the type of woman men want to love,
You can let them love you.
Being loved is not the same thing as loving.
When you fall in love,
It is discovering the ocean after years of puddle jumping.
It is realising you have hands.
It is reaching for the tightrope after the crowds have all gone home.
Do not spend time wondering if you are the type of woman men will hurt.
If he leaves you with a car alarm heart.
You learn to sing along.
It is hard to stop loving the ocean,
Even after it's left you gasping, salty.
So forgive yourself for the decisions you've made,
The ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night,
And know this.
Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours.
Let the statues crumble.
You have always been the place.
You are a woman who can build it yourself.
You are born to build.
" No one wants to be the person who is made fun of for caring too much about something, who treats in earnest a situation that everyone else considers absurd. Even in personal relationships, feeling too heavily invested while simultaneously understanding that the other person couldn't be more detached is one of the most profound feelings of embarrassment we can experience. Because it isn't simply the embarrassment of making a mistake or a poor choice, it's a shame over the kind of human being you are and how you see the world around you. To be shamed for your sincerity is to be reminded that you are dependent on something which is not dependent on you — that you are, once again, vulnerable. "

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Dragon's Crown screens are blowing my mind
The last few minutes have just been a stream of semi-angry IMs to Eric about how crazy great these screens look.
- "this art my god"
- "how is this a screenshot"
This game looks better every time I see it.
PREORDER Dragon's Crown (PS Vita & PS3), Dragon's Crown (PS Vita import & PS3 import), upcoming games


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Architecture firm HKS Architects has come up with an innovative and futuristic design for hotel pods that float high above, in between buildings.
The spherical chambers in this conceptual project known as {Live Between} are all-inclusive rooms like any normal hotel room, featuring a bed to sleep or lounge on and a personal bathroom. The rooms contain their own low water flow fixtures and waterless toilets to maintain a low-impact environment. The waste from the pods are also converted into fuel for the transport vehicles when the traveling hotels are set to embark on their next destination.
Like a traveling circus, {LB} is meant to be a limited time residential installation in each city. Whether you are visiting a big city or are already a resident eager to see your urban environment in a new way, these pods are sure to enliven your experience as you soar high above the masses. Each giant orb is strung up by high strength cables with the site-specific design of a tension pulley system to suspend the pods. The hope for the design is to launch its premiere in Chicago. Chicago is known as the Windy City, which makes me a little nervous but perhaps also a bit more excited for the projection to come to fruition. The {LB} has already drawn up some conceptual illustrations of prospective installation sites including the space between the pyramids in Egypt. Would you stay in one of these pods?


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Whatever happened to the automated home?
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Why most people's homes are still thoroughly low-tech
Why don't we all have automated homes?
Back in 2005, Popular Mechanics magazine showed off the home of the future, which took advantage of the latest technologies to automate almost everything. "There's just about nothing in the home that can't effectively be controlled automatically," the family living in the house enthused.
It's all very impressive – but then, it was even more impressive when Popular Mechanics covered exactly the same subject in 1939. We've been hearing about automated homes for 70 years but, despite the wonders of our wired world, most people's homes are thoroughly low-tech.
WILD PREDICTIONS:The fully automated, high-tech home of the future is just around the corner, said Popular Mechanics – in 1939
So what's the problem with the automated home? Is it us, or is it the technology?
The automated house of 1939 was surprisingly similar in vision to the automated house of 2009. "Electric ranges already are equipped with automatic controls for temperature and cooking time, but there is no practical reason why these operations together with the other applications cannot be controlled remotely from any room in the house,"
George H. Bucher predicted. "The future home will probably be equipped with a number of control centres, from any one of which the homemaker can give her commands.
"While many of George's predictions in 'The Electric Home of the Future' (Popular Mechanics, August 1939) came true – including TV and radio "[moving] the amusement centres of Broadway and Hollywood right into our living rooms" and homes with "some electrical means of recording news reports and pictures as soon as the news happens" – you're still more likely to see automated homes on MTV's Cribs than in Cricklewood.
To be fair to Bucher, forecasting the far-off future is never easy. But what about more recent predictions?
In 1999, the BBC gushed about a high-tech fridge. "Screenfridge, as it is called, allows you to send and receive email, watch television, pay bills and handle personal banking…
'Imagine this,' says Adrian King, President of ICL's Retail System Division. 'You're in the kitchen and notice that you are running low on eggs. You swipe the carton past the barcode scanner, which makes a note on its personal shopping list. You do this for all the items that you need. When you're ready, you send the list to a nominated supermarket who can then make up and deliver the order to your home.'"
The article also quoted NCR's Stephen Emmott, who said: "The next stage in computing is one that is moving computing devices beyond the desktop into everyday appliances including washing machines, fridges, telephones and clothes. We'll see intelligence embedded into everything we come into contact with."
So, it's time to put your hands up: who owns a Screenfridge, a net-connected microwave or Wi-Fi pants? Nobody? That's what we thought.
The cost of automation
The Screenfridge was developed by Data Vision Europe in association with ICL and Electrolux. The press release unwittingly provides several reasons why it didn't take off.
"The fridges will be market tested within the next six months and could go on sale by next year," Data Vision Europe wrote. In fact it took a bit longer than that: the Screenfridge finally went on sale in 2006, not 2000.
"It is estimated they will cost £700 to £800 more than a standard fridge/freezer," the press release continued. The Screenfridge was £5,000.
"To cap it all, the proud owner can then put his or her feet up and watch TV on it," the blurb trumpeted. The Screenfridge had a 15in display stuck to the front of a fridge. It's hardly a Sony Bravia.
Our favourite bit, however, wasn't in the press release: it was when The Daily Telegraph was shown around the Screenfridge showhome in Stockholm, a state-of-the-art development where the front door could be opened or locked remotely, blinds automatically shielded the inhabitants from the sun and motion detectors turned off the lights and air conditioning whenever they detected that nobody was at home.
"This is not about gadgets for gadgets' sake," project manager Mikael Klein told the newspaper – before admitting that "people do not want things like Screenfridges per se." As The Daily Telegraph pointed out, the technology wasn't exactly affordable either.
"The price of all the appliances, sensors and remote control devices has not been set yet, but Mr Klein estimated that it would double the cost of the £280,000 house." That's a lot of money to spare the drudgery of closing curtains, switching off lights and writing a shopping list before you go to Tesco.
So, will the automated home remain in the same category as jetpacks, flying cars and living on the moon – ideas that fire kids' imaginations but never become reality? Perhaps not.
However, there are several problems that automation needs to address if we're ever going to welcome it into our homes.
High-tech home time
There are several reasons why automated homes aren't in every suburban street. The first and most obvious one is money: cutting-edge kit costs a fortune.
For example, Electrolux's Trilobite 2 robot vacuum cleaner costs around £775, while Husqvarna's robot lawn mower, the Automower, has an RRP of £1,499. When you can buy a decent Dyson mower for around £130 and a top-end Flymo costs £115, then you need to be exceptionally cash-rich and time-poor to even consider buying a robot version.
ROBO-VACUUM:The second-generation Trilobite from Electrolux is still thwarted by stairs
Price isn't the only issue, though. Robot vacuum cleaners, like Daleks, can't climb stairs – and it seems that they're not too great at the vacuuming bit either. In 2004, the Wall Street Journal reviewed the first Trilobite and two other robot vacuums and the verdict was summed up in the headline: "The only thing latest robot vacuums cannot do is clean."
Of course, the technology has advanced since then, but not by much: in 2008, Register Hardware reviewed the iRobot Roomba 560 robotic vacuum cleaner.
"Roomba certainly didn't pass the wife acceptance test," Lewis Page wrote. "The machine takes its time, going over every bit of floor repeatedly before it's satisfied, but the results after it eventually gives up are frankly unimpressive. In some rooms, the time taken to get rugs and so on out of the machine's way and put them back afterwards meant that an ordinary vacuum actually demanded less user time as well as doing a much better job."
The conclusion? "As a plastic pal that's fun to be with, the 560 is great – as a way of cleaning floors, not so much."
Another issue with intelligent appliances is that it's easy to overcomplicate things. For example, our washing machine is computerised: it has sensors to judge the weight of the load and to adjust washing programmes accordingly. Sounds good? Every third wash, the sensors decide that the load isn't balanced properly and the machine goes on strike, flashing up an error message and beeping.
Our last machine was as dumb as rocks, but it never got in a huff at our laundry-loading skills – and we never had to reboot it like a badly behaved PC. Adding automation adds cost and complexity, and it's often hard to see the benefit.
Take the idea of the intelligent fridge that does its own shopping. You'd need to enlist the supermarkets, decide on a standard way for fridges to place shopping orders – which isn't very likely to happen, not least because automation removes the opportunities for the up-selling, cross-selling and bundling that supermarket websites are so good at – and train your fridge.
'Aaagh! That hummus is awful!' you cry, hurling the pot into the bin. 'We're out of hummus!' the fridge happily exclaims, ordering more from Tesco.
Why connected homes are more realistic
Hyper-intelligent home appliances are still some way off, but that doesn't mean connected homes are entirely pointless. However, actually connecting things in such a house can be troublesome.
Until relatively recently, 'connected' meant Ethernet cabling or manufacturer specific wires running around your house, with all the hassle, drilling and expense that entails.
Wi-Fi is a step in the right direction, but even this option isn't ideal: its short range, hefty overhead and susceptibility to interference means that many people's homes have wireless blackspots or desperately slow connections, especially if they're using older Wi-Fi kit.
The good news, however, is that wired networks no longer mean drilling or lifting carpets, and powerline networking (PLN) technology could make connected homes much easier to create.
SIMPLE SOLUTION:Powerline networking (PLN) such as HomePlug AV delivers Ethernet speeds via existing electrical wiring
Powerline networking is a simple and very clever idea: it transmits data through your home's electrical circuits. Simply stick a PLN adaptor into a plug socket and you've got an Ethernet port capable of transmitting data at speeds of up to 200Mbps.
To connect a second device, just stick another adaptor into a different plug socket. The bad news is that PLN is a bit of a mess, with several different incompatible technologies competing with one another. It's also quite expensive: a starter kit (two adaptors) costs around £50 to £70 and you'll pay around £50 for each additional adaptor.
There is, however, more good news. The HomeGrid Forum and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) intend to publish a single home networking standard, called G.hn, later this year. The first G.hn chips should appear in 2010, removing confusion from the market and bringing down the price of PLN hardware.
The G.hn standard will have serious backing – HomeGrid Forum members include Intel, Panasonic, BT and Infineon – and could conceivably replace Wi-Fi as the most popular form of home networking. The combination of powerline networking for static devices and wireless networks for mobile devices means that the kind of home Popular Mechanics described back in 1939 is certainly feasible – but instead of a control centre, we might use Twitter. At least, that's what Andy Stanford-Clark is attempting.
Home tweet home
Stanford-Clark is IBM's 'Master Inventor' and if you follow him on Twitter (his username is @andy_house) then you'll see that he's connected his home to the social-networking site. His Twitter feed tells him and his followers when the lights went on and off, when the phone rang and, most importantly of all, whether the house is demanding "unusually high energy use".
As Stanford-Clark told www.alertme.com, the system takes data from various sensors to monitor energy consumption, enabling him to control his home's energy usage and carbon footprint from anywhere.
The same principle informs Greenbox, a US start-up company whose energy meters tell you exactly where you're using – or wasting – energy and how you can reduce it. The data is aggregated locally, enabling consumers to compare their usage to their neighbours', and similar technology is coming to your house: according to the Energy Retail Association, smart electricity meters will be rolled out to all 25 million UK homes by 2020.
"This is a major technological and social transformation to rank alongside [the] digital switchover and the introduction of North Sea gas to homes in the early 1970s," the ERA says. Such meters won't deliver the ability to turn off the TV via Twitter – at least, not initially – but they will enable utility firms to provide consumption information via mobiles, the web or digital TV.
According to Zigbee, whose powerline networking technology is built into many smart energy meters, "assuming that smart meters are deployed correctly (using well-designed technologies with an understanding of the enormous potential that they bring) smart meters could, for the first time ever, herald a pervasive network infrastructure in homes – one that can be used not only for energy management but also as a command and control of all manner of lifestyle products, security systems and entertainment and communication devices."
Automatic for the people
We don't think that there'll ever be a market for super-intelligent networked toasters or microwave ovens that download recipes from Delia Online. However, it does make sense to connect TVs, digital video recorders, hi-fi systems, digital photo frames, consoles, phones and PCs in order to enable you to access your media from wherever you happen to be – whether you're at home or on the other side of the planet.
It also makes sense for your various devices to display data from the internet or home network whenever you need it, or for you to be able to control those devices when you're away from home, and the combination of home networking and smartphones could easily deliver that.
The connected home is coming – but the fully automated one? Only if there's somewhere to park your jetpacks and your flying car.
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The park is busy day and night, proof that even in this air-con obsessed country, spending some time outside can be fun. Of course, its location right next to a massive shopping centre, and the iconic Petronas Twin Towers, probably helps.
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As predicted before the season, he's a player in decline, though I think he could sill help us.
Anyone want Matsui back?
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By Tim Dierkes [July 29 at 10:39am CST]
Though they've acquired Dan Haren and Alberto Callaspo this month and inquired on Prince Fielder and Derrek Lee, the Angels may become sellers in the wake of Joel Pineiro's rib-cage strain yesterday. The injury will knock the righty out for six to eight weeks, writes Mike DiGiovanna of the L.A. Times, and GM Tony Reagins is now open to trading veterans for prospects.
DiGiovanna speculates that Bobby Abreu, Brian Fuentes, Hideki Matsui, and Maicer Izturis might interest contenders. Abreu, Fuentes, and Matsui would be tough to move, and could be August trade candidates. Abreu is signed at $9MM for next year and may have another $9MM salary vest for 2012. The 36-year-old is hitting just .253/.347/.416. Fuentes' strikeout rate is back up, but he's been homer-prone and has over $3MM left on his contract. Matsui's market is limited by his DH profile, though he has tallied 122 innings in left field this year. He's been streaky this year, with his best work coming in April and June.
Despite an offensive downturn this year, Izturis should generate interest given his ability to play all around the infield. He's signed through 2012.
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As predicted before the season, he's a player in decline, though I think he could sill help us.
He'd help as the DH, since we don't have one, but I'd like to do better than that if we go in the complete DH direction.
Matsui would be cheap to get, if they are trading off I would love bringing him back to help us win another title, he is clutch and knows how to get it done here.
I would love to have Matsui back. I was hoping before the Angels played Texas that they would fade and become sellers. Matsui has hit when he has played at Yankee Stadium. He doesn't have to play everyday and will only be a DH. Matsui also kills lefties. We can get him cheap. Make it happen Cashman.
Am I the only one who would want Fuentes the most out of those players?
Has Matsui remained healthy this year?
Fuentes may be a little up there in age, but he'd be a player that could take any solid bullpen over the top.
Our of all the Angel players, my #1 pick would be for Jered Weaver. 27 year old ace who has great stuff.
But I do understand what your saying... That team lacks major talent as of right now. I'd assume thats why their only a .500 type of team right now.
Everyone always talks about how the Angels always make a move before the trade deadline, well, they don't always make good ones. Kazmir is the perfect example. Kazmir is 7-9 with an era pushing 7 this season. The Rays front office knew Kazmir was done, and done for life. Why the Angels gave the Rays a GREAT 2B prospect in Sean-Rod is beyond me. The Rays also commited highway robbery for left-hander Alex Torres and infielder Matt Sweeney during that Kazmir deal. Both really good prospects.
If I'm a fan of a team looking to make a deal with the Angels... I want some of those minor league prospects they have, because it's obvious they have no idea what the hell their doing.


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Vintage pattern #470 MIKASA Montecarlo. Discontinued pattern from the 1960's. This was a wedding gift when I married. The pattern is blue&gray flowers,tan,blue&gray scroll. A beautiful pattern that would complement other dishes with its simple design. Great for the holidays!Service for 8 includes:10 5/8" dinner plate, 2 3/4" cup and saucer, 6 3/4" bread and butter plate, 5 5/8" fruit/dessert(sauce) bowl, 7 5/8" coupe soup bowl.Serving pieces: 3 1/4" (8 oz) creamer, 3" sugar bowl and lid, 12' chop plate(round platter), 9" round vegetable bowl.The only piece with a chip is the round vegetable bowl. The chip is on the underside so the bowl is still functional. All other pieces are mint. These have never been in the dishwasher and only washed by hand. I have had them stored in a closet for years. They are in like new condition. Pricing them out at a well known china replacement company puts the value at $572.00. Shipping weight is 35 lbs. and usps parcel post is recommended. Insurance must be purchsed with shipping.
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As We Enter - Nas and Damian "Jr Gong" Marley.
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It will always be Madras to me.
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I dreamt last night of the night, but not the one outside my window. It was a night of bright lights and sharp reliefs, grainy black and white. And within, I greeted a man famous in waking life like an old friend, and remembered a history together in great detail, of his mother and wife and small child. I remembered a small house I stayed in within that life, one I have never seen awake, and how to get there from the spot I stood at that moment.
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