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Since 1956 the ESC has made us laugh, cringe, cry and cringe a little bit more. By this point Eurovision is probably responsible for making more people hide behind their sofas than Doctor Who.
This year Australia is once again making an appearance, continuing the pleasantly confusing situation where a European competition features a country from the other side of the world.
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Warner Brothers Acquired 'The Vatican' Film Pitch and to Be Helmed by 'The Devil Inside' Director
Director William Brent Bell wants lightning to strike twice.
After his unexpected successful film "The Devil Inside" this past weekend, Warner Brothers Pictures signed the director to helm "The Vatican."
Unlike the exorcism film, "The Vatican" will be a conspiracy thriller to be written by David Cohen. Warner Brothers has fast tracked the project and it will be a hybrid film that uses found footages similar to "The Devil Inside."
Cohen wrote the scripts of "Subject Zero" and "No One Lives." "The Devil Inside" script was written by Bell and Matthew Peterman ("Stay Alive").
Bell also previously directed 2006's "Stay Alive" and 1997's "Sparkle and Charm."
Despite very poor critic reviews and receiving an "F" from CinemaScore audiences, "The Devil Inside" was the top grossing film this weekend with $34.5 million for a $1 million budgeted film.
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The patient-centered medical home (PCMH), with its focus on patient-centered care, holds promise as a way to reinvigorate the primary care of patients and as a necessary component of health care reform. While its tenets have been the subject of review, the ethical dimensions of the PCMH have not been fully explored. Consideration of the ethical foundations for the core principles of the PCMH can and should be part of the debate concerning its merits. The PCMH can align with the principles of medical ethics and potentially strengthen the patient–physician relationship and aspects of health care that patients value. Patient choice and these ethical considerations are central and at least as important as the economic and practical arguments in support of the PCMH, if not more so. Further, the ethical principles that support key concepts of the PCMH have implications for the design and implementation of the PCMH. This paper explores the PCMH in light of core principles of ethics and professionalism, with an emphasis both on how the concept of the PCMH may reinforce core ethical principles of medical practice and on further implications of these principles.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has been widely promoted as a concept with promise to reinvigorate the primary care of patients and a necessary pillar of national health care reform. It is "a central resource… with a competent team, including a physician specialist in complex, chronic care management, and coordination and active involvement by informed patients".1 While the basic tenets of the concept have been extensively reviewed, the ethical dimensions of the PCMH have yet to be fully explored.
In Joint Principles of the PCMH2 by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association, the following have been identified as elements of the PCMH:
There is a strong conceptual connection between these Joint Principles and the broader concept of patient-centered primary care, key attributes of which include:3
The PCMH focuses on a patient-centered approach to care, including enhanced access to a personal physician who coordinates care through an integrated team with continuous relationships based on trust, an emphasis on communications and care coordination, involvement of family and caregivers, patient advocacy by providers, and care of the whole person. Consideration of the ethical foundations for the core principles of the PCMH can and should be part of the debate concerning its merits.
The PCMH concept can align with the principles of medical ethics of beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for autonomy and justice, as embodied in the ACP EthicsManual and the Physician Charter on Professionalism and as described throughout this article. It presents an opportunity to reinvigorate the patient–physician relationship and aspects of health care that patients value. Patient choice and these ethical considerations are central and at least as important as the economic and practical arguments in support of the PCMH, or more so. Further, the ethical principles that support the PCMH also have implications for the design and implementation of the PCMH. For example, the principle of respect for patient autonomy is not a mandate that patients must be engaged in their health care. It is ethically inappropriate to make the level of patient engagement a precondition for access or provision of benefits.
This paper explores the PCMH against a backdrop of core principles of ethics and professionalism, emphasizing how the concept of the PCMH may reinforce core ethical principles of medical practice and further implications of these principles.
Within medicine, there is growing recognition of the centrality of patient-centered care to the provision of high quality care. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) lists patient-centeredness as one key element in its definition of high quality health care (along with being safe, effective, efficient, timely and equitable).3,4 IOM defines patient-centered care as "healthcare that establishes a partnership among practitioners, patients, and their families (when appropriate) to ensure that decisions respect patients' wants, needs, and preferences, and that patients have the education and support they need to make decisions and participate in their own care."5 Many other organizations support the concept of patient-centered care, and there is a growing body of empirical evidence that patient-centered care enhances patient satisfaction and trust, in addition to improving health-related behaviors, such as medication adherence and ultimately, health outcomes.6,7
Since its founding in the 1980s, the Picker Institute has focused on patient-centered research and education. It defines patient-centered care as having the following elements: respect for patient values and preferences (including informed and shared decision making); coordination and integration of care (including clinical, ancillary and support services); information and education on clinical status; progress and prognosis that facilitate autonomy, self-care and health promotion; physical comfort including pain management; emotional support; family and friend involvement; continuity and successful transitions of care across settings; and access to care.8
Traditional principles of medical ethics resonate well with the concept of patient-centeredness. These principles include beneficence, a duty to promote good and act in the best interest of the patient and the health of society; nonmaleficence, the duty to do no harm to patients; and respect for patient autonomy.9,10 The design of the patient-centered medical home can reaffirm the ethical principle of beneficence with its emphasis on attention to care of the whole person over all stages of life—acute care, chronic care, preventive services and end-of-life care.11 Maintaining patient-centeredness and connectedness over time is currently challenging. As just one example, under current systems physicians sometimes find it difficult to maintain relationships with patients once they have been referred to hospice care.12
The emphasis on continuous relationships in the PCMH, and the central concepts of engaged patients, strong communications, coordinated care and involvement of family and caregivers, all strongly support the ethical principle of respect for autonomy. The PCMH also should be uniquely suited to foster culturally competent health care and health education, which support informed decision making.
The extent to which the practical implementation of the PCMH achieves ethical goals is likely to depend significantly on design features, such as the structure of physician payment and the measurement of patient satisfaction/experiences, quality/outcomes and cost of care. For instance, proposals to provide incremental additional reimbursement to physicians if their practice meets some of the practice design criteria of the PCMH may not be sufficiently targeted to encourage patient-centered behaviors. Additionally, the promotion of physician-led coordinated teams to provide improved access and efficiency may be perceived by patients, ironically, as placing a barrier between the patient and a trusted physician.
Patients who are less "activated" in their care may be regarded negatively by their caregivers in a PCMH environment, although this can be no different from, or worse, in a non-PCMH environment. Health literacy levels vary widely, raising questions about how those who are most disadvantaged in this regard may fare in such an environment. How the PCMH actually works in practice warrants further discussion and analysis to determine its alignment with ethical considerations and professionalism.
The ACP Ethics Manual states that physicians should work toward ensuring access to health care for all persons.9 Similarly, the Physician Charter on Professionalism articulates a "commitment to improving access to care" as one of the core aspects of professionalism.10 The PCMH's goal to enhance access to a personal physician who leads the provision of high quality coordinated care is consistent with this dimension of professionalism. Perhaps what is most important about health care to patients—and physicians—is excellent access to care in the context of strong and trusted relationships.
Other research notes the limits of care when relationships are episodic, and shows that where there is less "connectedness"—a close relationship between a patient and a particular physician—patients are "less likely to receive guideline-consistent care."13 This approach to measuring care should be more widely studied, especially given concerns that the PCMH may come to emphasize practice redesign and information technology more than patient-centeredness,14 along with other attributes that foster high quality care aligned with professionalism.
Currently, however, many Americans are "medically homeless."15 Patients without access to care face a "perilous journey"16 as they try to navigate the health care system. The PCMH holds promise to substantively rectify this situation, bringing the health care system closer to the ideals of medical ethics and professionalism. In keeping with patient-centeredness, patients should be able to choose their physician (and therefore her/his specialty), but that physician should have overall responsibility for the first contact continuous care of the patient and for leading the health care team. Therefore, a primary care physician would be a likely choice for many patients. The focus is on establishing and maintaining a longitudinal relationship.
A subspecialist who acts as a principal care physician would be medically responsible for the overall care of the patient or should team up with a primary care colleague who will be responsible.17 A recent taskforce on the PCMH convened by the American Society of Nephrology, for example, noted a consensus that nephrology practices would usually not wish to be a medical home, with the possible exception of doing so for dialysis or transplant recipient patients.18 The PCMH leader should not be a "gatekeeper," and there is no incentive under the PCMH to limit appropriate referrals to specialists or subspecialists. "In almost all circumstances, patients should be encouraged to initially seek care from their principal physician. Physicians should in turn obtain competent consultation whenever they and their patients feel the need for assistance with care."9
Practical barriers exist to realization of this goal of the PCMH, such as a shortage of personal physicians. As has been noted in initiatives such as the Massachusetts health plan, attempting to increase access to a personal primary care physician through expansion of insurance coverage can be significantly hampered when there are not enough primary physicians for the population, or when those physicians are unevenly distributed, creating geographic barriers to access.19 The centrality of access to a personal physician to the ethical argument for the PCMH underscores the importance of reform in both medical education and the reimbursement structure of medical care, in order to increase the number of physicians entering and remaining in primary care practice.
Another potential challenge in realization of the ideal of coordinated care through an integrated team concerns the relatively poor track record in most health care systems of true team-based care.20 In order to achieve the potential gains demonstrated in the growing literature on effectiveness of team care, health care systems will need to adopt real reform to reorganize care delivery into interdisciplinary teams.21 Unfortunately, despite the ethical imperative to foster shared commitments and team approaches to care across health professions,9 how to function in a team environment is not deeply embedded in many training programs; economic competition between different types of providers may be an impediment to such a team approach; and systems to provide accountability are lacking at the present time. Hence, health professions education will need reform to enhance development of the skills of working effectively in interdisciplinary teams.
Also, as new models of team-based care develop and are tested, potential medical–legal and other implications will need to be examined, including liability (for example, corporate versus individual liability), and scope of practice and credentialing issues, especially given variations in state law. ACP and SGIM believe, as will patients, that many patients will want or need a multidisciplinary team led by a physician, as called for by the Joint Principles2 and the Guidelines for Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition and Accreditation Programs.22 If nurse practitioner-led demonstration projects and pilots are tested, they should be consistent with scope of practice acts and evaluated using the same standards applied to physician-led practices.
Similarly, the financing and regulation of health care delivery will need to be reformed to provide appropriate incentives to team-based care. For example, current efforts focus on developing individual physician accountability for quality performance measures. But greater attention needs to be paid to evaluating quality at the team level.
Some have argued that performance incentives for teams to improve quality of care are a more effective approach, and that approach also supports professionalism. Rewards for individuals can backfire because the reward does not recognize intrinsic motivations, like a commitment to ethics standards.23 Pay-for-performance in health care has worked best in the context of rewards for teams or organizations, just as incentives for teams work better in other endeavors, such as airline on-time performance.23
To avoid misaligned perceptions between patients and physicians, the PCMH should emphasize performance based metrics and payments that are based on measures of patient satisfaction and experience—which reflect the importance of relationships—and risk-adjusted care coordination payments that do not provide disincentives for the care of sicker patients, the elderly, and those with complex multi-system disease.24
A bedrock principle of medical ethics is the primacy of patient autonomy,9,10 and this core element of the PCMH strongly supports this principle. The PCMH and the concept of patient-centeredness that forms its foundation emphasize patient engagement, provision of health information to patients, and involvement of patients in shared decision making. In addition to the support of principles of ethics and professionalism, these approaches can have a powerful positive influence on the patient's experience of health care and on health outcomes.
There will be challenges to realizing the ideal of patient engagement. For many patients, being an actively engaged participant in their own health care is outside of their experience, or may be at odds with personal or cultural beliefs about health, health care, and relationships with health care professionals. Language or literacy barriers may make it difficult for those inclined to become engaged in their health care to effectively do so. An important ethical corollary of active engagement is the ethical obligation of clinicians and health care systems to exert every effort to bridge these barriers, while at the same time remaining sensitive and respectful toward patients and families who do not fully embrace what it means to be "engaged."
Attempts to provide patients and families, as appropriate,25 with sufficient health information for them to be actively engaged in health care decisions will require a commitment from health systems to eliminate barriers related to literacy, language, numeracy, and technological savvy.
We have learned from recent experiments in attempting to incentivize personal responsibility that turning engagement from a desired attribute to an obligation for patients is fraught with risks.26 The principle of respect for patient autonomy is not a mandate that patients must be engaged in their health care. It is ethically inappropriate to make the level of patient engagement a precondition for access or provision of benefits.
Likewise, care must be taken that the PCMH emphasis on quality and monitoring not coerce patients into agreeing to or receiving care that conflicts with their own values, goals and beliefs, or lead patients to feel in conflict with (or not welcomed by) physicians who are held to measures that the patient does not accept. Here, the concern is that all activities remain respectful of patient autonomy; that the physician respect each patient's uniqueness;9 and that in promoting health and educating patients to enhance health, we avoid what some might view as the "tyranny of health."
Patient access to health information is another important dimension of the PCMH. Such access potentially enhances patient engagement, and can support care integration and team coordination. For example, patient viewing of laboratory results and initiation of communication with their PCMH care team will require substantial rethinking of our current health information technology infrastructure and a change in culture of physicians, team members, and their engagement with patients and families. It also raises potential new challenges with confidentiality and privacy, for with enhanced access, protection of confidentiality will likely be more difficult. Both the ACP Ethics Manual and Charter emphasize the importance of respecting confidentiality, but the Ethics Manual also refers to the important obligation to provide unfettered access for patients to their own personal health information.9
Some may worry that increasing patient engagement in the PCMH may in some instances encourage patient expectations or even entitlement to receive health care services that are of marginal medical benefit. Such an increase in requests for unnecessary diagnostic tests or ineffective treatments could place patient engagement in tension with the physician's corollary commitment to act as a responsible steward of health care resources, as noted both in the ACP Ethics Manual and the Charter. There is some reassuring evidence that one method of patient engagement, shared decision making, may actually decrease rather than increase patient demand for so-called "preference sensitive" treatments, i.e., those treatments for which there is little evidence of superior clinical benefit. For example, a Cochrane review found eight studies involving use of decision aids for surgical procedures that resulted in a significant decrease in patients receiving the procedure.27 Nevertheless, physicians practicing in the PCMH will need enhanced skills in patient-centered shared decision making, as well as a framework and language with which to negotiate with patients.
Finally, some of the more advanced tenets of the PCMH depend on information technology (IT) that is more economically feasible for large multi-specialty groups, as opposed to small and medium sized primary care practices. In the current environment where most of primary care, especially in rural settings, is delivered by small to medium sized practices, it remains unresolved how such practices will be able to incorporate the IT needed to become a robust PCMH. Accountable care organizations (ACO) may help bridge this gap, but could raise other ethical issues that would have to be addressed, and the ACO is itself an emerging and unproven concept.
The Charter discusses the importance of a commitment to quality improvement, specifically calling on physicians to work "collaboratively with other professionals to reduce medical error, increase patient safety, minimize overuse of health care resources, and optimize the outcomes of care."10 The ACP Ethics Manual stresses the ethical importance of active physician engagement in quality efforts and patient safety.9 The PCMH, by integrating the system improvements paradigm into the practice environment, could help physicians meet these ethical obligations, although this must be done with sensitivity to the patient's perspective. Even as the PCMH promotes "patient-centeredness," automated processes of care could inadvertently depersonalize care and make patients feel less connected to their clinician. Importantly, the PCMH is an opportunity to help promote what patients view as measures of high quality care,24,28 which include access to and continuity of care with trusted physicians;29 effective communications and empathy; adequate time for office visits;30 coordination of treatment across all providers and settings; decision making about treatment recommendations; and the role of the family in care.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is emerging and evolving as a model for medical practice that may become an important pillar of national health care reform. The PCMH has the potential to align with the principles of medical ethics and professionalism, and presents an opportunity to reinvigorate the patient–physician relationship and the aspects of health care that patients value. This analysis has explored some of the promise of and concerns about the PCMH through the lens of ethics and professionalism. On balance, many of the principles of the PCMH resonate well with core tenets of ethics and professionalism, and in some cases provide a pathway to enhance the ethical practice of medicine. This analysis may help to highlight some of the practical choices and implications of design and implementation that should be considered to ensure that the PCMH does not become a failed fad, but rather a stepping stone towards a brighter future for health care in America.
Financial support for the development of this position paper came from the ACP operating budget.
*Members of the 2009–2011 American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee: Virginia L. Hood, MBBS, MPH, FACP (Chair 2009–2010); Kesavan Kutty, MD, MACP, FCCP, FRCP (L) (Chair 2010–2011); Joseph J. Fins, MD, FACP (Vice Chair 2009–2011); Jeffrey T. Berger, MD, FACP; Clarence H. Braddock, III, MD, MPH, FACP; CPT. Tatjana P. Calvano, MC, USA; Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD, FACP; Faith T. Fitzgerald, MD, MACP; Thomas H. Gallagher, MD, FACP; Celine Goetz; Vincent E. Herrin, MD, FACP; Robert G. Luke, MD, MACP; Tanveer P. Mir, MD, MACP; Alejandro Moreno, MD, MPH, JD, FACP, FCLM; Amirala S. Pasha; J. Fred Ralston, Jr., MD, FACP; Michael C. Sha, MD, FACP; Upasna (Mini) Swift, MBBS, FACP; Alexandra Smart, MD; and Barbara J. Turner, MD, FACP. This paper was approved by the ACP Board of Regents on July 30, 2011.
**Members of the 2010–11 Society of General Internal Medicine Ethics Committee: Clarence H. Braddock, III, MD, MPH, FACP (Chair); Eric G. Campbell, MD, PhD; Evelyn C. Chan, MD; Sarah L. Clever, MD, FACP; Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD; Neil J. Farber, MD, FACP; Thomas H. Gallagher, MD, FACP; Lauris C. Kaldjian, MD, FACP; Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, MD, FACP; Sonja K. Rakowski, MD; Lois Snyder, JD; and Alexia Torke, MD. This paper was approved by the SGIM Council on June 29, 2011
The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.
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Washington, DC —Downward trends in U.S. manufacturing innovation pose a serious threat to America's long-term economic growth and living standards, according to a new report released today by the Council of Manufacturing Associations (CMA) and The Manufacturing Institute of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
"The manufacturing economy generates a large share of American prosperity," said NAM president John Engler. "America's continuing leadership in innovation and the production of high-value manufactured goods is essential to our nation's long-term economic growth, productivity gains and standard of living. By itself, U.S. manufacturing would be the eighth largest economy in the world, and our nation's manufacturing output is at an all-time high. But America's economic leadership will be at risk if current trends continue."
"Our nation can not afford to lose its manufacturing innovation edge and the wealth that it generates throughout our economy," said Jerry Jasinowski, president of The Manufacturing Institute (the research and education arm of the NAM). "One bright ray of light is U.S. manufacturing's tremendous productivity gains," Jasinowski continued. "U.S. manufacturing productivity has surged 24% since the last recession—70% faster than the average productivity growth following the last five recessions. Strong productivity growth helps America compete in the global economy and is the key to higher wages and better living standards for U.S. workers. Higher productivity growth also allows for lower interest rates as the economy grows faster without generating inflation," Jasinowski said.
The report's author, economist Dr. Joel Popkin, stated: "Though the U.S. accounts for 40% of all R&D spending in the industrial world, we can not become complacent about this leadership position. The rapid growth in overseas manufacturing is creating new global centers with the critical mass necessary to build their own innovation machines." Popkin continued saying that according to the new report five clear warning signs show that America's innovation process is at risk:
Manufacturing output since the last recession lags that of earlier economic recoveries— its 15% growth is only half the pace averaged in recoveries of the past half-century;
Manufacturing capacity remains underutilized, slowing investment in new plants and equipment. Since the last recession, total plant and equipment investment has risen at half the pace averaged in recoveries of the past half-century. Manufacturing capacity has grown at &1% annually (compared with 5% in the 1990s);
The U.S. share of global trade in manufactured products has shrunk, falling from 13% in the 1990s to 10% in 2004. The U.S. now runs a trade deficit in advanced technology products, and the U.S. share of global trade in some of the highest value-added export industries such as machinery and equipment is falling;
U.S. manufacturing offers rewarding and desirable careers for highly skilled workers. Yet the widespread perception that manufacturing employment is unstable and lacks job opportunities discourages new worker entry. While manufacturing continues to pay better than other industries, the sector is experiencing a broadening shortage of skilled workers; and
America's long-standing leadership in R&D is being challenged. While the U.S. continues to spend more than any other country on R&D investment, U.S. growth in R&D has averaged only about 1% per year in real terms since 2000.
"If the innovation process goes offshore, America will lose much of its capacity to generate wealth and a decline in long-term economic growth is assured," Popkin said. Jasinowski went on to say, "Developing human capital for a high performance workforce must be a top national priority if America is to remain the world's leader in innovation and productivity. The broadening shortage of skilled workers threatens our nation's ability to compete in today's fast-paced and increasingly demanding global economy and will only worsen as the so-called baby boomers retire. We need a bold action agenda to develop human capital, revitalize fundamental research and encourage productivity-enhancing investments in order to maintain a critical mass of production and a viable innovation process in this country."
The new report, "U.S. Manufacturing Innovation at Risk," by Dr. Joel Popkin is available at www.nam.org/Popkinreport
— Richard Phelps , senior editor, Control Engineering
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Here You Have Virus Email, Even though you probably less likely to find full of malware if you're using Linux instead of Windows, that does not mean that security software should be completely ignored. ClamTK – or KlamAV, depending on the environment in which to use – gives your Linux PC to a malware guard dog that goes beyond the old "security through obscurity" strategy.
Have you run a virus scan lately? No.? No need, you say. That's because it runs a Linux operating system.
Think again. To quote the title line of the third album by Bob Dylan, "times are changing."
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Used-to-be has now given way to a possible maybe. The cry of war between security experts in the past was simply using a Linux operating system – or Mac OS X – gave the re-in security through obscurity.
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The ClamAV Antivirus Manager is a good safety precaution. It comes in versions of Gnome and KDE.
With so much of our computing activities based on web-based applications and multi-platform software such as browsers and word processors, this discreet scanner application goes a step or two beyond the "security by obscurity" axiom.
The KlamAV Antivirus Scanner ClamTK Manager and virus are basically the same application, but the interface give every aspect of their own and feel.
The name game is basically an alphabet soup of settings. The couple KlamAV entity with the KDE environment.
The ClamTK Virus Scanner is a GUI or graphical user interface to the ClamAV antivirus with gtk2-perl.
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Me: "Yes, I know. You've never liked it. So I'm also making that steamed chocolate pudding you like. You know, the one with the chocolate fudge sauce? And I'm making vanilla ice cream to go with it."
Dad: "No custard?"
This is a fairly typical exchange whenever my parents come to visit, which infuriates me immeasurably. My dad, having never cooked a Christmas dinner in his life, fails to understand the sheer enormity of the undertaking; the weeks of preparation, the juggling of multiple pans on the cooker and the precise timings upon which everything hangs. He just wants custard. Under usual circumstances this is a perfectly reasonable request, however, when you've spent hours planning a dinner that is festive enough, doable in a small London kitchen and parent-friendly; one that uses every pot, pan and utensil in the kitchen; whimsical alterations will cause you to roll your eyes in the best case scenario and completely tip you over the edge in the worst.
Fortunately, my husband has 11 years of experience to know when to just leave me to it, except where tarragon is concerned. With the merest sound of the knife hitting the chopping board, I find him peering over my shoulder to appraise my choice of herb. As so happened when I made this frittata for breakfast on Saturday morning. For me, tarragon is the perfect companion for mushrooms and goats cheese; for him, less so. If I were a better wife, perhaps, I would leave it out altogether, or concoct some inventive method for stirring chopped tarragon into one side of the pan once the eggs had already been poured in but, alas, I am a selfish being. At least when it comes to breakfast.
The beauty of frittata is that you can add more or less anything you like. I would have liked this particular one with a layer of thinly sliced fried potatoes at the bottom, but only realised I didn't have any as I started to cook. I used a mixture of chestnut and shiitake mushrooms, but you can throw in whatever is in season. And, of course, you can leave out the tarragon if you absolutely must.
Mushroom and Goat's Cheese Frittata
Olive oil
250g mixed mushrooms
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
6 eggs
Splash of milk
Salt and pepper
1 tbsp chopped tarragon
75g soft goat's cheese
2 tbsp finely grated parmesan
Preheat the oven to 180°c.
Heat a little olive oil in a large, deep frying pan, or chef's pan, and sauté the onions until browned. Transfer to a plate and set aside. In the same pan, gently fry the onions and garlic until soft, but not browned.
Crack the eggs into a bowl, add the milk, salt and pepper and three-quarters of the chopped tarragon and whisk together. Return the mushrooms to the pan and spread out to cover the base. Pour over the egg mixture.
Crumble over the goat's cheese, then sprinkle over the Parmesan and remaining chopped tarragon. Allow to cook on the hob for a couple of minutes before transferring to the oven for 15 minutes, until the eggs have set. Allow to cool a little before serving.
Serves four.
Thank you to everybody on Twitter who cleared up the conundrum of where the apostrophe should go in 'goat's cheese.' After a great deal of debate, the general consensus is that before the 's' is correct.
Other frittata recipes from More than Just Toast:
Cherry tomato, prosciutto and ricotta frittata
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Where it started
Gymnastics is a sport that develops physical fitness, physical coordination and endurance, and flexibility, balance, and beauty of movement in its athletes. In most countries of the world, including the United States, gymnastics is a competitive sport.
Gymnastics is a sport that goes back to ancient Greece. Gymnastics began in the early 1800's in Sweden. At about the same time, gymnastics was also beginning in Germany and https://tackk.com/j4dm48Czechoslovakia, and gymnastics became a popular sport throughout northern and middle Europe.
Gymnastic competition became part of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. Since then, gymnasts from all over the world have met in multiple competitions. Athletes from Eastern Europe, Russia, and Japan have at one time or another been in the sport. In the 1980's, Mary Lou Retton, Bart Conner, and Kurt Thomas were the first gymnasts to complete an overall ten in one competition.
The basics
It is predictable for the beginner to start with floor exercises or tumbling. Before any practice begins, a gymnast needs to warm up with slow stretching exercises. These exercises loosen the body as well as warm up the muscles that will be used. Some beginners are limited by their lack of flexibility, which can be developed by performing floor exercises and by stretching. Any size area can be used for stretching and warm- up exercises. Tumbling can be done on a straight mat that is 40 by 6 feet covered with foam.
Many varieties of movements and combinations can be included in floor exercises. First you should learn the skills, then choose which ones you wish to put into a routine.
Floor exercises often begin with tumbling and may include handstand, balance, and strength movements. It is also good to show some form of flexibility in a routine. Most routines finish with a tumbling pass. The women's routine is set to music and needs to include some form of dance. This is usually ballet, but it can be modern dance. In both men's and women's floor routines, the gymnast's timing, flexibility, and form are very important, as are the heights of the tumbling and leaping movements. For a final impression of good form and body control, the routine should end with a perfect landing, often called a "stuck" landing.
There should be harmony and connection between the movements, so that they all fit smoothly with rhythm into the exercise. The gymnast should use the entire floor area, moving diagonally as well as forward and backward. Diagonal patterns should be used for routines demonstrating the highest level of skill. Advanced gymnasts are expected to demonstrate more difficult skills than are beginning gymnasts.
Competition in Gymnastics
Here are seven championship events for men: floor exercise, long horse vault, pommel horse, still rings, parallel bars, horizontal bar, and the all-around. For women, there are five championship events: floor exercise, balance beam, side horse vault, uneven parallel bars, and the all-around.
They are judged for mechanics, grace and rhythm, and how well they are performed within the overall routine.
Optional routines are put together by each individual performer. The gymnast selects the skills for the event that he or she can perform well. These routines are judged for originality, correctness, form, and daring or risk. If a performer demonstrates too much strain while performing a skill, his or her score will be lower. Today many competitions use only the optional routine. It is the most difficult routine for the gymnast to do but the most exciting routine for the spectators to watch.
From two to four officials judge the routines. At times a fifth judge, called a superior judge, is used. The superior's job is to keep the other four officials within the judging guidelines. When two judges are used, the scores are averaged; when four judges are used, the highest score and the lowest score are discarded, and the remaining two scores are averaged.
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Gabrielle Christina Victoria "Gabby" Douglas (born December 31, 1995) is an American artistic gymnast. As a member of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won gold medals in both the individual all round and team competitions. Douglas is the first black woman in Olympic history to become the individual all-around champion, and the first American gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics as well as being the only American all-around champion to win multiple gold medals. She was also a member of the gold-winning U.S. team at the 2011 world championships.
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Recent drastic changes to federal policies regarding family reunification, sponsorship and the delivery of language and settlement programs are making it more difficult for worthy applicants to establish viable lives for their families in Canada.
How very ironic that, at the same time our Department of Citizenship and Immigration is restricting access for law-abiding folks from around the world, it welcomes Conrad Black, a convicted criminal who discarded his Canadian citizenship to pursue his egomaniacal dreams elsewhere (Ottawa Approves Conrad Black's Request To Live In Canada – online, May 1)
Will the Immigration Minister help me explain this to my English classes for new Canadians who have tried for years, unsuccessfully, to sponsor family members in difficult circumstances?
Harold Neufeld, Winnipeg
Seeing red
I see that the Canadian government is funding a tour of Canada by Prince Charles and Camilla (Royals To Visit Canada In Honour Of Jubilee – May 1). It's ironic that the same government has just decided to cancel funding for the British Association for Canadian Studies, the organization that promotes awareness of Canada in Britain by, for instance, paying university libraries to stock books about Canada.
Given that this government says it wishes to strengthen ties with Britain, it was an odd decision to end funding for the one body that combats the astonishing ignorance of Canada that's so rampant in the U.K. A professor of international relations recently confessed to me that he "couldn't name the president of Canada."
Andrew Smith, senior lecturer in history, Coventry University, Coventry, England
Noble needs
While I agree with Amanda Lang's assertion that children need to learn the art of losing gracefully (Why We Need To Teach Our Kids How To Fail – April 30), she might want to read Sport Canada's long-term athlete development program before picking on it.
As a coach, and the parent of two young athletes, I've seen how an overemphasis on competition above other crucial aspects of sport (such as skill development, physical fitness and, yes, "fun") leads to many children dropping sports altogether as they approach their teen years.
Both Cross Country Ski Canada and Triathlon Canada run excellent development programs on the LTAD model that teach children to first love what they do, then compete in what they love. Yes, winning is important, but physical activity is a nobler goal.
Nicola Lyle, Lakefield, Ont.
$chool daze
There's a simple solution to the problem Margaret Wente raises (These Kids Are In For A Shock – May 1). Universities could make courses in petroleum geology or electrical engineering dirt cheap while charging sky-high fees for sociology and victim studies. Both students and society might benefit from such a change.
Sidney van den Bergh, North Saanich, B.C.
The big sell-off
So the plan was to sell art and buy arms (John Baird Halts Sale Of Canadian Masters – May 1)? To dump our cultural treasures for a pittance in the name of budget cuts while spending billions on weapons of war? Stephen Harper's vision of Canada writ large.
Tim Jeffery, Toronto
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is right to stop his department's sale of Canadian artworks. He should go a step further and conduct an inventory of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's nooks and crannies at home and abroad to determine whether there are more Canadian masterpieces under threat. And do it before someone cooks up another scheme to sell off our culture.
Iris Nowell, author, Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art , Toronto
The scrapie affair
It's important to put the recent scrapie incident in perspective (Eradicating Scrapie – letter, May 1). The neurodegenerative disease has been around for at least 280 years; the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's scrapie eradication program has been in existence for fewer than 10 years. Obviously, sheep and goats made it through the centuries without this government program.
There's good reason to question whether the program is an effective use of taxpayers' dollars. Some studies have indicated that the slaughter of specific genotypes to prevent one form of scrapie predisposes the "national flock" to greater susceptibility to other forms of disease. Some experts have questioned whether eradication is possible at all.
A CFIA official has acknowledged that, sometimes after a spike in cases, "nobody wants to report a case because of the bad economics … [so suddenly] you have two years of very few cases." In other words, the draconian nature of the program may promote the practice of "shoot, shovel and shut up."
Karen Selick, lawyer for Montana Jones, Belleville, Ont.
Crude truth
Neil Reynolds is so excited that Our World's Not Coasting On Empty After All (April 30) that he ignores several "inconvenient truths." The warnings he ridicules are 40 years old, but, as recently as March, a new generation of MIT researchers said that, unless world demand for resources slowed, there'd be a "global economic collapse" and "precipitous population decline" by 2030.
Mr. Reynolds might be excited by the idea we're swimming in oil, but swimming in the local water in most parts of the world would be just as deadly.
Roger Smith, Lantzville, B.C.
Neil Reynolds is entirely correct when he points out that the world isn't about to run out of oil and other commodities – right now. But his argument reminds me of Winston Churchill's description of the fyrd, the Anglo-Saxon militia, before the 1066 Battle of Hastings. "The local 'fyrd' … in true English style, came to the conclusion that the danger was past because it had not yet arrived." And we all know what the result of that was.
David Brewer, Puslinch, Ont.
Speak softly …
Teddy Roosevelt would love all this attention (Where's Teddy When You Need Him? – May 1). As his daughter Alice once said, he "always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening."
J.D.M. Stewart, Toronto
Pachyderm plight
I have a modest proposal regarding Toronto's three elephants (Health Questions Stall Council's Plan To Relocate Aging Elephants – May 1). Why not put a fence around City Hall with our mayor, councillors and zoo staff inside and charge admission? The revenue would surely pay for sending the elephants to a better place.
Steven Diener, Toronto
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The E-Company manufactures trendy, high-quality moderately priced watches that it sells on the Internet. As the company's senior financial analyst, you are asked to analyze the overall profitability fo the current year. The CFO has heard that there are two different approaches for preparing income statment.s You are asked to show the CFO both approaches and explain the advantages or disadvantes of each method. The following data are for the year ended December 31, 2009:
Production capacity is 400,000 units
Beginning inventory, January 1: 85,000 units
Ending inventory, December 31: 55,000 units
Sales for the year are: 345,000 units
Selling price (to distributor) $19.00 per unit
Variable manufacturing cost per unit, including direct materials of $3.50 and direct labor of $1.40
Variable operating/selling cost per unit sold $1.20
Fixed manufacturing overhead $1,600,000
Fixed sellling & administrative expenses $1,200,000
Assume costs per unit are the same for units in beginning inventory and units produced during the year. Also, assume the prices and unit costs did not change during the year.
1. Prepare income statements under variable (contribution margin) and traditional (absorption) costing for the year ended December 31, 2008.
2. What are E's contribution margin ratio, gross profit ratio and operating (net) income ratios?