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The first time I tried my hand at magic, I grew roses out of my nose.
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Red's granny is sick (maybe dying) and she is determined to find a way to save her. She sets off on an adventure that brings understanding, knowledge, fear, excitement and even unexpected friendships.
Other books in this series include Rump, Jack, and Grump. They all come from the same world, but see it from different perspectives.
I thoroughly enjoyed this series so far. I haven't read Grump, but I'm sure it won't disappoint. Red is a great character though a bit naive and sheltered. She learns a great deal during her adventure and grows into a stronger person.
Bottom line: A fresh take on the story of Red Riding Hood that will take you on an exciting adventure filled with danger and unexpected friendships.
|Unlike the children's story Red's Grandmother is EVIL.. She enjoys scaring Red with wolf stories. Granny gives Red a Red cape n order to make her look ridiculous, not beautiful. Little did Granny know Red capes were going to be the newest fashion statement. Red suddenly has a lot of new friends who started calling her Red Riding Hood and thinks she a genius for foreseeing the fashion. She also becomes the most sought after bachelorette. And she is very smart. Red has it all at this point. Until the press found out about Grandma.
This was such a fun adult version of the story and my favorite of the 3 books, All 3 stories are short reads just like the children's books but way different. I personally would not read this series to the kids but I really enjoyed them. Reut Barak has a great imagination and has turned old favorites into new favorites for me.


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Rob is the UX Manager at Perform Group, a leading digital sports content and media group. Here, he manages the UX output and promotes a user-centered approach to developing their global network of media apps and websites, enjoyed by millions of sports fans on a monthly basis.
During his time at Perform, Rob has led several successful projects. Including the release of the Official Copa America App, which ranked as the number 1 free app in the App store in 8 different countries.
Rob likes to write about UX and Design, contributing to both uxdesign.cc and theuxblog.com. His articles have also featured on the renowned sidebar.io. He like to live by a simple mantra, which anyone can easily embrace: "Learn from the community, give back to the community." Outside of work, he stays fit and healthy with his keen passion for climbing.
It takes a lot of effort within a large organisation to get things done, especially to a really high standard. However it's often minor tasks that will offer you the biggest rewards. This talk will take you through a journey of suggestions and tips to help improve communication, productivity and quality, whilst tying back to an overarching theme of Release Notes.
[00:00:06] Thanks, Rachel. Thank you all for attending. I'd just like to start by addressing the title of the talk because I know it's a little bit ambiguous: "Minor bug fixes." You might be thinking, "what the hell's all this about?" Today we're going to talk about release notes of minor bug fixes, normally accompanies the release of some sort of software, doesn't really matter what it is. And I've kinda picked up a few issues over the years. Companies tend to use this minor bug fixes regularly and they're actually doing a lot more work — and normally, the word 'minor', there's not a right lot of 'minor' about it. Actually, quite a lot of effort has gone into this next release.
[00:00:53] The TL;DR — "too long; didn't read", in case you were wondering what that means — for this talk, is the content's basically about apps, app stores and release notes, but I'm quite aware that there are quite a few web people in the room, so we're going to tie that back to communication, communication channels, and ways to improve that. And like Rachel just said, I work for a company called Perform Group, which probably no one's heard of in the room. I'd be very surprised if anyone has. And the reason for that is it's kind of like an umbrella for a lot of different sports brands, and the sports brands that we have are sports media websites and apps. Basically taking sports content that's written by ourselves or stats that are produced by ourselves and distributing these across the world.
[00:01:41] So if we take a look at Goal, which is on the left here, and this is one of our biggest websites. I've highlighted for you some of the countries that we have local editions in. We have 38 local editions, serving 20 languages and the reach for this kind of audience is basically around 57.4 million unique users per month, and this is taking numbers just from the website alone. So if we were to add the apps into here we're looking at over 1 billion unique page views every single month, which is a massive audience. And basically that kind of gives you a little understanding of the scale of my work on a daily basis. I am the UX Manager for this company. There's about five UX designers within my team and we're basically based in Leeds, and I've highlighted two other countries there, Poland and France, because for the apps, we work with a development team in Poland and we've also got another development house in France as well. So that comes with quite a few challenges because, obviously, we've got to cover quite a lot of different languages and different types of content, but all the designers and their product guys are based in either London or Leeds.
[00:03:07] So Perform comes and we often have these kind of issues, like the business suddenly changes direction, we've got a lot of products to serve so you're working on this one, but oh wait, we've got to work on that one. And ultimately the main problem is everything takes quite a long time to produce. It's not like a really nimble, agile way of working at times. But the benefit to this is that we are working on software at a huge scale, so we have access to a massive audience. Football and sports have a really passionate audience and they're really keen to always offer their opinions and so on, and so forth, and it's really great to get that impact, and have that kind of reach.
[00:03:51] So I wanted to start by taking you through one project that we worked on. As I said before, we kind of hop and change between different brands that we're working with. Back in December 2014, the goalnews.com app was feeling a little unloved — I've kind of used the little grandma and grandpa on there as like an indicator to say it's not been touched in a while, basically. Basically, it took about one year, three months and eight days, to be precise, to actually work on the redesign of this product. And this is not anything that's revolutionary. It's people digesting news content, article pages, category pages. We're not reinventing the world here. And we ended up with something that looks kinda like this - it's got nice new skin, some minor tweaks and improvements as we've gone along. And like I said, one year, three months and eight days. It's a lot of work that's gone into this. The design team, the product team and the development teams put in their blood, sweat and tears to get to this point.
[00:05:08] I'm sure that you've all been there and you've got to the release date and you have a release party, to start to celebrate. Unfortunately, there's one guy in the room - which is myself - looking more like this guy, and thinking "What the hell?" And the reason for that is this: the release note that accompanied all this work just simply read: "Thank you for using Goal. Your favourite football app just got better with a full redesign." And you know in my mind that doesn't really reflect the amount of work that's gone into that kind of project. The guy who wrote that, I'd have much preferred if he'd done something like this. That's not hanging himself, that's just making something that looks visually exciting and engages the audience a little bit better. As I said I'm the UX Manager so I come from quite a visual design background and type, typography and type hierarchy are all the kind of things that I always try to look to — including, like in my presentations in this case and work. Someone just quickly typing this up and chucking it out there to me felt a little bit misaligned to the amount of effort that we've actually gone into releasing this product. So I start asking around and basically trying to convince people that I've got this idea that we can do better than this. We can definitely improve our products through release notes. And I'm met with not the best kind of response. People kind of saying "Oh well, we haven't got the time for that," like I've already said we serve loads of languages so it's going to be a nightmare translating this, and you know essentially no one reads these things so why are you even bothering. And I'm thinking, well I read it and I saw it, so someone must read them somewhere else.
[00:07:00] So I thought I'd spend a bit of time looking for some evidence to convince people that there's a better way of doing this, and it turns out that no one does read release notes, as I'm sure some of you may be thinking. My job today is to convince here to actually spend a little bit more time and thinking about the end stage and actually what the benefit is to this.
[00:07:24] But first let's just touch on why people don't read release notes. There's two reasons for that. Oh well there's probably more, but these two things that stand out. One: Android and iOS both offer auto-update these days, so people just see apps automatically getting updated so there's absolutely no reason to read about what the new features are. And secondly: even if you did visit the "What's new, I've got some updates" section, you don't actually see the release notes; you've got to tap to expand those — which, again, isn't ideal when you try to tell users, "hey, we've got this nice new feature." And that's ultimately led to companies just being a bit lazy with release notes and generally in the App Store, just not bothering. We've got Facebook on the left that just says month after month "Hey, keep your app up to date and you'll get some cool features," which to be honest isn't that great. It's just as bad as the stuff that we churned out, or even worse — the title of the talk, just 'bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes'. And this is some of the biggest companies in the world that are doing this.
[00:08:30] So my job today is going to be to convince you that these guys are actually doing it wrong and there's a much better way, and I'm going to try to talk you through some benefits of what we've seen by taking a different approach. And it is self-explanatory, but I just want to make it clear that if you're releasing something and you're writing it, and the users are over here and they're reading it, it's very much a one-way conversation, you can just send something and hoping that they're going to kind of pick up on it — or not pick up on it in some cases. And we found, looking back at some examples of how we can do this better, we found one way which is to actually include an option for feedback, so include an email address, say "hey, we've got some new features but we're always working on improvements. Why don't you drop us a line?" And that's already better than just writing 'bug fixes' because you open up that conversation, so it's less one-way conversation street, and it's more, if they want to they can get in touch with you and you can respond to that and basically have that sharing of conversation. And I've just kind of touched on some people that do a really bad job with this, and I don't generally like slagging people off, so let's talk about some people who do a really good job of this, and in particular 1Password and Slack.
[00:09:52] These guys have documented better ways of actually writing release notes and how to communicate to your audience and actually actively engage them. And from a visual design background, I'm kind of dyslexic as well and my spelling is atrocious so I'm not going to patronise you on what you should write, but instead I'm going to try to talk about simple design tips that you can apply to just plain text release notes. In this case we're looking at using a very limited palette. We've haven't got bold, we haven't got colours, we've haven't got italics, we haven't got different sizes. We've got pretty much these characters that you see on screen right now, so how can we use this to actually create something that's actually engaging? And let's start by looking around at some examples of companies that do a really good job of this. And like I've already mentioned, 1Password on the left do a really good job. They use that TL;DR which is 21st century for just summary, like you don't need to read all this stuff that we're talking about but at least you get a little snippet of what's to come, and they use capital letters to create a title, space to break out this section. And Medium as well are using TL;DR, it seems to be like quite common practice in release notes in particular. We don't have access to bullets, but we've got the alt 8 if you're using Mac and you can still include bullets. And again you can get creative and use text. In ESPN's case they've used open brackets and pluses. And we've already talked about this, getting people's feedback - why not include that? It's a good idea. And you can always reference the major release. I'm not trying to say that writing 'minor bug fixes' is always bad; I think that there's definitely some cases when you are just quickly fixing something, but you've probably done some really good work recently, and you probably want to talk about that. So the point would be: don't just say the last thing.
[00:11:57] So to illustrate that point a little bit, I'm going to talk to you about the tipping point at which I started to get more buy-in for this kind of new way of thinking. And you guys have already seen this. This is the point at which we released the update to the Goal News app and put out that crappy release note that just said "it's got a brand new redesign." One year's worth of work down the drain. And we didn't learn from our mistakes at this point and obviously I wasn't able to get enough buy-in.
[00:12:28] The next time we released, it was coming up to Euro 2016, and that's a real key date for Perform, because obviously we're a sports media company. We make a lot of money at key sporting events such as World Cups and Euros and so on and so forth. And we spent a lot of time, like the next six months or so, really working on improving the app and getting a dedicated Euro Section for this time. Two days later we released minor bug fixes. We shipped it with something that was a bit of an issue. And the reason that that was bad is that if we just kind of map this out on a calendar year, we've got the Euro section getting released which is great. A lot of our competitors didn't have this. It's a really unique feature that our app has to offer, and four days later we've shipped a minor bug fix. We also had two of our releases that month, which aren't really that important, but I just put them on there for context. And the highlighted area there is the time that - in the App Store, if you look at your own app, the "What's New" Section is a really great space to kind of talk to users and say, "hey we've got this really good feature, you should check it out and so on and so forth - and during that time period, if we just look back to that calendar, the only thing that we're seeing there is minor bug fixes. So for a start we can use that method that Evernote used where you say "minor bug fixes" but you still reference your major release. And the reason that this got so much traction is if I map where the Euros started and finished, is only actually four days where, in the App Store, we're not talking about something like a really good feature release, and obviously it's a key time for us — we're getting a lot of traffic to that page, and we're not really capitalizing on it, on unique features that we've got.
[00:14:26] So at that point I kind of share in all these insights that I've been gathering with the team, particularly the product team which is traditionally the ones that are responsible for writing this kind of stuff. And I'm saying can we work together and try to work out a perfect release note? What should we put in there, what shouldn't we put in there? Can we have some sort of template to speed up this process a little bit? And we decided on this, which I'm going to quickly talk you through. You can always start with a nice little icebreaker. It's not essential. I think sometimes it's appropriate, sometimes it's not. Always include that summary section because there's a lot of people who don't have time to read or don't want to read. You know we've already touched on the elephant in the room, that no one reads release notes, so just at least offer that little snippet to users. And then just going down into different sections - so using capital letters to create a title for the content, breaking content down by something that's new, something that's improved, something that's fixed. You know you can talk about these in as much or as little detail as you want but at least you can cover the fact that you've done quite a lot of work and obviously have talked about this a few times already. Offer them the opportunity to get back in touch with you because that's important in creating that two way conversation.
[00:15:50] So life at Perform wasn't great before I kinda got this momentum behind this whole new way of thinking. We've got Olé on the left here, which is an Argentinean app: we're using English to release in that app store, which is not cool because it's not a native language. Same problem in Dutch, we're using bug fixes and then 'kleine bug fixes' — forgive my accent there. And it's just inconsistent — like, sometimes we're writing a lot, sometimes we're not writing a lot. It's generally a bit of a mess. And life after this template: we kinda saw a whole load of consistency, we're using native language; we're breaking down titles; sometimes there's not a lot to talk about, but we're still using that kind of structure; users can expect that kind of interaction with us. In fact, there's only one of these that's got a nice little icebreaking section, and again you know you don't need to use it. For any keen audience members today, I'm trying to break this talk down in a similar structure, so that's the reason for including TL;DR at the start.
[00:16:58] And at this point life is good because we've really turned a corner and that's pretty much been from me, the UX Manager, who is not the brand advocate or the release manager, but kinda made some positive change here, I'm feeling great. But unfortunately, we've got some issues to tackle, and one of those is that translations take a really long time. You know I've already talked about how many languages we cover. If just one person does not reply - the Arabic guy didn't get back to us - that delays the entire release, which is not cool. So we've started working on a new kind of collaborative way of working. It's nothing revolutionary; it's a Google spreadsheet. We write English on the left hand column, and we've got different columns for different languages and editions. And at this point we've made it part of our workflow.
[00:17:52] As a designer picking up a minor task I can write in here, "hey, I want to tell my users about this," or as the developer who's just spent two weeks refactoring the app for the next update, we want to make people aware of that, that we're still chipping away and improving that. And if I go back to that map that I showed you at the start, with the design and product teams based in Leeds but that's suddenly meant that we're getting involvement from Poland, and we're getting involvement from France, and we've got, obviously, daily standups and things like that, but it's like an active thing that everyone's kind of passionate about within the team, which is great to see.
[00:18:29] And then the next issue would be, like I've already said, sometimes 'minor bug fixes' are acceptable, but we make a lot of money through advertising. One example would be that we spend a lot of time adding a new additional ad network to our app, which isn't cool. And traditionally we'd have tackled that by just saying "Hey, minor bug fixes," sweep it under the carpet, the users don't need to know about this. And that led me to have a little bit of an investigation into minor bug fixes over the last 12 months. This graph here kind of shows the amount of effort that's gone in — I touched on it at the start; I don't actually believe that there's a thing called a 'minor bug fix', because no way is a bug fix a minor amount of effort. I've highlighted the kind of minimal ones, where maybe you could get away with saying 'minor bug fixes' at this point — but this piece here that nearly took 260 man hours to actually get out, is the release where we actually added the new ad network. And like I said, traditionally we're using 'minor bug fixes' for this. But from the design team's point of view we did something really simple and it's probably not even worth talking about. But before we add our cards, we have a title and a little snippet, and we decided, "hey, why don't we remove that snippet?" and all of a sudden users can see a lot more news within that view. And it's not a great thing to talk about, but it's much better than just saying 'minor bug fixes', so we can take that release note and make it look something more like this - where we say "hey, we've got a brand new card format. You guys can now read a lot more news than you could before." We could just mention the fact that we've optimized ads; I know that adding in a new ad network is not what the users want to hear, but it might be faster, there might be some sort of benefit to it; maybe we don't need to go into too much detail. And the other idea would be to reference the amount of bugs that you've actually fixed. So, that piece of 260 hours was spent fixing 24 bugs, which is quite a lot, and users might be getting frustrated by something and then try and check that out again and see if they fixed that particular one.
[00:20:47] The other way of doing it, is if you've not got anything like that to say, and you are just releasing a new ad network, which is not cool, you may have some new features in the backlog which you know are going to come up relatively soon. So if there are big improvements around the corner you can tell your users you're letting them know about that.
[00:21:07] And this is the point at which I want to kind of address that problem that no one reads release notes. You know, the product owners are saying to me, "it seems like a hell of a lot of effort for not a lot of reward." Like I've already said, no one does read release notes; auto-update is on traditionally for pretty much 90 percent of all Android and iOS users. But one of our competitors does a really good job of this. They signpost people who use the app to a running blog of new features and this is where they kind of reuse that copy and say "hey this is new, this is fixed, this is improved, this is what's coming up" and they're taking it away from the App Store. We're carrying it for some people who do use the app store - and not that many do - but we're also tackling the majority people by hitting them the first time that we see the app. And this kind of stuff's not something that we've got in our apps at the minute but is something I'm really keen to press for.
[00:22:12] And other ways that you can reuse that: I've just highlighted Nokia's Health Mate app — they pop up a modal the second that you land on the app, and it's the exact same copy word-for-word. So all that effort you've just put in you've translated it to 20 different languages, you can just reuse that. If you guys generally deal with the app store rather than web sites you can always do what Dropbox does: aty every major release, send your users an email if you've got access to their email addresses.
[00:22:43] So I just want to spend the last part of my talk just kind of proving to you guys that this works. I wrote an article about this and I'll share it on Twitter so you guys can read it if you're interested. But coming to Turing Fest I really wanted to come here with some more evidence and be like "look, we've done this and this is proper cool" and give you guys a little bit more insight. So going back to that point of speaking to users and allowing users to speak to you, like we've already said not a lot of people read these so it's really quality over quantity. And what we've seen in our inboxes is things like this, where someone has gone to the effort to download our app, to update it, to read our release notes and actually send us an email saying "hey I think you guys could do some better work." We've gone back saying "Hey, would you mind just like explaining a little bit more? We king of get your problem but we're not really seeing it within the office." This guy comes back and literally broke down why his notifications aren't working and so on and so forth, which is great. Some features are only there because users really bought into that process and put quite a lot of effort in to get to this point.
[00:23:52] And we've also picked up users for interviews. Someone again getting in touch with us through the release note, went back and forth just dead quick and then said "hey, would you mind just jumping on a call, it'd be nice to speak to a little bit more." And that's trying to get the point across about quality over quantity.
[00:24:11] Now the next slide really proves where quantity comes in place and where release notes might not be the place for quantity, but there are other drivers where you can get that real rapid increase. And this is something that we released off the back of that major release that we referenced earlier. "Thanks for using Goal, your favorite app has just got better." Oh crap, loads of people are slating us in the app store — as I'm sure you probably are familiar with, if you change everything, users tend to hate it immediately. And we did this dead simple thing where we just introduced an App Store rating block, it's quite common. You get the good people going to the App Store and you get the people who are a bit pissed off directing them to an email so that you can have that two-way conversation, and the benefit to that is twofold. One: you can address people who are pretty annoyed and give them some comfort or reassurance that you might work on their problems in future. But two: if you are familiar with the App Store, the way that ratings works is its quantity and quality. So if you can get the four and five star guys into the app store and you can get them there in abundance, your apps will suddenly start getting featured, especially on iOS. And this is the left during the Euros: we've got the Goal live app featured. We've been on the "hot this week" and on the picture fills right at the front, which is great exposure for the team and for the app.
[00:25:42] And I just wanted to show you like the effect of this in the App Store and the rating. So this is the Android app store. At this point we've got that release which is a brand new redesign. And like I said you can see the increase in the negative feedback. The next release we added the ratings block to kind of try and stop that negative feedback from sending us down the charts. And what we found is all of a sudden the volume just like doubled overnight. We're actually encouraging people to speak to us in the right channels. We're not using the App Store for people slagging us off. We use that for that two-way conversation. And up until recently you coulnd't actually reply in the App Store to people's complaints so we were getting them to go to the emails.
[00:26:29] And then touching on the Olé app, so this is the South American app. It does not get a lot of love and we did a release recently and with that ratings block implemented from the start. And it's like shot up overnight. I've quadrupled the amount of response that we got.
[00:26:48] So I just wanted to kind of touch on a little saying that my previous boss at my previous company drilled into my head, and it's kind of stuck with me a long time now. I think you guys can all take it today, apply it to your own work streams. It's the 2mm Rule by Tony Robbins. It's essentially the fact that to get from average to good takes a hell of a lot of effort, and I'm pretty sure that none of you guys in this room are going to settle at average. You all want to get to good. To get from good to excellent is actually only two millimeters more, but pretty much everyone just gives up when they get to good because they go "oh, yeah, it's good enough; ship it, it's gone." If you actually spent a little bit more time focusing on something like the real minor things, like release notes, then you can actually achieve something that's truly excellent and you actually realise how close you were to getting to that point.
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We debate the pros and cons of going for a public or private hospital
Most people who have had or are expecting children in Hong Kong will say you have two choices when giving birth here: Matilda International Hospital or Queen Mary. While both are great establishments, they are definitely not the only suitable choices available. The HKSAR government owns and operates many excellent public hospitals and there are also other very reputable private facilities.
Before looking into what Hong Kong has to offer hospital-wise, I think it's important to understand what your specific needs are. Firstly, I recommend that you sit down with your partner and make a list of "non-negotiables" you want no matter what for the duration of your maternity-ward stay. Then, you can proceed with your research: attending hospital tours, educating yourself by talking to an experienced midwife and/or getting the support and valuable information you need from a qualified baby planner. Inevitably, you will ask your friends and acquaintances about their experiences, though it is helpful to remember that, as kind as they can be, they often have biased information to offer and their thoughts/opinions will be based on their own personal needs and wants.
To make things more straightforward, here is an unbiased, factual pros and cons list to help you choose between public and private hospitals when giving birth in Hong Kong.
Public Hospitals
- Emergency: In case of a medical emergency, public hospitals are the place to be.
- C-sections: The C-section rate is lower here than in private hospitals, which is great for women who prefer the natural birth path.
- Cost: It's extremely cost-friendly to give birth in a public hospital.
- Admittance: A public hospital cannot turn you down or away. They have to admit you and provide you with labour room facilities.
- The food quality promotes weight loss! Got to think positive!
- Language Barrier: Most public hospital staff speak only Cantonese and/or Mandarin.
- No Outside Assistance: Partners are not always allowed to witness the birth, and private midwives are not permitted to enter the delivery room.
- Not Your Choice: Birth plans are not always respected.
- You won't have access to your own OB-GYN.
- No Privacy: some hospital wards can have up to 10 people per room and some public hospitals are "teaching hospitals" so you can be assisted by students and have students observe your delivery.
- Lower rate of C-sections: This can be a problem for women who prefer to opt for C-sections.
- No International Food Options: Only Chinese food is served.
- Less Support: The ratio of patients to midwife is high so you will receive less personalised support for breastfeeding, nursing, etc.
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- Plenty of support: The ratio of patients per midwife is very low which guarantees the patient a great deal of personalised support for breastfeeding, nursing, etc.
- Privacy: Private hospitals offer private, semi-private and shared rooms, with a maximum of four patients per room.
- Language: English is spoken in all private hospitals.
- Food: Private hospitals often offer international fare and sometimes even a menu to choose from.
- OB-GYN: The OB-GYN who followed you throughout your pregnancy will deliver your baby.
- Nursery: Staff encourage parents to be hands-on and the baby nursery is easy to access.
- You have to book your spot and secure it with a down payment as soon as you find out you are pregnant.
- Your spot is not guaranteed until the day you go into labour and you can be turned away.
- All the pros of private hospital come with a very high price tag.
- Costs can increase drastically when faced with an emergency.
- Food: Having access to international fare and to menus you can freely select from can encourage you to consume too many calories, and the food choices tend not to be very healthy.
- Emergency: Private hospitals are not well-equipped to handle unexpected and/or unusual medical emergencies; in such cases, patients are transferred to the relevant public hospital.
- C-sections: There is a higher C-section rate at private hospitals (approximately 50% of all births compared to 25% at public hospitals).
Now that you've taken all these criteria into consideration, you can decide which type of hospital you want to go for: private or government-owned. Below is a list of the hospitals in Hong Kong you can choose from, depending where you are based.
Public Hospitals Directory
Queen Mary Hospital
In-house obstetricians, anesthesiologist, and neonatologists are available 24/7. Antenatal and postnatal checkups and exercise classes are all done at the nearby Tsan Yuk Hospital. A private clinic for delivery at Queen Mary is also available for HKID card holders, given that the patient has a referral letter from a GP or OB-GYN.
Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong, 2255 3111, 2255 3838 (Tsan Yuk Hospital) or 2255 5688 (private clinic).
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
As the first hospital in Hong Kong to create the post of "Lactation Specialist" for breastfeeding counselling and classes, Queen Elizabeth is ranked high in baby-friendliness. Additionally, it's Husband Accompanying Labour (HAL) scheme encourages husbands to stay with wives during delivery and to attend antenatal classes.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 30 Gascoigne Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 3506-6227.
Prince of Wales Hospital
Popular amongst public hospitals for its maternity care, Prince of Wales has partnered with Chinese University of Hong Kong to offer various prenatal examinations, specifically screening for Down Syndrome, SafeT21, and fetal morphology scans. Here you have the option of booking as a private patient, ensuring your own room at a fraction of the cost of a private hospital.
Prince of Wales Hospital, 30-32 Ngan Shing Street, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong, 2632 2470.
Princess Margaret Hospital
Princess Margaret serves the Kowloon West Cluster, for those in the Kwai Chung, Lai Chi Kok, Tung Chung, Tsuen Wan and Tsing Yi Districts. Its proximity to the airport also means international visitors can arrive here with ease.
Princess Margaret Hospital, 2-10 Princess Margaret Hospital Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 2990 3892.
Tuen Mun Hospital
With four wards, a 200-strong staff, and approximately 5,500 deliveries per year, the O&G Department at Tuen Mun stays bustling. Apart from an antenatal, postnatal and labour ward, the Yan Oi outpatient clinic conducts prenatal screenings through referrals. Before discharging, post-partum patients may undergo healthcare education covering postnatal self-care, discharge advice and breastfeeding.
Tuen Mun Hospital, 23 Tsing Chung Koon Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong, 2468 5111 or 2404 3720 (Yan Oi Clinic).
Private Hospitals Directory
Hong Kong Adventist Hospital
Due to its popularity, booking a deposit months in advance is required. Obstetrics packages encompass normal vaginal deliveries and C-sections, both pre-booked and emergency. Select from standard, semi-private, or deluxe and private singles to accommodate your level of comfort.
Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, 40 Stubbs Road, Hong Kong, 2835 0523.
Tsuen Wan Adventist Hospital
Having received formal accreditation from the Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists since 2000, the Obstetrics Unit at TWAH prides itself on its modernity and range of obstetric, prenatal and postnatal services. A prenatal care package here covers various routine lab tests, ultrasound scans and optional prenatal classes. Normal delivery or C-section packages both include blood screening, postnatal (or post-op for C-section) observations, take-home medication and postnatal classes.
Tsuen Wan Adventist Hospital, 199 Tsuen King Circuit, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, 2276 7257.
Hong Kong Baptist Hospital
Prenatal and postnatal checkups here are led by midwives, O&G specialists and advanced practice nurses. Prenatal diagnosis services offer Down's Syndrome screening, high resolution fetal scan, chromosome screenings and fetal DNA chip assessments. Choose from spontaneous birth or elective caesarian birth packages, both allowing your newborn to receive umbilical cord blood sampling and vaccinations.
Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, 222 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 2339 7203.
The Matilda International Hospital
Benefits like a one-to-one midwife to client ratio, on-demand epidurals, and a vast multilingual selection of antenatal courses are just some of the many reasons Matilda International can boast its prestige. Apart from a range of natural delivery and C-section packages, you can opt for an anesthesia package for normal deliveries.
The Matilda International Hospital, 41 Mount Kellett Road, The Peak, Hong Kong, 2849 0321.
Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
C-section and normal birth packages are available, incorporating vaccines and vitamin injections for the baby. Choose between private and semi-private rooms to ensure the desired intimacy and comfort level of your labour experience – given that you book way in advance. Staying ahead of the curve in maternity care, a Baby Security System has been implemented to prevent infants from being removed from the Maternity Unit without authorisation.
Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, 2 Village Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, 2835 7878.
Canossa Hospital (Caritas)
Facilities here include three labour rooms equipped with resuscitators, as well as separate nurseries for both normal and special care infants. Whether you opt for a normal vaginal delivery or a C-section, obstetrics packages guarantee prenatal, postnatal, and neonatal observation care and treatment. Included under these services are postnatal exercise classes led by qualified physiotherapists, breastfeeding and infant care courses.
Canossa Hospital (Caritas), 1 Old Peak Road, Hong Kong, 2825 2117.
St. Paul's Hospital
Known for offering one of the most affordable private maternity packages, St. Paul's Hospital guarantees luxuries that save you money. Each delivery room is equipped with baby's monitoring and resuscitation system, as well as a bedside terminal system with in-house entertainment.
St. Paul's Hospital, 2 Eastern Hospital Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, 2830 3755.
Union Hospital
Maternity packages, which are either C-section or spontaneous vaginal delivery, include initial immunisations, newborn hearing screenings and routine cord blood screenings. Choose from standard, twin or private suites, which boast five-star amenities – maximising peace and comfort upon the arrival of your newborn.
Union Hospital, 18 Fu Kin Street, Tai Wai, Sha Tin, New Territories, 2608 3222.


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During her recent appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the model opened up on her biggest tattoo regret...on her face.
In July 2016, the 22-year-old got an inner lip tattoo but kept it secret until the following November when she accidentally revealed she got the new ink during an interview.
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Later in the interview, the reality star showed the host several of her earlier tattoos on her hand, including a white dot and heart on her middle finger which matches BFF Hailey Baldwin's tattoo in red.
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In the lead up to Kendall Jenner's sweet 16th in 2011, the reality star flew all the way to Las Vegas with her sister, Kylie, to get a tattoo of the French phrase 'Vous êtes belle' (translated into English as 'you are beautiful').
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During her chat with Ellen, the brunette-star also discussed what it's like welcoming so many newborn babies into her family.
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Kendall's television appearance came the same day Kylie shared the sweetest image of her daughter, Stormi Webster, on Instagram.
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Last week, our Commercial Director, Dan Peachey, caught up with our friends at www.thecashroom.co.uk about translating and interpreting for the legal sector. The Cashroom are the experts in outsourced legal cashiering and, given City Legal's 30 year history an expert legal Language Services Provider, the companies share a client base and a real knowledge and thirst for working with the legal sector.
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High friction surface treatments: a cost-effective strategy that saves lives
As featured in the "APWA Reporter"
Richard Baker
Market Development Manager
DBi Services
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Each year in the United States, more than 32,000 people die in traffic crashes. According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), these crashes have an estimated economic cost of more than $230 billion. High friction surface treatment (HFST) is a cost-effective technology that dramatically and immediately reduces crashes, injuries and fatalities. According to the Texas Transportation Institute, "…the purpose of a HFST is to make the road more forgiving to drivers by increasing the friction at locations where the demand for friction is great."
HFST is composed of a polish and abrasion-resistant high friction aggregate that is bonded to the pavement surface using a high strength polymer resin binder. With friction values far exceeding conventional pavement friction, HFST helps motorists maintain better control in dry and wet driving conditions in high-crash locations such as:
- Horizontal curves
- Ramps
- Intersections
- Bridge decks
- Bike lanes
- Bus lanes
- Toll booth entrance ways
- School zones
Hatherly and Young first reported the benefits of HFST in 1976. They reported that the use of high friction bauxite aggregate, in conjunction with a cold installed polymer resin binder, had demonstrated a 31% decrease in crashes at 800 intersections where HFST was applied.
HFST can be applied either manually or mechanically via dispensing vehicles. However, it is generally agreed that mechanical application results in a more uniform and durable surface that is less prone to material failure.
The polymer resin binder is evenly spread over the road surface at an approximate thickness of 50-55 millimeters. Immediately following, the high friction aggregate is spread uniformly over the polymer resin binder. Once the polymer resin binder has cured, which can be just as short as a few hours depending on weather conditions, the excess aggregate is removed with a vacuum sweeper. The recovered aggregate is recycled and reused.
The use of HFST is rapidly increasing across the United States due to its low cost and effectiveness in significantly reducing roadway departure crashes. Empirical data proving accident reduction using HFST in high-accident, site-specific locations is well documented in states such California, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KTC) is conducting a three year statewide safety improvement program using HFST at over 120 locations to reduce roadway departure crashes on horizontal curves. One particular HFST installation in Kentucky reported 55 wet weather and three dry weather crashes over a three-year period prior to the installation of HFST. In the 2½-year period after the HFST installation, the same location had only five wet weather and one dry weather crashes. An official from the KTC said, "This one project paid for all the other projects in the state." The KTC test, which ends in the summer of 2013, has already shown a total crash reduction across the state of 69%.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) identified a sharp right turn in a rural county as one of their worst crash sites averaging 2.48 crashes per year. The pavement surface friction reading taken by PennDOT before the HFST application was 33. After the HFST, the pavement surface friction reading was over 95. There have been no reported crashes or skid-off-the-road incidents since the HFST application in 2007. The condition of the HFST after four winters of constant snowplowing is excellent with no material failures.
At another high accident location in Bellevue, Washington, HFST was installed on a negative cambered curve that had been the site of 45 crashes in five years. Since the installation of the HFST, there have been no reported crashes. Site-specific HFST applications are durable and long-lasting. The Virginia Transportation Research Council stated, "It is reasonable to expect them to maintain high friction values for 10 years of service." Further attesting to HFST's longevity and cost effectiveness, a recent study from the South Carolina Department of Transportation indicated a cost benefit ratio of about 24 to 1 for its HFST installed on a series of high accident curves.
In addition to its primary use as an anti-skid pavement overlay, HFST is also used in two other types of safety-related applications, bridge deck overlays and pavement demarcations.
HFST is used on bridges as a sealant to prevent cracking and deterioration of the bridge deck. The largest and most complex HFST bridge deck overlay application to date was on Louisiana's Morganza Spillway. On this four-lane bridge over 3.5 miles long, 78,000 gallons of adhesive and over 2,500,000 pounds of high friction aggregate were installed by three automated HFST installation trucks.
Through the use of brightly colored aggregates, HFST has been shown to be a highly effective pavement demarcation approach. HFST with red aggregate was applied to I-66 west of the I-495 near Washington, D.C., to delineate the HOV (X) lanes, which are utilized in both directions during the morning and evening rush hours. This milestone project for the use of a demarcation to direct traffic was a first for both the United States and the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Using 100% recycled green glass as an aggregate, the country's first green bike lane was installed last year with HFST in Sammamish, Washington, another first in the United States. The green bike lane was funded through the FHWA, which has issued a nationwide memo confirming green as the chosen color for bike lanes.
Classified by the FHWA as a low-cost safety solution, HFST is the only safety solution that does not require driver response. HFST qualifies for 90% safety funding under the federal government's Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP). A formula apportions HSIP funds to state DOTs to administer. Any local government can apply to their state DOT to get funding for a HFST project in their jurisdiction.
Richard Baker can be reached at (804) 213-0335 or email@example.com.
Sources for more information on HFST:
Richard Baker
FWHA Every Day Counts Initiative http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/everydaycounts
High Friction Roads
FHWA Division Offices
FHWA Office of Safety


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We are pleased to announce Dr Márton Sóskuthy as our next presenter for the School's 50th anniversary colloquium series. He will present during the lunch hour on Wednesday 13 November. Dr Márton Sóskuthy joined UBC Linguistics in August 2018 as an assistant professor in phonetics and cognitive systems. He completed his PhD in 2013 at […] Read More >
Congratulations Shelagh Davies for receiving a 2019-2020 UBC Alumni Builder Award
SASS alumna and clinical faculty member Shelagh Davies, MSc'75, was presented with a 2019-20 Alumni Builder Award for her outstanding service, dedication, and contributions to SLP education, the university, and the alumni community. Read More >
Lunchtime Colloquium with Patricia Hart Blundon on Wednesday 23 October
Come attend the School's next 50th anniversary colloquium at 12:30pm on Wednesday 23 October with a talk by Patricia Hart Blundon, who recently defended her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Victoria. The title of the talk is: "Grammatical Features of First Nations School-aged Children: Valuing Linguistic Diversity". Read More >
September 13: The School of Audiology and Speech Sciences celebrates 50 years!
Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate the School's 50th anniversary on 13 September, and to all our speakers, panelists, and entertainers for helping to make the event such a success! We are delighted to announce that photos from this celebratory day are now available. Read More >
You are invited to attend Heather Ritchie's Master's thesis defense!
Come and attend Heather Ritchie's Master's thesis defense on Tuesday 15 October at 4:30pm in Friedman Room 355. Title: "The Effect of Noise Floor on Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential Response Detection at Threshold Intensities". Read More >
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Come and attend Angela Ryall's Master's thesis defense on Monday 7 October at 3:30 PM in Room 355, Friedman Building. Title: Counselling During Real Ear Measurements: The Client's Perspective Read More >
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• ISIS claims responsibility for London attack.
The terrorist group declared today that the assailant who killed three people in the British capital the day before was a "soldier" who "carried out the operation in response to appeals" to fight Western powers.
Prime Minister Theresa May said the attacker was a British-born man who was once investigated for connections to violent extremism, but that he was "a peripheral figure."
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The Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act is scheduled for a high-stakes vote in the House today.
Party leaders are trying to secure the support of rank-and-file members, who our writer says face a dilemma: Vote for a bill that could harm their constituents, or undermine President Trump's agenda.
We made a tally of how House Republicans plan to vote, and compared it to what other news organizations are reporting.
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For weeks, the president has insisted that his predecessor, Barack Obama, tapped his phones.
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A little William Wordsworth to start the day: "I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills."
For today's celebration of World Meteorological Day, a database of cloud images is being made available to the public. People can also submit their own photographs.
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Seventy years of paediatric care in Toronto's west end
St. Joseph's Health Centre has everything needed to care for the children in our community
Parents in Toronto's west end know that when their child is sick or needs urgent care, help is just a short trip away. From emergency to walk-in and longer stay support, St. Joseph's Health Centre has everything needed to care for the children in our community. And it's that support that we're celebrating this year as we recognize the 70th anniversary of our Paediatric program.
"St. Joseph's is a one-stop shop for parents," said Dr. Dilip Mehta, a paediatrician who's been with the health centre for 35 years and helped establish parts of the program.
"Over the last seven decades we've seen our program expand in response to our community changing and everything we've done has been to make sure families get the care they need when they need it most – without having to travel far."
In 1949, St. Joseph's became the first hospital in the Greater Toronto Area outside of the Hospital for Sick Children to open a paediatric program. Our inpatient unit grew to where it is today with 17 beds in rooms large enough for family members to sleep over. Today, St. Joseph's and SickKids work together, transferring patients to one another depending on the level of care needed and the location that makes the most sense for the family.
At St. Joseph's, children have access to our paediatric consultation clinic, which started with endocrinology and nephrology specialized services and has expanded significantly, now providing outpatient services including care for asthma, dermatology, cardiology, speech and language, nutrition support and much more.
The busiest area in our paediatric program is the Just For Kids Clinic. Renovated just a few years ago, the clinic has a bright, beautiful waiting room for the thousands of visits we see every year. It's where many in our community bring their children for non-emergent issues and to be referred for other specialized services. And for emergency situations, there's a separate area in our Emergency Department for those 18 and younger.
Our paediatric program has also grown to support the youngest patients we see at the health centre – as young as 30 weeks old. Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a level 2C which means we can care for sicker and smaller babies than ever before, helping keep families close to home during what can be a very challenging time in their lives.
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