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Member and Patient Resources ▼
Not every child experiences pain during a hospital stay, but if it does occur, reading this information should help you:
If you think of other questions or have concerns not addressed here, please be sure and ask your nurses or doctors.
Pain may be described as a feeling of hurt or strong discomfort and is the body's way of sending a message to the brain that an injury has occurred (such as surgery). Pain medicine blocks these messages or reduces their effect on the brain.
We have learned that unrelieved pain causes the body to release certain chemicals that may actually delay healing, so it's important to work with your child's nurses and doctors to help control the pain.
Your doctors and nurses will rate pain on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 being no pain, 10 being the worst pain that can be imagined). Older children can understand this scale, but younger children can use cartoon faces or will be observed frequently for behavioral and physical signs of pain or discomfort.
Explain to your child that each face is for a person who feels happy because he has no pain (hurt) or sad because he has some or a lot of pain. Face 0 is very happy because he doesn't hurt at all. Face 2 hurts just a little bit. Face 4 hurts a little more. Face 6 hurts even more. Face 8 hurts a whole lot. Face 10 hurts as much as you can imagine, although you don't have to be crying to feel this bad. Ask your child to choose the face that best describes how he is feeling. Rating scale is recommended for people age 3 years and older.
Pain medicines can be given a number of different ways, depending on the needs of your child. Some of the ways are:
Ask your nurse or doctor about pain medicines for your child.
Another means of relieving your child's pain is through the use of non-drug methods. These methods can be effective for mild to moderate pain and help to boost the pain relief effects of drugs. Like pain medicine, each non-drug method works differently for different types of pain. A few of the most useful methods in children are:
Talk with your child's nurse about which of these methods would work best for you and your child.
"Taking drugs for pain is a sign of weakness."
FACT: Untreated pain can decrease the quality of life and harm health, no matter how strong a person is. Less pain means less stress on the body and the mind, and faster healing.
"I'm afraid that my child will become addicted or
FACT: When pain medicines are given and taken in the right way, patients rarely become addicted to them.
"My child is sleeping and never complains, so she
must not be feeling any pain."
FACT: Children respond to pain in many different ways. Sleeping may mean that your child is comfortable, or may be your child's way of "shutting out" the pain.
Also, keep a list of any questions that you would like to ask your child's doctors or nurses.
Text is adapted from a publication of the
US Department of Health and Human Services,
Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1992.
Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale is from Wong D.L., Hockenberry-Eaton M., Wilson D., Winkelstein M.L., Schwartz P.: Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, ed. 6, St. Louis, 2001, p. 1301. Copyrighted by Mosby, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
These are general guidelines only. Please consult your physician regarding any specific treatments or questions you may have about your care.
From the Parent/Patient Education Series, Holmes Regional Medical Center Pediatric Services


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A generic circular pegboard resource.
An interactive activity for one to experiment with a tricky tessellation
Ahmed has some wooden planks to use for three sides of a rabbit run against the shed. What quadrilaterals would he be able to make with the planks of different lengths?
NRICH December 2006 advent calendar - a new tangram for each day in the run-up to Christmas.
A train building game for 2 players.
A game for 2 people that everybody knows. You can play with a friend or online. If you play correctly you never lose!
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
An interactive game for 1 person. You are given a rectangle with 50 squares on it. Roll the dice to get a percentage between 2 and 100. How many squares is this? Keep going until you get 100. . . .
This was a problem for our birthday website. Can you use four of these pieces to form a square? How about making a square with all five pieces?
An interactive game to be played on your own or with friends. Imagine you are having a party. Each person takes it in turns to stand behind the chair where they will get the most chocolate.
A game for 2 people that can be played on line or with pens and paper. Combine your knowledege of coordinates with your skills of strategic thinking.
Try to stop your opponent from being able to split the piles of counters into unequal numbers. Can you find a strategy?
Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.
What are the coordinates of the coloured dots that mark out the tangram? Try changing the position of the origin. What happens to the coordinates now?
Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?
Choose 13 spots on the grid. Can you work out the scoring system? What is the maximum possible score?
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
A card pairing game involving knowledge of simple ratio.
Train game for an adult and child. Who will be the first to make the train?
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
A game to be played against the computer, or in groups. Pick a 7-digit number. A random digit is generated. What must you subract to remove the digit from your number? the first to zero wins.
A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these clocks?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?
Take it in turns to place a domino on the grid. One to be placed horizontally and the other vertically. Can you make it impossible for your opponent to play?
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these people?
Starting with the number 180, take away 9 again and again, joining up the dots as you go. Watch out - don't join all the dots!
Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.
Use the Cuisenaire rods environment to investigate ratio. Can you find pairs of rods in the ratio 3:2? How about 9:6?
Exchange the positions of the two sets of counters in the least possible number of moves
Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the opposite direction.
A game for 1 person. Can you work out how the dice must be rolled from the start position to the finish? Play on line.
Find out how we can describe the "symmetries" of this triangle and investigate some combinations of rotating and flipping it.
A variant on the game Alquerque
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remover them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Use the clues to colour each square.
Can you make a cycle of pairs that add to make a square number using all the numbers in the box below, once and once only?
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?
Twenty four games for the run-up to Christmas.
Can you work out what is wrong with the cogs on a UK 2 pound coin?
Choose a symbol to put into the number sentence.
Can you use the interactive to complete the tangrams in the shape of butterflies?
Stop the Clock game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you always win this game?
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
Incey Wincey Spider game for an adult and child. Will Incey get to the top of the drainpipe?
Seeing Squares game for an adult and child. Can you come up with a way of always winning this game?


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Gaithersburg Elementary does't give kids homework.
My kids would love that school.
So would I.
At Gaithersburg Elementary, students get to read for their homework. And they're reading lots of books, visiting the school library frequently --more than the once a week schedule of most schools.Test scores, if you care, are holding steady.
The research on homework is not conclusive. You can find research both for and against.
There is, however, unquestionable research showing that kids need down-time, unstructured play, outside time, and physical activity --which doesn't happen with a big homework load.
Plus, if we are to raise children who are good readers, they need time and opportunity to practice reading books that they can get when they don't have lots of homework.
The no-homework movement is catching on little by little.
Listen as students, parents, and teachers from Ridgewood High School and Payton College Prep share why they adopted a no homework vacation policy, inspired by the movie, "Race to Nowhere ."
Other schools like the rigorous Clayton High School in St. Louis don't give homework on the weekends.
The New York Times calls this a "homework revolt."
I'm happy to join this revolution. Sign me up.
What about you? Are you for or against homework? Comment here.


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My wife Dottie and I were positively giddy.
Our first vacation sans kids (no offense, Diane and Mark) since 1998. So we booked, rather late in the game, a six-day stay at a resort in the Bahamas operated by a certain company named after casual, summertime footwear.
The promise: Plenty of peace, pampering and sunshine in a couples-only environment devoid of sippy cups, high chairs and pre-pubescent meltdowns.


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The unique embossed tin crown and crosses collection is great for window or mantle display. Dark and light washed gray with rusty finish set the atmosphere for that Antique Farm House look you've been craving. These pieces are a great house warming gift as well, but we'll understand if you change your mind after you receive them!


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The rioters were out today celebrating Thanksgiving! To give thanks, cacao was spread through out the city. Imagine being given free cacao on the streets of NYC...all sorts of holiday revelers exclaimed, "Wow." "Thank you!" "No Way."
You'll see pictures here of our stops at Columbus Circle, Washington Square Park, and Union Square. We especially celebrated on Columbus Circle where sweetriot can now be found at the beautiful Whole Foods. Luckily, it was a sunny day and the holiday spirit was in the air. (Rioters pictured were Megan, Jake, Joe, Nina, Heidi and Sarah.)


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Not entirely sure why Jesse Levine's Australian Open wild card was so underreported, especially since U.S. tennis darling John Isner was vying for the spot (along with Levine, Wayne Odesnik, and Alex Kuznetsov). Is it because we all in protest because the USTA couldn't give the WC to the too-old Robby Ginepri? It worked out for the best anyway; Ginepri, who was already down south for this week's Medibank International in Sydney, had to retire from his qualifying match against Alberto Martin.
Congrats, Jesse. We hope you'll make some noise Down Under. (And pat on the back to his female counterpart, Madison Brengle.)
Also, I noticed that I posted the wrong link to Jon Henderson's blog post on Andy Murray. If you got directed to a fluff piece about Steffi Graf and Justine Henin, I'm sorry. I've fixed the mistake on the original post, but you can also get to Henderson's article here.


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Oops! Spelling error made outside Pacific Grove Trader Joe's
Oops! Spelling error made outside Pacific Grove Trader Joe's
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. —
A recent paint job in the Pacific Grove Trader Joe's parking lot reinforced the value of spell check and made some grocery shoppers chuckle.
Someone hired by the store to write "entrance only" in large, white capital letters across the front of the freshly repaved parking lot accidentally wrote "enterance only."
Trader Joe's spelling error was erased and corrected by Monday afternoon and store managers declined to comment on it.
According to the Oxford English Corpus, "entrance" is not among the 100 most commonly misspelled words in the English language.
Click the slideshow below to find out which words frequently fool spellers, or mobile users click here.


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Weekend Projects: 5 Easy & Inexpensive DIY Tabletop Projects Using Burlap
Burlap is a humble material that when treated right can add natural, textural detail to your tabletop. And it's cheap to boot! Here are five burlap-based projects that won't take up much of your time or money.
1. This table runner by House of Earnest gives black burlap a graphic, modern look with hand sewn white crosses. (Also check out her tip for cutting the runner to size.)
2. Inexpensive, plain vases — or even tin cans — wrapped in burlap (and maybe some ribbon) make a pretty base for flower arrangements. Image by Cat Satre, via Style me Pretty.
3. Borrowing an idea from Real Living, trace around your plate, cut the burlap, and you have a very, very easy charger/placemat.
4. Love of Family and Home made napkin rings that are easily to replicate with cardboard (she used toilet paper rolls) and burlap. You can make them seasonal by adding pinecones, berries, evergreen sprigs, etc.
5. If you're more comfortable with a glue gun than a sewing machine, check out these no-sew utensil holders from I Heart Naptime.
• DIY Jute Table Runner
• Simply Beautiful Burlap
• How to Make Coffee Bag Planter Pots
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By Kathryn Kopchik
LEWISBURG, Pa. — The New York Theremin Society will perform in a Halloween-inspired concert on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Campus Theatre, 413 Market Street, in Lewisburg. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The performance, presented by the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell, is free and open to the public; tickets are not required.
The only instrument that generates sound without being touched, the theremin is a melodic instrument of the electronic family typically played by moving the right hand between two projecting electrodes with the left hand controlling dynamics and articulation.
This performance will feature five thereminists: Rob Schwimmer, Dorit Chrysler, Scott Robinson, Llamano, and Cornelius Loy. They will perform both original and traditional pieces inspired by horror films -just in time for Halloween. The performance will also include video clips, projections and interesting lighting.
Schwimmer describes the challenge of playing the theremin, "Two of your best senses are not reliable when it comes to the theremin. You look and you don't see anything happening and you don't feel anything happening but in fact you are touching something; you're in an electromagnetic field so that you are manipulating the invisible."
Based in New York City, the New York Theremin Society serves as a platform for thereminists and enthusiasts to exchange, inspire and educate, as well as to demonstrate the surprising variety of different approaches that this relatively young and unique instrument has to offer in the contemporary world of music.
About the Thereminists
Originally from Bloomsburg, Pa., Rob Schwimmer is a pianist-composer described as a "Theremin master" in The New York Times and a "Theremin hero" in The New Yorker. He was theremin soloist with The Orchestra of St. Luke's at Caramoor playing the premiere of Bernard Herrmann's "Scene d'Amour" from "Vertigo" performed with theremin for the first time and played theremin and piano on Matthew Barney's epic "Cremaster 3" movie. An original member of The NY Theremin Society as well as a founding member of Polygraph Lounge, he has been featured on "CBS Sunday Morning", CNN and NPR show "Song Travels with Michael Feinstein." Schwimmer has added the Haken Continuum to his arsenal of instruments.
Austrian born composer/musician Dorit Chrysler composed the music for this year's Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Coachella Festival, World Trade Center, Roskilde Festival, Vienna Konzerthaus, Moogfest & CBGB's. She is a featured Moog Music artist whose contemporary compositions have taken her around the world. She has released several records and written sound tracks for TV and cinema, as well as for visual artists such as Jesper Just. Other collaborators include Elliott Sharp, JG Thirlwell, Anders Trentemoeller and Gibby Haynes. Chrysler produced and curated the 10 piece Theremin Orchestra at the Disney Hall of Los Angeles. Her solo work includes Theremin, Vocals, Laptop and Taurus.
Scott Robinson is one of today's most wide-ranging instrumentalists. He has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton's band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton's quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D'Rivera's clarinet quartet, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera. On these and other instruments including theremin and ophicleide, he has been heard with a cross-section of jazz's greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music, from Braff to Braxton. Robinson has been heard numerous times on film, radio and television; his discography includes more than 200 recordings. His releases as a leader have garnered five-star reviews from Leonard Feather, Down Beat Magazine and other sources worldwide, and have appeared in many "Best of the Year" lists. He recently released "Bronze Nemesis", a CD featuring 12 compositions based on the exploits of 1930s pulp adventure hero Doc Savage. This project, 10 years in the making, was greeted with extensive praise in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Down Beat.
Llamano is a thereminist and songwriter/composer who hails from Yokohama. She studied under Japanese thereminist Yuki Yano who is a pioneer of theremin in Japan. A mostly self-taught pianist in her youth, she also learned to play guitar. Llamano started theremin about 10 years ago and often plays in music pubs and galleries in Tokyo. She recently returned from the Norwegian arctic island of Svalbard which she felt drawn to visit in order to play theremin under the aurora (in the company of polar bears ... but not too close) and taking part in the Polar Jazz Festival.
Cornelius Loy is an artist and self-taught thereminist from New York City. His theremin techniques are intuitive and wildly dramatic. In his original compositions he performs, records and mixes the music. He plays a range of musical instruments and creates natural atmospheres by recording local sounds such as subway trains, wild birds and other organic symphonies.
For more information about this performance, contact Lisa Leighton, marketing and outreach director, at 570-577-3727 or by email at email@example.com.
The next performance in the Weis Center's 2013-14 Series is modern dance troupe Ballet Hispanico on Friday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center. Tickets for the performance are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors ages 62+, $10 for youth under 18, and $10 for all college students.
For more information about the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, go to www.bucknell.edu/WeisCenter or www.facebook.com/WeisCenter


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What is It?
Part reading series, part carnival, the Wold Newton Reading Extravaganza is a speculative fiction event held at The Way Station bar that promises to change the way you look at readings forever and to call you in the morning. It may actually deliver on one of those promises.
Where Is It?
You will go to: The Way Station in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn!
It is at: 683 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Here are some directions to helpify you!
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Who Are These Wold Newton People, Anyway? Are They Insane?
Probably, h2 header, probably we are. Eric Rosenfield is a noted ragamuffin who blogs at Wet Asphalt and has his personal home page at ericrosenfield.com.


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Upon my father's death, I inherited every bit of his family history that he had set aside at my Aunt's house. Among the things were a stack of photographs and portraits that he had saved. Were they labeled? What do you think? I have managed to figure most of them out, but this family has intrigued me.
I've shared this picture with others in various family lines and nobody thinks anybody looks familiar. I know it must be family, otherwise it would not have been saved all these years!
What I know about this family:
- They were not an affluent family. Their clothes don't fit, their shoes are scuffed, they need haircuts and they are standing in dirt.
- They were probably photographed by a traveling photographer.
- Either they or the photographer covered the home with their tablecloths. To show off the tablecloths? To cover their home?
- This was either two or three generations. I'd guess three.
- This was photographed in the winter when the leaves were off of the trees, most probably in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania since that is where most of my family is from.
Any thoughts on this? I wish the photographer had taken the time to put his name on this. He, after all, took the time to put it on a cardboard backing. . . .


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Ahhh thanks. I didn't read all the instructions. Their ordering system is a little primitive and a hack job. We'll see how their service goes.
where do you put the outline? it says one of the layers, what should that layer be called?most people want it in the drill file
2.Gerber files needed for 2-layer PCB boards: Top layer: pcbname.GTL Bottom layer: pcbname.GBL Solder Stop Mask top: pcbname.GTS Solder Stop Mask Bottom pcbname.GBS Silk Top: pcbname.GTO Silk Bottom pcbname.GBO NC Drill: pcbname.TXT
For all the people too lazy to read the "How to make your design fabricated" section of the ordering page?http://imall.iteadstudio.com/open-pcb/pcb-prototyping/im120418001.htmlI refuse on principal.
I dont use eagle and it barfs in altium
I hope itead works out.... beyond a certain size, OshPark's prices becomes expensive. OshPark is great though for tiny and small boards.
QuoteI dont use eagle and it barfs in altiumIf you are using Altium you can just send the PcbDoc file, they don't need Gerbers.


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itslearning Wins 2014 SIIA Education Technology CODiE Award for Best PK-12 Personalized Learning Solution
BOSTON – May 13, 2014 — itslearning (www.itslearning.net), developers of the leading K-12 learning management system of the same name, today announced that it has won an SIIA CODiE Award for the Best PK-12 Personalized Learning Solution.
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, announced itslearning as one of 31 CODiE Award winners for 2014 in the education technology category. An SIIA CODiE Award win for ed tech companies is an especially prestigious honor; each award winner is selected by a combination of educators, who act as initial judges by selecting finalists from among all nominees, and SIIA members-company peers who vote to select the winners from among the finalists.
Designed specifically for the K-12 sector, itslearning is currently used by more than 4 million educators, students and parents worldwide. The media-rich personalized learning platform's seamless integration with existing school and district systems creates a user-friendly interface that gives teachers a way to share instructional resources, assignments, activities and assessments with students and parents via personalized dashboards. The interactive online learning platform also provides teachers with real-time reporting based on state and Common Core standards to guide their instruction– anytime, anywhere, on any device and all on a single and secure sign-on. A proprietary "standards mastery and recommendation engine" facilitates remediation, acceleration and review by automating the recommendation of resources and activities based upon standards mastery. The recommendations are also tailored specifically to the student – regardless of age, ability level, interests or special requirements.
"itslearning is dedicated to shaping, supporting and managing a more personalized learning environment for 21st Century Learners," said itslearning Chief Executive Officer, Travis Willard. "Alongside new educational standards, ubiquitous technology and accountability measures are transforming the educational landscape. With itslearning in place, schools and districts can easily meet these mandates efficiently and effectively – and we're thrilled the judges recognized that when they reviewed our solution."
"SIIA's 2014 Education CODiE Award winners' are some of the most innovative, high-impact education products out there," said SIIA Vice President for the Education Division Karen Billings. "We congratulate all of this year's CODiE Award winners, and thank them for the contributions they have made to the education industry."
For more information about the CODiE Awards, visit http://www.siia.net/codies/2014/.
About itslearning, Inc.
Established in 1999, itslearning is a cloud-based K-12 learning management system designed to make teaching easier, learning more engaging, and parent involvement more effective and efficient. Headquartered in Bergen, Norway, itslearning has offices in Boston, Atlanta, London, Birmingham, Berlin, Paris, Mulhouse, Malmo, and Enscheda. For more information, visit http://www.itslearning.net.
About SIIA
SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. SIIA represents approximately 700 member companies worldwide that develop software and digital information content. Information technology (IT) and software security are critical issues to SIIA's members, many of whom strive to develop safe, secure and state-of the-art products that effectively serve their commercial and government customers alike, while protecting their intellectual property. The SIIA Education Division serves and represents more than 200 member companies that provide software, digital content and other technologies that address educational needs. The Division shapes and supports the industry by providing leadership, advocacy, business development opportunities and critical market information. For more information, visit www.siia.net/education.
About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE™ Awards, originally called the Excellence in Software Awards, were established in 1986 by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), so that pioneers of the then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor each other's work. Since then, the CODiE Awards program has carried out the same purpose – to showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement.
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Category: General News
No More Gender Discrimination In Idaho
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Coeur d'Alene City Councilman Mike Kennedy says a law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation is overdue. The Spokesman Review reports Kennedy is drafting an anti-discrimination ordinance based on one adopted by Boise last year. Kennedy says a group shouldn't be excluded from full participation and full protection under the law.


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Easter Egg Faces
We've all dyed a traditional Easter Egg before. You know with the little Paas tablets that pissed off Patton Oswalt. However when you get a bit older, dying eggs seems like a big waste of time, especially if you don't have any kids. You still want to be festive though, right? So we've found a much easier way. All you need is a Sharpie and some creativity, and you can give your eggs a face. While many of the gags are the same, they are executed in different ways, and just the idea of freaking out my wife next time she opens up the egg carton has inspired me to put together this collection of 50 photos. Happy Easter!


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"If You Could Tell Your CIO …"
As Social Marketing Director at Billian, Jennifer Dennard is responsible for the continuing development and implementation of the company's social media strategies for Billian's HealthDATA and Porter Research. She is a regular contributor to a number of healthcare blogs and currently manages social marketing channels for the Health IT Leadership Summit and Technology Association of Georgia's Health Society. You can find her on Twitter @JennDennard.
In the first part of this blog series, I outlined the increasingly important role CMIOs are playing in the hospital ecosystem. They are bridging the gap between the world of clinical and IT, bringing a spirit of impartiality to HIT implementations that often makes the acceptance of impending workflow upsets a little bit easier to swallow.
This second part will focus on the specific challenges CMIO panelists at a recent Georgia HIMSS luncheon were particularly vocal about:
* Taking an EMR implementation from grumbles to growth;
* Data and its potential impact on establishing or refining best practices;
* Patient engagement; and
* "If You Could Tell a CIO."
From Grumbles to Growth
All the panelists shared their "secret ingredients" for EMR implementation success. Roland Matthews, MD, physician champion at Grady, stressed that the hospital chose to implement an EMR not for the Meaningful Use incentives, but to ultimately improve quality over the long term. Despite recent EMR backlash, Matthews is a firm believer in the benefit they will ultimately bring to patient care.
That being said, he believes that simpler, easier-to-use systems are the best choice when it comes to gaining full adoption amongst clinicians. His statement echoes the increasingly loud call from clinicians for better user experience. Involving all departments in the selection and implementation process from the very beginning is also essential, according to Matthews, and serves as a testament to good leadership.
The best user experience won't take physicians very far, however, if infrastructure is too unreliable to sport it. While he didn't claim to speak from personal experience, Matthews also pointed out the latest and greatest EMR may never be used to its fullest potential if the platform on which it stands is down half the time.
Steve Luxenberg, MD, CMIO at Piedmont Healthcare, made sure to point out the full value of an EMR can only be realized if clinical and IT work together to maintain, optimize, and grow the product from within.
This takes us to conversation points about extracting data to create or refine best practices in an effort to drive quality initiatives.
Digging Out Data to Increase Quality
"It's not an EMR for the sake of an EMR," Luxenberg emphasized. "It's about the data we can pull out, interpret and impact outcomes with."
Daniel Wu, part-time CMIO at Grady, echoed Luxenberg's comments: "The EMR has opened a door to allow us to collect data as we've never been able to do before." The panelists all agreed on this point, and now it seems as if they are tackling the issue of interpreting the data to enable better outcomes and quality.
Matthews insisted that collecting the data is really all about quality, and suggested that the EMR should guide standards, which the panelists referred to in the same context as best practices.
Wu made the point that if providers don't control what designates quality care, or best practices, then the government will come along and regulate it for them. (I'm fairly certain this echoes what Farzad Mostashari has tweeted about in the recent past.)
Luxenberg again emphasized the impartiality CMIOs must take when dealing with clinical and IT staff. He noted the CMIO's role is to bring the two groups together for consensus on what best practices are and how to put those into the EMR, and added this becomes more challenging when working in a multi-facility healthcare system.
Patient Engagement
Patient portals were on the tips of all the panelists' tongues when it came to patient engagement. Julie Hollberg, MD, CMIO at Emory, is in the middle of rolling out a portal right now. Her team is finding the most challenging part of that implementation to be educating Emory patients on what benefits the portal offers. Luxenberg was a bit lukewarm with regard to patient portals. He's seen several come and go and has found that only a certain set of patients is apt to use them.
Wu, who has helped implement Epic's MyChart at Grady, was firm when he said that patients have the responsibility in their court now. Patient kiosks are helping in that effort, too.
What Would You Like Your CIO to Know?
Wu's big point was that if CMIOs and CIOs can't communicate, each is doomed to fail. He said it with a smile, of course, as his CIO, moderator Debbie Cancilla from Grady, was standing right next to him.
Other insights included:
* Keep IT simple for the clinicians.
* Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.
* Always keep in mind what's best for the patient, and what's the simplest way to get that done.
* It's always a good idea to have IT folks shadow clinicians and vice versa. The CMIO's job is to help facilitate this type of partnership.
How have CMIOs brought your clinical and IT teams together? Please share anecdotes and more best practices in the comments below.


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Hans Inghelberts (d. 1573)
Hans Inghelberts (Engelberts), an Anabaptist martyr, originally from Deventer, Dutch province of Overijssel, was burned at the stake in Antwerp, Belgium, together with three other martyrs, on 26 May 1573, because he had attended Mennonite meetings. He had likely not yet been baptized on his faith.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. "Hans Inghelberts (d. 1573)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 24 Sep 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hans_Inghelberts_(d._1573)&oldid=64858.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. (1956). Hans Inghelberts (d. 1573). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 September 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hans_Inghelberts_(d._1573)&oldid=64858.
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Whole Foods Market Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. surged more than 10% to lead gains in the S&P 500 after earnings projections exceeded analyst estimates. China's export and import growth unexpectedly accelerated in April and German industrial production increased for a second month in March, reports showed today.
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News Corp. and Monster Beverage Corp. are among five S&P 500 companies reporting earnings today. About 72% of companies that have released results since the start of the earnings season have exceeded profit projections, while 52% have missed sales estimates, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The S&P 500 has risen 14% this year and is up 141% from its bear-market low in 2009 as earnings growth and stimulus measures from the Federal Reserve fueled the rally.
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The other day I stumbled on a new genealogy programme on the Yesterday Channel. Under the banner of the commercial family history website findmypast, this series takes climactic historic events, andfollows the journeys of people whose ancestors were involved.
This trailer is for the episode looking at the hundreds of British soldiers shot for cowardice, desertion and other offences such as falling asleep on duty on the Western Front during the Great War:
Other episodes look at the Battle of Britain, the Mutiny on the Bounty, D-Day, Jack the Ripper and the Titanic.
I watched the Jack the Ripper episode the other day and found it very engaging. It is nice to see family history with 'normal' people and not just celebrities. The Jack the Ripper episode featured Dr Nick Barratt (genealogy's own Troy Mclure who crops up everywhere), and a host of other experts.
As I have often said, anything that heightens awareness of family history is a good thing, as long as it doesn't gloss over the long yet rewarding work that is involved.
Related articles
- Our shock links to Jack The Ripper (thesun.co.uk)
- New Series: 'Find My Past' (mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com)
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so family reunion on the Wong place....... I wonder if the mother & elder sister are on Academy/human side.... or Fairy Tails...
still I wonder how Mokas dog looks like XD (hell hound ? XD) since a dog between a vampire family :P
heh and I wonder if the mother will go for "chiu" suck tsukunes blood ^^ just like moka does... (since its smells delicious...)
It would be good if Mokas mother approved it (since she would not be the vampire pride like moka).... since moka is confused and wont agree to have feelings for tsukune (at least not showing it to him)... and she stays with the vampire pride.... so it would be good like mother liked tsukune and that would break little of the ice from mokas heart... like if mother says so than I guess its ok...
still it would suck if the mother wont approve of tsukune for now (since he is a human).... and maybe will try to take her back from the academy (maybe force her to join fairy tails if mother and sister are in it..)... so tsukune would have to prove his feelings for moka... so mother would see it and approve it at the end ^^
but I guess it would be fun if the mother turned out jsut like kurumus or mizures XD another MILF..... like Outer moka is so cold... and now she will witness that her own mother is going for tsukune... xD
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hmmm so Mokas mother.... looks exacly like Outer moka (wonder about the hair color).... but still I wonder if the seal required mokas mother soul...like in sealed state moka looks like mother... unsealed like her normal self with silver hair...
and it looks like each sister has its own mother.... none of them have the same mother (harem just like tsukune many wifes).... and so each sister goes to the castle at the end and live like simblings...
still that Aqua sister looks kinda evil (even mokas dog earl gray doesnt like her)... I guess another FT member...
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The former school superintendent of Hartford, Conn., Beth Schiavino-Narvaez, once told me that "the public education system is the great sorting mechanism for American society." I use that line often, as it succinctly conveys both the connection of public education to the larger society and the never-ending debate about its purpose. Should public education serve to elevate all students, regardless of background so they can attend a four-year college or should it weed out students based on merit and perceived ability?
Nowhere does this dynamic play out more clearly than in the assignment of students to Advanced Placement classes. AP has become a symbol of excellence and accountability for many school systems. Regardless of the actual value the courses have in relationship to learning important content, they're seen as a measure of a school's excellence and used as an accountability metric: The more AP classes a school offers, the better it is believed to prepare students for college; the greater the numbers of nonwhite and Asian students who take AP classes and pass AP tests, the more the school is said to be promoting equity.
But while these metrics are important first-level indicators of equity, the pursuit of social justice requires a much deeper understanding of how AP classes are administered and to whom they are offered.
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When I was superintendent of Montgomery County (Md.) Public Schools, the associate superintendent for high schools, Chris Garran, told me about his AP awakening: When he became the principal of a well-regarded and diverse high school, he discovered that none of the school's black graduates had qualified for a scholarship based on their success in AP courses. When he and his guidance team dug into the data, they found that many white and Asian students were taking AP Government and Politics (also called AP NSL) as freshmen and sophomores, while black and Hispanic students didn't start taking AP until junior or senior year.
He discovered that NSL was considered a gateway course that helped students understand the requirements of AP and build the necessary "AP muscle" they'd need for more difficult classes. So, white and Asian students who were deemed AP-ready coming out of middle school were encouraged to enroll in NSL and then ended up taking multiple AP courses in high school, while black and Hispanic students would take just one or two (most often AP Psychology).
When Garran became the district's associate superintendent for high schools, he checked to see whether the 25 high schools in the county were enrolling black, Hispanic, and students on free and reduced-price meals in AP courses starting in 9th grade. Finding patterns similar to what he had seen as a principal, Garran began an annual review process meant to broaden enrollment.
As a result, from 2013 to 2016 (I left in 2015), the percentage of students enrolled in AP Government and Politics who scored a 3 or higher on exams increased by 2 percentage points (to almost three-quarters of all high school students) and by 6 percentage points for black students and 5 percentage points for Hispanic students (
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Across the country, high schools have restricted access to AP courses by requiring certain grade point averages and standardized test scores or recommendations from specific teachers. Supposedly, such rules are necessary to maintain AP's reputation as a merit-based accomplishment. In reality, though, they function to exclude many young people. According to Education Trust (2013):
[O]ur examination of reach across different groups of students revealed wide differences in participation. Middle- and high-income students who attend schools with AP classes are three times as likely to enroll in an AP course as are low-income students. Asian students participate at more than twice the national average, while black and American Indian students participate at about half the rate of the national average (p. 4).
Similarly, the College Board, which administers the AP program, has acknowledged that significant numbers of black and Hispanic students who have the potential to succeed in AP never take those classes, either because their schools don't offer them or because they aren't placed into them.
Expanding access, expecting resistance
When I was superintendent in Stamford, Conn., one of the local high schools, Westhill, decided to open access to AP. A forward-thinking English department head and a supportive principal led the initiative, which then spread to other departments. Yet, even though we won a grant to support the work, we ran into fierce resistance from various quarters.
Parents of affluent white students, especially, argued that black and Hispanic kids simply weren't ready for the rigors of AP; they should be shielded from failure, they said. And if those kids were allowed to take the courses, then the AP program would be dumbed-down, or the teachers would have to go more slowly.
Likewise, the teachers' union leadership contested our decision (even though many teachers supported it). Apparently, cash rewards had been given to teachers whose students scored a 3 or above (on a 5-point scale) on AP tests, and they were worried that expanding access would dilute the pool of high-scoring students, putting those rewards at risk. Fortunately, we won in arbitration, setting a precedent for the entire state, and the initiative continued. As a result, participation in AP courses by black students increased by 12 percentage points and by Hispanic students by 11 percentage points during my tenure. Participation by white and Asian students continued and even increased. Overall success in AP (as measured by passing an exam) increased by 12 percentage points during that time and doubled for black and Hispanic students (although they continued to lag behind their peers) (
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Opening access to AP for all students isn't an easy undertaking nor is overcoming the inevitable resistance. But it is an essential move for any school or system leader who wants to lead from a social justice perspective. If AP is a critical part of the pathway to college and if we want more students to pursue four-year degrees, then we have to rewrite the rules to take the onus off the individual student and put it on the adults in the system to support all students' access to and success in higher-level courses. Further, the more routinely we steer all students into advanced coursework, the more successful those students are likely to be. Researchers have found that when one or two students of color are placed in an AP course, they don't do as well as they do when they are part of a sizeable cohort — the so-called posse effect tends to provide a boost for students of color who've been given messages throughout their schooling that they're not as worthy or entitled to upper-level courses as white and Asian students.
Leading from a social justice lens requires that school and system leaders understand the rules that have been created to privilege some and oppress others. The seemingly objective entrance criteria for AP classes have served to rank and sort our public school students so that white and Asian students continue to excel while black and Hispanic students are kept out of such opportunities. Leaders must deliberately and intentionally change those conditions by rewriting the rules, examining the data, supporting students, teachers and leaders, and establishing accountability based on the idea that all students must have access to the highest academic levels a school offers.
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About 25 years ago, I came to the realization that I was getting headaches from dehydration. The problem started way back in 1986, after I first moved to Arizona.
I primarily blamed the dry heat, of course. After all, it was not always obvious how much I was sweating; the only real clue was salt-encrusted skin.
I've been checked for diabetes several times, but always get a clean bill of health on that account. About seven years ago, though, the problem became far more scary after I was hospitalized for rhabdomyolysis, a muscle complication of extreme dehydration.
For whatever reason, my body does a good job of telling me when I'm mildly dehydrated, but not when I go beyond a certain point. About the only clue I have after that is the color of my pee.
Since the hospital incident, I've learned to be as careful as possible. I force myself to drink water even when I don't "feel" thirsty. Ironically, I will get very thirsty after taking that first drink of water. I also avoid sugary drinks, coffee, many types of tea and diuretics, (not counting fruits and vegetables.) I also put very little salt in my food and buy a lot of low-sodium products.
It's a lot more difficult when eating out. Last night for example, I ordered a very salty pasta Jambalaya dish at California Pizza Kitchen. I didn't think about the possible salt content when I ordered it, but I certainly could taste it. Pasta also is a problem, probably because it takes a lot of water to digest starch.
This morning, I woke with a headache. I've already consumed about a quart of water, but I can still taste the salt in my mouth. Even as I write this, I'm barely keeping the headache at bay.
The medical literature seems to back me up on this. Avoiding salty foods is one way to avoid getting headaches, according to WebMD and the Mayo Clinic.
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Pandaria's retail sales have been low, but is that so bad?
The one issue in MMO markets that drives me nuts is how fast many of them are eager to declare their death imminent. It happened with The Old Republic before it went Free to Play (and started doing better because of it). It's happening to the Secret World (even though Funcom has embraced the conversion as very likely and perfectly acceptable). And, of course, it happens to World of Warcraft as well.
It's not hard to see why – Blizzard's gargantuan game has arguably inspired a majority of the MMORPGs on the market today, not just for its design but also for the alluring pile of money it rakes in. Players and companies alike want to see it topple. And the first reports came in, declaring that the day-one retail sales of Mists of Pandaria were a huge disappointment, breaking only above 600,000 retail copies, which is a far cry from the nearly three million dropped for Cataclysm. Analysts and doomsayers have declared the expansion is a sign World of Warcraft is falling.
Sorry, but that's really ignoring a lot of things. Sure, it might be dwindling due to its age (it is), and it definitely is selling less than Cataclysm, but there're a lot of things wrong with comparing the two directly.
1 – Cataclysm was an entirely different beast. For one thing, it was almost two years ago, and a number of small factors can weigh differently that have nothing to do with the game, like the economy, or even just the game market at the time. How many other online games have come out since then? How many are free to play? Just think about how far League of Legends has come in two years.
Cataclysm was also pushing a completely different angle from Mists of Pandaria. Deathwing, from Warcraft II, was returning, and he was destroying much of Azeroth which (given Northrend and Outlands were out) nobody even went to anymore. It was big, it was epic, it was important. Cataclysm was, in essence, Blizzard killing its own Superman. Even the box art pushed that angle – Deathwing's face bursting out of the cover and roaring at you. There's a reason their subscriptions hit peak levels of 12 million at that time.
What stands out the most in Mists of Pandaria? The Pandaren, obviously, but Pandaria, the new monk class, vanity pet battles, the Wandering Isle, and the new groups of dungeons and zones. It's very reflective of Blizzard's direction – Cataclysm was harped on for being too hard. Mists of Pandaria is trying to create a wider experience and a more varied bundle of things to do. It's just a little more low-key, despite Blizzard's mesmerizing cinematics. Lich King sold less than Cataclysm did on day one, too. If there are fewer sales of Pandaria, that's a good factor to start with.
2 – We haven't seen how subscriptions have gone up since the expansion. I have a friend at work who quit World of Warcraft after he exhausted Cataclysm. It wasn't just burnout – he also had a daughter around this time, and he couldn't raid or PVP as much as he could before. We joked about the new expansion, but he never mentioned if he'd go back. The other day I ran into him, and he hung his head, admitting he got it. Just like all the other expansions, the lure of new content took him in.
How many people since the subscriber drop back in August have returned? We don't know that. In fact, there's very little talk of subscriptions since then. The casual players who quit are just as reliable for sales as anyone else. I'd bet their subscribers have shot up from a few months ago.
3 – Blizzard has been pushing digital very hard with Pandaria. Do you remember Cataclysm's release? It was the first time they had put it on digital sales in their store. Cataclysm sold 3.3 million including digital, which means its retail sales were greatly below that number. Lich King sold 2.8 million in its first day as well, and that was purely retail.
But think about it – this was the first time, and many players wanted the Collector's Edition (CE) content. Digital was still getting into full swing, as I mentioned. And what's in the CE for Cataclysm, anyway? It appears that many players just want the exclusive content, like Lil' Deathwing. Retail sales were driven hard, but digital was there for people who just wanted to play.
And Mists of Pandaria has a totally different direction – digital, digital, digital. The Digital Deluxe package carries all the non-physical content the Collector's Edition has, even the StarCraft II/Diablo III content and the vanity pet, which (from what I assume) is what players buy it for anyway.
There are two buttons on the CE purchase site that take you to the Digital Deluxe page, and only one from Deluxe to Collector's. The Collector's Edition has the soundtrack, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a mouse pad, and an art book, but if you really want the soundtrack, how many people will just pirate it? Is the behind-the-scenes DVD going to be on YouTube next week? The cheaper digital package looks a little more tempting, doesn't it?
Also remember that Mists of Pandaria now gives you something to do with vanity pets – how many people are going to want the one that comes with MoP's upgraded package?
4 – World of Warcraft still has more subscriptions than many MMORPGs combined. Just take a few spitball numbers, as an example. EVE Online recently broke 400,000 subscribers. When The Old Republic came out, it broke one million in the first few weeks. In 2008, Final Fantasy XI was said to have 500,000.
A sign of World of Warcraft 'dying' is dropping to nine million subscriptions. Not just players in a F2P game – subscriptions, people paying money every month to keep their game active. Several million players is wonderful for a game like League of Legends, where you only spend money when you want to, but for World of Warcraft? How could something 'die' when it's so lucrative?
I'm not trying to endorse that World of Warcraft is and will always be the same. If anything else, Mists of Pandaria is a gorgeous, very vibrant expansion that is... I hesitate to say 'weighed down', but WoW's age is very noticeable. It's an old game, and it's getting some wrinkles and starting to have back problems. It's still the same game everyone loves, but it's going to take a lot longer – years, even – before it is toppled as the king of town.
And then, Project Titan will be there to collect the fallen.
Julian "Mirai" Williams


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Sphyrna mokarran
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Zygaena mokarran Rüppell, 1837
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Rüppell, W.P.E.S. 1838. Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered A2bd+4bd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Denham, J., Stevens, J.D., Simpfendorfer, C., Heupel, M.R., Cliff, G., Morgan, A., Graham, R., Ducrocq, M., Dulvy, N.K., Seisay, M., Asber, M., Valenti, S.V., Litvinov, F., Martins, P., Lemine Ould Sidi, M., Tous, P. & Bucal, D.
|Dudley, S.F.J., Musick, J.A., Fowler, S.L., Kyne, P.M., Cavanagh, R.D. & Valenti, S.V.
A large, widely distributed, tropical hammerhead shark largely restricted to continental shelves. Sphyrna mokarran is highly valued for its fins (in target and incidental fisheries), suffers very high bycatch mortality and only reproduces once every two years, making it vulnerable to over-exploitation and population depletion. Generally regarded as solitary, and is therefore unlikely to be abundant wherever it occurs. Previously observed from Mauritania to Angola, reportedly abundant from November to January in Senegal, and in October in Mauritania, stocks have since collapsed and it is recognized as one of the four most threatened species by member states of the Sub Regional Fishing Commission. Although there is very little species specific data available, the absence of recent records give cause to suspect a decline of at least 80% in the past 25 years. Fishing proceeds unmanaged and unmonitored, resulting in an assessment of Critically Endangered in the Eastern Atlantic. Although not targeted in the Northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico it is taken as by-catch in several fisheries and suffers greater than 90% vessel mortality. Two time series data sets (pelagic logbook, large pelagic survey) have shown a decline in the catch of Sphyrna spp. since 1986. Difficulties in species identification and accurate recording make an assessment of this species very difficult, however low survival at capture makes it highly vulnerable to fishing pressure, whether directed or incidental. It is therefore assessed as Endangered in the Northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, based on a suspected decline of at least >50% over the past 10 years. The decline is poorly documented and has not been curtailed. In the Southwest Indian Ocean this species is assessed as Endangered based on a continued decline in catch rate of 79% reported for the period 1978 to 2003. It is uncertain whether these declines reflect highly localized stock depletion or whether they reflect a general decline in the Southwest Indian Ocean, but large numbers of longline vessels have been reported to be operating illegally in coastal waters of the western Indian Ocean where they are targeting primarily hammerhead sharks and giant guitarfish Rhynchobatus djiddensis. Sphyrna mokarran is found along the northern coast of Australia. A large increase in the illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in northern Australia in the last few years points to great concern that this species is being increasingly targeted for its valuable large fins. Recent Risk Assessments of northern Australian elasmobranchs indicate that it may be 'high-risk' however, due to a lack of data to form the basis of an accurate assessment, the species is considered Data Deficient in Australia at the present time. Further investigation of its status there is required. Given its vulnerability to depletion, low survival at capture and high value for the fin trade this species is considered to meet the criteria for Endangered globally based on the available evidence for declines of >50%. There is an urgent need for data collection in other parts of its range, but considering the high value of its fins and high fishing pressure in other parts of its range, similar declines are likely to have occurred elsewhere.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The great hammerhead ranges widely throughout the tropical waters of the world, from latitudes 40°N to 35°S (Last and Stevens 1994). It is apparently nomadic and migratory, with some populations moving polewards in the summer, as off Florida and in the South China Sea (Compagno in prep. b).
Widespread in the south-west Indian Ocean but in South Africa is confined to the KwaZulu-Natal coast, where it co-exists with the scalloped hammerhead S. lewini, also an inhabitant of the tropic, and the smooth hammerhead S. zygaena, which favours cooler waters (Cliff 1995, Bass et al. 1975). There is a pupping and nursery ground in a coastal mangrove estuarine area of southern Belize (R.T. Graham pers. obs).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Algeria; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Australia (Ashmore-Cartier Is., Australian Capital Territory, Coral Sea Is. Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland); Bahamas; Bangladesh; Belize; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Brazil (Alagoas, Amapá, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Fernando de Noronha, Maranhão, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe); British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago); Cambodia; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang); Colombia; Costa Rica (Cocos I.); Cuba; Curaçao; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt (Sinai); El Salvador; Eritrea; France (Clipperton I.); French Guiana; French Polynesia (Marquesas, Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is.); French Southern Territories (Mozambique Channel Is.); Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras (Honduran Caribbean Is.); Hong Kong; India (Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal); Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Jamaica; Japan; Jordan; Kenya; Kuwait; Libya; Macao; Madagascar; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak); Martinique; Mauritius (Rodrigues); Micronesia, Federated States of ; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; New Caledonia; Nicaragua (Nicaraguan Caribbean Is.); Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Philippines; Pitcairn; Puerto Rico (Navassa I.); Qatar; Saint Barthélemy; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Seychelles (Aldabra); Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Somalia; South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal); Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Taiwan, Province of China (Kin-Men, Ma-tsu-Pai-chuan); Tanzania, United Republic of; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turks and Caicos Islands; United Arab Emirates; United States (Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas); Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (Aves I., Venezuelan Antilles); Viet Nam; Yemen (North Yemen, Socotra, South Yemen)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – western central; Indian Ocean – eastern; Indian Ocean – western; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific – western central; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – southeast
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Sphyrna mokarran is a coastal-pelagic and semi-oceanic tropical hammerhead occurring close inshore and well offshore, over the continental shelves, island terraces, and in passes and lagoons of coral atolls, as well as over deep water near land, at depths ranging from near-surface to over 80 m (Compagno in prep. b). The maximum total size is reported as 550 to 610 cm by Compagno (in prep. b), though 400 cm is more common for a mature adult (Compagno in prep. b, Last and Stevens 1994). Males mature at about 234 to 269 cm, and reach at least 341 cm, and females mature at about 250 to 300 cm and reach 482 to 549 cm (Compagno in prep. b). S. mokarran is viviparous, with a yolk-sac placenta. Litter size ranges from 6 to 42 pups after 11 months' gestation (Compagno in prep. b). Size at birth is 50 to 70 cm. Females breed once every two years (Stevens and Lyle 1989). Pups are born in late spring to summer in the Northern Hemisphere and between December and January off Australia (Compagno in prep. b, Last and Stevens 1994).
The diet includes fish (mainly demersal species), other elasmobranchs, crustacea and cephalopods (Compagno in prep. b). Strong et al. (1990) observed a large (ca 4 m) great hammerhead feeding on a southern stingray Dasyatis americana (disc width 1.5 m).
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
Due to the distinctive head shape of this genus, it is typical for catches to be reported at the genus level, Sphyrna spp. Therefore, it is rare to find fisheries statistics that are specific to one species of hammerhead shark. Due to the great hammerhead?s preference for warmer waters, it can be expected to make up a greater proportion of tropical catches of hammerheads than more temperate fisheries. Sphyrna mokarran is taken by target and bycatch, fisheries (Dudley and Simpfendorfer 2006, Zeeberg et al. 2006) and is regularly caught in the tropics, with longlines, fixed bottom nets, hook-and-line, and possibly with pelagic and bottom trawls (Compagno in prep). Hammerhead sharks, S. mokarran in particular, have been noted as a favoured target species due to the size of their fins (R.T. Graham pers. comm). Fin prices are rising, driven by the Asian Fin market (R.T. Graham pers. obs).
There was a directed shark fishery operated by Taiwan around the northern coast of Australia that regularly caught great hammerheads up until 1986 (Stevens and Lyle 1989). Other possible threats include sport fishing (Pepperell 1992) and capture in anti-shark measures around the beaches of Australia and South Africa (Paterson 1990, Cliff 1995). Bonfil (1994) gives an overview of global shark fisheries. This species is mentioned specifically with reference to fisheries in Brazil, East USA and Mexico, however Sphyrna spp. are mentioned in the majority of tropical fisheries cited.
West Africa
Mainly taken by drift gillnets, bottom gillnets and on longlines, hook and line, pelagic and bottom trawls (Schneider 1990). This species is a bycatch in both the industrial and artisanal fisheries but a specialised artisanal fishery for charcharhinid and sphyrnid species was introduced in Sierra Leone in 1975, and since then fishing pressure has not decreased (M. Seisay pers. obs). The Subregional workshop for sustainable management of sharks and rays in West Africa, 26-28 April 2000 in St Louis, Senegal (Ducrocq 2002) noted the high threat to sharks in the west African region and a noticeable decline in the CPUE of total sharks and rays. This workshop identified S. mokkarran as particularly threatened. The subsequent sub-regional plan of action for sharks of West Africa (member states of the Sub Regional Fishing Commission) states that landings of S. mokarran have collapsed and lists this as one of the four most threatened species, deserving the greatest attention in the whole region (Ducrocq 2002).
Previously observed from Mauritania to Angola, reportedly abundant from November to January in Senegal, and in October in Mauritania (Cadenat and Blache 1981). However, recent scientific trawl surveys off Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Conakry between 20 to 1,000 m have failed to record it, except in very low numbers off Guinea-Conakry and one record from Senegal in 1995 (FISA unpublished data). Anecdotal evidence from interviews with fishermen in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea suggest there was a large decline in all shark species during the 1990s and that S. mokarran is almost extirpated from these areas (M. Ducrocq pers. obs.).
Data are lacking as there is little species specific data collection in the region, however this is a very distinctive species with a large dorsal fin which is highly valued for the shark fin trade. Increased targeting of sharks began in the 1970s, when a Ghanaian fishing community settled in the Gambia and established a commercial network throughout the region, encouraging local fishermen to target sharks for exportation to Ghana. By the 1980s many fishermen were specialising in catching sharks, resulting in a decline in overall shark populations (Walker et al. 2005). There has been rapid growth in the shark fin market in this region, for export to the Far East, and yearly production of dried fins exported from Guinea-Bissau alone is estimated at 250 t (dry weight) (Walker et al. 2005). Sphyrna species combined represented 42% of bycatch in the European industrial pelagic trawl fishery off Northwest Africa (Zeeberg 2006).
Although there are very little species specific data available, the absence of recent records and region-wide recognition of the extent of the decline, give cause to suspect that the population has decreased by least 80% in the past 25 years. Fisheries in this region remain largely unmonitored and unmanaged, leading to an assessment of Critically Endangered in the Eastern Atlantic.
Southwest Indian Ocean
This species is widely distributed in the SW Indian Ocean and is a summer migrant to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) (east coast of South Africa), where the annual catch in the KZN shark nets is 11 sharks (1978 to 1999), consisting mainly of adolescents and adults. Over this period there has been a significant decline in annual catch (18 to 4 sharks) and catch rate (0.5 to 0.2 sharks.km-net-1.yr-1 (p = 0.000) (Dudley 2002). A continued decline in catch rate was reported for the period 1978 to 2003 (Dudley and Simpfendorfer 2006). Over this period, regression of catch and catch rate against year revealed a significant decline in annual catch from 18 to two sharks (89%) and in catch rate from 0.44 to 0.09 sharks.km-net-1.yr-1 (79%) (S. Dudley pers. obs. 2006). It is uncertain whether these declines reflect highly localized stock depletion or whether they reflect a general decline in the Southwest Indian Ocean, but large numbers of longline vessels have been reported to be operating illegally in coastal waters of the western Indian Ocean where they are targeting primarily hammerhead sharks and giant guitarfish Rhynchobatus djiddensis (IOTC 2005 in Dudley and Simpfendorfer 2006). This species is generally regarded as solitary, and is therefore unlikely to be abundant wherever it occurs. This is in contrast to other large hammerheads, such as Sphyrna lewini which forms large schools. Sphyrna mokarran, like other hammerheads, readily takes baited hooks and is sought after for its fins. Based on these characteristics, together with the decline of 79% in catch rates in the KZN shark nets, this species is assessed as Endangered in the southwest Indian Ocean.
Northwest Atlantic
This species is caught primarily as a bycatch in the pelagic longline, bottom longline and net fisheries along the northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. It is also caught in the recreational fishery. The species represents 0.7% of the species catch and suffers from greater than 90% at-vessel fishing mortality in the U.S. bottom longline fishery (Commercial Shark Fishery Observer Program unpubl. data). The U.S. pelagic fishery logbook data has shown a decline close to 90%, however this data-set is known for inaccurate data reporting (Beerkircher et al. 2002). There is probably a lack of reporting of the catch of great hammerheads because this species is routinely finned and discarded, which is illegal in the US Atlantic Federal Waters (Commercial Shark Fishery Observer Program unpub. data). Both the pelagic and bottom longline observer programs have recorded a 2 to 3:1 ratio for S. Lewini to S. mokarran. The meat is not valuable but the fins are high grade and bring in a good price, thus finning still occurs in the U.S. fishery. Interview with shark fishermen in Belize indicate that hammerheads (S. mokarran in particular) are a favoured target species for their large fins (R.T. Graham pers. obs.). Fin prices are rising above US$50/lb in the neighbouring countries of Guatemala, driven by Asian buyers, according to these interviews (R.T. Graham pers. obs). This species is probably caught in other fisheries but is usually placed in a combined "hammerhead" category. Species identification (S. mokarran vs. S. lewini) a large obstacle in the proper assessment of this species. The high at-vessel fishing mortality for both species of hammerhead makes the threat of fishing even greater for this species. In the Pacific Ocean off of Guatemala this species is caught as by-catch in the commercial longline fishery.
There appear to be little data for landings and catch effort for this species in Central America and the Caribbean. Off the coast of Belize hammerheads were fished heavily by longline in the 1980s and early 1990s. Interviews with fishermen indicate that the abundance and size of Sphyrnids has declined dramatically in the past 10 years as a result of over exploitation, leading to a halt in the Belize based shark fishery (R.T. Graham pers. obs). However, the pressure is still sustained by fishers driving into Belizean waters from Guatemala (R.T. Graham pers. obs). The Cuban directed shark fishery (longline) between 1983 and 1991 recorded S. mokarran (subadults and juveniles) as one of 23 species caught. Since 1992 small increases in mean sizes were noted, indicating partial recovery of the species. In Mexico between November 1993 and December 1994 (Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatan) 901 vessels were monitored every day. Sphyrna mokarran represented 86% of the total catch.
The difficulty in species identification and accurate recording make an assessment of this species very difficult. However, low survival at capture makes this species very vulnerable to fishing pressure, whether directed or incidental. This species is listed as Endangered in the Northwest Atlantic under criterion A2 based on a suspected decline of at least >50% over the past 10 years. The decline is poorly documented and has not been curtailed.
There has been a large increase in the illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in northern Australia in the last few years (J. Stevens pers. obs.). Several initiatives are underway to identify which species are being taken and in what quantities. Hammerheads are known to feature in the catches, and are suspected targets for their large valuable fins, although no specific data are available. Some domestic boats are also suspected to be targeting species for their fins in the Northern Territory, and this likely includes hammerheads (J. Stevens pers. obs). It is not a productive species and is coming out at the "high-risk" end in recent Risk Assessments of northern Australian elasmobranchs (J. Stevens pers. obs). There is concern that this species is being increasingly targeted, and therefore an urgent need to obtain data to form an accurate assessment of the population in this region.
|Conservation Actions:
There are no known species specific conservation measures in place for S. mokarran.
This species is listed on Annex I, Highly Migratory Species, of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which urges States to cooperate over the management of these species. No such management yet exists. Precautionary adaptive collaborative management of target and bycatch fisheries is urgently needed for this unproductive shark. It is also essential to improve data collection and develop stock assessments for this species.
The adoption of shark finning bans by fishing states (e.g., USA, Australia), regional entities (EU) and regional fisheries organisations (ICCAT) is accelerating and should increasingly prevent the harvesting of hammerhead sharks for their fins alone.
In the U.S. this species is managed as a Large Coastal Shark on U.S. Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan (National Marine Fisheries Service: Federal Fisheries Management Plan for Atlantic Tuna, Swordfish and Sharks).
In South Africa there is a shark bycatch limit in the tuna longline fishery of 10% of the weight of tuna landed, and a recreational line fishery Bag Limit of one shark per angler per day.
|Denham, J., Stevens, J.D., Simpfendorfer, C., Heupel, M.R., Cliff, G., Morgan, A., Graham, R., Ducrocq, M., Dulvy, N.K., Seisay, M., Asber, M., Valenti, S.V., Litvinov, F., Martins, P., Lemine Ould Sidi, M., Tous, P. & Bucal, D. 2007. Sphyrna mokarran. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T39386A10191938. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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Since 1999 Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang have collected more than two tons of plastic trash from 1000 yards of Kehoe Beach along the Point Reyes National Seashore. They have transformed this debris into engaging works of art that raise awareness of the sheer variety and ubiquity of plastic pollution and its impact on delicate marine ecosystems.*
This panel will discuss the ways that plastic affects our world – on land and sea – and how we can break the plastic habit.
Daniella Dimitrova Russo is the co-founder and Executive Director of Plastic Pollution Coalition – an alliance of businesses and individuals working together to end plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on people, animals and the environment.
Daniella Russo is committed to elevating the issues of plastic pollution to the forefront of social, political and environmental discourse. In 2006, she launched the award winning Think Beyond Plastic Campaign. In 2009 she co-founded Plastic Pollution Coalition and since then has worked tirelessly towards a world without plastic pollution.
Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang. Since 1999 Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang have maintained Marin's Kehoe Beach, each weekend combing for plastic debris and removing over two tons of plastic trash over the last 13 years. This plastic is not left on the beach but washed to shore from the ocean.
Back in their studios they clean, sort and categorize the pieces according to color and kind. They use the plastic to make artworks including large sculptures, installations, photo tableaus and jewelry.
Michael Stewart is the Co-founder of Sustainable Surf , a nonprofit organization that has created a unique "styrofoam" recycling program called Waste to Waves (W2W). The W2W program was developed to capture this (non-point source) potential plastic pollution from individuals, before it can enter the marine environment, and is designed to then turn that waste EPS / styrofoam packaging material into new, recycled surfboard cores. Michael leads the program efforts of the W2W program here in the Bay area, whose current collection partners include local surfshops Aqua Surf (Ocean Beach) & Proof Lab (Mill Valley), Patagonia store (Fisherman's Wharf), Sports Basement and the Tides Center (Presidio), as well as a new collaboration the CA Academy of Sciences (Golden Gate Park), to recycle their internally generated EPS / styrofoam. Michael is also a longtime member and current vice chair of the San Francisco chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, as well as an adviser to the Save the Waves Coalition.
Susan Freinkel, the author of, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, Susan Freinkel is a science writer whose work has appeared in a variety of national publications.
Her book Plastic: a toxic love story shows we have reached a crisis point. Freinkel treks through history, science and the global economy to assess the real impact of plastic in our lives, a substance that has become the defining medium—and metaphor—of our age.
*The exhibit of their artwork is on view on the 1st, 4th and 5th Floors of the San Francisco Public Library – Main from July 21 – October 11, 2012.
This is a Stegner Environmental Center Program.
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JB's man voice
I was in makeup just now which is around the corner from the MTV Canada offices. A song started playing. And our makeup artist, Natalie, who is all about the hiphop and R&B was like…
Who is that? Drake? What?
I laughed. So hard. Because I'd just heard it an hour ago. It's Justin Bieber's Heartbreaker, just released this morning as part of his #MusicMondays – a new song every week for 10 weeks.
Nat didn't recognise it as JB because, well, he's got his new man voice on. It's definitely deeper. And he drawls and slurs now. Like he's half asleep all the time.
Here. Listen. If you want to skip the singing parts, just start at 2:35 and hear it. If for no reason than you need a laugh this morning. I promise you, you'll get one.
He no longer puts a "t" at the end of the word "but". It comes out like "buhhh".
Wrote JB about his Heartbreaker:
"It's a song for people going through heartbreak—like I was when I wrote it. It means so much to me to be able to share what I was, and still am, going through, with my fans. I'm very proud of this song and I hope it gives my fans some insight into my heart."
Yes. And Selena Gomez too. During that talky-talky part, he sounds like he wants to go for it with her, again.
"I still believe in us."
Oh My God.
Here's JB with his big boy muscles in concert in Shanghai on Saturday.