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Update: This is what you get at an Abomination ($100) level pledge!
- Base game - 71 miniatures etc
- 3 Promo Survivors and their Zombie counterparts: 6 miniatures
- 4 additional Fatties - 4 miniatures
- 6 additional Runners - 6 miniatures
- 20 additional Walkers - 20 miniatures
- 1 additional Abomination - 1 miniature
- 1 Eagle / Zombie Eagle - 2 miniatures
- 1 Cardboard Tube Samurai / Zombie CTS - 2 miniatures
- 1 Troy / Zombie Troy - 2 miniatures
- 6 custom black dice
- 6 glow in the dark dice
- 1 T-shirt
- 1 signed lithograph
Total 114 miniatures! Scroll down for details! (note different shipping times for parts of this pledge).
Optional stuff
- Eva - $10
- Marvin - $10
- Ivy - $10
- Claudia - $10
- White dice set - $10
- Black dice set -$10 (1 set included at Abomination)
- Glowing in the dark dice set - $15 (1 set included at Abomination)
- Duplicate tile set - $20
- Battlefoam trays - $40
To add optional items just increase your pledge the appropriate amount, and we'll sort out the details after the Kickstarter ends by sending you a survey.
Zombicide is a collaborative game for 1 to 6 players developed by Guillotine Games and published by CoolMiniOrNot. A game lasts for 20min (beginner board) to 3 hours (expert board).
Each player controls from one (for 6 players) to four (solo game) "survivors", human beings in a zombie-infested town. In fact, "survivors" hastily change to "hunters" to smash zombies through and through. However, the team must constantly keep the balance between survival and slaughter: as the zombicide's going on, the "Danger level" is going up and infected are growing in numbers. Any misstep can turn to disaster.
Zombicide is a fun and easy game with cool minis in an archetypical, popular and comics-inspired environment. Ambiance is constantly kept between "beat'em up" and "survival horror" as characters keep on turning from preys to predators. Humor and gloom happily marry in a zombie-fest.
- 71 miniatures (28mm "Heroic" scale): 6 Survivors, 40 Walkers, 16 Runners, 8 Fatties and 1 Abomination
- 110 mini-cards (42 Zombie cards, 62 Equipment cards, 6 Wounded cards)
- 9 gaming tiles
- 6 dice
- 6 Survivor Identity Cards
- 24 advancement counters
- 4 Cars tokens (police car and pimp mobile)
- 18 Noise tokens
- 10 Objective tokens
- 12 Door tokens
- 6 Zombie spawn tokens
- 1 "First player" token
- 1 Exit point token
71 minis. A special effort has been given to detail and diversity: several models are available for most zombies of the same type (example: several models for "walker"-type zombies, including male and female versions).
9 double-sided gaming tiles. Scenarios take place on boards from two to nine tiles in a riot-devastated urban area. Characters move from zone to zone defined by walls and crosswalks. Designers were careful about the overall quality and playability of the tiles' illustrations.
Double-sided tokens. Objective tokens. Door tokens. Car tokens. Noise tokens. Zombie spawn zone tokens. More tokens than required indeed. In fact, enough of them are planned to create your craziest scenarios.
110 cards. Including Equipment cards and Zombie cards.
We're launching this Kickstarter to drive down production costs by making more copies. If Zombicide is the kind of game that tickles your fancy, then here are the various pledge levels. We appreciate any help we can get!
Bitten - Cover lithograph signed by Edouard Guiton, the legendary French concept artist for Confrontation!
Walker - Bitten + 1 promo Survivor miniature not available in the base game!
Nick, Bad Cop
"I do things by the book, my book!"
Lieutenant Nicholas Walker has sometimes been bad, and always been lucky. Corrupt and cocksure, Nick gets his man, anyway he can, even if it means doing things a normal cop wouldn't do. Bluffing and bullying his way through the streets of New York, this highly decorated officer has put away hundreds of criminals and lined his pockets discreetly while he was at it.
Now, with no more crime and money meaningless, he desperately searches for his wife, rescuing and helping other survivors in the vain hope that someone has seen her.
Nick is available for all pledges $25 and over!
Runner - Bitten + 2 promo Survivor miniatures not available in the base game!
El Cholo, Zombie Hunter
"I'm not angry, I'll show you angry… Joder! "
No one seems to know this gruff latino's real name but everyone calls him El Cholo.
Whether he minds, or even cares is unknown, El Cholo rarely speaks, preferring to let his twin machetes do the talking. A hardened farmhand or possibly an ex-cartel enforcer, putting Zombies down at close quarters is El Cholo's specialty, and damn! he's good at it. The survivors whisper stories of hopeless last stands and daring raids, and El Cholo walking out covered in (someone else's) blood.
Fatty - Runner + copy of Zombicide ($89 retail value). That's a 15% discount plus 2 exclusive miniatures and a signed lithograph!
Abomination - Fatty + 3rd special promo Survivor miniature - Dave the Geek and Zombicide dice! You get a copy of Zombicide and 3 exclusive miniatures and a signed lithograph and 6 custom dice!
Dave the Geek
"Yeah sure, take the shotgun if you want, I'll take the... AMMONIUM... NITRATE!"
As far as he remembers, Dave always found reality to be terribly boring. So he locked himself up in an imaginary world and learned piles of useless stuff... useless until now. Dave is a fount of knowledge. His chemistry mastery makes him look like a superhero amongst other survivors. At least until he opens this mouth, then everyone remembers he's a real geek.
Survivor - 2 x Abomination
Triplets - 3 x Abomination
Get Me A 6-Pack - 6 x Abomination
Paint The Town! - A hand painted copy of Zombicide, including 3 promo Survivor miniatures and a signed lithograph by Edouard Guiton. This set will be painted by Aaron Lovejoy, multiple Golden Demon winner!
I Am Legend - Abomination + Become a Survivor (or Zombie) in the next expansion! Send us a photo of yourself in the modern, contemporary clothes you'd like to be wearing, and a good headshot, and we'll take care of the rest!
Important note: For non-continental USA pledges, please add an additional $25 for shipping, and an additional $15 per box for shipping after the first box.
We've been totally blown away by the response on Kickstarter, in particular the enthusiastic response to the custom dice! So, if you want another spare set handy, here's your chance to get them! Just increase your pledge the necessary amount, a survey will go out at the end of the Kickstarter asking you which options you want!
Here's a set that isn't included in any level, in classic white with red engraving! Just add $10 to any pledge! 6x White Engrave Dice
Some Backers asked for extra custom Black Dice. $10 for 6x Engraved Black Dice. Abomination ($100) and above pledges already include this set.
Just add $15 to any pledge! 6x Glow in the Dark Dice. These are the same dice that are included in the $75k stretch goal. But everyone needs more glowing dice right?
Duplicate Tiles - Zombicide ships with 9 double sided tiles, so if you get this pack you can lay out all 18 tile designs in one enormous layout! This has a suggested MSRP for $29.99, so get it now at a 30% discount with free shipping! Just add to any Fatty or above pledge! Expected to ship with the main game. Comes with complete set of extra door / car tokens.
Who knew that a calculative and cold socialite would survive so well at the end of civilization? Zombie killing is hell on the manicure though.... This sharpshooting manipulative minx can be all yours! Ships with the Zombie Promo Survivors (Q2 2013).
You do not mess with Claudia. You do not talk to Claudia. You do not get inClaudia's way. Hire her for $10!
Marvin Redfield. Marvin is a bodyguard, shuttling the rich and famous around. Always a professional, he's used to gently deflecting the advances of neglected wives or wealthy widows.... until one of his clients got a little too aggressive and had to be put down! Now he's up to his eyeballs in mother-f***** Zombies! Get him for $10 added to any Abomination level or above pledge! Ships the same time as the Zombie Promo Survivors!
Eva Duran - She's got a sword, and she knows how to use it! This kickass Survivor is something we'll start sculpting now and ship to you at the same time the Zombie Promo Survivors go out! Just add $10 to your Abomination and above pledge!
Paint the Town includes these trays. Since we're doing them anyway, we thought some of you out in Kickstarter land might want some. So, if you want to paint your great Zombicide miniatures and still want to transport them around conveniently, this might fit your needs.These trays will be available for sale from Battlefoam later, just that shipping is free within the USA if shipped with your Abomination or above order. Outside the USA, please add $15 per set (sorry, these are bulky). $40 for a set of 2 trays. Just add the appropriate amount to your pledge if you're interested (Manage Pledge, green button on the Zombicide Kickstarter page) and we'll send you a survey after the Kickstarter to confirm your options.
Close ups of the female zombies included:
Bios - who the heck are you guys?
If you read this far, you're almost a true believer, so here's a little more about the designers of Zombicide!
Nicolas Raoult
Nico worked in Rackham from 1999 to 2008. While wearing the "red dragon" shirt, Nico accompanied Rackham in its ascension. He worked on Rag'Narok, Confrontation 2nd to 4th edition,
In 2008, Nico lent his hand to Kraken Editions for the background of Alkemy Genesis. The Jade Triad arbors his signature.
In 2011, he worked with Studio Cyanide, developer of the Confrontation videogame, as a consultant, freelance author and playtester.
Jean-Baptiste Lullien, a.k.a. Ogre-Mercenaire
With a background in linguistics and information, J.-B worked for several years as a game designer for Rackham, on several projects including girls games with little horses and a fashion academy, numerous miniature games (even a kind of "marbles" monsters!), videogames and comics.
Raphaël Guiton
Raphael is one of the founders of Rackham, and together with another ex-Games Workshop employee Jean Bey, created the iconic game of Confrontation in 1996, and eventually leading its creative team.
Now a co-founder of Guillotine Games, a studio of french designers, Zombicide, a cooperative boardgame of survivors VS zombies, is his first project to be published as a game designer.
Percy de Montblanc
Percy has never worked in Rackham. Co-founder of Guillotine Games, he is in charge of all the tasks the other associates hate and he prepares coffee.
He is the executive producer of Zombicide and from time to time he has one or two good ideas that are systematically ignored.
Thanks for the great support everyone! Here are the stretch goals since we're 100% funded!
Achieved! Everyone who pledged Abomination and above ($100) gets a great red T-shirt per Zombicide setwith the Zombicide logo printed on it! Show off your good taste in games with this great looking T!
Achieved! Get two additional Fatties in each Zombicide set if you pledged Abomination ($100) or more! That's a lot of lovin'!
Achieved! Everyone who pledged Abomination and above ($100) gets an extra set of 6 GLOW IN THE DARK custom dice per Zombicide set!
Achieved! Get an additional Abomination for each box game for pledges at Abomination level and above ($100)! The regular set only comes with one Abomination, throw in another one to give your Survivors a real challenge!
Achieved! Everyone gets a downloadable campaign, culminating in a scenario that will see the use of all additional promo Survivors, Fatties and Abominations! This will include a downloadable map tile, scenario rules and off the hook action!
Achieved! Everyone who pledged Abomination and above ($100) gets three (one each) of the Zombie promo figs when the expansion is released (ETA Q2 2013). That's right folks, Zombie Nick, El Cholo and Dave! We'll send you all 3 playable promo Zombies not available in the expansion when it's released!
Achieved! Fast or Furious! Get 2 extra Fatties and 6 extra Runners per boxed game if you pledge Abomination or above ($100)!
Achieved! Walk of the Dead. Classic Romero-esque Horror! Get 12 additional Alert Cards with just Walkers..... and 20 additional Walkers just to round things out per boxed game if you pledge Abomination or above ($100)! Learn to fear the slow and predictable!
Achieved! Downloadable Map and Scenario Editor! Everyone gets this release, so you can easily create your own scenarios/maps using the same editor we used to create the scenarios in the game! The editor will include map tiles and component graphics, so put your designer hats on!
Achieved! Plastic trackers! Every game gets plastic trackers for Survivors! If we hit this stretch, we'll pay for a new tool to get these nifty trackers that clip on to the Survivor IDs. Shout out to the peeps that suggested this at Adepticon!
Achieved! If we hit this we'll sculpt Zombie Eva and anyone who purchased Eva gets the Zombie version of her free! Shipped at the same time as Eva!
Achieved! If we hit this stretch goal, everyone who bought Marvin gets... Zombie Marvin! Zombie Marvin ships with Marvin!
Achieved! "Eagle" Chaz - A true American Hero! If we hit this stretch, all Abomination and above level pledges get him free! "Eagle" will ship at the same time as the Zombie Promo Survivors (ETA Q2 2013, might be sooner, you never know with the "Eagle").1 Eagle per boxed game.
Achieved! Zombie "Eagle" - Say it ain't so! "Eagle" can't be beaten! Except, perhaps, by the massive Kickstarter hordes! If we hit this stretch, Zombie "Eagle" is free for all Abomination level and above pledges. 1 Zombie "Eagle" per boxed game. Ships together with "Eagle".
Achieved! This is the official Penny Arcade Cardboard Tube Samurai: Zombicide edition, and his counterpart, the Zombie Cardboard Tube Samurai. If we hit this stretch, everyone who pledges Abomination and above ($100) will receive both versions for each boxed game! Ships together with the Zombie Promo Survivors (est Q2 2013).
The Samurai and his Zombie self will also be available at future PAX events. So you know, no pressure.
Here's the concept that will go for sculpting if we hit our goal! Concept by Jacopo Camagni!
Concept pending approval by Penny Arcade
Achieved! If you pledge for Ivy, get Zombie Ivy free when we hit this stretch! If you pledge Claudia, you get Zombie Claudia free! Ships together with Ivy and Claudia, respectively.
Achieved! Troy, stalwart defender against the Zombie hordes! Hero to all! At least, in his own mind.... Why won't that scratch on his right hand heal though....
If we hit this stretch, everyone who pledged Abomination ($100) and above will get Troy and Zombie Troy! Ships together with the Zombie Promo Survivors (ETA Q2 2013).
This is our final, honest to god, cross our hearts and hope to die, stretch! Thank you everyone for your enormous support! From both the CMON and GG teams, we are incredibly grateful!
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Next big things
Provided the world doesn't end this month, exciting things are ahead for 2013 - here are the ones to watch.
Even as the Mayan calendar grinds slowly towards its conclusion this month, we asked our panel of M experts to throw forward to 2013 and nominate the Melburnians in the worlds of TV, film, fashion, music and stage who are going to make waves next year.
The indefatigable Kat Stewart is at it again. Ever since her star turn as Roberta Williams in the original Underbelly, she's been a lady in demand. In 2012 she managed a full season of Offspring, a full season of Tangle, a guest appearance in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and she still had time for her beloved Red Stitch theatre - and to have her first baby. Next year there'll be a toddler to look after, as well as another 13 episodes playing the marvellously eccentric Billie Proudman in Offspring, and a new scripted comedy for Channel Ten: Mr and Mrs Murder. In it she'll star alongside Shaun Micallef as married ''industrial cleaners'' whose job tidying up murder scenes leads them into sleuthing. It looks like an awful lot of fun.
There's just one project so far on Lisa McCune's books for 2013 but it's a big one. For some years now, McCune - as curious about the process of making television as she is experienced in performing on it - has harboured ambitions to produce. Next year she gets her chance, not just starring in but co-producing the new family-friendly Ten drama Reef Doctors. She'll be there alongside Matt Day (now based in Sydney but Melbourne born and a Princes Hill alumnus), who also has a full dance card, including reprising his role as David Potter in the third season of the ABC's Rake.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Fitzroy girl Imogen Banks won't be resting on her laurels. This year the producer at Southern Star steered the good ships Tangle, Offspring and Puberty Blues. She's already deep in producing scripts for the second season of Puberty Blues - an ambitious undertaking as they move away from the original novel - as well as producing a fourth season of Offspring.
And speaking of behind the scenes, one bloke who's certain to have his hands full in 2013 is Russel Howcroft. The advertising executive who became beloved of millions as the straight-talker on the Gruen Planet panel takes up his new job as executive general manager at Ten (while planning to hang on to his Gruen gig).
Melinda Houston
Move over, Daisy Duke. If you start noticing a lot of women rock a look that favours faded denim vests, denim overalls and the odd splash of gingham, you've got the Ryder label to thank. It's the brainchild of designer Arabella Ramsay and her former assistant, Penny Brown, who is just 24 and has been working with Ramsay for the past five years. The aim? To capture the young, urban market with hip, affordably priced clothes. According to Ramsay, Ryder will favour fabrics such as denim, flannel and leather, and will largely sell via Ramsay's e-store, arabellaramsay.com/collections/ryder
Photographer and former stylist Belle Stewart has fashion in her blood: her grandmother, Constance Roe, was the muse and model for Australian fashion houses such as Sportscraft and Delphine in the 1930s-50s. She was also an avid handbag collector, which is why Stewart has named her new accessories label (which will begin with a range of bags in its first year) after her. The runs are small, keeping the bags as limited-edition items, and are made from as much recycled and salvaged leather as possible - while still being fashionable. Stewart hopes they represent timeless appeal, not faddish trends. From $250 (for a clutch) to $565 (for a travel bag), they're classed as ''affordable luxury'', she says. constanceroe.co
Jacob Luppino and Anthony Pittorino, the pair behind couture design house J'Aton, aren't exactly the new kids on the block: they've been designing together since 1995. However, they've recently amped up their profile, designing wedding dresses in 2012 for Holly Valance, Terry Biviano and Jodi Gordon. Next year is set to be bigger still, as they hope to set up a showroom in New York and expand their international clientele. Celebrities such as Isla Fisher, Naomi Watts, Kylie and Dannii Minogue and Dita von Teese have all worn their gowns, known for their sumptuous fabrics and clever boning. jatoncouture.com
It's hard to pin designer Ingrid Verner down. In 2007, she was a founding partner of the label TV, which British Vogue called one of the most blogged-about names in the world. But when it stopped trading in 2011, she decided to go it alone. Verner's Health Resort 2013 collection uses hand-dyed marbled silks and hand-drawn prints, but the label's biggest talking point might be Verner's reluctance to put her name forward, sending out a photo of herself, which her rep says ''is all about desaturating the celebrity designer cliche''. As such: the photo is a pixelated image. This would not fly in Karl Lagerfeld's world, people. thisisverner.com
Rachelle Unreich
We still may not get the long-awaited, mythological second album by local-boys-gone-missing the Avalanches (still clearing samples, apparently) in 2013, but there are plenty of exciting Melbourne acts who have more certainty about their plans next year.
In the depths of this year's dreary winter, Melbourne synth-pop outfit World's End Press travelled to Wales' famed Rockfield Studios to record their debut album with British producer Tim Goldsworthy (Cut Copy, Unkle, DFA Records). The fruits of those sessions (currently being mixed by US hip-hop/r&b heavyweight Jimmy Douglass) will be heard sometime between March and May. World's End Press describe the album as ''a primitive-sounding dance record''. Lead single To Send Our Love is released in January, when they support Hot Chip in Australia before touring the US and Britain solo later in the year.
Currently mixing down the Cat Empire's sixth, as-yet-untitled, album with producer Jan Skubiszewski (Jackson Jackson, Phrase) in Melbourne, the band's Harry Angus says the album is ''a return to our original aesthetic - that the music is for dancing and feeling good''. The band, who toured North America and Europe in 2012, will launch the album (their first wholly independent release globally) in May and will headline a hectic 2013. After touring Australia in March, the Cat Empire travel twice to Europe and Britain, play summer festivals across North America and shoehorn in another Australian tour in September.
Fittingly, Melbourne synth-pop duo Client Liaison (splendidly coiffed singer Monte Morgan and keyboardist Harvey Miller) will release their debut single, End of the Earth, on December 21 - the end of the Mayan calendar. Having signed to Canadian electro star Tiga's Turbo Recordings, they will drop their album about June. The band have already turned heads with their wild visual aesthetic - part Mad Max III, part '80s yuppie cult flick Less Than Zero, part doomed apocalypse. Philosophically, they idealise early-'90s Australian ''crass culture'', while musically they mesh white-boy yacht-rock, boy-band-inspired synth balladry and tribal electronica. Client Liaison play the Golden Plains festival in March.
R&b superstar Erykah Badu and Ahmir ''?uestlove'' Thompson, drummer and bandleader of the Roots, have fallen under the spell of Northcote four-piece Hiatus Kaiyote, both tweeting their fandom. Led by 23-year-old songwriter and smoky-voiced chanteuse Nai Palm, the band's sound explores moody neo-soul, broken beat, trip-hop and Latin. Self-releasing their slow-burner album Tawk Tomahawk earlier this year, they have been featured on influential Los Angeles radio station KCRW, packed out Melbourne's Hi-Fi Bar recently and will play Austin, Texas' South by Southwest next year. Their second album is also due in 2013.
Andrew Drever
Jimi Bani has been kicking goals on the small screen of late, playing the lead in the acclaimed Mabo mini-series as well as appearing in Redfern Now and The Straits. Next year he'll arrive on Melbourne's stages in two major productions. In The Dragon he plays a valiant Lancelot going up against the three-headed monster of the show's title (played by musical comedy maestros Tripod). Then he'll feature in The Shadow King, an ambitious, large-scale undertaking that draws on both Shakespeare's King Lear and Australia's own indigenous history. Both will be produced by Malthouse Theatre.
It's a great year for younger directors, too, with several securing plum gigs on the main stages. Sam Strong began his career in Melbourne before he was poached by Sydney's Griffin Theatre; incoming Melbourne Theatre Company head Brett Sheehy has enticed him back home, however, as associate artistic director with the company. He'll direct the 2013 production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible and the Australian premiere of US playwright Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, starring Robyn Nevin. Sheehy has also appointed Leticia Caceres as associate director and she'll helm the Australian premiere of British playwright Nick Payne's Constellations in February.
Another director with a full schedule is Anne-Louise Sarks, currently wowing Sydney audiences with an adaptation of Medea that centres on the ill-fated children of the theatre's most iconic murderous mother. It's unlikely that the show will travel south, given that its leads are probably too young to tour, but we'll catch Sarks in her capacity as artistic director of The Hayloft Project during the MTC's Neon festival celebrating indie theatre. Five companies (including Hayloft) have been invited to create two-week seasons at the MTC's Lawler Studio with plenty of artistic freedom. Sarks will also direct Malthouse's Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, by playwright Lally Katz - one of the most popular writers in Australian theatre. Sarks' job won't be easy - Stories is a one-woman show in which the playwright plays herself.
John Bailey
Side effects of hard work
Michelle Vergara Moore had her back to Steven Soderbergh when her American career officially began. The Melbourne actor's first shot on the New York set of Side Effects, Soderbergh's 2013 pharmaceutical thriller, had her sitting at a desk with the director of Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven close behind her with the camera, while co-star Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) was off to one side.
''Michelle,'' Soderbergh said matter-of-factly, ''turn around and watch Rooney walk off and then say your line.'' He might as well have asked her to turn around and introduce herself to the world.
This holiday season is shaping up as the first in too long where Vergara Moore's exhaustion stems from acting and not the makeweight jobs that a struggling performer has to settle for. As well as appearing alongside Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jude Law in Side Effects, she was part of the ensemble cast for the Red Stitch Actors Theatre production of the play The Motherf---er with the Hat, and has just finished shooting a 10-part ABC drama, Time of Our Lives.
Her work during 2012 will translate into a 2013 profile for Vergara Moore, who was born in Sale, the sixth of 10 children to parents who emigrated to Australia from the Philippines. It's a fitting payoff for her perseverance following the lean transition period after she graduated from NIDA in Sydney.
''The first few years were tough,'' says Vergara Moore, who in conversation has a bracing energy.
''It's not always easy to translate from the structure of school to going to auditions you don't automatically get, and sometimes I doubted myself. I knew I had something, I just had to believe that someone else would take a risk on me.''
The actor was able to take heart from her husband and fellow NIDA graduate Toby Leonard Moore, who won a major part in the major 2010 HBO mini-series The Pacific and used that to gain a foothold in the US.
With her accent mastered, Vergara Moore joined her husband in the US and managed to land the role of Joan in Side Effects with just her second audition.
''I was pinching myself,'' she says.
''I wish I'd known that this was what the light at the end of the tunnel was five years ago. ''Now I'm just really happy to have worked so much this year.''
Craig Mathieson

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Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes the giant leap from McDonalds to the Middle East in "Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?," his directorial follow-up to 2004's Oscar-nominated "Super Size Me." However, unlike Spurlock's critically acclaimed expose of the fast food industry that became the eighth-highest grossing doc of all time, his globetrotting quest to find America's arch enemy took a beating by critics and at the box office.
And while the "Super Size Me" DVD became part of the health class curriculum at high schools across the country, the homevid release of "Osama" is likely to be as hard to find as the Al-Qaeda leader in the caves of Wajiristan. That's a shame, however, because Spurlock's at times naive but always sincere take on the War on Terror could be a valuable educational tool for the short-attention span generation.
Special features include all-too brief and rather one-sided interviews with political leaders and activists. The interviews were each edited down to under four minutes, which is too bad because the point of DVD extras is to give auds access to extended content that didn't make the final cut.
Also, Spurlock's leftist tendencies are no secret, but even Michael Moore manages to confront those on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum in his documentaries. I'm sure Bill Krystol or Richard Perle would have been happy to provide some insight from the other side of the argument.
Given that glaring omission, the interviews all provide interesting insight. Perhaps the most compelling is a chat with three young Saudi women about the treatment of females in the kingdom. They lament the segregation of the sexes in Saudi Arabia, including the separate public facilities for men and women, which are eerily reminiscent of the Jim Crow south.
The most humorous featurette is a recreation of the famous scene from "All the President's Men" in which Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward first meets Deep Throat in an underground parking garage. Spurlock interviews Michael Schauer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, in the garage of the Watergate Hotel.
Other interviewees include former Irish Republican Army leader Martin McGuinness, Egyptian civil rights and democracy activist Saad Ibrahim, and former prime minister and current president of Israel, Shimon Peres.
Two poorly animated and preachy extras — alternate ending and history of Afghanistan — are more annoying than educational.


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HansKeesom wrote:I have no licence for krpano at the moment.
I have the impression that when I generate a virtual tour with autopano tour v.1.1.0. beta 7, the panorama online looks much worse then when I open the panorama in a viewer like irfanview. The generated panorama's are like 13888 pixels wide and since I removed lot of CA they look great in Irfanview, but lowres online.
Is this due to having no KRPANO license?
The license is not expensive for me as I can have it for 80 euro due to the fact I have some others licences already, but I would like to know.
I have no need for xml coding but more detail when zooming would be nice.
HansKeesom wrote:Now what would I need regarding programming skills. What languages would I need and is there a course specificly around KRpano or geared to making tours like the one I just mentioned?
Thanks ahead for your advice.
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Obama vs. Texas
They might as well put a "Mess with Texas" bumper sticker on the presidential limo.
Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement Thursday that he's taking Texas to court over its voting laws is the latest battle between the White House and Lone Star State Republicans — and one that both sides are eager to have.
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Texas vs. the Obama administration is one of most reliable shows in politics. Right from the start of President Barack Obama's first term, Gov. Rick Perry refused to take stimulus money. He helped lead the opposition to Obamacare and has since refused to set up a state insurance exchange or expand Medicaid in his state. He never came across an Obama EPA regulation he didn't challenge. And State Attorney General Greg Abbott has sued the federal government 27 times on everything from Obamacare to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
( PHOTOS: Obama's second term)
Both sides have political motivation to keep going: The White House gets applauded in many parts of the country for casting Texas as the evil outlaw, and Republicans in the state count the money and the votes they get back home for telling the federal government to stuff it.
"Texans want to fight. They love to fight. The Obama administration is willing to get in the ring with us, and we'll never step out of the ring," said Bill Miller, a Texas lobbyist and political consultant who's worked with both Republicans and Democrats in the state. "Ten rounds, fifteen rounds, we'll keep going. As long as the two sides are standing, they're going to swing at each other. And both sides benefit from the fight."
The latest round began last month, when hours after the Supreme Court struck down of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Abbott immediately moved to start implementing the state's controversial new voter ID laws. . Thursday morning, Holder countered, announcing in a speech to the National Urban League in Philadelphia that the Justice Department would ask a court to consider a new avenue to force those laws to go through federal pre-clearance, since he says they are clearly discriminatory.
( Also on POLITICO: DOJ to challenge SCOTUS decision)
Voting rights, like immigration and affirmative action, goes directly to the question that will likely define the fate of Texas politics within the decade: How much will the growing black and Latino populations there spell the end of Republican dominance in the state — and any hopes the GOP has of staying competitive in the Electoral College?
Democrats say state Republicans are on the wrong side of history, and sacrificing short term wins for long term decimation. Republicans, meanwhile, feel confident they've got a lot less to worry about than people think, and that fighting the Obama administration can only increase their popularity with Texans, no matter their ethnicity.
"It's good to have an enemy in politics," said Texas GOP consultant Mike Baselice. "For states in the South, especially in Texas, you're not going to find a better one than the federal government."
( PHOTOS: Rick Perry's career)
That argument was enough to essentially form the platform for Perry's presidential campaign, and for at least a week in August of 2011, make him seem like the perfect candidate to topple Obama.
But while Perry on Thursday blasted Holder's announcement as another example of an administration "demonstrating utter contempt for our country's system of checks and balances, not to mention the U.S. Constitution," he's already taken himself out of a race for reelection next year.
Instead, the Republican nominee and likely next governor is Abbott, who's made an applause line out of describing his job as "I go into my office, I sue the federal government, and I go home."
Abbott carried that message to a conference call with reporters Thursday, peppering his remarks with phrases like "state sovereignty" as he dismissed Holder's chances and the necessity for bringing a case at all. As for Holder's claim that there's "evidence of intentional racial discrimination … as well as the history of pervasive voting-related discrimination," Abbott argued that's "ancient history," and on the contrary, Holder was using the voting rights laws "for partisan purposes in ways that harm Hispanic Republicans."
But after spending 20 minutes parsing legal technicalities, Abbott hit on the broader point.
"This seems to be more political theater than it does any kind of legal statement. And it disturbingly seems to make it look like the Obama administration is trying to insert itself into the Texas, which," Abbott stuck in, "really undermines the very purpose of the Voting Rights Act."


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Missouri CourthousesContact and other information about this county is available on the National Association of Counties website, http://explorer.naco.org/.
Putnam County, organized in 1845, apparently has had six different courthouses. While the first county seat and first courthouse were in Putnamville, county officials moved the county seat several times before permanently establishing it a Unionville.
Little information exists about the first three courthouses in the county. The court record does show that an order from the court on June 16, 1845, called for the county's first courthouse to be built on a corner lot in Putnamville. At that time, county jurisdiction included land extending nine miles north into Iowa.
Joseph Guffey built the Putnamville courthouse for $169.25; it was ready for occupancy in September 1845. Robert Cochran superintended Guffey's work.
Next, the county seat moved to either Calhoun or Winchester. A court order called for a move to Calhoun in August 1847, according to Goodspeed's 1888 History. However, the order may never have been fulfilled. If the county seat was established at Calhoun, it would have been only for a short time, since in August 1848 the court received a petition asking for relocation of the county seat from Putnamville to a location in the center of the county, which the court named Winchester. In February 1849 the order came to sell the old courthouse in Putnamville, indicating that a new courthouse must have been ready in either Calhoun or Winchester. Ross Asbell bought the Putnamville structure.
The record described a rather unusual procedure for building the courthouse in Winchester, which presumably was built on the 160-foot public square with William J. Cook as superintendent:
. . . the letting of the court house be divided into three classes; First - Pulling down, moving and raising the pillars three on each side; second - putting on roof, undertaking to furnish everything, gable ends included; third - flooring, sleepers, joist and two doors. . . .
On July 10, 1854, the court ordered the Winchester courthouse sold for not less than $150.
In June 1851 an election called for removal of the seat to Fairplay, later called Hartford. The town was to be laid out on the same plan as Winchester. Nothing is known of this courthouse except that it was ordered sold in 1855. Participants in the Old Settlers Reunion in 1903 noted it had disappeared.
Dodge County, which no longer exists, organized in 1846 and was located west of Putnam County. It too extended north to include land in present-day Iowa. When the Missouri-Iowa boundary dispute was settled in 1851, neither Putnam nor Dodge contained the minimum territory required by state law for county organization. Therefore, in 1853 Dodge County became attached to Putnam. The county seat was relocated in 1854 to the new geographical center of the county and symbolically named Harmony. But, in 1855 the name was changed to Unionville.
David Thatcher superintended construction of the temporary courthouse built in Unionville in about 1853-54 west of the public square. The two-story, log building, 18 by 24 feet, had a brick chimney, stone foundation, and four 12-light windows. The cost was $250. The court used this building from 1854 to 1858.
Construction on the next courthouse, a two-story, red brick structure, built on the square, began in May 1857 and ended during December 1858. Smith A. John was superintendent of the building, which cost $11,175 (Figure 1). Apparently, the courtroom on the second floor was condemned and was not used in the 1880s. The court ordered the building sold Jan. 7, 1890. A local organization, called Soldier's Reunion, bought it for $250 with the understanding it was to be removed by May 1890. The court kept the bell, weathervane and safes.
Putnam County then was without a courthouse for more than 30 years. In February 1923 citizens presented a petition calling for an election to authorize construction of a courthouse. Few counties, it was pointed out, did not have a courthouse. An election in June 1923 authorized expenditure of $150,000 for construction. So elated were residents of Unionville, they celebrated in the streets when election results were announced.
Figure 1Putnam County Courthouse, 1857-1890. (From: An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Putnam County, Missouri, 1877)
Plans by J. G. Braecklein, Kansas City, were approved in August 1923 for a 62-by-92-foot, three-story building with Carthage stone facing (Figure 2). Entries were planned for each of the four sides. After receiving bids, the court awarded the $128,000 contract to George Gassman Construction Company in September 1923. Cornerstone ceremonies celebrated the progress of construction Feb. 26, 1924. The building, still in use as Putnam County's courthouse, was completed in September with its formal dedication on Nov. 11, 1924. An unsatisfactory settlement with the contractors delayed acceptance of the building until January 1925 after Gassman made concessions of $1,621 because of defective floor construction.
Figure 2Putnam County Courthouse, 1923-. Architect: J. G. Braecklein (From: postcard, Trenton Boyd collection)
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During this show I interview Medieval astrologer Robert Zoller.
Zoller is widely recognized as the leading practitioner of Medieval astrology in the world today.
He is renowned for being one of the first leading astrologers to advocate a return to traditional astrological techniques and methods, starting in the early 1980's with his book The Arabic Parts in Astrology: A Lost Key to Prediction.
He also has the distinction of being on of the few astrologers who issued predictions about 9/11 prior to the attacks. He was interviewed by the History Chanel in 2005 in order to discuss these predictions:
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Here's an idea that you've already seen plenty of times but will likely be seeing all year: in 2013 we may finally see investors starting to shift out of bonds and back into stocks.
Barron's and this blog have covered this subject on multiple occasions (most recently here), particularly over the past several months since Bank of America Merrill Lynch may or may not have coined the phrase "great rotation" to describe such a large-scale investor shift in sentiment and investment allocation.
The idea is basically that investors were burned by stocks over the past decade and have been pouring money into bond funds since the financial crisis. But by now, bonds have pretty much run out of room for capital appreciation, and yields are near historic lows. So at some point investors will need to take the Fed's cue and get back into stocks, whether or not they're fully sold on the U.S. economic recovery, at least due to a dearth of alternatives. There's little doubt that this will happen in the long run. It's mostly a question of when it starts and how gradually or rapidly it occurs, and whether anybody will be able to identify a specific inflection point.
That idea gets some prominent placement in a story in today's Wall Street Journal. Not much terribly new here for people who have been following this subject but the story looks at bond and stock market performance and fund-flow data from the first two weeks of 2013 and extrapolates that such a shift might be starting. (Bear in mind that Michael Hartnett, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch strategist quoted in the story, is the same guy who started using the "great rotation" phrase last year and has been calling for it to start sometime this year.) Carolyn Cui, Tom Lauricella and Matt Wirz report:
Stocks started 2013 with a bang. For the week ended Wednesday, U.S. investors plowed $18 billion into stock mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, the largest one-week total since June 2008, before the worst of the financial crisis hit.
"That caught people's attention," says Matthew Lemieux, senior research analyst at Lipper.
That followed a growing exodus from U.S. Treasury funds. Since late June, investors have pulled $6 billion from the group, including $1.1 billion in the week ending Wednesday....
"I think the 'great rotation' has already started in terms of flows and returns," says Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Hartnett is watching for three indicators to determine whether the shift will continue: a falling unemployment rate, a continued drop in returns from fixed-income investments, and a growing belief among investors that the Federal Reserve may end its bond-buying program. These factors could all make Treasurys seem much less attractive.
"Now all we are waiting to see is collaboration from both the economy and policy makers," Mr. Hartnett says.


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The flags and explanation placards will be placed at or near the following dune walkovers: 16th Avenue North, 12th Avenue North, 8th Avenue North, 4th Avenue North (the pier), Beach Blvd., 6th Avenue South, 12th Avenue South and 16th Avenue South.
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Purple Flag: (Man-o-War, jellyfish of any variety, blue buttons, sea nettles) These dangerous marine creatures are difficult to spot because they tend to be under the water surface. Caution should be taken while swimming.
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NEW YORK – Major League Soccer seriously examined the possibility of shifting the league's 2014 schedule to align with the FIFA calendar.
Commissioner Don Garber confirmed it during his annual State of the League address on Tuesday at Google headquarters in Manhattan.
The MLS Commissioner said that the "comprehensive process" and "extensive discussions" resulted in a proposed league schedule that would have started in February with a May-July summer break and a December-February winter break. But the long extended layoffs and winter weather considerations in cities like Toronto proved to be the big stumbling blocks.
"We have not been able to figure out a way to solve the break and also figure out a way to justify moving those games from the very valuable May and June time period into February and end of December," Garber said. "We will continue to look at it … but it's not something we're going to do in the short-term."
And while many continue to be focused on changing the current MLS schedule format, the league is just hoping for more consistency.
According to Garber, a consistent schedule is one of the factors that could help improve the league's ratings. He pointed out how "you get dizzy" looking at a heat map of the MLS calendar compared to other soccer leagues that enjoy more consistent TV windows.
"We've had games broadcast every day of the week, most of them at different times," Garber said. "There was little to no consistency on that schedule either with broadcast partners or through our own scheduling.
"What we need to have is a consistent game or games of the week that run from the beginning to the end of the year as much as we can at consistent times. If we're able to achieve that, that gets us halfway there."
The league is doing its own part to help grow the TV audience, specifically focusing on: growing the fan base, marketing, improving stadium environments and boosting the quality of the product. But the right TV partners — MLS is currently in negotiations with national TV contracts expiring at the end of 2014 — are also a major factor, according to Garber, who cited NBC's impact on English Premier League programming this year.
"I think what NBC did for the Premier League is unprecedented in the history of pro sports," he said. "They really took the Premier League and made it as important as anything going on in the NBC Universal family. And it's paying off in ratings and it's making economic sense for them. If we're able to create that same kind of scenario with a broadcast partner I think it'll be beneficial to us.
"We have to find a partner that gives us the right schedule, the right promotion and marketing, that is embracing us in ways that will allow us to have our programming be valuable and be a priority both for the broadcaster and for our fans," he continued. "If we are able to achieve that, I believe our television ratings will grow."
Some argue that flex TV scheduling — the ability to swap more meaningful matches into the league national TV windows late in the season — would also help ratings and Garber doesn't disagree. But he called it "almost logistically impossible" due to the impact that weekend changes would have on teams also facing midweek competitions.
One thing that might be more doable? Simultaneous matches in the final weekend of the regular season as teams chase playoff spots and playoff seeding.
"We're trying to figure that out," Garber said. "You can have the ability to capture some of that drama."


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Established gardens require care to keep them looking good, so maintenance pruning is a must each year. Older gardens in particular require restorative pruning, which is usually done in winter.
It is better to do a little often, instead of razing your garden to the ground with over-zealous pruning if your garden has become the land of the Triffids. Pruning hard encourages even more vigorous growth the following year, which is not necessarily what the garden needs, so it should be done in stages.
Summer-flowering shrubs are dormant in winter, so this is the best time to prune. Ensure you don't remove too much. In the case of hydrangeas, they flower on the previous year's wood, so remove the flower stem to a couple of plump buds rather than too far down the stem. To keep the shrub invigorated, cut one or two old unproductive branches right down to a couple of buds at the base of the plant.
Doing this each year will ensure the whole plant is renewed over the years and look its best.
Hydrangeas can be also pruned in spring if you live in a cooler area and get frost, or at the end of flowering in autumn in warmer areas. To completely rejuvenate a hydrangea, you can cut it back hard, but don't expect any flowering until the following year.
July is the traditional month to prune roses. Removal of dead wood (brittle with no living green tissue) and diseased wood (black or mottled stems) is an important garden chore for plant health. Remove inward-facing stems with the aim of creating a vase shape in shrub roses.
Cut to plump outward-facing buds. If black spot is a problem, getting rid of fallen rose leaves from around your plant is essential.
Don't put them in the compost. A light spray with copper is a good idea to combat fungal diseases.
Always ensure you clean your secateurs and other pruning equipment with meths between plants (and large cuts) to prevent spreading disease, and remember that a sharper tool makes a cleaner cut.
Vigorous climbing roses put on a lot of growth each year, so select your main structural stems, remove last year's flowering stems back to two or three strong buds, and the long lanky vegetative stems right back to create good form for next year. If need be, remove one old and unproductive woody stem from the base. If you have strong vegetative stems coming from a recently removed old stem at the base of your rose, select the strongest and tie it down so it is more or less horizontal. This will encourage flowering along the length of the stem and reduces the apical dominance, the tendency to upright growth as opposed to lateral growth and budding. Your cuts should be made a couple of centimetres away from an outward-facing bud, at a 45-degree angle to allow water to run off the cut.
It is a good time to look at the overall structure of your deciduous trees while the leaves are on the ground and the limbs are bare. You can prune to balance the form of the tree and check for broken or rotting limbs.
Leaves in gutters are a pain so check around the perimeter of your house for overhanging branches. It is always best to hire a qualified aborist rather than risk life and limb on a wobbly ladder. For windblown leaf litter there are a few products which will help to prevent gutters being blocked. The Hedgehog (it looks like its name) is easily inserted. It comes in 0.5m to 1m lengths, or get a mesh gutter guard installed.
Getting the professionals to do your tree pruning does have an added bonus - they usually have an industrial-sized wood chipper in tow. You can get them to leave the resulting mulch behind so you have a good supply to add as carbon to your compost or to use as mulch (if it's disease-free). Get them to leave the decent wood and kindling behind too and you'll have a start on next winter's firewood supply.
Care for ornamentals
For overgrown deciduous shrubs such as Philadelphus (mock orange) do restorative
pruning in winter.
Prune a third of the oldest branches down to ground level. Otherwise, prune stems after flowering in spring to outward-facing buds.
Hydrangea: Hydrangea macrophyla (mop-heads) flower on the previous season's wood, so prune to shorten flower stems back to a pair of healthy buds.
Cut out one or two old branches at ground level each year.
Bush roses: Remove dead and overlapping stems. Cut last season's stems back to outward-facing buds.
Remove spindly growth, and one or two old unproductive branches. It's best to aim for a vase shape (open interior).
Trees: Remove dead and diseased wood.
Prune branches away from roof lines and guttering. Remember to check before you
chop. Ring a council planner if you're unsure about tree pruning rules.
Cut no more than 20 per cent of live growth each year, and ensure your tree is pruned in a way which doesn't damage its health or natural form. If in doubt get a qualified arborist.
Search "check before you chop" at aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Pruning tips
* It's always best to prune on the dry day to prevent spreading fungal spores to fresh pruning cuts.
* Clean pruning equipment with meths between plants and ensure tools are sharp.


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Re: Changes since new Cubit policy
bryan wrote:gettohjunkie wrote:I cant say great job. I understand that you are trying to make a profit and the goal is to sell cubits... but wouldn't the loss of users who came to play for free not be worth that gain?
How is the loss of users who do not pay anything a cost to us?
No party without ppl.


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It makes me happy to drill down into a NZ government healthcare-safety website to find a link to Atul Gawande's TED Talk How do we heal medicine? That is just an indicator, but a positive indicator, that NZ is paying attention to developments in methods to radically improve medical safety. For those who are new to this topic, this earlier post links to important resources: How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us.
If we can measure safety effectively we have a much better chance of improving outcomes. Here's how the NZ HQSC describes the Global Trigger Tools:
The Commission is developing a work programme to help implement the Global Trigger Tools programme in New Zealand.
The Global Trigger Tools* programme is an international initiative to reduce patient harm caused by errors in hospitals. Currently most health service providers rely on voluntary reporting of errors to identify problems in their systems, however overseas research found that only 10-20 percent of errors are ever reported. While in the vast majority of cases these errors did not result in patient harm, tracking these events would help identify where improvements should be made.
The Global Trigger Tools programme takes a different approach to error reporting, rather than relying on people reporting errors, it analyses random samples of patient records looking for 'triggers' which indicate an error has been made. The information gained can then be used to improve the quality and safety of the services provided.
Carol Haraden is the Vice President of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI). IHI developed the Global Trigger Tool which the Commission is encouraging all DHBs to implement. The Commission is working to publish helpful resources to assist with implementation. In the short AV below, Carol is interviewed at the Asia Pacific Forum (APAC) on patient safety and asks why clinicians aren't using a standardised approach to patient safety issues. She also talks about the importance of team-work in achieving improved patient safety.
The Global Trigger Tool has a focus on team-work as the methodology requires medical record reviews to be carried out by a team of trained reviewers who have a clinical background (usually nursing or pharmacy). This is a simple, validated, and cost effective methodology and has been widely used to identify, quantify and track patient harm.
The NZ implementation guide is excellent: The Global Trigger Tool: A Practical Implementation Guide for New Zealand District Health Boards [PDF, 1MB]
"Ground Zero" for evaluation of the effectiveness of this methodology is back at IHI: IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events. Here you can find a large resource library, from Training Record Sets to translations in Danish, German, Swedish.
The use of "triggers," or clues, to identify adverse events (AEs) is an effective method for measuring the overall level of harm in a health care organization. The IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring AEs provides instructions for training reviewers in this methodology and conducting a retrospective review of patient records using triggers to identify possible AEs. This tool includes a list of known AE triggers as well as instructions for selecting records, training information, and appendices with references and common questions. The tool provides instructions and forms for collecting the data you need to track three measures:
- Adverse Events per 1,000 Patient Days
- Adverse Events per 100 Admissions
- Percent of Admissions with an Adverse EventFor more general information on Trigger Tools and how to select the appropriate one, see the Introduction to Trigger Tools page.
In Measuring Safety at the IHI Safety First Blog, Frank Frederico summarized the recent Health Affairs paper: 'Global Trigger Tool' Shows That Adverse Events In Hospitals May Be Ten Times Greater Than Previously Measured. In brief an expert review of closed patient charts by, typically, nurses and pharmacists appears to be much more effective than automated review — ten times more effective.
Measuring safety is crucial to improving health care, yet we still struggle to do it well.
Much of the challenge lies in safetys very nature: it is, inherently, a non-event—the absence of harm. So by necessity we focus instead on measuring what might be called 'non-safety,' usually in the form of harmful events. Fewer of these harmful events, we assume, means a safer health care system.
But which events do we count? How do you tally non-safety?
Our answer to that simple question is hugely consequential. Some efforts focus on infections, for instance. These are crucial harm events, but they are not the whole picture. Their absence does not, in and of itself, tell us that care delivery is safe.
At IHI, we've developed a freely available method of determining harm events that we call The Global Trigger Tool. Its advantage is comprehensiveness. Its drawback is time-intensiveness. We believe it's a trade-off worth making. Here's how the method works, as described in a recent Health Affairs paper:
'Closed patient charts are reviewed by two or three employees —usually nurses and pharmacists, who are trained to review the charts in a systematic manner by looking at discharge codes, discharge summaries, medications, lab results, operation records, nursing notes, physician progress notes, and other notes or comments to determine whether there is a 'trigger' in the chart. A trigger could be a notation indicating, for example, a burn, a fall, or a reaction to a medication. Any notation of a trigger leads to further investigation into whether an adverse event occurred and how severe the event was. A physician ultimately has to examine and sign off on this chart review.'
We tested this system against other widely used methods to detect adverse events, and the results were stunning. The trigger tool detected 354 adverse events, while tools based on automated chart review fared far worse. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators detected only 35 adverse events. The hospitals' voluntary reporting systems? Just four.
You've all heard the old iceberg trope – 10 percent above water, 90 percent below. Well here it is, in sobering statistics. And those errors that occur below the water line of measurement aren't actually invisible – not to patients, not to their families, and not to providers or to the functioning of our health care system.
The trigger tool is less time intensive than some other chart review methods, but as I mentioned earlier, it is not as cheap as automated methods such as AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators. Manual review simply takes more time. There is no way around that.
But nor is there a way around the danger of missing so many adverse events. Think about what other audits you conducting at your hospital that may be just as time-intensive. Surely, safety should rate the same level of attention and commitment.
So we want to hear from you:
How do you measure harm in your organization?
Do you believe that you are capturing the entire scope of harm?
The good news, from our perspective, is that hospitals and regulators are increasingly using the trigger tool to identify the broader universe of adverse events. We will keep working to continue this trend—because only by facing the reality of adverse events can we truly address them.
In the UK, The Acute Trigger Tool is the approved UK version of IHI Global Trigger Tool. Again, lots of resources from the UK NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
If you have access to JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association you can read Deciphering Harm Measurement, May 2012:
Improvement in health care quality and safety can be notable when measurement criteria are clear, evidence is strong, and policy and interventions are focused. Despite this potential, progress in reducing patient harm in hospitals has been slow.1 In an effort to catalyze progress, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is funding a national program, Partnership for Patients (P4P), with the ambitious goal of reducing "preventable hospital-acquired conditions" by 40% by 2013, focused initially on 9 complications.2 Although the program's goal formally includes only preventable harm, the HHS notes "the Partnership will target all forms of harm" and provide guidance to hospitals for reducing "all-cause harm." Simultaneously, the list of "serious reportable events" for which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will modify physician and health care institution payment is increasing. However, delay in defining a measurement strategy for harm has slowed progress and has created confusion. The need to reach consensus on robust, pragmatic measures for assessing and tracking harm rates has therefore become urgent.
Next we'll look at what Australia is doing.


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Get up off the plane of the ecliptic by a couple of million miles. Look back at the Sun and watch the Earth's orbit in time-lapse for a few centuries. The orbit is an ellipse tilted at 23.5 degrees from the ecliptic. Hold station with the Sun as it rotates about the galactic center.
Question: Does that tilted ellipse -- Earth's orbit -- precess? Over millions of years, does the long axis rotate with the Sun's rotation in the galaxy? Or does it stay fixed in some larger frame of reference, such as the Local Group of galaxies? Or does it exhibit some more complex and subtle motion?
Does the long axis nutate?
Does the angle of the orbit to the ecliptic change in any periodic way?
Why? What are the forces in play?


text: I don't even… I can't decide whether this is awful or awesome. Let's just call it awfulsome? Art student Michael Jason Enriquez has taken it upon himself to take images of famous Hollywood people and make them into bonafide cholas. Finally, the question of "what would Jeremy Lin look like with pencil thin eyeliner?" has been answered.


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Recent News
January 24, 2014
UPDATED: Allergy Alert - Undeclared Milk in Five Kinnikinnick Foods Products
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding Kinnikinnick Foods expanding previous recalls of January 10 and 15th. Kinnikinnick has determined that an ingredient used in the production of the products contained milk allergens that were not listed by the manufacturer of that ingredient and may be present in the finished products.
Milk is not declared on the packaging of the 5 Kinnikinnick these products:
Original Homestyle Waffles
Kinni-Kwik Bread & Bun Mix
Panko Style Bread Crumbs
Pancake & Waffle Mix
Cinnamon & Brown Sugar Homestyle Waffles
A complete list of affected Best Before dates is available at www.kinnikinnick.com.
Best before dates are embossed on the top flap of the box, applied with an ink jet printer on the side or as an applied label to the bottom of the box. The products are distributed across Canada and the United States in retail stores and through direct shipments. This may cause a serious or life-threatening reaction in persons with allergies to milk.
The full recall can be found at http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm382900.htm.


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The Pie I Had To Make
I have such conflicted emotions about January being over. On the one hand, snow. Like two feet of the crap or more. Lots and lots of snow. So, yay! Bring on February – it's closer to March and spring starts in March. On the other hand, if January is over, then my vacation is really over. Dangit. But back on that first hand, February is a nice short month and the daylight is getting longer. Yay February. Then again, January was Pie Month!
If you aren't already reading The Peche, you should be. You should be reading it for the storytelling, the photos, and if for nothing else, for Pie Month. Chris & Karen decided to dedicate the month of January and make and post as many different pies as they could. That's right – no diet food for January, not at The Peche. No. They made pie and made no apologies for it. And I love that.
While almost all of the pies looked delightful, one particular pie jumped out at me and did a little dance and sang me a Barry White song. It was the Peanut Butter Cream Pie with Caramel, Chocolate Whipped Cream & Deep Dark Fudge. Ohhhhhhhh, yeah. The only problem for me? It was posted on January 10th, just 12 days before I intended to squish into a bathing suit in Aruba. There was no room for me and that pie in my tankini. The pie would have to wait. Finally this weekend it was time!
The first thing I love about this pie? That's not just a regular graham cracker crust. Oh no! It's a graham cracker crust with peanut butter in it. Uh huh.
The second thing I love about this pie? It's flexible. Chris & Karen got the original recipe from Kelly at Evil Shenanigans, and then they had their way with it. They added caramel sauce to the crust. I didn't make any caramel sauce, but I do still have some Scharffen Berger baking chunks which I am parsing out in small, thoughtful quantities only. (my precious!!!!) So, I artfully arranged a few of them on the bottom of the crust before I poured in the filling.
While the pie cooled, I considered my other options. I remembered Wendi over at Bon Appetit Hon raving about Abby Dodge's Killer Chocolate Sauce and figured I couldn't go wrong. I whipped up a batch (more Scharffen Berger!) and let it cool but not harden before I swirled a little over the top of the pie.
I made the Chocolate Whipped Cream (with Scarffen Berger cocoa, but of course!) to Kelly's specification and gazed upon my beautiful creation!
I served it with more chocolate sauce swirled over each slice and prepared to be dazzled. And I was! That crust is crazy good. The chocolate and peanut butter of course belong together. The texture is surprising light – making it all too easy to eat more than one slice. Hey, I'm not putting a bathing suit on again for a long time! Bye-bye January – hello pie!
patricia weldon permalinkFebruary 7, 2011 4:49 pm
Well it looks really nice…but a little rich for me. Bring on the cherry pie for me. Hey..its February..good time for cherry pie for 'Ol George!
February 7, 2011 10:22 pm
Wow, that looks really rich!!
February 7, 2011 10:34 pm
You know I don't care much for sweets but you're sending me back to my teen years when I did. This looks AWESOME.


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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—Given the number of famous scientists around, it's easy to forget the full title of the Nobel Week Dialogue includes the phrase "impact on society." But Helga Nowotny, the president of the European Research Council, was on hand to provide a remedy. Nowotny is a social scientist who spends a lot of time thinking about how science and society influence each other. She was next in line for a Nobel Week Dialogue talk.
Nowotny started out by noting genomics is often mentioned as a promising thing (like the "promise of genetic medicine" and so forth). But the term "promise," she noted, implies a contract, and she did her best to make the details of that contract explicit. The payoff of getting this contract right in the case of genetics, she suggested, might be a second Renaissance.
Although attempts to understand the natural world have existed in almost every culture, institutionalized science of the sort we practice today only dates back a few hundred years. As it has grown, it has become increasingly reliant on society for support. In return, Nowotny said, science makes a number of promises. One is the promise of information that is above the vagaries of political and religious figures.
More frequently, though, science has been viewed as offering something a bit more nebulous: progress. In this sense, Nowotny noted, genomics is just the latest in a long line of scientific developments promoted as having the potential to usher in sort of golden age.
But we're now far past the point, Nowotny said, where we believe in a simple, linear slope of progress. We tend to focus on the fact that the challenges we face are complex and often overlapping. That shouldn't obscure the fact that, in some cases, science really has delivered on its end of the promise. Nowotny showed two graphs, one showing a rapidly increasing life expectancy and another showing the number of hours worked by people in industrial societies has plunged in concert. Her point was inadvertently driven home by Steven Chu's later talk, which showed how crop yields per acre farmed have also shot up as a result of the application of science to agriculture.
(It's easy to forget both of these as you work in a high-stress work environment and get bombarded by disease-of-the-week coverage in the news media.)
The promise of genomics comes at a time when we're a bit cynical about the nature of progress and haven't fully appreciated the promises science has delivered. But Nowotny mentioned a few additional features that could make the reception to genomics different from past cases of scientific promise. For one, it's being received by a world that is now globalized. The knowledge generated by it will be able to rapidly spread to just about every culture. At the same time, the risk is that the benefits won't be. That could exacerbate existing tensions.
Nowotny also referred to the work of Edmund Husserl who, in 1936, proposed the concept of the "life world." This concept, inspired by quantum mechanics, focused on the growing gap between the world that scientists were describing and the world that is intuitive and commonly experienced by most people. Genomics and the insights it provides clearly run the risk of creating the same sort of gap between what we learn and our intuitive experiences.
But Nowotny clearly felt the payoffs of keeping that divide from widening were tremendous. She suggested we had the potential for a "second Renaissance," one that had a focus on the individual, but now placed that in the context of the similarities we share with all other humans and other species. She clearly felt there was a key role for her field (the humanities) to play in keeping the gap between science and the public from widening. But the exact means for doing so? That's a subject for a separate talk.
This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of the Nobel Week Dialog, and first appeared on the Nobel site..
Listing image by Battlecreek CVB (yes, a different kind of Renaissance)


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