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Welcome to the July 2014 homepage edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine.
At the commencement of 2014 i2P focused on the need for the entire profession of pharmacy and its associated industry supports to undergo a renewal and regeneration.
We are now half-way through this year and it is quite apparent that pharmacy leaders do not yet have a cohesive and clear sense of direction.
Maybe the new initiative by Woolworths to deliver clinical service through young pharmacists and nurses may sharpen their focus.
If not, community pharmacy can look forward to losing a substantial and profitable market share of the clinical services market.
Who would you blame when that happens?
But I have to admit there is some effort, even though the results are but meagre.
In this edition of i2P we focus on the need for research about community pharmacy, the lack of activity from practicing pharmacists and when some research is delivered, a disconnect appears in its interpretation and implementation.
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It started with "tablet" computers deployed on shelves inside the retailer Coles, specifically to provide information to consumers relating to pain management and the sale of strong analgesics.
This development was reported in i2P under the title "Coles Pharmacy Expansion and the Arid PGA Landscape"
In that article we reported that qualified information was a missing link that had come out of Coles market research as the reason to why it had not succeeded in dominating the pain market.
Of course, Woolworths was working on the same problem at the same time and had come up with a better solution - real people with good information.
Editor's Note: The understanding of a pharmacy's presentation through the research that goes into the design of fixtures and fittings that highlight displays, is a never-ending component of pharmacy marketing.
Over the past decade, Australian pharmacy shop presentations have fallen behind in standards of excellence.
It does not take rocket science - you just have to open your eyes.
Recently, our two major supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles, have entered into the field of drug and condition information provision - right into the heartland of Australian Pharmacy.
I attended the Pregnancy, Baby and Children's Expo in Brisbane recently.
What an eye and ear opening event that was!
Young Mums, mature Mums, partners of all ages, grandparents and friends……...many asking about health issues and seeking reassurances that they were doing the right thing.
It should be the scandal of the century.
It potentially affects the health of almost everyone.
Healthcare providers and consumers alike should be up in arms. But apart from coverage in a few credible news sources the problem of 'Marketing Based Medicine,' as psychiatrist Dr Peter Parry terms it, hasn't as yet generated the kind of universal outrage one might expect.
Government funding is always scarce and restricted.
If you are ever going to be a recipient of government funds you will need to fortify any application with evidence.
From a government perspective, this minimises risk.
I must admit that while I see evidence of research projects being managed by the PGA, I rarely see community pharmacists individually and actively engaged in the type of research that would further their own aims and objectives (and survival).
Most of us leave a tremendous impact on pharmacies we work for (as proprietors, managers, contractors or employees)—in ways we're not even aware of.
But organisational memories are often all too short, and without a central way to record that impact and capture the knowledge and individual contributions, they become lost to time.
It is ironic that technology has provided us with phenomenal tools for communication and connection, but much of it has also sped up our work lives and made knowledge and memory at work much more ephemeral.
This article was first published in The Conversation and was written by Wendy Lipworth, University of Sydney and Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney
In the endless drive to get people's attention, advertising is going 'native', creeping in to places formerly reserved for editorial content. In this Native Advertising series we find out what it looks like, if readers can tell the difference, and more importantly, whether they care.
i2P has republished the article as it supports our own independent and ongoing investigations on how drug companies are involved in marketing-based medicine rather than evidence-based medicine.
Editor's Note: This is an early article by Mark Neuenschwander we have republished after the soul-searching surrounding a recent Australian dispensing error involving methotrexate.
Hmm. There's more than one way you could take that, huh? Like Someday when I get around to it (I'm not sure) I may admit that I was wrong about something. Actually, I've been thinking about the concept of admitting wrong. So don't get your hopes up. No juicy confessions this month except that I wish it were easier for me to admit when I have been wrong or made a mistake.
Brian Goldman, an ER physician from Toronto, is host of the award-winning White Coat, Black Art on CBC Radio and slated to deliver the keynote at The unSUMMIT for Bedside Barcoding in Anaheim this May. His TED lecture, entitled, "Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about it?" had already been viewed by 386,072 others before I watched it last week.
Kay Dunkley - BPharm, Grad Dip Hosp Pharm, Grad Dip Health Admin, MPS, MSHPA
Most readers will be aware of recent publicity relating to dispensing errors and in particular to deaths caused by methotrexate being incorrectly packed in dose administration aids.
The Pharmacy Board of Australia (PBA), in its Communique of 13 June 2014, described a methotrexate packing error leading to the death of a patient and noted "extra vigilance is required to be exercised by pharmacists with these drugs".
This same case was reported by A Current Affair (ACA) in its program on Friday 20 June http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8863098/prescription-drug-warning
Have you ever had one of those days when all you could think was, "Gosh, do I need a vacation."
Of course you have – because all work and no play aren't good for anyone.
A vacation doesn't have to be two weeks on a tropical island, or even a long weekend at the beach.
A vacation just means taking a break from your everyday activities.
A change of pace.
It doesn't matter where.
Everyone needs a vacation to rejuvenate mentally and physically.
But did you also know that you can help boost our economy by taking some days off?
Call it your personal stimulus package.
This article was first published in the Conversation. It caught our eye because "peer review" it is one of the standards for evidence-based medicines that has also been corrupted by global pharma.
The article is republished by i2P as part of its ongoing investigation into scientific fraud and was writtenby Andre Spicer, City University London and Thomas Roulet, University of Oxford
We've all heard the phrase "peer review" as giving credence to research and scholarly papers, but what does it actually mean?
How does it work?
Peer review is one of the gold standards of science. It's a process where scientists ("peers") evaluate the quality of other scientists' work. By doing this, they aim to ensure the work is rigorous, coherent, uses past research and adds to what we already knew.
Most scientific journals, conferences and grant applications have some sort of peer review system. In most cases it is "double blind" peer review. This means evaluators do not know the author(s), and the author(s) do not know the identity of the evaluators.
The intention behind this system is to ensure evaluation is not biased.
The more prestigious the journal, conference, or grant, the more demanding will be the review process, and the more likely the rejection. This prestige is why these papers tend to be more read and more cited.
While dining out with an elderly friend, I noticed that he kept his false tooth plate in his shirt pocket. He had recently had seven amalgam-filled teeth removed, because he believed that their toxins were making him sick; but his new plate was uncomfortable. He had been treated by an 'holistic dentist'. Claiming to offer a "safe and healthier alternative" to conventional dentistry, are they committed to our overall health and wellbeing or are they promoting unjustified fear, unnecessarily extracting teeth and wasting our money?
We are now entering a new financial year and it's a great time to reflect on last year and highlight those things that went well and those that may have impacted negatively in the pursuit of your goals.
It's also a great to spend some time re-evaluating your personal and business short, medium and long term goals in the light of events over the last year.
The achievement of your goals will in many cases be dependent on setting and aspiring to specific financial targets. It's important that recognise that many of your personal goals will require you to generate sufficient business profits to fund those aspirations
Exoskeleton leader ReWalk Robotics announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the company's ReWalk Personal System for use at home and in the community.
ReWalk is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides powered hip and knee motion to enable individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) to stand upright and walk.
ReWalk, the only exoskeleton with FDA clearance via clinical studies and extensive performance testing for personal use, is now available throughout the United States.
Welcome to the new financial year in Australia.
For many in business the past year has been described as a challenging period.
Adjectives are a key feature of the English language. In the business lexicon their use can be, and often is evocative and stimulate creative images. But they can also contribute to inexact, emotional perceptions.
Throughout the financial pages of newspapers and business magazines adjectives abound.
References to "hot" money draw attention and comment. The recent wave of funds from Chinese investors, keen to remove their wealth from the jurisdiction and control of government regulations is creating a potential property bubble in Australia.
Pharmacy culture is dormant.
Being comprised of values, unless each value is continually addressed, updated or deleted, entire organisations can stagnate (or entire professions such as the pharmacy profession).
Good values offer a strong sense of security, knowing that if you operate within the boundaries of your values, you will succeed in your endeavours.
The following article is reprinted from The Conversation and forms up part of our library collection on evidence-based medicines.
At i2P we also believe that the current model of evidence is so fractured it will never be able to be repaired.
All that can happen is that health professionals should independently test and verify through their own investigations what evidence exists to prescribe a medicine of any potency.
Health professionals that have patients (such as pharmacists) are ideally placed to observe and record the efficacy for medicines.
All else should confine their criticisms to their evidence of the actual evidence published.
If there are holes in it then share that evidence with the rest of the world.
Otherwise, do not be in such a hurry to criticise professions that have good experience and judgement to make a good choice on behalf of their patients, simply because good evidence has not caught up with reality.
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, July 25, 2014
Laropiprant is the Bad One; Niacin is/was/will always be the Good One
by W. Todd Penberthy, PhD
(OMNS July 25, 2014) Niacin has been used for over 60 years in tens of thousands of patients with tremendously favorable therapeutic benefit (Carlson 2005).
In the first-person NY Times best seller, "8 Weeks to a Cure for Cholesterol," the author describes his journey from being a walking heart attack time bomb to a becoming a healthy individual.
He hails high-dose niacin as the one treatment that did more to correct his poor lipid profile than any other (Kowalski 2001).
Deep within all of us we have a core set of values and beliefs that create the standards of behaviour that we align with when we set a particular direction in life.
Directions may change many times over a lifetime, but with life experiences and maturity values may increase in number or gain greater depth.
All of this is embraced under one word – "culture".
When a business is born it will only develop if it has a sound culture, and the values that comprise that culture are initially inherent in the business founder.
A sound business culture equates to a successful business and that success is often expressed in the term "goodwill" which can be eventually translated to a dollar value.
Exoskeleton leader ReWalk Robotics announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the company's ReWalk Personal System for use at home and in the community.
ReWalk is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides powered hip and knee motion to enable individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) to stand upright and walk.
ReWalk, the only exoskeleton with FDA clearance via clinical studies and extensive performance testing for personal use, is now available throughout the United States.
The brave new world of health and wellness is not the enemy of Pharmacy, it is its champion.
Australian futurist, Morris Miselowski, one of the world's leading business visionaries, will present the Opening Keynote address on Pharmacy's Future in the new Health and Wellness Landscape at 2.00pm on Wednesday July 30.
Morris believes the key to better health care could already be in your pocket, with doctors soon set to prescribe iPhone apps, instead of pills.
Technology will revolutionise the health industry - a paradigm shift from healthcare to personal wellness.
Health and wellness applications on smartphones are already big news, and are dramatically changing the way we manage our personal health and everyday wellness.
Editor's Note: We have had a number of articles in this issue relating to pharmacy research.
The PGA has conducted a number of research initiatives over the years, including one recently reported in Pharmacy News that resulted from an analysis of the QCPP Patient Questionnaire.
Pharmacy Guild president, George Tambassis, appears to have authored the article following, and there also appears to be a disconnect between the survey report and its target audience illustrated by one of the respondent comments published.
I have asked Mark Coleman to follow through, elaborate and comment:
Baz Bardoe
Baz Bardoe is a post graduate researcher, journalist and media analyst. He has qualifications in anthropology, marketing and business. His articles have appeared in 'Popular Science', 'Defence Today', 'Online Opinion' and many others. He is currently a military officer and hopes to commence PhD studies in 2014. He has an ongoing interest in issues relating to ethics and accountability. His views are from a personal perspective and do not purport to represent the views of the ADF in any capacity.
Editor's Note: i2P would like to introduce a new writer named Baz Bardoe, an experienced writer with an interesting background.
He joins our small group of writers looking at the ethics behind drug and other medical evidence that pharmacists rely on for their advice and recommendations to their patients.
Much of this evidence has been found to be fraudulent and will take decades to sort out.
This type of fraud also permeates other industries to the extent that information adverse to the interests of these industries (Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, Big Tobacco, Mainstream Media and Big Pesticide and Herbicide Manufacturers), is suppressed.
But they all seem to conspire using a similar methodology to the extent that human health is adversely affected through lack of information or publicising false information, or distributing misleading information.
Editor's Note: i2P would like to introduce a new writer named Baz Bardoe, an experienced writer with an interesting background.
It is fueled by greed which pays for corrupt lobbying activities to introduce legislation, which further supports and promotes these immoral/illegal activities.
It even overwhelms democratically elected governments in a subversive format such as a trade treaty.
Are you aware that Big Tobacco is currently trying to overcome recent Australian laws involving plain packaging for tobacco products utilising a back door treaty?
If Australia signs up to the current Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement this will happen and the Australian government is then open to be sued by a corporation,for any internal legislation that impinges on the profits of Big Tobacco (and others).
If this activity is not stopped, all western economies (including Australia) will be faced with a tsunami of induced ill health. It is progressively happening in plain sight already and with pharmacists being the most accessible health professionals, we need to acknowledge the problem and then be part of the solution to stem the tide at both the political and informational levels to gate-keep on behalf of our patients.
Baz Bardoe's article, which was first published in Online Opinion 4/12/2013, follows:
"We don't have "evidence-based medicine" (EBM), rather we have "marketing-based medicine" (MBM)." – Dr Peter Parry
If you have ever used a pharmaceutical product, or if you are a healthcare provider, you need to read this article. At the end of it you may well be shocked into a major paradigm shift.
When most people use a pharmaceutical product, they assume that it has been independently tested, and found to be safe and effective before being released onto the marketplace. But the reality is very different. In some cases drug companies finance clinical trials and only selectively release data and reports that support their marketing goals. And many of the reports in medical journals which medical professionals rely upon to reach opinions about pharmaceutical products, are written by people with financial links to drug companies. In some cases reports are even being 'ghost written' by people employed by pharmaceutical companies. In short, medical literature and data is massively compromised by pharmaceutical marketing.
If this seems like some preposterous conspiracy theory then consider the work of Dr Peter Doshi and the independent Cochrane Collaboration which should give us pause for thought. "The current system……. is one in which the meager details of clinical trials published in medical journals, often by authors with financial ties to the companies whose drugs they are writing about, is insufficient to the point of being misleading". (1)
And then there's the even stronger position of epidemiologist Dr Ben Goldacre, as reported in The Guardian. "The decades-old industry practice of suppressing scientific evidence (and some independent researchers doing the same), leads Goldacre to declare that nothing we know about modern medicine should be assumed to be correct, and he makes the urgent case for forcing the release of all that pharma dark matter so scientists can re-run the numbers and work out what actually does work." (2)
Statements like this are sending shockwaves through the medical establishment, and with good reason. But as Goldacre indicates, it is an issue that has been brewing for a long time. Writing as editor of the prestigious medical journal 'The Lancet' in 2002, Richard Horton stated that "a study of the interactions between authors of clinical practice guidelines and the pharmaceutical industry……… found serious omissions in declarations of conflicts of interest. Almost 90% of authors received research funding from or acted as consultants for a drug company. Over half had connections with companies whose drugs were being reviewed in the guideline, and the same proportion indicated that there was no formal procedure for reporting these interactions." (3) He also wrote in 2004 that "journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry". (4)
Clearly there is a problem. A very serious and shocking problem that goes to the core of which pharmaceutical products are safe and effective, and those which are not. And there is no doubt that consumers, policy makers and medical professionals alike have been consistently misled. Which brings me to the 'All Trials' initiative and Dr Peter Parry, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and senior lecturer at the University of Queensland. All Trials is an initiative which began in the UK in January and is now attracting widespread support from the medical community there. Dr Parry is a staunch supporter and would like to see it gain traction here as well. He explains:
"The 'All Trials' campaign calls for all clinical trials to be registered on a regulated and enforced website and the methodology and results of the trials to be published on the website so that researchers and journals can be sure of the data and the context of the data. In other words to make medical science transparent. There is a lot of detail to pin down the process and make it enforceable because voluntary and semi-voluntary systems such as www.clinicaltrials.gov just aren't working. So the AllTrials website has a full explanation on their website if you follow the link "why this matters" and then "more information" (http://www.alltrials.net/all-trials/ )."
Parry believes that the problem of pharmaceutical company influence on clinical data is pervasive and long standing.
"The problem has been bad for a long time. It has been getting a little better in recent years, but only a full overhaul of the system – in other words the "AllTrials" process – can truly rectify things. I am mainly aware of my own specialty of psychiatry. In the last 3 or 4 years there has been a shift in awareness within the profession. Previously there was a collective view that the few "radicals" who were complaining about the overly cosy relationship with Pharma had a point but were exaggerating. However now I think the collective view accepts that the outspoken members of our profession have had a valid and vital point – our whole "evidence-base" for our clinical, research and teaching practice has been compromised. To what extent compromised is hard to say – and that is precisely because of the lack of transparency with the data. Some research and guidelines could be based on fully accurate scientific data – but we cannot be sure what is and what is not. "
To an outsider this situation seems incredible and deeply shocking. It must have developed incrementally, but one wonders how it has been allowed to get to such a point?
"That is a good question", says Parry. "Personally I haven't researched the literature on the sociology of medicine-pharma relationship to be able to give a detailed answer. However my gut feeling and discussions with colleagues over the years is that doctors may be clever guys and gals but we are realizing we are not marketing savvy. Even in a specialty like psychiatry, where you'd think we should be wise to the possibility of subconscious influence and the power of persuasion, there must have been a lot of naivety and also not enough guarding against having one's narcissism stroked in the past. Looking back, the level of advertising at conferences, the suave persuasiveness of the drug rep visits, using all the sophisticated psychology of marketing, seems outrageous – but surveys of doctors repeatedly showed that we thought we were above being persuaded and could remain rational, totally independent agents. In which case why did we even bother accepting all the marketing? Well, money has a lot to do with it.
But the overt marketing has been shown to be the lesser problem. The greater problem lies with what doctors always thought was the real science – the peer-reviewed articles published in the journals. It is interesting that Pharma have taken the increased restrictions on overt marketing with relative equanimity, but seem to have drawn a line in the sand over handing over the raw scientific data that the articles in medical journals are supposedly based upon."
There now seems to be an impetus towards demanding change. All Trials has gained huge support in the UK. But given how pervasive the pharmaceutical companies influence has been on the medical edifice, one wonders what has prompted the more recent demands for transparency?
"I think the evidence simply became overwhelming that the academic medical literature has been severely compromised", explains Parry. "Authors on articles in journals may not have had access to the raw data themselves, many it now seems were recruited late in the study and articles were "ghost-written" by undisclosed authors within or working for the pharmaceutical company. Authors usually signed commercial confidentiality agreements that restricted their rights to publish the data. I know a professor of psychiatry who was involved in half a dozen trials of an antipsychotic medication in a developing nation. He told me four of those trials were negative and the results never published, only the positive findings from the remaining two were published. He was appalled but legally could do nothing because of the confidentiality agreement he had signed. Behind the scenes these things got talked about and outrage gradually grew, too slowly to be sure, but thankfully it has reached a critical mass now."
Parry suggests the independent Cochrane Collaboration has played a big part in the push for change, but even they have found investigating the thousands of articles that may be compromised a bit like "sifting through mud". The literature is simply too "opaque".
"The momentum has come from the UK, probably because of the Cochrane Collaboration's base there", he says. "But also because of the strong stance taken by the British Medical Journal. The previous chief-editor of the BMJ, Richard Smith, after he finished his 25 years as editor wrote an article in the high-ranking PLoS Medicine journal titled "Medical Journals are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies" (5). And the current chief-editor of the BMJ, Fiona Godlee, said to a British parliamentary committee in 2013 that 'drug companies should not be allowed to evaluate their own products'. This leadership, coupled with the energy and drive of British medical epidemiologist, Ben Goldacre (6) seems to have super-charged the drive for change within the UK. The All Trials campaign started in the UK in January 2013 and quickly got most of the British medical specialty colleges and other prominent medical academic organisations signed up as supporters. The question now is will the rest of the world follow? I am glad to see that the College I belong to, the RANZCP, is now looking at the AllTrials proposal. Hopefully we'll soon follow the British RCPsych and sign on for this game changing reform of the academic medical base."
Parry agrees with Goldacre's view that if transparency can be achieved it will effectively rewrite the book on everything believed to be true in modern medicine.
"He is right", he asserts. "As I understand it, the AllTrials process would bring to light data and methodology from clinical trials going back years, as well as clean up the mess to provide an Evidence Based Medicine future rather than a Marketing Based Medicine one. As data comes to light about past clinical trials, then this may well shed light on current guidelines and clinical practices that need revising. Thus the implications are huge. AllTrials hopefully will mean we have a world of EBM and cost-effective medicine. There will be some red-faces, there is almost certainly a lot of fraudulent behaviour that may result in legal scrutiny. Many journal articles may need to be corrected or withdrawn and republished."
He cites the example of an infamous article published on the drug Paroxetine in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP). The article was sponsored by Paroxetine's manufacturer SmithKlineBeecham, now known as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and is also known as "Study 329". "The data and methodology of the clinical trial was released in a court case and shows that the published article markedly overstated the benefits of Paroxetine (strictly speaking it didn't differentiate from placebo) but was published as being "generally well tolerated and effective for depression in adolescents". The sales pitch in the company advertising went further stating Paroxetine 'delivers remarkable efficacy and safety in adolescent depression'. Worse still, the article suppressed data on suicidal agitation and other "serious adverse events" of the adolescents on Paroxetine………….Enough is enough, things have to change. Thank goodness for AllTrials and I hope it works. In my opinion any health professional not supporting it needs to think again."
Despite the importance of All Trials, Parry has been disappointed by the response in Australia to date.
"Almost none of the colleagues I've spoken to know about it, including across other specialties and general practice. I asked friends at a recent medical school reunion and they hadn't heard about AllTrials. However the Australian Medical Students Association signed up months ago, and good on them. Clearly they have an eye to the future! I'm hopeful though that the specialty colleges and the RACGP and our academic institutions such as the NH&MRC will follow their British counterparts soon."
Every day people use pharmaceutical products in good faith, believing they are safe and effective. Medical professionals in turn condone products based upon what they believe to be Evidence Based Medicine, published in medical journals. This also has a direct bearing upon government health policies.
But if this turns out to be little more than the work of pharmaceutical PR professionals, consumers, medical professionals and policy makers are effectively playing a vast game of Russian Roulette. The Vioxx debacle, which saw a major pharmaceutical company withhold information from doctors and consumers for up to five years, and resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, is an extreme example of what can happen if we don't get this right. But it may also be that billions of dollars are being wasted on products that don't work as well as doctors and patients have been told they do; or symptoms may be worsened by some; or whole new medical problems may be being created by others. Right now we just don't know.
It may be that we will have to rewrite a great deal of what we think we know about medicine. And if that is the case, we need to start right away. No one wants to look back and say "We should have acted sooner!"
Dr Parry was interviewed via email on 14/11/2013.
(1) Thomas, Katie (2013). Breaking the seal on drug research. New York Times. Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/business/breaking-the-seal-on-drug-research.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all&_r=1&
(2) Doctorow, Cory (2012). Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access. The Guardian. Here: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/nov/20/pharmaceutical-research-open-access
(3) Horton, Richard. (2002) Just how tainted has medicine become? The Lancet, Volume 359, Issue 9313, Here:http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2802%2908198-9/fulltext
(4) Horton Richard (2004) The dawn of McScience. New York Review of Books. Here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/mar/11/the-dawn-of-mcscience/
(5) Smith, Richard (2005). Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies. PLOS Medicine. Here: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138
(6) Ben Goldacre. Here: http://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/
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Tomorrow - with AXSOR and EAGLE
The goal is to minimize the number of keys used and that keys with as low access level as possible are used. Furthermore, it is possible to let the Users get digital information on what keys to bring for a specific work order. Better follow-up and better control.
Reminders can automatically be sent via sms and/or email, making sure that no Object is held longer than stipulated. This is possible both for Withdrawn Objects from EAGLE as well as Objects Handed-out via Receipts. It is also possible to set up rules following-up that Objects that should be used for a specific work order are Withdrawn at the right time.
With EAGLE it is possible to combine centralized and decentralized storage units as wanted. This means that it is easy to have efficient and safe storage sites also in remote areas (communicating via 4G network) having automatic traceability of the usage – easy to handle and to follow-up.


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Patient Engagement: Health IT, What Microsoft Health Users Group Exchange Means for youTuesday, September 28, 2010 11:05 No Comments
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
How important is Health IT to you and should you care?
At the Microsoft Health Users Group Exchange this month at the Microsoft Corporate Campus in Redmond, WA, patient engagement was the overall theme.
Whether presenters were talking about "Cloud Computing," "Care Coordination," or "Population Health Management," empowering the patient was the […]
Friends Put a New Spin on TechnologyWednesday, September 15, 2010 9:17 1 Comment
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
Turning to friends for online information is the hot topic within the Web world, and in Monday's New York Times Technology and Business section, Jenna Wortham writes about how "Search Takes a Social Turn."
Online sites are taking notice of what people like. Web companies are trying to make searching online […]
Empowered Patient: Bring a Family Member or Friend with you to Your Doctor's AppointmentFriday, September 10, 2010 9:07 6 Comments
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
Should you bring a family member or friend with you when a patient has a doctor's appointment?
That is a question explored on a recent post on KevinMD by guest blogger, Diana E. Lee, a chronic migraine patient who blogs at Somebody Heal Me.
"Most of the resources I've read about how […]
Doctor-Patient Relationship: How Patients Can Help Enhance CommunicationWednesday, September 1, 2010 7:03 7 Comments
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
From Kevin Pho's medical blog, KevinMD, a post archived from 2004, Pho talks about the struggles of communication between doctor and patient during the 15 minute office visit.
Pho sites a NY Times article that explains that more than two decades ago, research shows that patients were interrupted 18 seconds into […]
Health Journalism: Have we reached new lows?Wednesday, July 14, 2010 14:49 No Comments
Guest post by Gary Schwitzer
It doesn't get much worse than this in health journalism; NY Daily News finds new lows
By Gary Schwitzer
[Original post published on Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog, July 13, 2010 and reprinted with permission from Gary Schwitzer.]
I know that many people just dismiss the New York Daily News, but you can't dismiss […]


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Middleburgh farmer turns dairy into a distillery
Elias Barber poured his vodka, over ice, into three tall shot glasses. He handed out two and brought his own to his nose.
"I always tell people to treat it more like a bourbon," he said as he inhaled. "It's a sipping vodka. Smell that sweetness?"
This is not the drink of screwdrivers and hangovers. It's a smooth, complex and clean spirit that Barber has spent years crafting.
He was standing at a table covered with a few dozen bottles of the finished product at the 1857 Spirits distillery in Middleburgh, Schoharie County on a Monday morning in early February. He and his assistant distillery manager, Emily Driscoll, were heating a vat full of potato mash to prepare it for the fermentation process.
"Today we're cookin'," Barber said.
The 24-year-old is a sixth-generation farmer. His family set down in Middleburgh in 1857 -- hence, 1857 Spirits -- and set up a simple homestead in the fertile Schoharie Valley. Eventually, they built up a dairy operation, and then vegetables. The dairy business was shut down about a decade ago, Barber said, but the farm is now producing more than 100 varieties of fruit and vegetables for retail sale.
"It's always been evolving," he said.
The next evolution is happening in the new yellow barn up behind the roadside farm stand on Route 30 in Middleburgh, where Barber has set up his vats, kettles, condensers and boilers just a few hundred yards from the fields where the potatoes grow.
The idea of turning ugly potatoes -- the ones that don't make the cut for retail -- into vodka has been kicking around in the Barber family for the past 10 years or so, Barber said.
It started to get serious about four years ago when his aunt Dorcas Roehrs, now a co-owner of 1857 Spirits along with Barber and his older brother Ford, signed up for a vodka-making workshop at the Grand Teton Distillery in Driggs, Idaho.
At the end of that workshop, he said, they knew this was something they wanted to do. He had recently graduated from Cornell University with a degree in plant biology, was back home at the farm, and ready to figure out his next step. Distilling seemed like it.
"It lets me be a farmer, an engineer, an artist, a scientist, a chemist " a janitor," he said. "It's creating things and problem-solving and learning. I'm learning things every day."
After the workshop, he went back to Idaho for a month-long apprenticeship. He was "too green" to really know what questions to ask, he said, but it got his feet wet and gave him a starting point.
After that, he spent about a year reading and researching before trying to make even one batch.
"This is just a huge research project," he said. "There are so few potato vodkas being made, especially craft, that there's really no book on how to make potato vodka. So it's just been a lot of independent research."
He opened a tasting room at the farm stand and started selling the vodka to local retailers in October, and now the company is starting to penetrate into the Manhattan and Hudson Valley markets, he said.
Goes down smooth
He wasn't worried about selling the first bottles -- curiosity and goodwill from friends and neighbors would carry that sale, he knew. It was when people started coming back for more, and buying whole cases, that he felt certain he was on to something good.
"You have to enjoy drinking it," he said. "And a lot of vodka, most vodkas that people are familiar with, aren't enjoyable for very many people. Our vodka is extremely smooth and it has more character than the traditional, huge brands out there."
At this point, he's producing about 400 bottles a week, he said. The water comes from a spring behind the distillery, the hand-harvested potatoes from five of the families 500 acres of farmland.
It would take about two weeks for the fresh potatoes he and Driscoll started with on Monday morning to become a finished bottle of 1857 Potato Vodka. The simple bottle, like those covering the table in the distillery, would be stamped with the name in black letters, then underneath, "Grown, Distilled, Bottled by Barber's Farm Distillery."
Barber pointed out those words proudly. It said the same thing on the T-shirt he was wearing.
"It tastes good, which is the bottom line," he said. "We have a beautiful bottle, we have a nice story. What we're doing is more authentic than 99 percent of the industry. So we have everything else going for it, but it comes down to what's inside."


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SW in WO1
Orochi in WO2
I forgot!
Other... (please mention)
SW in WO1
Orochi in WO2
WO2 as Wu I just starting playing yay
My it was Shu, in WO and WO2. I tend to do Shu stories first.
In both it was Wu which I did first, mainly because Wu is my favourite, and they both seemed to have characters that I really liked...but just because I used them first, doesnt really mean that I finished them first, because most of the time I would do a few levels for one story, then a few from another, but in WO2...I did manage to finish Wu first, and then Shu, then Samurai, just about to finish Wei, and then last would be Orochi (^.^)
Orochi 1: SW
I mean, it had Nobunaga! How could I possibly NOT clear it first??
Orochi 2: Wu
Seeing as Nobunaga didn't star in the SW story, I had no interest in playing it. Therefore I went with Wu, which had both Ranmaru and Yoshitsune
"We're getting wet. In a shower. Because, basically, we talked it over, Chastity and myself, and we came to the conclusion that civilization is nothing more than an effective sewage system. And so by the use of plumbing we hope to demonstrate this to the world." ~ Ron Nasty
I haven't played the second Warriors Orochi but in the first one i played Wu then SW, then Wei, and then Shu.
Wu will always be my favorite and i played it first because i knew zhou yu would be in it haha.
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in WO i played it on my psp,and i choose samurai cuz i like nobunaga and his attidue XD
in WO2 i choose orochi frist cuz i got to pay orochi XDDD
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WO1:It was...SHU
WO2:SW(i wanted to unlock Nobunaga!
It was Shu first for both WO1 & WO2 ^^
WO1 finished with Xing Cai, Tachibana Ginchiyo & Zhao Yun, if I remember well, finished, 2P with my brother.
WO2 finished with SSX, Liu Bei & Taigong Wang (but also switched sometimes this team with Xing Cai instead of one of them in some stages) finished 1P this time.
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A lot of building activity will be taking place in Walkerton over the next few years, involving the JDR Development project.
In three to four years time the former Brant Central School property will have 75 new homes on it.
Developer Don Tremble says it will be a mixed development project of bungalows, two stories and story and half homes
This includes 45 single family dwellings and 30 semi detached homes.
Council recently approved a zoning amendment request to increase the maximum lot coverage from 30% coverage to 40% coverage.
Planning Consultant Ron Davidson says this little extra will make big a difference as home owners want bigger homes.
He says the 10 percent increase in coverage will be in the depth not the width of the homes, which should eliminate any concern over curbside appeal.
Of the 75 homes that will be built, about 35% will be bungalows, something he says there is a strong demand for.
Bungalows however take up a bigger footprint than single story and two story homes.
This development project has been in the works for two years now, the shovel hit the ground in 2018 and five homes have been completed so far.
Tremble expects to have another 20 to 25 homes built this year, with all 75 homes complete within three to four years time.
Brockton currently has the smallest maximum lot coverage provision for detached, semi detached and fully detached serviced lots in all of Bruce County, making it the most restrictive lot coverage in the County.
Tremble is very pleased Council saw fit to approve a zoning by-law amendment to increase the lot coverage from 30 to 40 percent for his project.


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Odesa to participate in the International Tourism Fair in Berlin
Feb 28 2013, 14:56
ODESA, FEBRUARY 28th, 2013, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― Odesa will participate in the International Tourism Fair 6-10 March in Berlin, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.
Odesa City Council Information Office reported today, 28 February.
According to the Office, the fair ITB Berlin 2013 is one of the most important developments in the international tourism. The purpose of the participation is the promotion of Odesa on the international arena, increasing its tourist attractiveness and the increasing of the tourist flow to our city.
Odesa delegation will hold a presentation of tourist potential of the city on the Ukrainian stand. Additionally the presentations of wine tourism in the Odesa region, hotel and restaurant business will be held. The demonstration of the interactive programme devoted to cultural and national characteristics of the city is also scheduled.
In the course of the preparation for participation in the exhibition, the financial and informational support is provideв by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).
INFORMATION: ITB Berlin is one of the renowned trade shows related to the travel and tourism industry of Germany. Held at the Messe Berlin for a period 5 days, this focused trade show enlightens the visitors and qualified buyers about the global travel, tourism and hospitality sectors and highlights the exotic destinations of more than 180 countries.
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What is your rafting personality according to our team of psychologists? Take Malina's quiz to find out... grab a pencil jot down your answers, give yourself three points for every time you chose A, two for B, and one for C.
Now that you've completed the quiz add up your points. If you scored over 25 you're Hard Core! If you scored above 19 the Buddha is smiling -- you're a Middle-Pather. And if you scored around 12, you're a proud Family Man/Woman.
Alrighty! What does this have to do with rafting again? Well...
If nothing but the most extreme will do for you, this spring is your season. When warm weather unleashes a torrent of snowmelt you are gonna want to give us a call, find out what is running highest, and pull on some wool socks because all spring long you're going to have a ton of choices. Rivers like the Kaweah, Cal Salmon, North Fork Stanislaus, North Fork American and the Tuolumne are going to be challenging and exciting even to the most demanding and confident rafters. Our veteran guides are drooling (and working out!) in anticipation--throw'em a bone and paddle with them! Later in the season, you might want to look into Cherry Creek, which is arguably the most difficult and challenging commercially-run river in North America!
Clavey Falls - Class V
The Tuolumne River
Adventurous and up-for-a-challenge, you too have lots o' choices this year. Rivers like the Merced, with its huge wave trains and fast current, will be a joy to raft this spring, but as a "non-technical" river (in regular language that means there aren't very many obstacles like rock gardens and boulders in the water), it won't be overly intimidating. Another great option for you--available all season long--is the Middle Fork of the American. Once flows have dropped around July, you will also have a great time on the Tuolumne this season. As someone who falls into the Middle Path category, I can tell you that the "T" is a fabulous combo of beautiful scenery and exciting whitewater. My heart gets going on this river but it doesn't actually leap out of my chest like it would on Cherry Creek.
"Neds Gulch - Class IV"
The Merced River
You might be thinking that spring rafting has no place for laid-back people like you but actually... the South Fork of the American is a great option. There are a couple really cool things about this river in the springtime: One is that there are amazing displays of wildflowers so the canyon is never more beautiful. There are sections of the Upper South Fork that are literally carpeted with California Poppies! When I raft this section I always have to remind myself to paddle because I get so caught up in the golden hills. Sounds cheesy, I know, but even as someone who has rafted the Upper a million times I never tire of seeing all those flowers. If you're particularly interested in the poppies be sure to call us to find out when they're blooming--Mother Nature is on her own schedule. Another cool thing about springtime rafting is that there are no crowds to contend with either on or off the river. You'll have a truly personal experience. Of course I'd be remiss if I didn't say that there's nothing like a raft trip on a blazing summer day too, and the great snowpack this year means there will be good flows all summer long.
"Poppy Hill"
South Fork American River
Hopefully I've helped you understand your options this spring a little better. Ultimately though, if you have any questions about matching a trip to your needs the best thing to do is to call our office. We are happy to describe your options and give you honest information. Our goal is never to book particular trips--it's to help you have the best experience possible whether you want to be thrilled and challenged or if you want to have fun with your family.
-- Miss Malina, eNews writer, and AO Middle-Pather.
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A road diet, or reducing travel lanes for vehicles on a roadway, is a cost-effective solution to increase safety for vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists and other roadway users. This practice involves restriping segments (typically on four-lane undivided streets) to two lanes plus a center turn lane, leaving room on the sides for bike lanes, walkways and/or bus turnouts.
It's a trend that's sweeping the nation, and in 2014 the City Council passed a resolution directing the Public Works Department to analyze local road diet possibilities. Staff based on their study on two main criteria— average daily traffic should be less than 20,000 vehicles and peak hour traffic should be less than 1,000 vehicles per hour.
The first road diet completed was Leeds Trafficway from Stadium Drive to Emanual Cleaver II Boulevard, which was repaved and restriped in 2015. Other road diets finished or underway since then are: E. Gregory Boulevard from Oldham Road to Cleveland Avenue; N.E. 108th Street from Smalley Avenue to Cookingham Drive; and N.E. Barry Road from Kenwood Avenue to Highland Avenue. The most recent road diet can be seen along Grand Boulevard. This road diet includes new bike lanes on each side of Grand, from 5th Street to 20th Street. Another 2017 road diet with bike lanes can be found in the northland along N Highland Avenue from Vivion to NE 46th Street.
Why road diets?
Road diets reflect the needs of the community. We identify four lane roads with lower traffic volumes as candidates for road diets. These roadways often reflect outdated needs for capacity in areas better served with a different street configuration. Road diets provide a number of benefits for areas in which they are effective and appropriate:
- Improve safety by including a protected left-turn lane
- Reduce crossing distance for pedestrians
- Reduce travel speeds and crash severity
- Add parking or bicycle access to roadways
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration reports that road diets reduce aggressive speeding and cut collisions by nearly 30 percent. More information on road diets can be found on the Federal Highway Administration website.


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When My Chemical Romance split up in 2013, it spelled the end of an era for countless teenagers and twentysomethings that had come of age with the band's music as their soundtrack. As much as their detractors would have you believe otherwise, they had been one of the most important rock bands of the 2000s; transcending passing fads and bringing high-octane and high-concept guitar music into the hearts of millions and onto the charts worldwide. There was a certainty, however, that the members of the band were far from done with music altogether.
2014 saw the release of two solo albums from MCR alumni – Hesitant Alien, the debut album for frontman Gerard Way; and Stomachaches, the debut for guitarist/vocalist Frank Iero under the truly-puzzling and spellcheck-breaking moniker of Frnkiero andthe Cellabration. The two were drastically – and tellingly – different: While Hesitant Alien focused more on the darker pop elements that Way had brought to the table (particularly on their swansong, 2011's Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys); Iero's LP was a noisy, clattering and radiating garage-rock record that flew out of the gates with reckless punk abandon and all the fuzzy, crackling joy of a lo-fi cassette. While both albums were both generally well-recieved, it also made things exceptionally as to what each now wanted out of music in life after MCR.
With Frnkiero andthe Cellabration set to make their Australian debut as a part of 2016's Soundwave festivities, we spoke with Iero about fan art, new favourite bands and loose teeth – no, really.
UPDATE 17/12/15 5.50pm: Soundwave 2016 has been officially cancelled.
Music Feeds: Did we catch correctly that we've caught you on tour?
Frank Iero: That's right, man. We're playing through California at the moment. Right now, I'm in this massive antique store and we just found all these weird old toys. Honestly, things couldn't be better… unless I was at home with my family, of course.
MF: It almost goes without saying. How are the kids doing, if you don't mind being asked?
FI: Not at all! Oh man… they're way too large for my little being! I can't fathom it, man. I feel like they've gotten so big. I see them when I face-time my wife and it feels like they're way bigger than they should be. Just the other day, Cherry had a loose tooth. I was freaking out, because it feels way too soon…
MF: She's five! Five-year-olds lose teeth all the time!
FI: I know! I know! [laughs] I just want all the teeth in that mouth! I'm not ready for all of this! At the very least, she told me on the phone the other day that she's doing all she can to keep it in until I get home.
MF: That's a commendable effort.
FI: I think so, too! [laughs]
MF: Imagine if one of the kids gets a loose tooth when you're over here in Australia next month. No way they'll be holding it in then…
FI: Not likely! [laughs] Man, I can't wait for this trip. It's been so long since I got to come see you guys… the last time I was there was when we [My Chemical Romance] played the Big Day Out in… what was it… 2010? 2011?
FI: 2012? Okay, that sounds right, at least… I'm not that good with math! [laughs] When this album [Stomachaches] came out originally and I was chatting with one of my agents, they were like "Where do you wanna tour?" I'm pretty sure "Australia" was the first word out of my mouth. For some reason, I just had this immediate and really certain feeling that Australia was going to dig this record and this project. I've been meaning to get down there for over a year now. I'm really grateful that the opportunity has arisen – I genuinely think that it's going to be so great.
MF: On that note, it's just over a year since Stomachaches came out. Given a bit of distance from its writing and production and eventual release, how do you feel about it as an album now? Do you view it as simply a product of its time; or are you the kind of person who picks apart your projects and scratches about seeking out flaws?
FI: Man, honestly… normally, I am that guy. I'm totally that guy. I think my attitude changes from project to project, though. In the case of Stomachaches, I always knew it was going to be different. The purpose of this record was to be a snapshot in time. I didn't even think anyone else was going to hear it apart from me and some close friends that I trusted with it.
The whole idea was to just record some songs that were a documentation of where I was at that point in my life. I'd put it in a box, leave it for 20 years and then maybe show the kids. "You gotta check this out!" I was just going to treat it like an old photo album. That was it. Then, all of a sudden, I played a couple of songs to the right people, cut a new record deal and had a record on my hands.
It was funny… I was talking about this just the other day. When the songs were presented to the label, they wanted to know where I wanted to record them. I was like "Oh, no, see… that's the record. If you don't want to put this out, then we're done here!" Thankfully, I found a label who was willing to support that. So, when I think about the record and I listen back to it for whatever reason, that's what comes to mind. It's imperfect. It's supposed to be. It's broken. That's cool. Life's imperfect. I'm imperfect. The next one, I think, is going to be a lot different.
MF: Really? What do you have in mind?
FI: Y'know… I don't have anything tied down just yet. I'm working toward something that feels really special. It's scary and fun to do that. I'm in a different place in my life, too. Either way, it's going to be different to Stomachaches. Like I said, Stomachaches was a purely selfish record. It was made without anyone looking in on it or judging it. With this record, I know for a fact going in that people are going to be hearing it.
You can't do a record like Stomachaches again. You have to do something different. I just hope that the creative process isn't tainted by that fact. I'm fine with it – I wanted to do something different, anyway. No point doing the same thing again – I've already done that, y'know? Moving forward, things are really different. It's actually kinda cool… it's kinda freeing, in a way. I've shed my demons and I'm keen to keep working.
MF: You more or less hit the ground running after the release of Stomachaches, touring quite constantly. What have been some of your highlights of touring as Frnkiero andthe Cellabration?
FI: The Against Me! tour was a big one for us. When we were looking at tours to do, I always had a handful of bands in the back of my mind that I thought would be a fantastic match for what we were doing and what we were going for. Against Me! was at the top of my list. I've been such a big fan for such a long time, and amazingly I've never had the chance to tour with them.
For all the years that My Chem played festivals at the same time and kind of did shows in the same places around the same area, we never got the chance to tour with them one-on-one. They all felt like old friends almost immediately. It was everything that I wanted it to be. That was a huge highlight.
The other highlight has been doing our own tours and handpicking the bands we got to play with. The first tour we did was with Homeless Gospel Choir and Modern Chemistry, who are both acts that I really love and am really excited about. Now, this tour is with Roger Harvey and his band, who are unbelievable. Watching them every night has been a complete pleasure. We're also touring with Jared Hart – he's another Jersey guy and plays in a band called The Scandals. This is his solo project, and it's amazing.
I love the joy that comes with curating an entire show. Having the power to share music that you love with people that might never have come across it… I can't even tell you how great it feels. I always get these messages telling me that people have left my show with two new favourite bands, and it's amazing to know that I made that happen.
MF: On Twitter recently, you mentioned receiving an influx of art getting sent to your P.O. box. You then floated the idea of adding to the artworks – painting, sketching, whatever else – and returning them to the artists with your collaboration. Tell us a little about how this concept came to you.
FI: I've started doing it already! It's really exciting! Here's the thing: I'm really lucky to have a lot of people take inspiration from the art that I make, and it motivates them to make art of their own, which they send over to me. What they do is fantastic, man – the stuff I get sent over to me is just unbelievable. The catch is that there's just so much of it, I can't keep it all.
There's a lot of it. I was saying this to a friend the other day – how weird would it be if you came over to my house, and I was like "Hey, come on in!" You walk in and there's just thousands of paintings and drawings and sketches and portraits of me. It'd be really weird, right? My kids would grow up to be really strange if that's what their rooms looked like. [laughs]
So, I have to part with it all at a certain point. I always take pictures of what I get sent and I post it up on Instagram, but I still feel like it's just not enough. I get inspired by what they're doing, man. Some of these pieces are just incredible. That's when the idea came to me. What if I turned these submissions into impromptu collaborations? That way, the art lives on in a different format. I've taken a few pieces that speak to me on a level, and I paint over them and turn them into something new. It's another way to communicate artistically with people, but it's an experiment. It could fall flat on its face – I mean, I hope it doesn't!
MF: No doubt your fans are behind you on this one.
FI: That's all the encouragement I need, man.
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When experiencing zero gravity in a space station, looking back at Earth-as-one, most astronauts feel dizzy. A near revelation, this sudden awareness is named the "Overview Effect". When they eventually come out of these periods of aphasia, they often recall having heard "strange music", similar to the music they claim to have heard on the hidden side of the Moon. Smagghe & Cross's second collaboration (recorded before the MA album, released last year on Often) is the first attempt to recreate this celestial music.
For the past two decades, Ivan Smagghe has perfected the art of making spaced-out clubbers dance, has ridden a Fine Line and run his label Les Disques de La Mort. Rupert Cross is a London-based composer who has worked with Michael Finissy and Julian Anderson as well as writing music for television and theatre.
Before/after MA, an album which sat on the fringes of experimental music passed through an industrial particle accelerator. S&C give you the tracks codenamed Timothy Dalton (according to Ivan, "The laser sound in the track reminded us of Flash Gordon"). Neither pop, nor psychedelic, nor ambient, nor house, nor techno, nor post punk nor even new wave are spared, but none are singled out. To nurture this proto-album, the duo also called upon the talents of Tim Felton, the outstanding guitarist from the cult band Broadcast.
When listening to Timothy Dalton, the temporal and stylistic boundaries disintegrate to give way to all sorts of speculation: imagine the beardies from Tangerine Dream being kidnapped by Soft Cell, C86 and 1988, the Silver Apples composing a space opera with the help of an electro cardiogram monitor. Or the Wizard of OZ reviewed and reworked by Psychic TV. Eight tracks take us from the New Orderey beaches of Ostend to the rings of Saturn, and gradually unfold before our eyes like a machine to travel through time and space. So what if Timothy Dalton was a one-way ticket to the Twilight Zone?
A1. Timothy Dalton
A2. Klang
B1. Ostende
B2. Circle Around Rings
C1. Door Ajar, I Could Hear
C2. Interlude
D1. Janine
D2. Time To Remember
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By Jenna Bahnsen and Taylor Smith
The No. 5 seeded St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers fell to the No. 4 seeded LIU Blackbirds 73-50 in the Northeast Conference quarterfinals game contested in the Blackbirds' home court, the Steinberg Center.
The starting lineup for the Terriers featured senior Jagos Lasic (33), junior Joshua Nurse (11), freshman Jalen Jordan (14), sophomore Rasheem Dunn, and junior Glenn Sanabria (10).
Sophomore guard Rasheem Dunn started off the game by getting two points for the Terriers one minute and 21 seconds into the game.
This was immediately countered by LIU with a 2 pointer of their own.
LIU then took an early lead with a three pointer that put the score at 5-2.
With five minutes left in the half the Terriers were trailing the Blackbirds by 12.
The Terriers were able to put up four more points before the end of the half but the Blackbirds put together a run of their own started by a dunk from freshman forward Eral Penn.
At the end of the half the score sat at 35-23 with the Blackbirds leading the terriers by 12.
The Terriers opened up the second half with a two pointer from junior Joshua Nurse.
Two free throws from Jagos Lasic narrowed the difference to ten points.
The Terriers trailed the Blackbirds for the remainder of the second half with the Terriers only putting up 27 points compared to the Blackbirds' 38 points.
The final score sat at 73-50 with the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds taking home the win.
The Terriers ended their season with a 13-18 record overall and had a nine game improvement this season.
Although the night did not end in St. Francis Brooklyn's favor, when spoken to after the game, the Terriers head coach Glenn Braica stated "I'm proud of my guys for this year, I think we had a pretty good season for a team that wasn't picked to do much."
Season highlights for the Terriers also include freshman Jalen Jordan being selected to the Northeast Conference All-Rookie Team and sophomore Rasheem Dunn being selected to Second Team All-Conference.
The St. Francis Brooklyn Men's Basketball team has a lot of young talent coming back next year and is looking forward to a positive season.


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Final edits on Nightmares are done, and the final version was uploaded for Kindle, Paperback, and Smashwords (which will translate to Nook and iBooks) last night. We are on track for January 15.
Kindle pre-order is here.
Work is proceeding on outlining the next Praetorian book, now with the working title, That Sneaky Devil.


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Calm tracks in the snow
Water drips; icicles melt
The cat hunts his bird
Haiku should bring the image of the written scene to mind, and this does beautifully. I can see those prints in the snow. :))
Thank you for the Award for Passionate Fiction, I will pick it up in the new year. I'm honored you think my blog worthy of the award.
Merry Christmas to you, Darla and a Happy New Year.
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The holiday season is right around the corner. And you're already preparing for a bumper year. In a year where online sales have risen by 46% you're about to take advantage of the biggest year ever. But your website has to be ready for all the shoppers. Not only do you need to make sure that you are still providing what Google wants from your website, you need to appeal to shoppers.
This guide is going to show you some of the ways that you can prepare your website for the holiday season ahead.
Don't Make Any Major Changes To Functionality
If you're already reading this, it's too late to make any major changes to the way your site works. When people shop they want to be able to buy what they want and get out. Angering new and existing customers with bugs and strange interfaces is not the way to take advantage of the holiday season.
The time to test new systems is during the quieter periods of the year. Make major changes now and you risk causing severe damage to your holiday prospects.
Is Your Server Flexible Enough To Handle A Spike In Traffic?
Many websites gain huge amounts of traffic every single year during the holidays. They need the extra bandwidth to be able to support the sudden influx of people. For the rest of the year they downsize because they don't need the extra resources.
Working with a web host that allows you to make changes this quickly is essential. You should check with your host to make sure that the package you're on is instantly scalable. And you need to make sure that's a change that happens autonomously. Downtime is unacceptable during the peak shopping season.
Strengthen Your Security
The main priority for online shoppers these days is online security. They want to know that they can shop online without putting their credit card details at risk. Strengthen your security by making sure that you're using the latest encryption technology.
Show that you have an SSL certificate for your website and make sure that whenever your site is in the browser bar it has the green padlock next to it. This is the universal sign that a site has the highest level of security.
Make Sure You Up Your Online Staff (If Necessary)
It's common practice to provide a live chat feature during busy periods to help new customers find their way around. Nothing pushes away shoppers like having to wait in a long queue to speak to someone. Consider hiring some extra staff to help you out with this. And make sure you do it well in advance so you can teach them all about how your company works.
This job can easily be outsourced online these days. You don't have to hire a full-time employer in the real world to fulfill your customer support needs.
Optimize Your New Festive Theme
The chances are you already have some sort of festive theme that's waiting and ready to go. The fatal error some e-commerce websites make is their new theme is large and takes a long time to load. Your site should take no longer than three seconds to load.
Remember that some people will be shopping on mobile devices, which are less able to handle heavy themes. Test out your festive theme and make sure it's compressed and optimized as much as humanly possible.
Remember Holiday Shipping Deadlines
At this time of year, everyone leaves shopping until the last minute. You need to make it clear that there's a cut-off date for when people are guaranteed to receive their items before the big day. Unhappy customers who didn't receive their items can cause a lot of damage to your online reputation in the long-term, even if it's completely their fault for ordering their items too late.
This date should be front and center on your website. As the deadline draws closer you should steadily make it more prominent.
Last Word – Problems Will Happen!
The holiday season is always a difficult time of year for businesses. Unexpected events can and will happen. You can perform all the testing possible and you'll still run into potential obstacles. Make sure you're alert throughout the holiday season and carefully monitor traffic levels. Make yourself available to your staff and be prepared to step in when necessary.
What do you think are the biggest challenges presented by the holiday season?


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I am the first in line for solving the current energy crunch. So, I started listening to pundits and Congressmen and such, to see what solutions they had to offer. The prevailing idea is to drill our way out of this current shortage.
To investigate this potential solution, so I read a thouroughly written, comprehensive white paper called Fool's Gold in Alaskaby Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Their impressive list of collective credentials are listed in the article.
Turns out drilling in Alaska is probably the worst thing we can do, and the report is chock full of reasons why.
The government says, if you can trust them, that even under best-case scenarios, it would take 10 years to start production and the average net drop in price would be about 86 cents per barrel.
Ten years? What do we do in the mean time?
Energy independence, or something closer it I'm guessing, is the goal here.
However, the government's most optimistic estimate is that peak ANWR (and off shore drilling according to other sources) would only yield a total of 19 to 150 billion barrels. In fact, ANWR would only produce about 750,000 barrels per day – less than 1 percent of total world oil output.
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Tutor profile: Amanda G.
Subject: Writing
What is the best way to craft a hook to an essay?
Avoid quotations and cliches; stick to real-life examples that connect to the thematic qualities of the subject at hand. For example, in an essay arguing for the use of GMOs, hook the reader with an historical example about the initial resistance of citizens to the use of another beneficial technology, like vaccinations.
Subject: US History
How would one describe the evolution of the Republican Party in American politics following the passage of the 13th through 15th Amendments?
The GOP, after accomplishing its primary goals of eradicating slavery, progressively evolved to become the party of business as it sought new constituents and purposes. This evolution resulted in a retreat from its title as the progressive party in the two-party system. As the Democratic Party then increasingly staked out a progressive stance, with the Republican progressive Theodore Roosevelt losing the election to the Democratic progressive Woodrow Wilson, the Republican Party evolved to hold more conservative stances in response.
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What are the three key components of an above-par essay?
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IUPP Specialized Track provides students the unique opportunity to start working towards the major that students want to pursue at a university/college. The specialized areas of academic courses offered in this track are provided by UC Irvine's Schools of Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Information & Computer Sciences, Engineering, and Physical Sciences.
Program Curriculum for Core Courses
|First Quarter*
|Second Quarter
|Third Quarter
|Fourth Quarter
|Intensive English Reading and Vocabulary (5 hours per week)
Intensive English Speaking and Listening (7.5 hours per week)
Intensive English Grammar and Writing (7.5 hours per week)
|UCI Major / General Education Academic Courses (Up to 12 units)
|UCI Major / General Education Academic Courses (Up to 12 units)
|UCI Major / General Education Academic Courses (Up to 12 units)
|*1. The DCE Intensive English Placement Test is required upon arrival;
2. Students who excel in their classes and demonstrate a high level of English proficiency in a given quarter will have the option of continuing UCI Major / General Education academic courses in the subsequent quarter.
3. Courses are scheduled based on availability; course equivalent substitutions will be recommended when courses become unavailable.
4. Additional quarters are available upon approval for a fee.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the IUPP Specialized entry requirements?
To be accepted in our IUPP Specialized Track, you as an applicant must provide the following documents:
- The Completed IUPP APPLICATION with a non-refundable $200 application fee.
- Copies of your official academic transcripts for the last four years of high school (Grade 9th – 12th) to meet our minimum GPA of 3.5 out of 4.0 (or equivalent) in the UC's A-G subject courses Recommended GPA for IUPP Specialized Track is at least 3.7 or 90%
- Copy of your high school graduation certificate or a confirmation statement issued by your high school with your expected graduation date and year
- Copy of your current passport page that shows your photo
- Copies of your or your sponsor's financial statements (e.g., checking or savings accounts) that meets our financial requirements for I-20 issuance: $81,500 USD for 12 months
- Documentation for any educational gap between the graduation of your high school and start date of the IUPP program you intend to apply
- Copies of English proficiency proof that meet any of the following minimum test scores:
|Gao Kao or Hui Gao English Subject Test
|71 for iBT or 530 for PBT (recommend 80 for iBT or 550 for PBT)
|110 (out of 120) or 135 (out of 150)
1. To send an official TOEFL test score, please select the institution code B166.
2. Students who transfer from our DCE 10-week ESL intensive program must successfully complete at least level 5 to be exempt from providing any English proficiency proof.
3. International applicants are exempt from submitting English proficiency scores if any of the following circumstances are met: 1) Your native language is English, or 2) You have completed high school in an English-speaking country for at least three years.
UCI Division of Continuing Education reserves the right to deny acceptance to IUPP. Applicants who are not accepted into IUPP by UCI Division of Continuing Education will be notified in writing.
What is the application process?
- Complete the online IUPP APPLICATION and pay the non-refundable $200 application fee.
- After you have been provisionally accepted into IUPP, an official Acceptance Confirmation Letter will be sent to you. This letter is usually sent by e-mail. It will describe the IUPP registration policies and request the required Program Deposit of $10,000 USD to be submitted to IUPP within 15 days after the receipt of your Acceptance Confirmation letter. (Note: Students who are government-sponsored must provide an official letter of financial support in lieu of the Program Deposit and any additional tuition and mandatory fees to avoid any delay in the application process or enrollment cancellation.)
- After you have signed the acknowledgement form that is part of your Acceptance Confirmation letter, and IUPP has received your required program deposit, you will receive an official Letter of Acceptance (LOA), Form I-20, and Welcome Packet. With the Letter of Acceptance and Form I-20, you will be able to submit a request for a student (F-1) visa from the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in your area.
- You will have 30 days to pay the balance of the program tuition and fees. Confirmation of enrollment must include full payment of tuition and fees.
Please see Registration Policies & Deadlines for cancellation and postponement requests.
Where can I find more information about UCI major and general education courses?
There are over 80 majors offered at UCI. Popular majors among our IUPP students are listed below:
- School of Biological Sciences: Biological Sciences
- School of Engineering: Electrical Engineering, Mechanic Engineering, Computer Engineering
- School of Information & Computer Sciences: Computer Science, Gaming Science
- School of Physical Sciences: Mathematics, Mathematical Finance
- School of Social Sciences: Business Economics, Quantitative Economics, Psychology
General education courses must be taken as part of the UCI undergraduate graduation requirements. Courses are required in each of the following categories:
- Writing
- Science and Technology
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
- Quantitative, Symbolic, and Computational Reasoning
- Language Other Than English
- Multicultural Studies
- International / Global Issues
To learn about the specific requirements for UCI majors, please visit the UCI General Catalogue.
Please know that enrollment in UCI courses is on a space-available basis with permission of the course instructor and/or department, after all matriculated UCI students have been enrolled.
Can I still apply to IUPP if I am not sure that I meet your entry requirements?
Yes, you can still apply. We evaluate every applicant based on several factors. If you think that you do not meet our minimum English proficiency requirements, we advise that you consider applying to our IUPP Fundamentals Track.
Is this a full-time program?
Yes. To attend this program full-time, you are required to obtain a student visa (F-1).
Can I study in the program without a student visa (F-1)?
It is possible. Please Contact Us so we can better address your questions.
What is the minimum age to participate in IUPP?
IUPP is available for students 17 years and older, and students must graduate from high school before participating in IUPP. However, if your high school determines that you are able to graduate from your high school by attending IUPP in your senior year or Grade 12. You may be eligible to apply to our IUPP General.
What are the available program dates?
Please visit PROGRAM DATES for available intakes and specific majors (e.g., Computer Science, Biological Sciences, and Engineering)
What is the program tuition and fees?
The Specialized Track tuition is $55,500 USD for 12 months or 4 quarters.
Additional required fees per quarter are: $585 Student Health Insurance and $250 Student Services.
Please also note that UCI Division of Continuing Education also provides many student activities and support services for all its international students. Please visit ACTIVITIES for more information.
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How many units can I earn in IUPP Specialized? Are they transferrable?
Students in the IUPP Specialized Track may earn up to 36 quarter units. Credit value in quarter units is indicated in parenthesis after course numbers. One quarter unit equals two-thirds of a semester unit. Please know that each university / college admissions office holds the final determination of the transferability of the units a student earns in IUPP. Any Concurrent Enrollment courses offered in IUPP are equivalent to UCI courses.
Who should I contact if I have any additional questions or am ready to apply?
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Note: Participating in IUPP is not a guarantee to admission of UCI or any other university.


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Substance abuse is the biggest problems that parents of adolescents have to deal with.
- Group dynamics is one of the key factors that drive adolescents to take up smoking and drinking or to do drugs.
- The tendency to take risk encourages most teens to try smoking or drinking even before they are of legal age.
- What may start as a 'thrill', can become a habit if it remains unchecked.
- If there is somebody who smokes or drinks at home, they can become your teen's role models.
- Poor self-esteem and the need to be 'cool' can push adolescents to smoke or drink.
- Easy access to substances like cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and anabolic steroids may increase the temptation to try illicit substances.
- Keep an eye on your child's behavior. Look for erratic behavior and change in his or her appetite, sleep patterns, and moods.
- Do not spy on them or accuse them of any wrongdoing. Encourage them to talk and be honest. Tell them what your concerns are and discuss the problem with them.
- If your child is not willing to talk to you, the doctors can ask confidential questions to know if they are abusing any substances. Avoid going as far as a drug test, as that may come across as confrontational and threaten the kid.
- If necessary, get your adolescent the appropriate treatment.
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– Below is Backstage Fallout from last night's SmackDown:
– Titus O'Neil noted on Twitter that WWE will be releasing some Primetime Players merchandise soon.
– Chris Jericho's Robot Combat League will begin airing on Syfy in the UK on April 8th at 8pm.
– John Cena tweeted the following to The Rock yesterday while at the National Strength and Conditioning Association:
"Hey @TheRock @WWE couldn't get my visa straight 4 panama but went to #NSCA 2day to #clean it 335lbs #RTime=NOW"
Big Plans for Cena and The Rock on RAW, Top WrestleMania Star Upset at Match Plans?, More…


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When a couch potato inherits a fitnesswear company in San Francisco, sparks fly with her arrogant, Olympic medalist vice president.
The world of fitness apparel isn't ready for Beverly Lewis. She hates the gym, is nice to everybody, and shops at Ross Dress for Less. When she's not teaching preschool, she's wearing yoga pants . . . to nap in. So when she inherits her estranged grandfather's fitnesswear company in San Francisco, nobody expects her to keep it. Fite Fitness needs a heartless suit to save it from bankruptcy, not a thirty-year-old woman who cries when her students leave for kindergarten.
Someone like Liam Johnson. A former Olympic swimmer, Liam is Fite's executive vice president. Unlike Bev, he's devoted his life to Fite's success. Managing one little preschool teacher—and his attraction to her—shouldn't be an issue. Right?
But Bev's tired of being underpaid and underrated, and refuses to step aside as an obedient figurehead. To everyone's shock and horror, she moves up to San Francisco, sets up an office, and dives into the business. Nothing—not mockery, not exercise, not sabotage, not a disastrously hot night with her aggravating VP—is going to scare her away.
As Liam realizes she's tougher than she looks, he discovers that losing Fite might not be nearly as bad as losing her . . .
A story about the pursuit of love, happiness, and the perfect yoga pants, Love Handles will speak to anyone who's ever had to face what scares her most.
Warning: contains at least two loves scenes and a happy ending.
The characters are well developed in this book. They intertwine nicely and it makes you feel like you could actually know them. Bev is sweet and generally a happy person, who just doesn't like exercising that much. Liam is athletic, (an ex-Olympian swimmer), head-strong, and loves the Fite company where he has worked under the thumb of Bev's grandfather under he passed away.
Bev's plan from the get-go was to sell the company to her aunt in order to try to bring her family back together, but that went wrong very fast. Bev loses her teaching job and decides to stay at Fite and try to turn the company around. This causes problems with everyone at first. She has no management skills to speak of and has no interest exercise or the clothing at all. Bev realizes early on that she can't do anything without the help of Liam, but Liam just wants her gone so that he can run the company, so they team up.
Neither Bev not Liam expected to fall for the other person. They are so different after all. In the process of trying to prove that she's not a pushover with her family and trying to break down the barrier involving her mom and her aunt, Bev finds her inner strength and it's great to read about. She comes into her own as a business owner and as someone who can stand up for what she believes is right.
The only problem I had with this book and it was a small one is that there were some mistakes in the editing. Other than that I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting a stressful, fun book.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars!
About the Author
Gretchen Galway is a USA TODAY bestselling author who writes romantic comedies because love is too painful to survive without laughing. A native of the American Midwest, she now lives in California with her husband and two kids.


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