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Top 10 Allscripts EHR Hospital Implementations
A breakdown of the ten largest Allscripts EHR implementations by healthcare systems in the United States
- The past few years have seen many changes at Allscripts from changing leadership to a restructuring of its operations nationally. Most recently, Chicago-based EHR company Allscripts has revealed its plans to make precision medicine a key component of its EHR platform and invested heavily to that end.
Allscripts remains a well-known supplier of health IT and its EHR technology helps support some of the nation's leading healthcare systems and hospitals in achieving high-levels of care coordination and delivery.
Here is a breakdown of the ten largest Allscripts EHR implementations by healthcare systems in the United States using data and intelligence from Definitive Healthcare.
Editor's note: This is the second installment in a multi-part series on health system and hospital EHR implementations in the United States involving industry-leading EHR companies. Read about the biggest Cerner EHR Implementations, MediTech EHR Implementations and Epic EHR implementations.
Catholic Health Initiatives
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Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) signed onto Allscripts for its ambulatory EHRs in 2010, and completed implementation four years later in 2014. The EHR implementation has helped connect the 102 CHI hospitals in 19 states, increasing the quality of care for the health system's patients.
Through education and research, CHI seeks to further the healing ministry of the Church by emphasizing dignity and social justice while administering high quality care to all patients.
Northwell Health
With over 700 locations, Northwell Health provides treatments for nearly 760 illnesses and provides 780 services to its patients. To connect this vast number of healthcare services, the health system, formerly known as North Shore LIJ, began implementing Allscripts in 2007.
Rolling out the implementation by department, Northwell had over 75 percent of its facilities using Allscripts by 2014. Northwell seeks to "be better tomorrow than we are today," by providing quality and coordinated care to all of its patients in the Long Island and Queens region of New York.
Baylor Health Care System
Through 27 affiliated hospitals, Baylor Health Care System seeks to serve all of its patients through personalized and individual health care.
To help carry out that mission, the health system implemented Allscripts EHR in its inpatient facilities in 2013. Since then, Baylor Health has had its CIOs recognized as part of Becker Hospital Review's "CIOs in the Know," and has been named by the American Hospital Association as the Most Improved for health IT in 2014.
University Hospitals Health System
In 2011, University Hospitals Health System (UHHS) selected Allscripts for both its inpatient and ambulatory care settings. UHHS selected Allscripts to help supplement its care coordination and Accountable Care Organization initiatives. Since implementation, University Hospitals has been named as HIMSS Stage 6 for EHR use.
Operating on the tenets of excellence, diversity, integrity, compassion, and teamwork, UHHS operates several medical centers throughout the state of Ohio.
Orlando Health
With six acute care hospitals and 2 hospital affiliates, Orlando Health treats over 100,000 patients annually.
The health system strives to extend its work beyond the hospital by emphasizing community outreach and development. In 2006, Orlando Health selected Allscripts as its EHR vendor for both inpatient and ambulatory facilities, helping to connect the health system's physicians to one health record.
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center
As the nation's largest non-profit, non-sectarian hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center has nearly 2 million inpatient and ambulatory patients annually.
In 2011, the hospital adopted Allscripts EHR systems, creating increased interoperability between itself and Columbia University Medical Center, another New York Presbyterian hospital. Since implementing Allscripts, Weill Cornell Medical Center has been named one of U.S. News & World Reports' Best Hospitals in America in 2015.
Sharp Healthcare
Operating under the philosophy that they are treating people, not patients, Sharp Healthcare employs nearly 17,000 individuals as San Diego's largest health care system.
In 2000, Sharp began its three-year EHR implementation timeline, taking on Allscripts as its ambulatory EHR vendor. Since implementation, Sharp has received several awards recognizing its exemplary care, including nearly six affiliates receiving HIMSS Stage 6.
Robert Wood Johnson Health System
In 2014, Robert Wood Johnson Health System extended its contract with Allscripts until 2020. With Allscripts EHR systems, Robert Wood Johnson Health System has received several HIMSS Stage 6 awards, demonstrating the health system's ability to coordinate care to help increase patient care quality.
With a mission to foster an environment for excellence in all areas of care, the health system operates nearly 1,733 beds across the system, delivering high-quality care to all of its patients.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
An affiliate of Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital seeks to be national leaders in patient experience and healthcare delivery.
Operating on values of integrity, compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, Barnes-Jewish has nearly 1,315 licensed beds and over 50,000 inpatient admissions annually. In 2006, as a part of Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish adopted Allscripts EHR systems, helping them achieve accolades such as HIMSS Stage 6.
Mountain States Health Alliance
A Tennessee not-for-profit health system, Mountain States Health Alliance operates 13 hospitals within Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Mountain States seeks to heal not only illnesses, but the entire mind, body, and spirit for its patients.
In order to carry out its care goals, Mountain States implemented Allscripts in 2010 for its ambulatory practices, helping physicians coordinate care and zero in on specific population needs. Since implementation, Mountain States has had one hospital achieve HIMSS Stage 6.


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October 27, 1948
Bless you for your letter!See letter of October 22, 1948. It is for us a very special flavor [sic] that the Coin CollectionDumbarton Oaks acquired the coin collection of Hayford Peirce in 1948. should have been inspired by you and made by Hayford. Dumbarton Oaks is now starting on the long road of scholarship—what with the coins, the seals, the library and the Collection, and we are well pleased.
JackJohn S. Thacher. and ourselves would like to know who, in our opinion, is the best numismatist to make a definitive catalogue of the coins. Of course, many descriptions can be taken from the B.M.'sBritish Museum, London. catalogue.Warwick W. Wroth, Catalogue of the Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum (London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, Sold at the British Museum, 1908). Indeed, it might be that a collaboration could be arranged between the B.M. and D.O. for a joint project. (This is merely out of my own fertile imagination.) Bellinger,Alfred R. Bellinger (1893–1978), an American classicist and numismatist and professor of Latin Literature at Yale University. Bellinger would collaborate with Philip Grierson on three volumes (of five) of the Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 1966–1973). I am told, and Ganz [sic]Edward Gans (1887–1991), a German-born banker who immigrated to the United States in 1938 and became a dealer of ancient coins and fine arts of various kinds. His business was named Numismatic Fine Arts in New York City. Dumbarton Oaks commissioned Gans to sell duplicates from the coin collection. See oral history interview conducted by Ora Huth between 1983 and 1987 with an introduction by Wolfgang J. Heimpel, "Edward Gans, Berlin Banker to California Numismatist, 1887–1987," Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. are two of the best in America, but the cataloging of such an important collection is vital, and a contribution which D.O. can make to scholarship, so Jack is trying to ascertain the reputations of all and sundry. Your opinion would be valued.
PollyPolly Brown Peirce, Hayford Peirce's former wife. and her new husbandPolly Brown Peirce married Theodore Leavitt on September 16, 1948. were here when I was, unfortunately, in New York. I rather gathered that she will dominate him—which is, perhaps, poetic justice!
The less said about the purchase of this collection by D.O. the better, as I fear T. W.Thomas Whittemore. will be greatly upset.
Père LaurentVitalien Laurent (1896–1973), a French priest, theological historian, and Byzantine sigillographer. is difficult and we are embarking on "conversations" with him in order to acquire his catalogue of Howland Shaw'sGardiner Howland Shaw (1893–1965), an American diplomat who graduated from Harvard College in 1915 and served as secretary and counselor at the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey, and assistant secretary of state in Washington, D.C. seals,In 1947, Dumbarton Oaks had received by gift some 150 Byzantine coins and some 2,000 Byzantine lead seals from G. Howland Shaw (1893–1965), a friend of the Blisses who had been in the diplomatic service in Turkey. A copy of Laurent's unpublished catalog cards for the Shaw collection remains at Dumbarton Oaks as the latter has made a gift of them to D.O., and as Père Laurent did catalogue them, you would think he would be glad to have us publish them. But he talks about a Global Corpus which I gather he will never live to complete.
Do you think well of Ermolov?Boris Nicolaevich Ermolov (Ermoloff), a Russian expatriate and longtime friend of Thomas Whittemore. He was the librarian of the Byzantine Institute in Paris. It might be a godsend to him to get a breath of fresh air by visiting this country for a brief moment. I thought of suggesting it to T. W.Thomas Whittemore. What would you say?
Love to BetbillThe Bliss abbreviation for Bettine Tyler and William Royall Tyler. and Elisina and to Antigny,
Royall Tyler, Esq.
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Out of the Vine
"Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15.5 NLT).
Jesus uses a metaphor, comparing Himself to the Vine. It is no coincidence that His first documented miracle was turning water into wine at the Wedding of Cana. Wine is symbolic of Living Water mixed with earth and God mixed with Flesh, Who is Jesus. Jesus is the Living Water and He clad Himself in flesh in order to break His body like bread and pour out His blood like New Wine onto the earth. The New Wine is the New Covenant of Grace extended to a people who are incapable of keeping the Law (Old Wine). When we are connected to Jesus, we bear fruit on this earth that are ripe with Living Water. Our fruit will share the love and grace of Jesus to a world that thirsts for Him. If we are not connected to the Vine and we commit to actions that do not stem from Him, our fruit may seem plump and juicy, but they will only be filled with the dirty water of human effort. This fruit is counterfeit and will leave people thirsty for Living Water. This fruit may appear to offer sustenance, but really they have no eternal value. Jesus explains that anything apart from Him will be "nothing"—no matter how good and righteous it looks. For this reason, we must always make sure that everything we do is connected to the Vine of Christ or else we will waste time and leave a legacy of thirst.
"However strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too." — Andrew Murray


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COLUMBIA, MO. — Extended-wear contact lenses, which have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, may nevertheless pose a small but serious threat to vision.
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Choristers of the Coronation: Radio 4, 25 May
Richard Fawkes - 24 May 2013
Radio 4 is to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen's coronation with a documentary about the 200 boy choristers who took part in the service. Choristers of the Coronation is, according to producer Andrew Green, 'nothing more, nothing less, than the memories of those boy choristers'.
Back in 1953, it was decided that the London and Chapel Royal choirs should be supplemented by trebles from cathedrals countrywide, and the Royal School of Church Music became responsible for talent spotting in the shires: 'Kids who were just pootling along singing in a small church choir suddenly found themselves at the coronation.'
The coronation music was chosen and conducted by Westminster Abbey's director of music, William McKie, great uncle of the baritone Gerald Finley. Bad tempered and liable to throw books at choristers if they got something wrong, he terrified them.
The twenty RSCM boys taking part were given one month's training at Addington Palace in east Croydon. At their first rehearsal, the conductor told them he wanted them to bring the roof down. The next morning, the choristers arrived to find ceiling plaster on the floor.
The full choir first came together for final rehearsals in St Margaret's Westminster, since the Abbey was closed for the month leading up to the actual day. There was only one rehearsal in the Abbey and if a singer had missed any of the final rehearsals, even if illness was the cause, McKie would not let him take part.
On the day itself, the choristers had to turn up five hours before the service started. They were issued with packed lunches plus a small bottle of milk and the suggestion that when it was empty, any chorister taken short during the service should consider using it. There is no evidence anyone did.
'People talk about what it was like when they eventually came together for the final rehearsal. The sound was, everyone says, amazing and, with the orchestra playing as well, overpowering.
'The sad thing is that many of the boys couldn't see much of the actual service because of where they were positioned, and even if they could, Dr McKie had drilled into them that if they were watching the coronation they couldn't be concentrating on what they were doing. So a lot of the boys just daren't look, even those with a good view.'
Choristers of the Coronation, Radio 4, 25 May, 10.30am.
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SAD Lamps, Winter Lighting, and Health
Long nights, short days, and cold weather are how we know that it's winter. During the winter season, the Earth rests with the northern hemisphere tilted away from the sun. The further north you are, the less light is received per day. That lack of light is enough to cool things off, giving us seasons and snow. Seasons are an important part of how our world works, since many plants require cold temperatures to help trigger the end of their dormant state. But the lack of sunlight, paired with being indoors for most of the winter-time can lead to winter depression.
What is SAD or Winter Depression?
You may have heard about seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in the past. Others may simply call it winter depression. Whichever name you've heard, it's a seasonal depression that starts in winter and ends in spring or early summer. Many people feel that this depression is related to the passing of the holidays or a typical winter funk. But if you feel down every winter at around the same time, it may be due to winter depression. Symptoms can range from mild depression to major depression and include obvious signs such as low energy, sluggishness, or daily depression. It's always advisable to speak with a doctor if you're concerned about seasonal depression. The good news is that a little light may be all you need to help with it.
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Duration: For light therapy, the amount of exposure is going to be important. Typically a half hour each day is the recommended amount but it varies. Weaker lights, increased distance, or shallower viewing angles all require increased exposure to account for lack of light.
SAD Lamps are Expensive
An active light therapy lamp.
It's not worth the cost of the lamp if you don't suffer from winter depression. But we can all use more light in our lives. Daylight color temperature lamps aren't hard to find either. While the effect will be different, installing a few daylight lamps in your home and leaving them on during the morning can help a little bit. Since individual lights offer less intensity, exposure should be longer. Use a daylight bulb for a reading nook to increase the amount of time you spend.
We advise against using these types of lights at night. Blue/white light (similar to the sun's light) helps increase activity and could make it more difficult to sleep at night. But adding a little sunlight on an overcast day or week can help brighten your mood.


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Did making "Birdman" change the way you view your own work, or do you still consider everything you do to be "a piece of shit"?
"Birdman" came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things. It already has taught me to surrender to many things. I really struggled a lot with making this film because not many people wanted to invest money in it. I never took it personally. I never quit. I was never depressed or fought against it. I surrendered to the circumstances because I accepted circumstances. Slowly the elements came by themselves by surrendering, not by controlling or pushing. It happened and I learned that. I learned that the film was teaching me what the nature of the spirit of the film was about. It was something very beautiful....
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The other day I wrote a post about how Josh slept on the floor in our bedroom because our bed was wet (no, that wasn't anything to do with me) and he didn't want to sleep far away from me. He is a real sweetheart.
I guess I'm not that nice.
The other morning, just after 6:00, I woke to our three year old tapping my face. When my eyes opened I noticed that the ceiling was much closer to my nose than it normally is. That's when I remembered I was sleeping on the top bunk in my daughter's room. That's because my sweet husband was snoring up a storm during the night and I just couldn't handle it so I made the journey into Ellie's room for some peace and quiet.
Josh is apparently the only romantic in this household. Minus three points for his wife (but at least she got some sleep, and she didn't make him head out to the couch -- that should count for something).
Anyway, the whole thing left us both laughing. Good thing the man upstairs assigned us matching sense of humors when he sent us down here. Life is definitely full of adventure, even in the middle of the night.
The exciting adventures of a mother of six who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Role Reversal...or not
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- The Whitmer's said...
That would be "senses of humor" if you want to be exactly correct. And please don't tell your mother what you did or she might start visiting the other room. She seems to be, at least to some small degree, accustomed to my honking in the night.
- February 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM
- Melissa DeMoux said...
You're right, Dad, how embarrasing. Grammar and I usually get along so well...
- February 19, 2013 at 5:45 PM
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Pelle Ehn, Theis Meggerle, Odd Steen, and Michael Svedemar: Communicating Quality Please notice the pre-workshop activities.
Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders, and Markie Davidson: An In-depth Look at a Participatory Design Method: Projective Expression through Image Collages
Peter van den Besselaar, Joan Greenbaum, and Peter Mambrey: Unemployment by Design: Participatory Design and the Changing Structure of the Workforce in the Information Society Please notice the pre-workshop activities.
Karen Holtzblatt and Hugh Beyer: Design of Open Organizations
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Workshop 1
Communicating Quality
Department of Informatics, Lund University
Ole Römers väg 6, 223 63 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46 46 222 3376
Fax: +46 46 222 4528
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The notion of quality-in-use, comprising aesthetical, ethical and constructional quality aspects of actual IT use, is a way of approaching the question of what it means to design "good" IT artifacts. We claim that a repertoire of quality-in-use examples is a necessary basis for well-founded design decisions as well as assessments.
The Qualitheque (http://qualitheque.ics.lu.se) is a virtual forum for the professional IT community to communicate such quality-in-use examples. In concrete terms, the Qualitheque is a place on the Net where visitors can browse and debate multimedia re-presentations of computer systems in use. We invite workshop participants to investigate examples already existing in the Qualitheque and bring their own examples of quality-in-use. The workshop will be used to compare, contrast and otherwise analyze the different examples with the aim of reaching a better understanding of what quality-in-use means and how it may be re-presented, constructed and debated. And ultimately used to design IT artifacts for quality-in-use.
1 Background
"The lack of usability of software and poor design of programs is the secret shame of the industry". These are the opening words in a design manifesto written a few years ago by Mitchell Kapor, the famous founder of Lotus Software. In this manifesto he was arguing that systems developers and programmers often lack "the design viewpoint" and need a supplementary design competence similar to that of architects and industrial designers.
In October 1993 we took on this challenge with the IT Design Quality Project. We based the project on the assumption that improvements in the IT design process fundamentally depend on improvements in the IT designers' ability to assess and appropriate the quality of the contextual products of this process. As designers of IT, we like other designers need to focus on artifacts-in-use and language for critique, not just on process and method. We have to understand computers in context. In approaching this problem we are inspired by "theories of styles" in architecture and industrial design. There is a need for basic concepts and a repertoire of exemplars for reflection on the contextual quality of IT artifacts.
Hence, we started to build up a repertoire by examining exemplars of IT in use, focusing on ethical, aesthetical as well as constructional aspects. We wanted to represent how people socially use the artifacts, how they subjectively experience them, and how the technology supports these contextual aspects.
We still strongly believe in the appropriateness of this approach, but have come to the conclusion that the task is too important, too complex and too huge, to be left alone to a single research group in one corner of the world. That is why we have developed the Qualitheque and why we invite to a workshop on quality-in-use.
1.1 The Qualitheque
The Qualitheque is an attempt to address the lack of material on use quality. This is done in hybrid form: a cross between a professional publication, an exhibition, a design studio, and an international research conference. The goal is to create a place where re-presentations of systems in use and their use quality are disseminated and debated, with visitors participating interactively in the discussions. Since there are no definitive models of
use quality, our approach is to provide the design community with the means to socially construct a body of knowledge.
An exhibit in the Qualitheque need not be about a system in current use. There are historical re-presentations, giving retrospective accounts of landmark systems and their use. Who wouldn't be interested in a use study of the Xerox Star or the NLS! There are also envisionments of future use, similar to entries in regular design contests but emphasizing the imagined use (individual and social) of the new concepts. Basically, a future use description is just like a current use description from the year 2000 (or any other appropriate time scale).
In concrete terms, the Qualitheque is a place on the Net where visitors can browse multimedia re-presentations of computer systems in use, try out interactive prototypes, participate in debates by means of a news-like system, search for specific terms and categories, read the editorials, learn about the theoretical foundations, and more.
1.2 Quality-in-use
In systems development and software engineering, notions of product quality and process quality are routinely used to assess the value of an IT artifact. However, both of these perspectives are severely limited in that they scarcely address the real use context. The limitations become more apparent as information technology turns into a tool or medium for social use, in work settings as well as at home. To understand the interplay between the artifact, the user's individual experience and the social context in the actual use situation is essential for well-grounded systems development.
The participatory design movement of the 70s and 80s can be partly understood as an attempt to bring integrative perspectives on the use situation into the development process. The downside was, of course, that every project was new and unique; there were no concepts for capturing the experience and abilities of the designer in the domain of IT innovation and assessment. It is perfectly possible to argue that there are issues, particularly concerning long-term use effects, in which an experienced designer is in fact more qualified to make decisions than the intended users are.
This workshop is about the IT designer's ability to do more than facilitating participatory design meetings. Specifically, the target is what we loosely referred to above as experience and abilities in technology assessment. Our claim is that a proficient IT designer needs to have a large repertoire of examples of actual IT use. Such examples are known as formats in the design methodology literature, and the repertoire of formats is seen as the basis for design decisions as well as assessments.
We further argue that every example needs to address what we call the form of the IT artifact as well as its function and structure. The terms may be heavily loaded with connotations, but we use them in a fairly precise way. The form of an IT artifact has to do with the purely subjective experience of the individual user: How is the artifact perceived? The function is in the social domain and concerns symbolic functions as well as power and utility: Who benefits from the artifact? The structure of an artifact is its (context-free) construction. In essence, a good example in an IT designer's repertoire says something about aesthetic quality (form) as well as ethical (function) and constructional (structure), and how they interrelate.
2 Activities before the workshop
Prospective participants are adviced to submit a short written presentation of an IT artefact in use, in which the aspects of quality-in-use are emphasized. The exhibits in the Qualitheque can serve as indications of what would be deemed appropriate in terms of contents, if not in presentation and size.
Before the workshop, each participant studies the presentations and browse the exhibits in the Qualitheque concentrating on the different ways of discussing and re-presenting quality-in-use.
3 Activities during the workshop
The workshop will be organized in the following way:
A. Presentation of the Qualitheque and the ideas behind.
B. The participants study the presentations and browse the exhibits in the Qualitheque concentrating on the different ways of discussing and re-presenting quality-in-use.
C. Exhibits from the Qualitheque, the submitted presentations and the notion of quality-in-use are discussed with the overall goal of constructing a better understanding among the participants and highlighting relevant issues. A tentative list of discussion topics might include:
- What is quality-in-use?
- How can it be re-presented?
- How do aesthetical, ethical and technical quality aspects interrelate?
- How do we tell a good example from a not-so-good one?
- How can a designer build a repertoire from re-presentations?
- How can a collection of examples be used in designer education?
- How does the notion of quality-in-use relate to other empirically oriented techniques of inquiry (ethnography, activity-theoretical studies, etc.)?
D. Participants will be asked to present an IT artefact in use, in which the aspects of quality-in-use are emphasized. The exhibits in the Qualitheque can serve as indications of what would be deemed appropriate in terms of contents, if not in presentation and size.
The immediate deliverables of the workshop include a discussion for publication in the Qualitheque.
On a slightly longer time scale, the workshop participants are invited to revise and extend their initial submissions and publish them as exhibits in the Qualitheque. The results from the workshop should be most valuable guidance in doing so.
4 Administrative details
The workshop will be limited to 24 participants.
Participants can register for the workshop by sending an e-mail to email@example.com. Prospective participants who submit a presentation of an IT artifact in use to the same adress have priority.
Selected participants will be notified no later than the 15 of October. At the same time, they will receive copies of all the recieved submissions.
5 About the organizers
The Qualitheque is international and virtual, but is organized by the Department of Informatics at Lund University, Sweden, in co-operation with Lund University Research Centre on Human, Technology and Change at Work, Centre for Interaction Design at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the Department of Informatics at Umeå University.
Workshop 2
An In-depth Look at a Participatory Design Method: Projective Expression through Image Collages
Fitch Inc. Fitch Inc.
10350 Olentangy River Road
Worthington, OH 43085 USA
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In response to feedback from participants in the workshops conducted by the first author at the two previous PDC conferences, we decided to focus on one of the methods we use frequently to uncover the more emotional components of user needs. We call this method Projective Expression through Image Collaging. Our intent this year is to help the workshop participants learn how and when to conduct it on their own. We also plan to use the workshop as a forum for further exploring the uses of this technique, and for exploring the ways by which to analyze the data that emerge from its use.
Participatory design, projective, image, collages
The workshop will begin with a 20-minute presentation of Image Collaging as a participatory design research method. We will show how this method has been used early in the design development of many types of products, systems, and spaces. Through examples, we will also discuss the situations and places in the design development process where we have found this set of tools to be most appropriate and effective. We will also provide a brief explanation of how to use this method in conjunction with other methods (both traditional as well as participatory).
The remaining two-and-a-half hours will be a learning-by-doing experience in which workshop participants will learn how to design, implement, and analyze the use of an Image Collage tool kit. We will first focus on how to create an appropriate image collaging tool kit for a given design situation. We will then use previously existing collage data to provide an in-depth look at the data analysis and interpretation stage.
In Part One, we will introduce a hypothetical design inquiry such as the design of information organization and management tools for knowledge workers. (The topic will be one for which all workshop participants could possibly be actual research participants.)
~ define the questions they hope to answer through the research (and specifically through this method);
~ choose appropriate tool kit "parts" for a given set of respondents. The educated selection of the words and images in the development of this tool kit is crucial to its success. We will discuss guidelines for putting together the right set of "parts" and;
~ draft a discussion guide for the moderator using the tool kit. We will focus on the mood and language that elicits the most effective and in-depth response from the respondents, both in a one-on-one and group setting.
In Part Two, the participants will segregate into teams and be given a real data set to analyze. Some of the more lengthy steps from the process of summarizing the image collaging data will already have taken place before the workshop (e.g., data frequencies, transcripts of verbal protocols, key words in context, etc.) Workshop participants will use the summary materials provided to analyze, draw interpretations, and develop design criteria from the data. Each team will then present their findings and a comparison of the team findings will take place.
We would like to end with a group discussion about other ideas for analyzing the data that emerges in the use of image collaging tool kits. As time permits, we would also like to extend the discussion to ideas about new additions to the image collaging tool kit, as well as ideas about new situations of use.
Because of the "props" needed in these methods, it will be necessary to limit the number of participants to about 12. People with any kind of background are welcome.
Instruction in the preparation and analysis of a new participatory method: teamwork, hands-on-learning, fun!
Workshop 3
Unemployment by Design: Participatory Design and the Changing Structure of the Workforce in the Information Society
Peter van den BesselaarUniversity of Amsterdam Social Science Informatics
Roetersstraat 15 1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Joan Greenbaum
LaGuardia Community College
City University of New York
Peter Mambrey
GMD - German National Center for Information Technology
D-53754 St. Augustin
Aim and background
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the changes taking place in national employment structures, and relate these changes to the changing intentions and practice of participatory design. Participatory design was a means · to add social perspectives to the technology centered design by inventing the Ñuserì (Langefors) · to negotiate social and technical perspectives aiming at a fair compromise (Mumford/Hawgood/Land) · to add task perspectives during the design process rather than afterwards (Ciborra) · to integrate user representatives in the managerial planning and decision process of system design (Sandberg) · to shift power from external involvement by representative bodies (shop stewards) to the internal involvement of employees themselves (Bjoern-Andersen; Kubicek)
The European approaches (Scandinavian, German, British, French, Italian) in the seventies and eighties were based on debates about the political bias (democratization versus alienation and expropriation) and the functional bias (user-centred systems versus efficiency) of systems design. Some saw users taking part in design as hostages of the development process (Ehn/Sandberg) others saw them as partners in a negotiation process (Hawgood). But generally, the aim was to strengthen industrial democracy and to increase the quality of working life (Clement & Van den Besselaar).
Today, the focus of the discussion has changed, and we discuss methods for how to explore work practises including tasks, workflows, artifacts, interactions, mental models, and metaphors.
We do this through context inquiry, participatory research, ethnography, in-depth study, speaking aloud, and so on. Designers behave in organizations and work practices - late chairman Mao described it - ìlike fish in the waterî.
Participatory design as a design methodology and the corresponding methods and tools seem to have changed from Ñpolitical instrumentsì to Ñapolitical toolsì.
The legitimization of this change can partly be found in the idea that improving the quality of working life, the return to skilled work, and the participation of the workforce, is a necessity in a modern globalized economy (Piore & Sable). If that is true, and if ëdas Ende der Arbeitsteilungí (= end of division of labour = Kern & Schumann) is approaching, the changed role and content of participatory design is adequate. If not, we have to rethink participatory design strategies, approaches, and tools again, from an emancipatory perspective.
To clarify this issue, empirical research is needed into the changing structures of the workforce in the developed world. Are skill levels rising? Is autonomy rising? Are ëbusiness process reengineeringí, ëlean productioní, ëtotal quality managementí, and other modern management strategies dependent on a highly skilled, empowered workforce? If so, are these developments the same for all groups on the labour market? What about the ëtele- or distance workersí, what about the dual labour market, and about industrial relations, social security, and the welfare state?
The role of workforce has changed dramatically during the last thirty years. So has the interaction between designers, users, and employers, the goals, and the quality of methods in system design. Participatory design needs a new basis taking the actual developments into account. The following questions arise:
On the macro level
1. What are the trends in employment structure, the labour market, and industrial relations in modern information societies?
2. Are the promises of ëthe new industrial divide (Piore & Sable), and ëdas Ende der Arbeitsteilungí (Kern & Schumann) becoming true?
3. Have the context and the constraints for participatory design changed?
On the micro level
1. Has participatory design lost its emancipatory stream? What are the effects of participatory system design for working life - unemployment, amount and quality of jobs, self-determination, salary ..?
2. Were the first participatory design approaches naive social romanticisms based on an optimistic view of society? Are we more realistic now; is the actual use more appropriate for those involved in design?
3. Is participatory design a fiction or a fact in system design?
4. If Ñusersì are nothing but an invention of designers and researchers, what new interplay of different roles and attitudes leads to co-constructed systems?
In this workshop we discuss the trends in the level and structure of employment, the changes in industrial relations during the transition to the ëknowledge-intensive information economyí, and rethink the possible role and content of participatory design within this context. The result should be a set of statements about actual and future participatory design as a human-centred approach. In the workshop, reports from different countries will be given as a basis for discussions. We would like to explore the above-mentioned changes through participation and dialogue.
In the workshop short reports from different countries will be given as a basis for discussions. We want to explore the above mentioned changes through participation and dialogue. Therefore, the presentations at the workshop will be short (5 minutes). Participants should read the electronic abstracts and papers before the workshop takes place.
We ask for two types of contributions:
- Country reports on changes in workforce structure, labour market and industrial relations
- Reflections on the implications of these changes for participatory design
Please send an extended abstract (max. 2 pages) via email to the organizers til October 1. The notification of acceptance is two weeks later. The accepted abstracts will be part of a web-site and accessible to the public. We invite contributors to distribute the full papers (max. 10 pages) before the conference through email to the workshop participants, or to bring hardcopies to the workshop. We intend to publish the papers in an international journal
Email: email@example.com
Postal address: Peter Mambrey, GMD, D-53754 St. Augustin, Germany
Peter van den Besselaar: Current research interests are, among others, computers and the workplace, technology studies, CSCW. Publications in various journals and books.
Joan Greenbaum: She is author of numerous articles and books on the effects of technology on jobs and on the gender aspects of technology in the workplace.
Peter Mambrey: Working areas: participatory design, technology assessment, CSCW. Several books and articles about these issues.
Workshop 4
Design of Open OrganizationsKaren Holtzblatt and Hugh Beyer
InContext Enterprises Inc.
249 Ayer Rd. , Suite 301
Harvard, MA 01451
email: email@example.com, email@example.com
AbstractThis workshop provides an introduction and discussion of processes for involving a software development organization's people in the redefinition of its values, roles, and procedures. The workshop introduces a key part of our participatory organizational self-definition process and incorporates time for participants to try the process out and discuss their reactions to it. We start with an overview of the whole process, discussing the issues which get in the way even when management supports creating an open organization. We show how to enable participatory design by creating conversations which allow people to recognize and address process issues. We introduce the idea of using the organizational designs to derive values participants can believe in. We end by discussing how to create role definitions which make explicit how the role maintains the value of the organization, and what procedure is to be followed when a value might be violated. The workshop is organized as a mix of presentation, group work, and open discussion. We will use a case study from our own work to introduce parts of the process, splitting into teams to allow people to practice applying them to problems from their own home organizations.
Workshop DescriptionIntroduction to organizational self-definition: We discuss the problems that get in the way of participatory organizational design, drawing on participants' experience of organizational change. We show how the techniques we will cover fit into an overall approach to involving people in designing their own organizations. Organizational metaphors: We introduce the role of metaphors in helping people see process: the process they are in, their organizational context with respect to the rest of the company, and alternative processes they might adopt. Exercise: Using metaphors Participants brainstorm key issues for software development organizations that they want to address. We break into teams to develop metaphors for software development organizations which address these issues, and use them to envision new organizational structures. Using visions to derive values and roles We discuss the derivation of values and roles from organizational visions. We describe the advantage of such an approach in making values concrete. We introduce a structure for defining a role, including the role's responsibilities, identification of how the role supports the values, definition of the role's sphere of independent action, and explicit definition of what procedures are triggered when the role acts against the values. We share and discuss the organizational visions the teams developed. Together, we identify the values each vision implies, and derive a set of role definitions from the vision. We end with an open discussion of the use of these techniques in defining open, values-based organizations.
The PresentersKaren Holtzblatt and Hugh Beyer are co-founders of InContext Enterprises, a firm specializing in process and product design from customer data. Holtzblatt is the inventor of Contextual Inquiry, an approach to collecting data about how people work from them as they work. Together, Holtzblatt and Beyer have developed CI into a full product design process, and have also used CI principles to drive the design of organizations to meet the needs of their clients and of their people. Having worked extensively with software development organizations on their design process, they are now using techniques such as those presented in this workshop to help clients design the basic structure of their software development organizations.
Bo Helgeson, Sara Eriksén and Berthel Sutter
Workshop 5
Workshop Proposal:
How can Participatory
Design practice be taught?
Workshop 5
Workshop Proposal: How can Participatory Design practice be taught?
University of Karlskrona/Ronneby
S-372 25 Ronneby, Sweden
email: email@example.com
AbstractParticipatory design is characterized by diversity both as a field of research and as a work practice. For many of us, it seems self-evident that designing good quality systems calls for work in close contact with those people who will be using the systems in the future. However, there are a multitude of different approaches and methods within participatory design practice. How should participatory design practice be taught in educational programs for systems designers? How can past experience of and practical skills in participatory design be handed on to students of systems design? How can we enable students to engage in and further develop high quality participatory design practice? These questions are important and need to be brought up for discussion in systems designers classes. Part of the answer seems to be that the students also need to be given opportunities to practice participatory design in real life situations. In this proposal for a workshop about Participatory design in university courses we invite those of you who are interested in these questions to a session of discussions and sharing of experience in this area.
The Ronneby ExampleIn Ronneby, Sweden, we are working with a master program called People, Computers and Work. The focus in this program is on analysis of work practice related to IT artifacts and on design of artifacts for cooperation and learning. In many of our courses we integrate the disciplines Computer Science and Human Work Science. One important aspect in the study program is that the students repeatedly practice and learn to use different ethnographic methods to study work. People, Computers and Work is influenced by the so called Scandinavian approach, of which participatory design is an important part. From the first semester onwards, the students do field studies in work places. These field studies include observation, description and analysis of work and, from the second year onwards, user-oriented design of alternative IT solutions. In this way, participatory design practice is introduced early on and stressed throughout the study program. During this workshop we will briefly present our own experience from two courses where we have tried to work explicitly with participatory design aspects. These are the courses Computers and learning and Computers in use.
Computers and LearningDuring 15 weeks of a full time one semester course on Computers and learning, the students become IT-competence mentors in a work place. This means that the students take on responsibility for helping users solve IT-related everyday problems in a school, a library or some other workplace. The students may start their mentorship by helping the users with simple problems, or supporting users who are learning to use a new program, or finding a useful program for a specific context, such as teaching mathematics on a certain level. During the IT-competence mentorship period students and users together identify a relevant area in which to develop a prototype of some kind. The development work is done in close cooperation with the users.
Computers In UseDuring the first year of the People, Computers and Work program, the students spend half their time learning to work with systems development tools, mainly focusing on Object Oriented Analysis and Design, using Small Talk as their main programming tool. The rest of the time during the first year they learn about and practice ethnographic methods for doing field studies of work practice. By the end of the first year, they will have completed a project based on their own experience of using and reflecting on methods for this type of field studies. The second year starts with a 10 week course where the students are expected to actively integrate understanding acquired through an ethnographic field study of a work place with design and rapid prototyping. Participatory design aspects are used as one way of bridging the gap between studying work practice and doing actual design work. The students are instructed to base their prototyping in a use situation and to develop the prototype in close cooperation with the users.
The Organization of the work shopDuring the first hour of the workshop, we plan to have the participants (including ourselves) give a brief presentation of their own experience of applying a participatory design-perspective in education. The rest of the time we will discuss and reflect on using and developing participatory design practice in teaching systems design. How we choose to organize these discussions will depend on the number of participants.
Workshop 6
The Politics of Knowledge: Participatory
Design and the Location of
Workshop 6
The Politics of Knowledge: Participatory Design and the Location of Expertise
Work Practice & Technology
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Xerox Corporation
Techniplex Mall
300 Main Street
East Rochester, NY 14445
Aim and background
Participatory design has strong roots in struggles for workplace democracy, but the politics of design has grown more difficult. The initial premise that the knowledge of those doing the work must be recognized and incorporated in design intended to affect the work has not proven to be consistently achievable, and while the resistance may emphasize that knowledge is inherently political, it also shows how much design is part of industrial politics. Then, too, our understanding of the workplace as polity has grown more complex, recognizing that workers may not be unified or have identical interests, mirroring the nature of politics in the world at large (Bjerknes and Bratteteig, 1995). The location of both designers and intended users in corporate organizations clearly embeds both in corporate politics, and yet it is unclear exactly what an organization is or how its politics might work (Orr, 1995). It is both necessary to identify the powers and interests of different factions around a design problem and very difficult to do so.
In some sense, an emphasis on participatory design is an attempt to escape the politics of location. One of the basic premises of participatory design is the assumption that designers and those for whom they design can produce useful artifacts together once the cooperative relationship is established. However, designers work to a brief established by management that may include presumptions about where expertise is and where it should be. Intended users who have been repeatedly told by those more powerful that they are simply following rote instructions may not acknowledge their own understanding and expertise, nor is there any good reason that they should cooperate in an enterprise designed to relocate their expertise to an expert system or telephone hotline.
Some workers recognize the power inherent in their own knowledge. In Crowfoot's experience, a community successfully resisted attempts to disseminate its particular knowledge to other parts of the workplace by helping to produce a sufficiently arcane artifact that no one outside their community could make sense of it (Crowfoot, 1991). From the perspective of the enterprise as a whole, it would have made sense to have the knowledge more generally available, but this might well have cost the jobs of those presently performing that function.
The project discussed in Orr, 1995, was based on fieldwork suggesting that real expertise resides with those doing the work, although the common corporate assumption is that knowledge is located in the center and needs to be delivered to the periphery. The principal goal of the project was to assist the circulation of local knowledge and avoid appropriation or other interference from the center. This was relatively successful, but the corporate assumptions remain substantially unaffected by this example.
We see these issues as part of the politics of knowledge. We are particularly interested in questions such as what counts as knowledge, who is acknowledged as knowing and under what circumstances, and how questions of design deal with these issues of knowledge within the organization with reference to the desired location of expertise. We have come to these questions from our own experiences in ethnography and design, and we suspect we are not alone in these experiences. We invite you to come discuss the politics of knowledge with us in our workshop.
Workshop plansWe do not have solutions to the problem sketched in our abstract; indeed, we only sometimes recognize the problem, despite its apparent obviousness. We keep running into it, however, so perhaps it is time to try to understand the problem as a first step toward solution. We hope the workshop will proceed as a discussion among practitioners. We will come prepared to discuss our encounters with these problems; we hope you will do the same. To help you think about your experience, we would suggest the following questions. The list is certainly not definitive, and we would welcome additional questions as much as answers. All are framed in terms of design, but this should be construed loosely and may include changes in practice as much as the creation of artifacts.
- Who has commissioned the design?
- Who will use the design?
- What is the relationship between the two?
- What is your relationship to both of these groups?
- What changes will occur in the practice of those using the design?
- Who committed resources (people and money) for the design?
- Who will provide the resources to build whatever is designed?
- Who will provide the resources to operate and/or maintain the design?
- Who allows access to other resources?
- What are the relationships between those who provide resources, those who will use the design, those who asked for the design, and those who will do the design?
- Who is said to know how to do the work to be affected by the design?
- Will their knowledge be incorporated or used by the design, and if so, how?
- How will the distribution of their knowledge be affected by the design?
- If your design will change the distribution of knowledge, how will this affect the relationships between those presently doing the work and other groups in their enterprise?
Bjerknes, Gro, and Bratteteig, Tone (1995) User Participation and Democracy. A Discussion of Scandinavian Research on System Development. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, vol 7 no 1, April 1995.
Crowfoot, Norman C. (1991) DAMOCLES: Design, Manufacturability, and Cost Estimation System. Rochester, New York: Xerox Corp.
Orr, Julian E. (1995) Ethnography and Organizational Learning: In pursuit of learning at work. In Organizational Learning and Technological Change. S. Bagnara, C. Zucchermaglio, and S. Stucky, Eds., New York and Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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Garrett ACE 300 Metal Detector
with 7x10" PROformance Search Coil Plus FREE Treasure Hunting Accessories
Enhance your treasure hunting experience with Garrett's ACE 300 Metal Detector! This all-purpose metal detector was built with upgraded features for the discriminating hobbyist at an affordable price. It comes with five separate search modes to help treasure hunters locate coins, jewelry, and even lost relics. The Digital ID on the control box quickly determines what's buried below the user's feet so they can choose whether or not they wish to dig it up.
The ACE 300 operates at 8 kHz frequency for greater depth penetration and to allow it to detect high conductivity targets like silver. The frequency of the device can be adjusted for ground mineralization and to shy away from trash iron if the user chooses to do so. In fact, the ACE 300 has four different iron discrimination segments to help the discriminating treasure hunter find exactly what you're looking for.
As an added bonus, Garrett has even included stem locks on the device to make it more stable. No longer will users ever have to worry about a metal detector falling apart while you're out in the field. As such, Garrett is so sure that treasure hunters will love this inexpensive yet high quality device that they are including a two-year limited warranty to help keep their investment secure.
- Frequency : Operates at a 8 kHz Frequency
- Total Weight : Weighs in at 2.8 lbs (1.27 kgs)
- Warranty : Includes 2 Year Limited Warranty
- Construction : Includes Camlocks for Sturdy Stem Construction
- Ground Mineralization : Adjusts Automatically for Ground Mineralization
- Audio : Provides Sharp & Responsive Audio with Pulse-Width Modulation
- Push Button Controls : Resets to Factory or User Settings with One-Touch Controls
- Continuous Coin Depth Indicator : Coin Depth Indicator Determines a Target's Depth
- Digital Target ID : Indicates the Properties of a Target with a Digital Target ID Scale Ranging from 0 to 99
- Coil Cover
- Hardware Set
- Arm Rest Strap
- Rain & Dust Cover
- Instructional Manual
- 7x10" PROformance Search Coil
- ClearSound Easy Stow Headphones
Additional Information
|Manufacturer SKU
|Factory Included Accessories
|Detector Type
|Search Coil Type
|Search Coil Size (in)
|7" x 10"
|Search Coil Shape
|Search Coil Build
|Waterproof Search Coil
|Interchangeable Search Coil
|VLF Single Frequency
|Arm Rest
|Arm Rest Strap
|Adjustable Shaft
|Assembled Length Max (in)
|Assembled Length Min (in)
|Audio Tones
|Depth Indication
|Control Box Mount
|8 kHz
|Number of Frequencies
|Programmable Target Id
|Target Id Segments
|Target Id
|Pinpoint Mode
|Ground Balance
|Vibration Mode
|Search Modes
|Search Mode Types
|Coins, Custom, Jewelry, Notch Discrimination, Pinpoint, Relics
|Search Flashlight
|Display Type
|Backlit Display
|Volume Control
|Headphone Jack
|Bluetooth Compatible
|Interchangeable Headphones
|Battery Type
|Battery Quantity
|Battery Life (hr)
|15 to 20 Hours
|Rechargeable System
|Exclusive Features
|0-99 Target ID Scale, Increased Iron Resolution, Pulse-Width Modulation Audio
Garrett ACE 300 Metal Detector
The Garrett ACE 300 Metal Detector was built for the treasure hunter who wants a powerful device at a bargain price. The ACE 300 is enhanced with enough beneficial features to make it the choice of many metal detecting enthusiasts. Like its cousins in the ACE series, this metal detector is perfect for finding coins, jewelry, and even lost relics. It can be used on dry beaches, for fresh water wading and during competition events. Many users will take it out as a starter metal detector for gold prospecting or on their cache hunting expeditions.
The Digital Target ID – on a 0 to 99 scale – provides the user with a snapshot of what is in the ground below their feet. Each number is indicative of a specific type of metal present on a list kept by Garrett that can easily be referenced. This list makes it handy for the user to determine if they really want to dig something up once the target has been detected.
The Iron Discrimination Segment is set to four on the device to allow users to change the discrimination based on the ground conditions. There is also an adjustable Notch Discrimination to either reject or respond to a narrow band of targets at the user's selection. Five search modes are built into this device including jewelry, relics, coins, zero discrimination and even a custom setting for advanced users.
Eight sensitivity settings allow for usage in a variety of areas including those with high ground mineralization, near power transformers or even in close proximity to radio signals. The Target Depth Indicator is designed to show the depth of the target for easier extraction. The Audio Tone ID Levels provide three separate tones to let the user know the conductivity of the target they've come across.
Technical Specifications:
- Weighs in at 2.8 lbs (1.2 kgs)
- Operates at a Frequency of 8 kHz
- Protected by a 2 Year Limited Warranty
- Able to Accept or Reject Targets Based on Set Discrimination
- Modifies Discrimination Patterns using Notch Discrimination
- Provides Better Stability with Camlocks
- Eliminates Interference using an Adjustable Frequency
- Indicates Battery Life using a Battery Condition Indicator
- Shows Buried Targets with a Digital Target ID on a Scale of 0 to 99
- Determines a Target's Depth with a Continuous Coin Depth Indicator
- Provides Sharp and Responsive Audio using Pulse-Width Modulation
- Allows Better Handling of Iron Discrimination with Enhanced Iron Resolution
- Overcomes Target Masking using Increased Iron Resolution with a Battery Condition Indicator
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Review by Eric on October 01, 2016
Purchased a demo model when they were in stock. Came with all factory accessories except the dust cover for the control unit. The headphones have adjustable volume which is a big plus! The detector itself is light weight and sturdy. The display is easy to read and very user friendly. So far I have mostly used coins mode for hunting in my yard and found over $2 in coins so far! The deepest being a penny about 6 inches down. This is my first metal detector purchased but had used an AT Pro before, the sounds are very similar. I would recommended this detector for a beginner or even as a back up to a better unit.


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2007's Most Obnoxious Quotes
I love these. Hat tip goes to Dan (GPW) and VdaK for sending me this posting.
Here is just a taste of RightWingNews' Top 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes: (READ THE WHOLE THING!)
40) "(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom." — Republican Senator Larry Craig tries to explain away his attempt to pick-up an under cover police officer in an airport bathroom
33) "I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7 — building 7, which collapsed in on itself — it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes — 7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible." — Rosie O'Donnell talks Trutherism
27) "Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? …I know what this [Republican] party is capable of." — Joy Behar on The View
25) "When I see a stroller now, I see it as someone who evicted a person with AIDS, right or wrong." — Brian Basinger, president of the Harvey Milk Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transsexual Democratic Club on the horror of having to live near heterosexual families in San Francisco.
19) "I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required." — Sheryl Crow at the Huffington Post
18) "Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything." — Democratic Senator Majority Leader, Harry Reid
16) "Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda — worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was." — MSNBC's Keith Olbermann
12) "I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn't be dying needlessly tomorrow….I'm just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That's a fact." — Bill Maher
1) "Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared." — Ted Rall
Ignorance, malice and Bush Derangement Syndrome on full display from all corners in 2007.
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The ignorant comment by Keith Olbermann clearly proves that FOX is anything but what this man spews. His vitriolic lies shows a man totally incapable of emitting anything except poisonous venom similar to any dangerous reptile with the same function. I guess the lack of ratings causes a terminal case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. In his case there is no antidote since he is too far gone.
Comment by benj — January 3, 2008 @ 7:08 am - January 3, 2008
(Fox News is) as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was." — MSNBC's Keith Olbermann
Well, well, well. Way to diminish the idea that the Ku Klux Klan was anything to get excited about!
Olbermann's histrionics are like a rapist blaming his act on the siren scent of the perfume.
Hey, Keith, get control of your mouth and then work on trying to connect with some reservoir of common sense. (You may have to outsource the common sense part.)
Comment by heliotrope — January 3, 2008 @ 10:57 am - January 3, 2008
The Sheryl Crow quote was a joke, btw.
Comment by Houndentenor — January 3, 2008 @ 1:49 pm - January 3, 2008
Sheryl Crow IS a joke.
Comment by Bruce (GayPatriot) — January 3, 2008 @ 2:50 pm - January 3, 2008
OT but related: If any U.S.-hating leftie (or rightie / Ron Paul supporter) out there still thinks the U.S. has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians… think again.
In Iraq, over 90 percent of civilian casualties were inflicted by other Iraqis. [ed: the Baathist and terrorist "insurgents", plus Iran-backed Shia death squads]
The [U.S.] military encouraged the media to not cover the many procedures ("rules of engagement" or ROE) U.S. troops follow to avoid civilian losses. This was because the enemy would exploit those ROEs as much as possible.
…the efforts the Americans made to keep civilian losses down… paid long term benefits. Iraqis saw, day by day, the efforts by American troops to avoid hurting civilians. Initially, Iraqis saw that as an American weakness, but in the long run they recognized it as a sensibility rarely seen in the Middle East.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — January 3, 2008 @ 3:32 pm - January 3, 2008
Once in a while, I punish myself by reading comments from J.Q. Public posted on the local newspaper's website. Not a story is posted that fails to elicit at least one incandescently asinine comment.
There are a lot of stupid people in the world. Some are anonymous posters on the paper's website and the others (like Ted Rall and Bill Maher) are members of the media "elite".
Comment by Robert — January 3, 2008 @ 9:41 pm - January 3, 2008
These envirromentalists are such a bunch of idiots all their rediculous and silly ideas of their like EARTH HOUR or riding your bike to work what else will these granola munching tree hugger idiots come up with?
Comment by Flu-Bird — November 10, 2009 @ 12:45 pm - November 10, 2009
TED RALL wouldnt you just like to take his drawingboard and brain him with it?BILL MAHER Please check back in when your brain is working
Comment by Flu-Bird — November 15, 2009 @ 9:56 pm - November 15, 2009
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1.5 to 2 lbs fresh mushrooms (look for ones with large caps)
1 onion, chopped
1/4 lb butter
1/4 – 1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
1.5 cups grated parmesan cheese
1 – 2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 6 oz. can crabmeat
chopped parsley
Clean mushrooms. Remove stems and chop. Melt butter, add onions and chopped mushroom stems, saute until tender. Add breadcrumbs, cheese, Worcestershire, and crabmeat. Spoon mixture into mushrooms. Sprinkle with paprika and parsley. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Serve hot.


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Lindsay Lohan being treated for addiction to Twitter
Hollywood beauty Lindsay Lohan who is currently in court-ordered rehab is being treated for her addiction to the social networking website Twitter.world Updated: Oct 11, 2010 20:00 IST
Hollywood beauty Lindsay Lohan who is currently in court-ordered rehab is being treated for her addiction to the social networking website Twitter.
The troubled actress who is staying at the Betty Ford Clinic in Los Angeles, had voluntarily entered into a substance abuse program there, reported New York Post online. The 24-year-old is also trying to cut down her phone usage and the staff are now helping her to reduce the amount of time she spends on social networking websites.
"Lindsay is only allowed to use her phone for two hours a day, and only to keep in touch with family and close friends. Before, she would repeatedly and compulsively email her friends if she was ever in a situation where she felt lonely, and she would vent on Twitter," said a source in the rehab centre.
The policy has been implemented so Lohan can "concentrate on herself" during therapy. The actress is due in court on October 22 for a probation hearing, after she failed two drugs tests last month. Lohan, who served 13 days of a 90-day jail term behind bars in July, returned to prison following the failed tests, but ended up spending just a matter of hours behind bars after posting USD 300,000 bail.
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Rave Continues Record Growth, Further Solidifies Higher Education Safety Leadership
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., June 29, 2013 – Rave Mobile Safety, the trusted software partner for campus and public safety, today announced significant milestones for the first half of 2013. Rave's continued growth and outstanding customer retention rates further solidifies its position as the leader in higher education emergency notification systems and safety solutions.
2013 highlights include:
- Continued industry leading 99 percent customer retention rate.
- Rave higher education solutions now deployed in 47 states.
- 70 new higher education clients including Tulane University, East Carolina University, Southern Oregon University, Oakland University, Evansville University, Trident Technical College and Madonna University.
- Rave Alert performed flawlessly during the Boston Marathon bombings and its aftermath, delivering hundreds of thousands of messages as the emergency notification system of area colleges including Boston College, University of Massachusetts, Suffolk University and Simmons College.
- Hosted emergency best practices webinar attended by more than 700 Emergency and Safety Managers from higher education institutions.
- Rave Guardian, the well-established, patented personal mobile safety solution, continued posting impressive adoption rates on campuses across the U.S.
- Continued high replacement rate of under performing emergency notification solutions with more than 60 institutions choosing Rave's technology over existing solutions from other vendors.
- Established as the "easy-button" standard for initiating mass notifications to all mediums including SMS, voice, email, screen, siren, Twitter, Facebook, RSS and CAP.
- Expanded comprehensive Higher Education Partner Program, now available as a standard offering with AT&T, Ellucian and Jenzibar.
"Our students today are living an unprecedented mobile lifestyle," said Dr. Richard Shurtz, president of Stratford University. "Rave Alert puts us in the best possible position to send emergency communications to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, regardless of where everyone is at the time."
Rave's suite of campus safety products includes: Rave Alert, the most reliable broadcast emergency notification solution on the market; Rave Guardian, which transforms a cell phone into a personal safety device; and EyeWitness, which allows students to confidentially text into campus police any threats or issues they see on campus. All of these solutions bring total campus safety to universities or colleges of any size, in any location.
"Our sustained growth in higher education stems from a very strong, loyal base of customers," said Tom Axbey, president and CEO of Rave Mobile Safety. "We focus on their satisfaction and delivering proven products that continue to set an industry standard. Our reward is customers who are virtually all references and feedback that guides every facet of our business. We now protect nearly 40 percent of the U.S. higher education student population and look forward to furthering partnerships with leading institutions as we innovate and grow our portfolio of products."


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Frigidaire DF6SFX36K100C Dual Fuel Package 15 SEER 3 Ton Heat Pump with 100,000 BTU Gas Heat
If you live in a region of the country with hot summers and very cold winters, then you need a home HVAC system able to meet both needs while being flexible enough to deal with the occasional spring and fall temperature fluctuation. A Frigidaire iHybrid 3 ton Packaged Dual Fuel combines energy efficient heat pump technology with a powerful gas heater to create a system versatile enough to reduce your seasonal electric consumption, deliver real air comfort, and meet any temperature challenge.
The Frigidaire iHybrid series of dual-fuel gas/electric packaged units offers quiet, energy-saving performance year-round.


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NCH Capital Inc. announces the launch of an informative video and website for the exciting 'Kassiopi' luxury development project in Erimitis, on the Greek island of Corfu.
NCH Capital Inc. announces that the company is ready to proceed with the immediate implementation of its investment at Kassiopi, Corfu, Greece, and the development of a luxury eco-destination that is set to significantly benefit the island - and Greece - as a whole.
Combining stunning natural beauty, unsurpassed views across the turquoise Ionian Sea, and the distinctive style of the area's traditional architecture, the touristic regeneration of Erimiti is set to make it the jewel of Corfu, attracting visitors from all over the world.
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By Sally Day- The Quill
Visitors asked Oquawka Village board members if they would consider allowing the visitors to talk prior to the end of the meetings.
Before this meeting, held March 5, 2012, visitors were placed at the end of the agenda, allowing them to speak for three minutes.
Resident Sue Bigger asked, "If you allow us three minutes at the end, would you revise a vote?" There were approximately 20 visitors present.
Board members contemplated this, a discussion ensued, in which board members generously noted that it was important for residents to have input. Board member Todd Shinberger noted, "The main reason I became a board member was to listen to the community." The other board members agreed and it was decided that visitors could discuss and ask questions following a motion and a second, prior to a vote. The board further stated there would still be a place for visitors to bring up new and/or different information at the end of the meeting.
Engineer Paul Loete announced a delay on the street project. The delay should only be a matter of two weeks and is due to an Environmental Review, where they found some endangered animals - the Indiana Bat. Mayor Harold Henshaw said he had received information on endangered Tree Frogs.
Loete also asked the board if they would like his engineering company to pursue a planning grant, which needs to be applied for by the end of March. The board agreed they would like to see if the grants are available to them.
Village resident Diane Meldrum was present to inform the board, that U.S. Representative Bobby Shilling, 17th Congressional District of Illinois, Republican Party, has offered to help Oquawka in seeking available grant monies for a permanent structure at the "track". Meldrum is also part of the 4th of July Committee. The board passed a motion to seek funding through the committee for a permanent shelter.
Oquawka Fire Chief, Hal Jern reported to the board Eileen Nolan had generously donated a sum of money to the Fire Department to assist with repairs. Chief Jern is also attempting to obtain grant monies from Great River Medical Center of West Burlington, Iowa, for fire equipment.
Police Chief Todd Miller reported a total of 67 calls and 14 arrests for the month of February 2012.
Two committees will meet on Tuesday, March 27. The Public Safety Committee will meet 6 p.m. to discuss Village Ordinances and at 6:30 p.m. the Finance Committee will meet.
In other business, the Board:


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The prospect of a financial deal to secure new powers for Holyrood edged a little closer last night after John Swinney met with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Greg Hands.
A joint communiqué released by the Scottish and UK governments said the two men had "agreed" the "over-arching structure" of the fiscal framework document, which will underpin the transfer of more tax-raising and welfare powers to the Scottish Parliament.
The negotiations between Mr Swinney and Mr Hands were part of the sixth Joint Exchequer Committee meeting in Edinburgh.
The talks aim to deliver a fiscal framework, which will enable the new powers proposed by the Smith Commission in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum.
The communiqué said the ministers had "continued their discussion on the methodologies for the Block Grant Adjustment and also discussed administration and implementation costs".
The transfer of new tax-raising powers will see a cut in Scotland's block grant from the Treasury. The SNP has expressed fears that Scotland will lose money as a result of this process.
Ahead of yesterday's meeting, Mr Hands said the next stage of devolution can deliver the best deal for taxpayers across the UK in contrast to the "disastrous" alternative of full fiscal autonomy – the more radical settlement for which the SNP had argued. The SNP's opponents objected to full fiscal autonomy, because it would leave Scotland over-reliant on the volatile oil price.
The Scottish Government has refused to sign up to the Scotland Bill until it can negotiate a fiscal framework that causes no detriment to the people of Scotland.
Mr Hands said his over-riding objective was to fulfil the Smith Commission's principle that the next stage of devolution should cause no detriment to Scotland or the UK.
Speaking at RBS headquarters in Edinburgh, Mr Hands said: "So far it's been a very constructive and cordial set of discussions between myself and John Swinney. "John and I are both clear that we need to make sure that we get the right deal for all taxpayers in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
"We've done it before in terms of the Scottish rate of income tax in the 2012 Act and I think we can do it again. When you look at what the alternative would be, full fiscal autonomy would be a disaster for the people of Scotland."


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