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For the last few years, the news has been full of talk about "staycations." The idea is simple: instead of travelling for a vacation, stay home and do vacation-y type stuff, and save a bundle in the process. Sounds great, does it? Unfortunately, staycations often get lost in the everyday drama of life. Don't let that happen to you.
Leave Work At WorkThe most important thing about being on staycation is completely cutting yourself off from work. Don't tell your co-workers that you're staying home on your vacation. Turn off your work phone, or don't answer the phone when it is work calling. Don't check your work email. This is important - still being halfway at work is no way to spend a vacation.
Cut Back On ElectronicsYup, I'm sitting here next to my husband, writing on the computer, and I'm going to tell you to cut the cord on your staycation. Seriously. Most of us spend way too much time on computer, video games, and cell phones. You don't have to give them up completely, but see how close you can come.
Make It PeacefulMost of us live in busy houses with too much stuff. If you have to, take a half a day at the beginning of your vacation to make your home somewhere that you want to be. Wash your sheets, clear the crap out of your bedroom, and make sure that you've got yummy food available. You can splurge a little - this is your vacation, after all. Consider hiring a cleaning company to make sure your house is a pleasant place to be. Even an expensive clean will still be significantly less expensive than a vacation.
Get Out Of The HouseMost people don't spend their vacations locked up in a hotel room. Get out, see things, and do things. Be a tourist in your hometown. Catch a minor league baseball game. Go to museums. Play mini-golf. Make a point of doing things most days of your staycation.
Splurge On FoodMany people find eating out to be one of the great joys of vacationing. Be sure to make time and money available for eating out, ordering in, or splurging on groceries that you normally wouldn't purchase. Again, this stuff costs money, but you are trying to save, not spend no money at all.
Staying home can make a great vacation, but you have to put some effort into making sure that it doesn't end up being just another week of honey-dos and everyday stuff. A little planning and a good attitude can result in a great vacation and great savings.


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Assistant dean at University of Illinois falsified admissions data for money
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Paul Pless resigned from the law school on 4 November, after the news broke that he had inflated grades and test scores of students in six of the past seven years to make incoming classes appear much smarter than they actually were. The fudged numbers helped Pless to boost the school's ranking, upon which basis his salary was nearly doubled during his seven-year tenure, to $130,051.
The school has a lot of work to do to repair its tattered reputation, notwithstanding that it took immediate action to investigate its figures when concerns were raised over the numbers in August. The report recommends that the law school create a monitoring and auditing program to ensure that the school's internal controls are functioning properly and that all figures reported - both internally and externally, are accurate and supported. Bruce Smith, the dean of the university's College of Law, said: "The college takes seriously the issues of data integrity and intends to implement the report's recommendations promptly and comprehensively."
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SID, Serbia (AP) The latest as tens of thousands of people flood into Europe in search of a new life. All times local.
11:00 p.m.
Greek authorities say four more people have drowned off the eastern island of Lesbos, after an accident involving a boat with nearly 50 migrants on board who had crossed over from nearby Turkey.
The coast guard said Tuesday that about 40 people were saved by a patrol boat, while a man, two women and a child were later rescued from the sea. The dead were identified as two men and two children. No others were listed as missing.
Lesbos is Europe's main landing point for a flood of refugees and other migrants, mostly from the Middle East, who arrive in thousands daily seeking a better life in the continent.
Nearly 100 people have drowned over the past six days, in overcrowded boats provided at a high charge by smuggling gangs.
9:40 p.m.
Greek authorities say three adults and a child are missing in the sea off the eastern island of Lesbos after an accident involving a boat with more than 40 migrants on board.
The coast guard said Tuesday that about 40 people were saved by a patrol boat, while a man and two babies were later rescued from the sea and taken to hospital in serious condition.
Lesbos is Europe's main landing point for a flood of refugees and economic migrants, mostly from the Middle East, who arrive in thousands daily via Turkey seeking a better life in the continent.
About 90 people have drowned over the past six days in overcrowded boats provided at a high charge by smuggling gangs.
8:40 p.m.
A Cypriot official says a rescue operation is underway to save people from a small boat that ran into trouble seven miles (11 kilometers) off the southeastern tip of the Mediterranean island.
The official said three helicopters are plucking people out of the water late Tuesday and that strong winds lashing the area are making the operation difficult.
The official at Cyprus' Joint Rescue Coordination Center said eight rescued people been taken to a local hospital and a second helicopter was on its way there with more people.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to the Center's rules, couldn't say how many people had been aboard the boat or how many were in the water.
Thousands of people have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean into Europe.
8:10 p.m.
Austria's president says his country doesn't want "new borders" erected inside the European Union in order to control the influx of refugees fleeing war in Syria.
President Heinz Fischer says Austria agrees that the EU's external borders need to be better monitored and protected but says the 28-nation bloc mustn't "come back to a time when Iron Curtains" separated European countries.
Speaking after talks Tuesday with the Cypriot president, Fischer said "hundreds of thousands" of refugees have been entering Austria.
He said Austria is working with Germany to "share the burden" of receiving the refugees at a ratio that echoes the two nations' populations of 8 million and 80 million respectively.
Austria is at the forefront of those criticizing Hungary's decision to build a border fence.
7:50 p.m.
Aid groups have gotten a French court to acknowledge an emergency situation in a Calais migrant slum and enforce increased sanitation measures.
The court in Lille, the administrative center of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, has ruled that authorities have not been doing enough to respect the human rights of migrants and has given them a deadline to implement measures.
They have eight days to create 10 more water points, 50 outdoor toilets, refuse collection, cleaning programs, and creating points of access to the camp to allow emergency services in. They have 48 hours to identify all "isolated" minors in the camp.
Doctors of the World call the ruling a "first victory" to get "all these exiled women, men and children" basic help.
7:15 p.m.
Slovenia's prime minister says his country will strengthen controls of its border with Croatia, possibly by erecting a fence, if migrants continue to stream into the Alpine nation in large numbers.
Miro Cerar said Tuesday Slovenia would not close down its borders, but would use "technical obstacles" to control the influx. He said this could include a border fence "if necessary."
Slovenia has repeatedly complained it is too small to handle thousands of refugees coming its way. Cerar said the country of 2 million does not have winter capacities for migrants.
He also said that if Germany and Austria limit the acceptance of migrants, Slovenia would have to act because it would face "an uncontrollable number of migrants."
Migrants turned to Slovenia last month after Hungary closed its border with Croatia.
6:55 p.m.
European Union leaders will hold informal talks next week on the sidelines of a migration summit with African nations amid fears that the EU's passport free travel area could collapse.
The Schengen open border area is a pillar of free trade and travel in the 28-nation bloc, but some EU nations have reintroduced border controls to cope with the tens of thousands of people crossing in.
EU Council President Donald Tusk, who will chair the Nov. 12 meeting, says Tuesday that "we must do all we can to keep Schengen intact. So any initiative that may lead to the re-establishment of borders within Schengen should be withheld."
He added that "if we are to avoid the worst, we must speed up our actions" in solving Europe's migration crisis.
6:40 p.m.
Europol says 29 suspects have been arrested during raids in Spain and Poland that targeted a Pakistani crime gang accused of smuggling Pakistanis into Europe and putting them to work under slave-like conditions in kebab restaurants.
The European Union police agency announced Tuesday that 365 Spanish and Polish police officers launched raids Oct. 24 and 25 at dozens of restaurants and homes, making arrests and seizing evidence, including equipment to forge travel documents.
An anti-smuggling team at Europol's headquarters in The Hague helped coordinate the operation.
Europol says migrants paid the gang around 14,000 euros ($15,300) for the trip to Europe, often crossing the Mediterranean in unseaworthy boats from Turkey to Greece or Libya to Italy.
It was not immediately clear how many migrants the gang smuggled in.
5:20 p.m.
Finland's interior minister says increasing tensions between ethnic Finns and asylum-seekers is the biggest security threat facing the Nordic country.
Petteri Orpo warned Tuesday of a "growing risk" of violent attacks against asylum-seekers and among asylum-seekers, saying some have been refused refuge because of their participation in terror-linked organizations.
Security police chief Antti Pelttari says the threat of a terror attack is still "low" in the country of 5.5 million but that the agency has a watch-list of 300 people with suspected sympathies toward extreme Islamist ideology.
There have been several anti-immigrant protests in Finland and police have reported a few minor attacks or threats against asylum centers. No one has been hurt.
Immigration officials estimate that some 35,000 migrants will have arrived in the country by year-end a tenfold increase on 2014.
5:00 p.m.
Hungary's parliament has approved a resolution that rejects the European Union's plan to introduce a quota system to share refugees among member nations.
The approval Tuesday by lawmakers from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, its Christian Democrat coalition partners and the far-right Jobbik party paves the way for the government to launch legal action against the EU to avoid having to take part in the scheme.
The government said earlier it would wait for parliament to weigh in on the issue before deciding on a possible lawsuit. Neighboring Slovakia is considering similar steps.
Hungary grants asylum to a few hundred refugees a year and rejects economic migrants. It has built fences on its borders with Serbia and Croatia which has diverted migrants toward Slovenia in their efforts to reach Germany and other, richer EU countries.
3:50 p.m.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her most prominent domestic critic of recent weeks have put on a show of unity, appearing together to stress their joint aim to pare back the migrant influx.
Horst Seehofer, Bavaria's governor and leader of the Bavarian branch of Merkel's conservative bloc, has publicly criticized Merkel's welcoming approach to refugees for weeks, demanding federal government action.
But Merkel and the Christian Social Union leader buried the hatchet in recent days and are pressing their partners in Germany's governing coalition, the center-left Social Democrats, to agree to new measures.
During a joint appearance with Seehofer before a meeting of lawmakers Tuesday, Merkel said the conservatives want to "order and steer the refugee flow, fight the causes of flight and so reduce the number of refugees."
1 p.m.
Germany's vice chancellor is denouncing as "silly" an argument within Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition over whether to set up "transit zones" to weed out near the country's borders migrants with no realistic asylum claim.
Merkel's conservative bloc is pushing hard for the idea, details of which remain unclear, but Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel's Social Democrats have opposed it. They argue the plan would effectively entail interning large numbers of people and be impractical.
Gabriel said Tuesday that an influx of people from Balkan countries considered safe has largely dried up and it's "relatively silly" to argue over something that would be useful for a tiny proportion of migrants.
He said officials should instead discuss questions such as how to dissuade people from countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan from coming.
12:50 p.m.
Slovakia is sending a unit of 20 police officers to Slovenia to help the tiny Alpine nation protect the external border of Europe's visa-free Schengen zone amid a migrant influx.
Tuesday's announcement by Prime Minister Robert Fico comes a day after another EU member, the Czech Republic, made the same decision.
Fico says the officers might travel to Slovenia as soon as Friday.
Slovakian Interior Minister Robert Kalinak also says his country is forming a new unit of 300 police officers who will be ready to be deployed to other EU nations to help protect the EU's outer borders.
Slovakia already sent 50 police officers to help Hungary.
Slovenia has said its ability to deal with the influx has been stretched to the limit with thousands of migrants crossing its territory in hopes of reaching Western Europe.
12:35 p.m.
The secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says the sheer scale of the refugee influx to Europe has overwhelmed authorities, and acknowledged more must be done.
During a visit on Tuesday to Greece, the country that has borne the brunt of new arrivals, Elhadj As Sy said the refugee numbers hadn't been predicted. IFRC figures Tuesday show 600,000 people reached Greece so far this year.
"What we are facing is much more than what was expected," As Sy said after meeting Greek migration minister Yiannis Mouzalas. "And that's why everybody is overwhelmed."
12:25 p.m.
Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Europe's refugee crisis won't be solved at the German-Austrian border and is warning other countries that they shouldn't assume they won't be affected.
Merkel renewed her call on Tuesday for a fair distribution of refugees around Europe. Germany has taken by far the most refugees so far, with Sweden and Austria also receiving many, but several other European Union countries have been reluctant to make any significant contribution.
Merkel, who faces pressure at home to reduce the influx, said: "I am firmly convinced that we will not manage this challenge at the German-Austrian border." She added: "Those in Europe who think today that they are not affected by this will be affected in some way tomorrow, if only through the unity of Europe being questioned."
12:20 p.m.
An official says recently-arrived migrants housed at a British army base on Cyprus had set fire to two tents, but that the blaze was put out quickly.
British Bases spokeswoman Connie Pierce said Tuesday the situation is now calm following Monday's incident. She gave no reason for the fire.
Pierce said there had been "a series of incidents" at the facility, but that authorities won't "be going into specific detail."
She said the 114 people, who arrived by boat at a British air base on Cyprus last month, have food, shelter, privacy and communications and that U.N. staff say the facility "exceeds the standard of comparable setups."
Pierce repeated that the British government won't allow a new migrant route to open up to the U.K. through its two Cyprus bases.
12 p.m.
Serbia and Croatia have launched a direct train transfer of migrants from one country to another so asylum seekers no longer have to wait long hours outside in the cold.
Officials say that the first train carrying about 1,000 migrants left Tuesday morning from the Serbian town of Sid toward Slavonski Brod, Croatia, where authorities have set up a winter camp.
The direct train link was agreed last month after thousands of people, most of whom were families with small children, were forced to spent entire nights at a muddy border passage waiting to cross from Serbia to Croatia.
Croatian police say more than 300,000 people have passed through the country since mid-September. Most migrants want to reach wealthy nations of Western Europe, such as Germany or Sweden.


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Today is Nov 1 and this starts 30 Days of Gratitude. On blogs all over the Internet you will see daily postings about gratitude. While I would love to commit to blogging daily I know that isn't realistic for me. I will try to post some thoughts on gratitude at least once a week though.
I am currently reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy Leigh Demoss. One quote in the first chapter of the book that that really convicted me is: "I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship. And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible."
Stop for a minute and let that sink in. When bad things happen, not only should we be grateful but we should worship God instead of worrying and whining?
When life hands us lemons, when unfair things happen, when we don't get our way, what is our first reaction? For me, I am not proud to admit that more often than not my first reaction is to whine, worry, wonder and sometimes downright obsess over my circumstances. Then after I have my mini panic attack, I will pray and start trying to see how God may be working through the situation.
Worshiping God doesn't just happen during a church service or when you are listening to a sermon or singing a song. It doesn't just happen when you are praying or doing your devotions.
Worshiping God means to devote yourself, your thoughts and your life to God and His will because He is worthy of it and we are nothing without Him. Per Webster's Dictionary: The word (worship) is derived from the Old English worthscipe, meaning worthiness or worth-ship — to give, at its simplest, worth to something.
To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are. – Brother Lawrence
Can you imagine the peace you will feel and how different your life will be when you focus on worshiping and being grateful instead of worrying & whining? What a difference that will make in lessening our stress, lowering depression and calming our fears.
This month I am going to work on choosing to worship God and being grateful first instead of worrying, whining and wondering. What about you? Do you need to focus more on choosing worship and gratitude over whining and worrying? How have you learned to overcome worrying? Feel free to comment and share below so we can encourage each other!
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Sat Nav | Heated leather seats
This gorgeous BMW 4 Series comes with Sat Nav, cruise control and parking sensors for a helping hand throughout your journeys, gorgeous heated leather seats to relax into, and Bluetooth and DAB radio to keep you connected and entertained whilst on the move.
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- £145 tax per year
- CO2 128 g/km
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|1995 cc
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|DAB tuner
|Automatic dimming rear view mirror
|BBody colour roof mouldings
|Body colour door handles
|Body colour front bumper
|Body colour mirror caps
|Chrome kidney grille with extra wide high gloss black vertical slats
|Direction indicator, side repeaters, integrated in exterior mirrors
|Door sill finishers with M designation
|Dual exhaust tailpipes in left with chrome finisher
|Dynamic brake lights
|Electric front windows with fingertip open/close + anti-trap facility
|Follow me home headlights
|Front air inlet with high gloss black finish
|Front and rear bumper system
|Green tinted heat protection glazing
|Heated windscreen washer jets
|Heated, electrically adjustable exterior mirror aspheric on driver side, convex on passenger side
|High gloss black rear bumper insert
|High gloss shadow line
|High level third brake light
|LED daytime running lights
|LED direction indicator lenses
|LED eyebrow light
|LED front fog lights
|LED tail lights with 3D L-shaped LED light design
|M aerodynamic bodystyling
|M designation side badges
|Rain sensor including auto headlights activation
|Shark fin antenna
|Two speed adjustable intervals windscreen wipers
|Visible VIN plate
|Windscreen with grey shadeband
|12V sockets in front centre console and passenger footwell
|2 Rear seat headrests
|3 spoke leather M sport multifunction sports steering wheel
|4 grab handles
|Air conditioning and radio control panel in high gloss black
|Anthracite headlining
|Automatic air conditioning with two zone control
|Chrome centre console panel highlight
|Driver and front passenger seat heating
|Folding front centre armrest with storage compartment
|Folding storage compartment with glasses holder + coin tray
|Front and rear side armrests integrated into door trim
|Front door storage with bottle holder
|Front head restraints
|Front sports seats with electric side bolster adjustment
|Glove compartment
|Glove compartment opener with chrome trim
|ISOFIX child seat preparation+airbag deactivation
|Interior lighting, front centre over interior mirror and rear centre automatic interior light activation when door is opened
|Leather gearknob and handbrake lever
|Load lashing eyes in luggage compartment
|M gear selector lever in nappa leather
|Reach + rake adjustable steering column
|Rear centre armrest with 2 cupholders
|Rear coded belt buckles
|Storage compartment in rear centre console
|Sunvisors with vanity mirrors and ticket pocket
|Toolkit located in luggage compartment
|Two front cup holders with a sliding lid
|Velour floor mats
|Welcome lighting
|Airbag - Front driver and passenger, front and rear head, front side, curtain head protection, manual deactivation of front passenger airbag possible
|Anti lock braking system (ABS) with brake assist
|Automatic Stability Control (ASC)
|Battery safety cut-off
|Brake drying
|Brake energy regeneration
|Brake pretensioning
|CBC - (Cornering brake control)
|Crash sensor activating central locking release, hazard warning lights
|Dynamic Traction Control - DTC
|Dynamic brake control
|Dynamic stability control + (DSC+)
|Front and rear ventilated brake disc
|Front seatbelt force limiters
|Hill start assistant
|Pyrotechnically pre-tensioned front seatbelts
|Seat belt security check for driver
|Side impact protection
|Twin horns
|Tyre pressure monitoring with three level warning strategy
|Variable torque distribution
|Warning triangle and first aid kit
|Auto start-stop
|Automatic tailgate operation
|BMW Online services
|BMW Teleservices
|BMW emergency call
|BMW remote services
|Brake pad wear indicator warning light
|Check Control warning system for monitoring of lights and door/luggage compartment open warning
|Control display - 6.5" colour display screen
|Cruise control with brake function
|Front/rear park distance control (PDC)
|Instrument cluster with speedometer with mph readout, tachometer, fuel gauge and oil temperature gauge
|Lights on warning by audio warning signal when ignition is switched off
|M Sport instrument cluster
|On board computer - average speed, fuel consumption, outside temp display with acoustic warning, clock/date, service interval, odometer/trip meter
|Optimum shift indicator
|Personal Profile - automatic lock when driving away selectable
|Run flat indicator
|Start/stop button with Comfort Go keyless engine start and auto Start/stop deactivation button
|iDrive Controller with 8 favourite buttons
|6 speed manual transmission
|Aluminium front suspension
|Diesel particulate filter
|Drive performance control with ECO PRO comfort + sport mode
|Electronic differential lock
|Five link rear suspension
|Incorrect fuelling protection
|Lightweight engineering
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Due to recent technological developments, tapered optical fibers (TOFs) can be produced with waist diameters smaller than the wavelength of the guided light. In the waist region of such TOFs, the core of the original optical fiber is almost vanishing and the light-guiding properties are determined by the refractive index of the original cladding and the refractive index of the surrounding vacuum/air. Such subwavelength-diameter vacuum-clad dielectric-core fibers are called nanofibers. Due to adiabatic tapering, the transmission of TOFs with a nanofiber waist can be as high as 99%. In conjunction with the strong lateral confinement and the pronounced evanescent field of the nanofiber-guided light, this makes them versatile devices for efficiently coupling light and matter.
Over the past years, various aspects of nanofiber-based quantum optics and nanophotonics have been investigated. It has been shown that nanofibers can be used to trap, manipulate, and guide atoms, to provide efficient coupling of light to micro- and nanostructures, and to probe atoms, molecules, and nanoparticles at or near the nanofiber surface.
The overall goal of the present theoretical research is to investigate new approaches to fundamental and applied problems of classical and quantum electrodynamics offered by the novel TOF experimental setup. Our theoretical research focusses on the following specific topics:
(1) The mechanical effects of a negative Poynting vector of the evanescent field of a nanofiber on nanoparticles.
(2) Cavity quantum electrodynamical (CQED) effects for an ensemble of fiber-trapped atoms coupled to a nanofiber resonator.
The main goals of subproject (1) are to clarify the relation between a negative Poynting vector and the orientation of the optical force acting on a nanoparticle in the vicinity of a nanofiber as well as to search for appropriate conditions under which nanoparticles are dragged towards the light source.
In subproject (2), the goals are to study the interaction between a nanofiber-cavity mode and a linear array of atoms and to examine the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency in such a nanofiber-based system with the aim of using the system for highly efficient storage and retrieval of quantum information as well as for implementing practical schemes for quantum gates and quantum switches based on this nanofiber-CQED system.
The recent results of our research have been reported in the following publications:
[1] Negative azimuthal force of a nanofiber-guided light on a particle.
Fam Le Kien and A. Rauschenbeutel
Phys. Rev. A 88, 063845 (2013).
[2] Propagation of nanofiber-guided light through an array of atoms.
Fam Le Kien and A. Rauschenbeutel
Phys. Rev. A 90, 063816 (2014).
[3] Electromagnetically induced transparency for guided light in an atomic array outside an optical nanofiber.
Fam Le Kien and A. Rauschenbeutel
Phys. Rev. A 91, 053847 (2015).
[4] Anisotropy in scattering of light from an atom into the guided modes of a nanofiber.
Fam Le Kien and A. Rauschenbeutel
Phys. Rev. A 90, 023805 (2014).
Arno Rauschenbeutel, Pham Le Kien


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Winged Cloud's "Sakura" series will be getting a third installment called Sakura Fantasy, another adventure game where your choices decide the outcome of the story. Winged Cloud will once again team up with Sekai Project for the publication of this new game. You can vote for Greenlight project here.
Sakura Fantasy will follow the tale of an aspiring novice who wishes to aim to become a knight. Her life suddenly changes when she meets the mysterious empress and a burning star falls from the heavens.
The short preview video is also available on Youtube.


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Eye in the Sky Full Movie is about how Colonel Katherine Powell a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation is about to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from "capture" to "kill." But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of US and British government, over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Actor: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman
Director: Gavin Hood
Country: United Kingdom, South Africa
Duration: 102 min
Quality: HD
Release: 2015
IMDb: 7.3
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Connor McDavid has already made his mark on the ice as a generational talent. Now, he's making his mark off of it, as well, becoming the NHL's highest-paid player.
Not bad for a guy who just left his teens five months ago.
McDavid and the Oilers agreed to an eight-year contract extension which will cost $12.5 million per year against the salary cap once it kicks in following the upcoming season. That deal easily tops the dual $10.5 million cap hits of Chicago's Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, which are currently the highest in the NHL for 2017-18. Anze Kopitar of the Kings has a salary cap charge of $10 million; and Montreal's Carey Price will earn an average of $10.5 million per season beginning in 2018-19.
The wholesale nhl jerseys deal became official Wednesday at a news conference in Edmonton. Reportedly it is worth $750,000 less per season than originally reported last week.
Of course few would argue that McDavid deserves to be the highest-paid player in the sport. The 20-year-old, 2015 first-overall pick already has 102 assists and 148 points in only 127 career games played. He just captured the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsey Award, signaling his rise as the league's top player in 2016-17, when he secured the Art Ross Trophy, leading the NHL with 100 points. That he did so as the youngest captain in league history merely adds to McDavid's growing legend.
While the dollar figure is record-setting by NHL standards, it pales in comparison to what comparable superstars are paid in the other major sports.
LeBron James hauls in a cool $35.6 million per year, nearly triple what McDavid will make. Clayton Kershaw is right behind James, with MLB's top salary that calls for him to make $35.571 million each season. Saints quarterback Drew Brees leads the NFL with a cap hit of $28 million.
Of course, other leagues generate more revenue and have higher team salary caps than the NHL, and not every penny of an NFL pact is even guaranteed. But it is sobering to see that 67 players in the NBA — 67! — will make more than McDavid in 2017-18. As of today, 52 NFL players will pull in more than McDavid's reported $13.25 million; and the EA Sports NHL 18 cover boy will make the same as Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel this season, sitting behind 85 other major league baseball players.
Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli said Wednesday that McDavid's signing signals a partnership between the team and player, and that the young superstar could have sought more dollars and agreed to fewer years on the deal than he ultimately did.
In the end, both sides win.The Oilers lock up the face of the franchise for eight years, a major coup, and McDavid pockets $100 million before becoming an unrestricted free agent at 28.


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The first look teaser of Allu Arjun's upcoming film "Race Gurram" has been released.
The 10-second video was released on the eve of director Surender Reddy's birthday, which happens to be on 7 December (Saturday). Allu Arjun looks stylish in the teaser, which has background score by Thaman.
The video, which was launched on the night of 6th December, has received good response from fans. Within hours of its launch, the teaser has got more than 20,000 views. To watch the video, click HERE.
"Race Gurram" is touted to be a full-fledged family entertainer. Shruti Haasan plays the female lead for the first time in Allu Arjun film. The other cast members include Shaam, Saloni Aswani, Prakash Raj, Ravi Kishan, Mukesh Rishi, Ashish Vidyarthi and Kota Srinivasa Rao.
The film's shooting is progressing at a brisk pace and the entire shoot is expected to get completed soon. "They are planning to shoot a chase scene with Allu Arjun, Saloni and other artistes in Hyderabad. After that, the unit may shift to Kumbakonam to film a few key scenes," a source close to the unit told Deccan Chronicle.
Earlier, it was reported that "Race Gurram" will hit the screens for Sankranti next year. Fans were expecting fireworks during the festival period as four big films - "Race Gurram", Mahesh Babu's "1-Nenokkadine", Ram Charan's "Yevadu" and Nithiin's "Heart Attack" - were heading for a big clash at the box office.
Apparently, "Race Gurram" will not hit the screens in January. According to reports, the film's unit needs at least two months to complete the shooting as well as other aspects of the Allu Arjun starrer. The film will reportedly be hitting theatres in February.
"Race Gurram" is said to be made on a budget of ₹45 crore. The stylish entertainer is produced by Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions. The film's cinematography is handled by Manoj Paramahamsa and editing is done by Goutham Raju.


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If you are in the event planning community (DJs, Wedding Planners, Photographers, Venues, etc) you are likely as frustrated as I am with the current crop of tools out there to plan your events. To add to the frustration you are likely using one, two, three, or even more tools to help manage all the aspects of your events, to your financials, your communications. There is a better way to do this.
eCUEity is an evolutionary web-based platform of tools for the event industry, built by someone in the event industry, to help manage not only events, but to help manage your business more simply and effectively.
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All vendors, venues, and other interested parties can share the same planning documents within the same interface saving considerable time and effort.
Define workflows throughout the application to automate everything from email dispatches to changing the state of your clients.
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Lou Paris is a 20+ year IT veteran working for public, private, and government agencies with a focus on developing solutions to complex problems. Lou is also a 26+ year seasoned Disc Jockey and in 2012 he started Paris Creative, a Wedding DJ business based in the beautiful Hudson Valley NY region, and discovered the lack of robust tools to manage events and critical business needs.
After spending a couple years of dealing with the current crop of tools, and even helping numerous professionals in the industry utilize the current tools to the best of their abilities, Lou began conceptualizing what a better solution would look like. The idea of eCUEity began and in 2016 initial development of the platform commenced.
Founded in 2009, KiwiTech began as a mobile and web development firm, and has since created hundreds of apps serving a wide range of interests and industries. In the process, they have developed deep expertise and a consultative-driven approach to providing end-to-end enterprise technology solutions. Guided by their strong content background and ability to create engaging UI/UX, they work with clients to build robust, award-winning web, mobile and social media solutions.
Given their robust portfolio and commitment to start up and entrepreneurial minds, eCUEity selected KiwiTech as the primary development group to usher in the product to market and beyond.


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Togo withdraw from ANC as death toll increases
Togo have withdrawn from the African Nations Cup in Angola following the machine gun attack on their team bus on Friday, with the death toll now understood to have risen to three.
• Carter: Attack did irreparable damage
• Paper round: Big shadow over ANC The team bus was attacked by rebels after crossing the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the Angolan enclave of Cabinda ahead of the tournament.
There have been conflicting reports about the identity of those shot, but Togo assistant coach Abalo Amelete and a spokesperson, Stanislas Ocloo, have died along the bus driver; while the condition of goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale, who was reported dead earlier, is unclear.
Kodjo Samlan, a Confederation of African Football (CAF) official, confirmed that Ocloo and Amnalate had died. "Communications chief Stanislas Ocloo and assistant coach Abalo Amnalete died at four o'clock this morning," he said.
Confusion came as striker Jonathan Ayite confirmed that Obilale had also been killed, telling French radio station RMC: "He (Obilale) is dead and even if you bring the president and even (Barack) Obama himself, we're leaving immediately. We're going back home. Ghana and the Ivory Coast are in solidarity with us.''
But a statement from Obilale's club, French team GSI Pontivy, read: ''According to news given by coach Alain Le Dour and GSI Pontivy president Philippe Le Mestre, Kodjovi Obilale is not dead, despite the news reported on the internet, radio and television, and has been moved to South Africa.''
Defender Serge Akakpo, who plays his club football in Romania, was confirmed by his club last night as the other player shot in the attack. Reports in France suggested early on Saturday that the players had taken the decision not to take part in the competition, which starts on Sunday, and midfielder Alaixys Romao later confirmed they had withdrawn.
"We're waiting for the plane to return to Lome," the Grenoble player told L'Equipe. "We're also talking to the other teams in our group to try to convince them to boycott the competition, too."
A statement on Manchester City's website also stated that Emmanuel Adebayor and his team-mates were returning to their clubs.
It read: "Togo has pulled out of the Africa Cup of Nations after their team bus came under gunfire in Angola. City star Emmanuel Adebayor, who is captain of the Togo side, was unharmed in the ambush and he and his team-mates met this morning before deciding that they wished to pull out of the tournament.
"Their first game in the tournament had been scheduled to take place on Monday against Ghana, but they are now heading home to their families. Two players were shot and injured in the attack in the northern province of Cabinda, and the coach driver was killed. Seven others were wounded. Organisers have so far insisted the tournament will go ahead.
"The club is in regular contact with Emmanuel, his advisors and the English Football Association. It has been made clear by manager Roberto Mancini and senior officials that Emmanuel will now be given as much time as he needs to recover from the horrific attack."
Coach Hubert Velud had earlier claimed the authorities should seriously consider whether to call off the tournament after the attack. Angola insist their country is committed to hosting a secure tournament and said they would step up security.
Officials are set to hold a meeting with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Saturday and Velud believes the future of the competition should be called into question.
"We can at least pose ourselves that question," Velud told French radio station RMC on Saturday morning. "It's an act of barbarism while we are here to celebrate African football.
"We left the hospital a short time ago to come to the centre for the teams in the competition. We stayed in the hospital a long time so that we could be very united. In these situations, you become a bit paranoid, you doubt everything. We don't feel that the authorities are taking this very seriously.
"I don't mean that they want to hush up the matter, but almost. What will happen I don't know. We will have a meeting with the players and technical staff to take a decision.''
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The value of the ambulatory care nurse remains undocumented from a quality and patient safety measurement perspective and the practice is at risk of being highly variable and of unknown quality.
The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing and the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes propose nurse leaders create a tipping point to measure
the value of nursing across the continuum of nursing care, moving from inpatient to ambulatory care.
As care continues to shift into the ambulatory care environment, the quality imperative must also shift to assure highly reliable, safe, and effective health care
In the spring of 2013, the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing's (AAACN) board of directors commissioned a task force to identify and define nurse-sensitive indicators specific to the ambulatory care setting. Members included indicator development experts from the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (calnoc) and the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators(R) (NDNQI(R)), as well as a past president of AAACN who was part of the original work done by the American Nurses Association (ANA) in the late 1990s to identify indicators sensitive to nonacute settings. Members of the task force represented all geographic areas in the United States and a broad range of practice settings.
OBJECTIVE: Predictive models for falls, injury falls, and restraint prevalence were explored within nursing unit structures and processes of care.
BACKGROUND: The patient care team is responsible for patient safety, and improving practice models may prevent injuries and improve patient safety.
METHODS: Using unit-level self-reported data from 215 hospitals, falls, injury falls, and restraint prevalence were modeled with significant covariates as predictors.
RESULTS: Fewer falls/injury falls were predicted by populations with fewer frail and at-risk patients, more unlicensed care hours, and prevention protocol implementation, but not staffing per se, restraint use, or RN expertise. Lower restraint use was predicted by fewer frail patients, shorter length of stay, more RN hours, more certified RNs, and implementation of fall prevention protocols.
CONCLUSION: In the presence of risk, patient injuries and safety were improved by optimizing staffing skill mix and use of prevention protocols.
OBJECTIVE: This study modeled the predictive power of unit/patient characteristics,
nurse workload, nurse expertise, and hospital-acquired pressure ulcer (HAPU) preventive
clinical processes of care on unit-level prevalence of HAPUs.
DATA SOURCES: Seven hundred and eighty-nine medical-surgical units (215 hospitals)
in 2009.
STUDY DESIGN: Using unit-level data, HAPUs were modeled with Poisson regression
with zero-inflation (due to low prevalence of HAPUs) with significant covariates as
DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS: Hospitals submitted data on NQF endorsed
ongoing performance measures to CALNOC registry.
PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Fewer HAPUs were predicted by a combination of unit/patient
characteristics (shorter length of stay, fewer patients at-risk, fewer male patients), RN
workload (more hours of care, greater patient [bed] turnover), RN expertise (more
years of experience, fewer contract staff hours), and processes of care (more risk assessment
CONCLUSIONS: Unit/patient characteristics were potent HAPU predictors yet generally
are not modifiable. RN workload, nurse expertise, and processes of care (risk assessment/
interventions) are significant predictors that can be addressed to reduce HAPU.
Support strategies may be needed for units where experienced full-time nurses are not
available for HAPU prevention. Further research is warranted to test these finding in
the context of higher HAPU prevalence.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess the cost savings associated with implementing nursing approaches to prevent in-hospital falls.
BACKGROUND: Hospital rating programs often report fall rates, and performance-based payment systems force hospitals to bear the costs of treating patients after falls. Some interventions have been demonstrated as effective for falls prevention.
METHODS: Costs of falls-prevention programs, financial savings associated with in-hospital falls reduction, and achievable fall rate improvement are measured using published literature. Net costs are calculated for implementing a falls-prevention program as compared with not making improvements in patient fall rates.
RESULTS: Falls-prevention programs can reduce the cost of treatment, but in many scenarios, the costs of falls-prevention programs were greater than potential cost savings.
CONCLUSIONS: Falls-prevention programs need to be carefully targeted to patients at greatest risk in order to achieve cost savings.
PURPOSE: To present findings from the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes' (CALNOC) hospital medication administration (MA) accuracy assessment in a sample of acute care hospitals. Aims were as follows: (1) to describe the CALNOC MA accuracy assessment, (2) to examine nurse adherence to six safe practices during MA, (3) to examine the prevalence of MA errors in adult acute care, and (4) to explore associations between safe practices and MA accuracy.
METHODS: Using a cross-sectional design, point in time, and convenience sample, direct observation data were collected by 43 hospitals participating in CALNOC's benchmarking registry. Data included 33,425 doses from 333 observation studies on 157 adult acute care units. Results reveal that the most common MA safe practice deviations were distraction/interruption (22.89%), not explaining medication to patients (13.90%), and not checking two forms of ID (12.47%). The most common MA errors were drug not available (0.76%) and wrong dose (0.45%). the overall percentage of safe practice deviations per encounter was 11.40%, whereas the overall percentage of MA errors was 0.32%.
CONCLUSIONS and IMPLICATIONS: Findings predict that for 10,000 MA encounters, 27,630 safe practice deviations and 770 MA errors will occur. A 36% reduction in practice deviation per encounter prevents 4.4% MA errors. Ultimately, reliably performing safe practices improves MA accuracy.
OBJECTIVE: This study tested multivariate models exploring unit-level predictors of medication administration (MA) accuracy.
BACKGROUND: During MA, nurses are both the last line of defense from medication-related errors and a potential perpetrator of error. Direct observation reveals safe practices and the accuracy of medication delivery.
METHODS: Using a direct-observation, cross-sectional design, data submitted by 124 adult patient care units for 15600 medication doses, from January 2009 to April 2010, were studied.
RESULTS: Distractions and interruptions were the most common safe practice deviation. Characteristics of patient care units and RN hours of care affected nurses' safe practices and MA accuracy. Safe practices predict and mediate MA accuracy. A 5% decrease in safe practice deviations would reduce MA errors by 46% without any change in RN hours of care.
CONCLUSION: Nurses' adherence to MA safe practices, combined with unit characteristics and staffing factors, has the potential to dramatically improve MA accuracy.
Public demand for safer care has catapulted the healthcare industry's efforts to understand relationships between patient safety and hospital performance. This study explored linkages between staff perceptions of safety culture (SC) and ongoing measures of hospital nursing unit-based structures, care processes, and adverse patient outcomes. Relationships between nursing-sensitive measures of hospital performance and SC were explored at the unit-level from 9 California hospitals and 37 nursing units. SC perceptions were measured 6 months prior to collection of nursing metrics and relationships between the two sets of data were explored using correlational and regression analyses. Significant relationships were found with reported falls and process measures for fall prevention. Multiple associations were identified with SC and the structure of care delivery: skill mix, staff turnover, and workload intensity demonstrated significant relationships with SC, explaining 22–45% of the variance. SC was an important factor to understand in the quest to advance safe patient care. These findings have affordability and care quality implications for hospital leadership. When senior leaders prioritized a safety culture, patient outcomes may have improved with less staff turnover and more productivity. A business case could be made for investing in patient safety systems to provide reliably safe care.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the cost savings associated with implementing nursing approaches to prevent hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPU). BACKGROUND: Hospitals face substantial costs associated with the treatment of HAPUs. Interventions have been demonstrated as effective for HAPU prevention and management, but it is widely perceived that preventative measures are expensive and, thus, may not be a good use of resources. METHODS: A return-on-investment (ROI) framework from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators Toolkit was used for this study. The researchers identified achievable improvements in HAPU rates from data from the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes and measured costs and savings associated with HAPU reduction from published literature. RESULTS: The analysis produced a baseline ROI ratio of 1.61 and net savings of $127.51 per patient. CONCLUSIONS: Hospital-acquired pressure ulcer surveillance and prevention can be cost saving for hospitals and should be considered by nurse executives as a strategy to support quality outcomes.
Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) are a serious nosocomial problem that has been viewed as a ubiquitous consequence of immobility. This article provides data from the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC) that shows a significant reduction in HAPUs in adults from 78 acute care hospitals over 8 years (2003-2010).
This study tests whether changes in licensed nurse staffing led to changes in patient safety, using the natural experiment of 2004 California implementation of minimum staffing ratios. We calculated counts of six patient safety outcomes from California Patient Discharge Data from 2000 through 2006, using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software. For patients experiencing nonmortality-related PSIs, we measured mean lengths of stay. We estimated difference-in-difference equations of changes in PSIs using Poisson models and calculated the marginal impact of nurse staffing on outcomes from fixed-effect Poisson regressions. Licensed nurse staffing increased in the postregulation period, except for hospitals in the highest quartile of preregulation staffing. Growth in registered nurse staffing was associated with improvement for only one PSI and reduced length of stay for one PSI. Higher registered nurse staffing per patient day had a limited impact on adverse events in California hospitals.
Noting that the CALNOC nursing sensitive benchmarking dataset provides a unique longitudinal view of HAPU in a regional subset of American hospitals, this chapter reviews and discusses CALNOC data published between January 2000 and October 2011. Specifically it explores trends in prevalence of PUs, in particular HAPUs, and nurse staffing, as well as the impacts of nursing processes of care measures including PU risk and skin assessment and the presence of a prevention protocol.
The purpose of this article is to provide hospitals not currently participating in comparative benchmarking databases with nursing-sensitive data from the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes for use in performance improvement processes.
Quality professionals are the first to understand challenges of transforming data into meaningful information for frontline staff, operational managers, and governing bodies. To understand an individual facility, service, or patient care unit's comparative performance from within large datasets, prioritization and focused data presentation are needed to meet this challenge. This article presents a methodology for translating data from large datasets into dashboards for setting performance improvement priorities, in a simple way that takes advantage of tools readily available and easily used by support staff.
This paper compares alternative measures of nurse staffing and assess the relative strengths and limitations of each measure. Primary and secondary data from 2000 and 2002 on hospital nurse staffing from the American Hospital Association, California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, California Nursing Outcomes Coalition, and the California Workforce Initiative Survey. The greatest differences in staffing measurement arise when unit-level data are compared with hospital-level aggregated data reported in large administrative databases. Unit-level data collection may be more precise. Differences between databases may account for differences in research findings.
This paper describes the data reporting infrastructure of the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition (CalNOC), and examines the system's capacity to provide participating hospitals with seamless, interactive access to sophisticated reports in a secure environment that authorizes users and controls access privileges. By leveraging the data repository to create both standardized and customized reporting capacity, CalNOC significantly improves the responsiveness and strategic value of the data to members who create query-driven customized reports generated directly from the dataset. The resulting capacity for a virtual dashboard, the first in nursing quality measurement arena, is unique in the field and a model for further study and emulation.
This article examines the impact of mandated nursing ratios in California on key measures of nursing quality among adults in acute care hospitals. This study is a follow-up and extension of our first analysis exploring nurse staffing and nursing-sensitive outcomes comparing 2002 preratios regulation data to 2004 postratios regulation data. For the current study we used postregulation ratios data from 2004 and 2006 to assess trends in staffing and outcomes. Findings for nurse staffing affirmed the trends noted in 2005 and indicated that changes in nurse staffing were consistent with expected increases in the proportion of licensed staff per patient. This report includes an exploratory examination of the relationship between staffing and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes. However anticipated improvements in nursing-sensitive patient outcomes were not observed. This report contributes to the growing understanding of the impacts of regulatory staffing mandates on hospital operations and patient outcomes.
This report examines the impact of mandated nursing ratios in California on key measures of nursing quality among adults in acute care hospitals. This study is a follow-up and extension of our first analysis exploring nurse staffing and nursing-sensitive outcomes comparing 2002 pre-ratios regulation data to 2004 post-ratios regulation data (Donaldson et al., 2005b). For the current study we used post-regulation ratios data from 2004 and 2006 to assess trends in staffing and outcomes. Findings for nurse staffing affirmed the trends noted in 2005 and indicated that changes in nurse staffing were consistent with expected increases in the proportion of licensed staff per patient. This report includes an exploratory examination of the relationship between staffing and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes. However anticipated improvements in nursing-sensitive patient outcomes were not observed.
This article presents the first analysis of the impact of mandated minimum-staffing ratios on nursing hours of care and skill mix in adult medical and surgical and definitive-observation units in a convenience sample of 68 acute hospitals participating in the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition Project. Findings, stratified by unit type and hospital size, reveal expected changes as hospitals made observable efforts toward regulatory compliance.
Using nursing quality benchmarks in operational dashboards and translating those data to drive performance excellence is a strategic imperative. Since access to unit-level, hospital generated nurse-related benchmarks is an emerging arena, the authors provide an overview of aggregated trends and benchmarks gleaned from the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition acute care database for 2 established nurse-related quality indicators-patient falls incidence and hospital-acquired pressure ulcer prevalence.
The purpose of the study was to present a replicable methodology for designing and analyzing a large, ongoing quality database to examine nurse staffing and patient care outcomes in acute care hospitals. The quality database gathered staffing data from 842 units in 134 acute hospitals, making it the largest statewide effort of its kind in the U.S. The database included clinical outcome information on 34,262 reported patient falls, pressure ulcer prevalence data on 41,982 patient observations, and service outcome data on patient satisfaction from 26,461 patients.
The translation and diffusion of findings into health care validates the potential of evidence-based innovation to improve clinical practice and affirms the benefits of society's investment in advancing science. This manuscript briefly reviews key concepts in the knowledge use process, considers theoretical implications for measuring outcomes and uptake of innovation, discusses issues to consider in planning for measurement of adoption and provides an example of confronting those challenges from a project now in progress. Conclusions: Efforts to change practice in order to enhance evidence-based patient care must integrate monitoring and evaluation of specific target outcomes of adoption as the basis for validating the impact of the change.
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between nurse staffing and patient perceptions of nursing care in a convenience sample of 40 California hospitals. Nurse staffing alone showed a significant but weak relationship to patient perceptions of their care, indicating that staffing is likely only one of several relevant measures influencing patient perceptions of their nursing care. This research contributes data to the body of knowledge regarding nurse staffing. It is essential that nurse executives integrate results from this and other studies in developing strategic and tactical staffing plans that yield positive patient care outcomes.
The purpose of the study reported here was to explore the need for evidence-based health policy as illustrated by the mandatory staffing bill passed by the California state legislature in 1999. The authors conclude that the evidence that currently exists is insufficient to determine minimal RN staffing requirements.
The California Nursing Outcomes Coalition (CALNOC) project is an initiative that has become the largest ongoing nursing quality measurement repository in the nation. Launched in 1996 by California nursing leaders concerned with trends in hospital care, CALNOC has created reliable quality benchmark data to define patient safety thresholds in California. This article describes CALNOC's effort, which aligns with the strategy of the National Quality Forum for measuring and reporting healthcare quality. By tracing the evolution of the CALNOC project and its future potential, we hope to encourage other grassroots efforts to build the database repositories needed for healthcare quality measurement in the 21st century.
This article describes nurse staffing in 330 critical care, medical-surgical, and step-down units in 52 acute care California hospitals that was reported over nine quarters between April 1998 and June 2000. These data, representing more than 3 million patient days of care, comprise the largest prospective descriptive sample of nurse staffing, using standardized measures, reported to date. These data are especially timely as the profession, policy makers, and regulators in California and the nation respond to the legislative mandate to establish nurse-to-patient staffing ratios that ensure patient safety and develop methods to monitor the impact of ratios on the quality and outcomes of patient care. Findings reveal relative stability over the nine calendar quarters, no significant differences between groups of hospitals stratified by using average daily census to cluster by hospital size, and wide variation in staffing across hospitals within the same unit type categories.
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Elder Park, Mansion House portico and Fairfield Farmhouse:
Located in Govan, Elder Park was opened in 1885. On the north side are two points of interest; the original farm house from Fairfield farm which previously occupied the site and secondly the Italian portico from Mansion House. Mansion House was built on the Linthouse estate in 1791 and thought to be a Robert Adam design. It was demolished in 1921. The portico was saved and re-erected in Elder park in the same year.
The farmhouse is circa 1850 and there have been proposals to repair it for some time, recently in summer 2011 there has been some work to help secure and waterproof the structure. The farmhouse is B-listed.
street address: Elderpark Road, Govan Road, Glasgow, G51 4AA
Latitude / Longitude: 55.863515,-4.326931 (sourced using Google Maps)
site visit dates: 6 March 2011 & 8 June 2011
approach from the west, the farm house lies to the left, the portico to the right (06/03/2011)
front view of the portico (06/03/2011)
italian portico information (08/06/2011)
view showing the sweeping stairs to either side of the portico (06/03/2011)
rear view of the portico and the ionic capitals (06/03/2011)
ionic capital (08/06/2011)
rear view (06/03/2011)
opposite the portico is Fairfield farm house, here is the front (south elevation), with extensions to the east and west (08/06/2011)
front (south elevation), there are extensions to the east and west of the structure, here on the right can be seen the west extension (06/03/2011)
west extension (08/06/2011)
west extension (08/06/2011)
west extension and view through to former playground (06/03/2011)
west gable end with missing tiles and damaged top (06/03/2011)
fenced off and with warning signs (06/03/2011)
south elevation and the farm house's front door. the upper windows have been broken into (06/03/2011)
farmhouse front door (06/03/2011)
dormer window detail (06/03/2011)
rear north elevation, the east and west extensions are clearly visible to each side of the original farm house (06/03/2011)
no parking signage at entrance (06/03/2011)
view through the gates from Govan Road of the north (rear) elevation (06/03/2011)
view from the roundabout west of the site, here the top of the west elevation is visible over the wall. A ladder is up to the window, this is apparently work organised by Historic Scotland to make the building more waterproof at this point in time. Hopefully this will be the first steps to the proper repair and re-use of the farmhouse in the future (08/06/2011)
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WARNING! WARNING! RED ALERT! If you aren't partial to a good dose of Enya then I suggest you avoid the Moya Hills Youth Hostel at all costs. The woman'll be joining you at breakfast and dinner on an endless audio loop filtered throughout the building's communal areas for the listening displeasure of all and sundry. I guess it shouldn't have been such a surprise, Lonely Planet does warn readers that the place is home to a certified Irish freak. But then, what did I know? Lonely Planet and I weren't on speaking terms at that moment in time.
It took me the best part of a day to travel from Hyakuzawa Onsen to the Moya Hills district, a ski resort north of mountain number four, Hakkoda-san. Overrun with summer grasses the area resembled a virtual ghost town in June. An old lady poked her head out of a tea house door when I knocked on it and directed me with a bent finger towards the hostel across the road. The humidity of the day had waned and the afternoon was bathed in a golden glow as the sun sunk towards the western horizon. A cuckoo cooed out of sight, concealed deep in the surrounding greenery and I limped across the road as the fire, ignited on Iwaki-san, crackled away deep inside my right knee.
Kazu-san in a green apron and round rimmed spectacles, smiling like a happy little Japanese leprechaun greeted me at the front door. The about face in Hokkaido had hit the budget pretty hard and I wouldn't have minded finding the little fella's pot of gold, but he just politely dealt my fiscal condition another blow before showing me to my sparse tatami floored quarters at the top of a set of stairs. Stairs which could well have doubled as that icy gully on Iwaki-san, had they been smothered in snow and slapped onto the side of a mountain.
By dinnertime, as twilight faded outside, another traveler had joined Kazu-san, his tiny impish wife and I. He was a large, bloated, sweaty postal worker from Tokyo, sporting a pair of swollen, yellow, uncut finger nailed hands, one apparently fused to a camcorder/digital camera thing the size of a small Chihuahua. As he reached up under his t-shirt or around behind his neck to scratch his rough scaly skin he photographed everything in sight. Skin flakes flew, the camera snapped, Enya wailed and I winced imagining the hot plate in the middle of the table, loaded with sizzling meat and veges, copping a light dusting of the bloke's epidermis.
It wasn't long before I succumbed to the lure of the beer in the small glass fridge perched beside us in the dining room. Quietly guzzling away on a can, I was relieved to have already taken a shower before the fungally challenged chap across from me arrived to liberally scatter his spores around the bathroom. He ordered a Guinness from Kazu-san's stash and proceeded to photograph it in its can and then again having poured it into his glass. Dinner was served and without a second thought, swilling his stout, he took a couple of shots of the meal before realising, as he started scratching again, that he should have got the Guinness in the shot with the meal. We sat and waited, watching him rearrange everything on his side of the table for the perfect composition before flicking something off his fingers and firing off another volley of snapshots.
Over dinner we shared tales of travel and adventure and, as usual, half a can into the beer I was well on the way to being sloshed. I sat back as the other three blabbed away in Japanese allowing the booze to soothe the dull ache in my knee. Kazu-san told us of his glory days, 20 years ago, when he cycled around New Zealand on a generic Japanese grannie's bike. The Postman announced his plans to visit a nearby town that had hit such financial dire straits the council was selling off its civic treasures, a vast collection of golden dolls that resembled skinny bowling pins with faces. His camera's trigger finger twitched at the prospect while its counterpart on the other hand picked out a chunk of meat from somewhere deep within his yellowy toothed maw. I announced I might lay up at the hostel for the following day before hitting Hakkoda-san, allowing my knee some much needed respite.
Breakfast was the same deal. Cheery leprechaun accompanied by his faithful nymphette wife, scratchy postman and limping Australian feeding our faces under Enya's looping panpipe and penny whistle morass.
"So it's a great day," smiled Kazu-san. "Will you go hiking Willie-san? To Hakkoda-san?"
"Hey? What?" I gasped silently to myself. I was barely making it up and down those bloody stairs and the crafty little leprechaun was encouraging me to bugger off to the mountains in the nicest possible manner. Hadn't he been listening to me at dinner?
"I don't need you hanging around here all day you lanky foreign fuck," he probably thought. "My delightful little wife needs a good seeing to and I shan't have you interfering." That, or he needed to fumigate the joint.
"Noooo!" my knee howled like a wailing banshee as I nodded and agreed. And, indeed it was true, the day was too fine a one to waste languishing around there at the hostel. An hour later Kazu-san drove me out to the bus stop. Once there the cheeky little sprite asked me if I remembered the way we'd come because I could walk back from there when I returned that afternoon…
"What the…! Hai, wakarimashita."
The bus took me up to Sukayu Onsen, a rustic old place sitting on the main road that dissects the Hakkoda Mountains. There the trailhead to O-dake, the highest point in the conflux of eight rounded volcanic peaks, began. It was a gentle climb through sun drenched forest, past blooming azalea scattered amidst sweet scented Aomori fir, whose dark green spires, twisted and bent, bore the scars of harsh northern winters. A rushing of water heralded the approach of a river crossing and rounding a bend I emerged from the green of the forest to a broad, barren gully of ashen coloured volcanic boulders and black, yellow and brown dirt. The rotten smell of sulphuric gases hung in the air as I negotiated a broken wooden bridge hastily repaired by the local backyard boys. On the other side I was greeted by a sign reassuringly announcing to all who passed that Hakkoda-san "is still alive." I scrambled over the black and grey rocks up alongside the river and back into the vegetation, flourishing out of reach of the poisonous gases. From there the trail ran out onto a boardwalk partially covered in snow which traversed the beautiful alpine swampland of Sennin-tai. The round summit of O-dake rose proudly out of the forest to my left and the narrow boards and marshland soon vanished beneath the expansive fields of snow where pink plastic tape tied onto bamboo sticks guided me around to the final steeper climb. There the snow gave way to rock and swathes of white and yellow alpine flowers. Nearing the top, my right knee, having been relatively pain free up to that point suddenly, from deep within, screamed enough and erupted into sharp, fiery lashings of pain. On top of the exposed, gravely peak with my left knee beginning to signal its own imminent surrender, I collapsed behind a boulder out of a chilly wind, gasping in agony rather than exhaustion and watched white fluffy clouds sail across the hazy blue sky above me.
Three mountains in, Iwaki provided me with the ascent from hell, that afternoon Hakkoda-san gave me the opposite. The ensuing three and a half hours saw me ravaged by an agonisingly sharp burning sensation spearing down the length of my right thigh, over the top and around the front of my knee. Every step I took down across the boardwalked expanse of the spectacular two tiered Kenashi-tai swamp my knees howled in protest. It was torture in paradise. Sodden ground slowly filling with snowmelt trickled down through the head high bamboo from higher elevations, flowers burst forth from within in the summer grasses. A couple of hikers passed me that afternoon but for the most part I was alone in my own little cocoon of agony. The sun sank lower in the sky and as I re-entered the forests above the onsen it illuminated the early summer greenery.
Eventually I could hear the traffic on the road below. I'd survived. A hiker overtook me at near running pace supported by a pair of hiking poles. "That's what I need," I concluded. "Hiking poles! They'll get me through this."
Back at the hostel I could hardly climb the stairs and getting down them was an exercise akin to medieval torture. Enya serenaded me with the same tunes she'd been subjecting me to for the past couple of meals and I knocked back a beer with dinner relieved that Scratchy the Postman had ridden off into the sunset – probably taking a million shots of it as he went.
"What's next?" the chirpiness of Kazu-san couldn't help but lighten the mood.
"Well," I mused, as the beer commenced its cull of another quota of brain cells, a double amputation was a definite possibility but: "Hachimantai," was what I boldly replied. "Mountain number five!"


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Press Release
Chemical Financial Corporation Increases Cash Dividend
MIDLAND, Mich., Aug. 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chemical Financial Corporation (Nasdaq:CHFC) today announced that the Board of Directors of the Corporation declared a third quarter 2014 cash dividend on its common stock of $0.24 per share, representing a 4.3% increase over the second quarter 2014 cash dividend of $0.23 per share and a 9.4% increase in cash dividends during the first three quarters of 2014, compared to the same time period in 2013. The third quarter 2014 cash dividend will be payable on September 19, 2014, to shareholders of record on September 5, 2014. The ex-dividend date is September 3, 2014.
Chemical Financial Corporation is the second largest banking company headquartered and operating branch offices in Michigan. The Corporation operates through a single subsidiary bank, Chemical Bank, with 157 banking offices spread over 38 counties in the lower peninsula of Michigan. At June 30, 2014, the Corporation had total assets of $6.2 billion. Chemical Financial Corporation's common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol CHFC and is one of the issues comprising The NASDAQ Global Select Market. More information about the Corporation is available by visiting the investor relations section of its website at www.chemicalbankmi.com.
CONTACT: For further information: David B. Ramaker, CEO Lori A. Gwizdala, CFO 989-839-5350Source: Chemical Financial Corporation


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Chapter: Volume 2 - Chapter 4
Sorry about the unplanned 2 week break there, and I won't lie to you, it was ONE HUNDRED PERCENT because Fallout 4 got released on the 10th of November. But we're back now, so all is well!
And this is the last page of Chapter Four! The fifth (well, tenth) and final chapter will start next week!


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Common Ground Principles
Common Ground Principles
The Harney County Restoration Collaborative has achieved complete consensus on the following Desired Future Conditions for the northern Harney County forested landscape. Click on each category below to see Harney County Restoration Collaborative's goal for the desired future condition or scroll to the bottom to download the pdf version.
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Harney County Restoration Collaborative's Goals
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A lovely purple colour earring stud but a quite different purple to the large pearl stud earrings. The pearl measures 6-7mm across and is set on Sterling Silver posts - also available on 14k Gold.
If you are ordering these studs as part of a set I will endeavour to match the tones of the pearls as, due to their organic nature, there can be variations in colour.