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Launch Michigan is a new partnership bringing together diverse interests from across Michigan's political, economic, education, philanthropic and government sectors. MEA President Paula Herbart will be a proud voice of labor on the panel, which is setting out to improve the state's education system. Read more at LaunchMichigan.org.
Here read excerpts from a conversation about the initiative between Herbart and MEA Voice Editor Brenda Ortega.
Why is this coalition important?
We've been asking for years to be a part of the solution. It is so imperative that when we're asked to be a part of something—to bring that voice—that we don't turn it down because we're circumspect or afraid. We assume good intention until proven otherwise. If we are true to what our values are, which is providing quality public education for all, then we have to be a part of those conversations.
Why does it matter for MEA and AFT Michigan to be at the table?
We have a singular priority, which is ensuring we're talking about what is best for students who walk through our classroom doors, whether they're five years old or 55 years old in higher ed. That's what our unionism and our activism bring to the table, that we fight for students. Yes, we fight for working conditions. Yes, we fight for salaries and the respect of the professions. But we do that to ensure students have a quality professional working with them and for them.
Study after study talks about underfunding of education in Michigan, but nothing changes. How will this effort be different?
Well, one of the principles of Launch Michigan is to have this be a policy blueprint that goes beyond the next governor and the next governor, that this is not a partisan piece. This is a policy piece that says emphatically here is good practice, and we want Michigan schools to follow best practices, and if that means we need to increase the funding then we will do what it takes with whomever is sitting in that governor's chair or the state Senate's chairs or the House chairs.
Part of what is important here is the breadth of players who are at the table, right? It's non-profits, school administrators, the business community, foundations, labor.
It's a very deep organization, and there are concerns about it being almost too broad. But there is a steering committee that will be a smaller group of about 20 people. I will be one of three co-chairs that will represent the significant groups. Business, education, philanthropic.
The partnership has identified priorities that include listening to educators and working to ensure resources are available for an equitable funding model. What are the most important priorities for leaders interested in making positive systemic change?
I think we need to lay out some really forthcoming ground rules to own the disagreements that we have had in the past. We need to say to the business community, we have been fundamentally opposed to how we get this done for years and if we don't own that and honor that and work through that, then Launch Michigan will just be a clanging gong.
How do you move on from those disagreements and avoid getting tangled in them?
One of the things that we are committed to is talking about the things that we fundamentally agree on. High-quality professional development for educators, for instance. We know that teachers feel more successful when they have high-quality professional development, and then funding to implement the things they've learned and know are best practices. So one of the things we're starting with is just to ask: How do educators in the classroom feel about the work they do and how they are valued? And using that as a starting point.
One thing our business community understands at the outset is that a worker who isn't satisfied in their work or feels underappreciated does not perform to the best of their ability. And until educators feel like they are a valued and respected member of the education community and play a vital role in all aspects of a student's education, they will not be as successful as they could be.
Won't a lot of this come back to the big sticking point? Funding? How do you find common ground on that?
One thing we're doing is looking at the reports that have already been done. The Business Leaders of Michigan and the School Finance Research Collaborative that came out in the spring of 2018 both have evidence of underfunding in Michigan. They come up with very different ways to fill that gap, but I mean if we start by saying to the state government, "Don't rob from the School Aid Fund," let's start there. Over $700 million a year gets funneled from the School Aid Fund into other areas to buoy up the General Fund. If we only had that, imagine what we could do, right? But we don't.
How we get there is going to be another one of those sticking points, but we all know the teacher in the classroom and those individuals who work outside of the classroom to support student learning make the biggest amount of difference for students. Salaries, working conditions, a say-so in their profession, support resources, all of that is going to be important to address.
An issue for many educators is the top-down nature of decisions being made, and never being asked, "What do you need?" What do you need in terms of professional development? Resources? Changes that will remove roadblocks to your job performance?
I 100 percent agree. The frontline person needs to have meaningful input and not just fill out a survey and then it's, "Best of luck to you." I mean real integrated understanding of how their destiny is manifested. It's about being a collaborative partner in what we know works best for student learning and what works best for teacher learning to impart student learning. Because the educator in the classroom is never not learning. They're like millwrights, retooling, retooling, retooling. This is why we're a union, to ensure that voice remains in the room. That we have an opportunity to say, "We have an important role to play in decision-making and professional development. We are the creators of best practices based on what we know pedagogically works the best with this demographic of students."
Are you hopeful this initiative can move us toward an approach that is positive and collaborative rather than negative and top-down?
I think that all of us need to be open to the fact that we're trying to do something pretty radical—having these groups of people come together and work together. If we haven't made some real movement toward attaining our goals, whether it's coming up with one thing we can work on and lobby together and the strategies behind that, then we might have to say, "This was a great idea whose time was not here." We can't keep doing Launch Michigan because we told people we would. If it isn't doing the things that we want it to do, which is make real change for public education in Michigan, and if we can't accomplish that, then we need to consider why that is. It could be minimal. It could be, "Oh, we didn't look at the X factor." I don't know what that is. Or it could be as large as, "We're not working together as a group. We're grinding our wheels everywhere we go, and it isn't working." Then we need to talk about that.
What do you think will be the key to Launch Michigan accomplishing meaningful goals?
We have to decide what's the most important. And right now, I think for me it's creating an environment and a space where educators feel empowered and feel honored. And by honored, I mean of value to real education policy. I want their voices to be the voices we listen to and lift up in a way that they know the state of Michigan values their work and what they do for the good of all of the state's people.


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Organizational System Fail
The core of my organizational system for many years has been Microsoft OneNote (most of that experience is with OneNote 2003, although I spent a year with OneNote 2007). In the last year I coupled that Microsoft Live Mesh, and the combination was awesome. I could organize my day and week from home, then walk into the office and find those notes synched up with my work machine.
It was easy to use. It was reliable. I didn't have to think about it – it just worked.
And then on Friday, it didn't.
I booted up my machine to find two projects'-worth of notes completely gone. Those two projects just happened to be my MAIN two projects currently – weeks of thoughts, ideas, questions and solutions: gone.
I actually found myself talking to my computer: "Oh no, you did NOT just do that." Sigh. Oh yes, it did. What a way to start a Friday.
I managed to recover a few of the points from memory, but as Professor Jones would say "I wrote them down…so that I wouldn't HAVE to remember." More importantly, I resolved that this weekend I would solve the core issue. Namely – the combination of OneNote and Live Mesh, or more specifically, how OneNote stores its data.
The core of my organizational system was four OneNote "notebooks". Each notebook contained one or more "pages" where each page contained the notes for a single project. The notebooks were named "Today", "This Week", "Work" and "Personal", and my typical day would begin by moving pages into "Today" so I would have the focus for the day. As I completed them, I'd delete them. If they were put on hold for some reason, I'd move them to "This Week" or one of the others.
Live Mesh, for its part, is configured to watch one specific folder on my machine – the folder where I keep my .one files. If it sees one on my hard drive that's more recent than the corresponding version in the cloud, it copies it up. If it finds one in the cloud that's more recent than the corresponding one on my hard drive, it copies it down.
Simple right? Of course not. If it were simple I wouldn't be writing a blog post about it.
My machine at home is on 24/7. That means that I can move a page from notebook A to B, and within a minute or so that move will be replicated to the cloud. My machine at work, on the other hand, it usually off when I'm not there. So, when I get into work in the morning, I boot up my machine and Live Mesh with it. Live Mesh then takes a minute or two to look at the cloud copies of my .one files, and if it finds any updates it pulls them down.
OneNote manages a single .one file for each notebook. As I moved a page from "Today" to "This Week", for example, both of the corresponding .one files would be updated to reflect the move. That means that if I move a page from notebook A to notebook B, and then go into work, boot up, and change B at work before Live Mesh has had a chance to bring down the update to B from home, that update will be lost. The page won't exist in A anymore (because I moved it out of there), and my work-update to B will overwrite the home-update to B (because the work-update is more recent).
I actually had this happen to me a couple of months ago. The damage then was a relatively minor and short-lived project ("schedule dental appointment", or something like that), so it was easily recovered from memory. At the time I thought I learned my lessons:
1) When I come into the office in the morning, let Live Mesh boot up and synch up before trying to use OneNote locally.
2) When I am about to leave the office in the evening, let Live Mesh post my most recent updates to the cloud before shutting down.
As near as I can tell on Friday, I didn't do anything with OneNote for the first 15 minutes my machine was running – I didn't even have OneNote opened.
So, as I sat there is nearly stunned silence last Friday morning trying to will my notes back into existence, I resolved that I would do one of the following:
1) Find a way to store my notebook pages in separate files so simple moves wouldn't cause entire projects to blink out of existence, or
2) Find another tool to keep my notes organized, or
3) Write a new tool that would meet my needs.
I did some digging into using OneNote and Live Mesh, and found many people raving about the combination, but nobody talking about any synching problems. The closest I got was this post on Microsoft Connect.
The other tools (task managers) that I found were way too UI-heavy: too many buttons, options, colors, etc. I just wanted something very subdued, easy, and flexible. I don't need or want to subdivide my projects into 500 discrete steps. All I need is a text editor and the ability to indent – after all, that's basically what I had been using OneNote for all these years.
So, that left me with rolling my own. What I ended up with was a simple desktop application that I call "Tasks":
Tasks basically allows me to organize and manage a pile of text files – one per project – on the file system. Tasks stores all of the text files in one folder on the file system, and that folder is synched between my two machines via Live Mesh. Additionally, the task groups and there contents (Today, Tomorrow, etc.) are defined in an XML file, also in that same, synched folder. The result is that I see the exact same view at home or at work. Within Tasks I can create new tasks, move them from group to group, reorder them within a group, change the file name, open an editor to modify their contents, and delete them.
I haven't decided if I'm going to release this as another tool or not (at the very least, it's not ready for general release now). This was something I crammed in over the weekend, so while it does what I need it to do, there are a lot of little things that were left out due to time constraints. However, today was the first real day in action for Tasks, and it performed well.
For me, the tool to manage tasks has become such a critical application that it needs to be ridiculously dependable. Don't get me wrong – this isn't medical monitoring equipment or a spacecraft guidance system, it's just a task manager. But, it's that tool that allows me to be as organized and efficient as I am. If that tool isn't easy to use, if it isn't reliable, if I have think about it, then questions of "is my data safe" begins to creep in and sap that efficiency. Get those critical tools – task managers, source control, data backup, whatever they are – and work to get them as automatic and as reliable as breathing. The time and anxiety you save by doing that more than makes up for the investment.
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Mark, hope all is going well with you. I actually had this same problem and couldn't figure out what happened. I read your post and had an ahhhhhh moment. I actually found a new tool that I've been using for a ever since then that I've enjoyed. It's http://www.evernote.com, I'm still striving to reach your level of organization and note taking, maybe I'll get there some day. 🙂
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[The text is a slight revision of remarks given to the annual convention of the Democratic Socialists of America's New York City local on Oct. 13, 2007 at Judson Memorial Church.]
Addressing a rally at the old Madison Square Garden at the tail end of his first presidential re-election campaign, Franklin Roosevelt caught the ethic of what I'll call the enlightened wing of the ruling class — even if that wing was just Franklin and Eleanor.
Standing in front of 18,000 screaming supporters, including a solid contingent of members of the newly formed American Labor Party — formed precisely to boost Roosevelt in New York State and take votes away from socialist Norman Thomas –FDR also gave them a little of the red meat they were hoping for.
"We had to struggle with the enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering," Roosevelt said about his first term in office. "They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob."
Now those of us who are socialists would take exception to FDR's casual treatment of "the mob," not to mention his bristling at "class antagonisms." After the work of Eric Hobsbawm and George Rude and Jesse Lemisch and other modern left historians and scholars of crowds and collective behavior, we don't conflate "the mob" or "class struggle" with witless, disaggregated actors united only by demagogues. Working class self-activity always looks like frenetic mob action to those with something to lose.
But FDR certainly got the "government by organized money" part right. It's not the whole of a socialist critique, but it's a good start. It certainly situates the role of democratic socialists, at least in the short run, as unifiers in challenging and reversing the control of government by organized money.
That's the political context in which DSA's Economic Justice Agenda (pdf | Powerpoint) was written and which it addresses.
It's a historical context in which an unremitting corporate offensive beat down people for more than three decades. It's a politics of cuts in social spending, of deregulation and privatization, of tax relief for the rich and wars on unions.
It's what the Agenda calls "a conscious government policy of redistributing income and wealth and power upward." It's a dogmatic defense of "free trade" but not of fair trade or labor rights, either at home or abroad. It justifies a war that would turn Iraq into a gusher for U.S. oil interests and a growing private military that would secure those interests.
It's the mammoth cost of growing and maintaining an empire that is contributing, as the Agenda argues, "to the demise of social and economic democracy at home."
If the left is to be faulted in the U.S. for failing to organize effectively against the corporate offensive, at least two reasons stand out: its estrangement from electoral politics and its single-issue focus. Worse, the left in the U.S. — certainly the radical left that claims it understands class and racial antagonisms — does not follow-up and do what parties on the left in Europe, Canada and much of Latin America do: advocate for and create state policies that guarantee labor rights; militate for raising government revenues through progressive forms of taxation; and use those revenues to fund high-quality universal public goods. These neglected things include free public education from pre-K through graduate school, job creation, long-term unemployment insurance and retiree benefits, accessible low- or no-cost health care, affordable housing, and quality child and senior care.
To a large degree, the American radical left handed over defense of the welfare state to others, leaving liberals to fight a rear-guard, defensive action, when even liberals knew more than defensive action was needed. The framers of Social Security, for example, called their effort a first step. With the exception of Medicare in the 1960s, we're still stuck in that first baby step.
It's ironic. Corporate America is electorally oriented, multi-issue and relatively cohesive. Its ideological face is neoliberalism and it has an enabling agenda. Our movements instead are protest-oriented, single-issue and relatively diffuse, even as a unified neoliberal politics dominates the national and state Democratic Parties. In fact, the race to the bottom is being waged by a lot of Democrats as vigorously as by Republicans.
So if individual protest regarding single issues is a problem, the solution ought to be a common agenda, or at least broad social policy points all the progressive movements can agree on. Neoliberalism frames corporate America's common agenda. Where is ours?
The DSA Economic Justice Agenda is one stab at cementing a common agenda for the other America, for the rest of us, particularly for the social movements DSA works in and seeks to build. It's not a wish list, but a focused call to defend and reinforce the four pillars on which any just economic policy must be built.
These are: 1. Progressive taxation and military-spending cuts to provide necessary public revenue. 2. Universal social insurance programs and high-quality public goods. 3. Powerful, democratic labor movements and other social movements capable of achieving equity in the labor market. 4. Global institutions that advance labor and human rights and provide for a sustainable environment.
The logic of the Agenda lies in its recognizing that the social movements need to have a common legislative program that redresses the structural inequality that corporate power has instituted over the past three decades.
Let me be clear. The program, we are at pains to explain, is NOT a manifesto. It is NOT a laundry list. It is NOT a "transitional program" for a pre-revolutionary situation or even a "radical reform program." It is surely NOT a "mouse that roared" effort to project one group (or even the entire radical Left as presently constituted) as major players, and it is definitely not set in stone.
Neither is it meant as a repudiation of direct-action and other movement tactics in favor of creating a clean electoral machine. It's definitely not a call for specially oppressed groups and their allies to abandon their own necessary struggles or a replacement for a systematic critique of ravening global capital.
What it IS is an effort to get the social movements to read from the same electoral and legislative text, one that could empower people through winning classwide political reforms.
As the Agenda states, and at the risk of teaching a catechism: "It is a work in progress, an agenda for Congress that DSA hopes will begin a broad discussion of how politically to restore progressive taxation, defend and expand high-quality public provision and social insurance; empower working people in the labor market; create universal programs that are genuinely universal and that address racial, ethnic and gender disparities; and that create a global economy that raises global living and human-rights standards rather than debasing them."
In a post-Hurricane Katrina world, we have at least a peephole of opportunity to defeat corporate marauding and end "government by organized money."
How to implement it? Certainly at this point, it looks all but certain that the Democratic candidate will be someone with a neoliberal agenda whom Wall Street is already embracing. What this means for the democratic left is that there will likely be no role for socialists in the presidential campaign, except maybe as enfeebled promoters of a protest vote. And not much more for liberals, except as spear carriers. But there is a pre-election role; it's in local and state races. What programs and policies do we want congressional and local candidates to campaign on and that social movements can reasonably agree on? That's what the agenda outlines.
And after the November 2008 elections, the Agenda can be the basis for forming a real alternative to neoliberalism.
It's also, let me underscore, an effort to function in coalition. Activists are always free to work on local issues and set their own priorities, but at least those issues and priorities should be couched in an effort to gain allies around broad demands on the state, along with legislative and policy remedies.
Is the DSA Economic Justice Agenda the way to cut the Gordian knot of capitalist hegemony? It's nothing so romantic, but it's a start. By uniting behind a program that restores faith in democratic government, re-institutes progressive taxation, defends and extends goods and social insurance and builds just global institutions, democratic forces CAN get off the defensive. They — we — can proactively curb the power of corporate elites and reverse corporate globalization's heightening of inequalities to levels unseen since the fall of Rome.
Let me close with one thought. In Iraq, oil workers in unions that were illegal under Saddam and now function under the U.S. occupation's gun are resisting privatization of unexplored oil fields — fields that hold the vast majority of all Iraqi oil deposits. If they are doing that, facing down U.S. bullets on one side and sectarian violence on the other, taking on neoliberalism where it's encrusted with blood and armed to the teeth, surely we can follow their example.
Besides, as commentator Joe Conason writes about the far Right's war on the State Children's Health Insurance Plan, their squeals — repeated by the president — that such programs represent oncoming "socialism," has "lost its juju," its fetish quality in warding off evil. If Conason is correct that the Right's bleating about the advancing "socialist evil" won't work any more, then, as they say in Cajun Louisiana, before and after Katrina, "Laissez le bon temps roulez."
"Let the good times roll."
Michael Hirsch is a New York-based labor writer, an editor of New Politics magazine and one of the two principal authors of the draft DSA Economic Justice Agenda. Copies of the Agenda are available at www.dsausa.org. (pdf | Powerpoint)


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On Monday the real Barack Obama stands up – or, at least, so every liberal heart wants to believe.
At his first inauguration, the new president advertised a healing style of politics which offered "unity of purpose over conflict and discord". Four years on, things have not turned out that way. There have been two chunky achievements – the stimulus bill and healthcare reform – but both were ground out in the teeth of dogged partisan opposition during the first half of the term; after the Republicans swept the house in 2010 much less got done. Whether the question is protecting the climate or a just Middle Eastern peace, the wider world has learned the wisdom of not believing in too much change. But before Beyoncé belts out the national anthem, a man who never has to fight another election will stand up to give a second inaugural address. Appearing too strident for the taste of independent voters no longer carries quite the same costs, and so his most dedicated supporters may hanker to finally hear him spell out a few hard truths about the state of the union – together with a crisply radical agenda for change.
Don't bank on it, though. For one thing, we have now seen enough of the 44th president to know that his personal caution is more than a campaigning pose. Indeed, a sceptical, thoughtfully pragmatic worldview was all too evident in his books, even if the electrifying rhetoric of 2008 briefly enticed one to forget it. American growth and employment remain woefully below historical par, but with an economy performing far better than Europe's, and with the gaseous gold rush of shale in prospect, this is not a man who is going to rewrite the financial rulebook just now. Washington's great and not so good will this week head for Davos, the Alpine bolthole where the world's wealthy will plot the next steps for the system that caused the crisis. The nomination of former Citigroup man Jack Lew as treasury secretary does not suggest a great break with Tim Geithner. There are good things that can be said about John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, but the move to place in the state department and the Pentagon two men whom – unlike the president – both backed the Iraq war in the Senate, confirms that on the foreign front, too, Obama mark II will still hug the establishment close.
Mr Obama's own caution is compounded not only by the checks and balances which every president must operate within, but also by the particularly truculent adversaries he is ranged against, adversaries he did not choose. From the reactionary supreme court, which could sink Mr Obama's rational hopes of gun controls even if these can somehow get through Congress, to an Israeli Knesset which looks set to give rise to a singularly intransigent administration after elections this week, the re-elected president has to plot a course around powerful actors who do not share his taste for compromise. The constitution has always required a president to haggle, but the temperament of today's Republican party now precludes this being done in an orderly way. The inescapable and entirely predictable need to raise the debt ceiling could soon produce another ludicrous bout of brinkmanship to match that required to secure modest tax rises on the rich without strangling the economy.
The new year deal over the so-called fiscal cliff was not only messy but unsatisfactory in many ways. Yet it did achieve one valuable thing: demonstrating that the re-elected president can call the bluff of the Republican right by using his mandate to force it to swallow things it does not like. He may not be able to do this as often as liberals would like, but he now has a brief chance to choose where to throw some presidential protection. Social security, the environment, the rights of Palestinians and the hopes of immigrants are all worthy candidates for his attention, though a more ruthless operator than Mr Obama would struggle to safeguard them all. This most cautious of presidents will have been carefully weighing where to focus his efforts. The first evidence of his deliberation could emerge on Monday. As the world waits, it ought to wish him well.


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Through ravelry ads I just found the most amazing site. A shop filled with nerdy, geeky themed yarns. It's like I died and went to heaven. Someone has combined two of my favorite things; Nerdy sci-fi TV shows and yarns. I had to make a quick post here.
Who can resist Batman colored yarns? Or maybe something more macabre, like zombie themed? I haven't gotten through the vast selection of yarns yet, but so far my favorite is under the science section; Farnsworth totally rocks my boat.
I'm currently not buying any yarn. I'll patiently empty some of my stash and knit away at my queue, but this page is now officially saved as a favorite, and after my move, I'm totally going back to order stuff. Expect me to go totally bananas.


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Dr Wasana Bandara is a tenured Senior Lecturer in Business Process Management Discipline at the School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology. Her discipline based research areas are in Human-Centric Business Process Management (BPM), BPM and Information Systems in emerging economies, enterprise-level BPM and process improvement. She also has a strong interest on methodological research and the scholarship of higher education teaching/ training practices in BPM and IS. She has published over 90 refereed articles in leading IS and BPM outlets and has received institutional, national and international awards in recognition for her academic excellence for both research and teaching.
Academic qualifications
|Jan 2000 – Mar 2007
(Conducted part-time)
|Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis Title: Process Modelling Critical Success Factors and Measures.
Queensland University of Technology – Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane
* Winner of the ACPHIS[1] Information Systems Doctoral Thesis Award Competition for 2007.
|Feb 1999 – Nov 1999
|Master of Information Systems & Business Computing
(GPA 6.8 out of 7)
Griffith University – Nathan Campus, Brisbane
|Feb 1997 – Nov 1998
|Bachelor of Commerce (Majoring in Information Systems & Marketing)
(GPA 6.45 out of 7)
Griffith University – Nathan Campus, Brisbane
Awards for Teaching
National level
- Recipient of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation award for 2009 for excellence in applying compassionate, student-centric approaches to motivate, inspire and support students' learning to become outstanding ICT professionals.
Institutional level
- Recipient of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Vice Chancellors Performance award 2009 for outstanding achievement in teaching as a member of the Bachelor of Information Technology Review and Design Core Team.
- Recipient of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Vice Chancellors Team Performance award 2010 for outstanding achievement in Continuous Professional Education.
- Recipient of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Teaching Fellow for 2007-2008 in recognition of overall teaching and learning leadership.
- Recipient of Queensland University of Technology Vice Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Award – Early Careers Category, 2004 in recognition of overall teaching excellence.
Faculty level
- Recipient of Excellence in Research Supervision Award 2012 – Science and Engineering Faculty, Information Systems School for outstanding Higher Degree Research Student supervision.
- Recipient of Faculty of Information Technology Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award (Individual) for 2006 in recognition of overall teaching excellence.
- Recipient of Faculty of Information Technology Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award (Team) for 2002 in recognition of my contributions to innovative curricula design in an emerging field of ICT.
Awards for Research
- Recipient of Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2011.
- Recipient of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS) Doctoral Thesis Medal,
- Most commended thesis at the Faculty of IT, QUT, 2007.
- Recipient of Best Paper Award at the Pacific Asian Conference of Information Systems, Shanghai, 2004.
Academic and business history
- Deputy Discipline Leader, Business Process Management Discipline, Queensland University of Technology, QUT
April 20017– ongoing
- Assistant Director Continuous Professional Education (CPE), School of Information Systems, QUT
Sept 2013 – Dec 2014
- Assistant Director Higher Degree Research and Research Training, School of Information Systems, QUT
March 2013 – Dec 2014
- Academic Program Manager for BPM education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
March 2011 – Jan 2015
- Senior Lecturer (Full Time) April 2007– ongoing
School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Subject Area Taught:
- Lecturer (Full Time) August 2003 – April 2007
School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Subjects Taught:
- Associate Lecturer (Full Time) January 2002 – August 2003
School of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Subjects Taught:
- Academic (Part time)
School of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
School of Accounting, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
February 2000 – November 2002
Subjects Taught:
- Executive Trainer and Consultant on Enterprise level Business Process Management and process improvement (2007-present).
Clients include: Australian Federal and State Government Agencies, Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) – Australia, Professional Advantage , Energex Brisbane, QSuper, Queensland University of Technology, InfoSys- India
Selected Professional roles
|Oct 2013 – Dec 2014
|International Advisor for Research Capacity Building, Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka.
|Sept 2013 – Dec 2014
|International Board of Advisors for National Reform efforts, at the Ministry of Public Management Reform, Sri Lanka.
|Jan 2012 – Dec 2013
|Associate Editor for the BPM Track at the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) 2013.
|June 2011– Present
|Pacific Asian Conference of Information systems (PACIS) Executive committee member.
|Dec 2009 – Dec 2013
|Australian Conference of Information Systems (ACIS) Executive committee member.
- Dec 2010– Dec 2011, Co-chair of the Asian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) Doctoral Consortium, Wollongong, Australia, December 2011.
- Mar 2010 – Jun 2012, Guest Senior Editor of the Australian Journal of Information Systems special issue on Qualitative research in IT.
- Jan 2010 – May 2011, Chair of the QUT Innovation Advisory Group.
- Jun 2009 – Dec 2011, Conference Co-Chair for the Qualitative Research in ICT (QUALIT) Conference 2010.
- Mar 2009 – Aug 2011, Organisation Co-Chair for the Pacific-Asian Conference of Information Systems (PACIS) 2011.
- Jan 2009 – Jan 2011, Organisation Co-Chair for the Australasian Conference of Information Systems (ACIS) 2010.
- Dec 2012 – Dec 2014, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
- Sept 2013 – Oct 2013, Visiting Professor, University of Technology (UTM), Malaysia.
- Oct 2013, July 2014, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT), Sri Lanka.
Selected publications Related to Research Systems
Journal Articles
- Bandara, Wasana, Furtmueller, Elfi, Gorbacheva, Elena, Miskon, Suraya, & Beekhuyzen, Jenine (2015) Achieving rigor in literature reviews: Insights from qualitative data analysis and tool-support. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 37, pp. 154-204.
- Miskon, Suraya, Bandara, Wasana, & Fielt, Erwin (2015) Applying the principles of interpretive field research: As example of an IS case study on shared services. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 10(23), pp. 18078-18086.
- Alturki, Ahmad, Bandara, Wasana, & Gable, Guy G. (2012) Design science research and the core of information systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7286/2012, pp. 309-327.
- Bandara, Wasana, Fernandez, Walter, & Rowlands, Bruce (2012) Qualitative methods in information systems research. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 17(2), pp. 5-7.
- Alturki, Ahmad, Gable, Guy, & Bandara, Wasana (2011) A design science research roadmap. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Service-Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research: 6th International Conference Proceedings, pp. 107-123.
Conference Papers
- Goel, Kanika & Bandara, Wasana (2016) An understanding of business process standardization. In 30th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Under New Management: Innovating for Sustainable and Just Futures (ANZAM 2016), 6-9 December 2016, Brisbane, QLD.
- Alturki, Ahmad, Gable, Guy G., & Bandara, Wasana (2011) A design science research roadmap. In Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology 2011 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6629), Springer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pp. 107-123.
- Bandara, Wasana, Miskon, Suraya, & Fielt, Erwin (2011) A systematic, tool-supported method for conducting literature reviews in information systems. In Tuunainen, Virpi, Nandhakumar, Joe , Rossi, Matti , & Soliman, Wael (Eds.) Proceedings of the19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2011), Helsinki, Finland.
- Frolov, Vladimir, Megel, David, Bandara, Wasana, Sun, Yong, & Ma, Lin (2009) Building an ontology and process architecture for engineering asset management. In Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, 28-30 September 2009, Marriott Athens Ledra Hotel, Athens.
- Bandara, Wasana (2006) Using NVivo as a research management tool: a case narrative. In Ruth, A. (Ed.) Quality and Impact of Qualitative Research: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Qualitative Research in IT & IT in Qualitative Research, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Workshops and Panels
- Tate, M., Furtmueller, E., Evermann, J., Bandara, W. (2013) "Building up or Piling Up? The Literature Review in Information Systems research", European Conference of Information Systems, June 5-8, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
[1] The Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS) Doctoral Thesis Medal is awarded annually to the best Australian doctoral thesis in Information Systems.


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Newsletter 178 | May 3rd 2015
Welcome to the 178th Critical Care Reviews Newsletter, bringing you the best critical care research published in the past week, plus a wide range of free full text review articles, guidelines, commentaries, editorials, study critiques, correspondence and case reports from hundreds of clinical and scientific journals.
It's a big newsletter this week, bloated with the monthly addition of recently made open access articles from the major critical care journals plus, to keep abreast of future research output, a new section on protocols for upcoming trials. Also, it's been almost a year in development, but the first issue of Critical Care Horizons is nearing publication. All articles will be carried in the newsletter, but stay tuned to the website and twitter feed (@CCHjournal). If you only have time for one review article this week, try either this paper on reversal of anticoagulants or this on Nutrition in the ICU. The links to the Neurocritical Care guidelines in last week's newsletter misformatted, so the correct links have been included this week. SMACC is almost upon us, so if you haven't yet booked, it's time to do so.
This week's Topic of the Week is neurological uses of therapeutic hypothermia, starting with a general paper in tomorrow's Paper of the Day.
Due to hugely successful previous events, the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2016 has been moved to a brand new venue, the stunning, multi-million pound Titanic Centre, birthplace of RMS Titanic, As before, the meeting theme is to review the biggest studies of the previous year, with chief investigators present where possible to discuss their work in person. From Wellington, New Zealand, Dr Paul Young will talk on his studies SPLIT (saline versus plasmalyte) and HEAT (paracetamol for pyrexia control). Dr John Holcomb (Houston, USA) will review his mega trial PROPPR, evaluating blood product transfusion ratios in traumatic haemorrhage. Prof Tim Walsh (Edinburgh, Scotland) will review the ABLE study, including his ABLE UK component, evaluating age of transfused red cells, as well as RECOVER, a post-ICU rehab study. Similarly, Prof Danny McAuley (Belfast, Northern Ireland) will also review a post-ICU rehab study, the REVIVE trial. In addition, two of the most eminent intensivists in global critical care, Prof Jean-Louis Vincent (Brussels, Belgium) and Prof Luciano Gattinoni (Milan, Italy) will be on hand to discuss the significance of these findings. It won't be all study discussion, with other elements to the meeting, including the spectacularly popular "Informal Chat", taking place that evening.
If you haven't yet attended this modern, niche meeting, then put the date Friday January 29th in your diary. Both delegate and speaker feedback from previous meetings has been incredibly positive, allowing the event to grow and attract some of the biggest names in critical care. The Titanic Centre is just minutes from Belfast City Airport, with a hotel within 3 minutes walking distance, and is a 20 minute walk from the city centre, including the Cathedral Quarter, Belfast's cultural centre full of great restaurants and pubs. Further details regarding delegate rate accommodation should be available in the next week or two. Talks are given in the setting of the rebuilt famous staircase from the great ship, while both the "Informal Chat" session and dinner overlook the floodlit slipways where Titanic and Olympic were launched. With some exciting new innovations planned, this new meeting promises to delivery on its burgeoning reputation. The finalised programme won't be released until later this Autumn, but don't wait too long before registering, as numbers are capped to keep this an intimate event. It is as strong a one day programme as you could possibly find. If you think your colleagues would find this event interesting, please circulate this information - this is a not-for-profit event, run in association with the Northern Ireland Intensive Care Society.
There are just 8 weeks to one of the biggest, and definitely the best, critical care conference in the world. The next SMACC Conference is on June 23rd to 26th, in Chicago, USA. With its informal manner and flat hierarchy, this event delivers on its promise to provide top class critical care education in a fun, modern way. Speakers are deliberately chosen for their ability to present and convey information, rather than their academic or social media status, marking this as the field leader in medical conferencing. With an emphasis on TED-like presentation styles, minimal slides and maximal social media involvement, this is the future of medical meetings. In addition to numerous world-leading academics, many active in the altruistic social media world of FOAM are there to contribute, including helping deliver a massive set of workshops the day before the main meeting begins. Just like the Critical Care Reviews Meeting, this is a not-for-profit event, run by a team interested in sharing knowledge in a fun, modern way. It's a conference like no other. I hope to see you there.
This year's State-of-the-Art Meeting promises an exciting programme in a new dynamic format. With strong social media input, and fresh ideas from those successfully delivering free educational content through various FOAM websites and events, this conference will be very different to before. Covering every CPD requirement, and attracting the most eminent researchers from the UK and beyond, the State-of-the-Art meeting remains the biggest critical care conference in the UK.
The ICSI host a superb three day ESICM meeting at Dubin Castle on June 11th to 13th, focusing on every aspect of respiratory critical care. From mechanical ventilation to ARDS to heart-lung interactions, this event is ideal for anyone interested in updating their knowledge in this field, under the guidance of some of the leading names in the area.
- Abstract: Mismetti. Effect of a Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter Plus Anticoagulation vs Anticoagulation Alone on Risk of Recurrent Pulmonary Embolism: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 2015;313(16):1627
- Full Text: Glun. A randomised study in healthy volunteers to investigate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of idarucizumab, a specific antidote to dabigatran. Thromb Haemost 2015;113(5):943-951
- Abstract: Rittayamai. Pressure-Controlled versus Volume-Controlled Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure: A Physiology-Based Narrative and Systematic Review. Chest 2015;epublished April 30th
- Abstract: Corredor. The role of point-of-care platelet function testing in predicting postoperative bleeding following cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Anaesthesia 2015;epublished April 27th
- Abstract: Nguyen. The volume-outcome relationship in critical care: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Chest 2015;epublished April 30th
- Abstract: Marti. Systemic thrombolytic therapy for acute pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Heart J 2015;36(10):605–614
- Full Text: de Groot. The association between time to antibiotics and relevant clinical outcomes in emergency department patients with various stages of sepsis: a prospective multi-center study. Critical Care 2015;19:194
- Full Text: Balzer. Early deep sedation is associated with decreased in-hospital and 2-years follow-up survival. Critical Care 2015;19:197
- Abstract: Betjemann. Trends in Status Epilepticus—Related Hospitalizations and MortalityRedefined in US Practice Over Time. JAMA Neurol 2015;epublished April 27th
- Abstract: Park. Culprit or multivessel revascularisation in ST-elevation myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock. Heart 2015;epublished April 8th
- Abstract: Dragancea. Neurological prognostication after cardiac arrest and targeted temperature management 33 °C versus 36 °C: Results from a randomized controlled clinical trial. Resuscitation 2015;epublished April 25th
- Full Text: Póvoa. Clinical impact of stress dose steroids in patients with septic shock: insights from the PROWESS-Shock trial. Critical Care 2015;19:193
- Full Text: Lai. Functional outcome of prolonged refractory status epilepticus. Critical Care 2015;19:199
- Abstract: Kentish-Barnes. Complicated grief after death of a relative in the intensive care unit. Eur Respir J 2015 45:1341-1352
- Full Text: Póvoa. Clinical impact of stress dose steroids in patients with septic shock: insights from the PROWESS-Shock trial. Crit Care 2015;28;19(1):193
- Abstract: Willig. Whole-genome sequencing for identification of Mendelian disorders in critically ill infants: a retrospective analysis of diagnostic and clinical findings. Lancet Respir Med 2015;epublished April 27th
- Brunskill. Red blood cell transfusion for people undergoing hip fracture surgery. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2015, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD009699
- Gaudry. Comparison of two strategies for initiating renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (AKIKI). Trials 2015;16:170
- Brown. A randomized trial of continuous versus interrupted chest compressions in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Rationale for and design of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Continuous Chest Compressions (ROC) Trial. AHJ 2015;169(3):334–341.e5
- Ferrando. Rationale and study design for an individualized perioperative open lung ventilatory strategy (iPROVE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 2015;16:193
- Smischney. Ketamine/propofol admixture (ketofol) at induction in the critically ill against etomidate (KEEP PACE trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 2015;16:177
- Eastwood. A pilot feasibility, safety and biological efficacy multicentre trial of therapeutic. Trials 2015;16:135
- China Neurosurgical Critical Care Specialist Council (CNCCSC). The Experts Consensus for Patient Management of Neurosurgical Critical Care Unit in China (2015). Chin Med J 2015;128:1252-67
- COCATS 4 Task Force 13: Training in Critical Care Cardiology. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015;65(17):1877-1886
- Souter. Recommendations for the Critical Care Management of Devastating Brain Injury: Prognostication, Psychosocial, and Ethical Management. A Position Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society. Neurocrit Care 2015;epublished April 18th
- Torbey. Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Management of Large Hemispheric Infarction. A Statement for Health Care Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society and the German Society for Neuro-Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Neurocrit Care 2015;22:146–16
- Yealy. Recognizing and managing sepsis: what needs to be done? BMC Medicine 2015;13:98
- Ashley. The Precision Medicine Initiative: A New National Effort. JAMA 2015;epublished April 30th
- Liu. Current Clinical Research of Acute Kidney Injury in China. Chin Med J 2015;128:1268-71
- Schork. Personalized medicine: Time for one-person trials. Nature 2015;520:609-611
Case Reports
- Ohsaka. Successful treatment of a penetrating pulmonary artery injury caused by a Japanese sword in a patient transported by a physician-staffed helicopter. J Emerg Trauma Shock 2015;8:125-6
- Claisse. Venovenous haemodiafiltration for the management of dabigatran overdose in intensive care unit. Clin Kidney J 2015;8(2):199-201
Review Articles
- Bernat. Observations on Ethical Issues in the Neuro-ICU. Neuro Crit Care 2015;epublished April 18th
- King. Promoting sleep in critically ill patients. Nursing Critical Care 2015;10(3):37–43
- McLarty. Mechanical Circulatory Support and the Role of LVADs in Heart Failure Therapy. Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology 2015:Suppl 2:1-5
- Westerhof. Bridging cardiovascular physics, physiology, and clinical practice: Karel H. Wesseling, pioneer of continuous noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015;308(3): H153–H156.
- Janz. The role of red blood cells and cell-free hemoglobin in the pathogenesis of ARDS. Journal of Intensive Care 2015;3:20
- Kowlgi. D-Lactic Acidosis: An Underrecognized Complication of Short Bowel Syndrome. Gastroenterology Research and Practice 2015;(2015):476215
- Bernal. Acute liver failure: A curable disease by 2024? Journal of Hepatology 2015;62:S112–S120
- Arroyo. Acute-on-chronic liver failure: A new syndrome that will re-classify cirrhosis. Journal of Hepatology 2015;62:S131–S143
- Byrne. NAFLD: A multisystem disease. Journal of Hepatology 2015;62:S47–S64
- Bosch. Evolution in the understanding of the pathophysiological basis of portal hypertension: How changes in paradigm are leading to successful new treatments. Journal of Hepatology 2015;62:S121–S130
- Tapper. Refining the Ammonia Hypothesis. A Physiology-Driven Approach to the Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy. Mayo Clinic Proc 2015;90(5):646-658
- Nayak. Myoglobinuria and Acute Kidney Injury. J Integr Nephrol Androl 2015;2:50-4
- Pôncio. The long-term outcome after acute kidney injury: a narrative review. J Bras Nefrol 2015;37(1):115-120
- Roberts. Urine Dipstick Testing: Everything You Need to Know. Emergency Medicine News 2015;37(5):14–17
- Faraoni. Updates in the perioperative and emergency management of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants. Critical Care 2015;19:203
- Greinacher. Reversal of anticoagulants: an overview of current developments. Thromb Haemost 2015;113(5):931-942
- Roubinian. Transfusion-associated circulatory overload (TACO): prevention, management, and patient outcomes. International Journal of Clinical Transfusion Medicine 2015;3:17-28
- Matthaiou. How to treat fungal infections in ICU patients. BMC Infectious Diseases 2015;15:205
- Molus. Ebola–critical care considerations. Anaesthesia Tutorial of the Week 2015;epublished April 16th
- Osterholm. Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know. mBio 2015;6:e00137-15
- Helal. Immunomodulation in critically ill septic patients. Menoufia Med J 2015;28:259-65
- Schuetz. Can biomarkers help us to better diagnose and manage sepsis? Diagnosis 2015;2(2):81–87
- Erdem. New global viral threats. Saudi Med J 2015;36(4):393–398
- Jutel. Digitizing diagnosis: a review of mobile applications in the diagnostic process. Diagnosis 2015;2(2):89-96
- Zwaan. The challenges in defining and measuring diagnostic error. Diagnosis 2015;2(2):97-103
- Martin. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment over time. Diagnosis 2015;2(2):105-109
- Liebovitz. Next steps for electronic health records to improve the diagnostic process. Diagnosis 2015;2(2):111–116
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Review Articles
- Blackwood. How Outcomes Are Defined in Clinical Trials of Mechanically Ventilated Adults and Children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):886-893
- Reves. Update in Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections 2013. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):894-898
- Needham. Understanding and Improving Clinical Trial Outcome Measures in Acute Respiratory Failure. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):875-877
- Bagshaw. Novel Biomarkers to Anticipate Acute Kidney Injury. Getting Ahead of the Curve. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):879-882
- Wunderink. Ventilator-associated Complications, Ventilator-associated Pneumonia, and Newton's Third Law of Mechanics. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):882-883
- Abroug. What Is the Right Dose of Systemic Corticosteroids for Intensive Care Unit Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations?. A Question in Search of a Definitive Answer. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):1014-1016
- Kellum. Acute Kidney Injury: Still Deadly 10 Years Later. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):1016-1017
- Contentin. Heterogeneity in the Definition of Mechanical Ventilation Duration and Ventilator-Free Days. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):998-1002
- Antioxidants in the Intensive Care Unit. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):1007-1008 Fisher | Jain
- Bates. Specialty Status of Intensive Care Medicine in Ireland. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015;189(8):1149
Review Articles
- Desai. Nutrition in the ICU: An Evidence-Based Approach. Chest 2014;145(5):1148-1157
- Edrich. A Postoperative Patient Decompensates During Transfer From an Outside Hospital. Chest 2014;145(5):e14-e16
- Brusselle. Inflammasomes in Respiratory Disease: From Bench to Bedside. Chest 2014;145(5):1121-1133
- Mathis. Thromboembolism in Ultrasound: Killing Three Birds With One Stone. Chest 2014;145(5):931-932
- Curtis. Our Responsibility for Training Physicians to Understand the Effect Patient Death Has on Them: The Role of the Intensivist. Chest 2014;145(5):932-934
- Augoustides. Vasopressin: The Perioperative Gift that Keeps on Giving. Anesthesiology 2014;121:914-915
Review Articles
- Vetter. Perioperative Management of the Patient with a Coronary Artery Stent. Anesthesiology 2014;121
- Monsel. Cell-based Therapy for Acute Organ Injury: Preclinical Evidence and Ongoing Clinical Trials Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Anesthesiology 2014;121:1099-1121
Anesthesia & Analgesia
Review Articles
- Kain. The Perioperative Surgical Home as a Future Perioperative Practice Model. Anesth Analg 2014;118(5):1126-1130
- Vetter. The Perioperative Surgical Home: How Anesthesiology Can Collaboratively Achieve and Leverage the Triple Aim in Health Care. Anesth Analg 2014;118(5):1131-1136
- Butterworth. The Anesthesiologist-Directed Perioperative Surgical Home: A Great Idea That Will Succeed Only if It Is Embraced by Hospital Administrators and Surgeons. Anesth Analg 2014;118(5):896-897
- Crosby. Cognitive Outcome of Surgery: Is There No Place Like Home? Anesth Analg 2014;118(5):898-900
- Cannesson. Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Versus Perioperative Surgical Home: Is It All in the Name? Anesth Analg 2014;118(5):901-902
- Leslie. Sedation Depth and Mortality: A Large Randomized Trial Is Required. Anesthesia & Analgesia. Anesth Analg 2014;118(5):903-905
- Mannion. Bispectral Index, Sedation, Spinal Anesthesia and Mortality: Time to Put the Jigsaw Puzzle Together? Anesth Analg 2014;118(5):906-908
- Sear. Perioperative Renin-Angiotensin Blockade: To Continue or Discontinue, That Is the Question! Anesth Analg 2014;118(5):909-911
British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Brindley. Adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation: 'who' rather than 'how'. Br J Anaesth 2014;112(5):777-779
- Tanaka. Looking into the future of platelet transfusion in the presence of P2Y12 inhibitors. Br J Anaesth 2014;112(5):780-784
- Kozek-Langenecker. Fibrinogen concentrate: clinical reality and cautious Cochrane recommendation. Br J Anaesth 2014;112(5):784-787
- Servin. Surrogate measures, do they really describe anaesthetic state? Br J Anaesth 2014;112(5):787-790
- Sanders. 'For now we see through a glass, darkly': the anaesthesia syndrome. Br J Anaesth 2014;112(5):790-793
Review Articles
- Reusz. Needle-related ultrasound artifacts and their importance in anaesthetic practice. Br J Anaesth 2014;112(5):794-802
- Mazzeo. Brain–heart crosstalk: the many faces of stress-related cardiomyopathy syndromes in anaesthesia and intensive care. Br J Anaesth 2014;112(5):803-815
- Price. Initial assessment and management of pain: a pathway for care developed by the British Pain Society. Br J Anaesth 2014;112(5):816-823
Review Articles
- Biccard. Cardiac biomarkers in the prediction of risk in the non-cardiac surgery setting. Anaesthesia 2014;69:484–493
- Staikou. A narrative review of peri-operative management of patients with thalassaemia. Anaesthesia 2014;69:494–510
Medicina Intensiva
Review Articles
- Díaz-Miguel. Temporary internal pacing. Med Intensiva 2014;38:575-9
- Alberdi. Epidemiology of severe trauma. Med Intensiva 2014;38:580-8
- Vera. Quality indicators on the use of antimicrobials in critically ill patients. Med Intensiva 2014;38:567-74
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Review Articles
- Reynolds. Copper removal strategies for Wilson's disease crisis in the ICU. Anaesth Intensive Care 2014;42:253-257 (free registration required)
- Ramaswamykanive. Intravenous infusion of sterile water for the treatment of hypernatraemia. Anaesth Intensive Care 2014;42:258-262 (free registration required)
- Shekar. Extracorporeal respiratory support: breaking conventions? Anaesth Intensive Care 2014;42:175-177 (free registration required)
General Interest
CCH Journal
After almost a year of preparation, the first issue of the new genuine open access critical care journal, Critical Care Horizons is nearing publication. This is a fresh new voice in the critical care literature, offering thought-provoking, cutting-edge commentary and opinion papers, plus state-of-the-art review articles. The journal is free to publish with and free to read, opening authorship opportunity to all. The energetic editorial board consists of a deliberate mix of clinicians active in social media and world renowned academics, all driven by a desire to improve the care we offer our patients, and operate without financial gain or incentive. If you have something interesting to say, and can say it in an engaging manner, please get in touch.
COI - I am the editor-in-chief of this new journal, but work in a voluntary capacity, as do all the editors.
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Google Glass Travels The World.
Google Glass Travels The World. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Sophia Dominguez takes her Google Glass (Google Goggles, in India ?) to Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, London, Berlin, Dubai, Goa and Mumbai, to capture the reactions of various people, young and old and their reactions, on Google Glass.
I almost ordered one, but let go as I want to wait for the second iteration and also due to the fact my optometrist told me that I might not need to wear my prescription glasses any more :)!. So I settled to play with my colleagues and friends Google Glass to take my curiosity out. Good decision and MPAA managed to prohibit Google Glasses from Cinemas already. Who else wants to ban Google Glasses? Tim Cook?
But I like what Sophia did and the results of her adventure.


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To say the cadence of The Modern Horrors Podcast has been irregular as of late would be a kind understatement. Truth is, we've been pretty flakey lately–and most of that is on me. But don't think for a second that we're going anywhere. We'll be back. And as we always say, it'll be worth the wait.
While I take some time away to settle a myriad of projects and personal affairs, Jacob and I are toying with some ideas that might freshen the ol' podcast up a bit. Maybe it's time to break free from our chains and talk about; well, whatever the hell we want. We love the show, but we're eager to try new things. Hopefully we return within the next week or two with something you'll enjoy. Until then, keep on queueing up new episodes of The Final Girls, The Horror Virgin, and Death Dying, and Other Things.
Lastly, thank you for your continued support. Every share, like, comment, and retweet quite literally means everything to us. We're creeping up on four years, and a lot of really cool things are starting to happen. But don't mistake that for any type of true success. We rely on your support and willingness to share what we do at Modern Horrors to keep the train moving.
Seriously, thank you. The mics will be dusted off very soon.


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Hey Girls,
These three cute fall preview boots caught my eye at http://www.charlotterusse.com. Cute, cute, cutie pie!! And under $50 bucks. ~isobella
Lace-Up Canvas Combat Boot in brown, $40.00, buy one get one for $15.
Folded-collar heel bottie, in red, $30, but one get one for $15.
Fauz-Suede lace-up wedge, $38.50, buy one get one for $15
via http://www.charlotterusse.com
Aim high and stall tall, I always do in my hot shoes! ~Isobella


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6 carrots, trimmed and cut into quarters lengthways
2 tbsp olive oil
Newman's Own Honey & Mustard Dressing
100g goat's cheese
1/4 cup dukkah (Swap the dukkah for toasted hazelnuts or almonds if you prefer)
1/4 cup mint leaves
Preheat oven to 200C and line a baking tray with paper.
Arrange the carrots on the tray, drizzle with olive oil and roast for 30 minutes or until tender and beginning to caramelise on the edges.
Toss with Newman's Own Honey & Mustard Dressing and arrange on a platter with the mint, dukkah and goat's cheese.