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Professionisti del settore sanitario
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The Medtronic Paceart® System organizes and archives data for cardiac devices across manufacturers and serves as a central repository for a patient's arrhythmia information. The Paceart System serves as a gateway through which data flows from programmers and remote monitoring systems to a clinic's electronic health record (EHR) system.
How the Paceart System Works
The Paceart System organizes relevant patient, device and programmer information to help you meet your clinic management challenges. It also provides access to trend analysis in reports, putting it right at your fingertips, so you get a quicker read on your patient's condition and device.
The Paceart System:
You'll find the Paceart system extremely adaptable. You can configure it to meet your present needs, easily adding new devices, patients or physicians. It works within the process of varied clinical environments. As you grow, the system is sophisticated and powerful enough to advance with you.
The Paceart system helps make information from varied sources available when it's needed. Paceart enhances clinic efficiency by:
Whatever device or programmer you're looking at, you'll see the information presented in a similar way – making it easy to quickly find what you want.
Medtronic's complete Paceart System includes both clinic and TTM management components.
You can configure the Paceart System to meet your present needs, so you can easily add patients or physicians. And it works within your current clinic processes. Then as you grow, the system is sophisticated and powerful enough to advance with you:
Optional CardioVoice® TTM Assistant works with our TTM Management system to provide unattended around the clock service:
While the complete Paceart System includes both clinic and TTM components, each is also available separately.
The Medtronic Paceart system is a computer software application that organizes relevant patient, cardiac device and programmer information to help clinics manage follow-up of implantable cardiac device patients. Paceart's principal objective is to provide heart rhythm management solutions designed to allow clinicians and the cardiac device industry to optimize the care of patients with implanted cardiac devices.
The Paceart system is installed on Intel-compatible hardware running Microsoft Windows operating systems. The Paceart system uses Microsoft SQL Server for database hosting. Other components of the technical environment will include Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) if the provider has selected Paceart's Web Access option.
The Paceart system creates an electronic patient record, which may contain patient-specific electronic protected health information (ePHI) data, including ECG and other monitored parameters and therapy events such as defibrillation and pacing. Patient data stored by the Paceart system can include for each patient: name, address, city and state, postal code, telephone numbers, fax numbers, Social Security number, medical record number, health plan beneficiary numbers, account numbers, certificates and license numbers, device numbers, date of admission and date of service.
The number of patient records managed by the Paceart system is dependent upon the storage capacity of the computer server hosting the ePHI data. Data are stored in a Microsoft SQL Server database.
Clinicians access ePHI via the Paceart system's Windows-based user interface. Paceart allows the clinic's system administrator to create and manage unique user identifications and passwords for each clinician accessing the system. User profiles controlling access to data can be created and assigned to individual user identifications and passwords. The Paceart System Administrator's Manual details instructions for the creation and management of user identifications and passwords.
For patient care or data archiving purposes, data may be transferred from the Paceart system to another data management tool employed by the clinic. Information is transferred via Paceart's Export Module, which creates an XML-based message that is transmitted by the clinic's network infrastructure.
The following table represents examples of potential information security exposures associated with the Paceart system. Other information security exposures may exist depending on how this product is used within your organization.
|Security Exposures
|Hostile or Intentional Activities
|Non-Hostile or Unintentional Activities
|The Paceart system-equipped computer is physically damaged, thereby preventing or delaying access to ePHI required for delivery of care. Theft of a Paceart system-equipped computer from the building results in ePHI being destroyed or disclosed. Physical access to the Paceart system-equipped computer permits the copying of ePHI to portable media for removal and later disclosure. The copying of ePHI data to portable media for removal and later disclosure.
|ePHI is disclosed to service provider when Paceart system-equipped hardware is repaired or serviced and software support is provided. ePHI is left on Paceart system-equipped computers when equipment is retired, and a salvage company discovers patient data.
|Employee copies ePHI to a portable media for removal and later disclosure. Employee intentionally deletes or modifies ePHI.
|Employee spills liquids or causes other accidental damage to the Paceart system-equipped computer, thereby preventing or delaying access to ePHI required for delivery of patient care. Employee accidentally deletes ePHI from Paceart system database.
These security features and recommended procedures for proper use of the system are intended to facilitate your HIPAA security compliance efforts.
|HIPAA Standard
|Security Issue and Feature
|Recommended Action
Information Access Management
Paceart security features are based upon the customer's selection of security model. There are two options. The first option utilizes the Microsoft SQL Server security model. The second option utilizes the Microsoft Windows security model. Both models provide for controlling access to the Paceart system application and ePHI. Both models allow for audit logging capabilities. Use of the Microsoft Windows security model allows for the use of Microsoft Windows security groups and logging.
To help prevent improper disclosure or loss of ePHI, installation of the full version of Microsoft SQL Server with use of the Microsoft Windows security model is recommended. This will permit the use of Windows event logging to track user activities. This will also permit the use of Windows groups for role-based administration of user access.
Contingency Plan
Paceart provides for the backup and recovery of ePHI using either the standard Microsoft SQL Server utilities or the backup capabilities of the Windows server. Data backups can be used to store ePHI on portable media or clinic-based storage systems.
Clinics should establish polices, standards, and procedures for the backup and recovery of ePHI.
Protection from Malicious Software
Paceart relies on the security controls implemented for the hosting platform on which it is installed. Customers are responsible for providing a secure platform on which the Paceart system can operate.
Clinics should install anti-virus software on the computer used to process and manage ePHI used by the Paceart application. The procedure should call for the timely updating of virus definitions. Security updates to the operating system are recommended upon consultation with Paceart Technical Services.
|HIPAA Standard
|Security Issue and Feature
|Recommended Action
Workstation Security
The Paceart system allows for the storage of electronic patient data on either a local workstation or a network-enabled server. In either case, the Paceart System utilizes Microsoft SQL Server to host the data. The Paceart system workstation client connects via ActiveX Data Objects (ADO [SQLOLEDB]) to the Microsoft SQL Server database, whether that database resides directly on the local workstation, on the clinic's network, on a Virtual Private Network (VPN), or on a remote network accessed through dial-up. Customers are responsible for ensuring access to Paceart system-managed ePHI is secure.
Implement policies and standards for physical security for those workstations used to interface with the Paceart database, either on a local workstation or server environment.
|HIPAA Standard
|Security Issue and Feature
|Recommended Action
Access Controls
Microsoft SQL Server is used to provide database support for the Paceart application. The Paceart application can provide for the use of unique user accounts and passwords in conjunction with either the Microsoft Windows security model or the Microsoft SQL Server security model. The Microsoft Windows security model provides additional benefits in the form of coordination with Microsoft Windows security groups, Microsoft Windows password policies and Microsoft Windows event logging.
Clinics should administer user access procedures consistent with the customer's policies, procedures and standards for administration of applications and systems that maintain ePHI.
The accuracy and completeness of the Paceart system's data depend in part on the policies and standards implemented on the host operating system. Risk to Paceart stability can be introduced from weak local security policies on the host platform. Security patches to the OS should be applied after consult with Medtronic Paceart Technical Services.
Implement policies and standards to secure and protect the host operating system on which the Paceart client application is to be operated.
This page provides a description of certain security features of the Paceart system. In addition, it provides recommended actions and suggested controls that may help you mitigate or otherwise address the information security risks that are associated with the product's use. However, these security features, recommended actions, and suggested controls may not ensure that all security incidents can be avoided, such as those related to the inadvertent or the unauthorized disclosure, deletion, or modification of a patient's health information. In addition, this document is not intended to provide, and should not be relied upon as, a comprehensive description or an exhaustive list of recommended actions and controls. As a result, your organization may need to implement additional actions and controls, depending upon your particular security requirements and needs.
If you use the Paceart® System together with the CareLink® Network, you were used to entering patient remote schedules two to three times into different systems. Now that's over.
CareLink and Paceart schedules are integrated to offer One-Stop Scheduling. Enter your CareLink appointments in the Paceart System or the CareLink Website, and you're done. Scheduling information is automatically shared between the systems, making your life simpler, more efficient.
If you use Paceart HL7® connectivity, you can schedule in your EHR or master scheduling system and the appointment transfers automatically to Paceart, CareLink, and the device. The following tutorial demonstrates how easy One-Stop Scheduling is:
Scheduling. Simplified.
EHR Data
Connecting implanted cardiac device data to the electronic health record (EHR) and into a personal health record (PHR) via a single, easily managed interface can help healthcare practices maximize efficiency in the workflow, potentially saving significant time and money.
The following study, conducted at The Ohio Heart and Vascular Center, showed a 9-minute per patient time savings in the clinic workflow processes1 when a device follow-up system is integrated into a clinic's EHR.
The Medtronic Paceart® System is the only device follow-up system on the market that integrates demographics, scheduling, and device data all in one place - providing a single solution for all device data and unmatched EHR coverage.
Paceart Time Study (PDF, 155 KB)
IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE goals are:
IHE Integration Statements describe how systems should be designed to interoperate. They identify the specific IHE capabilities a given product is designed to support in terms of the key concepts of IHE: Actors (a role that a given system performs) and Integration Profiles (integration function). The Medtronic IHE integration statement (PDF, 13 KB) describes how Medtronic's data connectivity technology has implemented the IHE technical framework.
Medtronic participates on the Implantable Device Cardiac Observation (IDCO) committee, and successfully completed the IHE Connectathon testing of the IDCO profile in January of 2010. In this round of testing, Medtronic connected with EHR vendors including Epic, General Electric, NextGen, and Medical Micrographics.
Medtronic showcased its complete data connectivity solution at the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in March of 2010. As the only cardiac device manufacturer participating in the Interoperability Showcase, Medtronic displayed its ability to connect cardiac device data to an Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Paceart System and EHR Integration, conducted by Validus Consulting, Inc. at The Ohio Heart & Vascular Center, Cincinnati, Ohio October 2008.
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Although this undoubtedly incomplete list of breast cancer therapies approved by the FDA would seem a veritable cornucopia of opportunities, for the over 1 million women world-wide who are diagnosed each year with breast cancer (Porter P. NEJM. 358:213–216, 2008), and their physicians, the list often seems much too short. Many of the drugs appear more than once on the list, as their indications have expanded over the time. This reflects the fact that many experimental agents have failed to meet the standards required for FDA approval, and also the realism that has marked cancer research in the last decade as we strive for incremental improvement rather than the "magic bullet" that was so long the goal. This latter point is the foundation for the work presented in this issue of CCR Focus. In Pathways to Personalized Medicine, we see breast cancer, invasive ductal carcinoma, as not one disease, but rather a collection of different disease entities, a collection of multiple different disease entities that likely have different cells of origin. At least five different subtypes have been described and there are likely others. Moreover, these cancers are found in patients whose unique genotypes may have determined their cancer susceptibility, both in terms of risk and in response to therapy. The sorting of genotypes and tumor types requires a meticulous study of breast cancer at a depth and scale not previously possible.
The articles in this issue of CCR Focus, guest edited by expert Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, highlight the emerging findings and ongoing studies in this field. Garcia-Closas and Chanock illustrate the value of genome wide-association studies in breast cancer risk. Schneider and colleagues discuss the appositely named triple-negative subtype and the need to find therapies that exploit its biology. Dowsett and Dunbier explore biomarkers that should provide a more accurate view of the biology of any given tumor, while Tan and colleagues teach us that an individual's genotype can have a surprising and profound effect on therapy response. Olopade lays the groundwork for these papers in an overview that highlights the optimism that these lines of research have generated in the oncology and advocacy communities alike. As with every issue of CCR Focus, it is our hope that the articles inform and intrigue both the expert in the field and the interested but non-expert observer. In breast cancer, as in all cancers, our hope is also that the next 15 years will bring better and less toxic therapies and a personalized path to the cure.
1994 Paclitaxel, Taxol - metastatic breast cancer
1996 Pamidronate, Aredia - osteolytic bone metastases of breast cancer
1996 Anastrozole, Arimidex - advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women
1996 Docetaxel, Taxotere - locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer
1997 Letrozole, Femara - advanced breast cancer after antiestrogen failure
1998 Tamoxifen, Nolvadex - breast cancer prevention
1998 Trastuzumab, Herceptin - metastatic breast cancer
1998 Capecitabine Xeloda - metastatic breast cancer
1999 Exemestane, Aromasin - advanced breast cancer after tamoxifen failure
2001 Letrozole, Femara - first-line therapy for advanced breast cancer
2004 Letrozole, Femara - extended adjuvant therapy in ER+ postmenopausal setting
2005 Anastrozole, Arimidex - adjuvant treatment ER+ postmenopausal setting
2005 Exemestane, Aromasin - early breast cancer after 2 to 3 years of taxmoifen
2005 Letrozole, Femara - initial adjuvant therapy in ER+ postmenopausal women
2005 Nanoparticle paclitaxel, Abraxane - after failure of combination chemotherapy
2006 Trastuzumab, Herceptin - early stage breast cancer after surgery
2007 Lapatinib, Tykerb with capecitabine - after anthracycine, taxane, and Herceptin
2007 Ixabepilone, Ixempra - alone or in combination with capecitabine
2007 Raloxifene, Evista - breast cancer prevention
2008 Bevacizumab, Avastin - with paclitaxel (Taxol) in HER2(−) metastatic cancer

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People too often get the impression that the only people who use the nation's civil liberties protections are lawbreakers who were not quite guilty of the exact felony they were charged with. Perhaps we should thank the Bush administration for providing so many situations that demonstrate how an unfettered law enforcement system, even one pursuing worthy ends, can destroy the lives of the innocent out of hubris or carelessness.
There was, for instance, Purna Raj Bajracharya, who was videotaping the sights of New York City for his family back in Nepal when he inadvertently included an office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was taken into custody, where officials found he had overstayed his tourist visa, a violation punishable by deportation. Instead, Mr. Bajracharya wound up in solitary confinement in a federal detention center for three months, weeping constantly, in a 6-by-9 cell where the lights were never turned off. As a recent article by Nina Bernstein in The Times recounted, Mr. Bajracharya, who speaks little English, might have been in there much longer if an F.B.I. agent had not finally taken it upon himself to summon legal help.
Mr. Bajracharya ran afoul of a Justice Department ruling after the 2001 terrorist attacks that ordered immigration judges to hold secret hearings in closed courtrooms for immigration cases of ''special interest.'' The subjects of these hearings could be kept in custody until the F.B.I. made sure they were not terrorists. That rule might have seemed prudent after the horror of 9/11. But since it is almost always impossible to prove a negative, any decision to let a person once suspected of terrorism free constitutes at least a political risk. If officials have no particular prod for action, they will generally prefer to play it safe and do nothing. The unfortunate Nepalese was finally released only because of James Wynne, the F.B.I. agent who originally sent him to detention. Mr. Wynne's investigation quickly cleared Mr. Bajracharya of suspicion, but no one approved the paperwork necessary to get him out of prison. Eventually, Mr. Wynne called Legal Aid, which otherwise would have had no way of knowing he was even in custody.
When law enforcement officials make mistakes, there is an all-too-human temptation to press on rather than admit an error. Brandon Mayfield, a lawyer in Oregon, was arrested in connection with the bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, even though he had never been to Spain. Spanish authorities had taken a fingerprint from a plastic bag discovered at the scene and F.B.I. officials thought it matched Mr. Mayfield's prints, which were among the many from discharged soldiers in the enormous federal database.
The American investigators must have felt they hit pay dirt when they discovered that Mr. Mayfield was a convert to Islam, that his wife had been born in Egypt and that he had once represented a terrorism defendant in a child custody case. The fact that there was no indication he had been out of the country in a decade did not sway them. Neither did the fact that Spanish authorities were telling them that the fingerprints did not actually match. Mr. Mayfield was held for two weeks, even though the only other connections between him and terrorism were things like the fact, as the F.B.I. pointed out, that his law firm advertised in a ''Muslim yellow page directory'' whose publisher had once had a business relationship with Osama bin Laden's former personal secretary.
When the Spaniards linked the fingerprint to an Algerian man in May, Mr. Mayfield's case was dismissed and the F.B.I. did apologize. But the ordeal could have dragged on much longer if the investigation had not involved another nation, whose police were not invested in the idea that the Oregon lawyer was the culprit. And it could have been endless if Mr. Mayfield had been an undocumented worker being held in post-9/11 secrecy, or if he had been picked up in Afghanistan as a suspected Taliban fighter and held incommunicado at Guantánamo.Continue reading the main story
For more than two years now, about 600 men have been kept in American custody in Cuba, and the odds are that some -- perhaps most -- were merely hapless Afghan foot soldiers or bystanders swept up in the confusion of the American invasion. But it took the Supreme Court to tell the Bush administration they could not be kept there forever without giving them a chance to contest their imprisonment.
Anyone who needs another demonstration of how difficult it is for law enforcement authorities to acknowledge error can always look to the case of Capt. James Yee. A Muslim convert, Captain Yee was a chaplain at Guantánamo until he was taken into custody on suspicion of espionage. He was held in solitary confinement for nearly three months, during which time authorities realized that the case against him was nonexistent. Rather than simply let him go, they charged him with mishandling classified material. The charges seemed to have much less to do with security concerns than official face-saving. And to repay Captain Yee for its self-inflicted embarrassment, the military went at great lengths in court to prove he was having an affair with a female officer. While that had nothing to do with security either, it did humiliate the defendant in public, as well as his wife and child, who were present at the trial.
Virtually every time the Bush administration feels cornered, it falls back on the argument that the president and his officials are honorable men and women. This is an invitation to turn what should be a debate about policy into a referendum on the hearts of the people making it. But this nation was organized under a rule of law, not a dictatorship of the virtuous. The founding fathers wrote the Bill of Rights specifically because they did not believe that honorable men always do the right thing.Continue reading the main story


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Changing leaves have nothing on these gorgeous ideas.
From dark and moody motifs to back-to-school designs, these nail art ideas will have you — and your nails — covered all autumn long.
The ultimate set of Halloween nails includes a rotten tooth, Winifred Sanderson, and even a Ouija board.
Whether you're fall-obsessed or Cinderella's No. 1 fan, you'll love these glittery pumpkins positioned right at your nail bed.
This manicure is super simple, but makes a huge statement. You'll easily fall for this spooky and chic design.
Autumn-friendly burnt orange and gold foil will make your nails ready to wrap around a pumpkin spice latte.
Who says your nails can't look as luxe as your jewelry? Pick a few of your fave fall shades and add a little embellishment for an elegant overall look.
This gorgeous nail art by CND takes a classic fall oxblood manicure to a magical new level by layering holographic mylar accents over their Berry Boudoir and Viridian Veil shades for a crystal-like effect.
Mimic the look of beautiful stained glass windows with this stunning, angular manicure. Add a touch of glitter to spice things up even more.
If you're not quite ready to dive into fall's darker colors, mauve is the perfect transitional shade. Here, Kimberly Clark layered half moons and triangles over OPI's Tickle My France-y to make the muted color more festive.
The secret to marbleizing black, gray, white and gold polish: plastic wrap! It's a gorgeous idea for fall formal events.
This clever manicure was created with silver "mirror powder" but warmed up to fall-friendly rose gold by painting nails with an orange polish underneath. So pretty!
It's time to switch from your summer pastels to your fall reds and purples! Better yet, a gradient that's as chic as it is seasonal.
Change up a traditional French tip by creating a reverse design. Neutral colors keeps it looking classic.
Yes, red nails are classic — but this gold-and-blood orange design is anything but ordinary.
Not ready to give up your summer brights yet? Pair beach-y shades like aqua with autumn hues like deep ivy for a transitional look.
That's right — this design doesn't just require polish. You'll need feathers, too. And while it's slightly harder than the average mani, it's the perfect way to hone your skills and get a gorgeous style for fall.
Once the bright white shades of summer have disappeared from our nails, it's time to aim for something a little warmer. Try a beautiful beige color, then achieve the world's easiest nail art by drawing a thin, single line down one nail per hand.
If your style is one part elegant and two parts edgy, this cool jewelry-inspired manicure is perfect for you.
French manicures don't have to just be white and pink — sometimes, a more subtle contrast can be just as stunning. Case in point: This deep plum manicure looks good enough to eat.
These leaves are more artsy than realistic — just how we like them. And the colors are really fun.
With blonde and tortoiseshell hair colors still trending, it makes sense that these earthy shades would become fall nail art too.
This idea takes chevron to the next level by switching up where the placement on each nail. Pair ivy with a metallic gold or silver to make your pattern pop.
Shimmery, striped, and oh-so-bright, this manicure looks as deliciously red as a candy apple.
Even sparkles can be subtle. Keep things simple and sweet using pastel pinks plus the tiniest bit of gold.
Before Halloween season truly gets started, give yourself a subtly spooky manicure. Bonus: It looks great on short nails too!
Divide your nails into two parts: one glossy, one matte. The result is a cool, modern-looking manicure that's just right to pair with your favorite leather jacket.
Want your hands to look a little slimmer? Try this elongating design that draws the eye toward the tips of your fingers.
Take an edgy manicure like an angular cutout design and make it more subtle for work by using a totally on-trend pastel shade.
Step up your gold glitter mani by painting on a lovely little orange leaf atop a shimmering gradient background.
This geometric mani may take some extra time, but it looks so cool once you've finished it. Pick jewel tones like these for a glamorous look, or substitute them for fall colors like orange, gold and brick for an autumnal feel.


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If you are reading this post it is probably because you are in the middle of a snowy road and you want to know how to place your textile chains quickly. So, we'll get to the point:
Place the textile chain on top of the wheel.
Pull the cover down to fit the wheel's diameter.
When the bottom of the tire that's touching the pavement is not covered, move the vehicle slightly forward or backward to finish covering the entire wheel with the textile chain.
Do not drive more than 40 km / h.
Remove them when there's no snow.
ISSE chains are suitable for cars, vans, 4x4s, trucks, coaches and industrial machinery. Find the appropriate model for your vehicle.
They do not damage your tires.
Have a good trip!


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Tuesday, 29 February, 2000, 15:17 GMT
Israel releases Eichmann diary
Israel has released the unpublished memoirs of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
After 40 years under lock and key, Israel's Attorney General, Eliyakim Rubinstein, agreed to open up the 1,300-page document after a request from lawyers in a libel case involving controversial British historian David Irving.
In the memoirs, which historians say offer no significant new information, Eichman describes how he thought the Holocaust was the worst crime in history, but he himself felt free of guilt.
"It's not an apology," Israel's state archivist Professor Evyatar Friesel.
"He thinks that a terrible crime has been committed but the crime is not his responsibility and therefore he has nothing to apologise for, that he was a public servant who had to obey orders," he said.
Public access
Israeli officials said the public would also be allowed access to the 1,300-page, hand-written papers.
Eichmann was one of the principal architects of the 'final solution', the genocide of Jews by the Nazis during World War II. He was in charge of organising and co-ordinating the deportation of millions of Jews to the death camps of eastern Europe.
He fled to South America when Nazi Germany surrendered in 1945 but was tracked down in 1960 in Argentina by agents from Mossad, the Israeli secret service.
He wrote his memoirs whilst on trial in Jerusalem for crimes against humanity.
Eichmann was found guilty and executed in 1962.
Since his death, the Eichmann papers have been held under lock and key in the Israeli national archives.
Holocaust trial
In the libel case, which brought the papers' release, Mr Irving, 62, says he does not deny that Jews were killed by the Nazis.
But he challenges the number and manner of Jewish concentration camp deaths.
The defendants, who deny libel, have accused the controversial historian of being a liar and falsifier of history.
The hearing has been adjourned but is expected to last for several months.
Israel had agreed in August to publish the diary after one of Eichmann's sons, Dieter, threatened legal action to claim the book as family property. Israeli officials had originally planned to compile the papers and let a German research institution prepare them for scholarly publication.
The publication of the uncensored, untranslated memoirs has been a key demand of Holocaust historians.
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Doctor Junkies feel an irresistible compulsion to see an MD every time they feel any physical discomfort form their bodies, resulting in risky tests and medicines as well as financial ruin for junkies and the healthcare system. While some responsibility for the problem rests with the junkies themselves, a lot of the blame for this can be laid on doctors who can be dealers and enablers for this deadly addiction.
Doctors are aware of the junkies in their lives. If you hang out with doctors (or read their blogs) you hear them complaining about junkies hitting them up for unnecessary care. "This patient of mine called an ambulance for a stubbed toe!" We gripe about our junkies, but we don't often propose solutions to improve the system that created this problem.
Well, today Doctor D is going to change that!
Doctors must take action to stop this madness before it gets out of control!
Here is Doctor D's plan to deliver our patients from the sad bondage of addiction to unnecessary medical care and lead them to the promised land of wellness!
1) Preach the Natural Healing Power of the Body.Here's a big secret we don't often tell patients: the human body has an almost magical power to cure itself when infected and heal itself when injured! Who knew? In fact, before modern medicine this secret self-healing power of the body was the only thing that cured sick humans, and believe-it-or-not the human race survived. Modern patients and modern doctors often forget the human body has the ability to heal itself. Doctors are trained to intervene in the rare situations when body's own self-healing fails, but before long we find ourselves intervening when the body is doing a fine job on it's own because we only thing of medical cures not the body's own self-healing.
Doctors need to be spokespeople for the body's own immune system! We should spread the word about the body's abilities. We must acknowledge that even in our "medical miracles" the body does most of the healing on its own.
If MDs preach the amazing healing ability of the body, doctor-junkies will believe their body can handle that runny nose a few days without running to a doctor.
2) Grow a Pair and Don't Piss Your Scrubs at the Mention of Lawyers!Most docs could easily educate patients on what symptoms usually aren't serious. Heck, we could give you a handout of all the symptoms that don't require a doctors visit if they are short lived: runny noses, coughs, joint aches, low-grade fevers, diarrhea, feeling yucky, etc. We could alleviate your anxiety with one therapeutic dose of knowledge.
Why don't we?
Doctors are terrified the information we give out will be used against us by blood-sucking lawyers.
We won't tell you to stay home with that runny nose because a nasal drainage could also be a symptom of a one in a million cerebrospinal fluid leak. We get terrified of missing zebras, so we kill a lot of horses. Fear of missing a rare diagnosis drives MDs to do irrational and dangerous things. We whip up doctor-junkies into a panic over their harmless symptoms and send them like lemmings over the cliff of over-doctoring.
Medicine is about taking risks. We risk your life every time we write a prescription or order a test. We should also be willing to take a risk by not doctoring conditions that are likely benign. There is risk either way, over-treatment protects us from lawyers, so physicians kill lots of doctor-junkies every year with big work-ups that are solely done to satisfy lawyers. Since we take risks either way, then we should practice with common sense and share our reassuring knowledge that most mild symptoms aren't dangerous with patients.
If blood-sucking lawyers want to sue me for using common sense, fine! Bring it on, bitches! Doctor D is ready!
3) Believe in preventionProper primary care can often prevent illness or catch it before it becomes serious. Fighting disease is only a secondary goal of medicine. Preventing serious illness is the real goal of primary care.
What does this have to do with doctor-junkies?
Doctor D has noticed a pattern that the MDs that give out the most unnecessary care to doctor-junkies are the same ones that suck at keeping their patients up to date on their preventive care. Coincidence? Nope.
Dangerous Doctorphilia is a need for the reassurance of receiving medical care. Preventative care fills this need in the safest possible way. Preventative care recommendations are constantly evaluated to insure their benefits far outweigh their risks. Appropriate preventative care and regular physicals can rehabilitate a former junkie. Their body has been checked for and vaccinated against most common problems. With prevention in their lives patients can have the confidence to weather minor symptoms without running to the ER.
4) Talk About the Risks of Medical Care.Most patients don't realize that even appropriate medical care can be dangerous. Doctor-junkies love pills, and tests, and X-rays. The more the better! I've had junkies accuse me of trying to deny them the good stuff they are due when I'm just trying to protect them. "Order more, doc. I've got insurance!" WTF?
The best time to educate patients is when we are do appropriate interventions.
Many people at some point in their lives get a serious illness that requires aggressive care. If the power modern medicine helped their serious illness, they assume the same weapon should be used on their minor symptoms.
So, Doctor D actually educates people about the risks of care when he is giving it appropriately, "Antibiotic have some very real risks and I wouldn't give them if I didn't think your infection was serious." A word like this can save a patient from the frustrating and dangerous life of a doctor-addict who will beg for antibiotics every time they get a cold.
5) Educate Fearlessly!Ultimately the cure for doctor-addiction is education. Instead of laughing at doctor-junkies' errors MDs should show them the light. Most doctor-junkies aren't stupid or irrational, they are just misguided about the proper use of medical care. It will take time and a bit of risk for doctors to show junkies a better way, but it is worth it.
After all, they are our junkies. Who is going to help them if not for doctors?
What do you think? Do you think this plan could will stem the tide of doctor-addiction? Have you ever had a doctor educate you on the power of your immune system or the risks of medical care? Did it help you avoid unnecessary medical care later?
As always Doctor D loves to hear your thoughts in the comments!


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"Two more staff members have abruptly left the office of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, following on the heels of three of their senior colleagues who departed in recent days," says the CBC.
Since then, Ford has seen three senior staff members depart from his office, including two press secretaries who resigned. His former chief of staff said he was fired, it says.
And it all centers on the did/does Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoke crack cocaine saga?
The story originally broken by John Cook in the Gawker blog, has been regurgitated everywhere by everyone ad infinitum.
And to make matters even worse, now Murder.
Said Cook's original post
• There is a video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine, taken within the last six months.
• Rob Ford purchases his crack cocaine from a crew of Toronto drug dealers that service a veritable who's who of A-list…Torontonians? Torontites? Anyway, a lot of prominent people in Toronto purchase and enjoy crack and powder cocaine, and they all buy it from the same folks. The same folks Ford buys it from. Ford's longtime friend, people on his staff, his brother, a prominent hockey analyst, and more.
As evidence of his claims, our tipster provided the photo above. It shows Ford hanging out with a number of people. The gentleman standing to his right, flipping the camera the bird, is Anthony Smith. Smith, a 21-year-old college student, was killed two months ago outside a Toronto nightclub in a gangland-style shooting. A photo, from a CBC story on his murder, is at left. Smith was, according to our tipster, a kid from the same neighborhood as the dealers who service Ford, and the photo was taken while Ford was going to the neighborhood to purchase and smoke crack cocaine.
If you're curious about the photo's veracity, at left is another photo, from the National Post, of Ford wearing the same sweatshirt.
Needless to say, the story intrigued me. I asked the tipster for a screengrab of the video to verify that he had what he claimed to have. He refused. If I wanted to see the video, I was going to have to go to Toronto. He sounded confident enough. Certain things that he told me checked out. So off I went.
Toronto is lovely. Our first effort to meet up, at a Toronto bus station at night, fizzled. The tipster was there, but the person who actually had possession of the video was a no-show. The tipster and I retired to a coffee shop to talk Toronto politics and Rob Ford's curious history—his rise as a sort of oddly drunken, brazenly honest conservative voice in a decidedly liberal and polite city. It was a nice night, but I was beginning to worry I'd been had.
The next morning, I connected again with the tipster. He was going to locate the owner of the video, he told me. Last night, there had been a mix-up. The video was being stored in a safe place, but the person who had access to the safe place had briefly disappeared, and so the owner couldn't get access to the safe place to get the device on which the video was stored. By the morning, however, the tipster and the owner had located the person who had access to the safe place. This was going to happen.
Checkout time was at noon. My flight was at 7:30 p.m. I loitered around downtown Toronto, checking out the mall, until I got the text: We were to meet up at a chain restaurant near the airport. The tipster picked me up from the restaurant and drove me to a housing development. The owner of the video would meet us there.
We sit idling in his car, making small talk. The tipster calls the owner and talks in language other than English. "He'll be right down," he says. Fifteen minutes pass. "Waiting for the elevator," he says. Ten minutes pass. A young gentleman opens the rear door of the car and gets in. The two men speak in a language other than English. The young gentleman immediately exits the vehicle. No video.
The tipster looks at me: "The battery is dead." The young gentleman—the owner of the video—needed to go back upstairs to charge the battery on the device that contained the video. We wait. More small talk.
The owner of the video returns. He thrusts a device, a phone with a touchscreen, in my face. "Can I hold it?" I ask.
I crane my neck. It plays.
Here is what the video shows: Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, is the only person visible in the frame. Prior to the trip, I spent a lot of time looking at photographs of Rob Ford. The man in the video is Rob Ford. It is well-lit, clear. Ford is seated, in a room in a house. In one hand is a a clear, glass pipe. The kind with a big globe and two glass cylinders sticking out of it. In the other hand is a lighter. A slurred voice off-camera is ranting about Canadian politics in what sounds like an attempt to goad Ford. "Pierre Trudeau was a faggot!" is the one phrase the lodges in my mind. Ford, pipe in one hand and lighter in the other, is laughing, and mildly protesting at the sacrilege. He seems to keep trying to light the pipe, but keeps stopping to laugh. He is red-faced and sweaty, heaving with each breath. Finally, he finds his moment and lights up. He inhales.
Update: The Toronto Star, whose reporters have also seen the video, say that it's Justin Trudeau—Pierre's son and the leader of the Liberal Party in Canada—and not Pierre getting called a "faggot." It's hard to keep all these Canadians apart. The Star also has Ford himself, and not the voice off-screen, making the "faggot" remark, though that's not how I remember it.
In one move, the owner stops the video and draws the device back into his pocket.
"You took this?" I ask.
"Within the last six months."
"You're sure it's crack?"
"You've seen him smoke crack before?"
"Yes. Gotta jet."
And he is gone.
So: That was a video of the mayor of Toronto smoking crack. The trouble is, the owner wants money. More money than I am willing to pay. The tipster has already reached out to one other news outlet, a Canadian organization that he refused to name, which offered $40,000. The owner rejected that. He thinks he can get six figures. It's unlikely he's going to get six figures.
But I am going to try. The tipster wants this video out. Rob Ford needs to be held to account. The owner just wants money—preferably enough to get out of town after this blows up, since he doesn't think it will be safe for him. The tipster and I both fear that the owner will try to sell the video back to Ford. That would be a shame.
So if Gawker can't come up with enough money to ring this owner's bell, perhaps we can find a partner. This isn't just the mayor of Toronto smoking crack cocaine, after all: This is Toronto Confidential. There are a host of important local officials wrapped up in this drug ring. 60 Minutes? No. Dateline NBC? No. Inside Edition? No. National Enquirer? No. CNN? Maybe!
Well, no. But when I emailed an acquaintance at CNN this afternoon, laying out much the same information I've offered above and asking for discretion and confidentiality lest we screw up a pretty fucking great story about the mayor of the fifth-largest city in North America smoking crack cocaine on camera, he forwarded the email to his producer. The producer, in turn, asked CNN's Canada reporter about it. The Canada reporter—and this was a pretty fucking big mistake—called a source who used to work in Ford's office. Within 40 minutes, word had gotten back to me that "CNN called Ford's office asking about a crack tape."
And so here we are. The owner still hasn't found a buyer with pockets deep enough to meet his demands. But word is out around Toronto now that the tape exist, and Ford's circle knows about it courtesy a CNN reporter. So, with permission, I am laying out everything I know about the Rob Ford Crack Tape in the hopes that a) everyone knows that Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, smokes crack, and b) this knowledge might hasten the arrival of the Rob Ford Crack Tape on the internet or broadcast television, because really, it is something to behold.
If you want to buy it, let me know. I can put you in touch with a guy.
[Images via National Post and CBC]
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who stopped smoking crack cocaine last week, told staffers he knew the exact location of the video that showed him smoking crack—naming two units at an apartment complex in northwest Toronto, the Toronto Star reports.
The day after Gawker broke the story that a video of Ford smoking crack was for sale, the mayor held what the Star describes as an "unusual" meeting
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told senior aides not to worry about a video appearing to show him smoking crack cocaine because he knew where it was, sources told the Star.
Ford then blurted out the address of two 17th-floor units — 1701 and 1703 — at a Dixon Rd. apartment complex, to the shock of staffers at a city hall meeting almost two weeks ago, the sources said.
The mayor cited "our contacts" as the source of his information, according to insiders familiar with the unusual May 17 session in his office.
Ford and others in attendance at the meeting didn't respond to the Star's request for comment. Reporters who visited the two units were told that "numerous young men are seen coming and going there at all hours of the night and day," but that no one had seen Ford, who is hard to miss. (A recent shooting outside one of the apartments was "an accidental shooting involving people who were drunk.")
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I was released from Timberlawn Trauma Unit on Monday July 7 and traveled back home on Tuesday. Riding on the Amtrak this time was tortuously slow, although I tried not to get impatient. Instead, I reminded myself that the delay would make my eventual arrival that much more pleasurable! To a certain extent it worked. But when I finally reached my apartment at 11 pm Tuesday night, I was terribly weary yet hyped up on the adrenaline of anticipation.
I made phone calls to those who care about me, to assure them I was safe, then spent some time alternately petting the cats and running around trying to clean up. I could not believe the mess I'd left! It was a bit scary, because it showed just how bad off I had been. I'm not the best housekeeper even when "normal" but this time it was pathetic.
After awhile I realized it was time to go to bed and that I was just avoiding it by cleaning. Why? I asked myself. It turned out I was scared! No, not scared — terrified! I was afraid to be alone. I sat down and let myself feel it, and I cried some, then I hugged my stuffed cat and reassured myself that it would be ok. I prayed. I still felt scared. So I decided to journal about my feelings. I related my current feelings to times in childhood when I felt terror at going to bed. I slept with a small flashlight and a transistor radio playing all night. I felt bad for that little girl because no one, including herself, understood what was wrong with her. Expressing my feelings (along with the miracles of modern pharmacology!) allowed me to finally fall asleep in the recliner.
Since that first night it's been easier to go to bed and I've actually slept in my bedroom when it was cool enough. I'm having to ease into the changes I planned to make; unfortunately, there is no way I can just jump right into doing all the things I plan to. But that will come, with time. I am sure of it.
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Just learning about HIA or are you an experienced HIA professional? You'll find information here on the methods used in HIA, links to other websites on HIA, and sources of training and technical assistance for HIA.
The HIA-CLIC website was developed by the UCLA Health Impact Assessment (UCLA-HIA) Project with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.


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Archive for the 'moodle' Category
A blog post for Moodle 2 (testing)
In Moodle 2.0 I can blog out here and if I follow the rules I have set up (in this case, using the tag 'moodle2', it should be picked up in my Moodle 2.0 account.
Differences between Moodle 1.9 and 2.0: #1 Files
We haven't fixed a date to upgrade to Moodle 2.0 yet, but we're gathering together some preparatory resources. Dave's Moodle 2.0 Adventures, a visual introduction to File management from Mark Drechsler with a rom-com twist, gives an overview of the changes to come and anticipated reactions from users who have a Teacher role.
Moodle 2.0 – some screen capture videos
From moodle.org 17 back-to-back videos introducing Moodle 2.0, to which we intend to upgrade this summer.


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14 February 2013
the price of L O V E
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The love of a dog (or dogs) makes our lives complete. Chandeliers just get dusty and need washing. They don't give cuddles back!ReplyDelete
THE CHANDELIER!! But would I exchange my naughty and beloved Jones for the most desirable chandelier in the entire world? Not even a second thought--dogs win out every time.ReplyDelete
Thanks for making me laugh and cry.
No-not likely, for the Light of My Life!? hope your day was happy truly. pgtDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 14, 2013 at 11:02 AM
It is particularly interesting to see the way that small lights could be incorporated into the form of the chandelier so real candles could be used in the arms. (I always try to achieve that, if possible).ReplyDelete
Wanted to let you know that I sent this terrific post along to Matthew Patrick Smyth who did the room with Gloria for the Kips Bay house...and he just forwarded it on to her. She will love it!ReplyDeleteReplies
Jane, delightful! I briefly met MPS at David's in November. I am a longstanding admirer of Ms Vanderbilt-it pleases me to know she would approve. I loved the room when they teamed up to do it and wrote about it then. pgtDelete


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Apple Pie Filling and Miso Butterscotch
As a kid, I admit, I ate my fair share of McDonald's apple pies and I liked them. I only ate them when they were hot though; if by some chance, I'd find an apple pie in the fridge, I'd put it in the microwave to heat it up so the gooey filling would liquify and ooze.
Momofuku Ko's fried apple pie resembles a McDonald's apple pie, but according to Chang, it's been complicated and elevated. The filling contains 2 types of apples cooked in two different ways and there's a miso butterscotch to add a salty note.
The two apples in the filling are Empire and Fuji apples. Fuji apples are common around here, but Empire apples were nowhere to be found. A quick search on the internet revealed that Empire apples are a highly localized East Coast apple. With Empire apples clearly out of reach, I went with Spartans, which are the Empire's West Coast apple cousin.
The fillings were easy and quick to prepare: the compote was simply apples flash boiled in brown sugar with apple cider and a cinnamon stick and the jelly was pectin, brown sugar and cider boiled then poured over diced apples. The two different kind of apple fillings should result in some apples being tender and some having crunch. The compote is the bulk of the filling and the jelly is what oozes when fried.
The miso butterscotch is in no ways a traditional butterscotch, but it has that deep caramelized flavour. Shiro miso is practically burned then blended with brown sugar, miring, sherry vinegar and butter. While not pretty, the miso butterscotch has a salty-sweet flavour that I can see working with the apple pie. If I have any extra left over, I'm definitely going to brush some onto some mochi and grill them up for a salty sweet miso treat.


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Western's Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing offers two ways for students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) degree. Find out which one is right for you.
The Western-Fanshawe Collaborative Program is designed for students applying directly from secondary school, or mature applicants, looking to develop the skills and knowledge to begin a career as a Registered Nurse (RN). Learn more.
The Compressed Time Frame Program is a 19-month course of study geared toward students who already hold a university degree, or who have completed at least two years of university, and have completed specific prerequisite courses. Learn more.
To practice nursing in Canada, all graduates of a BScN program must complete and pass a registration exam. Registration and the designation of the title Registered Nurse (RN) is regulated in Ontario by the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO). To qualify to write the licensing exam graduates must provide proof of Canadian citizenship, permanent resident status, or authorization under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) to practice nursing.
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|"The Greek" Amphitheater at Point Loma Nazarene University, home of The Writers' Symposium by the Sea.
Point Loma Nazarene University will host its 20th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea in late February. The amazing writers who have attended and shared their thoughts on the craft of writing over the last two decades have been phenomenal: Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Anne Lamott, Donald Miller, Philip Yancey, Kathleen Norris, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Eugene Peterson, Calvin Miller, and other journalists, novelists, poets, bloggers, and non-fiction writers, both Christian and secular. A good number of videos of past featured writers at the Symposium are available via UCSD-TV's Writer's Symposium page.
The news was just released that to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Writer's Symposium by the Sea, Dean Nelson (my former creative writing professor and later my kindly office mate when I taught there) will be having a conversation with Joyce Carol Oates. The announcement with details may be seen here if you scroll down a bit (and ignore the "19th Annual" heading): Joyce Carol Oates at Writer's Symposium.
Dean has outdone himself in obtaining such a major figure in American literature to celebrate the Symposium's 20th anniversary. I am so thrilled that Joyce Carol Oates will be coming on February 26.
Tickets will go on sale in November, and I'll be one of the first in the virtual queue. Meanwhile, I have a copy of a small book I snatched from the library shelves last week to read (once I finish teaching Romeo & Juliet at Brave Writer this Friday!): First Love. It's a small, illustrated Gothic novelette, and I'm very much looking forward to perusing it as my first book on my Summer Reading List.
The Mountain Empire Creative Arts Council's Writer's Workshop is hoping to host another of our popular Write-Ins next month to coincide with July's Camp NaNoWriMo so that we can enjoy coffee, tea, treats, and a few bursts of creative conversation while we tap away on our keyboards or scratch away in our notebooks for a few hours, usually from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. As soon as we have a date cleared with the Pine Valley Library for the use of their Community Room, I'll post the date here on this blog and on the MECAC Writer's Workshop website.
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Article by Eric Cauchi in Current World Archaeology Magazine on the pyramids of the Peloponnese.
Greece, birthplace of the Olympics and mythical home of the gods, is known for its spectacular temples, its exquisite Classical statues, and its jewel-like islands with sandy beaches. But pyramids? That's Egypt, surely. Think again. In the eastern Peloponnese of southern Greece are the pyramid of Hellinikon, near Argos, and the pyramid of Lygourio, near Ancient Epidaurus. I visited the ruins[…]Read More »


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An Existential Detective Story
By Jim Holt
309 pages. Liveright. $27.95.
A subterranean stream of death and personal tragedy trickles around the margins of Jim Holt's new book, "Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story."
This volume was given a blurb by Christopher Hitchens a few days before he died. Among Mr. Holt's central interview subjects is John Updike, who would be gone within a year. Mr. Updike, as verbally charismatic as ever, compares one notion of reality to "a piece of light verse."
Mr. Holt's mother dies during the course of this book's narrative. His younger brother died a few years earlier, Mr. Holt tells us, "at a party after taking too much cocaine." The author's beloved dog becomes suddenly ill, and Mr. Holt sits and holds it for 10 days. It too expires.
Mr. Holt doesn't linger long over any of these events. But this intimacy with mortality lends heft and emotion to one of his penetrating book's fundamental questions: whether the universe, like life, is anything more than a short interlude between two vast nothings.
Mr. Holt, who writes frequently about science and philosophy for The New Yorker and The New York Times, reports that he has a trick for maintaining his outward composure during unbearable moments. He mentally works through a "beautiful little theorem about prime numbers," attributed to Fermat. He allows himself to break down only later.Continue reading the main story
Faced with the primal question that animates this book — why is there something rather than nothing? — many serious people turn to math too, or to physics, philosophy or God. They too, it sometimes seems, wish to avoid breaking down in public.
William James called this question "the darkest in all philosophy." Sir Bernard Lovell, a British astrophysicist, said it could "tear the individual's mind asunder." Mr. Holt reports that "psychiatric patients have been known to be obsessed by it."
In "Why Does the World Exist?" Mr. Holt picks up this question about being versus nothingness and runs quite a long and stylish way with it. He combines his raffish erudition with accounts of traveling to tap the minds of cosmologists, theologians, particle physicists, philosophers, mystics and others.
He believes, along with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg, that "the effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
Mr. Holt's book was inspired partly by Martin Amis, who suggested in an interview that humanity is, in terms of discovering the algebra of existence, "at least five Einsteins away."
This comment lights more than a few synapses in Mr. Holt's mind. "Could any of those Einsteins be around today?" he wonders. "It was obviously not my place to aspire to be one of them. But if I could find one, or maybe two or three or even four of them, and then sort of arrange them in the right order ... well, that would be an excellent quest."
An excellent quest it mostly turns out to be. It's no spoiler to report that the author doesn't return, like Ernest Hemingway with a marlin, with a unified theory of everything. "Why Does the World Exist?" is more about the nuances of the intellectual and moral hunt.
When Mr. Holt does venture guesses, they tend to be darkly humorous in a Woody Allen sort of way. "My own position," he writes, seeking middle ground between the beliefs of Christians and Gnostics, is "that the universe was created by a being that is 100 percent malevolent but only 80 percent effective."
His accounts of his visits with various intellectuals tend to provide comic relief as well. The Oxford physicist David Deutsch, for example, reminds Mr. Holt that he'd once reviewed one of Mr. Deutsch's books negatively ("arrogant in tone and marred by leaps of logic") in The Wall Street Journal. He generously speaks with the groveling Mr. Holt regardless.
Mr. Holt hashes through arguments about quantum physics and string theory. He lays bare the thinking of everyone from Socrates and Plato and Heidegger and Leibniz through Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins. He walks away from most of his interviews muttering about the logical defect in this approach or that one.
He has that savvy intellectual shopper's knack for quotation. Mr. Holt quotes the cosmologist Fred Hoyle, the man who coined the phrase "the Big Bang," as finding the whole idea undignified, like "a party girl jumping out of a cake."
At other moments Mr. Holt delivers comments that help his readers touch the void. "If you turn on your television and tune it between stations," he writes, "about 10 percent of that black-and-white speckled static you see is caused by photons left over from the birth of the universe."
He evokes the awe inside the search for "a point where all the arrows of explanation converge — where every why is absorbed in an ultimate because."
"Why Does the Universe Exist?" could have used more moments that slyly build to something like awe. It's a peripatetic book, one that only occasionally seems really soulful or much more than the sum of its parts. Watching Mr. Holt wrestle with ideas can be like watching a Boy Scout tying and then untying complicated knots. I turned the pages with interest but not onrushing eagerness.
Mr. Holt's wit and intellect never fail him, however. He's good company on the page, strewing offbeat words like a latter-day William F. Buckley Jr. ("inspissate," "noosphere," "bosky") or dining like a present-tense A. J. Liebling.
His book is packed with accounts of meals like this one: "At the table I ordered monkfish and heritage pork and heirloom beets, and I drank a delicious bottle of a locally produced Cabernet Franc."
He consumes splits of Champagne. He smokes cigarettes and lingers like Sartre in Paris's cafes. Why, he complains about his interview subjects, "did everyone but me seem to find caffeinated beverages more conducive than alcohol to pondering the mystery of existence?" In Mr. Holt's personal metaphysics, a free-range nightly debauch is yet another excellent stay against nothingness.
He is enjoying himself on earth and is in no rush to nail every mystery to the wall. "There is nothing I dislike more," he says, "than premature intellectual closure."
An Existential Detective Story
By Jim Holt
309 pages. Liveright. $27.95.


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You can join this challenge up till the 31. of July.
Testimony: Document a summer getaway
Evidence: Triangles, scallops, sun and stamps
I adore this, Nina! The design with those circles bouncing across the page is brilliant. Love all the different things you did to the circles, and the texture paste stencil work is awesome!SvarSlett
Nina this is such a wonderful layout. You've managed to make it feel so simple but there is so much going on. Your perfectly placed mixed media is amazing.SvarSlett


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Edward Cullen, is that you?
We're all for creative upcycling, but RP/Encore's macabre medley of jewelry and accessories—made out of artfully preserved rat heads, guinea pig feet, pigeon feathers, and whole mice—give us the heebie jeebies, Halloween or no Halloween. The work of British taxidermist Reid Peppard, who happens to be vegetarian, the V/ermin collection comprises hairpieces, brooches, necklaces, cufflinks, bow ties, and coin purses that put the "gross" in "gross anatomy"—even if Peppard assures us that her compassionately procured specimens are the result of traffic accidents, pest control, or natural death.Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
"RP/ENCORE challenges our attitudes toward fur, leather, and waste," Peppard says. "In a world where leather is worn with out question by most, and replaced by unbiodegradable plastics by the rest, it is ironic that the image of an animal preserved using taxidermy is still enough to cause widespread outrage and fist banging."
"RP/ENCORE challenges our attitudes toward fur, leather, and waste."
"RP/ENCORE challenges our attitudes toward fur, leather, and waste."
It's this reason that Peppard prepares, stuffs, and mounts what she dubs the "prolific, consequential vermin result of London's excess." "When they become sculptural headpieces, necklaces and cufflinks," she adds, "the specimens cease to be waste and become objects to behold. RP/ENCORE makes use of the city's leftovers."
So what do you think? Do they shiver your timbers—or just make you shiver?
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For my Physical computing final project, I initially started by sketching ideas for things I am interested in making (more on this in this post). After some thought, I decided to mix two courses that really inspired me this semester, 'Physical computing' in ITP, and 'Software Synthesis' in Music Tech dept. of NYU. After brainstorming ideas (special thanks to Dror Ayalon & Roi Lev for that), I decided I would like to reimagine two concepts I am fairly interested in and touch both courses: Synthesis and Modularity, and that's how DMS – Different Modular System was born (at least conceptually).
- Conceptualisation:
I started by examing the features I think make modular synthesizers (and modular systems in general) powerful, both in terms of synthesis and interaction, alongside they're downsides, and so the list began.
- Flexibility – modular systems are, by definition, a flexible instrument as they tend to allow more than a single configuration with the same components. This manifests into the audible realm too as you can process signals using the same components in different order and get different sonic outcomes (e.g filtering a signal before the delay vs. filtering after).
- Interaction – modular systems tend to include more interaction from the user's side, which can and at times does translate into a sense of customized ownership over the device. Simply put, rather than a synth, 'it's my special recipe using the synth'.
- Terminology – This is a point that I'll talk more about in regards to user play-testing, but it is worth mentioning at this point that the synthesizer arena in general and the modular one specifically, tend to overcomplicate terms to (at times) they're mathematical and electrical origin, which sounds cryptic to most people and distances some users from even trying these systems.
- Form Factor – As powerful as modular synthesizers are, they tend to be rather big installment devices. Thinking about these machines in a portable
*It is worth mentioning the list presents my perspective and does not imply that the current state of modular synthesizers is wrong or not valid, rather me trying to reimagine it in a different way.
Some of the references I used conceptually were:
- Little Bits Korg edition – a 'bare boned' Modular synth kit that is meant to serve as both an educational and musical modular system.
- Palette Gear – Modular controller eco-system for software and MIDI controller
- Korg MS-20 Mini – Semi modular synth 'do it yourself kit'.
- Moog Werkstatt – Another semi modular synth 'do it yourself kit'
- Design:
This project imposed some big fabrication challenges for me, and due to that I decided to start the 'making' process with design and fabrication of the units.
Magnets, magnets and magnets!
Upon play-testing and discussing the project with both Danny Rozin and Ben Light, I decided I would start with building 2 modules that work, the main hub (i.e 'the Brain'), and a second effect unit (i.e 'the Mouth'). On the first Iteration I had around 6 magnets on each of the boxes, and after a Eureka moment decided to have an Arduino in each box, and let them communicate over serial. The initial bill of material looked something like the following:
I started the process by cutting acrylic top panels and leaving the exact diameter of the magnet that would later on be glued to the top. I used the protective plastic rings that came with the magnets (i.e separators), to elevate the magnets to 1mm above the plastic panel in order for them to always connect without disturbance (thanks Ben Light).
And finally, I soldered the wires onto springs that push against the glued magnets and pass the electrical energy. One note on this, is that as Ben Light mentioned to me, soldering directly to the magnet tempers with the magnet's electrical properties and therefore might introduces unknown interferences to the electrical signal, the spring method however works fairly well, just remember to use epoxy.
As I mentioned before, terminology is something I really wanted to simplify into icons and language people feel comfortable interacting with (or at the very least doesn't scare them away), and so for the synth's interface I had multiple iterations, each time changing the icon or the text, and letting people react to that, this is how the final interface looks before the actual cutting and etching process
Last but not least, here are the two units after the finished fabrication process
Physical computing process:
The main reason for choosing the Arduino Mega for the brain module was it's ability to both communicate using serial communication to the computer (in my case a Csound application), and use the additional serial ports (16/17), to communicate to another smaller Arduino in the mouth module.
The code below demonstrates the communication function on the brain module for sending the events to the computer. I use single byte messaging and divide 0-255 to all the synth parameters
A feature that really helped me and is both related to fabrication and implementation was putting a serial switch in the 2nd module that way I can change between Module-to-Module communication and sending new code to the 2nd module without disconnecting the serial lines.
- Building the synth:
As this is my final project for both Physical Computing and Software Synthesis I used Csound, a synthesis library and engine to build all the actual sound generating logic.
I started by laying down the communication logic, the serial port, using Csound's serialBegin and serialRead opcodes (the Csound name for logic functions built in the library).
After laying down the serial communication I started building the oscillators using Csound's poscil opcode while storing the actual wave tables values for the waveshapes in an ftable.
During the making of the actual synth I discovered some functionality that I was really missing, for example the Arduino's map(); function didn't have any sibling on the Csound side, and so I challenged myself to extend Csound and build two mapping functions I used to map the Arduino serial coming in to different parameters in the Csound instrument I created.
After a lot of explanations, here is an image and a demo composition using the final synth
This is my final composition made entirely with the synth using Ableton Live as a looper and a MIDI controller hooked up to the synth.
- Links:
Link to the Arduino Mega and Uno code
- Moving forward – things I would like to improve next:
- I would like to try and implement the synth on an embedded system that way I can have everything running from the box itself.
- I would like to build more modules to demonstrate more aspects of the synthesis process (e.g 'the Spine' as an arpeggiator).
- Implementing a better method to detect when the modules are connected and disconnected from the brain
*Special thanks Tom Igoe and Jean-Luc Cohen, this process has both taught me a lot, and challenged more throughout. Your help and guidance made this possible!


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2018 Skoda Karoq 1.0 TSI 115 review – price, specs, release date
Skoda's new SUV is available with a compact 1.0-litre petrol engine, but is it worth choosing over a range of impressively economical diesel options?...
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In the not so distance past, if you were in the market for a practical and economical SUV, a diesel was without a doubt the way to go. Yes, they might have cost fractionally more to purchase than their petrol counterparts, but in return you got great fuel economy, effortless performance and slow depreciation.
Oh what a difference an industry-wide scandal makes. Ever since Dieselgate, the decline of diesels sales has been relentless, and despite manufacturers arguing that the latest generation of diesels are far cleaner than their predecessors, the buying public are simply not convinced.
So what options do you have now if you want a clean and frugal SUV? Well, with diesel sales on a downward slope, manufacturers have focused on the development of smaller, turbocharged petrol engines, such as the one in this Skoda Karoq. And the results, on paper at least, look impressive.
With a peak output of 113bhp at 5000rpm, the Karoq's little three-cylinder manages to match the equivalent (and £3330 more expensive) 1.6 TDI diesel. And with the small-capacity petrol managing to achieve the 0-62mph sprint in 10.6sec, it's 0.1sec quicker, too.
2018 Skoda Karoq 1.0 TSI on the road
No matter how convincing a small-capacity engine looks on paper, it's hard to believe that such a compact engine has enough grunt to power along a family SUV. Even VW decided against using a 1.0-litre in its new Tiguan, a car that is only a little larger than the Karoq.
However, it quickly becomes apparent that the engine is more than up to the task. Plant your right foot and, as with the majority of small-capacity turbocharged engines, there's a slight hesitation as you wait for the turbocharger to limber up. But once the revs are beyond 2000rpm, the engine's power delivery is progressive and reasonably strong.
Push the engine harder and it's thrum does start to intrude a bit, but things quickly settle down again once you're up to speed. And thanks to the six-speed manual gearbox's well-spaced ratios, there's no real need to chase the redline, because it's easy to make the best use of the available torque.
And yet, despite having enough grunt, you have to be aware that this is still a relatively heavy car with a respectable but not plentiful 113bhp. So, if you have a large family or frequently carry heavy loads, the 148bhp 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol is worth considering.
No matter what engine you go for, however, you'll still be getting one of the best-riding cars in the class. On the 18in wheels (17in wheels come as standard on the base model) of our test car, the Karoq remained comfortable and composed, no matter the surface. That's something that simply can't be said about the more agile, firmer-riding Seat Ateca and less composed Peugeot 3008.
2018 Skoda Karoq 1.0 TSI Inside
For our full breakdown of the Karoq's interior, head over to our full review. But to summarise, the Karoq offers a level of build quality that is up there with the best the Volkswagen Group has to offer. Borrowing styling cues from its bigger brother, the Skoda Kodiaq, the Karoq's dashboard feels more modern than those of the Tiguan and Ateca, while a few metal and piano black inserts add a touch of class.
As standard, the Karoq comes with plenty of equipment, including privacy glass, electric front and rear windows, cruise control and dual-zone climate control. You also get an excellent 8.0in infotainment touchscreen that looks distinctly upmarket and is clear and intuitive to use.
That said, we'd definitely select the Skoda's Varioflex seats as an option, because this provides three individual rear seats that slide, recline and can be removed entirely if you so wish. This allows you to create a huge boot right up to the front seats. The only downside is that the seats are heavy and cumbersome once you've taken them out.


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The Revolutionary war ended in 1783. The revolt had cost $400 Million in soldier's wages, alone, and with no taxing authority the new country was deeply in debt to foreign nations. Six years later, in 1789, the first Congress imposed duties and tariffs on goods brought to the United States to retire the debt. However, the new nation had no means to enforce payment. The lack of domestic policing permitted smugglers to land goods easily along the American coast.
In 1790, the first Congress created the Revenue Cutter Service specifically to collect tariffs and duties on all imported goods. The authority of the RCS was broadly stated:
[I]t shall be lawful for all collectors, and the officers of the revenue cutters herein after mentioned, to go on board of ships or vessels in any part of the United States, or within four leagues [about 12 miles] of the coast thereof, if bound to the United States, whether in or out of their respective districts, for the purposes of demanding the manifests aforesaid, and of examining and searching the said ships or vessels; and the said officers respectively shall have free access to the cabin, and every other part of a ship or vessel
Under this law, the RCS could board, search, seize and forfeit vessels. When you consider that the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was written one year before creation of the RCS, on September 25, 1789, this is a remarkable grant of policing authority. Even after the Fourth Amendment was ratified on December 15, 1791, the RCS authority to board, search and seize remained unchanged for the next seventy five years.
In 1866, a new law was passed, but only to further strengthen RCS authority to prevent smuggling. It made the powers to board, search and seize even broader by eliminating the "four leagues" geographic limitation. It also gave the RCS broader authority to address "any breach or violation of the laws of the United States." And it authorized, for the first time, the arrest of persons who violated the laws of the United States. The Fourth Amendment was not seen as a limitation on this incredibly broad grant of enforcement power.
In 1915, the RCS was combined with another agency to form the modern Coast Guard. The new law declared that "[a]ll duties now performed by the Revenue-Cutter Service and Life-Saving Service shall continue to be performed by the Coast Guard." This included the rights to board, search, seize vessels, and arrest persons found in violation.
In 1936, Congress adopted what has become the modern grant of authority for Coast Guard searches of your boat. 14 USC 89 (a) now reads:
The Coast Guard may make inquiries, examinations, inspections, searches, seizures, and arrests upon the high seas and waters over which the United States has jurisdiction, for the prevention, detection, and suppression of violations of laws of the United States. For such purposes, commissioned, warrant, and petty officers may at any time go on board of any vessel subject to the jurisdiction, or to the operation of any law, of the United States, address inquiries to those on board, examine the ship's documents and papers, and examine, inspect, and search the vessel and use all necessary force to compel compliance. When from such inquiries, examination, inspection, or search it appears that a breach of the laws of the United States rendering a person liable to arrest is being, or has been committed, by any person, such person shall be arrested or, if escaping to shore, shall be immediately pursued and arrested on shore, or other lawful and appropriate action shall be taken; or, if it shall appear that a breach of the laws of the United States has been committed so as to render such vessel, or the merchandise, or any part thereof, on board of, or brought into the United States by, such vessel, liable to forfeiture, or so as to render such vessel liable to a fine or penalty and if necessary to secure such fine or penalty, such vessel or such merchandise, or both, shall be seized.
Your boat's size, or its dedication to recreational use are not factors in whether the Coast Guard will board and search your boat. And more importantly, the Coasties do not require probable cause.
In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security published its "Small Vessel Security Strategy," which describes the joint efforts of many enforcement agencies, including the Coast Guard, to identify and limit the threat to maritime infrastructure and military vessels posed by terrorists in small boats. Small vessels are considered high risk delivery systems for contraband, including explosives, because they move so freely among our waterways, and close to sensitive infrastructure. It is no wonder we are at greater risk for unwanted, and unwarranted boarding and inspection. Of course, nobody complains when the Coast Guard renders aid in an emergency.
Author and Chesapeake Bay sailor Carolyn Sienkiewicz wrote a piece that appeared on Cruising World's website in 2011 describing how her boat was boarded by the Coast Guard. She was sailing the Chesapeake Bay with her husband on their 42 foot sailboat when hailed by the Coast Guard for a safety inspection. She was understandably unnerved by the 25' Defender Class boat, with machine gun mounted on the foredeck. She later interviewed an Officer from the Coast Guard station:
A boarding usually sends two officers onto the other vessel. The rest of the crew remains on the response boat, which moves off to a safe distance. Once aboard, the boarding officers quickly assess the situation (number, size, and strength of people; weapons aboard), then proceed with the safety inspection while the other two officers aboard the Coast Guard vessel assure the overall security of the scene.
Boardings typically fall into one of three categories," says [Petty Oficer 2nd Class David] Carrier. "A response to a marine incident, such as a tanker grounding or a boating accident. A boat operating in an unsafe fashion. And preventive, in which we check for safety equipment and compliance with U.S. Coast Guard rules and regulations."… The boardings can be of any type of vessel, whether recreational, commercial (say, a passenger-carrying vessel or workboat), and yes, even dinghies and kayaks. The Coast Guard won't hesitate to stop or board a sailboat that's under full sail.
The Coasties Are Coming, Carolyn Sienkiewicz, posted March 21, 2011 (http://www.cruisingworld.com/how/coasties-are-coming)(last checked 5/19/2016)
Your boat may feel like home, and it may feel like a very private oasis. But in reality, you have far less Constitutional protection against government intrusion on your boat than you do walking along a sidewalk in downtown Baltimore. The government has long reserved to itself absolute entitlement to board and inspect every nook and cranny of your boat, without reasonable suspicion of a crime, and without a warrant.
So stay sober, wear your life jacket, and keep your other safety gear up to date, and happy boating!


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We have loads of ways you can earn money in paid roles that will look fantastic on your CV. Our Job Shop advertised 2,000 opportunities for students in one year alone, and London Metropolitan University is a London Living Wage employer.
As a London Met student, you'll be able to take advantage of our in-house temping agency, Met Temps, where all relevant work opportunities on campus are offered to our students first. These are paid part-time or project-based vacancies around the University. We'll also give you access to a portal where external graduate, placement, internship and part-time vacancies are advertised.
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According to Honeybee's post here, this seems to be the case.
"Dr" Mark gone too?December 1, 2007
Heidi & the foster kidsNovember 27, 2007
Christin's story on KVUENovember 24, 2007
Kimkins on YoutubeNovember 12, 2007
The full interview now this time, I believe.
Kimkins featured on national TVNovember 12, 2007
Now up. Watch Christin & Deni and Singinglass & TippyToes on the Morning Show with Mike & Juliet.
Kimmer's "explanation"November 12, 2007
From kimkins.com:
Dear Kimkins Members,
OK, so it's time to come clean.
In view of recent events and the feedback I've received from members, I've decided to set a few things straight. Those of you who know me are well aware I'm a private person and prefer to remain that way. However, that doesn't seem to be in the cards.
So, let's put a few burning questions to rest:
Q: Who is Kimmer?
A: Heidi Diaz
Q: Why the drama, denial and hiding?
A: For the past 10 years it was to avoid an invasion of my own privacy. However, for the past 3 years it was to protect the identity of my foster children. California foster regulations prohibit foster parents from making statements that would identify children as "foster", even by association. Identifying myself which could lead to my home address or identifying me in public could identify them.
Q: Did you lose 198 pounds in 11 months?
A: No. But I did lose 100 pounds in 6 months. However, since Kimkins appeared on the Woman's World cover, I've been glued to my computer. I'm no different than any of you and I'm well familiar with stress eating or grabbing what's handy instead of what's Kimkins friendly.
Q: So you've regained the weight?
A: Yes, but I've been back on Kimkins for 2 weeks and have lost 23 pounds so far. I gain fast and I lose fast, that's how it's always been. I'll be experimenting and rotating with each option except Cycling because that will be too much temptation for me. I'm a lifelong dieter and I know what a free week (or weekend) will do to my willpower.
Q: What about the model photos in some of the Success Stories?
A: The majority of our earliest Success Stories were from another website and we couldn't take those with us. We wanted to show visitors the possibilities with Kimkins. So, while we built up our newest batch, I created stories which were a compilation of previous successes that people had shared with me over the past 10 years. We're extremely proud of all of our members (paid and unpaid) who have experienced weight loss success.
Q: You have been photographed without hair. Did Kimkins do that?
A: Absolutely not. I developed alopecia universalis 23 years ago. It is an autoimmune disease that causes total body hair loss. Our family has cluster autoimmune conditions. Mine are alopecia, hypothyroidism and eczema. Other family members also include alopecia plus type 1 diabetes type 1, multiple sclerosis, lupus, eczema and rheumatoid arthritis. Autoimmune is when your body attacks itself and destroys certain functions. Most people with an autoimmune condition develop more than one. If one person in a family develops an autoimmune condition, other family members tend to develop them.
Q: What about the people who joined Kimkins because you said you lost 198 pounds in 11 months or because of the success story re-enactments?
A: I offer my sincere apology to anyone who felt misled or joined purely on that basis. That was never our intent. Kimkins will provide a refund and membership cancellation upon request to anyone who joined Kimkins prior to November 1, 2007. Please write email@example.com by November 16, 2007 and provide your full name, current or former user name, PayPal transaction number and PayPal email address.
Q: What about the people who want to continue with Kimkins?
A: A lifetime membership is lifetime. You're here and that's permanent!
In fact, I'm going to be part of the "Watch Us Lose" models on the homepage and will update my stats each week, add updated photos and post in the Kimmer's Back on Track Challenge. I will lose my weight all over again and everyone is welcome to lose right alongside me. I had baseline medical tests done a few weeks ago and will share both my starting and final results once I reach goal which I hope to be around my birthday in May 2008.
Q: Will we ever meet "Kimmer"?
A: I'm going to do my best. I truly am a shy person who prefers to stay in the background, but a Kimkins Cruise is planned for Summer 2008 and I'll be there to meet & greet everyone! We will be asking members for feedback on local meet-ups as well so everyone has a chance to meet me and network with other Kimkinites! Support is everything in successful long term weight loss.
Q: Anything else?
A: Kimkins works. I have offered my internet style of Kimkins diet advice for 10 years. It was hugely successful which is why Kimkins became popular. My first 8 years were 100% voluntary and I even turned down gifts. My goal has always been for people to learn the very simple and very effective basics of quick weight loss. This remains our focus today. Anyone who wants a refund and cancellation, please let us know.
Everyone who wants to stick with Kimkins — well, what are you waiting for? Let's do it! I've got, uh … a couple of pounds to lose myself and I could use some support!
Q: What about starting a Kimmer Challenge?
A: Excellent! Let's do it! I'm setting up the Kimmer's Back on Track Challenge thread, so come on over and say "Hi!"
Kimkins LawsuitOctober 19, 2007
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Youtube channel Amit Shukla is on your channel compared Apple's iPhone OS 9, Marshmallow Android 6.0 and Windows 10, which in truth is not out there yet in its final version. The video gives an overview of the similarities and differences in some of the basic user interface elements such as lock screen and home screen, and the system compares the notification but also some of the standard apps such as a calculator, phone, calendar and other.
Which of the three platforms is most beautiful is totally a matter of taste, while the functionality and convenience and richness of features that debate. Some will prefer the freedom and flexibility of Android, other security and guaranteed the fluidity of iOS, and third they will choose something in between in the form of Windows 10 Mobile.