text: You can count on it every year. I don't think it matters who the coach is, who the quarterback is, or really even what team we're talking about in which part of the country. The dumbest idea a football coach ever had is the one that didn't work. This can be as wild an idea as trying a trick play, or as simple as running instead of passing or passing instead of running. Football allows for almost any reasonable point of view to be supported in some way and thus, it's beautiful for discourse. Following the Bills season opening loss to New England, the hullabaloo seems to be centering on a Buffalo possession that started with 5:51 on the clock and the Bills holding a 1 point lead. The Bills went three and out and in the process took only 1:20 off the clock. They ran their offense and after the game Doug Marrone explained that at that point in the game he felt his team needed to score and I completely agree with him because his team was playing Tom Brady's Patriots. Apparently, this cost them the game. Cut. It. Out. In what alternate universe is giving Tom Brady the ball back with anything less than a minute not costing you the game? Remember, all he needs is a field goal. The problem is the three and out folks, not the hurry up offense. Seriously, you give me Brady down by 1 on his 20 yard line with timeouts and 45 seconds and I'm expecting to lose. I think if the Bills start that drive with 2 minutes to go this conversation makes sense. Not milking clock at that point would be nutso. But again, there are almost 6 minutes to go. Don't try too hard. The 1972 Dolphins maybe, maybe, are grinding out the win from there. Guess what? It's not 1972 and Larry Csonka is not walking through that door with that really cool bull horn thingy hanging down from the top of his helmet. Face it, if Marrone and the Bills had turtled on that same drive and tried to run clock, I'd be listening to how wrong they were for going soft and straying from who they are and sending the wrong message and playing not to lose and how Syracuse wasn't really that good anyways and wow this is some crazy run on sentence and I wish a train would plow into my house right now. But for real, I'm in a pretty good mood about the season even though they lost on Sunday. Manuel made some good throws and I like this coach. Welcome back, football. I love you. Assuming love should make me want to duct tape my mouth to a bus tail pipe. And in my experience, sometime love is like that. Go Bills!


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As Gary Pinkel spent 13 of the first 17 years of his coaching career at Washington, it was only natural he would be connected to the job when it came open earlier this week. Pinkel waxed eloquently upon the passing of Don James about what the legendary UW head coach and his time with the Huskies meant to him and his career, leading some to connect further Columbia-to-Seattle dots.
At least publicly, though, the Missouri head coach maintains he's going to remain just that.
Appearing on ESPN's Mike & Mike radio show Thursday morning, Pinkel was asked about the speculation that he could leave the Tigers and head back "home" to the Huskies. Unequivocally, the coach said he's staying put.
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In 2008, Pinkel reportedly turned down an opportunity to interview for the Huskies vacancy in 2008. The job ultimately went to Steve Sarkisian, who left earlier this week to take over as the head coach at USC.
Late Wednesday night, the Seattle Times reported that UW's top two targets to replace Sarkisian are Boise State's Chris Petersen and Alabama offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier.
Petersen was long considered one of the Trojans' top targets to permanently replace Lane Kiffin — perhaps even the top target — before reportedly withdrawing his name from consideration. Prior to spending 2012 and 2013 as the Tide's coordinator, Nussmeier held the same job for three years under Sarkisian with the Huskies.


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I have a feature article in this month's issue of HOW Magazine all about getting feedback from your website's users — via Google Analytics as well as from users themselves. I've posted the text below, but I hope you can read this in print as it includes many images of Google Analytics screens as well as several how-to sidebars. Here's the gist...
I opened the envelope and took out the single sheet of paper it contained. Leaning against the doorway to my kitchen, I stared at it for several long minutes. It might as well have been another language entirely. Eventually, I gave up and called the number at the top of the sheet.
"I just wanted to know if everything was normal — the test results, I mean."
"Yes, everything is fine. Your blood work showed nothing out of the ordinary."
Just days before, I'd had my first physical in years which, in addition to the usual poking and prodding, included a routine blood test. Receiving the results in the mail made me feel good, that my doctor was looking out for me. But then I tried to read the report assuming it would tell me a simple story — whether I was healthy, or not. Instead, it contained rows of numbers that I wasn't able to interpret on my own. If I can't make sense of the data, why send it to me?
We're handed documents like this all the time, especially on the job. Instead of telling you the story you need to hear, they deliver you a confusing new mystery to sort out. For designers, especially, leaving a mystery unsolved is a big no-no. The last thing you want to say when asked to explain your decisions is "I don't know," even if it's true.
After all, an important part of design is telling a compelling story: of why something doesn't work, how it could be done better, and why our solution could help. Without grounding that story empirically, all we have is a hunch. That's where measurement comes in. It connects action to defensible outcomes.
We designers need to be proactively involved in measurement. Knowing how to gather and interpret interactive data will better position us strategically, not to mention prevent inheriting unhelpfully data-glutted reports and being held accountable to someone else's vague interpretation of them. But, it's more important that the data ground our vision in reality than be used to build credibility with clients. We want our clients to trust our judgement, but our measurement process should lead them to the same conclusions we've made if they were to do it themselves.
Unfortunately, measurement is a discipline that tends not to be under the umbrella of design. It's time to change that.
Focus on Questions, Not Numbers
If you've ever examined a report with rows and rows of quantitative data, you know that numbers easily lead to conclusions. If only. Numbers can be helpful answers to questions, but if you don't ask the right questions, you won't get the right answers, and you won't be led to the right actions. If no questions are being asked, then no action will take place at all. This is why reporting tends to be a repetitive action with no results.
In a typical website report, each number represents some metric: The number of visitors and pageviews, the length of a user's session, and so on. All of these things are of interest, of course, but if they're not assessed by some kind of qualitative evaluation, they're meaningless. After all, these metrics will vary greatly depending upon the purpose of the website and its unique audience. So pulling the numbers isn't really enough to evaluate success or failure. We need to be asking different kinds of questions than "How much?" or "How many?"
Truly meaningful measurement can be reduced to five key questions. They are:
- Who is using my site?
- Where are they coming from?
- What content are they consuming?
- How are they engaging with that content?
- What can I do to make their experience better?
Numeric visitor data will help us to answer these questions, of course, but they won't suffice as answers in and of themselves. Measurement is not about numbers as an end, it's about numbers as a means to an end.
Question one is about the identity of our websites' users. Practically, there's only so much we can know about them (out of respect for their privacy, there's a limit to what we should try to find out). For our purposes, simply observing their behavior is going to be of much greater value than knowing specific details like their name, address, and the like. We'll be able to learn quite a lot about their behavior and answer the question generally after we've answered questions two through five. So, while it's the first question we have in mind, it will be the last one we answer.
Questions two and three are best answered by gathering data from an analytics tool like Google Analytics, where we will begin. Afterward, we'll use a simple usability testing procedure to answer questions four and five.
Using Google Analytics
We now know that numbers aren't really the answers we're looking for. But it bears repeating this principle in our minds while actually using Google Analytics. Because it is structured around traffic data — specifically the number of visitors within a particular date range parsed in various ways — it can be easy to fall victim to "Analytics Myopia," or in other words, the tendency to focus in too closely on a particular metric while ignoring the big picture. These metrics, however, are all interrelated, and it's in the connections that the important information resides. So before spending any time in Google Analytics, it's worth committing this motto to memory: There are no independently meaningful metrics. Let me also introduce one caveat: Google Analytics is an enormous and powerful tool, far too large to cover in comprehensive detail in an article like this one. Rather than attempt to describe all of its functionality, I'd instead prefer to offer a simple, two-step routine from which you should derive plenty of insight. Each step will involve looking at a qualitative metric and then evaluating it on the basis of a quantitative one.
Upon logging in to Google Analytics, you'll first see a dashboard view, which will give you big-picture glance at your website's traffic. By default, it will show you this data for the last month, but you can reconfigure the report for any date range you prefer. There's lots to see here, of course. But, once I've glanced at it, assuming no major traffic dips or spikes, I usually get right into my two-step routine. The first step is to check in on my website's traffic sources.
The Traffic Sources report will provide a list of all the other websites that link to yours, and of course, help you to easily answer Question #2. For this particular website, I can see that most visitors are coming in from Google searches — almost four times the number of visitors who came in directly. That's a good thing. When the number of people discovering a website by searching for the information it contains is larger than any other group of visitors, it means that the website's reputation is growing on the basis of the value of its content.
It's helpful to also see that visitors are coming in from a variety of sources, like email marketing campaigns, social networks, and other websites with large and active audiences. These different sources indicate that awareness of this website is spreading through referrals across a wide range of familiarity — from more "objective" sources like search engines to much more "subjective" and intimate ones like someone's Facebook wall.
Now that we're digging in to these sources, we should evaluate: Which sources are bringing in users that engage more deeply?
One simple way to answer this is to look at goals. A goal can be any opportunity for a user to engage, whether by filling out a contact form, making a purchase, registering for an event, or even just downloading a file. Assuming we've configured our Google Analytics accounts to track specific goals, we can filter traffic by visitors that have completed goals. By applying an advanced segment, which is just a sub-routine telling the program to show you only the traffic that corresponds to any set of rules you determine, we can now see a new graph running in parallel with the basic Traffic Sources report. This particular segment has parsed the traffic sources data by those visitors who have completed at least one goal. The resulting orange line traces goals that have been hit from day to day — obviously, less than the overall traffic. In the list below the graph, each source is now also broken out by a goal conversion rating, shown in green.
While traffic is exciting, it's only meaningful once it's valued.
The Top Content Report shows us which pages on our websites are getting the most views, how long users are spending on them, and which pages have the highest bounce rate.
The bounce rate, by the way, is one of those myopia-inducing metrics I mentioned earlier. A very simple definition for bounce rate is that it measures the percentage of traffic that landed on a page and then left the website without looking at anything else. Google Analytics will display the site-wide average bounce on the first dashboard screen we see when we log in, but it makes more sense to look at bounce rate as a means of evaluating the performance of individual pages, instead. A page with a high bounce rate is likely not meeting the expectations of visitors who found it in a search. But a page with a low bounce rate is successfully engaging visitors, either by leading them to a goal or more information on other pages. Like goals did for traffic sources, bounce rate helps us to better understand how users engage (or don't) with our website's content.
Be aware, though, that the way bounce rate is displayed can be misleading. On the Top Content report, Google Analytics will display the bounce rate for a page along with the number of views it has received. If the report displays a page with 870 views and a bounce rate of 67%, it implies that 583 (870 x .67) of those views bounced. But that is not correct. Remember, bounce rate measures the percentage of traffic that landed on a page and went no further. To clearly see how many actual bounces occurred, we need to look at the same page in Google Analytics's Top Landing Pages report, which isolates only the traffic that entered the website by landing on that page. If the report lists 726 entrances through that same page, it means that only 488 bounced (726 x .67). That's almost 100 less than we would have thought had we not looked at both reports!
Digging in to our website's content and measuring it on the basis of goals and bounce rate reveals plenty of examples of how there are no independently meaningful metrics. Analytics data can mislead us just as easily as they can empower us, which means we've got to keep our big-picture questions in mind at all times when interpreting these reports.
Gathering Data from Users
Our last two questions — about how visitors are engaging with content and what we can do to make that better — are best answered by observing users.
But another caveat is in order: The type of user testing that I'm about to describe is not the most scientific process you could pursue. The amount of work and the high cost to conduct truly scientific usability studies — using heat mapping technology and the like — is so great as to be a very real barrier to entry for most of us. But a much simpler version isn't necessarily going to offer illegitimate results. In fact, my experience has been that the simpler the process, the greater the actionable insights.
The setup you'll need is minimal: A quiet space, free from distraction, a laptop running some kind of screen-capture software, a volunteer, a webcam to capture your volunteer's face while working, a test plan to follow, and a moderator. Your volunteer need not be an expert in your field or have any deep familiarity with the information or concepts contained by the website you're testing. The fresher the better. You — the moderator — are there to provide the context, technology, and guide the test, but most importantly, to observe.
This testing procedure can be broken down into 3-4 steps. Once you've began recording their session, the first step is to have your volunteers orient themselves on the homepage. Give them 1-2 minutes to explore — scrolling only, no clicking — before asking them to explain what the website is about. Their answer will help you evaluate the clarity of your website's purpose to the outside user.
Next, your test plan's remaining 2-3 steps should match the goals of the website — those, like form submissions, purchases, registrations, or downloads that you might track in Google Analytics. For example, one task may be to have the user find a particular article on your website, leave a comment, and then subscribe to receive website content by email. Observing this flow will demonstrate all kinds of things you need to know, like whether your website's navigation and search tools are working, content is legible, and calls to action are clear.
This kind of test can be customized in any way that makes sense for the goals of your website, but should be kept to under ten minutes. As soon as fatigue sets in, the quality of the results will drop considerably.
User experience expert Jakob Nielsen recently published a study showing that most users decide whether to stay or leave a webpage within 10 seconds of opening it. That may seem like a tiny window of opportunity, but we're actually able to perceive and make judgements about information in even less time. Rather than evaluate an entire website, a ten-second test will focus on just one page and help us to observe the factors that contribute to that decision.
The setup here is the same as before, but the procedure is slightly different. Once you're rolling, give your volunteers 10 seconds to view a page (again, scrolling only). After ten seconds, close the browser and ask them to explain what the page was about. Just like before, their answers will help you to evaluate the clarity of your page, especially how design decisions can either help or hinder a user's ability to get the right first impression of a page. Design is often the difference between a bounce and a conversion.
In either testing scenario, feel free to ask follow-up questions that draw out more information from them, but be careful not to lead them to conclusions.
Questions > Answers > Action
Reducing complicated measurements to meaningful questions and pursuing answers to them through simplified analytics procedures and usability testing is all about one thing: Producing the right action. Don't wait to be handed someone else's number-heavy and insight-light report. Making measurement a part of your repertoire today will help you find the answers you need to take action.
I'm glad you noted the importance of valuing your website sources, but I'm surprised you don't recommend the same for content. Engagement metrics are good and can be a general indicator that a page is healthy, but at the end of the day content needs to contribute to goal conversion. Google Analytics' Landing Page report has tabs (Goal Set 1) that allow you to understand a page's performance as it applies to the goals you set up, so instead of reporting to a client "compared to other pages on your site, metrics suggest this page was engaging" you can say "last month this page had a value of this-many-dollars, which is an increase from the month before." That's much more powerful! You can also add a secondary dimension for source, or medium, or campaign, or keyword so now your message can be "Google (or this email or this keyword) sent this-many-dollars through this page last month."
A few points about Bounce Rate... Google recently added Entrances to the All Pages report, so you no longer have to view both reports to know the actual number of bounces. Finally, your readers should be careful not to automatically assume a low bounce rate is good and a high bounce rate is bad. If you have a car parts website, and a page with step-by-step instructions on "how to jump start a car" a high bounce rate would be acceptable and probably even expected. There's a point to be made here about understanding context and applying source, campaign, and keyword data, and Per Visit Goal Value, but I've already written more than I wanted to!


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Got to give Rolling Stone points for one of the most memorable covers in some time. (Here's the True Blood story that goes with it.) Clearly, sex, nudity and vampires sell.
Bloodsuckers continue to thrive, from HBO's hit series True Blood to the Twilight saga and Matt Reeves' upcoming English-language remake Let Me In, a surprise R-rated entry on the fall fest circuit. There's yet another Len Wiseman Underworld sequel on the way for 2012, in 3-D, starring Kate Beckinsale. Then there's Tim Burton's remake of Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp in the role of Barnabas Collins that Jonathan Frid made famous in the TV series (1966-1971). I used to rush home from school every day to catch this vampire soap. But who will play blonde Angelique?
Appropriately, Warner Bros. and producers Depp and Graham King have hired Seth Grahame-Smith (who's prepping the movie of his book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with Timur Bekmambetov) to rework John August's script for a planned January start.
Marijka | March 19, 2011 2:45 AM
Nudity has been in many different forms of art. Some of the most famous paintings in the world feature women or men in various stages of undress. Then you have the porn industry of course, which is nothing but nudity.
This cover is a true expression of a genre that has fascinated, horrified and intrigued people for over a century. This is simply the evolution of this fascination. It is grittier, it is sexier, and believe it or not - it's not the worse thing out there.
This is an amazingly sexy cover that goes along with an intelligent television show that can manage to have a strong message about our society, and be hot at the same time.
JayJay | December 16, 2010 1:17 AM
Very hot and sexy!I like it alot!who would not
maggie | October 16, 2010 1:15 AM
This is so gross! You Guys had class once..where did it go. Promoting some ugly Porn thats all you do....
mj | August 19, 2010 12:48 PM
the girl is about to get tag teamed
M | August 19, 2010 8:55 AM
This is such a trivial topic, I wouldn't bother posting, except that SOMEBODY needs to defend the cover.
I love it. Sexy as hell.
And I don't even like True Blood...
Brian | August 19, 2010 4:09 AM
@DavidC: Ingrid Pitt was gorgeous and sexy in Hammer's THE VAMPIRE LOVERS. Delphine Seyrig was glamorous and sexy in DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS. Catherine Deneuve is beautiful in THE HUNGER. These three nonentities on the cover of Rolling Stone are just repulsive. (No, I'm not a fan of Anna Paquin and never have been.)
Rebecca | August 19, 2010 1:32 AM
RIDICULOUS cover! Has Rolling Stone lost their minds? Get back to where you once belonged.
DavidC | August 18, 2010 12:13 PM
Ever seen any of the sexy & bloody Hammer vampire movies? Or "Daughters of Darkness? Or "The Hunger"? Alan Ball's right about the built in sexiness of vampire stories. Sexuality was closer to the surface in "Dracula" than in any other Victorian novel.
Billie Briggs | August 18, 2010 3:03 AM
That is the most disgusting cover this magazine has ever had...and they have had some fairly disgusting ones.
I will be glad when my subscription is up.
Old Fart | August 18, 2010 2:53 AM
That's an ugly and disgusting cover. This obsession with vampires and zombies has gotten out of hand. What does it say about our culture when bloodsuckers, flesh-eaters, parasites and leeches have become so attractive to such a large part of the population, esp. young people?


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Chandra Wilson looked lovely as she took to the red carpet at the 2013 NAACP Image Awards on Friday evening, which was held at The Shrine Auditorium in California.
The 'Grey Anatomy star turned to Octavia Spencer's favourite designer for her red carpet look.
Chandra glowed wearing a Tadashi Shoji Spring 2013 metallic ice-blue draped jersey gown with a sheer rhinestone panel at the bust.
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Experts react to attempted murder verdictBy Brent Curtis
Staff Writer | June 05,2014
A Rutland City police station surveillance video shows Jennifer Berube coming up behind Officer Damon Nguyen and holding a knife to his neck.In a surveillance video shot inside the Rutland Police Department, Jennifer Berube can be seen quietly approaching a seated police officer from behind with a knife in her hand.
Before Officer Damon Nguyen knows she is there, Berube wraps her arms around his neck and a brief but violent struggle ensues as the officer and the 38-year-old woman fight for control of the 2-inch-blade.
By the time Berube was subdued, Nguyen was bleeding from a cut on his neck a half-inch from his jugular vein.
Rutland County State's Attorney Marc Brierre charged Berube with attempted second-degree murder and brought the case to trial where a jury last week acquitted the homeless woman of attempted murder along with a lesser charge of attempted aggravated assault to cause serious bodily injury that a Rutland criminal court judge allowed the jurors to consider.
The acquittals were shocking to members of the police department and city government. But former prosecutors and legal professors reached this week said jurors in cases like the one involving Berube are influenced by a wide variety of factors and even video footage of an alleged assault can be called into question.
Cheryl Hanna, a Vermont Law School professor and former prosecutor, said in her experience, acquittals are often a direct result of an effective defense.
"When this happens, it means someone had a really good defense attorney," she said. "If you see an assault take place and you still acquit, it's because someone has given the jury a better story about the evidence than the prosecution did."
Trials, former prosecutor Brian Marthage said, involve more than just deciding someone is guilty of a criminal act — they involve finding a defendant guilty of a very specific criminal offense and all of the elements of that offense.
In the case of attempted murder or attempted aggravated assault to cause serious injury, jurors would have had to conclude that not only did a person assault someone, but that they did so with intent to kill or cause serious injury.
David Soucy, foreman of the jury in the Berube case, said last week that he and the other 11 jurors in the case agreed that had Berube intended to kill or inflict serious bodily injury, the officer's wounds would have been far worse.
"She had the opportunity to kill," Soucy said. "There are pictures in the video where his right hand is not in control of the knife and she could have stabbed him but didn't."
While jurors were allowed to consider the lesser aggravated assault charge, they were limited to concluding that Berube intended to cause serious bodily injury because of the prosecutor's decision to bring only an attempted murder charge.
But there were other criminal charges that contained elements of the incident with Berube that could have been brought before the trial.
Offenses such as aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with intent to prevent a law enforcement officer from performing a lawful duty — both of which carry potential 15-year jail sentences — encompassed elements of the alleged offense, Marthage said.
The former deputy Bennington County prosecutor said Brierre may have made a strategic decision when he decided to bring only the attempted murder charge against Berube because including lesser offenses sometimes leads jurors to "compromise" by delivering a guilty verdict on the lesser charge.
But in his time as a prosecutor, Marthage said he included multiple offenses in cases like the one involving Berube to give jurors greater leeway in reaching a guilty verdict.
"My philosophy was to play all the cards I was dealt as opposed to holding back on all the charges a jury would otherwise be able to consider," he said.
Brierre said in a voice mail message that he decided to charge Berube with only attempted murder because it was the best fit for the elements of the offense.
"When the charge was filed we went with the one we felt was applicable," he said.
Robert Sand, the former Windsor County state's attorney, said acquittals aren't uncommon in a criminal justice system that he said is designed to safeguard against unjust convictions.
"The judgment as a society was made to not find a person guilty until the prosecution is able to prove each and every element of a case," said Sand, who is now a criminal law professor at Vermont Law School.
"As a society, we decided we would rather have a factually guilty person go free than have someone who is factually innocent person be wrongfully convicted," he said.
Sand — who emphasized that he was not commenting on any specific case — said jury's must also decide whether the evidence in a case achieves the legal threshold in criminal cases of providing proof "beyond a reasonable doubt."
And achieving a unanimous decision from 12 jurors isn't least among a prosecutor's challenges.
"How often do you get 12 strangers to agree on the same thing?" Sand said. "The system is designed to make it hard to convict."
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Cancer has touched most of us in the area — either directly or through someone we know and/or love.
I had gone into the bathroom to take a shower and when I pulled back the curtain, there it was. At first I thought, "Sheesh, who left that there?" Then I realized what it was and why. I immediately sat down on the stool and cried. It was the first physical sign my father was sick and he might not make it. We had all tried to stay positive and upbeat and were pretty much ignoring the darker side of the disease.
It's what we had to do to carry on day after day.
Everything changed after that. It was real. It was happening to us.
Rebecca Sypin is one of the people behind a Facebook campaign urging Mattel to create a bald Barbie, one she says children battling cancer and other diseases that cause hair loss can relate to.
Sypin knows about children and cancer. Her daughter is battling leukemia.
"We receive hundreds of passionate requests for various dolls to be added to our collection," the statement reads. "We take all of them seriously and are constantly exploring new and different dolls to be added to our line."
Many have had a problem with the buxom blond and her curvy attributes. She doesn't represent most of the real women we know — a few but not the majority. Even her impossibly tanned and toned boyfriend, Ken, is an unrealistic portrayal of the common man. Sorry guys.
Being different can be tough for a kid. It can also be a way for children to ostracize each other. Children can be as mean as snakes. Don't take offense. You know it's true. They latch on to any little thing and they're off and running.
For children dealing with cancer and the loss of their hair, Bald Barbie can serve as an ambassador. They can look at her and know that if Barbie doesn't have hair, it must be OK. It can also help with children whose parents may be struggling with cancer treatments and have lost their hair. I imagine if it frightened me, it would absolutely frighten a child.
So, go to Facebook, check out the Bald Barbie page and let's help the fantastic, plastic lady who gave us hours of fun and stretched our imaginations as little girls help put the next generation at ease.
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The Doctor-Patient Relationship- How Did We Get here and Where Are We Going?
Gregory Eastwood, MD., Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Patients and physicians have interacted according to cultural norms and ethical principles for thousands of years. The Hippocratic ideal "The health and life of my patient will be my first consideration," remains the central principle in the relationship between patients and their physicians. Yet, the practice of contemporary medicine is much different than it was even a generation ago. We will trace the development of the doctor-patient relationship and examine how it has been affected by landmark events, such as the Nuremburg Trial (1947) and the Quinlan (1976) and Cruzan (1990) cases, and other influences on the practice of medicine in recent years. Finally, we will peer into the future when computers and brains may merge and technology may change the very notion of what it means to be a patient or a physician.
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Moorea, often likened to James Michener's mythical island of Bali Hai, is only 11 miles from Tahiti. Many visitors say it is worth the visit just to see Moorea's spectacular bays. The volcanic peaks, reflected in the waters of Cook's Bay and Opunohu Bay, rise like a shark's jaw from the island's base. Sharks sighting on nearly every dive makes this island a popular diving destination. At times a tuna will come by or dolphins will be heard clicking just out of sight.
The following Shore Excursions are available for this port on this cruise, and may be reserved beginning 240 days before the cruise begins for guests receiving Concierge amenities, and 180 days before the cruise begins for all other guests. Guests receiving Concierge amenities will receive a 5% discount off of the prices shown below for Regent Choice tours.
Experience the exquisite beauty and flavors of Moorea during a picturesque, off-road excursion through this idyllic island.
Depart the pier via four-wheel-drive vehicle for the scenic drive through Moorea's deep valleys and mountains. Your adventure begins with a drive to Paopao Valley. After passing by some pineapple plantations, you will cross the Paopao Opunohu Trail en route to Opunohu. A stop will then be made at one of the numerous sacred ancient sites, or marae, where you will learn about Polynesian culture.
Next, you will continue to the Belvédère Lookout for incredible panoramic views overlooking Cook's and Opunohu bays. From here, you will drive through the interior trails of the Agricultural School of Moorea to see the local flora. Moorea, known as the Green Garden of Polynesia, is renowned for its school, which receives children from all the outer islands. A stop will be made here to use the restrooms and sample some homemade jam. Ice cream and local fruit juices will also be available for purchase.
Following your visit, you will commence the steep ascent up Magic Mountain. Here, a little path lined by grapefruit, lemon and orange trees opens up to a panoramic vista stretching across Opunohu Bay, the lagoon and the sea. Your tour will conclude with a stop at the Fruit Juice Factory of Moorea to sample their liquors.
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Imagine two ivy league universities making a huge investment to offer their high quality classes through the internet. Not just cheap rip-off of classes designed for previous students, missing texts and interaction. But, fully-developed virtual classes made for today's learners with everything they need to succeed available through their program. Now, imagine that it's free. And, available to anyone with internet access.
That's what MIT and Harvard University recently announced. Joining forces as EdX, they launch the first round of online classes in Fall 2012.
What Makes EdX Different?
Many colleges now offer some form of opencourseware, or materials adapted from classes that are made publicly available. Often these courses offer detailed syllabi, engaging video or audio recordings, and lecture transcriptions. However, many students have found it challenging to use these materials because they have missing pieces. They don't provide the same experience as traditional or regularly-enrolled online students receive because they are stripped of content that is under copyright and opportunities for interaction (like discussion boards and quizzes). Basically, students were left on their own to fill in the holes and gain what they could from the resources that were available.
EdX is trying to change that by offering complete, interactive online courses to the public at no cost. The courses will include all of the content students need to progress (no more wishing you had access to that crucial nugget of information from lecture two). Additionally, the courses will offer students the ability to interact with the class content and with each other. Students can take quizzes to receive instant feedback, discuss the subject on course boards, and engage in online laboratories.
EdX is following in the footsteps of MitX, which began offering similar complete courses in the spring of 2012. EdX combines the professorial brain power (and financial footing) of two renown schools, opening up even more opportunities for success.
Who is EdX For?
It's important to point out that EdX isn't an online college and it isn't accredited. Students won't choose to take EdX courses instead of enrolling in a university. However, they will be able to take EdX courses to learn independently or supplement their traditional studies. People might choose to take an EdX course to investigate a subject they're curious about, prepare to enroll in a difficult university class, sharpen their skills, or make themselves more competitive in the workplace.
In particular, international students from developing countries will benefit from EdX and similar initiatives. Students that want to learn but don't have the finances or opportunity to study abroad will be able to gain an education that may not otherwise be a possibility for them.
Can EdX Learners Earn an Online Degree?
No. You cannot earn a degree from EdX online. However, EdX plans to offer some sort of credentials to students that demonstrate their learning through successful completion of the courses.
How will colleges and employers view the credentials? It's difficult to say because there isn't much to compare them to. This is the first time that credentials have been offered by a comprehensive opencourseware program. It is possible that such credentials could be considered on par with other forms of education someday, particularly if EdX ever decided to offer proctored exam options to students completing the coursework.
How Will EdX Change Online Learning?
If the program is a success, EdX has the potential to be a major influence in the world of online learning. Other colleges will be inspired to open up some of their classes in a similar format. And, EdX will provide them with an open source learning platform to design courses in the same fashion.
Cost will be prohibitive for most universities (creating and offering a full interactive course for free is no cheap endeavor). However, EdX is coming to the game with strong financial backing. If their efforts prove a success, perhaps funding for other universities to join in can be raised through Wikipedia-style online fundraisers. Even if few can follow the exact model, EdX courses are sure to act as an inspiration for distance learning departments that must work in a stricter budget.
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