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The new chief of Hampstead Heath has pledged to protect the "jewel in the crown" of London's open spaces.
Jeremy Simons, who was appointed chairman of the City of London Corporation's Hampstead Heath management committee last week after Michael Wellbank stepped down, admitted his task would prove challenging with tough economic times ahead and shrinking budgets for the upkeep of the beauty spot.
"I would like to hand the Heath over in as good a state as it is at the moment," Mr Simons, who grew up in Finchley, told the Ham&High.
"We live in difficult economic times and I would like – as far as it is possible – that the Heath should not fall under those pressures, but that's going to be quite difficult."
One expense he will not spare is the £15million controversial dams project.
Mr Simons, a keen cyclist who has never owned a car, said the City is legally bound to carry out the works for the safety of those who live below the dams. He hopes that construction will be well under way by the end of what is expected to be a three-year tenure.
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Immigration Protests Denounce Obama on Deportations
On Saturday, pro-immigration protesters carried out demonstrations throughout the U.S., even marching to the White House to denounce President Obama for deportations. Led by the National Day Labor Organizing Network, the protests were held on the date believed to mark the Obama administration's deportation of two million people. Several thousands of protesters demonstrated in favor of immigration reform in 60 US cities, calling on President Obama to halt the deportations that protesters said separate people from family members.
In Washington, D.C., an estimated 250 activists marched to a park adjacent the White House. They carried signs denouncing President Obama as "Deporter in Chief," based on the fact that his administration's estimated two million deportations constitutes a higher figure for deportations than that of any previous administration. Another demonstration saw 100 protesters journeying over 60 miles from Phoenix, AZ to Eloy, AZ in order to march on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center. One woman said that her son had been in the Eloy Detention Center for almost three years.
Law enforcement made arrests in connection with at least two of the protests. In San Jose, CA, 12 protesters who occupied an intersection by sitting down in it were arrested, cited, and then released. In San Francisco, CA, 23 protesters were arrested on Friday afternoon near U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Offices, after they blocked an intersection. These acts of civil disobedience were carried out peacefully, without recourse to violence. All of the protests were held to encourage Obama to stop the deportations and reform the immigration policies denounced by the activists.
Protesters said President Obama can take action on immigration through the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), approved by the president in 2012. They argued that President Obama should use DACA to curb the deportations and grant work permits to undocumented youth. The protesters message was that the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants is breaking up families, and denounced Obama for his administration's record-breaking number of deportations.
President Obama is coming under renewed pressure to reform immigration from within political circles as well. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus recently drafted a new memo on immigration reform, which will be formally released on April 9. Like the protesters, the memo denounces the deportations for separating family members, and argues that President Obama should take action on immigration. Like the protesters, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus memo points to DACA as the answer, suggesting that President Obama should suspend deportations of the parents and siblings of those already covered by DACA to prevent thousands of children from being forced into the US foster care system when their parents have been deported.
The US has nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants, but Congress has not passed legalization legislation since 1986. The legal debate on the matter is convoluted, particularly about much authority President Obama actually has to reform immigration and curb the deportations denounced by the protesters. It is a partisan issue in Washington, where Republicans have expressed opposition to immigration reform, and arouses opposition from some sectors of the public as well. Still, analysts say, pressure is mounting on the president to at least curb deportation, and will only intensify if he does not act.
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No Solution for Aging A-Rod: The Tampa Bay Rays Keep Evan Longoria Locked Up
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The Tampa Bay Rays made it clear right-handed slugger Evan Longoria, 27, is the face of the franchise, giving him an extra $100 million in guaranteed cash; keeping the All-Star in Tampa—or wherever the team ends up—until 2022.
But the deal means more than just years and cash. The Rays, unlike other Florida squads, are thinking outside the box, and playing "keep away" from the other teams in the AL East.
The unexpectedness of the move has experts attempting to dissect the reasoning behind it, leaving ideas and opinions on what this means for the Rays. However, it wasn't until Charlie McCarthy's article for FOX Sports that the simple question was asked: Why add on six years and a small-islands' worth of pocket money to a guy that still has four years left on his current deal?
Well, the answer is even simpler than the question: Spending now delays any future deals...for other teams like the New York Yankees—And this is where the Rays front office gets credit for what they did with Longoria.
There shouldn't be any surprise, at this point of the offseason, when rumors come circling about the uncertainty of Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees. There have been reports that GM Brian Cashman is not completely sold on A-Rod anchoring the "hot corner" next season, or the seasons after.
The dilemma has left the Yankees brass to play cover up, through false confidence, while desperately searching for a solution. Now, because of the Rays extending Longoria, the answer won't be coming from Tampa Bay—currently or in the future.
Tick-tock, tick-tock: A-Rod gets older and older, and the solutions dwindle; let's face it, there aren't a whole lot of star-caliber infielders on the market.
What to do, New York...What to do?
The Yankees, as many would expect, will have their checkbook wide open as they search for infield answers to their aging problems. Will they get someone to fill the void? It's safe to say they will find a player willing to make the jump into pinstripes.
But the monetary efforts will not involve Evan Longoria, making his extension an absolute brilliant move.
Yes, he may decide to opt out at some point of his career—Tampa is far from solid—but at least now the Rays have guaranteed he won't be moving until after A-Rod is long gone.
Without question, when considering the areas of need for their rivals in the AL East, the deal makes the Rays look like genies—predicting what the future will bring.
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Blogger: GemSen If you had actually managed to convince the Kaiser to release you from a German Prisoner of War Camp during WWI would you return? No need to answer that. Rather amazingly, Captain Robert Campbell went back and stayed true to his word after he was, to his astonishment, allowed two weeks compassionate leave to visit his dying mother in Kent on the condition that he returned.
British soldiers walking through the trenches of WWI. Picture from the Forces War Records library.
Aged 29, the British officer, Capt Campbell had been leading the 1st Bn East Surrey Regiment when his battalion got attacked by the Germans in North West France, just weeks after Britain declared war on Germany in July, 1914.
He was seriously injured and spent two years in the Magdeburg Prisoner of War Camp before hearing the news that his mother Louise Campbell was close to death.
Writing to the Kaiser he begged to be allowed to see his mother one last time and to his amazement and relief he was given permission.
The Kaiser allowed him two weeks' compassionate leave, including two days travelling in each direction by boat and train, but only if Capt Campbell promised as a British Army officer to return.
After spending time at his mother's bedside, in Gravesend, Kent, the British Army captain returned to the German camp and remained in captivity until the end of the First World War. His mother passed away a few months later.
Such an act of wartime honesty is quite remarkable. I doubt many people would have returned — hence my question at the start being a rhetorical one.
The story was uncovered by Historian Richard van Emden after reading correspondence between the Foreign Office and their German counterparts —told in his book, Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War. The book looks at personal contacts between Britons and Germans and their feelings towards each other as the First World War progressed.
Mr van Emden said such an act of chivalry was rare even a century ago and told the Daily Mail:
"Capt Campbell was an officer and he made a promise on his honour to go back,' he said. 'Had he not turned up there would not have been any retribution on any other prisoners.
What I think is more amazing is that the British Army let him go back to Germany. The British could have said to him, "You're not going back, you're going to stay here."
He said of Capt Campbell's amazing story: "I think it is such a unique example that I don't think you can draw any parallels."
After the war, Capt Campbell was released and returned to Britain where he served in the military until retiring in 1925. His military career was far from over though and on the outbreak of the Second World War he rejoined his regiment in 1939, serving as the Chief Observer of the Royal Observer Corps on the Isle of Wight. He survived that war too and died in Britain in July 1966 aged 81.
During his research, Mr van Emden's discovered that there was high respect between pilots fighting above the lines. The narrow cockpits of the day meant that pilots did not carry parachutes because they were too bulky so if their aircraft went down or caught fire, they faced the choice of burning alive or jumping out. Apparently German pilots made it a habit to find their victims, dead or alive. If dead, they sent details of their names and burial sites across British lines. If found alive, they would invite them for something to eat in their mess.
Fighting during World War I was brutal and both sides were living through the horrors of trench warfare. Both sides suffered loss, death and misery. It didn't mean that it was a war without chivalry and humanity though — the Christmas truce is a prime example.
The Christmas Day Truce showing British and German officers together. Picture from Forces War Records library.
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Baby nurseries are traditionally blue for a boy, pink to signify a girl or green-yellow combos when the parents are waiting until their child's birth to be surprised.
So imagine the reactions when Natalie Allen told friends she was going with a black-and-gray color scheme with fuchsia accents.
"It was not a positive one," she said, grinning.
"It got to the point I almost hated telling anyone when they asked, but once they saw it, it got a very positive reaction," said the Ooltewah mother of two.
The Allens had already done the pink decor in 4-year-old daughter Lili Kay's room. A preschooler's delight, the princess-themed room is complete with a storybook castle painted on the wall, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White look-alikes skipping across the castle's grounds and fairies painted in the playroom.
But Tim and Natalie Allen brought infant Luci Rose home last week to a room that is nursery chic. It is nontraditional in its black furnishings against a gray wall but still colorful and inviting with pink accents and hand-painted mural. An owl motif adds whimsy to the room.
The centerpiece of the room is a black iron, four-poster crib by Bratt Decor with stationary sides, which adds a nostalgic touch of Victorian elegance to the sophisticated decor. The crib's Kirby bedding set by Glenna Jean is a floral motif in orange, avocado and hot pink on black background. The bumpers are a patchwork mix of prints and weaves, all coordinated by the same black floral print.
Other furnishings in the room include a black-upholstered swivel glider, black armoire, black ceiling fan and black changing table with hutch.
"I like the boldness of the room the best," said Mrs. Allen of the look.
The new mother said she didn't plan a theme but that the couple knew they wanted Lydia Reynolds to paint a tree that would rise up one wall and spread its branches out over the crib.
A pink owl clock at the store owned by her husband, Children's Fair, became the inspiration for owl accents in the nursery. Reynolds hand-painted three owls in the branches of the tree along with stylized bluebirds and songbirds.
Luci Rose's name is hand-painted above her crib and her monogram above the closet door. Reynolds painted blooms on the floor lamp's shade and closet doorknobs that coordinated with those in the bedding.
A round, 4- by 4-foot, fuchsia area rug provides a splash of color in the center of the room. Wall-to-wall cream carpet lightens the room, counterbalancing the dark furnishings.
"I think because the Allens see a lot [of decor ideas] with their business, this struck a note with them because it was so different," said Reynolds. "This was new and modern while still being a little traditional in its furnishings."
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People love to argue about story in MMOs. Is it possible? Is it not? Well, I will keep on to my belief: there is story in MMOs, but it is not a story told by the developers (like in single-player games), but one crafted by the players based on the tools provided by the developers.
The thing is that MMOs are a new thing. While single-player games have had time to evolve in the last few decades, MMOs had far less time and, arguably, evolved comparatively less, maybe for the lack of (actual) competition.
There is a reason why technology evolves during war. One side is always trying to beat the other. There is a war brewing in the MMO world, but one that has been too cold for a long time. It has been more like today's market: the Chinese are known to copy products created on other countries and sell them cheaper. In the end it's just that: a copy. It's safer this way. Unless war is declared, there won't be an evolution.
But evolution does not necessarily mean revolutionary technology. It needs only new (or should I say old) concepts. Take for instance Non-player characters.
Look at any single-player game, movie or novel. How many characters are there aside from the protagonists? Now look at MMOs.
Is there really the need for that many NPCs? What is their role in the game? What is their role in the story of that game?
You might come say "hey, but that quest giver has an awesome story. It's almost like a novel!" and I'll begin my reply by saying that it SHOULDN'T be a novel because quest stories (as they are right now) are often just background. You, the main character of the game, is hardly ever the main character of the story been told. In that way, it's not like been the novel's main character, but the reader. And, really, if I wanted to read a book, I'd pick any of the ones I got here. When I play games I want to be part of the story.
Now I ask you: do we need all these characters? How many of them do we remember later on? How deep are they? How useful are they? Couldn't we replace all these thousands of characters for fewer, deeper characters players can relate to?
Consider this: As the player begins play in this new MMO, he is encounters a character responsible for recruiting soldiers for the war effort. Initially, he treats you as just another nameless recruit who will probably not last long. You complete a few quests for him, either returning to him or talking remotely to you (like in Star Trek Online, for instance) and ends up sent to another region and a new NPC (effectively out of the starter area).
As the game goes on, you 'hear' from other characters, level design placement or item description bits about that first character that explain why he is like this. Then, he contacts you again and now he treats you slightly differently, because you are not a nameless recruit anymore.
All along your experience in this game, you learn more and more about this (and other) NPCs, get to know them and get to care about them. You may even become their hero, because your actions make a difference (even if just in a personal level). And, if you care about the NPCs you interact with, you are bound to care more about the world you are playing in and, therefore, the game you are in.
Using traditional MMO design structuring, each Hub may have a few 'main' NPCs and a few (or many?) minor NPCs whose roles are flavor and information (RPGs often have these nameless NPCs who bark information when you click or approach them). The player may move from hub to hub and even come back to meet again an old friend.
Imagine an MMO in which, at the tutorial stage, you meet several minor NPCs and, later on the game, you meet each one individually, in different situations. That rookie brat may have become a respected officer while the sleazy bastard who bullied you during the tutorial is now in danger and needs your rescue.
"Wow, wow, wait!" you say. "This sounds too single-player for my taste!"
It does, but it doesn't have to. It would fit perfectly in the narrative form of games like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars and Old Republic. But I've been preaching that this is not how stories should be told in MMOs. Am I going against my 'beliefs'?
Not at all, really. Quests and NPCs with personality and complexity are important for any game because they not only guide the player, but allow them to understand the world they are becoming a part of. The key to create a community dedicated to an MMO is providing tools for then, and background is another (important) tool. As I have said before, the way Eve Online evolved (which was heavily based on community wishes as any niche game should) made so that their complex background lost space (pun intended) against player creations.
It is not that they are wrong but, as the world of Eve was not properly presented to players as the game grew, players created their own culture in the game. If the world they have become part of had fed them information during gameplay (I'm not talking about a cutscene or a wall of text to choose your race), it may have been different. It's like the dreaded exposition in novels: you can't block out a page or two exposing background and lore in a novel because it feels dull and unnatural. You do it by bits and pieces, by adding details everywhere.
The (not so) recent addition of the factional war may have helped, but, in that sense, it was a late addition. Eve is its own world now, with its own story. Again, it is not wrong, but it means few people care about the lore (and, therefore, the game system and content decisions) made for the game.
Why is this relevant to this article? The fact is that MMOs are about players. THEY should be the thousand faces and not that of meaningless NPCs. If you keep a small number of complex, memorable NPCs to introduce the players to the game early on, players will feel connected to the world they are joining so that, when they are 'free to roam' on their own, they will be predisposed to play 'their' game with the lore they were presented to. They will call themselves Minmatar, or Alliance or Empire because they want to. They will wage war against one another because they believe on cause of the Defiants and not because of a character generation option.
Why am I so sure of this concept? I ask you: why do people choose to be heroes or villains in DC Universe? Why are there already so many guilds for the Republic or the Sith Empire for Old Republic? People have been presented to these backgrounds before making their choices. They know what to expect.
Then why don't games present their lore before making players choose factions? (if they have to choose factions at all). Is pre-launch marketing enough? It's a start, but it's not the solution. There is, of course, no single magic trick. There is, though, a situation that must be approached so that MMOs may evolve into the next level.
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The word you're looking for is "being", not "been".
More to the point of the article though, I agree with the idea that less is more in terms of NPC involvement and familiarity. Asheron's Call (way back in the 20th Century) did this to good effect. It too was a game largely about the NPCs, but they were few and far between, so it was hardly noticable.
WoW does this somewhat too, but the few memorable NPCs are backed up with a plethora of "extras" wandering in the background. Rift, by contrast, is rather guilty of a cast of thousands, though it could be argued that the players take more of an active role as heroes.
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Actually, I prefer the model for NPCs in Ultima Online. They were shopkeepers or guards in cities, wandering healers outside of cities, and not much else. You didn't play the game to interact with the NPCs, you played it to interact with other players, which is why once you figured out where reliable player vendors were located, you usually didn't bother with town vendors except for things that couldn't be player crafted, such as spell reagents. There was a back story for Ultima Online, but it was VERY basic. Player groups didn't pay all that much attention to it because they were to busy inventing their own stories.
WoW and other recent games have taught MMO players to be too dependent on ubiquitous NPCs with glowy question marks or other quest icons over their heads, which has killed the real source of imagination to these worlds, the players themselves.
Quests and such have their place I suppose, and if you are a casual gamer with low expectations, they are a harmless way to pass the time, but in games today, the ride-the-quest-rails makes up about 100% of the game content, and it's all so overdone and predictable.
The sand box MMO is a niche market, to be sure, but perhaps game companies could design their games to meet the needs of the sand box player as well. Games already have PvE servers, role playing servers, PvP servers, and so forth. Why not try one server where the free spirits can go, with no quest nonsense and a minimal NPC population that only provides those services that players absolutely cannot provide themselves? If the game is designed properly, they should only be confined to the newbie areas to help new players learn game mechanics. Everywhere else, get out of the players way, and let us make our own stories.
|Jeremy Springfield
I feel like minecraft really missed an opportunity to become a platform which can allow players to make their own games instead of being a game itself. Some additional communication tools would allow the players to become the NPC's in a world they create. Fortunately this leaves the door open for other designers to flesh out that opportunity. Doubly fortunate that Markuss seems to be the kind of person that would actively encourage another designer to walk through that door.
|David Lindsay
This article interests me somewhat, as I've thought over and over about this same thing... technical considerations with having NPCs that evolve with the players.
You suggest the NPC you met earlier on now a magistrate in the city guard or some such. So does this NPC move to a new location -is the original model still standing in the "beginners play pen"? What about the quest you completed for NPC Billy which now makes him sell extra XYZs? Does he or his shop change in any way because of this? And does one NPC pit you against another in a story that is irrevocable and ultimately leads you out one of many story endings for that NPC? This screams of instancing the entire game world per player -in other words a single player experience, anyway.
The reason that doesn't work is that all the instances exist simultaneously. Like in LotRO, the player instantly knows "Player B over here didn't kill Billy in his instance, so I'll get him to buy the XYZs in his instance and then he can give them to me." Reality check? Whatever emersion or story experience you're going for is broken.
The problem with in-depth story and fewer NPCs like you said is not that you have to instance per player. It's that EVERY instance for every player does exist simultaneously. The player just has easier access to some instances, such as those of his friends and guild members. So, all possible endings of every quest or story experience are rather inconsequential in the greater scheme of an MMO.
Of course, that doesn't mean I'm going to stop scheming and dreaming and thinking of ways to make it work, heh heh. :-)


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August 2014In the last issue of Provider Pulse, I told you that one of my first actions as Pinnacol's new CEO would be to search for a new executive leader with specific healthcare and medical operations experience. That search is now complete and I am happy to announce that we have hired Karyn Gonzales as Pinnacol's new vice president of medical operations and healthcare strategy.
Karyn is coming to us from Catholic Health Initiatives where she is currently the national director of clinically integrated networks and has played a key role in the development of population health management and accountable care capabilities across all of CHI's markets. With more than 20 years of healthcare experience, Karyn is the ideal choice to take on this new role. Her knowledge of the healthcare industry will help us ensure the well-being of injured workers and will guarantee that we are on the front end of medical trends that impact workers' compensation. In addition, her experience working with providers and developing population health management capabilities will help ensure that Pinnacol has the expertise needed as we explore this new area of opportunity. Karyn began her duties on July 31.
On behalf of everyone at Pinnacol, thank you for your support. The healthcare industry is undergoing enormous changes – from the Affordable Care Act to the organization and payment of medical services. That is why our partnership with you is so critical as we work together to strategically improve health outcomes for Colorado workers.
Treating Eye Injuries: An Overview
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August 2014-Submitted by Ronald E. Wise, M.D. Eye injuries are common at work. Common sense and the use of protective eyewear can reduce the frequency of such injuries. When an acute eye injury occurs, the injured worker should be evaluated by a medical professional within 24 hours and referred to an ophthalmologist, if necessary.
The eye wall refers to the cornea and the sclera.
A mechanical insult to the eye can result in a:
- Closed globe injury is when there is not a full thickness wound of the eye wall, or an
- Open globe injury when there is a full thickness injury to the eye wall
A closed globe injury can result in an:
- Ocular contusion from blunt trauma to the eye or a
- Lamellar or partial thickness laceration of the eye wall with or without a retained foreign body, such as a corneal foreign body
An open globe injury can result in a:
- Laceration of the eye wall which is a full thickness wound from a sharp object. This might involve a retained intraocular foreign body (IOFB), or a penetrating injury where there is an entry wound only or a perforating injury where there is an entry and an exit wound or a
- Rupture of the eye wall caused by a blunt injury
All open globe injuries must be immediately referred to an ophthalmologist.
At work, the most common injury referred to an ophthalmologist is a retained corneal foreign body. I have personally removed over 1,500 corneal foreign bodies, and we are in the process of retroactively reviewing my data to provide prognostic and management guidelines for this common occupational injury.
My current protocol involves the following:
A full ophthalmic exam, including a slit lamp examination with eyelid eversion, dilated fundoscopy, and slit lamp photograph.
- Consent for foreign body removal to include documentation of potential for loss of vision.
- Removal of all foreign body material under slit lamp.
- Application of antibiotic and patch the eye.
- Antibiotic eye drops to be initiated the following day after patch removal.
- Follow up examination one day post foreign body removal.
In conclusion, occupational healthcare providers should feel comfortable removing corneal foreign bodies. You must remove all the foreign material and warn your patients of the potential for vision loss related to their injury. Refer central corneal foreign bodies to an ophthalmologist.
Ronald E. Wise, M.D.
Assistant Professor Cornea and External Disease, Cataract and Refractive Surgery
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On June 30, 2014, Pinnacol's Clinic Performance Initiative (CPI) reached the end of its seventh data collection period.
This milestone represents a collection period that began Jan. 1, 2014, and concluded June 30, 2014. It also marks the onset of the one-month data compilation period, followed by a 45-day appeals period.
Additional information regarding the CPI appeals period is being sent to participating clinics, via email and U.S. mail, in mid-July. It is important that clinics thoroughly review this material and be prepared to view their CPI scores beginning Aug. 1. Clinics will have 45 days from this date to appeal disputed data and seek adjustment to clinic scores. Pinnacol must be notified of any data concerns no later than 5 p.m. on Sept. 15, 2014.
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The Difficult Ten Percent
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August 2014
-Submitted by Maja Jurisic, MD
Employers rightfully have concerns about the cost of medical care for injured workers. Yet, from my experience over the years, most of the injured workers I see are treated and discharged from care in less than three weeks, and have fewer than four physician visits.
Studies have shown that only 10% of the Workers' Compensation cases account for almost 90% of the cost. Thus, dealing with the difficult ten percent more effectively could really result in substantial cost savings. These difficult ten percent are not the people with the most severe injuries. Rather, this small but significant population consists of people who continue to feel pain after their tissues have healed. In the U.S., 550 million sick days are lost annually due to dysfunctional pain syndromes among the working population.
Changing the usual approach, and using a model of disease management that recognizes psychosocial issues, even during the initial evaluation of injured workers, can greatly improve outcome and satisfaction with care in these cases.
Patients, who have subjective complaints out of proportion to objective findings, are suspected of malingering. However, it is more appropriate to view these persistent complaints as a maladaptive reaction to what has happened to this person, in which the patient uses an injury as a solution to a problem.
All disease and injury are disruptions not only on a physical or cellular level, but also on a personal and social one. The purely biological model of disease that is typically used has not served well.
For many years, low back pain has been treated as a predominantly physical problem caused by the physical demands of the job such as heavy lifting and repetitive bending. Industry has responded by introducing ergonomic improvements and educating employees about proper lifting techniques. Despite this, low back disability has increased at a higher rate than other disabling conditions. This suggests that low back disability is not due solely to the physical factors in the workplace, but is instead a more complex problem that is influenced by job satisfaction, economic factors, psychosocial reasons, and labor management issues.
There is evidence that some people are prewired to develop a dysfunctional way of dealing with injury and pain. When we are born, the connections (synapses) between the neurons in our brain are not fixed. The density of synaptic connections increases during infancy, and reaches its maximum by the age of two. At that point, it is 50% higher than in adults. Between the ages of five and sixteen, synaptic activity declines. The connections that persist are the ones that are activated and stimulated by our experiences.
Individual who have a lot of painful experiences at an early age develop very entrenched pain pathways. Later on in life, they actually feel more pain with a given stimulus than someone who does not have as many entrenched pain pathways. They are not wimps or malingerers. They really do feel pain out of proportion to what those of us who do not have such entrenched pain pathways would feel with the same injury.
How all the players in the Workers' Compensation system treat these patients has a great impact on prognosis. The physician has a major influence on how patients understand their problem. Being aware of that, the physician should intervene when a patient starts to show dysfunctional ways of dealing with an injury. With a change in management strategies, the physician can help the patient move forward instead of heading down the slippery slope to chronic pain.
To do this, the physician has to give up the role of "healer" and become a "rehabilitator." The doctor has to accept the fact that he or she is not going to "fix" the patient. It is that person's way of dealing with pain and not tissue injury that is the problem.
The physician has to focus on function and not on pain. He/she must focus on what and how much the patient is doing and not how much an injury is hurting. It is also important for employers, supervisors, and insurance adjusters not to look on this patient's pain as a moral failing. It only makes the situation worse to compare the injured worker who is not getting better as quickly as anticipated with others who got better faster following a similar injury. It is tremendously helpful for the employer and the treating physician to communicate, and to work together so as to get these workers to a healing plateau as expeditiously as possible.
As frustrating as this difficult 10 percent can be for physicians, employers and insurance carriers, they just happen to be the group where appropriate management strategies can have the greatest impact on decreasing the costs of Workers' Compensation injuries. If we meet the challenge of handling these problematical cases well, it can be a win-win-win situation for everyone.Maja Jurisic, MD, is the Medical Director for National Accounts at Concentra.
Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation for the Injured Worker
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August 2014
-Submitted by Jill Castro, M.D.
Many workers' compensation injuries are treated and resolved in an outpatient setting. However, there are times when more catastrophic work-related injuries occur that require not only hospitalization, but further intensive rehabilitation to progress to the outpatient setting, and then to MMI.
These may include polytrauma such as multiple fractures, amputations, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, or stroke. Once the injured worker is medically stable, there are options for further medical treatment to advance independence. Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) can play an important role in patient's recovery.
There are a few types of post acute rehabilitative services available to address the needs of the injured workers: IRFs, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long term acute care (LTAC) and home health services (HH). SNFs, along with PTs, OTs, and possibly SLPs, provide an inpatient setting for ongoing medical care but at less intensive level of care and at about three to five hours per week. Similarly, HH provides therapy and nursing services, if needed, at the patient's home, but again at a lower intensity without the benefit of the advanced technology used to address balance, strength and gait disturbances. LTACs are designed to treat those with more serious injuries that require further long term care such as those intubated on ventilators.
IRFs offer ongoing medical care with oversight by a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist, 24-hour nursing care by RNs in addition to CNAs, RTs, and physician face-to-face management at a minimum of three days per week. Multi-disciplinary medical management is available and includes consultation by internal medicine, neurology, psychology, infectious disease specialists, and others depending on the needs of the patient. Therapy intensity is a minimum of three hours per day or 15 hours per week. Team conferences measuring function and discharge planning occur weekly.
The benefits of transitioning to an IRF after severe injury compared to an SNF include shorter length of stay, higher rate of discharge to community (81% vs. 46%), lower re-admission rate (9% vs 22%), and no increase in FFS spending by Medicare from 2004-2010 for IRF stays. Further, IRFs have the benefit of admitting patients not only from the acute hospital stay but also from home, if failing after discharge from LTAC, as they improve medically and are able to participate in more therapies. They may also be admitted directly from the treating physician's office or from the emergency department if demonstrating functional deficits but not critical enough to admit to the hospital setting.
Thus, for those complex medical injuries in the workers' compensation setting, inpatient rehabilitation is a great option for advancing medical, physical, and cognitive function in combination with re-integration back to the community.Jill Castro, M.D., Medical Director, HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Denver
Dr. Jill Castro is a board certified physiatrist who serves as the medical director of the new HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Littleton, CO. Dr. Castro is a graduate of Texas A&M University and received her medical degree from the University of Texas. She went on to complete a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency and fellowship at the University of Texas / Baylor College of Medicine. In addition to performing electromyography and nerve conduction studies for diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders, she is a level II certified treatment provider for the Division of Workers' Compensation in Colorado. She has been in practice for over eleven years in the Denver area, and enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and four girls.
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Denver is a new inpatient acute rehabilitation hospital (IRF) that opened May 2013. HealthSouth's freestanding 40 bed hospital offers all private rooms, specialized programs and spacious rehabilitations areas to accommodate state-of the-art treatments and technologies. For more information, please visit www.healthsouthdenver.com or call 303.334.1111.
Unless another source is noted, the data cited in this document are drawn from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's March 2011 Report to Congress, June 2011 Data Book and Dec. 16, 2011 Commissioners Meeting; and SNF Final Rule.
Physician-Dispensed Medications
From Pinnacol's Medical Director
August 2014
The Effect of Physician-Dispensed Medications on Workers' Compensation Claim Outcomes
Physician dispensing of opioids and other prescriptions can have a negative impact on workers' compensation outcomes including higher lost time, higher medical costs and higher indemnity costs.
During my tenure as Pinnacol's Medical Director, I have personally encountered cases of clinical care for injured workers that have been adversely impacted by prolonged dispensing of medications by physicians' offices. The Colorado Division of Workers' Compensation (DOWC) Rules and Regulations specifically state that long-term pain medication shall be provided through a pharmacy. In addition, a pharmacy management program has built-in safety guards that identify multiple prescribers, multiple pharmacy vendors and, in the case of narcotic prescriptions, reporting of medication usage to the Colorado Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). Pinnacol also encourages pharmacy dispensing, and the Pinnacol Provider Agreement states that physician office-dispensed medications be limited to a fourteen day supply. There is outcome data that supports limitation of physician office-dispensed medications.
The lead article in the May issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine provides an insightful discussion regarding this topic. Even though it is recognized that there could be confounding variables when attempting an outcomes comparison between workers receiving physician-dispensed versus pharmacy-dispensed medications, the authors used regression analysis to achieve a 95 percent confidence interval. They accounted for sex, age at accident, medical complexity and attorney involvement in their outcome comparison between workers who received physician dispensed versus pharmacy dispensed medication. The authors further compared outcomes between injured workers who received physician office-dispensed opioid prescriptions versus pharmacy-dispensed opioid prescriptions.
The authors, Jeffrey A. White, MS, et.al, begin by noting that every state in which physician dispensing is permitted has reported a rapid increase in quantity and cost of prescriptions. In fact, in five large states, physician-dispensed medications accounted for approximately half of medication expenditures. The authors note that a 2013 California Workers' Compensation Institute study demonstrated a 16.4 percent higher medical cost and a 6.9 percent higher indemnity cost when claims involved physician-dispensed medications. For the study group that forms the basis of their article, the authors studied outcomes of 6,842 workers' compensation claims in Illinois that opened and closed between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2012. In Illinois, the percentage of prescriptions dispensed by physicians had increased 26 percent from 2007 to 2008, and 43 percent from 2010 to 2011.
After statistically adjusting the comparison groups so that a 95 percent confidence level was obtained, there were significant differences between the two groups.
- The average amount of lost time based on all prescribed medications was 64 days for pharmacy-dispensed versus 85 days for physician-dispensed.
- The average amount of lost time based on opioid prescriptions was 66 days for pharmacy-dispensed versus 122 days for physician-dispensed.
- The number of prescriptions dispensed was 2.99 times greater for all medications and 3.2 times greater for opioid medications when they were physician dispensed.
- A similar greater medical and indemnity cost was present; physician- dispensed all medication types had 39 percent higher medical costs and physician-dispensed opioid medications resulted in 78 percent higher medical costs.
- Physician-dispensed all type medications had 27 percent higher indemnity costs and physician-dispensed opioid medication claims had a 57 percent higher indemnity cost when compared to the pharmacy-dispensed medications group.
In further analysis of the data, the authors noted the particular adverse outcome associated with physician-dispensed opioid medication where there was an 85 percent higher frequency of lost-time days when compared to the pharmacy dispensed group. In their conclusion, they state that the worse outcomes associated with physician dispensing was not due to injury complexity, sex, age or attorney involvement, but rather an attribute of physician practices that dispense medications. I want to thank those SelectNet providers who work with great professional skill to care for injured workers and manage their pain medication requirements according to the best medical practices.Ed Leary, M.D.
A Strong Partnership
President's Message
March 2014Although I've only been Pinnacol Assurance's new president and CEO for a few months, I'm already certain of two things: Pinnacol has a long history as Colorado's leading provider of workers' compensation insurance, and I am humbled and proud to be leading a company that is doing so much for Colorado employers and their employees. I'm also pleased to know that we have such a strong network of medical providers who help ensure that the nearly 40,000 injured workers Pinnacol serves annually receive compassionate care for their workplace injuries.
As you know, the world is changing at lightning speed, and all of us must anticipate and adapt to changes as they come. One of my most important roles as CEO is to identify where Pinnacol needs to be in the future so we can continue to grow and thrive as a company. One area I have identified is to create a new position - vice president of medical operations and healthcare strategy.
Nearly 46 percent of the cost of each claim – about $180 million last year - is spent on injured worker medical care. Hiring a new executive leader with specific strategic and medical operations experience will help strengthen our partnership with you – our valued medical provider partners. It will also help ensure the well-being of injured workers and provide us a competitive advantage as well as the opportunity to be on the front end of trends that are affecting our industry. We will do a national search for this position and I will keep you apprised of its progress.
On behalf of everyone at Pinnacol, I want to thank you for your continuing support. I'm looking forward to finding new ways to make our partnership even stronger and I hope that you will share your thoughts and ideas with me in the days and months ahead so we can all work together to make Colorado the best place to live, work and grow a business.
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Clinics Achieve Summit Elite Designation
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March 2014
Two Thirds of the 5-Star Rated Clinics Achieve Summit Elite DesignationAt the conclusion of the fifth Clinic Performance Initiative (CPI) appeals period, updated star ratings were posted in the SelectNet directory, viewable by external customers. Pinnacol's medical operations team is pleased to announce the primary care physicians (PCP) clinics awarded the highest performance rating available — five stars — in CPI.
Results obtained from the data set published on December 3, 2013 show that 10 of the 15 PCP clinics that achieved the five-star rating qualified for the Summit Elite Designation.
The Summit Elite Designation recognizes those clinics that maintain a five-star rating for two consecutive rating periods. The Summit Elite are:
Aviation & Occupational Medicine, Denver
CCOM Canon City, Canon City
Colorado Occupational Medicine, Denver
Exempla Green Mountain, Lakewood
Exempla Northwest, Westminster
High Country Healthcare, Silverthorne
OnSite Injury Care Inc., Colorado Springs
PVMG Occ Health, Fort Collins
Union Medical PC, Lakewood
Workwell Occupational Medicine, Fort Collins
In addition to the Summit Elite members, the following clinics reached a five-star rating for the metric period ending June 30, 2013:
CCOM North Denver, Westminster
CCOM South Denver, Littleton
Colorado Mountain Medical, Edwards
Colorado Mountain Medical, Vail
Integrity Urgent Care PC, Colorado Springs
We congratulate each of these outstanding clinics, and we thank you for your hard work and commitment to provide excellent care and service to our mutual customers.
CPI achievements allow injured workers to experience an improved service environment, policyholders to make informed designated medical provider selections, and high-performing medical clinics to take advantage of performance rewards and marketing opportunities. For a complete list of PCP clinic ratings and performance information, visit the online SelectNet provider directory.
If you have any questions regarding the CPI program, please contact Pinnacol's medical operations team at 303.361.4945, and speak to the provider relations specialist assigned to your geographic region of Colorado.
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Save the Date for the 2014 SelectNet Conference
Corporate News
March 2014
2014 SelectNet Conference: Managing Workplace InjuriesPinnacol Assurance is offering two medical conferences in 2014 – in Denver on Friday, June 27, and in Grand Junction on Wednesday July 23.
These conferences are free to invited SelectNet providers, and participants will receive continuing medical education (CME) credits.
Online registration opens on May 5. Watch your email for details. Registration is first come, first served, as space is limited for both locations.
Please contact your provider relations specialist with any questions.
We look forward to seeing you at one of the conferences!
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I have to be cheeky to say this that when my colleagues look at my laptop screen, quite often they will surprise and captivated. Then such question will be ask, "what's OS is this?" "How you do it?"
Let me share my screen below:
It's just a normal windows 7!
First you download some amazing windows theme from the Microsoft sites. Then you right click your wallpaper, choose "Personalize" and select your favorite windows theme.
Right click again, and select "View" - "Show Desktop Icon" and remove all the ugly shortcuts from the wallpapers. For new era IT user, you really don't need those shortcuts. And for someone with some aesthetic taste like me, i really think it worth the sacrifices. Just brush up some IT skills, you will find the icons are redundant.
Spend some time download a software called "Rainmeter", do a little bit customization, that's where you get it done! You can find the software here Rainmeter, desktop customization tool
The desktop is live, because your clock is clicking, your CPU and memory chart is pulsing, you can type command, goggle search, and even type a URL directly from the screen. You can put reminder too.
When i see the Windows 8 metro, i really still feel prefer my current setup... I'm not sure if i can do keep my favorite. Please let me know if you have better idea.
Again, i think preference for beauty is very subjective, i just provide one additional option here. I really hate the world to be monolithic. That may explain the early days i'm so resistant to iPhone, when Samsung phone was still a much smaller challenger. And with the popularity Samsung going, i feel proud but yet also also feel my little secret pleasure is dwindling
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Ishida Akira (Nagisa Kaworu)
Really, the sense of discomfort heading into "Q" was already put into place by 1.0 and 2.0. The whole, 'It looks the same, right? But it's not,' thing.
––Both Kaworu and the first two installments serve to indicate that 'this isn't the same old Eva.' Mr. Ishida, what's your interpretation and how did it influence your performance?
Actually, while 1.0 was being recorded, the director, Mr. Anno, gave me a lecture about who Kaworu and Shinji are in Rebuild. So, I based my performance [in 1.0 and 2.0] on my own understanding of the information I was given and the situation and lines in 1.0 and 2.0. And the same goes for my performance in Q. That said, I didn't really have many scenes in 1.0 and 2.0. So, in Q it finally hit me, 'So this is what it was all about…' That sort of thing.
––I think everyone's most interested in the 'mystery' at the core of that.
If you'll allow me to take a more circumspect approach, I think the background information Mr. Anno gave me in the beginning is something better left unspoken. Back during 1.0 and 2.0, people around me kept asking, 'Is that another rehash of the TV series in movie form?' and the like, and I couldn't say anything but, 'Please see for yourself.' I don't think anyone will think it's a 'rehash' after seeing Q…
––It's kind of funny that Kaworu seems to be acting on some information only he knows and the same situation seems to be replicated among the cast. I'm sure many people will be shocked by the content of Q.
The thing the rest of the cast was surprised about this time were the things that the director had revealed to me alone in the beginning, and how my role and what I knew sort of lined up neatly. On the other hand, I kept having, 'Ooh! You guys didn't know that?' moments. I had to be evasive with anyone looking for explanations up until now, and I guess I kind of miss the feeling of, 'oh too bad, they think it's a rehash,' and 'heh, they totally fell for it' since that was kind of fun.
––With all those complicated feelings about it, you must have really been looking forward to [getting it over with], Mr. Ishida.
It's less a 'looking forward' to it kind of thing and more a 'man, that was hard!'* As I'm sure you all know, I didn't really appear much in 1.0, but after recording, Mr. Anno came up to me and told me, 'We've got a lot to talk about what comes next now.' Though, I guess if we're gonna open that can of worms, I didn't appear much in 2.0 either, did I? (lol) So when I went in to record for Q, I was all tense, it finally felt like the 'real thing.' To no one's surprise, started speaking more and talked about things no one would have expected up until now. Of course, I'd expected it to go off the established "Eva" course. Even if they talk about different things, the feelings Kaworu has for Ikari Shinji… they won't change. I knew the world was different this time, but, on top of that, I was worried about how to best approach Ikari Shinji this time so that everyone would understand that. That was a high hurdle. I was thinking about how to handle it from the very beginning. How should Nagisa Kaworu be after he's accumulated several different cycles in his past? And Eva itself has a very precise strike-zone, to get it just like it should be. I couldn't lose sight of that.
*- he's punning 待望 (taibou/long-awaited) and 大変 (taihen/hard)
Multiple takes during recording to polish the finished product
––What was recording like?
Well, it's been 10-something years of real-time for this Ishida Akira and it's been a while since I voiced the original series and the spin-off games, I've slowly digested the role [over the years], I guess you could say [the role] has ripened [inside me]. But, I can't let that change [him] from the original image. It's been really difficult to live up to the various demands of the staff putting this Eva together.
––What kind of exchange did you have with Director Anno?
We had to do quite a few takes to fully realize the scenes and get Nagisa Kaworu, as a character, just right and solidify his image. Some takes took a whole day to get just right. So, it's turned into a very carefully acted piece. The image of Nagisa Kaworu inside Ishida Akira and the image of him when the audience saw him for the first time on TV are now one and the same again… That's kind of how recording went. Well, that would just make it episode 24 of the TV series, but I endeavored not to [merely] reproduce the performance. When you look at the TV series again, everyone was doing their best back then, but I didn't want to just amend and copy that. Honestly, once recording for Q was over, I came to the conclusion that [the end result] was neither just the 'Nagisa Kaworu' of the past or the 'Nagisa Kaworu' I know, now, in 2012. Everyone's impressions of a character are always changing and expanding, and they each have their own hopes and desires for characters, so I think we were sort of realigning those hopes and desires with this.
––I see. And this is the first time in Rebuild that we've seen [Kaworu] interacting with Shinji.
The first conversation with Shinji was really massive to me. Up until now, [Kaworu] has just been one-sidedly expressing his feelings, bit by bit, about Rebuild's seize-the-moment Ikari Shinji. And finally, he gets to talk to him in person… I'm sure Kaworu was anxiously awaiting that moment… Yeah… I guess that's what a face-to-face meeting is all about after all. [It's more important to him to] spend time talking to him in the flesh than it is to support him, secretly from the shadows. It reminded me how central of a theme communication like that is in Evangelion. When you look at it like that, once Shinji's been estranged from everyone and has no one to lean on, that's when he meets Kaworu. The fact that they manage to have a conversation at that point is incredibly significant. I feel like first two movies were the perfect set up for that situation.
––That said, Kaworu is a bit of a tragic figure, isn't he?
The first two films in Rebuild were used to vividly remind the audience of specific scenes and nuances of the original TV series. No matter how many times it happens, it always ends the same way. It should have been different from the previous cycle, but the same mistakes are repeated once again. He has an unfortunate destiny. But, it's like he switched tracks at a different point this time. {train track/destiny metaphor, suddenly I'm reminded of Penguindrum…} It's like he struggles against the flow [of his fate] and sacrifices himself so that Shinji can survive [because Shinji has to survive].
––Seeing the always aloof Kaworu acting more agitated was quite refreshing.
Nagisa Kaworu understands most things, he knows everything and has absolute freedom of action. He seems rather capricious, don't you think? He acts on the knowledge of the purpose of his existence, but it's not like he can control everything. He clashes with Gendou and Seele and co. who are acting on their own understanding of the world, Kaworu has a sort of bird's-eye-view of it all, but even in that role, he's not in a position of control. {way to not really answer the question, Ishida}
––I get the impression from our talk that you really put your all into playing Kaworu.
All of the staff, not just Director Anno, are very personally invested in the current series under the Eva title, so I'm putting up my best effort. Even in recording, we were trying to get everything down very precisely. So everyone was always going, 'not this or that really,' and so on. When I was standing in front of the microphone, it was just me and Ms. Ogata alone in the booth together, we spent much more time interpreting scenes and lines than would possible on other projects. There was this atmosphere of, 'let's do it right after we understand it' so the work itself was actually really hard, but, no one ever started shouting, 'hurry up and do it!' there was a real feeling of everyone working together on it. It wasn't just simple pressure, but there was this [strange] sense of security in the knowledge that we were all working together to create the end product. I was really happy to be able to perform in the same scenes with Ms. Ogata this time around. Up until now [on Rebuild], I'd been recording all alone.
––Piloting an Eva in tandem with Shinji is a first for Kaworu, isn't it? I think you could interpret it as a sort of 'love scene' in a sense.
I don't know if I can make that interpretation (lol). I think you should wait to hear from the director or leave it to the really involved fans. But, at the very least, them getting in the same unit is different, as they both pursue the same goal together. It seems [representative] of the depth of their connection.
––Any other impressions?
I think the biggest shock, visually, was how the moon ended up looking. From the very beginning, the world of Q is depicted beautifully, so it was quite a shock. Even though you could see everyone living their lives in the intricately crafted environment, what Shinji wants to see stands out, like a 'bam!' appearing from a thick haze. It's like, you thought you knew everything about the world, and then it just slaps you in the face with, 'this is the reality you wanted to see,' it was quite impactful. {haven't seen the movie so I don't really know what he's talking about}
––Alright then, how about a final message for the fans?
- I'm sure those of you who have thoroughly read into the stories of 1.0 and 2.0 of Rebuild so far will think Q was a rather 'fast development.' But, 1.0 and 2.0 already developed the sense of malaise leading into Q. It's like, 'It looks the same right? But it's not.' To those of you who saw Q, please go back to the theater a few times to figure out, 'just what is the meaning of this?' But, if you were to ask 'how to prepare for it?' I'd ask that you return to 1.0 and 2.0 and watch them again, right? If you watch very carefully, you'll see, 'oh, this is where that's from' 'and here too' for sure. I think, if you watch it over from the beginning again, you'll see how Q fits into the story for sure, and I know you'll be even more interested in 'where does it go from here?' after Q's rapid development. Since, at this point, we've just jumped past the established cannon with a 'bam!' there's no way it'll end like the TV series or previous movie {EoE} now. At least, that's what I believe. If you look at it like that, I'm sure you'll all be really exited to know 'but what happens now?' and 'then what?' for the next one. Please look forward to the conclusion.
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