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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 35 month(s) ago
Midfielder Pham Thanh Luong of Hanoi ACB and goalkeeper Dang Thi Kieu Trinh of Ho Chi Minh City were yesterday announced winners of the 2011 Vietnamese Golden Ball award for men's and women's football, respectively.
Keywords: Golden BallTrinhimageThe SilverPhoto Tuoi TreforwardNguyen Trong Hoang
Báo QĐND English 35 month(s) ago 2 related news
Thanh Luong
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VOV News English 35 month(s) ago
(VOV) - National team midfielder Pham Thanh Luong and goalkeeper Dang Thi Kieu Trinh won Golden Ball awards for outstanding contributions to national men's and women's football teams in 2011.
Keywords: Golden BallNguyen Trong HoangHuynh KesleyAwardsPham Thanh LuongGaston MerloSilver Ball
SaiGon GP English 35 month(s) ago 2 related news
Midfielder Pham Thanh Luong won the 'Golden Ball Award 2011' at a ceremony hosted by Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday night.
Keywords: Golden Ball AwardLuongawardNguyen Trong HoangHuynh Kesley AlvesKim HongAwards
VietnamNet English 35 month(s) ago 2 related news
VietNamNet Bridge – Midfielder Pham Thanh Luong and goalkeeper Kieu Trinh have won the Vietnam Golden Ball 2011, outdistancing the second candidates.
Keywords: Golden Ball AwardHuynh KesleyawardThanh LuongNguyen Van QuyetVinacominThuong
VietNam News English 35 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news
The final shortlist of candidates for the most prestigious football prizes in Viet Nam includes one naturalised player, it was announced yesterday in HCM City.
Keywords: MidfielderGolden Ball AwardshortlistawardV LeagueBinh DuongThe First Division
VietnamNet English 36 month(s) ago
VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time in its 16-year history, the Golden Ball Award may be presented to a foreign-origin player – Brazilian-Vietnamese striker Huynh Kesley.
Keywords: Huynh KesleyGolden Ball AwardBinh DuongNguyen Van QuyetBest ScorerVinacominV League
Báo QĐND English 40 month(s) ago 1 related news
Former Italian defender Fabio Cannavaro is expected to arrive in Ho Chi Minh City later this weekend at the invitation of Eximbank.
Keywords: Al AhliInter MilancareerReal MadridParmaOf EximbankGolden Ball Award
VietnamPlus English 40 month(s) ago 1 related news
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VietnamNet English 40 month(s) ago
Barcelona smashed Santos 4-0 in the Club World Cup final on Sunday in Yokohoma, wining the tournament for the second time, first in 2009, with Messi striking twice and winning the Golden Ball Award.
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VietnamNet English 43 month(s) ago
VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman Nguyen Duc Kien of Hoa Phat Hanoi and Hanoi ACB football clubs have decided to establish the Hanoi and Hanoi Young Football clubs.
Keywords: Nguyen Thanh VinhHanoi AcbClubscontributeteamMinh DucThanh Luong
VietNam News English 46 month(s) ago
Coach Falko Goetz has announced five new names to be included in the Vietnamese football squad in preparation for its second World Cup qualifying match to be played later this month.
Keywords: teamcoachNguyen Trong HoangNguyen The AnhNguyen Vu PhongMidfieldersGolden Ball Award
Báo ĐCS English 48 month(s) ago
Saigon Giai Phong Newspaper, which sponsored the annual vote for the Vietnamese Golden Ball Awards, has made public the titles for best male and female players of the Vietnamese football.
Keywords: Golden BallbestThe SilverAwardsPham Thanh LuongNguyen Vu PhongNguyen Van Quyet
VietnamNet English 48 month(s) ago
VietNamNet Bridge – Half-back Minh Phuong was the winner in the selection of the best football player in Vietnam in 2010, as expected by experts. This is the first time Minh Phuong receiving the award.
Keywords: Minh PhuongGolden Ball AwardKim HongawardNgoc AnhHcm City FcNgan Khanh
VietNam News English 48 month(s) ago 1 related news
Midfielder and captain Nguyen Minh Phuong was presented with the prestigious Golden Ball award to rounds of applause at the presentation ceremony of the Golden Ball Awards 2010, which took place yesterday at Ben Thanh Theatre in HCM City.
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BP's record shows Northwest waters need greater protection
It became official about 100 days after the sinking of the Horizon drilling rig: BP, the oil company that proclaimed itself to be "beyond petroleum," is responsible for the world's largest oil spill. On top of the 210 million gallon spill, BP added another 2 million gallons of toxic dispersants to the water column and an untold volume of drilling muds that have leaked out.
What might the oil company's record-setting ways mean for Washington state, where BP has large interests? The oil giant's record in the Gulf of Mexico, its eagerness to move past questions about its record there, and its own record in the Northwest suggest unsettling potential for problems here.
No sooner was the gusher temporarily capped then BP's new U.S. CEO called for the cleanup to "scale back," according to The Seattle Times, and our federal agencies have already concluded that most of the oil is gone. While relieved the well has been capped, there's little comfort in knowing that even under these optimistic projections at least five Exxon Valdez's worth of oil have yet to be accounted for. This unprecedented catastrophe has put the ecological and economic viability of the Gulf of Mexico on the line. BP's failure to contain the spill and unprecedented application of dispersants, creating subsurface toxic plumes of unknown dimensions, leaves much uncertainty as to when the Gulf will, to paraphrase former BP's head, get its life back.
And BP's history of only fixing things once they break — failing to stockpile adequate response equipment nearby the nation's "oil patch" — has put all U.S. waters, including those in the Pacific Northwest, at risk as booms, skimmers, and dispersants have been diverted to the Gulf. Before the press and public forget BP's slow, inadequate, and misleading response in the Gulf, there is a need for more local attention to BP's operations in Washington.
Despite comprehensive coverage of the Gulf spill, The Seattle Times ran only a small AP story in May reviewing 13 serious safety violations found last November by the state Department of Labor and Industries during an inspection of BP's Cherry Point Refinery near Bellingham. Cherry Point is the only non-union refinery BP runs nationally as revealed in the review of their operations following a fatal explosion in Texas and a spill on the North Slope.
It was encouraging to finally see a local story in the Stranger looking into BP's funding of Tim Eyman's latest anti-tax initiative (I-1053) along with the three other major refineries in the state, who also opposed last year's legislative efforts to fund storm water solutions. Unfortunately, the reporter apparently did not even realize BP has a refinery in Washington, much less the largest by 9.5 million gallons per day.
Most people probably don't realize BP is also the majority interest in the Olympic Pipeline, which carries gasoline between Washington and Oregon (a state with no refineries) and a tank farm on Seattle's Harbor Island. BP is also the largest oil interest in the Gulf and the Alaskan North Slope, as well as a growing presence in the Canadian tar sands. The exploitation of the particularly polluting Alberta oil fields, which are connected by pipeline to refineries in Vancouver and Cherry Point, has resulted in an increase from 34 to 107 tankers going through the San Juan Islands from BP's Westridge facility in British Columbia over the last three years.
While it may appear more intriguing to report on BP's origins as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company or their role in the release of the Lockerbie bomber, their unappreciated local presence in Washington underscores the need for in-depth review of our local exposure to their operations and corporate culture, such as:
- A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision in 2000 permitted BP to build a new tanker dock at their Cherry Point refinery adjacent to the state's once largest and genetically unique herring spawning beds without conducting an environmental impact statement (EIS) or considering the implications of the late Sen. Warren Magnuson's 1977 restrictions on refinery dock expansions. Encircling all tankers with oil spill boom prior to oil transfers was cited as a primary reason an EIS was not needed for the project without consideration of the additional dock's facilitation of increased tanker traffic.
- BP removed the mooring system needed to place oil-spill booms around their tankers shortly after constructing the dock. Tragically, a diver was killed during the mooring system's reinstallation, required under a lawsuit filed by Ocean Advocates, ReSources, North Cascades Audubon, and Bellingham commercial fisherman Dan Crawford calling for an EIS on the new dock. Consistent with BP's history and lobbying efforts, the state Department of Ecology found in 2009 BP sought exemptions from a prebooming requirement more than all but one other facility in Washington.
- Since losing the lawsuit over the dock, BP has lobbied Congress to introduce bills in the House and Senate attempting to strip Magnuson's oil-spill protections from the law. The late Sen. Ted Stevens used this issue to try to retaliate against Senator Maria Cantwell's opposition to opening the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling.
- As a result of the dock expansion lawsuit, BP spent over $1 million contracting Dr. Jack Harrald of George Washington University to conduct a state of the art vessel traffic risk assessment for Puget Sound. It evaluated the oil spill risks of increased tanker traffic that required modeling all the vessel traffic bound to Washington and British Columbia. Despite the value of this study completed in July 2008 to address risk-reduction efforts, the Corps has yet to release it because BP has been unhappy with its conclusions.
- BP provided the only public testimony to successfully pressure NOAA into taking a position against a petition to list the genetically unique Cherry Point herring under the Endangered Species Act.
- Until recently, BP has championed efforts to prevent the state Department of Natural Resources from completing the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve management plan. Despite the fact the reserve was created over 10 years ago, DNR just released the draft plan this past month.
- BP's environmental policy representative at the Cherry Point refinery serves on the Whatcom County Marine Resource Committee (MRC) and the NW Straits Commission which oversees all the MRCs. Coincidentally or not, the Whatcom MRC has chosen not to take a position on DNR's management plan for the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve despite what would seem to be the reserve's obvious relevance to the committee.
- BP got to serve as the only fuel-industry representative on the 26-person advisory board created by legislation this year to revise our state's energy strategy.
Despite the national outrage over the response in the Gulf, the oil industry's ongoing influence prevented Congress from passing oil spill or energy legislation prior to the August recess. One thing is for certain: Whatever level of new offshore oil and gas development proceeds nationally, there will be oil spills, as recent events in Michigan and China attest.
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The combined Archaeology and Anthropology BA develops an understanding of the relationship between archaeology and anthropology as subjects offering a uniquely broad perspective on human experience, past and present. It draws upon an unparalleled range of expertise in the analysis of social change, human evolution and material culture.
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- UCL has the largest and most diverse archaeology department and the leading broad-based anthropology department in the UK, located next to each other in the heart of London.
- The opportunity to participate in staff lead research projects in many parts of the world, together with other field projects, thanks to UCL's fieldwork grants.
The degree is structured around a combination of core and optional courses. The core courses ensure that you will maintain a balanced training in archaeology and anthropology throughout the programme, while the options allow you to develop specialist skills in a particular region or area of analysis.
In the first year you will receive a solid grounding in the methods and theories of social and biological anthropology, material culture studies, and archaeology.
The second and third years provide a more advanced understanding of archaeology and anthropology and allow you to develop your own specialised interests through your optional course choices.
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Sun Solaris in.rarpd multiple buffer overflows and format strings could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code
solaris-inrarpd-code-execution (9150) | High Risk |
The in.rarpd daemon in Sun Solaris is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows and format string conditions, caused by improper validation of user-supplied data that is passed to syslog. These vulnerabilities could allow a local or remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
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- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue May 21 2002 - 21:06:43 CDT: [DER Adv #7] - Multiple Vulnerabilities in solaris in.rarpd.
- Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory CSSA-2002-SCO.29: UnixWare 7.1.1 Open UNIX 8.0.0 : in.rarpd format string vulnerability in error() and syserr().
- BID-4791: Multiple Vendor In.Rarpd Multiple Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2002-0884: Multiple format string vulnerabilities in in.rarpd (ARP server) on Solaris, Caldera UnixWare and Open UNIX, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings that are not properly handled in the functions (1) syserr and (2) error.
- CVE-2002-0885: Multiple buffer overflows in in.rarpd (ARP server) on Solaris, and possibly other operating systems including Caldera UnixWare and Open UNIX, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, possibly via the functions (1) syserr and (2) error.
- OSVDB ID: 8707: Multiple Vendor in.rarpd Format String Arbitrary Code Execution
- OSVDB ID: 8708: Multiple Vendor in.rarpd Buffer Overflow Arbitrary Code Execution
Platforms Affected:
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 8
May 22, 2002
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Category Archives: Accreditation
Critical Opportunities: Making the Case for Laws that Improve Public Health
A highlight of last week's Public Health Systems Research Interest Group meeting, which followed the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, was a "Critical Opportunities" reception during which several presenters pitched their ideas for a law that could be used to improve or solve critical public health issues. The presenters were timed, given only five minutes to share the background of the issue to be addressed, their idea for the law, evidence that it could work and the feasibility of implementing the change. Attendees were encouraged to vote on their favorite to see which Critical Opportunity ranked highest--see below for the results!
This was the second such event since this year's debut of Critical Opportunities for Public Health Law, an initiative of the Public Health Law Research Program (PHLR), a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program at Temple University. The goal is to make the case for laws that can improve current critical public health needs by:
- Identifying important ways to use law to improve the public's health
- Enhancing public and professional recognition of law as a vital force for better public health
- Guiding public health law research
NewPublicHealth caught up with two of the invited presenters, who also accrued the most votes on their topics--Tamar Klaiman, assistant professor at the Jefferson School of Population Health in Philadelphia, and Georgia Heise, DrPh, director of the Three Rivers District Health Department in Kentucky, and recently elected vice president of the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
NewPublicHealth: What did you both present on?
Tamar Klaiman: The policy that I addressed is about requiring physicians to offer new parents TDAP (pertussis) vaccines because infants who are [less than] six months of age are at the highest risk of mortality from pertussis, and so parents can protect their children by being vaccinated. Around 80 percent of pertussis cases in infants, when they can track where the pertussis came from, come from parents. The policy that I talked about is having providers offer pertussis vaccine to new parents prior to leaving the hospital or birth center with the newborn.
NPH: Why would that be valuable?
Tamar Klaiman: Newborns are not fully protected against pertussis until after their 6-month booster so vaccinating parents offers the best protection. So it's a very low risk, high reward policy.
NPH: Are there states that are already implementing this law?
Tamar Klaiman: None as far as I know.
NPH: Georgia, what's your critical opportunity?
Georgia Heise: I talked about voluntary public health department accreditation for local health departments. Accreditation encompasses a myriad of standards that cover the mission of public health and what health departments should be doing. This would standardize public health across the nation and force into place a lot of preventive measures and assessments and best practices that the health department would be doing things that would actually make a difference in population health.
NPH: Why is this a critical opportunity?
Georgia Heise: I think that across the United States we operate on a medical model, which means we don't really put enough funding into anything that would teach people how to be healthy or keep them healthy. We put a lot of money into taking care of somebody once they're sick or dying. We need to push in the opposite direction and focus on keeping people healthy, and these accreditation standards are a framework for health departments to start that. There's now an opportunity for health departments to become accredited at the national level. It's in place and ready to go, however, not all the health departments have opted in yet.
Results of the Critical Opportunities Vote at AcademyHealth
About 100 people texted their votes for the presentations at the Interest Group meeting. The results were as follows:
- Requiring physicans to vaccinate parents of newborns against pertussis (whooping cough) to better protect young babies: 50 percent of votes
- A law requiring that states health departments be accredited and that funding be provided to go through the accreditation process: 24 percent of votes
- Establishing comprehensive laws to deal with designer drugs such as synthetic marijuana that would be broad enough to encompass new drugs as they are introduced: 18 percent of votes
- Creating standards for public health department contracts with private entities: 9 percent of votes
>>Watch YouTube videos of Critical Opportunities presentations at the Public Health Law Research Program meeting earlier this year.
APHA Midyear Meeting 2012: Assuring Quality When Asked to "Do More with Nothing"
Public has heard the mantra of "do more with less" so often it's become somewhat cliché. This year, in some circumstances, said Laura Gerald, MD, MPH, State Health Officer of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, public health has been "challenged to do more with nothing." But as Charlotte, N.C., welcomed the American Public Health Association (APHA) Midyear Meeting into town this week, June 26 through 28, public health officials from across the country came together to share strategies on not just getting by but ensuring even better quality in public health, to help create healthier communities and a healthier nation.
It is no mistake that North Carolina was chosen as the destination for the meeting. Frances Phillips, RN, MHA, Deputy Secretary for Public Health for the state of Maryland, thanked the host state: "North Carolina—we have watched you, we have emulated you. You have really been the state to beat." (APHA's Georges Benjamin also noted the organization's solidarity with North Carolina counties that did not support the state's recent gay marriage ban, as "public health is fundamentally about human rights.") Among other accomplishments, North Carolina was the first state to mandate accreditation at a local level. Other innovations have included:
- Creation of the NC Center for Public Health Quality through a public-private partnership between the North Carolina Foundation and the and the North Carolina Division of Public Health. The Center collaborates with state and local public health agencies to provide training in quality improvement (QI) methods and tools, and leads QI efforts for local public health and sister agencies. This, said Gerald, "provides a good infrastructure for continuous improvement."
- Development of QI 101 training, an interactive learning program designed to help health departments improve the quality of their programs and services. After going through the training, one division increased immunization rates by 21 percent among children age 2 and younger, and reduced clinic wait times by 40 percent, from a starting point of 2.5 hours down to 1.5 hours, resulting in a savings of $200/visit in indirect costs.
- Implementation of a statewide tobacco ban—"no small feat in a state that's a proud producer of tobacco," said Gerald.
Gerald said tobacco efforts have been the prime focus of budget constraints, and a push to deliver quality efforts with little to no funding. Last year, the division had $18 million for tobacco prevention and cessation programs. This year, said Gerald, those funds are just about gone–they've been cut to $2.7 million to invest in tobacco cessation alone, with nothing allocated for tobacco prevention.
Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN, executive director of the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), said about the current economic constraints, "Many have chosen this opportunity to see a light at the end of this tunnel and see it's not an oncoming train."
"We need to work smarter, and restructure, reform and clean up closet. We can use QI and a performance management model to take a look at how we're working and how to survive and thrive in this crisis."
Paul Kuehnert, recently named Public Health Team director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former executive director for Health for Kane County, Ill., told the story of one county's efforts to use the downturn as a catalyst for rethinking public health delivery for better quality and results.
"The problem we were facing is the problem everyone's been facing," said Kuehnert. "We had lost $1 million in revenue, a little more than 10 percent of our budget, over a couple of years. We were in violation of county policy that requires at least 3 months of income in cash reserves, and knowing we had to deal with things like TB outbreaks, having such low cash reserves was very concerning."
"We're being nibbled to death by ducks," Kuehnert said. "Are we going to let that go on or take a different approach?"
They decided to take a different approach. The county transferred direct client services (and funds) to three federally-qualified health centers, reduced their workforce by 50 percent and completely reorganized the department using PHAB accreditation standards as framework.
"We rewrote each and every job description, and created a totally new set of positions that were population-focused," said Kuehnert. Positions were given a renewed focus on essential services, emergency preparedness and quality improvement.
Results so far:
- The department turned around its financial stability, adding $1 million net dollars to its budget, and in 2012 was able to add back two additional staff positions
- The new structure allowed for a new community assessment planning process, including partnership with hospitals that serve the county, local United Ways and mental health boards, to jointly fund a comprehensive community assessment. A priority for all partners will be promoting healthy towns, cities and neighborhoods, and promoting social, economic and educational environments that support health, which will mean working across sectors.
- Staff reported a shift in their interest in QI, as it has become a part of all job descriptions.
- Vaccine accountability increased from 92 percent to 100 percent.
- Kane County's application for national public health accreditation was accepted in May 2012.
"Public health has to be at the table as we debate and solve this problem of the great reset," said Gene Matthews, JD, senior fellow at the North Carolina Institute for Public Health. "We need to do it better."
>>Get more updates from the meeting on APHA's Midyear Meeting Blog.
>>Follow our continued coverage of the APHA Midyear Meeting.
Patrick Libbey Q&A: Sharing Across Public Health Department Jurisdictions
Across the nation, health departments are exploring ways to share services, resources and functions across multiple public health agencies and jurisdictions. Often motivated by the need to do more with fewer resources, many health departments and elected officials are approaching cross-jurisdictional sharing as a way to improve efficiency as well as strategy to improve the quality of the services provided and, hopefully, the health of the affected communities and residents.
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kansas Health Institute (KHI) has been selected to form the Center for Sharing Public Health Services to assist public health agencies across the country that are considering or implementing cross-jurisdictional sharing. The team will include a national learning community of up to 18 competitively selected and funded sites. The Foundation has issued a call for proposals from health departments considering or working on shared relationships to join the new project. The members of the new learning community will help identify successful, innovative regional and shared approaches to help improve the quality, efficiency and impact of public health services.
Patrick Libbey, former executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials and a national expert on the issue of cross-jurisdictional sharing, will serve with Gianfranco Pezzino, MD, MPH, KHI senior fellow, as co-director of the project. Libbey also co-authored the first major environmental scan on the state of cross-jurisdictional sharing arrangements among U.S. public health agencies. NewPublicHealth spoke with Patrick Libbey about the new project.
NPH: What are some of the key reasons that health departments are exploring or entering into shared service arrangements?
Patrick Libbey: There are several reasons but the key ones are to improve their service capabilities and capacities and to be able to do things together that individually they might not have been able to do. This has been accelerated in some respects by the emergence of performance standards, notably, voluntary national accreditation of public health departments.
There is an increasing concern about being as efficient as possible in costs and other resources. And given the economy and the effect on local and state budgets, there's an increased attention on how can we do well at lesser costs or at least without increasing costs. In public administration circles of all kinds, regionalization and shared services is one method being looked at and increasingly being used as a means of being more effective and efficient. Examples of different public sectors that have looked at or implemented shared services include schools, traditional government service areas such as fire and police, library services and parks and recreation. It's not a question that's emerging exclusively in public health.
NPH: What types of sharing relationships currently exist between local health departments, and how common are they?
Patrick Libbey: In every state we interviewed we saw evidence of shared arrangements. We need to think of shared services as a spectrum or a range of options. It can be as informal as almost a handshake agreement to share resources and equipment. In many places we saw service agreements, where a department might purchase a service they didn't provide—more of a transactional arrangement. Particularly in the last decade there has been an emphasis on preparedness, and that has led to mutual aid agreements. We see arrangements where an official for one department on, say, Women, Infants and Children, might direct that service for a neighboring department but still remain on the full-time payroll of their own department
More complex arrangements include ones on a multi-jurisdictional basis, such as working jointly on community health assessments or joint epidemiology efforts covering all the participating jurisdictions. The most complex arrangements are where local health departments merge—in essence creating a new entity comprised of two or more former local health departments—or consolidate, where two or more departments are combined into an existing department.
NPH: What are good examples of shared relationships in place right now?
Patrick Libbey: There are lots of examples across the country. Several come to mind immediately. There are five relatively small health departments in the Colorado Rockies. They had environmental health services needs and only one of the five had the capacity to do it, so they worked out a way to share that capacity. They got needs met that they could not have met individually and as a result they are able to sustain the necessary expertise at the local level. From that, they then worked further to develop a joint community health assessment process, but will create individual improvement plans.
We tend to think smaller parties are the ones that need to share, but another example is a joint effort of the eight local health departments serving the greater Chicago metropolitan area including the Cook County and City of Chicago Health Departments. They do some of their planning and development work together, because in a sense, they share a population. People may live in one place but work in the other. So for public health emergencies, they have worked out arrangements for a single media communications process. It reduces confusion and gets out a clear message.
More recently, on a large scale, has been the merger of the Akron, Ohio, Health Department with the Summit County Health Department. This example gives you some idea of the complexities involved in a sharing effort at this scope. The merger came about as the result of a very thoughtful planning process beginning in mid-2009 including a thorough feasibility study, cost projections, political considerations and key partner and community involvement. Time was taken to ensure an orderly transition and to make sure necessary administrative and other operational details were carefully addressed before the merger was actually implemented. The newly merged Summit County Health Department began serving the population of Akron in 2011.
NPH: Have the relationships always been based on a need that emerged?
Patrick Libbey: What we saw for the most part was opportunistic—there was a funding opportunity or there was a need of service issue. We didn't see as much proactive efforts, such as let's get together up front, and agree to jointly fund a service or a capacity that could then be deployed as seen fit by the participating jurisdictions. What has been happening has been extremely pragmatic, though that may change over time or change as resources become more flexible. It has been reactive in a positive sense. But it works. That's the litmus test.
You can demonstrate the benefits in ways that connect to the drivers—increased efficiency, increased cost-efficiency and improved service.
NPH: What factors contribute or detract from the success of these cross-jurisdictional relationships?
Patrick Libbey: There needs to be willingness on the part of both the health officials and the policy-makers. Not necessarily a champion, though that's nice, but there needs to be openness to consider sharing services or capacities across jurisdictions . There also needs to be clarity up front about the intended purposes of such sharing. Improved public health performance and cost containment are both legitimate policy goals based often coming from different roles and perspectives. There's some risk of conflict or perceived contradiction if the purposes of all the parties involved aren't clear and attended to from the outset. There can be ways to get to a win-win opportunity but only when all the intended purposes are on the table.
Policy-makers need to know that their obligation to their constituency is met and potentially improved as a result of the service sharing and they need to have a say and an oversight in that. And health officials need to be in a position of assuring the public health needs of their respective jurisdictions are being met or improved. For the policy-makers, their obligation as an elected official is to their jurisdiction and their constituency. In that framework, they can't willingly contribute to what may a greater good if it is seen as coming at a cost to the good of their jurisdiction. That's not a turf issue, that's a civic and an ethical issue.
Candidly, financial resources do make a difference. There's a cost to putting shared arrangements together effectively. That cost sometimes is a direct expense in planning and implementing a shared arrangement and in other times it's a lost opportunity expense, what else might have been done with the resources committed to developing the shared service relationship. It will cost something to take the time and energy to make this happen. Funding incentives have been helpful.
Long-term working relationships, history, the sense of local control and cultural factors—those are some of the other factors that are important to the success of a sharing arrangement.
NewPublicHealth: What will the Center's goals be?
Patrick Libbey: The project will assist public health officials and policy-makers in how to consider the use of cross-jurisdictional sharing. One of the major features will be the recruitment of 18 sites across the country to serve as learning laboratories in a national learning community. These will include sites who are actively engaged in the development of cross-jurisdictional sharing arrangements, sites engaged in implementing such arrangements, and sites that have arrangements in place but are seeking to improve or expand them. The Center will provide technical assistance and support to these sites. The Center will also provide some technical assistance to other jurisdictions and organizations working on shared services. Beyond the benefit to the 18 sites and others directly receiving technical assistance, the Center will be capturing, synthesizing and sharing the learning from these efforts. This also includes gathering or developing if necessary useable tools for others to use. All the learning and resources will be shared with policy-makers, health departments and others with an interest in public health performance improvement. Put more simply, the overall intent really is to better understand, share and support ways in which cross-jurisdiction service sharing can be used to improve public health performance and efficiency.
>>Read more on sharing arrangements across public health department jurisdictions.
>>View for call for proposals to join the Shared Services Learning Community.
Jo Ivey Boufford: Q&A at the National Network of Public Health Institutes Annual Conference
Jo Ivey Boufford, MD, president of the New York Academy of Medicine, was a keynote speaker this week at the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) Annual Conference in New Orleans, La.
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NewPublicHealth spoke with Dr. Boufford about the conference theme, "Leveraging Public Health Institutes for Systems Change."
NPH: The theme of the conference is leveraging public health institutes for systems change. What systems do you think need changing to improve population health?
Dr. Boufford: I think there are really two major components to a public health system. One of them obviously is the governmental public health infrastructure—the public health agencies at state and local levels that are really charged to assure the health of the public, by detecting illness and promoting health information and trying to change environments so people can live in healthier communities. A lot of reports have shown that that part of the health system has historically been very under-invested in, and it needs to be shorn up. I think the national public health institutes should be strong advocates and partners of the governmental public health agencies in leveraging resources to improve population health.
The other part of the system is the personal health care system, which is and potentially will be undergoing dramatic change with the Accountable Care Act (ACA). There are a number of opportunities to get better population health impact out of the personal health care system, such as looking at the role of community health centers, of medical homes, of accountable care organization models to improve the health of a geographic community or particular population over time. So I would say those are the two big opportunities, and public health institutes in states need to work closely to take full advantage of the opportunities for populations.
NPH: What other key roles do you see public health institutes playing in improving population health?
Keeneland Conference Q&A: Carol Moehrle on Public Health Department Accreditation
National Public Health Accreditation launched last fall, and since then 64 local health departments, three tribal health departments and one state department have submitted applications to the National Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). Carol Moehrle, chair of PHAB and director of public health for the Idaho North Central District, spoke about the accreditation process and benefits during a keynote speech at the Keeneland Conference. NewPublicHealth caught up with Carol Moehrle during the meeting.
NewPublicHealth: Are you pleased with the number of applicants you've seen so far?
Carol Moehrle: We are pleased. We knew we'd have some early adopters. And to have 68 complete their applications with the last seven months, that's a great start. We've got a long way ahead, but we also know we have many applicants in the queue waiting to apply. We're hearing lots of good energy, and departments beginning the process now can look to the earlier applicants for best practices, so applying will be easier as time goes on.
NPH: What is the process and timetable for accreditation application review?
Public Health Law Research Trends: Q&A With Lawrence Gostin
Lawrence Gostin wrote two of the founding books on public health law and developed some of the most influential public health model policies of our time. NewPublicHealth spoke with Lawrence Gostin, JD, Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, about his keynote address at this week's Public Health Law Research (PHLR) Annual Meeting and emerging trends in public health law.
>>NewPublicHealth will be covering the PHLR Annual Meeting all week, including Q&As with some of the top researchers and influencers who are presenting. Follow our coverage here.
NewPublicHealth: What do you plan to speak about at the PHLR meeting?
Lawrence Gostin: I'm going to speak about global health law and global health governance. The idea is to talk about something that's innovative and exciting and I have a proposal for a Framework Convention on Global Health, which is a global health treaty that the UN Secretary General has endorsed and many countries now are on board. So it's an exciting, fascinating and vital time for global health. We're really expanding the horizons beyond America to how we can make sure that all the world's people have good health, and particularly those who are poor and vulnerable.
NPH: That's very interesting. What is the treaty about?
Top 10 NewPublicHealth Posts of 2011
It's been an exciting year for us at NewPublicHealth! We launched in March, and nine months, nine conferences and 568 posts later, we are ready to ring in the new year.
Here's a glimpse into the inaugural year of NewPublicHealth, and the top posts by popularity.
- Power of Health IT for Public Health: A NewPublicHealth Q&A With Farzad Mostashari. This piece was a conversation with the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), about the evolving public health informatics field.
- Dr. Douglas Jutte: My Patient's Most Pressing Health Concern Was a Broken Carburetor. Dr. Jutte provided a personal commentary on how unmet social needs—like access to nutritious food, transportation assistance and housing assistance—were sometimes the most critical in treating his patients. (Also check out a round-up of reader responses to this post.)
- Public Health and the Community Benefit: A NewPublicHealth Q&A With Abbey Cofsky. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires that non-profit hospitals, starting in 2012, perform a community health needs assessment, and that the assessment serve as the foundation of an implementation plan to address identified needs. NewPublicHealth spoke with Abbey Cofsky, program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, about the public health opportunities this provision offers.
- The National Prevention Strategy: A NewPublicHealth Q&A With Surgeon General Regina Benjamin. Upon its launch, we spoke with the Surgeon General about the nation's plan for increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life.
- Teen Birthrates Down in U.S. But Still Lag Behind Other Developed Nations. This article looked at the April Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the latest stats on teen childbirth, such as, "Girls born to teen mothers are about 30% more likely to become teen mothers themselves."
- Health Literacy: Reducing the Burden of a Complex Healthcare System. During Health Literacy Month, NewPublicHealth caught up with Linda Harris of the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and Cindy Brach of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality about federal efforts to improve health literacy and to reduce the burden of a complex healthcare system.
- The County Health Rankings 2011: Mobilizing Action to Improve Health. NewPublicHealth's very first post announced the second annual County Health Rankings, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute that provides a standard way for counties to see where they are doing well and where they are not so they can make changes to improve health.
- What to Expect at the Health Data Initiative Forum: A Q&A With Todd Park. The Forum, presented by HHS and the Institute of Medicine, convened more than 500 people to showcase how health data can provide a rich seeding ground for new tools to support more informed decision-making by consumers, healthcare systems and community officials. NewPublicHealth spoke with Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer at HHS, to get his take on health innovation.
- HHS Leading Health Indicators: Health By Some New Numbers. NewPublicHealth was on the ground at the APHA Annual Meeting covering top news, including the announcement of the latest Leading Health Indicators from HHS, a set of the top national high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.
- Housing Policy is Health Policy: A NewPublicHealth Q&A With HUD's Raphael Bostic. Raphael Bostic of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spoke with NewPublicHealth about the role of housing in health, and new collaborations across sectors that recognize that providing healthier, more affordable housing can lead to significant health outcomes.
Runners up included Q&As with CDC Director Thomas Frieden and Virginia Comonwealth University researcher Steven Woolf; a post on public health mobile phone apps and a commentary on the popular movie Contagion.
These were just a handful of the conversations that captured our readers' interests this year. Keep reading in 2012 for the latest in public health and new ways to prevent disease and health crises where they begin—in our communities.
Thanks for reading and for your always insightful comments. Have a happy, healthy New Year and we'll see you in 2012!
Yvette Roubideaux of the Indian Health Service: NewPublicHealth Q&A
NewPublicHealth spoke with Yvette Roubideaux, MD, MPH, director of the Indian Health Service (IHS) and a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, about innovative efforts to improve the health of Native Americans.
NewPublicHealth: What is significant to you about the observance of Native American Heritage Month?
Dr. Roubideaux: Each year it's a celebration of the richness and the strength of Native American cultures. It's a great opportunity to be reminded of the great cultures and traditions of American Indians and Alaska Natives and how that relates to overall health and well-being.
NPH: For 2012, what are some of the key projects and issues that are on the front burner with regard to Native American health in the U.S.?
Dr. Roubideaux: Well certainly one of the biggest issues relates to the disparities that this population experiences compared to the U.S. general population and the significant burden of disease that's causing lots of illness for the population, including chronic diseases and obesity. Trying to narrow that gap in disparities, trying to improve access to care are major efforts of what we're doing with the Indian Health Service. For example, the mortality rates on diabetes are almost three times the U.S. population rates. We know that obesity is higher in American Indians and American Indian children. We know that, for example, alcohol-related mortality is almost six times greater in American Indians and Alaska Natives.
NPH: In what ways might Native Americans approach health and well-being differently than other Americans?
Dr. Roubideaux: Well, I think that there's a general understanding among American Indian and Alaska Natives that the culture and their traditions promote health, and so a lot of the prevention efforts and community-based health initiatives are really starting to focus more on what we can learn from our traditions. How can we learn to be healthy and live in balance and seek wellness? It comes from the fact that for American Indians and Alaska Natives, there's a recognition that over a hundred years ago we didn't have the illnesses that we have now, we didn't have diabetes, we didn't have obesity, and so they must have been doing something right and what can we take from the lessons of our ancestors and our traditions to be healthier. And, of course, it's eating healthy and making healthy food choices, more physical activityand living a life in balance—in balance in general and in balance with nature.
Many programs are focused on returning to traditional ways. Some of those are reintroducing gardening and growing traditional plants and some are returning to traditional games and physical activity that the tribes did. Some tribes, they were runners, and so they're doing more runs, and lacrosse is a traditional Native game and they're reviving that for the kids. Many tribes are looking at their past to find answers to the health problems that are plaguing them today. Healthy eating practices of Indian people included eating very lean meats, berries and greens—foods from nature. And they had to have enough food for the whole group so they didn't over-indulge and had to prepare for famines, and so they were very cautious about what they ate.
NPH: How can accreditation benefit tribal public health departments and the communities they serve? What are some of the greatest opportunities and challenges that accreditation presents?
Public Health Departments Partner Across Regions to Provide Expanded Services
The impact of the economic crisis on budget coffers has prompted a growing number of state and local health department officials to consider cross-jurisdictional sharing as a strategy to cut costs and deliver services more effectively and efficiently. At the 2011 APHA meeting, a packed room of researchers and practitioners from across the country heard from a panel on this emerging topic, which included presentations on the experience of two states with vastly different sociopolitical landscapes: sprawling Colorado with its large rural expanses, and dense Massachusetts with its 351 local boards of health, just over half of which serve 10,000 people or less.
Despite the differences, two major themes dominated the discussion, which was moderated by Pat Libbey, former executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials and now a consultant and leading expert on cross-jurisdictional sharing: more information is needed to illuminate which approaches may be most appropriate for specific locales, and proactive stakeholder engagement is critical to gain buy-in for changes that may be seen as potential threats to local control.
"The minute you say regionalization, it's a top-down approach," said Lisa VanRaemdonck, MPH, MSW, executive director of the Colorado Association of Local Public Health Officials and co-director for the Colorado Public Health Practice-Based Research Network, who shared findings from a recent examination to identify what types of service-sharing among local health agencies are most prevalent in the Centennial state, what the law allows, and why agencies have entered into these agreements and relationships. "Language and finding a careful balance is really important."
VanRaemdonck said the Colorado Public Health Act of 2008 allows the creation of district health departments to do regional work, and many agencies have begun regional approaches to provide services that were not previously available.
Continuing Momentum for Quality Improvement in Public Health
Numerous public health leaders across the country credit the Multi-State Learning Collaborative (MLC) for establishing a vision of a quality-improvement (QI) culture in the field and helping pave the way for the launch this year of national, voluntary public health department accreditation by the Public Health Accreditation Board. The group presented progress on the project this week at the APHA 2011 Annual Meeting.
>>Follow the rest of our APHA 2011 coverage.
Between 2005 and 2011, the project – funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and managed by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) – brought together teams of public health departments in 16 states, along with other stakeholders such as institutes, health care providers, and universities to prepare for accreditation and apply QI to important public health goals, such as increasing immunization rates, and implementing procedures to communicate with community members in health emergencies.


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Design work for screen and print for the Ignite Dundee 2014 Festival.Advertising, Graphic Design, Print Design2014
WeDundee.com was created as the public engagement aspect of Dundee's bid for UK City of Culture 2017. It was designed to provide a platform for the city to tells its own story in a way that was as simple and as accessible as possible. We wanted to target, not just the people living there now, but those who have passed through, those who have moved away and those who did not know the city.Branding, UI/UX, Web Design2014
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Design of identity for Scale, a Scottish Dance Theatre event, that takes place across the city of Dundee, Scotland in 2014. The typeface was custom created to allow characters that could be used with different verticle proportions, remain legible but keep a fluid and organic shape.Branding, Graphic Design, Typography2014
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Vector character portraitsCharacter Design, Graphic Design, Illustration2014
Character illustration of a fat man eating junk.Character Design, Digital Art, Illustration2013
Design work for Hind Quarters, a mini game that formed part of a bigger project for the ID Gum Artcade. Each game involved artwork designed by different artists.
My brief for this was to create a game about a plumber fixing a sink where the player dropped coins down his bum when his trousers slipped. It had to combine photo montage and 8bit graphic styles.
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Illustration created as part of a talk to be delivered in Tokyo, Japan in 2011.Character Design, Digital Art, Illustration2012
Illustration for a one off comic called 'See New Words', created as part of the Six Cities Design Festival in Scotland.Digital Art, Illustration2012
Promotional design work for the international video game design competition and festival, Dare to be Digital.Advertising, Graphic Design, Illustration2013
Branding for fly poster company Street Advertising Services.Branding, Digital Art, Graphic Design2013
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Identity and design for Air Bar.Branding, Graphic Design, Illustration2013
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Monday, March 22, 2010
To the Courts!
Jay Allbritton
After only moments lamenting defeat, the anti-health care reform train is back on the tracks and headed toward the United States Supreme Court where they hope to eventually be able to challenge provisions of the bill that will become law when the president signs it tomorrow. Josh Marshall outlines this last Hail Mary attempt to kill all or some of "the package". Should the court overturn it? I'm being told "hell no". Might the court over turn it anyway? I'll answer that question with a question. Have you ever read the decision in Bush v. Gore? Buckle up, because nothing is over until the by god Supreme Court decides it is.
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- Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein said...
The Supreme Court scares me. Specifically Justice Kennedy.
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Kennedy is creepy, but how can you beat Scalia and Alito?
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"If we do not receive a signed copy of the attached letter from you [agreeing not to accept voucher funds under Louisiana's newly enacted Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program] by 4:00 P.M. on Friday, July 27, 2012, we will have no alternative other than to institute litigation against St. Theodore Holy Family Catholic School…" — one of many such letters sent by lawyers representing Louisiana Association of Educators, the state teacher's union. [The Hayride, Pelican Post]
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- 1 07.27.12 at 10:03 am
They're swinging for the fences and hoping some of the schools will capitulate.
Problem is, they're going against a Catholic school and the diocese here doesn't take well to threats of that kind.
- 2 07.27.12 at 4:34 pm
Sic Sister Mary Elephant after 'em.
- 3 07.27.12 at 7:50 pm
RT-not funny!
- 4 07.27.12 at 8:15 pm
mjs: You're right. It should have been Soeur Marie de l'Elephant.
- 5 07.27.12 at 8:53 pm
What grounds could they possibly even honestly believe they have to sue?
- 6 07.28.12 at 9:15 am
Does Louisiana have any SLAPP suits protections?
- 7 07.28.12 at 9:37 am
Would there not be a first amendment problem with back door funding of religion?
- 8 07.28.12 at 1:59 pm
I'm no lawyer, but I would think that if the vouchers are given to teh parents and your DID NOT allow religious schools to participate, then you would have an issue.
This makes me want to know who I can support to get the whole Teacher's Union out of LA.
- 9 07.28.12 at 2:49 pm
The schools should respond by pointing out that the current schools are failing these children so bad, it is of the utmost urgency to rescue as many as possible by getting them away from that toxic environment immediately.
They should ask the teachers union to join them in urging the legislature to equip the buses transporting the students from public schools to the voucher schools with sirens and revolving lights.
- 10 07.28.12 at 3:09 pm
Klan Act them.
- 11 07.28.12 at 3:14 pm
Actually, RICO might be more appropriate. Concede a thing of value (the right to accept vouchers provided under State law) or we will sue you, making you spend money. Or costing you money if we win,
Of course, Discovery is a B*.
- 12 07.29.12 at 9:43 am
Well, this isn't really lawyering, it's just hard-ball politics.
Republican Governor (and good Catholic) Bobby Jundal is on the VP short list. The teacher's union is just following through on creating controversy, even fake, by issuing these letters. A statement from the governor's office supporting the private schools will be twisted into an attack ad: "The governor is taking public funds away from needy school children and spending it on his fat-cat cronies supporting big buck private schools", or some such nonsense.Suing Catholics in Louisiana is not a winner. But creating any kind of attack on "rich" Bobby Jindal may just sell in a battleground state.
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Regional Office of the International Disease Organization, Washington D.C. – February 28, 2012 – IDO agents working in California report that preliminary findings indicate the exceedingly dangerous Japanese adventure game known as "Zennin Shiboudesu" has somehow crossed the Pacific. Attempts were made to contain it, but some carriers seem to have escaped the quarantine and are now at large.
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- Dual Language Support – Early cases show that VLR allows communication in both English and Japanese, with dialog playable in both languages. Whether or not this indicates damage to the languages centers of the brain is under investigation.
- Puzzles and Story – Preliminary investigations show that this game progresses rapidly through a repeating cycle of two distinct stages, which have been termed the "Novel" and "Escape" stages. During the Novel stage, subjects find themselves engaged by a complex and mysterious story. During the Escape stage, subjects have been observed solving numerous puzzles.
- Fully-Voiced Novel Sections – One of the indicators of the Novel stage is reportedly fully-voiced dialog: All characters except for the protagonist can be heard speaking during this stage.
- Numerous Endings – VLR has been shown to exhibit numerous paths of infection, most of which are lethal. At press time, 24 different "endings" have been observed, each unique.
- Immersive Three-Dimensional Environment – Many infected patients have reported a feeling of increased immersion in their surroundings, often manifested in the ability to rotate the camera around a 3D room rendered in-game and select and manipulate objects in three-dimensional space.
- Introduces New Characters, Brings Back Old Ones – Our files on 999 indicate that a number of the characters featured there appear again in VLR, although in what capacity is still unclear. This strain also introduces several new characters, all of whom merit additional investigation.
2.28.12 at 4:10 pmI must ask: WILL the Vita version contain an artbook? I know BBCSX didn't, and not entirely sure if Sony put a strict "NO manuals allowed!" policy on Vita games or not.
2.28.12 at 4:10 pmSorry, I meant 'manual' NOT 'artbook'. I'm thinking ahead of myself here.
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2.28.12 at 4:25 pmYaaaaaaay!! I'm super excited this is coming to NA! I don't care what form it takes, I'm just happy I'll be able to play it in English!
2.28.12 at 6:54 pmVery excited this will come to the West. Coincidentally, will those watches be making an appearance as pre-order material or become available on the online store? =3
2.28.12 at 6:57 pmYaaay!!!! I'm thrilled that this is coming to NA! Can't wait to pre-order, hopefully there's some cool pre-order gift with the game (not that it needs one)!
2.28.12 at 7:38 pmIs it possible to make the 3DS version regionfree? As an European fan of the original game I'd really like to be able to play this one as well.
2.29.12 at 1:46 amYAY for dual audio and PS Vita version! <3
But why dinb't you stick with "Good People Die" – "Virtue's Last Reward" doesn't sound as good, imo.
2.29.12 at 2:41 amI'm a fan of 999 and can't wait for the sequel. However, I have a problem: I live in Europe. Is there any chance you could either make the 3DS version region free or release the game in the PAL region as well? I can't afford importing an American 3DS just so I could play one game I'm sure I would love.
2.29.12 at 4:42 amI have the same problem, I'm from Europe and I'm not importing a 3DS just for a game…instead I was planning to get a PS vita and now sure I have to get one for fall!
2.29.12 at 8:52 amWHAT ABOUT EUROPE?!
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2.29.12 at 11:11 amYES! This is amazing! "Virtue's Last Reward" is a good name too–sticks with the theme that "good people die." And at least 24 endings?! So looking forward to this! Thank you, Aksys!!
2.29.12 at 12:04 pmUnfortunately the 3DS system is region-locked, which means we can't release region-free 3DS games. If you'd like to see VLR in Europe, I encourage you to contact your local localizers, like Rising Star or Ghostlight.
2.29.12 at 5:13 pmTotally agree to everything hype night said and can't wait to try it with the new 3ds anolog stick. One question I would like answered which characters from the first are going to be in the second.
3.01.12 at 8:37 amAny chance of a reversible "Good People Die" cover for early buyers? *Crosses fingers*
3.01.12 at 9:58 amAbout "Dual Language Support", is that means the combination of English text + Japanese voice will be available for this game?
3.01.12 at 10:47 am@mullen: Both English text + Japanese voice, and English text + English voice will be available to choose from :)
3.01.12 at 11:43 am@Akselziys: That's great!
3.01.12 at 3:18 pmI will be checking the website everyday to see when Pre-Order is available!! Thank you so much Aksys!!
3.01.12 at 3:28 pmCant wait I still think about 999 everyday I just wish you would of kept the previous name of "Good people die" "virtues last reward" isnt nearly as direct and frightening. "9 persons 9 doors 9 hours" was a very direct title for such a complicated game and "good people die" follows that. I will still keep calling the game good people die when ever I refer to it.
3.01.12 at 3:36 pm@NES23: Pre-orders are up at Amazon :)
3DS: http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Escape-Virtues-Reward-nintendo-3ds/dp/B007FMSDU0/
VITA: http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Escape-Virtues-Reward-playstation-vita/dp/B007FMSDUK/
3.01.12 at 6:13 pmAny idea at all on the manual situation for Vita though?
3.01.12 at 6:55 pm@Akselziys: I just saw your post and Pre-Ordered for the 3DS! Thank you for letting me know! So excited!
3.03.12 at 5:29 amOh my gosh, so excited :D
3.04.12 at 4:54 pmGetting it for sure.
3.04.12 at 7:46 pmI have been hoping and dreaming for the sequel ever since I finished 999. I don't currently have a 3DS and don't plan on getting one til January of next year; however, I will be pre-ordering Virtue's Last Reward as a thank you for having brought it over.
3.05.12 at 7:53 pmIf it comes with a watch, then one copy of this is SOLD! (I can already tell I'm going to buy it no matter what)
3.06.12 at 9:06 amAksys… I fell in love with you again. Thank you for releasing this for both systems. I am looking forward to the Vita release of this game!
3.06.12 at 11:39 amI'm preordering this for sure and getting it the DAY it comes out.I'm seriously so excited for this game I could die happy after playing it.
3.12.12 at 10:37 pmcan som1 reply to me in this do you need knowledge of the 1st game to play this so i can buy it (either way i may buy it)
3.13.12 at 9:14 am@GoldenDarkness
You don't need to have played 999 to play Virtue's Last Reward. There are some references to 999 that show up that will make more sense if you've played it. But you won't be confused if you haven't. -
3.20.12 at 6:13 pmI fricking love you guys for finally picking this up. seriously you guys will probably do it best if 999 and Fate/ Extra are any indication. Will get the vita version myself. Thanks again Aksys
7.04.12 at 2:45 pmIs there gonna be a watch pre-order bonus??? I will love you forever. :D
10.14.12 at 11:02 amI find myself to be very lucky to have stumbled upon the rare game: 999, and it turned out to be my favorite game of all time, even for a handheld console. What makes a great game is the story and gameplay, and 999 delivered just that.
I'm surprised how not everyone knows about this game, though hopefully the sequel will be as good and will spread the words of the newly franchise, which might bring new fans. I'm really looking forward to this game and really glad they decided to bring visual novels here as they are a rare find.
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