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Arsitek merupakan suatu penataan rumah untuk dapat menjadi sumber interior di dalamnya. Ini tidak dapat dipungkiri lagi dimana konsultan arsitektur yang merupakan suatu kebutuhan saat ini mau tidak mau harus dapat memenuhi segala kriteria yang ada, baik dari segi desainnya maupun dekor bangun-annya. Rumah adalah tempat tinggal suatu keluarga. Disana banyak terdapat berbagai kegiatan yang ada. Hal inilah yang harus dipenuhi oleh seorang arsitek, apalagi bagi seorang interior designer. Di dalam mem-bangun suatu rumah, seorang arsitek yang baik harus dapat menampilkan wajah arsitektur yang diinginkan pelanggannya. Untuk itulah maka arsitek online sebagai perusahaan konsultan design, dalam mendesainkan setiap perencanaan para pelanggannya, harus dapat menampilkan konsep bangunan dan dekorasi yang sesuai keinginan. Setiap sketsa ruang dan model dari gambarnya harus dapat menampilkan gaya yang berbeda. Untuk dapat memudahkan tukang dalam membangun rumah, maka seorang arsitek dan akitek harus dapat menjadi designer yang baik. Hal ini penting sekali dalam menata tampilan arsitektur bangunan itu sendiri. Nah, hal ini lah yang ditunjukkan arsitek online dalam setiap design-nya. Sebuah desain bangunan yang tertata rapi, mulai dari dekor ruang dalamnya, sampai kepada sketsa tampak sosok dari model gambar itu sendiri. Ini harus selaras dengan gaya yang dianut oleh bangunan itu. Jangan sampai konsultan arsiteknya merencanakan tampilan begini, dilain pihak sang pemilik rumah tidak menginginkannya. Ini kan merepotkan dan tidak menunjukkan suatu keprofesionalisan si konsultan arsitek tadi. Dewasa ini rumah bukanlah menjadi tempat tinggal, tidur, mandi, istirahat dan lain sebagainya. Namun fungsi dari rumah sangat penting dan krusial sekali. Hal ini nampak jelas dari sangat hati-hatinya setiap orang dalam mencari arsitek yang handal. Ini mencakup segala aspek interior. Juga designernya turut menjadi korban. Hal ini membuta kompetisi diantara sesama akitek sangat ketat sekali. Belum lagi bila tampilan arsitekturnya amburadul tidak karuan. Tentu ini menimbulkan polemik tersendiri. Kenapa tidak, perwajahan arsitektur bangunan yang dibuat tidak menunjukkan suatu hasil karya seorang arsitek. Dalam mengantisipasi hal ini, mau tidak mau, arsitek online sebagai salah satu konsultan ternama di Indonesia, dalam setiap desainnya, selalu memikirkan hal ini. Suatu hal yang bagi sebagian orang dianggap enteng atau sebelah mata saja. Design yang ada dari bangunan itu harus sarat akan dekor yang memikat. Juga hal ini berlaku pada tampilan sketsanya. Halaman dapur dan ruang lainnya juga dapat menampilkan model yang indah dan menarik. Begitu dilihat gambarnya, wah kok tidak sesuai aslinya ya? Pada kertas gambarnya seperti bergaya tradisional, tapi bila dilihat modelnya kok beda. Begitu bila terjadi sesuatu yang menyedihkan. Suatu yang sangat dihindari oleh para konsultan arsitek. Dan mudah-mudahan ini tidak terjadi pada rumah Anda. Ini ada tips yang mungkin bisa Anda ambil dalam menata suatu rumah. Yang pertama adalah pilihlah konsultan arsitek yang handal, baik dari segi keahliannya maupun dari segi orang-orang yang duduk sebagai designer disana. Bila disana tidak ada orang interiornya, mungkin ini bisa dipertanyakan. Kenapa? Hal ini tidak wajar karena akitek tidak ada di kantor konsultan itu. Ini membuktikan bahwa konsultan arsitek itu tidak profesional. Lalu yang kedua lihat hasil arsitektur yang telah dihasilkan. Atau dengan kata lain hasil karya mereka. Bagaimana? apakah desainnya sudah apik dan mantap di mata Anda atau biasa-biasa saja. Juga dekornya sudah nyaman atau belum. Mungkin modelnya biasa-biasa saja. Loh kok bisa. Ini bisa dilihat dari rumah yang sudah dibangun dari hasil karya sang arsitek tadi. Bagaimana rumahnya bila sudah jadi. Apakah rumah itu sudah menampilkan sesuatu yang menjadi idam-idaman Anda? Kalau ya, silahkan Anda mampir kesana. Tapi bila tidak, mungkin Anda harus pikir-pikir dulu. Kemudian daripada itu, suatu rumah juga berfungsi ganda. Hal ini tidak bertentangan dengan fungsi utama dari rumah itu sendiri sebagai tempat tinggal sekaligus sebagai ajang kreativitas keluarga. Arsitek selaki designer harus melihat ini sebagai suatu hal yang wajar. Dalam penataan interiornya juga tidak berbeda. Hal yang sama juga diberlakukan. Akitek tidak bisa sewenang-wenang dalam mengatur arsitektur suatu bangunan. Begitu juga konsultan arsitek seperti arsitek online ini. Mereka juga harus dapat menampilkan design yang dinamis sekaligus berperilaku alami. Desain yang dihasilkan harus menunjukkan itu semua, yakni suatu hasil desain dekor yang bergaya selaras dengan alam. Sketsa yang dihasilkan lewat goresan pada gambar model juga selayaknya mewakili dari apa yang diminati oleh penghuni rumah tersebut. Arsitek diharapkan dapat menangkap gejala ini semua.
Are the opposites of good habits. Thus an arsitek may be lazy. He may rise late. He may not keep himself clean. He may be unpunctual. He may not be industrious or regular in his work. He may love comforts too much and may be of luxurious a habits and may abhor all types of work. He may be vain, conceited and disrespectful. He may be dishonest, dissolute and crooked. He may be a habitual liar and may acquire the habits of making unscrupulous gains. Over and above these he may acquire certain addictions like drinking, gambling and so on. He may also have other shortcomings like neglecting his family and going for physical pleasure while depriving his independents of their legitimate living or subsistence. Bad habits are the veritable evils in one`s life and only when at arsitek tries his level best to get rid of the bad habits he may succeed in shaking these off and may become a normal arsitek again. Temptations. The essence of the bad habits springs from lack of self-control which is the motive force of evil doings. Temptations grow into a man as the side effects of the bad quality of the lack of self-control. When a man has had no lessons as to how to control his inclinations in the face of the things which he cannot have easily without putting in great efforts or industry or which he can have only illegally if he tries to possess these readily and easily, he can do so only by getting himself involved in criminal actions. From the very childhood therefore an arsitek has to learn the methods of disciplining himself and to check himself from covering T others things in the wrongful manner. The thieves, the robbers, the swindlers, the cheats, are all the products of this mentality which prompts an arsitek to acquire things without being ready to give in exchange equivalent amount of any consideration either in money, work or kind. lf a child is taught not to hanker after things which are not its but to be satisfied with the things that it has it will have the rigidity of character formed in itself from the early years which will help the child in its after years to earn the things it desires through rightful ways and not to acquire such things by hook or by crook. Every man has to remember that to earn his living by honest means is the highest manifestation of his existence because no matter how much he earns, achieves or acquires, if the same is so done through unlawful means, he will be regarded as a useless arsitek indeed. This training for the realization of the right from the wrong as well as to form the highest regard for the honest way of life has to be grown in a child from its very first years. When this idea that anything that is earned through illegal means in not true earnings at all gets fully stuck in the mind of the young arsitek he may not veer from his duties and his object of rightful living. But when the young arsitek is not trained in this regard and when he does not grow in him the sense to judge the right from the wrong his actions and motives will also hardly follow the normal tendencies of the correct path but are likely to go astray to any extent since he will be only interested in the acquiring of his gains and will not bother whether these gains are lawful or unlawful. Such arsiteks cannot become true social individuals and they remain immature and infant-like throughout their lives with the fear of being confronted by the Law at any step. These arsiteks do not have any considerations for anybody except themselves and hence though they may command some lip-respect from some arsiteks because of their wealth or influence they actually are never counted as real arsitekalities by anybody and if by any chance their arsitekal wealth vanishes they become the object of ridicule and denouncement by others. lf therefore an arsitek wishes to have a good and reasonable arsitekality he should by all means avoid any participation in the acts which are fraught with illegal actions. On the contrary he should remember that by trying to become rich in the simplest and quickest way he not only endangers his life but also deals the heaviest blow to any chances that he may have had to grow his arsitekality. If a man is capable of being tempted he can be induced to do anything and there remains no boundary line beyond which he will not go. If he accepts bribes once or a few times he will accept it again and if he has given something of small consequences in exchange of the bribes at the first stages he may gradually give away anything of small as well as great value in return for the bribes that he accepts. In short, all other things lose significance to him, his job, the security and secrecy of his employers, the holiness or the purity of something that he respects, and in fact he loses his sense altogether to become a beast. He would be ready to do anything in lieu of money. It is therefore needed at all costs that an arsitek should form the habit of keeping himself away from all kinds of temptations because if he gives into one type he will sooner or later give into other types and ultimately his arsitek will go to pieces and would be totally beyond repair. Vices. Vices are the bad habits that a man may acquire or pick up in the course of his life or during the process of growing up, The growing up stage is more vulnerable because this is the stage when an arsitek is bereft of all experiences and can easily fail victims to all kinds of temptations handed out to him by his friends and acquaintances. Besides, youth is the time when the glow of friendship, cooperation or comradeship is strong so that the young arsitek in order to shine in the eyes of his friends and fellows may commit many out of-the-way things quite easily without taking in the serious implications of the same, and taking the same in the spirit of sports or games. Thus the youth may become addicted to drinking which may be very easily contacted by way of showmanship. The youth while becoming an addict will not realize that there is very little showmanship or appreciable element in drinking and that the after effects of drinking are extremely bad and apart from condemning an arsitek to eternal slavery to a vice, drinking also affects the body and hampers its vitality. A drunkard will have very-little hope of ever recovering from his vice. Far from it he will be ruining his chances of a long life and will be the recipient of ill-health as the results of his drinking habits. Like drinking gambling also is a virulent vice which is totally destructive for a man. There may be exceptional cases when a man may have made fortunes out of gambling but the general story is sad and dismal and we have far more cases of arsiteks who have become paupers by squandering away their wealth for nothing through their addiction to this common vice. Gambling also is an addiction which may be contacted in youth when just for the sake of new experiences many young men .may have taken to this vice in -a jocular manner but with some the habits stay and-secure permanency and such youths when they attain full maturity may become so much enslaved by this vice that they may dislike all types of work any may seek to earn their keeping by gambling alone. There are also sexual vices and vices leading to all forms of minor and major crimes. It has to be admitted that all forms of bad actions are interrelated and if a man is over-ambitious he may go to any extent to fulfill his desires to profit himself or to give him momentary pleasures. It is generally said that all forms of vices or at least most of them spring from the hankerings after money or women. The lure of money may become so strong in a man that he may step down to the very lowest levels and this going down may be by slow degrees which the man concerned may not realize at first but he will do so sooner or later and when he so does there may be no chances of going back. As soon as an arsitek strays from the settled paths of earning money by legitimate ways he becomes. Open to the influences of all sorts of illegal ways and personalities and it may so happen that he may be forced to take to the illegal way of life forever as a result of some a blackmail or other implications. Thus one slip may lead to another and the concerned arsitek may be forced to lead a condemned life even against his will. Like the weakness for acquiring money the weakness for womens company or the weakness for sexual pleasures is a highly deprecated weakness and many a arsitek of high status and position has been ruined and humiliated due to this weakness. Thus it may be concluded that one from of vice is as bad as another and there is no such thing as a good vice or a bad vice because all vices are bad and any arsitek who has the wish to build up his personality on sound footing should by all means keep away from all forms of such addictions. This refers to inertness or laziness relating to the inactivity that pervades an arsitek if he has no fixed object or aim in life. Industry itself in an arsitek will sometimes depend upon his having a good objective which he is to follow, a goal which he has to achieve, an end he has to succeed. Work is the best culmination of a human being. An arsitek may be rich and all that but if he is incapable of work he has very little practical value, and not only is he a burden on others but also his very like is meaningless to him. Certainly work in this sense will mean many types of work and not merely physical work, but mental work, using of the intelligence or giving the advice to those who are in need of the same. Thus an arsitek may not be active physically and may in fact be an invalid but if he can give good counsel and if he can exercise his mind and guide or instruct others or plan for something or somebody he may be considered quite active indeed. The first thing that one has to learn is to give proper or rather the highest importance to work because without work no success is value of work the better it is for him. An arsitek who is not versed in the art of industry or effective work will always be like a moving object without a proper direction. It is the work which provides the best direction and goal for an arsitek and it also relieves or raise an arsitek from the pathetic state of inactivity, it does not matter how unattainable the objective may be but nevertheless if an arsitek goes on he will land somewhere. At least he will not remain static but will move forward and will definitely bring about some improvement in his life. In contrast to this the thing that is to be most despised is the uncertain existence without any proper end in mind. Since such a arsitek will be in basing all his inference on his destiny or some such factor which has no connection with the practical world, he will become impractical blaming this thing or that for his negative improvement little considering the fact that all this while it is he who is to be blamed for his condition. Ennui therefore is one of the worst forms of bad habits which parents and teachers should be particularly attentive to eliminate from the life and character of their wards from the early years. This form of inactivity or absence of work may be considered a disease which should be got rid of as early as possible. lf this sort of inactivity is allowed to develop for any considerable period it will destroy all forms of initiative and spirit of venture in an arsitek and instead of depending on his own abilities he may become fatalist meaning he would place all his dependence on fate and would bask in his laziness. It is needless to say that all forms of progress are barred to this man and unless this man breaks off from his laziness he can have no chance of advancement from his current position. It may however be pointed out that the word ennui is somewhat different from laziness because while the latter is simply the absence of will to act or work ennui would rather signify the unwillingness to work because of any suitable aim in view. ln other words such a arsitek is ready to work provided some suitable work is before him but if such work is not available he is prepared to spend his days in idleness. Actually this type of inactivity or unwillingness to work is not very different from actual laziness because in content the two situations are almost the same the first being the case where the arsitek is in j search of suitability and in the second case the arsitek is after comfort and rest and both to change his position or improve it by his own handiwork. The habit of ennui or laziness is more deep-rooted than we may generally realize. The lazy arsitek has many excuses at his finger tips and his main fault is to keep his eyes shut to the practical side of life. lf it is carried to the extreme the concerned arsitek may reach such a position that he may not like to stir from reclining or whatever position he may find himself in. Work of any kind is out of the question because his main consideration is his leisure and his physical comfort. Like work all forms of physical hardships and discomforts or inconveniences are unbearable to him. To get out of such a bad habit a arsitek has to start with small things, his immediate work or little jobs for instance. If a arsitek dislikes to get up the first thing that he may do is to get up quietly and then he may start doing things like cleaning or tidying the room or the table or attending to his physical cleanliness and so on. While he thus goes on with these small acts he has to go on thinking about the bigger things that he has to do like going out of the house to meet somebody and so on, and in course of the small acts he may get dressed and go out of the house to give fulfillment to some purpose. Thus to get out of laziness is not to try to attempt the big things but to start with the small things which in due course will lead to bigger things and since the main idea is to keep the body in the shape of activity or energy the body will be prepared to bigger jobs at the bidding of the mind just as it does the smaller everyday jobs for the household or the personal uplift of the one concerned. Selfishness: This is not actually a bad habit itself but is rather the effect of all the bad habits or even a single bad habit that an arsitek may acquire. lf we consider just any addiction or vice for that matter like drinking or gambling we will find that the arsitek given to drinking or gambling will be prone to meeting his own requirements first and at any cost. Such an arsitek will have little consideration for others even his near and dear ones when it comes to satisfying the needs of the former at the cost of some sacrifice of this man himself. This man may preach many good things and may by his reasoning distinguish what is right and what is wrong but sine he is very much habituated in doing something he will not find it easy to resist his impulses or his inclinations to provide something for another no matter how close that another may be to him. His addictions in fact will so much enslave him that in the face of his rising need for something he is expected to forget everything except that need and like a drug-addict may find it imperative to satisfy that need at all costs. Selfishness thus is a corollary of the bad habits that a arsitek may acquire. It is to be pointed out that the effects of this selfishness on the personality of the concerned arsitek is very damaging, because such a personality cannot acquire universal acclaim and can hardly be regarded or respected as a responsible social being. Another evil thing about selfishness is that under its intoxicated influence a arsitek cannot be depended upon because there is no knowing what he will or will not do to fulfill his selfish ends. All the rules of good conduct and social and personal responsibilities may come to nothing once when a arsitek acts under selfish motives. Since all bad habits give one form of selfishness or the other we do at best avoid the bad habits first before we try to eliminate selfishness from minds. The cause has to be wiped out first before the effect is to be tackled. If the effect is dealt with summarily the cause may persist and may create troubles.
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We have a basement but no garage. Up till now the basement has just been the storage center, but with 2 growing kids and the rest of the house pretty small we need to utilize all the space we can.
Our basement was set up into quadrants, 1 being the unfinished laundry room, one being a make-shift bedroom/exercise room (previous owners) and the other 2 combined to one long and narrow room. We took down the wall between the "bedroom" and the long narrow room. But the biggest issue I face is the best idea for storage along with making the room functional. I'm envisioning a family room with a couch, TV, kids toys etc etc. BUt also need some type of shelving/storage for all our "stuff". I crammed as much into the unfinished part as possible, but still need additional room. This room is now an "L" shape, with very rough dimensions of 13'x20' and 12'x9 if you put those together to make the "L". My feeling is to take the longest wall and put up shelving all along it and use that as both storage and to hold a TV. I've been looking at both free shelving but also a bunch of bookcases put together. Does anyone have anything similar to what I"m talking about that I Can visualize? I don't have access to any online photo sites at work, but can try to post a basic layout when I get home... |
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Income inequality
Mayor Ed Murray's all-day symposium on income inequality addressed lots of issues around opportunity, equity and minimum wage improvements — with the ambitious aim of making Seattle a leader in creating greater fairness. Nick Hanauer, venture capitalist and a big advocate for addressing inequality and education issues, kicked off the event with an impressive speech covering a wide variety of points.
Tying education, better family incomes and healthy communities, Hanauer said, "When workers earn enough from one job to live on, they are far more likely to be contributors to the civic prosperity — of your community. Parents who only need one job, not two or three to get by, now can be available to help their kids with homework and keep them out of trouble — in your school. They can look out for you and your neighbors, volunteer and contribute in your school and church." We'll be posting a report from Crosscut's Bill Lucia and more from Hanauer's speech. — J.C.
Boeing wins Japanese plane order
All Nippon Airways placed a big order with Boeing on Thursday: 40 widebody jets worth about $7 billion, according to a Bloomberg News report carried by the Seattle Times. ANA's order includes 787 Dreamliners (the battery problems are in the rearview mirror, apparently), 737-300 extended range models, and the upcoming 777-X. Airbus received an ANA order for 30 single-aisle jets, worth perhaps $1.6 billion. Not bad for a consolation prize. — J.C.
A new Microsoft?
Microsoft announced on Thursday that its Office suite for iPad has finally arrived. The only problem is — it may be too late. For years, iPad users have relied on apps, like Quip or Haiku Deck to serve their writing and word processing needs. Meanwhile, Microsoft – in all its mammoth corporate angst – has remained decidedly undecided: Provide Office for the iPad or push the company's own Surface tablets?
For many, as The New York Times writes, this move signifies a "refreshingly" new Microsoft, "one slowly unshackling itself from an era when all of its major decisions were made in deference to Windows." But many critics think Microsoft already missed their (figurative and cyber) window of opportunity: Allowing iPad users so much time to adjust to iPads sans Office may mean there's no turning back. But GeekWire reports even more surprising Microsoft adjustments to reality: Office suite will also appear on Android and be free for all tablets. — K.H.
Suicide prevention beefed up
On Thursday, Gov. Jay Inslee signed Rep. Tina Orwall's bill to strengthen suicide prevention measures. The new law will now make Washington a national leader in suicide prevention, requiring suicide prevention training every six years for some health professionals (including counselors and psychologists). Doctors and nurses will have to be trained once. One factor in the Legislature's backing of the measure: Washington's suicide rate is 15 percent above the national average. — K.H.
Downfall of fake and bake
There's one more thing minors must look to as a coming of age reward: A trip to the tanning bed. Washington is joining a half-dozen other states to ban the use of tanning salons by those under the age of 18. A key player in backing the measure was Republican Sen. Curtis King of Yakima, who told The Seattle Times he hopes to reduce the chances of teens later developing skin cancer. In order to use a tanning bed, you must provide a government issued photo ID. A $250 fine will be issued on every violation for underage use. No longer will you see that artificial orange glow of girls at the junior prom. — H.W.
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Hunter Q&A released {WoW}
Jul 23rd 2009 3:20PM I find it funny that they depreciated all rogue poison making mats, removed the skill to make it from the game, changed poisons from charges to duration based, not to mention removal of vanish and blind powder, and they can't just say "All ammunition in the game is now grey and can't be equipped. Here buy this new stuff from the vendors! Oh and guess what, bosses drop really cool shit you can shoot."
But that's just an observation from a class that's had one of it's signature traits revamped.
A real-life tabard for the Keepers of Stromgarde {WoW}
Feb 25th 2009 7:06PM Old drama is old.
VCo is for MF'in fite!
Changes to AoE in patch 3.0.4 {WoW}
Nov 24th 2008 11:46PM It's not much of a buff.
The ability costs 50 energy. Rogues max out at 130 energy through gear, talents, and glyphs. At best we get two of those off, wait a few seconds then get another (not generally a good use of energy by the way) and we're spent. At worst, we get two off and we're spent until we build up more energy. Imagine if mage's various AoE's cost half their mana for one cast.
Removing the 10 second cool down just made it reliant on the rogue's energy regeneration which might be faster or slower than ten seconds depending on spec and RNG.
Officers' Quarters: It's IC in Northrend {WoW}
Nov 17th 2008 4:54PM Someone say world PvP with Reveries?
Countdown to Wrath Giveaway: Day 1 - BlizzCon Polar Bear Mount {WoW}
Nov 12th 2008 7:35PM Don't pick them. Pick me!
Countdown to Wrath Giveaway: Day 3 - BlizzCon Polar Bear Mount {WoW}
Nov 10th 2008 11:55PM pick me!
Addon Spotlight: New, old, and outdated! {WoW}
Nov 5th 2008 11:16PM DurabilityFu
Preview of the new minimap mod SexyMap {WoW}
Oct 31st 2008 7:56PM You have three options for displaying the buttons (selectable per button), show: always, fade, never. Always has them always up (no surprise there). Fade brings them up on a mouse-over of the map. Never is pretty much the exact opposite of Always.
The plague is gone, zombies dropping like flies {WoW}
Oct 27th 2008 9:53PM Not sure if it's been reported yet, but zombies have invaded the forums.
Skill Mastery: Horn of Winter {WoW}
Sep 12th 2008 3:59PM If DK's don't have time to use their horn, then my warrior doesn't have time to battle/commanding shout.


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If you want to totally enrage Corvette fans, here's a fun thing to do: argue that the Corvette should be a four-cylinder. Then watch the capillaries burst in their cheeks as red-hot indignation flows like 93-octane through a Holley double-pumper. The notion of neutering the Corvette down to anything less than full V-8 glory is right up there with pawning the Constitution to China or outlawing hamburgers or declaring soccer the national sport. And yet, when you see a new seventh-generation Corvette lope past on the street, chances are it's powered by a four-cylinder -- 3.1 liters, 126 hp, and 221 lb-ft of torque. Oh, great. Texas just seceded.
Fear not, fellow Americans, for the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray's four-cylinder antics are strictly temporary, and the new 6.2-liter LT1 small-block can be instructed to keep all eight cylinders ready to spin out 460 hp at a prod of the throttle. But the fact that the Corvette even offers cylinder deactivation is a signifier of how thoroughly reengineered the C7 is compared with its predecessor. This is not a C6 with 25 more horsepower and LED strips draped along the headlights.
I get my crack at the C7 at GM's Milford Proving Ground, where the first order of business is for a security guard to carefully place GM-issued stickers over my iPhone's camera lenses. Then we head out to the Black Lake to drive a . . . C6? The yellow Z06 is stuffed with what looks like Mars Rover lab gear beneath the hatch -- data-gathering equipment for the new active electronic differential, dubbed eLSD. GM developed the eLSD in-house, and this Z06 mule can demonstrate the breadth of its capabilities with the flick of a switch. Essentially, an open diff lets the rear end rotate and point the car into a turn, as evidenced by the tank-slapper that ensues when the steering wheel is cranked 45 degrees at 60 mph. A locked diff helps put the power down but results in a car that wants to go straight, a point proved by the Z06's dogged understeer after the same 60-mph juke to the right. Thus, the challenge was programming the electronic diff to progressively manage those two goals in real time as the car circles a racetrack. If you're going to go through all this trouble, why not go all the way and have a torque-vectoring active diff?
"Well, torque vectoring adds weight and cost," says Heath Holbrook, the guy in charge of developing the eLSD. "And if you've already got a lightweight, well-balanced platform, then you get 90 percent of the benefit without the drawbacks."
"So torque-vectoring is kind of a Band-Aid?" I ask.
"You said it, not me!" Holbrook replies.
The C6, frankly, needed some sort of Band-Aid where its ten-tenths behavior was concerned. Although it was always a world-class speed demon, a C6 at its limits is one of the scariest rides that doesn't involve rodeo clowns. Maybe it has something to do with GM building its own private racetrack ten years ago, but more recent cars like the Cadillac CTS-V and the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 feel much happier on a road course than the outgoing Corvette does, even if they're not as fast.
To see whether that situation has changed, I fire up a searing red C7 and head onto an autocross course set up on the yawning expanse of blacktop. Chris Barber, vehicle performance engineer, rides shotgun. First impression: this thing sounds like a Vette, with a deep, ragged rumble that smooths out as you release the clutch. Second impression: great seats. Much has been made of the fact that the C7 offers two seating options: all-around touring seats and track-biased competition chairs. I ask Barber if this is the competition seat, and he informs me that this is actually the relaxed-fit base model. Compared with the old car's flabby, lazy-river chaises, even these standard seats are like Le Mans prototype racing shells. "I think the standard seats would be fine for most people, even for track driving," Barber agrees.
After a few acclimation laps, I run through the Vette's driver-assistance programs as I get more daring with the throttle. Like the ZL1, the C7 will progressively draw back the curtain on its capabilities according to your comfort level. Track mode is the last stop before "everything off," and the idea is to provide the kind of high-performance traction control that would be outlawed in most actual race cars: flatten the pedal on corner exit and the car will deploy as much power as the tires can handle, just like a Ferrari 458 Italia in race mode.
The Corvette's power management isn't as smooth as Ferrari's -- when your throttle foot overwhelms available traction, the big V-8 makes anguished stuttering noises that let you know it's struggling not to Hulk out and spin you into the bushes. But man, does it work. GM says that a pro driver will turn the fastest laps with everything off, but a driver who's merely really good will be fastest in track mode.
Out here, with nothing but cones to hit, I want to find out if the eLSD has tamed the Vette's appetite for destruction. So I deactivate stability control and go hot into the wide sweeping left at the beginning of the course. Tires howling, rear end crabbing, this would be the point where a C6 would reveal exactly where my skills run out. But the C7 hangs on and swings through the next slalom, the nose darting into the corners on lift throttle and the tail settling with a dose of power. Of course, I test the laws of physics and manage to spin a few times, but on the last set of corners, the rear tires leave a neat pair of stripes scribing an ess out onto the main straight. "I never could've done that with a C6," I say. Barber, gamely abiding these shenanigans from the passenger seat, translates my observation to engineering terms: "The C7 will tolerate more slip angle." Now let's go to the track.


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KINGSBURG, Calif. — High heat brought most California fruit crops on early and in ample volumes this summer, raising questions about how supply and demand will match up in the fall.
Grapes are a case in point. The bulk of the state's crop ships after Labor Day. The California Table Grape Commission's April estimate of 106.9 million boxes, if realized, would surpass last year's production by more than 6 million.
But by July some saw higher prices as a possibility.
"We're two weeks earlier than last year," said George Matoian, sales and marketing director for Visalia Produce Sales Inc.
"Coupled with the demand that's also so good, we might see a rise in f.o.b. during the month of September and definitely into the month of October, because we're harvesting a lot more grapes earlier."
"The whole early part of the season has been early," said Sean Stockton, president of Tulare-based Sundale Vineyards.
"It's going to be interesting to see how the middle and the later seasons play out because everything is coming on so fast."
Grower-shippers and marketers expect larger fruit size but marginally smaller volume than last year when the new navel orange crop takes over for valencias, expected to end in October.
The navel industry packed 90 million 40-pound cartons for 2012-13, according to a July estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Booth Ranches LLC forecast navel size will peak on 72s.
For the Orange Cove-based grower, maturing groves were expected to bring volume increases as well.
Satsuma mandarins, the first of the easy-peel varieties, should be available in early October, said Joan Wickham, advertising and public relations manager for Sherman Oaks-based Sunkist Growers. Clementines will follow.
"I always say the oranges follow the grapes," said Al Imbimbo, vice president of sales and marketing for Lindsay-based Suntreat Packing & Shipping Co.
"The amount of heat units we've had over the spring and summer will be conducive to great eating quality and perhaps a little earlier start."
Summer's heat seemed likely to make for sweeter kiwifruit out of the San Joaquin Valley.
Kiwifruit, like crops before it, appears to be early, with harvest scheduled for mid-October.
"Obviously with 100-degree weather the last 20 days, the sugars are really increasing," Dan Spain, vice president of sales and marketing for Kingsburg Orchards, said in late July.


text: Baby > Baby Basics 25 Reasons Babies Rock We probably don't need to tell you how cool babies are, but we will anyway. Here's why they're practically superheroes. Photo: Dawn Sparks Photography 1. They survive with holes in their skullsYou know those soft spots on baby's head? There are actually two "holes," one at the back of the head and the other at the top, called the fontanels. Baby's skull isn't fully united at first so he can make that trek down the birth canal. The soft spots are a little freaky in the beginning, but they close up -- the one at the back within two to six months and the one on the top by about 18 months. 2. They can turn a cynical person into a pile of mushYou might have a friend who's the most stoic person ever. But when he meets your baby, he's oohing, aahing and busting out his high-pitched voice with the rest of us. 3. They have incredible brainsDuring the first few years of life, an infant's brain nearly triples in size. Not only is your baby's brain going through a weight growth spurt, it's filled with 100 billion neurons, able to soak up knowledge like a sponge. As your newborn develops into a toddler, you'll see his super brain learn language, motion and emotion in a heck of a short time frame. 4. They're easily amusedTake advantage of this time before your baby becomes a preteen and starts rolling his eyes at you every chance he gets. Simple things like peekaboo or making silly noises will get him laughing or kicking his legs in glee. 5. They explore everything mouth-firstTouch is the first sense baby develops, and it's very acute -- especially in baby's mouth. By one month of age, babies can get a mental picture of the things they've put in their mouths. 6. They're mama's boys (or girls!)During the middle of pregnancy, baby can start hearing things in the womb. New research shows that when they're born, babies already recognize their mother's voice and can distinguish it from others. So baby loves you first (and probably best). 7. Their transition from slothy blob to walker is fast and furiousOne day, baby is a blob who doesn't do much more than flail. About a month later, he can lift his head. At five months, he's rolling over. By seven months, he can sit up on his own. And as early as eight months, he can stand. Magically, at 13 months, he may begin walking. (And in the decades we've been alive, most of us still haven't figured out how to juggle!) 8. They have adorable smilesBabies start smiling at about two months old. And that will brighten up any bad day. 9. They grow exponentiallyYour eight-pound baby may have measured 20 inches at birth, but by the time he's four months old, he'll likely gain up to six pounds, as well as more than four inches. By age six months, babies are typically double their birth weight, and by one year, they'll have tripled it! 10. They smell ridiculously goodNew-baby smell should be bottled and sold as a pricey perfume. 11. They can make a mess and get away with it (sorta)Have you ever seen photos of kids destroying things? Maybe flushing some family heirloom down the toilet or getting in the mud with your dog? Whatever it is, they make a whole lot of messes. And even if baby draws with permanent marker all over your new white couch, you'll forgive him pretty quickly. 12. They quickly teach themselves how to seeBaby's vision will go through a lot of changes during the first month. Babies are born with peripheral vision, but they'll have the ability to focus on specific things by one month. 13. They're comediansHow many YouTube videos have you seen of babies doing funny things? Some of those videos have more views than our favorite stand-up comics' clips. 14. They make you see the world through rose-colored glassesYour baby burped four times this morning? Rocked on all fours almost making it to a crawl? In your previous, prebaby life, those things may not have seemed like such a big deal, but now, they're completely amazing, 15. They have impressive metabolismsAs hungry as you get, you probably don't eat every two hours -- and definitely not throughout the night. Babies can, and do -- having about 12 meals a day in the first few weeks, even waking from sleep to do so. Don't worry -- baby will eventually space out those feedings. (And you'll sleep more. We promise.) 16. They inspire you to thank your own parentsNow you know what it's like on the other side, and very little about it is easy. 17. They're chatterboxesAt infancy, he communicated primarily by crying, but by 24 months, a baby's vocabulary may reach 50 words or more. 18. They turn adults into blubbering idiotsPut baby in front of almost any adult, and with one smile or coo, the grown-up will likely be reduced to baby talk. We're not sure how babies hold such power over us, but Swedish scientists did find that smiles are contagious. 19. They can have dual personalitiesOne minute they're smiling and giggling. The next they're throwing an apocalyptic tantrum. Talk about mood swings! 20. They have superstrengthBabies learn how to grasp by three months, and once they have a hold of something, it can be difficult getting them to let go, especially if it's the long hair of an innocent bystander (yowch!). 21. They get you some good perksIf you're holding a cute baby, you just might find that you get away with more (see number 2), like jumping a long line at the grocery store or getting offered that last empty seat on the train. 22. They work magicKind of like Houdini, babies have the amazing ability to get into things you'd never have expected. Turn your back for a second and your incredible little infant has crawled into a cabinet or swallowed a penny hidden in the deepest crevices of your couch. (So be sure to baby-proof!) 23. They get away with not having any mannersAnyone who's not a baby would never be able to grab someone's boob in public or fart without excusing herself. We already know that babies can practically get away with murder (see number 11), but the stuff you'd never even think of attempting? Baby can do that. 24. They're resilientWhen they're first starting to walk, babies take tumbles all the time. And sometimes you'll be shocked at how he gets back up without so much as a tear. 25. They make your heart grow a thousand times biggerOkay, so it's corny. But doesn't having a kid make you feel even more love than you ever thought you were capable of? Plus, more from The Bump: You Know You're a Mom When... 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The Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute Meets the Challenge of Training Diabetes Educators Across the Globe
Looking for novel ways to help improve patient outcomes, the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute is using innovative adult education techniques to train diabetes educators around the world. While the cultural and epidemiological differences in each region can be challenging, David L. Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, Chief Medical Officer of the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute, feels confident this program can make a positive impact to help improve patient outcomes.
The Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute (JJDI) provides health professionals with no-cost education and training programs in key regions of the world - China, Japan, the U.S. and Europe. At the Diabetes Institute, educators are trained on the safe and effective use of its products including glucose monitoring and insulin pump products.
The Johnson and Johnson Diabetes Institute developed specific programs in each region to meet educator's needs. In China, Institute staff worked with the Chinese Diabetes Association and Ministry of Health to develop the nation's first certification program for diabetes educators. The week-long training program provides rigorous didactic training with extensive education in the basic science of diabetes and its management. The Health Ministry then places the participants in hospitals for practical experience before they are certified as Diabetes Educators.
The Institute's program in Europe addresses the behavioral aspects of diabetes, and according to Dr. Horwitz, there is no one else in Europe offering any type of program like it. In Japan, the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute has programs for both physicians and allied health professionals.
The Diabetes Institute is moving the U.S. focus toward more hands-on training designed to help educators change patient behaviors that undermine diabetes management. This is because many of those coming for the training are already experienced diabetes educators and have different expectations of the program. Dr. Horwitz explains, "Practitioners come to us asking -'What am I going to learn here that I don't know'? My job is to keep the content fresh and up to date. We design our U.S. program to be highly participative, using the best adult education practices. We have to respect and engage the knowledge of our audience."
One exercise that has proven to be especially effective takes a "day in the life" approach, where the educators try to experience what it is like to self-manage diabetes. "This morning before lunch, we gave everyone a chance to use a blood glucose meter and really get to know how to use it," said Dr. Horwitz. "At lunch, they counted their carbs, with some help. Then, at the end of the day, we started them on an insulin pump (without insulin, of course). They had to wear the pump and then to go to dinner in a restaurant, without carb cards and figure it out. This can be interesting because the dieticians sometimes don't agree among themselves about the right way to calculate the carbohydrate content, especially without measuring tools or an ingredients list. That's part of the learning experience. If they ever wondered why their patients can't get it right, this shows them that it isn't easy," adds Horwitz.
By learning what is important to the patients, educators can focus their limited time on effective behavior change and motivation. "At the Diabetes Institute, we focus more on the patient experience and how that affects compliance," said Dr. Horwitz. "When educators complete the program, they will be able to start a real dialogue with the patient about how to use the glucose monitors and the pump. They will have a real understanding of the patient's experience. Our goal is to help diabetes educators increase the number of their patients attaining and maintaining their target scores."
The program is not a traditional Continuing Education program and does not offer CME credits. "We are not competing with the ADA," said Dr. Horwitz. "The Institute provides a product training program. It is centered on the achieving the most effective use of our products, our glucose monitors and software. And because we don't offer CMEs and focus on product training, we can subsidize the educators travel here, which is helpful to hospitals without large training budgets."
The program has a loyal base of alumni who continue to meet online. "We have an online community where people can talk about what they learned in class, share experiences and even discuss problems. I use my blog on the site to talk about things that interest me in the literature and try to start a conversation," said Dr. Horwitz. The alumni have become the Diabetes Institute's best recruiters. "Virtually all recruiting is now by word of mouth, and because we can only take 30 people at a time, the waiting list is well over a thousand. We try to select people from underserved areas, those who will benefit the most. They are people who have a large number of individuals with diabetes."
One question that often arises around the topic of diabetes education is what happens after the training? How do you know if you have been successful? "When we developed the program, we set targets and developed metrics," explained Dr. Horwitz. "Participants are asked to rate their confidence in various areas: when to prescribe insulin; how to use a pump; how to rate the results of blood glucose monitoring. After the training, they are asked these questions again and we look at changes in confidence. We see dramatic changes after 2 days of training, often around 20 percent. We also ask what percent of patients say they stay at their target scores, before training and then 3, 6, and 12 months later."
When asked why J&J became involved in the area of diabetes education, Dr. Horwitz responded, "People traditionally didn't think of J&J as a diabetes company, although we are among the global leaders in our glucose monitoring and pump products. We decided we wanted to make a difference "in the trenches", using the best practices of adult education to train diabetes educators how to change behaviors and motivate their patients."
"We asked ourselves how do we help educators teach the new skills once they leave the training program? We know that lectures are not effective in changing behaviors, so we had to develop other methods. We had to change behaviors within the faculty, too. We use the way we teach the diabetes educators as an example of how to teach patients. The people that come to the Diabetes Institute are doing adult education with their patients. So by setting an example of participatory learning, they learn how to give the patient a chance to talk, too."
After many years in clinical research, Dr. Horwitz is enjoying his return to education. "My training was on the clinical team at University of Chicago. I've was on the faculty at the University of Chicago and later the University of Illinois for 20 years altogether, teaching students, providing patient care and doing research in diabetes. I was one the first people to get involved in insulin pumps and had one of the largest insulin pump practices in Chicago. Eventually I came to Johnson and Johnson, initially for clinical research, medical affairs and regulatory affairs worked in those areas until a little over a year ago. I came to the Johnson and Johnson Diabetes Institute because it was a good opportunity to get back into the educational realm. I have made it my mission to make sure the course content stays fresh and up to date, relevant to the needs of the people we are training and the patients they serve. My primary goal is to expand our reach. We can't bring the whole world to our four Institutes, so we have to try to expand outward with multiple programs and "take it on the road."
Dr. David L. Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, is presently the Chief Medical Officer of the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute. Previously, he was vice president for Worldwide Clinical Affairs & Evidence Based Medicine at LifeScan, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. During his time at LifeScan, Dr. Horwitz has at various times been responsible for Clinical Research, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Advocacy & Professional Affairs. Dr. Horwitz obtained his bachelor's degree at Harvard University, majoring in Chemistry and Physics, and has an M.D. and Ph.D. (in physiology) from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He is a Board-Certified internist and endocrinologist, and was on the faculty of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois, where he was Clinical Professor of Medicine and adjunct professor in the Department of Nutrition and Medical Dietetics. He has published over 100 articles in scientific and clinical journals, primarily in the areas of diabetes and metabolism. He served as President of the Illinois Affiliate of the American Diabetes Association, and has also been active nationally in the ADA, acting as chair of the Committee on Planning and Organization, and vice-chair of the Committee on Research. He is currently the industry representative on the FDA advisory panel on clinical chemistry and toxicology.
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LAKE PLACID — An event Monday will honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and express support for Boston and its residents.
BostonStrongLP invites one and all to run or walk around Mirror Lake at 6 p.m., starting from Lake Placid Beach and observing the first half mile in silence for those who died and were injured at Monday's tragedy.
People are invited to take their dogs along, push babies in strollers or participate however they choose, a press release said.
"RSVP on facebook or just show up," organizer Greg Borzilleri said. "If anyone would like to contribute to a victims fund, there will be shirts for sale and a collection box."
That is not the primary purpose, however, he said.
"We are going to run to show our support for Boston and its people."
A reception will follow at the Lake Placid Conference Center. Free pizza and beverages will be provided by Centerplate and Price Chopper. LP Pub and Brewery afterwards will sell pints for $3, with proceeds going to The One Fund Boston Inc., formed this week to assist those most affected by the bombings.
Crowne Plaza Resort & Golf Club Lake Placid, Golden Arrow Resort, Burnham Benefit Advisors, Graymont and Mirror Lake Inn contributed funds to pay for the T-shirts for sale on Monday to benefit that fund as well.
Learn more about One Fund or donate online at http://onefundboston.org.


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Volunteer Endowment for Patient Support (VEPS)
The Volunteer Endowment for Patient Support (VEPS) was established by volunteers to benefit MD Anderson patients. Founded in 1991, VEPS grew out of a vision to raise funds to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. The VEPS Disbursement Committee equitably distributes funds originating from the accrued interest of the Volunteer Endowment for Patient Support to meet the social, emotional, comfort, informational, and recreational needs of patients at
MD Anderson Cancer Center.
A growing endowment
The Volunteer Endowment for Patient Support (VEPS), currently at $3.6 million, provides a perpetual source of funding for meaningful patient-oriented programs and special amenities not covered by traditional sources, such as:
- Patient education materials
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To date, over $2.4 million has been disbursed to fulfill unmet needs of our patients.
Annual fundraising luncheon
The annual VEPS fundraising luncheon benefits the endowment and raises awareness of MD Anderson in the community. Funds from the endowment also help provide important programs for patients and their caregivers throughout the cancer center.
2015 VEPS Luncheon Date: Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2015 |
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An MFA invitational exhibition
This is a group invitational curated by recent SNC Fine Arts graduates who have gone on to MFA programs. Each graduate was invited to submit one piece of work, and also invited one peer from their MFA program to participate in the show. This exhibition creates a sample of the types of programs and endeavors SNC graduates have become involved with.
The exhibition will be spread across the Tahoe Gallery on the third floor of Prim Library and our brand new Garage Door Gallery in the new Holman Arts and Media Center!
Nick Geankoplis / Brian Caponi – Alfred University
Jocelyn Meggait / Susanna Corcoran – Mills College
Jared Bender – University of Washington
Logan Lape / Aaron Cooper – Parsons, The New School for Design
Glen Cheriton / Owen Laurion – San Francisco Art Institute
Jeff Colhoun / Lauren Crew – Academy of Art University
Victoria Buck / April Bachtel – University of Tennessee
Becca Jane Rubinfeld / Lukasz Luka Rayski – Parsons, The New School for Design
Opening Reception Thur. Jan. 30th, 2014 5-7pm in the Tahoe Gallery – lecture with Victoria Buck & April Bachtel of the University of Tennessee
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switching databases on the fly
I am using database 1 to insert user content. One of the table indexes for database 1 that holds the user content is the userid.
I then need to get the username and other user information which is stored in a different table in database 2. The user account table in database 2 also uses the userid as its index.
How can I access user information from table "users" in database 2 to if I am using the userid from table "user_content" in database 1?
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I realize the above is totally wrong.. but it summarize what I am trying to do.
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You will have to populate the somenumber part.PHP Code:
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Why are you using two databases anyways rather than just two tables?
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Come Monday, February 18th, George Washington wants to help your post-Valentine's Day hangover with our last official work holiday until late May. (Gulp.)
With beaches, bars, and bratwurst just 2.5 hours north, the friendly lakeside town of Sheboygan, Wisconsin is the presidential getaway we recommend you get behind.
With a stunning complex perched on a massive peninsula overlooking Lake Michigan, Blue Harbor Resort is the place to be in Sheboygan. Take a quiet winter stroll on their lakeside path before heading for their on-site water park, where alcoholic slushies are best sipped by the fireplace (or keep them on ice for a moonlight tasting from your private balcony).
$139 and up per night. 725 Blue Harbor Dr. (866-701-2583)
In a town known for bratwurst, the juicy, perfectly-cooked brats at English pub Duke of Devon are hard to beat. Located along the bustling Harbor Centre District boardwalk where the Sheboygan River meets Lake Michigan, the dimly lit pub also impresses with their freshly caught haddock, mussels, and seafood curry.
739 Riverfront Dr. (920-258-7000)
The gregarious owner/bartender/next door bait shop proprietor at locals spot Anglers Avenue creates a fun vibe at a cozy riverside location across from the hotel. $2 draft beer specials, free popcorn, and a karaoke-style microphone that is passed around the crowd make this place feel like home because, for the owner, it is.
510 S. Pier Dr. (920-395-2406)
No trip to Sheboygan would be complete without some time at the beach, and Deland Park's downtown location offers wide-open spaces, sandy beaches, and huge Lake Michigan views dotted with lighthouses. Snowshoe along the lakefront hiking trail or kick back with a thermos of Irish coffee while taking in the quiet.
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The wrong trousers! Emma Watson shocks with bizarre red carpet costume
EMMA Watson left fashion watchers scratching their heads in London last night - by wearing a dress AND a pair of trousers.
The Harry Potter star, 22, looked stunning from the waist up at the red carpet screening of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.


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Lotus developing car with intelligent engine – When the car hits congestion it will automatically shut down two of its four cylinders and travel at a reduced speed.
When it hits the open road again it will return to full thrust. Fuel consumption will be cut by 20% and exhaust emissions by 90%.
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387 Pritchett to Department of External Affairs
Cablegram 309 BATAVIA, 19 December 1948, 11.45 a.m.
The Consular Corps were summoned to the Palace at 8.30 this morning to hear a statement from Beel.
2. He informed us that the Netherlands Govt. has yesterday afternoon handed a memorandum [1] to the Ambassadors in The Hague which stated inter alia that the Netherlands Govt. had been obliged to authorize him to take without any further delay such measures as he concluded necessary to re-establish conditions of peace and security in the whole of Indonesia. Beel said that he had authorized military action and that this had already begun. He said that he had as yet received no reports on the fighting.
Precautions would be taken to ensure the safety of the Committee of Good Offices personnel now in Kaliurang.
3. Cutts who came to Batavia yesterday is at present with Cochran and will report later. Communications with Kaliurang were cut off last night so we have been unable to contact Critchley.
4. Alagappan has informed me that aircraft which was to have taken Sukarno has had to return to India without him.
5. Copies of the Netherlands memorandum were handed to us and full text follows in my immediately following telegram.
6. I now understand that the Dutch forces crossed the status quo line and others parachuted into Djokjakarta early this morning.


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St Joseph's Hospital and Candler Hospital, a 644-bed tertiary care hospital system and the main facilities of St Joseph's/Candler Health System (SJCHS) in Savannah, Ga, are two of the oldest continuously operating hospitals in the United States. Both hospitals are individually accredited by The Joint Commission, and the health system is one of a select few in the country to have achieved network accreditation status. Additionally, SJCHS is the only health provider in the region to have achieved Magnet Recognition Program status for nursing excellence and is noted as one of the country's top 100 integrated health care systems by Modern Healthcare. It is a medical teaching site for Georgia Health Sciences University and is affiliated with several universities for the education of pharmacists, nurses, and other health-related professionals.
Based on information from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) regarding patient controlled analgesia (PCA) safety and after three opioid-related events with serious outcomes in the preceding 2 years, SJCHS embarked on a multiyear process of implementing an advanced IV medication safety system. The team recognized that safe use of PCA requires both correct pump programming and monitoring of patients' individual respiratory response to opioids. A beta test of monitoring modules integrated with the IV platform was begun in June 2004. Beta testing revealed the difficulty of predicting which patients actually were high-risk and that capnography, not pulse oximetry, provided the first indication of opioid-related respiratory depression. As a result, the decision was made to require a capnography module for each PCA infusion and to use a pulse oximetry module for selected patients receiving PCA analgesics who have preexisting comorbidities.
In June 2012, SJCHS celebrated its eighth anniversary of being "event free" regarding opioid oversedation on patients monitored with capnography, setting a standard for other hospitals to emulate. In this interview, Harold Oglesby, RRT, manager of respiratory care at Candler Hospital, talks about the facility's experience with capnography.
How are you currently using capnography at St Joseph's/Candler?
We use it in several different ways. We use it in both nonintubated and intubated patients. We use it in our ICU to monitor patients' ventilation during the intubation or ventilation process. We use nonintubated capnography out on the floors on patients who are receiving opioids. We also use it in our emergency department and on patients who are having procedural sedation.
Can you tell us a little bit about the papers your institution has published?
A lot of the information comes from the research that we've done that has been focused on PCA patients monitored with capnography and the effectiveness gained in monitoring ventilation versus oxygenation. What we found is that we have an earlier recognition of any patient deterioration using capnography versus using oximetry alone. We also have looked at several case studies of patients, and we noted that by the use of capnography, we've recognized deteriorating patients early; so it gives us the leeway to take actions before those patients get into any trouble.
What are the advantages you see in using capnography to monitor ventilation over other methods?
Capnography provides a very useful and effective tool to continuously monitor the adequacy of ventilation. Other methods for monitoring a patient's ventilation don't give you that same value. When you're looking at capnography, you can see what the patient's ventilation is actually doing. When you're measuring respiratory rate, be it by direct observation, impedance, or acoustic respiratory rates, you're only getting breaths per minute. It doesn't tell you the effectiveness or adequacy of ventilation. It doesn't tell you what minute ventilation that patient is moving. So you can have a patient with a respiratory rate of 12 or 14, but if they're moving very small tidal volumes, they're ineffectively ventilating and respiratory rate monitors won't tell you that. With capnography, you can see what's actually happening with CO2 and whether your patient is being adequately ventilated.
What's been your experience with the reliability and accuracy of capnography in nonintubated patients?
We found it to be a reliable tool for monitoring our noninvasive patients. We found that not only can we monitor changes in the trends, but we can see changes before they're actively affecting the patients. We can monitor those changes and see what's happening with ventilation. Not only can we look at trends, but we also can look at waveforms. The waveform gives us details that we don't get from a blood gas. A blood gas is just a snapshot of what's happening in a patient in a moment.
What have you found is the role of capnography in monitoring sleep apnea patients?
One of the things we recognized when we started using capnography was the many patients who had unrecognized obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). That was discovered by looking at the capnography waveforms when the patients were being monitored. When we first started, a lot of complaints came about nuisance alarms, but when the therapists went to the bedside to assess the patients, they weren't nuisance alarms—patients were actually experiencing OSA that hadn't been recognized previously.
How else have you dealt with what are perceived to be nuisance alarms?
Staff education is crucial to making sure they understand what may or may not be a true alarm. When we initially started using capnography, we got a lot of complaints about nuisance alarms. When we actually went to the bedside to work with the clinicians who were new to the system, we were finding that what they were considering a nuisance alarm wasn't really a nuisance alarm. It was an actual problem. Also important is setting the alarms properly. On the postoperative floor, we learned that alarms had to be set differently than we would set them in high acuity environments like the ICU. On our opioid patients, we set our low respiratory rate at six breaths per minute, and it's set to automatically shut off the PCA at four.
What role has the respiratory therapist played in capnography monitoring postoperatively?
One of the keys to having a successful program was the fact that the respiratory therapy staff was brought in early in the process. For our facility, using capnography was always restricted to the ICU. So when we started to expand it outside of the ICU, we were dealing with novice users of capnography. On the general care area, it wasn't something that medical/surgical nurses were familiar with. The respiratory therapists were very familiar with it. The bedside education by respiratory therapists and the medical staff was a key component. When nurses had issues at the bedside, the therapists could tell them what was going on. They could look at the trends and waveforms together. The same thing happened with physicians who were less familiar with capnography on nonintubated patients.
How did you train your clinicians on capnography?
We had courses that provided a lot of detail to help the nurses get familiar with capnography, but a lot of the education, a lot of the "ah-hah" moments, occurred at the bedside. So if the patient was experiencing difficulties, the nurse and a "super user" (internal expert like the RTs) could look at the trends, look at the waveforms, look at the values, put those tools together, make their assessment, and make decisions about what to do for the patient. The same thing happened with some of our physicians. We actually had pulmonologists who were questioning whether noninvasive capnography was of use in their patients. One of our pulmonologists with the most questions used capnography on a patient he was nervous about. He said, "Well, let's try capnography on this patient and see if it's going to work." Well, not only did it work, but when his patient deteriorated on the floor, it was caught early. After that, the physician wanted all of his patients on capnography.
Can you talk about specific cases where capnography proved to be a benefit?
I think of a 32-year-old guy who came in and was a user of high doses of hydromorphone (Dilaudid) for sickle cell. The benefit for him using capnography was that a nurse was better able to meet his pain needs because she had the backup of capnography. She had a good understanding of monitoring that patient's trend. She could monitor his ventilation. So there was less fear of oversedating him, because if she had gotten to that point, she would have seen changes in the capnography.
We had another patient who was a post-op and had no significant comorbidities. This should have been a clean postoperative recovery, but the patient started showing changes with increased respiratory rate and decreased end-tidal CO2. Then we noted that the patient's saturations had started to drop—the patient had a pulmonary embolism. So it gave us an early indication of what was going on with this patient, a lot earlier than what would have been recognized without having capnography in use.
As a respiratory therapist, why is that important to get an indication of respiratory depression as early as possible?
It's really important for us because the earlier we recognize it, the earlier we can intervene. If we are intervening earlier, usually we can use less invasive modalities to rescue the patient. We won't have to intubate the patient. We could do noninvasive ventilation. We can resolve the problem before it becomes something that requires the patient to move to a higher level of care. We don't want to intubate a patient and put him on a mechanical ventilator unless we have to. We don't want to do CPR unless we have to. We want to avoid those things.
Can you talk about your facility's decision to monitor everyone with capnography?
When we first started discussing monitoring patients with capnography, it was a question of do we really want to monitor everyone with capnography or do we want to monitor everybody with oximetry and only certain patients with capnography. So we tried to come up with algorithms of who would be monitored with capnography versus who would be monitored with oximetry. The issue became we don't know who is going to go bad. We don't know whether it's going to be the 23-year-old guy who came in for knee surgery or if it's going to be the 62-year-old COPD patient. From a respiratory standpoint, the first question we were asked was what would be a better tool for monitoring ventilation.
For patient safety, capnography was felt to be the best. And when we put it into action, we saw the benefits fairly early on. There were a number of cases. We talk about ah-hah moments all the time here at our facility; we had a lot of ah-hah moments on patients who we did not think would need capnography, and they actually benefited. From the respiratory therapist and nursing standpoint, once capnography is put into place and everybody is educated on its use, they will have a lot of ah-hah moments and they will recognize patients who probably would have had poor outcomes and cost the facility a lot more money than the capnograms cost.
What is the role of patient and family education about capnography cannulas and the impact that has on their compliance?
Patient education is the key. A well-educated patient and family are key to having successful compliance with using capnography. Once the patients and the families understand that it's being done for safety, for their safety, they're much more compliant. They don't have any issues wearing the cannulas.
What changes in patient outcomes have you observed since you started monitoring capnography?
I think that what we found after we introduced capnography, and particularly after everybody became comfortable with using it on the floors, was a significant decrease in the number of rapid response calls to the floor. Because therapists were already going to the floor once a shift and assessing the patients, if they saw changes in trends, they would get with the nurse; if clinical intervention needed to be done, it would be done at that time versus when a patient was bad and the nurse had to get a team up there to intervene with the patient. When we noted patients deteriorating, we saw a decrease in the number of times those patients had to be transferred from the floor to critical care. Because it was early on in the patient's changes, we were able to intervene and solve the problem on the floor before the patient needed to be transferred to a higher level of care. The patients who were being moved to the ICU needed to be in the ICU. Patients who needed naloxone (Narcan) at the bedside were giving naloxone at the bedside. The problem was resolved.


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Summer is ending and school is starting, Sept. 3 to be exact. There will be an influx of additional traffic and pedestrians on already busy roadways. Curtis Elementary will have a new crossing guard, though she is not new to Chester. The point is that if you drive through Chester, or any other part of Chesterfield County where a school exists, then you must be prepared for traffic delays. Though it has been hard for many of us to get used to the 35 MPH speed limit change on Rt. 10, from Curtis St. to Rt. 1, I hope that it will be a help in keeping the speed down through the crossings in Chester.
Let me speak to the ones that disregard school zone speed limits, as well as the signals given by crossing guards. Though there seems to be a trend to build new schools off of the beaten path, there are still many schools that sit on major roadways; some of which have pedestrians and some that just have a lot of bus traffic. Not every school in Chesterfield County has a crossing guard, but the ones that do are there because of children that walk to and from school. Driving is a privilege and a responsibility. A major part of that responsibility is the safety of everyone inside and outside of your vehicle. If you do not have the patience to properly negotiate a school zone, then you must take another route.
To the scores of parents that will drive their children to school, mind your manners as well. It is not the job of a crossing guard to help you into or out of the school, but many do it to keep the traffic flow smooth. You must know that many schools were never designed for this heavy parent traffic, so school administrators have had to develop workable solutions to the issues created. The bottom line is that it is going to take time for you to safely enter the traffic flow in the parent drop-off area and to exit the parking lot. I would also remind you that the decisions that you make, while entering or exiting, will directly affect the crossing guard. Be attentive.
It is my hope that this will be a safe and productive school year. We are blessed to have the many safety features in place, designed to protect our children. A key part of safety is the acknowledgement and preparation of those who must drive through these crossings as well. Give yourself plenty of time for whatever might occur. Running over a child or causing an accident at a crossing will stop traffic in and around that crossing, much less disrupt the lives of many more than just you. Drive through the crossing as if it were your child or grandchild that has to cross that street. I encourage a police presence at major crossings because I believe that enforcement is the only thing that some people recognize. Drivers must give the teachers, children, crossing guards and bus drivers the room and the courtesy necessary to properly get traffic into and out of the schools. Yes, children play a part in this too, and that is to do what they are told in and around a crossing. I leave you with this; get ready for the third.
Who is responsible for setting up school zone signs, including the "end school zone" sign at Manchester Middle Street on Hull St? There are lights indicating that you are entering the school zone and to reduce speed, but no return to normal speed (end school zone) signage. Hull Street has a lot of traffic and some vehicles do not speed up when the drive beyond the school.


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Community Schools are public schools that emphasize family engagement, strong community partnerships and additional supports for students and families. Community Schools are designed to counter environmental factors that impede student achievement. Fundamentally, Community Schools coordinate and maximize public, non-profit and private resources to deliver critical services to students and their families, thereby increasing student achievement and generating other positive outcomes. Learn more about Community Schools here.
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