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Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006NEWSPRESIDENT'S FACULTY ADDRESS AVAILABLE ONLINE:For those unable to attend President Allen's address at the Fall Faculty meeting on Aug. 28, it's posted at http://www.uni.edu/pres/speeches/faculty.shtml DR. PHILLIP G. HUBBARD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR:The Dr. Phillip G. Hubbard Award for Outstanding Educator at UNI recognizes excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. All tenured UNI faculty members with five years or more of full time UNI service are eligible. For an application, or for more information, visit http://www.uni.edu/vpaa or call Jeff Weld at 3-3595. The deadline is Friday, Oct. 6. BETA TEST FOR NEW E-MAIL SYSTEM:ITS is currently implementing Oracle Collaborations Suite to be used as UNI's primary e-mail system. In preparation, a testing session will begin in late September. ITS is seeking about 50 students and 50 faculty and staff to participate in this testing session. To participate, contact Vivian Dragu at firstname.lastname@example.com. REGENTS STAFF EXCELLENCE AWARDS:This award is presented annually to Professional and Scientific employees who have made outstanding contributions during their careers. Candidates should exemplify staff excellence at UNI and been employed at UNI for a minimum of five years. To view the nomination form, or for more information, visit https://access.uni.edu/cgi-bin/bbs/bbs_candidate.cgi or go to MyUNIverse. Nominations should be submitted by Friday, Sept. 22. CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION MAP AVAILABLE ONLINE:Facilities Services has updated the campus construction map, which is available online at http://www.vpaf.uni.edu/fs/construction_map.htm. The map shows the areas of campus that will be under construction throughout this year. If you have any questions regarding these projects, contact Facilities Services at 3-2611. MERIT VACANCIES:To view Merit vacancies, visit TUTORS NEEDED:Classic Upward Bound is looking for tutors to work with high school students in the areas of math, science, English and Spanish/French/German for after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2:35 to 4:45 p.m. and/or 6 to 8 p.m. Tutorials are held at Waterloo East and West High Schools and UNI-CUE. For an application or more information, call 433-1250. FALL CREATIVE DRAMA CLASSES:The Sturgis Youth Theatre, under the direction of Gretta Berghammer, is offering creative drama classes for children in kindergarten through high school. For more information, visit http://www.uni.edu/theatre/sturgis/classes/index.html or call 3-6387. EMPLOYEE RESOURCEASSESSING COURSE EFFECTIVENESS EARLY:At 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, in the ITTC 125/126, Doug Shaw will discuss using the Small Group Instructional Diagnostic (SGID) procedure to assess course effectiveness. This procedure emphasizes collecting data early in the semester through a small group consensus process, allowing instructors to make course adjustments during the current term. Faculty who have used SGID in the past will share their experiences. Sponsored by the Teaching-Learning Consortium. For more information, contact Melissa Heston at email@example.com. SAS SHORT COURSE OFFERED:There will be an SAS short course offered by the Statistical Consulting Lab from 11 a.m. to noon or 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 14, in the ITTC 234. For more information, visit http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson/SCL/. To RSVP, or for further information, contact Mark Jacobson at email@example.com or 3-7172. FAST TRACK TO FUNDING: INTRO TO OSP & GRANT SEEKING:The Office of Sponsored Programs' first monthly brown bag lunch will be from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, in CME 109. There will be an overview of OSP services and grant seeking hints. New faculty are especially invited. To RSVP, contact 3-3217 or firstname.lastname@example.com. CONFERENCE ON COMMERCIALIZING CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:UNI will host the second annual conference from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, in the CME. UNI faculty, staff and students are invited to exhibit projects in any stage of commercialization. If you would like to exhibit a poster or table top display over the lunch hour, contact Jill Trainer at email@example.com or call 3-3282. SEPTEMBER WORDS OF WELLNESS:The UNI employee wellness newsletter is posted at http://www.uni.edu/wellrec, under Employee Wellness. To be added to the Wellness mailing list to receive a hard copy, contact Kathy Green at 3-6921 or email@example.com. EVENTSOPEN CO-REC KICKBALL TOURNAMENT:Entry forms are available at WRC Room 101 the week of Sept. 11. Registration is 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Sept. 18-20, at WRC Room 101 and is limited to the first 12 teams. The tournament schedule will be e-mailed and posted after 9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 22, on the WRC IM bulletin board. Tournament play begins at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24 (Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 15), at the Intramural Fields. There is an entry fee of $20 per team. Open to all students, faculty and staff. THURSDAZE MOVIE:Come see the blockbuster move, "The Lake House," starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, at 7 and 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, in the Maucker Union Ballroom. Free refreshments provided. ROD LIBRARY FAMILY WEEKEND GIVEAWAY:Stop by the Rod Library during Family Weekend to register your favorite student and/or family member for door prizes. Students can win a copy of "University of Northern Iowa," a pictorial history of UNI, and family members can win the library's cookbook, "Between the Bookends." Self-guided tours of the library will be available. Rod Library will be open during normal weekend hours. FRIENDS AND FAMILY WEEKEND DANCE CONCERT:At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, there will be a free dance concert in the Russell Hall Auditorium presented by the UNI International Dance Theatre, Orchesis Dance Company and UNI Repertory Dance Theatre. Enjoy folk dances, ballroom, and art dances such as jazz, modern and tap. For more information about dance at UNI, visit http://www.uni.edu/dance. ORGAN FACULTY RECITAL:Kui-Im Lee, UNI assistant professor of music, will perform works by Pachelbel, J.S. Bach, Brahms, Ives, Schwabe and Reger at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, in GBPAC, Jebe Hall. Free. PANTHER ATHLETICS:The Panther football team will host South Dakota State at 4:06 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16. The Panther soccer team hosts Valparaiso at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, at the CVYSA Complex. The Panther volleyball team hosts North Dakota State at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, in the West Gym. KUNI PRESENTS:The KUNI concert series continues at The Reverb on Saturday, Sept. 16, with Austin-based guitarist, singer and songwriter, Chris Duarte. Chris is already being compared with the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. Duarte performs with the Savoy Truffle. Showtime is 9 p.m. For complete concert information, visit http://www.kuniradio.org. CAMPANILE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION:The UNI Campanile is celebrating its 80th birthday and you're invited. The festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18, in the Campanile Plaza, with refreshments and a concert by carillonneur Karel Keldermans. For more information, visit http://www.uni-foundation.org. CONSTITUTION DAY:As part of UNI's celebration of Constitution Day, two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives will participate in the Hoxie Forum on Congress, the President and the Balance of Power, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, in Lang Auditorium. A reception will follow from 5 to 6 p.m. Former Reps. Sam Coppersmith (D-AZ), and Manuel Lujan (R-NM) will visit campus as part of the Congress to Campus program. The program provides educational content on the U.S. Congress and promotes careers in public service. As part of their two-day visit, they will also visit selected UNI classes and the Price Laboratory School. KUNI'S LIVE FROM STUDIO ONE:The folk-rock duo Big Blue Sky will perform at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 18, in KUNI'S third-floor studios in the CAC. Admission is $3 at the door, free for children under 12. SEE THE WHIRLING DERVISHES:A traveling company of Whirling Dervishes from Turkey will perform in the GBPAC at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept 18. The dervishes represent one of many traditions in the Sufi orders of Islam. Their circular dance imitates the order of the universe, and its performance is a form of religious devotion. Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy & Religion and the Iowa Dialog Center. Tickets are $8 for UNI faculty, staff and students, and may be purchased at the GBPAC box office: http://www.gbpac.com/season/artists/whirling.shtml TRUMPET FACULTY RECITAL:Randy Grabowski, trumpeter with Sean Botkin, piano will perform works by Vladimir Urovsky, John Williams, Alan Schmitz, Harold Shapero, and Allen Vizzutti at 8 p.m.Tuesday, Sept. 19 in GBPAC, Davis Hall. BOOK DISCUSSION AND SIGNING:From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, University Book & Supply will host a discussion and book signing with Jeffrey S. Copeland, head and professor of English and author of "Inman's War: A Soldier's Story of Life in a Colored Battalion in WWII." GEORGE CARLIN COMING TO GALLAGHER-BLUEDORN:Thursday, Sept. 21, the GBPAC's 2006-2007 season is kicking off with comedian George Carlin. Tickets have been selling so quickly for the 7:30 p.m. performance that a second show has been added at 9:30 p.m. The performance will contain adult content/language. For tickets call 273-SHOW, visit http://www.gbpac.com, or stop by the Box Office. QUETZAL COATLICUE MEXICAN AZTEC DANCE GROUP AT UNI:This interactive dance performance will take place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, in the Maucker Union Old Central Ballroom. The Quetzal dances display the history of the indigenous Aztec people and the relationship between the human race and the universe. Learn more about the historical and contemporary struggles depicted through these ceremonial dances. Sponsored by the CME as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. For more information, visit http://www.uni.edu/cme/hhm06.htm or call 3-2250. HAIRSPRAY TO SHOW AT THE GALLAGHER-BLUEDORN:At 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 25 and 26, Broadway's Tony Award-winning musical-comedy phenomenon, "Hairspray," is taking the stage at the GBPAC. The musical will take you back to 1962 in Baltimore, as Tracy Turnblad sets out to dance her way onto TV's most popular show. Can a big girl with big dreams - and even bigger hair - change the world... and still have time to win the boy she loves? It's the winner of eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. For tickets call 273-SHOW, visit http://www.gbpac.com, or stop by the Box Office. WORKSHOP FOR EDUCATION MAJORS:Future classroom teachers, participate in "Building Character Through Found Objects" from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept 29, in SEC 303. Learn how to create an art assemblage using old junk and discover how the process can be used to help build students' self awareness, improve their learning performance, and build self worth. To register, contact Amy Hunzelman at email@example.com. TELL YOUR STUDENTSFAMILY WEEKEND EVENTS: http://www.uni.edu/familyweekend/ UNI CAREER FAIR:From 2 to 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, at the UNI-Dome, more than 180 organizations, and graduate/professional schools will be on hand to visit with students and alumni. All majors, freshmen through seniors, graduate students and alumni are welcome. Sign up with select employers for interviews that will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 19. For more information on the organizations participating and the majors they're seeking, visit http://www.uni.edu/acs/careerservices/events/careerfair/organization_list_2005.html COOPERATIVE EDUCATION ORIENTATION MEETINGS:Fall Co-op/Internship Program orientation meetings will take place 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, and 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20. Both meetings will be in CBB 109. Students can learn the value of internships, how to become involved in the Co-op/Internship Program and how to benefit from Career Services. PANTHER POSSE SHIRTS AND REGISTRATION:Registration will continue for this year's Panther Posse. However, for those not registered by Saturday, Sept. 16, the purple Panther Posse T-shirt is not guaranteed, but the basketball shirt will still be available. 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Telecommunication Economics — Summary on the Dagstuhl Perspectives Seminar No. 08043
Hammainen, Heikki and Chen, Hong and Pras, Aiko and Huitema, George and Waldburger, Martin and Hausheer, David and Antoniadis, Panayotis and Reichl, Peter and Kubasik, Jerzy and Stiller, Burkhard (2008) Telecommunication Economics — Summary on the Dagstuhl Perspectives Seminar No. 08043. [Report]
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Abstract: | The telecommunications sector and the Internet section of Internet Service Providers (ISP) have become a dynamic key area for the economic development of industrialized nations in the world. It is in constant evolution. Because of intense competition, telecommunications companies and ISPs are forced to diversify their offers and thus to propose an increasing number of services. However, economic analysis often ignores important technical aspects of telecommunications and is not aware of new developments. Engineering models often ignore economic factors. Thus, the design and deployment of future networks that incorporate new services are subject to uncertainties such as equipment and capacity prices (due to technological innovation), demand and supply for services (due to competition). Seeing leading researchers bringing together with various backgrounds, all working on innovative aspects of technical, techno-economic, social, and regulatory issues, lead to the following four main areas that have been partially tackled in an integrated manner: Architectural side, Social side, Economic and business side, and Regulatory side. |
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An Asheville woman could be sentenced to life in prison under a new law designed to protect pregnant women and their unborn children.
Tina Louise Bailey is just the third person in North Carolina to be charged with murder of an unborn child since the law went into effect in two years ago. She made a first appearance in Buncombe County District Court on Thursday.
Appearing through a video hookup from jail, Bailey said she understood the charges against her and requested a court-appointed attorney. Her next court date was set for April 18. ...


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Is McDonald's and the Cheesecake Factory concerned about losing access to cheap labor?
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… Read the restMcDonald's might be adding a new item to their value meal: amnesty.
The company was among the 104 co-signers of a letter addressed to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) advocating for the legalization of 11 million undocumented residents through new visa programs. You may be wondering why places like McDonald's and the Cheesecake Factory are lobbying for immigration reform in this manner. While they have stated that they wanted to "bolster the availability of a workforce at all skill levels," that is likely not the only reason.
The Center for Immigration Studies points out that this letter cited a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that stated the immigration reform would bolster the economy. This means that these corporate giants are channeling their moral compass and bettering our country, right?


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US 5799549 A Abstract Improved razors and razor blades and processes for producing razor blades or similar cutting tools with sharp and durable cutting edges, by hard-carbon coating of blades with amorphous diamond, preferably using a filtered cathodic arc plasma source. A coating of amorphous diamond having at least 40 percent sp3 carbon bonding, a hardness of at least 45 gigapascals and a modulus of at least 400 gigapascals is applied to the sharpened edge of a substrate. The substrate may be mechanically honed, and there is no interlayer between the substrate and the amorphous diamond coating. The coating imparts stiffness and rigidity to a thin blade while maintaining a high aspect ratio.
Claims(13) 1. A process for forming a razor blade comprising the steps of:
(a) providing a substrate; (b) forming a wedge-shaped sharpened edge on said substrate that has an included angle of less than thirty degrees and a tip radius of less than 1,200 angstroms; and (c) depositing a layer of amorphous diamond on said sharpened edges; applying an initial high bias to the substrate during deposition, and then applying a second lower bias to the substrate during deposition. 2. The process of claim 1 wherein said step of forming a wedge-shaped sharpened edge includes the step of mechanically abrading the substrate in a sequence of honing steps to form said sharpened edge.
3. The process of claim 1 and further including, after the step of depositing a layer of amorphous diamond on the sharpened edge, the step of applying an adherent polymer coating on said amorphous diamond coated cutting edge.
4. The process of claim 1 wherein said step of depositing an amorphous diamond coating on said cutting edge includes the step of depositing said coating to a thickness of at least 400 angstroms from the wedge shaped sharpened edge of said substrate to a distance of forty micrometers from the sharpened edge.
5. The process of claim 1 wherein said step of providing a substrate includes selecting a metal substrate and said amorphous diamond coating is at least four times as hard as said metal substrate.
6. The process of claim 1 wherein said step of applying an initial high bias to the substrate includes applying an initial high bias in the range of 200 to 2,000 volts, and said step of applying a second lower bias to the substrate includes applying a second lower bias in the range of 10 to 200 volts.
7. The process of claim 1 wherein said step of depositing a layer of amorphous diamond includes the step of making the deposition in a vacuum or an inert atmosphere in an evacuated chamber in which a graphite target is located.
8. The process of claim 1 wherein said sharpened edge has an included angle bounding a first inclined surface (first blade facet) and a second inclined surface (second blade facet), and said step of depositing a layer of amorphous diamond includes generating a directional beam of carbon ions and presenting a blade facet on said sharpened edge to the beam wherein the angle between the plasma beam and a line bisecting said included angle is greater than 20 degrees.
9. A process for forming a razor blade comprising the steps of:
(a) providing a substrate, (b) forming on said substrate a wedge-shaped edge that has an included angle of less than 30 degrees bounding a first blade facet and a second blade facet, and a tip radius of less than 1,200 angstroms and (c) depositing a layer of amorphous diamond on said first blade facet and second blade facet, while controlling the deposition so that the layer of amorphous diamond is deposited on the first blade facet and second blade facet at an approximately equal average rate of deposition: applying an initial high bias to the substrate during deposition, and then applying a second lower bias to the substrate during deposition. 10. The process of claim 9 wherein said amorphous diamond material is deposited by cathodic arc generating a beam of carbon ions.
11. The process of claim 9 wherein said step of depositing an amorphous diamond coating on said first blade facet and second blade facet includes the step of depositing said coating on each of the first and second blade facets to a thickness of at least 200 angstroms.
12. The process of claim 11 and further including, after the step of depositing a layer of amorphous diamond on the first blade facet and second blade facet, the step of applying an adherent polymer coating on said amorphous diamond coated cutting edge.
13. The process of claim 12 wherein said step of depositing an amorphous diamond coating on said first blade facet and second blade facet includes the step of depositing said coating to a thickness of about 2,000 angstroms.
Description This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/232,928, filed on Apr. 25, 1994 now abandoned. This invention relates to improved razors and razor blades and to processes for producing razor blades or similar cutting tools with sharp and durable cutting edges, and in particular to amorphous diamond coating of blades using a filtered cathodic arc plasma source. The invention has particular utility for forming a very hard and rigid coating of high aspect ratio on very thin cutting edges of razor blades. A razor blade typically is formed of suitable substrate material such as metal or ceramic, and an edge is formed with wedge-shape configuration with an ultimate edge or tip that has a radius of less than about 1,000 angstroms, the wedge shaped surfaces having an included angle of less than 30�. As shaving action is severe and blade edge damage frequently results and to enhance shavability, the use of one or more layers of supplemental coating material has been proposed for shave facilitation, and/or to increase the hardness and/or corrosion resistance of the shaving edge. A number of such coating materials have been proposed, such as polymeric materials and metals, as well as other materials including diamond-like carbon (DLC) material. Each such layer or layers of supplemental material must have adhesion compatibility so that each layer remains firmly adhered to the substrate throughout the useful life of the razor blade, and desirably provide characteristics such as improved shavability, improved hardness and/or corrosion resistance while not adversely affecting the geometry and cutting effectiveness of the shaving edge. U.S. Pat. No. 5,032,243 of Bache et al. describes blade substrate materials sharpened by ion bombardment from ion sources having the axes of their beams directed at the edges of the razor blades. U.S. Pat. No. 5,232,568 of Parent et al. and U.S. Pat. No. 5,295,305 of Hahn et al. show blades which have an interlayer interposed between the substrate and the diamond-like coating, wherein the interlayer is deposited on the substrate and then the diamond-like coating is deposited on the interlayer. The prior solutions are not entirely successful, and it would be desirable simply to use mechanical honing processes to form the sharpened substrate (rather than the ion beam formation shown in Bache et al.) followed by a direct deposition of amorphous diamond coating on the substrate (without the intervening step of depositing an interlayer). It would be desirable, therefore, to be able to start with a thin blade substrate produced by mechanical honing and to impart both rigidity and hardness to the substrate by depositing an amorphous diamond coating directly on the substrate. According to this invention, the cutting edges of razor blades are provided with improved mechanical properties by applying to the sharpened edge of the substrate a coating of an amorphous diamond material. Such materials may be characterized as having at least 40 percent sp3 carbon bonding, a hardness of at least 45 gigapascals and a modulus of at least 400 gigapascals. In addition, such materials are not corroded by hot aqueous solutions and compounds commonly used in shaving. Materials having these characteristics will be denoted as amorphous diamond in the further course of this disclosure. In contrast to the amorphous diamond material of this invention, traditional diamond-like carbon coatings (DLC) produced by such traditional methods as sputtering do not exhibit such high hardnesses. Unlike the amorphous diamond of this disclosure, DLC coatings typically have hardnesses not exceeding 30 gigapascals. The extreme hardness and rigidity of the applied amorphous diamond coating can provide strength to a very thin razor blade edge. U.S. Pat. No. 4,720,918 of Curry et al. describes edges of this type, and they are included here as examples and need not be considered limiting. A very thin blade edge can provide increased shaving comfort, but is practical only if the edge is strong enough to withstand shaving. A thin edge, including but not limited to those described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,720,918, strengthened by 400 to 2000 angstroms of amorphous diamond will comprise a finished edge which is significantly thinner than edges presently used for shaving, coupled with sufficient strength to withstand shaving, this due to the extraordinary strength of the amorphous diamond coating. Further contributing to a thin edge is the large aspect ratio attainable by the particular cathodic arc deposition process used in this invention for manufacture of amorphous diamond coatings. The "aspect ratio" is explained in greater detail with reference to FIG. 3 in the discussion which follows, but may be understood for purposes of this summary as being the ratio of (a) to (b) where (a) is a first distance from the tip of the coating to the tip of the substrate, and (b) is a second distance from a surface of the coating to the tip of the substrate. The aspect ratio provides a useful measure of the effect of a coating on the underlying blade edge geometry of the substrate--the larger or higher the aspect ratio of the coating, the "sharper" is the coated blade compared to a blade coated at a lower aspect ratio. As a further consequence of the extraordinary strength of the amorphous diamond coatings of this invention, application of such a coating to a razor blade of normal cross-section will be expected to provide longer shaving life. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided a wedge-shaped edge and a layer of amorphous diamond on the tip and flanks of the wedge-shaped edge, preferably with a thickness of at least 400 angstroms, which defines a tip radius of less than about 500 angstroms and an aspect ratio of 2:1 to 4:1. The blade exhibits excellent shaving properties and long life. In preferred embodiments, the razor blade substrate is steel, the amorphous diamond coating is at least four times as hard as the steel substrate; the wedge-shaped edge is formed by a sequence of mechanical abrading steps; and the layer of amorphous diamond is formed of carbon ions provided from a graphite target used as a filtered cathodic arc source. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, there is provided a process for forming a razor blade that includes the steps of providing a substrate; forming on an edge of the substrate a wedge-shaped sharpened edge that has an included angle of less than 30� and a tip radius (i.e. the estimated radius of the largest circle that may be positioned within the ultimate tip of the edge when such ultimate tip is viewed under a scanning electron microscope at magnifications of at least 25,000) preferably of less than 1,200 angstroms; and depositing, by filtered cathodic arc evaporation, a layer of amorphous diamond on the sharpened edge to provide a radius at the ultimate tip of the amorphous diamond layer of less than about 1000 angstroms. The amorphous diamond layer may be deposited by several techniques, all having in common the energetic deposition of carbon as a highly ionized species. While methods of cathodic arc, anodic arc, plasma decomposition of hydrocarbon gases, sputtering with post-ionization by inductively coupled rf, laser ablation, laser absorptive wave deposition (LAWD) and direct ion beam deposition might be used for this purpose, the preferred embodiment of this invention uses a filtered cathodic arc. In a particular process, the substrate is mechanically abraded in a sequence of honing steps to form the sharpened edge; a layer of amorphous diamond is deposited by filtered cathodic arc, the amorphous diamond coating on the cutting edge having a thickness of at least 400 angstroms, the layer of amorphous diamond having at least 40 percent sp3 carbon bonding, a hardness of at least 45 gigapascals; and an adherent polymer coating may be applied on the amorphous diamond coated cutting edge. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, there is provided a shaving unit that comprises blade support structure that has external surfaces for engaging user skin ahead and rearwardly of the blade edge or edges and at least one blade member secured to the support structure. The razor blade structure secured to the support structure includes a substrate with a wedge-shaped cutting edge defined by facets that have an included angle of less than seventeen degrees at a distance of forty micrometers from the sharpened tip, and a layer of a strengthening material which has a thickness of at least 400 angstroms from the sharpened tip of said substrate to a distance of forty micrometers from the sharpened tip, a radius at the ultimate tip of the strengthening material of less than 500 angstroms and an aspect ratio in the range of 2:1 to 4:1. In a particular shaving unit, the razor blade structure includes two steel substrates, the wedge-shaped edges are disposed parallel to one another between the skin-engaging surfaces, the edge strengthening layer is of amorphous diamond with a thickness of about 1000 angstroms (typically a range of 400-2000 angstroms depending on substrate and processing parameters) and is characterized by at least 40 percent sp3 carbon bonding and a hardness of at least 45 gigapascals; and an adherent polymer coating is on each layer of amorphous diamond material. The shaving unit may be of the disposable cartridge type adapted for coupling to and uncoupling from a razor handle or may be integral with a handle so that the complete razor is discarded as a unit when the blade or blades become dull. The front and rear skin engaging surfaces cooperate with the blade edge (or edges) to define the shaving geometry. Particularly preferred shaving units are of the types shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,876,563 and in U.S. Pat. No. 4,586,255. Other features and advantages of the invention, including process conditions for applying the desired amorphous diamond coating will be seen as the following description of particular embodiments progresses, in conjunction with the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a shaving unit in accordance with the invention; FIG. 2 is a perspective view of another shaving unit in accordance with the invention; FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic view illustrating one example of razor blade edge geometry in accordance with the invention; FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic view of apparatus for the practice of the invention. In the description which follows, the characteristics and properties of various preferred embodiments of the blade, substrate and amorphous diamond coating will be disclosed, followed by a disclosure of process conditions for depositing the desired coating. With reference to FIG. 1, shaving unit 10 includes structure for attachment to a razor handle, and a platform member 12 molded of high-impact polystyrene that includes structure defining forward, transversely-extending skin engaging surface 14. Mounted on platform member 12 are leading blade 16 having sharpened edge 18 and following blade 20 having sharpened edge 22. Cap member 24 of molded high-impact polystyrene has structure defining skin-engaging surface 26 that is disposed rearwardly of blade edge 22, and affixed to cap member 24 is shaving aid composite 28. The shaving unit 30 shown in FIG. 2 is of the type shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,586,255 of Jacobson and includes molded body 32 with front portion 34 and rear portion 36. Resiliently secured in body 32 are guard member 38, leading blade unit 40 and trailing blade unit 42. Each blade unit 40, 42 includes a blade member 44 that has a sharpened edge 46. A shaving aid composite 48 is frictionally secured in a recess in rear portion 36. A diagrammatic view of the edge region of the blades 16, 20 and 44 is shown in FIG. 3, from which the aspect ratio may be better understood. The blade includes stainless steel body portion 50 with a wedge-shaped sharpened edge formed in a sequence of edge forming honing operations that forms a tip portion 52 that has a radius typically less than 500 angstroms with facets 54 and 56 that diverge at an angle of about 13�. Deposited on tip 52 and facets 54, 56 is amorphous diamond 60 that has a thickness of about 2,000 angstroms, with an aspect ratio (the ratio at distance (a) from amorphous diamond tip 70 to stainless steel tip 52, and the width (b) of the amorphous diamond coating 60 to tip 52) of about 3:1. Deposited on layer 60 is an adherent telomer layer 72 that has a substantial as deposited thickness but is reduced to monolayer thickness during initial shaving. An apparatus for processing blades of the type shown in FIG. 3 is schematically illustrated in FIG. 4. That apparatus includes a filtered cathodic arc deposition system, such as one manufactured by vapor Technologies of Boulder, Colo. that has stainless steel chamber 80 which is coupled to a vacuum pumping system (not shown) through valve 82. Mounted in chamber 80 is an electrically isolated, water cooled substrate platform 84 on which is disposed a rotatable fixture 86 which holds a stack of razor blades 88. The sharpened edges are aligned perpendicularly to the plane of the drawing and face downward from the support 86. Motor 90 fixed outside the chamber 80 provides 180 degrees of rotation of the blade stack at predetermined intervals for the purpose of alternately exposing each blade edge to the beam of carbon ions from a single cathodic arc source 92, insuring uniform deposition on both blade bevels. Also disposed in chamber 80 are two filtered cathodic arc sources 92, 94, each consisting of a graphite target 96 (cathode, 99.99% purity), an arc striking mechanism 98, and a filter or duct 100. The filter 100 serves to direct the flow of carbon ions (the arc plasma) from the cathode 96 to the blade stack 88, through the use of solenoidal magnetic fields produced by electrical windings 102 along the length of the duct and an electromagnet 104 positioned under the duct. The cathodic arc source may also be of the type described in, and the magnetic fields may be controlled so as to optimize the performance of the arc relative to the sources as described in co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/233,006 of Welty now U.S. Pat. No. 5,480,527 incorporated by reference herein and a copy of which is included in this portion of the patent application as Attachment A. Water cooling lines 106, 108 and 110 are provided for the target 96, duct 92 and blade support 86, respectively. The duct is so directed to provide an angle of 40 degrees between the plane 112 presented by the blade tips and the center axis 114 of the duct exit 114. This angle is chosen to insure that a fully dense coating is deposited. The graphite target 96 is approximately 30 centimeters long by 2.5 centimeters wide and is electrically insulated from the chamber 80, while the duct 100 is at ground potential. The graphite target 96 is connected to a DC power supply 118 through switch 120. Electrical wiring is provided to connect blade stack 88 through switch 122 to DC power supply 124 or through switch 126 to RF power supply 128. The details of a preferred filtered cathodic arc design and operation are discussed further in the previously mentioned co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/233,006 of Welty (Attachment A hereto). Rotatable mount 86 supports the blade stack 88 with edges spaced 15 centimeters from the mouth of the filter duct. The blade stack 88 is rotated between a position where one bevel faces the duct 92, and a similar position where the opposite bevel faces the duct 92. This rotation of 180 degrees is carried out every 10 seconds, insuring the bevels are coated equally. In one example of a particular processing sequence, a stack of blades 88 (2.5 centimeters long) is secured on the rotatable mount 86, the support cooling water is turned on, and the chamber 80 is evacuated. The pressure to chamber 80 is adjusted to 50 millitorr with flowing argon. Switch 122 is closed to provide -400 volts DC to the blade stack, igniting a DC plasma discharge in which the blades are cleaned for ten minutes. After the cleaning step, (i) the pressure in the chamber is adjusted to 0.1 millitorr of argon, (ii) the field coils 102 to a single duct 92 are energized, (iii) switch 120 to graphite target 96 is closed, (iv) the power supply 124 to the blades is adjusted to -1000 volts DC, and (v) an arc is struck/initiated on graphite target 96 with mechanical striker 98. The arc current is set to 100 A. An intense plasma of carbon ions is emitted from duct 92 and is deposited on the blades 88, which rotate 180 degrees every 10 seconds. After the arc has run for 2 minutes, the bias supply 124 is set to -50 volts and deposition continues for a total time of 16 minutes. The resultant amorphous diamond blade coating is approximately 1000 angstroms in thickness on each facet. The blade tip radius is approximately 350 angstroms, and the aspect ratio is approximately 2.5:1. In another example of the processing sequence, the two cathodic arc sources are simultaneously operated, with the second source 94 positioned opposite the first source 92, so that both blade facets are simultaneously coated at approximately the same angle of incidence. In this case, the blade stack 88 is not rotated, but is rather translated through the region where the plasmas emitted from both sources intersect. All other aspects of the processing sequence are identical to those indicated above. A coating 72 of polyterrafluorethylene (PTFE) telomer is then applied to the amorphous diamond coated edges of the blades. The process involves heating the blades in a neutral atmosphere of argon and providing on the cutting edges of the blades an adherent and friction-reducing polymer coating of solid PTFE. Coatings 72 and 60 were firmly adherent to the blade body 50, provided low wet wool felt cutter force (the lowest of the first five cuts with wet wool felt (L5) being about 0.45 kilogram), and withstood repeated applications of wool felt cutter forces indicating that the amorphous diamond coating 60 is substantially unaffected by exposure to the severe conditions of this felt cutter test and remains firmly adhered to the blade body 50, even after immersion in 80� C. distilled water for sixteen hours. Resulting blade elements 44 were assembled in cartridge units 30 of the type shown in FIG. 2 and shaved with excellent shaving results. The foregoing disclosure of the characteristics and properties of the blades, substrates and amorphous diamond coatings may be further understood and enhanced by the following specific description of suitable process conditions generally described above. First, the preferred cathodic arc sources will be summarized. Then various preferred process conditions will be described. Cathodic Arc Source. A deposition coating of amorphous diamond may be applied using conventional filtered cathodic arc plasma source material as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,279,723 of Falabella et al. However, in a preferred embodiment, the deposition coating is applied according to the previously referenced co-pending application which is appended as Attachment A hereto. Although the rectangular source of Attachment A is particularly suited to the practice of this invention, the invention is not so limited. Likewise, an unfiltered or other conventional source may be used, and this invention should not be understood as being limited to filtered cathodic arc sources. Process Conditions and Adjustments. Process conditions include a multi-step bias to the substrate; an equal average deposition on both sides of the blade; and attention to the angle of presentation. An initial high bias in the range of 200-2000 volts is applied to the substrate during deposition for up to two minutes to establish adhesion. A second stage lower bias in the range of 10-200 volts is then applied to optimize the structure of the amorphous diamond hard carbon coating and to establish the desired crystal structure. Although at least the foregoing two stages are desirable according to this invention, it may also be desirable to provide a further "step down" incremental bias voltage reduction as, for example by adding an intermediate bias stage at 500 volts. The amorphous diamond deposition is laid down at an equal average rate (or simultaneously) on both sides of the blade. By setting at least dual sources for simultaneous deposition and/or cycling the angle of presentation of the blade set relative to the deposition source, the coating layer will be applied equally or at an equal average rate of deposit, on both sides. In light of the fact that the blades each have a cutting edge bounded by a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface, coming to a tip at the juncture of the inclined surfaces and that a set of blades: may be disposed as a stack of blades presenting a plane surface formed by the tips, or may be disposed in a carousel, or otherwise; the layered concept involves either (i) using at least two sources so that the deposition rate is instantaneously equal on both sides of the cutting edge, or (ii) employing a movement of the blade set (stack or carousel) relative to a single source (a cyclic alternation of the presentation of the blades with respect to the source, as by a flipping of the stack, a rotation of the carousel, or other sequential presentation) in order that a coating will be laid down on both sides of the cutting edge of each razor at an approximately equal rate over time. That is, in order to apply a coating of 1000 angstroms in thickness, a preferred method of this invention would not lay down all 1000 angstroms on the first side and then lay down all 1000 angstroms on the second side of a blade stack--instead, it would be either (i) a simultaneous deposition on both sides or (ii) a cyclic alternation in a range of 3 to 500 angstroms on the first side then 3 to 500 angstroms on the second side, and so on until the 1000 angstrom or other desired thickness is built on both sides of the cutting edge of each blade. While the foregoing is a preferred method, the invention is not to be understood as so limited, and may be practiced with an uneven or unbalanced layering. It should be understood that the angle of presentation is of some concern. The low pressure (high vacuum) conditions produce a highly directional plasma stream of ionized carbon. The blades are presented at an angle measured from a line normal to the plane formed by the tips of the stacked blades (or measured from the line bisecting the angle enclosed by the tip and the first and second inclined surfaces of the cutting edge of an unstacked blade) that is greater that 20� but less than 90�. The angle of presentation is intended to direct the plasma stream more directionally against one or the other sides of the cutting edges of the blades. As is conventionally known, the deposition process of this invention may be operated with or without a process gas such as argon; cleaning of the chamber may be accomplished with RF or DC glow discharge; and biasing of the substrate may be done with DC or RF sources (and such biasing may be used to shape the tip of the blade). It should now be seen that this invention permits the strengthening of a thin blade while maintaining sharpness (that is, imparting stiffness and rigidity to the thin blade without ruining the acuteness or sharpness of the tip). Where a more conventional razor blade might be coated to a thickness in the order of a magnitude of about 100 to 350 angstroms, the method of this invention will deposit an amorphous diamond coat perhaps as high as 3,000 angstroms in thickness (as measured on the blade surface disposed away from the tip) and as high as 5,000 angstroms measured at the tip. As previously mentioned, all of this is achieved while maintaining a high aspect ratio. It might be noted that the razor blades intended to be coated by this method are expected to be thinner than the usual razor blade, and sharper, and that the 2:1 and higher aspect ratios permitted by the process of this invention, coupled with the enormous strength of the amorphous diamond hard carbon coating, puts the blade in a class by itself. Patent Citations
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All Nippon Airways has come up as one of the largest airline companies in Japan. It came into existence on 27 December; 1952.It reaches 31 international destinations and covers 41 domestic destinations. Besides the main airlines the company has several subsidiary air carriers like Air Central, ANA & JP Express, Air Nippon Network and ANA also owns the major shares in cost efficient airlines, Peach. The headquarters of the airline is Shiodome City Centre Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It has four hubs which are in Narita International Airport, Tokyo International Airport, Kansai International Airport and Osaka International Airport. The air company covers the whole of Japan and has routes to Western Europe, United States, China, Korea and South East Asia. In order to expand itself it has made code sharing agreements with Oriental Air Bridge, Starflyer, Ibex Airlines, Qatar Airways, Shanghai Airways, Hokkai International Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines, Turkish Airlines, A Portugal, TAM airline, Thai Airlines, Swiss Airlines Silk Airlines, Air Canada, Air Japan, Air Mauritius, Air New Zealand among others. The airline has done and is doing praise worthy work. It won the Staff excellence service award for the Asia region in the French Air and Space Museum at the Paris Show. Its Fleet matrix consist of Airbus A320-200,Mitsubishi MRJ90.Boeing 737-700.Boeing 737-700ER,Boeing737-800,Boeing 747-400D, Boeing 767-300,Boeing 737-300ER, Boeing 777-200,Boeing 777-200ER, Boeing 777 -300ER,Boeing 787-8 and Boeing 787-9. ANA Fare Structures and ANA Flight Amenities ANA's services in its classes come from its "Inspiration of Japan" concept. The business class passengers have for their convenience lot of legroom, full flat lie in beds, and an exquisite meal. The economy class passengers have fixed shell back seats and a much larger pitch space than offered by most of the other airlines. ANA has installed a new AVOD in flight entertainment system; it has iPod connectivity, shopping facilities and meal ordering services. The first class cabins are enclosed and have touch screen consoles. ANA Baggage Policy Passengers of international flights, in the first class can 3 pieces and each can weigh a maximum of 32kg or 70lb.Those that are traveling in the business class to international destinations can carry 2 pieces of luggage, each weighing up to 32kg or 70 lb. As far as the passengers of these flights who are traveling in the economy class are concerned, they carry 2 pieces and each bag can weigh up to 23kg or 50lb. Passengers going to domestic destinations and are traveling in the premium class can carry up to 20 kg. The total linear should not exceed 203cm, passengers are allowed to carry handbags, baby carriers etc if they are limited within this dimension. ANA Rewards Program This huge airline also has the ANA Mileage Club to reward its frequent flyers. The regular passengers are benefited by accumulating miles. The miles can be redeemed for many fabulous gifts and offers.
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With: Jim Pinkerton, Judy Miller, Rick Grenell, Cal Thomas
This is a rush transcript from "Fox News Watch," June 8, 2013. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
JON SCOTT, HOST: A big week of breaking news. A British newspaper breaks a disturbing story, the National Security Agency and FBI collecting your phone call data and following every move you make on the Internet. The bombshell revelations raising tough questions about our government's invasion into our lives. The scandals surrounding the IRS (inaudible) along with charges of targeting conservatives -- new details of how that agency blew tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. A defiant president takes on his critics and promotes a controversial ally to a top position in the White House; her role in misleading Americans dismissed as partisan politics. Bradley Manning on trail for leaking military secrets. Charges of aiding our enemies. The liberal media come to his defense and with all the scandals and spinning it is a good time to be a political cartoonist.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The scandals it opens up for a lot of opportunities.
SCOTT: On the panel this week, writer and Fox News contributor Judy Miller. Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, Jim Pinkerton contributing editor of The American Conservative Magazine, Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers. And Fox News contributor Richard Grenell. I'm Jon Scott. "Fox News Watch" is on right now.
ERIC HOLDER, .U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: With all due respect, senator. I don't think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss that issue. I would be more than glad to come back in an appropriate setting to discuss the issues that you have raised but in this open form I don't know how to ..
SEN. MARK KIRK , R-ILL.: I would -- I would interrupt you and say the correct answer would be save, no we stayed within our lane and I'm assuring you we did not spy on members of Congress.
SCOTT: Attorney General Eric Holder taking some heated questions following bombshell revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency have been collecting data on phone calls of all Americans regardless of whether or not they are part of a counterterrorism investigation.
And if that wasn't enough, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, "Those same agencies, the NSA and the FBI have been tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, grabbing even more data on our Internet activity. So the president came out on Friday, Jim, and addressed all of this. He attempted to put us at ease, you know, this monitoring has been going on for a while, it's covered by Congress and the courts. And I don't know, should the press back off?
JIM PINKERTON, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, the press might ask openers how come we didn't catch the Tsarnaevs or Major Hasan or the underwear bomber if we have all this fancy technology? But I think this week we'll be remembered as the week that even the president's face in the media. The Huffington Post fowled (ph) on him, the big better picture there was a picture of George W. Bush and Barack Obama morphed together and the headline was George W. Obama. That hurts, when up (inaudible) in your posters' jumping ship.
SCOTT: Rick I want to ask you about the New York Times editorial on Friday, it was not on Friday -- I think it was on Thursday, they wrote this piece called "President Obama's dragnet" and they wrote "The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act enacted in the heat of fear after the 911 attacks, by members of Congress who mostly have not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers."
Well then The Times went back and softened that first line. The original line read "Lost all credibility", then they changed it to "lost all credibility on this issue. How did that happen, Rick?
RICHARD GRENELL, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Oh, let me predict that we will find out in several years from now that somebody at the NFC or at the White House called up Andy at the New York Times and complained and they went back in. And they changed it. That's just how things work. Look, the irony here is that the arguments for and against the government snooping, they haven't changed since Bush was very clear about what his limited policy would be. What has changed is the media coverage. Obama has done a 180 and the media hasn't noticed that they completely are just either on his side or they are acting now like the snooping is a good idea.
SCOTT: Judy, we were talking about this on Friday on "Happening Now." The president's line seems to be "Trust us."
JUDY MILLER, WRITER & FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, yes, and that is the problem. Because there is no well of credibility left given the succession of scandals that we have had starting with Benghazi, proceeding on to the AP, James Rosen and now this. The problem is, I think we do have to distinguish between this scandal and the previous ones because this one has these two programs and they are often conflated by the media. Appear to have been supervised, you know, approved by the courts and at least two very prominent members of the Oversight Committees at that supervised intelligence on the Hill have defended these programs. I think now that this leak occurred and, oh boy, is there going to be another leak investigation into this one. I think we need to know as Americans more about the limitations of this program, about what's being done with the information both under the Verizon program and other Prism, as it's called, which is the Internet program, which now apparently only applies to people overseas and not to Americans. But we don't know. Now, we need to know more.
SCOTT: Yeah, Kirsten, we'll talk more about the IRS thing later on, but, you know, using that as an example, this is the government in which private IRS data was handed out apparently to people for not some -- well, for some fairly nefarious purposes apparently ....
KIRSTEN POWERS, DAILY BEASTS & USA TODAY COLUMNIST" Right.
SCOTT: And these are the folks we are supposed to trust.
POWERS: Yeah, well, and in his press conference I think Obama made a mistake in basically arguing trust us, these are professionals, they have no interest in your personal information. I think that's about 99 percent right. But it only takes one percent of the time for somebody to do something bad, and so I think the president should say I understand your concerns, this is an important program and we are taking all the necessary steps to make sure it is protected. And we're going to make sure that nobody abuses it and gives out your personal information, your private e-mails or anything to someone else.
SCOTT: On the topic of security the president made a big announcement this week, he named Susan Rice as his new national security advisor. She replaces Tom Donilon. Now, Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry asked Jay Carney about that decision. Listen.
ED HENRY, FOX NEWS CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Last thing Susan is right, she described her as one of the most qualified experienced foreign policy experts in America. If that is the case, how did she get the information on Benghazi so wrong in the days after the attack?
JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: And I welcome the opportunity to correct the record, especially for some news outlets who persist in misrepresenting the facts. You have seen the so-called talking points, you have seen the testimony of the deputy director of the CIA, you have seen the documents themselves that demonstrate that the central contested point that Ambassador Rice made on those Sunday shows was drafted in the first instance and in every instance thereafter by the CIA.
HENRY: Then why do various intelligence officials say in various testimony elsewhere that they almost immediately knew that this was terror? And if she is so experienced in these matters, why wouldn't she see it as they saw it? Regardless of what the talking points say?
CARNEY: So you are suggesting that a senior member of the national security team should actually disagree with the assessments of the intelligence community provided by the CIA because somebody on Fox News perhaps said something?
HENRY: No, actually the intelligence community -- at one point General Petraeus (inaudible) talking points he did not even want to agree with anymore, because the talking points have been changed so much, the CIA director didn't think they were worth anything.
SCOTT: All right, Cal, what about Susan Rice's appointment? Have the media questioned it at all?
THOMAS: Well, in some parts. Interestingly, not surprisingly, KT McFarland wrote on FoxNews.com that she enters the job with zero credibility with the media. But apparently, as we've talked before, credibility does not apparently matter, especially when the president has been on all sides of all issues. But there have been some more liberal remarks on this. The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson said Obama felt he owed her. David Ignatius, great foreign policy writer for the Washington Post, called her a provocateur will now be in the White House. She can be her own worst enemy. So this is not exactly the kind of press you want going into a new assignment.
SCOTT: All right, next on "News Watch," can the media handle the IRS scandals?
REP. DARRELL ISSA, R-CALIFORNIA: What were you thinking?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Scandals engulfing the IRS heat up as the outrageous details surface. But the media coverage getting cold as some in the press pass on the hot topic. What are they thinking? That is next on "News Watch. "


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Martin O'Donnell
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Born | May 1, 1955 |
Genres | Classical, video game |
Occupation(s) | Composer, audio director, sound designer |
Martin "Marty" O'Donnell (born May 1, 1955)[1][2] is an American composer known for his work on video game developer Bungie's series, such as Myth, Oni, and Halo. O'Donnell collaborated with his musical colleague Michael Salvatori for many of the scores; he has also directed voice talent and sound design for the Halo trilogy. O'Donnell was Bungie's Audio Lead until April 11, 2014.
O'Donnell began his music career writing television and radio jingles as well as scoring for radio and film. O'Donnell moved to composing video game music when his company, TotalAudio, did the sound design for the 1997 title Riven. After producing the music for Myth II, Bungie contracted O'Donnell to work on their other projects, including Oni and the project that would become Halo: Combat Evolved. O'Donnell ended up joining the Bungie staff only ten days before the studio was bought by Microsoft, and would be the audio director for all Bungie projects until he was fired.
O'Donnell's score to the Halo trilogy has been called iconic, earning him several awards, and the commercial soundtrack release of the music to Halo 2 was the best-selling video game soundtrack of all time in the United States. He then went on to compose the scores to Halo 3 and Halo: Reach, released in November 7th, 2007 and September 14th, 2010, respectively.
His most recently released work, along with Michael Salvatori, C Paul Johnson, and Paul McCartney, is the music for Bungie's latest title, Destiny, released digitally on September 26th, 2014, in which O'Donnell and his collaborators are also praised.
Early life and career[edit]
O'Donnell described his upbringing as "typical"; he received piano lessons and wanted to start a rock band when he reached junior high school.[3] His father made films while his mother taught piano.[2] Despite his interest in progressive and fusion rock, O'Donnell studied the classical component of music and composition at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music[2] and received his Masters of Music Degree in composition with honors from the University of Southern California in the early 1980s.[4]
After getting his degree, O'Donnell moved to Chicago, where he expected that he would teach at the American Conservatory of Music. The job fell through, and instead he worked as a grip in the film and television business.[4] O'Donnell began his musical career in the field after one of his colleagues who knew of his music background approached him to write for his film. O'Donnell talked to his friend Michael Salvatori, who had his own recording studio, and offered to split the profits from the job with him; the two became constant partners.[4]
After completing a film score and a few commercials, the two decided to quit their day jobs and produce music in Chicago;[4] they founded a production company, TotalAudio. O'Donnell wrote the jingles for Mr. Clean and Flintstones Vitamins.[5] After fifteen years of composing for TV and radio commercials, he decided that he wanted to work on game soundtracks and move on from commercial-sounding music. "I was hoping to find some other medium that would be new and cutting-edge and sort of the Wild West," he recalled.[6]
Video games[edit]
In 1993, Dick Staub, a Chicago radio personality and friend of O'Donnell's, asked if his eighteen-year-old son Josh could visit O'Donnell's studio, as he was interested in computer games and audio. O'Donnell agreed, and in talking with Josh learned that he had friends in Spokane, Washington who were making a game O'Donnell had never heard of called Myst.[4] In hearing the theme music to the game, O'Donnell realized that the game industry was making great strides in creating "legitimate music" that contained dramatic elements.[6] O'Donnell became acquainted with the game's developers, including brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, and was hired four years later[4] as a sound designer for Myst 's sequel, Riven.[7] Among the games Riven 's developers would play in their downtime was a title called Marathon, created by Chicago-based Bungie Studios. On returning to Chicago O'Donnell emailed a Bungie staffer and pursued them for a job.[4]
TotalAudio produced the music for Bungie's Myth: The Fallen Lords the same year. The company later composed the music for Valkyrie Studio's Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator, during which O'Donnell met Steve Downes, whom he would later recommend as the voice actor for the Master Chief. O'Donnell described the work for Septerra Core as his most difficult assignment; during the production the TotalAudio studio burned to the ground and O'Donnell had to be hoisted through a window in order to save some 20 hours of recordings.[8]
Soon after producing the music for Myth II, Bungie contracted O'Donnell for several of Bungie's other projects, including the third-person game Oni.[9] In 1999, Bungie wanted to re-negotiate the contracts for Oni, and the negotiations resulted in O'Donnell joining the Bungie team, only ten days before the company was bought by Microsoft.[8] O'Donnell was one of only a handful of Bungie employees who remained working at the company since then, until his termination as of April, 2014.[10] While O'Donnell worked at Bungie, Salvatori handled the business side of TotalAudio.[9]
Halo series[edit]
After producing the music for Oni, O'Donnell was tasked with composing the music for Bungie's next project, which would be unveiled at E3 2000. After talking with Joseph Staten, O'Donnell decided the music needed to be "big, exciting, and unusual with a classical orchestra touch to give it some weight and stature. We also wanted it to have some sort of 'ancient' feel to it."[11] O'Donnell came up with the idea of opening the piece with gregorian chant and jotted down the melody in his car.[12] Because he did not know how long the presentation would be, O'Donnell created "smushy" opening and closing sections that could be expanded or cut as time required to back up a rhythmic middle section.[4] The music was recorded and sent to New York the same night the piece was finished;[11] the resulting music became the basis for the Halo series' "highly recognizable" signature sound,[13][14] and what has been called one of the best-known video game themes.[4] The use of chant in the main theme has been credited with contributing to popular interest in the genre.[15] Halo 's music used an interactive engine to change music in response to player's actions; this non-linear method has since become widespread. The scores for Halo and its sequel Halo 2 garnered awards such as The Game Developer's Choice Award and Best Original Video Game Soundtrack from Rolling Stone.[8]
The music for Halo 3 contained refinements and revisions to previous themes heard in the series, as O'Donnell stressed the importance of using previous motifs in the final installment of the trilogy;[9] the composer wanted to "blow out" the epic sounds from the first game.[4] O'Donnell also introduced a distinctive piano theme which had never been heard before, and first made its appearance in the Halo 3 announcement teaser. In an interview, O'Donnell stated that he has always approached music from the keyboard, and that at the Electronic Entertainment Expo—where the trailer would first be shown—he had a feeling that, "no [other announcement] would start with a piano."[16] O'Donnell planned on composing the music "at the last minute", saying he had no intention of producing a large amount of music that would never be used. "It drives everyone crazy but it worked for me in the past and it works for the game in the best way. Writing music before the end just doesn't work for me," he said.[17]
For Halo 3: ODST, a planned expansion to Halo 3 that became a full game, O'Donnell and Salvatori abandoned all previous Halo themes and started anew.[4] Due to ODST's shift to a new protagonist, O'Donnell created new music that was evocative of past Halo but branched in a different direction.[18] Since Bungie was aiming for a smaller, detective story feel, O'Donnell felt that a jazz-influenced approach worked best in echoing the film noir atmosphere.[19]
In creating music for Halo: Reach, a prequel to Combat Evolved, O'Donnell wanted to create music with a "grittier" feel because of the dark nature of the story.[20]
Reach was Bungie's last Halo project. O'Donnell called the prospect of writing new music both a challenge and a relief to step away from the iconic themes of Halo.[21] O'Donnell's most current work for Bungie includes working on the music for their latest game, Destiny.[22][23][24]
After Halo and firing from Bungie[edit]
O'Donnell created the music for Bungie's reveal trailer of its video game Destiny.[25]
O'Donnell announced via Twitter he had been fired from Bungie "without cause" on April 11, 2014.[26]
In June 2014, he filed a lawsuit against Bungie president Harold Ryan, claiming he was terminated without cause and that Ryan withheld pay for vacation and sabbatical time. In a response filed in Washington's Superior Court, Ryan denied wrongdoing.[27] The suit was settled in June 2014.[28]
O'Donnell's music has been packaged into several soundtrack collections. For Halo 's music, O'Donnell created "frozen" arrangements that represented an approximation of a play-through of the games.[29] The Halo Original Soundtrack sold over 40,000 copies,[30] and was followed by two different releases of the music to Halo 2. The two volumes of the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack were produced by Nile Rodgers, with the first album being released in sync with the video game in 2004 and became the best-selling game soundtrack of all time in the United States.[8] The second album was released more than a year after the soundtrack had been mixed and mastered.[31]
The Halo 3 Original Soundtrack was released in November 2007, and featured a fan contribution that was the select winner from a pool of entries judged by O'Donnell, Rodgers, and others. All of O'Donnell's work on the series was repackaged as Halo Trilogy—The Complete Original Soundtracks in December 2008, alongside preview tracks written by Halo Wars composer Stephen Rippy.[32] The music to ODST was released as a two-disc set to coincide with the game's release on September 22, 2009.[19] Reach 's soundtrack was available in digital formats the same day as the game's release on September 14; the physical two-disc soundtrack was released September 28.
O'Donnell has used an Apple Macintosh computer for composition. In an interview O'Donnell wished that his software would easily upgrade to newer revisions; "for the last twenty years of technology, every time a 'new' version of something comes out, the old version gets trashed and I find myself unable to do something that I used to depend on," he said. O'Donnell was involved in the implementation of his music as well as the composition, and was Bungie's Audio lead.[8] He composed at Bungie from a sound-proofed room in the corner of Bungie's office, dubbed the "Ivory Tower".[33]
O'Donnell said in an interview that he feels that one problem with games is those that play music non-stop, which he feels detracts from the overall impact. Composers are forced to either write ambient music, he says, or very light music that is not emotionally driven, which he said is a detriment.[12] O'Donnell prefers to write music towards the end of the development cycle, because he would rather score the final timing for things like cinematics and gameplay changes.[4] O'Donnell credits part of the success of the Halo theme to his background writing jingles. For that music, O'Donnell had to make sure he could write music that would "get in people's heads" after 15 to 30 seconds. O'Donnell pushed Bungie to spend money on hiring singers and musicians to record the theme before Macworld as a way to present a strong showing.[4]
Among the video game composers O'Donnell admires are Jeremy Soule, Jason Hayes, Koji Kondo, and Nobuo Uematsu, but he notes that he is older than most fellow game composers and that he was not directly influenced by them. Instead classic music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Barber and progressive rock groups like Jethro Tull and Genesis informed O'Donnell's taste and works.[4]
In addition to composition, O'Donnell also arranges his work. He created a special arrangement that was used for a Halo 3 segment of Video Games Live in London, after which O'Donnell appeared. He has also appeared with and without Salvatori at other shows featuring his music, including later Video Games Live tours and Play! A Video Game Symphony.[34][35][36]
Personal life[edit]
O'Donnell has been married for more than 30 years to his wife, Marcie, and has two married daughters, Alison and Christine. His children were part of a singing choir for the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins commercials.[4][10] His father did voice work for Myth as the "Surly Dwarf", as well as "The Prophet of Objection" in Halo 2.
O'Donnell is a self-described political conservative, and Bungie coworkers described him as the most right-leaning employee at the company.[9] Despite his extensive work with Bungie, O'Donnell remained co-owner[8] and president of TotalAudio, although as of 2009 the company had not done any non-Halo work since 2001.[37]
- ^ O'Connor, Frank (2008-05-01). "Happy Birthday Marty". Bungie.net. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ a b c Dudley, Brier (2009-09-20). "'Halo' wouldn't be the same without evocative music of Marty O'Donnell". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
- ^ Bandah, Sam (2007-09-22). "Martin O Donnell Interview". UKMusic. Retrieved 2014-08-15.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Amrich, Dan; Ryan McCaffrey (2009-09-25). "KOXM Episode 183". Official Xbox Magazine. Retrieved 2009-09-28.—interview segment from 0:22:15–1:02:00.
- ^ Jarrard, Brian; Frank O'Connor, Luke Smith (2007-09-20). "The Bungie Podcast: With Martin O'Donnell". Bungie. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ a b Richards, Jeremy (2011-01-15). "Music For Your Epic Quest". KUOW-FM (University of Washington). Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Tuttle, Will (2004-11-04). "Interview with GameSpy: "Of Music and Sound"". Gamespy. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ a b c d e f Staff (2008-05-14). "In the Studio With Martin O'Donnell". Music4Games. Retrieved 2009-03-01.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d O'Connor, Frank; Luke Smith (2007-12-12). "The Bungie Podcast 12/12/2007: With Martin O'Donnell". Bungie.net. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- ^ a b Bungie. "Meet the Team: Staff Bio". Bungie.net. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ a b "TotalAudio Questions & Answers". Halo.Bungie.Org. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ^ a b Hryb, Larry (2007-10-06). "Show #246 The one about Halo 3 music with Marty O'Donnell". MajorNelson. Retrieved 2009-07-13.—Direct link.
- ^ West, Joe (2007-06-12). "Halo 2 Vista Review". IGN. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ^ Vore, Bryan (2007-10-01). "Game Informer: Halo 3". Game Informer. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
- ^ Schweitzer, Vivien (2008-12-28). "Aliens Are Attacking. Cue the Strings". The New York Times. p. 31.
- ^ Bertrand, Jason (2006-06-09). "Halo 3 Marty O'Donnell Interview". GameVideos. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- ^ Waters, Darren (2006-07-14). "Halo aims for epic end to trilogy". BBC. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ Jarrard, Brian; Luke Smith, Chad Armstrong (2008-10-31). "The Bungie Podcast: 10/31/08; with Joseph Staten, Martin O'Donnell, and Jim McQuillan". Bungie.net. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ a b Staff (2009-09-01). "Behind the music of Halo 3: ODST". Music4Games. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^ Vore, Bryan (2010-01-22). "An In-Depth Q&A With Marty O'Donnell". Game Informer. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ Brightman, James (2011-04-12). "Halo Composer: Walking Away from Master Chief Is a 'Relief'". IndustryGamers. Retrieved 2011-04-18.
- ^ McWhertor, Michael (2013-02-17). "Bungie composer Marty O'Donnell on the music of Destiny, collaborating with Paul McCartney". polygon.com. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
- ^ Lynch, Casey (2013-02-17). "Music and Wallpaper Unlocked in Bungie's ARG". ign.com. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
- ^ Van Zelfden, Alex (2009-09-11). "Behind the Music of Halo 3: ODST; Meet the composers and listen to some of the game's new soundtrack". 1UP.com. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ http://www.bungie.net/7_Awakening/en-us/News/News?aid=10866
- ^ O'Donnell, Martin (2014-04-15). "@MartyTheElder status". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
- ^ Takahashi, Dean. "Former Halo music composer sues Bungie for unpaid benefits". VentureBeat. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
- ^ http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/21/halo-music-creator-wins-legal-settlement-for-unpaid-wages-from-bungies-chief-exclusive/
- ^ O'Donnell, Martin (2006). "Introduction". Halo 2 Original Soundtrack: Volume Two (Media notes). Sumthing.
- ^ Traiman, Steve (2004-11-03). "'Halo 2' has music out the kazoo". Houston Chronicle. p. 2.
- ^ Staff (2006-04-27). "Interview with Halo 2 Volume 2 composer Martin O'Donnell". Music4Games. Archived from the original on 2008-02-06. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
- ^ Sumthing (2008-12-01). "Sumthing Else Music Works announces release of Halo Trilogy-The Complete Original Soundtracks". Music4Games. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ Smith, Luke (2007-05-28). "Bang Bang: Audio in the Halo 3 Beta". Bungie.net. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ Staff (2006-04-20). "Halo composers Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori to attend PLAY! Chicago". Music4Games. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Staff (2006-05-23). "Video Games Live releases meet and greet interviews from San Jose show". Music4Games. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Staff (2007-11-13). "Martin O'Donnell and Jeremy Soule to attend PLAY! Seattle '08". Music4Games. Archived from the original on 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Bedigian, Louis (2009-10-07). "Halo Series Composer Martin O'Donnell Talks Halo 3: ODST". GameZone. Archived from the original on October 11, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
External links[edit]
- Martin O'Donnell at the Internet Movie Database
- Martin O'Donnell discography at MusicBrainz


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hi. hope there are some folks playing, i'm already stuck. got past the dog, got in the house, collected some stuff, oiled some stuff, got the panel outside off the house, now what?
yeah got the fish, it's in the oiled pot, now i need to get the gas going...
how do you get the fish, can´t see anything and can´t go to the beach. have string hook and 1 ball, oil and pan
thanks for that clue, got a map now, now i can pick up shovel, i just wish i could zoom on it to see where to dig.. :)
katrinfix, get the screwdriver from the cabinet you have to bang on, then use it on the curtain rod in the living room with the cat in it
uh. i just finished without knowing it was happening, right after feeding the cat... let me know if you need help
ty, now I got the fish in the pan and opened the panel outside but still missing the valve
Fuse is in the little pannel on the microwave (near door)
To fish you need a worm and just put stick outside near dog
good joke, this game. got the map and the shovel, can´t read the map and can´t dig anywhere
fabien, you have to use screwdriver on the lower right corner of microwave to open the little panel that has the fuse
Click the showel outside with the map
Fuse is in the little panel in front of the microwave, alittle rectangle
Fusible, là où d'habitude sont les boutons de commande d'un micro onde, as tu déjà ouvert la petite trappe à l'exterieur?
@katrinfix: use map on sand and an x will appear.
i'm out. thanks for the help everyone!
ah that was supposed to be a coconut! i wondered why a stone should be in a tree ;-P
WALKTHROUGH! i fixed my typos, i'm pretty sure i got most of em! :)
click left tree leaves for coconut
click deck under left window for chalk
combine chalk and coconut for toy to give to dog
now you can enter the house.
click doorway to enter
get worm from left plant
click far right on wall to enter kitchen
read post-it on fridge for how to make cat food
knock on left-most upper cabinet thre times to get
click on third upper cabinet for oil, fourth for pan
get spool from lower right floor
go left twice for living room
get hook from between the two left cushions.
click on angry cat to see he's angry. and hungry.
curtain rod needs screw driver, use it on it, then clickon it again to grab it.
combine rod with spool, then hook, then worm.
go back outside, and use rod on the right of the
screen on the ocean shore to get fish.
back into entryway, use oil on right jar on table,
then use hand to open it and get pearl.
in inventory, combine pan, oil, and fish.
back to kitchen, use screwdriver on lower right oF
microwave to open panel, get fuse.
back outside, use screwdriver on panel on left wall of house. insert fuse. this makes the light work in living room.
go back to living room, flick on light switch, grab map from lampshade.
go back to outside view, use map on sand in middle
lower screen. see "X" has formed.
get shovel from behind tree.
click on "x" once for pearl, and again for gas lever.
go to kitchen.
use lever on dot under left most upper cabinet
open oven and insert pot w/ fish.
click oven to get cooked fish.
go to living room, give fish to moody cat.
OH GOD! i completely forgot to give FROGGY credit for the fuse part! i don't know how long i would have been wandering around aimlessly if it weren't for that clue.... SORRY FROGGY, AND THANKS!
Alright, I got it!!! I never get this stuff :)
1. Click on the palm tree. A coconut will fall out.
2. There's a piece of chalk by the door. Use it on the coconut, then give it to the dog.
3. Go inside and grab a worm from the dirt in the pot plant.
4. Click right to get to the kitchen. Read the note on the fridge. Click the top left cabinet above the stove several times and a screwdriver will fall out.
5. Use the screwdriver on the microwave. You'll find a fuse.
6. Open two other cabinets to get the oil and pan - oil the pan. There's also some string at the bottom right of the game screen.
7. Go to the room with the cat. Get the hook on one of the cushions and use the screwdriver to unscrew the curtain rod.
8. Go back to the front room and oil the jar you can't open. Inside is the first pearl.
9. Use the rod, thread, string, hook and worm to make a fishing pole. Go outside and fish with it, and put the fish in the pan.
10. Use the screwdriver to open the side panel outside the house and put the fuse in. Then go back to the room with the cat and turn the light on. There's a map in the light.
11. Go outside and pick up the shovel. There's a bit of ground in front of the gate where you use the map to make an X there. Dig and get your second pearl.
12. Click the hole again and you'll pick up a handle. This is the gas valve handle in the kitchen, so go back and reattach it.
13. Put the pan in the oven and take it out again, and give it to the cat. The cat goes to sleep. Click it for your third pearl.
I love these games but they make me crazy!!!!!!!!
The hotspots are tough...but changing from tool to hand is darn maddening!!!!!I keep clicking away with the hand when I need a tool and vice versa ...but I love these games!!!!!
TY @muhlisuh...and @jedielf for the WT's!
I could have sworn a pearl was under the billiard ball below the cat...something happened when I clicked it early on in the game...
I was clicking it with everything for that last pearl...then read to click the cat...LOLOL
Haha, no walkthorughs for game after game, and then two come along all at once!
Thank you, muhlisuh and jedielf!
I needed help finding that gas lever =)
I hope walkthrough-writing will become fashionable again very soon.
@muhlisuh - "pretty logical for the most part."???
It would be "logical", if you could just smack the cat with that pole and batter the dog with shovel - and out! Not to mention using shovel on the jar to break it. Where is your logic??? :))))
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Item:48 Patient Safety Problem: Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections Patient Safety Practice: Cleaning site (povidone-iodine to chlorhexidine)(Ch. 16.3) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Low
Item:49 Patient Safety Problem: Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections Patient Safety Practice: Use of heparin (Ch. 16.4) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Low
Item:50 Patient Safety Problem: Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections Patient Safety Practice: Tunneling short-term central venous catheters (Ch. 16.4) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Medium
Item:51 Patient Safety Problem: Hospital-acquired complications (e.g., falls, delirium, functional decline, mortality) Patient Safety Practice: Geriatric consultation services (Ch. 29) Implementation Cost/Complexity: High
Item:52 Patient Safety Problem: Inadequate pain relief in patients with abdominal pain in hospital patients Patient Safety Practice: Use of analgesics in the patient with acute abdomen without compromising diagnostic accuracy (Ch. 37.1) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Medium
Item:53 Patient Safety Problem: Adverse events due to provider inexperience or unfamiliarity with certain procedures and situations Patient Safety Practice: Simulator-based training (Ch. 45) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Medium
Item:54 Patient Safety Problem: Adverse drug events (ADEs) in drug dispensing and/or administration Patient Safety Practice: Use of automated medication dispensing devices (Ch. 11) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Medium
Item:55 Patient Safety Problem: Hospital-acquired infections Patient Safety Practice: Improve handwashing compliance (via education/behavior change; sink technology and placement; washing substance) (Ch. 12) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Low
Item:56 Patient Safety Problem: Failure to honor patient preferences for end-of-life care Patient Safety Practice: Use of physician order form for life-sustaining treatment (POLST) (Ch. 49) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Low
Item:57 Patient Safety Problem: Adverse events due to patient misidentification Patient Safety Practice: Use of bar coding (Ch. 43.1) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Medium (varies)
Item:58 Patient Safety Problem: Adverse drug events (ADEs) in dispensing medications Patient Safety Practice: Unit-dosing distribution system (Ch. 10) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Low
Item:59 Patient Safety Problem: Critical events in anesthesia Patient Safety Practice: Intraoperative monitoring of vital signs and oxygenation (Ch. 24) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Low
Item:60 Patient Safety Problem: Adverse events during cross-coverage Patient Safety Practice: Standardized, structured sign-outs for physicians (Ch. 42.2) Implementation Cost/Complexity: Low
Item:61 Patient Safety Problem: Adverse events related to team performance issues Patient Safety Practice: Applications of aviation-style crew resource management (e.g., Anesthesia Crisis Management; MedTeams) (Ch. 44) Implementation Cost/Complexity: High
Item:62 Patient Safety Problem: Adverse events related to fatigue in health care workers Patient Safety Practice: Limiting individual provider's hours of service (Ch. 46) Implementation Cost/Complexity: High
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