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Kaiser Permanente and the federal government believe that they've found the path to a national health record system
Frank Diamond
There's a little experiment going on in the San Diego area that health plan medical directors and other stakeholders may want to pay close attention to. Kaiser Permanente and the Department of Veterans Affairs have teamed up to allow the electronic health records of patients enrolled in both systems to be shared by physicians from both organizations.
The program was tested September 30 on two patients, one visiting a Kaiser system doctor and the other seeing a physician in the VA system. The patients gave their doctors permission to retrieve their electronic medical records and the two organizations, within a few mouse-clicks, were able to exchange all problems, medications, and allergies recorded by each organization. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, which sponsors the Nationwide Health Information Network that is supposed to ensure that every citizen has an EHR, witnessed the test via webinar.
The program was launched in December with about 500 eligible veterans who receive care from both entities. It uses an internationally recognized standard, the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). This standard creates a common way of sharing health records from different EHR systems in different organizations, and is often referred to as the "clinical Rosetta Stone."
"It is an international exchange standard that I co-founded with another physician in San Diego about 15 years ago," says John Mattison, MD, chief medical information officer and a regional director of KP HealthConnect, which is run by Kaiser Permanente. "I've been working on building the infrastructure to allow for this kind of information exchange for well over a decade. There are thousands of people who have made contributions."
Strong presence
The Department of Defense also joined the effort on January 31. All three organizations have a strong presence in San Diego. Mattison says just how much financial support the organizations supply is difficult to quantify since "we have used many folks who have given generously of their time while continuing to do their day jobs."
There are reasons why medical directors at health plans across the country should be interested. "The meaningful use legislation that's come out of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act requires that in order to qualify for the full stimulus money, a hospital and a physician will need to demonstrate their ability to exchange records with others," says Mattison. "The Nationwide Health Information Network is the common mechanism to exchange information across the country."
The program generates high hope. "People like Dr. David Blumenthal [national coordinator for health information technology] recognize that this is a major milestone toward the ability to have far higher quality care," says Mattison. "Doctors will have much more complete information and it eliminates a lot of the guesswork because of how key medical information is currently locked up either in paper or in electronic health records somewhere else."
Of course, similar programs are being tested elsewhere. Mattison mentions Indiana, Tennessee, and Virginia. Those are local programs that emerged before the unifying interoperability exchange standards became available with the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) initiative, he says, but it is expected that each of these local efforts will build the "adapters" required to join the NHIN, allowing them to begin participating in exchange outside of their local area.
"What is unique about this pilot is that it uses a set of standards and protocols that is intended to allow exchange anywhere across the country and, for that matter, anywhere across the world because the CDA standard is actually being adopted widely internationally," says Mattison.
Almost everything that's in a patient's EHR can be exchanged. The law states that certain conditions, such as chemical dependency, HIV, or hepatitis B cannot be disclosed without the patient's explicit consent. In some cases, the patient can grant additional consent to share this information, but in other cases legal statutes preclude the electronic exchange of this information under any conditions. Still, the program definitely complies with HIPAA.
"That probably is one of the biggest accomplishments of this project," says Mattison. "All of the requirements of HIPAA have been met and there's a further document called the DURSA, which stands for Data Use and Reciprocal Services Agreement, that must be signed by any institution before it can participate in the NHIN. The creation of this document is one of the most significant accomplishments of the NHIN program because it defines clear standards for privacy and security surrounding the exchange of information, and yet it preserves local autonomy within the overall framework for how individual institutions manage a variety of issues, such as patient consent, with individual patients."
For all the excitement generated by the program, it does not yet have an official name. "The San Diego National Health Information Network Project is the closest thing to a name it has," says Mattison.
The project is a natural offshoot of the work Mattison oversees at KP HealthConnect, which Mattison describes as "a comprehensive system that we use to document all patient information, to store it, and to retrieve it. It is a very comprehensive electronic health record that includes every physician, every patient, every clinic, every hospital throughout all of southern California. And we used the exact same system all across Kaiser Permanente."
Technical issues
In a similar way, the VA uses Vista, the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture. The DOD uses its Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (abbreviated as AHLTA and pronounced Alta).
"We essentially solved the technical issues of exchanging information," says Mattison. He points out that all of the recent presidential administrations, whether Republican or Democrat, believed that health information exchange is "table stakes" for improving the health care delivery for all citizens.
"The San Diego NHIN project represents a giant step forward in proving the feasibility of the NHIN model, and early experience is already revealing tremendous value for the patients being served," says Mattison.
Looking beyond San Diego
The San Diego-based health information technology project by Kaiser Permanente, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Defense is small at the moment, with just 500 participants. John Mattison, MD, the chief medical information officer and regional director of KP HealthConnect, says that plans are in the works for expansion in four different areas.
- Geographical: "We are finalizing three additional locations outside of San Diego where we will implement this exchange by mid-summer this year."
- Functional: "In the next six months we will add certain lab results (chemistry and hematology), immunization records, and vital signs. Over the next year or so we hope to add most if not all of the other information contained within the clinical record."
- Technological: "We will continue to advance and 'harden' the software so ultimately it can be used by everyone across the country."
- Participatory: "Many other institutions have expressed interest in joining the exchange as soon as possible. We are in discussions with these other early adopters, and the national NHIN coordinating committee governs how new institutions ready themselves to join the NHIN. Specific examples include very large established efforts like those in MedVirginia [Virginia's regional health information organization], and the Centers for Disease Control."


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please help me ,samsung s2,keeps restarting by itself
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Posted January 30, 2012 at 7:44AM
Hi everyone
can you please help me.
i bought samsung s2 contract from (phones4u)on 4th january/2012,they were so helpful and polite.
the problem is :3 days after when i bought the mobile phones,it keeps restarting by itself.without even me touching the mobile phones.
Sometimes the alarm doesn't sound as well,when i press the main button on,the mobile phone restart.
i called phones4u technical support,and explain the problem to them,they helped me to (hard reset) the mobile phones.
when i done that and reinstall all the apps again,3 days later,it start again restarting by itself,honestly i was upset because i really like this phone.
again i called phones4u technical support,they told me i had to return the mobile phone,and they will send me new one.
As they promise they sent me new one.
i received the new mobile phone last Friday 27/1/2012,i was so happy.
to my biggest shock,when i start installing the apps,the mobile restart by itself again.
yesterday 29/1/2012,the mobile phone was in my horizontal pouch,suddenly,the mobile phone restart by itself again.
i set up the alarm to sound on at 6.15 am,this morning.but the alarm doesn't sound on,i woke up late at 6.45.
When i press the main button on,the mobile phone restart again.
i was so upset why this is happening?
i had a lot of apps specially for (killing apps in the background),and apps for extending battery life.
i ran app for killing apps in the background one at a time.
please why is this happening to my mobile phone?
how can i stop my mobile phone restarting my itself
i hope to hear from you very soon
My kindest regards habs2habs
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Posted January 30, 2012 at 8:54AM
There is clearly a problem somewhere - a conflict maybe. Contact your supplier again or if you have a store near to you pop in and let them see exactly what is happening.
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Posted January 30, 2012 at 9:00AM
Take it back to wherever you got it from, explain what has been happening.
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Posted January 30, 2012 at 1:44PM
Would not be surprised if they set your phone back to factory settings then sent you the same phone back again.
Unusual for the same thing to happen to both phones.
Best bet would be to go to the shop and watch them as they give you a new one.That way you know you are not getting the old one back again.
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Posted January 30, 2012 at 8:46PM
thank you all for your quick reply.
that is why i am so confused.
example today,when the alarm doesn't sound on,and the mobile restart.
all day long today nothing happened,it doesn't restart by itself(touch wood),it will never happen again.
-buteman:i don't think this is the same phone,because the IMEI is different,than the first one.
if this happened again i will go the phones4u shop and will explain to them the problem.
what will happen if i get new phone again,and the same thing happened?
i hope to hear from you very soon
my kindest regards habs2habs
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Posted February 7, 2012 at 7:20AM
hi everyone again
the latest to my problem:
early morning today 07/02/2012 at 2.10am,while i was sleeping,the mobile restart by itself,i was shocked.
i am sure there one of the apps causing this. I have a lot of apps,mainly for(extended battery,killing apps in the background)
example of the apps i have for (killing apps):
-advanced task manager -advanced task killer free -android booster -super task killer -gemini app manager -gemini task killer -easy task killer
i use those app one at a time,when i finish from one app,i use the other
the extended battery app:
-juice defender plus(I paid for that app,very good) -easy battery -battery defender -2x battery
and memory booster,to reclaim the memory back to your mobile
and some backup apps: -my backup pro -ultimate backup -app backup and restore
app2sd (apps as well) apps: -sky news -vodafone -amazon -kindle -kayak
and some spanish language apps as well
if is there one of the apps causing this problem,how can i know which one?
i am using those apps one at a time,mainly for (extended battery,and killing apps)
what is shocking me that the mobile phone restart even without me touching my mobile phone
i hope to hear from you very soon
my kindest regards habs2habs
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Posted February 7, 2012 at 8:23AM
It sounds, as someone has said, as if you have some kind of app conflict problem. You should take your phone back to its factory settings. Then, install the apps one at a time. Install the first app, leave the phone for a few days before installing any more apps. If it doesn't randomly restart, install another app, wait a few days - and keep doing this, one app at a time, until you find the app that is causing the restart.
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Posted February 7, 2012 at 9:18PM
Dear Ian
thank you for your reply so much.
today at work,my mobile phone was on the desk,i wasn't using it.
later i tried to call my wife ,my phone was switched off,i didn't switch it off,it switch off by itself.
i tried to switch it on,nothing worked,i had to take the battery off,than restart my phone.
i will do factory reset my mobile phone and do that(install one app at a time and wait for 2 or 3 days,if nothing happened,i will carry on installing the apps one at a time.
i hope to hear from you very soon
my kindest regards habib1
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Posted February 8, 2012 at 9:59AM
I'm convinced the problem is with a conflict among your apps. To have one phone that randomly switches off might point to a faulty phone - but to have two with an identical problem tells me that it's not the phone that's the problem, it's something you're doing with it. It wasn't 100% clear to me from your original post - but if, for example, you have more than one app that does the same thing (e.g. battery management) then there is very likely to be conflict (much as, on a PC, if you have two antivirus programs running). Try the 'bare bones' phone - with no additional apps installed - for a little while. If it's reliable, then that will very much point to an app problem of some kind.
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Posted February 9, 2012 at 7:56AM
Dear Ian in Northampton
again,thank you so much for your reply.
you are right,i have apps do the same things:
example:apps for: -To extend the battery -apps2sd -apps task killer
these apps do the same things as you mentioned.maybe some apps conflict with each other.
i will wait one more time ,if anything happened,with my mobile phone,i will factory reset it.
i am not saying the problem from the phone,99%,the problem from one apps,which with another,but which one,i have no idea.
and install one app at a time and wait to 3 days to see if anything happened
again thank you so much for your help
my kindest regards habib1
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Effective coping mechanisms for stress can create stepping--‐stones toward greater emotional endurance. Alternatively, ineffective coping mechanisms can produce roadblocks that make future stress harder to bear. The experiments outlined in this proposal will explore two stress coping mechanisms that may promote resilience toward future stress rather than vulnerability. The first coping mechanism, the "stress inoculation hypothesis", suggests that prior exposure to moderate stress enhances our ability to deal with new stress. This coping mechanism will be explored in a new rat model of psychological stress, developed by Pam Litvak's collaborator at Stony Brook University. In Experiment #1, we will expose rats to 21 days of unpredictable but controllable stress, then compare their performance to control rats on a behavioral flexibility task thought to be dependent on the prefrontal cortex. The second coping mechanism will be explored in a collaborative, interdepartmental study between Pam Litvak and Gregg Morrow. Regular participation in exercise, although considered physically stressful, is beneficial for brain structure and function and may even alleviate stress--‐induced damage. Experiment #2 will assess the relationship between physical fitness and strategies used in a learning task in young, college--‐aged adults. Together, these experiments take advantage of the strengths of both animal and human--‐ based studies in an effort to pursue translational research goals. Translational research (the application of basic research findings to enhance human health and well--‐being) is currently a high priority for federal sponsors such as the National Institutes of Health.


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Since the horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., American schools have participated in an average of more than two dozen lockdowns a day. In neighboring Massachusetts, schools have responded with a three-pronged attack of gun control legislation, teacher training, and security technology.
Case in point: Weymouth, Massachusetts-based ELERTS built a system that allows teachers trapped in a volatile situation to use "Internet of Things" technology to keep their students safe. They can lock down a facility and cut off key card access with the click of a button while sending and receiving communication to other faculty and arriving police—all from a smartphone app.
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The tech is a manifestation of a larger new consensus: that active shooter situations are often over before police can arrive. "When in a lockdown situation, which can go on for hours, up until now information from the outside isn't getting into the classrooms," says ELERTS CEO Ed English.
Before new national guidelines were released in June 2013, protocol for teachers used to be simpler: Lock the classroom doors, turn off the lights, and hide until police arrived. Today the response includes "Run, Hide, or Fight," and encourages staff and students to use one or more options based on their own judgment.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick recently announced new school safety guidelines in all Massachusetts Schools that suggest "each school should have a system for school staff to communicate with each other as well as first responders during an incident." The guidelines push schools to consider using smartphones because they "cannot always depend on the school's public address or internal phone system."
That moment of decision is when the ELERTS Lock-It-Down system is designed to come into play, allowing designated staff to initiate the lockdown of a facility. Access to this kind of security tech isn't just handed out to teachers: that's why ELERTS partners with the ALICE Training institute.
The idea behind ALICE—which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate and which is used in school districts and law enforcement agencies across the country—is to educate the educators.
A teacher or students inside a locked down building is "really the first responder," says Frank Griffith, ALICE Training Institute's executive vice president. Griffith says that when a teacher has been prepped to think about their options it increases their chances of survival. All of this follows new national guidelines released for school safety in 2013 in response to the Newtown shootings.
Though shootings can be over in minutes, lockdowns often go on for hours, and the ELERTS system can help teachers better navigate that often traumatizing time.
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English says the national average is 10 minutes for police response time to get to an urban school setting. In a shooter situation, teachers with information, "can quickly type it in, take a picture, and hit Send. And it can auto-broadcast to teachers in other parts of the school and police," English says.
"The local police department can start participating immediately," English says, instead of when they arrive.
Through the app they developed (in a partnership with Tyco Security Products), ELERTS also allows teachers to disable all swipe cards except for local law enforcement. The system brings up a Google map that allows a school administrator to define a field of view for each camera outside the facility. "When a person is in the perimeter of the threat camera we use the GPS on the phone to see where the person is," English explains.
It's important to note that ELERTS and ALICE Training are about preparation, not prevention. Griffith says the concept of prevention is just not something his company talks about too much because you can't prevent an active shooter situation from happening. They're just trying to improve the status quo, which English says really needs improvement.
"It's a matter of reducing risk," he says. "It's nearly impossible to say with a hundred percent certainty that there's any building that can't be breached."
Nor is hacking a school security system like ELERTS unimaginable, though English says that would be an extremely remote possibility. "Our data is all encrypted, we don't make it easy for someone to get access to it," he adds. (Wired.com recently reported that last year a hacker proved he could take control of "highly automated" hotel rooms in a five-star hotel in Shenzhen, China.)
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I'm a US teacher - and this plan is impractical. Unless you want your phone to be stolen off your hip, it needs to be locked up with your purse in a desk drawer. If students or somebody else does manage to steal a teacher's phone, what a mess that would cause! What about teachers who DON'T have smartphones (like me) because we can't afford them? Will the district be providing them to us for free? Why not just fix the stupid intercom buttons that are already in every classroom and never seem to work?
And still nobody has considered banning guns in America? How much more money will they spend fire-fighting this problem..
Giving teachers a way to remotely lock classroom doors is paramount, so they don't have to approach a door or go into a hallway in a potentially dangerous situation. But using a smartphone app still requires time and fine motor skills that are often in short supply during an emergency situation.
Lock-maker Schlage, makes a key fob that teachers can wear like a necklace and remotely lock down a classroom with the push of a single button. The CO-220 lock also features a clear display that indicates when the lock is engaged, so first responders can easily see which rooms are locked and secure.
These products are proven and tested since they already being used in schools. If I were a school administrator I'd want to see a whole lot of testing before relying on an app to protect students.
Chris, You really should identify yourself as the Communications and Media Relations manager for Schlage's parent company, Allegion, when pitching your products.
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Using the smartphone that is already familiar to the teachers makes more sense. There is no extra gear to buy and no one ever forgets to bring their smartphone. We carry them with us in the playground, lunchroom, parking lot and classroom. They work wherever there is cellular or wifi signals. And they are location aware, with GPS maps. Smartphones are very capable as emergency communication devices. Dealing with a school threat is about much more than simply locking the doors. With any teacher or other staff member able to transmit photos, maps and descriptions of what they see to others and police, situational awareness is achieved. Modern protocols promote using situational response to a violent school threat. But situational response requires knowing what the situation is.


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Uncapped flanker Jacques Potgieter is one of three changes to the Springboks' starting XV for the third Test against England.
Potgieter replaces the injured Willem Alberts who has not recovered sufficiently from a knee injury to be considered. The other two changes to the starting line-up are also enforced, as Gio Aplon steps in for the injured Pat Lambie at fullback and centre Wynand Olivier replaces Frans Steyn who has been granted leave to get married.
The Boks will miss Steyn in midfield, but losing Alberts is a big blow to their gainline ambitions. Coach Heyneke Meyer, however, believes Potgieter will get the Boks on to the front foot.
'I like a big, ball-carrying blindside flank and Willem has been awesome in the past two matches,' said Meyer. 'He is not available this week but I think Jacques can do that job. He's already proved himself in that role for the Bulls during Super Rugby and I believe he will add a lot of value.
'If Willem was fit, then I would have started Jacques from the bench. So in a way it's worked out well as I will see what Jacques can offer. We need him to get us some momentum.'
Steyn's unavailability disrupts the midfield dynamic, leaving the 10-12 channel susceptible to an England barrage. Meyer challenged this view, however, pointing to Olivier's experience at Test level and his Super Rugby partnership with flyhalf Morné Steyn as a big plus.
'Wynand is established in that No 12 position and and he understands the game plan [Olivier worked under Meyer when the Bok coach was still at the Bulls]. The selection also ensures that we have some continuity in midfield,' Meyer added, referring to the fact that Olivier has come off the bench in the past two Tests to play at No 12.
Jean de Villiers has played the bulk of his Tests at inside centre but Meyer said he would like the Bok skipper to concentrate on the No 13 position. Frans Steyn will return at No 12 for the Rugby Championship, and so Meyer's reason for this selection was down to continuity.
'It's important for Jean to stick to one position at this stage. I don't want to move him around if I don't have to.'
Aplon will also be required to play an unfamiliar role at No 15. In the past two Tests, Lambie has been required to complement Francois Hougaard and Morne Steyn in the kicking department. It will be a big ask for Aplon, although he has also been encouraged by the Bok coach to express himself if the opportunity presents itself.
'I've always rated Gio, he's an exciting player. I want players to fit into the game plan but that doesn't mean I will box [restrict] them. He has a strong running game and unbelievable feet, and we will be looking for a special performance from him.
'It's a good opportunity. There is no pecking order with me, so the chance is there for him to impress me.'
The changes to the bench see loose forward Ryan Kankowski replacing Keegan Daniel and flyhalf Elton Jantjies also joining the reserves.
Springboks – 15 Gio Aplon, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jean de Villiers (c), 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Jacques Potgieter, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Beast Mtawarira.
Subs: 16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Werner Kruger, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Ryan Kankowski, 20 Ruan Pienaar, 21 Elton Jantjies, 22 Bjorn Basson.
By Jon Cardinelli, in Port Elizabeth


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"Don't Stop Making Tamas!" Petition
Posted 13 May 2012 - 05:45 PM ( #41 )
Gender: Girl
Country: United States
Please, don't stop making tamagotchis. I grew up with them I very clearly remember my first tama, a v2, and how much fun I had taking care of it. To this day, I still have it and play with it. Even if you make one final, grand effort with the English audience, I can honestly say that I would be okay with that. Though I loved the tama-go, I was very dissatisfied with how it turned out, and I think Bandai could possibly redeem the entire toy series just by giving one final hurrah. I think they would be surprised by the amount of people that would buy tamas, especially now that new ones haven't been released in English speaking countries in almost 2 years. I think the mistake they made was making the tama-go's so big. All I really one is at least one last, good old fashioned tama before Bandai gives up on us english fans for good.
Posted 16 May 2012 - 06:19 PM ( #42 )
Posted 18 May 2012 - 05:21 AM ( #43 )
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Please DO NOT stop making Tamagotchi's! I remember the first time I got mine, when me, my older sister, and our friend (well, our mom too, we can't drive and it was too faraway to walk) went to Toys r us or some place like that and we found a HUGE wall of Tamagotchi's. Well, maybe it just seemed huge to 6, 8, and 9 year old's. After looking around for a bit, I was the last one to choose mine and finally I spotted one way up top and had my mom reach it for me. It was pink, with winged hearts all over. I couldn't wait to get started.
Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:33 AM ( #44 )
Age: 8-12 yrs
Gender: Female
Country: UK
Comment: I became a fan of Tamagotchi's pretty late, but now I love them, it would be good if you made a new one, not too big but with more features. Thanks Bandai!
Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:11 AM ( #45 )
Comment:I would absolutely love a new tama in England, but I wouldn't like it to be too girly, so I don't get laughed at by my schoolmates.
Posted 21 May 2012 - 05:46 PM ( #46 )
Comment:DON'T STOP MAKING TAMAS! I'VE LOVED THEM SINCE I WAS 9!
Posted 21 May 2012 - 07:07 PM ( #47 )
Gender: Female
Country: Derp. Canada. There.
Comment: Contrary to what you believe, we do still love little egg shaped things that are controlled by 3 buttons. Not everybody is obsessed with touch screens nowadays. Don't stop making them! Release vintages again! If Tamagotchis aren't popular anymore, why are TamaTalk and other Tamagotchi forums so active? Bring them back! We would buy them. c:
Edited by kuchipatchi.is.blue55, 21 May 2012 - 07:25 PM.
Posted 21 May 2012 - 11:08 PM ( #48 )
Posted 26 May 2012 - 12:13 PM ( #49 )
Comment: Bandai, tamagotchi is probably the only toy that has continued for so long and still has its swag. Please dont make the tama-go the last tama, also BRING THE TAMAGOTCHI COLOR OR ID OR IDL HERE! I know u guys think that Japan would have higher sales and interest in it but think again! Americas sooooo much bigger than Japan! More people= more $$$$=more ☺!(Plus theres so many complainers including me)
Posted 27 May 2012 - 09:26 AM ( #50 )
Gender: Female
Country: United States
comment: I've always loved tamagotchi i got one because one of my friend had one then i got one and i gave some to my friends and i made it a trend at my school and it was fun connecting and i wish i can go back to thoses days in elementary so i want to save tama's for my sake and everyones because its so many memories we had
Posted 27 May 2012 - 10:35 AM ( #51 )
Gender: Male
Country: Williamsian Republic
comment: I've always loved tamagotchi and continue to play with them even if they have discontinued by Bandai. I personally think that Bandai is done with Tamagotchi Virtual pets and have moved onto other things. I think that from now on they are just going to do Tamagotchi related stuff, and just continue with Tamagotchi VP's in Japan. I could be wrong though, come on Bandai! Prove me wrong
Posted 21 June 2012 - 08:28 PM ( #52 )
Comment: Tamas rock!
Posted 21 June 2012 - 11:38 PM ( #53 )
This will be ineffective unless its on an official site, jfyi!
Posted 22 June 2012 - 07:29 AM ( #54 )
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Comment: PLease keep making tamagotchi's, and release some of the japanese one's we have yet to get^-^
Posted 23 June 2012 - 05:52 AM ( #55 )
Comment:I would buy the million of a new tama just to encourage bandai to make more!!!!!!!
Posted 23 June 2012 - 08:33 AM ( #56 )
Gender: female
Country: Japan
Comment: I have had a tamagotchi for a long time and I love playing with them... And I would be nothing without them.
Posted 24 June 2012 - 12:56 AM ( #57 )
Gender: Female
Country: Australia
Comment: Please keep up the good work Bandai!
Posted 26 June 2012 - 12:32 AM ( #58 )
Gender: Male
Country: USA
Comment: Don't stop making Tamagotchis. I had my first Tamagotchi in 4th grade; the Tamagotchi Connection V2 was the most recent Tamagotchi at the time. During recess and lunch, my friends and I would always have our Tamagotchis play games with each other and even have them marry each other sometimes.
I remember me and my friends being so excited when we found out about the V3, then the V4, and so on. It was such an exciting experience to open the packaging of a new Tamagotchi and pull the tab.
I'm now a sophomore in high school and I still want to enjoy this virtual pet like I did years ago. In fact, you guys should bring this virtual pet to handheld video game consoles again. It would also be pretty cool to implement online capabilities to it.
- It`s Teri and TicTax like this
Posted 29 June 2012 - 11:59 PM ( #59 )
Gender: Male
Country: Vietnam
Comment: I bought my first Tamagotchi in 3rd Grade or so, to be honest, I was pretty fun. I enjoyed it with my friends who don't have a tamagotchi, but still help me with raising my tama. As I grow up, I began to research more in depth on Tamagotchi and realized you made many versions and I bought 3 more Tamagotchi. Well, the color Tamagotchi announcement really surprised me, I anticipated it to be English, but no... there's only the Japanese version. So I kept hoping and hoping there'll be a day when there's color Tamagotchi in English despite the announcement you made for not releasing it anymore! So please please produce more Tamagotchis for us! The color Tamagotchi is more preferable. Thanks!
Posted 03 July 2012 - 10:02 AM ( #60 )
Comment:Please don't stop making english Tamagotchi's its just not right, I've been collecting tamagotchi's since I was 8. Now and I would love to have the Tamagotchi IDL as part of my collection but its aggravating that it is only in Japanese!
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BloodHub Survey Results Show Outstanding End User Satisfaction
Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center measures hospital user satisfaction; results exceed expectations
Davenport, Iowa (PRWEB) January 28, 2013
Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from its first user satisfaction survey of BloodHub, the Center´s online ordering and blood supply chain solution. MVRBC´s primary focus was on quantifying ease of use as a primary measure of user acceptance.
The results were clear:
- A near-perfect 98.4% of users reported that BloodHub was easy to use for ordering blood products.
- Equally impressive, 96.7% of users agreed that BloodHub was an improvement over the previous supply management solution.
Since June 2012, Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center (MVRBC) has been using BloodHub, the industry´s newest online ordering and blood supply management solution. All hospitals served by MVRBC order blood and manage their inventory of blood components through a single, integrated online portal. Of the 80 hospitals surveyed, 76% submitted a response.
Benefits to hospital users include fewer errors, improved communication, increased staff productivity and greater visibility of key quality metrics including order turnaround time and order fill rates.
MVRBC's Vice President for Business Development, Nancy Kelting, is encouraged with the survey results: "We had anecdotal evidence of our customers´ satisfaction with BloodHub and know customers use it successfully every day — even for STAT and time sensitive orders. While we had good reason to expect a positive response, it has been nice to see our optimism validated by the survey results."
BloodHub co-Founder Michael Pandelakis was equally pleased with the survey´s outcome. "These results endorse our quality centric development process that sweats the details," said Pandelakis. "Ease of use is the ultimate acid test. Users do not differentiate between error free code, intuitive navigation or fast performance. It´s a gut level response – the site either flows or it doesn´t. MVRBC´s survey validates our vision and efforts."
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Homo sapiens have lived and prospered in Alaska for at least 10,000 years. Very resourceful people had advanced cultures and economies here when Europeans were huddling in caves drawing on the walls with burnt sticks.
It is easy for those of us from non-indigenous stock to assume that humans accomplished nothing of significance here before 1747. Most of our attitude is benign ignorance mixed with some cultural hubris. My purpose is to dispel some of the ignorance and engender more respect as we go forward.
Houses: Alaska's Arctic Native people evolved semi subterranean houses thousands of years before the hippies made earth houses popular in the 1960s. These houses had insulation several feet thick with "arctic entries" to keep out the wind and the vapor barrier on the inside. (Modern house designers did not figure this stuff out until the last 50 years.)
The homes of Alaska's northern people could be heated with a seal oil lamp. An elder and friend from Barrow told me, "Before the white man came, we lived underground and buried our dead above ground. Now we do it backwards and we haven't been warm since."
They figured out how to quickly construct movable dwellings when they went to fish camp or needed to follow the changing game migration patterns. In timber country, they learned how to split tree trunks into planks and build post and beam structures of great utility and beauty that shed the rain and leaked not.
Tools: Alaska's indigenous people are ingenious inventors and very open to borrowing technology from all sources. They developed the toggle head harpoon, braided ropes, and inflatable buoys that made the hunting of marine mammals possible. The famed "Japanese" current brings anything that floats across the North Pacific and often deposits the flotsam and jetsam onto Alaska's coasts. Alaska Natives scavenged the iron and made axes, spear and arrow heads, saws, chisels, drills, knives. They called them "gifts from the sea." Early Alaskans developed laminated recurve bows as fine as any in Europe or Asia. They increased the range of their spears with "attalas," throwing sticks.
Great boats: In the north, Alaska's Native people developed boats that met three criteria. The boat's frame could be built from local trees, bushes and driftwood. The covering was from animal skins. And the completed boat was man-portable and could be dragged across the land or ice.
Now, thousands of years later, no one has improved upon the design and shape of the kayak. There is simply no other vessel in history or in the world that is so capable of taking one to three people safely out to sea. And these boats are fast and easily driven.
The larger, open skin boats, often called umiaks, could carry a dozen or more people, plus cargo, and still be moved across the ice or up onto shore. The kayaks and umiaks were designed to flex in a seaway and thus avoid the frame-breaking stress that plagues any boat longer than the space between waves. In timber country, huge tree trunks were hollowed out, steamed and spread to make magnificent ocean capable boats that made ocean voyages of more than a thousand miles. In these great boats, early Alaskans raided and traded down the coast perhaps as far as San Francisco Bay. They were this continent's equivalent of the Vikings of Europe.
Effective government: Most of Alaska's original inhabitants established trade routes and relationships that enabled them to trade with others who had access to desirable goods. This allowed early Alaskans to trade for copper from Northwest territories, and perhaps iron and other goods from Asia.
There is also some evidence that early Alaska had evolved sophisticated restorative justice protocols. These agreements allowed for the peaceful resolution of disputes and torts. In the U.S., we are only recently rediscovering the genius of these systems that put the rights and restoration of the victims first.
Most Alaska Native people had an effective system of selecting honorable and effective leaders that worked well. The prospective leaders had to prove themselves worthy by showing maturity, hunting skills and wisdom. Then the elders went through some deliberative process that resulted in consensus to confirm the leaders.
And now
I trust my observations here are largely accurate and not offensive. We non-Natives are unfair to not acknowledge that we are latecomers to this great land and that we are standing on the shoulders of giants who learned to live in this magnificent land over 10,000 years ago. Let us acknowledge our debts and sins and go forward with respect, justice and dignity.
Fred Dyson, a Republican senator from Eagle River, has lived in Alaska since 1964 and raised his family here. He fished in Bristol Bay for 25 years and has worked on several engineering projects in Western Alaska.
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When is it ok for a country to go to war?
When is it ok for a country to go to war?
Whenever attacked or whenever the actions of another country are considered exceptionally harmful for the majority of people on the planet AKA The Nazi regime taking over the world. I would also add that if a leader is committing crimes against humanity (Saddam Hussein) it is the job of the strong to remove said leader and protect the weak.
A nation going to war simply because it rejects the political philosophy is not Okay
Who was the best General in History and Why?
I would agree that Alexander was probably the greatest war leader of all time but I dont believe he was ever a general. He was King of Macedonia but I dont think Phillip ever made him a general in the military. If we are not making these kinds of distinctions then I agree with Sparky if we are then I say Julius Ceasar.


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