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Kim Stanley Robinson visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York in June for a panel discussion, as part of the MoMA PS1's series of talks "Speculations: The Future is _".
Each did a keynote address. Stan's talk, "What Is the Future For?", greatly summarizes all his latest ideas on science, (post-)capitalism, the utopian process, climate change, the paleolithic way of life, our relation to the physical world... Watch it below!
Watch John Crowley's address and their joint panel together with Q&A, which covers many many topics.
The City Atlas provides a summary of Stan's talk, with a particular focus from the Q&A on cities' role in participating in a better planned, more sustainable future.
I have often framed this problem as science versus capitalism…For me, science is the effort to try to reduce suffering, the effort to try to make life more comfortable for human beings, to understand the world better and to manipulate it for various human goods…I think of science as a utopian good that can make things better.
[...] I think cities are important because they are so densely populated…and I think that a lot of city life is fairly paleolithic in a strange way because it gets away from the automobile. Cities encourage face-to-face interactions with other individuals, so I like it for that. And I think that rooftops need to be used for urban gardens and that cities need to be greened, less for the auto and more for people and public transit.
Earlier, in May, Stan participated in a talk organized by the newly-opened Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and the Helen Edison Lecture Series at UC San Diego: "The Literary Imagination". Fellow writer Jonathan Lethem, A C Clarke Center Director Sheldon Brown and Stan discussed the writing process and each other's writing. This event marked the opening of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego.The long discussion includes both writers reading from each other's works, a highlight of the talk and a joy to watch and hear! Lethem read three "Lists" from Robinson's 2312, and Robinson read Lethem's hilarious list "Proximity People" (direct mp3 link).
The discussion also included a very interesting part, separate from the above video, in which both writers discussed a common influence of theirs: Philip K. Dick (direct mp3 link): Dick's social realism, Dick's fantastic elements, Dick's adaptation in films, favorite novels. Robinson famously wrote his PhD thesis on Dick's works, which has been expanded and edited separately as The Novels of Philip K. Dick.
The big news is that Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, 2312, has won the Nebula Award for Best Novel! This is Robinson's first Nebula win after Red Mars! At the same ceremony, Gene Wolfe was the recipient of the 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, and appropriately enough Stan's acceptance speech was centered on congratulating Wolfe as well! As covered earlier, there are more awards ceremonies coming in the rest of the year!
(Nebulas 2013 winners)
This is no longer 2012 and the 'exactly 300 years in the future' setting no longer works, but 2312 is still a new novel -- I've even seen typos from readers mentioning it as 2313! 2312 has also just been released in mass market paperback in the UK and as far as I can tell the USA as well (June 25 2013) by Orbit. It has also just been published in Spanish, for Spain and the whole of Latin America (June 18 2013) by Minotauro.
(Kim Stanley Robinson, Gene Wolfe, David G. Hartwell)
A number of interviews have surfaced on the occasion of the Nebula:
Sword and Laser interviewed Stan at the SFWA Nebulas event, actually a few hours before what proved to be a win! Stan speaks about a lot of his novels, not just 2312 and the Mars trilogy, and in the middle of the SFWA Nebulas Weekend there are a lot of laughs to be had (direct mp3 download).
Big part of the July 2013 issue of Popular Science (print & online) is dedicated to views of the future. It has an extended excerpt from 2312 and an article with predictions on how life will be in the future by various authors, as well as beautiful artwork. Kim Stanley Robinson is featured:
Many problems in travel around the solar system were solved when asteroids were adapted to the task. Thousands of ovoid asteroids were hollowed out so that their insides were empty cylinders, and then they were set spinning on their long axes to create a gravity effect inside. Crews and passengers live at one g, well protected from cosmic radiation, and move in orbits around the solar system like giant ocean liners. They never slow down, and catching up to one in a little ferry can be a crushing experience, as your reporter recently learned.
Each asteroid contains a particular biome, filled with the plants and animals from particular landscapes back on Earth. Some are more aquarium than terrarium. If species have been mixed to make a mongrel biome, as has happened on Earth since the first living creatures migrated from one ecosystem to another, the result is called an Ascension, after Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. The island was bare rock until HMS Beagle landed there, and Darwin himself planted a variety of plants which have since prospered.
By a nice coincidence, your reporter's recent voyage was on the Wegener, an Ascension asteroid composed of plants and animals from West Africa and eastern Brazil. It is a beautiful space, highly recommended, but all the terraria are gorgeous in their own ways—in effect, floating works of landscape art.
Take a trip on one and see!
Robinson talks about what the process was to create 2312 -- from character temperaments to world-building to history to form -- to writer Mary Robinette Kowal:
I had recently written an introduction to John Brunner's excellent Stand On Zanzibar, which had solved a similar problem by using the method invented by John Dos Passos in his great U.S.A. trilogy. [...] So, I adapted all the strands to my own purposes. My main strand follows my characters Swan and Wahram and Genette. The newspaper columns I turned into extracts from all kinds of unidentified texts, and I cut all these texts into minimal pieces to imitate how we read online, linking from one source to the next as we pursue the information we want. The biographies of famous people I had to alter somehow, because I don't think pocket biographies of fictional people can be as interesting as the same for real people; so I had my biographies be of moons and planets and big spaceships, as these were in effect historical actors in my story. Then lastly I made the camera eye strand be the stream of consciousness of a quantum computer, put in an android body and let loose in the world for the first time.
Stranger Than Fiction, a podcast from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University, has interviewed Robinson about the politics of science fiction, how robots have historically represented wage workers, and why we need to right Earth before we head to Mars: "Mars is a good 23rd-century project" (direct link to SoundCloud).
(Kim Stanley Robinson viewed through his Nebula Award)
The Atlantic also interviewed Robinson prior to the Nebula win, on 2312, science fiction versus futurology, Buddhism, Mondragon co-ops, capitalism, why the current time period is named "The Dithering" in 2312's future history...
Capitalism is a system of power and ownership that privileges a few in a hierarchical way, and it has in it no good controls or regulation concerning its damage to the biosphere, so to deal with the environmental catastrophes bearing down on us, we have to impose our will as a civilization on capitalism and make it do what we want civilization to do now, which is to create a just and sustainable human interaction with the biosphere and each other.
So this suggests legal changes imposed by democratic government, which are more and more urgently needed. The free market can't do it because it isn't free, but in fact a particular legal system completely inadequate to the situation, and the prices we concoct for things are completely unresponsive to physical realities.
So we are in quite a bit of trouble here, because capitalism is a cultural dominant and the current global way of conducting things, world law, and yet completely inadequate to the situation we face.
[...] So it is tricky work. But I am saying that democracy and science are stronger than capitalism. It is an assertion we are going to have to test to see if it is true or not. It will be a fight. It is the fight of the 21st century like the fight against totalitarianism was the fight of the 20th century. Indeed we did not definitively win that fight, because capitalism is a new kind of totalitarian system, fully capable of buying up democracy and science, and trying now to do so. So it is a tricky fight, but necessary work for us all.
A video of the Humanity+ conference from last December found its way to YouTube. Watch Stan argue for "Humanity minus" in front of a crowd veering more towards transhumanism and the high-tech cyborg.
Kim Stanley Robinson was also invited on a reading of "The First Woman on Mars" by Ron Drummond on the occasion of the release of #13 of White Fungus, a Taiwan-based magazine (Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 3-5pm Reading from "The First Woman on Mars" by Ron Drummond Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy Venue: KADIST, 3295 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110):
Contributing author Ron Drummond read from his essay/fiction hybrid, "The First Woman on Mars," a story that proposes an original Mars settlement scenario with the potential to serve as the inspirational and "dramatic centerpiece" to unite all human endeavors in space. He was joined by Kim Stanley Robinson, the science fiction writer and award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy and 2312. Together they discussed the social, economic, and political implications of the human push into space and efforts to colonize Mars, as well as the ecological and sociological sustainability of life on the red planet and elsewhere in the solar system.
Video of the Drummond reading.Video of Stan on the idea of living on Mars.
Some additional reviews for 2312 are still popping up: Breaking It All Down (video); Dark Matter; TPI's Reading Diary; and an article on reviews bias by the Economist.
Most notably, Kim Stanley Robinson participated in the publication by the Worldwatch Institute's "State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?" The Worldwatch Institute is a research institute/think tank: "Through research and outreach that inspire action, the Worldwatch Institute works to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world that meets human needs. The Institute's top mission objectives are universal access to renewable energy and nutritious food, expansion of environmentally sound jobs and development, transformation of cultures from consumerism to sustainability, and an early end to population growth through healthy and intentional childbearing."
"State of the World 2013" is a large book that covers large issues with contributions from many experts:
The first section, The Sustainability Metric, explores what a rigorous definition of sustainability would entail, helping to make this critical concept measurable and hence meaningful.
[...] The second section of the book, Getting to True Sustainability, explores the implications of the gaps that remain between present realities and a truly sustainable future.
[...] And so the book's third section—Open in Case of Emergency—takes on a topic that most discussions of sustainability leave unsaid: whether and how to prepare for the possibility of a catastrophic global environmental disruption.
Stan contributed with a chapter of his own: "Is it too late?"
The book and its concepts were presented on several occasions in the USA and Europe. On April 16, there was a State of the World 2013 Launch and Symposium at Washington DC, with panels by: "Beyond Sustainababble" by Worldwatch President Robert Engelman, Panel on "Getting to True Sustainability," Panel on "Getting Through the Long Emergency," Keynote by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, and Closing Reflections by Town Creek Foundation Executive Director Stuart Clarke.The whole can be seen as a playlist on YouTube (Robinson's video only).The authors also spoke shortly one-on-one videos (playlist; Robinson).
The same theme, "Is it too late?", was used in a Robinson article in The Sacramento Bee:
No. It is not yet too late. It is physically possible to shift infrastructures, technological arrays and social systems in ways that would make them so much cleaner than what exists now, especially in carbon terms, that extinctions would not soar, food shortages would not occur, and 7 billion or even 9 billion humans could share the planet with other living creatures in a healthy way. But that's not easy to do. We will do some things wrong. There will be human suffering, there will be suffering among the other creatures on Earth. There will be extinctions. We are going to do damage in the 21st century, possibly big damage. And unfortunately, unlike Wile E. Coyote, we won't get infinite chances to fall and try again. So the question should be changed from the disempowering question, "Is it too late?" to, "How much damage will we let happen?" Then we could flip that revised question to its positive formulation: "How much will we save? How much of the biosphere will we save?" That's the real question.
Robinson also recently spoke to students of Davis High School -- funny to read him described as "local science fiction author", KSR right down the street!
A man with greying hair and rectangular glasses stands in front of an auditorium of students in the Davis High IPAB on May 7. He's wearing ordinary clothes: a tucked-in plaid collared shirt and slightly wrinkled khakis. The only visible sign of his unique and spirited character is shown in a leather belt with a bright blue stone set into the buckle. The auditorium quiets to hushed whispers and then silence under the observant gaze of Kim Stanley Robinson.
(Photos by Carrie S, and Omnivoracious; also, Robinson and Joe Haldeman)
With 2312 presently one year old and Shaman fast approaching, there have been plenty of Science Fiction & Fantasy awards nominations! In detail:
An award for SF&F "that expands or explores our understanding of gender"... particularly topical for 2312! 2312 had been nominated for:
1) It joyfully imagines a post-binary-gender world in which parents elect to have their children treated, while in the womb, to ensure that they will grow up with a mix of gender characteristics. And it provides a social and economic justification for them doing this.2) Variations on gender/sexuality are not a main component of the plot exactly but the idea of gender play is fully part of the cultures...not a winner I would think but worthy of a mention perhaps...seems to be an example that fits the intent of the Award: authors that go beyond the present for gender/sexuality.
However, it lost to Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl and Kiini Ibura Salaam's Ancient, Ancient. 2312 is still in the Honor List.
Robinson had been previously nominated for Red Mars (1992) and his short story "Sexual Dimorphism" (in The Martians; 1999).
Where it lost to Adam Roberts' Jack Glass.
Robinson had been previously nominated for The Gold Coast (1989), Green Mars (1993), Blue Mars (1996), The Years Of Rice And Salt (2002) and Forty Signs Of Rain (2004) and had won for Red Mars (1992).
Where it lost to Chris Beckett's Dark Eden.
Robinson had been previously nominated for The Memory Of Whiteness (1987), Red Mars (1993), Blue Mars (1997), The Years Of Rice And Salt (2003) and Galileo's Dream (2010).
Which is announced on May 18 (today!) in the Nebula Awards Weekend May 16-19 in San Jose, California, where Gene Wolfe will also receive the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
Robinson had been previously nominated for The Wild Shore (1984) and Green Mars (1994) and had won for Red Mars (1993).
Which will be announced by Connie Willis in the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, Washington, June 28-30.
Robinson had been previously nominated for The Gold Coast (1989), Red Mars (1993), Antarctica (1998), Forty Signs Of Rain (2005), Fifty Degrees Below (2006) and Galileo's Dream (2010) and had won for Green Mars (1994), Blue Mars (1997) and The Years Of Rice And Salt (2003).
Which will be announced June 14 at the Campbell Conference in Lawrence, Kansas.
Robinson had been previously nominated for The Gold Coast (1989), Blue Mars (1997) and Galileo's Dream (2010) and had won for Pacific Edge (1991).
Which will be announced in the World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, Texas (Aug-29 to Sep-02). Interestingly, last time Robinson had won, for Blue Mars in 1997, it was also in San Antonio!
Robinson had been previously nominated for Red Mars (1993) and The Years Of Rice And Salt (2003) and had won for Green Mars (1994) and Blue Mars (1997).
Meanwhile, here are some more 2312 reviews:
The SHAMAN cover has been unveiled by Orbit Books! Artwork by Michał Karcz. (Click for higher quality)
Coming in September 2013...
Here's a round-up of Kim Stanley Robinson's upcoming appearances over April-May in fairs, panels and parties:
Check out the calendar on the left for updates!
Hear an excerpt the audiobook for 2312 here and read another review here.
An entire double-issue of the Configurations journal (Volume 20, Number 1-2, Winter-Spring 2012) that just came out is dedicated to Kim Stanley Robinson's work, and comes to enrich the collection of academic essays and analyses on KSR with not just the "usual" focus on the Mars trilogy, but on Science in the Capital and Galileo's Dream as well! Here is the awesome list of articles:
After the recent BASFA nomination, 2312 was just nominated for the 2013 Nebula Award for best novel! Though I have to say, it might be an SF and Fantasy award, but looking at the rest of the nominees I don't see much SF...
In December, Stan was invited in the Humanity+ conference in San Francisco. His talk, on science as a utopian project and essentially arguing against the technological "high" or the obsession with technology for technology's sake, came out on Youtube.
Some more 2312 reviews here and here.
2312 translations are coming! It will be released in German (Randomhouse/Heyne, paperback) on 11 March 2013. It's set to be released in June 2013 in Spanish (Minotauro). No news from the French, who are usually the first. AST (Russia) and Fabryka Slow (Poland) have optioned the rights but no date has yet been announced.
Stan wrote an article for Arc, a digital quarterly from the makers of New Scientist. In issue 1.4, "Forever alone drone", "Unreliable Narrator" column, Stan's feature is "Shedding skins". Klaus Tiedge illustrates (photo on the right). A short excerpt:
Back in the 1970s, when I like many other hippies began to backpack in the Sierra Nevada of California (the greatest backpacking mountains on Earth, but that's a topic for a different essay), backpacks often weighed fifty pounds, and when I took mine off at the end of a day's walk and flexed my shoulders, it sometimes felt like I was going to float off into the sky.
So all along there were people thinking things could be different – in a word, lighter. And as the years have passed, my aging cohort has gotten too brittle to carry the old weights happily, while at the same time younger hikers have been attempting continent-crossing feats that have transformed backpacking from a hippie ramble into a postmodern extreme sport. These long-distance hikers often walk more than a marathon every day for months on end, and for them every ounce matters. So a new design ethos has sprung into being to serve this need. The important thing to note here is that it came about as a result of a shift in people's desires and in their thinking about what matters, not from a change in materials, or from some kind of inherent technological progress operating on its own. The raw materials have gotten a little stronger and lighter, but not much; they are still mostly nylon and down and various light metals. And really there's no such thing as inherent technological progress. It's our philosophies that change, and then we act on them. This is what makes the ultralite movement suggestive when we go on to think about the rest of our lives. Because we always carry our houses, one way or another.
Kim Stanley Robinson will be appearing at the University of Arizona on April 5, on Convergences and the technological sublime.
Noted science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will be the capstone for the Convergences themed-year program. Convergences has focused on The Technological Sublime 2.0 and has been facilitated by Christopher Cokinos. Robinson will read on Friday, April 5, at the Poetry Center. Time is likely going to be 7 p.m. but stay tuned for more details. The author of such notable works as the Mars trilogy, The Years of Rice and Salt, The Wild Shore: Three Californias and, most recently, 2312, Robinson is an internationally known writer who brings an incisive mind and literary style to his science fiction. Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards and holds a Phd in English from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Frederic Jameson and wrote about the novels of Philip K. Dick.
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Heat could be without Mario Chalmers for five games
Dec 5, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
The idea of the point guard in the position-less Miami Heat offense is… not traditional. You may bring the ball up but LeBron James or Dwyane Wade really initiate the offense. You need to be a good spot-up shooter who can play in transition.
Mario Chalmers has never been great in that role, but he's been the best they had. And now they will be without him for a week to 10 days.
He could be the other thing the Heat lost against the Wizards Tuesday, reports Ira Winderman at the Sun Sentinel. They are saying up to five games he will be out.
Chalmers tore a tendon and will be out at least seven to 10 days, according to a source. The injury occurred in the first half of the Heat's 105-101 loss. Chalmers was taken to the locker room, returning for the second half with his finger in a splint.
"I caught a pass," Chalmers said after the game. "Somehow my finger got caught in the ball."
Sharp passes injuring fingers is part of the game. For the Heat, that normally means more Norris Cole, who is shooting 36.8 percent this season, but he was out Tuesday with a mild hamstring injury. Don't expect the Heat to go looking for free agents yet, they have a full 15-man roster so to get someone they have to cut someone. And they aren't that desperate yet in December.
- Mr. Wright 212 - Dec 5, 2012 at 7:06 PM
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He really hasn't been right since the game he injured his triceps- I believe that was in the Houston game a few weeks back.
More Cole, more Mike Miller. Nothing to see here.
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He hasn't been right? He wouldn't start on 30 teams in this league. He couldn't make 20 teams rosters.
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Really he couldn't make 20 teams?
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- cantonbound13 - Dec 6, 2012 at 5:40 PM
Here's a quick list of teams he wouldn't make: 1. Boston (Rondo, Bradley, Barbosa) 2. New York (Felton, Kidd, Prigioni). 3. Brooklyn ( Derron Williams) 4. Toronto (Lowry, Calderon) 5. Chicago (Rose, Teague). 6. Indiana (Hill, Augistine). 7. Milwaukee (Jennings, Ellis, Udrih). 8. Atlanta ( Teague, Harris, Williams). 9. Charlotte (Walker, Sessions). 10. Washington (Wall, Livingston). 11. LA Clippers (Paul, Billups, Bledsoe). 12. Golden St (Curry, Jack). 13. LA Lakers (Nash, Blake). 14. San Antonio (Parker, Neal). 15. Memphis (Conely, Bayless). 16. Dallas (Collison, Mayo, Fisher). 17. OKC (Westbrook, Maynor). 18. Denver (Lawson, Miller). 19. Portland (Lillard, Mathews). 20. Minnesota (Rubio, Ridnour, Barea).
I didn't even mention Cleveland who uses primarily Kyrie Irving. Philadelphia, who uses primarily Jrue Holliday. Sacramento,who uses Tyreke Evans most of the game.
So I guess I am mistaken, Chalmers would not make MORE than 20 team's rosters in the NBA.
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Alvarez Paz has been charged with conspiracy, spreading false information and publicly inciting crime after remarking that Venezuela has turned into a haven for drug traffickers. He also said he backed allegations by a Spanish judge that Venezuela's government has cooperated with the Basque separatist group ETA and Colombian rebels.
Chavez has dismissed those accusations as lies. Alvarez Paz stands by his words and denies breaking the law.
Miguel Henrique Otero, editor of the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, said Zuloaga's arrest shows Chavez's government is growing more authoritarian and starting to "look more like a traditional dictatorship."
"That's what dictatorships do: arrest and take people away, jail them and convict them for crimes of opinion," Otero said. He said he thinks the government is acting now because Chavez has been losing popularity and "they're nervous."
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Chavez remains the country's most popular politician, but his support has dipped as the economy contracts and as Venezuelans cope with inflation, rampant crime and rolling blackouts in parts of the country.
Chavez's popularity slipped below 50 percent in polls late last year, and has hovered between 40 percent and 50 percent in recent months, said pollster Luis Vicente Leon of the Caracas-based firm Datanalisis.
Carlos Correa, director of the rights group Espacio Publico, condemned Zuloaga's arrest. "These types of actions against freedom of expression, and against the right that all Venezuelans have to listen to plurality, distinct visions, must be rejected," he said.
Organization of American States Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza urged Venezuelan authorities to release Zuloaga. He added that if Zuloaga is tried, "it be done with respect for the presumption of innocence and with all the guarantees offered to him by the law."
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Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos stands above the atrium of the newly renovated Ed Smith Stadium before a MLB spring training game with the Tampa Bay Rays in Sarasota, Florida, March 1, 2011. REUTERS/Steve Nesius (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL) And so, MASN and Nats reporter Debbi Taylor have parted ways, as reported by Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post. A person who knows stuff and is right most of the time confirmed for us that MASN is eliminating the "reporter" position entirely...but only for Nationals broadcasts? What the? Whether you loved Debbi or hated Debbi, or something in between -- a Nationals fan could certainly venture a guess that Peter Angelos is cost cutting on the Nats' side of his network to put pressure on the Nats in the ongoing, high-stakes, "reset" negotiations on the TV deal. Hmmm. *wink* *wink* A friend of Debbi's says she is back home in Florida with her family and isn't sure of what the job front is ahead for her, but sh...
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Press Release from Buena Vista Games:
Screen Shots:SAMSON AND BENNY NEED HELP ON THEIR FUR-RAISING ADVENTURE IN 'WALT DISNEY PICTURES PRESENTS THE WILD' GAME
Video Game Based on Disney CGI Animated Feature Film Now Available from Buena Vista Games
BURBANK, Calif. — (April 4, 2006) — Buena Vista Games, Inc. (BVG), the interactive entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), today announced Walt Disney Pictures Presents The Wild for the Game Boy® Advance system is now available at retail outlets across North America. A video game adventure that will test kids' animal instincts, The Wild is inspired by the upcoming animated feature film of the same name from Walt Disney Pictures. The game features Samson the Lion and Benny the squirrel, who must leave their pampered lives and set out on an adventure to save Samson's son, Ryan, who accidentally gets shipped from the New York City Zoo to the wild.
"The Wild game is an exciting experience that offers kids the opportunity to take the characters and adventures from the movie along anywhere they go," said Dana Long, director of kids marketing for Buena Vista Games. "Kids who enjoyed the movie will be able to continue the journey of Samson and Benny long after they leave the theaters."
The Wild is a single-player, side-scrolling adventure game that allows players to take on the role of Samson and Benny through 18 levels of play. Both characters have their own unique levels, each tailored to their on-screen personalities. Kids 6-11 years old will have to guide the characters through stormy seas, erupting volcanoes, vicious dogs and angry wildebeests as they traverse land and sea to help Samson rescue Ryan. The Wild video game is released in conjunction with the feature film's April 14 theatrical opening.
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Chapter 19 - Digital Compositing (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)DIGITAL COMPOSITING is the creation of an image by manipulating and/or combining one or more sources using image processing software. Within most digital compositing applications, these 2d image manipulation processes, filters, and effects can be quickly and easily accomplished on a single frame and, perhaps more importantly, just as easily on moving image sequences of video or animation (batch
Chapter 16 - MAXScript (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)Quite often, 3ds Max's internal scripting language, MAXScript, can help you reach your aims in an elegant way. In the simplest case, you can "remote control" the application by feeding it written commands or playing back a procedure that you recorded using the mouse beforehand (hence, the name "scripting" language). In more advanced cases, MAXScript gives you the ability to create anything from
Chapter 18 - Green Screening (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)Green screen is a term used to describe the mixing of two images or frames to form one complete image. The most common scenario is the combining of a foreground element with a background image, such as 3DATS co-founder Brian Zajac conducting a presentation in a virtual environment, made possible by being filmed behind a colored desk and in front of a colored screen. The colored environment is then
Chapter 20 - Video Editing (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)When most people think of video or film editing, they picture someone sitting at a computer at the end of the project putting all the footage, sound, and titles together while the director and producers lounge about behind them on sofas, munching on snacks or playing video games. Occasionally, the editor will turn to the director to discuss a sequence and perhaps watch a portion of the project
Chapter 13 - Revit Integration (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)Slowly but surely, Revit architecture is becoming the standard for architectural design. A major difference between software like Revit (known as BIM or Building Information Modeling) and AutoCAD is that in traditional CAD you draw with lines, arcs, and circles, whereas in BIM, you create objects such as walls, doors, and windows. With the release of Revit Architecture 2009, the rendering engine
Chapter 12 - Rigging (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)A rig is a combination of tools and objects for animating a jointed model, such as a robot arm or a character skeleton. The term comes from the film industry, where a special effects artist makes a mechanical hand or body (a "rig") and operates it with electronic or mechanical controls rather than moving each piece by hand.In 3D, a rig is designed to move or rotate several objects at once to
Chapter 15 - Managing Large-Scale Projects (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)The author, Spine3D is one of the largest architectural visualization studios in the US.Managing Large Scale Projects — What exactly does this mean? Large-scale projects typically require significant involvement from stakeholders, engross large budgets, and/or the workload is too overwhelming for one person or small group to handle on their own. Personally, I have dealt with two different
Chapter 14 - Advanced Poly-Modeling (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)The modeling of complex objects is something that every 3D professional is bound to be required to do at one time or another. While many of the modeled elements encountered in architectural visualization are structural forms that are often square and linear, there are times when buildings, walls, furniture, props, and architectural details will require either a bit more detail, or that they are
Chapter 5 - Texture Painting (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)For many, texture painting is a somewhat confusing and complex process best dealt with as simply and quickly as possible. Sadly, sticking a couple of random texture swatches that you downloaded off the internet doesn't generally suffice for work intended as high quality professional imagery. Using Photoshop as the primary technical tool, this chapter covers various fundamentals to equip artists
Chapter 6 - Physically Based Materials (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)Representing materials and colors accurately in computer graphics has always been a challenge for anyone who desires to represent architectural finishes accurately. This chapter does not instruct you about what button to press in V-Ray or mental ray to create nicely looking wood or concrete, but rather focuses on strategies of how to estimate characteristics of material samples with affordable
Chapter 11 - Particle Systems (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)In this chapter, we will cover the basics of Particle Flow and its associated space warps that are relevant to the system. We will break down the base fundamentals of how the (standard) system works and how to incorporate the aforementioned space warps into the particle system before taking steps to the next level by building three main systems; one to create a tree planting system, one to create
Chapter 9 - Advanced mental ray Lighting (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)In terms of film effects' work, you don't get any more advanced than the Academy Award winner for Visual Effects. In the instance of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, over 100 different lighting setups were shot on set, with the Lighting Supervisors at Digital Domain developing CG lighting to match each one. As many as 50 different elements, each rendered out of mental ray, were combined into


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The Government had already pledged £2 million to help efforts in Sierra Leone and Liberia but has now increased its assistance package to £5m, International Development Secretary Justine Greening said.
Earlier, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond chaired a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergencies committee to discuss the situation in West Africa.
So far more than 1,700 people have been infected in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and a handful of probable cases have been identified in Nigeria. A total of 932 people have died during the outbreak, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) show.
The Department for International Development said the new funds, which will be given to organisations working to tackle the crisis, will help provide specialist care to those affected, improve monitoring and tracking of the disease and provide better health information to rural communities.
Ms Greening said: "It is absolutely critical that the UK helps to make sure the Ebola outbreak is contained. We will continue to work with partners like the WHO, the Red Cross and Unicef to limit this awful disease."
On the Cobra meeting, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: "Medical advice remains that the risk to the UK is very low."


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Fonteijn, HM; Norris, DG; (2009) Whole brain clustering on the basis of resting-state FMRI data. In: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 17th Annual Scientific Meeting and Exhibition: 2009 Proceedings. (pp. 1661 - 1661). International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: Berkeley, US.
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All-you-can-eat crab feed
Created on Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:00 | Written by John Denny |
Crab lovers should make their reservations now for Gladstone baseballs crab feed fundraiser.
Gladstone High School and Gladstone Junior Baseball are hosting an all-you-can-eat crab feed from 5 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Museum of the Oregon Territory, 211 Tumwater Drive, Oregon City.
The dinner includes dungeness crab, pasta, salad, breadsticks and dessert for $30. There will also be a silent auction and raffle.
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If you haven't already read them that is.
In 2014, I focused on reading books that I already owned, with the exception of new comics, and that were already sitting on my shelves. I bought less books than other years, and my shelves, like the melting ice caps, have migrated to even more books read. That was my small win.
Goodreads says that I read 96 books in 2014. I probably read more than that because I've been shit at tracking the new comics (when they finally come out in graphic novel format) that I've read. Not to mention, not all comics are collected in graphic novels.
Here's some amazing stuff you should read too:
1. Lumberjanes Vol. 1
by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen
Genre: YA comics, Feminist comics, Holy Kittens
Recommended for: EVERYONE
This comic book filled my feminist heart with glee. I know, I rated a comic book number one, but yes, it is that good. Lumberjanes is about a group of teenage girls at camp, and they are — next to the Pawnee Goddess — my favorite group of fictional girl scouts. The girls come from diverse backgrounds, and they solve the supernatural mysteries of the camp with their unique skills and friendship.
Plus, Lumberjanes has catchy phrases like "Friendship to the max!" and "Holy bell hooks!" I do love a catch phrase. It's pretty rare to see a book filled with girls, much less girls valued for their brains and brawn and who love and care deeply for each other. Lumberjanes reminded me of my very best times with my female friends.
In early 2014, Lumberjanes was the book pointed out by privileged comic book dudes to be ruining comic books for them. I'm pleased to say it lives up to its hype, and it's done so well that Lumberjanes is now an on-going series, determined to ruin comics forever.
2. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
Genre: Intersectional feminist essays, Quotable poets
Recommended for: EVERYONE (adults)
Why hadn't I read this before now? The main question I kept asking myself over and over when reading Sister Outsider.
When I was a child, I spent lots of time in Catholic and Lutheran churches and around people who found great comfort in the Bible and its teachings. (Personally, it either bored, enraged, scared, or seemed like common sense to my younger self.) But if I had to pick text which moved, comforted, and expanded me in the same way, it would Sister Outsider. Continue reading


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Publishing your research is usually just as difficult as putting together the entire research design and writing the paper originally. However, publication in essential for those in scientific research careers to garner respect from fellow peers and the scientific community as a whole as well as an opportunity to disseminate new information into your field of study. To ensure that your study is valuable to editors, it must have a clear purpose, be relevant to the readership of the journal, contain valid scientific evidence of an original concept, and have a quality manuscript. Since publishers have literally thousands of papers to choose from, failing to meet even one of these standards will likely result in your research being tossed to the side.
Your paper must have a good message that can be stated in one sentence that can be place on the cover of the journal or in the table of contents to accurately communicate to the reader what exactly your study achieves. Also, your message must attract eyes. In other words, your experiment and findings must be new information to the eyes of your scientific community.
Your decision on what journal you wish for your study to be in must be made before you even start the formal writing of your paper. This is because you need to follow the writing style that your desired journal typically favors. Obviously, your study also needs to be able to be categorized within the overarching subject matter of the periodical or journal.
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The Hollyer and Armstrong families
3 of 6 portraits of Thomas Armstrong
© National Portrait Gallery, London
The Hollyer and Armstrong families
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1873
2 1/4 in. x 3 5/8 in. (57 mm x 91 mm) image size
Purchased, 1995
Photographs Collection
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- Unknown photographer. Artist associated with 5519 portraits.
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- Mary Ann Armstrong (born circa 1811), Wife of Thomas Armstrong. Sitter associated with 4 portraits.
- Thomas Armstrong (circa 1808-1881), Upholsterer; father of Mary Anne Hollyer (née Armstrong). Sitter associated with 6 portraits.
- Sarah Elkins (born circa 1809), Sister of Mary Ann Armstrong. Sitter associated with 5 portraits.
- Eleanor Mary Hollyer (1871-1968), Daughter of Frederick Hollyer. Sitter associated with 13 portraits.
- Frederick Hollyer (1838-1933), Photographer and art publisher. Sitter associated with 6 portraits, Artist associated with 107 portraits.
- Frederick Thomas Hollyer (1870-1952), Art publisher; son of Frederick Hollyer. Sitter associated with 10 portraits.
- Mary Anne Hollyer (née Armstrong) (1838-1913), Wife of Frederick Hollyer. Sitter associated with 6 portraits.
- Emily Sarah Mason (née Armstrong) (1843-1890), Wife of Robert William Mason; daughter of Thomas Armstrong; sister-in-law of Frederick Hollyer. Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
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I'm in theater right now. We meet in the theater, not a classroom. Kenya falls asleep after lunch on the walk over here. She's taken care of. We read off the rules which we thought were going to be extra boring.
Mrs. Foster walks in wearing a black motorcycle jacket and black pants. She's in her mid thirties. She is wearing black skinny jeans. This isn't going to be fun. She must be new here. Our old teacher got laid off.
"Ok class, I'm here to teach you about the ways of the theater. I'm forced to go over rules that you all should know by now. Your first assignment is to act out the rule I give you and a partner. I have already chosen who you will be with, so don't ask to change. First off, Chad and Tiffany."
Chad is a jock, and Tiffany is a prep. They will be happy to be each other's partner. Mrs. Foster gives them a slip of paper and sends them off into the other side of the room. She calls name after name till I'm the only one standing.
"You are a bright student. You will be doing it on your own since we have an odd number." She hands me the slip and walks to her "Queen Chair" across the room. I read it and it is about stolen items. How am I going to do this with one person? I see Kenya a little daze as she wakes up.
I know what to do.
"Time is up. Come here." We all walk up like zombies to the teacher. She stands with her arms crossed over her chest. "We are starting with the first group." Chad and Tiffany walk to the front. "Start acting. No longer than five minutes. When you are done, three people will guess. Only three people. If the three people don't guess than the group will tell them the rule."
Chad and Tiffany stand up at the front of the room and start making-out. I put my hand over Kenya's eyes. She tries to push my hand away. Mrs. Foster just looks away from them. They do this for two minutes straight. I know the rule right away. Mrs. Foster rings a bell.
"Can anyone guess the rule?" Every hand shot straight into the air. I put my hand down after I see every hand shot up into the air. Mrs. Foster looks around the room. I shrink down my chair trying to act invisible. I don't feel like talking in front of the class. Her finger comes out in front of her, pointing at me. "Rose, answer the question." I sigh and sit up.
"No PDA in the school." I answer with a very bored voice. Mrs. Foster nods her head. After everyone goes, it is my turn. I pick Kenya up. She has her hands wrapping around her stuffed Zebra. It is too cute. Time starts and I walk up and steal the toy from Kenya. She starts bawling her eyes out. I give her back her toy after a little bit. Not a lot of hands go up.
"Don't steal candy from a baby, but in this case it would be 'don't steal toys from a baby." Says the jokester in the class, Jack. The class erupts in laughter.
"That's close, but not it," I say. "Try school rules, not ways of life." I smirk and Jack stops laughing. He gets on my nerves all the time. He is that annoy fly that buzzes in your ear when you try to sleep. The only reason he has friends is because he's funny. I'll admit that he can be funny, just not when he takes it too far.
The class erupts into more laughter. I hear some 'burn' and 'oh' through the class. Jack shuts his mouth because he knows I will win. I'm good on my feet.
Mrs. Foster points to someone else. She guesses it wrong and the person after that too. That means I have to say it.
"No stealing. Come on, you guys could have guessed it. This rule is also illegal. You hear that, Corbett?" Corbett is this bad-boy figure. He wears all black, but he is a good actor, surprisingly. He gets into trouble, but if you bring up him not being in the theater, he will shape up. He still gets in trouble, though. It's kind of cute, in a bad boy way, but not my type. I'm also not into dating anymore.
"Yeah, I know. Got caught doing it too. You should have told me sooner. It would save me some trouble." Corbett says. I'm surprise by that. He rarely talks. The bell rings and people start to storm the hallways. I start packing Kenya with her stuff. I never carry a purse and now I have to carry a diaper bag. It is a big change. I'm walking out when the diaper bag slips off my shoulder. I bend down to pick it up when someone else's fingers wrap around the strap.
I look at the face that owns the fingers that are holding Kenya's diaper bag. It's Corbett. Didn't expect that to happen. I smile a little and take the bag from his hand.
"Thanks," He gives me a nod that quiet guys always do. He walks off down the hall. I turn to go to study hall. I have Mr. Strange again. His classroom is in the math area. That's on the other side of the school. I cross through the school building. I quickly grab my backpack and head off to class.
Safe! I made it to class before the bell. I do a mini dance in my head. As quickly as I can, I take a seat. On the first day of school, teachers don't give you homework. That means there is nothing to do. I pick up Kenya and hold her. She grows a small smile on her face. I start to lightly tickle her belly. Everyone is talking, so they can't hear her. Her small body shirks up and grows as she laughs.
A dark shadow covers my desk. I look up to see it is my teacher, Mr. Strange. He isn't really that strange. His name doesn't fit him. He is pretty cool, for a teacher. He makes a hand jester asking if he can hold Kenya. I hold her to him. She looks up and around the room. Most of the kids look over at Kenya. The girls get up and make the 'cute' noises around her.
Kenya eats up the attention.
I go to grab the diaper bag, when it isn't here. Crap, I left in my other class. I knew I was going to lose it. Grabbing my tracker, I make a note to get out of class. Mr. Strange is still holding Kenya, so he couldn't sign it.
"Mr. Strange, I'm going to go look for Kenya's diaper bag." All the girls look at me making me feel self-conscious. They forgot that Kenya is my child.
"Ok, I can't sign your tracker, so just be invisible." He says not taking his eyes off of Kenya.
"Yes sir," I say. I walk over to Kenya's head and kiss it. "Be good." I whisper to her before leaving. I walk straight out the room. I sprint to theater. This time I stay outside, so I won't get caught. The only teachers who check to see if your tracker is signed are the principals. They only stay inside too.
Mrs. Foster is sitting on her throne. She looks up when she hears the door open. She doesn't seem surprised to see me. She looks down at the book in her hand before shutting it to look at me.
"What are you doing here?" She asks. She must have been surprised, but didn't let it show. I wait a few seconds to catch my breath. She waits for my response. She is waiting impatiently for me to come. She has no patients when she feels like being a biker.
"Have you seen my bag?" I ask. She shakes her head.
"No, I think you dropped it at the doorway and Corbett picked it up for you. Then you left." She says. She eyes her book, telling me to leave for her to continue that book.
I nod and leave. Where could I have put that thing?
Next, I have to go ask the office. I'm safe as long as they don't ask for my tracker. When I get there, I don't see it at lost and found. Maybe they are keeping it behind the desk. I see the secretary sitting behind her desk. She looks up and gives me a small smile.
"Hello, how may I help you?" She says in a soft voice. I smile and bring out my nice act.
"Did someone drop off a diaper bag?" I ask in my talking to adult's voice that I use to get my way. She looks down and flips through a stack of papers. She doesn't glace up. Her hand grabs a piece of paper and pulls it up.
"We sent it to the room you were in." Ugh, I went on a wild goose chase for nothing. I smile and tell her thanks and walk off. Hopefully it is in my classroom by now. When I get there, I see it sitting on my desk. The group of girls is still in a pack around Kenya.
Kenya is eating up the attention. I make my way through the crowd to get to Kenya. I take her from Mr. Strange much to his disliking.
"Hey baby, did you miss me?" I ask her. She giggles and moves her arms around with a smile on her face. "I bet you are sleepy." With that she gives me a big yawn. I chuckle at her. I start to rock her to sleep. Slowly her eyes start to shut. Then she is out cold.
We have about 20 minutes left of class. I pull out my book "Parenting for Dummies". This book isn't the most interesting, but I need to know a little more about being a mother for Kenya. I don't want to be the horrible parent or the over-protective parent. Thinking of being a parent is a scaring thought, especially for a teen.
Kenya is a little slow for 3 months. Even though I gave her, her birthday July 24th, she was about 1 to 2 months old. Now she is about 3 months. She still sleeps more then she needs too, but she does love playing with her hands. She will grab her feet and try to stick them in her mouth. It is the cutest thing ever. I wish she was doing that now.
The bell rings, signaling me to my next class. I quickly leave to go to athletics with Coach Allen. I went straight to the gyms. We would be getting our PE clothes. They are red, cotton shirts and black shorts. I don't like them. The black makes it much hotter. Even though our school colors are black and red, couldn't they have picked a different color? It isn't that hard.
I sit down with Sora. She is just wallowing in the floor. Her book bag is acting as her pillow. She has her headphones in like she has been there all day. Kenya has woken up, so I put her on top of Sora's stomach.
Kenya started to hit on the flat surface. Sora opens one eye and gives a wide smile. She picks Kenya up while she sits up. She then holds Kenya to tickle her. Kenya, in response, laughs and wiggles her whole body.
"Class, it is time to get started. We will do Coach Lindsay's class first. Line up in alphabetical order by last name." One of the coaches says. About 30 stand up and get in line. They start to pick up shirts and shorts. Then they sit back down in their cliques. It took about 15 minutes for Coach Lindsay's class to get done.
"Coach Finch's class now." The same coach says. Another group of kids get up to get in line. This takes another 15 minutes. Then Coach Wilder's class goes up. After a while Coach Allen's class goes up.
"Finally we can go up. We are always last. I better go up front since my last name is Dupuis." She gives me Kenya and goes to get in line. I put Kenya down in her carrier and get in line. Since my last name is Miller, I'm stuck in the middle. At least I'm not last. That would be total torture. One thing that I hate about being in the last class to go up and get our clothes is that our sizes aren't always there. Sometimes we have to get sizes too big.
They have one adult medium left in shorts and shirts. I grab them. Last year I had to have a large. We sewed them smaller to fit me. This year we won't need to fix them. I then get in line to say my name for them to write down the number on the set of clothes. We have to turn them in at the end of the year.
Coach Finch is sitting at the table taking up numbers. She is very beefy. She is a shot put and discus athlete. She is someone you don't want to mess with. She is wearing our school's track and field shirt from last year. She can be easy going when she is in a good mood.
"Last name?" She says.
"Miller," I state. You could tell the Coach Finch is tired of sitting here taking numbers up. She pulled the short straw.
"First name?"
"Katy." She writes down my first name.
"Shirt number?"
"52 and shorts are 15," I say to finish up sooner. I then leave holding with Kenya and my clothes. I sit down next to Sora again.
"Our coaches are so unorganized. They should be handing out our lockers, so we don't need to take our PE uniform home. Shouldn't they be giving us our rules today anyways?" Sora says. She is being pretty laid back right now.
"You know our coaches don't waste time going over rules. They think that there are better things to do then go over rules we know. It isn't like the school district will change the rules. They are the same every year." I say lying down with Kenya on my belly. She looks at me and pats my belly with her hands.
"I know, but what if they did change the rule. We might get in trouble if we broke a rule we didn't know." Sora says freaking out a little. Sometimes she tries not to act like she cares, but you know she doesn't like to get in trouble. People call her a goody-two-shoe, and she knows it.
"Chill, Sore, you just tell them that you didn't know, and they will let you off with a warning, depending on the teacher. Don't worry about the future. You can't predict the future. Last year I didn't even dream that I would be a mother, and look at me now, I have a child. You never know what will happen." Sora just nods her head.
Kenya still plays with her hands on my stomach.
The bell rings and I get Kenya ready to leave. I strap her in and leave to get on the bus. I climb on and find an empty seat. That has to be the worst first day ever.
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- Traditional Animation
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
- Distributed by: Columbia/Screen Gems
- Cartoon Characters: Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, Bamm-Bamm, Dino, Arabians, Mastodon, Hotel Manager, Bongo Turtles, Bass Bird, Harem Girls, Elevator Bird, Royal Prince Barbaruba.
- Voice Actors: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Gerry Johnson, Don Messick, Harvey Korman, Allan Melvin.
- Directed By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
- Produced By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
- Animated By Hugh Fraser, John Sparey, Carlo Vinci, Michael Webster, Charles Nichols.
- Written By Tony Benedict.
- Music: Ted Nichols, Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna, Joe Barbera.
- Editor: Larry Cowan, Warner Leighton.
- First Aired on December 10, 1965.
- Originally Aired on ABC-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 27 minutes.
- Season: 6
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Aug. 7—Problems sharing digital health data with other providers and with patients have kept the numbers of hospitals successfully attesting to stage 2 of the federal electronic health record incentive program low, new research indicates.
Seventy-eight hospitals have attested to stage 2 of meaningful use for the 2014 reporting year through the start of August, according to data released Monday. That was a jump from the 10 hospitals that had attested through July, but still indicated many hospitals have far to go.
New research indicates that the areas that may be slowing hospitals down the most in attesting to stage 2 of meaningful use are those aspects of the 16 core objectives related to data sharing—both with other providers and patients.
The study, published Thursday in Health Affairs, found that while "the vast majority" of hospitals reported an ability to meet many stage 2 objectives, only 10.4 percent were providing patients with online access to information about an admission. Meeting that objective required three components, for which hospitals demonstrated varying levels of achievement: transmit function, 11.6 percent; download function, 27.5 percent; and view function 39.3 percent.
"There are a couple places were hospitals are starting to get stuck and it is worth understanding those because that is where we have to target our efforts," Ashish Jha, MD, one of the study's authors, said at a Thursday health IT discussion in Washington, D.C.
Representatives of the hospital industry told the Health IT Policy Committee in May that the timeline for stage 2 was too aggressive. They said more standardization was needed to allow data exchange, including for interstate data exchange.
Speakers at the health IT event noted a variety of factors could be limiting data sharing, including competitive concerns and technological limitations.
"It's not surprising that hospitals are struggling with the latest round of meaningful use requirements as they juggle a growing number of quality improvement and cost containment requirements, absorb Medicare cuts and struggle to find vendors with all of the needed capabilities," said Chad Mulvany, director of healthcare finance policy, strategy and development for HFMA. "The struggles of safety net hospitals, especially, to meet these and many other quality and cost requirements underscored the need to delay stage 2 of meaningful use."
The study noted that hospital struggles with online access and transmittal of patients' health information may reflect a lack of EHR system capabilities. The authors wrote that 2014 certified edition products have not yet been widely adopted, and few vendors had these features available in 2013.
"In addition, the implementation of these information exchange functions may be hampered by a lack of information-trading partners that are functionally prepared to receive the data," the study said about providers that include post-acute care facilities and many physician offices.
The research also underscored EHR successes, including adoption of at least a basic EHR by 58.9 percent of hospitals and a comprehensive EHR by 25.5 percent. Large, urban, not-for-profit, and major teaching hospitals were more likely to have a basic EHR. Meanwhile, critical access hospitals were no less likely than other hospitals to have adopted a basic EHR but were significantly less likely to have a comprehensive EHR.
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Rich Daly is a senior writer/editor in HFMA's Washington, D.C., office. Follow Rich on Twitter: @rdalyhealthcare.
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