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Re: Philip Klein's Jack Bauer's Creator Speaks:
Philip Klein's piece read: "'To me, the liberal movement is old and repressive,' he said. 'If you want drinking, smoking, and red meat, you have to hang out with Republicans.'
"That's the advice Joel Surnow, the executive producer of the hit television series 24..."
Excuse me!
24 now has gone "green" in loud and unending show promos. Jack has made public service announcements that we have nothing to fear from Islam and can sleep tight in our beds. The writers and producers have gone out of their way apparently to appease CAIR and other hate America, pro-jihad groups by not using Arabs as villains, even the head choppers and even shown how we should "understand" them?
Oh, please this desperate attempt to summon back the "faithful" is pitiful when viewed against the show promos we have been exposed to over the last year...
-- Craig Sarver
Seattle, Washington
I found it interesting to read "Jack Bauer's Creator Speaks" and learn that Joel Surnow (the creator) claims that 24 is a conservative show. The fact that Jack Bauer follows no law but his own, and frequently violates a wide variety of rights, is not, by the common understanding of the term, conservative. That he is willing to protect this country and recognizes the threat posed by terrorism does, I grant, put him far outside the mainstream of any in the Democrat party.
But having a widely successful show, and arguing that it allows him the freedom to do what he wants, why does series creator Surnow write stories straight out of the liberal Hollywood playbook? Sure there have been a few Arab Islamofascists portrayed (often with plenty of caveats and sops to the CAIR crowd -- such as last season's terrorist stand-in for UBL who wanted to find peace), but generally they are red herrings for the (fill-in-the-blank group of) rogue military, intelligence, Freemason/Luminati/Halliburton/Neo-Nazi death cult that has somehow infiltrated the White House and is plotting a coup -- all of whom are always led by right-wingers in the mold of Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney or other liberal bogeyman. How is 24's past story line of Serb war criminals, Russians looking for past Soviet glory, or a sinister shadow cabinet planning to unleash nukes on a U.S. city any different from the cartoon villains depicted in Ben Affleck's Sum of All Fears or the bad guy right-wing military unit in Die Hard 2, The Rock or some other nonsensical liberal hokum?
If you want me to believe that it is a conservative show, how about having a terrorist plot involving real terrorists -- Al Qaeda types perhaps? And maybe they're being aided in their plan to destroy America by a female Democrat Senator with thoughts of running for President hoping to embarrass the Republican administration, or a cabal of shadowy global financiers who operate a variety of 527 organizations, which may be fronts for anti-Americans world-wide, or a group of rich pampered lawyers representing G'tmo inmates interested in advancing their own egos regardless of the consequences to the country. Something like that would be a conspiracy I'd be interested in seeing portrayed.
-- Chris Booth
Herndon, Virginia
Mr. Surnow, as quoted by Mr. Klein, is absolutely correct. Conservatives have behaved exactly like their radical, liberal counterparts now controlling the Democrat party.
Conservatives spent enormously and foolishly, having the federal government do things that need not be done at all.
Conservatives grew venal and corrupt, being driven by polls and power.
Conservatives created a double standard for living. One for us and one for them.
And yes, conservatives became hypocritical too. Just look at the bathroom behavior of a senator.
All-in all conservatives transformed themselves into radical liberal Democrats.
The solution? America desperately needs leadership, fiscal responsibility, and a man or woman who will speak directly to the people, and not permit their message of pride in America, achievement, and self reliance to be filtered by the entirely left-wing MSM.
Conservatives must to be bold people, with huge dreams and confidence in America's freedom that radiates in their every word and deed. They must accomplish things.
Let timidity, cowardice, incrementalism, victimhood, and venality be forever the province of radical liberal Democrats, and them alone.
-- Jay Molyneaux
Re: Mark Goldblatt's Torturous Questions:
So that's what the Senate's expert on death by drowning said about waterboarding, this time around. Somehow, it didn't get reported in any mainstream media I saw.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida
Kennedy is a good one to talk about waterboarding being a simulated drowning. What does he call death by drowning? Too bad we cannot check with Mary Jo Kopechne.
-- Elaine Kyle
When compared and contrasted to beheading, stoning, mutilation of many hideous forms, how can anyone say waterboarding is torture? No one dies and no one loses vital body parts -- they are terrified they MIGHT die. But what is so bad about that?
There you have it. As always when the DC-types start massaging their thoughts (and ours), all good sense goes out the window!!!
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky
The OED defines torture as "the infliction of severe bodily pain especially as a punishment or a means of persuasion." As evidenced by the Democrat led inquisition of Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey, many Americans and their elected representatives wish to prohibit the U.S. government, its armed forces and its agencies by statute from ever engaging in torture. Those opposed to the practice inevitably assert that an individual subjected to torture will ultimately say or sign whatever will result in terminating the torture, whether or not the statement is true or false. For the vast majority of individuals subjected to torture, this assertion is demonstrably true. But should that be the one and only criterion for deciding on the moral justification or lack thereof for torture?
Never considered during the Mukasey hearings, neither in Congress nor in the press, are the two very different circumstances for imposing torture or physical coercion. One circumstance is to obtain a "confession." The other is to obtain information that is not necessarily relevant to future treatment of the object of the torture or physical coercion. Most Americans, regardless of their political persuasion, categorically reject the use of torture to obtain the former result. John McCain, perhaps the most prominent Republican to abjure the use of torture under any circumstances, was himself the victim of torture courtesy of his North Vietnamese captors while, unlike al Qaeda and virtually all Afghan and Iraqi detainees, a prisoner of war clearly compliant with and protected by the Geneva Convention, and for the ostensible purpose of obtaining a "confession" of his "war crimes," if not simply for the sheer sadism of imposing it. No American is making an argument in favor of torture to obtain a "confession." Perhaps the most historically astonishing example of torture, at least by modern standards, for the purpose of obtaining a "confession" is documented by Gibbon in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Gibbon notes that Roman officials found it "helpful" to torture individuals who were suspected of engaging in the then forbidden rites of Christianity. In this particular context, "suspects" who under torture denied the "crime" were exonerated and free to go. Only those "serious" cases who even under torture admitted to the "crime" were eventually dispatched in the gruesome manner that Imperial Rome found appropriate.
But applying torture or physical coercion to obtain information is a different matter. No "confession" is implied. Immunity could even be legitimately awarded. In this context, no "right" answer, no "yes, I did it," is implied or demanded. Information is extracted, and its validity independently tested. When the timely application of such information results in the saving of American lives, versus when the failure to obtain such information results in the potentially catastrophic loss of American lives, is the case against torture then as simple as the single criterion mentioned in the first paragraph above?
Most Americans if asked "is there any circumstance where killing an enemy of the United States is morally justified" would answer in the affirmative. If it can be morally justified in some circumstance to kill an enemy of the United States, why would it never be morally justified to make an enemy of the United States say "ouch"? Does the difference in the contexts, battlefield versus basement cell, somehow reverse the common sense moral preference for survivable coercion versus death? And if not, then has the Congressional committee and its supporters in the electorate failed to completely think the matter through?
-- Frank Natoli
Newton, New Jersey
Re: Jeffrey Lord's The Credibility Tax:
The Credibility Tax must find it's way to a bumper sticker. This is a fabulously wicked article about an idea whose "time" has apparently come!
-- Tina Salisbury
Chico, California
Regarding Jeffrey Lord's credibility tax; I think he is on the right track. However I would like to suggest a little grander vision.
I propose a Constitutional amendment that makes liable for any new tax increases only the constituents of those congressmen who vote for the increase. Conversely only those citizens who live in the districts of congressmen who vote for tax cuts would receive them. I believe that would permanently end the problem of our increasing tax burden.
The only fly in the ointment is the necessity of a constitutional convention to craft the amendment as it obviously would never make it out of Congress.
-- Brian Bonneau
I love it! To think that these panderers could have put their money where their mouths are, figuratively and literally.
Let's see; there are 280 of them in Congress @ $160K each. If they went the full monty @ 15%, that would tabulate to $ 6.7 million per annum. Hillary could get her hippie museum and Johnny could put a down payment on his intelligence center -- no, wait, that already went through.
Using the constant dollar method over the 167 years that the "Gifts to the United States" program has been in place and available for liberals in all shapes and sizes to use, the total would have been $1.1 billion -- that represents quite a few down-and-outers getting their health care, housing, and food gratis.
The Dems should put up or shut up, preferably both.
-- Owen H. Carneal, Jr.
Yorktown, Virginia
Ah, the joy of proclaiming "tax the rich" always does seem to involve picking somebody else's pocket, doesn't it? But keep in mind that these guys don't just want to decide who and what to tax, they also want to be in charge of spending the money when it comes in. From their point of view, who better than they?
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida
Jeffery Lord has hit another home run with his article "The Credibility Tax." Republicans in Congress and groups like the Club for Growth need to start running ads nationwide, demanding that rich Democrats who want to raise taxes on working Americans ante up 15% for the national deficit, right now, from their personal incomes. If they refuse, as they will, they should be pilloried for the two-bit "populists" and hypocrites they are. Of course, these "inordinately" rich liberal pols and vulture capitalists (the Clintons, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Rangel, Obama, Edwards, Biden, Gore, Soros, Buffett and Gates) will not only refuse to sacrifice they will do everything they can to punish good Americans who actually contribute to society by their work and efforts.
To paraphrase King Juan Carlos -- it is time for Democrats to put up or just SHUT UP!!!!
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina
What makes a great Democrat? One who wants to raise taxes on others, but not themseslves.
-- Mark L. Saleman
Flushing, New York
Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder's The 9/11 Blame Game:
The problem with 9/11 is that the Bush administration and its supporters rushed to judgment as they had planned to do all along and blamed the wrong country. To this day, the real perpetrators are out there, probably gloating over their accomplishments while thousands of Americans and Iraqis die for a deed of which they have no responsibility. Even if Hussein had WMDs, which he did not, that did not justify what Bush has set forth in Iraq -- an unending unjustified debacle that has no end.
Nice job of stating the obvious but often overlooked aspects of 9/11 and the American responses. Consider writing the same piece about Katrina. I suspect even the mayor of New Orleans did not do everything wrong.
In retrospect,
-- Bob Sneed
Re: The Prowler's Turningi Up the Heat:
The endorsement of Rudy by the legendary Pat Robertson shows the pure logic of those who think with their brains and are not guided by emotion. The only, I repeat, ONLY candidate with a shred of a chance of defeating the demon that wants our freedom is the true blue conservative Rudy Giuliani. Ask yourselves, my fellow conservatives, who has the fire in the gut required to take the cross and garlic to the true enemy in this upcoming campaign? Please, don't let the names of the small candidates pass your lips. Those who understand the truly monumental importance of this election don't waste their time pondering alternatives to the One and Only. Once again, the true issues are the safety of the Americans and their allies and the pruning back of the endless assault on our personal and economic liberties. Rudy is a man who does not care who likes or dislikes him in the political arena. He has an objective: the defeat of the countries enemies, whether they are foreign or domestic, and the whimpering cries of the endlessly affronted liberal will not deter him. The pointless issue of abortion, used as a dagger by Democrats for decades to defeat Republicans, is an issue to be determined by the COURTS, not by the opinions of individuals. Guess what? Rudy will appoint justices along the line of Scalia, Thomas and Roberts. So drop your pointless quibbling, pull out those checkbooks and focus your energy on the only candidate that will beat the brutal and avaricious Hillary like a bloody drum: Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
-- Steve Heafey
Alamo, California.
The Democrats have no choice but to nominate Zell Miller for President...a true man...a Truman...a real Democrat.
Fred Thompson looks like a bloodhound. Rudy looks like a pit bull and Hillary is a Shitzu.
I want a pit bull in the White House.
-- Fred Edwards
Re: The Prowler's Huckabee's Salvation:
I was indeed surprised at such an uninformed report from The American Spectator. I would expect such from others who are not so interested in the facts, but not from you.
The Prowler?
Honestly, that's pretty telling. Maybe next time you would want to choose someone with a little more maturity who would be interested in facts, not tales, when reporting on a story with such a widely-known base of listeners of Dr. James Dobson has.
While your story raised some eye-brows. I'm afraid the eye-brows were raised at your credibility, not Dr. Dobson's. He is wide open on his views. He is not shy, nor is he secret in his beliefs. Maybe, your Prowler fellow or gal should tune in and listen and then there would be no doubt where the man stands. Or perhaps he or she should have just contacted Dr. Dobson personally and asked for the facts. Wouldn't that have been a noble idea!
Your report reminded me of the teenager playing mind games to manipulate situations. If you knew very much about Dobson or his listeners, you would know that they do what they do based on their world view and belief system and most likely will not be swayed, nor even upset greatly by your Prowler reporter/contributor. (I have problems giving him/her a title of reporter.)
And, just for your information, there are thousands of us out here in voter land who know exactly what we are going to do when that important day arrives to pull the lever, punch or mark the ballot. We just don't talk to contributors called "Prowler." I do hope that you, as editor of The American Spectator will take a more hands-on approach the next time you endorse a story that has such a huge audience. It will do your publication well. Right now there is a huge black eye bulging from your front page cover with your name on it.
Thank you very much for hearing me out. I have respected the Spectator publication in the past, and will be watching attentively to what happens with this story in the future as I am sure thousands of Dr. Dobson's listeners will be.
-- Nancy Boren
Re: Jeff Emanuel's The Longest Morning:
First and foremost, from one Iraqi Combat Vet (Desert Storm) to another (Operation Iraqi Freedom), bravo zulu. Mr. Emanuel, your article "The Longest Morning" (AmSpec November 2007) was compelling reading of the highest order. Finding one word from over three thousand may well be nitpicking in the extreme, but on page 34 you refer to the enemy combatants as "these animals." Words have meaning and consequences, and because you chose every other word with such precision and aptitude, I find making a case against this slur to be imperative.
The gods were not angry that Achilles killed Hector in mortal combat but that Achilles acted with shame and desecrated the body of his enemy. Such immoral actions grew out of the seeds of seeing his enemy as less than human. The soldiers who died honorably in Somalia where mistreated much as our Greek hero, and if the Boy President had any testicular fortitude, he would have sought justice for our fallen heroes instead of withdrawing in dishonor. (That our troops were deployed on a mission that was not in U.S. interest is not argued here; that the Prez withdrew our troops for cowardly reasons of his own may be disputed.) The insurgents have a mission that is as important to them as ours is to us. Yes, theirs is misguided and wrong. (With all due respect to Mark Twain and Bob Dylan, God is on our side in this war.) As a nation, and especially as warriors, we are compelled to remember we are not leading animals to slaughter, but we are killing enemy combatants, human beings. We do this willingly knowing full well the costs. If we do not know it in the moment itself, we often do with forethought, and certainly in reflection.
Dehumanizing our enemy lands us in their snare; they cannot conceive of us humans of differing ideology. To them, we are simply infidels to be destroyed. We retain the moral high ground as long as we retain our dignity and allow others to do the same. America has shown a great tolerance for others, including the Arab world for most of our short existence. (I am no Pollyanna; I understand both the history and the Realpolitik of America's past; we are not a perfect nation, but ours is still a shining light to the world.) Despite the foul rhetoric of many who hate America (especially our own citizens), let it be remembered, we did not go looking for a fight; the fight was brought to us because our enemies hate and demonize us. If they saw us as fully human, they might come to convert us, but they do not seek conversions; they seek annihilation.
If we are to remain a moral people, we cannot kill because we despise "these animals," but we will act to protect ourselves and seek justice. By choosing this course of action we will have both peace and dignity. This is the American way.
No warrior prays for war, but war is often necessary. War has come to us, since our warriors have entered combat, they must be prepared to act morally, even in the most extreme of conditions, or they may very well jeopardize the very ideals for which we fight.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York
Re: Michael Showalter's letter (under "Dorell vs. Thomas") in Reader Mail's Dobson's Relevance:
I'm not sure whether I can make enough sense of Mr. Showalter's letter to muster up a decent response, but what the heck?
Income tax doesn't seem to have much to do with Clarence Thomas, but yes, I support it. Mr. Showalter may feel comfortable without national security, roads, government, etc., but those are things that I find come in handy from time to time. Certainly I agree that the tax code has been manipulated by various special interests and ought to be simplified. As far as redistribution of wealth is concerned, I would like to see wealthy Americans, hedge fund managers in particular, pay taxes at a regular income tax rate rather than at a capital gains rate.
My point about Clarence Thomas wasn't that I think affirmative action is the greatest invention since apple pie, or that all of the entitlement legislation from the 1960s and 1970s was a good idea. I would go as far as to say that it would be in the interest of the nation to provide some support to disadvantaged members of the population, but not to the extent, say, of providing financial restitution to the descendants of slaves, which I think would be absurd. I was simply concerned that Justice Thomas bit the hand that fed him. For Thomas to say that affirmative action should be banned is like Fidel Castro saying that all future revolutions should be banned: in both cases, they would be renouncing everything that gave them a voice in the first place. In Thomas's case, he is telling blacks that it was OK for him to get the benefits and become a Supreme Court Justice, but that it was, after all, a bad idea, and no one else deserves the privilege. If affirmative action is unconstitutional, its downfall should come from someone other than a hired hand of the conservative establishment who has been disowned by the majority of blacks.
Unfortunately for Mr. Showalter, I am retired now and have plenty of idle time to peruse all kinds of nonsense. You may hear from me occasionally, but don't worry -- I'm mellowing with age.
-- Paul Dorell
Evanston, Illinois
Re: Michael Tomlinson's letter (under "Laugh In") in Reader Mail's Dobson's Relevance:
Among the many factual errors and faulty judgments in Mr. Tomlinson's letter, I draw your attention to:
Mr. Tomlinson asserts "The war in Iraq was never waged for oil. Mr. Greenspan acknowledges this in his recent book." Unless Mr. Greenspan recanted or shaded his opinion, and I missed it, he said exactly the opposite.
Further, Mr. Tomlinson writes, "Even before Jimmy Carter abetted the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, created the theocracy in Iran and gave birth to modern Islamic extremism the poppy was the major cash crop of Afghanistan." The Carter administration spent at least $40 billion aiding the Taliban against the Soviets. Mr. Tomlinson has an interesting understanding of what it means to "abet." Of course, we all know that nothing happened in Iran prior to Mr. Carter's administration to lay the foundation for theocracy, nor were there Islamic extremists before he was inaugurated. Just as we all know that Mr. Reagan single-handedly destroyed the Soviet Union in eight years.
Talking about LOL moments:
Talking points -- Since when have Democrats/liberals been able to get it together to have "talking points"? The Republican/conservatives are masters at this art form.
Clinton's Chinese and Muslim buddies -- The Clintons' ties to the Saudi royal family pale in comparison with the longstanding Bush family ties. I don't recollect ever seeing Mr. Clinton walking hand-in-hand, literally, with a Saudi prince as did Mr. Bush. The sight must have been disconcerting for some. As for the Chinese, they are laughing all the way to the bank. The "spend and charge" Republicans have put us into enormous debt and the Chinese hold the note.
"Moving the ball." Remind me again of how many justifications the Bush administration floated for the war in Iraq. Now that was moving the ball!
I could go on, but at the expense of wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving.
-- Mike Roush
North Carolina
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The 2004 reunion movie was released on DVD, and one can only guess those sales weren't good, or else we would see the series on track for release. Like the rest of you, I hope someday it becomes possible to see this great series released.
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SCITCS is hosting an Advanced Training Program for the RT200 and RT300 Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) bicycles. The training will be provided by Restorative Therapies. Physiotherapists and other staff from six different sites throughout Alberta will participate in the intense hands-on program. SCITCS has provided the equipment to three of the sites. The Red Deer General Hospital, the Saville Fitness Centre and The Steadward Centre (TSC) in Edmonton. We wish to acknowledge SCITCS board member Su Ling Chong who has spent considerable time scheduling and coordinating the participants and volunteers with the Trainer from Restorative Therapies and the TSC staff. We wish to thank the staff from TSC for their assistance in finding volunteer participants who are essential for the hands-on-training.


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Volume 34, Issue 6, June 2007
- Imaging Scientific Session: L100J
- X‐ray Imaging‐New Detectors, Techniques
MO‐E‐L100J‐01: Enhancement of Signal Performance Through Innovative Pixel Design for Indirect Detection Active Matrix Flat‐Panel Arrays34(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2761257View Description Hide Description
Purpose: Active matrix flat‐panel imager technology is being introduced to an ever‐increasing variety of imaging applications. This has been greatly facilitated by improvements in optical signal collection achieved through innovations in array pixel design. Such improvements are particularly important for applications involving low exposures and high spatial frequencies, where DQE can be strongly attenuated due to relatively high additive electronic noise. In this presentation, recent innovations to pixel design are described and the effect on various signal properties, as determined through measurements and calculations related to novel prototypes, is reported. Method and Materials: Optical and radiation signal measurements were performed on prototype imagers incorporating a series of six increasingly sophisticated array designs, with pixel pitches ranging from 75 to 127 μm. The most recent discrete photodiode array employs aggressive design rules that significantly increase optical fill factor while also incorporating a clamp circuit. Two other array designs incorporate a continuous photodiode structure with the goal of providing an optical fill factor of 100%. Results: The new 127 μm pitch discrete photodiode design achieves a sensitivity consistent with its design goal of an ∼85% optical fill factor while the 75 and 90 μm pitch continuous photodiode designs demonstrate sensitivity corresponding to an ∼95% fill factor. These designs demonstrated no degradation in MTF due to charge sharing and the pixel clamp reduces memory effects at high signal levels. The effects of these enhanced sensitivities on DQE are illustrated and compared to the performance of arrays based on earlier generations of design. Conclusion: Aggressive application of design rules can achieve very high levels of optical fill factor and sensitivity resulting in improvements in DQE. Continuous photodiode designs extend optical fill factors almost to the theoretical limit, even for very small pixels, and are well suited to designs containing more complex pixel circuits.
MO‐E‐L100J‐02: Limits On Achievable Performance Levels for Active Matrix Flat Panel Imagers Incorporating Active Pixel Sensor Architectures34(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2761258View Description Hide Description
Purpose: The relatively high level of additive noise in active matrix flat‐panel imagers (AMFPIs) leads to significant loss of DQE under conditions of low exposures per frame and/or high spatial frequencies. One promising method for dealing with such performance loss involves in‐pixel signal amplification through incorporation of additional circuitry to each pixel — a concept generally referred to as an active pixel sensor. In this presentation, an examination of performance levels that can be achieved with active pixel sensors based on thin‐film electronics will be presented. Method and Materials: Calculations of the DQE of various active pixel sensor designs were performed using the cascaded systems formalism. Inputs to the calculations come from empirical measurements, published data, analytic calculations, and results derived from detailed circuit simulations. The calculations were performed for a series of designs, under fluoroscopic irradiation conditions, and using various readout protocols. Results: Our model calculations indicate that, under conditions of low exposure and/or high spatial frequency, substantial DQE restoration can be achieved via a combination of in‐pixel amplification circuitry and correlated double sampling protocols — each specifically selected to eliminate specific noise contributions. In particular, it appears feasible to reduce thermal noise associated with the pixel reset TFT and preamplifier noise to negligible levels and thereby increase DQE. However, the degree of performance improvement that can be practically realized will also depend upon the quality and properties of the thin film transistors used in the pixel circuit as well as selection of circuits that will yield well in manufacture. Conclusion: The degree of performance improvement made possible through array architectures comprising active pixel sensors is critically dependent on many factors including the properties of the transistors, the engineering rules governing pixel and array design, the choice of pixel circuit, and the method of array readout.
MO‐E‐L100J‐03: Development of a Novel Electronic Portal Imaging Device Based On Cherenkov Radiation34(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2761259View Description Hide Description
Purpose: Most electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) developed so far use a Cu plate/phosphor screen to absorb x rays. The main problem with this approach is that the Cu plate/phosphor screen must be thin (∼ 2 mm) in order to obtain a high spatial resolution, resulting in a low quantum efficiency (QE) for megavoltage (MV) x rays (typically 2–4%). In addition, the phosphor screen contains high atomic number (high‐Z) materials, resulting in an over‐response of the detector to low energy x rays in dosimetric verification. Our goal is to develop a new high QE MV x‐ray detector made of a low‐Z material for both geometrical and dosimetric verification in radiotherapy. Method and Materials: Our approach uses radiation‐induced light (Cherenkov radiation) in optical fibers that are made of low‐Z materials. With our approach, a thick (∼ 10–30 cm) fiber‐optic taper consisting of a matrix of optical fibers aligned with the incident x rays is used to replace the thin Cu plate/phosphor screen to dramatically increase the QE. The feasibility of this approach has been investigated using a single optical fiber embedded in a solid material. The spatial resolution expressed by the modulation transfer function(MTF) and the signal‐to‐noise ratio of the proposed detector at low doses (∼ one Linac pulse) have been measured. Results: It is predicted that, using this approach, a detective quantum efficiency (DQE) of an order of magnitude higher at zero frequency can be obtained while maintaining a reasonable MTF, as compared to current EPIDs. Conclusion: This work demonstrated the feasibility of using Cherenkov radiation for portal imaging applications [Work supported by the Individual Discovery Grant Program awarded by National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)].
MO‐E‐L100J‐04: Scatter Rejection and Low‐Contrast Performance of a Slot‐Scan Digital Chest Radiography System with Electronic Aft‐Collimation: A Phantom Study34(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2761260View Description Hide Description
Purpose: To investigate scatter rejection and low‐contrast performance of an electronic aft‐collimation based slot‐scan imaging technique for chest imaging.Method and Materials: The slot‐scan imaging technique was implemented with a 1.6 cm wide fan‐beam and a modified flat‐panel (FP) detector for electronic aft‐collimation. During the scan, the leading edge line of the scanning fan‐beam is reset to erase the scatter accumulated while the trailing edge line is read out to acquire the image signals following the fan‐beam exposure. Two images acquired with the same techniques were subtracted from each other for measuring the noise levels. A 2‐mm thick lead plate with a 2‐D array of holes was used to measure the primary signals which were then subtracted from those obtained without the lead plate to determine the scatter components. A 2‐D array of aluminum beads (3mm in diameter) is used as the low‐contrast objects to measure the contrast ratios (CRs) and contrast‐to‐noise ratios (CNRs) for evaluation of the low‐contrast performance in chest images.Results: The slot‐scan imaging method resulted in lower average scatter‐to‐primary ratios (SPRs) and improved CRs, primary signal‐to‐noise ratios (PSNRs) and CNRs than the anti‐scatter grid method. Slot‐scan imaging used in conjunction with grid resulted in further reduction of the SPRs and improvement of CRs. However, in most cases, the PSNRs were degraded and CNRs were at the same level or even degraded. Conclusion: Slot‐scan imaging with electronic aft‐collimation can effectively reject scatter without having to attenuate the primary x‐rays. It resulted in almost doubled CNR improvement as compare to the anti‐scatter grid method. Further improvement by using slot‐scan imaging with an anti‐scatter grid was found to be limited. Conflict of Interest: This work was supported in part by a research grant EB00117 from the NIH‐NIBIB and the research grants CA51248 and CA104759 from the NIH‐NCI.
MO‐E‐L100J‐05: High Quantum Efficiency Portal Imaging Using a Structured Fiber‐Optic Scintillation Glass Array (FOSGA)34(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2761261View Description Hide Description
Purpose: Preliminary studies of a high quantum efficiency (QE) portal imager based on a fiber‐optic scintillation glass array (FOSGA) within a focused polymer‐tungsten grid and coupled to a‐Si photodiodes are presented. These include characterization of intrinsic imaging performance using Monte Carlo simulations and validation of mechanical fabrication accuracy and automated glass fiber insertion. Method and Materials: The scintillator array comprises of high‐density Tb‐activated scintillation glass (proprietary material composition) fibers drawn into uniform fiber‐optic bundles. The polymer‐tungsten grid is constructed using tomo‐lithographic molding (TLM), a patent‐pending manufacturing technology that can create precisely focused grids using cast‐molding and stack‐lamination. Glass fibers are inserted using an automated loading jig based on electrostatic alignment and vaccum gradients for precise pixel loading. Monte Carlo simulations were used to model the effects of scintillator geometry (thickness and fill factor) on intrinsic detector performance indicated by the modulation transfer function(MTF), and detective quantum efficiency (DQE). Results: Results indicated that DQE(0) increased and MTF decreased with scintillator thickness and fill factor. However, upon calculating DQE(f) ≈ DQE(0)MTF(f)2, it was found that the effect of thickness and fill factor on DQE(0) was more significant than that on the MTF. Intrinsic QE = 0.43 and DQE(0) = 0.25 could be obtained for a 5 cm thick scintillator array with a fill factor ⩾ 70%. Conclusions: FOSGA provides high QE due to good x‐ray absorption, scintillation, and fiber‐optic coupling characteristics of Tb‐glass fibers, while the polymer‐tungsten grid improves spatial resolution by limiting the spread of secondary electrons leading to greater MTF and DQE. Based on high QE, high DQE megavoltage imaging in conjunction with cost‐effective methodologies for accurate (±3%) mass‐production of large‐field uniform detector arrays, FOSGA is well suited for 2D localization and verification imaging as well as megavoltage computed tomography (MVCT) for image guided radiation therapy(IGRT).
MO‐E‐L100J‐06: Slot Scan Imaging with a High Frame Rate Flat Panel Detector‐Measurement and Correction for In‐Slot Scatter34(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2761262View Description Hide Description
Purpose: To report on the use of a new scatter measurement technique to characterize the scatter rejection properties and to further correct for the in‐slot scatter in slot scan imaging with a high frame rate flat panel detector.Method and Materials: A new slot scan imaging technique was developed with a high frame rate (7.5 fps) flat panel detector. 300 images were acquired as an x‐ray fan beam, defined by a slot collimator placed in front of the tube, was scanned across an anthropomorphic chest phantom. Time‐intensity curves were formed from the image sequence for all pixels. They were integrated over the fan beam passing frames to form the scatter rejected image signals and over all frames to form the open field image signals. By assuming the primary component to be constant during the fan beam exposure, the scatter components were extracted from the time‐intensity curves to estimate the in‐slot scatter using an iterative background estimation algorithm. The results were used to measure the scatter signals and to correct for in‐slot scatter. Results: Slot scan images of an anthropomorphic chest phantom were acquired and formed for various projected fan beam widths. 2D maps of scatter‐to‐primary ratios and contrast‐to‐noise ratio (CNR) improvement factors were generated and plotted for the slot‐scan images and compared with those for the full field, non‐grided images . In the lungs, CNR was improved by 30 to 50%, and in the mediastinum, CNR was improved by 60 to 150%. Conclusion: We have described and demonstrated the use of a new scatter measurement technique to estimate and correct for the in‐slot scatter on a pixel‐by‐pixel basis in slot scan imaging with a high frame rate flat panel detector.
This work was supported in part by research grants EB00117 from the NIH‐NIBIB and CA51248 and CA104759 from the NIH‐NCI.
MO‐E‐L100J‐07: Multiplexing Radiography for Ultra‐Fast Computed Tomography: A Feasibility Study34(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2761263View Description Hide Description
Purpose: Current CT scanners collect the projection images by a step‐and‐shoot process using a single x‐ray source. The inefficient serial data collection scheme severely limits the data collection speed. Multiplexing technique, which has been widely adopted in communication devices, holds the promise to significantly increase the data throughput. It however, has not been applied to x‐ray radiography, mainly due to limitations of the current x‐ray source technology. Method and Materials: We demonstrated the feasibility of multiplexingradiography technique based on the frequency division multiplexing (FDM) principle and the multi‐pixel x‐ray technology. The carbon nanotube based field emission multi‐pixel x‐ray source can generate spatially and temporally modulated x‐ray radiation. During the multiplexingimaging process, all the x‐ray pixels were turned on simultaneously with each beam modulated at a different frequency. The superimposed x‐ray signals were captured by an x‐ray detector and then demultiplexed to recover the original nine projection images from different view angles. Results: In general a factor of N/2 (N= total number of images) increase in the speed can be achieved using the multiplexing scheme. This becomes significant when N is large, for example for clinical CT scanners which use ∼1000 views per gantry rotation. On the other hand, if the total imaging time and x‐ray dose are kept the same as used in the sequential process, then the x‐ray power, i.e. the tube current, can be reduced by a factor of N/2 by multiplexing because the exposure time per image is now longer. Conclusion: In summary, we show the feasibility of multiplexingradiography that enables simultaneous collection of multiple projection images. Overall the experiment has sufficiently demonstrated the efficiency of multiplexing for data collection compared to the current serial approach. It has the potential to significantly increase the imaging speed for CT scanning without compromising the imaging quality.


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The European Physical Journal E
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Shear-affected depletion interaction
- C. JulyAffiliated withForschungszentrum Jülich, ICS-3 - Soft Matter Email author
- , D. KleshchanokAffiliated withVan 't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry - Debye Research Institute, Utrecht University
- , P. R. LangAffiliated withForschungszentrum Jülich, ICS-3 - Soft Matter
We investigate the influence of flow fields on the strength of the depletion interaction caused by disc-shaped depletants. At low mass concentration of discs, it is possible to continuously decrease the depth of the depletion potential by increasing the applied shear rate until the depletion force is not perceivable experimentally. Above a threshold in the platelet mass concentration, the depletion potential can no longer be affected by flow in the accessible range of shear rates. While the observed decrease of depletion strength at low depletant concentration may be ascribed to flow alignment of the discs, it is not clear why the influence of flow is vanishing at high concentrations. In order to observe these effects, a modification of the established total internal reflexion microscopy (TIRM) technique is be implemented. We show the suitability of these modifications to measure particle-wall interaction potentials under non-equilibrium conditions for systems where particles are exposed to a shear.
KeywordsFlowing Matter: Interfacial phenomena
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- Shear-affected depletion interaction
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- July 2012
- 10.1140/epje/i2012-12060-7
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- 2. Van 't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry - Debye Research Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands


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Best Politician (2003)
Councilwoman Ada Edwards
This 60-year-old civil rights and anti-apartheid activist-turned-elected official continues to amaze observers with her energy, grassroots common sense and a service ethic reflected in her diverse young staff. Her district is an ethnic and cultural rainbow stretching from black precincts in Sunnyside to heavily gay Montrose, and Edwards has made everybody feel at home in her office. In contrast to the political pretensions of predecessor Jew Don Boney, Edwards has put the down-home back into District D while winning over colleagues with a no-nonsense, respectful presence at the council table. Other councilmembers have made like political jumping beans, seeking new positions before their current seats are even warm. Not Edwards, who says she wants to stay in her district till retirement while training a new generation to step into her shoes. If she finds even one like her, the city will count itself lucky.
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Best New RepublicanHouston City Councilman Gabe Vasquez
Best RepublicanPolitical consultant Allen Blakemore
Best DemocratDistrict 137 state Representative Scott Hochberg
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^ Norah Jones doesn't either, but really? They were that bad? I mean I actually haven't seen them myself so I can't be fully real on it, however, judging by the likes to dislikes on the videos it seems overwhelmingly in favor of positive reviews.
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Sneak Peek Episode 401 The Walking Dead: 30 Days Without an Accident
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The cast and crew of The Walking Dead explain where we left off in Season 3 and what we can look forward to in Season 4 of The Walking Dead.
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Walking dead doesn't hold a candle to the brilliance that is Breaking Bad. I was a typical person hating on the popular thing when everyone loved BB. I barely got into the show now that it's over and have been watching it nonstop. The level of detail put into the writing and the character development... no one has tried as hard the past couple years as this show at trying to leave an impact on the viewer. Walking dead is good in its own right
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Rick vs Shane is probably the most memorable moment in this series.
Pau Gasol is GONE
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^ Most of the best & most intense moments involved Shane period. They should've found a way to keep him alive & keep him going in the story. A lot of people hated him, but there's no denying he made things very interesting & entertaining. Such a dynamic, badass, & wild personality.
In fact, a lot of those same people who hated him & wanted him gone or wanted less of him later on ended up admitting they missed his presence on the show. That's how powerful he was.
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Trying to envision, just for fun, how things might be if Shane was still around.
For sure something would've popped off between him & Rick as both would probably be fighting to be the baby's father.
Heck, this show might even have Shane seeing Lori's ghost too.
There's no denying how powerful an ally he would have been, & still could be, against the governor. But before his death, Shane might have enjoyed the governor's head collection. Dude was out of there at the end.
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We have always known Enermax for some pretty attractive and interesting cases. Today we are taking a look at one of their latest cases the iVektor. One interesting thing about this case is that it has a soft touch coating that is said to absorb vibrations, noise and prevent fingerprints. Besides this coating the iVektor features a large side panel window for showing off hardware, USB 3.0 support, room for large graphics cards and liquid cooling solutions and multiple tool-less installation features. The iVektor comes in black, white and red, but today we will be taking a look at the black version. Will this be the case for your next build? Read on as we find out!
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The consumer solid state drive market could see a price war coming with leading manufacturers ramping up production according to industry sources. NAND flash supplier Micron has reportedly reduced sales of its flash chips to other companies in order to support its own Crucial branded solid state drives.
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Following the official announcement of Intel Pentium 20th Anniversary Edition G3258 CPU at COMPUTEX 2014, today ASRock Inc. unveils Z97 Anniversary (ATX) and Z97M Anniversary (Micro ATX) correspondingly. ASRock also provides "Pentium Anniversary Boost" technology along with these two motherboards for the easiest overclocking ever, as users are able to experience better computing performance with only few keystrokes!
Jun 20, 2014 Bob Buskirk All News, Gaming News 0
The Steam Summer Sale is in full effect, but Electronic Arts has something to say about it. They are offering one of their blockbuster games Titanfall free for 48 hours! I guess they are hoping to grab attention away from the Steam Sale.
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According to a report by SweClockers NVIDIA is planning to release its next high performance single-GPU graphics cards no later than Q4 of 2014. These cards will incloude the GeForce GTX 880 and the GeForce GTX 870 and they are said to be launching in the October / November time frame.
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ASUS today announced that its H97, H87, B85 and H81 Series motherboards are able to overclock the latest Intel Pentium Anniversary Edition processor (G3258), 4th-generation Intel Core K Series ('Haswell') and new 4th-generation Intel Core K Series ('Haswell Refresh') processors.
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Today Deepcool has finally released their very anticipated Steam Castle micro-ATX case that has a sort of Steam Punk theme to it. The case will be available this month with a suggested retail price of $119.99.
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According to a report by DigiTimes graphics card vendors are bracing for a brutal second quarter. They expect graphics card sales to drop by 30 to 40 percent! Vendors reasoning for this forecast is overwhelming unsold inventories of cards lower down the supply chain.
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When Intel announced their Haswell refresh some of us questioned where the "K-Series" unlocked processors were. We soon found out that Intel was working on two special processors made for enthusiasts codenamed "Devil's Canyon". These "Devil's Canyon" processors would make up the K-Series of the Haswell refresh, but also have features that the other processors do not. Intel has addressed many issues that we saw on Ivy Bridge and Haswell processors in the past. Today we will be taking a look at the flagship Core i7-4790K quad-core processor. This is Intel's first consumer processor to be clocked at 4.0 GHz and it actually boosts all the way up to 4.4 GHz! Let's take a look…
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Evidence-based interventions that improve quality are more likely to bring positive return on investment (ROI) if the programs avoid ER and inpatient utilization in high-risk, high-cost patient populations, according to the study "Searching for a Business Case for Quality in Medicaid Managed Care" that appeared in the October–December 2008 Health Care Management Review.
However, to accurately gauge ROI, companies and states must collect claims and financial information and develop tracking systems so financial leaders can measure ROI, the study's researchers said.
The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) partnered with University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill researchers to conduct the three-year Business Case for Quality (BCQ) research of 10 Medicaid managed care entities that featured a wide range of locations, clinical conditions, financing environments, and intervention strategies. (See Figure 15 on p. 16.) The national BCQ initiative was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund.
CHCS selected the 11 interventions (one of the entities conducted two interventions) based on their ability to design and implement an evidence-based quality-enhancing intervention, their focus on chronic illness that is prevalent in Medicaid, and their capability to collect data that could track detailed cost and resource utilization to enable business case analyses.
"Selected entities were broadly representative of the range of managed care environments and clinical needs of Medicaid populations across the United States," the researchers wrote.
In the study, researchers explored a business case for quality in Medicaid managed care because organizations that receive full-risk capitated payments "have the financial incentives to implement quality improvements that are cost-effective." Although Medicaid has not been part of previous case studies exploring a business case forimproving healthcare quality, CHCS believes that Medicaid managed care offers "significant opportunities for testing the business case for quality, based on the high prevalence of chronic illness among eligible populations and the powerful financial incentives provided by capitation arrangements."
Many programs don't focus on demonstrating a business case—although preventive and chronic care programs can reduce hospitalizations and deaths. By not evaluating downstream financial effects, administrators may be missing an opportunity to justify near-term investments in programs that could save money.
Medicaid, which is the country's largest health insurer with 55 million beneficiaries and $330 billion in expenditures, is a good example. Given the size of Medicaid's budget, policymakers have looked at the federal-state program as a place where quality could have a huge influence on patient outcomes and lowering costs.
"By themselves, or potentially in concert with state employee purchasers, Medicaid agencies can exercise considerable leverage in setting standards for the plans and providers with whom they contract. This is especially true under full-risk capitation, where the crux of the business transaction is to transfer the incentives to control unnecessary expenditures from the state to the health plan," the researchers wrote.
The idea behind the BCQ initiative was to "test the idea that quality improvement can reduce healthcare spending over and above the required investment costs," CHCS wrote in its brief Demonstrating the Business Case for Quality in Medicaid: Challenges and Opportunities.
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Of the 11 interventions, only four had a positive ROI:
The sites with positive returns were more likely to fund case managers, nurse educators, and other clinicalstaff members. The key for programs that were successful was not how much they spent, but what the money funded. "It didn't seem to matter what the disease was, but what you did to manage those patients," says study coauthor Sandra B. Greene, DrPH, senior research fellow at the Sheps Center for Human Services Research and research associate professor of health policy and administration at the UNC School of Public Health.
Allison Hamblin, MSPH, senior program officer at CHCS in Hamilton, NJ, says two ways to attain positive ROI and affect healthcare quality are finding the right people to target and using the proper resources for those individuals.
Health plans have two options when using limited resources to improve quality and reduce costs: They can go broad and target a large group of patients for low-intensity interventions, such as with call centers or consumer education materials, or they can target a smaller number of individuals with greater needs and provide more intensive interventions. Hamblin says CHCS prefers the latter option.
"You can do less for more or more for less. Our takeaway from this project and other efforts is that if ROI is one of the goals on the table, you are better off targeting quality improvement resources toward those who need them most," says Hamblin.
Reasons for success
After analyzing the results, BCQ researchers found that the following intervention characteristics may hold potential for demonstrating short-term financial returns:
"I really think it goes back to the ones who were successful were the ones who were more likely to be focused and deliberate on what their quality-enhancing initiative was," says Greene.
There is no magic formula to produce a positive ROI and improve quality outcomes, Hamblin says. There are a range of effective interventions, from self-management education to better use of health information technology, that when combined with a larger program can lower costs and improve quality.
"The key is to have multifaceted interventions operating at different levels of the system in order to have this impact on quality and costs," Hamblin says.
Health plans, payers, and patients are pursuing healthcare quality improvement, but finding proof of a business case for quality has been elusive, researchers wrote. "Generating a clearer picture of the business case for investments in quality, for the investing organization, and for the broader economic case for other healthcare entities could have significant policy implications," they wrote. "The potential for the attainment of this broader goal of demonstrating ROI should fuel greater investments in improving quality in healthcare."
Focus on acute care utilization
Many organizations don't have financial information about programs because they don't pull out the right data to gauge ROI, such as detailed claims information to analyze against per member per month data, Greene says.
Organizations need to compare detailed claims and financial information. "I think they're both important to be able to pull out that kind of data, but some organizations particularly don't work with their claims data on a routine basis, so it's not a skill set they normally have in their organizations," says Greene.
Organizations looking for a business case for quality must focus on conditions that lead to more acute care utilization, Hamblin says.
"Whether it's asthma or something else, we find that if you are looking for an opportunity to demonstrate true cost savings, you are not going to get it through office visits and pharmacy alone, especially when you're talking about chronic conditions," she says. "You are going to get it from reductions in acute care costs."
Neither private insurers nor public programs, such as Medicaid, perform this level of analysis. "It's a good business practice to look at your data this way," says Greene.
The study shows the importance of collecting financial and claims data to determine a business case, which can measure ROI and give program proponents evidence to display financial benefits, Greene says. "I think that helps to sell the programs, particularly to the funding organization and as legislative bodies look for ways to cut money rather than spend money," she says.
Part of the reason ROI and quality are not usually linked is that there hasn't been enough research on the topic. But Hamblin says that is changing.
"I think you're seeing a growing number of studies that are reporting cost outcomes because people really recognize that something needs to be done to control costs," she says. "Quality improvement is one promising mechanism to do that, especially in chronic disease."
Another issue is that an 18- or 24-month study often isn't long enough to determine the effects of interventions. "A longer time horizon is needed to capture the ROI for some of those activities, given the nature of our healthcare system and financing. Whether that longer time frame is meaningful from a policy standpoint is up for debate," says Hamblin.
CHCS launched a second study, BCQ II, in April 2008 to "test the business case for quality for multiple stakeholders across the healthcare system. In doing so, BCQ II aims to identify financing arrangements that serve as potential disincentives for investments in quality, as well as strategies for correcting those misalignments," according to CHCS.
The second initiative is designed to provide more robust and actionable results than BCQ through:
The three participants in the four-year BCQ II are Alameda Alliance for Health in Oakland, CA, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and the Monroe Plan for Medical Care in Rochester, NY. Mathematica Policy Research and UNC are conducting the evaluation, with interim results expected in early 2010.
The initial study focused on the payer and investment part for ROI, whereas BCQ II will look to downstream players in the system to see what these programs mean to other stakeholders, such as community hospitals and providers. BCQ II will find the "winners or losers and identify disincentives in the payment systems that may prevent investing in quality initiatives," says Hamblin.
"By evaluating the potential for care management interventions to improve quality and reduce costs, BCQ II may help determine whether investments in quality are financially sustainable across the healthcare system," wrote CHCS in its brief. "And by measuring which stakeholders win and lose financially, BCQ II may pave the way for reforms that remove disincentives in the current payment systems to investing in quality."


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It may just be something to do with having a Scottish name but Alister Spence seems to have an affinity with Scottish musicians.
Back in the early 1990s, the Sydney-based pianist joined forces with Glaswegian saxophonist Tony Gorman and his Australian wife, Sandy Evans, who had recently moved to Evans' homeland, to form the band Clarion Fracture Zone. Over the next few years they would travel widely, playing gigs at the North Sea, Brecon and Glasgow jazz festivals, and record a series of albums that are regarded among the best examples of Australian jazz.
Spence's latest trip to Scotland also finds him in the company of a Scottish saxophonist, Raymond McDonald of the Burt-McDonald group and Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, and indeed when I caught up with Spence in Sydney, he was enjoying a post-gig malt with McDonald that the saxophonist had thoughtfully taken to Oz.
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"I don't know if it's like minds," says Spence, whose trio has gained an international reputation for its fresh approach to the well-worn piano-bass-drums jazz format. "It was the same with Tony and Sandy as it was with Raymond: we just seemed to get on and share similar thoughts on what we want to achieve as musicians. And that's a pretty good basis for a working relationship, I suppose."
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Spence was a relatively late starter in jazz. Having begun by taking classical piano lessons at school, he found himself wanting to explore the sound possibilities of the instrument after listening to bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Yes in his teens. His father had a collection of jazz albums, including classic recordings by the Modern Jazz Quartet and Oscar Peterson, and the teenage Alister investigated these but really fell in love with the idea of improvising and composing.
It was while on the Australian citizens' time-honoured, wider world-exploring year out, after a spell as a school teacher, that he became serious about jazz. He enrolled at the Dick Grove jazz school in Los Angeles and studied arranging, then moved on to the UK, where he worked for a year as composer-accompanist with a Dorset-based dance troupe and despite having his eyes opened culturally and socially in the alternative scene that pertained at the time in the south-west, he decided to go home and study jazz formally at Sydney Conservatorium.
"There was a lot of interesting music happening in Australia, much more than I'd previously realised, and because I was 30 by now, it was a case for me of getting my head down and getting going," he says.
To his formal studies he was able to add practical bandstand experience with leading Australian saxophonists Don Burrows and Dale Barlow, and having honed his compositional skills with Clarion Fracture Zone, he began to develop a parallel career as a documentary and film composer. "Writing for film made quite an impact on my jazz writing," he says. "It helped me to make my ideas clearer, more succinct."
These days his main focus is his trio, which recently issued the impressive Far Flung double-CD, on which Spence's dual liking for melodic, graceful music and more abstract sounds is accommodated in a way where one complements the other naturally. "They're quite different approaches and Raymond was saying earlier that when we work together we cover a fairly wide area of music," says Spence. "I'm not sure why. I didn't set out to have these contrasting elements in my music. It's just a reflection of the range of interests I have as a music listener as well as a player."
Spence met McDonald through the Scottish element of Clarion Fracture Zone suggesting they should meet up when Spence's trio was visiting Scotland in 2006. They did a workshop that brought the trio together with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and then two years later McDonald invited the trio to join the International Big Band he was forming to play at Tokyo Jazz Festival. Subsequent tours and their 2011 CD, Stepping Between the Shadows, have cemented their relationship.
"It's always easy to play with Raymond, probably because we share that dual love of the melodic and more abstract approaches. We'll be working with bassist Joe Williams and drummer Chris Cantillo this time. I'm really looking forward to it."
The quartet play at the Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, tonight and Glasgow Art Club tomorrow.
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