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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: "Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit Evaluation."
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection.
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Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer.
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Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit Evaluation
AHRQ is a lead Federal agency in developing and disseminating evidence and evidence-based tools on how health IT can improve health care quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness. Understanding clinical work practices and how they will be affected by practice innovations such as implementing health IT has become a central focus of health IT research. While much of the attention of health IT research and development had been directed at the technical issues of building and deploying health IT systems, there is growing consensus that deployment of health IT has often had disappointing results, and while technical challenges remain, there is a need for greater attention to sociotechnical issues and the problems of modeling workflow.
The implementation of health IT in practice is costly in time and effort and less is known about these issues in small- and medium-sized practices where the impact of improved or disrupted workflows may have especially significant consequences because of limited resources. Practices would derive great benefit from effective tools for assessing workflow during many types of health IT implementation, such as creating disease registries, collecting quality measures, using patient portals, or implementing a new electronic health record system. To that end, in 2008, AHRQ funded the development of the Workflow Assessment for Health IT toolkit (Workflow toolkit). Through this toolkit, end users should obtain a better understanding of the impact of health IT on workflow in ambulatory care for each of the following stages of health IT implementation: (1) Determining system requirements, (2) selecting a vendor, (3) preparing for implementation, or (4) using the system post implementation. They should also be able to effectively utilize the publicly available workflow tools and methods before, during, and after health IT implementation while recognizing commonly encountered issues in health IT implementation. In the current project AFIRQ is conducting an evaluation to ensure that the newly developed Workflow toolkit is useful to small- and medium-sized ambulatory care clinic managers, clinicians, and staff.
The evaluation will consist of field assessments of use of the Workflow toolkit in 18 small- and medium-sized practices and gathering feedback from two Health IT Regional Extension Centers (RECs) who are providing support to some of these practices. The evaluation will address the issues of system validation as classically defined in software engineering: determining whether the software or system actually meets the requirements of the user to perform the relevant tasks. The evaluation will answer the following questions:
- Are results correct? Are individual tools included in the Workflow toolkit accurate? Does workflow assessment with the Workflow toolkit provide accurate information the practice can act upon?
- Does knowledge change? Does user knowledge and capacity change? Does user knowledge of workflow in their own practice change?
- Do decisions change? Do user decisions about workflow assessment change? Do user decisions about health information technology (health IT) implementation change?
- Do outcomes change? Are changes in workflow favorable? Are changes in clinical practices favorable? Are changes to the practice favorable? Are changes for patients favorable?
To answer these questions the proposed evaluation will be conducted to examine usefulness of the Workflow toolkit in small- and medium-sized practices. The evaluation will be conducted with 18 practices affiliated with one of two Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs) in Oregon and Wisconsin, and with the Health IT Regional Extension Centers (RECs) in those States. Participants will be recruited who agree to use the Workflow toolkit in their specific health IT project for a minimum of 10 weeks. This will provide an opportunity to observe use of the Workflow toolkit amongst its intended end users, who are best positioned to provide critical feedback to improve the functionality of the Workflow toolkit.
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractors, the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN) and the Wisconsin Research Education Network (WREN), pursuant to AHRQ's statutory authority to conduct and support research on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with respect to the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness, and value of health care services and with respect to health care technologies, facilities, and equipment. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (5).
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To achieve the goals of this project the following data collections will be implemented:
(1) Pre-Workflow Toolkit Interview: these will consist of semi-structured interviews with practice staff and with three specialists from each Health IT Regional Extension Center. These interviews are designed to examine the knowledge, attitudes, and barriers to and facilitators of workflow assessment for implementation of health IT. Respondents will be asked to define workflow, to rate its importance to the practice or REC and to health IT implementation, to describe factors motivating use of the Workflow toolkit, to describe previous experience with assessing or redesigning workflow, and to describe previous experience with health IT implementation and the effect of this implementation on work processes in their practice (practices) or for their clients (RECs).
(2) Observations: Participating practices will form small teams (Clinic Study Teams) who will use the Workflow toolkit. A member of the project staff will join each Clinic Study Team or the three specialists at each of the two RECs, as participant-observer and will meet with the team at times to be determined by the teams, but at least every two weeks after the Pre-Workflow Toolkit Interview for at least four visits. During these visits project staff will participate in and keep field notes regarding the practice's or REC's workflow assessment activities.
(3) Usage Logs: As part of their workflow assessment process, Clinic Study Teams, and REC staff, will be asked to meet weekly. For weekly meetings at which a project staff member is not present, Clinic Study Teams and REC staff will keep a record of workflow assessment activities including use of the workflow assessment toolkit, recording in a free-form journal the purpose and results of the activity as well as issues that arose in the process.
(4) Post-Workflow Toolkit Interview: This final interview will consist of individual semi-structured interviews of practice staff and three specialists from each Health IT Regional Extension Center. These interviews will (a) re-examine their knowledge and attitudes about workflow assessment; (b) revisit the barriers to and facilitators of workflow assessment; (c) discuss changes that have taken place as a result of the process; (d) explore outcomes in terms of: (d.1) for practices, the perceived impacts on clinicians, the practice staff, the practice, and the patients; and (d.2) for RECs, technician confidence in guiding affiliated clinics in understanding workflow; and finally (e) assess the overall impressions about the usefulness of the Workflow toolkit as well as any suggested changes.
The outcome of the evaluation will be a report including recommendations for enhancing and improving the Workflow toolkit. The report will provide results about the perceived usefulness of the Workflow toolkit. Results will be produced separately for practices and RECs as well as for both user groups as a whole. The report will also include specific suggestions on how to revise Workflow toolkit to make it more useful to its intended audiences.
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Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annual burden hours for each respondent's time to participate in this evaluation. The Pre-Workflow interview will be completed by a total of up to 248 persons (about 12 per practice) and requires one hour. Up to four observations will be conducted for up to 248 persons and they are each estimated to take two hours. Ten usage logs will be completed by a total of up to 248 persons (one per week of study activity) and completion of a single usage log should take no longer than 15 minutes. The Post-Workflow interview will be completed by a total of up to 248 persons and requires one hour.
The total annual burden is estimated to be 3,100 hours or 155 hours per practice or Regional Extension Center.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annual cost burden associated with the organizations' time to participate in this research. The total annual burden is estimated to be $96,100.
|Data collection
|Number of respondents
|Number of respoonses per respondent
|Hours per response
|Total burden hours
|Pre-Workflow Toolkit Interview
|Usage Logs
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|Data collection
|Number of respondents
|Total burden hours
|Average hourly wage rate*
|Total cost burden
|* The hourly wage for the participants across the four data collections (pre-workflow toolkit interviews, observations, usage logs, and post-workflow toolkit interview) is based upon a weighted mean of the average hourly wages for Family and General Practitioners (1.5; $87.84 per hour); office managers (1.0; $35.18 per hour); front office staff (1.0; $15.15 per hour); medical assistants or nurses (2.5; $24.36 per hour); nurse care managers (0.5; $33.57); social workers (0.1; $24.44 per hour); health educators (0.1; $25.12 per hour); information technology specialists (0.25; $23.43 per hour); quality improvement directors (0.25; 25.12 per hour); and technical staff (1.0; $33.14 per hour) for Oregon and Wisconsin from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2010 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates for the United States, Occupational Employment Statistics (OES), Washington, DC (Feb. 2009), http://bls.GOV/oes/2010/may/www.bls.GOVOessrcst.htm (accessed November, 2011).
|Pre-Workflow Toolkit Interview
|Usage Logs
|Post-Workflow Toolkit Interview
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The estimated total cost to the Federal Government for this project is $793,456 over a 27-month period from September 23, 2011 to December 22, 2013. The estimated average annual cost is $352,646. Exhibit 3 provides a breakdown of the estimated total and average annual costs by category.
|Cost component
|Total cost
|Annualized cost
|* Costs are fully loaded including overhead and G&A.
|Project Management andCoordination Activities
|Develop Research andRecruitment Plans
|Compliance with PRA
|Obtaining IRB approval
|Develop Data Analysis Plan
|Conduct Evaluation
|Data analysis and Final Report
|Ensure 508-compliant deliverables
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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ's information collection are requested with regard to any of the following: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of AHRQ healthcare research and healthcare information dissemination functions, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours and costs) of the proposed collection(s) of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information upon the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and included in the Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of public record.
Dated: February 29, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
[FR Doc. 2012-5574 Filed 3-8-12; 8:45 am]


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16 April 2013
The sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 22 April to 3 May during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be reviewed by the Universal Periodic Review Working Group during this session are (in order of scheduled review): Turkmenistan, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Colombia, Uzbekistan, Tuvalu, Germany, Djibouti, Canada, Bangladesh, the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, and Cuba. The meeting will take place in Room XX at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Representatives of the 14 countries are scheduled to come before the Working Group, which comprises the entire membership of the 47-member Human Rights Council, to present efforts they have made in fulfilling their human rights obligations and commitments, assessing both positive developments and identifying challenges. The timetable of State reviews and adoption and distribution of reports can be found below as well as at the following link: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspxThe sixteenth session is the fourth session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group to be held under the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review process. As an integral part of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, States under Review will also spell out the steps they have taken to implement accepted recommendations posed to them during their first review. The reports serving as the basis for these reviews can be found at the following link: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx
During the session, an interactive dialogue between the country under review and the Council takes place in the Working Group. Each country review lasts three and one-half hours and an additional half hour will be devoted to the adoption of the Working Group's report for each country. The review for each State is facilitated by groups of three Council members from different regional groups, or troikas, who act as rapporteurs. The troikas for the session were selected through a drawing of lots on 14 January. The list of troikas for the sixteenth session can be found at the following link: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspxThe final outcome of the session will be adopted by the plenary of the Council at its twenty-fourth regular session taking place from 9 to 27 September 2013.About the Universal Periodic Review
General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, which created the Human Rights Council, mandated the Council to "undertake a universal periodic review, based on objective and reliable information, of the fulfilment by each State of its human rights obligations and commitments in a manner which ensures universality of coverage and equal treatment with respect to all States; the review shall be a cooperative mechanism, based on an interactive dialogue, with the full involvement of the country concerned and with consideration given to its capacity-building needs; such a mechanism shall complement and not duplicate the work of treaty bodies."
Subsequently, the Universal Periodic Review mechanism was established through the adoption by the Council of its "institution-building package" - HRC resolution 5/1 - on 18 June 2007, one year after its first meeting. Among the elements of this package was the new Universal Periodic Review mechanism, which aims to ensure that all United Nations Member States, starting with the members of the Council, have their records examined in order to improve human rights conditions worldwide. Furthermore, the Council decided that these reviews would be conducted on one working group composed of the 47 members of the Council.
The UPR Working Group consequently held its inaugural session in April 2008 for the first group of States, the order for which was decided through the drawing of lots. With the holding of this first session the first cycle took off through which all 193 United Nations Member States have had their human rights records reviewed over a four-year period; this includes South Sudan which became a Member State during the course of the first cycle.
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In accordance with the Council's "institution-building package", and as reinforced by the outcome of the Council's review adopted last March, the three documents on which State reviews should be based are information prepared by the State concerned, which could be presented either orally or in writing; information contained in the reports of treaty bodies and Special Procedures, to be compiled in a report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); and information provided by other relevant stakeholders to the UPR including non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, human rights defenders, academic institutions and research institutes, regional organizations, as well as civil society representatives, also to be summarized by OHCHR in a separate document.
Per the adopted institution-building package, the objectives of the Universal Periodic Review are: the improvement of the human rights situation on the ground; fulfilment of the State's human rights obligations and commitments and assessment of positive developments and challenges faced by the State; the enhancement of the State's capacity and of technical assistance, in consultation with, and with the consent of, the State concerned; the sharing of best practice among States and other stakeholders; support for cooperation in the promotion and protection of human rights; and, the encouragement of full cooperation and engagement with the Council, other human rights bodies and OHCHR.
Provisional Timetable for the Universal Periodic Review Working Group 16th Session:(Contains links to documentation page for each State)
Monday, 22 April
09h00 – 12h30 Review of Turkmenistan14h30 – 18h00 Review of Burkina Faso
Tuesday, 23 April
09h00 – 12h30 Review of Cape Verde14h30 – 18h00 Review of Colombia
Wednesday, 24 April
09h00 – 12h30 Review of Uzbekistan14h30 – 18h00 Review of Tuvalu
Thursday, 25 April
09h00 – 12h30 Review of Germany14h30 – 18h00 Review of Djibouti
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09h00 – 12h30 Review of Canada15h00 – 18h00 Adoption of reports on Turkmenistan, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Colombia, Uzbekistan, and TuvaluMonday, 29 April
09h00 – 12h30 Review of Bangladesh14h30 – 18h00 Review of Russian Federation
Tuesday, 30 April
10h00 – 11h30 Adoption of reports on Germany, Djibouti and Canada14h30 – 18h00 Review of Azerbaijan
Wednesday, 1 May
09h00 – 12h30 Review of Cameroon14h30 – 18h00 Review of Cuba
Thursday, 2 May
16h30 – 18h00 Adoption of reports on Bangladesh, Russian Federation and Azerbaijan
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> Hi all,
> Iam working on pci application programming in linux I have Few
> questions
> If i have two pci Devices of same type and same vendor
> how can i Differentiate two devices?
> suppose the devices are memory based devices 0-1000address deals 1st
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Sounds like you need to pick up a book on PCI. I find the Mindshare
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Configuration space uses the address bus to encode specific devices and
functions. Each address in config space belongs to a specific card and
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1000 of bus X, card Y, function Z. There is no ambiguity in
configuration space.
The device ID (16-bits) is used to differentiate between different cards
by the same vendor.
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Lake Charles, La. - The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi softball team split a pair of games against McNeese State here on Saturday afternoon, losing game one 5-4 and coming back for an 11-2 victory in the second of the day.
In the first game, it was tied at 4-4 from the third inning until the bottom of the seventh when the Cowgirls hit a one-out walk-off home run to win a 5-4 game that saw the Islanders allow four unearned runs. The Islanders atoned for the miscues in the second game, scoring 11 runs on 14 hits to take an 11-2 win to split the Saturday games.
"We're not quitters, we're always going to go out and work hard," said Schumann. "If something bad happens like a walk-off home run we're always going to keep battling."
The Islanders are now 28-18 overall and 10-13 on the season in the Southland Conference. McNeese State improved to 24-22 on the year and 10-10 in the Southland. Elena Crabtree went the distance and took the loss, going to 14-10 on the year in game one. Addie Tallman pitched a complete game in the second to improve to 10-6, allowing just six hits and two runs, only one of them earned, while walking two and striking out one.
In the second game, the Islanders struck first when Margo Hurdt doubled to center field to score Caley Jeter from first base and take a 1-0 lead. The Cowgirls responded with an unearned run in the bottom half of the inning to knot it at 1-1.
In the top of the fifth, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi exploded for five runs on just two hits and one Cowgirl error. Cassie Redman started the rally with a single and advanced to second on Hannah Schwarz's infield single. Jeter walked to load the bases ahead of Hurdt, who took a pitch off the elbow to bring home Redman and make it 2-1 Islanders. Brittany Tucker then walked to force in another run and make it 3-1. Lauren Dodson reached on an RBI fielder's choice to score Jeter while Hurdt was thrown out at third. Kyrie Panter pinch ran for Tucker and the runners advanced to second and third on a passed ball. The final two runs came when Meagan McKinney reached base on an error by the shortstop to make it 6-1 for the Islanders.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi added a single run in the fourth when Alejia Cain led off the inning with a double and came home to score on an Alaina Byars ground out while she was pinch hitting.
McNeese State scored a single run in the fifth to cut the deficit to 7-2 before the Islanders put the game away in the top of the seventh. Tucker led off the inning with a single to left field and McKinney followed with a home run over the scoreboard to make it 9-2 in favor of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Cain followed the homer with a single and stole second base and moved to third on a Redman single. After Redman stole second, Schwarz singled and advanced on an error to score both runners and make it 11-2. Tallman got the final three outs on four pitches in the bottom of the seventh to secure the win for the Islanders.
Schwarz and Cain each had three hits for the team while Hurdt and McKinney each had two RBI. Schwarz, Byars, Tucker and Dodson each had one RBI. Redman and McKinney also notched two hits for the Islanders.
"We did a good job adjusting to their last three pitchers," said Schumann. "I'm happy about it.
"Tomorrow is the rubber match, we'll have to come out and do it again."
In game one, the Islanders took a 2-0 lead in the first when Redman reached base and moved to second on a Schwarz sacrifice bunt. Hurdt hit a two-run home run that hit the top of the scoreboard in left field to put the Islanders on the board.
The Cowgirls scored an unearned run in the bottom of the first to cut the lead to 2-1. Dodson put the Islanders up by two once again when she led off the second inning with a solo home run to center field to make it 3-1 in favor of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
McNeese State took the lead in the bottom of the second with three unearned runs following an error on a popup that allowed Whitney Corbello to reach base. They eventually took a 4-3 lead before the Islanders got out of the inning.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi tied it up in the top of the third when Redman started the inning with a single and stole second base. She advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Schwarz and scored on an RBI single to center field by Jeter to make it 4-4.
The score would remain the same until the bottom of the seventh when the Cowgirls shortstop Molly Guidry hit a pitch over the scoreboard to give McNeese State the 5-4 win.
The final game of the series will be played at Cowgirl Diamond with a 12 PM start. Fans can follow the action through live stats and audio on www.GoIslanders.com.


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Canada Stocks to Watch: Agrium, Canacol, Premium Brands, New Flyer and Major Drilling
By Judy McKinnon
Listed below are some of the stocks we'll be watching today.
Agrium said it now expects fourth-quarter earnings to be "slightly" above $2 a share, excluding items, up from its previous view of $1.50-$1.90 a share, helped by a "very strong finish" to the fall fertilizer sales season in North America.
Canacol Energy said it has confirmed a conventional oil discovery at its Mono Arana 1 exploration well in Colombia.
Premium Brands Holdings said it has commissioned a new seafood processing facility in British Columbia and purchased certain business assets of Harbour Marine Products Inc., a Vancouver-based seafood processor, for C$1.35 million.
New Flyer Industries said Marcopolo has agreed to invest C$116 million in New Flyer, buying 11.1 million new shares for a nearly 20% stake.
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When I was a child in school, it bothered me to no end that many of my teachers did not know more about the topics they were teaching than what was explicitly written in their lesson plan. It certainly discouraged creative and critical thinking in any but the most scripted (see "Questions After Reading" sections in textbooks). I recall the humiliating feeling of asking a question only to have my teacher reply, "That's not important" or "Let's stick to the lesson plan today, Alina". Those teachers gave one child a pretty clear signal that inquisitiveness and curiosity were not connected to "learning" and knowledge at school.
So I devour books to be a better teacher.
We have been using Susan Wise Bauer's classical history series, The Story of the World. Max's love for history dovetails sweetly with my own. Preparing for a new "school year" means reading up on different historical perspectives and stories to entice my ever-hungry Max. But reading Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature raised many questions for me about the river-valley civilization model used by Bauer in her history texts.
Currently a professor at Notre Dame, Fernandez-Arnesto (FA, for short) approaches history from a perspective in which civilizations are more broadly construed to include less "Western"- oriented social groupings and settlements. In his favorable review, Robert Fulford describes him as a member of the "history-is-how-you-slice-it movement". Fulford explains:
Fernández-Armesto slices history according to geography, and defines a civilization by the way people respond to the world around them: Specific forms of human organization arise in response to ecological region-types. He includes the usual suspects, among them coastlines, such as those of the Mediterranean, and river valleys, such as those of Mesopotamia, that old favourite of mega-historians. But others are unexpected. He charts the growth of societies in grasslands, from the North American prairies to the Eurasian Steppe, and even in apparent wastelands, both deserts and polar regions.
He explains, vividly and persuasively, the societies that arise in these radically different contexts. When he deals with forests he ranges over mythical wild men who live in the woods, the impenetrable German forests that produced the enemies of Rome, the Huron of the Great Lakes, and the Arthurian legend, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. On Arctic-dwellers, he mentions that in 1884 a Swedish judge declared that protecting the grazing lands of reindeer was unnecessary and counterproductive, since the Sami (also known as the Laplanders), who lived off the herds, were an inferior culture, doomed to extinction. Saving the Sami would violate the central law of our species, survival of the fittest.
The judge lost that argument, and rightly so. As Fernández-Armesto says, the Sami, inseparable from their reindeer, have created an elaborate and delicate system of "controlled nomadism" by adapting nature to human needs.
Over 11 centuries or more, they have learned to move the reindeer in herds of thousands. They organize the animals, escorting them to grazing grounds, so that the animals can maintain the Sami by providing food, clothing, and implements made from reindeer bone, a more careful version of the relationship between the buffalo and the plains hunters in 19th-century North America. Does this deserve the term "civilization"? Fernández-Armesto's answer is an emphatic yes.
How does this affect my teaching The Story of the World to Max? Let's get back to FA's book. Remember that the classical method teaches ancient history as an outgrowth of the original River Valley civilizations. As a teaching model, it is facile and lovely. However, as an actual approach to the understanding of ancient civilization, it is limited and overly indebted to Oswald Spengler. Not unenthusiastically, FA plays with a few sacred cows:
Dethronement of Sumer, Egypt, China, and the Indus from their usual leading role enables them to be seen in the contexts in which they are best understood. They form one possible class of environments in which civilization happens, not necessarily the best or most propitious. By this stage in the book, it should be apparent to the reader kind enough to have persevered this far that the civilizing impulse is amazingly widespread. Almost every environment habitable by man has been affected by people's lust to change it to suit themselves.
FA believes we deceive ourselves in two important ways which allow us to miss the bigger pictures in history. The first is the "diffusionist fallacy":
The habit of putting these ancient river-valley civilizations together at the top of the story nourishes what I call the diffusionist illusion. People have traditionally talked about civilization "spreading" from place to place and not happening by other means. This is the result, I think, of two forms of self-deception. First of these is self-congratulation. If we suppose-- as people throughout history have regularly supposed-- that the way we live represents the climax of human achievement, we need to represent it as unique or, at least, rare: when you find a lot of examples of something that you expect to be unique, you have to explain the effect as a result of diffusion. Yet, in reality, civilization is an ordinary thing, an impulse so widespread that is has again transformed almost every habitable environment. Peoples modest enough in the face of nature to forgo or severely limit their interventions are much rarer than those who, like us, crush nature into an image of our own approving. The attitude of these reticent cultures should therefore be considered much harder to explain than that of the civilized.
The second is the "migrationist fallacy":
The second self-deception is belief in what might be called the migrationist fallacy, which powerfully warped previous generations' picture of the remote past. Our received wisdom about prehistoric times was formulated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Europe was enjoying her own great imperial age. The experience of those times convinced self-appointed imperial master-races that civilization was something which descended from superior to inferior peoples. Its vectors were conquerors, colonists, and missionaries. Left to themselves, the barbarians would be mired in cultural immobility. The self-perception of the times was projected, almost without utterance, onto the depiction of the past.... Almost every development, every major change in the prehistoric world was turned by migrationist scholarship into a kind of pre-enactment of later European colonialism and attributed to the influence of migrants or scholars or the irradiation of cultural superiority, warming barbaric darkness into civilized enlightenment.
The result was to justify the project of the times: a world of peoples ranked in hierarchical order, sliced and stacked according to abilities supposed to be innate.
FA acknowledges that "scholarly fashion has changed with the cultural context", so "processual change" often accounts for changes formerly credited to diffusions and migrations. We now know that people did not have to learn agriculture from their neighbors (though they may have done so in some cases) because the "same processes which produced it in one part of the world could do so in another". And now FA creates a little quandary for Susan Wise Bauer and her classical coterie:
Civilizations have to be open to a range of influences or they wither or become inert.... But these are very general patterns of exchange in which civilizations enrich each other. It is mistaken to suppose that civilizations could not develop independently in different environments, without help from the peoples of the ancient river valleys.
He takes the example of writing, which began all over the world for different reasons, including bureaucratic ones (records of taxation), religious ones, and social ones.
Writing originated independently in quite different ways in widely separated parts of the world. Indeed, the scale and speed of the growth of our knowledge of early writing systems have plunged the chronology and definition of writing into turmoil. How much information does a system have to be able to convey before it can be called writing? Will notched sticks or knotted strings do? Is Mesoamerican picture-writing pictures or writing? The answers to elusive questions of this sort can force radical revisions of traditional diffusionist schemes.
Historical change and adaptation does not move in one direction. Western civilization is not the only advanced, sophisticated manner of life. There is more than one way to eat a peach and love it. Although it might be comforting and quaint to believe that history is a march towards progress, the actual study of history reveals it as a gallivant towards different understandings of progress. More people have been killed in wars and government-sponsored mass murders in the past hundred years than any notion of "progress", no matter how paltry, could support. Rather than raise Max to fall prostrate before the sublime ghosts of Hegel's historical absolutes, I prefer he learn history in a more open-ended, anything-is-possible fashion.
The models with which we raise our children constitute the tiny categories into which they classify the rest of the world. Best to have many, many wonderful categories-- enough to make your head spin-- than to offer the wrong categories, the categories which make nationalism, ethnocentrism, and other chronic diseases of the 21st century an unfortunate mental habit and habitat.
Chasing butterflies:
- It appears FA was arrested for jaywalking in the law-full city of Atlanta. How wonderful that police are cracking down on professors wandering around the city while attending meetings of the American Historical Association. Doesn't it make you feel safe to know that jaywalking is a crime worthy of handcuffs? Blah.
- This interview with FA illuminates his profound relationship to his Catholic faith, his attempts to sort through the "Euro-centrism" plaguing history departments, and much more. A great read.
- A fancy PDF bio for FA.
- "Civilizations: How we see others, how others see us", a lecture given by FA for UNESCO meeting


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Getting better all the time...
My next request is to put an "O" (for Ohio State) on the top of the mitt.
The pattern I have learned: from "Weekend Knitting" uses the garter stitch (lengthwise). I figure I will have to add rows so the "O" won't get distorted... other then that I have no clue :?? :?? :?? how to put the red "O" on grey gloves???? :??
I so want to learn new stitches and projects, but am enjoying giving something handmade to folks I love... :heart:
duplicate stitch or needle felting would work.
You could use intarsia if you made a pair of stockinette stitch mittens.
Thanks Hilde and Ingrid! Your resonse is so fast! :notworthy: I will read about these techniques and see if I can use them...
If one of them works, I hope to take a pic and post them...
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How much does impartiality matter?
How much does impartiality matter?
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Scientists and philosophers, even pragmatists, seem to be quite adamant that we have an obligation to go where the evidence "takes us." Why, if at all, do we have such an obligation? Shouldn't we judge things based on their benefits to us, now, rather than their potential future "usefulness."
For instance, we have seen that the scientific models of impartiality have been beneficial to humanity. Therefore, we should continue to embrace them as pragmatic methodologies. That being said, why do we have to accept the "scientific model" in all cases. I can accept, for example, the idea that "murder is wrong" in a loose sense. I can assume it is wrong except, say, when the ends justify the means. Aside from philosophers, most people utilize language in such a loose manner. If you confront them with a case of "just murder," they will save, of course, that murder being wrong does not apply in all cases.
Contrastingly, we have the scientific paradigm. Unlike murder, though, the usefulness of this "rule" is considered as an absolute, in many circumstances. Why commit to such an absolute? As we have seen from evidence, failing to accept the scientific model, as a whole, seems to be unjustified. It's been proven useful. However, do we have to accept it in how it guides our actions?
Dawkins writes of a many, for instance, who advocated a particular theory. When proven wrong, he was thankful to his opponent and shook their hand. He had been shown "the truth." He was, in fact, wasting his time. I would not advocate ignoring the evidence. It should be followed, studied, and valued for its own sake.
However, it seems to me that the scientists, if their methodology lead them to such a "rational" conclusion, would begin to accept anything. For instance, if we accept the premise that conceivability equals possibility (a strong one, I know), consider the thought experiment below:
Upon a new discovery, scientific evidence concludes that humans have no inherent value. In addition, evidence suggests that morality and ethics do not exist. From this, that is no rational reason to consider the murder of a small child is not just morally neutral. To test a new scientific idea, it is necessary to perform a test that will likely kill a child. Many children will be used. Again, the scientific models support the justifiability of this action.
Will the scientist, then, who receives this new information go the the theorist and shake his hand? Will they appreciate having been shown "the truth"? Why do many scientists presume that, since scientific models have proven useful, they will necessarily always provide the right "beliefs?"
We pursue scientific enterprise, or should, only when it agrees with our ethics. Similarly, if scientific "fact" disagrees with our sentiments, we should not "believe it." We should utilize it as a fiction to perpetuate the scientific model. Why commit to the scientific paradigm as a belief "now" when it does not correspond to what are our interests at the current time?
For instance, if the belief the sun revolved around the Earth was important and held dear, we should believe it. However, we should utilize scientific method as a "fiction" to discover potentially "preferable truths" that will overturn our earlier, false belief.
The fact that scientific evidence implies a conclusion is not sufficient to "believe" the conclusion, only to act on its behalf. A person only has an obligation to "believe" when said evidence corresponds to what is in their interests. These interests may be explanatory within the context of science, but they are known only through experimentation by the individual and knowledge accessible, ultimately, by them alone.
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Chart of the Day: A Volatile 15-Year Ride for Stocks
With today marking the five-year anniversary of the stock market's record high, much of the attention will be devoted to the market's steep drop and sharp rebound.
But the folks at LPL Financial have outlined the market's moves on an even longer-term time horizon. As the chart below shows, the S&P 500 has been swinging in a wide range for the last 15 years. The pattern has been quite extreme: "Doubling and then falling by half over and over again," says Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial.
With the S&P 500 about 7% away from its all-time high of 1565.15, Kleintop is skeptical the market is poised for another multi-year decline. He cites stronger earnings, higher dividends, reasonable valuations and an improving U.S. economy as the four main catalysts for why the rally won't fall off a cliff.
To be sure, don't expect gangbuster returns in the coming years.
"We believe that stocks may produce below average returns in the years ahead and in the near-term face daunting challenges in the coming months, including: a sluggish global economy, European financial stress, U.S. budget battles and the looming fiscal cliff," Kleintop says. "However, with support from better fundamental drivers of value than at similar points in the past 15 years, stocks are likely to weather nearly any outcome of the near-term challenges better than they have in the past, making a return trip to the lows of the 15-year range unlikely."
Stocks are slightly lower minutes after the opening bell. The Dow is down 9 points, led lower by Intel Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft, while Alcoa and Bank of America are keeping losses in check.
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Boulder, Colo. (AP) An 11-year-old boy is recovering from injuries suffered after authorities say he rode his bicycle through a stop sign and was run over by a Winnebago in Boulder.
Police say the boy, whose name hasn't been released, was struck about 2:30 p.m. Sunday after riding into the path of a Winnebago traveling about 40 mph.
The boy and his bike ended up wedged between the front of the vehicle and the roadway. Boulder police Sgt. Pat Wyton says the boy was dragged about 90 feet down the street before the Winnebago could stop.
Authorities say the boy was wearing a helmet, but it came off in the collision.
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June 3, 2010 at 1:16 am
Don't forget, Tony Benn's known Ed Miliband since he was one of the youngters who worked in his office. I'm not suggesting for a moment that Tony Benn would back him simply because of that, but he's known him on a much more personal level, and from a much younger age, than he has done any other candidate, or indeed perhaps any past leader since Kinnock.
June 3, 2010 at 8:32 am
Broadly agreed, Dave. Ed Miliband is a Brownite – they might almost just as well have just kept Brown! He will not in any meaningful way position Labour where it needs to be – on the left/green side of politics.
Your choice of words: 'He's been the front man for the Labour's green strategies' – is apposite. See my piece here: http://liberalconspiracy.org/author/rupertr/ . Ed cannot be trusted any more than David to be green.
For all these reasons, it feels a grand time to be a Green, with Caroline Lucas newly in Parliament…
June 3, 2010 at 9:23 am
I know it's supposed to be heresy on the left to lay into Tony Benn, but frankly he's got a cheek when it's his vanity leadership bid that made it so difficult for John McDonnell to get on the ballot in the first place.
June 3, 2010 at 9:38 am
I think this has been spun out of context. When push comes to shove, I will probably be forced to "back Ed Miliband" in the sense I will not waste my vote – and he's going to be the least worst option of a very unprepossessing bunch.
But that does not mean I'm not supporting the policies John McDonnell stands for – nor that I think we should not carry on fighting to get him on the ballot .
TB was a signatory to the recent letter to the Guardian calling for John to be nominated. From the Fabians to the FBU,. we're raised the profile of the left and almost everyone ( apart from the supine PLP ) is backing our call for a proper leadership debate with all six on the ballot.
Whather we get one remains to be seen but one thing is clear – the left cannot and will not be ignored as it has been in the Blair/Brown years.
So no I don't think Tony Benn has suddenly become a fan of New Labour. But yes, as someone said, he's known Ed Miliband since he was a teenager……. and he is a bit of an old softie
June 3, 2010 at 10:43 am
"in the sense I will not waste my vote"
Lessons are being learned. This of course does not mean that you can't work to get McDonnell nominated.
June 3, 2010 at 10:41 am
Very insightful post Dave. As you would expect, my main criterion for a leader would be the ability to bridge parliamentarism and the sort of stuff you're more exclusively interested in. Personally I'm most interested in the concept of at least partially reconciling the two.
No candidate represents my own views now, and it is likely that post-nominations, only candidates to the right of me will be left.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't support the leftmost, but from the point of view of the whole Labour left, it is very important to get one of the left candidates on the ballot if even just to widen the public debate, and the public perception of Labour as a party.
I doubt that this will happen. It was clear last time that the rules need to change. That remains equally clear now.
At the end of the day, they cut off Labour's ability to change in response to changes on the ground.
That's before we even start with the justice of enfranchising parliamentarians so strongly over local activists and trade unions.
With regard to the leadership, I think the key thing organisations on the Labour left should now be doing is working out how to get candidates to publicly pull towards their policies and beliefs in return for votes. The real struggle however is an organisational one, and has little to do with the immediate imminent leadership, save for the fact that we obviously need someone who will adopt greater pluralism and inclusiveness towards the party's various philosophical strands.
As such, democratic and cultural reform is the real issue for the left within Labour, and effective local organisation the key issue outside it.
June 3, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Just an update to say UNITE this morning passed an emergency resolution calling for all six to be on the ballot. This followed a fringe meting last night addressed by John McDonnell.
I think that news is, to be frank, of rather more import than what Tony Benn has said – or not.Two years ago the bureaucracy of UNITE moved to smash a resolution from my CLP which would have lowered the threshold to 8 per cent . This time, the bureaucracy have been told in no uncertain terms what their members think.
The maths may not add up. But the mood is there in a way it was not three years ago when Brown was crowned. These are not scraps – they are important indicators that the mood within and without the Party has changed and people think the left does have a voice which must be taken seriously. And even the "best of the worst" would signal a break with Blairism – there is everything to play for still. And people also recognise these ridiculous rules must be changed……or cast aside
June 3, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Tony should be quoted from the R5 interview. Helpfully someone has posted at: http://thevaleman.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/tony-benn-on-radio-five-live-interview-book-letters-to-my-grandchildren/
Nolan: Election is on for the Labour leadership, new leader could take the party in a very different direction. Who will you be backing?
Tony Benn: I have always supported John McDonnell but I don't know if he has enough nominations, it's important that people should vote for those whose general approach they support . The broader the range of the discussion, the healthier the party will be. Have a lot of respect for John McDonnell, he set up the Labour representation committee to see that trade unions are represented in parliament. It was this committee a hundred years ago which led to the setting up of the Labour party"
June 3, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Dave, the whole New Statesman story is complete fabrication. Tony actually endorses John McDonnell, although he is later led into making some comments on the Milibands in which he says very little. Listen for yourself at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00slqt9/Victoria_Derby… . The relevant section starts at 0:13:20.
As it happens, I think all of us need to be giving our transfer preference to Ed Milliband after John McDonnell & Diane Abbott have been eliminated assuming one or both of them get onto the ballot paper, and our first preference if they don't. I don't think we have to have any great hopes for him to do that, merely to recognise that it's important to stop his brother winning, and he's better than Ed Balls. Whoever is the Leader, it's the power to influence them that matters. That's why the top priority for the Left should be to re-democractise the Labour Party. If CLPs and trade unions choose to take back their power, they can do so.
June 4, 2010 at 9:59 am
Disappointed with Michael's contribution to this, Jon. Second preferences to the younger Miliband are, I agree, logical (if there is one left-wing candidate on the ballot paper) – but nominating him when he's already on the ballot paper and, by doing so, making it less likely for either John McDonnell or Diane Abbott to be nominated is just profoundly disappointing.
June 3, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Like others have said, Tony hasn't actually endorsed Ed Miliband; he said he supported John McDonnell. The only thing he said in that interview about Ed Miliband was the he 'knew him better' than David Miliband.
June 3, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Susan Press is absolutely correct, this is being spun out of control. George Eaton has got this wrong, I heard the Benn piece on the radio, and he did not 'endorse' Ed Miliband. He was specifically asked which of the two Milibands he would support if they were the only two in the contest, and he reluctantly said Ed. But then he added that the whole thing should be about the policies, not about which personality was more attractive than any other.
June 3, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Bob you are right.
Furthermore as a left we have to have a position if John doesnt get on the paper.
I agree that Ed Miliband would represent the best of a bad job.
The question is what are we going to do if John doesnt get elected?
Give up completely?
I welcome Susans coments.
June 4, 2010 at 1:45 pm
You may wish to pooh pooh the ideas of Southern Comfort or 1997 style coalitions – but I'm afraid the reality, especially now the LibDems have rebranded themselves as New Tories, is that Labour has to establish a wider coalition than it currently has, if it is to be of any use whatsover. Yes the Milibands and co may have little in terms of analysis as to why the last coalition fell apart – but they do realise it is necessary to put it back together. On the other hand I see little if anything in what McDonnell says that tries to widen Labour's support beyond its traditional core – and quite frankly unless he can at least present somthing cogent in this regard to the extent of convincing an eighth of our MPs that his views are worth listening too further, I can see little reason why he should be on the ballot. The last thing we need is a leadership contest where we waste our time discussing ideological nirvannas that are not even aimed at convincing a sufficient proportion of the elctorate to have a chance of implementation.
I have read the LRC's economic proposals – and if put as a package to the electorate, I would be amazed if Labour would get more than a 20% share of the national vote. Yes some individual policies may be popular – but just look at the whole package.
June 4, 2010 at 5:49 pm
With respect Dave I'm not sure you answered the underlying thrust of tory boy's comment. The point surely was that:
i) McDonnell's policies are unelectable – the vast majority of people do not agree with them. Electing him as leader would render the Labour Party unelectable thus allowing the Tories free reign for the foreseeable.
In response to your allegations of opportunism one could respond that whilst that is a vice the corresponding virtue is not to stick to ideological positions that have no hope of being realised. There is presumably a virtuous middle way where one adopts policies that bring about ends closest to those which one believes in whilst still remaining politically practicable.
June 5, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Persausion -precisely. But that rests on whether or not you think you can make them popular (a) in five years, (b) in the long run (whatever that means). If not then are you still happy to stick to those principles and not adapt to the least worst?
If you think you can then the question is obviously: why?
June 5, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Re persuasion, I was simply agreeing that it is the plausible answer to the question.
As for your confidence, I suppose no one knows the future. It will be most interesting to see what happens. Who knows, maybe the body politic will swing back left.
Out of curiosity, after how many years of the electorate staying right and not returning to those 'intrinsic' principles would you come to the conclusion that your analysis of those principles was wrong. I would well accept there have not been enough yet but how many would be enough? (I'm not asking for a specific figure but how you would go about assessing it.)
June 6, 2010 at 3:30 pm
That's fair enough.
Just to unpack a bit further, what do you make of the current situation? What are your expectations for the coming years as the cuts start to bite? Also, how do you see the core principles and practices?
To make an argument: for myself I find it hard to see that any group has specific policies inherent in it. Specific goals yes, but the link between the end and the means is contingent. Thus for example I see "free markets" (to speak very generally) and privitised industry to be better at maximising wealth for all people over the medium to long run. I therefore see it as generally in the interest of working class people to support these policies, though I am happy to admit that there are often times for tempering them when circumstances demand.
I know you disagree with me and I don't wish to debate who is wrong or right on that matter. My point is that my position *may* be true and that therefore there is no reason why working class people shouldn't adopt it. The evidence may well lead them to that conclusion.
June 20, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Tony Benn and other left wingers have been awfully quiet since Labour moved to the right from 1997.
This country is now finished, no matter what party is running it.
June 21, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Since this thread has been resurrected, thought I'd say I saw Tony Benn speak a week ago and he was asked about the Labour leadership – he was very clear that he wanted John McDonnell to win but as he wasn't on the ballot he'd like Ed Miliband to win. He didn't say anything about Diane Abbott.
November 3, 2010 at 8:16 am
I'm pretty sure Tony Benn bounced baby Ed on his knee!
They say Ed has "a lot more of his father in him than he lets on" I hope they are correct!
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