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Planting pre-germinated seeds in a fluid gel provides the answer for those anxious to get an early gardening start. This technique is particularly useful in Colorado's high mountain communities, but also will help gardeners along the Front Range. Research from Michigan State University tells us that fluid seeding is used by commercial vegetable growers, as well as by home gardeners in Alaska and other areas with short growing seasons.
Pre-germinating seed indoors is helpful in early spring because sprouted seed will grow in soils too cool for germination. It's easy to sprout seeds on moistened paper towels sealed in a plastic bag for a few days. The difficult part is to sow fragile young seedlings without injury to them. The solution is sowing in a fluid gel.
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SALINA — The Concordia High School freshman volleyball team picked up three wins and placed fourth in the Salina South Invitational here on Saturday.
The Panthers opened with a 20-25, 25-16, 15-10 win over Salina South.
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November 1, 2016
Kevin Fisher has joined the Volvo Group as its national account lease manager for the Northeast Region, the company has announced.
September 13, 2016
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz was present for the unveiling of Volvo's SuperTruck concept/demo rig in Washington, D.C. Here's what he had to say about reaching the DOE's next step in the fuel economy/freight efficiency project: SuperTruck II.
July 19, 2016
The Swedish parent to truck brands Volvo, Mack and others reported its second quarter profit slid from a year ago due to lower sales in many parts of the world and has downwardly revised its expectations in North America.
July 5, 2016
Volvo's new Crawler Gears option for the I-Shift automated manual transmission puts one or two extra-low ratios at the driver's finger tips – or thumb tip, actually. This is especially useful for vocational trucks like dumpers and mixers. Volvo's Wade Long explains how to choose the lower gears using the shift selector.
May 16, 2016
Volvo Trucks has put a new spin on an old powertrain management strategy. By locking out top gear on its I-Shift overdrive transmission, drivers can pull loads efficiently in 11th gear (direct drive) and still get the performance they want.
In the latest "Focus On" video, Equipment Editor Jim Park talks to Gene Brice, co-owner of Idaho Milk Transport, about how Volvo's Adaptive Gearing is ideally suited to tank fleets that run half their miles empty.
April 22, 2016
Earnings for two of the world's largest truck makers moved lower in the first quarter, according to earnings reports issued Friday.
March 29, 2016
Volvo Trucks is conducting its annual Asia Pacific Fuelwatch Challenge with a series of national competitions across the region. These competitions will see participants showcasing their capabilities in fuel-efficient driving as well as general vehicle handling.
August 18, 2015
The vehicle was only five months old and had been run only 3,000 miles before it caught fire during an ordinary customer run, the suit claims. The manufacturers say nothing was wrong with the equipment.
August 10, 2015
Volvo and Mack are offering pre-paid preventative maintenance plans as an option for fleets looking to reduce operating costs.
August 6, 2015
Knight Transportation has selected Volvo Trucks to supply 38 specially decorated Volvo VNL 670 models to recognize the company's 25th anniversary.
July 15, 2015
While much has been made about autonomous trucks lately, at least one group is looking ahead to unmanned vehicles altogether.
June 22, 2015
Volvo Heavy Duty model has its own styling and extra-strong specs, but retains most of the comfort of better-known VN road tractors.
October 1, 2014
Citing a slowdown in the pace of the North American alternative fuel market, Volvo has modified its plans for LNG and DME projects.
August 29, 2014
OEMs are increasingly getting involved in the web of smart devices, sensors and data.
August 13, 2014
Vanguard Truck Centers has opened two new Mack dealerships in Texas. The dealerships are located in Victoria and El Campo.
August 12, 2014
Volvo is bringing its trucking web series "Welcome to My Cab" to North America with a new episode.
July 21, 2014
Volvo Group, the parent of Volvo Trucks North America, has been ordered to pay penalties and interest of approximately $74.1 million to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding emission compliance of the company's marine diesel engines.
July 15, 2014
A suite of fleet management applications can now be factory installed on new trucks from Volvo Trucks under a partnership between the truck maker and Telogis.
June 3, 2014
Introduced last year, Volvo's VNX heavy haul tractor combines the frame and high stance of the vocational VHD with the highway comfort of the VNL. The cab is outfitted like a VN, so drivers are well housed for runs longer than what the VHD might be dispatched on.
The VNX is rated at up to 200,000 pounds GCW, but the one recently driven by Senior Editor Tom Berg was capped at 125,000 because of its transmission, the I-Shift automated mechanical, with which application engineers are being careful in approving.
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You may know him from HBO's hit "Entourage" or the hit film "Think Like a Man" based on Steve Harvey's acclaimed book, but now he's on The Wendy Williams Show. Tonight at 12A/11C.
Until you're able to tune-in, here are 4 things you'll learn about Jerry on Wendy:
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Paul, you freaking genius! I told you that you, my good Christian, are the one who supports murder. You asked me if I would not want to lose my arms for freedom, in response to a picture I posted, of a maimed Iraqi child. You, sir, are forever a piece of trash, for asking such a question, and only radical change in thinking and ability to feel empathy for others will redeem you.
The weathermen, the "association," to use Hannity's term that you lifted, never killed anyone, they set bombs, but they hurt no one. Even if they had, the 1.25 million Iraqis that died, along with the countless maimed, would far surpass anything that the weathermen did. So, your accusations toward tuneraddict seem totally unfounded and hypocritical, since you have clearly supported the killing Iraqis, with your twisted belief that they're being given freedom and are being saved from a massacre that occurred 15 years ago. You're a complete lunatic, for believing anything like that, and it's shocking that, in the face of evidence from tuner and abcd and me, you continue to repeat the same garbage. At first, I thought you were merely misinformed, but you're just a retard, like your heros.
As others have said, you're a joke, everything you say comes from the Republican bible, and you repeat almost everything I've heard on fox news, word for word. Well, just like Hannity is now losing it, because his associations tactic is being ignored, as I saw he was on Fox News last night, you must be losing it, because no one cares about someone that Obama interacted with a handful of times, whose past he clearly had no idea about. Even if he did, nobody, in a free country, should be labeled anything, whatsoever, as the result of what books they read or what people they talk to. This, my simple minded friend, is not a police state, at least not yet.
As I said in previous posts, Mac left his cheated on his wife, in 1980, with Cindy McCain, right after his ex-wife had been disfigured in an auto accent. He also was involved with the Keating five scandal, where his actions in supporting a private big time banker's interests were completely unethical. Mac also voted against MLK day being recognized nationally, and his daughter has spoken about his gambling and dating a stripper, as if it was the cutest thing in the world.
Clearly, the man is unprincipled and lacking in values. Obama, at 47, a few years older than McCain when he first entered public service and began forking Cindy on the side, is still with his wife, is not known to have been unfaithful to her and does not have a history of dating strippers, gambling or being a racist. I say that Obama is the better Christian.
As for Reverend Wright, I agree with this man of God completely. We bomb countries, subvert their governments, kill their citizens, provide WMDs for Saddam to employ against them, and so our chickens came home to roost. We paid for our government's sins. People are tired of McCain, with his camp full of former Bush advisers, and Obama will win.
Change is coming, something new is on the horizon, get used to it, Paul, get out from under mama's skirts, and your little sheltered life, and get used to it. You're going to have a person with a high IQ, of African American descent, named Barack Hussein Obama, in the White House. Everybody else, I suggest you just ignore this mental midget and let him deal with the reality of what's coming.


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London 2012: Swimming Draws the Royals In
As it usually is, the Olympic swimming competition has been the place for royal spotting.
Yesterday saw members of the Danish, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Norwegian and Greek royal families in the stands for the morning heats. Sitting together in the VIP section, it was a kin to a family reunion of sorts.
Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik, Crown Princess Mary and Princess Benedikte of Denmark were on hand to cheer Jeanette Ottesen Gray into the final of the women's 100m butterfly (she would finish sixth in the final that night). Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were sitting behind the Danes, while King Constantine, Queen Anne-Marie and Prince Philippos of Greece were further down the row.
They were joined by a heavy turn-out from Luxembourg's Grand Ducal Family, everyone was there except for Prince Sebastien. Grand Duke Henri shook hands and spoke with the US Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, during the event.
During the heats, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh also stopped by the Aquatic Centre for a quick tour of the facilities, and a brief look at the men's 4x100m freestyle relay heats. The Queen was given a rapturous cheer when she was spotted on the walkway above the pool.
The Dutch royals – Prince Willem-Alexander, Princess Máxima and their three daughters Amalia, Alexia and Ariane – were present that night for the finals, where the Dutch team took home silver in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay. Princess Máxima and the girls took home the winner's bouquets, which the Dutch swimmers threw up to them.
Today, the Danish Crown Prince Couple were back for more heats – Mary wearing patriotic red-and-white striped wedges. Prince Albert and Princess Charlène of Monaco attended by the morning heats and the evening finals, where the Prince presented the medals for the women's 400m freestyle. Prince Henrik of Denmark also attended the finals, where Lotte Friis came in fourth in the 400m freestyle.Filed under British Royals, Danish Royals, Dutch Royals, German Royals, Greek Royals, Luxembourg Royals, Monaco Royals, Norwegian Royals
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Someone needs to tell the political candidates that personal empowerment is not about power over others. Rather, it is understanding that you are in charge of your own life.
People who are personally empowered know that happiness is an inside job. They don't wait for someone else to make them happy and they can take care of their own needs for affection.
You Are Responsible For Your Own Actions
In other words, there is no finger pointing and blaming others for your lack of performance. You are willing to take responsibility for your actions. OK, so now it's very obvious that most political candidates have no personal empowerment—they are just power hungry.
I make this distinction between power and personal empowerment because they are two very different things and people often assume that to be empowered is to be powerful.
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With the biggest stages of free agency and most pro days now behind us, NFL teams will now look ahead toward the draft while continuing to evaluate film and create their draft boards.
The Philadelphia Eagles weren't overly active in free agency but had a few quality pickups, with Darren Sproles being the headliner. He makes the offense even more lethal, and re-signing Riley Cooper and Jeremy Maclin was big as well.
So Philadelphia's focus in the 2014 NFL draft needs to be defense, and that is reflected here. This mock is not really projecting exactly what the Eagles will do but offers my opinion on what they should do.
Here is my first complete Eagles-only mock draft of this draft season.
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Bel.... Your so hot babe. Love this outfit xxx
Oh thanks Jes! You are always really far too generous to me with your words!
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you look gorgeous! lovely look!
wow that is an amazing leather jacket. love the draping, how it's like biker tough but kinda soft. if that makes sence haaah :) and loving the pants and socks & doc's - can't rock the army look much better than this gorgeous girl!
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im loving the pants!
ohh so jealous of all your stylestalker pieces!! you are a walking advertisement for them, and a great one at that! :)
ps. saw an ad with julia roitfeld and decided you look a lot like her when you do that pursed lips pose! :)
its the new perfume add, cant remember which one..
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didn't see one like this for a very long time .
And once again, you look ..perfect!
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bel, you're just so effortlessly stylish.
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Simple - I like it. (Don't judge me or take offense but it reminds me a little of Destiny's Child music video... "I'm a survivor"
Adore the pants!
You are rocking this look! LOVE the boots!
actually in love with your pants, love them cropped! enjoy your thai food, i am jealous! x
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Love it!! It seems to be a hectic time of year.. Didn't even get to AA over the weekend! Oops.
Agree - loving the army trend!
You look amazing girl (as always). The thrift pants are making me yearn for op-shopping BAD!!! :)
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yes i totally agree, i need some pants like this! i might just grab some grandpa pants next time i go and make them into tailored army pants
love to hear from you again =)
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looooove this outfit! the jacket is simply divine, im drooling! and if you shave your head missy, im going to hunt you down and give you a good slapping! you have such beautiful hair!!!
yeah, i am single now. boyfriend of 2 years broke up with me. it sucks like all hell and to be honest, i dont think im coping very well. ive been using my blog as a means of distraction, which helps. but thanks for asking bubby xxx
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your blog is a constant source of inspiration to me. so thank you, darling.
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Mr. Charles E. "Pete" AdolphMr. Charles E. "Pete" Adolph was born in Akron, Ohio on December 3, 1935. He graduated from Saint Mary High School in Akron, received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Saint Louis University in 1956 and was commissioned in the Air Force. His later education included a Master of Science (M.S.) in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1964, and another M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1970. During 1973-1974, he was a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Dr. Sheu is a first-year internal medicine resident and former student-run clinic volunteer and coordinator, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.
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Purpose: Student-run clinics (SRCs) provide preclerkship medical students with systems-based practice (SBP) experiences as they engage in patient care and manage clinic operations. This study explored the types and context of SBP activities students participate in at SRCs.
Method: Between November 2011 and February 2012, the authors conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with a purposive sample of medical students who served as volunteers and coordinators (student leadership role) at four independently run SRCs within the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. They also interviewed SRC faculty advisors. Interviews focused on student roles in SRCs, SBP learning opportunities in SRCs, and comparisons of SBP experiences in SRCs with those in the formal preclerkship curriculum. The authors used thematic analysis techniques to code and synthesize data.
Results: Data from interviews with 8 volunteers, 14 coordinators, and 4 faculty suggested six major domains related to SBP learning opportunities in SRCs: interprofessional roles and collaboration; clinic organization; patient factors affecting access to care; awareness of the larger health care system and continuity of care; resource acquisition and allocation; and systems improvement. Coordinators, who managed SRCs, demonstrated greater depth of SBP understanding than volunteers, who provided patient care. Students and faculty agreed that SRCs provided students with SBP learning opportunities beyond those available in the formal curriculum.
Conclusions: Preclerkship students' participation in SRCs provides opportunities for in-depth learning of SBP, particularly among students who take on leadership roles. SRCs may model ways to effectively introduce key components of SBP to early medical learners.
To prepare medical students to interact with a complex and resource-limited health care system, national organizations suggest including instruction on systems-based practice (SBP) in undergraduate medical education.1–6 Defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as the ability to "demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources in the system to provideoptimal health care," SBP encompasses interprofessional teamwork to enhance safety and quality of care, coordination of care, resource acquisition and allocation, and identification of system errors and systems-based solutions.7
Although medical school clerkship curricula include SBP content (e.g., quality improvement projects and online patient cases),8–10 37% of graduating medical students responding to the 2011 Association of American Medical Colleges Medical School Graduation Questionnaire reported that the health systems instruction they received was inadequate.11 Although there is no consensus on the optimal method or timing of SBP instruction,12 advocates recommend introducing it early in the curriculum to provide students with a foundation for subsequent experiences.6
Preclerkship SBP course work is primarily didactic and classroom based.13–15 However, situated learning theory, a theory rooted in participation, suggests that students also need to learn through active and legitimate involvement in their professional community.16 Consistent with this theory, student-run clinics (SRCs), which are widespread and continue to grow in number,17,18 may be ideal settings in which to promote early understanding of SBP as medical students assume central roles in patient care and systems organization.
In a recent review, Meah and colleagues19 described how SRCs might offer SBP learning opportunities for medical students. They recommended that future research examine ways in which students participate in SBP activities and whether students can achieve competency in SBP through participation in SRCs. In this study, we explored these topics by interviewing medical students and faculty about students' involvement with SRCs. We also compared students' perceptions of what they learned about SBP in the SRCs and their formal preclerkship curricular experiences.
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Medicine has four independently run SRCs that provide care for underserved populations (for an overview of the clinics, see Table 1). Each year, approximately 70% (n = 105) of the school's first-year medical students serve as volunteers who participate directly in patient care (with some students volunteering at more than one SRC), and 25% (n = 40) of first-year students become coordinators, assuming a leadership role with responsibilities for organizing and running the clinics. Coordinators continue in their positions during their second year of medical school, and many students continue to volunteer in their second year. At three of the four SRCs, interprofessional students from pharmacy, nursing, and/or dental schools also provide patient care and act as coordinators.
As our study was exploratory in nature, we conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with medical studentswho were or had been involved with the SRCs and with SRC faculty advisors. Using the interview guide we developed, one of us (L.S.) conducted pilot interviews with four former SRC coordinators.On the basis of these interviews, wemodified the guide to improve the flow of the questions, but we did not change the content. We asked all student intervieweesto provide basic demographic information, describe the different roles of students participating in the SRCs, discuss the opportunities they had to learn about SBP through their SRC participation and formal curricular experiences, and reflect on their overall SRC experience. We used the same guide for the faculty interviews, but we asked faculty advisors to describe students' SBP learning opportunities. (Our interview guide is available as Supplemental Digital Appendix 1 at http://links.lww.com/ACADMED/A129.)
Between November 2011 and February 2012, we recruited and interviewed former SRC volunteers or coordinators (medical students in their third or later year), current SRC volunteers or coordinators (second-year medical students), and SRC faculty advisors who had been in their roles for several years at the time of our study. Including these three groups gave us a range of perspectives and allowed for triangulation of themes to increase validity of our results.20
After the pilot interviews, we recruited additional participants using a combination of purposive and snowball sampling techniques.21 One of us (L.S.) contacted 21 current and former coordinators using information available online and interviewed the first 2 to 3 responders from each SRC for a total of 14 (2 current and 1–2 former coordinators per SRC, including the 4 pilot interviewees). We targeted this number of coordinators, anticipating saturation of ideas, and found this to be the case. L.S. asked the participating coordinators to recommend volunteers to interview and invited 14 past and current volunteers to participate. She interviewed the first current and past volunteer who responded per SRC. She stopped conducting volunteer interviews following these 8, after hearing similar ideas with no new responses.
After completing the student interviews, L.S. interviewed one of the primary faculty advisors for each SRC. These faculty were familiar with and responsible for overseeing the clinics' activities.
All potential interviewees were contacted by e-mail. The recruitment e-mails assured them that their responses would be confidential. Interviews were conducted in person or over the telephone, depending on interviewee preference and availability. All interviews were audio-recorded and deidentified by L.S. They were transcribed by L.S. and A.K. This study was approved by the UCSF Committee on Human Research.
We analyzed the interview transcripts using thematic analysis.22 Prior to analysis, we agreed to broadly define SBP as "how patient care relates to the health care system as a whole and how to use the system to improve the quality and safety of patient care."12 We also agreed to frame our coding to explore the four key elements of SBP outlined by Meah and colleagues19: "interdisciplinary and team-based care," "resource acquisition and allocation," "advocacy and navigation of the health care system to overcome barriers," and "quality care." Three of us (L.S., B.C.O., C.L.) read the same two coordinator transcripts independently to develop initial coding categories. At this stage, we modified Meah and colleagues' four domains and added two other domains. In addition, we created codes for capturing students' comparisons of SBP learning opportunities in SRCs to content in the formal curriculum, as well as comparisons of volunteer and coordinator experiences.
Once we finalized our coding categories, three of us (L.S., B.C.O., C.L.) independently coded one transcript and reviewed discrepancies to clarify the definition of each code. Two of us (L.S., C. L.) each coded the remainder independently and discussed any disagreements until we reached consensus. We then coded the faculty interviews and used those data to check for similarities and differences between faculty and student perspectives.
We used NVivo version 8 (QSR International, Melbourne, Australia) to organize data for thematic analysis. We reviewed all the content coded in each category to identify themes and representative examples.
We interviewed 26 people (63% of the 41 individuals invited; 8 volunteers, 14 coordinators, 4 faculty advisors, evenly distributed across the four SRCs). Ten (45%) of the 22 students were female, and the average age of students was 26 years (SD = 2). Twelve students (55%) were in the second year of medical school (8 coordinators, 4 volunteers), and 10 (45%) were in the third or later year (6 coordinators, 4 volunteers). The volunteers reported that they had volunteered at an SRC one to eight times in their two preclerkship years; the majority of UCSF students who participate in SRCs volunteer twice.23 Interviews ranged from 30 to 96 minutes.
Our analysis identified six major domains related to SBP learning opportunities in SRCs: interprofessional roles and collaboration; clinic organization; patient factors affecting access to care; awareness of the larger health care system and continuity of care; resource acquisition and allocation; and systems improvement. These domains appeared in both student and faculty interviews.
Most students valued working with peers from other health care professions as a way of learning about professional roles and fostering collegiality. They described SRC experiences as teaching interprofessionalism more effectively than formal classroom-based instruction on the topic. One volunteer explained:
The pharmacy student came into the patient room with me and interviewed the patient about medications, and that was great, because they have much more impact and specific questions to ask. I can remember still, they were checking if the patient understood what every medicine was for, trying to figure out if there was any problem with compliance and how to change that, asking specific questions about side effects…. I might've missed something or may not know what one of the medications was for but they would easily know. (Volunteer, SRC D)
SRC coordinators were familiar with all student roles within the SRC and with the educational goals of other health professions students. The roles and goals of students in other health professions were not as clear to SRC volunteers, particularly those working in SRCs where students were purposely clustered according to their professional schools (e.g., medical students and dental students working at separate stations). Coordinators reported that collaborating "behind the scenes" on SRCs' interprofessional student governing boards enhanced their understanding of other professions' goals and improved their comfort working with interprofessional peers.
Students understood the components of the SRC system, a critical aspect of understanding how this "microsystem" fits into the larger health care system. They were able to describe the roles of coordinators (overseeing clinic management, finances, publicity, volunteers, didactic electives) and volunteers (performing histories and physicals, presenting to preceptors, documenting patient encounters) as well as clinic flow, volunteer training, and preparation. One coordinator summarized the coordinator role as follows:
We make sure the clinic itself runs smoothly, … orient volunteers, make sure everything is set up properly, triage patients and oversee general issues about the clinic flow. But then I think a lot has also been trying to manage the organization as a whole, we do a lot of outreach and grants. (Coordinator, SRC B)
SRC volunteers and coordinators were attuned to the challenges of providing health care to underserved populations. They reported addressing limited English proficiency with systems solutions such as using on-site volunteer interpreters (college students from various campuses who were proficient in a second language and interested in pursuing health care professions). Additionally, they described systems factors leading to patient noncompliance and loss to follow-up, highlighting the importance of patient education, geographically convenient pharmacies and referrals, and cost minimization. Many students discussed how firsthand exposure to patients with barriers to access helped them better understand health care disparities.
I think what is most valuable is just the opportunity to learn from the patient, the patients are the best teachers … we get to see firsthand what it feels like not to have access to care, or what it's like to be somebody who just immigrated to the country and doesn't understand English or somebody who just doesn't have insurance and doesn't have anywhere to go…. I really learn a lot but earlier [thanthe third year], it kind of shapes how our careers unfold in the future. (Volunteer, SRC B)
Both coordinators and volunteers felt that they understood the organization of the larger health care system better after participating in an SRC. In particular, they expressed greater awareness of insurance options and community resources through having provided direct patient care in underserved settings.
I just went to [SRC A] a couple weeks ago, and one of the first-year medical students spent like half an hour on her phone trying to locate a resource for a patient that we didn't have, and was urgent. So it's like, you really get to see, she took it upon herself to really explore the system in that sense, and that was really cool…. In third-year clerkships, we don't get any of that. You just order whatever, and it happens. It's not like that in real life. (Coordinator, SRC A)
Both coordinators and volunteers identified challenges to ensuring successful continuity of care (i.e., follow-up and referrals). These included patient factors such as cost, transportation, lack of time, and misunderstanding, as well as systems factors such as difficulty contacting patients who do not have stable housing and lack of continuity of SRC staffing. Students provided examples of how they saw SRCs try to mitigate these barriers by partnering with local health centers for referrals, being consistent in the days they were open, providing patients with reminder cards and phone calls, emphasizing patient education, and implementing patient navigator programs. Coordinators described efforts to connect patients to primary care clinics and discussed specific community partnerships to facilitate this, but nearly half of the volunteers were not aware of their SRC's referral or follow-up mechanisms.
Each SRC's finances are managed by a student finance committee and/or student coordinator. Although coordinators could identify specific funding agencies and general areas to which money was allocated (e.g., supplies, publicity, electives), volunteers could not. Neither volunteers nor coordinators could articulate the actual costs of sustaining their clinic operations.
Both volunteers and coordinators commented on the impact of funding and resource limitations on SRC operations, including insufficient equipment and specialty services and inability to write prescriptions, provide medications, or draw labs. Several coordinators reported performing needs assessments to determine whether (and which) additional services could be provided.
If there is a need then what we do is evaluate what our capacity is and see whether or not we can do it…. Originally with our funding, we couldn't have a lot of our services running and couldn't get all the supplies and equipment we needed so we've had to revisit this and you know, look for more funding. (Coordinator, SRC D)
Students described opportunities to discuss suboptimal systems and potential solutions as built-in components of each SRC, although they did not label these activities as "systems improvement." Such discussions primarily occurred during postclinic feedback sessions and board meetings.
The first time I went there I had given a lot of feedback after my first session…. I gave a laundry list of suggestions, and didn't realize I was probably hurting the feelings of the coordinators a little bit. But when I went back my second time, not only did they remember me, they incorporated all my feedback…. I felt like I was really heard. (Volunteer, SRC B)
Students' examples of systems improvement efforts included addressing bottlenecks in clinic flow, changing volunteer roles (e.g., increasing interprofessional interactions, adding patient navigators), and implementing patient databases. Volunteers and coordinators reported maintaining the quality of patient care through conducting patient surveys and focus groups, using interpreters and patient navigators, checking patient identifiers such as name and birth date at multiple points during the visit (e.g., vaccinations, blood draws) to avoid medical errors, and enforcing policies on the number of phlebotomy attempts made by first-year medical students before preceptors step in. Coordinators also stressed the importance of working with community partners to analyze the clinic services and align them with the community needs.
All students agreed that their awareness of SBP increased as their degree of SRC involvement increased, either by volunteering more frequently or serving as a coordinator. Most volunteers reported feeling that they did not have much awareness of the clinic system itself or its relationship to the larger health care system during their first one to two sessions at an SRC.
With your first clinic session, maybe you're getting used to the flow, so you're not learning about interprofessional communication, or optimizing patient follow-up. I feel like the more you get to know a system, the better you get at identifying challenges for it, because you see a problem that comes up again and again and seeing all the past solutions that were tried and seeing if any new ones are better. (Volunteer, SRC D)
Many students—and all faculty advisors—thought that coordinators had more exposure to and awareness of SBP by virtue of being at the clinics often and having expanded organizational roles. Coordinators indicated that their behind-the-scenes roles allowed them to understand the larger system of care—both the organizational system within the SRC itself and the SRC in the context of the public health structure.
I think we as coordinators always want to make our next clinic better, so that is what we usually reflect on…. I think [volunteers] will probably reflect on their interaction with patients, how they can better answer this particular question that the patient asked, or things like that. I think it's more individualized. I think [volunteers] reflect more on doctor–patient interactions whereas we reflect more on system-based issues. (Coordinator, SRC B)
Students indicated that the formal preclerkship curriculum included lectures on health policy and small-group discussions of clinical and systems issues. They highlighted the value of real patient encounters and working with underserved patients in SRCs. Most students felt that their SRC experiences provided them with greater exposure to SBP learning opportunities than did the formal curriculum, particularly in terms of interprofessionalism, patient access issues, community services, and the process of running a clinic.
The formal curriculum is a lot of book knowledge, I think they definitely cover [SBP topics]. But it's a different kind of knowledge than actually being in the clinic, which has more hands-on, more realistic assessment of how things are run, which I think has a really important role in education. (Coordinator, SRC B)
However, despite acknowledging that SRCs enhanced their general awareness of systems issues, students described explicit teaching of SBP topics in the clinics as minimal. Volunteers who participated only once or twice reported they had learned more about direct patient interactions and clinical skills than about systems issues.
Faculty advisors indicated that SRCs provide valuable opportunities for students to be exposed to and apply SBP. The perceptions they expressed in their interviews corroborated those of the student volunteers and coordinators. One faculty advisor commented on the ways in which SRCs can activate students to learn about SBP:
If you're going to be successful in running a free clinic, you need to know what the gaps are in the system. That's how your clinic is going to contribute to taking care of people. So just because of the reason a student-run free clinic exists, it inherently gives you this opportunity [to learn about SBP]…. I think the way you activate health professional students to learn [about SBP] is to show them how it can help you overcome these barriers that you inevitably encounter as you are trying to provide high, good quality care for these patients. (Faculty advisor, SRC D)
Studies and surveys consistently report that medical students perceive themselves as being ill prepared to address issues of quality, costs, and limited resources in caring for patients.11,24,25 Meah and colleagues19 proposed the value of SRCs in addressing this issue and identified the need for future research to understand how students' SRC experiences may facilitate SBP learning. Through our interviews with SRC student volunteers, student coordinators, and faculty advisors, we identified six domains in which preclerkship students learn SBP in SRCs: interprofessional roles and collaboration; clinic organization; patient factors affecting access to care; awareness of the larger health care system and continuity of care; resource acquisition and allocation; and systems improvement. Students who participated in SRCs developed an awareness and knowledge of SBP beyond that gained through their formal curricular experiences. Compared with volunteers, coordinators appeared to have a more in-depth understanding of how to work effectively within a health care system. These findings suggest that SRCs may function as important venues for early medical students to learn about access to care and health care delivery.
Although our analysis generally supported the four key elements of SBP described by Meah and colleagues,19 we identified themes in six domains. They described "advocacy and navigation of the health care system to overcome barriers," but we identified this as two distinct domains: "patient factors affecting access to care" and "awareness of the larger health care system and continuity of care." While volunteers and coordinators both reported learning about patient factors that affect access to care, our analysis showed that volunteers had less opportunity than coordinators to understand continuity of care and the larger health care system because volunteers' SRC involvement was transient. We also elaborated on Meah and colleagues' element of "quality care," which we captured as the domains of "clinic organization" and "systems improvement." Not surprisingly, students' understanding of clinic organization deepened as their involvement in clinic operations increased. This elaboration also emphasizes students' engagement in improving delivery of care.
The interviews provided insight into the elements of SRCs that enabled students to learn about SBP, another area for future research highlighted by Meah and colleagues.19 By having legitimate roles in a community of practice,16 students participating in SRCs learn about health care disparities, systems improvement, and the larger health care system. Because SRCs provide a narrow range of services to a small population of patients, students may be better able to "own" clinic operations and effect systems-based change than they can in traditional clinical or hospital settings. Furthermore, because most SRCs provide services to disadvantaged populations17 and students assume primary responsibility for patient care, students gain firsthand awareness of systems issues and barriers. SRCs also provide opportunities for students to develop skills in clinic management and leadership.19,26 From a broader educational perspective, the design of other preclerkship clinical experiences could be enhanced by incorporating the principles that help drive SBP learning in SRCs.
We also recommend assessing how SBP learning can be maximized within SRCs. Although students' comments identified opportunities for SBP education in SRCs, there seemed to be little focus on the teaching of SBP. For instance, many students commented on improving clinic operations through postclinic feedback sessions and board meetings, but most did not describe their efforts as "quality improvement." Explicitly labeling the SBP work that the students are doing could make them more attuned to this important competency. Preceptors and small-group postclinic feedback sessions could include a focus on SBP as it comes up naturally in patient care. In addition, SRCs have great potential to promote collaboration across health professions. More deliberate structuring of clinical experiences could enhance this benefit.
The conclusions drawn from our qualitative analysis may be limited by the voluntary nature of the sample (i.e., first responders may be the strongest supporters or most engaged learners). Additionally, former volunteers and coordinators were asked to draw on experiences that took place one or more years before the interviews. Further, the questions we asked during the interviews may have led students to reflect on SBP experiences in a way in which they may not have otherwise. However, our study has several strengths. We interviewed students and faculty from four independently run SRCs within a single medical school, allowing for triangulation of perspectives and comparisons of preclerkship students' different SRC experiences with their experiences in the same formal curriculum. Our design also allowed us to determine an effect of degree of involvement in SRCs, which has been a limitation of previous studies and is an area of interest for research.19,26,27
Our findings provide insight into the level of SBP learning that students can achieve through preclerkship participation in SRCs, particularly for students who volunteer more frequently or take on leadership roles. We believe our findings have implications for preclerkship student involvement in SBP within and beyond SRCs. We encourage educators to view SRCs as valuable settings for SBP instruction and to apply elements of successful SBP learning in SRCs to other clinical experiences.
Acknowledgments: The authors thank the student-run clinics' faculty advisors, student coordinators, and student volunteers for sharing their experiences.
Funding/Support: None.
Other disclosures: None.
Ethical approval: This study was approved by the University of California, San Francisco, Committee on Human Research.
Previous presentations: Preliminary results of this study were presented as an oral presentation at the Association of American Medical Colleges Western Group on Educational Affairs meeting in Asilomar, California, April 2012, and as a poster presentation at the Society of General Internal Medicinenational meeting in Orlando, Florida, May 2012.
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Financial Services Working Group
Introduction to the Financial Services Working Group
The Financial Services working group (FSWG) main objective is to identify and share the challenges, risks and Best Practices for the development, deployment and management of secure cloud services in the financial and banking industry.
FSWG results are expected to accelerate the adoption of Secure Cloud services in the Financial Industry by helping the Industry on adoption of best practices.
The Financial Services Working Group will consider financial and banking (F&B) sector's interests regarding security, privacy and compliance in the Cloud's industry, promoting research in CSA on commented industry.
The Financial Service Working Group will disseminate the results reached during its research process and the various studies done, as Guidelines and Recommendations for the Delivery and Management of Cloud Services in the Financial and Banking sector.
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Financial Services Co-chairs
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Maria Luisa holds a B.S. in Computer Science, a Master in IT Security and a Master in IT Management. With over 13 years of experience on the IT Sector, 10 of which in various positions in the Information Security segment, Maria Luisa has acquired an end to end perspective of Security and its role in the business and Technology strategy of large multinationals organizations (with a strong focus on the Financial Sector), going from the most technical/operative aspects all the way to its transformation as an strategic business enabler.
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Mario Maawad Marcos has been working in IT field for over 18 years, including the last 14 years in Information Security specifically focusing on banking. He has been working at CaixaBank back since 2004, the first financial institution in Spain, as the Director of Digital Security.
Mario received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Politecnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, 1997) and a JD in Law, from the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona in 2010. He also received a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Banking from the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona in 2009. After a year of working at CaixaBank, back in 2005, he became the co-founder of the Computer Incident Response Team (CSIRT) of CaixaBank – the team responsible of handling all the incidents or attacks that can come from Internet.
He is a member and has participated actively creating and managing initiatives within the Antiphishing Working Group (APWG), Forum of Internet Response Teams (FIRST), Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
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RSS for .xml reading?
Is it possible to make .xml documents by self to read them in players rss reader?
I tried to make .opml doc and sync it through zens RSS sync program,but it didn't do anything...
Player shows the .xml with saved name but when trying to open it says "no valid content".
So is there some specific coding that zen is able to read?
How should I write the text?
Just came as an idea of faster readable and accessable text docs than through apps...
I have the formation of their rss feed reader ( and other 'features'). I plan/currently am working on some programs that will replace Creative's. One of which is a document to rss reader converter ( maybe .txt,.doc,.docx, to the zen, etc). I will re-post in this thread when I finish my converter and have made sure the formation of the xml file works properly.
Sounds great! Wish you good luck with that project, can't wait when it's ready!
Just curiosity, how difficult would it be to modify notepad app in player to save files as xml file into rss directory? Then one could write in player and read it easily later. Like making notes.
Thanks :)
It may be possible to have a notetaking-app save documents as XML (which I suppose jbob is developing for pc), but an app can't save to the RSS dir.
These apps can only access (sub) folders of the Applications folder, so you would still need a pc to copy them over..
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Cheats and Walkthroughs(3)
Warren Spector's twisted vision of the Disney universe known as Epic Mickey wasn't always a Wii exclusive. In fact, as Spector told the Official Nintendo Magazine, the game was originally planned for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Spector recalls meeting with head of Disney Interactive Graham Hopper to discuss what the best strategy would be to deliver the highest quality game possible. The result of that meeting?
"At that time we were talking about a Wii port and I was begging people - no, we can't just port to the Wii, it's not going to work. It needs to be its own game. A lot of the design ideas just won't work on the Wii, we need to give the Wii its dues. Graham looked at me and said 'What do you think about a Wii exclusive?' And I went 'Holy cow - yeah!'"
While I definitely respect Spector and company deciding to focus their attention in the pursuit of a higher quality game, it also kind of sets the bar much higher than it otherwise would have been in terms of what players will expect from the game. I mean, the Wii definitely deserves more kick ass exclusives, but it would be a shame if its technical limitations in any way held back the ultimate vision the developers have for the game. This is a fantastic concept for a game, and I really want to see it as fully realized as possible. And I don't mean that in a graphics whorish way. I just hope the Wii can do justice to the scope and vision that the game seems to warrant. But hey, if it's good enough for Warren Spector, I guess it will do for little ol' me until I have reason to think otherwise.
What do you think of Epic Mickey ditching every other platform in favor of the Wii? Do you think the vision of the game will be compromised at all to accommodate for the Wii's technological capabilities? Or is the concept itself so solid that the platform on which it's made is really irrelevant?


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Friends honor Mrs. Ruth McCommon upon retirement
A reception was held Sunday, Mar. 28 for Mrs. Ruth McCommon, Congregational Nurse for First Baptist Church Peachtree City, in honor of her retirement.
Friends, family, and people whom Mrs. Ruth served in the community lined up to spend a few minutes to say, "thank you for all you've done for us".
Mrs. Ruth touched many lives. She lived God's purpose for her life. She showed Jesus to others by being a godly wife, mother, grandmother, missionary, nurse and friend. She served First Baptist PTC church as a nurse for 11 years. Not only did she minister to church members but also to members of the community who were in need. She was always "on duty" for what was suppose to be a part time position.
At a convention about eight years ago she heard a woman speaker say, " If you are not operating a free community clinic, then you are not doing what Jesus did." That was God's way of planting the dream in her mind for a free clinic in PTC. She shared that dream with others in the church and community and now it has become a reality. First Baptist and PTC have much to be thankful for because of how God used Ruth's skills, talents and love.
As her ministry comes to a close here, her friends believe that God is just opening a new door in Dallas, Texas for that community to be blessed by Nurse Ruth.


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Imaging Center
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Preparation: Patients should not have a thyroid scan if they have had
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You will be instructed to be off of all thyroid medications 2-4 weeks leading up to your scan. Thyroid lab levels will be drawn before your scheduled appointment.
On day 1, you should not have anything to eat, drink, smoke or chew at least 4 hours prior to receiving your capsule. Prior to your exam, Nuclear Medicine Technician will explain the procedure and answer any questions you have. If you think you are pregnant, please tell the technologist before your exam.
What to Expect:
Day 1: You will be given a capsule containing a small amount of radioactive iodine which will be absorbed by your thyroid gland. After the capsule has been administered, you must wait 1 hour before eating. You will need to return in 24 hours for images to be taken of your thyroid.
Day 2: You will return to the Imaging Services Department at your scheduled time. The Nuclear Medicine Technician will position you on your back and instruct you to lie still while the images are acquired.
Post Exam Information: Your images will be reviewed by a Radiologist and the results of your exam will be forwarded to your physician. Your physician will be able to discuss the results of your exam with you.
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Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Tennessee
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Tennessee
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: (865) 974-8387
- DVM, University of Tennessee
- MS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Internship and Residency, Cornell University
- Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists
Research Interests
- Analgesia and related aspects of comparative pharmacology and physiology.
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- Development of controlled release spinal analgesics.
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ANNOUNCER: Pleasewelcome, Jonah Ray.
-This is the Comedy CentralUp Next Talent Search.
Two comics from tonight's showwill be selected by our Comedy
Central judges to appear atthe New York Comedy Festival
and on Comedy Central'sComic to Watch annual show.
-What's up?
I'm Bradley Cooper on crack.
-I realized recently,I am not good looking
enough to be humble.
-You guys realize thatdrinking water out of a straw
is the exact oppositeof snorkeling?
-Woo, woo.
-I still like to be a gentleman.
Like, I'll walk with women totheir cars so I don't mugged.
-I was just bit by amosquito, hashtag malarious.
-Russian people are like agoddamn car that won't start,
because they will always belike, zushzz, zushzz, zushzz,
nyet, nyet, nyet, zushzz,zushzz, nyet, nyet.
You look a random defaultstarter guy in a video game.
-I'm not really a lumberjack.
But I do sleep withflannel PJs on.
So I guess that makesme a slumberjack.
Come on, stand up.
Stand up!
-What are you gonna do about it?
-The winners are RandyLiedtke and Aaron Weaver.
-Randy Liedtke, you areone of two winners tonight
at Cobb's Comedy Clubin San Francisco.
How does it feel?
-First of all,we're all winners.
-Yeah, but some people arelike more winnery than others.
You know, how likeon a DVD, they
do like a director's commentary?
They did that withmy audio book.
Growing up,
[interposing voices]
They told me to come inwith the same microphone.
[interposing voices]
-Aaron Weaver, congratulationson a stunning win.
Did you find yourstyle and voice?
Because it's very defined.
Here's what I hate about ridingthe bus more than anything,
is sometimes you missit by like two seconds.
And you've got to sit therefor like 20 more minutes
and think about what you did.
I could've put the toasteron three instead of four.
I would have made it, man.
You know, I love StevenWright, Mitch Hedberg.
I started off straight, like--
-One liners.
-One liners, dead pan.
-Then I got likesuper like hip hop.
And it was too far.
So now it's like a bridge.
Just walking that bridge.
I'm a shy dude.
I'm shy and I'm single.
That's a bad combo, man.
Like my friends will be like,just go talk to that girl.
She's not going to bite.
It's like, dude, I'm notworried about her biting me.
I'm worried about going upthere and have nothing to say.
Like at least if she bit me,we could talk about that,
you know?
What seems improvised is justbecause I'm very skilled.
Yet you seem like areal fuck up out there.
-Yeah, it's a balance of beingpredictably dumb and just
actually being dumb.
I come across as actually dumb.
Yeah, yeah. you do.
-I found out that mypenis lost its job.
So if you know of anyopenings it can fill.
-Give a round of applause forevery comic you saw tonight.
That's it.
Thanks a lot.
-Thank you, Randy.
-You're welcome.
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