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JH Ahn was an NK News contributor based in Seoul. He previously worked as an interpreter for United States Forces Korea.
North Korea on Wednesday morning attempted the launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a Sinpo-class submarine, MBN reported.
According to the article, the submarine left the port early in the morning, but returned to the dock near Wonsan at 9 a.m. local time, which South Korean experts saw as indicating a failed fourth SLBM launch attempt.
"The submarine would have not returned to the port that quickly if it were scheduled to take part in another training or operation," a former South Korean admiral told NK News on condition of anonymity.
"It seems that the submarine dealt with a malfunction during the process of their fourth SLBM test launch, and decided to return."
The Sinpo-class submarine suddenly started to sail toward the East Sea on early morning Wednesday, according to MBN. South Korean intelligence immediately started to track the whereabouts of the submarine. But no provocative acts followed and the submarine returned.
The South Korean Defense Ministry refused to confirm or deny MBN's claim.
"All we can say is that our military, with the close cooperation with the U.S., is keeping an eye on North Korea's SLBM development trends," the military official from South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said during Thursday's press briefing.
The exact location of where the event took place was not provided either by the report or by the South Korean Defense Ministry.
But as the report said the submarine returned to the port near Wonsan, the failed launch attempt likely took place somewhere at the east side of Korea, possibly between Wonsan and Mayang Do Naval Base – one of two North Korean submarine bases – located in South Hamgyong Province.
Pyongyang's latest successful SLBM launch took place on May last year, which their state-run media claimed as evidence "that the ballistic missile fired from the submarine fully met the requirements of the latest military science and technology."
Even if their most recent launch ended in failure, another South Korean expert said that, assuming the report is true, this would be one of many SLBM launch attempts to come.
"To raise the degree of completion of SLBMs, North Korea will execute dozens more tests in the future," Moon Keun-sik, the director at the Korea Defense and Security Forum told NK News.
"Perfecting SLBM technology requires a numerous tests … both on the ocean and on the ground. Pyongyang has been miniaturizing their nuclear weapons, and this launch – if it were successful – could've been their message to claim that they have completed adapting their warheads to a SLBM."
On the same day as the reported test, the South Korean Defense Minister said the chances of North Korea conducting another nuclear test are high.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nathan and Deborah Zehringer, of Jackson Center, witnessed history being made Friday when Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
Nathan Zehringer, who served as the Shelby County chairman to elect Trump as president, received a formal invitation to the inauguration and ball two weeks ago from Trump's campaign.
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by Caroline Potter, Yahoo! HotJobs
You have an interview or two for a position you really want, and everything goes well. It's a regular love fest between you, the hiring manager, and your future boss. Your heart skips a beat when you're told, "We'll have an offer to you by the end of the week."
But what happens when a week goes by and you don't receive an offer? Should you sit by the phone and wait or throw in the towel?
"Neither!" says career counselor Robin Ryan, author of "60 Seconds & You're Hired!" She believes professionals should continue their job searches until they receive and accept a formal job offer. "Even if you're certain an offer is coming, do not stop job hunting. These things have a tendency to fall apart."
Take Action 采取行动
Don't wait too long to follow up after an offer fails to materialize. Ryan advises, "Contact the person who said you'd be getting an offer no more than a few days after you were to receive it." Ask leading questions about its status. She suggests, "Ask your contact, 'Where are you at with this?' or 'When will this come through?'"
Ryan adds, "If you're told that the process is going to take a bit more time, ask, 'Are you talking weeks or months?'"
Know that if you are being stalled, Ryan feels it is risky business to idly wait on an offer. "If it doesn't come through and you haven't been searching elsewhere, you're going to get really depressed," she states.
Poof! There It Isn't! 扑哧! 工作机会不见了!
There are a number of things that can delay a job offer. Some are tied to how large a corporation is and how elaborate the hiring chain of command is. If you're applying to a Fortune 500 company, the process as a whole may take longer than at a small business. However, job offers can fall apart at anytime -- and at any size company.
Reveals Ryan, "A hiring manager may be stalling you while an offer is out with someone else for the same position. You also may be promised a job only to learn that the funding for the job is no longer there." She reminds job searchers that mergers, too, may kill a position's creation or eliminate an established job altogether.
Hold or Fold? 等待还是放弃?
If you feel that your job offer is stalled indefinitely, you may be tempted to try to force a potential employer's hand by saying that you have another offer (when you don't). Best-selling author Ryan says, "Never bluff! Many companies -- especially bigger ones -- will call you on it and tell you take the other offer."
Rather, says Ryan, inform the recruiter, "I'm continuing to interview, but I'm still very interested in this job." She urges candidates to try to find out what is really happening with the position and get a commitment from the company.
If the offer does vanish, Ryan reminds workers to remember, "There's more than one dream job out there."
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Looking to implement a campus-wide initiative? Learn the four strategic areas to best focus your efforts.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln transformed their advising culture with the implementation of Starfish, as covered in a recent Ovum Research case study, Transforming Academic Advising to Increase Student Success and Retention: How the University of Nebraska-Lincoln supported at-risk students with student success solutions.
When making goal-oriented priorities, UNL's office of academic affairs identified four key strategic areas to improve student retention and time to degree:
Improve campus coordination and delivery of advising and support services
- Create targeted, required advising programs for particular student populations
- Develop early warning systems to identify and support academically at-risk students
- Track participation with and impact of academic support services
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If A Guy Pulls Out Every Stop In The Book To Win You Back Like Joe Jonas Is Doing To Taylor Swift, Should You Ever Take Him Back If He Hurt You?
Joe Jonas is doing everything he can to make Taylor Swift his again — but should she take him back?
Joe Jonas regrets making the great mistake of not only dumping Taylor Swift, but tearing her heart into teeny tiny shreds. But he doesn't just feel remorse for his actions — he reportedly wants her back, and is doing everything in his power to make it happen. Should she forgive, forget and take him back?
Joe, 22, feels like a fool for dumping the country cutie so harshly. "He wants her back," a source told Us Weekly. "He's older and wiser and has grown up a lot since they first dated. He wants to show her he's a changed man and would love to see what's possible between them."
He's showing her, all right! When he released his "Just In Love" video Sept. 12, the actress playing his on-screen lover was a dead ringer for his ex! Additionally, he attended her LA concert at the Staples Center in August in a bid to show his support. A few days later he even traveled to see her perform in San Jose, California. Now that's a man on a mission!
Although Taylor is currently being pursued by yet another ex, Taylor Lautner, she allegedly has a soft spot for her first love. And insider close to the singer says, "She was heartbroken when he left, but he was her first big love; she's always held a spot for him in her heart."
Do actions speak louder than words? Should Taylor give her ex another shot, and should you if you find yourself in a similar position?
People do change to a degree, and Joe was young when he decided to dump the country starlet. Still, when someone hurts you as badly as Joe did Taylor, it's hard to completely accept that person into your life, and foolish to do so as well.
With age comes wisdom, and Taylor may just have enough common sense to realize that Joe hurt her badly enough that she'd never accept him back. It's one thing to be friendly and casual with an ex, and another to let him back into your heart.
Who's to say he won't hurt her again? He didn't seem to have any problem breaking the heart of Demi Lovato, an admittedly good friend of his, and parading his then new-girlfriend Ashley Greene around on tour.
If you're thinking about taking an ex back, please be careful, and please heed this expression: 'Trick me once, shame on you. Trick me twice, shame on me."
It doesn't matter how many grand gestures an ex makes, it's the little things he does that count the most. If you can't completely trust him, don't take him back.


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The Late Gothic Revival style developed out of the ecclesiastical work of Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram. The historical basis for the style was the Late Gothic architecture of England and France.
Although churches were the most common structures to be built in Late Gothic Revival, designers of educational and commercial buildings employed the style as well. Collegiate Gothic is a term used to describe buildings similar in style to those found at Princeton University, the University of Chicago or Duke University.
The pointed arch is the most distinguished characteristic of the Late Gothic Revival. Other features include window tracery, leaded glass, battlements and pinnacles.


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Saturday, April 30, 2016
N.W.A.'s MC Ren to Kiss' Gene Simmons: "'F**k Tha Police' is more rock and roll than 'Rock And Roll All Nite'"
MC Ren of N.W.A. has slammes Kiss' Gene Simmons for the negative comments about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inducting rap artists.
He said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone: "That dude is real arrogant. It's like, how he's looking at us, how he know that people before him in rock and roll don't look at him like that? How he know The Beatles or Muddy Waters, if he was still around, don't look at him as a gimmick? Who is he to say anything if he's wearing makeup and heels and sticking out his tongue every 10 seconds of his show? Come on, man, that's a gimmick."
He continued: "What if Paul McCartney said, 'You shouldn't be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame?' What if The Rolling Stones said, 'Y'all shouldn't be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame,' how would he feel then? He would look stupid. If you asked around, and you asked enough rock and roll greats, them dudes is a joke."
"He's probably so salty because hip-hop groups got in before he did, like Run-Dmc, Beastie Boys, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and Public Enemy. I think he was mad they got in before he did, but that's what it is. And, Im'ma tell you this right now, you can quote this: 'Fuck Tha Police' is way more rock and roll than 'I want to rock and roll all night and party every day.' Come on, man."
"Hip-hop is here to stay, man. For real. You need to just get used to that. He don't have a choice, man. And they ain't gonna kick us out of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame because he says so. You don't own the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame."
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Phone: 519-537-8212, Fax: 519-537-3349
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Midway is run by Campbell's Amusements; Homecraft & Horticulture competitions;, Horse and cattle shows; 4H competitions: Demolition Derby; Children's entertainment and activities. Pie contest. Pet show, Old MacDonald's Barn, Llama Show; entertainment. A variety of Food vendors and vendor market. This is the 183rd Woodstock Fair and we are celebrating with this years theme "Trucks, Tractors & Treasures" FREE ADMISSION
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Nigeria House of Representatives has just passed a bill that will allow stricter fine against students found to be cheating during WAEC (West African Examination Council). Fine of ₦200k, an increment from the current ₦2k or they could be sent to 5 years in jail or both. Here
To reduce exam malpractices in Nigeria, we need to trace back to the source of the problem. Focus energies and resources into charging and convicting teachers from primary school teachers to university professors. It was the teachers who made it acceptable for students to cheat in the first place. They set unrealistic expectations so that the only people who could pass would be the one that bribed their way through. The expectations were never backed up with adequate studying materials, lectures and libraries in schools have all closed up.
The origin of all exam malpractices in Nigeria did not start yesterday, it has a long history span to over two decades, maybe more. It used to be the big cities issue so people from small towns and villages like myself were in the dark, we just assumed we were not as smart as 'others.' You would not need any academic reports to know this, anyone who has gone through any form of schooling in Nigeria in the last twenty years would have a thing or two to say about exam cheats. You may have never practiced it but you certainly knew/know someone, who knows someone that has 8 straight As and when you talk to them, they could not pass for a D.
My secondary school days were bliss. I didn't know anything about cheating during exams. However, a year later, my eyes were "opened," so much that I thought I was in a completely different planet and I was only 30 kilometres or so away from my old school. I enrolled at Olode Grammar School in Osun State to re-take a few of my papers. At this school, exam malpractices was so rampant, it was the way of life. Many students relied on odu or Expo so much that they could not answer what their name was without checking somewhere first. It was not a secret, everyone does it. You would even be advised to leave the school by well meaning adults. My friend and I were given such advice by a WAEC tutor – Fatai. After meeting him one afternoon trying to see if he could prep us for WAEC, he was very attentive and later told us that we were in the wrong place as everyone who came to this particular school to retake WAEC or GCSE knew they would pay in cash and "kind" and they would get all their papers. My friend and I were from an all girls Catholic school where exam cheats at the time was unheard of, so Fatai's story sounded more like a terrible fiction to us.
When you step out of Nigeria to study especially in North America or in the UK, no one really cares about your Nigeria certificates as they knew how common exam malpractices are so you would be made to do extra tests to proof yourself, the exercise in itself is not bad as the system is fair and you have materials for studying but the constant doubts attached to any Nigeria certificate can be humiliating sometimes.
If you pick any higher institution randomly today, go to their school library and check past thesis sections, it is embarrassing to see that most of what you would come across is real life plagiarism and yet we blamed the students and not the teachers. Every teacher in our higher institutions are authors – nothing wrong with that except that their handouts were directly lifted from someone else's books without permission – intellectual property rights is non existence.
We all know the truth, that what you did not study for, you would never understand it. Many students were raised today with the mind set that the only way to get good grades is by cheating during exams – teachers orchestrated this by receiving bribes in exchange for high grades and parents supporting their children by paying for them to cheat. We all know this but why are we punishing only the students whose lives were being affected by cheating in the first place – that is double punishment. Why not punish the teachers and exam coordinators who leaked exam questions and answers. In this age of smart phones, Nigeria students have found smarter ways of cheating, electronic devices taped underneath their desk overnight reportedly someone wight he help of exam supervisors.
I think if we genuinely want to fight exam cheats in our schools, it will have to be everyone's fight. Strict consequences for teachers at various levels caught selling questions/answers even if it was during internal exams, extending the punishment to parents in forms of mentioning their names publicly and equally important is resuscitation of school libraries.
Charging students alone will never work.


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Anglia Ruskin University, which provides courses for RAF, Army and Navy personnel, has become the first university in the East of England to sign up to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant.
The two key principles of the covenant are that no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared with any other citizen; and in some circumstances special treatment may be appropriate, especially for the injured and bereaved.
Partnerships between Anglia Ruskin's Degrees at Work team and the Navy, RAF and the Army mean service personnel can study for a qualification to help them in their roles while they are deployed.
Anglia Ruskin has also pledged to support the employment of veterans, providing work placement and briefing days for injured former service personnel to raise awareness of employment and study opportunities. Employees who choose to be members of the reserve forces will also be supported by accommodating their training and deployment where possible.
Anglia Ruskin's Degrees at Work team provides flexible and online courses aimed at military spouses so they can progress their studies regardless of location.
The Veterans and Families Institute is also committed to carrying out research for the good of veterans and their families.
"We are delighted with their success and with the flexibility within the degree programme which Anglia Ruskin University developed to meet the particular needs of our operational commitments."
Wing Commander Doug Bain
"I am delighted that the medical and military training that our medics undertake throughout their careers has been recognised, and this combined with significant additional study has now resulted in a very worthwhile academic qualification."
Warrant Officer Dave James, Warrant Officer to the Head of the Royal Air Force Medical Services
"Anglia Ruskin University is a well-established higher education provider with experience of working with the military.
"It understands the Royal Naval Medical Branch career profile and has developed a degree programme that recognises the training and experience of our people."
Surg Capt Mike Howell, Royal Navy Medical Officer in Charge at the Institute of Naval Medicine
"Anglia Ruskin University is proud of its association and partnerships with the Armed Forces, forged over several years. Our degrees for armed forces personnel mean they could be studying in environments as diverse as barracks, air bases and submarines.
"The contribution made to our society by service personnel must not be underestimated. By signing the Armed Forces Covenant, we're again showing our commitment as a forces-friendly university for serving personnel, veterans and military families."
Suparna Ghose, Principal Consultant, Degrees at Work
For more information about careers at Anglia Ruskin University please visit our jobs website or call 01245 684900.


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6 Cool Tricks To Make Your Beauty Regime Easy
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There is no denying it; being a woman is hard. It is insane how long we women spend on our beauty regime. Don't we have better things to do? Spending hours every morning trying to look like a Barbie doll is pointless. Instead, make your regime quick and easy, so that you can get on with the most important things in life. On a day to day basis, you don't need to go all out and give yourself a makeover each morning. Rather than doing that use some simple tricks that will keep you looking stunning, without even trying. Here are six cool tricks to make your beauty regime easy.
1. Get Your Eyelashes Tinted
If there is one product that most women use every day, it has to be mascara. Applying mascara when you're half asleep and can barely keep your eyes open is no fun. How many times have you had to cleanse your eyes and start again, because the lacquer has clumped? That's right, about twice every morning. Instead of bothering with that hassle, give your eyelashes definition by getting them tinted. Having your lashes tinted will cost you about $8 and will last for a matter of weeks, so you don't have to bother with mascara for a while.
2. Get Laser Hair Removal
Shaving is the bane of every woman's life. Remembering to shave your legs each time you shower is a pain. If you happen to have light hair on your face or neck, you may also have to spend time on a weekly basis waxing or using hair removal products. Having laser hair removal means that you can get rid of unwanted hair for good. You can throw away your razor right now.
3. Sleep With Braids In Your Hair
Straightening or styling your hair is one chore you just don't have time for in your life. Instead, sleep in braids. Tie your hair in tight braids before bed and spray with a conditioning treatment. When you wake up in the morning, you will have beautiful wavy hair with zero-time spent on styling or taming it. Easy.
4. Use A Toothbrush On Your Eyebrows
This year it is popular to have a thick eyebrow. Models, such as Cara Delevingne, have made the look trendy. If you keep your eyebrows thick, though, they tend to start looking messy. Rather than buying expensive brow products, just use a toothbrush. A clean toothbrush will help you to tame your brow and is easy to use. Just make sure you don't use the same one you brush your teeth with each morning. You can even use an eyebrow pencil for an extra luscious look.
5. Drink Lemon Water To Whiten Teeth
Lemon juice has natural cleansing properties. You can spend a lot of cash on having your teeth whitened or buying special bleaching products. Those products have harmful chemicals in them and are bad for you. Instead, drink lemon water on a daily basis. After a month, you will notice a difference in the color of your teeth and the glow of your skin.
6. Clean Your Brushes (Without Expensive Solutions)
It is vital that you clean your makeup brushes on a regular basis. Brushes harbour bacteria and so can cause you to have blemishes when you use them. Cleaning solutions for makeup brushes tend to be expensive and don't always work well. Instead, you can use baby oil to clean your brushes. Soak the tip of the brush in baby oil for an hour and then rinse. The oil will break down the makeup and bacteria on the brush, and this will come out when you rinse.


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This weekend's Townhall contribution from Yours Truly expands on a point made here on Friday: Raising the minimum wage does not help the poor … so why not press the point?
For your further consideration, including extensive work on the racial effects and racist origins of minimum wage laws:
- "Sense and Nonsense on the Minimum Wage," by Donald Deere, Kevin M. Murphy, and Finis Welch, Regulation 1995 No. 1
- "Herman Cain on Obama's call for higher minimum wage," Herman Cain interviewed by Neil Cavuto, Fox Business
- "The Economics of the Colour Bar," by W.H. Hutt
- "Minimum Wage Escalation," by Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution pamphlet, undated
- "Eugenics: Progressivism's Ultimate Social Engineering," by Steve Horwitz and Art Carden, Freeman
- "Krugman and a Critic on the Minimum Wage," by David Henderson, EconLog, February 16, 2013
There is of course a long history and bibliography on the economics of price floors like the minimum wage.


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I am not an extreme couponer, however I would like to be able to make use of the coupons that I do use and naturally looked in this planner design forum to see if there are any planner assistance forms already made.
I am trying to organize mine and looking at some of the extreme couponing sites to try to get an idea of how to effectively manage my coupons.
As I am working on mine I am thinking that I need to divide my coupons into categories and have separate holders for each on of these categories.
I am thinking I could use one of the standard classic franklin planner holders I have that zip up to start my organization attempts. I know most of the extreme couponers use the big binders but I am not wanting to be that involved in the couponing.
My idea is to have a shopping list in the front with what I am wanting to purchase. Then behind that have some holders behind them separated into the categories I find to be important for me for the coupons that I have clipped. It is my hope that I will have the discipline to go through the coupons before I go shopping and pull the ones I think I will need and put them in a "to use" folder. I am thinking of making the folders out of manila file folders cut down for use in the classic and possibly clear sleeves to be able to see the coupons.
Has anyone done some thinking on how to effectively use a planner for couponing without being too involved in the extreme couponing craze? Any suggestions would be welcomed.
Organising coupons
5x7 pocket photo albums have been one of the things recommended by other posters for coupons.
With index cards in the album for notes.
I can't comment more than that as we generally don't have coupons for shops in Australia to the same extent you do.
Edit - the topic I was thinking of is here http://www.diyplanner.com/node/6056
A DIY Pocket for coupons
Here's an idea I have tinkered with that should help in this:
I started with some scrapbooking paper that is 12 inches square.
Make a fold along one side to make the paper 8.5 inches wide (that makes a 3.5 inch flap).
Next, fold the paper in half the other way so that you should now have a pair of pockets on a page that is 8.5 by 6 inches.
Punch binder holes on the 8.5 inch side opposite the fold.
This should fit in a classic/junior size planner with no problem.
At your option, trim the page opposite the fold down to 5.5 inches so that it does not stick out so far, but it makes a nice divider if your binder can handle the extra width.
If you plan to put tiny paper bits in the pockets, you may wish to glue or tape the non-folded side so that things do not fall out, but for larger coupons, I have found this not to be a problem.
I use this idea with a disc bound notebook (Levenger Circa/Rollabind) and it works great.
Enjoy !
"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson) ***
I'm going to suggest "finding your style" first
I, like you, am not an extreme couponer, but I do like to have easy access to the ones I think I will use. I have tried about a dozen different ways but I will name the most recent few.
1) I have a 4x6 plastic photo holder which I actually take to the store. It's labelled by aisle. By the way, I have two of these - one I use for grocery store, target, etc. The other, which lives in my car, has store coupons in it. This is incredibly handy. No more pulling into Bed Bath and Beyond only to realize I have no coupons. I also store gift cards in it. It lives in the door pocket of my car. Whenever I get Ann Taylor or Kohls flyers I just rip off the cards and stick them in that album.
2) I saw a lady once use an acrylic photo box with twelve separate mini photobox inserts. So, I bought it. I labelled the photobox inserts by category (grocery, superdoubles/triples, retail, etc). This box is not working for me at all. It takes way too much time for me to go through it and I don't take it with me.
3) I have tried binders of various sorts. I wasn't fully committed ( I didn't buy the baseball sleeves) and I simply don't have that kind of time, so I gave it up.
So here is what I do now. I sort through the sunday paper and keep whole pages of coupons I may use and chuck the inserts or coupons I won't use. Then each Sunday I cut only what I'm going to use on that trip. I have a cute little gizmo - it's about 4X8 (give or take, it's not in front of me) that has a little accordian file on one side and a pad of paper on the other and a pen loop in the middle. I jot down the list on the pad and stick the coupons I plan to use in the accordian folder. That is working well. Everything else I clip and plan to use I stick in the photo album, but that system seems to be dying. This system is not perfect for me. I do return from Target only to realize I had coupons for some of what I used, but my goal is simply to use more coupons than the paper costs.
One additional tip - if you have a BJs club in your area where you can use the coupons in the book they send plus manufacturer's coupons - I sit down with the book and all of my circulars once a month. I clip the coupons that match the book of coupons and I staple them together inside the book. I rip of the pair of coupons as I pick up the items and then unstaple while waiting to check out. This is saving me an average of $30-50 per trip on stuff I already intend to buy.
Good luck and let us know if you find something that works! I don't know how the extreme couponers do it.
PS - if you go the Covey route you are contemplating, be sure to have a space for coupons you are actually going to use - i.e. as you pick up an item you have a coupon for, actually move the coupon to a holding place so you don't forget it when you check out. I leave an empty sleeve or accordion pocket for that purpose.
All are good suggestions.
I just want to be a bit more organized so I know what I have and actually use my coupons. I find that I cut the coupons but I often have many coupons that go unused because I forget that I have them. I will try your suggestions.


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Corrosion of Non-Conformity
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Late summer wouldn't be late summer without the traditional Fringe Whinge, when arts journalists across the world vent their misgivings about "the state of the Fringe." The loudest voices of detraction bellow forth from Edinburgh, Scotland, where commentators annually deride the mother of all underground theater festivals for resembling, to quote a recent article by The Daily Telegraph's Rupert Christiansen, "a monster devouring its own children."
Here in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Fringe Festival suffers no accusations of becoming overcommercialized or overcrowded. Boasting fewer than 50 oddball shows in various offbeat downtown venues, the S.F. Fringe Fest more closely resembles its Edinburgh counterpart as it was 40 years ago — "a smattering of students and amateurs mounting humble shows and innocuous skits in a few bleak church halls," as Christiansen fondly remembers.
But does its comparatively humble stature make festivals like the San Francisco Fringe more "authentic" than the behemoth Edinburgh Fringe? What constitutes fringe theater, anyway?
At one level, fringe productions share similar attributes in keeping with the original Edinburgh vibe: They are generally produced on shoestring budgets. Venues tend to be cramped. Tickets are usually cheap. (The range is free to $9 at this year's San Francisco event.) Productions often showcase new scripts by little-known writers; provide unorthodox, often-truncated readings of classics; and foreground the physical and whimsical. In addition, Fringe shows seem to define themselves by the sizes (small) — and typical ages (young) — of their casts. Design and technical elements are often sparse, and barriers to entry usually low: The San Francisco event is open to anyone who can make it through the lottery system and pay the $475 registration fee.
But that low barrier to entry doesn't guarantee truly unique programming or outré content. Though the San Francisco event is unlikely to include Neil Simon plays, rarely do I find my sensibilities shaken up by the endless navel-gazing parade of autobiographical solo shows typically on offer. Cheap to mount, 18 of the fest's 47 productions are solo efforts this time around. Every now and again, a solo performance will be "out there" enough to fulfill the traditional Fringe edginess quotient. San Francisco playwright and performer Dan Carbone, with his disturbingly sexual soft-toy–tastic shows, defies the norm. But in general, there's only so much innovating you can do with one person onstage pouring out his life story. Other festivals suffer from similarly staid content, albeit of varying genres. "A quick glance at this year's program reveals 18 musical comedies, nine with exclamation points in their titles," wrote Village Voice journalist Alexis Soloski in an article about the 2007 New York Fringe. "Not since 2000 has a Fringe show really surprised me."
Intriguingly, one of the few shows over the last few years that has stayed with me — The Sewers by New York–Bay Area performance collective Banana, Bag & Bodice — didn't fit regular Fringe parameters. This elaborate, dark, steampunk-saturated original boasted high production values and a relatively steep budget. According to artistic director Jason Craig, mounting The Sewers cost around $6,000, a losing proposition when you're putting on nine shows in a 49-seat venue and can charge a maximum of only $9 a ticket.
What this all goes to show is that a fringe festival is a mutable concept. If we momentarily look beyond the festival structure itself for a moment, terms like "fringe," "alternative," and "experimental" turn out to be wide open to interpretation. Fringe is a relative term, defined above all by context. What occupies a "shoulder" position in one environment is middle-of-the-road in another. For example, the drag cabaret act Kiki and Herb might be considered "fringey" in some circles, especially when the duo performs in the intimate, booze-infused surroundings of Joe's Pub in New York. But what happens when they perform on Broadway or the Geary Stage? The act's aesthetic may remain broadly unchanged, but differing audiences and venues radically alter the experience. While Kiki and Herb feel dangerous at Joe's Pub, their work feels slicker, tidier, and much more predictable on a mainstream stage.
Yet if there's one characteristic that ought to underpin all "nonmainstream" theater, it's rebellion against the mainstream. The Edinburgh Fringe started out in retaliation against the snobbery of the exclusive Edinburgh International Festival. Now that the Fringe has usurped the juried Festival in terms of profile and size, its kamikaze spirit has died. Lacking a major arts festival against which theatermakers might rebel (our local International Arts Festival, though curated, is hardly a high-profile affair), the San Francisco Fringe largely exists in a self-contained bubble. In a city of proud freaks, the Fringe's freakishness barely stands out. Plus the event tends to be a focal point on the calendar more for theater people than for the general public per se.
However, like its big sibling in Scotland, the event, masterminded by the Exit Theatre, serves a vital function in terms of nurturing careers. As much as it's a lab for experimentation, the Fringe also provides a crucial rite of passage for artists. While stalwarts like Banana, Bag & Bodice are now graduating to larger stages like Berkeley Rep and New York's Abrons Art Center, directors like Mark Jackson have gone on to international careers. "Producing shows on the Fringe was my graduate education and also my calling card," Jackson says. "Producers were able to see my stuff in action. It's because of this work that I'm now able to freelance."
More than a whinge, I always get a kick out of the Fringe. I love the event for its never-know-what-you're-going-to-get atmosphere, the opportunities it provides for socializing, and the titillating possibility of discovering a few hidden gems.
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this past weekend
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I can't say Pimp My Ride was my favorite TV show — because I never watched it. While the car-centric show wasn't exactly beloved by environmentalists, some Prius owners do like to pimp their rides, as evidenced by Flickr member saeru's photo above, and Pimp My Ride has been the inspiration for many an enviro-blogger's post title.
Just for a little Friday fun, below are some of the headlines pop culture pimping's inspired for enviro-blogging:
>> By far the most frequent abuser of the Pimp My Ride allusion's Treehugger, at least according to my Google Reader cache. Writers for the popular enviro-blog have crafted such original headlines as "Pimp My Green Ride: This Souped-Up Tesla Roadster Rocks," "Pimp Your Eco-Ride: Win a Strida SX Folding Bike," and "Dude, Pimp My Boombox Bike," the last of which appears to be an effort to cleave two pop culture car references (Pimp My Ride and Dude, Where's My Car?) with an eco twist-tie.
>> As you may have guessed from Treehugger's posts, Pimp My Ride's most commonly used by eco-bloggers to pimp greener rides, as in the case of Streetsblog LA's headline: "Memo to MTV: "Pimp My Bike" = Ratings Gold."
>> Yes, we at MNN are guilty of hopping on the pimp wagon too. "Obama: Pimp my ride," was our title for a post about the president's armored '09 Cadillac.
>> Somewhat more creative green pimping came from Re-Nest, whose allusions at least didn't refer to methods of transportation. "Pimp My Bin" is the title of a post about Enviro Friendly wheelie bins that make graywater reuse easier.
>> Another Re-Nest post gets my vote for the cutest green pimping title of them all: Pimp My Coop: Cool Cribs For Backyard Chickens. Cluck over to see 10 cute poultry palaces — pimped out with eco-features like a green roof, salvaged materials — and even an upcycled car, bringing the Pimp my Car allusion back full circle.


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Clean Cycling: A Clear Conscience
A Painful Reveille (rĕv-ĕl-lē)
37"Doping is extremely harmful to cycling. Currently, there is a climate of suspicion. It is undermining the credibility of my sport and is eroding the trust of the public, authorities, organizers and my colleagues." UCI Anti-Doping Declaration for Team Staff
The morning wake up call has sounded. A piercing trumpet is arousing an army to fight a war on illegal performance-enhancing drugs in cycling. This army's intention is to strike down whole hierarchies and rise against entire enterprises that are in the business of exploitation of you, the cyclist's legitimate desire to be the best.
A properly administered doping cyclist will race better for a time, and it's possible that you will become the King of the Universe winning many battles along the way. Yet you will never win the war. For if you are able to outrun detection, doping controls, suspicion, tarnished reputation, ruined resources, physical side-effects, even an informant, then you will be defeated by the one challenger that you can never outrun – your own conscience. All your laurels, trophies, jerseys, and accolades will be tainted by the knowledge that you lied and cheated. Your fond memories will always bring discord, unable to reconcile yourself fully to a confident authenticity. You were, when doping, a pretender. In pretending, you cheated the real winner, the person most capable of winning due to ability, or hard work, or savvy. Your own heart will bear witness that you undermined destiny. Everyone else may think of you as a legend. A hero doesn't believe his own press but with humility surveys himself.
What is more honorable than mounting that top step? The knowledge that you did the best you had with what you were naturally given and could enhance through discipline and discretion. This is a warrior's genuine beauty and legitimate strength.
Prayer for Conscience
"But if you don't do what you say…you can be sure that your sin will track you down." 38Numbers 32:23-24
We are grateful that we have a built-in mechanism that guides us from wrong to right. We confess ignoring that inner whisper. We ask to sensitize and stop rationalizing our decision-making, to stop silencing clamorous cheating voices so the voice of truth – our conscience- can tell a different story.
Ponder Is my conscience clear? Affirm I can make things right immediately. Watch how wrongs add up. Watch how clearly you can contemplate solutions when facing truths about yourself.
37"Manager's and other team staff's commitment to a new cycling," UCI anti-doping declaration as posted on www.uci.ch as of December 2007
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Saturday, 27 June 2015
banana nut bread
Our local supermarket has this bad (good?) habit of constantly over-ordering bananas. They often (as in, 99% of the time I walk in there) have blackened, overripe bananas on clearance.
This means I can pick up about 6-8 bananas for just 99c. I often purchase a few packets of over ripened bananas, peel them and then freeze them for later use. I usually add my bananas in cakes, but you can make smoothies or icecream out of them too.
This banana nut bread is a great way to use up those over ripened bananas you may have. It's got a very bready texture and tastes amazing when toasted and smeared with butter or honey (or both). It's just as nice when it's cool, too; the bread has a chewy texture with the occasional crunch thanks to the added nuts. Make sure you add some sort of spread on it before you eat it; the bread can be rather dry otherwise. Or simply enjoy it toasted with a hot cup of tea.
Banana Nut Bread
Makes 1 loaf
butterandjamblog.com (adapted from Margaret Fulton)
3 large, ripe bananas, mashed
2 eggs
1 2/3 cups plain flour
¾ cup caster sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp bicarb soda
½ cup roughly chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease and line a 21x11cm loaf tin.
Mix the bananas and eggs together in a large bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the walnuts, and mix well. Mix in the walnuts, until just combined.
Spoon the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Turn out onto a wire rack and serve warm or cool with butter.
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Enterprise Intelligence subjects covering definition, aims, programs and options. The big BI vendors, including SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Information Builders, MicroStrategy and SAS, have been around for years, but there is also numerous BI startups that see their merchandise get absorbed as a function in a larger participant's software.
As common, I talked to a lot of prospects and distributors, and one theme came up several occasions: A number of the nice options that vendors have on the roadmaps for their instruments and that analyst record high of their discussions of trends for the new 12 months may not be buyer requirements in any respect.
Even when the event stage of your BI venture goes without a hitch, getting 100 users to use any kind of software, in any company, is a problem that's not in any respect simpler than any technical problem you'll encounter during the various levels of the undertaking.
I'm a undertaking-based mostly marketing consultant, serving to knowledge-intensive companies use agile strategies and automation tools to switch legacy reporting and bring in modern BI/Analytics to leverage Social, Cloud, Cell, Massive Data, Visualizations, and Predictive Analytics.
The cloud presents an appealing resolution: since there isn't any hardware to install, no software to upgrade, no storage to backup and no new security mechanisms to implement, adopting a cloud answer (largely) circumvents the necessity for extensive IT companies (whether from in-house personnel or consultants).


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Andy Kindler, Scott Thompson, Sarah Morgan and Chris Martin join host, Dave Holmes for swinger party talks, vampire leprechauns debates, and the wonders of US drinking culture.
Andy Kindler wants to plug his very first Just for Laughs Speech from 1996 and recommends you check out up and coming comedian Scott Thompson.
Scott Thompson wants to plug What Would Sal Do? and recommends Girls on HBO.
Sarah Morgan recommends The Regular Features Podcast and Alice Lowe's Prevenge.
Chris Martin wants to plug The Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin Comedy Podcast and recommends Crashing on HBO and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes and hosts his live quiz show, The Friday Forty at LA's Meltdown Theatre on the second Friday of every month.
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Print version ISSN 0104-0707
Texto contexto - enferm. vol.22 no.4 Florianópolis Oct./Dec. 2013
Nursing tasks in the Material Storage Center of hospital institutions1
Actividades del enfermero en un Centro de Material y Esterilización en instituciones hospitalarias
Rosineide Feres GilI; Silvia Helena CameloII; Ana Maria LausIII
in Nursing. Nurse, Material Storage Center, Hospital Universitário de
Londrina. Paraná, Brazil. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
IIPh.D. in Nursing. Faculty, General and Specialized Nursing Department, EERP/USP. São Paulo, Brazil. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
IIIPh.D. in Nursing. Faculty, General and Specialized Nursing Department, EERP/USP. São Paulo, Brazil. E-mail: email@example.com
This cross-sectional descriptive study aims to identify the activities of nurses at Material Storage Centers of hospital institutions according to the activity profile and frequency of application. Subjects were selected through the reference chain or "snowball" technique. Data were collected using Google Docs offline®, posting a questionnaire on professional specification and specific activities of the nurses at Material Storage Centers. As to the respondents' profile, the results show the age group 21 to 30 years, nurses with specialization in Material Storage Centers (33.4%). As to the 25 activities under investigation, 15 activities present a daily frequency, nine activities a monthly frequency and 14 activities appear as never performed. This shows the need to incorporate new questions on the future of the work in Material Storage Centers, suggesting further research in the area.
Descriptors: Nursing staff. Professional nursing role. Sterilization. Hospital materials administration.
Este estudio descriptivo y transversal objetiva identificar las actividades de los enfermeros del Centro de Material y Esterilización de instituciones hospitalarias según el perfil de las actividades y la frecuencia de realización. La selección de los sujetos se realizó por la técnica en cadena de referencia o el llamado en portugués "bola de neve" (pelota de nieve). Los datos fueron colectados con la herramienta Google Docs Offline®, con cuestionarios auto aplicado conteniendo caracterización profesional y las actividades especificas de los enfermeros y el Centro de Material y Esterilización. Los resultados evidencian, en relación al perfil de los encuestados, faja etaria entre 21 y 30 años, enfermeros con especialización en el área de Centro de Material y Esterilización (33,4%). De las 25 actividades relacionadas, 15 actividades presentan frecuencia de realización diaria, nueve actividades con realización mensual y 14 actividades aparecen como nunca siendo realizadas. Se evidencia la necesidad de incorporar nuevas cuestiones sobre el futuro del trabajo en la Centro de Material y Esterilización, sugiriéndose entonces el desarrollo de nuevas pesquisas en el área.
Descriptores: Recursos humanos de enfermería. Papel del profesional de enfermería. Esterilización. Administración de materiales en el hospital.
The Material Storage Center (MSC) stands out in the context of health organizations in a rather peculiar way, as it supports all care and diagnostic services that need dental-medical-hospital products for care delivery to their users.1
One of the factors that decisively contributed to the implementation and consolidation of MSCs in hospitals was health teams' awareness about the need to control hospital infections, which directly affect the quality of care delivery and often entail extended hospitalizations and, hence, increased hospital care costs. Understanding about the influence of material cleansing, disinfection and sterilization procedures on hospital infection prevention and control underline the importance and responsibility of the MSC in the context of health institutions, as the existence of errors in these processes exert a determinant influence on the emergence of complications in patients.2-3
The MSC comes with a distinguished work process and specific activity area for nurses who, using a range of scientific and technological knowledge to coordinate the work, seek integration with consumer units and support units at the hospital institution, characterizing a relation of interdependence.
Nurses' work at the MSC should be considered as legitimate care, considering that it equips direct care delivery, acknowledging that material preparation is essential in daily nursing care.4-5
Concerning the functions at this unit, the competences required from nurses are related to the management of the sector, technical-care activities and human capital management, demanding a set of structured knowledge that permits the achievement of their proposed work goals at a unit with such great accountability.
In that perspective, another challenge MSC nurses are confronted with is related to the work process itself at the unit, strongly marked by invisible action, considering that indirect care is less value, although this practice is based on tacit and scientific knowledge that could enhance social acknowledgement.6
The characteristics of MSC work are very distinct from other hospital units. Despite legal regulations on adequate MSC structures, in practice, it had been verified that they do not correspond to the current panorama, in which the functional requisites are not attended to, in terms of neither physical structure nor activities performed. As a result of that panorama, a range of services is available, which consequently affect the set of activities the professionals working at the unit perform.
In the literature, various documents have been published, offering legal solutions that indicate not only the MSCs' functional scope, but also the activities the nursing team is supposed to develop. This description is based on the finding that, traditionally, nursing is in charge of management at this unit, given its accountability for the organization of the therapeutic space in he hospital.
Hence, concerning the execution of the MSC nursing professionals' activities, the Federal Nursing Council (COFEn) defined and determines, in its Decree 94406/1987, which regulates Law 7.498/86, that the task of auxiliary nurses includes cleaning activities, putting material and equipment in order, as well as disinfection and sterilization, under nursing supervision and orientation.7
Then, Collegiate Board Resolution 307/2002 was published, which endorses the aspects inherent in the establishment of this unit's own activities,8 without addressing various technical-administrative activities though, such as planning, organization, coordination, orientation, supervision, training and continuing education, activities and responsibilities that are part of nurses' daily work in MSC.9
In the same sense, with a view to strengthening the legal standards elaborated to support nurses working at MSCs, in 2007, the Brazilian Society of Surgical, Anesthetic Recovery and Material Storage Center Nurses (SOBECC) published an extensive list of activities established for the nursing team at that unit.10
Considering the complexity of the work process at that unit and of events involving the quality of processes related to the reprocessing of different medical-hospital material, recently, RDC 15.2012 was published to set the best practices for the functioning of health product processing services and, among these, the responsibilities of the nursing team are described.11
In view of that document, COFEn publishes Resolution 424/2012, in view of the need to regulate the responsibilities of nursing team members working at Material Storage Centers in Brazil. That resolution has been considered a guideline for professional nursing practice at that unit.12
Among the publications that establish and recommend a task profile, a study should be mentioned that was developed at hospitals in São Paulo City, which are considered referral institutions and performance benchmarks for the work processes accomplished there, in which the nursing team activities at MSCs were identified and validated. That research permitted the elaboration of a flowchart representing the actions undertaken at the unit, including six areas, 25 work subgroups and 110 activities, besides 25 nursing activities.3
Given the particularity of the institutions where this research was undertaken, the investigation of different hospital realities in Brazil was considered relevant, especially concerning the work of MSC nurses, with a view to gaining a more comprehensive view of work at these units and understanding the complexity and peculiarity of this professional's activities, as well as to reassert their importance in the management of that service.
In view of these considerations and the relevance of the theme for professional nursing practice, this research was undertaken to identify nurses' activities in MSCs of hospital institutions according to the activity profile and the frequency of their accomplishment.
A descriptive and cross-sectional study was undertaken. The population consists of clinical nurses and/or nurse faculty in Material Storage Centers of public, private or non-profit hospitals in Brazil, who possess professional experience and expertise in the research area. To select the subjects, the snowball technique was chosen,13 considering the importance of experience or expertise on the subject to achieve a consensus on specialized ideas.
The recruitment started with the signaling of an initial key informant, who was the Coordinator of the Perioperative Nursing Area at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, an acknowledged academic institution in Brazil and internationally. That person was asked to indicate the name, function and e-mail address of three professionals who might comply with the sample composition criteria.
After identifying the probable participants, the research was presented by e-mail, through a document that presented the project to the identified professionals and invited them to participate. An exclusive e-mail address was created for this purpose. If they agreed to participate, the Informed Consent Term was sent, followed by the questionnaires.
For data collection, two self-applied instruments were elaborated, one to characterize the participants, and the other called "Questionnaire about specific nursing activities at the MSC", including 25 specific nursing tasks at this service, constructed based on the study developed in a Master's thesis.3 The participants were expected to assess and score the frequency of the activity described on a Likert scale, ranging from never to rarely, daily, weekly and monthly. One alternative should be marked for each instrument question, and completion was essential to move on to subsequent pages and access the complete questionnaire. Besides the list of activities, space was provided to add any activities not addressed in the list, according to the respondent's opinion.
To collect the research information, advice was sought from an informatics expert, who indicated the tool Google Docs Off line®, which was considered highly versatile and permits different uses, including a simple questionnaire, registration form, opinion poll, survey, etc. In addition, it can easily be shared by e-mail or through a direct link, making this tool a very interesting option for teachers, students, researchers and professionals whose work involves the application of questionnaires.14 The collected answers are automatically included in a worksheet, making it easy to produce statistics.
The entire document flow in this research was done by e-mail, and the researcher had exclusive access to the results. A 15-day deadline was set for the participants to return the questionnaires and data were collected between July 2011 and April 2012.
For the sake of data analysis, descriptive statistics were applied to the study variables, using frequency distribution, and the results were grouped in tables.
In compliance with National Health Council Resolution 196/96, approval for the project was obtained from the Research Ethics Commission at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing (Protocol 1331/2011).
Eighty-two professionals were contacted and agreed to participate. They received the link to the data collection instrument by e-mail and 31 professionals responded, who constituted the research sample.
The choice of the electronic tool was based on a literature review, in which studies were identified that indicate the use of technological tools for studies that use the web as an ally in the research process. When well used, these auxiliary and support resources make it easier for the investigator to accomplish the research.15
Online research can meet with greater resistance to answer the study, as many users are fearful that their data might be used improperly or for criminal purposes, and therefore prefer avoiding access to unknown websites that may weaken their personal security.16
Our study supports the assertion that, despite the enhanced development of communication methods and technologies that permit faster and more precise contact with the population of interest for the research, resistance was faced to participate in the online research.
As regards the participating nurses' characteristics, table 1 displays the variables collected.
The data demonstrate that, among the nurse experts in MSC, 93.55% are female, between 21 and 60 years of age, with 35.49% between 21 and 30 years old. As regards the graduation time, 61.29% graduated less than 15 years early, but mostly between one and five years. Concerning professional experience in the area, 58.08% have between one and five years of experience in the sector.
Brazilian literature reveals few studies that describe the profile of nurses working at MSC services. In a study of 18 health institutions in Curitiba-PR, aimed at describing nurses' perception about the elements of their work process at the MSC, 93.3% of the subjects were female, between 41 and 50 years of age (53.3%), up to five years since graduation (53.8%) and between two and five years of experience at MSC (60%).17 Except for the age range, graduation and experience characteristics are similar, showing the profile of professionals working at this specialized service.
The data regarding complementary education indicate that 33.35% of the participants hold a specific specialization degree in MSC. Studies have shown that professional education should contribute to the renewal of the administrative dynamics of nursing services, valuing the specific knowledge of MSC nurses and the importance of this sector for the quality of care delivery.18
As regards the professionals' activities, focused on in this research, the data are described in table 2, together with the respective frequency of their accomplishment.
The analysis of the answers indicates that most of the respondents marked 15 of the activities listed as daily and nine as monthly. Among the activities indicated as daily and accomplished most frequently, the following stand out in decreasing order: supervision of activities at the unit; confirmation of surgery program, checking availability of sterile materials and garment; attendance to consumer units; coordination of work process at the unit; team monitoring in execution of activities, mainly new professionals; supervision of functioning of equipment used in each work area; confirmation of surgery program, checking delivery of consigned materials; and verification of sterilization control documents.
Management is the main nursing activity at the MSC, comprising different functions, such as planning, elaboration of administrative and operational instruments, material and human resource management and supervision. Nurses' activities are concentrated on material and staff organization, with processed or reprocessed medical-hospital products as their work object.19 The instruments of these professionals' work process are knowledge, communication and interpersonal relations and planning.
These data are similar to a study of ten MSC nurses in Campinas-SP, which showed management as the main activity of nurses at this unit, including different functions, such as planning, elaboration of administrative and operations instruments, material and human resource management and supervision. In this study, the management activities all participating nurses most indicated were material resource management, mainly prediction and provision, control and verification of preparation.20
In the hospital area, material resource management has stood out, mainly as a result of technological advances in recent decades. The incorporation of sophisticated technology is illustrated by the increased complexity of care practices and the challenges public and private managers face in view of the enhanced supply of products, and permits the monitoring of product quality, guaranteeing safety for patients and health teams.21
The Material Storage Center is a service that articulates with practically all hospital sectors, as it provides medical products to so-called consumer units, including not only the Surgical Center, but also hospitalization units, the outpatient clinic, the emergency unit, among others.22
The nursing staff has detailed knowledge about care and service dynamics, and is generally responsible for managing materials and health services at the sector. This clearly shows the relevance of material resource management for nursing work.23
Initially, the MSC was responsible for processing, storing and distributing dental-medical-hospital products and equipment, using different work instruments (equipment, material, techniques, standards, communication, scientific knowledge, in-service education, management, etc.). Nowadays, however, the service goes beyond and is aimed at delivering indirect care through the availability of safe products that support direct care delivery by other sectors (consumer units) in response to the clients' health needs.4
MSC nurses need to demonstrate their competences with regard to the modernization of the production process, and mainly the valuation and constant recycling of human resources, through effective continuing education that is committed to the development of nursing professionals' full range of potential, in response to the new technologies that are put in practice.18
One aspect that demands careful analysis refers to activities related to the nurses' supervision of the functioning of equipment used in each work area. For this purpose, they need to know their equipment and their proper functioning, so as to guarantee the reliability and safety of client care. Monitoring the equipment and training the employees responsible for operating the machines is fundamental for the service to perform well.
Concerning medical-hospital material, MSC nurses' responsibility to verify the surgical program of the consigned material during its reception, usage control, charge and return of this material represents a daily task, but not for all respondents. At some institutions, this responsibility does not exist for these professionals, indicating a different structure of the MSC work process, predominantly with regard to surgical material.
Another surprising aspect relates to the nurses' lack of participation in research (41.94%). This is a rare activity for 48.39% of the respondents. Only 9.67% of the nurses report monthly research activities. According to existing studies, this production takes the form of master's thesis, doctoral dissertation, specialization and scientific initiation monographs, as well as books and presentations at scientific events.20
What the MSC nurses' professional practice is concerned, one may say that the primary function of this service is to offer support for patient care delivery in different situations. The predominant activity in this specific work is the management of different medical-hospital products' processing.
Nevertheless, the increasing supply of disposable medical-hospital material and the outsourcing of services have made several MSC activities obsolete.20 In addition, products have evolved and items originally manufactured for single use are being reused, incorporating new questions about the future of MSC work, which will certainly determine a new format for its structure and activities.
The study revealed the profile of nursing professionals working at MSC and permitted the evaluation of how frequently the activities these professionals are responsible for at this specialized service are accomplished. The MSC is characterized as a sector in health institutions whose work process comprises specific knowledge and practices, with distinctive objectives and goals when compared to other units. Due to its characteristics, its work is acknowledged as indirect care, equipping health care and offering the support needed for different care activities.
Among the 25 activities listed in the data collection instrument, which refer to validated activities that picture the work of nurses at MSCs, 15 activities are accomplished daily, nine monthly, 14 are not frequently accomplished and some never.
The research permitted the identification of research needs in the area of MSC, deepening nursing management knowledge and suggesting further research to assess the different facets of nurses and nursing teams' work.
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of Hospital Institutions, presented to the University of São Paulo (USP)
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