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A small refractor looks at Mars
Posted 29 January 2014 - 05:01 PM
I also (re)learned that good seeing and patience will pay off more than you realise.
Looking forward to a few more early starts... :-)
Posted 29 January 2014 - 05:10 PM
Posted 29 January 2014 - 06:04 PM
My telescope is homebuilt from a 1980's-era Edmund Scientific objective. So it's a 100mm (almost 4 inches!) f/15. I dont think anyone sold short focus refractors much back then. They still provide (source? make?) objectives: Edmund Scientific They seem pricey now, compared to what you can get from places like Istar or D&G.
Posted 29 January 2014 - 07:20 PM
Posted 29 January 2014 - 11:05 PM
Ed D
Posted 30 January 2014 - 08:16 PM
Evenings used to be my main time for observing, but of course, it could easily be midnight before the seeing has settled (And I'm a man who loves his sleep). Summer seeing seems worse than winter where I live, and mornings seem better than evenings, so I now aim to observe in the early hours as much as I can.
This mornings session was a bit of a washout. Seeing was about 2 on the Antoniadii scale (yesterday was a 1, and I really wish I'd taken the time to make a sketch! Never mind! Hope your skies improve!
Posted 30 January 2014 - 08:23 PM
I'm looking forward to revamping my collection of filters - even on a wee scope they're useful enough to pull out the details. I'm also working on an 8" Newt, but who knows when that's going to be finished!
Clear skies...
Posted 31 January 2014 - 07:52 AM
Posted 09 February 2014 - 12:06 PM
However, I did have a bit of fun, looking at the turbulence by aligning on a star, and removing the eyepiece. Usually you can see the turbulent cells of air as rapidly oscillating blotches. Occasionally I've seen what appear to be streams or currents of disturbance (especially when I am looking low and west, where a small valley is.) Tonight it seemed as though I was looking at a rippling sheet. A weirdly fascinating thing to see.
Never mind, there's a change in the weather due in a few days, maybe things will improve!
Posted 23 February 2014 - 01:27 PM
Seeing was 2 - 1 on the Antoniadi scale. Mars is perceptibly bigger now. You can see the gibbous phase is less pronounced, but still there. The polar cap seems to have less contrast when compared the to rest of the disc. It seems only a smidge brighter than the disc itself. There is a suggestion of shading on the disc now, but it's very very faint and hard to tease out.
Which leads me on to the value of making a drawing, rather than scribbling lots of notes! There's no arguing with what you meant, or trying to interpret awful handwriting in your log!
Today, I could see, an unmistakable bright feature on the edge of the trailing limb at about the 8 o'clock position. A light blue filter improved the contrast between the disc and the feature. Further study with the filter, and blinking the filter lead me to believe that perhaps I was seeing a contrast effect due to a darker area on the disc itself and a gap in that dark area where the "feature" was:
I've just realised I've labelled the poles round the wrong was *doh* :-)
In my drawing the bright feature is at the bottom, with the vague darker area around it. The dotted line shows the general extent of it. I tried shading the drawing to give more of an impression as to what was there, but I forgot how gritty the scanner makes everything. The contrasts were very subtle, although the bright area seemed lighter than the polar cap.
So anyhoo, first drawing for me for the season. Looking forward to seeing more as opposition gets closer!
Posted 23 February 2014 - 08:37 PM
i was also out with my 4'' f/15 skylight refractor and even here in ontario canada the seeing is not the best in our winter, however in slight seconds i could discern a nice disc with hints of shadings and a polar cap,hopeful for better seeing around mid march,our spring,new zealand must be a neat place,kevin
Posted 24 February 2014 - 07:17 PM
i was also out with my 4'' f/15 skylight refractor and even here in ontario canada the seeing is not the best in our winter, however in slight seconds i could discern a nice disc with hints of shadings and a polar cap,hopeful for better seeing around mid march,our spring,new zealand must be a neat place,kevin
Hi Kevin. It's interesting as to what might cause good and bad seeing. Certainly where I live the seasons play a part, cooler weather (which tends to come in from the Southern Ocean) seems more likely to be steady. Warmer weather, which has generally passed overland and spills over the top of a mountain north of me, seems less settled. I hope your seeing improves, it certainly makes all the difference with smaller instruments I think.
Where I live is a small city on the coast. Half an hours drive and you're in the country which is nice - it's mostly farmland. Dunedin is like most places I guess, some of it's pretty, some of it not so much! :-) I guess the neat thing about NZ is that you can go from city to country, to mountains and rugged bush, all in a day! :-)
Posted 24 February 2014 - 07:48 PM
Very nice reports. A 100mm at f/15 is nice classic set up that as you know can provide some terrific views. I'm glad you were able to get some steady seeing despite some poor as well. Ill bet your scope shows it all comes April.
Posted 25 February 2014 - 09:20 PM
thanks for reply,
i am just opposite than you at 44.5 degrees north ,i live on georgian bay in canada where many movie stars and rock stars have cottages up here in the 30,000 islands in muskoka,i am very near the worlds first dark sky reserve torrance barrens,i live in cottage country so i dont have to travel much as it is scenic here but i always had a soft spot for new zealand,someday i wish to see the southern sky,clear skies,kevin
Posted 23 March 2014 - 08:02 PM
The N.polar cap seems to be beyond my wee scope now. I thought this was the case from the 12th. There were moments where I thought I could glimpse something, but the seeing just simply wasn't perfect. I still think of all the things that make a difference to planetary observing, the seeing is the most important. In fact the disc was quite blank this morning
In the same vein, I thought there was a glimpse of a bright region on the preceding edge. Most likely an optical illusion, but it's amazing how you can convince yourself that you are seeing "something". Of course, the best thing to do is to record it and throw your observation out into the wild and see if anyone else can corroborate it :-)
I've attached my observation from the 12th. I was actually able to make a drawing. A faint band which I think is Mare Cimmerium just visible.
Clear skies everyone! :-)
Posted 23 March 2014 - 10:32 PM
Posted 05 April 2014 - 11:45 PM
This time I set my alarm early and got up after 2am. The sky was completely steady, no twinkling stars, with a slight haze.
The seeing was easily a 1 on the Antoniadi scale, and boy did it make all the difference. I could see the tiny disc of the N.polar cap which has previously eluded me in more average seeing conditions.
This was also the first time that I didn't feel like I had to "wait" for detail to appear. It was just there:
Stretched across the lower face of Mars, was a clearly discernable hockey-stick shaped feature. The arm of the feature is Sinus Meridiani and Sinus Sabaeus. The upturned end of the "stick" is Syrtis Major. The elbow was fainter than the main body.
From the polar cap down to the 9 o'clock position a dark feature which is Mare Acidalium. The polar cap was surrounded by a light collar-region that blended into the top of M.Acidalium. The edge of the disc at 9 o'clock was also distinctly brighter, it seemed to me only slightly darker than the polecap. But more curiously, it seemed to have a definite pale yellow-white tint, which contrasted against the pale salmon colour of the disc. The southern edge of the disc also seemed to have this same pale yellow colour, but no other parts of the edge shared this trait:
So, the clouds have returned, but things are looking to pick up in the middle of the week. I can't wait! :-)
Posted 29 April 2014 - 04:53 PM
Heading back home, and the weather has blown over on the coast here and finally a glimpse of Mars on the downhill run from opposition:
Although the seeing was ok, it seemed to lack the crispness. All the same I was surprised I could see detail. The subtle colours from my last observation were washed out to a uniform yellow. There were no bright areas along the rim (Which were clouds I guess)
The dominant feature extending from the polar cap (which was a tiny spot of white) is Mare Acidalium which in white light was more blob like. In good moments there was the perception of a slightly darker tint extending to the following edge. A light yellow filter seemed to define the edges better and Acidalium looked more elongated with a "hook" to the left than in white light. A red filter seemed to make the dark albedo regions more intense, but alas the image was getting pretty dim by then!
Posted 29 April 2014 - 06:55 PM
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Ed D
Posted 30 April 2014 - 11:02 PM
Vaughn very nice work and in the pointelist method no less! I'm glad good seeing visited you - the lesser seeing ob you e dee with is still great though.
Thank you Pete. I'm using a 67mm sized blank with a 0.25mm pen, but I might make the blanks bigger, to help the dots blend in more. I used to use pencil shading, but it was a bit problematic when it came to scanning and uploading. I've been experimenting with ink drawing for a wee while, and I think the secret is probably a larger scale as it's bold medium.
Actually, if you stand back from the screen a bit so Mars is more "eyepiece sized" then the dots work quite well :-)
Posted 30 April 2014 - 11:10 PM
Vaughn, glad to see you are getting some good Mars observations.
Ed D
Thank you Ed. Last opposition wasn't so flash what with it being a bit low from my usual observing spot, so I felt a bit blase about it. This time round has been much better and it's co-coincided with our autumn, so the nights get darker earlier and the weather starts to settle down (when it's not raining!) I'm hoping to get an early session in tonight provided those clouds thin out a bit! :-)


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Maharashtra electricity regulator MERC in an order today said consumer migration from Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) to Tata Power will be allowed only for residential customers using up to 300 units a month.
"Consumer changeover will be allowed from RInfra to Tata Power only for the residential category of consumers and that too only for the consumers who consume electricity up to 300 units a month," Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) said in the order.
RInfra had filed a petition before MERC seeking relief on account of certain issues affecting its customer base and financial viability due to switchover by consumers to Tata Power Company (TPC).
"The Commission has come to the conclusion that there is a need to intervene in the manner of changeover and switchover of consumers, as being undertaken by the parties.
"There is a need to calibrate the migration of consumers from one licensee to another, to ensure a level- playing field and also to protect the interests of low-end consumers being supplied electricity in the common area of supply between RInfra and TPC," the order said.
"For identifying the target segment for consumer changeover, only those residential category consumers whose average monthly consumption over the previous 12 months is up to 300 units a month, shall be eligible to changeover from RInfra to TPC."
However, the regulator noted the restriction shall not apply to pending applications for changeover, irrespective of consumer category and consumption slab, which will be processed as per the earlier protocol approved in the interim order dated October 15, 2009 and changeover for eligible consumers shall be done in a smooth manner.


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The disappearance of the "revolving door" patient in Scottish general practice: successful policies
Knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, education, and communication
We describe the health of "revolving door" patients in general practice in Scotland, estimate changes in their number over the timescale of the study, and explore reasons for changes, particularly related to NHS and government policy.
A mixed methods predominantly qualitative study, using a grounded theory approach, set in Scottish general practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with professional key informants, 6 Practitioner Services staff who administer the GP registration system and 6 GPs with managerial or clinical experience of working with "revolving door" patients. Descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative analysis of patient removal episodes linked with routine hospital admissions, outpatient appointments, drug misuse treatment episodes and deaths were carried out with cohorts of "revolving door" patients identified from 1999 to 2005 in Scotland.
A "revolving door" patient is removed 4 or more times from GP lists in 7 years. Patients had complex health issues including substance misuse, psychiatric and physical health problems and were at high risk of dying. There was a dramatic reduction in the number of "revolving door" patients during the course of the study.
"Revolving door" patients in general practice had significant health problems. Their numbers have reduced dramatically since 2004 and this probably resulted from improved drug treatment services, pressure from professional bodies to reduce patient removals and the positive ethical regulatory and financial climate of the 2004 GMS GP contract. This is a positive development for the NHS.
Interest in "revolving door" patients, that is those who are repeatedly removed from successive general practice (GP) lists, arose from pilot work on how patients achieve registration with practices in the city of Glasgow. General practices in the United Kingdom operate a geographical list system which defines their patient population. Being registered with a general practitioner (on a list) is necessary to access most National Health Service (NHS) facilities. We wished to find out more about this group of patients who appeared to be systematically excluded from a health system that is internationally lauded as providing trust, coordination, continuity, flexibility and coverage, irrespective of health status or ability to pay
General practices in the UK have a right to remove patients from their list for a variety of reasons including "break down in the doctor-patient relationship" or "violence". "Moved out of the practice area," is more commonly used but this category is rarely relevant when considering "revolving door" patients. There is a literature on patients who have been removed once from GP lists but it has either excluded repeatedly-removed patients from analysis
In this paper we develop a definition of "revolving door" patients in general practice and describe their health. We also report on changes in the number of "revolving door" patients in Scotland over the timescale of the study and the possible NHS and government policy reasons for this. The explanations as to why patients may become "revolving door" patients and the implications for our understanding of doctor-patients relationships will be considered in a future paper.
In 2006, six semi-structured interviews were carried out with Practitioner Services staff who administered the GP registration system across Scotland and with two GPs whose managerial or clinical role meant they had worked with "revolving door" patients. Data from these interviews guided the development of a definition of a "revolving door" patient and this definition was applied to the patient removal data (for reasons other than change of address) obtained from the Community Health Index (CHI) from 1999 to 2005. Secondary care data on hospital admissions, outpatient attendances and drug misuse treatment episodes experienced over the life course were linked by NHS Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland to a sample. The results for the adults are presented in this paper. Additional file
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Drawing on cognitive psychology script theory about clinical decision making
A further four semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2010 with GPs in health board areas where "revolving door" patient prevalence was high. Summaries of patient removal data from ISD Scotland (1999 to 2011) were also reviewed and analyzed.
Our predominantly qualitative analysis using mixed methods was informed by the grounded theory approach attributable to Charmaz
"Revolving door" patients in general practice were described by the professional key informants in 2006 as a small group of patients that professionals working in primary care would recognise. In 2010 one GP described coming across 20–30 "revolving door" patients during a 15 year partnership in an urban area that used to generate a lot of repeat removals (GP respondent 3, (GP3)).
In 2006 Practitioner Services respondents agreed that a patient who had been removed once or twice was not a "revolving door" patient, but three removal episodes was "starting to look like a problem". There was a range of views on removal frequency. Respondents made a distinction between two groups of "revolving door" patients; "fast revolvers" who were regularly and routinely removed as frequently as every seven days and "slow revolvers" who were repeatedly removed, but after months rather than days or weeks.
We developed several versions of the definition in an attempt to describe these qualitatively derived categories so included all patients removed four or more times during the study interval. We tested categories based on the median number of days patients spent on a GP list. Those with a median of 0–100 days on list were "fast revolving door" patients, 101–180 were "medium revolving door" patients and those with medians of more than 181 days we called "slow revolving door" patients.
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Appendix 3. Additional tests comparing "fast", "medium" and "slow" revolving door patients. Appendix 4 Summary of the 3 samples of "revolving door" patients.
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Because there was no difference between these groups our final working definition of a "revolving door" patient was a patient who was removed four or more times from a GP practice list in seven years.
There were demographic descriptive data for 555 adult "revolving door" patients, and health service linked data for 410 patients. 351 patients were included in the qualitative analysis. Additional file
Most (83%) "revolving door" patients were removed between four and seven times (range 4–92), and most (67%) were male. The median age at first removal was 31 years (range 17–88). Thirty-five percent of "revolving door" patients lived in the most deprived decile and 87% in the more deprived half of Scotland (decile 6–10)
Eighty-six percent of the 410 record-linked "revolving door" patients had at least one hospital admission (median 9 admissions, range 0 to 295) before 2011. The reasons for admission are summarized in Table
Fifty-one percent had taken an irregular discharge during a hospital admission (median 1, range 0 to 45). Ninety-nine percent had had a hospital outpatient appointment (median 15, range 0 to 249) and 92% of patients had missed outpatient appointments (median 7, range 0 to 146).
There were no substantial correlations between numbers of removal episodes and other patterns of health service activity, including irregular discharges (Spearman's ρ = 0.02, P = 0.743) and number of admissions (Spearman's ρ = 0.07, P = 0.170). There was however a weak positive correlation with the number of outpatients appointments (Spearman's ρ = 0.11, P = 0.032), although not with the number of missed outpatients appointments (Spearman's ρ = 0.07, P = 0.141). There was a tendency for hospital admission dates to be close to removal dates (odds = 1.25, P = 0.008) but not to re-registration dates (odds = 1.16, P = 0.084) than could be expected by chance (a health service date was defined as close to a practice transfer date if fell in the first or last 25% of the period between two practice transfer dates; see statistical methods). Dates of drug treatment episodes were close to both removal (odds = 1.26, P = 0.049) and registration dates (odds = 2.05, P < 0.001). Outpatient appointment dates were not associated with removal (odds = 0.98, P = 0.740) or registration dates (odds = 1.03, P = 0.701).
From all the collated data sources it was determined that 84% of patients had been dependent on substances. The majority had evidence of dependency on opiates but patients with alcohol dependency were also numerous. Alcohol-related admissions were important for many patients in the cohort.
Forty-eight percent of the cohort had evidence of self harm and 18% had a definite personality disorder diagnosis. There was a low prevalence of 'severe and enduring' (chronic psychotic or severe mood disorders) mental health problems.
Qualitative analysis of the "revolving door" patients gives an overview of the main health problems of the sample and is summarized in Table
Figure 1
Estimates of the standardised mortality ratio (SMR; the number of deaths observed per 100 expected) among the 410 record-linked "revolving door" patients relative to the general Scottish population in 2004, overall and in subgroups of age, sex and deprivation
Estimates of the standardised mortality ratio (SMR; the number of deaths observed per 100 expected) among the 410 record-linked "revolving door" patients relative to the general Scottish population in 2004, overall and in subgroups of age, sex and deprivation. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. The SMR estimates were adjusted for differences between the "revolving door" cohort and general Scottish population in the distributions of age (by 10-year age bands), sex and deprivation (by SIMD decile). The dashed line at SMR = 100 represents equivalence in mortality rate between the two populations; that is, if the adjusted death rates were the same in the two populations, the confidence intervals would be expected to overlap the dashed line.
The overall SMR for the "revolving door" patient cohort was 333 (95% CI 264 to 415) for every 100 deaths in the general population. In other words, there were around three to four deaths in the "revolving door" cohort for every death in the general population. Among younger "revolving door" patients (<45 years), the SMR is 558 (95% CI 401 to 726), more than double the SMR of patients aged over 45 (relative risk 2.5, 95% CI 1.6 to 3.7), so the death rate is approximately six-fold higher than in the general population. There were no significant differences in SMR between males and females or the most deprived 20% and the least deprived 80%.
Apparent disappearance
That "revolving door" patients were reducing in number was evident when the first interviews were conducted in 2006 as described by this key informant:
I (interviewer): "…this idea of "revolving door" patients do you think that's a valid one?"
R (respondent): "I might have a couple of years back but I don't think so much now. The GP contract changed in 2004 and my allocations have literally gone down to zilch so the contract has been great for me. I do have the offenders, my ones that are continually going round the system but in saying that they stay longer with a practice now before they are put off; they are no longer a seven day removal; so it's working for me." (Practitioner Services respondent (PS4))
The scale of the reduction in "revolving door" patient numbers became apparent in 2009, (four years after the previously described "revolving door" patient cohort) when no patients meeting the definition of a "revolving door" patient (as defined earlier) were eligible for recruitment into a patient experience study.
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Plot of number of all patient removals due to breakdown of doctor patient relationship or violence, by Scottish Health Board from 1999 to 2011
Plot of number of all patient removals due to breakdown of doctor patient relationship or violence, by Scottish Health Board from 1999 to 2011.
Glasgow (and Clyde) demonstrates most removal activity. It is the largest Health Board in Scotland and has the highest proportion of patients living in deprived areas
Had it been possible to include the repeat removal data about individual patients for Glasgow and Clyde Health Board from 1999 to 2004 the trend downwards may have been steeper.
The professional key informants described three reasons why they thought the generation of "revolving door" patients had reduced so dramatically over time.
The first was the introduction of the treatment of problem drug use and subsequent development of services. A GP respondent gave a bleak description of the early years of the drug injecting epidemic and then how that changed:
".it really kicked off about 92, 93, a lot of people started appearing, we had no training in it, we didn't know what to do. GPs didn't know what to do, there was no hospital base, there was an alcohol service but there wasn't a drug service and more people were appearing and we didn't know what to do with them. Over time, some of these patients became so insistent and abusive and demanding of practices that eventually they would, we would try our best with them but they would cross a line. …when we got a drugs service which was effective and people were getting into treatment, and they were being stabilised, then a lot of these patients' problems disappeared" GP4.
The second reason was the influence external organisations such as the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Health Ombudsmen had, by discouraging GPs from removing patients from their lists.
The third reason was the impact of the 2004 General Medical Services (nGMS) GP contract which changed the way that practices worked and their payment mechanism. This was considered by all key respondents to have had a large positive influence on practice removal activity and the production of "revolving door" patients. The most important aspects were thought to be the non discriminatory tone and accountability for removal decisions that the contract introduced.
A strong theme that emerged from the GP professional key informants was that when "revolving door" patients stopped "revolving" and settled with a practice they remained challenging to work with. There was limited evidence that a very small number of patients was still being removed, but at a much slower rate than previously. This is illustrated by the following quote from a GP interview from 2010. The practice had kept the patient registered for nine months before this removal:
R: "There would be one that I could think of that most recently left with mild learning difficulties and significant mental health…who again had the difficult way of interacting with the staff, out of hours, and inappropriate requests for things that were insoluble…Unfortunately her [relative] verbally, well no physically threatened [an ancillary member of staff], tried to run [them] over; which was something that we couldn't really tolerate. And so because he drove her here, all the time on a daily basis; generally that it was something we could not sustain. So she was already on a warning for behaviour and she apologised for it; her behaviour about verbally abusing several members of the reception staff at the front door as they left to go home from work. …she crossed the line it was just unacceptable…"GP3.
This study defined a "revolving door" patient as one who was removed four or more times from GP lists in seven years (excluding those removed for having moved out of the practice area). "Revolving door" patients in this cohort had substance misuse problems and a mixture of psychiatric health problems which included opiate dependency, harmful alcohol use, self harm and for some a diagnosis of personality disorder. Physical health problems were important too, along with being a victim of violence. There was a high risk of dying in this cohort, with one in six patients having died by the time the study concluded despite this being a predominantly younger adult age population of patients. There was no link between removal rates and use of health services although patients being admitted to hospital tended to be close to removal dates and drug treatment episodes tended to be close to re-registration dates.
There was a dramatic decline in the number of patients who became "revolving door" patients over the time frame of the study and this was considered to be due to changes in the way the NHS worked with patients. Developments in problem drug use treatment came early and more recently the expansion of community treatment services which included integrated working between GPs, community addiction teams, hospitals and prisons, is thought to have led to further improvements in stability of treatment. Hence it is postulated that patients whose primary reason for becoming a "revolving door" patient was their difficult interaction with GPs about their drug misuse treatment, stopped "revolving". There was pressure too from professional bodies to reduce patient removals and the final change appears to be the positive ethical, regulatory, and financial climate of the 2004 nGMS GP contract.
The main strength of this study was that it used mixed methods. This allowed us to contextualise data, direct data collection, and highlight strengths and weaknesses of the data sources. It explored and then represented the complexity of the topic of "revolving door" patients and their health issues, and this ranged across disease areas rather than focusing on one clinical aspect. A limitation of the study was the poor quality of the patient removal data from which the patient cohort was derived from. Also all options for imputing the data had some drawbacks, so our sample could not claim to be the whole cohort of Scottish patients removed from 1999 to 2005 (Additional file
This was the first study to investigate the topic of "revolving door" patients in general practice and to describe their morbidity and mortality. It attempted to represent and understand the complex health problems of these patients by reporting across disease categories and using qualitative analysis.
This study highlighted too that the number of "revolving door" patients has reduced dramatically in number in Scotland and that this was considered by the professional key informant to be due to a change in the response of the NHS to these patients. Although we cannot prove that a change in NHS response caused the decline in numbers, it seems to us the most likely explanation. This finding mirrors a historical study of two centuries of hospital admissions of "revolving door" psychiatric patients in the USA which concluded that it was the health service response to patients that caused the increase in patients revolving through the inpatient care system
That the "revolving door" patients described in this study had significant morbidity and mortality means the issue should be taken seriously. The evidence presented here should help us reframe the issue to consider that patients who struggle to form or maintain positive doctor-patient relationships may have high levels of complex morbidity and have a greatly raised risk of mortality.
We have proposed that it is the response of the NHS that has altered sufficiently to reduce the number and speed at which patients do "revolve". If true, this is a positive development. We think treatment and services for dependent drug users should take much of the credit for this, along with the ethical pressure professional bodies have brought to bear. One possibly surprising influence has been the likely impact of the 2004 nGMS contract. This contract has in the past been praised for success in driving up standards in the provision of care for specific aspects of clinical conditions but with an opportunity cost to management of diseases outwith target areas and to the delivery of traditional GP holistic care
In conclusion, our findings raise two challenges. First, now that "revolving door" patients are remaining registered with practices for much longer, are practices able to provide effective care for these patients? Second, assuming that the NHS is a complex adaptive system, what impact may future changes to the NHS have on these patients' ability to remain registered in practices and receive good care?
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
Authors' contribution
AEW undertook the conception, design, and interpretation of the study for her PhD studentship (2004–2011) with PW and KM supervising and advising as PhD supervisors at the University of Glasgow. AEW carried out the analysis of the qualitative data, and guided the statistical analysis of the patient cohort with the supervision of PW and KM. The statistical analysis was conducted by PCDJ. All authors contributed to the writing of the paper. AEW is the guarantor. The study adheres to the RATS guidelines on qualitative research (
Acknowledgements to individuals in Practitioner Services Scotland, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, ATOS Origin, and ISD Scotland for their support for the study especially Janet Mair (PSD) and Leanne Hopkins (ISD). Also to the professional key informants who gave up their time and clinical and academic colleagues in Glasgow who provided the space and support for AEW to conduct the study. The PhD studentship undertaken by AEW was supported by General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, and School of Medicine, University of Glasgow. Funding for additional costs was provided by R&D Primary Care Division, Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board and the Scientific Foundation Board of the Royal College of General Practitioners. The funders had no role in the conception, design, conduct, or analysis of the study and no role in the writing of this paper. The study was sponsored by R&D Primary Care Division, Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board.
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Josep Guardiola's decision not to stay at the helm of FC Barcelona next season could have unleashed a flurry of rumours about possible successors. However, as Andoni Zubizarreta revealed last Friday, the Club had long ago decided to follow the same policy as for new players – to look first at the people already in the Club. And that's why the baton is being passed to the man who has been Guardiola's number 2 for the last five years, Tito Vilanova.
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The same policy can be seen at work elsewhere in the Club. The departure of basketball coach Dusko Ivanovic led to the appointment of his number 2, Xavi Pascual, who has already won 11 trophies since he took over at Barça Regal.
The same happened in the handball section after the Club parted company with Manolo Cadenas and replaced him with his assistant, the other Xavi Pascual. His record in charge of Barça Intersport has been impeccable, culminating in an historic league and Champions League double a year ago. In both cases the Club put their faith in the number 2 coach rather than look elsewhere.
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TEMECULA -- In one respect, it's little more than redrawing a line on a map, but a week from today when Temecula annexes the Vail Ranch community, that line's new location will translate into 5,500 new Temecula residents, a nearly 10 percent jump in the city's population.
For the first time in Temecula's 11-year history, the city is shifting its boundaries to bring in more people. The new city residents live in a sea of more than 1,600 houses on the city's southeast end known as Vail Ranch. The community measures roughly 700 acres, includes two schools, a handful of businesses, as well as a few small parks. City staff estimates for the first few years it will cost around $1.2 million annually to provide police, fire and other services for Temecula's newest members.
"We realize this may not be a win fiscally for us, but we feel this was something that was driven by the citizens who want to become part of the city," said Deputy City Manager Gary Thornhill, who spent the last few years wrangling through what was at times a contentious annexation process. "This is our first annexation in the city. It wasn't a piece of cake. I'll tell you that."
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Much of the difficulty stemmed from the original proposal to annex both Vail Ranch and the neighboring community of Redhawk in 1998. After protests from Redhawk residents and a year of working out a deal with the county and its commission that handles boundary changes, the city is now able to annex Vail Ranch alone.
George Spiliotis, executive director of the Riverside County Local Agency Formation Commission, which sets boundaries for cities and districts, said the new boundary that will go into effect July 1 isn't ideal. It leaves Redhawk, which is still under the jurisdiction of the county as a suburban "island" nearly surrounded by the city but still served by the county.
"It would have made more sense for the city to provide services to both of those communities," Spiliotis said.
But Redhawk residents didn't want to be annexed. Although an outsider driving on the loop road that circles through the two neighborhoods would scarcely notice the difference between Vail Ranch and Redhawk, residents there say the two communities have distinct differences, and that those differences are part of the reason Vail Ranch is becoming part of the city and Redhawk is not.
"Vail Ranch doesn't tax themselves to provide an association," said Redhawk resident Ken Johnson, who was perhaps the most vocal opponent of Redhawk's becoming part of the city. "They park boats and RVs all over the place. They do all the things that aren't allowed in a higher class neighborhood."
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Johnson said that because Vail Ranch doesn't have a homeowners' association, it's in more need of city services than Redhawk, a golf-course community of roughly 2,000 houses that wraps around Vail Ranch. Annexation is also a better deal for Vail Ranch residents, who will get a $40 a year drop in their property taxes and other assessments by becoming part of the city, he said. Redhawk residents face a $135 a year tax increase if they are annexed into Temecula.
The discrepancy is due to different county assessments for each area and the higher cost the city estimates it would take to landscape and maintain parks in the Redhawk area.
Johnson also said that in the late 1990s some Redhawk residents held a lot of animosity toward Temecula because of a former mayor's plans to privatize one of the community's parks. When a vote on annexing the combined neighborhoods was taken in 1999, 60 percent of Redhawk residents were against it; 90 percent of Vail Ranch's residents were for it.


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- start sb off
- succour
interest noun (MONEY)
interest noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
interestverb [T]uk /ˈɪn.trəst/ us /ˈɪn.trɪst/
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- Politics doesn't interest him much.
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- The idea of travelling to China had always interested him, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity.
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Being all you can be
Black History Month should emphasize success, not victimhood
Black History Month in Austin, Texas, began terrifically with a Feb. 1 gospel concert at the University of Texas. The concert was a tribute to one man, Elmer Akins, who has set a record-50 years-for consecutive hosting of a gospel music show on one Austin radio station. It also highlighted the singing of a group that first became known four decades ago, The Mighty Clouds of Joy.
Such records of perseverance are impressive. But many of the performers on Feb. 1 stressed not the glory of music but the glory of God: They were excited about being able to "lift up the name of Jesus" at a state university largely hostile to Christianity. For one night at UT, "diversity" meant consideration of not only race but religion, with Christ freely praised.
As I have written throughout February on this page, Black History Month is worth celebrating, and Bible-based lessons taught by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) are worth remembering. Often, however, those lessons are forgotten. Often, African-American Studies departments at major universities blame slavery for social problems that exist in black communities-conveniently forgetting that, through the teaching of Mr. Washington and others, those problems had been reduced tremendously by 1960.
For example, as economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, each of the first five decennial censuses taken after Mr. Washington's death-those from 1920 to 1960-showed that at least 60 percent of all black males at least 15 years old were married. Each 10 years the percentage of blacks who were married increased, as did the rate among whites. The difference between black and white rates of marriage was always less than 5 percent throughout that period.
If blacks from 1960 on had continued making social progress at the same rate as they had over the earlier decades of the century, black poverty by now would be unusual, and the economic despair that now dominates many urban communities would be rare. Sadly, as blacks jumped over legal and political barricades during the 1960s, some thought they could ignore Booker T. Washington's wisdom.
By 1980, fewer than half of all black males age 15 and up were married, and the gap between white and black marriage rates had risen to 17 percent; by 1992 the gap was 21 percent. This is crucial because race makes far less difference in income than family composition: White, female-headed families are twice as likely as black, two-parent families to live in poverty.
Other statistics also show the importance of Booker T. Washington's emphasis on marriage, family development, and education. As Mr. Sowell notes, as early as 1969 black males who came from homes where there were newspapers, magazines, and library cards had the same incomes as whites from similar homes and with the same number of years of schooling. By the 1980s, black husband-and-wife families where both were college educated and working earned slightly more than similar white families.
Many blacks, of course, have taken Mr. Washington's advice, and they are doing well. But others who grew up in the God-is-dead 1960s (and their children) fell prey to a revolution in values. With less affluence to start with, blacks generally had less of a margin of error; middle-class white kids could do drugs as a lark and then return to sobriety, but many poor black kids who fell behind never caught up.
Since the '60s, of course, single parenting has increased throughout our society, but most dramatically among blacks. Public schools have gotten worse; that's exactly what we would expect when God is ignored, discipline erodes, and a lack of competition protects oldline monopolies. Many black children grow up under horrendous circumstances, their bitterness fanned by those who, as in Booker T. Washington's time, politically and economically profit from tearing down rather than building up.
The positive lessons of Black History Month will take years to put into practice, but they are conceptually easy. Churches that teach the whole counsel of God concerning life both in this world and in the next are crucial. Access to better schooling, which for millions of children will require development of either private scholarship or public voucher programs, is essential. It is vital for good students to go to college and major there not in African-American Studies but in accounting or engineering or other fields of knowledge that help them to build businesses.
At the end of this century, as at the beginning, Booker T. Washington's recipe for progress can be encapsulated in 12 words: Build strong churches. Build strong families. Build strong schools. Build strong businesses.


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April 10, 2012 5:43 AM
Kirby Messinger
Delivering quality care to every patient has long been a motto of the Tulane School of Medicine, but medical students have taken that motto a step further by organizing an Interclinic Council to foster open dialogue on best practices for student-led clinics.
Prior to founding the Interclinic Council in January 2011, student leaders of four community health clinics — Ozanam Inn Weekend Clinic, Bridge House Clinic, Fleur de Vie-NOLA East and Covenant House — lacked a network for sharing resources and answers to common problems.
"It turned out we were all trying to reinvent the wheel. We thought it would be better to join forces and work toward the common goal of providing educational experiences for students while administering excellent healthcare services to underserved populations in New Orleans," says Meghan Athoff, a second-year medical student.
As a result, the Interclinic Council has been able to develop innovative programming and troubleshoot issues such as exam efficiency and physician coordination. The council is also collecting data about the varying patient populations and the care they are receiving.
Meghan Garstka, a third-year medical student, says that working collaboratively has improved the quality of patient care at all of the clinics. Students are able to develop new plans and implement them across the board. Council meetings are held once a month and all Tulane medical students are welcome. Faculty members often attend to add their perspective to the discussions.
The council is embarking on fundraising efforts to aid educational program development for first- and second-year students and funding needs within the various clinics.
"We are planning a fundraiser on May 2 and the proceeds will help us continue to improve the quality of services and educational opportunities. We are proud that our programs are unique among medical schools in the nation," says Garstka.
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I have comcast here CO and recently upgraded in order to get ESPN fullcourt. Along with that I also got all of the video On Demand stuff. I think Mediacom and Comcast are the same, BTW. The first Cyclone game that was on Full Court didn't work since Full Court was "out" that day. Comcast couldn't tell me if it was an ESPN problem or theirs. How can you not know? The next day, Full Court was working again. The Drake game is Sunday. I checked Full Court and it appears to be "out" again. I called and they said they have another outage. I told them it better be working before Sunday. In addition, the On Demand video isn't working either. And even when it does work, it looks highly digitized on my 50". This is supposed to compete with DVD rentals?? It looks like crap and doesn't give me 5.1 surround. Why would I pay the same amount for movie from this as I would at Blockbuster??
Well, needless to say, I've been extremely disappointed with all of the supposedly cutting edge cable technology. If I can't see the Drake game on Sunday, I'm canceling everything I have with Comcast ( FullCourt, Cable, and High Speed Internet) and getting a dish. I spend over $100 a month on cable services and they don't really seem to care about me as a customer.
End of Rant.
ISU Grad 1997.
ISU Fan for Life.
Not in CO anymore but I'm not changing my name :)
I doubt that Mediacom and Comcast are the same. If that was the case, Mediacom wouldn't have had any trouble picking up Comcast SportsNet for the Cubs games. Instead, Mediacom stuck us with the freaking Deadbirds.
Mediacom in eastern Iowa has Comcast SportsNet. They kept FSN in central Iowa instead because it has Big XII coverage that Comcast does not.
Cy sounds like u may possibly have some signal issues. I am a communications technican not sure your wiring situation and how many tvs and whatnot but that could definately be the problem.
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Originally Posted by DevilDog
Cy sounds like u may possibly have some signal issues. I am a communications technican not sure your wiring situation and how many tvs and whatnot but that could definately be the problem.
A tech was here to setup the box about a week ago. He had a meter with him that reads signal strength and he said it looked good. I do have 2 other TVs on the system besides the TV with the Box. No other TVs have boxes so they only picking up analog channels.
I've been in contact with phone support and they are telling me it is another area outage and isn't my problem specifically. I just don't see why it is taking more than a day to fix an area outage?
My fullcourt is working now. Still don't have any of the On Demand features working.
I'd do anything to have Comcast - they have NFL Network and their video on demand selections blew Mediacom out of the water. Guess that's what you expect for being the nation's largest cable company with 20 some million basic subscribers, compared to that of Mediacom which has 1.4 million, with Des Moines being their largest market.
The reason I thought Mediacom and Comcast were the same is that their bills look identical. I had Mediacom when I lived in Ames, and besides the Comcast name on the bill, there isn't a difference. Perhaps they just use the same billing software??
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Friday, May 27, 2016
There are several programs available in Idaho that provide financial and technical assistance to landowners to maintain, develop, or improve fish and wildlife habitat on their lands. State programs include the Habitat Improvement Program (HIP) and Access Yes!. Federal and nongovernmental programs and grants are also available.
Any private landowner is eligible to participate in some kind of private lands program. Idaho Fish and Game habitat biologists can provide guidance to landowners about the benefits and types of improvements that can be done on their property. Benefits range from improved hunting opportunities for your family to increased land value.
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by Steven Proudfoot[1]
U.S. federal government data show little change in the number of scientists and engineers the government employed from 2003 to 2005—a net increase of 1.5%, or 3,127 individuals.[2] Only the Department of State showed a double-digit percentage increase in its employment of scientists and engineers. Nine agencies showed decreases in the numbers of scientists and engineers employed during that time (table 1).
Table 1 Source Data: Excel file
Overall, the number of scientists increased 2.5% and the number of engineers 0.1%. Within the major science occupational groups, physical scientists' numbers were the only ones to show a decrease (-2.0%). For engineers, civil and industrial engineers decreased 4.4% and 4.8%, respectively (table 2).
Table 2 Source Data: Excel file
Race/Ethnicity. Employment in federal science and engineering (S&E) jobs grew among all race/ethnicity categories, with Hispanics (8.1%) and blacks (6.4%) showing the largest percentage increases (figure 1).
Figure 1 Source Data: Excel file
Sex. The number of women in both federal science and federal engineering jobs increased about 6% from 2003 to 2005, with federal employment of male scientists and engineers remaining relatively stable (table 3).
Table 3 Source Data: Excel file
Age. The aging of the federal S&E workforce continued, with increases in all age groups 45 years and older and decreases among 35–44-year-olds. Workers age 45 and older constituted 57.8% of all federal scientists and engineers in 2005, up from 55.4% in 2003 (table 4).
Table 4 Source Data: Excel file
Location. The West South Central geographic division showed the largest percentage growth in federal S&E employment, with an increase of 4.2%. All the other areas remained relatively stable in numbers of federal scientists and engineers employed during the period (table 5).
Table 5 Source Data: Excel file
Data for Department of Defense (DOD) agencies are from the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), available at http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/. Data for federal agencies that are not part of the DOD are from the Central Personnel Data File (CPDF) of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In prior years, data for all agencies included in this report were obtained from a single source, the CPDF. Because data were obtained from two sources for this report (the DMDC and the CPDF), data may not be strictly comparable to that published in previous Federal Scientists and Engineers reports.
For further information on data quality, survey methodology, and error analyses on the data provided to the National Science Foundation by OPM, refer to FedScope at http://www.fedscope.opm.gov/datadefn/acpdf.asp. OPM federal civilian workforce statistics are available at http://www.opm.gov/Statistics_Information_Instructions/.
The full set of detailed tables related to this InfoBrief is available in the report Federal Scientists and Engineers: 2003–05 at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf09302/. For more information on the data in this InfoBrief, please contact the author.
[1] Steven Proudfoot, Human Resources Statistics Program, Division of Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 965, Arlington VA 22230 (email@example.com; 703-292-4434).
[2] This report presents data on scientists and engineers employed by the U.S. government during the years 2003 through 2005. This population consists of individuals in selected white-collar civilian occupational groups who hold at least a bachelor's degree and who the agencies had indicated were hired into science and engineering occupations.
National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics
Federal Employment of Scientists and Engineers Remained Steady from 2003 to 2005
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Hi everybody, I figure it's my turn to stand in front of the class and talk about myself...
I've been riding for years, but never did anything more than riding to work or down the hills across the street, until I was moved to the bike department in the sporting goods store where I work. Now that I've been doing bike repairs for about a year, I'm really getting into it... and have realized that I have no idea just how good bikes can really be. I found BikeForums.net when I was trying to get information on how to dislodge a particularly stubborn cassette, and found a wonderful article by Sheldon Brown. The little note at the bottom of the picture ("This lockring never gets removed") was the answer to two and a half hours' combined research and just trying to muscle the part off (with the right tools, at least...). One bench vise and three minutes later, I was practically skipping. It was kind of embarassing, actually. ^_^
Anyways, I'm really looking forward to getting a better understanding of the biking community as a community, not just as a rider but as a mechanic.
Thank you.
Where's my seat, again?
Oh, yeah- I live and work in the Cleveland, OH area, and I'm trying to build a website, so I'll link to that when it exists.


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The Singing Bee Returns For The Fall
October 02, 2007 12:05 AM by Joe Blackmon
The Singing Bee was one of NBC's biggest hits of the Summer, which has
earned the show a spot in the Fall season. The Singing Bee returns on
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 from 8:00PM to 8:30 PM ET. Former NSYNC star
and Dancing With The Stars contestant Joey Fatone will return as host,
alongside house band Ray Chew and the Groove and the dancing Honey Bees.
In the Fall season, various musical guests will help kick off certain shows. Slated to appear are Toni Basil (October 2) in a "One Hit Wonders" theme marking the premiere episode; Village People (October 16); Barry Manilow (October 23) in a special installment dedicated to unforgettable love songs; Ray Parker Jr. (October 30) in a Halloween-inspired show; and The Bangles (November 13). Additionally, on October 9, the show will spotlight the classic music of Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Finally, the December 4 installment highlights everyone's favorite television theme songs.
Musical guest appearances aren't the only changes in store for The Singing Bee. Brand new karaoke-style games will be unveiled to challenge players and test their skills. Also, all winners will now be allowed to return for the next show and defend their crown – with no limit to the number of times they can repeat as champion and retain The Singing Bee trophy. A new and improved set will also be unveiled.
"The Singing Bee" is created and produced by Juma Entertainment, LLC and The Gurin Company. The executive producers are Phil Gurin (NBC's Miss Universe franchise) and Robert C. Horowitz (Superbowl's Greatest Commercials Top 40 Countdown).
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Cathy Viviano Says:
October 7th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
JOEY Fatone: All right, its time for the final countdown
Ray Chew (hyper): It's the final countdown! (music blares, Joey Fatone poses like an idiot)