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The wraps came off of the 2014 Infiniti QX60 Hybrid Wednesday afternoon in New York, and the model signals a clear new path for the luxury brand. There will be hybrid powertrain options for almost every new model Infiniti introduces.
But there will also be new marketing challenges -- not just for Infiniti, or for the rest of Nissan Motor Co., but across the auto industry.
Infiniti has a plan to expand its hybrid vehicle offerings. Its mass-market sister brand, Nissan, is following suit, and so will other automakers in coming years. Subaru unveiled its first hybrid today, the XV Crosstek Hybrid.
But selling a hybrid vehicle is not the same as selling a traditional gasoline-powered vehicle.
Hybrids are a purchasing statement made by consumers who specifically want a hybrid.
They are environmentally leaning consumers, or they are financially focused shoppers, who have the wherewithal to compute how much money they might save on gasoline over the life of their vehicle by obtaining an additional 5 or 10 miles per gallon fuel in efficiency at various fuel price points.
Those are specific shopping issues that will rise in importance over the next few years as the number of competing hybrid models grows.
As a result, hybrid customers will require a separate piece of auto companies' advertising dollars to find them and bring them in.
It will not be a simple matter of tacking messages on to the end of existing TV campaigns to say, "Oh yeah, and it's also available as a hybrid."
These consumers will require their own sales pitches, and maybe even their own slice of dealership resources to train sales teams to handle tire-kickers correctly.
Just as many retailers are still struggling to master those customers who prefer to conduct business by e-mails and phone texts, dealers likely will encounter more hybrid customers who ask different questions, have different sensibilities about their purchases and expect different experiences.
Brands such as Infiniti or Nissan or Subaru or Chevrolet are going to be asking hybrid customers to pay thousands of dollars more to take delivery of what they want.
It is not merely an upgrade, like choosing the leather seats and navi package. Buying a hybrid is a lifestyle statement for the consumer. It's a declaration of customer psychographics.
The industry is creating a bold new product initiative to win those shoppers. It had better step up to the plate on learning how to talk to them.
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Andy Warhol - Rhinoceros
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"Endangered Species Collection"
In 1983, Andy Warhol created a series of olor screenprints that portrayed endangered species from around the world: Siberian tiger, San Francisco silverspot, orangutan, Grevy's zebra, black rhinoceros, bighorn ram, African elephant, pine barrens tree frog, giant panda and bald eagle. Using brilliant colors — characteristic of Andy Warhol's signature style — and poignant expressions suggestive of the animal's fate, Andy Warhol creates a dynamic tension between art and reality.
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Health Care - Associated Infections
Health care-Associated Infections (HAIs) are infections that patients can get after having medical or surgical treatments. These infections can happen when needles and tubes are inserted through a person's skin, which is the natural protection against bacteria and other organisms. Insertion of needles and devices provides a pathway for bacteria and other organisms to enter the blood stream and lungs. Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) have the highest risk of HAIs because of the number of procedures they undergo and the seriousness of their health problems. HAIs can aggravate a patient's illness and lengthen the stay in the hospital. They also can be passed on to other individuals.
The Guidance on Public Reporting of Health Care-Associated Infections, published by the Health Care Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee in 2005, says that in hospitals alone, HAIs account for an estimated 2 million infections, 90,000 deaths, and $4.5 billion dollars in extra healthcare costs each year. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities have policies and rules designed to minimize the occurrence of HAIs. Despite this, it is not possible to prevent all HAIs.
In 2004 the Missouri General Assembly passed a law requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to provide information to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) about HAIs in their facilities. Facilities are required to report central line-associated bloodstream (CLAB) infections, specific surgical site infections (SSIs), and ventilator-associated pneumonia's (VAPs). The law also requires the DHSS to make this information available to the public.
Hospitals began reporting CLAB infections in July 2005. Each month hospitals report the number of CLAB infections in selected ICUs. Collection of data on SSIs from hospitals and ASCs began in January 2006.
Facilities report CLAB infections by the type of ICU involved (medical/surgical, coronary, medical, surgical, pediatric, neonatal). Reporting by ICU type allows for a fairer comparison between hospitals. It takes into account differences in the types of patients ICUs treat and the different risks for infection. SSIs are reported by procedure and the infection rates are adjusted to take into account differences in patient risk for infection due to factors such as the length of the surgery, the type of surgical wound for that procedure, and the patient's physical condition. Surgical procedures selected for SSI reporting are serious, are performed in a variety of facilities, and tend to be associated with HAIs. These procedures include abdominal hysterectomy, coronary artery bypass and hip repair procedures performed in hospitals, and breast and hernia procedures performed in ASCs.
Reporting of VAPs has been postponed. Because hospitals do not use a standard method of diagnosing VAPs, the infection control panel, with input from an expert panel, convened to study the infection control issue, recommended that a process measure, HOB elevation, be reported instead. The risk of contracting a VAP is substantially reduced for patients on ventilators if they have their heads elevated at least 30 degrees. This measure has been included in a group of VAP measures endorsed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. At the request of the DHSS, Missouri hospitals began voluntarily reporting HOB elevation in November 2007. Reporting is done for four ICUs—medical, surgical, medical/surgical and coronary—plus all other ICUs combined.
In October 2010, the DHSS added historical data to the website. After reaching the main page for Missouri Healthcare Associated Infection Reporting, visitors can link to a table where they can select either hospitals or ASCs. For the selected facility, users can view numerators, denominators and rates for CLABSIs, SSIs and HOB elevation. Currently displayed are data for 2006-2009. As each calendar year of data becomes complete, it will be added to this table.
This information about HAIs gives consumers access to important information about healthcare facilities in their area and across the state. Of course this information should be only one of the pieces of information a consumer uses to choose a healthcare facility. Consumers should consider the experience of the facility staff, the advice of their physician, and all other factors that are unique to his or her situation, in addition to the infection data reported on this website. Facilities vary in the types of patients they treat, and a facility that treats severely ill patients will naturally be at higher risk for HAIs. We have used procedures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to adjust the infection rates so consumers can get an even picture across facilities. However, when reviewing the numbers people should keep in mind that these procedures are not perfect. Also, viewers should note any comments and/or explanations provided by a facility regarding its data.


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Sorry for the long delay on posts and updates, lots of stuff happening.
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- Processes
- Analysis & Instrumentation
- Cleaning, Polishing & Grinding
- Clinical Analysis & Diagnostics
- Coating & Surface Treatment
- Controlled & Modified Atmospheres
- Cutting, Joining and Heating
- Freezing & Cooling
- Fumigation & Pest Control
- Inerting, purging, sparging
- Leisure & Hospitality
- Melting & Heating
- Petrochemical Processing & Refining
- Pharmaceutical Processing
- Plastics & Rubber Processing
- Process Chemistry
- Water treatment
Heat treatment involves the use of heating or chilling, normally to extreme temperatures, to achieve a desired result such as hardening or softening of a material.
Brazing allow diverse configurations of parts, dissimilar metals and non-metals of non-uniform thickness to be joined.
Carburizing & Carbonitriding
The use of nitrogen for gas wiping of galvanised strip and wire has been widely adopted to give a better surface finish.
Neutral hardening is a heat treatment procedure for steels with the aim to produce a martensitic microstructure.
|Nitriding & Nitrocarburizing
These processes involve the diffusion of nitrogen into the surface layers of a low carbon steel at elevated temperature.
|Quenching & Cooling
The use of gas quenching in a vacuum furnaces has advantages over both conventional processing and liquid quenching
Sintering produces parts that are harder (martenistic) and/or tougher (martenistic/bainitic) by controlled the cooling rate.
|Sub Zero Treatments
Use a moderately cold process for stabilisation and austenite removal or deep cold to improve wear resistance.
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Apps included on your Mac
Your Mac comes with a lot of fun and useful apps already installed. You can open some of these apps by clicking their icons in the Dock. Or you can click the Launchpad icon in the Dock to use Launchpad to see and open all of these apps.
Popular apps
These apps are also available in the Applications folder in the Finder.
Everything you expect in a web browser, plus an offline Reading List, Pinned Sites, Apple Pay, Picture in Picture, and more.
Send, receive, and manage email using your favorite Internet accounts, such as iCloud, Google, Yahoo!, and Exchange, directly in Mail.
Store information—phone numbers, addresses, birthdays, and more—for your friends, family, and coworkers.
Keep track of all your meetings, events, and appointments in one place.
Create separate lists for to-dos, projects, groceries, and anything else you want to keep track of.
Jot down a quick thought—add a photo, video, or URL—to keep track of for later.
Get directions to or from a location—including current traffic conditions and built-in public transportation maps and schedules—and send it to your iOS device to use on the go.
Stay in touch with your friends by sending messages with text, images, and other files.
Make video and audio calls to your family and friends, whether they're using iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or a Mac.
Photo Booth
Take fun photos or record videos using your computer's built-in camera or an external video camera connected to your Mac.
Import, view, and organize your photos and videos, and create projects and prints from them. With iCloud Photo Library, photos and video in the photo library on your Mac are stored in iCloud, so you can access them from your other devices.
Organize and play your music and videos; find music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more; listen to iTunes Radio; stream or download songs from Apple Music; and set up your iPad, iPhone, or iPod.
Read a classic, keep up with the latest bestsellers, and study textbooks with iBooks for Mac.
App Store
Find, buy, install, update, and review Mac apps.
View and edit PDFs and images, import images from a camera, and take pictures of your screen.
Quickly look up words in dictionaries, thesauruses, and other sources while working in apps or while browsing webpages.
Perform basic, advanced, or programmer calculations.
Browse your video clips, share your favorite moments, and create stunning trailers and movies. You can even start editing on iPhone or iPad, and finish on your Mac. iMovie comes on every new Mac.
Open iMovie for me (if installed)
A complete music studio on your Mac—a sound library with software instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and virtual session drummers—so you can create and share your hits worldwide. GarageBand comes on every new Mac.
Open GarageBand for me (if installed)
Create stunning presentations with images, media, charts, animations, and more. Work seamlessly between your Mac and iOS devices, and effortlessly with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint.
Open Keynote for me (if installed)
Create compelling spreadsheets with formulas, functions, interactive charts, and more. Work seamlessly between your Mac and iOS devices, and effortlessly with people who use Microsoft Excel.
Open Numbers for me (if installed)
Create beautiful documents with formatted text, images, media, tables, and more. Work seamlessly between your Mac and iOS devices, and effortlessly with people who use Microsoft Word.
Open Pages for me (if installed)
Other apps
By default, these apps appear in the Other folder in Launchpad. You can also find and open them in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder in the Finder.
Activity Monitor
Get information about the processor, apps, disks, memory, and network activity on your Mac.
AirPort Utility
Set up and manage a Wi-Fi network and AirPort Base Station.
Audio MIDI Setup
Set up audio and MIDI devices connected to your Mac, select audio channel input and output devices, configure output speakers, and more.
Create powerful automations without the need of complicated programming or scripting languages.
Boot Camp Assistant
Use Windows on your Mac.
Open Boot Camp Assistant for me
Bluetooth File Exchange
Make short-range wireless connections between devices, eliminating the need for many cables.
Open Bluetooth File Exchange for me
Play chess with your Mac.
ColorSync Utility
Adjust your computer's color profiles.
View log messages in Console, where you may find details about a problem that occurs with your Mac.
Digital Color Meter
Find the color value of any color on your display.
Open Digital Color Meter for me
Disk Utility
Manage disks, disk images, and RAID sets.
DVD Player
Play DVDs or DVD movie files on your Mac.
Font Book
Install, manage, and preview fonts.
Take pictures, or screenshots, of all or part of your screen.
Visualize and analyze implicit and explicit equations.
Image Capture
Transfer and scan images, or take a picture.
Add sketches and handwritten text wherever you can enter text, such as in a document. When you connect a graphics tablet to your Mac, Ink preferences appear in System Preferences.
Keychain Access
Store your passwords and account information and reduce the number of passwords you have to remember and manage.
Migration Assistant
Transfer your information from a Mac, PC, or disk.
Open Migration Assistant for me
QuickTime Player
Play video or audio files.
Script Editor
Create powerful scripts, tools, and even apps.
Keep notes, lists, and pictures in sticky notes on your desktop.
System Information
Get details about the hardware, network, and software specifications for your Mac.
Open System Information for me
Access the complete UNIX operating system in macOS.
Create and edit plain text, rich text, HTML, and other kinds of documents.
VoiceOver Utility
Customize VoiceOver, the full-featured screen reader built into macOS.
To buy or download more apps, visit the App Store.
If you previously had iPhoto on your Mac, it's still on your Mac. However, it's strongly recommended that you use Photos instead of iPhoto to work with your photos. For more information, see Switch to Photos from iPhoto.
If you use apps at night, you may be able to use Night Shift to make the colors on the screen warmer.