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I used to hate coconut. Really, when I was younger I would steer as far away from it as I possibly could. My mom always told me, "I used to hate it too, and then it grew on me. One day, I just loved it, and now I can't go back!" Well, my mom was right, as always. ALWAYS. One day I woke up, and loved coconut! Go figure. I pretty much try every coconut thing I can get my hands on. A few weeks ago my mom made me some macaroons, and O MY GOSH. Heaven. Those coming soon! This cake is beyond moist and I was praised, literally, from those that I *shared with. *I didn't share much!
Coconut Roulade with Rum Buttercream
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Unsalted butter, for the pan
1 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 large eggs, separated, plus 2 egg whites, all at room temperature
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup coconut milk, at room temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons coconut extract
Pinch of cream of tartar
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
1 tablespoon white rum (I used ½ Tbs. rum extract)
6 large egg whites, at room temperature
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
3 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into pieces
3 tablespoons white rum (I used 1 ½ Tbs. rum extract)
4 cups sweetened shredded coconut
Make the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 11-by-17-inch rimmed baking sheet and line the bottom with parchment paper. Lightly butter the parchment and dust with flour, tapping out the excess.
Whisk 1 cup each flour and granulated sugar, the baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. In a large bowl, whisk the 4 egg yolks, vegetable oil, coconut milk and coconut extract. Whisk in the flour mixture in 2 batches.
Beat the 6 egg whites and cream of tartar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until foamy. Increase the speed to medium high; gradually add the remaining 1/2 cup granulated sugar and beat until stiff, shiny peaks form. Fold one-third of the beaten egg whites into the egg yolk mixture with a rubber spatula, then gently fold in the rest.
Spread the batter on the prepared baking sheet and bake until the cake is golden and springs back when pressed, 15 to 20 minutes. Loosen the edges of the cake with a knife; transfer the baking sheet to a rack and let the cake cool slightly. Dust a large piece of parchment paper with confectioners' sugar. Invert the cake onto the parchment and peel off the parchment on top. Brush the cake with the rum.
Make the frosting: Whisk the egg whites and granulated sugar in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (do not let the bowl touch the water) until the mixture is warm and the sugar dissolves. Remove the bowl from the pan; cool slightly.
Beat the egg white mixture with a mixer on medium-high speed until stiff peaks form, 12 to 15 minutes. Beat in the butter a few pieces at a time, then continue beating until glossy and smooth, 5 to 7 more minutes. (Don't worry if the mixture looks curdled at first; continue beating.) Beat in the rum.
Spread about 2 cups of the frosting on the cake, then sprinkle with 2 cups coconut. Starting at a short end, roll up the cake, using the parchment to help you. Transfer to a platter, seam-side down. Cover the cake roll with the remaining frosting and sprinkle with the remaining 2 cups coconut.
Serves 10
Recipe from Food Network Magazine


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A5 Cabriolet
The moment when the feeling of driving becomes the feeling of life. When you don't just survive, but thrive - trade in the ordinary for the extraordinary and compromise for intensity. This is the moment the A5 Cabriolet was made for. From the extended bonnet through the sharpened shoulder line to the newly designed acoustic top - fascination is in every detail.

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Over-rated or under-rated: SNK
When, and in what form, will arcades make a come-back?
"Become familiar with..." /marry/kill: Samus/Zelda/Yuna
Over-rated or under-rated: SNK
When, and in what form, will arcades make a come-back?
"Become familiar with..." /marry/kill: Samus/Zelda/Yuna
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Here's a link to the long-awaited Episode 2!
(I'll get an RSS up and running as soon as I'm able)
In this episode we discuss topics including but not limited to: gaming conventions (PAX, MAGFest, etc.), Nick's lies, Bioshock Infinite, Atari's I, Robot, and the Catherine Special Edition set!
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"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
EPISODE 2 IS UP (for video streaming currently, RSS very soon)!
Thank you so much for being patient! Hope you enjoy!
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
DISCLAIMER: Any and all lies made by me may actually contain Truth.
A good episode gentleman. I enjoy the candid conversations that you all have, its nice to see and hear opinions that are coming from you off the top of your head vs. something scripted. I do think that the tales from the store segment should be extended a little bit, I could see it being something a lot of people who don't actually get to go to Digital Press really enjoying.
What I would like is for there to be musical interludes between segments and for the backdrop to change by segment. The arcade machines are great, but seeing them for the whole duration of the show was tedious. Also, the musical cues will let audio-only listeners know in another way when segments change.
For example, each time you switch to another show segment you could play a power-up sound effect. 1UP mushroom, Sonic ring, you name it. You could even have a different one each time.
For the visuals, just rotate around. Start with the arcade machines, then the island in the middle of the store, then the game racks, perhaps the display cases afterward, and finally (for the last segment) the exit of the store.
And try to get those lapel mics higher up! They're called "lapel mics" because they're supposed to be situated on the speakers' lapels (or near a shirt equivalent location). Joe and some others sounded fine, but Frankie's mic was too far from his mouth and thus he was difficult to hear.
That's a great idea about the musical interludes. I had a some technical problems with the mics this episode, and had to do lots of work in post to "correct" them. Hopefully the next one won't have those problems.
Kinda unrelated but I forgot to ask after the previous episode, got any details on the (assumed) MAME driving setup in that Pole Position cabinet? Being a person that MAME'd one myself at one point, I'd love some information. Looks like it uses a four position reverse N Atari shifter instead of the standard single button hi / lo.
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I do believe it is a 4 way N shifter (it's 4 way for sure ... the "siren" buttons are mapped to the thing in A.P.B. and interrogations are a serious stick-waggle chore along the lines of a Mario Party mini game).
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Great episode! I really enjoyed the 3DS part of the discussion as well as the Tales of the Store segment, which both pleased and enraged me. Pleased me to hear that Joe is a stand up guy and actually called up the people selling off the games from the previous episode, even though I wasn't part of the pitchfork and torches crowd. Enraged because of the minds of "collectors" - collectors in quotes because they clearly bought the game just to have it graded and sell it off for 2k monies.
As someone who has worked retail for quite a few years I can safely say that FACTORY SEALED GAMES (or any product, really) ARE NOT NECESSARILY PRISTINE WHEN THEY COME OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE! But sure, your refund policy is a noble thing, even if these people were clearly just using it because they figured they wouldn't get a 100 grading on the games.
Sure, this point of view will probably make me look like an ass to most people, but come on, let's not go into the whole grading discussion again.
Back to the episode, it was definately a step up on the production side from the first episode, even if I'd still like to have the segments divided into their own little video but hey, I'll make a DVD of each episode and just put in chapter starts at each segment, so that's really no big deal.
Also, do you guys take request/suggestions for future episodes? If so, as someone who will probably never have the opportunity to visit the store, I'd like to hear more about the store in general. Perhaps a tour of the store, some thoughts on how (and why) things are placed, as well as what goes into concideration regarding what games you take in and how you price them.
Denmark: Home of The Little Mermaid and heavy sarcasm.
Can you splice in screen shots or video of the games you are talking about? That would add a little variety...when Mike talks about a game I never heard of ("Shadows of the Damned"?) it would be nice to see what he's talking about rather than you guys sitting around.
On the sealed game thing, I sold a sealed copy of GameCube Twin Snakes over the summer and I will never auction a sealed game again. The bidders were just totally unreasonable. Get a life.
btw I bought the game at a NAVA meeting and sold it for more than twice what I paid. No, I didn't track the guy down to give him more money.
I do appreciate all the feedback, and if you anybody is interested in requesting topics, feel free to visit the thread that is stickied in the classic games forum.
One phrase: title cards. I know y'all are probably planning on having them anyway, but title cards at the start of each segment would be super duper uuper.
What do you mean by title cards? I throw in a phrase that goes along with the upcoming segment, such as the phrase "con job" when we spoke of conventions. I think the only ongoing segment is the "tales from the store" which had the title "tales from the store" in the beginning.
Okay, this is going to be pretty much every question/suggestion I can think of that I'd like to see in future episodes (Sorry about the magnitude of this post):
Store stuff:
1. As someone, who will probably never have the opportunity to visit the store, how about a tour?
2. How did it all start? What was taken into concideration when deciding to open a store? What kind of stock did you have in the beginning? How has things changed?
3. What goes into concideration when taking in used games and how do you price them? Rarity/demand/condition etc.
4. What is the rarest item you have for sale in the store? And the most expensive?
5. What is the most insane thing you have ever had traded in?
6. What kind of games do you usually not accept? And, what do you really wish someone would trade in?
7. How do you decide what to display, and how do you display it? As a budding collector I'd like some thought on this.
8. What are your biggest concerns regarding the store?
digitpress.com stuff:
1. How, when and WHY did it all start?
2. What does the future hold for the site?
3. When's the next edition of the Collector's Guide coming out? And, will there be more PAL content?
4. Any juicy controversies we need to be aware of?
5. Can Kitsune keep up the flow of craziness in the Finds thread or will he eventually have assimilated every pop culture trinket known to man?
6. What are your favorite thread and/or subforum?
Game related stuff:
1. As a PAL person I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Commodore systems, which were extremely popular over here (Specifically C64, Amiga, CD32).
2. What are your top 5 game systems of all time? And possibly bottom 5?
3. Games: Loose, boxed, or sealed?
4. Thoughts on the whole game grading shebang?
5. The is the greatest game you've NEVER played?
6. What do your personal collections consist of? What are your favorite pieces?
7. Console vs. PC gaming.
8. Collecting PAL games in the US. Do people even do that?
9. So... Bio Force Ape, eh?
Other stuff:
1. The Videogame History Museum. Now that it's funded, what will the future hold?
2. Do any of you have pets? Tamagotchis and Furbys don't count.
3. You all drink beer on the *cast. Is that your drink of choice or would you rather be drinking something else? Frankie looks more like an umbrella-and-sparklers-drink kinda guy.
4. Also, what kind of beer ARE you drinking?
So... get to it!
Denmark: Home of The Little Mermaid and heavy sarcasm.
Not sure if this question will ever be addressed on the podcast, but since I'm being personally called out on it, YES, I'm totally a girl-drink-drunk, but those typically require mixing/blending which isn't as convenient as cracking open a bottle to start the next drink.
And, don't let the visual of a beer bottle fool you - I believe I was drinking delicious Woodchuck Amber Ciders on the first podcast and (due to my calorie restrictive diet) terrible terrible disgusting MGD 64 calorie Lemonades on the 2nd ... I got my $6 worth of buzz from those, but NEVER again.
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Hospital Ratings UK
Guide rates best and worst hospitals in 2011
How good is your hospital? Dr Foster rates hospital performance
As well as listing the hospital trusts in England that score above and below average on a range of different mortality measures, this year's guide also found that:
- The rate of patient deaths in England is 20% lower than it was 10 years ago, in part because of improved hospital care.
- For certain conditions, patients admitted to hospital at the weekend are less likely to get treated quickly and have a higher chance of dying.
- Hospitals that perform certain operations infrequently pose a significantly greater risk to patients than those which carry out high numbers of the operation.
- Patient comments and ratings, such as those gathered by NHS Choices, provide a valuable insight into standards of hospital care.
- Rationalisation and networking of hospital services, to create 24/7 centres of expertise in areas such treatment for stroke, saves lives.
The report also showed that the best-performing hospitals were generally in the south of England, while those found to be the poorest performers were mostly in the north. However, the report did not examine why this was the case.
Who is Dr Foster?
Dr Foster Intelligence is a joint venture between the Department of Health and Dr Foster Holdings LLP and their research partners at Imperial College London. It aims to improve the quality and efficiency of health and social care through better use of information. It provides comparative information on health and social care services to health professionals and organisations to help improve the standard of healthcare.
The 2011 report is the tenth Dr Foster Hospital Guide to be published.
Which hospitals have the highest mortality rates?
Despite overall improvements in mortality, some hospitals have consistently higher mortality rates than others.
For the first time, the Hospital Guide used four measures of mortality:
- Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR): a measure of in-hospital deaths based on 56 conditions which account for 80% of deaths (a higher ratio indicates problems)
- Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI): any deaths occurring in the 30 days following discharge from hospital treatment
- Deaths after Surgery: surgical patients who have died from a possible complication – this may raise questions over the safety of surgical procedures, or whether operations should have taken place at all
- Deaths in Low-Risk Conditions: deaths from conditions where patients would normally survive
Four indicators give a more balanced view than a single indicator. Using these indicators, the report found that no trust is higher than expected on all four mortality measures, but two trusts – Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals and University Hospital of North Staffordshire – are higher than expected on three out of four.
The following 19 hospital trusts have higher than expected mortality rates based on two measures – HSMR and SHMI:
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
- Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
- The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Overall, 24% of trusts have higher than expected SHMI, 15% have higher than expected HSMR, 3% higher deaths in low-risk conditions, and 1% higher deaths after surgery.
Which hospitals have the lowest mortality rates?
One hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, achieved low mortality rates across all four mortality indicators.
The following hospitals were low (i.e. performed well) on three measures – HSMR, SHMI and deaths in low-risk conditions:
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
- Newham University Hospital NHS Trust
- South London Healthcare NHS Trust
- The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust was low for three different measures – HSMR, SHMI and deaths after surgery.
The following trusts were low (i.e. performed well) on two measures – the HSMR and SHMI:
- Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust
- Barts and the London NHS Trust
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
- Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
- West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust
Overall, 22% of trusts have lower than expected SHMI, 19% have lower than expected HSMR, 8% lower deaths in low-risk conditions, and 1% have lower rates of deaths after surgery.
Some trusts appeared to have both good and bad mortality results, which could be due to the way hospitals record deaths. For example, the Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has both a lower than expected HSMR and higher than expected SHMI.
Dr Foster's guide draws attention to this inconsistency, explaining that this may be due to palliative care deaths being included within the HSMR. Different hospitals tend to code palliative care deaths in different ways, and higher rates of palliative care recording can lower a hospital's mortality rate. If the relevant hospital has recorded their palliative care deaths, the HSMR adjusts for these deaths, which the report says makes it fairer on hospitals that care for terminally ill patients and who would otherwise be shown to have higher than normal in-hospital mortality rates.
Besides Aintree, nine other trusts coded a quarter of their HSMR as being palliative care cases. The SHMI measure, on the other hand, does not adjust for palliative care deaths. Dr Foster says it supports calls for palliative care coding guidelines to be made clearer.
Why are people at higher risk going into hospital at nights and weekends?
In general, hospitals with the fewest senior doctors available at weekends have the highest mortality rates. A 2010 study by the Dr Foster Unit observed that people admitted to hospital over the weekend with common cardiovascular emergencies or with cancer were 7% more likely to die than those admitted from Monday to Friday.
Key factors that can contribute to higher mortality rates outside of normal working hours are:
- lower availability of specialist community and general practice services, resulting in more terminally ill patients being admitted and dying in hospital
- reduced specialist in-hospital services being available at weekends, particularly diagnostic investigations such as MRI scans
- different out-of-hours staffing levels (for example, out-of-hours consultants are normally on call rather than on site and immediately available in the hospital)
The last point on staffing was considered to be a particular contributing factor that the report focused on. Dr Foster mapped senior staffing availability to the number of hospital beds against mortality rates for 130 trusts. They observed that more senior staff per bed at weekends is associated with a lower weekend mortality rate for emergency conditions, while more senior doctors (as a percentage of all doctors) is associated with lower rates.
The report noted nine trusts whose HSMR was within the expected range for people admitted Monday–Friday, but higher than expected for those admitted at the weekend:
- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health Care NHS Trust
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
The range of senior consultant availability at night was also wide. While almost a third of hospitals with an A&E unit had no consultants on site during the night, others had five or more consultants available in the hospital.
Of particular note is the risk associated with hip fracture at these times. Overall, patients who break their hip have a one in ten chance of dying, but the chance of surviving is much greater if they receive surgery within two days. For people admitted on Friday or Saturday, there is a lower chance of prompt treatment. In-hospital mortality in 2010/11 was observed to vary from 3.2% to 16.3% between providers. Numerous studies have shown that organisational factors in the patient's treatment play a major part in determining patient survival.
2010 statistics on hip fracture showed:
- Across hospitals, 30% of patients with a hip fracture had to wait two or more days for surgical treatment.
- Across the country, the number of patients waiting more than two days for an operation was significantly higher (an increase of 4.8%) in patients admitted on a Friday or Saturday compared with patients admitted from Sunday to Thursday.
- 11% of trusts were shown to have lower operating rates at weekends.
In the following five trusts, 50% of all hip fracture patients waited more than two days for an operation:
- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
- South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust
How might weekend services be improved?
Dr Foster says the answer may lie not necessarily in increasing the number of out-of-hours staff and services, but in reorganising the resources available to target where they are most needed. An example is networking with other hospitals in an area.
London has reorganised its stroke care in this way. Instead of all A&E departments treating strokes, a small number of hospitals now manage all stroke patients at a very high standard, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Before the reorganisation (in 2009/10) 10% of stroke patients died within seven days of admission if they were admitted at the weekend compared to 8% who were admitted on weekdays. For weekend admissions in 2010/11, mortality has dropped to 7.3% compared to 6.4% for weekday admissions.
The report provides examples of other trusts that have reconfigured their services to provide more consistent out-of-hours care.
Why are people at higher risk going into a hospital that performs fewer operations?
In general, patients treated in hospitals that perform operations rarely are more likely to die than in hospitals that perform a higher number of operations. This is particularly the case for major cardiovascular conditions such as an abdominal aortic aneurysm (a weakened section of the major artery that runs through the body, which has a very high mortality risk if it ruptures).
The risk of dying from major surgery used to treat this condition is 70% higher in hospitals that perform a lower number of these operations. Hospitals that perform fewer than 35 of these operations a year have a 13% patient mortality rate compared with 8% among hospitals that perform more than 35. (The report defines low-volume hospitals as those doing more than ten but 35 or fewer operations a year.)
Various factors may contribute to the difference in mortality across hospitals, including:
- the experience and workload of individual surgeons
- the organisational structure of the hospital and having surgeons in a dedicated speciality
- the fact that more experienced medical centres are more likely to use more advanced, less invasive techniques with lower rates of complications and mortality
The report lists the large number of trusts which performed 35 or fewer procedures for abdominal aortic aneurysm in 2010/11.
Surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm is the only area covered by this report. In other words, it cannot be inferred that you are at higher risk if you go into a hospital that performs fewer operations of any other type than another hospital.
What steps can improve patient safety and mortality?
The report also discusses factors that can help improve patient safety and outcomes.
It discusses the difference the rapidly increasing use of percutaneous coronary angiography (PCI, a technique to open up heart vessels blocked during a heart attack) has made to mortality from heart attacks: mortality has decreased by 2.5% since 2006. According to the report, it normally takes an estimated 15 years from the discovery of a new treatment to its widespread use by doctors, but the faster this happens, the greater the benefit seen.
Another factor in improving patient safety and mortality is following best practice and cost-effective patient care (care that is the safe and effective for patients and at the same time makes the best use of the NHS budget). The report discusses hip and knee replacements, which have increased over the past five years due to the increasing age of the population. Trusts that perform the best for these procedures had fewer patients with a long length of stay in hospital, fewer emergency readmissions within 28 hours, and lower rates of re-operation (a repeat operation done within one year of the initial procedure). Good care can also cost less in the long term.
The Hospital Guide Questionnaire looked at how certain trusts were improving patient recovery and reducing length of patient stay after these orthopaedic procedures. This is known as the Rapid Recovery Pathway. Factors that can improve patient recovery are:
- pre-surgery education for patients to help relieve anxiety and increase understanding
- admission on day of surgery, reducing length of stay
- having a standardised anaesthetic protocol that helps with pain management and recovery
- multi-disciplinary recording of patient records, helping share information and reduce risk of complications
- orthopaedic physiotherapy services being available seven days a week, which improves recovery and length of stay
- using criteria-based discharge: a checklist that helps reduce error in the discharge process, reducing risk to the patient
- phoning patients in the 48 hours after their discharge to help reduce the risk to the patient and readmissions to hospital
What do patients' comments tell us?
In addition to hospital mortality rates, another important indicator of hospital performance is what patients say about their treatment. Online patient feedback can provide information that is not always clear from statistics, and websites such as NHS Choices and Patient Opinion now feature thousands of detailed comments on how patients view their treatment. The Dr Foster report says that comparing reports on these systems with national patient surveys has shown a reasonable degree of agreement:
- NHS trusts that score well on these surveys also tend to score well on data collected by Patient Opinion and NHS Choices.
- Overall, over half of patients say they would recommend the place in which they were treated, a quarter said they would not recommend it, and 16% had no opinion.
The hospitals most often recommended percentage of people recommending the hospital) were:
- The Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Treatment Centre Private (97%)
- North Downs Hospital Private (96%)
- Queen Victoria Hospital (East Grinstead) NHS (96%)
- Euxton Hall Hospital Private (95%)
- Fulwood Hall Hospital Private (93%)
- The Royal London Hospital For Integrated Medicine NHS (92%)
- Boston NHS Treatment Centre Private (91%)
- Emersons Green NHS Treatment Centre Private (86%)
- The Heart Hospital NHS (84%)
- Airedale General Hospital NHS (82%)
- Frimley Park Hospital NHS (82%)
- St Richard's Hospital NHS (81%)
- Warwick Hospital NHS (80%)
- Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton NHS (79%)
- Royal Hampshire County Hospital NHS (77%)
Hospitals least often recommended were:
- Medway Maritime Hospital (35%)
- The Royal London Hospital (35%)
- Whipps Cross University Hospital (35%)
- Hull Royal Infirmary (32%)
- Royal Bolton Hospital (29%)
- Pinderfields General Hospital (27%)
- Croydon University Hospital (26%)
- Queen's Hospital, Romford (26%)
- Newham General Hospital (21%)
- Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham (20%)
Where there was dissatisfaction, the five factors most likely to contribute to this were:
- not being involved in care decisions
- not being treated with dignity and respect
- hospital staff not seeming to work well together
- poor hospital cleanliness
- being treated in mixed sex accommodation
Private hospitals seemed to score well. It is difficult to tell the reasons for this. As these comments were registered on NHS Choices, they may reflect NHS patients being treated by private units. Also, the comparison between NHS and private may not be equal as private hospitals may be smaller and also manage less complex cases.
The report concludes with its Trusts of the Year, which had the best four mortality indicators and best scores in response to three questions on the national patient survey, which asked:
- Overall, how would you rate the care you received?
- Were you involved as much as you would like in decisions about your care and treatment?
- Did you feel you were treated with respect and dignity while you were in the hospital?
The four highest-performing hospitals according to these results were:
- Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust South
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Midlands
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Only the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust scored low on all four mortality measures.
How can I choose and rate hospitals near me?
NHS Choices allows you to score the treatment you have received and leave specific explanations of what made your treatment good or bad. These opinions are publicly viewable, meaning you can read what other people have experienced before choosing where you want to be treated.
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We collect your personal information because it helps us to support our centres, groups and participants undertaking our programmes. Additionally, it allows us to invite you to fundraising initiatives and to benefit from commercial special offers. It also enables us to give you convenient access to our online services and support mechanisms. In addition, personal information helps us to continue to develop and improve the way the Lifesigns Group operates and supports its participants.
There are two types of information you provide us with when using our services:
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The information is used to provide you with a service that you have requested, to answer an enquiry or as part of our fundraising and commercial programmes. We may ask you to provide us with personal information on a voluntary basis in certain areas of our services. This information will be used for the purposes outlined at the time of collection.
We keep records of your activity on our websites to help us understand how you use the system so that we can make it a more effective tool for you. Information on ethnicity and disability maybe collected and used anonymously for statistical purposes by the Lifesigns Group in order to make sure we are making the Lifesigns Group accessible to all, and used locally to help meet your personal needs. We also collect the email address of the parents/guardians of our participants to keep them up to date with information to help support their young person complete their programme. This can be opted-out of at any point.
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We have a range of promotional opportunities, specially negotiated offers, free prize draws, privilege discounts and information from the Lifesigns Group and our partners to tell you about. Your personal information will not be passed onto these partners unless you have given us permission to do so.
If you do not want to receive promotional emails from us relating to the above you can use the 'unsubscribe' function at the bottom of emails sent by us. We may use some information that we hold about you, for example your age, what programme you are doing, and whether you have opened and clicked through previous emails, to help us send the most relevant information to you.
For fundraising opportunities, we collect personal information when you ask about our activities over the phone, in person, by letter or in email, when you register with us for an event, make a payment, subscribe to our newsletter or otherwise give us your personal information. We use this information to provide you with the information, services or products you have asked for, process donations you have made, inform you of changes to our service and policies, to claim your Gift Aid donation, send you communication that includes information about our campaigns, volunteering and fundraising activities and to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.
Through monitoring your interest in our range of products and services, we will create a profile of your preferences so that any contact we have with you is appropriate, relevant and timely. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us to do this effectively. This activity is done to understand our audiences, and, for supporters, helps us to limit our communications only to those who are interested in our programmes, and have the means to support us.
The Lifesigns Group will not provide any information collected that personally identifies you to any other company or organisation, unless it is required to do so by law, Court Order by other Government or law enforcement authorities or as described in this Privacy Statement.
Data collected on our websites is shared with the relevant Licensed Organisation and Lifesigns Group office, as a necessity to enable people to complete their specific programme and achieve their aims and for Lifesigns Group staff to manage programmes effectively. Participant personal information is never shared with other participants.
We may pass your information to our trusted third-party service providers and other associated organisations who are authorised to work on our behalf, for example to process payments and send you mailings. We disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service. In circumstances when you have requested a certain product we will send your data to fulfillment houses; we have a written agreement with all fulfillment houses and all data is destroyed after use. We do not store credit card details and we only share customer credit card details with our agencies involved in processing your payments.
As is standard practice on many websites and online services, Lifesigns Group online services use 'cookies' and other technologies to help us understand which parts of our services are the most popular, where our visitors are going, and how much time they spend there. We also use cookies and similar technologies to see if our online advertising is bringing people to our resources and services and other online training and downloads. We use cookies and other technologies to study traffic patterns on our website, to make it even more rewarding as well as to study the effectiveness of our participant and network communications. We also use cookies to customise your experience and provide greater convenience each time you interact with our services.
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The Lifesigns Group's online services provide links to various websites that we do not control as well as to websites of our partners and supporters. When you click on one of these links, you will be transferred out of our websites and connected to the website of the organisation or company that you have selected. Even if an affiliation exists between our websites and a third-party website, we exercise no control over linked sites and are not responsible for the privacy practices of other organisations and their websites. Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. If you visit a website that is linked to our site, you should consult that site's privacy policy before providing any personal information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to the information gathered by the Lifesigns Group.
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We take all reasonable safeguards to keep all your personal information as secure as is digitally possible. In addition to a rigorously enforced data handling policy, all our staff members are made aware of their obligations to keep the information for authorised use only. Of course no technology is fail-safe, but we have made every reasonable effort to keep our systems up to date with the relevant protocols.
All personal data should be accessible only to those who need to use it. A judgement should be based upon the sensitivity and value of the information in question; but we always consider keeping personal data:
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April 5. Wind and wave energies are not renewable after all. The details are all about wind. It's renewable on a small scale, but if we were to expand it to the point that it could replace oil, it would throw off the energy balance of the atmosphere. In a computer model, "the magnitude of the changes was comparable to the changes to the climate caused by doubling atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide." I wonder how far we could go with photovoltaic before the same kind of thing happened.
April 18-19. An important article in the NY Times, Is Sugar Toxic? Of course, the human digestive system can deal with some toxicity. But there is evidence that the quantity of sugar in the industrial diet has overwhelmed us, causing diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and possibly cancer. The article mentions that high fructose corn syrup was originally marketed as a healthy alternative to sugar, and now they're marketing sugar as a healthy alternative to HFCS! Anne comments:
There's a public health joke that goes like this: "Q: Table sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose bound into a disaccharide. HFCS is 45% glucose and 55% fructose as free monosaccharides. Which is worse and why?" "A: HFCS - because its cheaper."I didn't watch Lustig's whole 90 minute video, but the idea is that glucose is harmless (other than being empty calories) and the damage comes when the liver has to break down excessive fructose into glucose, without being moderated by fiber. So fruit juice could be as toxic as white sugar! Brendan reports some numbers on concentrated natural sweeteners:
Agave nectar: 92% fructose / 8% glucose or 74% fructose / 26% glucose
Honey: 47% fructose / 38% glucose / 9% maltose / 2% sucrose
Maple: Almost entirely sucrose
Brown Rice: 94% maltose / 6% glucose
Cane Molasses: 74% sucrose / 12% fructose / 5% glucose
Again, sucrose is glucose-fructose, which is not as bad as pure fructose, so it looks like agave is worst of all. Maltose is double glucose, and nobody seems to know how much it harms your body to break it down. And if you're wondering about "dextrose", which often appears on ingredients lists, it's another word for glucose. Bottom line: be careful with sweeteners other than whole fruit.
April 21. Why does it seem like the most wonderful things are bad for us? Maple syrup, video games, even daydreaming! This is what makes me think life is not meaningless, but has a precise and strongly enforced meaning: if you live as if you're here to learn, everything falls into place, but if you live for pleasure, you get repeatedly hammered down. At least I do.
But Yiedyie suggests an amazing metaphor: "the Universe does not want us to have a monopleasure like a monocrop." Here's an image of a polycrop, the seven levels of a forest garden, from the tops of trees down to the roots. And each vertical level has horizontal variety, many plants with different functions.
Maybe we can live purely to have a good time, if we have a good time in a variety of ways, on every level from the shallowest to the deepest. Or maybe a true emotional polyculture must also include pain...
April 27. A perfect voting system. It's easy to understand, nobody is disenfranchised by living in the wrong place, the results are close to proportional representation, and there is no incentive for tactical voting. This is accomplished through a crazy idea that just might work: in each contest, instead of counting the votes, one ballot is picked at random!
April 29-30. I've posted before about converting a chest freezer into a super-efficient chest fridge. That link goes to a 2008 post I hadn't seen yet, with some other links and comments. I see no evidence for the "$16 part" that will do the job, but there is a link to this highly-rated $59 freezer temperature controller at Amazon, and a comment about how to do it for free by adjusting the set screw on the temperature control dial.
But Tel sends a link to this permies.com forum post, in which a refrigeration specialist says that running a freezer at refrigerator temperatures...
...is going to result in not enough cooling on the compressor, over expansion of the refrigerant due to excessive superheat, overheating at the valves at temps likely well over the oxidation point of the oil... very fast destruction of the internal refrigeration system, and pin hole leaks due to the hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids that are formed as the refrigerant and oil break down.
He also says it will cause "huge energy usage", which is totally wrong. Many people have tried this and reported very low energy usage, including this report of 0.1 kWh per day. Here's another page testing that claim. He modified an older chest freezer and got 0.35 kWh/day, and discovered that the guy who got 0.1 kWh/day was using a super-efficient freezer. Still, until the refrigerator industry gets serious, 0.35 kWh/day is excellent! The most efficient mid-size refrigerator sold in America, the Sun Frost R19, burns 0.56 kWh/day (source) and costs $3000! So even if the naysayer above is right, you will still spend less money and use less energy if you get an old chest freezer off Craigslist every few years.
May 2-3. A few months ago in this post, I quoted a post I made in this thread on permies.com, about community members who didn't help with food. After someone brought up the word "freeloader", I made another post:
There are primitive cultures that don't even have the concept of "freeloader" -- if someone does no productive activity, nobody cares. This is possible when a society is built on activities that are so enjoyable or meaningful that ordinary people would rather do them than not do them.
The concept of "freeloading" can only exist in the context of a society built on activities that are so unpleasant that nobody will do them without coercion. This coercion can be anything from whippings, to withholding of money without which you're not permitted to live, to social shaming.
In a permaculture system, every plant and animal does its role voluntarily. If the chickens don't scratch in the dirt, you put something in the dirt to make them want to scratch. Calling them "freeloaders" would be ridiculous... so why do we do this with humans?
Anne comments:
The flaw in the "experiment" is that the group of people in no way constituted a community. I think you could almost define "community" as "the set of people among whom reciprocity is not readily quantifiable."
Aaron comments:
Crappy work is not so bad if you don't spend the entire time thinking about what an awful job it is -- like children do. I'm just wondering, is it being forced to do work when we're children that makes us hate it so much that we still hate it as adults?
This is in the context of a comment Aaron made last week, about the low-income Jews in New York and how the media framed the issue in terms of whether it's fair for them to get government money. Aaron is raising two kids with The Continuum Concept plus books about attachment parenting and homeschooling, and he writes that "they're enthusiastic about learning and very imaginative and they don't see any limits to what they can explore like school children do." But at the same time...
The issue of not getting their fair share rules my kids' lives and easily gets distorted into thwarting each other from getting stuff. They don't mind missing out so long as their sister also misses out. It looks bad but it's just a less sophisticated version of what adults do.
Raising kids has turned out to be a very humbling experience for me. It's apparent that my kids have learned a central message of civilisation, that there is a shortage of stuff out there and you need to grab hold of as much of it as you possibly can. In the end I put it down to the same thing that old-school Christians do - we live in a fallen world.
Aaron did a post about this a year ago, The Love Shortage. But speaking of old-school Christians, here's a comment from a Franciscan nun, who spent years looking for a good community:
All the secular ones seemed to suffer from at least one of the same difficulties, mostly related to selfishness. Some or all community members would shirk work and vie with each other for power, fame, wealth, and/or sex. Cliques would form and some would be 'in' and others would be 'out'. Very little care or consideration would be given to each person's emotional or spiritual wellbeing, and most would be too busy pursuing their own agenda to care too much about the impact on anyone else.
What is it about religious communities that enable them to achieve stability over many decades (sometimes centuries)? And can this be replicated in the secular world? I think what you need are emotionally healthy people, who see the value of giving up some or all of their own selfishness for the gift of developing virtue, mutual support, kindness, and - ironically - self-determination.
I have one more comment. "Freeloading" is a healthy response to disempowerment. If you find yourself in a system that demands your labor but denies you participation in power, the right thing to do is to "game the system", to follow the letter of the law while taking more than you give until that system collapses in a heap and you can replace it with something alive. The problem is that gaming the system becomes a habit, and this habit carries over into situations where we do have participation in power. This is why people remain selfish in communities with consensus decision making, and it's why we become depressed when we live without a job. It takes years to learn to trust other people and find the life inside us.
The task before us is to help as many people as possible through this transition.
May 6-7. A month ago in this post I said that wind energy, if it gets big enough, would destabilize the climate. Rob points out that the same kind of thing would happen with geothermal:
Currently there are very few places where the Earth's mantle is close enough to the surface to make geothermal practical. But if we were to start mining down, to build enough subterranean power plants to power our society's current energy needs plus the growth needed to sustain our economy, it seems possible that we could cause the Earth's mantle to gradually cool.
More generally, if any new energy source miraculously enables the global economy to keep growing, then it will eventually grow to the point where that energy source either runs out or causes other problems. Even space colonies won't work, and Kevin Scott Polk works this out in detail in his book Gaiome. A space empire expanding in all directions would increase its territory at a rate proportional to the cube of its speed of expansion. This is a polynomial function. Although a polynomial increase adds more each year than the year before, it is not the same as an exponential increase. Here's a good math page on exponential vs polynomial functions. Basically, even the smallest exponential increase will eventually leave any polynomial increase in the dust. On page 32 of Gaiome, Polk estimates that a growth rate of only 0.1% per year would fill every habitable planet in the galaxy in only 47,000 years.
This raises another question: Why does economic growth have to be exponential? It doesn't. But right now the interest you pay on your debts is exponential, and when economists talk about "growth", they mean exponential growth. As long as our economies are based on percent-per-year, they will continue to hit physical limits and crash. Pretending for the moment that we have the technology for space colonies, it is still possible to use exponential economies to expand into the galaxy without a universal crash, if we have a bunch of local economies that take turns crashing. This is what we've done so far on Earth. The other way to do it would be with a different economic paradigm.
May 11. Ivan sends a link to this 2009 Russian blog post, Diasporas and Barbarians. The part about barbarians is similar to Ribbonfarm's Return of the Barbarian post, but I'm more interested in the "diaspora" part, which is related to lots of stuff I write about.
The blogger, Anatoly Karlin, begins by quoting a Russian nationalist, Konstantin Krylov, on the "diaspora mentality". Krylov chose the word diaspora to focus on Jews and why they are ethical outsiders. Then Karlin's post gets more interesting when he points out that many of us have no diaspora background and still fit Krylov's description. For example:
they have little concept of social shame and simply don't think about, or notice, many of the ingrained social customs and traditions constraining the actions of members of the host society.
That would perfectly describe me as a teenager. Now that I'm older, I pay closer attention to the rules of the dominant society, but only for tactical reasons. This might be what they call "being in the world but not of it."
Whether or not this is really a feature of ethnic groups wandering from their homeland, it is clearly a feature of adaptable people living in societies that have wandered from reality. For example, Ivan quotes Dmitry Orlov:
But very few of them have ever heard of the real operative "ism" that dominated Soviet life: Dofenism, which can be loosely translated as "not giving a rat's ass." A lot of people, more and more during the "stagnation" period of the 1980's, felt nothing but contempt for the system, did what little they had to do to get by (night watchman and furnace stoker were favorite jobs among the highly educated) and got all their pleasure from their friends, from their reading, or from nature.
In a sane society with healthy values and customs, people find them intrinsically rewarding, and become one with them. But as a society veers off into insanity, its values and customs become soulless or even harmful, and more and more people become detached and just go through the motions. Meanwhile, people who continue to believe in the rules need some other reward.
In a dysfunctional culture, the reward for obedience is enjoying the punishment of the disobedient. This explains most right wing politics, and some left wing politics. It explains child abuse, public executions, and why America is fighting so many wars, and has so many prisons.
And you can add this to the list of the diminishing returns of Empire. Soon America will no longer be able to afford to blow up so many bad guys and keep so many of its citizens locked up to satisfy the resentful bloodlust of a shrinking tribe of people who are failing to adapt.
Ideally, every person who mentally quits the dominant tribe will join a nice tribe that does not require enemies or punishment to make its members feel good. But in practice, new nasty tribes will arise, which still reward members by dealing out punishment, and do so more efficiently than the old system.
May 25. Super-smart monologue by Geoffrey West, Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations and People Always Die, and Life Gets Faster. West is a physicist who tried to find universal laws for biology, and he discovered that a bunch of things scale exponentially with size, and the exponent is less than one, which means as an organism gets bigger, certain things get smaller in ways that you can mathematically predict. A thousand pound horse will age more slowly, eat less, and do less work than ten hundred pound dogs. Then he started looking at human social systems, and he discovered that cities scale with an exponent greater than one, which means a city of a million people will have more production and innovation than ten cities of a hundred thousand. Also it will have more crime and disease, and people will walk faster! This reminds me of the Robinson Jeffers poem The Purse-Seine.
Then West looks at corporations, and finds that they operate like individual organisms, not like cities. So a billion dollar company will have lower profits and less innovation than ten hundred-million-dollar companies. And there's a great bit about how cities have more diversity as they get bigger, including niches for crazy people, while corporations have less diversity.
There's also some stuff about exponential growth and collapse. People are always saying that we can continue growth and avoid collapse through innovation, but West points out that "you have to innovate faster and faster", until eventually you need something as revolutionary as the internet every six months.
These thoughts raise many questions, some of which I can answer. Why do cities scale differently than corporations? Because they have an emergent or "bottom up" structure rather than central control. Can we design businesses, governments, economies that are less centrally controlled than the ones we have now? Yes, and we have barely started.
And the question I find most interesting: how will cities behave in a zero-growth economy? The age of perpetual growth is ending. For the entire future of the human species, we will be consuming mostly renewable resources, at roughly the same rate each millennium as the millennium before. Yet, at the same time, any settlement can become more efficient and productive by getting larger. I see two scenarios. In the stable scenario, every region will have a single permanent city. To keep the city from depleting its landbase, all you need is a good recycling program and universal humanure composting. That's the easy problem. The hard problem is to make the size of the city oscillate gently around a point of equilibrium, instead of rising until it crashes. I think the unstable scenario is more likely: every region will cycle through fall and rise, depleting topsoil, cutting down forests, and building megacities, which then collapse and give way to human cultures that regrow forests and topsoil, and so on.
May 26. Three important posts on Low-tech Magazine: The short history of early pedal powered machines, and then an argument that Bike powered electricity generators are not sustainable because they require 2-3 times more pedaling than driving machinery directly, and the pedaling may not even reclaim the energy used in battery manufacture. This leads to Pedal powered farms and factories: the forgotten future of the stationary bicycle. The conclusion:
Cranks and pedals are not a solution at all if we decide to cling to an energy-intensive lifestyle -- but then, neither is any other renewable energy source. The main problem with our approach to pedal powered machines is that we compare them to fossil fuel powered machines and not to the inefficient human powered tools and machines that went before them. This explains why pedal power is often laughed at in the western world but enthusiastically welcomed in the developing world... Ironically, communities in the poorest countries in the world are developing into sustainable societies independent of fossil fuels, enjoying basic but modern comforts, while we continue to be ever more dependent on increasingly dirty, dangerous and diminishing energy sources.
June 6-7. Important article on poverty and self-control. Everyone knows that poor people have less self-control than rich people, and the popular American belief is that some people have more Magical Virtue than other people, and those with more Magical Virtue become rich, while those with less become poor. I call it "magical" because we believe that it exists on a level deeper than genetics and environment, and I got this insight from a bit in this post by Anne:
Causative theories are separated into naturalistic -- infectious agents, falling branches, misbegotten genes -- and personalistic -- taboos, transgressive acts, conflict with a magical enemy, etc. Biomedicine tends to abjure personalistic causes in favor of naturalistic ones, but from an anthropologist's viewpoint, western medicine is simply overflowing with personalistic theories of disease. We are besotted by the idea of "will-power" -- a social, moral and ethical virtue to whose absence we ascribe all manner of illnesses, from diabetes to lung cancer.
If people smoke cigarettes because of their genes and environment, then we can't blame them -- they just got dealt a bad hand. So instead we imagine, with no evidence, that behind the hands we are dealt there are metaphysical players, and a Good player can overcome even the worst hand, while a Bad player will blow the best hand. Even atheists think this way, because it's easy. The alternative to blaming others is taking responsibility ourselves: every behavior that we don't like has a reason that we can find, and maybe do something about.
Getting around to the original link, studies have shown that self-control is a depletable resource. And the big idea is that poor people burn up their mental energy on hundreds of little decisions like which soap to buy, while richer people can blow off these decisions and save their mental energy to not have a cigarette. So if we want to lift ourselves or others out of poverty, we have to look beyond financial relief to willpower relief.
But the answer can't be that easy, because when poor people win the lottery, they don't suddenly gain self-control. Instead, they typically blow the money and end up bankrupt in a few years. Maybe there's some factor in childhood, like bad nutrition or authoritarian parenting, that makes poor people so deeply unable to self-regulate that it would take years of therapy to recover. But then how do we explain variance in self-control among siblings? The last straw we can grasp at is some kind of developmental butterfly effect, where tiny events cause feedback loops.
After that, we fall into the dangerous world of genetic "virtue". Biotech may have us wrestling with that issue soon enough. I touched on this two years ago in my Gattaca post. Most likely, the elite will genetically engineer their own kids to have supreme restraint, and they'll engineer the poor to be bad at restraining themselves, but extremely good at pushing themselves to work!
June 9/13. A few more thoughts about self-control. First, maybe it's okay that most people don't have it. Maybe there are different niches in the human ecosystem that can be filled by people with high or low ability to restrain themselves, and high or low ability to drive themselves. It does seem that people with low restraint are more creative. The problem is that we live in a dysfunctional culture, in which the niche filled by people with low self-control is to be exploited!
And a little more outside the box, Anne writes: "while there are reproducible measurements that psychologists might gloss as 'self-control,' there is nothing testable that corresponds to the general definition of the term." So now I'm thinking, suppose there's no such thing as self-control: nobody ever really forces themselves to do something they don't want to do; instead, some people are better at convincing themselves to want to do things.
Remember the famous marshmallow experiment: a bunch of kids were each given a marshmallow, and if they could delay eating it for fifteen minutes, they were given a second marshmallow. So the kids with more self-control got diabetes. Seriously, the kids who could delay gratification turned out years later to be more successful, and the way they avoided eating the marshmallow was by changing the focus of their attention. So we all have the potential to get the second marshmallow, to quit an addictive substance, to build up savings, through mental skills that can be learned. The big one is simply empathy with your future self. You could almost plug in that concept, in place of "self-control", in every context. Also you need imagination, the ability to take yourself out of the present moment.
But sometimes you need to be in the present moment, and sometimes emotion is more reliable than intellect. The meta-skill here is to be aware of your own mental state, and to choose the right one at the right time. The kids who failed the marshmallow test, and later failed in life, were probably stuck in the correct mental state for a messed up family: the future is chaos so all rewards must be grasped instantly. And the kids who passed the test might have been taught by their families to delay gratification, and later they became rich, but then they got stuck in the game of building up more and more wealth for no good reason.
June 16. Protecting medical implants from attack. Did pirates have to protect their wooden legs from cyber attack? Do slide rules get viruses? No! But medical implants are now on the same path as Microsoft Windows and the tech system as a whole: adding more complexity, and creating more openings for failure, which can be patched only with more complexity at greater expense.
I suggest a law: as a system rises in complexity, it must also rise in some combination of fragility, unpredictability, and expense. Or C=FUE. Centrally controlled systems, seeking to minimize fragility and unpredictability, must consume more and more resources. When they can no longer afford the expense, fragility and unpredictability rise and knock them down to a lower level of complexity. Meanwhile, systems that are willing to embrace chaos can be both cheap and robust.


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What Makes for Good Angel Investing?
What Factors Generate Higher Returns for Angels?
What is the typical Time to Exit for a Successful vs Unsuccessful Start-up Seeking Angel Funding?The man who can answer these questions and more is Dr. Robert Wiltbank. He will be a Keynote speaker at the May 16 Seattle Angel Conference, providing his insights into Angel Conference investment returns, and factors for success.
Rob is actively tracking the activities of the OEN Angel Oregon style Conferences and the Oregon Angel Fund. His analysis of Angel Investing and Venture Capital returns have been referenced in many conversations, especially the Returns for Angel Investors in Groups.
Dr. Wiltbanks groundbreaking review of the returns and risks in Angel Investing leads him to conclusions that are of great interest to Angel investors:
"As a group, the risk taken by these angels is rewarded with overall returns—2.6X in 3.5 years—that are fairly attractive. This research also indicates that angel investors may positively influence their rates of return by making wise decisions about due diligence, avoiding ventures in unfamiliar industries, follow-on investments, and productively participating in the ventures post-investment"Dr. Wiltbank's research focuses on strategy making under uncertainty, particularly as it relates to growing new organizations. He is a leading researcher in the field of angel investing, and has published research in top tier academic journals covering topics from change in top management teams, to non-predictive strategies; from entrepreneurial expertise in marketing, to formal venture capital investment practices. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Venturing.
BiographyRobert Wiltbank is Associate Professor of Strategic Management for the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University. His research focuses on strategy development under uncertainty, particularly as it relates to new venture development. His study of angel investing practices and performance is the first empirical examination of the outcomes achieved by angel investors in the U.S. His publications include a study of top management team change in new ventures in Organization Science, and a study on the effectiveness of formal venture capital practices among angel investors in Venture Capital. At Willamette University he teaches courses on New Venture Creation, Strategic Management, and Industry Analysis.
He is also a Partner at Montlake Capital, a growth stage venture investment firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. He currently serves on the board of Max-Viz Inc, and the board of the Angel Resource Institute. In addition, he teaches governance and strategy to nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. as part of National Arts Strategies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing managerial expertise in non-profits.
Rob is co-author of the book The Catalyst from Crown Publishing, based on his research as a Batten Institute Research Fellow with the Darden School at the University of Virginia, selected by Business Week as one of the top 10 books on innovation and leadership in 2009. He is also co-author of Effectual Entrepreneurship, from Routledge Publishing in 2011, a text on entrepreneurial expertise based on 15 years of academic research on the topic. He holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Washington, and a degree in finance & accounting from Oregon State University.


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