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- "I caught a sea horse! I meant to, of course!" —New Leaf
The seahorse (タツノオトシゴ, Tatsunōtoshigo?) is a type of fish found in the ocean at any time of the day, between the months of April and November. It has a tiny shadow size, the same size as the Clownfish and Goldfish. It sells for 1,100 Bells in Wild World and City Folk, and 1,500 Bells in Animal Forest e+.
In Animal Forest e+ they are very stubborn, and only take the bait if it is literally directly in front of them. The time frame between the strike and the fish fleeing is also very short and close to that of rare fish. Despite all this, they are very easy to find, and are the only tiny-sized ocean fish to occur in Animal Forest e+.
Donation to the museum
As with all fish caught in Animal Crossing series, the seahorse can be donated to the museum in each game by talking to Blathers, who will also give some information on it.
In Animal Forest e+
In Wild World
Upon donation, Blathers the curator will say:
"I can't think of a soul who claims to have eaten a meal of seahorse. However, it has been used for centuries as an herbal supplement, that I know. A supplement for what, I haven't the foggiest."
In City Folk
Upon donation, Blathers the curator will say:
"This creature is covered in hard scales that suggest a relation to crabs or shrimp, but it's a proper fish. That said, it's a dreadful swimmer and can't usually move against powerful currents, eh wot? In such environments, the sea horse will cling to kelp and stay there until the waters calm a bit... Seeing those little fellows holding on for dear life makes me want to cheer them on! Cling, sea horse!"
In New Leaf
In New Leaf, an information board in the aquarium will list information about this fish.
"Sea horses don't look like fish, but they still share a lot of distant connections. They use their small dorsal fins and tail fins to swim, but in actuality they're pretty bad swimmers. They wrap their tail fins around seaweed or coral so they won't float away with the current. Once attached, they feed on plankton and small shrimp that float by. The female deposits eggs in the male's pouch, putting the burden of child care on the male."
It can be found in the tube-tank in the northeast corner of the room in the river section of the aquarium.
Capture quotes
- "タツノオトシゴを つりあげた! こども ドラゴン!" —Animal Forest e+
- "I caught a seahorse! Baby dragon! (translation)" —Animal Forest e+
- "I caught a seahorse! Giddy up! YEE HAW!" —Wild World
- "I caught a seahorse! Nay? Yay!" —City Folk
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Further informationThere are many species of seahorse in existence, so judging by the coloration and look of the Animal Crossing seahorse, it could possibly be a Red Oceanic Sea Horse. The males carry the eggs in a brood poach located under the tail. Seahorses are fish, albeit extraordinary ones. Physically, very little of them resembles a fish, but an ancient evolutionary path links the two seemingly different creatures. It is a harmless fish, popular in private and public aquariums.

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The bottom of the current mining downturn was called a few times in recent years. But industry experts are, again, putting their necks out and saying the resources sector is finally on the up.
If it is the case, many miners will be taking advantage of this opportune time to pursue acquisition and development activities.
Gold-focused Newcrest chief executive officer Sandeep Biswas told The Australian he attended the recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch mining conference in the United States. Biswas said the current industry mood was positive.
Higher gold prices, which benefit gold companies have spurred some of this optimism; however, Biswas added this hopeful sentiment was industry-wide. Biswas said he believe the positivity resulted from companies reducing burdensome debt, slashing operating costs and increasing productivity.
With greater stability and the adjustment to a subdued commodities scene, miners have felt secure enough to actively chase growth opportunities.
Even commodities like nickel, which have been given up for dead in recent years, have experienced a small resurgence in interest.
Major miner BHP Billiton recently went public with its growth plans for its Western Australia-based Nickel West operations.
At the 13th annual China Nickel Conference in Shanghai BHP, Nickel West asset president Eduard Haegel told delegates the company's "lean" strategy has led to improvements in many areas within Nickel West.
Haegel said the restructured Nickel West business had cut A$440 million in expenses. He said the company's tactic would involve a reduced capital outlay approach when analysing a new project's potential. He said Nickel West was currently looking at developing some of its deposits and rebuilding its Kalgoorlie-based smelter furnace.
The resulting nickel operations would be high output, inexpensive and would remain sustainable in volatile pricing environment.
"We are creating an innovative, dynamic and low cost producer," Haegel said.
The landscape is changing for the resources sector where focus has been redirected towards innovation, efficiency and pursuit of less capital intensive projects and operations.
Most miners have insulated themselves as much as possible against global market volatility, but the situation isn't all doom and gloom. Once the world economy settles and begins an upward trajectory, resources companies could be in for unprecedented profit margins.
China is the world's second largest economy – accounting for a third of the world's growth between 2000 and 2015.
The Chinese economy is undergoing a rebalancing act, according to the International Monetary Fund. The country is reshaping from an export and public investment driven economy to one that is sustained by domestic consumption and a growing services sector.
Although the transition itself is expected to be a bumpy ride, the change to an economy powered by services and consumption is anticipated to benefit global growth and decrease volatility, the IMF stated in its recent Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific.
Additionally, there are some economic bright spots in emerging Asia that are experiencing steady growth and the IMF predicts this will continue if governments implement good policy.
Emerging Asia (excluding China) includes India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. In its report, the IMF forecasts slow and steady growth throughout the next few years from 6.2 per cent in 2015 to 6.5 per cent in 2017.
With proximity to Australia, these countries could become key markets to mitigate China's current slowdown and rebalancing act.
According to the Deloitte Mining Services Index, the mining services industry may, too, have hit its rock bottom in the six months to December 2015 where the Index fell 12.03 points to 55.60.
As with the resources sector, this period was characterised by downsizing, cost cutting and profit downgrades.
However, positive markers have indicated increasing gold exploration activities, which is good news for drill and blast contractors and equipment suppliers.
The resources sector is evolving from a more short-sighted industry chasing dollar signs to an industry reshaped by cost cutting, technological research and pursuit of productivity.
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Kaplan University offers degrees at the associate, bachelor's and master's levels. At the associate level, Kaplan University Online offers degrees in accounting and business administration. At the bachelor's level, accounting and business administration are offered online. Kaplan offers an online MBA program and a master's in accounting, finance and management.
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Undergraduate applicants must have a high school diploma or a GED; for graduate-level admissions, students must furnish—by the end of the fifth week of classes—an official transcript indicating completion of a bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by an organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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And Not So New..... Progress!
It was a busy weekend in my RL World, Dear Readers, with the removal of the last Christmas decorations and the Beginning of a major refurbishing of one of the bedrooms in my house, so not much got done on the mini houses. But whenever I say that, I often discover that I got more done than I thought I did! Since the Christmas Trees have been taken down, the Doll Houses have been shuffled around again, and it suddenly feels as though there is a Lot of room, and the new positions of the houses makes it easier to see what needs to be done. So I started to "chip away" at the problems I was having with the Willowcrest. The windows continue to be the most obvious sticking place when it comes to moving forward with this building! Above you can see the kitchen window from the exterior, after I had already added the cross pieces at the bottom of the windows where they abut the sill. I could not find a good picture from before.... but I had already decided that it looked too unrealistic to leave them with no "bottom" to the windows! And to make matters worse, this window was originally constructed with the exterior sill sitting above the level of the window openings so that it would show from the interior and look awful! (It must be a mistake in the kit design!)


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We really like rice - it's so simple and easy - especially since we got our Lekue Rice Cooker. What goes good with rice? Chicken Teriyaki! I have bought bottled teriyaki before but decided to make my own this time. The ingredients are pretty basic!
While that is heating up - shred your chicken.
Then mix the chicken into the sauce and you're ready to go!
Crock Pot Chicken Teriyaki
* 1-2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 1/8 cup soy sauce
* 3 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
* 1/2 tsp ground ginger
* 1 tsp minced garlic
* 1/8 tsp pepper
* 2 tsp corn starch
* 2 tsp cold water
* cold rice
* Place chicken in crockpot on low
* Combine sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, ginger, garlic and pepper. Wisk and pour over chicken.
* Cook on low for 4-5 hours until chicken is tender. Remove chicken and set aside.
* Place liquid into a pan and bring to a boil. While heating, shred chicken.
* Combine cornstarch & water and stir into pan of liquid until it is thick.
* Add chicken to sauce and mix well.
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The laboratory informatics market is segmented on the basis of product type, deployment model, component, industry, and region. Based on product type, the market is segmented into Electronic Data Capture (EDC) & Clinical Data Management Systems (CDMS), Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN), Laboratory Execution Systems (LES), Scientific Data Management Systems (SDMS), Chromatography Data Systems (CDS), and Enterprise Content Management (ECM). The LIMS segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR mainly due to the systems' ability to increase workflow efficiencies by removing manual data entry and transcription errors.
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Latin Name: Citrus × sinensis
Plant Family: Rutaceae
Other Names: Sweet Orange, Cáscara de Naranja, Orange Douce, Sinaasappelschil, Orangenschale, Kulit Jeruk & Zeste d'Orange.
Description: Oranges come from an evergreen tree, reputedly native to Southeastern Asia or Indo-China; the trees grow to a height of 6-15 metres. The leaves are elliptical to oval leaves in shape, alternate, dark glossy green in colour and 4-10cm in length. The 5-petalled flowers grow singly or in clustered racemes, they are white in colour, thick and waxy with yellow stamens. The fruits are spherical and are green when unripe, ripening to orange, the skin is tightly dimpled, waxy and 7-12cm in diameter.
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San Francisco's Simon Ungless
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"Do you have a sex tape? Otherwise, I suggest you start designing."
"We are setting them up for an industry that doesn't exist." Simon Ungless, director of the school of fashion at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, pauses. This may seem off-kilter to admit, especially for a CSM grad taught by the likes of Louise Wilson and Bobby Hillson, but he's got a point. The fashion education system is at risk of going off topic and Ungless is determined to regroup, or stop it altogether.
Of course, this sudden switch may seem compromising to those unfamiliar with Ungless' restless ambition. Ungless is far from haphazard ‒ from his track record, risk has fallen into his favour: enrolling into the MA Textiles at CSM led to a close friendship with coursemate Alexander McQueen, with whom he'd later share a flat, struggling to buy milk whilst Naomi Campbell wore their design on the front page of the Sunday Times.
In '96, he arrived San Fran at Bobby's suggestion, tempted by the Pamela Anderson appeal. However, it was "less Baywatch" and more Northern California. He had to bring a jacket. Leaving behind Dante, his last collection with McQueen, he began to teach in a fashion department he was initially told didn't exist, as it was so alarmingly out of touch.
The fashion education system is outdated. In an industry where fame and celebrity are valued more than raw skill, it is apparent that PR cannot provide the longevity young graduates require to sustain a brand. In this ego-centric habitat, we must question whether what fashion institutions provide is more self-serving to the university as a business than to their students' skill sets. Press show runways provide an unhelpful conclusion to a degree. Early coverage is dubious: premature, immediate exposure can damage graduates' prospects. Fashion education needs to be more introspective than promotion-centered.
Luckily, Ungless is asking those questions and he even has a few answers ‒ early collaborations are one step in shifting the focus away from individual fame. "Do you have a sex tape? Otherwise, I suggest you start designing."
How did you get into fashion?
I was studying architecture, but I quickly realized that I wasn't interested at all. I always saw these really cool people in the halls of residence in the East End, where I lived, so I followed them, and turned out they went to fashion school. They looked like me, the architects didn't look like me. So, I transferred to the fashion programme. I really wanted to go to CSM, but I was so scared of it, I knew the history, and I thought I would never be good enough.
Before I enrolled at CSM, I was already working and doing textiles for different companies, so I asked whether I could defer for a year to gain more experience first. It was the best decision I ever made because the first person I met was this very young, East End boy named Lee McQueen. We hit it off straight away, and I mean really hit it off. I would do prints and fabrics that he would design with and we would do projects together. We loved the same clubs, we loved the same music, we loved the same boys. We laughed constantly. Of course, I had amazing teachers, but the most amazing thing about CSM were all the people that would come in and the people that you were surrounded with.
After graduation, I went back into freelance forecasting, Lee moved into my house in South London in Tooting and we started McQueen. It was not really conscious. Isabella Blow would want something, so we would dye some fabric and make a dress. Richard Burbridge, the photographer, was getting married so we made his fiancé a dress.
We did that first collection, Taxi Driver, in our kitchen. I took the kitchen door off its hinges and made a print table. We borrowed material from CSM. We always thought Louise didn't know, but a few years later she said to me, "It's time you bring that back."
It was never a goal of mine to become a teacher, but when I was invited as a technician at CSM, I really needed the facilities. In 1996, Bobby Hillson was consulting and recruiting for San Francisco, and she asked me about it, so I thought, "Yeah, I'll go for three months."
We started to work with the students and I saw the response really quickly. They were exactly the same as the students at CSM but they just needed the right guidance. By the time September came around, I couldn't leave these young people. It just carried on like that to the point where I completely fell in love with Northern California. There's such a depth to San Francisco, the history of it, the music, the singing, the forward-thinking on environmental issues.
I really wanted to learn what that term "lifestyle" was. Designing for a lifestyle ‒ Gap, Banana Republic, Levi's, North Face ‒ all these people really knew how to, they created it. Merchandising is an American invention.
It's funny that you never intended to teach when teaching seems such a natural part of your DNA. Is there a teacher who really changed you?
I always think of these four women in education: Doreen Dyall, Bobby Hillson, Natalie Gibson and Louise Wilson. All really incredible women and each very different. Those women changed my life.
In what sense?
By making me see things differently. Doreen really believed in my work. When I was in high school I was reprimanded for the fact that I couldn't draw. Doreen made me realize that I could really draw. Bobby taught me to look at fashion, to understand fashion. Natalie taught me more with her eyebrow going up and down than anything that ever came out of her mouth. Louise, for directness and honesty.
I know Louise was a great teacher, but she could also be incredibly harsh. To me, it's a very old-school mentality, to push students through fear. There's this glamourized ideal of the fashion persona that walks in and everybody just runs for their lives. Do you believe you need to hurt someone to push their work? Do you ever think, "Damn, I've been way too gentle and now the work is bad."?
If my emotion is changing too deeply when I'm working with a student, if they haven't done what I told them to do, I know that my ego has suddenly come into play and I know that I'm not going to be coming from the best spot in that situation. That's when I have to walk away. With my teaching, you can take what you want out of it. I have no investment in that. I have my career, I have my education and I would like to give you some tools and directions too. I would love for you to do something different and bring something new to me, but until you can do that, then maybe do it my way. I have gotten angry with students, but I do it less and less, it doesn't serve me and it doesn't do them any good.
We're in a really different time. The population coming into this school has dramatically shifted in a very short period of time. It's really whatever has happened in high school and how parents have treated their children. They haven't set them up to succeed, they've been coddled. Everything is handed to them on a plate. They've all grown up with Pinterest, they've grown up with people's curation of art ready on a page. They go to Pinterest and they feel that they have done research. This is standard everywhere, so when I want them to do something self-generated in terms of research they can't do it because they don't come here with this tangible skill set, we have to go back and teach that.
They want validation, they want to do the minimum to get maximum validation for it. I've had students come to me and say "I put it on Instagram and I got 300 likes on that." Do I look like I care how many likes you got on Instagram? I asked them to learn how to put in an invisible zipper, but they'll say to me, "Kanye's never put in an invisible zipper, Virgil's never done an invisible zipper ‒ why do I have to?' I just ask if they're a pop star, a celebrity, if they have a sex tape. No? Then how the fuck are you going to get a line unless you actually work?
That's really interesting.
I've been in education quite a long time now and I see the desperate need for change. We all teach the same thing. The outcome for design is still a fashion show and I'm not convinced that that process is serving the student. It's preparing them for an industry that doesn't exist. I've spoken about that to some of my peers, people in other schools, they are horrified. They believe you have to have a show. A show for us is exactly the same as a show for a designer. It's PR.
I try to make it as much for the students as possible by flying in recruiters. Hopefully, they're going to follow up and people will get hired from that. A tangible skill set which is what is going to get them hired, not a show. A lot of schools are really rapidly becoming dinosaurs. Do we need to exist anymore? But people don't want to hear that, it's terrifying for them.
I think students are so hung up on the show because it's a traditional signifier that you've made it. It's a status symbol.
I don't know that the way that we do it is really healthy for these young designers. When we try to get them scholarships and prizes and awards to start their own label but they haven't got a hope in hell of doing that. They might do so for a season or two, and then it's done for them, they can't sustain it.
As a media platform ourselves, we realize how media play a significant role in keeping this absurd fantasy alive.
I've done it, I've lived it. I remember having Naomi Campbell in one of my jackets for Lee, on the cover of Sunday Times and we didn't even have any milk in the fridge. Lee was claiming unemployment benefit and I was working at CSM, we had no money. I always say it's like a one night stand. People put a lot of effort into this one night stand for young designers and then they never wanna fuck them again. It feels like that, to me.
Are you talking about consumers or the media?
I'm talking about some of these organizations that want to do these big fundings for young designers. There are great organizations, like the CFDA, that offer solid scholarship development to students. However, these huge prizes, with heavy press coverage, it feels like the day afterward you don't necessarily hear about those things again. You'll see a new name come up and you'll see a collaboration, you'll go look at it in the store and it looks like shit, nobody buys it. What happens to that, what happens to that designer?
I never try to make the new McQueen. When journalists come to me, they will be like, "Do you have the new McQueen?" They're just ridiculous, so fucking ridiculous. I will say, "No, but I've got about six really solid designers who are probably going to work at Banana Republic and make a gazillion dollars for some people's companies. I've got those, are you interested in those?"
When I first came to the academy, our then-director said, "I want this to be the CSM of the west." My colleague and I just looked at each other like, "It's not going work because the cohort is so different." People that are in San Francisco want a whole different thing, and we have to respond to the geography and the psychology of the person coming here and that's when we'll get results.
What would you like your students to know before they start their fashion education?
You know what, I'm not here to break expectations, I'm here to find out what they want to do, and then support them in that. Within our curriculum, American education is unitized. There's a lot of flexibility in the classes that you can take. In the school of fashion, we have somewhere close to four hundred classes. If you were to pull the transcripts for a hundred students randomly, you wouldn't find two transcripts which were the same. It's based off an individualized education.
More practically, the students seem to have a lot of hours in class.
It's unbelievable. It is mind-blowing because there are many more contact hours with instructors in class than what I had as a student, undergraduate, graduate. I think that the volume of work that they have to achieve is quite high.
You were talking about pressure. There seems to be less space for students to experiment and make mistakes because so often their work is already out there, or their work is being picked up.
That doesn't happen as much here as it does in London. But there is a lot of pressure financially. I've known students graduate from this programme with $70 ‒ 80,000 of student loan. I have friends who are in their late 40's who haven't paid off their student loans. That is pressure.
You mentioned that the community of other students is what you remember most from your time in college. Do you try to build that for your own students as well?
There is a truly collaborative spirit. Through collection time I'll see, when one undergraduate finishes, they'll pick up tools for somebody else and work with them. They will share contacts and they will share resources. They may be a little reserved in giving critical feedback to each other as they're not used to that as much, but we do do that in class.
You also opened the graduate show with a collaborative project?
That's not new for us, we've done that forever. It's usually with an industry company in some way. It depends on how we feel and what the students like. We've now started doing collaborations in the first semester because we noticed students lacked accountability for their work. We thought, let's start with mini-collaborative projects in the first semester so we can make them feel a little bit accountable for their partner.
That group collaborative project is something that our students do find challenging, they feel really uncomfortable, they scream, they cry and they kick the whole way through and at the end of it, they're really grateful.
How do you feel about the controversy surrounding the fashion school rankings?
We're all set up to compete. Therefore, the students are automatically set up to compete. Can't we just do something without being judged? Especially since the person judging doesn't really care about the student, you just want to be able to say, "We won." Kingston won, Newcastle won, Savannah won.
I feel that it creates an element of customer service in what we do, because people are paying for their education, which creates this confusion. I always say to students, "If you buy groceries and spend $80 on ingredients for a soup, you can't just put those ingredients on the table. You can sit there forever, it's not going to be a soup, is it? You have to participate. Same goes for education. You put your money down and I'm giving you these things, but you have to participate in the way you put that together to build your education otherwise it's not going be anything."
We have this thing here called accreditation, in which a school has to be accredited in order for our students to be able to receive funding. The people who do that are people that have no background in the fashion industry, at all. They inundate us with paperwork, so that we can get the students the money to come to school. I remember talking to Louise Wilson about it all the time, when she had to do these programme learning outcomes. How do you even put a box to that, you can't! How would you put Alexander McQueen on a spreadsheet or John Galliano?
Why do they always have to see something? Why can't I take my students down the tenderloin and take some photographs or draw on the street, why does it have to be something that you can understand and put in a box?
I wanted to talk a little bit about sustainability as well because I know that it's important for the school. It's a tricky topic because the truth is that the most sustainable thing you can do is not design anything. It's really exciting to see initiatives like "Oh, I learned how to make leather out of mushrooms" but I haven't really seen that impact our industry in any way.
I've always tried to think about sustainability in terms of the careers that we are developing here. I'm thinking about the designer who'll get a really high position in a big company ‒ they're directing people, they're having products made, they're buying and sourcing from all over the world, they're presenting this huge line of samples and their buyers say, "No, we don't want it, it's not right."
I want to put people out there that really know what they're doing and get it right. That's my contribution for getting some of these things in the right place. Designers should understand sourcing perfectly and understand textile production perfectly, so that they can make the correct decision for the brand that they are working with. Those are the kind of things I want my students to be aware of. It's not just about recycling. I want them to be able to sustain a career with their skill set and I want them to use that skill set to be able to impact the business of that company in a positive way.
This was really great.
Don't throw me under the bus too much.


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TED, begun in 1984, is an idea whose time has definitely come. It has evolved beyond anyone's predictions. Still rooted in its presentations-driven structure—think extreme power point—the talks showcased new developments in technology, entertainment and design. Many attendees here have been coming for years—from the early Monterey days, through to the current incarnation in Long Beach, which has been engineered by Chris Anderson and his team.
At TEDLong Beach, 1000+ people pay a fee in the high four figures for four days of, well, ideas. (Full disclosure—I have been fortunate to be given a rare non-profit rate for this TED). Here, though, the people who generally present the ideas are the people that thought of them or implemented them, usually to global effect, people like Jane Goodall, Madeline Albright and General Stanley McChrystal. The line-up is a well-researched mix of science, technology, architecture, with culture, corporate efforts and celebrity interspersed.
I came specifically to engage with the inspiring TEDFellows Program run by TED Community Director Tom Rielly, and more generally to better understand the role of storytelling in conveying new ideas to stakeholder audiences. As only a two-time TEDster, the rituals of TED are still unfamiliar, even as I participated in them, and one takeaway is that many of the normal rules of social engagement go out the window here, and you have to adapt quickly.
Immediately it is clear that the atmosphere is charged with an unusual combination of focus and happenstance. Everyone is both seeker and doer. Most are CEOs or founders of organizations, with clusters of scientists, self-starters, philanthropists, inventors and investors. Everyone is curious, and extremely directed, but it is not appropriate to aggressively pitch unless invited.
Opening day begins the daily ritual of what I called the 'A-rush,' a moment that resembles the bull-run in Pamplona, only with humans. This goes on at the beginning of every session. As theatre doors open in the Long Beach Convention Center for the first main stage series of talks, hundreds of normally self-possessed people crush forward with well-honed primal instinct to get good seats near the front of the stage. The wave of eager humans flowing in is accompanied by a selection of high volume orchestral music, making the whole moment seem slightly cult-like. And a cult it is—TED is no doubt addictive and for good reason. It's a heightened state of cognitive stimulation that you want to repeat. Again and again.
This bolstered my theory that experiences like Sundance Institute and its Sundance Film Festival, where I work, and TED, at base have a simple attraction—they provide a runner's high for what are mostly non-runners—its days of immersion into the world of story and experiences, which in turn creates a new kind of community. Which brings up another TED ritual.
Photo by James Duncan Davidson.
In TED world, it is more appropriate to engage overtly with everyone, upending the usual tendency towards silence and restraint when in the company of strangers. Elevators and lines show the tendency to its extreme. In the real world elevators are quiet. At TED, if you aren't chatting with the person next to you and shaking the hand of the person across, you are kind of a loser—these are strange new social conventions that have to be absorbed instantaneously. If you don't introduce yourself and your companions immediately and enthusiastically, you are not only being rude in TEDville, you are committing a worse offense—you are missing an opportunity to make a connection; one that may have real outcomes. TED, like Davos, Sundance, Popech, BioTech and so many other of the new real-time community-focused gathering zones, have perfected the art of reducing the rule of six degrees of separation down to two—me and you. And at TED, you are guaranteed that there will be a connection with anyone, usually made in under 60 seconds, and they are often a real-life connection through work, friends or family. At self-curating gatherings like these, you really can't miss, so why not talk to everyone around you?
TEDsters are people that aggressively love ideas and specialize in turning them into reality with some success. Here is where you will see a welcome message from the international space station, (which is also getting a live feed of TED), learn about clothes that you can grow, see forensics on astonishing computer bugs that are designed to be virtual warheads, see the unveiling of new interactive mapping interfaces, publishing tools, the world's most extensive museum tour database, new medical and renewable energy advances, and we wave to Ai Wei Wei, a world-renowned Chinese artist under house arrest for dissident opinions watching us silently, live, at 3 a.m. Beijing-time on Skype, as Long Beach TED gives his recorded talk a standing ovation. Under surveillance, he could say nothing in reply.
Interlaced throughout TED are the rapidly multiplying evolutions; TEDFellows, TEDx, TEDActive and now TEDEd. These initiatives harness the capacity of TED to foster new ideas, and are some of the most interesting parts of the experience. And everyone's experience is unique—it is very much what you make of it. For my part, it is often the musical experiences and talks about the effect of music on human brains that give some of the most satisfying and surprising moments. This year was not different. Main stage and impromptu musical performances were interwoven throughout the days and nights. New findings in neuroscience continue to explore the ways in which music has a profound and deep connection to all parts of the human brain. And so while discussion with the world's greatest thinkers, artists and change-makers punctuated the entire experience, continuing work on partnerships and resources was successful, it was the simplest of things—first violinist Robert Gupta's generous invitation to attend a rehearsal of the LA Philharmonic—that made my TED unforgettable.


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Although mainly demonstrational, this video shows you how to play a gavotte (also gavot or gavote) on guitar. This video is intended for advanced players who learn easily by watching or listening. Read the useful tips posted below to aid your guitar learning:
This is neither a classical guitar nor a classical technique, so it is performed with a little jazzy improvisation around this melody - which is the first theme from the Gavotte in J.S. Bach's 3rd lute suite. Even in this slim fragment, you can see why J.S. Bach is The Man: cool melody, good bass line and simple but neat chord substitution (G for Em, G7 for Dm, C for Am) in the 2nd half of the theme.
You can get the tab for the original version of this theme from the instructor's website, under the "tabs" link.
These are the main chords:
Am / Dm / Am / / / E / Am / E / / /
C / G7 / Am / G / Am / E / Am / / /
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Epidemiological approach to quality assessment in echocardiographic diagnosis
Author + information
- Received December 31, 1998
- Revision received July 13, 1999
- Accepted August 12, 1999
- Published online November 15, 1999.
Author Information
- Alan K Berger, MD∗,1,
- John S Gottdiener, MD∗,* (gottdien{at}ziplink.net),
- Mary Anne Yohe, MBA∗ and
- Jose L Guerrero, PhD†
- ↵*Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. John S. Gottdiener, Cardiology Research, St. Francis Hospital, 100 Port Washington Boulevard, Roslyn, New York 11576.
This study sought to determine whether statistical analysis of a computerized clinical diagnostic database can be used as a tool for quality assessment by determining the contribution of reader bias to variance in diagnostic output.
In industry, measurement of product uniformity is a key component of quality assessment. In echocardiography, quality assessment has focused on review of small numbers of cases, or prospective determination of reader variability in selected and relatively small subsets. However, diagnostic biases in clinical practice might be discerned utilizing large computerized databases to determine interreader differences in diagnostic prevalence and, with use of appropriate statistical methods, to determine the association of reader selection with diagnostic prevalence independently of other covariates.
We analyzed 6,026 echocardiograms in a computerized database, read by one of three level 3 (American Society of Echocardiography) readers, for differences in frequency among four coded echocardiographic diagnoses: mitral valve prolapse, valvular vegetations, left ventricular (LV) thrombus, and LV regional wall-motion abnormality.
Significant differences (up to fourfold) were found between readers, which persisted after statistical adjustment for those population characteristics, which differed slightly between readers. The low population prevalence of these conditions would have made it unlikely that these interreader differences could be detected by nonstatistical methods. Additionally, chamber dimensions differed between readers and were not normally distributed.
Statistically based quality assessment analysis of computerized clinical databases facilitates ongoing monitoring of interreader bias despite low diagnostic prevalence, and targets opportunities for subsequent quality improvement.
In industry, attainment of product uniformity is a key component of quality control. A similar standard is appropriate in medicine, where the interpretation of diagnostic studies has a strong impact on patient management. Although epidemiological techniques have long been used to study disease characteristics, these methods have not found
widespread use in diagnostic quality control. Specifically, the concept of product uniformity as a measure of quality, which has enjoyed long-standing industrial application (1,2), has not been extrapolated to diagnostic cardiac imaging. Hence, we sought to determine whether statistical sampling of echocardiographic diagnoses could be utilized as a method of quality assessment.
Our hypothesis was based on an input-output model, whereby given the assumption of equal distribution of case mix over time (input), consistency of diagnostic statements and measurements (output) between readers can be utilized as a measure of quality. Patients (the clinical input), are processed by the diagnostic system, and diagnostic statements (the output), are generated. In a population of sufficient size, the distribution of clinical conditions interpreted by the individuals should be similar. Hence, variables that may influence output are equipment, sonographers, and differences in diagnostic styles among interpreting physicians. If the equipment and sonographer assignments do not differ between readers, then differences in the prevalence of diagnostic statements and in the distribution of quantitative measurements among readers must indicate interreader variability in the physicians' interpretations. Even where there are confounders that potentially affect diagnostic output such as inequalities in patient characteristics or differences in sonographer and echocardiograph machine assignments between physicians, multivariate analyses can be used to statistically adjust the input variation to allow determination of the independent effect of physician reader as a predictor of variation in diagnostic output.
Study sample
The study sample was drawn from the echocardiography database at Georgetown University Hospital. We queried the database for transthoracic echocardiograms, performed either electively or emergently, between November 1993 and June 1996, which were read by one of three level 3 echocardiographers (American Society of Echocardiography) (3).
Data collection
Echocardiograms were performed primarily by technician sonographers at Georgetown University Hospital. The studies were recorded on videotape and were read on the same day as they were performed. Each physician was assigned at least one day of the week to read studies, which varied during the study time period. Studies were not assigned to reader based on particular expertise or clinical interest. All sonographers contributed randomly to the case mix of the interpreting physician. The echocardiographic results were recorded on a standardized form at the time of the study, and data were entered into an electronic database (FoxPro 2.6, Microsoft, Redmond, Washington).
The database contains a wide selection of variables, including demographic, clinical, and echocardiographic parameters. We collected both categorical and continuous data elements. Measured variables included chamber dimensions, estimated pressures, calculated valve areas, and ejection fraction (EF). Conditions such as left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, valvular stenosis and regurgitation, and chamber dilation were graded from mild to severe when present. The database also permitted an equivocal response ("suspected") for conditions where the diagnosis was uncertain.
We arbitrarily chose four conditions of clinical interest. The presence of mitral valve prolapse (MVP), valvular vegetations, LV thrombus, and regional wall-motion abnormality were determined by reader judgment. For diagnoses other than regional wall-motion abnormality, readers had the option of identifying each finding as "present," "absent," or "suspected." For the purposes of this analysis, we merged "suspected" and "present" diagnoses into a single group. For MVP, interreader diagnostic prevalence was compared for both "present" and "suspected."
Missing values
Categorical variables were labeled as either "present" or "absent." A blank response for a categorical variable was considered to indicate the absence of a particular finding. In the case of a continuous variable, a blank response was considered to represent the inability to measure the finding. Clinically relevant data were missing in a small proportion of cases. Given the large size of the database, we chose not to impute data.
Statistical analysis
The prevalence of each of the qualitative clinical diagnoses was compared between interpreting cardiologists using the chi-square test. Pairwise comparisons between cardiologists were done utilizing a chi-square test for all possible pairs of cardiologists.
We utilized the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (4)to evaluate the normality of the distribution of the continuous variables—left atrial size, left diastolic dimension, and LVEF. For variables with an underlying normal distribution, we employed the parametric analysis of variance (ANOVA) test to compare mean values for each of the physicians. For parameters with a nonnormal distribution, we compared the medians for each reader using a nonparametric analog of one-way ANOVA (5). Differences in the distribution of continuous measurements between readers were assessed with the Mood median test (6), and differences in variance among the readers were analyzed by the Levene test (7).
Despite absences of known biases in patient population between reading physicians, different patient characteristics may have nonetheless accrued. Moreover, change in diagnostic standards or other time-based factors (one physician began reading later in the study than the others) may have also influenced echocardiographic diagnosis. Therefore, we performed multiple logistic regression to control for differences in patient age, gender, LVEF, and scan date on the predictive value of reader selection for the outcome variable studied. Both the SPSS 7.5 (SPSS, Chicago, Illinois) and SAS 6.12 (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina) software packages were utilized for data analysis.
Echocardiographic findings
A total of 6,026 echocardiograms were reviewed over the period of the study. Reader 1 interpreted 2,702 studies, representing 44.8% of all cases. Reader 2 evaluated 2,101 studies (34.9%) and Reader 3 evaluated 1,223 (20.3%) echocardiograms. The clinical characteristics of the three reader groups were similar (Table 1). The mean age of the population was 58.1 years, and there was no significant difference between readers in the mean patient age, proportion of women, or the proportion of patients with LV dysfunction (i.e., EF ≦ 35).
The prevalence of each of the conditions under study in our entire population is illustrated in Figure 1. Mitral valve prolapse was noted in 4.4%, vegetations were identified in 0.4%, regional wall-motion abnormalities were found in 12.7%, and LV thrombus was identified in 1.1% of cases.
Regional wall-motion abnormality was commonly found by all readers (Table 2), although readers differed significantly in prevalence of regional wall-motion abnormality (p = 0.007), with the variability predominantly explained by differences between Readers 1 and 3 (p = 0.003).
The prevalence of LV thrombus (Table 2)differed between readers (p < 0.001). There was no significant difference in the prevalence of thrombus between Readers 2 and 3, who identified clot in 0.4% and 0.5% of cases, respectively (p = 0.80). However, Reader 1 recognized clot nearly five times more often than did Reader 2 (1.9% vs. 0.4%, p < 0.001) and four times more often than Reader 3 (1.9% vs. 0.5%, p = 0.001).
The prevalence of MVP varied by interpreting reader (Table 2). Readers 1, 2, and 3 identified MVP in 5.3%, 3%, and 4.8% of the cases, respectively. The p value for the combined group was 0.001, indicating a significant difference in interpretations for the three readers. Pairwise comparisons of the readers indicated that Reader 2 identified MVP significantly less frequently than did either colleague. No significant difference occurred in interpretations between Reader 1 and Reader 3 (p = 0.57). Notably, the interreader difference in the prevalence of MVP was due to differences in the prevalence of "suspected" MVP (2.3%, 0.1%, 2.4% for Readers 1 through 3, respectively, p < 0.001); there were no interreader differences in the prevalence (3%, 2.9%, 2.4% for Readers 1 through 3, respectively, pNS) of "present" (unequivocal) MVP.
The interobserver variability was not significant with regard to the identification of valvular vegetations (Table 2). As with the aforementioned diagnoses, Reader 1 identified vegetations most frequently, in 0.7% of cases. Readers 2 and 3 identified vegetations in a similar proportion of cases, 0.3% and 0.2%, respectively. There was a trend toward a difference in interpretations between Reader 1 and Reader 2, but this did not reach statistical significance.
Multivariate analyses
The effects of temporal and population factors on differences in reader output, determined by multiple logistic regression analyses, are described for each of the diagnostic outcome variables in Table 3. The date of the study had no impact on the interpretation of MVP, thrombus, and vegetations. However, scan date was a predictor of the presence of wall-motion abnormalities. There was a decreasing trend over time, from 15.7% to 12.1%, in wall-motion abnormalities. After adjusting for covariates, reader assignment remained an independent predictor of the diagnostic prevalence of MVP, thrombus, and wall-motion abnormalities. On pairwise comparison, Readers 1 and 3 differed in diagnostic prevalence of mural thrombus and wall-motion abnormalities; Readers 1 and 2 differed in the prevalence of MVP and mural thrombus.
Continuous measurements
The distributions of left atrial diameter, LV end-diastolic diameter, and LVEF for the entire population are plotted in Figure 2. In each case the distributions were not normal. The median values for each of these parameters, stratified by echocardiographic reader, are shown in Table 4. There was a statistically significant difference between readers in the measurement of left atrial dimension and LV end-diastolic dimension. However, the shape of the distribution of left atrial measurements was similar among the physicians. Although the median EF was the same among the physicians, the distribution of the measurement varied significantly.
"Quality control" refers to those techniques and activities used to assess, improve, and maintain the value of a product—that is, its quality (1). Physicians utilize various standards to measure quality in clinical practice. Using "clinical reasonability," physicians frequently legitimize a test based on their knowledge of the patient and alternative data that may be available. In some circumstances, a physician may perform an additional test, one that has a higher sensitivity and specificity. This "gold standard," when available, often entails more expense and risk. Another measure of quality is "reproducibility." This may simply involve repeating the same test on the same patients and identifying whether the results are, indeed, precise.
Alternatively, one may choose to identify intraobserver and interobserver variability among a selected series of patients. Random sampling of a patient population can result in failure to evaluate conditions of low, or even moderate, prevalence. Moreover, these quality-control techniques, akin to product inspection in industrial practice, are limited by either small sample size or by prohibitive cost if widely applied. Targeting specific conditions may confer bias by alerting readers to the process of quality assessment. Each of these strategies has its flaws, and at present there is no ideal method for measuring quality.
We developed an innovative approach for quality assessment in the echocardiography laboratory. Utilizing statistical sampling of echocardiographic diagnoses, we demonstrated differences in the prevalence of diagnostic statements and differences in the measurement of various parameters among readers. Moreover, in the case of potential diagnostic ambiguity (MVP) we were able to define the diagnostic level of certainty at which readers varied in their assessments. An understanding of the types and sources of variations in echocardiographic diagnosis becomes critical in a quality-control analysis. We would like to differentiate variability in physicians' interpretations from random variability intrinsic to an observational database. Such analysis falls under the category of a "statistical quality control."
Although reduction in the variation of any process is beneficial, its elimination is impossible because of the many inevitable small, unobservable, and random effects that will influence the output. Quality-control theory (1), developed primarily to describe industrial processes, has named this random variation "controlled variation." It is measurable and should be equal between echocardiography readers. In contrast, "uncontrolled variation" is due to special systematic causes that arise sporadically and for reasons outside the normally functioning procedure. Several factors may have accounted for the uncontrolled variation in reader interpretation.
First, in the absence of standardized definitions for various entities, physicians use different sets of criteria for diagnoses. Although three readers may identify the same visual finding; one may note a firm echocardiographic diagnosis, another describe it as "equivocal," while the third dismisses it entirely. Also, the assignment of a diagnosis may be biased by the implications carried by the condition, particularly when the diagnosis is questionable. Finally, variability in interpretation skill or concentration may have accounted for the systematic interreader differences.
There are several advantages of an epidemiological approach to quality assessment. The use of an existing database for quality assessment is less cumbersome and labor-intensive than reader reproducibility studies, or test replication trials. This is of particular importance in an increasingly stringent medical economy that nonetheless requires demonstration of product quality. Of equal or greater importance, even substantial differences in diagnostic interpretation are likely to be missed by reader reproducibility assessments if the prevalence of the assessed condition is low. The use of large, statistically robust samples maximizes the likelihood of detecting "uncontrolled variation" of diagnostic output whether due to reader, sonographer, or machine variability. Moreover, the utilization of appropriate statistical methods allows identification of, and statistical adjustments for, assignment biases and differences in patient characteristics.
Study limitations
There were several limitations to our study design. Assignment bias may have existed in the distribution of echocardiographic studies among the individual physician readers, resulting in differences in prevalence. However, even after adjustment for demographics, time factors, and LV function, the physician reading the study remained an independent predictor of diagnostic prevalence and quantitative measurement. Failure to find interreader diagnostic differences may have occurred because a sample of 6,000 patients may be inadequately powered for conditions of low prevalence (type II error). However, in the present study, the discovery of uncontrolled variation in diagnostic output in conditions of low population prevalence such as LV thrombus is unlikely to have occurred using conventional quality assessment approaches in clinical echocardiography.
The findings of interreader differences may vary according to how diagnoses are coded and grouped. For example, our readers differed in the prevalence of "suspected" but not in unequivocal mitral prolapse. Hence, merging suspected with unequivocal diagnoses provided different information than separate analyses. Nonetheless, the flexibility of this approach to quality assessment allows physicians to design queries that are pertinent to their clinical practice, and to modify diagnostic styles as appropriate. In this example, to achieve uniformity, laboratory readers would have had to decide whether to eliminate reporting of equivocal cases of prolapse, or request that the second reader reassess his or her threshold for consideration of the presence of mitral prolapse. Such decisions need to be made within the context of appropriate medical practice. If it were considered that borderline evidence of mitral prolapse has little prognostic importance, and increases the likelihood for undue concern on the part of the patient, then the first choice would be appropriate. In the case of vegetations and thrombi, we considered suspected and definite diagnoses to have similar clinical implications. Hence, grouping these to achieve statistical power was deemed appropriate.
Finding variation between readers in measurements or categorical diagnosis does not detect which readers are correct. Independent verification of diagnoses with a "gold standard" would be required. That could be done by comparison with another, better test or by comparison with pathologic anatomy at surgery or autopsy. However, redundant testing is not encouraged by the current economic climate, and anatomic confirmation is only rarely available.
Readers may differ in diagnostic thresholds for labeling echocardiographic findings as representing pathology. For example, an increase in echocardiographic density and thickness of a valve noted equally by two physicians may be described as "suspected" vegetation by one, and "nonspecific" valvular thickening by the other, even though both observe the same characteristics of the image. However, whether interreader differences in diagnostic prevalence result from criteria differences, or differences in perceptions of the image data, they are nonetheless causes of product variability as perceived by patients and by referring physicians. Hence, they are problems of quality control.
Clinical implications
Our study indicates that database monitoring permits efficient quality assessment and hence opportunities for quality improvement. One such approach to diminish uncontrolled variation in echocardiographic diagnostic output would be selection of diagnostic problems identified by database analysis followed by entrainment of parallel reading styles among the interpreting physicians by joint reading. Efficacy could than be determined by reanalysis of the database subsequent to reader training. A statistical approach could also be utilized (i.e., how does one lab compare to another, or to all others?). Perhaps the future use of shared database formats may allow benchmarks to be determined for uncontrolled variation.
In conclusion, substantial interreader differences may exist in clinical practice. Assuming no, or identifiable, assignment biases, computerized databases facilitate ongoing monitoring of interreader bias despite low diagnostic prevalence. Industrial models of quality control may be important to quality control not just for echocardiography but also for other diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of medical care.
↵1 Dr. Berger's present address is Division of Cardiology, Yale–New Haven Medical Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Gottdiener's present address is Cardiology Research, St. Francis Hospital, 100 Port Washington, Roslyn, New York 11576.
- Abbreviations
- analysis of variance
- ejection fraction
- left ventricle, left ventricular
- mitral valve prolapse
- Received December 31, 1998.
- Revision received July 13, 1999.
- Accepted August 12, 1999.
- American College of Cardiology
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- Aurigemma G.P,
- Bierman F.Z,
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active control of lunettes for alignment of crankshafts when working with
regulation to the position by means of two regulated electromechanically driven
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VÍTKOVICE POWER ENGINEERING a.s.
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LAC s.r.o.
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DRIVE CLiQ INTERFACE
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- Soba ni iru - Near You
Soba ni iru
|Original / Romaji Lyrics
|English Translation
sugao no hoho ni nagareru namida
kimi no hitomi nurasu kanashimi no wake
fukitoreru made kondo koso mamotte yuku
kuraku natta ne sukoshi samui ne
arittake no omoide tsutsumu yo
a tear rolled down your cheek, your wet eyes
until the reason for your sadness
is taken away, I'll protect you again
it got dark, didn't it? a little cold, isn't it?
keeping these feelings wrapped up
machi akari tooku miete nijinderu
yume miru ni wa yoru wa sukoshi dake mijikai yo
it blurs in the light of the faraway city
in the dream, the night is a little short
hitogomi no naka magiretara miushinatta
furuete ita ne kizutsuiteta ne
mou hanasanai kara...
we got confused and lost each other in the crowd
you shivered, didn't you? it hurt, didn't it?
so don't speak anymore...
machi akari tooku miete nijinderu
yume miru ni wa yoru wa sukoshi dake...
sono hitomi tojite sono yubi o taguri yoseta nara
kiete yuku kinou made no itami sae
yume ga mieru ima boku wa kimi no soba ni iru
it blurs in the light of the faraway city
in the dream, the night is a little short
with your eyes closed, if you bring your fingers together
even the pain of yesterday will disappear
I can see the dream now I am near you
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