Mariana Victoria of Spain (Portuguese: Mariana Vitória; 31 March 1718 – 15 January 1781) was an Infanta of Spain by birf and was water de Queen of Portugaw as wife of King Joseph I. The ewdest daughter of Phiwip V of Spain and Ewisabef Farnese, she was engaged to de young Louis XV of France at de age of seven, uh-hah-hah-hah. Rejected due to her age, de marriage never took pwace and she was sent back to Spain, uh-hah-hah-hah. In 1729 she was married to Infante José, son of John V of Portugaw and successor to his fader as Joseph I of Portugaw. She awso acted as regent of Portugaw during de wast monds of her husband's wife and as advisor to her daughter, Maria I of Portugaw, in her reign, uh-hah-hah-hah.
Mariana Victoria was born at de Royaw Awcazar of Madrid in Madrid and was given de same forenames as her paternaw grandmoder Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, wife of Le Grand Dauphin. She was an Infanta of Spain by birf and de ewdest daughter of Phiwip V of Spain and his second wife Ewisabef Farnese. Her fader was a grandson of Louis XIV and had inherited de Spanish drone in 1700. At de time of her birf, Mariana Victoria was fiff in wine to de drone of Spain behind her hawf broders Infante Louis, Prince of Asturias, Infante Ferdinand, Infante Pedro as weww as her fuww broder Infante Charwes. As an Infanta of Spain she had de stywe of Royaw Highness.
After de War of de Quadrupwe Awwiance, France and Spain decided to reconciwe by engaging de Infanta Mariana Victoria to her first cousin de young Louis XV of France. Organised by Phiwippe d'Orwéans, Regent of France for de ten-year-owd Louis XV, de match was part of a wider set of engagements which incwuded de proposaw of Phiwip V's ewdest son Infante Louis, Prince of Asturias to Éwisabef d'Orwéans, Mademoisewwe de Montpensier fowwowed by anoder proposaw between Phiwippine Éwisabef d'Orwéans, Mademoisewwe de Beaujowais to de young Infante Charwes.
Saint-Simon, de French ambassador, reqwested her hand on 25 November 1721. The exchange of de young Infanta and Mademoisewwe de Montpensier was on de Îwe des Faisans ("Iswe of Pheasants") and was de site was where deir common ancestors, Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain had met in 1660. Mariana Victoria arrived in Paris on 2 March 1721 amongst much cewebration and took up residence at de Pawais du Louvre. The young Infanta was nicknamed de w'infante Reine ("Queen-Infanta") as de coupwe were not to be married untiw Mariana Victoria reached a more mature age. Mariana Victoria was in awe of Louis XV and was popuwar wif de court apart from de king himsewf who avoided her presence.
According to de moder of de Régent, Ewizabef Charwotte of de Pawatinate, Mariana Victoria was de "sweetest and prettiest wittwe ding" and had considerabwe wit for her age. Her education was pwaced in de care of Marie Anne de Bourbon, an iwwegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and Louise de La Vawwière. In February 1723, Louis XV reached his majority and dus governed de country by his own accord.
Her estabwishment in France was not to be. Under de infwuence of de Prime Minister Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon and his mistress Madame de Prie, de decision was made to send de seven-year-owd Mariana Victoria back to Spain on 11 March 1725. Bourbon had wanted to maintain infwuence over de young Louis XV and offered his sister Henriette Louise de Bourbon as a potentiaw wife who, unwike Mariana Victoria, was owd enough to conceive. The situation was not hewped by de Spanish rejection of Louise Éwisabef d'Orwéans whose husband died having ruwed as Louis I of Spain for onwy seven monds. As deir marriage had not been consummated, de Spanish refused to support her and ordered she return to France wif her sister Phiwippine Éwisabef. Mariana Victoria weft Versaiwwes on 5 Apriw 1725 and travewwed to de frontier where she and de two Orwéans daughters were den exchanged. Louis XV subseqwentwy married Marie Leszczyńska in September 1725 and Mariana Victoria's sister de Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaewa married Louis XV's son in 1745 to reassure de insuwted Spanish court.
Her arrivaw in Spain was taken as a great insuwt and caused a dipwomatic rift between Spain and France. The offended Spanish soon after concwuded a treaty wif Austria in de form of de 1725 Treaty of Vienna, whiwst Engwand sought support from France. Having remained unmarried, she was stiww ewigibwe to inherit de drone but was dispwaced by her younger broder Infante Phiwip who was born in 1720. Discussions wif de Kingdom of Portugaw began in 1727 and a marriage was negotiated by de Portuguese ambassador de Marqwis of Abrantes. She was a rumored bride for Emperor Peter II of Russia, grandson of Peter de Great. Anoder doubwe marriage was pwanned. Mariana Victoria wouwd marry de Infante José, "Prince of Braziw", son and heir of João V of Portugaw. Her owder hawf broder Ferdinand, "Prince of Asturias" wouwd marry José's sister de Infanta Bárbara. Mariana Victoria married de Prince of Braziw (traditionaw titwe for de Portuguese heir to de drone) on 19 January 1729 at Ewvas in Portugaw. The Prince of Asturias (traditionaw titwe for de Spanish heir to de drone) married de Infanta Bárbara de next day at Badajoz. From her marriage untiw de time of her husband's accession to de drone in 1750, she was stywed Her Royaw Highness de Princess of Braziw.
Husband and wife wouwd soon have a cwose rewationship. The coupwe enjoyed hunting as weww as music – Mariana Victoria was an accompwished singer – dey patronized Itawian opera singers and de deatre but were bof passionatewy rewigious. Despite dis, her husband maintained various mistresses much to de diswike of his strong-wiwwed wife. During her marriage, Mariana Victoria gave birf to eight chiwdren, four of whom survived infancy. Her first chiwd Infanta Maria was given de stywe Princess of Beira as de heir apparent to her fader. Two of Mariana Victoria's daughters remained unmarried. Her daughter Infanta Mariana Francisca was a proposed bride for de Dauphin of France, son of Louis XV, but Mariana Victoria hersewf rejected de pwan, uh-hah-hah-hah. When her oder daughter Infanta Doroteia was proposed as a wife for de future Phiwippe Égawité Mariana Victoria again refused to de match. Her youngest daughter Infanta Benedita married José, Prince of Braziw, Mariana Victoria's grandson, uh-hah-hah-hah. The watter marriage was organised by Mariana Victoria hersewf after de deaf of her husband.
At de deaf of her fader-in-waw, King John V in 1750, her husband became de ruwer of de Portuguese Empire which had significant territories in Souf America. Her husband's reign was dominated by de infwuence of de Marqwis of Pombaw who was a favourite of de Queen moder. Joseph I soon weft de governing of de state to Pombaw who used his power to remove de infwuence of de church at de court as weww as dat of his enemies. Mariana Victoria and her daughter diswiked de infwuence Pombaw had over Joseph I. Her husband's reign was marred by de devastating 1755 Lisbon eardqwake of 1 November 1755 which kiwwed 100,000. The eardqwake caused Joseph I to devewop a severe case of cwaustrophobia and he was never again comfortabwe wiving widin a wawwed buiwding. Conseqwentwy, he moved de royaw court to an extensive compwex of tents in de hiwws of Ajuda. It was Pombaw who organised de reconstruction of Lisbon in de aftermaf of de eardqwake.
In 1759, de Távora affair emerged after an assassination attempt on her husband faiwed and de powerfuw Távora famiwy were, in de eyes of Pombaw, compwetewy responsibwe for de attack. Pombaw water ordered de execution of aww members of de nobwe famiwy and it was onwy at de intervention of Mariana Victoria and her daughter, de Princess of Braziw dat some women and chiwdren were spared. As Pombaw was de facto ruwer of de state, Mariana Victoria and her husband took a wess prominent rowe in powitics.
Her husband, having suffered from a series of strokes, decided to awwow his wife to take his pwace as head of government. As such, Mariana Victoria was created Regent of Portugaw in her husband's name. Created Regent on 29 November 1776, she remained so untiw her husband's deaf on 24 February 1777. Upon her husband's deaf, deir ewdest daughter became de first qween regnant as Maria I. Throughout her daughter's reign she used to exert much infwuence on her daughter, who wouwd often ask her moder's advice on most matters of state. In de earwy days of Maria I's reign, Pombaw was exiwed to de country.
When her daughter had assumed government, Mariana Victoria took it upon hersewf to improve rewations wif her native Spain which was ruwed by her owder broder Carwos III. The two countries had been in confwict regarding territoriaw possessions in de Americas. Leaving Portugaw on 28 October 1777, Mariana Victoria travewwed to Spain where she stayed for just over a year, residing bof in Madrid and at Aranjuez. Mariana Victoria hewped bring about a treaty between de two nations which was to be cemented by a doubwe marriage between her grandchiwdren, uh-hah-hah-hah. These unions were between Charwes III's son Infante Gabriew and Mariana Victoria's grand daughter de Infanta Mariana Vitória. The second marriage was between de Infanta Carwota, ewdest granddaughter of Carwos III and Infante João. Whiwe in Spain Mariana Victoria had had an attack of Rheumatism and was confined to a wheewchair for some time in August 1778. She returned to Portugaw in November 1778. Her iwwness was furdered when it became cwear dat she was suffering from heart disease as weww. The ewderwy Mariana Victoria died at de Reaw Barraca de Ajuda, a buiwding which is where de present Ajuda Nationaw Pawace is. She was buried at de Church of Saint Francis of Paowa in Lisbon, uh-hah-hah-hah.
She was de godmoder of Marie Antoinette who was born a day after de 1755 Lisbon eardqwake devastated Lisbon, uh-hah-hah-hah. Mariana Victoria has descendants ranging from de present King of Spain, King of Bewgium, Grand Duke of Luxembourg pretending Duke of Parma and de French Count of Paris. In 1822, her great-grandson Pedro became de first emperor of Braziw.
Maria Francisca Isabew Rita Gertrudes Joana (17 December 1734 – 20 March 1816), married her uncwe Infante Peter of Portugaw and had issue. Later Queen regnant of Portugaw.
Maria Ana Francisca Dorotea Josefa Antonia Gertrudes Rita Joana Efigenia (7 October 1736 – 6 May 1813), potentiaw bride for Louis, Dauphin of France, but her moder refused to consent to de marriage, died unmarried.
Maria Francisca Doroteia Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana Efigénia de Braganca (21 September 1739 – 14 January 1771), potentiaw bride for Phiwippe Égawité but she refused to marry him, died unmarried.
Stiwwborn son (7 March 1741).
Stiwwborn son (15 October 1742).
Maria Francisca Benedita Ana Isabew Joana Antonia Lourença Inácia Teresa Gertrudes Rita Rosa (25 Juwy 1746 – 18 August 1829) married her nephew Infante Joseph, Prince of Beira, no issue.
^ a b c van de Pas, Leo. "Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain". Geneawogics .org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
^ a b c François Vewde (4 Juwy 2005). "The Abdication of de drone of Spain by Fewipe V (1724)". herawdica.org. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
^ Maria Ana Vittoria Infanta de España in: Geneawogy Database by Herbert Stoyan Archived 8 February 2015 at de Wayback Machine [retrieved 7 January 2015].
^ Geneawogie ascendante jusqw'au qwatrieme degre incwusivement de tous wes Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de w'Europe actuewwement vivans [Geneawogy up to de fourf degree incwusive of aww de Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currentwy wiving] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guiwwaume Birnstiew. 1768. p. 8.
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This is a guest post by Brittany Richards from Software Advice. In her post Brittany writes about best practices for collecting out-of-pocket patient fees.
One of the most important aspects of a medical practice's success is collecting the money that a patient owes them. This seems like a "no-brainer," right? Well that does not necessarily make it an easy feat. Patient out-of-pocket fees account for 30 percent of a practice's revenue, yet once a patient walks out the door, chances of collecting that money are practically cut in half.
The bright side is that there are ways to improve the collections process in order to ensure payment efficiency. After speaking with practice management consultants, we found four strategies to improve patient fee collection while maintaining strong customer satisfaction.
The office manager may handle claims, but the entire staff should still know insurance policies and procedures. A good way to do this is to train employees on their own benefits. That way they can see it from both perspectives.
Your staff should also be trained on how to ask for money from patients. Requesting payments can be tricky. A good method is to have a script of exactly what to say. For instance, instead of saying "you owe 30 dollars," a staff member could ask "cash, check or charge?" This less confrontational approach lowers the chances of a patient being turned off.
A patient should never be blind-sided by costs. It's best to be as upfront as possible. This is particularly applicable for patients who have a high deductible or are self-pay. For these patients, try and talk with them before they arrive for their appointment. If your practice offers a discount for patients who pay large amounts on the spot, then discuss this opportunity with them before the time of payment. This makes patients more comfortable about paying a larger amount of the bill.
This is the 21st century. It's time to accept credit cards. You pay a higher fee for credit card payments, but more patients are willing to pay this way. Ask your patients to keep their credit card information on file. With their permission, you can automate payments of an agreed upon amount.
Starting in January 2013, the Affordable Care Act will require practices to automate patient eligibility too. This should dramatically decrease issues in accounts receivable because patients will know their financial responsibility within 20 seconds.
In the age of information, there should be a record of everything. There should be something in writing for the sake of your practice and your patients. If you decide to accept installments on a balance, have the patient sign a promissory agreement. If you don't keep it professional, they won't either.
No matter which of these methods work best for you, be sure to keep the purpose of each one in mind. Communicate your expectations clearly to your staff and patients to make sure there's an understanding on the how, when and what of out-of-pocket fees.
For more on the topic, drop by Software Advice's website and check out the original post on the Profitable Practice blog.


Calcium is an important nutrient for all people, especially as we age. But Americans continue to struggle to get enough calcium, even with the help of dietary supplements. Researchers examined data of close to 9,500 individuals (aged 19 and up) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and found that for all age groups, even those taking calcium supplements, total calcium intake was insufficient, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis later in life.
Overall, the amount of calcium obtained from diet decreased with age (more so for men than women). Interestingly, the study also noted that half the individuals surveyed were already taking a calcium supplement; the older they were, the more likely it was they were taking a supplement. Use of calcium supplements certainly seemed to help people get more calcium as a whole, but still not enough to meet the recommended levels across the generations.
However, based on these recent study findings, it may not be a bad idea to take a calcium supplement in addition to eating a diet high in calcium, especially as we age, to reduce risk of osteoporosis. Always consult your doctor or registered dietitian first before you start taking any dietary supplements.
If you drastically increase calcium, you'll need to drastically increase water intake unless you want to hold the world record of Largest Kidney Stone Ejected From the Human Body.
Or… Is this preparation for 50,000 different kidney stone medications that cost like $20 for each pill?


In the acousto-ultrasonic technique, a broadband ultrasonic wave is injected onto the surface at one location of the tested plate with the help of a longitudinal transducer and a receiving transducer is coupled to the same surface at another location. Thus, understanding the propagation characteristics of the ultrasonic wave is essential for successful application of the technique. In this paper, it has been found that the dominant acousto-ultrasonic waves produced experimentally in thin plate were multi-mode Lamb waves. The broadband generation and detection of Lamb waves has been performed in aluminum plate and laminatd composite plate using the acousto-ultrasonic method.
Acousto-Ultrasonics is a new method for non-destructive testing and evaluation of the plates, which was proposed by American scientists at the end of the 1970's[1-2]. The term of Acousto-Ultrasonics may be taken as a contraction of "acoustic emission simulation with ultrasonic sources." In acousto-ultrasonic approach, the sender and receiver probes are usually coupled to the same surface of the tested object. This satisfies the need of testing on one side in many cases. In order to excite the stress waves, which propagate parallel to the surface of the tested plate, the sender is coupled directly to a surface with fluid (grease). These stress waves are taken as the simulation of acoustic emission. But in this technique loading is not needed which is necessary in the acoustic emission detect. The transducer receives these stress waves at certain distance from the transmitting transducer. So the acousto-ultrasonic method is also an ultrasonic testing in nature.
In the acousto-ultrasonic method, both the sender and the receiver are the longitudinal transducers. When the receiver is close enough to the sender, the acousto-ultrasonic approach turns to the traditional pulse-echo ultrasonic testing method. When the tested plates are thick (compared with the wavelength of ultrasonic wave), and the spacing between sending and receiving transducers are greater than the plate thickness, we can explain the main components of the received waves using resonance of ultrasonic waves[3-4]. When the tested plates are thin, the guided waves, namely Lamb waves, may be generated in the plates. At this time the dominant components of the received waves may be Lamb waves.
Where, x = f · d. The meanings of f and d are the same as the above. We will obtain the group velocity dispersion curves of Lamb waves by calculating the equation (2). Fig.2 shows group velocity dispersion curves of Lamb wave in the aluminum plate.
The Lamb wave dispersion curves plotted as a function of incidence angle can be attained from the equation (3). Fig.3 demonstrates these curves. Here Co used to calculate the angle of incidencea is equal to 5000m/s. From Fig.3, We can see that a great incidence angle a is required to excite the s0 mode, and that the a0 mode can not be excited at all. But this conclusion is drawn from the ideal conditions that the direction of the transducer is very perfect and the ultrasonic wave is only incident in only one angle. As well known, the general pulse longitudinal transducers emit pulse ultrasonic waves which include direct longitudinal waves, edge longitudinal waves, edge transverse waves, head waves and surface waves and so on. Since Lamb waves are generated by the combination of the multiple reflection of the longitudinal waves and transverse waves between the top and bottom boundaries of the plate, it is possible to excite certain kinds of the Lamb wave modes (including a0 mode) in acousto-ultrasonics.
The arrangement used in the experimental investigation is shown schematically in Fig.4. The apparatus used to excite, receive and amplify ultrasonic waves was Panametrics-5052UA Ultrasonic Wave Analyzer. The senders and the receivers produced by Panametrics corporation were the broadband longitudinal transducers. Using single pulse excited the senders to generate the narrow pulse ultrasonic waves. The tested specimens were aluminum plates. The sending and receiving transducers were directly coupled to one surface of the plate with a thin film of grease. Enough pressure had to be applied to eliminate unwanted reverberations within the couplant. The received signals were amplified and then sent to HP-54600 Digital Oscilloscope for A/D conversion and display. The signals from the oscilloscope were sent to the computer via IEEE488 bus to be edited and analyzed.
Fig 4: Schematic diagram of experimental setup Fig 5: the acousto-ultrasonic waveform in the aluminum plate of thickness 0.95mm. The central frequency of the sender is 1.0Mhz, and the central frequency of the receiver is 0.5Mhz, and the distance between the two transducers is 20cm.
The first set of tests was carried out to test an aluminum plate of thickness 0.95mm. The sender used in this experiment was a broadband transducer of 38.1mm diameter, operating at a nominal central frequency of 1.0Mhz. The corresponding parameters of the receiver were 0.5Mhz and 38.1mm respectively. Distance between two probes was 20cm.
The received waveform is shown in Fig.5. The amplitude in the Fig.5 has been normalized. According to Fig.2, there were only a0 and s0 modes in 0.95mm thick plate when the incidence frequency was less than 1.8Mhz. We could distinguish the arrivals of two modes, a0 and s0, distinctly in Fig.5. Then we decreased the distance between two transducers by 1cm and 2cm respectively, and received the other two waveforms. Comparing the latter two waveforms with the waveform in Fig.5 respectively, we gained the velocities of the received waves using phase unwrapping algorithm. Therefore we obtained the velocity dispersion curves of a0 and s0 Lamb wave modes experimentally. Fig.6 and Fig.7 show these results. The former represented the a0 mode phase velocity dispersion curves and the latter showed the s0 mode phase velocity dispersion curves. The lines in these two Figures are the results of decreasing the distance between two probes by 1 mm. and the dash lines are the results of decreasing the distance by 2 cm.
In most of the acousto-ultrasonic investigations, the distances between the senders and the receivers were set about 10cm. therefore, we set the distance 7.5cm. And the received waveform is shown in Fig.8. We could also distinguish the comparatively pure a0 and s0 modes. So the distances between two transducers do not influence the exciting and receiving of the ultrasonic wave modes greatly. But in Fig.8, we can see that the two modes are very close to each other in time domain, so they overlap partly. Because of this reasons discussed, we set the distance between the sending and receiving transducers approximate 20cm in all our experiments. The conclusions drawn from our experiments also apply to the acousto-ultrasonic testing of the close distance between two transducers.
Fig 8: The acousto-ultrasonic waveform in the aluminum plate of thickness 0.95mm. The central frequency of the sender was 1.0Mhz, and the central frequency of the receiver is 0.5Mhz, and the distance between the two transducers is 7.5cm.
Fig 9: the acousto-ultrasonic waveform in the aluminum plate of thickness 0.95mm.. The central frequency of the sender is 5.0Mhz, and the central frequency of the receiver is 3.5Mhz, and the distance between the two transducers is 19cm.
Then we tested the same plate, but the central frequencies of the sender and receiver were greater than before. A 5.0Mhz transducer of 25.4mm diameter was used here as the sender, and the corresponding parameters of the receiver were 3.5Mhz and 25.4mm. In this test the distance between two transducers was 19cm. The waveform received is shown in Fig.9. It is obvious that the signal contains the higher order Lamb waves besides a0 and s0 modes. Since these higher frequency signals overlapped s0 mode, the s0 mode was not so pure as that in Fig.5. As the same steps as above, we decreased the distance between two transducers by 1cm and 2cm respectively, and received other two waveforms. And then we gained the experimental velocities of a0 and s0 Lamb wave modes using phase unwrapping. The results are shown in Fig.10 and Fig.11 respectively.
Moreover, we tested laminatd composite plate of thickness 2.05mm. Two 0.5Mhz transducer of 38.1mm diameter was used here as the sender and the receiver. The waveform received is shown in Fig.12 when the distance between two transducers was 10.5cm. It was the s0 mode with comparatively low frequency that arrived the receiver earliest. The reason is that the group velocity of s0 mode is higher than other modes when the frequency is relatively low. We can also distinguish the arrival of a0 mode in Fig.12.
Fig 12: the acousto-ultrasonic waveform in the laminatd composite plate of thickness 2.05mm. The central frequency of the sender and the receiver is 0.5Mhz, and the distance between the two transducers is 10.5cm.
It is theoretically predicted that multiple Lamb wave modes can be excited in thin plates using acousto-ultrasonic approach. This prediction was verified by a series of experiments conducted on aluminum plate and laminatd composite plate. In all signals the s0 mode Lamb wave, whose group velocity is higher than others, can be distinguished easily from acousto-ultrasonic signals. And we have separated a0 and s0 modes under acousto-ultrasonic condition. The experiments are easily conducted since the two transducers can be directly coupled to the same surface of the plates. Because only the single surface testing is satisfied in most industrial process, and the high speed of testing is required, it is appealing to use the method discussed in this paper successfully.


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Things 131: Frozen is objectively great, Internet decay and hamsters, Shower danger
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Data-based movie recommendation
In 2010, with the release of Disney's The Princess and the Frog, I looked back at the historic trends to try to understand where Disney went wrong in the 00's. The Princess and the Frog (and Bolt before it) were successful in terms of IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes ratings, but less so in terms of revenue.
I concluded that Disney had to somehow maintain this level of quality in order to build back their reputation. With Tangled, Wreck-it-Ralph, and most recently Frozen, that's exactly what they've done. In fact, since 2011, they've consistently outperformed Pixar (despite owning them):
Frozen currently enjoys the highest IMDB rating Disney have received since The Lion King, although due to self-selection it will be somewhat overstated in these initial weeks after its release.
On a more personal note, I've now seen Frozen twice, and highly recommend it – do be advised that it is a full-on musical, but co-composed by one of the people behind The Book of Mormon, so there's a lot to enjoy even if that wouldn't usually be your cup of tea. It's also highly notable for having two female leads with real agency (I'm looking at you, Brave, with your arbitrary plot-advancing Will O' the Wisps).
Video –Automated Automata Architecture
Continuing the Disney-is-actually-pretty-good-now theme, here Disney research demonstrate how they can generate the gearing required to closely recreate an arbitrary cyclical movement, then 3D-print the result to make the automaton. I particularly like the cyber tiger at 3'30":
(via The Kid Should See This)
Tumblr – Video games with modified objectives
"No wrong way to play" collects examples of people playing video games in ways not intended by the designers. I approve of this.
Tim Link – Learning to Cheat, part 3
Two years ago I surprised myself by betraying someone pretty meanly in a public game. I began a series of blog posts post-rationalising the whole thing within a game-design framework, and after a guilty two-year gap I finally posted my full confession and/or excuse.
Internet decay
If you've ever navigated early entries of Things on the blog, you might have seen some dead links, and some links which went dead and got fixed, and some which died again, as I periodically go back and attempt to fight digital entropy.
Based on this insignificant sample, it seems like the half-life for links on the internet is 5-10 years, and considerably less for YouTube videos. This is pretty distressing as laziness/convenience drives us to rely on the internet for files we're interested in – after all, your options are essentially a) saving a lolcat in downloads>pictures>cats, renaming the file so you can easily find it, and maintaining off-site backups of your data to hedge against hardware failure, or b) just image search "I have a cat and I'm not afraid to use it" from any device, which is a lot more appealing. (Naturally I still choose option a).
There's a few good links on the subject here, including the compelling quote:
"People are coming to the realization that if nobody saves the Internet, their work will just be gone." – Alexis Rossi, Internet Archive
Hamster fighting machine / response
Here's an example of why it's important to hold onto things on the internet. In 2005, Jarred Purrington made the Hamster Fighting Machine comic/poster (which you can see here or here but not on the original link because it's dead)
In 2010, Dale Beran (writer of previously-Thinged webcomic/cogent nightmare "A lesson is learned but the damage is irreversible") posted a lovely response.
Answer – 100 Chalices
Last time I asked if you should choose a chalice with 50/50 odds of being poisoned over one random chalice out of 100 which 100 fiends have each independently and randomly poisoned one of.
Restated, this is asking if you would prefer one-hundred 1-in-100 chances of death vs a single ½ chance. Richard correctly reasoned that the average amount of poison-per-chalice is double in the 100-chalice room, and some degree of bunching in the distribution (i.e. some chalices getting poisoned multiple times) didn't seem likely to offset it, so the 50/50 chance is probably the best bet.
For any of you not familiar with the probability behind this sort of thing, here's a quick summary. In the 100-chalice case, calculating all the ways a chalice could get poisoned is very difficult, but calculating the probability of it never getting poisoned is much easier as there's only one way that can happen. The odds of avoiding poison any one time are 99/100, and this has to be repeated 100 times. So:
Odds of avoiding poisoning = 99/100 x 99/100 x … x 99/100 = (99/100)^100 = 37%. Clearly not as good as the 50% chance in the two-chalice room.
As a post-script, if you're interested, the expected 'bunching' of poisonings would look a bit like this:
This is also a very important concept when evaluating risks in your own life for things that you repeat. For example, I noticed that I tended to step out of the shower in a needlessly risky way, with a risk of slipping (and getting seriously hurt) of perhaps 1-in-a-thousand. That seems tolerable, until you consider that if I showered once a day for 2 years, my odds of avoiding such a fate would be (999/1000)^730 = 48%, in other words I'd be more likely to have at least one such accident than not! So, watch out for that.
Answer – Kickstarter videos
I've spoken to a few people about the fact that Kickstarter videos always make me feel less motivated to put my money in. The underlying reason seems to be that a Kickstarter page typically does a great job of selling the product/reward, but the video often ends up being more about selling the people behind it (as being worthy, or in need of your money). Before the video I don't even think about that; after the video, that's just another reason to say no.
-Transmission finally ends
Tags animation, cheating, dale beran, data, data viz, entropy, games, hamster, internet, kickstarter, movies, probability, tim link
Things 127: Partner Parity Problem, Games and Stories, Beautiful Pictures
Mild NSFW warning: the last part of this edition embeds some pictures of female comic characters. There's also a cat video, but I just assume everyone is fine with that.
Make-your-own hyperlapse video
Well, this is incredible: set a start and end point in Google street view, a target for the camera, and get as output a time-lapse video of that journey, in which you can still control the direction of the gaze – Google Street View Hyperlapse.
Here's the demo reel.
Rabbit Hole: No to No UI
Timo Arnall says No to No UI (more commonly referred to as "invisible design"), and puts forth a detailed and cogent argument, but the main reason I recommend reading it is the warren of rabbit-hole links he uses as implicit citations. For example, Kevin Slavin talks about algorithms, how they don't share our goals and can have emergent properties we can't understand like a flash crash due to algorithmic stock trading, and then he takes a hop from "60% of Netflix viewing comes from the recommendation algorithm" (not true if you check carefully), a skip to "Epagogix can algorithmically evaluate the box office potential of a scipt" (no) to jump to this wonderfully flippant quote:
What does a flash crash look like in hollywood? Maybe it's already happened! How would we know?!
Puzzle and Tim Link
Reporting on a reasonably conducted study's findings on heterosexual parternships, the Telegraph ran with the headline "Average man has 9 sexual partners in lifetime, women have 4."
First, what's wrong with this claim?
Second, how does such a result come about?
Third, as the second is too easy for Things readers, I invite you to guess: which sub-set of respondents is most responsible for the discrepancy?
As some of you will know, I work at a web analytics consultancy where we disentangle data conundrums not dissimilar to this, so I wrote up my findings in a blog post – I found the answer to the last question quite satisfying!
Animal Videos – flocking starlings, evil cat
Kottke has the perfect pair of Starling flock videos – the standard high definition, clean and beautiful static camera one, and then a low resolution one that's much more thrilling. You should watch both on as big a screen as you can.
Meanwhile, in the sub-genre of YouTube videos enlivened by a dramatic movie score, I declare this cat video the winner:
Games and stories
There is a tension between making a fun game and telling a good story; it seems to be very hard to do both at the same time. I think this might be because these represent two opposite learning methods; learning from someone else's example, and learning by trying stuff out yourself in a safe environment.
But there's a flip side of this conflict: sometimes, in the course of playing a game, you generate your own story, one you would never normally get to tell. Here's an example.
I once played a match of 4-player local GoldenEye, back when I wouldn't have needed to specify that 4-player GoldenEye was local. I ran out of ammo, and was chased down a twisty dead end by my friend who had some kind of machine gun, so I was pretty much doomed. I did have one thing though, and I said as much:
"I've got a proximity mine. If you come any closer I'll kill us both!"
He laughed, and continued to pursue me round the final tight corner.
I set the proximity mine.
It killed us both.
I don't remember the final score of that game – I don't think I did well. But that tiny story remains one of my favourite gaming moments. For that reason, I was very interested to read Tom Armitage's review of Game Dev Story, a cute little game that crudely simulates running a game development studio through the major console generations, because he made this assessment:
Game Dev Story exemplifies a kind of mechanical storytelling: stories told not through text or voice-acting, but through coherent systems that cannot help but generate stories.
I gave it a go, and he was absolutely right. Apart from the sense of ownership you get from making company decisions, the ability to name your company and the games you produce has some kind of magical effect that makes the whole thing strangely compelling.
It's not a great story, but it meant a lot to me: after a difficult start, Squidopolis released a string of titles whose success built a war chest which specially trained hardware engineer Stephen Jobson put to use in developing the ultimate console: the Kraken, for which we then produced a string of hits, despite some major setbacks in production.
Game Dev Story is available on Android and iOS.
Folk Games
I like the term 'folk games' for equipmentless games a group of people can spontaneously play, such as Standoff, or Ninja, or Fantasy Fencing. I highly recommend all of those, the last one being particularly notable as it is an example of the 'Tiny Games' that Hide & Seek are putting into an app (so you don't have to memorise these sort of things for every occasion). That's happening on Kickstarter, and with a day to go at the time of writing it's already funded, but I still recommend the £12 tier (which includes their Board Game Remix kit) to help reach the stretch goals!
Tim Link: Devil May Dance
I like putting in place processes in which incremental progress is made towards a goal, and this year I reached the end of my biggest project so far: I finished my webcomic, Devil May Dance, which I had been updating weekly since April 2006.
The premise was to swap the macho protagonist of the video game Devil May Cry with the feminine lead of seminal rhythm action game Space Channel 5, and see how they got on in one another's shoes, partly as a way to investigate gender expectations, and partly as an attempt to get some cheap laughs.
If that sounds interesting to you, or if you're curious what would happen if I wrote a story involving time travel, you should check it out.
I also did a little summary of the web stats of the comic over its lifetime.
Sunset on mars. Pictures with High Dynamic Range. Icebergs that are naturally stripey. An abandoned epic communist building.
But more importantly, there's another Kickstarter I'd like to draw your attention to. A friend of mine illustrates comics using primarily traditional techniques, and although she works incredibly hard, I get the impression this means she can't turn out pages at the kind of speed a regular publisher would like (on account of having to wait for individual colours to dry!), so this is exactly the kind of thing Kickstarter is good for – delivering the kind of projects the invisible hand would usually hold back.
Unfortunately, according to kicktraq's projection, at a little over half way through, the project has a 50/50 chance of success, so it's going to need some extra help to make it. Check it out before April 24th!
Tags algorithms, beautiful, cat, doujinshi, games, gender, kickstarter, starlings, statistics, stories, tim link, time lapse, ui

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Q: Extracting specific data from ngrx/store So I have read this post several times, but the defined setup and examples now differ from the methods shown in the store example app.
I have written my store code, based heavily off of the example app, so if we continue to use the example app for reference in this post:
Book Reducer:
export interface State {
  ids: string[];
  entities: { [id: string]: Book };
  selectedBookId: string | null;
};

const initialState: State = {
  ids: [],
  entities: {},
  selectedBookId: null,
};

export function reducer(state = initialState, action: book.Actions | collection.Actions): State {
  switch (action.type) {
    case book.ActionTypes.SEARCH_COMPLETE:
    case collection.ActionTypes.LOAD_SUCCESS: {
      const books = action.payload;
      const newBooks = books.filter(book => !state.entities[book.id]);

      const newBookIds = newBooks.map(book => book.id);
      const newBookEntities = newBooks.reduce((entities: { [id: string]: Book }, book: Book) => {
        return Object.assign(entities, {
          [book.id]: book
        });
      }, {});

      return {
        ids: [ ...state.ids, ...newBookIds ],
        entities: Object.assign({}, state.entities, newBookEntities),
        selectedBookId: state.selectedBookId
      };
    }

export const getEntities = (state: State) => state.entities;
export const getIds = (state: State) => state.ids;

Reducers index.ts (shortened but keeping relevant information):
import { createSelector } from 'reselect';
import { compose } from '@ngrx/core/compose';
import { storeFreeze } from 'ngrx-store-freeze';
import { combineReducers } from '@ngrx/store';
import * as fromBooks from './books';

export interface State {
  books: fromBooks.State;
}

const reducers = {
  books: fromBooks.reducer,
};

const productionReducer: ActionReducer<State> = combineReducers(reducers);
export function reducer(state: any, action: any) {
    return productionReducer(state, action);

}

export const getBooksState = (state: State) => state.books;
export const getBookEntities = createSelector(getBooksState, fromBooks.getEntities);
export const getBookIds = createSelector(getBooksState, fromBooks.getIds);

Now what I can't quite grasp is how the "query's" are built, what I want to be able to do is pass an ID say "456" to a function that will look inside State from the book with id "456". Return this data into an observable of Book so I can then use it inside my template/component whatever.
I have looked at the example code for hours and just when I think I have grasped it, I can't work out what I have done wrong. If anyone is able to explain how to build a selector that takes custom arguments.
I have used the exact code from the example app in the hope that if an answer is found it would be of help to future readers.

A: As you are using the redux pattern you have to do all by Actions.
First you need to store the selected ID in your Store in this case is the "selectedBookId" attribute as a new Action like SELECTED_BOOK
Second to get the selected book you will need to create a selector that combine the selectedBookId with your entities array like:
export const getSelected = createSelector(
  getEntities,
  getSelectedId,
  (entities , selectedId) => entities.find(entities => entities.id === selectedId)
);

index.ts
export const getSelectedBook = createSelector(getBookState, fromBook.getSelected);

Finally to get the book object you need to call your selector
this.book$ = this.store.select(fromRoot.getSelectedBook);

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Doesn't even attempt to offer any new content to fill 80 long minutes of screaming teens and shaky night-vision camera.
The ominous Odenbrook Hospital has been abandoned for 60 years, since the walls of this former sanatorium witnessed a mass suicide. From then rumours of hauntings have been rife, and the place has become a legend. One night six college students venture inside, loaded with camera equipment, determined to prove that the legends are true. Some days later, sole survivor John is hospitalised and under suspicion of murder, he starts to relate his story to his case worker, mostly though the video footage that has been captured and found.
Yes, we return once again to that staple, that disease of horror cinema of the last few years, the found-footage genre. Should you find yourself in the unfortunate position of watching The Paranormal Incident you will continually be asking the question: haven't I already seen this? There have been way, way too many films of this style released since The Blair Witch Project made fortunes from pennies and gave hope to a generation of film-school rejects. The Paranormal Incident doesn't even attempt to offer any new content to fill 80 long minutes of screaming teens, shaky night-vision camera, demonic voices and very long periods with absolutely nothing happening.
Of course there's a place for found footage and reality horror; [REC], Lake Mungo and The Last Exorcism are excellent examples of how it can be incredibly effective, but those were films made by directors with budgets and talented casts and crew. Now any hack with a camera, a handful of friends and an old building can do it in an easy way to make a movie and make a mark on a genre that has always been an entry level for young talent. But for now the talent is gone.


Latino Review broke that news in May but since then it has been pretty quiet regarding that. Well, according to my source, Thanos is indeed in the film and the mysterious aliens everyone is talking about, is his army. As for the plot details, it will be very interesting…Basically Thanos makes a deal with Loki (like Hiddleston said in one interview that Loki makes some shady deals) to get him the Infinity Gauntlet. He trades his army for the Gauntlet. And that's about it. No word on what 'Leviathan' is though.


DALLAS, Texas -- Meet Raeleigh Vasquez. Not your typical little girl.
"I'd actually say she's a little more advanced as a three-year-old," Raeleigh's mom, Brittnee Hogue, said.
Raeleigh loves to run around outside, but her days of being out in the sunshine took a detour.
"She's had to take a step back. She lost the ability to walk in January."
This year, Raeleigh had to go through being diagnosed with cancer.
"A tumor on her spine that compressed the nerves," Hogue explained. "She took it as a different step in life."
A step she took on.
"She was determined to get that back."
But to get back up, she needed help. More specifically, she needed blood which, unfortunately, is getting critically low.
"We've seen 500 fewer donations per month in June and July this year than the previous 10 months of the year," said Anita Foster, Public Information Officer for American Red Cross.
The Red Cross in Dallas is calling for folks to donate blood to help kids, like Raeleigh, and to avoid an emergency situation.
"If a critical situation occurred, a transportation accident or a major natural weather event, we have to have blood before those things happen," Foster explained. "Whatever blood type you are is a blood type we need right now."
So come on, folks, join Team Raeleigh and donate blood to the Red Cross.
"She's received five to six blood transfusions that I can say has saved us," Hogue said. "Such as her whole demeanor. Her attitude. Her health."
Because you never know, you just might help a kid like Raeleigh walk again.
"Now she's walking with the help of her braces on her own."


Justice Robert L. Brown served as an Associate Justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1991 to 2012. Before serving on the Court, he was engaged in the general practice of law and also served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in 1971 and 1972, worked in Washington, D.C. as an administrative aide for Jim Guy Tucker in 1977 and 1978, served as a legal aide to then Governor Dale Bumpers from 1972 to 1974 and served as a legislative assistant for United States Senator Dale Bumpers from 1975 to 1977.
His focus is primarily in the appellate practice and serves as counsel for the firm.
President of the Overton Inn of Court, 1999 to 2000.
Publication: Defining Moments: Historic Decisions By Arkansas' Governors From McMath Through Huckabee, published by the University of Arkansas Press, 2010.
Justice Robert L. Brown to Receive Honorary Doctorate Degree.


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Argument: Why the U.S. Health Care System Failed the Coronavirus Test Why the U.S. Health Care System Failed the...
Why the U.S. Health Care System Failed the Coronavirus Test
America needs a medical microgrid focused on treating patients where they are. Without locally focused care, doctors will continue to fail those who need them most.
By Prabhjot Singh
| May 12, 2020, 7:40 AM
Beds are lined up in a tent as volunteers from the international Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse set up an emergency field hospital for patients with the coronavirus in Central Park in New York on March 30. BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images
Remote Area Medical (RAM), a provider of pop-up medical clinics for underserved communities, was founded in 1985 to operate medical missions in the Amazon. Over the next 30 years, 90 percent of its operations shifted to the United States, where 740,000 people have lined up for its services—some driving hundreds of miles. In 2014, the group rented out the Javits Center in New York City to provide free care to the uninsured or anyone who needed care they couldn't otherwise afford. A few weeks before the event, the New York State Health Department blocked RAM from holding it, declaring that "no hospital can be operated without a valid operating certificate."
Six years later, amid a pandemic, there are makeshift tents in Central Park operated by medical missionaries, and the Javits Center has become a field hospital—valid operating certificate be damned. Although they have been heralded as bold acts of ingenuity, these stopgap solutions are better understood as emblems of a health care system that is uniquely vulnerable to failing the people who need it most.
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that the U.S. health care system is in bad shape; it is both overdeveloped and underdeveloped, creating a confusing pattern of excellence and profound failure.
Any pandemic can cause devastation, but COVID-19 has a higher mortality in people with diabetes, obesity, and heart disease and among older adults. Its secondary impacts on the economy also intensify the risk of deaths of despair (by suicide and addiction) or other causes. For most people, chronic conditions come in twos and threes. They take decades to set in and reverberate across generations. The prevalence of chronic conditions in the U.S. population was already projected to grow substantially over the next decade, a burden disproportionately borne by the poor and working class, particularly devastating for people of color, and intensifying for all with age.
At first glance, the U.S. health care system appears to just fail on the margins; however, COVID-19 illuminates that these failures are vast and growing. The current design of the health care system is failing Americans, and the $4 trillion per year question is why.
Firefighters and paramedics with Anne Arundel County Fire Department assist a potential COVID-19 patient at his home in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on April 25. ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images
The U.S. health care system has a basic repeating motif: regional hospitals at its center and satellite clinics in a starburst pattern around it. It is led by doctors and trailed by informal or underpaid caregivers. The basic idea is that when you're sick, you'll come to the clinic or hospital if your issue is serious enough. Then you're sent home to figure out the rest of your life. The system's job is to maintain sufficient flow and manage surges—like a power plant that delivers a regular output and protects itself from blackouts.
This power plant model of health care fails four types of people: (1) economically distressed people who can't afford to access it, (2) people in rural communities who live far from it, (3) people of color who have experienced institutional racism and do not trust it, and (4) people with disabilities, who are challenged at every turn if they seek to access it. Today, as U.S. hospitals and clinics are struggling, calls for quick fixes grow louder. Instead of reflexively rescuing this distressed brick-and-mortar model, policymakers need to look beyond its walls.
There is an alternative: health care delivered at home and in communities, being pushed to people when they need it by local teams. The pattern is decentralized and powered by local talent, more akin to a microgrid than a power plant. Challenges that individuals and families face are identified and addressed in the context where they arise, unless they require higher levels of action.
A new generation of microgrid-style solutions has been slowly emerging across the United States: home-based primary care, hospital-level care at home, remote monitoring of chronic conditions at home, or telemedicine at home. However, most of these innovations have been designed through the lens of consumer convenience, which the nation's wealthy are best positioned to incorporate into their lives.
As isolated solutions, they lack the coherence, urgency, and vision to establish a microgrid form of delivering care that is cheaper, serves rural communities, is trusted by people of color, and is designed for people with disabilities. In the absence of a comprehensive effort to create a new locally oriented health care model, the forces that make these four groups vulnerable to COVID-19 are intensifying at breathtaking speed.
Today, U.S. health care facilities are overwhelmed and seen as dangerous places to be, and Americans shuttered at home are looking for alternatives to waiting for their doctor in a waiting room. Some are simply avoiding health care altogether: Rough estimates project that COVID-19's secondary toll—deaths due to non-COVID-19 health issues (like heart disease) and socioeconomic conditions (such as mental health impacts)—may be in the same order of magnitude as the primary death toll from the disease.
In response, the federal government is deregulating the sector—by removing barriers to using telehealth, enabling some nurses and physician assistants to work without physician oversight, paying for some care at home at the same rate as in a clinic or hospital, and accelerating the use of remote care monitoring devices and self-testing kits.
Taken together, these regulatory changes could accelerate the shift to care at home that was already underway in small and scattered ways. This scatter threatens to spill into Americans' living spaces without a vision to guide it. That said, there is a visible and growing space where a missing half of the U.S. health care system can emerge—one that is flexible and responsive in times of need. Americans will have arrived when the care they need moves through their homes and communities with ease, instead of standing aloof in the institutions outside of them.
A nurse talks via video from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with a woman in Abilene, Kansas, hundreds of miles away, who needed a consultation for her 4-year-old son on Oct. 16, 2019. Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images
For every technology-driven advance of the health care industry, such as the rapid growth of telehealth visits or the potential for remote monitoring of chronic conditions, there will be an academic cottage industry ready to measure how the same groups as before are left behind yet again. But critique without creation is a recipe for other people's misery.
One of the downsides of the futurism that will undoubtedly accompany the reimagining of every aspect of post-coronavirus life is that we all carry our old instincts with us into it. Anything that's left to theory is liable to snap back to habit—and in the case of America's $4 trillion health care industry, the gears of habit are well oiled.
It is therefore crucial to get a practical understanding of what a national-scale health care microgrid must accomplish in order to do what the United States' infrastructure-heavy and physician-led workforce cannot do alone. Fortunately, both wealthy and poor countries around the world have made significant strides toward developing health care microgrids. Americans don't need to imagine what it should look like on their own.
Both wealthy and poor countries around the world—from the Netherlands to Rwanda—are successfully developing health care microgrids. Americans don't need to imagine what it should look like on their own.
In 2006, a nurse in the Netherlands founded the home-care organization Buurtzorg (Dutch for "neighborhood care"). It comprises local, self-governing teams of nurses that provide home-based care for older adults and those with chronic health conditions. They work with people in their homes to help them develop independence but are also available around the clock and in communication with physicians. A small technology and administration team supports their operations and enables them to focus on solving the specific problems their clients face, including those beyond health care that inevitably impact their health.
The organization is financially independent and by 2018 had more than 10,000 nurses in 900 teams. More than half of all community-based nurses in the Netherlands work for the organization, and they see themselves as community builders. Dutch citizens seem to agree; instead of throttling their capability and independence, regulators have enabled professionals who care for people in their homes to lead.
In Rwanda, a country of 12 million people that is about the size of Vermont, a network of 50,000 health workers have been mobilized across its communities. This network was initially focused on identifying and supporting people with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, many of whom were at risk of these diseases because they were already economically marginalized.
This community-based network finds and logs new cases on mobile phones and provides home-based medication and support, which are critical for the management of both conditions. They are paid for performance, and they have delivered remarkable results: The network has better HIV/AIDS management statistics than most U.S. states, and people who are supported by these teams have better mental health and access to benefits.
Rwanda has bolstered this microgrid network with aerial drones that carry labs and medicines and expanded its scope of work into areas like maternal care and child health. Although Rwanda still has work to do when it comes to properly paying and managing this workforce, necessity has forced these networks to evolve in sophisticated ways.
Like in Rwanda, a tuberculosis outbreak in Alaska pushed the state's tribal health authorities to search for an approach to health care that worked for the extremes of harsh weather and remote living. The state worked with the U.S. federal government to develop a telehealth system on a mobile cart that could be accessed in outposts that are staffed by health assistants. Instead of sending in a costly emergency medical helicopter to transport someone for evaluation, patients could first be assessed near where they lived before further action was taken.
A tuberculosis outbreak in Alaska pushed the state's tribal health authorities to search for an approach to health care that worked for the extremes of harsh weather and remote living.
These carts have become more sophisticated over time and include a range of remote diagnostic equipment. The health assistants have also taken on more responsibility, riling those who see it as encroaching on their turf; in 2006, the American Dental Association and the Alaska Dental Society unsuccessfully sued Alaska's tribal health authorities because they trained health assistants to remove cavities in children who would have otherwise gone without care. After more than 100,000 visits, this creative mix of remote technology and local teams continues to significantly cut the cost of health care delivery in a difficult setting.
In each of these cases, physicians, hospitals, and clinics have an undisputedly important role. However, their presence is peripheral to the microgrid work done by other health care professionals, aided by remote technologies, and welcomed by patients and families in their homes and communities.
In these three cases, the pressure to develop microgrid strategies emerged from infectious diseases or rises in the costs of care for chronic conditions and older adults. For a highly infectious disease like COVID-19, it is an untenable national strategy to not care for migrants, the homeless, and undocumented or marginalized people. A country with a national pandemic strategy that leaves anyone out is a threat to itself and other countries beyond its borders.
Waiting until fewer people show up at hospitals is not a plan. Watching the costs of health care rise for people who do not overcome their circumstances is not a plan. Building a microgrid of localized health care is.
Poland's Shortchanged Health Care System Is Already Straining
The country's medical infrastructure is notoriously underfunded. Doctors say it will buckle under the coronavirus.
Dispatch |
Dariusz Kalan
Crowdfunding Can't Cure China's Health Care
Rural Chinese are turning to mutual aid apps—but the pool only goes so far.
Rui Zhong
Coronavirus Disproportionately Affects Health Workers. Here Are the Countries Most at Risk.
COVID-19 has strained medical systems worldwide, but some countries already lacked capacity long before the pandemic struck.
Infographic |
Colm Quinn
Taken together, the missing half of a full health care system—one that is home- and community-based first—is vital to America's COVID-19 response, as well as for reaching the groups where the lopsided U.S. system fails.
Over the next months, and perhaps years, policymakers will be asking about a lot of missing systems. For example, the United States needs people who can identify people with COVID-19, trace whom they interacted with, and then find those contacts and test or isolate them. These contact tracing systems have been deployed in settings across the world with varying degrees of technological sophistication, from Iceland to Uganda. Some experts estimate that America will need 300,000 people to do this type of work.
Other systems—such as quickly responding to symptoms of COVID-19 in a community setting, such as for a cough or a fever, and administering a test—are also missing. These syndrome surveillance systems are already being proposed in Australia and deployed in China.
In the uniquely American setting, each of these systems requires community endorsement and engagement. People have to accept having these systems enter their lives and homes. Instead of building new fragmented and segmented systems, the United States should integrate them into microgrids of care, powered by local teams that are well paid, digitally equipped, and well organized. Doctors and hospitals need them, too.
Investing in Americans' health and in communities across the country will pay dividends beyond its immediate purpose, just as the Alaskan system was established to address tuberculosis and has since been repurposed to address a broad array of health challenges from dental care to common injuries.
An event like COVID-19 is larger than any one individual, and it illuminates both failed preexisting patterns of action and the new approaches that could be adopted. But it should also reveal that it is not good enough for the United States to simply get rid of COVID-19 and get back to where it was.
The U.S. health care system must adapt and advance, and that means learning from what works—wherever it is from—and then making it better. Save the makeshift tents in Central Park and Javits Center makeovers for countries that lack the means, wisdom, or will to do better.
Prabhjot Singh is an associate professor of medicine, health system design, and global health at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, as well as a special advisor for strategy and design at the Peterson Center on Healthcare. He is the author of Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America's Healthcare Promise and the host of the podcast Should I Take Off My Shoes. Twitter: @prabhjotsinghNY
Tags: Argument, coronavirus, Netherlands, Public Health, Rwanda, United States


I had to learn how to rely on the Savior to overcome my weaknesses and build on my strengths, both while preparing for a mission and while I served.
It took me seven years to qualify to serve a full-time mission. When I first spoke with my bishop, Bishop Tapueluelu, about it, he gave me some guidelines to strive to live by. He said if I followed them and learned to be obedient, I would be blessed. The first few guidelines—daily scripture study and weekly church attendance—were pretty doable. "This is easy," I thought. But I got offended when I was told to change certain "worldly" things in my life, and my pride and stubbornness got the best of me.
So I visited with my bishop every week, working out one weakness at a time. I had no idea that I'd have to wait another four years, just trying to qualify to serve a mission.
During those years, I strived to come closer to Christ and apply His teachings in my life. As challenges came, His Atonement became real to me. I relied on the power, comfort, and strength He gave me through His Atonement when my best friend passed away, when our family lost our home, and when I got into a car accident. When circumstances caused me to lose many of my friends, I fell into depression, but the Savior pulled me out. My Friday nights with friends were replaced with working out at the gym and studying about the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
I prayed every night for the people whom I would one day serve and even for my future companions!
I eventually qualified and was called to serve in the New Zealand Auckland Mission, Tongan-speaking.
So I prayed to Heavenly Father. In Ether 12:27 we learn that our weaknesses can become strengths if we trust in Him. I told Him about my weaknesses and my trust in Him, and I got back up again … and again … and again. I started to rely even more on Christ and also on my strengths.
For the remainder of my mission, I used street art—on paper, not on buildings—and the Spirit to teach others about Christ. And as crazy as it sounds, it worked. Many people didn't want to hear my message, so I sketched it. Doors and eyes opened when I told them that I did graffiti. They didn't believe me. They timed me for three minutes, and I sketched the word faith while teaching them about it. Among them were many who felt judged and unloved. I could testify that with faith in Christ we can feel of His love and forgiveness, and He can help us change for the better. He did for me.
Seven years of preparation for my mission helped me find myself. That time allowed me to gain a testimony of Christ's Atonement and His power to help me overcome my weaknesses and use my strengths to share what I knew with others. In the end it was worth the seven years.


SPRINGFIELD, MA- Curtis Valk scored two goals and goaltender Sam Montembeault made a career-high 38 saves to help the Springfield Thunderbirds defeat the Hartford Wolf Pack 5-3 last night at the MassMutual Center.
"Thought we played very well to start the game. We went out and pushed for the first goal and we didn't wait to see what was going to happen. We try to go make it happen." Thunderbirds head coach Geordie Kinnear said.
Anthony Greco opened up the scoring for the Thunderbirds a little over halfway in the first period. Dryden Hunt setup Greco when he took a wrist shot and went off of Greco's leg and past Wolf Pack goaltender Alexandar Georgiev to go up 1-0. Henrik Haapala was credited with the second assist on Greco's goal.
Curtis Valk extended the lead late for the Thunderbirds with less than four minutes remaining in the first period when he took a shot over the shoulder of Georgiev to go up 2-0. Dryden Hunt and Henrik Haapala were credited with their second assists of the night.
Thunderbirds defensemen Reece Scarlett received a couple penalties late in the first period as he was called for slashing and unsportsmanlike conduct. The Wolf Pack would go to answer in the second period. Vinni Lettieri put one past Montembeault 12 seconds into the second period to get the Wolf Pack to cut the lead down to one. Ryan Sproul and John Gilmour were credited with the assists on Lettieri's goal.
The Wolf Pack would then receive a two-man advantage as Greco was called for slashing. Joe Whitney tied the game with a backhand with help from Cole Schneider to tie it at 2-2. Ryan Sproul received his second assist of the game.
The Thunderbirds retook the lead in the closing seconds of the second period. Alexandre Grenier setup Jayce Hawryluk with a pass that went off the glove of Georgiev to give the Thunderbirds a 3-2 lead. Juho Lammikko received the secondary assist on the goal by Hawryluk.
The Thunderbirds extended their lead when Curtis Valk scored his second of the night with a snap shot past Georgiev to go up 4-2. Henrik Haapala would received his third assist of the game.
Thunderbirds defenseman Mike Downing scored his first of the year with an empty-net shorthanded goal unassisted to give the Thunderbirds a 5-2 lead.
Joe Whitney added his second goal of the night on the power play for the Wolf Pack in the final minute of regulation. Scott Kosmachuk and Dan Catenacci were credited with the assists.
Thunderbirds goaltender Sam Montembeault finished with a career-high 38 saves to score his first professional win.
"Another amazing game by Sammy (Montembeault). He's been great all year. It's been tough on him not getting that first win so it was nice for him to get it tonight and hopefully as that confidence that he has been playing with grows he keeps it going." Valk said.
The Thunderbirds will travel to Webster Bank Arena to take on the Bridgeport Sound Tigers tonight and then round out the weekend with a rematch with the Hartford Wolf Pack on Sunday at the XL Center.


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[![button](http://gstatic.com/cloudssh/images/open-btn.png)](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/open?git_repo=https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraform-google-managed-instance-group&working_dir=examples/blue-green&page=shell&tutorial=README.md)

This example shows how to perform a blue/green deployment using the managed instance group module.

## Change to the example directory

```
[[ `basename $PWD` != blue-green ]] && cd examples/blue-green
```

## Install Terraform

1. Install Terraform if it is not already installed (visit [terraform.io](https://terraform.io) for other distributions):

```
../terraform-install.sh
```

## Set up the environment

1. Set the project, replace `YOUR_PROJECT` with your project ID:

```
PROJECT=YOUR_PROJECT
```

```
gcloud config set project ${PROJECT}
```

2. Configure the environment for Terraform:

```
[[ $CLOUD_SHELL ]] || gcloud auth application-default login
export GOOGLE_PROJECT=$(gcloud config get-value project)
```

## Run Terraform

```
terraform init
terraform apply
```

## Testing

1. Wait for the load balancer to be provisioned:

```
./test.sh
```

2. Open the URL of the load balancer in your browser:

```
echo http://$(terraform output load-balancer-ip)
```

You should see the example web page with __blue__ color.

3. Change the deployment color to green and perform update:

```
TF_VAR_deploy_color=green terraform apply
```

4. Wait for blue-green deployment to complete:

```
./test.sh
```

5. Open the URL of the load balancer in your browser:

```
echo http://$(terraform output load-balancer-ip)
```

You should see the example web page with __green__ color.

## Cleanup

1. Remove all resources created by terraform:

```
terraform destroy
```

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Cannibal Brothers in Pakistan Sentenced to 12 years in Prison
Mohammad Arif Ali, 35, right, sits in custody at a police station in the town of Darya Khan in Bhakkar district, Pakistan's Punjab province, on April 14, 2014.
By Melissa Hellmann
Two Pakistani brothers have been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment after the skull of a young boy they exhumed and devoured was discovered in their home.
An antiterrorism court in the state of Punjab found Mohammad Farman Ali, 30, and Mohammad Arif Ali, 35, guilty of defiling a grave, destroying property and disseminating fear. No laws specifically against cannibalism currently exist in the country. The brothers will be able to file an appeal at the Punjab high court, the BBC reports.
The pair had previously served two years in prison after being convicted of digging up and eating more than 150 bodies from a nearby cemetery in 2011. After they were released in May 2013, they quietly resumed their lives until neighbors in their small village of Khwawar Kalan complained to police about the potent smell of rotting flesh wafting from their home.
A police search on April 14 revealed the head of a 2-year-old boy who had been buried in a nearby grave. The brothers later admitted to digging up the corpse of a child and cooking him in a curry.


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Women stuck in the 1950s with this Government's Budget
Larissa Waters 7 Oct 2020
This year's Budget has failed women by failing to address the key drivers of women's economic insecurity, tackle the domestic violence crisis, or combat gender inequality, Greens Co-Deputy Leader and spokesperson on Women, Senator Larissa Waters said.
"The 2020 Budget is bad for women. It has no new money for childcare, housing or frontline domestic violence services, the tax cuts are worth twice as much for men as women, and the women's economic security statement is a mere $18 per Australian woman.
"This Budget, just like this Government, continues to ignore women. Earlier this year they doled out $690 million for kitchen renovations, more than twice as much as women's economic security was given last night.
"Last night's mere $240 million for women's economic security was the smallest amount of funding that got a mention in the Budget speech. Eighteen dollars per Australian woman doesn't buy you a lot of economic security, Prime Minister.
"The best way to encourage women back into the workforce, and deliver women's economic security, is with free childcare. But this Government wants women stuck at home in a renovated kitchen, rather than in the workforce."
Senator Waters said she was appalled that the Government had, again, failed to address the country's growing family and domestic violence emergency.
"The Government has committed $450million to intelligence and law enforcement agencies for 'domestic threats', but it has ignored the biggest domestic threat: violence against women.
"There is no new funding for frontline domestic violence services in this Budget, despite the massive spike in abuse during this pandemic.
"One in ten women in a relationship has experienced domestic violence since Covid - one third for the first time – and this sexist Government has failed them again."
One bright spot in the Budget was the Government's adoption of the Greens earlier proposal to retain paid parental leave for women who lost their job due to Covid-19.
"After voting against the Greens amendments to ensure PPL can still be paid to women who lost their jobs because of Covid, it's good to see the Government has backflipped and adopted this sensible proposal which will actually help new parents," concluded Senator Waters.
Women killed by violence needs accurate reporting and national toll
Women, violence against women, Budget 2020


The second annual Science for March event drew thousands of visitors to campus for science talks and interactive demonstrations.
In his February 27 Watson Lecture, Thorne will discuss the "warped side of our universe," and speculate on future discoveries about the birth of our universe and of the laws that govern it.
In a February 13 Watson Lecture, Elliot Meyerowitz will describe how leaves and flowers appear at angles of roughly 140 degrees, answering questions that long have intrigued mathematically inclined biologists and revealing surprising modes of communication between plant stem cells.
Caltech's Lihong Wang will discuss his development of photoacoustic tomography during his November 28 Watson Lecture.
Caltech's Sergio Pellegrino will discuss his work on the Caltech Space Solar Power Project during his October 31 Watson Lecture.
The series highlights space missions and technology.


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G8 targets not ambitious enough
Missed opportunities and half-measures marked a lack-lustre G8, comments Paul Cook of Tearfund, who attended it
In the frame: Pope Benedict greets President Obama during their private meeting at the Vatican, on Friday, after the G8 summit in L'Aquila REUTERS
IN A YEAR that could be the most significant we have ever seen for sealing an ambitious deal on climate change, those who work with the world's poorest communities were hoping that the G8 would blaze a trail that would take us to December's climate summit in Copenhagen in a strong position.
But despite glimmers of hope, this year's G8 missed vital opportunities to tackle poverty and injustice.
The summit tackled a wide range of issues including the global economic crisis, food security, and poverty in Africa. World leaders pledged $20 billion to food security over the next three years.
Development agencies, including Tearfund, welcomed the move as a step in the right direction, as long as the money is in addition to that already committed to international aid. But they urged world leaders to dig deeper and commit $30 billion every year for at least the next five years. They argue that the additional money would help farmers to produce and buy enough food without being jeopardised by droughts, floods, or spikes in food prices.
At the summit, the G8 and the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (a group of 17 countries that are responsible for 80 per cent of global carbon emissions) agreed that average global temperature rises should not exceed more than two degrees.
We saw the US clear the way for what Gordon Brown called a "historic agreement": the recognition that rich countries should cut their carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.
Advising caution when welcoming this announcement, Tearfund's head of public policy, Laura Webster, said: "These laudable intentions are undermined by a complete failure by G8 nations to put strong, scientific emissions-reductions targets on the table for 2020. These should be at least 40 per cent cuts on 1990 levels. Unless they are prepared to do so, any two-degree goal will be fatally undermined."
The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, echoed this concern, saying that leaders had not gone far enough, and should also set carbon-emissions targets for the year 2020. He said that, while the G8 agreement was welcome, its leaders also needed to establish an ambitious mid-term target for emissions cuts.
But progress on much-needed funding to enable developing countries to respond to climate change — $150 billion a year, in addition to Overseas Development Assistance — simply did not happen.
World leaders did not sign up to a proposed Global Framework for Action to reverse the injustice that denies one in eight people clean water, and 2.5 billion people access to a decent lavatory.
Instead, we heard a vague reference to a plan of action by the end of the year. This was disappointing to agencies such as Tearfund, par-ticularly because the Italian government had given assurances that it wanted to make water and sanitation a priority.
Next year, the G8 moves to Canada, where the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, recently described it as "an institution with a proven record of moving agendas forward, of drawing attention to overlooked issues, and, most importantly, of being able to mobilise resources to meet global challenges".
I wish we could have seen more of these qualities this year, but, once again, it feels as though rich countries have made some token gestures, while poor countries have gone home empty-handed.
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Gay bishops more likely after US passes 'nuanced' motion
Draft budget
Christians in Iraq urged not to leave
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We are a young benefice. Can you help us grow and mature into something really special, like the local cheeses and ciders?
We are seeking a Vicar for Sholing with a passion to foster pioneering mission, but who values inherited patterns of church. We are a committed congregation actively making a difference in our local community on the east side of Southampton.
Team Rector
Following a parish review in early 2019, it is hoped the Horsham Team Ministry will be reformed from 4 churches to comprise of 3 following a mission and pastoral scheme: St Mary's, St Leonard's and Holy Trinity. This is an exciting opportunity for a new Team Rector to shape the future direction of Christian ministry in Horsham.


Our practice is committed to bringing the safest and highest quality of care to our patients. The installation of our new digital X-ray system continues that commitment. Using the state-of-the-art Schick system enables us to provide greatly improved diagnostic capabilities to our patients while significantly lessening their exposure to radiation by up to 80 percent over the old film X-rays. We know this will be very important to many.
The x-ray on the left is not digitally enhanced.The x-ray on the right is digitally enhanced.If you look closely inside the orange box you will see a crooked vertical line.This line represents a fractured tooth that is unrestorable and must be extracted.It is this type of detail and information that we are able to view with digital x-rays.


"You push your body hard, then you build back up. And the discipline to do that is like playing, too." This is how Chameka Scott, former Baylor University basketball player, saw her battle with cancer. As reported in ESPN News, Scott succumbed to her battle with cancer on Sunday at the age of 33. Scott played on the Baylor 2005 championship team, but her professional basketball career was cut short by Crohn's disease. She was later diagnosed with cancer in 2015, which after successful treatments, returned a year later. Athletes are trained to push hard, often past the normal limits of their bodies, this is a skill that not everyone develops. Though no one is prepared for a battle with cancer, Scott knew her athletic training gave her a head start. "For me, as an athlete, my body had been tested physically day in and day out," reflected Scott as she mentally prepared for her battle with cancer. Our prayers go out to Chameka Scott's family, friends, and former teammates. Scott was an Athlete for Life, fighting cancer with the determination and intensity of a true athlete. May we all as an athletic family of fans, friends, coaches, and administrators, embrace Chameka's legacy to not only inspire others, but to inspire ourselves.


Probably the last thing you want to think about during your gap year is an army of creepy crawlies slipping inside your bags, your shoes, or even your clothes, but insects and bugs abroad will demand your attention.
At the very least insects and bugs can leave you bitten and uncomfortable, but their power extends far beyond a few bites. Insects and bugs can pass along life-threatening diseases, so guarding against them is essential. Take the necessary precautions, and hopefully you won't become their first feast.
You may encounter a variety of insects and bugs abroad, some common or similar to those in the UK and some so exotic you may never have heard of them!
A few of the insects or bugs you may meet include; ants, assassin bugs, bees, beetles, butterflies, deer flies, fire ants, fleas, gnats/midges, house flies, lice, mites, moths, mosquitoes, sand flies, spiders, ticks, true flies, tsetse flies and wasps.
Malaria - transmitted by mosquitoes.
Yellow Fever - transmitted by mosquitoes.
Dengue Fever - transmitted by mosquitoes.
Typhus Fever - transmitted by ticks and lice.
West Nile Virus - transmitted by mosquitoes.
Plague - transmitted by fleas.
Japanese Encephalitis - transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks.
Lyme Disease - transmitted by ticks.
Leishmaniasis - transmitted by sand flies.
Chagas Disease - transmitted by assassin bugs.
Sleeping sickness - transmitted by tsetse flies.
Thankfully, much is known about the diseases passed by insects and bugs and several immunisations do exist. Before you travel, discuss with your GP or local travel clinic the areas you will be visiting and solicit their advice on the travel immunisations including those for: Japanese encephalitis, Malaria (tablets) and Yellow Fever.
Once you are travelling, there are many precautions you can take against insects and bugs. Every day make sure you wear insect repellent and cover up with trousers and long sleeved shirts, it is also a good idea to tuck your trouser into your socks and shoes to create a barrier. Wear a cap to protect your head and wear light coloured clothing that will make spotting an insect or bug easier.
Check yourself every day in the shower for new bites or bugs, if you do spot any bites or have a persistent fever or rash you should seek medical assistance immediately. Sleep under mosquito netting if advised and do remember to take your anti-malarial tablets as directed.
Racing or slowed heart rate.
The bite is on your tongue or in your mouth.
Bites lead to a large or bulls-eye shaped rash.
You suffer from an open wound.
You just don't feel right and it would put your mind at ease to see a medical professional.
Insects and bugs abroad can wreak havoc on your health, but there are a number of ways to protect yourself from them. Depending on where you are travelling during your gap year, ask your GP or local travel clinic for advice on common insects and bugs and if there are any health travel advisories for the areas. And don't forget to pack the insect repellent!


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L.A. Superior Court Judges Elect New Court Executive Officer/Clerk
Posted June 6, 2013 in Education, Legislation, Membership
Los Angeles Superior Court News Release
Website: www.lasuperiorcourt.org
E-mail Address: PublicInfo@LASuperiorcourt.org
Judges of the Los Angeles Superior Court overwhelmingly voted to appoint veteran court executive Sherri R. Carter as their Executive Officer/Clerk, succeeding John A. Clarke, who retired March 31, 2013. Carter is presently the Court Executive Officer for the Riverside Superior Court. She also served as the Executive Officer and Clerk of Court of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the largest federal district in the nation, and as the Trial Court Executive and Clerk of Court for the Eighth Circuit Court for the State of Utah. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in business administration from the University of California at Riverside.
"I could not be more pleased to announce that Sherri Carter is our new executive officer," said Presiding Judge David S. Wesley. "She is a proven leader at the state level, and an excellent trial court administrator with 19 years as an executive in the federal and state courts. Her achievements in technological innovation and court-community relations, coupled with her ability to encourage professionalism and creativity among her staff, will serve our Court well," said Wesley.
Assistant Presiding Judge Carolyn Kuhl said, "Those who have worked with Ms. Carter emphasize her strong leadership abilities and the fact that her leadership style is inclusive and teamwork oriented. On the statewide level, she has tirelessly and effectively worked to strengthen the trial courts everywhere she has worked during her 30 years of service to the courts," said Kuhl, "and she has successfully worked with judges to enhance the administration of justice."
William Mitchell will continue to serve as Interim CEO until Carter takes office on Sept. 4, 2013.
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