Liseberg is an outstanding theme park set in Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city. The attraction which opened in 1923 welcomes over 3 million visitors a year and is one of Scandinavia's most visited attractions. When we visited on a beautiful spring Sunday in May we soon realised why so many people have only good things to say about Liseberg. It's not just the fear inducing rides that we loved in Liseberg, it was also the attention to detail and the care in which the park takes to make sure everything is in pristine condition. The park is truly beautiful with thousands of flower displays and well kept gardens, as well as the rides themselves looking fantastic! So enough about how pretty the park is, I am sure you want to hear about their star attractions and our thoughts! Well firstly we will start with Helix, their newest roller coaster which was one of the main reasons we visited. It is extremely impressive to look at as you pass underneath this twisted metal monster as you take the elevator up the hill to ride it. The soundtrack sends shivers down your spine as you pull out of the station and hurtle into 2 minutes of loops, launches and a crazy amount of airtime. We loved this ride, although it was fantastic our favourite was still yet to come. The parks other roller coaster collection included: Kanonen, a punchy launched roller coaster with various loops; Lisebergbanan, which looks like a tame family roller coaster but will take you on a wild ride and finally the parks famous wooden roller coaster Balder. Now here at Themeparkmedia.co.uk we have ridden many wooden roller coasters, but this absolute beast has taken the top spot. It's thrilling, airtime filled and is such a comfortable ride that it's impossible to fault!
After rising Balder several times we decided to sample some of the parks other rides and attractions. Possibly one of the best drop towers we have been on had to be Atmosfear, with its gigantic 380ft drop and outstanding theming turnt it into a terrifying ordeal. The park also has a whole host of other rides and attractions including: The Flume, one of the best log flume rides we have ever been on; Kållerado, an fantastic River Rapids ride and Upswinget, a giant air powered swing set into the side of a hill with a terrifying view. Liseberg has earnt itself a reputation as one of the top theme parks in Europe, and after our visit we can understand why. We would not hesitate in the slightest to recommend this wonderful theme park to anyone, and it is an absolute must if visit Sweden!


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It is time to say, Gong Hey Fat Choy, in Cantonese. Or Happy Lunar New Year! It is the year 4715 on the Chinese lunar calendar, the year of the Fire Rooster.
In San Francisco, we celebrate Chinese New Year each year with the largest parade outside of Asia. The parade started in the 1860s. This year, the parade will be held on Saturday, February 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., and it will be broadcast locally on KTVU.
There are 12 animals in the Chinese Zodiac and each year highlights one of the 12. In 2016, it was the year of the monkey, this year it is the rooster and in 2018 it will be the dog.
The animals at the San Francisco Zoo are getting into the spirit of a New Year celebration. On February 4 and 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., guests visiting the zoo will be entertained by traditional Chinese dances and going on a Chinese Zodiac Animal Scavenger Hunt, along with visiting the zoo's more than 2,000 animals.
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Austria's ÖBB completes three-month hydrogen train passenger trials
Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has completed a three-month-long passenger trial of Alstom's Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel cell train on regional lines.
Alstom iLint. Credit: – FelixM – via Wikipedia.
This comes after Austria became the second country in Europe, after Germany, to approve Coradia iLint as a sustainable alternative to diesel multiple units.
The vehicle has secured official approval from the country's highest railway authority, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK).
The testing of the vehicle began in September. In the last three months, the vehicle operated on four routes in southern Lower Austria, Vienna and eastern Styria.
According to Alstom, ÖBB is very positive about the hydrogen train and the test run.
The procured data is currently being assessed to further improve the technology.
Alstom Europe senior vice-president Gian Luca Erbacci said: "We are immensely proud to confirm that the Coradia iLint has proven that it is suitable for all service routes – even on steep sections its performance is convincing.
"Not to mention our pride in the fact that the train has now received official approval in Austria. I also congratulate OBB for being a pioneer in testing hydrogen technology on railways in Austria."
Separately, Alstom announced that it has received all necessary regulatory approvals to complete the acquisition of Bombardier Transportation.
The acquisition is now expected to close on 29 January next year.
The company notably signed a sale and purchase agreement in September to acquire Bombardier's rail division with revised price terms.
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Ogwen
The Ogwen climbing guide gives a very thorough reassessment of the climbing on the south side of the A5, based around the ever-popular Tryfan and Cwm Idwal areas.
Including some 140 new routes climbed since the last guide, and many 'rediscovered' older climbs, the Ogwen climbing guide shows new routes at all grades and on both old and new crags. Among the latter are the Eastern Cliffs of Gallt yr Ogof, including Skyline Buttress, the location of some of the hardest climbing in Wales, where the E9 Mission Impossible has been the subject of much recent publicity.
The book is similar in format to the well-received Llanberis guide published last year, with many action photos, all-colour photodiagrams, and photoplans (93 in total, even more than in Llanberis), and bouldering sections by Simon Panton. The guide also has a chronology (a combination of the historical and first ascents sections), which includes short biographical notes on the leading activists over the years. Particular attention has also been given to highlighting some of the easier climbs, which are now often climbed as scrambles.
Although now standard practice in many CC guidebooks such as Llanberis, a graded list of climbs in the Ogwen area has been included for the first time.
The guide now also includes the climbing on the north side of the A4086 between Pen y Gwyrd and Capel Curig, and for the first time the excellent climbing on the Creigiau Llynnau Mymbyr (the Ricks and Racks) is described in detail, although these crags have been climbed on for years by Plas y Brenin parties.
Ogwen replaces half of the double-volume Ogwen and Carneddau, published in 1993. Work is now starting on a new Carneddau guide, but meanwhile the text of the 1993 Carneddau section is available as a free download on the Climbers Club's Carneddau Guidebook Page.
Page Size: 125mm x 175mm
Publisher: Climbers Club
Region: Wales - North Wales
Manufacturer: Climbers' Club
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A former refugee enters in the grand finale of The Voice of Nepal, Bhutanese diaspora cherishes
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Kiran Gajmer, a resettled former Bhutanese refugee currently residing in St. Louis, Missouri has entered the Grand finale of the singing reality show – The Voice of Nepal Season 3.
Gajmer's entry in the finale is well-cherished and supported by his fellow Nepali-speaking former Bhutanese refugees in the diaspora.
Born in a refugee camp in Khudunbari, Jhapa, Kiran has been singing from his childhood. Speaking to BNS, Amber Subba, who has mentored Gajmer, said that Kiran's singing skills are amazing. Subba knows Kiran since 2013, and they have worked on numerous projects together. Subba further mentioned that Kiran's win is a win of Nepali music in the diaspora. "The win will prove that there's no boundary for Nepali music," said Subba.
Kiran's win will also create history for Nepali-speaking Bhutanese Community around the world since no other contestant has ever participated or won a reality show of this magnitude in the past.
In the meantime, several groups and individuals in the Bhutanese diaspora have been raising funds to show support and solidarity to Gajmer.
The Bhutanese Association Music of America (BAMA) alone has raised a little over $14,000. "Heading to Kathmandu representing BAMA for Kiran's finale," wrote Khem Rizal on his FB wall, who serves as the President of the organization.
The Voice of Nepal is the Nepalese format of the international TV singing reality show called "The Voice" and this season's grand finale is scheduled for this Saturday, Nepal time according to a post on The Voice of Nepal's official Facebook page.
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Since many years Ram Gopal Varma has been trolling Power Star Pawan Kalyan through his tweets. But now he has decided to cross the line. He has announced his next movie 'Power Star' which is a satirical film on Pawan Kalyan. He has been releasing many posters of the movie and each and every one of them targets Pawan Kalyan.
Earlier he has decided to release the film in Shreyas ET app. However Shreyas Srinivas today confirmed that the movie is not going to be released in Shreyas ET app. He also added," Not just Power Star, we won't be releasing any film with controversies surrounding it".
Now some thought this may put an end to this movie. But RGV is in no-daddy listening mode. As per sources, currently he is looking for another platform to release the movie. Will RGV dare to cross all the hurdles and release the movie in any platform?
Release problems for RGV's 'Power Star' Reviewed by Pavan Gopal on Sunday, July 12, 2020 Rating: 5


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The dark side of South Africa
This review appeared in Austrian newspaper Die Presse in January 2016.
Charlotte Otter dispatches journalist Maggie Cloete on her second case in "Karkloof Blue", in the process mapping out an image of today's South African society. Maggie Cloete is perhaps a little too cool, too tough, too perfect. She knows karate and beats up brawny men. She prefers to ride a motorbike rather than drive a car, and likes beer. And above all: her instinct never lets her down, self-doubt is quite simply never an issue.
Author Charlotte Otter has dispensed with all weaknesses when making investigative reporter Maggie Cloete the heroine of her crime novel series. "Karkloof Blue" sees the journalist tackling her second case. As in Charlotte Otter's debut novel "Balthasar's Gift", this political crime novel plays out in post-Apartheid South Africa, once again highlighting unresolved issues from the country's dark past, and controversial topics from today. The particular focus this time: environmental protection.
The novel is named after a butterfly, the "Karkloof Blue" (Latin name: Orachrysops ariadne). The endangered butterfly lives in an area of virgin forest near Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal province. The unfortunate circumstances arise as the company Sentinel plan to deforest the area to plant pine monocultures intended for paper production. Environmental conservationists intend to prevent this.
When the corpse is found of David Bloom, a Sentinel employee, Maggie's research leads her not only to the criminal practices of large companies, but also to the brutal murders of the Apartheid regime against its detractors. A breathtaking journey into the South Africa of yesterday and today.
Translation by the fabulous Louisa, as always.
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More than just a butterfly
This review was published by Frank Rumpel in CulturMag on November 7, 2015.
From an endangered species of butterfly to the crimes of the Apartheid period: this is the arc spanned with ease in the second novel by South African author Charlotte Otter, now living for some years in Germany. She links the two topics via a third: the destruction of native forests and savannas by the timber and paper industry cultivating large plantations with fast-growing trees such as pine and eucalyptus.
In the midst of the action is Charlotte Otter's dynamic protagonist Maggie Cloete. The former police reporter had for ten years turned her back on Pietermaritzburg, a city of 220,000 inhabitants in the easterly province of Kwa Zulu Natal (providing an interesting jump in time to the present between the first and second novels), spending time in Berlin and Jo'burg. But she's now returned and is back working for the Gazette, enabling her to look after her brother, Christo. He had been in a psychiatric unit for many years due to post-traumatic stress disorder and is now attempting to live in the outside world.
Near Pietermaritzburg, paper company Sentinel is planning to strip the woodland. Conservationists are protesting because the forest is home to one of the last populations of the native Karkloof Blue butterfly. The company nevertheless begins cutting down the trees, until a grave with seven skeletons is found on the site. It is discovered that the grave originates from Apartheid times, and the bodies are most likely those of seven local youths connected to Umkhonto we Sizme (the militarised arm of the ANC) who disappeared without a trace at the end of the Eighties following an attack on an electricity plant. A massive story, but Maggie is gagged by her boss; the newspaper buys its paper supplies from Sentinel.
A whole raft of current issues is woven together by Charlotte Otter to create a compelling story full of action, even if some of the plot twists again seem a little casual in this second novel. But Otter redeems herself for this with a strong, multifaceted female protagonist who never allows a good story to get away from her, no matter how many people's toes she has to tread on to do so. And along the way she is continually observing everyday societal imbalances, from which the only relief is found in sarcasm. Such as men in management positions. "Where did all these bespectacled suits come from? Can you hire them from casting agencies? Experience in imitating facial expressions desirable."
Charlotte Otter
Like her debut, this latest novel has been published first in the German translation and subsequently launched on the South African market. Along the way it tells of crimes from the Apartheid period that are far from being resolved, of the extended reach of those who were in charge at the time, of large-scale environmental destruction, of unscrupulous profit interests and of press freedom on the verge of breaking down due to economic conflicts of interest in an increasingly narrow marketplace. A strong, committed crime novel in which Charlotte Otter puts the young democracy of South Africa under the microscope with multiple deeply penetrating insights into its society.
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Complex, tough, ironic
This review of Karkloof Blue was published in der Freitag on 16 November 2015. Here's an English translation for your reading pleasure.
Old wire cables
South Africa: In Charlotte Otter's "Karkloof Blue", irascible reporter Maggie takes on a timber company.
Karkloof Blue is the name of the rare butterfly whose habitat is threatened by the planned clearance of natural forest in the middle of plantations surrounding the city of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal province.
A butterfly novel? If you happen to have any preconceived notions about "female crime novels" they will probably be popping into your head right about now. Unless of course you've read South African author Charlotte Otter's dynamic debut, Balthasar's Gift (2013), which will have wiped your mind clean of any potentially negative connotations.
When a troop of environment activists attempts to thwart timber company Sentinel's plans, Maggie as a news reporter should really just be chained to her desk. She ignores this, of course, and she is joined by her brother Christo whom she looks after; inadequately in her view, hyper-protectively and condenscendingly in his. Christo's psyche has been shaped by the Apartheid regime; after all, no-one escapes a barbaric system, not even the privileged. Traumatised, he deserts following his deployment in border disputes, is landed in prison, and ends up on a psychiatric ward. Now recovered after many years, Christo rescues butterflies; a pursuit that turns out to be not at all as naive or worldly innocent as it appears. Christo is essentially protesting against the human-centric hybris challenged by any broader consideration of the world's continued existence.
The discovery of a mass grave buys the butterfly some time: Sentinel's bulldozers and excavators are forced to stop. Who were the people buried in the forest? The Truth and Reconciliation Commission created by the ANC following the end of Apartheid uncovered many crimes, but many others never saw the light of day.
A Sentinel employee falls to his death. Suicide? Maggie is dubious. A female scientist is brutally attacked and her lover threatened. Maggie continues to investigate, races angrily through the night on her motorbike until she regains control of herself, remembering her son. Yes, she is a mother, but she represents the modern ideal of motherhood and femininity. While Maggie unravels the company's greenwashing activities, the child stays safely with its father. The adults' relationship no longer takes the form of being a couple, but of co-parents.
Charlotte Otter constructs a female protagonist who is not simply just strong or even heroic, but who is courageous, committed and vunerable. Maggie refuses to see herself as a victim, even though she ends up unable to avoid becoming heavily involved. She refuses to let her well-researched articles be watered down to benefit the local paper's business interests in terms of paper prices. She refuses to muddle through under the radar like those who think it's not possible to impact the weighty, well-funded machinations of the company whose profiteering is masked by token gesture green publicity.
Refused a handshake
Charlotte Otter, now living in Heidelberg with her family, paints the picture of a society in upheaval and in conflict with its past. She portrays the uncertainty in a country with massive social contrasts: barbed wire fences protect the houses of those in positions of privilege whilst the losers vegetate in shacks. And she portrays the minor degradations that women are exposed to on a daily basis, not just in South Africa. For example, the name of another reporter is cited at the top of Maggie's article, despite the fact that the man in question is a journalistic dunce. Tribal leaders refuse to shake her hand. Even the politically neutral female scientist is forced to learn that "women with opinions are dangerous".
Karkloof Blue tackles pertinent interconnections between the economy and the executive powers in South Africa, between institutional brutality and media reporting, between patriarchal claims to power and ecological necessity. Broken by the beat of a butterfly's wing: complex, tough, ironic.
Krimi Der Woche
In December, Karkloof Blue was Krimi der Woche in Die Welt. Here's a translation of the review by Elmar Krekeler:
"Sometimes there are books you wish you had never read. Not because those books are so horrifying in themselves, but because the implications are horrifying. Such as if we take the content and apply it to what is currently happening in Syria; extrapolating outwards it will be a horrifyingly long time for the wounds to heal, for something new to rise from the ashes, for a new nation to be built on the ruins, on the hurts, on mountains of human bones and on lakes of spilled human blood.
Arguably the leading centre for producing this type of horrifying literature is South Africa. It's all there; especially in the crime novels full of inconceivable hardness and precision, revealing the breathtaking brutality of violence from disruptions large and small still occurring day in, day out when the tectonic plates of this ruptured society rub up against the as yet largely unresolved past.
A society reeking of testosterone
Take Charlotte Otter – although we could equally have taken Roger Smith, Mike Nicol or half a dozen others instead – it's a random selection, pretty much. Or then perhaps not. Charlotte Otter, you see, is the only woman who springs to mind right now. And based on our own personal observations – this will drive the sexual equality folks crazy – a woman has a broader view when it comes to male-dominated societies; societies reeking of testosterone, like South Africa.
Back to Charlotte Otter. She's a South African journalist, IT expert and lives in Heidelberg. What we first encounter in her second crime novel are a waterfall washing away all clues, and yellowed winter grass which retains no clues or tracks. We are in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Just around the corner from Howicks Fall lies Pietermaritzburg, pretty much the distilled essence of South Africa. The barometer that Charlotte Otter uses to gauge this averagely run-down, 200,000 soul dump goes by the name of Maggie Cloete and is an investigative journalist now chained to a desk masterfully turning out news stories.
A story as flighty as a rare blue butterfly
We'll get to Maggie in a minute. First of all, however, our eyes are drawn to the flight of a flamboyant-looking little butterfly. Answering to the name orachrysops ariadne, but more commonly called the Karkloof Blue, it glides and judders its way through the air, zigzagging around, first over a carefully folded bundle of clothes that has been placed at the fractured edge of the waterfall… then over the naked corpse of Dave Bloom, lying smashed to pieces on the rocks below.
Not unlike the butterfly in flight, Maggie Cloete zigzags through her second case. Bloom was employed by Sentinel, a paper manufacturer turning the indigenous forests around Pietermaritzburg into endless pine monocultures to serve their own purposes. The last remnant of forest is slated for clearing, but this is the Karkloof Blue's natural habitat. Environmentalists and tree conservationists have plans to stop this happening. Preventing the clearance is what Bloom wanted; it's what the activists' leader and self-styled guru wants; and it's what Maggie's brother Christo also wants.
With smooth horizontal, vertical and crosswise strokes dissecting the history of Pietermaritzburg, Charlotte Otter sheds light on the murders of young anti-apartheid activists left to an agonising death from Anthrax poisoning and then buried; on the trauma inflicted upon young men after refusing to commit hideous murders in the name of protecting the borders while in uniform; on the highly questionable deception strategy of large international corporations donning the guise of quasi capitalist environmentalists, all the while mercilessly destroying the last habitat of the Karkloof Blue.
This is known as greenwashing. People die, bodies come to light, conspiracies, sinister secret activities… all are covered up by the government. This is how it is in South Africa; as soon as your spade cuts the ground, corpses rise up from the apartheid regime.
Maggie zooms around on her motorcycle, becoming increasingly tired of constantly having to report on people's inhumanity towards others.
The apartheid regime ended a good quarter of a century ago, but in South Africa nothing is ever really peaceful. You only need turn up the heat up one notch and the 'melting pot' encompassing all influential South Africans, united purely by concept alone, will explode. This is how it is on every level, in every family.
Now consider how long it will take Syria and the entire Middle East to get anywhere approaching the stage that South Africa is at today. Horrifying."
With thanks to the fabulous Louisa Bird.
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Wisdom from the Master
On the way home from France today, Germany's Top Husband played us Tim Ferris podcasts including this lovely one with Paulo Coehlo. Here are some jewels that spoke to me on the subject of writing:
On walking: "Walking is for me, my way of thinking, my way of meditating. It is not that I am thinking, but in a kind of trance, totally connected with the present moment."
On what writing means to him: "What I do is to have pleasure, to have fun, to have social responsibility towards my readers, my self and the world where I live."
On the writing process: "I go into a tank and I can only leave this tank when I have finished the book."
He takes notes at night to empty his head so that he can sleep, but the next day the notes are "totally useless"
On capturing ideas: he does not capture ideas, but the book "that wants to be written" makes itself clear to him
On starting: "When you discover the first sentence, behind this first sentence is a thread that takes you to the last sentence."
"When you write a book, as it is written in The Alchemist, you connect, you connect to the soul of the world, you connect to this energy that I call inspiration"
"If you want to capture ideas, you are lost because you are not going to live your life, you are going to be capturing ideas. You are going to be detached from the emotions that you need to live fully. You are going to be an observer and not a human being that is living his or her life … I strongly encourage writers not to think about writing every time they do something. Forget notebooks, forget taking notes. Let what is important remain."
On tools: "I use Word; that is all."
On stories and story archetypes: "There are only four stories: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and a journey."
On style: "Don't try to innovate. You can innovate on Twitter, Facebook, mobile, but not in storytelling. Storytelling is pure, it is the essence, since the dawn of time and it is magical … It's like fashion. Style is the dress, but the dress does not dictate what is inside the dress. What counts is the person inside the dress, not the dress itself."
On simplicity: "Keep it simple.Keep it simple. Trust your reader. He or she has a lot of imagination. Don't try to describe things. Give a hint and they will fulfill this hint with their own imaginations."
On acceptance: "Writers want to please other writers. They want to be recognised by academia, by the system. Forget about this. Who cares, you know? You should care to share your soul and not to please other writers … This is a weakness."
On getting stuck: "You are fighting with me, book? Okay, I will sit here and not leave you alone until I have found my way out of this crossroads. And then it may take ten minutes, it may take ten hours, but if you don't have discipline enough, you don't move forward."
On research: "If you overload your book with research, you are going to be very boring to yourself and to your readers. Books are not here to show how intelligent and cultivated you are. Books are here to show your heart, to how your soul, and to tell your friends, your readers, you are not alone."
10 Things I Have Learned
So long since my last listicle. Here's one, on things I have learned:
1. The difference between react and respond. React is fast and emotional and (if written in e-mail form, at work, after a long hard stressful day) can earn you enemies. Respond is considered and thoughtful. Our power lies in choosing to respond not react.
2. I never, ever, ever, want to go on a cruise. The thought of being trapped in a floating village with 2,000 other people that I have not personally selected to join me on holiday strikes dread.
3. New Year's Eve parties are mini-cruises: being trapped at a party that you can't leave until a certain time, where you have to kiss people you don't know/like while drunken adults manage fireworks in close proximity to small children is a horror.
4. Clearly, the concept of feeling trapped is an issue for me.
5. I came back from South Africa recently with the feeling that the way I live is extremely sheltered. Then the Germanwings tragedy happened and I realised that bad things happen everywhere. We have to live each day as well as we can and keeping loving our people.
6. Easter eggs bought well in advance of their due date will only be eaten.
7. Parenting is a long, slow, painful journey of learning to let go.
8. Nothing motivates the workforce more than chip day at the canteen. Especially if it falls serendipitously on chocolate pudding day.
9. Loyalty is becoming one of my favorite characteristics – in a spouse, in a friend, in a colleague. Forget charm or wit. Loyalty is hot.
10. Avoiding writing is equally painful as just doing it.
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What Was the Spark for Balthasar's Gift?
Author extraordinaire Lauren Beukes asked me to explain.
Radical Acts of Empathy
I'm attending the 18th Time of the Writer festival in Durban, SA. The theme of the festival is writing for your life, and at the opening night, each writer gave a short address on what this means for them. Here's mine:
I work at a computer company, where a lot of very clever people spend their days writing code for software applications. The code they write now is in various programming languages, all of which are based on binary code which is made up of nothing but zeroes and ones.
One of my theories about the trouble we're in right now as a human race is the fact that we tend to think in binary: male versus female, black versus white, old versus young, gay versus straight, Muslim versus Christian, atheist versus believer, northerner versus southerner, local versus foreign, poor versus wealthy, rural versus urban, fat versus thin, abled versus disabled.
Binary ways of thinking make us feel safe. They define who we are – and who we aren't. But they are also extremely lazy.
For me, binary is a spectrum. On the mild end of that spectrum, we get stereotypes. What stereotypes do, is allow us to assign a certain set of characteristics to a person whom we believe falls into a certain group. If you ever hear someone saying 'they' about a group of people and then making a reductive assumption about the characteristics of those people, then you know they are stereotyping. As writers we have to fight the urge to indulge in stereotypes, no matter how convenient they may be. To do so, we have to address our unconscious biases.
The other end of the spectrum from stereotyping is othering.
Othering means defining others by their difference to us and deciding that that difference means they have less value than us. In South Africa, we have intimate experience of the dangers of othering. Our previous government ran a huge, state-sanctioned, legally enscribed othering project called Apartheid. Germany, where I now live, ran a military-industrial othering project called the Holocaust.
Stereotyping is lazy; othering is lethal. And it is born out of fear.
What both reading and writing offer us is the insight to break this lethal cycle and see the humanity of others – in those of different faiths, in those with different skin hues, in those from other lands, in those who are female and not actually less human, in those who are citizens of countries our governments might choose to be at war with, in those whose circumstances are different from our own.
We all think and breathe and love and cry and sweat and bleed. We all dream and hope and pray for the well-being of our children. We have so much more in common than we allow ourselves to believe.
Writing forces us to reflect on the rich inner lives of others, even if they are unpalatable. Reading opens us to a world where people who seem vastly, almost unrecognizably different from us, are just as human on the inside as we are.
Reading and writing are both radical acts of empathy, that enable us to break the shackles of binary thinking and not other people out of our own fear of difference. They teach us that each individual life is rich and complex and nuanced, just as our own lives are rich and complex and nuanced.
When we read and write, we engage in radical acts of empathy that crack open our hearts. We stop saying 'they' and start saying 'us'.
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Tis Christmas and the Season for …
… single writer binges.
I have just emerged from a six-book Liane Moriarty feeding frenzy. Why had I never heard of her before? Anyway, I hadn't and then serendipitously, she turned up in both my real life and my online book clubs – in the same week. Moriarty is an Australian writer whose novel Big Little Lies (I read it) just debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. And I can tell you why: her novels are strongly crafted, but not too artsy; her characters are warm and witty and full of foibles that make you want to be friends with them; her plots are intriguing without being full of red herrings and obvious tropes. My only criticism, and it is a mild one, is that they are the most middle-class books I have ever read. Joanna Trollope has been ousted from the pillar of middle-classery. There is nary a poor person, nor a homeless one, nor one of colour in any of the novels. It's a world of yummy mummies, intrigue at the school gates and shenanigans in the Sydney suburbs. However, and this is what rescues the novels and I'm sure what has shot Moriarty to the top of the bestseller lists, she writes with such teasing wit that her characters laugh at themselves being middle-class at the gates of Sydney schools – and you laugh with them. Comfort reading at its absolute best.
So having sadly finished Moriarty's entire oeuvre, I wrote to an Australian friend asking if she knew her. She didn't but she did recommend the next writer into whose work I am now diving – Elena Ferrantes. An Italian whose work was first translated into English in 2012, Ferrantes has become a writing sensation. Described as an angry Jane Austen (you had me at that), Ferrantes has caught the public's imagination as she refuses to do any publicity or put a face to her name (and she writes superbly). According to Wikipedia, she has admitted that she is a mother, which means she probably is female. I am reading the first of her Neapolitan novels My Brilliant Friend, and have the second and third ready to go on my e-reader. Things are dark and dreary in Ferrante's work, there is relentless poverty but there are souls that shine out of the darkness. There will be a binge, I can predict it.
Since it is Christmas and things come in trios (wise men, etc), I have a third writer in mind. Both my mother and brother have devoured the Patrick O' Brian novels, and he has named his Lab puppy Jack Aubrey. In honour of the less famous Jack, I plan to read these next.
Do you have any writers upon whose work you binge?
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First Draft Emotions
Writing novels is not as hard as coal-mining or refuse collection or washing the windows of skyscrapers, but it does cause a roller coaster of emotions.
As I sit down to write my 1,000 words every morning, here's a collection of things I feel and think:
Get off Facebook, right here, right now
That scene is crap
Why the hell is she doing that?
Is it a problem that I still don't know who the murderer is?
Everyone is going to hate this because it's a piss-poor pile of crap
Nooooo! No to Facebook
Fighting again, Maggie? Please act like a grown-up
I hate that character and I still can't explain why the story needs him
Abject terror! I have no idea what the next scene is
Which is why when I read this quote from Jane Smiley: "Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist" I felt calm again. I am going to write it in CAPITALS and stick it up in my writing corner.
All it needs is to exist. It will be the perfect first draft.
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A system is disclosed for monitoring and controlling a refrigerated medical storage unit. The system may include a control station. The control station may receive temperature information from the refrigerated medical storage unit and may cause at least a portion of the temperature information to be stored. The control station may determine whether the temperature is outside a predefined range and may causes an alarm to be generated when the temperature is outside the predefined range. The control station may receive user authentication information from a user, and upon verification of the user authentication information, send unlock instructions to the refrigerated medical storage unit.
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/420,262 filed Dec. 6, 2010, entitled "Medication Dispensing Cart," the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference, for all purposes, as if fully set forth herein.
Temperature sensitive medications and supplies are common in today's healthcare environment. To maintain stability and potency, medications and other supplies may require proper storage based on guidelines set forth by the manufacturers of the medications and supplies, as well as the United States Pharmacopeia, the official public standards-setting authority in this field. For example, some injections and medications such as insulin, Lorazepam, and Epogen must be stored at a temperature of approximately 36° to 46° F. (2° to 8° C.) to maintain their viability. Additionally, many of these temperature sensitive medicines are controlled substances and necessitate stringent access and inventory controls.
Embodiments of the present invention provide solutions to these and other issues surrounding the storage of medication and other medical supplies.
In one embodiment, a system for monitoring and controlling a refrigerated medical storage unit is provided. The system may include a control station. The control station may receive temperature information from the refrigerated medical storage unit and may cause at least a portion of the temperature information to be stored. The control station may determine whether the temperature is outside a predefined range and may causes an alarm to be generated when the temperature is outside the predefined range. The control station may receive user authentication information from a user, and upon verification of the user authentication information, send unlock instructions to the refrigerated medical storage unit.
In another embodiment, a method for monitoring and controlling an environmentally controlled medical storage unit is provided. The method may include receiving temperature information from the environmentally controlled medical storage unit. The method may also include causing at least a portion of the temperature information to be stored. The method may further include determining whether the temperature is outside a predefined range. The method may moreover include causing an alarm to be generated when the temperature is outside the predefined range. The method may furthermore include receiving user authentication information from a user. The method may additionally include verifying the user authentication information. The method may also include, in response to successfully verifying the user authentication information, causing the environmentally controlled medical storage unit to be unlocked.
In another embodiment, a system for monitoring and controlling a medical storage unit is provided. The control station may be remote from the medical storage unit. The control station may receive user authentication information from a user and, upon verification of the user authentication information, sends unlock instructions to the medical storage unit.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an exemplary computer system capable of being used in at least some portion of the apparatuses or systems of the present invention, or implementing at least some portion of the methods of the present invention.
The ensuing description provides exemplary embodiments only, and is not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the disclosure. Rather, the ensuing description of the exemplary embodiments will provide those skilled in the art with an enabling description for implementing one or more exemplary embodiments. It will be understood that various changes may be made in the function and arrangement of elements without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims. Merely by way of example, any embodiment described herein may or may not have any of the features discussed therewith, and may or may not have any feature discussed with respect to other embodiments.
Specific details are given in the following description to provide a thorough understanding of the embodiments. However, it will be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art that the embodiments may be practiced without these specific details. For example, circuits, systems, networks, processes, and other elements in the invention may be shown as components in block diagram form in order not to obscure the embodiments in unnecessary detail. In other instances, well-known circuits, processes, algorithms, structures, and techniques may be shown without unnecessary detail in order to avoid obscuring the embodiments.
Also, it is noted that individual embodiments may be described as a process which is depicted as a flowchart, a flow diagram, a data flow diagram, a structure diagram, or a block diagram. Although a flowchart may describe the operations as a sequential process, many of the operations can be performed in parallel or concurrently. In addition, the order of the operations may be re-arranged. A process may be terminated when its operations are completed, but could have additional steps not discussed or included in a figure. Furthermore, not all operations in any particularly described process may occur in all embodiments. A process may correspond to a method, a function, a procedure, a subroutine, a subprogram, etc.
Furthermore, embodiments of the invention may be implemented, at least in part, either manually or automatically. Manual or automatic implementations may be executed, or at least assisted, through the use of machines, hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description languages, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, firmware, middleware or microcode, the program code or code segments to perform the necessary tasks may be stored in a machine readable medium. A processor(s) may perform the necessary tasks.
In one embodiment of the invention, a system for monitoring and controlling both an environmentally controlled medical storage unit and a non-environmentally controlled medical storage unit is provided. Examples of environmentally controlled medical storage units include medical refrigerators and/or freezers (referred to as refrigerators and/or freezers herein). These refrigerators and/or freezers may include integrated built in locking mechanisms that are electronically controllable to be in either a locked or unlocked stated. Other types of refrigerators and/or freezers may also be employed, including those with after-market installed locking mechanisms, either on the exterior or interior of the refrigerator/freezer. The storage unit may have a left or right handed door or entry point.
The locking mechanisms are capable of limiting access to the storage unit via electronic control. Some examples of non-environmentally controlled storage units include lock boxes, cabinets (both over and under counter), drawers, closets, and storage rooms. The entry points to these storage units may have locking mechanisms as described above. Any environmental control or monitoring system discussed herein is only applicable to environmentally controlled storage unit embodiments such as those having refrigerators and/or freezers.
The system may also include a control station communicatively coupled with the storage unit. The communication link may have any hardware and/or software necessary to facilitate communication between the control station and the storage unit. In some embodiments the control station may be capable of receiving any information provided and transmitted by the storage unit, and transmitting any instruction capable of being performed by the storage unit discussed herein. The control station may be located either locally or remote to the storage unit. Either wired or wireless communication methods may be used to establish the communication link. In some embodiments, the control station may be at least 50 feet from the storage unit.
In some embodiments the control station may control and monitor one or more of three primary functions: access control, environmental control (usually temperature, but possibly humidity, pressure, and/or other environmental parameters), and inventory control. In these embodiments, the storage unit will have any means necessary to acquire and transmit data relevant to such controls to the control station. Likewise, the control station will have any means necessary to receive such data and transmit instructions relevant to such controls to the storage unit.
In some embodiments, the control station may receive temperature information from the storage unit. The control station may determine whether or not the temperature is outside a predefined range. The control station may, in response to this determination control the storage unit's environmental control system, in the case of a refrigerator or freezer, the unit's refrigeration cycle, to maintain the temperature. If the temperature of the storage unit falls outside the predefined range, either above or below, the control station may cause an alarm to be generated. The alarm may include visual and/or audible indicators at the control station.
The control station may include a visual interface, such as a monitor or display screen, possibly with a touch screen or other input device such as a keyboard and mouse. The visual interface may provide an interaction point for the use to manipulate the control station, and by extension, the storage unit. For example, a user may be able to define the predefined temperature range. In some embodiments, for refrigerator/freezer storage units, this range may have a high and low point definable between −6° and 37° F.
Temperature readings may be received by the control station continuously, or at predefined intervals of time. Both the predefined intervals of time, and the temperature range which defines when an alarm will generate, may be defined by a user. The control station may cause the received temperature readings to be stored, either local to the control station, or remotely, possibly at a data storage system which stores information for a plurality of control stations, which in turn may each control/monitor a plurality of storage units. A user may be able to define identification (or naming) of any particular storage unit or control station, either at a control station or at the data storage system.
Again, while the control station may receive temperature readings continuously or at certain intervals, the control station may cause such readings to be stored at yet another interval (or possibly continuously). This interval may also be defined by a user at the control station. In some embodiments, the control station may only cause temperature information to be stored when the temperature of the storage unit is outside the predefined range (i.e., when the alarm is activated). One example interval of time may be every 30 minutes. In other embodiments, any time interval between one minute and 120 minutes may be employed.
In some embodiments, when an alarm is generated, indicators may be generated besides any visual and/or audible indicators generated at the control station. This may, for example, occur via a visual or audible indicator at the storage unit, or at the data storage system. Additionally, when an alarm is generated, a bulletin may be displayed or printed at the control station and/or data storage system.
The bulletin may be displayed or printed at predefined intervals until the temperature is back within the predefined range. Again, the intervals at which the bulletin is displayed or printed may be defined by the user at the control station or data storage system. The bulletin may include a plurality of fields including identification of the storage unit, a date and time, the temperature of the storage unit when the alarm was generated and/or when the bulletin was displayed/printed. The bulletin may also include a field which allows a user to input/write what was done to resolve the alarm condition, and to affirm, possibly via signature, their responsibility for handling the bulletin.
In yet other embodiments, the control station may be able to cause audible or visual alarms when the change of temperature over time exceeds a certain predefined amount. The type of alarm expressed by the control station or storage unit may differ from that expressed by the outside-of-temperature-range alarm.
As previously discussed, the above method implemented by the storage unit, control station, and/or data storage system may also be implemented to control/monitor other environmental parameters. These parameters may include, for example, humidity, pressure, etc. Any sensor for monitoring temperature or other parameters in the storage unit, as well as the locking mechanism of the storage unit, may be replaceable by the user. Any such sensor may be either shared with the storage unit's independent environmental monitor/control system, or independent thereto.
The control station may also be configured to receive user authentication information from a user, and upon verification of the user authentication information, send unlock instructions to the locking mechanism of the storage unit. The user authentication information may include a user name and a password, pin number, or other string. In some embodiments, a pin number may specify both the user and their authority to use the functions of the control station.
The storage unit may include a visual indicator which displays the current locked or unlocked state of the storage unit. Merely by way of example a light emitting diode may be either activated or inactivated when the unit is unlocked. This visual indicator may be tested by a user via instructing the control station to change the visual state of the visual indicator. In some embodiments, the lock mechanism itself may also be tested at the control station.
The control station may also be capable of receiving information from a sensor or sensors on the storage unit which reflect the current position of the door, or other entry point, of the storage unit. In some embodiments, the control station may cause an alarm to generate if it detects that the door or other entry point of the storage unit remains open beyond a user predefined length of time. Similarly, the control station may also be capable of monitoring and controlling any light sources inside the storage unit.
In some embodiments, the control station may receive information from a user identifying what medications and/or other items are stored within the storage unit. The control station may cause such information to be stored, along with a time stamp or other indicator which specifies when such stocking occurred. Thereafter, the control station may store temperature over time data related to each medication and/or other items stored within the storage unit.
A user may be able to specify another acceptable temperature range for each medication and/or other item stored within the storage unit. This acceptable temperature range may be different from that specified for the storage unit as a whole. In some embodiments, the acceptable temperature range for a particular medication and/or other item may be narrower than the predefined temperature range for the storage unit as a whole (i.e., the acceptable temperature range will be a subset or sub-range of the predefined temperature range for the storage unit).
Alarm data for alarms that occur while any particular medication and/or other item that is stored in the storage unit may also be stored for each such particular medication and/or other item. Therefore, whenever an alarm state occurs, information related to that alarm would be stored as particularly relating to medications and/or other items stored, such that a user or functions of the control station could reference such occurrences at a later date.
In some embodiments, a user may be able to specify to the control station that for any particular medication and/or item stored in the storage unit, access shall be limited or prohibited to such medication and/or item if an alarm has issued for the storage unit during the time the particular medication and/or item was stored in the storage unit. As an example, a user could specify that when a user enters authentication information into the control station and requests withdrawal of a certain medication and/or other item in a storage unit, a warning screen would be presented to the user indicating that at least one alarm condition has issued during the medication/item's storage in the storage unit. The user may be required to acknowledge receipt of such warning before access is allowed. In another embodiment, access to such medications/items which have experienced an alarm condition during their storage may be prohibited (and thus denial of deactivation of the locking mechanism on the storage unit). This may be a condition especially specified for medications/items where temperature control of the medications/items is critical to their viability.
Whatever the type of warning/prohibition, a user may specify which particular conditions cause what particular actions by the control station when withdrawal of an alarm affected medication/item is requested. For example, one or more limits on the amount of time a medication/item has spent outside of predefined ranges may be specified which in turn cause either a warning to be presented to a user requesting withdrawal, or access to be prohibited. In another example, one or more limits on the extent of temperature variance outside the predefined range may be specified which in turn cause either a warning to be presented to a user requesting withdrawal, or access to be prohibited. In yet another example, an algorithm which is a function of time spent by the medication/item outside of the predefined range, along with the temperature of the medication/item over such time may be specified which determines when a warning will be presented to a user requesting withdrawal, and/or access will be totally prohibited.
In some embodiments the control station and storage unit are configured such that if either the control station or the storage unit lose power, the locking mechanism of the storage unit will remain in a locked state. In other embodiments, the reverse will be true, and the storage unit will unlock under loss of power conditions. In any of the aforementioned embodiments, manual procedures may be available to open the storage unit. For example, the storage unit may have manual override unlocks, possibly that depend on the use of one, two, or more different keys/locks. In many embodiments, the control station and/or the storage until will have a battery or other backup power source in case of main power failure.
In some embodiments, at least a portion of the user authentication information received over time by the control station may be stored by the control station, or by the data storage system. The control stations and/or data storage system may also be able to conduct inventory control processes (either automatically via storage unit internal sensors, or via user input). This information may also be stored by the control system of data storage system.
In some embodiments, a user may be able to generate visually displayed or printed reports at either one or both of a control station or the data storage system. These reports may be available on-demand to a user, or may be set to be displayed/printed by the control station/data storage system at user predefined intervals. The type of information presented in any report may be predefined by a user, and may include any of the information discussed herein related to access control, inventory control, and/or environmental control. Note that any temperature data may be displayed/printed in either or both of degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit.
In some embodiments, any failure of any one part of the invention, be it a portion or the entirety of the storage unit, the control system, and/or the data storage system, shall not cause failure of any other portion of the system. This may at least assist in ensuring security and viability of any items stored in the storage unit. For example, in many embodiments, failure of the locking mechanism of a storage unit will not cause failure of the temperature control/monitoring in that storage unit. Likewise, failure of the temperature control/monitoring functions will not cause failure of the locking mechanism.
Turning now to FIG. 1, a structure diagram of a system 100 of the invention for controlling and monitoring access and/or environmental parameters of medical storage units is shown. As discussed above, system 100 may include at least one control station 110 which is in communication with data storage system 120. Each control station 110 may be in communication with, and controlling/monitoring, various storage units 130.
Storage unit 130A may be a refrigerator with an integrated locking mechanism. Storage unit 130B may be a refrigerator with a retrofitted after-market locking mechanism. Storage unit 130C may be a freezer with an integrated locking mechanism. Storage unit 130D may be a closet, pantry or other secured room. Storage unit 130E may be above counter cabinets, and storage unit 130F may be below counter cabinets.
As described above, should any storage unit 130 for which environmental parameters are being monitored reach conditions which fall outside predefined ranges, control station 110 would cause an alarm to occur. Additionally, control station 110 may be able to monitor for unauthorized attempted access at each storage unit 130, and issue alarms and/or store records related to such unauthorized attempted access.
Each storage unit may include a visual indicator 140 as discussed above. In this embodiment, each visual indicator 140 indicates that its associated storage unit is locked. To unlock a particulate storage unit 130, a user would first input their authentication information at control station 110. Upon verification of the authentication information, the user would then be allowed to specify to control station 110 which storage unit they wish to access. Upon selection of the desired storage unit, control station 110 would cause storage unit 130 to unlock, and visual indicator 140 at that storage unit would change states to indicate the lock's unlocked status.
FIG. 2 shows a flow diagram of a method 200 of the invention for controlling and monitoring access and/or environmental parameters of medical storage units. At block 205, a user defines acceptable environmental parameters for a storage unit at a control station. At block 210, the storage unit monitors the environmental parameters of the storage unit. At block 215, if the environmental parameters fall outside the acceptable range, an alarm is issued at block 220.
At block 225, a bulletin is issued by the control station. At block 230, after a predefined interval of time, it is checked to see if the environmental parameter has returned to the acceptable range. If not, the bulletin is reissued at block 225. If the environmental parameter has returned to the acceptable range, the monitoring process continues at block 210.
Simultaneously, method 200 also includes at block 235 awaiting an access request by a user. At block 240 an access request with authentication information is received from a user at a control station. At block 245, it is determined if the authentication information is valid. If not, at block 250 an unauthorized access attempt flag is stored. If the authentication information is valid, then at block 255 access is granted and an unlock command is sent to the desired storage unit.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary computer system 300 in which embodiments of the present invention may be implemented. This example illustrates a computer system 300 such as may be used, in whole, in part, or with various modifications, to provide the functions of the control station, the central data system, the storage unit, and/or other components of the invention such as those discussed above. For example, various functions of the control station may be controlled by the computer system 300, including, merely by way of example, receiving information from the user, visually or audibly notifying the user, receiving information from the storage unit, controlling particular components of the storage unit, etc.
The computer system 300 is shown comprising hardware elements that may be electrically coupled via a bus 390. The hardware elements may include one or more central processing units 310, one or more input devices 320 (e.g., a mouse, a keyboard, etc.), and one or more output devices 330 (e.g., a display device, a printer, etc.). The computer system 300 may also include one or more storage device 340. By way of example, storage device(s) 340 may be disk drives, optical storage devices, solid-state storage device such as a random access memory ("RAM") and/or a read-only memory ("ROM"), which can be programmable, flash-updateable and/or the like.
The computer system 300 may additionally include a computer-readable storage media reader 350, a communications system 360 (e.g., a modem, a network card (wireless or wired), an infra-red communication device, Bluetooth™ device, cellular communication device, etc.), and working memory 380, which may include RAM and ROM devices as described above. In some embodiments, the computer system 300 may also include a processing acceleration unit 370, which can include a digital signal processor, a special-purpose processor and/or the like.
The computer-readable storage media reader 350 can further be connected to a computer-readable storage medium, together (and, optionally, in combination with storage device(s) 340) comprehensively representing remote, local, fixed, and/or removable storage devices plus storage media for temporarily and/or more permanently containing computer-readable information. The communications system 360 may permit data to be exchanged with a network, system, computer and/or other component described above.
The computer system 300 may also comprise software elements, shown as being currently located within a working memory 380, including an operating system 384 and/or other code 388. It should be appreciated that alternate embodiments of a computer system 300 may have numerous variations from that described above. For example, customized hardware might also be used and/or particular elements might be implemented in hardware, software (including portable software, such as applets), or both. Furthermore, connection to other computing devices such as network input/output and data acquisition devices may also occur.
Software of computer system 300 may include code 388 for implementing any or all of the function of the various elements of the architecture as described herein. For example, software, stored on and/or executed by a computer system such as system 300, can provide the functions of the control station, the data storage system, the storage unit, and/or other components of the invention such as those discussed above. Methods implementable by software on some of these components have been discussed above in more detail.
The invention has now been described in detail for the purposes of clarity and understanding. However, it will be appreciated that certain changes and modifications may be practiced within the scope of the appended claims.
upon verification of the user authentication information, sends unlock instructions to the refrigerated medical storage unit.
causes a bulletin to be displayed or printed when the alarm is generated.
causes the bulletin to be displayed or printed at predefined intervals until the temperature is back within the predefined range.
an acknowledgement or signature line or field for the user.
receives information from the user specifying the predefined temperature range.
receives information from the user specifying a predefined time interval at which the control station will check the received temperature information against the predefined range.
controls operation of the refrigerated medical storage unit to maintain the temperature inside the refrigerated medical storage unit within the predefined temperature range.
9. The system for monitoring and controlling a refrigerated medical storage unit of claim 8, wherein the refrigerated medical storage unit comprises a visual indicator which changes from a first state to a second state when the refrigerated medical storage unit is unlocked.
causes the visual indicator to change from the first state to the second state in response to the instructions to test the visual indicator.
11. The system for monitoring and controlling a refrigerated medical storage unit of claim 8, wherein the reversible locking mechanism remains in a locked state when the control station loses power.
receives at least a portion of the user authentication information received by at least one control station.
13. The system for monitoring and controlling a refrigerated medical storage unit of claim 1, wherein the control station causing at least a portion of the temperature information to be stored comprises storing temperature versus time information only when the temperature is outside the predefined range.
14. The system for monitoring and controlling a refrigerated medical storage unit of claim 1, wherein the alarm comprises at least one of an audio or a visual alarm presented by the control station.
denies access to the storage unit based at least in part on the information regarding alarm generation.
causes a warning to be displayed, in response to a user storage unit withdrawal request, based at least in part on the information regarding alarm generation.
receives information directing the control station to take a particular action in response to a withdrawal request for the particular medication or item which has experienced storage outside the particular temperature range during the particular medication or item's storage within the storage unit.
causing a warning to be displayed.
in response to successfully verifying the user authentication information, causing the environmentally controlled medical storage unit to be unlocked.
upon verification of the user authentication information, sends unlock instructions to the medical storage unit.
21. The system for monitoring and controlling a medical storage unit of claim 20, wherein the control station being remote from the medical storage unit comprises the control station not being integrated with any portion of the medical storage unit.
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On 19 March, we had the second talk in this series called "Being God's Beloved". This week, we considered the God of the Old Testament, and specifically the ways in which God's loving heart is revealed throughout the Old Testament. We give particular attention to the story of Jonah, Nineveh and God.
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We are in a society where the pace of life is extremely high and we cannot always maintain our health or mental well-being. That is why, from time to time, we must stop on the road and take some time for ourselves.
More and more people are turning to alternative techniques or medicines to try to heal a health problem, either as a complement to traditional medicine or because of the impossibility of doing so.
At this point no one can question the benefits of laughter in people's physical and mental health. The basic aim of laughter therapy is to bring out the most sincere and contagious laughter, so that the body will release a large amount of endorphins, hormones known as'happiness hormones'.
Bach Flowers is a famous therapy whose main objective is to prevent certain diseases by treating, above all, the emotional causes that cause them through thirty-eight different flower preparations.
Thanks to its discoverer, the English doctor Edward Bach, can be treated naturally and effectively mood disorders such as fear, anxiety, depression or loneliness.
Aromatherapy, despite being a millenary practice, has been rediscovered in the last century, and consists of the use of the so-called essential oils of medicinal plants to cure some ailments and prevent others naturally.
All this is achieved through the distillation of the plant, a process by which the healing substance is obtained, i.e. the essential oil.
Reiki is an alternative therapy of Japanese origin that is characterized by channeling the energy that surrounds us to ourselves and other people with the aim of enhancing the self-healing capacity present in each one and thus alleviate discomfort or disorders through the laying on of hands.
Acupuncture is an oriental technique that has survived the passage of thousands of years and is characterized by stimulating nerve points of the body by inserting fine needles in superficial layers, in specific areas, of the skin of the individual. In this way, in a simple and superficial way, different systems of the organism and even specific organs can be treated.
This alternative therapy has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a very effective complement to a large number of pathologies, especially chronic ones. In addition, acupuncture allows the patient to find relief through natural medicine by reducing the intake of drugs. It is also very useful in reducing the pain that occurs after undergoing a surgical procedure.


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World Health Organization is offering internship programme which provides a wide range of opportunities for graduate and postgraduate students to gain insight into the work of WHO. The applicant is at least 20 years of age on the date of application.
For the internship to be worthwhile and effective, interns will be accepted for a minimum of 6 weeks and a maximum of 3 months. Exceptionally, an internship may be extended with agreement from the technical unit concerned but cannot be longer than 6 months in duration.
WHO internships are not paid. Travel costs, travel arrangements, including visas, and living accommodation are the responsibility of the intern or their sponsoring institution.
The objectives of the internship programme are to:
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