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Alec Baldwin turns in mobile phone over to investigators probing fatal film set shooting
Alec Baldwin has turned over his mobile phone to police investigating a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot as Mr Baldwin, 63, rehearsed drawing a prop gun on the set of the movie Rust in October last year. Santa Fe Sheriff's Office confirmed the actor had turned over […]
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United States: At least 19 killed in fire at New York apartment building block
At least 19 people, including nine children, have died after a fire in a New York apartment building. Another 32 people were sent to hospital, several of whom are in a critical condition, according to New York Mayor Eric Adams. Fire department Commissioner Daniel Nigro said they had found victims on every floor of the […]
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Prince Andrew asked to provide documents to prove his alleged 'medical inability to sweat'
Prince Andrew has been asked to provide documents proving his "alleged medical inability to sweat" in a court filing by attorneys for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has accused the royal of sexual assault in a US civil lawsuit. In the court document filed Thursday, Giuffre's attorneys also ask for any documents relating to anyone Andrew […]
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12-person jury finds Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse girls
Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. The 60-year-old was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced. The verdict was reached after five full days of deliberation by a 12-person jury in New York. It means […]
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South Africa urges to halt New York auction of Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison cell key
South Africa demanded a halt to an auction of the key to the prison cell on Robben Island once occupied by former President Nelson Mandela. The sale is due in January in New York by Guernsey's auction house. The seller is Christo Brand, Mandela's former prison guard in the notorious jail. But Nathi Mthethwa, South […]
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Donald Trump sues New York State attorney for pursuing investigation into his company
Donald Trump has sued New York state Attorney General Letitia James, seeking to block her from continuing to investigate his company. The former US president argues she has violated his constitutional rights by pursuing a politically motivated probe. Ms James says the investigation "will continue undeterred". She opened a civil inquiry in 2019 into claims […]
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Rapper Kangol Kid dies at 55 after battle with cancer
Kangol Kid, a member of the legendary hip-hop group UTFO, has died after a battle with colon cancer. He was 55. The family of Kangol Kid whose real name is Shaun Shiller Fequiere said in a statement that he died peacefully around 3:00am on Saturday at a hospital in Manhasset, New York. He was diagnosed […]
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Woman pulled out from car submerged near brink of Niagara Falls dies
A woman who was pulled from a car submerged in rushing water near the brink of Niagara Falls has died, New York State Park Police said. The unnamed local woman in her 60s was pulled from the car by a rescue swimmer dangling from a US Coast Guard helicopter about 50 yards from the American […]
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CNN fires Chris Cuomo over help he gave his brother, ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo
CNN fired anchor Chris Cuomo for the help he gave his brother, ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo, while he was battling harassment allegations. The decision came after additional information emerged over the extent of Chris Cuomo's involvement in his older brother's defence. Andrew Cuomo resigned in August after prosecutors said he had harassed staff. Chris […]
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Grab: Singapore-based ride-hailing and payments app falls in $40 billion market debut
Singapore-based ride-hailing and payments app, Grab made its stock market debut on New York's Nasdaq trading platform. Shares initially rose before falling sharply. The share sale valued Grab at more than $40 billion making it the largest ever US listing by a South East Asian firm. Instead of a conventional share sale, Grab went public […]
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CNN star Chris Cuomo has been suspended indefinitely for helping his ex-New York governor brother
CNN star Chris Cuomo has been suspended indefinitely over help he gave his ex-New York governor brother while he was battling sex abuse allegations. The decision came after the New York attorney general released new documents that showed the extent of his work for his older sibling, Andrew Cuomo. CNN said the documents show "a […]
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Malikah Shabazz: Daughter of Malcolm X found dead at her Brooklyn home
A daughter of slain Black civil rights activist Malcolm X, Malikah Shabazz, died on Monday, the New York Police Department said. Shabazz, 56, was found unconscious by her daughter at her home in Brooklyn, according to the NYPD. Police said the death appears to be due to natural causes at this time. Bernice King, a […]
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PASADENA - Frank Yokas had been itching to get back on the field. After an injury kept the sophomore on the shelf for much of this season, the sophomore returned to the Lancers lineup on Tuesday. The letterman then put on a hitting clinic that may be the greatest one-game performance in Pasadena City College baseball history.
Yokas hit for the cycle--home run, triple, double, single--and added one more home run for good measure in taking apart the Mt. San Antonio College pitching staff as the state #14-ranked Lancers routed the host Mounties, 17-4. PCC picked up win No. 20, the third straight season that head coach Pat McGee's program achieved the feat. The Lancers remain in first place in the South Coast Conference North Division with a 12-6 mark (20-9 overall).
Yokas, from Burbank High School, finished with a line of 5-5-5-5. His 14 total bases is a PCC record and the cycle was at least the first by any Lancer since before 1990, although the feat is so rare at the community college level, it's possible it has never happened in the college's history. The rightfielder also did his damage from the No. 9 spot in the lineup.
The 6-foot-2, 205-pound right-handed hitter singled to center in the second inning, launched a solo homer over the center field fence in the fourth, walked and scored in the fifth, tripled to the left center gap to drive in a run in the seventh. In the ninth, needing a double to complete the cycle, Yokas did just that in leading off the inning with a drive to right center. The Lancers would go on to score eight runs in the frame and Big Frank capped his amazing afternoon by ripping a 3-run homer over the left field fence to finish with five RBI.
"Really happy for Frank because he has spent the past two-plus years working his tail off to improve his game," McGee said. "He's an outstanding teammate, the very standard by which you want your players to model. To see his hard work and effort be rewarded with such a great hitting performance was a day the entire team could celebrate."
The Lancers' 17-hit attack helped pitcher Patrick Pena also enter the PCC record book as he earned his seventh mound victory, the most pitching wins in one season matched by four others including current ace Gordon Ingebritson last season. Pena (7-3 record) pitched six innings, allowing six hits, two runs, walked one, hit one batter and struck out four. Frank Gonzalez finished off his second save with three innings of 3-hit relief and three Ks.
The lopsided victory was the 11th time this season that the Lancers have won a game by 10 or more runs. Of those wins, PCC has scored 16 runs v. Rio Hondo, 17 v. Mt. SAC, 19 v. Compton, 20 v. LA Harbor, and a season-high 21 against West Los Angeles.
Other PCC highlights in the romp was a 4-for-6 day (including a double) for second baseman Andrew Scannell, a triple by first baseman Vic Zepeda, a 2-RBI double by third baseman Marco Martinez, and 2-hit games for shortstop Ryan Lewis and centerfielder Gabriel Arellano. Arellano is tied for second in the state in total hits with 54.
PCC has won an even 10 games on the road and at home. The Lancers were No. 6 in SoCal RPI.
The Lancers will pitch Ingebritson (5-1, 2.87 ERA) in game 2 of the Mt. SAC series on Thursday, April 11 in a 2:30 p.m. start at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field.


TOPEKA -- The Kansas Department of Commerce has again been recognized by Area Development magazine with one of its Silver Shovel awards. The Silver Shovel award honors state economic development agencies that drive significant job creation through innovative policies, infrastructure improvements, processes, and promotions that attract new employers and investments in new and expanded facilities.
This year's award marks the eleventh year the Kansas Department of Commerce has been recognized with a Silver Shovel Award. The agency has also earned a Gold Shovel award, presented annually to the states that have achieved the most success in terms of new job creation and company investment, in 2013.
For this year's award, the Kansas Department of Commerce was recognized for the scope and breadth of its Top 10 Projects which resulted in significant job creation and investment within the state. Based on the number of high-quality jobs per capita, amount of investment, number of new facilities, and industry diversity of the 10 submitted projects, Kansas qualified for a Silver Shovel award in the "Fewer than 3 Million Population" category.
A report on the 2018 Shovel Award winners is published in the Q2/2018 issue of Area Development and posted online at www.areadevelopment.com/shovels.


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Volume 9, Issue 12
Interaction and innovation: practical strategies for inclusive consumer-driven research in health services
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8067-4600Maria R Dahm1,2,
Anthony Brown3,4,
Dean Martin5,
Maureen Williams5,
Brian Osborne3,
Jocelyne Basseal5,6,
Mary Potter3,
Rae-Anne Hardie1,
Julie Li1,
Judith Thomas1,
Andrew Georgiou1
1Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2Institute for Communication in Health Care, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
3Health Consumers New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
4Western Sydney University, Penrith South, New South Wales, Australia
5Consumer Representative, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
6Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia
Correspondence to Dr Maria R Dahm; maria.dahm{at}mq.edu.au
Introduction Despite advances in the co-creation of clinical research involving consumers in the last few decades, consumer engagement in health services research generally remains inconsistent and is too often treated as a perfunctory exercise.
Objective Drawing on a health services study on diagnostic test result management, communication and follow-up, we: (1) outline practical strategies used to enhance the contribution of health consumer representatives across all stages of health services research, including active involvement in prioritising objectives for data analysis and participating in data analysis and the dissemination of findings; and (2) describe the impact of continued engagement of consumers on the programme of research, the interpretation of findings and their translational potential.
Key innovations Key enabling innovations for engagement included: (1) planned opportunities for long-term consumer involvement across all stages of the research process from conception to dissemination; (2) enhanced consumer engagement capacity; (3) purposeful recruitment of appropriately trained consumers; (4) provision of support structures for active consumer involvement in research design, analysis and write-up; and (5) financial support for consumer involvement.
Impact/Conclusion Enhancing consumer contribution and establishing inclusive research design requires a negotiated, interactive, meaningful and transparent process. As a collaborative approach, consumer-driven research involvement offers opportunities for new, often unexpected or unexplored perspectives to feature across the whole research process. In a move away from tokenistic consumer involvement, consumers and researchers who participated in this novel and immersive research project identified inclusive research as a powerful tool to enhance health services research and its translation into effective policy.
test result management
Patients are consumers of healthcare services; 'the voices of the people served'1 are increasingly seen as integral to improving the quality and safety of health services and care delivery.2 3 'Consumers are people who use, have used or are potential users, of health services including their family and carers'.4 p. 7,5 Consumer representatives occupy roles with specific responsibilities,4 for example, speaking on behalf of consumer advocacy groups on committees for medical colleges and associations, presenting at conferences and training seminars and becoming involved in medical research. Consumer representatives do have lived experience of illness and using health services; yet their experiences may differ from those of the patients for whom they are advocating. Individuals often attach personal value statements to the different terms used to refer to '(health) consumer (representatives)' and some patients prefer not to be called consumers. Thus, here we use the terms consumer and patient advocate interchangeably to reflect the preferences of all authors. All consumers involved in this project had lived experience of accessing health services and care.
Consumer involvement in health services research can lead to more efficient and effective health services and care delivery.2 6 7 Despite advances in co-creation of clinical research with consumers in the last decades, however, the degree of consumer involvement remains inconsistent in health services research and is often treated as a tick-box exercise or a token effort at best.6 7 In the Australian context, these inconsistencies and shortcomings exist despite research and healthcare policies outlining the importance of consumer involvement.8 9 Further development of practical strategies for deeper and more meaningful involvement is required to realise the full potential of consumer-driven research.
In this paper, patient advocates and researchers share the practical strategies and outcomes of a programme of work designed to enhance the contribution of consumers in all stages of a health services research project on test-result management, communication and follow-up. Drawing on this ongoing project funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) partnership grant with New South Wales (NSW) Health Pathology and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, we:
outline practical strategies used to enhance the contribution of health consumer representatives across all stages of health services research, including active involvement in prioritising objectives for data analysis and participating in data analysis and dissemination of findings;
briefly describe the impact of continued consumer engagement on the programme of research, the interpretation of findings and its translational potential.
Key innovations for consumer engagement in health services research
Figure 1 matches practical strategies adopted in the described programme of work to an evidence-based framework6 of foundational principles and best practice activities for consumer engagement. Here, we discuss longitudinal involvement, capacity building, targeted recruitment, supporting structure and financial acknowledgement as select key innovations.
Outline of practical strategies undertaken matched to foundational framework by Harrison et al.6
Consumer involvement across the research process
'It is relatively unusual (to shape the direction of the research) right at the beginning, as so often the whole thesis is designed and then the consumers are brought in afterwards'. Mary Potter, consumer advocate
The vision for and commitment to a longitudinal approach to consumer engagement is reflected in three major strategies: (1) project conceptualisation, (2) governance structures and (3) patient advocate involvement in shaping research direction, data analysis and dissemination.2 6 7
The NHMRC grant proposal was developed in collaboration with Health Consumers NSW (HCNSW), the consumer representative organisation for NSW, Australia. AB, Executive Director of HCNSW, is an associate investigator on the project and a member of the project steering committee ensuring consumer representation in the project governance structures. The commitment to prolonged consumer engagement is embedded as a dedicated project aim, and, as one central approach, a consumer reference group (CRG) was formed to 'enhance the contribution of consumers to the establishment of safe and effective test result management systems'.10 To break down barriers to participation for patients without any training as consumer representatives,3 11 the researchers gathered and combined the insights of frontline patients accessing emergency department (ED) services and experienced consumers with research or health system knowledge.
Consumer representatives were recruited to a CRG and were integral attendees at a stakeholder forum held to launch the project.12 The half-day forum allowed the five attending consumers to shape the direction of the research project. Their insights highlighted the need for consumers to be involved on a micro-level—in managing their own healthcare—and on a macro-level—driving change and innovation in health services and policy development.12 Their insights informed further qualitative data collection, for example, questions for the subsequent semi-structured interviews conducted with clinicians, radiology and laboratory staff, and frontline patients across three NSW EDs. These interviews served to map and compare work processes and to describe patient experiences in the diagnostic test management cycle.
Qualitative interview data were initially analysed by the research team, before launching an innovative consumer-driven programme to involve members of the CRG as active research partners in a full-day Data Analysis Workshop.11 During this workshop, patient advocates and researchers worked in three groups studying the interview transcripts; some consumer representatives assigning open codes in the transcript margins. In the group discussions that followed, participants shared their initial impressions. Researchers facilitated discussions to identify patterns and themes, which were captured on post-it notes and/or butchers paper to share with the larger group.
As in the examples outlined in table 1, patient advocates (often unknowingly) validated, concretised and questioned themes previously identified by the researchers. They also added their themes thus increasing understanding and interpretation of data from their lived experience. The full analysis and findings from the qualitative data analysis workshop are currently being prepared for publication.
Examples of new insights provided by patient advocates in data interpretation
Members of the CRG and HCNSW are actively involved in the dissemination of findings from the workshop through academic and general outlets, as co-presenters at academic conferences,13 coauthors for academic journal articles12 including this paper and featured guests in blog posts.14–16 In addition, the CRG identified the need for collaborative work to develop policy briefs to promote the translation of research findings and drive practice change which is ongoing.
"I did the HCNSW consumer training which gave me a better understanding and appreciation of what we are asking of the patient advocates". Mary Dahm, consumer coordinator and project lead
Because the project is driven by the vision of prolonged consumer engagement, the project lead took on the dedicated role of consumer coordinator, responsible for recruitment of patient advocates to the CRG and serving as a first point of contact and liaison between patient advocates and the research team.17 The consumer coordinator took an academic approach via immersion in the relevant literature on consumer engagement in health services research and additionally sought to gain firsthand, practical experience by becoming a patient advocate. By completing the consumer training18 and volunteering as a patient advocate in the local health district, the researcher gained crucial experience and an understanding of potential pitfalls for consumer involvement in research.
The research team is continuously involved in activities to build their capacity for consumer engagement19 and keeps abreast with the latest developments in the field by attending and presenting at local patient-centred conferences (eg, Patient Experience Symposium),20 21 and attending dedicated institute seminars and meetings with national and international leaders in the field (eg, a representative from Canada's Patient and Community Engagement Research programme,22 or the Australian peak bodies (Consumer Health Forum (CHF), HCNSW)).
Targeted recruitment
"Your presentation21 certainly resonated for me. I'm very interested in consumer/carer access to test results and would be happy to participate in a consumer forum looking at what your research has found". Dean Martin, consumer
Careful selection of consumers based on their particular experiences, training and skills can facilitate successful engagement and optimise project outcomes.6 7 To recruit suitable members for the CRG, targeted advertisements outlined the scope of the project, time commitments, reimbursement and relevant experience (ie, familiarity with test result management in a hospital environment as a patient or carer). Advertisements were distributed internally among the members of HCNSW, the consumer council of one local health district and publicised on the HCNSW online presences (website, newsletter, Twitter). Additional informal recruitment occurred via presentations of initial project findings at conferences oriented towards patients/health consumers,21 attracting interest from patient advocates who volunteered involvement.
The recruitment approach attracted consumers with varied sets of skills, knowledge and experiences related to consumer engagement and/or research while simultaneously having personal experience as patients and/or carers.18 23 Furthermore, targeted recruitment meant that participating patient advocates could provide diverse perspectives, for example, through having received training regarding the Australian health system, exposure to or previous participation in research projects or substantial experiential knowledge of navigating the health system as a patient or carer. Interested participants contacted the consumer coordinator who followed up with an informal phone call to discuss the project in more detail and to ask questions. Phone calls were deliberately kept informal to facilitate trust and relationship building.3 6 7 Based on mutual agreement, and once all questions had been answered, consumers were officially recruited as a member of the CRG.
"For a patient to be included in medical research can be daunting, but being prepared and informed gave us a sense of ease and belonging. [W]e were all able to proceed to examining the pathways of testing at a much more effective level". Maureen Williams, patient advocate
As an innovation to consumer engagement in health services research, the interactive full-day Data Analysis Workshop was held to allow consumers to provide their insights and interpretation of relevant topics, as well as to develop qualitative data analysis skills.7 Apart from drawing on academic and grey literature to identify best practice, the consumer coordinator reached out via Twitter and received >10 real-world tips and tricks for successful consumer engagement from researchers and consumer representatives.24 Based on the obtained learnings, patient advocates were provided with support structures to build their capacity as active research partners11 well ahead of the actual workshop. Supporting structures included targeted written documentation before the event, direct and immediate guidance from researchers in the lead up to and during the workshop, team-based analysis exercises with the input of other consumers and researchers, and joint debriefing, feedback and support in the dissemination of workshop findings.
On recruitment to the CRG, participants received supporting documents regarding the project. Several weeks ahead of the workshop, consumers received targeted information outlining multiple possible topics to be analysed during the workshop. To facilitate a truly consumer-driven approach, patient advocates were asked to rate possible topics for analysis by importance.2 Two topics were selected based on their ratings, and consumers received further detailed briefing documents including:
a brief outline of roles and expectations for consumers and researchers;
an introduction to qualitative research methodology and analysis principles;
excerpts from interviews to allow consumers to become immersed in the data before the workshop25;
administrative information (eg, agenda, map of the venue).
These document were provided in either digital or paper formats as per individual preferences.4 Patient advocates appreciated the distribution of briefing documents, which according to their comments on open-ended feedback forms were 'excellent', 'timely' and gave them a 'good overview of opinions', and 'time to think about the issues'.
The workshop itself included 10 consumers and 5 researchers who split into three groups. Each consumer group was supported by two researchers to facilitate discussion, take notes and guide the analysis of each topic. Immediately after and in the weeks following the workshop, consumers and researchers participated in joint debriefing and feedback activities which are strong indicators for ongoing successful engagement.6
Consumers appreciated the researchers' openness to further input following the workshop. Their feedback reflected that all consumers were interested in ongoing collaboration as research partners. Patient advocates offered suggestions for improvement such as inclusion of frontline patients, more time for networking and further research methodology workshops. Especially the latter sentiment, for increased research capacity building, was echoed by the researchers with further activities currently being scoped but contingent on available funding. As part of the debriefing activities, consumers also reviewed a short summary of the workshop findings and a few wrote a short reflective account of their experience in the workshop at the researchers' request. These reflections formed the basis for current and future conference presentations13 and academic publications, including this paper.
Feedback forms and reflections highlighted that in the experience of the involved consumers the overall level of care and support was unprecedented and regarded as testament to the fact that, in this project the patient experience was being valued. The inclusion of patients was a hallmark of the project, clearly moving beyond tokenism. Contrasting their experience with participation in other listening forums and research projects, consumers perceived their involvement as more positive and engaging and praised the clear focus on the aims of the workshop and the facilitated analytical discussions.
Financial acknowledgement
"The consumers were treated probably better than the actual researchers from the point of view of reimbursement for our time, concerns about parking and how to access the meeting. You see that gives an indication and reflects the value of our involvement". Mary Potter, consumer advocate
While researchers are employed in paid positions to conduct research studies, consumers are often expected to essentially consult for free.4 While more and more recommendations exist on how consumers should be remunerated or reimbursed for their time, no binding national policy requirements exists in Australia.2 Further complicating the issue is that patient advocates are often people with chronic illness or disabilities who may receive a range of government pensions that they could lose if their earnings exceeded a certain (usually very low) threshold. The researchers leading this project wanted to acknowledge the value of the consumers' lived experience and experiential knowledge.26 Thus, in addition to establishing an inclusive programme of research emphasising mutual capacity building19 27 and providing catered tea breaks to encourage networking,6 researchers followed the HCNSW recommendation28 and offered financial compensation in form of shopping vouchers commensurate with the longitudinal nature of the engagement and duration of CRG meetings.6 We provided further financial support via taxi vouchers to ensure that access to transport was not a barrier to participation. Financial acknowledgement was often unexpected but well received by consumer participants. As advocated by the most recent 'Statement on Consumer and Community Involvement in Health and Medical Research' coauthored by CHF and NHMRC,8 organisational and research project budgets need to plan adequate funding to ensure long-term consumer engagement across all research stages.9 19
Impact of consumer engagement
The collaborative approach taken by researchers and patient advocates in this project provides further evidence for consumer participation in health services research as a powerful tool to identify areas in which safety and quality improvements in the health system can be made. The input of consumers who were engaged as active research partners shaped the programme of research and provided new insights in the interpretation of data and hold immense translational potential. For example, in the data analysis workshop, consumers identified themes that had not been previously identified by the researchers. Thus, patient advocates were able to add new perspectives, elucidate risk of potential harm and give weight to the argument for improvement or change. Consumers also improved their research capacity and formed an emerging group of interested advocates with lived experience of health services, who can now be more actively involved as partners in the planning, grant writing and governance processes of future projects.
Enhancing consumer contribution and establishing inclusive research design requires a rigorous, negotiated, interactive, immersive and transparent process. As a collaborative approach, consumer-driven research involvement offers opportunities for new, often unexpected or unexplored perspectives to feature across the whole research process. In a move away from perfunctory consumer involvement,9 consumers and researchers who participated in our innovative and immersive research project identified inclusive research as a powerful tool to enhance health services research and its translation into effective policy. Our paper describes collaboration associated with a specific project. While we draw some important general lessons from our paper, we understand that different circumstances and goals associated with different projects will provide different challenges. However, researchers can leverage the presented strategies to enhance the contribution of consumers in a range of health services research. The practical steps provide a strong foundation for a flexible, respectful and collaborative approach to consumer-driven analysis and interpretation of study findings and ensure that research is done with, not just for, consumers, thus moving away from tokenistic to genuine inclusive research and driving meaningful practice and policy change.
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Contributors AG conceived the project and obtained funding. MRD, AB and AG made substantial contribution to the development and application of the consumer engagement strategies in the project. MRD, R-AH, JL, JT and AG contributed to the planning and facilitation of the project workshop. MRD and JL collected the data that were analysed during the workshop. DM, MW, BO, JB and MP prioritised and contributed to analysis and interpretation of data during the workshop. MRD drafted the manuscript with input from DM, MW, BO, JB and MP. All authors contributed to the critical revision of the paper and approved the final manuscript for publication. All authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Funding This work was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Project Grant 1111925.
Competing interests DM wishes to declare that he is an appointed member of the Australian Digital Health Agency's Consumer Advisory Committee. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Ethics approval Ethical approval was granted by the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/16/POWH/412). Participants provided written consent for their involvement in the patient interviews and CRG data analysis workshop. They also provided written consent for photos and videos from the workshop to be used for promotional and publication purposes.


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Q: Angular 12 Throwing this error FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory I updated my angular application version from angular 8 to 12, In previous version when I hit ng server my application server properly without through an any error but after update it to V12 it through me an error when I run by

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*ng serve

*node --max_old_space_size=8048 ./node modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng serve

Above commands also not works and it show me error

A: This error seems to be related to the generation of sourceMaps. Here is the issue on Github.
You can try disabling the generation of sourceMaps in angular.json as a workaround until the issue is resolved:
"sourceMap": false

A: I had this thing, than I changed my scripts to this:
 "start": "node --max_old_space_size=2192 ./node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng serve",
 "build": "node --max_old_space_size=2192 ./node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng build --configuration production --build-optimizer=false --output-hashing=all",

but for building problem didn't dissapear, so I updated node to version 16, and now it's working

A: This might have occurred as a result of dependencies not being loaded prior to the build. Check this answer for the solution.

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The winner of last weeks tutorial voting is dropping in today. Sorry for the delay, but we think everybody will be happy to the see the article.
As a little Christmas gift we will skip tutorial voting this week and you will just see the article about packing miniatures without voting for it. Cool, eh?
MV's year of the painter 2 please check this link!
Roman is now taking over and writing the article - we hope you enjoy!
this article takes you through my thoughts while painting this bust by Midnight Miniatures.
I really fell in love with the sculpt by Lucas Pina, a hobbit, smiling and ready to follow his wanderlust. A beautiful sculpt with no weaponry, no brutality, but still tons of character and mystique magic.
In this article you will find - again - different photos of different quality. I took these some months ago while switching my mobiles, so some of them are really ... uhm, not so good.
My focus in this article will be - again - not a step by step guide and color guide, but a try to grab a wider thought on why he turned out like he did. These days it is really hard for me to give you exact or precise color recipes. Why you might ask? Well, I am starting all my paintjobs from primary colors and black and white on my wetpalette and mix every color I need on demand. So there can not be a color recipe of a specific Vallejo or Citadel Color as I am not using them.
This is where I start, with the purple and greenish yellow I just play around, the rest is primary colors from Schmincke Primeacryl.
I know that some of you now might ask, Roman - please explain more on your mixing process and be sure I will do in future articles, but still I need to understand everything myself through more painting hours before teaching more. And it is not subject of this article.
I primed him with black GW Primer, followed by spraying an olive bright green you can still see on the plinth's wood all over the place. Then I placed my basic color decisions via the brush and also placed first shadows here and there. If you look close on the color I used for his shirt (not the vest) you can see that even I aiming to paint white I am not starting with white. I used a tiny drop of green and grey in my basic color for this. Why? I can only recommend my article on painting white to you.
That was a quick jump into the first steps right and I can promise you that the full article will be a wild ride into my brain. I bet there are some thoughts who are helpful for some of you.
Sorry for the blurry photo.
As the photo is so megablurry I decided to take the next one with the bigger camera. I already did some more steps. Mainly focused on the face. First highlights and where painted in the skintone, careful glazes of red here and there and I had to paint the eyes. This face drew so much of my painting attention as the character who appears there is just too lovely.
On this photo you can also see that green is mixed in the basic color of the hair, the leather and well, yes everywhere to connect the model properly in the atmosphere I am seeing him in.
My old mobile did really weird photos, when it comes to colors.
Upper photo, in the back you can see how my wetpalette gets a mess from mixing what I need. Believe it or not right now it is hard for me to explain in words what is happening there. I focus back on the hobbit and can tell from the bottom of my heart that I enjoyed this smiling face on my workbench.
Allright, after the work on the basecolors and the kickstart on the face it was time to spent some time to on all the other areas. As I am working a lot with texture recently I can show you different versions of texture I am working with. On the clothings and fabrics you can see thin lines that follow the direction of the fabrics. On the leather and map part you can see some random dotting that was achieved with using my uncleaned airbrush, basicly this is mainly colors spits. Nothing to clap your hands for, but I am enjoying this way so much.
Spitting and slapping paint to the map and leather. And by happy accident to a lot more areas.
Very important for me in this stage was a black and white photo I did. It tells me about the seperation between the busts elements. Color hues are not too close to eachother to get lost in terms of readability. Well, the hair is quite close to the skintone though.
The leather texture went a little crazy, call it wild. Slaps of brown orange and yellowish browns appeared here and there with wild brushstrokes and -slaps, before the airbrush spitting did the rest to make the chaos complete, but where you find chaos you can clean up.
Spitting and sparkling with the airbrush. Lines for fabric while highlighting.
Now it is turning white in the highlights. I was working my may to pure white over adding more and more white to my basic color.
Again he smiles at me between pure brutality and a pride army general ... and strawberrys.
All in all the most important message in this article that I want to point out is the vision you should have when starting a project. Mine was truely in a green environment. I made a quick sketch, but your imagination could take you further into a deep forest or field of spring grass.
With this color vision in the back of my mind I pushed further in the painting process. More detailed, edge highlights, clean up transitions here and there, but still I took care to have the green influance it all.
The map recieved some landmarks the little hobbit can follow on his journey. I mean if you go out for a journey it is always good to know where you are heading. X marks the spot. Maybe that is his friends tavern or barbecue party, who knows. It's all in your head.
In the upper photo and the one below you can see the quick sketch I made on the glass bottle. Slapadislap! Sketch.
Cleaned up the dotty mess from spitting color with painting highlights on the different material on top of it. The leather parts recieved a little detail love in their shadows by glazing in dark black browns, with brighter colors I worked with the texture that appeared due my wild approach. Did the metal parts black at this stage too.
Final work took me quite some time and was mainly about increasing detail. Sharper edge highlights, a little push in a highlight here and there. Finally painting the hair, that I did not like to touch earlier.
Darklining here and there. See backpack, plus the area where the leather parts meet the fabrics and where fabric meets fabric. This is important as it seperates different materials in detail and makes the model more readable for the viewers eyes.
Painted the metal parts, but in a simple way as they are no focus on this sculpt.
Painted the bottle to finish with searching for inspiration on wine bottle paintings via google and painted what I saw there. It is always good to check back with inspiration and how others painted something. Still the green is visible everywhere, right? In the hair, backpack, white fabrics, skin.
Green will influance it all if your vision is a green environment.
Still a black and white photo in the end also makes me see the seperation of areas I was aiming for. I got bright hues of colors, medium ones and dark ones. The setup here is nothing I would call perfect as for my part, still skintone and hair is a little bit to similar in the hue of the color choices.
Well, I really enjoyed that smiling fella a lot. It painted itself. I am still not sure in the end of the hair color, but I kept it as this guy reminded me of one of my godchildren, somehow ... when he will grew up.
Remember, when you start painting a project and you want to put love in your piece, think first about where the model is, what he/she is doing, even it is only a bust. You will think yourself in his/her shoes and this is always a good thing to do to understand many things in life.
I can highly recommend to paint this bust. He smiles at you all the time and the only two things you can do in return is smile back and paint.
Hi Roman! Thanks for the tutorials. I was curious about your airbrushing: How much do you use it, and what pressure do you generally use? I'm just starting to fool around with one myself.
We finally see the hobbit, thank you!
Wonderful bust and great write up, worth the wait, thank you.
MV wishes you a happy new year!


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Data center UPS systems can be used to support the electrical grid, creating a new revenue stream for operators
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Batteries are an essential component of most data centers, where they are used as part of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. Huge amounts of stored energy act as an insurance policy, enabling facilities to withstand power spikes, sags and momentary outages, and giving them a few precious seconds to switch to an alternative power source, or shut the equipment down in a controlled manner. But what if there's no outage?
Traditional lead-acid batteries have a short lifespan, take a lot of valuable space and require a carefully managed environment. They also need to be recycled by a specialist, since they are full of toxic elements. Lithium-ion batteries present an attractive alternative – they can tolerate higher temperatures and last longer, but are more expensive, and are still considered a novelty.
Most data center design guidelines – including those from the Uptime Institute – mandate the use of UPS systems to maximize reliability. But without an outage, batteries and their potential are essentially wasted.
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At the same time, power grids in many parts of the world find themselves increasingly under stress, with sudden demand fluctuations leading to brownouts and threatening the conveniences of modern life. As the energy market moves away from fossil fuels, grid operators also have to deal with the unreliable nature of renewable energy sources – for example, solar panels are only productive during the day, while the performance of wind turbines depends on atmospheric conditions.
These two facts suggest an idea: why not use data center UPS systems – along with other battery clusters, like those in electric cars and smart homes - to compensate for the difference between grid-wide generation and consumption in real-time? The idea has been discussed for several years. In this scenario, batteries store energy during the periods of peak production to later sell it back to the grid, participating in something called the Frequency Containment Reserve (FCR) market. Enabling such a market for data centers is not easy, but this approach could benefit everyone involved, from facility owners, to utilities, to consumers.
"From a hardware point of view, most modern UPS systems on the market can do this," Janne Paananen, technology manager at Eaton EMEA, told DCD. "It is better for the grid, and for everyone, that you maximize the use of the hardware, and at the same time, of course, you can get better value from your equipment."
Late last year, Eaton launched UPS-as-a-Reserve Service, calling it the first data center solution that lets organizations earn money from their UPS investment. The service was developed in collaboration with Fortum, one of the largest energy companies in Scandinavia. It transforms data center batteries into a virtual power plant, ready to supply energy in order to avoid grid-level outages – one of the primary reasons UPS systems are needed in the first place.
With UPS-as-a-Reserve Service, data center operators choose how much energy capacity to offer, when, and at what price. Best of all, Paananen says that this additional functionality could be carried out without any risks to the primary purpose of a modern UPS – keeping the data center online.
"Normally people understand UPS as a uni-directional device that would only take power from the grid and feed it to the load. In reality, a modern UPS with transistor-based rectifiers and inverters is a collection of bi-directional converters, it is very flexible," he said.
"When we are doing this - discharging the battery and regulating the power - instead of taking a leap of faith, opening the main breaker in the data center and hoping that everything works, we are doing it in a more controlled manner. We limit the battery discharge and it is done in parallel with the rectifier. If you have a problem with the battery, you just stop discharging and keep supporting the load.
"UPS, of course, has been designed to immediately move all the power out of batteries if you have a mains outage. Normally, if the rectifier goes off, you transfer all the power in a few milliseconds. When we support the grid, the process takes a few seconds, so it's very slow and gentle – UPS can have an afternoon tea while it's doing it."
Eaton developed the technology to enable this functionality way back in 2004, as part of an automated testing system that discharges batteries once a month. This testing routine has been used millions of times worldwide – a testament to its reliable operation – and has now found new uses in frequency regulation.
"The most important thing is to make sure you don't stress the [lead-acid] battery too much. I've read whitepapers stating that you could do this with your batteries 10-15 minutes a day – but that is creating lots of cycles with a very high depth of discharge. It would destroy the battery very quickly, and is not a smart thing to do.
"On the other hand, if you analyze the grid frequency data and you understand how the grid behaves, statistically, and you select the operating parameters so you don't stress the battery too much, going for a more dynamic type response – it doesn't impact battery life."
UPS-as-a-Reserve Service
Lithium-ion batteries can tolerate more discharge cycles and can be kept in a partially charged state, so they are even more useful, since they can help regulate frequency either up or down. This enables participation in enhanced frequency regulation schemes where the value of the market is higher.
"The lithium battery is an extra investment, but it also allows you to earn more," Paananen said.
Eaton's scheme has just one drawback: despite bold claims about capabilities of modern hardware, UPS-as-a-Reserve Service currently supports a limited range of UPS systems, so it can't be used in an older facility without an extensive upgrade. It also requires participation of local transmission network operators, people actually responsible for keeping the grid operational, so pilot projects are focused on Scandinavia where Eaton has made relevant arrangements with Fortum. Other compatible markets that could adopt this approach in the near future include the UK and Finland.
The idea of using data centers to help the grid is being investigated by several major industry players, including Schneider Electric. "We definitely see opportunities where a data center's UPS asset can be utilized beyond its primary functionality of resiliency and back-up to participate in a frequency regulation market," told us Michael Maiello, the company's SVP, technology and offer development executive.
"Since the UPS has historically been deployed for the sole intent of providing resiliency to critical loads, there is often a hesitation to utilize this asset for an alternate purpose. However, if properly managed, these concerns can be allayed by ensuring there is always sufficient energy remaining in the UPS to provide the critical backup required for the data center application." Schneider Electric has its own UPS systems capable of this functionality. Maiello added that the idea hasn't really caught on because of lack of understanding - the perceived risks simply outweigh potential benefits.
Paananen noted that some data center operators have already gone through the effort of plugging their generators into the grid, enabling their facilities to act like small power stations in periods of high power demand. However, he thinks this is a wrong approach to take for an industry obsessed with efficiency and sustainability: "It is a bit funny: our goal is to use renewable energy – wind power, solar power - and avoid CO2 emissions. But that makes the grid more volatile, so you need to then run generators and burn fossil fuels so that you can do green power.
"With UPS-as-a-Reserve Service, you can manage the fast changes and 99 percent of the time you would not need to start generators. You would only use them if a disturbance takes a long time."
Using UPS systems to their full potential is good for offsetting the enviromental impact of data centers, and benefits the neghborhood, but more importantly, it's great for the bottom line: according to Eaton, a data center could expect to raise up to €50,000 ($61,500) per MW of power allocated to grid support per year. For this reason alone, participation in FCR, along with waste heat recapture, should become an essential data center feature.
"In the beginning, some people will have their doubts and they will wait for other guys to try it out. But when it's done a few times, there are case studies and it's a proven concept, everybody will be doing it."
Another way to employ data center generators and batteries for the common good is peak shaving - the process of reducing the amount of energy purchased from the utility during peak demand hours, thus saving substantial amounts of money that would have been spent on peaking charges. It also benefits utilities, helping them reduce the operational cost of generating power.
The main difference between peak shaving and schemes like UPS-as-a-Reserve Service is in the fact that the former uses on-site energy to effectively 'erase' the facility from the grid when overall power demands are exceptionally high.
Data center operators can get paid for using peak shaving techniques, but the amount of money they can earn is much lower than if they were able to actually sell energy back to the grid.
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If the person that you sold your timber to resells it to another buyer, you potentially lost tens of thousands dollars. There are a group of buyers that only resell the timber they buy; they never intend to harvest it themselves–think about it: if your timber is sold for a second time, sometimes on the same day you sold it, you lost a bunch of money. There are ways to tell if the person you are dealing with intends to harvest or resell.
The following list will give you some pointers to address as you negotiate your timber sale.
Have them include language in the timber deed preventing assignment of the timber deed to another company. Or, have language where you have to give your permission for the timber deed to be assigned (sold) to another company.
Ask for proof of General Liability and Workers Comp insurance. Many of these "brokers" do not carry the insurance needed to harvest and sell those trees. If they cannot provide proof of insurance, chances are they are going to resell your trees for a huge profit.
Don't be in a big rush to sign a deed. Most of these guys will bring a notary public with them so that this transaction can be conducted in the privacy of your home. Closing the timber sale in an attorneys office would be more appropriate.
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