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NHS AI (artificial intelligence)
by Alexander Börve | Nov 8, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blog, News
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the NHS an investment for the future
Our dermatology AI AUTODERM® was featured as one of the case example in the NHSX report "Artificial Intelligence: How to get it right. Putting policy into practice for safe data-driven innovation in health and care" (page 46). The report is intended to provide a cohesive overview of the current state of play of data-driven technologies within the health and care system. The objective is to make it clear where in the system AI technologies can be utilised and the policy work that is, and will need to be done, to ensure this utilisation is done in a safe, effective and ethically acceptable manner in a data driven ecosystem across healthcare.
In August NHS announced a £250 million investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for health and care through the creation of the NHS AI Lab. This report highlights why there is a need for this investment and how over time this investment will enable health and care providers to benefit from the very best data-driven technology and help achieve goals for technology use in the NHS and in the care system.
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About NHSx
NHSx is responsible for delivering the Health Secretary's Tech Vision, building on the NHS Long Term Plan by focusing on five missions:
Reducing the burden on clinicians and staff, so they can focus on patients
Giving people the tools to access information and services directly
Ensuring clinical information can be safely accessed, wherever it is needed
Improving patient safety across the NHS
Improving NHS productivity with digital technology
NHSx Report Summary
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to make a significant difference to health and care. A broad range of techniques can be used to create Artificially Intelligent Systems (AIS) to carry out or augment health and care tasks that have until now been completed by humans, or have not been possible previously; these techniques include inductive logic programming, robotic process automation, natural language processing, computer vision, neural networks and distributed artificial intelligence. These technologies present significant opportunities for keeping people healthy, improving care, saving lives and saving money for the pilot digital technologies. It could help personalised NHS screening and treatments for cancer, eye disease and a range of other conditions, for example.
Furthermore, it's not just patients who can benefit. AI can also support clinicians, enabling them to make the best use of their expertise, informing their decisions and saving them time. This report gives a considered and cohesive overview of the current state of play of data-driven technologies within the health and care system, covering everything from the local research environment to international frameworks in development. Informed by research conducted by NHSX and other partners over the past year, it outlines where in the system AI technologies can be utilised and the policy work that is, and will need to be done, to ensure this utilisation is done in a safe, effective and ethically acceptable manner.
Chapters 1 and 2 set the scene
They provide an overview of what AI is (and importantly is not), why we believe it is important, and a detailed look at what is currently being developed by the AI ecosystem by evaluating the results of a horizon scanning exercise and our second 'State of the Nation' survey. This analysis reveals that diagnosis and screening are the most common uses of AI, with 132 different AI products identified being designed for diagnosis or screening purposes covering 70 different conditions.
Chapter 3 is an in-depth look at the Governance of AI
Building on the Code of Conduct for data-driven technologies, it explores the development of a novel governance framework that emphasises both the softer ethical considerations of the "should vs should not" in the development of AI solutions as well as the more legislative regulations of "could vs could not". In particular it covers key areas such as the explainability of an algorithm, the evidence generation for efficacy of fixed algorithms, the importance of patient safety and what to consider in commercial strategies.
Chapter 4 is all about the data that fuels AI
When engaging with innovators, regulators, commissioners and citizens on AI the one topic that is guaranteed to come up is Information Governance (IG). Protecting patient data is of the utmost importance, which is why IG is crucial, but it should not be seen as a blocker to the use of data for purposes that can deliver genuine benefits to patients, clinicians and the system. This Chapter highlights how we are working collaboratively with key partners across the system (e.g. the Accelerated Access Collaborative, the Office of Life Sciences, Health Data Research UK, Genomics England, Academic Health Science Network) to clarify the rules of IG and streamline access to data for good through specific programmes such as the Digital Innovation Hubs.
Chapter 5 covers adoption and spread
Considering the sometimes negative impact the complexity of the NHS as a sociotechnical system has on the spread of important innovation, it covers the actions being taken to encourage adoption. However, given the challenges involved in the practical implementation of AI we do not want to encourage adoption for the sake of adoption, so it also covers 'what good looks like' and how we can monitor the impact of the introduction of AI over time so that good stays good further downstream.
Chapter 6 comes back to the people of the NHS
Building on the work of Health Education England and the Topol Review, it highlights the challenges faced by the workforce in the development, deployment and use of AI and what needs to be done in order to ensure they have the skills that they need to feel confident in using AI in clinical practice safely and effectively. Crucially it highlights how again we cannot do this alone and must work closely with national centres of data science training such as the Alan Turing Institute.
Chapter 7 goes international
Health data is not only generated in England and the AI technologies that are trained and tested on
it are not developed only in England. Instead the AI ecosystem is truly international and there is, therefore, a need for international collaboration and agreement of standards, frameworks and guidance. For this reason, this chapter highlights the ongoing work of the Global Digital Health Partnership, the World Health Organisation and the EQUATOR network in developing these with us as a key partner.
Chapter 8 concludes with the NHS AI Lab
It brings together all the information included in the previous chapters to highlight why we know that the Lab is needed and why we think it will be crucial in helping us achieve our aims of:
Promoting the UK as the best place in the world to invest in healthtech.
Providing evidence of what good practice looks like to industry and commissioners.
Reassuring the public, patients and clinicians that data-driven technology is safe, effective and protects privacy.
Allowing the government to work with suppliers to guide the development of new technology so products are suitable for the health and care system in the future.
Building capability within the system with In-house expertise to prototype and develop ideas.
Making sure the NHS gets a fair deal from the commercialisation of its data resources and expertise.
Although this report has named editors, it results from the collective effort of a great number of individuals who kindly gave up their time to contribute their thoughts, ideas and research. A full list of acknowledgements is provided at the end of the report. There are, however, several key organisations, and individuals who provided input without which this report would not have been possible. With this in mind, we would like to thank: Tina Woods, Collider Health Melissa Ream, Marie-Anne Demestihas and Sile Hertz, AHSN Network Anna Steere, NHSX Dr. Sam Roberts, Accelerated Access Collaborative
Artificial Intelligence: How to get it right. Putting policy into practice for safe data-driven innovation in health and care https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/assets/NHSX_AI_report.pdf
Health Secretary announces £250 million investment in artificial intelligence. A new National Artificial Intelligence Lab will use the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the health and lives of patients. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/health-secretary-announces-250-million-investment-in-artificial-intelligence


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Powell's Faces Protests over Anti-Antifa Title
Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., has faced protests over the past few days over the availability on its website of an upcoming anti-Antifa book by right-wing commentator Andy Ngo, the Oregonian reported.
The book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, will not be released until February 2, but is available for pre-order on Powells.com. In a statement responding to the protests, Powell's explained that the title was listed on the store's website automatically through a data feed from Hachette Book Group, and the store noted that while "a lot of our inventory is hand-selected, and hand-promoted," a lot of it is not, and Unmasked was one of the latter. And while Powell's said it will not put the book on its shelves or promote it, it will remain available in the store's online catalogue.
Powell's emphasized its commitment to free speech in the same statement, writing: "There are books in our stores and online inventory that contain ideas that run counter to our company's and our employees' values of safety, equality, and justice. However, many of us also read these books to inform ourselves about events; learn about local and global history; and to understand the arguments of people and groups with whom we disagree. While we understand that our decision to carry such books upsets some customers and staff members, we do not want to create an echo chamber of preapproved voices and ideas. It is not our mission or inclination to decide to whom our customers should listen."
The store's reading lists, blog posts and in-store displays, the statement continues, "highlight and promote our support for minority voices, racial justice and human rights." Powell's will use its platform to "amplify righteous causes," but also continue to carry a wide inventory in order to "disseminate ideas and foster dialogue."
Ngo is from Portland and was formerly an editor for the Vanguard, Portland State University's student newspaper. He was fired from that job in 2017 due to an ethics violation, and has since become a "right-wing agitator" and "vocal conservative commentator." His book is coming from Hachette's Center Street imprint.
Dustin Brandon, one of the protestors who gathered at Powell's on Monday, told the Oregonian that Ngo "goes out of his way to dox the Black Lives Matter community which he considers 'antifa'," and puts lives at risk "through what he does online."

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Can I Force My Sibling to Sell an Inherited House?
An attorney's advice on resolving disputes with inherited property
By Trevor Kupfer on July 2, 2018
A common scenario when someone passes away is that their property is passed on to their children. In fact, while most people have a beneficiary named on their bank, investment and retirement accounts, they don't always have one for their homestead. And in those cases, the children are the default beneficiaries.
Even in the rare cases where beneficiaries agree to keep the house, problems may arise. "Even families that get along the best can run into the inherent challenges of joint ownership," says Katie White, an estate planning and probate attorney at McDonald Fleming Moorhead in Pensacola.
In any case, it's quite common for the children to not keep an inherited home. "A lot of times kids don't live where their parents live and it's a liability, frankly, to keep the house," White says. She cites mortgage and utility bills, taxes, and the resources required to stay on the upkeep. As a result, they seek to sell the home or, if someone wants to keep it, they exchange cash with the others.
When the Home is Passed Down
When White is representing a decedent, her only duty to the heirs is to keep them informed and give them everything they need. "But the homestead is theirs immediately after the decedent's passing, so, after that, it's up to the heirs to take care of it," she says. If a dispute arises between the heirs, White typically refers them to another reputable attorney for legal advice so as not to create a conflict of interest.
"Usually one heir takes the lead and says, 'I'm going to be the quarterback on this. You guys can approve everything, but I'm going to get this done,'" White says. "But sometimes you have one child who's a holdout and says, 'Wait. I want to sell this house for $1 million. That's what it's worth, and we should wait until we get $1 million.' Meanwhile, the realtor is saying, 'No, it's only worth $400,000—sorry.' You have that issue come up a lot."
If a Dispute Arises Among Co-Owners
Sometimes White is asked to represent an heir or heirs in a dispute, and often it involves facing off against a sibling who disagrees with the other family members. "Sometimes we can get the issues worked out and the property sold or divided," White says. On other occasions, they reach a point where there's a refusal to communicate or compromise.
"Then we've had to do a partition action where we force the sale of the house," White says. "There's really nothing the defendant can do about it other than police it and make sure it's done at fair market value. I have an estate right now with a very difficult heir, and if we can't get them to communicate, that might be the next step. Obviously, that's more expensive for everybody, because the attorney's fees come off the top at closing. So, my client doesn't have to pay 100 percent of it, because it's not their fault that their brother or sister is being difficult."
Forcing the Sale of Inherited Property
White's advice: Use the opportunity to communicate and do everything you can to avoid litigation. "It's the stick in the situation," she says. "The carrot is you get your money at closing. The stick is, if you're unreasonable, we're going to litigation and you're going to get less at the end of the day."
A partition action (or partition lawsuit) is a basic civil case that is typically resolved in a few months, but can cost $7,000 in legal fees. "It's always better to work things out because, if you go to litigation, it's usually the attorneys who win at the end of the day. But, sadly, a lot of people don't feel that way, so that's why we have the job we do," White says.
If the sticking point is the sale price, as is often the case, the holdout sibling has to face a harsh truth: "Honestly, most folks don't have a good faith basis for being that difficult. When you put a realtor's market analysis and that kind of information before a judge, the defendant would have to have a competing analysis prepared by a realtor, and they never do. They typically just want to complain about their siblings," White adds.
In White's experience, beneficiaries fall in one extreme or the other. "You either have folks who are willing to work together and everyone gets there relatively quickly, or you have the opposite, where you can't even get a response from the other owners—or the responses are 100 percent negative: 'I don't trust you. I don't trust your attorney. I'm holding out for my $1 million,'" she says. "Often, they won't move off dead center, so we have to make them move."
For more information on this area of law, see our overviews of estate planning, wills, trusts, probate and estate administration, and estate and trust litigation.
"The carrot is you get your money at closing. The stick is, if you're unreasonable, we're going to litigation and you're going to get less at the end of the day."
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OK Go's New Music Video is 4.2 Seconds of Crazy Slo-Mo Footage
Explosions! Colored Paint! Water balloons!
By Kelsey Kennedy
Filed Under Experiments
Once again, OK Go just proved they're music video wizards — and this time they did it in just 4.2 seconds. Most of the action in their newest video for the song "The One Moment" was filmed over the course of 4.2 seconds of real time, but with some slo-mo magic, it became three minutes of a music video, complete with colorful paint and a lot of exploding objects.
You get a chance to see everything at live speed at the beginning, but it's not until the footage is slowed down that you get to see just how complex and precise everything is. Colored salt explodes perfectly in time with the beat, a flip book of the singer matches up with the words, and guitars blow up with each strum of the guitar. After all that action, there's some real time singing, then another slo-mo scene that took only another three seconds to film.
This video is a lot more complex than some choreographed dancing in someone's backyard. Segments of the video were shot at different frame rates then slowed down to what we perceive as real time, about 30 frames per second. The part when the guitars explode was shot at 6,000 frames per second, while the exploding watermelons were shot at about 4,500 frames per second. Throw in lip syncing and flip books, and you have some complicated choreography to manage. That's why singer Damian Kulash, Jr. wrote on the band's website that it took "a motherfucker of a spreadsheet" to make it all happen.
The band collaborated with Morton Salt on the video, for Morton's #WalkHerWalk charity campaign. (If you look closely at the beginning of the video, the wall is made up of canisters of Morton Salt.) You can watch the whole video below.
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Q: Do I add both the new variable and the original variable to my log binomial model? I'm calculating interaction indices for some variables in my model. I have an interaction between  two variables (age (continuous) and hypertension (binary)), and I read in a similar publication that they evaluated the effect of age per 5 years increase by dividing age by 5, and included this variable in the model.
I would like to do the same, but I'm unsure if I add both the original age variable, and this new variable (age divided by 5), to my model.

A: Use only one or the other (unscaled or scaled).  If you try to include them both, they'll be perfectly collinear and will mess up your regression model (meaning "regression" in the most general sense).
As mentioned in comments, scaling your variables will affect the estimated parameter values, and their interpretation (e.g. "change in log-odds of response per 5 years of age" rather than "change in log-odds of response per year of age"), but won't change the overall fit of the model, and won't change inference on the parameters (e.g. Z-statistics, p-values).
If you center variables, it still won't change the overall model fit, but it might change the interpretation of the main effects.
Schielzeth, Holger. "Simple Means to Improve the Interpretability of Regression Coefficients." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 1 (2010): 103–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00012.x.

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HomeAsian AmericansK-pop singer Luna to star new musical KPOP as her Broadway debut
K-pop singer Luna to star new musical KPOP as her Broadway debut
By Amanda Bang
K-pop star Luna is to make her Broadway debut this year with the new musical "KPOP," the producers announced Wednesday morning at New York's Korean Cultural Center.
"Anyone who has followed my career knows that musical theater has always been a driving passion of mine," Luna said at the announcement according to the New York Times. "Broadway represents the pinnacle of achievement in my profession, so being able to bring my culture to the fans who flock here from all over the world to see a Broadway show is the honor of my life."
The musical "KPOP" was conceived by Woodshed Collective and Jason Kim and had an off-Broadway run in 2017. Kim wrote the book, and the music and lyrics were written by Helen Park and Max Vernon, the New York Times reports.
The musical producers are Time Forbes and Joey Parnes, and the show's off-Broadway director, Teddy Bergman, and its choreographer, Jennifer Weber, will return for the Broadway production.
Luna began her K-pop career in 2009 with her popular debut group f(x). Since then, she has built a solo career with numerous hit songs, Deadline reports. She also has musical production experience. In Korea, she played leading roles in "High School Musical on Stage!", "In the Heights" and "Mamma Mia!".
"KPOP" will begin previews on Oct. 13 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre, according to Deadline. The opening night of the show will be on Sunday, Nov. 20, the producers Forbes and Parnes announced today.
"The driving force of this production of KPOP has always been to fuse the vibrant, joyful, and wildly entertaining world of K-pop with the powerful storytelling of a Broadway musical. The result is something that no one has ever seen before on stage, complete with epic production values, catchy songs, passion, and heart," said Fobes and Parnes in a joint statement, according to Deadline. "In the world of K-pop, no one embodies these elements better than Luna. We are thrilled to introduce Broadway audiences to one of the most exciting music superstars in the world."
The complete casting for KPOP will be announced shortly, JustJared reports.
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Counterterrorism efforts should prioritize imagination, understood as the evolutionary study of threats.
Translated from Italian by Marie Winnick. Edited by Sarah Hamilton.
Posted on April 11, 2017.
The 9/11 Commission's report made reference to "failure of imagination" as an intrinsic weakness in the United States' counterterrorism strategy. That inability to imagine the unimaginable is exactly what continues to this day to undermine efforts to develop an effective system of prevention. Al-Qaida and the Islamic State have proven to be profoundly adaptable against the West's countermeasures. One only needs to reflect on the evolution of terrorist attacks over the past three decades — from the bomb detonation in the World Trade Center parking garage to the use of a semi-truck as a weapon of mass destruction against a crowd of civilians on the southern coast of France. Counterterrorism efforts should then prioritize imagination, understood as the evolutionary study of threats.
Let's summarize some points in brief.
Osama bin Laden's rhetoric in declaring a holy war against the United States turned into the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The first paradigm shift took place in 2000 with the attack against the USS Cole. Despite the ongoing evolution of threats, it was the first manifestation of that which in the 9/11 report would later be defined as the imagination gap. Despite warnings, U.S. intelligence agencies considered the possibility of an airline being turned into a system of intelligent weapons to be completely remote. The CIA was shown to have lost the ability to imagine outwardly unimaginable scenarios, limiting strategic prevention of the al-Qaida trademark. In 2015, the Islamic State group replaced the threat, concentrating on soft targets and emboldening sympathizers worldwide to act on their own. The United States and western Europe will suffer devastating attacks such as the ones in Paris, London, Brussels, Orlando, Nice and Istanbul.
The frequency of motivated and diversified attacks makes it difficult to accurately predict future ones. Nevertheless, the study of popular texts on the al-Qaida and Islamic State group networks can help to determine their future strategy. The propaganda texts have often been considered misleading, but analyzing the proliferation of the attacks, they should be understood as actual training manuals for remote radicalization. Therefore, we're speaking of the importance of detecting the coded messages inherent in terrorist propaganda, in an attempt to bridge the imagination gap.
The first destruction of a commercial drone used by Islamic terrorists dates back to March 20 of last year, on the outskirts of Fallujah. A few months later, the Islamic State group began to equip commercial drones with grenades in kamikaze missions. This natural evolution of field experience could be put into practice against Western targets. In 2013, a drone operated by the German Pirate Party managed to land near German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a sporting event in Dresden. In April 2015, a drone carrying radioactive sand from the Fukushima nuclear power plant was able to land on the roof of the offices of the Japanese prime minister in Tokyo. Because of their particular asymmetric nature that alters today's standard concept of defense, there are no countermeasures to take against a swarm of commercial drones. The current threat is far more complex than those detected in 2010, due to creative concealment techniques associated with new improvised and non-improvised explosive devices. The improvised air threat, in fact, must not necessarily be understood only as armed, since the implementation of explosives on low-cost devices, in some cases, represents only a detail. The threat to blind airline pilots with high-powered lasers, though it represents a serious risk (guidelines on the network), could be replaced by a potentially more devastating prospect: launching a drone against a turbine of a plane being taxied or taking off. The first known incident between a drone and an airliner happened last year in London. A civilian drone hit a British Airways plane while approaching London's Heathrow Airport. Although the incident ended without significant damage, the episode showed that the aircraft are designed to withstand the impact of birds but were never tested against drones being hurled at the turbines or the windows. On the terrorists' channels, information is readily available to make the most of such a technology in order to damage an airliner. In a Virginia Tech CRASH simulation, an eight kilogram quadricopter was sucked up by a rotor that simulated the turbine of a Boeing 777 and Airbus A380 at descent speed. In less than 1/200th of a second, the drone disintegrated, causing the engine to fail. The study aimed to determine the propagation of debris after the collision of a commercial drone with the engine of an airliner. Commercial jet engines are certified up to certain limits against the impact of birds, rain, hail and ice. All airliners have to be able to fly with one engine, but turbines are certified for the ingestion of soft debris and not for the materials that drones are made of. Changing the specifications of airliner turbines would certainly be costly for the airlines. Countermeasures will likely be limited to strict overflight bans on airports.
Electrical power is capable of providing or restoring services during natural disasters. Only during World War I did the electricity industry have to deal with sabotage. International development has changed the threat paradigm to the power infrastructure. Considering that terrorist acts themselves aim to create overbearing psychological effects, economic damage and social disruption, electricity transmission and distribution systems have become primary targets. The remote locations of many electrical transmission lines, substations, communication systems and natural gas supplies allow attackers to perform their operations with little to no risk. The selection of the points of attack and the assessment of consequences are within reach of technically-trained members of the terrorist community. Plants and equipment may be damaged or destroyed by a variety of means, while electrical systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Although structured on a back-up asset, the energy sector is not capable of reliable performance in the event that the main components are severely damaged by several targeted attacks. Most industrial control systems used in the power grid are connected to the internet, which makes them vulnerable to a cyber attack. Such access could potentially allow someone to adjust settings remotely. Since the grid is a great system of interconnected networks, one or more users could easily destabilize large areas of it. The ability to rewrite the firmware of an electrical network and potentially interrupt the power supply system could be one of the fastest ways to destroy the economy of a country. Even so, compromising firmware is a technical challenge that requires knowledge of the manufacturer's source code. Some malware do not need access to the internet and can spread through an air gap. Air gapping is a security practice typically used in nuclear plants.
Our society is based on electricity. Internet, transportation, healthcare, food storage, telephone transmission, etc.: A cyber-attack localized against the main generators of a strategic area would result in an immediate network overload, causing a cascade of minor disruptions. While some areas could recover quickly, others would remain without electricity for weeks. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Lloyd's of London have calculated that a prolonged blackout on the East Coast of the U.S. would leave 93 million people in the dark, result in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and billions of dollars in insurance claims and cause an increase in hospital deaths. The geopolitical fallout could be even worse. Energy suppliers would notice only a quick succession of overloaded transmission lines, similar to the 2003 blackout caused by a bug in the ordinary software.


Like the idea of traveling the world while getting work experience? The tourism industry might be for you.
There are many perks to tour and travel guide jobs—also called "holiday rep" jobs by your friends across the pond (any Brits among us?). They're great for students who want to fill the gap between semesters or their . Graduates or people can use these gigs to test their options in the short-term while picking up bonus skills.
Sound good so far? Here's the lowdown on what it takes to be a travel guide, what employers look for and what day-to-day life is like on the job.
A tour guide or resort representative is responsible for looking after groups traveling as part of a vacation package at resorts around the world. Their main job is to ensure that the tourists (think of them as business clients, because they are) enjoy their vacation by providing excellent customer service.
You'll hold welcome meetings, handle complaints and set up and run vacation activities like excursions.
You don't need any specific qualifications to work for a tour operator. Tour companies look for communication and customer service skills, a confident and enthusiastic personality and the ability to work as part of a team.
Most tour operators seek candidates with experience working in a customer service, travel or tourism position. Yes, this is one place where that part-time job working bar in college can give your resume a big advantage!
A starting salary is usually between $720-$800 per month; more experienced folks get more, of course. Not great money, but remember: you will probably get free flights, free accommodations and either included meals or a food allowance.
Other benefits include discounted or free excursions, use of company cars in leisure time, use of hotel swimming pools and tennis courts, discounted prices in bars and restaurants and cheaper accommodation for family or friends who visit. These goodies are out there and are usually arranged on an ad hoc basis within the resort or at the discretion of management.
Working for a tour operator can involve a lot of long, unsociable hours and living out of your suitcase, all while being away from your friends and family for long periods of time. It's certainly not a job that's suited to everyone. Make sure you do your homework so you can convince a tour operator that these negatives won't be a problem for you, because for the right person, the benefits of the job far outweigh the negatives.
Be sure to research the tour operator you're applying to. Most applicants don't spend enough time researching and as a result don't know enough to impress at the interview. During an interview, you can expect specific questions about the tour operator, how it operates and what destinations they fly to. By demonstrating you've done thorough research, you show a high level of commitment.
Represent the tour operator to the best of your abilities.
Generate revenue for the tour operator.
Finally, show them you have problem-solving skills, tact, an enthusiastic personality and are flexible, and you should be well on your way to a cool, world-widening short-term job.
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This is a guest bedroom in a 2 bedroom apartment in Armory Park, which is a few blocks south of downtown Tucson. The room is furnished, it has a queen bed and a big closet. It is within walking distance to the streetcar, which will take you to the University Medical Center. UMC is about a 5-10 minute drive. There is a shared bathroom, which is between the two bedrooms. I do have 2 long haired cats who are very sweet and clean. Wifi and utilities included. Homemade bread available for sharing. Street parking available. Laundry in the building. I am the roommate, a female Certified Nurse-Midwife in Tucson. Feel free to email, text or call (520-833-8090) for pictures.
Just short 7 minute drive from the U of A campus, 5 miles from UMC, the VA, and Kino and a 10 minute to drive to Banner University Medical Center, this house is just what you are looking for. This completely furnished HOUSE is located in historic Armory Park neighborhood. Also conveniently located a short drive to 4th Ave and all the food and shopping Tucson has to offer. A full kitchen, heating and cooling system and large back yard. This house is located on a property with another house, with one male occupant (a doctor at Pima Heart Cardiology) and two dogs, 6 chickens and a duck. Utilities and wifi are not included.
This is a guest bedroom in a 2 bedroom apartment in the wonderful Armory Park neighborhood near downtown Tucson. Just 2 miles from Banner University Medical Center. Just 2 blocks from Sunlink street car which will take you to the medical center. 5 minutes drive to the University or 15 minute bike ride. Wifi and other utilities included. Queen bed. Private entrance. Within 2 blocks of Rocks and Ropes climbing gym and just a few blocks from downtown with all its restaurants/breweries. Shared bathroom and fantastic kitchen. Wonderful patio. Has plentiful and safe street parking. I am an emergency medicine resident. Text (360-584-4423) or email with questions.
Nice private bedroom + bath, fully furnished with linens + towels in a large home near the University of Arizona + Medical School and hospitals. Looking for people who are serious students, rotating medical students or residents, or graduate students. Available by the month or longer. Walking distance, off street parking/locked gate. Full use of the home with other room mates. Fully furnished kitchen, satellite TV, WiFi, printer, personal space for food storage. All utilities included in the fee. Participate in taking out trash, cleaning up after yourself. Laundry on site. Contact Melinda 480-251-8689 by text or email back on Rotating Room.
Hello, my name is Derek Sears and I'm currently completing my ophthalmology residency! This is a 2 bed 2 bath condo located about 5 minutes from the Banner UMC hospital. The property is very close to many grocery stores, gyms, and restaurants. You would have your own personal bathroom and bedroom as well as access to all kitchen appliances, washer, dryer, etc. The room is not furnished so you would need to bring bedding and a blow up or other type of mattress. I do have a 1 year old lab mix who is very well behaved and will probably like you more than he does me after a couple of days! Please do not hesitate to text me at 325-372-1320 if you are interested or have more questions.
Beautiful home (built in 2011) in gated community near Campbell and Prince. Fully furnished bedroom available with Queen sized bed, memory foam mattress, desk, and closet. Bathroom with shower shared with one other roommate. House has large kitchen, dishwasher, backyard, living room with TV, in-house washer/dryer. 1 roommate is a law student, the other is a medical student. Close to Safeway, Trader Joe's; 2.7-3 mi from U of A campus.
I'm a resident at the U of A and I have a guest bedroom available in my two-story townhouse. The place is new construction, spacious, and has upgraded appliances. The guest bedroom includes a queen size bed, closet, and you'll have your own bathroom. It's a 10-12 minute drive to the U of A main campus hospital and right around the corner from lots of great shops and restaurants. I have a 2 car garage and you are welcome to park your car there to keep it out of the Tucson heat. And yes, I have AC, washer/dryer, WiFi.


1) The implementation of the Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) night beach driving permit begins and continues through November 15, 2008 for all beaches in Cape Hatteras National Seashore. A night driving permit, signed and dated by the driver of the vehicle, must be displayed in the windshield of the vehicle between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
2) Seasonally closed village beaches reopen to ORV use.
at all park Visitor Centers and Campgrounds, Outer Banks Visitor Bureau Visitor Centers, and local tackle shops and realty offices.
"With a record number of turtle nests on national seashore beaches this season, we are closely watching the impacts of night driving on the Seashore beaches," stated Mike Murray. "We are actively managing the situation to allow for ORV access wherever possible as well as protect the sea turtle nests and hatchlings." All closed areas are clearly marked with carsonite posts and signs. Destruction of government property and entering a resource closure are federal criminal violations, each subject to up to a $5,000 fine and up to six months imprisonment.
The following areas reopen to ORV access on Tuesday, September 16, 2008.
1) Tri-villages (Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo) beachfront = approximately 3 miles in length extends from the southernmost boundary of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge to Ramp 23.
2) Avon village beachfront = approximately 4.0 miles in length.
3) Ocracoke village beachfront = approximately 2.5 miles in length.
**Reminder: Parkwide: Visitors will find sea turtle nest protections areas in effect. Posted areas are closed to ORV, pedestrians and pets.
For further information, please call (252) 473-2111 ext. 148.


Timberwolves are doing their "winter campout" this weekend. We are taking it easy this time around and doing indoor cabins. Eventually we will train the scouts how to survive outside in the cold. We are excited to be learning archery from MDC this weekend as well. We are also going to be teaming up with the scouts from BSA Troop 601 to do some badge activities.
Last weekend was a great weekend working with Project Linus and making blankets!
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Letters: Colleges must add all-gender restrooms
Our readers also express themselves about the increasing number of homeless students, Commissioner Chloe Euday and the Kenton Village homeless camp for women
In "PCC students make case for all-gender campus restrooms" (Nov. 23), Blair Stenvick portrayed the article clearly and thoughtfully. As an international student at Portland Community College, I know that it's a really hard time for some students who identify themselves as nonbinary. And the most important personal demand is using the restroom.
Normally, there always are male and female restrooms in most schools or colleges. It makes the people who aren't male or female feel nonexistent. So I agree that all colleges should add more all-gender restrooms for them — adding, not reducing. They should make three different restrooms as male, female and all-genders.
Moreover, I think safety is the bottom line that they need to pay attention to. Some people don't feel comfortable using restrooms with men. In addition, some people have their own personal issues and demands. So if they need to have all-gender restrooms, I think colleges need to pay more attention to them.
Jessica Le
Create communities for homeless students
I am writing this letter in response to Shasta Kearns Moore's article "Homeless student number sets record" (Nov. 23). I would like to share some ideas about this issue, and what we can do to reduce this problem.
One of the main issues is violence at home. I think that is where everything starts. Most of the children are scared of their parents, see them fighting, maybe because they have drug or alcohol problems, and they are not themselves anymore and start beating their children. Of course, especially if they are young, these kids don't know what to do or how to react and the only way that they have is to leave the house and never come back.
My suggestion would be to do more research about these families, and then create more communities that encourage children to go there and accept their help. What would be the main point of these communities? Well first of all, to help the children talk about what happened and explain everything.
Like you said in your article "children doubled-up with other families or other temporary housing." I guess that this "temporary" situation would make them feel worried and keep thinking about that, and they have to leave after a short of period of time and be homeless again.
I suggest to take in consideration the idea of adoption after they go through the community's process. In this way they will not be worried about the future and finally have a good life.
Donatella Milella
Blaming media an amateur move
Portland city Commissioner Chloe Eudaly must learn the difference between "fake leadership" and "fake news" before she can earn the trust and respect of her constituents.
Blaming the media for her shortcomings is a poor (though accurate) reflection of her character. Unfortunately, this type of official is what Portland gets when amateurs are elected to positions beyond their capabilities.
Restroom safety a priority
I was surprised that PCC did not have all-gender restrooms at its campuses, because I was looking forward to finding a lot of respectful things toward all identities in the United States. I strongly agree with adding all-gender restrooms.
However, having all-gender restrooms may cause some troubles if PCC doesn't have three kinds of restrooms — men, women and all users — at the same place.
I am really worried about sex crimes occurring at PCC campuses. I had an experience, which did not happen here, when a man came out from a women's restroom. Even if the men's restroom was crowded at that time, I did not feel safe and comfortable to use the same restroom.
Although it is a really good thing to add all-gender restrooms, to be safe, PCC should consider any expectable trouble to get rid of concerns women have.
If PCC provides something to protect women from crimes or problems, a lot of students, even women, will agree with this change. Lastly, I am an international student from Japan, so I hope this kind of change affects not only PCC but also other public spaces. I support this change as one of PCC's students, because I believe that America, which has great effects on other countries, will lead people to respect each other and each identity.
Kozue Nakasone
Tiny home village a dismal flop
As a longtime resident of the Kenton/Arbor Lodge neighborhood (four generations), I find the Nov. 16 article on the Kenton homeless camp as sad as it is funny. What's sad are the number of omissions in the article. The "cracks" referred to are more like fissures that have grown since this idea was conceived. While some in the Kenton Neighborhood Association dismiss the gravity of the situation and Catholic Charities ducks responsibility, the Kenton community witnesses reality each week.
Drug trafficking and syringe debris are now far more visible. More tents can be seen near the tiny homes. More panhandling and feces on business doorsteps are part of Denver Avenue. Families now defer taking their kids to the beautiful park adjacent the camp. Property crimes are on the rise, as more locals report car break-ins and bike theft.
Catholic Charities gets $150,000 from the government (taxpayers) to operate the homeless camp. They state they're needing more money and say they believe that (undetermined amount) cash will come from reimbursing sources. Reimbursing sources? What's that?
The tiny homes are too cold and the occupants describe them as "ice boxes." The solar panels are so inefficient they don't produce enough energy to power an electric blanket for 15 minutes. Part of the problem is cloud cover. Apparently, the creators of the Kenton location didn't take Portland weather into consideration when the architecture of the camp was developed.
There is an obvious sorrow attached to some of the homeless people who flock to Portland. Their numbers grow, even as the economy gains speed and creates jobs at an unprecedented rate.
What passes for elected leadership in our area not only defines our lack of direction, it encourages more homelessness, which in turn falls on the shoulders of taxpaying citizens.
Jim Speirs


Join us for the next five weeks for Open Studio at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. Join others for painting, conversation, and cabin fever relief. Bring your own art supplies and whatever project you want to work on. Open Studio will take place 9:30 am – 1:00 pm, Wednesdays, January 29-February 26. A suggested donation of $3/session will be accepted. All levels of experience are welcome. Call 334-6112 for more information.


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Electric vehicle food for thought from Fruit 4 London
05/11/2021 in Case studies
electric fleet - operations and case studies
London-based fruit and vegetable delivery company Fruit 4 London has been at the vanguard of electric vehicle (EV) fleets for almost a decade.
The company bought its first two EVs, a pair of Renault Kangoo ZE vans, back in 2012, long before fleet electrification and public recharging infrastructure had entered common vocabulary.
And now, as private companies and public sector organisations take their first tentative steps towards transitioning from internal combustion engines to battery power, Fruit 4 London has continued its pioneering approach, recently installing five vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charge points at its east London warehouse.
The firm's managing director, Laszlo Mulato, has only one regret about his business's electrification process – he wishes he had started even earlier.
The Kangoo vans have been replaced by Nissan eNVQ200 XL light commercial vehicles, converted by Slovakia-based Voltia to have a cargo volume of eight cubic metres, and Fruit 4 London's deliveries to offices and homes are now undertaken by the company's small fleet of seven electric vans (it also has runs one diesel-powered Ford Transit).
The switch to zero tailpipe emissions has saved thousands of pounds in fuel bills and helped it to avoid paying London's daily congestion and Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) charges.
The EVs save Fruit 4 London £2,625 per year in congestion charge fees alone.
The vehicles also feature prominently in the company's marketing and were one of the reasons Fruit 4 London secured its largest client.
"We do not win customers just because we are green, but businesses are trying to make sure their whole supply chains share the same mentality towards the need to reduce greenhouse gases and combat climate change. Everyone has to start thinking differently," says Mulato.
This applies to Fruit 4 London's drivers, too, who appreciate the opportunity to be part of a positive initiative as much as they appreciate how much quieter and easier the eNVQ200s are to drive than the diesel-powered vans they replaced.
"In London, the average speed is only 9mph or 10mph and the number of times you have to depress the clutch and change gears turns driving into physical exercise," says Mulato.
"I remember we used to have a new Toyota Hi-Lux and at the end of the day my knees hurt. I wasn't an old man, but it had such a heavy clutch."
One-pedal driving
The 'one-pedal' driving style for battery-powered vehicles, lifting off the accelerator to brake, has also saved huge sums in service and maintenance budgets, with the EVs proving exceptionally reliable, and requiring very few replacement parts.
"Not once since 2012 has an EV let me down, apart from the 12V battery which features in diesel and petrol engines as well," says Mulato.
"We kept the two Kangoos for six years and when we sold them the brake pads were still at 60%, and we had used the vans fully loaded in London. I don't think we have ever had to change brake pads on any of the Nissans, and one is six years old.
"With the Ford Transits that we used to run, we had to change the brake pads every year - £700 I remember.
"The service and maintenance costs are next to nothing for electric vehicles – virtually nothing can go wrong."
This reliability supports Fruit 4 London's decision to buy its vehicles outright, a strategy that paid off, says Mulato, when Covid-19 struck and the company saw 750 accounts suspended in a day when the country went into lockdown.
Having to pay monthly lease rentals with no revenue coming in would have proved exceptionally challenging.
The company plans to keep its electric vehicles for 10 years.
The high-risk approach of being an early adopter of new technology has not been without its difficulties, however, with Fruit 4 London having to overcome issues to make electric vehicles work for the business.
It incurred re-tooling costs when it commissioned its box supplier to produce boxes that optimised the available space in the cargo area of the eNVQ200, and it has had to be creative and diplomatic to secure the power supply it needs to recharge its vehicles on low-cost electricity overnight at its warehouse.
"We moved into our new warehouse last year and realised that the power supply cables were not strong enough to support V2G chargers," says Mulato. "So we had to go through UK Power Networks, our DNO to find a solution and they were coming up with figures of about £60,000 to upgrade the cables and local substation.
"A serious amount of work needs to be done to support businesses with cabling. There is enough power to support charging, but the cables and substations are seriously out of date.
"Luckily, we realised that one of our neighbours had a lot of power going into his unit and his business was only using a fraction of it, so we managed to swap electricity supply with the neighbour; we gave him our supply and he gave us his.
"We were very lucky to have such a helpful neighbour; if he wasn't cooperative, you are talking serious money."
Slow pace of change
The exchange was more complicated than it sounds, with complex, technical forms to complete, and a frustratingly slow pace of change from the energy companies involved.
"It took weeks of hard work by my business partner; it's not easy to work with electricity companies and get them to work together," says Mulato.
The good news is that the five V2G chargers have been largely funded by Innovate UK as part of the E-Flex demonstration project, leaving Fruit 4 London with an installation bill of about £7,000 when each charger would normally cost about £10,000.
"We are doing something good for the environment, storing renewable energy in our vehicle batteries while they are parked, and then supporting the grid when it needs the power. It's a good concept and we are very proud of taking part in it," says Mulato.
The overnight charge is sufficient to fill the EV batteries and range is no longer an issue – their daily deliveries cover 60-to-90 miles, and when fully charged, the vans are comfortably capable of 120 miles.
"Even if it's very cold and you have to have the heating on and do a longer drive, rapid public charging is widely available and reasonably reliable now," says Mulato.
"Drivers stop for a break where the charger is, and with big names like BP and Shell joining the charging game – they are not cheap, but you can charge for 15 minutes and that's enough to get them back."
A wholehearted EV advocate – he also has a Tesla Model S and BMW i3, both charged whenever possible by solar panels on his home – Mulato can't imagine buying another vehicle with an internal combustion engine.
"It's an amazing feeling, not just saving costs, but knowing you are doing something good for the environment," he says.
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Sydney Summer Cultural Highlights
By Alexander Bisley
↳ ARTS, Music, Visual Arts
On the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Sydney Festival, and more.
The energy is stimulating at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Beautiful—and beautifully designed—wooden-floored spaces flow into wide windows, with panoramic views of the gardens and Sydney harbour. There's plenty to revisit in the free permanent collections, like Brett Whiteley's very sensuous 'Woman in bath IV'. Asian collection highlights include Aida Makato's playful, transporting 'Group of girls', set on the Tokyo subway. Yang Yongliang's environmental cry 'Infinite Landscape'. Liu Jianhua's striking, elegant claret 'Container' sculptures. Elsewhere, notable works include Aboriginal art, William Kentridge and "Angry Penguins" like Sidney Nolan.
January's paid exhibition was The Greats: Masterpieces From the National Galleries of Scotland. The exhibition draws you in with its first piece, Titian's gorgeous 'Venus rises from the sea'. A major influence on Picasso and the rest, the technique and impact is sumptuous. There's plenty of white space around the Titian-refreshing in our over-cluttered lives. And the clever design continues through this on-point hang. Memorable works include Rembrandt's 'A Woman in Bed', Gauguin's 'Three Tahitians', and Velazquez's 'An old woman cooking eggs'. My second favourite is Edgar Degas's 'Diego Martelli'. Degas was the Impressionist most interested in portraiture (and people), and it shows in this sensitive rendition of Martelli, the noted Florentine art critic (and Impressionist champion).
The Sydney Festival turned 40 this year. As they've done for years—wish I saw Al Green— there was a big free gig in The Domain. This year 'twas The Flaming Lips. The Phoenix Foundation's Luke Buda tells me the Lips' "not holding anything back" style is a major influence on his band's much improved live gigs. Wayne Coyne is a charismatic frontman with intelligent lyrics and an affecting voice. His Oklahoma group's all-in performance was quite something, at once a psychedelic spectacle, joyous night out, and moving meditation on mortality. Much played numbers such as 'Do You Realise??', 'Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots', 'The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song', and 'She Don't Use Jelly' resonated anew.
Afro-Finnish singer Mirel Wagner was a stately presence in St Stephen's Uniting Church—white robe, splendid hair— instantly commanding. Her dark materials, Appalachian songs of murder and blues, were performed with a light, luminous touch. Her voice and guitar were both ethereal and gutsy as she sang about what lies beneath on '1234', 'Ellipsis', and 'The Dirt'. Gently, oddly charming.
Two further Sydney Festival shows worth crossing the ditch for were Die Winterreise and Woyzeck. Schubert's masterpiece Winterreise was freighted by an exceptionally sensitive, dynamic performance from the leading baritone Matthias Goerne. Schubert's beautifully sad world of a ditched, declining man was ably heightened by pianist Markus Hinterhauser. Overall artist William Kentridge's visual backdrop was striking and complementary, though occasionally redundant and distracting.
Woyzeck was a powerful, imaginatively staged tale of cruelty, melding the talents of Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Robert Wilson, and Berlin director Jette Steckel. Waits's brilliant 2002 album Blood Money was inspired by the depraved story of Woyzeck, a poor soldier wrecked by medical experiments. Returned to their formative context, Waits's German-accent inflected songs zing with ecstatic truth, from 'Misery Is the River of the World' to 'Coney Island Baby'. Tilo Werner's evil doctor's version of 'God's Away on Business' is extraordinary.
On a happier note, my four-year old nephew's favourite museum is Powerhouse. I also thought their exhibition on super heroes—and super hero ideas—in lego form was cool. Even cooler was Disobedient Objects, from the Black Panthers to Italians protesting against education cuts with the Book Bloc.
Main Image: Titian, Venus rising from the sea (Venus Anadyomene), c1520-25, oil on canvas, 75 × 56.2 cm
'The Greats: Masterpieces From the National Galleries of Scotland' concluded in February. The Sydney Festival ran from January 7-26.
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Filed under: ARTS, Music, Visual Arts
Alexander Bisley is an editor-at-large who has contributed in-depth interviews and more to The Lumière Reader since 2004. He's written extensively on culture (and sport) for all of New Zealand's leading outlets, and also makes his living freelancing for international publications including The Guardian, Slate, and The AV Club. He's published by The Independent, BBC, Vice, The Sydney Morning Herald, Playboy, and Slate France, and has been paid once by The New Yorker.
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Q: SOAP method call extremely slow I am working on a project which relies heavily on SOAP calls. The problem is that load times a re extremely long.
$client = new SoapClient("https://link.to.wsdl");
$client = $client->GetDestination(array(
"parameter1" => $param1,
"parameter2" => $param2
));

Now I did some timing and the first part of the code(initiating an object $client) takes about 2 seconds, very acceptable. But when calling getDestination it adds about 10 seconds loading time. This is with every get or set method that I call.
This code is running on php 5. The methods are written in .net 4.x
Does anyone know why this is and how it can be solved?
EDIT: ping statistics
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.086/2.320/3.624/1.157 ms

A: First, you should enable WSDL caching using the soap.wsdl_cache_enabled ini value or using the $options param of the SoapClient constructor. This would prevent PHP from downloading the wsdl again and again and will speedup the constructor (2 seconds it also very long)
To speedup the method calls itself, I need more information. Are you able to use wireshark to introspect the network communication between your app and the soap server?

A: I had a similar issue connecting to a SOAP service on the same machine as my code. It was resolved by using http://127.0.0.1/ instead of http://localhost/ as the url.

A: hello if you are on plesk check this doc
https://docs.plesk.com/fr-FR/obsidian/administrator-guide/g%C3%A9rer-des-sites-web/sites-web-et-domaines/param%C3%A8tres-d%E2%80%99h%C3%A9bergement/param%C3%A8tres-de-script-web/param%C3%A8tres-php.70742/
https://docs.plesk.com/fr-FR/obsidian/administrator-guide/h%C3%A9bergement-web/gestion-de-php/types-de-gestionnaires-php.75145/
for me I must set "exec php as FPM by apache " in php settings of my site


The exhibition of the Russian Comic – Strip of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia prepared in cooperation with various institutions: House of the Russian Diaspora "Alexander Solzhenitsyn" from Moscow, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, the Archives of Yugoslavia, Historical Archives of the City of Belgrade, the Archives of Alter, the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and the Union of Comic – Strip Artists of the Republic of Serbia was opened at the exhibition hall of the House of the Russian Diaspora "Alexander Solzhenitsyn" in Moscow on October 1, 2018.
This is the first exhibition on the history of the Russian comic strip in Yugoslavia that was staged in Moscow. Among the exhibits are original magazines from the period between the wars, original drawings and sketches of the artists, archival documents and photographs of the Russian comic-strip artists as well as foreign magazine (French, Scandinavian and others) that printed comic strips of the Russian emigrants.
The bilingual Serbian-Russian catalog was prepared by Irina Antanasijević and Ranka Rađenović.


A two day work session at UCSB was extremely informative covering a wide range of topics for programming and ecology. The course was divided into four components: bash-cmd, intro to R-studio, Github, and data manipulation in R-studio. I especially liked how the course took a more abstract approach without going through statistics. Rather it was focused on data manipulation for the day to day ecologist. One of the more unexpected things I learned from the process was R-markdown and developing websites using it with Github. All of these tools can significantly help with collaboration. Although most of what I had been doing in R is not wrong, it may be difficult for a collaborator to pick up my code and start using it. I think this course really helps me bridge that gap and it is something I am going to push forward on. Gone are the days of sharing Word Documents with 6 versions of the same figure.
All the course materials are found on the website here! I would recommend anyone even slightly interested in the above topics to go through it. Below are some highlighted parts that I believe deserve a little extra attention.
One thing that was lightly talked about within the short 3 hour time frame we had, is the power of Bash Shell. Bash Shell (cmd) is Neo from the matrix. All the rules are off and boundaries are endless. It has happened to me before on simple tasks that files or hard drives will be written off as corrupt, yet all the files are still there. Bash Shell has allowed me to see what my OS restricts. This unrestricted access and combination for programming can allow tasks to be committed that otherwise are not possible in real-time or at all. To bring in another movie reference, "with great power comes great responsibility". Despite the overwhelming power of Bash Shell, it is easy to do things wrong… very wrong. It that way it may be intimidated to users because there is no undo or recycling bin. Still, a very powerful tool for the ecologist who wants to do something on their computer, but can't.
Why is Dplyr better than Base? I haven't quite found out if Dplyr better, but I have noticed that it is easier to understand when sharing with collaborators. Nesting functions within funtions may make sense to you, but to others it can look like a disaster. Will I switch over to dplyr? Maybe. It does mean learning a bunch more commands and most are the same character length as base. However, collaboration is everything and seeing subset(subset(subset… may scare a few people off.
Such an unexpected surprised! I really like Rmarkdown and how easy it is to generate a quality website with little code. The best part is that it still has easy functionality to link to CSS or HTML files. Nothing is perfect, and it unfortunately means learning another series of commands and codes for something that already exist. However, it does tie in better with R scripting. This allows for the development of half-websites, half-experiment results that can be used as a blog post, shared with others, etc. The course taught us a lot about it and I'm already forgetting much of what I heard, but I will begin to incorporate as much as I can.
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Innovate Jax
Forcura
| 01.08.19
Graham Healthcare Group Selects Forcura for Intake, Orders Management and Mobile Care Coordination
January 8, 2019 - Jacksonville, FL - Forcura, a healthcare technology company, announces that Graham Healthcare Group, one of the nation's leading home healthcare, hospice and personal care companies, has chosen the Forcura software platform to manage the intake of new patients, management of referring physician orders and mobile care coordination.
Forcura offers document workflow and secure communication solutions specifically designed for enterprise post-acute care organizations and integrates directly with an organization's electronic health record (EHR). Forcura is a preferred partner of Graham Healthcare Group's EHR, Homecare Homebase.
Forcura provides Graham Healthcare Group a customized workflow that creates, sends, tracks and receives all of the organization's documents and converts them to structured data all while seamlessly interfacing with Homecare Homebase. Additionally, the Forcura platform includes mobile functionality that allows for effective and efficient communication and data exchange between clinical and back office teams including secure messaging, document capture and clinical wound measurement.
Graham Healthcare Group is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC) and includes Residential Healthcare Group, Allegheny Health Network-Healthcare@Home and Mary Free Bed at Home. The company serves over 15,000 patients across Michigan, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.
"Continuous innovation across every aspect of our business is a core value at Graham Healthcare Group," said David Curtis, Graham Healthcare Group Home Health CEO. "We look forward to advancing our communication and technological capabilities even further with Forcura."
"We are committed to helping to move the post-acute industry from documents to data so that patients receive better faster care," said Forcura CEO Craig Mandeville. "Working with an innovative enterprise leader like Graham Healthcare Group is allowing us to use the latest advancements in technology to build solutions that can be tested and utilized in market quickly. It's a game changer for Forcura."
About Forcura
Forcura, a leading healthcare technology company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, helps healthcare organizations deliver better patient care, improve cash flow and reduce administrative expenses through document workflow and HIPAA-compliant secure communication tools. The Forcura suite of tools is powered by Forcura Connect, a proprietary framework for standardizing interoperability and integration between Home Health and Hospices organizations, physicians, electronic health records (EHRs) and other supporting technology vendors. The company has recently received awards for Fastest Growing Company, Best Use of Cloud Computing, Best CEO and Best Places to Work. For more information visit forcura.com, call 800-378-0596 or follow Forcura on Twitter @forcura.
About Graham Healthcare Group
As an innovator in an evolving healthcare world, Graham Healthcare Group has been designing business and technology solutions to drive better care, outcomes and productivity within its own home health and hospice companies for over 20 years. The companies that comprise Graham Healthcare Group, a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC), include Residential Healthcare Group, Allegheny Health Network-Healthcare @ Home and Mary Free Bed at Home. Each company offers industry-leading care coordination, healthcare solutions and clinical expertise with leading patient outcomes and satisfaction. Graham Healthcare Group is deeply committed to radically changing the home care model by putting patients and their families at the top of the paradigm, while enhancing the quality and consistency of healthcare in the most convenient and cost-effective setting possible: at home. For more information visit www.grahamhealthcaregroup.com.
About Graham Holdings Company
Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC) is a diversified education and media company whose principal operations include educational services; television broadcasting; online, print and local TV news; home health and hospice care; and custom manufacturing. The Company owns Kaplan, a leading global provider of educational services; Graham Media Group (WDIV–Detroit, KPRC–Houston, WKMG–Orlando, KSAT–San Antonio, WJXT–Jacksonville, WCWJ-Jacksonville, WSLS-Roanoke); The Slate Group (Slate and Panoply); and Foreign Policy. The Company also owns SocialCode, a leading social marketing solutions company; Graham Healthcare Group, home health and hospice providers; Dekko, a manufacturer of electrical solutions for applications across three business lines: workspace power solutions, architectural lighting, and electrical components and assemblies; Hoover Treated Wood Products, a manufacturer of pressure-impregnated kiln-dried lumber and plywood products for fire retardant and preservative applications; Joyce/Dayton Corp., a manufacturer of screw jacks, linear actuators and lifting systems; and Forney Corporation, a manufacturer of burners, igniters, dampers and controls for combustion processes in electric utility and industrial applications. For more information visit www.ghco.com.
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