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PRESS RELEASE: Alsana's Tenth and Long-Awaited Residential Treatment Program in Huntsville, AL Expands Access to Life-Saving Eating Recovery Care
PRESS RELEASE: Alsana's Tenth and Long-Awaited Residential Program opens in Huntsville, AL, Expanding Access to Life-Saving Eating Recovery Care
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Located in Huntsville, AL, Jemison House RTC fills a significant need for all-body inclusive eating disorder recovery services for higher-acuity clients.
Alsana's Adaptive Care Model ®.
(Thousand Oaks, CA) November 16, 2021 – Alsana, an eating disorder treatment provider and community with in-person programs in Alabama, California, and Missouri and virtual programs that serve clients throughout the United States, announced this week that its tenth Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is now open to serve adult clients of all genders in the greater Huntsville area.
Clients who enroll in a Huntsville program can expect to receive the highest quality of holistic care and treatment designed in alignment with Alsana's Adaptive Care Model®.
Alsana Huntsville RTC is a 14-bed program that rests on a spacious, 2.3-acre campus, offering an ideal environment for group sessions, mindful movement modalities, a quiet place where clients can spend their free time. It is led by a team of highly credentialed treatment professionals, including Rebecca Barach, M.Ed, MSW, LICSW, Regional Executive Director for Alsana Huntsville Program, who has been helping clients in recovery heal from their eating disorders since 2011.
"It is an honor to serve as part of our dedicated team to provide hope, healing, compassion, and community for adults who are struggling with eating disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions," Barach said. "I am especially proud of the work we've done to ensure that our treatment offerings are inclusive, affirming, and safe."
People in larger bodies often face obstacles and challenges, such as stigma, bias, or weight discrimination, when they attempt to access care. This creates significant and unnecessary risks for this demographic's mental and physical health. Alsana Huntsville RTC was designed to be environmentally and programmatically inclusive for clients of all body sizes and abilities.
Full-size beds are provided in every residential room for client comfort and inclusion. A variety of movement modalities, such as yoga, badminton, and walking are offered during group sessions to support clients in finding exercise that supports their recoveries.
"Eating disorders absolutely do not discriminate, so it is imperative that providers work to become more inclusive, culturally competent, and affirming," said Tammy Beasley, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, CSSD, longtime Huntsville community member and Vice President of Clinical Nutrition Services for Alsana. "Many people still believe that disordered eating is only a problem for thin, white, young women. The truth is, of the 30 million people in the United States who will develop an eating disorder at some point in their life, most do not occupy lower-weight bodies; most people with eating disorders would be considered 'overweight' or 'average' weight by BMI standards. You have to be willing to listen and see below the surface to know what someone is actually dealing with. Our teams excel in this area, and of that, I am truly proud"
All Registered Dietitians in the Huntsville RTC Program are HAES-trained, and all nutrition education is taught from that perspective.
Gayle Devin, CEO for Alsana, says that Huntsville RTC comes at a time when the demand for eating recovery services and mental health intervention has never been higher. "I believe the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed a significant need for eating disorder treatment services which have required that we expand our programs to meet the moment. As a clients-first eating recovery community, Alsana has kept all levels of care safe and open when clients need help the most. Huntsville RTC will mean even greater access for marginalized communities, and this is only the beginning."
Eating disorder treatment professionals are invited to take part in Alsana's Huntsville Open House Celebration on December 9, 2021.
Jordan Watson, Chief Growth Officer for Alsana
jordan.watson@alsana.com
About Alsana®
Alsana is an eating recovery community that offers holistic, compassionate treatment that focuses on the total health and overall wellness of each individual client. Alsana's data-driven, evidence-based treatment is built on the foundation of the Adaptive Care Model®, a five-point approach that supports clients in every area of their lives by integrating medical, nutritional, and therapeutic care with movement and relational therapies. Alsana is proud to treat a broad spectrum of eating, feeding, and co-occurring disorders and serves all genders, members of the LGTBQ+ community, vegan clients, and, in 2019, they announced programming for clients with ED-DMT1, also known as "diabulimia." Alsana offers care at the residential, day patient, and intensive outpatient levels of care in California, Missouri, and Alabama. Alsana is also proud to offer virtual PHP and IOP services to clients across the United States.
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The development and validation of an instrument to measure the quality of health research reports in the lay media
Dena Zeraatkar1,
Michael Obeda2,
Jeffrey S. Ginsberg3 &
Jack Hirsh3
BMC Public Health volume 17, Article number: 343 (2017) Cite this article
The media serves as an important link between medical research, as reported in scholarly sources, and the public and has the potential to act as a powerful tool to improve public health. However, concerns about the reliability of health research reports have been raised. Tools to monitor the quality of health research reporting in the media are needed to identify areas of weakness in health research reporting and to subsequently work towards the efficient use of the lay media as a public health tool through which the public's health behaviors can be improved.
We developed the Quality Index for health-related Media Reports (QIMR) as a tool to monitor the quality of health research reports in the lay media. The tool was developed according to themes generated from interviews with health journalists and researchers. Item and domain characteristics and scale reliability were assessed. The scale was correlated with a global quality assessment score and media report word count to provide evidence towards its construct validity.
The items and domains of the QIMR demonstrated acceptable validity and reliability. Items from the 'validity' domain were negatively skewed, suggesting possible floor effect. These items were not eliminated due to acceptable content and face validity. QIMR total scores produced a strong correlation with raters' global assessment and a moderate correlation with media report word count, providing evidence towards the construct validity of the instrument.
The results of this investigation indicate that QIMR can adequately measure the quality of health research reports, with acceptable reliability and validity.
The public obtains medical information from television, newspapers, and online sources. The media provides an important link between medical research, as reported in academic sources, and the lay public. Seeking health information in the media has become increasingly common, as evidenced by survey data indicating that nearly a quarter of Canadians used the internet to obtain health information in the year 2000 [1], a rate which has most likely grown over the past decade and a half. Recently, increased attention has been paid to the medical content published in the lay media, with the rise of initiatives such as Health News Review (HealthNewsReview.org), a website which critically reviews medical stories in the U.S. news, and various health website accreditation programs, such as the Health On the Net Foundation (www.hon.ch/) and URAC (www.urac.org/) which provide quality accreditation for websites following an application and screening procedure and MEDCIRLCE and MEDCERTAIN (www.medcircle.org/) which aim to develop technologies to guide consumers towards trustworthy health information [2].
Good quality reporting of health research in the lay media can help set a productive health policy agenda, increase society's collective awareness of pressing health problems, and positively influence the public's day-to-day health behaviors (e.g., undergoing preventative screening, pursuing a healthy diet and exercise, and promoting smoking cessation) [3–5]. Despite the valuable potential of the media as a public health tool, concerns have been raised about its reliability [1, 6–12]. For example, Haneef and colleagues (2015) identified at least one example of spin or misrepresentation of study findings in 88% of American, British, and Canadian media reports on studies of medical interventions. Given the impact health-related media reports can have, ensuring that they are of high quality is of critical importance. Misinformed readers may have heightened concerns or expectations about medical interventions which may lengthen, multiply, or complicate medical consultations and generate inappropriate health behaviors and requests for medical treatment, thereby increasing healthcare spending. Although the importance of reliable health journalism is well recognized, no empirical investigation has yet been undertaken to evaluate the quality of health research reporting in the Canadian media. Furthermore, initiatives such as Health On the Net Foundation are not aimed specifically at evaluating information about health research. This may be partly due to the paucity of available measurement tools, which has potentially stalled needed assessment and surveillance. To address this issue, we developed the Quality Index for health-related Media Reports (QIMR; Additional file 1). The objective of this paper is to describe the development and preliminary validation of the QIMR for evaluating the quality of health research reports published in the Canadian media.
This study was undertaken in two phases. First, the QIMR was developed through literature searches and consultation with key experts. The reliability and validity of the QIMR were subsequently tested with a sample of media reports. The development and testing process of the QIMR is presented in Fig. 1. This study was exempt from ethics review by the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board.
The development and testing process of the QIMR
A literature search was undertaken to identify existing instruments for the evaluation of the quality of health-related media reports. MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched through the Ovid interface using key terms related to health education, patient education, and journalism. No restriction was placed on publication year. The search yielded Oxman et al.'s (1993) Index of scientific quality (ISQ) for health-related news reports [13]. Given the limited yield, the search was expanded to also include instruments developed for the assessment of health information outside of the media. Two additional instruments were identified: Ensuring Quality Information for Patients (EQIP) and DISCERN [14, 15]. The three instruments were assessed for face and content validity.
A number of items on the ISQ were deemed to be irrelevant to the reliable communication of health research in the media. For example, when the ISQ was tested with a sample of media reports, item 1, which asks whether it is clear to whom the information presented in the media report applies, was found to be irrelevant in most cases. Discussion with key informants, such as journalists and researchers, also revealed item 5, which queries whether the media report communicated a clear and well-founded assessment of the precision of estimates, to be irrelevant. Key informants expressed that precision and confidence intervals were topics beyond the scope of what could be reasonably expected of a lay audience with no background in health research to appreciate. It was suggested that it may be sufficient for health journalists to acknowledge the possibility of false positive findings in qualitative terms as opposed to quantifying the likelihood. Finally, items of the ISQ are not organized within domains, thus limiting its capacity to identify specific areas of strength and weakness in health research reports. Unlike the ISQ, the EQIP and DISCERN were developed to evaluate the quality of health information written for patients and thus demonstrate poor content relevance to health research reporting.
To empirically evaluate the quality of health research reporting in the Canadian media, a new measure was developed that specifically addressed the content validity problems of the ISQ, EQIP, and DISCERN.
Item generation
To guide item generation, informal, semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants, which included Canadian health journalists and medical researchers from the departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University. All health journalists held positions at Canadian newspapers and specialized in science and health reporting. All medical researchers were either full-time medical or epidemiology professors or medical doctors pursuing further graduate education in epidemiology at the doctoral level. Key informants were asked to describe high and poor quality health research reporting. They were also asked to provide examples of high and poor quality media reports and explain their strengths and shortcomings. A total of 13 interviews were conducted with six health reporters and seven health researchers, at which point it was believed that content saturation was reached. Content generated from these interviews was organized into five themes (background, sources, results, context, validity), which were then used to guide item generation.
Forty-two candidate items were generated by a working group of three researchers (DZ, JSG, JH) who were not part of the group of key informants consulted in the previous step. Although the ISQ, EQIP, and DISCERN were found to have poor content relevance overall, the few items within each instrument that were found to be relevant to assessing the quality of health research reports were also included in this pool of items. Using items from previously developed tools is advantageous in that these items have already undergone some degree of validation and have demonstrated acceptable psychometric performance [13–15]. Items were phrased as descriptive statements, which raters can endorse to varying degrees, depending on the extent to which the statements apply to the media report being evaluated.
To ensure content coverage, throughout the item generation process, items were mapped onto a matrix with each row representing an item and each column representing one of five themes that emerged from interviews. At least five items were generated for each of the five themes (range: 5-13).
A final global item, which queries the overall quality of the media report and is to be interpreted independently of the overall score, was also developed. Such a global item is useful in cases where the quality of a media report is more nuanced than can be captured by defined criteria [16]. This is occasionally seen with assessments of competence where global rating scales can demonstrate superior reliability, compared to lengthier scales.
Item reduction
It was decided that the instrument should include approximately 15 to 20 items to reduce burden on respondents, who for research or monitoring purposes, may be required to evaluate a large number of media reports, while also ensuring that the scale would be able to adequately discriminate between media reports of varying quality and would demonstrate acceptable reliability. Additionally, the number of items within similar instruments like the EQIP and DISCERN fall within this range.
Items generated by the investigators were reviewed with a group of five key informants (three health researchers and two health journalists who did not participate in the item generation process) who were instructed to review items for clarity and relevance. Items found to be unclear or irrelevant were excluded. To ensure that all themes were adequately covered, items were again mapped onto a matrix. Each domain included at least three items.
Formatting and response options
To facilitate ease of administration, items and domains were ordered according to the likely order of presentation of corresponding elements in media reports required for their assessment. A seven-point adjectival scale was used for all items. For each response option, an adjective which matched the item stem was selected and all response options were numbered. A seven-point scale was selected to maximize reliability and sensitivity and to compensate for potential end-aversion bias, while also avoiding cognitive overload in prospective respondents [17–19]. A seven-point scale has also performed well for other quality assessment instruments. For example, the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines also utilizes a seven-point scale and has demonstrated acceptable reliability [20].
The QIMR is scored by adding the numbers corresponding to each endorsed response option together. Scores can be reported for each domain and/or totaled across all domains. We encourage prospective users to report scores as a percentage of the maximum possible attainable score in a domain or the full scale to aid interpretability.
The objective of the sampling strategy was to obtain a sample of media reports of variable quality, reflective of the content to which the public is regularly exposed. The selection of news sources which would yield artificially high variation in quality and inflated reliability coefficients was avoided. A purposive sample of four Canadian news sources (The Toronto Star, National Post, The Hamilton Spectator, and Winnipeg Sun) of varying rates of circulation was selected. Factiva (https://global.factiva.com) was used to search the four news sources for health research reports according to the search strategy presented in Additional file 2, developed with assistance from a social science research librarian. The search was conducted on March 9, 2016. Two investigators (DZ and MO) selected the seven most recent media reports published by each news source that met the predefined inclusion criteria. Media reports that focused predominantly on a health research study were included (i.e., half or more of the word count was dedicated to the reporting of a health-related research study). Letters to the editor, media reports on research findings not published in peer-reviewed journals, and media reports which discussed findings from more than two research studies were excluded. Conflicts between investigators regarding the inclusion status of a media report were resolved by discussion.
Rating the quality of media reports
Two investigators (DZ and MO) independently evaluated the quality of the included media reports using the QIMR and the accompanying manual.
Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS Version 21 (Boston, Massachusetts, 2012) and G-String Version IV (http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/perd/index.html).
Item and domain characteristics
Item and domain characteristics, including measures of central tendency (i.e., means, medians), dispersion (i.e., standard deviations), and internal consistency (i.e., Cronbach's alpha coefficients) were computed. Corrected item-total correlations were also calculated by correlating item scores with the total QIMR score to evaluate the scale for unidimensionality.
Scale reliability
To test the reliability of the QIMR, Generalizability theory (G theory) was used [21]. In contrast to classical test theory, G theory has the advantage of allowing assessment of the relative contribution of variance across multiple sources, referred to as facets of generalization, simultaneously, thus producing more accurate reliability estimates. G studies yield relative (i.e., norm-referenced) and absolute (i.e., criterion referenced) G coefficients, which can be interpreted similar to reliability coefficients. To compute G coefficients, facets of generalization are designated as either fixed or random. Random facets contribute to the error term in the calculation of the reliability coefficient and fixed facets do not. In this investigation, the object of differentiation was specified as media reports. Three facets of generalization were identified: item nested within domain, domain, and rater.
Five generalizability coefficients were calculated: an internal consistency generalizability coefficient was computed by holding rater and domain fixed and designating item as a random facet of generalization; an inter-domain generalizability coefficient where raters and items were fixed and domains were designated as a random facet of generalization; three inter-rater generalizability coefficients by varying the number of raters and holding items and domains fixed and designating raters as a random facet of generalization; and an overall mixed generalizability coefficient was calculated by designating all facets as random. Relative inter-item and inter-domain generalizability coefficients were interpreted under the assumption that items and domains will not vary between administrations of the QIMR, whereas absolute inter-rater generalizability coefficients were interpreted under the assumption that the raters used to generate the data are a random sample of all possible raters and systematic differences between raters is important in interpreting QIMR scores. The overall generalizability coefficient was calculated as a mixed coefficient to retain the systematic effects of raters and remove the systematic effects of items and domains. Traditionally, for non-clinical or high-stake measurement, reliability coefficients below 0.5 are seen as unreliable, measures between 0.5 and 0.7 are modest, and reliability coefficients above 0.7 indicate satisfactory reliability [22]. This standard was used to interpret reliability and generalizability coefficients with the caveat that these criteria are less stringent for generalizability coefficients, which take into account multiple sources of variation simultaneously.
Construct validation
Pearson correlation coefficients were used to test two convergent construct validity hypotheses: the correlation of the QIMR total score with raters' global impression and media report word count. Although the QIMR is completed on an adjectival scale, scores generated from Likert or adjectival scales generally demonstrate interval properties and parametric tests are robust against these interval assumptions [23]. Hence, Pearson correlation coefficients were thought to be appropriate.
Given that reliability coefficients are not substantially impacted by sample size and the absence of existing guidelines for conducting sample size calculations for G studies [16], a sample size of 28 media reports was pragmatically chosen. Assuming a strong correlation of 0.8 between global and QIMR score, we estimated that 28 media reports would provide more than sufficient power at the 0.05 alpha level. Assuming a moderate correlation of 0.5 between word count and QIMR score, a sample size of 28 media reports would provide 80% power to detect a statistically significant correlation at the 0.05 alpha level.
Media report characteristics
Characteristics of the 28 included media reports and the four included news sources are presented in Tables 1 and 2. Media reports described studies from a range of medical specialties. The three most commonly reported specialties were public health (5; 18%), neonatology and pediatrics (5; 18%), and infectious disease (4; 14%). The mean word count of included media reports was 587.21 (SD 290.49) and ranged from 127 to 1175 words. The mean QIMR rating was 50.86% (SD 15.64%).
Table 1 Media report characteristics
Table 2 News source characteristics
Item characteristics are presented in Table 3. Responses for most items appear to be approximately normally distributed, as indicated by similar mean and median statistics. All item standard deviations exceed one, indicating variability in responses. Response options endorsed appear to range the full scale, as illustrated by the minimum and maximum values. Endorsement frequencies of response options for all items were individually examined. No response option for any of the items produced an endorsement frequency greater than 75%. These results suggest that all items are adequately differentiating between media reports.
Table 3 Item statistics
Most items appear to have acceptable item-total correlation values, between 0.3 and 0.7 [16]. Four items were poorly correlated with total scale scores: one item in the 'background' domain assessing use of jargon, one item in the 'sources' domain assessing the identification of the organizational and financial affiliations of the study, and two items in the 'validity' domain assessing whether the appropriateness of the study methodology and strengths and weaknesses of the study are adequately discussed.
Domain characteristics
Domain statistics are presented in Table 4. The mean domain scores ranged from 15.06% to 66.41% for the 'validity' and 'results' domains, respectively. Standard deviation statistics ranged from 2.26 points (12.56%) to 4.44 points (24.67%) for the 'results' and 'context' domains, respectively.
Table 4 Domain Statistics
The 'background', 'sources', and 'context' domains produced less than ideal Cronbach's alpha coefficients, ranging from 0.49 for the 'sources' domain to 0.58 for the 'background' domain. Cronbach's alpha values for the remaining two domains were above 0.70.
Generalizability study
Variance components from the G study are presented in Table 5. The three largest sources of variance were media reports (38.85%), domains (29.21%), and the interaction between media reports and raters (11.26%).
Table 5 Variance components generated from the Generalizability study
Generalizability coefficients are presented in Table 6. The internal consistency of the scale was estimated at 0.87, inter-domain reliability was 0.72, and inter-rater reliability between two raters was 0.68. Averaging QIMR ratings over three raters increased the inter-rater reliability to 0.76. The overall generalizability coefficient for the scale was 0.54.
Table 6 Generalizability coefficients generated from G study
Construct validity
Table 7 presents the results of the constructs tested. QIMR scores were highly correlated with raters' global impression and moderately correlated with word count. The relationship between QIMR scores and global ratings and word count are presented in Figs. 2 and 3, respectively.
Table 7 Construct validation results (Pearson correlation coefficients)
Relationship between total QIMR score and media report word count
Relationship between QIMR total scores and global rating
The results from the preliminary reliability and validity testing suggest that the QIMR demonstrates adequate reliability and validity for use by health researchers to evaluate the quality of health research reports in the lay media.
A diverse range of media reports were included in this analysis. Included media reports varied in length, were published in news sources with varying rates of circulation, and reported on research articles from a range of medical specialties. Diversity in the object of measurement is a necessary precondition for testing reliability and correlating scores with other measures to establish construct validity [16]. Finally, establishing reliability and validity in a diverse sample allows potential users to be confident in applying the QIMR to a wider range of media reports.
Most QIMR items performed satisfactorily. All items generally produced normal response distributions. Floor effects were detected for items in the 'validity' domain of the QIMR. Modifying response options was considered to deal with this effect. Closer examination of these items revealed that all response options were used for at least one media report and the probability of endorsing any single response option did not exceed 75%. This suggests adequate variability in responses, which we concluded did not warrant modification to the scale.
Most items on the QIMR demonstrated acceptable correlation with the total scale score. This suggests that the scale is measuring a singular construct with low item redundancy. Four items (1d, 2a, 5a, 5c) produced item-total correlations less than 0.3, suggesting that they may be measuring characteristics of media reports other than quality. Closer examination of these items revealed good face validity. It was hypothesized that these items measured characteristics that were conceptually relevant to the overall quality of media reports but not necessarily highly correlated with other indicators of quality. The poor performance of these items may also be an artifact of the sample of media reports evaluated in this investigation. Testing an additional sample of media reports and evaluating raters' interpretation of these items may shed light on these results.
The domains of the QIMR demonstrated good score variability, suggesting that domains have acceptable ability to discriminate between media reports of varying quality. The last domain of the QIMR, the 'validity' domain, produced a negatively skewed score distribution with a floor effect. The domain was retained as it produced adequate variability in scores. Furthermore, as items and domains included in the QIMR emerged from interviews with key informants, it was decided that eliminating the 'validity' domain may reduce the content validity of the instrument. We encourage users of the QIMR to exercise caution when using and interpreting 'validity' domain scores, as this domain may lack adequate sensitivity.
Three domains produced lower than ideal Cronbach's alpha values, suggesting that they may not be unidimensional. However, this is most likely due to the inclusion of few items within each domain.
The G study suggests that QIMR scores have moderate generalizability for use as a research tool. As expected, media reports accounted for the most observed variance, indicating that the QIMR is sensitive to the quality of individual media reports. Domains also accounted for significant variance, most likely due to each domain is evaluating an independent, singular characteristic of media reports. The variability observed due to the interaction between media reports and raters is larger than ideal. Averaging QIMR ratings over a larger number of raters should improve generalizability.
The scale demonstrated good internal consistency. Inter-domain generalizability, which can be interpreted as the extent to which ratings on one domain can be generalized to another domain, was moderate. There was also moderate inter-rater generalizability, which can be interpreted as the extent to which ratings by one rater can be generalized to another rater. Increasing the number of raters to three yielded acceptable inter-rater generalizability. We recommend for QIMR scores to be averaged over at least three raters to obtain stable and reliable quality scores.
The construct validation testing confirmed the hypothesized relationships between total QIMR scores and raters' global assessment of media reports and word count. A strong (0.80) relationship was detected between QIMR scores and raters' global assessment of media reports and a moderate (0.53) relationship between QIMR scores and media report length was detected. These results lend credence to the validity of the QIMR for measuring the quality of health research reports in the media and the theory linking raters' global assessment and word count to the overall quality of media reports.
Limitations and future directions
This investigation is not without limitations. The potential non-representativeness of the sample of health researchers used to develop the theoretical framework according to which items were generated must be acknowledged. The sample of health journalists who agreed to participate in this investigation may have also been systematically different from other journalists. These journalists may have been highly motivated or interested in publishing high quality content. Similarly, the health researchers interviewed during the item generation process were all members of one institution and so may have shared a similar perspective on the topic.
In evaluating the reliability of the QIMR, it must also be noted that some level of subjectivity is always involved in judging the adequacy of reliability coefficients. Furthermore, interpretation of generalizability coefficients is less straightforward than the interpretation of standard reliability coefficients. Because generalizability theory allows modeling of multiple sources of error which impact reliability, it is likely that values of generalizability coefficients might only approach the levels considered acceptable in classical test theory. Thus, the overall generalizability coefficient obtained for the QIMR, while slightly lower than reliability coefficients considered adequate in classical test theory, may in fact indicate acceptable reliability.
Finally, the evaluation of the quality of health research reports in the media is influenced by the content knowledge of the raters and their familiarity with the topic being reported. It may be of interest to evaluate the performance of the QIMR for use by raters with more or less health research experience.
Areas for future research may include testing the sensitivity of the QIMR to news sources. It is likely that news sources will publish content of varying quality. Differences were observed in QIMR total and domain scores for the four different news sources. However, no statistical tests were conducted to evaluate this relationship due to our limited sample size. Future research may also be directed at assessing the performance of the QIMR for evaluating health research reports published in American or European news sources.
The QIMR demonstrated adequate validity and reliability for use as a tool to evaluate the quality of health research reporting in the media. This tool can be used for research purposes to identify correlates of high and poor quality reporting of medical research. It can also be used to identify areas of weakness in health research reports and to subsequently develop targeted interventions to improve the state of health research reporting. It is anticipated that monitoring and improving the state of health research reporting may lead to the better utilization of the media as a public health tool.
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We thank the researchers and journalists who provided guidance with this project. All authors have read final manuscript.
This project was not funded.
All data available upon request.
DZ, JSG, and JH developed the concept of the study. DZ conducted literature searches and interviews. DZ and MO completed data collection. DZ analyzed all data. DZ drafted the manuscript. MO, JSG, and JH provided feedback. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Exempt by Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board.
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada
Dena Zeraatkar
Department of Family Medicine, Queen's Univeristy, Kingston, Canada
Michael Obeda
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Jeffrey S. Ginsberg & Jack Hirsh
Jeffrey S. Ginsberg
Jack Hirsh
Correspondence to Dena Zeraatkar.
Quality Index for health-related Media Reports (QIMR). (DOC 87 kb)
Search strategy for reports on health-related research in the media ran on Factiva. (DOCX 41 kb)
Zeraatkar, D., Obeda, M., Ginsberg, J.S. et al. The development and validation of an instrument to measure the quality of health research reports in the lay media. BMC Public Health 17, 343 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4259-y
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4259-y
Health research reporting
Health media reports
Scale development

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CLUB RUGBY, Latest News, Premiership
Dai Young plots next coaching move after Wasps exit
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Former Wasps director of rugby Dai Young has revealed his desire to eventually return to the sport.
The former Wales international left his position with Wasps last month after nine years and believes he is benefiting from some time away from the sport.
"I'm getting back in the gym, getting myself fitter and losing a bit of weight. Spending a bit of time on me," Young told the Coventry Telegraph.
"The director of rugby job is an all-consuming job, you can forget to look after yourself. I want to rest up as well and take a break from it and recharge my batteries."
Young, who helped Wasps finish as Premiership runners-up in 2017, admits his final two seasons with the club did not go to plan from a personal perspective.
He did not get much time to coach on the field, something he would like to rectify in his next position.
The Welshman added: "The last two years at Wasps I didn't have a direct hands-on coaching responsibility but an overseeing role.
"I'd much rather be a director of rugby, head coach. Spending more hands-on coaching time on the pitch. I'm not averse to just being a coach as well. I have got no egotistical thing about wanting to be in charge. I see my next job as being really important, I want to make sure it's something I enjoy."
Young spent eight years coaching Cardiff Blues prior to taking over at Wasps, while he won 51 caps for Wales during his playing career and was part of the British and Irish Lions squad that toured Australia in 1989.


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Ozawa è nata nel 1973 a Kamakura. Nel 1989, comincia la sua carriera professionistica nel Nissan Ladies. Nel 1993, è selezionata nelle migliori undici del campionato giapponese nonostante il suo club venga disciolto. In seguito, giocherà nel Tokyo Shidax e nel Fujita Mercury. Chiude la carriera come calciatrice nel 1997.

Nazionale
Nel dicembre 1993, all'età di 19 anni, Ozawa è convocata nella Nazionale maggiore in occasione della Coppa d'Asia 1993 in Malesia, dove ottenne il terzo posto. L'anno successivo, prenderà parte ai XII Giochi asiatici dove il Giappone vincerà la medaglia d'argento. Ozawa disputerà anche il Mondiale 1995 e il torneo olimpico 1996. In tutto Ozawa ha giocato 21 partite con la Nazionale nipponica.

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Blue Light Whakatane and its coordinator Richard Hamer have been busy creating positive activities and programmes for children and young people in the community.
Blue Light is a national organisation with local branches, which aims to forge connections between the police and the public. It's run jointly by a committee of police and community members.
Richard has been doing youth and community education work for 25 years, in both Wales and New Zealand. He is a keen cyclist, and he has made mountain biking and cycling a central feature of how Blue Light gets young people onboard in the Whakatane area.
As a charitable trust, Blue Light successfully applied for funding for 12 bikes originally, and it has just acquired 12 more, Richard says.
"Kids and teens enjoy biking, it's a relatively low-cost physical activity, it's fun and exciting, and you get to go into some really great environments," he says.
Not only does Blue Light get kids outdoors and give them new skills, but it also offers a positive and supportive space, he adds.
"It's a challenging time in their lives with all sorts of things happening. It's quite amazing how resilient kids are.
Richard already had his National Certificate in Recreation and Sport (Cycle Skills Instructor) with Skills Active, and decided to upskill by adding the National Certificate in Outdoor Recreation (Leadership) (Mountain Biking). After that, he became an assessor for both qualifications, which paved the way for him to help other local cyclists go through the training.
With Richard as the driving force, a number of experienced local bike riders have now completed one of these qualifications – growing the skills and capability of the community, and adding capacity to deliver more cycling programmes to the people of Whakatane, both young and old.
Five graduates have come out of the programmes, and four more are going through their training now, Richard says. He says the on-job training model is a great option for a volunteer-based organisation like Blue Light.


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Q: How do I create a column that is fluid up to a certain point? I'm trying to create a two-column layout where the right column is fixed, and the left column is flexible up to a certain maximum width depending on the parent's width. For example, in the diagram below, I want the right column fixed at 100px and the left column to fill the parent's empty space up to 100px, at which point it stops expanding.

For the first three examples, I can use a table with table-layout: fixed, but this doesn't work for the last example because I can't seem to set a max-width on the first column.
Ideally, this would be CSS-only (no JavaScript) and without using media queries (since it's based on the parent and not the viewport).
If it's relevant, the first column will itself be or contain a table.
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Here is some code that I have tried that has not worked: http://jsfiddle.net/cdp46fnx/1/

A: I don't know if I understood what you're trying to accomplish, but here's one of the possible solutions (not sure if it will fit your needs):http://jsfiddle.net/Arministrator/0uuxvqkt/
I assumed you'll have some external element that affects your main elements:

2

1

And then adjust CSS so that your container has both min and max width. Float one of the columns right, and let other fill the remaining space. When there's minimum width of 150px right column will be 100 and left 50. If width is over 200, both columns will be 200 and the rest of the space is empty (external element.)
You can change this site_width ID to check all solutions

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SharePoint Server 2007 Is an (Able) Jack of All Trades – is he?
Wolfgang Sommergut pointed me with his 2007-01-16 linklist to that eWeek article by Jim Rapoza "SharePoint Server 2007 Is an (Able) Jack of All Trades" which is a fairly good publicity for Microsofts SharePoint Server. Besides those impressing feature list and the collection of tools like wiki and blog, i'ts still a complex piece of software with a standard server license starting at $4,347 and a standard client access license starting at $93. And it entangles you deeper in the microsoft overpaid licence world than anything else.
So if you want a simple but usefull alternative solution, if you want to make some steps into an open world based on open source you might give the Mindquarry Collaboration Server a try when they provide their first download in February. Go and register on the Mindquarry webpage to get notified.
Originally uploaded to flickr by anu.gupta.
I don't know how long I have it, but I dedected recently on the top program menu bar in my gmail the link to "photos". Is that the killer application for flickr? I guess not. I can use flickr even with not having own photos in it. Just to browse through some wonderful photos.
Google's picasa online is just a storage place for your own photos, allowing sharing with friends. But it's far from being a community. I guess I' ll keep my photos still in flickr for a while.
The German based Experton Group has made an interesting prediction for the next years. So they underlined my expectations with market figures. They call it "From Desktop to Webtop – Web 2.0 on the way into the enterprises".
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Betty White celebrated her 99th birthday!
Live Updates: U.S. Capitol on lockdown, inauguration rehearsal evacuated
Domestic violence spikes during Fiesta in San Antonio
"It's that liquid courage. They start to disregard what other people think of them. It's that loss of inhibition, where they start to act out in front of strangers."
Author: Savannah Louie (KSDK)
Published: 4:28 PM CDT April 8, 2019
Updated: 4:28 PM CDT April 8, 2019
SAN ANTONIO — Today was Krys Turner's first time donating to the Battered Women and Children's Shelter, and her timing couldn't be better.
"There's like six to seven bags of clothes, and there's shoes, and there's belts, and there's hats," said Turner. "I cleaned out quite a bit."
Domestic abuse victims will always find these items important, but these items may be even more valuable in the coming weeks. Fiesta can bring out a dark side in party-goers, according to Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez.
"You see an increase in calls to SAPD and the Sheriff's office," she explained. "It's that liquid courage. They start to disregard what other people think of them. It's that loss of inhibition, where they start to act out in front of strangers."
The judge presides over domestic violence courts and sees an increase in violence between partners, parents and children, and siblings this time every year.
"In couples which the violence might already be a dynamic between them, alcohol might increase the probability of violence taking place," she said.
While some abuse is physical, the judge explained that abuse can be verbal or psychological too.
Support systems like the Battered Women and Children's Shelter are vital for these victims, but the judge hopes bystanders will speak out too.
"If you see someone slapping someone around, or someone who's not taking care of their children appropriately, be that person who says 'hey - you need to stop drinking,'" she said.
The Battered Women and Children's Donation Center is open Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Domestic abuse victims can call their 24-hour domestic abuse hotline at 210-733-8810.
The Rape Crisis Center in San Antonio, which offers free and confidential counseling, is open 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday - Saturday. Their 24-hour hotline is accessible at 210-349-7273.


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Headshots & Modeling Portfolio
Classical Indian Dance
Esther Mira
Filming This Is Not A Bollywood Movie
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of working with some very talented graduate students from the USC School Of Cinematic Arts who are creating the short film This Is Not A Bollywood Movie. Everyone was so professional and organized, and it was such a fun shoot!
Here we are filming one of the first scenes in Palos Verdes, CA:
The Makeup Artist is amazing and here I am getting some final touchups before filming my next scene:
Here we are on our second day of filming, doing some exterior shots:
I'm on set this weekend as well, and I can't wait to see how everything will turn out! I have met such incredible people on this film and I do hope that I will get to work with them again in the future!
← Rumpelstiltskin At The West Valley Playhouse
April News →
V-Day at East 15 Acting School in Loughton, U.K. February, 2014
Cast Photo of "The Vagina Monologues" East 15 Acting School in Loughton, U.K. February, 2012
Backstage getting ready for the opening of "Yerma". East 15 Acting School Spring, 2012
"Yerma" East 15 Acting School Spring, 2012
"Victory" East 15 Acting School Spring, 2013
World Premiere of "Animal Farm" East 15 Acting School May, 2013
"Rumpelstiltskin" at The West Valley Playhouse Children's Theatre in Canoga Park, CA. Spring, 2014
World Premiere of "Digby's New Wife" at The Avery Schreiber Playhouse in North Hollywood, CA. Spring, 2014
World Premiere of "EgoManiac: A Poetic Incantation" at The Actors Company: Other Space Theatre. Hollywood Fringe Festival June, 2014
World Premiere of "EgoManiac: A Poetic Incantation" at The Actors Company Other Space Theatre. Hollywood Fringe Festival June, 2014
Los Angeles Premiere of "Cecily" at The Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre. Hollywood Fringe Festival June, 2014
First Table Read of "Nobody's Child" Artists At Play 2015 Reading Series
Final Rehearsal of "Nobody's Child" Artists At Play 2015 Reading Series, Los Angeles, CA.
Staged Reading of "Nobody's Child". Lounge Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. April, 2015
Cast, Dramaturg and Playwright of "Nobody's Child". Lounge Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. April, 2015
Broads' Word Theatre Presents "Fifty Shades Of Shrew" at the Lounge Theatre. Hollywood Fringe Festival June, 2015
World Premiere of "Women w/o Walls" at The Lounge Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. Fall, 2015
World Premiere of "Revolution In A Catsuit" at The Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Spring, 2017
West Coast Premiere of "With My Eyes Shut" at studio/stage. Hollywood Fringe Festival June, 2018
West Coast Premiere of "With My Eyes Shut" at studio/stage. Winner Best in Dance & Physical Theatre and The Encore Producers' Award at The Hollywood Fringe Festival, June, 2018.
"The Dark Horse" at The Hudson Theatres in Los Angeles, CA. 2Cent Theatre's 6th Annual Acting Out INK Fest in March, 2019.
"Initial Velocity" at The Hudson Theatres in Los Angeles, CA. 2Cent Theatre's 6th Annual Acting Out INK Fest in March, 2019.
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Getting Stronger
Pilates Certification – Halfway There!
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Charming white harled village that is picture postcard pretty and features on many pictures postcards
On the northeastern tip of the Black Isle Peninsula, at the mouth of the Cromarty Firth, is the gorgeous village of Cromarty, one of the east coast's major attractions. Its neat white-harled houses interspersed with gracious merchants' residences are almost unchanged since the 18th century when it was a sea port thriving on trade as far afield as Russia and the Baltic. Many emigrants bound for the New World embarked here. A prosperity based on textiles and fishing led to decline and dereliction.
A serious crime
The Brahan SeerSeer, Brahan was boiled in a barrel of tar in 1660 but not before he had foretold the building of the Caledonian Canal and Kessock Bridge, the Highland Clearances and the Second World War. He also predicted the demise of the local lairds and the Seaforths. It was Lady Seaforth who ordered his execution, after the seer had a vision of her husband in the arms of another woman. Apparently the precise spot where he met his end is now the 13th hole of the golf course at Chanonry Point, which just goes to prove that it is indeed unlucky for some.
Rosemarkie | Balintore & Shandwick | Culbokie | Invergordon | Macduff | Lybster | Portmahomack | Fortrose
Northern Highlands of Scotland
Travel Directions to Cromarty
There are regular daily buses from Inverness and a bus service twice a week to and from Dingwall. A 2-car ferry crosses to Nigg every half hour from Apr to Oct, 0900-1800. Highland Bus & Coach, Tel. 01463-233371, runs a bus service from Inverness to Fortrose and Cromarty (4-7 times daily Mon-Sat). There is also a bus service to and from Dingwall on Wed and Thu.
A832 Gairloch to Cromarty
Local Sights & Activities for Cromarty
Although restored and much inhabited, Cromarty now has the atmosphere of a backwater, but a very attractive one at that, where you feel as if you're stepping back in time, in stark contrast to the numerous oil rigs moored on the opposite shore in Nigg Bay (see below). For a fascinating insight into the history of the area, visit the 18th-century Cromarty Courthouse, in Church Street, which houses the town's museum. Info - Apr-Oct daily 1000-1700, £4.50, concssion/children £3.50, includes loan of headset for recorded tour of the town's other historic buildings, which houses the town's museum. T600418. Next to the courthouse is the thatch-roofed Hugh Miller's Cottage, birthplace of the eminent local geologist and author. Info- 31 Mar-30 Sep daily 1230-1630, Oct Sun-Wed 1230-1630, £5, concession £4, family £14. T600245. Also worth seeing is the elegant 17th-century East Church.
There's a good walk along a coastal path from the east end of the village through woodland to the top of the South Sutor headland, one of the two steep headlands guarding the narrow entrance to the Cromarty Firth. There are excellent views from here across the Moray Firth. Leaflets describing this and other local walks are available at the Cromarty Courthouse.
One of Cromarty's main attractions is its dolphins. They can be seen from the shore, or with a boat trip, but make sure you go with an accredited operator, such as Dolphin Ecosse, Tel. 600323. Full-day or half-day trips leave from the harbour and you can see porpoises and seals as well as dolphins, and perhaps even killer whales further out. To the west, the mudflats of Udale Bay are an RSPB reserve and a haven for wading birds and wintering duck and geese, which can be viewed from a hide. In the winter other birds such as pinkfooted geese and whooper swans use the bay as a roost.
Poyntzfield Herb Garden is an organic plant nursery specializing in rare and native medicinal herbs. Worth visiting if only for a glimpse of the house, and the view from the car park over the Cromarty Firth through massive beech trees.
Nearby Distilleries
Dalmore Distillery
Set amidst the pretty surroundings on the Cromarty Firth, Dalmore is one of the most attractive distilleries in Scotland
Cromarty Hotels & Accommodation
For such an appealing place, there's precious little accommodation. The best place to stay is the Royal Hotel, on Marine Terrace, Tel. 600217, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. It has a good restaurant, and cheaper meals are available in the bar. There are a couple of B&Bs, including the very good Beechfield House at 4 Urquhart Court, Tel. 600308, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Another good place to eat is Thistle's Restaurant on Church St, Tel. 600471, which has a moderately priced and imaginative menu, including interesting vegetarian dishes. A great place for tea and scones is Binnie's Tearoom on Church St. For cheap bar food try the Cromarty Arms, opposite the Cromarty Courthouse, which also has live music some nights.
It's advisable to book ahead during the summer.
Cromarty Cottages and Holiday SelfCatering
Lum Hat House, Cromarty Firth - Sleeps 4
Lum Hat House, with its own access to foreshore and beach, is a detached property, enjoying an enviable setting on the shore of the Cromarty Firth, with superb views across the waters to the mountains beyo...
Gordons Lane Cottage, Cromarty, sleeps 4
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Q: How do I Propery Configure Display Scaling on macOS (with a 1440p External Display) to Reduce Eye Strain? I have a triple monitor setup, I use it for my gaming computer primarily. This setup until November was 3 1080p 27" monitors. I use a Dell D6000 Dock to connect my 2018 MacBook Pro (and when WFH in lockdowns my work Mac Mini). I'm back in the home office but the setup has changed since I last used it (which worked perfectly).
I bought a new 1440p 165Hz beast of a gaming monitor, I've been using it on windows since November with absolutely no issues. All you need to do is whack 1 slider up to set an appropriate display scale and you're done.
On Mac I'm having a few more problems getting this display scaling to work properly. I've been getting eye strain this week when my main monitor is set to 1440p, its really bad. If I set the display to 1080p the strain goes but the quality of the image is worse than my side monitors. The side monitors on windows look blurry, when compared to the main and I paid alot of money for my new monitor and I'm very happy with it, so I want to run it at full whack.
The Display menu is confusing in my opinion because it displays different scaling options for retina & non retina displays:
Retina

Non Retina (This is my actual display settings for the monitor in question

I would like to run the display so that the screen scaling matches 1080p, but I want the image to be at the full resolution of my monitor, 1440p. I've had a look into both RDM & SwitchResX but don't really understand what I'm doing.
RDM
I don't actually get many options in this program. I get the usual options that are available in display and very few "Retina" options.

If I try to select 1280x720, nothing happens at all. If I select 1280x800 (16:10 so an incorrect aspect). the screen changes and displays a really high quality image with the OS GUI scaled and at a much less eye taxing size.
SwitchResX
I've played about with custom resolutions but can't get it to send a 2560x1400 60Hz signal scaled to 1920x1080. If I add a custom resolution it just marks it as invalid, even if I use the preset provided by the program.
Dilema
I really can't live with the OS GUI scale of native 1440p on macOS. Everything is just that little bit too small and its genuinely causing me physical pain to use my setup which is tried and tested for years (never had ANY issues on the 1080 displays). I'm planning an upgrade of my side monitors to 1440p as-well so I really need to crack this issue before I go and triple my problem...
I tried things like following this gist to set the screen to 2560x1080, even turning SIP off (which seems scary to me).
Would these issues be caused by my use of the Dell D6000 Dock? I'm connecting it to my mac via Thunderbolt USB C & I use the provided HDMI 2.0 cable to connect the dock to the monitor. I tested the specific cable with my windows machine and was able to run the panel at 1440p + 165Hz so bandwidth is likely not an issue. My dock supports up to 3 4K displays so again I don't think there are any physical limitations in the way. This is a purely software issue and I've got to say disappointing from apple. Their iOS accessibility is top notch, but their mac accessibility looks to be garbage if this experience is anything to go by! and I'm not alone!
For now I'm running the monitor at 1080p, everything looks blurry but at least I'm not going blind....

A: The solution requires SwitchResX and to follow this guide - How to Mimic a 2K Monitor as "Retina Display" in macOS Sierra Using HiDPI. The high level steps:

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*Install SwitchResX.

*Disable SIP.

*Create a custom 4k resolution (3840 x 2160) in SwitchResX using the Scaled resolution option.

*1920 x 1080 HiDPi becomes available in Current Resolutions of SwitchResX.

*Enable that resolution.

The image is now going to my monitor at 2560x1440 with the HUD scale of 1920x1080.
(Thanks to @Tetsujin & @sfxedit I've been able to get the monitor displaying how I wanted.)

Edit* This solution is only valid for intel silicone macs. If you are running Apple silicone SwitchResX will not work and you will need to use a solution such as BetterDisplay(Previously known as BetterDummy), which doesn't require SIP being disabled!

A: SwitchResX did not work for me but I found a working solution which does not require to disable SIP. It's called BetterDummy: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy


Unpredictable rain, a tyre gambles and virile passing moves summed up race two of the weekend for the Formula Renault 3.5 Series at the Nürburgring. Strakka Racing showed the others how it is done with Tio Ellinas notching his second triumph of the season, while rookie team mate Gustav Malja made it a one-two result. 2014 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 champion an member of the McLaren Young Driver Development Programme, Nyck de Vries (DAMS) completed the podium. In the race for the title, pole winner Oliver Rowland (Fortec Motorsports) salvaged the final point on offer, finishing ahead of championship rival Matthieu Vaxiviere (Lotus).The Englishman leaves Germany with a 50-point lead.
Following his Saturday success, Oliver Rowland claimed his fifth pole position of the year, ahead of Pietro Fantin (International Draco Racing) and rookie Roy Nissany (Tech 1 Racing). Rowland's only threat for the crown, Matthieu Vaxiviere qualified eighth.
The majority of the drivers went with slick tyres for the start on what was a slightly damp track surface, with one notable exception in Nyck de Vries and most of those lined up on the second half of the grid. In what was an unbelievable start to the race, Oliver Rowland's spin allowed Pietro Fantin to lead the way ahead of 10th on the grid, Aurélien Panis (Tech 1 Racing), and Tom Dillmann (Jagonya Ayam with Carlin). Tio Ellinas and Egor Orudzhev (Arden Motorsport) followed close behind in a field where positions changed at each corner and where the slicks were the right call.
The safety car and rain changed everything .
On lap four, Pietro Fantin had a more than 10-second lead. Aurélien Panis was overtaken by Matthieu Vaxiviere, Tio Ellinas and Oliver Rowland – already back with the leaders -, before going straight off the track after the pit stop window had opened. The safety car was called into service, forcing those who had not yet made their stop to build as a big a gap as possible at the re-start.
Despite the window remaining open just until lap 18, their efforts were in vain. First to come in, Tio Ellinas came out with the lead, but then the rain changed things. After the attack of Gustav Malja, the Cypriot re-took the advantage from his team mate to go on for the win. Running in third place for a majority of the race, Egor Orudzhev went wide coming out of a corner and finished behind Nyck de Vries and Alfonso Celis (AVF), Pietro Fantin was penalized for not respecting the pit window and dropped to ninth. Dean Stoneman (DAMS) finished sixth, ahead of Marlon Stockinger (Lotus) and Renè Binder (Pons Racing). Oliver Rowland (Fortec Motorsports), who overtook Matthieu Vaxiviere on the final lap, picked up the one point for tenth place.


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Latest version: V 0.7.3 - JIRA host can now be set from server-conf.
## Synopsis
This is a webapp that generates a table of 'Change' issues/tasks from JIRA using the JIRA API for quick meeting notes. This webapp also generates a print-friendly page of said meeting notes.

## Motivation
This webapp was created to fulfill the need of quickly creating meeting notes from JIRA and is intended to replace a Excel VBS solution.

## Note
This webapp does not have HTTPS for communication between the webapp and the user. This webapp only uses HTTPS for communicating with JIRA. As such, it is recommended only to use this webapp on a trusted secure network, or on the user's computer.

## Prerequisites
#### This webapp requires:
- npm
- node.js
- jquery (included)

#### Node.js dependencies (included as zip folders):
- body-parser
- ejs
- express
- jquery.tabulator

## Installation
0. Download node.js and npm; go to https://nodejs.org/en/ to download Node.js and https://nodejs.org/en/download/ to download npm. Administrator privileges will be required.
1. Download the webapp and install the prerequisites; extract the three folders named "jquery-ui", and "node_modules" to their respective folder names inside the webapp's root directory.
2. Run the webapp from a command prompt or terminal; open cmd/terminal, cd  to the webapp directory, and start the webapp using "node server.js" without quotes.
3. The webapp should start on localhost port 8081 (localhost:8081). The port and JIRA host url can be specified using the server-conf file. Ensure that the config is in proper JSON format.
## Date Range
Valid date format for Created is 'yyyy-MM-dd'. Leave both blank for no range (not even spaces). Dates are non-inclusive. ie. 2017-01-01 – 2017-01-02 only shows issues created between these two dates and not on the day of 2017-01-02. This is because JIRA uses 12:00 AM by default unless specified otherwise.

## Using the Print function
The Print function takes the user to a page containing a simple html table version of the original table which will allow better printing compatibility. To use this, simply press the print button and then print the page using your browser (i.e. Ctrl+P in Chrome).
### Print selection
You can now select which issues to print and omit. The default print option is to print, and clicking on the corresponding "P?" column ticks either enables or disables the issue for printing. (Note: if you ever go back to the table page, make sure to refresh the page otherwise the print page might not work properly the next time)

## Troubleshooting Tips
### ETIMEDOUT
This means that the webapp was unable to connect to the JIRA API. Doublecheck the webapp's internet connection to see if there are any proxies or firewalls blocking the connection.
### JSON.parse error
This means that the returned JSON from JIRA was invalid. This usually means that the username or password you entered was incorrect. The least common reason would be an incorrect URL should the JIRA API ever be changed.

## Built With
This webapp uses a slightly bespoke version of Tabulator to create a table. This modified version includes a Print button that calls for /printpage which is a simplified print friendly page of the table. The original Tabulator can be found here: http://olifolkerd.github.io/tabulator/ and currently is used with this project under the MIT License. A copy of the bespoke Tabulator and its original License is included in this Github. All credit for tabulator goes to olifolkerd.

## License
This project is licensed under the MIT license. Refer to LICENSE.md for details.

## Screenshots
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### Login Page
![Login Page](screenshots/jira%20note%20generator%20login.png)
### Main Page
![Main Page](screenshots/jira%20note%20generator%20table.png)
### Print Page
![Print Page](screenshots/jira%20note%20generator%20print.png)
***

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While this is certainly the reality in which the majority of the digital world lives, there are some who believe that Google's vaunted position in the online landscape is less about superior end user experiences and more about monopolistic practices. Chief among these Google dissenters? The European Union's (E.U.) Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager.
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In terms of why the Commissioner for Competition is so prepared to bring the hammer down on the leading name in search, it all boils down to Google's supposed continued abuse of tactics that force the maker's of Android-enabled devices to equip these products with Google's specific array of search and web-browsing tools. Essentially, for companies like HTC and Samsung, Google offers up a simple - and potentially illegal - choice: Either set Google Search as the default search service and install Google's Chrome browser on their devices or lose all access to the wildly popular Android app store.
In other words, the choice Google presents to these affiliated organizations is really no choice at all.
Could the efforts of Vestager and her commission translate into similar action against this search leader here in the United States? Will facing down billions more in penalties finally convince Google that its strong-arm tactics won't be allowed in the EU?
To answer these questions, and learn even more about this still developing story, make it a point to delve into the full breakdown from Romm on the other side of the link provided below.


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Noble Releases Images, Final Details on Production M600
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using std::map;
using std::queue;
using std::vector;
using std::hash;

class EventManager{
public:
	EventManager();
	~EventManager();
	 EventObserver* CreateObserver();
	void PushEvent(Event* e);
	static EventManager* GetInstance();
	void SubscribeToEvent(string EventName, EventObserver* observer);
	void HandleEvents();
	void ClearEvents();
private:
	map<int, vector<EventObserver*>> m_SubscribedObservers;
	vector<Event*> m_EventQueue;
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};


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