Sunday, March 31, 2013

garey earp: Psychologist III job at Commonwealth of Massachusetts ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts is presently looking of Psychologist III on Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:25:04 GMT. General duties of this position include providing clinical assessment, consultation and facilitation of pre-admission and focal treatment planning processes for children and adolescents referred for admission to DMH continuing care services and/or placement in a Statewide Program (inpatient, IRTP/CIRT or other related service). In addition, the role requires interface with clinical leadership with...

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Description: Commonwealth of Massachusetts is presently looking of Psychologist III right now, this job will be placed in Massachusetts. More details about this job opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. General duties of this position include providing clinical assessment, consultation and facilitation of pre-admission and focal treatment planning processes for children and adolescents refer! red for admission to DMH continuing care services and/or placement in a Statewide Program (inpatient, IRTP/CIRT or other related service). In addition, the role requires interface with clinical leadership with Statewide Programs, DMH contracted services, and/or programs/providers participating in the Department of Children and Families Caring Together service array, and the Mass Health/Behavioral Health program in order to facilitate seamless, timely transitions for children and their families through the DMH system. The position involves working closely with DMH and DCF field staff and contracted providers to advance systemic and practice changes in the DMH Statewide services.

This position will serve as a statewide leader and resource to the DMH Statewide Programs, DMH Field staff, involved DCF staff, Mass Health/Behavioral Health staff/providers, local School Districts, Families, Advocates, and inpatient providers who refer children and adolescents for Statewide! Program admission. A primary focus of the role will be to fur! ther the Child/Adolescent Division?'s focal treatment planning efforts toward efficient, effective, trauma-informed, person-centered care. Many duties will focus on processes that support individual/family care. Other responsibilities will require on-site clinical consultation to the Statewide Programs in order to address circumstances impacting treatment integrity and quality clinical care, such as program start-up, program acuity, milieu management challenges, workforce development issues, and practice development needs. In addition, this position will interface closely with the Interagency Regional Teams (currently in development) that are intended to be the ?'front door?', contract monitor and mechanism for quality management and oversight of services for all youth and their families referred to residential service purchased in the Caring Together procurement.
1. Participates in DMH Child/Adolescent Division Meetings;
2. Participates in monthly DMH Child/Adolesc! ent Field Meetings;
3. Participates and co-facilitates in monthly DMH Statewide Program Director Meetings;
4. Participates and co-facilitates in monthly DMH Statewide Clinical Director Meetings;
5. Participates in monthly meetings with statewide program clinical directors and family partners/peer mentors to review data related to performance based contract, family/youth outcomes, CQI initiatives tied to outcome/PBC data, and case review of any youth who has received a consultation;
6. Meets regularly with DMH Statewide Program clinical leadership and clinical staff to support the implementation of a trauma-informed focal treatment initiative;
7. Meets regularly with DMH Area-based child/adolescents team(s) to provide clinical consultation for both individual families/youth as well as contracted services;
8. Provides consultation to youth in DMH Statewide Programs (SWP) who have experienced multiple restraints; medical hospitalization; psychiatric hos! pitalization from the SWP; elopement; serious self injurious behavior/s! elf-harming behaviors; aging out; readmission to SWP; other behaviors/concerns as identified;
9. Participates in monthly meetings with Area Child/Adolescent Psychiatrists as needed;
10. Participates and co-facilitates bi-monthly meetings with Statewide Child/Adolescent Screeners;
11. Participates and co-facilitates bi-monthly/quarterly meeting with Designated Child/Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrists and Psychologists;
12. Participates in other meetings as necessary and directed by the Assistant Commissioner of Child/Adolescent Services;
13. Participates in IRTP licensing visits or preparation for the visit, as needed or requested by the DMH Licensing Division
14. Participates in the DMH Child/Adolescent Restraint Prevention Initiative;
15. Participates and co-facilitates in pre-admission and Focal Treatment Planning meetings for children and adolescents accepted for admission to a DMH Child/Adolescent Statewide Program;
16. Participates in ini! tial review of children and adolescent referral materials for continuing care services in a DMH Child/Adolescent Statewide Program;
17. Works with the DYS clinical leadership to maximize effective collaboration with DMH and support best practices and outcomes;
18. Leads forums/meetings/groups relevant to the Scope of Duties as necessary;
19. Conducts a semi-annual and annual analysis of the Statewide System status of implementation of Focal Treatment Planning, including: obstacles, successes, recommendations for ?"course-correction?" and changes needed in the implementation process. Drafts and submits written reports reflecting the same,
20. Leads forums with collateral professionals regarding pre-admission and focal treatment planning or related efforts to roll out this effort,
21. Conducts trainings, workshops, Grand Rounds and other learning opportunities regarding trauma informed care and pre-admission and focal treatment planning,
22. Directs ac! tivities related to advancing clinical practices, consistent with the q! uality initiatives and goals of the Department,
23. Participates in relevant meetings, forums, trainings with DCF and/or the Interagency Regional Teams and the leadership thereof,
24. Other duties as required or directed by the Assistant Commissioner for Child/Adolescent Services.

Qualifications:Minimum Entrance Requirements:
Current and valid registration as a Psychologist by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Psychology. Applicants must also have at least one year of full-time, or equivalent part-time, professional experience as a Licensed Psychologist in the application of psychological principles and techniques in a recognized agency providing psychological services or treatment.

Special Requirements:
Based on assignment, travel may be required. Those employees who elect to use a motor vehicle for travel must have a current and valid Massachusetts Class D Motor Vehicle Operator's license or the equivalent fr! om another state.

Preferred Qualifications:LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Doctorate in psychology from a recognized graduate school in psychology. Licensed as a Psychologist in Massachusetts. Certified as a Health Service Provider in Massachusetts and/or listing in National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology is preferred.

Preferred:
knowledge of the principles, theories, practices and techniques of developmental psychology, psychopathology, psychotherapy & an understanding of psychopharmacologic treatment practice/protocols; knowledge of psychodiagnostic tools, evidence-based treatment and promising practices, and the impact of trauma and of trauma-informed care/treatment/services; ability to relate well to individuals, groups, and to work well individually and as part of a team, to present in public forums and to analyze clinical, statistical and narrative data and render written and verbal opinions! , analyses and/or interpretations; to recognize clinical quality.
Certified as a Health Service Provider in Massachusetts and/or listing in National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology or Board Certification with the American Board of Professional Psychology. Experience in clinical leadership roles demonstrating knowledge of clinical supervision, treatment planning, care coordination, family treatment, child/adolescent systems experience, and service delivery within a managed care environment.

Comments:
A criminal background check will be completed on the recommended candidate as required by the regulations set forth by the Executive Office of Health and Human Services prior to the candidate being hired. For more information, please visit
http://www.mass.gov/hhs/cori

This is a Civil Service position.
If there is no civil service list for this title, employees appointed must take and pass the next Civil Service examination when administered. As applicable, preference for this position! will be given to those candidates who are eligible for Civil Service/ConTest Reinstatement/Reemployment or to those candidates who have passed the civil service examination for this job title, and who respond to the job certification that was recently issued for this location" and/or to employees laid off or bumped from this title who are eligible for recall, and in accordance with Article 14 or applicable Collective bargaining requirements.
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If you were eligible to this job, please deliver us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Interested on this job, just click on the Apply button, you will be redirected to the official website

This job will be opened on: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:25:04 GMT


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Sunday, March 24, 2013

DownUnder chef & friend win Tempe restaurant in PR company's ...

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Umami

DownUnder chef Jared Lupin and business partner Matt Marlowe have won the keys to a fully equipped Tempe restaurant, Salt Public Relations announced today.

The PR company, which represents some of the Valley?s top restaurants, held a contest to fill the vacant restaurant space below its offices between Mill Avenue and ASU.?Lupin and Marlowe, who were selected from nearly 100 entries, also get six months of free marketing.

The pair plan to open a ramen shop called Umami, which also will offer fresh seafood, bento boxes, and Japanese beers. It?s scheduled to open next month at 21 E. Sixth St.

Source: http://mouthbysouthwest.com/2013/03/22/downunder-chef-friend-win-tempe-restaurant-in-pr-companys-contest/

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Analysis: Easy Fed softens fiscal policy punch on economy

By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's aggressive easing of monetary policy is proving surprisingly effective at blunting the blow to the economy from tighter fiscal policy, according to economists who have been scrambling to raise their growth forecasts.

Economists had feared higher taxes and deep government spending cuts would stunt growth in the first quarter, but a string of strong economic data has so far proven them wrong. And they mostly blame the Fed.

"Monetary policy is beginning to gain some traction here," said Tom Higgins, global macro strategist at Standish Mellon Asset Management in Boston.

According to Higgins, if it were not for the monetary stimulus, the economy would probably be facing growth of a 1 percent annual rate or less. As it is, he expects growth to come in at a 2.5 percent pace in the first quarter.

The U.S. central bank has held overnight interest rates near zero since December 2008 and has pumped about $2.5 trillion into the economy by purchasing Treasury debt and mortgage-backed bonds in a bid to foster faster growth and lower unemployment.

On Wednesday, it recommitted to plans to buy $85 billion worth of bonds each month and said it would keep buying assets until it sees a significant improvement in the labor market.

Those actions have helped put the economy in better shape to deal with the end of a 2 percent payroll tax cut, higher tax rates for wealthy Americans and $85 billion in across-the-board government spending cuts known as the "sequester."

The easy money stance has given a boost to interest rate sensitive sectors of the economy, such as autos and housing.

The commitment to easy policy also appears to be lifting business confidence, which in turn is underpinning job growth and the stock market. Nonfarm payrolls increased 236,000 in February and the jobless rate fell to a four-year low of 7.7 percent.

"The message from the data is that in the battle between fiscal drag and monetary stimulus, the Fed is winning," said Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York.

Stunned by a surprisingly strong report on retail sales last week, most economists rushed to raise first-quarter growth estimates. JPMorgan pushed theirs up by an eye-catching eight-tenths of a percentage point to 2.3 percent, while Goldman Sachs increased theirs by three-tenths of a point to 2.9 percent.

Economic activity expanded at a meager 0.1 percent rate in the last three months of last year, the slowest pace since the first quarter of 2011.

MADE A MISTAKE

Economists also said they had been mistaken to believe that businesses would retrench if it became clear deep government spending cuts were going to take hold.

They said they had simply been drawing on lessons learned during the acrimonious fight in 2011 to raise the government's borrowing limit, a battle that hit confidence hard.

"The chance we decided to take was for a more upfront impact from sequestration; in reality that is not what we are seeing," said Adolfo Laurenti, deputy chief economist, Mesirow Financial in Chicago. "Businesses have taken it at a more leisurely pace."

Indeed, a Deloitte Growth Enterprise Services survey of about 1,000 mid-market executives this month found little evidence the spending cuts were worrying businesses.

About 72 percent of respondents said sequestration would not affect their businesses and 91 percent said they had not put off hiring because of the cuts. That could be an indication of the confidence generated by the Fed's willingness to aid the economy, economists say.

Also helping the economy is the fact that banks are starting to ease lending standards and household balance sheets have improved after being ravaged by the housing market's collapse.

"What we have been seeing for a while is households have worked down their debt loads and they are now starting to expand their borrowing and, across the board, bank lending is increasing," said Steve Cunningham, head of research at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

"So monetary policy is becoming effective in that respect."

Fed data this month showed household debt in the fourth quarter grew at its fastest pace since early 2008, while a measure of the burden of carrying debt sank to a record low.

In addition, consumer credit has increased solidly from last year through January of this year and banks in January reported stronger loan demand and easier credit standards.

Still, the economy is not out of the woods by any means.

Part of the expected bounce back in growth this quarter will come from a buildup in business inventories, which means second quarter growth could fall short of the January-March rate.

As a result of the economy's firmer underlying strength, many analysts now estimate government budget cuts could shave off about 0.3 percentage point from GDP this year, half of what was predicted by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

"The drag from sequestration is probably a little bit smaller than we thought a month ago," said Mesirow Financial's Laurenti. "We have a better economy that is in a better position to absorb a negative shock."

(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Tim Ahmann and Phil Berlowitz)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-easy-fed-softens-fiscal-policy-punch-economy-050407739--business.html

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IKEA meatballs return, minus the horsemeat

STOCKHOLM - Furniture retailer IKEA's trademark meatballs are returning to the menu after last month's horsemeat scare, with new supply chain controls "from farm to fork," the company's head of foods said on Thursday.

IKEA in February stopped selling meatballs from its main supplier, Familjen Dafgard in Sweden, after tests showed a batch contained horsemeat. The discovery widened a Europe-wide horsemeat scandal that has damaged confidence in the continent's vast and complex food industry.

IKEA Foods Chief Executive Edward Mohr told Reuters in an interview its in-store cafeterias in Sweden, Denmark and Finland started selling meatballs again on Thursday. Meatballs from Familjen Dafgard, which supplies nearly all IKEA stores in Europe, would be back in all stores by mid-April.

"We want to have a traceability standard in place, tracing meat from farm to fork," he said.

"That means we are establishing an auditing scheme for the suppliers and we are taking out certain elements in the supply chain, such as traders. We are also, for example, looking at having slaughtering and deboning together."

Mohr said IKEA had made Familjen Dafgard drop eight of its 15 suppliers, including the importer of the meat that contained horse, and would cut the number of purchasing countries.

The horsemeat found in IKEA's meatballs originated from a Polish abattoir.

Mohr said IKEA would shorten the supply chain to be able to trace all meat back to its origins, and external consultants would inspect all abattoirs in the chain of supply to IKEA.

In the meantime, IKEA has introduced a temporary extensive DNA test scheme to ensure no minced meat products sold at IKEA contain horsemeat, he said. "Each batch is tested."

Europe's horsemeat scandal erupted in January, when testing in Ireland revealed that some beef products also contained equine DNA.

It has since spread across the continent, ensnaring numerous well-known brands, prompting product withdrawals, consumer concerns and government investigations into the region's complex food-processing chains.

Mohr said he did not know which abattoir in Poland had provided IKEA with the horsemeat.

IKEA's meatballs are a popular dish among customers visiting the shops to buy flat-pack furniture and other household goods.

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

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Obama offers additional $200 million to aid Jordan

(AP) ? President Barack Obama says his administration is working with Congress to provide Jordan with an additional $200 million in aid this year.

Jordan's economic troubles have been made worse by the influx of more than 450,000 refugees fleeing the civil war across the border in neighboring Syria. The Syrians are crowding refugee camps in Jordan and overwhelming aid agencies run by the important U.S. ally in the Middle East.

The United States already is the largest single donor of humanitarian aid for the Syrian people.

Obama said Friday that the extra money, if approved by Congress, will help provide more humanitarian assistance and basic services.

He made the announcement during a news conference in Amman, Jordan, with King Abdullah II.

Associated Press

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Quantum computers coming soon? Metamaterials used to observe giant photonic spin Hall effect

Mar. 21, 2013 ? Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have once again demonstrated the incredible capabilities of metamaterials -- artificial nanoconstructs whose optical properties arise from their physical structure rather than their chemical composition. Engineering a unique two-dimensional sheet of gold nanoantennas, the researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon of quantum mechanics that could play a prominent role in the future of computing.

"With metamaterial, we were able to greatly enhance a naturally weak effect to the point where it was directly observable with simple detection techniques," said Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division who led this research. "We also demonstrated that metamaterials not only allow us to control the propagation of light but also allows control of circular polarization. This could have profound consequences for information encoding and processing."

The spin Hall effect, named in honor of physicist Edwin Hall, describes the curved path that spinning electrons follow as they move through a semiconductor. The curved movement arises from the interaction between the physical motion of the electron and its spin -- a quantized angular momentum that gives rise to magnetic moment. Think of a baseball pitcher putting spin on a ball to make it curve to the left or right.

"Light moving through a metal also displays the spin Hall effect but the photonic spin Hall effect is very weak because the spin angular momentum of photons and spin-orbit interactions are very small," says Xiaobo Yin, a member of Zhang's research group and the lead author of the Science paper. "In the past, people have managed to observe the photonic spin Hall effect by generating the process over and over again to obtain an accumulative signal, or by using highly sophisticated quantum measurements. Our metamaterial makes the photonic spin Hall effect observable even with a simple camera."

Metamaterials have garnered a lot of attention in recent years because their unique structure affords electromagnetic properties unattainable in nature. For example, a metamaterial can have a negative index of refraction, the ability to bend light backwards, unlike all materials found in nature, which bend light forward. Zhang, who holds the Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, where he also directs the National Science Foundation's Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center, has been at the forefront of metamaterials research. For this study, he and his group fashioned metamaterial surfaces about 30 nanometers thick (a human hair by comparison is between 50,000 and 100,000 nanometers thick). These metasurfaces were constructed from V-shaped gold nanoantennas whose geometry could be configured by adjusting the length and orientation of the arms of the Vs.

"We chose eight different antenna configurations with optimized geometry parameters to generate a linear phase gradient along the x direction," says Yin. "This enabled us to control the propagation of the light and introduce strong photon spin-orbit interactions through rapid changes in direction. The photonic spin Hall effect depends on the curvature of the light's trajectory, so the sharper the change in propagation direction, the stronger the effect."

Since the entire metasurface sample measured only 0.3 millimeters, a 50-millimeter lens was used to project the transmission of the light through the metamaterial onto a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera for imaging. From the CCD images, the researchers determined that both the control of light propagation and the giant photonic spin Hall effect were the direct results of the designed meta-material. This finding opens up a wealth of possibilities for new technologies.

"The controllable spin-orbit interaction and momentum transfer between spin and orbital angular momentum allows us to manipulate the information encoded on the polarization of light, much like the 0 and 1 of today's electronic devices," Yin says. "But photonic devices could encode more information and provide greater information security than conventional electronic devices."

Yin says the ability to control left and right circular polarization of light in metamaterial surfaces should allow for the formation of optical elements, like highly coveted "flat lenses," or the management of light polarization without using wave plates.

"Metamaterials provide us with tremendous design freedom that will allow us to modulate the strength of the photonic spin Hall effect at different spatial locations," Yin says. "We knew the photonic spin Hall effect existed in nature but it was so hard to detect. Now, with the right metamaterials we can not only enhance this effect we can harness it for our own purposes."

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  1. X. Yin, Z. Ye, J. Rho, Y. Wang, X. Zhang. Photonic Spin Hall Effect at Metasurfaces. Science, 2013; 339 (6126): 1405 DOI: 10.1126/science.1231758

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Boy Killed by Dad's Plow in Maine

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South Korean Websites Taken Down In Possible Cyberattack From the North

LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - Indian Wells runner-up Juan Martin del Potro believes Britain's Andy Murray can become world tennis number one this year. The towering Argentine beat Murray in the quarter-finals last week on the California hard courts and is looking forward to locking horns with him on grass after confirming he will play at the Aegon Championships at London's Queen's Club two weeks before Wimbledon. "Murray is a big champion, he already won a grand slam, he made the finals in Australia and he has everything he needs to be at the top in the future," Del Potro said in a statement. ...

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Sex Education, The Earlier The Better Clutch Magazine

Sex Education, The Earlier The Better

In a recent article for Ebony magazine, Michael Arceneaux expresses his support for the Chicago Board of Education?s new policy regarding sex education in schools.

The policy mandates that sex ed begin in kindergarten with such topics as basic sexual anatomy and safety being presented. The curriculum will proceed in what is deemed an age-appropriate manner throughout the school years.

From ABC News:

Under the new policy, the youngest students?? the kindergartners ? will learn the basics about anatomy, reproduction, healthy relationships and personal safety. Through the third grade, the sex-ed lessons will ?focus on the family, feelings and appropriate and inappropriate touching. In the fourth grade, students will?start learning about puberty, and HIV.? Discussions will emphasize that the virus cannot be transmitted through everyday contact such as shaking hands or sharing food.

From the fifth through the 12th?grade, the emphasis will be on reproduction, the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases, bullying and contraception, including abstinence.

Of course, the idea that small children will be taught about s-e-x has more than a few people up in arms.

Well, I say ?Bravo, Chicago.?

What I find appealing about the new policy is not that small children will learn about sex, but that sexuality will be normalized and not perceived as some perverse aspect of one?s personhood that should be a source of shame, discomfort, or rebellion. The policy effectively redefines what sex education is. It is no longer an awkward film shown to teenagers (many of whom have already explored their own bodies and those of their peers) cramming a multifaceted, complex subject into a tiny box.

While I feel strongly that parents should have an ongoing conversation with their children about sex and sexuality from the time they are able to speak (because anyone who has been around a very small child knows that he or she has clearly discovered his or her genitals way before he or she can speak), this just does not happen often enough. I think it would be a bit awkward to try to explain to a 10-year-old why you are vaccinating her against HPV in the 5 minutes before the nurse comes in with the needle.

It is way past time to lift the veil from human sexuality and acknowledge that it develops just as a child develops and should be nurtured in much the same way.

What do you think? Is it a good idea to teach sex education as early as kindergarten?

Source: http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/03/sex-education-the-earlier-the-better/

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Get Detail-Oriented with Your Event Planning | Small Business BC

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When planning an event, regardless of the size, the key to success is in the details. Whether it?s getting the right caterer for a function, finding a location for a fundraiser, or choosing the right time for a networking event ? the details make all the difference.

As important as the details are to you, they are even more important to your attendees. It only takes one uninformed (or worse, misinformed) attendee to turn a perfect night into a ruined relationship or a missed opportunity for your business.

Here are tips to make sure you ?mind the details? to maximize attendance at your next event.

Get the Word Out Early

When planning your event, there are always going to be some details being changed or decided on in the weeks, days, and even hours leading up to your event. But just because you don?t have all the details ironed out, doesn?t mean you can?t start promoting your event. In fact, getting the word out early will ensure your audience has plenty of time to organize their schedule and get their questions answered.

Send a Reminder

As your event approaches, you?re going to want to make sure your event is staying top of mind with your target audience. A great way to do that is with a reminder email. This will not only help boost your attendance, by giving those who may have not been ready to register when you sent your first invitation, but it will also let you deliver more up-to-date information. (You can also use the reminder as a way to build anticipation with a special announcement or give updates on things like the weather forecast, if relevant).

Provide Details at Registration

Event registration is typically seen as a way to get details to the event planners. But online registration is also important for providing information to attendees. Accepted payment methods at the event, required age limitations (21+ for example), or dress codes are all things you can provide at the point of registration to make sure guests don?t find out after the fact.

Keep Your Registrants Up-to-Date

Remember those last minute details we talked about before? You?re going to want to share them with your registrants before they arrive at your event. A great way to do this is by creating an email list of registrants and sending a targeted notification directly to their inbox. Then, you can use that list to provide last minute updates and to remind attendees of details they?ll need to know when they arrive.?

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Are Algae Biofuels a Realistic Alternative to Petroleum?

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that nearly 14 percent of land in the continental United States, or roughly the combined area of Texas and New Mexico, could be used for converting algae to transportation fuels.

In 2008, the?U.S. Department of Energy estimated that for algae fuel to replace all the petroleum fuel in the U.S., it would require about 30,000 square kilometers of land, or about half the land area of?South Carolina. Therefore, this finding illustrates the potential of algae-based fuels, and for that matter, the potential any alternative energy source that requires vast amounts of land.

?Our main driver was to look at how much land would be available for installing large algae pond systems,? said Dr. Erik Venteris, a spatial modeling engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the lead investigator of the study.

Algae pond facilities require between 1,000 and 1,200 acres of land for one facility, said Venteris. The facilities he envisions would hold up to one million gallons of algae biodiesel per facility.

Where the 14 percent of available land is located is a major concern, however, according to Dr. Richard Nelson, a professor in the Center for Sustainable Energy at Kansas State University. This number includes low-slope, non-protected land. Much of the desert land in Arizona and other parts of the southwest are flat and available, but the amount of infrastructure and resources available in these areas remains a question mark.

Venteris?s study took into account not only areas that were currently available with a low-slope, but also areas that would be cheap to purchase from their current owners.

?The first candidates that I think about are where we have agricultural land that is no longer productive,? said Dr. Stephen Mayfield, the director of the University of California, San Diego?s Algae Center for Biotechnology.

Mayfield said there is tons of agricultural land sitting idle because it has been ?salted out? of production. These unproductive lands would be more valuable holding algae facilities, and Mayfield cites California?s Imperial Valley as a good site for algae ponds since its only current use is storing agricultural runoff, and algae can grow in both ocean and wastewater. However, lands in California have some of the highest prices of acquisition, according to Venteris?s study.

The cheapest land that Venteris found was the arid lands in the West, but two types of land stood out to him as good contenders for algae biofuel facilities: marginal croplands and southern woodlands.

Marginal croplands, or lands that netted the least amount of profit, are useful because the owners have a high incentive to sell their land. Also, this land has been used for agriculture and should share similar climate and resource characteristics that would promote algae growth.

Southern woodlands have relatively cheap wood, flat land, and plenty of water and soil resources, but backlash from environmental groups is a major concern with using these lands since it would require cutting down trees.

Venteris emphasized the use of marginal croplands before woodlands, and Mayfield believes that woodlands should not be considered until other options have been exhausted. Mayfield believes that the algae facilities should first be constructed in places that already have the optimal climate conditions, resources, cost, and infrastructure. The U.S. has CO2 pipelines across the country, so Mayfield believes it would be ?trivial? to build pipelines once algae-based fuels become more prominent.

Finding a market for biodiesel is another issue. If algae-based transportation fuels were offered at service stations today, the cost would be quite expensive making it a less attractive option than petroleum fuels.

Nelson said the current market for algae fuels exists in places that don?t have a large gasoline market, and once a larger market is found, the algae fuel industry still has to find a way to partner with the petroleum industry so that it can sell its fuel.

Despite the challenges, Mayfield remains optimistic.

?There was no petroleum industry in 1900,? said Mayfield, ?we needed energy, so we built it.?

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More parents say they won't vaccinate daughters against HPV, researchers find

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Parents increasingly concerned about potential side effects, study shows

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A rising percentage of parents say they won't have their teen daughters vaccinated to protect against the human papilloma virus, even though physicians are increasingly recommending adolescent vaccinations, a study by Mayo Clinic and others shows. More than 2 in 5 parents surveyed believe the HPV vaccine is unnecessary, and a growing number worry about potential side effects, researchers found. The findings are published in the new issue of the journal Pediatrics.

In all, researchers looked at three vaccines routinely recommended for U.S. teens: a vaccine to protect against the sexually transmitted HPV; Tdap, for tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis; and the meningococcal conjugate vaccine, or MCV4 vaccine. While the up-to-date immunization rates rose for all three vaccines, the proportion of girls fully immunized against HPV (three doses over six months) was substantially lower than the proportion for the other two vaccines.

Five years ago, 40 percent of parents surveyed said they wouldn't vaccinate their girls against HPV. In 2009, that rose to 41 percent, and in 2010, to 44 percent.

"That's the opposite direction that rate should be going," says senior researcher Robert Jacobson, M.D., a pediatrician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center.

Parents concerned about HPV vaccine safety rose from 5 percent in 2008 to 16 percent in 2010, while less than 1 percent worried about the safety of the Tdap and MCV4 vaccines, the study found.

During the same years, more and more studies showed how safe and effective the HPV vaccine is in this age group, says Dr. Jacobson, who has taken part in the safety review committees for two such studies. The vaccine prevents cervical cancer and other genital cancers by preventing the HPV infections that lead to those cancers, he says.

Researchers analyzed vaccination data for teens ages 13 to 17 in the 2008-10 National Immunization Survey of Teens. They found that as of 2010, 8 of 10 teens had the Tdap vaccine and roughly 63 percent had the MCV4 vaccine. Only about one-third of girls were immunized against HPV.

The HPV vaccination rate did rise; it was only 16 percent in 2008. But at the same time, more parents reported that they did not intend to have their daughters vaccinated for HPV. Among the reasons they gave: the vaccine was not recommended; lack of knowledge; it is unnecessary; the vaccine is inappropriate for the child's age; worry about safety/side effects; and the child isn't sexually active.

According to parents surveyed, more clinicians are recommending the HPV vaccine, but still, they are advising it only about half the time. The facts show the vaccine is necessary, Dr. Jacobson says.

"HPV causes essentially 100 percent of cervical cancer and 50 percent of all Americans get infected at least once with HPV. It's a silent infection. You cannot tell when you've been exposed or when you have it," he says. "While most HPV infections clear, a percentage linger and start the process of cancerous changes. The HPV vaccine is an anti-cancer vaccine."

Dr. Jacobson says the vaccine is more effective in younger adolescents than older teens. Mayo Clinic routinely starts the series at age 9.

"The vaccine works better the younger the child is, and it doesn't work after the child is grown up and is exposed to the virus, so our message should be: 'Give this vaccine now to your child while your child is young and responsive to it,'" says Dr. Jacobson, medical director of the Employee and Community Health Immunization Program at Mayo Clinic.

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Study co-authors include Paul Darden, M.D., David Thompson, Ph.D., Jessica Hale, and Monique Naifeh, M.D., M.P.H., University of Oklahoma; and James Roberts, M.D., M.P.H., and Charlene Pope, Medical University of South Carolina.

The study was supported by grant R40 MC 21522 through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Maternal and Child Health Research Program. Dr. Darden has consulted and advised Pfizer Inc. Dr Jacobson has served as principal investigator for two multicenter vaccine studies funded by Pfizer, one funded by Novartis, all at Mayo Clinic. He is on a safety review committee for one vaccine study and on a data and safety monitoring board for two other vaccine studies, all funded by Merck.

About Mayo Clinic

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Parents increasingly concerned about potential side effects, study shows

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A rising percentage of parents say they won't have their teen daughters vaccinated to protect against the human papilloma virus, even though physicians are increasingly recommending adolescent vaccinations, a study by Mayo Clinic and others shows. More than 2 in 5 parents surveyed believe the HPV vaccine is unnecessary, and a growing number worry about potential side effects, researchers found. The findings are published in the new issue of the journal Pediatrics.

In all, researchers looked at three vaccines routinely recommended for U.S. teens: a vaccine to protect against the sexually transmitted HPV; Tdap, for tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis; and the meningococcal conjugate vaccine, or MCV4 vaccine. While the up-to-date immunization rates rose for all three vaccines, the proportion of girls fully immunized against HPV (three doses over six months) was substantially lower than the proportion for the other two vaccines.

Five years ago, 40 percent of parents surveyed said they wouldn't vaccinate their girls against HPV. In 2009, that rose to 41 percent, and in 2010, to 44 percent.

"That's the opposite direction that rate should be going," says senior researcher Robert Jacobson, M.D., a pediatrician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center.

Parents concerned about HPV vaccine safety rose from 5 percent in 2008 to 16 percent in 2010, while less than 1 percent worried about the safety of the Tdap and MCV4 vaccines, the study found.

During the same years, more and more studies showed how safe and effective the HPV vaccine is in this age group, says Dr. Jacobson, who has taken part in the safety review committees for two such studies. The vaccine prevents cervical cancer and other genital cancers by preventing the HPV infections that lead to those cancers, he says.

Researchers analyzed vaccination data for teens ages 13 to 17 in the 2008-10 National Immunization Survey of Teens. They found that as of 2010, 8 of 10 teens had the Tdap vaccine and roughly 63 percent had the MCV4 vaccine. Only about one-third of girls were immunized against HPV.

The HPV vaccination rate did rise; it was only 16 percent in 2008. But at the same time, more parents reported that they did not intend to have their daughters vaccinated for HPV. Among the reasons they gave: the vaccine was not recommended; lack of knowledge; it is unnecessary; the vaccine is inappropriate for the child's age; worry about safety/side effects; and the child isn't sexually active.

According to parents surveyed, more clinicians are recommending the HPV vaccine, but still, they are advising it only about half the time. The facts show the vaccine is necessary, Dr. Jacobson says.

"HPV causes essentially 100 percent of cervical cancer and 50 percent of all Americans get infected at least once with HPV. It's a silent infection. You cannot tell when you've been exposed or when you have it," he says. "While most HPV infections clear, a percentage linger and start the process of cancerous changes. The HPV vaccine is an anti-cancer vaccine."

Dr. Jacobson says the vaccine is more effective in younger adolescents than older teens. Mayo Clinic routinely starts the series at age 9.

"The vaccine works better the younger the child is, and it doesn't work after the child is grown up and is exposed to the virus, so our message should be: 'Give this vaccine now to your child while your child is young and responsive to it,'" says Dr. Jacobson, medical director of the Employee and Community Health Immunization Program at Mayo Clinic.

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Study co-authors include Paul Darden, M.D., David Thompson, Ph.D., Jessica Hale, and Monique Naifeh, M.D., M.P.H., University of Oklahoma; and James Roberts, M.D., M.P.H., and Charlene Pope, Medical University of South Carolina.

The study was supported by grant R40 MC 21522 through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Maternal and Child Health Research Program. Dr. Darden has consulted and advised Pfizer Inc. Dr Jacobson has served as principal investigator for two multicenter vaccine studies funded by Pfizer, one funded by Novartis, all at Mayo Clinic. He is on a safety review committee for one vaccine study and on a data and safety monitoring board for two other vaccine studies, all funded by Merck.

About Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research and education for people from all walks of life. For more information, visit http://www.mayoclinic.org.


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Pneumonia patients nearly twice as likely to suffer from depression, impairments

Pneumonia patients nearly twice as likely to suffer from depression, impairments [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 18-Mar-2013
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Effects of pneumonia hospitalization comparable to the negative health effects of heart disease

ANN ARBOR, Mich. The long-term consequences of pneumonia can be more detrimental to a person's health than having a heart attack, according to joint research from the University of Michigan Health System and University of Washington School of Medicine.

Older adults who are hospitalized for pneumonia have a significantly higher risk of new problems that affect their ability to care for themselves, and the effects are comparable to those who survive a heart attack or stroke, according to the new findings in the American Journal of Medicine.

"Pneumonia is clearly not only an acute life threatening event but also a profoundly life altering event," says senior author Theodore J. Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at U-M and who also works with the Institute of Social Research and the VA Center for Clinical Management Research. "The potentially substantial chronic care needs and diminished quality of life for survivors are comparable to the effects of heart disease, yet we invest far fewer resources to pneumonia prevention."

Patients who were treated for pneumonia including those hospitalized even once in a nine-year period and who did not require critical care were more than twice as likely to develop new cognitive impairments. These new brain problems were so big that they often lead to disability and nursing home admissions among older adults. After treatment for pneumonia, patients also had nearly double the risk of substantial depressive symptoms.

Following hospitalization, patients with pneumonia also had much increased risk of losing the ability to maintain daily life activities such as walking, cooking meals or being able to use the bathroom without assistance.

"Even non-critical pneumonia hospitalization can lead to long term adverse outcomes at a magnitude much greater than we previously thought," says lead author Dimitry S. Davydow, M.D, M.P.H., assistant professor of psychiatry at U-W. "Pneumonia prevention and interventions are crucial given the costly and detrimental consequences for patients."

Pneumonia accounts for roughly 390,000 hospitalizations among older adults a year, costing Medicare more than $7.3 billion and hospitalizations for the condition are expected to double by 2040. Nearly half of pneumonia survivors die within a year.

Prevention methods include improved timeliness and appropriateness of antibiotics, vaccination against influenza and screening older adults for depression following pneumonia.

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The study was conducted with participants of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally-representative sample of older Americans that is conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research on behalf of the National Institute of Aging.

Additional Authors: Catherine L. Hough, M.D., M.Sc., U-W; Deborah A. Levine, M.D., M.P.H., U-M and VA; Kenneth M. Langa, M.D., Ph.D., U-M and VA.

Disclosure: None

Funding: Grants KL2 TR000421, K08 HL091249, R01 AG030155, and U01 AG09740 from the National Institutes of Health.

Reference: "Functional Disability, Cognitive Impairment, and Depression After Hospitalization for Pneumonia," American Journal of Medicine, doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2012.12.006.


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University of Michigan Health System

Effects of pneumonia hospitalization comparable to the negative health effects of heart disease

ANN ARBOR, Mich. The long-term consequences of pneumonia can be more detrimental to a person's health than having a heart attack, according to joint research from the University of Michigan Health System and University of Washington School of Medicine.

Older adults who are hospitalized for pneumonia have a significantly higher risk of new problems that affect their ability to care for themselves, and the effects are comparable to those who survive a heart attack or stroke, according to the new findings in the American Journal of Medicine.

"Pneumonia is clearly not only an acute life threatening event but also a profoundly life altering event," says senior author Theodore J. Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at U-M and who also works with the Institute of Social Research and the VA Center for Clinical Management Research. "The potentially substantial chronic care needs and diminished quality of life for survivors are comparable to the effects of heart disease, yet we invest far fewer resources to pneumonia prevention."

Patients who were treated for pneumonia including those hospitalized even once in a nine-year period and who did not require critical care were more than twice as likely to develop new cognitive impairments. These new brain problems were so big that they often lead to disability and nursing home admissions among older adults. After treatment for pneumonia, patients also had nearly double the risk of substantial depressive symptoms.

Following hospitalization, patients with pneumonia also had much increased risk of losing the ability to maintain daily life activities such as walking, cooking meals or being able to use the bathroom without assistance.

"Even non-critical pneumonia hospitalization can lead to long term adverse outcomes at a magnitude much greater than we previously thought," says lead author Dimitry S. Davydow, M.D, M.P.H., assistant professor of psychiatry at U-W. "Pneumonia prevention and interventions are crucial given the costly and detrimental consequences for patients."

Pneumonia accounts for roughly 390,000 hospitalizations among older adults a year, costing Medicare more than $7.3 billion and hospitalizations for the condition are expected to double by 2040. Nearly half of pneumonia survivors die within a year.

Prevention methods include improved timeliness and appropriateness of antibiotics, vaccination against influenza and screening older adults for depression following pneumonia.

###

The study was conducted with participants of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally-representative sample of older Americans that is conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research on behalf of the National Institute of Aging.

Additional Authors: Catherine L. Hough, M.D., M.Sc., U-W; Deborah A. Levine, M.D., M.P.H., U-M and VA; Kenneth M. Langa, M.D., Ph.D., U-M and VA.

Disclosure: None

Funding: Grants KL2 TR000421, K08 HL091249, R01 AG030155, and U01 AG09740 from the National Institutes of Health.

Reference: "Functional Disability, Cognitive Impairment, and Depression After Hospitalization for Pneumonia," American Journal of Medicine, doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2012.12.006.


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Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK: Which one is better for developers?

Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK: Which one is better for developers?

In the post-iOS 6 world, developers now have a choice of using Apple's new MapKit to embed map tiles and location services in their app, or to use Google's newly separate Google Maps SDK along with Google's tiles and location services. Both have strengths and weaknesses, including design and data quality. To compare and contrast Apple and Google's offering, and after speaking with developers, Michael Grothaus at FastCompany reports:

McKinlay and Armstrong both say that after a full account, Apple?s MapKit is the first choice--especially if you?re a beginner. But that hasn?t stopped either of these developers from implementing Google Maps.

The gist seems to be that Apple's MapKit is easier to implement and offers better integration into iOS. However, the data quality can be problematic to the extent that it fuels bad reviews on the App Store.

So, if data quality is urgently important, or you require features beyond MapKit, Google's Maps SDK could be worth switching to. However, developers are limited to 100,000 API requests by users per day. That might sound like a lot, but each user action might make several API requests at once, eating into a developer?s daily quota. Additionally, unlike MapKit, the current Google Maps SDK doesn?t allow for overlays and gradient polylines, which apps like Armstrong?s Plane Finder uses to show the altitude of flights.

Where Google?s SDK does stand out is its search capabilities, which Armstrong says beats Apple?s hands down.

No easy answers to complex questions, unfortunately, but there's a wealth of information contained in the feature so check it out, and if you're working with maps in your app, let us know which service fits better with your apps, and why.

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Nurses union seeks talks after attack

The Princess Alexandra Hospital, at Woolloongabba.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital, at Woolloongabba. Photo: Michelle Smith

The Queensland Nurses Union will urgently write to Queensland Health today seeking talks over statewide nurse safety after two chilling abduction attempts near Princess Alexandra Hospital over the weekend.

Hospital staff will on Monday morning receive a reminder that security staff are available to walk or drive them to their cars.

One nurse was almost abducted returning to her car at Annerley near Princess Alexandra Hospital on Saturday night.

Soon afterward, a security guard flashed his torch inside the car of two men following three women at a nearby train station.

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The two men sped off, but not before he took the car registration and sent it on to police.

Detective Inspector Geoff Acreman said the guard gave police the same description as the first victim.

Queensland Nurses Union secretary Beth Mohle said she would this morning write to Queensland Health?s senior management and to the PA Hospital?s management.

??We need to be contacting Queensland Health tomorrow (Monday) to do a whole-of-state review about parking arrangements and safety and security,?? Ms Mohle said.

??We need to be monitoring the impacts of the cutbacks because it is normally the security guards that would do that operational sort of work."

Ms Mohle said the PA Hospital had a good safety record with staff, and it provided a shuttle bus and security staff to accompany nurses to their cars.

??The PA is pretty good, but we need to follow up with the local management at the PA Hospital to find out what actually happened in that Annerley incident,?? Ms Mohle said.?

Ms Mohle said the PA Hospital had an onsite parking station which had security staff.

??But the cost is the factor here, it is not cheap. It is the same at Royal Brisbane. The parking there is not cheap there either,?? she said.

??People make an assessment about whether they are prepared to pay that and some don?t want to pay that and they park on the street.??

Ms Mohle said the two incidents were sobering.?

??It is just outrageous that women are not safe on the streets.?It is extreme, I know, but is there any more we can do????

She said car parking arrangements had become a long-running source of dispute between Queensland nurses and Queensland Health.

??Particularly at the big metropolitan facilities like Royal Brisbane and the PA,?? she said.

??The car parking on site is provided by private operators and they operate for profit.??

Ms Mohle said the emphasis should be over providing ??affordable and safe?? car parking for staff working 24 hours a day.

She said the Prince Charles and QEII hospital provided free car parking for staff because they had the room.

She said staff parking had also become a problem for Queensland Health facilities in Townsville and Cairns as those centres expanded.

??The big facilities where they have had extensions they have taken the parking away," she said.

??So it is a long-standing vexed issue and it is one that we are forever campaigning around at a local level.??

PA Hospital management on Sunday night said that the attempted abduction of one of its nurses was now a ??police investigation.??

??We are unable to provide specific comments.?The nurse in question is being offered every possible support including counselling,?? a hospital spokeswoman said in a statement.

??After-hours parking and a shuttle bus is available to staff.?A security guard is also available to walk or drive them to their car on request.??

Police confirmed they had traced the registration number of a car allegedly involved in both incidents to an address in Toowoomba.

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

6 Ways To Save On Your Energy Bill

How much do you pay for energy costs in the winter months? If you?re like most Americans, you generally see a spike in costs from the mild fall months. The good news is that this change in costs doesn?t have to be so substantial. Take advantage of these 6 tips to reduce your winter energy costs:

1) Regulate your thermostat

During the cold months of the year, it can be tempting to crank up the heat. But lowering your thermostat by a few degrees ? specifically at night and when the home is unoccupied ? can make a huge difference when you get your energy bill each month. Keep your thermostat in the 70 degree range for the best results. And if you get cold, you can always put on socks and a sweater.

2) Seal off unused rooms

Your heater has to work harder to heat more square footage. There?s really no reason to heat areas of your home that you don?t use. Reduce the space your heater is responsible for by sealing off unused rooms. You could save big when that gas bill comes at the end of the month.

3) Forget the fireplace

Heating your home with a fireplace is actually inefficient. The fireplace uses the warm air inside the home to fuel the flame, and it exhausts said air through the chimney. In other words, fireplaces actually cause your home to lose heat although they?re seen as practical substitutes for central heating. Don?t get caught in this cycle ? close the damper to seal the fireplace and prevent heat loss.

4) Insulate your water heater

Put a water heater blanket or insulation jacket around your water heater, and insulate the pipes around the water heater to improve efficiency. This is especially necessary for older water heaters in unheated spaces.

5) Ensure all your entrances are sealed

Warm air can escape from small cracks in doors and windows, which can affect energy bills dramatically. Make sure you adequately insulate and weather-strip your entrances. Your home will hold heat better, and your heating system won?t be forced to consistently run to keep the house warm.

6) Let the sun do some of the work

Keep your blinds open during the daylight hours so that the heat from the sunlight can take a load off your heating unit. Results will vary depending on how your home sits and how much shading is in your yard, but the effect is substantial for some homeowners.

Saving money on energy doesn?t have to be difficult. Take advantage of these 6 tips, and you?re likely to see significant savings on your winter energy bills.

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USC starts a web hub for DIY, open source virtual reality projects

USC starts a web hub for DIY, open source virtual reality projects

For the sheer variety of virtual reality headsets available, there's been few resources available for those who want to craft their own devices. USC wants to save us the effort of searching around. Its MxR Lab has just launched a showcase of creations and modifications that DIY enthusiasts can build, including open source code for both the devices and integrating full-body motion control through Kinect for Windows or OpenNI. The most ambitious is Socket HMD, a complete 1,280 x 800 headset that involves a 3D-printed shell and custom-assembled electronics. If your own ambitions don't stretch that far, you can still build the VR2GO viewer, which uses iPhones and iPod touch players as the eyepieces, as well as mods for the Oculus Rift developer kit that add stereo cameras or increase the field of view. Yes, you'll need a 3D printer and a knack for programming to get most of these projects going, but you won't have to wait for someone to make them for you -- a big help when many ready-made VR displays are either in development or priced out of reach for the average person.

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