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Written by Bridget D
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in consequence of the missive, Legal heir?, penned by Rachel G
yes a son would have to be born in wedlock, to inherit the baronetcy, but if Mr E was keen on having an heir, adn she was charming to him, he MIGHT wish to marry a woman who was, he hoped, about to give him a male heir...
ANd it woudl probably annoy hte hell out of Sir Walter to see the baronetcy going ot Mrs Clay's child... now that she had turned him down. I just dont fidn the whole thing convincing. Mrs Clay wasn't a fool.. she was alive ot her own interests and while she might have a weak spot where Mr Elliot is concerned, Im sure it was no so weak as to throw off her common sense completely... SHe might have an affair iwht him, she might even throw over the chance of marrying Sir Walter, but become his mistress in such a public way?? NO!

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Arizona Christian University came to life with just less than 10 minutes left in the first round of the 2015 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Men's Division I Basketball National Championship. The Firestorm nearly scored a third of their points following a 30 second timeout with 9:10 remaining for a 94-82 win over No. 12 Georgetown College.
Corey Washburn hit a three from the top of the arc to cap a 9-4 run and give the Tigers (25-8) a 70-63 lead. ACU responded with a 31-12 finish that ended the perennial NAIA power's trip to Kansas City in round one. Georgetown is 9-3 under Chris Briggs in this tournament and it was the first exit short of the quarterfinals under his leadership as well.
"We warned the guys at the half," Briggs said. "ACU is a second half time. You have to keep playing defense and guarding against the three."
Arizona Christian (25-8) came into the tournament ranked 10th in three-point field goal percentage and 13th in three-point field goals made. However, GC had held the Firestorm to just 1-of-4 in the first 20 minutes.
Georgetown College men's basketball learned its fate for its 24th straight NAIA Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship. It is the No. 12 Tigers (25-7) 34th appearance all-time with a 61-33 overall record. All three marks are records for the NAIA.
GC earned a first round match up with Arizona Christian University 11:45 am EST Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.
The Firestorm (24-8) is making just their third appearance and has been 0-2 in previous tries. They had a solid 2014-15 season, including beating defending national champion Vanguard three times.
This is the first meeting between these two teams.
As Georgetown College men's basketball gears up for another national tournament, former players are continuing to display why the Tigers program is so successful.
Four players graduating in the past three seasons are playing somewhere overseas. Monty Wilson became the most recent former Tiger to be picked up to play. The 2013 NAIA Tournament MVP and 2014 alum is playing in Montenegro. He plays for Mornar Bar.
Georgetown College men's basketball fell in the semifinals of the Mid-South Conference tournament Saturday. In a rematch from a week previous, the No. 11 Tigers battled the No. 7 Campbellsville Tigers. CU (27-5) rallied for the 78-72 win.
GC (25-7) held a four-point halftime edge, but timely shooting and five second half threes helped Campbellsville rally.
Eric Gains jumper gave CU its largest lead of 11 just more than six minutes into the second half. Georgetown responded with a 17-9 run to get within three. That is as close as it got.
Georgetown College men's basketball made it a clean sweep of Life University in the school's first year as full members of the Mid-South Conference. The No. 11 Tigers (25-6) got a lift from senior Corey Washburn in a 107-89 win in the conclusion of the MSC quarterfinals Friday at the Frankfort Convention Center.
He tallied a new career-high 27 points on 12-of-19 shooting and grabbed 15 rebounds. Junior Noah Cottrill poured in a game-high 28 points. Junior Deondre McWhorter had the only other double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds. Domonique Bull came off the bench for 11 points and six assists, while Darion Burns had seven points and seven assists.
Georgetown needed a shot in the arm as junior Tony Kimbro played just two minutes and 15 seconds after sustaining a wrist injury while falling backwards.

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IRVINE, Calif. – With significantly increasing production capacity in the United States, Nissan projects its U.S. plants will nearly double the number of export markets it will be able to serve by 2015.
In August, Nissan shipped the first of more than 900 U.S.-built, right-hand drive Pathfinders to Australia and New Zealand. With the addition of these two new markets, Nissan is now able to export vehicles from its Smyrna, Tenn. vehicle assembly plant to 61 markets around the world.
In 2014, Nissan’s Canton, Miss. vehicle assembly plant will become the global source for Murano production, creating export opportunities in as many as 119 markets.
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“Shipping right-hand drive vehicles half way around the world from Tennessee at one time may have seemed exotic to us, but now it’s an increasingly common event on our path to becoming a net exporter,” said Bill Krueger, senior vice president, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Production Engineering and Supply Chain Management, Nissan Americas.
The expansion to Australia and New Zealand is just the latest milestone in an aggressive and growing export strategy for Nissan, with 12 percent of U.S. production going to export markets in 2012. Export volumes are expected to approach 14 percent of U.S. production in 2013 as the company continues to localize global products to the U.S. and launch in new markets around the world.
Krueger said: “While we quickly increase our capacity to satisfy local demand in the region, Nissan’s U.S. plants have been charged to take a lead role in the production of some of our most important global models. As a result, more American-built Nissan vehicles will make their way to more global markets than ever before.”
Over the next six months, Nissan expects to expand U.S. exports of Nissan Altima, Pathfinder, Maxima and Infiniti QX60 models into new markets such as Ghana, Nigeria, Philippines, Vietnam, Israel, Argentina and parts of Latin America.


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Nederland City Council commemorates Bum Phillips Bowl win with Christmastime salute
Published 12:41 am Tuesday, December 21, 2021
NEDERLAND — Christmas season is also football season when it comes to Mid County Madness.
On Monday, Nederland City Council members voted unanimously to honor the Nederland High School football team following the Bulldogs’ 38-28 victory over Port Neches-Groves High School in the 2021 Bum Phillips Bowl.
The Dec. 20, 2021 recognition also highlighted the high school band, cheerleaders, Golden Guardians and Westernaires.
Mayor Don Albanese said the city was extremely proud of the players, coaches and support staff.
“Today, guys, this is your day,” Albanese told eight seniors who attended Monday’s city council meeting.
Talmadge Austin, Ward 1 representative and mayor pro tem, joked with coach Monte Barrow, “you don’t know how good, how easy it makes going back to work after that Friday night game when these guys did what they did. It makes it real easy. Thank y’all. Appreciate it.”
Barrow said it was extra sweet for the seniors to go out with a Bum Phillips Bowl victory.
Football players present to accept the city council honor this week included Kyndon Fuselier, Michael Marshall, Luke Broussard, Steven Bourgeois, Holden Craver, Slade Stoker and Jaice Beck.
Barrow said many of the players deservedly earned all district and all state recognitions.


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Bhubaneswar, Jan 02: Seeking blessings of Lord Jagannath in Puri on New Year day, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik landed in trouble as a complaint has been lodged against him for allegedly violating the rules during his visit to the shrine yesterday.
The Sachetana Nagarika Manch has lodged a complaint against Patnaik with the Singhadwar police alleging that the CM has violated the rule by parking his car near the Aruna Stambha (Sun Pole) in front of the Singha Dwara (Lion's Gate) of the temple.
Since the area from Aruna Stambha to Singha Dwara has been declared as the prohibited zone by the temple administration that barred the devotees from keeping their shoes in the area, the CM parked the car there during his visit to the temple on the New Year yesterday.
The manch alleged that by parking the car in the prohibited area the CM has hurt the religious sentiments of the Hindus as well as the tradition of the temple.
Several devotees were deprived of the darshan of the Lords due to the parking. The manch demanded the arrest of the CM for this act under Section 279, 336, 295 (a) and 299 of the Indian IPC and Section 32 of the Police Act.
A copy has been sent to the Shankaracharya of Gobardhan Peeth, Mukti Mandap, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Prime Minister and the Director General of Police (DGP), said the convener of the Manch Priyadarshan Patnaik.
While protesting the incident, the temple servitors asked why the CM's car will be parked in front of the Singha Dwara, even the vehicle of the President of India Pranab Mukherjee during his recent visit to the temple had been parked outside the prohibited zone.
However, no case has been registered yet. The police said that the charges are being verified.
CM Patnaik had visited Puri Jagannath temple on the New Year to have darshan of the Lords. He was accompanied by Culture and Tourism Minister Ashok Panda, Puri MLA Maheswar Mohanty and Bhubaneswar MP Prasana Patsani. He also visited Swarga Dwar on the sea-shore where both his father and mother were cremated. He offered floral tributes at his father Biju Patnaik's Samadhi before returning to the state capital. During his visit he also inaugurated newly built Panthashala in the city.
Bhubaneswar: A day after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik ordered a Crime Branch probe into the Patnagarh parcel bomb explosion in which a techie and his...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Legislative Assembly was adjourned again till 3 pm on the 4th day of the ongoing Budget Session on Friday as Opposition Congre...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday announced an assured monthly remuneration of Rs 2,000 for Asha workers in the state.More than 47,000 As...


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Wheel thrown with coil addition, brown stoneware, spodumene glaze over slips
Measures 18.25" H x 7" W
Part of the Finding the Authentic Self national invitational.For more work by Peder, click HERE.To return to Finding the Authentic Self exhibition page, click HERE.
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Peder Hegland vase, "Naxos" (NFS)
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The Center Stage Theater in Fontana welcomes Beatles tribute band Ticket to Ride to their stage on Saturday, Nov. 16.
Ticket to Ride performs hits from the Beatle's early years of Ed Sullivan Show to their first full-length film. Their performances feature authenticity,¬ a look-and-sound-alike presentation and complex production numbers.
Menu options for this production top sirloin, honey roasted chicken, blackened mahi and vegetable pasta all with salad dinner rolls, beverage and dessert, and the all but the pasta with a side of vegetables and potato.
Showtimes will be at 2 and¬ 7 p.m.¬ Saturday, Nov. 16. Tickets are $44.95 to $54.95 for adults based on meal and seat, $24 for show only tickets.
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Currently, the cheapest month to rent a car in Victoria Falls is June. The most expensive time to rent a car is August. The cheapest prices for each month are shown above, but prices will vary based on availability, how far out you book your rental car, and of course, car type.
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keddy by Europcar is one of the most popular car hire companies in Victoria Falls, offering car hire for around ₹ 50,287 per week on average.
Booking in advance not only ensures a better chance of getting your vehicle of choice, it can save you up to 79% on your car hire. For a below average price in Victoria Falls, Cheapflights recommends booking your car hire at least 47 days in advance.
Yes, you can rent a car for a month in Victoria Falls check Cheapflights for the latest prices and car type availability.
The most popular car chosen by those travelling to Victoria Falls is Compact (Hyundai i20) based on our Cheapflights data.

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New York's off-hour delivery program, whereby trucks make shipments at night rather than during the day, is the rare policy initiative that all parties consider a huge success. Pilot tests have found that truck speeds go up, shipment times go down, local traffic gets better, and the air gets cleaner. If every business in the city adopted the program, the economic benefits are estimated to be upwards of $193 million a year.
Other cities have taken notice. In particular, Washington, D.C., is in the early phases of a 3.5-year off-hour delivery pilot, with the help of a federal grant. Laura Richards of the District Department of Transportation tells CityLab that right now the city is identifying potential business participants and hopes to have the program up and running in earnest by next year.


Following issues such as world hunger and global warming, the rising volume of unwanted e-mail is now among the problems that are being dealt with on an international level as officials with the United Nations and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) called spam “an epidemic” at a conference in Geneva, Switzerland this week.
Echoing the warnings from the computer industry, world leaders indicated that international cooperation is the only way to combat the sometimes pornographic, unsolicited messages that are repelling users from e-mail and the Internet.
The united spam fight materialized earlier this month with a memorandum of understanding (MOU) among the United States, the UK and Australia that will synergize enforcement, investigation and solutions to spam, but the Geneva meeting involved 60 countries, including some that are blamed for harboring spammers and their servers.
“It certainly is a hot topic in Geneva with 60 countries and spam pretty high on the agenda,” Message Labs information security analyst Natasha Staley told TechNewsWorld. “Yet the MOU only involves three countries. It’s certainly a step in the right direction, but I think there’s certainly still a long way to go.”
The Geneva event highlighted what many analysts and critics of U.S. legislative efforts have blamed for much of the spam problem — the inability to prosecute spammers based in nations without antispam laws.
“The fact that the ITU is bringing together 60 countries is a signal of recognition that spam is not a localized issue — it’s a global issue,” Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira told TechNewsWorld. “The Internet has no borders.”
Spira, whose firm blames spam for US$20 billion in lost productivity and other costs, said international cooperation is necessary in the face of nations with nonexistent or weak antispam laws.
“It is still exceedingly difficult to prosecute across a border where a country doesn’t have laws [against spam],” Spira said. “There are so many countries without any spam laws.”
The joint effort of the United States, the UK and Australia to fight spam will mean for the first time that authorities from all three nations will work together to investigate spammers in their countries.
The three nations also will take part in joint, antispam training initiatives and work on strengthening their ability to trace and convict spammers with cross-border enforcement.
“It’s not going to solve spam overnight, but it is going to help,” said Australian Communications Minister Stephen Timms in a statement. “It reinforces our determination to tackle spam with a combination of government and industry initiatives, technical solutions and user awareness.”
Spira, who said that the majority of spam is probably coming from fewer than 500 individuals around the globe, said that any effort to stamp out spam will take a long time “because all you need is one country not towing the line.”
Maurene Caplan Grey, a research director with Gartner, agreed, telling TechNewsWorld that legislation and government action represent only band-aid attempts to stop spam.
“It’s a good action, conceptually,” Caplan Grey said of the ITU and UN antispam initiatives. “In reality, we give it a very low probability of bearing fruit. This is kind of like achieving world peace.”


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Ebony Jackson-Rendon Gives Birth to Second Baby Girl! (PHOTO)
Time to knit some baby booties, Teen Mom fans! 16 and Pregnant's very own Ebony Jackson-Rendon just gave birth to her second child, and we're happy to report that both mommy and baby are healthy!
Ebony went into labor on October 15, and gave birth to Jayda Jewel Rendon, who weighed in at 8 lbs! This is the second child and third pregnancy for Ebony, who suffered an ectopic pregnancy in May 2011. Ebony's first daughter, Jocelyn, is currently back in her care after being taken into custody by CPS due to the unsanitary living conditions in Ebony and her husband Josh's home.
We're beyond thrilled that Ebony and Josh were able to work out their house cleaning issues, and are starting on the right foot with their beautiful bundle of joy!


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They play 10 dates at The O2 arena next June and tickets range from £45 for seats at the back and in upper tiers to £200 for floor seats in the front block. But tickets for the front row of Pit 1, almost within touching distance of the stage, cost £1,275.03 each.
Angry fans said they felt betrayed by frontman Jon Bon Jovi's band, who last night performed their new single, We Weren't Born To Follow, on The X Factor.
Writing on Bon Jovi's official website, one said she had been a fan of the Livin' On A Prayer rockers for 24 years but was "gutted" by the high prices. "Have they not heard we are going through a recession?" she added.
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He was educated at Harvard University, Trinity College, Dublin, and taught at Southern Methodist University and New York University. In 1975 Burns moved to Dallas, Texas. In 1994, he moved to Portland, Oregon. Burns illustrated several of his own books, and designed the covers for Boccherini's Minuet and Prose. In addition to his writing and art, Burns also dabbled in amateur conjuring.
- 1985 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for poetry
- 1992 National Poetry Series Competition, for Shorter Poems
- Laughter in the Gallery (1966)
- Sonnets from the Middle English
- Boccherini's Minuet (1972)
- The Myth of Accidence (c. 1973)
- A Book of Spells (1975)
- Letters to Obscure Men (1979)
- Toward a Phenomenology of Written Art (1979)
- Prose (1982)
- A Thing About Language (1989)
- Shorter Poems. Dalkey Archive Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-56478-026-3.
- Longer poems. Barnburner Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-942829-07-5.
- Probability, Standing Stone Press
- Fuzzy Dice, Standing Stone Press
- Howard Nelson, ed. (1987). "From "Poets and Anthologies"". On the poetry of Galway Kinnell: the wages of dying. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06376-5.
- Tom Andrews, ed. (1995). "A Book to Build On". On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-08321-3.
- "Gerald Burns". users.speakeasy.net. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
- "Register of Gerald Burns Manuscripts and Other Documents - MSS 221". libraries.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-20.


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Brightstar founder and CEO Marcelo Claure insists there will be no significant changes to the UK team. Commits to keeping the business in Crewe. International expansion plans revealed.
Brightstar CEO Marcelo Claure (pictured) says there will be no wholesale changes at 20:20 following its takeover completion last month and insisted the firm’s legacy will remain intact.
There have been a number of high profile departures from 20:20 in recent months, including chief executive James Browning, finance director Andy White, marketing and purchasing director Andrew Peat and sales director David Holdcroft as the deal neared its conclusion.
The exits have led to a number of questions being asked surrounding Brightstar’s plans for the business with reports seeping out from its Crewe HQ that staff were concerned for their jobs amid concerns of significant changes to personnel.
Claure, who was speaking for the first time to the UK press since the takeover was completed, confirmed a number of existing Brightstar staff from outside of Europe, such as Australia and the US, will be joining the business as part of the integration process, but insists no wholesale changes will happen and reiterated his commitment to keeping the head office and warehouses in Crewe.
He said: “We have to keep Crewe, that’s critical because that’s its history and legacy. There are no plans to change things. We are very happy to be back in the European market. We love the 20:20 culture and is something we want to embrace.”
Claure also revealed plans to increase Brightstar’s reach to close to 60 markets.
Claure said the firm has earmarked Germany and Italy as new European market opportunities, trading as Brightstar 20:20.
Eastern Europe and the Benelux regions are also areas Claure wants to increase business opportunities in, whilst, outside of Europe, plans to enter the Indian market are currently being discussed.
Brightstar currently operates in 55 markets, up from 38 following the completion of the 20:20 Group last month.
“We are continuously looking to expand,” said Claure. “We are in 55 different markets now, which is a fair amount. With the 20:20 deal now complete, we have to fully integrate ourselves. We have some possible markets in the pipeline, we are looking at potential entry to India. Once you have a system its easier to roll out into other markets.”

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Wolfpack Writers: Misha Lazzara
Misha Lazzara graduated from NC State with a MFA in creative writing in 2021. She has put her education to good use as a creative writing adjunct professor, freelance editor, and writing coach.
First and foremost, Lazzara is a writer. Her debut novel, Manmade Constellations, released in August of 2022. The story follows two young adults as they confront their pasts and heal from childhood trauma. Lazzara’s book delves into what people can learn by leaving the familiarity of home and embracing new experiences.
We sat down with Lazzara to discuss her book and her approach to writing.
What inspired the topic of your book?
The main inspiration for the book, essentially a love triangle, never even made its way into the second draft! In the end, it’s about two people from the same small town and how their lives intersect. Where their values align –anti-consumerism, food justice and mild disdain for where they grew up– is one aspect of the story that ties them together. To find out how else they’re connected, you’ll have to read the book!
What is one word you would use to describe your book?
‘Angsty?’ Because the characters are. Or maybe ‘Winter?’ Because the book is obsessed with it.
What got you interested in becoming an author?
It’s what I planned to do for as long as I can remember. I must have told my mom that when I was little because for Christmas one year she gave me the children’s book The Lives of Writers by Kathleen Krull. Murasaki Shikibu is one of the first authors’ biographies listed, hailed as the first woman novelist and also, potentially, the first ever novelist. I fell in love. And so I’ve been enthralled from that moment on.
How has your education from NC State impacted your career?
I learned so much at NC State from Belle, Cadwell, Wilton, Elaine, Cat, Eduardo, Dorianne – the list goes on! Writing is, truly, done in community, and NC State taught me that. Besides what I learned from the professors, I had an amazing cohort that offered invaluable feedback on my manuscript but also on my overall writing style and process.
What is your ritual before writing to get into a creative headspace?
It was Belle Boggs who first started talking to us (my cohort) about taking walks to improve creativity and brainstorm our project. Since then, I’ve done some research and experienced it for myself, and I’ve determined that it’s extremely underestimated! Walking is really where I build my plots. Sometimes it’s in the bath, and sometimes it’s just talking it out with writing friends or my husband. Story, character and plot building is 75% of the work. And I don’t believe that’s done while writing, for the most part. I used to believe writing was sitting down and staring at a keyboard until something came out. I was wrong. Now I spend so much time brainstorming, talking about, and daydreaming about my characters and their journey. Usually by the time I sit down, the words rush onto the page. With three kids and adjunct teaching, I don’t really have the time to sit and stare at a blank white page! I let the ideas come first.
You’re organizing a dinner party. Which writers, dead or alive, do you invite?
Wow this is hard; there are too many! I could make a list a mile long. Murasaki Shikibu! She’d be at the head of the table. Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Rivka Galchen, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, Ottessa Moshfegh, Celeste Ng, Emily St. John Mandel, Ann Patchett, Belle Boggs, Elaine Orr – I could keep going.
What’s next for you?
I’ve turned in book two to the editors at Blackstone Publishing, which will likely be slotted for sometime in 2024. I’m on to book three! I’ve got the idea, and I really enjoy it. So far there’s a lot of verbal brainstorming, research, note-taking, loose outlining and WALKING!

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Ultimaker attains medical certification to create Orthopedic, Maxillofacial and Cardiovascular models
Ultimaker gains certification as part of Materialise 510(k) cleared Mimics inPrint software
What does this certification mean?
While a growing number of free and commercial medical imaging software is available, in some cases within the United States, models marketed for diagnostic use must be prepared using software cleared by the FDA, such as Materialise Mimics inPrint.
Dedicated to fostering secure, accessible, and reliable 3D printing environments in the world of patient care, Materialise was a natural choice to bolster Ultimaker's offerings. “This solution we’ve developed with Ultimaker will improve access to 3D printed anatomical models to aid in surgical planning and multidisciplinary team communication,” explains Bryan Crutchfield, vice president and general manager of Materialise North America. The large build volume of the Ultimaker S5 allows for true-to-size models that open new doors for patient care and communication.
Revolutionizing patient care
With the continued adoption of 3D printing for treatment planning and diagnostics, hospitals are recognizing that tangible, anatomically correct models make it easier to diagnose patients, plan surgeries, and discuss treatment where they would otherwise need to rely on 2D images. “The Materialise certification of the 3D printing workflow when used with Mimics inPrint reduces the safety and quality-control burden on doctors and hospitals with its clearance by the FDA,” says John Kawola, President of Ultimaker North America.
As 3D printing continues to change the face of diagnostics and care in the medical space, Ultimaker is proud to offer an affordable, steadfast option for hospitals that create 3D models from 2D scans. The partnership between Materialise and Ultimaker only enhances research flexibility and clinician communication, with reliability that reduces the strains of quality control and reduces the barrier to access for new technologies.
If you're interested in learning more, read the report below.

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In a surprise move, Chelsea Football Club has completed the signing of Mykhailo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk for a reported €100 million. The deal, which was announced on Monday, came as a shock to many as it appeared that Arsenal were the favorites to land the highly-rated midfielder.
According to sources, Chelsea’s owner and board member flew directly to Shakhtar to finalize the deal, which was completed in a matter of hours. The negotiations were reportedly fast-paced and efficient, and the transfer fee agreement was reached quickly. However, it’s said that the talks with Mudryk himself was not so straightforward. The player had reportedly already seen himself as an Arsenal player and was hesitant to join Chelsea. But the Blues were able to convince him with their project and the opportunity to be a starter under Graham Potter.
The transfer fee, which reportedly reached €100 million, was a significant factor in Chelsea’s success in securing the player. Shakhtar was said to be unwilling to accept anything less, and this ultimately proved to be the decisive factor. Arsenal, who were not willing to match Chelsea’s offer, lost out on the deal.
The contract is reportedly 7 years long till 2030. This is a huge investment for Chelsea, but one that they will hope will pay off in the long run. Mudryk is a highly-rated midfielder with a lot of potential and is expected to be a key player for Chelsea in the future. He will be joining a team that has been rebuilding under Potter, and his arrival is sure to add more depth to the squad.
In conclusion, Chelsea’s quick negotiation and willingness to pay the high transfer fee has landed them Mykhailo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk. The deal came as a surprise to many as it appeared that Arsenal were the favourite to land the highly-rated midfielder. Chelsea’s owner and board member flew directly to Shakhtar to complete this deal and convince Mudryk to join Chelsea despite his initial preference to join Arsenal. The contract is reportedly 7 years long till 2030 and Chelsea will be hoping this transfer will be a huge success for them in the long run.


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Jessie Lincoln married Warren Wallace Beckwith in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in November 1897, much to her father’s dismay. Robert bitterly opposed the wedding because Beckwith was just a college football and minor league baseball player. Jessie and Warren had two children: Mary “Peggy” and Robert Todd Lincoln (after her father). The family moved back out to Iowa, where her mother was from and Jessie remained there. In 1907, Jessie divorced Warren and married Frank Edward Johnson in 1915. She then divorced Frank in 1926 and married Robert John Randolph, an electrical engineer from Virginia. She did not have any further children. From 1946 until her death in 1948, Jessie lived at their summer estate, Hildene, in Manchester, Vermont.
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If the bunker in the above photo were filled at a more gradual slope, as shown by the yellow line, silage could have been packed tightly and safely. The drawing below offers a way to fill a bunker safely, also allowing water to drain away from the wall.
Storing silage in bunkers or piles – while maintaining high quality with little waste at feedout – is an art involving some mathematics, says Brian Holmes, University of Wisconsin biological systems engineer.
“All too often, we see silage surfaces which are too steep. If they’re too steep, you’re not going to drive on them, and they’re not going to be properly packed,” Holmes told members of Wisconsin Custom Operators during their recent annual meeting.
“If you do drive on a steep surface, you run a high risk of tipping the tractor over. Sloping the filling surface down toward the (bunker) wall makes it tough to keep the packing tires tight against the wall to help preserve silage.”
Loosely packed silage results in more visible spoilage as well as increased safety risks and labor costs in pitching and disposing of the waste feed – something producers don’t like to do.
“If spoiled silage didn’t need to be pitched, feeders wouldn’t be up next to those feedout faces running the risk of riding an avalanche down to the floor,” Holmes pointed out.
He suggested a few ways custom harvesters can help clients avoid problems:
• Instead of maintaining a flat bunker-silo forage surface, fill a silo so forage slopes toward the bunker center (see drawing).
“Then, as you put in your capping layers, fill the middle and pack on a reasonable slope. That keeps you away from the wall while you’re packing that last section, leaving a channel for water to flow away from the wall. The other advantage: Your tractor leans away from the wall, allowing your tires to pack closer to the wall.”
Besides providing better at-the-wall density, the sloping-inward strategy keeps tires from tearing plastic that may line bunker walls, he said.
• Or an operator can top off a flat-surface bunker silo with silage pushed toward the center and redistributed to form a very gradual slope down toward the bunker wall. In the photo, the steep sides are not likely to be packed well and may be unsafe to drive on. Imagine the silage above the yellow line redistributed in the center of the bunker. The gradually sloped triangle holds the same amount of silage but allows it to be packed well and more safely, he said.
• Producers frequently construct silage piles too tall and steep to minimize the footprints of their storage-pad areas. “Many times they want to get as much silage on the site as possible, so they build taller. When they build taller for a given width, they end up with steeper sides.”
Such slopes are difficult to pack properly and effectively cover and hold the plastic close to the silage, Holmes pointed out.
He recommended a 3:1 gradual slope – 3’ horizontally for every foot of rise. Many piles are built so high that facers can’t reach the tops, again increasing the risk of avalanches (see “Surviving A Silage Avalanche”).
• If packing a bunker or pile over a number of days, consider covering the back portion, when it’s densely packed with a safe shape, to keep quality high and spoilage losses low.
• To get the most out of your packing time, and to accomplish it safely when using two or more tractors, make sure operators have a protocol, agreeing who has the right of way and how they will communicate with each other.


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[[2 pages]] [[page 1]] attached. They demanded the key positions in Liberia, the most important controlposts and an actual division of Liberia. Germany on its part recognizing of course that the League of Nations is an instrument of the British and French Imperialists, tried to secure the domination of Liberia through other means-in the form of a Danish-German consortium. This consortium was to get an enormous amount of land, concessions to build roads, railways, harbours, etc. But this brought about a storm of protest from the Imperialist robbers, who did not intend to allow Germany to share in the loot. What was the attitude of the government of Liberia? Who fought against the imperialist robbers and in what way? How was the struggle waged against the imperialists? The Liberian Government faithfully served the imperialist robbers. It was the government that faithfully served the American Imperialists and it is the government which then allowed the British, French and German robbers to come into the foreground. This did not take place by any means because they could hope to be rescued by the League of Nations. The American imperialists however had not become so weakened as some groups of the dominant stratum of Liberia thought, in order to have to give up Liberia to the other imperialists without resistance. Through its «Liberian Friends» America tried to still further deepen American influence. Widespread and profound actions of the American imperialists were to have frustrated the British-French-German plans. The action of the American imperialists is well prepared. Official and non-official circles of Liberia and the United States conduct propaganda for the American imperialists. And such papers as, for instance, «Afro-American» are also in the service of this propaganda. A conference of Liberian interests was held in Washington and the leadership of the conference was in the hands of Dr. Henry L. West, secretary of the «American Colonisation Society», and by Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., According to the reports, there was a unanimous opinion that the plan of the League of Nations should be rejected and that "American aid" for Liberia should not be spared. Bishop W. E. Matthews declared that the old relations of the United States should take he place of he League of Nations plan. Dr. Emmet J. Scott, from Howard University, also declared that the relations of Liberia and United States should be the old relations. Dr. Ernest Lyon, a lawyer representing the large financial interests, spoke very vehemently against the plans of the League of Nations. Approximately at the same time the arch-bishops, bishops and similar high personages of the church held a conference in 10 [[/page 1]] [[page 2]] Pittsburgh where «freedom» was demanded for Liberia. Finally, the «Times» of February 24 reports that the Liberian government is sending two competent Liberian citizens to America in order the negotiate with the finance Corporation of America and to «adjust its difference with the Finance corporation with the least possible delay». [[image: black and white photograph of an African American with a steel collar and chain around his neck]] [[caption]] IN LIBERIA, AFRICA A native chained by the neck and forced to work on the roads. [[/caption]] [[image: black and white photograph of an African American sitting on a bench in a prisoner's uniform, chained at the neck, wrists and ankles]] [[caption]] IN GEORGIA, U. S. A. Chained by the neck in a Muscogee County chain gang camp. [[/caption]] Under such conditions, the paper «Afro-American» arranged a goodwill tour to Liberia. W. M. Jones, the leader of this tour had the task of solving the problems of Liberia. In reality it was a tour in the interest of the American imperialists. He wrote a number of articles in which good advice was given as to how the Liberian problem was to be solved. When he wrote about how the conflicts of the natives with the Americo-Liberians are to be solved -- and he described these as tribal conflicts -- he thought that 90% of such conflicts could be solved verey well by a good baseball team, by athletic exercises and picnics. When he spoke with Chief Mambu who complained about the low prices for native products, Mr. Jones assured the chief that he had thought a great deal about these problems and thought that America would pay the highest prices for rice and coffee and anything else that they produced. 11 [[/page 2]]
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"She had done the things that you should do in these situations. She had done those things," Garin Daum said.
He's talking about his sister,.
"Her children were her life," he said.
Lindsay Daum was at home with her five children when her ex, Javier Acevedo, shot and killed her and her 16-year-old daughter, Meadow Sinner.
"It just seems like it was all so preventable," Garin Daum said.
Twice, a judge in Larimer County denied Lindsay Daum's request for a permanent protection order against Acevedo.
"She was constantly dealing with him," Garin Daum said.
Transcripts of those hearings obtained by CBS4 show in September 2021 Lindsay Daum went into court alone, unable to afford an attorney.
Daum struggled to present her case at one point pleading to the judge: "They just want to humiliate me. This not right."
"If she could have afforded an attorney, would that have saved her life? That is as bad as any of it," Garin Daum said.
The order was denied, despite Acevedo being on intense supervised probation with an ankle monitor for violating a different protection order against another woman in Denver.
He agreed to relinquish any firearms, but police believe a gun purchased in March 2021 was never surrendered.
"The system is just going to take his word for it right? You just- oh, you don't go to his house and check? You don't- what does the system do to make sure? And obviously, the answer was 'nothing,'" Daum said.
In June of 2022, Lindsay Daum made a second attempt to obtain a protection order.
She presented evidence of threatening emails, texts and calls.
"This is a person who is on intensive supervised probation," she said
The judge said, in part, "if I can't decide who's telling me the truth, I have to rule in favor of a defendant."
The order was denied again.
Lindsay Daum's response was more like a premonition: "it's just a matter of time when he's going to kill me."
Less than a month later, on July 28, Garin Daum got a call from his mother.
"She hadn't even finished telling me and I knew what had happened," he said
He rushed to his sister's home to a horrific scene.
"The people you talk to at the scene they are all social workers and victims' advocates and whatever," he said. "They will be the first one to tell you, 'hey look, the system is broken.'"
Jennifer Eyl is the executive director of Project Safeguard, a legal advocacy group for domestic violence survivors.
"We do put way too much of this on survivors to get help to get a protection order, to find resources, to find a lawyer, to pay for a lawyer when they are not the ones causing the harm," she said.
Not only is it difficult to navigate alone, but she also says there isn't one consistent way to track domestic violence cases across the state. But her biggest concern is those behind the bench.
"Judicial officers who are hearing these cases are not necessarily trained in domestic violence," Eyl said. "They don't understand what it takes for someone to leave, they don't understand that once someone leaves their abuser, that is the most dangerous time."
A state review board that was formed to look into the issues that lead to fatal domestic violence cases recommended a change this year. And in June, a law was passed requiring increased training for judges, the same month Lindsay Daum was in court.
"The risk to our justice system is, if judges don't understand the trauma and the complexities around victims of domestic violence, we might mismanage cases," Eyl said.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says Colorado can do better.
"It can't just be, 'law enforcement, act differently' or 'judges, act differently,'" Weiser said. "All of us have to ask, 'what can we be doing better?'"
Garin Daum and his family say it needs to be a priority now.
"It's absolutely going to happen again," he said. "It's probably happened today. It's probably happened while we are having this conversation. It's absolutely going to happen again."
The state review board has also recommended starting a domestic violence court, focused on these cases only, but says it would take a significant amount of resources.
The Daum family is now caring for Lindsay's four children and has launched a GoFundMe page.
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Cutie and the beast: Giant polar bear shows softer side by sharing his zoo enclosure with three small moggies
- Polar bear befriends cats in zoo in Almaty, southern Kazakhstan
- Bear parades up and down enclosure with cats relaxing nearby
- Recollections of Russian tiger befriending goat sent to him for supper
The polar bear may be one of the world’s most deadly animals, but one arctic giant revealed a softer side after befriending three cats in a zoo in Almaty, southern Kazakhstan.
Footage from a visitor at the zoo clearly shows the cats relaxing with the bear, unconcerned at the enormous beast marching around the rather tiny enclosure.
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The arctic giant revealed a softer side after befriending three cats in a zoo in Almaty, southern Kazakhstan
Footage from a visitor at the zoo clearly shows the cats relaxing, unconcerned at the enormous bear marching around its rather tiny enclosure
The polar bear has no natural predators in the wild, but the cats were unperturbed. Reports suggest the animals are friends and a special bond has grown between them.
In fact the carnivorous bear seemed more preoccupied with the zoo’s visitors, possibly dreaming of a bigger meal than two small cats.
Inside the small compound the bear marched up and down by the fence of the enclosure, perhaps wishing there weren’t the bars which separated it from the line of watching visitors on the other side.
In fact the carnivorous bear seemed more preoccupied with the zoo’s visitors, possibly dreaming of a bigger meal than two small cats
But reports claim witnesses speculated the bear did not go for the cats because it was well fed and had a unique bond with the small animals
But reports claim witnesses speculated the bear did not go for the cats because it was well fed and had a unique bond with the small animals.
A woman who witnessed the incident, Yulia Mamirbayeva, put on her Facebook page: ‘Not only is the tiger Amur friends with the goat Timur, we have a situation where a bear is friends with cats.’
She was talking of an incredible friendship formed between a tiger and a goat at a Russian zoo.
A witness described the similarity to an incident in Russia where a tiger befriended a goat which was supposed to be his supper
Amur the tiger made friends with the goat Timur and the two go on walks together every day
The goat had been intended as the tiger's lunch, but the pair have become some of the animal kingdom's most unlikely friends.
Reports say they go on walks together every day and it is the goat that is in charge of relationship.
Polar bears are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The Soviet Union banned the hunting of the animal in 1956, but poaching has been a risk particularly in areas such as Chukotka, north-east Russia, where the bears have approached coastal villages as the sea ice has shrunk.
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Model Chrissy Teigen has responded hilariously to her husband, singer John Legend, being named “sexiest man alive”.
After been granted the title by People magazine, the 10-time Grammy Award winner said he felt “excited” and “a little scared” by the pressure of following in the footsteps of actor Idris Elba, who was crowned “sexiest man alive” last year.
While many people have been congratulating Legend on his latest accolade, his spouse has responded in a comically sardonic manner to her husband’s recognition.
“I have fulfilled my dream of having boned @people’s sexiest man alive!! An honour!!!!!” Teigen tweeted, having changed her Twitter bio to read: “Currently sleeping with People’s sexiest man alive.”
The Lip Sync Battle co-host added that she “cannot wait for people to get mad about John being the sexiest man alive”.
Following People‘s announcement, Legend tweeted a smouldering photograph of Elba alongside one of himself taken 24 years ago, stating that “1995 John would be very perplexed” to be succeeding the Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw star.
Teigen weighed in on the discussion, stating: “Yeah but let’s see an @idriselba pic from 1995 (prob still very hot).”
The model also shared a video on social media of the couple’s children, Miles and Luna, being informed of their father’s new award.
“I want to watch the movie mum,” three-year-old Luna says in the video, which Teigen captioned: “The kids… do not care.”
The television personality later informed her Twitter followers that it is business as usual in the Stephens household, writing: “The sexiest man alive just made me a ham sandwich.”
Several Twitter users found humour in Teigen’s responses to Legend’s “sexiest man alive” title.
“You’re having too much fun with this,” one person wrote.
“I’m glad you’ll be there to keep him humble,” another remarked.

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[Show abstract][Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: ABCG2 is responsible for the multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype, and strongly modulates cancer outcomes. Its high expression at a number of physiological barriers, including blood-brain and intestinal barriers, impacts on drug pharmacokinetics parameters. We characterized MBL-II-141, a specific and potent ABCG2 inhibitor. Combination of 10 mg/kg MBL-II-141 with the anticancer agent CPT-11 completely blocked the growth of 90% freshly implanted ABCG2-positive tumors. Moreover, the same combination slowed the growth of already established tumors. As required for preclinical development, we defined the main pharmacokinetics parameters of MBL-II-141 and its influence on the kinetics of CPT-11 and its active metabolite SN-38 in mice. MBL-II-141 distribution into the brain occurred at a low, but detectable, level. Interestingly, preliminary data suggested that MBL-II-141 is well tolerated (at 50 mg/kg) and absorbed upon force-feeding. MBL-II-141 induced a potent sensitization of ABCG2-positive xenografts to CPT-11 through in vivo ABCG2 inhibition. MBL-II-141 strongly increased CPT-11 levels in the brain, and therefore would be a valuable agent to improve drug distribution into the brain to efficiently treat aggressive gliomas. Safety and other pharmacological data strongly support the reglementary preclinical development of MBL-II-141.
[Show abstract][Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: We recently identified a chromone derivative, 5-(4-bromobenzyloxy)-2-(2-(5-methoxyindolyl)ethyl-1-carbonyl)-4H-chromen-4-one, named here chromone 1, as a potent, selective, non-toxic and non-transported inhibitor of ABCG2-mediated drug efflux (Valdameri et al. J. Med. Chem. 2012, 55, 966). We now synthesized a series of 14 derivatives to study structure-activity relationships controlling both drug efflux and ATPase activity of ABCG2, and to elucidate their molecular mechanism of interaction and inhibition. It was found that the 4-bromobenzyloxy substituent at position 5 and the methoxyindole are important for both inhibition of mitoxantrone efflux and inhibition of basal ATPase activity. Quite interestingly, methylation of the central amide nitrogen strongly altered the high-affinity and complete inhibition of mitoxantrone efflux, as well as the inhibition of coupled ATPase activity. These results allowed the identification of a critical central inhibitory moiety of chromones that has never been investigated previously, in any series of inhibitors.
[Show abstract][Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: ABCG2 impacts oral availability, tissue distribution and excretion of its substrates, including anticancer and anti-infectious drugs. Highly expressed at physiological barriers, its secretion level significantly controls drug distribution. Furthermore, its increased content into many types of cancer may lead to cell chemoresistance. Owing to the clinical relevance of ABCG2 in the multidrug resistance phenomenon, ABCG2 constitutes an appealing therapeutic target to increase drug distribution. Development of ABCG2 inhibitors can be used in combination with anticancer drugs to block the drug secretion from cancer cells. Very recently, an alternative use of ABCG2 inhibitors in enhancing the bioavailability of ABCG2 substrates has emerged. Hence, it is important to investigate ABCG2 inhibitors with high selectivity, high potency and safety. New inhibitors discovered during the last 5 years will be presented and discussed.
[Show abstract][Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: Easy as A B C! 6-Halochromone derivatives bearing a tryptamine moiety were evaluated as inhibitors of the breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP)/ABCG2. The 6-bromo analogue has been identified as a highly potent, selective and nontoxic inhibitor of BCRP. The facile synthesis from commercial starting materials makes this inhibitor an ideal candidate for preclinical investigations.
[Show abstract][Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: A series of 13 disubstituted chromones was synthesized. Two types of substituents, on each side of the scaffold, contributed to both the potency of ABCG2 inhibition and the cytotoxicity. The best compound, 5-(4-bromobenzyloxy)-2-(2-(5-methoxyindolyl)ethyl-1-carbonyl)-4H-chromen-4-one (6g), displayed high-affinity inhibition and low cytotoxicity, giving a markedly high therapeutic index. The chromone derivative specifically inhibited ABCG2 versus other multidrug ABC transporters and was not transported. It constitutes a highly promising candidate for in vivo chemosensitization of ABCG2-expressing tumors.


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The projects are carried out by student teams in the bachelor’s degree of the Faculté de génie and the École de gestion at the Université de Sherbrooke, as part of the course IMC 155 – Création de produits innovants. The work will be carried out using the Design Thinking approach, under the supervision of a professor-engineer.
Propose an idea
You must first submit an idea for an innovative product. The engineering and management student team will carry out a design thinking process. At the end of the process, the team will provide you with a low-intensity prototype of your product (a scaled-down model), improved according to the indications of the people identified as future users.
Example of a completed project
- Design of a community space in a parking lot of the City of Sherbrooke
The student team does the work free of charge, but the client must be involved in the process.
Projects can be submitted 12 months of the year. The work is done during one academic term.
The work is done at the Campus principal de l’Université de Sherbrooke
2500, boul. de l’Université
The project sponsor must agree to leave the intellectual property of the work done to the students.

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Curious to know what you're favourite cooking/recipe app is atm and what you dislike about it! :-)
Some of my favourites are:
Jamie Oliver Recipes https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/jamie-olivers-recipes/id398011800?mt=8
But I have to say I use a lot food52, but there is no app.
I use Yummly quite a lot. Integrated with their website too.
Big fan of yummly
Paprika - We have grown a digital library of over 700 recipes from past family recipes and stuff we find online. Every weekend we plan out the next week's meal schedule, then get all the groceries. Sometimes she will ask me to get a few things at the store, the list is already on my phone, so she doesn't have to tell me what to get. Haven't found anything as comprehensive since.
My only dislike is that they don't polish UI as often as other apps, but I think it's just one guy, so I can't complain, it works.
Thanks for the input guys! I totally forgot to post my own personal favourite; New York Times Cooking (app & website)
Looks good, taste good!
I'm as big fan of https://onetsp.com/
Really clean, I think it's a single person operation as well.
http://www.filibaba.com for the veggie's
I really like basil, it is an app for collecting recipes and replaying them as you cook, with timers etc. It has a favelet so you can grab recipes off websites easily, decent unit conversion, notes, a shopping list helper which I have never used, and is quite pleasant to look at.
I'll second Basil. I really wish there were an iPhone and Mac/Web version, but the iPad app is so good I always come back to it.
I like the Fitmencook app. Great and healthy recipes. Like the option to add all ingredients to a shopping list you can then use in the grocery store. :) Would like to see more recipes in it though.
Agree, it's a pretty neat app.

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By Chris Montanini, Londoner
Two subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Canada have applied to the Ontario Energy Board for leave to construct electricity transmission facilities for their proposed wind farm projects in Middlesex County. The applications were submitted to the OEB Feb. 8 and in anticipation of an upcoming hearing to allow the public and other agencies to express interest, county councillors at their bi-monthly meeting Feb. 19 in London gave Middlesex County staff permission to intervene on their behalf.
Chris Traini, a Middlesex County engineer, said the procedure will be “fairly standard” for electricity infrastructure on county property. “We want to go to the (OEB) to make sure they know (NextEra) has to follow the normal county bylaws and policies,” Traini said. “So they’ll need work permits, entrance permits, moving permits, the same as anyone else who would install infrastructure on a county road.”
Traini said they will also need to craft a Road User Agreement outlining the terms that will allow NextEra to install infrastructure on county roads. The applications include transmission lines within the right of ways of Kerwood Road, Nairn Road and Elginfield Road. “We’re trying to put ourselves in position so we don’t have additional costs to do our normal jobs (like road maintenance and construction) and therefore increase the burden to tax payers because of this infrastructure,” Traini said. “We ask for that because we don’t have detailed engineering drawing until they actually go to construction which will be a few months after approval is given.”
It typically takes the OEB around 30 days from the date an application is submitted to announce a hearing, Traini said. Read article


Tracking a patient’s whereabouts, time in care, and visit information are important tasks to ensure quality service and treatment in any healthcare organization. PatientTrak assists healthcare personnel by providing an easy-to-use tool to record visit data from door to discharge, allowing for better management of patient flow in a real-time manner.
The following terms will be used throughout the User Manual:
• Areas – Usually a physical space or room such as “Admissions” or “Waiting Area”. Areas can be comprised of two or more rooms such as “Lab Room 1 through Lab Room 5” which can.
• Rooms – A physical location at which an individual patient can receive care. Rooms may be defined as beds in some healthcare organizations. Rooms are often found within an area.
• Discharged Patients – Patients who are no longer being tracked and have been removed from the Tracking Board
• Tracking Board (TB) – Interactive grid in PatientTrak that tracks Patients as they are arrived into an area or room, often a lobby or waiting room. The User can further move the Patient to different locations as well as assign Activities to them, add notes and associate Alerts.
• Alerts – To communicate patient needs or special designations between staff members using the Tracking Board. Alerts can further describe a patient’s status in a graphical way.
• Scheduled Patients – Patients that have not yet been arrived into the Tracking Board but are present within a list of patients that have scheduled appointments.
• Type Codes – This label can be renamed as needed to fit your organization. For instance, they may be used as CPT codes, ICD or Service Codes. The Type Codes can be used as location information or to identify a specific modality. Type codes can be associated to patients.
• Organizational Settings – An administrative section where Tracking Board and Public Screen fields can be enabled/disabled or relabeled as needed.
• Support “Lumin Medical LLC” – Office1: 888-766-2862 Ext 501, Office2: 414-761-9000, Direct 414-455-6619
• Activities – Patient visits involve different events that may be recorded in the patient tracking system, such as “Patient Moved”, “Lab Ordered”, or “Patient Discharged”, for example. The time of each Activity is also recorded and used for analysis and reporting.
• HL7 – Health Level-7 or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is “layer 7” in the OSI model.
To log onto your patient tracking system, simply point your web browser to www.patienttrak.net. Click the “Login” button. Enter your Login ID, Password, and Organization ID and click “Login” to proceed. You can also go to PatientTrak.net and login to your system there.
• If you know your password you do not need to request a new one. However, you must correctly type in upper and lower-case characters to match your current password.
• When clicking “Forgot Password” the process requires that you to fill in your email and submit. Then, on the next popup, add your Username and ORG ID and submit. A message box updates you that an email has been sent as shown on the left. The User is now required to “Update” their password. Once that is complete you will be directed to the login page.
The My Profile menu can allow you to change your password for logging into PatientTrak. Also offered on the page is the ability to select a default Tracking Board area/room from the drop-down. If you access the Tracking Board upon logon or through “View” you will be directed to that area as a default.
Setting My Tracking View
If you require a custom view, you can check the boxes for the available areas which in turn becomes your “My Tracking View”. In this example below, the User could select one or more of the available areas by checking the boxes. Once saved, the User then selects “My Tracking View” on the Tracking Board. See My Tracking View below.
My Tracking View
In this example the User set up their “My Profile” to view only the Front Lobby and AREA 1. When the User clicks “My Tracking View”, they will only see the areas/rooms within their selection and any associated patients. The idea behind using this feature is so that you only see what you need to see and or are responsible for.
Add a New Patient
Adding a Patient Manually
• When adding a new Patient note that the “*” means it is a required field.
• The Patient record can be set up to fill a few or several fields. These fields are configured and labeled from within the Organizational Settings.
Note: If a Kiosk is used, the fields can be populated during the Patient sign-in. As an example: Kiosk Question: Do you have Allergies? YES/NO. The Patient picks YES and the patient record will show YES.
• Several other drop-downs allow the User to select the doctor or nurse that will be working with the Patient.
• Some fields are free-text fields and allow the User to type information in manually.
TIP: Most of these fields can also be shown on the Tracking Board if enabled, this is done from Organizational Settings.
Add a New Appointment
• The menu to add an appointment is the same as adding a Patient in manually except for the “time & date” requirement.
• Appointments are added to the Appointments/Schedule table and can be edited there.
• Patient Appointments are not associated with an area and are shown as “N/A”. Once the person is “arrived”, they can be placed into an area, often this is a Lobby or Waiting Room. The User can move the patient to an Area or if the patient signs in through the kiosk, they are automatically arrived to an area.
• Patient Activities and Text Message History both reside alongside of the Patient Record and can also be accessed through the “name link”.
• The Activities Tab shows you each and every activity in the order it was added to the Patient. These activities include “system” and “User”.
• The text-messaging history tab will provide a list of each text message sent out (Date/From-To & Message). This tab will only show if the Text-Messaging feature is enabled for the application. If you have question’s please contact PatientTrak Support. (414) 455-6619.
The Appointments / Schedule table can be updated several ways. Either manually by adding a single patient appointment at a time or through a manual or automated import function. When manually adding an appointment you are required to select a date and time, and you will not select an area or room until the Patient is physically arriving and is placed on the Tracking Board.
Adding Appointments via CSV File
The manual import function requires that you import a CSV file through the “Import Appointments button”. PatientTrak Support can provide you with the format requirements. Fields such as; First & Last Name / DOB / Provider / Appt. Date & Time / Service Type / Notes / Phone #, can be pulled from the file to populate the patient information. This information is shown then available in the Appointments/Schedule table.
Note: CSV files are imported by a PatientTrak User and are often supplied by an electronic health record (EHR) system that can export appointments for patients.
Automated Adding of Appointments (HL7)
The Automated Import functionality can be achieved by sending a file from your electronic medical record (EMR) to PatientTrak’s secure SFTP server where it is processed and the Appointments/Schedule table updated in PatientTrak. PatientTrak Support will also provide a detailed document outlining the HL7 requirements. HL7 is a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. If you have question’s please contact PatientTrak Support. (414) 455-6619.
The Appointments / Schedule table can be both filtered and sorted by date if needed to isolate the information. A “Search” box is also available and can further help you see only specific information you have typed in.
Note: You can exit the menu and return and the “search” criteria will still be there unless deleted.
Web Check-in Requests
Patients can check-in right from your website and get into the waiting queue while using an internet connection. Patients go to your website, view the waiting time and can check-in before coming to the facility. If you have question’s please contact PatientTrak Support. (414) 455-6619.
• Example Web Form: https://www.patienttrak.net/products-solutions/web-check-in-display-wait-time/
• A Web Check-In Settings page is available for editing directly from PatientTrak.
• From the Tracking Board, the User can see how many patients have signed in using the Web Check-In as it is listed right under the other patients in the other areas. When selected, the User is brought to a table where they edit and decide where that patient goes. Once the patient is moved, they are no longer shown as a Web Check-In.
Once a patient is arrived onto the Tracking Board, they can then be “Discharged” as needed. This can be achieved by selecting “Discharge Patient” from the “Recent Activity” drop-down or by going into the patient detail and selecting to “Discharge” them that way by clicking a button. Discharging a patient removes them from the Tracking Board but does not delete them completely.
If you need to access a patient that has already been discharged, you can go to View> Discharged Patients and look them up by date range or service codes. Once located you can edit information or even re-add them to the Tracking Board by selecting an area and then saving.
Bulk Patient Discharge
If you have a need to remove multiple patients either from one area or all areas, there is a Bulk Patient Discharge tool. Go to View> Bulk Discharge, then select what area(s) you want to discharge the patients from. Important: This tool will remove “all” patients from the selected area no matter what day past or present so be careful.
If you need to locate a past patient there is a Search function available under View> Patient Search.
You can filter by the following: First Name, Last Name, First & Last Name, Service Type, Misc Field 1, Note. A table will be provided for you providing you with data from the value you entered. The table is sortable by column and can be further searched using a search field. This table can be exported out to a CSV file if required.
Today’s Staff Count
This menu allows the User to set the amount of resources that will be used in areas set up as Urgent Care. The number that is inputted for an urgent care area is factored in as part of a calculation so that “Estimated Wait Times” can be shown on a Kiosk “Welcome and/or Thank You” screens.
To use this feature you will need to set up an area(s) as an Urgent Care and provide a value (minutes) for the “Average Patient Service Time” field. Please see Admin>Areas section of this document for more details.
Text Messaging Center
PatientTrak’s Text Messaging Center allows you to easily send text message notifications directly to any cell phone or provided pager, from your existing desktop computer. All patient visits and staff members are listed on the screen, allowing any associated text message to be sent to family, visitors, patients, or staff. Patients and family members are no longer tied to specific areas of the facility, waiting for their name to be called. Staff members may be instantly notified with important details when their services are requested. These are just a few examples of how PatientTrak’s Text Message Center can improve patient care at your facility. Our new text messaging center has a very intuitive patient list. The columns are sortable, patients can be edited or added directly from this record list.
• The text messaging center offers the ability to add staff members to patient messages or send messages specifically to staff members. This offer great flexibility for the user managing the system.
• When the patients and or staff phone #’s are selected they populate the “Send a text to:” dialog box. This allows the user to quickly assemble a message for sending.
• The “One-Click Messages” list can be constructed to use a canned response.
• For ease of tracking, a list of all past text messages has been logged. The “time” column can be sorted to see the latest sent texts and by what user and for what patient.
• If you need to locate a text from a specific day and time, a history tool has been made available for a more pin-pointed search.
The Appointment Reminders module utilizes cloud-based automation to schedule and send text-messaging appointment reminders to any mobile phone. An unlimited number of messaging campaigns can be created to send messages to specific patient groups on a limited basis or automatically on a schedule. These campaigns can be defined by doctor and service codes to create tailored text-messaging.
This module works in concert with PatientTrak’s patient appointments /scheduling feature and can be further integrated with PatientTrak patient tracking and text-messaging center.
• You can locate the campaigns through the Admin > Appointment Reminders Campaign. This menu provides you with the ability to name and create the campaign message.
• Message Templates can also use formats [doctor] [service] [appt_date] [appt_time]. When these formats are used, the data is extracted from the appointments/Schedule and inputted into the text message that is sent. In this example; “You have a 10:30am with Dr. Jones for Exam on this Aug 27th. If you need to reschedule please call 1-888-777-6666”
• The Remind for Doctor drop-down provides all the doctor names from the staff list. Select one if it relates to only that doctor, or “ALL” if you need all doctors to be updated with that campaign.
• The Remind for Service drop-down allows you to further define just one Service or Type Codes. These codes are managed through PatientTrak’s Admin/Type Codes menu. Select “ALL” if campaign message does not need to be specific.
• By default, when you create a campaign it is “active”. Most campaigns will be automatic and will run consistently based on your scheduling. When you have finished, click “Update Campaign” to save.
• If campaigns have been set to “Inactive” you will be able to easily see the status from the list.
There are one and two-way texting (expecting a Patient Response) campaign types. If you select one-way, the information will only go to the Patient. Nothing is expected back. If you select the campaign to be a two-way, the Patient can respond.
Responses can be:
1 to Accept the Appointment
0 to Cancel/Reschedule the Appointment
START, YES and UNSTOP – Any of these replies will opt customers back in to the messages
STOP, STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE, CANCEL, END, 2 or QUIT – Any of these STOP keyword replies will prevent a customer from receiving new messages
You can see the status of a Patient and whether or not the reminder was not sent, sent, confirmed or cancelled/rescheduled.
PatientTrak offers several Reports accessible on the top menu bar, they can be exported to CSV or PDF formats if needed.
Here is a list of the reports and a description of what each report produces.
Area and Room Set Up
An Area is considered a physical space that a patient can be moved or arrived into. Patients can be moved from area to area using the Tracking Board. An area could be labeled anything. Here is a partial list of examples; Lobby, Waiting Room, X-ray, Pediatrics, Echo Exam Room, Front Desk Main, PT (Physical Therapy), Registration, MRI Booth.
An Area has an Area ID and Area Description for help in locating it on the Tracking Board. There are configurable Settings for when a Patient is “Added” or “Patient Moved Activity” has changed. Color coding is available as well as a “Blink” notification after a selected number of minutes. As an example: A patient is added to the Lobby but they haven’t moved before the set notification of 10 minutes, therefore the a color change occurs and blinks so the User knows someone has been there too long without being recognized.
If you have numerous Areas to configure for your system, we suggest you create a list and labeling scheme that makes sense prior to programming. From that list, you may also want to add Rooms under any specific Area. See below *Rooms” for more details.
An area can also be set up as a “Urgent Care” area. Defining an Area as Urgent Care provides more functionality. When you check the box “This is an Urgent Care Area”, your menu will expand and allow you to define a expected service time in minutes. This service time is calculated against the number of resources you provided in the “Today’s Staff Count” menu which in turn provides an “Estimated Wait Time” on the Kiosk. Also, you can select when the Urgent Care area is open daily across the span of the week.
• The days of the week configuration relates directly to the use of the Kiosk. When the “Auto-Close” and a “End of Day” Kiosk placard/message is configured, the Kiosk will show the “End of Day” message automatically when the Urgent Care closes. Likewise, the regular patient sign-on will automatically show upon the start of day that is programmed. See Kiosk Status in this document for more details.
• Remember to update the “Today’s Staff Count” for each area you set up as Urgent Care so that the estimated wait times are accurate.
Note: Not all Areas using Urgent Care are actually Urgent Care, however to make use of the Kiosk “Estimated Wait Times” and Auto-Close Kiosk functions, you will need to set your Area up as such.
Rooms can be considered as physical locations nested within an Area. You can add as many Rooms as you need to an Area. We suggest you label them with short names as they will be easily identifiable on the Tracking Board. Example: Area = MRI and MRI Rooms = MRI Rm1, MRI Rm2, MRI Rm3.
• When Rooms are used on the Tracking Board they are shown in a separate column. If you click on a Room name in that column, a “Room Settings” menu appears. Please go to Tracking Board Use/Setting Alerts for Rooms within this document for more details.
Note: Patients are arrived into Areas, not Rooms. This is especially important when patients are arriving using the Kiosk.
This table provides information on the permissions allowed when specific User types are selected. Keep this information in mind when adding new people to the Staff menu.
• The Email Address is required for you to be able to add a new Staff record or if editing an existing one that does not have an email.
• Once you click on Add New Staff an email will automatically be sent to the User.
– At this point the User will be redirected to the logon URL where they can put their Username, new password and 3-character Org.
• The checkbox “This Staff person also requires a login to PatientTrak” is checked if a password is associated to that User. If not checked, you will not see a selection for Default Lobby & Access Level, it will be “No Access”.
• If you try to add a Staff ID that was previously deleted, a message box will pop-up asking if you want to continue. Clicking YES will allow you to keep the Staff ID you just typed as well as the field information you just entered. Clicking NO will require you change the Staff ID to something else not previously used. Ex. Admin1 change to Admin2 or BSmith to BSmith_1
• If the Password is changed, an email will go out to the User letting them know they need to create a new one. Changes to any other field will not generate an email. At this point the User will be redirected to the logon URL where they can put their Username, new password and 3-character Org.
• If you delete a Staff person the record is set to “Inactive” and cannot be seen. The Staff person will no longer be able to log into PatientTrak.
Note: Within Organizational Settings, you can “rename” the Doctors category and Nurse selections to something else. Examples: Registrar, APN, RN or Physician, Staff, Phlebotomist, etc.
Patient visits involve different events that may be recorded in the patient tracking system, such as “Patient Moved”or “Patient Discharged”, for example. The time of each Activity is also recorded and used for analysis and reporting. When a patient is moved it is considered a system activity. Custom Activities may be defined, but are not required. Custom Activities are performed on a Patient and events that take place during a Patient visit, as “Patient In Treatment”, “Blood Screening”, or “with RN” as examples. Activities are recorded and time-stamped and can be analyzed for service improvement purposes through reporting. To define Activities within the system, select the menu option Admin > Activities.
• Enter an Activity Name. This will later be a choice for selection when picking Activities to add to a Patient record.
• Select the color that you would like the Activity to appear when displayed on the Tracking Board .
• Select to change the color after a number of minutes and set it to blink if you wish to set up a notification on that Activity.
• Notifications on the Activity can be set from 1 to 500 minutes.
• An audio alert can also be set on the Activity from 0 to 120 Minutes.
Manage Type Codes
Type Codes are also known as Priority Levels, Reason Codes or Service Codes. These codes are usually used to signify the status of the patient. Type Codes can be assigned to existing patient records or to new patient records as they arrive.
When you add a Type Code you you can name it accordingly as well as select a color that will stand out on the tracking board when selected.
When the Type Code is enabled under Organizational Settings, it becomes available in the patient record. These Type Codes can also be seen on the Tracking Board if enabled within Organizational Settings.
Note: Type Codes can also be used during the patient sign-in process on the Kiosk. The patient can select from a list (ex. Chest Pain) as part of a question “Why are you Here? or Reason for Visit?” and that information will be brought into the patient’s record and the Tracking Board if required.
TIP: The Type Codes label can be renamed to meet your needs, this is done by going to Admin>Organizational Settings to rename it.
An Alert is used to communicate patient needs or special designations between staff members using the Tracking Board. Alerts can further describe a patient’s status in a graphical way. Alerts can also be applied to Rooms such as with maintenance needs. Two different selections are available when selecting Alert Icons, “Modern” or “Classic”. Keep these things in mind while configuring your Alerts. If you do not see an Icon to best fit your needs, please call PatientTrak Support for help.
In this example, the Alert is specific to “Patient’s Only”.
Note: In order to utilize the Alerts on the Tracking Board you need to enable them within Organizational Settings. Please see below Organizational Settings/Tracking Board & System Settings section to enable.
Organizational Settings can only be accessed by Administrators (See Staff Section). These settings help you set up patient record related fields, tracking board configuration and use, along with the public screen if you’re using it. The configuration consists of labeling, enabling and disabling fields and features. Saving after changes are made will update the system real-time.
Patient Related Fields
Use this section to change labels on fields, enable extra fields you may need to build a patient record. You can also enable drop-downs so you can select doctors or nurses or types of alerts that you have created.
• IMPORTANT – Fields with an “*” asterisk are required before you can save changes.
• Also, without a label you will not see that Patient “Field” on the Tracking Board.
• Please note that the Alerts can also coincide to Kiosk questions. If you enable question #1 on the Kiosk (ex. Do you have an Appointment?) and also enable Alert #1, you can have a YES/NO question on the Kiosk come through into the Patient record and also to the Tracking Board if you want. Please contact Support for more help in configuring and also review the Kiosk Settings section in this guide.
Note: These Fields are shown as Enabled “X” as an example. Most systems have a variety enabled to meet their specific needs.
Tracking Board & System Settings
Tracking Board settings are optional. Many of these settings are only available if already enabled in the Patient record as described above in the Patient Related Fields section. When setting up your Tracking Board, make a list of what is first required, then add as necessary to provide you with more granular information.
Note: If a field label is changed in the Patient Related Fields, it will show that label in it’s selection below. Ex. You renamed Nurses to RN, you will then see RN as a selection to enable/disable in this section.
Public Screen Settings
The Public Screen is best placed in a waiting room or lobby. It offers a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant alternative to the Tracking Board so that the public can view who is next in line or where a patient is within the queue without using their name but rather initials.
Note: Public Screen settings are activated when logging in with a User ID named “Publicscreen”.
Extra Tracking Board Settings:
• Enabled Urgent Care for one or more Areas. This setting is related to the Kiosk “Estimated Wait Time” message/status.
• Filter to Display the Doctor Name instead of the User ID.
• Filter to Display the Nurse Name instead of the User ID.
• Enable Appointment “merge” in “Note” Field. Occurs on manual Patient check-in or via Kiosk. If multiple appointments are scheduled for one patient for the day, they can all be displayed in the “Note” column on the Tracking Board. This can be achieved if the Misc1 field has a unique number such as an MRN#. If the number matches in each appointment then the appointments will be merged so the User can easily see the pending appointments.
• Enabled Patient “Lock” when editing. Pertains to editing an existing Patient or Appointment.
PatientTrak also offers several additional features and functions, these require activation by Support. The list below will provide you with a Module or Service name, if interested please contact Support or Sales for further help.
Tracking Board Set Up
The Tracking Board is set up by enabling/disabling and labeling fields by entering the three dots then clicking on the “Show/Hide Columns arrow . Every change you make then save, and will show on the Tracking Board immediately. In this example the green check boxes show what is enabled. The “X” next to a label means it is not enabled on the Tracking Board.
Tracking Board Example, “After” renaming Alert columns.
The User can choose to remove columns that are not necessary to their work responsibility. A Column Edit icon can be clicked and will show the current enabled and disabled columns. By clicking on a column, you will disable it (turns gray) and it will be removed from the Tracking Board. The first capture shows that only the “Friends Phone” column is disabled. The second capture shows multiple disabled columns.
Note: These setting will be saved and will be shown each time the User logs on that specific PC.
Tracking Board Example, “After” columns have been removed.
Tracking Board Example, “After” columns have been moved. The User can grab a column with their cursor and move it to the left or the right any amount of spaces. If you compare the top capture to the one below, you will see that several columns have been moved. Moving a column can make it easier for the User when viewing patient information.
The User can choose to reset the Tracking Board changes made back to default by clicking on the icon.
Each Column is sortable. If more than one sort is required, please click on your 1st column header, hold down the “SHIFT-KEY” and click on the 2nd column header. You can then click on the refresh button (upper-left) and your sort will be saved.
Tracking Board Use
Arriving a Patient
Arriving a Patient can be achieved several ways:
• A Patient can be added by a User directly to the Tracking Board by selecting “Add New Patient”. Once saved, this Patient is then added to the Tracking Board under a specified Area/Room.
• Patient’s can also be added via the Kiosk after answering questions and completing the sign-on.
• If PatientTrak is set to accept Appointment information through the customer’s EMR, the User can arrive the Patient through the Appts/Schedule menu. This process is automated and follows a HL7 standard. See Terms for definition and Automated Adding of Appointments for more details .
• Appointments can also be received from an file provided by the customer and imported into PatientTrak Appts/Schedule menu manually. Please see section Adding Appointments via CSV File within this document for more information.
• From the Appts/Schedule menu you can also select a Patient, edit the record and arrive them from an Appointment to an Area.
Moving a Patient
A Patient can be moved in several ways:
• From the Area / Room column there is an Area or Room associated with each Patient. A link is available for selection that offers a drop-down of all Areas and or Rooms. If an Area has Rooms associated, three dots “…” will show after the Area name. If you click on those dots you will see a list of Rooms that you can further select the Patient to move.
Note: If you are attempting to move a Patient into a room that is already occupied, you will receive a message.
• For this to be available the function needs to be checked in Organizational Settings.
• From the Patient record, you can select from the Area drop-down, upon saving, the Patient is moved on the Tracking Board.
The Tracking Board displays a column called “Recent Activities”. The most recent Activity that has taken place during the Patient’s visit is displayed in this column. The Activities for a Patient can be System Activities such as a Patient arrival or move into an area or room. Or, an Activity can be selected by the User to indicate the change or status. The Recent Activities drop-down menu will show all the custom Activities that were created and made available on the Tracking Board.
The User can select the next planned Activity for the Patient. This Activity may be part of the “FLOW” the Patient experiences during their stay. In the capture below, the User selected the Paperwork Started Activity from the drop-down. Once that was complete, the User selected Paperwork Complete from the drop-down. The Activity changed again as the Patient was then Ready For Pathology. This progression will eventually lead the Patient to be discharged where they are then removed from the Tracking Board.
If you need to see all of the Patient’s Activities listed from the time of their arrival, you can edit the Patient’s detail view directly from the Tracking Board for a list. In this capture below we see the start of the Patient’s Activities when they were added to the “WaitingRm”. A time-stamp shows when the Activities were performed (started/stopped). The StaffID also shows us “who” selected the Activity from the Recent Activity drop-down on the Tracking Board.
Note: All this information is available within the PatientTrak reports.
The “Edit” button next to the Activities will allow the User to change the Date & Time information. In the example below, the Patient is being changed to “9:22 AM” instead of “8:38 AM”. These types of edits are not common but for accuracy a User may need to change this information if they find it is not accurate. Likewise, if an Activity was added in error it may be necessary to “Delete” it from the list. See the Manage Staff section for permission to perform these edits.
Note: Activities can also be added from the Patient detail view.
The User has the ability to add an Activity and add additional Note information. The User can choose to click the button so that the change is seen on the Tracking Board.
Setting Alerts for Patients
Discharging a Patient
Discharging a patient can be achieved by clicking on the icon on the Tracking Board. You will be asked to confirm Yes/No, clicking Yes will remove them from the view. A patient can also be discharged by editing the patient detail. A discharge button is available from within the patient detail menu.
Setting Alerts for Rooms
Alerts can be set from the Tracking Board and associated with a “Room”. An alert can then easily be seen by the User alerting them of status of the room. As an example, you can select an alert that shows the room needs “Maintenance”. This information let’s the User know they cannot put a patient in that room until the status is rectified. This figure shows two Alerts, both have been created to use on the Tracking Board to show Room status.
By clicking on the Room link, you can select from a drop-down that will then show in the column on the Tracking Board.
The columns are set up when configuring Organizational Settings and can be labeled as needed. We see here that Room requires maintenance and that there aren’t any patients assigned to that room. Note: If an Alert exists for the patient, it will supersede the Alert set for the room.
PatientTrak offers a touch screen sign in kiosk system, easily implemented on any touch screen monitor. The system is web-based, has a Spanish language option and only requires an Internet connection. PatientTraks’ Sign-In System allows a patient to type their name using a touch screen monitor. This simple to use sign in procedure is helpful in any setting in which patients need to be placed into a queue upon arrival. Once patients have signed in using the touch screen kiosk or monitor, their name is placed into a queue, optionally alerting the healthcare staff with a friendly audio chime on their computer.
• If another Staff User goes into your area before that new Patient is discharged, they will hear the chime as well.
• Likewise, if a new Patient is added to Lobby II as an example but you’re not monitoring (selected that area on the TB), you won’t hear it. If you switch to Lobby II and that patient is still in that area, you will hear the chime as it is a new patient to you.
• If your browser is minimized you won’t hear the chime until you maximize it.
• If a new Patient Arrives/or You add them into your area you will receive a chime.
• The Kiosk settings web page allows you to configure up to 6 questions. These questions can be set to YES/NO answers or free-text.
• Question #1 can be turned on and is a system-based question regarding scheduled appointments. When this is enabled at the Kiosk, the patient will answer Yes or No to whether they have an appointment. If an appointment exists, that person can be located and are then arrived into the tracking board. This is done by the patient typing in the first few characters of their first and last name along with DOB. Once this is done the Patient is arrived onto the tracking board.
• Questions #2, 5 & 6 are YES/NO or Agree/Disagree questions.
• Questions #3 & 4 are YES’/NO or Agree/Disagree questions or Free text.
• A checklist is also available to enable or disable some features shown to the Patient during sign-in.
Note: The “Show patient Type selection screen (used for patient entry) requires some set up. Please call PatientTrak Support @ (414) 455-6619.
A Kiosk Status menu allows for six Kiosk messages that can be displayed. These are often used to let the Patients know that they are at lunch or are closed for the day. They can be set up to allow Patients to sign-in or disallow a sign-in depending on the message.
A Kiosk style menu is available if you want to design the Kiosk web pages. A color chart allows you to change the color of the buttons and background then it shows the name of the HTML color code.
To ready the Kiosk for Patient sign-in, you must first login. You can use your own StaffID and password or create one that everyone will use. This capture shows the screen used to logon. Kiosks are touch-screens that is why the keyboard is part of the interface.
Once the User logs in, the Kiosk is ready for a Patient to “sign-in”. This capture also shows an “Estimated Wait Time” as well as a “Patient Queue” on the Welcome Screen. These are settings that can be turned on if needed. If Spanish is also required as a language, the Patient can click on the button and it will change the questions from English to Spanish.
If you have already configured different “Kiosk Statuses” you will be able to select them from the Tracking Board . In this capture the User selected the “Away for lunch” status. Creating these different Kiosk statuses provides better communication with the Patients who will be using the Kiosk. The first capture shows that the Patient can still sign-in even though the lunch-time message is up. The second capture shows the lunch-time message but does “not” allow the Patient to sign-in.
Please watch this short video to see the Kiosk in action.
PatientTrak’s Text Messaging Center allows you to easily send text message notifications directly to any cell phone or provided pager, from your existing desktop computer. All patient visits and staff members are listed on the screen, allowing any associated text message to be sent to family, visitors, patients, or staff.
• Pagers are added to a list under the Admin drop-down.
• A pager can then be selected for a Patient in their patient record.
• The figure below shows a patient with an associated pager. Once the pager is selected, it is added to the “Send a text to” field. From there, a text message can be selected or typed in and then sent to that pager.
• The system only requires an Internet connection and runs completely through a web browser.
Note: For details on a supported paging system, please call PatientTrak Support @ (414) 455-6619.
The Audit Trail report will provide the User with information on who has logged in/out and what patient records they accessed and when. Audit information is also available for Kiosk login and status information.
• Available through Admin drop-down, this tool allows you to select from 1 0f 2 reports.
– Login/Logout & Patient Access
– Kiosk Status Changes