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Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.
Tags: a garden of dry-mist, become inviting focal points for civic life, breathing sculpture environments, building-sized sculpture, builds living, combines ancient craft with cutting-edge technology, comicStyle, Experiential in nature, Featured Content, fishing net to atomised water particles, flowing, Gail Penney, geeky edge, Her Secret is Patience, Ideas worth spreading, Janet Echelman, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, penneylane, penneylaneonline, permanent sculpture at the scale of buildings, potential of unlikely materials, pure creativity, respond to the forces of nature — wind, San Francisco International Airport, sculpture that shifts from being an object you look at, She Changes, she makes billowing, something you can get lost in, Taking Imagination Seriously, Ted Talk, turnStyle, unorthodox new art material, VidStyle, water and light, Water Sky Garden, www.penneylaneonline.com, Zone of Recomposure
The New Zealand Health and Disability Services Standards define seclusion as it relates to the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 “where a consumer is placed alone in a room or area, at any time and for any duration, from which they cannot freely exit”. To me, the definition is clear enough.
Tags: 'Peaceful Place', 'physical restraint or involuntary seclusion of a patient shall not be employed except in accordance with officially approved procedures of the mental health facility and when it is the only means ava, (AIU), A clear explanation of your medical condition and the types of treatment available, a presumption that any intervention will be the least intrusive option available, Acute Inpatient Unit, all instances of physical restraint must be recorded and that any patient who is secluded must be kept under humane conditions and supervised regularly by qualified members of staff, all other practical options have been considered or tried, Always be treated with respect, An honest description of the risks and costs as well as the benefits of proposed treatment, An interpreter if required, and in any case, apply equally to all people without discrimination, Ask questions and receive competent answers, at any time and for any duration, Be treated with care and skill and receive correctly administered treatment, Change their mind if you have already said yes or no to a course of treatment, comicStyle, Defining seclusion as it relates to the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992, emphasise that rights, enactment of the Crimes of Torture Amendment Bill, ensure current practice met human rights standards for the care and safety of mental health service users, Featured Content, followed an assessment and that it could be fully justified, from which they cannot freely exit, Gail Penney, Human Rights Commission plays co-ordinating role as the Central Preventive Mechanism, ICCPR, ICESCR, Ideas worth spreading, identified proactive alternative interventions to ensure that seclusion was only used where it was required, if the patient has been out of seclusion for more than one hour, inappropriate use of seclusion was identified as an issue, individual service delivery plan, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Kate Raue, Katherine Raue, lifeStyle, main blog, Make their own decisions, Medical staff who listen to you and communicate clearly, meeting requirements of legislation, mindStyle matters, New Zealand Action Plan for Human Rights, New Zealand Human Rights, No Woman is an Island, Not be discriminated against, OPCAT, Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, patient rights, penneylane, penneylaneonline, practices of seclusion also need to ensure patient rights, practices of seclusion also need to ensure that current standards and relevant professional codes of practice are met throughout the process, preferred alternative interventions, pressured or taken advantage of, prevent or minimise the use of seclusion, promote and fulfil the rights in that treaty, providing a global set of minimum standards for protecting persons with mental illness and improving mental health care, Rangimarie, Rangimarie Maori, ratification guarantees its delivery domestically, ratification of a treaty a country recognises the international law and accepts a legal obligation to respect, Refuse to participate in teaching or research, Register a complaint, seclusion as it relates to the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992, seclusion starts when the patient enters the conditions of seclusion, seclusion time should not extend beyond what is 'strictly necessary', Services that promote dignified and independent lives, stress the concept of the least restrictive intervention, system of National Preventive Mechanisms for the purpose of carrying out regular inspections of detention facilities, Te Whare Ahuru, Ted Talk, that preserves and enhances personal autonomy, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, The Human Rights Commission (as the Central Preventive Mechanism), the inappropriate use of seclusion, the International Bill of Rights, the International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, The International Human Rights Framework, The New Zealand Health and Disability Services Standards, the right not to be subjected to cruel and degrading treatment, the right to be treated with humanity and dignity and the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, The seclusion period is deemed to have ended when the patient leaves the conditions of seclusion without the expectation of return, the Universal Declaration, turnStyle, UN Principles address the circumstances under which seclusion is administered, UN Principles do not define seclusion, UN Principles do not specifically define the appropriate length of time that a person can be placed in seclusion, UN Principles emphasise the importance of quality treatment, United Nations Principles for the Protection of People with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care (the UN Principles), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, VidStyle, When a country ratifies one of these treaties it accepts that it will be bound by the terms of the treaty, where a consumer is placed alone in a room or area, www.penneylaneonline.com
In January 2007, a routine shoulder x-ray incidentally disclosed a shadow in the lung, that turned out to be metastasized kidney cancer (stage IV, grade 4 renal cell carcinoma). His median survival time at diagnosis was 24 weeks. A frequently cited aspect of Dave’s case is the multiple ways he used the internet.
Tags: (PHR) system, a new dynamic in how information is delivered, a recognised online champion, accessed and used by the patient, and conditions he'd never had, and muscle tissue, biologic therapy, check it for errors, comicStyle, e-Patient Dave, erroneous information: a false medication warning, exaggerated diagnoses, Featured Content, Gail Penney, Google Health, grade 4 renal cell carcinoma), Ideas worth spreading, kidney cancer, laboratory results, lifeStyle, main blog, median survival time at diagnosis, metastasized kidney cancer (stage IV, mindStyle matters, opening health care information directly to patients, participate actively in their care, participatory medicine, patients should be able to access their own medical data, penneylane, penneylaneonline, personal health data, question it, radiology reports and allergies, routine shoulder x-ray, several bones, shadow in the lung, surgery, system failed to transfer existing information, take it with them to another care provider, Ted Talk, Tedx, The New Life of e-Patient Dave, tumours in both lungs, turnStyle, VidStyle, win the battle over his cancer, writing journals and blog posts about his experiences, www.penneylaneonline.com
Using robotics, laser range-finders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It’s not a ‘self-driving’ car, he’s careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed, proximity and route and drive independently.
Tags: 'whole-skin locomotion', (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory), a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed, award-winning humanoid robots, building a car for drivers who are blind, CAREER award, comicStyle, DARwIn (Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence), Dennis Hong, Featured Content, Gail Penney, gourmet chef and a magician, GPS, Ideas worth spreading, laser range-finders, lecturing on the science of magic, lifeStyle, main blog, Making a Car for Blind Drivers, Marrying robotics with biochemistry, mindStyle matters, NASA Summer Faculty Fellow, National Science Foundation, not a 'self-driving' car, penneylane, penneylaneonline, performing shows for charity, Popular Science's Brilliant 10, projects on robot locomotion and mechanism design, proximity and route and drive independently, robotics, robotics lab, RoMeLa, smart feedback tools, soft-body robots, Ted Talk, turnStyle, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His super-sized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
Tags: a chilling sea of plastic, American consumption, Artist Chris Jordan, Chris Jordan, cliffs of baled scrap, comicStyle, Featured Content, Gail Penney, grids of mass-produced goods, Ideas worth spreading, In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster, international eco-ambassador, Intolerable Beauty, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, Often-heard factoids, paper cups we use, penneylane, penneylaneonline, Running the Numbers, sheer amount of stuff, small cities of shipping containers, statistics of US consumption, stuff we make and consume every day, super-sized images, Ted Talk, turnStyle, unimaginable statistics, VidStyle, Western culture, www.penneylaneonline.com
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