Ålesund Airport, Vigra

History
The airport was opened in 1958, as the first in Møre og Romsdal. Scheduled flights were offered by Braathens S.A.F.E using de Havilland Heron aircraft, later replaced with Fokker F-27, Fokker F-28 and Boeing 737 aircraft.
In 1986 the present terminal was opened along with an extended runway, and the next year a new complex of bridges and underwater road tunnels connected the airport to Ålesund, without the need for ferries.
In 1998 the new low-cost carrier Color Air started services to the new Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. This resulted in a price war in addition to Scandinavian Airlines also starting services to the city. Today the only airlines left are Scandinavian Airlines, its subsidiary airBaltic, and main Norwegian rival Norwegian




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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 photos leak again, this time with specs

08 June, 2009

Tags: Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile, Touch UI, Rumors
We had our doubts the first time but now we are pretty sure this is what the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 will look like. The second portion of blurry photos totally convinces that the device is really in the making and much to our pleasure this reveals a large part of its specs sheet.
Apparently the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 will feature a 3.5" WVGA OLED (!) touchscreen display and an 8 megapixel auto focus camera as its two most major upgrades. The processor speed will also be upped and the RAM will be increased to 512 MB.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2
The Sony XPERIA X2 will run on Sony Ericsson-customized Windows Mobile 6.5 OS (which will probably be taken beyond the X-panels UI plug-in). The panels themselves will receive some new features too, including PS3 remote play. They will also come with Windows Mobile 7 support so an upgrade will be possible when the OS eventually becomes available.
Finally, Assisted GPS will also be present onboard and so will the VGA video recording of the original Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1.
At this stage there's no official confirmation on either the release date or the pricing of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2.





Source : http://www.gsmarena.com/

Over the Hills and Far Away (documentary)

Directed by: Michel Orion Scott
Starring: Rupert Isaacson, Kristin Neff, Rowan Isaacson, Stephen Edelson, Simon Baron-Cohen, Temple Grandin

There's been a fair amount of attention on autism lately. Autism: the Musical took the festival world by storm a couple of years ago, and Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey have done their best over these past 12 months to address the previous deficit of attention to the genetic disorder that afflicts so many and seems so previously misunderstood. Likewise, Mongolia has featured in the recent Oscar-nominated feature Mongol and featured also in the Belic brothers' Oscar-nominated documentary Genghis Blues, now celebrating its 10-year anniversary since opening at this very festival. The common ground for these two seemingly unrelated observations is Over the Hills and Far Away.

Over the Hills starts in India. Kristin (a psychologist) and Rupert (a journalist) track their trek from their romantic rendezvous to becoming parents of an autistic child (Rowan), and their following search for understanding and for a miracle that might help their little boy. That search for a miracle meandered from books, tantrums and analysis to a horseback adventure across Mongolia - to its sacred mountains and healing bodies of water - to seek the counsel of a variety of shamans.

The fact the filmmakers question whether they've continued to act in the best interests of their child is honest and heartwarming, and the ceremonial flagellations (emotional and physical) the family is willing to endure on-camera in their quest to quell their questions has a uniting effect - for the audience as well as the family; somehow we are transported into their sacrifices. The Isaacsons don't pretend that what they are doing is normal or usual, or even that it makes sense, but just that it is something; it is something in which hope can exist, even if only long enough to serve as an experiment.

The family shares its preconceptions, misconceptions, misgivings and understandings as they adopt and abandon adult affectations, finally freeing themselves to listen and respond to the unpredictable nature of the autistic spirit and to the unpredictable and magical nature of nature itself. As they open themselves up to other cultures, their film highlights the factors and conditioning imposed by western societies as to what should be considered right and wrong, normal and abnormal. Consequently, Over the Hills and Far Away is an affirmation that it is only by indulging in other cultures that we can even begin to question ours - and that, in the end, if we can't begin to accept and love those in our lives for who they are and how they're great, then our eyes will never fully be open and suffering never truly be eased.

It would be remiss to leave out mentions for the way in which this doc comes together. The editing by Rita K. Sanders is seamless, and the music (featuring recording artists Joanna Newsom and Peter Broderick, as well as original pieces by Lili Haydn and Kim Carroll) is devastatingly beautiful.

In its ultimate effect, this is not a movie about autism. This is a movie about a family who learns to overcome its culture's conditioning, and whose members, in the process, reach a new level of respect, admiration and love for each other, symbolized by how each accepts the challenge to change (even if just a little) to accommodate the others in their lives. -MPM



Source : http://www.movingpicturesmagazine.com

How a pharmacy becomes a HMR service provider

Owners of a community pharmacy approved to supply pharmaceutical benefits under section 90 of the National Health Act 1953 can become approved HMR service providers if they meet specific criteria including access to an accredited pharmacist, in the application form.

Medication management review facilitators

Medication management review facilitators are responsible for promoting the HMR to each professional group through personal visits, organising combined education and information sessions, and liaising between accredited pharmacists and pharmacy owners. The facilitators can be contacted through the divisions of general practice.

Patient eligability

A general practitioner must assess that a review of a patient living at home is clinically necessary to ensure the quality use of medicines or to address a patient’s needs. Examples of risk factors include patients:

• currently taking five or more regular medications
• taking more than 12 doses of medication per day
• with significant changes to their medication regimen in the last three months, including recent discharge from hospital
• taking medication with a narrow therapeutic index or required therapeutic monitoring
• with symptoms suggestive of an adverse drug reaction
• having difficulty managing their own medicines because of literacy or language difficulties, impaired sight
• attending a number of different doctors, both general practitioners and specialists

The HMR service is not available to in-patients of a hospital, day hospital facility or care recipients in residential aged-care facilities.

Confidentiality

All information is confidential. The information from the patient’s record can only be given to the pharmacist conducting the review, with the patient’s consent. Input from each person involved in the review process is documented in the review report, as well as the recommendations and management plan.

The general practitioner will hold a copy and the consumer’s pharmacy will keep a full record for auditing purposes. Pharmacy should be informed of how many years this documentation is to be kept for example, seven years.

Source : http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au

Who conducts a HMR

The general practitioner will refer the consumer to their preferred community pharmacy, to complete the pharmacy component of the HMR service. The community pharmacist’s responsibilities will vary depending on whether they are accredited to conduct medication reviews.

If there is no access to an accredited pharmacist in a time frame suitable to the consumer, the community pharmacist may conduct the interview and give the information to an accredited pharmacist who will complete the clinical assessment and write the report.

Accreditation

An accredited pharmacist is:

• an experienced pharmacist who has undertaken specified education programs or examinations, approved by the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP) or the Society of Hospital Pharmacist Australia (SHPA).
• continuing specified professional education and re-accreditation.

Source : http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au

Home Medicines Review (HMR)

The Home Medicines Review (HMR) is funded under the Fourth Community Pharmacy Agreement designed to assist consumers living at home to maximise the benefits of their medication regimen and prevent medication related problems. It is not available for in-patients of a hospital, day hospital facility or care recipients in residential aged care facilities.

The review involves the consumer’s general practitioner and preferred community pharmacy and in some cases other relevant members of the healthcare team such as nurses in community practice or carers are included. In cooperation with the consumer’s general practitioner, the pharmacist visits the consumer at home, reviews their medication regimen, and provides the general practitioner with a report. The general practitioner and consumer then agree on a medication management plan.

The objectives of HMR are to:

• achieve safe, effective, and appropriate use of medications by detecting and addressing medication-related problems that interfere with desired patient outcomes
• improve the patient's quality of life and health outcomes using a best practice approach, that involves cooperation between the general practitioner, pharmacist, other relevant health professionals and the patient (and where appropriate, their carer)
• improve the patient's, and health professional’s knowledge and understanding about medications
• facilitate cooperative working relationships between members of the health care team in the interests of patient health and well being.

Source : http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au