Excitement in the first Nature and Travel Photography Field Trip

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Originally uploaded by annchou

At Beacon Hill park...

To my excitement, right at where we started our field trip, there were free ranching peacocks , apparently flew out from the petting zoo (which closed in winter) across the road.
The peacocks were very complying and allowed me to try different shooting angles, as the part one of class exercise. Among all angles, I preferred the low angle pointing up to sky. This angle gave an illusion as if the viewer was a worm getting into a kingdom of peacocks. This illusion was strongest in my "Two peacocks" photo.

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Originally uploaded by annchou

The peacocks walk to the flower beds to have breakfast. This gave me more excitement to my pointing upward exercise, because the flower bed completed my favorite triad: adding interesting foreground to perfect golden light in morning, and the colorful object.



Feather of Peacock
Originally uploaded by annchou

Fresh start at CanAssist

source: http://www.canassist.ca/news-items

01.16.2009

Spring 2009 Co-ops

We are delighted to announce that five new co-op students have joined the CanAssist team for the spring semester: Ann Chou, a 4th year student doing a combined major in Health Information Science and Computer Science, will work on our Skype Communication Project; Li Zhou, a graduate student from the Department of Electrical Engineering, will support the development of our Wireless Motion Sensor (WISP) technology; Matt Holland, in his final term of his Electronics Engineering Technology Program at Camosun College, will work on a number of electrical engineering projects; and Mechanical Engineering majors, Nigel WebbBrandon Fry (each on their second co-op term with CanAssist), will work on the development of a variety of mechanical engineering devices. We look forward to working with these bright young students and are excited about the outstanding contribution they will undoubtedly bring to our program.

Presentation on Electronic Medical Record

My very brief talk on the panel on the topic of "how computer science revolutionize medicince?"
source: http://webhome.csc.uvic.ca/~annchou/EMR.htm

Electronic Medical Record

What is Medical Record?

- A documentary in which the doctor record data such as observation, test result, treatment, diagnosis over a lifetime of a particular patient.

What are the five major functions of Medical Record?

- Documentary

- Communication tool

- Legal evidence

- Administration

- Billing capture

What is Electronic Medical Record?

- The electronic version of the paper-based Medical Record.

What are the four major advantages of Electronic Medical Record over the paper-based one?

- Decreases medical error

- Provides multiple access

- Enables automated process

- Promotes better and more efficient health-care delivery

What is the affect of Electronic Medical Record on lay-people?

- Changes doctor-patient relationship

An example of web-based electronic medical record - The National Danish e-health Portal (ppt file)

References:

Leiner, F et al. (2003). Medical data management : a practical guide. New York : Springer.

The National Danish e-health Portal. Retrieved Sept 22, 2008.

Website: http://www.sundhed.dk/wps/portal/_s.155/1836

Interesting Links:

Pan-Canadian EMR

Canadian EMR: A very comprehensive pan-Canadian blog on EMRs.

Website: http://emruser.typepad.com/canadianemr/

Canada Health Infoway: an independent, not-for-profit corporation established in 2001. Infoway's goal is to put in place the basic elements of a Canada-wide system of interoperable electronic health records for 50% of Canadians by the end of 2009.

Website: http://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/WhatWeDo/Overview.aspx

EMR Initiative of individual Canadian provinces

Alberta : Alberta Netcare

Website: http://www.albertanetcare.ca/

BC: iEHR (interoperable Electronic Health Record) and PLIS (Provincial Laboratory Information Solution)

Media Release:

http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Information-Architecture/2a56ec4a-35e9-4c1c-86d0-98b89f33587f.html

www.bchimps.bc.ca/mswordfiles/Spring%2007/BC%20iEHR.ppt

Nova Scotia: eResult

Website: http://www.gov.ns.ca/health/eResults/default.asp

Ontario:

Smart Systems for Health Agency

Website: http://www.ssha.on.ca/products-services/e-Health.asp

eCHN electronic Child Health Network

Website: http://echn.ca/aboutechn.html

Saskatchewan: Health Information Solutions Centre (HISC)

Website: http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/ehr-strategy

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Author: Ann Chou
annchou at uvic dot ca

Written: Sept 22, 2008

Even with a new hacker persona!

T e r m i n a l o f A n g e l T e r m i n a l
source: http://webhome.csc.uvic.ca/~annchou/

My TA named me as Terminal Angel because I was born at the old CPR terminal in Vancouver Downtown Waterfront. Now my birthplace is called Waterfront Station.

I like to capture light and reflection whenever I can. I am particularly fond of splashing water on the the terminal screen. The illusions and reflections resulted are smoothing!

Do you like the photos I took?

• The first one was taken during the Night for all Saints taken place at the Mountainview graveyard in Vancouver BC.
• The second one is one of the giant tank I made. It was on display during the Illuminares festival last year. It won the "People Awad!" Actually building lanterns is one of my passion as lanterns emit light and can cast reflection when they float on water.
• The third one is one of my mirror reflection series. This particular one taken in front of the Clearbrook library in Abbotsford BC.

New journey of Reflection started

Having stop traveling for a while, except the unexpected on during May an June 2008 in East Coast Canada, New York, Washington DC and Maryland.

I am in my career journey instead, trying to make a scheme of diversity, disability, health informatics, computer sciences and my experience working in medical laboratory.

http://cschinf.pbwiki.com/

source: http://hinf.uvic.ca/newsletter/Sept2007.pdf
As one group leaves, we are very happy to welcome our new crop of students. Entering the undergraduate program in September are: Lindsay Baigent, Alana Booth, Jayme Burns,Xu Chang, Christine Chen, Kevin
Cho, Sang-Yeon Cho, Ann Chou,Terence Chung, Robert Day, Flora Dong, Richard Hau, Angela Jurj,Seung Kim, Barry Kong, Crystal Lai,Baron Lam, Sung Lee, Wendy Leung,Victor Liu, Dorian Lunny, Susan Martin, Amy-Marie Miller, Richmond Munro, Tristan Nowacki, Heeji Park,Ken Perras, Jeffrey Reimer, Kelsey Scott, Sarah Sifert, Sean Taylor, Jennifer Toy, Anson Tran, Anita Wu, Wenxuan Xie, Jeffrey Yan, Christeen Young and Eric Young.

Starting of Ann Reflection

I always fancied about lights and shadows. The compassion first took on me on the late, dark, wet winter evening when I had to walk to the bus station after writing a LPI test. The whole UBC campus was in a ghost state. But when I walking by the new chemistry building, the rectangulr lights came from a row of window above me remind me I am still on earth and living.
The chemistry building is a big lantern. A lantern, afterall, uses to illumine the path in dark.

There are several lanterns I made in the year of 2005.

http://annchou-2000.tripod.com/lantern/

I am back from my 4-week trip in Australia

I am back in Vancouver, BC, and back to work. And hard to find time to
organize my ten thoushandspicture.

And I start writing my own travellog. It is here.
If you are having troubles with the link above, please try this link.
The Australian portion not yet started. I just finished the pre-trip part!
I started from Oct 10. On Oct 13, we caught the flight. On Oct 14, we waste no time and visited Narita, a lovely historial Japanese town while we were proposed in transit!

Enjoyable time in Narita

Landing off to Tokyo

We had seven hour free either at the airport or at the town. Of course, we chose the town!

The customs people say we should line in another queue for transit. But we expressed strong interest to go to the town. And he says yes, "you got lots of time.
The historical town of Nairta was just 10mins from the airport.

We took the Keisei railway to go there ($250).

There was ceremony and performance to celebrate the birth of Nairta town. And lots of school kids carry some "fishing rods" (for performance?)

We at first could not find the historical street. And we went to a donut shop to eat noodle! It was the first ever microwaved wild veggie noodle I purchase. Taste okay, but small in quantity.

By the time we hit the historical street the celebration was close to the end. I want to visit the temple, but mom was to afraid to follow the street as it was very dark and shops are closing.
One thing worth to mention is that the cars of Narita were cutely small. I want one!

We get to a noodle shop (on the historical street) again when time is close to 8. Many western travelers were there. Unfortunately, the noodle was not authentic Japanese. We were quite disappointed.
See my photo album!
http://iconhatch.tripod.com/pretrip.html

Moreton Island: Ready for dolphin feeding - Moreton Island, Australia

Moreton Island: Ready for dolphin feeding - Moreton Island, Australia

Moreton Island, Australia

Actually, Fraser Island was high on my wish list. However, we were very short of time. Not even bear the time to transport to Harvery Bay from Brisbane.

So Moreton Island is our next best.
We did sand sliding and dolphin feeding all in one day.

Miss Traveling - wandering after work,

It had been two months after I leave waterton park.

It is raining hard in Vancouver. With time switch back from summer daylight-saving time, it gets dark as eary as 4:40pm. It is very depressing. And hard to take picture after afterwork when it is both wet and dark.

Well, I should have another cup of coffee after my work instead.