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The article evaluates the options for virtual reality (VR) in Literacy Instruction. Topics discussed include creation of VR environment with Infinity Library as the landscape; user scenarios such as rank information in order of veracity or accuracy and identify true or false fact presented; and high cost for creating VR works. It also mention about the main issues addressed by VR project such as student's lack of retention, ineffective lecture format and need for interactive instruction.

The article offers information on the demand of greater engagement by new technology. Topics discussed include excellence of digital collections; data initiatives underway in every sector of higher education; and importance of people's professionals to sow reliable facts in the fields of the public discourse, building coalition. It also mention about the engagement in the art of information management.

The article offers the U.S. National Nurse briefs. Topics include Nurses at Tenet-owned Carondelet St. Mary's in Tucson held a press conference in July to speak out on unsafe staffing in their facility; and Registered nurses at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention, as the agreement was ratified in May after an 18- month-long fight.

This section offers news briefs concerning U.S. registered nurses (RN) as of April 2021. Topics discussed include the collective bargaining agreements ratified by San Leandro Hospital and Alameda Hospital RN in California, the informational picket held by Enloe Medical Center RN to protest patient safety and staffing issues at the hospital, and the virtual press conference and in-person picket held by Community First Medical Center RN in Chicago, Illinois.

This section offers news briefs concerning the U.S. healthcare industry as of October 26, 2020. Topics mentioned include San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo's approval of the monitor selection plan for Sutter Health's compliance with price controls, and Vidant Health's launch of a pilot program to use drones to deliver vaccines.

This section offers news briefs related to healthcare in the U.S. as of April 2020. Topics discussed include an amount in emergency funding to Easton (Pa.) Hospital, Carlos Migoya, chief executive officer of Jackson Health System in Miami, Florida, testing positive for COVID-19 disease, and recruitment of thousands of retired healthcare workers and medical and nursing students to help handle the anticipated flood of coronavirus patients in California.

The article offers news briefs related to Registered Nurses (RN). Topics including RN at Marin Health Medical Center in Greenbrae overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract covering 550 nurses in February 2020; Stanford valley care RN voted by an overwhelming majority to ratify their first contract with the California Nurses Association; and RN at Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital approved a new three-year contract that will help them improve patient care.

The article offers updates on healthcare issues in the U.S. as of November 18, 2019. Topics covered include the decision of hospital system Providence St. Joseph Health to change its name to Providence while retaining the cross as its logo, a program by health and wellness group Highmark Health to deliver inpatient hospital care to patients in their homes, and lawsuit by five families against the Louisiana Department of Health for allegedly failing to offer children with mental health services.

This section offers nursing-related news briefs in the U.S. as of October 1, 2019. Following a bargaining campaign, registered nurses (RN) at Salinas Valley Memorial have voted to ratify a new five-year contract. A four-year contract that includes provisions to improved patient care, has been ratified by RN at Washington Hospital in Fremont. A vigil was held by RN and hospital technicians at Northern Light Main Coast Hospital to fight for patient safety and a fair contract.

The section offers news briefs on the U.S. health care industry as of September 30, 2019. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced plans to collect information from hospitals about the prices they pay for eligible drugs. The retail company Sam's Club has entered partnerships with several healthcare companies to offer discounts on everyday care its customers. The Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center will hold mold contamination in a room used to sterilize surgical equipment.

This section offers regional news briefs on the health care industry in the U.S. as of September 2019. Topics include accusation made by Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights against the University Vermont hospital of violating federal conscience protection law, the approval by California Governor Gavin Newsom of a transparency requirements for the state's dominant health system, Kaiser Permanente, and decline in exchange enrollment in Maine.

The article discusses the frustration at how the image of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as candidate of the 2003 California governor recall election was more powerful that the words. The recall was a mixture of historical event, high drama and showbusiness. In the early days of the campaign period, Schwarzenegger was often not available to answers questions from the press. he also took time for interviews on conservative talk radio shows where the hosts had already endorsed his candidacy, while the traditional political press was kept at arm's length. Most of the images of Schwarzenegger were flattering ones arranged by his staff. Arnold on the steps of the California State Capitol, broom in hand, promising to make a clean sweep of state government. His training as a bodybuilder and actor served him well during the campaign. Polls showed that voters had made up their minds early in the campaign to vote for the recall and elect Schwarzenegger. Often there were so many cameras present at his event that the television crews were tripping over one another repeatedly. When journalists try to write thoughtful words about the issues raised in the campaign, it often felt like those words were drowned out by the hoopla.

The article focuses on the impact of the Internet and the self-absorbed way the political press perceive their role and work during the 2003 California governor recall elections. This is an era in which the reporter has become more important than readers or voters. There is nothing new about candidates or officeholders calling on reporters who are likely to ask softball questions. What was unusual was to see a candidate who so completely understood the nature of modern political reporting and was so uniquely positioned to take advantage of a new era in campaign information. Much had changed about how the political press corps perceives and pursues its job due to the increased importance of television and radio talk show and the rising impact of the Internet as a means of conveying information and as a vehicle for the public to observe and comment on political reporting. It has become a matter of daily routine to check a variety of Web sites to see where the newspaper's reporting landed on the list of top stories. Routinely, in a break between deadlines, political reporters and columnists would sit down on the studio stool and make a quick television appearance on one of the many cable shows that must keep feeding the appetite of a 24-hour news hole.

The article argues that mass media and the press are aggravating further the African American crisis in the U.S. in the wake of the mass riots that occurred in Los Angeles, California in April 1992. It reveals that the root cause of such riots are racism and discriminatory economics. It demonstrates the bias of the criminal-justice system in the U.S. justifying that more African Americans are in jail because they commit more crimes. It proposes a number of media bias on its attitude toward the police. One is police brutality cases in New York as shown by the press on television.

The article offers regional U.S. healthcare news briefs as of June 3, 2019 including University of California at San Francisco's (USCF) aborted expanded affiliation with Dignity Health in the West, Change Healthcare's doubling of initial public offering (IPO) to 200 million dollars in the South, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's sending of the UPMC-Highmark case back to lower court in the Northeast.

The article offers news briefs related to registered nurses. Topics discussed include nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital celebrated ratification of collective bargaining agreement, nurses at Kindred Hospital reached a tentative contract agreement with management, featuring improvements and protections for both patients and nurses, and nurses at Providence Saint John’s Health Center ratified a new three-year contract.

This article focuses on the mascot for Republican National conventions. It is really a pity that Rodin's three nude gentlemen descending into Hell have been expunged from the program of the Republican National Convention. The fault lies with the newspapers. The party argued that Rodin's dismal shades were not truly representative of Republican Peace, Progress and Prosperity. The levity of the press is deplored in this matter, which has so embarrassed the Republicans that they have pitched out the baby with the bath; discarding not only Rodin, but the whole idea of an artistic cover. Instead, they plan to use a picture, of President Dwight D. Eisenhower; superimposed upon a montage of San Francisco scenes. The Republican decision, it seems smacks of ignominious retreat.

This section offers regional healthcare industry news briefs. The University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago, Illinois plans to spend nearly 270 million U.S. dollars to reopen a trauma center and expand services on its South Side campus. Former governors are urging for a new probe on the death of Cooper Health System Chief Executive Officer John Sheridan and his wife. The State of Florida approves the acquisition of health insurance company Humana by healthcare company Aetna.

This article comments on the media coverage of the abortion-clinic murders allegedly committed by John Salvi. The essay began with the details of the shootings in the clinics in South Central Los Angeles, California. In this regard, the author argues that it is inappropriate that the shootings received first-page media attention, whereas the daily murders committed in inner cities receive little attention. Thus, the essay implies that Salvi should not be considered representative of the pro-life movement in the nation.

The article offers news briefs in the U.S. health care sector as of mid-2014. The Manteca City Council in California passed a resolution asking Kaiser Permanente to restore services like cardiology, echocardiogram and ultrasound. The four National Nurses United (NNU) leadership councils in El Paso, Texas launched a 15 dollars-an-hour living wage campaign. NNU's Kathleen A. Vertino and Colleen Murphy were nominated in the annual Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary's Awards in Nursing Excellence.

This section offers news briefs on the healthcare industry in the western part of the U.S., including the emergence of Kingman Regional Medical Center, Arizona as the second hospital to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network and the signing of the Telehealth Advancement Act of 2011 by California Governor Jerry Brown.

The article reports on the invasion of highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the healthcare facilities of Los Angeles, California, according to the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in 2011.

The article reports that according to researchers a never before-detected strain of virus that killed more than one-third of Titi monkey colony at the California National Primate Research Center in Davis appears to have jumped from the animals to sicken a human.

The article offers observation on how the press were treated during the Michael Jackson trial in Santa Maria, California. "This is hard trial. Jackson is brutally hard. The schedule has been not-so-laughingly called the Santa Maria Death March. It has been referred to as Melville Diet by the judge himself. It does not give the media time to file a story, go to the bathroom and get something to eat in 10-minute breaks. It is hard, really hard," stated by media pool coordinator Peter Shaplen. According to Attorney Thomas B. Kelley, who represented the media covering the Kobe Bryant case in Colorado, "Most judges are not accustomed to the intense publicity that surrounds celebrity trials. It took the last generation of judges a while to get used to television. It is going to take this generation a while to get used to the proliferation of media that we have now." By all accounts, the press covering the Jackson trial has conducted itself in an orderly respectful manner. But some court personnel treat the press in a demeaning and unprofessional way.

Discusses the nature of legislators' problems with the press tackled at the Council of State Governments-WEST Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe, California in 2002. Misrepresentation of politicians by journalists; Treatment of U.S. state news by editors; Ways in which the press appeal to people who are not interested in news about U.S. state governments.

Reports on the media coverage of presidential daughter Chelsea Clinton's arrival at Stanford University in California as a freshman in September 1997. Coverage of the event by 100 White House correspondents; Decision of the campus newspaper `Stanford Daily' to give Clinton plenty of space; Behavior of parents Bill and Hillary Clinton towards the press during the event.

The article offers the author's insights on the use of press passes to mass media. It says that the selling of press passes is against the California Penal Code 409.5 (d) in the U.S. It also discusses the scheme of the International Freelance Photographer Organization (IFPO) in selling press passes with a lifetime membership that costs $81.

Deals with the Mark Twain Awards developed by Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California & Nevada in August 2005. Influence of U.S. celebrity Mark Twain on the association; Description of trophies given by the organization; Remarks from Associated Press Television-Radio Association president Hal Eisner on the awards.

Highlights the Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles, California in 2005. Views on several crime-solving drama television programs on CBS; Overview of the response of CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler when asked about the excessive airing of crime television programs; Reunion of the cast of the television program "Knots Landing."

Highlights the 2005 Alternative Press Expo held in San Francisco, California. Launch of the book "Flight," volume two, by Kazu Kibuishi; Topics discussed in the conference; Other books launched during the event.