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Piracy in the U.S. and Europe usually takes place behind closed doors. But in Brazil, it's wide out in the open for everyone to see. Pedro Franco examines the state of the gaming economy in his home country and how the situation got to be so dire.
This reminds me alot of the time i went to Thailand. There were lots of little stalls selling pirated software and films but the most eye-opening this was that there was a whole mall dedicated for computer shops and about half of these were selling illegal software. I couldn't belive that you could just walk into this massive air-conditioned building and browse through shelf after shelf of softare. When i was there they had the latest Adobe Creative Suite for about £5, just on the shelf for everyone to see. If you did want to buy anything the shop keeper would just disappear into the back for a few minuted and come back with a DVD with your software on.
Because so much software is available so cheap some Thai's have started up Web Design and Programming company's. My uncle, who lives their, had a website made for him dirt cheap and I suspect it was made with an illegal copy of dreamweaver and photoshop. This means that more and more people are teaching themselves to use high end software. Over here if you want to learn to use Dreamweaver legally, you have to either get a 30-day trial or fork out a lot of money where as in Thailand you just have to walk down the street grab yourself an illegal copy and your away. So although it is illegal it does open up more job opportunities for a poorer country
This was an intresting read thank you. That said there are places in the UK like the street you described, one that springs to my mind is "Blackbush Sunday Market". Basically while most of this place is legit there are some market stalls that...arn't. Pirate dvds, games and even combat knives and high powered BB guns (illegal to carry around in the street in the UK I believe) are commonplace. Police regularly patrol (on a predictable patrol route) the market but its laughable, when they stroll past the venders just chuck carpets over their wares and this for some reason stops the police from investigating them. I would assume that a lot of the markets revenue comes from stalls like this and as its privately owned they are inclined to turn a blind eye.
First of all, it isn't more than likely someone's committing a crime playing videogames in Brazil. It's just *likely*. That is exactly what the word means. Use a dictionary next time.
And you mention you pirate in Finland and... nobody cares one bit. Finland's full of high tech, plenty of content providers, game studios etcetera.
The culture isn't against piracy either, and plenty of people buy a lot of legal games. Even more pirate some games and buy others. But pirates selling their ill-earned goods is seen tantamount to sacrilege - pirate all you want for your own use, but if you try to turn a profit on the work of others, you've committed a crime against the society's morals.
Or, in short, how American of you. Be you American or not, you certainly think like one.
earning a profit from pirated games? eurghhh lazy free loading trash. what if you steal a pirated game from these guys? 'HOW DARE YOU STEAL I'LL CALL THE POLICE ON YOU!'
A fascinating read, and I get the notion that most of the eastern European countries have the same situation concerning gaming.
Thank you for generalizing.
Perhaps you missed the bit where most of these are brought in/run by organized crime.
You want to steal from them.. that's your business.
The same situation exist in a lot of countries, especially in Asia. The alarming thing is that the police rarely do anything to stop them, mostly public "cover-up" raids in some small shops to amke it appear as though they are fighting it. Just goes to show that in the right circumstances the piracy industry (if it's as blatant as being sold in malls, which i've seen quite often)is a tourist attracting and good revenue source for the country.
This is Pedro. I haven't been able to contact the editors of the escapist on the password for the account that published the report, so for now I'll be replying from this one.
baggyn: Just as in Thailand, you can easily find all kinds of pirated PC software on the streets, not just games. Indeed, for some types of software, it's probably harder to find a place with legitimate copies than one with pirated stuff. I guess it does expand the possibilities for some people, but the overall effect on society is pretty bad, as I discuss in my article. But it really is ridiculously blatant and that easy to buy pirated stuff. The way you describe the process of buying is pretty much how it happens around here too, sans the air conditioning.
Scorched_Cascade: I imagine that you can find such places in any large city of the world, without too much dificulty. After all, it's pretty easy and cheap make pirate copies and the profits are probably quite large, which should allow for the necessary bribes to take place. At least, as long as you remain low-key.
insanelich: The expression 'more than likely' is gramaticly correct. As the word likely means "Possessing or displaying the qualities or characteristics that make something probable", more than likely simply means "with a higher probability than that which is attributed to the word likely". I.e., a high probability, as probable usually is associated with a percentage higher than 50%.
"The piracy epidemic only came about with the combination of exceptionally high taxes (EGM Brazil estimated in their March 2005 edition that at least 45 percent of the price of a PC game consisted of taxes), the low income of most Brazilians, the lack of an effective government anti-piracy program and, ironically, the very factor that helped make games more mass-market: the change of media from cartridges to CDs, making it much easier to copy games."
Very good account! And as a Brazilian, I abhor the moralist tone of rest of the text. You see, while certainly in a country where the people is not overtaxed, it makes sense to condemn piracy and all the harm it causes game publishers. Why should they pay for the problems of foreign countries? I don't think they should be the ones sustaining the burden of a corrupt foreign government. Neither should Brazilian gamers have to pay around 50-100 USD PLUS around 25%(yes, that much, still disconsidering the fact our currency is crap compared to USD) taxes for being able to play the latest title.
The pricing is completely out of context. No average young brazilian can pay that much.
I think there are two issues here that should be of concern: The game publishers should adjust the prices of their games to conform to the Brazilian economy, and the taxing here should be lowered.
If neither is done, it is expected that regular people, not regular criminals, resort to piracy if thats the only alternative.
Don't expect people to stop playing on moral grounds: That behavior is expected of idiotic Cristian faith heads living in their carefully constructed fake world of miracles and pseudo-righteousness, not to be expected of real people in the real Darwinian world of restricted resources and fierce competition - thats Brazil.
So what to do as a gamer?
IMAO, I think piracy is the most appropriate act of civil disobedience in the Brazilian gaming scenario. I would not advocate for people to buy games in the black market, but to download them in p2p networks like bittorrent. That way, drug dealers and criminals aren't financed (directly at least).
Further, it is still possible to download some games from Steam for its real price -- the Brazilian Government still ignores downloadable content. So there still is a way to reward the games you really like, and get all the advantages of buying the original games such as playing online multiplayer games, score ranking and so on.
For the low quality titles, they deserve to be pirated anyways. How's that for a righteous attitude?!
SICK0_ZER0: as Kwil says, organized crime is heavily involved with this type of piracy. Although they present a friendly face towards potential costumers, you most certainly do not want to try to steal from them.
Ronwue: yes, I get the impression, from what I've read previously, that quite a few countries, such as Russia and China, are in a similar situation as to the one around here.
Brotherofwill: the raids you describe also happen here. Let me tell you a quick and interesting story.
mercutio22, I recomend you read my article more carefully. It's not just foreign publishers and developers that lose out as a consequence of piracy (and 'corrupt foreign goverments'), but the whole of the Brazilian society. Maybe gamers, who enjoy the benefits of piracy, end up with a postive bargain in short run, but piracy also leads to:
The exact same situation happens here in Argentina. There are only a few shops which sell original games, and no one buys them, except for the odd Guild Wars (or other un-piratable game) purchase. 4 blocks from my house, a shop sells pirated PC games. You simply look at their list, say, for instance "I want this. GTA IV." And they'll make you a copy if they don't have one at hand. The price is 15 pesos (1 dollar equals about 3,50 pesos) for a DVD, 20 for a dual-layer/DVD-9, and 10 for a PS2 game.
Sounds like a rocking good time overseas.
Just out of curiosity, what percentage of titles are officially translated into Portuguese, d'yathink? Is there a big fansub community?
Clashero: in this aspect, at least, Brazil and Argentina are very much alike.
Clemenstation: As far as I can tell, zero titles were officially translated into portuguese in last year. Except, perhaps, any new MMORPG (which are moderatly successfull in Brazil). The best one can hope is for a translated manual, which is commom in PC games.
Oh, yes, I forgot to mention that curious fact: in Brazil, reasonably priced, legitimate PC games can be found for around R$100 (roughly $50) and there are plenty of stores that sell them too. For complex reasons that I won't go into, legitimate PC gaming exists to a greater extent in Brazil than console gaming. Or, to put it better, one can buy a legitimate PC game for a very reasonable price here. Which is why it is much harder to justify piracy of PC games than that of consoles.
"mercutio22, I recomend you read my article more carefully. It's not just foreign publishers and developers that lose out as a consequence of piracy (and 'corrupt foreign goverments'), but the whole of the Brazilian society. Maybe gamers, who enjoy the benefits of piracy, end up with a postive bargain in short run..."
"No translations into portguese, which means that people who can't speak english, i.e., the poor brazilians, can't enjoy most games."
There's one good reason for them to learn. Most the english I learned came from the top quality pirated Lucas Arts games, which where for the most part not even published in Brazil in the 90s(e.g. Maniac Mansion, Sam and Max). I did buy from them when they published Grim Fandango =].
"...And it seems impossible not to buy at least some things through the 'grey market' and help organized crime."
Come on, you can't speak for everyone. I beg to differ.
"- Almost zero game development."
"So you're saying that gamers, who probably have better incomes than most brazilians, should have the benefits of cheap games, whilest the rest of Brazil pays for the consequences?"
No, I am saying we should P2P and refrain from buying from places like Santa Ifigênia.
"I do agree with you that downloading from p2p sites helps avoid some of these issues, but I can't imagine why on earth you think that just because a person is from another country, that allows you to what to steal from them."
I don't think it allows stealing, I do think stealing is *necessary* in the context of the lack of reasonably priced games available in the brazilian market. I don't know how to emphasize this enough - People should buy, when the option is available: for instance, you can buy UT3 for USD 19.99 from steam while it would cost 89,90 reais in americanas.com. Thats is ABSURD! Its twice the true value. YES! I exhort all Brazilians: in the case of steal or be stolen: STEAL! MuHUHAHAHAHA!!!! (performing Mr. Evil's little finger impression)
"As an economist, I reconize that the incetives to pirate are immense. Quite simple, the benefits of pirating consists of a large private gain, while the costs, which are larger than the benefits, are shared (and thus hidden to the pirate gamer) by brazilian society as whole.
Me neither, so lets get practical. Teach your friends some bittorrent.
By the way, good essay. Otherwise excellent without the reckless admonishing.
Its kinda sad, people are wondering whats causing the economical problems when they are doing it, The olny time i pirate a game is when i cant buy it AT ALL. Like recently, i was trying to get my hands on a copy of summoner, no luck so i pirated it. But if i want a game like gta4 or hitman bloodmoney or what ever if they have it at gamestop, deal. Ebay, maybe depending on the pricing
Not many titles are officially translated, but it wouldn't be fair to say only a few are. Usually those are huge AAA releases, take Halo 3 and Mirror's Edge, for example. Halo 3 was not only was translated, but also got a dubbed Portuguese version. Mirror's Edge, for example, like many other translations available in Brazil, provides Portuguese subtitles in-game and for the menus. Most of the games that see Brazilian releases usually have a Portuguese copy of the game manual included and a warning mentioning that the rest of the game is in its original language.
Winning Eleven, on the other hand, is an impressive collaborative-pirate example of how Konami's soccer game gets Portuguese narrations, local teams in faithful uniforms along with ads for Brazilian companies next to the field.
As a Brazilian gamer, I acknowledge the situation isn't good, but it definitely favors those who don't want to pay big bucks for games (which come at a very high price due to importation taxes). As a Brazilian game developer, I fight these urges and buy games the legal way. There's no better way to support the industry I am part of, though we all must admit the grass on the other side looks greener.
As a Brazilian, I agree with pretty much everything mercutio22 said.
And to The Escapist Webdesign Crew, a warning: the image on the article (the one that contains it's title) is rather offensive. You *know* that that photo isn't from Brazil, so using it just gives everyone else the *incorrect* idea that we live in extreme poverty (even though that is the case in some regions of my country, it is hardly the case of the major cities and metropolitan areas - where gamers, the focus of the article, live). IMHO, you could have done a little more research and done a more "accurate" job, to say the least.
When I lived in Beijing, even the official games sold in department stores and the like were of dubious quality. I could buy xBox games for 5 kuai (about 90 australian cents) each, DvDs for 10-20 kuai. It was excellent. The fact that people could sustain a living while selling their merchandise for so little (granted the cost of life in China isn't particularly high, and they might have supplemented their income by sharing it with a brother in the clothes section of the market) makes me resent western game retailers a little bit.
mercutio22: Well, rationalize it all you want, the bottom line is that you're stealing. And I disagree with you that is the correct thing to do. But, I agree that by using P2P, you are causing less harm to Brazilian society as a whole and, ultimatly, we agree to disagree, so no hard feelings.
Nanissimov: And you represent the sort of mentality I believe is prevalent in 'developed countries'. As long as the majority of gamers in these markets stick to this sort reasoning, the industry will florish. But, as I say at the end of my article, the current recession is going to make pirate software awfully tempting for a lot of people...
calelogan: thanks for clearing that up! Since I don't have a major console right now, only a DS and intermitent access to a games worthy PC, and have been in this state for more than a year, I haven't been able to keep up with the latest releases and I was unware of the current situation regarding most translations. I was aware, of course, that they continue to be rare, I just didn't know how rare.
Coalhada: I agree with you that the choice of image wasn't the best (the editors of the escapist choose the accompaning images for each article), since, as you correctly point out, the people who'll sell you pirated software don't look like the person in the photo. However, it is an compeling image and I highly doubt that most people will think that brazilians live in 'extreme poverty' from seeing a single image on a videogames magazine. So you're right to complain, but don't overblow it.
urprobablyright: I think you're failling to see the bigger picture here. Western retailers charge so much for legal, expensive games because games have become extremely expensive. After all, game development costs for hardcore games now routinely reach the scale of tens of hundred of dollars and although the industry has expanded thanks to the Wii, these new players aren't the most likely to buy hardcore games.
Is it just me or is The Escapist grasping at straws here?
I know, I know, editorials benefit from having varying views but eh, rampant moralism just ain't my thing.
insanelich: I notice you haven't replied to my argument, that my article is relating what some facts and trying to extend my experience here in Brazil to other countries, and, instead, you have commited the common falacy of simply disqualifying my whole line of reasoning, by calling it 'rampant moralism'.
I don't find you have any valid points to reply to, frankly. Finland's experience - as one of the most high-tech countries out there - with piracy has been uneventful at best. It's accepted as a fact of life and plenty of people do it - and plenty of people don't. Most mix somewhat. Convenience, amount of free time and cost compared to lifestyle expenses seem to have the biggest influence.
And your "facts" reek of, well, rampant moralism. You appear to assume everyone has to share your values, your projections are too laughable to counter and your callings of doom fall on ears that have long, long since learned to tune out doomsayers.
Piracy's been here longer than most of the companies fighting it, and them having enough money to fight it seems to convey it's own message.
I never said stealing was right, I just said you have to take the context to measure right and wrong. You obviously have a problem with that. I agree that stealing is wrong in some circumstances, in others its unfortunate but necessary. Now when I say necessary, I don't mean it in the sense of a survival need, either you do it or you die, but necessary nonetheless. Either you do it or you don't get to play games or you get stolen by the lame game market system. So yeah, lets just disagree. I am tired of rephrasing the meme. You can't move an yota on this one.
The lack-of-piracy-mentality-in-other-countries statement is an empirical one and I challenge you to show your references. I suspect thats just preconception.
I'm from Mexico and the image of the pirate avenue is exactly what you see on a particular avenue in downtown Mexico City. Nothing different at all. Yes, there has been an incredible boom in legal gaming stores and sections in other stores (Blockbuster, for example) in Mexico, most of them in malls. Yes, 360's sell a lot, as do Wiis, and way behind the monstrously expensive PS3. Yet piracy is still running at max settings, even moreso now that the price of everyhting has gone up. What I've come to conclude, however, is that the problem is not just the people here.
Problem one: Price. Even for the most basic of software packages, not even games, the price tags are up in the stratosphere. They are not worth it. I know a lot of people who would rather buy legal software since pirated copies can fail to work, sometimes bring along a friendly virus or trojan, or in some cases the disc you bought isn't the program you thought you were buying. Your risk all of this with pirated software because of the price. You don't feel you're losing out on much if it turns out you got scammed. P2P piracy becomes the alternative for those that know how. I understand games have become terribly expensive to make, but other software tools are not, yet they hover around the same prices. So, when everything costs the same one never stops to think how much was spent to develop each piece of software. Guilt dilutes itself.
Problem two: Distribution is downright laughable, especially for PC. In Mexico, though there has been an increase in legal gaming stores they're exclusively for consoles. PC games and software must be purchased at Office Max, Office Depot or some similar outlet, where everything can fit rather nicely in three or four shelves, usually also besides some console games as well. The prices for PC games, in contrast, are a third or less of what you would pay for a console game, but they are mostly games no one wants to play, or games that are 2 to 3 years old (or more). For example, I wanted to play Tomb Raider Underworld. I wanted the PC version. I went to every single one of the places where I could buy a legal copy. No one had it. This is a high profile game almost a month after its release, not some obscure game from an indie developer. Despite a lot of billboard advertising, the PC version is nowhere to be seen. Aaaah, but who has it? Your local ilegal software distributor. So I'm forced to buy this copy if I ever want to play the game. That was 3 months ago. If I go to any of the stores I mentioned, the PC version of TRU is still not there. This is the publisher's fault for having lousy distribution. I talk of TRU because it was the most recent example of something that has happened to me several times. Many times I end up ordering the game from amazon IF (and there's a big IF) they are allowed to ship games to Mexico. So yeah, sometimes publishers make it impossible to buy legally even if you have the money and the disposition to send profit their way. That's when I pirate out of spite (usually through P2P to avoid dealing with organized crime).
Ok, I think a lot of you are missing the point here.
mercutio22: I do beg to differ from you. Being a Brazilian as well, if I had to guess a number, I would say more than 80% of piracy is offline (in other words, on the street, helping organized crime). Think about the favelas (slums for non Portuguese speaking people)... think about all the people with PS2... the broad band network of brazil is still small if you consider the whole country (according to INFO Online 8 million as opposed to 190 million from IBGE)... And come on, take that 8 million and think about how many of these even knows what bit torrent is...
Lets not be hypocrites here. If you do pirate, than you should know the consequences.
EDIT: spell check!
Interesting article. I find it a good counterpoint to my own article or maybe half a year ago, where I argued that publishers need to compete with pirates if they want to see any profit or if they want to truly stamp out piracy.
The truth is that you cannot ignore the economic conditions of the market that you are trying to sell to. In one extreme case that someone pointed out, medicine is finally being sold to developing nations at lower prices than pharmaceutical companies would like. While certainly medicine is a much more serious topic, the underlying sentiment is the same: If you can't afford it, sucks to be you. The result with a lack of affordable medicines is death. The result of a lack of affordable games is boredom...or piracy. People don't like being bored. If you'd like to know more please read (not really a plug, but look at it as additional information):
Pedro, while you have good points and I don't think that you were being moralist, I think the weakness of your article is that you don't really offer a solution other than "man up and buy legal goods". I'm trying to do this myself, having been a game developer for a few years and fully realizing the impact that piracy has on developers. However I find it hard to lecture people who haven't come to the same conclusions I have simply because it makes no economic sense for them to do so.
interesting article.. Well written..
Games are like drugs, everybody needs their daily dose, i will do whatever to get a hold of it..
As if I had said otherwise: the statistics are a counter-argument to none of my assertions.
Acknowleged: see for instance post 17, paragraph 2.
Interesting read, thank you!
Reminds me of the stories my half Korean friend tells of Seoul. I still have his pirated copy of Half Life and Opposing Forces somewhere. The text is printed in Korean and has the CD keys printed onto the top of the disc. Worked perfectly for a long time!
Demand not able to be legitimately satisfied = counterfeit markets. It affects everything from electronics to AIDs medication. Its big business (to the point drugs gangs are turning away from dope to conterfeits coz the profits are better & very light punishments). & in many cases theres nothing the legitimate companies can do because the fakes are coming from the same factories/warehouses etc that make their products. Its a consequence of mass market globalisation & its here to stay.
Again, you're cleverly avoiding the issue here by simply disqualifying my line of reasoning. Let me try to state the facts in a simple manner, then you can simply tell which of these facts are 'rampant moralism' and which aren't. I'll instersect this with my reasoning and finish with my arguments for my projections. Since I disagree with you when you say that I have any 'callings of doom', as I wouldn't say that my article is that pessimistic, I'll just ignore your final argument.
Before we begin, piracy, in my definiton, means everything from p2p, illegal 'grey market' imports, people on the streets selling CD with 'warez', R4...
The facts:
So, those are the facts as I see them. I'll now present the costs and benifits from piracy from the perspective of everyone involved:
From this analyses, you can see why I believe that brazilian society as a whole has lost out from having piracy, right? Some parts, the pirates and consumers of pirate products, have large gains, but the rest of the society has even larger costs.
Why do I think that this experience with piracy would be closer to that which I believe would happen to other countries such as the US and Japan than the Finish experience? Well, that's a somewhat subjective point of view, but it comes mainly from the following: Other countries that have large populations and large amounts of piracy, such as Russia and China, seem to have an experience that very similar to that of Brazil. This is based on what I've read about these places in magazines and websites. You can also see that other people who've written here seem to share a similar experience.
So, insanelich, I've presented things in a very clear manner. I kindly request that you point out where exactly you disagree with me and why. It's the least you can do after such an extensive post.
I dont have much to add, just that you cannot compare Finland with Brazil. Specially with technology.
Most of what I could say was already said, specially that piracy does hurt the former market - and the moral bounds are in that when you spend money in illegal march you are not paying taxes and as a consequence you are not contributing to the government for investing on public education, public health, infrastructure and all those things taxes were meant for. The trouble is: our politicians are corrupt in the whole majority and is not of their interest to spend a penny on it.
PS.: Im not a 100% favour or against piracy. I think that it will always exist. And to be honest, I do make use of piracy - though downloading from internet and burning them my own.
I also did not like the photo used to illustrate. most of the store owners here in my city are white guys. most of the fatty kind.
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Manner Matters: How to Make a Graceful Exit
Dear Molly,
I feel obligated to attend a fair number of parties and events as part of my job. It's not something I enjoy—honestly, ten times out of ten I'd rather be home reading a book—but it would be impolitic of me to miss them. Can you suggest a polite way to limit my stay at these events? I don't want to be rude, but I'm sick of spending what adds up to hours every week at these work events dressed up as fun.
By the way, I'm not talking seated dinners. These events are cocktail party-style with drinks and maybe a few passed hors d'œuvres. Other people seem to go in and out of them with some ease, I'm just not sure how to do it.
Thanks so much, Stuck at the 'Party'
Ah, the party escape. It's an important skill to learn, a craft to develop, and an art to perfect.
I'm with you on the work "parties." I know plenty of people love them, but like you, I prefer to keep work events and my social life a tad more distinct. Sometimes, though, you can't get out of these things. When that's the case, I suggest the following:
1. Know exactly why you "have" to go. Is it to see a specific person? Meet someone? See how a space functions? Learn about something in your field? Know why you are going before the party starts.
2. Most likely you need to see or meet a certain person. Know exactly what you are going to say to them. It may be just 'thanks for the invitation', or you may want something more—to establish a day to have coffee, to get their email address, whatever. Just know what it is.
3. Arrive on the early side, but not first thing. You want an element of a crowd to have shown up already so whoever you need to see will likely be there.
4. Get a beverage in hand. This establishes to anyone who sees you that you are at the party, not just arrived.
5. Find your target(s). Say hello, introduce yourself. Make some pleasant conversation for five to ten minutes. During this time, finish or mostly finish your beverage. Then say you don't want to take up all their time, but before you go... and then ask for or say the thing you're there for. If all you wanted was to meet them, simply say how nice it was to do so.
6. If there is a clear host or someone specific invited you, thank them for the invitation and the lovely event.
7. Make your way toward the bar for a refill, but just drop the glass off and head for the door. Enjoy the sense of a party well attended.
That's how I do it. I'd love to hear if others have tips for graceful escapes.
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Last month CareCloud announced a new real-time analytics dashboard to help doctor streamline revenue cycle automation. The core of their product is what they call CareCloud Analytics. As I think about the announcement, I wondered if it was really a big deal or not and why we hadn't seen more of this in the various practice management systems and EHR software on the market today.
Is Data Analytics important in Healthcare?
I think this type of information is a big deal. Information is power and this is never more true than in healthcare. The press release does a great job of describing how real-time analytics and dashboards provide information which provides transparency and accountability to a practice. One quote from the article says, "The practice can now manage the productivity of the office staff, monitor in real time the productivity of billers, and gain transparency into the business side of operations to help form better decisions through data, instead of intuition."
I'm a huge fan of analytics in my business. I call myself a stats addict. I have 2-3 stats programs running on my websites at all times. I get stats from my ad server, from Google's ad server, and from every other stats engine I can find that has reliable data. Much of my success with my websites is because of my passion for knowing what's happening with my websites. To me, Data is power! The same can be said for a practice. Data is the power to make important decisions that are needed for the success of your practice.
Why don't more EHR and PMS vendors provide these analytics?
I'm sure there are a number of reasons why we don't see real time analytics happening very often in the small practices. Hospitals are a bit different. There are whole companies devoted to just providing these types of services to hospitals that can pay for a full scale data warehouse environment to provide this type of data. A hospital that doesn't do this type of data mining is missing out as well, but they have a number of options. Although, I don't think many hospital HIS vendors offer this info by default.
The key reason I think real-time analytics and customizable dashboards are missing in the small practice environment has to do with doctors demand (or lack thereof) for such a feature. This will surprise some, but most will agree that the majority of doctors don't care much for the business side of the practice. Sure, they care that the business side of the practice effects how much money they take home at the end of the day, but a large portion of doctors would love their lives a lot more if they didn't have anything to do with the business of a practice. Yes, I know there are exceptions to this, but most doctors want to practice medicine not business.
With this as background, if you ask most doctors what they want from their EHR and Practice Management software, they'll start to list off all of the clinical and workflow needs that they have. Very few of them will even venture into the business requests like real time analytics. Plus, even if they did venture into the business side of things, would they know how to request such a feature?
EHR and Practice Management Vendors have to show them why it matters to have these real time analytics. It reminds me of the famous quote attributed to Henry Ford. "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." This can often be taken too far, but I think it applies well when it comes to things like real-time analytics of a practice.
One other reason that a number of companies are missing the analytics and its relationship with revenue cycle management is that they're too focused on EHR. Many just consider the PMS a standard thing that everyone has already and that there's no room to innovate. Last I checked meaningful use didn't have any practice management elements and that's taken up at least one development cycle for most companies. Too many doctors later dismay, the EHR selection process often puts the practice management side of the puzzle on the backseat. This is a mistake that many practices are paying for today.
As one PR rep for a major EHR company said to me, "Revenue Cycle Management isn't sexy." Although, she said this directly after telling me how beneficial it was to their bottom line.


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To some readers it may come as a shock to learn that the left owns and operates all of the most significant news sites such as Yahoo, MSN, Google News, and Wikipedia. The news side of the web is also dominated by the online presence of big-time traditional players such as CNN, the New York Times, ABC, and Politico.
The left dominates the social media scene as well. While it is true that some on the right have been able to use Facebook and Twitter effectively to push messages and spur activism, the ownership and top management of both companies lean hard to the left.
This has very real consequences such as the deep financial and technological collaboration that Facebook freely gave to the Obama presidential campaigns and the continued bias that Twitter demonstrates by directing new users to follow left-wing celebrities and politicians almost to the exclusion of their right-leaning counterparts…
Unfortunately, the right's power elite has completely failed to understand the import of this situation. Too many conservatives think that because they have Fox News and a handful of major talk shows and websites, somehow the power of the liberal mainstream media is no longer relevant. Because they don't care what's in the New York Times they think the Grey Lady has become inconsequential.


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By Bonnie K. Goodman
Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. Ms. Goodman has also contributed the overviews, and chronologies in History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008, 4th edition, edited by Gil Troy, Fred L. Israel, and Arthur Meier Schlesinger published by Facts on File, Inc. in late 2011.
Newt Gingrich: Video: Thank You To All Of Our Supporters — Newt Gingrich Campaign Site
"I'm asked sometimes, is Mitt Romney conservative enough? Compared to Barack Obama? This is a choice between Mitt Romney and the most radical, leftist president in history….
Today, I am suspending the campaign. But suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship. I have been an active citizen since August of 1958." — Newt Gingrich
Gingrich Quits Race and Says He Prefers Romney to Obama: More than half a dozen news cameras lined the back of a small ballroom packed with journalists, campaign staff members and a few supporters on Wednesday for Newt Gingrich to repeat what he's been saying for more than a week: He's out.
But if Americans have learned anything about Mr. Gingrich in the year since he jumped into the Republican presidential contest, it is that he craves the spotlight.
And so the House-speaker-turned-professional-pundit-turned-candidate seized what may be his last opportunity for this kind of attention. Standing behind a "Newt 2012" lectern, Mr. Gingrich explained his departure and his political philosophy, and — eventually, sorta-kinda — endorsed Mitt Romney…. – NYT, 5-2-12
- Newt Gingrich suspends presidential campaign: With millions of dollars in campaign debt and just two Republican primary victories under his belt, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich finally called it quits Wednesday, suspending his campaign for the presidency so he could go back to being an "active citizen."
"Today I am suspending the campaign, but suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship," Gingrich said in lengthy remarks to a bank of television cameras. Gingrich told reporters last week he would make his departure official this week.
Gingrich deemed the campaign "a truly wild ride" during the appearance in Arlington, Virginia, saying, "I could never have predicted either the low points or the high points."
Quoting an observer who suggested that his best days may be ahead, Gingrich vowed to focus on balancing the budget, advocating for "religious liberty" and social security savings accounts and working for American energy independence. He also said he would work to "reemphasize the work ethic" in America, advocate for his national security positions and press for increased brain research.
Gingrich also stood behind his campaign push for a moon colony, though he acknowledged that it was "probably not my most clever comment in this campaign." He said that despite having providing fodder for "Saturday Night Live" by pushing for the moon colony, he believed that the proposal was sound, arguing that Americans should seek to "go out and pursue great adventure."
Throughout the campaign, Gingrich complained bitterly that Mitt Romney and the super PAC backing Romney were using their massive fundraising advantage to essentially buy the election.
It was one of many harsh criticisms Gingrich made of the presumptive GOP nominee. Gingrich called Romney a liar adept only at "managing the decay" who "looted companies" during his business career, "leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods."… – CBS News, 5-2-12
- Newt Gingrich ends 'truly wild ride' of a presidential campaign: Newt Gingrich brought his presidential campaign to an anticlimactic close Wednesday before several dozen family members, aides and supporters at a suburban Washington hotel. Technically, Gingrich "suspended" his candidacy…. – LAT, 5-2-12
- Newt Gingrich may have ended campaign, but he will remain out of this world: With "more discipline and more courage to be more outside the mainstream," Newt Gingrich told USA Today on the eve of ending his presidential bid, "it might have worked better." Actually, Mr. Moon Colony was plenty outside the mainstream…. – WaPo, 5-2-12
- Newt Gingrich brings campaign to a close, with swipes at Obama, jokes at his own expense: In the end, Newt Gingrich turned himself into the one thing he had been trying to avoid by leaving the GOP presidential primary race ahead of the Tampa convention: a punchline. Republican Presidential Candidate Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich…. – WaPo, 5-2-12
- The end for Newt Gingrich or just another new beginning?: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich brought his 2012 presidential campaign to an end today, closing another stage in a life lived in the national political spotlight for more than three decades. "Today I am suspending the campaign, but suspending my … – WaPo, 5-2-12
- Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich appear in Northern Virginia: Newt Gingrich stands with his grandson Robert and his wife Callista, as he explains why he is suspending his campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination during an event in Arlington, Va., May 2, 2012…. – WaPo, 5-2-12
- Gingrich press aide cites three legs of horse-race coverage: Wednesday afternoon marked a depressing time for anyone in Washington's politico-media orbit. Newt Gingrich announced that he's suspending his presidential campaign. Campaign-trail politics just got about 80 percent duller — 95 percent…. – WaPo, 5-2-12


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The Turkish Republic Prime Minister's Water Prize for journalists excellence was awarded during the 5th World Water Forum's opening ceremony to one international winner, Alison Bartle of Aqua-Media International, and four Turkish winners, Özgür Coban (Anatolian Agency), Özgür Yildirim (Channel 24), and Gurhan Savgi (Zaman Daily Newspaper), and for the programme Yeşil Ekran on NTV (accepted by Erman Yerdelen). These prize winners shared the prize money of 40,000 Euros between them. The award was presented by Prof. Veysel Eroğlu, Minister of Environment and Forestry, on behalf of the Prime Minister of Turkey.
For the first time by awarding the Prize, Turkey, as the host country of the 5th World Water Forum, aimed to honour individuals who have contributed to society's increased awareness of water-related issues. The importance of the media in fostering a paradigm shift in public opinion cannot be underestimated.
The World Water Forum is a process which aims to raise the importance, awareness and understanding of water issues and propose concrete solutions to address global challenges. The challenge faced by those involved in the organization of the 5th World Water Forum was to make it a turning point for water management in the world. The 5th World Water Forum brought the world to Istanbul to improve our understanding of divergent points of view and allow us to share solutions.
The general theme of the prize, which is at the same time the main theme of the 5th World Water Forum, is "Bridging Divides for Water". This theme implies bridging divides between east and west; north and south, the rich and the poor; developed and developing countries; and supply and demand. Furthermore, it describes the reconciliation of these differences for a better management of water resources. This theme also emphasizes the need for greater interaction, communication and functional harmonization of the various entities involved in or affected by water management, and sends out a message to the water community that water is not an end in itself, but rather a means for our development and well-being.
Applicants were asked to associate their public works to the overarching theme of the Forum, "Bridging Divides for Water".
Certain criteria were taken into account in the evaluation of the candidates' applications. The candidates should pay attention to the criteria mentioned below:a) The originality and the quality of the article in terms of their content.b) The impact of the article on public opinion on water-related issues.c) The article's association with the 5th World Water Forum's main theme "Bridging Divides for Water".
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PRODIGY: Dakota Blue Richards' Lyra bounces between two worlds in 'The Golden Compass.'
No Direction
'The Golden Compass' is all over the map
By Richard von Busack
HAVEN'T read Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials, but the idea of a fantasy writer taking revenge on the Catholic Church for Galileo sounds like justice. Yet if that's what you're looking for in film version of The Golden Compass, the fundamentalists get it much worse in The Mist. Director Chris Weitz' busy, impersonal adaptation of the first novel in Pullman's epic makes it clear enough that the essence of the story is a battle of free will vs. blind faith. That's about the only thing that's clear. Laying the foundation for a fantasy franchise, The Golden Compass looks like a long pre-title sequence. To be fair, the parallel-earth fantasy is engrossing, scene to scene. And it's pretty, with its roaring bears, magic-powered zeppelins and horseless carriages powered by glowing blue spheres. Everyone's soul takes the form of an animal, so there are any number of talking critters lurking about. One noble scene has flying witches darkening the sky like migrating birds. In aerial battle, they carry bows and arrows, and they look very troublesome. Unfortunately, for all its gilded effects and wonders, The Golden Compass possesses as little center as a donut. The action always seems to be taking place elsewhere.
Somehow, our petite, spunky heroine, Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards), ends up in the snow-white talons of Nicole Kidman's Mrs. Coulter, who goes back and forth between plotting to murder her and wanting to snuggle. Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel, tweeded and bearded, strides into the snow like a man set on saving the world(s), but he's promptly captured by Earth-2 Inuits, only to reappear in a lab, staring at some test tubes. Sam Elliott turns up as Lee Scorseby. Elliott is the master of embodying a child's fondest dream of a friendly cowboy. When meeting our young heroine Lyra on the polar frontier, Scorseby tips her off to a down-and-out bear called Ragnar. The bear has Dean Martin's problem from Rio Bravo, but then Ragnar (voiced by Ian McKellen) reveals himself as a polar bear Hamlet, who needs to deal with an evil usurper king (Ian McShane, in fine bearish voice).
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I could not recount the whys and wherefores of The Golden Compass if you held a gun to my head. The film exemplifies what Joe Bob Briggs called "the plot getting in the way of the story." Why does Coulter suddenly notice the girl who is—it figures—special in that special mythical way that people make prophecies about? Why does the witch Serafina (Eva Green) turn up and then promptly fly away? Even the godless had to thank God at the sight of Christopher Lee sitting at a round table with some fellow villains. He is our dark compass in this bewildering film. When you see Christopher Lee, you know what he's up to, and he knows what he's up to. Lee vanishes, naturally. So does Green, who finally reappears at the end of the picture. The next-to-last shots of The Golden Compass show Green and Elliot making some very cozy glances at each other. This must be one of the five or six something-elses we can trust are going to be in the damned sequel. Adult romance is completely MIA in this fantasy. At least Tolkien, whose work was soaked with World War II, remembered how many desperate love affairs occur when warriors are about to ship out, whether it's to Anzio Beach or Minas Tirith.
THE GOLDEN COMPASS (PG-13; 113 min.), directed and written by Chris Weitz, based on the book by Philip Pullman, photographed by Henry Braham and starring Nicole Kidman and Dakota Blue Richards, opens Dec. 7.
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More information regarding these topics can be found on the Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico legislation page, which hopes to be a tool providing rigorous and full information for all those wishing to look into this subject, whether it is for professional reasons or any other.
The CEDEX also has environmental legislation, which, due to its complexity and nature, has been divided into three areas: Statal legislation, european legislation and Autonomous Community Legislation.


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Uribe drives in 7 in Dodgers' 10-2 victory
Juan Uribe had a night to remember. Matt Cain wants to forget this one as soon as possible.
Uribe matched his career high with seven RBIs, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers rout the struggling San Francisco Giants 10-2 on Friday.
Uribe chased Cain with a bases-clearing triple in the third and hit a two-run homer in the seventh. He also drove in seven runs for the Chicago White Sox in a 17-14 loss to the Montreal Expos on June 19, 2004.
"A game like that, you always remember," Uribe said. "I think I was a little lucky too. I'm happy to have a game like that but I like winning more. Right now I am feeling good."
The Dodgers won for the 11th time in 13 games. Hanley Ramirez had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 16 games, and Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched into the seventh inning in his first win since May 28.
"After we got the lead I felt more comfortable," Ryu said. "I changed my delivery a little and the outcome was not too bad. Everything worked out."
There was a bit of a downer to the big victory, with center fielder Matt Kemp departing due to an irritated left shoulder.
"I just wish I could stay on the field," Kemp said. "I don't ever want to get used to getting hurt. It could have been worse. I felt something weird in my shoulder that scared me. It hurt worse than running into the wall."
Kemp received a cortisone shot and will miss Saturday's game. He will be re-evaluated Sunday.
San Francisco also lost its center fielder when Andres Torres departed with a right calf strain.
The Giants have dropped four straight and 12 of 14. Hunter Pence and Tony Abreu each drove in a run for the World Series champions.
"We're getting tested," manager Bruce Bochy said. "Hopefully you get stronger when you're tested. You hate to see what's going on. It's a good group. It's not like they're quitting. They're probably trying a little too hard."
Cain (5-5) was charged with six runs and eight hits in 2 1-3 innings, matching his career low. The right-hander was 5-0 in his previous 11 starts against the Dodgers.
"I'm not going to watch any part of this one," he said.
Ryu (7-3) allowed two runs and four hits over 6 2-3 innings. The left-hander was 0-1 with a 2.70 ERA in his previous five outings.
"Juan got a couple of big hits to give us some breathing room," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said.
Ryu retired 11 straight between Pablo Sandoval's double in the third and Brandon Belt's double leading off the seventh. He also had an RBI single in the Dodgers' six-run third inning.
Pence had a run-scoring fielder's choice in the first, but Uribe hit a two-run double in the second before Los Angeles broke it open in the third. Ramirez singled in Yasiel Puig and A.J. Ellis drove in Adrian Gonzalez with a base hit in the big inning.
Uribe's fifth homer gave him the most RBIs in a game for the Dodgers since James Loney drove in nine in 2006.
Abreu ended the Giants' 0-for-20 streak with runners in scoring position with his seventh-inning single.
NOTES: The Dodgers reinstated OF Carl Crawford from the DL and optioned OF Scott Van Slyke to Triple-A Albuquerque. ... The Giants recalled OF Cole Gillespie from Triple-A Fresno, sent OF Juan Perez to the minors and moved OF Angel Pagan to the 60-day disabled list. ... LHP Ted Lilly (neck strain) will make his second rehab start with Single-A Rancho Cucamonga on Saturday. Mattingly said he'd like Lilly to go five or six innings and throw about 90 pitches. ... The Giants scored a first-inning run for the first time since June 18. ... San Francisco RHP Chad Gaudin (2-1, 2.60 ERA) will come off the disabled list to start Sunday's game. ... Bochy said he's been working on finalizing the NL All-Star list. ... LHP Madison Bumgarner (8-5, 3.08 ERA) starts Saturday's game for the Giants. He's 6-3 in 10 games against the Dodgers. RHP Stephen Fife (3-2, 2.83) gets the start for L. A. He's won his last two starts and beat the Giants in San Francisco last July.


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Negaton Screamer
|Negaton Screamer
|Voidcaller (Demon)
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|Alliance Horde
Negaton Screamers are voidcallers that can be found in the Arcatraz.
The first spell of any magic school (eg: Fireball) anyone flings at the demon, it will absorb it and will cast a buff to reduce damage taken by 75% from that school of magic. (eg: Magic Protection: Fire) It will then convert absorbed magic into an offensive volley (eg: Fireball Volley). As soon as the demon has cast this magic volley, he drops his magic resistance and absorbs the next magic type cast on him. This mob is easily killed with only melee damage.
- Fear (AoE Fear)
- Damage Reduction: Fire (reduces all fire damage done to the caster by 75%)
- Damage Reduction: Frost (reduces all frost damage done to the caster by 75%)
- Damage Reduction: Shadow (reduces all shadow damage done to the catser by75%)
- Damage Reduction: Nature (reduces all nature damage done to the target by 75%)
- Damage Reduction: Arcane (reduces all arcane damage done to the caster by 75%)
- Damage Reduction: Holy (reduces all holy danage done to the caster by 75%)
- Fireball Volley
- Frostbolt Volley
- Shadowbolt Volley
- Lightning Bolt Volley
- Arcane Volley
- Holy Bolt Volley
Note: As typical of all "Screamers" of Azeroth, this mob also casts an AoE fear.
This mob can be incredibly troublesome for paladin tanks. As a huge portion of paladin aggro comes from spell damage the worst thing you could fight would be something highly resistant to holy damage, which this mob can potentially be. It is recommended to use a magical resistance aura/devotion aura and seal of the crusader until the mob absorbs a non-holy magic type, at which point you may judge/conscecrate/exorcise as much as you can before it changes its magic type again. Absorbing holy damage becomes further troublesome as it is the hardest of all types to resist when the mob starts using holy damage against you.
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This is the eighth entry in a fourteen part series discussing the time management classic Getting Things Done by David Allen. New entries in this series will appear on Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings through July 16.
So far, we've talked about three of the five major steps for getting things done: collecting all of the stuff you need to do, processing that stuff down, and organizing by putting all of that stuff into appropriate places. But how do you keep all of this running? Review. It's the key element to making sure all of this works, in my opinion.
Allen makes the case for a review right off the bat, on page 181:
The purpose of this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom, however, your brain must engage in some consistent basis with all your commitments and activities. You must be assured that you're doing what you need to be doing, and that it's OK to be not doing what you're not doing. Reviewing the system on a regular basis and keeping it current and functional are prerequisites for that kind of control.
Here's the truth of the matter. Our lives are incredibly busy – I can say for certain that my life is absolutely crazy at times. This means that sometimes, no matter how good the system is, things fall through the cracks. If enough things fall through the cracks, then the system ceases to work at all, which is a shame because when the system is pumping on all cylinders, it's incredible.
The solution to this is to review things regularly. I do two distinct types of reviews to keep my system running.
Daily Review
I usually do this type of review at the start of each day. In the evening (particularly if I find myself in my office for some reason or another – usually due to children who can't sleep, since my office is next to their bedroom), I'll sometimes redo some of these pieces as I choose.
I check my calendar for the day. What do I have going on today? The first thing I look at is my calendar – in fact, Google Calendar is the homepage of my web browser, so I can't help but see it pretty quickly after starting my work day. I usually set some alarms on my computer as well so that I'm alerted to coming events throughout the day.
I check my calendar for the next week, too. This sometimes causes me to add some things to my inbox, like a note about an upcoming birthday or anniversary that I need to get a gift or a card for, or a trip that I need to prepare for.
I fully process my inbox. I go through all of the stuff sitting in my inbox and do something with each item, as described in the "process" section from last week.
I reprioritize my "next action" list and print off a copy. What am I going to do today? I usually categorize the list with four colors – things I try to do each day, things that need to be done soon, things that are truly important but aren't vital to do today, and "other." I usually do them in roughly that order. This is my checklist for the day, and I cross off the items as I do them. The next day, I edit my "next action" list by getting rid of all of the stuff I crossed off from yesterday (except for the "every day" things).
Weekly Review
Once a week, I do a more thorough review of my entire system, just to make sure nothing has fallen through the cracks. I usually do this on Saturday or Sunday afternoon, depending on whether Sarah or I is on nap duty. Here's what that entails.
I round up anything miscellaneous floating around and get it in my inbox. On page 185, Allen explains this clearly:
Pull out all miscellaneous scraps of paper, business cards, receipts, and so on that have crept into the crevices of your desk, clothing, and accessories. Put it all into your inbox for processing.
I don't process yet, though.
I brain dump. At the start of the "collect" part of GTD, a person should sit down and toss everything that's in their mind out onto paper so that it can be dealt with appropriately. I essentially do this each week. I just sit down with a pad of paper and start jotting down the things that are on my mind whether they're already in the system or not. Yes, a lot of it is redundant, but those things that are repeated are big clues as to the things I need to get done because those are the things bothering me. They're interfering with my mind flow.
I process my inbox and note everything that's repeated. I then go through all of the stuff in my inbox. If I find stuff that's repeated, I mark it as "important" on my "next actions" document because if it keeps popping up like this, I need to take care of it.
I file everything that's unfiled. During the week, if I pull out a file folder, I often don't file it again. I just toss it in a wire basket on top of my filing cabinet. At the end of the week, I put it all back so I can easily find it all again. If I don't do this, the filing system begins to fall apart.
I take a look at each ongoing project and figure out what the next action is. As I mentioned earlier, I keep a folder for each major ongoing project I have in my life. During my weekly review, I go through each of these and figure out what the next action is to carry that project forward. A project can be anything from writing a novel to reorganizing the garage and closets.
I review my "next actions" list and set some priorities for the coming week. Mostly, this just involves upgrading the urgency of things already on my "next actions" list. Yes, I don't necessarily empty out my "next actions" list in a given week. In fact, I can't actually recall the last time it was completely empty.
I think about how everything I'm doing fits into my larger lifelong goals. I mostly just spend time thinking about where my life is going, what things that I wanted to do "someday" (things often saved on a list, actually) might actually be coming into focus, whether or not the things I'm doing right now are in line with what I want to be doing in my life, and so on.
Allen riffs on this at the end of the chapter, on pages 189 and 190:
What are your key goals and objectives in your work? What should you have in place a year or three years from now? How is your career going? Is this the life-style that is most fulfilling to you? Are you doing what you really want or need to do, from a deeper and longer-term perspective?
[..] As you increase the speed and agility with which you clear the "runway" and "10,000 feet" levels of your life and work, be sure to revisit the other levels you're engaged in, now and then, to maintain a truly clear head.
How often you ought to challenge yourself with that type of wide-ranging review is something only you can know. The principle I must affirm at this juncture is this:
You need to assess your life and work at the appropriate horizons, amking the appropriate decisons, at the appropriated intervals, in order to really come clean.
Which brings us to the ultimate point and challenge of all of the personal collectiong, processing, organizing, and reviewing methodology: It's 9:22 AM Wednesday morning – what do you do?
This, in my opinion, is the key point of this book. The whole reason for having a system like this is to make you more efficient at the little things you have to do (by keeping your mind clear of clutter) and keep it all organized in such a way that you can step back and seriously think about the big picture. It's impossible to do this if your life is constantly chaotic with you running around putting out fires all the time and collapsing in a heap of exhaustion.
For me, the best way to do this is to focus on one area of my life each week. I do this by breaking my life down to a number of roles. What roles do I play? I am a writer. I am a friend. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a son. I am a gamer. I am a reader. I am a homeowner.
I have long term goals and short term goals in each of those areas. How do I want to fill that role? Each week, I focus for a while on one of those roles and just reflect on where I want to be in the future and what I can do now to move in that direction.
I look for some key actions for the following week that are in line with those big goals. I usually add several things to the least important section of the "next actions" list from the role I focused on, along with one or two more urgent things. For example, if I have the "I am a son" role in mind, I put things like "talk to my parents about their will" and "give my mom a long phone call" as a more important task for the coming week and "think of a great anniversary gift for them" and "plan ahead for a weekend vacation with them late this summer" as lesser things to do.
Next time, we'll go through the final piece of the puzzle: doing stuff. How do you prioritize all of that stuff that's on your "next action" list? How do you keep that in balance with your calendar? We'll dig into that on Tuesday!
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Why Did Michaela Coel Walk Away From a $1 Million Dollar Deal with Netflix?
Michaela Coel, the star of HBO's hit series I May Destroy You had to decline Netflix's $1 million offer after the streaming giant refused to allow her to retain "at least 5 percent of her rights" for the show.
Coel's success in the U.S. is largely credited to Netflix. The streamer was the U.S. distributor of Coel's acclaimed comedy series Chewing Gum. Netflix also housed a feature musical titled Been So Long in which Coel was the lead, as well as the drama series Black Earth Rising. Coel also starred in an Emmy-winning episode of Black Mirror, also distributed by Netflix. So, naturally, Coel's history with the streaming platform made it the premier destination for her new project. After a short negotiation with a Netflix executive, however, Coel had to find a different home for I May Destroy You in order to maintain ownership of the series.
According to Vulture, Coel recalled that Netflix made her a $1 million offer for I May Destroy You in spring 2017 but she turned it down. Why? The streamer wouldn't allow her to retain any percentage of the copyright. Coel even discontinued her relationship with CAA after it "tried to push her to take the deal".
I May Destry You is based on Coel's personal experience of being sexually assaulted during the making of Chewing Gum. At the age of 32, Coel is in full creative control of the series as its showrunner, director, star, and writer. She wrote all 12 episodes and co-directed nine, stars as a young writer Arabella struggling to come to terms and process a recent assault.
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Ava DuVernay and Whoopi Goldberg Elected to The Academy's Board of Governors
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just elected members to its 2020-2021 Board of Governors. Among the six newly elected governors are director Ava DuVernay. EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg has been re-elected for a second three-year term.
For those not familiar with the work of the Board of Governors, here is a breakdown of how it works and what it does.
Per Oscars official website, The Board of Governors directs the Academy's strategic vision, preserves the organization's financial health and assures the fulfillment of its mission.
Governors attend 6-8 board meetings annually (in person or by video). Each Governor also serves on one board oversight committee and their branch's executive committee, and they are expected to represent their branch at numerous Academy events through the year.
The Academy has a total of 18 branches, including the actors branch and directors branch, where Goldberg and DuVernay will serve. Each branch is represented by three governors who are elected for three-year terms.
Since the #OscarSoWhite campaign in 2015, the Academy has been making efforts to increase diversity across the board. After the most recent election, out of 54 governors, the number of female Academy governors increased from 25 to 26, and people of color increased from 11 to 12.
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Based on the comic book of the same name from Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez, The Old Guard tells the story of a group of centuries-old immortals with a supernatural ability to heal. They are forced to hide their identities to save the world. The order of things gets disrupted when they discover that another immortal has "awakened".
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Over the past 30 years lifesaving technologies have transformed how we practice neurology. As the specialty has grown to meet the needs of inpatient acute and critical care, the number of subspecialties has grown as well.
Among them is neurointensive care, a specialty that combines critical care and neuroscience to treat the sickest patients when time is of the essence. Once limited largely to academic hospitals, neurointensive care specialists are becoming increasingly common in metropolitan tertiary hospitals.
When the same physician can manage the ventilator; monitor cardiovascular and electrolyte status; interpret a neurologic study, such as an EEG, MRI or CT; and perform a neurologic exam, complex patient management decisions can be made quickly.
Although the neurointensivist assumes primary responsibility for the critically ill neurological patient – coordinating both medical and neurologic management – the care is collaborative, involving pulmonary/critical care specialists, neurosurgeons, stroke neurologists, neuromuscular specialists or epileptologists, to name a few. The care team also may involve speech, physical and occupational therapists, case managers and social workers.
This collaboration works best with well-trained bedside nurses, who can detect new problems first. There is no more important partner in the model than the bedside nurse.
Some acute conditions that benefit from the neurointensive care model are:
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Intracerebral hemorrhage
• Traumatic brain injury
• Stroke
• Brain tumors
• Status epilepticus
• Neuromuscular disorders with respiratory failure
• Infections of the brain and spinal cord
• Spinal cord injury
The benefit of the neurointensive care model is documented in medical literature. It has been found to decrease mortality, shorten hospital stays and increase the likelihood of discharge home.
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Interestingly, because of the relationship forged with a good neurointensive care team, there is an increase in organ donation from the patients whose aggressive care wasn't enough.
The goal of any acute care provider is to stabilize the critically ill and return those patients to good health as soon as possible. Thanks to medical advancements and innovative care models, we're reaching that goal more than ever.
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The prime minister's office released on Wednesday a letter addressed to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit which included an endorsement of the measure.
"I believe that this will dramatically reduce terrorist activities against Israel," the prime minister wrote, adding that "lone wolf profile terrorists" have carried out many of the attacks in recent months, and that assailants sometimes come from families who encourage the attacks.
Netanyahu asked the attorney general for "legal opinion" to allow the "procedure of transferring families who assist terror to the Gaza Strip." Mandelblit recently stated during cabinet discussions that deporting terrorists' families to Gaza contravenes Israeli law, as well as international law. The measure was proposed by Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister Yisrael Katz.
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ATLANTA -- After Mike Minor completed a bullpen session at Marlins Park on Tuesday afternoon, the Braves determined he is now set to join a rotation that has surprisingly thrived in his absence.
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez announced Minor will make his season debut when he starts Friday night's series opener against the Giants at Turner Field. Minor's return will likely knock David Hale out of the starting rotation. But Hale is expected to remain at the Major League level as a reliever.
"We just wanted to make sure [Minor] is healthy and that he feels good," Gonzalez said. "You always want to err on that side. He looks good. So we'll pencil him in there for Friday."
Minor has had his patience tested since he reported to Spring Training behind schedule because he had been inactive for a month following a Dec. 31 urinary tract procedure. More than two months have passed since he has been bothered by the shoulder discomfort he felt in February. But he still spent this past month making six rehab starts that essentially served as his Grapefruit League season.
The Braves contemplated bringing Minor back to their rotation last week, but instead sent him to make one more rehab start for Double-A Mississippi on Friday. Though he surrendered four home runs in the outing, the 26-year-old southpaw felt good as he built his stamina during the seven-inning stint that consisted of 81 pitches.
"I feel good, they just wanted to make sure I made all of my preparations," Minor said.
Minor ranks fourth among all Major League left-handers with the 2.90 ERA he has posted dating back to July 1. He will be joining a Braves rotation that had produced an astonishing 1.57 ERA entering Tuesday. The starting staff's success has been influenced by Hale's four strong starts, the best of which was completed on Saturday when he limited the Reds to two hits over a career-high eight innings.
Instead of sending Hale back to Triple-A Gwinnett to stay stretched out as a starting pitcher, the Braves are planning to send him to Atlanta's bullpen to fill the same role Gus Schlosser has assumed since the start of the season.
Hale stands as a more dangerous and versatile option than Schlosser, a sidearmer who has the ability to serve as a long reliever and ground-ball specialist. Hale's effective sinker could prove beneficial in some high-leverage appearances which call for a ground ball.