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Duda, Niese lead Mets past Marlins
NEW YORK >> Lucas Duda and the New York Mets finally flashed a little power of their own.
Duda hit a three-run homer and New York overcame two solo shots by Giancarlo Stanton, beating the Miami Marlins 4-3 on Friday night behind Jonathon Niese.
Andrew Brown also went deep for the Mets, outhomered 13-0 by Washington at Citi Field in a four-game sweep that ended Thursday.
"I think it's certainly something Lucas can feel good about right now," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "He's a big, strong guy. Everybody expects him to hit homers. I just expect him to drive runs in. And I think that swing tonight might really start him here in the last couple of weeks."
Niese (7-7) struck out seven and walked none over 6 1-3 innings, improving to 4-1 in seven starts since returning from a shoulder injury last month. New York won for the third time in 12 September games and upped its mark to 6-10 this season against the Marlins, who have the NL's worst record at 54-92.
Making his first major league start of the year, Brad Hand (0-1) gave up the go-ahead homer to Duda in the sixth and fell to 1-10 in 17 career outings.
With the Mets trailing 2-1 in the sixth before a quiet crowd of 20,562, Eric Young Jr. hit a leadoff double on an 0-2 pitch. Two outs later, Hand worked carefully to Brown and issued a walk.
On a 2-2 count, Duda pulled a hanging breaking ball to right field. Stanton raced back but the drive cleared the shortened fence.
"That's the matchup we wanted: lefty-lefty. Just need to make a good pitch and get out of that," Hand said. "I left a pitch up to him."
It was Duda's 13th home run in the majors this season the previous 11 were solo shots. He was recalled from the minors Aug. 24 and has been filling in at first base for injured Ike Davis, hoping to show the Mets he still belongs in their plans.
"It was just a hanging curveball and luckily I got enough of it and it got out. It was pretty windy out there," said Duda, who began the day batting .190 with four extra-base hits against lefties.
Stanton hit his 22nd home run on an 0-2 pitch leading off the seventh. That cut it to 4-3 and gave the slugger nine career multihomer games, three this season.
"We've got a few weeks left so, keep it up," Stanton said. "It really doesn't matter what I do to finish the season, I'll never get back how terrible I've been. But to turn it completely around is something I need to do, something I better do."
LaTroy Hawkins got three straight outs for his ninth save, ending a quick game that took 2 hours, 30 minutes. He struck out Stanton with a 92 mph fastball and retired Justin Ruggiano on a long fly to the warning track in right-center.
An angry Niese was lifted after a one-out single by Ed Lucas. Scott Atchison retired the next two batters before Vic Black and Pedro Feliciano combined for a scoreless eighth.
"I wanted to be in there. But that wasn't the reason I was mad," Niese said. "You set expectations for yourself and when you don't meet them, you get kind of angry. But, other than that, it was a good game and I'm glad we got the win."
Both cleanup batters homered leading off the second.
Stanton hit a screaming rocket deep into the left-center seats. Brown responded with a long drive into the second deck in left, New York's first home run since Justin Turner connected Sunday in Cleveland. The Mets allowed 14 unanswered homers during that stretch.
Consecutive doubles by Lucas and Donovan Solano put the Marlins ahead in the fifth. Miami could have scored more, but Hand bunted into an inning-ending double play with runners at the corners.
NOTES: Turner (right hamstring) probably will be sidelined until at least the middle of next week. ... New York rookie Travis d'Arnaud got dinged when Lucas' backswing hit the catcher on top of his helmet in the second inning. Collins and trainer Ray Ramirez came out to check on d'Arnaud, who remained in the game. ... Mets RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka turned 33. Matsuzaka (0-3, 8.00 ERA) is slated to start against RHP Henderson Alvarez (3-4, 4.34) in the opener of Saturday's traditional doubleheader, scheduled to make up a June 7 rainout. Carlos Torres faces Miami RHP Jacob Turner in the nightcap.


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The Blossom Kids Are Doing All Right
Two of that show's stars are tromping back onto television. Also today: a biopic gets a benefactor, Madonna makes a bad life choice, and aieee!!! Godzilla!!!
Casino Jack, in which Kevin Spacey plays notorious lobbyist turned fraud (is "turned" really the right word there?) Jack Abramoff, has found a US distributor. This hopefully means good things for my Christopher Walken as Bernie Madoff biopic. [Variety]
From way back on Friday comes the news that Mayim Bialik, star of the beloved '90s psychosexual thriller series Blossom, is rejoining the TV world! Well, OK, she's already been guesting on shows like 'Til Death and The Secret Life of the American Teenager recently, but no one in the history of television has ever actually watched either of those programs, so they don't count. She's now maybe going to recur on a real show, The Big Bang Theory. I mean, it's not that real, because it's part of that odious CBS comedy block (How I Met Your Quickie Flashback, Jenna Elfman On Purpose), but lots of people watch it. She's going to play the love interest of Sheldon, the gay turtle character, in the season finale and then might come back in the fall. [THR]
Remember when that book Freakonomics came out and everyone was like so crazy for it, with the apple that's the orange and all that? Well then it became a whole thing, with a blog on NYTimes.com and a movie. That movie — which I wish was somehow fictionalized like Fast Food Nation, but is not — will be the closing show at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. So you thought that the zenith of the Freakonomics fad had passed, but you were wrong. It's only just begun. Freaky! [Variety]
Aha. Resurrected actress Teri Hatcher has teamed up with Disney to start a new
television series, because she's an actress website. It's going to be called GetHatched.com (like her name) and will be all about parenting and stuff. So sorry, oddly out-of-date perv. You're not going to get Hatcher'd in the way the name might suggest. It's good clean fun. It's Disney. [THR]
Apparently Madonna plans to cast her oldest daughter Lourdes in her next directorial project, W.E.. So that ought to end well. [Playlist]
Because Roland Emmerich's unfortunate attempt in 1998 was such a success, Legendary Pictures is going to roll out a brand new big-budget Godzilla movie. Oohhh what'll it be like?? Will it be hip and ironic and self-referentially campy (but not in a gay way)? Will it be deadly serious with lots of grim portent and environmental commentary? Will it be both? All we can say is keep Matthew Broderick far away from it. And Roland Emmerich. Just keep everyone away from it. [Variety]
ABC Family has pulled back the curtain on their fabulous summertime programming, which includes the books-to-TV series Pretty Little Liars (it's about Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean fighting crime in miniskirts) and a new series from Winnie "My So-Called Life & Wicked (wrote the book of the musical)" Holzman. Yeah, it's a weird middle name. She's, y'know, ethnic. Oh plus there's Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence's new sitcom, the enigmatically titled Melissa & Joey. Now we just need to get David Lascher some work and we have ourselves a trend. Hey Dude: Redux perhaps. [THR]

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If you're playing the PC version of Tomb Raider, you may be having trouble with the quicktime events—enough that you're just watching Lara die over and over again every time a QTE pops up. Not fun.
At some point early in the game, Tomb Raider tells you what to press during QTEs: the "F" key. Then, it might never tell you again. Maybe you missed it. So then when you see this type of screen:
You might feel confused—what the hell are you supposed to press? Now you know. F.
Not everyone sees that, though. It may be a bug, though it is not one I am alone in experiencing. Kirk Hamilton, on the other hand, sees this:
Which does tell you what to press—but even so, in the heat of the moment, we're trained to look at the QTE itself. In this case, the white circle. Why does the prompt on the circle not tell you the button to press?
Hopefully this helps you see fewer of the gruesome death scenes in Tomb Raider. If nothing else, it's really just further proof that quicktime events kind of suck. Or, excuse me. I meant quick timer events.


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King of Canada: Tom d'Acquino CEO of CEO's
January 9, 2007
The Canadian business community has taken the most active interest in politics at the CEO level than any other business community in in the world (d'Acquino cited in Brownlee 2005: 9 Newman 1998:159-160). And this interest and influence has been on the rise in the last decades. Canada's business community has had more influence on Canadian public policy in the years 1995-2005 then in any other period since 1900.
Look at what we stand for and look at what all the governments, all the major parties . . . have done, and what they want to do. They have adopted the agendas we've been fighting for the in the past few decades (cited in Brownlee 2005: 12 Newman 1998:151).
Tom D'Acquino should know as he is the CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
While the average North American is becoming increasingly concerned by climate change, a recent report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers has found that fewer than a fifth – 18 per cent – of North American chief executives are concerned about climate change putting them increasingly out of step with their colleagues in Europe and Asia Pacific.
This a current list of the Chief Executive Officers of the Officers of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives:
- Dominic D'Alessandro, Vice Chair Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO Manulife Financial
- Thomas d'Aquino, Chief Executive Officer and President of Canadian Council of Chief Executives
- Paul Desmarais. Jr. Vice Chair President of Canadian Council of Chief Executives and Chairman and C0-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada
- Richard L. George, Honorary Chair Canadian Council of Chief Executives and President and CEO of Suncor Energy Inc.
- Jacques Lamarre, Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO SNC-Lavalin Group, Inc.
- Gordon M. Nixon, Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO of Royal Bank of Canada
- Hartley T. Richardson Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO of James Richardson and Sons, Ltd.
- Annette Verschuren Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President of The Home Depot Canada
Selected bibliography
- Brownlee, Jamie. 2005. Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2006.Media and Objectivity: a Selected Timeline of Events
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2005. Interview with Jamie Brownlee in response to Globe and Mail article "Canada's top 10% pay 52% of total tax bill."
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "King of Canada: Tom d'Acquino CEO of CEO's" Google Docs and Spreadsheet. mirror
- "The Globe and Mail Weekly Appointment Review." Globe and Mail. January 22, 2007. p. B6
- Hackett, Robert A. and Gruneau, Richard. 2000. The Missing News: Filters and Blind Spots in Canada. Ottawa: Centre for Policy Alternatives/Garamond Press Inc.
- Hackett, Robert A. and Zhao, Yuezhi. 1998. Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity. Toronto: Garamond Press Inc.
- N/A. 2007. "U.S bosses out of step on climate change." Management-Issues
- Newman, Peter. 1975. The Canadian Establishment. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1975. The Canadian Establishment. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1981. The Acquisitors.. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1998. Titans: How the New Establishment Seized Power. Toronto: Penguin Books.
- Olsen, Gregg. 1991. "Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall of Economic Democracy in Sweden." Studies in Political Economy. 34.
- Olsen, Gregg. 2002. The Politics of the Welfare State: Canada, Sweden and the United States.. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Brownlee's (2005) publication stems from his MA thesis supervised by University of Manitoba Sociology Professor Greg Olsen. It builds on the work of William Carroll, Wallace Clement and Murray Dobbin. I highly recommend this book for teaching, learning and research on how Ottawa really works. Some of the well-constructed arguments are located in sections entitled: economic cohesion and the structure of corporate capital, mergers and acquisitions, interlocking directorates, a class conscious business elite, public policy formation network, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Global policy organizations, advocacy think tanks and economic elite, corporate social responsibility and the role of states in the era of globalization. The bibliography is a book in itself. The appendices, Media-Corporate Director Board Interlocks and Think Tanks – Corporate Director Board Interlocks for 2003 provide missing pieces to a puzzle.
I first read this book while preparing to teach a Northern-centred introductory human rights course in Iqaluit, Nunavut. My students were often employees of the Nunavut Government involved in making history as they introduced their own human rights bill. I wanted the inconvenient truth claims in Hackett and Zhao to be illegitimate but their research was unfortunately very robust. I thought I lived in a country whose forms of democratic governance were maturing until I read how we were actually going backwards not forwards in terms of objectivity and mass media.
These recent shifts in media ownership and policy might be seen as the equivalent of a non-violent coup d'etat, a metaphor evoking the inherent link between media power and state power — between the colonization of the popular imagination and the allocation of social resources through public policy and market relations. Communications scholar Herbert Schiller suggests that what is at stake is "packaged consciousness": the intensified appropriation of the national symbolic environment by a "few corporate juggernauts in the consciousness business (Hackett and Zhao 1998:5)
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Economist Milton Friedman, propagated 18th century values in the Post-WWII global economy. Like Adam Smith he preached the gospel of minimal government, laissez-faire. The triad, Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944), Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957), and Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom (1962) pit economic efficiency against social justice.
"It is standard doctrine, at least among American economists and in much of the business community, that firms should maximize the stock market value (Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2007. "What is the Role of the State?" in Escaping the Resource Curse. supra note 154, at 3, 28-29)." Under U.S. corporate law, for example, a corporation's board of directors must make decisions that reflect the profit motivations of shareholders or risk liability for a breach of fiduciary duty." (The Yale Journal of International Law. Vol.36:167:184).
A Circumtomato Globe: Devouring the Earth, Extremes of Wealth and Poverty
I compiled this digitized collage, inspired by Deborah Barndt's Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail on November 16, 2006. I used a Google earth generated globe to situate as a kind of circumtomato globe. I developed the concept of John Elkington's Cannibals with Forks for the image of a world being devoured by those who choose to make decisions based on only one bottom line.
In its Oxford style debate 2.0 on sustainability and corporate responsibility, The Economist set forth the proposition for debate, "Without outside pressure, corporations will not take meaningful action on sustainability." The final vote count was: Pro 73% / Con 27%.
Henry C K Liu, chairman of the New York-based Liu Investment Group wrote this in his article (2003) about Hong Kong's benign colonialism that seduced Milton Friedman.
Love is blind and infatuation disguises faults as virtues. As Rudyard Kipling fell in love with the pageantry of colonialism and saw racial exploitation as the "White Man's Burden", Milton Friedman, Nobel economist, fell in love with colonial Hong Kong, seduced by the wine-and-dine hospitality of its colonial masters and elite compradores. Friedman mistook Hong Kong's colonial economic system as a free market, despite Hong Kong's highly orchestrated colonial command economy.
The violence of extremes of wealth and poverty is the moral dilemma of the 21st century, not the acquisition of wealth by individuals, corporations and nation-states. The use of that wealth to convince civil society through mass media of a fair redistribution of wealth is unconscionable. In his book entitled The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times, Harvard Economist, Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005) reveals the gaping chasm between the real and the perceptions of the real in terms of the ways in which the world's wealthiest share their wealth with the world's most vulnerable, at-risk populations. Based on OECD statistics and his own research Sachs claims that the extremes of poverty could be overcome in 25 years if wealthy nations devoted just 0.7% of their GNP (instead of the 0.33% currently provided) official development assistance (ODA) in developing countries. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reported that Canada's official development assistance (ODA) was 0.28% of gross national income (GNI) up from an all time low of 0.22% in 2001. In 2005 the world's most powerful, wealth nation, the United States devoted just 0.22% of its GNP to foreign aid.
Public perceptions reflect support for higher levels of aid. When asked what percentage of the federal budget they think goes to foreign aid, Americans' median estimate is 25% of the budget, more than 25 times the actual level. Only 2% of Americans give a correct estimate of 1% of the budget or less. When asked how much of the budget should go to foreign aid, the median response is 10%. Only 13% of Americans believe that the percentage should be 1% or less. Over 60% of Americans believe that contributing 0.7% of national income to meet the Millennium Development Goals is the right thing to do (Sachs 2005).
In an article published in The Economist in 2005 entitled "The Biggest Contract" (in reference to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of social contract), Ian Davis challenged Anglo-Saxon corporate management to revisit, redefine, re-articulate and reinforce with greater subtlety their relationship with society as an implicit social contract that acknowledges obligations, opportunities and mutual advantage for both sides." Corporate management needs to recast this debate and recapture the intellectual and moral high ground from their critics." Davis argued that like the political leaders in Rousseau's 18th century, corporate management in the 21st century will lose legitimacy if they refuse to serve the public good. Davis rejects the nonproductive binary oppositional environment of public debate on economic efficiency vs social justice. The strongly held belief in Anglo-Saxon economies [1] that the "business of business is business" (to create shareholder value) is as outworn, ideology-based and caricature-driven as is the extreme version of Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR).
Davis argued that an informed, educated and engaged [2] CEOs and upper-level management should map-out long term options and responses to relevant, evolving, overarching, broad, carefully researched social pressures and issues as an implicit and integral (not merely peripheral) part of corporate strategy rather than depending exclusively on lower-level public-relations tacticians operating with a knee-jerk, defensive, narrow, reactionary, rebuttal stance to individual, local and immediate (at times, ill-defined) laws, (political, ideological, etc) tensions and (environmental, sustainability, NGO) concerns. "Large companies need to build social issues into strategy in a way which reflects their actual business importance." The CEOs should blend and harmonize their supporting efforts, such as trade regimes, with sophisticated, sensitive and successful approaches to risk management, social and economic development issues, access to social services particularly for the most vulnerable populations and resolutions of regional geopolitical conflicts. See The Economist premium content.
"Since 2006 investors have flocked to sign the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) but now find themselves in the firing line for 'greenwashing', as many fail to fulfill their promise to fully integrate and report progress on environmental, social and governance factors. Most Australia-based UNPRI signatory super funds contacted by Ethical Investor admit there is still much work to be done to fully integrate Environmental, Social Governance (ESG) into its investment analysis and decision-making (Wagg and Taylor 2009-05-31)."
1. The Anglo-Saxon shareholder-value model has increasingly taken on global significance.
2. Davis argued that executive managers must introduce explicit processes which include the development of resources such as broad metrics, summaries and analysis of relevant social issues in order to systematically "educate and engage their boards of directors.
For more on this topic see also papergirls.wordpress.com
Selected Bibliography
Wagg, Oliver; Taylor, Nicholas. 2009-05-31. "UNPRI: Greenwash or Green Fix? Ethical Investor.
Barndt, Deborah (2001) Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Aurora, ON, Garamond Press.
Davis, Ian. 2005. "The biggest contract: By building social issues into strategy, big business can recast the debate about its role, argues Ian Davis." The Economist. May 28.
Elkington, John (1997) Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, New Society Publishers, Limited.
Elkington, John (2003) Chrysalis Economy: How Citizen CEOs and Corporations Can Fuse Values and Value Creation, Wiley, John and Sons, Incorporated.
Friedman, Milton. 1970. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits", The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970. Copyright @ 1970 by The New York Times Company.
Liu, Henry C. K., 2003, "China: a Case of Self-Delusion, from colonialism to confusion," Asia Times, May 14, 2003.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2005. "Facts on International Aid." The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. "The Strategic Significance of Global Inequality."
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Many moons ago, in April 2012, I wrote a humorous post about how not to make an infographic, where I enthusiastically chastised a selection of misguided visualisations.
A few people chortled and applauded at the time but many others requested a more positive follow-up post featuring helpful tips on how to actually create and promote an infographic, with personal examples.
Fair enough – and since then I've been involved in a few projects that fit the bill with the most recent example being an infographic for Snowskool, a company that specialises in ski instructor courses.
The infographic was created as a collaboration with the talented Snowskool team and released two weeks ago on Visual.ly, Facebook, and the Snowskool blog: Myskool.
Here is said infographic (if you're a skier you'll understand):
Here are the results so far:
Shares & Interactions:
- + 750 combined Facebook Likes
- + 100 combined Facebook Shares
- + 50 Pinterest Pins
- + 10,000 Stumbles
- + 30,000 Visual.ly views
- + 6,000 'engaged users' on Facebook (the equivalent to 'clicks' within Facebook)
- + 4,000 blog page-views
Admittedly, these figures might be well short of the coveted classification of 'viral' but they're still very, very good based on the short amount of time that's elapsed; the limited resources; the relatively niche audience, and the size of Snowskool's existing social networks.
So, to balance the sardonic shade of my previous post, here are some of the key things that I've learned from this project and others – and the key questions I'll ask in the future.
1) Research: What type of infographics have been successful before?
A good question to ask for two main reasons:
Informing design:
I find it useful to digest what's worked before and what hasn't when considering new content.
So, we looked at previous examples, in a similar vein, and loosely based the design of Snowskool's infographic on a previously successful piece. And by borrowing some of the previous content's style we created a new infographic with some tried-and-tested appeal – and saved quite a bit of thinking time and effort in the process.
I think it's also valid to try a completely new style of visualisation but I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing old ideas, as long as there's enough creativity in the telling to completely distinguish the new infographic from the old. This rule makes even more sense when resources are tight.
Saying something new:
A stale point is less shareable than a new one and we knew from research that a similar story had not been told before – even though some of the design ideas were borrowed. A bit of investigative groundwork helps (and helped) to keep things fresh and appealing.
2) Design: Why would anyone share or comment on this?
As the old maxim goes, 'content is king' and a whole project is doomed from the start if the content is… krap.
The factors that contribute to a good, shareable infographic are mysterious and subjective but I've found the following factors to be important – especially in this observational case.
- Truths: massive, and kind of encompassing everything else: if someone can look at a piece of information and see an astutely (and/or humorously) observed truth or two then there's a good chance they'll share or comment. But i've always found it best to work with the experts/clients who can reveal these truths rather than naively searching for them myself. Ample truths were available in this case from the Snowskool team's many years on the slopes.
- Immediacy: an instantly recognisable narrative – visually and editorially – is far more appealing than one that has to be interpreted. In this case, most skiers can have a reflex-chuckle at a tight 80s ski-suit and at least a few of the other observations.
- Distinctiveness: general infographics can drown in the chaos of similarly emerging designs and ideas. Saying (or visualising) something new or specific is far more interesting and shareable than saying something that has already been said; or similarly said. I've already said this point at step 1.
- Tone: the delivery should chime with fans. The points in the example might not be to everyone's taste but they resonate with the people who like and share. Sometimes brands can be too controlling and end up speaking in a bland mono-tongue that's understood by everyone but appeals to no-one.
- Humour: obviously, you're onto a winner if you make people laugh – as I think we did.
3) Promotion: Which channels can best help the promotion of this type of content?
We focused on two areas:
Social networks:
As one of my old colleagues and good friends David Preece once said: it helps to be 'platform agnostic' rather than taking a faddish approach that doesn't consider the relevance of the channel to the content, and if a developed presence has been established to actually make the channel useful.
This sounds like an obvious point but it's a point that's often overlooked.
With this sage thinking in mind, we (or rather Heather Hill) planned the channels to focus on, mainly focusing on the following networks for the reasons described.
Most are obvious but I'd at usually use each one again in the future – especially the first:
- Visual.ly: a specific online network for infographics, and probably the single most fruitful channel in terms of results and sharing – even in the absence of a developed Visua.ly Snowskool presence.
- Facebook: suited to the promotion of entertaining content in most cases but a strong, relevant fan-base is needed for the channel to work. Over 6,000 Snowskool Fans helped in this case but sponsored posts were also helpful due to Facebook's machiavellian changes to its 'Edgerank' algorithm (to make non-paid content less visible). Sponsored posts would probably have to be used again.
- Pinterest: useful due to the relevancy of visual content to a visually-focused network combined with Snowskool's developing Pinterest presence. Infographics are also frequently shared on the channel. Flickr was also used, for similar reasons, focusing on the site's many specialist Infographic groups.
- Twitter: not a hosting channel, like the above, but super for getting the infographic out there by linking to other channels and letting individuals know about it using incremental updates over the coming weeks and months rather than a single update at the start. Again, a strong and relevant network helped.
- Blog: all other channels link to a central blog post on Snowskool's domain. This is useful for SEO as the the links and shares can be consolidated on one central point, even if this area isn't the actual focal-point for many users (and it usually isn't in my experience).
As part of the classic process of 'engaging with influencers', we also identified and contacted some prominent people who could've been interested in the infographic – with some success. Still I've found influencer engagement to be a bit of a hackneyed and overstated technique on this project and others: it's often everyone else who will get others to notice in the first place – at least in my experience.
4) Analysis: What are the overall results like?
I'm not a fan of tunnel-visioned terms or concepts like 'link-bait' so I've not focused on one particular element like links when including the results at the start of the post.
Instead, I try and evaluate in a rounded way: any release of (good) content is going to be broadly effectual so I usually gauge success by looking at the whole picture – and I'll examine the results in this way in a few weeks' time.
5) Intuition: What's my gut telling me?
Theory has its place but plenty of blog posts – including this one – can be riddled with hints and tips when a lot of great, shareable content just feels right – from start to finish – like this example did. I guess this is at least as important as anything else I've said.
So, that's it from me, but have I missed any key points?


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(For information on cardinal characteristics of the continuum aka cardinal invariants see Joel David Hamkins' MO answer here; Andreas Blass's handbook article is an excellent reference.)
Problem 2.3 of Shelah's "On What I Do Not Understand (and Have Something to Say), Part I" (published in 2000 in Fundamenta Mathematicae) states, "Investigate cardinal invariants of the continuum showing $\geq 3$ may have prescribed order". One major barrier to such an investigation is the fact that countable support iteration of proper forcings yields models where the continuum is $\aleph_2$. In such models given any three cardinal characteristics at least two will have to be equal.
My question is the following. To what extent has such an investigation been pursued? In either the literature or folklore are there any results proving the consistency of inequalities $\mathfrak{c}_0<\mathfrak{c}_1<\mathfrak{c}_2$ where the $\mathfrak{c}_i$ are cardinal characteristics?


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Another episode of the series aptly shows the one economist in the entire country who truly understands the system for financing local government, a situation closer to reality than top officials around the world might care to admit. Being effective in government depends on navigating a complex multi-layered edifice, with different hierarchies, committees, and reporting structures within departments and ministries, and between national and local authorities. The French even call it a mille-feuilles (a thousand layers), after one of their delicately assembled–and sometimes messy to handle–cream pastries.
Explaining exactly how these intergovernmental relations actually work is particularly problematic where taxation and public spending is concerned. The recent shutdown of the "non-essential" US federal government activities demonstrates the arbitrary way in which responsibilities across government can be distributed. School budgets, for instance, may reflect a patchwork of different national and local government funding sources.
The inherent gearing of subnational funding creates issues around transparency and accountability for decisions. Take a situation where only 10% of a subnational government entities budget is provided by local taxation: a cut of nearly 1% in transfers from central government gets translated into a local tax increase of 20% if local budgets are maintained. It is no surprise, then, that the relationship between local and national government can become very acrimonious. New, unfunded, statutory mandates that require extra spending on things such as the provision of further social care, education and health care, or even simply a cut in national budget transfers to subnational government tiers, require an offsetting and relatively large rise in local taxes or unpopular cuts in those local services where statutory provision requirements are less binding. A blame game often ensues.
Policymakers across the OECD and beyond constantly grapple with this maze of intergovernmental relations in their daily lives. And many want to reform it, in some cases to decentralise powers to local authorities, in others to recoup more tax revenue from local authorities for national spending. But would such moves improve or worsen effectiveness, and how can that be measured?
The 2013 International Tax Dialogue (ITD) global conference, which takes place in December, aims to help provide answers. It asks how taxation in the context of intergovernmental relations can be used to contribute to shaping countries' development and improve the lives of their citizens. Before the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, economic structures and services were often primarily local, and not always well resourced. National governments' primary concerns were skewed towards security, and in particular how to pay for war. Indeed, income tax in its modern form was introduced by the British in 1798 to pay for the Napoleonic wars.
But the Industrial Revolution also brought the rise of new cities. Finance was needed to support growth, targeting the likes of education, power, transport, water, and sewage infrastructure, the legacy of which can still be seen today. However, the responsibility for raising revenue and the decision making for this growing range of public services shifted to national governments, with subnational governments acting as administrative vehicles where government money was increasingly spent rather than raised.
Nowadays, there is a shift towards greater decentralisation of spending responsibilities in many countries. In the UK, for instance, local government now accounts for over a quarter of total government spending, but raises less than 5% of total tax revenue.
Ensuring a link between the beneficiaries of decisions relating to expenditure and a broad willingness to pay the taxes needed to fund them, and holding politicians accountable for the outcomes, are vital for effective democratic government. Yet the disconnect between expenditures and taxation responsibilities has few obvious solutions. Professor Richard Bird summed up traditional economists' views when he wrote that that the taxes over which control could be best be passed to subnational government are but "slim pickings". True, some countries such as the Latin American countries shown in our graph have reduced the subnational mismatch between spending and their own tax revenues.
But for many developed countries Professor Bird's observation remains true. Indeed, the share of local and regional level tax revenue now as a percentage of GDP is a small fraction of national revenues in most countries. The Czech Republic, for instance, raised only 1.2% of total revenues at sub-central level in 2011. A handful of countries demonstrate that the opposite is possible. In Finland for instance, nearly a quarter of total tax revenues are the responsibility of local authorities, and not central government.
In short, real policy choices, such as adding a larger local element to national income taxes, do exist, and these can give subnational government more control over their own revenues. These choices deserve greater scrutiny. And, as Finland shows, they can apply to large and small developed countries, and perhaps to developing countries too. Sub-Saharan African countries typically raise less than 1% of GDP in tax revenue from sub-central levels, for instance, yet they face similar choices. However, they face additional constraints in terms of technical capacity and institutional shortcomings.
Centralised governments are not set up to address the myriad different situations that occur at the local level. Calls for decentralisation are likely to become louder, boosted by the recent global financial crisis, and in part a reaction against the globalisation which many people blame for the crisis. People want government structures to be more responsive to local needs. Different communities in different locations face different problems. These differences may be hard to discern from the centre. Innovative solutions, such as the creation of citizens' budget committees which rely on more local input from households, businesses, and civil society may provide a way forward.
Decentralisation is a balancing act that must take factors such as the degree of development and urbanisation into account. A new Industrial Revolution is now taking place in many developing countries as existing cities become mega-cities and new ones spring up. This is putting relations between city and national governments to the test, as countries struggle with governance, planning, and tax revenue-raising needs thrown up by recent mass urbanisation, and the need to deliver services to an expanding middle class. The imperative of ensuring greener growth adds another layer of complexity in terms of which levels of government should do what. How much freedom should subnational governments have to determine local pollution taxes?
There is also the question of how far decentralisation can go before encountering diminishing returns. In small towns and villages people may well acquire more tax-raising and decisionmaking power, but fragmentation and weaker economies of scale could ultimately blunt their action. India has more than five times as many local government entities as China, but is this structural difference a consequence or a cause of underlying local conditions affecting the delivery of public services? At what point do any benefits from very localised and probing political accountability come at too high a cost in terms of basic efficiency?
Clear divisions in terms of accountability at all levels are vital if the potential benefits of decentralisation are to be realised. Since constitutional powers are relatively fixed, as is the geographic size of countries-and these are the key factors identified in academic literature as determining the extent of fiscal decentralisation-it is through ideas about the merits of decentralisation that future policy direction will be shaped. The International Tax Dialogue conference will be an important opportunity for ministers and officials at all levels of government to discuss and understand these issues, and help them make better choices and improve their own policymaking.
The views expressed are those of the author and should not be interpreted as a statement of the policy positions of the ITD partner organisations.
The 5th ITD global conference on tax and intergovernmental relations will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 3 to 5 December 2013. For further information, please visit the ITD website at www.itdweb.org/Tax-Intergovernmental-Relations/Pages/Home.aspx
Bird, Richard M. (2010) "Subnational Taxation in Developing Countries, A Review of the Literature", Policy Research Working Paper 5450,The World Bank, October.
Please visit: www.oecd.org/tax/
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Taste Disorders in Middle Ear Disease and After Middle Ear Surgery
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01584011
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified April 2012 by Uppsala University.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : April 24, 2012
Last Update Posted : May 8, 2012
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To evaluate the impact of taste disturbance in different types of chronic middle ear diseases and after middle ear surgery.
That patients with chronic otitis media and cholesteatoma has taste disturbance already before surgery due to the disease itself, of course depending on degree of the disease.
That patients with otosclerosis, has a normal nerve function before surgery.
That patients with normal taste before surgery are more likely to notices a taste disturbance.
That nerve in continuity after surgery, even if it is maltreated, gives less taste disturbance than a divided nerve.
A clinical study has been launched that measures taste function with two different methods for taste measurements, electrogustometry (EGM) and the filter paper disc method (FPD) before and after middle ear surgery in patients operated with middle ear surgery because of otosclerosis, chronic otitis media and cholesteatoma. The investigators plan to include 120 patients in this study.
A parallel study of the patients own experience of the symptom has also been launched were the patients answer a questionary and a quality of life document. The investigators plan to include 300 patients in this study.
A histological study where specimens of CTN from healthy ears and from ears with chronic disease will be investigated with electron microscopy has also started.
|Condition or disease
|Taste Disturbance
|Other: taste measurement Other: Symptom questionnaire Behavioral: Quality of life questionnaire Other: Nerve sample
Taste sensations are provided by three different nerves of which the chorda tympani nerve (CTN) is the major taste nerve. It innervates taste buds in the two anterior thirds of the tongue. The CTN location in the middle ear predisposes for trauma of the nerve. In various forms of middle ear pathology, such as chronic otitis and cholesteatoma the nerve can be affected by the pathologic process per se, since the nerve may become exposed to bacteria toxins, enzymes or mechanical damage. During middle ear surgery, it can be cut off, stretched, touched or dried out by the heat of the microscope light beam. The nerve function in these situations is not clarified. Is it for example better to cut the nerve than to leave it traumatized after surgery. Therefore previous reports on objective CTN function pre- and postoperatively unfortunate suffer from inadequate descriptions of ear disease that were studied. In order to elucidate these questions and to give the surgeon deeper knowledge about how to handle CTN during surgery a prospective study is initiated on patients to be operated on with primary middle ear surgery.
We believe that patients with chronic otitis media and cholesteatoma has taste disturbance already before surgery due to the disease itself, of course depending on degree of the disease, and that patients with otosclerosis has a normal nerve function before surgery. We also believe that patients with normal taste before surgery are more likely to notice a taste disturbance and that a nerve in continuity after surgery, even if it is maltreated, gives less taste disturbance than a divided nerve. Two methods of taste measuring are used in the study, Electrogustometry (EGM) and a Filter Paper Disc method (FPD). We have evaluated EGM regarding possible bias and artifacts as well as the correlation regarding results from the two methods.
The study contains three substudies or arms.
- A clinical prospective trial where 100 patients that undergoes primary middle ear surgery because of chronic otitis, cholesteatoma or otosclerosis are evaluated with EGM and FPD before and after surgery. They also answer a questionnaire about subjective taste disturbance and a questionnaire about quality of life.
- A clinical multi center study on 200 patients that undergoes primary surgery because of otosclerosis. These patients answer a questionnaire about subjective taste disturbance and a questionnaire about quality of life.
- A histological study with electron microscopy of CTN from healthy ears and from ears whit chronic otitis or cholesteatoma. We we plan to investigate samples from five healthy and from five sick ears with EM.
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|Estimated Enrollment :
|310 participants
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|Official Title:
|Taste Disorders in Middle Ear Disease and After Middle Ear Surgery
|Study Start Date :
|January 2010
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|December 2015
|Middle ear disease
Other: taste measurement
Taste measurements with Electrogustometry and Filter paper test before and after surgery until one year after surgery
Other: Symptom questionnaire
Answering a symptom questionnaire before and after surgery until one year after surgery
Behavioral: Quality of life questionnaire
Answering a quality of life questionnaire before and one year after surgery
Other: Nerve sample
Collect nerve samples from patients undergoing surgery because of vestibular schwannoma, chronic otitis media or cholesteatoma where the nerve cant be saved during planned operation.
- Taste disturbance [ Time Frame: One year postoperative ]Taste disturbance postoperative will be measured with electrogustometry, filter paper disc methode and symptom questionnaire before surgery and at four times after surgery up till one year poatoperative.
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: one year ]A quality of life evaluation will be performed before surgery and one year after surgery.
- Histopathological changes [ Time Frame: At the time of surgery ]Electron microscopy investigation of specimen from healthy ears and from ears with chronic otitis media or cholesteatoma were the nerve could not be saved during the operation.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients that undergoes primary middle ear surgery due to chronic otitis media, cholesteatoma and otosclerosis
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not primary surgery
- Not able to participate
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|Contact: Katarina Berling, MD
|Contact: Magnus vonUnge, PhD, Professor
|Vastmanlands sjukhus ENT department
|Vasteras, Sweden, 72189
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|Principal Investigator: Katarina Berling, MD
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|1Center for Clinical Research, County Council of Västmanland and Uppsala University, Västerås, Sweden
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Chorda tympani nerve
Ear Diseases
Taste Disorders
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
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Built in 1922 and essentially abandoned in 1923, Autodromo de Sitges-Terramar is the second oldest remaining track in Europe. Unlike the oldest, England's Brooklands, it was built so well that it remains useable today. Here, rally legend Carlos Sainz laps its 80 year old banking in an Audi R8 LMS.
"I had no idea that this place even existed – and even less that it was the first racetrack ever built in Spain," Says Sainz. "The banking is tremendous, especially when viewed from below. When I first saw it I was surprised and was very curious to know what it was like to drive on it. This is my first ever oval circuit with banking like this. It was very special."
"To drive a car on a circuit like this, damaged by passage of time, was a challenge," says Miguel Molina, who was also driving. "We were constantly tested by the difficulty of layout and the chicanes – you could not lose focus for a single minute. Still, it was great fun. Driving on this circuit is the closest thing to flying."


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20′ x 20′ Festival Frame Tent Rental
20' x 20' Festival Frame Tent Rental
20 x 20 Frame Tent (22 x 22 space requirement)
(4) 5 foot round tables for seating
(2) 8 foot rectangle tables for food buffet
(32) Chairs
Optional Extras:
- Solid or Windowed Walls
- Table linens
- Lighting (for evening parties or solid walls)
- Air Movers
Our event and frame tents can be setup on any type of surface. When setting tents up on a hard surface, there is an option to use stakes or water barrels. When installing tents on grass, we will use stakes unless underground obstructions are present. If stakes can not be used on grass, water barrels will be used in lieu of staking. Frame tents are quickly becoming the preferred tent style because there are no center poles, leaving the interior of the tent barrier free.
Our frame tents are available in a variety of sizes. The frame tents start at 10 feet wide and go up to 40 feet wide. There is no physical limit to how long a frame tent can be, but we prefer not to go longer than three times the tent width. Just let us know how many people you would like to seat under the tent and we will suggest the tent width and length to best accommodate your specific rental needs.
Below you will see a diagram of how the tables and chairs will fit under the 20 x 20 frame tent. We have designed the package to maximize the seating, per client requests. The seating under the tents is tight and we suggest that some tables be placed outside the tent when possible and that long tables be set end to end to create wider aisles along the sides of the tents.
Tent Rental FAQ
This chart will give you a guide to how many people fit under a tent with 3 different seating arrangements. The first arrangement is a Formal Sit Down arrangement that utilizes round tables. The round tables are typically used for weddings and black tie events. It is not uncommon for casual events to use round tables since round tables allow eye contact with every person sitting at the table. The second arrangement is the Cafeteria Style arrangement that utilizes rectangle tables. The rectangle tables are 8 feet or 6 feet in length.
|Frame Tent Size
|Square Footage
|Formal Sit Down Round Tables
|Cafeteria Style Buffet Tables
|Cathedral Seating
|Stand Up Cocktail
|15′ x 15′
|20′ x 20′
|20′ x 30′
|20′ x 40′
|20′ x 50′
|20′ x 60′
|30′ x 30′
|112- 130
|30′ x 40′
|30′ x 50′
|30′ x 60′
|30′ x 70′
|30′ x 80′
|30′ x 90′
|30′ x 100′
There are 3 types of tents to choose from Canopy, Frame, and Pole.
- Canopy Tents are lightweight and are designed to provide shade or protection from light rains. Perimeter staking is required and center poles every 10 feet are required. Our canopy tents allow solid and windowed side walls which is an important factor when choosing a company in Chicago to rent from. Most rental company tents are of lower quality and can not support side walls. If there is a chance for rain, having the option to install sidewalls is invaluable. Ideal use for canopy tents are backyard parties and forest preserves when there is less than 100 people. Canopy tents are for grass setups only.
- Frame Tents are made of a reinforced vinyl or vinyl coated canvas stretched over an aluminum frame. Since they have no center poles, the inside area is unobstructed. Minimal staking or weighting (if any) is required and they are perfect for installation in areas where staking is not practical, i.e. parking lots, patios, decks, driveways, etc. Ideal use for frame tents are Information booths, Vendor booths, Walkways, Presentations Seating.
- Pole Tents is supported by perimeter poles and center support poles. Pole tents require staking around the perimeter of the tent. Center support poles every 15 feet. (Be sure you have an additional 8′ to 10′ of space in addition to the tent size for staking.) Pole tents can be setup on grass or asphalt. For large events around Chicago, pole tents are usually the tent of choice.
We carry a 3 million dollar liability policy should any of our equipment cause damage or injure someone.
- Sidewalls – Solid and windowed sidewalls are available on all of our tents. Windowed sidewalls offer an upscale appearance and will not require additional lighting during the day.
- Fans/Air Movers/Heaters/Air Conditioners – Depending upon the expected ambient temperature, these options can greatly increase the level of comfort. (Tent sidewalls are needed when either of these options are used.)
- Lighting – Lighting can be used for practical application (like to see what you are eating) or to create a desired effect or mood. Lighting is required when solid side walls are used. (unless you are doing a haunted house…)
You are required by law to contact JULIE at least 48 business hours prior to installing the tent. JULIE, Inc. will notify local utility companies who will send a locator to mark their underground facilities using paint and/or flags. Once marked, you will know the approximate location of buried utility lines and can install your tent safely. If we are installing the tent we will contact JULIE, but we also need to give them 48 business hours to do the utility locates on your property. The call to JULIE and the services are free. Dial 811 or 800-892-0123.
Our prices include setup and tear down on all of our tent, table, chair rentals. Most companies charge extra. Delivery/Pickup charges are NOT included and are based on the distance to the delivery location.
Party Tents have not changed much through history. Wikipedia has the definition as: A party tent is a temporary shelter consisting of fabric or other materials draped over or attached to poles and supporting rope. First used as portable homesteads by nomadic people, tents are now more often used for recreational camping and temporary special events.
When we say tents haven't changed much, we mean fundamentally there is still fabric being stretched to provide shelter. The tents we rent in Chicago and throughout the country now come in a variety of types of party tents including pole tents, frame tents and clear span structures the basic idea remains the same. Imagine 100's of years ago a special event like a grand wedding was taking place in the town and no building was big enough to hold the guests. The solution was "Tents"!
When you look back to old movies you see tents used in old rodeos, by Indians and of course the circus. What would a circus be without the atmosphere of the Big Top? Elephants still assist the workers in putting up the large center poles of the Big Tops all over the world. Where will tents be in the next 100 years? Probably not much different is our guess, just doing their thing: providing shelter from the elements while the guests inside enjoy the gala.
Wedding or Garden Party
The typical wedding or garden party under a tent will require space for guests to be seated at round tables, as well as space for buffet, head tables, bars and dance floor. Although every party has unique requirements, the general rule for this type of party is to allow 18 square feet per guest.
Cocktail Parties
Since there isn't the need for as much furniture at a cocktail party, minimal seating, smaller food stations, etc.) the space allowance can be reduced to 10-12 square feet per guest.
Ceremony or Row Seating
For wedding ceremonies or public assemblies, one must allow for the chairs, space between the rows, aisles, and space required for the podium and/or stage. The suggested allowance is 8 square feet per person.
Please remember no two functions are alike. Each event deserves to be looked at individually. Be sure to check with the caterer or band for any special needs.
One 5′ Round table with 8 to 10 chairs, consumes 100 sq. ft.
- 5′ Round table seats 8 comfortably
- 6′ Round table seats 10 comfortably
- 6′ Rectangle table seats 6 to 8
- 8′ Rectangle table seats 8 to 10
We setup the day before your event and take down the next business day. For example if you event was on Saturday, we would setup Friday and tear down on Monday. Don't take the chance of the tent still going up while the guests are arriving which leaves no time for the you, the caterer or band to set up the area prior to guest arrival.
Select a level area and make sure that you are not placing it in a low area where water will flow or accumulate if it should rain. If staking is required, be careful of the unseen underground factors that may affect the tent placement, i.e. sprinkler systems (checking the sprinkler timers is not a bad idea either), gas and water lines, and telephone and electrical conduit or wires. In most municipalities the local utility companies will be happy to visit the site and mark the locations of their pipes, wires, etc. If electrical service is required to the tent for lighting, etc. try to locate the tent in an area where power can be easily accessed and run to the tent. Electrical generators are also available for areas where electrical power is not readily available.


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This probably says something about me, but I'm always intrigued by really slick solutions that leverage creativity to solve a problem. While at HIMSS amidst all the vendor noise, I saw a solution that I fits this description. The solution came from a scanning company called Ambir and the solution is called nForm. Yes, I was a bit surprised that it came from a scanner company too, but that's the beauty of HIMSS. You never know where you going to find something interesting.
In any office, one of the biggest annoyances during an EHR implementation is that you can't go fully electronic. There are still a large number of forms that require a patient signature. In 95% of cases this means that you're handing the patient a stack of paper forms which they can sign. Most organizations then scan those forms into their EHR. It makes for an awful workflow and we all know it.
The nForm solution from Ambir solves this problem and makes the process electronic. You can literally scan in any form and nForm will make that paper form an electronic form that can be completed electronically on an iOS, Android or the nForm 410x tablet device. The patient can literally fill out the form on the screen as if they were filling out the form on paper. Then, once the patient completes the form, nForm will upload it to your EHR using the same workflow you'd been using when you'd scan the form into your EHR.
To me the most powerful part of this solution is that it uses your paper form workflow without requiring any sort of new integration from your EHR vendor. Even if you usually print out your intake forms from your EHR, you can "print" them to nForm and then when the patient fills out the forms they'll get pushed back to the EHR. If you're a clinic that just has a stack of intake paperwork that you attach to a clipboard for the patient, you can have those already queued up on nForm and just hand the tablet to the patients to complete.
While I've talked about the intake forms, you can also use this for other forms you might need signed later in the office visit as well. We all know those pesky consent for treatment forms that we're still doing on paper and hopefully scanning in later.
I love that this is a slick solution for healthcare, but I'm also interested in the product for my own personal use. The only things I print these days are when I need to sign something. How much nicer will it be for me to just print to nForm, sign it and then send it to the receiving party? Saves the hassle of going to the printer. Saves ink and paper which will make all you eco friendly people happy.
While nForm supports you writing anything on a form (it literally is like an electronic piece of paper), I'm skeptical about how well it will do for a really detailed form. Obviously in healthcare we're moving these forms to a patient portal so we can get the granular data elements stored as unique data elements. So, we're not handing a patient a lengthy paper form as much anymore.
With that said, I'm not sure how a lengthy health history form would look using nForm. People's bad handwriting together with the digital input might make it hard to read. For signatures or basic forms it won't be an issue at all. Plus, they've made it so the virtual pen color is different from the background of the form. It's actually really easy to look at a form and see what was completed (or not completed) by the patient. In that way, it makes the form more legible than a paper form. Although, it still depends on the quality of their handwriting.
All in all, I'm really impressed with the nForm solution. I've implemented a Topaz style signature pad solution before, but that required integration with the EHR (which very few have done) and still felt awkward since you weren't actually signing on the document itself. nForm has all the advantages of the paper form, but in a nice electronic solution. I love slick solutions like this.
Full Disclosure: Ambir is a Healthcare Scene advertiser.


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It turns out my blue mood has passed with the help of a strawberry chocolate cake I made. It was wonderful! We are about to mourn its loss because we devoured it! Only a sliver is left! In this family we have no restraint when it comes to desserts! I never understand people that have cookies laying around on their kitchen table! How do they do it?
I am off to pick more flowers! Spring is springing and I have to bring some of it home!


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Discernmentalist News ~
Emerging Church connected with Communism.
I have been doing some really deep research into the emerging church (bad cult) and their effects on God's truth. We all know that Communism is evil. Yet, here is an article I found that shows a direct connection with communism and the emerging church. My keen Silva-ish discernment caught it all for you here!
Here is a bit from the article.
"Now that Fidel Castro has stepped down as leader of Cuba, many investors are looking at Cuba as being a new emerging market for investments."
Now, we know that communism is of the devil. This also should give one notice as to what they all mean by "Red Letter Christian"!
Better dead than Red!
I might add that Fidel Castro started to like the Catholic church which we know has not one single saved person in it!
I will know that you are standing together with one spirit and one purpose, fighting together for the faith,
I Todyaso


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And the 2014 Oscar Nominees Are ...
Chris Hemsworth, Cheryl Boone Isaacs reveal the contenders for this year's Academy Awards, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres
Awards season officially kicked into high gear Thursday morning, with the long-awaited big reveal of this year's Oscar nominees.
Chris Hemsworth and Cheryl Boone Issacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, named the names in Beverly Hills. American Hustle and Gravity received 10 nominations each, including those for Best Picture. Following, with nine, was 12 Years a Slave.
Nominees include:
Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
Best Actor
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
Best Director
Alfonso Cuarén, Gravity
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
For the complete list of Oscar nominations, click here.
The 86th annual Academy Awards, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on ABC on Sunday, March 2.
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Colin Greening
St. John's New Foundland
Eligible for draft:
Trade with Ottawa, 2016
210 lbs.
Prospect Talent Score
Probability of Success
It is quite rare to see a player from Upper Canada College get drafted by an NHL team, but that is exactly what Colin Greening accomplished when the Ottawa Senators selected him with their 7th round pick, 204th overall, in 2005. The St. John's, Newfoundland native was a year older than most prospects in his draft class and went across the country to play for Nanaimo in the BCHL before ending up at Cornell University.
2003-04: Greening spent the season playing for Upper Canada College in Toronto. He was an offensive dynamo, finishing the season with 78 points, 30 goals, 48 assists in just 52 games.
2004-05: Continuing his UCC career, Greening scored at a slightly lesser pace than the previous season and played in 17 fewer games. His totals were 24 goals and 22 assists for 46 points in 35 games. Greening was chosen in the seventh round, 204th overall, of the 2005 NHL Draft by the Ottawa Senators.
2005-06: After bring selected by the Ottawa Senators, Greening traveled across Canada to join Nanaimo in the BCHL. He continued to show his offensive prowess, scoring well over a point-per-game as a rookie. In 56 games, he scored 27 goals and 35 assists for 62 points in 56 games. He also collected 46 penalty minutes. Nearly half his goals (13) were scored on the power play. Greening's stellar season was topped off by an appearance in the BCHL All-Star game. In the playoffs, Greening tallied 3 goals in 5 games, with one coming on the power play.
2006-07: After a great season in the BCHL, Greening joined up with Cornell University (ECAC) where he scored 11 goals and 19 points as a freshman. He was named to the ECAC All-Academic Team.
2007-08: The sophomore slump didn't affect the center this season, which saw him net a career-high 14 goals and 33 points in 36 contests with Cornell (ECAC). He also tallied a career-high 41 points and was named to the ECAC All-Academic Team.
2008-09: The Cornell (ECAC) center netted 15 goals and 31 points in 36 appearances this season. For the first time he was named to the ECAC All-Star second team and, for the third straight season, was nominated to the ECAC All-Academic Team.
2009-10: Colin finished out his final season with Cornell with a PPG season, scoring 15 goals and 35 points in 34 games. He be named to NCAA (ECAC)2nd All Star Team , win the NCAA (ECAC) Championship with Cornell and be named the Student-Athlete of the Year.
2010-11: Greening had an outstanding season and made the jump to the professional ranks look easy. He began the season in the AHL riding shotgun with Corey Locke and Bobby Butler on the top Binghamton scoring line producing 15 goals and 25 assists in 59 games before being promoted to the Ottawa club at the trading deadline with the opportunity to play out the regular season in the NHL. With Ottawa he played with a number of line-mates and various roles contributing a surprising six goals and seven assists and plus two rating in 24 games. He returned to Binghamton playing a checking role for their successful playoff run, chipping in one goal and four assists in 23 contests.
Talent Analysis
Greening has excelled at every level of hockey he has played. Demonstrating exceptional raw skill, Greening has good NHL-caliber size and is an excellent skater. Blessed with natural speed and a smooth, powerful stride, Greening has the ability to switch gears quickly. An offensive powerhouse at the UCC and BCHL level, Greening possesses a good hard slap shot with a terrific release and he is not afraid to use it. He is always willing to go to the net and get dirty in the traffic areas allowing him to cash in on rebounds often. Greening has a nose for the net but needs to improve his puck skills, specifically his ability to handle the puck at high speeds under pressure. He sees the ice well and uses his line-mates often, but his passing skills need some improvement. Greening excels in the puck pursuit game and is a very opportunistic type player. He uses his size well, hitting hard and is very strong along the boards.
Greening was dealt by the Ottawa Senators to the Toronto Maple Leafs along with Jared Cowen, Milan Michalek, Tobias Lindberg, and a 2017 second round pick. Coming back to the Senators were Dion Phaneuf, Matt Frattin, Casey Bailey, Ryan Rupert, and Cody Donaghey.


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Last night, companies across America dumped millions of dollars into crafting the world's most perfect commercial. What did their millions dream up? Star Wars gags, Seinfeld, and the apocalypse. Here are the best (and the worst) scifi commercials from the Super Bowl.
Hulu Plus - Aliens
Will Arnett swaps in for Alec Baldwin in the new Hulu Plus. It's the same alien "we eat your brains" gags, but did Arnett pull it off?
Toyota Camry - It's Reinvented
Starts off soft, then plunges off the deep end with a revamped poop-free baby that's also a time machine.
The Chevy Apocalypse
This automotive apocalypse pissed off Ford so bad, they issued a statement.
VW Dog/Star Wars Cantina
The eternal battle of "commercials with puppies" vs. "commercials with Star Wars" jokes plays out in front of all of America. So, which one is it? The puppy or Little Vader? One thing is for certain, VW is quite good at selling Star Wars. Perhaps Lucas should of hired them to salvage the Phantom marketing disaster.
Acura - First
Sorry buddy, but I would have taken Jerry and the alien over Jay Leno in his flying squirrel suit any day.
Metlife - Cartoon Party
Super cute commercials with lots of cartoons intermingling. Pepé Le Pew's lover is riding Battle Cat! But the best part isn't this commercial, it's all the behind-the-scenes videos of Snagglepuss being dramatic, Waldo messing with the director, Yosemite Sam freaking out, and Voltron doing the robot.
Audi - Vampire Party
So long vampires, indeed.
Kia Optima - Dream
I'm sorry, but this Sandman is scary as hell.
Rick Gervais - Time Warner Cable
Mary-Louise Parker running from Walking Dead zombies. Mary-Louise Parker running from Walking Dead zombies!


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and who can forget this one...
Originally Posted by Cy Q. Faunce
We all have our respective crosses to bear.... We all have flaws and virtues, and frequently our virtues are bound up with our flaws. And those characteristics are all magnified when one takes charge of a quarrelsome Internet forum.
for example....
Originally Posted by Yiktin Voxbane
It's the rough end of the pineapple for you Mon ami .
Wow, 3D cagefighter caek!
Originally Posted by Danno
i got nothing, you win again.
Originally Posted by resolve
I trust God more than I trust you. And that will never change. I've always viewed you as kind of a snake. No biblical connotations need apply, just the regular ones. You're wise. You're really intelligent. But you're also conniving and have this way of getting what you want when you want it. The sickness I was talking about was your propensity to kind of reach in and grasp on to something to define someone here. You harangue them about it and manipulate it in to conversations. You do that with every single poster here. You do this until they see things your way. The "correct way". It's vile.
Are we trying to lure Syberia out of hiding?
Does Syberia like strange cakes or Tom Selleck?
Syberia likes cake. Period.
And by that, I mean she'd eat a menstruation-themed cake.
So how crazy do you have to be to have a replica of yourself be your wedding cake?
This isn't cake, but it's freaking wrong!
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M'cook roasting pan made of multi-ply stainless steel. Cast stainless steel handles.
Heat conduction and distribution is fast and uniform.
Robust construction.
Suitable for all hobs, including induction.
50% more efficient than cookware with a sandwich bottom.
Saves cooking time and energy.
Layer #1: 18/10 stainless steel interior, easy-to-clean cooking surface.
Layer #2, 3 and 4: Aluminium alloy ensuring optimal heat conduction and distribution.
Layer #5: 18/10 stainless steel. Ferritic stainless steel for induction cooking.
Suitable for: gas, electric, halogen and induction hobs; oven and dishwasher.
Length x Width: 30 x 22cm
Height: 6cm
Sold by: Unit
The M'cook range offers professionals and home cooks the best cookware technology.
The 5-ply material used ensures optimal heat conduction and distribution over the whole surface of the pan. The different materials available for handles (cast stainless steel, cast iron, stainless steel or bronze) reinforce the pure, modern design of this collection.
The products from the M'cook range will no doubt please the most demanding cooks!


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Home > Products > Kitchen Cookware > Stainless Steel Stock Pot > Stainless Steel Stock Pot with Liner Knob
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Basic Info
Model No.: P6-03
Material: Stainless Steel
With Cover: With Cover
Handle: With Handle
Additional Info
Transportation: Ocean
Port: Shenzhen,Guangzhou,Jiangmen
Product Description
The Stainless Steel Stock Pot is meticulously crafted with a polished, stainless steel exterior and interior for reliable performance that looks great in your kitchen. This stock pot has tall sides and narrow opening to help control evaporation, allowing foods to dimmer slowly and develop amazing flavor. Encapsulated bottom with an aluminum core for excellent heat conductivity, ensuring even and consistent heating on all types of cook tops.
Shape: straight shape
Material: 201ss/304ss
Body thickness: 0.6mm
Lid: 0.6mm;
Bottom: 0.5mm alu+1.5mm iron+0.5mm alu, #430 induction bottom/customized
Finishing: inside and outside mirror polish/customized
Handle& knob: handle & knob with gold plated
26X20CM Stock pot with lid
28X21CM Stock pot with lid
30X22CM Stock pot with lid
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A: We are the factory which locate in Qianfeng Industrial Development Zone, Siqian Town, Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China. Our factory covers an area of 80,000 square meters, close to Foshan-kaiping Expressway and Xinhui Harbor, the land and water transportation is very convenient.
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Of course you read, "Bullet Proofing Your Practice Against Bad Clients."
You didn't? Gasp! You need to read it to learn the process and discipline of contact management.
The article that follows supplements the "good documentation policy" (named after me), I outlined in "Bullet Proofing."
I'll trade you. I'm trying to get to 2,000 LinkedIn connections.
As I'm writing this, I'm at 1,768. Send me an invitation to connect, and I'll send my article.
In the invite, please mention "Bullet Proofing." With my contact management process in place, naturally you follow the Law—every contact with a client or prospect produces an updated Note in the computer.
Preparing this note can take five or 10 minutes, depending on how extensive your conversation was.
In this short piece, I want to show you how to make your required documentation work overtime.
If you subscribe to Copytalk (highly recommended), at the end of a meeting, with the client sitting right there, you dictate a message.
I must tell you, people find it very impressive. You will find it impressive because when the meeting is over, the documentation is over.
But if this is not your style, just as soon as possible after the meeting, you write a letter or email. You then copy the text of the message into your CRM.
Voila! You sent the client a message, and did your required documentation.
Here's a sample letter:
Throckmorton Jones, MD
Roberta Plack, MD
Rhinoplasty Associates
405 Main Street
Draper, Utah 84020
Dear Mortie and Bobbie:
It was a pleasure to see you again. I am delighted to hear the good news that you will be grandparents again, again, again.
To summarize our meeting today:
We reviewed your bond portfolio and your money managers. We agreed to remove Uzurp as they have consistently underperformed. We are replacing them with Snodgrass Associates.
You agreed:
1) To send me copies of all your statements and life insurance policies. 2) To send me the names, addresses and social security numbers of all your grandkids so we can set up educational accounts for them.
On my end, I will:
1) Review your all your statements to determine whether you are in fact as diversified as you believe. (I have reservations.) 2) Review your life insurance policies to make sure both of you have adequate coverage if something happens to either of you.
As we agreed, we will meet back in my office next Tuesday at 4 p.m.
If anything should come up that would make this inconvenient, please call Jewell at 555-243-9727.
Jim Sellers
Sr. Vice President