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What: "I, Claudia."
When: 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays, April 5-May 3. No performance on Easter.
Where: Bas Bleu Theatre, 401 Pine St., Fort Collins.
Cost: $13-$25.
More info: Call 498-8949 or visit basbleu.org.
Claudia's teenage world pulls on her from every direction. The pressures of school, family and growing up give her a lot to process and talk about.
Fort Collins actress Heather Ostberg-Johnson embodies Claudia in Bas Bleu's production of "I, Claudia," a one-woman show about growing up in a socially complex world.
"Her story is typical but it is also so genuine," Ostberg-Johnson said. "She is just 13. When you are 13 you don't have too much to hide, but you also have everything to hide. She is telling the audience all of her deep dark secrets. It is so just like she is speaking off of the top of her head. That honesty makes her a very compelling character. Everyone can relate to how awkward seventh grade is. You are growing up and your body is changing, and the circumstances she is going through just add to everything. She is so easy to love and to root for."
Ostberg-Johnson also plays three other roles, Claudia's soon-to-be stepmother, Claudia's grandfather and the school's janitor, one of Claudia's mentors. The story unfolds primarily in the school's basement boiler room.
Director Dulcie Willis believes audiences will empathize with every character in the show.
"Drachman, the school custodian, sets the stage for us and provides a quiet narration of sorts," Willis said. "Claudia, the main character, is a delightfully awkward preteen who is learning how to be a grown-up. Leslie, the future stepmom, sheds light on the separation of Claudia's parents; and Douglas, Claudia's grandfather, gives us the elder perspective."
The power of this production stems from the masks used by Ostberg-Johnson to express each character. Willis collaborated with Fort Collins artist Kari Armstrong to create these masks.
"Each mask has been custom-sculpted to a mold of Heather's face, using clay and plaster for form and felt padding for comfort," Willis said. "Heather and Kari have collaborated closely to develop the most provocative character faces while building something durable and comfortable. Heather breathes life into each character with a stunning range of sensitivity, control and clever moment-to-moment discovery."
Each mask was built to convey distinct personality and depth.
"When the actor applies the mask, she allows the character to take over her entire being," Willis said. "In this, we are enabling the mask to guide the actor's work. The character of the mask comes through the body and voice of the performer. In addition, we the audience find ourselves projecting our thoughts and emotions onto each mask as they are speaking. We can literally see what the character is feeling because we ourselves are feeling it. A part of this is somehow lost when we see the actor's entire face without mask since she is then doing all of the work for us."
Ostberg-Johnson partners with the masks to reveal the depths of each story line.
"Each character wears a mask always," she said. "It is so amazing how the masks transform the character. It is very weird to perform without those masks. They are a part of my face. It might seem weird to an audience, but it is amazing to watch how mask work enhances things. It enhances the physicality of the character. It really enhances our eye work. It is amazing that even if the mask doesn't change, the words allow the audience's imagination to transform the mask."
Armstrong designed the masks to convey concrete personality attributes to each character through traits such as wrinkles and different facial features.
"It is a really interesting thing to watch," Armstrong said. "At first you think the show is strange with the masks on. You have to get used to it. And then all of a sudden the genius that Heather has brought to each character is that you begin to forget about the masks. What she does with her body language is just extraordinary. It is a fascinating thing to watch people work with masks, such as you notice small things that you may not notice if you are just watching faces.
The script of "I, Claudia" developed through improvisational mask work by playwright Kristen Thompson, an internationally utilized theatrical technique to teach acting students about the development of characters. Willis chose to produce this show at Bas Bleu after she saw Kristen Thompson perform the original production and realized the potential of the Bas Bleu space to offer an intimate setting for this one-woman show.
"The actress never leaves the stage and she performs all of her character transformations in front of the audience," Willis said. "This is normally a very private moment for the actor. However, given the theme of transformation throughout the play, it is appropriate — even essential — that we as the audience experience the transition of each character with the actor."


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"What I like most about IB at Nørre G is that it gives me the opportunity to experience diversity at its best, both cultural and social wise. The warmth and politeness of the students and staff make the study environment awesome. The IB at Nørre G is everything I could wish for in a high school education."
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"With the help of excellent teachers and a the supportive IB community at Nørre Gymnasium, I have managed to improve myself academically and socially. The IB allows you to challenge yourself while still giving you the opportunity to unfold your potential and pursue your interests. I could easily and successfully start an environment club with the school's support."
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MILAN/DELAWARE (Reuters) - Fiat's FIA.MI bid to win full control of more profitable Chrysler is set to become more expensive in a few weeks, as a court ruling on a price dispute drags on and Chrysler's possible share flotation looms.
The Italian carmaker has 58.5 percent of Chrysler, and a right to buy 16.4 percent more over the next three years at a price determined by a formula worked out in 2009 when Chrysler was exiting bankruptcy.
But a dispute over the price has ended up in a Delaware court, which will decide whether Fiat must pay up to $1.70 billion as demanded by VEBA, a carworkers' union's healthcare trust, for the stake. The ruling is unlikely to come by the end of the year as Fiat hopes.
"That works in VEBA's favor," said Brian Quinn, a professor at Boston College Law School. "If Fiat wants to get this done by year-end, it will have to settle."
The amount VEBA wants is double the $754 million Fiat has calculated the stake is worth, based on the formula.
Right now Fiat and VEBA are circling each other like two wrestlers before a fight. Fiat wants VEBA's stake, and VEBA wants Fiat's cash. There is only one buyer - Fiat.
That changes from January 1, when VEBA gains the right to sell part of its Chrysler stake in an initial public offering (IPO).
That gives it important leverage in any future negotiations with Fiat and could make the price Fiat pays more expensive.
Sergio Marchionne, at the helm of both Fiat and Chrysler, said in October the legal spat could be resolved by year-end.
But law experts say the lawsuit could drag on for months.
"It's really hard to see how this (case) could get prepared, tried and decided in less than two months," said Larry Hamermesh, a professor at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington Delaware.
"Barring some showing of need for expedition, or a settlement, I'd say upwards of a year from now would be optimistic."
Fiat was able to scoop up management control of Chrysler from 2009 at deeply discounted prices, when the U.S. Treasury agreed to let it have 35 percent for free because it was the only automaker in the world that thought the bankrupt Chrysler was fixable.
But the landscape has now changed.
Marchionne is determined to gain full control of Chrysler by buying the remaining 41.5 percent owned by VEBA, as this would allow Fiat to restructure debt, boost earnings and support its struggling European operations until the economy recovers.
VEBA, which covers healthcare costs for retired workers at Chrysler like similar trusts at General Motors and Ford Motor Co (F.N), took a stake in Chrysler during its restructuring. It needs to safeguard the rights of Chrysler's retired workforce.
Marchionne has gained a name for dealmaking after he pried a $2 billion divorce settlement from General Motors (GM.N) in 2005 and convinced U.S. President Barack Obama's task force to give him control of Chrysler.
Now he faces a new challenge: to negotiate a price for the rest of Chrysler with the union trust that won't antagonize its workers, while not endangering loss-making Fiat's finances.
Fiat had an option to buy the first of several 3.3 percent Chrysler stakes from VEBA from July 1, and offered $139.7 million. The 2009 agreement lets Fiat buy 16.4 percent more of Chrysler, bringing its stake to 75 percent by buying up 3.3 percent every six months.
Brock Fiduciary Services, which oversees the Chrysler investment for VEBA and is legally bound to get a market price for the stake, demanded $342 million.
The difference is substantial. Fiat's claim values all of Chrysler at $4.6 billion, a far cry from VEBA's estimate of $10.4 billion and half of what Fiat itself valued the company at in July 2011.
UBS estimates the fair value of Chrysler at between $9 billion and $13.4 billion, meaning VEBA's 41.5 percent stake is worth between $4.1 billion and $5.5 billion.
Marchionne has said Fiat intends to exercise its right, known as the "VEBA call option."
At the end of the three-year process, VEBA is left with 25 percent it can sell in an IPO, which would force Fiat to buy shares on the open market.
Fiat also has the right to buy VEBA's stake outright, for about $5.5 billion.
Some observers believe Fiat's interpretation of the 2009 pricing formula was a deliberate lowball designed to bring the price down in negotiations with VEBA for the next round of stake purchases.
"Fiat has known for quite some time that it could end up with VEBA in court," a person familiar with the Fiat side said.
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December 13, 2012
By Jason Lewis
LAWT Contributing Writer
The Miller-Lawrence Medical & Dental Society hosted an elegant affair at The Grand in Long Beach for their 7th Annual Scholarship and Recognition Dinner. Medical and dental students were awarded $9,000 in scholarship money, and Ezra C. Davidson, Jr., M.D. was honored with the 2012 Trailblazer Award.
Prestigious members of the African-American community were on hand, and congratulations were sent from 52nd Assembly District Member Isadore Hall, 51st District Assembly Member Steve Bradford, Senator Roderick D. Wright, and Chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas.
Davidson is a Professor Emeritus (past chairman 1971-96), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and recent Associate Dean, Primary Care (1997-2007). He is also a professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UCLA. He was chief-of-staff, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles (1971-1996).
Davidson received his B.S. cum laude from Morehouse College, and M.D. from Meharry Medical College. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Davidson has blazed a trail for a number of African American doctors to succeed in the medical profession.
As much as it was a night to honor Davidson, it was also a night for awarding scholarships to deserving students in the medical and dental fields. Over the past seven years the Miller-Lawrence Medical and Dental Society has given out over $70,000 in scholarship money.
This year's scholarship recipients were Ciara M. Brinney, St. Francis Career College (nursing student); Natalie G. Buck, University of California Los Angeles (nursing student); Courtney M. Clayton, University of Southern California Ostrow School of Dentistry (Dental Student); Maita S. Kuvhenguhwa, Charles Drew University/David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (medical student); Lvuoma N. Onyeador, University of California Los Angeles (psychology doctoral student); and Brent A. Tucker, Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry (dental student).
The Miller-Lawrence Medical & Dental Society is a group of health care providers in Compton, South Los Angeles and the South Bay. Their membership is comprised of physicians and dentists in primary care specialties, as well as all other medical and surgical sub-specialties, and providers in academic medicine, military medicine, medical administration and allied health.
Their members serve a disproportionately high number of underserved patients who are African American and other minorities, and they practice primarily in urban areas.


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Manuscripts of the West Midlands. A Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscript Books of the English West Midlands, c. 1300 – c. 1475 is a catalogue of vernacular manuscript books of the English West Midlands, c. 1300-1475. It provides detailed descriptions and reference images (where possible) of more than 150 manuscripts associated on linguistic grounds with the historic West Midlands counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. Many of these manuscripts are among the most important surviving books of Middle English. The descriptions are based on published sources, checked and supplemented wherever possible by physical examination of the manuscripts.
The Manuscripts of the West Midlands project has aimed to engage with the dynamics of manuscripts studies, a fast-developing discipline, and to experiment with the potential of computer applications to provide new kinds of research infrastructure. Although completed in the sense that the project has ended, the catalogue is provisional and experimental and amenable for future exploitation and development. It is to be hoped that it will stimulate, and provide a resource for, research of many kinds. The data are of course subject to revision and improvement as our knowledge improves and grows. Scholars with information to add or corrections to suggest are invited to submit them by email to the project director, for accumulation towards possible revised editions. The catalogue could be expanded into additional geographical areas. The data could also be integrated into other databases. Scholars with interests in using the material in these ways are also invited to contact the project director.
- Languages: Middle English
- Countries: United Kingdom
- Dates: 1300-1500
- Disciplines: linguistics, literature
- Project Director: Professor Wendy Scase
- Research Team: Dr Rebecca Farnham – Research Fellow
- Research Team: Dr Orietta Da Rold – Research Fellow
- Technical Team: Dr Peter Robinson – Technical Director
- Computer Officer: Andrew West
- Project Secretary: Michelle Devereux
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Earth from Space: Orange River
This Envisat image highlights the Orange River in Southwest Africa. Rising in the Drakensberg mountains near the South Africa (visible south of the river) and Lesotho border, the Orange River runs westward for 2200 km forming part of the border between South Africa and Namibia (visible north of the river).
Although the Orange River normally empties into the Atlantic Ocean, sand-bars sometimes block its access to the sea. For this reason, it is often referred to as a river mouth rather than a true estuary.
The Namib Desert (visible in Namibia) stretches about 1930 km along the coast of Southwest Africa, mostly within the Namibian country. The huge sand dunes that rise near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and extend inland for up to 160 km are visible.
The Namib Sand Sea, located along the central coast of the Namib, is made up of sand that is a consequence of the erosion processes that take place within the Orange River valley and areas further to the south. As sand-laden waters empty into the Atlantic, onshore currents deposit the sand along the shore. Southwest winds pick up the sand and redeposit it in the sand sea in the form of massive dunes.
This image was acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 12 October 2007, working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 metres.


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Shaq's First Win Game & With The Cavaliers! (Highlights)
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We're excited to announce Eric Schwaab as our first-ever Senior Vice President and Chief Conservation Officer (CCO). With a realignment of priorities that emphasizes an updated conservation mission, Schwaab's appointment represents the Aquarium's new dedication to serve as a national leader in ocean preservation and environmental stewardship.
"With the confirmation of Eric Schwaab as our Chief Conservation Officer, we are setting an agenda for National Aquarium's future," said John Racanelli, National Aquarium CEO. "We are dedicated to our mission of inspiring conservation of the world's aquatic treasures. Eric's wealth of experience and passion will help us expand and better promote conservation action to protect the ocean, our planet's life support system."
As CCO, Schwaab, who assumes responsibilities July 1, will provide strategic vision and leadership for the National Aquarium's Conservation and Science Division, a team of 130 professionals, engaging in initiatives ranging from field conservation and biological programs to legislative advocacy and animal rescue.
Schwaab currently serves as Acting Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Management for the US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In this role he works closely with Congress, other agency leaders, partner organizations and local communities to develop policies and take conservation action to ensure sustainable federal fisheries, promote coastal stewardship and enhance protection of ocean habitats. Previously, as Assistant Administrator for Fisheries at NOAA from 2010-2012, Schwaab directed the National Marine Fisheries Service. He was responsible for science, management and conservation of federal fisheries, marine mammals, sea turtles and other protected resources within the United States. Schwaab led the agency's national requirement to end overfishing, the implementation of "catch share" management programs to better align the interests of commercial fishing businesses with conservation goals, and efforts to improve coastal and ocean habitat conservation.
The National Aquarium is changing the way the world views conservation by instilling a sense of urgency on issues that affect aquatic ecosystems worldwide, including the Chesapeake Bay. In the ocean policy arena, the National Aquarium has recently focused its efforts on a ban on the sale and trade of shark fins, offshore wind development, plastic and beverage container deposits and watershed conservation.
"Through its current work in conservation and science, National Aquarium is redefining the role of public aquaria as catalysts for tangible change in how people care for oceans and aquatic systems," said Schwaab. "The Aquarium's role as a trusted source of information and its ability to communicate with millions of people annually provide significant opportunities to influence public policy and personal behavior on behalf of sustainable ocean conservation. I look forward to leading this charge."
Prior to his work with NOAA, Schwaab spent three years as Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, where he worked extensively with legislative leaders and other agencies to support important state conservation initiatives, including Chesapeake Bay restoration, forest and park land conservation and fisheries rebuilding. Schwaab's 20 plus years of conservation stewardship in Maryland also include service as Director of the Fisheries Service (1999-2003); Director of the Forest, Wildlife & Heritage Service (1995-1999); Director of the Forest Service (1992-1995); and Chief of Resource Management for Maryland Forest & Park Service (1989-1992). From 2003 into 2007, Schwaab served as Resource Director for the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, coordinating conservation work on behalf of fish and wildlife agencies across North America.
Schwaab, who currently serves as the NOAA Administrator designee on the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from McDaniel College and a Master of Arts degree in Geography and Environmental Planning from Towson University. He also completed a leadership program for senior executives in state and local government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.


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Responses of International Law to Conflict-Based Sexual and Gender Violence (LAW-978-001)
Susana Sacouto
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Sexual and gender-based crimes committed in times of conflict or repression traditionally have been ignored, or at most, treated as secondary to other crimes. However, the past two decades have seen a number of significant developments in the treatment of sexual and gender-based violence at the international level. This course aims to provide an overview and evaluation of the responses of international law to the experience of victims and survivors of such violence. The course will examine feminist critiques of international humanitarian law and consider the links between conflict and issues such as women's inequality and inequitable economic and social conditions. Specifically, the course will explore how survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in times of conflict are treated under the various categories of the laws of war, such as civilians, combatants, detainees and POWs, but also question whether these laws are sufficient to encompass the variety of ways survivors of such violence are affected by conflict. The course will also look at the developing jurisprudence dealing specifically with accountability for sexual and gender-based violence from the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and the "hybrid" or internationalized courts, as well as the provisions specifically relating to such violence in the Rome Statute and the practice of the International Criminal Court in implementing these provisions. The course will end with a critical evaluation of the consequences, both intended and unintended, of the prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence by these courts and tribunals and of feminist interventions in international law more generally. Students will be expected to write a research paper on a topic related to the issues discussed in class and to lead a class discussion about their research. Students will be evaluated on the basis of their: participation in class discussion (including preparing short reflection memoranda); leading a class discussion on their paper topic; and writing a final 20-25 page paper. With permission, students can fulfill the upper level writing requirement by writing a 30-page paper.
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From rudimentary folk beginnings, string instruments of India have now reached the heights of concert glory, giving endless moments of ecstasy and delight to listeners. The strumming of a series of taut metallic strings is capable of creating an enthralling experience of vitality and emotion. As the player slides over the notes, the listener experiences moments of pure bliss. There is an entire tradition in Indian music where musical instruments of the stringed variety form a separate classification, termed as 'Tata Vadya' or the sound of the strings. These instruments are also termed as chordophonic, which means string sounds.
Kanwar Sain Trikha – Raga Bageshri :
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In the western world the Sitar is perhaps the most well known musical instrument of India. The Sitar is a plucked string instrument that uses sympathetic strings and a long hollow neck along with a gourd resonating chamber in order to produce a very rich musical sound along with a complex harmonic resonance. The Sitar is predominantly used in Hindustani classical music. This instrument is one that has been used all throughout the Indian sub continent, particularly in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. What's not known is its exact origin. The Sitar has been in existence for thousands of years in one form or another, but there are several theories as to who invented it.
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There is a common story attributing the invention of the Sitar to Amir Khusrau. Amir Khusrau was a great personality and is an icon for the early development of Hindustani classical music. He lived around 1300 AD. As common as this story is, it has no basis in historical fact. The Sitar was clearly nonexistent until the time of the collapse of the Mughal Empire. Most people agree that the modern Sitar first appeared in the 1700s at the end of the Mughal Empire.
Raga Bairagi at a Sitar shop in Paharganj, New Delhi :
Legendary musicians associated with the Sitar include Vilayat Khan, one of the most prominent Sitar players of the 20th century, and of course Ravi Shankar, who brought the Sitar to Woodstock.


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Sparks sign Ross to multi-year extension
Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Los Angeles Sparks have signed head coach Carol Ross to a multi-year contract extension after she led the team to back-to-back WNBA playoff appearances.
Terms of the deal, announced Thursday, were not disclosed.
Ross was hired in January 2012 and led the Sparks to consecutive 24-10 records in her first two seasons.
Sparks general manager Penny Toler called the 2012 WNBA Coach of the Year "a proven leader who knows what this team needs to win" and said bringing Ross back means the team is one step closer to winning a WNBA championship.
Ross said she was "excited to return and continue leading that drive to bring the WNBA trophy back to Los Angeles for the fans, organization and city."
This past season, the Sparks were knocked out of the playoffs by the Phoenix Mercury in the Western Conference semifinals.


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ED 410 Legal Rights and Services 2 cr.
- Offered: Winter even years
- Prerequisite: ED 360 and ED 400 or ED 407, junior standing or instructor's permission.
An introduction to the legal system, terms and definitions impacting special education. Abuse, negligence, discipline and confidentiality as well as exclusion and disclosure are studied. Federal and Michigan mandates that apply to special education are examined as they impact programs for students with special needs.


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Two updates to our Sony article "Sony's War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators". First, I sent George Hotz an email asking what he thought about the article and if he had anything to add, we also had a reader email that was pretty interesting.
Sony sued lik-sang out of business, for get this, helping them sell PSPs. Sony even accused me of "extortion" of a job from them. Yea right, like I want to wear a suit and be subordinate to people like Jack Tretton and Riley Russell. I just wanted to tinker a bit for the other side, maybe solve their problems. And I did this for free, I would've done that for free too, assuming Sony embraces homebrew and OtherOS, and does it to kill piracy and cheating. And what's hilarious, at least to me, is the number of people Sony has informed about the PS3 being irreparably hacked. Two things funny about that, it's not irreparably hacked at all, I know how to fix it. And they went from maybe a tenth of a percent of Sony's userbase knowing or caring about these hacks to 10% i.e. 100 times as many people aware they could jailbreak their PS3.
You can follow Sony's suing George "geohot" on his blog.
Next up, a maker writes in…
I read your article about Sony and am amazed that in all your research you didn't come across the most sinister aspects of Sony Corporation. Like the fact that the entire company was based on theft and stolen IP? I'm not just talking about how they initially got ahold of the transistor IP way back when to make their first radios, either.
If you did a little research, you would have turned up the disgusting story of the true origins of the "Walkman," which basically made Sony the monster company that it is today, was in fact blatantly stolen from a German inventor who had to fight them in court in order to get some kind of recompense for their outright theft. I believe it would have made your article a much more interesting and relevant read. Especially about how since 1977 they fought him in court to try to silence him and eventually had to pay him an "undisclosed sum" in order to stop the lawsuits.
I knew about this, but details are slim since it appears it was partly settled. Here's Ars Technica take from 2008.
Sony "committed acts of infringement by making, using, selling, and/or offering to sell products…including, but not limited to, various Sony Walkman models, Sony PlayStation Portable, and Sony Memory Stick Duo." The jury that decided the case agreed, and found that Sony's PSP, mylo Personal Communicator, and Network Walkmans all contain IP that infringes upon Ager's patent. Asked whether or not the jury had found "clear and convincing evidence that such infringement was willful," the jury answered "Yes."
The $18.5 million judgment against Sony is the barest slap on the wrist to a multibillion-dollar company, but it's a victory in principle and a demonstration of how the patent system is supposed to work. '730 describes the function of a particular type of system, the patent was granted in 1997, and the jury came away convinced that Sony didn't just infringe, but did so deliberately. The patent system was invented to protect small companies or individuals from predatory IP theft—it's nice to see it function correctly every once in awhile.
So, for the folks who thought an artist making an iPod case out of a 25 year old plastic Sony Walkman shell was "theft", this is a good read.


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Installation, Playtime and Final Thoughts
Installing the software is easy and then you can twiddle 'till your hearts content. The usual features are present allowing you to re-map all the buttons, adjust the DPI presets as well as adjusting the sensitivity all over the place.
On the mouse, you can switch DPI presets using the two buttons below the scroll wheel, making it nice and easy when you need the precision. The buttons are unobtrusive, too, and I found no risk of hitting them accidently while in game.
Firing up World of Warcraft to give this puppy a test run, it tracks nicely on a lot of surfaces thanks to its optical sensor and I had no problem using it on cloth, wood and frosted glass. The forward and back buttons on the side allow for some much needed extra buttonage in games like this as well.
This however brings me to the main problem I found with the mouse. The forward button located on the right hand side of the mouse is far too pronounced and far too easy to click, making it a problem if you need to pick up the mouse to re-locate it on your mousing surface of choice.
Everyone does this, whether you realise it or not. You will move your mouse to the right or left to the full extent of your wrist and pick up the mouse and set it back down so you can move it a little bit further. It's just a natural reaction from years of using crap mice.
The solution to this of course is to make sure the DPI is set right so that you don't have to do the lifting, but that doesn't take away the fact that the button is far too easy to click and sticks out too far from the side of the mouse, enough to get in the way.
But the poor button choice aside, this mouse has potential to be a true entrant for the gaming mouse series and with all the right features and performance. Not to mention, it has some awesome good looks! - I think we have a winner!
Did I mention it's an ambidextrous mouse, too? Good for righties and lefties which is a somewhat rare feature in the gaming mouse market. With manufacturers going crazy to slam in as many features as possible, they un-wittingly make the mouse biased to the right handers. By keeping it simple and functional like NZXT does here, they have a true all purpose gaming rodent.
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What is the vampire version of the hangover cure-all, Pedialyte? Because I will have five rounds and an enema of it. That is how ridiculously bloated and weak I feel after watching the plot binge that was last night's True Blood. Sure, it was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it. But today I'm dealing with a bucket of confusion, disgust and general drunk guilt. What was that?
It's True Blood Pro/Con time! Spoilers ahead...
Picking up RIGHT where it left off, which, is there any time that this show hasn't done this? I know there was the jump in the years when Sookie was in fairyland — but to be fair, her path was totally linear. Seems like every episode ends with a completely ludicrous cliffhanger that is swiftly rectified (remember when Sookie got shot)? This show is literally a night time soap opera. But that's okay, because it opens the doors to ludicrous cliffhangers which we don't have to put much weight in and can just enjoy (oh hey, that was Lilith's boobs... neat!).
Anyway, the show picks up in the hospital, where Luna's assassination has been thwarted by Samuel Sometimes-A-Dog.
Pro: Andy calls the nefarious nurse character (does he have a name? I don't know, character #505?) a butt plug. Good burn, Andy. *Makes the thumbs up winky sign*
Con: The attempt on her life leaves Luna in a fit of strange hyper cuts of emotion. And now she's Sam...
Why? No seriously, why? Because Luna wanted to get out of the hospital? Was that the real reason this show wanted to make two Sams today? Or did they just want the two Sams to kiss? The answer is: two-Sam kiss.
Pro: On the other hand, having a lady Sam means we get to see Lady Sam running around with his hands flipped out at his sides (as the ladies do).
Pro: Then they all try and make the elevator stop by jumping up and down all at once.
Con: And now, back to the stoned vampire blood binge. They're all so stoned. Do you not see how stoned they are? These vampires are stoned experts! Look art them staring vacantly at lights and draping beads over their faces and giggling, like stoners do. Because they're SO stoned!
Con: *SOB*
Pro: Thankfully this whole stoned improv group night was saved by one perfect Newlin gif.
Con: Now we cut back over Sookie's murder house! Sookie is trying to light-blast herself to normality. Can you imagine how good it would feel if this was the end of the fairy plots? Sookie blasts away her fairy powers, turns to her human golden retriever of a brother and says, "one down, five more to go. Let's go kill that guy from Felicity." That would be nice.
Pro: Also Jason sits down and has a heart-to-heart with Sookie, where he tells her not to "spray her fairy juice all over the yard" or something (ha!). However this is very weird, as he just SHOT SOMEONE IN THE HEAD.
Con: Jessica is "that girl" in the bar.
Pro: Backed to the stoned vampires, and they are STILL SO STONED. "God has the most beautiful tits I've ever seen!" Well, I'm glad someone said it.
Con: "Praise Moses' cock!" Wait, what?
Con: All of the stoned vampires then get the munchies. For babies.
Pro: Heeeeeeey *SPIT TAKE* Alcide's ASS!
Pro: Hey, Alcide humping. So much hey. And... and... is he growling? Is that's hot? No it's definitely hot, and totally not weird if you made a mental sex note to later ask someone to growl at you in bed.
Pro: Alcide asks this lady (character #515?) to be his girlfriend, and then they change their sex from growling to cuddling, because love.
Con: A very important scene? A very important scene.
Pro: Time for another Historical Vampire Flashback! This particular HVF reveals that Bill is kind of a dick. Mr. Compton stops by his daughter's deathbed to wish her a happy death. When she realizes that he is her father and hasn't aged in decades (because she's an intelligent human being and not a house plant) Bill says, "I've missed you, everah howrah of everah dah." She begs him to keep her alive, because she's dying. Bill says "LOL no," and makes this face. What did he think was going to happen? Jerk.
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Pro:Vampire wig's "Just shut up!" move.
Con:New story! Remember Hoyt and Jessica? Remember how their breakup twisted you up inside because for some reason this completely ostentatious series struck gold with this couple? Even when True Blood disintegrated these two down into an ugly pile of mud and tears, it was good — no, great. Jessica and Hoyt was the emotional wheelhouse for True Blood. I cried like I was 16-year-old on a clear plastic phone when Hoyt begged Jessica to just love him again. That's all gone now. Hoyt's new band of friends have kidnapped Jessica and brought her into a house for Hoyt to murder.
Con: But first they lock him in the room so he can do it Bond-villain-style, alone.
Pro: And now we're with Lafayette. I don't mind spending time with Lala. I was complaining a ton in the beginning of this episode that his character had been downgraded into some sort of gay reactionary. But this is much better. It probably didn't need to be cut into tiny bits and sprinkled over six episodes but at least Lala is receiving a moment of peace. It was nice to witness him get a quiet goodbye to the man he loved.
Pro: Back at the police station Sam has turned into a snake.
Con: My Roommate asks:
"So Meloni is dead?"
Pro: Totally called it!
Pro: The two Sams meet, and Andy speaks for us all in this moment, "I hate this god damn town."
Con: Fairies give a lectures about matter and fairy science. The fairy girls decide to hold Jason's hands in a totally normal way.
Con: Cowboy vampire. Yeah I think we're done here. I might have to just start ignoring both the fairies and the ifirt for a while, because this is taking away quality Eric Northman time.
Con: Meanwhile Hoyt has to wait and think, before he decides that he's not going to kill his ex-girlfriend. Jessica actually begs.This is unacceptable. If an ex-boyfriend had me against my will in a room while he was holding a gun, he would be in jail. Jessica even says, "Thank you." For what? For sparing her life. Fuck you, Hoyt. He actually points the gun at her head. This is wildly out of character. People whose hearts are broken do not get free passes to put loaded guns to their ex-girlfriend's heads. I loved Hoyt, and now I want to see him locked away forever. And before you you guys all get in a tizzy because Jason actually SHOT Jessica in the head last week, yes, they both need to go to jail too (not forever I didn't say prison I said jail because I'm fairly certain this would be written off as some sort of self defense action, whereas Hoyt's scene most certainly is not). But I'm more wildly pissed that the sad music and the dialogue and the copious Jessica apologizing seemed to excuse however many minutes Hoyt actually thought about maybe killing Jessica.
I want to forget this happened, forever.
Con: Luna smells what I'm going to assume is Dragon. A big woman. Oh ho ho ho, he smells Maxine Fortenberry! You guys completely predicted this, you're so smart!
Pro: "Hooker, I aint in the helping biz no mo. I'm in the fuck off while I smoke a blunt biz, and business is about to pick way the fuck up." Lafayette singlehandedly saves the show.
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Pro: An excellent Jason line, "I don't give a twirly fuck."
Pro: Because we've only been juggling 18 plots and True Blood is contractually obligated to write in 21 plots an episode, it's Tara time! On the positive side, Pam and Tara are now in the part of their Mother and Daughter relationship where they dress alike.
Con: The fairies have another meeting. Roommate speaks:
"Meloni is really dead, right?
"Huh... If I was on this show, I would just carry around a can of bear mace and spray people in the face when they said stuff like, Albert Einstein is a fae."
Con: Werewolf fight night is unbearable. "Shreveport pack, let's make some noise!" Or, hey all 17 people in this barn, make some noise! Werewolf fight night is horrible. Also, now they are killing other humans for sport? Alan Ball's perception of Louisiana is fucked.
Pro: Lala does her best Miss Cleo. It. Is. Fantastic.
Pro: I told you the whole point of this scene was purely to make two Sams kiss. Granted they didn't do it all the way, but still. This scene. Dear god, this scene.
Pro: An excellent Pam quip, "You don't know me that well. My mad face and my happy face are the same." Then Pam gives her a pet!
Con: Another vampire meeting. UGH. Are we going to spend 99% of a show about vampires in a board room? Bill comes up with an idea to bomb all the True Blood factories, to force all the mainstreamers to feed on humans. Great.
Pro: Russell and Steve are certainly getting along very well. That should make a TON of you happy! I hope they stretch it out a bit longer, but who are we kidding?
The end! So we're going to blow up the True Blood factories! Okay! Why not? Look, if we could just stick to one supernatural plot and ditch the werewolves, ifirts or fairies and shifter murdering pack, I would be really very happy. This is getting to be too much. Slow down — especially you, Alcide, but only when you're naked. This series was at its best when its biggest problem was Russell. Now there's just too many vampire plates spinning in the supernatural air. Fingers crossed for Russell eating all the wolves next week! But until then, may a cute, skinny white vampire ride your pony until you can't take it anymore.
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I posted my pop-up paper house on kickstarter, hoping to raise the money to buy a few tools so I could sell a few ready-made houses, rather than the templates which are now available on my website -- and to my surprise, it was an overnight success; I reached my modest goal in 24 hours! This opened a whole new world of possibilities, and now I'm trying to have the house mass produced as a pre-cut, pre-scored kit, so the crafting would be manageable for the many people in the world who do not own an exacto knife and for whom the word "scoring" evokes dating rather than paper.
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has selected five libraries and five museums to receive the 2012 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the nation's highest honor for museums and libraries for extraordinary civic, educational, economic, environmental, and social contributions. Recipients must demonstrate innovative approaches to public service and community outreach.
"Museums and libraries serve as community anchors and this year's winners – from urban North Miami to Naturita, Colorado, home to just 542 people – showcase the positive difference these institutions make for everyone. Innovative programs are teaching residents how to read late in life, inspiring children to dream, using technology to offer e-books on the go, and bridging cultural differences," said Susan Hildreth, director, Institute of Museum and Library Services. "This year's National Medal for Museum and Library Service recipients demonstrate the many ways libraries and museums build strong communities and provide opportunities for individual success."
The winners of the National Medal for Museum and Library Service are selected each year by the Director of IMLS, following an open nomination process and based on the recommendations of the National Museum and Library Services Board.
The award was created to celebrate the vital role museums and libraries play in American society and is awarded to institutions that have developed innovative ways to serve their communities. Recipients of the 2012 National Medal for Museum and Library Service are:
Bootheel Youth Museum, Malden, Mo.
Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, Calif.
Cumberland County Public Library, Fayetteville, N.C.
Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, Ill.
Long Island Children's Museum, Garden City, N.Y.
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Fla.
Naturita Community Library, Naturita, Colo.
Pacific Science Center, Seattle, Wash.
Park View High School Library Media Center, Sterling, Va.
Shaler North Hills Library, Glenshaw, Pa.
In addition to the National Medal, which will be awarded in a celebration in Washington, D.C. on November 14, each institution receives a visit from StoryCorps.
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Reality Check: Is VoIP Ready for Major Corporations?By Baselinemag Print
Internet Protocol telephone systems can save the cost of maintaining one network for phones and another for data. But keeping up the quality and making VoIP as reliable as plain old telephone systems takes a lot of work on its own. The toughest part might
Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based financial services firm, uses voice-over-IP technology in most of its international offices to save on long-distance charges to other Fidelity locations. To date, it's put IP-based phones on the desks of about 10% of its 30,000 employees.
Mike Brady, Fidelity's senior vice president of telecommunications, leads a team that runs the voice networks and ensures calls meets the company's quality standards. It's a tough job, not least of which is because he's usually thousands of miles away from the people who need his help.
But the trickiest part, Brady says, stems from the fact that data networks were not intended to carry voice. They're resilient for data: IP networks automatically reroute transmissions if one network segment fails. The trouble is, that trait can absolutely murder phone calls, because increasing the time it takes for the data that comprises a voice call to reach its destination—by even a quarter of a second—can turn a conversation into gibberish.
Traditional data network management tools can't always provide enough information to see glitches that affect voice. Using regular network monitoring systems, "we can understand delays between any two points in a network," Brady says. "But with voice-over-IP, that's no longer good enough."
Fidelity uses a technology called quality of service, which instructs a network to always send voice traffic ahead of other data, to minimize the chance of delays. But today such quality-of-service information doesn't carry over from one network to another (although newer technologies, such as Multiprotocol Label Switching, or MPLS, promise to do this once they're widely deployed).
Brady had to find a better way to crack this nut. So, for the past year, Fidelity has used monitoring equipment from Brix Networks, a small Boston-area firm, to catch degradation of IP phone service before complaints start trickling in. Brix' boxes place simulated voice calls every few minutes from various points on the network, and can detect when sound quality is going south. "Brix helps us find and fix the 'gray' failures," Brady says.
A cottage industry has sprung up around ensuring quality for voice-over-IP networks. Specialists attacking this problem include startups such as Brix, Qovia and Viola Networks; data network monitoring tools providers like Apparent Networks, Integrated Research and NetIQ also provide products for monitoring IP telephony. In addition, major vendors of IP phone equipment, including Avaya and Cisco Systems, sell voice-quality assurance tools along with their systems.
Such products are crucial for many organizations that have moved to IP telephony and that used to rely on third-party technicians, or a phone company, to manage their voice service.
"We are, in essence, our own telco now," says Norm Baxter, an information-technology project leader in the city of Mississauga in Ontario, Canada. The city two years ago replaced phone lines supplied by Bell Canada with a Cisco phone system. On the plus side, he notes: "We don't have to wait 48 hours for a response from Bell Canada to find out what's going on with the system."
Problems will, inevitably, arise. Normally, quality of service policies ensure that voice traffic gets through, regardless of what's happening on the rest of the network. But even with those best-laid plans, an IP telephony system can be affected by network anomalies, such as a malfunctioning network card or a virus that causes a PC to flood the network. "Some things just strain the network too much," says Matt Brunk, president of Telecomworx, a voice network consulting firm in Monrovia, Md., that uses Qovia's monitoring tools.
For Tennille Spence, information-technology business liaison with the General Services Administration regional office in Kansas City, Mo., managing the division's Cisco IP telephony system used to be a big hassle: She'd sometimes spend up to 16 hours per week hunting down the causes of problems with the phone system, involving service provider connections at the GSA's field office across town.
This summer, Spence deployed probes from Qovia that can place test calls and instantly analyze where there may be bottlenecks or errors along the path. She's also set up Qovia to send alerts to her BlackBerry mobile e-mail device if anything goes haywire after hours or on the weekend. "This really frees up my time," she says.
Of course, sometimes there's just no pleasing people. Many employees have a preconceived notion that any IP-based phone call will sound terrible, says Michael Burrell, senior manager for enterprise telephony at Equant, a provider of voice and data network services. He recalls telling an executive in the company's Paris office two years ago that her phone had switched to a voice-over-IP system. She refused to believe him—because she hadn't noticed a change in voice quality.
"A lot of it is perception," Burrell says. "If you tell people you're cutting over to IP telephony over the weekend, when you come in Monday morning you're going to have a lot more trouble tickets than if you hadn't announced it."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 95 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
VETBA (Veteran's Benefits Advocates)
We are a service company that helps veteran's receive their benefits. We consist of a consortium of marketers, lawyers and financial advisers.
Veterans who are seniors and their families. Our target demographic is age 45+. We also market our services to tier 1 public companies in the senior living arena nationally.
We need a logo designed to represent our company on all web, print and public facing materials. The logo needs to be patriotic themed, using colors similar to whitehouse.gov or similar color scheme. Use of flags, eagles, etc... would probably be appropriate, but we are not married to any ideas. Feel free to be creative. The Name on logo should represent VETBA and the spelled out version... Veteran's Benefits Advocates. VetBA with or without ,L.L.C. could also be used for the main name on the Logo.
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The new Toy Machine tour video Sucking the Life is defiantly out. It's absolutely amazing and is wooing fans across the globe. It's about time! Toy Machine is currently working on a full length in the meantime. Expected to be out by Christmas, maybe.
Toy Machine board construction has signed on to the New Wave program. The new method of board construction using longitudinal waves from nose to tail forming through out the layering of maple plies, giving it a stiffer, longer lasting and responsive snap.


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TheFunded.com is a community for CEOs from around the world to research, rate, and review their investors. We want to encourage the CEO members to contact the site advertisers.
The challenge is to create a memorable landing page template for site advertisers with a welcoming contact form, leveraging the branding of the current site. No HTML or CSS is required.
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Give yourself the opportunity to express your benefits, what you do best and why people should do business with you when the need arises. Do we know when potential customers need our products and/or services? By putting yourself in front of them on a regular basis it will help to ensure them to think of you first. Word of mouth advertising is the most effective and the least costly…but it is also the slowest way to grow your business.
The number of times you make an impression with potential customers, the better your opportunity is to get their business. Continuous repetition of your name tends to impress your name upon the subconscious memory of people. They store it away until such a time when the need arises. Short-term, "One-Shot" advertising efforts are not the most effective way to advertise. Brand Builders advertising is image advertising. In your business…image, trust and value are important for growth of your business both short term and long term.
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Brand Builders advertising affords you the opportunity to give people reasons to do business with you rather than your competition. If you could increase your branding over the next number of years you are in business, would business be better?
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The industry push for
value-based care calls for the perfect marriage of care quality improvement and
delivery cost containment, but many healthcare financial leaders and providers
are unsure of how to approach this balance. With the pressure to improve
clinical and financial performance, healthcare leaders need to optimize their
technology investments to meet the evolving expectations of both end users and
patients. The following five tactics establish better clinical-financial
alignment for a more efficient electronic health record (EHR) system.
Within a unified EHR system, end users
are not limited to clinical care providers. Front-end, business office, and revenue
cycle management staff also must interact with the system daily. When
incorporating end-user input into a system, healthcare leaders should obtain
feedback from both the clinical and financial teams by involving them in during
the development phase.
When customizing EHR functionality, consider
the end-user experience, knowledge-level, and technical savvy across all health
system facilities. Often when organizations plan system implementations, they
bounce ideas off subject matter experts. Although this select group is vital for
end-user adoption and training, their enthusiasm and adaptability may not
represent the broader user base. For example, a recent study by
MedStar Health found that placing an imaging order took users at one site an
average of 25 seconds but more than a minute at another site. Users at the
first site clicked eight times to complete the order, but it took users at the
other site 31 clicks. Of course, a limited user scope leads to repeated order
errors and wasted staff time. The study shows that vital cross-organizational
input is necessary in the vendor implementation development process and that
thorough user training must be consistently deployed and documented across all
To combat a costly knowledge gap
across a health system, early in the process assess the EHR end users' level of
comfort and performance across the entire organization to identify where
additional training is necessary. Do not assume, for example, that effective
performance by the flagship site's employees represents EHR-use aptitude for
the entire organization. Another benefit of conducting a user assessment is
determining that the workflows are efficient; over-customization of the EHR
system will hinder overall end-user efficiency.
Overburdened by competing tasks and
data entry, providers often forget to remind patients to access the portal for
information, communication, and bill payment. A promotional poster in the
waiting room is not enough. Staff should remind visiting patients at check-in
and departure to utilize portal access. Patients should be provided with their
private login credentials with short, clear, and digestible instructions. Consistent
portal access and automated outreach notifications help keep patients with
chronic conditions adherent to their care plans while saving staff time. For
collections, offer direct payment options through the portal to reduce business
office follow-up time and days in accounts receivable (A/R).
Simplified portal solutions and patient engagement leads to efficiency all around,
simplifying the care experience.
Whether transitioning to a new EHR
system or undergoing a merger and acquisition standardization, EHR data
conversion and integration is vital. Without up-to-date, timely, and complete patient
data in the updated system, clinical visit decision-making is hindered, impeding
patient safety and negatively impacting claims and cost containment.
To complete a successful and accurate data
conversion and promote patient safety as well as prevent claims and cost
containment issues, follow these steps:
Industry groups are working around the
clock to represent providers' best interests. For example, in coordination with
major EHR vendors and medical professional societies, the American Medical
Association is actively working on its Integrated Health Model Initiative
(IHMI) to help the industry better organize and capture the right data beyond
current standards. From patients' goals to health statuses, the updated,
holistic data capture is based on IHMI's clinically validated content, tools,
and guidance to support providers' meaningful outcomes analysis. Healthcare
financial leaders can join the project's current collaborative communities to voice
feedback for improving data processes. It's important for provider
organizations to actively engage in initiatives or professional groups such as the
College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and others, to
accurately represent provider pain points.
In the
competitive healthcare landscape, strategic utilization of an EHR and other
emerging technology systems is key. By implementing the five tactics, from pre-implementation
through post go live, healthcare financial leaders can enable streamlined clinical-financial
collaboration for a shared vision of health system success.
O'Connor is vice president of client relations for Stoltenberg
Inc., Bethel Park, Pa.
Publication Date: Monday, March 18, 2019
Patient financial engagement is more challenging than ever – and more critical. With patient responsibility as a percentage of revenue on the rise, providers have seen their billing-related costs and accounts receivable levels increase. If increasing collection yield and reducing costs are a priority for your organization, the metrics outlined in this presentation will provide the framework you need to understand what's working and what's not, in order to guide your overall patient financial engagement initiatives and optimize results.
No two patients are the same. Each has a very personal healthcare experience, and each has distinct financial needs and preferences that have an impact on how, when and if they chose to pay their healthcare bill. It's no longer effective to apply static billing techniques to solve the complex challenge of collecting balances from patients. The need to tailor financial conversations and payment options to individual needs and preferences is critical. This presentation provides 10 recommendations that will not only help you improve payment performance through a more tailored approach, but take control of rising collection costs.
This white paper, written by Apex Vice President of Solutions and Services, Carrie Romandine, discusses the importance of patient segmentation and messaging specifically related to the patient revenue cycle. Applying strategic messaging that is tailored to each patient type will not only better educate consumers on payment options specific to their billing needs, but it will maximize the amount collected before sending to collections. Further, targeted messaging should be applied across all points of patient interaction (i.e. point of service, customer service, patient statements) and analyzed regularly for maximized results.
This white paper, written by Apex President Patrick Maurer, discusses methods to increase patient adoption of online payments. Providers are now seeking ways to incrementally collect more payments due from patients as well as speeding up the rate of collections. This white paper shows why patient-centric approaches to online payment portals are important complements to traditional provider-centric approaches.
Increased electronic engagement between healthcare providers and patients provides significant opportunities for improving revenue cycle metrics and encouraging patients to access EHRs. This article, written by Apex Founder and CEO Brian Kueppers, explores a number of strategies to create synergy between patient billing, online payment portals and electronic health record (EHR) software to realize a high ROI in speed to payment, patient satisfaction and portal adoption for meaningful use.
Faced with a rising tide of bad debt, a large Southeastern healthcare system was seeing a sharp decline in net patient revenues. The need to improve collections was dire. By integrating critical tools and processes, the health system was able to increase online payments and improve its financial position. Taking a holistic approach increased overall collection yield by 10% while costs came down because the number of statements sent to patients fell by 10%, which equated to a $1.3M annualized improvement in patient cash over a six-month period. This case study explains how.
With the ICD10 deadline quickly approaching and daily responsibilities not slowing down, final preparations for October 1 require strategic prioritization and laser focus.
Read how Gwinnett Medical Center provides clear connections to financial information, offers multiple payment options for patients, and gives onsite staff the ability to collect payments at multiple points throughout the care process.
Read how Orlando Health was able to perform deeper dives into claims data to help the health system see claim rejections more quickly–even on the front end–and reduce A/R days.
To maintain fiscal fitness and boost patient satisfaction and loyalty, healthcare providers need visibility into when and how much they will be paid–by whom–and the ability to better navigate obstacles to payment. They need payment clarity. This whitepaper illuminates this concept that is winning fans at forward-thinking hospitals.
Financial services staff are always looking for ways to improve the verification, billing and collections processes, and Munson Healthcare is no different. Read about how they streamlined the billing process to produce cleaner bills on the front end and helped financial services staff collect more than $1 million in additional upfront annual revenue in one year.
Effective revenue cycle management can be a challenge for any hospital, but for smaller providers it is even tougher. Read how Wallace Thomson identified unreimbursed procedures, streamlined claims management, and improved its ability to determine charity eligibility.
Before launching an energy-efficiency initiative, it's important to build a solid business case and understand the funding options and potential incentives that are available. Healthcare leaders should consider taking the steps outlined in the whitepaper to ease the process of gaining approval, piloting, implementing, and supporting sustainability projects. You will find that investing in sustainability and energy efficiency helps hospitals add cash to their bottom line. Discover how hospitals and health systems have various options for funding energy-efficient and renewable-energy initiatives, depending on their current financial structure and strategy.
Health care is a dynamic mergers and acquisitions market with numerous hospitals and health systems contemplating or pursuing formal arrangements with other entities. These relationships often pose a strategic benefit, such as enhancing competencies across the continuum, facilitating economies of scale, or giving the participants a competitive advantage in a crowded market. Underpinning any profitable acquisition is a robust capital planning strategy that ensures an organization reserves sufficient funds and efficiently onboards partners that advance the enterprise mission and values.
The success of healthcare mergers, acquisitions, and other affiliations is predicated in part on available capital, and the need for and sources of funding are considerations present throughout the partnering process, from choosing a partner to evaluating an arrangement's capital needs to selecting an integration model to finding the right money source to finance the deal. This whitepaper offers several strategies that health system leaders have used to assess and manage capital needs for their growing networks.
Announcements from several commercial payers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) early in 2015 around increased efforts to form value-based contracts with providers seemed to point to an impending rise in risk-based contracting. Rather than wait for disruption from the outside in, health care providers are now making inroads on collaborating with payers on various risk-based contracting models to increase the value of health care from within.
Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) is a not-for-profit hospital serving a population of roughly 200,000 in Yuma and the surrounding communities.
Before becoming a ZirMed client, Yuma was attempting to manually monitor hundreds of thousands of charges which led to significant charge capture leakage. Learn how Yuma & ZirMed worked together to address underlying collections issues at the front end, thus increasing Yuma's overall bottom line.
Kindred Hospital Rehabilitation Services works with partners to audit the market and the facility's role in that market to identify opportunities for improvement. This approach leads to successes; Kindred's clinical rehab and management expertise complements our partners' strengths. Every facility and challenge is unique, and requires a full objective analysis.
As the critical link between patient care and reimbursement, health information enables more complete and accurate revenue capture. This 5-Minute White Paper Briefing shares how to achieve cost-effective revenue integrity by your optimizing HIM systems.
Speedier cash flow starts with better CDI and coding. This 5-Minute White Paper Briefing explains how providers can improve vital measures of technical and business performance to accelerate cash flow.
Qualified coders are getting harder to come by, and even the most seasoned professional can struggle with the complexity of ICD-10. This 5-Minute White Paper Briefing explains how partnerships can help improve coding and other key RCM operations potentially at a cost savings.
The point of managing your revenue cycle isn't just to improve revenue and cash flow. It's to do those things effectively by consistently following best practices— while spending as little time, money, and energy on them as possible.
How Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford increased payments received within 45 days by 20% and reduced paper submission claims by 70% by using ZirMed solutions.
The reasons claims are denied are so varied that managing denials can feel like chasing a thousand different tails. This situation is not surprising given that a hypothetical denial rate of just 5 percent translates to tens of thousands of denied claims per year for large hospitals—where real‐world denial rates often range from 12 to 22 percent. Read about how predictive modeling can detect meaningful correlations across claims denials data.
Emergency Mobile Health Care (EMHC) was founded to be and remains an exclusively locally owned and operated emergency medical service organization; today EMHC serves a population of more than a million people in and around Memphis, answering 75,000 calls each year.
Since the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) introduction, CMS has paid more than $100 million in bonus payments to participants. However, these bonuses ended in 2015; providers who successfully meet the reporting requirements in 2016 will avoid the 2% negative payment adjustment in 2018, so now is the time to act! Included in this whitepaper are implications of increasing patient responsibility, collections best practices, and collections and internal control solutions.
Getting paid what your physician deserves—that's the goal of every biller. Yet even for the best billers, achieving that success can be elusive when denials stand in the way of success, presenting challenges at every turn. Denials aren't going away, but you can learn techniques to manage and even prevent them.Join practice management expert Elizabeth W. Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC, to: Discover methods to translate denial data into business intelligence to improve your bottom line, determine staff productivity benchmarks for billers, and recognize common mistakes in denial management.
Physician practices must improve organizational efficiency to compete in this era of reduced reimbursement and escalating administrative costs.
Many healthcare organizations are pursuing next-generation health information systems solutions. Learn more about Navigant's work with University of Michigan Health System.
The proper implementation of healthcare information technology systems is crucial to an organization's financial health.
As value-based payment models evolve, providers are challenged to maintain superior clinical outcomes while controlling costs.
Read more about factors contributing to the changes in the post-acute marketplace and what it means for manufacturers, physicians, clinicians, patients, and post-acute facilities as they anticipate the transition to the second curve.
HSG helped the physicians and executives of St. Claire Regional in Morehead, Kentucky, define their shared vision for how the group would evolve over the next decade. As well as, develop the strategic and operational priorities which refocused and accelerated the group's evolution.
The client was a nine-hospital health system with 14 clinics serving communities in a multi-state market with very limited access to care, poor economic conditions, high unemployment, and a heavy Medicare/Medicaid/uninsured payer mix. In most of these communities, the system was the sole source of care.
Though the clinics were of substantial size (they employed 98 physicians) and comprised of multiple specialists, the physicians functioned as individuals and the practices lacked any real group culture.
Clinical integration can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be, as this four-step road map for developing a CIN proves. Does it have to cost millions to initiate a clinical integration strategy?
Contrary to popular belief, we have clients who have generated substantial shared savings and a significant ROI over time, without massive investments. Yes, some financial capital is required for resources the CIN providers can't bring to the table themselves. But the size of that investment can be miniscule relative to the value it produces: improved outcomes and documentation for payers.
Today's concerns about physician compensation are the result of the changing healthcare environment. The transition to value is slow, but finally becoming a reality. Proactive hospitals want to ensure that provider incentives are properly aligned with ever-increasing value-based demands.
This report focuses on the three big questions HSG receives about adding value to physician compensation; Why are organizations redesigning their provider compensation plans? What elements and parameters must be part of successful compensation plans? How are organizations implementing compensation changes?
Revenue Cycle Management has become an even more complex issue with declining reimbursements, implementation of Electronic Health Records, evolving local carrier determinations (LCD), and payer credentialing [The emphasis on healthcare fraud, abuse and compliance has increased the importance of accuracy of data reporting and claims filing).
The efficiency of a medical practice's billing operations has critical impact on the financial performance. In many cases, patient billings are the primary revenue source that pays staff salaries, provider compensation and overhead operating cost. Inefficiencies or inaccurate billing will contribute to operating losses.
This publication identifies and outlines the necessary characteristics of a fully-functioning clinically integrated network (CIN). What it doesn't do is detail how hospitals and providers can participate in the value-based care environment during the development process.
One common misconception is that the CIN can't do anything significant until it has obtained the FTC's "clinically integrated" stamp of approval. While the network must satisfy the FTC's definition of clinical integration before single signature contracting for FFS rates and contracts can legally start, hospitals and providers can enjoy three key benefits during the development process.
Nearly half of all Medicare beneficiaries treated in the hospital will need post-acute care services after discharge. For these patients, a stay in an inpatient rehabilitation facility, skilled nursing facility or other post-acute care setting comes between hospital and home.
With the proper process, tools, and feedback mechanisms in place, budgeting can be a valuable exercise for organizations while helping hold organizational leaders accountable. Having a proper monthly variance review process is one of the most critical factors in creating a more efficient and accurate budget. Monthly variance reporting puts parameters around what is to be expected during the upcoming budget entry process.
Managing the cost of patient care is the top strategic priority of most hospital CFOs today. As healthcare shifts to more data-driven decision making, having clear visibility into key volume, cost and profitability measures across clinical service lines is becoming increasingly important for both long-range and tactical planning activities. In turn, the cost accounting function in healthcare provider organizations is becoming an increasingly important and strategic function. This whitepaper includes five strategies for efficient and accurate cost accounting and service line analytics and keys to overcoming the associated challenges.


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Becker Barbecued Shrimp (Adapted from Joy of Cooking)
2 teaspoons dried rosemary
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
1 teaspoon salt
4 garlic cloves, minced
4 tablespoons butter
20 medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup amber ale
2 tablespoons minced parsley
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
In a spice grinder, add rosemary, oregano, red pepper, paprika, peppercorns and salt - grind until thoroughly mixed together.
In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in ground spice mixture and garlic - cook for 2 minutes, stirring often. Add shrimp - cook 3-5 minutes, turning once, until shrimp are almost cooked. Remove shrimp to a bowl and set aside.
Add chicken broth and beer to the pan juices - bring to a boil and cook for about 2 minutes over high heat. Remove from heat and add in shrimp, parsley and lemon juice to heat through.
Makes 2 servings.
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Becker Barbecued Shrimp
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- Anonymous1/01/2007 03:56:00 PM
This was sooo good! We had it as an appitizer for our New Years Eve dinner - a real hit. Thank you for the recipe & the reviewReplyDelete
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