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I like the look of the device. The kb is an addition/option, for those that prefer a kb. I know some that do. The colours are funky, for the launch impact.
The fact that it's Windows may mean it'll operate MS software tools, and that could be very good for corporate customers.
Microsoft's annoying introductions in advance of shipments can hurt it, imho. As was said, you see the new Mac at a launch and it's shipping a few weeks later. Not the same with the Microsoft Surface.


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Out of the entire FTSE 100, only two companies use responsive design. One of these is a Chilean mining company (Antofagasta), the other a UK based commercial property company (Land Securities Group).
Of the remaining 98 companies, 42 use dedicated mobile sites, while the other 56 do not provide a separate mobile experience from the desktop version of their site.
The Search Agency UK has revealed these results as part of its mobile experience scorecard, in which the mobile site performance of each of the FTSE 100 companies was evaluated.
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by Christopher Ratcliff 27 February 2014 14:52pm 5 comments
This five part series is designed for all those marketers around the world who are aspiring to lead a marketing function.
The objective of this series is to share insights, experiences and ideas for passionate marketers who want to grasp what it takes to be in charge of marketing, especially in these amazingly progressive times where marketing has attained a more strategic role.
The series could be seen to be oriented towards B2B, but many marketers see the lines with B2C blurring. So grab a coffee, put your feet up and read on.
by Andy McCartney 11 February 2014 11:30am 6 comments
We are regularly asked for more B2B examples of great marketing campaigns.
B2B is one of the categories in the annual Digitals awards handed out by Econsultancy. So, I thought I'd revisit the spring 2013 shortlist and pick out some B2B nominees that haven't made it on to the blog yet.
Here are three campaigns that are unique, for one reason or another. Perhaps a unique client, idea or business gain.
Let me know what you think, or leave your own examples in the comments.
by Ben Davis 29 January 2014 11:56am 2 comments
20 senior execs from a wide range of industries as diverse as broadcast television, pharmaceutical, publishing and financial services gathered in New York last November as Econsultancy hosted another Digital Transformation roundtable.
Ever since IBM's seminal 2011 study 'From Stretched to Strengthened – Insights from the Global Chief Marketing Officer Study', CMOs have been reporting a concern that they are underprepared for digital - shorthand for changes in consumer behavior, an explosion in the volume of data, the proliferation of channels and device choices and the effects of social media.
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It was suggested that those who might fall into that category are generally companies that dig things out of the ground and process them, but perhaps even they will see soon their industry disrupted by digital technologies.
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Each year I try to give my personal thoughts on what will be interesting and important in the world of digital marketing and ecommerce for the year ahead.
These are somewhere between trends and predictions. They are based largely on the many conversations I have with industry influencers and practitioners.
Following are just a selection of 10 trends that I've chosen to highlight. However, there is free report to download and share which is over 40 pages long and covers all of my trends and predictions for 2014 across the 10 core digital topics that Econsultancy cover.
by Ashley Friedlein 15 January 2014 14:03pm 23 comments
Site redesign is an inevitable, cyclical part of online business.
It can have thrilling pay offs, and sometimes it's just plain necessary.
It's certainly a high-pressure time if you're an SEO, as site redesigns pose risks as great as their rewards.
by Charity Stebbins 15 January 2014 11:49am 7 comments
The last decade has shown that few industries or entities are immune to disruption, or fully understand how best to grow as digital changes the playing field.
Threats to the status quo exist at every level of business, but marketing has evolved faster and more dramatically than other parts of the enterprise because it is outward facing, and has to interact with and understand customers on many levels.
This has led to an increasing capacity for flexibility within marketing, largely because it is the only part of the business in a position to respond to the vacuum created as the realities of selling in the digital age pull away from the outdated beliefs most companies have about their fundamental relationship with their customers and markets.
This is why 90% of companies responding to the new Econsultancy/Sparks Grove report, The Reinvention of B2B Marketing, believe that marketing can contribute more to their enterprise.
by David Moth 14 January 2014 16:19pm 0 comments
B2B marketing has long been under-represented, not to mention B2B ecommerce.
But with the entry of Amazon Supply and Google Shopping for Suppliers to the market, B2B ecommerce is quietly catching up.
So much so that forecasts suggest that the B2B ecommerce market will be double the size of B2C by 2013.
This is a real wake up call for B2B companies that have not considered selling their products online.
by David Bowen 10 January 2014 09:07am 1 comment
Monday next week I'm to appear on a webinar panel talking about journalist relationships. You can sign up for it here if you've always wondered whether I talk in dulcet tones or a high pitch falsetto.
The Econsultancy blog has featured much on blogger relations, this article from Henry Elliss provides a rather good list of outreach don'ts.
However I wanted to write a piece of my own, partly to draw attention to the upcoming webinar hosted by Vocus (let's not veil the truth) and partly to add an Econsultancy staff blogger's opinion to the debate.
So what are the best ways for PRs to engage with Econsultancy's writers? I'm going to start with some entertaining flippancy that nevertheless holds more than a grain of truth and then move on to some best practice for PRs.
A lot of these are dos and not don'ts, but to fit the commandment theme I've had to use a few double negatives. Forgive me.
by Ben Davis 09 January 2014 11:07am 8 comments
User-centred design (UCD) is widely regarded as the best way to design a great user experience (UX), with most UX professionals following the international standard ISO 9241 part 210.
As project leader for this standard, I realised that some of the principles which underlie UCD can be applied to whole organisations, so I am pleased to be project leader (with Tomas Berns from Sweden) for a new ISO standard which aims to make businesses as a whole more human centred.
To encourage interest in the new standard, we have drafted an executive summary which can be downloaded and freely distributed and would welcome input from Econsultancy readers.
This new standard aims to engage the 'hearts and minds' of executive board level people by explicitly presenting how eight main principles of UCD can apply to organisations.
In this post I look at these eight principles and link them back to user experience with examples (good or bad) on the web.
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Seems to me the Bears (minus their starting QB beat the Pack (minus their starting QB). Sounds like a level plaing field to me.
Aaron Rodgers' injury allows Josh McCown to lead Bears to crucial victory
With Monday night's game in the balance, the Chicago Bears embarked on a drive from their own 11 that ate up eight minutes and 58 seconds of the fourth-quarter clock, all but ending the Packers' hopes at a comeback win.
And yet, that grueling possession must have felt like little more than a blink of an eye for Packers' fans compared to the eternity they waited for Aaron Rodgers to reemerge from the locker room after leaving with a shoulder injury.
Rodgers eventually did make his way back to the Green Bay sideline — but did so in sweats, his night done. The Packers, minus their leader, still rallied from a pair of deficits. They could not do so a third time with Seneca Wallace at the helm though, falling 27-20 in a game that might have a lingering impact on a jumbled NFC North race.
"Aaron's a huge part of our offense," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "We've been at this thing for how many years? This is something that's been built over time with Aaron as the centerpiece. I don't think it's realistic to put anybody in there and think he's going to run [the offense] the way Aaron runs it."
The reports after the game on Rodgers' situation were murky at best. McCarthy merely described the issue as a "shoulder injury" and said that Rodgers will need more diagnostic tests.
BURKE: Aaron Rodgers injures left shoulder early in game against Bears
Rodgers lasted all of seven plays before Chicago's Shea McClellin (whose only other career solo sack was of Rodgers in Week 2 last season) buried the Green Bay quarterback on a 3rd-and-8, driving his left shoulder into the Lambeau Field grass. Rodgers then spent a few moments on the bench talking to the Packers' training staff before jogging to the locker room.
In his stead stepped Seneca Wallace, for his first meaningful regular-season appearance since New Year's Day 2012. Just like that, a crucial NFC North matchup was down to backup QB vs. backup QB, with Josh McCown filling in for an injured Jay Cutler on Chicago's end.
McCown, who attempted 20 passes in a relief appearance last week, hit 22-of-41 attempts Monday for 272 yards and two touchdowns. Wallace, suddenly pressed into duty, finished with just 114 yards on 11-of-19 passing. He also snuffed out a Green Bay drive with an interception and ended the game by taking back-to-back sacks.
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"I'm a fan, I'm a quarterback fan, so anytime you see a guy get hurt, there's something about it that hurts ya," McCown said of the Rodgers injury. "But you obviously understand the nature of the game and the impact that player has on the game. When he's not on the field, your odds of winning probably increase."
McCown's own play — and a gutsy call by first-year head coach Marc Trestman — contributed to Chicago's win, too. Trestman showed his trust in McCown early, calling passes on the Bears' first six snaps. McCown rewarded that confidence with a brilliant 23-yard TD to Brandon Marshall early and what proved to be the game-winning toss to Alshon Jeffery in the third quarter.
Despite those scoring plays from McCown, the Bears still found themselves clinging for dear life to a lead in the fourth quarter. Up 24-20, they appeared ready to punt the ball back to Green Bay with 7:50 left. Instead, on his own 32-yard-line, Trestman sent the offense back on the field.
The gamble paid off, as Matt Forte shook an A.J. Hawk tackle in the backfield and secured a first down. Chicago then ran off another seven minutes before Robbie Gould hit a chip-shot field goal.
McCown also converted a key 3rd-and-6 on that drive, hitting Marshall across the middle for 11 yards.
"This means so much to our team because it's a division opponent, it's for the division lead," McCown said. "So it's special, I'm very thankful."
The Bears' victory created a three-way tie in the NFC North, with Chicago, Detroit and Green Bay all sitting at 5-3. Trestman's club hosts the Lions next Sunday in another important contest. Green Bay, meanwhile, will welcome Philadelphia to town … but whether or not Rodgers takes the field is anyone's guess.
McCarthy, however, made it clear that if Rodgers has to sit, Plan B must be executed with far greater precision.
"Seneca needs to perform better, and hopefully he'll be able to do that with more practice," McCarthy said. "We need to do a better job in the passing game, third downs were something that held us back."
The Bears may sit on the opposite end of the spectrum. McCown was far from perfect in his first start since 2011, but he proved capable of moving the football. He may have to answer the call again in Week 10, if Cutler is not ready. (ESPN reported Monday night that Cutler is planning to play against Detroit.) But if this were McCown's lone start of the season, he did plenty to keep the Bears in the division race.
Can Wallace do the same if Rodgers' injury leaves him in the spotlight? The Packers would rather not find out.


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The Administration is right to be worried. The exchanges are faltering even before they're launched. Thirty-four states (two-thirds of the Union) have declined to set up a state-based ObamaCare exchange, and those few states that have agreed to do so are struggling to meet the October 1, 2013, deadline. Even California and Connecticut, which embraced ObamaCare early and worked diligently to set up their exchanges, are having difficulty meeting this deadline, despite having had four years' notice. The so-called "federal" exchanges (being set up by HHS in the resisting states) are rumored to be behind schedule as well. Many of the nation's largest health insurers, sensing the instability of the law, are refusing to participate in the exchanges. Who could blame them.
Congress holds the federal purse strings. Congress can and should defund this train wreck and start over with patient-centered reforms.
I urge you to contact your Members of Congress and urge them to support the Defund ObamaCare Act (S. 1292 and H.R. 2682) and to co-sponsor their respective chamber's bill if they have not already done so.
Matt Kibbe
President and CEO
President Obama continues to lose the youth's support-and fast. Just a few months ago, Harvard released a poll showing that 57% of Millennials disapproved of ObamaCare. That same poll showed that 54% of Americans from ages 18-29 disapproved of Obama, while only 41% approved. These statistics aren't all that surprising, as Obama has made things extremely hard for the average millennial in his first 5 years. Student loan debt, job availability, ObamaCare and the overall national debt have crippled America's youth.
Since that poll, things have only gone downhill. Last month, an official report showed that youth participation within ObamaCare enrollment had been extremely low. Experts have also predicted that Obama's national minimum wage increase hurts young workers.
If things couldn't get worse for President Obama, The Young America's Foundation (YAF) released a poll which reported the "Youth Misery Index" has increased 18.1% under Obama.
As a member of America's youth, I can stand with their report. The snowballing student debt and youth unemployment (which is at 16.3%) are constant stressors for America's youth, and it has gotten increasingly worse under Obama. My generation will also be forced to pay off our nation's massive debt, created by Obama's unwillingness to work with Republicans and the constant gridlock in Congress. In fact, each person in the U.S. would have to pay about $53,000 dollars to pay off the national debt. As for the student debt, it looks just as ugly. The "average graduating debt" is currently at $29,400. These numbers have dramatically increased since Obama took office, are at record highs and are only getting worse.
Obama's promises of "Hope and Change" as well as his constant assurances in 2008 and 2012 for employed youth and lesser debt have frustrated many. Despite the youth showing unwavering support for Obama in the past few elections, things should be different in 2014 and 2016.
President Obama continues to lose the youth's support-and fast. Just a few months ago, Harvard released a poll showing that 57% of Millennials disapproved of ObamaCare. That same poll showed that 54% of Americans from ages 18-29 disapproved of Obama, while only 41% approved. These statistics aren't all that surprising, as Obama has made things extremely hard for the average millennial in his first 5 years. Student loan debt, job availability, ObamaCare and the overall national debt have crippled America's youth.
For those of us who have been preaching Obamacare doom and gloom since long before it was THE LAW OF THE LAND, the temptation to take a good, long wallow in the Schadenfreude this week is overwhelming. Fittingly, the horrors of the not-so-Affordable Care Act are coming to light for some of its staunchest supporters during the Halloween season.
The once preternaturally in sync Obamacare advocacy media horde is in the midst of some family fighting, which was surprisingly kicked off when NBC News came home drunk and accidentally did some real reporting.
Prior to that, the NBC banner (NBC News, MSNBC and Saturday Night Live) was where Team Lightbringer went when it wanted to feel safe and be told that it was pretty. When the heretofore head cheerleader for Obamacare supported a major talking point for the opposition it created far more consternation than Ezra Klein's partial escape from the Hive Mind.
It's now getting so surreal that Mediaite's Tommy Christopher is railing against "the mainstream media".
Trained Soros chimp Eric Boehlert quickly climbed back up on Uncle George's lap and began tweeting his angst.
is it just me, or do @CBS and @CNN seemed to be locked into a competition to see who can produce most misleading Obamacare coverage?
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 30, 2013
Still, even among the law's staunchest fringe-left proponents, there are epiphanies to be found.
By now, it's becoming increasingly apparent that hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, with individual or self-employed health care plans could lose their current plans come January. Despite administration spin on this topic that the plans people may get will offer more benefits, greater protection and lower prices, the harsh reality is that both the prices and scope of the plans on the exchanges are coming as a shock to many forced to scramble for new plans on the balky, trouble-prone exchanges.
I'm one of them -- and in my advocacy journalism, I've been supportive of the Affordable Care Act and the Obama administration. So I was disturbed to learn that President Obama's repeated promises that I and millions of others took for granted -- "If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you" -- haven't turned out to be true.
From the same post:
Moreover, the administration and its progressive allies -- and I consider myself one -- aren't facing up to the PR disaster emerging from both the balky healthcare.gov website and how millions of people are facing cancelled coverage they now have. No matter how it's explained away or packaged, the prospect of dropped coverage impacting possibly millions of people simply doesn't square with repeated assurances from Obama and his allies that, essentially, no one would lose their current coverage.
This is a golden moment for the GOP to seize the advantage from the Obama Myth Machine. His "signature" achievement was sold with lies and there is video evidence of it all over the place. So much of it, in fact, that even left-leaning New York Magazine jumped on it.
That's right, pretty pictures tell the story. No need for wonkish analysis to prove we were right all along. All of the dire warnings and predictions about the law are out there for reference.
This is not the time for the Republicans to think they are above an in-their-faces "We told you so!" moment.
"They lied, we didn't."
It's that simple, kids.
The GOP establishment has a bad habit of being pitched hanging curves like this and responding by dropping the bat, turning to the fans behind home plate and explaining the science of hitting a baseball. They hope that the fans will eventually appreciate this knowledge and enjoy the lecture more than they would just seeing the ball crushed and knocked out of the park.
It is Home Run Derby time now. If the GOP doesn't start swinging freely it may very well end up losing even the casual political observers who have long supported it out of habit.
At which point Carville's "forty years" prediction will actually begin.
For those of us who have been preaching Obamacare doom and gloom since long before it was THE LAW OF THE LAND, the temptation to take a good, long wallow in the Schadenfreude this week is overwhelming. Fittingly, the horrors of the not-so-Affordable Care Act are coming to light for some of its staunchest supporters during the Halloween season.
Critics say FreedomWorks and other ObamaCare critics "spend all their time opposing the president's health care reform, but don't have any alternative, better ideas of their own."
Not true!
I've been in Washington health policy circles for two decades. During that time, I've seen grassroots conservatives and libertarians generally coalesce around a very robust set of health care reform principles and proposals.
Four years ago, I tried to compile a comprehensive list of them -- not just the most popular, but every idea, large and small. I stopped after finding more than 125 distinct ideas, certain I'd probably missed quite a few. Some of the ideas were better than others, but the sheer length of the list proved to me that conservatives and libertarians do in fact have their own alternative ideas for fixing health care. Some Republicans are too topdown for my tastes, favoring a "premium support," managed-competition approach like RomneyCare. But the majority of Republicans seem to be more favorable to bottom-up, consumer-driven, patient-centered approaches.
Patient-centered care means patients and doctors are in charge instead of politicians and bureaucrats (and that's regardless of whether the bureaucrats are public or private). It leaves people free to save for their own health care costs and pay their own way as much as possible. Ultimately, people paying directly for their own health care, rather than through third parties, is the only way to get costs down and more people covered without bureaucratic rationing.
For years, FreedomWorks has urged ObamaCare opponents in Congress to enunciate very clearly what they are "for." We've also advocated our own reform ideas. We've now pulled what we regard as the most important ideas into a single, easy-to-understand set of principles.
Here is what FreedomWorks is for:
A Health Care Contract with America
1) Allow everyone to maintain his current health insurance. No exceptions.
2) Treat everyone the same. No special treatment for Members of Congress, unions, businesses, etc.
3) Allow people to opt out of federal health insurance benefits, without penalty.
4) Allow people to own their own medical insurance and take it with them from job to job.
5) Allow all taxpayers to receive tax deductions for medical expenses, including personal Health Savings Accounts.
6) Allow insurance companies to compete across state lines.
7) Help people with pre-existing medical conditions, through significant transitional block grants to states rather than mandates.
8) Provide all citizens advance knowledge of their health care costs (excluding medical emergencies).
9) Provide reasonable maximums for "pain and suffering."
10) Avert Medicare's bankruptcy by providing fewer benefits to the wealthy.
11) Allow the elderly and all doctors the choice between private insurance and Medicare.
12) Eliminate first-dollar coverage. Everyone should have some skin in the game.
These twelve principles would inject much-needed "patient power," choice, and competition into the system.
In other words, people should be free.
I think this plan balances boldness with achievability.
It doesn't fundamentally change "safety net" programs like Medicare and Medicaid in such a way that the Left can easily mischaracterize the reforms as "harming" people. Instead, it plants seeds of freedom that, if allowed to thrive and grow, will produce improved conditions for reforming the "safety net" programs in the future.
If implemented, this "Health Care Contract" would lower health care costs and improve access to care -- and thus reduce the number of uninsured Americans -- by voluntary rather than coercive means.
We know this reform plan will work, because we know freedom works.
Dean Clancy, a former senior White House budget official, is FreedomWorks' VP for Public Policy and a specialist in US health care reform policy.
[UPDATE (10-24-2013): The original version of the "Contract" contained only ten planks. I've expanded it to twelve, in response to thoughtful reader input.]
[UPDATE (10-31-2013): I've just discovered there's another 'Health Care Contract with America" out there that's very similar to ours. It was issued last year by economist John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis, whom I've always admired. I am more than happy to give him full credit for coming up with the label "Health Care Contract with America." But it's too good for me not to keep using it!]
Suggested hashtag:
Announcing a Health Care Contract with America
Patient Centered Care: The Future Is Now
Critics say FreedomWorks and other ObamaCare critics "spend all their time opposing the president's health care reform, but don't have any alternative, better ideas of their own." Not true!
In the past few weeks, the debate over Obamacare has been dominating the news, and has become one of the most, if not the most heated topics in the nation. Debate will continue, especially as people try to shop for coverage during its rocky launch. But there is one thing that should need no more debate - Obamacare will hurt young people.
According to a recent article by US News, an average 27 year-old male will pay 235% more for health insurance under the "Affordable Care Act." Another recent study by the AAF (American Action Forum) shows the rate increases to be even more steep in some states. According to their study, the lowest cost option for an average, healthy, nonsmoker, would have them paying 265% more for health insurance in 2014 than 2013 nationally. In the state of Vermont, health insurance for young people would increase by 600% under Obamacare. Yes, you read that right. That is equivalent to $332 more per month than in 2013.
Do you know a recent college grad or newly married person who can afford those increases? Our nation's youth have already been pushed into an increasingly tougher job market, high student loan debt, all-time high tuition rates, and a horrible economy to clean up. This younger generation cannot afford to pay more for their health insurance as well. According to FloridaWatchdog.org, most young people would actually rather pay a penalty than be forced to sign up for ACA. That's right, pay a penalty for a product they cannot afford.
With the present crisis we are in, these new economic realities are another tough blow to millennials. As of July 2013, the youth unemployment rate was at 16.3% nationally, an astronomical number. Our government needs people working too, because they need their tax revenue. Right now, if every US citizen paid $53,000 toward our national debt it would barely cover it. Of course, that number continues to climb every second as our national debt inches toward $17 trillion.
President Obama, does it seem likely that today's youth can afford to pay up to 600% more for their health insurance?
People who live in reality know the answer to that question, but for some reason President Obama just doesn't get it. The millennials helped elect him in 2008 and 2012, but now they could be paying a huge price for that support.
Obamacare has already cost many employees their full-time positions as employers scramble to cut costs and hours and still provide the mandated coverage. The impact on families is showing in the recent polls. Public dissaproval of the law currently sits 10.3% higher than approval.
As we continue to find out the true costs of this law and the impact it will have on all generations, one thing is for certain: the youth need to engage and let their politicians know that ObamaCare is destroying their future. We have to let them know that we want real solutions to help fix our health care system. This generation cannot afford more entitlement programs that we'll be funding for older Americans. Enough is enough.
In the past few weeks, the debate over Obamacare has been dominating the news, and has become one of the most, if not the most heated topics in the nation. Debate will continue, especially as people try to shop for coverage during its rocky launch. But there is one thing that should need no more debate - Obamacare will hurt young people.
Capitol Hill Update, 30 September, 2013
House/Senate Schedule: Both chambers of Congress are currently in town and are scheduled to remain so until the week of October 14th.
Legislative Highlight of the Week: Predictably, the highlight this week is the Continuing Resolution (H.J. Res. 59) to fund the federal government. Currently, the federal government is funded until 11:59 on September 30th, after which any federal employees and agencies not designated as "essential" would be furloughed until Congress authorizes funding for their return. However, such a large portion of the federal government is designated as essential that a "shutdown" doesn't really shut down much.
Despite the fact that the House has sent, as of this writing, three separate CR proposals to the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid has rejected all of them out of hand, refusing to so much as debate the latter two proposals. Reid and President Obama have made very clear that they would rather have a government "shutdown" than negotiate, and if they insist on being absolutely inflexible, Republicans should call their bluff.
Given that ObamaCare's exchanges are set to start enrollment on October 1st, despite the fact that it is being only selectively enforced (big business and Congress get a pass, among others), it is crucial that Congress stop the law's implementation for at least a year in the interest of fairness, if nothing else.
**UPDATE** Late Monday night, the House proposed to go to conference, where both chambers would go behind closed doors and hash out a compromise on the House and Senate CRs. This is a normal part of how laws were once made, but the Senate once again chose to table the House's proposal, confirming that they are unwilling to negotiate at all. Given the administration's absolute intransigence, this could be a while.
House/Financial Services: If Congress is able to deal with the CR swiftly, there are two other bills related to financial services which may recieve votes in the next few days. These two bills are:
Capitol Hill Update, 30 September, 2013House/Senate Schedule: Both chambers of Congress are currently in town and are scheduled to remain so until the week of October 14th.
Did House Republicans thank him? Not exactly. In a conference call with bloggers earlier today, House Republican Conference members Sean Duffy, Tom Reed and Rodney Davis 'acknowledged defeat' in the effort to defund Obamacare instead setting their sights on an effort to delay the implementation of Obamacare, an effort championed by House Republican Conference chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rogers.
Suggestions included a one year delay of the individual mandate and allowing states to claim temporary exemptions from Obamacare. Congressman Davis expressed a frustration about the inability to return to regular constitutional order so as to implement true spending cuts. Another idea that was floated included tying the implementation of Obamacare to such a return so that the implementation of Obamacare would be temporarily delayed for the length of the term of each continuing resolution. Other ideas included a so-called 'Fair CR' eliminating special exemptions and subsidies for Members of Congress and others.
Earlier in the week on the Laura Ingraham radio show, Congressman Duffy remarked "Thank God he [Cruz] wasn't fighting at the Alamo!" suggesting that Cruz's calls to filibuster the House continuing resolution in order to prevent Harry Reid from stripping language to defund Obamacare amounted to 'surrender.' What Congressman Duffy failed to appreciate is that Senator Cruz's filibuster effort helped refocus the nation's attention on many of the ills of Obamacare including the devastating effect it is having on employment. Senators Cruz and Lee never guaranteed that their strategy would cause the demagogue that is President Obama to suddenly wake up and suggest that these guys have a valid point. Rather, as successful experience litigators, both knew that if Republicans stood united with the base of their party and did not repeat the mistake of past budget battles of negotiating with themselves in public, they would be able to force President Obama and Congressional Democrats to the negotiating table and advance the cause of delaying, defunding and dismantling Obamacare, a cause the every Republican member of Congress claims to support.
Congressman Duffy seemed to express a frustration that the idea of tying the defunding of Obamacare to the passage of a continuing resolution seemed to be sprung on the House of Representatives at the last minute. What this demonstrates is that Senators Cruz and Lee are correct. Congress is not listening to the American people. How else to explain the nearly two million signatures on the national petition to defund Obamacare in less than two months. http://dontfundit.com. If Republican Congressman and Senators want to repeat their 2010 electoral success in 2014, they would do well to pay attention to events of the past two months and tailor their agenda accordingly.
Did House Republicans thank him? Not exactly. In a conference call with bloggers earlier today, House Republican Conference members Sean Duffy, Tom Reed and Rodney Davis 'acknowledged defeat' in the effort to defund Obamacare instead setting their sights on an effort to delay the implementation of Obamacare, an effort championed by House Republican Conference chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rogers.
As Dan Perrin of the HSA Coalition says,
The subsidies are not heroin-like. For the healthy, the subsidies are more like nails on a chalk board, itching powder, or a month-by-month financial pain inflicting mandate forcing millions of Americans to buy a product they have already decided not to buy, or in other cases, forcing Americans to buy a more expensive version of something they already have, building resentment and anger over time, among both those who choose not to comply, and among those who choose to comply
Health insurance, like all insurance, is a substitute for wealth. People and companies who have enough money to fund their health care needs can simply pay cash and be "self-insured." By paying for health insurance, we simulate this ability.
But health insurance has two major malfunctions: it siphons off money to dedicate to a particular budget category, and it returns less to us, over time, than we put in. We lose not only the use of our money, but the time value of it -- the compound interest. Rather than getting investment return on our savings, we fund the profits of an insurance company.
Obamacare makes this even worse by mandating that we are covered for things we can't possibly need. That raises the price of the insurance even more.
Obamacare admits the inefficiency of insurance, by mandating that insurance companies spend 80% of our premiums on health care-related payouts, rather than on overhead and profit. But that means 20% of our health insurance premiums are simply wasted, as far as we are concerned.
Suppose I offered you an investment: For every $100 you invest, you can have $80 back, but only if you spend it on medical care, and only if you spend it with the limited number of doctors and hospitals I give you. That isn't $180, but $80. You would lose money.
Rather, people struggling to make ends meet need to save their money, first to have a cushion, so bills aren't always paid late. Over 25% of all Americans don't have that, and 74% have less than 6 months of savings. People need to save for car repairs, for other monthly emergencies (such as minor medical expenses), or for a down payment on a car or home of their own.
I'd rather be wrong about Obamacare. I'd rather the exchanges increase competition, driving down costs for health insurance while everyone gets health care for themselves, their many healthy self-actualized children, and their family unicorns.
But for every "Judy from Southern Illinois" that Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) brags will be able to go on the dehumanizing Medicaid, there will be two Joes from Northern Illinois who will be ordered to pay $100/month to get, on average, $80 worth of care. Not Judy nor either of the Joes will actually be helped in any way other than the warm feeling of having taken part in a leftist Senator's talking point.
In the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger suggests that we stand aside and let Obamacare collapse:
Republicans and conservatives, instead of tilting at the defunding windmill, should be working now to present the American people with the policy ideas that will emerge inevitably when ObamaCare's declines. The system of private insurance exchanges being adopted by the likes of Walgreens suggests a parallel alternative to ObamaCare may be happening already.
However, we must continue to fight tooth and nail over this, and not allow the idea that we should let Americans "get what they deserve" to take hold.
Opponents of Obamacare have seen this coming. We are risking everything to defeat it, not because we thought it would work, but because we know it won't.
Many have said that once Obamacare gets rolling and the subsidies start flowing that repealing the law will be impossible. In fact, that's become conventional wisdom.
Last week, Republicans in the House of Representatives, under great pressure from their constituents, came together and passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government, but which disallowed any funding for ObamaCare. This afternoon, Republicans the U.S. Senate betrayed their House colleagues and their constituents by voting to send the CR back the House with funding for ObamaCare.
The critical vote today was a procedural vote - on cloture - to end debate and proceed to votes on amendments and passage of the bill. Ending debate requires 60 votes, meaning that the 46 Republicans in the Senate have the numbers to put a stop to a bill if they so choose. After cloture, the remaining votes, including passage of the bill, require only 50 votes to pass, meaning that the Senate Democrats can pass what they wish without Republican input.
As Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz have been reminding their colleagues, a 'yes' on cloture is a vote to fund ObamaCare.
The following 25 Republicans stood shoulder to shoulder with Senator Harry Reid and President Obama to fund ObamaCare:
Johnson (WI)
Meanwhile, the 19 heroes who stood with Senators Cruz and Lee to defund ObamaCare are:
Two Republican senators did not vote:
Because of the remarkable opportunity presented by the cloture vote today, and thus the magnitude of the failure of these Senate Republicans, FreedomWorks is double-weighting the score of this vote on our online Congressional Scorecard.
Last week, Republicans in the House of Representatives, under great pressure from their constituents, came together and passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government, but which disallowed any funding for ObamaCare. This afternoon, Republicans the U.S. Senate betrayed their House colleagues and their constituents by voting to send the CR back the House with funding for ObamaCare.
In a follow-up conference call earlier today, Senator Ted Cruz reminded bloggers and reporters that the fight to defund Obamacare has always been a multistage process. Stage one began in July and August, energizing and mobilizing the grassroots conservative base. Stage two happened when the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the continuing resolution funding the government but defunding Obamacare. Stage three requires uniting senate Republicans before beginning to pick off red state Democrats.
Senator Cruz reminded everyone that there are seven states that Mitt Romney won which are represented by Democrat senators, six of which Barack Obama failed to win 42% of the vote. A Democrat senator from one such state, West Virginia, just announced his support for a delay in the implementation of the individual mandate.
Senator Cruz suggested that there has been "material progress" focusing the nation's attention on the nightmare that is Obamacare. He suggested that an unfortunate aspect of the political coverage is that those who want to continue to fund Obamacare are distracting people by focusing their attention on the political personalities. Senator Cruz believes that the success of his filibuster was to remind people of the substantive issues surrounding Obamacare, such as how many people across the country are losing their jobs or having full-time hours reduced to part-time, and how many people are losing health insurance coverage or having their premiums skyrocket.
Senator Cruz reminded people that the vote to defund Obamacare is a "show vote." The substantive vote will be the vote for cloture on Friday concerning whether to allow Harry Reid the opportunity to strip the defunding language out of the continuing resolution. While Senator Cruz acknowledged that senators are entitled to disagree as to the better tactical approach to defunding Obamacare, he admonished those senators to be honest with their constituents and admit that their tactical disagreement includes allowing Harry Reid to fully fund Obamacare.
Senator Cruz suggested that GOP got clobbered in three of the last four federal election cycles, 2006, 2008 and 2012, primarily because the conservative base of the party was not energized. He suggested that the success of the 2010 election cycle was due in large part to the energy of grassroots, fighting against the recent passage of Obamacare.
Senator Cruz concluded by reminding activists that if DC politicians listen to their constituents, we can win the Obamacare fight!
Activists should continue to call their Congressmen and Senators, 202-224-3121, convince their friends to join the nearly two million Americans who have signed the national petition to defund Obamacare, http://dontfundit.com, and tweet their thoughts using the hashtag #MakeDCListen.
In a follow-up conference call earlier today, Senator Ted Cruz reminded bloggers and reporters that the fight to defund Obamacare has always been a multistage process. Stage one began in July and August, energizing and mobilizing the grassroots conservative base. Stage two happened when the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the continuing resolution funding the government but defunding Obamacare. Stage three requires uniting senate Republicans before beginning to pick off red state Democrats.
A friend visited the emergency room recently to treat a severe infection in his leg. His doctor was unavailable so he was advised to go the local emergency room to receive treatment. After waiting the requisite several hours, my friend was visited by a nurse who, upon looking at his electronic medical chart, asked about a prescription for eye drops that had been filled at a pharmacy outside the hospital earlier in the day. What makes this story interesting is that the prescribing physician was located in another state and unaffiliated with the treating hospital. My friend soon discovered that this nurse knew every prescription that my friend had filled whether from a local or online pharmacy including those prescribed by doctors located in other states not affiliated with the network of local doctors and hospitals. Welcome to Obamacare!
For those of you who are outraged that the NSA is creating digital dossiers on law abiding American citizens, this is exactly what Obamacare and electronic medical records are doing TODAY! According to the Department of Health and Human Services, mosts doctors offices and 80% of hospitals will employ electronic medical records by the end of the year. That is not surprising since they have received billions of dollars in incentive payments to deploy such systems. Despite the claimed benefits, in the age of Wikileaks, does the government need access to our most personal medical information in order for our health system to operate efficiently? Former CIA director David Petraeus resigned from office to avoid the threat of blackmail should an enemy possess compromising information about a personal relationship. Don't such all encompassing record keeping systems invite similar potential for abuse if Senator X will do anything to keep information about a psychological disorder or other diseases confidential?
With the debate over defunding Obamacare in full bore, one wonders why it is so difficult for Republican senators and congressmen to explain the ills of Obamacare and the virtues of defunding it, especially since all claim to support the effort. After all, every GOP congressman save one voted to defund Obamacare last week. All GOP congressmen profess pride in their forty or so votes to repeal the law. Byron York reminds readers that twenty GOP senators co-sponsored an amendment that all GOP senators supported to defund Obamacare earlier this year. Yet, you do not hear a peep in opposition when it comes to discussing the dangers of continuing to fund the implementation of electronic medical records, or the potential for abuse inherent in giving community activists loyal to President Obama access to a federal data hub replete with your confidential financial information without subjecting these individuals to a criminal background check.
President Obama is fond of characterizing the GOP as the party of 'No Thank You.' Yet, when Congressman Peter King goes on CNN proclaiming hope that the defund effort fails in the U.S. Senate after voting to defund Obamacare himself only hours earlier, and anonymous GOP operatives send opposition research to Chris Wallace in advance of an interview with Senator Ted Cruz, can the GOP properly be characterized as doing everything possible to delay, defund and dismantle Obamacare?
The principle argument against defunding Obamacare seems to be a worry that President Obama will use the occasion to shut down the government blaming Republicans in the process. However, by capitulating to political pressure from President Obama, Republicans demonstrate that they are putting their perceived personal political interests ahead of the interests of the citizens they ostensibly represent. Record numbers of Americans rose up in 2010 to hand Republicans a landslide victory in the House of Representatives, principally in reaction to the passage of Obamacare. Many of those same voters stayed home two years later, largely because the nomination of Mitt Romney as the GOP presidential candidate, the only Republican to implement a health plan similar to Obamacare while governor, did not inspire a belief in voters that Republicans had the appetite to fully repeal Obamacare.
Republicans point to the last government shutdown as evidence that politics are against them. Yet, the former GOP House whip at the time, Tom DeLay, reminded listeners to the Mark Levin radio show that the opposite was true. In fact, DeLay argues that fighting Obamacare makes good political sense because most Americans oppose its implementation. Recent polls suggest most Americans do not understand Obamacare and precious few believe it will have a positive impact on their family.
The last point is not surprising since Obamacare is having a devastating effect on employment in America. Despite protestations from the White House, the Obamacare employer mandate is cannibalizing full-time employment resulting in record levels of part-time employment. The official unemployment rate has never dipped below 7.5% since Barack Obama took office in 2009, the longest stretch since 1948. The employment participation rate is at its lowest rate in decades and black unemployment is at a high of 13% under our first black president, far exceeding the rate under his white predecessors.
Every day, the news is replete with stories about how Obamacare is negatively impacting employment and health insurance coverage in America, the very problem it is ostensibly designed to fix. In the past week, IBM announced that it is shifting 100,000 retirees from private health insurance coverage to government health insurance exchanges. Walgreens announced that it is doing the same for over 100,000 current employees. Home Depot announced that it is dropping health insurance coverage for 20,000 part-time employees.
Even some of President Obama's loudest union cheerleaders are fretting the implementation of Obamacare. 40,000 longshoremen quit the AFL-CIO recently over their support of Obamacare. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, one of President Obama's loudest supporters, was forced to admit that Obamacare is having a negative impact on employment.
Hospitals across the country are laying off people as well, just as more and more Americans are qualifying for free health insurance. The world famous Cleveland Clinic and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee are laying off thousands in preparation for the implementation of Obamacare. Not only do these hospitals suffer from the pressures of other large businesses, but they are being squeezed by nearly one trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare under Obamacare.
Investors Business Daily is running a tally of over 300 large businesses, public and private, that have reduced employment or employee hours as a result of Obamacare. This helps explain why nearly two million Americans have signed a national petition to defund Obamacare at http://www.dontfundit.com/. Ironically, the petition passed the one million signature threshold on Labor Day earlier this month.
That is why Senator Ted Cruz has suggested it is time for the GOP to unite around the idea of defunding Obamacare. If ever there were an issue around which Americans are tired of playing partisan political games, this is it! Americans do not respect politicians who exempt themselves from the laws they pass. They are not prepared to stand for another 'read my lips' moment from the GOP.
Americans do not want a health insurance plan that The New York Times admits restricts their choice of doctors and hospitals. That is not what President Obama promised in 2009. Obamacare is causing premiums to skyrocket despite promises that they would fall. In fact, there is evidence Obamacare likely will cause cancer patients to die unnecessarily. This will happen while Obamacare pays subsidies to guest workers and foreign students and makes foreigners cheaper to hire than American citizens.
Republicans need to stand united in opposition to Obamacare as they did when the law was passed. Only by standing united and learning from mistakes in prior budget battles by not negotiating with themselves in public will Republicans force President Obama and Congressional Democrats to the negotiating table. Might there be a protracted battle where Republicans do not get everything they seek, sure. They will not get anywhere, however, unless they stand united in opposition and continue to make the case to the American people.
There is an old parable about two men fighting over a chicken bound at its feet. Both men claim ownership of the chicken and ask a rabbi to resolve their dispute. The rabbi suggests that the men untie the chicken's feet and watch the chicken run to its rightful owner. The Republican Party needs to stand united, unbind the American people from the shackles of Obamacare and see which way we run. If they do, I have no doubt they will reap rewards in 2014 and beyond.
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When I told my friend about my weekend, she flatly informed me with thinly-veiled horror that it was "bizarre." I'm on the fence about the term. You, gentle reader, can be the judge. Let's pretend the weekend started on Wednesday where I was eagerly awaiting a performance by Kid Cudi at Left Village bar Le Royale. The whole hourly-motel air makes my head hurt (where do establishments still get mirrored walls after 1978?). Anyway, I was excited to see Kid Cudi hit the stage because his MySpace page be poppin' with his spacey brew of intergalactic hoodness. But live...wow. He rocked the crowd with all the vibrancy of a Saltine. His stage presence was desperate and inelegant. Overall, crappy. There was a lot of shouting out "peoples" that helped him through the struggle. Once again, desperate. The anti-climactic set wrapped up at midnight as the crowd unceremoniously filed out into the stinging cold.
The bizarreness really cropped up Thursday evening when I saw author and Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis interview Mos Def at the 92nd Street Y. Mos ruminated on everything from his childhood ("too much basketball" nurtured his interest in acting) to his reservations about the good life (using the complimentary Bentley shuttle at a snooty hotel was a trifle much). He spoke with candid wit, dazzling the crowd with low-key astuteness and even previewing a freshly recorded track from his upcoming album, The Ecstatic. However, the question and answer period devolved into bedlam as the restless crowd began to claw at lofty echelons of inappropriateness. Shouts of "next question!!" rang out as an older woman told Mos his music had changed her son's life. A fan behind me kept screeching "Mos!!" arbitrarily (or perhaps for the optimal annoyance factor) in my ear. Brassy women began loudly interrupting each other, vying recklessly for Mos' attention. There was a bit of a "WTF" factor watching grown people ready to wrassle each other for some eye contact with Mos Def.
Friday night, I hit one of my favorite bizarro events, Flavorpill's One Step Beyond jump-off featuring DJ Jazzy Jeff at the Natural History Museum (Rockin' next to rock formations just never loses it's heady "where-the-eff-am-I" appeal). This time, instead of the usual infestation of downtowners it was very grown n' sexy: lots of wizened uptown cats and fly broads who bought "Summertime" on vinyl. The vibe was much more "family cookout" than "tight pants competition." Jazzy played it safe but his comfort hits straddled a gang of genres. There was Crystal Waters' never-say-die dance jam, "Gypsy Woman," Mims' mind-numbing ode to braggadocio, "This Is Why I'm Hot," and Dee-Lite's sunny heart-pumper, "Groove Is In The Heart." The brazenly cool, Retro Kids made an appearance, bedecked in parachute pants, split-level fades and jocular dance moves that made the early '90s the hotness. Between the Kids, Jazzy and the tunes, it was like 1992 came back for a quick spin around the planetarium. I was entertained.
The actual weekend was a furious blur of hookah smoke, karaoke, Sparks and disco as my posse and I decamped to this loopy loft party in the Brooklyn. One minute I was chatting up locals in a plastic spaceship, the next precariously creeping down an iron ladder in my pin-thin stilettos and later screeching on stage to an oddly captive audience with my boozy pals. When we finally stumbled out of the rabbit-hole into the pale dawn sunlight, we cabbed it to my friend's Midtown hotel and ordered $17 fried chicken. However, I wasn't licked yet and spent Sunday afternoon with my artist friend, Alexis Peskine in Hoboken, NJ (aka Stepford. I mean, is that place serious?) who asked me to pose for a painting. It was slightly disorienting to discuss the tension in the "subject's" face when the image was my own surly mug.
Since I went this far without sleep I decided to keep the party going by hitting up the 718 Sessions with Danny Krivit. If anyone is deserving of a loyal groupiedom it is Krivit. He spun my brains into jelly with tons of extended mixes of plucky disco and early '90s Euro-house. As I bounced to the beat, I felt like I was in the New York you see in movies. Lots of dark corners, never-ending vocal house and people having moments on the dance floor. This wasn't a pageant where everyone is casing each other but a party where people swayed to the music with their eyes shut. Bizarre must be another word for "damn good time."


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Effects of Different Assisted Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ALI/ARDS) Patients: Pressure Support Ventilation (PSV), Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) and Controlled by Patient
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The investigators' aim is to study the effect of pressure support ventilation versus neurally adjusted assist (NAVA) and controlled by patient in mechanically ventilated ALI/ARDS subjects.
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ALI/ARDS Patients |
Procedure: PSV Procedure: NAVA Procedure: patient-controlled |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Effects of Different Assisted Mechanical Ventilation in ALI/ARDS Patients: PSV, NAVA and Controlled by Patient |
Resource links provided by NLM:
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Respiratory mechanics work of breathing,end expiratory lung volume, gas exchange, dead space, patient's comfort level [ Time Frame: 30 minutes ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 15 |
Study Start Date: | August 2013 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | November 2014 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | November 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: 1
ALI/ARDS patients evaluated the effect of PSV, NAVA and assisted controlled mechanical ventilation by patient through a button |
Procedure: PSV
Pressure Support Ventilation
Procedure: NAVA
Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist
Procedure: patient-controlled
assisted controlled MV through a button
Detailed Description:
In this study, PSV is compared with NAVA and assisted mechanically ventilation controlled by patient through a button. Inclusion criteria are: assisted mechanically ventilated ALI/ARDS patients.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- ALI/ARDS patients
Exclusion Criteria:
- Haemodynamic instability
- Barotrauma
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00576771
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Principal Investigator: | Davide Chiumello, MD | Policlinico Hospital |
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Responsible Party: | Davide Chiumello, MD, Policlinico Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00576771 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 222222 |
Study First Received: | December 18, 2007 |
Last Updated: | May 15, 2013 |
Health Authority: | Italy: Ministry of Health |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult Acute Lung Injury Lung Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases |
Respiration Disorders Infant, Premature, Diseases Infant, Newborn, Diseases Lung Injury |
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Here's a really interesting article about how the Superbowl used Social Media to enhance the experience:
"An exclusive, in-depth look into the Super Bowlâs first ever social media command center, the folks who ran it, and how the convergence of technology and people created the ultimate online Super Bowl experience." (from Why the Super Bowl's Mission Command Center Scores a Winning Touchdown)
The article goes into each of the four missions/goals they set out:: Safety, Service, Capture the experience, Amplification. Interesting that safety is number one. What they say:
"With an anticipated 150,000 visitors to descend on Indianapolis, a main focus of the social media command center is to ensure public safety. They will monitor social media channels for traffic situations, parking recommendations, and anything that could be considered suspicious behavior or malevolent. Additionally, should a crisis situation present itself, the command center will disseminate information for Homeland Security and public safety command centers." (from Why the Super Bowl's Mission Command Center Scores a Winning Touchdown)
And thanks to Melissa for pointing me to that article. Melissa is VP Engineering at Awareness who gets very high praise int he article:
"Awareness, Inc. After test driving many different social monitoring systems, Raidious chose Awareness Inc's Social Media Marketing Hub for publishing, monitoring and analyzing conversation streams. Raidious chose Awareness, Inc because of its capabilities and user interface…" (from Why the Super Bowl's Mission Command Center Scores a Winning Touchdown)