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Easy Steps to Going Viral & Mastering the Social WebTJ Raphael
Yesterday Bloomberg Businessweek reported on a brilliant idea by a Korean tech entrepreneur and magazine professional: Won Hee Chang has developed a strategy for possibly "coercing virality" on the social Web, a move that may help her Seoul-based literary magazine gain new revenue and audiences.
ãReaders who share content via social media will be able to access additional articles for free,ã writes Businessweek's Caroline Winter. ãContent, available in English, will initially be free. When readers log on to the site for the first time, theyãll receive a certain number of pointsãChang calls them ãkarma pointsããwhich will slowly be depleted as they click through articles. To restock on points and maintain access, they will have to share the siteãs stories through social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter. Itãs a bit like multilevel marketingãthe more readers spread articles, the greater their access. Those who bristle at being asked to share content can buy points; five points will cost 99ôÂ.ã
This is an excellent concept that can extend beyond paid content models. Here are a few examples that could work:
Contests: Setting up a contest or sweepstakes can be a great way to leverage Changãs tactic. Content providers can award readers with points for a contest or sweepstakes if they share articles. The more articles they share, the more points they earn to better their chances of winning the contest or sweepstakes prizeãand publishers can get their brand in front of more readers who may not have been interacting with them on a social basis before.
Discounts: Team up with an advertiser to offer discounts or free products. Users can get access to these special offers or products by earning points for sharing out articles or sponsored content. It provides your advertising partner with instant gratification, and could be part of a larger value-add. In addition to an advertiser, a brand could use this tool to help them to boost subscriptionsãthe more points earned, the lower the price of a yearly print or digital subscription, incentivizing untapped leads.
Content: Like Changãs model, provide exclusive content for those who earn points by sharing out links. Put the threshold for points earned at a lower level: If a user shares two stories theyãll earn enough points to get access to an exclusive video, photo gallery or even the rest of a story.
Some brands are already taking steps in this direction: Entertainment Weekly rolled out 11 covers in anticipation of the new season of HBOãs True Blood last June. Before the newsstand reveal, Entertainment Weeklyãs social media editor leveraged the 11 covers to gamify her Facebook posts, slowly revealing the covers and then asking users to comment to see more. It was the most viral post of the monthãit drove nine times more likes, five times more comments, and 19 times more shares on Facebook than the average post. The issues also garnered the second highest number of single copy sales, likely a result of the increased consumer awareness.
This same approach could be taken, but instead of doing the reveal on Facebook for generating comments, users could get this exclusive content from the points they earn from sharing out the promotion, and brands could develop a special landing page on their own sites to reveal the, in this case, exclusive cover photos.
T.J. Raphael is the Associate Editor of FOLIO:. Follow her on Twitter: @TJRaphael
Is Mobile The Next Big Bump For City and Regional Mags?TJ Raphael
The mobile Web has been a challenge, to say the least, for even the largest content publishers, and when it comes to city and regional magazines, strategies range from exploratory to non-existent.
This monthãs issue of FOLIO: has put a spotlight on city and regional magazine publishers and their strategies for reaching audiences, and advertisers, in the digital marketplaceãour report shows that some publishers in this market are, in fact, responding aggressively to the changing marketplace despite previously held reservations.ô
ãMost city and regional magazines are struggling to grow digital divisions because weãve been print publications all along,ã Ralph Martinelli, publisher of New York-based 55,000-circ Westchester Magazine, told FOLIO: in our April issue. ãWeãre expanding our digital division into a separate entityãone of our main goals is to do a tremendous amount of daily digital-only content that does not appear in print, and weãve brought in digital-only editors. From a sales point of view, our digital-only reps partner with the print ad reps to present complete packages that includes print, digital and events.ã
The mobile, digital advertising market could be the next big thing for city and regional magazinesãat least according to a new forecast from BIA/Kelsey, a local media and advertising research and consultancy firm.
The firm predicts that mobile local advertising revenues will grow from $1.2 billion in 2012 to $9.1 billion in 2017, representing a compound annual growth rate of 43.9 percent. For the total U.S. mobile ad spending market, the firm estimates this sector to grow from $3.2 billion in 2012 to $16.8 billion in 2017.
ãThis puts locally targeted mobile ads at 38 percent of overall U.S. mobile ad spending in 2012, growing to 54 percent in 2017,ã a statement from the company says.
While search and display is top of mind, the firm notes that other areas of mobile are also growing:
- Display advertising applied to apps and mobile Web inventory is estimated to grow from $379 million in 2012 to $2.7 billion in 2017.
- Search will grow from $704 million in 2012 to $5.7 billion in 2017.
- SMS messaging will grow from $101 million to $162 million in 2017.
- Video distributed within apps and mobile Web inventory will grow from $38 million in 2012 to $515 million 2017.
Since local mobile ad revenue is estimated to account for a whopping 54 percent of overall U.S. mobile ad spending, city and regional magazines are well positioned to tap the national advertising market in ways they never dreamed of. Local communities not only trust city and regional mags, but these brands have the audience infrastructure and local knowledge to offer national ad partners exciting new options in their quest for local ad messaging.
T.J. Raphael is the Associate Editor of FOLIO:. Follow her on Twitter: @TJRaphaelMore...
A Call for Nominations: The 2013 Audience Development All-StarsTJ Raphael
Our list of the most creative individuals in circulation, consumer marketing and online audience development is back: Weãre proud to announce that nominations are open for the 2013 Audience Development All-Stars.
The Audience Development All-Stars is our supplement's annual list honoring the industryãs top thinkers that have continued to innovate on the audience frontãbuilding new opportunities in both traditional and cutting-edge customer marketing initiatives.
It might be a new approach to fulfillment, direct mail or database analytics, but the list is designed to highlight the pros who over the last year have helped keep, manage, and attract new audiences for their companies.
As we've done the previous six years, our team of editors has been scouring the industry for the brightest minds in circulation, consumer marketing and audience developmentãbut we also need to hear from you.
We encourage you to make a submission for our annual All-Stars list by nominating yourself or a colleague. We're looking for circ and audience development pros with demonstrable success in the ever-expanding category of audience marketing and management.
These are just some of the areas of excellence we're looking for:
ã Database development and marketing
ã Social media audience growth and engagement
ã Tablet and digital edition audience marketing
ã Newsstand sales, distribution and promotion
ã Fulfillment
ã Online audience development
ã Integrated marketing
All nominations must show demonstrable success with a new or existing project or initiative.
Join us in recognizing the best talent in our industry by submitting a nomination. Click here to make a submission.
Good luck and thanks for participating!
T. J. Raphael is Associate Editor of FOLIO:. Follow her on Twitter: @TJRaphael.More...
The Rise of First Person StorytellingTJ Raphael
When I was in journalism school (which, frankly, wasnãt that long ago), my professors decried what was thought to be a golden rule, one that I have broken several times already: Do not write in the first person. I, me and my are words that should not be usedãif ãdireã circumstances do present themselves, it is suggested that writers like this reporter find ways to get around it (hint).
With the rise of millennial audiences, the proliferation of social media and the advent of ãselfies,ã a general me-centric culture has come to the fore, and womenãs lifestyle media outlets are certainly taking notice.
This week I wrote about the new online-only property from Say Media and Jane PrattãxoVain.com. When I interviewed Kate Lewis, Say Mediaãs senior vice president and editorial director, she outlined Say Mediaãs strategy for reaching their target millennial audience:
ãItãs the story of real women, living their lives and sharing their experimentation and rituals...Our whole reason for being is to create what we call point-of-view publishing, which is a unique, special and personal voice in the digital space. That is what appealed to us on this unique take on beautyãitãs a number of women of all different ages and walks of life talking about what role beauty plays in their life everyday. Itãs that personal, intimate, experiential thing.ã
xoVain.com is really taking this ãpoint-of-view publishingã model to extremes. On the siteãs homepage, a rotator prominently displays images of not models, but the editors (a lot of whom resemble models, which could be another post all together). The bylines are first names only, and many of the stories center on the journalists themselves.
One prime example is this post. xoVainãs 20-something beauty editor, known only as Annie, writes that the staff suggested she go partying, which she did until almost dawn (see her actual text to her friend that was embedded into the article, time-stamped 4:44 AM), and then document her experience using a new beauty cream from the siteãs launch sponsor that is designed to refresh the face even after the longest night of partying, supposedly.
Annie took and embedded a few before photos at home, some during pics while she used the cream en-route to the office on the subway, and the final product as she strolled up to work. Annie is the subject of this story and the product review is just folded in.
The post has 157 comments, with one commenter saying: ãI've been on the fence about buying this, and I now think I just might ... It's hard to do things when you're hungover. It's hard to put makeup on in the subway. Mixing the two is a nearly impossible task...that I'm faced with...a lot. Thank you, Annie. Thank you.ã
xoVain isnãt the only one, though. In August, Glamour magazineãs editor-in-chief Cindi Leive chatted with me about the brandãs redesign. Leive said the idea behind it came from a need to update the magazine to reflect the desires and personalities of contemporary women.
ãWeãre living in a culture that gives way to the rise of the personal,ã she told me. ãOur readers care about celebrities, but we also showcase clothes in the fashion pages featuring our own editors. I see our fashion assistants walking around the office looking amazing in an outfit they put together themselves at home. We started taking pictures and posting them to our website and we saw readers really responding to them, so weãve done that in the magazine as well. Whatãs aspirational to women now is much more individual, personal and idiosyncratic than it may have been ten years ago.ã
She added that a studio photo is ãthe way a still-life picture might have run in a magazine five years ago. Itãs all of the context and story surrounding [a] bag and the personal elements of it [that make it more successful]. It gets five times as many comments or re-pins or notes than the more antiseptic shot from a studio. Weãre living in a culture of personal storytelling.ã
Another Condûˋ title, Self magazine, recently underwent its own redesign and adopted many of the same principals. Editor-in-chief Lucy Danziger told me the title ã(R)eally needed to refocus the way we were talking to women.ã She added: ãNow we have this new voiceãitãs much more conversational in tone.ã
xoVain.com, Self.com and Glamour.com are incredibly similar. To be honest, the sites look almost identical. Which, I guess, is not really a surprise considering that Lewis came to Say Media from Condûˋ Nast in December 2012, where she was managing editor of (you guessed it) Self, and previously held an editorial management position at (surprise!) Glamour.
It seems that womenãs lifestyle journalism is being transformed by a single generationãafter all, it does take three to make a trend. Maybe this is the new, new, new journalism Tom Wolfe could have never imagined?
T.J. Raphael is the associate editor of FOLIO:. Follow her on Twitter: @TJRaphael.
T Magazine Gets Heat From Readers On Lack of DiversityTJ Raphael
The New York Timesã style magazine, T, was reintroduced to readers this Sunday with a new look and feel. It has been redesigned, and its newly tapped editor from The Wall Street Journal, Deborah Needleman, has already gotten some feedback from readers, though not in a good way.
Several readers contacted the Times saying they were disappointed at the lack of diversity among the pages of the new magazine. The publication itself conceded this fact:
ã(M)any readers found one aspect of the magazine disturbing ã its lack of people of color. Indeed, there could be no argument; it was overwhelmingly white,ã wrote the Timesã public editor, Margaret Sullivan, in a post online. One reader commented that she in fact saw ãonly one African-American and one Asian-American among the thousands of models in the ads.ã She added, ãT doesnãt look like my neighborhood or America.ã
Is this really a surprise? No. Especially considering what the fashion landscape looks like: According to Jezebel, the models included at shows during the Fall 13ã fashion week events are getting whiter, making up about 82.7 percent of all models. Asian models were the second most represented group with 9.1 percent, black models at 6 percent and Latina models with a mere 2 percent.
Fashion and magazines clearly intersect in a variety of waysãfashion pubs not only cover all the happenings at fashion week, but also include the designerãs clothes, and models, in their advertisements. A lack of diversity in represented ethnic and racial backgrounds could eventually hurt publishers in a serious way.
Publishers are struggling at the newsstand, as the latest numbers from the Alliance of Audited Media shows. By having the majority of photo subjects in the pages of a magazine be Caucasian, the magazine industry, and specifically womenãs magazines, are already hurting their soon to be newly defined base.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the non-Hispanic white population is projected to peak in 2024, at 199.6 million, up from 197.8 million in 2012. Unlike other race or ethnic groups, however, its population is projected to slowly decrease, falling by nearly 20.6 million from 2024 to 2060.
The Census Bureau says the Hispanic population will more than double, from 53.3 million in 2012 to 128.8 million in 2060. Consequently, by the end of the period, nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Hispanic, up from about one in six today.
The black population is expected to increase from 41.2 million to 61.8 million over the same period. Its share of the total population will rise slightly, from 13.1 percent in 2012 to 14.7 percent in 2060.
The Asian population is projected to more than double, from 15.9 million in 2012 to 34.4 million in 2060, with its share of the nation's total population climbing from 5.1 percent to 8.2 percent in the same period.
Itãs not 2060 yet, but demographics online have already changed. Last week, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report that shows non-whites are more active in social mediaã68 percent of blacks use social media, 72 percent of Hispanics and 65 percent of whites. When getting more specific, 26 percent of blacks use Twitter, 19 percent of Hispanics and 14 percent of whites. Minorities also use Instagram more, with 23 percent of blacks using the platform, 18 percent of Hispanics and just 11 percent of whites.
While many Hispanic publications saw drops at the newsstands (like their non-Hispanic counterparts), just as many saw double-digit subscription growth: Meredithãs Siempre Mujer magazine increased its paid subscriptions by 11.9 percent, Cosmopolitan En EspaûÝol increased its paid subscriptions by 99.9 percent, Poder Hispanic posted a 36.5 percent gain in paid subscriptions and Vanidades saw a 28.4 percent jump in the number of paid subscriptions, and newsstand sales increased by 18.6 percent.
If magazine-media is supposed to be one of the most cutting edge and dynamic industries, why is there a serious lag in even playing to a changing audience? My advice to T and to you would be to learn your new audience, and learn it quick.
T. J. Raphael is the Associate Editor of FOLIO: Magazine. Follow her on Twitter: @TJRaphael.More...
More Tablet Owners Prefer Yearly Magazine SubscriptionsTJ Raphael
NEW YORKãAt MPA Digitalãs Social Media Summit Thursday, Ethan Grey, vice president of digital with the association, revealed results from its latest study slated to be released in January.
The data, which was conducted with Gfk MRI and surveyed 796 adults aged 18-plus who owned a tablet, shows that in general, tablet owners prefer to buy yearly subscriptions to digital magazines. About 56 percent of respondents prefer to purchase a one-year subscription, 31 percent prefer to buy monthly subscriptions, 11 percent normally buy half-year subscriptions and just 2 percent prefer multi-year subscriptions.
When asked about the type of digital magazine content they prefer, more than halfã55 percentãsay they read current and back issues. The remaining 45 percent prefer to only read the most current issues.
ãThis is an avenue for increased dollars in revenue for magazines,ã Grey said.
Additionally, respondents find the price of digital magazines to be fairly reasonableãabout 49 percent said they ãagree somewhatã that pricing of digital magazines is fair.
When it comes to bundling, 34 percent of respondents ãsomewhat agreeã that they are only interested in a digital subscription if it comes with a free print subscription. The second highest group of respondentsã30 percentããsomewhat disagreeã when asked if they are only interested in a digital subscription if it comes with a free print subscription.
Many respondents (44 percent) say they ãsomewhat agreeã that the automatic downloading of their magazine subscriptions is convenient. About 36 percent ãstrongly agree.ã
When it comes to loading times, 59 percent say they ãsomewhat agreeã that the time it takes to download a magazine app is reasonable, with 27 percent saying they ãstrongly agree.ã
The all-you-can-eat magazine model of Next Issue Media, said Grey, could become more popular, at least based on this data: 27 percent of respondents ãstrongly agreeã when asked if they like having the ability to pay a flat subscription fee for a large library of magazines. About 46 percent ãsomewhat agree.ã
When rating five digital newsstands, respondents thought most highly of Apple, with 90.8 percent saying the Apple Newsstand is excellent or good. When it comes to a browsing experience for new titles, Apple tied with Barnes & Nobleãs Nook at 81 percent.
More information on digital magazine reader preferences will be released this January by the MPA.
Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social MediaTJ Raphael
Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua, a marketing automation company. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing. Additionally, about 25 percent of respondents say they donãt know how their company plans to use social media marketing in the future.
Although many departments may contribute to social media, respondents say that social networking platforms are most often managed by a public relations department (26 percent), followed by a variety of departments (23 percent) or a website team (11 percent). Still, about 23 percent of respondents say that social media is not under the control of any one department.
About 43 percent of respondents say that their company has no strategy in place for incorporating social media into demand generation. About 20 percent said a lack of tools prevent them from using social media for lead generation and another 33 percent say a lack of strategy is attributed to an unclear understanding of the value of social media.
Business-to-business companies that are using social media platforms for a variety of reasons:
- 83 percent use social media to create awareness for their company or brand.
- 56 percent use social media to get visitors to share messages socially, broadening reach.
- 55 percent use social media to increase trust by accumulating social followers.
- 32 percent use social media as an outbound marketing channel for demand generation.
- 22 percent use social media for a better understanding of market perceptions of their own brands and or products.
In the future, b-to-b companies expect a variety of benefits from social media, with most respondents (50 percent) saying it will help to increase reach and brand awareness. About 35 percent say driving inbound leads to increase revenue will be a benefit of social media, with 28 percent saying social networking will benefit their company when it comes to measurable impact on demand or revenue.
This data reinforces the notion that b-to-b marketers still need help when it comes to the social networking spaceãsomething that content producers can assist them with. Publishers should look to expand marketing services groups to have a strong focus on social media, which will help publishers position themselves as a unique solution to a need in the marketplace.
T. J. Raphael is Associate Editor of FOLIO: Magazine. Follow her on Twitter.
Television: The Next Screen for Publishers?TJ Raphael
By 2017, about 600 million televisions worldwide will be connected to the Internet, at least according to the Connected TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research.
At the start of the decade there were an estimated 48 million Internet connected televisions in the United States or 45 percent of the global total. By 2017, it is expected that there will be 147 million Internet connected televisions in the U.S., which will account for 25 percent of the global total. China will have 93 million connected TVs by 2017, up from a mere 2 million at the end of 2010.
As tablets and smartphones continue to grow along with the need to diversify revenues, publishers have seen the value of extending their reach to every device available. While it is unlikely that readers will ever use their televisions to actually read content, they will likely use these newly connected devices to visit Web pages and to watch video.
The Internet can be publishersã ãside doorã into television, so to speak, and many are already working hard to produce videos that are tied to print magazine brands.
At the 2012 American Magazine Conference in San Francisco this fall, for example, enthusiast publisher Source Interlink Media said it was turning its eye to videoãit now has a 45-person production crew and is focusing on entertainment-based streaming content.
ãYouTube has allowed us to dive into episodic content and itãs evolving to be able to provide a lot of advertising content,ã said Chris Argentieri, president of Source Interlink Media. Source in the digital age will be ãtruly a diversified media company from a revenue standpoint,ã he added.
Hearst already has its YouTube Premium Channel initiative, which includes the Hello Style and the Car and Driver Channels. Time Inc.ãs This Old House is using video to power its website relaunch and has the potential to roll out about 34 years of video programming from its companion television program. TheAtlantic.com launched a video channel in August 2011 and regional title New York magazine turned a content staple, Eat Cheap, into a five-part YouTube series.
YouTube is the second largest and most used search engine on the planet, rivaling only its parent company, Google. With so many Internet connected televisions anticipated to come in the next few years, expect to see the number of users not only increase but the number of publisher-branded YouTube channels as well.
T. J. Raphael is Associate Editor of FOLIO: Magazine. Follow her on Twitter.More...
Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson Leaves WiredTJ Raphael
After an 11-year stint as Wired's top editor, Chris Anderson is stepping down. According to a memo released late Friday by Condûˋ Nast CEO Charles Townsend, Anderson will leave the magazine, pursuing his "entrepreneurial dream." The announcement comes about 10 days after the publication announced it was increasing its rate base for the 11th consecutive year to 825,000--a bump of 3 percent or 25,000. Below is the full note from Townsend on Anderson's departure:
Todayô Chris Anderson, editor in chief ofô Wired,ô announced that he will be leaving Condûˋ Nast at the end of the year to become CEO of 3D Robotics, a company he cofounded several years ago.
ãThis is an opportunity for me to pursue an entrepreneurial dream,ã Chris said. ãIãm confident thatô Wiredãs mission to influence and chronicle the digital revolution is stronger than ever and will continue to expand and evolve.ã
Chris joinedô Wiredô as editor in chief in 2001. During his tenure, the magazine received eight National Magazine Awards, including the prestigious top prize for General Excellence in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In 2010,ô Adweekô honoredô ô Wiredô as its Magazine of the Decade.ô ô
As with every brand that challenges the current times and predicts the future,ô Wiredô will now embark on the next phase of its quest to determine ãwhat will matter.ãô Please join me in thanking Chris for his extraordinary contributions to theô Wiredô franchise. We wish him the best of luck in his new venture and look forward to naming his successor shortly.
T.J. Raphael is a FOLIO: Magazine Associate Editor. Follow her on Twitter.More...
Report: Readers Prefer Social Logins to Registration FormsTJ Raphael
Getting a name, email address or other contact information can be a very valuable lead for publishers. Yet, in the instant culture of 2012, many users are becoming ever more impatient when presented with a registration form.
According to a new report from Janrain, a company that provides social login technology, among other things, online registration forms are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
Its data, collected from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, Harris Interactive Polls and Blue Research, and other sources, shows that 86 percent of people may leave a website when asked to create an account because the form is too long or asks too many questions.
Many consumers have password fatigue, with 50 percent disliking the idea of creating a new password. About 60 percent have more than five unique passwords to remember and 40 percent use the ãforgot passwordã feature at least once a month.
When it comes to sharing information, about 86 percent admit they have lied on a registration form, yet 60 percent say they would give more information if they knew what it was used for.
The endless forms seem to becoming so exhausting that 2 in 5 feel would rather scrub a toilet than come up with another new password.
As magazines continue to struggle, using a social login could be a viable and relatively easy way to capture potential new customers on a quicker and more frequent basis.ô
ô T.J. Raphael is the Associate Editor of FOLIO: Magazine. Follow her on Twitter.More...
FT Has More Social Media Followers Than CustomersTJ Raphael
More people interact with business newspaper The Financial Times through social media than directly with the brand, according to a recent infographic released by the publication.
In late July, The Financial Timesã digital subscribers grew to about 300,000 paying readers, an increase of about 31 percent when compared to the same time in 2011, with the publicationãs total circulation increasing to almost 600,000.
Meanwhile, the FT social community reaches 3.9 million peopleã2.2 million on Twitter, 1.3 million on Google+, 430,000 on Facebook and a surprising 18,000 on LinkedIn. To put this into perspective, there are about 500 percent more people interacting with the brand on social media than there are paying for its content.
News, analysis and opinion pieces are what FT readers want from the brand on social media, although when on Facebook, these consumers also like to see offers or competitions.
According to the FT, about 20 percent of its traffic in the last six months came from social media, a medium that ãis growing faster than every other traffic source at FT.com. The volume of visits to FT.com driven by social media is at the highest level ever.ã
What do these numbers mean? According to a recent report from the Pew Research Centerãs Internet and American Life Project, 66 percent of online adults use Facebook; 20 percent uses LinkedIn and 16 percent use Twitter. About 83 percent of adults aged 18-29 use Facebook, with the second highest group being 30-49-year-olds at 72 percent.
FT readers are on average 41 years old. However, based on the data from Pew, the majority of its social audience is likely a younger demographic than its typical subscriber (digital or otherwise)ãa group that is not only coveted for advertisers, but likely enticing for its future growth. Young adults are less likely to pay for content, though theyãre more likely to share it.
The puzzle for The Financial Times to solve will be the conversion of their young social media followers into paying subscribers.
T.J. Raphael is a FOLIO: magazine Associate Editor. Follow her on Twitter.
Magazine Publishers & The iPad: An Unrequited LoveTJ Raphael
If this were a bad teen movie, the magazine publishing industry would not be (surprisingly) playing the glamorous cheerleader, but Apple would still be the big man on campus.
It seems that the industry has a case of unrequited love with Apple, at least according to recent findings from research firm MagazineRadar.
Apple hasnãt advertised the iPad in an MPA member magazine since July 2011. Last summer, Apple made a brief appearance within the industryãs pages, with the latest iPad campaign in magazines appearing from May-July 2011. During that time there were 21 ad pages placed strategically among 21 MPA monthly magazines, all with the same creative.
Apple did also place 18 back page cover ads in 9 MPA weekly and bi-weekly magazines during the same period. The seeming coolness from Apple doesnãt stop in printãthe company has not advertised the iPad on MPA magazine websites at all in 2012.
Why would they? Magazine publishers have been doting over the product and Apple not only with each other at industry events, or to media journalists like this reporter, but they have, essentially, been running ads for them.
Magazines (trade or otherwise) are not just writing about the iPad, says MagazineRadar, but they are showing it offãin 2012, about 32 percent of all edit credits, which the research firm considers a ãsingle mention or image of a brand in a magazineãs editorial,ã appeared as images rather than text.
Appleãs apparent lack of enthusiasm for magazine advertising extends beyond the iPad, too. From September 2011 to August 2012 there were 216 ads for the iPhone placed in 200 MPA magazines. In comparison, the iPad received 1,847 edit credits so far in 2012. Additionally, Apple dominates other technology brands when it comes to editorial mentions (see below).
Apple is likely undertaking a strong advertising campaign for its new additionãthe iPhone 5. Whether or not they pay attention to the adoring magazine industry remains to be seen. MagazineRadar, however, says one thing is certain: publications will continue writing about Apple and its products.
ô T.J. Raphael is a FOLIO: magazine Associate Editor. Follow her on Twitter: @TJRaphael1.


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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Alliance to Save Energy (Alliance) announced a year-long Powerful $avings public education and awareness campaign designed to educate consumers about energy.
"This new effort will be a coordinated campaign to help consumers make smart energy choices," David K. Garman, assistant secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, said in a statement. "Energy efficient improvements and tips are easy ways for Americans to save energy and money in their homes and in their cars, which supports our economy and protects our energy security."
Alliance President Kateri Callahan added: "Energy efficiency is the quickest, cheapest, cleanest way to extend our nation's tight energy supplies and decrease pollution simultaneously. The lingering memory of last August's blackout, rising temperatures that will strain the electricity grid, and the start of the summer driving season with record-high pump prices, make this energy-efficiency campaign not only timely but also imperative."
The new partnership with the Alliance continues Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham's "smart energy" campaign launched last summer.
As part of the program, DOE and the Alliance will focus on increasing public awareness on the importance of energy efficiency and smart energy practices both at home and on the road. The extensive media outreach campaign will include broadly disseminated video, audio and print news releases, op-ed pieces, and satellite media tours. The Alliance and DOE leaders and spokespersons will reinforce the message in their public appearances around the U.S.
Both organizations are also offering free consumer booklets that provide consumers with ways to reduce home energy bills --DOE's Energy Savers: Tips on Saving Energy & Money at Home and The Alliance's Power$mart: Easy Tips to Save Money and the Planet.
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patient identification systems
Summary: Organized procedures for establishing patient identity, including use of bracelets, etc.
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- Identity crisis? Renewed debate over the need for a national patient ID focuses on issues of privacy, cost and effectivenessJoseph Conn
Mod Healthc 36:26-8. 2006
- An introduction to personal health recordsScott Endsley
Health Services Advisory Group, Phoenix, USA
Fam Pract Manag 13:57-62. 2006
- Research use of linked health data--a best practice protocolC W Kelman
Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, ACT
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:251-5. 2002..This approach is designed to promote confidence in the community and among data custodians that there are benefits of linked health information being used and that individual privacy is being rigorously protected...
- Record linked retrospective cohort study of 4.6 million people exploring ethnic variations in disease: myocardial infarction in South AsiansC M Fischbacher
Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, UK
BMC Public Health 7:142. 2007..However, suitable and accurate data are usually not available. We demonstrated, using acute myocardial infarction, that linkage techniques can be ethical and potentially useful for this purpose...
- The security implications of VeriChip cloningJohn Halamka
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:601-7. 2006..2 Paradoxically, for bearer safety, a VeriChip should be easy to spoof; an attacker then has less incentive to coerce victims or extract VeriChips from victims' bodies...
- Assessing record linkage between health care and Vital Statistics databases using deterministic methodsBing Li
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 6:48. 2006..We assessed the linkage and correct linkage rate using deterministic record linkage among three commonly used Canadian databases, namely, the population registry, hospital discharge data and Vital Statistics registry...
- Evaluation of a deidentification (De-Id) software engine to share pathology reports and clinical documents for researchDilip Gupta
Center for Pathology Informatics, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Shadyside, PA 15232, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 121:176-86. 2004..Collaboration between pathology domain experts and system developers and continuous quality assurance are needed to optimize ongoing deidentification processes...
- Development and evaluation of an open source software tool for deidentification of pathology reportsBruce A Beckwith
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 6:12. 2006..1800 new pathology reports were then processed. Each report was reviewed manually before and after deidentification to catalog all identifiers and note those that were not removed...
- Demographic management in a federated healthcare environmentI Roman
Group of Telematic Engineering, University of Seville, Spain
Int J Med Inform 75:671-82. 2006..The aim is to identify a particular person in every system of a federation and to obtain a unified view of his/her demographic information stored in different locations...
- Design and implementation of a smart card based healthcare information systemGeylani Kardas
International Computer Institute, Ege University, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 81:66-78. 2006..System is developed on Java platform by using object oriented architecture and design patterns...
- Personal and (maybe) confidential. Questions over privacy, formats and definitions remain, but personal health records are on the wayJoseph Conn
Mod Healthc 36:28-31. 2006
- Technology. Which way RHIO?Dagmara Scalise
Hosp Health Netw 80:20, 22. 2006
- Medical record linkage in health information systems by approximate string matching and clusteringErik A Sauleau
Service des Etudes et Applications de l Information Médicale SEAIM, Hospital, 87 Ave d Altkirch, F68051 Mulhouse, France
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 5:32. 2005..Furthermore, we need to assist human decision making, by computing a value reflecting identity proximity...
- Personal health record systems and their security protectionKhin Than Win
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
J Med Syst 30:309-15. 2006..We have noted that current security mechanisms are not adequate and we have proposed some security mechanisms to tackle these problems...
- HIPAA the health care hippo: despite the rhetoric, is privacy still an issue?Kay Kuczynski
Department of Social Work, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City 37614 0002, USA
Soc Work 50:283-7. 2005
- E-charting point-of-care data entry dilemmaSheila Roszell
Surgical Nursing Service, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
J Nurs Adm 38:417-8. 2008
- Interoperability issues regarding patient identification in EuropeC Quantin
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Information, Dijon
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2007:6161. 2007
- [Ten critical theses for patient applied telematic applications in health care]P Haas
Fachhochschule, Dortmund
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 48:771-7. 2005....
- [Electronic health records in Germany]F Warda
Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information, Koln
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 48:742-6. 2005..The electronic health record acquires extensive significance, especially in line with the imminent introduction of the electronic health card on the basis of a standardised telematics infrastructure in Germany...
- Secure e-Health: managing risks to patient health dataEike Henner W Kluge
Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P4
Int J Med Inform 76:402-6. 2007..This presentation identifies and addresses some of the ethical and legal issues and proposes a series of recommendations...
- [Telematics in the health system and data protection]J H Muller
Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz, Husarenstrasse 30, 53117 Bonn, Germany
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 48:629-34. 2005..The higher the acceptance is on the patients' side, the more they will be willing to participate voluntarily in telematic projects...
- Improving outcomes with interoperable EHRs and secure global health information infrastructureLuis Kun
IRM College National Defense University, USA
Stud Health Technol Inform 137:68-79. 2008..The authors believe that this term is poorly understood and consequently its incorrect use generates immensely negative consequences. The question raised by the authors then is, what is "true interoperability"?..
- Towards dynamic access control for healthcare information systemsLillian Røstad
Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Stud Health Technol Inform 136:703-8. 2008..Our aim is to help minimize the use of "break the glass" access...
- The Royal Hobart Hospital digital medical records success storyMark Upton
Patient Information Management Services, Royal Hobart Hospital, 48 Liverpool Street, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia
HIM J 37:46-54. 2008..This article describes the processes involved in implementation of the electronic health record, including change management procedures and scanning of older paper-based records for inclusion in the new system...
- Austria's path toward nationwide electronic health recordsW Dorda
Section of Medical Information and Retrieval Systems, Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Methods Inf Med 47:117-23. 2008..This article discusses current planning activities in Austria after legislation has been passed to introduce the electronic health record (EHR)...
- A patient-identity security mechanism for electronic medical records during transit and at restHui Mei Chao
Department of Electrical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li, 32023, Taiwan, ROC
Med Inform Internet Med 30:227-40. 2005....
- Citizen empowerment using healthcare and welfare cardsPaul Cheshire
Atos Origin, London, UK
Stud Health Technol Inform 121:317-26. 2006....
- Doing a number on providers. Next looming deadline under HIPAA: a national provider identifierJoseph Conn
Mod Healthc 36:50, 52. 2006
- The role of patients and their health cards in integrated eHealth environmentsClaudia Hildebrand
Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
Stud Health Technol Inform 136:629-34. 2008..Additionally, patient status data such as the emergency data or the immunisation record may be stored in and communicated by patient data cards...
- Watermarking medical images with anonymous patient identification to verify authenticityGouenou Coatrieux
Stud Health Technol Inform 136:667-72. 2008....
- A model driven approach for the German health telematics architectural framework and security infrastructureBernd Blobel
eHealth Competence Center, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Franz Josef Strauss Allee 11, D 93042 Regensburg, Germany
Int J Med Inform 76:169-75. 2007..It fits into developments currently performed by many other developed countries...
- Mobile health requires mobile security: challenges, solutions, and standardizationPeter Pharow
eHealth Competence Center, Regensburg University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany
Stud Health Technol Inform 136:697-702. 2008....
- Pocket EZPIN device for healthcare IC cards to enhance the security and convenience of senior citizensJiun Tze Lai
Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, No 1, Section 1, Ta Hsueh Road, East District, Tainan City 701, Taiwan, ROC
Comput Biol Med 38:411-5. 2008..Moreover, if the cardholder should forget to take the device with him/her, the card still works as normal. The device would be helpful in ensuring the public's privacy and convenience in Taiwan's healthcare system...
- Providing longitudinal health care information with the new German Health Card--a pilot system to track patient pathwaysMichael Marschollek
Department of Medical Informatics, Georg August University, Robert Koch Strasse 40, D 37075 Gottingen, Germany
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 81:266-71. 2006..Our system for tracking patient pathways with the new German Health Card can be regarded as a first example of its great future potential...
- Identity theft and fraud--the impact on HIM operationsNancy Davis
- SurgiChip--new technology for prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong person surgeryDebbie Sandlin
Southern Hills Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37013, USA
J Perianesth Nurs 20:144-6. 2005
- A peculiar aspect of patients' safety: the discriminating power of identifiers for record linkageCatherine Quantin
Department of Medical Informatics, Dijon University Hospital, France
Stud Health Technol Inform 103:400-6. 2004..However, whatever, the method used it seems necessary to improve the quality of identifier collection as it could greatly influence linkage results...
- Taking the measure of inpatient EHRs. Hospitals inch closer to certified productsJane Metzger
First Consulting Group, USA
J AHIMA 78:24-30; quiz 33-4. 2007
- A smart-card-enabled privacy preserving E-prescription systemYanjiang Yang
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 119613
IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 8:47-58. 2004..A strong proxy signature scheme achieving technologically mutual agreements on the delegation is proposed to implement the delegation functionality...
- Zero-check: a zero-knowledge protocol for reconciling patient identities across institutionsJules J Berman
Pathology Informatics, Cancer Diagnosis Program NCI NIH, Rockville, MD 20892, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 128:344-6. 2004..Unless patient identities can be reconciled across institutions, individuals with records held in different institutions will be falsely "counted" as multiple persons when databases are merged...
- Protecting patient privacy in clinical data miningLinda K Goodwin
Nursing Informatics Program, Duke University, USA
J Healthc Inf Manag 16:62-7. 2002..While HIPAA has improved de-identification standards, the study also shows that privacy issues may persist even in de-identified large clinical databases...
- Method to assess identifiability in electronic data filesHolly L Howe
North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Inc, Springfield, IL 62704 6495, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:597-601. 2007..RU is a useful data tool that can quantify the risk of confidentiality breach of electronic health databases, including reidentifiability of cases through triangulation of information or linkage with other electronic databases...
- Connecting care through EMPIsJoseph B Hewitt
Madison Information Technologies, Inc, USA
J AHIMA 73:32-4, 36-8, 2; quiz 41-2. 2002..Enterprise master patient indexes (EMPIs) can serve as critical tools in improving operations, protecting medical record integrity, and improving patient service. This article reveals how EMPIs are linking crucial patient information...
- Bar-coded patient ID: review an organizational approach to vendor selectionVickie Wickham
Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
Nurs Manage 37:22-6. 2006
- HIM professionals key to patient safetyCheryl Servais
- Cyber terrorRichard Haugh
Hosp Health Netw 77:60-4, 2. 2003..How can your hospital protect its IT system before and after such insidious attacks...
- Navigating the information technology highway: computer solutions to reduce errors and enhance patient safetyRanie Koshy
University Hospital New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ 07103 2406, USA
Transfusion 45:189S-205S. 2005..This article examines tangible options to increase patient safety through improved state-of-the-art tools that can be incorporated into the health-care system to prevent errors...
- Using IT to enhance patient safetyDouglas Goldstein
eHealthcare net, Inc, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Manag Care Interface 15:46-7. 2002
- Knowledge sharing and information integration in healthcare using ontologies and deductive databasesFabiane Bizinella Nardon
Escola Politecnica, University of Sao Paulo, Rua di Rocio 313, 045 52000 São Paulo, Brazil
Stud Health Technol Inform 107:62-6. 2004..This paper demonstrates how this approach can be used to integrate heterogeneous information and to answer complex queries in a real world environment...
- Improving patients privacy with PseudonymizationThomas Neubauer
Secure Business Austria, Vienna, Austria
Stud Health Technol Inform 136:691-6. 2008..This paper presents the new system PIPE (Pseudonymization of Information for Privacy in e-Health), that differs from existing approaches in its ability to securely integrate primary and secondary usage of health data...
- EHR in the perspective of security, integrity and ethicsRagnar Nordberg
JMP Research and Development AB, Sweden
Stud Health Technol Inform 121:291-8. 2006..A reference is given to existing and emerging international standards related to the aforementioned aspects...
- Technology to the rescueBill Briggs
Health Data Manag 10:80-4, 86. 2002
- Doing it right. While the key to the perfect RHIO may still be a mystery, a number of them are off and runningDaphne Lawrence
Healthc Inform 24:38, 40. 2007
- BioHealth--the need for security and identity management standards in eHealthClaudia Hildebrand
GSF Research Centre for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
Stud Health Technol Inform 121:327-36. 2006....
- Proposal of a French health identification number interoperable at the European levelCatherine Quantin
Service de Biostatistique et Informatique Médicale, CHU de Dijon, BP 77908, 21079 Dijon Cedex, INSERM EMI 0106, France
Stud Health Technol Inform 129:503-7. 2007....
- Name game: Canada's blueprint for a nationwide master person indexLinda Dorrel
Initiate Systems, Chicago, IL, USA
J AHIMA 75:40-2; quiz 45-6. 2004
- Prospective study of clinician-entered research data in the Emergency Department using an Internet-based system after the HIPAA Privacy RuleJeffrey A Kline
Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 4:17. 2004..Design and test the reliability of a web-based system for multicenter, real-time collection of data in the emergency department (ED), under waiver of authorization, in compliance with HIPAA...
- The future of card technology in health careBeckie Kelly
Health Data Manag 10:64-8. 2002
- An international study of the performance of sample collection from patientsW H Dzik
Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
Vox Sang 85:40-7. 2003..The aim of this international collaborative study was to assess the frequency of mislabelled and miscollected samples drawn for blood grouping...
- [The use of sensitive data in epidemiology: remarks on the difficulties when interpreting the Italian legislation]Virgilia Toccaceli
Centro Nazionale di Epidemiologia, Sorveglianza e Promozione della Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanita
Epidemiol Prev 36:280-6. 2012..We also emphasize the importance of strengthening the concept that public health prevention also begins with epidemiological research and surveillance...
- [Linkage of secondary data with cancer registry data on the basis of encrypted personal identifiers - results from a pilot study in North Rhine-Westphalia]H Kajüter
Epidemiologisches Krebsregister Nordrhein Westfalen gGmbH, Munster
Gesundheitswesen 74:e84-9. 2012....
- A contextual based double watermarking of PET images by patient ID and ECG signalMohammad Saleh Nambakhsh
Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, and Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 104:418-25. 2011..Assessment of the extracted watermarks shows watermarking robustness to common attacks such as embedded zero-tree wavelet (EZW) compression and median filtering...
- Radiation exposure tracking: survey of unique patient identification number in 40 countriesMadan M Rehani
International Atomic Energy Agency, Radiation Protection of Patients Unit, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 200, A 1400 Vienna, Austria
AJR Am J Roentgenol 200:776-9. 2013....
- Smart pump technologyRonald D Snodgrass
EMH Regional Medical Center and The Hospital for Orthopedic and Specialty Services, Ohio, USA
Biomed Instrum Technol 39:444-6. 2005
- Two thirds favour organ donation, but only one in 20 take steps to facilitate itClare Dyer
- An RFID-based system for assisted living: challenges and solutionsJudith Symonds
School of Computing and Mathematics, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Stud Health Technol Inform 127:127-38. 2007..This approach can also be used to extend the tagged domain to commonly visited areas, and provide support for the analysis of common activities, and rehabilitation...
- RFID moves beyond assetsBeckie Kelly Schuerenberg
Health Data Manag 16:36, 38, 40. 2008
- Design of an indoor self-positioning system for the visually impaired--simulation with RFID and Bluetooth in a visible light communication systemXiaohan Liu
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi ninotyo, Niigata shi, Niigata, 950 2181, Japan
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2007:1655-8. 2007..We analyzed the situation and developed a model that combined the three communication modes. Then we performed a series of experiments and get some results in the first step...
- Patient identification: hybrids and doppelgängersDavid Cummins
Department of Haematology, Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, Harefield, Middlesex UB9 6JH, UK
Ann Clin Biochem 44:106-10. 2007..Such coincidences are, in fact, not extraordinary, but ordinary. A major challenge will be to establish how adverse events involving coincidence can be described in a way that does not create the impression of extraordinary bad luck...
- [Patient identification vigilance in public healthcare organizations: inventory in French hospitals and proposals]A Perrin
Service de gestion du risque infectieux et des vigilances, CHRU de Lille, France
Ann Biol Clin (Paris) 67:177-89. 2009..This effort has to be supported by an essential institutionalization of identity vigilance...
- Lessons learned from the application of a Vietnamese surname list for survey researchVictoria M Taylor
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 13:345-51. 2011..Researchers might consider using different combinations of Vietnamese surnames, depending on whether accuracy or high population coverage is the more important consideration...
- Exploring medical identity theftDesla Mancilla
West Suburban College, Oak Park, IL, USA
Perspect Health Inf Manag 6:1e. 2009..Finally, biometric identity management solutions should be considered for stronger patient identification verification...
- Systems approaches to tobacco dependence treatmentAnna M McDaniel
Indiana University Schools of Nursing, USA
Annu Rev Nurs Res 27:345-63. 2009..Future directions for translational research present unprecedented opportunity for nurse scientists to respond to the call for policy and systems changes to support tobacco treatment...
- An open source toolkit for medical imaging de-identificationDavid Rodríguez González
National e Science Centre, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Eur Radiol 20:1896-904. 2010..Our objective is to provide a flexible mechanism for anonymising Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) data that meets the requirements for deployment in multicentre trials...
- Patient misidentifications caused by errors in standard bar code technologyMarion L Snyder
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Clin Chem 56:1554-60. 2010..In this study, we sought to identify the sources of bar code decoding errors that generated incorrect patient identifiers when bar codes were scanned for point-of-care glucose testing and to develop solutions to prevent their occurrence...
- Implanting inequality: empirical evidence of social and ethical risks of implantable radio-frequency identification (RFID) devicesTorin Monahan
Department of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody 90, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, Tennessee 37203 5721, USA
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 26:370-6. 2010..The aim of this study was to assess empirically the social and ethical risks associated with implantable radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices...
- A methodology for the pseudonymization of medical dataThomas Neubauer
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 9 11, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Int J Med Inform 80:190-204. 2011..e., who the patient discloses her health information to. Therefore, the methodology prevents data disclosure that negatively influences the patient's life (e.g., by being denied health insurance or employment)...
- Direct-to-consumer testing: more risks than opportunitiesG Lippi
U O Diagnostica Ematochimica, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy
Int J Clin Pract 65:1221-9. 2011..benefit analyses are needed to definitely establish whether DTC testing might be effective for decreasing the burden of diseases, delay their onset or modify their progression and therefore the clinical outcome...
- Patient misidentification in Papanicolaou tests: a systems-based approach to reducing errorsErin Meyer
Department of Pathology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 133:1297-300. 2009..We use SurePath liquid-based cytology for Papanicolaou tests in our laboratory and noticed patient misidentification because of slide labeling errors, a problem that has not been addressed in the literature...
- The Swedish personal identity number: possibilities and pitfalls in healthcare and medical researchJonas F Ludvigsson
Department of Paediatrics, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden
Eur J Epidemiol 24:659-67. 2009..We suggest that matching of registers through PIN and matching of national health registers without the explicit approval of the individual patient is to the benefit for both the individual patient and for society...
- Technology making identification and notification of families easier in trauma casesT J Denley
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, 1775 Dempster Park Ridge, IL 60068, USA
J Pastoral Care Counsel 62:141-2. 2008
- Taming the technology beastDonald M Berwick
- Nonfamily infant abductions, 1983-2006Ann Wolbert Burgess
Department of Psychiatric Nursing, William F Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Am J Nurs 108:32-8. 2008
- [A new remedy in pathology practice: molecular solution to sample mix-up]Huseyin Baloglu
Department of Pathology, GATA Haydarpasa Education Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Turk Patoloji Derg 27:106-9. 2011..Such situations undoubtedly have the potential to create undesirable results. In the present study, an application targeting getting rid of any doubts about the identity of the diagnostic tissue samples is described...
- Hospital automation system RFID-based: technology embedded in smart devices (cards, tags and bracelets)Gustavo H P Florentino
Symetrix Corporation, Colorado Springs, USA
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2008:1455-8. 2008..This work depicts a hospital laboratory workflow, presents the system modeling and deals with security matters related to information stored in the smart cards...
- [Principles recommended to reassure the identification of the patient, the request of analysis and the report of biological results]A Szymanowicz
Centre Hospitalier de Roanne
Ann Biol Clin (Paris) 67:109-16. 2009....
- Methodological innovations in data gathering: newborn screening linkage with live births records, Michigan, 1/2007-3/2008S J Korzeniewski
Division of Genomics, Perinatal Health and Chronic Disease Epidemiology Bureau of Epidemiology, Michigan Department of Community Health, 201 Capital View, 4 012, Lansing, MI 48906, USA
Matern Child Health J 14:360-4. 2010..To match Michigan birth and newborn screening records to identify and follow-up potentially unscreened infants, assess data quality, and demonstrate the utility of Link Plus linkage software for matching MCH related administrative datasets...
- To err is human nature. Can transfusion errors due to human factors ever be eliminated?F Y Lau
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, 9 F Clinical Sciences Building, Ng Shing Street, Shatin, N T, Hong Kong, China
Clin Chim Acta 313:59-67. 2001..Blood sample drawn from the wrong patient and labeled as another patient's specimen will not be detected by the blood bank unless there is a previous ABO grouping result...
- Is this the right patient? An educational initiative to improve compliance with two patient identifiersDeene L Mollon
Sharp Grossmont Hospital, 5555 Grossmont Center Drive, La Mesa, CA 91942, USA
J Contin Educ Nurs 40:221-7. 2009..The results of this performance improvement project suggest that investing time and money in safety initiatives improves staff practice patterns...
- Purposes of health identification cards and role of a secure access platform (Be-Health) in BelgiumFrancis H Roger France
Unité d Informatique Médicale, Health Services Research, Ecole de Santé Publique de l Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Int J Med Inform 76:84-8. 2007....
- Securing interoperability between chip card based medical information systems and health networksB Blobel
Department of Medical Informatics, Medical Faculty, Institute of Biometry and Medical Informatics, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Str 44, D 39120 Magdeburg, Saxony Anhalt, Germany
Int J Med Inform 64:401-15. 2001..Finally, a few legal issues, future trends like the XML standard set and their implications for the solution presented as well as for distributed health information systems in general are shortly discussed...
- Add carrying a card to QOFAnne Holmes
- Data protection gone too far: questionnaire survey of patients' and visitors' views about having their names displayed in hospitalRavindra Gudena
Department of Surgery, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor LL57 2PW
- Informatics for patient safety: a nursing research perspectiveSuzanne Bakken
Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York, USA
Annu Rev Nurs Res 24:219-54. 2006..The seminal work that has been completed to date is necessary, but not sufficient, to achieve this objective...
- Helping hippocrates: a cross-functional approach to patient identificationMargaret A Greenly
St Francis Hospital, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:463-9. 2006..St. Francis Hospital involved staff and patients in the "Helping Hippocrates" Project, which used a "game" with staff and patients to ensure the accuracy of information on patients' identification (ID) bands...
- Prisoners die as bureaucrats bickerChris Bateman
S Afr Med J 96:482-8. 2006
- McKesson deal gives docs new PHR purveyor. Even with acquisition, RelayHealth exec vows vendor neutrality; others dubiousJoseph Conn
Mod Healthc 36:54. 2006
- HIPAA violator will serve timeMark Taylor
Mod Healthc 34:17. 2004
- Medication errors and e-prescribing: solutions and limitationsBryan Bergeron
Medical Informatics Laboratory, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Med Pract Manage 20:152-3. 2004
- How to sign up for a National Care Record Service Acceptable Use Policy: pitfalls and lessonsMary Hawking
Kingsbury Court Surgery, Dunstable, UK
Inform Prim Care 13:235-8. 2005
- Personal digital assistants, wireless computing, smart cards, and biometrics: a hardware update for clinical practiceWilliam Scott Erdley
Patient Simulation Center, School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 14214, USA
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 35:157-63. 2006..The technologies include personal digital assistants, wireless computing, smart cards, biometrics, and storage cards. Strategies to incorporate these applications into practice are discussed...
Research Grants25
- Studies of rHuTPO in ITP and of rVlla in Liver DiseaseDavid Kuter; Fiscal Year: 2006..Study endpoints would include (a) the percentage of patients increasing the platelet count over 50x109/L, (b) the number of RBC and platelet transfusions at splenectomy, (c) the rate of adverse events. ..
- An Interactive Preventive Health Record (IPHR) to Promote Patient-Centered CareALEXANDER KRIST; Fiscal Year: 2007..An aggressive dissemination plan using a range of venues is envisioned to extend the use of the IPHR to other settings and to other EMRs. ..
- Cervical Cancer Control in Vietnamese WomenVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- North American Association of Central Cancer RegistriesCHARLIE BLACKBURN; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Patient-Centered Online Disease Management Using a Personal Health Record SystemPaul Tang; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Outbreak detection: Combinatorial tests for small samplesNINA FEFFERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2008..The results will lead to guidance regarding which methods are best for detecting particular types of outbreaks. [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable]..
- Hepatitis B ESL Education for ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2008..Our primary outcome will be HBV serologic testing. Knowledge about key hepatitis B facts will be examined as a secondary outcome. ..
- Evaluation of a Hepatitis B Outreach Intervention for CambodiansVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2008..The outreach will be delivered by lay health workers and will include the following components: A home visit, use of an educational pamphlet and a motivational DVD, and tailored counseling and logistic assistance. ..
- Hepatitis B ESL Education for ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2009..Our primary outcome will be HBV serologic testing. Knowledge about key hepatitis B facts will be examined as a secondary outcome. ..
- Evaluation of a Hepatitis B Outreach Intervention for CambodiansVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2009..The outreach will be delivered by lay health workers and will include the following components: A home visit, use of an educational pamphlet and a motivational DVD, and tailored counseling and logistic assistance. ..
- Hepatitis B ESL Education for ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2007..Our primary outcome will be HBV serologic testing. Knowledge about key hepatitis B facts will be examined as a secondary outcome. ..
- Liver Cancer Control Among North American ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2003..If effective, our outreach intervention could be used by health care facilities and community organizations serving less acculturated Chinese in North America. ..
- Cervical Cancer Control in Vietnamese WomenVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- A Maternally Linked Data Set with Analytic AidsJack Leiss; Fiscal Year: 2004..We will develop advanced quantitative methods for maternally linked data, which will be included as analytic aids in the documentation for the file. ..
- TISSUE PROCUREMENT CORE FACILITY AT JOSEPHINE FORD CANCERICHARD ZARBO; Fiscal Year: 2004....
- Liver Cancer Control Among North American ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2004..If effective, our outreach intervention could be used by health care facilities and community organizations serving less acculturated Chinese in North America. ..
- Informed Consent in Private Sector Mental Health ResearchJill Fisher; Fiscal Year: 2004..Additionally, the results will begin to provide a basis for valid recommendations to address the ethical challenges raised by the privatization of medical research. ..
- EXPOSURE TO BLOOD AMONG NON-HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE WORKERSJack Leiss; Fiscal Year: 2002..abstract_text> ..
- Hepatitis B ESL Education for ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2005..Our primary outcome will be HBV serologic testing. Knowledge about key hepatitis B facts will be examined as a secondary outcome. ..
- Liver Cancer Control Among North American ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2005..If effective, our outreach intervention could be used by health care facilities and community organizations serving less acculturated Chinese in North America. ..
- Cervical Cancer Control in Vietnamese WomenVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2005..abstract_text> ..
- Hepatitis B ESL Education for ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2006..Our primary outcome will be HBV serologic testing. Knowledge about key hepatitis B facts will be examined as a secondary outcome. ..
- Liver Cancer Control Among North American ChineseVictoria Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2006..If effective, our outreach intervention could be used by health care facilities and community organizations serving less acculturated Chinese in North America. ..
- Evaluation of a Hepatitis B Outreach Intervention for CambodiansVictoria M Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2010..The outreach will be delivered by lay health workers and will include the following components: A home visit, use of an educational pamphlet and a motivational DVD, and tailored counseling and logistic assistance. ..


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The brilliance of ''30 Rock''
This year was full of competent, B-grade TV which just makes the fizzy bit of brilliance that is NBC's 30 Rock gleam all the more. Tina Fey's Emmy-winning sitcom isn't just clever or shocking or chock-full of pop culture witticisms, it also happens to be plain hilarious. How refreshing to giggle aloud at a comedy and not feel like a cheap-laugh sucker. 30 Rock earns every guffaw with its left-brain/right-brain zigzags. It's incisive but squirrelly, satiric but joyfully goofy. In a single episode, the comedy ostensibly about the actors, writers, and execs behind an NBC sketch show can skewer racism, sexism, ageism, liberalism, and conservatism, and still find room for a visiting Carrie Fisher to make loopy H.R. Haldeman jokes and slug down a thermos of wine. The whirligig writing is ambitious but never ostentatious, and the cast, from Jack McBrayer's starstruck Kenneth the Page to Jane Krakowski's fat-thin diva, is superb. But it really comes down to the show's triumvirate, doesn't it? In this second season, Fey has surpassed her flustered straight-woman role: She feels genuine, bright, and occasionally nutty, but with enough sense to remark on her own madness. Tracy Morgan continues to perfect his blank-eyed craziness as an overindulged, posse-pampered comedian with a love of inscrutable license plates. And as purry, synergy-obsessed executive Jack Donaghy (''I run a Sheinhardt Wig subsidiary called NBC''), Alec Baldwin is flawless, combining bone-deep insecurity with sky-high megalomania. Smart, playful, weird, and occasionally quite sweet, 30 Rock isn't just the best comedy on TV this year, it's simply the best TV.Click here to read Gillian Flynn's picks for the ten best TV shows of 2007


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Wine Expo in Rimini, Italy
Last month, through a temporary importing project I was working on, I got the privilege to accompany a Chinese investor on a trip to Europe for the procurement of antique furniture and wine. After about 5 days of buying antiques in Germany, we headed to Rimini Italy to attend a food and beverage (but mostly wine) Expo. We were part of the foreign buyers group that had our plane ticket and hotel covered by the organizing entity, so long as we attended all the meetings they set up for us with the wineries. As the only foreign buyers representing China, we received a lot of attention; almost all the wineries we spoke were more than anxious to get their foot in the China market.
The expo was a great way to get exposed to the many different varieties of Italian wine. Even more important, as I tried the many wines with the Chinese investor I was working with and got his opinion, I learned more about the Chinese tastes and demand for wine. First of all, where the wine is from is very important. For example, a Bordeaux wine will have a much higher selling price in China than a Chilean wine partly just because of the name. The Chinese happen to prefer reds to whites, though the demand for whites is growing. Interestingly, just like in the US market sweet wines do very well in China.
Its also important to note that the Chinese tastes are not static; they are evolving rapidly and becoming much more discriminating. Country of origin is becoming less important, while quality is becoming more important. Chinese are learning quickly which foods complement which wines. This is possibly a reason why the popularity of white wines is on the rise – because the Chinese consume a lot of seafood. With the trajectory of the Chinese wine market, finding good value wines is very important and the Wine Expo did just that.
In the end, we found a very suitable winery to do business with that was already involved in the China market. They knew what would sell well and offered us a very high quality to price ratio. We were also extremely impressed by the sweet sparkling dessert wines they had that did very well in the US market. Those wines are not yet in the China market, but we feel they will do very well in Shandong, as people there tend to prefer sweeter foods.


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Timing your workout develops greater athletic discipline and structure. The SKLZ ® DRLZ Timer perfectly times your skills drills and circuit training workouts to promote anaerobic and cardio endurance. Features multiple set lengths and rest settings with both vibrating and audible alerts.
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Great running computer Bought for runner as a gift. She loved it for its features including setting for automatic run and rest cycles. August 5, 2014
the product is easy to use I didn't need to read the directions. It was very simple to operate. I like the option of either clipping it on your clothing or using the velcro arm band. I wish it had a 45 second option & a 15 second rest option. But other than that, I have no complaints. It works great! May 13, 2014
Good for personal and one on one workouts Good for timing intervals when working out on your own or one on one with a trainer. It is a little too quiet to be heard in a Boot Camp class. April 6, 2014
Not Bad For Mini Tasks I use this thing when I'm doing Circuit Training at the gym. I like that I can time each SET for 2-minutes, and then time each REST for up to 120 seconds also. I like that this timer keeps my heart rate up. The only bad thing it that the timing intervals are too close for other types of exercises. For other things the Timer on my I-Phone works better. January 27, 2013
Great timer I use the timer to time therapist ordered eye exercises. It works perfectly... June 5, 2012
Not good for HIIT type training This timer's smallest intervals were 1 min for drill and 30 seconds for rest. So, it won't work for Tabata type workouts. October 16, 2011
Would not buy Not at all what I expected, my fault for not researching it better. Very limited as far as settings for intervals or sets. I wish I could send it back, and get one with more settings. October 10, 2011
exactly what I needed A very good tool! Doing sets of stairclimbers.Also stretching exercises.I like the option of the vibration because of loud music you cannot always hear the buzzer.I wish it had an even longer set time so I could get a full set of weightlifting exercises in, not long enough for back bis tris and chest.It does push you to keep going. July 18, 2011
Don't Like the Color Liked it well enough to give one to or Head Instructer At Stark Family TKD June 24, 2011
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Rep Schultz shows how to avoid seeing the ugly America staring at us from the mirror
Summary: Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL, Chair of the Democratic National Committee) made a revealing answer when asked about our government's assassination programs. The resulting mockery misses the key point. Her remarks provides a fascinating look at America, but only as a curiosity, an oddity — until we ask "why" she talks like this.
"When I was sixteen, I went to work for a newspaper in Hong Kong. It was a rag, but the editor taught me one important lesson. The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why."
— Elliot Carver, in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
- A leader of Congress pretends ignorance
- About denial
- Another example, and a note from George Orwell
- About solutions
- Posts about our government's assassination programs (directed at citizens)
(1) A leader of Congress pretends ignorance
After the second Presidential debate Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL, Chair of the Democratic National Committee) is questioned by Luke Rudkowski (WeAreChange) about our government's assassination programs.
Schultz: I'm looking forward to President Obama continuing to clearly and decisively lay out his case for the American people. He'll talk about the importance of restoring our diplomatic reputation across the globe.
Rudkowski: How does Obama justify his flip-flop on the National Defense Authorization Act, especially the indefinite detention provision, which he said he never wanted but the Administration is now appealing an order…
Schultz: I didn't hear that a a subject of the debate tonight.
Rudkowski: If Romney becomes President, he's going to inherit Obama's secret kill list. How do you think Romney will handle this kill list, and are you comfortable with him having a kill list?
Schultz: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Rudkowski: Obama has a secret kill list, which he has used to assassinate different people all over the world.
Schultz (with a big smile): I'm happy to answer any serious questions you have.
Rudkowski: Why is that not a serious question?
Schultz: Because I have no idea what you're talking about. (walks away)
Glenn Greenberg at The Guardian reviews the public information about the US government's kill list, and comments:
Just marvel at this stunning, completely inexcusable two-minute display of wholesale ignorance by this elected official and DNC chair. … She doesn't defend the "kill list". She doesn't criticize it. She makes clear that she has never heard of it and then contemptuously treats Rudkowski like he is some sort of frivolous joke for thinking that it is real …
I disagree. Attributing this to ignorance is not accurate. Instead it is a willful refusal to see something unpleasant. Deliberate blindness. It's denial.
(2) About Denial
From Wikipedia (which cites no source, but looks correct):
A defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may use:
- simple denial: deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether
- minimisation: admit the fact but deny its seriousness (a combination of denial and rationalization)
- projection: admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility by blaming somebody or something else.
Denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. … Elisabeth Kübler-Ross used denial as the first of 5 stages in the psychology of a dying person.
Why denial as a response? Acknowledgement of what America has become, and is becoming, creates awareness of our need to act. Of our obligations to defend the Republic. It's a draft notice. Bad news for our families, for our careers — disrupting the even tenor of our lives, putting all that we have at risk by opposing the elites that run America. Failure to act creates cognitive dissonance, painful contradiction between what we should do and actually do.
Imagine Representative Schultz's thoughts should Rudkowski have forced her to confront — on camera — the reality of Obama's assassination of US citizens in flagrant violation of the Constitution's core principles. She could refer to the overwhelming danger of al Qaeda (secret bases everywhere, sleeper agents across America — as seen each week on NCIS and described in the Weekly Standard and Fox News — and conclude that we've suspended the Constitution. But that's introduces complex arguments, disturbing to many Americans.
She could just dance around the issue. But in a long war that becomes untenable, as these questions repeatedly arise.
Or she can just deny that anything has changed. It's the simple, clean response. It's what America wants.
It's a common solution. The Roman people did this during the first century of the Empire, retaining most outward forms of the Republic. Some people did it in response to the horror of the Holocaust, Stalin's and Mao's megadeaths. As many people hae done today about the increasing stress on the biosphere. Sometimes it works, most often with denial of history. Sometimes it works until the crash, the equivalent of closing our eyes when driving.
Sometimes it's a smear, as when scientists who disagree with the IPCC about the causes and forecasts of future global warming are accused of denying past warming (they don't).
(3) Another example, from yesterday's post — and a note from George Orwell
More evidence of this response by American's to our ugly evolution appears daily in the comments to the powerful, fact-rich articles by Glenn Greenwald, formerly at Salon, now at The Guardian. Such as this one: "US justice likely coming soon to Benghazi with extrajudicial executions", Guardian,19 October 2012 — "If the Obama administration identifies suspects in the consulate attack, should they simply be killed without a trial?" For example this automatic, immediate response of Michael Cohen (New America Foundation; bio here):
He's a courtier to our power elites, and a skillful, smart one (IMO, one of the best of the younger members in that potentially lucrative service). As such he automatically knows what worldviews are acceptable — what facts can be seen — and still remain respectable. His automatic reply is not to dispute Greenwald's facts, reasoning, or values — but to deny. A courtier to US elites must master crimestop — the refusal to see heterodox ideas, or even discuss thoughtcrime. From Orwell's 1984:
The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. .. not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted {Party dogma).
(4) About solutions
It might be that the Second Republic has fallen, and its cure lies beyond reach. Such an epitaph is for the future generations to write. All that matters is that we can do better. We will be what we want to be.
More about this tomorrow.
(5) Posts about our government's assassination programs (directed at citizens)
- Code red! The Constitution is burning., August 2010
- An Appalling Threat to Civil Liberties and Democracy, 8 August 2010
- A great philosopher and statesman comments on the Bush-Obama tweaks to the Constitution, 10 October 2010
- Every day the Constitution dies a little more, 1 September 2010
- What do our Constitution-loving conservatives say about our government's assassination programs?, 2 September 2010
- Today is a red letter day in American history! Our leaders speak honestly to us about an important issue., 6 October 2011
WTF permalink22 October 2012 12:57 am
Similarly: "Employees of Romney family's secret bank tied to fraud, money laundering, drug cartels and the CIA", Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press, 20 October 2012
22 October 2012 2:14 am
Denialism, denying reality, one fact at a time.
Leaves the door wide open for a debate on what constitutes as real. There are some who say our reality is the illusion created because the primitive human mind can not comprehend the true reality.
Good post that could lead to a plethora of wonderful debate, because of course with denial must also come a refined ability to lie. Not only to others but to your self, and at this point we have changed reality….in a way.
22 October 2012 4:58 am
One difference from Orwell is that in our case there is no "inner party" who see clearly, there are certainly deciders at the top but they are also heavily influenced by their own propaganda, leading to a spiral of irrational decisions.
Maybe we can get out of this but I think that most people have made a semi-conscious decision to deny reality and be part of civil society rather than being outside of society. Everyone is complicit, the deceiver and the deceived, making everyone feel guilty and disinclined to be the first to start throwing stones.
22 October 2012 3:50 am
This puts me in mind of something I have often pondered; the last words of Jesus, being "forgive them father they know not what they do."
This statement has always incited anger in me for I can't help feeling (and feeling guilty even as I think it) that a more appropriate departure phrase would have been along the lines of "drown the monkeys, they know exactly what they are doing and simply do not care." Rather negative, but does anyone ever actually act without knowing on some level.
Knowing they are being lied to? I guess you would need to be psychic to know that, and I am not.
genericman permalink22 October 2012 6:16 pm
What do you think of David Brin's appraisal of how differently Democrats and Republicans wage war? "How Democrats and Republicans Wage War", David Brin, 21 October 2012 — "Offered one day preceding the final Presidential debate, on foreign policy, in order to give you all some badly-needed perspective on the most important foreign policy matter of all: when and how to fight."
david j michel jr permalink22 October 2012 6:23 pm
fabius, I do not know why but any time DWS speaks I cant listen she pushes my buttons .did you see on of her last interviews with anderson cooper ,even when confronted with her lies she just goes in to denial mode.its fascinating,and sad that she is a congress woman.she reminds me of a knight in the Monty python movie holy grail, that has all his limbs chopped off but denies he is unable to fight.
Jim permalink22 October 2012 7:06 pm
We seem to be undertandably struggling with the relationships between biology, psychology socialization, culture, politics, economics and religion.
One view on these links is that our society lives within us in the form of an internalized culture.
The means that before we are psychic subjects we are socialized subjects (or cultural animals) marked by a pervasive pressure which injects us with such things as beliefs, values, norms, expectations and tastes (i.e. the outer becomes our inner through a process of socialization).
One set of questions which arises as a consequence of such a process is whether and to what degree our values, norms and expectations are modified (say over 250 years) by powerful concentrations of power both public and private (or how a new outer then becomes inner).
Another set of questions arises, as to whether we are capable both individually and collectively of gaining some psychological distance from this process of socialization, which might eventually enable us to push our culture and our politics in a different direction (i,e. are there, for example, paths of self-reflection which might nurture distancing mechanisms that eventually enable critiques of ourselves and our society—that give us the courage to push beyond denial if we so choose?).
A final set of questions revolve around whether any future political mobilization should contain within it a call for an alternative moral demand system?
22 October 2012 7:30 pm
A couple points on Jim's post;
First, "to push beyond denial" I disagree with this idea, I try to take an optimistic stand on such issues but am constantly returned to this line of thinking. To be in denial you must first be aware (on some level) of that which you are in denial of. I don't think the bulk of humanity reflects on truth of self and certainly not truth of society. We have for generations had, almost bred into our very biology, denial how ever most of our society refers to it as "Faith". In my opinion faith is nothing more then forcing your self to believe something you know is a lie i.e. denial.
second, the issue distancing our self from society. I am not sure how this would ever be possible in our current state. 7 billion people, going to be difficult to escape culture and of course with in any given culture you have an array of subcultures to contend with as well (as long as such freedoms are allowed).
22 October 2012 7:50 pm
Another point on Jims post; Self reflection, there is an issue with this and I will put my own character on the line as an example.
I am a person who has bee accused of being "brutally honest". Political correctness, or sugar coating things is not in my nature, not because I lack a thought filter, but because I choose not to use it, I generally call it as I see it. There are many people who have suggested to me that this is a flaw of my character. However, I myself see it as an attribute and is something I appreciate in others.
Jim permalink22 October 2012 10:31 pm
gaiasrequite: "We have for generation had, almost bred into our very biology…"
To me, your above description, is the essence of the process of socialization, which each of us experiences. It seems to capture the depth to which the moral demands of a particular culture penetrate our individual psychic structures. No culture, including our own, is immortal yet all cultures seem to be repressive in the sense that they tend to narrow the range of human possibilities that exist within it.
But I also believe it it true that our present culture has been transformed for the worse in the past 150 years, primarily through concentrations of public and private power (from something more ascetic into something which supports the production of endless needs). Isn't it then imperative that we search, among other things, for possible levers within ourselves which might allow for a cultural and political shift (i.e. it seems to me that this might, in part, entail modes of self-reflection which might unmingle desire and objects of desire which have been bred into our present socialization/cultural experience).


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Virginia Scenes, early 1861
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861, providing a series of Virginia scenes and symbols on the eve of the Civil War.
Scenes shown are (clockwise around the edge of the print, from upper right): Fort Norfolk; Richmond Armory; making gun carriages at Richmond Armory; USS Merrimack at Norfolk Navy Yard; inactive warships Pennsylvania, Columbia, Raritan and United States at Norfolk Navy Yard; fortifications on the Rip-Raps, Hampton Roads; Craney Island. Fort Washington, in Maryland across the Potomac River from Virginia, is shown at top. In the center is a representation of the Virginia state seal and motto ("Sic semper tyrannis"), with "The Constitution" and "States' Rights" inscribed above and below it.
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What to See in Qatar
Qatar Sightseeing
Al Zubarah | Barzan Towers | Camel Racing | Dhow Workshop | Doha Zoo | Heritage Village | Inland Sea | National Museum | Ras Abrouq Peninsula Rumeila Park | Sheik Faisal Museum | Singing Dunes | Things To Do | Umm Slal Mohammed
Activities and Sightseeing in Qatar
Al Koot Fort
This former Ottoman fort can be seen on the edges of Souq Waqif.
Al Thakira
The mangroves swamps located at the mouth of this estuary make a welcome change of scenery from the desert, as well as being the home to a range of wildlife.
Al Zubarah Fort
This superb if not very old fort was in active use until a few short years ago.
Barzan Towers
Read about and see pictures of the watch towers built by the founder of the Qatar Nation.
Sail across the desert to the Inland Sea with this exciting new sport that is hitting the Qatar beaches.
Camel Racing
Until recently, unscrupulous owners used child jockeys bought from traffickers to race their camels. Now, though, you can see the camels raced by their replacements - robots.
Read about this trip through Qatar's towering sand dunes to Qatar's most impressive natural asset - Qatar's Inland Sea.
Doha Zoo
Located in Al Rayyan, this zoo has both animals from the Gulf and more from more far flung countries although they have avoided penguins and polar bears for obvious reasons.
The Entertainment City is going to be a massive hotel, shopping, entertainment and residential complex featuring a snow dome, canals and water taxis connecting different parts of the city and even a rain forest. Don't get too excited, though, as it is not likely to be ready until 2012.
Heritage Village
The Heritage village on Doha's Corniche offers a glimpse into a fast vanishing past.
Inland Sea
Qatar's most impressive natural asset only accessible with a four wheel drive.
The Museum of Islamic Arts
With an impressive art collection funded by Qatar's huge coffers, under a buying spree directed by Sheikh Saud, The Museum of Islamic stands on its own artifical island a short distance from Doha's corniche.
An overview and introduction to Qatar's newest museum.
Qatar National Museum
This former palace has officially been shut for several years, although they did let us in when we visited. There are big plans for the place for the future.
Where to go to watch a film, and how to find out what is on.
This fascinating natural parl is home to wildlife, strange limestone formations, and oasis and more.
Rumeila Family Park
Take the children to the play area or stroll by the water gardens in this superb family park on Doha's Corniche.
Finally a place in Qatar that showcases Qatar and Arabic art.
The Sheikh Faisal Musuem
This huge private collection is without a doubt the best museum in Qatar.
The Singing Sand Dunes
Hear a rare natural phenomenon - when the weather is right!
Things to do in Qatar
Stuck for something to do? Read our list of Things to Do in Qatar for ideas.
Umm Slal Mohammed
Not just home to the Barzan Towers this small town has fascinating ruins and even a small stream.
Water Park in Qatar
Qatar's upcoming super duper water park.


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Practicing their final notes before they go on song for paying customers, three 991-series Porsche 911 GT3 prototypes were caught at a filling station in Catalunya, Spain almost completely uncovered. According to the photographer (working with an iPhone), two of them (foreground in the photo above) were wearing a host of extras from the options list, while the third appears to be a prototype set up halfway between a traditional 911 and a GT3: it has five-bolt GT3-style wheels and central exhaust, but standard 911 front and rear bumpers and rear wing.
Notice that the little bit of camo on the proper GT3s covers the lower region of the rear bumpers and, we'd imagine, some venting. The tea leaves appear to unanimously point to the 3.8-liter six-cylinder hanging out back, but the exact horsepower rating is hidden behind the vagaries of "somewhere between 450 and 500." Remember, no matter how many horses there are, there will only be a seven-speed PDK available to stir them to action.
Meanwhile, in Germany, the 911 Turbo was caught on the streets of Stuttgart and even the basic black paint job could not pull a shrink the fulsome girth of its ample rear end. Sporting a bit of tape both front and rear, the general details can all be seen, including the redesigned exhaust treatment. We expect to get more colorful looks at both the GT3 and 911 soon enough, but for now there is the high-res gallery above and the two spy videos below.